Mitch McConnell has caved. What does that mean? Well, unfortunately, Senate Republicans have made the decision to pander to the Democrats and bail them out. There s a horse trading component about this and we go into it. As Democrats threatened and Republicans gave them what they wanted, we also talk about how we are heading towards a war with China over Taiwan.
00:00:05.000Well, unfortunately, Senate Republicans have made the decision to pander to the Democrats and bail them out.
00:00:16.000There's a horse trading component about this, and we go into it.
00:00:19.000As Democrats threatened and Republicans gave them what they wanted, we also talk about how we are heading towards a war with China over Taiwan.
00:00:27.000We've talked about this before, but it's very important.
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00:03:28.000We've been covering in pretty good detail on this program on how Republicans had a rare opportunity to put Democrats on defense and make them solve their own problems.
00:03:40.000The United States Senate is tied 50-50.
00:03:43.000It should be a lot higher than that if it wasn't for what happened in Georgia.
00:03:49.000But unfortunately, John Ossif and Raphael Warnock are U.S. Senators.
00:03:52.000So it's tied 50-50 with two very moderate Democrat senators who are causing trouble for Chuck Schumer, Kirsten Sinema and Joe Manchin.
00:04:03.000And Republicans were holding the line.
00:04:04.000We are complimenting Mitch McConnell on this program.
00:04:07.000We were getting into detail on how McConnell and the Republicans have been willing to tell the Democrats: we are not going to negotiate with you.
00:04:29.000And then something happened in the last 72 hours that was perplexing, it was confusing, and it still is.
00:04:36.000Where Mitch McConnell suddenly announced that he was willing to have a short-term debt limit increase basically evaporate and vaporize all of the Republican negotiating power.
00:04:51.000Republicans do not have a lot of cards in Washington, D.C.
00:04:54.000The one card we had was the debt ceiling increase.
00:04:58.000Usually and typically, it takes 60 votes to raise the debt ceiling.
00:05:03.000Chuck Schumer was threatening to blow up the U.S. Senate and get to a mere majority vote in the Senate rulebook to be able to raise the debt ceiling.
00:05:14.000Even though Joe Manchin and Kirsten Cinema have signaled that they're not game for it, they do not want to have that.
00:05:21.000And so, despite that, Mitch McConnell advanced a debt ceiling increase of just another $500 billion.
00:05:29.000What's another $500 billion over the next couple months?
00:05:33.000And alongside him was a group of Senate Republicans: John Thune from South Dakota, John Cornyn from Texas, Lisa Murkowski from Alaska, Shelley Moore Capito from West Virginia, Richard Shelby from Alabama, Rob Portman from Ohio, Susan Collins from Maine, John Barroso from Wyoming, Mike Rounds from South Dakota, and Roy Blunt from Missouri.
00:05:57.000Now, what does this list have in common?
00:05:59.000So, here's how this works: I'm going to give you a little bit of inside baseball of how the United States Senate in Washington, D.C. works.
00:06:06.000Mitch McConnell decided that he wanted to bail out Chuck Schumer.
00:06:10.000Mitch McConnell realized: hey, the most important thing I could do is make Democrats' political future and life easier.
00:06:18.000Joe Biden's approval ratings are at record lows.
00:06:21.000Very wise and moderate consultants are saying that Democrats are going to be wiped out in 2022 in the House and the Senate.
00:06:57.000But here's how the cabal works: here is why people hate, and I use that word hate intentionally.
00:07:03.000I don't like that word, but it's why people hate Washington, D.C.
00:07:08.000It's because every single senator I just listed off, minus Murkowski and Collins, because they're incredibly moderate, they are from deep red states or they are retiring.
00:07:21.000Therefore, McConnell knows they're not going to have to pay a political consequence for this.
00:07:30.000So, here's how it works: McConnell has this meeting, and he'll call some of his good buddies, Thune and Blunt, and say, Hey, I need you to help bail me out here.
00:07:38.000You know, we want to try to give the Democrats a gift because I love the Senate so much, even though the Democrats were not going to be able to do what he thought they were going to do.
00:07:52.000So he called Thune, he called Corny, he called Murkowski, he called Capito, Shelby and Portman, who are retiring, they want to be lobbyists.
00:07:59.000Portman wants to go represent some international lobbying firm that is going to make him a bunch of money.
00:08:09.000But John Barroso, Mike Rounds, Roy Blunt, Shelly Moore Capito, John Cornyn, and John Thune, they are all from deep red states, which means they think they're better than their voters.
00:08:22.000They know that they'll get some flack and they'll receive some phone calls or some emails.
00:08:27.000But the way the United States Senate works is that when they need to give a gift to the Democrats, they don't call Marco Rubio because he's in a tough race.
00:08:36.000They don't call Ron Johnson in Wisconsin because he's in a tough race.
00:08:42.000No, they call the people in deep red, comfortably conservative states because they know that the voters of those states are not going to displace them.
00:08:54.000They know that the voters of South Dakota with Mike Rounds and John Thune, that they might get a little irritated, they might get a little upset.
00:09:02.000But when it comes down to it, they'll get reelected.
00:09:06.000So Mitch McConnell surrenders to the Democrats.
00:09:10.000Now, in negotiations, you must realize the advantage you have.
00:09:14.000This is the downside of having people negotiate things that have never negotiated anything of significance in their life.
00:09:21.000You have some of the most simple-minded people running the U.S. Senate.
00:09:28.000Instead of using leverage, instead of making the Democrats continue in the direction that is super unpopular, Chuck Schumer is celebrating because he knows their poll numbers are going down.
00:09:41.000The American people are not with them.
00:09:44.000So instead of making the Democrats own the catastrophe in D.C., McConnell now says, you know what?
00:11:49.000But please, CNN, don't say anything bad about me.
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00:14:18.000Lindsey Graham said that last evening, saying that Republicans dug themselves into a hole for folding to the Democrats.
00:14:27.000So after the Democrats got what they wanted, how did Chuck Schumer respond to this?
00:14:32.000Well, Chuck Schumer decided to rub this in the face of Republicans, take a victory lap, because Chuck Schumer realized that this is going to help his approval ratings.
00:14:47.000People know Democrats run the government, and instead of Republicans making them own it and then figure it out themselves, we issued them a pardon.
00:14:58.000Cut 108, Chuck Schumer rubbing it in the face, saying we avoided a Republican-manufactured default on the debt.
00:15:07.000The Senate will pass an extension of the debt limit through early December, avoiding a first ever Republican-manufactured default on the national debt.
00:15:18.000On Monday morning, I said we needed to pass a bill to address the debt limit by the end of the week, and that is exactly what we did.
00:15:26.000Republicans played a dangerous and risky partisan game, and I am glad that their brinksmanship did not work.
00:15:33.000For the good of America's families, for the good of our economy, Republicans must recognize in the future that they should approach fixing the debt limit in a bipartisan way.
00:15:47.000Do you notice that everyone's talking while Schumer's talking?
00:16:12.000This shows that the Republicans that we send to Washington, D.C., they are so out of loop of who the American left is, it's stunning.
00:16:24.000When I talk to Senate Republicans, I tell you this, I meet a lot of them.
00:16:30.000They have no grasps whatsoever of what we're up against.
00:16:34.000Now, many Senate Republicans, including even Willard Romney, otherwise known as Mitt Romney, has come out and he said, I can't believe that Schumer did that.
00:16:47.000You see, when you deal with Democrats and the left like we do on this program and at Turning Point USA, when you travel to college campuses and you have to travel around with security because of death threats, and you understand the motivation of the Democrat Party, this doesn't shock you.
00:17:05.000These people are indecent, they're treacherous, and they're deceitful.
00:17:15.000Yesterday, Republicans noticed their obstruction wasn't going to work, and I thank my Democrat colleagues for showing our unity in solving this Republican-manufactured crisis.
00:17:26.000Leader McConnell and Senate Republicans insisted they wanted a solution to the debt ceiling, but said Democrats must raise it alone by going through a drawn-out, convoluted, and risky reconciliation process.
00:17:41.000That was simply unacceptable to my caucus.
00:17:44.000And yesterday, Senate Republicans finally realized that their obstruction was not going to work.
00:17:50.000I thank, very much thank, my Democratic colleagues for our showing our unity in solving this Republican-manufactured crisis.
00:18:16.000He looked over his shoulder and he said, I want to thank not the Republicans that bailed me out.
00:18:21.000No, no, no, why would I give thanks to the opposition?
00:18:25.000He said, He thanks the 50 Democrats who held the line, who were willing to go to the brink of default to get what he wanted.
00:18:37.000You see, Republicans in their current form would rather be liked than America be saved.
00:18:48.000People are saying, Charlie, what can I do?
00:18:51.000I think you guys know what you can do, especially to the two South Dakota senators that voted for this garbage because they just take their voters for granted.
00:18:59.000That's how it works in the heartland of the country.
00:19:01.000You send moderate Republicans to D.C., and they actually don't listen to their voters because they think that the insiders in D.C. and the cartel of lobbyists know better than their voters.
00:19:10.000Schumer is celebrating and dancing while the country burns.
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00:20:13.000Look, everyone has something in common.
00:21:31.000Instead, we're reading from Mark Milley's art of war, which is arm the enemy whenever you can and give him aforementioned notice before you attack.
00:21:43.000Mitch McConnell's reading Mark Milley's abridged version of how to lose every time you fight and win medals.
00:21:53.000Mitch McConnell, just hand it on a silver platter to Chuck Schumer.
00:21:58.000Chuck Schumer knows that we are not in a constitutional moment right now.
00:22:18.000And in fact, it's not even 50-50 in the Senate because you have Mansion and Cinema that are leaning more towards the center.
00:22:24.000Cut 110, Chuck Schumer says the debt limit can be done without a reconciliation deal.
00:22:30.000The solution is either Republicans join us and raise in the debt limit or stay out of the way.
00:22:34.000And I think these comments from Chuck Schumer are important because I want every Republican out there to realize that when the Democrats are winning, they are rubbing it in our face.
00:22:44.000And some Democrat senators, some Republican senators are now coming up and they are stunned.
00:23:12.000They want to see America completely obliterated, the Constitution shredded and remade in their own San Francisco, Brooklyn, Malibu, Manhattan image, where there is no cultural identity, where you live in sexual anarchy, where private property is a thing of the past, and the ruling class controls everything.
00:23:59.000But they're trying to protect and preserve as if the Senate leader on the Democrat side is going to give them, you know, I want to thank the Republican colleagues for getting this done.
00:24:11.000Instead, he turns to the Democrats and says, I want to thank our side for winning from the Republican manufactured default.
00:24:18.000Don't be surprised and shocked when the bottom dwellers of the United States Senate, otherwise known as Democrats, do this.
00:24:35.000I appreciate that at the end of the day, we were able to raise the debt limit without a convoluted and unnecessary reconciliation process that until today, the Republican leader claimed was the only way to address the debt limit.
00:24:52.000Today's vote is proof positive that the debt limit can be addressed without going through the reconciliation process, just as Democrats have been saying for months.
00:25:03.000The solution is for Republicans to either join us in raising the debt limit or stay out of the way and let Democrats address the debt limit ourselves.
00:25:14.000Those are the two choices, and it's very simple.
00:25:18.000And then, on top of this, there's been a disastrous jobs report.
00:25:21.000Only 194,000 jobs added versus 500,000 expected, plus runaway inflation, rising prices, declining consumer confidence.
00:25:46.000Was there a fear that he was going to be blamed by the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal and CNN for raising the debt limit or for not raising the debt limit and putting us into some sort of credit crisis or default?
00:26:03.000And let's be very clear: we are already a debtor nation.
00:26:07.000We are long past the point of fiscal solvency.
00:26:10.000We've been saying this on our program for quite some time.
00:26:13.000In fact, I'm very proud and I'm very thankful for how our team has stayed focused on how the national debt is an existential crisis to our country.
00:26:22.000We are not one of those modern monetary theory programs.
00:26:27.000We believe that objective value remains.
00:26:31.000We believe we are governed by the laws of nature and nature's God, which goes all the way from honoring your mother and father to telling the truth to all human life has dignity, to you cannot create fiat currency and act as if it's going to magically create value and wealth.
00:26:49.000Borrow yourself into oblivion as if that's going to create prosperity.
00:27:01.000And so now we see at this moment of time Republicans that want to continue to play ball with Democrats.
00:27:12.000And if the Republican Party can't even stand for simple fiscal conservatism and not spending endlessly into the ground, then what good are they?
00:27:22.000They don't do anything on the cultural issues, abortion, guns.
00:28:46.000I was pleased to see Sean Hannity go after McConnell last night.
00:28:50.000It's Friday, and the weekend is about to begin.
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00:29:39.000We are not called to do this alone, but rather to join together with other Christians, with other people that just share our religious beliefs, that share our value of free speech even, and fight these battles together as one.
00:30:10.000So we're going to pause on the Republicans handing Chuck Schumer a gift and bailing out the Democrat Party.
00:30:17.000Meanwhile, their numbers are going down.
00:30:18.000I want to give a short update of something that's been going on in Afghanistan.
00:30:22.000And this is a really important kind of story that we have not covered this week.
00:30:28.000And so there is new evidence to show that the terrorists who killed the 13 Marines were released by the Taliban from Bagram Air Base.
00:30:40.000Remember the 13 Marines that were killed in one day?
00:30:43.000Well, this right here now goes to show that new evidence out is pointing to the story that they were intentionally and knowingly released from an air base that we gave up.
00:31:04.000And the Senate, of course, and hopefully our congressional bodies, maybe they should start investigating this, not investigating whether or not a bunch of people walked into the Capitol building and took selfies.
00:31:17.000But then breaking news today, and this is the story that I want to connect all of it.
00:31:21.000The son of Afghanistan's former defense minister buys a $20 million Beverly Hills mansion in addition to a $5.2 million Miami Beach condo.
00:31:34.000So when we spend a trillion dollars in Afghanistan, we give the Taliban $87 billion in weapons, and then in return, the defense minister makes out like bandits, funded by our taxpayer dollars.
00:31:56.000What did we get out of all of our time and energy in Afghanistan?
00:32:01.000Well, it continues by going through the specifics of the House.
00:32:04.000And how is it the defense minister of Afghanistan made so much money?
00:32:09.000We knowingly and willingly allowed the ruling class of Afghanistan to get rich, and now the Taliban is controlling that country, and then we just gave them tens of billions of dollars of weapons.
00:32:25.000And everything that happened in Afghanistan, because all of our sources told us this, and we were on the case earlier, is pointing to that island sovereign nation outside of China.
00:32:37.000And the drums of war, everybody, they're heating up.
00:32:41.000The lack of questions in Afghanistan and our military's failure is now as a segue into now what is going to become, I believe, the focus of American foreign policy in the months and years to come.
00:32:56.000We made the prediction as Kabul fell, because of our inside sources, that China is now going to mobilize against Taiwan.
00:33:05.000We're going to dive into the new news of Xi Jinping demanding United States get out of Taiwan.
00:33:11.000They are planning an invasion soon, everybody.
00:34:28.000Taiwan, an island nation right off the coast of China with its own language, its own history, its own people, is being targeted by the Chinese Communist Party.
00:34:41.000Xi Jiping has a habit of actually doing what he says he's going to do.
00:34:49.000Now, there is new evidence to show that United States troops have been in Taiwan training the Taiwanese military against a coming war with China.
00:35:00.000And China is now warning the United States, saying that they need to leave.
00:35:05.000And the United States should respond and say, how's Wuhan going nowadays?
00:35:23.000We played it in a previous broadcast of General Jack Keen, Cut 13 of General Jack Keene, laying out the ways that Xi Ji Ping can move on Taiwan.
00:35:53.000All smallest steps to break the resolve and will of Taiwan.
00:35:58.000He could go for what I call a quick kill, and that is massive air and missile attack, going after the National Command Authority and the elites inside of Taiwan and force a surrender very quickly in two to three days.
00:36:12.000Cut 16, General Jack Keene continues on how what is happening right now can lead to war.
00:36:23.000The great Michael Anton and the now passed away, tragically, Angelo Cotavilla from the Claremont Institute and Hillsdale College, which, by the way, hillsdale.edu, the beacon of the north.
00:36:33.000I went there for a couple days the other day.
00:37:30.000Xi is 68 years old, and you said at the beginning of this conversation, listen to what he says, and he has said repeatedly that this issue will be resolved.
00:38:02.000China is a border country of Afghanistan.
00:38:06.000And so China trying to build a network with natural resources and capabilities to be able to take Taiwan, they needed Afghanistan.
00:38:16.000The foreign ministry spokesman said, quote, China will take all necessary measures to protect its sovereignty and territorial integrity.
00:38:25.000Evil dictatorships have a tendency to first, before trying to conquer foreign lands, they try to go after lands that they believe are rightfully theirs.
00:38:42.000In 1936, on March 7th, German troops marched into the Rhineland in violation of the Treaty of Versailles.
00:38:54.000When evil countries decide to try to take back what they think is theirs in defiance of the sovereignty of another, it usually doesn't end well.
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