00:02:28.140Let me just understand you, just to be clear.
00:02:32.640You're saying that you would want the United States and Israel to bomb Iran, even in the absence of direct evidence of their involvement in this attack.
00:02:42.220Yeah, so if there's an escalation, Abby, if there's people's throats being cut on television as Israel goes into Gaza and they're threatening to kill the hostages,
00:02:57.180if Hezbollah is unleashed on Israel in the north, it will be because Iran is supporting that.
00:03:04.100If you don't get the connection between Iran and this terrorist activity by Hamas and Hezbollah, you're missing a lot.
00:03:11.600This is a terrorist state that has American blood on its hands.
00:03:15.300It is now time to dismantle the financing system of terrorism if this war escalates.
00:03:21.660Yes, I would do a joint military operation.
00:03:24.720I tell the Iranians today, if the war escalates, you will pay a price.
00:04:15.580As I said, we're sending a loud and clear message.
00:04:18.060The United States is ready to take action should any actor hostile to Israel consider trying to escalate or widen this war.
00:04:23.580So for groups like Hezbollah, how much weight does that threat actually carry?
00:04:29.880Is it likely to have any impact on the decision-making process?
00:04:32.620And when Iran hears that, what do they hear?
00:04:35.740The United States is good at many things, but it's not very good at either diplomacy or warfare in the global south.
00:04:44.480So the U.S. acts tough to support Israel.
00:04:48.020Israel has always done that, but I don't think these kind of statements influence very many people in the region.
00:04:55.600If Iran or Hezbollah wanted to do something, an American threat probably would not stop them from doing it.
00:05:02.820But I think the reality is that neither Iran nor Hezbollah want to start a bigger war.
00:05:08.240The United States is hysterically obsessed with Iran for some reason, but the U.S. always has to have an evil bad guy menace in the region.
00:05:27.280And it's ironic that the U.S. negotiated an agreement, a very good agreement with Iran on nuclear issues and sanctions.
00:05:36.780But Iran is seen in the U.S. public sphere and the political elite and the media as a really terrible menace, almost as bad as China is in the U.S. eyes.
00:05:46.240And therefore, they keep playing this, overplaying this sense of we're going to stop Iran from doing this and doing that.
00:05:54.520And Iran shows no sign of wanting to be involved in the war.
00:05:57.740So I don't take very seriously what the U.S. says about Middle East ideological and political and military movements.
00:06:05.780So neither do most people in the region.
00:06:08.060We've been going on for hundreds of years where a conference or a caucus selects its speaker by a majority vote inside the conference.
00:06:16.660They go to the House floor and everybody votes for them.
00:06:31.300I mean, how long, Jackie, are they willing to continue this madness, this chaos in the only branch of government Americans have entrusted them with?
00:06:41.100There was, Joe, cautious optimism yesterday that lawmakers could potentially rally around at least one of these candidates, Steve Scalise or Jim Jordan, after their closed-door meeting where they took a secret ballot on either candidate.
00:06:57.400And maybe get that done yesterday afternoon, take the vote to the House floor and move on and start focusing on the real-world issues that are blowing up around the House GOP conference as they've essentially been paralyzed without a leader.
00:07:12.940That quickly proved to be a misguided assessment of the situation and that Steve Scalise, the front-runner and I think clearer front-runner, at least yesterday morning, ended up having far more opposition than I think people realized.
00:07:28.960I think there was a little bit of confusion amongst the Capitol Hill press corps because there was this conference rules package that people were debating that was put forward by Chip Roy.
00:07:39.400And there was more opposition to that, and I think that's what people were sort of distracted by.
00:07:45.780And there was less realization that actually a lot of the opposition was also paired with Steve Scalise.
00:07:52.960Scalise himself was also whipping against this rules package.
00:07:56.240That didn't sit well with a lot of members.
00:07:57.960And the more, I think it was sort of a tinderbox kind of situation where the more Republicans that came out of that closed-door meeting in the Longworth House building yesterday saying that they were not going to support Solis.
00:08:11.220Some of them who actually continued to maintain that they were going to vote for former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and still had an axe to grind with those eight firebrand Republicans who ousted him last week.
00:08:26.020Things quickly deteriorated, and now we're not even sure when a House vote's going to happen or whether Jim Jordan or Scalise is ultimately going to be the nominee.
00:08:35.000This is an act of terror, it cannot stand.
00:08:40.080We heard from the administration, there seems to have been a failure of intelligence as well.
00:08:45.760We're not quite sure how we missed it, we're not quite sure how Israel missed it.
00:08:50.260We know that Egypt had warned the Israelis three days prior that an event like this could happen.
00:08:57.560We know that this had been planned perhaps as long as a year ago.
00:09:01.080The other concern is escalation in the region.
00:09:06.120We know that Hezbollah has 100,000 rockets that would overload the Iron Dome.
00:09:17.720We know that Iraq has Shia proxies and Iran-backed proxies.
00:09:23.560We know Iran itself has in large part funded this and provided the weapons for it.
00:09:30.440We don't want to see escalation, we want to see this contained in Gaza.
00:09:34.680However, we're very concerned about the fidelity of our intelligence and the escalation of a conflict in the Middle East that could turn into a global jihad movement in Israel.
00:09:45.520This is the primal scream of a dying regime.
00:11:10.480This audience, if you're so inclined, call your congressman right now and give him a piece of your message.
00:11:16.240Steve Scalise is just a watered-down version, not quite as slick a version of Kevin McCarthy, completely owned by the lobbyists.
00:11:25.620It's just D.C. cartel with a less slick front porch.
00:11:32.700It cannot happen to be a disaster of speakership.
00:11:36.040Scalise, and anybody who thinks they're running for speaker, in fact, Jake Sherman, I think Jake Sherman's got a tweet out, or Manu over at CNN.
00:11:44.400It's quite perceptive, and the tweet talks about the, if Scalise moves up, about the majority leader race, where you have Emmers and Hearn and maybe Stefanik.
00:11:56.440You throw Jordan to that mix, that's really the speaker's race.
00:11:59.360It's completely open today, because Scalise is not going to get there, and I think you're going to see more mounting opposition.
00:12:07.620There's about 20 votes against right now.
00:12:23.260And if you've noticed, if you look at the list, and Grace and Mo have it, it's up on my Getter account, and maybe Grace and Mo, you can push it out to Carly Bonet over at Telegram, and our Telegram channel, the folks over at Rumble, all of it.
00:12:36.080You see, what may strike you as interesting, there's a lot of new names on there.
00:12:43.380It's not the, certain of the hard eight didn't make the list.
00:13:10.920Israel knows we're with them, but there's more disturbing information.
00:13:15.280President Trump actually went there last night, told the BB story that Jack Posobiec broke on this very show on Saturday morning, where the Netanyahu government backed out the last second one.
00:13:26.860They took out Soleimani, and it was quite, it was a big deal.
00:13:30.600But President Trump had the, once again, the leadership and the courage to go it alone, which he did, to take out Soleimani.
00:13:38.300That's, that's the types of credit that President Trump never gets.
00:13:40.960So, you know, is Israel with you until they're not?
00:13:45.060I mean, this is a whole, we have to have this discussion, have to have an adults conversation, because the ground operation in Gaza is going to be quite, it's going to make Fallujah look like a day at Santa Monica Beach.
00:13:59.000So, there has to be a real discussion about this.
00:14:02.760And right now, you saw McCall, it was in the Daily Mail, it's in the New York Post, he said it yesterday.
00:14:07.320He confirmed that, that the Israeli intelligence, the Israelis were informed by Egyptian intelligence three days beforehand that something was going to happen.
00:14:18.760So, if that happens, how do you have basically Burning Man, I mean, how do you have it anyway, you have Burning Man all the way in a kibbutz that's like a mile from Gaza.
00:14:30.040My note to everybody who's running around is so emotional.
00:14:32.300If the, if Hamas terrorists are animals, and they are animals, on the morning of the 8th, they were animals on the 7th.
00:18:37.440Well, I think it's very clear Steve Scalise is not a paradigm-shifting speaker.
00:18:42.260He's not an America-first speaker designee.
00:18:45.480And it's clear he doesn't have the votes.
00:18:47.660And I don't know if he's going to wake up today or tomorrow or the next day.
00:18:51.300But I think what he was hoping for was that there would not be opposition on the floor, that he'd be able to just bum-drush this thing and get it to the floor.
00:19:00.820Not only do the individuals, many of the individuals that were there in January and others that were there in the Gates initiative, but other coalitions, even moderates, are opposed to this.
00:19:16.160And I think it's important to zoom out for a second.
00:19:19.020For those who are saying that the Congress is in disarray and there's chaos, we have a funding deadline that's coming up in mid-November.
00:19:27.560And it is vital to be able to get that right.
00:19:31.320That affects every single agency that is a part of the federal government that gets its funding, including the Department of Defense, including all of the funding for state and foreign ops.
00:19:42.960And we can't govern by the establishment using the events that are occurring around the world to cause us to make decisions faster than in our interests as Americans.
00:19:55.820This is an important issue to be able to settle and to be settled right.
00:20:00.380And thankfully, because enough members have said Steve Scalise is just more of the same.
00:20:06.760Remember, Steve Scalise is the guy that threatened Andrew Clyde and said he wouldn't bring his legislation to protect gun-earning Americans to the floor.
00:20:17.380Behind all of the decisions of Kevin McCarthy has been Steve Scalise.
00:20:21.600Steve Scalise is the one that ruined the Republican Study Committee and turned it away from being the conservative conscience of the House.
00:21:46.340But what had been the thing that they passed was a continuing resolution into November.
00:21:51.520So this speaker's debate is all about setting up the proper strategy and game plan that will come and allow us to use that as a leverage point down the road.
00:22:01.940And of the members that you've talked to, potential candidates, Jim Jordan and others, it's important for them to bring their visions about how they're going to handle that.
00:23:37.440We'll be successful with why the country selected Republicans.
00:23:41.080And so you've got to have a person in a leadership position that wants those confrontations, wants those leverage points, wants to manage that risk.
00:23:52.640And that is what is critical to be able to get someone that wants to nationalize these debates and go hard at the Biden administration.
00:23:59.940It's not just content to just keep everything being done the way it's always being done.
00:24:05.140And that's the definition of a paradigm-shifting speaker.
00:24:11.560You've set up and you've dedicated your life's work to this.
00:24:14.580I mean you were OMB director in President Trump's first term.
00:24:18.500You'll have a very senior role in the second term.
00:24:20.400The group you've set up, Center for Renewing America, focuses on these policy issues all the time.
00:24:26.880When we get this confusion that Gates is on Fox and you've got to get a speaker now because they've got to put out a resolution about Israel.
00:24:33.560When you look at the world for our audience, to put the America first priorities now, what are you looking for in someone that is running for speaker?
00:24:46.360What do they need to say or what do they need to lay out their vision that they will do that would convince you in the center that this person is really America first?
00:24:54.320I think beginning to, you know, obviously a conversation about Ukraine would be a great tell as to where someone is going to be from an America first perspective, the ability to push back on the neoconservative establishment.
00:25:08.060But I think from the standpoint of policies, it's often easy for people to cloak themselves as America first.
00:25:13.640And what I found so inspiring about working for President Trump was his willingness to take on confrontation on behalf of the American people to crush the administrative state and pick fights with the powers that be here in Washington, D.C.
00:25:32.960You've got to get someone that wants conflict with the left, that wants to be able to use the leverage points.
00:25:39.640And when you hear conversations about, OK, we're going to do continuing resolutions as far as the eye can see, that's not picking a fight with the way this town works.
00:25:48.280That is, in fact, the way that this town works.
00:25:51.780And there has to be a fearlessness and a lack of concern with regard to how you take on these political risks.
00:26:01.980Yes, you've got to manage them properly.
00:26:03.680But that's what you're a politician for, to manage them appropriately and win, win the debate with the American people.
00:26:13.120If you didn't want the risk, you shouldn't have gone to Congress.
00:26:18.100Last thing, on this mid-November date, what do you feel Congress has to be doing now on appropriations works and others to make sure we don't get jammed up again?
00:26:29.200They're just going to say, well, you need another continuing resolution.
00:26:52.900They will agree to whatever Joe Biden agrees to in the final determination.
00:26:57.260But the House has to continue to pass these bills and have messaging opportunities on securing the border, dealing with the weaponization of the Department of Justice.
00:27:06.520That would also be another example of how you get an America First speaker.
00:27:10.940Are you willing to take on the weaponization of the Department of Justice?
00:27:13.940Or are you viewing that as a law enforcement matter in which you are scared of even touching it?
00:27:19.200That is a huge separator right now within House Republicans that we talk to.
00:27:26.040Russ, where do people go for your social media, particularly Getter and Truth and Twitter?
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00:30:22.260So he loves the fact that nothing happens in Moscow, nothing happens in Russia without the express authority and consent of Vladimir Putin.
00:30:33.480And he wants that for himself in this country.
00:30:36.400He doesn't want to be president of the United States.
00:30:39.680He wants to be our dictator, our fuhrer, our supreme leader, our monarch.
00:31:12.260You imagine this idiot rewriting the Constitution in crayons on the back of stolen, top-secret documents?
00:31:18.780And what is the purpose of him rewriting the Constitution?
00:31:23.380It's in order to separate and to get rid of the tripartite system of our government.
00:31:29.100He wants to remove the legislative branch's power, he wants to remove the judiciary's branch of power, and he wants to confer all power onto the executive branch, which is what?
00:31:43.800And so by doing that, he becomes the king.
00:31:47.180And there is no one who would be able to stop him at that point in time, because he'll believe that executive privilege, executive orders, will give him the opportunity to do whatever he wants.
00:32:00.080He'll go after members of the Supreme Court.
00:32:03.220The reason we play this, normally we don't play Prattle, but here's the reason.
00:32:06.900There are three simultaneous conferences going on to stop Donald J. Trump.
00:32:14.080There you have, in New York City, a gathering of elites and celebrities and huge big-leg money for a Never Trump, you know, it's called, I think, the Never Trump or Stop Trump conference.
00:32:27.640Now, these are mainly progressives and liberals.
00:32:31.200Robert De Niro, who wasn't, I don't think, there, but made a statement that said that Trump not only has to be stopped, that he's evil, pure evil.
00:32:39.980So, in addition, out in Park City, Utah, you have Mitt Romney, Mittens, whose biography is going to come out in a couple of weeks, and I think it's going to go after President Trump pretty hard.
00:32:54.580McKay Coppins, another piece of work, the writer.
00:32:58.420This is the official biography of Mittens.
00:33:00.980This is why Mittens is stepping down, because I think he says a lot of mean stuff.
00:33:04.720You know, Mittens have got to get really worked up, you know, to say mean things.
00:33:17.240That is, they said, it's in their DNA of this group in Park City, which are major big-time donors, big money.
00:33:25.720It says it's not in their DNA to ever accept Trump.
00:33:30.440What they mean by that is never to accept you.
00:33:32.760What they want is you to be just the cattle herd, just to be the herd, to go about your life, to pay your taxes, you know, put your money away for retirement.
00:33:52.920You know, you got pension, or 401k, maybe, IRA, maybe, pension, maybe.
00:33:58.280They got them in, by the way, they got them in Europe.
00:34:03.040Europe, you know, you got pension funds, and you got full medical care by the government.
00:34:23.880Remember, the Kochs and all these guys, the thing that drives them nuts at night is you get a $1,000 check or whatever from Social Security.
00:34:46.060After you had back-breaking toil for your entire life.
00:34:51.500Oh, yeah, and raised your kids up to go serve their country in foreign battlefields and did everything you were supposed to do as a good householder.
00:36:31.400If America's in Latin America, freedom-loving people throughout the world, if America crumbles, if America implodes, if America collapses,
00:36:43.280or if America is just so, with both debt and the invasion, if it's so preoccupied on having to get its own house in order, then it collapses.
00:37:07.700We were never supposed to be an empire.
00:37:09.880Our founders and founding us as republic warned us, warned us about going overseas looking for monsters to slay.
00:37:18.800Even going after the Barbary pirates, and you notice the Barbary pirates, the first kind of foreign international geopolitical issue we had to deal with,
00:37:42.920In the same bad neighborhood that is still a bad neighborhood today, maybe even worse because they got biological, chemical, and nuclear weapons that could, you know, go off and spread everywhere.
00:37:58.860America first means that we're going to think through, we're going to think through what the United States is going to do throughout the world.
00:38:08.540That's in betterment of the cause of this republic.
00:38:11.080You notice everything in the speakers race?
00:38:14.640Have you ever, have you heard any of them?
00:38:17.280Talk about the DOJ, the administrative state, the border, the debt.
00:39:07.060Remember the war room where we're in trench after trench, after trench, after trench.
00:39:12.320This, this audience is on the ramparts and down in the grit because you've got to dig, you've got to take a trenching tool and dig these people out of here.
00:39:31.140McCarthy said yesterday, McCarthy kind of putting the knife in the Scalise this morning and said, Hey, quite frankly, you're supposed to have 150 votes.
00:39:56.720Because after today, it's a free ball and you want, you want a free ball because you want somebody to step up and say, okay, here's what I see.
00:48:00.860And why is it – why in almost the middle of October is it still the thing that we're looking for?
00:48:08.460Yeah, I mean, what I said is that if Speaker McCarthy wanted to be successful as Speaker and keep his speakership,
00:48:17.780he needed to cut spending in the appropriations process to pre-COVID levels,
00:48:25.400and then he also needed to implement policy writers, appropriations writers, in the process to end the federal funding of weaponized justice against political opponents,
00:48:39.820open borders, racial division, gender chaos, and the Democrats' other Marxist policies.
00:48:46.580And, unfortunately, for Speaker McCarthy, he didn't do that.
00:48:50.760He thought he was just going to do a clean CR and maybe have the Democrats bail him out.
00:48:58.620Nancy Pelosi and Hakeem Jeffries bail him out, and that didn't work out for him, and he lost the speakership.
00:49:03.600I think what this next speaker needs to do, whoever it is, is they have a short window here.
00:49:10.580It's going to be about a 30-day window here to get serious about reining in our spending.
00:49:16.440The House of Representatives has the power of the purse, right?
00:49:20.260And the House of Representatives needs to put the federal government on a crash diet,
00:49:26.320and they need to end these woke, weaponized policies that Obama and Biden have implemented to go after their political enemies, right?
00:49:35.500For example, there needs to be a writer that the Article III project championed,
00:49:40.500along with Congressman Andrew Clyde in Georgia, that it says two things.
00:49:45.480No federal funds may be used to prosecute any major presidential candidate on or before November 5th, 2024,
00:49:55.760and any state or local government that prosecutes criminally or civilly any major presidential candidate on or before November 5th, 2024,