As we say goodbye to 2022, I thought it might be interesting to listen to a few folks talk about a few issues that we have to resolve soon, certainly in 2023. First up, former FBI agent James Gellano talks about all of the corruption in the DOJ and FBI, and the COVID virus that is spreading from China to the rest of the world. Then, Dr. Robert Malone talks about whether we should be vaccinating at all. And on January 3rd, the 118th Congress convenes with a new Republican majority.
00:12:35.340I don't know exactly what it is, but it's not killing people.
00:12:38.900So I think we can all tell Jake Tapper and his buddies at CNN to go pound sand and and not that I have anything personal against Jake and his family,
00:12:54.140but I am a little tired of of his fear porn business model.
00:12:58.320Well, he is he's fundamentally a left wing activist.
00:13:04.520He is a he comes from the Marxist dim school of broadcasting.
00:13:10.740That is, he was working for the Democrats in the open before he began working for them.
00:13:17.240And I think he's a member of the he's CNN has got this amazing squad of members of the Council of Foreign Relations.
00:13:27.180Well, there's a lot of that in the national media.
00:13:30.300The CFR is, of course, their refuge from reality when they want to talk geopolitics.
00:13:37.020It's it's really quite an organization funded to the hilt by corporate the corporatist driven by left wing politics and a neoliberal world order view.
00:14:36.600Jordan, by the way, says he doesn't want the job, period.
00:14:39.500Here now is Congressman Bob Good of Virginia on the fight for the leadership of the House of Representatives.
00:14:47.760And will the Republican conference cave once again to the rhinos?
00:14:52.480Well, we are resolved to demonstrate the courage necessary to bring true transformational change in the interest of the country, in the interest of the Congress and in the interest of the Republican Party.
00:15:04.320I tell my colleagues who are in this battle with me, we will remember for the rest of our lives what we did at this time.
00:15:12.520And we've got to make historic change.
00:15:15.000The country is teetering, as you know.
00:15:17.600There's so many crises that we could point to as the greatest threats to the country.
00:15:22.480But the point is we can't do what we've always done.
00:15:25.380As you know, we'll get what we've always got.
00:15:27.220And the country cannot survive another two years of that.
00:15:31.780We are going to deny Kevin McCarthy the speakership.
00:15:35.140It's just a matter of that recognition being more widespread so we can more publicly vet quality candidates who can get us to 218 that represent the conservative center of the conference.
00:15:46.300Well, that is that is that is absolutely warms my heart to hear you say that.
00:15:53.860And I and I appreciate your forthrightness and and concrete statement that you're going to deny him the speakership, because I want to read everybody a tweet from the congressman about a week ago.
00:16:13.040What has Kevin McCarthy done over the last two years to demonstrate he will challenge the status quo plaguing Washington and fight for the will of the American people as House Speaker?
00:16:24.820Now, that was a that was over a week ago.
00:16:27.820And I think you succinctly put forward the the proposition that a lot of people, whether they be in the national corporate media, whether they be on Capitol Hill is either Republican or Democrat.
00:16:41.420That that that that was not succinctly anywhere else, as far as I know, put forward.
00:16:47.960And I think you hit it right, right on the head from the from Jump Street in this collision of forces within the GOP conference itself.
00:16:58.960What have you seen anything that would change your mind?
00:17:03.340And really, Lou, if Republican members of Congress are honest, they would tell you that not supporting Kevin McCarthy is actually doing the will of the people who elected us.
00:17:16.380You know, I often will say I'm not here to do the will of the people who voted against me because I told them what I was going to do and they voted against me.
00:17:24.300I am here to do the will of the people who voted for me, the promises that I made to them on the things that I would fight for, the things that I would stand for and how I would cast my votes on their behalf.
00:17:33.840And over the last three years, since I first started my journey to run for Congress in 2020, you know, in 2019, when I began the campaign, I have had hundreds and hundreds of voters and constituents in my district plead with me and beg me and implore me not to support Kevin McCarthy.
00:17:48.780I came in 2020 and there was no challenge to him and no one was standing up against the status quo.
00:17:57.480I saw that as a freshman and I said, I will judge him based on what he does in my first two years.
00:18:03.640And, Lou, he had an almost unique opportunity just as the minority leader to candidate alone for the opportunity to be speaker when we took the majority.
00:18:15.960And there was nothing that he did during my first two years to earn my vote.
00:18:52.740The challenge to McConnell in the Senate that we in the House will provide no votes for this terrible spending package is going to try to get jammed down our throats and that we're not going to give no bipartisan cover to these weak, feeble senators who want to give them the 60 votes they need.
00:19:09.840And that if they do this, we will fight them tooth and nail with everything we've got in the majority in 2013 and beyond if they do this to us and do this to the country.
00:19:21.500Most importantly, he's got an opportunity in these two weeks to show the fight we haven't seen in two years.
00:19:30.360But instead, what we're getting is a sort of an a la carte version of an agenda.
00:19:35.320Now he is promising because he sees that you guys are your backs are your spines are stiffening and you are really a now he understands, I believe, the dimension of the threat you pose to his dreams of the speakership.
00:19:50.720He's saying that, yes, we'll have subpoenas.
00:19:53.280We'll subpoena every one of those 51 intelligence veterans who will come before the for the House.
00:20:01.140Now, my guess is he means that the House Intelligence Committee will will send those subpoenas out and then you will have a congressman chairing that committee that I personally don't believe is quite the right fellow for the job.
00:20:19.180And I'm talking about Congressman Michael Turner.
00:20:49.260And unfortunately, sadly, though, Lou, he is representative of the majority of the chairman that we will have in the short run.
00:20:57.740What this is about, it's not about a person or a personality.
00:21:00.900But, yes, it is about the short run, this objective, this battle to get a better speaker for 2013 and 2014 for the next two years.
00:21:08.320But the bigger long term picture is we're trying to break up the swamp cartel and we're trying to strike a blow against a system, a Republican system, mind you, that's hostile to conservatives, that's hostile to our base of voters, and it's hostile to the input of regular members.
00:21:26.520Where we can't almost conceive, Lou, that we would have chairman of our committees that you would say, gosh, those are real fighters, those are real champions of conservatism, those are real change agents.
00:21:38.060You know, Jim Jordan, sadly, is the exception.
00:21:41.020And there's one or two others that are decent and okay.
00:21:44.520But really, the majority of the rankers that we have that are in line to become chairman are those who will disappoint you.
00:21:56.900And that's what we're trying to do is to deal a blow to a system that's, frankly, hostile to the very things that we all run on and the very things we campaign against when we're asking folks to send us to Washington to battle against the Biden-Schumer-Pelosi agenda.
00:22:11.960Bob Good, standing up for the American people and America First principles.
00:22:17.620And now, Congressman Matt Gaetz, patriot, proud supporter of America First.
00:22:22.420Congressman Gaetz, on where the contest for Speaker of the House will likely lead the Republicans come January 3rd.
00:22:30.800I think the American people know that Washington is broken.
00:22:33.880And we have a corrupt system that advances people through leadership based on their ability to launder special interest money from the PACs and the federal lobbyists into the coffers of members' campaigns.
00:22:47.760And I think we ought to raise our gaze and be better than that and do something other than maybe what Washington would expect of us.
00:22:57.540I think in a very slim majority, we're going to need a speaker with broad credibility across every aspect of the Republican conference.
00:23:06.320And we've got to find somebody who doesn't have five objectors.
00:23:09.980And at the end of the day, we're in a process of elimination exercise right now.
00:23:15.300I think there are 221 members of Congress out of the 222 I'd be open-minded to at least listen to and see if there's a vision to bring us together and to win against the Democrats.
00:23:28.780Because what I recall out of Kevin McCarthy, when he was Paul Ryan's majority leader, and we actually had subpoena power, and Jim Jordan and Ron DeSantis and Mark Meadows and I were asking for it to expose a lot of these deep state lies before they manifested into what we see today, Kevin McCarthy sat on his hands.
00:23:49.380He wasn't an advocate for strenuous oversight.
00:23:52.500He was right there to do the bidding of Paul Ryan.
00:23:55.800And I just don't think that he has passed the leadership test in the time that he's served in these various roles.
00:24:03.700And I think if we had somebody new, we'd be far more effective.
00:24:08.180And I think there are a lot of people who agree with you.
00:24:11.180And what's really interesting to me, as I've covered these leadership battles over the years and votes, is that this is an outright threat against the conference.
00:24:23.680There's Kevin McCarthy saying, you know, I mean, basically it would be Armageddon and the Democrats would take over.
00:24:33.900When point of fact, what you're not doing is proceeding to follow the leader, as has been the case for the Republicans.
00:24:41.380And it's how the Republicans got in this shape, in my opinion, Congressman, is they they are elected by moderates and conservatives and independents across the country and then come to Washington and then turn the whole thing over to rhinos.
00:24:56.860And by the way, the Democratic Party doesn't have a counterpart to rhinos.
00:25:01.980So why do you guys always find a rhino to take over a conservative MAGA agenda, for example?
00:25:10.800Well, the rhino is actually in its natural habitat at a lobbyist fundraiser.
00:25:15.780They are the most adept and skilled and, you know, I think capable in an environment where basically you trade your vote to special interest groups that often have America last principles on trade and immigration that that they embrace.
00:25:33.900And so the rhino is actually quite skilled at being able to convert special interest money into campaign money.
00:25:41.740And it just so happens that's sort of the principal covenant of leadership to the members of the House of Representatives.
00:26:06.280And I just, you know, don't believe that we ought to begin that effort with somebody who, when the chips are down, seems to make poor judgment calls.
00:26:15.440I mean, you'll remember when I initially sought the ouster of Liz Cheney after she backed impeachment and wouldn't shut up about it.
00:26:23.460Kevin McCarthy stood before the conference and kept her in that position for months before ultimately acquiescing to her removal.
00:26:31.960Like, that wasn't a good judgment call.
00:26:34.100That's not someone who has passed the test of leadership.
00:26:37.260You know, he was recorded on a phone conversation saying that because I traveled to Wyoming,
00:26:42.780actually did your show from the steps of the Wyoming Capitol to make my political critique of Liz Cheney,
00:26:50.480he said that that might have been provoking violence in our politics.
00:26:55.900And, you know, I think we deserve leaders who understand that critique and debate are actually the things that stop a civilized society from devolving into violence.
00:27:06.300But the argument people make for Kevin is that he's raised more money than anyone in the history of time for Republican candidates.
00:27:14.020And so they think he just deserves it as a consequence.
00:27:17.400And I don't think the country is well served if that is the principal metric.
00:27:22.620And going to the metrics that I agree with you that do count, what has been his leadership moment?
00:27:29.540What has been that decision he's taken, that position that he has staked out that required courage and principle and true leadership,
00:27:41.280that for which he should be memorialized and also which would be the foundation of his seeking the speakership?
00:27:51.060Well, he would point to the fact that he holds the record for the longest speech ever on the floor of the House of Representatives.
00:28:00.900And to cite that in the absence of substantive wins for our people,
00:28:05.900I think tells you all you need to know about the bloviating and blather that often constrains Washington, D.C.,
00:28:12.840rather than directing us to actually solve the problems that people are facing.
00:28:17.380You know, the hobgoblin argument that's been thrown out there is that, oh, well,
00:28:23.720if Republicans are divided on McCarthy, that somehow Hakeem Jeffries is going to become speaker.
00:28:29.460The reality is Hakeem Jeffries has 212 votes and it takes 218 to become speaker.
00:28:37.000There's not one Republican that would vote for a Democrat, even the impeachers, even the most moderate among the group.
00:28:44.360But, you know, the true question is whether or not Republicans will get into the posture of realizing that this is a process of elimination exercise,
00:28:54.820or if we're going to begin our term in the majority, unable to elect a speaker.
00:29:01.100And I've got to tell you, Lou, that could be a very real possibility.