WarRoom Battleground EP 518: Johnson Working Behind Closed Doors Against Americans
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Join us for a special edition of War Room Battle, featuring special guest Russ Vogt of MTG and special guest Rep. Russ Green (R-GA) as they discuss the Democratic leadership change in the House of Representatives, which has never been done before in history.
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this is what you're fighting for I mean every day you're out there what they're doing is blowing
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people off if you continue to look the other way and shut up then the oppressors the
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authoritarians get total control and total power because this is just like in Arizona this is just
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like in Georgia it's another element that backs them into a quarter and shows their lies and
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misrepresentations is why this audience is going to have to get engaged as we've told you this is the
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fight all this nonsense all this spin they can't handle the truth war room battleground here's your
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host Stephen K Bannon it's Friday 19 April year of our Lord 2024 very special edition here at six
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o'clock want to thank Natalie and the team for everything at five we've got Russ Vogt MTG is
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going to join us momentarily can we put in a perspective today and let's get into the details
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right because I think people are so shocked we left Las Vegas right after you and Chip had been
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there and we had great presentations of what people are doing on the ground to make sure that we not
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just win with President Trump but that there's congressional you know seats up in the air people
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everybody's focused everybody's fighting and then in the middle of the night in a rules committee they turn
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it totally over to the Democrats which has never been done before in history and then today you see
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although it's an impressive number given where people normally on rules with 55 you had 151 so walk us
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through what happened in the middle of the night how did we get into this position so what happened
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yesterday was that the Democrats provided the critical support necessary in the rules committee
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to be able to get it out of committee and remember we've been previewing on this show that you know
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we didn't think we were going to be able to necessarily stop it in rules and the fact that
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there was a debate on it I think was progress you had the three conservatives that were put on there
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to be part of a coalitional government with conservatives they vote against that it goes to the floor
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um that is something but the deal at the beginning if those three vote against it it can't come out of
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rules it doesn't go to the floor that was our control that is a violation the reason as audience
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we fought all these kind of technical issues is that you have procedural stuff that can block policy
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stuff beforehand and that rules was like sacrosanct exactly so just for a little bit of wide angle
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history since 1961 the rules committee has become more and more the speakers committee it has been
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even to the extent of you know anyone who gets a committee chairman is is playing ball with with
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the leadership the rules committee was handpicked all of the rules committee members were the most
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loyal to the elected leadership and to the fact that they were used to say in the in the old days
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even a year ago that if you give me policy and you give me procedure give me rules committee
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I'll control what comes out exactly john dingle the longest serving member I think and potentially until
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young might have passed him but dingle said if I get procedure and you get policy I win every time
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that's the nature of the rules committee because in this in the senate you have every member has their
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own procedural authority it's called the ability to filibuster in the house the rules committee sets
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up its own process for every major bill with one major exception called the suspension calendar but those
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rules are everything and so we are seeing the most procedurally dishonest rule that I have seen in
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my time which is an attempt to tell the American people that these are individual votes and then to have
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individual votes on them and then to merge them back that is totally on dishonest that is allowed by a
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rules committee that is doing what johnson wants to merge them back because then it goes to the senate as a package
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and it kind of comports with what the senate does it they they give a quick and dirty it goes right to
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biden he signs it it's in it's it's a way basically to end run not simply maga but other the conservative
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nature of the house oh congressman green okay let's i got rust vote he's gonna stick with us
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congressman green congressman we want to spend right now you walking through the motion to vacate
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obviously the argument being used against you is that this is not just going to cause further chaos
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but we're going to risk turning it over to hakeem jeffries now i would argue hakeem jeffries already
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runs the floor but answer the two arguments walk through your process as best as you can see it now
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given the fact there are a lot of people saying hey we're going to risk hakeem jeffries being speaker
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the house that would destroy everything we're working on to get president trump re-elected
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yeah no i would argue that that what will destroy our our ability to elect a republican controlled house
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next cycle is for republicans in the house to fail their voters we know republican voters are going to
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turn out for president trump there is no doubt that is going to happen they are absolutely showing up
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and checking the box checking the box for donald j trump for president uh in november of 2024
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what we're really concerned and what people should be terrified of happening is that because of the
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poor performance and the betrayal of speaker johnson is that after after voters show up and check the box
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for donald john trump they're going to skip things down ballot and they are specifically going to skip
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whoever the house rep is there whoever that republican name is because of the failure from
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the republican majority that's happening in front of them right now this house majority has given
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voters every single reason to say they cannot trust them to say that we can't trust republicans in the
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house to do anything right republican majority last time they had it under paul ryan they failed to
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pass president trump's agenda and now we're watching a republican majority that i i am a member of
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absolutely betray voters historically uh in a way we've never seen before at least in my lifetime i've
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never seen this before steve and and it's it's truly terrifying but if i can weigh in i'd like to talk to
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you about hang on hang on hang on hang on one second right yeah i just want to russ vote just made the
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comment that this is the most dishonest rule that's ever been passed and the reason is is that they're
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going through all these perturbations because all they intend to do is merge everything back into the
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senate bill and get it to biden as quickly as possible is that your is that is that is that your
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view can you take a second explain that to the audience yes i want to i'm about to say something
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that's going to be shocking to everyone now how this whole foreign aid package started out it started
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with a bill hr hr 815 do you see this bill this this was a house uh bill that was passed last year
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hr 815 yeah uh-huh and i want to tell you what the title of it is this is to make certain improvements
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relating to the eligibility of veterans to receive reimbursement for emergency treatment furnished
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through the veterans community care program and for other purposes this started out as a veteran
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health care bill and we all voted for it i voted for this and and so did other republicans and it passed
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in the house and then it went to the senate and this is when it completely changed over in the senate the
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democrats and the senate stripped all the language out of hr 15 and they inserted the senate's foreign
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aid package the the 61 billion dollars for ukraine all of the things that that we are against happening
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right now they inserted that language in the bill and they sent it back to the house and that's where it
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went to the rules committee last night and everything's changed they added the tick tock ban bill but they
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also added something called the repo act and i want to tell you about the repo act this is extremely
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dangerous the repo act would make it permanent the biden administration's sanctions on russia
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completely permanent there's no sunset in the repo act so if president trump is in the white house and
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he is trying to negotiate peace between ukraine and russia this totally ties his hands behind his back
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and he's not able to make any sort of deal for a peace agreement with ukraine um again it would
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in a trump administration it makes the biden administration sanctions permanent with no sunset
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date and now if president trump tries to work away around this clause in the repo act or tries to
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try to go around it in any way democrats will use that because past performance is a guarantee of future
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behavior the democrats could likely use that as some sort of crazy evidence to claim russian collusion
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again and then here we go again with a possible impeachment that is if democrats were to control the
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house so there's so much danger that happened uh in this entire scam this is a scam on the american
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people speaker johnson literally gave chuck schumer and the democrats in the senate full control over
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passage of this bill that's america lasts like like something we've never seen
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has that been explained has that been explained to any of the members of the conference understand that
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what they actually were allowing to come to the floor or is that kind of more of this uh hide the
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football you know what i i honestly don't know if they even have a clue what's going on so many of
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them skipped town and and and went home last night uh to whatever they were going home for
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a lot of them weren't here earlier in the day we when we tried to vote down this this rule and block
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it and and so i i don't know where they are i don't know what they know i don't know what they don't
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know but it's it's shocking everyone should know this and and so i'm trying to tell people um other
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members that do understand it other conservatives are trying to tell people but here we are it's
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practically too late the rule passed earlier today and now tomorrow we're going to be voting on on the
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betrayal this is this is the betrayal of the american people and steve it all started out
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as a veterans a united states veterans health care bill
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just one more time i want to explain that to people about how they did hide the football or and
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switched in the dark of night i also want you to take another minute and explain this repo of how
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this is another way they're trying to handcuff president trump this is uh this is hr 815
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anyone can look up the original bill online and you can go to congress congress.gov and look it up
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it originally started out as a veterans health care bill to make certain improvements relating to the
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eligibility of veterans to receive reimbursement for emergency treatment furnished through the
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veterans community care program i voted for this i thought it was a great bill republicans voted for
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it it passed the house earlier last year it went to the senate and this is the this is what the senate used
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and stripped the language out of hr 15 totally took everything out for veterans completely gone and they
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filled it with all of the funding and the policy for foreign wars not for america not to defend our
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country not to do anything for people in lahaina or people in east palestine or to secure our southern border
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or to help veterans in any way shape or form they filled it with all the funding for the foreign wars
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sixty one billion dollars for ukraine then they sent it back over to the house and this is where
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johnson's team and the people here in the house worked together behind closed doors and they worked with the
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rules committee the democrats on the rules committee to create a new rule and they added in other things
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like the tiktok ban and they added in something called the repo act the repo act has a dangerous clause in
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there where it makes the biden administration sanctions on russia permanent with no sunset clause
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so president trump next administration could not it ties his hands to be able to negotiate a peace
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resolution between ukraine and russia peace is what the ukrainian people need they don't need more war
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but this repo act that johnson speaker johnson the republican elected speaker has made sure made sure and he
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made a deal with democrats to get it done he made sure it passed through the rules committee last
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night in the dark of night after midnight and he made that deal and we know he made a deal because
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every democrat on the rules committee voted for it democrats on the rules committee never vote for
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republican rules that is not done ever and vice versa republicans on the rules committee never vote for
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democrat rules when the democrats are in charge like they were last congress however this time for the
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first time in known history the democrats voted for this rule because it had this guarantee in there
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and now tomorrow they've already passed this rule on the house floor it already passed now tomorrow we have a
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final vote on this these four separate bills that will be packaged back together as one package and sent back
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to the senate and it's the most dangerous thing for president trump it's the most dangerous thing uh this
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could this could fuel world war three because it fuels world wars it it funds 61 billion dollars to ukraine
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but it does have that nasty uh little poison pill in there that could grow to a monster because we know
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democrats past behavior from democrats is a guarantee for future performance and democrats they never come up
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with any new tricks so we could see this being russia russia russia again uh if president trump is in
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the white house and tries to actually bring world peace given i realize it's it's it's people are
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hesitant to vote against rules in the general on the floor and fisa is a perfect example of that but given
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what they did in the middle of the night given what you've just exposed what they've done about stripping
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out the veterans and dumping this in given so much of like the repo act that has not been explained to
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even members of the conference why is your belief that 151 because as you know we've been winning the
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majority of the majority and using that as a very powerful argument to say hey you're going against the
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conference why in your mind did the conference almost overwhelmingly vote to allow this fiasco to go
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forward well let's go back to the the real trick in there steve and i think this is one of the dirtiest
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tricks at all as a matter of fact i had tweeted it out uh literally before israel was attacked by iran
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last week and and the trick was this for an entire week everyone in washington dc knew that iran was about
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to attack israel and they talked about it and talked about it but yet speaker johnson did nothing
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he literally waited he didn't pack the aid he didn't pass an aid package for israel he held that
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as a as a really dirty trick in his pocket sort of like an ace you know when you're making a play
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when you're playing cards he held that ace in his pocket waited for israel to be attacked by iran so
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that he could pair that ace with the joker ukraine and they put he put those two together to pressure
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republicans to vote for this you know there's many good people in the republican party there's
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many christians and they and they feel that they have to um vote no matter what to fund israel with
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anything they need and of course we support israel they are our ally we never want to see them
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attacked we we we stand with israel but it was a real dirty trick to put those two together and so
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i think republicans that maybe are against ukraine funding and and that'll show itself tomorrow in the
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vote as we take those four separate votes um they they voted for the rule because it's commonplace
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to vote for a rule and allow a bill to go to the floor where if you're against the bill you'll vote no
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to it but people voted for this rule because they do do you believe with your efforts do you believe
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that these votes tomorrow that there's any way that you'll be able to vote down or get a majority
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the majority against like for instance ukraine do you believe there's enough impetus uh in in anti
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uh ukraine funding because we don't know you know chip roy told us last night which is powerful
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of the 113 to in your case 129 bayon that's gone only 40 or 50 has gone to the battlefield the rest has
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gone to zelinski's cronies do you think right now as you see it with 24 hours to go or even less
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you've got enough arguments on your side to actually vote down the ukraine bill tomorrow
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in and of itself there's a chance steve because on september 28th 2023 the last time we had a vote
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uh recorded for funding for ukraine it was for 300 million dollars to ukraine and the majority of
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the majority voted against it it was 117 republicans voted no one of those 117 was actually mike johnson
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he voted no to 300 million dollars to ukraine and 101 republicans voted yes so there's a possibility
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tomorrow on the house floor steve we could see the majority of the majority vote no to the ukraine
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funding i think that's a good possibility but i think we'll see the the rest i think we'll have a
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majority voting yes to the other four bills uh that that are there in that package but here's the deal
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they all get packaged back together so there's no difference it's really an omnibus package just
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because they're four separate votes to sort of give members the feeling that they're voting their
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conscience or whatever the reality is the final result is they get packaged all back together and
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they go back to the senate and what started out as a veterans health care bill it started out that way
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so i think that to me is is really the biggest actual slap in the face to the greatest americans
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above us i mean among us and that's our that's our military veterans the very men and women that
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served our country risked their lives uh maybe have been injured in horrible ways or living with
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difficult injuries the ones that commit suicide at 22 every single day the the ones that have that
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protect us and every single night have horrible nightmares that they can never get rid of these
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people have been betrayed they have been betrayed over and over again but i think steve it's actually
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it's so beyond me that a bill that started out for veterans health care could turn into a bill that
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funds the blood and murder of of people in foreign countries and does nothing to actually help our
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veterans at all congressman green uh we got about five or six minutes i want you to make the case
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our audience obviously supports what you're doing with uh speaker johnson their big hang-up is the
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onslaught in media and even conservative media of the dusty johnson school of thought which is you're
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going to put hakeem jeffries in charge make your case now uh to the war and posse why you've thought
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this through and that's not going to before you bring this and and gather more co-sponsors that's
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not going to be a risk you know it's not a risk because we have a republican majority and there is not
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a single republican here that's going to vote for hakeem jeffries you want to know why they're all up
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for re-election even if they're retiring they do not want to go out voting for hakeem jeffries
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i don't think it's going to happen and another thing is is i'm not handling this in an irresponsible
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manner steve i'm being very careful and i am i i promise you i am measuring this over and over again
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and and being very diligent with the process i have worked so hard for a majority and i'm working hard
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to have the majority again next time under president trump uh hopefully as our president in the white
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house so that we can fix all of these problems but here's the real situation you know we're constantly
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the republican party who points to all the problems and all the horrible things happening and spends time
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on television with three minute and five minute sound bites and and five minute committee hearing
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sound bites and op-eds in in big fancy media companies newspapers and digital apps online you know
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here we are as republicans that always talk a big game but we never take the action to ever fix
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anything here we are 34 trillion dollars in debt and that's not going anywhere because we're gaining it
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at 40 billion dollars every single night our border is invaded no one is shutting it down
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no one is shutting it down how many more americans are going to die maybe today or tomorrow we have no
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idea but the dead american bodies are piling up every single day while republicans here in washington dc
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say oh don't rock the boat we don't want this to be uncomfortable it's too hard for us to find
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another speaker marjorie i'm sorry that's not a republican party that i want to have anything to do
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with because that's a republican party that's sitting on the sidelines while our country literally burns
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down americans can't afford their afford their groceries they can't afford their bills people are
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piling up credit card debt and people are going bankrupt and my children's generation my kids who are in
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their early 20s their generation has no hope for a future to ever be able to afford to ever buy a
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home that is the reality that we're living in so if republicans want to criticize me and say that this
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is a really bad idea i think they need to take a hard look at themselves in the mirror and say which
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kind of person are you going to be at the end of the day when this is all over with were you the one
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that didn't want to rock the boat or were you the person that actually stepped out and took the
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actions that were necessary to take no matter how uncomfortable or difficult they are to take
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them were you a type of person that actually was willing to fight for this country because the very
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veterans the very veterans that did fight for our country and got screwed over in this process right
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here are are those are the heroes and so i think that's a real question that we need for our republican
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party are we a uniparty with the democrats destroying america are we actually a separate party and and you
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know what i'm proud i am so proud and so happy i sleep so good at night steve i have nothing to worry
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about i'm not going to be irresponsible and risk throwing our majority to the democrats but we're
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already controlled by the democrats that's the reality that we're living in hakim jeffries is controlling
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this chuck schumer is controlling this and the biden administration and white house has full
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control of our speaker of the house so my question is why would we not try to make a change and get a
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stronger stronger republican and a speaker of the house and i think our republican controlled majority
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ought to actually find the courage within themselves to do this because we still have a majority right now
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last thing before i let you go is uh the the breach of trust given what happened last night
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in the rules committee is that breach of trust with johnson is irreparable that's why he's saying you must
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go forward with this yeah this is beyond repair uh mike johnson as a man has already proven that he
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cannot negotiate as a matter of fact he will not negotiate he gets on the other side and works with
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the democrats he's on their team there's no way we can trust him going forward to be speaker of the
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house and walk into those rooms and negotiate anything for republicans nothing he's already
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proven that he will throw it all away so yes the trust is completely broken what we need now steve is we
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need co-sponsors to put their name on the motion to vacate to prove that they no longer trust mike johnson
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as speaker because right now there's three of us there's myself thomas massey and paul gosar but
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there's more people telling us that hey we we support you you know we're behind this motion to vacate but
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these two people need to come forward it's time for them to come forward put their name on there as
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co-sponsors and tell the american people that they're willing to stand up to the republican uniparty
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establishment that they will no longer go along with this and we need to make sure this is a very careful
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controlled responsible process that doesn't do our country any harm and protects our majority
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where do people go to find out more about your crusade here what would they need information
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you've got a lot of people here want to push their people to be co-sponsors but where do they go
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i i continue to ask people to follow my social media at rep mtg or you can go to my website green
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dot house dot gov green has an e on the end and you can sign up for my newsletter where we send out
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lots of information and when we'll continue to try to keep people posted thank you very much steve thank
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you russ congressman thank you and thank you for taking leadership here quite remarkable to inform
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the american people i hope president trump gets your briefing i think it's very important for him to
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hear from you personally we're going to take a short commercial break want to thank congressman mtg for
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sticking with us uh we're gonna take a short commercial break russ vote who's got a bounce is
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00:31:32.180
vote we're actually going to be speaking at russ's uh the conference with uh center for renewing america
00:31:37.380
uh marching taylor green just gave it to with both gave it to us with both barrels right i mean when you
00:31:43.300
see what had to happen behind closed doors and this is why people i think get so frustrated
00:31:48.420
and that you know they're they're at the ramparts they they want to fight but when they see people
00:31:52.740
on their own team doing what we just heard they did rip a vet take a veterans bill because they
00:31:57.860
had a vehicle rip it out dump all this other stuff in there have the democrats vote for it then bring
00:32:02.900
it to the house and some jam thing and not even explain to him like the the repo act look at birch gold
00:32:08.260
we've been saying the entire time the de-dollarization process it's because they're trying to take frozen
00:32:14.100
russian assets of the russian people sees sees them convert them into dollars given the ukrainians
00:32:19.380
thinking they couldn't pass this bill now you find out they've also trying to hand this is another one
00:32:24.660
of those plots to make sure that if president trump when he's re-elected he's handcuffed to do anything
00:32:30.180
explain that which you just gave to us because i think this is where people get increasingly
00:32:34.420
frustrated when they hear a guy that's like johnson the people have known for years didn't know him
00:32:40.660
well but he's a he's a christian he's one of the leaders in the social christian movement the
00:32:45.940
social movement one of the big right to life guys how can this happen this is infuriating it's like
00:32:51.780
we send these republicans to congress and they lose total touch with with education where the
00:32:58.980
information is let's just let's talk about the repo act for a second so the position of our movement
00:33:03.540
has been don't fund ukraine obviously that was about saving taxpayer money but it was largely a foreign
00:33:09.700
policy question we don't want to participate in endless war so instead of okay and then it
00:33:16.260
developed that repo act was the way to not spend money it was going to be an alternative to the grant
00:33:21.860
i would argue it was a worse alternative it was an act of war yes it would impact our it was worse than
00:33:28.500
us voting to give 60 billion dollars continue this fiasco because here it's actually a direct act of
00:33:35.780
economic war against the russian people in the russian state and with no intermediary this is us
00:33:41.940
action at the highest level against how higher action we took against the nazis in world war ii
00:33:47.620
economic war and or imperial japan so number one it's an act of war number two it totally destabilizes
00:33:55.540
our financial system and our ability to raise debt and be able to fund our government and oh by the way we
00:34:01.860
have some fairly consequential issues coming up with regard to china okay so these these people go
00:34:07.620
into a closed door and say hey i got a bright idea let's let's repossess 300 million dollars and and
00:34:14.500
commit this right and obviously push the global community to do the same and there are much greater
00:34:19.460
billions in in european banks right so third then they come along and they do both they they do the repo act
00:34:29.700
and they do the grant i mean like what do we have to i i would rather take the the most unknowing
00:34:36.740
ignorant dumb person on the side of the of the road and give them a voting card and say can you do
00:34:43.380
better but you do better this is you mentioned something the other day that this may be the brexit
00:34:48.580
moment for the conservative movement the mega move to come together because i keep saying and this was in
00:34:54.820
that book um finish what we started president trump's great phrase you're seeing the beginning
00:35:00.020
of a populist nationalist america first american citizens first party and a globalist elite
00:35:05.060
party part of the connective tissue that's connected us is national security and foreign affairs
00:35:10.820
it's not that america first is isolationist but we do want to put america's parties first
00:35:16.580
is this moment where we're seeing what they would do in the dark of night to basically work together with
00:35:21.540
the globalists is that if we do our job and explain it is this the brexit moment where you actually
00:35:27.540
have a borning something's quite new that these old uh because you've been at this a lot longer than
00:35:33.140
i have that these old labels of republican and democrat kind of become either reinforced with new values
00:35:39.780
or redefined i i think it is and i think what what we've seen in the in the in the aftermath of
00:35:45.780
the rise of the trump is is that establishment members have tried to make them sound of america
00:35:51.220
first they've tried to say i'm very mega i'm very nationalist i i am for america first uh and what
00:35:58.100
of course they are not i call them sporks right you know sporks they they they're a little bit spoon
00:36:04.900
they're a little bit fork but on the on the issues that matter whether that's fisa or push comes to shove
00:36:10.740
on ukraine when it comes to tough key issues about this they are nowhere and they are they're with the
00:36:16.820
establishment and so this is the greatest uh ripping of the band-aid for their ability to get away with
00:36:23.380
it it's going to be ugly uh we have a hard time tomorrow to be able to show the majority of the
00:36:28.340
majority but what you saw yesterday is in fact the democrats run the house from a policy perspective no
00:36:34.900
no doubt in your mind the democrats run the house there's only one area where they don't and it's not
00:36:39.780
inconsequential it's subpoenas it is the oversight process that is still one run by republicans but
00:36:46.500
you have a coalition government with a republican speaker in which the entirety of the policy
00:36:52.020
apparatus has essentially been given over to the democratic party and they republicans have retained
00:36:58.260
the accountability of oversight and subpoenas and so that's what we are up against and we now have
00:37:04.900
that exposed to the american people the second thing i would say is that on this issue of foreign
00:37:09.380
policy these members have have tried to say without ever being shown well all right where are you
00:37:17.300
actually on this issue of ukraine they have tried to say okay i don't think it should be spent wisely
00:37:23.060
or they don't need it yet and what we're seeing now is that these members ultimately believe that this
00:37:30.020
should be an endless war that this there should be no limit to the amount of money that we prop up ukraine
00:37:36.260
in a war in which look the the the issue is not an accounting perspective you're not going to go
00:37:42.020
into a closed door skiff and say okay is it a hundred billion is it two hundred billion is it a trillion
00:37:48.980
that that number cannot no one has the answer to that number it's unlimited because you have uh you are
00:37:55.060
up against russia which has certain uh interests at stake and this issue is and it's a home court
00:38:02.020
and it's a home court game for it's a home court game and this is not our issue this is not our
00:38:05.860
interest and so they're not going away these issues are not away and here's the thing the military
00:38:11.380
industrial complex doesn't want it to go away it's permanent for their their attack on trump and it's
00:38:17.860
this has been in the after in the at the end of the cold war this is their strategic approach it's why
00:38:23.860
we can't confront china they have to maintain this this theater and this facade of it being a two
00:38:30.740
front national crisis one europe one china to keep the gravy flowing how do i want to go back to this
00:38:37.540
brexit moment because i know that the war room posse as and it was interesting coming off the high
00:38:43.860
of vegas in the live show today's morning show was the first time i've ever seen a lot of people going
00:38:50.740
man you know to happen in the dead of night to have republicans actually being part of driving this
00:38:58.180
is it worth it right how do these members given what we did in iraq and afghanistan forget vietnam
00:39:05.300
i mean vietnam's bad enough but then iraq and afghanistan the endless 20-year wars the defense
00:39:10.420
contractors driving it how can they justify how can they justify going along with this again and this
00:39:16.900
is exactly what ukraine is i think there is one part continues to be uh strategic ignorance where
00:39:23.700
they literally don't go online they don't get educated they don't listen to podcasts they just
00:39:28.420
read the the the newspapers and i think there's one part and and i i remember this week just listening
00:39:33.940
to mike johnson's uh uh that's pretty embarrassing i mean what like what what year is this are you not
00:39:42.180
paying attention to any of the debate that we've had over the last uh year are are any of your
00:39:48.740
arguments or jd vance's arguments or the john newshimer's measure are the reporting of matt
00:39:53.940
boyle matt boyle's reporting at breitbart the last 48 hours has been shocking about the people around
00:39:59.460
johnson the lobbyists around johnson they're they're they're they're his ability when you say he comes
00:40:04.980
across as naive he's surrounded himself with people that are all part of that kind of lobbying process
00:40:10.980
and complex with the with the military the national security establishment right so you see it i think
00:40:16.340
if you have jd vance you have matt boyle at breitbart you have all this that's out there how can these
00:40:21.220
other members avoid that well this is this they're not going to be able to avoid it on this on this issue
00:40:26.820
right there do you think this is going to explode i do this rule vote because of the active uh participation
00:40:33.940
of this audience so early in the process the fact you know 55 republicans voted against the rule
00:40:40.740
i know it sounds bad it is a big deal that's a big tell because i think people are so shocked that 151
00:40:46.820
voted for it why is the 55 people should say you should say in the process of taking this back
00:40:53.460
that's actually a good thing how can you make that argument because to save our country policy and
00:40:59.780
process votes have to be considered the same thing there are no non-policy process votes you are either
00:41:06.260
furthering my interest or you are hurting my interest one way or the other it's all of life
00:41:11.140
you're saying process here is policy process is policy and so we continue to live in elite in a
00:41:17.060
fiction in the republican party interestingly not the democratic party in which the uh members will say
00:41:23.460
well it's a rule vote it's a process vote and i vote with my leader as a process matter and i vote my
00:41:29.300
conscience or my district on policy votes and as a result that's why we are on the cusp of tyranny because
00:41:35.220
they've you know the establishment the uniparty has driven us into the place that we are
00:41:40.500
and those main leverage points we have lost and even some conservatives you saw this in the fisa
00:41:45.780
debate we're only 19 members many of our our good members didn't get to be a no on the fisa rule well
00:41:52.980
why is that because they're still holding on to this fiction and more of them you're saying the 19th of
00:42:00.100
55 shows you that within a week right how people are waking up to the fact that they and they're not
00:42:04.980
going to be able to hide these policy votes these process votes people are going to deem this always
00:42:09.140
going to deem as a policy vote you're not going to be a high so you're going to vote against the ukraine
00:42:14.740
package but you voted for the rule totally unsustainable is is leadership shocked about the level of
00:42:21.540
detail i mean in vegas yesterday i was amazed at we had 500 people the level of when you and chip are there
00:42:28.820
the level of understanding they have a process now and how you can't hide the football do you
00:42:33.300
think leadership now understands it's tough for them to hide this yeah they've um you know i've
00:42:38.340
gotten anecdotal evidence in terms of the extent to which the audience is in this room when members
00:42:44.900
or johnson or others are getting questions back to them well speaker johnson how come you've pioneered
00:42:52.260
the use of the suspension calendar you know their eyes it's like teletubby time you know like their
00:42:57.380
eyes just go up in terms of the extent to which they're surprised not only that the activists are
00:43:02.020
so educated and honestly this is how our movement has has innovated this notion for years if you're
00:43:08.340
doing grassroots activism that you needed to dumb it down for the grassroots totally ridiculous your
00:43:13.700
whether it's your show or the the nature of what you've done here at the at sea or at the center for
00:43:18.340
renewing america i mean you you what a reason we love partnering with you guys and having you all
00:43:22.900
the time all the great guys is that you do not talk down to this audience you come in with specifics
00:43:28.180
it's complicated but they they they they want that they want to raise up they just don't want to sit
00:43:33.140
there and listen to rnc talking points like on some other channels they want to get to they want to
00:43:37.380
see the receipts because that empowers them to get in people's faces where they can't they can't run
00:43:41.780
and you've done such a great job do you do you buy the argument of where we are on the eve of these
00:43:48.500
votes do you buy the argument of mtg that hey i admit she's saying i've really mitigate the risk
00:43:54.100
because we do have the majority and she's walked out a calendar over the next month how we actually
00:43:57.620
add a few more seats we get to 219 that uh it that johnson has to go that it's either symbolically or
00:44:05.540
necessity that there's a breach of trust here that you'll never be able to mend back given what's
00:44:10.820
happened in the last 24 hours there has been a breach of trust they have laid whether that's
00:44:15.380
marjorie taylor green or other conservatives they've laid the predicate for how bad he has been so when
00:44:20.500
when folks would ask me this you know weeks ago when we start first started talking about it you know
00:44:25.540
i'd have people in my ear saying he hasn't laid the no one's laid the predicate this would be
00:44:29.620
this would be outrageous to pull this on him no one no one can say that we're not right about our our
00:44:36.900
our thesis about the the johnson speakership and this is essentially why mccarthy left mccarthy
00:44:42.980
left because there was a breach of trust that he had lied too many times they pushed the debt ceiling
00:44:48.180
and you're kind of showing that it wasn't personal with mccarthy and it's not it's not really personal
00:44:52.900
here mike johnson is a good man the problem is you have a good man in a situation that's just doing bad
00:44:59.300
things and you can't that that trust after what's happened the last 48 hours 24 hours i don't know
00:45:04.500
how anybody could ever trust him again well you know he right now is being dishonest with regard
00:45:09.780
about the house freedom caucus he's going around and saying that they were unwilling to be to work
00:45:16.260
with him on a rule that could vote oh i didn't hear that and all the stuff i miss it tell me about this
00:45:22.100
and so the argument is coming out he's accused the freedom caucus the reason we're here is that they
00:45:26.740
wouldn't work with him the reason why there's no border security is that he wouldn't work with them to
00:45:30.660
take something less still substantial less than hr2 and it's not what they were unwilling to do was to
00:45:36.180
give a show vote to a performative vote performative vote that was not connected to ukraine and so uh
00:45:41.700
you know you get to the the character of of someone and you got it in the balance you got it maybe i have
00:45:46.900
to hold back on mike johnson good man he's actually making this argument you got you they're making that
00:45:51.140
argument he is making that argument and so again i he is personally making the argument that the only way
00:45:56.900
to fund israel was to do this package with ukraine again that's ridiculous not true totally unsustainable
00:46:02.260
position that the left temporarily has uh and so you know this you got to put this in the balance
00:46:08.020
and i think i think this is a long soul-searching moment for members to make and i still will defer
00:46:13.620
to them in this one given the size of the majority but i would say you know things that were previously
00:46:18.580
outrageous think like a caretaker speakership we it's not we were outraged because we had big fights and
00:46:25.380
leverage points coming down the pike johnson gave all those up there's literally nothing to do
00:46:30.420
between now and the end of the year other than to not the democrats have used him for what they need
00:46:36.020
yes right and it's there there's no other must really must pass votes that's coming up that he he
00:46:43.060
could serve their purposes so you're saying hey let's get a caretaker in there let's get through the
00:46:48.580
election keep the majority and then we'll deal with it figure out what speaker is going to be on the
00:46:53.140
best terms of the america first movie movement and a future president trump when you say a brexit type
00:46:59.620
moment explain to the audience i just want to make sure everybody's clear what do you mean by that as
00:47:04.980
far as because this audience is veterans uh sons of veterans and daughters of veterans parents of of
00:47:13.460
active duty service members this is the most patriotic want to serve america america first when they hear
00:47:19.940
that maybe some of the concepts of reagan's ideas of national security may have been correct in those
00:47:27.860
days may not be correct today that that's kind of a shocking moment so what because there's so many
00:47:32.500
people that's very confusing this national security because people wrap themselves in the flag and say hey
00:47:38.260
you're voting against what president reagan what made us so strong when you say it's a brexit moment for
00:47:42.740
america first what do you mean by that is that the national security paradigms have been co-opted
00:47:49.860
by a defense industrial complex that is makes money and maintains power on the on on war and foreign
00:48:00.180
policy conflict and so instead of allowing our incredible military and our national security community
00:48:07.780
that has won these wars in our nation's past to be able to go and deal aggressively with china if
00:48:14.100
necessary hopefully not but if necessary and to order our affairs we have to fight wars and skirmishes
00:48:22.740
and waste trillions of dollars and oh by the way it's not when we say the the cost of a war it's not
00:48:30.340
primarily the dollars although that's a lot opportunity cost it's the opportunity cost of
00:48:34.740
wrecked families of of tours of duty where people are endlessly overseas that wrecks our communities
00:48:43.860
and we want an end to that we want to go back to a constitutional republic where we fight where we need
00:48:50.180
to fight and we fight ruthlessly and and to win but we will not allow foreign bureaucrats or david
00:48:58.500
cameron a former prime minister of uk to tell us what our interests are and until this changes
00:49:05.300
you can expect havoc in the political realm and you saw that as the reason why i wanted to compare
00:49:10.660
to brexit was remember when when boris was getting it through i mean it was come hell or
00:49:16.420
high water argue nigel but boris and nigel come held or high water that movement was going to get
00:49:21.540
it through yes and when teresa may showed that she was she was given lip service lip service it was
00:49:26.900
it was rocky and i'm she looked at it as a problem to be overcome instead of opportunity to be seized
00:49:32.020
there you go uh center for renewing america in the next 48 hours where do people go for more
00:49:37.060
information you guys have been tremendous it's one of the reasons the grassroots movement now so
00:49:41.220
powerful because now they have a intellectual center then get the cutting edge thinking where do people
00:49:46.420
go america renewing.com we exist as a organization to provide battle plans and messaging framework to
00:49:56.260
you and to those that come to congress and say we are actually here on your behalf and so we never
00:50:02.980
want to be outclassed and we never will when it comes to knowing more than our adversaries we will
00:50:09.700
you will know more than the member of congress that is coming back to you and explaining a vote for
00:50:16.100
why they did something that was against your interest um we've also put out the uh the fifth
00:50:21.860
installment this is about the central bank digital currency it walks you through it's called the end of
00:50:26.260
economic freedom but in comparison contrast in times of turbulence why the central banks throughout
00:50:33.060
the world are buying gold at record rates this whole de-dollarization movement rusted a great job
00:50:37.540
this repo act which is another thing that's tucked in here right it's so complicated nobody's explained
00:50:42.980
it but we're going to have a vote on it tomorrow uh i'll get more into that but make sure you go to
00:50:47.540
birch gold we've done this everything there is free the advice is free you can talk to them about all
00:50:52.740
their tax deferred uh elements but most importantly the end of the dollar empire finished the fifth
00:50:57.060
installment it's on the central bank digital currency i want to thank everybody that did it russ i want to
00:51:01.700
thank you particularly fight i understand people hey today's been a tough day but we're going to have tough
00:51:06.980
days there is i think some glimmers of hope here particularly i think you're starting to see a
00:51:13.460
irreparable breach of the neocons and they're not going to be able to defend their position we're
00:51:17.940
going to have to take some some tough votes but i think people ought to go to mtg site right now get
00:51:22.740
all the information about from her about being a co-sponsor and then contact your congressmen and
00:51:29.700
have them make the argument of why they are or not going to do it i think we're now at that moment and
00:51:34.260
i agree with russ 100 i think the democrats have used uh speaker johnson now they've got no use for
00:51:40.340
him uh and we need a caretaker in there because you support him so much i want to thank everybody uh
00:51:45.780
war room posse particularly for yesterday in las vegas we now are convinced we're going to do many
00:51:49.860
more of those i think we're going to do another couple in the month of may uh because we think it's
00:51:54.900
necessary for everybody uh lou dobbs follows us we're back here live uh from the conference tomorrow
00:52:01.380
morning at 10 a.m we're going to get into it's going to be the pregame for the votes that look
00:52:04.980
like they're going to take place shortly afternoon tomorrow maybe one o'clock i want to thank russ
00:52:09.620
vote thanks for doing this thanks for having us down here uh we'll see you lou dobbs hang around
00:52:13.620
for lou dobbs we'll see you back here tomorrow morning 10 a.m eastern daylight time a real america's
00:52:21.300
i want to warn you of a huge change that could be coming to our money in our bank accounts first
00:52:27.060
think back to 9 11 shortly after the government pushed through the patriot act this gave the
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government power to spy on innocent americans by monitoring our phone and email and tracking our
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movement across the internet now jim rickards editor of the independent financial newsletter
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strategic intelligence and new york times best-selling author is warning about a coming
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event that could elevate this governmental surveillance to a terrifying new level in fact
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some of the guests i've had on the war room believe that the government will soon expand their
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powers to track our every move if we say the wrong things on social media donate to the wrong causes
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buy firearms or even vote maga the government may be able to shut us out of our bank accounts
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i can't say for sure if this will happen but it's an interesting and dire warning fortunately jim
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rickertz an american patriot and friend of mine has made it his mission to educate us on
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what he believes is coming and how to protect yourself from the possibility of programmable money
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watch jim's warning video now before it's censored like i've been in the past go to
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