Have Dems Gone So Far That It's Time for This Nuclear Option? | Ron Johnson
The Rubin Report
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🗓️ 6 February 2026
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Dave Rubin of "The Rubin Report" talks to Senator Ron Johnson about the pushback from Minneapolis anti-ICE protesters; how Joe Biden allowed so many violent criminals to immigrate into the country; immigration enforcement and border security; DHS data on criminals in the non-detained immigrant population and concerns over public safety; claims about non-citizen voting and why Republicans must pass the SAVE Act for election integrity; the Senate filibuster and the potential use of the nuclear option; government fraud, federal spending, and the growing national debt; foreign policy priorities, a possible war with Iran; constitutional questions around sanctuary cities and federal authority, and much more.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, Lindsey Gramke is pointing out this county clerk. I think it was in Tennessee. |
| 0:04.3 | He refused to issue marriage licenses to gay couples. |
| 0:08.3 | The left put her in jail and celebrated it. |
| 0:11.9 | So, I mean, again, that was an official charge with applying the law equally. |
| 0:17.3 | She didn't do it, and she went to jail. |
| 0:19.4 | So Lindsay's made the same case. |
| 0:21.2 | I can't dispute him that we ought to do the same thing with the elected officials who refused to follow their oath of office to faith to execute the laws and enforce the laws, refuse to do it. |
| 0:32.2 | And that is the insurrection. |
| 0:34.4 | Those are the insurrectionists. |
| 0:43.4 | Thank you. That is the insurrection. Those are the insurrectionists. I'm Dave Rubin, and joining me once again on the program is Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson. |
| 0:48.3 | Senator, how are you today? |
| 0:50.6 | Doing well, Dave. How about yourself? |
| 0:53.2 | I'm doing all right. I suspect you know what we'll mostly be talking about for this interview. |
| 0:59.1 | It's all the craziness around ICE and immigration and voting rights and all of those things. |
| 1:05.8 | Is there a particular place you want to start with that or do you want me to take it away? |
| 1:10.4 | Well, we're going to be holding a? Well, it's, you know, |
| 1:11.2 | we're going to be holding a hearing with, I think, DHS officials in about a couple of weeks. |
| 1:16.4 | And so I'm trying to gather information on it. I asked my staff to bring me a list that was |
| 1:21.7 | produced by DHS back in 2024 in the Biden administration, showing the number of convicted or criminals with pending charges on that were |
| 1:31.9 | on the docket list non- detained. |
| 1:35.5 | And there were more than 600,000 criminals, 400,000 convicted, a couple hundred thousand |
| 1:42.3 | non-convicted, including that is about 15,000 murders, 20,000 convicted, a couple hundred thousand non-convicted. And including that is about 15,000 |
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