James Lankford actually said...

"I had a popular commentator four weeks ago that I talked to that told me flat out before they knew any of the contents of the bill, any of the content, nothing was out at that point, that told me flat..."

"There is no reason for me to have this pen if we're just going to do press conferences. I can do press conferences from anywhere, but we can only make law from this room."

"We definitely didn't shut him out. He asked him not be included from the earliest day."

"The House has already spoken, the Senate needs to be able to speak and then we'll see we can actually align bill."