Good morning, good morning, good morning. Welcome, welcome, welcome.
It's time now for our conversation with the US Senator James lank for it.
Well, a lot's been going on here. It's kind of like been drinking
from a water hose when it comes to our national news and what's been going
on for federal government. First of all, your reaction to the resignation of
the Secret Service director. Yeah, not surprised, and it should have happened
several days actually before I spoke directly with her. During the Republican National Convention.
We're for senators myself, John Bresso, Marshall Blackburn, and Kevin Kramer
all confronted her, couldn't believe that she came at number one to the convention
itself. And then we were on a phone call with her earlier in the
day asking some direct questions she could not give us an answer to or would
not give us an answer to. And then we found out she came to
the convention. So we confronted her there to be able to talk directly to
her. And it was a very frustrating conversation, to say the lea sign
just the most basic thing of coming for hearing answering questions. And the key
question that they could still not answer is when local law enforcement said we've got
a suspicious person with a rangefinder that we've lost track of, that we don't
know where they are. When they radioed that in fifteen minutes before President Trump
took the stage, secret Service never made the call to be able to hold
the event until they've found this person. I mean, that's the most basic
step. That there's a suspicious person in the crowd we've lost track of,
and they still let everything go on. She couldn't even answer that one.
So's there's a major failure in leadership and an organization and the ability to be
able to answer questions on it. So it's right to have that change.
There's some additional people that are going to have a shift. That'll be the
folks that were actually on site not making the call when they should have made
the call. But we've got to be able to change the process. It's
not just the people. We've got to just change the structure of how they
make decisions to make sure this never happens again. We're talking with you as
Senator James Lankfort and Senator the Democrats always say democracy democracy. Republicans are a
threat to democracy. Well, fourteen million votes kind of went out the window
this past weekend. On the Democratic side, it did. Actually, Yeah,
President Biden was behind in the polls before the debate, and then after
the debate performance was so terrible. Democrats pushed him out basically and said,
you're so far behind in the polls, you're not going to catch up.
We want to get somebody different and say if they can actually do it.
So they held the whole primary, elected Biden in their primary, and then
came back and said, yeah, but he's not beating Trump, and so
let's go see if we can find somebody else. And all the voters that
voted for Biden, they don't count anymore. Now. It's just the select
group of four thousand people that are the delegates. They're the only ones that
are going to count, and they're going to restart again. By the way,
with Kamala Harris now being the one to be able to step in,
she's the one that actually organized all of the stuff for the border. She
was the one that was in charge of making sure they dealt with root causes
and all those things as assigned earlier in the year. But she did not
take it on. In effect, it was worse, and her policies are
even farther to the left than Joe Biden's are. She was restrained only by
Joe Biden from things that were even more extreme in the policies. So I
would say this is the far left wing of the Democrat Party winning the day
here of what they want to be able to drive home. But the American
people have already said they don't want inflation, they don't want high prices,
they don't want government doing everything to them and for them. They don't want
open borders, and they want a better international standing in the world. Those
are things the American people are already saying. And we'll let the election settle
this out in November. Okay. Aside from presidential politics and well vice presidential
politics, what else is on your radaris, editor? They're quite a bit.
As we're trying to be able to work through a long day today with
several hearings on homeland security and other things that are going on. Also in
meeting this afternoon with Benjamin Neuts and Yahoo to talk about Israel and the continuing
threat they have not only from Hamas in Gaza, but also from Hesbala in
the north in Lebanon, a lot of people have lost track of the fact
that Hesba Lah in the north, not in Gaza. On the north in
Lebanon, they've launched thousands of rockets into northern Israel. There are one hundred
thousand Israelis that are now displaced in northern Israel that have had to flee from
the border. And while so much of the national media is focused on what's
happening in Gaza to the south, people are ignoring the attack from Hesbelah in
the north, and that's an even bigger threat to them. So Natanya,
who has a two front war going on at this point, and is trying
to be able to resolve things in Gaza as quickly as possible so they can
turn more of their attention to the north to hesbe Law. He will speak
to the Congress later on today. We'll have the opportunity to be able to
hear him directly and to be able to know what the plan is for them
and how they're going to work to be able to stop terrorism at home for
them and in their region. Senator, is it true that Vice President Harris
is not going to have an audience with mister Netanyahu. It is our understanding
that she was planning and I don't know yet. We'll see what with the
final schedule is she was playing to meet one on one with him, that
President Biden was playing to me one on one with him, But obviously he
has COVID and so that's now who's going to meet with Vice President Harris,
which would actually be a normal thing to be able to do on this Then
she was not attending the address to Congress, and so we'll see how that
works out in schedule right now, but there's there are a lot of rumors
of what her schedule will be. We'll see what she actually chooses to do.
I would tell you Vice President Harris has been pretty outspoken against at Netsan
Yahou and pretty belittling to Israel for a while and talking about all the ceasefire
and just let this go, and and and the threats to terrorism that still
reigned for them. So I would not be surprised if she skips out on
visiting with nets and Yahoo because she's been so opposed to him into the policy
that's there. But we'll see what happens today, all right, And Senator,
if folks have any questions or concerns. How do they get a hold
of you. Lots of folks know how to find us because they find us
all the time, which is great. That's part of representing four million great
people. They can go online to Langford dot Senate dot Gov's Langford dot Cendate
dot gov. That's got all of my information there of how to be able
to email me, how to be able to call any of our three offices,
two in the state, one in Washington, d C. There's even
a physical address if you want to actually buy a stamp and mail something.
The Post Office would be very excited if you did that. But there's lots
of different ways to be able to get ahold of theme glad to be able
to do that. You can also go on social media at Senator Langford and
to be able to get all the details. We'll try to put out information
frequently throughout the day of what's happening. I would just ask you to not
believe everything you read on social media, and definitely don't read the comments.
They get pretty bizarre at times.