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that country's relationship forward, they should be talking to us, and they should be addressing the atrocities that that country committed 22 years ago. >> brett, thank you so much for coming on and explaining where you stand on this and you did mention all of the political ties that the trump white house and the biden white house all talking with the saudis, anthony blinken there now and your frustration. i appreciate your time, sir. >> thank you for having me. >> john? >> a code red. dangerous smoke blanketing parts of the u.s. creating some of the worst air quality conditions in the world, and we are standing by for an update from the vatican. pope frances undergoing abdominal surgery right now. nown more about an aarp medicare supplement insurance plan from unititedhealthcare and get help protectingng yourself from the out-of-popocket costs medicare doesn't pay. because the time t to prepare is before you go on medicare.
it feels like a gut punch. >> brett, why do you think they made this about face? is it just in your mind about one simple thing -- money? >> it certainly seems that way. one thing that i wanted to say, if the kingdom of saudi arabia and the united states government want to settle or stabilize relations like you had talked about on the lead-in. tony blinken is in saudi arabia right now. it is a mistake to ignore the 9/11 community. we are not going anywhere. this kingdom of saudi arabia should have prioritized our interests over the interests of golfers. golf is a game. the golfing community did not lose 3,000 americans on 9/11. so the 9/11 community is demanding a meeting with the chairman of the pif. if they want to normalize relations and if they want to advance and improve relations and use golf to, you know, move
new leadership of the pga tour and even got a couple of standing ovations. there was a lot of anger in that room from players, feeling like they can't trust what the leadership of the pga tour says anymore. >> a group representing the families and survivors of the 9/11 terrorist attacks say that they are shocked and deeply offended by the merger saying that pga leaders should be ashamed of their hypocrisy and greed. the group has been very outspoken about liv golf which is bankrolled by the saudi government, claiming they are largely responsible for the deaths suffered on september 11, 2001. randy olson's father died on that day. his son is joining us now, brett, thank you very much for joining us. can you first tell me what you immediately thought when you heard that the saudi-funded liv golf would merge with the pga? >> it felt like a gut punch.
legislature, they can effectually think that we cannot get politically or legislatively, it is not just the biden administration, the republicans amazing i see nominations as well i can remember, a couple the president trump had a lot of pics. and what should a president be looking for and a judge and since you were general counsel for senate judiciary, having the senators play a roll in this also, not just the president right. brett: will they do, and you know politics is taking over common sense. and it is taking over the roll of the senate, the senate is supposed to be streaming these candidates to get the best qualified the most impartial and instead, we see both sides i think you are accurate and accurate trey gowdy from above republicans of the seven foolish to put politics over credentials. and ever you know, the ability to hear a case judge neutrally and not politically and instead,
limit we don't need another one. brett: well trey gowdy coincidentally of two cases one in florida and one in new york about the youngest judges 99. in those cases. it makes it very difficult. i know there is some wisdom and you know, why we had life appointment but i think as a country, we see seeing problems with the long jevity of individuals political office as well as on the bench. it would be worth getting out and analyzing. we should both of my cases, that you know, we had probably judges that were a little younger and certainly, i think that it would change the type of case by the way the case has been brian having said that, if there mentally sharp, you know there impartial, i love practicing in
legislature, they can effectually think that we cannot get politically or legislatively, it is not just the biden administration, the republicans amazing i see nominations as well i can remember, a couple the president trump had a lot of pics. and what should a president be looking for and a judge and since you were general counsel for senate judiciary, having the senators play a roll in this also, not just the president right. brett: will they do, and you know politics is taking over common sense. and it is taking over the roll of the senate, the senate is supposed to be streaming these candidates to get the best qualified the most impartial and instead, we see both sides i think you are accurate and accurate trey gowdy from above republicans of the seven foolish to put politics over credentials. and ever you know, the ability to hear a case judge neutrally and not politically and instead,
limit we don't need another one. brett: well trey gowdy coincidentally of two cases one in florida and one in new york about the youngest judges 99. in those cases. it makes it very difficult. i know there is some wisdom and you know, why we had life appointment but i think as a country, we see seeing problems with the long jevity of individuals political office as well as on the bench. it would be worth getting out and analyzing. we should both of my cases, that you know, we had probably judges that were a little younger and certainly, i think that it would change the type of case by the way the case has been brian having said that, if there mentally sharp, you know there impartial, i love practicing in
>> when you say you're not getting support within the community, brad, are you talking about the city of uvalde? are you not feeling like the community has healed, and has tried to help in trying to help you will heal as a result of what happened last year? >> absolutely. we've had more people come out to support the superintendent stepping down then we've had come out to support our kids. yeah, we don't feel the support here. >> brett, people need to know, you are a gun owner. you own a 3:57 pistol for home protection. you've said, you don't need an assault rifle to protect your home. what's your response to the second amendment supporters who say that there should be able to own one if they just want to own one? >> yeah, that's like saying, you know, we should own anything that we want just because we want to. you know? we can't own fighter jets, cannily?