Bill Kristol

by insisting that this, that this not go ahead the way it is.

Totally.

And I would just add that, I mean, in a way, Chris Murphy maybe has done this even as could present his proposals as we are trying to make.

hold ICE to the standards we routinely hold all police forces to, right?

I mean, the things he's proposing are things that are, in fact, the procedures of police.

That's what's so appalling about this.

I mean, and again, the Kristi Noem reaction, no sense of, okay, we're going to take a look.

We're not going to comment until the investigation's underway.

It'll be independent.

We'll provide counseling to this person who killed someone, like any police force does if a police officer, unfortunately, gets in this kind of situation.

They don't even have a scintilla of that kind of attitude.

And so I think they can be pro-FBI, I mean, if they want, and pro, as you say, local police within reason and say, this is just totally different.

This is a paramilitary force deployed in our cities.

Before it was a little speculative about how bad it could be.

We've seen how bad it could be.

So we have to act.

Yeah, the president does get to decide in this and in other areas, it turns out, all such things.

And the whole executive order he issued, I think, quietly on Friday also that doesn't I couldn't quite understand it at first.

I think I got this right.

It doesn't allow the oil companies to go to court, basically, I think, and try to recoup the funds that were taken from them somewhat illegitimately.