WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:01.960 Good morning, good morning, good morning. Welcome, welcome, welcome. 2 00:00:01.960 --> 00:00:06.040 It's time now for our conversation with the US Senator James lank for it. 3 00:00:06.280 --> 00:00:09.599 Well, a lot's been going on here. It's kind of like been drinking 4 00:00:09.640 --> 00:00:13.679 from a water hose when it comes to our national news and what's been going 5 00:00:13.720 --> 00:00:17.079 on for federal government. First of all, your reaction to the resignation of 6 00:00:17.160 --> 00:00:21.760 the Secret Service director. Yeah, not surprised, and it should have happened 7 00:00:22.000 --> 00:00:27.160 several days actually before I spoke directly with her. During the Republican National Convention. 8 00:00:27.199 --> 00:00:31.399 We're for senators myself, John Bresso, Marshall Blackburn, and Kevin Kramer 9 00:00:31.480 --> 00:00:35.759 all confronted her, couldn't believe that she came at number one to the convention 10 00:00:35.880 --> 00:00:39.600 itself. And then we were on a phone call with her earlier in the 11 00:00:39.679 --> 00:00:43.799 day asking some direct questions she could not give us an answer to or would 12 00:00:43.840 --> 00:00:46.479 not give us an answer to. And then we found out she came to 13 00:00:46.520 --> 00:00:50.119 the convention. So we confronted her there to be able to talk directly to 14 00:00:50.159 --> 00:00:54.520 her. And it was a very frustrating conversation, to say the lea sign 15 00:00:54.640 --> 00:00:58.119 just the most basic thing of coming for hearing answering questions. And the key 16 00:00:58.200 --> 00:01:02.880 question that they could still not answer is when local law enforcement said we've got 17 00:01:02.880 --> 00:01:07.439 a suspicious person with a rangefinder that we've lost track of, that we don't 18 00:01:07.480 --> 00:01:11.840 know where they are. When they radioed that in fifteen minutes before President Trump 19 00:01:11.840 --> 00:01:15.239 took the stage, secret Service never made the call to be able to hold 20 00:01:15.359 --> 00:01:18.840 the event until they've found this person. I mean, that's the most basic 21 00:01:19.280 --> 00:01:23.159 step. That there's a suspicious person in the crowd we've lost track of, 22 00:01:23.920 --> 00:01:26.200 and they still let everything go on. She couldn't even answer that one. 23 00:01:26.239 --> 00:01:30.680 So's there's a major failure in leadership and an organization and the ability to be 24 00:01:30.719 --> 00:01:34.640 able to answer questions on it. So it's right to have that change. 25 00:01:34.799 --> 00:01:37.439 There's some additional people that are going to have a shift. That'll be the 26 00:01:37.480 --> 00:01:41.680 folks that were actually on site not making the call when they should have made 27 00:01:41.719 --> 00:01:44.640 the call. But we've got to be able to change the process. It's 28 00:01:44.640 --> 00:01:48.000 not just the people. We've got to just change the structure of how they 29 00:01:48.040 --> 00:01:51.920 make decisions to make sure this never happens again. We're talking with you as 30 00:01:51.959 --> 00:01:57.879 Senator James Lankfort and Senator the Democrats always say democracy democracy. Republicans are a 31 00:01:57.959 --> 00:02:00.799 threat to democracy. Well, fourteen million votes kind of went out the window 32 00:02:01.200 --> 00:02:06.480 this past weekend. On the Democratic side, it did. Actually, Yeah, 33 00:02:06.480 --> 00:02:09.960 President Biden was behind in the polls before the debate, and then after 34 00:02:10.000 --> 00:02:15.759 the debate performance was so terrible. Democrats pushed him out basically and said, 35 00:02:15.759 --> 00:02:19.000 you're so far behind in the polls, you're not going to catch up. 36 00:02:19.240 --> 00:02:21.719 We want to get somebody different and say if they can actually do it. 37 00:02:21.759 --> 00:02:25.199 So they held the whole primary, elected Biden in their primary, and then 38 00:02:25.280 --> 00:02:28.560 came back and said, yeah, but he's not beating Trump, and so 39 00:02:28.639 --> 00:02:30.759 let's go see if we can find somebody else. And all the voters that 40 00:02:30.879 --> 00:02:34.639 voted for Biden, they don't count anymore. Now. It's just the select 41 00:02:34.639 --> 00:02:38.400 group of four thousand people that are the delegates. They're the only ones that 42 00:02:38.439 --> 00:02:40.039 are going to count, and they're going to restart again. By the way, 43 00:02:40.039 --> 00:02:43.680 with Kamala Harris now being the one to be able to step in, 44 00:02:44.560 --> 00:02:47.280 she's the one that actually organized all of the stuff for the border. She 45 00:02:47.520 --> 00:02:51.439 was the one that was in charge of making sure they dealt with root causes 46 00:02:51.479 --> 00:02:54.400 and all those things as assigned earlier in the year. But she did not 47 00:02:54.520 --> 00:02:57.879 take it on. In effect, it was worse, and her policies are 48 00:02:57.919 --> 00:03:01.639 even farther to the left than Joe Biden's are. She was restrained only by 49 00:03:01.719 --> 00:03:07.599 Joe Biden from things that were even more extreme in the policies. So I 50 00:03:07.639 --> 00:03:10.639 would say this is the far left wing of the Democrat Party winning the day 51 00:03:10.680 --> 00:03:13.919 here of what they want to be able to drive home. But the American 52 00:03:13.919 --> 00:03:16.280 people have already said they don't want inflation, they don't want high prices, 53 00:03:16.319 --> 00:03:21.360 they don't want government doing everything to them and for them. They don't want 54 00:03:21.400 --> 00:03:24.680 open borders, and they want a better international standing in the world. Those 55 00:03:24.719 --> 00:03:29.960 are things the American people are already saying. And we'll let the election settle 56 00:03:29.960 --> 00:03:35.759 this out in November. Okay. Aside from presidential politics and well vice presidential 57 00:03:35.800 --> 00:03:39.719 politics, what else is on your radaris, editor? They're quite a bit. 58 00:03:40.000 --> 00:03:44.120 As we're trying to be able to work through a long day today with 59 00:03:44.439 --> 00:03:46.560 several hearings on homeland security and other things that are going on. Also in 60 00:03:46.639 --> 00:03:52.199 meeting this afternoon with Benjamin Neuts and Yahoo to talk about Israel and the continuing 61 00:03:52.240 --> 00:03:55.879 threat they have not only from Hamas in Gaza, but also from Hesbala in 62 00:03:55.919 --> 00:04:00.000 the north in Lebanon, a lot of people have lost track of the fact 63 00:04:00.120 --> 00:04:04.000 that Hesba Lah in the north, not in Gaza. On the north in 64 00:04:04.080 --> 00:04:10.639 Lebanon, they've launched thousands of rockets into northern Israel. There are one hundred 65 00:04:10.680 --> 00:04:14.599 thousand Israelis that are now displaced in northern Israel that have had to flee from 66 00:04:14.639 --> 00:04:17.160 the border. And while so much of the national media is focused on what's 67 00:04:17.160 --> 00:04:23.480 happening in Gaza to the south, people are ignoring the attack from Hesbelah in 68 00:04:23.560 --> 00:04:27.319 the north, and that's an even bigger threat to them. So Natanya, 69 00:04:27.399 --> 00:04:30.920 who has a two front war going on at this point, and is trying 70 00:04:30.959 --> 00:04:33.439 to be able to resolve things in Gaza as quickly as possible so they can 71 00:04:33.480 --> 00:04:38.399 turn more of their attention to the north to hesbe Law. He will speak 72 00:04:38.439 --> 00:04:42.040 to the Congress later on today. We'll have the opportunity to be able to 73 00:04:42.240 --> 00:04:45.399 hear him directly and to be able to know what the plan is for them 74 00:04:45.480 --> 00:04:48.120 and how they're going to work to be able to stop terrorism at home for 75 00:04:48.199 --> 00:04:53.319 them and in their region. Senator, is it true that Vice President Harris 76 00:04:53.480 --> 00:04:57.360 is not going to have an audience with mister Netanyahu. It is our understanding 77 00:04:57.399 --> 00:05:00.240 that she was planning and I don't know yet. We'll see what with the 78 00:05:00.240 --> 00:05:01.720 final schedule is she was playing to meet one on one with him, that 79 00:05:01.800 --> 00:05:05.120 President Biden was playing to me one on one with him, But obviously he 80 00:05:05.160 --> 00:05:09.800 has COVID and so that's now who's going to meet with Vice President Harris, 81 00:05:09.839 --> 00:05:13.680 which would actually be a normal thing to be able to do on this Then 82 00:05:13.839 --> 00:05:17.920 she was not attending the address to Congress, and so we'll see how that 83 00:05:17.959 --> 00:05:20.839 works out in schedule right now, but there's there are a lot of rumors 84 00:05:20.839 --> 00:05:24.399 of what her schedule will be. We'll see what she actually chooses to do. 85 00:05:24.759 --> 00:05:30.279 I would tell you Vice President Harris has been pretty outspoken against at Netsan 86 00:05:30.360 --> 00:05:34.439 Yahou and pretty belittling to Israel for a while and talking about all the ceasefire 87 00:05:34.480 --> 00:05:39.319 and just let this go, and and and the threats to terrorism that still 88 00:05:39.319 --> 00:05:43.720 reigned for them. So I would not be surprised if she skips out on 89 00:05:43.920 --> 00:05:46.560 visiting with nets and Yahoo because she's been so opposed to him into the policy 90 00:05:46.600 --> 00:05:51.879 that's there. But we'll see what happens today, all right, And Senator, 91 00:05:51.920 --> 00:05:56.000 if folks have any questions or concerns. How do they get a hold 92 00:05:56.040 --> 00:05:59.439 of you. Lots of folks know how to find us because they find us 93 00:05:59.480 --> 00:06:02.000 all the time, which is great. That's part of representing four million great 94 00:06:02.000 --> 00:06:06.600 people. They can go online to Langford dot Senate dot Gov's Langford dot Cendate 95 00:06:06.639 --> 00:06:10.439 dot gov. That's got all of my information there of how to be able 96 00:06:10.480 --> 00:06:14.160 to email me, how to be able to call any of our three offices, 97 00:06:14.600 --> 00:06:16.720 two in the state, one in Washington, d C. There's even 98 00:06:16.800 --> 00:06:20.639 a physical address if you want to actually buy a stamp and mail something. 99 00:06:21.079 --> 00:06:25.680 The Post Office would be very excited if you did that. But there's lots 100 00:06:25.680 --> 00:06:27.680 of different ways to be able to get ahold of theme glad to be able 101 00:06:27.680 --> 00:06:30.480 to do that. You can also go on social media at Senator Langford and 102 00:06:30.519 --> 00:06:33.800 to be able to get all the details. We'll try to put out information 103 00:06:33.879 --> 00:06:36.720 frequently throughout the day of what's happening. I would just ask you to not 104 00:06:36.759 --> 00:06:42.040 believe everything you read on social media, and definitely don't read the comments. 105 00:06:42.040 --> 00:06:44.120 They get pretty bizarre at times.