Where do you come from? What do you bring to this conversation? Just so they understand kind of the milieu you're speaking from.

So in 2015, I had zero experience working on campaigns, but I tried never to let a little thing like experience and expertise stop me.

I was a big fan of Senator Rubio.

It was my sense that this was a pivotal election and I wanted to do my part.

And I happen to have a background in this funny little world of ours of evangelicalism and some experience in public policy.

And it occurred to me that the senator might need a faith outreach guy for his campaign.

And through the providence of God, somebody knew somebody and they said, sure, if you want to do that job, come on board.

When I think about Trump— What I often find myself asking is, well, what the heck is his foreign policy? This is

Eric, you're up.

Well, thank you, Henry, and thanks to my friend Chris, a true patriot of the conservative movement, someone with whom I've been privileged to work alongside for many years.

Chris, you are also a member of my favorite and the most exclusive club that I am a part of, which is those who've served as legislative directors for Republican senators from Missouri.

Yes.

So congratulations to us for having done that.

The question for the debate today is, is the Trump administration doing enough to advance a pro-life agenda? And I think the key word there is enough.

By what standard? According to whose expectations? And is that standard and are those expectations reasonable? There are probably some wild, blue-haired, progressive feminists hate listening to this podcast right now who are screaming that the administration has done far too much to advance a pro-life agenda.

asking for something reasonable?

Eric, you're up.

Well, thank you, Henry, and thanks to my friend Chris, a true patriot of the conservative movement, someone with whom I've been privileged to work alongside for many years.

Chris, you are also a member of my favorite and the most exclusive club that I am a part of, which is those who've served as legislative directors for Republican senators from Missouri.

Yes.

So congratulations to us for having done that.

The question for the debate today is, is the Trump administration doing enough to advance a pro-life agenda? And I think the key word there is enough.

By what standard? According to whose expectations? And is that standard and are those expectations reasonable? There are probably some wild, blue-haired, progressive feminists hate listening to this podcast right now who are screaming that the administration has done far too much to advance a pro-life agenda.

asking for something reasonable?

What do you got for us?

Yeah, just when you thought you couldn't be any more dissonant by the Republican Congress, they come and give you something else just in time for Christmas.

A blue slip is this convention.

It's a tradition.

It's not found in the Senate rules.

It's definitely not found in the Constitution.

It's just a convention that's been in place for 100 years.

Where do folks go? As

Yep.

... what the President's doing.

It's illegal.

It's unprecedented.

All of which is nonsense.

But the reality is, they're definitely going to get sued.

And so, by focusing this step on, um, absolutely tenable grounds, the President in his role as Commander in Chief and as the head of American foreign policy has every right to look at these programs and determine that they have not been faithfully executed, as is his constitutional mandate, and to hold those funds.

No, go ahead.