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attorney from Missouri who you pointed out earlier was a henchman of all these wacky election denial stories.
So we've got this effort that doesn't pass the smell test on the front end of bringing this case against the election officials in Georgia.
Secondly, then you've got the question of Tulsi Gabbard.
Tulsi Gabbard, who I voted strongly against, I warned my Republican officials, colleagues, she was not competent for this job.
She has proven that incompetence time and again.
And now you've got her showing up here, as you said, with the baseball cap looking like out of a bad spy movie.
Tulsi Gabbard has no responsibility for domestic investigations.
Her job is to look at foreign intelligence interference.
And here's the part, Jen, that I hope we...
spend some more time on.
The very structure that the first Trump administration set up about foreign malign influence, they did a good job of setting up a center.
In her first year as DNI, she has dismantled that center, saying there is no threat of foreign malign influence.
Suddenly, at the 11th hour, she shows up
in this very inappropriate search, one at least on the appearance of inappropriate, and is showing up, as you pointed out in the Wall Street Journal, not exactly a liberal publication, has said this is a pathetic person basically trying to hurry favor with her boss, because I can tell you as a vice chair and former chair of the Intelligence Committee, usually the director of national intelligence briefs you on these serious international matters.
She's been nowhere on Venezuela.
nowhere on Iran, nowhere on Trump trying to threaten NATO.
And so this effort to try to curry favor
is really frightening.
And you layer on top of that, and this is how all of these things interconnect.
One of the reasons why we have to make sure that we get some guardrails on ICE, and this is not going far afield, is what I fear beyond the potential for Trump to try to interfere in a major way in our elections is one of the biggest ways he could interfere is by having these roving ICE bands