The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz - October 14, 2023


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


Episode Stats

Length

35 minutes

Words per Minute

172.05695

Word Count

6,063

Sentence Count

410

Misogynist Sentences

5

Hate Speech Sentences

11


Summary

In this episode, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) announces his intention to become the next Speaker of the House of Representatives, and why he's the best choice to replace current Speaker Kevin McCarthy. He also addresses the criticism of Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-GAetz, who has been a frequent critic of his opponent, Jim Jordan.


Transcript

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.
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.
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,
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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
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
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,
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
00:26:18.240 to the Libyan president,
00:26:20.380 Ansar al-Sharia did it.
00:26:21.520 Al-Qaeda did it.
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
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,
00:28:05.220 if you are not
00:28:06.160 subscribed,
00:28:07.200 make sure you're
00:28:08.100 subscribed either
00:28:08.720 on our listening
00:28:09.220 platforms or our
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00:28:13.520 click the bell
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00:28:15.100 or YouTube to
00:28:15.960 ensure that your
00:28:16.380 notifications are
00:28:17.160 turned on because
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
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
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
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.