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00:01:50.000Joining us now is one of the fighters in the House of Representatives, someone that's fighting very hard, Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Green.
00:01:57.000Congresswoman, thank you for joining us.
00:02:00.000We have, I want to start about with the news of you introducing articles of impeachment against U.S. Attorney Matthew Graves.
00:02:08.000Well, impeachment is very serious, Charlie, but I come from the business world where we can fire people.
00:02:15.000You know, in any business, business owners, managers, you fire people when they are corrupt, when they abuse your money, when they destroy your business, when they're doing things wrong in your company.
00:02:26.000Impeachment is that tool that we can use that was given to us by the founders of this country where we can actually fire people.
00:02:36.000The reason why I introduced articles of impeachment yesterday on Matthew Graves is because he is a very special U.S. attorney here in Washington, D.C. for the Department of Justice.
00:02:47.000He has the unique ability to prosecute local crimes in Washington, D.C., as well as federal cases.
00:02:55.000Now, Matthew Graves, as this powerful attorney, refuses to prosecute 67% of the crimes here in Washington, D.C. that plague the citizens and people that work in the city.
00:03:10.000However, he uses his powerful position at the Department of Justice to prosecute January 6th defendants solely.
00:03:18.000He goes after them like no prosecutor ever before in the Department of Justice.
00:03:23.000These are people that walked in the Capitol like Matthew Perna for only 20 minutes that never even assaulted a police officer, caused no damage to the Capitol, simply walked in.
00:03:35.000Well, I want you to know Matthew Perna committed suicide.
00:03:38.000He hung himself in his garage after Matthew Graves, the attorney at the Department of Justice, was coming after him so hard for such an act.
00:03:48.000And this is the type of weaponization of government that must be stopped.
00:03:53.000And the only way to stop it is through impeachment or through our appropriation bills.
00:03:58.000And I believe that I'm doing the right thing, and I know I have the support of the American people.
00:04:04.000We are living in extraordinary times, and extraordinary measures must be used to stop this weaponized government.
00:04:11.000When is the last time, if ever, a U.S. attorney has been successfully impeached?
00:04:16.000You know, I'm not aware of the history of impeachment of U.S. attorneys, but I am willing to use the tool.
00:04:24.000I don't believe that we have to rely on history.
00:04:26.000I think we have to make history, Charlie, and that is what I'm trying to do.
00:04:30.000Now, also, I'm really thankful for all the people that have been calling into my office nonstop with support for these articles of impeachment.
00:04:40.000The American people are fed up with the federal government that has them in over $31 trillion in debt, does not do anything for their America first interest, but yet has weaponized the government to be turned against them.
00:04:55.000And I believe that is why impeachment is necessary and must be pursued.
00:05:01.000So, Congressman, I want you to respond to an objection we received here on an email, and they were very polite.
00:05:08.000They said, Dear Congressman Green, big fan, thank you for your leadership, but I'm concerned this is not the best use of our time when we have the debt ceiling looming and the border crisis.
00:05:18.000Why are these impeachment fights necessary, especially knowing that the Senate is likely not going to remove?
00:05:25.000Well, these impeachment articles of impeachment are extremely important because unless you want things to continue, unless you want the Department of Justice, the FBI, and by the way, I want to add on, I introduced articles of impeachment also against Christopher Wray, who's the FBI director, and against the Attorney General of the United States, Merrick Garland.
00:05:46.000So, so far, I've introduced three articles of impeachment, and I plan to introduce two more, one this afternoon and tomorrow.
00:05:56.000And the reason why this is important and necessary is unless Americans consider corruption and weaponized government as a status quo, then we have to step in and do something about it.
00:06:08.000The debt ceiling talks are extremely important, but it's not Republicans that created this problem.
00:06:16.000They spent over $7 trillion in just two years.
00:06:20.000My first term in Congress, I am a huge witness to every single bill that they passed.
00:06:25.000And that type of spending should be reined in.
00:06:28.000Well, we've already accomplished that with the bill that we passed that cuts $4.8 trillion in spending in allowing for the debt ceiling to be raised.
00:06:40.000The second piece is we passed our border security package.
00:06:44.000This completely secures America's border and keeps Americans safe.
00:06:48.000Now we're handing that over to the Senate and to the White House, and they should get the job done.
00:06:53.000They should do their part to secure America's borders and to keep Americans safe.
00:06:58.000And that's why we can take on impeachment, which is necessary to rein in this weaponized government, to put checks and balances in place and to hold our government accountable for what they have done to innocent Americans.
00:07:13.000Is there any hope of pairing debt ceiling negotiations to the Intel community reform, like severely limiting the funding of the FBI?
00:07:22.000Well, I want you to know we can do that in our budget and appropriation bills.
00:07:26.000As a matter of fact, I've made it known to leadership and I've made it known publicly.
00:07:30.000I will be using the power of my voting card and whipping votes in support of stopping the radicalization and the funding of this weaponized government.
00:07:44.000We can fire people with the Holman rule.
00:07:46.000And that is a very necessary tool that we should be using in our appropriation bills and that I'm already in talks with leadership and I'm already in talks with many Republicans on the way to do that.
00:07:56.000So that is a path already being pursued.
00:08:00.000And I think the American people would be very happy with Republicans if we use the power of our budget and appropriations to do just that.
00:08:08.000We don't have to cut out the entire FBI.
00:08:11.000We don't have to cut out the entire Department of Justice.
00:08:14.000We just need to use a precision tool in our funding to get rid of the bad actors.
00:08:19.000Is there an appetite for leadership on that?
00:08:22.000Because that seems to be sometimes a bridge that leadership does not always want to cross.
00:08:28.000Well, I think what I would like to say for everyone on that is I completely understand the mistrust, especially of elected politicians.
00:08:38.000But I would also say don't underestimate the current leadership.
00:08:42.000I supported Kevin McCarthy for a reason, and I support some of our other leadership for reasons.
00:08:48.000Now, remember, we have 222 Republicans, and it takes 218 to pass any bills.
00:08:55.000So these are things that we are working out in our conference.
00:08:58.000But I would like to say that I think there is definitely an appetite in our conference to rein in the intelligence community and also to make sure this doesn't happen anymore.
00:09:08.000And that's the power of our committees and the investigations that we're doing.
00:09:13.000We have a legislative purpose with all of these committees, and Republicans intend to use them.
00:09:34.000I can tell you that the case is more than that.
00:09:37.000And I can't go into the particulars, but there is more than circumstantial evidence now.
00:09:41.000So again, I think you have seen direct evidence of collusion.
00:09:47.000I don't want to go into specifics, but I will say that there is evidence that is not circumstantial and is very much worthy of investigation.
00:10:03.000Well, I would say it's certainly something we should be considering when we're talking about expelling members of Congress.
00:10:10.000Adam Schiff is one of the biggest liars that has ever served in the United States Congress.
00:10:15.000He abused his power on every single committee and weaponized the power of Congress against his political enemies, mainly President Donald J. Trump.
00:10:24.000Adam Schiff should definitely be held accountable for the lies that he told to the American people, not only from his position as Congress, but on every single mainstream media platform that would put a microphone in front of his face.
00:10:38.000The Durham Report has shown the truth to the American people.
00:10:41.000And I believe, Charlie, that we should hold everyone accountable for that.
00:10:47.000I don't know about you, but it takes a lot to shock me these days.
00:10:50.000To see our judicial system resemble a third world banana republic, to see trusted American companies embrace insane and destructive woke ideologies is sometimes depressing.
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00:12:20.000Well, first off, I'll tell you I'm 100% behind President Donald J. Trump.
00:12:25.000I've been behind him since day one, and I'm honored to support him.
00:12:31.000I'm grateful for the four years he gave us as president, and America desperately needs four more years of President Trump.
00:12:39.000I don't think this needs to be a contentious, long primary.
00:12:42.000As a matter of fact, it's an unnecessary one.
00:12:44.000Republican voters are making it overwhelmingly known pretty much every single poll that they're asked that their choice for president is President Trump.
00:14:05.000This is what left-wing extremism and violence stems from, is the movement that wants to use trans terrorism against Americans, violating the whole idea of biological science.
00:14:21.000Elaborate on that, Congresswoman Green.
00:14:24.000Yeah, this is where we're seeing the radical left.
00:14:26.000They are showing up and supporting this trans ideology, this sick and disgusting lie that they are pressing on the most innocent among us, and that's children.
00:14:38.000They're trying to convince children that they can change their gender when that is the biggest lie that's ever been told to children.
00:14:57.000But children are being brainwashed, and they're being basically consumed into the trans ideology, which is not only an ideology trying to tell children that they can undergo horrific genital mutilation surgeries, cutting off their breasts, castrating them, destroying their body for the rest of their lives.
00:15:18.000But even more so, they have funded groups all over the country that are pressing this ideology, and they are extremely dangerous.
00:15:28.000Trans day of that trans day of vengeance is trans terrorism.
00:15:33.000And thankfully, to people like you, Charlie, and many others who spoke out against it, that potential dangerous protest or whatever they were planning to do, a trans day of vengeance here in Washington, D.C., was stopped.
00:15:54.000It's those on the left that chased Riley Gaines and basically kidnapped her and held her hostage in a room in San Francisco when she was there to speak as a biological woman, as a female athlete, talking about women's rights and women's sports and her experience being forced to compete against a six-foot-four Will Thomas that calls himself Leah.
00:16:18.000Transterrorism exists in this horrific and terrifying form where biological men force themselves into women's bathrooms, girls' dorm rooms, little girls' bathrooms, women's sports, and all types of women's places of privacy.
00:16:34.000Transterrorism exists where biological men basically try to replace women.
00:16:39.000But the real trans terrorism comes from the president of the United States, Joe Biden, that supports this trans ideology, this sick and disgusting lie that he supports that children, children can change their gender.
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00:21:10.000And I will say the Democrats are outraising us 100% because they invest in process.
00:21:14.000And I talk to voters and donors all the time.
00:21:17.000They say, I want to say, see who the candidate is.
00:21:19.000I'm going to wait to see who the nominee is.
00:21:21.000You have to invest in both, the process and the nominee.
00:21:25.000Rich, are we seeing that investment happening in the key states?
00:21:29.000And I know Democrats are just pouring money into infrastructure.
00:21:33.000Charlie, I hear that clip and my head wants to explode.
00:21:38.000The fact of the matter is, what Democrats, a great article in Real Clear Politics yesterday about why Republicans underperformed, has nothing to do with media narratives.
00:21:48.000You know, this about Trump, that about Trump.
00:21:50.000The fact of the matter is, they beat Republicans in infrastructure and they did a great job harvesting ballots where they needed to harvest.
00:21:58.000And they bucked history by doing that.
00:22:54.000That was done by private entities and candidates coming to me and saying, Rich, I need a good list and I need a plan to register these people to the absentee ballot, permanent absentee ballot list.
00:23:07.000I haven't seen the RNC do it in a single state.
00:23:10.000Pennsylvania, just last week, I got a call from state officials in Michigan, and they are wondering about data sourcing and having better lists because they haven't talked to the RNC.
00:23:22.000The Michigan State Party is in complete shambles.
00:23:25.000They need a private entity to help them do this.
00:23:28.000If you give your money to the RNC, ladies and gentlemen, you're wasting it.
00:23:34.000As of right now, there is nothing at all to suggest that they know what to do with that money, even if they had good enough databases to do something with it.
00:24:31.000What has to change for him to be competitive?
00:24:34.000I know what their strategy is, which is to wait for these other indictments to be rolled out and hope against hope that they hurt the former president.
00:24:43.000And they're also putting together a plan in California because of the way that they allocate delegates by congressional district in the hopes that even if Trump carries the state of California, they can kind of close the delegate gap that they know they're going to need to close by the time Super Tuesday rolls around.
00:24:59.000I don't think there's, if I was his strategist, I would have never have convinced him to get into this race.
00:25:04.000Last night with Kentucky, they really believed that Kelly Kraft was closing the gap with Cameron and that a last-minute endorsement from Ron DeSantis maybe wouldn't put her over Charlie, but she was dominating the airways for the last 30 days more.
00:25:22.000And they really did believe they had polling to suggest that that race was close and closing.
00:25:28.000And with the last-minute endorsement, maybe we can get a narrative that we can help shift the way the polling is going now.
00:25:36.000Well, after last night, the mega donors of which Kelly Kraft is one, unbelievable that DeSantis would put his name to that, but they're the same advisors, the same people who are running her campaign, the same ones who surround Ron DeSantis.
00:25:51.000You better take a good look at that map in Kentucky because Trump is up big in the Northeast.
00:26:32.000Yeah, they think they can change the narrative if they lose Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina, and then they roll up into Super Tuesday.
00:27:20.000Well, so did Jessica, so did Jessica Patterson.
00:27:22.000If you look at her, if you look at her Twitter feed, yeah, if you look at her Twitter feed over the last year, you'll see that, and by the way, that's Kevin's right-hand girl.
00:27:32.000If you look at her Twitter feed, she has been open about how California is going to have an outsized role in picking the Republican nominee.
00:27:40.000And there is, when I say the California plan, it's not very well, it's not very public, but people who are involved in California politics out there, you know, it's get Tom McClintock, which they already apparently did, to sort to endorse DeSantis, Kevin Kiley, who was in a tight race, and a bunch of people frankly endorsement.
00:28:09.000They're going to try to line California up behind DeSantis.
00:28:12.000So if Trump wins, they expect they'll lose the Central Valley to him, but maybe they can keep Orange.
00:28:19.000They keep L.A., the San Francisco, the Bay Area, right?
00:28:23.000So if they did do that, mathematically, it would close the gap, but it wouldn't matter, Charlie, because the South is, he's going to get steamrolled in the South.
00:28:34.000Trump is literally, at this point, would take every single delegate in South Carolina.
00:28:39.000And then the Midwest, they would need some strength in the Midwest.
00:29:20.000And all it has the potential to do is fracture the party.
00:29:24.000We just earlier this morning on the show went over the, you know, the details of Kentucky and looking at it in the context of some of the polling we've done and is new and out now.
00:29:34.000Kentucky is bad for Team DeSantis because there's two universes of pollsters right now.
00:29:39.000One where it's myself, it's Emerson, Rasmussen, welcome to the club this morning, 6217, Trump, and then most others.
00:29:49.000But they have a few others that they have been arguing is showing a closer race and that the rest of us are wrong.
00:29:55.000Well, the problem is now, Kentucky just happened and a couple of us weighed in on that.
00:30:02.000So what Kentucky suggests is that our polling universe is accurately reflecting the state of this electorate, the mood of this electorate.
00:30:11.000If you add Cameron and Quarles's vote share, what you have is the vote share that we're all predicting for Trump and Kentucky right now, 70 plus percent, right?
00:30:21.000And where is Kelly at around 17%, which is exactly DeSantis' vote share?
00:30:28.000So if we were right about the primary, Charlie, right, then we're right about the state of the race.
00:30:34.000And if we're right about the state of those races, chances are we're right about the rest of them, including the national environment.
00:30:42.000No candidate, even a non-incumbent candidate, even this early in the cycle, has ever lost the nomination when they were polling at or above 50%.
00:30:55.000And no non-incumbent has ever lost a nomination with 60 or more at this point, this early, elected national and gubernatorial endorsements.
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00:33:02.000But I would, Charlie, and I'm going to tell you why.
00:33:05.000It is normally a no-no for a candidate with a lead this large to debate because it's usually all downside for them.
00:33:13.000And of course, if you're the loser or you're trailing, you want to debate and you make a big deal out of it because you're hoping for a misstep by the frontrunner that you can capitalize on.
00:33:23.000But there, let me, if I played Devil's Advocate, I would say this: Ron DeSantis is not a good debater.
00:33:29.000Anyone who followed the Gillam campaign or the Chris campaign, even with the lessons, he hasn't improved to the point where I think he'd look great on a national stage with Donald Trump.
00:33:40.000Number two is that the moderators, if you look at the presidential debate schedule, it's going to look a lot like 2015 and 16 again.
00:33:49.000The moderators are going to make it look like they're helping Ron DeSantis and people are good.
00:33:54.000The optics of it are going to turn people off.
00:33:58.000So, you know, there's an upside to it.
00:34:34.000You know, Trump going and doing CNN shows that he's not afraid, but does it give openings or opportunities for other candidates, which then segues, Rich, you know, let's put Trump and Ron DeSantis aside.
00:34:45.000Is there any other candidate that's starting to gain steam or traction?
00:34:48.000There's talk about Vivek starting to, you know, he went from like two to five percent, which is more than Nikki Haley.
00:34:56.000And that's also just fascinating, Rich.
00:34:57.000I mean, how much the conservative movement has changed.
00:35:00.000You remember when there was almost like a pseudo-coronation for Nikki Haley, and he's like, is she still running?
00:35:46.000Meanwhile, Haley and Tim Scott both cratered in our polling.
00:35:51.000But I got to give it to her that at least she's saying, I'm trying to stake out a certain lane, and this is where I'm at.
00:35:57.000And I'm not going to try to pretend to be something I'm not.
00:36:00.000The major problem with anyone else so far is that they have essentially tried to out-Trump Trump in Trump's lane.
00:36:07.000And Trump's lane is by far the biggest lane.
00:36:09.000We have him now at about at least, depending on where we're polling, but nationally, over two-thirds of the self-identified conservative vote.
00:36:18.000So that lane is just locked at this point for him.
00:36:21.000Moderates, you know, there's three in 10, let's say they'll be roughly of the Republican primary electorate, but it's just not enough to consolidate.
00:36:42.000What we know now, what is the missing piece for what a VP for Trump would be the most helpful?
00:36:47.000What are you seeing that is necessary?
00:36:49.000Because sometimes VPs can help, or sometimes they can just, you know, not, you know, Mike Pence didn't, I don't know how much he did or didn't do.
00:37:07.000With Trump, he doesn't really need, he doesn't really need that anymore.
00:37:11.000I think what he'll need is an opportunity or an opening, maybe a Chris Sununu in New Hampshire, you know, in a state where there's Chris Sununu.