Episode 122 LIVE： 9 Speaker Candidates – Firebrand with Matt Gaetz
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On this episode of Firebrand, we discuss the upcoming speaker race, the current situation in the Middle East, and the potential second front in the Israeli-Hezbollah war in the north of the country, and much more.
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matt gates the biggest firebrand inside of the house of representatives you're not taking matt
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gates off the board okay because matt gates is an american patriot and matt gates is an american
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hero we will not continue to allow the uniparty to run this town without a fight i want to thank
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you matt gates for holding the line matt gates is a courageous man if we had hundreds of matt gates
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in dc the country turns around it's that simple he's so tough he's so strong he's smart and he
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loves this country matt gates it is the honor of my life to fight alongside each and every one of you
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we will save america it's choose your fighter time send in the firebrands
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welcome back to firebrand we are live broadcasting out of room 2021 of the rayburn house office
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building here in our capital complex in washington dc shout out to my man kevin smith watching at the
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loud majority on rumble we have a lot to get to war in the middle east we've got a speaker race coming
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up this episode i'm going to walk you through the nine announced candidates for speaker of the house
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who will be debating in just moments before the house republican conference laying out their vision
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i want you to get a keen understanding of what the path forward looks like for each of them some of the
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critical features of their voting record and really how we can unite behind someone who will make the
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republican conference a fighting force for the people again i've got lots to share about my perspective
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on the race the mainstream media has been freaking out because the normal powers that be are not in
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control of washington dc right now we have got a historic opportunity to democratize power to put
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the needs of the american people at the forefront again i can't wait to see what the next step is and
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i'm really really excited about what it could mean for really reshaping the rules in a deeply corrupt
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system first i want to go though to what's going on in the middle east and here is the direct statements
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from prime minister netanyahu to hezbollah regarding a potential second front in israel's war in the north
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if hezbollah decides to enter the war it will miss the second lebanon war it will make the mistake of
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its life we will cripple it with a force it cannot even imagine and the consequence for hezbollah and for
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the state of lebanon will be devastating but we are prepared for any scenario
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so this is something really important to watch right now israel is in an asymmetric conflict
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against these well-funded well-financed coordinated logistically centered terrorist groups but we do not
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want to see this conflict broaden into more state-on-state violence that's where this goes from an
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operation that israel's military is conducting in in gaza to a war that could sweep across the
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middle east and through parts of the muslim world in asia in africa we want to see israel succeed in
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destroying hamas that is the objective i believe that lebanon is one of the key countries to watch
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because lebanon has hezbollah as a political party occupying about a third of the the seats in their
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law making body and they've got a real goal to annihilate israel so while there are some positive
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features of what the lebanese government is doing while they're trying to hold it together amid a lot
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of economic strife and a banking collapse in lebanon lebanon would be the first country to descend into a
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civil war and so netanyahu understanding that is trying to reset deterrence with hezbollah and have
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them understand that this will not be the normal cycle of escalation this will not be hezbollah attacks
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and then israel has a proportionate response you will see a a complete uh destruction mode you will
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see a siege in southern lebanon and potentially in the golan heights around syria if you see those
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nations devolve into civil war and anti-semitic entities seeking to wipe israel off the map gain any sort
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of operational imperative uh in these early stages so very important i think it is quite the signal
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from prime minister netanyahu that this is a critical objective of israel to deter uh any sort
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of lebanese involvement in the war and to deter hezbollah to the max extent possible i do believe
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that us having two carrier groups in the eastern med gives uh other countries that would seek to escalate
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this uh reason to not do so doesn't mean we should be moving carrier groups through the suez canal
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i think that that uh has real force protection risks to it but in the eastern mediterranean
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we can be a part of helping israel set deterrence and i'm glad in fact that we are doing that here at
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home there's other news that's troubling as well i want to bring your attention to a piece by will
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kessler and the daily caller styled americans are burning through savings to keep biden's economy
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afloat so the biden administration is noting that there is economic growth now but if you peel back
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a lot of that growth is funded by high consumer deficit spending where you're seeing aprs increase
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on credit cards uh and i'm quoting now directly from the piece to sustain this level of consumer
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spending americans are draining their savings spending more than they are bringing in as their
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wages stay stagnant or decline ej antonio a research fellow at heritage foundation quoted saying people
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need more savings today than ever to cope with the higher cost of living and instead many families are
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heading into the next recession with less savings and more debt so as the biden administration tries to
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show you economic growth numbers know that that comes on the backs of the savings of the american
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people and as the american people burned through savings more and more are utilizing credit cards
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to bridge from one month to the next with high government spending and high interest rates that apr on those
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credit cards is increasing and ej and tony making this argument in the daily caller piece that uh we may
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very well be heading into a recession and if we are it is the government spending that i am trying to
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stop in this town that is driving it and it was that government spending that kevin mccarthy was all too
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willing to advance as house speaker now we've got the opportunity to get a new house speaker and there are
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nine announced candidates in this round of the balloting and i agree with what my colleague bob good said
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recently i would rather get this done right than just get it done quickly we've never seen anything
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like this in washington dc before where the core of the control center that the lobbyists and the
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special interests have on the leadership and on the agenda that has been shaken that has been disrupted
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and and now we've got nine folks and we may have a speaker among them so i'm going to go through these
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in alphabetical order i'm going to tell you a little bit about these folks please don't take
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anything i say positive or negative about them as dispositive on my vote i think that with any of
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these people you're going to have to have to weigh multiple factors okay and at the end of the day
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the the ideal candidate that i would have liked to have seen jim jordan well he came 17 votes short of
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the speakership and while that's discouraging to many and certainly it's got a lot of folks fired up
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in the live chat right now what i can tell you is that we have moved the ball forward for conservatism
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just by where we are right now consider this just three speakers ago jim jordan was called a
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legislative terrorist by john boehner and just like three days ago we had jim jordan within 17 votes
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of the speakership that shows you the direction this is moving and the american people who are
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engaged and demanding more you are the ones that are the driving force in that movement so let's get
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to these nine candidates now uh with full context that i'm describing them to you not trying to
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persuade you one way or the other on these folks there's just things i think you need to know
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so alphabetical order let's start with jack bergman jack bergman is the highest ranking member of the
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military to have ever served in congress in america's history general bergman served in the
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united states marine corps now he's a more moderate member of congress he's from the state of michigan
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represents the upper peninsula there he was actually elected class president when i entered congress so
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several of the people that you're uh you're going to hear about or certainly mike johnson i guess in
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addition to bergman uh from the same class that was elected with me in 2016 jack bergman was elected
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our class president uh always viewed uh viewed well among the members of our class member of the
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armed services committee with me has also served as a member of the veterans affairs committee now one
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thing about jack bergman he voted for the debt limit increase that is in many ways the original sin
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of the mccarthy era of the speakership before that debt limit vote kevin mccarthy was actually doing
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a pretty good job as house speaker wouldn't have lost his job but when they did the deal to underwrite
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an unlimited amount of biden debt through january 1 of 2025 you created this runway for the very
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weaponized government that we have been fighting against so i i will certainly weigh in my decision
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the fact that jack bergman was a yes vote on that bad debt limit deal i think that that we probably uh
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would do better with someone who didn't vote for that and that brings us to our next uh candidate
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for speaker byron donalds my fellow florida man so i i am a little biased byburn and i have known each
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other for quite some time uh we've been on the campaign trade together throughout florida politics
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helping republicans get elected we served in the state legislature together byron donalds is a respected
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member of the house freedom caucus he is a dynamic communicator uh in one area where he and i had
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disagreement and it was uh it was renoted on social media somewhat recently uh byron had supported a
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continuing resolution that demanded some policy changes on the border and that had ostensibly
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some spending cuts for 30 days i did not support that i think governing by continuing resolution is a bad
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idea but byron is considered probably you know among the more conservative members of this field
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and someone who's certainly got a lot of people excited i know having campaigned with byron across
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florida throughout the country he's a very dynamic guy and when people interact with him on the campaign
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trail they seem to like him uh so byron donalds another candidate for our speaker the the real question i had
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with donalds he's in he's in his second term i think second or third term i think he's in his second
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term and there are some here who believe that you've got to have extensive seniority you've got to have
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been in washington for 10 12 years to even be considered frankly all the people we've considered to date
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have had at least a decade of experience in congress and and byron has less congressional experience
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but i would remind people that he's got experience in the state legislature and one of the features of
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his candidacy that i think he's been promoting is that he's not been entirely encapsulated in the
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beltway view of thinking and that as someone who's a former state lawmaker like many members of congress
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are we might be able to reset that that semblance of federalism where the congress doesn't have to solve
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every problem where we've got states doing what's within their constitutional purview so that is byron
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donalds next alphabetically tom emmer he is the current whip of the republican conference and in
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that role he is very well thought of from our more moderate members to our more conservative members
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as a truth teller tom emmer is one of the few members of leadership who doesn't lie to the membership
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there is a trump factor here president trump initially put out a statement that he did not support tom emmer
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he'd apparently heard things that were concerning to him about how tom emmer had run the campaign arm of
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the republican caucus the nrcc i am told that president trump and tom emmer spoke over the
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weekend and that that conversation went well so we'll see if there are other comments from president
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trump about tom emmer though tom emmer is the whip of the congress it is important to note that emmer has
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only been in that position for nine months whereas other members of leadership at times struggled with
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uh with members who said well you know you're part of the same system you're part of the same structure
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and some had been members of that system and structure for many years here tom emmer has been there for nine
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months i think the membership likes him now there there have been some clips that have been coming out
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from his time as a minnesota uh based politician lawmaker i think he ran for governor in minnesota
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came up just just short in in the closest of races there as minnesota was taking kind of a bluish turn
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uh you know you could find old clips about just about anybody and and use them if they've been in
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politics long enough we'll see if those motivate a lot of conservative activists to oppose emmer i
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certainly have seen the most opposition to emmer online as opposed to any of these other candidates
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uh we'll see if that ends up being dispositive for for folks and another thing you should know about
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tom emmer he too voted for the debt limit deal so if if you're viewing that as dispositive as i am if
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you're viewing that as critical to where the house of representatives is right now it's quite the tell
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tom emmer was a yes vote on the bad mccarthy debt limit deal that brings us to our next candidate
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kevin hearn kevin hearn is the chairman of the republican study committee that is the largest
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conference in the united states congress and kevin hearn is a guy who grew up on public assistance
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got a job at a mcdonald's became scraped together enough money to get a mcdonald's franchise
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and then became one of the most successful mcdonald's franchisees in the country and as it just so
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happens i have a delivery from kevin hearn that came just as we were starting the show
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and uh i'll i'll read you his platform uh he's a he's a congressman from arkansas
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and it reads actually is he from he's from oklahoma isn't he yeah oklahoma my mistake
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all right dear colleague how would you get us back on track that is the question i've received most
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since announcing my bid for speaker to me the answer is simple if we want better outcomes we need to
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pursue a fresh approach but truth is congress has not been working properly for a long time
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here are some facts 38 that's the number of continuing resolutions we've passed in the last
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10 years eight that's the number of omnibus spending bills we've passed in the last 10 years
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1977 the last and only time congress passed a budget and enacted all of its appropriations bills
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separately and on time think about that 1977 last time we followed the law but i'm the crazy one
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that wants us to follow the law back to hearn's letter 1208 the number of unauthorized programs
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at the beginning of fiscal year 2023 we've talked a lot about this over 1200 unauthorized programs
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we've got to stop spending money in this way so back to the hearn letter two the number of years we
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are away from debt interest payments surpassing annual defense funding and the letter goes on to talk
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about the number of americans that are dying from the national debt the debt uh increase now
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approaching 34 trillion dollars and an approval rating for congress of 17 percent hearn talks about
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his 35 years of leadership in the mcdonald's organization motivating people and you know what
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let's see what he sent us a cheeseburger actually we got two of them and uh you know they say there's a lot
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of stuff that goes on to buy and sell votes in this town but kevin hearn sending me a mcdonald's burger
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probably one of the best efforts we've had so far i'm taking a bite
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oh it's been a long time since i've had a mcdonald's burger
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all right that's kevin hearn's candidacy we'll see if anybody else sends any other uh any other
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fast food that brings us to the next candidate mike johnson
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mike johnson a constitutional conservative a brilliant attorney whips jamie raskin up and down the floor
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whenever they debate the finer points of constitutional law uh on the judiciary committee mike johnson has
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been central to a lot of the oversight we've been conducting over the biden crime family over the
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fbi the doj the atf here here is the uh is the challenge that mike johnson will have to overcome
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he did not vote for the debt limit deal but the challenge he'll have to overcome is that he's from
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the state of louisiana and our number two right now steve scalise who withdrew from the speaker contest
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is also from louisiana so i know this sounds crazy but as qualified as mike johnson is and he would
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make a phenomenal speaker i can tell you that right now having worked with him there are some people
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who don't want to vote for mike johnson because they're concerned about the centralization of power
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with a speaker of the house and a majority leader from the state of louisiana i don't view that as all
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that important but it's something he's going to have to work through also mike johnson's not a member
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of the house freedom caucus a lot of times he aligns with the conservative perspective and viewpoint
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some members of the freedom caucus say well if you're a real conservative that wants our backing
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you should be in the freedom caucus full disclosure i'm not a member of the freedom caucus
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i think that you can be a conservative and be more independent minded or you don't have to necessarily
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be a sworn in member of the house freedom caucus in order to fight for the american people
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mike johnson's going to be a really strong candidate for the speakership
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next is dan muser dan muser's from pennsylvania uh he is more uh i think drawing on a base of
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suburbanite republicans to support his candidacy he supported the debt limit deal uh and you know
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that he's going to make a case that someone from a swing state like pennsylvania someone who can
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uh make a case to country club republicans uh would would be helpful that'll be the the central
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candidacy of dan muser next it brings us to gary palmer gary palmer is currently the policy chairman
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he's viewed within the republican conference as someone who is uh wonky who understands the
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intricacies of policy choices he studies budget issues and entitlement issues very closely i served
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on the budget committee with gary palmer i can tell you this guy is a fiscal hawk he's from the state
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of alabama so hey if we went from a house speaker from california to a house speaker from alabama
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uh that that has its own panache to it i think he understands how to reform entitlement programs
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he is a devout christian and more of a mild-mannered guy a gary palmer he played wide receiver at the
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university of alabama was quite the standout athlete a pretty fast guy we hear but he's not the person
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um to take over a room with his mere presence i think he's more of a of a student of the
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intricacies of policy more mild-mannered in his nature next up is pete sessions of texas and pete
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sessions is a bit of a throwback candidate prior chairman of the house rules committee under house
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speaker paul ryan and he was really ousted from that that rules committee seniority and that rules
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committee position under kevin mccarthy so he and mccarthy do not get along particularly well
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he will pete sessions will draw heavily on the fact that he's from the largest delegation in for
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republicans in the country that's the texas delegation if all of the texans get behind pete
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sessions i think he's got a really high probability of of coming out of the gate with a strong base of
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support and he'll make the argument that just like the texas delegation the republican conference has
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more conservatives more suburbanites more centrists more moderates so if he could convince that
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delegation to support him he would likely argue that that would allow him to bring in people from
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the various factions of our conference to be able to lead us effectively that is the pete sessions case
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from texas former rules chairman that brings us to our final candidate austin scott austin scott
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from the state of georgia you'll remember he challenged jim jordan got 81 votes in that contest
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i praised austin scott online because after he was defeated by jim jordan he backed him 100 for
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speaker voted for him three times was working hard to get the gavel for jordan and i just think that's
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a class act it's a total uh i think you know responsible thing to do after someone bests you
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in a contest like that to back them he is running on a campaign that includes consequences for the eight
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of us who did not support kevin mccarthy including yours truly he serves on the house armed services
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committee and the agriculture committee he voted for the debt limit deal that many of us oppose i i i want
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to play one clip for you because it overlays one of my principal critiques of this town i've told you
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that washington dc is a corrupt place and the lobbyists and bundlers and political action
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committees exist for one principal reason to use the money that lawmakers need for political campaigns
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in order to extract favors that otherwise they would never get because in the absence of all of that
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our principal motivation would be to put the needs of our constituents our voters first but if you view
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money as the principal path to get to the voters well then you end up working for the lobbyists and the
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special interests we are live broadcasting to you right now from the rayburn building but if i were to
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take about 30 or 40 steps outside of this building i would go across the street where there is an
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office building for the republican national committee and the national republican congressional
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committee across the street from the capital is where our party leaders and bosses often meet with
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lobbyists to get commitments for them to provide money and then ultimately to receive those donations
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in the form of fundraisers gatherings policy conferences dinner that all happens just across the street
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from where we are right now when you're in the capital building it is not only verboten it's quite literally
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against the law to talk about fundraising and donations you have to do that across the street you can't do it in the
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astonishingly i watched former house speaker kevin mccarthy make the case on meet the press that what's most important
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when evaluating a potential candidate for speaker is not just how they will lead inside the capitol building it is what
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they will do across the street for the lobbyists and special interests take a listen
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this is not a moment in time to play around with learning on the job we need someone who understands how to do this job
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i believe tom emmer our whip he's been in the room with all of our successes from our bills to secure the border from
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parents bill of rights from cutting two trillion dollars getting work requirements he knows how to do the job across the
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street at the same time helping us win the majority he's he sets himself head and shoulders above all those others who want to run we
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need to get him elected this week and move on and bring this not just party together but focus on what this country needs most
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so did you hear the tell kevin mccarthy while endorsing his preference for house speaker
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literally referenced the across the street work as central to the position you see it's it's the
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parlance in washington you talk about the people who are best at laundering special interest money
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at being good across the street i can't i just can't believe that that was so off-putting to me
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so debasing that the way we have to evaluate leadership is based on who can go and launder the
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most lobbyist money and then all of that money has strings attached the live stream is going crazy
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with different people offering their perspective nobody wants to return to kevin mccarthy some of you
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just want no speaker if the house of representatives is so eager to open up to send money to ukraine
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there is substantial sentiment that uh maybe if we kept the lights off for a few more days we might
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get people oriented back to a perspective to put the needs of our fellow americans before the needs of
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which guy next wants to run crimea uh also a lot of sentiment for candidates that i did not list
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so donald trump we we have thrown this lure as many times as is possible president trump does not want
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to be considered candidate for house speaker uh i've tried troy nels has tried marjorie taylor green's
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tried lauren boebert's tried nunes nunes is another one picking up particularly on rumble a lot of
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positive sentiment i would absolutely vote for devin nunes for speaker there are other folks who aren't
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in the congress now prior members who've been thrown out some people throughout newt gingrich i think
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that's a terrible idea actually throwing out newt gingrich was the good idea throwing his name out for
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speaker not so much but lee zeldin got a number of votes in prior rounds and lee zeldin is someone i
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could absolutely support for speaker but i i talked to a lot of our members and i just want to bring
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you inside the decision making here right now about one out of every four people in the united states
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congress would not vote for someone who's not a current member of the body i would but one in four
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wouldn't even consider such a person so as as attractive as people like devin nunes and lee zeldin
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as unifying consensus options i think they would they would struggle to win over a sufficient number
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of institutionalists to be able to get there can't let you go without showing you how the
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mainstream media is freaking out about what's going on in the house right now they the power centers of
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the establishment in the mainstream media are so aligned they are really losing it lead opinion in
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the new york times the people who broke the house and if you're watching right now on youtube rumble
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on x or facebook you can see that the camera guys get a pretty good look at my phone if you zoom in
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there you can see i'm i'm charting in the second round of the jordan balloting who is voting and who
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they're voting for but they make the argument that i've broken broken the house this is the same new york
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times that often calls me far right and extreme but they actually charted out the ideology of the
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people who blocked mccarthy and then the people who blocked jordan and it tells you an interesting
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story so if you're watching right now i'm sorry if you're if you're one of our tens of thousands of
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listeners you can use this time to go and give me a five-star rating leave a review but if you're
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watching you can see on the screen this chart that the new york times has put together showing the
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ideologies of the republicans who were against mccarthy the most uh moderate the the closest to
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the center uh nancy mace the most conservative andy biggs and there you see me nestled right there in
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the center right of the republican conference kind of right where i want to be reflecting the views of
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our fellow americans without any sort of of of agenda beyond what would make life better for
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people in northwest florida so whenever the new york times calls me an extreme right hard line member
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going forward i may have to show them their own data that suggests otherwise but then the story gets
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even richer if you go to the next chart you see the people who blocked jim jordan and ken buck
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very conservative he's the most conservative person who blocked jordan and and then though at the end
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i'm pretty sure buck was not going to stand between jim jordan and the speakership i actually have some
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some information on that so he wasn't really the one blocking jordan but it's all these dots on the left
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the most liberal members of our caucus blocked the most popular republican in the united states house of
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representatives and they did so because their lobbyist friends knew that jim jordan wouldn't put
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them first and wouldn't be a part of this corrupt system and it's a shame but this is also a hundred
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percent an exercise in exposing the people who do not truly work for you there's another piece in the
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wall street journal molly ball the headline matt gates tore the house gop apart he isn't sorry and the
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he says in part mccarthy told reporters listen the whole country i think would scream at matt gates
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right now and molly ball continues gates a canady student of procedure with a knack for tapping the
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conservative zeitgeist has taken it upon himself to assemble a shifting band of dissidents and up to now
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he's been dramatically successful while critics accuse gates of attention-mongering he insists he is
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about outcomes not headlines chaos doesn't scare me american decline does whether mccarthy is
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replaced by a similar figure or a more conservative one gates wins either way said liam donovan a
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republican lobbyist if a conservative wins it would make gates a hero to the right otherwise it would
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further his argument that the dc cartel is conspiring to frustrate conservative aims i do not know who
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liam donovan is the republican lobbyist cited in this article but he's kind of right if we end up with a more
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conservative speaker then we will have achieved the objective of upgrading the position maybe it's not the ideal
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person you want if you're hoping for donald trump or jim jordan or devin nunez or me it's not going to
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be that first choice but if it's someone more conservative then we've moved in the right direction
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and if it's not you will know why you won't have to wonder why republicans in congress continue to send
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out press releases and tweets about their intentions and what they're going to fight and what they're going
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to defund you see what they're willing to fight for one of them illinois congressman mike bost even
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wanted to fight me seen people get to the microphone with tears in their eyes about
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how much they love one leader another they never were that concerned as joe biden was opening the
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border and as our fellow americans were being poisoned by fentanyl i can tell you that their way
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the establishment hacks are way more worried about their precious power centers here than about what's
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happening to the american people right now and so yeah it's either going to be more conservative or
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it's not in either way you're going to win because you're going to have better outcomes or you're going
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to have a specific pathway on what you have to do to get them and we are demystifying this and i'm glad
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we're doing it we're doing it all over the country too not just here in washington i was traveling over the
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weekend in the fifth district of virginia with my friend bob good and i had a chance to stop at
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appomattox courthouse and i just i just couldn't resist making this little video for you take a listen
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well that's about as useless as confederate money it's a saying to denote that something has lost
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all of its value it's because right behind me at appomattox courthouse when general robert e lee
00:32:44.500
surrendered to ulysses s grant everyone holding confederate money all of a sudden saw the value
00:32:51.300
go to zero well you know what over this last week there's been a lot of criticism over what we've done
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in the united states congress one thing i can tell you all the lobbyists and special interests who gave
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kevin mccarthy a billion dollars they're all holding confederate money because the ious from the swamp
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and the special interests have gone to zero and the interests of the american people they're about
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so we are back live in just a few hours i'll be meeting directly with austin scott one of the
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candidates he's invited a group of us to chat with him about his vision we ought to be open-minded
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listening to everyone a lot of you on the live stream are asking who who are my favorites
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so i'll end the show with that look i believe that what you just heard from kevin hearn is a real
00:33:45.420
plan this is a real plan to stop governing by continuing resolution and it's serious and he's
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a very serious person he would make a phenomenal speaker i've sat next to mike johnson for seven
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years on the house judiciary committee i know that if he is the speaker of the house everything that
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kevin mccarthy has done to block the release of the january 6 tapes to block our subpoenas that will
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be over and it will be a new era of exciting leadership mike johnson would make a phenomenal
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speaker and of course you know how i feel about byron donalds my fellow florida man a dynamic
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communicator an inspiring choice someone who has effectively worked across the conference to bring
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bring people to i think a more conservative position but a unifying issue a position on a number
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of issues including our big border bill hr2 byron donalds also shares a lot of the concerns of
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coastal communities that impact northwest florida so i think that he would also make a phenomenal choice
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for house speakers so those are three of the nine that i'm real excited about and i'm gonna allow
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myself the opportunity to hear what the others have to say it's not about one man it's not about one
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person it's not even about us you see that's why seven of the eight offered last week to accept
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punishment or sanction removal from the conference if people were willing to get past their issues and
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vote for jim jordan but we can we can still end up with a phenomenal speaker the plan wasn't jordan or
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bust uh these other men are of great virtue and i think that we're going to hear a lot more tonight
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