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00:01:15.000Right now, there are speeches in favor of Kevin McCarthy that are happening right now in the House vote.
00:01:23.000So basically where it goes right now is there are 20 people, 20 Republicans that are withholding any support whatsoever for Kevin McCarthy.
00:01:32.000Several of them are going to join our program.
00:01:35.000We have Mike Gallagher again from Wisconsin, who is giving a speech in favor of Kevin McCarthy.
00:01:41.000This is a great way to get me not in favor of your cause.
00:01:45.000As Gallagher gave a speech yesterday, he said, look, there's a lot that we disagree with.
00:01:49.000We want to be energy and upon all this, but we can all agree with the Democrats that we need to fight our enemies abroad.
00:01:55.000And I was like, oh man, this is just another virtue signaling towards Ukraine.
00:02:05.000Not exactly helpful, but especially for those of us that, I don't know, want our own borders secure while we fund border security of Tunisia, Lebanon, Syria, and Pakistan.
00:02:16.000So there are 20 Republicans that are saying, I am not going to give any support whatsoever to Kevin McCarthy.
00:02:26.000It seems as if, though, the McCarthy team gave a very generous deal last evening.
00:02:32.000A deal that would include representation on the rules committee, a deal that would include a prohibition from engaging in primaries.
00:02:41.000I'm going to talk about that and what that actually concretely can mean if these deals are going to be followed through upon, if they are built on actual trust, if they're not just being said for the sake of trying to get a deal done so that one could become Speaker of the House.
00:03:40.000Another concession is Kevin McCarthy's very powerful, well-funded super PAC that was involved in, by the way, let's take one race that it was very involved in that I was very fired up about that I didn't like was when Kevin McCarthy came in and spent millions of dollars against Caroline Levitt.
00:04:01.000Caroline Levitt, he came in against Mowers and in favor of Mowers and spent a bunch of money with Caroline Levitt.
00:04:07.000Caroline Levitt won, but one of the reasons she was unable to be successful in the general is that there was so much money spent against her in that late primary.
00:04:16.000One of the concessions that was made by Kevin McCarthy's super PAC was that they're no longer going to get involved in safe Republican primaries like they did with Caroline Levitt.
00:04:30.000He also did the same thing with Anthony Sabatini, amongst many other people.
00:04:35.000And so that, if that ends up materializing into reality, that is a major victory.
00:04:42.000Now, again, there's a lot of ifs and trusts and one-offs and all of that.
00:04:46.000So, but if that is legitimate, that's a huge win to say that McCarthy will not involve himself in safe Republican primaries.
00:04:56.000There are also some concessions that McCarthy is making on allowing more Freedom Caucus members to serve on the very powerful House Rules Committee.
00:05:52.000Yesterday, my first vote for Speaker of the House was for Byron Donalds.
00:05:59.000Today, I'm rising to nominate Byron Donalds for Speaker of the House of Representatives.
00:06:12.000Byron is a dear friend, a solid conservative, but most importantly, a family man who loves dearly his wife Erica, his three children, has a proven track record as a businessman, public service in the Florida legislature, and now is a member of the United States Congress.
00:06:38.000Now, here we are, and for the first time in history, there have been two black Americans placed into the nomination for Speaker of the House.
00:07:43.000So the fact that Chip Roy is nominating Byron Donalds means that this particular carousel of voting is going to be unsuccessful for Kevin McCarthy.
00:07:54.000Now, someone says here, Charlie, lots of swear words in this email.
00:08:38.000So let's just make sure my position is clear.
00:08:40.000I support the movement, the progress, the success that is almost materializing in what could be the most conservative House of Representatives in American history.
00:11:14.000So here's the question: Is if your position as a grassroots activist and as someone who is an interested party, which by the way, your voice should be involved in this, it shouldn't just be a backroom deal disconnected like the U.S. Senate works.
00:11:27.000By the way, don't you wish that we could have had something like this in the U.S. Senate?
00:11:31.000You could say all you want about McCarthy, but McConnell, what McConnell has done to our country is so just exponentially worse.
00:11:41.000They're not even on the same playing field.
00:12:33.000Erica will tell you, is up till midnight talking to these people, which is 2 o'clock in D.C., just hearing them out, listening, trying to be a sounding board, also asking, I think, questions where I think they get a little too ahead of themselves.
00:12:47.000Here is a Freedom Caucus member who's currently a no, so one of the 20.
00:12:51.000Charlie, I have been in meetings all evening.
00:14:27.000But if this continues to go without taking a good deal, do not be surprised if those 50 to 75 more rhinotypes start to get very angry that Congress is being just going in that direction, even though that is much more in our philosophically congruent of our worldview, and they start going and caucusing with Democrats.
00:14:51.000That's not going to happen today, but there are conversations right now to help form a coalition government, effectively eliminating the Republican House majority.
00:15:00.000And no, just to be clear, I do not think Donald Trump would win the Speaker of the House race.
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00:17:00.000Your constituents wouldn't want you to be dogmatic about it.
00:17:03.000But what I'm hearing from House Freedom Caucus members, again, I spoke to six or eight of them last night, I can't remember, and texted a lot, plenty of them, is we don't trust Kevin McCarthy.
00:17:15.000Okay, let's go to Cut 45, Lauren Bobert making the argument of trust.
00:17:23.000Of course I do, but I do not trust Kevin McCarthy at this point to deliver on those promises, especially when I go into good faith negotiations with him and then he comes out and lies about what those conversations were.
00:17:36.000So that's a short clip of a very explosive conversation that Lauren Bobert and Sean Hannity had last evening.
00:17:43.000I promise you our conversation will not be as explosive as that.
00:18:09.000Maybe put some ink to the deal, not just make it verbal.
00:18:14.000And, you know, someone just emailed us.
00:18:15.000They said, Charlie, it seems like your heart is with the audience, but in some ways, you want an open-minded head to understand political reality and to entertain some of the concessions.
00:19:27.000If McCarthy is going to get there, he'll have to make accommodation to get enough people to have a majority of those who vote.
00:19:35.000If he can't do that, then the conference has to find somebody else who's more broadly acceptable.
00:19:41.000And I think that's frankly a real challenge because I think that there's nobody else who can come close to McCarthy's reach of the whole conference.
00:19:53.000I have been very critical of the approach of some of the people who are, in essence, trying to blackmail the conference because I think it's a very dangerous precedent.
00:20:03.000You know, Lincoln in 1861 in his first inaugural said the problem with secession is once that's the principle, then everybody else gets to secede too, and you end up in chaos.
00:20:13.000So it's the new principle that any five or six or seven members, whether they're moderates or they're California or they're Florida or whatever, you know, are people who represent the sugar beet growers, they get to hold up the entire process until they get what they want.
00:20:33.000They've got to find some grounds to bring themselves together.
00:20:36.000And hopefully 99% of the conference, I think there are three or four people who just hate Kevin, and they're not ever going to vote for him for a variety of personal reasons.
00:20:47.000But I think everybody else has to put it together.
00:21:05.000I've got a sense that overnight there was some progress, that people have made serious concessions on both sides.
00:21:15.000And that I thought I was telling last night on the vote to adjourn that they had everybody except four members.
00:21:22.000So they were up to 218 voting together as a team.
00:21:26.000And if they can find a way to keep that going, either today or tomorrow or the next day, some point in the near future, we'll have a speaker and we'll get on with the business of the country.
00:21:36.000So, Mr. Speaker, walk our audience through some of these concessions, or let's just say, deal offers that the McCarthy camp have put forward.
00:22:32.000So I think in that sense, Kevin went back to the original historic model.
00:22:38.000He probably could have done it earlier.
00:22:39.000But part of what happens in one of these things is you have to think about when are you going to make concessions?
00:22:45.000Because if you concede everything early, they move the goalpost and they want seven more things.
00:22:51.000I think the commitment to not get involved in primaries in open, safe Republican seats is very important to the club for growth.
00:23:02.000I don't know that's strictly good politics, but that was a price to get the Club for Growth to say they could accept Kevin.
00:23:10.000The fact is that the people who McCarthy supported in the primary is one, almost all of them won the general election, and that that's part of why they're now a majority, even if a very narrow one.
00:23:24.000I think the commitment to get to a balanced budget is one that is actually in the commitment to America.
00:23:32.000I think that Chiproy wants to make it a little stronger.
00:23:35.000And look, as you know, Charlie, I was the speaker who balanced the federal budget for four straight years for the only time in your lifetime.
00:23:45.000So I am totally committed to a balanced budget approach.
00:23:50.000The other thing, they got a commitment to vote on term limits, which is fine.
00:23:54.000We voted on term limits when I was speaker.
00:23:59.000I can't remember what it is, but overall, I would say it is a somewhat more conservative position, but people shouldn't exaggerate.
00:24:08.000I mean, the fact is, this was going to be a conservative Congress.
00:24:12.000The Commitment to America is a very conservative document.
00:24:16.000And you compare the Senate where McConnell's leading 13 Biden Republicans in vote after vote that is totally opposed to what we believe in.
00:24:26.000And then McConnell's going off to Kentucky with Biden to celebrate a billion $700 bridge.
00:24:35.000I think that McCarthy is the only anchor that we have right now.
00:24:39.000And I don't see, you know, if he were to withdraw today, I don't see how they'd find somebody who gets 218.
00:24:46.000Because the moderates who are also legitimately elected, they're not going to go along with a hard right position.
00:24:54.000And yeah, that means we all get a little bit frustrated.
00:24:57.000But that's, again, the nature of a free society.
00:24:59.000Well, and I think the anger that the grassroots has, $1.7 trillion omnibus, McConnell, and all that, it's really playing out in this House vote, incorrectly or correctly.
00:25:13.000And they see McConnell jetting Australia.
00:25:15.000And I think that needs to be emphasized because I think that's exactly right.
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00:26:25.000Mr. Speaker, finish that thought about populism and anger, which, by the way, I share some of that anger, a lot of it, actually.
00:26:33.000If you go back and look at my whole career, I was constantly pounding against the establishment, which I think is corrupt and sick.
00:26:41.000All I was going to say is people legitimately should be very angry.
00:26:45.000The more you learn about the FBI, the more you learn about these other efforts to censor us, the more you learn about the corruption of the Biden family, the more you learn about the schools that are trying to teach your children and grandchildren weird ideas and weird values while failing to teach them math and science and reading.
00:27:05.000And I have to tell you, as a lifelong Republican, I am very frustrated by the Senate.
00:27:10.000I am very worried about the 2024 election.
00:27:13.000I think there's a grave danger we're going to get into an always-Trump versus never Trump war and end up in a collapse like 1964 with Goldwater and Reagan and Rockefeller.
00:27:25.000So I think that these are serious times.
00:29:04.000Now, you take an issue like that, you can build the momentum where the other side has two choices.
00:29:10.000They can fight you and get crushed in 24, or they can sign it.
00:29:15.000And I think what Republicans have to do in the House, because they can't rely on the Senate for anything, and they have Biden opposed to them.
00:29:22.000So they've got to build up such strong support at the grassroots that it coerces the senators, and Biden is given a choice of getting beaten in 6 and 24 or signing the bill, which is exactly what happened with Bill Clinton.
00:29:36.000He had to sign welfare reform, or he couldn't get re-elected.
00:29:40.000He had to be for a balanced budget, or he couldn't get reelected.
00:29:43.000So you start with the surprise, surprise.
00:29:46.000You start with the American people and you find out what they want.
00:30:12.000You know, if you're if you're determined to be that kind of a Biden supporter, you should not be surprised if you end up with a primary fight.
00:30:19.000I think that's very wise, Mr. Speaker.
00:30:21.000Thank you for sharing that, and I hope that this gets sorted out.