Hi, everybody. Welcome back. This is the Brian Kilmeachel. My pleasure to bring in Senator Steve Daines,

finance, farm relations, energy committee at a Montana. And Senator, first off, your decision to

not come back. When did you make that decision and why? Yeah. Well, it's a great question.

It's a question I chat at link with President Trump about and Susie

Wiles and others. But, Brian, I spent 28 years in the private sector before getting in public

service. I was 13 years with Procter and Gamble, including six years living in China,

launching brands and businesses over there to compete. I was 12 years with a cloud computing startup.

We took the company public and sold to Oracle.

That was 12-year chapter.

This will be 14 years now in public service.

I served two years in the House.

It'll be 12 years in the U.S. Senate.

I'm kind of a 12-to-14-year chapter guy, Brian.

And I think like George Washington and other great leaders in our nation, they

were in the private sector. They went and served publicly and then returned back to the private

sector. And that's what I think we need to do as a family. My heart is full of gratitude.

It's been a wonderful 14 years, Brian, I told President

Trump, I can't believe how much we've got done, starting with, you know, changing the Supreme

Court, stopping a $5 trillion tax increase, the work we've done on the international stage.

What an honor to work with President Trump, my Republican colleagues. But we have seven grandchildren. It's the last point, Brian. We went from zero to seven grandkids in the last six years. And grandpa want to spend a little more time with them back in Montana. Understood. And plus, it's a heck of a commute. It's not like you're in Virginia. So when you're going back and forth, that's a lot of miles. So my sweet wife, Cindy, takes me to the airport every Monday morning at 5 a.m. I jump on a Delta flight to get back to Washington. And she doesn't complain about it. We've been married for 39 years. And I want to spend a little more time back in Montana with her as well. She's a trooper. And we're excited about the next chapter. And as I've said, Brian, I'm not going to retire. I don't

believe in that word. I'm going to repurpose. I've got a lot of energy left. We'll find something to do. Well, I'm sure you will. And the other thing was, do you have an idea of who should replace you? I do. His name's Kirk Almmy. He is President Trump's U.S. attorney under Trump 45 and Trump 47. He's a wonderful guy,

born or raised in Montana, got a CPA, got a law degree from Harvard with honors. As we say in

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