00:01:06.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:01:35.000Ah, Christmas and plans for Christmas and the New Year's is currently the most important thing overshadowing the upcoming legislative calendar and legislative fights.
00:01:52.000I've been around for about 11 years, and I could tell you that time off for Christmas is a very big deal for people in Washington, D.C.
00:02:04.000The idea that they might have to work through Christmas, thou shalt never lift a finger during the Christmas season, is one of the commandments of the Unit Party in Washington, D.C.
00:02:15.000That is where they get all of the graft and the trips and the praise.
00:02:20.000It's where they get to go home and enjoy the excesses of being a member of the ruling class.
00:02:28.000Taking time off for Christmas has been a time-honored tradition of the last couple decades.
00:02:36.000Right near Christmas is where you get the real garbage passed.
00:02:41.000That's where you get the thousand-page spending bills of CRs that go for 18 months.
00:02:50.000Every agency getting special bonuses because everyone wants to go home for Christmas and no one wants to be the Grinch that stole Christmas.
00:02:58.000Now, mind you, remember back that is when Newt Gingrich shut down the government.
00:03:10.000The Grinch or the Gingrich that stole Christmas.
00:03:14.000When the government shut down right before Christmas, Newt Gingrich leveraged Christmas break to get real spending cuts.
00:03:21.000We got a balanced budget for the first time in decades.
00:03:26.000Last time we got a balanced budget was because Speaker Gingrich used the leverage of Christmas break to shut it all down.
00:03:33.000But in the last couple of years, specifically the last decade, Christmas has been an opportunity to take advantage of lawmakers' desire to get on a flight, go home, and say, it's all good.
00:04:25.000We are bleeding money, $33 trillion in debt.
00:04:30.000And understand the tape we're about to play for you with Speaker Johnson and a lot of the lawmakers saying, well, maybe we need a CR.
00:04:37.000Any excuse they give, what's really the issue is that they don't want to have to demand their members to work through Christmas.
00:04:45.000That their comfort, their trip back home, having a nice breath for Christmas is far more important than the well-being, the vitality, or the longevity of the United States of America.
00:05:00.000So you must understand that because they're going to be saying a lot of different excuses.
00:05:59.000The people that you are harming put you in D.C., not that you could have nice trips and enjoy the pleasantries of life and the luxuries of being a congressman.
00:06:11.000Mike Johnson says, look, well, we need some breathing room.
00:07:28.000Doesn't matter if you guys wanted to go home to Birmingham or Tallahassee or Dallas this year because the stakes are so high and Congress has not worked for literally over a decade.
00:07:39.000We are going to put it on our shoulders.
00:08:02.000Would you be comfortable then with a short-term funding bill that funds the government, say, until January or perhaps April?
00:08:09.000Is that something that you're considering?
00:08:13.000Well, I've talked to my colleagues about this in the race for the speaker's race.
00:08:18.000I mentioned that I would favor, for purposes of discussion, to build consensus around, if there indeed has to be a stopgap funding measure, that we would do that until January 15th.
00:08:29.000And the reason for that is it gets us beyond the end-of-the-year push.
00:08:33.000And oftentimes, the Senate tries to jam the House and force an omnibus spending bill.
00:10:14.000Work 24-7 now and you can even finish before Christmas.
00:10:18.000But that would require lawmakers doing something they don't want to do, which is get in the room, go through budgets, do not even, they won't even do zero-based budgeting, but any form of budgeting that's not a CR.
00:10:30.000Speaker Johnson, draw a line in the sand, shut it down if it's necessary.
00:13:57.000The media and the establishment type say, but we don't control the Senate and we don't control the White House, so we only have so much leverage.
00:14:06.000That is, of course, technically true, but hold on.
00:14:42.000You know who is begging and pleading for no tough votes before Christmas?
00:14:47.000You know who wants nothing more than actually having to reform the federal budget and close the border?
00:14:55.000Our four Democrats that are up in 2024 that need to become household names.
00:15:02.000Speaker Johnson needs to name them in every single interview.
00:15:08.000Yes, we don't control the Senate, but the Senate majority contains four Democrats that are up in 2024 in red states.
00:15:20.000Only one of them is probably not called red, maybe red state that's Arizona, but three of them are very red states.
00:15:25.000And they are, of course, Sherrod Brown of Ohio, Democrat up in 2024.
00:15:30.000John Tester of Montana, Democrat up in 2024, Joe Manchin in West Virginia, Democrat up in 2024, and Kirsten Sinema, Democrat Independent up in 2024.
00:15:43.000Speaker Johnson needs to ignore the noise and zero in on these four like a surgical laser strike and force them to take tough votes.
00:15:55.000So the best case scenario is they actually defect away from Chuck Yu Schumer and you might actually get some legit border enforcement funding, not just paperwork funding, but some real changes in the budgetary process.
00:16:13.000Or you force these four Democrats to have to challenge leadership and you might actually get the Senate to not be a far left-wing Democrat Senate, but maybe a neutral center-right Senate because these four right there, Tester Cinema, Manchin, Sherrod Brown, they are in the hot seat and they have not received nearly enough media attention.
00:16:33.000All of it's been about, well, you know, we have tough votes in the House.
00:16:46.000They don't have, you know, any sort of whiteboards.
00:16:49.000The RNC is too busy partnering with NBC News with debates, literally.
00:16:54.000But if we game this out, we said, what is the leverage we have?
00:16:56.000Okay, we control the House by a couple seats, but the Democrat majority is not actually a traditional Democrat Senate majority.
00:17:03.000Four of the members in the Democrat majority who are up in very tough reelection fights in states, three of which states that Donald Trump won by double digits, Ohio, Montana, West Virginia, have three and four, if you count cinema, very nervous Democrats, very nervous Democrats that don't want to take tough votes.
00:17:23.000So Speaker Johnson should go up and do a press conference and say our entire legislative agenda will be focusing on Kirsten Cinema, Joe Manchin, Sherrod Brown, and John Tester.
00:17:33.000And interestingly enough, that would actually get the turtle, McConnell, really excited because the turtle wants to become Senate, well, allegedly wants to become Senate majority leader again.
00:17:42.000He would love to focus on putting them on defense, use the small majority and leverage it into a bigger issue and force those four red state Democrats to do some work for once.
00:17:54.000Don't bail them out with a Christmas miracle.
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00:18:45.000As soon as I took the gavel, our work began, and we passed the resolution, as you noted, in strong support of our strong ally and great friend, Israel.
00:18:56.000And then I flew last night to Las Vegas and spoke to the Republican Jewish Coalition, as you noted, to send a further signal that this isn't a priority for our country.
00:19:05.000We cannot allow the brutality and just unspeakable evil that is happening against Israel right now to continue.
00:19:12.000We're going to stand with our friends.
00:19:38.000Israel is obviously much closer to the United States and our interests than Ukraine, but we have to do a much better job of auditing and getting financial and fiscal answers whenever we spend money abroad.
00:19:49.000Number two, since there is bipartisan support on this, Speaker Johnson say, okay, Israel funding with border funding.
00:20:05.000Now, understand the border funding must be very precise because just more border funding for people to do paperwork processing, that's not good enough.
00:20:12.000It needs to be border security and very strictly written.
00:20:16.000So when the Biden regime tries to ignore the law, you could sue in court and enforce it.
00:20:21.000Israel should, of course, be secure and supported.
00:20:25.000But America needs to be secured first and foremost.
00:20:28.000So therefore, you have the U.S. Congress that wants to send a foreign country $15 billion, and they should, by the way.
00:20:37.000So partner with that and put border funding with it and say, hey, you want to go spend $15 billion abroad to go secure Israel's borders.
00:20:46.000Why don't you want to do a dollar to secure our own border?
00:20:54.000It is, though, saying that it is the United States of America that we should secure our own country.
00:20:59.000Now, this is going to be considered to be super controversial.
00:21:03.000And I just want to make sure you guys are all understanding.
00:21:06.000This should not be a big issue, guys, okay?
00:21:09.000If a foreign country, regardless of how admirable and important that struggle is, is more important than the security of your own country, you have a very serious problem.
00:21:35.000Again, it's $14.3 billion in aid, $10 billion for assistance to the Department of Defense, including air and missile defense support, industrial base investments, and replenishment of U.S. stocks being drawn down to support Israel.
00:21:48.000The aid aims to booster Israel's air and missile defense system, Iron Dome.
00:21:54.000$3.7 billion for State Department to strengthen Israel's military and enhance U.S. embassy security.
00:23:48.000The cartel is coming in and killing Americans, but they're not going in and killing 1,400 intentionally and putting babies allegedly in ovens, which is a new story.
00:24:00.000I don't know if it's confirmed or not.
00:24:03.000But it is fair to say that sleeper cells could be coming across the southern border, that we could have sleeper cells in the United States.
00:24:10.000Hamas might be in America because we don't have border security.
00:24:14.000And we already know that we have the drugs and we have the guns and we have opioids, we have fentanyl, we also have the criminals and the narco-traffickers.
00:24:32.000And how should we think about being in a political situation where the agreeable thing to do is to send money abroad, but the disagreeable thing is to secure your own nation?
00:24:46.000Hamas is a threat to the United States, so that is one of a hundred reasons to secure our own border.
00:24:53.000You see, the anthem that propelled Donald Trump to victory in 2016 of America first is not just a catchy slogan.
00:25:04.000It is the base of the modern Republican Party and should be the base of any country.
00:25:10.000And so this really could reveal an identity crisis.
00:25:14.000And I want to make my position clear for the fourth or fifth time.
00:25:18.000I'm not even saying you shouldn't vote for the Israel funding package.
00:25:21.000I'm not saying that we should leave Israel to fend for itself.
00:25:25.000But I'm also not a citizen of Israel, nor am I a voting member of the Knesset, nor are your elected officials.
00:25:32.000Their first obligation is to America and the nation.
00:25:36.000And if you believe that Israel and our border are international interests, then you should wrap them together into a funding bill.
00:25:46.000But instead, they're going to say that this is too controversial.
00:25:51.000Why are you trying to tie up Israel funding to something that could be considered to be not consensus?
00:26:03.000You have people that have sworn an allegiance to the United States of America.
00:26:08.000They've been sworn in as office holders to the United States of America that are demanding a deemphasis of the American sovereignty and the American nation and an emphasis of a separate foreign country.
00:26:22.000It would be one thing if we didn't have 8 million people coming into America.
00:26:28.0008 million people have illegally crossed into America under Joe Biden so far.
00:26:32.000And I am exhausted with our leaders treating our home and our own nation as an ATM machine for foreign wars and pet projects, even though this one is a noble one, Ukraine one is not.
00:26:50.000But even noble and righteous projects should be put on a list of second, third, fourth, or fifth of priorities when the country that you actually live in, the country that maybe your kids or grandkids will live in, is being overrun and invaded.
00:27:08.000So therefore, shouldn't it be easy to do both?
00:27:12.000Congress is going to want just a clean Israel spending bill.
00:27:16.000And while I will voice support for that, if that ends up happening, I'll be disappointed that the border was not taken as seriously as that.
00:27:27.000You cease to exist as a country if you don't govern in the best interest of your country.
00:27:34.000We've basically become the American colony.
00:27:37.000People from all over different parts of the world don't speak the same language, don't have the same values.
00:27:43.000We have a good, robust economy, and we basically distribute funding and throw them out like frisbees.
00:27:49.000It's a colony of earth, less than a nation.
00:27:52.000People come here, impose their values on us, extract our wealth, and then want us to send their money abroad.
00:28:01.000The same way the Spanish Empire famously harvested silver from New Spain.
00:28:07.000If we still are a country, which we are less and less, we're more just kind of a rough mixture of a colony.
00:28:15.00050 or 60 years ago, 70 or 80 years ago, they'd say, hold on.
00:28:20.000If our own nation is being invaded, let's do a clean bill on that.
00:28:24.000And then we can worry about our allies.
00:28:31.000In fact, I'm going to be attacked for this segment because I want my own country to be secure, even simultaneously with assisting the foreign country.
00:28:41.000That should expose how sick and poisoned the American political system has become.
00:28:48.000My kids will live and die here in America, not in Israel.
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00:30:02.000Joe Biden's numbers are down 11 points among Democrats from 86% approval in September to 75% in October.
00:30:11.000It's called Biden's 1979 moment, Axios writes.
00:30:14.000Three destabilizing overseas crises have taken place during the Biden presidency.
00:30:19.000The chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan, Russia's invasion, and of course, what is happening in Israel.
00:30:24.000The base of the Democrat Party, they don't like Jews.
00:30:29.000They might hide it and they say, oh, you know, we like, you know, Palace, the Palestinian Authority and all this, but there is a fair amount of Jew hatred.
00:30:37.000There is really no other way to square it.
00:30:40.000Now, interestingly enough, most American Jews are members of the Democrat Party.
00:30:50.000They've been led to believe that the American right are fascist, like the Nazis, and so they must oppose it.
00:30:56.000There is a serious, what I hope is an awakening, or could at the very least just be exposure of fault lines or a political earthquake in the American Jewish community.
00:31:08.000Now, the American Jewish community is not large in number.
00:31:11.000There's what, five or six million American Jews, many of which in New York and Florida, a lot in the North Shore of Chicago.
00:31:18.000The American Jewish community is very, very powerful in American politics, of who they support, and yes, in the policy shaping of the Democrat Party.
00:31:33.000And so Joe Biden has a decision to make.
00:31:35.000Joe Biden's base is very sympathetic with the Palestinian Authority, Hamas, Gaza wing.
00:31:44.000Joe Biden's donors are far more sympathetic with Israel.
00:31:55.000Now, Donald Trump never had a balancing act with this because the base of the Republican Party is actually far more supportive of Israel than the base of the Democrat Party.
00:32:06.000This is what I always laugh when I talk to some of these liberal Jews.
00:32:09.000They say, oh, there's such a problem with anti-Israel hatred on the right.
00:32:30.000So Joe Biden is trying to split the metaphorical baby, and he is not, he's not succeeding.
00:32:36.000Joe Biden had a safe space with a bunch of Muslims in the White House about two and a half weeks ago, just assuring them that everything's fine in Gaza.
00:32:45.000Joe Biden is playing both sides of this.
00:32:48.000And threading the needle is not going well.
00:32:52.000Now, understand that for those of you that care about Israel, those of us that care about Israel, and more specifically Jews that care about Israel, the future is not very bright.
00:33:03.000All the nonprofits that many secular Jews and even religious Jews have been supporting, it is not moving the dial.
00:33:09.000There is more anti-Israel sentimentality amongst both young conservatives and young liberals than ever before.
00:33:18.000America's demographic transition is an anti-Israel transition.
00:33:23.000And yet secular Jews keep on pumping money into these nonprofits, keep on pumping money into these organizations.
00:33:32.000America's demographic transition is an anti-Israel transition.
00:33:38.000The third world sees Israel as a colonizer, as an oppressor.
00:33:42.000And so while you bring more and more Hispanics into America, they don't like Israel.
00:33:48.000They look at Israel as an oppressor on the oppressed.
00:33:54.000And so long term, those of you and those of us that care about the future of the Holy Land and the future of Israel, it's not good.
00:34:01.000And Joe Biden knows that his base is vehemently anti-Israel.
00:34:07.000And of course, Israel is seen as part of the West.
00:34:09.000So the base of the Democrat Party hates the West.
00:34:11.000So why would they want to continue supporting Israel?
00:34:14.000Richmond, California just voted to support Palestine and Hamas.
00:34:18.000And Richmond, California is one-third foreign.
00:34:22.000One-third of Richmond, California is foreign-born.
00:34:24.000Now, what is even more interesting is that secular Jews have been the most enthusiastic for open border policies the last 50 years, more so than almost any other group of people.
00:34:36.000And secular Jews, being supporters, both financially and also politically, of the importing of the third world, are now realizing that that big heart of compassion that they allegedly had for the third world is now subsidizing the downfall of America.
00:34:54.000Interestingly, they never wanted open borders for Israel, but they wanted open borders for America.