After weeks of deal-making, House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy will find out today if his GOP colleagues will finally give him the speaker s gavel. But a small right-wing rebellion could keep him from claiming the gavel, and a group of more than a dozen conservatives have signaled their opposition.
00:05:08.420We're going to call a lot of audibles this morning as we're going to get people on phone and in and out of meetings.
00:05:15.480And we're going to try to get as many on here as possible.
00:05:17.560We may end up with nobody because it's pretty intense up there already starting at 9 o'clock.
00:05:22.120I want to go to Russ Vogt, though, who's going to help put us into perspective.
00:05:26.500Also, we have the Damar Hamlin situation from the University of Pittsburgh, Buffalo Bills safety, with this horrific incident last night on national television.
00:05:36.480We're going to try to frame that and make sure that that is explained to everybody.
00:05:41.240So we're going to have Dr. Maria Ryan on later.
00:05:43.680Dr. McCullough is going to join us at 5 o'clock.
00:05:45.780Hopefully, Dr. Malone and others are going to be on here.
00:05:49.420So we're going to be in and out with all of these breaking developments.
00:06:04.120Well, I think the problem with Kevin McCarthy's candidacy from day one is that he was the cartel candidate, that he'd been here for 14, 15 years.
00:06:12.660He's been in leadership since, I think, 2009.
00:06:14.820And the degree to which, at that point, you've lost the ability to have any kind of paradigm-shifting change that will allow us to save the country.
00:06:23.680And I think what the conservatives brought to him as late as last night was a set of reforms and expectations and commitments, both policy, procedural, and political, that would allow the cartel to change, even trying to negotiate with him.
00:06:41.500So they gave him a path forward to the speakership, but what would it have required him to do would have required to him to reject the cartel?
00:06:50.320And that is something that he could not do.
00:06:52.480And I think that is the central aspect of what needs to be used with this leverage point.
00:06:57.760And there's going to be a lot of noise today, and we'll unpack that.
00:07:00.480But this is about do we have fundamental paradigm-shifting change in this country in the way that Washington works?
00:07:07.120There's a leverage point for the conservative movement represented by House conservatives in the House of Representatives.
00:07:13.380It needs to be seized, and so far they're seizing it.
00:07:17.080I want to make sure everybody understands that you're going to hear this thing.
00:07:22.220The signal here is that this is going to the heart of the cartel system.
00:07:27.260Remember, when we started doing this, we talked about it before the election, but when we started really focusing on it after the election, people were laughing at us.
00:08:20.560You've got Eli Crane, who are all stepping up and being real heroes here.
00:08:23.400Then you've got Boebert and a couple of the stragglers that need to see massive rules changes, including the motion to vacate, or they're not in.
00:08:32.360This rounds up to 14, maybe as many as 18.
00:08:34.760So Kevin McCarthy, from the time that he, even the last number of years, but even from post-midterms, Russ, had weeks and weeks and weeks, and it looks like the number gets bigger every day.
00:08:45.560I want to go back to the construct that you laid out for people because everybody's picking it up now.
00:08:49.480What is the cartel, and why was what Gates and others did to have a paradigm shift?
00:08:58.240What's the cartel, and what's your definition of a paradigm shift as people look today and watch this?
00:09:03.840Yeah, the cartel is kind of the bipartisan uniparty, both in government and out of government, both nonprofits, off the hill, on the hill.
00:09:13.980The leaders that try to make decisions, K Street's a part of it, what they do is they want power to be exercised behind closed doors, not on the floor of the House and the Senate.
00:09:26.620They want massive opportunity to write the bills as they see fit in the administrative agencies.
00:09:32.620So it's a part of the administrative state as well.
00:09:34.780And what they do is they look, that's where power is exercised and wielded, but then they use these leverage points that they have to constitutionally to then pile drive the result into law.
00:09:52.740Anytime you have a conference meeting, Republican conference meeting, where these decisions are made, apparently, that is cartel governing.
00:10:19.460We're not going to save the country without a little bit of risk and a little bit allowing these things to play out before the American people.
00:10:28.820It will be how the founders intended these situations to work, and it will proceed along the lines of how House conservatives decide to dictate it based on who comes to the table and is willing to have paradigm-shifting change in this country.
00:10:45.560And so I want to go – it's about – and McCarthy put out this proposal the other day and signed it on Saturday.
00:10:54.520One is about the rules and actually how you govern and how you break the cartel.
00:10:58.900The second part is actually the content.
00:11:00.740And I want to make sure everybody understands.
00:11:03.840When you're hearing all the spin today, and even from Conservative Inc., and particularly from Fox, and we'll play Kilmeade's tirade in the B Block about this.
00:11:21.260There's three aspects of it, the administrative state, this leviathan that's been created that has to be taken down and taken apart, both the biomedical part of it, the national security part of it, just the welfare state part of it.
00:11:34.560Then you have the – what I call the fiscal domination, where they just pass these bills that cannot possibly be funded.
00:11:40.360And they go, oh, yeah, we're going to have a 10 percent increase in defense spending.
00:11:43.140We'll give you a 7 percent increase in social welfare spending, the fiscal domination.
00:11:46.960And then it's the Fed just continuing to print money.
00:11:49.160Russ, before we go to break, we've got a couple minutes, but I want you to walk through the audience because this is the fog of war right now.
00:11:56.680Why whatever outcome happens today, this is a massive victory for the right, even to be at this place and particularly to have these rules.
00:12:04.480We just had the House – we had the Club for Growth just come in, which is oftentimes opposite of MAGA, sometimes with MAGA, but they came in and 100 percent supported Scott Perry and the House Freedom Caucuses and Matt Gaetz's rule changes.
00:12:17.440So walk us through why this is a victory today for us and what are those key attributes of this victory.
00:12:23.260So if I was one of those members going to talk to Kevin McCarthy, I would be in a – I'm not voting for you because I think that you represent the cartel and we've got to start the negotiations with your successor.
00:12:33.560That said, even if they had accepted something based on what their final offer was, it would have been a massive victory versus where we were because they were saying we need three members or four members hard who are conservatives on the rules committee.
00:12:50.760And that's the kind of thing that breaks the cartel open.
00:12:54.060When you control the floor, you control the cartel.
00:12:57.220That's what this is procedurally about.
00:12:59.160It's not just about can you offer your amendment.
00:13:02.820But this is about the rules committee procedurally.
00:13:05.940Politically, it's don't go after members like Mary Miller in primaries.
00:13:09.620You try to say that you're representing all members, then you won't – you represent all members and you don't sick your leadership fund after Mary Miller and make her raise a gazillion dollars to have to fend off a moderate member within the conference.
00:13:23.440So there's all sorts of what this looks like.
00:13:27.000That – and that's if they had agreed to something last night.
00:13:30.760But now they're headed into the real high-stakes game on the floor, and I expect this to go for a number of votes.
00:13:38.880I expect McCarthy to really try to try to break the conservatives and expect that conservative Inc. will come to the rescue.
00:13:46.160And I think there's going to be a situation where we either get a speaker who has a desire to change the paradigm, and there are people like a Jim Jordan and Kevin Hearn.
00:13:57.080They will not come forward unless Kevin McCarthy is out.
00:14:01.520And so this whole notion of do you have your own candidate, it is a total shiny object to the conversation.
00:14:08.400And it's – anyone who says that is pushing a line on behalf of Kevin McCarthy's team.
00:14:23.520At 9 o'clock, what he had as Perry, he wanted the House Freedom Caucus to present to the entire country.
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00:16:08.280I want this audience to understand that that backfired.
00:16:11.360The Murdochs are in complete freakout mode.
00:16:13.580Remember, Paul Ryan sits on the board of News Corp and Fox News, and their selection is McCarthy.
00:16:23.220That is the corporatist media-controlled opposition.
00:16:26.260They are in complete panic mode, have been, since Sunday morning on Fox & Friends when the young host went after Matt Rosendale from Montana.
00:16:38.120And they've had Newt on there, and they're saying the five, the hard five, are psychopaths and pathological and, you know, the worst people in the world.
00:16:49.000Nothing could be farther from the truth.
00:16:51.600But here's the thing that happened yesterday, and this goes back to when I was running Breitbart in 15, when Megyn Kelly came and tried to kneecap Trump in that first debate.
00:17:02.400I mean, they did a whole PBS special years afterwards of which, you know, she had the big salt, you know, big crocodile tears, how bad it was.
00:17:08.800Because, yeah, we went after Fox and backed him off, said, you're not going to go do a drive-by on Trump from his, you know, Facebook account and Twitter account from years ago.
00:17:20.260Same thing's happened here in the last 72 hours.
00:17:22.480They have come in hard, and it's backfired.
00:17:24.980My understanding is that the calls are coming in 99 to 1, even in modest – because remember, even in these, quote-unquote, moderate districts, two-thirds of the base of the vote are MAGA.
00:19:21.180Because that's the end of a cartel government.
00:19:23.180And every opportunity to be able to win this debate, to explain to the American people what this debate is about throughout this day into tomorrow.
00:19:33.260I think that I've been through three of these.
00:19:35.480I've never seen the size and the commitment of the members publicly on day one heading into a vote as I do this morning.
00:19:44.440And so I think we're going to see that.
00:19:45.700I can't tell you how the day is going to go beyond that.
00:19:48.300But I think that this is going to be something where there are multiple votes, and I think you're going to have an ongoing debate in this country about how the cartel, is it going to go away?
00:19:59.000Or are we going to be able to change and have true structural reforms procedurally, politically, and policy?
00:20:08.720Let me go back to that because my understanding, particularly after the onslaught of calls, and people should understand, you should get your – and we'll put the number up.
00:20:18.300In the next segment of the call to house to make sure that your voice is heard because, trust me, they're listening because I heard there's a lot of people who said, hey, look, I'm with you for the first round, but I can't hang in there too long because I'm getting blown up back home.
00:20:29.300It's going 99 to 1 against McCarthy, right?
00:20:32.340People are just saying it's got to be a change.
00:20:52.680The option is to get off the floor and go in back to the locker room and fight it out there, bleed it out there, or continue to vote, right?
00:21:01.420I'm a big advocate of getting to the locker room and bleed it out there.
00:21:05.420You're saying you like the multiple votes because it will be up there as the cartel is trying to put pressure.
00:21:11.860You're actually going to see who stands and delivers and who craters.
00:21:15.180Do you think that McCarthy gets any stronger in a second or third ballot if it happens in succession?
00:21:21.960I think that he may, at the margins of one or two members, get slightly stronger, but the fundamentals will not help him on the floor.
00:21:31.160And this is what we've been saying on this program about the fundamentals from day one.
00:21:35.320The fundamentals are about the member and the voter.
00:21:37.860And the member has to stand up and say the words Kevin McCarthy after Andy Biggs has already gone and said Andy Biggs or Jim Jordan or someone else.
00:21:49.780They don't have the ability to explain that to their voters fundamentally.
00:21:54.240And so you're going to keep them on the floor of the House.
00:21:56.640You're going to keep them away from all of the fake news and conservative ink that's providing air cover to the American people.
00:22:03.180I don't think it's going to be something that strategically helps him in the way that he thinks it does.
00:22:09.800It's a show of force, but I think in of itself it's going to show how weak he is.
00:22:14.380This will go back to the locker room at some point, and they've got to sleep.
00:45:51.140It's almost, it's almost, it's almost, that's a, so it's almost a, the odds and the randomness.
00:45:57.100I believe there's been one time in National Football League history, I think it was the Lions versus the Bears, when Buckets played, back in the 70s.
00:46:31.380About 20% of athletes who have died, sudden death syndrome from myocarditis, had inflammation of the heart that disturbed the electrical rhythm.
00:46:42.320And it's just because some, you've seen it.
00:46:47.840But this gets back to the side effects of the vaccine.
00:46:52.820Because all the National Football League, I think, except for Aaron Rodgers, or just a handful of people, were bold enough to sit there and go, I don't know if I want to do this.
00:47:01.100But everybody else, and I think, I read last night that the bills, I think, are 100% vaccinated.
00:47:05.740What about the argument that Charlie Kirt and people are saying, you've got to consider the vaccine issues in this regard?
00:50:04.440This equipment, the AEDs, is this needed in more, I don't know, health clubs?
00:50:09.240Or is there a process to advocate that this needs to be installed and people need to be trained on it, like people are taught how to do CPR?
00:50:17.500My main reason for going on TV shows, radio, is often to teach, and this is a teachable thing about getting AEDs, automated external defibrillators, in most centers where people congregate, in malls, in airports, sports arena, because it saves lives.
00:50:41.640When anybody drops dead, and you don't know why, you get that AED on.
00:50:49.740And if it's not advised to shock, the machine won't shock.
00:50:54.080But it is one of the ways we save lives and immediate CPR.
00:50:59.560Maria, how do people follow you on social media and your podcast?
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