Ken Klippenstein

🚨 Asked if they're keeping a database of American citizens, Homeland Secretary Markwayne Mullin replies: "That's already out there."

Senator Tim Kaine says he knows the Trump admin's classified criteria for targeting boats in the Caribbean but that "I'm not allowed" to share it with the public.

Susan Collins responds to Graham Platner's criticism of her vote for the Iraq War: "that was Platner's decision to serve. He was not drafted."

Trump says anti-ICE protesters in New Jersey "are fake" and that you can tell they're paid actors from their signs. "You can see by the signs. The signs are all made by the same beautiful factory ... These aren't protesters. These people are fake. They're all paid for."

Counterterror czar Gorka says: "We're gonna label terrorists as terrorists, whether it's cartels, whether it's jihadis, or whether it's sadly the le — the Americans who are left wing, who are radical, and because they subscribe to some anarchic, anti-fascist, or radically pro-transgender ideology"

87-year-old congresswoman Maxine Waters says "I don't think we should talk about whether or not we should give up the mantle." "I'm not moving."

Thomas Massie challenger Ed Gallrein said of the Iran War, "the president is playing five-dimensional chess." Gallrein has now upgraded it to "nine-dimensional chess." Full story: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/iran-war-v...

Asked about the Iran War's effect on gas prices, Thomas Massie challenger, Ed Gallrein, replied: "The president is playing five-dimensional chess." "He is resetting the entire global power structure. So let him work through that to reset that, to set the conditions...just like President Reagan did"

87-year-old congresswoman Maxine Waters refuses to rule out a 100-year-old running for Congress.

White House counterterrorism czar Sebastian Gorka says "left-wing violence" is "in ascendance" and that it's "often transgender, anti-Christian, anti-Western civilizational violence."

White House counterterrorism czar Sebastian Gorka says anyone asking how the Iran War isn't another forever war is "either low-T" or "mentally challenged"

Trump's counterterrorism czar expresses amazement at how little negative reporting there is about the new National Counterterrorism Strategy. "50 articles were written...only one of them (from those putzes at Politico) was even slightly negative."

Netanyahu alludes to "finding ways to fight the battle for hearts and minds of young Americans on the social media"

Netanyahu hints at upcoming war on social media. "I think there's been a concerted effort by several states to basically vilify Israel in the social, primarily in the social media ... We've not fought back yet; so we'll have to do that."

Asked about if he would vote to approve future arms sales to Israel, Senator Cory Booker replies: "We have a long-standing commitment to Israel having a qualitative military edge. I will continue to support that."

Here's 73-year-old Senator Susan Collins vibrating like an electric toothbrush in her re-election campaign announcement

Can we talk about how 73-year-old Senator Susan Collins is clearly in physical decline? Audio up on this video - she speaks at 0.5x speed, voice quavering + head shaking. Parkinsons? Essential Tremor? We don't know because she refuses to address it, insisting she's healthy

Congresswoman @scanlon.house.gov warns of federal government "labeling people who disagree with the president's policies as 'domestic terrorists' under NSPM-7, putting their names on secret government lists..."

ZOHRAN MAMDANI: "It is sad that for too many Americans when they want to look for ambition in the Democratic Party, they have to turn to a history book."

Senator Slotkin says new NSPM-7 Joint Mission Center likely includes CIA and NSA, for "looking at...people who may just take a very different view on the world than the president."

TRUMP: "We fighting wars - we can't take care of daycare."

Marco Rubio: " Imagine an Iranian regime who instead of spending billions of dollars...building up all these weapons, had invested that money for the people of Iran"

WHITE HOUSE: "Formal authorization from congress is not necessary because we're currently in major combat operations."

JOE SCARBOROUGH: It can be good that Iran's killing machine has been degraded. CHUCK SCHUMER: I don't disagree with you.

85-year-old congressman Jim Clyburn just announced he's running for re-election. Here he is last year, saying: ""I have had incidents when I was looking for my glasses and had them on."

85-year-old congressman Jim Clyburn just announced he's running for re-election. Last year, he said that Joe Biden would have been able to serve another four years. "I've seen people develop Alzheimer's when they're in their thirties and forties. So it's not about age."

John Bolton says "I'm not a neoconservative."

SENATOR LINDSEY GRAHAM: "God bless Israel. We should move all our stuff to Israel."

SENATOR LINDSEY GRAHAM: "Here's what I want to say to Saudi Arabia tonight: I'm willing to do a mutual defense agreement with your country to give you protection in perpetuity...if you were attacked by Iran, we would go to war for you."

SEN. LINDSEY GRAHAM: "I will be with Israel until my dying day." "To all of the isolationists, forget it. I am not with you. I am with Israel.

TRUMP: "No transgender mutilization [sic] surgery for our children."

REPORTER: Do we have any overt or covert forces inside Iran now? PETE HEGSETH: Uh, I wouldn't tell you that if we did.

Asked if we're at war, Pete Hegseth replies: "The lawyers will debate all these things ... Call it what you want."

KAMALA HARRIS: "I predicted a lot about what's happening right now. I'm not into saying 'I told you so' — but we did see it coming."

"What I can see, though, potentially is small special operations forces conducting activities inside Iran," says Army Colonel Steve Warren (ret.).

Democratic Senator Jack Reed says of US troops killed in action: "It's the cost of war."

Democratic Senator Ruben Gallego says he'd vote to fund the Iran war, just as long as half the money comes from regional allies.

Senator Ron Johnson says of Iran: "We're not gonna put boots on the ground—probably."

Asked if he'd vote to authorize war with Iran, Democratic Senator Jack Reed says no, "except for activities defending the state of Israel."

Democratic Senator Mark Warner: " I will be the first to acknowledge having the Supreme leader and other major leaders of the Iranian regime eliminated is good for the region, good for the world"

CNN: The elimination of the Ayatollah - is it a good thing for America? DEMOCRATIC SEN. CHRIS COONS: Absolutely ...  I will not grieve for one moment the passing of the Supreme leader of Iran; and frankly, the success in taking out many of the leaders of the IRGC.

SEN. MARK KELLY: "Khamenei being dead is a very positive thing for the region."

MEET THE PRESS: Do you agree with [Lindsey Graham], is the world now safer? MARK KELLY: Well, I agree with that part. I mean, it's a good thing that the Supreme Leader is gone.

MEET THE PRESS: Do you agree with [Lindsey Graham], is the world now safer? SEN. MARK KELLY: Well, I agree with that part. I mean, it's a good thing that the Supreme Leader is gone.

NBC: If there is a war powers vote Senator, will you be a yes? MARK KELLY: Well, I'm gonna have to take a close look at it.

CNN: The Ayatollah has been killed. What's your reaction? CONGRESSMAN SETH MOULTON (D-MA): Great. I mean, this guy is terrible. He's evil. But that doesn't mean that it's legal or constitutional...

Former Israeli PM Naftali Bennett: "[Iran] built a very elaborate secession plan precisely for this event of mass decapitation that Israel has done. Having said that, the hit is so severe...their ability to be retaliate has been severely diminished"

Democratic Senator Tammy Duckworth: "I'm glad that Khamenei is dead ... My problem with this whole thing is how President Trump has gone about doing this."

Democratic Senator Mark Warner says of potential US-Israel strike on Iran: "That's not the best plan."

Democratic Senator @blumenthal.senate.gov says "I want to salute Senator [Lindsey] Graham...I am in the John McCain wing of the Democratic Party."

Congresswoman reads my reporting on ICE's secret watchlists into the congressional record, struggling to pronounce my name lol