March 12, 2026 • 36 mins
Hour 3 of the Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show delivers one of the most intense and news‑packed hours of the day, blending national security updates, political interviews, and breaking terror‑related developments across multiple states. The hour opens with Senator Eric Schmitt of Missouri joining the program to discuss the Save America Act and the Senate’s procedural fight over election integrity, voter‑ID requirements, mail‑in balloting limits, and protections for women’s sports. Schmitt explains how a talking filibuster could force Democrats to publicly defend their opposition and outlines the legislative mechanics needed to bring the bill to the Senate floor. He then addresses the Democrats’ refusal to fund the Department of Homeland Security amid a surge in terror threats, arguing that their resistance to immigration enforcement and ICE operations has resulted in long TSA wait times, staffing shortages, and national‑security vulnerabilities just as Americans enter peak spring‑travel season.
As the show continues, Clay and Buck shift to extensive real‑time updates on what appears to be a wave of coordinated or ideologically aligned terror‑related attacks across the United States. They review the attempted IED attack at Gracie Mansion in New York City, the jihadist‑inspired mass shooting in Austin that killed two people, and breaking developments at Old Dominion University, where a gunman shot multiple victims before being killed. During Hour 3, the hosts actively monitor unfolding reports of a vehicle‑ramming and attempted shooting at Temple Israel in West Bloomfield Township, Michigan. Clay and Buck air live details from police briefings, explaining that the attacker drove a vehicle—later reported to be filled with explosives—into the synagogue, exchanged gunfire with armed security, and was fatally shot. No congregants or students inside the complex were harmed, and authorities confirmed that the building’s security team had drilled for exactly this scenario weeks earlier. Clay and Buck underscore the rising domestic terror threat, pointing to senators who have warned that America is now at its highest risk level in decades due to sleeper‑cell activity, online radicalization, and open‑border policies that have enabled extremist entry. They urge listeners to remain vigilant as multiple attacks in less than two weeks span Texas, New York, Michigan, and Virginia.
Following the Michigan updates, the hour pivots to Senator John Cornyn of Texas, who discusses his May runoff against Ken Paxton and the potential impact of a Donald Trump endorsement in the race. Cornyn defends his record as a Trump‑aligned conservative, noting that he has voted with Trump more than 99 percent of the time and has played major roles in passing tax cuts, confirming Supreme Court justices, and securing federal reimbursement for Texas border‑security operations. He explains his evolving stance on the filibuster, arguing that the Save America Act is critical enough to justify a talking‑filibuster exception due to Democrats’ pattern of blocking legislation tied to national security and voter integrity. Cornyn also contrasts his electability with Paxton’s, asserting that he is the stronger candidate to defeat the Democrats’ far‑left challenger and to protect down‑ballot Republican seats in Texas.
The hour concludes with Clay and Buck summarizing the rapid‑fire terror‑related events of the past 10–12 days, warning that the pattern of attempted attacks—some involving explosives, others involving firearms—strongly indicates jihadist motivation. They emphasize that the Detroit‑area attack was likely intended as a mass‑casualty bombing and praise the synagogue’s security team for preventing what could have been a devastating tragedy. As they wrap the hour, the hosts prepare for additional listener reactions, particularly from Texans responding to Senator Cornyn’s appearance, setting the stage for continued discussion the following day.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Third hour of play and book gets going right. Now
we're joined by Senator Eric Schmidt of Missouri. Now, Senator,
thanks for stopping by.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Good to be with you.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
Let's start with the Save Acts, sir.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
We have so many people who are paying close attention
to this, a lot of listeners all across America who
are saying, this seems like a must, This seems so straightforward,
so necessary as a law, and of course Democrats oppose it.
Is there any realistic path forward for this? What is
the best outcome as you see it, for the Save Act?
(00:37):
That's realistic? What do you want to happen?
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Well, we need to get on it. And the hope
is that next week we will actually be on the
Senate floor with the Save Act. I think that'd be
and by the way, spend some time on it. And
I'm the supporter of this talking filibuster idea. I think
that's what people think happens in Washington and the United
States Senate. They think of Jimmy Stewart holding the floor
and the Senate the old line is that operates by
(01:01):
unanimous consent or exhaustion, and I think the Democrats should
have to own this and earn it if they want
to block the idea that you have to be US
citizen to vote, you have to show an idea to
vote that we're not going to allow mass mailing balloting scams,
we're not going to allow transgender surgery for miners, and
we should allow boys and women's sports, men and women's sports.
That's what this will do. And those are common sense proposals.
(01:23):
They're eighty twenty issues. They might be higher than that.
And I think it's really important most importantly for protecting
the election security and regain the trust of the American people.
So my hope is that we're on it, we stay
on it.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
So if we go to the talking filibuster, there have
been all sorts of different reports that I have read
about what that actually looks like, what that means, what
do you anticipate a talking filibuster would look like, and
how does it end?
Speaker 3 (01:53):
How does it progress?
Speaker 2 (01:56):
So you got to get on the bill, and if
we take the House bill, and forgive me if I
get in the weeds. But since you asked the question,
so the House bill, it only requires fifty one votes
to get on it, right, So we can take the
House bill that's been passed and then it is before
the Senate, and then at that point amendments are in order.
You know, I'm working closely with the White House on this,
(02:18):
and or Lee amendments would be in order. So that
version that came over has two provisions. It doesn't have
the mail in piece, it doesn't have the transgender piece,
it doesn't have the men and women's sports piece. So
we would be able to amend it. And then at
that point, and that's a majority vote when you're on amendments,
then at that point we need to get to a
final vote. And the one way you can get to
(02:38):
the final vote is that you just run out of
Democrats that want to hold the floor for hours and hours. Now,
the commitment from the Republican side is that we need
to make sure we hold a quorum for the whole
time that this happens. Meaning if a Democrat says, hey,
I know, the absence of a quorum meaning there's not
enough people in the chamber, there have to be fifty
one Republicans that are there to maintain the quorum. So
(02:59):
this is something that used to happen. I think the
Senate's got kind of lazy with the way we do
it now. Where you just come in and you clock
in a vote and it takes to gets you to sixty.
So this is about holding the floor voting on amendments
for a period of time. That's how would play out.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Now, speaking of the floor, I believe you've been on
the Senate floor asking for unanimous consent to defund to
fund rather the Department of Homeland Security for the next
two weeks. Where does that stand. I assume Democrats are
either have blocked it or are going to block it.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Yeah, they blocked it. So basically the Democrats are blocking
funding for Homeland Security, you know. So the irony here
is they let fifteen million people in this country. Some
of them are terrorists, many are murderers and even more
violent criminals. But they're defunding Homeland Security. That's what their
position is. So they're blocking our efforts to fund it
because they're having a temper tantrum about Ice. What it's
(03:55):
really about, guys, is they don't actually think we should
enforce our immigration laws. They don't like the result in
twenty twenty four. They don't care that American mothers and
daughters are being raped and murdered by illegal immigrants, and
ICE has a job to do. We've set out what
their job is in our laws that have been repassed,
passed by Republicans and Democrats, and enforced by the way
(04:15):
by Republicans and Democrats and previous administrations. But what we
saw with Joe Biden was unprecedent. He threw op in
the border. Millions of people are here. President Trump ran
on deporting those folks, and here we're at. They don't
like the results, so they just wanted to fund ICE.
That's what this comes down to. So in the crosshairs
that in the mix they're in that DH Funny Bill,
is TSA, the Coast Guard, all these agencies that outside
(04:36):
of ICE and the Democrats are blocking funding because of
Trump arrangement syndrome.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
Okay, let's you're breaking down everything going on in that context.
We're hearing about hours and hours that everybody's having to
stand in line, and at some point, especially with it
being spring break week, people just look around and they're angry.
You may not be paying attention to what's funded and
what's not. We've got an alleged shooting that you may
(05:03):
or may not have seen that took place in West Bloomfield, Michigan.
Reports are that the shooter is believed to be dead.
We know what happened in Austin, Texas, where unfortunately a
couple of people were murdered by what appears to have
been a deranged lunatic, and we know in New York
City there were just a couple of IED's throne that
(05:23):
fortunately did not go off, but could have killed many people.
Isn't it absolutely beyond the pale absurd that we would
be in a situation where I think the number right
now is three hundred some odd TSA agents have just said, hey,
I've got to quit, I've got to find a new job,
or I've got to make money right now, that Democrats
would be refusing to fund these individuals.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
It's crazy. I mean, it's so stupid, Clay, I don't.
I mean, I've seen a lot of stuff in politics.
I've seen a lot of argument. It's just so dumb.
But they're obsessed there. First of all, they hate President
Trump and that manifests itself in many different ways. But
they thought they had some moment I think in Minneapolis
that they were going to be able to ultimately prevent
(06:05):
law enforcement from doing their jobs by overloading them with
burdens that they can't. You know, we can talk about
what those are, but basically it would render Ice unable
to deport people. That's what they want, and so they
are willing to hold all of this hostage. And now
the legacy media will go along with it and they'll
create some issue about some negotiation on this. But it's
(06:25):
very simple. Republicans just voted, just now, voted to fund TSA,
to fund ICE, to fund Secret Service, to fund the
Coast Guard, and the Democrats have voted No, it's not
that complicated. It's stupid, but it's not complicated.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Senator Schmidt with us now and Senator I think that
this war in Iran or whatever, we haven't really come
up with something other than a word to call it.
I guess this overseas aerial campaign against the Iranian military
definitely acts of war going on. The President seems very
confident that this is both achieving its objectives and will
(07:05):
be limited in scope, and he is in charge of
that scope. What's your sense as to how this is
going so far, and what's your confidence level that this
will be wrapped up, say, by the end of the month.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Yeah, I mean, I think the President's committed to accomplishing
the objectives as he laid out, and essentially, in a nutshell,
the nuclear program that we had a devastating blow to
with the B two's out of Missouri by the way,
last summer, AROM was basically creating this missile shield, this
conventional ballistic missile shield to protect it for their future ambitions,
(07:37):
and that's being wiped out now. So that's really the mission.
We had a briefing earlier this week. They're ahead of
schedule on that, and I think the President's committed to
doing this. He understands the concerns that people would have
about having another forever war in the Middle East. I
don't think he wants that, but he's committed to this mission.
I think they're accomplishing that right now.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
Much less seriously, I saw Friday at the President's College
Sports round Table, and I know you have entered introduced
a bill alongside of a Democrat colleague that would help
to rectify the mess that is college athletics.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
What would it do? Are you optimistic that it can
be a solution it?
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Look, it's the first five partisan bill that's been introduced
on this on this measure, and I think that's a
significant development to set the stage. College athletics right now
is very chaotic. In college football by and large, for years,
has essentially been the cash cow that funds all the
non revenue sports, women's sports, Olympic sports, even sports like
(08:38):
baseball that don't really generate revenue save a couple of
schools here or there. Because of the new system that
we have right now, you know, it's just a matter
of time, and I think that time's pretty soon where
you're just going to start seeing all that programming dropped
and all those scholarships drop for people who you know,
can change their lives. So what's the solution. I was
skeptical Clambuck about Congress if you had asked me this
(08:58):
two years ago, I've been why is Congress considering anything here?
But the truth is Congress is the only entity on
the planet that can grant anti trust exemption to some
governing body to set some rules, transfer rules, eligibility rules,
agent rules, things that they can't do right now because
of lawsuits have basically rendered the ncaa fecklist. They can't
do anything. So we can do that, but I don't
(09:18):
think you solve the governance problem or the challenges in
college sports without revenue that basically pay for these sports, right,
these non revenue women's sports, the Olympic sports that we
all love. And so our proposals Senator Cantell and I
from Washington are that, Look, the NFL, the NBA, MLB,
they all have anti trust exemption to collectively negotiate to
pool their media rights. Okay, and to just give you
(09:40):
a statistic, the NBA has half the audience of college football,
but twice the revenue. The NBA generates about eight billion.
College football is about four billion, but they have twice
the eyeballs every week. And so you know the SEC
and Big ten are big players in that. But what
we could do is our bill says, look, you can
pull your media rights. We respect the conferences that are
going to bring in the lion share of the rev.
But that bargaining will be great for fans because think
(10:03):
about it. With the NFL, you can there's different channels there.
There's a Sunday night game, there's a Monday night game,
there's a Thursday night game. College football, the interest is growing,
and you can actually have a system here where Fox
and ESPN album are bidding, bidding, bidding, bidding up those
dollars that can protect those sports and it'll be great
for the fans.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
How optimistic are you that this thing is going to pass?
Speaker 2 (10:25):
I think this component is key. I don't think you
can just do the governance piece and get to sixty
votes in the Senate, right. I think there has to
be a carrot here where everybody feels like they're growing.
So if you're if you're a school that's been kind
of left behind on some of this stuff, on the
revenue that's been generated for the you know, the conferences,
they're doing exceedingly well. There's a reason for them to
do it, I think. And look, I'm a Mazoo guy.
(10:46):
I love Miszoo. They're in the SEC. I love SEC football.
I think they're going to do well in this model too.
So I'm optimistic that the next phase the House is
probably going to play vote on something next week, just
the Score Act, which is just the governance piece. I
think the thing at the High White House last week
added momentum. I think we're going to be hopefully. The
next step in the Senate is a hearing in the
Commerce Committee, where I serve on, and this will be
(11:07):
heard out and I think that's where the work will
be done to try to find a compromise to literally
save college sports. If we don't get this done this
year or maybe next year, but I think this year
is very important. I think the landscape looks different forever,
and if we fix it, or I should say we
give them the tools to fix it, I think it
changes thing for the next fifty years will be great
for fans.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
Good stuff as always, Senator Eric Schmidt of Missouri. We
appreciate the time. Good luck on getting all that taken
care of.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
All right, guys, thanks awesome.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
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Speaker 1 (13:20):
Sorry Clay, I jumped in there because I'm doing some
on the fly research here into what's going on in
this country right now with these various shootings that have occurred.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
And here's where this stands.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
If you were to start to guess at what you
think has happened at Old Dominion University where the shooter
has been neutralized, so the shooter has been killed by police,
and two people are have been wounded, they've been shot
and they're in the hospital. And what happened at the
synagogue up in Michigan, where fortunately it seems the only
person shot maybe the person trying to do the terrorist attack. Clay,
(14:00):
It's looking more and more indicators are pointing toward these
are exactly the kind of lone wolf, sleep or sell
whatever you want to call them, Islamic jihad attacks in
this country that people have been concerned about. And I
can tell you this with the Old Dominion shooting, the
longer there are no details about the person who did
(14:22):
the shooting, the more likely it is it's someone that
the media doesn't want to focus on as a terrorist shooter.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
Well, I mean, I think you can just look at
in the last week, basically, we had the shooting in Austin, Texas,
which took the lives of two people. We had the
attempted IEDs outside of Gracie Mansion in New York City. Again,
for those of you just getting in your cars, it
looks like a would be terror attack has been neutralized.
(14:53):
And now everybody is reporting CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC
that the would be a sad shooter whoever it was,
in the Detroit area in West Bloomfield has been shot.
And you're saying you're doing research on what happened this
morning at Old Dominion University in the state of Virginia,
and that all these may well be connected to the
(15:13):
same thing. I mean not neither one of them has
had any details released on the on the assailant, on
the would be terrorist, or the terrorists.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
In the case of Old Dominion. You know, what are
the calciods that one of these two guys has Muhammad
in his name. I mean, you start to you start
to wonder, at what point are we allowed to say
we have a pretty good sense of what's going on
here everybody anyway? You know what, what what is that
level of which we get to say Why is it so?
Why are they so slow to get us details on
(15:41):
who these shooters are? Why aren't because there's an imminent
threat to the public. This isn't just some thing. It's
not just some right wing talking point. If there are
activated jihadas cells in this country, either self activated or
people that have gotten the go order if you will,
from whatever entity they're connected to you online, this is
not hard. We've seen this before. Shouldn't we know that
(16:03):
that's going on? Don't the authorities have an obligation to
tell us as quickly as possible. Yeah, we've had two
for two here, guys that are exactly what you think
they are.
Speaker 4 (16:13):
I agree, And what I would say is for everybody
out there listening, I think you need to be hyper vigilant.
I think you need to be aware of danger in
a way that maybe typically you're not. Because again Austin, Texas,
New York City, Detroit area in Michigan, and maybe well
now also the old Dominion campus in Virginia. If we
(16:38):
had two different individuals who decided to try to take
terror action in the same day, I don't think it's
crazy to think there might be a third. I'm worth
I had not seen this. I had not seen this
tweet until now. Carol Markowitz, who does incredible reporting on this.
She has amazing law enforcement sources. She'd never tell me.
(16:59):
I don't know who they are, but she has phenomenal
law enforcement sources.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
She says.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
The name this is from Carol Markwitz, the name for
the Old Dominion shooter. She has been reliably informed the
alleged attacker of Old Dominion his name is Mohammed Jala.
Any any shock, any shock, probably.
Speaker 4 (17:20):
Have one, probably have a decent idea what his motivations
might have been on Old Dominions campus. And again, when
you're driving a car into a synagogue with a weapon
and you are shot and killed outside the synagogue, I
think it's hard to say, man, what would motivate someone
to engage in behavior like this? So all of these
(17:43):
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Speaker 3 (18:58):
I want to update you guys on the latest.
Speaker 4 (19:01):
This is from Fox News and I just sent it,
and let me make sure that I read this correctly.
Authority say the shooter involved in the attack at Temple
Israel that's outside of Detroit, Michigan, found badly burned after
crashing a village into the crashing a vehicle into the building,
(19:24):
which then caught fire. Armed security engaged in a shootout
and fatally shot the would be attacker, also CNN reporting,
and this may be why he was badly burned. That
the vehicle was filled with explosives.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
So that would explain a lot here, because you would
have somebody who tried to create a vbied, a vehicle
born improvised explosive device, essentially a car suicide bomber, and
the bomb didn't go off. Making bombs is fortunately harder
than a lot of people think it is, especially if
you've never done it before. Near miss, it seems Clay
(20:01):
looks like no casualties, no good guy, no good goal,
casualties in the synagogue. Only this guy taken out right.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
That's right.
Speaker 4 (20:09):
And again this now suggests Austin, New York City, Detroit, Virginia,
all with the same motive. That is a violent terror attack.
We bring in now Senator John Cornyn of Texas. He
is with us. We got a bunch to get into
with you. Senator, We appreciate the time. Let's start with
this primary runoff against Ken Paxton in late May. President
(20:34):
Trump has said that he is going to endorse but
has held off on endorsing. Do you expect him to
endorse you? What impact do you think the president's endorsement
in Texas would have.
Speaker 5 (20:47):
Well, I've told the President that I thought his endorsement
would be very impactful and I would be delighted if
he chooses to endorse endorse me in the race. So far,
he's not done that, and you know, people ask me, well,
what's he going to do? And my usual response is
there's only one person on the planet who knows the
(21:09):
answer to that, and it's not me. So we're not
We're continuing to work hard toward that May twenty six runoff,
and if the President decides to make an endorsement that
would be that'd be great news.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
Senator Corny, appreciate you being with us. My understanding is,
and feel free to correct any part of this, because
there's a lot of senators and I can't know everything
that all of you have ever thought or said. My
understanding is that you've long been in the past a
defender of the Senate filibuster rule, so a sixty vote
threshold for most legislation, but that you just recently published
(21:45):
why the Save Act matters more than the filibuster, am
I right? Is that where you are now? Is that really?
Is that a major departure, a major change, And you're
feeling about the filibuster and what brought you to this,
because you're going to have some critics who say, well,
this is just because you're up for reelection and you
want to seem like you're going to give the base
(22:06):
what it wants.
Speaker 5 (22:08):
Well, the filibuster has stopped a lot of really bad legislation.
When the Democrats were in charge, they've proposed packing the
Supreme Court, making Puerto Rico in the district of Columbia
States and getting two Democratic senators each and permanently changing
the country. So the filibuster has worked well stop bad stuff.
(22:33):
But we're in much different times now, and with the
Trump derangement syndrome and the polarization up here in Congress,
Democrats just reflexibly oppose everything that Trump has proposed or
that Republicans want, including paying the Transportation Security Agency agents
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and the Federal Emergency Management Agency. They didn't do anything wrong,
but they're the people being punish now by this second
shutdown of a significant part of the federal government. So
I would I long for the day when you would
have these two political parties who were obviously have different
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priorities and different ideas about how to govern, but where
there is still the possibility of finding some common ground
and working to build consensus. I think that's good for
the country when we can do that, because any short
term measures that one party or the other passes can
change the next time the Congress slips. So I would
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call this a really kind of an evolution of my
views that fit the times. I don't think it's okay
for us to just tell my constituents in Texas we
can't get anything done because the Democrats won't cooperate. And
we know, as the President has pointed out, that when
the shoe is on the other foot, when they're in
the majority, they will they will blow up the philipbuster immediately.
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So I've said I'm open to the talking philibuster, which
we hope to use on the Save America Act and
potentially other reforms as well.
Speaker 4 (24:12):
We're talking to Senator John Cornyn of Texas. He's in
a runoff against Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas, on
May twenty six. We know that one of you will
be running against James Talerico, who frankly seems like a
very far left wing and radical nominee for the Democrats.
Do you believe that you would beat taller Ico worse
(24:34):
than Ken Paxton would and is that one reason why
you would argue people should vote for you in this
upcoming runoff.
Speaker 5 (24:44):
Yes, that's exactly right. I will be at the top
of the ticket as the nominee. And in twenty twenty,
last time I ran, I won by ten points, which
means that not only will we keep the Senate seat
in Republican hands, but it will help down ballot races,
including these five new congressional seats that were drawn as
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a result of redistricting to hope, hopefully help keep the
majority in the House. The Attorney General has so much
political baggage that I think it's an open question whether
he could actually even win. So this thus the prospect
or the possibility of actually losing a red state Senate
(25:26):
seat in this election, And even if we were to
win by the skin of his teeth, I would think
he will not win by a margin that will help
down ballot and it will cost hundreds of millions of
dollars to try to salvage him and salvage this red seat.
So that is part of the argument that we've been making,
and I know the President and his team are fully
(25:50):
aware of.
Speaker 4 (25:51):
Okay, so let's say that you weren't the nominee. Let's
say Ken Paxton won or vice versa. Would you campaign
heartily for whoever the Republican nominee is, and do you
expect that he would campaign for you in order to
make sure that this seat, as you just laid out,
doesn't end up in Democrat hands or doesn't even end
up hopefully competitive, so that there's not having to be
(26:14):
a ton of money spent on it. In other words,
you win, that's great, You're going to be working hard.
Do you expect his endorsement if you lose, will you
endorse him?
Speaker 5 (26:25):
Well, first of all, I expect to win. But to
answer your question, I've worked most of my adult life
trying to build the Republican Party, both at the state
level and at the national level. My first state wide
election was in nineteen ninety when we still were basically
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a divided state. We had a Democratic governor that year,
Anne Richards, for example. But to answer your question, I
would support the Republican ticket. I think that's the best
answer I can give you.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Speaking to Senator Cornyn of Texas and a senator, why
would you be better? I mean a lot of times
it comes down for some people trying something new. You've
obviously been in the Senate for quite some time. Why
would it be better to have you representing Texas than
attorney Attorney General Paxton? And how would you address any
(27:23):
critics that you have who say that you're not as
maga when it counts as you'd like to appear at
election time? Because we get a lot of emails, a
lot of callers, and this is something that we here
wanted to give you an opportunity to just lay it
out there for everybody.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Well, thank you.
Speaker 5 (27:41):
I think a lot of the tests to do with
personalities in temperament. I spent thirteen years of my life
as a judge and then as Attorney General before I
got to the Senate, and I always like to tell
people I'm conservative. I'm just not mad about it. But
the point is what the what what you've done? And
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that's one reason why in Texas and our advertiser we
pointed out that I have voted with the President ninety
nine point three percent of the time. Was that's a
better number than Ted Cruz, the junior centator from Texas,
by the way. And secondly, you know, we need somebody
who can be effective for the state. So when the
governor called me and said, look, Texas taxpayers have had
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to step up and pay eleven billion dollars to help
secure the border when Biden wouldn't, he called me and
we worked with the Texas delegation to get that done.
And so we are expecting a nice check from the
federal government through the Texas taxpayer of eleven billion dollars.
It takes some experience and relationships to be able to
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get that done. And I think I think my effectiveness
on behalf of thirty two million Texas is something that
separates me from the attorney.
Speaker 4 (28:58):
General to John Cornyn, Senator from Texas runoff May twenty six.
When you looked at the results, you won the primary
in the first goal around, you had the most votes.
Were you surprised by that? Did you expect it? What
did that? What does that outcome tell people about Texas?
Speaker 5 (29:19):
Well? I would there's nothing guaranteed, but I was optimistic
that I would win and that was. You know, there
have been a lot of trash what I call trash talk,
including the Attorney General who said he could win without
a runoff, and obviously that didn't materialize. So you know,
we've been only about eleven percent of registered voters voted
(29:43):
in the Republican primary. Thankfully, people who didn't vote in
the primary can vote in the runoff. But you know,
a lot of this has to do with the motivating
your voters and getting them to the polls. In the end,
winning elections isn't all that complicated. It's about who gets
the most votes, and we simply worked hard to try
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to encourage as many people as we can to vote
in the Republican primary. Be just so, the Democrats out
voted us, which should be a warning shot across our bow.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
Senator, you know, we got a lot of emails because
we asked for questions, and you know, for example, I'll
just let you address this. We have one VIP who
wrote in and said, I believe Senator Cornyan voted against
Pete hagg Sath for DoD Secretary now Secretary of War.
You voted yes for Pete hag Seth, If memory serve, am,
I correct on that correct, correct, Yeah, Yeah, that's interesting.
There are some of the questions we get are are
(30:37):
actually not fair to just to call the Pauls and
strikes your centeror not fair to your record. People seem
to think for some reason that you have voted not
ninety nine percent of the time with Trump.
Speaker 5 (30:49):
Yeah. Well, the President knows what my record is, and
he calls me a friend, and there was some indication
that he was prepared to endorse me after leading in
the primary on March third. Obviously, as we said, the
timing of that and if it happens is entirely up
to him. But I think the President views me as
(31:10):
an ally and somebody who's supported him, and I think
he appreciates that. You know, I was there on the
front lines during the confirmation of three new Supreme Court justices.
When we passed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act in
twenty seventeen. I was the whip who helped the get
that across the finish line. So a lot of the
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campaign is about reminding people about what my record is
and frankly disabusing people of some of the falsehoods that
are out there. So I appreciate you giving me an
opportunity to address that.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
Senator Corny, thank you for coming on the show and
taking our questions, and godspeed to you and we'll talk
to you soon.
Speaker 5 (31:50):
Thank you very much, appreciate it.
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Welcome back in.
Speaker 4 (33:06):
Let me cycle back and update you on the alleged attack,
terror attack, attempted attack.
Speaker 3 (33:13):
This is from CNN.
Speaker 4 (33:14):
Suspect dead after ramming car filled with apparent mortars into
a synagogue near Detroit, and we have audio from Fox
News analyzing the absolute latest that we have there. This
is John Roberts reporting live on Fox.
Speaker 3 (33:32):
News just moments ago.
Speaker 4 (33:33):
Listen cut thirty for law enforcement confirms our reporting that
the suspect is dead.
Speaker 6 (33:40):
Additionally told the suspect's body is badly burned. He was
killed by armed security. Bill has told that he ran
the car to the building, had a rifle, got into
a shootout with security who killed him. The car was
on fire inside and that would obviously be the source
of the smoke coming out of that building. So it
would appear now that the immediate threat to the synagogue
(34:03):
is over, but now we're dealing with the aftermath.
Speaker 3 (34:06):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (34:07):
Other bit of news, this is from Fox News right now.
Only injury other than the shooter being dead. The lead
security officer Buck they say, was hit by the car
on its entry into the synagogue. He's expected to be okay.
Another bit of news. They had a trained FBI response
(34:27):
to this synagogue in January in the event that there
was an active shooter, so they had actually drilled and
trained at this exact place. Suspect drove through the doors
of the school with his vehicle, the truck, and was
killed inside.
Speaker 1 (34:46):
Well, this is all all very good and this is
the best possible outcome based on those early reports we
saw that anyone could hope for, which is bad guy killed,
everybody else going to be fine, thank God. Up in
mission again old Dominion. Two people shot. I believe they're
in critical condition. But and then the shooter was killed
as well. It's looking like both of these clay are likely,
(35:10):
uh you know, gee hottist terror attacks and that synagogue.
On the one hand, you know, it's a good thing
that these synagogues take their security so seriously. On the
other hand, it's really a tragedy that these synagogues have
to take their security. So seriously, you know that's the
that's true. I'm glad they are doing it, but it
(35:31):
shouldn't be the way that it is. People should be
able to gather freely in this country to worship without
that kind of fear. So anyway, for today, the good
guys won uh and and the good guys and gals
are okay. So that's where not every day or we're
gonna have breaking news for you, unfortunately, and and it
has this kind of a relatively look, people are gonna
bele traumatized by this, but everyone's going home tonight in
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that synagogue. Everyone's okay, And that's as good a end
result after those initial moments you could hope for.
Speaker 4 (36:01):
But everybody out there, Austin, Texas, New York City, Detroit area, Virginia,
this is all in the last ten or twelve days
that it appears we've had four different would be terror attacks.
Speaker 3 (36:15):
Most of them have been foiled.
Speaker 4 (36:16):
A couple of people in Texas unfortunately, are dead because
of them, but could happen anywhere. So stay poised, stay smart,
and be vigilant.
Speaker 1 (36:25):
And just a little bit of a pivot here. Some
of you are matter than a mama wasp. Wasn't that
what Senator Kennedy said about how Cornon just portrayed himself
on the show Texans. You have talkbacks, you have emails,
Light us off. We will get to them tomorrow. If
you feel like there's something that needs to be brought
to the conversation about that, we'll do it.
Speaker 3 (36:47):
So send them in
Third hour of play and book gets going right. Now
we're joined by Senator Eric Schmidt of Missouri. Now, Senator,
thanks for stopping by.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Good to be with you.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
Let's start with the Save Acts, sir.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
We have so many people who are paying close attention
to this, a lot of listeners all across America who
are saying, this seems like a must, This seems so straightforward,
so necessary as a law, and of course Democrats oppose it.
Is there any realistic path forward for this? What is
the best outcome as you see it, for the Save Act?
(00:37):
That's realistic? What do you want to happen?
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Well, we need to get on it. And the hope
is that next week we will actually be on the
Senate floor with the Save Act. I think that'd be
and by the way, spend some time on it. And
I'm the supporter of this talking filibuster idea. I think
that's what people think happens in Washington and the United
States Senate. They think of Jimmy Stewart holding the floor
and the Senate the old line is that operates by
(01:01):
unanimous consent or exhaustion, and I think the Democrats should
have to own this and earn it if they want
to block the idea that you have to be US
citizen to vote, you have to show an idea to
vote that we're not going to allow mass mailing balloting scams,
we're not going to allow transgender surgery for miners, and
we should allow boys and women's sports, men and women's sports.
That's what this will do. And those are common sense proposals.
(01:23):
They're eighty twenty issues. They might be higher than that.
And I think it's really important most importantly for protecting
the election security and regain the trust of the American people.
So my hope is that we're on it, we stay
on it.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
So if we go to the talking filibuster, there have
been all sorts of different reports that I have read
about what that actually looks like, what that means, what
do you anticipate a talking filibuster would look like, and
how does it end?
Speaker 3 (01:53):
How does it progress?
Speaker 2 (01:56):
So you got to get on the bill, and if
we take the House bill, and forgive me if I
get in the weeds. But since you asked the question,
so the House bill, it only requires fifty one votes
to get on it, right, So we can take the
House bill that's been passed and then it is before
the Senate, and then at that point amendments are in order.
You know, I'm working closely with the White House on this,
(02:18):
and or Lee amendments would be in order. So that
version that came over has two provisions. It doesn't have
the mail in piece, it doesn't have the transgender piece,
it doesn't have the men and women's sports piece. So
we would be able to amend it. And then at
that point, and that's a majority vote when you're on amendments,
then at that point we need to get to a
final vote. And the one way you can get to
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the final vote is that you just run out of
Democrats that want to hold the floor for hours and hours. Now,
the commitment from the Republican side is that we need
to make sure we hold a quorum for the whole
time that this happens. Meaning if a Democrat says, hey,
I know, the absence of a quorum meaning there's not
enough people in the chamber, there have to be fifty
one Republicans that are there to maintain the quorum. So
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this is something that used to happen. I think the
Senate's got kind of lazy with the way we do
it now. Where you just come in and you clock
in a vote and it takes to gets you to sixty.
So this is about holding the floor voting on amendments
for a period of time. That's how would play out.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Now, speaking of the floor, I believe you've been on
the Senate floor asking for unanimous consent to defund to
fund rather the Department of Homeland Security for the next
two weeks. Where does that stand. I assume Democrats are
either have blocked it or are going to block it.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Yeah, they blocked it. So basically the Democrats are blocking
funding for Homeland Security, you know. So the irony here
is they let fifteen million people in this country. Some
of them are terrorists, many are murderers and even more
violent criminals. But they're defunding Homeland Security. That's what their
position is. So they're blocking our efforts to fund it
because they're having a temper tantrum about Ice. What it's
(03:55):
really about, guys, is they don't actually think we should
enforce our immigration laws. They don't like the result in
twenty twenty four. They don't care that American mothers and
daughters are being raped and murdered by illegal immigrants, and
ICE has a job to do. We've set out what
their job is in our laws that have been repassed,
passed by Republicans and Democrats, and enforced by the way
(04:15):
by Republicans and Democrats and previous administrations. But what we
saw with Joe Biden was unprecedent. He threw op in
the border. Millions of people are here. President Trump ran
on deporting those folks, and here we're at. They don't
like the results, so they just wanted to fund ICE.
That's what this comes down to. So in the crosshairs
that in the mix they're in that DH Funny Bill,
is TSA, the Coast Guard, all these agencies that outside
(04:36):
of ICE and the Democrats are blocking funding because of
Trump arrangement syndrome.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
Okay, let's you're breaking down everything going on in that context.
We're hearing about hours and hours that everybody's having to
stand in line, and at some point, especially with it
being spring break week, people just look around and they're angry.
You may not be paying attention to what's funded and
what's not. We've got an alleged shooting that you may
(05:03):
or may not have seen that took place in West Bloomfield, Michigan.
Reports are that the shooter is believed to be dead.
We know what happened in Austin, Texas, where unfortunately a
couple of people were murdered by what appears to have
been a deranged lunatic, and we know in New York
City there were just a couple of IED's throne that
(05:23):
fortunately did not go off, but could have killed many people.
Isn't it absolutely beyond the pale absurd that we would
be in a situation where I think the number right
now is three hundred some odd TSA agents have just said, hey,
I've got to quit, I've got to find a new job,
or I've got to make money right now, that Democrats
would be refusing to fund these individuals.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
It's crazy. I mean, it's so stupid, Clay, I don't.
I mean, I've seen a lot of stuff in politics.
I've seen a lot of argument. It's just so dumb.
But they're obsessed there. First of all, they hate President
Trump and that manifests itself in many different ways. But
they thought they had some moment I think in Minneapolis
that they were going to be able to ultimately prevent
(06:05):
law enforcement from doing their jobs by overloading them with
burdens that they can't. You know, we can talk about
what those are, but basically it would render Ice unable
to deport people. That's what they want, and so they
are willing to hold all of this hostage. And now
the legacy media will go along with it and they'll
create some issue about some negotiation on this. But it's
(06:25):
very simple. Republicans just voted, just now, voted to fund TSA,
to fund ICE, to fund Secret Service, to fund the
Coast Guard, and the Democrats have voted No, it's not
that complicated. It's stupid, but it's not complicated.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Senator Schmidt with us now and Senator I think that
this war in Iran or whatever, we haven't really come
up with something other than a word to call it.
I guess this overseas aerial campaign against the Iranian military
definitely acts of war going on. The President seems very
confident that this is both achieving its objectives and will
(07:05):
be limited in scope, and he is in charge of
that scope. What's your sense as to how this is
going so far, and what's your confidence level that this
will be wrapped up, say, by the end of the month.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Yeah, I mean, I think the President's committed to accomplishing
the objectives as he laid out, and essentially, in a nutshell,
the nuclear program that we had a devastating blow to
with the B two's out of Missouri by the way,
last summer, AROM was basically creating this missile shield, this
conventional ballistic missile shield to protect it for their future ambitions,
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and that's being wiped out now. So that's really the mission.
We had a briefing earlier this week. They're ahead of
schedule on that, and I think the President's committed to
doing this. He understands the concerns that people would have
about having another forever war in the Middle East. I
don't think he wants that, but he's committed to this mission.
I think they're accomplishing that right now.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
Much less seriously, I saw Friday at the President's College
Sports round Table, and I know you have entered introduced
a bill alongside of a Democrat colleague that would help
to rectify the mess that is college athletics.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
What would it do? Are you optimistic that it can
be a solution it?
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Look, it's the first five partisan bill that's been introduced
on this on this measure, and I think that's a
significant development to set the stage. College athletics right now
is very chaotic. In college football by and large, for years,
has essentially been the cash cow that funds all the
non revenue sports, women's sports, Olympic sports, even sports like
(08:38):
baseball that don't really generate revenue save a couple of
schools here or there. Because of the new system that
we have right now, you know, it's just a matter
of time, and I think that time's pretty soon where
you're just going to start seeing all that programming dropped
and all those scholarships drop for people who you know,
can change their lives. So what's the solution. I was
skeptical Clambuck about Congress if you had asked me this
(08:58):
two years ago, I've been why is Congress considering anything here?
But the truth is Congress is the only entity on
the planet that can grant anti trust exemption to some
governing body to set some rules, transfer rules, eligibility rules,
agent rules, things that they can't do right now because
of lawsuits have basically rendered the ncaa fecklist. They can't
do anything. So we can do that, but I don't
(09:18):
think you solve the governance problem or the challenges in
college sports without revenue that basically pay for these sports, right,
these non revenue women's sports, the Olympic sports that we
all love. And so our proposals Senator Cantell and I
from Washington are that, Look, the NFL, the NBA, MLB,
they all have anti trust exemption to collectively negotiate to
pool their media rights. Okay, and to just give you
(09:40):
a statistic, the NBA has half the audience of college football,
but twice the revenue. The NBA generates about eight billion.
College football is about four billion, but they have twice
the eyeballs every week. And so you know the SEC
and Big ten are big players in that. But what
we could do is our bill says, look, you can
pull your media rights. We respect the conferences that are
going to bring in the lion share of the rev.
But that bargaining will be great for fans because think
(10:03):
about it. With the NFL, you can there's different channels there.
There's a Sunday night game, there's a Monday night game,
there's a Thursday night game. College football, the interest is growing,
and you can actually have a system here where Fox
and ESPN album are bidding, bidding, bidding, bidding up those
dollars that can protect those sports and it'll be great
for the fans.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
How optimistic are you that this thing is going to pass?
Speaker 2 (10:25):
I think this component is key. I don't think you
can just do the governance piece and get to sixty
votes in the Senate, right. I think there has to
be a carrot here where everybody feels like they're growing.
So if you're if you're a school that's been kind
of left behind on some of this stuff, on the
revenue that's been generated for the you know, the conferences,
they're doing exceedingly well. There's a reason for them to
do it, I think. And look, I'm a Mazoo guy.
(10:46):
I love Miszoo. They're in the SEC. I love SEC football.
I think they're going to do well in this model too.
So I'm optimistic that the next phase the House is
probably going to play vote on something next week, just
the Score Act, which is just the governance piece. I
think the thing at the High White House last week
added momentum. I think we're going to be hopefully. The
next step in the Senate is a hearing in the
Commerce Committee, where I serve on, and this will be
(11:07):
heard out and I think that's where the work will
be done to try to find a compromise to literally
save college sports. If we don't get this done this
year or maybe next year, but I think this year
is very important. I think the landscape looks different forever,
and if we fix it, or I should say we
give them the tools to fix it, I think it
changes thing for the next fifty years will be great
for fans.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
Good stuff as always, Senator Eric Schmidt of Missouri. We
appreciate the time. Good luck on getting all that taken
care of.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
All right, guys, thanks awesome.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
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Speaker 1 (13:20):
Sorry Clay, I jumped in there because I'm doing some
on the fly research here into what's going on in
this country right now with these various shootings that have occurred.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
And here's where this stands.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
If you were to start to guess at what you
think has happened at Old Dominion University where the shooter
has been neutralized, so the shooter has been killed by police,
and two people are have been wounded, they've been shot
and they're in the hospital. And what happened at the
synagogue up in Michigan, where fortunately it seems the only
person shot maybe the person trying to do the terrorist attack. Clay,
(14:00):
It's looking more and more indicators are pointing toward these
are exactly the kind of lone wolf, sleep or sell
whatever you want to call them, Islamic jihad attacks in
this country that people have been concerned about. And I
can tell you this with the Old Dominion shooting, the
longer there are no details about the person who did
(14:22):
the shooting, the more likely it is it's someone that
the media doesn't want to focus on as a terrorist shooter.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
Well, I mean, I think you can just look at
in the last week, basically, we had the shooting in Austin, Texas,
which took the lives of two people. We had the
attempted IEDs outside of Gracie Mansion in New York City. Again,
for those of you just getting in your cars, it
looks like a would be terror attack has been neutralized.
(14:53):
And now everybody is reporting CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC
that the would be a sad shooter whoever it was,
in the Detroit area in West Bloomfield has been shot.
And you're saying you're doing research on what happened this
morning at Old Dominion University in the state of Virginia,
and that all these may well be connected to the
(15:13):
same thing. I mean not neither one of them has
had any details released on the on the assailant, on
the would be terrorist, or the terrorists.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
In the case of Old Dominion. You know, what are
the calciods that one of these two guys has Muhammad
in his name. I mean, you start to you start
to wonder, at what point are we allowed to say
we have a pretty good sense of what's going on
here everybody anyway? You know what, what what is that
level of which we get to say Why is it so?
Why are they so slow to get us details on
(15:41):
who these shooters are? Why aren't because there's an imminent
threat to the public. This isn't just some thing. It's
not just some right wing talking point. If there are
activated jihadas cells in this country, either self activated or
people that have gotten the go order if you will,
from whatever entity they're connected to you online, this is
not hard. We've seen this before. Shouldn't we know that
(16:03):
that's going on? Don't the authorities have an obligation to
tell us as quickly as possible. Yeah, we've had two
for two here, guys that are exactly what you think
they are.
Speaker 4 (16:13):
I agree, And what I would say is for everybody
out there listening, I think you need to be hyper vigilant.
I think you need to be aware of danger in
a way that maybe typically you're not. Because again Austin, Texas,
New York City, Detroit area in Michigan, and maybe well
now also the old Dominion campus in Virginia. If we
(16:38):
had two different individuals who decided to try to take
terror action in the same day, I don't think it's
crazy to think there might be a third. I'm worth
I had not seen this. I had not seen this
tweet until now. Carol Markowitz, who does incredible reporting on this.
She has amazing law enforcement sources. She'd never tell me.
(16:59):
I don't know who they are, but she has phenomenal
law enforcement sources.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
She says.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
The name this is from Carol Markwitz, the name for
the Old Dominion shooter. She has been reliably informed the
alleged attacker of Old Dominion his name is Mohammed Jala.
Any any shock, any shock, probably.
Speaker 4 (17:20):
Have one, probably have a decent idea what his motivations
might have been on Old Dominions campus. And again, when
you're driving a car into a synagogue with a weapon
and you are shot and killed outside the synagogue, I
think it's hard to say, man, what would motivate someone
to engage in behavior like this? So all of these
(17:43):
radicals are mobilized. Play that's happening right now. Everyone keep
her head on a swivel. This is real, no doubt,
and uh yes, we'll talk more about this as we
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Speaker 3 (18:58):
I want to update you guys on the latest.
Speaker 4 (19:01):
This is from Fox News and I just sent it,
and let me make sure that I read this correctly.
Authority say the shooter involved in the attack at Temple
Israel that's outside of Detroit, Michigan, found badly burned after
crashing a village into the crashing a vehicle into the building,
(19:24):
which then caught fire. Armed security engaged in a shootout
and fatally shot the would be attacker, also CNN reporting,
and this may be why he was badly burned. That
the vehicle was filled with explosives.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
So that would explain a lot here, because you would
have somebody who tried to create a vbied, a vehicle
born improvised explosive device, essentially a car suicide bomber, and
the bomb didn't go off. Making bombs is fortunately harder
than a lot of people think it is, especially if
you've never done it before. Near miss, it seems Clay
(20:01):
looks like no casualties, no good guy, no good goal,
casualties in the synagogue. Only this guy taken out right.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
That's right.
Speaker 4 (20:09):
And again this now suggests Austin, New York City, Detroit, Virginia,
all with the same motive. That is a violent terror attack.
We bring in now Senator John Cornyn of Texas. He
is with us. We got a bunch to get into
with you. Senator, We appreciate the time. Let's start with
this primary runoff against Ken Paxton in late May. President
(20:34):
Trump has said that he is going to endorse but
has held off on endorsing. Do you expect him to
endorse you? What impact do you think the president's endorsement
in Texas would have.
Speaker 5 (20:47):
Well, I've told the President that I thought his endorsement
would be very impactful and I would be delighted if
he chooses to endorse endorse me in the race. So far,
he's not done that, and you know, people ask me, well,
what's he going to do? And my usual response is
there's only one person on the planet who knows the
(21:09):
answer to that, and it's not me. So we're not
We're continuing to work hard toward that May twenty six runoff,
and if the President decides to make an endorsement that
would be that'd be great news.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
Senator Corny, appreciate you being with us. My understanding is,
and feel free to correct any part of this, because
there's a lot of senators and I can't know everything
that all of you have ever thought or said. My
understanding is that you've long been in the past a
defender of the Senate filibuster rule, so a sixty vote
threshold for most legislation, but that you just recently published
(21:45):
why the Save Act matters more than the filibuster, am
I right? Is that where you are now? Is that really?
Is that a major departure, a major change, And you're
feeling about the filibuster and what brought you to this,
because you're going to have some critics who say, well,
this is just because you're up for reelection and you
want to seem like you're going to give the base
(22:06):
what it wants.
Speaker 5 (22:08):
Well, the filibuster has stopped a lot of really bad legislation.
When the Democrats were in charge, they've proposed packing the
Supreme Court, making Puerto Rico in the district of Columbia
States and getting two Democratic senators each and permanently changing
the country. So the filibuster has worked well stop bad stuff.
(22:33):
But we're in much different times now, and with the
Trump derangement syndrome and the polarization up here in Congress,
Democrats just reflexibly oppose everything that Trump has proposed or
that Republicans want, including paying the Transportation Security Agency agents
(22:55):
and the Federal Emergency Management Agency. They didn't do anything wrong,
but they're the people being punish now by this second
shutdown of a significant part of the federal government. So
I would I long for the day when you would
have these two political parties who were obviously have different
(23:15):
priorities and different ideas about how to govern, but where
there is still the possibility of finding some common ground
and working to build consensus. I think that's good for
the country when we can do that, because any short
term measures that one party or the other passes can
change the next time the Congress slips. So I would
(23:38):
call this a really kind of an evolution of my
views that fit the times. I don't think it's okay
for us to just tell my constituents in Texas we
can't get anything done because the Democrats won't cooperate. And
we know, as the President has pointed out, that when
the shoe is on the other foot, when they're in
the majority, they will they will blow up the philipbuster immediately.
(24:01):
So I've said I'm open to the talking philibuster, which
we hope to use on the Save America Act and
potentially other reforms as well.
Speaker 4 (24:12):
We're talking to Senator John Cornyn of Texas. He's in
a runoff against Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas, on
May twenty six. We know that one of you will
be running against James Talerico, who frankly seems like a
very far left wing and radical nominee for the Democrats.
Do you believe that you would beat taller Ico worse
(24:34):
than Ken Paxton would and is that one reason why
you would argue people should vote for you in this
upcoming runoff.
Speaker 5 (24:44):
Yes, that's exactly right. I will be at the top
of the ticket as the nominee. And in twenty twenty,
last time I ran, I won by ten points, which
means that not only will we keep the Senate seat
in Republican hands, but it will help down ballot races,
including these five new congressional seats that were drawn as
(25:04):
a result of redistricting to hope, hopefully help keep the
majority in the House. The Attorney General has so much
political baggage that I think it's an open question whether
he could actually even win. So this thus the prospect
or the possibility of actually losing a red state Senate
(25:26):
seat in this election, And even if we were to
win by the skin of his teeth, I would think
he will not win by a margin that will help
down ballot and it will cost hundreds of millions of
dollars to try to salvage him and salvage this red seat.
So that is part of the argument that we've been making,
and I know the President and his team are fully
(25:50):
aware of.
Speaker 4 (25:51):
Okay, so let's say that you weren't the nominee. Let's
say Ken Paxton won or vice versa. Would you campaign
heartily for whoever the Republican nominee is, and do you
expect that he would campaign for you in order to
make sure that this seat, as you just laid out,
doesn't end up in Democrat hands or doesn't even end
up hopefully competitive, so that there's not having to be
(26:14):
a ton of money spent on it. In other words,
you win, that's great, You're going to be working hard.
Do you expect his endorsement if you lose, will you
endorse him?
Speaker 5 (26:25):
Well, first of all, I expect to win. But to
answer your question, I've worked most of my adult life
trying to build the Republican Party, both at the state
level and at the national level. My first state wide
election was in nineteen ninety when we still were basically
(26:45):
a divided state. We had a Democratic governor that year,
Anne Richards, for example. But to answer your question, I
would support the Republican ticket. I think that's the best
answer I can give you.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Speaking to Senator Cornyn of Texas and a senator, why
would you be better? I mean a lot of times
it comes down for some people trying something new. You've
obviously been in the Senate for quite some time. Why
would it be better to have you representing Texas than
attorney Attorney General Paxton? And how would you address any
(27:23):
critics that you have who say that you're not as
maga when it counts as you'd like to appear at
election time? Because we get a lot of emails, a
lot of callers, and this is something that we here
wanted to give you an opportunity to just lay it
out there for everybody.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Well, thank you.
Speaker 5 (27:41):
I think a lot of the tests to do with
personalities in temperament. I spent thirteen years of my life
as a judge and then as Attorney General before I
got to the Senate, and I always like to tell
people I'm conservative. I'm just not mad about it. But
the point is what the what what you've done? And
(28:03):
that's one reason why in Texas and our advertiser we
pointed out that I have voted with the President ninety
nine point three percent of the time. Was that's a
better number than Ted Cruz, the junior centator from Texas,
by the way. And secondly, you know, we need somebody
who can be effective for the state. So when the
governor called me and said, look, Texas taxpayers have had
(28:26):
to step up and pay eleven billion dollars to help
secure the border when Biden wouldn't, he called me and
we worked with the Texas delegation to get that done.
And so we are expecting a nice check from the
federal government through the Texas taxpayer of eleven billion dollars.
It takes some experience and relationships to be able to
(28:49):
get that done. And I think I think my effectiveness
on behalf of thirty two million Texas is something that
separates me from the attorney.
Speaker 4 (28:58):
General to John Cornyn, Senator from Texas runoff May twenty six.
When you looked at the results, you won the primary
in the first goal around, you had the most votes.
Were you surprised by that? Did you expect it? What
did that? What does that outcome tell people about Texas?
Speaker 5 (29:19):
Well? I would there's nothing guaranteed, but I was optimistic
that I would win and that was. You know, there
have been a lot of trash what I call trash talk,
including the Attorney General who said he could win without
a runoff, and obviously that didn't materialize. So you know,
we've been only about eleven percent of registered voters voted
(29:43):
in the Republican primary. Thankfully, people who didn't vote in
the primary can vote in the runoff. But you know,
a lot of this has to do with the motivating
your voters and getting them to the polls. In the end,
winning elections isn't all that complicated. It's about who gets
the most votes, and we simply worked hard to try
(30:05):
to encourage as many people as we can to vote
in the Republican primary. Be just so, the Democrats out
voted us, which should be a warning shot across our bow.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
Senator, you know, we got a lot of emails because
we asked for questions, and you know, for example, I'll
just let you address this. We have one VIP who
wrote in and said, I believe Senator Cornyan voted against
Pete hagg Sath for DoD Secretary now Secretary of War.
You voted yes for Pete hag Seth, If memory serve, am,
I correct on that correct, correct, Yeah, Yeah, that's interesting.
There are some of the questions we get are are
(30:37):
actually not fair to just to call the Pauls and
strikes your centeror not fair to your record. People seem
to think for some reason that you have voted not
ninety nine percent of the time with Trump.
Speaker 5 (30:49):
Yeah. Well, the President knows what my record is, and
he calls me a friend, and there was some indication
that he was prepared to endorse me after leading in
the primary on March third. Obviously, as we said, the
timing of that and if it happens is entirely up
to him. But I think the President views me as
(31:10):
an ally and somebody who's supported him, and I think
he appreciates that. You know, I was there on the
front lines during the confirmation of three new Supreme Court justices.
When we passed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act in
twenty seventeen. I was the whip who helped the get
that across the finish line. So a lot of the
(31:31):
campaign is about reminding people about what my record is
and frankly disabusing people of some of the falsehoods that
are out there. So I appreciate you giving me an
opportunity to address that.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
Senator Corny, thank you for coming on the show and
taking our questions, and godspeed to you and we'll talk
to you soon.
Speaker 5 (31:50):
Thank you very much, appreciate it.
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Welcome back in.
Speaker 4 (33:06):
Let me cycle back and update you on the alleged attack,
terror attack, attempted attack.
Speaker 3 (33:13):
This is from CNN.
Speaker 4 (33:14):
Suspect dead after ramming car filled with apparent mortars into
a synagogue near Detroit, and we have audio from Fox
News analyzing the absolute latest that we have there. This
is John Roberts reporting live on Fox.
Speaker 3 (33:32):
News just moments ago.
Speaker 4 (33:33):
Listen cut thirty for law enforcement confirms our reporting that
the suspect is dead.
Speaker 6 (33:40):
Additionally told the suspect's body is badly burned. He was
killed by armed security. Bill has told that he ran
the car to the building, had a rifle, got into
a shootout with security who killed him. The car was
on fire inside and that would obviously be the source
of the smoke coming out of that building. So it
would appear now that the immediate threat to the synagogue
(34:03):
is over, but now we're dealing with the aftermath.
Speaker 3 (34:06):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (34:07):
Other bit of news, this is from Fox News right now.
Only injury other than the shooter being dead. The lead
security officer Buck they say, was hit by the car
on its entry into the synagogue. He's expected to be okay.
Another bit of news. They had a trained FBI response
(34:27):
to this synagogue in January in the event that there
was an active shooter, so they had actually drilled and
trained at this exact place. Suspect drove through the doors
of the school with his vehicle, the truck, and was
killed inside.
Speaker 1 (34:46):
Well, this is all all very good and this is
the best possible outcome based on those early reports we
saw that anyone could hope for, which is bad guy killed,
everybody else going to be fine, thank God. Up in
mission again old Dominion. Two people shot. I believe they're
in critical condition. But and then the shooter was killed
as well. It's looking like both of these clay are likely,
(35:10):
uh you know, gee hottist terror attacks and that synagogue.
On the one hand, you know, it's a good thing
that these synagogues take their security so seriously. On the
other hand, it's really a tragedy that these synagogues have
to take their security. So seriously, you know that's the
that's true. I'm glad they are doing it, but it
(35:31):
shouldn't be the way that it is. People should be
able to gather freely in this country to worship without
that kind of fear. So anyway, for today, the good
guys won uh and and the good guys and gals
are okay. So that's where not every day or we're
gonna have breaking news for you, unfortunately, and and it
has this kind of a relatively look, people are gonna
bele traumatized by this, but everyone's going home tonight in
(35:54):
that synagogue. Everyone's okay, And that's as good a end
result after those initial moments you could hope for.
Speaker 4 (36:01):
But everybody out there, Austin, Texas, New York City, Detroit area, Virginia,
this is all in the last ten or twelve days
that it appears we've had four different would be terror attacks.
Speaker 3 (36:15):
Most of them have been foiled.
Speaker 4 (36:16):
A couple of people in Texas unfortunately, are dead because
of them, but could happen anywhere. So stay poised, stay smart,
and be vigilant.
Speaker 1 (36:25):
And just a little bit of a pivot here. Some
of you are matter than a mama wasp. Wasn't that
what Senator Kennedy said about how Cornon just portrayed himself
on the show Texans. You have talkbacks, you have emails,
Light us off. We will get to them tomorrow. If
you feel like there's something that needs to be brought
to the conversation about that, we'll do it.
Speaker 3 (36:47):
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