Speaker 1: After losing the nineteen sixty two California gubernatorial election, Richard
Speaker 1: Nixon held a news conference. It became known as the
Speaker 1: Last News Conference is set in motion, a tradition that henceforth,
Speaker 1: when people are retiring from politics under duress and stress,
Speaker 1: their true character and personality shows up and shines through.
Speaker 1: And yesterday it was the case for Kevin McCarthy, defenestrated
Speaker 1: and humiliated after two hundred and sixty nine days of
Speaker 1: craziness as the speaker in name only of the House
Speaker 1: of Representatives, Kevin McCarthy unveiled himself the way that political
Speaker 1: narcissists do. There's always a tell, and it's the use
Speaker 1: of the word I, I I I Now. Kevin McCarthy's
Speaker 1: last news conference held more grie events and more ludicrous
Speaker 1: moments than can be counted in this short response, but
Speaker 1: we'll do a few at least do our best to
Speaker 1: try to capture the essence of it. Let's start with
Speaker 1: Kevin McCarthy speaking to yes America's children.
Speaker 2: To any child that are listening and who are coming
Speaker 2: to visit the Capitol, this is the place I want
Speaker 2: you to visit. I liked opening the capital back up again.
Speaker 2: I like taking away the metal detectives. I liked committees
Speaker 2: to being able to work. I like people being able
Speaker 2: to visit. I hope you like being able to be
Speaker 2: back in. I think it was important that that members
Speaker 2: actually show up to work as well. You know, to
Speaker 2: paraphrase lou Gerrig he said, I might have been given
Speaker 2: a bad break, truly still consider myself to be the
Speaker 2: luckiest man on the face of the earth. There's no
Speaker 2: other country that you could rise to be the fifty
Speaker 2: fifth speaker, not get an internship and be able to
Speaker 2: fight for the American public.
Speaker 1: Self awareness, it is said, is a gift clearly one
Speaker 1: not bestowed on my Kevin. Now, Kevin McCarthy posited, stated
Speaker 1: something that's quite absurd. He said, he's in it for America.
Speaker 1: That's right. This man a supernova of cynicism, who understood
Speaker 1: full well that on January sixth, the peaceful transition of
Speaker 1: power was being assaulted and assailed at the incitement and
Speaker 1: direction of the President of the United State. In that moment,
Speaker 1: he promised to hold him to account. Instead, he appeased him. Instead,
Speaker 1: Kevin McCarthy used his power to rehabilitate Donald Trump from
Speaker 1: his lowest moment. This is the picture that defines Kevin
Speaker 1: McCarthy's legacy. He will be a pimple, a canker on
Speaker 1: the story of America, a small, sad morality tale, the
Speaker 1: person in the modern era of politics who, more than
Speaker 1: any other, truly fulfilled John Kennedy's warning, his admonition in
Speaker 1: nineteen sixty. Undone by cynicism, undone by cravenness, undone by
Speaker 1: an utter lack of principle for anything beyond his personal ambition.
Speaker 1: Kevin McCarthy stands for lightness. He's a mix between Chauncey
Speaker 1: Gardner and Tracy Flick, lighter than helium, somebody untethered obviously
Speaker 1: to the basic substance of governance, the basic ideas of
Speaker 1: the country. And in the end, Kevin McCarthy seeks to
Speaker 1: portray himself as a victim who opposed the extremism. Kevin
Speaker 1: McCarthy is an extremist. Kevin McCarthy was extremism's handmade in
Speaker 1: the United States Congress. Kevin McCarthy's undoe is because of
Speaker 1: his weakness and his lack of moral fiber, and because
Speaker 1: of the accommodations he made that he knew would lead
Speaker 1: to his undoing, because what he wanted more than anything
Speaker 1: else was a nameplate above his door. For him, that
Speaker 1: was the sum of his service. His open ramble about
Speaker 1: how nobody can understand how it is that Kevin has
Speaker 1: done what he has done, How it is that Kevin
Speaker 1: of Bakersfield, who providentially, according to Kevin, won the lottery
Speaker 1: that helped him open up a sandwich shop, which is
Speaker 1: mostly bs the beginning of his rise to the heights
Speaker 1: of the power of America, the beginning of his rise
Speaker 1: all the way to the top, where he did what
Speaker 1: so borned insurrection, debased the civics of the country. Kevin
Speaker 1: McCarthy is a low and dishonorable man. He is a
Speaker 1: figure who has betrayed his oath over and over and
Speaker 1: over again, who treated this nation's destiny like his private playground,
Speaker 1: and who vandalized our civics, our politics with his bullshit,
Speaker 1: gaslighting and nonsense. And now in the end, Kevin McCarthy
Speaker 1: is deeply aggrieved because, according to Kevin McCarthy, he wasn't saved.
Speaker 1: You guessed it. The person who they blame for all things,
Speaker 1: Nancy Pelosi. You see, as it turns out, in Kevin's
Speaker 1: deluded mind. Nancy Pelosi had committed to him that she'd
Speaker 1: always have his back like he had hers. I suppose
Speaker 1: when her husband was viciously assaulted and Kevin was too
Speaker 1: big a coward to say anything, or the time he
Speaker 1: joked about hitting the eighty year old female speaker of
Speaker 1: the House of Representatives on the head with the gavel.
Speaker 1: Kevin McCarthy desecrated the House of Representatives with his incompetence,
Speaker 1: his ineptitude, and his tolerance for the extremism and this
Speaker 1: edition and the eyes about a stolen election. And now
Speaker 1: Kevin McCarthy is gone, defenestrated inside the tiger that he
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Speaker 1: retired United States Marine Corps four star general who had
Speaker 1: an unblemished record of service to the United States of
Speaker 1: America during the entirety of his military career. John Kelly,
Speaker 1: by choice, chose to join Donald Trump's administration as Chief
Speaker 1: of Staff. He chose to serve in a political capacity
Speaker 1: the most unworthy man and the most unworthy cause since
Speaker 1: the Confederacy. There is no question that John kelly service
Speaker 1: to the United States has been deeply honorable and deeply
Speaker 1: meaningful as a military officer, as has his family service.
Speaker 1: Yet John Kelly's political service was not honorable. And it
Speaker 1: was during that political service that we saw a glimpse
Speaker 1: of John Kelly and some of the extremism that abounds
Speaker 1: within John Kelly. John Kelly talked about the fact that
Speaker 1: the American Civil War, for instance, was fought because there
Speaker 1: was a failure to compromise, and that Robert E. Lee
Speaker 1: was a deeply honorable man. John Kelly was a principal
Speaker 1: agent of Donald Trump's in Donald Trump's trying to impose
Speaker 1: his obscene and corrupt vision on the United States of
Speaker 1: America in defiance of the law, defiance of the US Constitution,
Speaker 1: basic human rights, common decency, and patriotism. John Kelly's service
Speaker 1: as chief of Staff in the White House raises a
Speaker 1: fundamental question, and that question is about obligation. What is
Speaker 1: the obligation of powerful people to disclose to the American
Speaker 1: people what it is they know in the name of
Speaker 1: the American people that they are keeping from the American
Speaker 1: people to protect a man whose actions might injure the people.
Speaker 1: An official like John Kelly spent in uniform a lifetime
Speaker 1: attacking but also swore an oath to serve as a
Speaker 1: political official as the White House Chief of Staff. Now,
Speaker 1: years after Donald Trump has left office, and even years
Speaker 1: earlier John Kelly left the White House. Here is what
Speaker 1: John Kelly says about Donald Trump. What can I add
Speaker 1: that has not already been said, Kelly said when asked
Speaker 1: if he wanted to weigh in on his former boss
Speaker 1: in light of recent comments made by other former Trump officials. Quote.
Speaker 1: A person that thinks those who defend their country in uniform,
Speaker 1: are shot down or seriously wounded in combat, or spend
Speaker 1: years being tortured as POW's are all suckers because there
Speaker 1: is nothing in it for them. A person that did
Speaker 1: not want to be seen in the presence of military
Speaker 1: amputees because it does look good for me. A person
Speaker 1: who demonstrated open contempt for a gold Star family for
Speaker 1: all gold Star families on TV during the twenty sixteen
Speaker 1: campaign and rants that our most precious heroes who gave
Speaker 1: their lives in America's defense are losers. And wouldn't visit
Speaker 1: their graves in France. A person who is not truthful
Speaker 1: regarding his position on the protection of unborn life, on women,
Speaker 1: on minorities, on evangelical Christians, on Jews, on working men
Speaker 1: and women end quote, Kelly continued. A person that has
Speaker 1: no idea what America stands for. It has no idea
Speaker 1: what a America is all about. A person who cavalierly
Speaker 1: suggests that a selfless warrior who has served his country
Speaker 1: for forty years in peacetime and war should lose his
Speaker 1: life for treason, an expectation that someone will take action.
Speaker 1: A person who admires autocrats and murderous dictators. A person
Speaker 1: that has nothing but contempt for our democratic institutions, our constitution,
Speaker 1: and the rule of law. Quote. There is nothing more
Speaker 1: that can be said. End quote. Kelly concluded, God help us,
Speaker 1: General Kelly, how dare you, sir? How dare you say?
Speaker 1: What else can be said? There is so much more
Speaker 1: to be said and must be said by you, from
Speaker 1: one corner of this country to another. You must evangelize
Speaker 1: what you have said and talk to the American people
Speaker 1: and use your character and use the integrity that was
Speaker 1: bestowed on you, by the cloak of your uniform to
Speaker 1: aid the defense of democracy, like you aided the rise
Speaker 1: of autocracy and fascism through your political service to Donald Trump, who,
Speaker 1: though you knew who he was, you did not tell
Speaker 1: the American people. You were not straight with them. You
Speaker 1: did not keep your faith and your promise to keep
Speaker 1: them safe, because you ebetted a man who did everything
Speaker 1: that you said while you knew he was doing it
Speaker 1: and what the meaning of it was. It is fair
Speaker 1: enough for you to have a conversion and to come
Speaker 1: back and bear again faith to what you spent much
Speaker 1: of your life defending. But how dare you, in this
Speaker 1: moment say there is nothing more to be done. There
Speaker 1: is great damage to be undone, and it starts with
Speaker 1: telling the truth, a truth that was corrupted in part
Speaker 1: by you, and that you can help remedy by telling
Speaker 1: it from one corner of America to another.