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Speaker 2: Well, folks, we've got a big guest today, Speaker Kevin
Speaker 2: McCarthy is on the show. But before we get started,
Speaker 2: I wanted to play this epic exchange that he had
Speaker 2: with an Associated Press reporter about the House's impeachment inquiry.
Speaker 3: Listen, ben ia As that came out and said that
Speaker 3: both Chairman Jordan and Colmer were not able to resent
Speaker 3: anything that was an impeachable offense at this point, is
Speaker 3: that an assessment that you share?
Speaker 4: You know, we appeachment inquiry is not impeachment. So what
Speaker 4: impeachment inquiry is to do is to get answers to questions.
Speaker 4: Are you concerned about all the stuff that was just
Speaker 4: recently learned? Do you have any concern? Have you asked
Speaker 4: the White House any questions? Okay?
Speaker 1: Do you agree that?
Speaker 4: Do you believe the President lied to the American public
Speaker 4: when he said he'd never talked to his son about
Speaker 4: business deal?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 1: So no, it's all right. You can't answer that.
Speaker 4: Do you believe when they said the president went on
Speaker 4: conference calls? Do you believe that happened. That's okay. Do
Speaker 4: you believe the President went to Cafe Milano and had
Speaker 4: dinner with the with the clients of Hunter Biden, who
Speaker 4: believes he got those clients because he was selling the brand? Okay,
Speaker 4: do you believe Hunter Biden when you sell the video
Speaker 4: of him driving a Porsche, that he got one hundred
Speaker 4: and forty three thousand dollars to buy that Porsche the
Speaker 4: next day?
Speaker 2: Well, we're going to get into that exchange. Also, the
Speaker 2: funding fight on Capitol Hill with the September thirtieth deadline
Speaker 2: as well. Plus Joe Biden is weak, but Democrats might
Speaker 2: convict Donald Trump heading into the twenty twenty four election,
Speaker 2: So how do we win in that political environment? All
Speaker 2: that and so much more with Speaker of the House
Speaker 2: Kevin McCarthy, stay with us. Speaker McCarthy, it's an honor
Speaker 2: to have you on the show. You've got a few
Speaker 2: things on your plate, to say the least, so we
Speaker 2: appreciate you making the time.
Speaker 1: Well, I appreciate it. Gave them the opportunity. Look, I
Speaker 1: always love a challenge, and every week seems different, and
Speaker 1: I've got a few challenges out there. But you know,
Speaker 1: what this country is worth, the fight to make it better.
Speaker 2: Well, you certainly signed up for the right job. If
Speaker 2: you love a challenge. You're getting hit from both sides here.
Speaker 2: You know, let's start with the impeachment inquiry. What's your
Speaker 2: objective with it?
Speaker 1: My objective with it is just to get to the truth,
Speaker 1: to get answers. And you know, it's really interesting. A
Speaker 1: lot of people don't understand what impeachment inquiry actually means.
Speaker 1: You know, when I first took over Speaker and we've
Speaker 1: learned all this new information, we never would have known
Speaker 1: anything had Republicans not taken the majority. I mean, think
Speaker 1: about what we've known so far. At the very beginning,
Speaker 1: the President told us that he never even talked to
Speaker 1: his son about any business dealings. We had an Attorney
Speaker 1: general who said when we asked for a special counsel
Speaker 1: when they were looking at Hunter, Biden said, no, we
Speaker 1: don't need that. If Wise needs to be a special counsel,
Speaker 1: he can do it. If he wants to prosecuting, where
Speaker 1: we'd back it all up? Well, lo and behold what
Speaker 1: have we found out? As the world transgressed, we soon
Speaker 1: learned that there was an informant to the FBI came
Speaker 1: to us and said, the FBI has known or has
Speaker 1: an alleged informant that said that Biden took a bribe,
Speaker 1: but said you couldn't find it because he had a
Speaker 1: lot of shell companies. We then found out that when
Speaker 1: Biden became vice president, his family set up twenty shell companies.
Speaker 1: We then found out now that twenty million dollars have
Speaker 1: gone to him and paid nine different family members. We
Speaker 1: have then found out just this summer why we were
Speaker 1: gone last month, that Hunter, Biden's business partner, Devin says, no,
Speaker 1: the President not only talk to him about it. Hunter
Speaker 1: said he was selling the brand, that the President would
Speaker 1: call in to the meetings, and that he had dinners
Speaker 1: that at both dinners there was outcome. One he got
Speaker 1: a new Porsche. Another three million dollars from a Russian
Speaker 1: oligarch was sent in the following days. And then all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, the sweetheart deal comes and we get
Speaker 1: some irs whistleblowers who come to us who say, you know,
Speaker 1: what Weiss and the Attorney General have told you is
Speaker 1: not what we heard in the meetings. Weiss told us
Speaker 1: that he wanted to be special counsel. They wouldn't name it,
Speaker 1: and he wanted to prosecute in two jurisdictions and he
Speaker 1: was denied, and he said, we took minutes of the meetings,
Speaker 1: we asked questions about it. We have since brought in
Speaker 1: two other people that were in there. They say the
Speaker 1: same thing. And then we've found out that now the
Speaker 1: vice president got sixteen of the seventeen payments from Romania
Speaker 1: while he was vice president the family. We now also
Speaker 1: learned that when the president told us they got no
Speaker 1: money from China, that yes, they got a million dollars
Speaker 1: from China. And now we've looked as well that the
Speaker 1: vice president at the time used a false name in emails.
Speaker 1: Why would you do that so you couldn't Foya, you
Speaker 1: couldn't find these emails. And in these emails, there's fifty
Speaker 1: four hundred of them. The archives control it. Obama gets
Speaker 1: to make the decision whether we get to see it.
Speaker 1: But in one of them, it literally has the President
Speaker 1: and Hunter Biden on it from the staff saying talking
Speaker 1: about a phone call with the president of Ukraine. What
Speaker 1: we learned from Hunter Biden's business partner who was on BISMA,
Speaker 1: the Ukrainian Energy Board with them is that there was
Speaker 1: a lot of pressure being mounted about the prosecutor in Ukraine.
Speaker 1: We know the President said back then he bragged about
Speaker 1: withholding a billion dollars of American taxpayer money to get
Speaker 1: the prosecut fired. It's all around the same time period.
Speaker 1: We do know from the IRS agents that the government
Speaker 1: wise allowed the statue of limitations to run out on
Speaker 1: Hunter Biden under the most egregious portions of his tax provisions,
Speaker 1: which IRS never allows to happen to any American. So
Speaker 1: this is just in a nutshell. We also learned that
Speaker 1: there is a White House staffer that worked at the
Speaker 1: Vice president office that refers back to Hunter Biden's business
Speaker 1: partner says the Vice President has signed off on the
Speaker 1: Berezma talking points. Now, we have never gone after the
Speaker 1: president's bank records, We've never gone after the credit card
Speaker 1: records of all these shell companies. We never got after
Speaker 1: Hunter Biden's records. But what we know is we're going
Speaker 1: to have to subpoena those and what impeachment inquiry does.
Speaker 1: It empowers Congress meaning Republican Democrats, if they offer a
Speaker 1: subpoena to be in court to be able to get
Speaker 1: the documents that you need. So what we believe is
Speaker 1: it's about getting answers. Now, if you were an elected
Speaker 1: official and all of a sudden, all this information came
Speaker 1: before you, and you've got a question. Is the Attorney
Speaker 1: General telling the truth? That could be obstruction if you
Speaker 1: had lied? Is there government? Can you buy government or bribe? Well,
Speaker 1: there's allegations. Wouldn't you want to clear that up if
Speaker 1: someone said that about you? So we believe we should
Speaker 1: get the information, put it before the American public.
Speaker 2: I hear you, and I care, and you care, and
Speaker 2: House Republicans care. Do you think voters care?
Speaker 1: I believe voters, regardless of where you are philosophically, they
Speaker 1: want to know that their elected officials are not selling power.
Speaker 1: They don't want it done in a partisan way. And
Speaker 1: I think we've been very clear about this, laying it out.
Speaker 1: We've said the president you can bring forth any information
Speaker 1: you want. But I've never seen a government or a
Speaker 1: White House use agencies in manner that they have since Nixon.
Speaker 1: I mean, look what they've done now after we uncovered
Speaker 1: the irs whistleblowers who are not Republican, who came forward,
Speaker 1: who have been just workers for the government, and they
Speaker 1: have now told us that when they were going to
Speaker 1: interview Hunter Biden, like they do most people, they went
Speaker 1: to the FBI the night before. The FBI told Hunter Biden,
Speaker 1: so he left when they went to get documents of
Speaker 1: what he had stored. You've got a person in the
Speaker 1: DOJ calls Hunter Biden's attorneys ahead of time to warn
Speaker 1: them to clear out the documents. Then the FBI warns
Speaker 1: the Inaugural Committee. You don't want to think that people
Speaker 1: are getting some special treatment. When has the IRS investigated
Speaker 1: somebody and let the statue of limitations run out? If
Speaker 1: it gets close, they make you sign a document to
Speaker 1: extend the statue of limitations so it doesn't All this
Speaker 1: money he got from Barisma that he didn't report properly,
Speaker 1: he never got held accountable or had to pay tax
Speaker 1: on it.
Speaker 2: I hope you guys get to the bottom of it.
Speaker 2: You know, this is I care. I mean, this is
Speaker 2: important how our government is potentially being abused or quid
Speaker 2: pro quos, which it certainly looks like Joe Biden engaged in.
Speaker 2: You know, I also wanted to get your take on
Speaker 2: this spending fight right now on Capitol Hill with this
Speaker 2: September thirtieth deadline approaching. I mean, we know the Department
Speaker 2: of Justice is corrupt. You know, the border's not secure,
Speaker 2: DHS is not doing its job. Why continue funding corrupt agencies?
Speaker 1: Well, you don't want to. And the best way you
Speaker 1: do to change all that is fundamentally do it through
Speaker 1: passing legislation that controls that. We could put the Holman
Speaker 1: Act in. We can fund things that are important. We
Speaker 1: can cut other things out. But if you can't pass
Speaker 1: the bills on the floor, you have a hard time
Speaker 1: winning it in the argument overall. The other thing, Okay,
Speaker 1: say you don't fund it and you go to a
Speaker 1: government shutdown. You know what happens then the border is
Speaker 1: wide open. Do you not want to fund the border agents?
Speaker 1: The other problem that happens too in a government shutdown.
Speaker 1: You know what still gets funded the prosecutions that are
Speaker 1: looking into Trump and others that are playing a political game.
Speaker 1: So the way I look at it is, we want
Speaker 1: government to function, but we want it to be limited government.
Speaker 1: We want to be honest, We wanted to be accountable.
Speaker 1: We need to show them how we can show government
Speaker 1: can govern that way. That's why we've been moving our
Speaker 1: appropriation bills We've got to finish that job. I've looked
Speaker 1: at shutdowns before. If you shut down, you really see
Speaker 1: the power to the administration. Troops don't get paid, air
Speaker 1: traffic controllers don't get paid. You become a problem. So
Speaker 1: why don't you pass the bills and have the policy
Speaker 1: fights to win it. I think we can win the fight.
Speaker 1: Look at the mayor of New York about immigration. Their
Speaker 1: closest border is Canada. But what the Biden administration has
Speaker 1: done by this wide open border has made every community
Speaker 1: of border community fittonyl killing American every single day. I mean,
Speaker 1: we've got the policies on our side. We've passed HR two.
Speaker 1: We need to take the fight there, not run away
Speaker 1: from the fight.
Speaker 2: You know, I want to ask you, there's been a
Speaker 2: lot of conversations, you know, I mean, I guess with
Speaker 2: the funding, it's you know, if not now, when right?
Speaker 2: You know, we all talk about these things, but you know,
Speaker 2: now is the time to stand up with the direction
Speaker 2: this country is going in because you know, we all
Speaker 2: we all know that. You know, Joe Biden is weak,
Speaker 2: you know he's destroyed the country. But you know Donald
Speaker 2: Trump is facing potentially ninety one you know, criminal charges.
Speaker 2: So they may have a week hand, but they're trying
Speaker 2: to criminally convict our potential nominee and send them to jail.
Speaker 2: You know, how do we win in that environment? And
Speaker 2: what impact does that have on the down ballot?
Speaker 1: When you look at that that it goes to the
Speaker 1: obstruction question we have itself. How do you use government
Speaker 1: to go after the leading candidate to the opposition of you?
Speaker 1: That's not America. You know what's interesting here is even
Speaker 1: if they think that the president to go after Trump,
Speaker 1: how do you do it in a presidential year? You
Speaker 1: are just playing political games. And if you watch starting
Speaker 1: in New York, the DA now down in Georgia at
Speaker 1: the same time, you know it doesn't have merit. It's
Speaker 1: political play. That part has got to stop. And I
Speaker 1: don't think anybody in America believes that's right.
Speaker 2: No, I agree with you, but they're going to do it,
Speaker 2: and so how do we win? I worry that Republicans.
Speaker 2: You know, there's all this conversation in Joe Biden's week,
Speaker 2: Joe bid but that's operating like this election cycle is
Speaker 2: going to be normal, and so, you know, how do
Speaker 2: we win? You know, Speaker, if that happens.
Speaker 1: Well, the first thing is I never sit back and
Speaker 1: say I can't win. We've proven it time and again
Speaker 1: in the last two election cycles. When Republicans lost other places,
Speaker 1: we won in the House. The interesting thing, we have
Speaker 1: a five seat majority. I've been leader for four years,
Speaker 1: and those two election cycles with Nancy Pelosi being the Speaker,
Speaker 1: I wont five more Republican seats in California. She lost
Speaker 1: the majority in her home state. We won in New York.
Speaker 1: You know what, You've got to fight back. They change
Speaker 1: the election laws in California where everybody gets a ballot
Speaker 1: and you can harvest it, so you can sit back
Speaker 1: and say, oh, well, we're going to do the Democrats
Speaker 1: have the majority, we're going to get and we're going
Speaker 1: to fight back. If the rules are you can harvest,
Speaker 1: then you harvest. You stand up for the truth, you
Speaker 1: defend what is right, and you face them face on
Speaker 1: and you tell the truth about what is happening. Look,
Speaker 1: we know we have the House, but a five seat majority.
Speaker 1: If we don't pass our appropriation bills, we're weaker in
Speaker 1: the fight ahead. If we want to fight over the border,
Speaker 1: if we want to fight over financial issues, we want
Speaker 1: to fight them using the weaponization of government. That's why
Speaker 1: I created a select committee to go directly after that.
Speaker 1: Haven't had that before, a Select committee on China, so
Speaker 1: we can confront with the future challenges we have. You
Speaker 1: sit and you get in the trenches, and you make
Speaker 1: the arguments, and you fight, and you will win. You
Speaker 1: might not win it overnight. Just throwing a tantrum doesn't succeed.
Speaker 1: We have to have a strategic plan that makes us succeed.
Speaker 1: At the same time.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm glad you have your eyes open about it.
Speaker 2: I agree with you on all of those issues. You know,
Speaker 2: there's been a lot of conversations about age limits for politicians.
Speaker 2: You know, Joe Biden is eighty and clear mental decline,
Speaker 2: Diane Feinstein ninety, health issues, Mitch mcconnolly eighty one, health issues.
Speaker 2: You're only fifty eight, so you're good to go. You're
Speaker 2: a good shape, Steger McCarthy.
Speaker 1: But I got another decat or two before I could
Speaker 1: become a senator.
Speaker 2: Yeah, your great shape. So you know, but is it
Speaker 2: time for you know, those guys and gals to step
Speaker 2: down and to bow out to retire.
Speaker 1: I think it depends on your capacity though, right I've
Speaker 1: watched people who are younger who have challenges. One thing
Speaker 1: I say, I think the country as a whole, we
Speaker 1: did this in the nineteen sixties, where we start electing
Speaker 1: leaders in the forties and the fifties, right, I think
Speaker 1: you've got to be able to do the job. And look,
Speaker 1: I watched the difference between President Trump and President Biden.
Speaker 1: Trump would only need four hours of sleep every night.
Speaker 1: That guy was working morning, noon, and night. I've never
Speaker 1: see anything like it. And to be fair, Nancy Pelosi
Speaker 1: was eighty two, but she's a hard worker and much different.
Speaker 1: Biden talks on the open stage that he needs to
Speaker 1: take a nap. I don't see much happening in the process.
Speaker 1: So it's the energy of what you're able to do.
Speaker 1: I let the voters make that decision.
Speaker 2: I wanted to commend you because after the impeachment and
Speaker 2: Korey went out, the Biden administration instructed the media ramp
Speaker 2: up your scrutiny of you know, they gave them the
Speaker 2: marching orders, right, and we saw that exchange between you
Speaker 2: and the AP reporter. You did such a good job
Speaker 2: handling it. How do you get the media to cover
Speaker 2: that honestly?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 1: You know what's so interesting if you watch the questions
Speaker 1: the media asked me, based upon the questions they asked
Speaker 1: then Speaker Pelosi, it's fundamentally different. And I ask back
Speaker 1: because here we have the White House sending out to
Speaker 1: the media itself on the orders. It's kind of like
Speaker 1: media marching orders, right. And you had that a reporter,
Speaker 1: she had just written a story before that we went
Speaker 1: forward with impeachment inquiry with no evidence. I simply asked
Speaker 1: her a few questions that laid out the evidence. I
Speaker 1: could have gone on longer, and I think every single
Speaker 1: day I got thirty or forty reporters with every moment
Speaker 1: I walk out of my building or my office are
Speaker 1: around me. I'm not afraid. I don't hide, I don't
Speaker 1: put a lid on the day. But I'm not going
Speaker 1: to sit back and just have them ask one way.
Speaker 1: I'm going to question them because what I find time
Speaker 1: and again, even when it comes to legislation, the only
Speaker 1: question they have is will I pass it today? They
Speaker 1: don't ask about the policy inside it. And I think
Speaker 1: when you have a simple response back inquisiting to them,
Speaker 1: it refutes all their arguments before that. It proves they're
Speaker 1: just taking talking points madly from the White House on
Speaker 1: what they want to ask and they know nothing about
Speaker 1: what they ask.
Speaker 2: Well, it was perfectly done, so thank you for that.
Speaker 2: I'd love to have you back on Speaker. I know
Speaker 2: obviously you've got a busy day life ahead of you,
Speaker 2: so just want to thank you so much for your time.
Speaker 2: It's an honor to have you on the show.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 1: I look forward to coming back many times.
Speaker 2: That of course was Kevin McCarthy, Speaker of the House.
Speaker 2: Honor to have him on the show. That was the
Speaker 2: first time he's been on as a guest, so really
Speaker 2: appreciate him taking the time. I appreciate you guys at
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