well done. - not enough pressler? no. - you should have been played by brad pitt, perhaps. - [laughs] - pressler's integrity notwithstanding, there remained legitimate reasons to question the abscam sting. in november 1980, two of the abscam cases involving the philadelphia city council president and a city councilman were thrown out by a federal judge, who ruled the case entrapment. though, that judge was overruled by the court of appeals, which reinstated their convictions. perhaps the best argument that abscam was entrapment came when the new attorney general, civiletti, issued stricter guidelines in 1981, governing undercover operations. - before they were more general, like don't engage in entrapment. and after it, i think they started tightening it up substantively in terms of what threshold of suspicion was needed before an undercover operation could be mounted. - it established a new review committee that would have to review potential bribes and must believe that the target of the sting is engaging, has engag

scott pressler, old friend and founder of early vote action. great to see you, it's been too long.is your plan, if you can share it to flip new jersey to red my friend. >> at early vote action.com we are employing a 21 county strategy, we are not just going to essex and camden but sussex and warren and red areas to drive up the turn out and make sure that every voice is heard. i'll tell you the department of state did a purge. the democrats lost 49,000 voters e in 2021 this state was decided by 80,000 votes. hear me loudly and clearly. new jersey is in play. >> laura: this is great news to people stuck in the state. it's a beautiful state, gets a bad rap. chitterely had no backing and crime out of the blue to almost pick off phil murphy's governorship. that was while. >> i want to thank the new r.n.c. headed by chairman michael whatley and co-care casey crosby. michael whatley has been in the garden state. it's february. >> i love it. >> casey crosby is coming to an event with chairman carlos santos and myself on 13th of this month. my message is we'll have more funding than ever,

>> jake: this is senator larry pressler who is now retired but he, when he was a congressman, he was larry pressler of south dakota was approached as part of operation abscan but he has the rare distinction of turning those bribes down. >> 50,000 is no problem putting that kind of money -- but i don't care what you want to call it. campaign contribution. >> you can't make a commitment to do anything in these campaigns. indeed, i wouldn't feel actually honest doing that. >> did you ever think, i'm glad i didn't take the bait? >> i have said whew once or twice. politicians need money. that's the nature of the game. the united states senator has to raise money and that's with the difficulty comes in. >> before the abscan bribe was offered or after, where there are times that you are offered money that you felt uncomfortable about? >> well, i was constantly being offered campaign contributions. people would say to me, raise a lot of money if you get this bill through or stuff like that. it wouldn't be a direct offer but it would be a suggestion there was a lot of money out there to be ha

voted before and may have turned pennsylvania for president trump between pressler and charlie kirk who is impossibly tall don't ever do a tease with him. the point is donald trump did so well with the young vote the democrats that used to be lock and barrel place young voters go democrat. that's not happening anymore. steve: i remember my very first days working in politics in the uk in the conservative parties in the '90s thinking why is it the right of politics we believe in freedom and expressing yourself and it should be the cool party. you don't want to be told what to do embossed around the whole time. we finally got to that point in america today with president trump and jd vance and young people are saying were sick of the bossing and telling us what to do and how to think and how to express herself that's what demagogues are losing the culture. taylor: i'm hoping barron trump is making nyu my all my moderate little bit more fun again. >> this goes back to the last discussion on the memes and how successful for the republican party and the president and now jd vance he didn

my unwhier brother is casper and we used to dress like bums, that is ricky pressler dressed like a bum >> ainsley: a stick and bandana on it is end with our lunch in it. >> brian: great costume. i was the lone ranger. if i was fighting crime, i would be wearing boots. now i'm not fighting crime. go back to that day, if i could rethink it, everybody there call me, you are now in your 50s and 60s, call me and tell me what happened, i don't remember. >> ainsley: do you know where we got that picture? you gave it to brian telly, executive producer of jesse, sent it to us. >> steve: throwback tuesday. >> ainsley: thank you, brian. >> steve: hi-ho, silver away. >> lawrence: we'll be right back. ah...one of us always had to be first. - first! - first! [kids bickering] [kids bickering] hold on, guys! ♪ first! today, we're first together. we love you, mom and dad. thank you so much for making it possible. and now you can finally put yourselves first. vanguard. fifty years of helping you invest for all of life's firsts. ♪ so i started selling coffee at farmers markets. i did that for about five

pressler -- mr. kessler, let me start with you. controls prevent vital resources from lump -- from falling into the hands of our adversaries. in 2005 i took on the role you've been nominated for and at that time export controls were becoming a war -- a more well-known tool for advancing strategic interest and i advocated for restrictions on china's ability to establish sensitive technologies because of the rising power of china and it represented a generational challenge. we made incremental progress but a laissez-faire approach to controls leads to end now in terms of cutting off supplied to china. how will you prioritize taking on the ccp in this existential race for economic and technological advantage? mr. kessler: thanks for the question and the conversation yesterday. you left big shoes to fill and i look forward to learning from you about how to do this job effectively. you said it well. the priority for bis must be and i will be laser focused on how to keep sensitive technologies, sensitive goods, software out of the hands

pressler -- mr. kessler, let me start with you.trols prevent vital resources from lump -- from falling into the hands of our adversaries. in 2005 i took on the role you've been nominated for and at that time export controls were becoming a war -- a more well-known tool for advancing strategic interest and i advocated for restrictions on china's ability to establish sensitive technologies because of the rising power of china and it represented a generational challenge. we made incremental progress but a laissez-faire approach to controls leads to end now in terms of cutting off supplied to china. how will you prioritize taking on the ccp in this existential race for economic and technological advantage? mr. kessler: thanks for the question and the conversation yesterday. you left big shoes to fill and i look forward to learning from you about how to do this job effectively. you said it well. the priority for bis must be and i will be laser focused on how to keep sensitive technologies, sensitive goods, software out of the hands of a