00:00:41.000His spirit, his love of this country, he's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
00:00:49.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:01:30.000I mean, my view is I think the debate was actually really productive because, yeah, we can get the young guy versus establishment politician, you know, hurling insults at me thing out of the way.
00:02:02.000From the question about climate change, Charlie, where I was the only person on stage willing to speak the truth, that the climate change agenda is a hoax.
00:02:20.000It's about recognizing the truth in Ukraine.
00:02:22.000Do we actually want to fight a foreign war that does not advance American interests?
00:02:27.000Or do we wish to use those same resources to secure our own borders and our own homeland in this country?
00:02:34.000And in that sense, I think it was a really successful debate.
00:02:37.000I'm glad about people were pleased by my performance.
00:02:40.000Frankly, I was a first-time debater on a political debate stage.
00:02:44.000So I'm glad that I came out the winner.
00:02:46.000But even more importantly, I think this is going to make the Republican Party stronger and the country stronger by hopefully sunsetting this old GOP model that I think we finally got to put a nail in the coffin on.
00:02:57.000Let me read you some of these headlines.
00:02:59.000Ramaswamy suddenly becomes a force after the GOP debate.
00:03:02.000Ramaswamy makes impression nationally inside Vivek Ramaswamy's astonishing rise.
00:03:07.000How Vivek Ramaswamy broke through at the first GOP debate.
00:03:10.000These are like New York Times Politico.
00:03:11.000So I think that, I mean, it's by far the big takeaway here.
00:03:14.000Now, Vivek, you know, we've been hammering the other people on stage with you.
00:03:17.000You were the only person that stood in contrast with the neocon, neoliberal agenda.
00:03:26.000And my favorite part of the whole debate is like finally when Ukraine came up, we were streaming live.
00:04:03.000Yeah, so I want your comments on that.
00:04:05.000I mean, this is a donor audience, right?
00:04:07.000So the puppet masters, many of them were in the audience yesterday.
00:04:12.000I was speaking to the people at home, but the people in that audience are largely the puppet masters in the super PAC class that are pulling the strings of the super PAC puppets who are on stage.
00:04:22.000And that's the problem with the Republican Party.
00:04:32.000And I think this is the problem, not just with our party, because it's a problem in both parties, Charlie, but it is a problem with American politics is that the politicians themselves are just, if I may use the term, listless vessels for the super PACs that effectively prop them up.
00:04:50.000I have the capacity to speak the truth.
00:04:52.000I've been blessed to live the American dream.
00:04:54.000I'm grateful for that, grateful to this country for giving me that opportunity.
00:04:58.000But I have to make a sacrifice to avoid being that super PAC puppet.
00:05:02.000And so we're putting boatloads of my own hard-earned money into this campaign precisely because I want to avoid relying on the people who are in that audience to prop me up.
00:05:12.000And that's what allows me to speak the truth on an issue like Ukraine, where it was an anaphylactic action on that stage, but it's in much of the Republican Party as well that is attached to this idea that the USSR still exists.
00:05:25.000I had to educate Mike Pence on stage that the USSR fell back in 1990 and awakened to the idea that communist China is actually the real threat we face today.
00:05:34.000And we're making the Russia-China alliance stronger by driving Russia further into China's hands by extending this war in Ukraine.
00:05:41.000And so I hope we actually delve in the next few debates into this, Charlie.
00:05:45.000This is what separates the boys from the men in some ways in our party, separates those who are true to this country versus those who are true to slogans they memorize back in 1980.
00:05:54.000And I think that this should be one of the areas where we go deep in the debates over the course of this fall.
00:05:59.000These mindless soundbites of kind of neocon days past.
00:06:03.000I mean, first of all, Mike Pence was so disgusting to you.
00:06:28.000I mean, we're living through a color revolution, an administrative state siege on the American people.
00:06:33.000These one-liner platitudes, Mike Pence, are not going to cut it.
00:06:36.000I thought that honestly, for a guy that I've always considered to be Mike Pence to be an honorable man, he was acting like a jerk on stage, be honest.
00:07:07.000Well, I'll kind of lift the curtain a little bit and tell you the conversation we have in between the commercial breaks, which is usually if I see him at these events on the campaign trail, all I get is, how's the family doing?
00:07:17.000I've gotten, can't tell you how many handwritten sign notes I've gotten from Mike Pence in the last two years.
00:07:23.000I don't know if that was courting me as a prospective donor or whatever, but they'd arrive in the mail hand sign, asking about the family every time he sees me.
00:07:29.000So I actually congratulated him in the commercial break because I said, I didn't know you had it in you.
00:07:34.000I was actually kind of proud of him because this is a guy who's kind of presented himself as a little bit of a teddy bear, a little bit of a guy going through the motions, reading the scripts his handlers give him.
00:07:43.000And there seemed to be on stage for the first time a genuine animus in his eyes.
00:07:48.000Like he actually came alive in some of those vitriolic attacks on me.
00:07:53.000And my true sense was I was kind of proud of him to actually see an independent, lively soul somewhere in there beyond the platitudes.
00:08:02.000That actually made me somewhat proud of the man.
00:08:15.000CNN asked real voters, not Super Pat Master, Pfizer, Johnson, Pfizer, Johnson and Johnson, AstraZeneca, Moderna, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, or Northrop Grumman donors that were in well attendance last night.
00:08:27.000Hey, who do you think won Play Cut 132?
00:12:20.000Well, look, I mean, I've answered this question a lot on different podcasts, but it's good.
00:12:23.000It's good for people to be skeptical and ask the questions.
00:12:26.000So when I was 24 years old, I was in Yale Law School.
00:12:30.000In the fall of my 1L year, there was an opportunity to win a scholarship, which I did win, which was funded by not George Soros, but a relative of George Soros, Paul Soros, his brother, who's long dead, who made his money independently, to attend law school.
00:12:51.000It would have been idiotic at that age to turn down that scholarship.
00:12:55.000But the reality is there is one candidate.
00:12:58.000I don't mean to be, you know, hurling insults at anybody, but I do find it kind of funny that there's one candidate in this race that George Soros has expressly come out and supported.
00:13:08.000There's one candidate in this race, or at least has said good things about that he wants to see him win the primary.
00:13:13.000One candidate who George Soros' investment partners have hosted a fundraiser for.
00:13:19.000I'm not going to hold that against him.
00:13:20.000And, you know, even if you, even if you date back to Trump, who I love, who many of your audience members love, Trump took $160 million loan from George Soros.
00:13:27.000That doesn't mean that he's owned by George Soros.
00:13:39.000And the truth of the matter is they're probably really upset that I ever won that now that they see what I've become and what I'm doing in this country.
00:13:58.000So the thing that is laughable, Charlie, is the number of headlines that came out in the last week.
00:14:03.000And I think this is coming from the Nikki Haley camp in particular, based on what she said last night, but I think it's coming from other camps too.
00:14:09.000Headlines putting words in my mouth that I never said.
00:14:15.000I've said it a couple of other times, that it would be a mark of success for Israel and for the U.S. if we ever got to a point where Israel no longer even required the relatively minimal amount of aid that the U.S. provides to Israel.
00:14:30.000That fact alone made people lose their minds.
00:14:32.000Let me just be clear about where I am on Israel.
00:14:35.000I am highly confident, Charlie, that by the end of my first term, our relationship with Israel will actually be stronger than it has ever been because I will not treat it as a client relationship.
00:14:57.000I'll lead Abraham Accords 2.0, major achievement of the Trump administration.
00:15:02.000Well, we can take that to the next level by getting Saudi Arabia, Oman, Qatar, Indonesia into that pact.
00:15:07.000Say that we're not going to hold Israel hostage over a fringe Palestine question before integrating itself into the economic and security infrastructure of the Middle East.
00:15:15.000Stand hard in a partnership with Israel to make sure that Iran never, ever, actually ever has nuclear capabilities.
00:15:22.000But I also want to learn from Israel, to be perfectly honest with you.
00:15:26.000As a friend, friends learn from each other.
00:15:27.000I would love Israel's border policies in this country.
00:15:30.000I would love Israel's tough on crime policies in this country.
00:15:33.000I would love a national identity in this country, like Israel has in its own country.
00:15:38.000I would love an iron dome protecting our homeland in the way that it protects Israel from Hamas.
00:15:43.000And so those are great attributes of Israel.
00:15:46.000And I say this as somebody who's probably been to Israel in the last 10 years more than most of the other candidates on that stage last night.
00:16:06.000And the irony that bothers the heck out of me is you have a bunch of Democrats and some in the Republican Party too that will applaud to fund those things in Israel.
00:16:13.000And that's great as an ally without actually adopting those policies here, calling them racist or xenophobic when we do it here at home in our own southern border.
00:16:22.000And that's a true friendship built to last, far stronger relationship than the client-transactional relationship that the other super PAC puppets on that stage wanted yesterday.
00:16:31.000So what does the next month or two look like?
00:16:33.000Post-debate, schedule, pace, messaging, because now the race really has started Vivek.
00:16:40.000So I think there will be a temptation, I'm sure.
00:16:42.000Now we're getting flooded with people who want to fund the campaign, et cetera.
00:17:02.000So the name of the game going forward is the same thing that got me from 0.0% to running as a solid number two right now is going to be what takes this campaign to the next level.
00:17:12.000Stay true to principle, speak the truth.
00:17:14.000I would rather lose an election and speak the truth at every step than to win by playing political snakes and ladders.
00:17:20.000Vave Ramaswamy, the winner of the debate, speaking the truth.
00:18:26.000Joining us now is Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Green, the legendary MTG, who, instead of watching the debate, she was watching the Trump Tucker interview instead of watching the debate.
00:19:04.000That was the donor class that cheered so loudly when every single candidate on the stage except the vet was all ready for World War III, ready to send more American taxpayer dollars over to Ukraine and push us closer to World War III.
00:19:19.000This is also a crowd that was thrilled with the basically vanilla Bush Republican era questions that were coming from the moderators.
00:19:30.000They cheered big time for Ron DeSantis, even though all of us know that he truly lost the debate and lost the primary last night.
00:19:37.000I would call many of the people that were in the room last night, even though they're Republican voters, they're the 25% that are pretty much probably the never-Trumpers and the ones that will not be the one, they won't be the crowd electing our Republican nominee.
00:19:53.000It's the people that go to the Trump rallies, the hardworking people in America that truly care about America first policies and MAGA policies.
00:20:01.000Those will be the voters that declare our Republican nominee.
00:20:05.000And Charlie, I'm going to tell you right now, it's Donald Trump.
00:20:08.000Yeah, I mean, that's abundantly clear.
00:20:10.000So now, looking at everything, you believe that Donald Trump not attending the debate was the right decision.
00:20:22.000He had no need to stand on that stage with a bunch of candidates that would just attack him the entire time.
00:20:28.000He doesn't have to prove his policies because they're proven when he gave us the best four years as president of the United States that I've ever had in my lifetime.
00:20:39.000And Joe Biden, the president right now, has been in office longer than I have been alive, which is shocking to me because I have adult children.
00:20:49.000And here's Joe Biden that's gotten filthy rich, Charlie, tens of millions of dollars, possibly even over $100 million, off of selling out American foreign policy decisions and all kinds of political favors, abusing his power in office.
00:21:04.000And they got richer and richer and richer.
00:21:06.000Well, Americans have gotten poorer and poorer and poorer to the point where people can hardly afford to pay their bills and buy groceries and put food on the table.
00:21:14.000That's what this election is going to be about.
00:21:17.000So, you know, the booing and the Nikki Haley horrific World War III foreign policy that we heard last night and the stale old Chris Chris Chrissy was in the wrong debate.
00:22:41.000It's very much a 2023, and it will be a 2024 topic.
00:22:46.000Just in the past matter of days, I've been on the ground in Iowa at the Iowa State Fair campaigning for President Trump.
00:22:53.000And then I was in Florida just for a few days talking to many supporters there.
00:22:58.000Then I was at the debate last night in Wisconsin.
00:23:01.000All of those places, you know what I heard constantly?
00:23:04.000And it's the same thing I hear when I'm here in Georgia and at home in my district.
00:23:09.000They talk about election integrity and they don't want their election stolen.
00:23:13.000And I don't blame them one single bit either.
00:23:16.000But what I heard, and I don't know if this is true, so I haven't verified it.
00:23:21.000I heard that the candidates last night were asked to sign a pledge by the RNC saying that if they lost their election, they would accept the election results and not try to argue against it.
00:23:53.000And it doesn't make you a conspiracy theorist.
00:23:56.000It doesn't make you a bad person if you question elections.
00:23:59.000It doesn't mean you've done anything wrong.
00:24:01.000It means you want to make sure that the truth has been heard and that people's votes counted and that people's fraudulent votes did not get counted.
00:24:10.000And so, yeah, they should have brought that up last night too.
00:24:13.000So let me ask you: there was some controversy about the spin room yesterday about people being blocked.
00:24:26.000Sitting on the floor during the debate last night, I said to the right of me was Don Jr. and Kimberly.
00:24:33.000To the left of me was Matt Gates and Ginger.
00:24:36.000And we left at the last commercial break, got up from our seats and headed back to go to the spin room to prepare for interviews, to talk about the policies that we heard and didn't hear on the debate stage, to compare it to President Trump's policies.
00:25:04.000And these are bills that get produced and will go across the president's desk to be signed into law.
00:25:10.000So our voice in that spin room really matters because we're members of Congress, but we're also surrogates for President Trump.
00:25:17.000And then you have Don Jr., who is the son of Donald J. Trump.
00:25:21.000His voice matters a lot because he's been the target of this weaponized government and the censorship campaign and everything they have tried to do to the Trump family.
00:25:42.000We had every single right to be there, but we were not allowed in.
00:25:46.000And so I argued long enough with them and I took off and I went to the Rumble setup and we did an hour-long show after that.
00:25:53.000It was myself along with Brian Glenn from Rightside.
00:25:58.000We had Matt Gates and Don Jr. because I wanted people to know immediately what was actually happening behind the stage and how we were being treated.
00:26:07.000And it's really the extension of censorship, Charlie.
00:26:46.000I had about four hours' sleep, had to fly in today to be able to go to the jail to support President Trump tonight here in Fulton County.
00:26:54.000But do you know why the Fulton County DA is charging President Trump?
00:26:59.000It has everything to do with his speech, his speech.
00:27:03.000So if you think about it in those terms, we could say Fox News not allowing our voices in the spin room, not allowing President Trump's surrogates to be there is censorship in the same way the Fulton County DA doesn't like President Trump, doesn't like Rudy Giuliani, doesn't like his supporters here in Georgia, doesn't like their speech simply because they said the 2020 election was stolen.
00:27:27.000So who exactly was not allowing you into the spin room?
00:27:30.000Who specifically, what entity was making that decision?
00:27:33.000It was Fox News because they were hosting the debate with the RNC and it was all of the gatekeepers outside the spin room door.
00:27:41.000They were blocking, they were letting other members of Congress in that were surrogates of other candidates, but they were not letting us, Matt Gates and I as members of Congress.
00:27:54.000They let Byron Donalds through somehow, I guess, because he did a joint interview with Chip Roy or something, but you guys, they just said no way.
00:28:39.000Anybody, any surrogate for a candidate for president, especially surrogates for the candidate that's winning with over 60% of Republican voters has the support every single day in every single poll.
00:29:30.000Oh, it needs to be a lot sooner than that.
00:29:33.000This is something we should be voting on when we get back in Washington.
00:29:38.000Hopefully after September 12th is when we resume session.
00:29:42.000So this is something that I've been asking for and asking for.
00:29:45.000Hopefully we will see that vote happening.
00:29:47.000Like I said, I want to see it when we get back.
00:29:50.000I don't see there for any reason to wait, especially with the damning evidence that we've uncovered in the oversight committee.
00:29:58.000We now have proof that Joe Biden has lied to the American people.
00:30:02.000And something important to look at history with is when Congress had proof that they claimed that Richard Nixon had lied, that's when they moved towards impeachment inquiry.
00:30:16.000When Congress had proof that Bill Clinton had lied, that's when they moved towards impeachment inquiry.
00:30:22.000Well, we have proof that Joe Biden has lied.
00:30:25.000He always said he never knew anything about his son Hunter's business deals.
00:30:29.000Well, in fact, we all know he does know a lot about his son's business deals, and he's very involved, according to witnesses that we've interviewed.
00:30:39.000And so this is the reason right there for any Republican member of Congress that is still sitting on the fence for them to go ahead and vote for the impeachment inquiry.
00:30:47.000That's not voting for impeachment itself.
00:30:49.000That's allowing us to investigate, giving our subpoena more power and presenting this to the American people.
00:30:56.000And they deserve to know what happened.
00:31:01.000I don't think I'll be willing to vote for key bills that we'll be voting on this fall unless we're able to pass an impeachment inquiry.
00:31:12.000So, I mean, then heading up to the funding deadline on September 30th, I was most frustrated last night with Tim Scott, who said, you know, we need to really rein in the DOJ of the FBI.
00:31:23.000Do you think that we're going to finally get the House Republicans to bring zero dollars to the DOJ?
00:31:39.000There's cases that I definitely want to see the Department of Justice prosecute.
00:31:44.000Cases like child molesters, child sex traffickers, gang members related to the cartels.
00:31:51.000There's federal crimes that we need the Department of Justice to prosecute.
00:31:55.000Unfortunately, they spend a lot of their time prosecuting President Trump, the poor people that walked through the Capitol on January 6th, you know, parents that tried to hold their school boards accountable, and people that care about saving the unborn.
00:32:09.000But so I would argue we can't take it down to zero, but it's been my commitment to my district here at home, my commitment to the American people.
00:32:17.000I'm not going to vote to fully fund the Department of Justice or the FBI.
00:32:20.000I will not vote to fund Jack Smith's special counsel.
00:32:39.000I've been arguing we need to use the Holman rule to line item their salaries.
00:32:42.000We should not be paying people that are weaponizing the government, not only against Joe Biden's top political opponents, but against the American people themselves.
00:32:51.000So those are the difficult arguments we're going to be having.
00:32:54.000But what is coming, Charlie, is on September 30th.
00:32:59.000Our government is supposedly supposed to shut down.
00:33:02.000And I know that most people could care less because the government is really intrusive and gives us more trouble in our lives most of the time than they do anything good.
00:33:11.000But that is going to be a time where we're looking, Congress will be looking at voting for a short-term CR.
00:33:17.000It's going to be really hard for to get someone like me, especially, and I'll go ahead and say it.
00:33:21.000I haven't said it publicly yet, but I won't be passing any short-term CR if we cannot vote to pass an impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden.
00:33:31.000Very good, Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene.