1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:03,720 Speaker 1: Well, we have a new speaker. The question is was 2 00:00:03,840 --> 00:00:09,159 Speaker 1: the battle worth it? The answer absolutely, Kevin McCarthy is 3 00:00:09,160 --> 00:00:12,200 Speaker 1: a Speaker of the House, and the fight that took 4 00:00:12,240 --> 00:00:15,520 Speaker 1: place and the holdouts and the debates and the new 5 00:00:15,600 --> 00:00:18,720 Speaker 1: rule of package that is coming because he is the speaker, 6 00:00:19,480 --> 00:00:22,079 Speaker 1: was it worth it? Yeah? How much did save you? 7 00:00:22,880 --> 00:00:28,160 Speaker 1: Hundreds of billions of dollars in government spending is what 8 00:00:28,240 --> 00:00:31,600 Speaker 1: it was at stake, and now we have rules in 9 00:00:31,680 --> 00:00:35,960 Speaker 1: place to stop it from happening. Chip Roy, who was 10 00:00:36,000 --> 00:00:39,880 Speaker 1: the mastermind behind much of this and the chief negotiator 11 00:00:40,479 --> 00:00:44,200 Speaker 1: and getting many of the Republicans that were holding out, 12 00:00:44,320 --> 00:00:47,520 Speaker 1: he was one of them to then back Speaker McCarthy. 13 00:00:48,240 --> 00:00:51,000 Speaker 1: He did it because he said we needed to stop 14 00:00:51,080 --> 00:00:55,160 Speaker 1: the excessive spending in this country. He was on stay 15 00:00:55,160 --> 00:00:58,040 Speaker 1: of the Union. He had this to say, finish you right, 16 00:00:58,280 --> 00:01:01,240 Speaker 1: So why is that because you pushed back on the swamp, 17 00:01:01,360 --> 00:01:04,119 Speaker 1: the swamp's gonna push right back. We saw that in display. 18 00:01:04,200 --> 00:01:06,120 Speaker 1: That's okay. So you say, well, are we going to 19 00:01:06,200 --> 00:01:08,760 Speaker 1: have this kind of conflict going forward? I hope so. 20 00:01:09,000 --> 00:01:12,440 Speaker 1: But we started this. Now it's January, so the death 21 00:01:12,480 --> 00:01:14,240 Speaker 1: ceiling or the debate is going to be in a 22 00:01:14,240 --> 00:01:17,080 Speaker 1: few months. Let's do it now, guys, get this out there, 23 00:01:17,160 --> 00:01:20,520 Speaker 1: both sides of the aisle, everybody within each party. Let's 24 00:01:20,560 --> 00:01:22,640 Speaker 1: figure out how we're going to actually fix this because 25 00:01:22,640 --> 00:01:24,720 Speaker 1: the American people are sick of us not doing our job. 26 00:01:24,840 --> 00:01:28,080 Speaker 1: There is a bigger risk though, for the US defaulting 27 00:01:28,480 --> 00:01:29,920 Speaker 1: on the death when when it comes to the death 28 00:01:29,959 --> 00:01:34,080 Speaker 1: ceiling vote, then some short term embarrassment for Kevin McCarthy 29 00:01:34,160 --> 00:01:37,360 Speaker 1: that's the default is a bigger deal and could actually 30 00:01:37,440 --> 00:01:40,959 Speaker 1: cost billions of dollars. Understood, But remember in twenty eleven 31 00:01:41,000 --> 00:01:43,920 Speaker 1: when that Captain Balance was negotiated and putting place, and 32 00:01:43,959 --> 00:01:46,800 Speaker 1: frankly it worked for four or five years to constrain spending. 33 00:01:46,840 --> 00:01:49,240 Speaker 1: Now it had some side effects. The defense spending was 34 00:01:49,280 --> 00:01:51,880 Speaker 1: getting whacked pretty good. And we don't want to see that. 35 00:01:51,920 --> 00:01:53,040 Speaker 1: We want to be able to figure out how we 36 00:01:53,080 --> 00:01:54,440 Speaker 1: can get this going the right way to make sure 37 00:01:54,480 --> 00:01:57,320 Speaker 1: defense is protected. But we need to put limits on 38 00:01:57,440 --> 00:01:59,520 Speaker 1: spending and then get to the table. You have to 39 00:01:59,560 --> 00:02:01,280 Speaker 1: do that at own, Jake. I have to do that 40 00:02:01,320 --> 00:02:03,800 Speaker 1: at home. Every American has to do that. If we 41 00:02:03,880 --> 00:02:06,200 Speaker 1: don't stop spending money, we don't have I promise you 42 00:02:06,400 --> 00:02:08,840 Speaker 1: we will never sit at a table, Colin Allred, who's 43 00:02:08,840 --> 00:02:09,920 Speaker 1: going to be on here A little bit that I 44 00:02:09,960 --> 00:02:12,400 Speaker 1: was talking to in the green room. Colin and I 45 00:02:12,440 --> 00:02:13,560 Speaker 1: need to be able to sit at a table and 46 00:02:13,560 --> 00:02:15,399 Speaker 1: figure out how we're going to fix this for the country. 47 00:02:15,600 --> 00:02:19,040 Speaker 1: We can't do that if the leaders jam through one 48 00:02:19,080 --> 00:02:22,040 Speaker 1: point seven trillion dollars omnibus bills like happen in December, 49 00:02:22,280 --> 00:02:24,160 Speaker 1: where we have no debate on the floor. We have 50 00:02:24,200 --> 00:02:27,160 Speaker 1: to open this debate up, offer amendments, do our work, 51 00:02:27,440 --> 00:02:29,720 Speaker 1: limits spending within our means, and then move for the 52 00:02:29,760 --> 00:02:35,480 Speaker 1: country forward. If McCarthy fails to offer a debt ceiling 53 00:02:35,880 --> 00:02:40,480 Speaker 1: bill that has offsetting spending cuts, if he offers what 54 00:02:40,520 --> 00:02:43,240 Speaker 1: the Democrats in the Senate want, which is a clean bill, 55 00:02:43,680 --> 00:02:46,440 Speaker 1: would you vote to vacate the speakership because they will 56 00:02:46,560 --> 00:02:49,560 Speaker 1: now be able to be one person making that motion 57 00:02:49,680 --> 00:02:52,240 Speaker 1: to locate the speaker. Look, I'm not gonna you know, 58 00:02:52,280 --> 00:02:53,800 Speaker 1: I'm not going to play the what if games on 59 00:02:53,840 --> 00:02:55,440 Speaker 1: how we're going to use the tools of the House 60 00:02:55,480 --> 00:02:58,440 Speaker 1: to make sure that we enforce the terms of the agreement. 61 00:02:58,560 --> 00:03:00,760 Speaker 1: But we will use the tools of the House to 62 00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:03,160 Speaker 1: enforce the terms of the agreement. No, you negotiate with 63 00:03:03,240 --> 00:03:05,360 Speaker 1: Democrats in the Senate because as you know, true I 64 00:03:05,400 --> 00:03:07,119 Speaker 1: love by the way, I got you a part here 65 00:03:07,240 --> 00:03:09,800 Speaker 1: from right, Well what about that? What about this? There's 66 00:03:09,840 --> 00:03:12,240 Speaker 1: no reason to go there yet. But this is what's 67 00:03:12,360 --> 00:03:16,240 Speaker 1: driving the media crazy. They realize now that there are 68 00:03:16,280 --> 00:03:20,360 Speaker 1: real changes coming to Washington. They realize that people like 69 00:03:20,520 --> 00:03:24,200 Speaker 1: Chip Roy and Representative Comber are going to do what 70 00:03:24,240 --> 00:03:27,240 Speaker 1: they said they're gonna do. For example, Comber today, you 71 00:03:27,280 --> 00:03:28,840 Speaker 1: want to know one of the perks of what we 72 00:03:28,960 --> 00:03:33,840 Speaker 1: just accomplish. Representative Comber said, hey, we're going to investigate 73 00:03:34,760 --> 00:03:37,800 Speaker 1: Joe Biden. We're not investigating Hunter Biden. That's the point 74 00:03:37,800 --> 00:03:40,520 Speaker 1: I've been saying for a long time. Republicans need to 75 00:03:40,560 --> 00:03:44,600 Speaker 1: get smart about this and understand Hunter Biden is not 76 00:03:44,760 --> 00:03:48,280 Speaker 1: what you need to be focusing on. It's Joe Biden. Now, 77 00:03:48,280 --> 00:03:50,160 Speaker 1: we got a lot of intel from Hunter Biden. We 78 00:03:50,200 --> 00:03:53,920 Speaker 1: have a lot of information on how the Family Crime 79 00:03:54,240 --> 00:03:58,120 Speaker 1: Network works, no doubt about it. But I really don't 80 00:03:58,160 --> 00:04:01,640 Speaker 1: care about the hookers. I don't care about the prostitutes. 81 00:04:01,680 --> 00:04:05,200 Speaker 1: I don't care about the drugs. With Hunter Biden, it 82 00:04:05,400 --> 00:04:09,200 Speaker 1: is about Joe Biden and what has Joe Biden been doing? 83 00:04:09,680 --> 00:04:12,080 Speaker 1: What is it that Joe Biden has been a part of. 84 00:04:12,160 --> 00:04:15,280 Speaker 1: How much does the big guy get? What deals could 85 00:04:15,320 --> 00:04:17,960 Speaker 1: not be done if it wasn't for the big guy. 86 00:04:18,560 --> 00:04:22,119 Speaker 1: Those are the issues that we need to be talking about. 87 00:04:22,640 --> 00:04:27,000 Speaker 1: Those are the conversations that I want there to be had. 88 00:04:27,120 --> 00:04:30,279 Speaker 1: I want the investigations to be in that. How much 89 00:04:30,400 --> 00:04:33,800 Speaker 1: was he selling out the American government for? What does 90 00:04:33,839 --> 00:04:37,279 Speaker 1: it cost to buy off the vice presidency or now 91 00:04:37,360 --> 00:04:40,719 Speaker 1: the presidency? How much money do you get for artwork 92 00:04:40,760 --> 00:04:43,359 Speaker 1: when your dad is the president? And who's buying it? 93 00:04:43,880 --> 00:04:47,200 Speaker 1: What corrupt and shitty actors around the world have compromised 94 00:04:47,200 --> 00:04:49,720 Speaker 1: the president of the United States of America. 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The American people are seeing what did 132 00:07:02,680 --> 00:07:04,839 Speaker 1: the deep state and the media was doing and the 133 00:07:04,880 --> 00:07:11,760 Speaker 1: Democrats are doing, Silencing American citizens, silencing conservatives, silencing dissenters 134 00:07:11,760 --> 00:07:15,080 Speaker 1: of people like doctor Fauchi with the Twitter files, all 135 00:07:15,120 --> 00:07:18,280 Speaker 1: of the things that we as conservatives were yelling about saying, 136 00:07:18,320 --> 00:07:21,320 Speaker 1: this is happening to us in real time. No one 137 00:07:21,360 --> 00:07:23,640 Speaker 1: can see what we're saying anymore. No one can see 138 00:07:23,640 --> 00:07:26,600 Speaker 1: our tweets. People's accounts are getting silence and shut down 139 00:07:27,360 --> 00:07:30,520 Speaker 1: and being put on mute. All of the things that 140 00:07:30,560 --> 00:07:34,720 Speaker 1: we said were happening, we know now we're clearly happening, 141 00:07:34,800 --> 00:07:37,960 Speaker 1: not just to us, but to many people that weren't 142 00:07:37,960 --> 00:07:40,800 Speaker 1: even you know, significant in the Republican movement. I'm doing 143 00:07:40,800 --> 00:07:43,840 Speaker 1: about lots of followers. You could write the wrong thing. 144 00:07:44,040 --> 00:07:47,080 Speaker 1: You could mention something like Ivan Mechton, You could ask 145 00:07:47,120 --> 00:07:50,520 Speaker 1: a question about heart conditions, and immediately you could be silenced. 146 00:07:50,560 --> 00:07:53,000 Speaker 1: In fact, what we know now is people like doctor Fouch, 147 00:07:53,040 --> 00:07:55,920 Speaker 1: you and others we're sending in their enemies list saying 148 00:07:55,960 --> 00:07:58,360 Speaker 1: these are the people we want you to make disappear, 149 00:08:00,160 --> 00:08:03,000 Speaker 1: These are the people we want you to make go away. 150 00:08:04,360 --> 00:08:07,040 Speaker 1: All of this was happening. So when you hear people 151 00:08:07,120 --> 00:08:08,920 Speaker 1: like Chuck Todd on Meet the Press saying, well, there's 152 00:08:08,920 --> 00:08:10,120 Speaker 1: a lot of people that say that what you're about 153 00:08:10,120 --> 00:08:13,160 Speaker 1: to do looks partisan number one, if you want to 154 00:08:13,160 --> 00:08:16,080 Speaker 1: talk about partisanship, and he never asked that type of question. 155 00:08:16,120 --> 00:08:19,160 Speaker 1: The Democrats when they were actually trying to overthrow the 156 00:08:19,160 --> 00:08:21,160 Speaker 1: will of the people, when they were impeaching Donald Trump, 157 00:08:21,200 --> 00:08:24,679 Speaker 1: not once but twice, don't forget what they were doing. 158 00:08:25,120 --> 00:08:28,640 Speaker 1: They knew the entire time, when they were covering that 159 00:08:28,720 --> 00:08:33,959 Speaker 1: for four straight years, five actually with Donald Trump, they 160 00:08:34,040 --> 00:08:37,520 Speaker 1: knew they were partisan hacks. They knew what they were 161 00:08:37,559 --> 00:08:40,720 Speaker 1: doing was a lie. They knew that the entire Dolcier 162 00:08:40,840 --> 00:08:43,120 Speaker 1: was a lie. They knew it was fabricated. They knew 163 00:08:43,120 --> 00:08:45,520 Speaker 1: it was created by the Democratic Party in Hillary Clinton, 164 00:08:45,760 --> 00:08:48,839 Speaker 1: and they covered it like it was real news. So 165 00:08:48,880 --> 00:08:51,280 Speaker 1: when you hear these people say stupid stuff like this 166 00:08:51,360 --> 00:08:54,079 Speaker 1: and this is stupid. When you hear the Chuck Todd's go, well, 167 00:08:54,120 --> 00:08:55,959 Speaker 1: it looks like what you guys are doing right now 168 00:08:56,080 --> 00:09:02,400 Speaker 1: might be partisan, roll your eyes and stay focused. Roll 169 00:09:02,480 --> 00:09:07,960 Speaker 1: your eyes and stay focused on what actually matters. Roll 170 00:09:08,040 --> 00:09:12,000 Speaker 1: your eyes at them, and keep going down and through 171 00:09:12,360 --> 00:09:16,920 Speaker 1: the process, because the process matters. And James Comber, when 172 00:09:16,960 --> 00:09:20,240 Speaker 1: he hears a question like this, deserves to explode. Take 173 00:09:20,280 --> 00:09:25,360 Speaker 1: a listen. Tell me how you're going to try to 174 00:09:25,920 --> 00:09:33,080 Speaker 1: departisanize an investigation or do you expect it to be partisan? Well, 175 00:09:33,120 --> 00:09:35,199 Speaker 1: with all due respect, check, I disagree with that. I 176 00:09:35,240 --> 00:09:37,480 Speaker 1: think the only people that see this as a partisan 177 00:09:37,520 --> 00:09:42,440 Speaker 1: investigation are the media and the hardcore Democrats. Look at 178 00:09:42,440 --> 00:09:45,280 Speaker 1: the same moment that the Democrats on the Ways and 179 00:09:45,360 --> 00:09:49,800 Speaker 1: Means Committee released Donald Trump's taxes, they then moments later 180 00:09:49,840 --> 00:09:54,120 Speaker 1: turned around and said Comber's investigation of the Biden family 181 00:09:54,160 --> 00:09:57,320 Speaker 1: influence peddling is a revengering. I mean, are you kidding me? Look, 182 00:09:57,840 --> 00:10:00,520 Speaker 1: Harvard Pole just came out and said sixty five percent 183 00:10:00,559 --> 00:10:03,880 Speaker 1: of the Americans believe that the contents of Hunter Biden's 184 00:10:03,920 --> 00:10:06,800 Speaker 1: laptop should be investigated. But let me be clear, let's 185 00:10:06,800 --> 00:10:09,200 Speaker 1: just stop it that the majority of Americans, sixty five 186 00:10:09,240 --> 00:10:13,360 Speaker 1: plus percent of the American people believe that the laptop 187 00:10:13,400 --> 00:10:16,000 Speaker 1: should be investigated, not because of the drugs, not because 188 00:10:16,040 --> 00:10:20,680 Speaker 1: the prostitutes, but because it involves the business dealings of 189 00:10:20,720 --> 00:10:24,479 Speaker 1: the United States government and the selling out of our interests. 190 00:10:25,320 --> 00:10:29,360 Speaker 1: That's why. Because they understand what corruption looks like, and 191 00:10:29,480 --> 00:10:32,880 Speaker 1: the big guy was getting paid. The big guy was 192 00:10:32,920 --> 00:10:35,280 Speaker 1: getting paid, and he was using his leverage then as 193 00:10:35,320 --> 00:10:39,199 Speaker 1: the vice present, now is the present to make money. 194 00:10:39,360 --> 00:10:43,600 Speaker 1: Take a listen again, here's more James Comer, incoming chair 195 00:10:43,920 --> 00:10:48,680 Speaker 1: Houseoversight Committee, fighting back against the ridiculous narratives of the 196 00:10:48,760 --> 00:10:53,560 Speaker 1: media and again quoting sixty five percent of Americans say 197 00:10:53,280 --> 00:10:57,680 Speaker 1: they believe that the content of that laptop, Hunter Biden's 198 00:10:57,720 --> 00:11:02,040 Speaker 1: Laptop from Hell, should in fact be investigated. Investigating Hunter Biden. 199 00:11:02,040 --> 00:11:05,480 Speaker 1: We're investigating Joe Biden, and I think any American who's 200 00:11:05,520 --> 00:11:07,719 Speaker 1: kept up with the political process over the past two 201 00:11:07,720 --> 00:11:12,240 Speaker 1: administrations would agree. We need to know what is allowable 202 00:11:12,280 --> 00:11:18,520 Speaker 1: and what isn't allowable with respect to foreign adversarial intervention 203 00:11:18,640 --> 00:11:22,440 Speaker 1: among family members of presidents of the United States. That's 204 00:11:22,480 --> 00:11:25,600 Speaker 1: something that the Democrats complained about with Custer, and certainly 205 00:11:25,600 --> 00:11:29,720 Speaker 1: the Republicans, myself included, have a complained about Jim. If 206 00:11:29,760 --> 00:11:31,760 Speaker 1: he didn't my son and brother, we got to do 207 00:11:31,840 --> 00:11:33,120 Speaker 1: something about it. If you didn't like the way the 208 00:11:33,160 --> 00:11:34,960 Speaker 1: Democrats did it, it it sounds like you're going to do 209 00:11:35,000 --> 00:11:37,319 Speaker 1: it in the same way that they did it. How 210 00:11:37,400 --> 00:11:42,200 Speaker 1: is it any better? No, very, I totally disagree with that. 211 00:11:42,559 --> 00:11:46,200 Speaker 1: Adam Schiff always over promised and underdelivered. He said just 212 00:11:46,360 --> 00:11:48,960 Speaker 1: last week the released in Trump's tax reterms was going 213 00:11:49,000 --> 00:11:51,480 Speaker 1: to be a bombshell. I mean, there's no bombshell there. 214 00:11:51,840 --> 00:11:54,360 Speaker 1: There's nothing there. Anyone I've deserved on a bank board 215 00:11:54,440 --> 00:11:56,839 Speaker 1: for over a decade, There's never been a developer that's 216 00:11:56,880 --> 00:11:59,319 Speaker 1: paid a lot of federal income tax because of depreciation 217 00:11:59,400 --> 00:12:02,000 Speaker 1: and tax and things like that. If the Democrats want 218 00:12:02,000 --> 00:12:04,360 Speaker 1: to make people like Donald Trump pay taxes, they need 219 00:12:04,360 --> 00:12:06,680 Speaker 1: to change the tax code, not the tax rate, the 220 00:12:06,720 --> 00:12:09,679 Speaker 1: tax code. But with perspective what we're doing. Everything that 221 00:12:09,720 --> 00:12:13,520 Speaker 1: we have requested, we have evidence to back up. There 222 00:12:13,559 --> 00:12:17,119 Speaker 1: are emails and text messages that show Hunter Biden complaining 223 00:12:17,160 --> 00:12:20,320 Speaker 1: about having to spend so much money keeping his dad up. 224 00:12:20,520 --> 00:12:22,760 Speaker 1: I mean, that's a concern because Hunter Biden's only source 225 00:12:22,760 --> 00:12:26,360 Speaker 1: of income. We're from our adversaries in China and Russia 226 00:12:26,400 --> 00:12:28,880 Speaker 1: for influence pedding. So this is something that we should 227 00:12:28,920 --> 00:12:32,320 Speaker 1: look into. This isn't political. We want to know it 228 00:12:32,400 --> 00:12:34,640 Speaker 1: was the president truthful when he said he didn't have 229 00:12:34,679 --> 00:12:37,520 Speaker 1: any knowledge or involvement of his family shady business dealings. 230 00:12:37,679 --> 00:12:40,800 Speaker 1: And once we determine that, we'll move on. Well, I 231 00:12:40,880 --> 00:12:42,760 Speaker 1: love Chuck Todd there. He's like, oh, I know you're 232 00:12:42,760 --> 00:12:44,720 Speaker 1: getting some facts here. We gotta we gotta wrap this 233 00:12:44,800 --> 00:12:47,440 Speaker 1: thing up. We're gonna try to make it look like 234 00:12:47,559 --> 00:12:49,640 Speaker 1: and compare it like you're one the same of what 235 00:12:49,679 --> 00:12:52,320 Speaker 1: they were doing to Donald Trump, and you guys didn't 236 00:12:52,360 --> 00:12:54,040 Speaker 1: like that, so now it looks like you're just going 237 00:12:54,120 --> 00:12:55,800 Speaker 1: right back and doing that again. He's like, no, we're not, 238 00:12:55,840 --> 00:12:58,120 Speaker 1: we're doing to doing anything close to that. You're wrong 239 00:12:58,920 --> 00:13:01,000 Speaker 1: what we are doing. And then he goes through it 240 00:13:01,080 --> 00:13:03,360 Speaker 1: and it's like, oh, well, shoot, now you're talking about 241 00:13:03,400 --> 00:13:06,240 Speaker 1: things that we don't want to hear about. Now we're 242 00:13:06,280 --> 00:13:08,520 Speaker 1: hearing about things that we don't want it to be 243 00:13:08,720 --> 00:13:11,920 Speaker 1: to discuss. So we need you to shut up, right, 244 00:13:11,960 --> 00:13:14,640 Speaker 1: We need you to silence everything and just and quiet 245 00:13:14,640 --> 00:13:18,480 Speaker 1: on down. This is we need to We need you 246 00:13:18,520 --> 00:13:22,760 Speaker 1: to tone it down a little bit and move on 247 00:13:22,920 --> 00:13:26,080 Speaker 1: from it. This is why the fight for the Speakership 248 00:13:26,679 --> 00:13:30,680 Speaker 1: was so important. 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For example, 282 00:15:22,040 --> 00:15:24,720 Speaker 1: I think term limits is something that we need to do. 283 00:15:25,240 --> 00:15:29,360 Speaker 1: Representive Comer also coming out saying now, because of these 284 00:15:29,400 --> 00:15:32,280 Speaker 1: new rules, we're going to be able to have and 285 00:15:32,680 --> 00:15:36,800 Speaker 1: have a real conversation about fundamentally changing Congress so that 286 00:15:36,840 --> 00:15:38,920 Speaker 1: we can have this issue of term limits up on 287 00:15:38,960 --> 00:15:42,320 Speaker 1: the and make it clear that these career politicians in 288 00:15:42,360 --> 00:15:46,120 Speaker 1: the House no more pass a balanced budget amendments so 289 00:15:46,120 --> 00:15:50,120 Speaker 1: that we're no longer just borrowing trillions of dollars. A 290 00:15:50,160 --> 00:15:54,040 Speaker 1: lot of Republicans I represent an overwhelmingly Republican districts that 291 00:15:54,120 --> 00:15:57,960 Speaker 1: Trump won by nearly fifty points the first election. When 292 00:15:58,000 --> 00:16:01,160 Speaker 1: he got elected the first time, they they constantly seemed 293 00:16:01,200 --> 00:16:04,440 Speaker 1: disappointed that Republicans aren't able to do the things that 294 00:16:04,520 --> 00:16:07,320 Speaker 1: Republicans say they're gonna do, like, for example, vote for 295 00:16:07,360 --> 00:16:10,880 Speaker 1: a term limits bill that is overwhelmingly popular among conservative 296 00:16:10,920 --> 00:16:15,000 Speaker 1: voters in America. Republicans always campaign for Congress in two things. 297 00:16:15,080 --> 00:16:18,000 Speaker 1: They say, we're going to pass the term limits bill 298 00:16:18,040 --> 00:16:21,240 Speaker 1: and we're gonna pass a balance budget amendment. But yet 299 00:16:21,280 --> 00:16:24,600 Speaker 1: those two votes are neither voted on. So I understand 300 00:16:24,640 --> 00:16:27,560 Speaker 1: the frustration that a lot of new members, a lot 301 00:16:27,560 --> 00:16:29,600 Speaker 1: of new Conservatives have, and you know, they drew a 302 00:16:29,680 --> 00:16:32,560 Speaker 1: line in the sand on some of these bills that 303 00:16:32,600 --> 00:16:34,920 Speaker 1: we always campaign on but we never seem to vote on. 304 00:16:35,000 --> 00:16:39,200 Speaker 1: And I'm confident Kevin has heard from our confort that 305 00:16:39,280 --> 00:16:42,280 Speaker 1: we want to vote on these things, and I'm confident 306 00:16:42,320 --> 00:16:43,560 Speaker 1: that we'll do it. Look, it's going to be a 307 00:16:43,560 --> 00:16:47,040 Speaker 1: tough job. That's why nobody else tried to run for speaker. 308 00:16:48,080 --> 00:16:50,120 Speaker 1: Is a tough job to get to two eighteen. But 309 00:16:50,160 --> 00:16:52,240 Speaker 1: I believe Kevin's the right guy, and I was proud 310 00:16:52,320 --> 00:16:54,640 Speaker 1: to not only support him, I nominated him on the 311 00:16:54,680 --> 00:16:56,920 Speaker 1: House floor for speaker. What you know, I'm curious those 312 00:16:56,960 --> 00:16:59,800 Speaker 1: two things you mentioned. Those are show votes. They're not 313 00:17:00,200 --> 00:17:02,400 Speaker 1: pass They have no chance of passing. Someone might be 314 00:17:03,000 --> 00:17:05,560 Speaker 1: might need to be constitutional amendments, and you know how 315 00:17:05,640 --> 00:17:09,080 Speaker 1: arduous that process is. What's the point of passing a 316 00:17:09,160 --> 00:17:11,720 Speaker 1: bill that's that basically you get to put a press 317 00:17:11,760 --> 00:17:14,560 Speaker 1: release out on but it doesn't get enacted. I love 318 00:17:14,600 --> 00:17:18,240 Speaker 1: this right, he's saying, because the Democrats are in control 319 00:17:18,280 --> 00:17:21,680 Speaker 1: of the Senate. These are show votes, so you guys 320 00:17:21,680 --> 00:17:24,320 Speaker 1: aren't going to actually get it done. You're gonna pass it, 321 00:17:24,359 --> 00:17:27,920 Speaker 1: but it won't mean anything. I can tell exactly why 322 00:17:27,960 --> 00:17:32,360 Speaker 1: you should do these things, because it gets people talking 323 00:17:32,440 --> 00:17:36,240 Speaker 1: about it and understanding why it's important. It gets the 324 00:17:36,320 --> 00:17:39,880 Speaker 1: voters heads around the idea of term limits and why 325 00:17:39,960 --> 00:17:42,359 Speaker 1: it's such an important process, so that if we do 326 00:17:42,440 --> 00:17:45,399 Speaker 1: get back the Senate, if we win back the White House, 327 00:17:45,640 --> 00:17:49,200 Speaker 1: that you then can actually accomplish these things and truly 328 00:17:49,240 --> 00:17:52,600 Speaker 1: get them done. That's why you do it. You do 329 00:17:52,640 --> 00:17:55,760 Speaker 1: it to set a precedent, to explain and sell it 330 00:17:55,800 --> 00:17:59,000 Speaker 1: to the American people. Plus, the American people want this, 331 00:17:59,119 --> 00:18:01,800 Speaker 1: so if the American people sent you there to do it, 332 00:18:03,160 --> 00:18:05,880 Speaker 1: then you should do what the American people will sent 333 00:18:05,960 --> 00:18:09,080 Speaker 1: you there to do. You can't control what the Senate does, 334 00:18:09,520 --> 00:18:12,560 Speaker 1: you can't control the veto pen of the president. What 335 00:18:12,640 --> 00:18:16,159 Speaker 1: you can do is talk about important issues, pass those issues, 336 00:18:16,200 --> 00:18:18,359 Speaker 1: and then move on to the next thing that you 337 00:18:18,440 --> 00:18:22,440 Speaker 1: were asked to do. That's part of the problem with 338 00:18:22,600 --> 00:18:26,000 Speaker 1: it with so many of these rhino Republicans and these 339 00:18:26,040 --> 00:18:29,000 Speaker 1: swampy Republicans are like, wow, we look, it's not gonna 340 00:18:29,000 --> 00:18:30,520 Speaker 1: pass Senate. A screw it, we don't have to do that. 341 00:18:30,600 --> 00:18:33,880 Speaker 1: Let's spend more money, Let's just do whatever the hell 342 00:18:33,920 --> 00:18:36,600 Speaker 1: we want to do. And then when they say why 343 00:18:36,600 --> 00:18:38,119 Speaker 1: didn't you do X, Y and zoom and say, well, 344 00:18:38,160 --> 00:18:41,000 Speaker 1: we know it wouldn't pass the Senate anyway, And that's 345 00:18:41,040 --> 00:18:45,359 Speaker 1: exactly the logic that was just used right there. But 346 00:18:45,400 --> 00:18:47,159 Speaker 1: I check that out. Oh, this is a show vote. 347 00:18:47,520 --> 00:18:51,720 Speaker 1: You guys aren't serious about this, right, This is a 348 00:18:51,840 --> 00:18:55,840 Speaker 1: show vote. This isn't a real vote, This isn't really 349 00:18:55,880 --> 00:18:59,920 Speaker 1: trying to accomplish something. And listen to what comer says 350 00:19:00,000 --> 00:19:04,800 Speaker 1: a response. A lot of times, as you know, Chuck, 351 00:19:04,880 --> 00:19:09,040 Speaker 1: you have to take bills through numerous sessions of Congress 352 00:19:09,080 --> 00:19:12,280 Speaker 1: before they finally become law. More and more candidates will 353 00:19:12,359 --> 00:19:15,680 Speaker 1: run for the US Senate and claim that they support 354 00:19:16,119 --> 00:19:18,240 Speaker 1: term limits and they support a balanced budget. Millent, I 355 00:19:18,320 --> 00:19:20,679 Speaker 1: think you have two come into the Senate now from 356 00:19:20,720 --> 00:19:24,320 Speaker 1: the House, Ted Bud and Mark Wayne Mullen that would 357 00:19:24,359 --> 00:19:27,160 Speaker 1: support that. They replace members of the Senate that probably 358 00:19:27,200 --> 00:19:30,000 Speaker 1: wouldn't have voted for that. So we've got to start 359 00:19:30,040 --> 00:19:33,240 Speaker 1: taking steps to make fundamental change in America. And I've 360 00:19:33,240 --> 00:19:36,280 Speaker 1: always said from my first campaign for Congress to today 361 00:19:36,680 --> 00:19:39,160 Speaker 1: that if we want to fundamentally change Congress, the two 362 00:19:39,240 --> 00:19:41,480 Speaker 1: things that we can do today is pass a term 363 00:19:41,480 --> 00:19:44,360 Speaker 1: limits bill and pass a balanced budget amendment. Because if 364 00:19:44,359 --> 00:19:47,760 Speaker 1: there's not a balanced budget amendment, I don't have a 365 00:19:47,760 --> 00:19:50,080 Speaker 1: lot of confidence that Congress is ever going to balance 366 00:19:50,080 --> 00:19:54,280 Speaker 1: the budget. He's right, he doesn't believe that the Congress 367 00:19:54,280 --> 00:19:57,959 Speaker 1: will ever balance the budget if we don't have term limits, 368 00:19:58,000 --> 00:20:01,879 Speaker 1: because there's too many people that get their tentacles into 369 00:20:01,880 --> 00:20:04,520 Speaker 1: these men and women in Congress and they say, we 370 00:20:04,640 --> 00:20:08,360 Speaker 1: will get you reelected, we will support you through our superpack, 371 00:20:08,720 --> 00:20:11,800 Speaker 1: our special interest groups as long as you do this, 372 00:20:12,359 --> 00:20:15,199 Speaker 1: And so members of Congress instead of just voting the 373 00:20:15,240 --> 00:20:18,680 Speaker 1: way they should vote, they're so worried about not being 374 00:20:18,720 --> 00:20:20,840 Speaker 1: there for the rest of their career, not being there 375 00:20:20,840 --> 00:20:24,720 Speaker 1: for fifteen twenty twenty five years, and making it easier 376 00:20:24,720 --> 00:20:27,399 Speaker 1: and easier and easier and easier than for them to 377 00:20:27,440 --> 00:20:30,920 Speaker 1: do an election and a re election. That's what they're 378 00:20:30,920 --> 00:20:34,919 Speaker 1: so focused on, right, I mean, that's what they want. 379 00:20:35,960 --> 00:20:39,439 Speaker 1: They want it to be easy, and they don't like 380 00:20:39,760 --> 00:20:44,040 Speaker 1: having to, you know, really go out there and get 381 00:20:44,280 --> 00:20:51,360 Speaker 1: and get core supporters to support them with donations. So 382 00:20:51,440 --> 00:20:55,280 Speaker 1: instead what do they do. They take a superpack special 383 00:20:55,320 --> 00:20:56,879 Speaker 1: interest money and they say, all right, fine, what do 384 00:20:56,880 --> 00:21:00,199 Speaker 1: you want for it? What do you need? What do 385 00:21:00,240 --> 00:21:01,960 Speaker 1: you need me to support, What do you need me 386 00:21:02,040 --> 00:21:03,960 Speaker 1: to advocate? What is it that you need me to 387 00:21:04,320 --> 00:21:07,440 Speaker 1: push for? 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This was an embarrassing week, A week that 412 00:22:26,160 --> 00:22:30,840 Speaker 1: really was embarrassing for the Republicans. No, it wasn't. It 413 00:22:30,920 --> 00:22:35,199 Speaker 1: was a week that a five day fight and a 414 00:22:35,280 --> 00:22:40,119 Speaker 1: bunch of votes on the speakership had a massive impact 415 00:22:40,800 --> 00:22:42,600 Speaker 1: on the future of this country when it comes to 416 00:22:43,080 --> 00:22:49,680 Speaker 1: being fiscally responsible. Okay, never, ever, ever, ever forget that. Okay. 417 00:22:51,800 --> 00:22:55,160 Speaker 1: Charlie Hurt was talking to Dan Bondino and Fox and 418 00:22:55,240 --> 00:22:58,239 Speaker 1: he was asked about this GOP in fighting and he 419 00:22:58,359 --> 00:23:01,320 Speaker 1: described it in a way that I also was pretty brilliant. Listen, 420 00:23:01,600 --> 00:23:05,000 Speaker 1: you know this past week on the floor of the 421 00:23:05,000 --> 00:23:07,920 Speaker 1: House has you know, I know everybody talks about how 422 00:23:07,960 --> 00:23:11,520 Speaker 1: embarrassing this is for Republicans. Trust me, I've watched Congress 423 00:23:11,520 --> 00:23:14,320 Speaker 1: for twenty years. This is one of the least embarrassing 424 00:23:14,359 --> 00:23:18,359 Speaker 1: things Congress has done in twenty years. What we're seeing 425 00:23:18,760 --> 00:23:23,119 Speaker 1: is democracy. What we're seeing is a debate, an open debate. Remember, 426 00:23:23,200 --> 00:23:26,359 Speaker 1: democracy dies in darkness. This is what democracy out in 427 00:23:26,400 --> 00:23:30,240 Speaker 1: the open looks like. It's you have votes, you have fights, 428 00:23:30,280 --> 00:23:33,080 Speaker 1: you have debates, you have arguments. And it's a very 429 00:23:33,080 --> 00:23:35,159 Speaker 1: good thing. And I think it's really an important to 430 00:23:35,520 --> 00:23:39,560 Speaker 1: recognize this dam the one you have this fight on 431 00:23:39,600 --> 00:23:43,480 Speaker 1: the Republican side, and ultimately the fight is about spending. 432 00:23:43,760 --> 00:23:46,399 Speaker 1: Spending is the most important thing that Congress does, and 433 00:23:46,440 --> 00:23:48,840 Speaker 1: it's the thing that is going to destroy this country. 434 00:23:49,160 --> 00:23:54,200 Speaker 1: And who doesn't have even a seat at the table here? Democrats? 435 00:23:54,440 --> 00:23:58,320 Speaker 1: The Democrat Party is so dishonest, so corrupt that they 436 00:23:58,359 --> 00:24:01,400 Speaker 1: don't even think that spending is a problem. They're over 437 00:24:01,440 --> 00:24:05,679 Speaker 1: at the kids table drinking, boozing and eating popcorn, and 438 00:24:05,800 --> 00:24:12,960 Speaker 1: Republicans are having a serious, mature, very sincere debate about 439 00:24:13,000 --> 00:24:16,960 Speaker 1: spending and Democrats are nowhere to be found. But you know, 440 00:24:17,000 --> 00:24:19,280 Speaker 1: if you put Democrats in charge, they'd be really nice. 441 00:24:19,320 --> 00:24:22,439 Speaker 1: They put together a nice little orderly show, and nobody 442 00:24:22,520 --> 00:24:25,280 Speaker 1: would be mad at one another. But the country would 443 00:24:25,280 --> 00:24:28,800 Speaker 1: go down the toilet. The country would go down the toilet. 444 00:24:29,200 --> 00:24:31,879 Speaker 1: Why do you think Democrats have no problem getting all together? 445 00:24:31,880 --> 00:24:34,359 Speaker 1: Because they just bribe. But they're all off everybody and 446 00:24:34,440 --> 00:24:37,800 Speaker 1: anyone who may get in their way. Every Democrat gets 447 00:24:37,920 --> 00:24:41,399 Speaker 1: virtually every single thing financially they want when they're a 448 00:24:41,480 --> 00:24:44,199 Speaker 1: member of the Democratic Caucus because they just blow it 449 00:24:44,240 --> 00:24:47,800 Speaker 1: out and say screw America every time. The one point 450 00:24:47,840 --> 00:24:50,840 Speaker 1: seven trillion dollars omnimus spending. There is a perfect example 451 00:24:50,840 --> 00:24:54,359 Speaker 1: of that. It's come to the table. Here's your blank 452 00:24:54,400 --> 00:24:57,720 Speaker 1: piece of paper, right in the crap you want for 453 00:24:57,880 --> 00:25:01,840 Speaker 1: your special interest, for your stay eight for your district, 454 00:25:01,920 --> 00:25:05,200 Speaker 1: and we'll give it to you. That's how the Democrats 455 00:25:05,320 --> 00:25:11,040 Speaker 1: literally operate. So it wasn't and it wasn't an embarrassing week. 456 00:25:11,400 --> 00:25:13,040 Speaker 1: You know, there was. There was a lot of tension. 457 00:25:13,200 --> 00:25:17,320 Speaker 1: If you watch the vote live, and let's just talk 458 00:25:17,359 --> 00:25:22,719 Speaker 1: about the other thing we saw. There was a moment 459 00:25:22,760 --> 00:25:25,200 Speaker 1: where there was a congressman that had to be with 460 00:25:25,440 --> 00:25:29,400 Speaker 1: strained who was yelling at Matt Gates. I didn't have 461 00:25:29,440 --> 00:25:33,320 Speaker 1: a problem with that. There were some other mocking it 462 00:25:33,400 --> 00:25:36,600 Speaker 1: and saying this is so embarrassing. Listen to what chip 463 00:25:36,680 --> 00:25:39,119 Speaker 1: Roy had to say about that. He was asked about it, 464 00:25:39,200 --> 00:25:41,000 Speaker 1: right and he said, you know what, maybe we'll need 465 00:25:41,040 --> 00:25:42,960 Speaker 1: a little bit more of this where people actually give 466 00:25:42,960 --> 00:25:45,639 Speaker 1: a crap. McCarthy has the title he has always wanted, 467 00:25:45,720 --> 00:25:48,680 Speaker 1: but not necessarily the power that used to come with it. 468 00:25:48,840 --> 00:25:51,199 Speaker 1: He eaked out a win, but his mandate is less assured. 469 00:25:51,280 --> 00:25:53,960 Speaker 1: McCarthy required the better part of a week to grind 470 00:25:54,000 --> 00:25:57,080 Speaker 1: down the conservative opposition to his speaker bid and the 471 00:25:57,119 --> 00:25:59,160 Speaker 1: way things have been done in the House for decades. 472 00:25:59,400 --> 00:26:02,120 Speaker 1: One of the whole outs Republican Congressmanship, Roy of Texas 473 00:26:02,480 --> 00:26:06,199 Speaker 1: was instrumental in delivering him the gavel. Roy negotiated a 474 00:26:06,280 --> 00:26:09,080 Speaker 1: laundry list of concessions from McCarthy designed to spread power 475 00:26:09,359 --> 00:26:12,080 Speaker 1: among the House rank and file and particularly the House 476 00:26:12,080 --> 00:26:14,879 Speaker 1: Freedom Caucus. By the way, does any of this sound bad? Like? 477 00:26:15,040 --> 00:26:17,879 Speaker 1: I love how Jake Tapper is like, well, it's a 478 00:26:17,960 --> 00:26:20,800 Speaker 1: better part of a week. That's how you know that 479 00:26:20,840 --> 00:26:25,000 Speaker 1: this media hates what was just accomplished by the Republicans. 480 00:26:25,440 --> 00:26:29,280 Speaker 1: They hate it. They hate it, they hate it. They 481 00:26:29,320 --> 00:26:34,760 Speaker 1: are furious because they actually did something, they did something 482 00:26:34,800 --> 00:26:39,280 Speaker 1: that was meaningful and important, and they can't stand that, 483 00:26:40,280 --> 00:26:43,040 Speaker 1: and so they throw in these little you know, these 484 00:26:43,080 --> 00:26:46,240 Speaker 1: little jabs here and there right like like this is 485 00:26:46,240 --> 00:26:51,080 Speaker 1: that this was an unprincipled moment of embarrassing proportions for 486 00:26:51,200 --> 00:26:54,200 Speaker 1: the Republicans. Know it wasn't. It was a brilliant moment 487 00:26:54,960 --> 00:26:58,480 Speaker 1: where we actually had real change. And then I can 488 00:26:58,640 --> 00:27:00,879 Speaker 1: you know, it made a mockery of Congress. There's an 489 00:27:00,920 --> 00:27:03,199 Speaker 1: embarrassment for Congress. Right, That's where they're about to go 490 00:27:03,200 --> 00:27:05,119 Speaker 1: with a store. You ready for this, because they're going 491 00:27:05,200 --> 00:27:06,680 Speaker 1: to tell you that this is the worst thing they've 492 00:27:06,680 --> 00:27:10,479 Speaker 1: ever seen. And Roy's deal ultimately flipped up to fifteen 493 00:27:10,520 --> 00:27:14,399 Speaker 1: votes for McCarthy, paving the way or his victory Friday night. 494 00:27:14,440 --> 00:27:16,840 Speaker 1: Joining me now for his first interview after the speaker 495 00:27:16,840 --> 00:27:19,840 Speaker 1: election is Texas Republican Congressman Ship Roy. First of all, 496 00:27:19,880 --> 00:27:24,399 Speaker 1: congratulations on everything that happened and getting what you wanted 497 00:27:24,440 --> 00:27:27,720 Speaker 1: in the negotiations. It's it's not necessarily a sure thing 498 00:27:27,760 --> 00:27:32,280 Speaker 1: that that happens. We are just learning some of the 499 00:27:32,320 --> 00:27:36,360 Speaker 1: promises McCarthy made. Capping spending at twenty twenty two levels 500 00:27:36,359 --> 00:27:39,080 Speaker 1: for fiscal year twenty and twenty four, a subcommittee to 501 00:27:39,080 --> 00:27:43,439 Speaker 1: investigate the Justice Department, more freedom, Caucus representation on important 502 00:27:43,440 --> 00:27:46,320 Speaker 1: committees like the Rules Committee, a one member threshold for 503 00:27:46,320 --> 00:27:48,199 Speaker 1: avotion to vacate, which is what it used to be 504 00:27:48,200 --> 00:27:51,439 Speaker 1: before twenty nineteen. What other commitments did McCarthy make you 505 00:27:51,440 --> 00:27:53,960 Speaker 1: can tell us about. Well, first of all, you know, 506 00:27:54,040 --> 00:27:58,040 Speaker 1: let's remember that a little temporary conflict is necessary in 507 00:27:58,040 --> 00:28:00,960 Speaker 1: this town in order to stop this town from rolling 508 00:28:00,960 --> 00:28:03,760 Speaker 1: over the American people. I don't think anybody on either 509 00:28:03,760 --> 00:28:06,240 Speaker 1: side of the aisle could say with a straight face 510 00:28:06,320 --> 00:28:09,359 Speaker 1: that they think that Washington is doing good work for 511 00:28:09,400 --> 00:28:11,840 Speaker 1: the American people on a regular basis and isn't broken. 512 00:28:12,880 --> 00:28:14,880 Speaker 1: We have to work to fix this place. And look 513 00:28:15,119 --> 00:28:18,080 Speaker 1: some of the tensions you saw on display when we 514 00:28:18,119 --> 00:28:20,280 Speaker 1: saw some of the you know, the interactions there between 515 00:28:20,280 --> 00:28:23,360 Speaker 1: Mike Rodgers and Matt Gates. You know some of that 516 00:28:23,520 --> 00:28:25,280 Speaker 1: is we need a little of that. We need a 517 00:28:25,320 --> 00:28:27,680 Speaker 1: little of this sort of breaking the glass in order 518 00:28:27,720 --> 00:28:29,400 Speaker 1: to get us to the table and orders to fight 519 00:28:29,440 --> 00:28:31,359 Speaker 1: for the American people and to change the way this 520 00:28:31,480 --> 00:28:35,359 Speaker 1: place is dysfunctional. So this all started going back last summer. 521 00:28:35,400 --> 00:28:37,840 Speaker 1: We wanted rules to open this place up. We wanted 522 00:28:37,880 --> 00:28:42,200 Speaker 1: more transparent. We wanted rules and we wanted to open 523 00:28:42,240 --> 00:28:45,960 Speaker 1: this place up, and we wanted transparency. I'm glad that 524 00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:48,440 Speaker 1: he addressed had head on this way. We need a 525 00:28:48,480 --> 00:28:50,920 Speaker 1: little bit of interactions like the one between Mike Rodgers 526 00:28:50,920 --> 00:28:53,200 Speaker 1: and Matt Gates. You know, I'm not a big fan 527 00:28:53,240 --> 00:28:56,920 Speaker 1: of Gates, and I say that because I don't like 528 00:28:57,160 --> 00:28:59,280 Speaker 1: the way that he was doing what he did this 529 00:28:59,360 --> 00:29:01,400 Speaker 1: last week and what I mean by that is it 530 00:29:01,440 --> 00:29:05,080 Speaker 1: was very personal. It wasn't about principle. I love the 531 00:29:05,120 --> 00:29:07,040 Speaker 1: way that Chip Roy was doing what he was doing 532 00:29:07,040 --> 00:29:10,040 Speaker 1: this week because it was all about principle and not 533 00:29:10,200 --> 00:29:13,560 Speaker 1: about personality. It was I want to change things, and 534 00:29:13,600 --> 00:29:16,440 Speaker 1: I'm going to hold out until we change the way 535 00:29:16,640 --> 00:29:20,680 Speaker 1: that Washington does business in the House of Representatives. That 536 00:29:20,920 --> 00:29:26,479 Speaker 1: was principal. You know, you look at Matt Gates. He 537 00:29:26,520 --> 00:29:29,280 Speaker 1: went on Fox News and kind of got beat up 538 00:29:29,280 --> 00:29:32,400 Speaker 1: a little bit. He did. The anchors there kind of 539 00:29:32,400 --> 00:29:35,840 Speaker 1: put the screws to Gates following the McCarthy's quote circus, 540 00:29:35,840 --> 00:29:38,440 Speaker 1: do you consider yourself a serious legislator? And the reason 541 00:29:38,440 --> 00:29:40,160 Speaker 1: why they were giving him such a hard time is 542 00:29:40,200 --> 00:29:44,200 Speaker 1: because it wasn't about all these agenda items. It was 543 00:29:44,280 --> 00:29:47,120 Speaker 1: just about saying, I don't like Ken McCarthy. This is 544 00:29:47,200 --> 00:29:52,360 Speaker 1: personal and I'm gonna come after you personally. That was 545 00:29:52,440 --> 00:29:55,920 Speaker 1: not a great look. But many of these twenty others 546 00:29:55,920 --> 00:29:59,520 Speaker 1: that were involved, it was not about the personal issues. 547 00:29:59,640 --> 00:30:03,160 Speaker 1: Think goodness. It was about the principaled issues. It was 548 00:30:03,200 --> 00:30:06,840 Speaker 1: about changing the way we do business. One of the 549 00:30:06,960 --> 00:30:10,680 Speaker 1: things that was and this is just a perfect example. 550 00:30:11,200 --> 00:30:14,120 Speaker 1: You have this massive Omnibus Spinning Bill that happened right 551 00:30:14,120 --> 00:30:17,680 Speaker 1: before you know, Christmas. And in that bill there was 552 00:30:17,720 --> 00:30:20,440 Speaker 1: something in there that a lot of people would say, 553 00:30:20,520 --> 00:30:23,120 Speaker 1: why wasn't that debated on its own merit? It was 554 00:30:23,160 --> 00:30:28,640 Speaker 1: the funding for the war in Ukraine against Russia. There 555 00:30:28,680 --> 00:30:31,040 Speaker 1: was no debate on it because it was thrown in 556 00:30:31,080 --> 00:30:33,240 Speaker 1: the omnibus bill and there was no way to separate 557 00:30:33,280 --> 00:30:35,880 Speaker 1: it out. And what chip Roy and many of these 558 00:30:35,880 --> 00:30:38,280 Speaker 1: other twenties said it was, they said this, They said, look, 559 00:30:39,400 --> 00:30:45,800 Speaker 1: we think that a spending measure like funding Ukraine against 560 00:30:45,920 --> 00:30:51,920 Speaker 1: Russia should have a debate on its own merits. What 561 00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:56,080 Speaker 1: a novel idea? Right? That's not That shouldn't, by the way, 562 00:30:56,120 --> 00:30:58,440 Speaker 1: be controversy at all. It shouldn't be in there with 563 00:30:58,960 --> 00:31:03,520 Speaker 1: discretionary spending. It shouldn't be in there with high raids 564 00:31:03,600 --> 00:31:06,680 Speaker 1: and roads spending. It shouldn't be in there with other 565 00:31:06,800 --> 00:31:09,120 Speaker 1: This is a totally separate issue that should be able 566 00:31:09,120 --> 00:31:13,280 Speaker 1: to either pass or be voted down on its own merits. Now, 567 00:31:13,320 --> 00:31:15,680 Speaker 1: how much money does that save us? I asked Senator 568 00:31:15,720 --> 00:31:18,680 Speaker 1: Ted Cruises in our podcast I do with him called Verdict. 569 00:31:18,680 --> 00:31:20,840 Speaker 1: You should download it listen to it. And I asked 570 00:31:20,880 --> 00:31:23,440 Speaker 1: him this. I said, you know how much money did 571 00:31:23,480 --> 00:31:28,560 Speaker 1: we save? He said, potentially trillions of dollars. Certainly hundreds 572 00:31:28,560 --> 00:31:30,600 Speaker 1: and hundreds of billions of dollars are saved in the 573 00:31:30,640 --> 00:31:33,600 Speaker 1: five day period just by changing these rules. Because now 574 00:31:33,640 --> 00:31:36,200 Speaker 1: you can't just throw anything in there you want and 575 00:31:36,280 --> 00:31:39,360 Speaker 1: say up or down vote. Oh and by the way, 576 00:31:39,360 --> 00:31:40,720 Speaker 1: you don't know it's in the bill. You can't read 577 00:31:40,760 --> 00:31:43,160 Speaker 1: the bill. Well, it didn't matter. We just throw it 578 00:31:43,200 --> 00:31:48,800 Speaker 1: in there, deal with it, pass it. This was one 579 00:31:48,800 --> 00:31:54,720 Speaker 1: of the best weeks, I would argue in modern political history. 580 00:31:56,360 --> 00:32:00,120 Speaker 1: This was one of the best weeks that we have 581 00:32:00,200 --> 00:32:04,160 Speaker 1: had in a very, very, very long time. And I 582 00:32:04,200 --> 00:32:06,760 Speaker 1: am thrilled that it happened the way that it did. 583 00:32:07,600 --> 00:32:09,520 Speaker 1: And yeah, there were some people that were doing this 584 00:32:09,600 --> 00:32:13,560 Speaker 1: for their own personal reasons or grandstanding right, or because 585 00:32:13,600 --> 00:32:16,240 Speaker 1: they just it was a personal thing. I go back 586 00:32:16,360 --> 00:32:20,680 Speaker 1: to this, when you're a member of Congress, you need 587 00:32:20,720 --> 00:32:23,280 Speaker 1: to remind yourself you're not there to represent yourself. You're 588 00:32:23,280 --> 00:32:27,040 Speaker 1: there to represent your constituents. And if you were one 589 00:32:27,040 --> 00:32:29,920 Speaker 1: of the twenty and you were there representing your constituents 590 00:32:29,920 --> 00:32:31,880 Speaker 1: and asking questions I'm gonna have of your constituents, you 591 00:32:31,920 --> 00:32:33,800 Speaker 1: were doing it for the right reasons. If you were 592 00:32:33,840 --> 00:32:35,320 Speaker 1: there because you just want to be the thorn the 593 00:32:35,320 --> 00:32:38,080 Speaker 1: side of someone else because of personal reasons, that was 594 00:32:38,200 --> 00:32:42,120 Speaker 1: stupid and will always be stupid. So were there people 595 00:32:42,120 --> 00:32:44,360 Speaker 1: that were brilliant this week, yes? Or there are people 596 00:32:44,400 --> 00:32:46,800 Speaker 1: this week that were petty, Yes, But overall it was 597 00:32:46,920 --> 00:32:53,400 Speaker 1: worth it so celebrated. This was a week of massive 598 00:32:53,440 --> 00:32:56,480 Speaker 1: proportion for the future of our country and we won 599 00:32:56,600 --> 00:33:00,760 Speaker 1: one finally. Now look the US this week is going 600 00:33:00,800 --> 00:33:02,480 Speaker 1: to be important. We're going to get to see what 601 00:33:02,640 --> 00:33:07,440 Speaker 1: the rules package actually says, and that's going to be important. 602 00:33:07,920 --> 00:33:10,720 Speaker 1: I will keep you updated on every single day this week, 603 00:33:11,560 --> 00:33:14,760 Speaker 1: so make sure that you hit that subscribe button, hit 604 00:33:14,800 --> 00:33:17,640 Speaker 1: that auto download button, and I'll see you back here tomorrow.