LIVE From Congress as the SAVE America Act PASSES, Voter ID to END Election Fraud | Obama in PANIC

Summary

The Benny Show – LIVE From Congress as the SAVE America Act PASSES, Voter ID to END Election Fraud | Obama in PANIC

Date: February 12, 2026
Host: Benny Johnson
Guests: Senator Markwayne Mullin (Oklahoma), Senator Mike Lee (Utah), Mrs. Mullin

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Episode Overview

This live episode of The Benny Show broadcasts directly from the U.S. Capitol following the House passage of the “SAVE America Act,” a bill mandating Voter ID and proof of citizenship to participate in federal elections. Benny Johnson and his guests — Senators Markwayne Mullin and Mike Lee — break down the implications of the Act, address the reactions from Democrats (notably Barack Obama), and discuss broader themes of election integrity, voter fraud, and political culture wars.

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Key Themes & Discussion Points

1. The SAVE America Act: What It Does and Why It Matters

• Mandate: Requires proof of U.S. citizenship and government-issued ID to vote in federal elections.
• Motivation: To prevent voter fraud, specifically concerns around non-citizen voting, ballot harvesting, and outdated voter rolls.
• Comparisons: The act brings federal elections in line with the 37 states already using Voter ID requirements.
• Senators argue that needing ID for everyday activities (e.g., checking into hotels, buying alcohol, flying) makes Voter ID for elections common sense.
• Benny Johnson: “If you’re too dumb to get an ID, should you even be voting? A critical question, ladies and gentlemen.” (00:28)

2. Democratic Opposition and the ‘Racist’ Argument

• Democrat Arguments: Presented as “Jim Crow 2.0” and claims of voter suppression, disproportionately affecting minorities.
• Senator Mullin’s Response: Points out high levels of support among the American public, including minorities. Shares personal experience finding homeless people who all had IDs in Atlanta.
• Notable Quote:
  • Mullin: “Chucky Schumer comes out immediately and says the SAVE act is Jim Crow 2.0... It’s already in 37 states... there’s not been one lawsuit [over minority vote suppression].” (15:45)
• Obama’s Role: Criticized for calling the act disenfranchising and “panic-tweeting.” Hosts mock Obama for using an ID to vote in photos.

3. Case Studies: Georgia and Ballot Harvesting

• Georgia 2020: The state is cited as an example for alleged ballot harvesting, questionable vote counts, and alleged anomalies explained by guests.
• Senator Mullin: Describes how mail-in ballots and lack of proper ID requirements created vulnerabilities.
• “How are you having a single family home with 20 and 30 people voting from the same address?” (22:47)
• Talk of FBI investigations, algorithmic vote margins, and suspicions about Dominion and international manipulation.

4. How the Act Works and Implementation Timeline

• Clarifications:
  • Proof of citizenship is shown during registration, not at every voting event; the law won’t be retroactive.
  • Addresses concern about cost and barriers (e.g., Real ID suffices if citizenship was shown at application).
• Constitutional Basis: Article 1, Section 4 empowers Congress to regulate federal election procedures.
• Rollout: Not effective until 2027; does not impact state/local-only elections.

5. Elon Musk’s Influence

• Musk has become “the MVP of voter integrity effort” after being briefed by Mullin on how voting machines could be theoretically manipulated.
• “No one took a more public, frontal approach than Elon did.” — Sen. Mullin (44:36)
• Musk advocated for passage, energized online and grassroots support, and is credited with helping ensure the 2024 election’s integrity.

6. Legislative Path Forward (with Senator Mike Lee)

• Senate Strategy:
  • Bill has strong GOP support (46+ co-sponsors); leadership (Thune) now on board.
  • Hurdle is the filibuster — Lee pushes for a “talking filibuster” to exhaust opposition and force a vote.
• Possible Bipartisan Votes: Hope remains a few Democrats (ex: John Fetterman) might vote based on constituency demand.
• Public Support: Bill enjoys 80%+ approval across political, demographic, and geographic lines.
• Major Quote:
  • Sen. Lee: “What made this whole thing necessary... is [federal] law. The National Voter Registration Act... is interpreted to prohibit requesting proof of citizenship.” (52:44)
• Game Plan:
  • House has passed its version.
  • Senate to debate and, if needed, let opposition physically filibuster until exhausted, then pass with a simple majority.

7. Broader Themes: Culture, Family, and Faith

• Personal Segments:
  • Banter about health, Pop Tarts, fatherhood, working out with Kid Rock & RFK Jr.
  • Mrs. Mullin shares advice for young women: “Put the Lord first, above marriage, above kids, above anything.” (48:55)
• Overarching Message:
  • Saving America requires strong families, confidence in self-governance, and faith.

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Notable Quotes (with Timestamps)

• On Voter ID Logic:
  • “You got to have an ID to get a liquor store, need an ID to get on a plane to come here, need an ID to buy a lotto ticket. But no, no big deal, don’t need an ID to vote.” — Benny Johnson (00:28)
• On the ‘Racist’ Argument:
  • “It’s already in 37 states… not been one complaint that people couldn’t vote. In Georgia… more people voted after Voter ID.” — Sen. Mullin (15:54)
  • “If the SAVE America Act is Jim Crow, so is the Democratic National Convention — you can’t get in without a Voter ID.” — Sen. Mike Lee (71:43)
• On 2020 vs. 2024 Elections:
  • “This election did not look anything like the 2020 election. Nothing like it.” — Benny Johnson (41:57)
  • “By putting people on notice we’re watching, [in 2024] they didn’t want to expose themselves—just calling them out helped.” — Sen. Mullin (42:22)
• On Elon Musk’s Role:
  • “No one took a more public, frontal approach than Elon did.” — Sen. Mullin (44:37)
• On Bill Passage:
  • “If we’re able to cast an up or down vote… it passes. We can get to 51 votes.” — Sen. Mike Lee (68:59)
  • “Slay the zombie filibuster... Failure is not an option.” — Sen. Mike Lee (76:34)
• On Family and Faith:
  • “If you save a marriage, you save a family. You save a family, you save America.” — Sen. Mullin (15:29)
  • “Put the Lord first... then everything else will be great and perfect... as long as I'm in God's plan, everything else is good.” — Mrs. Mullin (48:55)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

| Topic | Timestamps | |-------|------------| | Opening Voter ID Skit & Introduction | 00:00–04:37 | | Voter ID Debate & Dem Opposition | 04:38–17:47 | | Ballot Harvesting/Georgia/2020 Election | 20:49–39:10 | | How the SAVE Act Will Work | 24:32–30:35 | | Elon Musk’s Involvement | 33:46–46:10 | | Senate Tactics (with Mike Lee) | 50:24–67:57 | | How Elections Will Change if Passed | 74:04–76:34 | | Faith, Family, and Closing Thoughts | 48:55, sporadic throughout |

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Memorable Moments

• Benny’s Sarcastic Take on Obama:
  • “It’s too bad that [Elon Musk] can’t run for President, because I would want an African-American president... It would be so healing for America to finally have that.” (45:18)
• Mocking Obama’s ID Check:
  • Benny and guests joke about photo evidence of Obama voting with ID in apparent contradiction of his public statements opposing the SAVE Act (51:35–52:09).
• Mrs. Mullin’s Cameo:
  • Benny invites Mrs. Mullin on to discuss marriage and raising six kids, ending with her advice to young women on faith and putting God first. (48:03–49:37)

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Conclusion

This high-energy, opinionated episode underscores the show’s combative, culture-war-driven tone, featuring breakout political personalities and legislative insiders. It weaves the granular details of the proposed voter law with stories about family, masculinity, and faith, championing both the SAVE America Act and the moral necessity for election integrity.
The hosts and guests are confident about the bill’s prospects, hopeful about its nation-changing implications, and unapologetically adversarial toward Democratic criticism.

Action Item:
Listeners are urged repeatedly to contact their senators (regardless of party) to demand support for the SAVE America Act and to insist on a "talking filibuster" in the Senate to force a vote.

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For More

• Follow Senators Markwayne Mullin and Mike Lee on social media for updates
• Tune into the upcoming State of the Union megastream and more coverage from The Benny Show

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[Episode Summary by Podcast Summarizer]

Transcript

[Benny Johnson]

May I see your voter id?

[Voter]

I got this driver license.

[Benny Johnson]

Yeah, that should work.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

No, those don't work, honey.

[Voter]

How about this EBT card?

[Senator Mike Lee]

Yep, yep, that should do it.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

Do you have a voter id?

[Benny Johnson]

We can get you one here. How you expect me to do all that?

[Voter]

Ain't nobody got time for that.

[Benny Johnson]

What's going on? We are here live from the U.S. capitol on a glorious day. The Save America act has passed the House and is rolling on over to the Senate and we got a couple senators who will be rolling with us today. Live from Washington D.C. today is Thursday, Feb. 12, 2026. The Save America act has passed. Libs are freaking out. Barack Obama in is crying because he thinks that his base of support is too stupid to go get an id. Okay, they need an ID to get a liquor store, need an ID to get on a plane to come here, need an ID to buy a lotto ticket. But no, no big deal, don't need an ID to vote. If you're too dumb to get an id, should you even be voting? A critical question, ladies and gentlemen, Senator Mike Lee and Senator Mark Wayne Mullen in the studio live with us to answer the questions. Will the SAVE ACT get packed? Passed. More importantly, John Thune on board right now. It's gonna be an amazing show. My name is Benny Johnson and this is the Benny Show. First, ladies and gentlemen, are you getting enough night sleep? Are you getting a good night's sleep? This is Superpower. Superpower is like good rest, good sharp rest. The center of Markway Mullen, he's an athlete. He'll be here. Like, you got to sleep, you got to chill out. This is the time for you to lock in with your health. Joy in Blokes is an incredible opportunity for you to do that. Blokes is built for men who are tired of feeling like a shadow you used to be and actually do something about it. If it's a dad bod, brain fog, whatever you've got, ladies and gentlemen, these are symptoms and they can be directly tied to your hormones. Every blokes Lab includes a 30 minute consultation with a licensed clinician that, that can help you get in contact with what's really dragging you down and fix it. We're talking trt, peptide therapy, nad. This is the kind of treatments that can really help get to the root cause, feel like yourself again. So if you want to start TRT or if you want to start getting locked in with what is truly dragging you down, it is time to stop settling and go to joyandbloaks.com Benny use the code BENNY for 50% off your labs. 20% off all supp. That's joy. Joindblokes.com Benny use code BENNY for 50% off YOUR labs today and get your edge back. This is it, ladies and gentlemen. Here we go. The Save America Act. What did we get? One House Dem, one House Democrat voted in favor of voter id. What does this tell you exactly about the state of America? One House Democrat. So what this is, is. It is an IQ test. It is saying that we have either, like, the dumbest electorate possible. As Democrats, we don't trust our own people to have IDs. We don't trust them to have IDs to get malt liquor. We don't trust them to have IDs to get on an airplane. Effectively. Democrats are like, do they? They're saying that their voter base is third world citizens, like low IQ. You're talking 70, 70, 60 IQ. This is what they're effectively saying by not voting for the SAVE Act. Because all the SAVE ACT is doing is saying, you got to be a U.S. citizen. You got to have an ID to vote. You got to have an id to do literally anything in society. To do anything in society. I check into my hotel in Washington, dc. We were here for meetings yesterday. Where's your id? It's a liberal hotel, by the way. It's like liberal propaganda everywhere, all over the hotel. It's such a sunken city here. I can see where the center is in the studio with me, senators, like, I gotta get back to Oklahoma as soon as possible. The entire city. The Uber driver only speaks Farsi. Okay, I could. I had no idea what Mohammed was saying. I'm like, the hotel, I'm like, I'm checking in. There's like nothing but Alphabet propaganda everywhere. I'm like, okay, should I even be staying here? This is out of control. Everything is propagandized in the city. But the first thing they say, the first thing, the woke guy, he's got a septum, piercing, blue hair, nose ring, earrings.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

Okay?

[Benny Johnson]

The total spectrumy dude, all right? Clearly transitioning. And he's like, give me your ID now. I want it. I need it now. Is what? Like, the guy says inside of the woke hotel that I stayed at in dc. Same thing on the airline. So it's like they'll demand ID for everything. You order a glass of wine at dinner. We go out. We go out. We had a business dinner last night. You order a glass of wine, id. It's crazy. They're not living in reality. And this is all that the Republicans in Congress are asking for. Okay, let's read the top line here. One House Democrat votes in favor of voter ID.1. I don't even know which one it is. Who is it? Proof of citizenship.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

Kilmar. Do you know which one it is, Henry? I mean, we might. Texas.

[Benny Johnson]

We might as well. Yeah. Cuellar.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

Cuellar.

[Benny Johnson]

Oh, okay. You bought your pardon there, pal.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

Okay.

[Benny Johnson]

Good job. Ladies and gentlemen, let's welcome to the stage the great senator from the state of Oklahoma, Mark Wayne Mullen. Sweet. What's up, Senator? How we doing?

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

I'm doing good. I'm assuming, though.

[Benny Johnson]

Sorry, we're high energy this morning.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

Yeah, I see that. That's the cup of coffee that you haven't even taken a drink out of yet. I'm thinking, what is it gonna be like when you get to the bottom of that cup? Go back to this Joey, this Joey. Block. Blunk. Block. What'd you say? The sleep. The adjective.

[Benny Johnson]

Yeah, Joy.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

Block. Look. Is it an Australian company? I don't know, because. What'd you say? It's Joey. And.

[Senator Mike Lee]

And.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

Blokes. Blokes. Blokes. I assumed I was. Goes. Isn't blokes like a guy from Australia?

[Benny Johnson]

I actually went and did my blood work. I got, like.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

My blood.

[Benny Johnson]

I got my blood work done. And, like, you can see, like, where your testosterone levels are. As a man, you can, like, see where things are.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

What was yours? Yours? Pretty low, wasn't it?

[Benny Johnson]

It was actually fine.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

Well, it was fine.

[Benny Johnson]

It was fine.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

Like, tell me your number.

[Benny Johnson]

It's supposed to be in, like, it was in the 600s.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

Oh, that's pretty good. It's 682, you know, Jason Smith.

[Benny Johnson]

So you want it to be at 800, right? You want it to be up 800, right? So it's like the problem is you get poisoned by society. Like, all of society. Everything. The drinking water, everything's fluorinated.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

Yeah.

[Benny Johnson]

Like, it's like an entire. All of society is estrogenated. Right? So it's like, you gotta. You gotta, like, try and. I don't know, bro. Like, do I move out to Oklahoma? Do I just live completely off the grid? Just do cattle farming in Oklahoma? Right.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

We're good. We're a red state. We don't poison people. But, you know Chairman Jason Smith from Missouri? So I talked him to getting his testosterone levels tested. He's like, only if you do. No, no, no, no. This is worse. His was higher than mine.

[Benny Johnson]

No way.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

I swear.

[Senator Mike Lee]

What?

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

I swear this is higher. Almost Double. Almost double mine.

[Benny Johnson]

That shocks me.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

Me too. It shocked my wife, too.

[Benny Johnson]

Was it male in testosterone or what was it? Was it Dominion? Like, who did the. Who did the. Was it Dominion?

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

No, we went to actually gw. To a urologist, really? And not to a men's clin. We went to a urologist to do it.

[Benny Johnson]

Guys gotta take this stuff seriously. And you should just get tested and just see where your body's at. Right? And it's not your fault. It's not like someone's gonna come crash out on you or who you are. It's like, a lot of the stuff is societal. Everything from receipts that you get at a 7 11, everything is just covered in estrogen. It's, like, bad. It's bad for men. You gotta watch out what you're putting into your body. Microplastics is terrible.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

I am horrible. I have the worst diet in the world. All right? I like Pop Tarts and cereal.

[Benny Johnson]

Really?

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

Yeah. I eat horrible. People think because I work out that I eat you. Like, yeah, maybe worse. I mean, I don't like baby food, but I do like the gummies. And so, I mean, I'm just like this. I don't eat well, but I work out hard. Because my analogy is I want to work out so I can eat what I want. And so my eating habits haven't changed since I was in middle school. But you was laughing about being an athlete. And I sleep well. I don't sleep. I sleep horrible.

[Benny Johnson]

Really.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

I sleep hard. Sleep is super, but I don't sleep long. Sleep is superpower. I sleep five hours, maybe, and then I'm up. I could do four sometimes, but I'd rather work out in the morning than sleep. It's just the way I am. I just. I'd rather get. I'd rather get a good hour, hour and a half workout in, then sleep another hour. Hour and a half, bro.

[Benny Johnson]

Like, it's like, the thing. That story's a legend. Like, Trump, like, doesn't sleep at all now.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

I'm not Trump doesn't. Like, he doesn't sleep.

[Benny Johnson]

Like, doesn't sleep.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

I have already shared a story about him.

[Benny Johnson]

Clinical has a story. Go for it. So I was like, where? It's like the transcontinental flights with him.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

Yes.

[Benny Johnson]

Like, he's, like, wandering around Air Force One, like, knocking on doors, trying to talk to people, like, in the middle of now.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

So he. I spent a lot of time on the plane with him when we were campaigning. Yeah, a lot of time. And I never saw the guy sleep and right. And so in between doing three, you know, rallies a day, he was doing 12 telephone town hall meetings for members all across the country. And we would go until midnight at night. We'd eating junk food the whole time, which I'm cool with that, but we're eating junk food the whole time. We'd get the hotel like at midnight, be back in the vehicles by 5:30. And when we get there, he's still wanting to have meetings. Like he's still going. They never slow down. And he would, I'd see him crash out for five minutes, five minutes, you can set your clock to it one time a day. And he would just go to sleep and wake up with more energy than he had before he went to sleep. I've never seen anything like it. But he's really bad about calling you between 11 and 1, especially if something's going on. Like if we're working on one big beautiful bill or we're working on the SAVE act or working on some legislation, we're doing a vote of Rome. All night he's up and he's calling and if we're leading up to it, he's having conversations about it. And I'm always afraid about him calling me right when I go to sleep because I don't sleep much. But my first hour I go to sleep, I'm out to the world. If you wake me up, I'm not happy. Like, I'm not, like I'm not even myself. I don't remember. So I've always been afraid that he would call me during that first hour of sleep. And I went to bed one time about 11:30, which is a little early for me. And I Woke up at 4:30 and I was like, I had a dream I'd talked to the president. Oh God, please tell me I didn't because I really bad about it in the first hour of sleep. And I looked at it and said, djt and it was black. And I looked at the duration of the call and it was three minutes. And I was like, oh my gosh. And this was 4:30 in the morning. So I waited until 5:30 to call him. And he picked up the phone. The first thing he goes and says, you don't remember talking to me, do you? And I said, no, sir. I said, what did I say? And he said, you'll never know. Click on it to stay. I have no idea what I said and I'm scared to death to know what I said, but I'm pretty sure it's going to come back and bite me one day.

[Benny Johnson]

I wasn't planning on doing this, but you brought your lovely wife into the studio. So hold up. Y' all are, like, asleep, and Trump's just, like, calling, and he's just, like. He's just, like, taking calls from Trump in the middle of the night.

[Mrs. Mullin]

That happens a lot.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

Okay, but I don't always. He's interrupted a few things, too. I gotta be honest with you.

[Benny Johnson]

Hey, Trump. Like, we're sleeping.

[Senator Mike Lee]

Yeah.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

Okay. All right.

[Benny Johnson]

Okay.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

Not always sleeping.

[Benny Johnson]

We got some forgiving wives in Congress.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

We're not always sleeping. Sometimes I. I have to catch my breath first. We're married. It happens.

[Benny Johnson]

My wife, they do have, like, 10 kids. They do have, like, 10 kids.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

Yeah.

[Senator Mike Lee]

Okay.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

And I remind them, you know, there's a reason why you came to this world. So.

[Benny Johnson]

We'Re talking about trc. We're talking about this. We're here to talk about Save act. We're supposed to be talking about saving American voters.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

Yeah, well, you know, it goes different directions, by the way. My wife and I, we've been together since third grade.

[Benny Johnson]

Really?

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

Yes. And been married 28 years. Six kids from ages 22 to 15.

[Benny Johnson]

We have more of that. We save the country, man.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

Yeah. I'm on board with Elon. Let's populate.

[Benny Johnson]

That's right, bro. We're on four kids in four years. We're shooting for five kids in five years.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

I would have six more, but we have a grandbaby.

[Benny Johnson]

You hear that, ma'? Am?

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

No, no. We have grandbaby coming.

[Senator Mike Lee]

Wife.

[Benny Johnson]

Senator Mullen is in the studio with us, so she can make a cameo anytime she wants to. She can just hop right on stream.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

Show people how beautiful you are. Come on. I married up. Okay, Whatever.

[Benny Johnson]

We're talking save act. I'm trying to save your marriage act. That's what we're gonna do next. We're gonna do Save Senator Mullen's Marriage act by not stream crashing with the wife. Okay, let's talk about the SAVE Act.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

Damn it. Let's do it. Damn it.

[Benny Johnson]

We're not here to talk about trt, which, by the way, we just last week worked out with Kid Rock. We worked out with. We did a workout. Kid Rock and RFK. RFK Jr and Kid Rock working out Kid Rock's private job.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

No. I'm so jealous.

[Benny Johnson]

Those Bros talk about TRT. They talk, you know, because they're like RFK's and stu 70s, you know? They're like, straight up talking about it.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

Yes. Yeah. I mean, first of all, I'd Love to be in that workout, but that's. Bobby at 70 years old, is stinking remarkable. He was giving me crap. He's like, man, you smashed my time. You know, on the challenge, the 50 push ups, was it 50 push ups, 100 pull ups? No, it was 50 push ups and 100 pull ups or 200. What was it? It was 100 push ups, 50 pull ups and whatever time it was. And I did it pretty quick because he challenged me. And he was like, man, you smashed my time. You made me look bad. And I was like, you're 70?

[Benny Johnson]

Yeah, bro.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

How many 70 guys could even do it for time? To begin with?

[Benny Johnson]

He was 70, and he was total frame maxing on all of us. So he has this big jacket on, and he takes his jacket off and he's wearing a muscle shirt.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

Yeah, of course he is.

[Benny Johnson]

And it's like, Kid Rock's kind of skinny, you know, Like, Kid Rock's like trailer park, like, skinny, but, like, in great shape for 55, you know, he's like, jumping around on stage.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

Not like he was. He did fantastic. Not like he was on meth, but he was a skateboarder in a trailer park.

[Benny Johnson]

That's exactly right. Skateboarder. Yes, exactly right. Trailer park skateboarder.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

Yeah.

[Senator Mike Lee]

Right.

[Benny Johnson]

Yep. And, you know, I'm like, kind of a doughy, like, dad bod, just trying to, like, get this business, you know, off the ground. I'm, like, working, you know, But I'm trying not trying not to, like, be able to swap clothes with Chris Christie. Okay. That's where I am in life. And at this point, try not to have.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

It'd be squadron. Like, that's one side of his pants.

[Benny Johnson]

Well, yeah, Chris.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

Chris.

[Benny Johnson]

Yeah, that's exactly right. You know, you go. And you could go lasso like a steamboat with Chris Christie's belt. And so I'm just trying not to be there. But, like, RFK Jr. Is just total, like, looks maxing frame maxing. It's just like. Yeah, yeah, bro, you are. I think he's like 70, like 2.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

Or something you probably haven't seen with his shirt off. But it's.

[Benny Johnson]

He took his shirt off.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

Yeah. It's ridiculous.

[Benny Johnson]

So that's all I'm saying.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

Yeah, I was like. I was like. I told my wife, I said, that expectation isn't in when I'm 70.

[Benny Johnson]

Yeah. So I'm fair.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

Yeah. At some point, I'm not gonna. I'm gonna give up anyway. This is taking over.

[Benny Johnson]

This has got gone crazy.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

We're talking about Bobby Riddler I mean, where did it go to?

[Benny Johnson]

We are trying to save America.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Benny Johnson]

Okay. So we save your marriage first.

[Senator Mike Lee]

We're good.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

Well, you save a marriage, you save family. You save a family, and we save America. Right.

[Benny Johnson]

So I'm trying to save America by having a million kids and, like, you know, and like, making more Americans and more Christians. And I feel like we can outbreed the left, but I think we could also outvote the left if we got rid of illegal voting. So what's up?

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

So let's talk about the SAVE Act. First of all, you know, when the. When the Democrats can't make a logical argument, they go to. It's racist, right?

[Benny Johnson]

Yeah.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

So Chucky Schumer comes out immediately and says the SAVE act is Jim Crow 2.0. And you're going, really? Okay. It's already in 37 states. So out of 50 states, there's 37 states that already have a voter ID required when you go vote. And the only 13 states that don't. I'm sure there's no, you know, direct, you know, connection here, but the only 13 states that don't are the ones that voted for Harrison Biden.

[Senator Mike Lee]

Yeah.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

The irony of that. Right? So out of 37 states, there's not been one lawsuit that said that we were suppressing, you know, the minority vote. There's not been one complaint that people couldn't vote. In fact, in Georgia, when they passed the voter id, remember, they were saying that it was going to. It was going to suppress a minority vote in Atlanta. And actually, the vote went up. The next election, there was more people.

[Benny Johnson]

That voted my brother in Christ. I went to Atlanta. When they were doing all this, I went to Atlanta, and it was actually Charlie's idea. Charlie's like, why don't you go to Atlanta and chill out with all the homeless people? Like, go under the bridges, go into the tent cities and go chill out with a bunch of black homeless people. Like, go. Because that's what they were saying. Remember Delta Airlines, Coca Cola. It's not racist. You know, everyone. Tyler Perry. And so I went there, and I was straight up asking homeless people. So I went into these, like, filthy homeless encampments. It's all on camera. And I was like, yo, do you have an id? And they're like, how else would we buy booze? Of course we have an id, right? All these homeless people, they were living under bridges. I was in their tents under bridges and everything like that, asking them about it. And they were like, it's actually racist to Think that me as a homeless person is too dumb to get an id.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

Well, most of the shops they go into, they have to have a.

[Benny Johnson]

That's a great point.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

Because they run their id, make sure they're not a violated.

[Benny Johnson]

So stupid. It's such a stupid argument. If they're resorting that argument. It's such a stupid argument. Obama did this today. I'm sure you saw his tweet. So Obama puts it up and he's like, this will disenfranchise voters. What's your message to Obama?

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

He's irrelevant at this point. You know, him and Michelle should just go and enjoy their millions of dollars that made off the government because, you know, they were community organizers and they left the White House and somehow they were able to purchase it, which I'm glad for success. But I don't know how you, how you're a community organizer scraping by, living in a rent house. You leave the White House and you're able to purchase 11 million dollar house. I don't know how that works, but it did for them. So whatever. Go enjoy the life.

[Benny Johnson]

I'll check with Epstein's accountants.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

Yeah, no joke. So go enjoy your life, but don't sit there and start saying it's racist. Because Obama had the best opportunity to bring the country together. Here's a guy that had every excuse to lose in life and he was raised in Kansas by his white grandparents and then somehow he made it to Hawaii. I don't know the whole connection there, but he was in Hawaii, he was in Kansas, but his father was absent. And he was a young black man that came up to Bill to become a president of the United States with no connection to the world of success. And he did it. And if anybody should have been out there and bring the country together, it should have been Barack Obama to say, listen, don't tell me about racism, don't tell me about the division, don't tell me how horrible the country is if I can do it and I can be raised by a single white mother and I can be raised by my grandparents in Kansas in a white community and I can still make it and make it become president of the United States. What a great story. Instead, he wanted to bring in division and bring in racism and make black lives matter, a signature staple of his presidency. So he has no relevance in my world other than, okay, great, you're the first black American in the United States. The truth is we want to save America and that's why this is called the Save Act. And the way you Save America is you bring in confidence in our election. If you want to keep people at home, you keep them at home by thinking that our system is rigged and your vote doesn't matter. And if they think it doesn't matter, then that's how you lose the voter integrity. If they have some type of proof, like using your credit card, most people require a voter id. If you're checking at a hotel with that, if you. If you go rent a car, you gotta have a voter it. If you go sign up for government programs, you gotta have an id. If you board a plane, you gotta have an id. If you go to college, you gotta have an id. If you get a job. I legally cannot hire you unless I have a picture and a photocopy of your voter id. I have to send it into the Department of Labor. It's illegal if I don't have it. And so for them to say that you have to have a voter, an ID for anything else you do in the world or in this country except to vote, you have to sit there and go, why? What are they afraid of? That would be the question, what are you afraid of? I think we can answer that question, but what are you afraid of to say that you got to have a voter or you got to have an ID to vote?

[Benny Johnson]

Bro, Can I, like, ask you a little bit about Georgia? Because I think that's what they're afraid of, because, like, what happened in Georgia.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

Sure.

[Benny Johnson]

So the FBI goes and raids Georgia. I know you were critical for Trump's election integrity and that you know all the dark secrets. So what can you tell us about what's up in Georgia? Because this is why they want. They wouldn't be able to pull off what they pulled off in Georgia in 2020 if every ballot had to be tied to an ID.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

So actually, the irony of it, I was talking. I've been dealing with this the last. On and off, the last 36 hours, because there's been some new developments. I think he's seen some of President Trump's true social.

[Benny Johnson]

Talk to me, Senator.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

Well, I can't get into it real deep, but I can tell you that there's been a lot of. And we're not trying to rehash the 2020 election. Okay? That's in the past. And the president's working in the future. What we're trying to do is keep the 2020 elections from happening in the future. And so to do that, you got to identify the irregularities that took place. The irregularities by saying, how did the machines. If the Machines were compromised. How were they compromised or how would they have been compromised? So you got to use a legal term there. If you have voter mail in ballots, how were they harvested? How were they received? Who signed for them? Who were the individuals that signed up for them? How many of them were sent to the same address? We have so many of them that came from the exact same address. Now, I have a big family and we have a lot of people that come in and out of my house, but I can assure you the only people that vote with my address are my wife and I and my kids when they were still in high school. Now they have their own address in the college towns that they're at. Right. But I can assure you those are the only people. So how are you having a single family home with 20 and 30 people voting from the same address?

[Benny Johnson]

Yeah, for real.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

And that's what you're having here. So what you're saying is you're having voted harvest go by because there's a bunch of homeless people, which is fine, right? They have the right to vote too. But how they all sudden get coordinated, they're at the same address. Who went and did that? Because in Georgia, ballot harvesting, in that degree now you can go collect ballots. But the true term of ballot harvesting is illegal. And what that is is that when you go and you fill it out for people and you're stamping it and you're mailing it for them, not just simply picking it up and you're not looking over the shoulder while they're doing it. And there's a lot of that that's been showing up in Georgia. There's a lot of counties and precincts that had a lot more people voting than they had seen in the years past. And that was registered to vote from that precinct, which is why voter ID is so critical. I mean, just show that you're able, that it's who you are. In Oklahoma, in a small town of Adair county, where my wife and I were raised our entire life, graduated from, raised our family in, I go to the precinct, everybody knows me. I mean, everybody knows me, right? And I still have to show a voter id. They turned me away one time because I forgot it. I had to go back home and get my stupid wallet because I forgot my wallet. I never forget my wallet. And I had to go back home, which was a 30 minute drive because out to our ranch and turn around and come back to vote. And they, I mean, it's not like they don't. I was like, you could Google but it's not. And the lady that was doing it was there. She's our third grade teacher, second grade teacher or second grade teacher, but that's in small town America. So if they can enforce it, then Atlanta, Georgia can enforce it.

[Benny Johnson]

So hold up. Okay, so why don't we talk through how would the SAVE Act, Save America act, sorry, don't mean to misgender the bill. How the Save America act is going to prevent this and where is that act today? John Thune goes, makes big news this morning. He's like, I am a co sponsor, which is huge. So how does it prevent what we saw in 2020? Talk me through that. Where is that bill gonna go?

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

Well, it won't go into effect right now in the 2020 or the 2026 midterm elections. It won't go in effect till 27. And so Mike, who is brilliant at this, by the way, Mike is one of those friends that you need to have because he's, he can quote law and statistics better than anybody. But sometimes he talks to you like, hey, bring it down, man. Like, use English. That I can understand. Because he has, he dives so deep into it. But there were some issues. The Democrats were complaining about it and he paid attention to them. That's kind of the brilliance of Mike. Mike, okay, well, we can clean it up. Because they're like, it's difficult.

[Benny Johnson]

You're talking about Mike Lee.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

Mike Lee, Senator Mike Lee from Utah. He goes, listen, there's some problems with it because the Democrats are saying that it's, it's, you got to show it. You got to show citizenship when you register to vote and you got to show citizenship. This is one of the arguments when you go to vote, too. He's like, that was not the intent of it. Since that's not the intent of it, we're going to clean it up. And then they were talking about, what about those that are already registered to vote that's already signed affidavit that said that you. That they were legal to vote? He says, that's not our intent to redo and make everybody go sign up to revote again. This is for people that are registering a vote. And then it was like, well, what about the cost to the individual? So the cost to the individual goes to, well, can't you just not do this with your voter id? So when you get your real id, like, my wife and I, we had to do a change of address just recently, and when we went to go there, we already had a real id. But to get the real id, I had to show my birth certificate, which showed my, you know, my citizenship. And then we went to go redo it. I could register to vote there and you could register as a Republican because I already had my real id. So does your real id, if you showed your birth certificate at the time to show that you're a citizen, does it count as proof of citizenship? And so Mike went through and cleaned a lot of that up, which is why he had to do another bill to. Because on the first bill there was already 50 co sponsors. And so he had to reconnoit, he had to rewrite it and reissue it since it can't be amended yet because it wasn't on the floor. So that's why we're getting new co sponsors. That's why John Thune just signed up. So what it does now, and Mike can go into it even more in detail, is once you register to vote and you show your proof of citizenship, which is your birth certificate or passport, whatever it is, once you show that you're a citizen and you sign up now, you're on the register. So when you go to the precinct, all you gotta do is just show the voter id or show your id, not voter card, just your id, like you do when you check in a hotel and you go there to say, yeah, that's. You check, that's your name, that's your picture, you're registered, here's your ballot. Go vote. It doesn't take any time at all. Like I said, 37 states already do that. We already have it. So it's just voter integrity is all this is. And people will say, well, it's not constitutional. Well, Article 1, Section 4 does allow the federal government to have a say in federal elections, not state elections. So state elections, you can hold a state election however you can. Federal government isn't impeding in that. But the Constitution clearly says that you're supposed to be a citizen of the United States. It doesn't clarify how that proof is because people didn't have ID back then. And so this isn't outside the Constitution. We're not telling the states how to run state elections, but we already tell states when they got to have the primary or the general elections. We don't tell them how to handle the primaries. We don't tell them if you've got to have a runoff state or if it's a winner take all state. We don't tell them how they have to do runoffs. If they do it. We just tell them that this is a date that the general election has to take place in federal elections. That's the only time we get into it. And we don't even tell them how they have to handle their runoffs or I mean, their special elections. So for federal elections, we have the constitutional right to say that you got to prove that you're a citizen. And so this is well within the Constitution. So when the Democrats go out there and say it's racist or they say that it's federalizing election, their memory's short because they did try to federalize the election back when Barack or when Biden was in office, when Chuckie Schumer was leader and Nancy Pelosi was speaker, they tried to get out there and federalize the election to require that mail out ballots were supposed to be sent to HR1.

[Benny Johnson]

That was like the first priority. Yeah, that's right.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

Because they know that mail in ballots are where they can, where they have the most flexibility to control the vote.

[Senator Mike Lee]

Is you.

[Benny Johnson]

Are you going to get any Democrat senators to sign on to that? Are you going to get ferment?

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

I don't know. I don't know.

[Benny Johnson]

Is it possible?

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

It's possible. I mean, John already said that he's thinking about re registering as a Republican.

[Benny Johnson]

Come on.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

No, he did. He came out. He came out publicly and said that. He says my party isn't anything that I recognize anymore. And so it's funny because he said that and Lisa Mikowski said that she was thinking about going the other direction.

[Benny Johnson]

Yeah, that's Murkowski.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

It'd be an even trade, I guess. And John's a wonderful guy. I don't know if you've ever had him on your show or not, but he.

[Benny Johnson]

I'd love to though.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

He is awesome. He's hilarious, first of all. But he. So you could get John to do that. Keep in mind that like I said, we have 37 states that already have this. Out of those 37 states, I think there's nine Democrat senators that are from those states. Remember, Georgia's got two of them. And so it'll be interesting how they vote. Now, I don't think they'll sign up, but when the vote comes to the floor, how do they, how did their, how do they vote? Because overwhelmingly their state supports it. Remember, this is like an 82% issue.

[Benny Johnson]

Yeah, of course.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

Across Republicans, Republicans, Democrats.

[Benny Johnson]

That's what I love about this tactic.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

Libertarians, right? 82. This is. Some people say it's 80. The numbers I've seen on average is 82%. 82% issue that the American people want this. So you're standing with the 18%. But that's where the Democrats find themselves all the time, too, Right? Enforcing the nation's laws on immigration. That's an overwhelming issue that the American people want. I don't care what demographic you poll. It's well over 50% that they want it. It just depends on how you ask the question. If you ask the question, do you think all illegals should be deported? Right now, 52% of America, regardless of the way you register to vote, says yes. If you say, do you think the criminals and the felonies. Should the criminals and the felons that are here illegal should be.

[Benny Johnson]

That go up. That would go way up.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

If you ask 75%, they go way up.

[Benny Johnson]

If you ask Bad bunny be deported.

[Senator Mike Lee]

Yeah. Go like.

[Benny Johnson]

Like the whole thing. Just take the whole. Has anyone ever tried to deport a halftime show?

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

This is the first time. I've never watched a single minute of the Super. Super Bowl.

[Benny Johnson]

No one's ever tried to deport a halftime show.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

Yeah, it's true.

[Benny Johnson]

Which I think would be fun.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

Did you see one of the memes that came out there about the. About the. About the. All the bushes that came in? Did you see that one?

[Senator Mike Lee]

Which one?

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

The one you know, because I guess you're in the halftime show. You brought in a whole bunch of shrubbery. Yeah. And there was one that came out and they said, this is one way to disguise.

[Benny Johnson]

We can put it up.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

Did it come from the White House?

[Benny Johnson]

Yeah, White House. TikTok, man. Oh, was it based on. Yeah, they are based. They run it back. Okay, so real quick. Cause I think I hear Senator. Senator Lee's joining us, too. Get the WWE walk in. Tell me about the. Tell me about. Because you were so critically involved in President Trump ensuring 2024 election was a solid and sound election, a lot of people in the chat are like, listen, this is something. This is like Nicolas Maduro. This is like the Minion voting systems smarmatic. This is why some of that raid happened. Maybe Maduro's gonna, like, squeal and tell us the whole thing, right? He's gonna, like, tell us how these systems worked throughout the world to rig elections. And, you know, it's crazy, man. We went through the Brazilian elections. We went through Jon Ossoff's election. Warnock, like, it's like the margins are, like, totally algorithmic. The margins are, like, perfect. Like a perfect, like, to the letter. 49.2 versus 50.3.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

Right.

[Benny Johnson]

It's like Somebody punched it into a computer system, right? For the votes. And then you go back into Fulton county and you're like, well, I mean, Rudy's telling us that they were straight up printing ballots, like, on site and that, like, they have 17,000 votes that nobody even knows where they came from. They have no ballots to match the actual votes.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

Then you.

[Benny Johnson]

Then we went back and checked the tape. They were coming up with different numbers, like by the hour of how many votes they had. It was like a machine was trying to, like, create an algorithm, trying to punch in, like, a specific. You can go back and check it. And then they're like, oh, don't worry. It's a water pipe. It's the water pipe. Shut it down.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

So the way that this. I dove in deep, real deep, and you know that during this, and not publicly, but very privately, and I went to Elon first and I said, elon, is it possible? Right? I mean, here's arguably the smartest guy in the world for real, right? Especially when it comes to anything electronic. And he says, anything that is man made can be manipulated. Anything. And anything that's open to a connection, meaning an open source connection, even if it's secured, can always be tagged, and especially if you have the key. And I was like, what do you mean, the key? He says, the key is the back door. That even if you have a secure network, I can still open the key. The key is a very encrypted code, and with the key, I can enter the back of it and I can come out of it and leave no footprint. He says, so who controls the key? I'm not a tech guy, but I dove into it. And so when he started looking at that, so he's like, okay, well, how would this be possible, hypothetically? And I've got to use legal terms here, all right, you understand, Because I don't want to get you in trouble or anything. So. So let's go. Let's start hypothetically. Hypothetically, the way that it would be done hypothetically is that they wouldn't go in and change a red county to blue. They would change the percentages. So if you're going for a popular vote in a state and the state is electoral votes, so they would take a red county that normally wins by 20% and they would drop it down to 19.1, and then they would take a blue county that typically wins by 10%, and they would increase it by the same amount, right?

[Benny Johnson]

So you barely noticed that. You'd be like, oh, yeah, whatever.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

People didn't Vote, it's not hitting irregularities, it's just so it doesn't trigger audit because you're not having a 15 point swing, you're having a percentage swing. But if you do that enough through each precinct now because you take it from county to precinct and how many precincts are in a county? Well, it depends on the population. But, but so you're keeping roughly the same amount of votes that's in that county and you're just screwing with each little precinct by, by a percentage, small percentage, not even a full basis point, just a percentage. And if you do that enough throughout the election, especially if you already have it calculated on which specific, you can't do it throughout the country because there's too many of them. Which ones are going to be purple, which are the target? Well, we all know the target states. So if you go in and you start changing those percentages, small percentages, not to hit a audit. The only way you catch that, if you go to each one of those precincts and you start hand counting every single ballot. Ballot. But if you fall within the parameters that it doesn't trigger an automatic audit, then it takes a court order to change it. And so it's very, very smart. The way they were able, the way supposedly they were able to change these vote percentages to allow the popular vote to go to where they wanted it to go. And then by the way, they could also increase, say the population had increased in that area because you had a hard move in and not everybody had registered. But they knew that a lot of people moved in based on housing because they could go in. Because this isn't done the night election. This is done months or years out by looking at where the population base is growing, but the percentage of registered voters aren't. So you change it to where you can vote without being registered. You just have to sign in that you're doing it and you do it by voter or by mail out ballots. And so it's an affidavit that's been signed, which is why you have so many collected from one town or one address. And then you can run that percentages up of people that supposedly voted based on the population growth that goes in. So this isn't something that was just supposedly done by the, you know, by just filling in the ballots the night of. Because when this is meeting, that's what a lot of people think. This is much more in depth. This was supposedly, supposedly I'm trying not to try and get you in trouble. Supposedly it would have been planned years out or months out. And they had a contingency plan for a contingency plan for a contingency plan based on pure numbers.

[Benny Johnson]

So this is where, so when you'd have. So you have that chart and I know we have it in the, in the, I know we have it in the production notes. You have the chart where it's like, this is what Obama got in 2012. This is what Hillary got in 2016. 65 million. 65 million. Here's what Kamala got in 20. 24. 65 million. And then you have Joe Biden 81. And everyone's like, wait a second, did you just like make up 20 million Democrats? You just made them up. You're telling me that like Kamala, Hillary and Obama couldn't get those 20 million Democrats out, but Joe Biden could campaign. So this is how when you change.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

Small percentages throughout the country, country and precincts that are swing precincts or heavy precincts, it's not just, it's not just swing, but it's heavy precincts. So like I said, who's going to pay attention to when this precinct supposed to go 20 points and it goes 19.1? You're within your margin of error.

[Senator Mike Lee]

Right?

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

So they're not going to say that, but maybe the precinct went 21 and they took two percentages points off of it. And maybe this margin. Yes. And so, and so this one, this one that was a red one, they just added in. So the vote count roughly stays the same, but the popularity totally changes. And when you sit down and Elon, I spent, it's supposed to be a 30 minute meeting with him and we ended up spending an hour with him, which by the way, that guy is intense. I mean intense, very intense. And when you sit down and you talk to him about this, it just blows your mind. And then you see him, you see Elon start looking at this and going, this is, this is absolutely possible. I mean it went from yes, it's possible to holy smokes, this is absolutely possible. And I've been working on this now since 20, I guess 20. I'm going to have to look at my wife. Was it 23? Was it 23 when I started working? 22? 23. 23 is when I really dove into it. Really. Because now we're getting in the midterms and we're like, okay, what do we do to voter integrity? Right. And when you started diving into it, the farther you go into it just doesn't. I get pulled up signal messages right now that I've been Getting last night that I haven't even checked yet, that's still working on this. Because voter integrity is the most important thing. Like I said, the way you can destroy our election system is for people not to trust our elections. And we. President Trump wants voter integrity more than anything, and we want to deliver that for him, and I think we will. We've already done so many things because of knowing this. Going to the midterms, you would see messaging going out from the White House saying, we are prepared for this. You even saw Elon even come out and say a couple things like, listen, if we see this, to just put people on notice that we got your game if you did this or if you try this again, we've got your game, we know where you're going. So already put them in notice. And now it's a matter of going in and fixing it to make sure that if someone doesn't have an Elon, they're putting their eyes on it, or we're not putting our eyes on it to keep it from happening again. And that's President Trump's number one goal, is voter integrity, not to rehash 2020. It's to keep our voters and the American people confident in our elections in the future.

[Benny Johnson]

So two quick follow ups here.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

Yeah.

[Benny Johnson]

One, this is how you helped secure the 2024 election.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

Well, I don't want to listen. I was a small guy with a group of people.

[Benny Johnson]

Yeah, Yeah.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

I was very. I was on the. I was on the importance of people. If they were. If they were.

[Benny Johnson]

This was a sound election.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

Yeah.

[Benny Johnson]

This election did not look anything like the 2020 election. Nothing like it.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

Nothing.

[Senator Mike Lee]

Right.

[Benny Johnson]

Nothing like it.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

Right.

[Benny Johnson]

And by the way, our base, our chat doesn't have any major complaints about the 2024 election. Right. There was no water pipe bursts. There was no power outages.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

There wasn't there.

[Benny Johnson]

There was no boxes and, like, bunch of vans and everything like that. Nobody has footage like that. If we had footage like that, we'd show it. Yeah, Right. So it was like so much cleaner. Just quickly talk me through that process.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

Well, one, that's what I said. By putting people on notice that we're watching, we're aware of their game, made a lot of people very worried about what was happening. They didn't want to expose themselves because they knew the trouble they would get into. So just by calling them out sometimes, by just putting you on notice, saying, hey, man, I don't want to hurt you, but you take another step towards me and you're in my comfort Zone and I'm going to remove you. Right. That's putting you on notice. Now you've got to make a decision. Are you brave enough to step in that circle? And that's the same thing in this, by us just going out there and exposing, saying, we know some of your tricks if you did it. Supposedly, if you did it, we know some of your tricks and we're watching all of it now. And if you do, since we're watching, we're not going to allow you to be able to go back out and cover your tracks. We're going to grab it.

[Senator Mike Lee]

Right.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

And then we're going to expose it. So by putting them on notice was what probably helped a lot of the election in 24, but now it's assuring it up. And the President has put so much time and effort. Not for his election. He's not running again. He's done. He's doing it for the American people. And I don't care if you're Republican or Democrat, you should want that. You should want voter integrity no matter what it is. Because if another Democrat gets elected to office, which will happen at some point, you want to be confident that we didn't rig it. Because let me tell you, if you could do it, we can do it. So let's keep it safe for all the elections down the road.

[Benny Johnson]

This is why Elon is going so hard on the pain on the SAVE Act.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

Yes.

[Benny Johnson]

So because you've just like laid out an architecture of how important it was for Elon to understand how these elections could be rigged if every machine is hooked up to the Internet. And so the moment that that light switch went on, I mean, this is the piece of legislation. I've never seen Elon go after a piece of legislation like he's done with the same.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

One thing that people don't know is I wasn't the important person because I don't know the technical side of it. The most important person in our voter integrity in 2024. I will say arguably, or actually, I would just nobody say arguably. No, I say arguably because there are some big people that played roles, but no one took a front approach more than Elon.

[Benny Johnson]

Wow.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

No one took a more public, frontal approach than Elon did.

[Benny Johnson]

I don't think that story's been fully told, but it's like a fascinating.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

He wouldn't take credit for it, but it is. It's pretty amazing at his role and he deserves a tremendous amount of credit for it.

[Benny Johnson]

And so in closing, he wants that SAVE act because he's Been able to see how these things can be rigged. He has the light bulb on. He's fully aware. And so he wants that save act. This is why. Right. It's not.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

And here's a guy that can never even run for President of the United States.

[Senator Mike Lee]

That's right.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

But he loves our country this much. I mean, he's trying to protect the entirety because he can also see what's happening his, you know, home country of what's happened with the voter integrity.

[Benny Johnson]

I mean, that would be too.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

That would be.

[Benny Johnson]

That's too bad that he can't run for president, because I would want an African American president. You know, like, that's too bad, you know? Cause I'm sitting there saying, I want this African American president. Right? Yeah. And it'd be so healing for America to finally have that.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

I don't know how you're keeping a straight face on that one, but that's right.

[Benny Johnson]

We could finally be there. Finally equality. You know, we could all say, right, like, Don Lemon's been charged with the KKK act, and Elon Musk is president. We have an African American president.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

The irony of that one.

[Senator Mike Lee]

Perfect.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

Yes, the irony. Perfect.

[Benny Johnson]

You know, and it's just too bad. That's too bad. You have to ask Mike Lee. Maybe we can change that amendment.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

Mike Lee will know the case law.

[Benny Johnson]

Okay.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

And he'll quote the paragraph and the line number. I challenge him on it. I challenge you, mod. I hope he can't do it, because it'll be the first time he can do it.

[Benny Johnson]

Your wife's sitting here like, what show is this exactly? Like, first they're talking about trt, Chin ups, push ups with rfk, rfk frame, maxing looks. Maxing.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

Okay?

[Benny Johnson]

And then it's like Elon Musk. And then it's like you swing wildly into Elon Musk, like, the Dark Truth about Saving the Election, which is an awesome story. It should be a movie.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

By the way, he's a big guy, too.

[Senator Mike Lee]

Yeah.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

I didn't realize how big of a guy he was until the first time I met him.

[Benny Johnson]

My executive producer, Alx, like six' two. And he has this photo with Elon Musk and Elon Musk, like, way, way taller than him. Yeah, yeah, that's right.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

I look like he's one of his kids.

[Benny Johnson]

Executive producer Alx wearing his Patriots swag. Look at that rip. All right, well, Senator, we got Senator Lee in the house. This was amazing.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

Thank you.

[Benny Johnson]

And then I guess as we sign off here, obviously put up the senator. Social media, make sure. Everybody follow Senator Mark Wayne Mullen. And maybe a final. Maybe like a final, like, over, under, on, like the SAVE act getting passed, you know?

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

Well, I think Mike will probably know the. Know it more. We'll get 51 votes. I'm really confident on that.

[Senator Mike Lee]

Yeah.

[Benny Johnson]

Yeah. Without. What does that mean, without J.D.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

Vance or. No, we'll get 50. I don't think J.D. can. Can vote on it because it takes 60. So he can only cast a tie vote, right? So can he. I'm looking at Mike. He can. Okay, so we'll get 51 because. I know we'll get 50 because Susan Collins hasn't came out against it. Lisa and Mitch are the. Lisa McKowski, Mitch McConnell are the only people that came out against it. Susan's been silent on this. And so, yes, we'll get 50. 50 votes. But then the question is, what do we do with the talking filibuster or how do we move it? Do we attach it to something? Mike's. I don't want to get in Mike's lane.

[Senator Mike Lee]

That's.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

Mike is. Mike is magical at this one. So this is his baby.

[Benny Johnson]

Well, here we go. That's a perfect handoff. Thank you, Senator.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

Thanks, brother man.

[Benny Johnson]

God bless you.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

All right.

[Benny Johnson]

What a great crew he's got. Come on, come on. The wife could come in and just say, what's up?

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

Come on.

[Benny Johnson]

I want to show. I want to prove. I want to prove to the chat that I want to prove to the chat. Look at the happy. We got the happy couple. Hello. Big love. Nothing but love for Mrs. For Mrs. Mullen. Hey, there, the Mrs. Mo. How do you do it? How do you do it, man?

[Mrs. Mullin]

I survive.

[Benny Johnson]

How do you do it? This guy's high energy.

[Mrs. Mullin]

I survive.

[Benny Johnson]

He's out here bouncing a rubber ball all day.

[Mrs. Mullin]

I know. I don't know any different. Yeah, I just don't know any different. I think if he was not crazy, I would think something's wrong. That's when I get worried.

[Benny Johnson]

All right, all right. And what's your. Real quick, I gotta put you on the spot. What's your advice to young women out there? We go to these conferences, Turning Point conferences, and they're like, you know, I love, like, I just. I want, like, a good, stable relationship, you know, I want to get married. They like. You want young women, they want your life. I really want, like, I want to have kids. I want to have, like, a husband, you know, who's out providing for the family. Like, what's your advice to young women out there who are like searching.

[Mrs. Mullin]

Put the Lord first, like, above marriage, above kids, above anything is put the Lord first. Because once that all falls into place and you have God's will, then everything else will be great and perfect. I mean, there's issues. Don't get me wrong.

[Benny Johnson]

I mean, there are issues.

[Mrs. Mullin]

Like raising six kids is like. I mean, I survive, but I wouldn't trade it for the world because I know, like, God's plan for us, and I'm in it. And so as long as I'm in God's plan, everything else is good. So that's what I would suggest to young ladies and women, that if you want to be that wife and mom, it starts with being a godly woman.

[Benny Johnson]

You know what? Marriage is a sacrament. Marriage is something that is blessed. Christ says the church is his bride. Right. Like, this is so important. God actually cares about you. He cares about your life. He has someone destined for you. You just need to be locked in right. With Christ.

[Mrs. Mullin]

Absolutely.

[Benny Johnson]

Christmas.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

Awesome.

[Benny Johnson]

That's right. With Mrs. Senator Mullen. Amazing. Thanks for keeping this guy strong for us. Came, my man. What a beautiful family, man. All right. And Senator Mike Lee is in the House.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

Thank you.

[Benny Johnson]

Thank you. Mullins. Sorry, what is the plural of Mullen? Mullins'. Mullins'. Mullinses. Okay. All right. What's up, Senator? How we doing?

[Senator Mike Lee]

I think it's Moline.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

Moline.

[Benny Johnson]

That's great. I don't speak French.

[Senator Mike Lee]

Neither do I. I don't speak French.

[Benny Johnson]

How are we doing, Senator? What's up?

[Senator Mike Lee]

Doing great.

[Benny Johnson]

I'm telling you what, man, the look, it's great. The hitman look is awesome.

[Senator Mike Lee]

Well, thank you. It's a much nicer way of saying it than the bald man look.

[Benny Johnson]

The hitman look, man. Yes, legislative hitman. Yeah, that's right. So let's talk about it. Okay, so we got. I just. I got to get you to respond to something. Alx. Let's throw it up. Let's throw up that Obama tweet. Obama's been tweeting at you, man, this morning.

[Senator Mike Lee]

At me?

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

That's you.

[Senator Mike Lee]

I'm so flattered.

[Benny Johnson]

Tweeting at you this morning. That's right. So here's what he has to say, and we're gonna open it up. I'll show it to you right here. We'll pop it up on screen, boys. Okay, he says, vote no on the Save Act. He got the name wrong. Okay, so maybe, like, Obama doesn't know it's the Save America act, so he doesn't even know. So up on screen here, Republicans are trying to pass the SAVE Act. He got the bill name wrong. A bill would make it harder to vote, disenfranchise millions of Americans. So what's up with that?

[Senator Mike Lee]

I had seen this one. I thought maybe he responded to my response. I, quote, tweeted him last night and said, look, with all the many millions of dollars that the far left is throwing at this, because that's obviously a pretty professionalized.

[Benny Johnson]

Yeah, I mean, here's Obama showing his id.

[Senator Mike Lee]

You'd think.

[Benny Johnson]

Scroll down in the comments. Scroll down in the comments on the tweet. You can see Obama using his ID to vote. It's great. Hold on. Keep going. Matt Van Swole.

[Senator Mike Lee]

There he is.

[Benny Johnson]

Oh, oh, here's my id. Doi.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

Benny.

[Senator Mike Lee]

I'm shaking.

[Benny Johnson]

Oh, yeah, I'm shaking. Look at how racist Obama is.

[Senator Mike Lee]

I'm so triggered, because I. I mean, that's just.

[Benny Johnson]

Look at these poll workers. Look at these clearly racist poll workers asking Obama for his id.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

Right? Whoa.

[Benny Johnson]

That's too bad. This is probably in Chicago, no doubt. Right, right, right, right. Wow, man. Yikes. That's Jim Crow.

[Senator Mike Lee]

Says that's Jim Crow. That's what it is.

[Benny Johnson]

That's Jim Crow 2.0. I can't believe it. How would Obama support these racial structures in society, these racist structures in society? By showing his idea. Look at him reaching in his pocket. Look at him right there. There he goes.

[Senator Mike Lee]

Why wouldn't civil disobedience be in order?

[Benny Johnson]

That's right, man. He should have just kicked over that table with all those aunties at it. Just kicked the table over and been like, how dare you? You know, Jim Crow 2.0. Is nothing sacred? I don't know. I don't know, man. That's right. Don Lemon is being charged with the KKK Act. So I guess there's no rules. There's no rules. Okay, so your response to Obama jokes, he's wrong.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

First of all.

[Senator Mike Lee]

Yeah. I pointed out last night, you think with all those millions of dollars, they could afford to at least get the name right. But whatever. This isn't a big deal. In fact, what's a big deal is that we even have to have a love for this. And what he and so many other people are missing about the Save America act is, is that what made this whole thing necessary has a lot to do with the. With an existing federal law. You know, a lot of these guys who are taking shots at it, including some, unfortunately, within our own party. But a lot of Democrats are taking shots at the Save America act by saying this is an attempt to federalize all elections. States are in charge of elections. We should keep the federal government out of it. Well, generally speaking, that's right. It's missing two important points. First, Article 1, Section 4 of the Constitution gives us a limited degree of say in how federal elections are conducted. Federal elections, including and especially for US Senators and US Representatives and for presidents. But secondly, this, to the extent it's an intrusion into the conduct of, of elections, it's an intrusion that was necessitated by federal law. That federal law, the National Voter Registration act passed in 1993, was interpreted a couple decades later by the Supreme Court of the United States in a case called Arizona vs Intertribal Council. And they interpret it to say that when you register to some somebody to vote in a state using the NVRA form, a federal form, a state may not. It may cannot. It is legally prohibited from requesting proof of citizenship. That's why we have to get involved in this. And that's what he's missing. That's what so many people who are criticizing this bill and the need for it are missing. We have to do this because federal law right now creates an untenable set of circumstances. So you've got that interpretation. Then you've got what, 10, 15 million people who came in illegally over between 2021 and 2025 alone. And then on top of all that, one of the things that's changed since the NVRA was first enacted back in the early 90s is that we now have nearly every state issuing driver's licenses to non citizens. And you've got, I think, 19 states willing to issue driver's licenses even to known illegal immigrants. That's what makes this necessary. Because the whole point of the NVRA was to allow people to register automatically to vote. When they apply for a driver's license, all they have to do is check a box saying I want to register to vote and sign their name certifying, by the way, I'm eligible to vote. That's a problem.

[Benny Johnson]

So why would anybody be in like, opposed to this? I just, I've been trying to track it, man, and I don't get it. Like, it's like the argument is that Democrat voters are too low IQ to even like function in society at all. Again, I just check into my hotel, totally woke Washington D.C. rainbow flags everywhere, septum piercing, blue hair, person checking me in, first thing that they do is ask me for an id. It's a first, Nick. First thing that happened.

[Senator Mike Lee]

Were you triggered by that?

[Benny Johnson]

I get on a course. You want to Talk about it again. I screamed. I said, I'm going to charge you with the KKK act to get on the flight, come up here. It's the same thing. It doesn't make. I don't know how they have any grounds to oppose this. I don't understand any of the argument against it. The argument for it is easy. What could possibly be the argument against it?

[Senator Mike Lee]

All right, so best I could come up with is just to say that any incremental step you add.

[Benny Johnson]

Would.

[Senator Mike Lee]

Could deter voting. But let's think about that for a minute. It doesn't make any sense. It's like saying any incremental step that you add to somebody buying alcohol could make it less likely that they buy alcohol or take something that has an explicit constitutional protection. Buying a firearm. You have to present id. You go to a federal licensed firearms dealer, you're gonna have to show id. They're gonna have to do a background check on you. That is a constitutional right protected by the U.S. constitution. And you're adding another step, therefore it might deter some people from doing it.

[Benny Johnson]

Oh, and if you want to buy like a silencer, if you want to buy like a suppressor, you gotta wait six months, eight months, which is insane, by the way. All these layers.

[Senator Mike Lee]

The suppressor doesn't make anything more lethal. It just makes it so your hearing doesn't get shot and so it's easier to protect.

[Benny Johnson]

Totally.

[Senator Mike Lee]

Even if you wear, you know, sound suppressors on your ears, it's going to be much easier if you can use a suppressor on your gun.

[Benny Johnson]

You want to talk about layers? Try buying a firearm.

[Senator Mike Lee]

Right, exactly. So my point is that's the best argument that they can come up with. You asked me to concoct the best argument they've got, and I think that's really it. But you can't view that in isolation. It's like saying anything that makes it harder for people to vote is bad, therefore we have to ban it. Therefore we're going to make it so easy for people to vote that they can phone it in from anywhere and push one, to vote for candidate A and two, to vote for candidate B. That would make it easier. So the fact that we don't do that makes voting harder, therefore you're suppressing voter turnout. That's ridiculous. It's right with.

[Benny Johnson]

Wow. That's just talking about it.

[Senator Mike Lee]

It's election fraud, manipulation. That's incitement of election fraud, you might say. And so that's the best argument they can come up with. But it sucks. It's a terrible argument. It collapses under its own weight because it proves the point as to why we need it. When you have elections, if you just had a stack of pieces of paper and anybody could go grab one and write the candidate's name and throw it in there, and you didn't check a box to say, hey, Benny, you already voted, you scoundrel. Sit down and stuff. Stuff in the ballot box. You could argue that. That too. Just keeping track of who has voted, having a requirement that you register to vote, that too deters voting. And yet we allow those steps because the integrity of the election matters.

[Benny Johnson]

So talk me through the game theory of getting this passed. People have now, it is in my timeline. I mean, I'm telling you, Senator, I've never seen a bill like that, not the big, beautiful bill. I've never seen a bill like this get so much kinetic energy from the base itself. People really care. Scott Pressler, I know, is camping out in your office. I know. He's got a cot there. Right. You know, he's got all of his hair products.

[Senator Mike Lee]

I've asked him if I could borrow some of his hair. He's got an abundance. As long as we're redistributing stuff in this town, he ought to redistribute some of his hair to me. But that's a different.

[Benny Johnson]

So it's like people are motivated here. So can you. Game theory for our audience. What's next?

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

Yeah.

[Senator Mike Lee]

First of all, I want to thank Scott and you. Look, once you mention one person, it's so hard to. To do that because there are so many others to mention. But he's an example. You're another example of someone who has done a lot of work to increase public awareness. That's part of the magic behind this bill is that so many people are doing so much lifting all on their own, independently. And it's happened, Benny, because this resonates with people. They see what the risks are. And especially when they understand the legal backdrop, the historical backdrop against which this became necessary. They become just amazed at the fact that this is necessary and amazed at the fact that this is even a little bit controversial. And it's kind of like anything and everything that the left throws at. This makes our movement twice as energized. Every time they add another ridiculous argument, our own supporters become twice as energized to get this thing done. And the thing is, the American people are with us. It's like an 8020 issue.

[Benny Johnson]

Yeah. For real? Yes. For like a bunch of Democrats, black people, Hispanics, Even Bad Bunny fans are, like, in favor of this.

[Senator Mike Lee]

Bad Bunny fans, Good Bunny fans. All the Bunny fans.

[Benny Johnson]

All the Bunny fans. Okay, so again, architecture, you are the parliamentarian master mind of the Senate. You are the hitman. You're the legislative hitman here. What happens next, Murkowski is like, I.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

Want to do it.

[Benny Johnson]

Fine, whatever. Like, what happens next?

[Senator Mike Lee]

All right, so it's very important now that the House of Representatives has passed this. And I want to thank the House sponsor, my teammate in all of this, Chip Roy, great congressman from Texas. He's the House sponsor of it. They got it through. They got it passed last night. It now comes over to the Senate, and it's built into a House, a Senate passed vehicle, another bill that was passed by Senator Rick Scott on a different topic that's pending in the House. They hauled that out. They put that in there. They're sending it over to us in the form of a message. It saves us an additional legislative. What I would like to see happen is for it to come over this Senate. It's not quite clear what's going to happen. Both the House and the Senate are scheduled to be out with members back in their home states the next week. It's not clear whether that's going to happen yet because there's this Homeland Security shutdown risk going on. But if in fact we are out next week, I would love to see this come to the Senate floor on Wednesday, 25 February, the day after the President's State of the Union address to Congress. And I'm speaking for what I would prefer here. I don't want to speak for Leader Thune or for the Senate in its entirety. Don't have the authority to do that. But this is what I would like to see, and I've articulated this to my colleagues, including Senator Thune, late last night. I would love to see it come to the Senate floor Wednesday the 25th. We vote to proceed to it on a motion to proceed. That is it at a simple majority. Now after that, historically, once we're at that stage, debate would begin. Somebody would at some point file a cloture petition. And the cloture petition is what? After it ripens, you have a delay after it's filed before you can vote on it. But when you vote on it, that vote is set at 60. That's why most Americans believe, and as a practical matter, for many decades, it has often been the case that you've got to have 60 votes in order to get something passed, but you don't actually pass it at 60, 60 is just the threshold for cloture. That's the mechanism by which you force debate to come to a close. Even if there are some Senators who still want to continue to debate. You say at that point, no more debate, because 60 of us agree it's time to bring debate to a close. There is another way. This just hasn't been used in a long time and it's known as the talking filibuster. The talking filibuster is what I describe, I've talked a lot about this on X and elsewhere and to my colleagues is that you have the talking filibuster and the zombie filibuster. Filibuster refers to the process by which Senators are encouraged to, and to a significant degree are protected by the Senate rules in their ability to engage in unlimited debate as long as they want to. But they're supposed to have to speak, to go to the Senate chamber, stand up on the Senate floor, seek recognition, and once recognized, you begin speaking and you stand. And you should have to speak in order to prolong debate and thus delay the moment of ultimate passage. On this, we've allowed it to become very easy for Senators to in effect, filibuster without ever actually having to speak. They can't, don't have to stand, don't have to speak. Shoot, they could be asleep, they could be in the Bahamas, they could be somewhere else. And they have the benefit of it. On a bill like this where it's 80, 20 in support of the bill, the American people overwhelmingly want it and need really is important for us to make Senators speak. And I think that's what we ought to do rather than going down the cloture route. And you use this in order to exhaust senators. Trent Lott, former Senate Majority Leader, has put it this way when describing the Senate. Most of what happens in the Senate is it comes about as a result of one of two things, exhaustion and consent. Members become physically exhausted from talking. The desire to speak grows out. I sometimes put the exhaustion into three categories. Physical exhaustion, political exhaustion, where you exhaust the limitations of what the voters are willing to put up with at some point. With an 80, 20 bill, they see this unlimited debate, especially if they're going off on tangents, they're just delaying. Their voters aren't going to like that. And so members give up. Then there's also rules based exhaustion, which is more technical. Paragraph 1A of Senate Rule 19, originally embodied in Rule 4 of the original Rules of the Senate adopted on April 16, 1787. So in other words, for the entirety of the Senate's existence, we've had this rule that says while you're on the same legislative day debating the same legislative matter, every senator may speak a maximum of two times in debate on that matter. At some point, they could exhaust the number of times they're able to speak. Especially when you consider the Senate may remain in the same legislative day for many calendar days. There's a way to do that. So at some point, in theory, they could. Those opposed to this bill could exhaust their right to speak on this same legislative matter. As long as we keep it focused on the same thing and remain on the same legislative day, they run out of speaking slots. So in theory, they could run out of time there. It's not that likely, as likely that we have that kind of exhaustion as it is political and physical exhaustion. But at some point, they're no longer fielding senators speaking on this. The minute that we're in debate on this matter, and they don't field speakers, nobody's standing up, being recognized to speak in the Senate on this bill, to debate it. We can call the question on the bill, which means the clerk reads the roll, you take the vote, and it can pass by a simple majority. That's how we do it. Now, this takes time. I don't. I want to be very clear about something. I'm not saying that this is easy. It is not. This is difficult. And I'm not trying to say that victory is guaranteed. It is not. Nothing in life is.

[Benny Johnson]

But.

[Senator Mike Lee]

But this one is in particular. This technique hasn't been used in a long time, but we still have to use it. Cloture is being abused. The American people are being abused. The integrity of our elections is called into question by the fact that these rules are not there. We have to do this. I have never felt so passionately, so certain about any particular parliamentary device being used on a particular bill as I feel about this one. This is the time we've got to do it.

[Benny Johnson]

The American people are behind you. John Thune signed up again as a co sponsor. He's a co sponsor of the original out today, this morning from the Senate room, the Senate press briefing room, with all the grandeur of the Senate behind him, endorsing the Save American Act, Save America Act. So in closing, seems like you're gonna get what you want here. Is that correct?

[Senator Mike Lee]

Well.

[Benny Johnson]

I know you don't want to speak for Thune or anything like that, but like you're talking with Thune, we should be. It's the only way to get it? You're not gonna get 10 Democrat senators to vote for it.

[Senator Mike Lee]

And at the end of the day, if we're able to cast an up or down vote on this, I believe it passes. We gotta go through some steps to get to that point with a simple majority, because we can get to. Yeah, I want to get to this point. Mark Wayne mentioned it a minute ago. My friend and colleague, Mark Wayne Mullen, Senator from Oklahoma. You know him well. Good man. I thought it was great on brand that he's got the squash ball.

[Benny Johnson]

Yeah, that's right.

[Senator Mike Lee]

Fantastic. And his wife's a saint. What a great family. So you were talking to him about this? Yes, because we're talking about passage, not closure. Vice presidents don't cast votes in the cloture context where the threshold is set at 60 because there is no tie vote. It's a different animal. We're talking here about passage. Passage is simple majority. When you're dealing with a full plate, as we expect to be in this instance, we don't expect senators to miss this vote. It will occur at a simple majority, which means 51 votes. So if somehow it ends up at 50 to 50, the vice president can come in and break that time.

[Benny Johnson]

We've seen that.

[Senator Mike Lee]

So if we.

[Benny Johnson]

Motorcade and everything.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

J.D.

[Benny Johnson]

Vance running in from dinner.

[Senator Mike Lee]

Yo.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

What?

[Benny Johnson]

Gotta put on a suit.

[Senator Mike Lee]

That's right. Yeah, that's right.

[Benny Johnson]

Yeah. Okay.

[Senator Mike Lee]

We're up to 46 Senate Co sponsors as of right now. I expect we'll be able to bring that up to 49 or 50 by the end of the day, today or tomorrow at the latest. And we're gonna continue to work on the others. But in no circumstance do I see it as likely that when we get to that point, we're not going to lose that. The tough part is getting to that point. But we've got to be willing to put in the work.

[Benny Johnson]

So final question. You've got all the Democrat senators are going to vote against this. You think that, like, John Fetterman could be convinced? Do you think that there are some senators that could, like, maybe be like, you know what, man, this, like, makes a lot of sense.

[Senator Mike Lee]

And sure, I think it's possible. We don't count on it. We can't count on it because not one of them have come out in support of it. And even though Senator Fetterman made a great comment the other day that he doesn't see any good argument against voter id, he has not come out in support of this bill yet. But it doesn't mean that he couldn't vote for it when it got to that point. And I also don't rule out the possibility that once this is debated and has the ability to be aired. As I noted a moment ago, this bill is fascinating for many reasons. It hasn't responded to the left's bag of tricks in the same way that the left has come to expect. The more they throw at it, the more it becomes more popular.

[Benny Johnson]

Yeah, so he gets more powerful.

[Senator Mike Lee]

So I'm not willing to rule out the possibility that some Democrat senators might change their minds on this as this is being debated. I'm not counting on it, but I think it's entirely possible because there are a lot of those senators who are in states where a lot of people do support it. In fact, this one, Benny, cuts across racial demographics, gender demographics, geographic and even political demographics. You don't get to where it's an 8020 issue in favor of the Save America act without a whole lot of Democrats being on board. And this is one of the. One of the things that I find so fascinating about this spurious and absolutely shameful argument that they make that the Save America act is somehow Jim Crow. 76% of black Americans support this. 76%. Benny, do you know that if the Save America act is Jim Crow, you want to know what else is Jim Crow? The Democratic National Convention. You have to show id. You cannot get into the Democratic National Convention without showing voter id. One of my colleagues, a senator from Georgia, recently had a campaign rally last weekend and it was made clear, think on a website advertising the event. You could not get in without registering for the event and showing photo id. I'm still shaking. I'm still triggered. And this, the party of Jim Crow, literally, the Democratic Party, wrote the era of Jim Crow. That was their thing. I think they might want to sit out the opportunity to call something Jim Crow, especially where it, number one, doesn't belong and number two, rekindles bad stuff that that same party did a long time ago. This is absolutely absurd.

[Benny Johnson]

And then, last question here. What do elections look like then in the. The elections, then the SAVE act gets passed. Save America act gets passed, the elections look like this. If you are not a citizen, there is now a mechanism to prevent you from voting. If you do not have an id, you're not capable of getting id. Like, you gotta have an ID to vote. You've got to be a US citizen to vote.

[Senator Mike Lee]

Yeah.

[Benny Johnson]

What does an election look like in 2030? You know, 2028, you know.

[Senator Mike Lee]

Yeah. Our elections will be safer and more Secure. Benny. We didn't used to have to worry about this as much, you know, in previous decades. Well, if you go back far enough, it was far less common that you had people voting in precincts where they weren't known. And then, you know, fast forward a few years and maybe you didn't have quite the same incentives. We put so much. It's one of the reasons why I focus so much about things like federalism and separation of powers is that we put so many eggs in the basket of the federal government that over time, people have more and more incentive, particularly with federal elections, to just go crazy, do anything and everything it takes to do it. Then you add to that the NBRA in 1993, the way it was interpreted a couple decades later by the Supreme Court, with the Supreme Court saying, if you registered to vote this way, the state cannot, may not, must not, is prohibited by law from seeking any kind of verification as to a person's citizenship. And so these things have been building. Then the advent of issuing driver's licenses to noncitizens, including in many states, even to known illegal aliens. The ease of using the National Voter Registration act form while applying for a driver's license to simultaneously register to vote. All those things combined. Then you put it on steroids, crack cocaine, and powder cocaine all at the same time. When between 2021 and 2025, you had this massive influx of 10 to 15%, people got radicalized.

[Benny Johnson]

They got radicalized. They watched it. They watched all the vote rigging happen.

[Senator Mike Lee]

That's right.

[Benny Johnson]

In real time.

[Senator Mike Lee]

So, anyway, to answer your question, how does this change? Our elections will become secure again if we do this. And if we don't do it, it gets much, much worse. Some bills are more known for what they change from the status quo. Others are more known for what they prevent moving forward. This one will do both. It will end a lot of the existing problems, and it will forestall a massive escalation of those problems.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

Problems.

[Senator Mike Lee]

A mushrooming, a hockey stick curve uptick in voter fraud. If we don't do it, Benny loss is not an option here. We have to do this. So to any and all within the sound of my voice, your audience, your audience is big and it's fantastic. Thank you for following him. He's terrific. All who are within the sound of my voice right now, I'd just encourage you to encourage your senators, Democrat, Republican, Independent, whatever party they may belong to, regardless of what state you're in, regardless of whether you think that your senator is likely to be supportive of the Save America act or otherwise. Please encourage them, number one, to support it, number two, to co sponsor it, and number three, perhaps this is the most crucial part. Tell them that it's important. Important to you that we enforce the talking filibuster here. Slay the zombie. The zombie filibuster has no place in the world of the Save America Act. I spoke to President Trump last night shortly after it passed out of the House of Representatives. He feels strongly about this, too. This is as important a bill as I think I've ever worked on. And failure is not an option.

[Benny Johnson]

Failure is not an option. The Republic is on the line and the legislative hitman Mike Lee is in here to finish the job. Thank you, Mike. Thank you, Senator. Everybody follow Senator Mike Lee. What's up? Make sure that we are pouring in and giving support for the people who are fighting for us. Mike Lee, right up here. And make sure you say prayer also for the Senator as he goes and fights these demons inside the Senate. Save America. God bless you, Senator.

[Senator Mike Lee]

Thank you.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

And.

[Senator Mike Lee]

And. And I'll note that that that Twitter handle was brought to you by Benny Johnson based.

[Benny Johnson]

Mike Lee.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

Benny.

[Senator Mike Lee]

Benny Johnson, bro. Benny Johnson encouraged me to create this one. He said, you got to have your own, bro. You got to.

[Benny Johnson]

Yes, sir, that's right.

[Senator Mike Lee]

We were at the Turning Point Conference in Tampa in the summer of 2022, and my wife was there with me, and I started. I think I misspelled it at first. Had to redo it.

[Benny Johnson]

Based Mike taught me. That's right.

[Senator Mike Lee]

The importance of doing.

[Benny Johnson]

Now you're on your way to a million. You're on your way to a million.

[Senator Mike Lee]

As I told you, I said, I've already got two Twitter accounts. I've got a campaign one, an official one. He goes, no, no, no, I want one. That's you, daddy.

[Benny Johnson]

That's the one.

[Senator Mike Lee]

That's you.

[Benny Johnson]

So I was just in Utah. I gave a speech in Utah this weekend at St. George. Gorgeous there. It's like, I want, like, I love. I just. It's just so beautiful there. So many great Republicans and patriots.

[Senator Mike Lee]

Totally based. One of your. St. George's totally based.

[Benny Johnson]

One of your staffers came up to me. He's like, yo, I'm like, legislative, whatever guy, Mike Lee. I was like, you know, he's like, what's up? I was like, I'm just so sorry. I'm so sorry that I gave him his Twitter handle. I noticed probably caused you guys a lot of headache.

[Senator Mike Lee]

What do you say?

[Benny Johnson]

He's like, you know what? We've grown to love it. I'm like, good for you, man. Because you should. The man should be allowed to speak and we should all be allowed to speak in support of the Save America Act. Thank you, Senator. Thank you, my man. All right, ladies and gentlemen, here we go. We got our coffee brew right here. It's blackout coffee that powers our show. What an amazing show Here in Washington, D.C. blackout Coffee Travels with us everywhere that we go. The 250th anniversary blends are here. You know that we like roll with our caffeine every single day. Blackout coffee offers an incredible subscription package. You should go support these patriots who support our programming this show so we can keep fighting to save America. Blackout coffee gives us the energy to do that. Perfect for work, travel or keeping at your desk in a go bag. Go to blackoutcoffee.com Benny use Benny for 20% off your first [e-mail] Benny this show also brought to you by American Financing. The math ain't math. If you are inside of forever debt, debt, that is high interest credit card debt, 20 and 30%. Man, that is the kind of stuff that you call slavery. They talk about Jim Crow, the KKK act. Literal debt slavery is being inside of you usury rates at credit cards. Even Trump says that this kind of stuff is immoral and should be illegal and should be capped at 10%. You can get out of them. Today though, American Financing can help you. Call 888-528-1219. That's 888-528-1219americanfinancing.net Benny we'll help you get out of that high interest credit card debt today, ladies and gentlemen, and I just want to thank all of you. Good news of the day. CNN has lost nearly two thirds of their view viewership since 2016. We are now beating CNN in the ratings. We are now beating. We now get more views every single day than cnn. CNN lost nearly two thirds of its viewers, the decrease from roughly 1.3 million in 2016 to 500,000 now. A reminder. We just put on a turning point halftime show that at 6.17 million viewers is fueling rumors that the network is for sale. It is for sale. Something CNN up for grabs. Parent company has denied the results recorded this month. Nielsen is actually an improvement from January where they were only able to pull 400,000 sets of eyes on this very broken metric, the Nielsen rating, it's got to be much, much lower than that in overall views. We are beating cnn and ladies and gentlemen, that means A very bright future for all of us. So we just want to say you thank. Thank you for that. It's something that we endeavor to do. A major announcement here. We are going to be having a huge State of the union back in D.C. in approximately a week and a half. President Trump's State of the Union will be live inside of the United States Capitol from the Speaker's office. We'll be live with pretty much the entire Cabinet. It's going to be an amazing production and we're going to be able to take the President's speech live. I don't know if Trump's going to join the stream. It could be Trump. Jump in and join the stream, Vance. Jump in and join the stream. Last year we had Tulsi, we had Secretary of Education and Agriculture jumping on in Brook Rawlins. It was awesome. Lyndon McMahon. It was amazing. Then a bunch of members of Congress and senators. It was rowdy. It was a blast. We have absolutely wild time. And then we roll right into President Trump's speech for the State of the Union. It's gonna be awesome. So, ladies and gentlemen, join us. That production will be brought to you by Patriot Mobile. Patriot Mobile keeps us connected throughout the country. Whenever we are traveling. We're heading up for meetings actually right after this. It's like great to just know it's sound, we're sound. We can work from the car, we can lock in and we can keep it moving. 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You got a major story brewing there and we are going to stay on top of it. Ladies and gentlemen, that's all we have time for today. The verse of the day Whoever dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the Lord, he is my refuge and my fortress, my God in whom I trust. From Psalm 91. What a beautiful verse to send you off, ladies and gentlemen. Remember, make your refuge the shelter of the Most High and the world will never be able to move you. Especially here. Man, every time I'm in D.C. there's like this dark energy. I'm like, get me back to a red state. Nonetheless, we're thankful for our broadcast partners here at America First Policy Institute, where we are broadcasting today. It's a beautiful studio. We're excited about it. We're excited about these partnerships. They're going to be joining us also for our State of the Union megastream. Megastream. From inside of the Capitol, that will be our fortress. Make your fortress the kingdom of God. Today, Christ is king. It's your boy, Benny. Remember, in the end, we march onto victory because we're going to win. We're going to win. Especially with the Save America Act. See ya. Hi. May I see your voter id?

[Voter]

I got this driver license.

[Benny Johnson]

Yeah, that should work.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

No, those don't work, honey.

[Voter]

How about this EBT card?

[Senator Mike Lee]

Yep, yep, that should do it.

[Senator Markwayne Mullin]

Do you have a voter id?

[Benny Johnson]

We can get you one here. How you expect me to do all that?

[Voter]

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