1 00:00:03,680 --> 00:00:06,280 Speaker 1: On this episode of News World, I want to have 2 00:00:06,360 --> 00:00:12,639 Speaker 1: a candid discussion about the eighteenth Congress Speaker Kevin McCarthy's 3 00:00:12,640 --> 00:00:16,520 Speaker 1: agenda and talk a little bit about what's happening with 4 00:00:16,560 --> 00:00:19,840 Speaker 1: all the new members and the remarkable Congress. And I 5 00:00:19,840 --> 00:00:22,880 Speaker 1: want to give you my observations having taken over the 6 00:00:22,920 --> 00:00:34,479 Speaker 1: House back in nineteen ninety five, watching Speaker McCarthy and 7 00:00:34,520 --> 00:00:37,320 Speaker 1: his team, it's a very different situation for a lot 8 00:00:37,320 --> 00:00:41,320 Speaker 1: of reasons. We were a title way of election, picking 9 00:00:41,400 --> 00:00:45,319 Speaker 1: up fifty four seats and coming out of nowhere when 10 00:00:45,320 --> 00:00:47,960 Speaker 1: no one expected it to win the first majority in 11 00:00:48,040 --> 00:00:52,680 Speaker 1: forty years. Kevin had the challenge of people expecting a 12 00:00:52,760 --> 00:00:55,920 Speaker 1: huge victory, including me. I was as wrong as anybody else. 13 00:00:56,400 --> 00:00:59,920 Speaker 1: So there was a certain loss of energy and enthusiasm 14 00:01:00,080 --> 00:01:02,360 Speaker 1: for a couple of days because they won. But they 15 00:01:02,360 --> 00:01:04,600 Speaker 1: won by a really narrow margin. And then it occurred 16 00:01:04,640 --> 00:01:07,760 Speaker 1: to people, oh, that was exactly the same margin as 17 00:01:07,880 --> 00:01:11,400 Speaker 1: Nancy Pelosi had last Congress. It's exactly the same margin 18 00:01:11,840 --> 00:01:14,560 Speaker 1: that John Bayner had at one point, and it is 19 00:01:15,040 --> 00:01:17,880 Speaker 1: one vote bigger than the margin that Denny Hastard had 20 00:01:17,880 --> 00:01:21,319 Speaker 1: at one point, So it wasn't quite as unique a situation. 21 00:01:21,800 --> 00:01:25,000 Speaker 1: It began to stabilize, a number of members figured out 22 00:01:25,080 --> 00:01:31,080 Speaker 1: legitimately that they had enough room to really leverage the leadership. 23 00:01:31,720 --> 00:01:34,639 Speaker 1: Because the margin was so small, the leadership couldn't afford 24 00:01:34,640 --> 00:01:39,000 Speaker 1: to lose anybody. And so you had this remarkable public 25 00:01:39,040 --> 00:01:43,920 Speaker 1: episode where a group mostly on the right banded together 26 00:01:44,400 --> 00:01:46,920 Speaker 1: twenty of them in all, led by about five people 27 00:01:46,959 --> 00:01:50,120 Speaker 1: who were really aggressive. They basically said, look, we're not 28 00:01:50,160 --> 00:01:52,440 Speaker 1: going to give Kevin the votes on the floor now. 29 00:01:52,720 --> 00:01:56,600 Speaker 1: They'd gone to the conference during the organizing phase. They 30 00:01:56,680 --> 00:02:01,320 Speaker 1: lost decisively. McCarthy got eighty five percent two hundred votes. 31 00:02:01,680 --> 00:02:05,920 Speaker 1: They got fifteen percent, And so you'd think, normally, if 32 00:02:05,920 --> 00:02:09,200 Speaker 1: he had beat eighty five to fifteen, you probably think, oh, gee, 33 00:02:09,320 --> 00:02:11,240 Speaker 1: I guess I better stick with the majority. But these 34 00:02:11,280 --> 00:02:14,600 Speaker 1: folks had figured out this was their one moment of leverage. 35 00:02:14,919 --> 00:02:18,400 Speaker 1: They wanted positions on key committees which they had convinced 36 00:02:18,400 --> 00:02:22,800 Speaker 1: were stacked against conservatives. They wanted commitments on open rules 37 00:02:22,800 --> 00:02:25,520 Speaker 1: on the floor so people could offer amendments. They wanted 38 00:02:25,560 --> 00:02:28,840 Speaker 1: commitments in moving towards a ballance budget. And it was 39 00:02:29,320 --> 00:02:32,919 Speaker 1: obviously a pretty knocked down, drag out negotiation. A couple 40 00:02:32,960 --> 00:02:37,040 Speaker 1: of them were motivated by really petty personal attitudes, but 41 00:02:37,160 --> 00:02:40,280 Speaker 1: in the bulk they weren't. This was a real power struggle. 42 00:02:41,040 --> 00:02:43,640 Speaker 1: Part of it I think was really healthy. And I 43 00:02:43,720 --> 00:02:47,520 Speaker 1: say that because Speaker Pelosi, who had been running a dictatorship, 44 00:02:48,120 --> 00:02:50,960 Speaker 1: she said something and they every single Democrat voted yes. 45 00:02:51,760 --> 00:02:54,880 Speaker 1: She allowed people to vote without ever showing up, so 46 00:02:55,000 --> 00:02:57,440 Speaker 1: they had all those proxy voting end members who had 47 00:02:57,440 --> 00:03:00,959 Speaker 1: not been there in a year. She basically was happy 48 00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:02,720 Speaker 1: to have them not show up because she just wanted 49 00:03:02,760 --> 00:03:05,400 Speaker 1: their votes so they could dominate. The bills were all 50 00:03:05,400 --> 00:03:08,040 Speaker 1: basically written at the very center by a handful of people, 51 00:03:08,639 --> 00:03:12,239 Speaker 1: and you were getting trillions of dollars in spending four 52 00:03:12,280 --> 00:03:15,560 Speaker 1: thousand pages in legislation, two days to look at it, 53 00:03:15,840 --> 00:03:18,440 Speaker 1: no amendments, and then they'd ram it through on a 54 00:03:18,480 --> 00:03:25,000 Speaker 1: party line vote. Now, ironically, both Speaker Pelosi and Speaker 55 00:03:25,080 --> 00:03:27,959 Speaker 1: John Bayner had gotten elected with only two hundred and 56 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:32,280 Speaker 1: sixteen votes because they couldn't get an absolute majority, but 57 00:03:32,360 --> 00:03:34,840 Speaker 1: they could convince a handful of people to not vote, 58 00:03:35,400 --> 00:03:37,800 Speaker 1: and that gave them a majority of those who did vote. 59 00:03:37,960 --> 00:03:40,520 Speaker 1: The House rules are a majority of the members who 60 00:03:40,520 --> 00:03:44,040 Speaker 1: have shown up and are voting. So again, it wasn't 61 00:03:44,120 --> 00:03:47,120 Speaker 1: quite that different, but two things made it different. One 62 00:03:47,320 --> 00:03:50,400 Speaker 1: was this was all being played out in public and 63 00:03:50,560 --> 00:03:54,000 Speaker 1: had all come down to the actual swearing in ceremony. 64 00:03:54,480 --> 00:03:58,640 Speaker 1: And normally you'd expected the new speaker to be elected 65 00:03:58,640 --> 00:04:02,280 Speaker 1: in the first ballot. It took fifteen ballots. Now, that 66 00:04:02,400 --> 00:04:06,080 Speaker 1: had several really interesting effects that klift and I watched 67 00:04:06,080 --> 00:04:08,600 Speaker 1: with great interest because Klifton spent eighteen years working in 68 00:04:08,640 --> 00:04:11,640 Speaker 1: the Congress and had a pretty good understanding of all 69 00:04:11,680 --> 00:04:14,440 Speaker 1: this stuff, and we were kind of fascinated by just 70 00:04:14,480 --> 00:04:16,719 Speaker 1: how it was working. As a week, spent more time 71 00:04:16,720 --> 00:04:19,359 Speaker 1: watching c spend than we have in a long time. 72 00:04:20,480 --> 00:04:26,400 Speaker 1: On a couple observations, McCarthy proved that he was confident, 73 00:04:27,040 --> 00:04:32,080 Speaker 1: He was calm, he was smiling. That was important because 74 00:04:32,080 --> 00:04:33,960 Speaker 1: it meant that by the time they were done on 75 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:37,479 Speaker 1: the fifteenth ballot, everybody in his side had figured out 76 00:04:37,920 --> 00:04:40,080 Speaker 1: this is a much tougher guy than we thought. One 77 00:04:40,120 --> 00:04:44,599 Speaker 1: of Kevin's challenges was that people were so used to 78 00:04:44,680 --> 00:04:48,760 Speaker 1: him being pleasant and friendly that they didn't see him 79 00:04:48,800 --> 00:04:52,039 Speaker 1: as a fighter. Well, very calmly stuck to it. He 80 00:04:52,160 --> 00:04:56,120 Speaker 1: kept his two hundred people committed vote after vote. They 81 00:04:56,120 --> 00:04:59,200 Speaker 1: didn't yield, and finally they worked out a deal on 82 00:04:59,279 --> 00:05:02,719 Speaker 1: the fifteenth. Now I had two thoughts coming out of 83 00:05:02,760 --> 00:05:05,400 Speaker 1: that that were probably a little different than most people. 84 00:05:05,960 --> 00:05:08,920 Speaker 1: The first was he would have been in a weaker 85 00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:12,280 Speaker 1: position if he'd won in the first ballot, because everybody 86 00:05:12,360 --> 00:05:15,279 Speaker 1: knew a fight was coming. And if he'd won on 87 00:05:15,320 --> 00:05:17,520 Speaker 1: the first ballot, they would have been waiting for the 88 00:05:17,560 --> 00:05:20,159 Speaker 1: big blow up, and it would have happened sooner or later. 89 00:05:20,200 --> 00:05:22,839 Speaker 1: That's what happened to Bainer, That's what happened to Paul Ryan. 90 00:05:23,600 --> 00:05:26,680 Speaker 1: They never managed to get rid of the poison and 91 00:05:26,760 --> 00:05:29,880 Speaker 1: get down to working together. Well by fighting it out 92 00:05:29,920 --> 00:05:33,920 Speaker 1: for fifteen ballots in public, virtually everybody on the other 93 00:05:33,920 --> 00:05:37,719 Speaker 1: side was exhausted too, and so they're kind of gone, okay, 94 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:40,400 Speaker 1: can we find a way to work together. And I 95 00:05:40,440 --> 00:05:42,120 Speaker 1: have been up on the hill a great deal more 96 00:05:42,160 --> 00:05:45,440 Speaker 1: recently than probably the last five years, and I can 97 00:05:45,480 --> 00:05:49,279 Speaker 1: tell you the spirit among very conservative members, the spirit 98 00:05:49,320 --> 00:05:53,640 Speaker 1: among everybody is we've got to deliver, we've got to perform, 99 00:05:53,680 --> 00:05:55,960 Speaker 1: we've got to make this thing work. And that means 100 00:05:55,960 --> 00:05:59,000 Speaker 1: we've got to listen to each other. So that was one. 101 00:05:59,360 --> 00:06:03,160 Speaker 1: The other one, Kevin was a much better known. You 102 00:06:03,240 --> 00:06:07,040 Speaker 1: go through fifteen rounds on public, you have the drama 103 00:06:07,080 --> 00:06:08,440 Speaker 1: of as you're going to make it, as he's not 104 00:06:08,480 --> 00:06:11,000 Speaker 1: going to make it. You're suddenly a lot bigger figure 105 00:06:11,040 --> 00:06:14,400 Speaker 1: than you were when this thing started. That made him 106 00:06:14,800 --> 00:06:18,000 Speaker 1: in terms of his leverage to negotiate with Biden, his 107 00:06:18,200 --> 00:06:20,480 Speaker 1: leverage to get things done around the country, to recruit 108 00:06:20,560 --> 00:06:22,880 Speaker 1: new candidates. You know, it's a little bit like a 109 00:06:22,920 --> 00:06:26,080 Speaker 1: great successful football coach. You win the big game, you 110 00:06:26,120 --> 00:06:28,920 Speaker 1: can go recruit the big athletes. So Kevin is more 111 00:06:29,000 --> 00:06:32,960 Speaker 1: capacity today than he had when this fight started. The 112 00:06:33,040 --> 00:06:37,160 Speaker 1: other thing is people forget or never knew that McCarthy 113 00:06:37,240 --> 00:06:40,440 Speaker 1: is a strategic planner. He thinks obout six months, he 114 00:06:40,440 --> 00:06:42,480 Speaker 1: thinks out a year. I mean, he was sitting there 115 00:06:42,960 --> 00:06:46,520 Speaker 1: waiting patiently to finally get to the vote he needed, 116 00:06:46,960 --> 00:06:49,839 Speaker 1: and he was thinking about the first really big crisis, 117 00:06:49,839 --> 00:06:52,040 Speaker 1: which is going to be the death selling and he 118 00:06:52,120 --> 00:06:54,839 Speaker 1: knew that that would be the moment the media would 119 00:06:54,880 --> 00:06:57,919 Speaker 1: try to paint the Republicans as extremists, the moment they 120 00:06:57,960 --> 00:07:00,440 Speaker 1: would try to paint the Republicans as negative, and the 121 00:07:00,480 --> 00:07:04,560 Speaker 1: moment they would try to paint Republicans as irresponsible. Because 122 00:07:04,600 --> 00:07:08,080 Speaker 1: he knew what was going to happen. McCarthy was in 123 00:07:08,120 --> 00:07:11,760 Speaker 1: a position to figure out a language that would really work. 124 00:07:11,800 --> 00:07:14,960 Speaker 1: And he'd been a big enough student of Reagan as 125 00:07:14,960 --> 00:07:19,120 Speaker 1: a good Californian that he really understood that the power 126 00:07:19,200 --> 00:07:22,120 Speaker 1: of words was decisive. So he want to make sure 127 00:07:22,160 --> 00:07:25,120 Speaker 1: we were using the word for, not the word against. 128 00:07:25,680 --> 00:07:27,120 Speaker 1: And he wanted to be able to say I am 129 00:07:27,240 --> 00:07:30,400 Speaker 1: for a debt ceiling. But how do you say that 130 00:07:30,400 --> 00:07:32,960 Speaker 1: when you have a conservative conference that hates the whole 131 00:07:33,000 --> 00:07:35,760 Speaker 1: idea of raising that. Well, you start talking about a 132 00:07:35,840 --> 00:07:40,360 Speaker 1: responsible debt ceiling, which means cutting spending as opposed to 133 00:07:40,400 --> 00:07:44,320 Speaker 1: an irresponsible debt ceiling, which would have no changes, and 134 00:07:44,440 --> 00:07:47,800 Speaker 1: you begin to possession Biden so that he's for an 135 00:07:47,800 --> 00:07:52,400 Speaker 1: irresponsible debt ceiling. Now what does that do. First of all, 136 00:07:52,440 --> 00:07:54,720 Speaker 1: let's go to your members to say, let's talk about 137 00:07:54,720 --> 00:07:58,080 Speaker 1: the spending cuts we want and the economic growth package 138 00:07:58,120 --> 00:08:01,760 Speaker 1: we want if we're going to a debt ceiling. Now 139 00:08:01,760 --> 00:08:03,400 Speaker 1: they're talking about what they're going to do, what they're 140 00:08:03,400 --> 00:08:06,120 Speaker 1: going to be for. They're not talking it about whether 141 00:08:06,200 --> 00:08:10,000 Speaker 1: or not Biden Bisen, because that's not the right staging. 142 00:08:10,800 --> 00:08:13,720 Speaker 1: The second thing he did that was really important is 143 00:08:14,120 --> 00:08:17,520 Speaker 1: the only person he negotiates with is Biden. He doesn't 144 00:08:17,520 --> 00:08:22,320 Speaker 1: negotiate with Schumer, he doesn't negotiate with Hacheim Jeffreys. And 145 00:08:22,800 --> 00:08:26,560 Speaker 1: he was very fortunate by being patient and being positive. 146 00:08:26,920 --> 00:08:29,400 Speaker 1: Mitch McConnell came out and said, public man a speech 147 00:08:29,400 --> 00:08:33,040 Speaker 1: on the Senate floor. This is being led by Speaker McCarthy. 148 00:08:33,320 --> 00:08:35,200 Speaker 1: The House has the lead on this, and I am 149 00:08:35,200 --> 00:08:37,560 Speaker 1: supporting them. And by the way, I agree there should 150 00:08:37,600 --> 00:08:41,360 Speaker 1: be spending cuts now in the Reagan tradition. What really 151 00:08:41,400 --> 00:08:44,960 Speaker 1: began to make this work is really simple. Seventy three 152 00:08:45,040 --> 00:08:48,080 Speaker 1: percent of the American people think it is responsible to 153 00:08:48,120 --> 00:08:49,959 Speaker 1: cut spending if you're going to pass a dets ceiling. 154 00:08:50,559 --> 00:08:53,880 Speaker 1: Only twenty four percent believe you should pass a debt 155 00:08:53,920 --> 00:08:59,160 Speaker 1: ceiling with nothing attached. So Biden had trapped himself into 156 00:08:59,160 --> 00:09:03,000 Speaker 1: a position that only one out of every four Americans favored. 157 00:09:03,840 --> 00:09:06,679 Speaker 1: McCarthy had found a position that three out of four 158 00:09:06,720 --> 00:09:11,640 Speaker 1: Americans favored. And in general American politics, if you're disciplined 159 00:09:11,640 --> 00:09:15,760 Speaker 1: and consistent over time, the three to one beats the one. 160 00:09:16,080 --> 00:09:18,720 Speaker 1: It's the nature of the American system. And you began 161 00:09:18,760 --> 00:09:20,640 Speaker 1: to see this because all of a sudden. For example, 162 00:09:21,120 --> 00:09:24,280 Speaker 1: Democratic Senator Joe Mansion calls Kevin and says, can I 163 00:09:24,360 --> 00:09:26,680 Speaker 1: come over and see you. I'd like to talk about 164 00:09:26,720 --> 00:09:30,160 Speaker 1: spending cuts. A number of other Democrats in the House 165 00:09:30,320 --> 00:09:35,000 Speaker 1: from very Republican districts announced collectively, well, of course we 166 00:09:35,000 --> 00:09:37,880 Speaker 1: should be negotiating spending cuts. I mean, all of a sudden, 167 00:09:37,920 --> 00:09:41,079 Speaker 1: the seams start to come apart. Now let me just say, 168 00:09:41,080 --> 00:09:44,000 Speaker 1: as an acide, well, this is happening. The Republicans are 169 00:09:44,040 --> 00:09:47,480 Speaker 1: bringing up two important China votes. One was to create 170 00:09:47,880 --> 00:09:52,200 Speaker 1: a select Committee on the Chinese Communist that was created 171 00:09:52,200 --> 00:09:56,439 Speaker 1: with a huge bipartisan vote. Majority of Democrats voted with 172 00:09:56,920 --> 00:10:00,480 Speaker 1: the Republicans to create that committee. Then they followed with 173 00:10:00,520 --> 00:10:03,679 Speaker 1: a bill that cuts the Chinese off from easy American 174 00:10:03,760 --> 00:10:07,839 Speaker 1: Strategic Petroleum Reserve. Now, by cutting off the Chinese the 175 00:10:07,840 --> 00:10:12,480 Speaker 1: American Strategic presolium reserve, it's at least symbolically important. And 176 00:10:12,640 --> 00:10:15,640 Speaker 1: what happened was at that point you had a real 177 00:10:15,679 --> 00:10:20,200 Speaker 1: commitment again by a majority of the Democratic caucus who 178 00:10:20,280 --> 00:10:23,800 Speaker 1: joined the Republicans to pass it because they knew that 179 00:10:23,840 --> 00:10:28,400 Speaker 1: it was too popular to be opposed to. So McCarthy 180 00:10:28,480 --> 00:10:32,199 Speaker 1: was beginning to gather around him a sense of bipartisanship, 181 00:10:32,600 --> 00:10:36,800 Speaker 1: a sense of reasonableness, but in a very firmly conservative 182 00:10:36,880 --> 00:10:40,199 Speaker 1: kind of way. As this is going on, he also 183 00:10:40,320 --> 00:10:43,120 Speaker 1: is meeting the commitment that he had developed in his 184 00:10:43,200 --> 00:10:46,000 Speaker 1: commitment to America, which is still worth looking at. It's 185 00:10:46,000 --> 00:10:48,679 Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty ideas, which I think is of 186 00:10:48,760 --> 00:10:52,760 Speaker 1: commitment to America dot Com. And the very first commitment 187 00:10:52,760 --> 00:10:55,400 Speaker 1: he'd made was to vote on the eighty seven thousand 188 00:10:55,440 --> 00:11:13,360 Speaker 1: IRS agents. I think it's extremely important for everyone to 189 00:11:13,440 --> 00:11:16,040 Speaker 1: understand there would be a derelict of duty to not 190 00:11:16,240 --> 00:11:18,680 Speaker 1: raise the dead ceiling because we would wreck havoc on 191 00:11:18,720 --> 00:11:21,880 Speaker 1: both the United States economy, the world markets, and threaten 192 00:11:21,920 --> 00:11:25,240 Speaker 1: are very status as the country that people can rely on. 193 00:11:25,920 --> 00:11:30,360 Speaker 1: But I think there's a difference between a responsible death 194 00:11:30,440 --> 00:11:35,160 Speaker 1: ceiling increase and an irresponsible death ceiling increase. And that's 195 00:11:35,160 --> 00:11:37,520 Speaker 1: where I think Speaker McCarthy is going to win the argument, 196 00:11:38,000 --> 00:11:41,880 Speaker 1: both with the American people and ultimately with President Biden. 197 00:11:42,440 --> 00:11:46,160 Speaker 1: So let's look at how that's evolving. On Wednesday, Speaker 198 00:11:46,240 --> 00:11:49,160 Speaker 1: McCarthy and President Biden met at the White House to 199 00:11:49,320 --> 00:11:53,000 Speaker 1: discuss the death ceiling. And here's what Speaker McCarthy had 200 00:11:53,040 --> 00:11:56,240 Speaker 1: to say after they met. We have different perspectives, but 201 00:11:56,320 --> 00:11:59,680 Speaker 1: we both laid out some of our vision of where 202 00:11:59,679 --> 00:12:02,280 Speaker 1: we'd want to get to, and I believe after laying 203 00:12:02,280 --> 00:12:05,679 Speaker 1: both about, I can see where we can find common ground. Now. 204 00:12:05,880 --> 00:12:12,080 Speaker 1: McCarthy was very careful in talking a very respectful way 205 00:12:12,120 --> 00:12:15,800 Speaker 1: about President Biden, and by the way, President Biden since 206 00:12:15,840 --> 00:12:21,199 Speaker 1: then has been very respectful in talking positively about Speaker McCarthy, 207 00:12:21,600 --> 00:12:24,520 Speaker 1: and neither has said to accept the other's viewpoint. But 208 00:12:24,720 --> 00:12:28,560 Speaker 1: the beginning of a potential working relationship is there, and 209 00:12:28,679 --> 00:12:30,680 Speaker 1: when you're dealing with a president of the other party, 210 00:12:31,040 --> 00:12:35,520 Speaker 1: that's a very important breakthrough. Speaker McCarthy has a plan. 211 00:12:35,600 --> 00:12:39,360 Speaker 1: It's dramatically different than the president's, and I think it's 212 00:12:39,440 --> 00:12:43,280 Speaker 1: worth hearing McCarthy himself. He said on Face the Nation 213 00:12:43,800 --> 00:12:46,520 Speaker 1: on January twenty nine. I know the President said he 214 00:12:46,559 --> 00:12:48,880 Speaker 1: didn't want to have any discussions, but I think it's 215 00:12:49,000 --> 00:12:52,520 Speaker 1: very important that our whole government's designed to find compromise. 216 00:12:52,559 --> 00:12:56,440 Speaker 1: I want to find a reasonable and a responsible way 217 00:12:56,480 --> 00:12:59,120 Speaker 1: that we can lift the debt ceiling but take control 218 00:12:59,200 --> 00:13:01,280 Speaker 1: of this on a way spending. I mean, if you 219 00:13:01,280 --> 00:13:04,040 Speaker 1: look at the last four years, the Democrats have increased 220 00:13:04,080 --> 00:13:07,600 Speaker 1: spending by thirty percent four hundred billion dollars. We're at 221 00:13:07,600 --> 00:13:11,040 Speaker 1: a one hundred and twenty percent of GDP. We haven't 222 00:13:11,080 --> 00:13:13,439 Speaker 1: been in this place to debt since World War Two, 223 00:13:13,640 --> 00:13:16,160 Speaker 1: So we can't continue down this path. And I don't 224 00:13:16,200 --> 00:13:19,400 Speaker 1: think there's anyone in America who doesn't agree that there's 225 00:13:19,440 --> 00:13:22,520 Speaker 1: some wasteful Washington spending that we can eliminate. So I 226 00:13:22,559 --> 00:13:25,240 Speaker 1: want to sit down together work out an agreement that 227 00:13:25,280 --> 00:13:27,720 Speaker 1: we can move forward to put us on a path 228 00:13:27,880 --> 00:13:31,320 Speaker 1: to balance at the same time, not put any of 229 00:13:31,360 --> 00:13:34,600 Speaker 1: our debt in jeopardy at the same time. Now, one 230 00:13:34,600 --> 00:13:35,960 Speaker 1: of the key things you're going to hear from the 231 00:13:35,960 --> 00:13:39,000 Speaker 1: White House is the Republicans want to cut Medicare and 232 00:13:39,000 --> 00:13:41,760 Speaker 1: SoC Security. They say that because it scores really well, 233 00:13:41,760 --> 00:13:44,680 Speaker 1: it makes them feel good. It's totally not true, and 234 00:13:44,760 --> 00:13:48,720 Speaker 1: in fact, Speaker McCarthy has vowed that Medicare and Social 235 00:13:48,800 --> 00:13:52,040 Speaker 1: Security are not on the chopping block. Here's what he said, 236 00:13:52,400 --> 00:13:55,359 Speaker 1: un faced the nation. If you read our commitment to America, 237 00:13:55,440 --> 00:13:59,000 Speaker 1: all we talk about is strengthening Medicare and Social Security. 238 00:13:59,240 --> 00:14:01,240 Speaker 1: So and I know the President says he doesn't want 239 00:14:01,240 --> 00:14:02,400 Speaker 1: to look at it, but we've got to make sure 240 00:14:02,400 --> 00:14:04,480 Speaker 1: we strengthened those What do you mean best strength and 241 00:14:04,840 --> 00:14:07,480 Speaker 1: do you mean lift the retirement age? Oh no, no, 242 00:14:07,559 --> 00:14:09,560 Speaker 1: what I'm talking about social care and Medicare. You could 243 00:14:09,640 --> 00:14:11,520 Speaker 1: keep that to the side. What I want to look 244 00:14:11,559 --> 00:14:15,080 Speaker 1: at is they've increased spending by thirty percent, four hundred 245 00:14:15,120 --> 00:14:18,040 Speaker 1: billion dollars in four years. When you look at what 246 00:14:18,080 --> 00:14:21,880 Speaker 1: they have done adding ten trillion dollars in debt for 247 00:14:21,920 --> 00:14:24,240 Speaker 1: the next ten years in the short time period. If 248 00:14:24,240 --> 00:14:26,520 Speaker 1: you just look a month ago they went through and 249 00:14:26,560 --> 00:14:29,880 Speaker 1: they never even passed a bill through appropriations in the Senate. 250 00:14:30,280 --> 00:14:31,800 Speaker 1: And let me say, by the way, that when I 251 00:14:31,880 --> 00:14:34,720 Speaker 1: was Speaker, we followed a very similar pattern. We never 252 00:14:34,800 --> 00:14:40,119 Speaker 1: touched social security. We only improved Medicare by adding Medicare advantage, 253 00:14:40,440 --> 00:14:43,560 Speaker 1: which is a side effects saved money. But the purpose 254 00:14:43,720 --> 00:14:47,400 Speaker 1: wasn't quote cut Medicare. We actually increased Medicare spending. The 255 00:14:47,480 --> 00:14:52,480 Speaker 1: purpose was to improve Medicare options for senior citizens. The 256 00:14:52,560 --> 00:14:58,240 Speaker 1: fact is that the Democrats are trying very hard to 257 00:14:58,320 --> 00:15:02,240 Speaker 1: drive home this idea that threatening to actually not pass 258 00:15:02,360 --> 00:15:05,240 Speaker 1: the debt ceiling or threatening to only pass the debt ceiling. 259 00:15:05,280 --> 00:15:11,000 Speaker 1: That's not right. Somehow, is inappropriate. The National Economic Council 260 00:15:11,040 --> 00:15:15,080 Speaker 1: Director for President Biden, Briandese, and the Office of Management 261 00:15:15,080 --> 00:15:19,120 Speaker 1: Budget Director Shellanda Young sent a memo to McCarthy on 262 00:15:19,280 --> 00:15:22,240 Speaker 1: January thirtieth, and they kind of set up their straw man. 263 00:15:22,760 --> 00:15:25,800 Speaker 1: Let me share it with you. Quote. As the President 264 00:15:25,840 --> 00:15:29,120 Speaker 1: has said many times, the United States must never default 265 00:15:29,120 --> 00:15:32,280 Speaker 1: on its financial obligations. Raising the debt ceiling is not 266 00:15:32,360 --> 00:15:35,880 Speaker 1: a negotiation. It's an obligation of this country and its 267 00:15:36,000 --> 00:15:40,680 Speaker 1: leaders to avoid economic chaos. Speaking, McCarthy's unwillingness update to 268 00:15:41,200 --> 00:15:44,520 Speaker 1: take the threat of default off the table makes him 269 00:15:44,520 --> 00:15:48,160 Speaker 1: an outlier, including among current and former leaders of his 270 00:15:48,200 --> 00:15:52,560 Speaker 1: own party. Quote. On March ninth, President Biden will release 271 00:15:52,600 --> 00:15:55,520 Speaker 1: his budget. The budget will show how the President plans 272 00:15:55,520 --> 00:15:59,080 Speaker 1: to invest in America, continue to lower cost for families, 273 00:15:59,360 --> 00:16:03,320 Speaker 1: protecting strength and social security and Medicare, and reduce the deficit, 274 00:16:03,600 --> 00:16:07,240 Speaker 1: with tables and numbers showing exactly how his economic and 275 00:16:07,280 --> 00:16:11,440 Speaker 1: fiscal policies add up to achieve these goals. Speaker McCarthy 276 00:16:11,480 --> 00:16:14,400 Speaker 1: has said that reducing the deficit is a top priority 277 00:16:14,480 --> 00:16:17,680 Speaker 1: for him and his caucus. So far, however, House Revelevance 278 00:16:17,720 --> 00:16:21,000 Speaker 1: have offered up detailed plans to increase the deficit with 279 00:16:21,200 --> 00:16:25,320 Speaker 1: tax policies that would benefit the wealthiest Americans, as shown below. 280 00:16:25,680 --> 00:16:28,160 Speaker 1: When seeking their majority of this fall, and during the 281 00:16:28,200 --> 00:16:31,080 Speaker 1: first few weeks of holding it House, Republicans have already 282 00:16:31,120 --> 00:16:35,360 Speaker 1: voted on, supported, or proposed numerous ideas that would increase 283 00:16:35,400 --> 00:16:38,239 Speaker 1: the deficit by trillions of dollars over the next decade. 284 00:16:39,000 --> 00:16:42,920 Speaker 1: They would conclude quote any serious conversation with economic and 285 00:16:42,960 --> 00:16:46,120 Speaker 1: fiscal policy needs to start with a clear understanding of 286 00:16:46,160 --> 00:16:49,960 Speaker 1: the participants goals and proposals. Speaker McCarthy and his caucus 287 00:16:50,000 --> 00:16:52,760 Speaker 1: need to transparently lay out to the American people. There 288 00:16:52,760 --> 00:16:56,320 Speaker 1: are fiscal and economic proposals in the normal budget process. 289 00:16:56,360 --> 00:17:01,040 Speaker 1: In fact, Seeker McCarthy said this weekend are very responsibility 290 00:17:01,400 --> 00:17:04,880 Speaker 1: is to pass a budget. On Wednesday, President Biden will 291 00:17:04,880 --> 00:17:08,320 Speaker 1: see clarity from Speaker McCarthy about when the public can 292 00:17:08,400 --> 00:17:12,960 Speaker 1: expect to see his detailed, comprehensive budget. Quose quote now, frankly, 293 00:17:13,080 --> 00:17:15,760 Speaker 1: as somebody who went through this and ultimately helped produce 294 00:17:15,840 --> 00:17:19,960 Speaker 1: four consecutive balanced budgets, this is all a charade. McCarthy 295 00:17:19,960 --> 00:17:21,879 Speaker 1: has been in office for a couple of weeks. The 296 00:17:21,960 --> 00:17:24,760 Speaker 1: Republicans do not have an obligation to try to match 297 00:17:25,080 --> 00:17:28,720 Speaker 1: the capacity of the White House to generate a detailed budget, 298 00:17:29,040 --> 00:17:31,440 Speaker 1: and a large part of the Biden budget will turn 299 00:17:31,480 --> 00:17:35,879 Speaker 1: out to be phony. In response to the memo, McCarthy tweeted, quote, 300 00:17:36,160 --> 00:17:40,200 Speaker 1: mister President, I received your staff memo. I'm not interested 301 00:17:40,200 --> 00:17:43,879 Speaker 1: in political games. I'm coming to negotiate for the American people. 302 00:17:43,960 --> 00:17:49,040 Speaker 1: Close quote Now. Interestingly, while the Democrats claim you can't 303 00:17:49,080 --> 00:17:53,119 Speaker 1: talk about negotiating on the debt ceiling, the fact is 304 00:17:53,119 --> 00:17:56,840 Speaker 1: in twenty eleven Biden did just that. As Vice president. 305 00:17:56,880 --> 00:18:00,320 Speaker 1: He was involved in a negotiation which substantially reduced spending 306 00:18:00,359 --> 00:18:03,800 Speaker 1: in order to pass the debts him. The Democrats have 307 00:18:03,960 --> 00:18:08,199 Speaker 1: been trying to do a dance. Schumer has attacked Speaker 308 00:18:08,240 --> 00:18:12,040 Speaker 1: McCarthy and has said, oh, there should be no change, 309 00:18:12,320 --> 00:18:16,720 Speaker 1: that would totally be a clean debt ceiling, and came Jeffreys, 310 00:18:16,760 --> 00:18:18,639 Speaker 1: the new Democratic lead to the House, has had a 311 00:18:18,640 --> 00:18:23,200 Speaker 1: similar pattern. The fact is that when you get down 312 00:18:23,240 --> 00:18:26,240 Speaker 1: to it, they're going to be a negotiation. The only 313 00:18:26,240 --> 00:18:27,840 Speaker 1: way they're going to get something out of the House 314 00:18:27,960 --> 00:18:31,200 Speaker 1: is to have significant reduction in spending, and a lot 315 00:18:31,240 --> 00:18:33,960 Speaker 1: of this is just kind of a kabuki dance that 316 00:18:34,119 --> 00:18:36,160 Speaker 1: deep down they must know that it's not going to work. 317 00:18:36,160 --> 00:18:38,920 Speaker 1: They may hope it's going to work. They may be thinking, hey, 318 00:18:38,920 --> 00:18:41,640 Speaker 1: we got this brand new speaker. He only got elected 319 00:18:41,640 --> 00:18:44,280 Speaker 1: by a narrow margin. Maybe we can get him to flinch. 320 00:18:44,760 --> 00:18:48,080 Speaker 1: But that's not quite how it's working out. President Biden 321 00:18:48,160 --> 00:18:52,719 Speaker 1: continued this theory of no negotiations when he tweeted in 322 00:18:52,760 --> 00:18:56,800 Speaker 1: February first quote, just finished a wide ranging discussion with 323 00:18:56,840 --> 00:18:59,840 Speaker 1: Speaker McCarthy. I made clear that it's the shared duty 324 00:18:59,840 --> 00:19:03,679 Speaker 1: of every leader in Congress not to allow a default. However, 325 00:19:03,720 --> 00:19:07,000 Speaker 1: I told him I welcome separate talks about how best 326 00:19:07,080 --> 00:19:11,159 Speaker 1: to continue reducing the death sit while growing the economy. Now, 327 00:19:11,280 --> 00:19:14,560 Speaker 1: I thought that was fascinating, and I called several people 328 00:19:14,600 --> 00:19:17,840 Speaker 1: to make the point. What Biden has just done. Its 329 00:19:17,880 --> 00:19:21,600 Speaker 1: potentially opened up a two track process. And what Republicans 330 00:19:21,600 --> 00:19:24,680 Speaker 1: could do is say, fine, I'm putting President Biden will 331 00:19:24,720 --> 00:19:28,560 Speaker 1: have quote separate talks about how best to continue reducing 332 00:19:28,600 --> 00:19:31,720 Speaker 1: the death sit while growing the economy. Then we will 333 00:19:31,800 --> 00:19:35,720 Speaker 1: pass that agreement, you will sign it into law, and 334 00:19:35,880 --> 00:19:38,400 Speaker 1: after you've done that, we can pass a clean debt ceiling. 335 00:19:38,680 --> 00:19:40,840 Speaker 1: Because we already have gotten everything we wanted to put 336 00:19:40,840 --> 00:19:43,600 Speaker 1: on the debt ceiling. I don't think it had occurred 337 00:19:43,640 --> 00:19:46,560 Speaker 1: to Biden that by making it clear they could have 338 00:19:46,560 --> 00:19:49,840 Speaker 1: two separate talks, he might be setting up a situation 339 00:19:50,240 --> 00:19:52,720 Speaker 1: where the Republicans can say, will be glad to sept 340 00:19:52,760 --> 00:19:56,320 Speaker 1: past the debt ceiling right after the first of those 341 00:19:56,359 --> 00:20:00,320 Speaker 1: talks leads to lower spending. The White House version was 342 00:20:00,359 --> 00:20:04,000 Speaker 1: the following quote. President Biden made clear that, as every 343 00:20:04,000 --> 00:20:06,960 Speaker 1: other leader in both parties and Congress has affirmed, it 344 00:20:07,040 --> 00:20:10,480 Speaker 1: is their shared duty not to allow an unprecedented and 345 00:20:10,600 --> 00:20:15,440 Speaker 1: economically catastrophic DeVault. The United States Constitution is explicit about 346 00:20:15,440 --> 00:20:18,840 Speaker 1: this obligation. Only American people expect Congress to meet it 347 00:20:19,080 --> 00:20:22,080 Speaker 1: in the same way all of its predecessors. It is 348 00:20:22,119 --> 00:20:26,440 Speaker 1: not negotial or conditional. It goes on to say, I'm 349 00:20:26,520 --> 00:20:29,960 Speaker 1: quoting the White House. The President welcomes a separate discussion 350 00:20:29,960 --> 00:20:32,480 Speaker 1: with Congressional leaders about how to reduce the deficit and 351 00:20:32,560 --> 00:20:36,040 Speaker 1: control of the national debt while continuing to grow the economy. 352 00:20:36,160 --> 00:20:39,800 Speaker 1: This conversation should build on the President's leadership in delivering 353 00:20:39,800 --> 00:20:43,000 Speaker 1: a record one point seven trillion in deficit reduction in 354 00:20:43,000 --> 00:20:45,639 Speaker 1: his first two years office, the President of the Speaker 355 00:20:45,640 --> 00:20:50,040 Speaker 1: agreed to continue this conversation. Well, of course, almost all 356 00:20:50,119 --> 00:20:52,639 Speaker 1: of the record depths of reduction came from the end 357 00:20:52,680 --> 00:20:56,280 Speaker 1: of the COVID disaster and the natural drop in spending 358 00:20:56,320 --> 00:21:00,359 Speaker 1: based on that pandemic having been over. But it's equal 359 00:21:00,400 --> 00:21:03,919 Speaker 1: interesting he noticed that he did explicitly say that he 360 00:21:04,040 --> 00:21:07,840 Speaker 1: is prepared to talk about in a separate discussion. Now. 361 00:21:08,160 --> 00:21:11,040 Speaker 1: I would also point out that while he claims every 362 00:21:11,320 --> 00:21:13,760 Speaker 1: leader has said they had to pass the debt ceiling, 363 00:21:13,800 --> 00:21:16,199 Speaker 1: the fact is there have been many occasions where the 364 00:21:16,240 --> 00:21:20,240 Speaker 1: debt ceiling was modified in order to produce spending. I 365 00:21:20,400 --> 00:21:22,679 Speaker 1: led several of them when I was a Speaker. Biden 366 00:21:22,760 --> 00:21:26,680 Speaker 1: himself helped negotiate in twenty eleven with Mitch McConnell and others. 367 00:21:27,040 --> 00:21:31,359 Speaker 1: This is not unprecedented. But the fact is that Speaker 368 00:21:31,440 --> 00:21:35,000 Speaker 1: McCarthy has begun to move down the road and develop 369 00:21:35,119 --> 00:21:39,119 Speaker 1: real momentum and the American people, by about seventy three 370 00:21:39,200 --> 00:21:43,520 Speaker 1: to twenty four the American people favor a debt ceiling 371 00:21:43,640 --> 00:21:47,400 Speaker 1: that modifies spending rather than a debt ceiling that has 372 00:21:47,440 --> 00:21:51,320 Speaker 1: no modification. Only twenty fourths of the country favors were 373 00:21:51,359 --> 00:21:54,399 Speaker 1: President Biden is calling for, and that is too narrow 374 00:21:54,480 --> 00:21:56,960 Speaker 1: a base for the Democrats to be able to stay 375 00:21:57,000 --> 00:22:00,800 Speaker 1: there if the Republicans are calmly and cheerfully, system and 376 00:22:00,960 --> 00:22:18,840 Speaker 1: moving in the right direction. Now, what's interesting is the 377 00:22:18,960 --> 00:22:21,399 Speaker 1: Republicans in the middle of all this talk, they're already 378 00:22:21,400 --> 00:22:26,400 Speaker 1: passing a variety of bills. House Resolution eleven, which established 379 00:22:26,400 --> 00:22:29,960 Speaker 1: the Select Committee on the Strategic Competition between the United 380 00:22:29,960 --> 00:22:33,000 Speaker 1: States the Chinese Communist Party, which I must say has 381 00:22:33,040 --> 00:22:37,200 Speaker 1: become a lot more relevant with the Chinese balloon drifting 382 00:22:37,240 --> 00:22:40,440 Speaker 1: around Montana and apparently coming down through the rest of 383 00:22:40,440 --> 00:22:43,439 Speaker 1: the United States and just driving home how real the 384 00:22:43,520 --> 00:22:47,359 Speaker 1: Chinese behavior and the aggressiveness of Chinese. That committee, and 385 00:22:47,400 --> 00:22:50,240 Speaker 1: this is I thought pretty impressive, was agreed to in 386 00:22:50,280 --> 00:22:53,880 Speaker 1: the House by three hundred and sixty five to sixty five. 387 00:22:54,600 --> 00:22:58,200 Speaker 1: That means the Democrats voted one hundred and forty six yes, 388 00:22:59,119 --> 00:23:04,040 Speaker 1: which is a remarkable turnaround. When you have that kind 389 00:23:04,080 --> 00:23:09,920 Speaker 1: of a margin, you really are dealing with bipartisan activity 390 00:23:09,920 --> 00:23:13,680 Speaker 1: on a scale of Nancy Pelosi never saw. Similarly, the 391 00:23:13,680 --> 00:23:17,520 Speaker 1: Family and Small Business Taxpayer Protection Act was passed, which 392 00:23:18,040 --> 00:23:22,320 Speaker 1: took away certain unobligated amounts made for the IRS to 393 00:23:22,320 --> 00:23:24,720 Speaker 1: be able to hire the eighty seven thousand new agents 394 00:23:25,200 --> 00:23:28,440 Speaker 1: that passed the House twenty one to two ten. They 395 00:23:28,520 --> 00:23:32,000 Speaker 1: also passed a resolution condemning the recent attack on pro 396 00:23:32,040 --> 00:23:35,440 Speaker 1: life facilities, groups and churches that passed by two twenty 397 00:23:35,440 --> 00:23:39,879 Speaker 1: two to two oh nine. Interesting, only three Democrats voted 398 00:23:39,920 --> 00:23:43,359 Speaker 1: to condemn the recent attacks and pro life facilities groups 399 00:23:43,359 --> 00:23:46,800 Speaker 1: and churches. Only three two hundred and nine Democrats voted 400 00:23:46,840 --> 00:23:51,600 Speaker 1: against condemning to attacks on pro life facilities, groups and churches. 401 00:23:52,280 --> 00:23:55,760 Speaker 1: The Born Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, which says if 402 00:23:55,760 --> 00:23:59,119 Speaker 1: you're born alive, you are no longer can be aborted, 403 00:23:59,400 --> 00:24:03,280 Speaker 1: introduced by represented Ann Wagner, that passed by two hundred 404 00:24:03,280 --> 00:24:07,480 Speaker 1: and twenty to two ten, with only one Democrat agreeing 405 00:24:07,520 --> 00:24:10,240 Speaker 1: that if the child's born alive, it should be preserved. 406 00:24:10,280 --> 00:24:13,879 Speaker 1: It should be preserved alive and not killed. So there 407 00:24:13,880 --> 00:24:16,560 Speaker 1: are a tremendous number of things underway that are real. 408 00:24:17,080 --> 00:24:19,679 Speaker 1: And the Commitment to America, which I recommend if you 409 00:24:19,720 --> 00:24:23,280 Speaker 1: haven't gone, go look at Commitment to America dot com. 410 00:24:23,440 --> 00:24:26,639 Speaker 1: The House Republicans, not just Kevin mcgarthey, the House Republicans 411 00:24:26,640 --> 00:24:29,480 Speaker 1: as a group created this commitment it's one hundred and 412 00:24:29,560 --> 00:24:33,320 Speaker 1: fifty big ideas. They are steadily working their way through it. 413 00:24:33,320 --> 00:24:37,600 Speaker 1: It starts with an economy that's strong, fighting inflation, lowering 414 00:24:37,600 --> 00:24:41,960 Speaker 1: the cost of living, curbing a wasteful government spending which 415 00:24:42,040 --> 00:24:45,480 Speaker 1: they feel raises the price of food and gasoline and 416 00:24:45,600 --> 00:24:49,520 Speaker 1: housing and the national debt, increasing take home pay, creating 417 00:24:49,560 --> 00:24:53,200 Speaker 1: good paying jobs, bringing stability the economy through pro growth 418 00:24:53,320 --> 00:24:56,800 Speaker 1: tax and the regulatory policies they call from making America 419 00:24:56,960 --> 00:25:01,199 Speaker 1: energy independent and reducing gas prices, maximizing the production of 420 00:25:01,200 --> 00:25:05,520 Speaker 1: reliable American made energy, caught the permitting process time in 421 00:25:05,600 --> 00:25:10,160 Speaker 1: half for American production, to reduce reliance on foreign countries, 422 00:25:10,400 --> 00:25:14,119 Speaker 1: prevent rolling blackouts, and lower the cost of gas and utilities. 423 00:25:14,840 --> 00:25:18,520 Speaker 1: Republicans have a pretty simple defendable position on the supply 424 00:25:18,600 --> 00:25:23,520 Speaker 1: of oil and gas, which is the Texas, Oklahoma, North Dakota, 425 00:25:23,920 --> 00:25:29,600 Speaker 1: Pennsylvania are better places to get supplies than say, Venezuela 426 00:25:29,760 --> 00:25:33,520 Speaker 1: or Russia. Now this seems to shake the left wing Democrats, 427 00:25:33,520 --> 00:25:36,400 Speaker 1: who for some reason think getting energy from anywhere other 428 00:25:36,440 --> 00:25:39,000 Speaker 1: than the US is a good thing. The Republicans are 429 00:25:39,000 --> 00:25:42,840 Speaker 1: also committed to strengthening the supply chain, ending dependence on China, 430 00:25:43,200 --> 00:25:47,440 Speaker 1: moving the supply chain away from China, expanding US manufacturing 431 00:25:47,800 --> 00:25:53,119 Speaker 1: and enhancing America's economic competitiveness and cyber resiliency. And what 432 00:25:53,320 --> 00:25:56,760 Speaker 1: is probably the emotionally most powerful part of the commitment 433 00:25:56,800 --> 00:25:59,399 Speaker 1: to America, It's committed to a nation that's safe. That 434 00:25:59,560 --> 00:26:03,879 Speaker 1: starts with securing the border and combating a legal immigration 435 00:26:04,320 --> 00:26:09,280 Speaker 1: fully funding effective border enforcement strategies, infrastructure and advanced technology 436 00:26:09,640 --> 00:26:13,800 Speaker 1: to prevent illegal crossings and trafficking by cartels, ending catch 437 00:26:13,800 --> 00:26:17,119 Speaker 1: and release proopholes, requiring proof of legal status to get 438 00:26:17,160 --> 00:26:21,159 Speaker 1: a job, and eliminating welfare incentives. It also calls for 439 00:26:21,240 --> 00:26:25,320 Speaker 1: reducing crime and protecting public safety, supporting two hundred thousand 440 00:26:25,400 --> 00:26:30,000 Speaker 1: more police officers through recruiting and retention bonuses, opposing all 441 00:26:30,040 --> 00:26:33,320 Speaker 1: efforts to defund the police, cracking down and prosecutors and 442 00:26:33,400 --> 00:26:37,480 Speaker 1: district attorneys who refuse to prosecute crime, while permanently making 443 00:26:37,520 --> 00:26:41,560 Speaker 1: criminal all forms of illicit fentanyl. It also calls for 444 00:26:41,600 --> 00:26:46,840 Speaker 1: defending America's national security, supporting our troops, investing in an efficient, 445 00:26:46,960 --> 00:26:50,800 Speaker 1: effective military, the establishment of a selectivity in China, which 446 00:26:50,800 --> 00:26:54,720 Speaker 1: they've already done, and exercising peace through strength with our 447 00:26:54,760 --> 00:26:58,040 Speaker 1: allies to counter increasing global threats, and I have to say, 448 00:26:58,359 --> 00:27:02,879 Speaker 1: this Chinese balloon floating across America while we refuse to 449 00:27:02,880 --> 00:27:06,680 Speaker 1: do anything about it, hardly indicates peace through strength. Let's 450 00:27:06,720 --> 00:27:09,000 Speaker 1: peace through whimpiness or weakness, or have you one to 451 00:27:09,080 --> 00:27:12,879 Speaker 1: call it, But it's astonishing that our senior leadership refused 452 00:27:12,920 --> 00:27:16,800 Speaker 1: to shoot it down. The Commitment to America calls for 453 00:27:16,840 --> 00:27:20,480 Speaker 1: a future that's built on freedom, making sure that every 454 00:27:20,520 --> 00:27:24,159 Speaker 1: student can succeed and give parents a voice, advancing the parents' 455 00:27:24,200 --> 00:27:27,639 Speaker 1: Bill of Rights, recovered loss learning from school closures, and 456 00:27:27,760 --> 00:27:31,000 Speaker 1: expanding parental choice so over a million more students can 457 00:27:31,040 --> 00:27:35,080 Speaker 1: receive the education their parents know as best. Defend fairness 458 00:27:35,160 --> 00:27:39,199 Speaker 1: by assuring that only biologically born women can compete in 459 00:27:39,280 --> 00:27:43,720 Speaker 1: women's sports. The Republicans also calling for achieving longer, healthier 460 00:27:43,720 --> 00:27:48,040 Speaker 1: lives for Americans, personalizing care to provide affordable options and 461 00:27:48,160 --> 00:27:53,159 Speaker 1: better quality delivered by trusted doctors, lowering prices through transparency, 462 00:27:53,520 --> 00:27:57,800 Speaker 1: choice and competition, investing in life saving cures, and improving 463 00:27:57,840 --> 00:28:01,879 Speaker 1: access to tell a medicine. Finally, they call for confronting 464 00:28:01,960 --> 00:28:06,119 Speaker 1: big tech, and they demand fairness, providing greater privacy and 465 00:28:06,200 --> 00:28:09,680 Speaker 1: data security protection, equipping parents with more tools to keep 466 00:28:09,720 --> 00:28:13,560 Speaker 1: their kids safe online and stopping companies from putting politics 467 00:28:13,640 --> 00:28:16,120 Speaker 1: ahead of people, and certainly what we've learned so far 468 00:28:16,240 --> 00:28:19,440 Speaker 1: from Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter and the release of 469 00:28:19,480 --> 00:28:22,880 Speaker 1: their internal documents, some kind of serious effort to confront 470 00:28:22,880 --> 00:28:28,320 Speaker 1: big tech is more than called for. The Republican commitment 471 00:28:28,359 --> 00:28:32,160 Speaker 1: also calls for a government that's accountable. There's a big emphasis, 472 00:28:32,160 --> 00:28:35,480 Speaker 1: and when I had dinner with the Judiciary Committee Republicans, 473 00:28:35,480 --> 00:28:39,840 Speaker 1: they were very clear that preserving our constitutional freedoms is 474 00:28:39,880 --> 00:28:42,120 Speaker 1: at the heart of what they think. The Judiciary Committee 475 00:28:42,120 --> 00:28:45,920 Speaker 1: has to focus on upholding free speech, protecting the lives 476 00:28:45,920 --> 00:28:50,360 Speaker 1: of onborn children and their mothers, guaranteeing religious freedom, safeguarding 477 00:28:50,400 --> 00:28:54,160 Speaker 1: the Second Amendment. In addition, the House Republicans are committed 478 00:28:54,160 --> 00:28:58,800 Speaker 1: to holding Washington accountable, conducting rigorous oversight tourraining government abuse 479 00:28:58,800 --> 00:29:02,880 Speaker 1: of power and corruption, provide real transparency, and require the 480 00:29:02,880 --> 00:29:06,120 Speaker 1: White House to answer for its incompetence at home and abroad. 481 00:29:06,760 --> 00:29:10,120 Speaker 1: They are also committed to saving and strengthening so security 482 00:29:10,120 --> 00:29:13,080 Speaker 1: and medicare. It's a fact that currently at the spending 483 00:29:13,120 --> 00:29:15,680 Speaker 1: patterns and revenue patterns, that we're going to see a 484 00:29:15,720 --> 00:29:19,800 Speaker 1: disaster sometime the next decade with both SO security and medicare. 485 00:29:20,080 --> 00:29:22,720 Speaker 1: It's also a fact that with enough economic growth you 486 00:29:22,880 --> 00:29:25,880 Speaker 1: solve a lot of that problem. And with some rethinking 487 00:29:25,920 --> 00:29:29,200 Speaker 1: about the reality that we're living longer, we're living better. 488 00:29:29,560 --> 00:29:32,120 Speaker 1: Though we have a whole different approach to aging than 489 00:29:32,120 --> 00:29:34,800 Speaker 1: we've ever had before. Though we can have a conversation 490 00:29:34,840 --> 00:29:37,760 Speaker 1: about that, but I think you start with the premise 491 00:29:38,040 --> 00:29:41,200 Speaker 1: we're going to save and strengthen SO security of Medicare. 492 00:29:41,400 --> 00:29:44,320 Speaker 1: We're not going to cut either one of them. Republicans 493 00:29:44,360 --> 00:29:47,600 Speaker 1: are also committed to restoring the people's voice. They want 494 00:29:47,600 --> 00:29:50,400 Speaker 1: to end the special treatment for members of Congress by 495 00:29:50,440 --> 00:29:53,480 Speaker 1: repealing proxy voting, which they've now done. And by the way, 496 00:29:53,840 --> 00:29:56,720 Speaker 1: the Democrats that members who hadn't shown up in a year, 497 00:29:57,120 --> 00:29:59,560 Speaker 1: they just sent in their proxy and Nancy Pelosi voted in. 498 00:30:00,080 --> 00:30:02,479 Speaker 1: If the Republicans want to increase accountable in the election 499 00:30:02,560 --> 00:30:07,240 Speaker 1: process through voter ID, accurate voter rolls, and observer access, 500 00:30:07,560 --> 00:30:10,840 Speaker 1: so there's a ton of stuff and commitment to America 501 00:30:10,920 --> 00:30:13,400 Speaker 1: dot Com. I recommend it highly because I think it's 502 00:30:13,400 --> 00:30:15,560 Speaker 1: going to explain a great deal of what's going to 503 00:30:15,640 --> 00:30:18,880 Speaker 1: be done over the next couple years. I also to 504 00:30:18,920 --> 00:30:22,320 Speaker 1: point out that there are forty Republican House freshmen in 505 00:30:22,360 --> 00:30:24,720 Speaker 1: one hundred and eighteenth Congress. This is not just a 506 00:30:24,760 --> 00:30:27,560 Speaker 1: story about Speaker Kevin McCarthy. This is a story about 507 00:30:27,600 --> 00:30:30,320 Speaker 1: a group that I think may be among the smartest 508 00:30:30,840 --> 00:30:34,120 Speaker 1: Republican members ever elected to Congress. I look at the 509 00:30:34,120 --> 00:30:36,959 Speaker 1: current generation, and I think they are much better prepared, 510 00:30:37,040 --> 00:30:40,520 Speaker 1: have much more real time experience, have done many more things. 511 00:30:40,720 --> 00:30:44,000 Speaker 1: Let me just give you a couple examples. Morgan Latrelle 512 00:30:44,160 --> 00:30:47,280 Speaker 1: from the Texas eighth is the twin brother of Lone's survivor, 513 00:30:47,360 --> 00:30:51,840 Speaker 1: Marcus Latruelle. Latrell's twin brother, Morgan is also a retired 514 00:30:51,960 --> 00:30:54,880 Speaker 1: Navy seal. He left the Navy with the rank of lieutenant. 515 00:30:55,240 --> 00:30:58,120 Speaker 1: He served as adviser to Energy Secretary Rick Perry during 516 00:30:58,160 --> 00:31:01,600 Speaker 1: the Donald Trump administration. On November eighth, he was elected 517 00:31:01,600 --> 00:31:06,040 Speaker 1: to represent Texas's eighth congressional district. Laura Chavez de Raymer 518 00:31:06,440 --> 00:31:08,720 Speaker 1: from Oregon fifth as one of the first two Latin 519 00:31:08,840 --> 00:31:12,440 Speaker 1: Is elected in Oregon. The second is Democrat Andrea Selinas 520 00:31:12,720 --> 00:31:15,959 Speaker 1: and the first Republican woman elected to Congress in Oregon 521 00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:19,320 Speaker 1: in history. She previously served as mayor of Happy Valley 522 00:31:19,640 --> 00:31:22,960 Speaker 1: as really as a place called Happy Valley, Oregon. From 523 00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:25,480 Speaker 1: two thousand and ten to two thousand and eighteen, in 524 00:31:25,520 --> 00:31:30,160 Speaker 1: the city's first female and first Latina elected Mayor. Hanna Polain, 525 00:31:30,200 --> 00:31:33,720 Speaker 1: A Luna from Florida's thirteenth District, is the first Mexican 526 00:31:33,760 --> 00:31:36,680 Speaker 1: American woman from Florida elected to Congress and is an 527 00:31:36,680 --> 00:31:39,880 Speaker 1: Air Force veteran. She was previously the National director of 528 00:31:39,920 --> 00:31:44,160 Speaker 1: Hispanic Engagement at Turning Point USA. Many of these members 529 00:31:44,200 --> 00:31:46,840 Speaker 1: go to join the Freedom Caucus that was founded in 530 00:31:46,880 --> 00:31:50,400 Speaker 1: two thousand and fifteen, who was launched by Scott Garrett 531 00:31:50,400 --> 00:31:53,880 Speaker 1: of New Jersey, Jim Jordan of Ohio, John Fleming of Louisiana, 532 00:31:54,160 --> 00:31:58,720 Speaker 1: Met Salmon of Arizona, Justin Amash of Michigan, Raoul Labrador 533 00:31:58,760 --> 00:32:03,040 Speaker 1: of Idaho, MC mulvany of South Carolina, Ron de Sandis 534 00:32:03,040 --> 00:32:05,840 Speaker 1: of Florida, and Mark Meadows of North Carolina. Did not 535 00:32:06,000 --> 00:32:10,400 Speaker 1: become a very powerful organization and represented. Scott Perry and 536 00:32:10,400 --> 00:32:14,520 Speaker 1: the Freedom Caucus published a roadmap for incoming Republican members 537 00:32:14,520 --> 00:32:17,520 Speaker 1: of Congress from one hundred and eighteenth freshmen, which you 538 00:32:17,560 --> 00:32:20,760 Speaker 1: can get at Perry dot House dot gov. The House 539 00:32:20,840 --> 00:32:24,800 Speaker 1: Freedom Caucus is very bold in its reform proposals. They 540 00:32:24,800 --> 00:32:28,560 Speaker 1: want to reclaim legislative impact for the people's representatives, trying 541 00:32:28,600 --> 00:32:31,760 Speaker 1: to enact a majority of majority rule, which says that 542 00:32:31,800 --> 00:32:35,160 Speaker 1: any legislation passed in the Republican House should be supported 543 00:32:35,160 --> 00:32:38,160 Speaker 1: by a majority of House Republicans. By the way, that's 544 00:32:38,200 --> 00:32:41,320 Speaker 1: to me easy and obvious. You start passing things with 545 00:32:41,360 --> 00:32:43,280 Speaker 1: a minority of your own members, you won't be a 546 00:32:43,360 --> 00:32:46,240 Speaker 1: leader very law. But that's an easy one. They want 547 00:32:46,280 --> 00:32:48,800 Speaker 1: to restore the independence of committees, to balance the power 548 00:32:48,840 --> 00:32:51,680 Speaker 1: between committees and party leaders. I think the real steps 549 00:32:51,680 --> 00:32:54,880 Speaker 1: were taken. They wanted to expand the Steering Committee, which 550 00:32:54,880 --> 00:32:57,880 Speaker 1: makes nearly all the decisions and committee assignments. They wanted 551 00:32:57,880 --> 00:33:02,200 Speaker 1: to open the legislative process there. I'm totally supportive. When 552 00:33:02,240 --> 00:33:06,040 Speaker 1: I was Speaker, the two most open houses in terms 553 00:33:06,040 --> 00:33:08,760 Speaker 1: of being able to offer amendments were the two terms 554 00:33:08,800 --> 00:33:12,440 Speaker 1: I was speaker. So I'm very open and very committed 555 00:33:12,440 --> 00:33:15,440 Speaker 1: and very happy to have an open house where members 556 00:33:15,440 --> 00:33:19,680 Speaker 1: of both parties Democrats and Republicans can offer resolutions and 557 00:33:19,800 --> 00:33:24,440 Speaker 1: offer amendments. They want to restore fiscal responsibility, which requires 558 00:33:24,480 --> 00:33:28,800 Speaker 1: being responsible with spending decisions. Look that to me, is 559 00:33:28,840 --> 00:33:31,960 Speaker 1: a clear path of the future. We helped balance the 560 00:33:31,960 --> 00:33:34,400 Speaker 1: budget for four consecutive years, the only time in our 561 00:33:34,440 --> 00:33:37,000 Speaker 1: lifetime we were paying down the national debt at an 562 00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:39,800 Speaker 1: amazing level, and I believe it can be done again, 563 00:33:40,040 --> 00:33:42,640 Speaker 1: and I think it's a reasonable goal. I just wanted 564 00:33:42,640 --> 00:33:45,040 Speaker 1: to give you this overview report to set the stage 565 00:33:45,120 --> 00:33:47,600 Speaker 1: for the next two years, because this is going to 566 00:33:47,640 --> 00:33:51,880 Speaker 1: be a very exciting and very interesting House Republican party. 567 00:33:52,440 --> 00:33:55,040 Speaker 1: I think that you're going to find that there are 568 00:33:55,080 --> 00:33:59,240 Speaker 1: a lot of brand new developments, a lot of brand 569 00:33:59,240 --> 00:34:02,800 Speaker 1: new ideas, a lot of real reforms, and an amazing 570 00:34:02,880 --> 00:34:05,480 Speaker 1: number of things going on. And from time to time 571 00:34:05,800 --> 00:34:08,680 Speaker 1: I'll do a podcast and share with you my thoughts 572 00:34:08,719 --> 00:34:11,880 Speaker 1: about what's happening in the Congress, what's happening with President Biden. 573 00:34:12,160 --> 00:34:15,480 Speaker 1: And that's before we get around to the presidential cycle. 574 00:34:16,239 --> 00:34:18,680 Speaker 1: I want to stay focused on the Congress rather than 575 00:34:18,719 --> 00:34:21,680 Speaker 1: the presidential race right now, because I think whether or 576 00:34:21,680 --> 00:34:25,200 Speaker 1: not the House Republicans can bring themselves together, continue to 577 00:34:25,239 --> 00:34:28,680 Speaker 1: be unified as they are right now, get to very 578 00:34:28,800 --> 00:34:32,360 Speaker 1: dramatic spending changes before they have a death sailing, create 579 00:34:32,400 --> 00:34:35,080 Speaker 1: a track that really leads to a balanced budget within 580 00:34:35,080 --> 00:34:40,240 Speaker 1: the next decade, reform the Defense Department, reform the big bureaucracies, 581 00:34:40,640 --> 00:34:43,320 Speaker 1: and get America back on the track of economic growth, 582 00:34:43,560 --> 00:34:48,360 Speaker 1: while at the same time exposing the corruption, the dishonesty, 583 00:34:48,800 --> 00:34:51,920 Speaker 1: the fundamental violations of law that have been going on 584 00:34:51,960 --> 00:34:54,440 Speaker 1: in the executive branch. If they can do all that, 585 00:34:54,880 --> 00:34:58,000 Speaker 1: they will reshape the very nature of the presidential race, 586 00:34:58,320 --> 00:35:01,200 Speaker 1: and they will convince the American people that there is 587 00:35:01,200 --> 00:35:06,040 Speaker 1: a Republican party that's positive, solution oriented, working to improve 588 00:35:06,080 --> 00:35:09,200 Speaker 1: their lives. And that sets a very different tone and 589 00:35:09,320 --> 00:35:12,439 Speaker 1: a different setting for the presidential campaign. And that's why 590 00:35:12,520 --> 00:35:15,279 Speaker 1: for the near future, I want to report to you 591 00:35:15,400 --> 00:35:18,480 Speaker 1: as things evolved about what's going on in the Congress, 592 00:35:18,760 --> 00:35:20,959 Speaker 1: which I think will then shape what's going to happen 593 00:35:21,000 --> 00:35:24,200 Speaker 1: in the presidential race. 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