Sen. Mike Lee

And yeah, that, that reporter's right.

Things can be very difficult for the party.

That's got the majority in both houses of Congress and the white house.

And that's all the more reason why we've got to do everything we can to make sure our elections are secure and do everything we can to make sure that our base shows up and they're not going to show up unless we fight their battles.

Unless we make clear that we're with them.

This one should not be hard, Glenn.

There are things in this job that are hard, that are really hard.

This isn't one of them.

And I literally do not understand.

This has been one of the more perplexing things in 15 years in the United States Senate that I've seen.

I literally don't have a legitimate explanation for this.

I mean, I get it.

The radical left hates this bill.

They hit it with a white hot passion.

And we can all make an educated guess as to why they hate it.

But regardless, that doesn't mean that the rest of us who are not part of the radical left have to go along with it.

And so I just I'm dumbfounded by the fact that we as Senate Republicans are resisting this.

Now, all that said, look, if we move forward and I've spoken to Senator Thune, the Senate majority leader, as recently as last night,

about this and we'll move to it and we'll debate it regardless of whether he wants to call it a talking filibuster.

I don't care what he calls it, but we've got to get onto the bill and we've got to not move right ahead to filing cloture and going forward with what would at this point be a failed cloture vote.