Learn English with Joe Biden. Former Vice President Joe Biden speaks to CNN's Jake Tapper at the G20 Summit in Hamburg, Germany, about his recent trip to China and his thoughts on the results of the mid-term elections.
00:00:00.000Once again, the democracy is who we are.
00:00:04.000There was a strong rejection of election deniers at every level from those seeking to lead our states and those seeking to serve in Congress and also those seeking to oversee the elections.
00:00:15.420And there was a strong rejection of political violence and voter intimidation.
00:00:19.880There was an emphatic statement that in America, the will of the people prevails.
00:00:24.280I have I've traveled this week and it's been clear just how closely the world and our allies and our competitors as well have been following our elections at home.
00:00:37.260And what these elections showed is that there's a deep and unwavering commitment in America to preserving and protecting and defending democracy.
00:00:44.920Well, and Jen Palmieri, another person in the room who's the same as he's always been as Joe Biden, always, always underestimated.
00:00:55.040And I can't imagine that it helps going into the G20, going into these meetings that he's backed up by his country when it comes to the strength of democracy.
00:01:05.700When I worked with both President Clinton and President Obama, after they had tough mentors in 94 and 2010, they had to go make a similar trip.
00:01:13.960Right. There's usually the ASEAN at the Asia Economic trip is this time every year.
00:01:21.740And it's been it was really tough because you're you're walking in in a weakened position on the world stage.
00:01:27.540And, you know, we talked about this a little bit with Richard Haass when he was here earlier, like how important it is that the president of the United States sat across the table from Xi and looked at him and was able was to say, like, our democracy is holding.
00:01:43.560Right. It's not just that it's great that people voted and that people conceded and the election deniers lost.
00:01:50.540Also, you know, these there are foreign entities that are trying to mess in our elections.
00:01:56.120Right. It's not just Russia. It's also China.
00:01:58.880And for them to know that is not working, we are holding really put, you know, puts the president in a position of power and that and that really important relationship.
00:02:10.140And I saw on the campaign trail that, you know, another thing that's really registering registered with voters was the Chips Act.
00:02:17.020It may sound like a small thing, but people got that the Congress, that President Biden passed something that was going to help make America more competitive with China.
00:02:25.900And so he has the back and he's able to be to go there strong as the president of the United States, our democracy is holding, also showing that him and the Congress are doing things that are going to protect Americans' economic interests.
00:02:38.440It's, you know, far better than we imagine President Biden would be walking into, you know, like 10 days ago, two weeks ago.
00:02:45.420You want to say to me, I like Joe Biden's agenda, but I think his approach needs to be beefed up a bit, needs to be a little more in your face.
00:02:57.920Joe Biden's approach and agenda were exactly the things that we needed in this country.
00:04:59.620When I say they call them, just because they call them, that's not a legal definition.
00:05:03.080That's AP or one of these official groups calling them because there's still people fighting on our side like Joe Kent, who we're going to have on later.
00:05:10.960That's technically been called, but there's certain discrepancies.
00:05:13.880So even when I say these calls, they're going to fight some of these.
00:05:16.960California 27, Captain Brandon Williams had on the show a lot.
00:05:20.760Excuse me, New York 22, Oregon 5 with Laurie Chavez-Demer.
00:05:27.200That gets us to 218, the magic number.
00:05:34.300I think decision desk called that last night.
00:05:36.240And, of course, Lauren Boebert looks like it's going to go to recount, but people, when you look at the ballots, look like it could be fairly safe.
00:05:43.700So you're 220, and actually 221 will be a grab bag of three or four that are in there, but people are saying the number now may be 221.
00:06:04.320We're one of the people that launched it with the New York Post back in October or September of October of 2020.
00:06:12.520The Laptop from Hell has reams and reams and reams of documents that show that the Biden family is compromised by the Chinese Communist Party.
00:06:22.780When he's with Xi, it's all performative.
00:06:24.260Of course, they don't want to talk about that.
00:06:25.500But the question is, at 221, 220 or 221, are the Republicans who have not shown any stones whatsoever in either fighting for election fraud, fighting for fair elections, on fighting for anything?
00:06:41.180In fact, they didn't even have you have committees in your first two years.
00:06:43.720They were so gutless that you didn't have committees.
00:06:49.740Are you going to have the stones to actually hold the Biden administration accountable for its actions, its activities, and, quite frankly, the financial compromise of the Biden family by the Chinese Communist Party, ma'am?
00:07:10.320You see, we have to pull our party together, Steve, in order to prove to this country that Republicans are the party that can lead for America and finally put America first and hold all of these traitors and corrupt politicians and the unelected bureaucrats and the FBI and the Department of Justice accountable.
00:08:49.600I don't want to tease our audience unless we got it.
00:08:51.380Let's have Jake Sherman about Marjorie Taylor Greene.
00:08:54.040And the interesting thing is, Joe, I was talking to a Republican who's involved in House elections last night who made the point that, like, hopefully Republicans take away from this election that actually the Trump-fueled candidates are no good.
00:09:05.980I mean, they lost very winnable seats in Ohio against Marcy Kaptur, in a new district in North Carolina, in Bo Hines, in New Hampshire, all Trump-inspired, fueled, or endorsed candidates.
00:09:18.860And I just think that it's just – it's resounding how much of a difference that makes.
00:09:24.980And you see people like Mike Lawler in upstate New York who has distanced himself from Trump, who beat Sean Patrick Maloney, the DCCC chair.
00:09:31.960So chalk one up for the middle of the conference and just the coming clash between that wing, the MTG, to use shorthand wing, and the moderate, more traditional Republican wing is going to be epic because the MTG wing lost in this election.
00:09:46.580Those candidates did not win. They had a tough time, and they lost winnable districts for Republicans.
00:09:55.020Quote-unquote MTG wing of the party, particularly Caroline Levitt and Joe Kent is going to be on the show, is because the leader, McCarthy, put $40 million against the Bo Hines of the world, the Levitts of the world, the Anna Paulina Lunas of the world, the Joe Kents of the world in primaries, ma'am?
00:10:13.420Well, first I have to say it's nice to see Jake Sherman's face without a mask on.
00:10:18.800I didn't really even know what he looked like just until then.
00:10:22.900And, you know, Steve, here's the deal.
00:10:25.180The MTG wing of the party represents the American people, and I will do everything I can to put the American people and this country first.
00:10:32.940And what Jake Sherman and the rest of the talking heads that really are just Democrat political activists working for the media, here's what they need to understand.
00:10:42.500The people of this country love President Trump.
00:10:45.320The people of this country love people that will fight with courage and fight fearlessly for this country, for our border, for our economy, for our children, their education, instead of grooming, instead of child abuse, instead of genital mutilation, surgeries, instead of sending money over to Ukraine, fighting for another border while it's being invaded, but yet ignoring our border invasion every single day.
00:11:10.860And that's what I'm all about, and that's what President Trump is all about, and that is also what our Republican conference in the majority has to be about.
00:11:21.000Steve, the reality is that we are going to win.
00:11:23.720It's very much looking like it, thank God, because this country cannot withstand another two years of the Biden and the Democrats' horrific globalist agenda, and they're communists.
00:11:37.820We've seen the Department of Justice raid Mar-a-Lago.
00:11:40.820We've seen them going after parents holding their school boards accountable.
00:11:44.460We've seen them going after fathers that just want to pray at abortion clinics for the unborn and pray for these mothers that are facing such a horrific decision in their life.
00:11:54.320You see, this Department of Justice and the FBI are the people that we need to hold accountable, but it's going to take a Republican party that is unified.
00:12:01.820And that's where I'm struggling, Steve.
00:12:04.180I'm going to tell you right now, I'm really struggling because I want to see our party be the party to fight for the American people and prove to the country that we're the party that needs to have full control in 2024, because that's the only thing, that is the only way we can truly make sweeping legislation and really accomplish things.
00:12:25.140Now, what we have to do going into the next two years is we have to investigate, and that's why Jim Jordan being the chairman of the Judiciary Committee is the best thing we have going.
00:12:35.920That's why I'm so excited about Jamie Comer on the Oversight Committee, and I look forward to serving on it because I haven't had committees for the past two years, and I very much am looking forward to being on committees.
00:12:46.420And Jamie Comer has got that laptop sitting wide open, and we know everything Hunter Biden's done, not just Hunter Biden.
00:12:54.320We know about Joe Biden, too, and a few other people that I'm not willing to name at this moment, but I look forward to exposing it along with my colleagues on the Oversight Committee.
00:13:03.820You see, we also have to lead, we have to lead this country and put out the fire in America, which is a dumpster fire, because that's what the Democrats have handed us.
00:13:12.820And we're going to do that with day one of wiping out the 87,000 IRS Army.
00:13:17.900These are the things that I'm excited about, but I'm also grounded, Steve.
00:13:22.220The only way to do this is not open the door.
00:13:25.580We cannot open the door to what the Democrats are doing right now, and that is scurrying all the way around, looking for any weak, rhino, sellout Republican that will join them and elect their own speaker, because that is what's happening right now.
00:13:42.880So I think that we have to work together in our conference, and it starts today, and I'm sure there's going to be a lot of fighting going, a lot of inter-party fighting happening today when we're talking about the speaker's race.
00:13:53.840But there's no way in hell that I'm going to vote to hand that gavel to Liz Cheney or anyone else Nancy Pelosi wants.
00:13:59.920If you can hang on for short through the commercial break, I have Steve Cortez.
00:14:04.240NBC News is just coming out and reporting.
00:14:06.860They think it's not going to be 221, it's going to be 219 on a knife's edge, 219 or 220, right?
00:14:14.580Be back with MTG about all of this next.
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00:16:03.280Whether it's 219, 220, 221, it's going to be a thin margin.
00:16:06.820It's like a 10-seat pickup, but a thin margin.
00:16:09.660Congressman Green, the great Andy Biggs, there's rumors that he's put his hat in the ring to run for speaker.
00:16:15.480I think Scott Perry and other members of what I think people like Jake Sermon would say are the MTG wing of the congressional party, of MAGA and of the Republican Party.
00:16:26.560By the way, this is what Josh Hawley said is a new motivation.
00:16:36.840So with Andy Biggs and others coming to the forefront that say under no circumstances, there are no circumstances they would vote for current leadership.
00:16:59.500We've already been through two years where we saw Republicans, Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger, cross over and join the Democrats and produce a January 6th committee.
00:17:09.540It has been a witch hunt against President Trump, subpoenaing him, his administration, and many others.
00:17:35.300And so it's very, very risky right now to produce a leadership challenge, especially for Speaker of the House, when they are going to open the door and allow Liz Cheney possibly to become Speaker.
00:17:48.860Because let me tell you something, that to the Democrats, that is who they're throwing around.
00:17:54.860And we have about 20 Republicans in our conference, and this is tragic news for everyone, that to this day, respect Liz Cheney for what she has done and how she's worked on the January 6th committee.
00:18:07.620And those people got reelected, and they're in our conference and will be serving next year.
00:18:14.300Do we want to watch a challenge for Speaker of the House simply because it's a Never Kevin movement, just like we've seen a Never Trump movement?
00:18:23.560Do we want to see that challenge open the door to Nancy Pelosi handing the gavel to Liz Cheney?
00:18:34.100There is no way in hell I will stand there and allow that to happen.
00:18:37.340Or do we want to be the Republican conference that has to unify behind Kevin McCarthy because he already has pretty much the entire conference except for the challenge that has been produced in the past few days?
00:19:52.880One of the things we're winning, we have the House.
00:19:54.360Marjorie Taylor Greene, given how you've been abused by the management you talk about, how can you give any assurance whatsoever that all the things you talk about, about January 6th, all the things you talk about,
00:20:07.440about getting to the bottom of the Biden family being compromised by the Chinese Communist Party, of all of that, how can you give any assurances by you throwing in with Kevin McCarthy and essentially unifying but putting him over the top that that's all going to work out,
00:20:22.280that a month from now we're not going to sit there and go, we really wish Andy Biggs had at least opened this thing up for a challenge from a Jim Jordan, from maybe some other people, ma'am.
00:20:32.840Well, it's very simple, Steve, because I've gone and talked with everyone.
00:21:03.440I want to do everything I can to do my part within our conference to force the Republican Party to be the party that is America first and saves this country.
00:21:12.960That means that I am not going to allow a leadership or speaker challenge that's going to allow the Democrats to keep the gavel and elect someone like Liz Cheney.
00:24:11.920Matt Gaetz, closest ally, somebody I trust all the time.
00:24:16.260All of these people that are involved in this challenge are my friends.
00:24:20.180And if, you know, Jake Sherman wants to call it the MTG wing of the party, so be it.
00:24:24.800But I'm also willing to step out, and I know the ground.
00:24:28.260I know how it works on the inside and the outside.
00:24:30.600And we have to put someone in for speaker that is going to be elected and not allow the Democrats to pull away one or two because that's what they want to do.
00:24:57.380And so, Steve, what we have to do is be realistic.
00:25:00.520It takes a lot to win a presidential election.
00:25:04.100So when we do this going forward, we're also looking at what 2024 looks like.
00:25:09.340And that means that everybody has to be in this fight, not just for leadership, not just for what we can accomplish in the Republican conference as a majority party over the next two years.
00:25:20.420But we also have to produce a model that's going to convince the American people, hey, look, Republicans have their act together.
00:25:27.920This is the party that we want to have full majority.
00:25:30.960That means the White House, the House and the Senate, because that's the only way that we can actually accomplish anything on the federal level.
00:27:46.440Friends, if the current diesel fuel crisis gets any worse, truckers might not be able to deliver enough food to grocery stores in the coming months.
00:29:18.520Well, you know, first, Steve, to your point, this is a great thing that we're having this internal debate, which will not just be internal.
00:29:24.780It will also be in public because we do have the majority.
00:29:27.900Now, it is not the majority that we hoped for.
00:29:30.280It's not the majority that I expected, quite frankly.
00:30:04.640First of all, while I recognize that the threat she poses or that she describes is real, that threat that the Democrats would partner with a couple of betrayer Judas Republicans to elect a Democrat or potentially even Liz Cheney from outside of the Congress to become the speaker.
00:30:21.440But if that is credible, OK, if that's an actual possibility, Steve, well, then she let's say that happens.
00:30:28.120Liz Cheney would be speaker of the House for about one tenth of a scaramucci, OK, because the reaction from the populist right for the deplorables would be an absolute outrage, an absolute outcry.
00:30:40.600And once you're anointed speaker, it's not a position for life, OK?
00:30:43.480It would be for hours or a day at most.
00:30:52.360But I don't view that as a credible or lasting threat.
00:30:56.260You know, but secondly, here's what I think is also important related to Marjorie Taylor Greene's analysis of Kevin McCarthy.
00:31:01.460She makes the important point that the conservative wing, that the Freedom Caucus will have effectively a veto power internally, right?
00:31:08.160That he can't pass some establishment uniparty legislation because his own party wing of conservatives, of patriotic populists won't go along with it.
00:31:15.580And that is absolutely valid and true.
00:31:17.380But here's what that wing will not have is the ability to schedule votes.
00:31:23.460And it might be the single most important power dynamic of the Speaker of the House.
00:31:28.600And so that's one of the key reasons why I don't believe that Kevin McCarthy, who is both ideologically and temperamentally unfit to be the warrior we need at a moment like this.
00:31:40.040It's one of the key reasons why I believe he cannot be the speaker, particularly, Steve, now that we know that we're not going to have control of the Senate, that we're going to have such a narrow majority in the House.
00:31:50.440More than ever, okay, more than ever, we need a brave heart.
00:31:54.880To put it in American fighter terms, we need a Patton, not a Mark Milley, okay?
00:32:00.420And when it comes to politics, Kevin McCarthy is not a Patton.
00:32:17.480But one thing that was quite evident on the Sunday shows, the Democrats understand that this – the economy and what they have wrought is a disaster.
00:32:26.160Okay, we're going to get to all that in a second.
00:32:34.400Joe, if Kevin McCarthy – we just had a full-throated defense of Kevin McCarthy by MTG, who's a huge ally of yours and has supported you from the beginning.
00:32:44.980Did Kevin McCarthy support you from the beginning, sir?
00:32:50.180As a matter of fact, Kevin McCarthy and PAC's link to him spent about $13 million against me in the primary.
00:32:58.820They spent $13 million against you, and it was basically the politics of personal – in fact, the reason we're about to have this final discussion that we're talking about curing ballots, et cetera, the $13 million in an essentially rural district in Washington was all about the politics of personal destruction, was it not, sir?
00:33:17.840Absolutely. I was called everything from Bernie Sanders to literally Hitler, and those attacks continued throughout the general election.
00:33:26.300So right now I'm only down by about 4,600 votes, so you can definitely bet that the $13 million at least bought the other side 4,600 votes from low-information voters.
00:33:36.180Okay, so where do we stand right now? Everybody knows where Joe Kent is not quitting. Where do we stand, and how realistic is this path, and what does this audience need to do to assist you, sir?
00:33:49.360Yeah, I know the posse. I know this audience isn't going to listen to the mainstream media's nonsense.
00:33:53.020They've called the race for my opponent, but like you said, Steve, that has no actual legal ramification.
00:33:57.660There is still 30% of the votes out there that have not been even tabulated.
00:34:03.500So we think another 12 million or so votes are going to get tabulated over the next couple days.
00:34:08.680Now I understand that that doesn't make sense.
00:34:10.340Whoa, whoa, whoa. Not 12 – ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, Joe. Not 12 million. 12,000? 12,000?
00:34:15.500Sorry, 12,000. Sorry, 12,000. Yeah, thinking in Kevin McCarthy dollars there for a second.
00:34:19.680Hold it. Yeah, 12,000 votes. Hang on. Just hit rewind. Hang on. Just hit rewind for a second.
00:34:24.280I want everybody to understand exactly where we are in Washington 3. Take it from the top.
00:34:30.100Yeah, we still have about 30% of the ballots that need to be tabulated.
00:34:35.000So that's 12,000 votes that are going to be tabulated here over the next few days.
00:34:39.620We don't know exactly how many they're going to drop per day.
00:34:42.460There is an additional 7,000, around 7,500 votes that need to be cured.
00:34:48.180Ballots that need to be cured that have been submitted and rejected in Clark County alone.
00:34:52.620It's spread out throughout the other counties that we have.
00:34:55.120There's probably another 1,500 to 2,000 ballots.
00:34:57.760So we are aggressively curing ballots right now.
00:35:02.720Can you – what about curing? Because we notice in Arizona, we say these cured ballots.
00:35:06.880A lot of these come out for Democrats because it's a little – the people don't have their records together or there's something –
00:35:13.740there's some issue that it has to be cured.
00:35:15.880We just know that the trend there is once they're cured, they tend, at least in Arizona and other places, to come out Democratic.
00:35:22.980What about up there? And can you – do you have a team in there making the counterargument why they should not be cured?
00:35:28.500So what we're finding right now is a lot of our votes, a lot of Republican votes, are needing curing.
00:35:36.160Usually it's a signature match because we vote all by in-mail out voting here.
00:35:40.700So everything comes down to the signature verification.
00:35:43.120So if your signature changed a little bit over the years like happened with me in the primary, they'll reject it.
00:35:48.500And it's on you to check the website, voter.votelaw.gov, to make sure that your ballot's actually been accepted.
00:35:55.880And so they're supposed to mail you or call you within a few days of the election.
00:36:00.480However, that doesn't always happen in a timely fashion, and so people don't have a chance to actually go and cure their ballots.
00:36:05.300But again, we're finding that a lot of Republicans are having their signature rejected or some other issue.
00:36:10.560The easiest thing to do is to go down to your county auditor's office, but we can get teams to help cure if need be.
00:36:16.120Joe Kent, how do people follow this, and how do they – if you need assistance, where do they go?
00:36:21.700Yeah, easiest thing to do is to e-mail me, joe at joekentforcongress, f-o-r-congress.com.
00:36:46.940So unfortunately, the awful economic news continues and in many ways intensifies, meaning that the Biden recession, the Biden inflation explosion intensifies.
00:36:56.380This is part of the reason why among independents he stands in only 28 percent approval, according to NBC News polling, and that is the lowest level that they have ever recorded among independents.
00:37:07.340And so I also want to steal the deplorables and the patriots out there to realize that just because we didn't do as well as we had hoped in these elections doesn't mean that the American people in any way ratified Joe Biden's policies, particularly on the economy.
00:37:21.620As a matter of fact, quite the opposite.
00:37:23.260Republicans won the popular vote nationally and by a substantial margin.
00:37:27.080The reason we don't have a bigger majority, I think, is primarily because of the mechanics of voting.
00:37:31.500That's another topic for another time, a very important one.
00:37:34.060But regarding the economy, new news that came out just on Friday and over the weekend.
00:37:39.120And I think it's important for us to take a look.
00:37:40.720But let me show first, if I can, chart number one.
00:37:51.160Real wages were growing at a substantial clip, even before the problems of the CCP virus hit the United States and artificially halted the Trump boom 1.0.
00:38:01.820Unfortunately, since Joe Biden has taken office almost the entirety of his tenure in office, real wages, meaning your pay adjusted for the cost of the things you need in your life, real wages are falling now 19 months in a row, an all time worst ever record.
00:38:17.040You are working harder to get poorer every single day of your life.
00:38:21.240If we go to chart number two, now let's show this.
00:38:23.420This is a new data point, unfortunately, out from the University of Michigan.
00:38:27.660University of Michigan is the gold standard of consumer surveys.
00:38:30.900They've done consumer sentiment surveys going all the way back to almost World War II.
00:38:36.240And so far, its overall number, by the way, has been below 60 for seven straight months.
00:38:43.200The previous worst streak was in 1980 during the Carter days, and that was four months below 60.
00:38:48.260Now, this specifically is buying conditions for housing.
00:38:51.900So they're asking consumers, is this a good time to buy a house?
00:38:55.900As you can see from that chart, and that chart goes back 50 years, it is the worst time to buy a house in over a generation.
00:39:02.080The only time that we've been lower than this is the early 1980s.
00:39:06.060If we go to chart number three, a similar condition, but actually even worse for vehicles.
00:39:10.680So they said, is this a good time to buy a car?
00:39:13.860As you can see from that chart, that goes back 50 years, Steve, the worst time ever to buy a car in the United States.
00:39:21.200So my point here is that the economic situation continues to deteriorate and worsen in this country,
00:39:28.460which puts all the more onus on this incoming majority in the House.
00:39:32.800And I know it's a slim majority, but it's a majority nonetheless to hold the line on the economy.
00:39:38.020And I believe that that job one and two have to be control the border and unleash American energy.
00:39:43.600And they have to be willing to play brinkmanship with Joe Biden, because that's how serious the situation is for our country.
00:39:50.260We are losing our sovereignty at our border, and we are losing our prosperity because of this runaway inflation.
00:39:55.580Both of those issues can be solved or can begin actually the process of healing, of rectifying and fixing the mess that has been wrought by Joe Biden.
00:40:05.160But it's going to take incredible guts by the House caucus.
00:40:08.240They're going to have to be willing to toe the line and tell the Biden White House, we will not fund one of your initiatives.
00:40:14.100We will not raise the debt ceiling unless you, A, control the border, and B, unleash American energy, because we can't have this fall in real wages any longer.
00:40:24.100The American people are barely hanging on economically, particularly middle and lower income Americans.
00:40:29.700So all this focus is understandable on politics in the last week, but let's not lose sight of the economy.
00:40:35.540And this economy remains in absolutely dire condition.