{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.hagerty.senate.gov/press-releases/2026/06/01/icymi-hagerty-joins-varney-co-on-fox-business-to-discuss-us-iran-negotiations-political-violence-and-midterms/", "ICYMI\u2014Hagerty Joins Varney & Co. on Fox Business to Discuss US-Iran Negotiations, Political Violence and Midterms", "2026-06-01", "2026", "2026-06", "Republican", "Senate", "TN", "Bill Hagerty", "H000601", "www.hagerty.senate.gov", "hagerty", "https://www.hagerty.senate.gov/press-releases/", "scraper", "Washington\u2014On Sunday, United States Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations, Appropriations, and Banking Committees, joined Varney & Co. on Fox Business to discuss US-Iran negotiations, political violence and the upcoming midterm elections.\n\n*Click the photo above or here to watch*\n\nPartial Transcript\n\nHagerty on President Donald Trump\u2019s negotiations with Iran: \u201cI\u2019m certain that whatever deal President Trump puts in place will require performance\u2026 President Trump\u2019s been a business person his entire life\u2014a very successful one, I might add\u2026 He understands performance is a necessity to get any sort of compensation or recompense. I feel certain that whatever the Iranians do, it\u2019s going to have to be verified. They\u2019re going to have to demonstrate performance before they make any sort of concessions or yields. That\u2019s the type of deal I would expect to see, and I\u2019m looking forward to the details.\u201d\n\nHagerty on political violence, technology and national security: \u201cWe have had a president with multiple death threats. In fact, the [Iranian regime] had a fatwah on him. An assassin [entered] the [White House Correspondents Dinner] here recently in Washington D.C. with multiple weapons, in an attempt to assassinate the president, and the cabinet\u2026 We\u2019ve deployed sophisticated technologies in places like Iran and Venezuela with incredible results in terms of decapitating regimes, so I think it is a security environment that we ought to be cognizant of. The security situation has changed dramatically, the technology has changed dramatically, and to ignore that would be a folly. The executive branch, particularly this president, is in a much better position to evaluate the security needs of the White House than the judicial branch.\u201d\n\nHagerty on the midterm elections: \u201c[The polls] don\u2019t matter until [voters have] had a chance to put competitors into position and actually define them. When [Americans] see the leadership of the Democrat Party in the face of those like [New York City Mayor] Zohran Mamdani, I think the public will begin to wake up and realize they are not happy with the current situation. If you listen to the mainstream media\u2026 you wouldn\u2019t find out about the fact the stock market is at an all-time high\u2026 Tax returns are north of $3,400 this year, highest on record\u2026 The media is quite different from reality. And as we get closer to [the general election], more definition comes into place with respect to the actual candidates, and the policies they maintain. You\u2019re going to see the Republicans back in the position to say, \u2018look, we\u2019re delivering for the American people.\u2019 The only position that the Democrats seem to have is anti-Trump chaos, socialism, democratic socialism\u2014and that\u2019s not the direction America wants to go.\u201d\n\n###", 1, "2026-06-02T06:40:38Z", "2026-06-02T06:42:17Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.hagerty.senate.gov/press-releases/2026/06/01/icymi-hagerty-joins-varney-co-on-fox-business-to-discuss-us-iran-negotiations-political-violence-and-midterms/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 3.047766862437129, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}