Should The U.S. Senate Finally Kill the Filibuster?; Guest: Ken Cuccinelli, Former Attorney General of Virginia

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🗓️ 5 February 2026

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In an effort to pass the crucial SAVE Act, the U.S. Senate is considering an end to the modern version of the filibuster and asking for simple majorities to pass legislation. Is this a good thing or a bad thing? Our pugnacious host, Mike Slater, has some insights into this conversation and gabs with listeners like YOU about this big debate! Following the opener, Mike chats with Ken Cuccinelli, the 46th Attorney General of Virginia, about the legality of this move and a variety of other key topics that you care about! MAGA!

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0:00.0	Welcome to Breitbart News Daily. Thanks for being here. Fun show today. So we started off talking about the Save Act and then talking about the filibuster. And that was the theme of the show. We were weaving these two things throughout the whole show with our guests and everyone. But in this opening segment here, we'll play for you. I lay out, should we get rid of the filibuster? Yes or no? And then the second segment, we took a bunch of calls. And then the final segment we did the 10 listener poll. I'll tell you the results of the 10 listener poll after this opening segment here. The Let's get to the main topic, probably for the whole day, here and there.
1:08.1	We've got to talk about the SAVE Act.
1:10.7	The SAVE Act. Here is the leader of the Senate yesterday.
1:15.6	John Thune.
1:18.6	The normal difficulty of doing that, in fact, the biggest majority is not been able to.
1:22.6	Right. Well, you know, I guess, and I would just remind people that the coin in the realm in the Senate is floor time. There's a finite amount of what? Find people that the coin in the realm in the Senate is floor time. There's a finite amount of the coin in the realm of the Senate. What does that sound of it? Finite about time. You don't have enough time? A lot of things we have to do. There's a housing bill that's awaiting action, hopefully a market structure bill, possibly permitting reform, farm bill, highway bill.
1:52.6	You can go right down the list.
1:54.0	Russia sanctions are a whole bunch of things that could be teed up for action on the floor of the Senate.
1:58.4	And so you have to make some judgments.
2:00.7	And the conference will have a conversation about that. I've committed to that that we will talk about that idea and determine whether or not they're what the
2:09.6	conference's views are about it and whether how they want to proceed. As I said, we will vote on the save Act, but exercising or triggering a talking filibuster
2:20.5	has ramifications, implications that I think everybody needs to be aware of.
2:24.9	So I've never heard this term.
2:26.1	The coin in the realm, I've never heard that term before.
2:31.1	Looked it up here, the coin in the realm is like the country's official currency.
2:35.6	The most important thing in the Senate is time.
2:37.8	Not enough time.
2:39.0	Trump's been in the White House for over 365 days.
2:42.1	You know enough time?
2:46.3	We need to talk about the idea.
2:50.6	Guys, but here's the key of what he said.
2:53.6	How we want to proceed.
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