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So let's bring in Carl right away. Carl, it's one of those days where there's so much going on and a war to cover. Your thoughts, first off, you don't think Senator Mullen, from what we've seen, is going to have trouble getting confirmed, do you? No, in fact, I thought it was interesting. There was an observation made by a Senate insider that if this were not a record vote, that he'd probably get 80% of the Democrats voting for him.
He's likable. He's a nice guy. They know that they can have a conversation with him. They know that he's a reasonable guy. But politics is going to dictate that this is, again, a 53, 47 at best vote with the R's lining up behind him and the Ds.
With one exception, not lining up behind him. Pretty much Secretary Noam was the wrong person for this, right? Yeah, well, that was proved out. And we're going to hear today a lot of questions raised by both Republicans and Democrats, especially the Democrats, about her tenure there. But even the Republicans are going to raise questions about her handling FEMA contracts and this gigantic, I guess it's nearly $30 billion effort to build detention centers.
So this is a chance, though, for both sides to get a restart. I'm sure Mullen is going to seize those moments. The question to me is going to be, do the Democrats realize this is a wonderful moment to get an off-ramp from a Box Canyon, I hate to mix my metaphors, that they've got themselves in by opposing DHS funding? It's incredible what's going on right now. I was interviewing one of the CSA workers, he makes $40,000.
And he's not getting paid, he's going to work anyway. But he literally can't people we have 343 have quit. And they might be able to get their jobs back, but they simply said, I have to go earn money.
So, who knows what you can do as a day worker, you know, at some type of Uber driver or something to that nature. But if you're making $40,000, you're most likely living paycheck to paycheck unless you're in a very affordable state.
So it's incredible what's happening, being that you're not trying to form TSA or the Coast Guard, you're trying to reform ICE, and it's not working. I mean, this, but why are. It seemingly people don't think it's a 50-50 problem. I really can't fault Republicans here. Yeah, look the Democrats, if they were smart.
If they were smart, they would seize upon the Mullen conformation areas to. Yeah, no, here's the deal: they ought to go on the offense. Senator Mullen, if you are confirmed, will you sit down with us and in good faith work on coming to an agreement on ICE reform? If you're confirmed. And of course, he's going to say, of course, I'm going to talk with you.
Then go ahead and let you go through the confirmation process, but go ahead and fund the DHS, including ICE, and then sit down with the new secretary and say, here is what we want to achieve. And suddenly the Democrats would be on the offense because people would say, well, they funded the government. Shutdowns are losers for whoever forces them. And that way they could be sitting there saying, look, here's what we want to. They put the focus on what their demands are.
And if their demands are reasonable, the American people might say, yeah, okay, those are reasonable. Those are reasonable requests. But, you know, they have made a bed that is really uncomfortable to lie in over the long haul. And they don't seem to realize that they're hurting themselves. What happens if there's a major event?
What happens to people going to the airport and having to stand in lines? What's happening to those TSA workers? Workers, as you point out, who don't make in many cases very much at all, what happens to their lives?
So, Democrats are making a mistake on it. Whether or not they use this as an off-ramp is yet to be seen. It's unbelievable.
So, Carl, just real quick on the Senate race, it doesn't look like the President's going to endorse Paxson or Cornyn.
So, we're going to have to wait till May. Is that a problem? No, because look, Cornyn has money and Cornyn has momentum and Cornyn has the issue. He spent most of the primary sort of reintroducing himself to the people of Texas, letting them know what he had achieved in the last six years. Spent some money on keeping Wesley Hunt from becoming the lightning in a bottle.
But the smallest amount of money he spent was on detailing Paxton's record. That is going to change. And Cornyn is going to come out and tell the people of Texas what the Democrats are going to be saying about this guy in the fall: that he is a crook with mistresses who abused his office in order to keep his girlfriends happy and in order to keep the people who kept his girlfriends employed happy.
So this ain't going to be a pleasant primary runoff for Ken Paxton. And Cornyn's got resources and going to start deploying them pretty darn soon. And I say that. Just to be clear, I'm a longtime friend of John Corner. We've known each other for decades, and I consider Ken Paxton one of the most reckless people I've ever seen in politics.
The girlfriends, the corruption, the favors done for guys who end up in jail, the mismanagement of his office, the stupid things that he's allowed to have happen make him a target both in the runoff and, more importantly, in the general election for the Democrats.
So they say it's between one and four points for both men against. Uh the the Democrat.
So wha why why is it so close? We thought that Cruz was close too and ended up being a two decisive wins. Is this that is this that close, Carl?
Well, it won't be close if it's Cornyn, but if it's Paxton as the nominee, you can close the club. But the polls say they're both close. Yeah, but here's the point. The case against Paxton has not been prosecuted. That's my point.
And the stuff that's out there is so bad and so voluminous that you can count on the Democrats spending $100 or $200 million telling people about all the girlfriends and all the abuse and all the corruption and the $200,000 remodel of his home and the eight houses that he's bought, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. And that stuff has not been litigated thus far in the primary.
So as Chuck Schumer thinks Alaska's in play and Dan Sullivan's in trouble, Carl, do you think Dan Sullivan's in trouble in Alaska? I think Schumer's desperate. But look, it's cheaper to try and buy a seat in Alaska than it is in Ohio or Michigan or something, even Maine. But Dan Sullivan's not taking it for granted. And Chuck Schumer has gone after him twice before, and each time has come up short.
Let's talk about Iran. Here's the president yesterday on when this is ending, cut one. If we left right now, it would take 10 years for them to rebuild. But we're not ready to leave yet. But we will be leaving in the near future.
We'll be leaving. In pretty much the very near future. But right now, they've been decimated from every standpoint. And again, We've had great support from countries in the Middle East, great support, but we've had no support from, essentially, no support from NATO.
So a couple of things. On the European on the Gulf states, The latest they've been uh they've been um not equivocating, number one. And number two, Saudi Arabia's message. Cripple this regime. Cripple Iran.
So NATO, I could anticipate what you're going to say about NATO. The President has to plow the ground, work the relationships in order to use them. But having said all that, being the President, it is different the way he does with international relations. Are you surprised they aren't saying it is in our interest to help with the Strait of Hermuz?
Well, first of all, they have limited resources to help in that problem. And second of all, the president insulted them, saying they've never come to our aid. And these are countries who had men go into battle in Iraq and Afghanistan alongside U.S. troops and died.
So he's got some bridge building to do there. But let's go back to your central point. One of the critical mistakes the Iranians have made is to launch attacks upon the civilian infrastructure of the Gulf states and Saudi Arabia. And they have turned people who are adversaries into lifelong enemies. These are people who are wary of getting in the middle of a conflict.
And when they were attacked by Iran, and using the thing, well, you've got a U.S. base, but we're going to attack downtown Dubai. Or the Dubai Airport, or Saudi Arabia's energy facilities. That was a mistake, excuse me, this hayfeet season and hay fever season in Austin. But yeah, this is a big critical mistake by the new leadership, and they will come to regret it deeply.
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Visit go.fox slash Red Cross to donate to service to the Armed Forces today. Carl, as this is pointing out, I cannot believe how many higher-ups working with the Israelis is really something else. I mean, they just took out another key leader who was on charge of the sleeper sales precision strikes and was sanctioned in 2022. He's got American blood on his hands, Ismari Khatib. They just took him out.
We know about Ali Larajani. We know about the head of the U.S. Uh GC.
So we're seeing all Solomani, right? Yeah, and the Solomoni, yes, yesterday too. And then we know that in looking at the Wall Street Journal today, a place where you have an editorial, we're seeing the takedown of all these leaders. And there's a tactical way in their doing it: blow up that headquarters, flush them out, find the bridges where they hide out, then find the tents and the checkpoints, and then watch because their plan was to meet at sports complexes. And guess who knew about it?
The Mossad, the IDF, and RCIA. And we're blowing them up there. We're beginning to take down the apparatus. Don't you see it? Yeah, I agree.
In fact, you left out one important element. Yes, our intelligence agencies know it, but how do they know it? Because there is a robust opposition inside Iran that is helping to provide essential details that are allowing we and our Israeli allies to systematically knock out the next round of leadership. Can you imagine somebody saying, God, geez, I might be promoted. And they need to get excited about that because they're going to get promoted into a slot that puts them a target on their back.
So a couple of things that are happening as we begin to do it, we're trying to see if these people can stand up and take their country back. But yet it seems like there's so many people on the left who are kind of rooting for failure. Hakeem Jeffries actually said it. And so far we're seeing over and over again the media combining with the Democrats to say that the president's in some type of quandary or quagmire, cut nine. It's becoming clear all the time, frankly, that the Trump administration was not prepared for this war to last.
Now, are we any closer to finding out what the plan is here? Here we find ourselves again in a situation where we could actually win every single battle. And still lose the war. And that's constant drumbeat. I'm sure, Carl, you saw Apple News, which was supposed to be fair.
Remember? There's not one conservative columnist. Nobody's covering anything positively. We saw Facebook a few weeks ago has basically the same thing. It's tough.
I mean, you can't complain about the refs, I understand it, but we can point it out. Yeah, look, first of all, the American people are seeing the success of it.
So if you say, do you approve or disapprove of what the U.S. military is achieving, the numbers are higher than if you put the word Trump or administration into it?
So we're deeply polarized, but the American people can, with their own eyes, see what's going on. I want to touch on one thing, though, because I'm writing about it for tomorrow's column in the Wall Street Journal. It's not simply the left. We have an anti-Israel, anti-Jews on the hard right. And it's not just the neo-Nazis like Fuentes and not only the question the Israeli crowd in the form of Tucker Carlson, but also Megan Kelly, our former colleague, and Candace Owens, who is such a crazed lunatic, it's unbelievable.
Now, but the interesting thing is, I'm going to write in tomorrow's column about a poll done by the Vandenberg Coalition of Trump voters that said, identified people who said, I'm a Trump voter, and then are you? Are you a Trump, a MAGA Trump conservative? Are you a traditional conservative? Are you a moderate Republican? Are you a libertarian?
And what's interesting is all of those groups. are strongly supportive of what the President is doing and the most supportive group of all Are self-described MAGA Republicans and MAGA conservatives. That is to say, the people whom Carlson et al., Fuentes et al., claimed to be speaking on behalf of, disagree most vehemently among all those groups with the notion that this is somehow a put-up job by Israel and that we shouldn't be doing it. It's a joke to think that this president. Who's going to be bullied by anybody, someone in his own party, even if it's a friend?
You don't attack a country at a friendship. It's a persistent threat to America. And if you remember, Benjamin and Yahoo What backed up President Trump and said, listen, we're not ready to fight yet. We don't have the interceptors. And he wanted to hit three weeks ago before he actually hit.
And it was Netanyahu who said, We're not ready yet because we know we're going to be targeted the minute you go in there.
So people just remember the facts of the story. Exactly. And they need to remember the thing that you touched on. For 47 years, this has been a regime that has chanted death to America, which has tried to kill the president, several presidents of the United States, Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, which intruded into the Iraq war by providing sophisticated devices designed to kill Americans in their vehicles that we had that had been designed, the anti-IED vehicles. They came up with a special projectile to attack Americans.
These people hate us, and they want nothing better than to extinguish America. Their leaders believe an apocryphal vision of, you know, one of the reasons they're pushing for a nuclear weapon is they have this apocryphal vision in which the hidden Mahdi, the hidden imam, appears after an apocalyptic war against the United States. I mean, these people are our enemies, and to believe that somehow or another that we can benignly leave them to their devices and allow them to do whatever they need to do. Because we don't need to worry about it because we're protected by miles and miles of other continents and oceans. We're kidding ourselves.
If you look at the drudge report, You would think that we've lost every troop and every plane and we haven't hit one target. Uh, and the whole world's turning and turning on us and laughing at us. I think anyone looking at that military display. Uh our first AI war. They're in awe of what's taking place.
And we haven't even seen it all.
So we're seeing it. Carl, thanks so much. I look forward to your column tomorrow on the Wall Street Journal, and I appreciate you wearing a tie for me.
So do our audience. I mean, you look great in a tie. And to wear that, thank you, man. Thank you. You know, I got up this morning and I said I'm going to be on with Kill Meet, so I'd rather bring my A-game satorially.
And it's hard for me to do that. But you, on the other hand, you always look great. You always have the great tie, the great shirt, the great smile. And me, I'm just a, you know, I'm a Rube from Texas. What the hell?
I have a higher opinion of you than you have of yourself. We've got to work on your self-esteem, though. Carl Rowe, thanks so much. You got it. This is Ainslie Earhart.
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