"Republican lawmakers preparing to take drastic measures”
Deadline: White House
Nicolle Wallace, MS NOW
4.5 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 12 March 2026
⏱️ 49 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Every time I go out, Save America, Sir, Save America Act. |
| 0:07.8 | We want the Save America Act, sir. |
| 0:09.9 | That's all they talk about. |
| 0:11.4 | They don't talk about housing. |
| 0:13.1 | They don't talk about anything. |
| 0:16.2 | I don't talk about gas prices or grocery prices, the war on Iran, just the Save America Act. |
| 0:23.8 | Okay. Hi again, everybody. It's now 5 o'clock in New York. The odds of getting struck by lightning |
| 0:28.7 | in any given year is right now around 1 in 1.2 million. Now imagine the president of the United |
| 0:34.9 | States today instructed his allies in Congress to essentially |
| 0:38.4 | clear the decks to prioritize legislation protecting Americans from lightning strikes over all |
| 0:45.2 | other problems and priorities. |
| 0:47.8 | That he outright refused to sign anything else in the interim. |
| 0:51.7 | Wouldn't that be amazing? |
| 0:52.7 | And yet this afternoon, Donald Trump and |
| 0:54.4 | Republican lawmakers are preparing to do that to take historically drastic measures in an attempt |
| 1:00.0 | to solve an issue of nearly identical statistical infrequency, voter fraud. At least lightning |
| 1:06.8 | strike legislation wouldn't run the risk of disenfranchising anybody, to say nothing of droves of |
| 1:12.4 | American voters who would be. The so-called Save America Act, however, totally different story. Today, |
| 1:18.3 | a whirlwind of new reporting is making it quite plain, just how desperately Donald Trump wants |
| 1:23.5 | that bill and that bill only to pass and how far some of his allies in Congress are willing |
| 1:30.2 | to bend over backward to make that happen. This morning we learned Republican Senator John |
| 1:35.6 | Cornyn right now thirsting for Donald Trump's endorsement in the Texas primary, reversed course |
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