The Charlie Kirk Show - October 25, 2023


The Mike Johnson Speaker Strategy

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Mike Johnson Donald Trump Kyrsten Sinema John Tester Sherrod Brown Adam Schiff McCarthy Kathy McMorris-Rogers Elise Stefanik Ron Johnson Josh Hawley Joe Manchin Jim Jordan Jack Smith Ron Paul JD Vance Emmer Marjorie Taylor Greene Turning Point USA Merrick Garland and 24 more
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Speaker Mike Johnson is the new Speaker of the House of Representatives, and he's a pro-Trump, pro-Democrat. He's a New Yorker, a New York Magazine writer, and a member of the New York City subway system.

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00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, Speaker Mike Johnson.
00:00:02.000 We talk about how having a new speaker will impact the legislative agenda and some advice for the new speaker of the house.
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00:01:17.000 We very well might have a speaker.
00:01:20.000 We might have a speaker.
00:01:23.000 Mike Johnson is the speaker designate.
00:01:26.000 We're going to have a vote, hopefully, momentarily here, but don't pop the champagne yet.
00:01:32.000 Mike Johnson is a great man.
00:01:34.000 He's been on the program.
00:01:35.000 He's solid.
00:01:36.000 He's very smart.
00:01:37.000 He's argued in front of the Louisiana Supreme Court.
00:01:41.000 He is a true patriot, a godly man.
00:01:44.000 And this process, this process, we went through basically everybody.
00:01:48.000 Thank goodness Emmer did not get it.
00:01:51.000 That was a big win for the grassroots.
00:01:52.000 Good job, everybody.
00:01:54.000 Emmer just folded like a cheap suit, go back to Minnesota to do deals with Democrats.
00:02:00.000 There were other people that we wanted.
00:02:01.000 I mean, Jim Jordan would have been terrific.
00:02:03.000 Mike Johnson is similar of the similar kind of vein and form as Jim Jordan.
00:02:10.000 He's tough.
00:02:10.000 He's smart.
00:02:11.000 And let me prove it to you.
00:02:13.000 This morning, some anti-social person that works for, what is this?
00:02:20.000 The New York magazine?
00:02:23.000 Jonathan Chait says, all right, everybody, you have to hate him.
00:02:27.000 House Speaker nominee Mike Johnson, New Yorker.
00:02:30.000 I thought it was New York.
00:02:31.000 No, I think it was, I don't think it's New Yorker.
00:02:33.000 I think it's just the New York.
00:02:35.000 There's like two of them.
00:02:36.000 Yeah, I was right.
00:02:37.000 Not New Yorker.
00:02:38.000 Yep.
00:02:40.000 House Speaker nominee Mike Johnson was the mastermind of the January 6th plot.
00:02:45.000 Oh, they're already telling us that we must hate him.
00:02:48.000 He is the architect of January 6th, by the way.
00:02:51.000 He was one of the most and continues to be one of the most articulate advocates for election integrity.
00:02:57.000 Okay, so it's the New York magazine.
00:02:59.000 They have a blog called The Intelligencer.
00:03:01.000 It's very confusing, okay?
00:03:02.000 Who has time to, and then you have the New Yorker magazine, then the New York Times.
00:03:06.000 How many of the New York publications do we need exactly?
00:03:09.000 Anyway, Johnson, who used to be a relatively obscure right-wing backbencher, threw himself behind Trump's election subversion crusade.
00:03:18.000 At first, Johnson endorsed both Trump's old mail fraud claims and his newer voting machine theories.
00:03:24.000 In a friendly radio interview two weeks before the election, he said, they're supposed to say this as a way to try to make you hate him.
00:03:31.000 A lot of us know intuitively that there are a lot of amiss about this election day.
00:03:35.000 The fact that all these states with Democrat leaders changed the rules, true, in the fourth quarter of the game, true.
00:03:40.000 And the allegations of these voting machines, some being rigged, and a lot of merit in the software by certain voting companies.
00:03:47.000 And when the president says the election was rigged, that's what he's talking about.
00:03:50.000 The fix was in.
00:03:53.000 Oh, the media hates this guy.
00:03:54.000 Adam Schiff has come out and endorsed Mike Johnson for speaker this morning.
00:03:59.000 You might be Googling who Mike Johnson is this morning.
00:04:02.000 Let me make it simple.
00:04:03.000 Johnson is a hard right pro-Trump leading election denier in the House.
00:04:06.000 Sadly, this is what passes for speaker material in the Republican conference.
00:04:09.000 That's an endorsement like I couldn't believe.
00:04:11.000 Thank you, Adam Schiff, for giving your seal of approval.
00:04:16.000 Adam Schiff with a 100% approval rating for Mike Johnson.
00:04:22.000 Now, according to some left-wing website, he has a democracy score of F.
00:04:29.000 I love this guy.
00:04:31.000 Very poor democracy score.
00:04:33.000 Remember, it's an oligarchy score, right?
00:04:35.000 So they're scoring whether or not he defends a secret society of cabal elites that are untouchable by the people, the sovereign.
00:04:44.000 So his oligarchy democracy score is he signed the Texas amicus brief.
00:04:49.000 He objected to the certification of electoral college results in one or more states.
00:04:54.000 He made false or irresponsible public statements against the Democratic system.
00:04:58.000 He voted against the impeachment or conviction of Donald Trump for inciting an insurrection.
00:05:03.000 He voted against creating an independent commission to investigate the January 6th attack.
00:05:07.000 And he voted against holding Steve Bannon in contempt of Congress.
00:05:11.000 He gets an F. By the way, this is the Republican Accountability Pact that rates people from A to F on their defense of democracy.
00:05:20.000 This guy sounds great.
00:05:23.000 Now, the process that got us here was anything but simple, clean, clear, but it's not over yet.
00:05:30.000 Do not celebrate.
00:05:31.000 In fact, Tim Burchett just tweeted out: quote, the swamp is right now trying to stop Representative Mike Johnson.
00:05:38.000 Let's not allow that to happen.
00:05:42.000 So let's not celebrate too much, everybody.
00:05:44.000 It is not victory yet, but the most promising thing that Mike Johnson has put forward is the following: He said, We are no longer going to do CRs.
00:05:53.000 We're going to do individual spending bills.
00:05:55.000 That alone is a massive, major, and significant accomplishment that will make the Senate get out of their octogenarian country club, wake up those worthless old bulls in both parties that are getting massages and start working around 2:30 p.m. and they suspend all work around 4 p.m.
00:06:17.000 The Senate is a joke right now.
00:06:19.000 It's going to wake them up, like, hey, guys, you're going to have to do some work now.
00:06:23.000 Put the pressure on the Senate to get 60 votes.
00:06:27.000 Make them have to be.
00:06:28.000 When's the last time the Senate has done anything?
00:06:31.000 Nothing.
00:06:32.000 And look, let's just make sure we're all clear.
00:06:34.000 Mike Johnson has bad grades from the Republican Accountability Pact and all that.
00:06:38.000 Mike Johnson will, of course, let us down on some things because it's Washington, D.C.
00:06:43.000 The question is: will he fight more than he surrenders?
00:06:46.000 And we're going to have a fair amount of understanding that he has a slim majority.
00:06:50.000 He doesn't control every portion of the House, I mean, every portion of the next Congress.
00:06:56.000 But honestly, if Mike Johnson is going to just get us individual spending bills, that is a major and a significant and a material accomplishment.
00:07:04.000 So I don't want you to get your hopes up too high if he ends up being Speaker.
00:07:08.000 But he also is a border hawk.
00:07:10.000 One of my favorite headlines is: for those of you that want a closed border, Mike Johnson is your guy.
00:07:16.000 So if you want a closed border, Mike Johnson is your guy.
00:07:20.000 And understand this.
00:07:22.000 He also fits the mold of something that I care deeply about, that I happen to know a lot about.
00:07:28.000 I think he will be able to travel the country, raise capital, recruit good candidates to try to make us competitive so that we don't lose the House in 2025, 2024 election, 2025 cycle.
00:07:41.000 And right now, we're probably going to lose the House.
00:07:42.000 And the Democrat, Hakeem Jeffries, is like a 95% chance of becoming Speaker of the House.
00:07:48.000 They're just outraising us.
00:07:48.000 They're recruiting us.
00:07:50.000 They're winning lawsuits for redistricting.
00:07:52.000 Republicans aren't fighting.
00:07:53.000 In fact, it's an open secret in the Republican leadership that we're probably not going to have the House.
00:07:58.000 Now, hopefully, we can improve our chances in that way.
00:08:00.000 Mike Johnson is not a showman.
00:08:02.000 He's a gentleman.
00:08:03.000 He's old school.
00:08:04.000 He's clean-cut.
00:08:04.000 He's an operator, a litigator.
00:08:06.000 He can speak to both the donor class, which we need to raise a lot of money from, and also the grassroots.
00:08:12.000 And understand, Trump can have some very long coattails.
00:08:14.000 Trump can flip districts.
00:08:16.000 When Trump is at the top of the ticket, anything is possible.
00:08:19.000 So I don't want to make it seem as if it's a guarantee that Hakeem Jeffries is going to become Speaker of the House.
00:08:24.000 But if we keep on getting outraised the way that we're getting outraised and out-recruited, it's not going to go well.
00:08:31.000 So that's why we need a good speaker.
00:08:32.000 And Mike Johnson would be a terrific speaker.
00:08:36.000 And by the way, he's come on our program multiple times here on the Charlie Kirk Show.
00:08:39.000 That's a great sign.
00:08:41.000 He is high energy.
00:08:43.000 He fought on the election integrity thing.
00:08:45.000 He's terrific on the border.
00:08:46.000 He's also, by the way, he cross-examined Merrick Garland in a terrific way.
00:08:51.000 So this would be a serious accomplishment.
00:08:53.000 Now, you also have to just make sure you caution Mike Johnson here.
00:08:56.000 Be careful what you wish for.
00:08:58.000 Do you really want to become Speaker of the House?
00:09:01.000 And if Mike Johnson is just very clear and sets the standard, he should just say, look, I'm going to disappoint some people and I'm going to surprise some people.
00:09:10.000 But here is my clear promise.
00:09:12.000 We are going to do piecemeal spending bills and we are not going to do continuing resolutions and massive debt ceiling increases.
00:09:22.000 That is my promise to you.
00:09:24.000 We're going to make the Senate work.
00:09:26.000 We're going to first fund out of 12 different measures.
00:09:29.000 Let's fund the least controversial stuff to the most controversial stuff.
00:09:33.000 Let's play Cut 64.
00:09:35.000 Democracy is messy sometimes, but it is our system.
00:09:39.000 This conference that you see, this House Republican majority, is united.
00:09:48.000 I'm honored to have the support of my colleagues and what they understand about this is this is servant leadership.
00:09:54.000 We're going to serve the people of this country.
00:09:56.000 We're going to restore their faith in this Congress, this institution of government.
00:10:01.000 America is the last best hope of man on the earth. 0.54
00:10:05.000 United for now, we're going to watch the vote closely.
00:10:09.000 If Mike Johnson becomes Speaker, that is a win for the grassroots.
00:10:13.000 And then the real fight starts as this continuing resolution fight is coming to the doorstep of Congress.
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00:11:00.000 Let me tell you one other positive of Mike Johnson becoming Speaker of the House.
00:11:04.000 One of the major difficulties that the McConnell NRSC and a challenge that the McCarthy camp dealt with was small dollar donations.
00:11:15.000 Democrats, they are able to raise a significant amount of money through small dollar donations.
00:11:20.000 Now, there's a lot of shenanigans and funny business with this Act Blue stuff.
00:11:24.000 James O'Keefe was onto something.
00:11:25.000 I'm telling you, there's something that is not right with this Act Blue stuff.
00:11:29.000 I'm telling you, I don't know what it is.
00:11:31.000 The numbers don't make sense to me.
00:11:33.000 The flow of money is extraordinary.
00:11:35.000 But understand, too, that Democrats take donating small dollars, $20, $30, $50, almost as a church tithe.
00:11:46.000 The same way that people will give $30 a month their local church or $10 a month to Turning Point USA that a 32-year-old single wine lady who's a partner at a law firm who's super Democrat, she'll give $100 a month to ActBlue and split it between John Fetterman and Raphael Warnock.
00:12:12.000 And Act Blue has done an amazing job of aggregating all this.
00:12:15.000 And I'll just reiterate, it is ridiculously suspicious the volume of quote-unquote small dollar donations that flow through Act Blue.
00:12:23.000 But even the suspicion aside, it is understandable that Democrats are better at raising small dollar donations because their base doesn't ask questions.
00:12:31.000 They just want power.
00:12:32.000 They hate the right so much and they're willing to flow capital.
00:12:35.000 Our side is not that way. 0.99
00:12:38.000 And if you talk to some consultants, of which not every consultant is bad, most of them are trash.
00:12:43.000 But some consultants I've been talking to the last six months and they say they've never seen an evaporation like the last six months when it comes to small dollar fundraising for the NRSC. 0.52
00:12:57.000 Obviously, RNC shouldn't get any money.
00:12:59.000 Do not give money to the RNC or to the NRCC, which was the McCarthy leadership pack.
00:13:08.000 So the one wrinkle of positivity is that Mike Johnson becoming Speaker, you will be able to see some surge of small dollar support.
00:13:18.000 I don't know how durable that will be.
00:13:20.000 I don't know how reliable that will be, but that will now be a new revenue source because shows like ours will support him.
00:13:29.000 Now, understand, you know, if and when Mike Johnson disappoints us, which will happen because it's Washington, D.C.
00:13:36.000 So hopefully we take the disappointments in stride with prudence, weigh the positives and the negatives, and understand that with a four-seat majority, there's only so much you can do, and you have to cut a deal.
00:13:46.000 Politics is the art of the possible.
00:13:48.000 But we want to make sure that we are clear about red lines.
00:13:51.000 And if I was to give Mike Johnson advice, I'm going to try to find his phone number.
00:13:56.000 I'm going to text him this after we come speaker.
00:13:57.000 I'll say, congratulations, Mr. Speaker.
00:13:59.000 If he ends up becoming speaker, which it looks like it will, here's my advice to you.
00:14:03.000 You need to set the expectation in your opening press conference so clearly and tell people that you're not going to love everything that comes out of here.
00:14:12.000 But my standard will be this.
00:14:14.000 We're going to change the actual process more than policy.
00:14:18.000 That will be a major win.
00:14:20.000 Tell the base, tell the audience, tell the people that are wary of double speak, talking out of both sides of their mouth politicians, that we are going to, for the CR coming up, we're going to do 12 different bills.
00:14:36.000 We're going to work weekends.
00:14:38.000 If it means we have to work over Christmas, so be it.
00:14:41.000 The Republic matters more than getting out of Dodge on December 21st so you can go home and have a really nice Christmas break while the country still borrows $2 trillion.
00:14:51.000 You need to set that standard now, Mike Johnson.
00:14:54.000 I think he's all game for it.
00:14:55.000 And say, look, we're going to have some things that we're not going to fight on.
00:14:59.000 And he can say this in his opening salvo as speaker, say, I'm willing to work with Democrats on Israel funding, for example, on Ukraine funding.
00:15:07.000 We're going to have to have a real big, robust discussion.
00:15:10.000 On the border, this is a non-negotiable for our conference, and we're going to use every single member as leverage to secure the border.
00:15:16.000 Weaponization of DOJ, but it'll say, look, the bad guys are going to fearmonger.
00:15:21.000 Like, we don't want to fund Social Security and fund all this.
00:15:25.000 He says, this is why we're going to do 12 different bills so that the necessary stuff is not held hostage around the controversial stuff.
00:15:32.000 And it really comes down to one thing.
00:15:34.000 As Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson needs to tell even the Democrats, hey, guys, you're going to be working weekends.
00:15:39.000 We're not doing recess.
00:15:40.000 We're not going back to your districts.
00:15:42.000 This is basically going to be 90 days of work.
00:15:44.000 We're going to work the Congress harder than ever before.
00:15:47.000 And if he ends up getting elected as speaker, which I certainly hope he does in the next couple of minutes, we're going to be watching it live.
00:15:54.000 He basically does tell people the greatest statement he could give is: guys, we're working this weekend.
00:15:59.000 That will be a change of business.
00:16:01.000 Because I guarantee you, these rhino Republicans and these transactional Uniparty Democrats and the Radical Socialists have plans this weekend. 0.96
00:16:12.000 Cancel them.
00:16:12.000 Say, no, no, no, no.
00:16:14.000 We've been doing three weeks of our own kind of speaker process.
00:16:16.000 We got work to do.
00:16:17.000 We're working through the weekend.
00:16:19.000 We're working up to the continuing resolution.
00:16:21.000 The American people gave us a mandate to govern, not just to go to cocktail parties and soires, but to actually cut spending and reform the country.
00:16:30.000 Mr. Johnson, my advice to you is set the expectation early.
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00:18:39.000 Now, just reading the tea leaves, it looks like Johnson is going to become speaker.
00:18:44.000 Members are coming over and shaking his hand.
00:18:47.000 There is a big circle welcoming line around Johnson right now.
00:18:51.000 So let me tell you: you know, some Democrats are even going over and shaking Johnson's hand.
00:18:56.000 And in some ways, Johnson is a perfect person for a very divisive time.
00:19:00.000 He's incredibly conservative, but he has that kind of southern gentleman, agreeable, very approachable way about him.
00:19:10.000 Let's just put it this way: it's not very flashy.
00:19:13.000 It's not about himself.
00:19:14.000 You know, he was a backbencher, not a blowhard.
00:19:17.000 He's a policy wonk, and he's been able to unite the conference.
00:19:21.000 Honestly, God bless him because he's an actual, legit conservative.
00:19:25.000 And I'm going to keep on saying this.
00:19:26.000 He will let us down.
00:19:28.000 And that's okay.
00:19:29.000 Politics is the art of the possible.
00:19:31.000 I just want to make sure he's very clear about what he, as Speaker, will do.
00:19:36.000 Okay, let's play Cut 75, please.
00:19:38.000 You know, Alvin Bragg has abused his office.
00:19:40.000 I mean, he's obviously a Soros-funded political operative.
00:19:43.000 Ran on his campaign platform was to get Donald Trump.
00:19:46.000 So they identified the defendant before there was ever even an alleged crime.
00:19:50.000 And everybody knows what this is about.
00:19:52.000 Even the Democrats who are honest, who will tell you quietly, they know what this is about.
00:19:55.000 It's a political vendetta.
00:19:57.000 They've weaponized the DA's office there as they have other Soros funded DA's offices around the country.
00:20:03.000 And they're destroying our justice system in the process, the people's faith in the system itself.
00:20:08.000 So Mike Johnson talking there on our program, he's talking like a Republican base.
00:20:13.000 And we talked about for quite some time Jack Smith, DOJ, as one of the biggest concerns, biggest issues facing our country.
00:20:21.000 So Mike Johnson is going to make one of his top priorities as Speaker of the House.
00:20:26.000 Say, hey, if you want more money, the FBI better fix itself.
00:20:29.000 Listen to this, Play Cut 78.
00:20:31.000 People believe the system of justice is fair, and this FBI is not presenting that to the people.
00:20:36.000 They want accountability for these egregious errors that they see, the blatant violations of Americans' free speech rights.
00:20:43.000 We need changes in the FBI.
00:20:44.000 And if they want to continue to request the funding, for example, for a billion-dollar new headquarters, they have to show us they can respect the constitutional rights of the people they are supposed to serve and protect.
00:20:55.000 Love it.
00:20:56.000 Speaker Johnson, or soon to be Speaker Johnson, let me give you some more advice.
00:21:00.000 If you want to get some early wins with the base, with us, to accommodate what is politics, which is the art of the possible, we're not going to love everything.
00:21:10.000 Release all the January 6th tapes by Monday morning.
00:21:14.000 Get those January 6th tapes out.
00:21:15.000 Just get it done.
00:21:17.000 You just got to get out of your system.
00:21:18.000 Doesn't matter how many threats come from the Intel agencies.
00:21:21.000 Just get out the tapes.
00:21:23.000 Get them out.
00:21:24.000 That alone will be, wow, that will send a message to the rank and file, to the grassroots, to the everyday Americans that have been looking at Congress and hearing one thing and seeing another.
00:21:35.000 Get those tapes out.
00:21:37.000 Get those tapes out.
00:21:38.000 That will be a massive message.
00:21:40.000 Second thing, make Congress work this weekend.
00:21:44.000 Make Congress work this weekend and then lay out, maybe you have to do the Karl Rove chart thing, which drives me nuts, but people are visual.
00:21:50.000 Have charts.
00:21:51.000 Come out on Monday morning or Sunday, if you are Speaker of the House with 12 different boards and say, here's what we're going to do.
00:22:00.000 We're going to break the spell.
00:22:02.000 We're going to break the fever, the fever of deficit spending, $2 trillion of borrowing.
00:22:07.000 And we're going to start with the least controversial bills, okay?
00:22:11.000 Veterans affairs, national parks, most of our military.
00:22:18.000 And we're going to work our way up and fund the government, fund our obligations in 12 different buckets.
00:22:26.000 So you force the Democrats, say, first, let's vote on the first one of these appropriation bills.
00:22:33.000 Get the least controversial out.
00:22:35.000 By the way, we already did four.
00:22:36.000 And yes, you're going to get, when you get to seven, eight, or nine, it's going to get contentious.
00:22:42.000 When you get to 11 and 12, it's going to get really heated because then we're going to be dealing with the border.
00:22:48.000 We're going to be dealing with Jack Smith.
00:22:49.000 We're going to be dealing with Ukraine funding.
00:22:52.000 But understand that the Democrats thrive and the Uniparty thrives on mixing the controversial with the necessary.
00:23:01.000 And they put them together into this continuing resolution.
00:23:04.000 And then they go immediately out to the cameras and say, well, I'm going to go vote for the CR because I want to make sure that our troops are funded.
00:23:11.000 And that sounds like a great argument.
00:23:13.000 But what's happened is leadership puts it all together into one bucket.
00:23:19.000 And this breaks the spell very, very quickly.
00:23:23.000 If you start to put things into different categories, different bills, 12 different ones, it is very hard for the bad guys to hide.
00:23:34.000 And that's why there's been such a big fight over this.
00:23:36.000 All the graft, all the corruption, all the nonsense, all the cronyism, all the lobbyism, quite honestly hides within a broken process.
00:23:50.000 And so Mike Johnson should say in his opening speech, amongst other things, I cannot promise results.
00:23:56.000 I can promise immediate process reform.
00:23:59.000 And that alone will empower the Ana Paulina Lunas and the Byron Donalds and the Chip Roy's and the Marjorie Taylor Greens and Lauren Boeberts to be able to then say, whoa, whoa, whoa, we can agree with most Republicans and some Democrats that we want the national parks to get funding or whatever the least controversial thing you could imagine, okay?
00:24:19.000 But then we will work our way up.
00:24:21.000 And as we work our way up the ladder, I don't know, around bill number six, we say, does the FBI really need a new headquarters?
00:24:29.000 Does the FBI really need a new, beautiful headquarters?
00:24:34.000 And then if you want to all of a sudden pick a funding fight, you're not looping all of or lumping all of this other stuff together into it.
00:24:43.000 Here is Mike Johnson's stance on the U.S. southern border.
00:24:47.000 Play cut 79, please.
00:24:48.000 Secretary Marcus, we have the frustrating responsibility on this committee of providing oversight of your agency.
00:24:55.000 But I have to be honest and tell you, I'm not sure exactly what you do at the Department of Homeland Security other than great harm.
00:25:01.000 On your watch, the data is pretty clear.
00:25:03.000 We've had record levels of illegal immigration, a rapid decline in deportations, skyrocketing fentanyl deaths across our country.
00:25:10.000 And the Secret Service, which is a DHS component, can't determine who left cocaine at the White House.
00:25:16.000 Man, he's smooth.
00:25:18.000 He is a litigator.
00:25:19.000 You could tell that guy has defended difficult positions in front of basically a quote-unquote legal firing squad.
00:25:29.000 You could tell.
00:25:30.000 Being a litigator in front of any Supreme Court in any major state in the country, that's a big deal.
00:25:34.000 Presenting arguments in front of a Supreme Court, that is the ultimate exercise in Socratic dialogue.
00:25:42.000 They'll interrupt you.
00:25:43.000 They'll ask the most challenging questions.
00:25:45.000 So he can handle CNN.
00:25:47.000 He can handle the press.
00:25:48.000 So let's look at this.
00:25:50.000 You know, whatever the enemy means for evil, God will use for good.
00:25:53.000 Last three weeks has been frustrating.
00:25:54.000 It's been a headache.
00:25:55.000 We've seen CR debt ceiling and all this.
00:25:58.000 This needs to be a revitalization, but it also needs to be a revitalization, not just for the Republican Party, Republican Conference.
00:26:04.000 Let's use this as momentum, use this as a reset and get the Senate off of their tail to do some work.
00:26:12.000 Make the Senate do some work.
00:26:14.000 Empower our good guys in the Senate.
00:26:16.000 Empower JD Vance.
00:26:18.000 Empower Ron Johnson.
00:26:20.000 Empower the good guys, Rand Paul, that have quite honestly, there's been no spending bills for them to receive to go fight.
00:26:28.000 Empower Josh Hawley to go throw some elbows and say, no, we're not going to fund Ukraine while our border remains wide open.
00:26:36.000 By the way, those ranks are ascendant and increasing in the U.S. Senate.
00:26:41.000 We now have Rand Paul, we have Josh Hawley, we have JD Vance, we got Ron Johnson who is thinking correctly about this.
00:26:49.000 There's some other great patriots that, quite honestly, I disagree on certain things, but, you know, Steve Daines is a great American.
00:26:56.000 He'll come out on the right side of it if he sees the momentum.
00:27:02.000 We got Ted Cruz.
00:27:03.000 We have Marco Rubio, who's talking like a nationalist populist.
00:27:06.000 What I'm getting at is let's go put more pressure on the Senate to go do their work.
00:27:12.000 Yes, the Democrats have a majority, but they do not have a 30-seat majority in the Senate.
00:27:17.000 They have like a two-seat majority.
00:27:19.000 And some of those Democrats, by the way, are in very difficult reelection campaigns, and we've been bailing them out.
00:27:26.000 We got that overweight slob, John Tester. 1.00
00:27:29.000 Let's go make him take some tough votes. 0.97
00:27:31.000 We got Joe Manchin.
00:27:32.000 Is he going to run for reelection?
00:27:33.000 We got Sherrod Brown in Ohio.
00:27:36.000 So, Mike Johnson needs to say, okay, I'm going to shift.
00:27:39.000 I'm going to move.
00:27:41.000 I'm going to transfer.
00:27:43.000 I'm going to reappropriate the leverage onto the Senate and say, it's a ballgame now, John Tester.
00:27:51.000 You're in a tough election in Montana in a deep red state in a presidential year.
00:27:55.000 How are you going to go vote, John Tester, on securing the border?
00:27:58.000 How are you going to vote, Joe Manchin?
00:28:00.000 How are you going to vote Kirsten Cinema?
00:28:03.000 How are you going to vote Sherrod Brown?
00:28:05.000 All of a sudden, these red state Democrats that have been able to just go raise money and pretend like they're doing something for their constituents, they're going to get all sweaty.
00:28:12.000 And Mike Johnson needs to be very clear.
00:28:14.000 Yeah, we will work through Christmas.
00:28:15.000 There's no escape hatch.
00:28:17.000 There's no bailout.
00:28:18.000 There's no CR that's going to let you hide behind the appearance that you're funding the vets and unicorns and, you know, health insurance for poor people.
00:28:27.000 We're going to do this in separate bills.
00:28:29.000 And Tester, Manchin, Brown, and Cinema in the Senate, how are you going to vote?
00:28:34.000 All of a sudden, a Democrat majority looks kind of more like a center-right majority.
00:28:38.000 That's how you use a legislative leverage.
00:28:41.000 And we haven't done that at all over the last 10 months.
00:28:44.000 It's been CR, debt ceiling.
00:28:46.000 It's been quite honestly a mess.
00:28:48.000 So let's use this as a reset, as a revitalization, to all of a sudden put the Uniparty and the swamp and the regime that have been thinking that this fight amongst Republicans will be nothing but negative, nothing but heaviness, nothing but discord.
00:29:03.000 Say, fine.
00:29:03.000 Those last three weeks, it's been frustrating.
00:29:05.000 It's been exhausting.
00:29:06.000 The fever spell is breaking.
00:29:08.000 And now the people are going to put the pressure on you, U.S. Senate, put the pressure on you, Tester, you, Mansion, you, Brown, you, Cinema.
00:29:15.000 And all of a sudden, the entire formula, the entire equation changes.
00:29:19.000 Overnight.
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00:30:27.000 Mike Johnson, when they tried to impeach Donald Trump, what was he doing?
00:30:32.000 Play cut 81.
00:30:33.000 Members have called for removal based on a myriad of objections against this president.
00:30:37.000 Representative Algerine of Texas filed a resolution in the House for impeachment after Trump called for players kneeling during the national anthem to be fired.
00:30:44.000 I mean, come on.
00:30:46.000 You don't like his political position's great, but you can't impeach a president because you don't like him.
00:30:50.000 That's not how this system works.
00:30:52.000 We're in a constitutional republic.
00:30:55.000 There are rules here.
00:30:56.000 There are standards.
00:30:57.000 You don't get to make that decision.
00:30:59.000 The voters in this country do.
00:31:00.000 And we have an election coming up in about 11 months.
00:31:03.000 Let the people decide.
00:31:05.000 Don't put yourselves in their place.
00:31:06.000 You don't have the right to do it.
00:31:08.000 Now, this is just a somewhat superficial comment.
00:31:12.000 He has a great radio voice, doesn't he?
00:31:15.000 I mean, most politicians in D.C. are just whining and whining.
00:31:20.000 He's got a very good timber to his voice.
00:31:23.000 Easy to listen to.
00:31:24.000 That stuff matters.
00:31:26.000 He's also, he's got a great visual.
00:31:29.000 He looks, he doesn't have that fake preacher thing that Mike Pence does.
00:31:33.000 It's smooth.
00:31:34.000 It's precise.
00:31:35.000 I like it.
00:31:37.000 So it looks like it's going to happen based on all the little tea leaves that we're going here.
00:31:41.000 So we're kind of summarizing this, and I just want to repeat it.
00:31:45.000 Set the right expectations.
00:31:46.000 We don't have the Senate, but there are red state Democrats that are at high risk, and you must isolate them.
00:31:52.000 The entire legislative agenda needs to be that Biden is running for reelection, Tester is running for reelection, Manchin is running for re-election, Sherry Brown is running for re-election, and Cinema is isolate those four on issues that their states care about 70-30, which is the border.
00:32:10.000 If Mike Johnson puts the pressure on four red state Democrats in the Senate, all of a sudden, the whole ballgame changes.
00:32:19.000 That should have been McCarthy's plan, and it wasn't.
00:32:22.000 Second, he must just be very honest and very blunt in his opening comments that some people are going to get frustrated and let down, but he'll never lie to them, and he will change the process.
00:32:34.000 And that is one of the big things.
00:32:36.000 Just honestly, Mike Johnson should be like, hey, no days off.
00:32:38.000 Sorry.
00:32:40.000 We have way too much to do.
00:32:42.000 We have way too much to do.
00:32:44.000 But the most important issue, he must lay this out at the opening.
00:32:47.000 Remember, so much in life is comparing your expectation versus reality.
00:32:54.000 A great example is that if you have an expectation that you're going to go out with your wife to an amazing steak dinner and you end up going and the food is terrible and it's loud and it's noisy, then you have a quote-unquote bad night.
00:33:07.000 But if you have an expectation that you're going to Wendy's, you're going to get something at Wendy's.
00:33:12.000 So much of life is what you think is going to happen versus what does happen, and the gap between expectation and reality or the surplus between reality and expectation is so much of how people judge or determine happiness.
00:33:26.000 That's why when Donald Trump won the 2016 election, the expectation was for a lot of people he was going to lose.
00:33:32.000 The reality was that he was going to win.
00:33:34.000 And that's why the happiness and the measure was so beyond what people would have imagined.
00:33:42.000 By the way, right now, people are applauding standing ovation because Mike Johnson just got nominated.
00:33:48.000 It looks great.
00:33:49.000 So much of life is setting the bar low.
00:33:52.000 You got to underpromise, overdeliver.
00:33:54.000 And that sounds so simple, but it does not happen enough.
00:33:59.000 It does not happen enough.
00:34:00.000 Mike Johnson should set the bar so low, so unbelievably low, say the only promise I'm making you is 12 different spending bills, okay?
00:34:07.000 12 different spending bills.
00:34:08.000 I'll never lie, and we're going to work really hard and we're not going to take days off.
00:34:12.000 Therefore, anything beyond that is going to be received as this major triumphant victory.
00:34:19.000 So much of life is that.
00:34:20.000 I know that sounds like an interesting equation, but another example is if you think your sports, your favorite sports team is going to go undefeated and they go 500, it's a terrible year. 1.00
00:34:30.000 But if you're a fan of like the Washington, not the Indians, Washington Redskins, not the commanders, stupid. 0.98
00:34:38.000 And they go 500, like this is the best year ever. 1.00
00:34:40.000 Let's just listen to a little Elise Stefanik breaking news from the floor.
00:34:43.000 Let's listen. 0.91
00:34:44.000 Energy and Commerce, Kathy McMorris-Rogers, nominated Mike Johnson in our conference.
00:34:50.000 And she put it best, and I want to quote her today.
00:34:53.000 She said, quote, trust has been broken and we have come to a standstill.
00:34:59.000 How do we restore trust between members, leadership, and ultimately between Congress and we the people?
00:35:06.000 Kathy went on to say: There's a sense that it cannot be business as usual.
00:35:12.000 She went on to note: above the speaker's chair in the House chamber is our nation's motto: In God we trust.
00:35:31.000 Elise Stefanik is giving a great speech.
00:35:33.000 By the way, it's refreshing to hear somebody say in God we trust, not in government we trust.
00:35:38.000 Honestly, let's just wipe away the last three weeks.
00:35:42.000 We as Republicans, we believe every day is new with God's grace.
00:35:46.000 Let's just look at this as a new opportunity.
00:35:48.000 Let's work our tail off.
00:35:49.000 No more recess, no more days off, no more weekend. 1.00
00:35:51.000 Put the pressure on the Democrats. 0.95
00:35:52.000 Let's make this October 25th the start of a whole new thing.
00:35:56.000 Everything that happened before happened before.
00:35:57.000 Let's not hold resentment or revenge.
00:35:59.000 We need every member of the Republican Conference.
00:36:01.000 Let's act like today is actually the first day of Congress.
00:36:03.000 By the way, plenty of days left to make a difference.
00:36:06.000 Plenty of days left.
00:36:08.000 Make a constitutional reset. 0.90
00:36:09.000 We need an attitude reset.
00:36:11.000 I don't care, Emmer, if Matt Gates called you a bad name.
00:36:14.000 I don't want to hear it.
00:36:15.000 I don't want to hear any of this pent-up nonsense.
00:36:17.000 Oh, I don't like Andy Biggs or Nancy Mace wore the A and it's all about her.
00:36:22.000 I don't care.
00:36:23.000 Wipe the slate clean, okay?
00:36:25.000 Everybody's emotions got too high. 0.71
00:36:26.000 You guys are going to fight yourself, petulant children, leaking on each other.
00:36:29.000 Fine. 0.78
00:36:29.000 You have a new opportunity to save the country. 0.78
00:36:32.000 I don't want to hear it.
00:36:33.000 I don't want to hear like, oh, this guy's a rhino.
00:36:35.000 This guy's a moderate.
00:36:35.000 Fine.
00:36:36.000 How about this?
00:36:36.000 New thing, new day.
00:36:38.000 Mike Johnson, Speaker of the House, is an exciting opportunity who, yes, will disappoint us on some things and yes, will surprise us on other things.
00:36:48.000 Set the expectation low, put 12 different spending bills, put the country first, high energy, work weekends, and most importantly, put the pressure on the good-for-nothing U.S. Senate to actually do some work for once.
00:37:02.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
00:37:03.000 Email us as always: freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:37:06.000 Thanks so much for listening, and God bless.
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