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Melanie (0:00)
Ghosn of New Jersey, tell us who you're with. I'm with New Jersey Public Health Innovation Political Action Committee in New Jersey. And why are you here? I'm here to support Bobby because he supported New Jersey for almost a decade. And I wouldn't be any other place because he's always come to New Jersey when we've called him. And as everyone knows, in 2019, 2020, we preserve the religious exemption and we're forever indebted to him as well as all the advocates who showed up. Thank you so much, Melanie. So I'm here with Jill Pere and Amy Lizes and Amy Lisseski, also from New Jersey.
Joe (0:36)
We are.
Melanie (0:37)
So why are you here today?
Rand Paul (0:38)
To support Bobby. He was very supportive of us in Trenton in 2019.
Melanie (0:43)
I feel like he's done so much.
Rand Paul (0:44)
Good for the environment, and I just.
Melanie (0:47)
Think he will hopefully make some major changes in a very good direction. Well, tell us a little bit about the Battle of Trenton. What was that about? So the Battle of Trenton, December 2019. Many of us remember it so well. We were there every Monday and Thursday as the legislators met. We were there in January. We really were quite frightened we would lose our religious exemption. I sat in the assembly as I watched us lose in the assembly. And then we just continued to show up and pray and know that we weren't going away and that we have this right and it should never be taken away. And why is the religious exemption, why was that important to you? Well, we've had it, so why will we? Why should it be taken away? The timing was also quite suspicious. But, you know, I'm actually an educator and my own children would have been threatened with the potential of being kicked out of school. Right. So we should always know what's going in our bodies and we should always have that choice. And we have it now. And we thank him for that. Thank you, Joe.
Steve Bannon (1:57)
Okay, Wednesday, the 29th of January, in the year of our Lord 2025. You're in the war room today. Ladies and gentlemen, history on Capitol Hill. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The son of the slain Bobby Kennedy, the brother of Jack Kennedy, is there for his confirmation hearing. And it's going to be a wild one. As we've told you and prepped you, we're going to need people at the ramparts today. 202-224-3121 is the Senate main switchboard. Also, Grace Chung, the queen of the trolls, is going to be putting a bill blaster. We want to get to those local offices. Also, you're going to have to stiffen some spines here. There's no doubt about that. And today so for the next, I don't know, 48, 72 hours, we're going to have Bobby Kennedy today and then tomorrow, doubleheader, Tulsi Gabbard, Cash Patel. So it's man the ramparts and all three of these, Cash probably being the safest, but we can't take anything for granted. Pam Bondi just came out of committee, voted at a committee 12 to 10 at a judiciary. They're trying to expedite this. Thune and Senator Thune, we got to get on this. So folks, you might want to call John Thune to start off with. There's a backlog because Democrats are playing games and quite frankly, we're not forcing the issue. We need to get these people up, up, up to the floor, through committee, up to the floor. We need our team. Russ Vogt, ombuds, you see this situation yesterday with the funding federal judge stepped in right now and we're going to cut live obviously to the Senate hearing when Robert F. Kennedy begins his opening statement. The rest of it would kind of be maybe when the minority of an ask my crack production team here, when we look at the Democrat, when they start reading, they're going to start reading Bobby Kennedy the riot act. So the CO head, the ranking member on the Democratic side, let me go and we'll cut right to that. Not the Republican. So today's a work day. Natalie Winters is at the White House. We're going to get her this afternoon when we have more to report on how the White House is driving the Kennedy nomination. Senator Rand Paul is scheduled to join us here momentarily. We wanted him, we thought he was the perfect pick to talk about this. We also Senator Tommy Tuberville will be in the 11 o'clock hour even maybe if we can get time. Senator Rand Paul joins us right now. Senator Rand Paul, thank you for coming to the war room today of all days. First off, sir, could you give him perspective since you're a doctor, walk through Bobby Kennedy's credentials. I mean, he's getting lit up overnight. These Democrats are coming in from every different direction. I think people look to you on the Republican side as a safe pair of hands of what's right. You're the guy that led the fight against Fauci, which we'll get to in a minute. Give us your perspective, sir, of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. As secretary of HHS.
