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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

with us is Jean Valentino. He’s been away for a while. He’s a GOP political strategist. Good morning, gents. Good morning.

So, as Alana just reported, the Senate Select Committee is holding a hearing today on worldwide threats with

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.

Well, I think you nailed it on the introduction and so did Alana. Uh, it’s intelligence for a reason. Uh, that

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

ferment a narrative that works more on a political basis, not for the primary concern, the national security of this

nation. We have intelligence that far exceeds most people’s comprehension and the least least we want to do is corrupt

it or or marginalize it with the world knowing that we have it. Therefore, the element of surprise must be must be

always present and must be at the ready to defend this nation. Putting all this data out there, John, uh in advance uh

reduces our ability to respond accordingly. We don’t need them to push the nuclear button to say, “Hey, maybe we should respond now.”

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

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

meetings of some of his counterparts who are testifying on Capitol Hill today.

You’re a DC insider. You get the the best scoops. What are you hearing?

Yeah. So, it’s quite uh interesting that he would resign the day before this hearing when he knows that his top ally

Tulsi Gabbard is going to get grilled about Kent uh and uh kind of about her previous views. There is still a tweet

from January 2020 right after uh Suani was killed by Trump uh saying uh from Tulsi saying say no to Trump’s Iran war.

uh and so she would sell t-shirts uh against the Iran war as a campaign uh

person. And so that is quite uh interesting that she is uh she’s sometimes been sidelined from some of

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

and Trump and whether she’s fully on the team uh to uh help prosecute this war.

Yeah, it’s, you know, when I actually analyze Kent’s uh commentary, the fact that he mentioned Jewish lobby, that

seems like a personal opinion, not from intelligence reports.

But CNN is reporting new polling on Republican approval of US military action in Iran.

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.

Just 9% disapprove of it. This is tremendously popular among the Republican base. And of course, Marco Rubio, Secretary of State, overseeing

the effort. It seems to me that a lot of people are taking that into account,

including President Donald Trump, who has been smiling an awful lot at Marco Rubio lately.

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

it a A minus. That’s a pretty good score. What say you?

Well, I think it’s a good score, but it’s not just what the Republicans, even the Democrats agree that um there must

be a move in this direction. you you uh you have a situation here where the the the House of Representatives and now the

Senate are trying to grapple over basic things like the SAVE Act. They’re having trouble um uh coming to the same level

of percentage the rest of the nation feels about these issues. and we’re going to worry about their access to

intelligence information. If they can’t fix the Save Act and get the fundamentals of election integrity in

place for this nation, I don’t want them anywhere near President Trump’s authority and control, which has proven

very good in the management of a crisis that he has literally transformed overnight as a as compared with past wars.

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

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

and TSA agents and other federal workers are still unfortunately not being paid leading to chaos at airports across the

country. Here is Speaker Mike Johnson on the shutdown and its impact.

American airports obviously are reaching a breaking point so severe that airlines are pleading with Democrats to please

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

ensued four times. And on each of those times, Democrats voted almost unanimously to block the funding.

Daniel, where do we stand with these negotiations? Is there any end in sight to this current mess we’re experiencing with TSA?

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

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,

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

Democrats decide that the political pain uh gets too much for them then they will uh start to buckle. Uh but so far I

think we we’ve start to see potentially smaller airports whether they will have uh TSA agents uh sometimes you know if

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

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.

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

in and started doing DC, cutting slashing waste. At that point in time,

the Democrats cared about federal workers.

Then all of a sudden, I don’t know what happened. Now they’re putting certain federal workers out of work. Help me

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

and instead of a cricket or a little grasshopper popping out, there was a a bevy of rattlesnakes popping out of all

the ilk out there in terms of budgetary fraud and misuse of American taxpayer

dollars. Uh it’s it’s absolutely worse than we thought. They Democrats and the

Republicans in the House and the Senate need to look in the mirror and assess their own ability to balance a budget

legitimately. They should be denied a paycheck until a budget is secured. And that’s all these continuing resolutions

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.

One more thing on the does is that they he came Mus came in saying cut like a trillion. Yeah,

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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