1 00:00:01,080 --> 00:00:03,440 Speaker 1: So we all know that the House was able to 2 00:00:03,480 --> 00:00:08,640 Speaker 1: cut about fifteen hundred pages of a ridiculous bill continuing 3 00:00:08,680 --> 00:00:11,920 Speaker 1: resolution that was filled with waste and abuse and just 4 00:00:12,160 --> 00:00:17,200 Speaker 1: pure corruption of Washington DC. We know now that the 5 00:00:17,239 --> 00:00:19,520 Speaker 1: Senate has passed it, so there's not going to be 6 00:00:19,520 --> 00:00:22,560 Speaker 1: a government shutdown now. In general, I want to be clear, 7 00:00:23,160 --> 00:00:27,480 Speaker 1: this is great news. That is the headline. The question 8 00:00:27,680 --> 00:00:29,920 Speaker 1: is how was the deal done and how did it 9 00:00:30,120 --> 00:00:33,040 Speaker 1: turn out to be so different than what was originally 10 00:00:33,040 --> 00:00:35,760 Speaker 1: going to happen. It is the art of the deal. 11 00:00:35,960 --> 00:00:38,040 Speaker 1: That's the best way I can describe it. And it 12 00:00:38,080 --> 00:00:40,000 Speaker 1: was a deal that certainly was going to put us 13 00:00:40,040 --> 00:00:43,480 Speaker 1: in a better place than we were before because many 14 00:00:43,520 --> 00:00:47,680 Speaker 1: conservatives were willing to stand up and fight hard. The 15 00:00:47,880 --> 00:00:51,040 Speaker 1: Maga revolt. That's how it's being described in the press 16 00:00:51,120 --> 00:00:55,600 Speaker 1: right now. Slash the original one thousand, five hundred and 17 00:00:55,640 --> 00:01:00,560 Speaker 1: forty seven page spending bill all the way down to 18 00:01:00,840 --> 00:01:06,120 Speaker 1: just one hundred and eighteen pages this Friday, and the 19 00:01:06,160 --> 00:01:10,440 Speaker 1: House bill to averted government shutdown was trimmed by one thousand, 20 00:01:11,120 --> 00:01:16,280 Speaker 1: three hundred and fifty nine pages after conservatives said, no, 21 00:01:17,040 --> 00:01:19,399 Speaker 1: we are not going to have this massive expansion of 22 00:01:19,480 --> 00:01:23,160 Speaker 1: government in a continuing resolution, and we're not going to 23 00:01:23,240 --> 00:01:25,880 Speaker 1: have the pork barrel spending in the cr as Well 24 00:01:26,240 --> 00:01:30,600 Speaker 1: House Speaker Mike Johnson's original measure was filled with pork, 25 00:01:30,640 --> 00:01:33,200 Speaker 1: there's no doubt about it. Now, he also had to 26 00:01:33,200 --> 00:01:35,640 Speaker 1: work a deal because he had to deal with Republicans 27 00:01:36,040 --> 00:01:39,160 Speaker 1: and Democrats, and that's a very tough spot to be in. 28 00:01:39,200 --> 00:01:40,520 Speaker 1: I want to be clear about that, and I'm going 29 00:01:40,560 --> 00:01:42,800 Speaker 1: to explain more about why I say that in a moment. 30 00:01:43,319 --> 00:01:46,840 Speaker 1: But the reduction in size underscores what I would say 31 00:01:46,880 --> 00:01:50,400 Speaker 1: is the failure by the pork barrel spenders in DC 32 00:01:51,280 --> 00:01:54,280 Speaker 1: who wanted to pass a massive spending bill with Democrats 33 00:01:54,320 --> 00:01:58,360 Speaker 1: support that few had even read before members were asked 34 00:01:58,360 --> 00:02:00,840 Speaker 1: to vote on it, and that is a problem. There 35 00:02:00,880 --> 00:02:04,120 Speaker 1: is an appetite for government reform right now. There's an 36 00:02:04,120 --> 00:02:07,480 Speaker 1: appetite for reducing the size of government. It's very clear 37 00:02:07,520 --> 00:02:10,000 Speaker 1: that there was a mandate for that in this last election. 38 00:02:10,639 --> 00:02:14,760 Speaker 1: There is a huge appetite in people supporting and advocating 39 00:02:14,800 --> 00:02:19,880 Speaker 1: for DOGE. That is going to be streamlining and changing 40 00:02:20,320 --> 00:02:23,960 Speaker 1: how we do and run and spend our money in 41 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:27,400 Speaker 1: the US. That's being done by Elon Musk and by 42 00:02:27,480 --> 00:02:31,120 Speaker 1: Vi vic Ramaswami at the leadership of Donald Trump. Now 43 00:02:31,520 --> 00:02:35,800 Speaker 1: you put all that together, and Democrats are angry. They're 44 00:02:35,880 --> 00:02:39,680 Speaker 1: angry at Elon Musk, and they're angry at Maga. They're 45 00:02:39,720 --> 00:02:43,760 Speaker 1: angry at Conservatives for standing up to the government waste 46 00:02:43,800 --> 00:02:47,640 Speaker 1: and abuse. How angry are they? Let me play for you. 47 00:02:48,280 --> 00:02:51,960 Speaker 1: Rosa Delaro, who lost her mind on the floor of 48 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:55,640 Speaker 1: the House is she's angry as she describes it, that 49 00:02:55,680 --> 00:02:58,400 Speaker 1: there is some man who is elected by no one 50 00:02:59,240 --> 00:03:02,120 Speaker 1: who is now giving marching orders to the House and 51 00:03:02,200 --> 00:03:05,400 Speaker 1: the Republicans to shut down the government. Issue described it. 52 00:03:06,040 --> 00:03:10,320 Speaker 1: Take a listen to the purpled haired Democrat from Connecticut. 53 00:03:11,600 --> 00:03:14,720 Speaker 2: We are on the cusp of an agreement to move 54 00:03:14,919 --> 00:03:20,799 Speaker 2: this country forward. But two days ago, a multi billionaire 55 00:03:21,560 --> 00:03:28,400 Speaker 2: with apparently no working knowledge of our government or of appropriations, 56 00:03:29,280 --> 00:03:32,560 Speaker 2: someone who is a self appointed president of the United States, 57 00:03:33,520 --> 00:03:38,840 Speaker 2: Elon Musk, issued a marching order for House Republicans to 58 00:03:38,880 --> 00:03:43,640 Speaker 2: go against their own elected leadership. Shut down the government. 59 00:03:44,480 --> 00:03:50,240 Speaker 2: Shut down the government. House Republicans are responsible for any 60 00:03:50,280 --> 00:03:54,800 Speaker 2: harm and uncertainty brought upon the American people, And should 61 00:03:54,840 --> 00:03:58,320 Speaker 2: some get their wish for a month long government shut down, 62 00:03:58,880 --> 00:04:02,280 Speaker 2: they will be respect for cleaning up their mess come 63 00:04:02,320 --> 00:04:08,520 Speaker 2: inauguration day. Indeed, we are in completely unprecedented times when 64 00:04:08,600 --> 00:04:13,480 Speaker 2: someone who has no knowledge of government, who has no 65 00:04:13,600 --> 00:04:19,040 Speaker 2: knowledge of an appropriations process, who is external to the 66 00:04:19,080 --> 00:04:24,640 Speaker 2: House of Representatives, can make his weight felt here in 67 00:04:24,839 --> 00:04:28,919 Speaker 2: turning what was a bill that was on its way, 68 00:04:30,600 --> 00:04:34,640 Speaker 2: a bipartisan bill, a bi cameral bill, was on its 69 00:04:34,720 --> 00:04:40,520 Speaker 2: way to achieving its goal of keeping the US government open, 70 00:04:40,760 --> 00:04:46,640 Speaker 2: and the goal actually is providing services to American citizens, 71 00:04:46,800 --> 00:04:54,320 Speaker 2: to working families, middle class families, vulnerable families where our 72 00:04:54,360 --> 00:05:02,880 Speaker 2: responsibility lies. The world's richest man read being billions in 73 00:05:03,000 --> 00:05:08,080 Speaker 2: government contracts, is calling the shots in the Republican Party 74 00:05:09,560 --> 00:05:13,440 Speaker 2: at the behest of the world's richest man, who no 75 00:05:13,520 --> 00:05:18,200 Speaker 2: one voted for. The United States Congress has been thrown 76 00:05:18,640 --> 00:05:23,000 Speaker 2: into pandemonian It leads you to the question of who 77 00:05:23,200 --> 00:05:27,200 Speaker 2: is in charge. I thought that there was a Republican 78 00:05:27,360 --> 00:05:35,160 Speaker 2: majority in this body, not a President Musk majority. 79 00:05:36,480 --> 00:05:39,760 Speaker 1: Now let's talk about what she said. Quote the self 80 00:05:39,760 --> 00:05:41,960 Speaker 1: appointed president of the United States, Elon mussy Issy to 81 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:44,800 Speaker 1: a marching order for House Republicans to shut the government down. 82 00:05:45,480 --> 00:05:47,800 Speaker 1: What he made What he actually did was he said no, 83 00:05:48,160 --> 00:05:52,320 Speaker 1: I'm calling out the abuse of power. I'm calling out 84 00:05:52,360 --> 00:05:54,560 Speaker 1: the fact that you've got a bill that no one's read. 85 00:05:54,600 --> 00:05:57,680 Speaker 1: There's one five and forty seven pages long, filled with 86 00:05:57,720 --> 00:06:00,279 Speaker 1: port belle spending, and I want to reduce it. And 87 00:06:00,320 --> 00:06:03,040 Speaker 1: we did and condensed it into one hundred and eighteen 88 00:06:03,080 --> 00:06:06,960 Speaker 1: pages and excluded the extreme amount of pork that Johnson allowed, 89 00:06:06,960 --> 00:06:10,599 Speaker 1: by the way, in the original bill. Elon Musk is 90 00:06:10,600 --> 00:06:13,160 Speaker 1: not the President of the United States of America. But 91 00:06:13,200 --> 00:06:15,279 Speaker 1: what Elon Musk did was give a voice to the 92 00:06:15,360 --> 00:06:18,520 Speaker 1: voiceless in this country and those that don't have the 93 00:06:18,640 --> 00:06:21,839 Speaker 1: type of power to get the word out that he 94 00:06:22,080 --> 00:06:25,400 Speaker 1: clearly does. And the American people clearly agreed with him, 95 00:06:25,480 --> 00:06:28,360 Speaker 1: and the American people acted, and the American people called 96 00:06:28,360 --> 00:06:32,920 Speaker 1: their congressman, and the American people got rid literally, this 97 00:06:32,960 --> 00:06:37,360 Speaker 1: is no exaggeration, got rid of one thousand, three hundred 98 00:06:37,360 --> 00:06:42,560 Speaker 1: and fifty nine pages of government waste, abuse and fraud. 99 00:06:44,000 --> 00:06:48,880 Speaker 1: That is incredible. So was it worth it? Yes? Was 100 00:06:48,920 --> 00:06:49,599 Speaker 1: it anarchy? 101 00:06:49,920 --> 00:06:50,120 Speaker 3: No? 102 00:06:51,080 --> 00:06:53,839 Speaker 1: Was it Elon Musk giving power to the people to 103 00:06:53,920 --> 00:06:57,200 Speaker 1: make sure that the people were able to do what 104 00:06:57,240 --> 00:07:02,440 Speaker 1: they need to do and say no to mass suspending. Yes, 105 00:07:03,440 --> 00:07:06,240 Speaker 1: now here's what you need to know about what they 106 00:07:06,240 --> 00:07:08,040 Speaker 1: have passed on the House side, and I'm going to 107 00:07:08,080 --> 00:07:10,320 Speaker 1: get to the Senate in a moment because the Senate 108 00:07:10,680 --> 00:07:13,160 Speaker 1: is controlled, as you know, by the Democrats right now. 109 00:07:13,880 --> 00:07:18,480 Speaker 1: The bill will fund the government until March fourteenth. It 110 00:07:18,520 --> 00:07:23,120 Speaker 1: also includes disaster relief and farm aid, which is very important. 111 00:07:23,720 --> 00:07:27,080 Speaker 1: The bill does not include an extension of the debt limit, 112 00:07:27,280 --> 00:07:31,240 Speaker 1: which President elect Donald Trump demanded. That will place Johnson's 113 00:07:31,280 --> 00:07:35,440 Speaker 1: reelection on January third for Speaker in a very precarious position. 114 00:07:35,920 --> 00:07:39,000 Speaker 1: I want to be clear, I support Speaker Johnson, and 115 00:07:39,080 --> 00:07:41,400 Speaker 1: I think we would get a much more liberal speaker 116 00:07:41,440 --> 00:07:44,800 Speaker 1: if Speaker Johnson is pushed out. And I don't like 117 00:07:44,880 --> 00:07:47,960 Speaker 1: what we're doing right now. Every time somebody because there's 118 00:07:48,000 --> 00:07:51,760 Speaker 1: such a thin margin for Republicans that there's a lot 119 00:07:51,760 --> 00:07:54,040 Speaker 1: of power now given to certain members in Congress. And 120 00:07:54,080 --> 00:07:55,960 Speaker 1: I don't like where we're headed with this, because if 121 00:07:56,000 --> 00:07:58,120 Speaker 1: you don't like your one way or the way things 122 00:07:58,160 --> 00:08:00,040 Speaker 1: are going, the fact that you can get rid of 123 00:08:00,120 --> 00:08:02,680 Speaker 1: another speaker, I think is a very bad decision. I 124 00:08:02,720 --> 00:08:05,920 Speaker 1: also think that Speaker Johnson has done a very good job, 125 00:08:06,320 --> 00:08:10,120 Speaker 1: and I think you will serve Donald Trump very well. 126 00:08:10,560 --> 00:08:13,440 Speaker 1: Much better than Kevin McCarthy would have ever done. And 127 00:08:13,520 --> 00:08:16,120 Speaker 1: if he's not careful, what's going to happen is you're 128 00:08:16,120 --> 00:08:19,120 Speaker 1: gonna end up getting a much more liberal member of 129 00:08:19,280 --> 00:08:21,880 Speaker 1: the body who would end up becoming the Speaker of 130 00:08:21,920 --> 00:08:24,080 Speaker 1: the House because he'll get some votes from Democrats to 131 00:08:24,200 --> 00:08:26,640 Speaker 1: do it more than likely, and then you'll lose an 132 00:08:26,760 --> 00:08:31,160 Speaker 1: actual conservative in Speaker Johnson. That's where we are now 133 00:08:31,320 --> 00:08:34,440 Speaker 1: with this. Now, let me also put it this way. 134 00:08:34,640 --> 00:08:38,360 Speaker 1: Punch Bowl News reported on the politics the latest proposed measure, 135 00:08:38,440 --> 00:08:42,480 Speaker 1: saying this, Johnson is now pushing a short term funding 136 00:08:42,520 --> 00:08:45,880 Speaker 1: bill that keeps federal agencies open until mid March. The 137 00:08:45,880 --> 00:08:48,400 Speaker 1: bill would include a hundred billion in disaster aid for 138 00:08:48,400 --> 00:08:51,520 Speaker 1: the hurricane batter in Southeast and other states. There's also 139 00:08:51,600 --> 00:08:54,960 Speaker 1: thirty billion in aid for farmers and a one year 140 00:08:55,000 --> 00:08:59,240 Speaker 1: extension of the current agriculture policy. The measure will be 141 00:08:59,280 --> 00:09:02,680 Speaker 1: taken up under suspicion according to senior GOP lawmakers and 142 00:09:02,720 --> 00:09:06,760 Speaker 1: AIDS meeting, meaning it needs a two third majority to pass. 143 00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:09,480 Speaker 1: There'll be one vote instead of individual votes on the 144 00:09:09,559 --> 00:09:14,600 Speaker 1: component parts as Johnson's first envisioned. Now what we know 145 00:09:14,960 --> 00:09:17,720 Speaker 1: is what happened. What we know now it's very clear 146 00:09:18,760 --> 00:09:21,959 Speaker 1: this has past the House, and it's passed the House, 147 00:09:22,040 --> 00:09:24,880 Speaker 1: and it now is the sentence. And I'm going to 148 00:09:24,960 --> 00:09:28,280 Speaker 1: talk about that vote obviously in a moment. But what 149 00:09:28,320 --> 00:09:32,160 Speaker 1: I want you to understand is this Speaker Johnson was 150 00:09:32,240 --> 00:09:36,640 Speaker 1: able to get this bill to drop significantly in size 151 00:09:37,120 --> 00:09:41,240 Speaker 1: and save you the taxpayers, hundreds of billions of dollars. 152 00:09:42,160 --> 00:09:44,440 Speaker 1: The problem now is you're now going to have a 153 00:09:44,480 --> 00:09:48,400 Speaker 1: debt sealing vote come early next year, and that's going 154 00:09:48,480 --> 00:09:50,880 Speaker 1: to be under the Republican leadership and under Donald Trump. 155 00:09:51,200 --> 00:09:53,640 Speaker 1: There are many people that didn't want that, don't like it, 156 00:09:53,679 --> 00:09:55,760 Speaker 1: didn't want to have to deal with this, and that's 157 00:09:55,800 --> 00:09:58,200 Speaker 1: a political issue that we're going to obviously have to 158 00:09:58,240 --> 00:10:03,080 Speaker 1: deal with. Quick Break Ferguson show, More coming up. So 159 00:10:03,200 --> 00:10:07,040 Speaker 1: let's talk about the fallout now of this deal. There 160 00:10:07,120 --> 00:10:09,920 Speaker 1: is clearly blood in the water over this deal, and 161 00:10:09,960 --> 00:10:15,800 Speaker 1: the sharks are circling around Speaker Johnson because of the 162 00:10:15,840 --> 00:10:18,800 Speaker 1: fighting and the pork and everything that's in this bill. Now, 163 00:10:18,840 --> 00:10:21,200 Speaker 1: I want to be clear, when you have this razor 164 00:10:21,240 --> 00:10:23,880 Speaker 1: thin majority as he does, it gives a lot of 165 00:10:24,080 --> 00:10:27,760 Speaker 1: yahoos in Congress a lot of power, and it makes 166 00:10:27,800 --> 00:10:31,000 Speaker 1: you have to listen to more people and to give 167 00:10:31,120 --> 00:10:33,400 Speaker 1: people more things. They want to make sure you get 168 00:10:33,440 --> 00:10:36,120 Speaker 1: their vote. Otherwise then you have a government shut down 169 00:10:36,160 --> 00:10:39,280 Speaker 1: and it's on you, the Republican Party. I want to 170 00:10:39,320 --> 00:10:41,680 Speaker 1: make it very clear that I still believe that Speaker 171 00:10:41,760 --> 00:10:44,760 Speaker 1: Johnson is a conservative, and I also want to be 172 00:10:44,760 --> 00:10:47,640 Speaker 1: clear that I think he's probably the most conservative that 173 00:10:47,679 --> 00:10:49,520 Speaker 1: we could get elected that would have the votes to 174 00:10:49,520 --> 00:10:53,600 Speaker 1: be elected as a Speaker of the House. I don't 175 00:10:53,679 --> 00:10:56,760 Speaker 1: like what we're doing right now, which every time there's 176 00:10:56,760 --> 00:10:59,520 Speaker 1: a vote on saying significant, there's this litanus test. It's like, well, 177 00:10:59,559 --> 00:11:01,000 Speaker 1: if you don't get me what I want, then I'm 178 00:11:01,000 --> 00:11:03,120 Speaker 1: going to get you out of your office and your job. 179 00:11:03,480 --> 00:11:05,760 Speaker 1: And I don't like a speaker being held hostage by 180 00:11:05,800 --> 00:11:10,040 Speaker 1: his own party. But that's the road that Republicans are 181 00:11:10,080 --> 00:11:12,240 Speaker 1: going down right now. And I'm saying it again. I 182 00:11:12,240 --> 00:11:15,040 Speaker 1: think you have to be extremely careful. You have to 183 00:11:15,080 --> 00:11:18,640 Speaker 1: be very, very, very very careful, because this is what 184 00:11:18,679 --> 00:11:21,800 Speaker 1: the Democratic Party does better than us. They don't eat 185 00:11:22,240 --> 00:11:25,920 Speaker 1: their own. We keep eating our own. And you have 186 00:11:26,000 --> 00:11:30,040 Speaker 1: to understand that there's ideals and then there's the reality 187 00:11:30,080 --> 00:11:32,719 Speaker 1: of the numbers. And if you look at the majority 188 00:11:32,800 --> 00:11:35,400 Speaker 1: and just how thin it is right now, We're lucky 189 00:11:35,400 --> 00:11:37,280 Speaker 1: to have the majority in the House. To be clear, 190 00:11:37,559 --> 00:11:42,720 Speaker 1: we're very lucky, and it is a razor thin majority. 191 00:11:43,200 --> 00:11:46,000 Speaker 1: What Speaker Johnson is having to walk into every day, 192 00:11:46,040 --> 00:11:49,240 Speaker 1: where any one or two or three Congressmen can hold 193 00:11:49,320 --> 00:11:52,720 Speaker 1: him hostage every single day of the week on any issue, 194 00:11:53,440 --> 00:11:55,840 Speaker 1: is not a healthy place for us to be. And 195 00:11:55,880 --> 00:11:58,400 Speaker 1: it's not Democrats that are holding him hostage, it is 196 00:11:58,480 --> 00:12:02,440 Speaker 1: Republicans that are holding him home. This is an extremely 197 00:12:02,960 --> 00:12:08,040 Speaker 1: hard job, especially when you have Republicans are in essence, 198 00:12:08,160 --> 00:12:12,960 Speaker 1: willing to walk in every day different ones and blackmail him. Now, 199 00:12:13,000 --> 00:12:15,360 Speaker 1: the deal he negotiated with the Democrats failed to get 200 00:12:15,360 --> 00:12:19,680 Speaker 1: a vote amid Republican outrage because of what he was 201 00:12:19,720 --> 00:12:23,720 Speaker 1: having to do, which was to give pork. He had 202 00:12:23,760 --> 00:12:26,240 Speaker 1: no other option but to do that or to have 203 00:12:26,360 --> 00:12:29,360 Speaker 1: a government shut down. Now, I want to be clear 204 00:12:29,400 --> 00:12:31,840 Speaker 1: about what did and didn't happen here because some people 205 00:12:32,360 --> 00:12:36,080 Speaker 1: are blaming Johnson for all this and they don't understand 206 00:12:36,080 --> 00:12:40,959 Speaker 1: the reality of the situation. The reason why we got 207 00:12:40,960 --> 00:12:45,200 Speaker 1: this bill reduced by thirteen hundred plus pages is because 208 00:12:45,200 --> 00:12:48,200 Speaker 1: the American people started calling, not Johnson but they're actual 209 00:12:48,200 --> 00:12:50,480 Speaker 1: members of Congress, and the actual members of Congress are 210 00:12:50,480 --> 00:12:52,319 Speaker 1: feeling the heat. They were afraid they were gonna get 211 00:12:52,320 --> 00:12:55,840 Speaker 1: in trouble or be primaried, and so then they decided 212 00:12:55,840 --> 00:12:58,840 Speaker 1: to do the right thing that allowed Johnson to get 213 00:12:58,840 --> 00:13:02,680 Speaker 1: a different deal done. And there's people that are ignorant. 214 00:13:02,720 --> 00:13:05,160 Speaker 1: They don't understand Johnson does not have near as much 215 00:13:05,200 --> 00:13:08,720 Speaker 1: power as you think when it comes to counting, because 216 00:13:08,720 --> 00:13:11,000 Speaker 1: you still have to count to two eighteen to pass something, 217 00:13:11,400 --> 00:13:15,280 Speaker 1: and Johnson was put in an impossible situation. And one 218 00:13:15,320 --> 00:13:17,240 Speaker 1: of the good things that came out of Elon Musk's 219 00:13:17,240 --> 00:13:20,640 Speaker 1: tweets and Vivicar Ramasom's tweets and Donald Trump's tweets is 220 00:13:20,679 --> 00:13:22,920 Speaker 1: that there was so much pressure put on members of 221 00:13:22,920 --> 00:13:25,720 Speaker 1: Congress to do the right thing that that's what happened. 222 00:13:25,920 --> 00:13:28,800 Speaker 1: This was not Speaker Johnson's fault. And if you think 223 00:13:28,800 --> 00:13:31,600 Speaker 1: that it is, you need to understand how Washington works, 224 00:13:31,640 --> 00:13:33,640 Speaker 1: and that's my job here is to explain it to you. 225 00:13:35,160 --> 00:13:38,959 Speaker 1: I also think that there is a problem, and this 226 00:13:39,040 --> 00:13:41,520 Speaker 1: is a storm that is brewing because we're going to 227 00:13:41,559 --> 00:13:43,720 Speaker 1: have a debt ceiling vote going into next year. I 228 00:13:43,760 --> 00:13:45,679 Speaker 1: don't like that but this is the best deal week 229 00:13:45,760 --> 00:13:49,120 Speaker 1: apparently could get done at the time, and you still 230 00:13:49,160 --> 00:13:52,040 Speaker 1: have to be able to count to two eighteen Now. 231 00:13:52,600 --> 00:13:56,600 Speaker 1: Friday afternoon, for example, there was a Republican representative from 232 00:13:56,600 --> 00:14:00,600 Speaker 1: New York delivered the latest blow to Johnson, walking into 233 00:14:00,600 --> 00:14:03,360 Speaker 1: a House Republican conference being to hash on another path 234 00:14:03,400 --> 00:14:06,479 Speaker 1: forward and made clear that she stands on Johnson's leadership 235 00:14:06,760 --> 00:14:09,439 Speaker 1: or lack thereof, saying quote, I don't know what's going on, 236 00:14:09,880 --> 00:14:11,840 Speaker 1: and really that's part of the problem, is what she 237 00:14:11,880 --> 00:14:14,880 Speaker 1: said to reporters, adding there has been quote zero communication 238 00:14:14,960 --> 00:14:18,240 Speaker 1: from leadership to the membership. Something should change before January third. 239 00:14:18,760 --> 00:14:22,360 Speaker 1: So you can already see Republicans are saying hey, and 240 00:14:22,400 --> 00:14:24,240 Speaker 1: it's one or two of them that can have this 241 00:14:24,400 --> 00:14:30,600 Speaker 1: much power. This is also an example of Representative Thomas Massey, 242 00:14:30,720 --> 00:14:34,600 Speaker 1: Republican from Kentucky. He's committed to voting against Johnson as well. 243 00:14:34,840 --> 00:14:38,880 Speaker 1: Representative Riche McCormick, a Republican from Georgia, said on Thursday 244 00:14:38,880 --> 00:14:41,360 Speaker 1: he would oppose Johnson if the vote were held today. 245 00:14:42,280 --> 00:14:45,680 Speaker 1: When asked how frustrating frustrated she was with Johnson. The 246 00:14:45,760 --> 00:14:50,320 Speaker 1: congresswoman that I mentioned a moment ago from New York answered, 247 00:14:50,440 --> 00:14:54,520 Speaker 1: how does it sound, referring to how mad she is? Now, 248 00:14:54,680 --> 00:14:58,560 Speaker 1: that's three Republicans. Look at the majority. It's razor thin. 249 00:14:59,320 --> 00:15:01,960 Speaker 1: I will tell you right now, there is no one 250 00:15:02,000 --> 00:15:04,360 Speaker 1: else on the list to be Speaker of the House 251 00:15:04,400 --> 00:15:07,200 Speaker 1: that is as conservative and or as solid of a 252 00:15:07,360 --> 00:15:13,640 Speaker 1: Christian is Speaker Johnson. Okay, Speaker Johnson keeps getting put 253 00:15:13,680 --> 00:15:18,920 Speaker 1: in an impossible situation over and over and over and 254 00:15:19,080 --> 00:15:25,520 Speaker 1: over and over again. Put into an impossible situation because 255 00:15:25,560 --> 00:15:29,440 Speaker 1: he has such a small window for success and there 256 00:15:29,480 --> 00:15:33,880 Speaker 1: are so many liberals out there, an opportunists, I would 257 00:15:33,920 --> 00:15:36,160 Speaker 1: argue in the Republican Party that can just straight up 258 00:15:36,200 --> 00:15:39,840 Speaker 1: screw with him whenever they want to. And that is 259 00:15:39,880 --> 00:15:42,440 Speaker 1: one of the biggest problems here. And that's why they're saying, ooh, 260 00:15:42,480 --> 00:15:44,880 Speaker 1: there's blood in the water. Oh maybe we can get 261 00:15:44,920 --> 00:15:47,720 Speaker 1: rid of him. My question is careful what you wish for? 262 00:15:48,160 --> 00:15:52,080 Speaker 1: Who are you going to get? That's the question that 263 00:15:52,120 --> 00:15:58,240 Speaker 1: everybody needs to be asking, who are you going to get? Now? 264 00:15:59,400 --> 00:16:03,400 Speaker 1: Representative of Chip Roy, for example, asking the question today, 265 00:16:03,960 --> 00:16:08,520 Speaker 1: sidestepping the question over Trump's primary thread over the spinning bill, 266 00:16:08,600 --> 00:16:11,000 Speaker 1: saying quote, I'm not worried about the politics. 267 00:16:11,000 --> 00:16:13,880 Speaker 4: Here, take a listen, all right for the very latest 268 00:16:13,920 --> 00:16:16,200 Speaker 4: on all of this, Let's bring in Texas Republican Cogressman 269 00:16:16,280 --> 00:16:18,920 Speaker 4: Chip Roy, who serves on the House Budget Committee. So 270 00:16:18,960 --> 00:16:21,840 Speaker 4: the meeting with the House Republican Conference is still going on. 271 00:16:21,960 --> 00:16:24,600 Speaker 4: I assume you were there for a time. What's going 272 00:16:24,600 --> 00:16:27,000 Speaker 4: on inside? And are we going to see a deal? 273 00:16:27,320 --> 00:16:29,440 Speaker 4: Are we going to see a vote? We're going to 274 00:16:29,440 --> 00:16:32,520 Speaker 4: see a government shuts down? All options on the table? 275 00:16:32,520 --> 00:16:35,320 Speaker 5: I don't know. Hey, John, Hey Shannon. 276 00:16:35,360 --> 00:16:36,840 Speaker 6: Great to be on and yeah, the meeting is still 277 00:16:36,920 --> 00:16:39,479 Speaker 6: underway as we speak, and we're having a good conversation. 278 00:16:39,520 --> 00:16:42,280 Speaker 6: And look, President Trump is absolutely right. We need to 279 00:16:42,280 --> 00:16:43,880 Speaker 6: deal with the dead ceiling. We need to get it 280 00:16:43,920 --> 00:16:45,680 Speaker 6: on the table so that he can proceed to do 281 00:16:45,720 --> 00:16:48,240 Speaker 6: what he needs to do without Chuck Schumer rattling the 282 00:16:48,280 --> 00:16:50,920 Speaker 6: markets with threats of default. That's what Chuck Schumer has 283 00:16:50,960 --> 00:16:53,760 Speaker 6: said publicly and to people in the Senate. He wants 284 00:16:53,840 --> 00:16:56,120 Speaker 6: to do so President Trump is right. The question is 285 00:16:56,120 --> 00:16:58,520 Speaker 6: how we get there. The first bill that was negotiated, 286 00:16:58,680 --> 00:17:01,240 Speaker 6: obviously was a non starter, and the American people saw 287 00:17:01,280 --> 00:17:04,680 Speaker 6: everything that was in five and fifty pages. 288 00:17:05,000 --> 00:17:07,000 Speaker 1: So we've moved the needle forward to a better bill. 289 00:17:07,200 --> 00:17:07,880 Speaker 1: But it was a bill. 290 00:17:07,920 --> 00:17:09,920 Speaker 6: And you asked, why did I oppose the bill last night? 291 00:17:10,040 --> 00:17:12,919 Speaker 6: Thirty eight Republicans opposed it was because it came with 292 00:17:13,640 --> 00:17:15,840 Speaker 6: two year extension of the debt ceiling, which would be 293 00:17:15,880 --> 00:17:18,440 Speaker 6: about five trillion dollar a lift in our credit card 294 00:17:18,720 --> 00:17:23,760 Speaker 6: without any structural spending reforms. So our position is, mister President, 295 00:17:23,800 --> 00:17:26,800 Speaker 6: we want to deliver for you on a debt ceiling 296 00:17:26,800 --> 00:17:28,520 Speaker 6: increase to get it out of the way. Chuck Schumer 297 00:17:28,560 --> 00:17:32,240 Speaker 6: can't abuse it, but we need spending restraints. So what 298 00:17:32,240 --> 00:17:34,480 Speaker 6: we've been doing for forty eight hours is meeting, meeting 299 00:17:34,560 --> 00:17:36,600 Speaker 6: with the Vice president, meeting with a lot of folks 300 00:17:36,600 --> 00:17:39,959 Speaker 6: in his incoming administration. I think we've got the outlines 301 00:17:40,000 --> 00:17:42,679 Speaker 6: of something that would work, but we're still discussing it 302 00:17:42,720 --> 00:17:45,440 Speaker 6: as we speak. I think we can get something done 303 00:17:45,520 --> 00:17:48,240 Speaker 6: that will make everybody happy. We're working hard to do it. 304 00:17:48,800 --> 00:17:50,879 Speaker 4: Okay, we'll talk about the outlines in just a second, 305 00:17:50,880 --> 00:17:52,320 Speaker 4: and let me come back to this idea of the 306 00:17:52,320 --> 00:17:55,720 Speaker 4: debt ceiling and voting against the proposal the President Trump 307 00:17:55,840 --> 00:17:58,840 Speaker 4: was proposing and was getting behind. He was supporting it 308 00:17:58,960 --> 00:18:01,640 Speaker 4: because he's now taken at you saying that you, Chip 309 00:18:01,680 --> 00:18:03,480 Speaker 4: Royer getting in the way of what he wants done, 310 00:18:03,600 --> 00:18:07,640 Speaker 4: and he's encouraging Republicans in Texas to primary you. 311 00:18:07,640 --> 00:18:08,840 Speaker 5: You've really poked the barrier. 312 00:18:10,200 --> 00:18:10,400 Speaker 1: Yeah. 313 00:18:10,480 --> 00:18:12,080 Speaker 6: Look, at the end of the day, my job is 314 00:18:12,119 --> 00:18:15,399 Speaker 6: to honor God, my family, the Constitution, and the voters 315 00:18:15,400 --> 00:18:16,120 Speaker 6: who sent me here. 316 00:18:16,640 --> 00:18:18,080 Speaker 5: That is what drives me. 317 00:18:18,160 --> 00:18:21,080 Speaker 6: But I am working tirelessly to get what the president wants. 318 00:18:21,240 --> 00:18:23,800 Speaker 6: I think the President knows that at the end of 319 00:18:23,800 --> 00:18:27,040 Speaker 6: the day. Look politics or politics. Rick Perry called President 320 00:18:27,119 --> 00:18:29,560 Speaker 6: Trump a cancer and then ended up in his cabinet. 321 00:18:29,720 --> 00:18:32,320 Speaker 6: I'm not worried about politics. I'm worried about the American people. 322 00:18:32,400 --> 00:18:34,920 Speaker 6: I'm worried about inflation. I'm worried about a five trillion 323 00:18:34,920 --> 00:18:38,200 Speaker 6: dollars debt sealing increase with no spending cuts. The President 324 00:18:38,359 --> 00:18:41,760 Speaker 6: is rightly motivated to block Chuck Schumer's abuse, but we 325 00:18:41,960 --> 00:18:44,960 Speaker 6: Republicans here in Congress, in the House have an obligation 326 00:18:45,040 --> 00:18:47,399 Speaker 6: to get it done correctly. That's what we're working to 327 00:18:47,440 --> 00:18:50,040 Speaker 6: try to do on behalf of the President and our 328 00:18:50,080 --> 00:18:52,720 Speaker 6: constituents and our obligations under the Constitution. 329 00:18:53,119 --> 00:18:55,000 Speaker 5: All right, So let's look behind the curtain. 330 00:18:55,320 --> 00:18:56,880 Speaker 4: If we could just a little bit because our Aisha 331 00:18:56,960 --> 00:19:00,440 Speaker 4: Husti tells us that there's a couple of options being talked. 332 00:19:00,240 --> 00:19:00,960 Speaker 5: About right now. 333 00:19:01,320 --> 00:19:03,600 Speaker 4: One is a CR that will be coupled with Disaster 334 00:19:03,680 --> 00:19:04,840 Speaker 4: Aiate and Farm made. 335 00:19:05,440 --> 00:19:07,000 Speaker 5: It would be effective through March. 336 00:19:07,320 --> 00:19:09,400 Speaker 4: It would be the vote would be on a suspension 337 00:19:09,400 --> 00:19:12,840 Speaker 4: of the rules which limits debate no amendments. Or option 338 00:19:12,960 --> 00:19:15,800 Speaker 4: number two is a CR Disaster Rate and farm made 339 00:19:15,840 --> 00:19:17,440 Speaker 4: of separate bills in separate votes. 340 00:19:17,480 --> 00:19:18,639 Speaker 5: Which way do you think is going to go? 341 00:19:19,720 --> 00:19:21,800 Speaker 6: Well, that is what is being debated as we speak, 342 00:19:21,800 --> 00:19:22,879 Speaker 6: and I don't want to get in front of the 343 00:19:22,880 --> 00:19:26,359 Speaker 6: speaker or my colleagues making news here or violate confidences 344 00:19:26,400 --> 00:19:30,960 Speaker 6: of a private meeting. But everything hinges on getting comfortable 345 00:19:30,960 --> 00:19:34,280 Speaker 6: with the outlines and the contours of spending restraint next 346 00:19:34,359 --> 00:19:37,440 Speaker 6: year in reconciliation as part of the agreement on how 347 00:19:37,480 --> 00:19:39,760 Speaker 6: much we can lift the debt ceiling. I think we're 348 00:19:39,760 --> 00:19:42,480 Speaker 6: getting comfortable with that outline as we speak, and then 349 00:19:42,480 --> 00:19:45,159 Speaker 6: if so, one of two things will happen. Either the 350 00:19:45,160 --> 00:19:48,359 Speaker 6: package last night without the debt ceiling attached to it 351 00:19:48,400 --> 00:19:51,280 Speaker 6: will move forward because the President is comfortable that we're 352 00:19:51,320 --> 00:19:53,119 Speaker 6: going to be able to get that done in January 353 00:19:53,600 --> 00:19:56,560 Speaker 6: or there might be some standalone votes on a continual 354 00:19:56,600 --> 00:19:59,920 Speaker 6: resolution plus the Farm Bill extension of one year a separate. 355 00:20:00,000 --> 00:20:02,560 Speaker 1: Now you can hear there they're talking to him about 356 00:20:02,560 --> 00:20:05,520 Speaker 1: this vote. We know what happened, We understand this. But 357 00:20:05,640 --> 00:20:08,840 Speaker 1: I want you to notice now what the media has done. 358 00:20:09,600 --> 00:20:12,359 Speaker 1: They are now trying to turn these votes into a 359 00:20:12,359 --> 00:20:17,000 Speaker 1: civil war within the Republican Party. Chip Roy's a good man, 360 00:20:17,720 --> 00:20:21,680 Speaker 1: he's a fiscal conservative, he's a Christian, he's a hard 361 00:20:21,720 --> 00:20:25,640 Speaker 1: fighter for our constitution, and he's somebody that I would 362 00:20:25,800 --> 00:20:30,960 Speaker 1: argue as a great member of Congress. I tell you 363 00:20:31,080 --> 00:20:34,919 Speaker 1: this tale to remind you to be careful to not 364 00:20:35,160 --> 00:20:38,440 Speaker 1: fall into the civil war idea within the Republican Party, 365 00:20:38,440 --> 00:20:41,760 Speaker 1: because this is what Democrats want. They want Donald Trump 366 00:20:41,800 --> 00:20:45,320 Speaker 1: angry to a conservative, hardcore member of Congress and being 367 00:20:45,320 --> 00:20:48,639 Speaker 1: at odds with one another. That is a problem. We 368 00:20:48,800 --> 00:20:52,400 Speaker 1: do not need to be in a civil war period. 369 00:20:53,080 --> 00:20:56,239 Speaker 1: So the media is going to spend this in a 370 00:20:56,240 --> 00:20:59,359 Speaker 1: different way. What the media is going to do is 371 00:20:59,400 --> 00:21:02,520 Speaker 1: they are going to spin it to tell you to 372 00:21:02,640 --> 00:21:06,439 Speaker 1: make you believe, okay, that this is somehow it was 373 00:21:06,480 --> 00:21:09,959 Speaker 1: a big waste of time, and that nothing actually big, 374 00:21:09,960 --> 00:21:13,520 Speaker 1: good or successful came out of this. I'll give you 375 00:21:13,600 --> 00:21:17,640 Speaker 1: an example of what I mean by this. Center Haggerty, 376 00:21:17,840 --> 00:21:21,919 Speaker 1: Republican Tennessee, was on a State of the Union on 377 00:21:22,000 --> 00:21:25,480 Speaker 1: CNN on Sunday, and I want you to hear what 378 00:21:25,640 --> 00:21:29,600 Speaker 1: he had to say, as CNN tried to turn averting 379 00:21:29,640 --> 00:21:35,000 Speaker 1: a shutdown, which is a victory, into a somehow disaster 380 00:21:35,760 --> 00:21:38,800 Speaker 1: and also trying to claim that you guys really didn't 381 00:21:38,800 --> 00:21:45,400 Speaker 1: accomplish anything at all by cutting fifteen hundred pages of spending, waste, abuse, 382 00:21:45,480 --> 00:21:49,760 Speaker 1: and fraud and just pure corruption out of the first bill, 383 00:21:49,800 --> 00:21:51,960 Speaker 1: which turned into the second bill that was one hundred 384 00:21:51,960 --> 00:21:54,520 Speaker 1: and something pages. All right, I want you to hear 385 00:21:54,680 --> 00:21:58,560 Speaker 1: CNN putting this together, trying to tell America that this 386 00:21:58,720 --> 00:22:03,600 Speaker 1: was somehow a failure for Trump, a failure for people 387 00:22:03,640 --> 00:22:06,879 Speaker 1: that want to have responsibility in spending, a failure for 388 00:22:06,920 --> 00:22:10,720 Speaker 1: Elon Musk, a failure for Romasawmi, a failure for DOJE, 389 00:22:11,200 --> 00:22:13,919 Speaker 1: even though it clearly was a victory. And then they're like, oh, 390 00:22:13,960 --> 00:22:16,840 Speaker 1: and by the way, you guys didn't increase the debt ceiling, 391 00:22:16,880 --> 00:22:18,160 Speaker 1: so you' are gonna have to do that in Trump 392 00:22:18,160 --> 00:22:20,160 Speaker 1: and Trump demand it, So you guys failed him. There 393 00:22:20,200 --> 00:22:23,200 Speaker 1: so this is a disaster. Look, you still got to 394 00:22:23,200 --> 00:22:26,240 Speaker 1: get the votes, and you have a Democratic Senate, and 395 00:22:26,280 --> 00:22:29,080 Speaker 1: the Democratics Senate had to agree to something, and I 396 00:22:29,119 --> 00:22:31,880 Speaker 1: think they weren't going to agree to increase the debt 397 00:22:31,920 --> 00:22:34,960 Speaker 1: ceiling because they want to force Donald Trump to do 398 00:22:35,000 --> 00:22:38,679 Speaker 1: that when he's in office. So there's what you want 399 00:22:38,720 --> 00:22:42,159 Speaker 1: and there's reality. And the reality was Republicans had to 400 00:22:42,200 --> 00:22:44,840 Speaker 1: give something to the Senate that the Senate would actually pass. 401 00:22:45,840 --> 00:22:48,760 Speaker 1: And so Democrats made it very clear they did not 402 00:22:48,880 --> 00:22:51,919 Speaker 1: want to increase the debt ceiling, even though this is 403 00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:54,360 Speaker 1: clearly Joe Biden's fault, and they want to hand that 404 00:22:55,359 --> 00:23:00,320 Speaker 1: negative to Donald Trump when he comes into office in January. Again, 405 00:23:00,800 --> 00:23:03,000 Speaker 1: you want to know how corrupt CNN is. You want 406 00:23:03,000 --> 00:23:06,240 Speaker 1: to know how how terrible data Bash is at her job, 407 00:23:06,560 --> 00:23:08,440 Speaker 1: and you want to hear just how evil they are 408 00:23:08,480 --> 00:23:10,919 Speaker 1: about telling you what's actually going on in America. Listen 409 00:23:11,040 --> 00:23:14,800 Speaker 1: to this back and forth with her and with Center 410 00:23:14,880 --> 00:23:17,959 Speaker 1: Bill Haggerty. He's on the Appropriations Committee. That's why they 411 00:23:17,960 --> 00:23:18,760 Speaker 1: had him on. Listen. 412 00:23:19,320 --> 00:23:23,440 Speaker 7: Understandable given what you just described and what we all witnessed, 413 00:23:23,920 --> 00:23:26,720 Speaker 7: but also given the fact that you know him well 414 00:23:27,359 --> 00:23:29,960 Speaker 7: and you understand what he was going for. The final 415 00:23:30,000 --> 00:23:33,640 Speaker 7: spending bill that you all approved did not have any 416 00:23:33,680 --> 00:23:37,520 Speaker 7: new spending cuts. It didn't include the debt limit increase 417 00:23:37,560 --> 00:23:41,400 Speaker 7: that Donald Trump was demanding. So what did he accomplish 418 00:23:41,880 --> 00:23:42,480 Speaker 7: with all of this? 419 00:23:43,440 --> 00:23:45,560 Speaker 8: Well, the main thing, and I can share with you 420 00:23:45,600 --> 00:23:49,600 Speaker 8: my perspective on a Dana, is this. We have had 421 00:23:49,680 --> 00:23:52,040 Speaker 8: our appropriations bills on the floor of the United States 422 00:23:52,080 --> 00:23:55,200 Speaker 8: Senate since this past summer. Chuck Schumer has refused to 423 00:23:55,240 --> 00:23:56,040 Speaker 8: bring them forward. 424 00:23:56,560 --> 00:23:56,960 Speaker 1: This is a. 425 00:23:56,960 --> 00:23:59,400 Speaker 8: Typical Washington process where we wind up with a work 426 00:23:59,440 --> 00:24:02,520 Speaker 8: product that the American public can't possibly understand. They dumped 427 00:24:02,520 --> 00:24:05,880 Speaker 8: over fifteen hundred pages on us, and Elon Musk using 428 00:24:05,920 --> 00:24:08,480 Speaker 8: the tool of Twitter, brought transparency to the entirety of it. 429 00:24:08,520 --> 00:24:11,320 Speaker 8: The American public were shocked. We are always shocked when 430 00:24:11,320 --> 00:24:13,359 Speaker 8: we see these types of monstrosities at the last minute 431 00:24:13,359 --> 00:24:16,040 Speaker 8: that haven't been properly vetted. And President Trump was able 432 00:24:16,080 --> 00:24:18,159 Speaker 8: to bring his weight to the table and say, look, this. 433 00:24:19,119 --> 00:24:19,720 Speaker 5: Has got to stop. 434 00:24:19,760 --> 00:24:21,280 Speaker 8: This has got to be skinning down, this has got 435 00:24:21,280 --> 00:24:24,280 Speaker 8: to change. My overarching goal coming into this was to 436 00:24:24,320 --> 00:24:27,280 Speaker 8: make certain that the government didn't shut down. Because President 437 00:24:27,320 --> 00:24:29,280 Speaker 8: Trump over the next thirty days, needs to be able 438 00:24:29,280 --> 00:24:31,919 Speaker 8: to process his nominees. We need to be able to 439 00:24:31,920 --> 00:24:34,720 Speaker 8: put him place to get to work on January the twentieth, 440 00:24:34,720 --> 00:24:37,399 Speaker 8: because three quarters of the American public feel that the 441 00:24:37,480 --> 00:24:39,960 Speaker 8: United States is on the wrong track right now. So 442 00:24:40,040 --> 00:24:42,600 Speaker 8: I appreciate the fact that Elon Musk made this transparent 443 00:24:42,600 --> 00:24:44,600 Speaker 8: and that we were able to actually improve this. We 444 00:24:44,600 --> 00:24:47,480 Speaker 8: didn't get everything we wanted, certainly I didn't, but we're 445 00:24:47,480 --> 00:24:48,920 Speaker 8: in a better place now because we're going to be 446 00:24:48,920 --> 00:24:50,760 Speaker 8: in a position to make certain that President Trump is 447 00:24:50,760 --> 00:24:51,640 Speaker 8: ready to go in day one. 448 00:24:52,240 --> 00:24:54,840 Speaker 1: I got to give kudos to Haggarty for dealing with 449 00:24:54,880 --> 00:24:56,639 Speaker 1: it the way that he just did and saying it 450 00:24:56,640 --> 00:24:59,840 Speaker 1: the way that he just did. They dumped over fifteen 451 00:25:00,040 --> 00:25:02,399 Speaker 1: hundred pages on us, and I appreciate the fact that 452 00:25:02,440 --> 00:25:06,840 Speaker 1: Elon Musk made this transparent. This is the reason why 453 00:25:07,080 --> 00:25:09,520 Speaker 1: I will never trust the media again, because the lack 454 00:25:09,560 --> 00:25:13,439 Speaker 1: of transparency from the media. They don't want there to 455 00:25:13,440 --> 00:25:17,240 Speaker 1: be transparency. They do not want for you and I 456 00:25:17,320 --> 00:25:20,280 Speaker 1: to know what's happening. Neither does the swamp. They want 457 00:25:20,359 --> 00:25:23,399 Speaker 1: us guessing all the time. They don't want us to 458 00:25:23,480 --> 00:25:25,560 Speaker 1: understand what is in the bills. This goes back to 459 00:25:25,680 --> 00:25:29,160 Speaker 1: Nancy Pelosi. We won't know what's in the bill until 460 00:25:29,240 --> 00:25:34,399 Speaker 1: we pass the bill. That is the mantra of the left. 461 00:25:34,800 --> 00:25:38,080 Speaker 1: All right, now, there's a second part of this that 462 00:25:38,160 --> 00:25:40,080 Speaker 1: I want you to know about that it's becoming an 463 00:25:40,160 --> 00:25:44,280 Speaker 1: issue as well, and that is Speaker Johnson. There are 464 00:25:44,320 --> 00:25:46,840 Speaker 1: many that are hoping that Donald Trump will come in 465 00:25:47,440 --> 00:25:50,199 Speaker 1: and that there will be a big fight and they 466 00:25:50,200 --> 00:25:52,720 Speaker 1: will get rid of Speaker Johnson, and that there will 467 00:25:52,760 --> 00:25:55,480 Speaker 1: be chaos within the Republican Party. I'm going to say 468 00:25:55,480 --> 00:25:57,200 Speaker 1: what I said earlier. I'm going to warn you about 469 00:25:57,200 --> 00:26:01,040 Speaker 1: this right now. Speaker Johnson and at this point is 470 00:26:01,080 --> 00:26:03,760 Speaker 1: clearly the most conservative speaker that we could get. And 471 00:26:03,840 --> 00:26:06,840 Speaker 1: if we get rid of Speaker Johnson, I'm telling you 472 00:26:06,920 --> 00:26:09,080 Speaker 1: right now, we're going to get a much more liberal speaker. 473 00:26:09,240 --> 00:26:13,280 Speaker 1: That is why Democrats are pushing for this. Okay, I'll 474 00:26:13,280 --> 00:26:15,440 Speaker 1: give you an example of how they're starting to bring 475 00:26:15,520 --> 00:26:18,679 Speaker 1: this into an issue On ABC this week, what did 476 00:26:18,720 --> 00:26:22,200 Speaker 1: they say about Speaker Johnson. What they said was, well, 477 00:26:22,359 --> 00:26:25,119 Speaker 1: he's in real trouble and they're wanting this to be 478 00:26:25,200 --> 00:26:26,840 Speaker 1: the story going into January. 479 00:26:26,960 --> 00:26:31,800 Speaker 9: Listen carefully, Join now by ABC News contributing political correspondent 480 00:26:32,080 --> 00:26:34,800 Speaker 9: and Political Capital Bureau chief Rachel Bade. 481 00:26:35,200 --> 00:26:37,240 Speaker 1: So, Rachel, why. 482 00:26:36,880 --> 00:26:39,639 Speaker 9: Did so many Republicans defy Trump? 483 00:26:40,240 --> 00:26:41,720 Speaker 3: Well, you know, John, in a lot of ways, I 484 00:26:41,720 --> 00:26:44,159 Speaker 3: feel like President Trump was sort of asking for the 485 00:26:44,200 --> 00:26:46,560 Speaker 3: impossible in this situation. I mean, there's been a lot 486 00:26:46,560 --> 00:26:48,400 Speaker 3: of hot takes out there that he in some way 487 00:26:48,440 --> 00:26:51,080 Speaker 3: has lost his juice with Republicans or his way with 488 00:26:51,119 --> 00:26:53,760 Speaker 3: the party. I don't buy that, and I'll tell you why. 489 00:26:53,880 --> 00:26:57,000 Speaker 3: I mean, if you look at debt ceiling votes, historically, 490 00:26:57,000 --> 00:26:59,879 Speaker 3: this is a toxic vote for Republicans, especially when you're 491 00:26:59,880 --> 00:27:02,399 Speaker 3: trying to raise the debt healing without corresponding spending cuts 492 00:27:02,480 --> 00:27:05,440 Speaker 3: or really any spending cuts whatsoever. And I went back 493 00:27:05,480 --> 00:27:07,320 Speaker 3: and looked at a lot of the votes on the 494 00:27:07,359 --> 00:27:09,639 Speaker 3: debt ceiling in past years, even when President Trump was 495 00:27:09,680 --> 00:27:13,360 Speaker 3: president before, and way more Republicans opposed it. I'm talking 496 00:27:13,359 --> 00:27:15,760 Speaker 3: about in the hundreds to two hundred at one point, 497 00:27:16,000 --> 00:27:18,520 Speaker 3: and so I'm surprised that only thirty eight Republicans actually 498 00:27:18,520 --> 00:27:21,800 Speaker 3: opposed this. The bigger issue, in my view, is this 499 00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:25,680 Speaker 3: sheer breakdown in communication between President Trump and Speaker Johnson. Here. 500 00:27:25,720 --> 00:27:27,040 Speaker 3: I mean President Trump. 501 00:27:26,840 --> 00:27:28,560 Speaker 1: By the way, you notice how all this is doom 502 00:27:28,600 --> 00:27:32,440 Speaker 1: and gloom, Like, are you hearing this? We cut fifteen 503 00:27:32,520 --> 00:27:36,400 Speaker 1: hundred pages of government waste, and they're saying it's doom 504 00:27:36,400 --> 00:27:41,320 Speaker 1: and gloom. We cut a bill with transparency because of 505 00:27:41,359 --> 00:27:45,040 Speaker 1: the influence of Donald Trump and Elon Musk and X 506 00:27:45,520 --> 00:27:48,600 Speaker 1: and putting it out there, having transparency for the people, 507 00:27:48,960 --> 00:27:51,600 Speaker 1: and they're telling you it's doom and gloom. I want 508 00:27:51,680 --> 00:27:54,399 Speaker 1: you to understand that what happened to Donald Trump in 509 00:27:54,440 --> 00:27:57,639 Speaker 1: twenty sixteen is exactly the way the media is wanting 510 00:27:57,720 --> 00:28:01,960 Speaker 1: twenty twenty four to go. He's lost his juice, He's 511 00:28:02,040 --> 00:28:06,200 Speaker 1: already he's already in trouble. Are this is a disaster 512 00:28:06,359 --> 00:28:10,119 Speaker 1: for Republicans. They're already fighting. I can't believe that in 513 00:28:10,200 --> 00:28:12,919 Speaker 1: cut government spending. I can't believe that they were in 514 00:28:12,960 --> 00:28:19,720 Speaker 1: this situation. Donald Trump had an unrealistic expectation for Republicans, 515 00:28:20,560 --> 00:28:25,760 Speaker 1: all of this doom and gloom. Even in a successful 516 00:28:25,880 --> 00:28:29,879 Speaker 1: vote that cut a bill by fifteen hundred pages, eighty 517 00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:34,440 Speaker 1: something percent of the pages disappeared because of transparency. And 518 00:28:34,560 --> 00:28:37,879 Speaker 1: somehow they start every single Sunday morning talk show saying 519 00:28:37,880 --> 00:28:40,600 Speaker 1: the same damn thing. Wow, Donald Trump may have lost 520 00:28:40,600 --> 00:28:45,000 Speaker 1: his juice. Donald Trump got screwed by Republicans. The Speaker 521 00:28:45,000 --> 00:28:47,600 Speaker 1: of the House is going to lose everything. Oh, look 522 00:28:47,640 --> 00:28:50,480 Speaker 1: how bad things are. Woe is me. Look how terrible 523 00:28:50,520 --> 00:28:53,680 Speaker 1: things are. Look how awful things are, One after another, 524 00:28:53,760 --> 00:28:56,920 Speaker 1: after another, after another after another. Doom and gloom, doom 525 00:28:56,920 --> 00:28:59,040 Speaker 1: and gloom, doom and gloom, doom and gloom, doom and gloom. 526 00:28:59,120 --> 00:29:03,080 Speaker 1: It's constant with these people. It is constant. And so 527 00:29:03,320 --> 00:29:06,840 Speaker 1: what I would say is, when you hear this, look 528 00:29:06,880 --> 00:29:09,640 Speaker 1: at the reality of the situation. Was this a success 529 00:29:09,680 --> 00:29:11,480 Speaker 1: this week? Yes, what I've loved for the debt ceiling 530 00:29:11,520 --> 00:29:13,320 Speaker 1: have been raised. Yes, But I'm also a realist and 531 00:29:13,320 --> 00:29:15,000 Speaker 1: I know that the Democrats have controlled the Senate and 532 00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:17,040 Speaker 1: they weren't gonna vote for that, and then there would 533 00:29:17,040 --> 00:29:19,160 Speaker 1: have been a government shutdown, and it wasn't gonna hurt 534 00:29:19,200 --> 00:29:22,080 Speaker 1: Joe Biden because he's already out of office. And then 535 00:29:22,120 --> 00:29:24,480 Speaker 1: Donald Trump could have inherited a government that was shut down. 536 00:29:25,720 --> 00:29:27,640 Speaker 1: If you go back to ABC this week in the 537 00:29:27,680 --> 00:29:29,680 Speaker 1: second part of the interview, So the first part is 538 00:29:29,720 --> 00:29:34,719 Speaker 1: everything's bad, Donald Trump's losses Mojoe, Democrats are brilliant, uh, 539 00:29:34,840 --> 00:29:37,160 Speaker 1: And Donald Trump is going to lose a speaker. Right, 540 00:29:37,240 --> 00:29:39,000 Speaker 1: that's the second part of this, right, because they're gonna 541 00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:40,560 Speaker 1: tell you how bad things are, and then they're gonna 542 00:29:40,600 --> 00:29:43,200 Speaker 1: they're starting they're trying to start civil war between Speaker 543 00:29:43,280 --> 00:29:47,520 Speaker 1: Johnson and Maga Republicans so that you believe that he 544 00:29:47,640 --> 00:29:51,000 Speaker 1: is a terrible person. And it's all about you believing that. 545 00:29:51,640 --> 00:29:54,760 Speaker 1: Listen to part two of ABC This Week where they say, 546 00:29:55,080 --> 00:29:57,960 Speaker 1: and then this war between Speaker Johnson Donald Trump, Oh, 547 00:29:58,040 --> 00:29:59,280 Speaker 1: it's really bad, folks. 548 00:30:00,080 --> 00:30:02,320 Speaker 3: Johnson he wanted him to do this right after the election. 549 00:30:02,600 --> 00:30:04,360 Speaker 3: That they've been talking about this for a long time. 550 00:30:04,720 --> 00:30:06,800 Speaker 3: Johnson's folks have been sort of under the impression that 551 00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:09,360 Speaker 3: this wasn't a big priority for President Trump until two 552 00:30:09,440 --> 00:30:11,720 Speaker 3: days before the deadline when he came up and sort 553 00:30:11,720 --> 00:30:13,920 Speaker 3: of blew up the deal. Also, President Trump was under 554 00:30:13,960 --> 00:30:16,360 Speaker 3: the impression that when he did add the debt ceiling 555 00:30:16,400 --> 00:30:18,680 Speaker 3: to the cr of the Continuing Resolution, that it was 556 00:30:18,720 --> 00:30:20,440 Speaker 3: actually going to pass, and that's why he sort of 557 00:30:20,520 --> 00:30:22,920 Speaker 3: leaned in and tried to sort of say, look, Republicans, 558 00:30:22,960 --> 00:30:24,680 Speaker 3: you need to do this. If he had known he 559 00:30:24,720 --> 00:30:26,760 Speaker 3: was going to lose thirty eight Republicans, he wouldn't have 560 00:30:26,840 --> 00:30:29,280 Speaker 3: done this and so the relationship right now. I mean, 561 00:30:29,360 --> 00:30:30,640 Speaker 3: they've got some work to do if they want to 562 00:30:30,640 --> 00:30:31,560 Speaker 3: be effective next year. 563 00:30:32,120 --> 00:30:36,280 Speaker 1: Johnson, They've got some work to do, folks. I don't believe, 564 00:30:36,280 --> 00:30:38,040 Speaker 1: by the way, any of the craps you just said. 565 00:30:38,360 --> 00:30:42,160 Speaker 1: I think Donald Trump leaned in to cut fifteen hundred 566 00:30:42,360 --> 00:30:46,200 Speaker 1: pages of a sixteen hundred plus page bill, and that's 567 00:30:46,240 --> 00:30:47,960 Speaker 1: what he leaned in on. Did he get everything he 568 00:30:48,000 --> 00:30:50,880 Speaker 1: wanted to know? Our Democrats in control of the Senate? Yes, 569 00:30:51,360 --> 00:30:53,880 Speaker 1: is there a slim majority in the House? Yes? Was 570 00:30:53,920 --> 00:30:55,720 Speaker 1: this going to be tough to do right before people 571 00:30:55,760 --> 00:30:58,000 Speaker 1: are leaving and many people are leaving Congress forever that 572 00:30:58,040 --> 00:31:00,440 Speaker 1: lost re election because they're going to stick it to Trump, 573 00:31:00,440 --> 00:31:05,000 Speaker 1: including some Republicans at loss. Yes. Do I believe in 574 00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:06,880 Speaker 1: this doom and gloom the way that they're talking about it. 575 00:31:07,120 --> 00:31:09,720 Speaker 1: I do not. I do not at all. And then 576 00:31:09,800 --> 00:31:11,800 Speaker 1: listen to this part where they're like, ah, well, now 577 00:31:11,800 --> 00:31:14,320 Speaker 1: we got it. We got a problem with Speaker Johnson. 578 00:31:14,760 --> 00:31:15,920 Speaker 5: That speaker of Genuary. 579 00:31:15,960 --> 00:31:18,960 Speaker 3: There it's the million dollar question right now, john I 580 00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:21,680 Speaker 3: will say people have underestimated Johnson quite a bit in 581 00:31:21,720 --> 00:31:24,240 Speaker 3: the past year, and oftentimes he's sort of you know 582 00:31:24,360 --> 00:31:27,959 Speaker 3: outlasts his naysayers here, but the situation is different. I mean, 583 00:31:27,960 --> 00:31:29,560 Speaker 3: I've talked to a lot of Trump folks over the 584 00:31:29,600 --> 00:31:32,560 Speaker 3: past couple of days, and Trump has really soured on him. 585 00:31:32,560 --> 00:31:35,719 Speaker 3: It feels like something in this relationship has really broken. 586 00:31:37,120 --> 00:31:38,960 Speaker 9: He needs Trump to get reelected. 587 00:31:39,240 --> 00:31:41,480 Speaker 3: Absolutely, he needs Trump. And not only does he need 588 00:31:41,480 --> 00:31:44,560 Speaker 3: Trump's endorsement, He's going to need President Trump to lean 589 00:31:44,640 --> 00:31:46,760 Speaker 3: in to actually get that gavel. And right now I'm 590 00:31:46,800 --> 00:31:49,360 Speaker 3: hearing from people that there's a real question about whether 591 00:31:49,400 --> 00:31:51,920 Speaker 3: Trump's going to lift a finger for him to do this. 592 00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:54,840 Speaker 3: I think the question Trump has to ask himself is 593 00:31:54,840 --> 00:31:58,640 Speaker 3: is ousting Johnson worth potentially upending his agenda at the 594 00:31:58,640 --> 00:32:01,400 Speaker 3: beginning of the year and creating this sort of stall 595 00:32:01,560 --> 00:32:05,520 Speaker 3: in momentum. I mean, look, we remember the speakership chaos. 596 00:32:05,280 --> 00:32:07,560 Speaker 1: When McCarthy, of course Macarthia. 597 00:32:07,720 --> 00:32:10,000 Speaker 3: A whole month went by when we had no idea 598 00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:13,000 Speaker 3: who was leaving the conference. Right now, this speakership vote 599 00:32:13,000 --> 00:32:15,840 Speaker 3: is set for January third. President Trump, his victory is 600 00:32:15,840 --> 00:32:18,040 Speaker 3: set to be certified on January sixth. I was talking 601 00:32:18,120 --> 00:32:20,680 Speaker 3: to someone last night, pretty high up and Republican on 602 00:32:20,720 --> 00:32:23,600 Speaker 3: the Hill, who was saying that without a speaker, you 603 00:32:23,640 --> 00:32:26,240 Speaker 3: can't certify his election. So does he really want to 604 00:32:26,240 --> 00:32:28,520 Speaker 3: do this? Does he want to stall his agenda? But 605 00:32:28,560 --> 00:32:30,560 Speaker 3: perhaps he feels like it's worth it. I guess time 606 00:32:30,600 --> 00:32:32,560 Speaker 3: will tell, all right, Rachel bag. 607 00:32:32,480 --> 00:32:35,160 Speaker 1: By the way, I want to tell you multiple reasons 608 00:32:35,200 --> 00:32:37,720 Speaker 1: why I disagree with the analysis that I just played 609 00:32:37,760 --> 00:32:41,120 Speaker 1: for you. I don't believe that their rift is anything 610 00:32:41,200 --> 00:32:43,320 Speaker 1: close to what they're trying to do on TV, which 611 00:32:43,360 --> 00:32:46,400 Speaker 1: is to trying to start a civil war. I believe 612 00:32:46,400 --> 00:32:51,160 Speaker 1: that Speaker Johnson and Donald Trump have a good working relationship. 613 00:32:52,320 --> 00:32:56,000 Speaker 1: They have done multiple events together recently. He's been down 614 00:32:56,000 --> 00:33:00,680 Speaker 1: at mar Lago recently. Multiple times, they had multileultiple events 615 00:33:00,680 --> 00:33:03,720 Speaker 1: together on the campaign trail. They helped raise money to 616 00:33:03,720 --> 00:33:07,200 Speaker 1: get others elected, Republicans elected, and they worked really well 617 00:33:07,240 --> 00:33:10,520 Speaker 1: getting Donald Trump into tight races to make sure that 618 00:33:10,520 --> 00:33:13,640 Speaker 1: they were able to win a Senate majority, as thin 619 00:33:13,720 --> 00:33:16,640 Speaker 1: as it may be a House majority, I should say, 620 00:33:16,680 --> 00:33:20,120 Speaker 1: as soon as it may be. I don't believe this 621 00:33:20,320 --> 00:33:24,040 Speaker 1: idea that Speaker Johnson is in serious trouble. In fact, 622 00:33:24,520 --> 00:33:26,760 Speaker 1: I would argue that Donald Trump is smart enough right 623 00:33:26,800 --> 00:33:29,840 Speaker 1: now to say, hey, I need to move forward with 624 00:33:29,880 --> 00:33:33,280 Speaker 1: an agenda with a conservative and Speaker Johnson is the 625 00:33:33,320 --> 00:33:37,240 Speaker 1: best conservative that could get elected right now. What they're 626 00:33:37,400 --> 00:33:43,760 Speaker 1: hoping is that this is a party in chaos. Headline 627 00:33:43,800 --> 00:33:49,240 Speaker 1: today Johnson Carl Congress chaos right. This is how they 628 00:33:49,320 --> 00:33:51,960 Speaker 1: spread it to the country. This is how they try 629 00:33:51,960 --> 00:33:53,520 Speaker 1: to start a civil war. Listen. 630 00:33:54,080 --> 00:33:56,240 Speaker 9: If you were watching Congress this week, you might have 631 00:33:56,280 --> 00:33:59,800 Speaker 9: thought for a moment that Donald Trump is already president. 632 00:34:00,280 --> 00:34:04,160 Speaker 9: Along with his most high profile and wealthiest advisor, Trump 633 00:34:04,320 --> 00:34:07,560 Speaker 9: upended a bipartisan spending deal that had been months in 634 00:34:07,600 --> 00:34:11,040 Speaker 9: the making. But the power of a president elect, just 635 00:34:11,080 --> 00:34:13,839 Speaker 9: like the power of a president, only goes so far. 636 00:34:14,360 --> 00:34:17,000 Speaker 9: And while Trump's hold on the Republican Party is not 637 00:34:17,080 --> 00:34:19,960 Speaker 9: in doubt, we saw that his power to get Congress 638 00:34:19,960 --> 00:34:23,400 Speaker 9: to do what he wants has its limits. As Congress 639 00:34:23,520 --> 00:34:28,440 Speaker 9: veered towards a shutdown, Trump made only one non negotiable demand. 640 00:34:28,880 --> 00:34:31,080 Speaker 9: He said that the bill to keep the government open 641 00:34:31,440 --> 00:34:34,960 Speaker 9: must also increase or abolish the so called debt cealing 642 00:34:35,360 --> 00:34:37,400 Speaker 9: that's the amount the federal government can. 643 00:34:37,320 --> 00:34:38,640 Speaker 5: Borrow to pay its bills. 644 00:34:39,120 --> 00:34:43,080 Speaker 9: Without this, Trump said on social media, we should never 645 00:34:43,200 --> 00:34:46,640 Speaker 9: make a deal. And this wasn't just advice. It came 646 00:34:46,680 --> 00:34:50,600 Speaker 9: with a warning that he might campaign against Republicans who 647 00:34:50,680 --> 00:34:54,759 Speaker 9: dared to defy him. Trump declaring any Republican that would 648 00:34:54,800 --> 00:34:57,840 Speaker 9: be so stupid as to do this should and will 649 00:34:58,040 --> 00:35:04,120 Speaker 9: be primaried with that. Thirty eight Republicans defied their president's elect. 650 00:35:04,600 --> 00:35:08,040 Speaker 9: They were either unworried about his warning or simply didn't 651 00:35:08,040 --> 00:35:09,000 Speaker 9: take it seriously. 652 00:35:09,480 --> 00:35:12,200 Speaker 1: And in the end, by the way, or it was 653 00:35:12,239 --> 00:35:16,640 Speaker 1: Republicans that were leaving office. Notice how they don't tell 654 00:35:16,680 --> 00:35:19,239 Speaker 1: you that part of the story. There are members of 655 00:35:19,239 --> 00:35:21,279 Speaker 1: Congress that are not coming back that voted on this. 656 00:35:22,120 --> 00:35:24,000 Speaker 1: It would be nice if they ran out actually honest 657 00:35:24,080 --> 00:35:25,799 Speaker 1: enough to tell you that. They haven't told you that. 658 00:35:25,880 --> 00:35:28,160 Speaker 1: And the reason why it's very clear they don't want 659 00:35:28,200 --> 00:35:31,200 Speaker 1: you to know that. But remember this is all about 660 00:35:31,200 --> 00:35:35,640 Speaker 1: doom and gloom, and I'm warning you the propaganda is 661 00:35:35,800 --> 00:35:38,480 Speaker 1: full speed ahead right now. Keep listening to part two 662 00:35:38,480 --> 00:35:40,760 Speaker 1: of this propaganda. 663 00:35:40,880 --> 00:35:44,560 Speaker 9: One hundred and seventy Republicans, along with almost all of 664 00:35:44,600 --> 00:35:48,760 Speaker 9: the Democrats, approved a bill to temporarily fund the government 665 00:35:48,880 --> 00:35:54,240 Speaker 9: without raising the dead sealing, again defying Trump's demand. Trump 666 00:35:54,239 --> 00:35:57,600 Speaker 9: had very good reason to insist on raising or eliminating 667 00:35:57,600 --> 00:36:00,440 Speaker 9: the dead sealing. The government is on pace to hit 668 00:36:00,480 --> 00:36:03,000 Speaker 9: the limit on how much it can borrow next spring, 669 00:36:03,520 --> 00:36:06,600 Speaker 9: and if it is not raised, the government faces default 670 00:36:06,800 --> 00:36:10,880 Speaker 9: with dire consequences for the economy and for the Trump agenda. 671 00:36:11,400 --> 00:36:13,440 Speaker 5: This week proved he won't. 672 00:36:13,160 --> 00:36:17,239 Speaker 9: Be able to count on Republicans alone to avert that disaster. 673 00:36:18,120 --> 00:36:21,560 Speaker 9: One casualty of this shutdown mess maybe the Speaker of 674 00:36:21,600 --> 00:36:25,360 Speaker 9: the House, Mike Johnson. He tried to do Trump's bidding 675 00:36:25,480 --> 00:36:28,840 Speaker 9: and he failed, hurting his standing with the President elect 676 00:36:29,239 --> 00:36:32,480 Speaker 9: and with at least some of his Republican colleagues. Will 677 00:36:32,520 --> 00:36:36,080 Speaker 9: he be re elected as Speaker when Congress reconvenes on 678 00:36:36,200 --> 00:36:40,600 Speaker 9: January third, with a minuscule Republican majority, that could take 679 00:36:40,680 --> 00:36:44,560 Speaker 9: a minor miracle. On the show this morning, we'll hear from. 680 00:36:44,360 --> 00:36:48,080 Speaker 1: A Republican again. That is the lead in. You just 681 00:36:48,239 --> 00:36:50,000 Speaker 1: noticed in that lead in there was not a single 682 00:36:50,040 --> 00:36:52,920 Speaker 1: thing about a massive cut in the number of pages. 683 00:36:55,239 --> 00:36:59,359 Speaker 1: That is the beginning of ABC's this week when they're 684 00:37:00,160 --> 00:37:03,840 Speaker 1: running their biggest show of the week and they start 685 00:37:03,880 --> 00:37:07,480 Speaker 1: with Congress chaos. Chaos, by the way, you could argue 686 00:37:07,440 --> 00:37:10,720 Speaker 1: to be a government shutdown which we didn't have. Chaos 687 00:37:10,719 --> 00:37:12,600 Speaker 1: would be passing a bill that no one had read 688 00:37:13,360 --> 00:37:16,600 Speaker 1: which didn't happen. Chaos would be a bill filled with 689 00:37:16,640 --> 00:37:20,680 Speaker 1: pork so big that it was seventeen sixteen hundred pages 690 00:37:21,120 --> 00:37:25,960 Speaker 1: that didn't happen. We cut fifteen hundred pages from a bill. 691 00:37:27,120 --> 00:37:30,360 Speaker 1: Does that sound like chaos? Doesn't sound like chaos to me. 692 00:37:32,120 --> 00:37:35,120 Speaker 1: We have a Speaker who had a very tight majority 693 00:37:35,160 --> 00:37:38,160 Speaker 1: and got a deal done to avert a government shutdown, 694 00:37:38,160 --> 00:37:42,000 Speaker 1: which they would have definitely blamed on Donald Trump. That 695 00:37:42,080 --> 00:37:45,160 Speaker 1: didn't happen either. We have a debt ceiling vote that's 696 00:37:45,200 --> 00:37:47,319 Speaker 1: going to come up, no doubt about it. But the 697 00:37:47,360 --> 00:37:50,040 Speaker 1: reality is they've got now time to think about how 698 00:37:50,040 --> 00:37:52,120 Speaker 1: they're going to do it, and how they're gonna do 699 00:37:52,160 --> 00:37:55,439 Speaker 1: it in the best way possible. I will go back 700 00:37:55,440 --> 00:37:58,040 Speaker 1: to what I said at the beginning. I don't believe 701 00:37:58,080 --> 00:38:01,279 Speaker 1: that Speaker Johnson has a mass of soured relationship with 702 00:38:01,360 --> 00:38:03,800 Speaker 1: Donald Trump right now. I think that's a media telling 703 00:38:03,800 --> 00:38:06,400 Speaker 1: a lie. I wanted to start a civil war. I 704 00:38:06,480 --> 00:38:10,360 Speaker 1: believe that this was a great scenario, a great scenario 705 00:38:10,440 --> 00:38:13,120 Speaker 1: that what just took place, and I'm glad that it 706 00:38:13,160 --> 00:38:15,600 Speaker 1: took place the way that it did. I'm glad we 707 00:38:15,640 --> 00:38:18,000 Speaker 1: got rid of fifteen hundred pages. This was what I 708 00:38:18,000 --> 00:38:21,160 Speaker 1: would refer to as a very clear victory for Donald Trump. 709 00:38:21,440 --> 00:38:24,120 Speaker 1: And yet the media doesn't mention the number of pages cut, 710 00:38:24,280 --> 00:38:26,640 Speaker 1: and they still tell you it's a terrible day in America. 711 00:38:27,840 --> 00:38:30,320 Speaker 1: You need to remember they lie to you on purpose 712 00:38:30,360 --> 00:38:33,880 Speaker 1: for a reason. They lie to you on purpose because 713 00:38:33,920 --> 00:38:36,160 Speaker 1: they want you to hate Trump, and they want you 714 00:38:36,200 --> 00:38:38,440 Speaker 1: to hate Speaker Johnson, and they want you to think 715 00:38:38,480 --> 00:38:40,760 Speaker 1: they can't govern, and they want you to be angry. 716 00:38:41,760 --> 00:38:47,919 Speaker 1: Don't take the bait. Enjoy knowing that we just had 717 00:38:47,960 --> 00:38:53,560 Speaker 1: a victory of cutting government waste and spending. Don't forget 718 00:38:53,800 --> 00:38:56,520 Speaker 1: Share this podcast with your family and friends on social media. 719 00:38:56,560 --> 00:38:59,399 Speaker 1: Please write us a five star review and I will 720 00:38:59,400 --> 00:39:01,000 Speaker 1: see you back here tomorrow.