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00:01:14.940 Hello, everybody. I'm Lou Dobbs. Welcome to The Great America Show. It's great to have

00:01:22.440 you with us. Special Counsel Robert Herr concluding his investigation of the Joe Biden retention

00:01:28.260 of classified documents as vice president. The corrupt special counsel concluded that Biden

00:01:34.720 willfully kept, shared classified memos with his ghostwriter and others, but Herr decided

00:01:42.020 Biden shouldn't be charged. And why, you ask? Because the special counsel concluded that Biden's

00:01:49.040 age and poor memory would create reasonable doubt for jurors. Think about that. This is the same man

00:01:57.020 who's the leader of the free world, right? In the 345-page report, Herr wrote this, quote,

00:02:04.020 It would be difficult to convince a jury that they should convict him, by then a former president

00:02:10.220 well into his 80s, of a serious felony that requires a mental state of willfulness. He continued,

00:02:17.300 Mr. Biden would likely present himself to a jury, as he did during our interview of him,

00:02:23.120 as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory. End quote.

00:02:29.820 Wow. Biden, at the time of that interview, apparently did not know if he was currently the

00:02:36.960 president of the United States or if he was still the vice president. Think about what this means

00:02:43.580 for the commander-in-chief. Scary. Biden reportedly was also unsure when his son Bo had died. This is

00:02:53.500 all part of the special counsel's report and Joe Biden is still in the White House, still apparently

00:02:59.920 in charge. But we know better. He's obviously not running the country in this current condition.

00:03:05.800 Are you kidding me? The White House wants us to believe this man is running the country?

00:03:11.560 Clearly, Biden is just exactly the impaired puppet I've said he was for the past two years. The

00:03:18.860 Marxist Dems are running this puppet, and through him, they're running the country. And just down the

00:03:25.140 block at the Supreme Court, the high court is hearing the case of Colorado trying to keep

00:03:31.220 President Trump off their ballot in 2024. The Marxist Dems in Colorado citing the 14th Amendment saying

00:03:39.060 President Trump should be kept off the ballot for causing an insurrection. Are you kidding me?

00:03:45.840 Once again, are you kidding me? But Justice Brett Kavanaugh was highly skeptical of that claim

00:03:53.160 because Kavanaugh said President Trump was never charged, not once, with inciting an insurrection.

00:04:01.320 Some of the rhetoric of your position, I don't think it is your position, but some of the rhetoric of

00:04:05.220 your position seems to suggest unless the states can do this, no one can prevent insurrectionists from

00:04:11.860 holding federal office. But obviously, Congress has enacted statutes, including one still in effect,

00:04:19.120 Section 2383 of Title 18 prohibits insurrection. It's a federal criminal statute. And if you're

00:04:26.240 convicted of that, you are, it says, shall be disqualified from holding any office. And so there

00:04:32.980 is a federal statute on the books, but President Trump has not been charged with that. So what are we to

00:04:39.020 make of that?

00:04:40.160 Two things, Your Honor. Section 2383 was initially enacted about six years before Section 3. It wasn't

00:04:46.360 meant as implementing legislation related to Section 3. And I would emphasize that by the time that

00:04:53.080 Section 3 was ratified, most Confederates had already received criminal pardon.

00:04:56.680 I guess the question is a little bit different, which is, if the concern you have, which I understand,

00:05:02.780 is that insurrectionists should not be able to hold federal office, there is a tool to ensure that

00:05:08.640 that does not happen. Namely, federal prosecution of insurrectionists. And if convicted, Congress made

00:05:16.540 clear you are automatically barred from holding a federal office.

00:05:19.820 And Justice Clarence Thomas asked the Marxist Dem attorney representing Colorado if he could give the

00:05:26.000 court just one, one example of why President Trump should be blocked by the 14th Amendment.

00:05:32.980 The concern was that the former Confederate states would continue being bad actors. And the effort

00:05:41.180 was to prevent them from doing this. And you're saying that, well, this also authorized states to

00:05:47.240 disqualify candidates. So what I'm asking you for, if you are right, what are the examples?

00:05:54.220 Well, Your Honor, the examples are states excluded many candidates for state office, individuals holding

00:05:59.980 state offices. We have a number of published cases of states.

00:06:03.800 I understand that. I understand the states controlling state elections and state positions.

00:06:12.180 What we are talking about here are national candidates. I understand. You look at Foner or

00:06:20.300 Foote, Shelby Foote or McPherson, they all talk about, of course, the conflict after the Civil War.

00:06:27.820 And there were people who felt very strongly about retaliating against the South, the radical

00:06:35.060 Republicans. But they did not think about authorizing the South to disqualify national

00:06:41.720 candidates. And that's the argument you're making. And what I would like to know is, do you have any

00:06:49.240 examples of this?

00:06:50.640 Many of those historians have filed briefs in our support in this case, making the point that

00:06:55.820 the idea of the 14th Amendment was that both states and the federal government would ensure

00:07:01.060 rights and that if states failed to do so, the federal government certainly would also step in.

00:07:06.060 But I think the reason why there aren't examples of states doing this is an idiosyncratic one of the

00:07:11.200 fact that elections worked differently back then. States have a background power under Article 2 and the

00:07:16.780 10th Amendment to run presidential elections. They didn't use that power to police ballot access until

00:07:23.440 about the 1890s. And by the 1890s, everyone had received amnesty and these issues had become moot.

00:07:29.220 And as expected, the Marxist Dem attorney couldn't name a thing. Not anyone, nary a soul.

00:07:38.620 Now our guest today, great American and chairman of CPAC, Matt Schlapp. Matt, it is great to have you with

00:07:45.500 us here. I know I want to ask you, first of all, we're coming up on CPAC in two weeks. What have you

00:07:52.540 got planned for the country? Well, first of all, we're hoping you're going to join us. Don't disappoint

00:07:57.000 me. I think everybody needs a good dose of Lou Dobbs at CPAC. And so I guess I should have a pregnant 1.00

00:08:05.760 pause and see what your reaction to that is. I'll say certainly. I'm honored.

00:08:09.900 Hey, that's a deal. You know, I think every CPAC is a little bit different and I'm not such a brain

00:08:16.160 child to be able to like say exactly what's going to happen well in advance, but serendipity or God's

00:08:23.580 grace or whatever, you know, CPAC is occurring the very weekend of the South Carolina primary. So

00:08:29.280 Donald Trump will come address the audience, get on his Trump force one, head to South Carolina and

00:08:35.820 have his, what I think he kind of sticks a fork in it. It's over, man. I mean, he's got this

00:08:40.480 nomination. At the same time, we're going to have a new orange seat chair, which I think is a wonderful

00:08:44.780 thing. The person who's most likely talked about being the successor is going to be at CPAC. We have

00:08:50.440 a brand new speaker of the house. We've had a lot of change. And then we have all these international

00:08:55.240 people who are coming over, not because CPAC's gone global, but we're realizing these battles that we

00:09:01.760 face in all these democracies are all the same. The Soros funded globalist, WEF, world economic

00:09:09.080 forum kind of crap has, you know, is knee deep in all these countries and we're starting to work 0.97

00:09:15.100 together to push back to win. Yeah. You know, that's an interesting point you make because 0.99

00:09:21.380 Bolsonaro and Brazil is going through now post-election. He's going through everything

00:09:30.120 that it looks like he's going to be going through everything that President Trump has gone through

00:09:35.920 for the past eight years. And they're learning their lessons somewhere. And I have a feeling that

00:09:41.880 a lot of the Marxist Dems are down there, their consultants, telling the Brazilians how to handle

00:09:47.260 it. The opposing party, obviously, Malay and Argentina. We're watching some really significant

00:09:55.120 possible change. So anyway, I'm excited and I understand exactly what you're saying.

00:10:02.140 The issue right now before the Supreme Court, if I may, this is the idea that one state can take a

00:10:12.140 president off the ballot is unthinkable. You don't have to be a lawyer. You don't have to be

00:10:19.800 even an aficionado of political things, all things political. Common sense says how in the world could

00:10:27.540 you give that power to any one state? Yeah. And of course, this is exactly what the

00:10:32.940 communists are doing in Brazil with Bolsonaro is they're essentially taking him off the ballot,

00:10:39.500 even though he's a wildly popular figure in the country. And you saw this, Lou, as you know,

00:10:46.120 in totalitarian regimes not too long ago. But now you're seeing this United States of America.

00:10:51.100 I always love the idea that the liberals tell us, you know, that they're kind of live and let live

00:10:55.480 people. And it's nothing could be further from the truth. They're lies. They're actually

00:10:59.160 the fascists who want to control everything about our life, including, you know, they tell us, well,

00:11:04.560 you're a threat to democracy. How can we be a threat to democracy? We never keep them,

00:11:09.600 those crazy people off ballots, but they literally want to keep Donald Trump off the ballot. And just 0.89

00:11:13.840 more specifically, the Constitution of America. You know, the U.S. Constitution is this most revered

00:11:20.560 document around the world. People really understand it's got two amazing things. It lists our rights

00:11:25.660 as individuals, and it writes it down. It's written. Many countries, even democracies, don't have both of

00:11:32.220 those things. And America was so unique because it was all about God's, God-given rights to the

00:11:37.680 individual, not to the government. And most other constitutions get that wrong. The idea that the left

00:11:43.160 is trying to nullify every aspect of the Constitution is just ironic and it's tragic.

00:11:49.240 And really, this should be a nine to nothing decision by the Supreme Court. This is a no-brainer.

00:11:53.800 This has nothing to do with the Civil War. This has nothing to do with any crimes. It's 100 percent

00:11:58.860 Joe Biden can only win if he can get Donald Trump off a couple more of these state ballots,

00:12:04.840 especially any kind of purple or swing state.

00:12:07.660 You know, you're talking about the should be a nine nothing vote. Listening to it this morning

00:12:14.380 at various points, it seems pretty clear that they're highly skeptical of the Colorado advocates

00:12:22.700 that they have a right to eliminate a president of the United States from the ballot in their pristine

00:12:31.260 People's Republic of Colorado. I know the state has gone blue, but good Lord, what they're doing now.

00:12:40.080 It's outrageous.

00:12:41.600 And Lou, the reason it went blue, I think this is very important. You have states like Washington,

00:12:46.740 you have states like Colorado, they moved to nearly 100 percent mail-in ballots. And as soon as you do

00:12:52.360 that, you lose the states. Even Utah's moved to 100 percent mail-in ballots. And Utah,

00:12:57.840 I would say the conservative cause has had some real setbacks there, especially in the guise of

00:13:02.900 Mitt Romney and others. So like, you know, this idea about how we elect people in this bogus way

00:13:08.140 that the left has grabbed onto results in takeovers in states. And then they do things like this.

00:13:14.180 Colorado went from mail-in ballots to having basically no statewide elected Republicans to now

00:13:19.940 taking these extraordinary steps of nullifying aspects of the U.S. Constitution. So when people tell

00:13:25.880 you how we vote doesn't matter that much, they don't know what they're talking about.

00:13:30.380 And, you know, to your point, a new report revealing that President Trump would have won

00:13:35.320 in 26 of 29 mail-in ballot fraud scenarios during the 2020 election if there had not been extended

00:13:44.820 mail-in balloting of all sorts in the guise of accommodating the exigencies of a pandemic.

00:13:52.000 I get that. But I don't get turning over the electoral system to a bunch of, well, to a bunch

00:14:01.960 of doctors who turned out to not know what they were talking about. Led by the great, and I use it

00:14:08.780 facetiously, Dr. Fauci. It looks like we've learned our lesson. And we're going to learn more lessons.

00:14:14.640 And we're in a tutorial led by Matt Schlapp. We'll be right back. Stay with us.

00:14:22.600 Lou Dobbs here. I'm delighted to let you all know that the program Lou Dobbs Tonight has returned to

00:14:28.720 the air. That's right. Lou Dobbs Tonight is back. We're live each and every weeknight at 7 p.m. Eastern and

00:14:37.780 6 p.m. Central on rumble.com slash Lou Dobbs. That's rumble.com slash Lou Dobbs. I hope you'll

00:14:46.940 be joining us for Lou Dobbs Tonight as our fight to save this country has only begun.

00:14:53.240 We're back now with CPAC leader and dream maker and driver, Matt Schlapp. And it's a great event. And

00:15:09.580 we urge you all to get familiar with it and where possible attend. Matt, Ronna McDaniel,

00:15:17.400 we're going through a particular, a peculiar moment here. She's resigning. The president said

00:15:24.040 she's resigning and would announce it after South Carolina. She said, I think there's been some

00:15:29.460 communication problem. She's not resigning. I say, I think she's resigning, but that's only because I 0.53

00:15:36.240 want her out of there. Your thoughts? Yeah, I don't think she was, it was ever a question of whether or

00:15:41.920 not she was going to resign. I think it was a question of whether or not Donald Trump was

00:15:45.960 finally in a position to assert new leadership of the RNC. Now, officially the national committee of

00:15:51.980 which, you know, I'm a former White House political director. I've had a lot of experience with that

00:15:55.720 committee. They have to formalize it with a vote, but that committee is for Donald Trump and they're

00:16:01.040 going to do what he wants. And I think Donald Trump has gotten to the point, I don't want to put words

00:16:05.520 in his mouth because he's plenty capable of saying what's on his mind, but I think he knows it's time

00:16:10.040 for new leadership there. And so I do think it's interesting. It's never over till it's over,

00:16:15.720 Lou, but even if she were to stay on a little bit longer, she has to understand that she's going

00:16:23.520 bankrupt at the RNC because the donors across this country see the RNC as being complicit with swamp

00:16:30.540 establishment Republicanism. And that's really not what 99% of the country wants or the Republican

00:16:37.760 party wants. Maybe the 1% that are my neighbors like it, but the rest of us don't. And we want

00:16:42.800 this Republican national committee to be innovative, to be entrepreneurial, to listen to people,

00:16:49.440 to listen to voters and normalize voter ID and normalize following the laws on voting and quit

00:16:56.380 telling us that we're election deniers if we believe in voter ID. All right. And that's in our own

00:17:02.720 party. Then when the Democrats pick up the drum beat, it becomes even more ridiculous and defeating, 0.98

00:17:12.320 if I can put it that way. You mentioned balloting and how the election should go. 0.56

00:17:20.960 The idea that we've seen great reform in Delaware, Julianne Moore, the head of the Republican party

00:17:27.360 there. Her name has been mentioned as a possible replacement for Ronna and also Whatley in North

00:17:36.560 Carolina. The president, I think, has actually made that mention. That's more than a mention,

00:17:43.240 if he's going to mention it. What's your thinking about who these people are? Is there one person you

00:17:50.640 favor overall? Well, I actually think there'd be a lot of good choices. I will say on Whatley,

00:17:57.280 Michael, I've known for a very long time, and he went to law school with Amy Coney Barrett. He's a

00:18:02.240 real sharp lawyer. And he realized 216 going forward that the Democrats, their whole play was to normalize

00:18:10.160 this idea that voter ID is racism. And he immediately assembled the top lawyers around the state,

00:18:18.240 and he did the same thing in 2020. We didn't have the shenanigans in North Carolina. We had

00:18:23.040 in a lot of other swing states, and North Carolina is a swing state. And then they turned around and

00:18:28.480 elected a senator two years later. They have been all over, I think, something like 600 lawyers in that

00:18:33.600 state. So if somebody like Michael Whatley is selected, you can immediately tell the focus isn't on

00:18:39.920 how many hits do I get on Fox News because none of us watch it anymore. Instead, it is how do I

00:18:47.040 do the nuts and bolts, the blocking and tackling of politics to make sure they can't cheat and to

00:18:53.520 make sure they can't use the race card to change outcomes in elections. And North Carolina has

00:18:59.680 successfully done that. And I think that's the kind of person I want to be the chair. Maybe Michael's

00:19:05.920 one of many who could do that, but that's the kind of person we need. All right. And do you know

00:19:11.040 Julianne Murray? I don't know her, but from what you tell me about her, I probably love her.

00:19:18.320 Well, we've got some good ones, as you say. Yeah. And it's going to be an interesting contest. I know

00:19:25.040 that Mike Lindell, who is all over electoral integrity, is very keen on her. I don't know if

00:19:31.760 he's endorsing her or promoting her, but he has mentioned her. So at least there's some strong

00:19:38.960 candidates to replace what has been a weak performer in Ronna McDaniel. Let's turn to this. I mean,

00:19:48.560 what's going on in Capitol Hill right now is unbelievable. Mitch McConnell. Mitch McConnell

00:19:54.880 has just committed, I think, political suicide. I don't see how he can remain in that post

00:20:01.280 after putting forward what was a duplicitous and at the very least poorly represented

00:20:11.760 bipartisan border bill, which had nothing to do with the border in effect and everything to do with

00:20:17.280 Ukraine. No, that's exactly right. I mean, we, Mercy and I just came back from the border down in

00:20:23.360 Nogales, Arizona. It was actually my first trip to the border and it's real eye opener when you haven't

00:20:28.800 been there and most Americans don't get to the border. And I just tell you as one of those,

00:20:33.120 I was shocked to see the big, beautiful Trump wall, which is, which protects us. And then you see

00:20:39.440 that the bad guys have cut holes in that wall and that Joe Biden refuses to repair the holes in the

00:20:44.560 wall and refuses to, refuses to finish the wall. So even at a port of entry, like in Nogales, where

00:20:50.800 people legally can go and make asylum claims just a few yards down the road, Lou, they just walk in

00:20:57.440 and they're in America forever. They get a new phone, they get new clothes, they get a new bag of

00:21:02.080 stuff. They get travel money. And you know, what was amazing is they were on our plane. When we flew

00:21:07.200 back from Arizona to Washington, DC, we watched, they got to cut in line at TSA. They got concierge

00:21:12.480 service. They all were on airplanes. Boy, in my days, when you didn't have any money, you took a bus,

00:21:16.800 but I guess the federal government is so rich, they can give them all nice airline tickets. Then when they

00:21:21.520 got to Reagan airport, they got concierge service from American airlines. They cut in front of the line.

00:21:27.040 And I watched all the employees do everything they could to get them set up with cars and everything

00:21:30.720 else. This is insane. And by the way, nothing Mitch McConnell and Senator Lankford worked out in this

00:21:36.160 thing would have stopped any of that. Matter of fact, all the money that they were talking about

00:21:40.960 to help with immigration wasn't going to close any portions of the border. It was going to facilitate

00:21:45.840 and mainstream more of these illegal people getting into all these towns and cities all over America

00:21:52.720 and having more money in which to do it. So it was such a cynical ploy. And I think it has backfired

00:21:58.400 on them to a massive amount. And they're blaming Trump for playing politics on this, please.

00:22:04.320 It's the senators who are playing politics on the cynically thinking that we would be too stupid 0.99

00:22:08.960 to know what the bill actually did. And everybody was making certain that we knew what was in this 0.98

00:22:16.080 bill because we knew it was a tough one. We're going to take a quick break. We're talking about

00:22:24.160 one of my favorite subjects, a cowardly Republican Party leadership in Washington DC. We're going to see 0.51

00:22:33.440 if that's going to improve or be a status quo for a while. We're talking with Matt Slap. And we're

00:22:39.760 going to talk also about a new bill we hear is moving from the Senate. And be careful, folks, because

00:22:46.880 we're told also it is about Ukraine. They've forgotten the border already. We'll be right back with Matt

00:22:54.960 Slap. Stay with us. We're back with Matt Slap. And I want to just say right away, we've just gotten

00:23:07.040 word that the Senate is pushing out a new bill. It has nothing to do with the border now. They've dropped

00:23:13.600 the issues, Matt, of anything to do with immigration. They want 95, not 60, 95 billion dollars worth of

00:23:24.400 support from the United States without border provisions. That coming from the White House,

00:23:31.760 obviously, and the Marxist Dems who lead the Senate and those in the House of Representatives. 0.99

00:23:38.400 I mean, this is really arrogance, in my opinion, at its most obvious. Your reaction?

00:23:44.480 Well, you know, I live in the swamp blue. It's, I guess, an institutional hazard with what I do for a

00:23:51.120 living. But I drove through my neighborhood the other day and somebody had a Ukraine flag up

00:23:56.640 and a yard sign that said immediate ceasefire in Gaza. Same house, two signs that say the opposite.

00:24:05.840 All these people pushing for Ukraine aid never talk about a ceasefire. Prime Minister Orban and others

00:24:11.280 have offered to negotiate a ceasefire. For whatever reason, the hardcore Ukraine aid people seem to want

00:24:19.680 to do everything they can to keep this war going forward. We asked this of our CPAC audience last

00:24:24.880 year. 75% of them said, I don't want a penny going to Ukraine. This is a very controversial thing with

00:24:30.720 Republicans. And for some reason, Senate leadership believes that this is a cause similar to the

00:24:37.840 American Revolution with the rhetoric that they use. The American people just don't buy it, especially

00:24:42.560 when Americans are hurting so much. We've never been presented with a plan on how Ukraine could even win

00:24:48.160 this conflict. And they cynically have to, you know, Lou, when something's popular, you don't

00:24:53.520 have to try to hide it. You don't have to try to camouflage it. You just do it. In a democracy,

00:24:57.600 you debate it and you say, hey, we think this is such an important thing. Let the American people

00:25:01.600 decide if they're for this aid or not for this aid. But polls show they're not for this aid. And I think,

00:25:06.800 once again, the Senate is going to get stuffed by popular opinion. And I think it puts Mike Johnson,

00:25:14.640 who I know has had different answers on this at different times with his one-seat majority,

00:25:20.000 but I think it'll be a real moment of truth for the Republicans in the House as well. You know,

00:25:26.240 we have real issues in this country. And I'm not someone that doesn't believe we don't have a role

00:25:31.760 to play overseas. I just don't want to squander money. And I don't want to give it to a president

00:25:36.960 who is the reason for the conflict existing. If Donald Trump had gotten the second term

00:25:41.520 that he deserved, there would be no conflict in the Ukraine because Vladimir Putin had respect

00:25:46.320 for Donald Trump. And he didn't get outside his box because he feared the power of America. And

00:25:52.240 that's our biggest problem. We can spend billions of dollars in aid here and there and everywhere.

00:25:56.160 But with Joe Biden as our president and weakness being projected overseas, it becomes very dangerous.

00:26:02.240 There's no amount of money that can stop what bad guys will do.

00:26:05.280 And a lot of those bad guys are in this country. And one of them is Alejandro Mayorkas. And Mike

00:26:12.880 Johnson, the new speaker, put the vote forward, lost the vote by two votes. In point of fact,

00:26:21.200 that was a procedural vote that if we remove that from the scheme, George Santos would have been the

00:26:26.480 deciding vote. But Speaker Johnson, early on the job, made a huge mistake when he went after him

00:26:34.720 without due process. Mike Johnson, you said he reverses himself. Mike Johnson has reversed course

00:26:40.880 once again. You may be aware, but this has just come in here to this desk. He won't be endorsing the man

00:26:48.400 he said he would, which is Matt Rosendale in Montana for the U.S. Senate.

00:26:54.560 It sounds like, again,

00:26:56.000 our good friend, Mitch McConnell has worked his will on the House and the Speaker.

00:27:03.600 Yeah, I don't, you know, that's news to me too, Lou. And that's an important primary. And I would

00:27:09.760 simply say this, my counsel, I'll say publicly what my private counsel is to the Speaker, who has always

00:27:15.440 had a very good CPAC rating and is, you know, the first time we've actually had somebody who gets high

00:27:21.280 scores in our rating system as the Speaker. He's trying to navigate this one seat. You bring up

00:27:26.480 George Santos. That was a colossal error to kick George Santos out of the House of Representatives.

00:27:31.120 By the way, Democrats never kick out their own people, no matter what terrible stuff they've done.

00:27:35.440 I mean, you have Senator Menendez. I don't know what it's going to take to get him out of the Senate,

00:27:39.360 but I know one thing, Chuck Schumer is not going to have any part of trying to lose a vote in the

00:27:43.360 United States Senate. They seem to get power better than we get it. And so, you know, I think the

00:27:48.640 Mayorkas thing was a flap. I do have hope that they're going to be able to bring that back to 0.77

00:27:53.120 the floor and get this important thing done. But, you know, my advice to the Speaker is, I get it.

00:27:59.600 We have a lot of moderates in the conference. Some are from New York, some are from California.

00:28:04.000 And when you have a one seat majority, they could make it, but they could be a difference maker to

00:28:08.160 whether we do something or not. You still got to bring this stuff to the floor, even if it fails.

00:28:13.040 And you got to speak up for your constituents. He represents a very conservative

00:28:17.840 populace in Louisiana. And I think people know he's got almost an impossible job. Just do what

00:28:23.520 it takes to make those constituents happy. Everyone understands it's a one seat majority.

00:28:27.920 I think that majority will grow if people see them fight. It will shrink if people view the Republican

00:28:35.520 Party as the constantly the white flag party. It'll shrink because a lot of people are saying,

00:28:40.800 I give up. They just won't fight.

00:28:43.600 Yeah, I agree with you 100 percent. Excuse me. There's another Johnson reversal. I guess I'm

00:28:52.000 not sure how to style this. It's an endorsement of a candidate who is opposing the Trump candidate,

00:29:00.480 the America first candidate, J.R. Majewski in Ohio. It doesn't make any sense. He's making unforced

00:29:12.240 error after unforced error. And a little modesty here would be in good and helpful order for this

00:29:21.120 speaker until at least he has a sure path forward. Let me ask you, as we are wrapping up here,

00:29:30.320 where do we go as a party if we do not see our senators, our House, coalesce behind President

00:29:38.160 Trump? There is still this resistance that exists within Capitol Hill and with the Republican conference,

00:29:44.320 whether it be in the Senate or the House. It's about time some people grew up, isn't it,

00:29:50.960 within the Republican Party? Yeah, I mean, this has been a road I understand well since I live here

00:29:56.480 and I've lost so many friendships over sticking with Donald Trump. I stuck with Donald Trump even

00:30:00.880 on January 7th, and a lot of us did. And we're all happy he's coming back because this country needs

00:30:06.880 him and this city needs him. And for the Republicans who are still never Trump and still fighting it,

00:30:12.000 for the Nikki Haley crew, I don't know if it's salvageable with that hardcore. And most of them

00:30:18.720 are very wealthy, elite financiers of all of these efforts. And it's about 16% in polls that continue

00:30:26.240 to be uncomfortable with Donald Trump. And I guess all I'll say is that maybe the elephant and the donkey

00:30:31.840 can't really get it done. And I told my Republican friends, and I'm a strong Republican,

00:30:36.400 the elephant can only have so much of a wingspan. And the biggest part of this country,

00:30:42.080 if you look at Gallup or any polling, it's conservatives. And now we have this marriage

00:30:46.320 with MAGA and populists. And that's where the heart and soul of this is. And then you add the

00:30:51.680 elephant and the Republicans onto it. And that makes it broader. I think we're going to get Donald

00:30:55.680 Trump always gets a lot of Democrats. I think you'll get even more Democrats who love their country,

00:30:59.680 love cops, love the military, and they don't want to spend $15 to buy fast food for their kid. It's

00:31:07.120 just too expensive to exist and to fill up their car and everything else. So I really think we're not

00:31:12.480 going to have 100% support of Donald Trump in the Republican Party. But I think what's going to happen

00:31:17.760 is you're going to have black voters, Hispanic voters, non-traditional Republican voters flocking to

00:31:23.200 Donald Trump because they like what the man stands for and what he did in office.

00:31:27.520 Absolutely. He has a record. He has a record as well of keeping his promises, which makes him

00:31:34.640 unique indeed. And he is an absolute, he absolutely stands above everyone, Democrat or Republican who

00:31:43.200 would, well, who would compete with him for the White House in 2024. Matt Slap, as always,

00:31:50.000 great to have you with us. Thanks so much and look forward to seeing you soon. Appreciate it.

00:31:54.560 Bye. Thank you, Lou. Thanks to Matt Slap. Thank you everybody for being with us. Join us tomorrow

00:31:59.600 for the Great America Saturday show. Our guests are investigative journalist Laura Loomer and former

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The Great America Show - February 09, 2024

FIGHT LIKE THERE’S NO TOMORROW

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