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Can the Senate pass a bill to avoid a government shutdown before August recess? President Trump calls off a major attack against Iran and we're looking at some major primaries, one on Tuesday and one next week that everyone's talking about. All of that and so much more in another special Monday rundown from 10 Minute Drill.
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Motivational Speaker
Everybody get up. Get up.
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The story of America is the story of an adventure.
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Political Figure
I can hear you. The rest of the world hears you. We are a nation under God, and I believe God intended for us to be free.
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First off, tale as old as time. Can the Senate pass a bill to fund the government before August resets, which is scheduled to begin next week? First, from Andrew Desiderio. Senate GOP leaders are planning for weekend work ahead into the August recess with a packed to do list this week that includes a CR continuing resolution, Russia sanctions, and a crypto procedural vote, among other items, will also depend on whether Blanche can get out of committee on Tuesday. As always, August jet fumes are powerful, so don't discount the possibility of a time agreement to wrap up faster. Now, jet fumes is something you'll hear reporters on Capitol Hill talk about. It is the force that drives members to work very quickly to get things done so that they can get back to their home states and home districts ahead of a recess, a weekend work period, anything like that. And usually jet fumes lead to both sides coming to agreements on stickier issues that have had longer holdout. But that is quite the to do list. And as Burgess Everett also reported last night, the Senate's CR deal is out from Senators Collins and Murray funds government through December 11th so that Susan Collins and Patty Murray, both of the Senate Appropriations Committee with a proposal to fund the government and avoid any kind of government shutdown for a few more months, particularly into the lame duck period that will come after the midterm elections. It's likely to be not particularly controversial, but the rest of the items on that agenda have a few sticky issues. For example, the Russia sanctions bill that also addresses some issues like tariffs, where there's a small but loud number of Democrats who have tried to actually slow down that process as a way of protesting what President Trump has done with tariffs. But in the Senate, there's an overwhelming majority for that Russia Lindsey Graham sanctions bill. The other issue we've been talking about is this crypto bill. This is a sort of do or die week for that. Democrats have been looking for every excuse they can think of to slow that process down, even as Republicans and the Trump administration have come their way on so many issues, from how to empower law enforcement to deal with crypto to the ethics agreement that President Trump, Trump has himself agreed to that would limit his own ability to ever make money off crypto now or in the future. And the ironic thing for Democrats that are looking to slow this down is without this bill, there are none of the safeguards that they've talked about being so important. It goes back to the status quo that they've said is so terrible. And so we'll be watching the Senate very closely this week. As Andrew said at the outset, there's a chance they work into the weekend to try and get some of these things done. But all eyes on the United States Senate. Over the weekend, President Trump called off a planned attack against Iran that he has said would be one of the biggest attacks that we've seen since World War II.
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We were all set to go just about at this time right now, and it would have been a massive attack.
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Now, one of the main reasons that he says that he called that off was urging from Saudi Arabia and other Gulf countries who have said, if you attack the energy resources of Iran, we will likely pay the most immediate consequences because Iran will attack us and we won't be able to sort of stomach that hit our energy supplies or economy will suffer. This is getting into a really tough back and forth where it seems like President Trump has been eager to make a bigger statement with the military attacks, but he's getting sort of called off by other regional allies.
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And we're all set to go. But when the allies ask to call it off, you got to sort of say, well, let's see.
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And they're one concern a lot of national security experts have is that Iran is no longer taking our threat seriously. And I would predict that early this week we have another incident where Iran fires on American personnel or American bases somewhere else in the region. And the pattern that we've seen is Iran attacks America or Iran attacks ships in the strait. We give a proportional response attacking some Iranian military asset. And we kind of go back and forth and it goes on and on and on, and it doesn't really resolve anything. And so that's why President Trump had been planning this massive attack. We will see if Iran actually moves towards the peace deal. President Trump says they have called and asked for.
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The reason they asked is I think there's a deal, there's a deal on hormones and then there will be a deal on the nuclear or you might call it the denuclearization of Iran, or
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if this is Just another delay tactic that we've seen for quite a while now that President Trump said at the outset he had wanted to avoid. On Tuesday, we will see the long awaited Michigan Senate primary where Haley Stevens and Abdullah said have been battling in a race that has gotten more and more personal. There's been a ton of polling just in the last week on this race. A lot of Abdul Al said supporters are touting polls that show he has a commanding lead. There was one poll that came out over the weekend that showed him up by 14 points. Some of Abdul's closest supporters have even said there's rumors coming out of the Stevens camp that her own pollsters are telling her there's no path forward, no way for her to win. Other polls are telling another interesting story of who fares better against Mike Rogers between Abdul Al Said and Haley Stevens. This from Epic MRA just from the 24th to the 31st, Mike Rogers gets 46% against Abdul Al Said, 43%. And in this poll it shows Haley Stevens getting 44% while Mike Rogers gets 42%. Now this poll is being used to suggest Haley Stevens would be the stronger candidate against Mike Rogers. There's a case to make for that because Abdullah Sayed is not only radical on policy things like banning private health insurance and nonsensical ideas like that, but also his blatant antisemitism in campaigning with Hassan Piker is a massive liability that national Democrats have suggested would make this a very, very difficult race for Democrats if he were to be the nominee. Haley Stevens has her own issues, not just the quirky voice things, but also being very far left, not having particularly strong principles and clearly having a major weakness with the far left flank. But on Tuesday, we will see where this shakes out. This will be one of the most consequential races highlighting this Democrat civil war we've been talking about for quite some time now. The other most interesting race in the country has been this Wisconsin Democrat gubernatorial primary. We've talked about it quite a bit because it's been interesting to see the establishment of Wisconsin Democrats try and bring up a different candidate after different candidate to try and beat the DSA Democrat Socialist candidate Francesca Hong. Francesca Hong was on Fox with Dana Perino late last week and I thought it was an incredibly interesting interview.
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Francesca Hong
I would like to put working class people first over many people.
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Dana Perino
How does defunding the police put working class people first? I mean, I think that you're going to enter, you're about to enter into a general election likely with Tom Tiffany, the Republican. That's not going to be an easy race. It's going to be very easy for people to put up on the board and say, you said abolish the Senate, defund the police. Abolish the police. And why should they not believe that you would want to do that, that you would try to do that if you became governor?
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Francesca Hong
I believe that people can evolve. We need Trump voters from previous elections who now would like to vote for me who have a sign in their yard.
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Dana Perino
So who needs to evolve?
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Francesca Hong
The voter or the governor cannot defund the police, and I won't defund the police.
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Dana Perino
So you have evolved.
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What I love about this is not only Dana's questioning and pressing her, like, have you actually evolved or are you just trying to sort of talk about these issues as if, you know, you're distancing yourself from them? And as she's talking also the Fox team put a graphic of all of her insane past positions she's actively trying to distance herself from and it's not effective. She's very robotic. Not a lot of color in life to what she's saying. And I don't think anyone watching this is necessarily going to believe she shifted away from any of those positions. But she is likely going to be their nominee. Mandela Barnes, the former lieutenant governor that had been one of the top prospects for the establishment wing, dropped out just in the last few days. One could argue the Wisconsin Democrats have done done a terrible job at trying to pick any alternative candidate to the Democrat Socialist. They had another candidate just a few weeks ago who a number of Democrats had endorsed. They thought she would be the great, you know, sort of white horse hope to beat the Democrat Socialist. She had her own financial scandal. And so Francesca Hong is likely going to be their nominee. And there's now polling that shows that the Republican candidate, Tom Tiffany, is in a very strong position if Francesca Hong is the nominee. I want to preview something that we're going to talk about quite a bit more on Tuesday. We've talked a lot about foreign funding and how foreign voices and foreign billionaires, foreign bodies have found unique ways to influence the American political system. Americans Republic Trust, one of the most effective watchdog groups in the country. You may know them as the people who found the private flight records for Pete Buttigieg, highlighting the fact that while he, his department had created an airline crisis, he was avoiding it by flying private on taxpayer's dime. They also were the ones that sort of established the connection connection through emails between the Biden CDC and teachers unions that highlighted the fact that Randy Weingarten and teachers unions have been empowered by the Biden administration to keep schools closed longer than they needed to during COVID America's Republic Trust now has a database out ABT launched his first database tracking foreign money in American politics. It is a first of its kind free tool to track the flow of foreign money and influence into American politics. Now we've talked about this dynamic. Whether it was funding pro Hamas protesters on college campuses, whether it's the sort of mobilization we've seen against data centers that we've seen clear lines tied to amplification networks from foreign governments. The foreign influence in America is a massive, massive issue. And groups like American Public Trust have created resources for us to figure out where that money's coming from so we can try and understand why foreign governments would be trying to hobble things like American energy data centers. All of this. This is a great resource. We'll talk more about it on Tuesday. But for now check out follow foreign money.org there are tons of things going on this week. I plan to spend some time on Kamala Harris making more great ad content for Republicans to use against Democrats. There is a bizarre video of a DNC Democrat National Committee staffer talking about how Democrats are getting a bad rap while he's like holding his cat. It went viral over the weekend. I thought it was hilarious. I also think there's a lot to learn from it about Democrats and their continued, continued frayed relationship with male voters in particular. Lots of things to cover. Please stick with us this week. I am back in the studio. Thank you for bearing with us through two weeks of 10 minute drill from the road and we are just so excited to bring you all the crazy fun news and stories of the week. Appreciate you have a great rest of your Monday.