Senator James Lankford (R-OK) busted media during a recent appearance on Fox News, saying that although the legacy outlets might talk a good game, it was the people doing the actual work on Capitol Hill who knew what was really going on.
Lankford was responding to the numerous reports swirling about President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for Secretary of Defense, decorated Army veteran Pete Hegseth — among them, a report from the Wall Street Journal suggesting that Hegseth might be replaced by Governor Ron DeSantis (R-FL) — and he argued that media outlets did not always have the inside scoops they claimed.
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Sen. @jameslankford: “What’s interesting is the national media, the CNN, MSNBC, CBS, all talk about people as if they’ve met them. All of us get the privilege of actually getting a chance to be able to meet them… So there’s all the noise out there and then there’s actually… pic.twitter.com/XnpCc7MqdJ
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“What’s interesting is the national media, the CNN, MSNBC, all those, CBS, all talk about people as if they’ve met them. All of us get the privilege of actually getting a chance to be able to meet them… So there’s all the noise out there, and then there’s actually what’s happening on the Hill as people are one-by-one getting to meet with folks as I’m doing later on today with several different nominees,” he explained.
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Lankford argued that the people — and media — should allow the process to play out as proscribed in the Constitution and wait to see how those one-on-one meetings and eventual hearings went before rushing to judgment.
“President Trump, like every other president, has the right to be able to hire his staff, and to be able to pick the people around him,” Lankford continued. “The Senate also has a role, in key people, in what’s called ‘advise and consent’ … at this point, let it play out. Let’s get past the media noise and let’s actually do the constitutional process and let’s actually support the president in who he’s actually trying to be able to pick to put next to him to be able to actually turn the country around.”
