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Joining us now to discuss our political panel today. We’re joined by Daniel Litman. He’s a White House and Washington reporter at Politico. Also
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with us is Jean Valentino. He’s been away for a while. He’s a GOP political strategist. Good morning, gents. Good morning.
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So, as Alana just reported, the Senate Select Committee is holding a hearing today on worldwide threats with
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testimony from Tulsi Gabbard, Cash Patel, and many others. What is your reaction? And is the administration making the world safer or more dangerous? Let’s start with you, Jean.
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Well, I think you nailed it on the introduction and so did Alana. Uh, it’s intelligence for a reason. Uh, that
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means I’m don’t think uh that you should be putting it in the hands of people who are going to spin it and stir it and
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ferment a narrative that works more on a political basis, not for the primary concern, the national security of this
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nation. We have intelligence that far exceeds most people’s comprehension and the least least we want to do is corrupt
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it or or marginalize it with the world knowing that we have it. Therefore, the element of surprise must be must be
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always present and must be at the ready to defend this nation. Putting all this data out there, John, uh in advance uh
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reduces our ability to respond accordingly. We don’t need them to push the nuclear button to say, “Hey, maybe we should respond now.”
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Yeah, great point, Jean. Daniel, I’m curious to get your reaction to that question as well as to Joe Kent resigning. It does seem a bit
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interesting. You know, three weeks into the war, he’s talking about a forever war, as well as there’s some reports saying he was not privy to a lot of the
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meetings of some of his counterparts who are testifying on Capitol Hill today.
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You’re a DC insider. You get the the best scoops. What are you hearing?
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Yeah. So, it’s quite uh interesting that he would resign the day before this hearing when he knows that his top ally
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Tulsi Gabbard is going to get grilled about Kent uh and uh kind of about her previous views. There is still a tweet
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from January 2020 right after uh Suani was killed by Trump uh saying uh from Tulsi saying say no to Trump’s Iran war.
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uh and so she would sell t-shirts uh against the Iran war as a campaign uh
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person. And so that is quite uh interesting that she is uh she’s sometimes been sidelined from some of
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Trump’s uh more aggressive foreign operations. Uh and so Democrats uh and maybe even some Republicans are going to see if there’s any daylight between her
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and Trump and whether she’s fully on the team uh to uh help prosecute this war.
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Yeah, it’s, you know, when I actually analyze Kent’s uh commentary, the fact that he mentioned Jewish lobby, that
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seems like a personal opinion, not from intelligence reports.
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But CNN is reporting new polling on Republican approval of US military action in Iran.
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Okay, MA GOP on the US military action in Iran. Look at this. Nearly nine in 10, 89% approve of the US military action Iran. That is the MAGA GOP base.
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Just 9% disapprove of it. This is tremendously popular among the Republican base. And of course, Marco Rubio, Secretary of State, overseeing
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the effort. It seems to me that a lot of people are taking that into account,
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including President Donald Trump, who has been smiling an awful lot at Marco Rubio lately.
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You know, Jean, as an adjunct professor uh of business, I’m going to take the liberty to round up 89. Let’s just call
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it a A minus. That’s a pretty good score. What say you?
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Well, I think it’s a good score, but it’s not just what the Republicans, even the Democrats agree that um there must
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be a move in this direction. you you uh you have a situation here where the the the House of Representatives and now the
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Senate are trying to grapple over basic things like the SAVE Act. They’re having trouble um uh coming to the same level
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of percentage the rest of the nation feels about these issues. and we’re going to worry about their access to
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intelligence information. If they can’t fix the Save Act and get the fundamentals of election integrity in
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place for this nation, I don’t want them anywhere near President Trump’s authority and control, which has proven
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very good in the management of a crisis that he has literally transformed overnight as a as compared with past wars.
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Yeah. And to think we could trust Congress with all of this intelligence when we know there’s so many leaks out of Congress, I think it was very
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strategic. President Trump did not go to them in order to get authority, which he already has. Um, but Daniel, the government shutdown remains in effect
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and TSA agents and other federal workers are still unfortunately not being paid leading to chaos at airports across the
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country. Here is Speaker Mike Johnson on the shutdown and its impact.
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American airports obviously are reaching a breaking point so severe that airlines are pleading with Democrats to please
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fund the Department of Homeland Security. It’s fallen on deaf ears. Four separate times, Republicans have voted to fully fund DHS since this chaos chaos
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ensued four times. And on each of those times, Democrats voted almost unanimously to block the funding.
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Daniel, where do we stand with these negotiations? Is there any end in sight to this current mess we’re experiencing with TSA?
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Unfortunately, not right now. The White House did have a a kind of a letter uh listing uh where they stood on immigration reforms. That’s what
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Democrats still want. Uh they felt galvanized by the strong public response to those shootings of the protesters in January, but now it’s late March,
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mid-March. Uh and so uh some of that uh fever pitch has died down. So you have to wonder when does the political when
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Democrats decide that the political pain uh gets too much for them then they will uh start to buckle. Uh but so far I
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think we we’ve start to see potentially smaller airports whether they will have uh TSA agents uh sometimes you know if
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you’re at uh Martha’s Vineyard or Nantucket airport that there’s only a couple agents on duty and so if they all call out there’s no flights out of those
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islands uh and also many smaller airports and so that’s that kind that’s kind of the next shoe to drop uh that may start to hit headlines.
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You know Gan I I need you to help me out this morning. You know, I’m looking through my notes. Uh it was just last year, right, when President Trump came
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in and started doing DC, cutting slashing waste. At that point in time,
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the Democrats cared about federal workers.
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Then all of a sudden, I don’t know what happened. Now they’re putting certain federal workers out of work. Help me
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make this make sense of this. Well, when Elon Musk stepped in and ran the ran the show, it’s as if he opened Pandora’s box
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and instead of a cricket or a little grasshopper popping out, there was a a bevy of rattlesnakes popping out of all
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the ilk out there in terms of budgetary fraud and misuse of American taxpayer
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dollars. Uh it’s it’s absolutely worse than we thought. They Democrats and the
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Republicans in the House and the Senate need to look in the mirror and assess their own ability to balance a budget
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legitimately. They should be denied a paycheck until a budget is secured. And that’s all these continuing resolutions
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as well. If you cannot balance a budget for the greater good of this nation, you don’t get paid. In fact, you better look for the exit door.
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One more thing on the does is that they he came Mus came in saying cut like a trillion. Yeah,
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I’m sorry. We got to go. But you know what the thing is? It’s frustrating America. Thanks so much, Daniel and Jean. We appreciate it. Thank you guys.
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Throughout history, the spirit of patriotism has prevailed. The battles may have changed, but the values remain
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the same. Today in 2024, we find ourselves at a pivotal moment where the
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Patriot Mobile is not just a wireless service. It’s a call to action for those who believe in the American dream.
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