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All right, let's go to the WRD talk line. We'll talk to Dee and Thomas. How are doing my man? I'm doing great today. Charlie, how are you my friend? I'm wonderful. What's on your mind? Listen, I just want to revisit this this topic of the SAVE Act, which I am completely convinced that is the most important legislation that we have pending today. uh I was uh talking with a friend earlier and
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He's uh a Trump supporter, but ah mentioned that it was a great thing, how great a thing it was that Thune has come around to bring the SAVE Act before, for a vote, uh as if he'd changed his position. I said, look, this is smoke and mirrors. I said, unless there's a...
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uh... a rule change week uh... uh... filibuster rule change then it has no uh... possibility of passing and i agree with you what you said earlier before top of the hour that uh... uh... if if it goes before a vote without this rule change then it's guaranteed to fail and like you said you know likely one hundred percent of the uh...
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Republicans will vote for it. Yeah. Because they know it's going to fail. Well, exactly, exactly. And if it fails, without the rule change, the filibuster change, that will just allow them to keep the can down the road and bury it for ever how long. yeah, you're exactly right, Well, hopefully we can get something done. I appreciate it, buddy. So if you go to a prize fight,
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You go to a boxing match, hadn't been to a boxing match in a long time. But when you go to a boxing match, you got a couple of people in the auditorium. They got the referee over here. We're not talking about him. But you've got the combatants and you've got the spectators. Now what we're seeing in Congress, a lot of these members, they're just spectators. Lindsey Graham, spectator. Tim Scott,
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except for a little strange comment today, spectator. They're not really in the fight, right?
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There are some people that are in the fight and one of those people is representative uh Annapleena Luna. She has a plan and I, oh my gosh, I think this is fantastic. Every time the FISA bill, that's the bill that allows the government to spy on you. Every time the FISA bill has to be revoted on, man, oh, oh, the Democrats, the Republicans.
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Lindsey Graham, all these people that get out there and say, oh, we gotta pass this. Oh, we gotta pass the FISA bill. We have to do it. This is a must pass piece of legislation. We have got to get it done. Want you to listen to what Representative Ana Plena Luna is suggesting. I think it's pretty darn smart. This is really 100 % on Leader Thune. I know for a fact the American people have told their senators what they want, both the Democrats and Republicans. I think the number for Democrats is over 71%.
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Even Federman came out in support of this, which we know that Federman might not align with us all the time, but on this issue he's pretty good and hears what his own people want. And so again, this is something that the Senate is going to have to act on. But look, I'm not going to hold my breath. If I did, I'd probably pass out before the Senate decided to actually do something.
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And so what I'm anticipating is if they don't do the right thing, we're going to have to stick it on FISA. FISA's must pass. That's the only way we're going to get it done, but we will get it done. And it's good that Speaker Johnson is on the same page on this issue as well as the president so vocally supporting it. you take a must pass and this is how you got to admit this is what fighters do.
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Fighters find ways to win.
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man I saw video last night. Oh, it was so good. was just one of those like motivational videos. And it was just talking about you gotta find a way to win. No matter what it takes, no matter how hard you have to work, no matter how much you gotta sacrifice, you have got to find a way to win.
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So over here you got John Thune making excuses. And then in this corner, you've got Annapolina Luna who is looking for ways to win. So you take the SAVE Act, you attach it to the FISA bill, send it off to the Senate. Oh, y'all wanna keep spying on American citizens through the FISA courts? Oh, is that what you wanna do?
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Well, you also are going to have to have voter ID. I think it's great. think it's great. Losers find excuses. Winners find ways to win.
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That's the difference between people like John Thune and Ana Polina Luna. Pretty amazing. We'll be right back. It's the Charlie James Show. News Talk 98.9, WOID, The Voice of the Carolinas.
Mar 11, 2026
