As the sun begins to set, the government begins to descend into a government shutdown at midnight on Saturday night. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.J.) and Katie Grisham (R-NY) join host Stephen K. Bodington (R) to discuss the latest on the situation.
00:03:50.000They're doing that because House Republicans say they need border security in a stopgap measure.
00:03:55.000They this is going to be a Herculean task, Katie, absolutely Herculean, to find something that can pass the Senate and that can pass the House.
00:04:03.000We're not only talking about border money. We're talking about reworking border policy.
00:04:08.000That's very difficult to do in such a short period of time.
00:04:12.000So that's what's happening right now in the Senate.
00:04:15.000The House is voting on for spending bills tonight.
00:04:48.000I don't see at this point any way that Congress is going to avert a government shutdown.
00:04:53.000Tell us about the meeting this morning with McCarthy, what he's telling his his conference and what he's getting into with someone like Matt Gates.
00:05:00.000Yeah, he's getting he's quite frankly, he's trying to tell them there's two things happening.
00:05:04.000Number one, he's trying to tell them to pass these spending bills so they have some leverage.
00:05:08.000That is, again, going to be difficult.
00:05:10.000They don't really want to give him much leverage for a host of reasons, both politically and policy wise.
00:05:15.000Then he got into a fight with Matt Gates.
00:05:18.000Matt Gates suggested that McCarthy was paying people to post nasty comments about him on the Internet.
00:05:25.000McCarthy said, Matt, I'm not even you know, I don't even think about you or pay attention to you and said, I'm trying to I've given five million dollars to Republicans to protect the majority.
00:07:13.000The day before it all blends together about them paying notorious LLC to do both to pay influencers to come out and say negative stuff about people.
00:07:23.000Also, we know they're doing push polls.
00:16:35.000Dr. Gorka, you have made this observation from the beginning about the messaging and narrative and how you have to put graphics up there and how you have to do timelines and we have to do critical path.
00:16:46.000You have to do things that in particular in your opening day of television that kind of frames it and allows those people that maybe are not, you know, war room aficionados or go to your show on a daily basis to to give them access to the information you're about to put out.
00:17:03.000Did you see any of your warnings heated, sir?
00:17:06.000Well, I thought you were a little bit worried in the break when you were like, what did you think about that, Seb?
00:17:13.000And then I told you offline what I thought about it using a little slightly colorful language.
00:17:56.000Number one, they didn't exactly have smart people on the Democrat side.
00:18:00.000Nobody's ever going to accuse AOC, Jamie Raskin or what's his face, the Levi Strauss heir from New York, of actually having three brain cells amongst them.
00:20:50.000And they've got people you've never heard of before who are sticking to a script, are acting it up, are getting emotional, are getting sound bites for C-SPAN, for MSNBC and whatever.
00:23:07.000Concentrate on the messages, the voicemails, the texts where Hunter Biden is at one and the same time bragging about, but also crapping his pants about the fact that he's, quote, in business with the effing spy chief of spy chief of China and that he's disappeared and he doesn't know whether they kidnapped him.
00:23:25.000I mean, could you could you imagine if we just spent four hours today on how is the son of the president admitting in voicemails that he's in business with the chief spy of communist China?
00:23:42.000That's something that no one can ignore because it's China and he's the spy chief and he actually has voicemails bragging about it.
00:23:53.000Now, that is what I would concentrate on.
00:23:56.000Concentrate on one maximum to kill shot facts about the corruption of Hunter Biden that are inextricably linked, not just to money and diamonds and Porsche SUVs, but linked to the national security and the undermining of our national security.
00:24:13.900You concentrate on two big things like that and maybe something that's kind of obvious, like why does a vice president have three government email accounts in fake names?
00:24:24.240And there's there's no photograph of Ivanka that's going to answer that question, Steve.
00:24:30.120They can't wriggle their way out of, well, Trump's a Nazi out of hang on.
00:24:34.940A vice president requests and is granted three pseudonymous email accounts on government servers.
00:25:26.180I'd go to a Hollywood prop store and I'd purchase the equivalent of one point three billion dollars worth of fake hundred dollar bills and I'd have the staffers pull them in on a pallet on an electric forklift truck.
00:25:44.520In the middle of the hearing, I'd say this is the amount of money, one point four billion dollars that a man who has no background in finance or in Asia got from the National Bank of Communist China after he flew to Beijing with his father on Air Force Two.
00:26:03.260And just ask the Democrats under what auspices and with what expertise did Hunter Biden, the crack addict kicked out of the Navy, get a one point four billion deal from communist China that Goldman, that Merrill Lynch, that the Bank of America could never, ever get.
00:26:28.500Seb, how do people get to all your content?
00:26:31.020Thank you for coming on today and really appreciate it.
00:26:33.640How do people get to all your different sites?
00:26:37.160We're everywhere except YouTube because there are a bunch of fascists.
00:26:40.920So just Seb Gorka or Sebastian Gorka on Truth Social, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Parler, Getter, Telegram, you name it.
00:26:47.820The website where you can listen to the show 24-7 is sebgorka.com.
00:26:52.380And then the Substack, I've got a brand new article on what I experienced of the deep state when I was in the White House working for you is at Sebastien Gorka, one word, sebastiengorka.substack.com.
00:27:15.460I don't want to be too harsh, but we have to have a partner's conversation.
00:27:19.960Right now, these patriots are over there getting chopped up, going through this appropriations process that we have not done since the mid-1990s and laying out and really talking.
00:31:05.080Yeah, I mean, they're feeling the heat like none other.
00:31:07.760I mean, Donald Trump is polling 56 percent plus as poll numbers continue to go up in this state.
00:31:13.920You would think they would have just a little bit of political savvy and realize that their constituents want them to take action against Fonnie Willis.
00:31:23.060That's what I've been calling for for the last month, calling for a special session, you know,
00:31:27.360with the effort to defund Fonnie Willis immediately, to investigate Fonnie Willis, you know,
00:31:32.480to put the pressure on her because my constituents don't want their tax dollars funding Fonnie Willis.
00:31:37.280But instead, that pressure was too hot for these Republicans, or rhinos is really what they are,
00:31:43.920and they've decided to oust me from the caucus.
00:31:46.680I've never felt more liberated, and I will continue fighting, being the most pro-MAGA senator this state's ever seen.
00:31:56.760So what action – I want to be very precise about this – what action did you call for that they have used against you to throw you out of the caucus?
00:32:06.540Because it's pretty extreme, you think, to throw a sitting state senator out of a caucus in the Republican Party.
00:32:15.220What did you specifically call for, and how did they effectuate this removal of you today?
00:32:23.020You know, they said some of the comments that I've made on your show before have caused threats to fellow senators.
00:32:29.720You know, I don't know what they define as threats.
00:32:32.940I haven't seen any evidence of anything they talk about there.
00:32:35.940Maybe their constituents calling up, demanding that they do something.
00:32:40.080You know, and ultimately, they were like, well, you know, you can stay in the caucus.
00:32:44.280We just need you to shut up and quit calling for the special session.
00:33:13.260We can look at the First Amendment and see that these individuals had a right to question the integrity of election.
00:33:18.460Now they've been taken political prisoner.
00:33:20.320And now, instead of taking out the enemy, Fonnie Willis, they're taking out the one senator who continues to push to defund and investigate Fonnie Willis.
00:33:32.140Did they, when they said threats, were they able to ever give you evidence of that, of how they've been threats?
00:33:37.940Or these were just people that called and said, hey, we need you to take some action?
00:33:42.120You know, that's all that we can assume because we've seen no evidence of whatever they mean by threats.
00:33:48.520And obviously, you know, their emotions are high across the board.
00:33:52.800I mean, Stephen, I've received plenty of unknown phone calls with crazy voicemails in the last month.
00:33:59.480I mean, we're fighting for freedom right now.
00:34:06.340I'm telling your constituents to call you and ask for the special session.
00:34:09.820But now you're just going to throw me out of the caucus.
00:34:12.940So, you know, now that I'm no longer a part of this rhino caucus, it leaves me free to start calling for primaries across the board.
00:34:20.140Because ultimately, this is all about Governor Kemp calling up his phonies, the rhinos in the Republican caucus, and saying, you got to oust Colton.
00:35:10.840When my fellow Republican senator is facing the rest of his life in prison, is going to spend upwards of a million dollars of treasure to defend his good name.
00:49:53.540Why don't you call up and have a conversation right now with your representative and find out how they're going to spend this weekend because the next hour we're going to break down everything that's going on real quickly.
00:50:02.380Natalie, Natalie, give me a minute or two on your assessment of what we sat through today.
00:50:14.880Well, Steve, I know you're already live for four hours today, but I think today really was rock bottom.
00:50:21.100We've hit the point where we need to bring back war room impeachment because our House Republicans don't know what they're doing at all.
00:50:28.420This was Kevin McCarthy's Hail Mary to try to convince us that we can't shut down the government.
00:50:34.160Frankly, I think this makes the case that we need to because they need to reassess.
00:50:38.020And Steve, honestly, the best part in the middle of the hearing, do you know what the House GOP tweets from their official Twitter account?
00:50:53.660When Democrats tried to intervene in the hearing within the first 30 minutes, trying to have a motion to have Rudy Giuliani as a witness, that was their big gotcha moment.
00:51:13.380But this was like ADHD, even for people who follow this story and know the tale of the Biden impeachment and the corruption from chapter and verse.
00:51:22.280Raheem and I broke these stories years ago.
00:51:24.920It was fundamentally unserious in the way it was delivered to the American people.
00:51:46.420I think they threw this together to try to make the case that we can't shut down the government because, you know, the low IQ grassroots, the war room posse just wants the red meat.
00:52:17.240You have a historic battle going on right now to finally have a full and frank conversation with the American people about the direction of the nation, the nation's finances, who's responsible for getting us here, and what's a path forward.
00:52:31.700And in that path forward, who's going to pay?