for the weekend. He's going to go out to the South Lawn. I think they're going to take Marine One,

and then they're going to leave and go to Andrew's Air Force Base. We're going to cover it all as soon as it comes around. As soon as it manifests itself for right now, do we have a cold open? We have Senator Lee? That's even better. We don't need a cold open. We've got Senator Mike Lee. Senator Lee, thank you so much for joining us here in the war room.

Have you made progress?

Your name came up about 100 here in the war room. Have you made progress?

Your name came up about 100 times in the morning show, people talking about the recess appointments

or a new package that's getting sent up. Can you give us an update, sir?

Yeah, biggest development since we last spoke was that President Trump put out an excellent statement on true social last night in which he explicitly called for the Senate to not recess until we've cleared the backlog until we've gotten through the entire executive calendar.

This is what needs to happen.

And here's the point, Steve.

We've got massive bargaining power here.

We've got Democratic senators who do not want to be here. They want to leave town. They want to get out of Dodge.

As long as that's the case, and as long as we've got this unique circumstance where we've got a Republican president or a Republican Senate, and a Republican House.

This ship doesn't pass our way all that often, and we need to take advantage of it when it does happen,

and we need to make sure that we don't disempower the Republican president, Donald J. Trump,

after the American people have resoundingly elected him by failing to confirm his nominees, because, of course, that defaults back to the deep state regulatory bureaucrats, and they lean overwhelmingly left. And so we got to get it

done. We can do it. We can keep him here. And in the very worst case scenario, if for some reason

the Senate ends up taking a recess, which it shouldn't do, it should stay here and clear through all of them.

But at a bare minimum, we should make sure that any recess we take is a real recess.

None of these pro forma sessions that are designed simply to block the President of the United States from making recess appointments,

as he's authorized to do under the Constitution.

Now, I understand he put, they've taken him in blocks that as soon worked out something with Schumer

that you guys are at least going to stay around tonight and maybe over the weekend and try to move

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