Senator John Kennedy

He had a lot of bad ideas.

And many, most, many, most, really, of my Democratic colleagues went right along with him.

If President Biden had told them to...

many of my Democratic colleagues to join the Taliban, they would have said, where's the line?

We kill those bad ideas and a lot of bad judicial nominees, frankly, because of the filibuster.

Now, the argument's been made to me, well, as soon as Democrats get back in power, they're going to kill it, so we might as well kill it now.

That may or may not be true in terms of the Democrats, but

If I park my car on the street in a dangerous area, and I'm pretty sure it's going to be stolen,

That doesn't mean I'm just going to hand them the keys.

I'm going to do everything I possibly can to try to keep it from getting stolen.

And that's the way I look at it.

I also don't support getting rid of what we call the blue slip.

That means that the blue slip allows me as a United States Senator to have a say in who makes it to the federal bench for my state.

And I know my state better than somebody in Washington, D.C., in the White House, whoever's in the White House, who couldn't find Louisiana with a map or a search party or even on Google.

Well, I hope we have a very robust debate.

Now, here's what I see around the world.

This is based on unclassified information, but also classified information that I have access to.

President Xi in China, Putin in Russia, the atoll in Iran have formed a partnership.

President Xi in China is the managing partner.

Their objective is to have Russia dominate Central and Eastern Europe, to have the Atoll and Iran dominate the Middle East, to have Russia dominate the Indo-Pacific with freedom to roam in Sub-Saharan Africa and South America.