Exchange with Thune on Trump making demands to eliminate filibuster, pass SAVE America Act: Pergram: Why do you think that this fundamentally does not resonate with him? Over and over again, it seems as though he doesn't get that when you say this. You've said that since springtime Thune: Well you tell me Pergram: You're the guy who talks to him. I mean, when you have that conversation with him, does he say that I don't believe you? What's he say there?  Thune: We have in the past suggested to he and his team to come up here and visit with some of my Republican colleagues. And they did that. They sat down on getting rid of the legislative filibuster, getting rid of blue slips, and there were 15 noes. So I mean this is not an open question. It's just a fact. And the facts don't change. Now, if he can change the facts and start moving some of those senators who are noes into yeses, then we have a different conversation. But it's that's just the reality

Thune on GOP Sens Lee/Scott threatening to block recess over SAVE America Act: We’re going to have some conversations over the course of the next couple of days. My assumption again is that if somebody can show me how we get an outcome, how we get a result, how we get an answer to this, I'm all for it. But if we are gonna be sitting here in endless quorum calls I don't know if that's in everybody's best interest

Senate Governmental Affairs Cmte Chair Paul on Fauci testimony Wednesday: In January of 2020, he already was acknowledging that the virus didn't originate in the marketplace for years. He's been telling that. If you interviewed him last week, he's probably still telling you. The reason we think it came from nature is because they had these exotic animals, and that's where SARS came from previously. But he knew. He already knew. And we've known this for a while that other people knew, but we didn't know. He actually knew and was acknowledging that it didn't. The earliest people who got Covid were not associated with the marketplace. The Chinese CDC was saying this in January of 2020. He knew it. He told Dear Diary. But to the public, he commissioned this paper called Proximal Origins. And in it they go on and on, saying it's implausible that it came from the lab