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Good morning, good morning, good
morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome.

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It's time to check in with United
States Senator James lank Dhand. Senator,

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we just had the debt ceiling vote
take place. What are your takeaways

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on that. Yeah, it's frustrating
because we needed to make progress as a

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nation during that time period. The
debt ceiling final vote was really a vote

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to decrease the increase of spending,
but not to decrease spending, if I

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could say it that way. The
Congressional Budget Office assumes Congress is going to

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increase spending at least by inflation,
though Congress had never voted on that.

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The vote itself was, well,
we're gonna increase spending this year and next

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year, but will increase it less
than the rate of inflation. And so

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it was declared at big savings.
That's not really cutting down our spending,

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that's not really reducing the debt at
all. And so my frustration was,

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Hey, let's talk about what's really
going on. I think Americans can handle

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a grown up conversation. That's why
I put up the Federal Fumbles Book every

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year to say there are areas we
can actually cut out of spending. There

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are wasteful aspects in government spending,
so let's cut those, and then let's

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also be strategic and what we're going
to try to do. But it starts

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with that wonderful adult conversation to say, let's all talk about things like grown

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ups here and admit what we really
have is an issue, and let's talk

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it through how to solve it.
Other big things facing of course Congress and

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the Senate in particular, of course, is the Southern border issue. It

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seems like every day we just keep
hearing more and more stories, and they're

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not good ones. They're not good
ones. I was down on the Southern

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border three weeks ago now, and
when I was down there, I always

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asked the same thing every time.
When I first arrived at the border patrol,

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and I go on a regular basis
what has changed since I was here

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last, because there's always new trends, always new aspects. The first thing

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that they said when I got there
this time was we have a lot more

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folks that are non Spanish speaker that
are coming across the border. As they

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described it, along the border,
these are military age men coming in from

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Russia, from China, from Pakistan, from the Middle East from Mauritania and

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West Africa. These are individuals coming
in where we have no criminal history on

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them, We have no idea of
the background. But it's men that are

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coming across and saying, hey,
I have fear in my country, but

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we have no idea who they are, their real identity, or where they're

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headed. And the Biden administration is
still as of today, just releasing them

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into the country and saying Okay,
you can come in, but you have

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to show up for a hearing three
or four years from now in the future.

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And there's no one tracking these individuals. They're just released into the country.

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So my frustration is this administration says
one thing, like they have said,

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hey, the numbers have actually gone
down, when in realities the numbers

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are as high as they've always been. They're just counting them differently and putting

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them on different lists and saying,
oh, you want both lists, now

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is going to give you one list. So they've literally split them into two

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different lists and they're only given the
numbers for one of them, saying the

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numbers are down. That is incredible. That is absolutely incredible. These are

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things that people were saying many many
years ago. To watch out for foreign

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nationals from other than Central and Southern
America. This will be happening. Well,

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in dribs and drabs, it has
been happening, but it sounds now

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like it's more and more common.
No, Tom, it's accelerated significantly.

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For instance, when I was down
there, said three weeks ago, I

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asked the border patrol gate talking about
some of these populations where they're coming from

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from West Africa, which is a
fundamentalist Muslim country area, and they're in

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Mauritania, that particular country. Just
in two weeks, they'd had a thousand

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men that come across in two weeks. In two weeks, so this is

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greatly accelerated. If you want to
go back to Mauritania, just two years

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ago, there were about ninety people
in two in a year that had come

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across. So this is a big
acceleration that's happening for that particular region.

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And we're trying to be able to
say hold on, these individuals have flown

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through eight different countries to be able
to get here. This is not just

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fleeing for asylum. This is something
else. What's going on. Well,

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there are more than just these two
issues, but they're very big ones going

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on in Washington, DC, where
you're doing the people's work there. Bring

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us up to date on what's been
happening legislatively. So, Chuck Schumer in

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the Senate has tried to figure out
how to be able to manage all the

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absentees that he has, so he's
not been able to move some of his

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nominations through. We've got some really
bad judges that they have brought up.

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There's a judge they brought up this
week. They tried to get past,

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but because there were a couple of
Democrats that were out this week, he

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couldn't actually get the past, which
I think is good for the country.

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Quite frankently, what one of the
judges that President Biden has put up actually

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said, one of the threats to
the Republic is the Senate and the Electoral

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College. And he doesn't mean like
the Senate how it votes. He means

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the Senate how it's designed. He
wants the Senate to be able to have

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representation just like the House has.
So basically his problem is the United States

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Constitution. He doesn't like the Constitution
and thinks it's a racist documents and so

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he is trying to But the Biden
administration is trying to put him on the

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courts. Is one of our circuit
court judges. So it is remarkable some

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of the people that they're putting up
right now. We're pushing back on each

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one of them. And as long
as the Democrats have some attendance problems and

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actually getting here and having people out, it's we're going to get to you

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to slow down this process. But
unfortunately they outvote us if everybody else shows

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up, and they're going to keep
craying some of these nominations through. Well,

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we got a lot of people running
for president, and it's most people

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who are in office often don't say
too much during the primary. But what

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do you think is the more the
merrier for folks trying to run for the

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highest office on both sides of the
aisle. Yeah, the nice thing about

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being a Republican is that we've got
a very deep bench. We've got a

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lot of really good people that are
out there with good policy ideas, and

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so my hope is that we'll I
have this good conversation. I'm not endorsing

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anyone. I'm staying out of this
race, but I would tell you there's

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a lot of good folks to be
able to look out with a lot of

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good ideas. We'll have our first
debates in August, so they're coming up

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quick about the time everybody's headed back
to school. We'll have ten or twelve

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people on stage actually having a debate
about what can help us as a nation.

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What's the right tone, what's the
right direction, what are the right

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policies, how do we get out
of this Biden economy, how do we

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actually secure our border? How do
we have better standing worldwide? So I'm

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looking forward to all the dialogue and
allow us to be able to whittle the

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field down anything we forgot to cover. Senator No, there's a lot going

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on. I tell people that get
frustrated about what's happening, none of these

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problems are bigger than God. So
I encourage people to pray, let's get

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to work. Let's set the example
for who we are as a nation.

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There's no reason for us to live
life angry all the time. When we're

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angry, we actually focus and say, Okay, let's get to work and

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try to be able to actually solve
these things. And that's what I try

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to channel my energy towards every day. Well, most pops know how to

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get a hold of God, a
simple prayer we'll get or done. How

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do we get ahold of you if
we need to get something across? Yeah,

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well, be getting a hold of
me is harder than getting old of

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God, because you can reach out
to him any places, anytime, anywhere

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if you want to reach out to
me. Lots of books do how to

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call, because they do, and
we get lots of calls, and that's

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a good thing. But you can
go to Lankford dot Senate dot gov,

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Lankford dot Senate dot gov, and
you can get all of our information or

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email address, our phone numbers.
If you have a stamp, you can

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even mail us a letter. We'll
have the address there. You can go

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to social media at Senator Langford.
But as always I encourage you not to

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believe everything that you read on social
media, and but if you're willing to

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be able to go there, we
can get more information there too. Thank

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you, Senator Lankford.