00:00:50.000His spirit, his love of this country, he's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
00:00:58.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:01:25.000The entire Democrat Party said we want Kevin out, and eight Republicans said we want Kevin out.
00:01:30.000So the whole Democrat Party, eight Republicans, they want Kevin out.
00:01:33.000But we don't have time to examine that as much as we probably should.
00:01:36.000Never happened before in American history.
00:01:39.000Front page of the New York Times, McCarthy, first speaker out ever.
00:01:43.000Now, there's plenty of melodrama to examine, but this is worth talking about.
00:01:47.000This only happened because there were promises made about appropriation bills, appropriation votes, and continuing resolutions that were not kept.
00:01:56.000We, on this program, we said 9:30, 9.30, 9.30, 9.30.
00:02:01.000I think our show was one of the few shows that really increased the attention on 9.30.
00:02:08.000The grassroots, we're not just looking at this as a typical spending fight.
00:02:15.000And I remember in the weeks leading up to 9.30, you know, I was texting some more moderate members of Congress, like, I don't think you guys understand the grassroots of taking 9.30 very seriously.
00:03:40.000The Democrats voting to remove McCarthy means that they see an opening.
00:03:44.000They see a window to get a uniparty speaker, to get someone that could unite both the Republicans and the Democrats and get rid of all the investigations and the weaponization of government.
00:03:54.000They wouldn't get Hakeem Jeffries, but somebody like Don Bacon or Dusty Johnson or have two speakers, like a co-speaker type relationship.
00:04:01.000So we have to make sure that doesn't happen.
00:04:49.000Now, Trump is saying he's open-minded to do whatever it is to help, but we need to count the votes, get a good conservative speaker in because time is running out.
00:04:58.000This is not January where we have a little bit, oh, we have, you know, 10 months.
00:05:02.000We are already expiring this Congress.
00:05:05.000And I'm going to also show to you: we have to start recruiting candidates and raising money, or else we're going to lose the House for a generation.
00:05:47.000They're never going to see their wife.
00:05:48.000They're never going to see their kids.
00:05:49.000It is 330 days on the road, ready, set, go, now to next November, going to Malibu, going to LA, going to Houston, going to Dallas, donor roundtable meetings, collecting checks so that we can hopefully keep the House in 2025, whoever that speaker is.
00:06:05.000Okay, so let's just kind of put Trump aside for a second.
00:06:08.000The votes aren't there for that as much as I would love it.
00:07:33.000Kevin McCarthy looked at Nancy Pelosi, was like, former speaker, raises a bunch of money, kind of has a nice gig going.
00:07:42.000So Kevin McCarthy still controls 100 to 150 votes of who the next speaker is going to be.
00:07:48.000And you better believe that Kevin McCarthy is going to exert his will on there.
00:07:52.000So you might say, oh, you know, Kevin's out of the picture.
00:07:54.000He's out of the picture if the speaker is.
00:07:55.000So, whoever's going to be speaker has to be friends or friendly with Kevin McCarthy and his allies because there are 150 members at this Congress conference that will do whatever Kevin tells them to do, even after he has now been displaced as speaker.
00:08:08.000I'm talking about the Bacon, the Dusty Johnson.
00:08:16.000There's only one person that comes to mind that wants to be speaker, can be speaker, has the energy to raise the $300 million, has been conservative, has been a bulldog, has been a grassroots warrior, and I think can get Kevin's support because he was loyal to Kevin throughout that entire January thing, and also can get the support of Gates and Good and Ana Paulina, and that's Jim Jordan.
00:08:39.000That is the only name that surfaces that can unite the tribes.
00:08:42.000He was able to, he can get Kevin's blessing.
00:08:47.000He will be able to satisfy the donor class.
00:08:50.000And I don't even mean that as a pejorative, but you need to raise money.
00:08:53.000If you want to have political power, you need to raise money.
00:08:55.000Jim Jordan is an unapologetic Trump supporter.
00:09:26.000And Jim Jordan went to bat for Kevin in the fight yesterday and defended him from the floor yesterday, which Jim Jordan might have been playing the long game.
00:09:34.000Breaking news this morning: Jim Jordan has now introduced his name to become the next Speaker of the House.
00:09:52.000And it's going to come down to whether or not Kevin McCarthy blesses Jim Jordan and says, my block goes behind Jim Jordan.
00:10:00.000I already know that Gates and Good and Biggs and Roy and Paulina Luna and all those patriots over there, they're going to be fine with Jim Jordan a speaker.
00:10:11.000So we have to move fast because here's the problem.
00:10:13.000If we have too much cattle walling and quarreling, it might be entertaining, but Hakeem Jeffries and the Democrats voted to get rid of Kevin because they saw a small chance that we are going to have some sort of civil war discord and that they could get a uniparty speaker.
00:10:30.000We have to find a consensus candidate.
00:10:31.000We have to unify immediately, beachhead, hyper-aggressive behind a grassroots warrior who has earned our trust and can also get the moderate votes.
00:12:58.000The rules committee, how we are going to pass bills.
00:13:01.000And I'm not going to fall into the typical Washington, D.C. thing, but it would be imprudent and irresponsible if we do not also have someone become Speaker of the House who is not serious about defending the majority in 2024.
00:13:18.000This is technical political stuff, but Hakeem Jeffries has raised hundreds of millions of dollars to take back the House.
00:14:27.000Place where we actually have the ordinary class, the ordinary muscular class, plumbers, electricians, welders, steel workers, down to earth.
00:14:36.000And so we have to find a candidate that can unite the tribes.
00:14:39.000Democrats yesterday sided and they said, every single one of them, to remove Kevin McCarthy because they think that we're going to just fight amongst ourselves and that they can get a speaker that can be a temporary uniparty type speaker.
00:15:28.000The entire debate came down to whether or not you are going to pass individual appropriation bills, individual, one by one by one, or are you going to do just a CR, an all-encompassing continuing resolution?
00:15:44.000So whoever the speaker ends up being, Speaker Jordan, that sounds great, doesn't it?
00:15:49.000Speaker Jordan, the first act of business needs to be that we're going to do one-by-one spending bills.
00:15:57.000We're going to do appropriation for this and appropriation for that.
00:16:02.000DC just wants an all-encompassing one-size-fits-all.
00:16:06.000No one has to look at the budget, sign off on it, everything is fine.
00:16:10.000To actually ask questions about budgets.
00:16:13.000So let's disconnect the personality from the policy.
00:16:16.000The most important policy that we can accomplish, the most important policy that we can move forward is: can we get actual appropriations bills passed before this 45-day CR expires?
00:16:45.000The House needs to unify as a Republican conference, needs to cut spending, defund Jack Smith, secure the border, and send it to the Senate.
00:18:19.000Check it out right now: relieffactor.com, relieffactor.com.
00:18:25.000So here what's happening right now: this is why the window needs to be filled very quickly.
00:18:31.000The establishment, the uniparty, the bad actors in DC, they are out for blood.
00:18:42.000For the eight people that voted against McCarthy, I've been just hearing whispers about some of the articles, opposition research, you know, rumors of things.
00:19:44.000So I know that we're right on the mark.
00:19:48.000Is, and I know this is a lesser appreciated element to this, but I could tell you, but I personally traveled 3,100 days in the last 11 years.
00:19:58.000I've personally raised a fair amount of money, hundreds of millions of dollars over the last 11 years.
00:20:04.000We've deployed it in very impactful and meaningful ways.
00:20:37.000But instead, I have to be very honest, I am careful to do segments where I publicly challenge my elders.
00:20:46.000The Bible says to honor your elders, honor those in positions of authority.
00:20:52.000And someone who I consider a friend, someone who has been coming on our program, someone who spoke at our turning point USA events, I'm going to be honest, he's a patriot, but he is completely and totally off base here.
00:21:04.000So while we're disputing who's going to be speaker, there is a basically a signal that has been sent for revenge.
00:21:17.000There is going to be one of the most bloodthirsty revenge campaigns we've ever seen in the history of establishment versus grassroots.
00:21:28.000Here's just a little window into that.
00:21:29.000This elder, who is a patriot, I'm on different planets.
00:21:51.000I'm going to just chalk that up because of how much respect I have for him of just kind of cable news excitement.
00:21:57.000I don't think he really believes that.
00:22:00.000But just understand that this opinion that Newt Gingrich has is held by about 150 members of the House in the Republican conference right now.
00:22:10.000Newt Gingrich is basically speaking for the 150 people that you need to win over to select a speaker.
00:22:19.000Okay, listen, and I want your thoughts on this.
00:22:21.000We're going to examine this because this is tough stuff.
00:23:38.000So, for anyone out there, and again, there's so few of these because the response of Jim Jordan for speaker, I could see the grassroots MAGA 100% behind.
00:23:48.000But there's a couple emails here or there that say, oh, Jim Jordan is too moderate.
00:23:52.000Understand, you have 150 people that believe every word that Newt Gingrich just said.
00:23:58.000150 people in the Republican conference that you have to win over.
00:24:03.000And Jim Jordan is a more conservative, grassroots, high-energy guy who can then win over the Newt Gingrich wing of the current Republican conference.
00:24:31.000Let's save the T-word for people that have sold out our country, not people that are upset that business as usual in Washington, D.C. needs to be uninterrupted.
00:24:43.000But this is not some sort of baseless threat, okay?
00:24:49.000Because if we don't move fast and if we kind of just take our time and we go through nine different levels of voting, rounds of voting and 11 different levels of voting, real conversation right now, just so you guys know what we're dealing with, which I know you do, obviously.
00:25:07.000They're going to kick Matt Gates out of the Republican conference probably in the next couple of days, and they'll probably kick Matt Gates.
00:25:14.000No, they will almost certainly kick Matt Gates out of the Republican conference and they're going to try to expel him from the House of Representatives.
00:25:23.000So that's going to happen in the next couple of days.
00:25:26.000And they might do that also with Nancy May.
00:25:33.000Nancy Mace or Bob Good, who's coming up later on this program, or Ken Buck, who's just getting ready for a CNN contract, Andy Biggs, who I think the world of.
00:25:45.000And by the way, let me just tell you, Andy Biggs, I'm going to defend Andy 100% here.
00:25:49.000For Newt to say, oh, it's all about Andy.
00:27:15.000Because they're just expressing frustration to a completely broken system while our country is disintegrating and collapsing and doing like a revenge tour.
00:27:28.000We're going to come after you and write that.
00:28:08.000And your choices are going to be Tom Emmer, Steve Scalise, or Jim Jordan.
00:28:14.000That's basically where this is going to come down to.
00:28:17.000And the fact of the matter is that Jim Jordan is by far the most conservative, the hardest worker, the most honest, the biggest patriot that we have.
00:28:46.000And if we kind of play around here and we let perfect be the enemy of good, which I don't like in politics, then you could end up with Scalise, who's even more moderate.
00:28:59.000Or if we just play around with ourselves endlessly, Hakeem Jeffries right now, Hakeem Jeffries right now is trying to peel off five to 10 Republicans that are super moderate in dangerous seats to create a no-labels-esque uniparty speaker for the rest of the term.
00:29:20.000That's why Hakeem Jeffries voted the way he did yesterday, and he told his commissars to vote the same way, the Pullet Bureau.
00:29:26.000So let's not let Perfect be the enemy of good.
00:29:29.000Jordan would be a massive win as we're in this risky time where it could go in a bad direction.
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00:30:38.000So let me just tell you right down the middle, and we're getting a lot of emails agreeing with our take both on Jim Jordan and also on Newt Gingrich.
00:31:23.000At the best possible reading, what happened yesterday is that the establishment is terrified of conservatives.
00:31:33.000Yesterday was the we actually have a bite, not just a bark moment.
00:31:38.000That for a generation now, built into the folklore and the mythology of right-wing congressional politics, that when a grassroots congressman says something, it's going to be taken more seriously because positions of political power can be lost by your right flank.
00:32:05.000Because for years, the right flank had really no power.
00:32:10.000John Boehner, Thomas Massey tried to get rid of them and they just came down like a ton of bricks.
00:32:16.000Paul Ryan, never have grassroots conservatives been able to check and balance the establishment.
00:32:25.000And so that's going to be the grassroots conservative members will be taken more seriously for years to come and their coalition for years to come.
00:32:38.000You're about to see an unprecedented flow of money that will try to destroy the personal lives, the political careers of anyone that self-identifies as a conservative in the Republican Party.
00:32:56.000You are going to see revenge money from center-right billionaires that will overwhelm MAGA voices in primaries.
00:33:08.000And I'm not saying this to make you afraid.
00:33:11.000I'm not saying this to say that it was a bad thing.
00:33:13.000Again, I just told you, hey, it shows the bad guys that we're bite and also bark.
00:33:17.000Like you just can't, like, it's the old FAFO, man.
00:33:21.000It's like you can only do so much until, sorry.
00:33:25.000At the same time, for every action, there's an equal and opposite reaction.
00:33:28.000And if you think for a second that you are going to vacate the chair of the speaker for the first time in American history and you're going to go back to your district and not have $25 million in a primary against you, you are not living in reality.
00:33:51.000So that's the heaviness and the weight of what very well might happen, what will happen.
00:33:58.000And it's going to be attack articles and private investigators and primary campaigns and dark money and calling for investigations into family businesses.