Robert Siegel
speaker
539 appearances
8 recordings
2 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 12 Sep
Robert Siegel’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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senators.
As if to say, you think you don't like Todd Blanche, look at what I've got next.
Molly, what did you make of what you saw of the Blanche confirmation hearings?
Director of National Intelligence.
Right.
This was his primary.
Ken Paxton, the attorney general who was kind of MAGA before there was MAGA.
He he he just Cornyn couldn't beat him.
One of his points that he made in questioning Blanche was, you say that the slush fund deal is dead.
Is there some way in which the government might still end up paying out part of this slush fund?
It seemed to be a set of questions that could be answered with a presidential action if Donald Trump cared to do that.
Yes.
My hunch is he doesn't care to do that.
I'm just curious what your thought is.
This is speculative.
If Senator Cornyn were to vote against confirmation and if he were to effectively block the confirmation of Todd Blanch, would he still be an extremely popular Republican in Texas?
Would he be persona non grata for that?
What's the personal consequence?
Let's move on to another case of compromise that a lot of us read about and thought about this week, which was the remarkable career of Lindsey Graham, Senator Lindsey Graham, the late Lindsey Graham, who had been one of the most fierce critics, Republican critics, of Donald Trump when Lindsey Graham was seeking the presidential nomination and after that.
And then became an insider in the Trump administration and a friend of the president.
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