00:00I've just come from my office and it's kind of a great time of the year in the summer.
00:06My family comes up.
00:08My son and daughter-in-law and grandson are coming up because we were going to the White House picnic.
00:12But I've just been told that I've been uninvited from the picnic.
00:16I think I'm the first senator in the history of the United States to be uninvited to the White House picnic.
00:21The White House is owned by the taxpayers.
00:23We all are members of it.
00:26Every Democrat will be invited.
00:27Every Republican will be invited, but I will be the only one disallowed to come on the grounds of the White House.
00:32I just find this incredibly petty.
00:35I mean, I have been, I think, nothing but polite to the president.
00:40I have been an intellectual opponent, a public policy opponent, and he's chosen now to uninvite me from the picnic and to say my grandson can't come to the picnic.
00:51The level of immaturity is beyond words.
00:57I just, you know, I've been here long enough that if anybody has ever followed me, I've been a critic of Obama.
01:04I've been a critic of Biden.
01:05I've been a critic of the previous Trump.
01:07But always in a, I think, a reasonable fashion, a long policy.
01:14And so they've decided they want to declare war on my family and exclude us from the White House.
01:21And I just think it's incredibly petty.
01:24And I hope someone will ask them some questions about how they've decided to sink to this depth.
01:29What was the explanation given to you?
01:32No explanation.
01:33We're just not welcome.
01:34But you have to get a ticket.
01:36And we've always gotten tickets.
01:37I mean, I've been to 10 White House picnics.
01:39There's, like, Easter egg rolls.
01:41There's picnics.
01:42This is for Congress.
01:44And I think what's particularly galling about it is, I don't know if this came from the president on down.
01:49Let's hope not.
01:50But if not, it's coming from his petty staffers who have been running a sort of a paid influencer campaign against me for two weeks on Twitter.
01:59If you look at my Twitter, it's just gobs and gobs of these people.
02:03We know they're being paid because the White House, someone has told us that the White House called them from the White House and offered them money to attack me online.
02:11So we have that, and now we're uninvited to the picnic.
02:15And it's like, I don't know, it's just incredibly petty.
02:18And it shows that, look, I'm arguing from a true belief and worry that our country is mired in debt and getting worse, and they choose to react by uninviting my grandson to the picnic.
02:30I don't know.
02:30I just think it really makes me lose a lot of respect I once had for Donald Trump.
