Um, what do you think? Do you agree with Speaker Johnson?

Well, I think it's important, uh, Jake, and by the way, good to see you.

I think it's important that we do completely understand and answer the question.

There have been reports, we're all aware of that, of the Anthropic report that came out, the former employee.

I think that it is important to understand the, the capacities, the capabilities, but I do think that federal, uh, prescriptive, uh, standards need to be put and set in place.

We need to have and understand what we're doing.

Lots of times, and we've seen this through, through the, uh, silicon, uh, experiments that we've done.

Um, but is that something that you take issue with, the lack of disclosure around that kind of AI usage?

What's your sense?

The issue of these data centers and their need for electricity generation, power generation, has been a valuable discussion across the country.

And I think that it's one thing to say we're for data centers.

It's another thing to understand the reality of the needs for those data centers.

In Texas, essentially, we need x5 of what Texas presently has.

if all these data centers are online.

So I think if we just take a data center and it's a priority to us, we're going to be good.

Where are we with all of that? Because when I talk to people on the streets, I don't know if this is what you're hearing, Congressman, this is the number one thing I hear.

Will it translate to lower prices at the pump?

Thank you very much.

I am delighted with what the president has done and very proud of Venezuela.

Venezuela has been for a long period of time holding on to these assets and resources because they had destroyed the infrastructure, the infrastructure of the piping.

But what has happened is a new day is coming forth between Venezuela and the United States.

And Delce Rodriguez, who is their new president, wants to get along with the United States.

So this represents, there she is, this represents a positive thing for the United States of America at a time when we need more, not just Oil, we need more capacity.

What are your thoughts on the advent of these cameras and their usages?

How and what they've tried to achieve, how will that play out in the fall election?

Well, I think it's going to play out fine.

You know, you remember, John, and I believe I was on your show where I stated a year and a half ago or before that Republicans at the election when President Trump won the second time, I said, we're going to play the ball wherever it is on the golf course, wherever that ball is.

And we're not going to complain.

We're going to make things better.

And the first thing, in my opinion, the president really did was he went and took on bricks.

You remember that the world did not have confidence in the American dollar.

Do you feel good that long ignored election issues are finally getting the attention they deserve?

Congressman Sessions, do you think that's an accurate description of what's happening there?

Well, I think it is.

We did not have access to the documents.

We heard lots of stories for many years, but in fact, it resided within a number of administrations.

going back to the Bush administration, moving forward.

And it was really seen as a legal matter.

And then as it became brought forward, as it was brought forward, it then turned into what we saw as holes of important data and information that should have been made available, we think at least publicly, through an investigation process.

Congressman Sessions, do you agree with that, that President Trump has not been as cooperative in this as you would like? And what do you think needs to come next in order to get justice for these women?

Tell us more about this, because this is important when it comes to home ownership and so many other issues.

Well, thank you very much.

In fact, uh, two weeks ago we had the opening of this caucus.

I was surprised to hear that the, that n- there was not a caucus about military and veteran, uh, housing caucus.

So we are completely aware, and you are too, all across this country there are too many people still that came back home, uh, that were hurting from, uh, Afghanistan, perhaps, uh, Bag- uh, the Iraq, and that we need to help them.

So we focused on this and had a partnership with Amazon.

Amazon, uh, is all across the country, and they have this as a major part of what they do, that they encourage their employees to get engaged and to help military and, and, and, and veterans to have housing in the cities where they are all across America.

How do you assess that?

So personally, I wanted to ask that all these values you have, uh, learnt from your family or whoever you have learnt from, so who has been a very important part of your life? Who has, uh, taught you the importance of all these values that you possess right now?

now?I am not unlike so many people who saw value in family, who saw value in the balance of a mother and a father.

But in my life, my father was the dominant figure.

My father took time not only as a father to, to treat the three boys in a way that they wanted to be treated, but he did it in such a way as to build us up, and he understood that he had three distinctly different boys, and he took us individually as we approached him.

I found myself as the last one being married of the three boys.

I found myself as living with my father, uh, when he moved from El Paso to San Antonio.

We developed a deep bond by going to Mount Everest and the Khumbu with each other in 1985.

So I think, you know, even in life, if you are climbing your way to some success, or maybe in your case, elections, or in some people's life, maybe, uh, attaining some, uh, great goal, I think, you know, what you just pointed out, that accepting the higher will of nature or God, that he's the all doer, it's very important to allow your complete energies to shine forth

Congressman, uh, let us know what you are hoping to hear from our president tonight.

Well, tonight the president, I believe, will talk about things that have taken a year and a half by this administration to dig deep into not only the facts of the case, but how it happened, and the, the empowering, uh, things, and then the outcomes.

I think it's important that we do understand that there is a huge collision of ideas in Washington, DC.

On one side, the American people, uh, know that they have the Republican Party here to stand as stalwarts for freedom, opportunity, but they have s- also seen very clearly how the other side, notwithstanding, uh, w- the things that we saw from President Biden go completely to the left, and that is what happened during the elections.

These elections are a, a fight between two sides.

One group that wants to have, uh, ballots that can be turned in three weeks [laughs] after the election, uh, ba- ballot boxes that, where you simply dump your ballot without security versus, uh, the integrity of the American people, citizenship, registration, knowledge of who you are, and to show up and vote with an identification.

The- there are light-years between us.

I mean, are, are, are we gonna get the whole Save America enchilada here? I, I know the Senate's a whole different deal, but what's the House gonna do to start us off?

Yeah.

And as they slung the champagne bottle across the bow, he said, you know, that there may be a day someday when peace is achieved, but until that time, in the, the best we see, it will be done in peace through strength.

And that strength is a symbol of peace, and that is a large aircraft carrier.

And that large aircraft carrier would pull into ports of call that would be friendly to us, but they would be there against the adversaries who wanna come against the United States.

But here's what Phil Graham also said, and he said he wants to make sure that the day peace occurs, with the day the lion and the lamb lie down with each other, that America is the lion and not the lamb, that the decisions about peace and the decisions about world affairs would be decided by the United States.

And our, our great young president, Donald Trump, sees, I think, much of the same, uh, in that American peace and stability and strength and to avoid ca- chaos means that you will have to engage in a hornet's nest like the Iranians.

And he was willing to do that.

I think you have some pretty strong feelings about that

Do you think they finally have blinked and they now realize that President Trump has the upper hand?

Well, let me put it this way.

I'm not in the back channel negotiations nor discussions, but it does not take a lot in my brain to figure out that there are things that the Iranians understand about themselves.

they understand about reality, and they understand about the United States and about Israel.

And I will tell you that it's obvious that the United States was very careful and did not try to support an armed uprising.

The Iranians, as you know, took on and reportedly have killed more than 40,000 of their own citizens who came out to express discontent with the regime.

But I think that they have figured out that it would not be on someone to put 40,000 arms into people's hands and to come after the Iranian-occupied government.

Where are the Democrats who for years have said we can't allow them to have nuclear weapons? Where are the bleeding heart liberals who care about those 40,000 Iranians who have been murdered at the hands of their own government? Is there a point at which the Democrats finally coalesce behind this president and say this is good for America, this is good for the world?

Walk us through how important is this?

Well, we had to work through a process, and the bottom line is it has taken us, within our own conference, the ability to migrate through these bills.

We also have FISA.

We also have the spending bill.

We also have the problem with reconciliation.

We also have the problem with DHS.

And so these all get mixed up with people wanting to make sure that the ideas that they support could be included or their vote is included in other matters.

How concerning, Congressman, is this issue to your constituents there in the great state of Texas, where I'm from?

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... with, uh, a lot of work to do, and we didn't even mention the government shutdown.

But let me tell you that members of Congress well understood before we left that the, uh, FISA Section 702, which we do understand, uh, expires on April twentieth, 2026.

April twentieth.

And I think, in fairness, we're dealing with the date today of, of the fourteenth.

So in a week, this expires, and it's hard for me to know, uh, all the calls that take place.

But John Ratcliffe, who is, uh, a former colleague of ours, has been spending a good bit of time talking about how these warrantless... and, and this is essentially what it is.

Is that a good reform, you think?

Congressman, what more can you tell us about what happened overnight? And good morning to you.

Good morning.

It was a late night.

It is something that is a difficult matter to resolve for some reason.

We are incapable of effectively finding words that would satisfy these few people.

It's obvious all the Republicans, except a few, voted for it.

It's obvious that the Democrats all voted against it.

I want you to share with our viewers kind of how you've had to deal with it yourself and how you've been a victim, if you will, of some of the overreach that has come at the hands of FISA or through FISA.

I just don't understand why this is still facing an uphill battle when I have to show an ID to get a fishing license.

Well, these are all good questions, but the bottom line is that we have passed this in the House.

The Senate has procedures which they need to accomplish.

And so what's happened is that this really has gotten bogged down also in the House because the House is now drawn a line with several of our members who said they won't do other work until we get that done.

And I would simply like to say to my colleagues, we have a lot of work that has to be done.

The Senate will be held accountable for what they do and that that effort that is going on needs to continue.

I believe, I think you believe, that the most important thing that we can do is for the integrity of the election.

Explain what's behind this act and what's motivating it.

Um, are you urging the committee to get the transcripts and, and video out, uh, as soon as possible so we don't have to rely on a he said, he said, we can just actually see what, what was said and, and how it was said?

Jake, thank you.

Uh, I think that there was agreement, at least I knew this yesterday, that there was an agreement not knowing what would be said to, uh, probably the videotapes would be out well before, uh, any transcription.

But I think that this is the point that you and others would make, and that is we'll let the public see for themself, not only about the way that answers were, were posed, but also answers were made.

And I think if we go to the point that you're trying to make, or perhaps Chairman Comer in that there was a direct question to President Clinton about, uh, Donald Trump, and I, he, from everything I've heard, he seems to indicate he has no reason to assume Pres- President Trump, uh, was involved or had any, any involvement or did, quote, did anything wrong.

Uh, perhaps that's the biggest news out of today.

I don't think so.

Yeah.

Go ahead.

Well, you know, the meeting is today and Mrs. Clinton is up.

Secretary Clinton will.

have to be probably pretty careful.

The investigators have a lot of notes.

They have a lot of data.

They have a lot of information.

Is that right? If not, please set the record straight.

What do you want to try to demonstrate with the former president?

Well, it, seemingly, other people did understand what were going on behind closed doors.

They seemingly did understand that perhaps people tried to get Jeffrey Epstein a job or to be a part of the government, not to pay taxes, uh, when they were there, uh, to gain favor with them.

Who paid the money? Uh, who was, uh, providing cover for these things? These are all things that would, uh, tend to jar one's memory if confronted with ideas, uh, perhaps facts of the case.

So I, I, I think it's always worthy to, uh, get it straight from them, rather than just releasing data and information, that by and large has not been, uh, r- released yet.

Do you believe he's in legal jeopardy?

Well, there's, there's always something that's said, and that is the cover-up is worse than the crime.

So we- and, and of course, yeah, as you suggested, at least Mrs. Clinton is probably going to say, "I don't remember.

What do you want to try to demonstrate with the former president?

Well, it, seemingly, other people did understand what were going on behind closed doors.

They seemingly did understand that perhaps people tried to get Jeffrey Epstein a job or to be a part of the government, not to pay taxes, uh, when they were there, uh, to gain favor with them.

Who paid the money? Uh, who was, uh, providing cover for these things? These are all things that would, uh, tend to jar one's memory if confronted with ideas, uh, perhaps facts of the case.

So I, I, I think it's always worthy to, uh, get it straight from them rather than just releasing data and information that, by and large, has not been, uh, d- released yet.

Do you believe he's in legal jeopardy?

Well, there's, there's always something that's said, and that is, the cover-up is worse than the crime....

So, we're, and, and of course, as you suggested, at least Mrs. Clinton is probably going to say, "I don't remember.

Tell us a little bit about what it does and how it changes the paradigm a little bit.

Yeah, John, thank you.

It's for those of you who do business and look at things.

H.R. 7270.

And this is a bill that that is with Bill Foster, who is from Illinois.

And I have put this together, so it's what we call here bipartisan.

And it's actually a chance to look at the marketplace.

Solomon dug down in this,

Congressman, how do you see this shaping up? I mean, a lot of controversy over what is basically an extension, as far as I'm understanding it.

Right.

Well, as you know, the House passed and sent to the Senate six packages, what was now a full week ago.

And those six packages are tied together.

So...

As a result of the things in Minnesota, it required a lot of parliamentary maneuvering, also discussions with the president.

So five of those six are evidently, by agreement as I understand it, going to be signed into law.

So what do you think is going to happen here?

Tell us a little bit about where you think your party can lead on this issue in the next couple of years.

John, thank you.

I think it's essential for us to remember years back and the reason why We, in essence, tripped into this issue of Hillary Clinton for her health care bill and pushing it was, first of all, to help get Bill Clinton elected president.

And the Democrats take these issues on just like ethanol.

Ethanol was completely made up by Barack Obama in Iowa to defeat Hillary Clinton.

That's what this was.

It was a way to win Iowa.

I mean, some big wins, but where do you see the size of government going in the next year or two under Republican leadership?

What else do you have to report?

Well, this is an important issue.

In looking back over the week, it's important to remember that this investigation that was begun years ago by not just the legislature in Minnesota, but actually the governor was acutely aware of this.

and the steps that we are learning, the steps that the governor and the attorney general took to squash this data and information, to squash the investigation.

And so essentially, like what we would do in Texas, if you knew that formally the government was engaged in some sort of investigation, you would allow them the latitude and the time.

Well, what's happened is that the Republicans figured out that it was causing whistleblowers within these agencies who came forward to the governor, who came forward to their own inspector generals, and they were threatened.

And the governor came out, as did the attorney general, and stated that this did not exist, that this was made up by a bunch of people.

My gut feeling, I think he's more right than wrong.

What else do you have to report?

Well, this is an important issue.

In looking back over the week, it's important to remember that this investigation... that was begun years ago by not just the legislature in Minnesota, but actually the governor was acutely aware of this and the steps that we are learning, the steps that the governor and the attorney general took to squash this data and information, to squash the investigation.

And so essentially, like what we would do in Texas, if you knew that formally the government was engaged in some sort of investigation, you would allow them the latitude and the time.

Well, what's happened is that the Republicans figured out that it was causing whistleblowers within these agencies who came forward to the governor, who came forward to their own inspector generals, and they were threatened.

And the governor came out, as did the attorney general, and stated that this did not exist, that this was made up by a bunch of people.

So it grew over time.

My gut feeling, I think he's more right than wrong.

Has Congress been briefed on the situation? And where do you think this ends up as we go into the weekend?

Thank you very much.

As you have previously heard, there is a lot going on in Minnesota.

On Wednesday, the Government Reform and Oversight Committee as a whole had a big hearing that was really a very combustible attitude during the hearing.

Of course, the shooting occurred, which changed then the tone from one of fraud to one of a shooting.

The ability that we have to understand what happened is still in the mix.

It has not been completely revealed.

And we're going to fight it in the streets.

I think it meets the road, whatever it does.

Well, I've seen this president over his tenure talk about the American worker, talk about America, wanting to make sure that America not only has the greatest jobs, but is competitive around the world.

How do I rate him right now? I rate that what's happened is that we got to remember the steep climb and the problem that the president had and still has of getting his team on board.

And we have here in Congress and the swamp, we are having problems still effectively dealing with an administration because the people that are there are bureaucrats and the bureaucrats are still running the shop in many areas.

So we have to move forward.

Economics wise, I guarantee you the president brought in $6 trillion worth of activity.

That is one of the reasons why you see the stock market moving forward.

I want to do it, yes, JC as in Jesus Christ, but not her way.