The US Senate should not be submissive to the executive and must perform its duties regarding oversight and debate.

“We know regardless of your political persuasion, the war is very unpopular and that Senate should not just be submissive to the executive, it should actually do its job.”

Republican senators should act as a check and balance against the administration.

“I'm also calling on my Republican colleagues to stand up and do their jobs as senators and defend the Constitution of the United States and act as a check and a balance to a lawless president.”

He believes the House is an essential platform for holding the Trump administration accountable and conducting oversight, despite his decision to run for governor.

“It's going to kill me to not be there in the majority as we bring all of these folks to account. But our great state, which is a nation state, the the greatest country in the world, as I like to say, it needs a fighter and a protector.”

The United States Senate is currently failing its purpose by willingly surrendering its Article 1 constitutional responsibilities to the executive branch.

“they've abdicated basically responsibilities of what what their purpose of being there.”

The Republican majority in Congress has failed to exercise its constitutional duty to provide oversight of the executive branch's spending and policy actions.

“but Republicans have totally abdicated that role. You're absolutely right. And you can look no further than just the defense authorization bill, the defense bill. $1.15 trillion this year is what the Republicans are putting in. Bigger than it's ever been.”

He describes Mike Johnson's leadership as representing an extreme and dangerous faction of the Republican Party.

“he represents a very extreme part of their party. I think it's an extreme part of their party. I think it's a dangerous part of their party.”

The House Republican majority is unable to govern effectively due to internal divisions and reliance on extreme ideological positions.

“yes the Republicans have the majority but they don't have a governing majority they can't govern they're unable to govern”

The speaker argues that by electing Mike Johnson as Speaker, the Republican party has tied itself to far-right Christian extremists and alienated most Americans.

“first of all by putting Johnson in front of the American people as a representative of the Republican party they have tied the Republican party to farri Christian extremists and as as uh Johnson's own wife said only about 4% of the American population actually wants that kind of rule”