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So you were attorney general of the state of Missouri for four years and you've been in the

Senate for three? Yeah, almost three.

Almost three.

What job was more powerful?

Well, I think the Senate is sort of the apex of how you can affect a number of things, but the Senate in many ways is kind of broken the way it's currently constituted.

And it's the, you know, proclaimed to be the world's most deliberative body but it's a lot

of its kabuki theater yes honestly but um but i think in the time in which i served as attorney

general when you had a democrat president uh you could affect a lot of things by challenging the

the extremism we saw from the Biden administration in court and win. And you didn't need to ask

anybody's permission for that. You could just make that decision. You didn't need 50 other people to

vote for it. So I think for me at that time, it was just a critical moment in our country's history.

And I just happened to be in that position at that time. And you got to remember, too, I think, if you take a step back, President Trump was out of office.

And so this responsibility sort of fell to a relatively unknown group of people to kind of hold the line, which is why, you know, the last line of defense and how to beat

the left in court is the title of the book, because I felt like we were really holding the line

for the country until reinforcements could come. And thankfully were principled and very aggressive, which are the two, I think, quality to necessarily succeed in it, really in any job.

But the reason I asked the question is because serving in the Senate is, you know, it's the highest level for a legislator.

You travel to any country in the world.

You go through the, you know, diplomatic airport terminal.

You get a motorcade.

I mean, it's a big deal to be a U.S. senator.

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