simply by taking the guns away from mass shooters before they commit mass shootings. it s not complicated. it s such an obvious solution that you had to think about why we weren t already doing that. who doesn t want to prevent mass shootings? only the gun lobby, everybody else cares about children. americans say they want red flag laws. why wouldn t they? like supporting black lives matter or fighting climate change or getting the covid shot or standing with the brave people of ukraine. red flag laws seem like one of the ideas that no decent person could possibly oppose. you want crazy people to have guns? of course you don t. who would? so naturally, you are for a red flag laws. you may soon get red flag laws across the country. what would that mean if we do? to things you should know. first, red flag laws will not end mass shootings. but red flag laws will end due process. due process is a simple concept but it s the key to everything good about america. in our system of j
republicans have signed on t repeal of the 2002 proclamation if you remember it was based o your price story was very good in terms of setting the stag of why the iraq authorizatio and the invasion occurred. it was based on lies weapons of mass destructio were not in iraq and we knew that i have tried, many times, to appeal the 2002. finally i was able to get it off the floor with 4 republican votes last year senator cain and i have talked and the senate foreign relations committee i want to applaud senator cain and chairman menendez becaus they worked in a bipartisan wa to appeal the authorization ou of the house foreign affairs committee. you will pick it up again i believe you will have quite bit of bipartisan support.
new ethanol rules the president put into place. it repeal new environmental restrictions on infrastructure that raises costs and suspend the jones act and open up shipping on ports. that s nine things congress and the president can do right now and doing none of them. tucker: let s just pick one. ethanol. can you think of anything that will make food prices go higher then burning more corn in people s cars? what will be the justification for doing this? it s insane and to give away to put it in gasoline. it supposed to be better for the environment but instead of having 10% ethanol, you can have 15% ethanol which is a big giveaway to corn producers. anything you buy that has corn in it will now be more expensive when you go to the grocery store. tucker: if you ve got a food and fuel crisis and you raise the ethanol mandate which doesn t help the environment.
more republicans in the senate and if you are democrats. i ll see how this helps. for example it s all mitch mcconnell. they re not even running for the trump agenda. that is the one promise he is exacting from this. and you must vote against him for later. who do they want to replace them. i would say one last thing. for all of the talk about the republican establishment where there was a failure it is at most seven republicans. all the other ones voted for it. rand paul was the great outsider. he kept he helped kill it repeal.
soon as we had a president willing to seen it repeal, you don t vote for it. you lying, thieving slugs. slugs. and you take a salary and a pension for this? and now tax reform. what makes me think it s not going to happen? you think we didn t like obama? all of you are so entrenched you will do anything for your own short-term political survival. the old one hand washes the other irrespective of party or funds amountal beliefs. we are so sick and tired of all of you. especially those of you who come into congress of modest means and then leave multi millionaires. and you senate slugs sit there with 200 bills passed by the house. 200. and you haven t passed one.