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Speaker 1: So let's get into some headlines. Let's begin with some
Speaker 1: major updates from the twenty twenty four election. In the
Speaker 1: Republican race, former Vice President Mike Pince announced that he
Speaker 1: is ending his campaign. That's right, Mike Pinch dropped out
Speaker 1: to spend more time in a separate bedroom from his wife.
Speaker 1: I won't say, though, is it really ending your campaign?
Speaker 1: And your campaign never got off the ground to begin with.
Speaker 1: It's like turning down sex when you have a wrecked
Speaker 1: out dysfunction, Like the choice was made for you already,
Speaker 1: my guy. I'll be honest. I feel bad for Mike pinch.
Speaker 1: His shot at the White House was over the moment
Speaker 1: he decided to do the right thing and not overturn
Speaker 1: the election. He had to get the same people that's right,
Speaker 1: give him some role a part of that. Yeah, he
Speaker 1: had to get the same people who wanted to hang
Speaker 1: him to hire him. I mean, for God, though Christian
Speaker 1: Mike piskeets a lot. But Republicans decide and they don't
Speaker 1: want to run against Donald Trump. After all, is not
Speaker 1: a surprise. What is a surprise is that there's finally
Speaker 1: a Democrat running against Joe Biden.
Speaker 3: President Joe Biden is facing a challenge from a member
Speaker 3: of his own party.
Speaker 4: Democratic Congressman Dean Phillips of Minnesota has entered the twenty
Speaker 4: twenty four race for the White House.
Speaker 5: I think President Biden has done a spectacular job for
Speaker 5: our country, but it's not about the past. This is
Speaker 5: an election about the future.
Speaker 3: Phillips, a fifty four year old former business executive, believes
Speaker 3: President Biden is on pace to lose to former President
Speaker 3: Donald Trump and needs to be challenged for the Democratic nomination.
Speaker 5: I in the Democratic candidate who can win, who can
Speaker 5: win the twenty twenty four election, So I say our
Speaker 5: time is now, and I say, and let's say it
Speaker 5: all together. What's my slogan?
Speaker 1: One two three? Everyone's invited. Listen, you can't do a
Speaker 1: call and response on day one in your campaign. No
Speaker 1: one knows what your slogan is, because what do I
Speaker 1: always say? On account of three? Say it with me
Speaker 1: one two three. That's right, you don't know what I
Speaker 1: always say because it's my first day. Now. A lot
Speaker 1: of Democrats are upset that someone is challenging Joe Biden,
Speaker 1: which is weird because they're always talking about how democracy
Speaker 1: is in peril. Now this guy's like, well, i'll run too,
Speaker 1: and they're like, no, we don't mean democracy and the
Speaker 1: Democratic Party. So I think it's good that they've got
Speaker 1: someone running against Biden. Even if you support Biden, you
Speaker 1: should want them to get some practice in the ring
Speaker 1: because so far, outside of Trump, Biden's toughest opponent has
Speaker 1: been Gravity. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, we should be glad Biden
Speaker 1: is getting challenged. Okay, I don't know if this is
Speaker 1: the guy though. The first time I hear about you
Speaker 1: shouldn't be when you're running for the highest office in
Speaker 1: the land. Sure, Trump didn't have full of experience, but
Speaker 1: at least I saw him on TV. And I don't
Speaker 1: need Dean Phillips to be a celebrity, but he should
Speaker 1: at least go on one episode and nked in the phege
Speaker 1: just one Okay. Now, the reason Dean Phillips is the
Speaker 1: only serious Democrat running against Joe Biden is that the
Speaker 1: bigger names is staying out, like Gavin Newsom, Governor of California,
Speaker 1: in Dallas Store American Cycle. A lot of people think
Speaker 1: he would be a good candidate, and after what happened
Speaker 1: with him on a trip to China over the weekend,
Speaker 1: I would definitely want to see him, right, The.
Speaker 6: Los Angeles Times says California Governor Gavin Newsom visited China,
Speaker 6: where he fouled out during a photo wop with some kids.
Speaker 6: Newsom stopped by a school basketball court in Beijing Friday.
Speaker 6: While demonstrating his skills, he stumbled and then he knocked
Speaker 6: down his students. Newsom and the boy ended up on
Speaker 6: the ground, though neither appeared to be hurt.
Speaker 1: That's right, that's right. Finally a Democrat is getting tough
Speaker 1: on China. Okay, Newsom took that kid down, like, oh,
Speaker 1: that's for COVID bitch, all right, and it's bad enough
Speaker 1: newsom Ran through that kid's chest. But did they have
Speaker 1: to make that the new cover of NBA two K?
Speaker 1: You know what I'm really thinking? How was this guy
Speaker 1: worse at basketball than Chinese people? I mean, oh, I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: who are your three favorite Chinese basketball players? Let's move
Speaker 1: on to Congress, because the Democrats aren't the only party
Speaker 1: not giving the people what they want. Last week, Republicans
Speaker 1: decided that the new speaker at the House would be
Speaker 1: Mike Johnson, Louisiana Congressman. I don't know who he is either.
Speaker 1: No one had ever heard of the guy before he
Speaker 1: became speaker, but since then we've been learning a lot
Speaker 1: about him, especially what his favorite book is.
Speaker 7: Johnson's religion is the cornerstone of his politics.
Speaker 8: Go pick up a Bible off your shelf and read it.
Speaker 1: That's my worldview.
Speaker 7: In a Facebook post just last year, Johnson argued biblical
Speaker 7: beliefs couldn't be separated from public affairs, a sentiment he's
Speaker 7: long champion.
Speaker 5: Before entering Congress, Johnson did legal work for a creationist
Speaker 5: museum and has said the Bible depicts actual historical events.
Speaker 8: You once worked for the Alliance Defense Fund, a Christian
Speaker 8: advocacy group, and comments you had made both in writing
Speaker 8: and advocacy for this group about homosexuality, calling it sinful,
Speaker 8: destructive and not supporting gay marriage. Quote no clear right
Speaker 8: to sodomy in the Constitution.
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, it would have been weird if they'd
Speaker 1: put sodomy in the constitution. Right, So we're all agreed,
Speaker 1: there's gonna be no king, there will be three branches
Speaker 1: of government. We're all cool with what stuff like. The
Speaker 1: Constitution never would have been finished if they spent all
Speaker 1: that time specifying what was and wasn't allowed. Okay, Section seventeen,
Speaker 1: where do we stand on rim jobs it? Second? And
Speaker 1: just to be clear, there's no right to sodomy in
Speaker 1: the Constitution, but there is a clause you can get
Speaker 1: it on your birthday. The point is the new Speaker
Speaker 1: of the House is a hardcore Christian whose worldview is
Speaker 1: just the Bible. And it's funny to me how only
Speaker 1: Christian politicians are allowed to do that. Imagine if elon
Speaker 1: Omar was like, yeah, my views are basically everything in
Speaker 1: the Qur'an. Even Muslims would be like Aslama, hell no,
Speaker 1: okay for moronker Mike Johnson, Let's go live to the
Speaker 1: US Capital with Michael Costa. It's like, now, Michael, what
Speaker 1: do you think of the new speaker being such a
Speaker 1: Bible believer?
Speaker 9: Oh, it's great news, Charlemagne. Until now the house has
Speaker 9: been a dysfunctional mess of gridlock and infighting. But when
Speaker 9: you introduce religion into a conflict, it gets fixed right away.
Speaker 1: But what if Mike Johnson tries to with these religious
Speaker 1: beliefs in the law, Well, would that be so bad?
Speaker 9: The Bible's rules are timeless and always relevant. Like right here,
Speaker 9: shellfish must be banned as a detestable abomination. Great idea.
Speaker 9: The only good part of lobster anyways, was the butter. Right,
Speaker 9: we should just be drinking the hot butter.
Speaker 1: Or what about this?
Speaker 9: God tells Ezekiel to bake bread over a fire made
Speaker 9: of dry human dung. Yeah, poop, Okay, that could be
Speaker 9: our clean energy that America needs. Well it's not that clean,
Speaker 9: but it's renewable, and you know, after a tummy full
Speaker 9: of hot butter, I'm basically a power plant.
Speaker 1: Well how about this? How about this?
Speaker 9: A menstruating woman is unclean and the righteous man shall
Speaker 9: not approach her. Let's try it, America.
Speaker 1: Michael, come on, seriously, shunning women from society during their
Speaker 1: minstrl cycle sounds backwards as hell.
Speaker 9: Calm down, Calm down, Okay, it's just during their period.
Speaker 9: That's like what twenty thirty minutes. You know, it'll be
Speaker 9: done with respect. And I'm sure Mike Johnson has talked
Speaker 9: all about these Bible based policies already.
Speaker 1: Actually, no, I don't think he's ever talked about any
Speaker 1: of the weird laws you're talking about.
Speaker 9: Come on, man, Mike Johnson. You're telling me he wouldn't
Speaker 9: just pick and choose the parts of the Bible he
Speaker 9: liked best. Oh God, that would be hypocritical. Gosh, Charlemagne,
Speaker 9: for a guy named the God, you don't know a
Speaker 9: lot about Christianity. We can expect Mike Johnson to push
Speaker 9: for all these laws, and I can't wait for him
Speaker 9: to implement First Samuel chapter eighteen, where David has to
Speaker 9: bring two hundred four skins to King Saul as a
Speaker 9: dowry to marry the princess.
Speaker 10: Why are you looking forward to well, because I've I've
Speaker 10: been collecting four skins, okay, and just in case, American
Speaker 10: law returns to its biblical roots and allows me to
Speaker 10: trade them for a wife.
Speaker 1: Where does one collect for skins, Matt, I only want
Speaker 1: to know how many fourthkins are in that back.
Speaker 9: Well, let's just say if two hundred foreskins gets your princess,
Speaker 9: I'm going to be mister Taylor Swift, disgusting man.
Speaker 1: Michael Copster, everybody's try when we come back. I found
Speaker 1: out what your most unexpected political opinion is, So don't
Speaker 1: go anywhere. Welcome back to the Daily Show. Now. People
Speaker 1: say I'm a contrarian, but I disagree. Also, I bet
Speaker 1: a lot of people have opinions you wouldn't expect. So
Speaker 1: I went out on the streets and asked them. That's right.
Speaker 1: I'm outside hitting the streets in New York to see
Speaker 1: if people's political curtains match their political traits. Let's see
Speaker 1: if New York surprised me. How would you describe yourself? Politically? Liberal? Liberal? Absolutely? Okay.
Speaker 1: You are wearing a denim trench coat, which is pretty liberal.
Speaker 1: When people see you, what do you think they see?
Speaker 1: Politically probably a liberal.
Speaker 11: Politically definitely more democratic, okay, like voted for Democrats in
Speaker 11: the last several elections.
Speaker 1: Okay, how do you feel about paying text? Oh, I
Speaker 1: don't like it. Ooh, sounds like you're a Republican. When
Speaker 1: people see you, what do you think they see politically? First,
Speaker 1: I'm Asian, all right. Then I'm immigrant, right, so I
Speaker 1: think they do have a stair type.
Speaker 11: But then I went to actually historical African American college.
Speaker 11: Look at college so in Jersey, So like, I see you.
Speaker 1: Oh no, but there's a lot of black people that
Speaker 1: don't make it up. That's I HBC you.
Speaker 11: But like, I have more relationship with African Americans, buddy.
Speaker 1: So gotcha? Some of your best friends are black? Yeah? Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: We did find some books that match their couple. I
Speaker 1: am a registered for public food okay, and something that
Speaker 1: even LeVar Burton couldn't get a renal. I was regin
Speaker 1: like support of Ted Cruz and damn you a Ted
Speaker 1: Cruz guy. I don't think there's any Ted Cruz guys.
Speaker 9: Politically, I would describe myself as conservative.
Speaker 1: When people see you, what do you think they see politically?
Speaker 1: I think they see liberal. I live in New York.
Speaker 1: I'm a construction worker. Construction worker, the classic progressive job.
Speaker 1: When people see you, what do they think you are?
Speaker 11: Politically, Uh democrat liberal someone was just down to the agenda.
Speaker 1: No big city, no liberal agenda. What is the big
Speaker 1: city liberal agenda? You know, abortion on demand, abortion onto men.
Speaker 11: You know, I think that, you know, we should promote
Speaker 11: policies that support life.
Speaker 1: You know, not you never had the wrong person pregnant? Hey,
Speaker 1: I mean people want to have some ship in common. Now,
Speaker 1: there's got to be at least one Republican talking point
Speaker 1: that you agree with. I mean, at least conspiracy theories.
Speaker 3: I mean, I can't think of I can't think of
Speaker 3: any specific I think not that I haven't heard.
Speaker 1: Remember what was Swezeria was like putting a little kids
Speaker 1: on the topic on Peachas, I don't remember. I never
Speaker 1: heard about that. Really? What about book Banni? No? What
Speaker 1: if it's this book? I'm on Carolina? Oh god, yeah,
Speaker 1: see you agree. Maybe they couldn't get turned on to
Speaker 1: the opposition's politics, but they could get turned on by
Speaker 1: the politician. What Democrat are y'all unexpectedly attracted to Barack Obama? Well,
Speaker 1: that's true.
Speaker 6: I kind of agree with that answer.
Speaker 1: I think v Bac it's pretty good looking. What Republican
Speaker 1: are you unexpectedly attracted to? What's this awthorn in the wheelchair?
Speaker 11: Possibly he's unfortunately a good looking man.
Speaker 1: What Democrat are you unexpectedly attracted to? Attracted to? I'm
Speaker 1: not saying AOC. If you want me to say AOC,
Speaker 1: I'm not saying AOC. It must be AOC. Anything about it?
Speaker 1: And I think you want to say Alexandria. No, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's AOC. What Republican are you unexpectedly attracted to? Oh,
Speaker 1: Marjorie Green? WHOA I was not expecting that one. So
Speaker 1: you like a buff babe hunt? I'm not afraid of,
Speaker 1: you know, women's bodies. But what do people see when
Speaker 1: they looked at a handsome, successful, intellectual black man. What
Speaker 1: do you think my political views are?
Speaker 4: I think conservative?
Speaker 1: Really?
Speaker 5: I do?
Speaker 1: I know you are? You know a little bit of conservative? Wow,
Speaker 1: I'm learning from things about myself. I would say more
Speaker 1: of a conservative.
Speaker 4: Jesus Christ.
Speaker 1: What the hell is going on today? What do you
Speaker 1: think my political views are? Well? I mean it's not
Speaker 1: like I don't know you, so I know kind of
Speaker 1: where your political views are. Are you a fan? I'm
Speaker 1: not a fan. I'm not a bad job. What do
Speaker 1: you think my views are? Politically? I would have no idea,
Speaker 1: that's what I think you.
Speaker 11: I have no idea because looks of this evening, you
Speaker 11: just looked like a respectful man that's taking care of
Speaker 11: himselves about his business.
Speaker 1: Thank you for that stereotype. Meal, Thank you. So when
Speaker 1: we come back, Representative Danthon Mason, youre joining me on
Speaker 1: the show, so don't have to go anywhere. Welcome back
Speaker 1: to The Daily Show. My guest tonight is from my
Speaker 1: home state of South Carolina. Please welcome Republican Congresswoman Nancy
Speaker 1: May there you go. Happy to have you here.
Speaker 12: It's an honor your first night debut hosting The Daily Show.
Speaker 4: It's awesome, absolutely fun.
Speaker 1: Fact me and Nancy went to the same high school, Yes,
Speaker 1: Strafford High School, and our mothers taught at Scrafford High
Speaker 1: School at the same time.
Speaker 4: The same time, and we both Nancy dropped out. I
Speaker 4: dropped out before you did.
Speaker 1: I got kicked out.
Speaker 12: You got kicked out.
Speaker 1: I got kicked out. Now the second hig school I
Speaker 1: got kicked out of Kaolo.
Speaker 4: I was a trailblazer. I did it before you.
Speaker 1: That's right. So we like to post the children for
Speaker 1: how much high school sucks. You don't really need it.
Speaker 12: Yeah, and and how what we shouldn't have been successful
Speaker 12: like you and I to be on the stage, to
Speaker 12: be doing the daily show out of basically the same
Speaker 12: stop light in South Carolina. We were that close, were
Speaker 12: the same age, and we both dropped out and got
Speaker 12: kicked out of high school. To be here tonight together
Speaker 12: is a huge testament to hard work and to values.
Speaker 4: It's amazing. We should not be where we are today.
Speaker 1: Should we say something that's true? That is true? But
Speaker 1: should we say something about being pro high school? I
Speaker 1: don't want kids just to drop out now.
Speaker 12: I don't want my kids dropping out of your kids
Speaker 12: dropping out of high school.
Speaker 4: You got to get your high school to PLUMBA.
Speaker 12: If you get you high school plma, your kids are
Speaker 12: more likely to get theirs too. But it's a testament
Speaker 12: to what it's divine intervention and designe attraction. It's a
Speaker 12: testament to hard work, a little bit of good luck.
Speaker 12: But it's a huge honor to be here and to
Speaker 12: do this.
Speaker 1: Happy to have you awesome. Yeah, and you know love
Speaker 1: this guy?
Speaker 4: I love them.
Speaker 1: Yeah. The first time we met was backstage at a
Speaker 1: Dave Chappelle and Chris Rock comedy show in North Charlton,
Speaker 1: South Carolina, and somebody snapped his picture and when I
Speaker 1: walked back there, y'all was in like a heated debate
Speaker 1: kind of Yeah.
Speaker 4: We were drinking tequila. There was tequila you partake in
Speaker 4: the time after tequila.
Speaker 12: We were doing shots of tequila for better or worse,
Speaker 12: and we had a political debate. And basically from my
Speaker 12: recollection is that Dave Chappelle's message was that Republicans need
Speaker 12: to read the room. And my message is every politician, Democrat,
Speaker 12: a Republican need to read the room because they aren't
Speaker 12: paying attention to the people, and the people are the
Speaker 12: ones that elected them to office, and that's what we
Speaker 12: have to be doing today.
Speaker 1: Did you feel like prejudged in a way just because
Speaker 1: you were introduced as a conservatives and he just automatically
Speaker 1: assumed you know what you.
Speaker 12: Were about a little bit And I'm not your typical Republican.
Speaker 4: I would say not typical.
Speaker 12: Conservative, because when I agree with my party, I support them.
Speaker 12: When I disagree, I call my party out and I
Speaker 12: do it over and over and over again. I would
Speaker 12: say I have a different flavor of Republicanism.
Speaker 1: You've been described as someone who swings repeatedly between a
Speaker 1: Trump centric conservative and an establishment bucking centrist. Like you said,
Speaker 1: you speak out against GOP leadership, but you do vote
Speaker 1: with the GOP on a majority of issues. So people
Speaker 1: do want to know who are you? Who is Nancy?
Speaker 12: I would like to think of myself more of as
Speaker 12: a maverick, right, So when I'm with my party, I
Speaker 12: support them, I'll vote with them, and then I called
Speaker 12: them out when I disagree, and sometimes it's when I
Speaker 12: vehemently disagree. And I just booted out the old speaker
Speaker 12: and got a new speaker in because I felt like
Speaker 12: the former speaker wasn't the right leader for our country
Speaker 12: and wanted to make a difference in the lives of
Speaker 12: everybody that we represent. And I bought the party line
Speaker 12: a lot when it's the right thing to do. And
Speaker 12: I come from a very independent leaning district.
Speaker 4: It's not the same low country that you and I
Speaker 4: grew up in.
Speaker 12: It's very purple, it's very i would almost say small
Speaker 12: l libertarian. There are Democrats, Republicans, and a lot more
Speaker 12: independence than anybody else. People that are disaffected by the
Speaker 12: Republican Party and Democrat Party. They are they created the
Speaker 12: majority of the district, very independent minded.
Speaker 1: I saw you, I saw you did vote against You
Speaker 1: voted to get Kevin Mcard the outbu Geopisa that they
Speaker 1: got it out for you.
Speaker 4: Now I think, well, what bet they do?
Speaker 12: And folks can go to Nancy Mace dorg and support
Speaker 12: me because they are coming after me. I got one
Speaker 12: of the insiders, one of the establishment insiders, booted out
Speaker 12: of the Speaker's office, and got someone who's not bought
Speaker 12: and paid for by Washington.
Speaker 4: I voted with the people on that.
Speaker 1: Thank you. Yes. How do you feel about that vote
Speaker 1: now that the one piece of government Republicans control is
Speaker 1: in disarray?
Speaker 12: Well, I would say we're in disarray because Republicans and
Speaker 12: Democrats alike put us in disarray. I mean, look, our
Speaker 12: nation has thirty three trillion dollars in debt, and it's
Speaker 12: not just Democrats or Republicans, it's both parties. We're in
Speaker 12: this mess today and you're looking at our military and
Speaker 12: we're spread.
Speaker 4: Thin throughout the world, and Israel has all these issues.
Speaker 12: We've got Ukraine all these things, and our allies are
Speaker 12: counting on us and we can't because of our economic
Speaker 12: and financial situation that was created by both parties. So
Speaker 12: my anger, my frustrations, like a lot of people, is
Speaker 12: that it's the fault of both sides today, not one
Speaker 12: or the other. Both sides are at fault and they
Speaker 12: need to take responsibility for it.
Speaker 1: Well, Mike Johnson have any real power, because Kevin McCarthy.
Speaker 12: Hadn't, I Well, I would, well, I would say that
Speaker 12: Kevi McCarthy, well, he Well, We've got a guy today
Speaker 12: who is going to be honest, he's going to be trustworthy,
Speaker 12: and he's going to tell the truth.
Speaker 4: And I would much rather have a guy that I
Speaker 4: might convince he's gonna trust me.
Speaker 12: I brought to a guy that I might sometimes vehemanly
Speaker 12: disagree with, but is going to be trustworthy with me.
Speaker 12: And I'll tell you one thing that I will share
Speaker 12: with the with the other guy, the former speaker, Yes
Speaker 12: was maybe and maybe was no.
Speaker 4: I learned the hard way on that.
Speaker 12: And last week we had a couple candidate forums and
Speaker 12: I asked all the candidates what is their message to
Speaker 12: American women?
Speaker 4: Because women's issues has been an issue that's very near
Speaker 4: and dear to my heart.
Speaker 12: And Mike Johnson was the only guy that came up
Speaker 12: to me afterwards and said admitted that Hey, I hadn't
Speaker 12: answer that question to the best of my ability, and
Speaker 12: I talked to my wife, and it's all these other things.
Speaker 12: It's violence in our communities, it's keeping our kids safe
Speaker 12: in schools, it's all these other things. And it's not
Speaker 12: necessarily about abortion, but it's about a number of issues
Speaker 12: that are facing women and moms back at home. And
Speaker 12: he was the only one to come back and say, hey,
Speaker 12: to answer that question correctly one hundred percent. And here's
Speaker 12: what I think about it now, and we're going to
Speaker 12: work with you on it. And I think that shows humility,
Speaker 12: That shows honesty, and that shows trust, and I trust
Speaker 12: the process, and I think he'll be a better leader
Speaker 12: than what we had before.
Speaker 1: What do you think about you know this? How do
Speaker 1: you think he would feel about this now? Because he
Speaker 1: once said, he once wrote that homosexual relationships are inherently
Speaker 1: unnatural and that gay marriage is the dark harbinger of
Speaker 1: chaos and sexual anarchy that could do them even the
Speaker 1: strongest republic.
Speaker 4: Well, we voted on gay marriage. I voted for it.
Speaker 4: So my positions today are the same as they would
Speaker 4: be six months ago.
Speaker 12: Thanks you know me. And my position is if you
Speaker 12: are gay and you want to be as happily or
Speaker 12: miserably married as astray couple, more power, I am more
Speaker 12: power to do you want to serve our country and
Speaker 12: take a bullet for then you ought to be able
Speaker 12: to do that. And so my position is going to
Speaker 12: be different than the speakers, and that's okay. But he's
Speaker 12: a guy that I do believe will be honest and
Speaker 12: tell the truth. And you know, Democrats Republicans didn't trust
Speaker 12: the last guy. And at least we know where the
Speaker 12: chess pieces will be on the board and what sandbox
Speaker 12: we're playing in, and we can figure that out together
Speaker 12: because we know we're going to get out of Mike
Speaker 12: Johnson as the truth and honesty, humility and someone we
Speaker 12: can trust even if we.
Speaker 4: Disagree with him.
Speaker 1: Well, what does it say to gay Americans that this
Speaker 1: man is now a party's leader? Though? Like, what if
Speaker 1: that still is truth?
Speaker 4: What I just read, Well, I mean it's not going
Speaker 4: to pass.
Speaker 12: The vast majority of members of this Congress, both Republican
Speaker 12: and Democrats, support LGBTQ gay marriage.
Speaker 4: So that's not.
Speaker 12: Really going to have an influence on what we do
Speaker 12: as a House. Because we voted on these things and
Speaker 12: voted to codify gay marriage.
Speaker 1: Okay, people are saying you're on the shortlist to be
Speaker 1: Trump's VP after seeing what happened to Mike Thits, someone
Speaker 1: who you know was once claimed the future of the
Speaker 1: GOP by se Cup. Is being Trump's running mate really
Speaker 1: worth it?
Speaker 4: Well?
Speaker 12: I haven't been asked yet, and my focus is now
Speaker 12: on South Carolina as it always will be, and I
Speaker 12: understand why people might be talking about it. I do
Speaker 12: a lot for women's issues, and Republicans lost women last year.
Speaker 12: But my focus today, as it always will be. I
Speaker 12: love the low Country where you and I grew up.
Speaker 4: And that's where my focus is.
Speaker 1: Is it intriguing now?
Speaker 12: I think it's intriguing, It's interesting, and I think it's
Speaker 12: It's a conversation we need to have because I want
Speaker 12: my little girl to know that she can be president
Speaker 12: one day, and I want to see Republicans put women
Speaker 12: on the ticket vice president presidential. I mean, I want
Speaker 12: to see that happen because I want little girls everywhere
Speaker 12: to know they too can be president one day. So
Speaker 12: I think it's an important conversation to have. But so
Speaker 12: are to a lot of other conversations.
Speaker 1: You're like one heart attack away. If he was like
Speaker 1: his VP, well.
Speaker 4: Would you be a president?
Speaker 1: I'm just saying it. Why are Republicans still holding primaries
Speaker 1: when we know what it's going to be Trump?
Speaker 12: Well, I mean Democrats now have a primary with Dean
Speaker 12: Phillips entering into the presidential nomine process.
Speaker 4: But I do think it's going to be Trump. But
Speaker 4: we'll see.
Speaker 12: It's part of the Democrat democratic process to have primaries
Speaker 12: and have general elections. And just like the Speaker's fight,
Speaker 12: that's part of democracy. That's how we nominate people. And
Speaker 12: those are fights and elections that we have to have.
Speaker 1: Now that the chaos is open, you've got some probable
Speaker 1: votes coming up. So I'm gonna ask you a couple
Speaker 1: will you vote to expel Santos even though it might
Speaker 1: cost the GOPSC.
Speaker 12: I have not read the resolution to expel Santos. I
Speaker 12: have demanded his resignation from day one when I found
Speaker 12: out he lied to get into office. The right and
Speaker 12: honorable thing would be to resign. He hasn't done that yet.
Speaker 12: I'd want to read it and see.
Speaker 4: What the process is if it goes through. I'm a
Speaker 4: civil rights person.
Speaker 12: I do a lot of civil rights work, but there
Speaker 12: has to be due process, So does it go through
Speaker 12: the ethics committee?
Speaker 4: That would be my first question before I make a
Speaker 4: decision on that. We may actually be voting on that
Speaker 4: this week.
Speaker 1: Vote since the representative representative to I know i'm pronouncing
Speaker 1: her name wrong for her Israel God's statements.
Speaker 12: The first Amendment is something I want to make sure
Speaker 12: that we're not violating the constitution. People get elected, but
Speaker 12: what we're seeing this week, there's going to be a
Speaker 12: tit for tat. I think Democrats want to censure Marjorie
Speaker 12: Taylor Green, Like we just got a new speaker. Israel's
Speaker 12: under attack, our economy is crumbling, we have millions of
Speaker 12: people coming across the border, and this is what we're
Speaker 12: doing this week. I mean, I just to me it
Speaker 12: just we have much bigger problems to figure out.
Speaker 1: Would you vote for Ukraine and Israel AID together votes?
Speaker 12: I want separate votes because when we're doing these spending packages,
Speaker 12: they should be separate individual spending bills. Like there's a
Speaker 12: law in the nineteen seventy four Budget and Control Act
Speaker 12: which says the government the Congress is supposed to have
Speaker 12: a budget and twelve different spending bills but what they're
Speaker 12: going to do is they're going to try to combine
Speaker 12: it together, so we jam through over one hundred billion
Speaker 12: dollars in spending. It would be better if they were separate,
Speaker 12: so people can have an up or down vote do
Speaker 12: we support this or not? Because the two wars are
Speaker 12: completely separate and different and their needs are different, and
Speaker 12: it would be better for the American people. It also
Speaker 12: would be better whether they are combined into one vote
Speaker 12: or they are separate votes. We have to have this
Speaker 12: conversation about the southern border and what are we going
Speaker 12: to do to protect our border, protect our national security
Speaker 12: because there are individuals that are on their terrorism watch lists.
Speaker 4: They're coming across our sun their border.
Speaker 12: It will be over one hundred and thirty hundred and
Speaker 12: fifty this year, and so to have this conversation. We
Speaker 12: want to make sure we're not spending more money overseas
Speaker 12: for other people's borders in our own And these are
Speaker 12: all worthy conversations that we've got to have. While we're
Speaker 12: discussing supplemental aid packages, I'm going.
Speaker 1: To ask you new how do you talk to a
Speaker 1: poor and disenfranchised person in South Carolina who can barely
Speaker 1: you know, put food on their table and have a
Speaker 1: roof over the head. How do you explain it, then,
Speaker 1: why all this money is going overseas?
Speaker 4: I explained that it's the part. It's the fault of
Speaker 4: both parties.
Speaker 12: We are thirty three trillion dollars in debt because both sides,
Speaker 12: no matter who's president, no matter who's in the majority
Speaker 12: or who's Speaker of the House, they have added this
Speaker 12: debt and that debt ceiling deal that Republicans just did
Speaker 12: back in the spring will make our debt over a
Speaker 12: fifty trillion over the next ten years. And that is
Speaker 12: why ex costs six dollars for a dozen while a
Speaker 12: gallon of milk is six dollars. It's why you're paying
Speaker 12: in South Carolina, in some cases over four dollars a
Speaker 12: gallon of gas.
Speaker 4: People cannot afford what they're doing.
Speaker 12: And we had August recess, and I was back home
Speaker 12: for a couple of weeks and working, but I took
Speaker 12: my kids to the grocery store. I had we have
Speaker 12: seven days on, seven days off, you know when you're
Speaker 12: two parent house, separate households. And I took my kids
Speaker 12: to the grocery store and it was almost five hundred
Speaker 12: dollars for a family of four for a week, and
Speaker 12: I just that is not affordable. And that was just meat,
Speaker 12: fruit and vegetables and no junk fit. And but you know,
Speaker 12: the average American family can't afford two thousand dollars of
Speaker 12: groceries or eighteen hundred dollars a month in groceries.
Speaker 4: Who can afford that? Nobody can.
Speaker 12: But that is the fault of Republicans and Democrats that
Speaker 12: have spent us into oblivion, who refused to balance the budget.
Speaker 12: The former Speaker promised to have a plan to balance
Speaker 12: a budget.
Speaker 4: He buried it in a drawer.
Speaker 12: It exists, But we need to have a plan, whether
Speaker 12: it's ten, twelve, fifteen, sixteen, twenty years, that gets spending
Speaker 12: in order. And the last time we balanced the budget,
Speaker 12: for example, was in nineteen ninety eight under Bill Clinton,
Speaker 12: and before that it was in the seventies under Nixon.
Speaker 12: It is ridiculous that both parties can't set their differences
Speaker 12: aside and do what's right for America, everybody to their
Speaker 12: political affiliation.
Speaker 1: Wow, Republicans want to impeach Biden for corruption and bribery.
Speaker 1: Do you think that's valid or are they just like
Speaker 1: a tit for tech because of the two times Trump
Speaker 1: has been impeached.
Speaker 12: Well, I can tell you the former Speaker went to
Speaker 12: conservatives a few months ago and said, hey, we're definitely
Speaker 12: impeaching Joe Biden. And then he went to House moderates
Speaker 12: the same day two hours later and said, We're never
Speaker 12: going to impeach Joe Biden.
Speaker 4: That should not be the answer. That's not leadership.
Speaker 12: What we should do is follow the facts, follow the truth,
Speaker 12: and then come to a decision at the right time,
Speaker 12: once we've had due process, once we've shown evidence whether
Speaker 12: or not an impeachment is warranted. That's what the American
Speaker 12: people want, that's what they deserve, and that's what we
Speaker 12: should do. And I do believe that the new Speaker
Speaker 12: will follow due process. He's a constitutional attorney, but won't
Speaker 12: make that decision in haste.
Speaker 4: It should be made when it's warranted.
Speaker 1: You don't think that's a waste of time. What everything
Speaker 1: else that's going.
Speaker 4: On, Well, corruption is a real problem in this country.
Speaker 12: And I have seen bank accounts it it is, but
Speaker 12: I have seen bank accounts of the president's grandchildren with
Speaker 12: money directly from communist China.
Speaker 4: That should not be happening in our country, and it.
Speaker 12: Should be exposed for every for every American to see
Speaker 12: and then decide whether or not that's okay, whether.
Speaker 4: There's an impeachment or not.
Speaker 12: I want people to see the evidence that I've seen
Speaker 12: and make a decision for themselves.
Speaker 1: Do you believe the evidence against Donald Trump?
Speaker 4: Which which evidence?
Speaker 1: Charge?
Speaker 4: Which I mean, which which indictment? I mean which one?
Speaker 1: There's a lot of them. Let's just say Georgia, Georgia.
Speaker 4: That would be over the election fraud. I haven't seen
Speaker 4: the evidence yet, but I haven't seen it.
Speaker 1: There will be a trial.
Speaker 4: And everyone is allowed. Again, I do a lot of
Speaker 4: civil rights work, and everyone is allowed.
Speaker 12: Due process under the law, and if they're found guilty,
Speaker 12: they take responsibility for that. But I haven't seen evidence
Speaker 12: to show these guilty of that.
Speaker 4: Now. There are a lot of people around him that
Speaker 4: did a lot of things. There's that Sidney.
Speaker 12: Powell that that took like a database, like a voter database.
Speaker 4: Maybe, And I don't know.
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