And, you know, it all started because I said, we need surveillance. We need proper surveillance. We have people that truly are evil, and they're coming from someplace, and you know, sort of where they're coming from, at least the vicinity. And I said, we need proper surveillance, whether it's a mosque or any place else. We have to be surveilled and we have to see what's coming at us.

Also, Alex should be really against Trump's idea of surveilling mosques. That seems wildly against Alex's principles about freedom of religion and the Fourth Amendment, but I guess he doesn't really care about those things too much when the group being targeted is someone other than himself. And you have Trump essentially arguing for increased surveillance in a way that Alex would decry as tyranny in any other context. And instead of giving any pushback, he's just right along with Trump in it.

He said that Obama said he was going to get rid of the Patriot Act. He never said that. He just said that what he was going to do was revisit it to see how it could be improved to strengthen oversight about government surveillance.

Initially, he voted against it when he was in the Senate, and then a year later, he voted for its renewal. So he has a complicated history with it, but in terms of the wiretapping thing, Alex is right. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Alex is right.