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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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I want to make sure there we go straighten that out Thank you for joining us this morning again I'm on the road as you can see as always trying to bring you the news from different places and I'm gonna talk to some people where I am and you're gonna see what's up what's happening in the world as it relates to gas prices and how people are feeling about the war and
I'm sure you've been seeing some of our social media things that we've been putting up with people who have very strong opinions about what's happening with Iran. But one of the interesting things is that I just want to tell you real quickly before I get to the news. I stopped.
This woman was going into a supermarket, and I wanted to ask her, like, hey, when you come out, can you tell me about the prices or whatever? And I said, I just want to talk to you. I said, ma'am, can I talk to you? And she said, not right now. About what, though? And I said, about the war in Iran. It's easy. And she goes... that's not easy.
And I said, yeah, it's easy because people have a very strong opinion about it. And when people have very strong opinions about things, it's easy for them to voice them. If you don't, then you're like, I don't really know about it or whatever. And then I think she kind of got it, but she didn't.
If you have, if, if there's a subject that you have very strong opinions about, all you have to do is say, I have really strong opinions about this. So anyways, That's my story, and I'm sticking to it. So welcome to the Don Lemon Show. We are watching two hearings. We can call them warring hearings on Capitol Hill, both in front of Senate committees. There's Mark Wayne Mullen there.
He is being nominated for Ice Barbie's job, Kristi Noem's position that she still holds but is not really active in. She's just a figurehead at the moment until Mark Wayne Mullen returns. is confirmed or not, chances are he will be confirmed, to be the next head of Homeland Security. So we'll see what happens. Controversial figure. He's speaking right now.
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Chapter 2: How is the administration handling the Iran war crisis?
We'll continue to work on that. Thank you. After DHS officers shot and killed two American citizens this past January, you joined top administrative officials in publicly blaming and disparaging victims. By the way, hit the like and thumbs up, please. Following the killing of Renee Good, Secretary Noem called her a domestic terrorist.
You, sir, you called Alex Preddy, quote, a deranged individual that came in to cause max damage. Could we expect those kinds of quick responses if you are confirmed as secretary? Would you be basically, well, you did, you responded as secretary, no, but we're going to just EXPECT THAT SAME BEHAVIOR ALL OVER AGAIN? NO, SENATOR. I HAVE A DEEP AMOUNT OF RESPECT FOR YOU.
WE'VE HAD OUR DIFFERENCES, BUT I DO RESPECT YOU. I THINK I SAID THIS PRIVATELY WHEN WE HAD A CONVERSATION. THOSE WORDS PROBABLY SHOULD HAVE BEEN RETRACTED. I SHOULDN'T HAVE SAID THAT, AND AS SECRETARY, I WOULDN'T. THE INVESTIGATION IS ONGOING, AND THERE IS, LIKE I SAID, THERE'S SOMETIMES YOU'RE GOING TO MAKE A MISTAKE, AND I'LL OWN IT. THAT ONE, I WENT OUT THERE TOO FAST.
I WAS RESPONDING IMMEDIATELY WITHOUT THE FACTS. THAT'S MY FAULT. THAT WON'T HAPPEN AS SECRETARY. So you regret that statement? I already said that. Yes, sir. Would you want to apologize to the family of Alex Pretty? Well, sir, I just said I regret those statements. Is that the same? It's not an apology. I haven't seen the investigation. We'll let the investigation go through.
And if I'm proven wrong, then I will. Absolutely. How is you? Would you characterize your relationship with President Trump? He's a he's a friend. How frequently have you spoken with him in the past year? Often. Most of the time about my family. If you want to explain the friendship, I'll tell you. My wife will tell you the same thing.
When someone loves your kids when they're going through a difficult time like we have, the amount of outpouring of support from the president and the friendship we saw going back to 2020 was quite remarkable. And so I speak to the president from a friend level more than I do a policy level. Okay. I have more questions, but my time is up. Thank you, Senator. We'll be doing it in a second round.
Okay. So that is the questioning of Mark Wayne Mullen this morning on the Hill, and we're going to get back to that. But I did something, and I'm always very transparent with you guys. I was supposed to do this before the show started, so I'm going to do it now, and then we're going to get back to that hearing.
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Chapter 3: Who is Markwayne Mullin and what is his role in the hearings?
Most of it is in Washington. Some of it is in the Middle East. I just want to tell you that the average diesel price as we watch these hearings, both of them, Tulsi Gabbard and Mark Wayne Mullen,
as we're speaking so much turmoil going on in the world nationally the u.s stands at six of 505 that's for diesel five dollars and five cents a gallon this morning a whopping 38 increase from just a month ago and ice barbie's replacement is uh testifying on congress before congress right now before excuse me the senate right now now this comes as a department of homeland security uh secretary
Now, Kristi Noem has been ousted, not for hiring a paramilitary group of ICE thugs to go into Minneapolis and shoot US citizens, more so because she allegedly pushed hundreds of millions of dollars to her friends in government contracts and purchased a multi-million dollar flying booty call shack, or some people would call it the F plane. with her lover, Corey Lewandowski, allegedly.
Her alleged lover, Corey Lewandowski, or even reported lover, Corey Lewandowski. But that brings me to the present. Our government is in the midst of a partial government shutdown right now. And this could not be a more dangerous position as we face enormous threats to the homeland thanks to the war in Iran. Sadly...
It looks like Senator Mark Wayne Mullen, by the way, Mark Wayne, first name, one word, will not be that different from Kristi Noem, other than carrying on an affair with Corey Lewandowski. I doubt that that will happen, but one never knows. He became famous on the show for his abject lunacy, and I want to play this, and then we're going to get into the back and forth between him and Rand Paul.
I don't buckle up. And the reason why I don't buckle up, and people can say whatever they want to, they can raise their eyebrows at me again, is because of carjacking. How about we teach Jesus loves me? Red and yellow, black and white, they're all precious in our sight. I don't want reality. I'm asking the question, which one is better? That is exactly, that's exactly what it is. War is ugly.
It smells bad. Leadership. This is war, and we're taking out the threat. You can see this is war. We have declared war. And Ayatollah is going to be sent to what, I guess, receive his 77 virgins, if that's really a thing. There was a sweetheart plea deal that was made underneath the Obama administration with Epstein. It was 2008.
This is why there probably has to be a larger deployment of National Guard to protect federal agents from doing their job or to be able to let them do their job.
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Chapter 4: What challenges is Tulsi Gabbard facing in her confirmation?
What if you showed up drunk to your job? How many senators have showed up drunk to vote at night? And don't tell me you haven't seen it because I know you have. Do you describe this as regime change? No. What we did is we took out an illegitimate president. He was never duly elected. So there can't be regime change if he should have never been put in place to begin with.
Was his vice president duly elected? You know, I don't know how their elections happened. I don't know if they're on the same ticket or separate.
Chapter 5: What are the implications of Joe Kent's resignation?
I don't know how that works. Sir, this is a time, this is a place. You want to run your mouth. We can be two consenting adults. We can finish it here. Okay, that's fine. Perfect. You want to do it now? I'd love to do it right now. Well, stand your butt up then. You stand your butt up. Oh, hold on. Oh, stop it.
and that is who they want to be the head of homeland security let's dip in just for a moment see what's happening in that hearing the paycheck i'm going to skip the second one go to the second the third one biological nuclear threat prevention that seems important that seems like an agency we should fund 200 employees not getting a paycheck that's okay with the democrats
Okay, so he's talking about the shutting down of the government, which has nothing to do with him being confirmed. Okay, so that's just a pure partisan ploy that they're doing that. Antics, antics, antics. Okay, as by the way, the whole thing about the 77 virgins or... seven virgins. People are always asking, is it 77 virgins or is it seven virgins? It's actually 72 virgins. But guess what?
Just so you know, I'm just fact-checking, okay? Because I believe in facts. It is not found in the Quran, all right? Now, it originates from... a less, a specific, less authoritative hadith narrations. And so it doesn't specifically appear in the Quran. But anyways, you know, the right wing has taken that to mean whatever they want it to mean. So let's move on.
So if you're not familiar with Mark Mullin, also, he became well known for trying to get into a fight with the president of the Teamsters. You saw that at the end of that clip that we saw there. This one is more in depth during a committee hearing. Watch this. Now, let's talk about Mr. O'Brien himself, his behavior. Everybody knows this.
Here in the last time, him and I kind of had a back and forth. But after you left here, you got pretty excited about the keyboard. In fact, you... tweeted at me one, two, three, four, five times. And let me read what the last one said. It said, greedy CEO who pretends like he's self-made. What a clown. Fraud. Always has been, always will be. Quit the tough guy act in these Senate hearings.
You know where to find me. Any place, any time, cowboy. Sir, this is a time, this is a place. If you want to run your mouth, we can be two consenting adults. We can finish it here. Okay, that's fine. Perfect. You want to do it now? I'd love to do it right now. Well, stand your butt up then. You stand your butt up. Oh, hold on. Oh, stop it. Is that your solution? No, no, sit down. Sit down.
You're a United States senator. Act it. Sit down, please. Can I respond? Hold it. Hold it. Bernie Sanders is right. Your United States senator act like it. What has happened to especially the MAGA folks? These are the people that they elect to office, people who want to fight with heads of agencies, people who want to fight with political rivals. This was the biggest, no, no, you hit me.
No, you hit me. No, you hit me. No, you stand up. No, you stand up. You stand up. I mean, they should just kiss. Because what it really sounds like is like, you hang up. No, you hang up. No, you hang up. It's ridiculous.
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Chapter 6: How are rising gas prices affecting Americans during this crisis?
They went into character assassination. Watch this. The in the days after the fight, you said, and I quote, sometimes people just need to be punched in the face. Is that still your opinion that political disputes can sometimes and often only be resolved by violence? No, I don't always agree with that. I don't believe in political violence. I've made that very clear.
But sometimes people do need, theoretically speaking, that's, sir, I get it. It's about character assassination for you. That's the way this game is played. I understand it. And you are making this about you, which is fine, but that doesn't keep me as secretary of Homeland Security. It's character assassination when you were the one lauding the assault.
Who do you think started that character assassination? I'm just repeating what you have done in character assassination. I'm repeating your support for the assault. So that's somehow something I started? No, sir. What I'm saying is you're adding a lot to it. Very interesting. Very interesting. Not the end. Stand your butt up. Maybe Rand Paul should stand up.
Okay, we're going to get back to Rand Paul. There's more back and forth, but now I want to get to Senator Blumenthal because he is questioning Mark Wayne Mullen right now. The United States of America, where they have been subjected to conditions that would outrage and have angered many Americans.
We're here because of a lawless and reckless agency that has broken into homes without judicial approval, shot United States citizens, detained them without any cause, and sometimes killed them. And I am looking for real substantive reform in that agency, as you and I have discussed when you came to talk to me. A break with the past. With former Secretary Noem and with the White House.
Steve Miller and others who have used Kristi Noem in effect as a puppet implement. Lawless policy. I welcome that you have stated you regret your statement after the killing of Alex Pretty. You said on Fox News, quote, Unfortunately, an individual, a deranged individual that came to cause max damage with a loaded pistol with an extra mag that was completely loaded and shot and killed.
And you regret that statement, do you not? I've already said that, sir. Yes. And what about what you said about Renee Goode after she was shot and killed? You appeared on CNN, and you were asked whether you believe the shooting was justified, and you replied, quote, absolutely. Do you regret that statement as well? Senator.
It's very clear that an officer to make a split decision in that case was a car was running towards him and did strike him. Um, at that point, that car becomes a lethal weapon and officer that, um, was there was another officer obviously given her verbal commands and saying, and I apologize for interrupting you, but you're saying you do not regret that statement.
I'm saying that the investigation is going on, but what we've seen... There is no investigation, Senator. In fact, that was my next question to you. Don't you think there should be an investigation? My understanding is that there is. I will find out if I'm able to get confirmed. But those are two different incidences.
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Chapter 7: What controversies surround the Department of Homeland Security?
state and local investigation of the killing of renee renee good and i hope that you will permit that investigation to go forward senator state and local investigation doesn't expect it doesn't uh um INVESTIGATE FEDERAL. FBI DOES THAT THROUGH DOJ. AND I BELIEVE THE FBI IS LOOKING AT THIS CASE. AND I DO WANT TO SAY SOMETHING TO YOU.
YOU SAID ABOUT THE TERRIBLE CONDITIONS THAT THIS ADMINISTRATION IS PUTTING IN KIDS. BUT WHAT YOU LEFT OUT IS THAT THEY'VE ACTUALLY RECOVERED OVER 160,000 KIDS. that were trafficked or lost during the Biden administration. What is inhumane is the 12 to 13,000 individuals coming across the border every single day, and we're not having tracked the kids.
At one time, the numbers up to 385,000, and that's sad. Because you said that you were going to be, and I'm quoting you, blunt and direct and to the point. So I regret that you don't retract that statement about Renee Goode, but I want to ask you about A statement that was made regarding the pretty killing by Steve Miller.
In the White House, he said quote that Pretty was a domestic terrorist who quote tried to assassinate federal law enforcement. Don't you think it was irresponsible and reckless for Stephen Miller to post that claim on X without any evidence, just as you have retracted your statement? Senator, I believe that question is better asked to Stephen Miller, not myself. I can't speak for him.
Well, Stephen Miller also said again on Fox News, quote, Under President Trump's leadership, we are looking to set. a goal of a minimum of 3000 arrests for ice every day. If you're confirmed, are you going to be directing ice to arrest 3000 people a day?
Sir once again, can't speak for Senator or for Stephen Miller, but I can say the president has tapped me to be the secretary of homeland and I will lead that department and I'll lead it. Will you continue that arrest quota of 3000 people a day? No quota has been set for me, sir. Well, in effect, it's a quota if the White House directs the DHS secretary.
The president of the United States sets the policies, and I'll be working with the president. If you have a question for Stephen Miller, please ask him. Well, I really regret that you are going to stick to those same policies and practices and condone the statements of the White House that are so demeaning to someone who was a victim of lawlessness and recklessness by an ICE officer.
Senator, I didn't say that. Let me ask you then a different question. ICE has been breaking into people's homes without any judicial warrant. The sanctity of our homes is absolutely critical. This is true. I think you'd agree with that point. And it is the law that a judicial warrant is required to forcibly enter someone's home. Kristi Noem
acknowledged in her testimony in response to my questions that at least 28 break-ins have occurred. My ranking member leadership on the subcommittee for permanent investigation has produced a report that shows probably many more such break-ins have occurred. The result of a memo last May from the acting director, Todd Lyons, And it's behind me now that instructed ICE agents to break into homes.
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