Joe Mathieu

I'd like to ask you, uh,

what you're looking at here.

It's a bipartisan piece of legislation as you join us, as I mentioned, from Phoenix Trailings, a rare earths processing plant with its eyes on American minerals and processed here in the United States.

What would your legislation do to add to what the president's up to?

Well, the way you frame that is really important, Senator, because as we're constantly reminded in this conversation about finding rare earths, critical minerals for anything from data centers to weapons to cars, as you put it, or even our cell phones, it's not so much finding the minerals, it's processing them.

How will your legislation go to enhancing processing here in the United States?

spending time with Senator Gene Shaheen of New Hampshire.

And I have to ask you, Senator, about what's happening on Capitol Hill right now.

And I know that lawmakers are out of town at the moment, but we've got another deadline.

We're going to be sitting here a week from tonight, possibly talking about the shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security.

And I know you're familiar with the list of demands that Senator Schumer and...

Democratic leader Jeffries have sent to Republican leaders.

Demasking is a big part of this.

Body cameras, as noted already by the Department of Homeland Security, but also restrictions on the use of warrants, for instance, and some other training ideas that have been rejected out of hand by a number of your Republican colleagues in the Senate.

We talked to several of them this week, Senator, including John Cornyn, Ted Budd, and Ted Cruz.

Let's listen to what they said.

Senator, I don't know how much of this is bluster at the outset of a controversial or difficult negotiation, but it sounds like Democrats and Republicans are oceans apart on these ideas.

Does DHS shut down next week?

We've seen ICE deployed in the state of Maine.

One of your neighbors, Senator, do you have any reason to believe that they would be deployed in New Hampshire?