In this episode, Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-GAZETTE) talks about being elbowed in the kidneys by Rep. Kevin McCarthy in the hallway of the White House, and how he was able to get away with such an act of assault. Rep. Gaetz also talks about how he handled the situation, and whether or not he should have done anything about it. And, of course, he talks about why he thinks Kevin McCarthy should lose his job as Speaker of the House of Representatives and why he should never have been allowed to run for re-election in the first place, even if he was the one who was punched in the kidney by the one and only Kevin McCarthy. And he explains why he doesn t think he should be let go of his position as a candidate in the upcoming primary election. Listen to the full episode and tweet me with your thoughts and reactions! and if you have any thoughts or opinions on this or any other incidents involving Rep. McCarthy, tweet us to let us know what you think! Timestamps: 3:00 - Who was the real victim? 4:30 - Kevin McCarthy's reaction to the punch? 5:15 - What do you think of the punch to the kidneys? 6:20 - How did you feel about what happened? 7:40 - Did he deserve to be fired? 8:00 9:35 - Is he a bully? 11: Should he be disciplined? 14:30 15:15 16: Did he have a chance to change his mind? 17:50 - Is this guy worth it? 19:00 Is he really a monster? 21:00 -- What's the damage done? 22:30 -- How did he deserve a shot to the kidney attack? 25:00 | What do I think I m going to pay for this? 26:40 -- Is he worth the punishment? 27:40 29:30 Is this a real apology? 32:30 Does he have the chance to come back? 35:30 Can he change his plea? ? 36: Is he going to apologize to me or not? 37:30 Do you have a case for this case? 39:10 -- How do I know what he s going to respond to this incident? 40:30 Should I press charges?
00:07:51.000I thought it was appropriate, and you just don't expect A guy who was at one time three steps away from the White House to hit you with a sucker punch in the hallway.
00:08:01.000And did he raise his voice back to you?
00:08:03.000Yeah, just that high-pitched kind of thing, I believe, and that was about it.
00:09:45.000We are broadcasting out of room 2021 of the Rayburn House Office Building here in the Capitol Complex in Washington, D.C. That was Congressman Tim Burchett talking to CNN's Manu Raju about an altercation he had with Kevin McCarthy.
00:09:59.000This has been a wild day on Capitol Hill.
00:10:02.000We're going to walk you through some of the strangest reports we've ever had about I don't know if there's a full moon or if Mercury is in retrograde.
00:10:17.000But something is up, and we're going to go over that in addition to some of the key findings of the Homeland Security Committee's report on the costs of illegal immigration.
00:10:28.000We've got testimony from USAID about how your money is being spent in Ukraine.
00:10:32.000Big things also exploding in the House Oversight Committee today.
00:10:36.000But when the former speaker is pushing people in the back that they don't like...
00:10:43.000It's definitely top of mind with a lot of folks.
00:10:47.000Karen on Facebook says that I'm just stirring the pot and I need to do my job.
00:10:51.000Well, we're going to be getting to all of it, Karen.
00:10:54.000But first, you heard Burchett there go over this altercation.
00:11:01.000And the key fact that doesn't make this a he-said-she-said is that an NPR reporter, Claudia Grisales, Actually was interviewing Burchett during the whole deal.
00:11:14.000She put up a tweet thread detailing her first-hand evidentiary account of this altercation between McCarthy and Burchett.
00:11:25.000So I'm now reading from the report from Claudia Grazales of NPR.
00:11:29.000I have never seen this on Capitol Hill.
00:11:33.000While talking to Tim Burchett after the GOP conference meeting, former Speaker McCarthy walked by with his detail, and McCarthy shoved Burchett.
00:14:14.000We have submitted to the House Ethics Committee the information regarding these reports, this evidence, these first-hand accounts, and McCarthy has sought to weaponize the Ethics Committee.
00:14:26.000He sought to signal to them that the thing that they ought to do to try to cover for his failings as Speaker was to attack me.
00:14:34.000You heard in a lot of the Manu Raju, Kevin McCarthy therapy session, him reference that I'm just an ethically challenged person.
00:14:44.000First of all, it seems as though the therapy session that McCarthy had with Manu Raju didn't take and didn't work.
00:14:54.000There's other video you're going to see today where Kevin McCarthy is responding directly to these accounts from this reporter and from Burchett.
00:15:01.000And when someone's lying, Their register goes up in their voice, and he is squealing like a stuck pig when answering these questions.
00:15:11.000Kevin McCarthy is a frequent liar, but that does not mean that he's a good liar.
00:15:16.000You could tell when he's lying, and it's just absolutely laid bare before everyone to see.
00:15:23.000And I think the Ethics Committee should take a look at that conduct because we shouldn't be in a body where we don't use our words, right?
00:15:32.000When we came at McCarthy, it was based on the substance of an agreement we made in January and his inability to comport with that agreement.
00:16:05.000There was also weirdness today in the United States Senate.
00:16:10.000Mark Wayne Mullen, I've never really seen this guy get worked up about the fentanyl crisis, the national debt, but he got all kinds of exercised against a union witness today in the United States Senate.
00:17:42.000I have frequently used the statements of witnesses in the past to impeach them, but I tried to use my brain and my words and logic and reason, tying that to some consequence, maybe defunding things that aren't working.
00:17:56.000Mark Wayne Mullen beating some guy's ass who doesn't like him in a Senate committee room isn't going to help his constituents.
00:18:04.000It's not going to ensure that we're in any better position.
00:18:06.000You know what, Mark Wayne Mullen, if you want to fight, let's actually get into the fights that matter on our budget, on our border, where you've been kind of noticeably absent.
00:18:15.000So with Mark Wayne Mullen, it's a lot of tough talk.
00:18:31.000Fireworks today in the House Oversight Committee hearing.
00:18:34.000And to set the backdrop here, you know, Chairman Comer has laid out how the Biden family has really engaged in widespread corruption, international influence peddling.
00:18:45.000And the common refrain from Democrats defending Joe Biden is that, well, they might have been involved in that influence peddling, but Joe never got the benefit.
00:18:56.000Well, now we've got the bank records and the actual check to Joe Biden where the gains were ill-gotten and then sent from a different family member to Joe Biden.
00:19:07.000Jared Moskowitz is a Democrat from Florida.
00:19:10.000He then found out that the Comer family has an inter-family loan as well.
00:19:16.000And Moskowitz is making the claim against Chairman Comer that there's some sort of hypocrisy.
00:19:22.000But that is absurd when you consider the fact that in the Comer family, there is no allegation that the gain is ill-gotten.
00:19:29.000That is why it is relevant and important as to Joe Biden, but it's just family as it relates to people who aren't engaged in the foreign corrupt influence peddling.
00:19:39.000I think that could have been easily explained, but instead we got this.
00:21:08.000A lot of you on the live stream right now are asking questions about impeachment.
00:21:12.000You're angry that the impeachment of Mayorkas was tabled when eight Republicans joined with Democrats to table it.
00:21:19.000I, too, share your frustration about that.
00:21:21.000We've talked a lot about how Mayorkas deserves impeachment.
00:21:25.000Matter of fact, we've got a big report in moments we're going to go over from the Homeland Security Committee.
00:21:30.000But when Marjorie Taylor Greene brings these votes to the floor, whether it's impeaching Mayorkas, Ray, Garland, Biden, Harris, here's what she's showing you.
00:21:42.000And you're not going to like hearing this, but it's the truth.
00:21:45.000We don't have the votes to impeach anyone right now.
00:21:49.000We've got a lot of Republicans who do not believe that the impeachment tool should be used against these folks.
00:21:56.000And I'm left wondering, what accountability tool are you waiting for?
00:22:01.000We allow a lot of these folks to evade subpoenas.
00:22:05.000We haven't brought contempt to the floor when we've been jerked around.
00:22:10.000We always allow them to show up at the last second.
00:22:13.000No real accountability, no real punishment.
00:22:16.000And then on the budget, you're going to see Democrats and Republicans today voting together to just continue the budgetary priorities of Joe Biden and the policies of Nancy Pelosi.
00:22:32.000So for all of the discussion about how much these folks deserve impeachment, and many of them do, it's not going to happen with this team of House Republicans.
00:22:45.000There are facts that have been suppressed on another matter I want to discuss, and that is the vaccine.
00:22:51.000So yesterday, Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene really stepped forward with great leadership and led a committee hearing on vaccine injuries.
00:23:00.000And I worry about even sharing with you the things that are actually going on in Congress about this subject because you never know, on the platforms where you are consuming this podcast, the censorship has gotten so bad we're even pointing out what medical professionals and congressional witnesses are saying.
00:23:18.000Even citing senators can somehow get you tagged or labeled or ticketed, shadow banned, censored.
00:23:26.000But you need to know what is happening.
00:23:28.000I think Dr. Robert Malone has done some of the most extensive research on vaccine injuries.
00:23:43.000And I think the Operation Warp Speed, the idea that, look, we need to move with a sense of urgency, maybe not at the pace that government is historically not very effective at, you know, seemed appealing up front, but now with the benefit of hindsight, could we assess that Warp Speed was successful or not?
00:24:03.000In my opinion, what we've learned, remember it's now four years.
00:24:09.000In my opinion, what we've learned is that the collective wisdom of decades of regulatory science as it relates to vaccines and other medical products was appropriate.
00:24:21.000There is a reason why these products typically require up to a decade to be proven to be safe and effective.
00:24:30.000And it was not prudent and not in the interests of protecting the citizens of the United States or the world to bypass those time-tested processes that have basically been agreed upon through various forms of informal international treaties in order to My words are jam a product through a process in order to get it out to
00:25:03.000Remember the underlying thesis here is that we had 3.4% case fatality rate.
00:25:10.000This was told to us again and again and again, and it was a lie.
00:25:16.000So let's stay on that question of the fatality rate and how many of our fellow Americans were the victims of a process that Dr. Malone just described there as jammed through.
00:25:29.000I think some of the most searing data in this committee hearing on vaccine injuries came from Senator Ron Johnson, who joined us with this presentation.
00:25:42.000This is CDC and FDA's own numbers, and yet, you know, through all the social media censorship directed by, unconstitutionally directed by the Biden administration, people just don't want to see this.
00:26:00.000The first five drugs that are listed here, this is over 28 years of reporting on the VAIR system and the FAIR system, the FDA adverse event reporting system.
00:26:12.000You can see ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine are pretty safe drugs, as is dexamethasone.
00:26:19.000The two drugs below, this is since the COVID pandemic, remdesivir and the COVID vaccines.
00:26:27.000Now, I don't know how anybody can take a look at our response to COVID and not claim it was anything but a miserable failure.
00:26:36.000We experienced supposedly 16% of the deaths.
00:26:40.000The VAERS system on the COVID vaccines alone, 1.6 million adverse events.
00:26:49.000We also had practicing physicians there, and one area that Congresswoman Greene focused in on was obstetrics.
00:26:56.000When doctors are dealing with pregnant women, the creation of life, certainly injections, vaccines, particularly with this type of therapy, should draw the strictest of scrutiny.
00:27:09.000And we had an OBGYN Dr. Biss before us with very concerning results that she analyzed from her practice and beyond.
00:27:28.000I had done a video where I wrongly said that my miscarriage rate had increased by 50% because I was put on the spot and I didn't have my data in front of me.
00:28:41.000I mean, I can tell you 60% of my patients got vaccinated.
00:28:45.000But the problem is, if they're brand new to the practice, I haven't seen them yet because I'm the only person in my practice that asks every patient, have you gotten a vaccine?
00:29:10.000Thank you, Dr. Biss, for asking those key questions so that we can start to correlate this data.
00:29:15.000When you hear these high rates of miscarriages, when you hear about the devastating health consequences that Senator Johnson discussed, your heart goes out and you wonder, well, what can we even start to do to remediate This great harm that people may have suffered and may be able to prove in a court of law.
00:29:33.000There was even an attorney who joined us.
00:29:35.000And what frustrates me is that too much of what the Congress has been doing from a policy standpoint has been to shield big pharma from liability when they cause harm.
00:29:47.000And I think there is corruption at the core of that.
00:29:49.000It was the substance of my contribution to this hearing.
00:29:55.000Dr. Malone, one of my grave concerns is that all of the vaccine injured may not know that they are in the class of the vaccine injured because people get blood clots and pulmonary embolisms probably because of the vaccine, but also probably for other reasons as well.
00:30:14.000And Dr. Biss, when we look at These tragic consequences of pregnancy, they can at times occur in the absence of a vaccine.
00:30:23.000So what advice would you give us as policymakers to try to really disaggregate the symptoms of vaccine injury and those consequences from those that may have occurred otherwise?
00:30:40.000Thank you, Mr. Gates, for your informed question.
00:30:45.000You are correct in saying that it is an enormous challenge.
00:30:49.000Just as the virus disease itself largely overlaps with what's called the common cold now, in terms of symptoms, and it's very difficult to distinguish.
00:31:00.000Likewise, these clusters of symptoms are very difficult to distinguish from background noise in some cases.
00:31:10.000That's the job of the CDC, by the way, is to provide that type of analysis objectively in a nonpartisan fashion.
00:31:20.000And as even the New York Times has acknowledged, the CDC has become a partisan political operation.
00:31:27.000So we are left in the absence of reliable data by a federal agency tasked to provide that data to allow the Discernment of your question.
00:31:39.000And the way that this would normally be done is to look for clusters of symptoms that correlate with a known disease or toxicity and then identify patients who have those clusters.
00:31:51.000Practicing physicians currently Even those that aren't subject to the many professional and financial disincentives to be open and transparent about these things that you're mentioning,
00:32:07.000I'm choosing my words, are subjected to an enormous amount of not only propaganda or psyops, as has the entire public been subjected to it, But also enormous numbers of disincentives to disclose adverse events and disclose what might appear to be vaccine related problems.
00:32:31.000I hate to interrupt you, but that should be illegal.
00:32:33.000It should be illegal if someone is engaged in the practice of medicine Or in the highly regulated pharmaceutical industry for people to try to disincentivize access to the information.
00:32:45.000And it's easy for us to blame the CDC, but frankly, they in a way work for us because we're the ones that authorize the funds for the things that they do and don't do.
00:32:55.000And so I think that one of the things we've got to work on probably is legislation that directs them to those clusters and that then disallows the corrupt We're back live.
00:33:11.000That shows how high the hill is to climb indeed and we will stay on that work.
00:33:16.000Again, thank you to Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene for setting up that field hearing to get us that evidence and begin what is going to be a long road ahead for a lot of people.
00:33:25.000We also have news regarding the continuing resolution that the House is going to be voting on very soon to have a stopgap funding measure Yesterday's episode went into the detail of what that includes and doesn't include and really detailed out my critique of that continuing resolution and on the heels of it we have a statement that we want to share with you released today from the House Freedom Caucus titled No More Rolling Over Today to Fight Tomorrow.
00:33:53.000Today the House Freedom Caucus released the following official position.
00:33:56.000The House Freedom Caucus opposes the Republicans must stop negotiating against ourselves over fears of what the Senate may do with the promise to roll over today and we'll fight tomorrow.
00:34:18.000While we remain committed to working with Speaker Johnson, we need bold change.
00:34:23.000That from the House Freedom Caucus today.
00:34:25.000I am in full agreement with that statement.
00:34:29.000I endorse it completely, even though I'm not a member of the House Freedom Caucus.
00:34:33.000I often align on these big fights about the budget.
00:34:37.000And I'm glad the House Freedom Caucus is in the fight.
00:34:39.000We need more House Republicans in that battle.
00:34:43.000I had a good conversation today with Budget Chairman Jody Arrington, and he really wants to move a balanced budget to the floor that not only addresses some of the discretionary spending, but a lot of the entitlement spending.
00:34:56.000And we have to have honest discussions about where we are going from a fiscal standpoint because if we don't, then you live in a time where you earn what you earn.
00:35:11.000But each and every day, your government is printing billions more dollars and diluting your life and your money and your savings And the government does that without even the hint of itemized review on the programs that are sucking up so much of this money.
00:35:36.000One of the things that really is reflective of the waste of federal spending, USAID. USAID is an entity that takes your money and functions as a global venture capital fund overlaid with a hell of a lot of wokeness.
00:35:54.000And now you've got testimony from a top Biden official at USAID saying that we need to print more money and dilute your dollar so that we save the Ukrainians from inflation.
00:36:16.000At this time, there is no funding left for direct budget support.
00:36:22.000Without further appropriations, the government of Ukraine would need to use emergency measures such as printing money or not paying critical salaries, which could lead to hyperinflation and severely damage the war effort.
00:36:34.000USAID has also exhausted all of its supplemental humanitarian assistance funds.
00:36:38.000Additional funding is critical in the face of what remains an enormous need.
00:36:43.000If Congress does not approve supplemental funding, our partner organizations in Ukraine would have to either reduce the number of people getting this humanitarian assistance by up to 75% or suspend our humanitarian programs entirely.
00:37:03.000I had to go and read the testimony of this USAID official.
00:37:08.000They want you to print more money and suffer more inflation so that the Ukrainians don't have to print more money and suffer more inflation.
00:37:17.000And we're borrowing money that we don't print from China.
00:37:22.000Remember the neoconservative geopolitics group smart think around the theory that we've got to get bogged down in Ukraine so that we look rough and tough to China?
00:37:33.000I subscribe to the theory that us being bogged down in Ukraine makes us look weaker to China.
00:37:40.000And when we're harming our own economy through inflation...
00:37:45.000Or harming our own national security by going deeper in debt to China to fund the Ukraine apparatus.
00:37:52.000It is so insulting to have the American taxpayer confronted with testimony like this.
00:38:00.000We've also recently been confronted with a key report from the House Committee on Homeland Security.
00:38:06.000It's a bombshell that breaks down how the American taxpayer is on the hook for up to $451 billion needed to care for illegal immigrants now making their home inside of our borders because of Joe Biden's broken border policy.
00:38:23.000The report's infuriating line after line of wasteful spending billion dollars here billion dollars there all to babysit illegals who never should have been let into our country.
00:38:32.000The report was compiled from federal and state records media reports and other information.
00:38:38.000It sheds light on the taxpayer burden.
00:38:41.00016.8 to 29 million illegal immigrants currently residing inside the United States creating that burden.
00:38:49.000And the costs come from health care, housing, education, other welfare programs across numerous jurisdictions.
00:38:56.000All of these millions of illegal aliens that now live amongst you are living higher and higher on the hog.
00:39:05.000600,000 have entered during fiscal year 2023 alone.
00:39:08.000That does not include the 900,000 who entered legally and applied for asylum.
00:39:13.000I guess we call that legally with quotes.
00:39:17.000Because they came here to abuse our asylum system.
00:39:19.000And they're just set free in the interior.
00:39:36.000The federal government, state governments, local governments...
00:39:41.000No one's getting off here without paying part of the tab.
00:39:44.000In New York City alone, Democrat Mayor Eric Adams has stated that the cost of illegal aliens could hit $12 billion in the next three years.
00:39:52.000And that's just with the current flow.
00:39:57.000And they're giving services to these illegals for everything under the sun, including laundry services for illegals.
00:40:05.000If you're a New York City taxpayer, you keep working, you keep paying your taxes so that the illegal aliens can get their laundry paid for.
00:40:13.000Of course, hospital and emergency room visits rank among the highest costs that these illegal aliens generate.
00:40:20.000I learned that firsthand when I was in Yuma, Arizona.
00:40:24.000We heard that oftentimes these illegal aliens require three times the amount of resources to discharge them safely.
00:40:32.000Every bed they take is a bed that an American can't.
00:40:35.000And we're having to drive farther and further to get our health care while a lot of these places are jammed up, overcrowded, and overrun.
00:40:42.000And then not only do you not get the service, you get the higher costs.
00:40:49.000So they open up the border, bring these people in, you bear these high costs, and then you don't even get access to the services that you're paying for.
00:40:57.000At rates of multiples, the report shows that the cost of education for around 3.8 million illegal immigrants that aren't proficient in English totaled over $59 billion.
00:41:10.000In the era of the Democrats' commitment to defunding our police, the stress of illegal immigration is costing $19 billion to our law enforcement budgets and our police budgets.
00:41:21.000Given the state of violent crime in our country and the dangerous reality on our streets, I mean, the Secret Service was involved in a shooting over a carjacking within the last 48 hours in our nation's capital.
00:41:32.000I wouldn't say that our police have the time and money and resources to spare for this kind of crap.
00:41:38.000Biden and the Democrats and even some weak Republicans, they wake up every morning, they see the dangerous reality in our city streets and they choose not to put a stop to it.
00:41:49.000Instead, they choose to enable this illegal immigration and it stresses our police departments and it terrorizes our citizens.
00:41:56.000As I said earlier, this report is very frustrating.
00:41:59.000Every American should read it and be similarly concerned.
00:42:05.000We have to close the loopholes and allow the Department of Homeland Security to do its job, activate ICE, and do the deportations that are necessary.
00:42:41.000We also want to cover a story from the state of New York where state government is engaging in activity that is not a necessity and indeed quite dangerous.
00:42:51.000Listen to New York Governor Kathy Hochul talk about the new surveillance state they're creating in the Granite State.
00:43:02.000Also, we're very focused on the data we're collecting from surveillance efforts.
00:43:06.000What's being said on social media platforms and We have launched an effort to be able to counter some of the negativity and reach out to people when we see hate speech being spoken about on online platforms.
00:43:24.000Our media analysis, our social media analysis unit, has ramped up its monitoring of sites to catch incitement to violence, direct threats to others.
00:43:36.000And all this is in response to our desire Our strong commitment to ensure that not only do New Yorkers be safe, but they also feel safe.
00:43:50.000Okay, so there is a troubling continuum here.
00:43:53.000First, our national security apparatus, CIA, NSA, they developed all of these surveillance tools and they sought all of these authorities to be able to gather signals intelligence, process it, analyze it, categorize conduct in various ways.
00:44:08.000And they told us That they needed these capabilities, technologies, and authorities to direct that activity overseas to some terrorist in some Central Asian cave that might be planning an attack on the United States.
00:44:21.000And so Congress came together, passes the Patriot Act.
00:44:27.000They bring a lot of those capabilities home.
00:44:30.000And we woke up one day and a larger and larger portion of our federal government was trying to convince us that the MAGA grandmother next door was a terrorist or the parent at the school board meeting or the traditional Catholic in worship.
00:44:44.000So then you saw the federal government Whether it was in response to January 6, really abuse those authorities and reorient those anti-terrorism teams in a concerning way.
00:44:59.000What you just heard from New York Governor Kathy Hochul is the really troubling next iteration of that, where left-wing states are going to try to hire those folks out of NSA or CIA or FBI and get them involved in state-level surveillance and analysis of people's speech and their political views and their associations.
00:45:24.000And it's not enough to just fight against it at the federal level.
00:45:27.000We need people in state government standing up against what you just heard from Kathy Hochul.
00:45:33.000Standing up for the privacy rights of our citizens.
00:45:37.000Now, there are some times when those privacy rights of our citizens end up being twisted and turned and cavorted in ways we never would have imagined and in ways that actually are harmful to the most fundamental institution in American life, and that is the family.
00:45:55.000I've introduced legislation called the Parents' Right to Know Act because under a federal law that had been misinterpreted called the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, We were getting more and more school districts telling parents that the parents didn't have a right to know about the counseling services being accessed by students.
00:46:19.000I'm sorry, if you send your kid off to public school, you have a right to know what is going on there.
00:46:25.000You have a right to know what their grades are, what classes they're taking, what their behavior looks like, what extracurriculars they're involved in, what field trips they go on.
00:46:34.000And so sure as hell you have a right to know if some school counselor is engaging in a particular type of effort.
00:46:44.000This came to my attention through a story I heard from a young student who attended one of my recent events in Northwest Florida.
00:46:59.000I don't dress the same as the other girls, but I'm tired of every counselor at school and every teacher trying to corner me and tell me I'm gay.
00:47:22.000The best defense with some counselor or teacher trying to say weird things or do things with your kids is to know what they're saying and doing.
00:47:32.000And so my legislation would clarify that the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act does not in any way impair the right of a parent to know the counseling that their student is getting.
00:47:44.000And particularly in times like this, where more and more people that are in public education and in counseling are veering bizarrely left, I think that this type of clarification to federal law so it is not overused And weaponized against parents is absolutely necessary.
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