The Charlie Kirk Show - September 30, 2021


Manchin vs. Biden—How a Battle Between Joes is Shaping the Future of Our Economy


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Today on the Charlie Kirk Show, Joe Manchin throws a wrench into the Democratic legislative agenda, in a fun segment of the show, and we also talk in great detail about inflation. What is inflation and why is it so important?

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00:00:00.000 Hey, everybody.
00:00:00.000 Today on the Charlie Kirk Show, Joe Manchin throws a wrench into the Democrat legislative agenda.
00:00:07.000 Republicans win something that might be important in kind of a fun segment of the Charlie Kirk Show.
00:00:13.000 And we also talk in great detail about inflation.
00:00:18.000 Very important.
00:00:19.000 Inflation.
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00:03:01.000 Hello, everyone.
00:03:01.000 Charlie Kirk here.
00:03:04.000 Welcome.
00:03:04.000 We have a lot to get to.
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00:03:10.000 What is inflation?
00:03:13.000 Inflation, as described by people that actually know what they're talking about, is when prices go up and productivity stays the same or goes down.
00:03:23.000 The simple definition is when there is sustained upward movement in the overall price level of goods and services in the economy.
00:03:34.000 Holding all else constant, this corresponds in the most basic way with a loss of purchasing power for regular and working people.
00:03:45.000 Now, inflation does benefit some people.
00:03:48.000 If you have massive debt burdens or you have borrowed a significant amount of money, inflation helps you because then all of a sudden there's more dollar bills.
00:04:00.000 The debt does not change.
00:04:01.000 So if you're $100,000 in debt, that stays constant.
00:04:05.000 But all of a sudden, if there's more dollar bills out there, then you are able to use those new dollar bills to pay off an old debt because it was 8% or 10% or 12% more valuable the prior year before.
00:04:21.000 Now, inflation is a tax on the middle class.
00:04:26.000 We on this program did repeated podcasts, did repeated broadcasts warning about how Washington, D.C.'s addiction to multi-trillion dollar spending bills, while shutting down the entire economy immorally and unconstitutionally, will result in unexpected and chaotic price increases.
00:04:49.000 We have seen this over the last six months, but now all of a sudden we're seeing something even more dramatic.
00:04:55.000 We are seeing a slowdown of economic activity.
00:04:59.000 People are hitting the breaks and the prices are going up.
00:05:05.000 We have made the argument here in this program that many Democrats want inflation.
00:05:12.000 Inflation helps the corporate class.
00:05:14.000 It allows them to pay off their debts.
00:05:18.000 Did you know that U.S. corporations expanded their balance sheets by borrowing $600 billion in the last year?
00:05:26.000 They knew that interest rates will never get this low again.
00:05:29.000 And so everyday companies, and especially the Fortune 100 companies, they went on a borrowing spree.
00:05:38.000 They borrowed more money than they have in recent memory because they knew that all of a sudden, if inflation is going to kick in, if inflation is going to occur, you want to have as much debt as you possibly can manage or almost more than you can manage because then the 8% inflation rate a year or the 6% inflation rate a year will actually minimize the debt burden you have.
00:06:06.000 You might as well live it up while you can.
00:06:09.000 Rich people do very well when inflation comes.
00:06:13.000 If you own physical assets, land, gold, silver, or you were able to move money quickly, especially liquid, you'll do fine in the midst of inflation.
00:06:24.000 The people that inflation hurts the most are young people, students, and middle-class workers.
00:06:30.000 In fact, it makes you more dependent on the government.
00:06:34.000 Inflation is a big government scheme to try and expand the social welfare state.
00:06:46.000 Now, in an unexpected turn of events, not unexpected for us because we have also been following this very closely, the Biden regime's entire legislative agenda in Washington, D.C. has been put into turmoil.
00:07:04.000 Senator Joe Manchin from West Virginia, he's actually doing what a United States Senator should be doing.
00:07:10.000 He's representing his state.
00:07:12.000 He's not representing Chuck Schumer.
00:07:14.000 He's not representing Joe Biden.
00:07:16.000 And let me be very clear.
00:07:17.000 I disagree with Joe Manchin on plenty.
00:07:20.000 I think he can kind of be a swarmy, slimy, transactional D.C. politician.
00:07:26.000 But I actually think deep down he understands that West Virginia has become a deeply conservative state.
00:07:32.000 And he knows that if he continues to pass these multi-trillion dollar spending bills, it's everyday people in West Virginia that are going to be crushed.
00:07:40.000 West Virginia is losing population, one of the few states that is.
00:07:44.000 West Virginia has already been under attack by the federal regulatory agencies of the EPA and the environmental green groups that have crushed coal development all across West Virginia.
00:07:58.000 Joe Manchin knows this.
00:08:00.000 And therefore, Joe Manchin is pushing pause.
00:08:04.000 He's calling timeout on what the Democrats are trying to do, which is pass a $3.5 trillion spending bill alongside a debt limit increase alongside a $1.2 trillion infrastructure package.
00:08:19.000 Now, Joe Biden and Jen Psaki and others have said that this $3.5 trillion bill costs nothing.
00:08:28.000 It adds zero dollars to the national debt.
00:08:32.000 That this is a free bill.
00:08:35.000 Now, if that was the case, then why is it you have to raise the debt ceiling then?
00:08:39.000 If it doesn't cost anything, then why do you have to raise the debt ceiling to keep on spending money?
00:08:45.000 Well, Joe Manchin is now speaking out against the crisis of inflation.
00:08:51.000 Finally, we are seeing somebody in the Democrat Party start to brush off a simple economic textbook and realize that the addiction to cheap money thanks to the Federal Reserve and the unconstitutional way that we actually fund our government and the oligarchy of the monetary regime that we have been living under, yeah, it's actually hurting normal people.
00:09:13.000 Rich people are going to be just fine.
00:09:15.000 Corporations will find a way to navigate this.
00:09:19.000 But for the carpenter in Wheeling, West Virginia, earning $51,000 a year with two kids, inflation will crush him.
00:09:28.000 And Democrats know this.
00:09:30.000 Democrats, except Joe Manchin, actually want this because they say that's a perfect opportunity for that once self-reliant carpenter who works with his hands to now get an extra government check.
00:09:41.000 That makes a perfect potential Democrat voter.
00:09:45.000 It makes someone who is more subservient, more obedient.
00:09:48.000 You see, self-reliance, the spirit of producing for oneself, is at direct odds with everything the dominant Democratic regime wants to see for your family and for the country.
00:10:00.000 Play Cut 100.
00:10:02.000 The reason I asked for a pause, I'm still concerned about inflation.
00:10:05.000 I'm still concerned.
00:10:06.000 Right now, the dollar store, and if you saw that today, breaking news on that, the dollar store is not going to be the dollar anymore.
00:10:12.000 It's going to be $1.25, $1.50.
00:10:14.000 Not an awful lot of people in West Virginia that shop at the dollar stores.
00:10:17.000 That's an increase, a lot.
00:10:19.000 See, Joe Manchin is saying that, look, my constituents in West Virginia are seeing rising prices.
00:10:24.000 This is not good.
00:10:25.000 And yes, that breaking news did come.
00:10:26.000 I'm not a big fan of the dollar store because basically it's a Chinese Communist Party dumping operation of cheap products. 0.98
00:10:33.000 But Joe Manchin is right.
00:10:35.000 That now the dollar store is no longer the dollar store.
00:10:37.000 It's $125 or $150.
00:10:39.000 They can't even stay at $1 and stay profitable.
00:10:42.000 They have to increase their prices.
00:10:45.000 And despite all of this, Democrats outside of Manchin and Cinema seem intent on spending $4.7 trillion and raising the debt limit.
00:10:56.000 The question is, why?
00:10:59.000 Well, their motivations aside, their entire legislative agenda, everything they want to do, is on the verge of collapse.
00:11:09.000 And Joe Biden is less popular than ever before.
00:11:13.000 And it's very obvious that the game plan is going to try to remove Joe Biden.
00:11:20.000 62% of voters in Iowa disapprove of Joe Biden.
00:11:24.000 61% in Texas disapprove.
00:11:26.000 53% in Michigan disapprove.
00:11:29.000 53% in Florida disapprove of Joe Biden.
00:11:31.000 53% in Georgia.
00:11:33.000 51% in Virginia.
00:11:35.000 And 51% in Minnesota disapprove of Joe Biden.
00:11:39.000 But Joe Manchin is doing what the Constitution actually was designed to do, which is represent his voters and his constituents.
00:11:48.000 This is a moment of truth right now for the Democrats and for the kingdom of Washington, D.C.
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00:13:07.000 Grayson sent us a note.
00:13:09.000 Charlie, please, please, please, Joe Manchin is going to vote for this $3.5 trillion.
00:13:13.000 So will Kyrsten Cinema.
00:13:13.000 He will cave in.
00:13:16.000 They can't help themselves.
00:13:17.000 They are Democrats.
00:13:18.000 You wait.
00:13:19.000 I'm not wrong.
00:13:20.000 Both will cave in and vote for the $3.5 trillion budget.
00:13:24.000 You might be right, but I will say they have been, Kirsten Cinema in particular, unusually obtuse about this entire thing.
00:13:33.000 I want to read this tweet, this exchange from Kirsten Cinema yesterday, who, by the way, is more conservative than John McCain.
00:13:42.000 Drives them crazy when I say that because it's true.
00:13:45.000 And so there was this exchange yesterday of Kirsten Cinema with a reporter where Kirsten Cinema was asked by one of these reporters.
00:13:54.000 They say, so, Senator Cinema, what do you say to progressives who are frustrated that they don't know where you are?
00:14:00.000 Kirsten Cinema said, I'm in the Senate.
00:14:02.000 He said, well, there are progressives in the Senate that are also frustrated they don't know where you are either.
00:14:07.000 She said, I'm clearly right in front of the elevator, just trolling them right to their face.
00:14:11.000 Now, you might be right.
00:14:12.000 Maybe we're all being played for a game and Manchin and Cinema are going to pull it underneath us.
00:14:17.000 Or maybe, just maybe, these two Democrats either want some sort of political future, Kirsten Cinema absolutely does, or they have just a small, an inch, a smidgen of concern for their constituents, not for the fundamental transformation of the nation.
00:14:34.000 Now, we must understand that the goal of these massive spending packages is to remake man himself.
00:14:42.000 Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and Lyndon Baines Johnson, they spoke extensively, whether it be FDR's second Bill of Rights speech, Lyndon Baines Johnson's Great Society speech, or Woodrow Wilson's repeated addresses about how man cannot attain their highest level of existence if they still have material wants, needs, or concerns.
00:15:11.000 You see, rooted in the progressive belief, this came post-Darwin, is that the founding fathers did not fully understand what it meant to be man.
00:15:22.000 I mean, come on, for example, the founding fathers didn't have TikTok, Twitter, airplanes, or Priuses. 0.54
00:15:28.000 How could the Founding Fathers possibly understand the full dynamic range or spectrum of what it means to be a human being?
00:15:38.000 Now, we as conservatives, we reject this.
00:15:40.000 And this really is the debate that's going on right now.
00:15:42.000 We as conservatives believe in the laws of nature and nature's God.
00:15:46.000 We believe in the natural law.
00:15:49.000 We believe that there are things that do not change.
00:15:52.000 Regardless of having TikTok and Twitter and airplanes and Priuses, we believe that massive deficit spending will lead to a nation gone to chaos.
00:16:02.000 We believe the rule of law needs to be a centerpiece for organizing society.
00:16:06.000 We believe that telling the truth and a properly good-souled individual is the way to live.
00:16:13.000 Now, Manchin and Cinema, they might be game for part of the social redefinition and reconstruction of the new man, which of course was a phrase that was used many times in the Soviet Union.
00:16:26.000 We are here to create the new man.
00:16:28.000 Now, this is a Nietzschean idea.
00:16:30.000 He called this the overman or the Das Ăśbermensch.
00:16:34.000 Now, Manchin and Cinema might be game for part of this, but they also have their own self-interests that they're looking out for.
00:16:43.000 This is the brilliance of checks and balances and separation of powers.
00:16:48.000 Now, mind you, there's plenty of problems with the legislative system as we have it now.
00:16:52.000 But Schumer and Pelosi are getting incredibly impatient with these two senators from red states or once red states.
00:17:00.000 Arizona is, I still think, a red state and will show itself as such in 2022. 0.95
00:17:04.000 West Virginia is now one of the most conservative states in the country where Donald Trump won every single county in the state of West Virginia.
00:17:13.000 Let me say that again.
00:17:14.000 He won every single county in the state of West Virginia.
00:17:17.000 And they're asking themselves, are we U.S. senators of Chuck Schumer?
00:17:21.000 Are we U.S. senators of Nancy Pelosi?
00:17:23.000 Are we U.S. senators of Joe Biden?
00:17:25.000 Or are we U.S. senators of the individual states?
00:17:29.000 You see, until we passed the 17th Amendment, which is one of the most destructive and disastrous amendments ever passed in the history of the country, which got rid of the state legislature appointing of senators, and we got into the populist movement, which I do generally support of direct election of senators, senators became more interested in public opinion nationally than what their states actually worried about.
00:17:54.000 But what I'm hearing from Manchin, and by the way, I am perfectly prepared to be let down and disappointed.
00:18:00.000 I am bracing for impact for the treachery, the deceit, the backroom deals.
00:18:06.000 I'm not trying to get your hopes up.
00:18:08.000 What I am saying is that what I'm seeing in front of me is a stalled, delayed, and almost dead on arrival legislative package that does not seem that it's going to proceed in its current form anytime soon.
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00:21:05.000 There is drama and intrigue happening right now on Capitol Hill where the Democrats are planning to spend $4.7 trillion quickly.
00:21:17.000 You would think when a nation is going through so many separate points of crisis that this would be a good time to slow down a little bit.
00:21:28.000 It's kind of like a cooling off period.
00:21:31.000 Find out what's really going on.
00:21:32.000 What are our priorities?
00:21:34.000 Who's in charge?
00:21:36.000 Do we really want to be spending this money?
00:21:39.000 What are we spending money on?
00:21:40.000 Do we want to keep the country together?
00:21:42.000 The Democrats want nothing for that.
00:21:45.000 They are more concerned to bulldoze and capture and take advantage of this moment for fundamental transformation of the American country and nation.
00:21:56.000 They don't care about public approval ratings.
00:21:59.000 They certainly don't care about the Constitution.
00:22:02.000 Separation of powers, consent of the governed, independent judiciary.
00:22:05.000 They will not be stopped as they focus on their socialist locomotive agenda to run you over.
00:22:19.000 Panama's government has warned that thousands of more illegals are coming to the border.
00:22:24.000 Estimates are more than 60,000 people are coming to the U.S.-Mexico border.
00:22:28.000 Of course, as we well know, Haitians have been released into the interior of the United States and they will most likely never leave. 0.89
00:22:37.000 These are just more future voters for the Democrats as they look at this.
00:22:44.000 Borders are completely wide open.
00:22:46.000 So you would think that leaders would say, hold on a second, let's just try to solve the problems in the best interest of the country.
00:22:54.000 And here's one of the biggest problems in America right now.
00:22:57.000 If you feel like you're losing America, here's one of the biggest problems.
00:23:01.000 Do you know what it is?
00:23:02.000 What we as conservatives consider a problem, the other side considers a blessing.
00:23:09.000 That's a big problem.
00:23:12.000 We consider open borders in 65,000 Panama people, Panamanians, that's probably the rest were Panamanians, coming into America as a detriment and as a problem, an issue. 1.00
00:23:27.000 It's bad for sovereignty.
00:23:28.000 It could be bad for wages.
00:23:30.000 It could be bad for crime, whatever.
00:23:33.000 That's not a good thing.
00:23:34.000 The other side looks at it as a great thing.
00:23:38.000 We used to, in our country, disagree about solutions.
00:23:44.000 We used to disagree about the best way to solve problems.
00:23:47.000 Oh, Charlie, let's not build the wall.
00:23:50.000 Let's have some sort of reconnaissance thing.
00:23:51.000 Okay, that's silly, but whatever.
00:23:54.000 Now we cannot even agree with the Democrat regime on what the actual problem is.
00:24:02.000 They think inflation is wonderful.
00:24:04.000 They think getting people on government assistance is admirable and good.
00:24:11.000 Now, many of you know that we are no friends of many Republican senators.
00:24:18.000 Now, there are some phenomenal ones out there, Senator Ted Cruz, Senator Josh Hawley, Senator Rand Paul, just to name a few.
00:24:25.000 But I have been, I've been pleased to see how Senate Republicans have been holding the line on this con job that is being cooked up by Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi.
00:24:40.000 In COTE 106, Senator Barrasso from Wyoming, who I know, I wish he would fight harder on certain things, but he's been very good on this.
00:24:50.000 You know, we complain quite often, where is the opposition party? 0.98
00:24:54.000 I will say, thankfully, not one Republican is playing ball with any of this nonsense or this garbage. 0.97
00:25:02.000 I will say, though, too many of them are playing ball with the infrastructure package. 0.85
00:25:06.000 And their reasoning is like, well, since we agreed with the infrastructure package, then it puts pressure on the reconciliation bill.
00:25:14.000 I don't buy that for a second, but let's put that aside.
00:25:19.000 Let's talk favorably and positively.
00:25:21.000 The entire Republican caucus, including even Mitt Romney and Susan Collins, are not playing ball with this.
00:25:28.000 It's dead on arrival.
00:25:30.000 This is an extraordinary video of Senator Barrasso holding up the actual legislative text of what the Democrats are trying to pass.
00:25:40.000 At least a foot and a half or two feet, 2,500 pages, $3.5 trillion, just to show you the enormity of what they are trying to get passed.
00:25:52.000 Play cut 106.
00:25:54.000 This is their bill.
00:25:57.000 2,500 pages.
00:26:02.000 If you take a look at $3.5 trillion price tag and you do the math, that's $1,400,000,000 for every page of this bill.
00:26:18.000 And they want to pass it this week.
00:26:22.000 How many Democrats do you think have read this?
00:26:24.000 Think Nancy Pelosi's read it?
00:26:26.000 Think Chuck Schumer's read it?
00:26:29.000 Do you think Joe Biden, who is desperately begging Democrats to pass it?
00:26:32.000 Do you think he's read it?
00:26:33.000 Do you think he knows what's in it?
00:26:36.000 Now, just so you know, the size of that monstrosity, it's bigger than some human beings.
00:26:45.000 It is at least two to three feet tall.
00:26:50.000 Now, I just want to make sure that we're being very clear about this.
00:26:54.000 That the reason why the Democrats are trying to spend as much money as they possibly can on every program imaginable is not because they actually want to help people.
00:27:09.000 They believe that the state can actually be a critical ingredient or instrument in fundamental transformation of the human being itself.
00:27:27.000 That human beings can reach a higher plane of existence if they are free from material wants, needs, and desires.
00:27:34.000 John Dewey, who is the founder of American public education, educated at Johns Hopkins University, had a famous quote, and I'm paraphrasing where he said that true freedom will be the freedom from necessity.
00:27:52.000 That it's not freedom to speak, freedom to create, freedom to flourish, freedom to marry, freedom to have children, freedom to worship your creator.
00:28:01.000 He called those basically, I don't want to put words in his mouth, but he thought he was indifferent towards that.
00:28:08.000 Instead, the progressive project that started with Woodrow Wilson was this belief system that freedom meant that you had nothing that you wanted in the physical or material world.
00:28:19.000 Lyndon Baines Johnson was the main president who really embraced this, specifically when it came to health care.
00:28:28.000 The Democrats believe this.
00:28:32.000 They want to try to get us closer to what they believe is a utopian, technocratic, scientifically driven society.
00:28:42.000 This should terrify every single person listening to this.
00:28:50.000 And Joe Manchin has basically said this.
00:28:53.000 Joe Manchin has said he'll do a very basic spending bill, but he's not going to get into the mass social engineering project of the progressive statist regime.
00:29:06.000 Play tape.
00:29:07.000 Did you share that number with the president?
00:29:09.000 And has that 1.5?
00:29:13.000 And did that number go up?
00:29:15.000 Senator Sinema knows that.
00:29:17.000 My top line has not been.
00:29:18.000 My top line has been 1.5 because I believe in my heart that what we can do and what the needs we have right now and what we can afford to do without basically changing our whole society to an entitlement mentality.
00:29:31.000 Now, let me just first say, do you notice how intense the reporters are versus Joe Manchin versus Joe Biden?
00:29:39.000 Do you notice how direct the questions are?
00:29:41.000 They interrupt him.
00:29:42.000 They're on top of him.
00:29:44.000 Why?
00:29:45.000 Well, because they hate him.
00:29:47.000 Joe Biden is useful.
00:29:49.000 Joe Manchin is annoying and he's a threat.
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00:31:13.000 Okay, I want to get to another piece of sound here that does tie to this.
00:31:19.000 Let's go to Cut 98, which is kind of a montage of exactly what we're living through right now, Cut 98.
00:31:29.000 Crisis after crisis.
00:31:30.000 The Democrats are in disarray without any question.
00:31:33.000 Whether it's the border, whether it's the incredibly messy, messy exit from Afghanistan, which was a debacle by any definition, or whether it's what's happening on the floor right now.
00:31:47.000 It's just constant sort of crisis.
00:31:49.000 But all that our Democratic colleagues have to show as a result of their partisan choice is a parade of failures for the American people.
00:31:57.000 We need to do better, and we can do better.
00:32:00.000 The country's in free fall, not just because of the Democrat regime, but it certainly doesn't help.
00:32:07.000 And you have to wonder what's the backup plan for these Democrats?
00:32:12.000 What are they going to go to if Joe Manchin holds the line?
00:32:15.000 He says, I don't want to see the country become one of a social welfare state.
00:32:19.000 Joe Manchin said out loud, he said, I have never been a liberal.
00:32:23.000 He certainly knows his state.
00:32:25.000 West Virginia is not a place where the word liberal resonates very much.
00:32:30.000 What the future holds for the Democrats is very questionable.
00:32:37.000 We're going to keep diving into that as America is in free fall.
00:32:41.000 Inflation, crime, tyranny, mandates.
00:32:45.000 The Democrats are acting like elections don't exist.
00:32:48.000 That's just so interesting to me.
00:32:50.000 They're enemies of democracy is what Joe Manchin and Kirsten Cinema are being called.
00:32:56.000 Now I know I really have respect for both of them.
00:32:58.000 Joe Manchin and Kirsten Cinema seem to be making life miserable for congressional Democrats.
00:33:04.000 For that, they should be applauded and they should be thanked.
00:33:08.000 Joy Behar explodes into one of her unhinged rants in between being realized that her co-hosts get test positive for the Fauci virus despite being fully vaccinated. 0.97
00:33:20.000 She says, you don't understand the enemies of democracy.
00:33:24.000 Come on.
00:33:25.000 What is this, not the New Jersey Housewife Show?
00:33:28.000 Cut 108.
00:33:30.000 And the Democrats have the numbers to make it happen.
00:33:33.000 But Manchin and Cinema are standing in their way, especially they call themselves Democrats, and they will be the rumation of this nation.
00:33:42.000 Those two.
00:33:43.000 I mean, come on.
00:33:44.000 I mean, they're not Democrats.
00:33:47.000 It's not like us.
00:33:49.000 All right, let's go to some good news.
00:33:51.000 Actually, that's good news.
00:33:52.000 Anytime that Joy Behar loses her mind. 0.54
00:33:56.000 So let's go to, okay, so last night was the congressional baseball game, and Republicans almost always lose.
00:34:01.000 Now, one of the reasons why Republicans always lose is because Democrats, they tend to be a younger party than Republicans, and so they just tend to have younger people play baseball.
00:34:13.000 Now, despite the fact that they had like a 14-year-old pitching, how old is John Ossif?
00:34:19.000 He's like 21 years old or something.
00:34:22.000 You never should have been a U.S. Senator yet, 34.
00:34:25.000 He looks like he's 19, just started shaving.
00:34:27.000 And so John Ossif was one of the pitchers last night.
00:34:31.000 Despite all of this, Republicans won and beat the Democrats now.
00:34:36.000 You might say, Charlie, who cares?
00:34:37.000 Well, when we win the congressional baseball game, last time we did was 2016, and we know how that ended.
00:34:46.000 By the way, John Ossif, he stole second base, just like he stole Georgia.
00:34:50.000 Play tape.
00:34:51.000 Arizona.
00:34:53.000 The 1-1 Stanton is hit, popped up to third.
00:34:56.000 Stubi's got it, and that's the ball game.
00:34:59.000 The Republicans win it 13-12 as they storm out of the first base side of the dugout and mob each other around the pitchers mound.
00:35:09.000 Now, maybe I'm just kind of out of the loop.
00:35:12.000 I don't remember the congressional baseball game being on Fox Sports 1 in years past.
00:35:16.000 Is that a new thing, Connor?
00:35:18.000 I saw it on Fox Sports One last night.
00:35:22.000 And part of it was kind of fun to see the people destroying your country, you know, pitch to each other.
00:35:28.000 I don't know.
00:35:28.000 I just, it made me actually like the Democrats less as I watched it.
00:35:34.000 I'll get into that a different time.
00:35:35.000 It's only two times in the last decade have we won the congressional baseball game.
00:35:40.000 One of my favorite parts, do we have the tape of Nancy Pelosi saying, yes, you understand?
00:35:44.000 You have to pass the tape of her just screaming into.
00:35:49.000 Has anyone got a professional lip reader on this video?
00:35:52.000 No, sir.
00:35:53.000 I've said that in the group chat.
00:35:54.000 I said, can we just get a lip reader?
00:35:56.000 So there's this video of Nancy Pelosi, and she's grasping her phone.
00:35:59.000 Do you notice how she holds her phone?
00:36:01.000 She holds it like she's reporting from some sort of a bunker in World War I, like a trench, holding it right up here, screaming into the phone.
00:36:11.000 Doesn't look like things are going well for her.
00:36:14.000 And there was all this other drama.
00:36:17.000 And I just want to say this.
00:36:19.000 Playing baseball is a very difficult sport.
00:36:21.000 I have a lot of respect for people that play baseball.
00:36:23.000 Greg Stubay, he hit a legitimate home run in a major league baseball park in the game, not in warm-up.
00:36:30.000 That deserves credit.
00:36:32.000 All right, here's Nancy Pelosi just going at it. 1.00
00:36:36.000 It was Rodney Davis at the top of the lineup.
00:36:40.000 Speaker, no doubt happy about that play, but she is known as a big sports fan. 0.98
00:36:44.000 And often, after dealing with a lot of really difficult reporter questions related to what's going on in now, I think, again, we got to get an expert lip reader because I want to know exactly what's going on there.
00:36:57.000 She does not look happy.
00:36:59.000 But despite all the things that are happening, at least Republicans won the congressional baseball game.
00:37:05.000 Listen, Joe Manchin, you better not vote for this or else you're going to end up with a dead horse in your bed.
00:37:10.000 You understand?
00:37:10.000 I'm Nancy Pelosi.
00:37:13.000 And I'm in charge.
00:37:15.000 Kirsten Cinema, who does she think she is? 1.00
00:37:17.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
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