Is GOP Senator James Lankford Going to Vote Against Tulsi Gabbard?

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🗓️ 31 January 2025

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The Rich Zeoli Show- Hour 3: 5:05pm During her confirmation hearing, Tulsi Gabbard was asked if she believes Edward Snowden is a traitor. In her response, Gabbard laid out four steps she would take to guarantee there is never a similar intelligence leak. Following the hearing, Senator James Lankford (R-OK) said he was “surprised” by Gabbard’s answer—noting that it “doesn’t seem like a hard question.” According to reports, Lankford is believed to be undecided about voting to confirm Gabbard as Director of National Intelligence. 5:30pm- During Robert Kennedy Jr.’s confirmation hearing, Senator Rand Paul grilled Democrats and explained that people are becoming vaccine hesitant because they don’t trust government—noting COVID-19 vaccine mandates for young children despite scientific evidence suggesting it was unnecessary. 5:45pm- On Thursday, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Donald Trump’s nominee to serve as Secretary of Health and Human Services, testified before the Senate Health Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee. During one exchange, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) claimed that America’s healthcare system is broken—Kennedy adroitly noted that members of Congress, including Sanders, have accepted “millions of dollars from the pharmaceutical industry.” 6:00pm- Penn State Basketball

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0:00.0	The Rich Zioly Show podcast is sponsored by Mike Vaneria Jr. with Osperity Private Wealth.
0:05.4	Hi, I'm Mike Vaneria Jr., wealth management specialists. Make your retirement dreams a reality by creating your retirement plan today. Call me at 856-252-0107.
0:16.2	Intentious day on Capitol Hill with Cash Patel, Tulsi Gabbard, and Kennedy in the hot seats again.
0:22.4	Still looking into this big crash in Washington, D.C. horrific tragedy.
0:27.1	What caused it? We don't know.
0:29.0	They are saying that the control tower staffing was not normal during the crash.
0:34.2	That's the latest update I have for you.
0:36.1	Welcome back to the show.
0:37.3	Glad you're here today.
0:39.4	30 minutes of non-stop talk brought to you by our friends at the Grand Hotel of Cape May, New Jersey.
0:44.0	This is our happy hour. And for this happy hour, I've selected an athletic brewing golden.
0:51.3	This is a upside dawn golden, non-alcoholic beer for my dry January continuation and it's
0:57.6	delicious I love it's outstanding only 45 calories very very good anyway what makes me happy
1:04.8	today is that Tulsi and cash brought the thunder they did they did and they both defended the
1:10.7	constitution I have some
1:12.4	philosophical agreements with both of them over Section 702 of the FISA Act, but I want to be very,
1:17.1	it's important to understand something. The notion of getting a warrant and using that against
1:25.1	American citizens, it has to end to end period are there instances where the
1:30.5	government needs to act in imminent circumstances to protect life and liberty of course we
1:36.6	understand that and there's always exceptions that need to be made but those exceptions need to
1:41.5	be rare and those exceptions can't be because we think a guy running for president might have peed on a mattress in Moscow.
1:50.5	Therefore, let's destroy the Constitution and go after them.
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