Don't they get enough in transfer payments from NY & California?
Don't they get enough in transfer payments from NY & California?
Right
Lankford just admitted his own leadership incompetence!
How’d she land an interview with Gollum?
So, have they requested help from the President in Oklahoma? They need to get on that, call him up today.
Then volunteer to have them do their raids in your state, senator. Put your money where your mouth is. youtu.be/MGV2cg6m37w
I shudder to think where this guy’s money or his mouth has been.
Great! I’m going to write my governor and ask him to send the Washington state national guard there. They’re just going to show up without permission — cool, cool, right?
And if Biden even attempted to send the NG into Oklahoma Langford would have been calling it an act of war by a tyrant.
Easy to say when you know your state is safe.
St Louis has the highest murder rate per capita. Map Shows US Cities Where Homicide Rates Are Highest - Newsweek share.google/Bt72pVGzFiYc...
When did Oklahoma put a zombie in charge of anything?
Next Dem admin should take Lankford at his word and send federalized troops to OK to go door to door looking for illegal guns. Se how “welcome” they are.
Well, how bout it🤩🤩?
Liar
Key words “if the national guard was invited” to OK vs invading. Quit on Chicago way out of your league
Sounds like it’s time the Guard went rolling through Oklahoma then.
So, yes please. Please unleash your personal gestapo?
Deal!
Any help? How about raising taxes locally to do the needed local work?
Ok well pull them out of DC then
Sure just kneel down to your master ..Lankford is a fkn hack
Sounds like a request. Send them in.
Journalists never talk about the infringement of every person’s rights guaranteed by the Constitution when they go along with this administration’s bullshit.
Honest answer … but … then so …
It is not the job of the National Guard to be an auxiliary police squad.
Inviting them in is the point.
Maybe they could name it Operation [Chinese mineral used in carvings] [the place where you steer a ship].
This will age like milk if that ever happens.
Dumb ass doesn’t no what goes on there. OK? Where the Head of education had pornography on his computer?
Coward
Does he live there? Wasn’t he using his sister’s address as a residence while living in Florida.
Senator the guard is gardening in DC - request they come to Oklahoma for some crime fighting - I dare you! You are too weak, your convictions nonexistent - you are a coward but aren’t all republicans? Rhetorical question - I know they are!
So that's a "yes."
If Republicans are so strong on crime, how come the places they're in charge of have much higher crime rates than places run by progressives?
Sure Jan!
You're a Senator. Propose more funds for law enforcement and community programs that have success reducing crime.
MAGA finally gets the police state they didn’t know they were voting for…
What a bunch of spineless suck-ups!
They're lying. The minute ATF agents and armed military start snatching their sons and daughters off the streets and harassing Oklahomans sitting on their front porches in some red coting town, we'd have American revolution 2.0.
Send them all there then - tanks, battleships, bombers, coastguard and special forces. Mulch won't spread itself and litter, well don't get me started on litter... Are any dogs being eaten?
Oklahoma is a crime ridden cesspool. Send in the national guard today! And, the FBI!
I drove through #Oklahoma once. When you're there, all you want to do is leave. What a pathetic hillbilly shit hole of a state. #America #MAGA hillbilly hicks.
The amount of trash on the side of the highway when I was driving through was unbelievable. It looked like a trash bag had fallen out of the back of a truck and split open, but it went on for like a hundred miles.
I hear the NG are great at picking up trash. ☹️ www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
When I was in the Air Force in 1968 I was transferred from Davis-Monthan AFB in Tucson to Offutt AFB in Omaha, and had to drive through the panhandle of Oklahoma. I was stopped at gunpoint by the local county mounties. They claimed my 1960 Austin Healey Sprite was reported stolen. Trust me, no 1/2
one would steal a small, 2 passenger sports car that couldn't get out of its own way. Needless to say, I go out of my way to avoid Oklahoma every chance I get.
Flyover!
done deal get em outta la & dc and send em to okie
she should have corrected him on the spot: “Actually Memphis TN has the current highest murder rate in the U.S. followed by Detroit.
Good. Skip Chicago and send the Guard to OK City.
Invite him in? Invite? I don't think he's waiting for an invitation from any of the blue states he's forcing the guard into. Let's see these high murder rate states ask for help from Trump. I cannot imagine that is every going to happen.
What a smug fascist bastard.
We need the troops to invade the White House! There is a Russian takeover inside‼️🚩😱😝😲
Perfect 🚩
How does the national guard stop crime in D. C.? People like Justin Sun are still buying pardons...
Liars are gonna lie.
Trump torches the immigration deal that Lankford helped put together & he still plays the good little soldier. There are no good Republicans.
Right, Jim. If crime is SO BAD in Oklahoma, why isn’t your state’s Republican governor doing anything about it? Why isn’t your state’s GOP majority legislature doing anything about crime? 🤷🏻♀️🤷🏻♀️🤷🏻♀️What a numpty.
The MAGA response to this is always “it’s blue city mayors. The governor and legislature have no say about anything that could reduce crime.” Just completely disingenuous.
Trump is ignoring the problems of the people who voted for him
Dear Libs, stop using this talking point "What about X state, why aren't we turning the whole country into a fascist police state yet?"
We should militarize the entire country and kill anyone who chews gum too loud. That's just my opinion as an insane fascist who chews gum quiety and would never be affected by this. I'm too smart to be affected by fascism. I'm sure a police state will be loads of fun.
Uh. No we wouldn’t.
So the answer is yes. Do it, Gavin.
Good go there
That means making sure all appropriated crime bills/funds are allocated……come on Welker…..be responsible for asking reasonable questions…..
Somebody please ask these ball-garglers to reconcile the enthusiasm with which they would welcome troop deployments in their cities with their stance on the 2nd amendment.
Woof. Dog is on the leash
great, since all of these red states would welcome any help, then why doesn't trump help them? he said he wanted to be asked, he's been asked, so help all the red states who want it and leave the ones who don't alone!
The trump ass kissing is nauseating.
Sure! Send them there to go after White Christian Nationalists 🥴
Grateful Aaron watches this so I don't have to throw my television out the window. A simple response from Welker, you're either using wrong data or you're willfully lying. Between her BS and Raddatz, banner day for TV talking heads
The proper follow up would be "are the governors for California, Maryland, and Illinois requesting this help?
To Oklahoma! 🖕🏽
Are there black mayors in Oklahoma? 🤔
Yes, in Tulsa, for one.
Thank you. That would be this cabal’s first stop.
Definitely, the governor is already gunning for him because of a policing agreement he made with the Muscogee nation.
I kind of doubt that.
@kristenwelker.bsky.social does not push back whatsoever when Lankford falsely claims Chicago has "the highest" homicide rate for the last 13 years. Welker knows that is not true, but instead of simply taking a few seconds to say it, simply moves on. Absolutely irresponsible.
Came here to say this. Republicans can go on news shows and repeatedly tell a bald-faced lie like this one and receive no pushback at all. Disgraceful. The corporate legacy media needs to go. They haven't just failed us; they are complicit.
Who are the sponsors who are propping up these painfully weak excuses for "news" programs? Please don't tell me it's Big Pharma. Give me a product I can avoid.
She is awful. Sadly, she typifies the weak, biz as usual mainstream media.
Stopped watching when she took over Meet The Press. She can't come back with the actual hard hitting follow up questions..
Murder rates in Red States are higher than Chicago. Find A Protest Near You #LaborDay
Lankford is part of the problem.
Shouldn`t there be in every state and every city a list of felon raptist and pedophiles as trump is? "Most wanted pedo in the US...
He’d have no problem with that, because he knows Trump would send them exclusively into minority neighborhoods, whether it’s a high crime area or not….
Doesn’t Oklahoma have its own National Guard? Why isn’t the governor activating it?
Great, do it!
Langford has the power to activate the NG in OK. Why doesn't he do it?
They're now begging for a surveillance state. Trump is transformative, he's transformed them right into fascists.
Do it! Let the people who asked for this nonsense see how it feels.
WHY DO THEY ALLOW THESE IDIOTS TO BLATANTLY LIE ON AIR????
Oklahoma is the top serial killer state
Then send them instead of playing politics. cbwrong.blogspot.com/2025/08/trum...
OCCUPY TULSA
Upwards of 45% of Oklahomans might disagree with you, Wankford.
sure they would
Cool. Let’s start by locking up your fascist ass.
If they are too scared to hold Public Town Hall meetings and answer for their decisions Truthfully, PUBLICALLY, and CLEARLY, then it is clear the Public Consensus is they are the Threat/Criminal needing to be locked up. They stoke the fires of unrest, willingly or not. Answer for that MAGA-GOP
They are wanting them in every town across the country. They will come for 2A once they achieve ice saturation.
Any help. ? KKK , proud boys ….welcome. Disgusting.
Per Oklahoma Watch: Two 2024 surveys rank Oklahoma at No.37 in terms of safety, placing it lower than 75% of the states. Using FBI data to evaluate each state’s violent crime rate and poverty crime rate, U.S. News ranked Oklahoma at No. 37 in terms of public safety. Aaawwkward 😬
Really? Let’s talk guns.
I live in Ok. I would happily allow the National Guard to rake up some leaves and stuff. My wife would probably bake them cookies. Maybe some trash cleanup on roadside. Trash never really stays in the back of that pickup bed.
So go occupy Oklahoma.
Bullshit Langford. You’d be up in fucking arms screaming about your fucking freedumb.
🖕🖕🖕🖕
She’s generally weak and ineffective, but at least she asked.
She’ll ask a tough question but then she’ll just melt and not follow up
She doesn't challenge outright lies!
Counterpoint: if she follows up and gets a reputation for doing so, she will lose access to guests she can challenge. Currently she asks a tough question and the guest is forced to lie, squirm, and do contortions, and it’s on video for all to see!
Another counterpoint: the regime needs the media more than the media needs access to them.
I agree with that. It doesn’t conflict with my point though. 😀
But the lying can come off as normal or even the truth to alot of people who dont know better. Either its just totally f’ed up
I think Americans are better lie detectors than you’re giving them credit for.
I would love to agree with u on that my friend but i just cant.
Would you agree that most Americans understand that the vast majority (maybe all) of politicians lie at least some of the time? I think it’s such a banal truth that it goes without saying.
So…let them continue their lying and putting the liars on these media platforms and we can say they’re liars, or they’re lying. Why give them that platform. Let’s put truth tellers on instead and we won’t have to sift through the lies to get to the truth. Or, call out their lies, make them squirm.
What you’re saying here is exactly why broadcast media is dying and podcasts/YouTube is where you go for higher quality, more nuanced discussions.
Send troops to the sooner state. Keep Felon Trump the Pedo out of Chicago.
Why aren’t they in OK then ???? Why doesn’t the Governor request them ??
He doesn't even have to request. He has his own Nat'l guard
True.
THE REPUBLICAN BULLSHIT MACHINE MUST BE DESTROYED.
Nothing stopping the Oklahoma Sec of State deploying the NG themselves, is there?
He doesn’t mean it. How preposterous.
I'll believe it when I see it ... *they would totally do this too*
Meet the press and Welker are one of the worst opinion show in television. The should cut these people when they start lying and deceiving they already have Fox to do that. So frustrating there is hardly any push back and lying/gaslighting is already normalized
Hate to think about that much Kool-Aid
Senator, as a constituent, I would not welcome federal troops or National Guard to assist police. That’s not their training. They are trained for combat and combat support, not policing. And under MAGA, they aren’t policing, they are terrorizing residents. Hard NO!
Right...... Asshole
Send them in
Oklahoma, here they come!!
Quarter federal troops in people’s homes
Great! Rather than in Illinois where the state’s Governor says federalized troops are not needed or wanted, use them in Oklahoma where the state’s Senator welcomes them and see how enthused the populace is.
*since we in Oklahoma generally frown upon funding public services of any kind.
Then why hasn’t the governor of OK done it?
Oohhh. Invite them in. Hmmm
Trump won’t dispatch the National Guard to Oklahoma to help the people deal with crime because it’s not about helping people - it’s about trying to take over and control areas run by Democrats
He will dispatch there if it helps suppress the vote but otherwise probably not as it isn’t about fighting *crime* but fighting political opposition.
They have already figured out how to suppress the vote here in Oklahoma, and I have a feeling they’ve figured out how to manipulate it, too.
Lankford: We all want Daddy Trump to come spank us harder.
this guy's tongue is black from all the bootlicking
It's not about crime. Did Welker point out to hm that the National Guard in DC is milling around, picking up trash?
Ok this guy needs to go he is all for fascism
What about that creepy , porn-viewing school superintendent?
We have a lot of mulching to do in OK!
Yeah, I'm willing to bet that the people of OKC have a different take on that bs.
Oklahoma!
Can just envision current recruiting posters: Join the National Guard. Serve home & country! Clean up trash & mulch parks in DC & see...Oklahoma...
Lankford is a useless republican who is letting his cult leader destroy our country.
for a hot second i thought this kook stood for something
He didn’t know the statistics Chicago, either - or he’s just another MAGA liar.
Why suddenly are Rs doubting their police force? If your state/city has a crime issue FUND THE POLICE!
They know why he’s deploying the NG to blue cities; they are just too scared to admit it. Intimidation and control. He will have the pieces in place to declare martial law. He started an insurrection to stay in power. What do you think he’s going to do this time when he controls everything?
Great. Go there and start breaking heads.
Bookmarking this for when Democrats are back in power. We're sending in everyone to liberate Oklahoma from the GOP Taliban.
Gov Lee of Tennessee said the same thing about Memphis. No national guard yet tho 🧐
Oklahoma resident here. Hell, no, we do not welcome the National Guard, military, or ICE here. But, maybe if they came here, some of the MAGAts would wake up.
I doubt that. Their mentality is that they will never come for them, even if their state is occupied by our troops.
Oklahoma, are you paying attention?
Langford knows Trump will not be sending troops to Red States.
Put your money where your mouth is!! Send NG to Oklahoma!!
Start with the local politicians - nondoc.com/2025/08/28/s...
Let’s Roll. Send them to OK and see how your constituents respond.
#Lankford is a liar and a small, weak man. #America #MAGA small weaklings.
Perhaps they need the National Guard to look after litter and mulching as well.
Start with the crime of this bunghole actually being elected to public office
they come to my door, crime may rise slightly
Then let’s go
That ring around the neck….it’s trump’s asshole
He said, "If they were invited." Well, that's not what Trump is proposing, is it James?
Would you get on an empty elevator with this dude? He looks like the creepiest of creepy creepmeisters ever. He looks the grandson of Arthur Slugworth from Willy Wonka, only more Ayran. Who actually met this dude and then voted for him? Yikes!
Anything but fixing toot causes such as jobs availability, living wages, affordable child care, affordable housing...
Mental health access, addiction resources
I suspect the majority of people in Oklahoma feel otherwise.
@kristenwelker.bsky.social fighting CRIME is not the point. It is intimidation + control of states that DO NOT support the orange dictator. Fascism is here & control and punishment is the goal! You let the GOP get away with it all! 🤬 Who knew you would be worse than Chuck!! @meetthepress.com
Spot on!
Bullshit
follow up… why do you think trump doesn’t care enough about Oklahoma to send help?
I don't want to hear another word of their bullshit. Proof of life right now!
Be careful what comes out of your mouth ya windbag. Dear leader might not be too happy with your ideas as it’s Dem run states that he’s going after. Can’t have the media or Republicans thinking he should send troops into red states where the crime is worse
He's not lying, this is just another consequence of a gutted educational system I blame Reagan www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
Trump is still in the Epstein files
Please post everywhere Rep. Ro Khanna On September 3rd at 10:30am ET, Rep. Massie and I are hosting a press conference joined by survivors of Epstein and Maxwell's abuse — several of whom will be speaking out for the first time. The survivors deserve justice and the public deserves transparency.
Isn't he in control of his own Nat'l Guard?
Liar.
Good to hear from someone other than Lindsey at least
No. No, we wouldn't. And we will never support the abuse of our men and women in uniform. 2026 will bring a reckoning. Yes, even in Oklahoma.
Hell yes they should be in Oklahoma
He is full of it.
May I suggest bribing Trump with a new casino? He’s only gonna protect his assets. Not yours.
What an ass!
Sounds like OK just asked for help. 🤷♂️
People don’t understand: Republicans WANT martial law. They want to force their Christian fascism on the rest of us. They are worse than the Taliban. They just haven’t gotten around to showing it yet.
You hear that, Oklahoma? Your own Senator wants troops in your streets.
Of course the next question should’ve been, So we can expect this to happen immediately?
Take over OKC + Tulsa ASAP! The Marines can plant some mulch in their national parks too.
They want a police state. So much for small government.
This man hopes the entire state of Oklahoma isn't watching this interview!