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🗓️ 5 June 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Glenn interviews Senator Rand Paul about his opposition to the "Big Beautiful Bill" and his role in the Senate, why Washington continues to increase the defense budget, threats to free speech, and more.
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0:00.0 | Good evening everybody. It is Tuesday, June 3rd. |
0:19.0 | Welcome to a very, very special edition of System Update, as you can undoubtedly see from the decor in the back, which is not our normal studio decor. |
0:27.6 | I am still on the road. I've been in the United States for the last 10, 11 days or so, traveling for various events and podcasts and interviews. |
0:33.6 | Some of you have may have seen some of the ones I've did, including the one with Tucker Carlson, that was almost two and a half hours, one of our longest we've ever done, that covered a wide range of topics that I, if you have some time, really highly recommend. |
0:45.3 | But for tonight, we have somebody who is directly in the middle of two of the biggest news stories on Capitol Hill, one because he's become the primary |
0:54.8 | opponent of the so-called big, beautiful bill that President Trump has been advocating, and |
1:00.6 | was also one of the leading, if not the, leading Republican opponents of President Trump's |
1:04.9 | tariff proposals. |
1:05.9 | And I'm talking, of course, about Senate around Paul, the Republican from Kentucky, who |
1:10.3 | often defends President |
1:11.4 | Trump, but also just like his father did, it's sort of the Paul brand, has very strong |
1:16.1 | principles that they've held for many years, that they refuse to bend or break in order to |
1:21.2 | appease anybody or placate anybody, including in this case even President Donald Trump |
1:26.4 | as a result of Paul's opposition to Trump's |
1:28.5 | bill that he's trying to get passed. |
1:30.4 | Trump posted some very Trumpian tweets earlier today attacking Rand Paul saying he doesn't |
1:34.9 | understand the bill, suggesting that he ought to be out of Congress. |
1:38.3 | Very possible that two weeks from now, Paul will be a very local defender of something Trump |
1:41.8 | cares about and he'll post something saying Rand Paul |
1:44.4 | is one of the greatest politicians Kentucky has ever had. |
1:47.4 | But it's very Rand Paul type of politics, which I think is commendable. |
1:52.2 | And we want to talk to him about not only the reasons that he's opposing this bill, the reason |
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