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E.J. and Tony later today. I'm excited to have him back on the show. I'm excited that he will be

joining us again regularly, and we'll talk about all of his plans and get his take on all of this,

as you can imagine. And there's a lot.

There is a lot with the shutdown, as they are calling it now, the Schumer shutdown.

Because Chuck Schumer can't get the Democrats to go along with this.

I mean, that's the bottom line.

This is it.

And J.D. Vance was asked about this by the press today.

You know, Chuck Schumer's flip-flopping on this and getting in the head of Chuck Schumer.

This is cut number six.

And not a place where anybody wants to be right now.

It's a dark place.

No doubt about it.

Cut number six.

And you responded to a post on X in Chuck Schumer on the House floor back in 1996,

railing against illegal immigrants receiving taxpayer-funded benefits.

You said Chuck Schumer once recognized that it was disastrous to give illegal aliens rewards for breaking the law. Now he wants to shut down the government unless we reward illegal aliens for

breaking the law. Why has Chuck Schumer changed his stance? You know, that's a good question.

Actually, it's a very tough question. Asking me to get in the head of Chuck Schumer is not a place I

particularly want to be. But my basic read on it is that the entire Democratic Party, the political leadership, not every Democrat

nationwide, but the political leadership of their party has got it into their heads that the only

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