Hour 3 - Terror Cell Activations in the U.S.?
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3:01We're joined by Senator Eric Schmidt of Missouri now.
3:04Senator, thanks for stopping by.
3:07Good to be with you.
3:08Let's start with the Save Act, sir.
3:10We have so many people who are paying close attention to this.
3:15A lot of listeners all across America who are saying, this seems like a must.
3:19This seems so straightforward, so necessary as a law.
3:24And, of course, Democrats oppose it.
3:27Is there any realistic path forward for this?
3:30What is the best outcome, as you see it, for the Save Act that's realistic?
3:35What do you want to happen?
3:37Well, we need to get on it.
3:38And the hope is that next week we will actually be on the Senate floor
3:42with the Save Act. I think that would be – and, by the way, spend
3:45some time on it. And I'm a supporter of this talking filibuster idea.
3:48I think that's what people think happens in Washington in the United States Senate.
3:52They think of Jimmy Stewart holding the floor.
3:55And the Senate, the old line is it operates by unanimous consent or exhaustion.
3:59And I think the Democrats should have to own this and earn it.
4:02If they want to block the idea that you have to be a U .S.
4:05citizen to vote, you have to show an ID to vote, that we're not going
4:08to allow mass mail -in balloting scams, we're not going to allow transgender surgery for
4:13minors, and we shouldn't allow boys and women's sports, men and women's sports, that's what
4:17this will do. And those are common -sense proposals.
4:20They're 80 -20 issues. They might be higher than that.
4:22And I think it's really important, most importantly, for protecting the election security and regaining
4:27the trust of the American people.
4:28So my hope is that we're on it and we stay on it.
4:32So if we go to the talking filibuster, there have been all sorts of different
4:38reports that I have read about what that actually looks like, what that means.
4:43What do you anticipate a talking filibuster would look like, and how does it end,
4:50how does it progress? So you've got to get on the bill, and if we
4:54take the House bill, and forgive me if I get in the weeds, but since
4:57you asked the question. So the House bill, it only requires 51 votes to get
5:02on it, right? So we can take the House bill that's been passed, and then
5:05it is before the Senate.
5:07And then at that point, amendments are in order.
5:11I'm working closely with the White House on this, Senator Lee.
5:15Amendments would be in order.
5:16So that version that came over has two provisions.
5:19It doesn't have the male -in piece.
5:20It doesn't have the transgender piece.
5:22It doesn't have the men and women's sports piece.
5:23So we would be able to amend it.
5:24And then at that point, and that's a majority vote when you're on amendments, then
5:31at that point, we need to get to a final vote.
5:33And one way you can get to the final vote is that you just run
5:36out of Democrats that want to hold the floor for hours and hours.
5:39Now, the commitment from the Republican side is that we need to make sure we
5:44hold a quorum for the whole time that this happens.
5:46Meaning if a Democrat says, hey, I note the absence of a quorum, meaning there's
5:49not enough people in the chamber, there have to be 51 Republicans that are there
5:53to maintain the quorum. So this is something that used to happen.
5:57I think the Senate's got kind of lazy with the way we do it now,
6:01where you just come in and you clock in a vote and it gets you
6:03to 60. So this is about holding the floor, voting on amendments for a period
6:09of time. That's how it would play out.
6:11Now, speaking of the floor, I believe you've been on the Senate floor asking for
6:16unanimous consent to fund the Department of Homeland Security for the next two weeks.
6:22Where does that stand? I assume Democrats are either have blocked it or are going
6:27to block it. Yeah, they blocked it.
6:29So basically, the Democrats are blocking funding for Homeland Security.
6:34You know, so the irony here is they left 15 million people in this country.
6:38Some of them are terrorists.
6:39Many are murderers and even more violent criminals, but they're defunding Homeland Security.
6:44That's what their position is.
6:46So they're blocking our efforts to fund it because they're having a temper tantrum about
6:50ICE. What it's really about, guys, is they don't actually think we should enforce our
6:55immigration laws. They don't like the result in 2024.
6:58They don't care that American mothers and daughters are being raped and murdered by illegal
7:03immigrants. And ICE has a job to do.
7:06We've set out what their job is in our laws that have been passed, passed
7:09by Republicans and Democrats and enforced, by the way, by Republicans and Democrats in previous
7:13administrations. But what we saw with Joe Biden was unprecedented.
7:16He threw open the border.
7:17Millions of people are here.
7:19President Trump ran on deporting those folks.
7:21And here we're at, we're at.
7:22They don't like the results.
7:23So they just wanted to fund ICE.
7:24That's what this comes down to.
7:25So in the crosshairs that in the mix there in that DH funding bill is
7:29TSA, the Coast Guard, all these agencies that outside of ICE and the Democrats are
7:33blocking funding because of Trump derangement syndrome.
7:37OK, let's you're breaking down everything going on in in that context.
7:43We're hearing about hours and hours that everybody's having to stand in line.
7:48And at some point, especially with it being spring break week, people just look around
7:52and they're angry. You may not be paying attention to what's funded and what's not.
7:57We've got an alleged shooting that you may or may not have seen that took
8:01place in West Bloomfield, Michigan.
8:04Reports are that the shooter is believed to be dead.
8:07We know what happened in Austin, Texas, where unfortunately a couple of people were murdered
8:12by what appears to have been a deranged lunatic.
8:15And we know in New York City, there were just a couple of IEDs thrown
8:18that fortunately did not go off, but could have killed many people.
8:23Isn't it absolutely beyond the pale absurd that we would be in a situation where
8:29I think the number right now is 300 some odd TSA agents have just said,
8:33hey, I've got to quit.
8:34I've got to find a new job or I've got to make money right now
8:36that Democrats would be refusing to fund these individuals.
8:41It's crazy. I mean, it's so stupid, Clay.
8:43I don't I mean, I've seen a lot of stuff in politics.
8:46I've seen a lot of argument.
8:47It's just so dumb. But they're obsessed there.
8:50First of all, they hate President Trump.
8:53And that manifests itself in many different ways.
8:55But they thought they had some moment, I think, in Minneapolis that they were going
8:58to be able to ultimately prevent law enforcement from doing their jobs by overloading them
9:04with burdens that they can't.
9:06And, you know, we can talk about what those are.
9:08But basically, it would it would render ICE unable to deport people.
9:12That's what they want. And so they are willing to hold all of this hostage.
9:15And now the legacy media will go along with it and they'll create some issue
9:20about some negotiation on this.
9:21But it's very simple. Republicans just voted just now voted to fund TSA, to fund
9:29ICE, to fund Secret Service, to fund the Coast Guard.
9:32And the Democrats have voted no.
9:34So it's that it's not that complicated.
9:36It's stupid, but it's not complicated.
9:39Senator Schmidt with us now.
9:41And, Senator, I think that this war in Iran or whatever, we haven't really come
9:47up with something other than a war to call it, I guess, this overseas aerial
9:50campaign against the Iranian military.
9:53Definitely acts of war going on.
9:55Tom, the president seems very confident that this is both achieving its objectives and will
10:01be limited in scope. And he is in charge of that scope.
10:05What's your sense as to how this is going so far?
10:07And what's your confidence level that this will be wrapped up, say, by the end
10:11of the month? Yeah, I mean, I think the president's committed to to accomplishing the
10:17objectives, as he laid out.
10:18And essentially, in a nutshell, the nuclear program that we had a devastating blow to
10:23with the B -2s out of Missouri, by the way, last summer, Iran was basically
10:28creating this missile shield, this conventional ballistic missile shield to protect it for their future
10:33ambitions. And that's being wiped out now.
10:35So that's really the mission.
10:36We had a briefing earlier this week.
10:39They're ahead of schedule on that.
10:41And I think the president's committed to doing this.
10:43He understands the concerns that people would have about having another forever war in the
10:48Middle East. I don't think he wants that.
10:49But he's committed to this mission.
10:51I think they're accomplishing it.
10:52that right now much less seriously i saw you friday um at the president's college
10:58sports round table and i know you have entered uh introduced a bill uh alongside
11:04of a democrat colleague that would help to rectify the mess that is college athletics
11:09what would it do are you optimistic that it can be a solution it look
11:14it's the first bipartisan bill that's been introduced on this on this measure i think
11:18that's a significant development to set the stage college athletics right now is is very
11:23chaotic um in college football by and large for years has essentially been the cash
11:29cow that funds all the non -revenue sports women's sports olympic sports even sports like
11:34baseball that don't really generate revenue save a couple schools here there because of the
11:38new system that we have right now um you know it's just a matter of
11:42time and i think that time's pretty soon where you're just going to start seeing
11:46all that programming dropped and all those scholarships drop for people who you know can
11:49change their lives so what's the solution i was skeptical clan buck about congress if
11:54you had asked me this two years ago i mean why is congress considering anything
11:57here but the truth is congress is the only entity on the planet that can
12:01grant antitrust exemption to some governing body to set some rules transfer rules eligibility rules
12:06agent rules things that they can't do right now because of lawsuits have basically rendered
12:10the ncaa feckless they can't do anything so we can do that but i don't
12:15think you solve the governance problem or the challenges in college sports without revenue to
12:19basically pay for these sports right these non -revenue women's sports the olympic sports that
12:24we all love and so our proposal senator cantwell and i from washington are that
12:27look the nfl the nba uh mlb they all have antitrust exemption to collectively negotiate
12:33to pool their media rights okay and to just give you a statistic the nba
12:38has half the audience of college football but twice the revenue the nba generates about
12:43eight billion college football is about four billion but they have twice the eyeballs every
12:46week and so you know the sec and big 10 are big players in that
12:50but what we could do is our bill says look you can pull your media
12:53rights we respect the conferences they're going to bring in the lion's share of the
12:56revenue but that bargaining will be great for fans because think about it with the
13:00nfl you can there's different channels there's a there's a sunday night game there's a
13:03monday night game sometimes a thursday night game college football the interest is growing and
13:08you can actually have a system here where fox and esp and all of them
13:12are bidding bidding bidding bidding up those dollars that can protect those sports and it'll
13:15be great for the fans how optimistic are you that this thing is going to
13:20pass i think this component is key i don't think you can just do the
13:25governance piece and get to 60 votes in the senate right i think there has
13:29to be a carrot here where everybody feels like they're growing so if you're if
13:33you're a school that's been kind of left behind on some of this stuff on
13:35the revenue that's been generated for the you know it's the conferences they're doing exceedingly
13:39well there's a reason for them to do it i think and look i'm a
13:42mizzou guy i love mizzou they're in the sec i love sec football i think
13:45they're going to do well in this model too so i i'm optimistic that the
13:49next phase the house is probably going to play vote on something next week just
13:52the score act which is just the governance piece i think the thing at the
13:56white house last week added momentum i think we're going to be hopefully the next
13:59step in the senate is a hearing in the commerce committee where i serve on
14:02and this will be heard out and i think that's where the work will be
14:06done to try to fight a compromise to literally save college sports if we don't
14:10get this done this year or maybe next year but i think this year is
14:13very important i think the landscape looks different forever and if we fix it or
14:17i should say we give them the tools to fix it um i think it
14:20changes things for the next 50 years will be great for fans good stuff as
14:24always senator eric schmidt of missouri we appreciate the time good luck on getting all
14:29that taken care of all right guys thanks um awesome all right uh let's see
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21:02in there because i'm doing some on the fly research here into what's going on
21:07in this country right now with these uh various shootings that have occurred and here's
21:14where this stands if you were to start to guess at what you think has
21:18happened at old dominion university where the shooter has been neutralized so the shooter has
21:23been killed by police and two people are are have been wounded they've been shot
21:28and they're in uh they're in the hospital and what happened at the synagogue up
21:32in michigan where fortunately it seems the only person shot may be the person trying
21:38to do the terrorist attack clay it's looking more and more indicators are pointing toward
21:45these are exactly the kind of lone wolf sleeper cell whatever you want to call
21:51them islamic jihad attacks in this country that people have been concerned about and i
21:58can tell you this with the old dominion shooting the longer there are no details
22:01about the person who did the shooting the more likely it is it's someone that
22:07the media doesn't want to focus on as a terrorist shooter well i mean i
22:12think you can just look at in the last week basically we had the shooting
22:17in austin texas which took the lives of two people we had the attempted ieds
22:23outside of gracie mansion in new york city again for those of you just getting
22:29in your cars it looks like a would -be terror attack has been neutralized and
22:35now everybody is reporting cnn fox news and msnbc that the would -be assassin shooter
22:42whoever it was in the detroit area in west bloomfield has been shot and you're
22:47saying you're doing research on what happened this morning at old dominion university in the
22:52state of virginia and that all these may well be connected to the same thing
22:55i mean not neither one of them has had any details released on the on
23:00the assailant on the would -be terrorist or the terrorist in the case of old
23:03dominion you know what are the calciades that one of these two guys has muhammad
23:07in his name i mean you start to you start to wonder at what point
23:10are we allowed to say we have a pretty good sense of what's going on
23:13here everybody anyway you know what what what what is that level at which we
23:18get to say why is it so why are they so slow to get us
23:22details on who these shooters are why are because there's an imminent threat to the
23:26public this isn't just some thing it's not just some right -wing talking point if
23:30there are activated jihadist cells in this country either self -activated or uh people that
23:36have gotten the the go order if you will from whatever entity they're connected to
23:41online this is not hard we've seen this before shouldn't we know that that's going
23:45on don't don't the authorities have an obligation to tell us as quickly as possible
23:49yeah we've had two for two here guys that are exactly what you think they
23:53are i agree um and what i would say is for everybody out there listening
23:59i think you need to be hyper vigilant i think you need to be aware
24:03of danger in a way that maybe typically you're not um because again austin texas
24:10new york city detroit area in michigan and maybe well now also uh the old
24:16dominion campus in virginia um if we had two different individuals who decided to try
24:23to take terror action in the same day i don't think it's crazy to think
24:28there might be a third or fourth i had not seen this i just i
24:32had not seen this tweet until now carol markowitz who does incredible reporting on this
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24:41they are but she has phenomenal law enforcement sources she says the name this is
24:45from carol markowitz the name for the old dominion shooter she has been reliably informed
24:51the alleged attacker of old dominion his name is muhammad jala any any shock any
25:01shock probably have a decent idea what his motivations might have been on old dominion's
25:06campus and again when you're driving a car into a synagogue with a weapon and
25:13you are shot and killed outside the synagogue i think it's hard to say man
25:19what would motivate someone to engage in behavior like this so all of these the
25:23jihadist radicals are mobilized clay that's happening right now everyone keep your head on a
25:28swivel this is real um no doubt and uh yes we'll talk more about this
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26:39want to update you guys on uh the latest um this is from fox news
26:45and i just sent it and let me make sure that i read uh this
26:49correctly uh authorities say the shooter involved in the attack at temple israel that's outside
26:56of detroit michigan found badly burned after crashing a village into the uh crashing a
27:03vehicle into the building which then caught fire armed security engaged in a shootout and
27:10fatally shot uh the uh would -be attacker also cnn reporting reporting reporting and this
27:16may be why he was badly burned, that the vehicle was filled with explosives.
27:20So that would explain a lot here, because you would have somebody who tried to
27:26create a VBIED, a vehicle -borne improvised explosive device, essentially a car suicide bomber, and
27:35the bomb didn't go off.
27:36Making bombs is fortunately harder than a lot of people think it is, especially if
27:40you've never done it before.
27:41Near miss, it seems, Clay.
27:42It looks like no casualties, no good guy, no good gal casualties in the synagogue,
27:47only this guy taken out, right?
27:49That's right. And again, this now suggests Austin, New York City, Detroit, Virginia, all with
27:57the same motive that is a violent terror attack.
28:01We bring in now Senator John Cornyn of Texas.
28:05He is with us. We've got a bunch to get into with you, Senator.
28:08We appreciate the time. Let's start with this.
28:10This primary runoff against Ken Paxton in late May, President Trump has said that he
28:16is going to endorse, but has held off on endorsing.
28:20Do you expect him to endorse you?
28:23What impact do you think the president's endorsement in Texas would have?
28:28Well, I've told the president that I thought his endorsement would be very impactful, and
28:34I would be delighted if he chooses to endorse me in the race.
28:39So far, he has not done that.
28:42And, you know, people ask me, well, what's he going to do?
28:46And my usual response is there's only one person on the planet who knows the
28:51answer to that, and it's not me.
28:53So we are not, we're continuing to work hard toward that May 26 runoff.
29:00And if the president decides to make an endorsement, that would be, that'd be great
29:05news. Senator Cornyn, appreciate you being with us.
29:08My understanding is, and feel free to correct any part of this, because there's a
29:12lot of senators and I can't know everything that all of you have ever thought
29:14or said. But my understanding is that you've long been, in the past, a defender
29:19of the Senate filibuster rule, so a 60 -vote threshold for most legislation, but that
29:25you just recently published why the SAVE Act matters more than the filibuster.
29:30Am I right? Is that where you are now?
29:33Is that really, is that a major departure, a major change in your feeling about
29:38the filibuster? And what brought you to this?
29:40Because you're going to have some critics who say, well, this is just because you're
29:44up for re -election and you want to seem like you're going to give the
29:47base what it wants. Well, the filibuster has stopped a lot of really bad legislation.
29:54When the Democrats were in charge, they proposed packing the Supreme Court, making Puerto Rico
30:01and the District of Columbia states, and getting two Democratic senators each, and permanently changing
30:08the country. So the filibuster has worked well to stop bad stuff.
30:14But we're in much different times now.
30:18And with the Trump derangement syndrome and the polarization up here in Congress, Democrats just
30:26reflexively oppose everything that Trump has proposed or that Republicans want, including paying the Transportation
30:33Security Agency agents and the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
30:38They didn't do anything wrong, but they're the people being punished now by this second
30:43shutdown of a significant part of the federal government.
30:47So I long for the day when you would have these two political parties who
30:54obviously have different priorities and different ideas about how to govern, but where there is
31:02still the possibility of finding some common ground and working to build consensus.
31:07I think that's good for the country when we can do that, because any short
31:11-term measures that one party or the other passes can change the next time the
31:18Congress slips. So I would call this really kind of an evolution of my views
31:24that fit the times. I don't think it's okay for us to just tell my
31:29constituents in Texas, we can't get anything done because the Democrats won't cooperate.
31:33And we know, as the president has pointed out, that when the shoe is on
31:37the other foot, when they're in the majority, they will blow up the filibuster immediately.
31:43So I've said I'm open to the talking filibuster, which we hope to use on
31:49the Save America Act and potentially other reforms as well.
31:54We're talking to Senator John Cornyn of Texas.
31:57He's in a runoff against Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas, on May 26th.
32:01We know that one of you will be running against James Tallarico, who frankly seems
32:07like a very far left -wing and radical nominee for the Democrats.
32:12Do you believe that you would beat Tallarico worse than Ken Paxton would?
32:17And is that one reason why you would argue people should vote for you in
32:23this upcoming runoff? Yes, that's exactly right.
32:29I will be at the top of the ticket as the nominee.
32:32And in 2020, last time I ran, I won by 10 points, which means that
32:37not only will we keep the Senate seat in Republican hands, but it will help
32:41down -ballot races. The Senate seat in the israelis.
32:43including these five new congressional seats that were drawn as a result of redistricting to
32:48hopefully help keep the majority in the House.
32:52The attorney general has so much political baggage that I think it's an open question
32:58whether he could actually even win.
33:00So thus the prospect or the possibility of actually losing a red state Senate seat
33:08in this election, and even if he were to win by the skin of his
33:12teeth, I would think he will not win by a margin that will help down
33:17ballot, and it would cost hundreds of millions of dollars to try to salvage him
33:22and salvage this red seat.
33:24So that is part of the argument that we've been making, and I know the
33:29president and his team are fully aware of.
33:32Okay, so let's say that you weren't the nominee.
33:36Let's say Ken Paxton won or vice versa.
33:38Would you campaign heartily for whoever the Republican nominee is, and do you expect that
33:45he would campaign for you in order to make sure that this seat, as you
33:49just laid out, doesn't end up in Democrat hands or doesn't even end up hopefully
33:53competitive so that there's not having to be a ton of money spent on it?
33:57In other words, you win.
33:59That's great. You're going to be working hard.
34:01Do you expect his endorsement?
34:03If you lose, will you endorse him?
34:06Well, first of all, I expect to win, but to answer your question, I've worked
34:12most of my adult life trying to build the Republican Party, both at the state
34:17level and at the national level.
34:19My first statewide election was in 1990 when we still were basically a divided state.
34:27We had a Democratic governor that year, Ann Richards, for example.
34:31But to answer your question, I would support the Republican ticket.
34:37I think that's the best answer I can give you.
34:42Speaking of Senator Cornyn of Texas, and Senator, why would you be better?
34:49I mean, a lot of times it comes down to, for some people, trying something
34:54new. You've obviously been in the Senate for quite some time.
34:56Why would it be better to have you representing Texas than Attorney General Paxton?
35:03And how would you address any critics that you have who say that you're not
35:08as MAGA when it counts as you'd like to appear at election time?
35:13Because we get a lot of emails, a lot of callers, and this is something
35:16that we here wanted to give you an opportunity to just lay it out there
35:20for everybody. Well, thank you.
35:23I think a lot of this has to do with personalities and temperament.
35:27I spent 13 years of my life as a judge and then as Attorney General
35:33before I got to the Senate.
35:35And I always like to tell people I'm conservative.
35:37I'm just not mad about it.
35:39But the point is what you've done.
35:44And that's one reason why in Texas, in our advertising, we pointed out that I
35:49have voted with the president 99 .3 % of the time.
35:53That's a better number than Ted Cruz, the junior senator from Texas, by the way.
35:59And secondly, you know, we need somebody who can be effective for the state.
36:04So when the governor called me and said, look, Texas taxpayers have had to step
36:08up and pay $11 billion to help secure the border when Biden wouldn't, he called
36:15me and we worked with the Texas delegation to get that done.
36:19And so we are expecting a nice check from the federal government to the Texas
36:24taxpayer of $11 billion. It takes some experience and relationships to be able to get
36:30that done. And I think my effectiveness on behalf of $32 million in Texas is
36:38something that separates me from the Attorney General.
36:40We're talking to John Cornyn, Senator from Texas, runoff May 26th.
36:46When you looked at the results, you won the primary in the first go -around.
36:51You had the most votes.
36:53Were you surprised by that?
36:54Did you expect it? What does that outcome tell people about Texas?
37:00Well, I would, there's nothing's guaranteed, but I was optimistic that I would win.
37:08And that was, you know, there have been a lot of trash, what I call
37:11trash talk, including the Attorney General who said he could win without a runoff.
37:16And obviously that didn't materialize.
37:18So, you know, we've been only about 11 % of registered voters voted in the
37:24Republican primary. Thankfully, people who didn't vote in the primary can vote in the runoff.
37:31But, you know, a lot of this has to do with motivating your voters and
37:36getting them to the polls.
37:37In the end, winning elections isn't all that complicated.
37:41It's about who gets the most votes.
37:43And we simply worked hard to try to encourage as many people as we can
37:48to vote in the Republican primary.
37:51Even so, the Democrats outvoted us, which should be a warning shot across our mouth.
37:57Senator, you know, we got a lot of emails because we asked for questions.
38:00And, you know, for example, I'll just let you address this.
38:03We have one VIP who wrote in and said, I believe Senator Cornyn voted against
38:07Pete Hegseth for DOD secretary, now secretary.
38:10Sure. of war you voted yes for pete hegseth if memory served am i correct
38:14on that correct correct yeah yeah that's interesting there are some of the questions we
38:18get are are actually not fair to just to call the balls and strikes here
38:23senator the not fair to your record people seem to think for some reason that
38:26you have voted not 99 of the time with trump yeah well the president knows
38:32what my record is and he calls me a friend and uh there was some
38:37indication that he was prepared to endorse me after leading in the primary on march
38:43the third obviously as we said the timing of that and if it happens is
38:47is entirely up to him but i think the president views me as an ally
38:52and somebody who supported him and i think he he appreciates that um you know
38:58i was there on the front lines during the confirmation of three new supreme court
39:02justices when we passed the tax cuts jobs act in 2017 i was the whip
39:07who helped uh get the uh get that across the finish line so a lot
39:12of the campaign is about reminding people about what my record is and frankly disabusing
39:18people of some of the falsehoods that are out there so i appreciate you giving
39:22me an opportunity to address that senator corning thank you for coming on the show
39:26and taking our questions and uh godspeed to you and we'll talk to you soon
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45:06Welcome back in. Let me cycle back and update you on the alleged attack, terror
45:13attack, attempted attack. This is from CNN.
45:16Suspect dead after ramming car filled with apparent mortars into a synagogue near Detroit.
45:24And we have audio from Fox News analyzing the absolute latest that we have there.
45:31This is John Roberts reporting live on Fox News just moments ago.
45:36Listen, cut 30. For law enforcement confirms our reporting that the suspect is dead.
45:42Additionally, told the suspect's body is badly burned.
45:45He was killed by armed security.
45:48Bill is told that he ran the car into the building, had a rifle, got
45:51into a shootout with security who killed him.
45:53The car was on fire inside, and that would obviously be the source of the
45:58smoke coming out of that building.
46:00So it would appear now that the immediate threat to the synagogue is over, but
46:06now we're dealing with the aftermath.
46:08Okay, other bit of news.
46:10This is from Fox News right now.
46:12Only injury other than the shooter being dead.
46:15The lead security officer, Buck, they say, was hit by the car on its entry
46:22into the synagogue. He's expected to be okay.
46:24Another bit of news. They had a trained FBI response to the synagogue in January
46:31in the event that there was an active shooter.
46:35So they had actually drilled and trained at this exact place.
46:40The suspect drove through the doors of the school with his vehicle, the truck, and
46:47was killed inside. Well, this is all very good.
46:51This is the best possible outcome based on those early reports we saw that anyone
46:56could hope for, which is bad guy killed, everybody else going to be fine.
46:59Thank God. And then the shooter was killed as well.
47:10It's looking like both of these, Clay, are likely jihadist terror attacks.
47:17And that synagogue, on the one hand, it's a good thing that these synagogues take
47:23their security so seriously. On the other hand, it's really a tragedy that these synagogues
47:27have to take their security so seriously.
47:30You know, that's true. I'm glad they are doing it, but it shouldn't be the
47:34way that it is. People should be able to gather freely in this country to
47:36worship without that kind of fear.
47:38So anyway, for today, the good guys won and the good guys and gals are
47:44okay. So that's where not every day are we going to have breaking news for
47:47you, unfortunately. And it has this kind of a relatively, look, people are going to
47:52be a little traumatized by this.
47:53But everyone's going home tonight in that synagogue.
47:57Everyone's okay. And that's as good a end result after those initial moments as you
48:02could hope for. But everybody out there, Austin, Texas, New York City, Detroit area, Virginia,
48:09this is all in the last 10 or 12 days that it appears we've had
48:14four different would -be terror attacks.
48:17Most of them have been foiled.
48:18A couple of people in Texas, unfortunately, are dead because of them.
48:22But it could happen anywhere.
48:24So stay poised, stay smart, and be vigilant.
48:27And just a little bit of a pivot here.
48:30Some of you are madder than Mama Wasp.
48:33Wasn't that what Senator Kennedy said about how Cornyn just portrayed himself on the show?
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