All right, everybody. It's me Sam Stein, managing out of the Bullock. I'm here with Sonny Bunch,

and we are currently watching the Mark Wayne Mullen confirmation hearings to be the next Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, take over for Kristy Noem.

I don't know what happens with Corey Lewandowski in this exchange. He is in front of the Homeland Security Committee in the Senate. And Sonny, I don't know about

you. I came in expecting not too many fireworks. Figured he would have a sort of friendly credit.

And by and large, he has, I would say, except among one particular person, the chairman of the committee, Republican,

Senator Ram Paul. Now, before we play you the clip that we're going to talk about,

a little background, I suppose, is in order here. How many years ago was it that Ram Paul was

attacked by his neighbor? Oh, that's, it must have been what now, 12, 15, 13? I should have looked this up before we started it's been a while we don't prepare for these things yeah Ramp Paul was attacked by a neighbor a deranged neighbor Rampal was out doing yard work he had noise canceling headphones on the neighbor just absolutely tackled him broke ribs six ribs like yes six really heard him really heard him as assault

Rampal has talked about this he said that some of the ribs the recovery was almost hard to breathe in fact painful to breathe that he developed cases of pneumonia because of this it was it was traumatic

Anyways flash forward to somewhat recently where Mark

Winmullen, Senator from Oklahoma, I guess they were talking about like going after corruption

or welfare or something like that. And Rand Paul just didn't say something that was particularly

on the party line. And Mark Wayne Mullen said something akin to, now I understand why your neighbor

did it. And that presaged this

so here we are this morning's hearing where rand paul the chairman of this committee that mark

way mullin has to get through in order to get a vote on the senate floor opens the hearing

with mark wayne mull, and it just gets dramatic.

Let's play the clip.

Mr. Mr. Mullen, if you have time to listen,

you were confronted by constituents that were angry

because you voted against my amendment to stop all funding

for refugee welfare programs.

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