00:00:27.000I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience.
00:00:32.000Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose?
00:00:36.000If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.
00:00:43.000Warwick. Here's your host, Stephen K. Back.
00:00:51.000Seems to me that some of the same forces are at play here.
00:00:53.000A number of the Republicans who have hijacked this process are the same ones who supported the insurrectionists on January 6th, who tried to decertify Joe Biden's win.
00:01:03.000So doesn't this speak about whether it's McCarthy or not ends up the speaker?
00:01:08.000It's these sort of forces, dangerous forces that are still have so much sway in the Republican Party are going to be an issue for two years and beyond.
00:01:15.000I think it is is is very revealing that on the second anniversary of this insurrection, we're having this go down inside the Congress.
00:01:25.000And two years ago, these people tried to overthrow an election.
00:01:30.000And two years later, the same people that supported them and in some cases incited them are trying and clearly have held hostage to speakership and the Congress.
00:01:43.000We have no Congress. We have no Congress.
00:01:45.000And the irony is that Kevin McCarthy on that day two years ago that was screaming on a phone to Donald Trump and then later went and kissed his ring.
00:01:55.000You reap what you sow. You bow to these people that are now knocking you in the head and stealing your dream from you.
00:02:04.000These are the people that you did everything against what you stood for January 6th.
00:02:10.000And the reward you get is they've made you a laughing stock to the world.
00:02:15.000I mean, children in school will be saying I don't want to be Kevin McCarthy.
00:02:20.000Friday, 6th January, the year of our Lord, 2023, it is two years ago from the day that Judas Pence should have done his job.
00:02:30.000Remember, they stuck in that omnibus bill, the changes in the Electoral Count Act, because we were right.
00:02:37.000It went exactly like the process was supposed to.
00:02:40.000Pence, Judas Pence is the one that made a conscious decision not to follow the Electoral Count Act.
00:03:07.000But John Bresnahan, who's a savvy guy.
00:03:11.000I see him on MSNBC all the time knows the hill backwards and forwards.
00:03:15.000Not a friend of MAGA because there's been a lot.
00:03:18.000This is tweeting that there's been a lot of chatter this morning among House Republicans about freezing spending at fiscal year 2022 levels.
00:03:27.000OK, which was that out of control thing that just got the debacle.
00:03:33.000This will be an issue for defense hawks, but especially on appropriations and House Armed Services Committee.
00:04:50.000The other thing I'm hearing this from a lot of Wall Street guys, a lot of guys in corporations, particularly guys overseas, are saying, if he knew this was even coming up, why did he not put this to bed?
00:05:07.000What executive would allow this to happen when you're negotiating with a shotgun to your head and you're just giving everything away?
00:05:14.000Remember, one of the hardest things he's got is the moderates and the guys that are used to the swamp are sitting there going, you're putting the inmates in charge of the asylum.
00:05:24.000John Frederick, you become kind of the nihilist in chief because you just want to fight.
00:06:09.000These people that sit in these studios with these plush lounges with French press coffee and espresso and green rooms, they have no idea what's going on in America or what the grassroots think.
00:06:26.000This is a crossroads of our populist movement.
00:06:29.000This fight has inspired us like nothing I've ever seen.
00:06:32.000These 20 patriots, this isn't about a deal, Steve, on a piece of paper that somebody serves on a committee or somebody else is on appropriations or they can bring some bill to the floor.
00:07:15.000You can't come out waving a piece of paper and end this thing.
00:07:20.000The only answer is McCarthy is not the speaker because this is no longer about rules changes or any of the things they started to negotiate.
00:08:43.000And until you understand from a guttural level where we are in this movement right now, you grasp the fact that Chip Roy can't come out with a piece of paper that somebody signed because now it's fine because we're going to put Thomas Massey on a committee.
00:09:17.000The smell you're the smell that you're smelling is a napalm in the morning, and that's the smell of victory.
00:09:23.000And every time McCarthy goes down, it's another cheering section for us because we're finally winning and it's real and we feel it.
00:09:32.000You're saying the beginning of any real negotiation to move this thing for starts with McCarthy has to go.
00:09:41.000When McCarthy goes, then you can, this is what Russ Vogt started.
00:09:44.000When McCarthy goes, because he's the symbolic head of the cartel here now, and he's the last in the line of we got, we got the, we got Cantor, we got Boehner, we got Ryan, and he's the last of the four that he has to go.
00:10:01.000And then you can start a new day can dawn and you can get into conversations about meaningful reform, about how this has to open up and how you start to break the cartel.
00:10:11.500You break the cartel by taking out McCarthy.
00:10:14.000And if you're not prepared to do that, you're kidding yourself.
00:10:17.000It becomes another joke because look, we went through the removal of these people, of Boehner, of Ryan.
00:10:42.000And you're looking at this and saying, oh my God, this is what these people do.
00:10:46.000And they are so clueless because they still think they can get in a room and they can make some kind of a deal on a piece of paper that somebody will sign because they get something now they don't have.
00:15:22.000We got capital markets to go through an economy and also this talk about the, the, the debt ceiling and what they're talking about the, on the financial side.
00:15:29.000Cause they're already trying to do the bait and switch, but I want to go.
00:15:31.000We're very honored to have, and it's intense cause at noon, the curtain comes up on another day of drama on a historic day.
00:15:38.000Congressman Bob good from Virginia five congressman.
00:16:23.000It's kind of like the 12 o'clock high scene.
00:16:24.000I love to when, when, when Gregory Peck walks in there and goes, Hey, you guys got to understand you're all dead.
00:16:29.000And once you take that, once you understand that, then we're going to start making progress and dropping bombs over Nazi Germany until that time.
00:16:48.000Cause you're hearing the curtains about to come up the world.
00:16:51.000The world, you know, the entire world.
00:16:53.000And I can tell you, I talked to guys in Europe and Asia overnight, all night, and they're riveted by this because obviously it affects capital markets, the debt ceiling, the spending, all of it.
00:17:03.000So the whole world from Singapore to Hong Kong, Tokyo, Frankfurt, the city of London, everybody's watching this.
00:17:44.000And, of course, the detractors, oh, the world's falling apart because Congress has taken four days to make a very important decision.
00:17:50.000People aren't going to care in two weeks or six months how many days it took for us to get a speaker.
00:17:55.000And quite frankly, these last four days are probably the most productive or at least the least harmful four days I've spent in Congress in the two years I've been here because we haven't done anything to the country yet.
00:18:05.000And we're actually trying to do something for the country by trying to elect the best possible speaker.
00:18:11.000So the 20 of us need to hang together, continue to vote, continue to vote against Kevin McCarthy, continue to encourage our colleagues and your listeners out there, your audience, your viewers.
00:18:21.000They need to encourage their Congress members, their Republican members of Congress to join us, to increase the numbers, to get off the bench, get onto the field and help us to elect the best possible speaker.
00:19:28.000But for a host of reasons, they're not prepared to, they're not as, because we thought some guys were going to join yesterday, some men and women.
00:19:34.000But they're not prepared to pull the trigger because they're just taking, they're going to take too much heat from the lobbyists and quite frankly, from conservative media.
00:19:40.000I mean, Fox all day long is calling you insurrectionist, you know, obstructionist, all of that.
00:19:46.000Is that what's holding back additional people joining the 2020 patriots?
00:19:50.000I honestly believe the primary fear is from is from the very person that they're voting for.
00:19:56.000You break it down. Yes, there's other concerns.
00:20:00.000But the primary motivation is the very person that they're voting for, whether it's consequence or retaliation.
00:20:06.000If he ultimately were to become the speaker or whatever, you know, involvement they have in the status quo, whatever they stand to benefit from, from an assignment or leadership position or a promise of this or that.
00:20:19.000And I think it really boils down to Kevin McCarthy.
00:20:24.000The very reason why they're voting for Kevin McCarthy is for fear of not voting for Kevin McCarthy if he were to become speaker.
00:20:30.000But the way to ensure that doesn't happen is to have more members sustain this with us, add to our numbers and help us to accelerate the process of moving towards a speaker.
00:20:41.000What should happen is he should withdraw for the good of the country, the good of the Congress and the good of the Republican conference.
00:20:46.000Then let us go back into our conference meetings, put forth Jim Jordans, Byron Donalds, Kevin Hearn, some of the names that I put forth over these last three or four days.
00:21:51.000Also, for the constitutional conservatives here that you got McCarthy, but you also have these changes.
00:21:57.000And they're quite frankly breathtaking when you think of the way the place has worked.
00:22:01.000People have been trying to do this and talking about for 20 or 30 years.
00:22:05.000You guys have changes up there with McCarthy gone.
00:22:07.000If you trust me to implement them that are quite frankly breathtaking about getting to the heart of the cartel and not let them run the show, but let the representatives of the American people run the show.
00:22:29.000Can you imagine where we would be if we had just after the conference vote on November 15, seven days after the election, we just came out of that said, well, Kevin McCarthy got 188 votes.
00:22:41.000I guess that means he's entitled to 218 on the House floor.
00:22:44.000We all just have to fall in line like sheep and rubber stamp that and vote for that.
00:22:48.000And then, gosh, we'll hope and pray that somehow he'll be different than he's been for his entire political career.
00:22:52.000And somehow the swamp cartel and the establishment will all of a sudden become true, courageous, conservative patriot fighters all of a sudden to save the republic.
00:23:02.000They'll have some epiphany after we coronate the current leadership team.
00:23:08.000So, as you know, millions of Americans across the country are putting their hope and faith and trust that maybe Republicans are finally willing to fight, finally willing to do what the voters who sent us to Washington have asked us to do.
00:23:20.000And I just want to thank all those folks out who've expressed their support, their prayers, their encouragement.
00:23:28.000But if you live in a district where your Republican congressman has not come out and voted against Kevin McCarthy, I would certainly encourage you to reach out to them, let them know you want them to do that at noon today.
00:23:37.000By the way, the number is 202-225-3121.
00:23:42.000That is the main switchboard for the House of Representatives.
00:23:44.000They'll put you right through to your congressman.
00:23:46.000Or if you want to go to Congressman Gooden and show your support, make sure at 202-225-312.
00:23:51.000And we know that you're overwhelming with emails and calls because some people are cutting off their phones, just sending the voicemail, which is always a good sign.
00:23:58.000Congressman, I want to give some insight to behind the scenes because I know many of the actors here and there are many tough people.
00:24:06.000But they said they've never seen the knives out.
00:24:09.000They've never seen it as nasty as it's gotten in the last 48 hours.
00:24:12.000And it's only going to get nasty when the curtain rises the day at noon.
00:24:33.000But when you come out early and you let folks know where you stand and you know that you're not for sale and you know that you're not going to compromise, then they pretty much recognize that's where you are.
00:24:45.000But the pressure is going to increase if we don't hold this thing together.
00:24:50.000I think, you know, and what you've got among our group of 20, just to be totally transparent, some are, you know, they recognize that we cannot have the true transformational change that we need, no matter what agreements there are and what conditions there are and what rule changes and process changes, which should happen, quite frankly.
00:25:07.000And to the benefit of many of my colleagues, even more than myself, for sure, have worked on that for six months, and we're going to be in a better place with a better rules package, some changes to the structure and the system of how Congress operates.
00:25:18.000And those, but there's a portion of us certainly who recognize no matter what changes we make, without the right leader who believes in those changes and who's trustworthy and who's also the right kind of fighter when we only control one house of one of the three branches of government, then it's not sufficient just to make changes.
00:25:39.140There are others who, among our group of 20, and that's the concern here, who are more inclined to think if we get the right kind of changes with, you know, substantive restrictions or controls or enforcements of those changes is probably a better word, then we could stomach, you know, keeping the current leadership.
00:25:59.860I'm not going to vote for Kevin McCarthy, but we need to hold strong and all vote against him.
00:26:04.320And I'm telling them that even for them, from a leveraged negotiation standpoint, you're a lot stronger the more you keep voting against McCarthy.
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00:29:42.940Because the big, and people think that this is a fight, and this is a huge fight, because you've got to continue saying, hey, look, until the cartel head goes, it can't.
00:29:51.260Then you've got others saying, look, we've got a historic chance here to have transformational policies if we can trust them.
00:30:06.960Even McCarthy goes to this conference call immediately, immediately, the guys in the conference call leak out because they want to have a baseline of fiscal year 22 for spending.
00:30:19.480And the defense guys, the House Armed Services Committee and the defense appropriator are saying, well, hey, hang on for a second.
00:30:27.720Is the fights for money here going to overwhelm the system this year?
00:30:33.640And how important, when you rank order everything that has to happen, is the fights about spending, the debt limit, and the money that feeds the apparatus, sir?
00:30:42.880Steve, I think the only fight that is more important, but of course they're interrelated, is the border.
00:30:48.160Next to reclaiming the sovereignty of this great republic, controlling the border once again, the second most important fight immediately after that is indeed overspending.
00:30:56.880And you're right, you know, of course, the defense firms, the defense lobbyists are starting to circle already, even during this House leadership fight.
00:31:04.760And I think it's important, by the way, for those of us on the right, you know, we quite correctly have great reverence for the United States military and for the men and women who put on a uniform and risk their lives.
00:31:14.500But we need to realize a couple of things. Number one, we need to fall out of love with the defense budget, which is massively too bloated and which finances endless wars and interventions all over the world that do not serve an America first foreign policy vision of realism and restraint.
00:31:29.920Secondly, we need to come to terms with the reality that the hierarchy of the U.S. military, both in uniform as well as civilian, is incredibly infected by corrupt wokeness.
00:31:40.000And they are not in any sense our allies, quite the opposite, in fact.
00:31:43.900So part of getting our fiscal house in order is absolutely prudently cutting the defense budget, something that conservatives, something that the right needs to be championing going forward.
00:31:54.400And I think will, you know, to your point, too, Steve, I want to make this point to the audience out there, this suggestion to them.
00:31:59.980A lot of folks in permanent Washington keep trying to tell us that this struggle that's going on in Washington, D.C. this week, that it's somehow embarrassing.
00:32:07.000I find it anything but embarrassing. As a matter of fact, I think it is both illuminating as well as very motivating.
00:32:13.080This is exactly the kind of fight on principle that we should be having.
00:32:17.380This is a family disagreement of people who are ideologically aligned on both sides, who disagree on this leadership battle and disagree on some of the specifics.
00:32:26.420And it seems, it seems, we'll see what happens, that they're coming to an agreement with some really historic changes, particularly as it pertains to the rules of the House and how it has worked.
00:32:36.300And if we can get back to a place of regular order, or at least a path toward regular order, that would be a massive win for the right, regardless of who the speaker is.
00:32:46.820But also, Steve, regardless of who the speaker is, you know, to your point about the economy, yes, we cannot sustain these deficits any longer.
00:32:54.220We got away with this fiscal profligacy, with this exorbitant borrowing and spending for many years because of artificially low interest rates, because of interest rate suppression, financial domination from central banks globally.
00:33:06.580We don't have that luxury anymore, largely because Joe Biden blew up, let the inflation genie out of the bottle, and that genie is not going back in.
00:33:14.360So with interest rates soaring, we simply cannot afford the profligacy anymore.
00:33:20.140The reason you can't afford it, the defense budget is $848 billion.
00:33:25.240We've got to get savvier about how we fight.
00:33:27.200And you can't, the kinetic war aspect of this, you've got to get savvier about how you fight.
00:33:31.800But what nobody's talking about is that the interest payment is going to get rapidly to $1 trillion annually, $1 trillion just paying the interest.
00:33:40.860Cortez, not even taking into account your border fight, we're pressed for time, but I've got to have you review what Biden said yesterday and the proposals they're putting forward are so radical as to, I mean, Todd Benzman can barely comprehend how radical what these guys are doing.
00:33:56.560They're not doubling down on the invasion of the southern border, ladies and gentlemen.
00:33:59.940They're tripling down, tripling down prime.
00:34:04.240So realize what Biden suggested, what he promoted yesterday, is effectively, instead of the chaotic scene, because they don't like the optics at the border and they know it doesn't serve their interest anymore of effectively an open border, they'd like to streamline it and they'd like to have it happen via an app in Mexico.
00:34:21.900So we are going to pre-legalize illegal migrants, uninvited, unvetted economic migrants who are posing as asylum seekers, who are abusing the generosity of the United States.
00:34:33.360We are going to, via an app in Mexico, pre-legalize them so that they can come in in a slightly more orderly fashion and so that the optics are improved.
00:34:43.800So not only is this not an actual reform, is this not a movement toward regaining the sovereignty of the United States, it is a move actually in the exact opposite direction.
00:34:53.220This will lead to even more of this human tsunami of trespassing into our country at a time, by the way, to connect us back to the economy.
00:35:00.920That's a bad idea at any time, Steve, to surrender the sovereignty of the United States.
00:35:05.120But a time of economic, great economic distress in this country, when real wages for American citizens, and we got out some terrible wage data just this morning in the jobs report, at a time when real wages are crashing for 20 straight months, the longest streak in all of American history.
00:35:22.300That is the worst possible moment to then invite in, incentivize in, and streamline the process to welcome in millions of new workers to compete illegally and unjustly in the labor market against American citizens, further depressing those wages.
00:35:39.700He's trying to improve the optics, but if anything, his new tactics will actually increase the flow of illegals into this country.
00:35:48.500To me, this is job one for the speaker, whomever the speaker is, and the speaker must use the debt ceiling as the leverage point, as the pressure point to insist that we once again regain our sovereignty over this country.
00:36:00.900Steve, we've got other stuff to go through with you and charts and stuff, but I want to get to that later.
00:36:04.140How do people get to you on social media and follow you and follow all your analysis on your sub stack?
00:36:32.780Madison, you've seen the swamp in action.
00:36:36.420Can you explain to our audience what's actually going on here in this drama that the curtain is going to come up in about, what, 10 or 15 minutes, sir?
00:36:45.060So, Steve, in reality, you hear a lot of conservative and Republican pundits right now on Fox News and others across the bandwidth talking about how Republican agenda is going to stall out if somehow we don't get this speaker elected and get the House working forward again.
00:37:02.400But the problem with this entire thing is I believe it's a misconception that people believe that the U.S. House is working on behalf of the American people.
00:37:10.300I mean, you see what's going on when we have these ridiculous omnibus packages, $1.7 trillion being spent.
00:37:17.260It's being in the guise of a must-pass bill.
00:37:20.120So, you know, I really have my hat off to these 20 brave conservatives who are coming out and saying, you know what, we cannot continue doing business as usual.
00:37:27.700I mean, you look at the rules of the Senate.
00:37:30.420But when you look through the way that the House was set up, you see that the idea of it was to be a reflection of what the American people want.
00:37:36.260And right now the American people don't want a coronation of just more of a status quo.
00:37:40.360So what's going on behind the scenes right now is, one, we're either going to get a great speaker of the House, someone like Byron Donaldson, one of my good friends who I think would make a great speaker, someone like Kevin Curran or the great Jim Jordan.
00:37:50.820Or we're going to have a rules package come forth that's going to put the new speaker, Kevin McCarthy, in a straitjacket where he actually has to abide by the rules of the party and of the people.
00:38:01.020And so a lot of people are sitting there asking, well, what does this really mean?
00:38:04.720So in Congress, you can remove a speaker of the House.
00:38:08.200This was done by Mark Meadows and John Bader very famously when he made a motion to vacate the chair.
00:38:12.760And it was a really incredible move that actually gave us a new speaker.
00:38:15.980Unfortunately, we got Paul Ryan who didn't seem to do any better.
00:38:19.100But if they remove this rule as Pelosi did after John Bader lost the majority, what's going to happen is Kevin McCarthy can just run roughshod and do whatever he wants.
00:38:28.720And I really want to fire back to this idea that the Republican agenda is going to stall out.
00:38:34.440My friends, the Republican agenda is not going to take hold if we don't have a conservative speaker or someone who actually sits there and says, yes, we are going to use our powers of subpoena.
00:38:45.040We're going to use investigation power to start looking into the DOJ weaponization, to start looking into what happened with COVID, to start looking into what happened with the 2020 election,
00:38:53.000to start figuring out why is the FBI allowed to run rampant as Gustavo over the American people.
00:38:59.580And so what's going on with these 20 right now is they are facing intense pressure.
00:39:06.820There are incredible threats being levied out of them.
00:39:09.440One, they might be removed from committees.
00:39:11.200Other ones, that it's going to ruin their personal life.
00:39:13.280They might be going after their family members in their workplace.
00:39:16.000This is a very serious task of their undertaking, and it should not be taken lightly.
00:39:20.420But what's going on behind the scenes right now, Steve, is there's a rules package trying to be hammered out.
00:39:25.360And if they get one in writing, I believe that Kevin McCarthy will be able to get to 218.
00:39:29.700But I'm telling you, we know that Kevin McCarthy worked in secret to oust a lot of Republicans and conservatives from Congress who were running in the 2022 cycle, which is why we have such a narrow majority.
00:39:39.680And so if he's willing to do that politically, imagine what he's willing to do with policy to sneakily work behind the backs of his members to run a quick one with Mitch McConnell and Joe Biden to rob from the American people.
00:39:54.420Madison, talk about that behind the scenes, the intensity of what's going on today, because I think people – I mean, these patriots are up there.
00:40:01.480By the way, 202-225-3121, you can call and tell them that you have their back.
00:40:08.120You can give them support by your emails, obviously your prayers, but your calls.
00:40:11.760So their office knows you have their back.
00:40:15.320You know when they come for you, they come for you.
00:40:17.360Tell us what's happening behind the scenes and how intense, how mean-spirited this is.
00:40:22.900So what's going on on the floor when you're watching on C-SPAN, you'll see what's called the WIP team, the people who work for whoever the WIP is, running around trying to tally votes like crazy.
00:40:32.260They'll be asking people walking up to on the floor, say, hey, how are you voting on this?
00:40:40.720But if for some reason today on the 11th ballot they were not actually able to get to 218, when they leave from there, what's going on behind the scenes is there are a lot of closed-door meetings.
00:40:51.600And it's really not usually member-to-member.
00:40:53.660It's normally some kind of an agent of the leadership that goes to your chief of staff to talk to them really behind closed doors or closed doors and say, hey, well, one, we can either give you this committee if you want to do this.
00:41:05.920We can make sure your fundraising works out really well.
00:41:07.920Or, two, we can leak this story, this story, and this story to all the press.
00:41:12.880You know, the GOP does run a lot of cover for members of Congress trying to squash a lot of stories.
00:41:17.900But then they use that as leverage over these Republican members of Congress to say, if you don't fall in line, we're going to use these negative stories to hurt you at home, to hurt your credibility, to destroy you and make your life terrible.
00:41:31.500We're going to take a short commercial break.
00:41:32.720Madison Carthorant joins us, someone who's seen the inside of the belly of the beast.
00:41:37.000Fox News is reporting, just broke, headline, item, headline, McCarthy fails to reach deal with opponents as scheduled noon vote approaches.
00:41:49.480Also, we're seeing on Twitter from the team over at Punchbowl that the Democrats are adamant they're not going to adjourn.
00:41:56.700You want to vote, you're going to vote.
00:41:58.800So, this is going to get a little intense and nasty, even from the get-go.
00:42:03.700We're going to take a short commercial break here in the war room.
00:42:06.760We're going to return with Madison Carthorant, and I'm trying to track down the great Darren Beattie of Revolver.
00:45:33.780You've done more than any one journalist out there.
00:45:36.680Julie Kelly's done a fantastic job, also American Greatness.
00:45:40.780But Revolver, as a platform, has done more about exposing what really happened on 6th January of, what, 2021.
00:45:48.900Tell us about – it's ironic today, sir, that in nine minutes – and by the way, you're going to see a lot of pontificating by the left today.
00:45:56.980Those votes are going to go a lot slower.
00:45:58.540I think everybody will make a speech when they vote.
00:46:00.580So the first vote, I think, could take you hours if they get to it.
00:46:04.060And that's one of the reasons the Democrats ain't going to adjourn.
00:46:19.380Well, it really is a historic day because it marks really something of an inflection point in the relationship between the intelligence community, the federal government, the American people.
00:46:30.160There's a reason we call it the Fed's erection.
00:46:33.460And if any of your listeners need to be reminded, we've got the classic Ray Epps piece right up at revolver.news, which is even more pressing now in light of the absolutely embarrassing transcript released of the J6 committee's interview with Ray Epps.
00:46:51.280We can get into this another time, but it's absolutely astonishing to see Adam Kinzinger being more of an aggressive advocate for Epps than Epps' own lawyer, who happens to be a nine-year veteran of the Phoenix field office of the FBI.
00:47:10.040Another thing up at revolver.news, they mentioned there was a big interview I did with Trump, and we get into Ray Epps in January 6th extensively.
00:47:19.460It is by far the most extensive conversation Trump has had on record on the topic of the Fed's erection, Ray Epps, Jake Sullivan, and others.
00:47:30.220So I highly recommend everyone go there right now and watch it.
00:47:34.700By the way, the interview is incredible, and we're going to put it up.
00:47:38.120It's just been so overwhelmed with what's going on.
00:47:39.940But the interview is, I think, one of the best interviews the president's ever given because of the sharp questioning by you.
00:47:46.060And before we go today, and I'm going to ask you to come back at 5 o'clock for analysis of what happened today, some inside baseball.
00:47:53.300The church committee that I first advocated for and then revolver picked up as a mantra, one of the big hang-ups in even getting to a package.
00:48:01.020The thing – they didn't even water down the financial parts, which they tried to.
00:48:15.820The thing they watered down the most, and the guy said it first, I heard absolutely no way.
00:48:19.680That's not good enough, was the church committee.
00:48:22.560The Republican establishment is absolutely terrified of going after the administrative state and the rogue elements of the deep state, and now it's been proven.
00:48:32.260They don't want to do this committee, right?
00:48:34.760If they do it, they want to be just like Benghazi.
00:48:40.400How do we stop – first off, do you agree with how nervous they are?
00:48:44.440Because today they're saying one of the reasons they couldn't get close to an agreement, the church committee has already been watered down.
00:48:51.200Why are they doing that, Darren Beattie?
00:48:53.600I mean, I agree with that 100 percent because nothing real is ever supposed to happen in Washington.
00:49:00.340Nothing real is ever supposed to happen.
00:49:03.840And if something real happens, it's by accident.
00:49:07.600Or, in some cases, they're bullied extensively into doing the right thing.
00:49:14.140The only way they're going to do anything is we keep bullying them viciously, consistently, persistently.
00:49:20.780That's the only way they're going to do anything right because they would love to move on, move on to the next charade, move on to the next fake scandal with AOC or whatever else.
00:49:31.980They don't want to touch the issue of the intelligence community's malfeasance and crimes, definitely not in relation to January 6th.
00:49:50.780The church committee, there was public pressure in the aftermath of Watergate and other things that enabled the church committee to happen.
00:49:59.240You know, there wasn't a break-in at the DNC, but there was a fake pipe bomb planted at the DNC, and the Democrats don't want to know who did it for whatever reason.
00:50:10.920BD's putting so much pressure, they raised it to a million dollars, I think.
00:50:19.000Darren, I'm going to get you back this afternoon.
00:50:20.780If it was not for Revolver, brother, we would not be here today.
00:50:25.060I'm telling you, that's how important your news platform is.
00:50:27.500The smartness, the incisive nature of your investigative reporting, your aggregation is incredible, and you're a true patriot.
00:50:35.520And this is why so many of the fighters that are at the lead of this 20 are not just devotees of Revolver, but are featured in many of the stories.
00:50:45.360We'll get you back on here because there's so much to go through, but this fight is going to be intense.
00:50:49.820And a lot of people are saying, hey, until McCarthy's removed, we can't have a real conversation.
00:50:55.100Darren Beattie, what's your social media?
00:50:56.320How do people get to Revolver before we get you back on here?
00:50:59.420At Darren J. Beattie on Twitter, revolver.news.
00:51:02.820We've got the Epps Classic, and we've got Trump's remarks on Epps, and also Trump's remarks on John Bolton, who announced his candidacy today.