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| https://www.blunt.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/news?ContentRecord_id=C5D4817B-6E61-4EE8-A3CA-C1F75ADABF29 | Excerpts from Blunts Appearances on Fox News Sunday Morning Futures and ABCs This Week | 2018-11-18 | 2018 | 2018-11 | Republican | House | MO | Roy Blunt | B000575 | www.blunt.senate.gov | legacy | WASHINGTON Today, U.S. Senator Roy Blunt (Mo.) appeared on ABC's This Week with Martha Raddatz and Fox News' Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo to discuss the Senate's progress on confirming judicial nominees and strengthening the military, and the Mueller investigation. Following are excerpts from Blunt's interviews: Fox News' Sunday Morning Futures: [WATCH THE FULL INTERVIEW HERE] On Senate Progress on Judicial Confirmations: Well, I think in the new Congress one of our priorities is going to continue to be to confirm judges. We made great impact on the judicial branch, not just the two Supreme Court seats, but one out of six of the Court of Appeals judges are now people who have been nominated by President Trump, confirmed by the Republican Senate. We're going to continue this year, between now and December 31, to try to clear the calendar of those judges and others who are out of committee. And then to try to give the president the team he needs to implement what he was elected to do. It's been one of the big obstacles that Democrats in the Senate have thrown in our way - something that has never happened before - the denial of a president to have his team and they have effectively used every tool they had to slow that process down. On the Importance of Rebuilding Our Military: Well you know the headquarters for the Boeing defense operations is in St. Louis. We're proud of the workers there and proud of what happens there in our state and in our neighboring state. Certainly, we do see more of a commitment to long-term planning in terms of defense, where you not only have some orders for this year but also orders for future years so you can keep that line open in a more efficient way. We got way behind in the previous decade, the Obama decade, in our defense capacity. It's showing and everybody who understands the military knows we've got some significant catching up to do. And I think we began that in a significant way this year, but we are committed to maintain that as a Senate and I believe as a country and look forward to the importance of doing that - and also being sure that we're doing what we need to do to have the kind of investments to protect the military advantage we have. What the Chinese particularly are doing with their efforts to try to get inside our systems more effectively than we can defend our system, would lose our significant military advantage if we let that happen and we can't let it happen. Again, we never want Americans to be in a fair fight. We want them to be in an unfair fight with every advantage on their side. And what we do in the next couple of years is likely to determine whether that continues to be the case or not. ABC's This Week: [WATCH THE FULL INTERVIEW HERE] On the Need for the Mueller Investigation to Come to a Conclusion: Blunt: [President Trump] has engaged in this in that way from the very start, just like virtually every member of the Senate. And I think most members of the House have engaged, saying Mr. President, it would be a huge mistake not to let the Mueller investigation come to a conclusion. We need to get beyond this, we don't need to start - have this starting again.' ABC's Martha Raddatz: So you have confidence in the Mueller investigation? Blunt: I do. I do. | 1 | 2026-03-30T12:14:52Z | 2026-03-30T12:14:52Z |