Thune Going/Staying Cold On SAVE? | What's Brewed In Vegas, Stays In Vegas? | 2/4/26

The A.M. Update

Aaron McIntire

News, Daily News, Politics

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🗓️ 4 February 2026

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Senate Majority Leader John Thune cites limited floor time as a hurdle for the SAVE Act despite strong public support and pushes from President Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson to prioritize citizenship verification and voter ID. We cover a suspected bio lab discovery in a Las Vegas home linked to a prior California case, escalating confrontations between protesters and ICE agents in Minneapolis including union admissions of coordinated interference efforts, record-low border encounters under the current administration, Melinda Gates' comments on troubling Epstein file allegations involving Bill Gates, a major medical group's recommendation to delay gender-affirming surgeries for minors until age 19, and House Speaker Mike Johnson's detailed biblical defense of secure borders and immigration enforcement directed at individual versus government responsibilities.

The AM Update, SAVE Act, voter ID, John Thune, Mike Johnson, border security, immigration enforcement, Minneapolis ICE protests, bio lab Las Vegas, Melinda Gates Epstein, gender affirming surgery ban minors, biblical hermeneutic, border encounters low

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0:00.0	It's Wednesday, February 4th, 2026. To save or not to save? That's a question for some reason.
0:04.7	What's bioengineered in Vegas stays in Vegas, we hope? And unlike yesterday, where we heard
0:09.9	blasphemy, today we'll hear an actual good hermeneutic next on the AM update.
0:17.3	Senate Majority Leader John Thune is starting to back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back pedal on the Save Act.
0:23.5	Right. Well, you know, I guess, and I would just remind people that the coin in the realm and the Senate is floor time. There's a finite amount of it.
0:31.5	And we have a lot of things we have to do. There's a housing bill that's awaiting action, hopefully a market structure bill.
0:38.6	Senator John Thune saying, we don't have time. We don't have time to save the
0:43.5	republic, ensure the future of the republic. We've got to keep the government open, of course.
0:48.5	President Trump at the White House says, what are you talking about?
0:50.7	We should have a lot of the things that I think everybody wants to see. Who would
0:54.9	not want voter ID? Only somebody that wants to cheat. Think of it. We don't have voter ID.
1:01.5	And the Democrats don't want it. And the reason they don't want it because they want to cheat.
1:05.9	Because there's no reason in the world. And I love that debate, Lindsay. I Lindsay I love saying well why don't you want
1:12.7	voter ID there's President Trump at the White House Speaker Mike Johnson says the next
1:18.3	order of business should be the save act well look we are going to be fighting for
1:24.2	the save act and I'll tell you why this is so important we We passed it twice in the House, and we will pass it again.
1:29.8	The SAVE Act just simply says you have to have verification of citizenship to register to vote.
1:34.3	That's about a 9010 issue on many of the polls in this country.
1:38.3	And we're going to enhance it by what the President calls the Save America Act.
1:43.3	And so it would be proof of citizenship
1:45.3	registered to vote and voter ID, which is also about an 80 or 90% issue on the polling.
1:52.1	So they are right about that. These are all very popular issues why you would not take or not make
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