1 00:00:02,800 --> 00:00:07,880 Speaker 1: After losing the nineteen sixty two California gubernatorial election, Richard 2 00:00:07,960 --> 00:00:12,720 Speaker 1: Nixon held a news conference. It became known as the 3 00:00:12,840 --> 00:00:18,480 Speaker 1: Last News Conference is set in motion, a tradition that henceforth, 4 00:00:18,520 --> 00:00:24,200 Speaker 1: when people are retiring from politics under duress and stress, 5 00:00:24,880 --> 00:00:30,720 Speaker 1: their true character and personality shows up and shines through. 6 00:00:31,680 --> 00:00:37,320 Speaker 1: And yesterday it was the case for Kevin McCarthy, defenestrated 7 00:00:37,720 --> 00:00:42,320 Speaker 1: and humiliated after two hundred and sixty nine days of 8 00:00:42,400 --> 00:00:47,040 Speaker 1: craziness as the speaker in name only of the House 9 00:00:47,080 --> 00:00:53,160 Speaker 1: of Representatives, Kevin McCarthy unveiled himself the way that political 10 00:00:53,240 --> 00:00:58,360 Speaker 1: narcissists do. There's always a tell, and it's the use 11 00:00:58,640 --> 00:01:05,800 Speaker 1: of the word I, I I I Now. Kevin McCarthy's 12 00:01:06,120 --> 00:01:11,120 Speaker 1: last news conference held more grie events and more ludicrous 13 00:01:11,160 --> 00:01:15,240 Speaker 1: moments than can be counted in this short response, but 14 00:01:15,600 --> 00:01:18,840 Speaker 1: we'll do a few at least do our best to 15 00:01:18,920 --> 00:01:22,600 Speaker 1: try to capture the essence of it. Let's start with 16 00:01:22,720 --> 00:01:27,800 Speaker 1: Kevin McCarthy speaking to yes America's children. 17 00:01:28,880 --> 00:01:31,039 Speaker 2: To any child that are listening and who are coming 18 00:01:31,040 --> 00:01:33,479 Speaker 2: to visit the Capitol, this is the place I want 19 00:01:33,520 --> 00:01:37,399 Speaker 2: you to visit. I liked opening the capital back up again. 20 00:01:37,520 --> 00:01:40,600 Speaker 2: I like taking away the metal detectives. I liked committees 21 00:01:40,680 --> 00:01:43,280 Speaker 2: to being able to work. I like people being able 22 00:01:43,319 --> 00:01:45,560 Speaker 2: to visit. I hope you like being able to be 23 00:01:45,640 --> 00:01:50,320 Speaker 2: back in. I think it was important that that members 24 00:01:50,360 --> 00:01:53,440 Speaker 2: actually show up to work as well. You know, to 25 00:01:53,520 --> 00:01:58,040 Speaker 2: paraphrase lou Gerrig he said, I might have been given 26 00:01:58,080 --> 00:02:02,360 Speaker 2: a bad break, truly still consider myself to be the 27 00:02:02,480 --> 00:02:06,160 Speaker 2: luckiest man on the face of the earth. There's no 28 00:02:06,240 --> 00:02:09,880 Speaker 2: other country that you could rise to be the fifty 29 00:02:09,919 --> 00:02:14,120 Speaker 2: fifth speaker, not get an internship and be able to 30 00:02:14,120 --> 00:02:15,320 Speaker 2: fight for the American public. 31 00:02:16,480 --> 00:02:21,440 Speaker 1: Self awareness, it is said, is a gift clearly one 32 00:02:22,080 --> 00:02:29,880 Speaker 1: not bestowed on my Kevin. Now, Kevin McCarthy posited, stated 33 00:02:30,680 --> 00:02:37,119 Speaker 1: something that's quite absurd. He said, he's in it for America. 34 00:02:38,600 --> 00:02:46,160 Speaker 1: That's right. This man a supernova of cynicism, who understood 35 00:02:46,240 --> 00:02:52,400 Speaker 1: full well that on January sixth, the peaceful transition of 36 00:02:52,440 --> 00:02:57,280 Speaker 1: power was being assaulted and assailed at the incitement and 37 00:02:57,440 --> 00:03:01,640 Speaker 1: direction of the President of the United State. In that moment, 38 00:03:02,520 --> 00:03:11,639 Speaker 1: he promised to hold him to account. Instead, he appeased him. Instead, 39 00:03:12,280 --> 00:03:19,880 Speaker 1: Kevin McCarthy used his power to rehabilitate Donald Trump from 40 00:03:19,919 --> 00:03:25,680 Speaker 1: his lowest moment. This is the picture that defines Kevin 41 00:03:25,760 --> 00:03:32,240 Speaker 1: McCarthy's legacy. He will be a pimple, a canker on 42 00:03:32,400 --> 00:03:39,240 Speaker 1: the story of America, a small, sad morality tale, the 43 00:03:39,320 --> 00:03:42,840 Speaker 1: person in the modern era of politics who, more than 44 00:03:42,960 --> 00:03:49,120 Speaker 1: any other, truly fulfilled John Kennedy's warning, his admonition in 45 00:03:49,200 --> 00:04:00,320 Speaker 1: nineteen sixty. Undone by cynicism, undone by cravenness, undone by 46 00:04:00,320 --> 00:04:07,520 Speaker 1: an utter lack of principle for anything beyond his personal ambition. 47 00:04:09,080 --> 00:04:16,440 Speaker 1: Kevin McCarthy stands for lightness. He's a mix between Chauncey 48 00:04:16,520 --> 00:04:25,600 Speaker 1: Gardner and Tracy Flick, lighter than helium, somebody untethered obviously 49 00:04:26,200 --> 00:04:31,040 Speaker 1: to the basic substance of governance, the basic ideas of 50 00:04:31,080 --> 00:04:37,440 Speaker 1: the country. And in the end, Kevin McCarthy seeks to 51 00:04:37,560 --> 00:04:45,920 Speaker 1: portray himself as a victim who opposed the extremism. Kevin 52 00:04:46,040 --> 00:04:55,640 Speaker 1: McCarthy is an extremist. Kevin McCarthy was extremism's handmade in 53 00:04:55,680 --> 00:05:01,400 Speaker 1: the United States Congress. Kevin McCarthy's undoe is because of 54 00:05:01,440 --> 00:05:05,719 Speaker 1: his weakness and his lack of moral fiber, and because 55 00:05:05,760 --> 00:05:11,080 Speaker 1: of the accommodations he made that he knew would lead 56 00:05:11,160 --> 00:05:15,320 Speaker 1: to his undoing, because what he wanted more than anything 57 00:05:15,400 --> 00:05:22,520 Speaker 1: else was a nameplate above his door. For him, that 58 00:05:23,279 --> 00:05:29,200 Speaker 1: was the sum of his service. His open ramble about 59 00:05:29,440 --> 00:05:35,560 Speaker 1: how nobody can understand how it is that Kevin has 60 00:05:35,600 --> 00:05:39,320 Speaker 1: done what he has done, How it is that Kevin 61 00:05:39,880 --> 00:05:47,279 Speaker 1: of Bakersfield, who providentially, according to Kevin, won the lottery 62 00:05:48,680 --> 00:05:52,240 Speaker 1: that helped him open up a sandwich shop, which is 63 00:05:52,320 --> 00:05:58,480 Speaker 1: mostly bs the beginning of his rise to the heights 64 00:05:58,520 --> 00:06:02,599 Speaker 1: of the power of America, the beginning of his rise 65 00:06:03,240 --> 00:06:06,359 Speaker 1: all the way to the top, where he did what 66 00:06:08,040 --> 00:06:15,440 Speaker 1: so borned insurrection, debased the civics of the country. Kevin 67 00:06:15,520 --> 00:06:22,920 Speaker 1: McCarthy is a low and dishonorable man. He is a 68 00:06:22,920 --> 00:06:27,320 Speaker 1: figure who has betrayed his oath over and over and 69 00:06:27,440 --> 00:06:33,960 Speaker 1: over again, who treated this nation's destiny like his private playground, 70 00:06:34,720 --> 00:06:41,280 Speaker 1: and who vandalized our civics, our politics with his bullshit, 71 00:06:41,800 --> 00:06:49,520 Speaker 1: gaslighting and nonsense. And now in the end, Kevin McCarthy 72 00:06:50,200 --> 00:07:00,480 Speaker 1: is deeply aggrieved because, according to Kevin McCarthy, he wasn't saved. 73 00:07:01,040 --> 00:07:06,800 Speaker 1: You guessed it. The person who they blame for all things, 74 00:07:08,320 --> 00:07:13,280 Speaker 1: Nancy Pelosi. You see, as it turns out, in Kevin's 75 00:07:13,280 --> 00:07:18,960 Speaker 1: deluded mind. Nancy Pelosi had committed to him that she'd 76 00:07:18,960 --> 00:07:23,360 Speaker 1: always have his back like he had hers. I suppose 77 00:07:24,200 --> 00:07:28,480 Speaker 1: when her husband was viciously assaulted and Kevin was too 78 00:07:28,480 --> 00:07:33,480 Speaker 1: big a coward to say anything, or the time he 79 00:07:33,640 --> 00:07:38,640 Speaker 1: joked about hitting the eighty year old female speaker of 80 00:07:38,720 --> 00:07:43,000 Speaker 1: the House of Representatives on the head with the gavel. 81 00:07:45,640 --> 00:07:52,760 Speaker 1: Kevin McCarthy desecrated the House of Representatives with his incompetence, 82 00:07:53,320 --> 00:07:58,160 Speaker 1: his ineptitude, and his tolerance for the extremism and this 83 00:07:58,480 --> 00:08:04,760 Speaker 1: edition and the eyes about a stolen election. And now 84 00:08:05,600 --> 00:08:13,160 Speaker 1: Kevin McCarthy is gone, defenestrated inside the tiger that he 85 00:08:13,280 --> 00:08:20,600 Speaker 1: tried to ride, just like President Kennedy predicted. 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John Kelly, 111 00:10:36,880 --> 00:10:42,920 Speaker 1: by choice, chose to join Donald Trump's administration as Chief 112 00:10:42,920 --> 00:10:48,520 Speaker 1: of Staff. He chose to serve in a political capacity 113 00:10:49,520 --> 00:10:54,800 Speaker 1: the most unworthy man and the most unworthy cause since 114 00:10:54,840 --> 00:10:59,839 Speaker 1: the Confederacy. There is no question that John kelly service 115 00:11:00,080 --> 00:11:04,240 Speaker 1: to the United States has been deeply honorable and deeply 116 00:11:04,320 --> 00:11:09,960 Speaker 1: meaningful as a military officer, as has his family service. 117 00:11:11,559 --> 00:11:17,040 Speaker 1: Yet John Kelly's political service was not honorable. And it 118 00:11:17,120 --> 00:11:21,000 Speaker 1: was during that political service that we saw a glimpse 119 00:11:21,360 --> 00:11:26,400 Speaker 1: of John Kelly and some of the extremism that abounds 120 00:11:26,679 --> 00:11:31,680 Speaker 1: within John Kelly. John Kelly talked about the fact that 121 00:11:31,760 --> 00:11:35,520 Speaker 1: the American Civil War, for instance, was fought because there 122 00:11:35,600 --> 00:11:39,800 Speaker 1: was a failure to compromise, and that Robert E. Lee 123 00:11:40,240 --> 00:11:47,240 Speaker 1: was a deeply honorable man. John Kelly was a principal 124 00:11:47,480 --> 00:11:53,599 Speaker 1: agent of Donald Trump's in Donald Trump's trying to impose 125 00:11:54,679 --> 00:12:00,200 Speaker 1: his obscene and corrupt vision on the United States of 126 00:12:00,240 --> 00:12:06,280 Speaker 1: America in defiance of the law, defiance of the US Constitution, 127 00:12:07,760 --> 00:12:16,880 Speaker 1: basic human rights, common decency, and patriotism. John Kelly's service 128 00:12:17,840 --> 00:12:21,800 Speaker 1: as chief of Staff in the White House raises a 129 00:12:21,920 --> 00:12:29,840 Speaker 1: fundamental question, and that question is about obligation. What is 130 00:12:30,120 --> 00:12:36,640 Speaker 1: the obligation of powerful people to disclose to the American 131 00:12:36,760 --> 00:12:42,160 Speaker 1: people what it is they know in the name of 132 00:12:42,240 --> 00:12:47,080 Speaker 1: the American people that they are keeping from the American 133 00:12:47,200 --> 00:12:54,640 Speaker 1: people to protect a man whose actions might injure the people. 134 00:12:55,480 --> 00:13:00,000 Speaker 1: An official like John Kelly spent in uniform a lifetime 135 00:13:00,080 --> 00:13:04,440 Speaker 1: attacking but also swore an oath to serve as a 136 00:13:04,480 --> 00:13:09,760 Speaker 1: political official as the White House Chief of Staff. Now, 137 00:13:10,480 --> 00:13:15,480 Speaker 1: years after Donald Trump has left office, and even years 138 00:13:15,559 --> 00:13:19,839 Speaker 1: earlier John Kelly left the White House. Here is what 139 00:13:19,920 --> 00:13:24,120 Speaker 1: John Kelly says about Donald Trump. What can I add 140 00:13:24,840 --> 00:13:28,920 Speaker 1: that has not already been said, Kelly said when asked 141 00:13:28,960 --> 00:13:31,600 Speaker 1: if he wanted to weigh in on his former boss 142 00:13:31,600 --> 00:13:38,120 Speaker 1: in light of recent comments made by other former Trump officials. Quote. 143 00:13:38,720 --> 00:13:42,559 Speaker 1: A person that thinks those who defend their country in uniform, 144 00:13:43,280 --> 00:13:47,559 Speaker 1: are shot down or seriously wounded in combat, or spend 145 00:13:47,640 --> 00:13:52,160 Speaker 1: years being tortured as POW's are all suckers because there 146 00:13:52,240 --> 00:13:55,319 Speaker 1: is nothing in it for them. A person that did 147 00:13:55,360 --> 00:13:58,079 Speaker 1: not want to be seen in the presence of military 148 00:13:58,120 --> 00:14:03,080 Speaker 1: amputees because it does look good for me. A person 149 00:14:03,080 --> 00:14:07,880 Speaker 1: who demonstrated open contempt for a gold Star family for 150 00:14:08,120 --> 00:14:13,120 Speaker 1: all gold Star families on TV during the twenty sixteen 151 00:14:13,280 --> 00:14:18,840 Speaker 1: campaign and rants that our most precious heroes who gave 152 00:14:18,880 --> 00:14:24,320 Speaker 1: their lives in America's defense are losers. And wouldn't visit 153 00:14:24,400 --> 00:14:29,600 Speaker 1: their graves in France. A person who is not truthful 154 00:14:30,160 --> 00:14:35,840 Speaker 1: regarding his position on the protection of unborn life, on women, 155 00:14:37,000 --> 00:14:44,360 Speaker 1: on minorities, on evangelical Christians, on Jews, on working men 156 00:14:44,520 --> 00:14:52,880 Speaker 1: and women end quote, Kelly continued. A person that has 157 00:14:52,960 --> 00:14:58,400 Speaker 1: no idea what America stands for. It has no idea 158 00:14:59,600 --> 00:15:06,160 Speaker 1: what a America is all about. A person who cavalierly 159 00:15:06,240 --> 00:15:11,520 Speaker 1: suggests that a selfless warrior who has served his country 160 00:15:11,600 --> 00:15:16,440 Speaker 1: for forty years in peacetime and war should lose his 161 00:15:16,560 --> 00:15:24,280 Speaker 1: life for treason, an expectation that someone will take action. 162 00:15:26,200 --> 00:15:33,160 Speaker 1: A person who admires autocrats and murderous dictators. A person 163 00:15:33,760 --> 00:15:41,840 Speaker 1: that has nothing but contempt for our democratic institutions, our constitution, 164 00:15:42,640 --> 00:15:49,720 Speaker 1: and the rule of law. Quote. There is nothing more 165 00:15:50,360 --> 00:15:57,720 Speaker 1: that can be said. End quote. Kelly concluded, God help us, 166 00:15:58,200 --> 00:16:04,720 Speaker 1: General Kelly, how dare you, sir? How dare you say? 167 00:16:05,560 --> 00:16:09,080 Speaker 1: What else can be said? There is so much more 168 00:16:09,120 --> 00:16:14,640 Speaker 1: to be said and must be said by you, from 169 00:16:14,640 --> 00:16:20,200 Speaker 1: one corner of this country to another. You must evangelize 170 00:16:20,640 --> 00:16:24,480 Speaker 1: what you have said and talk to the American people 171 00:16:25,360 --> 00:16:30,160 Speaker 1: and use your character and use the integrity that was 172 00:16:30,240 --> 00:16:36,320 Speaker 1: bestowed on you, by the cloak of your uniform to 173 00:16:36,480 --> 00:16:41,160 Speaker 1: aid the defense of democracy, like you aided the rise 174 00:16:42,000 --> 00:16:50,800 Speaker 1: of autocracy and fascism through your political service to Donald Trump, who, 175 00:16:50,840 --> 00:16:54,960 Speaker 1: though you knew who he was, you did not tell 176 00:16:55,000 --> 00:16:59,160 Speaker 1: the American people. You were not straight with them. You 177 00:16:59,520 --> 00:17:08,000 Speaker 1: did not keep your faith and your promise to keep 178 00:17:08,520 --> 00:17:16,360 Speaker 1: them safe, because you ebetted a man who did everything 179 00:17:16,920 --> 00:17:22,680 Speaker 1: that you said while you knew he was doing it 180 00:17:23,560 --> 00:17:28,359 Speaker 1: and what the meaning of it was. It is fair 181 00:17:28,480 --> 00:17:32,359 Speaker 1: enough for you to have a conversion and to come 182 00:17:32,440 --> 00:17:36,800 Speaker 1: back and bear again faith to what you spent much 183 00:17:36,840 --> 00:17:40,960 Speaker 1: of your life defending. But how dare you, in this 184 00:17:41,119 --> 00:17:46,000 Speaker 1: moment say there is nothing more to be done. There 185 00:17:46,080 --> 00:17:50,600 Speaker 1: is great damage to be undone, and it starts with 186 00:17:50,760 --> 00:17:55,200 Speaker 1: telling the truth, a truth that was corrupted in part 187 00:17:55,320 --> 00:17:59,280 Speaker 1: by you, and that you can help remedy by telling 188 00:17:59,320 --> 00:18:02,800 Speaker 1: it from one corner of America to another.