With no deal in sight on a deal to raise the U.S. debt ceiling, the prospect of a government shutdown looms. Will Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-California, or Democratic Sen. Patrick Toomey, D-Pa., be the one to break the impasse?
00:00:00.000Yellen says the U.S. government is now working under, quote, extraordinary measures to pay the nation's bills.
00:00:05.920Yellen predicting the U.S. will default on June 5th if Congress doesn't raise the debt limit.
00:00:11.140But with no compromise in sight, will Speaker McCarthy do what Speaker Boehner did in 2011 and compromise to avoid a global financial meltdown?
00:00:18.920Before retiring from the Senate, Pennsylvania's Pat Toomey was the top Republican on the Banking Committee and also serving on the Budget and Finance Committees and joins me now here in Washington.
00:00:31.280Congratulations for being out of the mess.
00:00:35.580You've graduated, but you have a wealth of experience in the House and the Senate with so much change.
00:00:42.100Can you see Kevin McCarthy with the deals that he has made to become Speaker after that, which you can only describe as a debacle of a week?
00:00:49.320That was hardly a great kickoff for the celebration of them taking over.
00:00:52.500With all of those deals, how does he make the kind of compromises that are almost unavoidable down the road?
00:01:00.660Yeah, so I'm not sure that the specific terms of the deal that got him his speakership were really all that unreasonable.
00:01:08.460In fact, I think many of them were not unreasonable to do individual appropriation bills, for instance, in some sequence rather than a multi-thousand page bill at the end of the year.
00:01:18.420That's completely reasonable, right, to have an open amendment process so that members have a chance to weigh in on the substance of the bill.
00:01:26.800The question, in my mind, becomes when Republicans attempt to do that, maybe they pass a bill in the House, but when it is unacceptable to the president, it's unacceptable to Chuck Schumer and Democrats in the Senate, and some negotiation has to occur, does the outcome of that negotiation precipitate the attempt to dethrone him from Speaker?
00:01:48.700Or will it be deemed acceptable that we put up the best fight we could, but after all, Democrats control two-thirds of the elected parts of government, so we're not going to win everything?
00:02:00.260And that's the question we haven't seen yet.
00:02:02.580Yeah, I mean, everyone has their principles, and as you point out, that a lot of those agreements were based on abuses that had been in effect.
00:02:11.260But what about the motion to vacate with just one person being able to trigger that?
00:02:14.940He's handcuffed himself in a lot of ways.
00:02:16.560So that's been in place many times in the past.
00:02:19.680It was just in a different political culture when it wouldn't occur to anyone to do it, and that's the kind of thing that I'm referring to.
00:02:25.960You know, if Leader McCarthy gives Republicans an opportunity to demonstrate their principles, passes what legislation he can, and then ends up having to negotiate something less than what's ideal from a Republican point of view,
00:02:40.740for the obvious reason that Republicans don't control all of government, does that precipitate the one individual?
00:02:48.440And by the way, that could come from the other side, right?
00:02:50.080A Democrat could decide to file the motion to vacate the chair.
00:02:53.780We'll see how people react when it comes to that, if it does.
00:02:59.140I mean, you've been raised in a culture of reasonableness.
00:03:03.800You know, when you know when you've lost a fight and when the government is going to default and it could precipitate a global meltdown,
00:04:52.980So the tax cuts of 2017 that you referred to as the Trump tax cuts ushered in tremendous economic growth, record low unemployment, wage gains that were outpacing inflation.
00:05:03.540And today, Andrea, the federal government's taking in more revenue, tax revenue, than was projected prior to the tax reform.
00:05:10.220So it's clear that the tax – and by the way, total revenue is above the historical average as a percentage of our economy.
00:05:18.300Corporate tax revenue above the historical average.
00:05:20.920So the tax reform of 2017 has been terrifically pro-growth and constructive.
00:06:43.420They may go up to a trillion this year.
00:06:44.740But there's plenty of cash coming in at all times to pay the interest payment and to pay any amount – face amount of the debt that has to be paid off.
00:06:51.860There is additional money, plenty of cash coming in to pay Social Security and Medicare.
00:07:05.760There's not – the only way it could be a default if the Secretary of the Treasury under Biden's guidance specifically deemed that she was going to default on the debt and that's on them.
00:07:20.140Number two, the word – wait for it – sustainability – this is not a – she tried to trap Toomey in everything.
00:07:55.480But I think he said a few interesting things.
00:07:57.520So we're sort of a very tough situation, right?
00:08:00.140The Republicans rightly are insisting now on massive spending cuts before they agree to raise the debt ceiling.
00:08:06.060What I find very odd is the position of the Biden administration, right?
00:08:10.580They're saying they're only willing to accept the debt ceiling hike without conditions that there will be no negotiation.
00:08:17.520Now, this may be a position, as the interviewer suggested, but for me, it's bizarre to come to the table with that mindset.
00:08:25.200Look, this isn't an argument about abortion or gun control, right?
00:08:29.000Whichever side of the fence you sit on, you stick to your perspective.
00:08:32.040We're talking here about fiscal discipline.
00:08:36.200This isn't a binary issue of principle.
00:08:38.800We're talking about balancing the books.
00:08:40.820And to come to the table unwilling to negotiate is bizarre and, quite frankly, an indefensible position.
00:08:47.260The Biden administration now are issuing no more than an ultimatum, demanding a blank check to spend taxpayer dollars completely uncontrolled.
00:34:36.140These guys are, you know, you talk about indigenous people.
00:34:38.600While Davos is going on, while these climate change Nazis are running around the world pretending that they care about the environment and the climate.
00:36:45.640All of the money that's coming down through Joe Biden and Secretary Mayorka's controlled flow process is going to the NGOs to increase the flow.
00:37:13.920I know you're going back in for some of the other tribes.
00:37:16.240But this is a tragedy, what's happening to this tribe, these indigenous people that are basically having their way of life destroyed by this.
00:38:23.380I really want to thank Mark Mitchell for coming on for Rasmussen.
00:38:27.140Your poll today, I think the numbers are pretty shocking.
00:38:30.080Walk through what you guys are finding out about polling the American people, what they think about border security, the invasion of the southern border.
00:38:37.520And I want to put this in perspective.
00:38:39.200There's a bunch of Republican senators right now working with Democrats.
00:38:42.760They went to the border about a week ago.
00:38:45.280The word up here is they're working on another amnesty plan, another amnesty plan.
00:38:49.480And a couple of these are people that President Trump endorsed.
00:38:52.660They've taken that endorsement, misused it, lied to voters, and now they're up here working on an amnesty program.
00:38:59.120The Senate, they're going to try to put forward.
00:39:31.620And even with legal immigration, they support lower levels of legal immigration.
00:39:36.380But that index has been tracking those views over the past two, two and a half years.
00:39:40.900And it's interesting to see how this swings.
00:39:43.160So people were a lot softer on immigration when Trump was in office.
00:39:46.300And the second that November 2020 happened, the index swung incredibly the other way.
00:39:52.780And it's been tracking in the mid to low 90s.
00:39:56.580And then over the last month has just broken down in a major way.
00:40:01.200So things that Americans have seen in the last, you know, two to four weeks are really driving opinions toward things like legal immigration much harder than they've been in the past.
00:40:13.780But some of the great numbers I have today are actually kind of about the next step, specifically about what's happening with Biden now and his document case gate.
00:40:24.380And also the next step, impeachment and what Americans think about that.
00:40:43.140Is that the events you think that even got people more focused on this and harder in their beliefs?
00:40:49.320I've noticed over the last really two months, a lack of sensitivity towards Biden approval to things that are happening in the news.
00:40:57.320I think part of that was there was just a huge, you know, sigh after November and people saying, you know, disengaging, having holidays, election cycle more so than that.
00:41:08.800And I don't think if it I don't think it's it certainly played in his favor.
00:41:12.600We didn't really see a bounce from his border trip.
00:41:14.780But if anything, the optics of that one specific picture of him on the wall, I don't think certainly helped him at all.
00:41:21.760And then really in the last three days, Biden approval has started plummeting.
00:41:26.940You know, I think we're down three points from where we were a week ago.
00:42:12.920We've had a couple of overnight 40 readings.
00:42:14.800And I think it's this document situation that's really, you know, it's sad to say it, but voters are pretty sensitized to the issues of classified documents being mishandled by people in D.C.
00:42:30.000And I'm really glad to come on and talk about this particular situation here because at the tender age of 22, I was cleared top secret PSYOP SCI.
00:42:40.560And that's the stuff where if you lose it, you're going to Leavenworth, right?
00:42:43.740And yet here we've had this issue come up multiple times.
00:42:48.540And if you remember, even before Trump, I'm sure you remember the days of the DOJ getting involved, the FBI getting involved in Hillary's email gate and famously coming out and making a statement.
00:43:00.000What was it, a week before the election?
00:43:02.240A lot of people, a lot of voters were really upset about that.
00:46:09.840You need to watch and go through all the clips we got in the commentary and analysis of the Joe Allen, our editor for all things transhumanism.
00:46:19.060Mark Mitchell, I'm going to turn it over to you.
00:46:29.960Yeah, I think there's a huge opportunity for public opinion to swing big here.
00:46:33.600So the first question, I want to run through three real quick, is we asked approval of Merrick Garland's investigation into Biden's handling classified documents at his home in Delaware in the office of the D.C. think tank.
00:46:46.300And voters, bipartisan, and overwhelmingly support the investigation.
00:46:51.600So 77% of Republicans, 74% of Democrats, and actually 81% of independents.
00:46:58.320And for Republicans, it's 57% strongly approved.
00:47:03.720So I think American voters do not like seeing classified documents mishandled.
00:47:09.500They expect better of their politicians in D.C.
00:47:12.860And even with the very, very, very poor view that Republicans have of the FBI and the Department of Justice, they're happy to see this thing go right on ahead.
00:47:22.940And even Democrats support Biden being investigated.
00:47:25.560Now, whether that's they think he has nothing to hide, whether that's they think the fix is in, I can't say.
00:47:32.360They have relatively very high opinions of the FBI and the DOJ right now.
00:47:37.220So but the other is we freshened up that question that we love to ask about how likely is it that since he became president, Joe Biden has committed high crimes and misdemeanors that would justify impeachment proceedings against him.
00:47:50.100And for the very first time, a small majority of Americans actually say it's likely.
00:49:35.020We post all our stories, all our videos, and then often things like firsthand accounts of actual election fraud because it's important to us as pollsters.
00:49:45.640Mark Mitchell, thank you for doing this blockbuster poll.
00:50:06.080I mean, this is the first March for Life in a post-Role America, and you play a big part in this reality.
00:50:12.700And it's something that a lot of Americans felt that was unbelievable.
00:50:15.000I've been coming here since I was really right when I got out of the military as a young infantryman in my 20s when my high school girlfriend's father beat her up and forced her to have an abortion.
00:50:24.280That's sort of my inciting incident into politics.
00:51:16.900What's your thoughts about this massive march that takes place versus what's happening in the states, sir?
00:51:21.840Well, this is, to me, my big thank you.
00:51:24.060But I think in future years, I'll be in blue states.
00:51:26.760The overturning of Roe v. Wade Dobbs was the first milestone into a culture of life.
00:51:30.740There are many, many more milestones to go.
00:51:33.020And I believe that it's going to be a rope-a-dope strategy.
00:51:37.700The next two or three years, we might take some knocks.
00:51:41.160But going forward in the next decade or so, I think we'll be leaving to our posterity a country where the most vulnerable members of the human family, the child in the womb, will be protected from violence from the very beginnings, the beginning of our biological beginning through life.