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**SPEAKER_1** (0:10)
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**Todd Starnes** (0:33)
All right. Hello everybody. Welcome to the Todd Starnes Radio program. Very, very happy to have you with us today. In a very busy News Day as well, a lot of world leaders in Washington, DC for Lindsey Graham's funeral. As a matter of fact, I just stepped out of about two hours of live coverage and analysis of the funeral on Newsmax, so great to be with you today. A beautiful ceremony. And the president of the United States, Donald J. Trump, expected to deliver a tribute later this afternoon at the funeral for Lindsey Graham. That will be held at the National, Washington's National Cathedral.
Also some of our good friends, you see them all the time on this program. They're going to be participating, including Tony Perkins from the Family Research Council and Franklin Graham from the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. So a lot of a lot of the big names at today's funeral for Lindsey Graham. So look, I want to I want to circle back to to something that happened last night on Fox News Channel. There has been a lot of consternation, a lot of consternation about the Senate and the lack of movement in the US. Senate. And we have invited the majority leader on to this program for the past two years. We have had the Speaker of the House on a number of times. President Donald J. Trump has been on this program a number of times. But for whatever reason, Senator John Thune will not come on to the program. And I'm going to explain why after you hear this interview that he did with Sean Hannity last night on Fox News Channel. And, well, John Thune and the establishment are using Fox News as almost official state media. And we were hoping that Hannity would really press Senator Thune on the issues. And look, you don't have to be nasty about it. We're not nasty about it on this program. But when a lawmaker is coming on, when a candidate is coming on, we do expect for them to answer some tough questions. And, you know, you can do that respectfully.
And clearly the Senate Majority Leader and those who oppose President Trump's agenda, they're under the gun. They're feeling, they're feeling the pressure. So I felt it was important for you to hear the entire interview. And you're going to get a little bit of, first of all, by the way, John Thune is pretty much enraged over Mike Lee and Tommy Tuberville, and I believe Bill Haggerty now, because those are the guys that are saying, we're not going to go into recess. We're not going, we're not going home for the campaign. We're going to stay, we're going to work. We're going to try to get the Save America Act through. And Thune is really upset about that. As are a lot of the other establishment Republicans, you can sort of tell who is on what side by their reaction to that. And you've got John Thune, you've got Cornyn, you've got Tillis and all that crowd on one side.
Roger Marshall out of Kansas. And on the other side, you've got the actual Trump-supporting senators. So anyway, I want to play this. So if you'll give me some grace here, this is the interview that the majority leader did on Hannity last night. And it's important for you to... I want you to hear the way the questions were asked.
And I want you to listen to see if there are any follow-up questions in this interview that Hannity conducted with John Thune. Let's take a listen.

**Sean Hannity** (4:15)
It was more Senate majority leader John Thune. Senator, Majority Leader, good to see you. Thank you for being here.
The President put a lot of pressure on you, the Senate, to get it done.

**John Thune** (4:25)
Right.

**Sean Hannity** (4:26)
There are two paths toward it. The Mike Lee path, you stay in session, you take to the floor, real filibuster, versus the Lindsey Graham method, which was he thought you could do it through reconciliation.

**John Thune** (4:39)
Right. Well, I think probably the best path to success is through budget reconciliation. We can't do everything in budget reconciliation, but we can do parts of it. The one thing about the talking filibuster, and it hasn't been used in something like a hundred years, people point to the Civil Rights Act of 1964, but that actually was done in a regular order. They invoke cloture, passed it that way.
But you turn control of the floor over to the Democrats. It's not only unlimited debate, it's unlimited amendments. And the Democrats will have a long list of amendments. And so every time they get an amendment, get it considered, get it disposed of, the clock resets. Every Democrat can give two hours of speeches, so that's 47 times 2, 94 hours of speeches. And then every time you have a vote on an amendment, you go back, start all over again. So the Democrats, this is something that they're salivating over the opportunity to have, is a talking filibuster. So that isn't the best path, in my view. And frankly, I don't think we probably have the votes in the Senate among Republicans even to get on a talking filibuster.