The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz - Episode 120 LIVE： Speaker-Designate Jim Jordan – Firebrand with Matt Gaetz

00:00:00.000 Matt Gaetz, the biggest firebrand inside of the House of Representatives.

00:00:07.500 You're not taking Matt Gaetz off the board, okay?

00:00:09.920 Because Matt Gaetz is an American patriot and Matt Gaetz is an American hero.

00:00:14.640 We will not continue to allow the Uniparty to run this town without a fight. 1.00

00:00:20.220 I want to thank you, Matt Gaetz, for holding the line.

00:00:24.340 Matt Gaetz is a courageous man.

00:00:26.340 If we had hundreds of Matt Gaetz in D.C., the country turns around. It's that simple.

00:00:31.920 He's so tough, he's so strong, he's smart, and he loves this country. Matt Gaetz.

00:00:38.020 It is the honor of my life to fight alongside each and every one of you.

00:00:43.240 We will save America. It's choose your fighter time. Send in the firebrands. 1.00

00:00:48.600 Welcome back to Firebrand. We are live and we are excited.

00:00:58.660 Simulcast streaming from room 2021 of the Rayburn House Office Building here in the Capitol Complex on Washington, D.C.,

00:01:05.040 where we have been working to uproot the Uniparty, 0.60

00:01:09.380 to squash the hopes of the special interests and lobbyists who run this town,

00:01:14.840 and to put somebody in the chair for Speaker of the House who will deliver for the American people.

00:01:20.700 An America First agenda, a rigorous oversight agenda,

00:01:24.740 and a plan on budgeting that ultimately can get us liberated from smushing everything together

00:01:31.780 and on to single subject spending bills.

00:01:33.980 That is what we've been fighting for.

00:01:35.940 And frankly, Kevin McCarthy is who we've been fighting against for nine months.

00:01:39.460 His tenure as Speaker is over, and now we have the opportunity.

00:01:44.940 We're not there yet. I'm going to walk you through all of it.

00:01:47.420 Still a lot of work to do. Do not uncork the champagne.

00:01:50.800 But we have an opportunity greater than ever before to elect Congressman Jim Jordan of Ohio, Speaker of the House.

00:01:58.920 Just moments ago in the House Republican Caucus,

00:02:02.320 there was an election that occurred between Jim Jordan of Ohio and Austin Scott of Georgia.

00:02:08.220 They both did a great job in the candidate forum, and at the end of that, Jim Jordan got the most votes.

00:02:15.420 And Austin Scott, someone who's been very critical of me, who doesn't hold my view on every subject,

00:02:20.480 was a complete class act.

00:02:23.260 He stood up immediately. He endorsed Jim Jordan.

00:02:26.360 He asked the hundred or so members who'd voted for him to vote for Jim Jordan.

00:02:31.300 We had a subsequent vote where it was simply a question of acclaim to accept the will of the Republican conference

00:02:39.600 to make Jim Jordan the Speaker of the House.

00:02:43.520 And we're not there yet.

00:02:45.560 We're actually 55 votes short.

00:02:48.280 Even after Austin Scott of Georgia dropped out and endorsed Jim Jordan,

00:02:53.020 there are 55 Republicans, and we don't know who all of them are, though we know some,

00:02:58.600 and we're going to talk about them,

00:03:00.160 55 Republicans saying that they will refuse to vote for Jim Jordan on the floor of the House of Representatives.

00:03:07.700 Here's my take.

00:03:09.360 Other than Donald Trump, Jim Jordan is the most popular Republican in America.

00:03:13.280 And I know what it takes to stand on that floor and to stand on principle

00:03:18.580 and to vote against the Republican nominee.

00:03:22.900 I know the pressures that puts on.

00:03:25.520 I know how hard it is to hold a coalition together like that.

00:03:29.420 And it is not as easy said as it is done.

00:03:34.060 And so if we've got some moderate, squish, weak Republicans who will not vote for Jim Jordan,

00:03:39.300 they shouldn't be able to do that in some closed-door room in the basement of the Capitol.

00:03:44.980 We should be having public votes on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives

00:03:48.740 as many times as it takes to elect Jim Jordan Speaker of the House.

00:03:53.120 And if these no-name, no-nothing members want to stand up and oppose Jim Jordan,

00:03:58.640 my sense is that they're going to hear a lot from their Republican constituents

00:04:02.880 who know Jim Jordan to be a good man and a fighter and a hero for the Republican cause.

00:04:09.780 I am so excited to go to that floor again and cast my vote for Jim Jordan.

00:04:14.600 We showed you in our last episode my nominating speech for Jim Jordan.

00:04:19.040 I believe Jim Jordan should have done it all along.

00:04:22.360 But we are at this moment now.

00:04:24.380 And he truly may be the last best hope to save this country

00:04:28.960 and to bring our Republican majority into the posture of a fighting force.

00:04:35.300 I want to address some of the criticism.

00:04:37.740 Folks have said, oh, Matt Gaetz, you had no plan.

00:04:42.180 This was the plan.

00:04:43.600 Upgrade the position of Speaker of the House.

00:04:45.720 And by the way, I was so confident in the plan

00:04:47.920 because there are so many options better than Kevin McCarthy.

00:04:52.060 Scalise would have been better than Kevin McCarthy.

00:04:54.880 A lot of people would be better than Kevin McCarthy.

00:04:57.080 But Jim Jordan represents a monumental upgrade.

00:05:00.720 One that I know Republican activists, conservatives,

00:05:04.420 really Americans of all stripes should be very, very excited about.

00:05:08.720 But we've got work to do.

00:05:10.120 And it's important to go into why there are 55 Republicans

00:05:13.260 who don't want to vote for Jim Jordan.

00:05:15.720 Some are trying to keep their intentions clandestine, hidden.

00:05:19.600 Maybe they're working for a promotion in their committee assignment.

00:05:24.180 Maybe they want a leadership post.

00:05:25.900 Maybe they want some other feature of the kind of tapestries of public service

00:05:33.280 that aren't sought by many, but may be sought by some.

00:05:38.320 One member, Representative John Rutherford of Florida,

00:05:42.640 said just moments ago publicly that he will not vote for Jim Jordan on the floor

00:05:48.060 because he's angry with me.

00:05:50.400 Take a listen.

00:05:53.520 What do you need?

00:05:54.520 Oh, yeah.

00:05:54.940 So tell me where you are on Jim Jordan right now.

00:05:57.680 Okay, where I'm at right now is I'm,

00:05:59.740 since the folks that want to follow the majority, which is the rule,

00:06:05.660 we should follow the majority.

00:06:07.880 Kevin McCarthy had 96%.

00:06:10.060 4% took him out, joining with the Democrats.

00:06:15.920 Now we're in conference where the Democrats don't get the vote.

00:06:20.360 And I'm back with Kevin McCarthy.

00:06:23.680 Since he, out of all of the folks that have thrown their hat in the ring,

00:06:28.620 he is head and shoulders above the rest in the majority that he's able to put together.

00:06:33.460 It was 96%.

00:06:35.620 And you're a no on Jordan on the floor right now. 1.00

00:06:39.300 I'm a no on allowing Matt Gaetz in the other seven to win by putting their individual in as speaker.

00:06:49.140 Okay.

00:06:49.820 I've known John Rutherford for a long time.

00:06:55.300 I've known him to be a good man.

00:06:57.120 I've known him to be a man of patience, of good sensibility.

00:07:01.440 I know him to be a person who cares deeply about public service.

00:07:04.880 He was the sheriff in Duval County prior to being elected to Congress.

00:07:08.020 And in that role, I worked with him very closely

00:07:10.660 because I had previously chaired the Criminal Justice Subcommittee of the Florida House of Representatives.

00:07:15.580 I know him to be a better person than what you just saw

00:07:20.280 because what you just saw from Congressman John Rutherford was selfish

00:07:25.660 and bad for the country and childish.

00:07:30.020 It is beyond any type of rational explanation

00:07:36.220 to say that because he's got a problem with me,

00:07:39.600 he's not going to vote for Jim Jordan.

00:07:41.960 I'm not running for Speaker of the House.

00:07:46.900 And true public servants would not use Jim Jordan as their whipping boy

00:07:53.400 because they're mad at me for removing Kevin McCarthy.

00:07:57.540 We had nine months of the Kevin McCarthy experience.

00:08:00.660 It wasn't going anywhere.

00:08:02.280 Our budgeting process was a mess.

00:08:04.440 We hadn't even sent a subpoena to Hunter Biden.

00:08:06.960 And Kevin McCarthy could no longer be trusted

00:08:09.900 because he had made multiple contradictory promises

00:08:12.000 that he never intended to keep and couldn't possibly keep.

00:08:16.000 Those things don't infect a Jim Jordan speakership.

00:08:22.140 And John Rutherford should reconsider.

00:08:24.160 I know there are many Floridians who watch this program,

00:08:28.080 and I would encourage you in the most polite and respectful way

00:08:31.700 to find Congressman Rutherford's social media accounts

00:08:35.220 and lay out why you believe he ought to be with the team,

00:08:39.440 be with the Republicans, and be with Jim Jordan.

00:08:42.180 I hope you'll call his congressional office not to badger

00:08:45.380 or to be crude in any way,

00:08:48.260 but to help a good man like John Rutherford

00:08:51.560 understand why supporting another good man, Jim Jordan,

00:08:56.140 is the right choice.

00:08:57.300 There's also a fallacy in this 96% argument.

00:09:01.860 I've heard this before.

00:09:02.920 96% support Kevin McCarthy.

00:09:06.000 That fiction was burst in our Republican conference meeting

00:09:11.460 by Kevin McCarthy.

00:09:14.640 You see, there was an effort by California Congressman Tom McClintock

00:09:18.120 to deem the removal of Kevin McCarthy null and void,

00:09:23.540 to sanction and condemn the folks who voted with me

00:09:28.420 to remove Kevin McCarthy

00:09:29.700 and then to reinstate him as Speaker of the House.

00:09:33.880 And when Congressman McClintock made that motion,

00:09:38.520 Kevin McCarthy stood up before the body

00:09:40.780 and he said,

00:09:41.860 you all need to know that it's not just eight who are against me.

00:09:47.000 Kevin McCarthy, to his credit,

00:09:49.380 had the self-awareness to acknowledge

00:09:51.360 that while eight did what had to be done

00:09:53.940 in voting against him on the floor,

00:09:55.860 the hard eight,

00:09:57.240 that there are many others

00:09:59.080 who would never vote for Kevin McCarthy again.

00:10:02.360 Now you may ask, why is that the case?

00:10:03.640 How come they didn't vote against him the time before?

00:10:07.240 Political courage is not exactly in abundance in this town.

00:10:10.660 I think a lot of you know that.

00:10:11.800 And once people saw that McCarthy was going to be removed,

00:10:16.060 there were plenty who said,

00:10:17.580 well, he's gone anyway.

00:10:18.960 I don't want my fingerprints on the political murder weapon.

00:10:22.580 And so I will simply allow him to be removed

00:10:24.840 in the absence of my vote to do it.

00:10:27.180 Some people did that out of comedy.

00:10:30.000 Some people did that out of personal friendship with Kevin,

00:10:33.000 even though they knew he had failed.

00:10:35.500 And a number of them did it.

00:10:37.360 Because while Kevin McCarthy

00:10:38.460 has never been particularly popular

00:10:40.580 with our party's activists,

00:10:42.900 he certainly was popular

00:10:44.420 with many of the special interest donors.

00:10:46.040 And if you want to keep a good relationship

00:10:49.020 with the special interest donors,

00:10:50.720 why vote against McCarthy

00:10:52.420 if you don't have to in order to remove him?

00:10:55.420 So it's a little inside baseball bringing you in the room.

00:10:58.500 You should never believe the argument

00:11:00.160 that 96% were ever for Kevin McCarthy

00:11:04.380 upon my motion to vacate.

00:11:06.420 They were just willing to hide in the bushes

00:11:08.100 as the hard eight did what had to be done.

00:11:11.800 And some of the people who didn't vote with us

00:11:14.320 have heard a lot from their constituents

00:11:15.880 about how popular removing McCarthy was.

00:11:18.820 And there are some who regret the fact

00:11:20.760 that they weren't with me.

00:11:21.900 And I know that because many of them have called me

00:11:24.680 and said it to me in private.

00:11:25.860 And I will keep their confidence.

00:11:27.620 But I also know we did the right thing

00:11:29.560 and we are on the right path with Jim Jordan.

00:11:33.060 Matter of fact, I've known it for a while.

00:11:35.540 You see, back in 2021, the 14th episode of Firebrand

00:11:41.180 was entitled Speaker Jordan.

00:11:44.180 And I laid out the case with him

00:11:46.480 that his vision and his trust factor

00:11:49.840 would likely contribute to a very productive speakership

00:11:54.280 if he chose to pursue the gavel.

00:11:56.680 Now, ultimately he didn't,

00:11:58.180 but see if you can catch any tells

00:12:00.380 from episode 14 in November of 2021,

00:12:04.020 Matt Gaetz and Jim Jordan, take a listen.

00:12:08.300 Is one reason people need to read

00:12:10.680 do what you said you would do

00:12:12.600 because you're going to be Speaker of the House one day, Jim?

00:12:15.020 No, I'm not.

00:12:15.720 I want to be Chair of the Judiciary Committee.

00:12:17.960 I want Matt Gaetz Chair in one of the subcommittees,

00:12:20.380 whichever one he wants.

00:12:21.960 I want to fight for the things

00:12:24.600 I think the American people sent us here to fight for.

00:12:27.180 And first and foremost is their rights.

00:12:30.160 I mean, what's happened to Americans?

00:12:31.480 But you used to want to be Speaker.

00:12:32.100 I mean, I remember in Florida with you and Ron DeSantis

00:12:35.000 going from small town to small town in my district.

00:12:38.240 You didn't have a Speaker campaign

00:12:39.860 with a great deal of corporate infrastructure,

00:12:43.560 but people showed up with homemade signs.

00:12:45.800 And I'm going to put them on the screen.

00:12:47.500 They brought their homemade signs that said Speaker Jordan.

00:12:50.340 And I've never seen people react

00:12:53.040 to a leadership race in our country the way they did that.

00:12:56.560 That was such a fun trip.

00:12:56.640 What was the day you realized you didn't want to be Speaker?

00:12:59.320 I never really did want to be Speaker.

00:13:01.040 We just sort of had to run at that time.

00:13:03.700 But I still remember that was such a fun trip.

00:13:06.480 You had to run at that time.

00:13:07.480 Yeah, I don't want to run it.

00:13:08.780 I didn't want to do it.

00:13:13.340 Didn't you know then?

00:13:14.960 I mean, you can look at...

00:13:16.160 I am pressing my dear friend, Jim Jordan, that clip

00:13:19.080 because I know he knows he's the man.

00:13:21.360 And sometimes we're called for jobs

00:13:23.080 that we don't pursue or we don't want

00:13:24.700 because you get the right person with the right skills.

00:13:27.540 And there is divine providence in all of this.

00:13:29.860 But if you notice there, I'm pressing Jordan 0.97

00:13:32.120 and he's saying he doesn't want it

00:13:34.380 as he's kind of looking down and looking away

00:13:36.500 because he is so humble and so kind

00:13:40.440 and so self-effacing.

00:13:43.120 He always...

00:13:43.760 I mean, you even look at that question and answer.

00:13:47.640 I'm asking a popular politician

00:13:50.180 about their own political ambitions.

00:13:52.960 And he pivots it around

00:13:54.420 to talk about what he wants to do to empower me.

00:13:58.100 That is the kind of guy Jim Jordan is.

00:14:00.360 If Jim Jordan were a basketball player,

00:14:02.300 he's a wrestler, not a basketball player,

00:14:04.160 but he'd be the guy on the team

00:14:05.800 that didn't lead in scoring, but led in assists

00:14:08.480 because he's willing to dish the ball to someone else

00:14:11.020 for them to be able to score,

00:14:12.680 for them to be in a position to be successful.

00:14:15.220 It's one of my favorite clips,

00:14:17.120 one of my favorite episodes that we've done in Firebrand

00:14:19.300 and certainly Jim Jordan is one of my favorite congressmen.

00:14:23.440 And one of your favorites as well,

00:14:25.760 Joe on Facebook says,

00:14:27.640 Jim Jordan's the man.

00:14:29.020 Benji, South Dakota would love a speaker, Jim Jordan.

00:14:33.200 On Getter, Patricia says,

00:14:35.300 it's not about the speaker to her.

00:14:36.920 She wants no omnibus bills, no CRs. 1.00

00:14:39.900 And Holly on Facebook saying,

00:14:42.460 eight is enough.

00:14:44.120 John on Facebook, Jim Jordan is the person.

00:14:47.340 Oh, wait, there's, we got another one here.

00:14:50.500 On Rumble, there's a concern that Paul Ryan might return.

00:14:55.800 I promise you, we will not make Paul Ryan

00:14:58.800 Speaker of the House again.

00:14:59.860 Just like Kevin McCarthy,

00:15:01.560 we've seen enough of that particular brand of failure.

00:15:04.740 And we want to move away from

00:15:06.340 the American Enterprise Institute vision

00:15:09.280 of conservative public policy

00:15:11.500 and toward the America First vision for public policy.

00:15:17.040 That's what I represent.

00:15:18.120 It's what President Trump represents.

00:15:19.900 And undeniably, it is what Jim Jordan represents.

00:15:23.300 The one thing I'll miss though,

00:15:24.540 if Jim's speaker,

00:15:25.900 are these electric moments in committee

00:15:28.660 where he is able to display a skill set

00:15:32.320 that I admire,

00:15:34.080 that admittedly I try to replicate.

00:15:36.420 One of my favorites,

00:15:37.440 Jim Jordan torching Dr. Fauci.

00:15:40.400 Take a listen.

00:15:43.260 Dr. Fauci, over the last year,

00:15:44.840 Americans' First Amendment rights

00:15:46.160 have been completely attacked.

00:15:48.220 Your right to go to church,

00:15:49.340 your right to assemble,

00:15:50.240 your right to petition your government,

00:15:51.540 freedom of the press,

00:15:52.280 freedom of speech have all been assaulted.

00:15:54.820 I mean, for a year now,

00:15:56.480 Americans haven't been able to go to church.

00:15:57.720 Even today, when they go to church,

00:15:59.060 they're limited in the size of worshipers who can meet.

00:16:02.460 Your right to assemble?

00:16:04.200 Oh my goodness.

00:16:05.580 We had a curfew last fall in Ohio.

00:16:07.860 You had to be in your home at 10.

00:16:08.980 In Pennsylvania, you had to be in your home.

00:16:10.880 When you're in your home,

00:16:11.720 you had to wear a mask.

00:16:12.540 In Vermont, when you're in your home,

00:16:13.820 you didn't have to wear a mask, Dr. Fauci,

00:16:15.600 because you weren't allowed

00:16:16.580 to have people over to your house.

00:16:19.080 Yeah, Congressman Jordan.

00:16:20.620 Your ability to petition your government?

00:16:22.740 For a year,

00:16:23.560 for a year,

00:16:24.340 American citizens haven't been able 1.00

00:16:25.900 to come to their Capitol

00:16:27.320 to petition their government

00:16:29.040 to talk to their representatives

00:16:31.440 and freedom of the press.

00:16:33.320 These very pictures

00:16:34.240 that Representative Scalise

00:16:35.800 just showed you and talked about,

00:16:36.840 guess what?

00:16:38.300 The press isn't allowed

00:16:39.080 to in those facilities.

00:16:40.480 The Biden administration

00:16:41.720 will not let the press in there.

00:16:43.660 And certainly freedom of speech.

00:16:46.140 I mean, freedom of...

00:16:47.300 Governor of our third largest state

00:16:49.700 meets with physicians,

00:16:51.840 and that video is censored

00:16:54.940 because they dare to disagree

00:16:56.880 with Dr. Fauci.

00:16:58.680 So I just want to know,

00:16:59.680 when do Americans

00:17:00.180 get their First Amendment liberties back?

00:17:01.660 We're back live.

00:17:05.400 That was Jim Jordan

00:17:06.240 showing some of the best skills

00:17:08.140 in the House of Representatives

00:17:08.920 questioning Dr. Fauci.

00:17:10.140 And you are asking about the mask.

00:17:12.080 At that time

00:17:13.040 in the House of Representatives,

00:17:14.120 you were not even allowed

00:17:15.360 to be recognized.

00:17:16.580 You surrendered your questioning

00:17:18.040 if you did not wear a mask.

00:17:19.600 But I love the subtle act of defiance

00:17:22.700 for Jim Jordan,

00:17:23.520 not pulling it over the nose.

00:17:25.380 He never pulled it over the nose.

00:17:26.940 Maybe that was a little bit

00:17:28.440 of mask resistance.

00:17:30.460 There also is concern

00:17:31.780 about the J6 tapes.

00:17:32.780 We've seen this.

00:17:33.340 Julia just raised this point on Getter. 0.89

00:17:35.340 Is Jim Jordan going to be there

00:17:36.580 to get these J6 tapes released?

00:17:38.460 That is something

00:17:38.960 we still need to work on.

00:17:40.180 I plan to have a conversation

00:17:41.160 with him about it.

00:17:42.300 But with Jim Jordan,

00:17:43.940 you're going to know where you stand.

00:17:45.440 With McCarthy,

00:17:46.460 he made a promise.

00:17:47.920 He was derelict in the promise

00:17:49.100 on the J6 tapes.

00:17:50.480 And you just can't have that.

00:17:51.960 I want to see the J6 tapes released.

00:17:54.140 And a release does not mean

00:17:55.620 some curated hour at a terminal

00:17:59.440 for a few television producers.

00:18:02.840 I'm glad Tucker and his team

00:18:05.040 got to look at those tapes.

00:18:06.360 Jacob Chansley would be

00:18:07.500 in a prison cell rotting right now

00:18:09.640 if that had not occurred.

00:18:11.120 We have to acknowledge that.

00:18:12.440 But it is not enough.

00:18:13.660 And it is not what was promised.

00:18:15.360 And I'm hoping to speak

00:18:17.480 with Speaker Designate Jordan

00:18:18.740 about the importance of a timetable

00:18:21.320 for the release of this information.

00:18:23.560 And I see no basis for delay.

00:18:25.660 None at all.

00:18:26.220 I think it would be a terrific thing

00:18:27.740 to get that subpoena

00:18:28.880 for Hunter Biden out

00:18:29.940 in the first week of Jordan

00:18:31.200 and to get these J6 tapes released

00:18:33.460 at the outset of the Jordan speakership.

00:18:35.960 So thank you, Julia,

00:18:37.320 for raising that important point.

00:18:39.660 One of the other great Jordan moments,

00:18:43.180 his questioning of Robert Mueller.

00:18:44.780 Take a listen.

00:18:45.200 When the FBI interviewed him in February,

00:18:50.100 the FBI interviews him in February,

00:18:52.400 when the special counsel's office

00:18:54.120 interviewed Mifsud,

00:18:55.360 did he lie to you guys too?

00:18:56.900 Can't get into that.

00:18:57.980 Did you interview Mifsud?

00:18:58.960 Can't get into that.

00:19:00.380 Is Mifsud Western intelligence 1.00

00:19:01.920 or Russian intelligence?

00:19:03.200 Can't get into that.

00:19:04.640 A lot of things you can't get into.

00:19:06.420 What's interesting,

00:19:07.020 you can charge 13 Russians 0.98

00:19:08.260 no one's ever heard of,

00:19:10.180 no one's ever seen,

00:19:11.560 no one's ever going to hear of them,

00:19:12.940 no one's ever going to see them.

00:19:13.920 You can charge them.

00:19:15.280 You can charge all kinds of people

00:19:16.400 who are around the president

00:19:17.380 with false statements.

00:19:19.720 But the guy who launches every,

00:19:21.860 the guy who puts this whole story in motion,

00:19:24.980 you can't charge him.

00:19:27.040 I think that's amazing.

00:19:28.740 I'm not certain I agree

00:19:30.360 with your characterizations.

00:19:31.800 Well, I'm reading from your report.

00:19:33.600 Mifsud told Papadopoulos.

00:19:35.380 Papadopoulos tells the diplomat.

00:19:36.820 The diplomat tells the FBI.

00:19:38.280 The FBI opens the investigation

00:19:39.640 July 31st, 2016.

00:19:41.020 And here we are three years later

00:19:43.360 July of 2019.

00:19:45.040 The country's been put through this

00:19:46.480 and the central figure

00:19:47.680 who launches it all

00:19:48.640 lies to us.

00:19:51.260 And you guys don't hunt him down

00:19:52.340 and interview him again.

00:19:53.980 And you don't charge him with a crime.

00:19:56.140 Now here's the good news.

00:19:57.680 Here's the good news.

00:19:59.320 The president was falsely accused

00:20:00.740 of conspiracy.

00:20:01.560 The FBI does a 10-month investigation.

00:20:03.520 And James Comey,

00:20:04.100 when we deposed him a year ago,

00:20:05.540 told us at that point

00:20:06.460 they had nothing.

00:20:07.360 You do a 22-month investigation.

00:20:09.180 At the end of that 22 months,

00:20:10.180 you find no conspiracy.

00:20:12.220 And what's the Democrats want to do?

00:20:14.160 They want to keep investigating.

00:20:15.960 They want to keep going.

00:20:17.520 Maybe a better course of action,

00:20:19.840 maybe a better course of action

00:20:21.300 is to figure out

00:20:22.600 how the false accusation started.

00:20:24.920 Maybe it's to go back

00:20:25.860 and actually figure out

00:20:26.780 why Joseph Mifsud

00:20:27.640 was lying to the FBI.

00:20:29.340 And here's the good news.

00:20:31.020 Here's the good news.

00:20:32.400 That's exactly what Bill Barr's doing.

00:20:35.360 And thank goodness for that.

00:20:36.580 That's exactly what the attorney general

00:20:38.140 and John Durham are doing.

00:20:39.060 They're going to find out

00:20:39.880 why we went through this

00:20:41.340 three-year saga

00:20:43.360 and get to the bottom of it.

00:20:47.080 Clarity and purpose.

00:20:48.640 We're back live.

00:20:49.420 Megan on Facebook says,

00:20:50.660 Jim Jordan is the guy

00:20:51.900 who asks the questions

00:20:53.620 that lead to more questions.

00:20:56.060 And that is the curiosity

00:20:57.480 that our oversight

00:20:58.940 has largely been lacking

00:21:00.160 under Speaker McCarthy

00:21:01.040 because we would get

00:21:01.820 the subpoenas ready.

00:21:03.140 We would want document requests

00:21:04.840 to go out.

00:21:05.540 We would want people

00:21:06.460 in the witness chair.

00:21:07.280 and there just seemed

00:21:07.960 to be a bottleneck

00:21:09.060 in the Speaker's office

00:21:10.260 where we couldn't get things

00:21:11.420 dislodged and moving

00:21:12.940 and going toward an end

00:21:15.040 that would reveal

00:21:16.080 to the American people

00:21:17.160 what's really going on

00:21:18.340 in this government,

00:21:19.200 affecting them.

00:21:20.440 What's going on

00:21:21.080 with a compromised

00:21:22.000 first family

00:21:23.660 out there selling

00:21:24.660 access and influence

00:21:25.980 to foreigners

00:21:26.900 who want to harm

00:21:28.120 American interests

00:21:29.100 so that they can get rich.

00:21:31.700 I've been to Jim Jordan's home.

00:21:33.500 I've stayed there.

00:21:34.260 I've stayed the night.

00:21:35.620 This is someone

00:21:37.060 who knows his neighbors.

00:21:38.500 This is someone

00:21:39.000 who in his own community

00:21:40.320 people look to

00:21:41.820 for a helping hand,

00:21:43.360 for inspiration.

00:21:44.860 He served in the state legislature

00:21:46.220 before coming

00:21:47.360 to the United States Congress.

00:21:48.540 I did as well

00:21:49.300 and I think that is

00:21:50.540 really important service

00:21:52.100 to inform how we think

00:21:53.520 about governance

00:21:54.280 because so much is broken

00:21:56.060 here in Washington.

00:21:57.280 If you hadn't been

00:21:58.380 in any other lawmaking

00:22:00.520 or policy

00:22:01.220 or legislative body,

00:22:02.260 you might come here

00:22:02.920 and think this is

00:22:03.620 the only way to do it.

00:22:05.580 But those of us

00:22:06.180 who've come from

00:22:06.860 good legislatures

00:22:07.660 like Ohio,

00:22:09.280 like Arizona,

00:22:10.540 like Florida,

00:22:11.840 we've seen how budgets

00:22:13.920 get balanced,

00:22:15.200 how the appropriations process

00:22:16.940 can be used

00:22:18.140 even in a bipartisan way

00:22:20.320 to ensure that we're

00:22:21.320 doing programmatic review

00:22:23.100 of how your money

00:22:24.400 is being spent.

00:22:25.980 So I think that's really

00:22:26.800 going to inform

00:22:27.500 how Jim Jordan

00:22:28.700 asks questions,

00:22:30.300 maybe not from that dais

00:22:31.600 in the House Judiciary Committee,

00:22:33.480 but maybe in the Speaker's office

00:22:36.320 where we can get

00:22:37.120 some real answers.

00:22:38.980 We had someone today

00:22:40.420 at the meeting

00:22:41.420 where we were debating

00:22:43.000 Jordan's candidacy

00:22:44.100 get up and say,

00:22:45.480 well,

00:22:46.460 they were concerned

00:22:47.560 and undecided

00:22:48.540 about voting for Jim

00:22:49.600 because they see

00:22:50.900 all this great work

00:22:51.900 that I've been showing you

00:22:52.900 from the Judiciary Committee

00:22:53.860 and they wonder,

00:22:54.520 well,

00:22:54.600 if Jim's not there,

00:22:56.060 are we still going to have

00:22:57.040 the same rigor

00:22:58.260 and the same effort

00:22:59.700 in judiciary?

00:23:01.440 And I will tell you

00:23:03.260 exactly what I told

00:23:04.340 that congressman.

00:23:06.040 With Mike Johnson

00:23:07.320 and Chip Roy

00:23:08.640 and Dan Bishop

00:23:10.000 and yours truly,

00:23:11.760 we have got a great team

00:23:13.300 on the House Judiciary Committee.

00:23:14.760 And while there is

00:23:15.800 no replacing

00:23:16.640 a Jim Jordan,

00:23:18.560 we're going to do

00:23:19.200 everything we can

00:23:19.900 to make sure

00:23:20.500 that we take the lessons

00:23:22.180 we've learned from him

00:23:23.460 about how to ask questions,

00:23:25.700 how to move oversight forward

00:23:27.820 and we're going to do

00:23:29.240 a good job for you.

00:23:30.440 I can tell you that

00:23:31.480 with a very high confidence level

00:23:33.120 with people like Mike Johnson,

00:23:36.120 like Chip Roy,

00:23:37.580 like Dan Bishop,

00:23:39.180 we've got really,

00:23:40.120 really a great team

00:23:40.900 on that committee

00:23:41.720 and I look forward

00:23:42.480 to being a part of it

00:23:43.280 and to supporting

00:23:44.060 our leadership there

00:23:45.700 however we can

00:23:46.620 to make sure

00:23:47.340 that Jim's successful

00:23:48.220 and that we're successful

00:23:49.120 and this committee's got to do

00:23:51.000 really important work

00:23:51.760 just beyond the January 6th tapes.

00:23:53.380 It was a point made

00:23:54.040 by someone on Getter

00:23:54.920 watching the show

00:23:55.940 that it's about

00:23:56.920 the political prisoners.

00:23:58.180 It's not just about the tapes.

00:23:59.380 It's about this wide array

00:24:00.900 of civil rights violation

00:24:02.860 that has occurred

00:24:03.660 whether it's public defenders

00:24:05.620 who actually wanted

00:24:06.760 their clients

00:24:07.320 to get convicted,

00:24:08.560 whether it's judges

00:24:09.360 who gave draconian,

00:24:11.580 crazy sentences,

00:24:13.140 or whether it's an FBI

00:24:15.380 that was out there

00:24:16.860 harassing and targeting people

00:24:18.780 who had no intention

00:24:20.200 of ever committing a crime.

00:24:22.580 But in the morass

00:24:26.460 of just the protests

00:24:28.200 and riots on January 6th

00:24:30.180 may have crossed a line

00:24:31.360 onto federal property

00:24:33.060 that wasn't even marked,

00:24:35.380 that wasn't delineated

00:24:36.320 in any way.

00:24:37.100 So we still think about

00:24:38.140 those folks every day.

00:24:38.980 We have to fight for them

00:24:39.920 and we have to utilize

00:24:41.080 the Judiciary Committee

00:24:41.980 to deliver outcomes.

00:24:44.160 Process has failed us.

00:24:47.280 Outcomes, deliverables,

00:24:48.520 that is what we all

00:24:49.520 should be judged by.

00:24:50.320 That's what you should judge me by.

00:24:51.920 And I saw we weren't getting

00:24:53.060 those outcomes with McCarthy.

00:24:54.400 So we had to try

00:24:55.500 something different.

00:24:56.580 And I knew we would get

00:24:58.740 better than McCarthy.

00:25:00.780 But if we can move

00:25:01.900 these 55 votes,

00:25:03.600 we're going to do something

00:25:05.460 very special

00:25:06.160 and great for the country.

00:25:08.460 And it was even something

00:25:10.300 President Trump noted

00:25:11.240 that we're moving

00:25:11.920 in the right direction

00:25:12.600 with Jim Jordan.

00:25:13.220 As we showed you

00:25:13.880 on the program previously,

00:25:15.980 President Trump endorsed

00:25:16.940 Jim Jordan for speaker.

00:25:18.020 And I think for very good reason.

00:25:21.260 And we couldn't possibly

00:25:22.420 end the show

00:25:23.720 without giving you

00:25:25.020 some of the best

00:25:26.120 Jim Jordan moments.

00:25:27.820 And that collection

00:25:29.120 would be incomplete

00:25:30.120 without his questioning

00:25:31.500 of one of the most evil people

00:25:33.440 on the planet Earth, 0.98

00:25:34.600 Hillary Clinton.

00:25:35.480 Take a listen.

00:25:38.500 Heavily armed militants

00:25:40.000 assaulted the compound

00:25:41.080 and set fire to our buildings.

00:25:42.620 That's what it says.

00:25:43.660 Secretary Clinton.

00:25:43.840 And that's all good.

00:25:45.700 But you said you were

00:25:47.160 trying to communicate

00:25:47.840 to folks all over,

00:25:50.160 all the folks you have

00:25:51.100 around the Middle East,

00:25:51.900 right?

00:25:53.540 Yes, I was trying

00:25:54.440 to send a message, yes.

00:25:55.360 Okay, I got it.

00:25:56.360 But that's not what

00:25:57.200 the experts said.

00:25:58.520 They said,

00:25:59.180 don't conflate the events.

00:26:02.140 Tell the truth

00:26:02.740 about Benghazi.

00:26:03.900 Talk about what happened there.

00:26:06.020 Other places where the video

00:26:07.220 may have had an impact,

00:26:08.280 fine, say that.

00:26:09.280 Why did you put them

00:26:09.980 all together?

00:26:10.900 When you didn't do that

00:26:12.120 privately,

00:26:12.880 when you told your family

00:26:13.860 about Benghazi,

00:26:14.820 it was terrorists

00:26:16.060 killed two of our people.

00:26:17.680 When you talked 0.54

00:26:18.240 to the Libyan president,

00:26:20.380 Ansar al-Sharia did it. 0.95

00:26:21.520 Al-Qaeda did it. 0.97

00:26:22.720 When you talked

00:26:23.220 to the Egyptian

00:26:23.660 prime minister,

00:26:24.620 we know it's not a film,

00:26:25.540 we know it's not a protest,

00:26:26.460 we know it's not a video,

00:26:27.280 it's a terrorist attack.

00:26:28.560 Well, Congressman,

00:26:29.740 I was working off

00:26:31.060 the information

00:26:31.720 that we had,

00:26:32.880 which was that

00:26:33.980 Ansar al-Sharia

00:26:35.300 claimed responsibility.

00:26:37.000 And at that point,

00:26:38.600 I did say

00:26:40.360 that it was

00:26:42.440 an al-Qaeda

00:26:44.300 related group.

00:26:46.000 Madam Secretary,

00:26:46.520 look at the difference

00:26:47.760 in these two statements.

00:26:49.440 One says it wasn't

00:26:50.500 a pre-planned attack,

00:26:51.360 that's Jay Carney

00:26:51.900 talking publicly.

00:26:52.980 The other one says,

00:26:53.980 from your experts in Libya,

00:26:55.240 says it was

00:26:55.660 a well-planned attack.

00:26:56.740 Now, they could not

00:26:57.320 be further apart.

00:26:59.580 They could not be.

00:27:01.680 That's what

00:27:02.280 I'm having a hard time

00:27:04.300 figuring out.

00:27:04.800 And you know

00:27:05.040 what's interesting,

00:27:05.620 the date of this?

00:27:06.460 9-14-12,

00:27:07.640 9-14-12.

00:27:08.420 You know what else

00:27:08.840 happened on the 14th?

00:27:09.920 September 14th,

00:27:10.800 there's another document

00:27:11.440 that's kind of important.

00:27:13.620 That's the same day

00:27:14.620 that Ben Rhodes

00:27:15.780 drafted his

00:27:16.620 talking points memo.

00:27:18.800 Bullet point number two,

00:27:20.620 to underscore

00:27:21.400 that these protests

00:27:22.480 are rooted

00:27:23.080 in an internet video,

00:27:24.680 not a broader

00:27:25.420 failure of policy,

00:27:27.780 because we couldn't

00:27:28.480 have Libya,

00:27:29.860 Mr. Roskin pointed out

00:27:31.180 earlier,

00:27:31.460 we couldn't have

00:27:32.060 that fail,

00:27:33.120 can't have that.

00:27:33.720 So the same day

00:27:34.420 you got Jay Carney

00:27:35.180 saying this was

00:27:37.400 no way a pre-planned

00:27:38.520 attack,

00:27:39.200 and the experts

00:27:39.900 in Libya

00:27:40.420 talking Greg Hicks

00:27:41.600 and the Near Eastern

00:27:42.080 Affairs people

00:27:42.780 are saying it was

00:27:43.560 a well-planned attack

00:27:44.500 that same day,

00:27:45.640 the talking points

00:27:46.340 that get Susan Rice 0.99

00:27:47.400 ready for the Sunday

00:27:48.100 shows,

00:27:49.240 make sure you focus

00:27:49.960 on the video,

00:27:50.820 make sure you focus

00:27:51.560 on the video,

00:27:52.520 not about a broader

00:27:53.320 policy failure.

00:27:54.340 After all,

00:27:54.820 we got an election

00:27:55.360 coming in 50-some days.

00:27:59.100 We are back live.

00:28:00.200 I want to get to

00:28:00.660 some of the questions

00:28:01.360 folks have been

00:28:01.960 posting on our

00:28:03.500 social media platforms.

00:28:04.560 Remember,

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00:28:07.200 make sure you're

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00:28:15.960 ensure that your

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00:28:17.920 just the very nature

00:28:18.960 of the congressional

00:28:19.520 calendar is such that

00:28:20.600 we don't always go

00:28:21.360 live at the same

00:28:22.060 time.

00:28:22.480 So this is not

00:28:23.240 appointment viewing.

00:28:25.340 You've got to be

00:28:26.000 on notice ready

00:28:27.140 so that I can give

00:28:28.200 you the information

00:28:28.800 first.

00:28:29.460 So here's some of

00:28:30.000 the questions people

00:28:30.560 have.

00:28:30.820 First, will the

00:28:32.260 motion to vacate

00:28:33.400 still exist at a

00:28:35.220 one-person threshold?

00:28:36.780 The answer to that

00:28:37.360 question is yes,

00:28:38.840 unless it is changed.

00:28:40.500 Now a lot of

00:28:41.020 Republicans have

00:28:41.720 come to me and

00:28:42.500 some of my

00:28:42.920 colleagues saying

00:28:43.540 we want to

00:28:44.220 negotiate an

00:28:45.220 increase in the

00:28:46.520 threshold on the

00:28:47.200 motion to vacate.

00:28:49.100 And I'll tell you

00:28:49.640 this, I'm negotiable

00:28:51.460 if in exchange for

00:28:54.160 increasing the

00:28:54.800 threshold for maybe

00:28:55.620 one person to

00:28:56.600 three people or

00:28:57.320 five people or

00:28:58.140 more, we get

00:28:59.240 other ethics

00:29:00.160 reforms for

00:29:01.240 accountability over

00:29:02.260 the United States

00:29:02.900 Congress.

00:29:04.060 I've partnered with

00:29:04.840 Democrat Ro Khanna

00:29:05.900 to lay out some of

00:29:07.180 those reforms.

00:29:07.880 They include a

00:29:08.760 ban on congressional

00:29:09.600 stock trading, a

00:29:11.080 ban on taking

00:29:11.660 money from

00:29:12.260 lobbyists and

00:29:13.060 political action

00:29:13.680 committees, a

00:29:14.760 lifetime ban on

00:29:15.900 members of

00:29:16.400 Congress from

00:29:17.600 becoming registered

00:29:18.980 lobbyists or

00:29:20.120 registered foreign

00:29:20.840 agents.

00:29:21.920 If we did those

00:29:23.160 things, if we did

00:29:23.740 all of them, if we

00:29:24.400 did some combination

00:29:25.160 of them, I really

00:29:26.480 believe that your

00:29:27.540 interests would

00:29:28.940 would not be

00:29:29.620 left aside as

00:29:31.140 people are

00:29:31.640 valeting for the

00:29:32.720 special interests

00:29:33.420 and putting their

00:29:33.960 needs first.

00:29:34.700 I really think

00:29:35.360 that would be

00:29:35.660 important.

00:29:36.160 So right now, if

00:29:37.540 there's no change,

00:29:39.440 merely the

00:29:40.400 replacement of

00:29:41.280 McCarthy with

00:29:42.000 Jordan would not 0.99

00:29:43.680 change the motion

00:29:44.600 to vacate

00:29:45.040 threshold.

00:29:46.000 There may be an

00:29:46.620 effort to change

00:29:47.320 it.

00:29:47.840 I will only change

00:29:49.000 it if I get

00:29:49.840 substantial

00:29:50.380 accountability and

00:29:51.420 ethics reforms over

00:29:52.540 Congress.

00:29:53.480 Would love your

00:29:54.420 feedback on that.

00:29:55.640 If you've got

00:29:55.980 other ethics ideas

00:29:57.040 that ought to apply

00:29:58.020 to members of

00:29:58.560 Congress, leave

00:29:59.180 them in the

00:29:59.500 comments.

00:30:00.660 Send me a direct

00:30:01.240 message, let me

00:30:01.820 know what you're

00:30:02.160 thinking on it.

00:30:02.920 Next question.

00:30:04.900 You guys want to

00:30:05.440 know exactly the

00:30:07.040 55 names.

00:30:08.080 Someone says, I

00:30:08.700 want to know the

00:30:09.420 55 names so that I

00:30:10.660 can start working

00:30:11.240 the phones to get

00:30:11.920 these folks to vote

00:30:12.640 for Jim Jordan.

00:30:13.900 Now, some of these

00:30:14.600 55 have self-identified.

00:30:16.940 We showed you

00:30:17.440 Congressman John

00:30:18.200 Rutherford, Republican

00:30:19.200 from the Sunshine

00:30:20.600 State of Florida, who

00:30:21.760 said he right now

00:30:22.680 will not vote for

00:30:24.180 Jim Jordan.

00:30:24.700 He will vote for 0.86

00:30:25.300 Kevin McCarthy in

00:30:26.040 order to spite me, but

00:30:27.480 this was a secret

00:30:28.280 ballot.

00:30:29.380 And there was a

00:30:29.960 push among some in

00:30:30.960 the room to say, we

00:30:31.920 want a roll call.

00:30:32.760 We want to know who

00:30:33.560 the 55 are.

00:30:35.340 And Jim Jordan said,

00:30:38.500 let's not do that

00:30:39.440 right here, right now.

00:30:40.680 If you're part of the

00:30:41.380 55, I want you to

00:30:42.800 come to me.

00:30:43.780 I want to set up a

00:30:44.540 conversation.

00:30:45.420 I want to set up some

00:30:46.140 small group meetings.

00:30:47.260 I want to hear you

00:30:47.980 out.

00:30:48.280 I don't want to put

00:30:48.840 you on blast.

00:30:49.460 So I think there

00:30:50.680 might have been some

00:30:51.480 sense on the part of

00:30:52.520 Jim Jordan that if we

00:30:54.580 were to have like a

00:30:55.620 public flogging of

00:30:57.040 these people

00:30:57.660 politically, that

00:30:59.200 that could harden

00:31:00.000 their resistance to

00:31:01.260 his candidacy rather

00:31:02.420 than being more

00:31:03.100 accommodating to

00:31:04.100 hearing him out,

00:31:05.320 what he wants to do

00:31:06.020 and where he wants

00:31:06.480 to take the

00:31:06.920 conference.

00:31:07.420 So I think that is

00:31:08.820 very important.

00:31:10.200 And here's the

00:31:10.980 thing, one way or

00:31:11.580 the other, you're

00:31:12.000 going to know these

00:31:12.500 names because either

00:31:13.640 Monday or Tuesday,

00:31:15.460 depending on the

00:31:16.120 progress Jim makes,

00:31:17.060 we're going to the

00:31:17.840 floor and we're

00:31:18.960 taking these votes

00:31:19.880 and it ain't going to

00:31:21.080 be 55 at that time.

00:31:22.860 I think it'll be

00:31:23.360 considerably lower and

00:31:24.940 I think we'll, we'll

00:31:25.920 be successful in

00:31:26.760 getting Jim over the

00:31:27.360 line.

00:31:28.180 Another question about

00:31:29.140 the border.

00:31:30.300 Are we going to have a

00:31:31.380 speaker who cares about

00:31:32.200 the border?

00:31:33.220 I'll tell you this, we

00:31:34.880 just removed one who

00:31:36.300 gave it a lot of lip

00:31:37.140 service but didn't do

00:31:38.680 what was necessary.

00:31:40.980 We've got to tie border

00:31:42.220 policies to the budget.

00:31:43.840 You cannot give the

00:31:45.280 Biden administration

00:31:46.180 an endless amount of

00:31:48.360 debt that they can

00:31:49.260 accrue, continuing

00:31:50.720 resolutions without

00:31:52.760 forcing a closure of the

00:31:54.580 border.

00:31:55.500 So it's a point of

00:31:56.600 leverage.

00:31:57.480 On the Judiciary

00:31:58.380 Committee, we have

00:31:59.060 subject matter

00:31:59.800 jurisdiction over this

00:32:01.100 question and so I

00:32:02.720 think Jim Jordan is

00:32:03.760 uniquely poised to be

00:32:05.280 able to bring this

00:32:05.880 together.

00:32:06.720 HR2, our very best

00:32:08.400 border bill that we

00:32:09.200 passed and the Senate

00:32:10.040 won't take up and one

00:32:11.720 of the principal

00:32:12.160 architects of that

00:32:12.940 bill was Jim Jordan.

00:32:14.560 So I think he's going

00:32:15.040 to be great for us on

00:32:15.700 the border and I got to

00:32:17.120 say there is a little

00:32:18.160 nostalgia on the

00:32:19.200 live stream for the

00:32:20.940 Speaker Trump talk.

00:32:22.160 So let's just address

00:32:23.380 that.

00:32:24.180 Some of you have said

00:32:25.200 you really wanted to

00:32:26.060 see President Trump or

00:32:27.260 you really wanted to

00:32:27.880 see me as a candidate

00:32:29.380 for Speaker.

00:32:30.740 In our last episode, we

00:32:32.080 went over the prospect

00:32:34.500 of a Trump candidacy, the

00:32:35.820 prospect of a Gates

00:32:36.760 candidacy.

00:32:37.720 I went over why those

00:32:39.720 things were less likely

00:32:40.720 than the candidacy of

00:32:42.060 someone like a Jim

00:32:42.720 Jordan or a Steve

00:32:43.400 Scalise.

00:32:44.200 Steve Scalise has now

00:32:45.280 withdrawn.

00:32:46.400 He has backed Jim

00:32:47.980 Jordan and it looks like

00:32:50.400 we've really got the

00:32:50.980 wind at our back.

00:32:51.580 Now, there's more to

00:32:52.320 do.

00:32:53.340 My homework assignment

00:32:54.500 for everybody watching

00:32:55.300 Firebrand, listening to

00:32:56.260 Firebrand, keep your 0.94

00:32:58.000 eyes out for folks who

00:32:58.980 share the position of

00:33:00.020 Congressman John

00:33:00.720 Rutherford of Florida

00:33:01.540 that they refuse to

00:33:02.900 vote for Jim Jordan in

00:33:04.380 a nice, polite,

00:33:05.900 appropriate way.

00:33:07.160 I want you to

00:33:07.680 encourage them to back

00:33:08.740 Jordan and I trust you

00:33:11.120 to be able to do it.

00:33:12.000 I trust all of us

00:33:12.780 because we are the

00:33:15.860 only institution in

00:33:17.620 the U.S.

00:33:18.060 government right now

00:33:18.820 in the House of

00:33:19.320 Representatives that

00:33:20.620 Republicans can rely on

00:33:22.080 to fight and I

00:33:23.780 couldn't come to work

00:33:24.660 here every day not

00:33:26.260 fighting for you and

00:33:27.780 Kevin McCarthy got in

00:33:28.880 the way of that and I

00:33:30.700 think we can do better.

00:33:31.640 On Rumble, Jax says

00:33:33.280 that he used to believe

00:33:35.000 in me but not anymore

00:33:37.800 because he does not

00:33:38.800 think that Jim Jordan

00:33:39.520 does anything but talk

00:33:40.420 about stuff.

00:33:42.660 I could understand that

00:33:43.920 perspective but here's

00:33:45.840 what you should know.

00:33:46.380 here's what you don't

00:33:47.220 see.

00:33:48.280 All of the work we do to

00:33:49.880 try to get subpoenas, to

00:33:51.660 try to get accountability,

00:33:53.000 to try to get Hunter

00:33:53.780 Biden the witness chair, I

00:33:55.400 believe, based on my

00:33:56.920 experience on the

00:33:57.560 Judiciary Committee, that

00:33:58.640 the principal logjam for

00:34:00.220 that was in the House

00:34:01.360 Counsel's office and in the

00:34:02.600 Speaker's office.

00:34:03.680 So Jim Jordan's efficacy

00:34:05.120 was limited by Kevin

00:34:07.060 McCarthy.

00:34:08.840 And with Jim in the

00:34:10.340 Speaker's office, I think

00:34:11.620 we're going to have a

00:34:12.200 green light to get the

00:34:14.320 facts, expose the truth,

00:34:16.460 cut off the money to the

00:34:18.100 corrupt entities in our

00:34:19.200 government, and put

00:34:20.240 downward pressure on

00:34:21.240 spending.

00:34:22.040 So this is participatory.

00:34:23.700 You have a say in this.

00:34:25.000 You have agency in it.

00:34:26.600 I'm counting on you to

00:34:28.180 get on the phone lines, to

00:34:29.320 get on the internet, and

00:34:30.620 do everything you can to

00:34:31.680 help me elect Jim Jordan,

00:34:33.320 the 56th Speaker of the

00:34:34.860 House.

00:34:35.600 Thank you all so much.

00:34:36.700 Thank you for your

00:34:37.260 support.

00:34:37.980 Look forward to

00:34:38.460 chatting soon.

00:34:39.160 Roll the credits.

00:34:44.320 We'll see you next time.

The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz - October 14, 2023

Episode 120 LIVE： Speaker-Designate Jim Jordan – Firebrand with Matt Gaetz

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