Episode 117 LIVE： No Continuing Resolution – Firebrand with Matt Gaetz
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Summary
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Matt McConright is a conservative firebrand who has been fighting the uniparty for years to hold the Speaker's gavel. He is a firebrand in the conservative wing of Congress and has been a long-time opponent of the Democratic leadership in Washington, D.C. and has long been a voice in the anti-establishment and anti-incumbent wing of the Republican Party. He has been on the House floor fighting for term limits, balanced budgets, single subject spending bills, oversight, oversight of corruption, and oversight of the corrupt biden family.
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that gates the biggest firebrand inside of the house of representatives you're not taking matt
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gates off the board okay because matt gates is an american patriot and matt gates is an american
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hero we will not continue to allow the uniparty to run this town without a fight i want to thank you
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matt gates for holding the line matt gates is a courageous man if we had hundreds of matt gates
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in dc the country turns around it's that simple he's so tough he's so strong he's smart and he
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loves this country matt gates it is the honor of my life to fight alongside each and every one of you
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we will save america it's choose your fighter time send in the firebrands
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mr speaker i'm not voting for a continuing resolution i'm not voting to continue the
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failure and the waste and the corruption and the election interference and in some cases the
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efforts that could lead this country into world war three i oppose the cr authored by my friend and
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colleague from florida byron donalds the donald cr continues the ukraine policy negotiated by speaker
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pelosi and mitch mcconnell in the omnibus that conservatives were against the donald cr is a
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permission slip for jack smith to continue his election interference as they are trying to gag
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the president the former president united states and the leading contender for the republican nomination
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and the donald cr abandons the principle that it is only a review of single subject spending bills
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that will save this country and allow us to tweeze through these programs and force these agencies
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to stand up and defend their budget my friends we are approaching the days where we're facing two
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trillion dollar annual deficits atop a 33 trillion dollar debt this is unsustainable and just to
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continue things with some facial eight percent cut over 30 days that will lead to no programmatic reform
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is an insult to the principles we fought for in january i yield back
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welcome back to firebrands sasha made us a new intro video let us know if you liked it that was my
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debate on the house floor against the continuing resolution that i think would really have put the
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country back and would have limited the momentum we have to cut spending but i am here to tell you that
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our efforts were successful thanks to the advocacy of people all over this country the votes were not
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there to pass this continuing resolution and just as i said on the floor the only path forward
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single subject spending bills and by the way the media the establishment republicans they call me some
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crazy right winger some extremist because i am demanding a vote on term limits a vote on a balanced
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budget amendment single subject spending bills a release of the january 6th tapes and if we're
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going to do oversight if we're going to have a robust effort against the corrupt biden family i don't know
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maybe send hunter biden a subpoena you can check my twitter feed i even drafted one all speaker mccarthy
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has to do is date and sign it now many of you are fired up in the live stream kim is watching on facebook
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from pensacola i always love it when my bosses and my constituents tune in and wayne on facebook is
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offering a sentiment that we're seeing from a lot of folks you're wanting the motion to vacate the chair
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i'm going to have an update on the motion to vacate and uh and really how some of the politics of that
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could play out a little bit later in this update but before we do that our efforts against this
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continuing resolution and really against all continuing resolutions are rooted in the theory
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that you shouldn't be taking these disparate votes on agencies that have nothing to do with each other
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all at once even the greatest continuing resolution even god's gift to continuing resolutions
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still surrenders the premise that the funding of an entire agency of government is not a question
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worthy of its own dignity it's why we are in the mess we are in it is not a bug of the system it is
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a feature of the system and i'm going to fight with everything i can muster to bust up the dc cartel
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and to stop the uniparty from running roughshod over the needs of the american people
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and in that battle i seem to have found an unlikely ally in the new york times new piece coming out
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from michelle coddle maybe matt gates is right the piece reads the dysfunctional dance taking
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place in the house between speaker mccarthy and his right flank has driven me to consider something
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i never imagined possible that matt gates is right mr mccarthy is in desperate pursuit of the
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speakership last winter he ran around making promises willy-nilly to the house's small band of
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right wingers there's that right wingers thing again i'm a right winger because i want term limits
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balance budget and single subject bills so back back to the piece mccarthy will now rise and fall
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on how he handles those commitments and expectations but here's the thing gates and company have a point
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mr mccarthy is out of compliance with several of his promises they are not to blame for the chaos
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consuming the house it is mr mccarthy who led them to believe he would champion their policies and priorities
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the piece went on to call mccarthy hollow and fundamentally untrustworthy the new york times you see
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the things i am fighting for i honestly hope exist well beyond my time in congress and even well beyond
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republican control because even when democrats control this place which at some point they invariably
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will i would hope their members too would want to consider these spending bills separately and not
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just do continuing resolutions i will say my uh my friend and colleague from montana matt rosendale
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had an interesting point nancy pelosi could have gotten to us to a continuing resolution so the fact that
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kevin mccarthy is getting us there is hardly a deliverable on all the work that americans did to
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ensure that the majority changed hands on this very point on the criticality of single subject spending
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bills and on the utility of my strategy to root out the woke and weaponized government uh we heard
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president trump's former acting director of the office of management and budget russ vote recently on
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bannon's war room with just really crystal clear analysis i want you to have the benefit of it i'll
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talk about it on the other side take a listen did mccarthy not push any of these appropriations
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bills to get done because he lied to people to get the deaths because they said oh no no no no no no
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well let's do the debt ceiling we'll take care of the real cuts in the appropriations bill
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he would have been exposed as a liar that's why he wants to kick the whole thing into some big morass
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so nobody can actually single out the fact that there have been no cuts i think there's
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people say there's 12 billion dollars of real cuts in here russ vote that's what the cartel does the
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cartel always delays delays delays they do things like lucy and the football where they take out the
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football well well charlie's trying to kick it that's what it is over and over and that has what we
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have seen since the debt limit deal and he is he's using this cr as part of that effort to be able to
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just push this on and hope that the the crisis in their minds of a government shutdown will compel
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house conservatives to go away and i just think they need to have a fundamental reset and go back to
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what they agreed to in january with the speaker and that the entirety of the conference got on board
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with to get kevin mccarthy who i didn't want as a speaker and many others in america didn't want
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as a speaker and go back to that that that debate that would have led to a huge cut to woke and
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weaponized government bureaucracy and if you don't feel like you can do all the bills in one week okay
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let's start with the one that funds the department of justice the one that funds the fbi let's start
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there let's have that debate how about that for one week and then we'll go to the department of
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education and the department of health and human services and make sure that cdc and the nih are
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not continuing to fund covet bureaucracy so we're not funding the wuhan institute we don't have the
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ability to fund gay pride events in prague and our foreign aid how about we do that one week after
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another instead of this charade where we we we push things on into the into holidays and later in the
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year and nothing ever occurs that's exactly the play they are running and the defense to that play
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is to not surrender the frame by supporting or endorsing or lending our name to any continuing
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resolution we have to roll up our sleeves get to work we should cancel weekends we should work 12
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hour days if necessary on this appropriations process and don't forget congress just came back
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from like a six seven week break why weren't we doing the work it's exactly what russ vote just
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said there the uniparty and i'd like to talk about one of the members of the uniparty now
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ohio republican congressman dave joyce and he had some choice words for me now to set the stage
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kevin mccarthy has tried to subjugate my legitimate concerns that no less than the new york times says are
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valid he's tried to subjugate those as some sort of response to an ethics matter that of course is a
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lie a lie kevin mccarthy is told in order to keep power but right on cue after kevin mccarthy gas lit
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that concept a member of the house ethics committee who is a totally owned vassal state of lobbyists and
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special interests attacked me so let's let's put up his comments dave joyce says
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on gates well he's a special person i mean in the how many years he's been here what has he ever
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accomplished other than running his mouth well here's what i can tell you congress has accomplished
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we've put ourselves on a path to a two trillion dollar annual deficit we've built up a 33 trillion
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dollar debt so yeah pardon me for not taking my time to go rename post offices and parts of highways
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i'm working on saving the country and the dollar and and the government and sometimes from itself
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when it becomes weaponized against people like president trump i think speaking on the big issues
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matters but it's also not just the work but who you're doing the work for undeniably i work
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directly for the american people i'm the only republican in congress who doesn't take any money from
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lobbyists or packs or special interests this is a policy that would cost dave joyce dearly because
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dave joyce has taken 6.8 million dollars in lobbyist and special interest money and in this this little
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video i'm about to play you he actually has the nerve to attack me and my donors who might give 10 or 25
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dollars to a political campaign and he tries to say that my substantive work here in the congress
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is somehow lashed to my desire to get people to give smaller dollar donations
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when people give 10 or 25 dollars to a candidate they just want you to be at your best
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when a lobbyist gives you money they want to turn you into their puppet and dave joyce republican of
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ohio has been plenty willing play the video the shiny object tending to get the most noise and then
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you all of a sudden you see that that amounts to somebody like gates all these personal contributions
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in small ways and it's like you think that's crazy hold my beer you know and the next one will
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get in line and say even crazier things and i think we need to stay focused on you know those
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people are getting the job done i just think that there's sometimes we get personalities in here who
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just don't like kevin and want to create issues for him and you know you have to get beyond that
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i mean your constituents all hate kevin too yeah you got to do what's best for our country or best for
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your district in our country this isn't about whether or not we love or hate kevin frankly i don't have
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either of those emotions directed at kevin mccarthy i do hate where we are from a fiscal posture i do hate the
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debt that we've built up i do blame kevin mccarthy for where we currently stand on those matters but
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it's not a personal hatred the bible says that we judge a tree by its fruit you can judge mccarthy's
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very nominally and you can certainly judge it for what it has failed to produce especially when you're
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able to lash that to the promises that were made on the january 6 tapes on term limits on balanced budget
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amendments on single subject spending bills the guy fundamentally hasn't done the job and so that
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brings us to the number one subject that all of you are talking about on the live stream right now
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the motion to vacate so the motion to vacate is not a complicated matter to introduce but the vote
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itself could take some very interesting contours i could tell you right now that the opposition to
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kevin mccarthy in the republican conference has certainly grown since january when 20 stood against
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him but we could count on the democrats in january to act like democrats and vote against mccarthy
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what have i told you it's the uniparty that actually runs this town and it's my concern
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and even my expectation that upon a motion to vacate hakeem jeffries and house democrats would bail out
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their guy kevin mccarthy and i base that view in part on what i heard from hakeem jeffries on sunday
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you and mccarthy both talked about working together when he became speaker if it comes to this motion to
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vacate and you hear matt gates and and other mccarthy critics saying that they are moving in that
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direction they're going to try to remove him as speaker will will you will democrats help bail mccarthy out
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are you going to be there to to help him or are you going to go along with the effort to to oust him
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well we haven't given it any thought one way or the other because john as i've indicated we're
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going to continue to focus on solving problems for the american people now if that moment presents
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itself will cross that bridge when we get to it but what we should be focused on right now is avoiding
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an unnecessary government shutdown that will hurt the ability of our economy to continue to recover
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which president biden has led a tremendous recovery to date and that shouldn't be interrupted
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you heard it we'll cross that bridge when we get there in that answer democrat leader hakeem jeffries
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gives himself the maximum amount of operational flexibility to bail kevin out or not bail kevin
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out now whether or not mccarthy faces a motion to vacate is still entirely within his own hands if
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tonight he scheduled term limits balanced budgets for votes if he committed that there wouldn't be a
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lumping of all these matters together but indeed individual review of single subject bills even
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through a shutdown if he did those things i think he might could save his speakership unfortunately what
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we've seen is a very rattled person who has been recalcitrant naive and certainly in denial about the
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political circumstances that we face now i don't want to join kevin mccarthy in that sense of denial and
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naivety and so when many of you are uh clamoring for the motion to vacate as you are just think about
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that that answer you just heard from jeffries and if indeed i had to file a motion to vacate and the
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democrats showed up to bail out kevin mccarthy i can assure you this i will let the country know every
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day that it is the biden mccarthy hakeem jeffries coalition that governs them and i will stand as the
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opposition to that uniparty and to that really i think dirty deal but i think we know that kevin
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mccarthy is willing to make any deal to keep power and that's one of the things that's become deeply
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frustrating i want to cover another matter there's been this issue of the missile explosion in ukraine
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now the war in ukraine can best be characterized as a tragic yet totally avoidable mess and currently
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there's no end in sight the united states and nato in their typically unserious fashion are now slow
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stumbling headfirst into one of the most serious geopolitical disasters of the 21st century
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it would make for a bad novel forever wars and no foresight president biden's guide to navigating
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foreign relations we've discussed at length the cost of this war the burden it places on the backs
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of the american taxpayer but there is a human cost this human cost is never discussed in dc circles
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certainly not by the military industrial complex or the journalists that play cover for the washington
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regime but as president trump recently stated on cnn quote people are dead ukrainians and russians
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and cities have been destroyed close quote a foreseeable consequence to america's involvement
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in prolonged and fail and failing endeavors here would certainly try to drive us to prevent this war
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but at a minimum we should try to get out of it this is not a view held by samantha power the current
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director of usaid who famously said when referring to all of the foreign policy blunders she's been involved
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in throughout her career quote we could hardly expect to have a crystal ball when it came to
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accurately predicting outcomes in places where the culture was not our own what a fool what's their
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excuse of course it's hard to predict and dictate outcomes in places that are not our own land or our
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own neighborhood or our own hemisphere that's why some of us encourage foreign policy realism and restraint
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as opposed to costly misadventurism and you don't need a crystal ball to see where this all ends
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so let's take a look right now the new york times reported yesterday that 15 civilians were killed and
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30 others were injured when a missile struck a ukrainian marketplace in eastern ukraine
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rendering some of the victims beyond recognition president zelinski and his propaganda arm quickly
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labeled this as a russian terror attack and you know the media took the bait but it turns out
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as the new york times reports this was a ukrainian air defense missile certainly unintentional and
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maybe just the type of inadvertent collateral damage that we have come to too easily accept in modern wars
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the evidence is clear and the reports on the ground confirm the direction of the missile the blast
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radius the shrapnel size the eyewitness accounts from the site as well as where the missile was
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launched from mean only one thing the tragedy belongs to ukraine and if this country doesn't get
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serious and we don't work to put an end to this disastrous war then the future tragedies will belong
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to us and maybe the next accident is in a market in ukraine but a nuclear escalation involving the united states
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never has the world needed strong rational leadership like it does now and until president trump is back
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in office it looks like we aren't going to get it i want everyone to have the the full benefit and
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context of where things stand in uh the disputes we're currently having with speaker mccarthy
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recently i took to the house floor and i gave remarks that have uh certainly gotten a great deal of reach
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but i wanted the podcast episode to have the benefit of those remarks and arguments as well
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so we will send you out with five good minutes of my remarks and how to save the country reverse the
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failed course of the house of representatives and put speaker mccarthy on notice thanks so much take a listen
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on this very floor in january the whole world witnessed a historic contest for house speaker
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i rise today to serve notice mr speaker you are out of compliance with the agreement that allowed you
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to assume this role the path forward for the house of representatives is to either bring you into
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immediate total compliance or remove you pursuant to a motion to vacate the chair we have had no vote on
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term limits or on balanced budgets as the agreement demanded and required there's been no full release of
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the january 6 tapes as you promised there has been insufficient accountability for the biden crime
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family and instead of cutting spending to raise the debt limit you relied on budgetary gimmicks
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and rescissions so that you ultimately ended up serving as the valet to underwrite biden's debt and
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advance his spending agenda mr speaker you boasted in january that we would use the power of the subpoena
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of the subpoena and the power of the purse but here we are eight months later and we haven't even
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sent the first subpoena to hunter biden that's how you know that the rushed and you know somewhat
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rattled performance you just saw from the speaker isn't real at this point during democrat control
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over the house of representatives they had already brought in don jr three times and we haven't even
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sent the first subpoena to hunter biden power of the subpoena and power of the purse only thing the
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118th congress is known for at this point is electing kevin mccarthy speaker and underwriting biden's
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debt and unfortunately there's only one of those things we can remediate at this time power of the
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purse our leadership right now is asking us to vote for a continuing resolution a vote for a continuing
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resolution is a vote to continue the green new deal a vote to continue inflationary spending and in the
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most troubling of fashions a vote for a continuing resolution is a vote to continue the election
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interference of jack smith mr speaker we told you how to use the power of the purse individual
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single subject spending bills that would allow us to have specific review programmatic analysis
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and it would allow us to zero out the salaries of the bureaucrats who have broken bad targeted
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president trump or cut sweetheart deals for hunter biden september 30th is rapidly approaching and you
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have not put us in a position to succeed there is no way to pass all the individual appropriations
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bills now and it's not like we didn't know when september 30th was going to show up on the calendar
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i must be better you must be better and this house must be better for it is the last best hope
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for tens of millions of republicans we demand real oversight against this weaponized government just
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look at the bribery if tens of millions of dollars flowing from foreign corrupt people into the bank
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accounts of the biden family wasn't enough for actual impeachment why were we even looking joe biden
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deserves impeachment for converting the vice presidency into an atm machine for virtually his entire family
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we all see it we all know it now moments ago speaker mccarthy endorsed an impeachment inquiry this is
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a baby step following weeks of pressure from house conservatives to do more we must move faster
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now i will concede that the votes i have called for will likely fail term limits balanced budgets maybe
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even impeachment i am prepared for that eventuality because at least if we take votes the american people
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get to see who's fighting for them and who's willing to tolerate more corruption and business as
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usual mr speaker dust off our written january agreement you have a copy reflect on the spirit
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of that agreement and build on the start that we had moments ago began to comply no continuing
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resolutions individual spending bills or bust votes on balanced budgets and term limits subpoenas
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for hunter biden and the members of the biden family who've been grifting off of this country
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and the impeachment for joe biden that he so richly deserves do these things or face a motion to vacate
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the chair and let me alert the country a motion to vacate might not pass at first but it might before
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the 15th vote and if democrats bail out mccarthy as they may do then i will lead the resistance to this
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uniparty and the biden mccarthy jeffrey's government that they are attempting to build
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i know that washington isn't a town where people are known for keeping their word well speaker mccarthy