1 00:00:00,680 --> 00:00:04,800 Speaker 1: Stay right here for our final news roundup and information overload. 2 00:00:04,880 --> 00:00:07,240 Speaker 1: All right, news round up in information overload our here's 3 00:00:07,280 --> 00:00:09,119 Speaker 1: our toll free number. It's eight hundred and ninety four 4 00:00:09,200 --> 00:00:10,840 Speaker 1: one sean if you want to be a part of 5 00:00:10,880 --> 00:00:11,480 Speaker 1: the program. 6 00:00:11,800 --> 00:00:12,120 Speaker 2: All right. 7 00:00:12,160 --> 00:00:15,640 Speaker 1: So we have a new Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, Louisiana. 8 00:00:16,640 --> 00:00:20,800 Speaker 1: This is him speaking immediately after being elected speaker. Here's 9 00:00:20,800 --> 00:00:21,279 Speaker 1: what he said. 10 00:00:21,400 --> 00:00:24,400 Speaker 3: Kevin has dedicated over two decades of his life to 11 00:00:24,520 --> 00:00:28,760 Speaker 3: selfless public service, sixteen of those years in this House. 12 00:00:29,440 --> 00:00:32,040 Speaker 4: And you would be hard pressed to find anybody. 13 00:00:31,520 --> 00:00:35,959 Speaker 3: Who loves this institution more or has contributed more to it. 14 00:00:36,800 --> 00:00:54,160 Speaker 3: He is the reason we're in this majority today. His 15 00:00:54,200 --> 00:00:56,640 Speaker 3: impact can never be overstated. And I want to thank 16 00:00:56,720 --> 00:01:00,720 Speaker 3: him for his leadership, his friendship, and the self sacrifice 17 00:01:00,720 --> 00:01:02,440 Speaker 3: that you and Judy have made for so many years. 18 00:01:02,560 --> 00:01:04,680 Speaker 3: You helped build it, Kevin, and we owe your great 19 00:01:04,680 --> 00:01:07,319 Speaker 3: debt of gratitude. I want to thank the dedicated and 20 00:01:07,360 --> 00:01:09,280 Speaker 3: overworked staff of this belaeguered House. 21 00:01:23,680 --> 00:01:26,000 Speaker 4: They accept praise so stoically, but. 22 00:01:28,240 --> 00:01:45,240 Speaker 3: Miss Susan call our house reading clerk, and yes, yes, listen, 23 00:01:45,640 --> 00:01:47,320 Speaker 3: all the clerks and all the staff. 24 00:01:47,360 --> 00:01:48,680 Speaker 4: You know they're terribly overworked. 25 00:01:48,720 --> 00:01:51,480 Speaker 3: This has been a grueling process, but they have served 26 00:01:51,520 --> 00:01:55,320 Speaker 3: an intoker role and keeping our republic, and we thank 27 00:01:55,400 --> 00:01:56,280 Speaker 3: them for that service. 28 00:01:56,320 --> 00:01:56,960 Speaker 4: I know we all do. 29 00:02:01,160 --> 00:02:03,120 Speaker 3: I want to thank my dedicated wife of almost twenty 30 00:02:03,120 --> 00:02:05,600 Speaker 3: five years, Kelly. She's not here. We couldn't get a 31 00:02:05,600 --> 00:02:11,920 Speaker 3: flight in time. This happened sort of suddenly. We're going 32 00:02:11,960 --> 00:02:15,480 Speaker 3: to celebrate soon. She spent the last couple of weeks 33 00:02:15,480 --> 00:02:18,440 Speaker 3: on her knees in prayer to the Lord, and she's 34 00:02:18,440 --> 00:02:19,120 Speaker 3: a little worn out. 35 00:02:19,200 --> 00:02:19,720 Speaker 4: We all are. 36 00:02:20,240 --> 00:02:22,800 Speaker 3: I want to thank our children, Michael and Hannah and 37 00:02:22,880 --> 00:02:26,040 Speaker 3: Abby and Jack and Will all of our children's sacrifice. 38 00:02:26,120 --> 00:02:27,359 Speaker 4: All of them do and we know that. 39 00:02:27,639 --> 00:02:29,880 Speaker 3: And there's not a lot of perks to be in 40 00:02:30,360 --> 00:02:33,840 Speaker 3: a member of Congress's kid, right, And so I want 41 00:02:33,880 --> 00:02:35,360 Speaker 3: to thank all of your families as well for what 42 00:02:35,400 --> 00:02:37,320 Speaker 3: they endure and what they've had to endure for the 43 00:02:37,400 --> 00:02:38,000 Speaker 3: last few weeks. 44 00:02:38,040 --> 00:02:46,360 Speaker 4: We've been here a while. Yeah. 45 00:02:46,440 --> 00:02:49,280 Speaker 3: I want to thank my faithful mother, Jeanie Johnson, who 46 00:02:49,320 --> 00:02:52,359 Speaker 3: bore me at the age of seventeen, and my brothers 47 00:02:52,480 --> 00:02:54,880 Speaker 3: Chris and Josh, and my sister Laura and all their 48 00:02:54,919 --> 00:02:57,920 Speaker 3: families and all of our extended family. In Louisiana, family 49 00:02:58,000 --> 00:02:59,680 Speaker 3: is a big deal, and we've got a bunch of them. 50 00:03:00,520 --> 00:03:03,200 Speaker 3: I especially want to thank all the extraordinary people of 51 00:03:03,280 --> 00:03:05,679 Speaker 3: the great state of Louisiana. We have never had a 52 00:03:05,720 --> 00:03:08,520 Speaker 3: Speaker of the House hail from our state, and so 53 00:03:08,840 --> 00:03:12,360 Speaker 3: they've been lifting us up. I thank the people of 54 00:03:12,360 --> 00:03:15,040 Speaker 3: Louisiana for the opportunity to serve you in Congress, and 55 00:03:15,080 --> 00:03:17,920 Speaker 3: I humbled by your continuous support. We will make you 56 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:21,520 Speaker 3: prow To my colleagues, I want to thank you off 57 00:03:21,520 --> 00:03:24,600 Speaker 3: for the trust that you have instilled in me to 58 00:03:24,680 --> 00:03:28,280 Speaker 3: lead us in this historic and unprecedented moment that we're in. 59 00:03:28,840 --> 00:03:31,640 Speaker 3: The challenge before us is great, but the time for 60 00:03:31,760 --> 00:03:34,800 Speaker 3: action is now, and I will not let you down. 61 00:03:45,680 --> 00:03:47,600 Speaker 3: I want to say to the American people on behalf 62 00:03:47,640 --> 00:03:49,480 Speaker 3: of all of us here, we hear you. 63 00:03:50,200 --> 00:03:51,720 Speaker 4: We know the challenges you're facing. 64 00:03:51,880 --> 00:03:55,320 Speaker 3: We know that there's a lot going on in our 65 00:03:55,360 --> 00:03:58,600 Speaker 3: country domestically and abroad, and we are ready to get 66 00:03:58,600 --> 00:04:01,520 Speaker 3: to work again to solve those problems, and we will. 67 00:04:02,200 --> 00:04:05,320 Speaker 3: Our mission here is to serve you well, to restore 68 00:04:05,360 --> 00:04:08,840 Speaker 3: the people's faith in this House, in this great and 69 00:04:08,960 --> 00:04:10,320 Speaker 3: essential institution. 70 00:04:11,400 --> 00:04:13,240 Speaker 4: My dad it was to mention My dad was a firefighter. 71 00:04:13,240 --> 00:04:15,800 Speaker 3: He was an assistant chief on the fire department in 72 00:04:15,800 --> 00:04:19,080 Speaker 3: my hometown of Sreport, Louisiana, a little town in northwest Louisiana. 73 00:04:19,400 --> 00:04:22,480 Speaker 3: On September seventeenth, nineteen eighty four, when I was twelve 74 00:04:22,560 --> 00:04:25,839 Speaker 3: years old, he was critically burned and permanently disabled in 75 00:04:25,839 --> 00:04:28,400 Speaker 3: the line of duty. All I ever wanted to be 76 00:04:28,480 --> 00:04:31,120 Speaker 3: when I grew up was the chief of the fire 77 00:04:31,160 --> 00:04:35,520 Speaker 3: department in Shreeport. But after the explosion on that fateful day, 78 00:04:35,560 --> 00:04:37,320 Speaker 3: he nearly died and it was a long road back, 79 00:04:37,400 --> 00:04:40,159 Speaker 3: and it's changed all of our life trajectories. 80 00:04:40,200 --> 00:04:41,560 Speaker 4: I'm the oldest of four kids. 81 00:04:42,080 --> 00:04:46,680 Speaker 1: There's the new Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson Louisiana 82 00:04:46,800 --> 00:04:49,000 Speaker 1: here with reaction as former Speaker of the House, New 83 00:04:49,040 --> 00:04:51,480 Speaker 1: Gingridge is with us. I'll be honest, I was kind 84 00:04:51,480 --> 00:04:55,039 Speaker 1: of blown away at them. He's funny, he's he's a 85 00:04:55,160 --> 00:04:59,240 Speaker 1: real great communicator. I'm surprised we have not seen him 86 00:04:59,279 --> 00:05:02,400 Speaker 1: more often on television. Seems to be a guy that 87 00:05:02,480 --> 00:05:06,279 Speaker 1: works hard behind the scenes, more quietly. But I think 88 00:05:06,600 --> 00:05:08,040 Speaker 1: America is going to get to know him. But he 89 00:05:08,080 --> 00:05:12,919 Speaker 1: comes off as affable, self deprecating, likable and seems to 90 00:05:12,960 --> 00:05:15,640 Speaker 1: be if he sticks to the new Gingridge formula of 91 00:05:15,720 --> 00:05:19,200 Speaker 1: ninety ten eighty twenty seventy thirty issues, he will be 92 00:05:19,240 --> 00:05:21,800 Speaker 1: a successful speaker. I hope he listens. What's your reaction 93 00:05:21,960 --> 00:05:22,520 Speaker 1: is to speaker? 94 00:05:23,720 --> 00:05:26,800 Speaker 5: Well, look, I think this is sort of an amazingly 95 00:05:26,839 --> 00:05:31,520 Speaker 5: American moment. Here's a guy who has worked very hard. 96 00:05:31,560 --> 00:05:36,160 Speaker 5: He's been a very aggressive lawyer on behalf of conservative causes, 97 00:05:36,200 --> 00:05:39,640 Speaker 5: including religious liberty and right to life. He ended up 98 00:05:39,680 --> 00:05:44,760 Speaker 5: in Congress, worked very diligently, ended up as device chairman 99 00:05:44,760 --> 00:05:47,400 Speaker 5: of the conference, which is, you know, just sort of 100 00:05:47,440 --> 00:05:51,520 Speaker 5: in the outer fringes of leadership, and then by a 101 00:05:51,600 --> 00:05:55,640 Speaker 5: process of eliminations, almost seemed like everybody who was truly 102 00:05:55,720 --> 00:06:00,920 Speaker 5: important found that they had enemies. And so there was 103 00:06:00,960 --> 00:06:04,719 Speaker 5: a process by which the conference got exhausted, looked around 104 00:06:04,760 --> 00:06:08,120 Speaker 5: and said, we've data find someone that we all of 105 00:06:08,200 --> 00:06:12,160 Speaker 5: us can agree to trust. And Johnson Emergerson and I 106 00:06:12,240 --> 00:06:16,480 Speaker 5: think that he, course and I were both watching. It 107 00:06:16,560 --> 00:06:19,720 Speaker 5: turned out that he and she follow each other on Facebook. 108 00:06:19,800 --> 00:06:22,880 Speaker 5: So I think that speaks well of him and her. 109 00:06:23,640 --> 00:06:25,680 Speaker 1: That's that's pretty funny. 110 00:06:25,800 --> 00:06:26,000 Speaker 2: You know. 111 00:06:26,279 --> 00:06:28,000 Speaker 1: Let me go back to what I was just saying, 112 00:06:28,400 --> 00:06:32,760 Speaker 1: in your introduction is if they stick to your strategy, 113 00:06:32,839 --> 00:06:36,039 Speaker 1: which is there are so many important issues that are 114 00:06:36,640 --> 00:06:42,240 Speaker 1: polling wise ninety ten, eighty, twenty seventy thirty issues. If 115 00:06:42,279 --> 00:06:46,000 Speaker 1: he sticks to, you know, getting reigning in government spending, 116 00:06:46,040 --> 00:06:49,640 Speaker 1: if he sticks to securing our borders, if he sticks 117 00:06:49,680 --> 00:06:54,279 Speaker 1: to energy independence, if he sticks to you know, really 118 00:06:54,440 --> 00:06:58,719 Speaker 1: really really diligent, you know, keeping Biden's feet to the 119 00:06:58,760 --> 00:07:02,000 Speaker 1: fire on foreign policy issues, and they use the power 120 00:07:02,000 --> 00:07:04,560 Speaker 1: of the purse. I think he'll be a very successful speaker. 121 00:07:05,440 --> 00:07:07,599 Speaker 1: If he deviates from that, I think that would be 122 00:07:07,600 --> 00:07:08,440 Speaker 1: a huge mistake. 123 00:07:09,120 --> 00:07:11,800 Speaker 5: Well, I mean, the question will be and I was 124 00:07:11,840 --> 00:07:14,559 Speaker 5: watching last night that there's a great picture of cluster 125 00:07:14,600 --> 00:07:16,920 Speaker 5: bunder out to me that I think it's in Politico 126 00:07:17,000 --> 00:07:21,480 Speaker 5: this morning of everybody gathered around him as they announced 127 00:07:21,480 --> 00:07:24,040 Speaker 5: that he was now going to be the nominee. And 128 00:07:25,000 --> 00:07:27,760 Speaker 5: I noticed the least Stephanic and right behind him, has 129 00:07:27,840 --> 00:07:32,960 Speaker 5: a huge smile. And I think if he can listen 130 00:07:33,040 --> 00:07:35,320 Speaker 5: to the conference, you both have to listen to the 131 00:07:35,320 --> 00:07:38,360 Speaker 5: American people and you have to listen to the conference. 132 00:07:38,640 --> 00:07:41,560 Speaker 5: They're going to face some very tough decisions. Some of 133 00:07:41,600 --> 00:07:43,800 Speaker 5: those decisions are going to make the hard right, very 134 00:07:43,840 --> 00:07:47,640 Speaker 5: angry because they aren't avoidable, and they'll be curious to 135 00:07:47,920 --> 00:07:50,840 Speaker 5: who will be tempted. But my hunch is, or maybe 136 00:07:50,880 --> 00:07:53,480 Speaker 5: I should say my hope is that we've learned over 137 00:07:53,520 --> 00:07:57,640 Speaker 5: the last three weeks that blowing up a speaker is very, 138 00:07:57,960 --> 00:08:01,920 Speaker 5: very dangerous and can glee to a nightmare. And so 139 00:08:02,040 --> 00:08:05,560 Speaker 5: I hope that even when people disagree, they will disagree 140 00:08:05,600 --> 00:08:08,560 Speaker 5: within the process and not try to blow up the process. 141 00:08:09,160 --> 00:08:11,480 Speaker 5: And he's going to have to pass some bills on 142 00:08:11,480 --> 00:08:15,160 Speaker 5: a bipartisan basis. There's no practical way around it given 143 00:08:15,160 --> 00:08:18,560 Speaker 5: the size of the majority. But if you think that 144 00:08:18,960 --> 00:08:23,120 Speaker 5: Israel surviving really matters, for example, you're going to work 145 00:08:23,160 --> 00:08:27,440 Speaker 5: out a bill that can be passed. Some people won't 146 00:08:27,520 --> 00:08:32,240 Speaker 5: like that. The question will be can Mike Speaker Johnson 147 00:08:35,040 --> 00:08:40,960 Speaker 5: then listen to everybody well enough that they feel satisfied psychologically, 148 00:08:41,679 --> 00:08:43,720 Speaker 5: even if they're not always going to win on policy, 149 00:08:44,760 --> 00:08:47,520 Speaker 5: because that's just the nature of the business. You at 150 00:08:47,679 --> 00:08:50,160 Speaker 5: four hundred and thirty five House members, one hundred senators. 151 00:08:50,160 --> 00:08:53,480 Speaker 5: As a president, they're all negotiating, they all have agendas, 152 00:08:54,320 --> 00:08:56,920 Speaker 5: and somehow you've got to be able to ride herd 153 00:08:57,000 --> 00:08:59,760 Speaker 5: on that. And in case we have a four or 154 00:08:59,760 --> 00:09:04,160 Speaker 5: five vote joke margin. You know, you don't have any 155 00:09:04,200 --> 00:09:07,760 Speaker 5: great ability to just drive few things that are purely 156 00:09:07,840 --> 00:09:10,840 Speaker 5: exactly what you want, and that of course drives some 157 00:09:10,920 --> 00:09:14,480 Speaker 5: of our colleagues nuts. So I think the next big 158 00:09:14,520 --> 00:09:17,599 Speaker 5: test will be can he over the next three or 159 00:09:17,600 --> 00:09:21,240 Speaker 5: four or five weeks get some very key things done 160 00:09:21,440 --> 00:09:24,960 Speaker 5: in a way that the conference feels that it was 161 00:09:25,000 --> 00:09:27,720 Speaker 5: the best outcome they could hope for in the current circumstance, 162 00:09:28,280 --> 00:09:30,400 Speaker 5: And then can they shift and focus on winning a 163 00:09:30,400 --> 00:09:32,640 Speaker 5: bigger majority next year so you can get a lot 164 00:09:32,679 --> 00:09:35,840 Speaker 5: more things done. I mean to your point about what 165 00:09:35,920 --> 00:09:39,400 Speaker 5: we do at America's New Majority Project, where we're looking 166 00:09:39,400 --> 00:09:43,520 Speaker 5: at polling data every week, we're looking for these seventy 167 00:09:43,520 --> 00:09:47,040 Speaker 5: eighty nine emerstentantions. We just got a startling number back 168 00:09:47,800 --> 00:09:52,199 Speaker 5: if you had to choose between a Republican who wanted 169 00:09:52,240 --> 00:09:55,640 Speaker 5: to cut taxes and wanted to continue the Trump tax 170 00:09:55,720 --> 00:09:58,920 Speaker 5: tutch versus a Democrat who wanted to allow the Trump 171 00:09:58,960 --> 00:10:02,120 Speaker 5: tax cuts to expire under raised taxes, it's now a 172 00:10:02,160 --> 00:10:05,080 Speaker 5: fifty five to twenty six margin. And that's when you 173 00:10:05,120 --> 00:10:08,040 Speaker 5: put in the word Republican. So you're peeling away. You 174 00:10:08,080 --> 00:10:12,040 Speaker 5: know people who normally wouldn't ever vote Republican, and yet 175 00:10:12,280 --> 00:10:15,640 Speaker 5: the margins literally slightly bigger than two to one. Now 176 00:10:16,120 --> 00:10:17,760 Speaker 5: that would say to me, and I was able to 177 00:10:17,760 --> 00:10:19,880 Speaker 5: said to Ronald Reagan, well, I know one of the 178 00:10:19,920 --> 00:10:23,520 Speaker 5: issues I want a campaign on next year and let 179 00:10:23,600 --> 00:10:26,680 Speaker 5: people choose between a tax increasing Democratic party with a 180 00:10:26,720 --> 00:10:30,920 Speaker 5: disasters economic record and a Republican party which is now produced, 181 00:10:30,920 --> 00:10:34,839 Speaker 5: by the way, a balanced budget proposal coming out of 182 00:10:34,880 --> 00:10:37,240 Speaker 5: the Budget Committee that would get you to ballot. It 183 00:10:37,240 --> 00:10:39,439 Speaker 5: has a clear path to a balance in ten years, 184 00:10:40,160 --> 00:10:45,000 Speaker 5: control spending begins to reform government. If Speaker Johnson can 185 00:10:45,000 --> 00:10:48,280 Speaker 5: now bring those kinds of things forward, get people to 186 00:10:48,360 --> 00:10:50,880 Speaker 5: focus on those kind of things, he could end up 187 00:10:50,880 --> 00:10:54,880 Speaker 5: having a remarkably successful speakership and it would be classically American. 188 00:10:54,920 --> 00:10:58,280 Speaker 5: It's proof, you know, America is not a country where 189 00:10:58,440 --> 00:11:01,640 Speaker 5: we have a Putin or a the Gaul or a 190 00:11:01,720 --> 00:11:05,080 Speaker 5: Mouseie Young. America is a country where everyday folks have 191 00:11:05,120 --> 00:11:08,840 Speaker 5: a chance to make amazing contributions to the future. I mean, 192 00:11:08,880 --> 00:11:12,120 Speaker 5: nobody designated Henry Ford or the Wright brothers, or Thomas 193 00:11:12,200 --> 00:11:15,600 Speaker 5: Edison or Elon Musk or anybody else did they went 194 00:11:15,600 --> 00:11:18,080 Speaker 5: out and they did it. Well, we're about to see 195 00:11:18,080 --> 00:11:21,000 Speaker 5: whether or not a guy from Shreveport whose father was 196 00:11:21,440 --> 00:11:24,720 Speaker 5: the police cheer was the far chief, whether or not 197 00:11:24,800 --> 00:11:29,120 Speaker 5: he can now rise to this occasion. And every indication 198 00:11:29,160 --> 00:11:32,480 Speaker 5: man has so far are people liking. Brooke Rawlins, who 199 00:11:32,480 --> 00:11:34,400 Speaker 5: worked with him when she was in the Trump White House, 200 00:11:34,400 --> 00:11:39,040 Speaker 5: said he's very solid, very affable. You could really get 201 00:11:39,080 --> 00:11:42,040 Speaker 5: things done with him. And I think that's a real 202 00:11:42,080 --> 00:11:46,920 Speaker 5: tribut So my hunch is people are exhausted. Republicans are exhausted. 203 00:11:47,360 --> 00:11:50,280 Speaker 5: They want this to work. They're easier for this to work, 204 00:11:50,679 --> 00:11:52,320 Speaker 5: and they're going to do everything they can to make 205 00:11:52,400 --> 00:11:53,160 Speaker 5: him successful. 206 00:11:53,520 --> 00:11:55,840 Speaker 1: Well, it's imperatives that at work if they want a 207 00:11:55,880 --> 00:11:59,280 Speaker 1: shot at the majority again, a lot of the promises 208 00:11:59,320 --> 00:12:01,560 Speaker 1: that they made just going to have to simply fulfill. 209 00:12:02,640 --> 00:12:04,800 Speaker 1: What I like about it, on the one hand, is 210 00:12:04,800 --> 00:12:07,960 Speaker 1: for once now, if they follow through with the rest 211 00:12:07,960 --> 00:12:12,320 Speaker 1: of their appropriations bills, and they had completed four of 212 00:12:12,360 --> 00:12:15,280 Speaker 1: the twelve of them, about about seventy percent of the budget, 213 00:12:15,679 --> 00:12:19,400 Speaker 1: and they go through regular order and the regular process 214 00:12:19,840 --> 00:12:23,320 Speaker 1: to get there and achieve that, well, once they pass 215 00:12:23,400 --> 00:12:25,520 Speaker 1: those bills, they will be sent over to the US 216 00:12:25,600 --> 00:12:29,760 Speaker 1: Senate and at that point they will return and that's 217 00:12:29,800 --> 00:12:32,760 Speaker 1: where the real battle begins, and that's going to be 218 00:12:33,040 --> 00:12:35,840 Speaker 1: a moment of truth for I think the Republican party 219 00:12:35,880 --> 00:12:39,520 Speaker 1: in the House, are they strong enough to stand together 220 00:12:40,120 --> 00:12:43,480 Speaker 1: and say, no, we're not going along with another two 221 00:12:43,880 --> 00:12:47,040 Speaker 1: trillion dollars in Biden debt moving forward. We're not going 222 00:12:47,120 --> 00:12:49,280 Speaker 1: to do it. And if you're going to shut down 223 00:12:49,320 --> 00:12:52,280 Speaker 1: the government to do that, we're not going to be 224 00:12:52,320 --> 00:12:54,440 Speaker 1: a part of it. Then this is where I thought 225 00:12:54,520 --> 00:12:57,640 Speaker 1: a missed opportunity was, rather than getting rid of McCarthy, 226 00:12:57,760 --> 00:13:02,240 Speaker 1: is you know, there was a thirty day continuing resolution 227 00:13:02,559 --> 00:13:05,600 Speaker 1: with an eight percent across the board cut that would 228 00:13:05,600 --> 00:13:08,840 Speaker 1: also have funded border security by Chip Roy and Byron Donalds. 229 00:13:09,240 --> 00:13:12,280 Speaker 1: That would have bought them time at that point, and 230 00:13:12,320 --> 00:13:15,520 Speaker 1: they chose not to go that route. So what I'd 231 00:13:15,559 --> 00:13:18,160 Speaker 1: like to see is the pressure now shift to the 232 00:13:18,200 --> 00:13:21,440 Speaker 1: Senate and the pressure now shift to Biden. And I 233 00:13:21,480 --> 00:13:23,280 Speaker 1: think that all of that is going to happen. If 234 00:13:23,320 --> 00:13:26,040 Speaker 1: they stay together, they'll win together, or they'll lose together. 235 00:13:26,080 --> 00:13:28,160 Speaker 1: There's not going to be some winners and some losers. 236 00:13:29,400 --> 00:13:30,719 Speaker 1: Thoughts Well, I was. 237 00:13:30,720 --> 00:13:34,760 Speaker 5: Encouraged in partment because my sister Susan, who lives in Tennessee, 238 00:13:36,360 --> 00:13:37,920 Speaker 5: wrote me a note this morning and said she had 239 00:13:37,960 --> 00:13:42,199 Speaker 5: been donating to him because the Senate Conservative group had 240 00:13:42,200 --> 00:13:44,200 Speaker 5: told her early on that this was a great guy. 241 00:13:44,559 --> 00:13:48,360 Speaker 5: He deserved her support, and she was thrilled because she 242 00:13:48,520 --> 00:13:52,880 Speaker 5: sees him as precisely the kind of solid you know, 243 00:13:53,120 --> 00:13:57,560 Speaker 5: not noisy, but very stable, very solid. And I think 244 00:13:57,600 --> 00:14:02,200 Speaker 5: that the Speaker has enormous power as an institution to 245 00:14:02,280 --> 00:14:04,200 Speaker 5: say to the Senate, no, we're not going to do that, 246 00:14:04,280 --> 00:14:06,640 Speaker 5: or say the President, no, we're not going to do that. 247 00:14:06,640 --> 00:14:09,360 Speaker 5: That's the whole purpose of the power of the person 248 00:14:09,440 --> 00:14:13,360 Speaker 5: the Constitution residing in the People's House. And my hunch 249 00:14:13,520 --> 00:14:16,880 Speaker 5: is that that speaking Johnson is going to be very 250 00:14:16,920 --> 00:14:20,520 Speaker 5: pleasant but very firm simultaneously. 251 00:14:21,160 --> 00:14:23,720 Speaker 1: If that's the case, I would argue that that would 252 00:14:23,720 --> 00:14:26,200 Speaker 1: be a winning formula for every Republican in the House. 253 00:14:26,960 --> 00:14:28,960 Speaker 1: And you would know because you're the last Speaker of 254 00:14:29,040 --> 00:14:31,920 Speaker 1: the House to ever balance the budget, did it four 255 00:14:32,000 --> 00:14:34,760 Speaker 1: years in a row, and it hadn't been balanced for 256 00:14:34,800 --> 00:14:37,680 Speaker 1: decades prior to that, and it hasn't been balanced since. 257 00:14:38,840 --> 00:14:42,320 Speaker 1: And anyway, this is an opportunity for them, and I 258 00:14:42,320 --> 00:14:44,640 Speaker 1: would look at this as a new start, a new beginning, 259 00:14:45,240 --> 00:14:47,520 Speaker 1: and hopefully all the things that you're advising them to 260 00:14:47,560 --> 00:14:49,280 Speaker 1: do they will follow up on, because if they do, 261 00:14:49,320 --> 00:14:52,600 Speaker 1: they can be successful, and if they're successful, the country wins. 262 00:14:52,640 --> 00:14:54,640 Speaker 1: This is about the country winning. It's not about a 263 00:14:54,680 --> 00:14:58,200 Speaker 1: party winning. Mister speaker, Thank you, sir. We always appreciate 264 00:14:58,200 --> 00:14:58,840 Speaker 1: you being with us. 265 00:14:59,640 --> 00:14:59,920 Speaker 5: Thank you. 266 00:15:00,240 --> 00:15:03,480 Speaker 1: Quick break right back now. The extremism just never seems 267 00:15:03,520 --> 00:15:06,880 Speaker 1: to stop. You've got obrah I don't know how to 268 00:15:06,960 --> 00:15:10,960 Speaker 1: quite say it. Oh myish, a pro Palestinian school board 269 00:15:11,280 --> 00:15:16,400 Speaker 1: member objecting to a moment of silence for the victims 270 00:15:16,400 --> 00:15:19,560 Speaker 1: of these terror attacks by Hamas. Just like it. I'll 271 00:15:19,600 --> 00:15:22,960 Speaker 1: play that, and I'll play the Cornell professor. You know 272 00:15:23,080 --> 00:15:27,520 Speaker 1: that's exhilarated and just inspired by what Hamas did by 273 00:15:27,600 --> 00:15:33,720 Speaker 1: killing fourteen hundred innocent people and taking hundreds hostage. Anyway, listen, 274 00:15:34,160 --> 00:15:35,520 Speaker 1: I wasn't expecting. 275 00:15:35,080 --> 00:15:37,280 Speaker 2: What seemed to be a sneak attack after we had 276 00:15:37,320 --> 00:15:41,000 Speaker 2: discussed making sure we represent all children in the ways 277 00:15:41,000 --> 00:15:44,760 Speaker 2: that we speak and when we speak. So it's disappointing 278 00:15:44,800 --> 00:15:46,880 Speaker 2: that my colleagues would do that behind my back after 279 00:15:47,040 --> 00:15:51,280 Speaker 2: conversations that I had with them, and saying that statement 280 00:15:51,320 --> 00:15:55,720 Speaker 2: represents everybody's views, but many are thinking about the incredible 281 00:15:55,760 --> 00:16:00,000 Speaker 2: devastation and human suffering unfolding today in Israel and Palestine, 282 00:16:00,760 --> 00:16:03,280 Speaker 2: and we mourn the loss of hundreds of innocent civilians 283 00:16:03,360 --> 00:16:07,320 Speaker 2: killed and homes destroyed this week alone, and the thousands 284 00:16:07,360 --> 00:16:09,920 Speaker 2: over the decades, all of whom should have been prevented. 285 00:16:10,960 --> 00:16:14,200 Speaker 2: It might seem simple aggressor is attacking families and a 286 00:16:14,240 --> 00:16:18,760 Speaker 2: state seeking vengeance, but we often sympathize with and humanize 287 00:16:19,160 --> 00:16:21,320 Speaker 2: the side that we relate to and the side that 288 00:16:21,360 --> 00:16:24,720 Speaker 2: looks more like us, or that our biases guide us towards, 289 00:16:25,560 --> 00:16:29,520 Speaker 2: But doing so obscures the root of the violence. Centuries 290 00:16:29,520 --> 00:16:32,760 Speaker 2: of human history teach us that escalations happen when problems 291 00:16:32,760 --> 00:16:37,440 Speaker 2: are ignored, realities are denied, and voices are censored. When 292 00:16:37,480 --> 00:16:39,960 Speaker 2: one narrative dominates from the world stage all the way 293 00:16:39,960 --> 00:16:43,600 Speaker 2: to our classrooms. We do our students no favors by 294 00:16:43,640 --> 00:16:47,360 Speaker 2: calling for peace and being unwilling to back what peace requires, 295 00:16:48,200 --> 00:16:52,120 Speaker 2: As the old civil rights adage goes, no justice, no peace. 296 00:16:53,160 --> 00:16:55,280 Speaker 2: When we are unwilling to call out the global human 297 00:16:55,320 --> 00:16:58,400 Speaker 2: rights what global human rights organizations have called an apartheid 298 00:16:58,440 --> 00:17:02,000 Speaker 2: regime of occupation that has been violating international agreements year 299 00:17:02,040 --> 00:17:05,560 Speaker 2: after year and killing thousands of innocent civilians over decades. 300 00:17:05,840 --> 00:17:08,480 Speaker 2: We are lying to our children. When we don't give 301 00:17:08,520 --> 00:17:11,320 Speaker 2: space to hear the Palestinian narrative, we buy into a 302 00:17:11,400 --> 00:17:14,760 Speaker 2: rhetoric that negates not only the humanness of Palestinians, but 303 00:17:14,920 --> 00:17:19,040 Speaker 2: justifies the indiscriminate retaliation against the population. When teachers are 304 00:17:19,040 --> 00:17:22,080 Speaker 2: written up for teaching the full context, warned that they 305 00:17:22,119 --> 00:17:24,600 Speaker 2: might it might threaten their position, or are reprimanded for 306 00:17:24,680 --> 00:17:27,280 Speaker 2: sharing a get to Know me board with a Palestinian 307 00:17:27,320 --> 00:17:30,960 Speaker 2: flag on it, then we allow only the occupier's narrative 308 00:17:31,000 --> 00:17:31,600 Speaker 2: to exist. 309 00:17:32,040 --> 00:17:32,840 Speaker 6: What is Amasa? 310 00:17:33,880 --> 00:17:35,639 Speaker 4: Amasas shifted the balance of model. 311 00:17:35,840 --> 00:17:42,600 Speaker 6: Yeah, Hamas has punctured the illusion of indisability. 312 00:17:42,800 --> 00:17:44,800 Speaker 4: Yeah, that's what they're done. 313 00:17:45,760 --> 00:17:49,159 Speaker 7: They don't have to be an amas supporter to recognize it. 314 00:17:50,280 --> 00:17:55,040 Speaker 7: Amas has changed the terms of debate. It's where the 315 00:17:55,080 --> 00:17:58,639 Speaker 7: officials are right. Nothing will be the same again, Nothing 316 00:17:58,720 --> 00:18:03,399 Speaker 7: will be the same again. Hamas has challenged the monopoly 317 00:18:03,480 --> 00:18:07,920 Speaker 7: of violence, and in those first few hours, even as 318 00:18:07,920 --> 00:18:10,439 Speaker 7: horrific acts were being carried out. 319 00:18:10,560 --> 00:18:12,680 Speaker 6: Many of which we would not have learned about until later. 320 00:18:13,520 --> 00:18:16,240 Speaker 7: There are many gusins of goodwill. 321 00:18:17,520 --> 00:18:23,440 Speaker 6: Many Palestinians conscious who AfOR violence, as do you, as 322 00:18:23,440 --> 00:18:28,560 Speaker 6: do I, who abhor the targeting of civilians, as do you, 323 00:18:29,000 --> 00:18:31,160 Speaker 6: as do I, who. 324 00:18:30,960 --> 00:18:35,439 Speaker 7: Were able to breathe they weren't able to breathe for 325 00:18:35,560 --> 00:18:36,920 Speaker 7: the first time in years. 326 00:18:37,880 --> 00:18:38,960 Speaker 4: It was exhilarating. 327 00:18:41,119 --> 00:18:43,240 Speaker 1: It was exhilarating, It was energizing. 328 00:18:45,160 --> 00:18:47,399 Speaker 4: And if they weren't exhilarated. 329 00:18:48,640 --> 00:18:52,920 Speaker 7: By this, this challenge to the monopoly of violence, by 330 00:18:52,960 --> 00:18:56,120 Speaker 7: this shifting of the balance of power, then they would 331 00:18:56,280 --> 00:18:57,159 Speaker 7: not be you it. 332 00:18:57,560 --> 00:18:59,280 Speaker 4: I was accelarated. 333 00:19:02,359 --> 00:19:05,000 Speaker 1: You can't believe that in this day and age that 334 00:19:05,160 --> 00:19:11,760 Speaker 1: you would have so many people sympathizing and defending the 335 00:19:11,880 --> 00:19:15,639 Speaker 1: terrorist attacks brought to Israel. Not a war they sought, 336 00:19:15,760 --> 00:19:17,720 Speaker 1: not a war they wanted, but it will be a 337 00:19:17,760 --> 00:19:20,439 Speaker 1: war that they win anyway. Joining us for comment on 338 00:19:20,480 --> 00:19:23,199 Speaker 1: this is Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, 339 00:19:23,680 --> 00:19:28,280 Speaker 1: Chairman Jason Smith, the Missouri Sir, Welcome back to the program. 340 00:19:28,720 --> 00:19:32,200 Speaker 1: Are you as shocked as I am at how many 341 00:19:32,280 --> 00:19:34,720 Speaker 1: people we have learned in this country, how many people 342 00:19:34,760 --> 00:19:39,040 Speaker 1: are at the highest levels in some of our most 343 00:19:39,080 --> 00:19:43,919 Speaker 1: prestigious universities that have been out there vocally supporting the 344 00:19:44,080 --> 00:19:47,320 Speaker 1: terrorists responsible for the death of so many Israelis and 345 00:19:47,400 --> 00:19:50,720 Speaker 1: the hostage taking of so many innocent men, women, children. 346 00:19:52,400 --> 00:19:56,520 Speaker 8: I am not just shocked and disgusted by these statements 347 00:19:56,560 --> 00:20:00,159 Speaker 8: in support Hamas that we've seen in recent days is 348 00:20:01,000 --> 00:20:07,000 Speaker 8: an understatement. Celebrating, excusing, or downplaying the horrific rape, torture, 349 00:20:07,480 --> 00:20:09,600 Speaker 8: and murder of innocent people is the same thing as 350 00:20:09,600 --> 00:20:13,959 Speaker 8: supporting violence or even calling for it. Releasing such statements 351 00:20:14,080 --> 00:20:18,080 Speaker 8: or even selling to condemn them is unforgivable and runs 352 00:20:18,160 --> 00:20:20,919 Speaker 8: counter to our values as a nation. And that is 353 00:20:20,960 --> 00:20:24,480 Speaker 8: why I am so upset with what's going on with 354 00:20:24,640 --> 00:20:30,560 Speaker 8: these tax exempt organizations. These public universities that have tax 355 00:20:30,680 --> 00:20:36,080 Speaker 8: exempt special treatment are allowing this kind of behavior and 356 00:20:36,160 --> 00:20:40,159 Speaker 8: stuff to happen on their campus and not not disavowingble. 357 00:20:40,440 --> 00:20:46,639 Speaker 8: It's absolutely unacceptable. These universities are all about preferred speech. 358 00:20:46,880 --> 00:20:50,160 Speaker 8: If it is about defunding the police, if it's about 359 00:20:51,880 --> 00:20:56,639 Speaker 8: protecting Israel, it's madness, and the fact that they're not disavowing 360 00:20:56,680 --> 00:20:59,080 Speaker 8: that shows that they are compliant with it. 361 00:21:00,200 --> 00:21:03,960 Speaker 1: Ask you and glad you're so outspoken about it, Congressman, 362 00:21:04,400 --> 00:21:07,320 Speaker 1: Let me ask you about this election of Speaker Mike 363 00:21:07,400 --> 00:21:09,960 Speaker 1: Johnson from Louisiana. I thought he gave a very good 364 00:21:09,960 --> 00:21:14,880 Speaker 1: speech today actually, and there's a lot to like about 365 00:21:14,920 --> 00:21:17,320 Speaker 1: him and his record part of the Republican Study Group. 366 00:21:17,960 --> 00:21:20,040 Speaker 1: What are your thoughts, Sean? 367 00:21:20,280 --> 00:21:24,800 Speaker 8: Mike is a great American. I nominated him to lead 368 00:21:24,920 --> 00:21:29,080 Speaker 8: the largest conservative caucus within the Republican Conference back in 369 00:21:29,080 --> 00:21:33,280 Speaker 8: twenty eighteen, which is called RSP, the Republican Study Committee. 370 00:21:33,320 --> 00:21:35,480 Speaker 1: And he, by the way, wouldn't the Freedom Caucus take 371 00:21:35,480 --> 00:21:36,240 Speaker 1: a little issue with. 372 00:21:36,280 --> 00:21:41,640 Speaker 8: That, with him being a member of the Republican Study Committee, that. 373 00:21:41,560 --> 00:21:43,200 Speaker 1: Which one is the most conservative? 374 00:21:43,920 --> 00:21:44,080 Speaker 2: Oh? 375 00:21:44,119 --> 00:21:46,959 Speaker 8: Well, they would add that it's the largest concern. 376 00:21:47,080 --> 00:21:50,680 Speaker 1: Oh, the largest. No, they are conservative. You are correct, 377 00:21:52,240 --> 00:21:55,400 Speaker 1: but I thought you said the most. Sorry, I stand corrected. 378 00:21:55,800 --> 00:21:57,719 Speaker 8: I may have said the most. I apologize, but it's 379 00:21:57,760 --> 00:22:02,560 Speaker 8: definitely the largest conference with the caucus within our conference. 380 00:22:03,920 --> 00:22:07,040 Speaker 8: And so he's also serving on the Judiciary Committee. He 381 00:22:07,640 --> 00:22:11,919 Speaker 8: is a constitutional lawyer, and he is a product of 382 00:22:11,960 --> 00:22:15,159 Speaker 8: the working class. The Republican Party is the party of 383 00:22:15,200 --> 00:22:18,040 Speaker 8: the working class. I have no doubt that he'll understand 384 00:22:18,119 --> 00:22:22,679 Speaker 8: the policies and values that affect small businesses, family farmers, 385 00:22:22,960 --> 00:22:25,520 Speaker 8: and working class Americans, and he'll be able to help 386 00:22:25,920 --> 00:22:30,119 Speaker 8: help bring the Republican Party together and move forward for 387 00:22:30,240 --> 00:22:33,400 Speaker 8: the next fifteen months that we're in the majority. 388 00:22:33,760 --> 00:22:35,960 Speaker 1: What are the top priorities that you see for this 389 00:22:36,880 --> 00:22:41,160 Speaker 1: now newly open, hopefully newly energize Republican Party in the House. 390 00:22:42,440 --> 00:22:46,199 Speaker 8: Without a doubt, we have to have policy wins on 391 00:22:46,280 --> 00:22:49,560 Speaker 8: securing our border. What's going on at the southern border 392 00:22:49,600 --> 00:22:53,920 Speaker 8: is atrocious and no administration should be allowed to allow 393 00:22:53,960 --> 00:22:56,920 Speaker 8: that conduct to be taken forward. And so we need 394 00:22:56,960 --> 00:22:59,680 Speaker 8: to be very strategic of where we can get policy 395 00:22:59,720 --> 00:23:03,359 Speaker 8: wins on and protecting the security of our southern border. 396 00:23:03,560 --> 00:23:06,880 Speaker 8: When you look at inflation going up seventeen point nine 397 00:23:06,960 --> 00:23:09,960 Speaker 8: percent because Joe Biden took the oath of office, we 398 00:23:10,160 --> 00:23:14,680 Speaker 8: have to address inflation. It affects every American. It's harder 399 00:23:14,680 --> 00:23:16,200 Speaker 8: for them to put food on their table, clothes in 400 00:23:16,240 --> 00:23:19,040 Speaker 8: their backs, or gasoline in their cars. And one way 401 00:23:19,080 --> 00:23:21,439 Speaker 8: to do that is look at a debt commission. And 402 00:23:21,480 --> 00:23:25,240 Speaker 8: I appreciated hearing Mike Johnson say that in his speech, 403 00:23:25,320 --> 00:23:27,280 Speaker 8: because those are the things that we need to do. 404 00:23:27,720 --> 00:23:30,640 Speaker 8: Seventy five percent of the spending at the federal level, 405 00:23:30,640 --> 00:23:33,520 Speaker 8: it's all mandatory, it's automatic, and a debt commission. The 406 00:23:33,520 --> 00:23:35,879 Speaker 8: only thing that can help us get that under control. 407 00:23:36,320 --> 00:23:38,400 Speaker 1: Well, they don't get it under control. How many more 408 00:23:38,480 --> 00:23:41,320 Speaker 1: years can we have two trillion dollars of new Biden debt. 409 00:23:41,359 --> 00:23:43,160 Speaker 1: I don't know how long that can last and how 410 00:23:43,160 --> 00:23:47,199 Speaker 1: long how sustainable that it is. But you know what 411 00:23:47,400 --> 00:23:50,320 Speaker 1: is the latest? I know things have gotten delayed, you 412 00:23:50,359 --> 00:23:52,800 Speaker 1: know with the Speaker of people that had gone on 413 00:23:53,760 --> 00:23:56,399 Speaker 1: glad it finally got resolved today. I knew eventually it would. 414 00:23:57,480 --> 00:23:59,640 Speaker 1: Now that it's resolved, what does that mean for your 415 00:23:59,640 --> 00:24:02,639 Speaker 1: investment mitigation? We have three committees now investigating what I 416 00:24:02,680 --> 00:24:07,360 Speaker 1: call the Biden family syndicate or if you're in Fulton County, Georgia, 417 00:24:07,560 --> 00:24:11,600 Speaker 1: enterprise is the term they prefer. But that is about 418 00:24:11,680 --> 00:24:14,639 Speaker 1: Joe Biden's involvement in this family business, the lies that 419 00:24:14,720 --> 00:24:19,520 Speaker 1: he has told. The amount of money at that is 420 00:24:19,600 --> 00:24:23,960 Speaker 1: involved is tens of millions of dollars, the bank accounts, 421 00:24:24,160 --> 00:24:29,320 Speaker 1: the shell corporations, everything in between. Where does that investigation 422 00:24:29,480 --> 00:24:32,159 Speaker 1: stand as it relates to your committee and James Comer's 423 00:24:32,200 --> 00:24:33,800 Speaker 1: committee and Jim Jordan's committee. 424 00:24:34,640 --> 00:24:38,040 Speaker 8: You know, I'm so thankful that we have the Speaker 425 00:24:38,040 --> 00:24:42,280 Speaker 8: of the House because it has been difficult in continuing 426 00:24:42,280 --> 00:24:47,480 Speaker 8: the investigation in regards to the Biden family business entities. 427 00:24:47,680 --> 00:24:49,919 Speaker 8: And I'll tell you there is so much material that 428 00:24:49,960 --> 00:24:52,800 Speaker 8: we are going through in the House way the Means Committee, 429 00:24:52,800 --> 00:24:57,560 Speaker 8: the Judiciary Committee, and the Oversight Committee, and the connections 430 00:24:57,800 --> 00:25:01,119 Speaker 8: that the irs whistleblowers that came before for my committee 431 00:25:01,240 --> 00:25:05,080 Speaker 8: to the bank records that Jamie Comer is releasing is 432 00:25:05,160 --> 00:25:10,160 Speaker 8: showing that they're both aligning their matching and it shows 433 00:25:10,320 --> 00:25:14,520 Speaker 8: that clearly if you follow the money, it leads to 434 00:25:15,160 --> 00:25:18,840 Speaker 8: numerous members of the Biden family, including Joe Biden. 435 00:25:19,600 --> 00:25:23,639 Speaker 1: So how soon do you think before this really gets 436 00:25:25,320 --> 00:25:27,960 Speaker 1: We keep hearing from the media there's no evidence, no evidence, 437 00:25:27,960 --> 00:25:33,560 Speaker 1: no evidence. Okay, I see a plethora of evidence as 438 00:25:33,600 --> 00:25:35,880 Speaker 1: it relates. You know, Joe said he was never involved, 439 00:25:35,920 --> 00:25:37,919 Speaker 1: never talked to his son, his brother, or anybody for 440 00:25:37,960 --> 00:25:40,439 Speaker 1: that matter. Well, we know that's a lie. We know 441 00:25:40,520 --> 00:25:43,199 Speaker 1: about phone calls he's been on over twenty that we 442 00:25:43,240 --> 00:25:46,359 Speaker 1: know of for sure. We know about meetings with Russian 443 00:25:46,400 --> 00:25:49,720 Speaker 1: oligarchs and others at Cafe Milano again things that he 444 00:25:49,840 --> 00:25:53,199 Speaker 1: said never happened. We know about tens of millions of 445 00:25:53,200 --> 00:25:56,480 Speaker 1: dollars going into the coffers of the Biden family, including Hunter, 446 00:25:57,119 --> 00:26:00,439 Speaker 1: and that it looks like Joe's actions as present in 447 00:26:00,440 --> 00:26:02,879 Speaker 1: the case of Barisma, he took official state actions as 448 00:26:02,960 --> 00:26:06,919 Speaker 1: Vice president that had a direct result of financially benefiting 449 00:26:06,920 --> 00:26:10,480 Speaker 1: his son. What did his son, with no experience do 450 00:26:10,760 --> 00:26:13,840 Speaker 1: to get all of this money that has yet to 451 00:26:13,880 --> 00:26:16,920 Speaker 1: be determined. What did the grandchildren do that is yet 452 00:26:16,960 --> 00:26:20,919 Speaker 1: to be determined. How active was the Department of Justice 453 00:26:20,920 --> 00:26:23,840 Speaker 1: that I believe has been weaponized. Were they in covering 454 00:26:23,920 --> 00:26:26,439 Speaker 1: up and assisting and aiding and abetting a cover up 455 00:26:26,520 --> 00:26:29,679 Speaker 1: of all of these activities of Joe and Hunter, Biden 456 00:26:29,720 --> 00:26:32,760 Speaker 1: and the family. I like answers to that too. How 457 00:26:32,800 --> 00:26:34,399 Speaker 1: soon can we expect these answers? 458 00:26:35,359 --> 00:26:38,359 Speaker 8: You know exactly? The stuff that you laid out shows 459 00:26:38,400 --> 00:26:40,840 Speaker 8: how complex it is, and that's why you have judiciary 460 00:26:40,960 --> 00:26:44,560 Speaker 8: oversight and a ways the means committee all involved in it. 461 00:26:44,680 --> 00:26:47,560 Speaker 8: Judiciary is going through the weaponization and how the Department 462 00:26:47,600 --> 00:26:53,800 Speaker 8: of Justice definitely gave preferential treatment to President Biden and 463 00:26:53,880 --> 00:26:59,199 Speaker 8: his son. The whistleblowers highlighted instances where the evidence was 464 00:26:59,280 --> 00:27:03,240 Speaker 8: leading to and then Biden, and you had prosecutors in 465 00:27:03,240 --> 00:27:07,000 Speaker 8: the Department of Justice saying under no circumstances can we 466 00:27:07,040 --> 00:27:11,240 Speaker 8: look into that. That's not how investigations work unless there's 467 00:27:11,280 --> 00:27:14,960 Speaker 8: preferential treatment. We clearly see that from what the IRIS 468 00:27:14,960 --> 00:27:17,720 Speaker 8: whistleblowers gave us. The IRIS whistleblowers just a couple of 469 00:27:17,760 --> 00:27:20,720 Speaker 8: weeks ago, Sean provided information to the Ways the Needs 470 00:27:20,720 --> 00:27:25,920 Speaker 8: Committee that we released highlighting numerous aspects of where they 471 00:27:26,080 --> 00:27:31,440 Speaker 8: tracked that there was official activity done by Joe Biden 472 00:27:31,680 --> 00:27:34,720 Speaker 8: that was connected to Hunter Biden and the Biden family. 473 00:27:35,040 --> 00:27:38,840 Speaker 8: For example, Hunter Biden even flew on Air Force two 474 00:27:40,040 --> 00:27:45,760 Speaker 8: to Mexico to meet with a billionaire individual who he was. 475 00:27:45,800 --> 00:27:47,520 Speaker 1: Well, he flew on Air Force too to go to 476 00:27:47,640 --> 00:27:50,520 Speaker 1: China and Asia, didn't he And financial deals were. 477 00:27:50,440 --> 00:27:55,600 Speaker 8: Made then numerous examples, and you're exactly right, all these countries, 478 00:27:55,760 --> 00:27:59,560 Speaker 8: and clearly he was showing that there's an open door 479 00:28:00,080 --> 00:28:03,800 Speaker 8: to his father. And that is the only reason why 480 00:28:03,840 --> 00:28:08,240 Speaker 8: people would give Hunter Biden and the Biden family millions 481 00:28:08,280 --> 00:28:12,520 Speaker 8: of dollars is because they bought access to Joe Biden. 482 00:28:12,840 --> 00:28:17,680 Speaker 1: Well, the American people know, beyond any doubt at all whatsoever, 483 00:28:18,359 --> 00:28:21,280 Speaker 1: all of the details of all of this. By the 484 00:28:21,320 --> 00:28:24,280 Speaker 1: time November of twenty twenty four comes around, let. 485 00:28:24,200 --> 00:28:26,680 Speaker 8: Me tell you, Jim Jordan and myself and Jamie Comer 486 00:28:26,680 --> 00:28:28,520 Speaker 8: are going to do everything we can to make sure 487 00:28:28,560 --> 00:28:31,919 Speaker 8: that the American people see the truth. The administration is 488 00:28:31,960 --> 00:28:34,399 Speaker 8: pushing back on us every step, but let me tell you, 489 00:28:34,800 --> 00:28:39,320 Speaker 8: I cannot stand prouder with two individuals as Jim Jordan 490 00:28:39,440 --> 00:28:41,880 Speaker 8: and Jamie to have my back when we're pushing against 491 00:28:41,880 --> 00:28:42,680 Speaker 8: this administration. 492 00:28:43,120 --> 00:28:45,920 Speaker 1: Chriman, Jason Smith, appreciate you being with us. Eight hundred 493 00:28:45,960 --> 00:28:47,880 Speaker 1: and ninety four to one, Shawn our number. Keep up 494 00:28:47,880 --> 00:28:50,840 Speaker 1: the good work, sir. You know, occasionally something great comes 495 00:28:50,840 --> 00:28:53,200 Speaker 1: along and it's a game changer, and a game changer 496 00:28:53,200 --> 00:28:58,200 Speaker 1: for the better. You know, microwave ovens, GPS navigations, cell phones, 497 00:28:58,560 --> 00:29:01,440 Speaker 1: even the automobile. Start with the model T all right, 498 00:29:01,480 --> 00:29:03,360 Speaker 1: and work your way down to where we are today, 499 00:29:03,880 --> 00:29:06,320 Speaker 1: like the Corvette Z six with the Z seven package, 500 00:29:06,320 --> 00:29:08,160 Speaker 1: which I just happened to love. All Right, that's going 501 00:29:08,200 --> 00:29:10,640 Speaker 1: to wrap things up today. We've got a great Hannity tonight, 502 00:29:10,800 --> 00:29:14,400 Speaker 1: nine Eastern on the Fox News Channel. We'll check in, Yes, 503 00:29:14,480 --> 00:29:16,720 Speaker 1: we have a new speaker. We'll check in with former 504 00:29:16,760 --> 00:29:19,360 Speaker 1: speaker new king Rich. He'll way in on who Mike 505 00:29:19,440 --> 00:29:21,440 Speaker 1: Johnson is we'll give you a full background on who 506 00:29:21,440 --> 00:29:24,520 Speaker 1: he is. We'll get to all of that. Nicki Haley 507 00:29:24,600 --> 00:29:27,880 Speaker 1: is on tonight. Jim Jordan as breaking news from the 508 00:29:27,920 --> 00:29:31,440 Speaker 1: House Judiciary Committee that he will share and break tonight 509 00:29:31,480 --> 00:29:35,800 Speaker 1: on Hannity, Pierre's Morgan, Emily Compano, and much more. Say 510 00:29:35,840 --> 00:29:39,160 Speaker 1: you DVR Hannity nine Eastern Fox. We'll see you tonight. 511 00:29:39,200 --> 00:29:42,240 Speaker 1: Back here tomorrow. Thank you for making this show possible.