00:00:03.000What could have been a major fight for the border?
00:00:06.000He runs to the hills and gives Chuck U. Schumer a bailout.
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00:02:12.000They said we want to rob the legislative calendar of budgeting and we're going to do a massive omnibus budget and kick it all the way to September of 2023.
00:02:27.000Now we were outraged because he said, wait a second, we have this incoming House Republican Congress that they're not going to have a lot of time.
00:02:37.000But we said, okay, September, we're going to be ready for it.
00:02:40.000Now, in the midst of it, there was a debt ceiling fight.
00:02:43.000The debt ceiling fight happened in the late spring.
00:02:58.000We said, hey, but the big fight is coming in September, everybody.
00:03:02.000And in September, there was a clean, really a dirty, continuing resolution building upon Nancy Pelosi's budget, building upon Chuck Schumer's budget, building upon Joe Biden's budget.
00:04:29.000Because we said, look, if you're not going to work through Thanksgiving and work through Christmas, we're supposed to believe that there's going to be this incredible movement of courage in January.
00:04:40.000But no, we were told by even some conservatives that come on the show, oh, just wait till January.
00:04:55.000You aren't going to do anything in January.
00:04:57.000You're supposed to, I'm supposed to believe you.
00:04:58.000You're just going to arrive after a four-week Christmas break and find all the courage to cut spending and secure the border and do the necessary things to shut down the government.
00:05:09.000But we were told by all the experts and all the insiders and all the consultants in Speaker Johnson's office: hey, January is where we draw the line.
00:05:18.000And we said, Hey, why don't you work through Christmas?
00:05:20.000Why don't you use all of the holiday distraction to your advantage, even if you think you're going to go down in the approval poll ratings?
00:05:30.000But if that really matters to you, just get it over in Christmas, hold a line.
00:05:36.000But you guys had time to reduce your House majority to get rid of George Santos.
00:05:41.000Last evening, look, there is no way to spin it.
00:05:44.000There is, I guess, a little bit of a hopeful element.
00:05:46.000There's 103 really good, strong members of Congress that did the right thing.
00:05:52.000But yesterday, led by Speaker Johnson himself, he voted for this.
00:05:57.000Led by Speaker Johnson himself, House Republicans teamed up with Chuck Schumer and Joe Biden, and they punted to March.
00:06:05.000So that means from December of 2022, when we did not control the House, punted all the way to September of 2023, then punted to November of 2023, then punted to January of 2024, and now we have punted to March of 2024.
00:06:24.000It has been an uninterrupted punting game from 90 days, nine months, 60 days, 90 days, not cutting spending, not securing the border, still borrowing $2 trillion and amounting to the ever-growing debts and deficits.
00:06:43.000And now we're supposed to believe that you guys are going to find your backbone and courage in March of an election year.
00:06:50.000That in March of an election year, you guys are all of a sudden going to be willing to lock down and shut down the government.
00:06:57.000Speaker Johnson, you are an enormous embarrassment, an enormous disappointment.
00:07:02.000I even said yesterday, I was willing to cut you some slack.
00:07:06.000I said, I'm willing to just let bygones be bygones.
00:09:12.000If Speaker Johnson had gusto, if Speaker Johnson really was a strong man, Speaker Johnson, he is one of the weakest politicians I've ever seen ascend.
00:09:21.000Honestly, Speaker McCarthy would have done a better job.
00:10:07.000If she would have voted for the CR, she would have been took out of the running immediately.
00:10:11.000I'm not even saying I'm supportive of Stefanik for VP, but it's an interesting indicator because she's in House leadership and she was one of the few people not to follow along House leadership.
00:10:40.000Hi, I'm Adriana, a politics major at Hillsdale College.
00:10:43.000Here's Hillsdale President Dr. Larry Arn with a Constitution Minute.
00:10:47.000America's founders recognized an obvious fact of life.
00:10:49.000Human beings differ in terms of physical attributes and talents.
00:10:53.000Because of this, some people will be better at some things than they are at others.
00:10:56.000But they also recognize that the tall and the short among us, the swift and the slow among us, are still human beings if we are recognizable as human beings.
00:11:04.000And therefore, we are equal in terms of the rights that pertain to human beings.
00:11:09.000Rights attached to human nature, rights that come from God.
00:11:12.000The Declaration of Independence names three of the big ones.
00:11:15.000Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
00:11:18.000Exercising these rights is necessary if we are to be truly free.
00:11:21.000In our own time, many influential people believe that only government can decide what our rights should be.
00:11:28.000Understanding our rights and how the Constitution protects them is vital to our freedom.
00:11:32.000To learn more and get a free pocket constitution, visit constitutionminute.com.
00:11:39.000So let me tell you one of the reasons why I'm more frustrated regarding Speaker Johnson than Speaker McCarthy.
00:11:47.000Two men that I've had an opportunity to get to know.
00:11:50.000And there's no, it's not helpful to dive overly interesting in the details.
00:11:55.000And this is not a robust defense of Speaker McCarthy, but this is my own personal take.
00:12:01.000I take my faith in my Christianity very seriously.
00:12:05.000When somebody leads with their Christianity, when somebody leads with their biblical beliefs, I immediately hold them to a higher standard.
00:12:21.000You're going to wear the badge of what it means to be a Christian.
00:12:26.000I'm going to look at you a little bit differently.
00:12:28.000And by the way, the scriptures support this.
00:12:30.000The scriptures support the idea that if you say that you are a Christian and say that you are a believer, that you should be looked at differently.
00:14:01.000But I'm saying, does that make Christianity look good?
00:14:04.000Now, when people think of Christian politicians, they think of spineless, gutless, lying, deceitful, no courage, no gusto, no spirit, okay with women being raped on the southern border, okay with fentanyl coming into our country, okay with the FBI infiltrating Latin Mass.
00:14:23.000Where is the do not fear, be strong and courageous, as it says in Joshua 1.9?
00:14:29.000And that is why I hold Speaker Johnson to a higher standard.
00:14:36.000When you invoke the holy, when you tell me that your worldview is similar to mine, a biblical worldview, then I say, okay, then we're going to be, we're going to be looking at you differently.
00:14:48.000If Speaker Johnson would have come out and said, look, I'm kind of just a live and let live type guy.
00:14:55.000For example, if it was Javier Millay, who's honestly terrific in what he's saying and doing, and you want the thought crime of the day?
00:15:05.000Javier Malay, who is a converted to Judaism, who is into kind of like threesome orgies or some sort of weird stuff.
00:15:12.000Javier Malay acts with more courage and more fruit of a biblical worldview than even Speaker Johnson.
00:15:52.000And to be perfectly transparent with you guys, and I'm not trying to blackpill you.
00:15:56.000I'm not trying to make you feel sad or I'm just being honest.
00:16:01.000They're not going to do anything in March useful.
00:16:04.000The closer we get to the election, they're going to say, now we're really in cycle.
00:16:10.000You want to talk about being in cycle?
00:16:12.000In March, you're going to say, guys, I'm already getting a primary and attack ads ran against me.
00:16:17.000That's why we were so forceful, so animated about the fall of 2023 fight.
00:16:23.000I've been around for 11 years, not a long period of time, but enough to know that if you don't fight in the fall before the cycle begins, you're not going to get anything done.
00:16:33.000And yet, Speaker Johnson, while intermixing scriptural references, lies to us, lies, by the way.
00:16:41.000Oh, we're going to do a laddered CR and the big fight is coming in January and I'm not going to put up with the border not being secure.
00:16:51.000Or at least if you would have had a defection from your conference, you could have done a press conference and said, if you vote to keep this government open, you're not getting any money from my PAC.
00:16:59.000You're not getting any money from leadership.
00:17:01.000It is leadership's position that the government will be shut down and we're going to blame Chuck Schumer instead.
00:17:06.000Speaker Johnson bends the knee to Chuck Yu Schumer.
00:18:15.000Speaker Johnson could have put the conference together, could have laid it down and said, listen, we have two demands and they are not unreasonable.
00:18:42.000Government fiscal stimulus, aka $6 trillion of federal annualized spending, and we only have $4 trillion in revenue is breaking our monetary advantage.
00:19:35.000Remember, I said it was a mistake to punt in November, a mistake to punt in October, a mistake to punt in Christmas.
00:19:42.000And Speaker Johnson could have actually proven me wrong because the border crisis is far more of a crisis today than it was even back in the fall.
00:19:51.000Imagine the popular hero that Speaker Johnson could be if he'd come out of nowhere and delivered this decisive force.
00:19:58.000Again, the people in D.C. are corrupt and they're stupid.
00:20:04.000Speaker Johnson could have shut down the government and then he could have gone right to New York City, go to New York City, to AOC's district where all these blacks are angry and saying, I'm shutting down the government for you.
00:20:32.000You're not some sort of Senate intern.
00:20:34.000You're acting like you're a Senate intern.
00:20:37.000Speaker Johnson could have shut down the border, opened up his entire office on Eagle Pass, Texas, and said, hey, you want to reopen the government, Chuck Hugh Schumer?
00:21:03.000And Speaker Johnson could have this unbelievable, this unbelievable visual of these fighting age males.
00:21:10.000And they would just be coming in and Speaker Johnson could be doing all these interviews on the Dylan Mulvaney show and on the race lady on MSNBC.
00:21:17.000He could be doing these interviews while these males are just coming by him and say, you know why the government is shut down here and I'm going to sleep in a tent.
00:22:18.000You go and bring the House Republican conference and say, you want to reopen the government, Chuck Hugh Schumer, you have to get on a connecting flight through Dallas, Texas, and get in a car for two hours and meet me in Eagle Pass, Texas.
00:23:36.000And by the way, the Bible is filled with people of courage.
00:23:38.000Maybe Speaker Johnson should read the Bible.
00:23:40.000The thing that he always quotes, or is Speaker Johnson used that as a veneer, as a camouflage, as a protection racket so that people don't criticize him?
00:23:49.000We're on to your whole shtick, Speaker Johnson.
00:26:37.000Could you imagine the grassroots if they even got a week of Speaker Johnson shutting down the government, going to the border, doing interviews, holding the line?
00:26:52.000I think approval ratings for Republicans would have gone up.
00:27:03.000Of all these people saying Trump is going to win, because there is a primal scream in the heartland outside of D.C. There's a primal scream saying, please fight for me.
00:28:24.000By the way, so Jane, I want you to just tell our audience, one of the best parts of March for Life is the amount of young people, the amount of energy, the enthusiasm.
00:28:34.000You're doing a great job in the snow there.
00:28:38.000Walk us through what it's like on the ground at the beautiful March for Life.
00:28:42.000Yeah, so I'm doing my best Jim Cantori impression right now, but I'm among 50,000 pro-life activists who've come to DC despite the weather, which of course is more than Congress can do.
00:28:53.000But this year's theme of the 51st annual March for Life is with every woman for every child.
00:28:59.000And what they aim to honoring here is the work that pro-life activists have done across this country in the post-Roe era.
00:29:06.000The pregnancy resource centers, the counseling centers.
00:29:09.000There are over 3,000 pregnancy resource centers across the United States.
00:29:14.000In the months since Roe v. Wade was overturned, taxpayer dollars, they have used $250 million taxpayer dollars to fund these centers to better support and foster a culture of life.
00:29:27.000And we need to be seeing that across the states.
00:29:29.000I want to talk to you a little bit about what we are up against.
00:29:32.000Two major pro-life bills recently passed in the House, one regarding student care for pregnant students and one regarding funding for pregnancy resource centers.
00:29:53.000Joe Biden's deputy campaign manager was making media rounds just a week ago talking about how Joe Biden's day one issue is making abortion access the law of the land.
00:30:03.000And the radical platform that the Democrats have taken with their pro-abortion agenda is not what represents most Americans.
00:30:09.000It's definitely not what represents young Americans.
00:30:13.000And we need strong leaders more than ever to fight against this radical agenda.
00:30:17.000Across the states now on the state level, you have pro-abortion activists trying to push through codified abortion laws and state constitutions, particularly in states like Florida, Nebraska, Arkansas, just to name a few.
00:30:31.000Just really quick, can you just talk about the age?
00:30:33.000There's so many young people that attend the March for Life, which I think is so inspiring.
00:30:37.000And look at the weather, the fact you get 50,000 people in this kind of a storm.
00:30:41.000And by the way, it's all across the East Coast.