Josh Hawley

When you shut down the government and now, frankly, put onto the president the decision of designating who's essential, who's non-essential, who's going to work.

I mean, to be honest with you, Steve, what I would urge the president to consider doing is just paying people anyway.

I mean, start with the military.

Our military service men and women, they need to get paid.

They're doing their job.

It's ridiculous.

Just because the Democrats don't like Trump, they're not going to get paid.

I think the president ought to say, listen, I'm paying the military, and if you want to stop me, take me to court.

I think the president should say for essential services that the American people have paid for and rely on, he's just going to keep them open.

And if the Democrats want to stop that, take him to court.

Get on the side of the people, which is I think where the president is.

But I just say again, the Democrats on this are out to lunch.

They're off the wall.

They're off.

They're totally in far left field.

And I think it's going to backfire.

Yeah, well, I mean, here's a sample of this, what's going on right now, Steve.

Just this morning, there's news reports now that AI chatbots are out there saying that Charlie Kirk was not actually assassinated, that this was a, quote, right-wing terrorist incident.

Right-wing terrorist incident.

As if Charlie was somehow involved in it, as if he deserved to die.