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00:01:12.000Joining us now is one of my favorite senators and just a terrific guy, Senator Mike Lee, joins us.
00:01:18.000Senator, thank you for taking the time.
00:01:20.000Senator, you have a very powerful thread on Twitter that I want to speak with you about.
00:01:25.000You have this idea of the law firm, Schumer McConnell, McCarthy, and Jeffries, the firm, as you call it, that does deals in the middle of the night and backroom deals.
00:01:39.000Yeah, thanks for inviting me to talk about it.
00:01:41.000This is a thread that I posted on the Twitter presence that I use for my own personal musings, is my ad-based Mike Lee account.
00:01:50.000And on that, I explained how this four-person cabal within Congress, I call it the law firm of Schumer McConnell, McCarthy, and Jeffries, comes together and whichever four fit in those positions, the top Republican and Democrat from the House and in the Senate.
00:02:07.000Over the last decade or so, they've gotten more and more powerful and they've taken it upon themselves very often to be intimately involved in the drafting of spending bills.
00:02:17.000In many cases, consolidating all spending bills.
00:02:20.000There's supposed to be 12 separate bills, each funding a different part of government.
00:02:27.000And very often, the omnibus or whatever bill they're putting together will be held back until the last possible moment until a couple of days and sometimes only hours before government funding is about to run out.
00:02:41.000Then they bring it forward to their respective caucuses, House, Senate, Republican, Democrat, and say, here you go.
00:03:10.000It usually has the nasty effect of unifying Democrats.
00:03:13.000Nearly all Democrats jump on board because it almost always spends more money than it did last year.
00:03:18.000And it peels off just enough Republicans to get it to pass.
00:03:22.000And so this is how we end up $33 trillion in debt.
00:03:25.000This is how it happens because of the action of the law firm and the unflinching response of far too many Republicans to say, yeah, I'll jump on board with that, even though we're unifying Democrats, pursuing Democratic priorities for the most part, and we're sharply dividing Republicans.
00:03:57.000So tie this into the 930 funding fight.
00:04:00.000And specifically, the timing and the sequence of this omnibus, as you write, quote, was carefully orchestrated by the firm, but ensures that it will pass without any substantive changes once it becomes public.
00:04:11.000And the very few elected federal lawmakers will have meaningful input in this highly secretive process.
00:04:24.000So as I explain in this thread, it takes me 35 points to make the point in the thread.
00:04:29.000It's the longest one I've ever posted, but it's kind of a complicated issue.
00:04:33.000The law firm in recent months has gotten wind of the fact that a lot of members, because they've been hearing about it from their constituents, don't like omnibus bills.
00:04:43.000So they've started saying, hmm, maybe we shouldn't push omnibus bills.
00:04:47.000You've started hearing Speaker McCarthy, for example, saying, no omnibus.
00:04:54.000And so they've gotten practical and they've said, instead of doing omnibus bills, we're going to do one or two or three, maybe as many as four bills and consolidate them into one.
00:05:06.000But from what I can tell, they're bent on using a somewhat similar mechanism.
00:05:11.000So instead of doing one bill, maybe they'll do two.
00:05:15.000They tried to do some of that yesterday.
00:05:17.000They tried to consolidate three bills into one in the Senate, stripping out the House-passed bill.
00:05:23.000We've got one House-passed bill we had in the Senate.
00:05:26.000They tried to add on Democratic language from the Senate on top of that.
00:05:31.000That had me concerned that this is going to end up either in an omnibus or in two mini omnibuses between now and September 30th or now and the end of the year.
00:05:43.000But what we need, we need the House of Representatives to be legislating something, something that spends less money and something that defunds the parts of government we find most repugnant.
00:05:55.000I suspect, Charlie, that what we'll end up with sometime between now and September 30th, there may end up being what we call a continuing resolution, perhaps a short-term one that will punt it out a few weeks to give the House more time to pass something with Republican priorities in it.
00:06:11.000What we want to avoid is the House of Representatives passing something without the majority of the votes coming from Democrats.
00:06:18.000Remember the debt ceiling deal that we had a few months ago?
00:06:24.000Speaker McCarthy pitched it to people as a good deal for Republicans.
00:06:28.000Only what happened is that in both houses, you had most of the votes coming from Democrats and a few of the votes coming from Republicans, enough to get it to pass in both houses.
00:06:38.000So there again, we're uniting Democrats on Democratic priorities and sharply dividing Republicans.
00:06:44.000We need the House to do things that actually cut spending or at least cut spending from the parts of government that harm our interests the most.
00:06:52.000If we can get that done, we'll be in better shape.
00:06:55.000The Senate needs to follow the House's lead here because the Republicans control the House, but not the Senate.
00:07:00.000So tell us about what Senator Ron Johnson did, Senator.
00:07:02.000I think this is noteworthy in actually slowing this down or preventing this.
00:07:22.000We voted to proceed to it this week in the Senate, which was appropriate given that it's something actually passed by a Republican-controlled body.
00:07:30.000But the plan of the law firm was to take up the Milcon VA bill and add to it, add to it two other bills that have never been passed by the House.
00:07:40.000Add to it two bills that have gone through the Senate Appropriations Committee controlled by Democrats, funding at higher levels than the House would have done, and funding things that the House wouldn't have agreed to and no Republican should agree to without a lot of the same protections for sanctity of life and all kinds of other issues that we care about as Republicans.
00:08:04.000And yesterday, my friend and colleague Ron Johnson heroically went to the floor and objected to that because it requires unanimous consent to combine these bills.
00:08:14.000The law firm assumed, hoped, urged, pleaded that Republicans would just let that go, look the other way, maybe not notice.
00:08:22.000Ron Johnson, to his great credit, went to the floor and objected to this, saying, Look, we shouldn't be advancing Democratic priorities.
00:08:29.000Let's get Republican priorities in a bill.
00:08:41.000Without our consent, without his consent, they can't do that.
00:08:45.000So, just in closing here, Senator, I'm worried based on what you're telling me, the firm that the way 930 is going to go is potentially that leadership is just going to side with Democrats to get Democrat priorities and the House Freedom Caucus and fiscal hawks like yourself are going to be ignored.
00:09:03.000Is that a likely outcome coming up on 930 that they'll just put a vote on the floor and moderate Republicans and Democrats will then come in harmony together?
00:09:12.000We should be very concerned about that.
00:09:14.000We should be worried that that's exactly what's going to happen.
00:09:16.000I still hold out some hope here, Charlie.
00:09:19.000Kevin McCarthy doesn't want to be in that position right now.
00:09:24.000He would rather not do that because, among other things, his speakership may be in jeopardy if he makes yet another deal with Democrats, passes something with Democrats with majority support coming from Democrats and not Republicans, as he did with the debt ceiling deal, which I thought was a terrible bargain where he snatched defeat from the jaws of victory.
00:09:47.000They looked at the House Republicans and passed a fantastic debt relief bill that, while not perfect, really went a long way towards solving the problem.
00:09:58.000And the problem there was that he punted on second down.
00:10:01.000All he had to do was wait a few more days, and we would have been able to achieve some substantial victories, maybe not getting that exact bill passed in the Senate, but substantial parts of it.
00:10:13.000So that's all we need him to do is hold and continue to work with his caucus to identify things that can unite his caucus and pass those things to extend the spending period by however many weeks is necessary in exchange for some type of concession, some sort of defunding of programs we hate that are used to harm the American people.
00:10:38.000I think that's a recipe for getting us there.
00:10:40.000There have been a lot of my friends in the House Freedom Caucus, who I talk to every day, and I know they're working on this.
00:10:47.000There's been some discussion in that group about possibly coming up with a short-term spending extension in exchange for some border security measures or something like that.
00:10:58.000There's also been talk led by Ron Johnson That maybe there could be a short-term spending extension through a continuing resolution that would contain something along the lines of the ending government shutdowns act, where you have provisions in place so that we don't end up in a shutdown, and where the law firm loses its control to push bad bills using the threat of a shutdown.
00:14:01.000Immigration is one of those issues where you kind of read about it, you hear about it, it's there, and all of a sudden it sneaks up on you and it becomes the issue defining the 2024 election.
00:14:12.000It's an invasion on the southern border, and the traditional Republicans say, well, it's the economy stupid.
00:14:18.000Yes, I actually think it might be the invasion stupid in 2024.
00:14:25.000I think in Arizona in particular, that there will be a hidden Trump vote that will vote for Donald Trump to secure the southern border.
00:14:35.000If, if, if, if you start to see Joe Biden and the regime start to close down the border, that's when you know they have serious problems.
00:14:44.000In New York, they're clamoring like wild to start closing down the border.
00:14:48.000AOC is getting heckled, heckled about the border.
00:14:53.000Below the surface, I'm telling you, there is this immigration invasion issue that could swallow the Democrat Party.
00:15:22.000We know that they're trying to intentionally change the demographics of the country.
00:15:27.000But putting that aside for a second, this is angering low-wage middle-class workers that now have to compete against border jumper foreigners that come into the country and cut in line.
00:18:21.000So tell us more about your work for the audience that is not aware.
00:18:25.000You are in our sister country across the pond, fighting for righteousness and truth in a country that unfortunately is even farther gone in some ways than America.
00:18:35.000Well, half my time I spend in a parish.
00:18:38.000I'm a deacon in a parish in northwest London.
00:18:40.000And half my time I spend in media ministry, I have a TV program on GV News called Calvin's Common Sense Crusade, where we look at current events from a faith perspective.
00:18:48.000And I think that's what's missing in our society today, that faith perspective.
00:18:52.000It used to be that everyone in England would identify as Christian at one point, maybe as soon as 100 years ago.
00:18:58.000And that has gone down tremendously in the last 50 years to the point that now atheists are in the majority in a Christian country.
00:19:05.000And that's disturbing for many reasons, but one of them is that they want to remove Christian values from everything.
00:19:10.000And at the same time as removing Christian values, they want to promote other values that they see as foreign and exotic.
00:19:16.000For example, Islamic values, which we know to be counterproductive and the antithesis of Christian values in many respects.
00:19:23.000So it's very disturbing to see that Islamic values being pushed as the norm in a so-called Christian country.
00:19:29.000So that's what I'm fighting against, actually.
00:19:31.000I'm fighting against liberalism, but also fighting against Muhammadism and trying to promote what we know to be good, what we know to be true.
00:19:40.000And that's what we're trying to push back into normality.
00:19:42.000So Calvin, let's talk about one of the things you're pushing back against, which is the new state-run religion of the trans agenda.
00:19:49.000I'm sure this has swept your country as much as it has our country.
00:19:52.000In fact, I was so moved by one of the pictures where there was, I believe it was right near Buckingham Palace in downtown London, where it looked like it was a colonized country where there were more gay flags than anything I've ever seen.
00:20:04.000What drives this and connect how a secular country needs to find some sort of pagan God to attach themselves to?
00:21:22.000So we've got to remind people that God loves them as they are.
00:21:24.000Of course, he wants them to repent of their sins and change them that way.
00:21:27.000But physically, he loves people as they are because that's how he intended them to be.
00:21:31.000And, you know, Calvin, one of the issues that I find is that as America or the West becomes increasingly secular and we see these fake religions fill the void, it's very clear that it creates misery, desperation, depression, anxiety, societal chaos, and discord.
00:21:52.000So how should Christians then respond to this?
00:21:54.000Because in your country, it's even more difficult because you're even more secular country than America, which America still has a remnant of, you know, the faithful.
00:22:05.000How then should Christians respond to this?
00:22:06.000And talk about your own personal story and some of the pushback you've received for the stances that you've taken.
00:22:11.000I think the way that Christians respond to this is through mercy, compassion, charity, and forgiveness.
00:22:17.000The forgiveness is the key because all of these fake religions from trans theory to queer theory to critical race theory, what they have in common is they have no mercy, they have no compassion, they have no charity, and they have no forgiveness.
00:22:28.000Take, for example, critical race theory, this idea that whiteness is somehow an inheritor's sin, one that you cannot repent of, one that you cannot be forgiven of, and therefore you are stuck with it for life.
00:22:38.000Now, the Christian faith teaches that anyone is a sinner, everyone is a sinner, but you can repent of your sins, that you are forgiven.
00:22:45.000God forgives you for them, and we forgive each other for them.
00:22:47.000And that's far better than this idea that you cannot change what you are and therefore you are irredeemable.
00:22:52.000So that's one way we should show a better example by forgiving people.
00:22:56.000But the other way is by living as the salt, living as the light in this ever-darkening world around us.
00:23:28.000We can talk to you about how to get through your suffering, how that helps shape you and form you as an individual for what is to come next in the world to come.
00:24:20.000I was going through discernment in the Church of England to become a priest in the Church of England, the official state church of our country.
00:24:29.000I got sent to Oxford for formation and training.
00:24:32.000And at the end of my training, the hierarchy, the bishops in the Church of England said, you know, you've got to not just go along with us theologically, you've also got to go along with us politically.
00:24:42.000You've got to agree on these issues of race, on gender, on sexuality that are in contrast with the Bible.
00:27:15.000I would say that's very lazy and very inconvenient, isn't it?
00:27:17.000Yes, we are supposed to preach the gospel, but we're supposed to live the gospel too.
00:27:20.000We cannot just stand there and talk about it on a Sunday and then go home and live decrepit lives.
00:27:24.000We have to proclaim Christ in everything that we do, in the way we breathe, the way we work, the way we walk, everything should say, I am a Christian, I believe in Christ.
00:27:31.000And you should be able to look at someone and say, he is a follower of Jesus Christ.
00:27:34.000And you can tell that because he lives differently to the world around him, which is actually darker than what's going on.
00:27:39.000And we want to look for the light and the salt.
00:28:12.000BBC, which I believe is funded by the taxpayers of your wonderful country, is creating re-education videos for the United Kingdom children, telling them that the original Britons were black.
00:29:24.000And what they're trying to do with this video, the BBC, what they're always trying to do is propagandize the nation into a false revisionist history.
00:29:32.000This idea that immigrants built Great Britain is what we're often hearing.
00:29:36.000And that we've always had black people in Britain.
00:29:44.000I mean, you could argue either way if you wanted to.
00:29:46.000But to change it, to lie about it, is saying, actually, we need to focus on people who are skincare again.
00:29:51.000We need to get back to this idea of black people being somehow superior to white people.
00:29:54.000Just like the feminist movement paints women as better than men.
00:29:57.000The race movement, civil race movement at the moment, is painting ethnic minorities as superior to white people and saying that white people are naturally oppressors, naturally horrible, evil people.
00:30:20.000I'm just understand, just from your perspective.
00:30:22.000And do everyday rank and file members of your country, are they okay with just the complete rewriting of just it's it's an insult to history, isn't it?
00:30:36.000I think about 13% of the British population are ethnic minorities and over 25% of people are on screen on BBC content or ethnic minorities.
00:30:46.000Massive overrepresentation going on there.
00:30:48.000But it's not just in the BBC, it's everywhere.
00:30:49.000If you walk around in London, look at any billboards, look at any advertisement, you will see the brown faces.
00:30:56.000Why is it there this overrepresentation?
00:30:58.000They're trying to paint a picture that the population is different to what it is.
00:31:02.000And when you ask me what is the motivation there, I think it's division.
00:31:04.000I do think they're trying to get people to fight within themselves.
00:31:07.000I think they want to get black versus white as much as they want to get women versus men.
00:31:10.000They want to get trans versus ordinary folk fighting against each other.
00:31:15.000Because when we're fighting against each other, we're not seeing what they're doing, we're distracted.
00:31:18.000And when we look at what's going on this, this globalization that's happening not just in our country but across the entirety of the West, we see a move towards one world government.
00:31:27.000We see the United Nations, the who, the w.
00:31:31.000Okay Calvin, you're breaking up a little bit.
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