Ted Cruz: House Will Impeach Pete Hegseth, Then Target Trump #Ted Cruz #Politicians

Welcome. It is Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you. And Senator, it is, I tell you what, we're back in the swing of things after last week's election results. And Democrats are wasting no time telling you exactly what they're going to do with their power. It is not going to fix the economy. No, no, no. It is lawfare. That's what they're going to do with all the power they just gained. And they're coming after conservatives and anyone around the president, apparently. Well, it is less than a week after Election Day, and last week we had a bloodbath of an election. It was an epic rout of Republicans. We've lost the House. We've lost the Senate. We've lost governorships all across the country. We've lost the state of Texas. Every single statewide elected official that was on the ballot lost. And, you know, it was striking for three months going into the election. The only thing Democrats talked about was affordability. They talked about the economy. And now that they've won, the affordability doesn't matter to them at all. The economy doesn't matter to them at all. This is all about now partisan warfare. It is about hatred for Trump. You listen to what they're saying, you know, today on Monday. Everyone from the Senate is going to be coming back to D.C., and I will tell you, Senate Democrats, I can already anticipate they're going to be exultant. I understand why. I talked with one of the more senior Democrats earlier this past week, and I congratulated him. I said, congratulations, you had an impressive victory. Now, this particular Democrat. has been around in the Senate for a while and he said what I thought was a pretty mature response. He said well the pendulum will swing another way in time and he's right. I will say now I'm I'm about to enter my 15th year in the Senate and I've seen elections that are great elections for Republicans and we're fairly feeling wonderful. I've seen elections that are great elections for Democrats and they're feeling wonderful and one of the advantages Of the framers design of the Constitution is the Senate is intended to provide some modicum of stability so that when you have the passions of one side of the passions of the other, it will even it out. Now, that being said, I think very little is going to even out the rage on the Democrat side. And they're already anticipating. They're already foreshadowing. They are going to engage in relentless impeachments, investigations, subpoenas. We're going to break down some of what they're telling us is coming because this is the beginning of what will be a two-year nonstop onslaught. We're going to break down all the details. Yeah, it really is exactly that. They're going to war, and we've got their battle plans. We're going to explain it to you in a moment. I want to also talk to you real quick about the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews. 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So, Senator, the election was all about affordability. That's what a lot of the Democrats were talking about. They were saying, if you vote for us, we're going to make your life easier, and that the conservatives didn't do that for you. But now we are seeing less than a week from Election Day. That has never been their plan. Their new plan is impeachment on steroids. They got pretty good at it, I think, in their mindset the last time, impeaching Donald Trump twice. But they want to expand impeachment and do it across the entire administration, and they're grinning and proud of this being their first moves, apparently. Yeah, no, I think the very first thing the House of Representatives is going to do when it comes back, we're going to come back, there's going to be a leadership battle determining who the House minority leader will be and whether it will be Steve Scalise or Jim Jordan. Uh, or, or, or somebody else. Uh, and, and that will be a battle. And then I think right hand in hand with that is going to be an impeachment battle, uh, over, uh, initially Pete Hegseth. So, so I expect that to be the opening salvo. Uh, listen, one of the reasons the house has been out of session for a couple of months and the reason they've been out of session is because they didn't have the votes to stop a Hegseth impeachment back in September. That you have all the Democrats who are eager to impeach Hegseth and you had several Republicans that's being led by Thomas Massie. Now, Massie is going to be out of Congress come January. He was defeated in a Republican primary. President Trump opposed him because Massie has been a no on almost every one of the Trump agenda items. But Massey is very unhappy as his foreign policy has long been very isolationist. And so he wants to see Hegseth removed. And as I said, the reason the Speaker sent everyone home is that they were counting votes. They didn't have the votes to stop a Hegseth impeachment. I think we're going to see that teed up very, very quickly. And one of two things is going to happen. Either Hegseth is going to step down, either he will resign voluntarily or Trump will fire him. Or if that does not happen, I think it is extremely likely, if not certain, That the House will impeach him, because on the face of it, the votes are there. Now, it only takes a majority to impeach. But here, I want you to listen to Hakeem Jeffries when he was asked about his view on impeaching Pete Hegseth. I'm a hard yes on the Hegseth resolution. The so-called Secretary of Defense has abused his power, undermined our national security, and engineered this reckless and costly war of choice in Iran, which has skyrocketed prices on the American people and made the country less safe. Pete Hegseth has got to go. Now, Senator, let's talk about what What impeachment looks like. outside of the president. You can hear Jeffries there. He's making it clear this is their bullseye. They want him gone. You said it takes a simple majority. That happens in the House. Then what would happen next? Is it the same procedures as when they go after Donald Trump? Yeah, so it takes a majority in the House to impeach Pete Hegseth. If that happens, it then goes to the Senate, and the Senate has the responsibility of conducting the trial. Now, if it happens now during the lame duck, it's possible that the majority still under Republican control could dispose of it, depending on the timing. If that happens, it wouldn't surprise me if Hegseth is still in office, if they impeach him again come January so that Schumer would be in charge of the trial. And I expect if Schumer has the option of conducting a trial, I would anticipate that he would conduct an extended trial, that he would spend real time, weeks if not months, using the trial to prosecute, number one, their opposition to the Iran war. And so I would expect a Hegseth impeachment trial to focus a lot on the Iran war, but I think they would also push their themes of corruption, because you're going to see corruption. It was a major issue in the election on Tuesday, and I think that the Democrats will use impeachment as a vehicle to highlight those issues. Now, With an impeachment that is not the president, if it's the president who's being impeached, and by the way, I think the odds are extremely likely, the Democrat House will impeach Donald Trump as well. So this is only the first of what I expect to be multiple impeachments. With an impeachment of the president, the trial is conducted on the Senate floor, and it's actually presided over by the Chief Justice of the United States. With a cabinet member impeachment, There are multiple ways it can be disposed of, but what I would anticipate is that Schumer, when he's majority leader, would direct either the relevant committee, the Senate Armed Services Committee, or conceivably a special committee, to conduct the impeachment trial. And they would do that to be televised, to have a very systematic prosecution of their attacks, not just on Hegseth. Hegseth, I think, is just a convenient target. The real target is President Trump. The real target is more broadly the administration and foreign policy. Uh, and, and I think, as I said, that's just the first shoe to drop. They're going to be a lot more after that. You know, it's interesting when you started this podcast, it was actually all around impeachment. Oddly enough, it's, it's like, we're coming back full circle and, and this time it's going to be not just one, but multiple. And when you say multiple, is it two or three, or is this like, Hey, we can just keep rolling with this. It can be four or five, six, seven, eight people in this administration. It could be a lot. So we've also seen this week that Bernie Sanders and Annie Andrews, Annie Andrews is the new incoming Democrat senator from South Carolina. They both called for impeaching Bobby Kennedy. And it's not even clear why they want to impeach Bobby Kennedy other than they just hate him. And they particularly hate him because as a son of the Kennedy political dynasty, really Democratic royalty, To end up supporting Donald Trump is the ultimate betrayal, and so they hate him with a particular passion as well. I don't know if they will end up impeaching him. Now, understand, let's take the Hegseth impeachment. I think it is very clear the votes are there in the House. So if Hegseth does not resign and if the president does not fire him. Then the House, I believe, will impeach him. You'll see a majority of the House members vote to impeach him. Now, to remove him from office in the Senate takes two thirds. I do not believe that's going to happen. You could end up in a Hegseth trial. You could end up with some Republicans voting to remove him. For example, Tom Tillis has a famously antagonistic relationship with Pete Hegseth. Tom Tillis is not coming back to the Senate. He chose not to run again. Uh, he's going to be replaced and he chose not to run again in significant part because president Trump made clear that he was likely to support a primary opponent to him. And so Tom said, all right, I'm out. Tom is unfortunately going to be replaced by a Democrat, by Roy Cooper, the former governor who's going to come in from North Carolina. Tillis, I could easily see voting to convict Hegseth. And I could see a number of other senators, particularly Republicans who just lost, voting to convict Hegseth. I could see Mitch McConnell doing that. I do not believe we would get to two-thirds. I don't think we'd get to 67, Senator. It's still two-thirds, just so they understand. On any impeachment, whether it's the president or not, it's still got to get to 60. Not 60, 67. It's two-thirds. Excuse me, yeah, two-thirds. I get you're a radio guy, so math is not your strong suit. Thank But 60 is not two-thirds, 67 is. So look. The objective here is not actually to convict and remove. you The objective is PR and attacking the president very and the Democrats' hope over the next two years. Is to just have a non-stop assault on the president. much. Now, the president's approval ratings have gone down significantly. And they want to drive them down further and further and further. That was clearly one of the factors in the midterm elections. And from Schumer's perspective, from Hakeem Jeffries' perspective, they want the next two years just to be a constant deluge of impeachment proceedings, of subpoenas, of hearings. directed at number one, the president will have at least one impeachment of the president. We might have more than one. We will see the same thing directed at Trump family members. We will see the same thing directed at multiple cabinet members. If Republicans had the Senate, you could dispose of, say, an impeachment of a cabinet member fairly quickly. If you remember during the Biden administration, the House impeached Alejandro Mayorkas, the head of the Department The Department of Homeland Security. And they impeached him for utterly defying immigration law because Mayorkas, the immigration law said if someone, an illegal immigrant is detained, they shall be detained, they shall be deported. Those are mandatory statutory commands. And Mayorkas, on behalf of Biden, just utterly ignored federal law and not only did not detain people, but let them go. And so he was impeached for brazen disregarding and defiance of federal law. What Schumer did is he just, there was a motion to dismiss on the Senate floor and all the Democrats voted to dismiss it. It was over. So it was one vote in one afternoon. I spoke on the Senate floor against it. Several others spoke on the Senate floor against it, but it was over quickly. If we had a Republican control of the Senate, that could happen. We don't. So it will be in Schumer and the Democrats. partisan interest to drag this on, to make this painful. That's what I expect. I want to talk to you real quick about Compassion International. Right now, somewhere in the world, there's a child waiting, not waiting for a birthday, not waiting for Christmas, waiting for someone to choose them. That's what Compassion International does every single day. 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Or is it certain maybe we have one day in this week and two days in the next week when you're in session? How does that calendar work and how much power they have over extending it to, as you described it, months, where maybe they're not even finished with him yet, then they start with a RFK junior or someone else? Well, the Democrats have a lot of ball control on that. So they could decide they could decide to do a trial every day in a committee. They could decide, you know, think about how they handled the January 6th special committee. And I remember the January 6th special committee ended up including no Republicans because Nancy Pelosi refused to seat the Republicans that that. Kevin McCarthy wanted to put on the committee and so it ended up, well, okay, actually, technically it had Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger. So the only, quote, Republicans were left-wing Republicans that Pelosi wanted who hated the president and were opposed to the president, but it had no Republicans who were actually defending the president. But you remember the way they orchestrated those hearings. It was they actually brought in a producer from Hollywood to produce a story to tell a narrative. They included no countervailing facts. They included they did not try to tell the other side of the story. It wasn't in prime time, by the way, if I remember correctly. For substantial portions of it. It was designed to be a multi-hour and multi-day political infomercial. That, you know, Republicans battered. It was an attack on Republicans. We're going to have two years of that. And I expect, you know, one of the things we will see, I believe, is every committee chair in the House and the Senate taking things within their particular slice of jurisdiction and attacking the administration on that. And so we're going to get hearing after hearing after hearing. And the theme that is consistently going to undergird it all is going to be corruption. Uh, and they're going to press that on every front. I also expect them to tie much of corruption to issues like AI and data centers and cryptocurrency. I think all of those are going to be swept together. We're also going to see that this attack is not just going to be directed, uh, at the president and the administration. It's also going to be directed at the private sector and it's going to be directed at any businesses that, that tried to work with President Trump and the administration. So for example, Fox News reported, and I'll read from this quote, progressive groups, 182 page blueprint maps out potential Democrat investigations into Trump corporate allies, a progressive policy institute led by former aides to President Joe Biden and former aides to Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren assembled a detailed blueprint for potential Democratic congressional investigations To target President Donald Trump. And his allies beyond the White House, which could foreshadow the goals of the 120th Congress. Groundwork Collaborative's dossier, obtained and analyzed by Fox News Digital, maps Trump donors and corporate allies for potential Democratic congressional investigations. Leaders in big tech and CEOs of large corporations are likely to be among the targets of the anti-Trump crusade. A longtime Democratic Senate staffer familiar with the process told Fox News Digital that the Democratic majorities on these committees already plan to exclusively focus on targeting allies and donors of the president, going as far as targeting the ones who donated to the new White House ballroom once they move into the majority. The article continues. However, the staffer did not see the document, which specifically says to target those who gave to the ballroom, library, Trump inauguration, and campaign. Reports have said it was obtained by House committees as well, but a House Judiciary Committee aide for Democrats told Semaphore it was, quote, one of many, and dismissed it, saying, we all get a lot of emails. But other plans outlined in the document, including targeting Trump-aligned corporations, Such as Tesla. Apple, Amazon, Oracle, Trump Media, and World Liberty Financial. The letter also mentions Palantir's Alex Karp and Coinbase's Brian Armstrong by name, with possible hearings involving executives from OpenAI, Meta, Google, Microsoft, Oracle, and others. And understand that the Democrats' objectives here are multiple. Number one, it's just pure vindictive. They're angry. They're filled with hate with any business that said, mind you, President Trump was elected by the American people. He is the sitting president. You have an administration in place. Any corporation doing business needs to deal with the federal government if they're a major corporation. The Democrats don't care. They're like, you need to be resistance. You need to have your little pink hat on. You need to be, we hate Trump no matter what. And if you didn't, we are going to punish you. So the first objective is just pure retribution. Yeah. The second objective will be a shakedown. Telling every one of these corporations, you need to go and make right. And the way you make right is write gigantic checks to the Democrats. So this will be a fundraising effort from them to say, We want massive political support for our next campaigns. And we're going to keep beating on you until you, A, cut off support for Republicans, but B, write us ginormous checks. But number three, a major objective here is deterrence. They want to make it so that no business wants to do business with not just President Trump, but with Republicans, that the next CEO saying, gosh, do I want to work along with the government to do something that is beneficial for America? No, no, because I will get persecuted. And I will say, you know, look, Tesla is on there. I expect Elon Musk in particular. to be targeted. I expect every one of his companies to be targeted. I expect him personally to be targeted. They hate Elon Musk with a hate that is exceeded only by their hate for President Trump. And so the amazing thing is the Democrats are not hiding that this is weaponization. They're not hiding that their objective is simply to inflict pain. And look, remember this right Right before the election. We had Alyssa Slotkin, the Democrat from Michigan, who was saying they should also persecute young people, people in their 20s who go to work for the federal government. You know, a 25-year-old who goes and takes a junior job at the Department of Commerce, they want to go investigate them. They want to go prosecute them. They want to go drive up. So this kid has hundreds of thousands of legal bills, and they bankrupt kids a couple of years out of college. Why? A, retribution, as I said before, but B, And Slotkin was very open about this. They want to make it so that no young person in their right mind would go work for a Republican administration. They want to make it so. Yeah. And that's sad, by the way. It's twisted. It's so sad. Yeah. And mind you, let's be clear. We had Republican majorities in the House and Senate the last two years. We didn't do that. We didn't target kids who went to work for the Biden administration. We didn't persecute corporations who supported Joe Biden. That was not... This weaponization is entirely one-sided. And the media is not upset at all. They're reporting it. Oh, yeah, of course, they're going to punish anyone. They're going to use the government power they have to inflict harm. On anyone who supports their opponents politically, I think that's what the next two years are going to be. This also is probably going to go to staff as well, of those that they believe are the closest allies of the president. That is something that in many ways is unprecedented. Usually you think, okay, it's cabinet. But we're also being told, Senator, that there's a lot of people that are like, hey, whoever's close to the president, get ready because we're coming for you too. That's a whole other level of deviant lawfare. Yeah. And look, one of the challenges we're already seeing, and it's going to accelerate an exodus of talent from the administration, people that are in the White House, people that are in in cabinet agencies are saying, I don't want to be the target of these attacks. So let's just leave. It becomes very hard to actually do your job if you can't recruit talent around you to implement the president's priorities. And so this is designed. Look, this is designed to effectively be a coup to stop the president from carrying out the agenda that the voters two years ago voted him to carry out. Now, to be clear, the voters also voted on Tuesday for a Democrat House and Senate. So they are entitled to pursue the priorities they believe, even if I believe those priorities are harmful. But there's a difference between pursuing what you legitimately believe and what you campaigned upon. That's democracy. Versus weaponizing government power and doing it particularly to attack the powerless. When you're attacking a 25-year-old kid, that kid has no ability to defend himself, to defend herself. And that's what the Democrats are openly, brazenly promising to do. It's not only that. We're also getting some of the plans of what they want to do outside of the impeachment and the lawfare. All right. Now, before we get into that, I do want to talk to you real quick about Regent University. Somewhere along the way, we got the idea that a serious education and a strong Christian faith have to live in two different worlds. They don't. At Regent University, faith isn't an afterthought. It's at the heart of the education. Students are challenged to think deeply, pursue excellence, and see their education through a Christian worldview. And make no mistake, Regent is serious about academics. With more than 150 areas of study, Regent has earned national recognition for academic excellence. 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During the first 100 days of the new Congress and beyond, to keep our word, to fight for an affordable America, to bring about accountability, because we've seen unprecedented corruption that has been visited upon the American people, and we are committed to holding the crooks accountable and making sure that Congress functions like a separate and co-equal branch of government and a check and balance on an out-of-control executive branch. And we also have to restore American values. Like liberty and justice for all equal protection under the law, our commitment to the unfettered right to vote and to lift up our glorious history as a nation of immigrants. By the way, I love how he says unfettered when it comes to voting, but they were against the SAVE Act, which was going to protect the right of every American to vote. Well, that's right. And I do think one thing, there's a very real possibility that we see in January of next year. Which is, I think it is very possible and maybe even likely that the Democrats will nuke the filibuster and end the filibuster in the Senate. I don't know if they will or not. So what does that mean? It's been a while since we talked about that. So for people that are listening, nuking the filibuster was something that some conservatives were advocating for, hoping was going to happen, that you guys would just hurry up and do it to get certain things done. How does that fundamentally change things? So the filibuster refers to the rule in the Senate that it takes 60 votes under the rules of the Senate to proceed to legislation. And so as a It's a functional matter if you can't get 60 votes. virtually all legislation you can't move to. And it produces a compromise in the Senate. If you got to get 60 votes, you got to find something bipartisan that people of both parties can come together and agree on. And it is one of, if not the biggest difference between the Senate and the House. In the House, there is no filibuster, which means a majority can do anything it wants. And so in the House, being the majority, you can ram through your priorities willy-nilly. And by the By the way, being in the minority in the House. Really sucks because you have no leverage. You have no ability to stop anything. You can just give speeches and say this is terrible, but you don't have the ability to stop it. If the filibuster is ended in the Senate, it will make it very much like the House, that whatever the majority wants, it can do. And the mechanics of how you nuke the filibuster, so the filibuster is written in the Senate rules that it takes two-thirds, or not two-thirds, it takes 60 votes to proceed to legislation. However, the way you do it is, is any ruling of the chair, the presiding officer can be appealed and overturned by the, by the body. And so the way you nuke the filibuster is, is, is that, that the chair rules that it takes 60 votes to proceed to legislation. And Chuck Schumer would stand up and say, I appeal the ruling of the chair, and if... If 51 votes are cast to overturn the ruling of the chair, then the ruling of the chair is reversed and that becomes a precedent and you essentially break the rules of the Senate to change the rules of the Senate. I used to think a week or two ago, if you'd asked me, I would have said, look, if the Democrats take the majority, I doubt they will will nuke the filibuster. Why? Because they don't have a Democrat president. And it's really valuable when you have. A House and a Senate and a president, all of the same party, then you can pass the legislation you really want for Republicans like the Save America Act. Because Trump will be in the White House, I had thought a week ago that the Democrats in all likelihood would not nuke the filibuster. I may have changed my mind on that. I think the odds are probably 60-40 or even 70-30 that they They nuked the filibuster early next year because. They're going to have 55, 56 Senate Democrats, and they've got some radicals. They've got some radicals who campaigned for a long time saying the filibuster is Jim Crow. It is oppressive. They've been out there campaigning. And I think Schumer is going to have a hard time holding down his radicals. And so I think they might nuke it, even though they don't have a president. who will sign their legislation and and and so that and my guess is you heard Akeem Jeffries saying we need to fight for unfettered access to to the ballot box. Ironically, this is the same Democrats who oppose democracy over and over again. Mind you, these are the same Democrats that put fake Dan Sullivan on the ballot in Alaska in order to steal votes and confuse the voters and rig the election. These are the same Democrats who supported state Supreme Courts ordering Donald Trump being removed from the ballot in 2024 because they didn't want the voters to be able to reelect him. So these are not people who actually care about democracy. But in every Senate for the last several Congresses, the first bill that is filed is S-1. That will be the first bill Chuck Schumer will file in the new Congress. S-1 is a federal takeover of all elections. It strikes down. Virtually every election integrity law all across the country. It strikes down restrictions on mail-in voting. So every state would have universal mail-in voting. It strikes down photo ID laws. So every state, it would be legal to vote without a photo ID. It strikes down prohibitions on ballot harvesting. So in every state, you could have political operatives handling the ballots of others, which really facilitates and encourages voter fraud. That's the first bill Schumer always introduces. My prediction is early next year, Schumer will schedule a vote on S-1. And under the filibuster rules, Republicans would defeat it. We would vote it down. I think if they're going to nuke the filibuster, my guess is it would be on S-1 that Schumer would appeal the ruling of this chair. End the filibuster and then pass it with just 51 votes in the Senate, and then it would go to Trump and Trump would veto it. But I think one of the things we're going to see in the next two years. Is the Democrats trying to put bill after bill after bill on Trump's desk and force him to veto one after the other after the other? I think we're going to see a lot of that. Final question for you on this, and that also comes down to, there is a lot of people that are saying, hey, you still have the majority. Why aren't you guys going back to Washington this week and doing some of the things that Democrats are going to do when they get the majority? Why wouldn't you guys nuke it right now, pass the SAVE Act, do things like that? Explain why that's probably not going to happen. Well, look, I hope we do. And when we return this week to the Senate, there are a couple of things we need to do. Number one, on nominations, we need to clear the deck. So there are a number of nominations pending, executive branch nominations, and we need to confirm every one we can. And the way it worked, we changed the rules earlier this year so we can now do confirmations in block so we can group together a bunch of nominations together. We did that. Because the Democrats started this Trump term with unprecedented obstruction, delaying and obstructing every single confirmation. And so we changed the rules so that you can block them together. Now, the way we did that. Any individual Republican senator can object to a nominee and throw him out of the block. So you would have to have Trump nominees that you've got all 53 Republicans behind. If there's an individual senator who doesn't like a nominee, they'd be thrown out of the block. If they're thrown out of the block, the only way they can get confirmed is to have them separately scheduled for floor time, which burns a lot of floor time. I think we will clear the deck of most of the pending nominees, except for those to whom there are individual objections by Republican senators. Secondly, I think we're going to clear the decks of all or virtually all of the judicial nominees. And I think that's very good. I'm pressing for that. The reason is, I think starting next year, There are no more confirmations. If there are cabinet vacancies, those will not be confirmed. I think they won't confirm sub-cabinet vacancies, and I think they will stop judicial confirmation. So my hope is we can confirm every judge humanly possible between now and the end of the year. I think we'll probably do that as well. I've also advised the White House. I've said, look, after this election, you all need to sit down with your cabinet and tell every one of the cabinet members you need to decide right now. Are you going to stay or are you going to leave? Often after a midterm election, sub-cabinet members decide to step down. And what I encourage the White House, you ought to tell everyone, either you decide I'm staying for the next two years, I'm here for the duration, or if not, if you plan to step down, step down now. Because let's take Hegseth. If Hegseth is going to resign, if he resigns now and the president nominates a new defense secretary, we can confirm the new defense secretary. If he resigns or is fired next year, We can't confirm a replacement. I don't think the Democrats will agree to confirm anybody at the Pentagon or anywhere else. And so I would expect the next two months to be filled with a lot of confirmations, judicial confirmations, cabinet confirmations. If conceivably there were a Supreme Court vacancy, we would do that, although there have been public reports that Alito and Thomas have said that they're not going to step down. So, I mean, we would not have a Supreme Court vacancy. And then what I'm also urging is that we do a reconciliation. Reconciliation is the major exception to the filibuster. I would like to see us accomplish some major vehicles, including significant portions of the Save America Act that we could pass on reconciliation. You asked, Ben, why we wouldn't do that. Listen, the impediment is, can we get 50 votes in the Senate? Prior to Election Day, we couldn't. We only have 53 Republicans. There were more than three Republicans who were objecting to do that. And so if we can only get to 49 or 48 or 47, we can't get it done. I'm going to press, let's win legislative victories in November and December, because we're about to go through two years of... Time in the wilderness where we're not going to pass meaningful legislation for two years and instead go through the Democrat circus. I hope we have a very productive lame duck for the next two months. Yeah, we're going to keep you updated on every day. I promise you're going to know more here than any other show out there because the senator will be doing the show Monday, Wednesday, Friday from Washington, D.C. when they're there and we'll get you all the latest news on where we're headed. Don't forget, download the show every day we have it and on YouTube as well. And the senator and I will see you back here on Wednesday morning