Senator Eric Schmitt
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard Jun 2025
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he is uh i don't believe he's being advanced to the markup and i met with mr martin he seems like a good man most of my concerns related to january 6th and and he built a compelling case on some of the 1512 prosecutions that were probably key to the moment bad decisions but where we probably
I have a difference is I think anybody that breached the perimeter should have been in prison for some period of time, whether it's 30 days or three years is debatable. But I have no tolerance for anybody who entered the building on January the 6th, and that's probably where most of the friction was. So the difference wasn't that they should be charged in my estimation, it's by how much.
And I've indicated to the White House I wouldn't support his nomination.
Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus. I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk.
I'll tell you, the Senate Republican GOP is standing solid behind Pete. We understand this is this attack, another character assassination, trying to get rid of a guy because he's daring to challenge status quo. He's made some big changes inside DOD, and we know they needed to be made.
And so since he's ruffling feathers, he's also made some enemies throughout the media and obviously throughout the Democrat Party. I will tell you, our support hasn't changed. My support hasn't changed. Pete is doing exactly what he needs to do. We had a bloated Department of Defense that went woke.
They had started leaning in towards a Democrat party that has lost their direction of understanding what lethality is, what mission ready is, and about the warfighter. They became very risk adverse and tried to play politics. You can't win wars and you can't deter our enemies. by playing politics. And Pete is restoring the DOD's mission. And that hasn't changed.
We're going to stand strong with him no matter what type of onslaught and slander the media and the left want to throw at him.
Well, I would tell you the majority of the GOPs is solidly behind him. I will say that we're having – and I don't want to talk about this one person by name, Charlie. I want to be very respectful because we have a meeting Monday afternoon when I get there in his office. But we have one member on the SASC, which is the Senate Committee on Armed Services,
that is trying to ruffle feathers a little bit. He's the same individual we had some problems with, with Pete's confirmation too. So this doesn't come at any surprise, but we feel like there's a way to get around it. One thing that we're trying to keep from happening is actually allowing the Democrats to have a hearing on this because the hearing wouldn't be for production.
It would be for promotion and a production of, for, for them to be able to go out and show their base, their fighting and stir up stuff. If it was actually a meeting of, of, of substance, we would maybe up for it. Uh, but I, we're going to work around that. And so out of all 53 senators, uh, Even the three that voted against them, they are not saying anything.
It's just one individual on the committee that I feel like we can we can work out some differences of. And we've talked to multiple times. So I feel very strong. We're standing with Pete.
Well, because I know what he's said many times in court, and that's the proper forum for debating this.
It's not just a non-American. He entered the country illegally. He was, two judges had already said and already suggested that he should be deported. He had a rap sheet since he's been inside the United States. Keep in mind, his first time to have contact with the police, he had a wad of cash, he had baggies of drugs, and he had cash that had the symbol, hear no evil, see no evil,
Speak No Evil, which is a direct coalition to MS-13. So he had ties to them. And so there's no question about it. But here you have Senator Van Hollen, who spent taxpayer dollars to fly down to meet with an illegal alien. that entered the country illegally, that had broke the law since he'd been here, that had ties to an organization. And it's not just us. The court had said this too.
He can deny it all he wants, but most criminals deny their crimes anyways. So for Van Hollen not to look him in the eye and ask a question tells you all you need to know about this organization. radical Democrat party, they don't care. It's not about what's doing right. It's about a message piece. It's about getting promotion. It's about seeing what they can do to have 15 minutes of fame.
And that's all that Senator Van Hollen did here. He wasn't trying to solve a problem. He saw an opportunity that he felt like he could get on national TV for. And guess what? He has. But his constituents should see that he's not fighting for the rule of law. He's fighting for himself so he doesn't get caught up in this same situation that Chuck Schumer's caught up in and could cost him his office.
You don't have Democrats that are serving for the good of the American people. You have Democrats that are self-serving themselves, and that's what's happening inside the Democrat Party right now.
So real quick, we're ironing out the details on tax permit law versus permanent policy or current policy. We'll get into that. We are very optimistic. We feel like our timeline, it's not set in stone, but our timeline, we would love to be able to deliver this to the president's desk before Memorial weekend.
Now I will tell you that's a tall order because there's details that we can get into on some real differences between the house and the Senate and why current policy versus current law and tax policy matters. It plays a huge pivotal point in this.
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