Thomas Massey

He got close to this with John Bolton and eventually got, he tired of John Bolton, I think.

Some of us never liked him.

I'm with you.

But I think he's basically gone from pushing those people away, the Dick Cheneys of the Republican Party, to inviting them in the tent.

And it's given him more power, interestingly, to align with these folks on certain issues, whether it's spying on Americans without a warrant, whether it's spending more than we can afford.

whether it's starting another war in the Middle East that's going to be hard to end, he's listening to too many of those people right now.

That's hard for me to understand.

Some people think it's because he wants that ability to, as long as he's president, to use his own FBI and DOJ to have these same tools.

But then that begs the question, why would the Democrats, the uniparty, right, if you will, why would they want to give President Trump this authority?

You would think they might agree to a three-year hiatus on spying without warrants, right?

But no, they don't want any lapse in the program, and the president doesn't want any lapse in the program.

on the floor of the House on fly-out day.

Most people had already booked their planes to leave before this debate was going to happen.

The House of Representatives sent the Senate a deal to reauthorize FISA if the Senate would ban central bank digital currency.

No, I would ban central bank digital currency and not reauthorize FISA.

But some of the Freedom Caucus decided that was an okay trade to trade part of the Fourth Amendment for another part of the Fourth Amendment.

And I am terrified of central bank digital currency.

It's an on-off switch for your participation in society.

Of course.

They starve you to death if you disobey.