GOP Sen Blows Up Media: ‘There’s All The Noise Out There, And Then There’s Actu­al­ly What’s Hap­pen­ing’

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.

WATCH:

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

— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) Decem­ber 4, 2024

“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.”