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A (0:00)
Time has expired. I would advise members that a vote has been called. It's a single vote. And if members want to shuttle back and forth so we can maintain the continuity of the hearing, we'll do that. So if you start to see it just to our witnesses, you know how this works. They'll be moving in and out to go address that vote and then returning to their seat. But at this time, I recognize Mr. Scott.
B (0:20)
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman. For the record, I would like to submit an article From Politico dated February 24, 2026 and the title of it is Head of State of the Union. Dems demand Trump make Iran plans public. I think most Americans understand that if the President of the United States makes those plans public, then the enemies get
A (0:42)
to see them without objection. So, order.
B (0:45)
And that was the date of the State of the Union. Director Patel, I'm going to come to you very quickly and then I'm going to move on. But I listened closely to Senator Langford's testimony yesterday about fraud and the other things that are going on. And I want to bring your attention. This was in March 25th of 2024. An unsuspecting Uber driver named Liletha to London hall drove to a house near Columbus, Ohio to pick up a package. She had no idea that the 81 year old man who lived there had just received a series of phone calls from scammers who had threatened to kill him if he did not give the woman coming to his house $12,000 in cash. He killed the lady, so she's dead. He now has a life sentence. Are you aware of any action or investigation that the Justice Department has taken to pursue justice to bring the scammers and put them and make them pay for what they did?
A (1:42)
Okay, I think, let me take it. Thursday the 19th of March. Your overlord 2026. We're going to this morning be just as packed as we were yesterday with live events. Tulsi Gabbard, John Ratcliffe and Cash Patela before the House intelligence and they are getting and Tulsi is getting a little bit lit up. We've got some polls from that because this started earlier. We're also going to dip in and out of the live coverage. Also the Prime Minister of Japan. At 11 o' clock we'll be at the White House. It looks like if it starts on time, the President is going to meet with her for a few minutes privately and then bring the press in for a bilat and then take questions. My understanding is that she's got you know, real issues. And so it may be later. Anyway, we're going to be juggling, but we've got a full absolute packed agenda day, including a cold open that we're going to do in the B block. Mike Davis is going to join me here momentarily. And on top of that, Pete Hexeth and General Kane had a, had a, a press conference this morning, a press briefing. Our own David Zier got a good question in real America's voice. But there were some really terrific questions asked and some terrific information overnight. I don't know if you've got the tweet. I mean we've got the true social the president. This is going to get back to an issue that we're going to delve into this morning and also this afternoon where I think we'll have more time. There's an incident yesterday in which there's this massive gas field, natural gas, in fact, Qatar's is kind of unique, I think among the Gulf Emirates is that they're not really that much oil. It's natural gas. I think they're the largest in the world. It's where their wealth derives from and their power derives from. Their power derives from their wealth. It's a joint field, kind of co managed, I think really managed more than them. But in some part of it in joint ownership with the Iranians, part of that was hit yesterday by the Israelis and President Trump went off. We can get that true social up and put it up. President Trump went off, the Iranians hit back. Mike Davis is up. We get to Mike in a second. Then the Iranians hit back and the president went off on truth social about this. That can't happen again. It did expand gas through the roof. Oil, I think went to $119 a barrel. I'm going to get bowling on here later. We'll fit it in. We'll figure out somehow when he's available to fit in. Also in addition, yesterday we talked to you about the pipeline across Saudi Arabia going to the Red Sea that was hit. As we told you, in all likelihood they're going to start targeting this because this is the one way the Arabs, the Saudis have to get around the Strait of Hormuz. More developments on this expeditionary force. It looks like it's coming together potentially to give the president of the United States another error in the quiver to be able to take Carg island and maybe part of some coastal facilities inside the Persian Gulf near the Strait of Hormuz. Anyway, we're going to get to all that, including Tulsi's testimony quite as heated today as it was yesterday when she's in front of the Senate right now. I've got. Is Mike Davis with me? Mike? So I want to go through and if we've got the clip from Mullins, do we have that clip, that short clip, is that ready to go? It's not ready to go. Thank you, Mike Davis. We have a host of things to go through. The one I want to talk about is that the Save America act now today, the Senate's coming back at noon. We covered it last night on our six o' clock show and we streamed it until its conclusion. And Mike Lee came on the floor. But the second part of that pivoted away because the Democrats just don't have a great answer for this. Chuck Schumer then goes to the sticks and says, yeah, of course we support voter ID. They pivoted in about the 6 o' clock hour to talk about war powers. I mean, they totally changed the conversation. And then Cotton and Lindsey had to come down and you had a big, you know, a big throwdown on war powers. They put up another what, quorum vote and they lost. I think, you know, 53, 47. It wasn't even close. Can you just walk us through what you think the strategy is right now? Because they're going to reconvene at noon. They're supposed to talk about Save America. Do you just walk me through your understanding of where we are in this?
