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And he called those congressional offices.
So he called Jim Jordan's office and and asked or, you know.
What's going on?
And the reply from Jim Jordan's office was, you could sort of hear the backpedaling.
I'll read it.
Chairman Jordan simply inquired about the program with DHS on behalf of a colleague, but ultimately the Trump administration decided to push the program forward.
It is not something that he is actively pushing out of the Judiciary Committee.
So that's the Jim Jordan position.
And the question is, what is behind this for somebody in her position?
And I don't know if you want to play the other clip, the Brian Mast clip, which gives a little bit more insight into some of the thinking or some of the phrasing.
behind it.
I don't know if it's possible.
Yeah, well, this has been a consistent problem.
And the other thing that was highlighted in that great Tyler O'Neill Daily Signal piece is what he was actually writing about was this man called Angel Demopan, who was her former legislative director, who has now been appointed Deputy Assistant Secretary for Insular and International Affairs in the Department of Interior.
Now, that doesn't sound like a very important position, but it actually is core to hemispheric defense.
The Department of Interior oversees Guam, the Commonwealth of Northern Marianas, Palau, Federated States of Micronesia, and Marshall Islands.
This is the whole center of the Pacific.
That's what's between Hawaii and the Philippines.
and onward to Japan, that whole core of the Pacific falls under the Department of Interior for historic reasons.
And this is now, this guy who, according to the reporting by Tyler O'Neill, the FEC found that he took...