Triggered - Donald Trump Jr - 1 on 1 with the Speaker of the House in Nancy Pelosi's former Office | TRIGGERED Ep. 2

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00:00:23.000 Episode 2 is going to be awesome.

00:00:25.000 We have with us the Speaker of the House, Kevin McCarthy.

00:00:29.000 Obviously, you saw over the last couple weeks the craziness that went about.

00:00:34.000 We're going to talk all about that, but we're also going to talk about, like, Kevin McCarthy 2.0.

00:00:39.000 You saw the takedown the other day of the press.

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00:02:41.000 Good to have you. Well, thank you.

00:02:42.000 I'm excited about you finally doing a podcast.

00:02:45.000 You know, it's been a long time coming.

00:02:47.000 I guess I've been talking smack on every other platform.

00:02:49.000 Finally, the guys at Rumble were like, hey, would you do something long for them?

00:02:52.000 I'm like... I don't know if I can do that because I'm used to just doing all the talking, so going back and forth will be interesting.

00:02:57.000 So now I'm going to judge you on how you do about asking questions instead of answering them.

00:03:01.000 Well, I wanted to actually sort of be just a conversation.

00:03:04.000 We've known each other for a long time, so I'll put that out there for the guys.

00:03:09.000 And I was a supporter of everything that went on over the last few weeks.

00:03:13.000 Thank you. Not the easiest, because, you know, I get to be called an establishment shill, which is the first time for everything, but talk a little bit about that.

00:03:20.000 I mean, some really interesting stuff happened, but also, once you won, I think, there's some people that are either pleasantly surprised or pleasantly disappointed, depending on which side of it is.

00:03:29.000 That's probably true. Well, hopefully it's the Democrats who are disappointed and the Republicans who are surprised by it.

00:03:34.000 We saw Based McCarthy just last night.

00:03:37.000 I mean, I thought that question from the reporter about Schiff and Swallow.

00:03:41.000 Yeah. Talk about that.

00:03:42.000 You know what's interesting? Someone should do a study on how the reporters ask me questions and the questions that they would ask Nancy Pelosi as Speaker.

00:03:50.000 It's fundamentally different.

00:03:52.000 So this reporter comes up And I've been very clear for more than a year and a half that I would not have Swalwell and Schiff on the Intel Committee.

00:04:01.000 And what's unique is it's different than any other committee.

00:04:03.000 And this is why you could do it.

00:04:05.000 Only the speaker has the okay on it.

00:04:06.000 And I'm not playing like the Democrats.

00:04:08.000 I'm not playing politics. But on the Intel Committee, it's national security.

00:04:12.000 This is where the classified, this is where they only meet in the SCIF. This is where they learn things that's happening around the world that nobody else learns.

00:04:19.000 And we've watched what Adam Schiff did.

00:04:20.000 He lied, right? When Devin Nunes put out his memo about the law, he used his chair and said, no, Devin's wrong.

00:04:26.000 The inspector general came out and said, no, you knew you were wrong and you said it.

00:04:29.000 You've got John Radcliffe with the DNI, right?

00:04:32.000 Director of National Intelligence.

00:04:34.000 When we find the laptop of Hunter Biden right before the election, There's no intel that says this is Russia collusion.

00:04:42.000 He goes out as the chair of Intel and says, oh, it's all made up.

00:04:46.000 I saw it. I mean, I did...

00:04:48.000 What did he do to you? I did nine hours in front of that committee.

00:04:51.000 They knew it was nonsense.

00:04:53.000 I mean, one of the greatest moments, perhaps, of restraint in my life was sitting like catty-corner to Adam Schiff as he's calling me a traitor for nine hours.

00:04:59.000 Like... That wasn't easy.

00:05:01.000 I'll leave it at that, but like...

00:05:03.000 Remember the whistleblower?

00:05:05.000 He said, oh, you have no idea this person came forward?

00:05:07.000 Oh, no. They met with him.

00:05:08.000 They had it all planned. You know, look, Hakeem Jeffries, the minority leader, he sends me a letter and says, will you put him on?

00:05:14.000 I understand him wanting to defend his members, but I've got to put the country first.

00:05:18.000 Integrity matters, so he's not going on because he lied.

00:05:22.000 And then Swalwell has a relationship with a Chinese spy.

00:05:26.000 I can't even believe they advocate for this.

00:05:28.000 And this is what's interesting.

00:05:30.000 The FBI comes to Congress once Pelosi puts Swawo on Intel.

00:05:37.000 Why? Because they come and tell her, he's got a relationship with a Chinese spy.

00:05:41.000 You can't have him here. So it wasn't just us worried about it.

00:05:43.000 It was the FBI even.

00:05:45.000 Well, but it's so obvious also.

00:05:48.000 Now, I have a theory, obviously. The media trying to defend the notion of someone who could be compromised, right?

00:05:53.000 The FBI may say, well, he cooperated.

00:05:56.000 Well, that doesn't mean the Chinese... 0.97

00:05:58.000 The CCP does not have a file on this guy that they could leverage at any moment.

00:06:02.000 Who knows? I mean, we've seen how he performs on national TV. Who knows what he does, like, you know, behind the scenes, right?

00:06:09.000 Well, think about it. Black male is a person at any time.

00:06:12.000 She met him...

00:06:13.000 When he was a city councilman.

00:06:15.000 She raised money for him.

00:06:16.000 She put interns in his office. 0.75

00:06:19.000 She, knowingly, as a Chinese spy, and what's the first thing once they said that the FBI don't? 0.60

00:06:24.000 She leaves the country.

00:06:26.000 Of course she does. What's scary about it is watching the press, though, so go hard defending him because there's no real reason, right?

00:06:33.000 And you did a great job of this, which was not like, I'm not letting any Democrats on there.

00:06:37.000 No. There's 200 people to choose from.

00:06:40.000 Why them? Exactly. And the answer, in my opinion, is because they would leak the shit out of anything that was going on in the Intelligence Committee.

00:06:48.000 And there's a difference. And I know that because sitting there for nine hours... 0.98

00:06:52.000 You know, they took my phones.

00:06:54.000 They took my lawyer's phones.

00:06:55.000 We had no comms with the outside world.

00:06:57.000 I get out from that day in the House Intelligence Committee, being like, at least according to SHIP on TV, tried for treason, you know, a crime punishable by death.

00:07:05.000 Like, just, you know, for me, that's like an average Tuesday right now, right?

00:07:08.000 I get out at like 7 o'clock, 7.30 at night, and I open up Twitter and I scroll back, you know, 12 hours ago at 9 a.m.

00:07:15.000 during the first bathroom break, Adam Schiff, it wasn't Adam Schiff, but you know, a source close to, like a source close to the Intelligence Committee, they would literally be leaking You can't have that.

00:07:26.000 But think about what we're missing here.

00:07:28.000 The Intel Committee should be, why didn't we know about what would happen in Afghanistan, Iran, all these things missed because they made it political.

00:07:35.000 So what I'm doing is taking the politics out of it, putting it back to where it's supposed to be.

00:07:40.000 I'm actually going to have the Republicans and Democrats who are on it Take courses together on AI and quantum that they have created for the generals in our military.

00:07:49.000 Because what they're supposed to be doing is protecting this nation.

00:07:53.000 And if you want to play politics, I'm not doing what the Democrats did, like they removed Marjorie Greene for no reason, but they removed her for all committees.

00:08:00.000 They could have other committees.

00:08:01.000 They just can't get the security clearance.

00:08:04.000 They don't have the integrity to be on Intel.

00:08:07.000 I saw the New York Times thing, I think, at the time, which was like, you know, Nancy Pelosi removes Jim Jordan because he's such a radical yada yada.

00:08:13.000 And the headline about you removing people who are known leaguers, people who lied to the American public, people who had relationships with Chinese spies, They can't believe you're doing this.

00:08:24.000 It's so shocking. Speaking of that, let's talk about Jim Jordan.

00:08:29.000 Obviously, someone who you've been in Congress with for a while, someone who probably didn't always have the greatest relationship, but during the last few weeks was actually one of your staunchest advocates.

00:08:41.000 Talk about that change.

00:08:42.000 And by the way, I don't think anyone You know, at least in the know, right?

00:08:46.000 There's sort of, there's the Twitter know, and social media know, and influencer know, and then like actual DC know, and those two things are really different.

00:08:52.000 But I think anyone in the actual know probably would have never been like, Jim Jordan's going to lead, you know, the Senate or the House Judiciary Committee, which is going to be a great spot for him.

00:09:01.000 Talk about the evolution of that relationship.

00:09:03.000 You know, it's interesting. Jim and I came into Congress together.

00:09:05.000 We were really close. And as we progressed, there was challenges.

00:09:10.000 And what's interesting, four years ago, he ran against me for leader.

00:09:14.000 And this is the interesting part.

00:09:15.000 We never lost a friendship.

00:09:16.000 I didn't really feel it running against me.

00:09:18.000 It was an open seat, running for leader, and I won.

00:09:21.000 I won overwhelmingly.

00:09:23.000 Then we go in to do steering committee, right, selection.

00:09:26.000 And Jim hadn't even applied for oversight.

00:09:29.000 I'm sitting in steering. I get up and leave the room.

00:09:31.000 I don't tell anybody in the room. And I call Jim.

00:09:33.000 I go, what are you doing?

00:09:35.000 He goes, I'm working out. I said, you need to get over here.

00:09:36.000 He goes, why? I said, because you're the very best person to be a head of oversight.

00:09:40.000 He goes, well, no.

00:09:42.000 I don't care, Jim.

00:09:44.000 I want to find the best people and put them on the bus.

00:09:47.000 And it was the best. And in steering, they all said, what are you doing?

00:09:50.000 I said, he's the very best person.

00:09:52.000 And what happened was, it's kind of like the old team of rivals.

00:09:56.000 We have only made the country stronger working together.

00:09:59.000 And now we come around this way.

00:10:00.000 He's chair of judiciary.

00:10:01.000 I put him in charge of the weaponization select committee.

00:10:04.000 We haven't had something like this in 1970.

00:10:06.000 Who's best to go look after what the FBI and everybody else has been doing?

00:10:10.000 Jim has been doing a lot. But the reason why he's in there nominated, we have worked hand in hand together.

00:10:16.000 We know his strength and my strength, and together we create synergy.

00:10:20.000 Yeah, and that's the interesting thing, again, the people sort of out of the know.

00:10:22.000 They had their favorites, you know, I'm like, if you thought that, you know, Kevin didn't do well on the first bout at losing like 19 people, like, that guy's going to lose 80.

00:10:31.000 You know what I mean? Like, so everyone has their dream, and I think that's, you know, the inside baseball at DC, it's sort of like business.

00:10:38.000 Everyone wants 100%.

00:10:40.000 It just doesn't work that way.

00:10:41.000 You never get 100%. What we've got to do is take the wins that we get and do it.

00:10:44.000 And again, I think you come back to the next...

00:10:46.000 But the thing, too, is you want to find...

00:10:49.000 Everybody has different talent. You want to get the very best person on the right seat on the bus, right?

00:10:54.000 Jim will sit there and tell you, I don't want to be a leader.

00:10:56.000 I want to be the head of judiciary.

00:10:58.000 This is where I want to cross-examine somebody.

00:11:00.000 I want to go after it. And he's better at it than I am.

00:11:04.000 That's the right place for him.

00:11:05.000 Well, and there's a part of that job, what people don't understand even about the speaker job, like...

00:11:09.000 The reason you and I know each other is because we've run into each other in like, bumble hell, like, you know, God knows where.

00:11:18.000 How many nights a week or a year are you fundraising?

00:11:21.000 Like just out in... Every single day.

00:11:23.000 And you know, but the thing is...

00:11:26.000 No, no. We're everywhere.

00:11:27.000 But the thing, too, is why we know each other so well.

00:11:29.000 We may be somebody else, but we're calling one another.

00:11:32.000 I need you to call this person.

00:11:33.000 Recruit them to write. We've got to find the best.

00:11:35.000 And this is the interesting thing.

00:11:36.000 In the last four years, you know, the Senate has only lost seats.

00:11:39.000 The governor's lost seats for Republicans.

00:11:41.000 But the only place to want has been the House.

00:11:43.000 And it's been our candidates. And you've been a big help with that.

00:11:45.000 And we've won in New York, California, Oregon, on the border of Texas and Tucson.

00:11:50.000 And we've expanded the party.

00:11:52.000 More women. More African American Republicans at any time since the Reconstruction. 1.00

00:11:58.000 More Hispanic Republicans. 0.96

00:12:00.000 That's what this party is about.

00:12:01.000 We've become the working class party.

00:12:04.000 And we've opened it up to new opportunities.

00:12:06.000 But, you know, credit words do.

00:12:07.000 I mean, you've shown up to those districts and done it.

00:12:09.000 And there's other guys that, you know, they want to be Speaker of the House, but, you know, they want the title.

00:12:14.000 They don't want the day job. And what people don't understand is like so much of that day job is that.

00:12:19.000 It is. It's the fundraising.

00:12:20.000 It's every district. It's not being at home.

00:12:22.000 It's not even being at your home away from home in D.C. And it sucks.

00:12:26.000 And so, you know, I saw a lot of people, well, we want Jim Jordan.

00:12:28.000 I go, I know Jim Jordan doesn't want that job.

00:12:30.000 Yeah. Because I've had these conversations with Jim Dorky.

00:12:32.000 It's like, that's his idea of hell.

00:12:34.000 Now, he'll be a great person questioning.

00:12:36.000 I mean, he was in some of the things on the Republican side when I was going through.

00:12:40.000 I did nine hours in front of the house.

00:12:42.000 Intel, I did 50 hours total for him.

00:12:43.000 But you know what they did when they did impeachment?

00:12:45.000 I literally moved Jim and put him on Intel because we needed that.

00:12:49.000 Devin Nunez needed that extra help.

00:12:50.000 Yeah, Devin Nunez was the one guy You know, so Devin and I have been friends long before we ever got elected.

00:13:01.000 We don't live far apart from each other, and because we're both conservatives, we're in the conservative movement, we were always buddies, right?

00:13:08.000 And he comes to Congress before me, but he was the first person, here he is in Intel, and I was sitting here, he would come and tell me, hey, this isn't right what they're saying.

00:13:16.000 And he was the only one.

00:13:18.000 When everybody else, you had other Republicans, oh, I'm really worried about what they're saying about President Trump.

00:13:22.000 No, he said what they're doing.

00:13:23.000 And they vilified him.

00:13:25.000 They went after him. And I see that, because I get it.

00:13:28.000 I mean, they did it, you know, the same thing with Flynn and these things.

00:13:30.000 They do it. And, hey, even me.

00:13:32.000 Like, I was in the crosshairs at the time, but I still had this notion of, no, America is what we've been told to believe it is.

00:13:39.000 Unfortunately, it's not. I fight to make it so.

00:13:42.000 But, you know, these guys would say, well, Flynn, he was a traitor.

00:13:46.000 I was like, well, the FBI is saying it and the CIA is saying it.

00:13:48.000 And it's written up in the New York Times.

00:13:50.000 There's got to be something to it.

00:13:51.000 We've got to pull back. Where there's smoke, there must be some fire.

00:13:53.000 Maybe don't go all in to defend that.

00:13:55.000 And the reality is, like, same with Devin.

00:13:57.000 I was like... They were actually 100% right, but like, we believe these institutions are, they're bipartisan, and they're totally above the price, and it's all BS. But everything they accused us of, I was going, how could you make this stuff up?

00:14:09.000 It's because they were doing it.

00:14:10.000 I mean, I look today at what happened at Twitter.

00:14:13.000 I don't believe Elon thought they were doing that much.

00:14:16.000 Now he gets in the middle of Twitter, and he's just, all he's doing is releasing the information, and now people are trying to vilify him.

00:14:23.000 Well, but you know what's interesting with Twitter?

00:14:24.000 Like, it was sort of amazing, because it came back, and like, We have Truth Social, and it's been a great platform to say what you want.

00:14:30.000 But Twitter, I actually like being in that fight because I'm sort of adversarial, and that's what I do, and I've sort of made a reputation of it.

00:14:36.000 But when he even started talking about the takeover, it's like they were burning the documents.

00:14:41.000 My engagement went through the roof, the files went through.

00:14:43.000 You had no growth, and all of a sudden...

00:14:46.000 I had no growth for years. I was getting, and they were like, you know, four years ago, I'd say, listen, they're screwing with the algorithm.

00:14:51.000 They're messing up. Well, how do you know? It's like, because yesterday I was getting 10,000 retweets and today I'm getting three.

00:14:55.000 Like not 3,000, like three single digit.

00:14:58.000 And you knew it and it was obvious.

00:15:00.000 Then he took over and for like two months I was getting great growth and engagement.

00:15:03.000 But it does seem like, and again, I don't know if he's maybe not as focused on it.

00:15:07.000 Yeah. But that engagement and the engagement of a lot of other conservative accounts has gone back down to like pre-Elon levels.

00:15:13.000 Yeah, we got to watch. We got to see that.

00:15:14.000 I'll talk to him about that. I mean, it's interesting just because it felt great to have a free speech platform and we have like an actual competitor and I stay on the platform because I want to engage.

00:15:23.000 Well, I see the engagement. I don't want to ever see one of these platforms.

00:15:26.000 Yeah, you want to be on. Well, when I talked to Devin over at The Truth, you can see the engagement is greater than any other platform that you have.

00:15:33.000 Right. It's just people are passionate about it.

00:15:36.000 This is where they want to go. They may have change of policy, but the reality, the employees at Twitter are still going to be 99%.

00:15:42.000 You see it in the donations.

00:15:44.000 And he's seen that. I hope they recognize that because all the guys that were actually excited about what was going on, like, hey, just give me a chance to compete on a level playing field.

00:15:53.000 I'll even take a little disadvantage because by nature of the following, I'm already at a disadvantage.

00:15:58.000 Like, that seems to have gone back down to almost worse.

00:16:01.000 There's guys, Andy.

00:16:02.000 Yeah. Like, he'll tell you, like, it's worse for him than pre-U.R. days, which is odd.

00:16:07.000 We'll have to see because he wouldn't know.

00:16:09.000 He must not know about that because he's really changed so much and be able to come out and attack.

00:16:13.000 But what we find is what we're doing with this weaponization.

00:16:16.000 This is a committee that people would call the church committee after a former senator.

00:16:19.000 Explain that, right? People don't understand.

00:16:20.000 Like, I heard church committee. I didn't even know what it was.

00:16:22.000 It sounds like religious, right? 0.86

00:16:24.000 But it's actually not all.

00:16:25.000 It's named after a senator back in the 70s.

00:16:28.000 And what happened, we didn't have the Intel Committee back then.

00:16:30.000 And the Intel Committee's responsibility is to oversee all the FBI, the CIA, all these agencies, right?

00:16:38.000 Before, they were just running wild.

00:16:40.000 So they create this church committee.

00:16:42.000 That's fact, by the way. Yeah, and they go back and they look, hey, these guys are doing all this stuff in other countries, everywhere else in here.

00:16:48.000 We've got to rein them in.

00:16:50.000 And part of after they rein them in, they say, we need this committee.

00:16:53.000 Well, now we've watched what happened again.

00:16:55.000 You didn't fully believe that it was all happening.

00:16:57.000 You know, when Devin would come tell me, he'd say, oh yeah, that's right, but maybe you're a little far.

00:17:01.000 No, it's worse than what they told you.

00:17:02.000 I was a victim of it.

00:17:04.000 I don't want to use the word victims.

00:17:05.000 I hate that mentality. But, like, I was a target of it.

00:17:08.000 And I still was like, well, it can't be this bad.

00:17:10.000 And it is. I mean, they literally just arrested the FBI agent that was one of the leads of Russia, Russia, Russia hoax.

00:17:17.000 Being paid by Russian oligarchs.

00:17:19.000 For colluding with Russia. 0.62

00:17:21.000 Yeah. I mean- You can't make this up.

00:17:23.000 It's so typical of the, you know, the Saul Alinsky, you know, rules for radicals.

00:17:26.000 Like, accuse them of doing all the things- What you're doing.

00:17:28.000 And we've seen it time and time again.

00:17:30.000 We saw it with the sanctimony, you know, from Joe Biden with the classified documents.

00:17:34.000 He would never do it, except he's got it all over his house, all over a house that Hunter rents, all over the Penn Center that's funded $54 million by China.

00:17:41.000 You know, that's really concerning here because the other thing that we just created, and this is a thing people have got to understand.

00:17:48.000 In the first week, we had a very big bipartisan vote.

00:17:51.000 We created a select committee on China.

00:17:54.000 146 Democrats voted with us.

00:17:56.000 But when you think about what China's doing, why is China...

00:17:59.000 Paying millions of dollars to the pencil.

00:18:03.000 To Joe Biden's think tank. Okay, but what happens there?

00:18:06.000 Remember what also happened there.

00:18:08.000 When Joe Biden became president, the FBI was looking at China and Chinese in America.

00:18:14.000 The president of Penn goes and tells, hey, you know, that's racist.

00:18:17.000 You shouldn't do it. The FBI stops doing it, right?

00:18:20.000 Who becomes an ambassador?

00:18:22.000 The President of Penn. Where did our Secretary of State actually work?

00:18:26.000 For the Penn, for the Biden Penn Center.

00:18:28.000 How many people from there are actually working in the White House?

00:18:32.000 Why would, I believe, I don't have the exact fact, but that university, and Biden will say, oh, they didn't give it to me.

00:18:39.000 No, they gave it to the university who gave it to him, right?

00:18:42.000 The most money the Chinese have given to any university in the process in this short time.

00:18:46.000 Yeah, I mean, listen, the Chinese- Does that not influence you? 1.00

00:18:49.000 They're not stupid. 0.99

00:18:50.000 Yeah. Like, you know, funding a Joe Biden think tank is sort of like, I mean, you know, seriously? 0.97

00:18:56.000 I imagine there's not a lot of thinking going on in anything involving Joe Biden.

00:18:59.000 How long was he out of office to raise that much money?

00:19:01.000 Well, but now you have documents from the Senate that were classified.

00:19:04.000 That's... Okay, that is very...

00:19:06.000 That is so different than anybody else in elected office with documents because if you're a member of Khan, I'm part of the gang of eight, you never are allowed to take a document out of the SCIP. So if you're not allowed to take the document, the only one who's got old Berger who put it in his pockets and hid and got caught, you know, his pants or his shirt.

00:19:25.000 So how did that come out as a synonym?

00:19:27.000 I had that with my testimony. They're like, well, if you want to review your testimony before we try to go word for word with it and throw you in jail for putting a comma in the wrong spot, I mean, I had to come back to the building.

00:19:36.000 I couldn't get my own testimony without anything else just to even see it so that he could have the documents from the Senate.

00:19:43.000 And how many years ago was that?

00:19:46.000 Yeah, the Penn Center didn't just magically appear the day he left the Vice President.

00:19:49.000 Where were the documents stored in between?

00:19:51.000 But it's not even there. The other question that I think is so interesting, because they say, oh, well, the attorneys found it.

00:19:55.000 Well, who told the attorneys to even go look there?

00:19:58.000 Correct. And why do they have access?

00:20:01.000 How come the HRT? You know, the hostage rescue team doesn't exactly do search warrants, right?

00:20:05.000 It feels a little different for Mar-a-Lando, which is why, again, the church committee or the weapon— I want to call it the weaponization of government because that's what it's been. 0.85

00:20:13.000 But think of all these years, right?

00:20:16.000 President Trump is so different, right?

00:20:18.000 They knew it was there. They were negotiating.

00:20:20.000 Your dad told me, they said, we already had a lock on it.

00:20:23.000 They want another padlock. So he put another padlock on it.

00:20:25.000 They knew where it was.

00:20:26.000 They knew that it was secure.

00:20:28.000 Guarded by Secret Service.

00:20:29.000 Yeah, and then, yeah, he had Secret Service.

00:20:32.000 Yeah, no one could push it, but nobody else is going in and out.

00:20:35.000 And the big one, you know, that you seem to lose is that, you know, the president also has the ability to declassify those documents.

00:20:40.000 He's the only one in the process.

00:20:42.000 Now, they had a little thing.

00:20:45.000 Obama did something for the vice president.

00:20:47.000 But these are from the Senate and the others.

00:20:49.000 But for him to say he had no regrets.

00:20:52.000 Well, because...

00:20:53.000 And this is, I think, something you'll probably even feel more of now as the speaker, right?

00:20:58.000 I mean, it's different.

00:21:00.000 The attacks from the left of those in power versus the cover.

00:21:05.000 You know, I mean, that is something...

00:21:07.000 And I feel like it's... You have to be of strong will to be able to put up with that.

00:21:12.000 People always say, how do you deal with it?

00:21:13.000 I've just gotten you. I got the Trump gene, I guess.

00:21:14.000 I'm lucky that it doesn't bother.

00:21:15.000 Like, when I'm making them mad, like, I'm like, like, I'm happy.

00:21:19.000 Like, not a lot of people have, how do you get through that when it's going to be day in and day out?

00:21:24.000 You know, if you did the exact same thing, just with different, you know, a D and an R reverse.

00:21:28.000 Oh, if you treat it differently. 0.99

00:21:29.000 They'll, they'll try to kill you. 0.98

00:21:31.000 The press conference, I would have walked in, they would have applauded me. 0.98

00:21:34.000 No, I'm actually surprised.

00:21:35.000 You handled it actually so well, and I'm glad because our people are seeing it.

00:21:39.000 And whether it's the committees, going after the 87,000 IRS agents.

00:21:43.000 The very first week. That was first week.

00:21:45.000 I mean, these are big things because, yeah, they're not going...

00:21:47.000 There's like 500 billionaires in America.

00:21:48.000 Yeah. That's not for billionaires.

00:21:49.000 That's to look at your $601 Venmo payment.

00:21:52.000 Exactly. And yet, those are the people that are not looking at what's coming across the border and the billions there.

00:21:58.000 And where does it stop?

00:21:59.000 Yeah, the fentanyl, the border.

00:22:01.000 But you know, in the last month, we set a whole new record.

00:22:04.000 But we also set a record for the people we're catching on the terrorist watch list.

00:22:08.000 You can add up all the people we caught during your father's administration.

00:22:11.000 They beat it in one month.

00:22:12.000 So let's talk about the border, because that's a big one, obviously.

00:22:16.000 And people, it's huge for our side, but it's also, literally, they're not doing anything about it.

00:22:21.000 I mean, it's- No, they're welcoming.

00:22:23.000 You're talking about terrorists. You have a human trafficking crisis.

00:22:26.000 You have a sex trafficking crisis.

00:22:27.000 You have a drug trafficking crisis.

00:22:29.000 The fentanyl crisis has created, you know, every state's a border state.

00:22:33.000 And yet, Secretary Mayorkas, oh, there's no problem.

00:22:37.000 It's just a dereliction of duty, what he's doing in that position.

00:22:43.000 Kamala, the border czar, she'll show up within a thousand miles of the border. 1.00

00:22:45.000 She's ignored it. But my art is to say that it's secure.

00:22:49.000 No one believes that, right?

00:22:50.000 This is what I believe. After watching what they did with your father about impeachment, use it politically, I'll never use it politically.

00:22:57.000 That doesn't mean we won't use it politically.

00:22:59.000 So if I've already asked, the committee's already gone, we're going to investigate why is the border like that, which could lead to impeachment inquiry.

00:23:06.000 But what people have to understand what's happening on this border, it's wide open like it's never been before.

00:23:11.000 They tell you how many gotaways, 250,000, you're talking more than 4 million.

00:23:15.000 Well, those are the only ones that count, right?

00:23:17.000 But fentanyl, 300 people will die today.

00:23:21.000 That's the equivalent of an airliner crashing every day in America, and they're doing nothing about it.

00:23:25.000 And it's coming from China through the border here.

00:23:28.000 And what's happening is, it's killing our very brightest, right?

00:23:31.000 The number one killer of 18 to 45. 0.92

00:23:34.000 Those are your most productive years.

00:23:35.000 Those are the years when they serve in the military.

00:23:37.000 Those are the years where they have the biggest future.

00:23:39.000 To me, it actually feels, it's not like these are just drug dealers.

00:23:42.000 It actually feels to me like this is a PSYOP type, this is how to- They're doing it on purpose.

00:23:46.000 Yes. I look at the Democrat policy, I look at the action on the border, and I literally say that it's as though the Chinese are in charge because I couldn't think of another way to more effectively destroy our republic than implementing Democrat policies. 1.00

00:24:00.000 And it's destroying the generation that is the greatest strength in Europe. 1.00

00:24:04.000 Yeah. The other thing that people don't quite realize is happening, Every city is a border city now. 0.99

00:24:11.000 I'm from California.

00:24:13.000 I'm up north in Bakersfield.

00:24:14.000 I go to the Central Valley. Just last week, we had a cartel come up and murder a family.

00:24:20.000 In California? In California.

00:24:22.000 You know what they shot? They shot a baby in the face.

00:24:26.000 Cartel style. That doesn't make the news.

00:24:28.000 You know, I mean, you see that you saw a couple of shootings in California this week.

00:24:32.000 Yeah. And like the second it wasn't, you know, a conservative white male with an AR-15, it's like it's as though it didn't really happen.

00:24:38.000 I mean, it may have happened, but like it's not really worth reporting on.

00:24:41.000 I mean, that the cartels could be infiltrating the U.S., that we're helpless to do it.

00:24:46.000 They shoot a baby in the face, and I don't even hear about it.

00:24:49.000 I do this a lot, right?

00:24:51.000 Imagine the average person who's consuming a couple minutes of news a day.

00:24:54.000 They have no idea, and it's even a problem.

00:24:56.000 We don't have operational control of our own border.

00:24:58.000 The cartels do. The cartels are now making more money.

00:25:01.000 It's not just on drugs. It's moving the people.

00:25:03.000 And do you think those people are all being treated well?

00:25:05.000 I mean, 52 are dying in a...

00:25:07.000 In a container. And do they say anything about that?

00:25:10.000 You've got women being raped as they're coming through. 0.99

00:25:12.000 You've got these young children. 0.63

00:25:14.000 I mean, this is an atrocity, but the policies of this administration are incentivizing this to continue on.

00:25:21.000 This is what we're going to do different.

00:25:23.000 We just populated our committees.

00:25:25.000 Mark Green is now Homeland Chair, and he's going to announce in the next couple of weeks we're actually going to move our hearings from Washington to the border.

00:25:34.000 And so the Democrats can no longer ignore it, right?

00:25:37.000 And if you go down to these communities, they'll sit there and they'll tell you that our schools have been closed for 40 days.

00:25:44.000 Why? Because there's a shootout by the cartels running through, right?

00:25:48.000 These cities, if you sat back, they would have all Democrats elected.

00:25:51.000 They're all switching parties because of what has happened and the atrocities that they're seeing, and no one's standing up for them.

00:25:57.000 But if you're a D.C. sitting behind a desk in here, there's no consequence.

00:26:00.000 Yes! And when the president went the first time in his more 40 years of being elected, they cleaned it all up so he didn't even see what was happening.

00:26:08.000 Well, that was the, I mean, that was like the most DC thing ever.

00:26:12.000 You know what I mean? It's the before and after.

00:26:14.000 It's like, hey, there's no problem if we don't see it.

00:26:16.000 The press will only show up then.

00:26:18.000 They won't cover it otherwise.

00:26:20.000 So, you know, as you form the committees and I'm looking at the names, I saw a couple that were released yesterday.

00:26:25.000 I'm like, good. Yeah.

00:26:26.000 It's not like, and we have plenty of guys.

00:26:28.000 And I get it. I actually asked, you know, Matt Gates about this years ago.

00:26:32.000 Yeah. Why don't some of these other guys fight more?

00:26:36.000 And his answer to me was actually very simple, which is like, you know, hey, for a lot of these guys, this is the big leagues.

00:26:43.000 You know, they were guys that, you know, they were city council members getting unpaid for years.

00:26:48.000 They fell into his seat because they had a similar name to the guy that served in Congress 30 years.

00:26:52.000 And like, they just want to stay there.

00:26:54.000 Like, when I see the guys that you put in these committees, it's like, yes, like, we're actually going to get something done.

00:26:59.000 There is really, when we look across, guys and women.

00:27:04.000 Because I'll tell you, we just put on...

00:27:06.000 The Democrats removed Marjorie Greene.

00:27:08.000 She was the only person that has never had a committee.

00:27:11.000 So she's going to be on oversight. 0.81

00:27:13.000 Jamie Comer's there. Got a lot of information.

00:27:15.000 She's going to be on the select committee on COVID. I mean, think about this.

00:27:19.000 The atrocity that we went through with COVID, the Democrats are in the majority and they never once had a hearing on where it originated.

00:27:27.000 Wouldn't you want to know? Well, yeah, that was one of the things I got canceled for because I was like the first guy to be like, not maybe the first, but like one of the early guys with a following to be like, hey, like, do you ever think maybe it came from the lab in the town that the virus originated?

00:27:40.000 Like, do you think maybe that's the most plausible answer?

00:27:43.000 And of course it was. But that we could lie and that Fauci could get away.

00:27:47.000 And then his wife's on the other side that's sort of doing the oversight. 1.00

00:27:50.000 I'm like, there was no checks and balances in this thing.

00:27:52.000 Well, think about how they treated your father when he stopped the airlines coming to our country.

00:27:59.000 I mean, what did China do?

00:28:00.000 They first stopped their domestic flights but kept their international flights to try to move it someplace else.

00:28:04.000 And remember what all the Democrats did?

00:28:07.000 They attacked your father for protecting it.

00:28:08.000 It's xenophobia. I was down there because everybody else was giving him advice not to do it.

00:28:15.000 And he was the one person that said, no, I'm going to stand for this country first.

00:28:18.000 And he was right. So the committees are formed.

00:28:22.000 You've got great people off. Yes.

00:28:24.000 But it's still D.C., right?

00:28:26.000 There's nothing bipartisan about it.

00:28:28.000 It's nothing, you know, the agencies have been weaponized, whether that's the FBI. I mean, I think, you know, it's obvious at this point, right?

00:28:35.000 It's clear they've gotten a hold of those institutions.

00:28:38.000 How do we keep the ball moving forward?

00:28:41.000 How do we actually, you know, we got two years and hopefully it's four or six or twelve or infinity based on the insanity of the other side right now, but like How do you prevent them from just running out the clock?

00:28:52.000 We've seen them be so effective.

00:28:54.000 Well, we know they're going to try this.

00:28:55.000 We know where the president's at today.

00:28:57.000 He's in a much weaker spot.

00:28:59.000 We've got a debt ceiling coming and he just doesn't want to negotiate.

00:29:02.000 Even though with $31 trillion is crazy.

00:29:05.000 We have to be tenacious.

00:29:07.000 And this is the one thing I'll say.

00:29:08.000 If you learned anything from me in the speaker fight, I'll never give up.

00:29:12.000 I might not get it the first time, but I'm not going away.

00:29:16.000 I will stay with it. And I tell you, with the Jamie Comer, with the Jim Jordan, we've been doing our research.

00:29:22.000 We've started this ahead of time sending the letters.

00:29:24.000 They're going to try everything they can.

00:29:26.000 And they're not going to hand it to us.

00:29:27.000 So we have to be smart.

00:29:29.000 We have to have our right strategy.

00:29:31.000 And the one thing we need the American public is to stay with us.

00:29:34.000 And I think they do. I said this the other night and some people give you, I actually think for the first time in my, we're actually sort of winning on the issues.

00:29:41.000 When you see the hills to die on for the, you know, the open border policies, the, you know, allowing three-year-olds to change their gender, men competing against women in sports. 0.54

00:29:50.000 You know, that's their platform right now.

00:29:52.000 Now, you know, again, there are moderate Democrats in America.

00:29:55.000 I don't know that there are any in D.C. And it's gone so insane, I actually think we're winning on those issues.

00:30:01.000 Now, where I think we struggle is in elections because we also haven't played the game that they do.

00:30:05.000 I mean, we... It's less these days, unfortunately, about the candidate or the issues than it is about how you're gaming the election system within each state, how they're doing ballot harvesting.

00:30:16.000 How do we fight that battle also?

00:30:18.000 Because there's nothing worse than being like, I know we're winning on the issues because if I say something on Twitter, they're like, I can't believe it. 0.97

00:30:25.000 I hate Don Jr. with a freaking passion. 0.79

00:30:27.000 But he's actually right about this. 0.97

00:30:30.000 How do we reconcile that?

00:30:32.000 Well, you don't just need integrity in the Intel Committee.

00:30:35.000 You need it in election integrity, too.

00:30:37.000 Now, we've been successful in a number of states that have passed election laws.

00:30:42.000 But think about this. We've won the last two cycles in California, and California has the worst.

00:30:46.000 I mean, you can harvest ballots.

00:30:48.000 They send everybody a ballot.

00:30:50.000 You know, there's a report that just came back.

00:30:51.000 I've got to look into it, that there's 10 million ballots still missing from the last one.

00:30:55.000 Minor details. Yeah. How do you do this?

00:30:57.000 What you have to do, especially in those states too, if those are the rules, you've got to play by them.

00:31:02.000 I agree with that. You know what I mean?

00:31:04.000 But you get better candidates. I feel like we're not playing by any...

00:31:06.000 We're playing t-ball while they're playing hardball.

00:31:09.000 And even if we're winning on the issues, we're not getting the guys out.

00:31:12.000 I will tell you, we've gotten much better.

00:31:14.000 Look what we did in New York, right?

00:31:15.000 I give a lot of credit to Lee Zeldin.

00:31:17.000 He ran a great campaign. And it was about crime.

00:31:19.000 The Democrats... They want to defund the police.

00:31:22.000 This is what has happened to them.

00:31:24.000 But we beat the DCCC chair, the head of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.

00:31:29.000 That hasn't happened in 46 years.

00:31:31.000 Mike Lawler is an amazing candidate, right?

00:31:33.000 And we have more than five members that are sitting in seats that won by more than 10 points.

00:31:39.000 We won in Oregon. You look at Juan Siskimani.

00:31:42.000 So what you have to do in those places, you're going to have to overperform, but you've got to reach the people, and then you've got to have individuals making sure they're paying attention to the ballots.

00:31:50.000 Well, so in the congressional seats, I can see how that can work.

00:31:54.000 There's just more to work. It's the smaller, yeah.

00:31:55.000 When you're talking about either statewide or national races, that's when you lose your rent.

00:31:59.000 Someone can go to a door and knock on the door of someone who couldn't tell you who's even running.

00:32:03.000 It's like, don't worry, we'll call your ballot.

00:32:05.000 It'll be great. Well, that's why with technology today, if someone does an absentee ballot like we haven't, I collect them and then I follow them online for people, right?

00:32:13.000 You can follow your own ballot and make sure where it's at, has it been checked, where it's going, and I got a lot of people doing that.

00:32:18.000 But we have a lot of good states who have changed from this.

00:32:20.000 I mean, first thing that we should have here in Congress to be able to pass, we should have voter ID. If you've got to have an ID to get on an airplane, why wouldn't you want to trust the greatest institution of voting for our republic than anything else?

00:32:35.000 Look, if I had an election and I lost, I want to understand that I trust.

00:32:39.000 Okay, I lost fair and square. The socialists in Europe are, like, way ahead of this, and even they're like, yeah, it seems sort of obvious, and we're, like...

00:32:45.000 They do it everywhere. Yeah.

00:32:47.000 You've got to look at the voter rolls, too.

00:32:49.000 Like, in L.A., there was a study that there was more than a million people...

00:32:53.000 On the voters' rolls, more than actually old enough to register to vote there.

00:32:57.000 And they never change them, right?

00:32:59.000 So if you have a voter roll, and then like Gavin Newsom, he just sends everybody a ballot whether they request it or not.

00:33:04.000 So I have people texting me, look, I live in this house, but I got four different families because they lived here before.

00:33:10.000 Here's their ballots just sitting here.

00:33:12.000 Oh, I think it's 15, 16 ballots to their home.

00:33:14.000 Yeah, you can fill them in.

00:33:15.000 Hopefully they throw them out. Yeah.

00:33:18.000 We should clean those up.

00:33:19.000 You should have to show an ID. I just think for that, and I do believe the same day voter registration gives you a problem because a person go here and here and here.

00:33:28.000 So why don't you just have to cut off 30 days before?

00:33:31.000 That's plenty enough time if you care about voting to be able to make that happen.

00:33:35.000 And then what the Democrats are really doing, I think about this ranked system.

00:33:40.000 That I'm not voting for one person.

00:33:42.000 I'm one, two, three, four.

00:33:43.000 So someone can get the most votes and not win.

00:33:45.000 Yeah, sort of like Alaska, right?

00:33:47.000 They feel like they can pick and choose the way to do elections so they get the end result that they want.

00:33:52.000 So if you come in third, you win.

00:33:54.000 What? I got a lot of second votes.

00:33:57.000 I got a lot of third votes. What does that mean?

00:33:59.000 Okay, so speaking of votes, how have things gone with, you know, the 20 sort of holdouts?

00:34:05.000 You know, I actually think, people will be shocked by this, but it's gone very well.

00:34:09.000 And really, with the Democrats, they'd never show that, but that's really democracy at its work.

00:34:15.000 Well, I loved it in the sense that I knew I had more faith in what you were going to do than a lot of people.

00:34:21.000 But again, I knew that you were working with my team, not just weeks before, but months before, to be like, hey, we're going to do these things and do it.

00:34:27.000 I mean, you're the first speaker, I think in my lifetime, that wasn't just immediately pro-amnesty, which is sort of shocking for a conservative, right?

00:34:34.000 And that was the case.

00:34:38.000 You're winning those guys over, but what's the relationship with those guys now?

00:34:42.000 And again, people don't understand, again, the difference between sort of the social media fundraising, like, I'm going to do something for the camera.

00:34:48.000 There's some out there wanting to do it for the camera, but there's others.

00:34:52.000 I'll tell you, like Chip Roy, he was there for policy questions.

00:34:55.000 And like any relationship, if you have conflict and you work through it, you only have a stronger bond.

00:35:01.000 You know, the Bible tells us, you know, Iron sharpens iron, right?

00:35:06.000 And it's better that we have that discussion now than later in this year.

00:35:12.000 Now we're going to be more productive.

00:35:13.000 Now we're more one unit.

00:35:14.000 Now we're more united. Now we're more focused.

00:35:17.000 The Democrats, they don't know what's coming at them.

00:35:19.000 Yeah, and I think that's what they always did well, which is if they got 51% on an issue, they're all in, and they do it, and they take the next win, and they take the next win.

00:35:25.000 We could be 99% and blow it.

00:35:27.000 Democrats just follow. They just follow.

00:35:29.000 Nancy Pelosi says one thing.

00:35:30.000 But this is what is going to happen here.

00:35:32.000 It's great that you're here in the Capitol, the People's House, because once you know what's different, people can now actually come in here.

00:35:39.000 People don't realize the public wasn't invited here.

00:35:41.000 You open back up. One of the first orders of business was removing the magnetometers.

00:35:46.000 Not at the main entrance, but to get on the floor.

00:35:50.000 Yeah, for members of Congress.

00:35:51.000 What does it say about the Democrats that they don't trust the Republican counterparts to not shoot up the floors of Congress?

00:35:59.000 I don't even understand that mentality, but how do you As a republic, how do you deal with people that think of you that way?

00:36:05.000 How are you going to work together?

00:36:06.000 You'll commit harm on them.

00:36:08.000 I understand words are violence.

00:36:11.000 That was their mindset.

00:36:14.000 The other thing that's going to happen this week, for the first time in seven years, a bill's going to come to the floor with an open rule.

00:36:21.000 And so what does that mean? It means any member can offer an amendment.

00:36:25.000 You think, Mr.

00:36:26.000 Smith goes to Washington, that always happens.

00:36:28.000 No. For seven years, it's never happened here.

00:36:31.000 This is the change that we've been able to make as we went through all this.

00:36:35.000 So it doesn't matter where your member of Congress is from, maybe they're just on one committee, your voice is going to be heard.

00:36:42.000 Maybe the bill didn't go through your committee, but now they're going to have an opportunity to put an amendment to it, to have your voice Have a say.

00:36:49.000 Watching even during the fight, and again, I knew more, so some of it was like, okay, the theatrics, it's getting a little bit old, but watching, it's a disaster that there's actually debate on the floors of Congress.

00:36:58.000 I'm like, I don't know, is that...

00:37:00.000 It's healthy. Because the media and the left, and honestly, even some of the weak...

00:37:04.000 They just want to rubber stamp the DNC talking points.

00:37:08.000 That becomes law.

00:37:09.000 There is no debate. The people aren't actually represented.

00:37:12.000 And that's what's sort of unique and what I like.

00:37:15.000 Again, it's been three weeks, but everyone campaigns with...

00:37:18.000 You know, the same old talking points.

00:37:20.000 This is what you're going to get. No one actually acts on it.

00:37:22.000 Trump was unique in that. You're doing the same.

00:37:26.000 Most people would have probably never paid attention to the vote.

00:37:28.000 And once it started going one, two, three, we were getting viewership C-span we never had before, right?

00:37:35.000 No one has had to go through this for like 150 years, but we have a small margin.

00:37:41.000 No one's ever won the speakership in the last 70 years with such a small margin too.

00:37:45.000 So that job's an important job, so it shouldn't be easy to win either.

00:37:50.000 So, you went through a similar sort of situation in like, I guess it was 15.

00:37:54.000 Yeah. Right? Now, I wish you wouldn't have dropped out then because they gave us Paul Ryan, which was probably...

00:37:58.000 No, no, I wasn't.

00:38:00.000 Hey, like, this is why we didn't get the wall in the first two years of Trump and stuff like that.

00:38:04.000 I mean, the guys that were too afraid to actually buck that system, we end up with that because of it.

00:38:10.000 But like, talk about that.

00:38:11.000 You know, the mentality of that, you know, I guess you dropped out after a couple rounds.

00:38:15.000 Well, what happened in 15...

00:38:17.000 It's a different situation, but what was the difference between 15 and now?

00:38:19.000 What did you learn from 15 that you applied?

00:38:21.000 Well, having 15 made me stronger this time.

00:38:24.000 Because in 15, I was just the majority leader, and then the Pope comes and Boehner announces he's going to leave right in the middle, right?

00:38:32.000 And so it became chaotic.

00:38:34.000 We were going through, and people said they need something else.

00:38:36.000 And I just thought, okay, well...

00:38:38.000 The conference is at a different place, right?

00:38:40.000 I said something wrong in an interview like that.

00:38:43.000 It's never happened before. But that is the wrong time, wrong place.

00:38:46.000 So I thought, all right, this is giving conference a problem.

00:38:49.000 I'll step back for the good of the conference.

00:38:53.000 And then I become leader.

00:38:55.000 You know, for two election cycles, all we've done is win, right?

00:38:59.000 I had everybody two years prior vote for me.

00:39:02.000 We put out the commitment to America.

00:39:03.000 So in my view was, listen, We were in the majority and someone was just going to hand it to me.

00:39:09.000 I was in the minority and we just won the majority.

00:39:12.000 So I knew what we needed to do.

00:39:15.000 I had built the team so I thought I'm best prepared to be able to serve.

00:39:19.000 And you all know it. And then you have the vote right after the election.

00:39:22.000 I won 91% of the conference.

00:39:24.000 So I just think from that standpoint too, just like when your father ran and won the primary, it was never Trumpers decided not.

00:39:32.000 No. He's our nominee.

00:39:33.000 You get in line. So from that same standpoint, it only made me stronger.

00:39:37.000 And if you're going to make me battle for it, I'm going to battle for it.

00:39:40.000 Because my father always told me, it's not how you start, it's how you finish.

00:39:43.000 And that's the part where Yeah, I like what I'm hearing from people out there that doubted me.

00:39:49.000 I mean, I see on Twitter... Oh man, after watching that thing last night, I was going to pay you for a Viking helmet.

00:39:53.000 We can get you...

00:39:55.000 Maybe you wear it to the State of the Union.

00:39:56.000 That's got to be coming up pretty soon.

00:39:58.000 If Nancy Pelosi can rip up the State of the Union, you should be able to wear a Viking helmet again. 1.00

00:40:02.000 But the one thing I would say there is...

00:40:06.000 I am prepared better because you've gone through the fire.

00:40:09.000 And I know what the Democrats will do to me.

00:40:11.000 I know what they'll say about me. I don't care anymore.

00:40:13.000 It's kind of like Winston Churchill. I don't care what history is going to write because it's my intention to write it.

00:40:18.000 I think that's the biggest thing you know I learned in a lot of this when people like how do you once you stop caring what they think you can't learn it unless you go through it yeah and you have to do it and again not everyone has it's not easy right not everyone has that capability to just stop caring you read about it every day I mean I have people that are close to me like every day oh my god are you okay I'm like I don't even know what you're talking about yeah I don't even you don't read them they're like oh there's an investigation I'm like oh that's just Tuesday Like, it didn't change anything in my day at this point.

00:40:48.000 But, you know, again, I guess that also probably takes a...

00:40:51.000 But you also know who you are, and you know your own truth.

00:40:56.000 So when they make these lies up about you, you just laugh.

00:40:58.000 In my view, I look like this.

00:41:00.000 Those people who know me know what the truth is.

00:41:02.000 Those people who want to believe something just on there, I've just watched what this media has done.

00:41:07.000 Forget it. I'm going to fight for the American public.

00:41:09.000 I'm going to sit and do what I believe is right, and at the end of the day, somebody else can judge me then.

00:41:14.000 Yeah, and I think when you do that, they'll actually fight for you.

00:41:17.000 Yes. And I'm seeing that in this last, you know, even the sort of the shift in sort of the mentality.

00:41:21.000 Again, I'm more close to the MAGA base, but, you know, you wouldn't know this based on DC newspapers, but that's still probably like 90% of Republicans at this point, right?

00:41:30.000 So, you know, they're seeing that and like, oh, wow, you know, this is Kevin 2.0. 0.94

00:41:34.000 Like, holy crap, I didn't expect it.

00:41:35.000 But, you know, again, I think if you do it right, you can actually be rewarded by those people. 0.97

00:41:41.000 And yet, if you look at the DC press, it's as though...

00:41:45.000 So, you know, separating those two things, the real versus the fake.

00:41:48.000 You cannot sit back and read the New York Times, the Washington Post, everything else.

00:41:52.000 I mean, they're never going to give you a break.

00:41:55.000 I don't care what they say about me.

00:41:57.000 Who I read is go out to the American public each and every day.

00:42:00.000 You listen to them.

00:42:02.000 So what made you get into this in the first place?

00:42:04.000 This is a cool story because you won the lottery.

00:42:08.000 Look, I'm from Bakersfield, California.

00:42:11.000 I'm Irish and Italian. My father was a firefighter.

00:42:14.000 He moved furniture in days off.

00:42:16.000 We didn't have wealth, right?

00:42:18.000 And so when I got out of high school, Mine's a similar story, Ken.

00:42:22.000 My family didn't have wealth.

00:42:25.000 I didn't have the academics.

00:42:26.000 I didn't have the athletics to get a scholarship.

00:42:28.000 I went to junior college, which was a great school.

00:42:31.000 But while I'm going there, I meet this guy.

00:42:34.000 That owns a liquor store but has a car dealer's license.

00:42:36.000 I'll let you figure out how I met him.

00:42:38.000 But one day I say, I'll give you a hundred bucks if you take me to L.A. Because L.A. has these car auctions.

00:42:42.000 You've got to be a dealer to get in there. And Bakersfield is two hours away.

00:42:45.000 So I start going down there and I start flipping cars to pay my way through college.

00:42:49.000 I find out later it's illegal, but I don't know why I'm doing it.

00:42:52.000 I've been an entrepreneur, right? By the way, just so you understand, we may have to cut this out.

00:42:57.000 Nancy Pelosi is going to try to figure out how to infuse you for doing something. 1.00

00:43:00.000 Exactly. So when you go to community college, what you do on the weekends, you go visit your buddies away at school.

00:43:06.000 My best friend was a running back for Stanford.

00:43:08.000 I grew up to Stanford. I had some buddies at USC. I had some buddies at San Diego State.

00:43:11.000 So this weekend, I was going to go to San Diego State.

00:43:13.000 So I go pick up my friend.

00:43:14.000 We go to the grocery store to cash a check so I have some money.

00:43:17.000 The day before the lottery starts in California, so as I'm cashing the check, my first time, I buy a lottery ticket.

00:43:23.000 And I won the lottery.

00:43:24.000 Now, it's before there were millions.

00:43:26.000 The most you could win was $5,000.

00:43:28.000 I think it's like, is it 1985?

00:43:31.000 I'm 20 years old. It's Friday night.

00:43:33.000 I just won $5,000.

00:43:35.000 And I end up 10 minutes from Tijuana for the weekend, right?

00:43:39.000 So I come back. I take my folks to dinner.

00:43:43.000 I get my brother and sister each on the box.

00:43:44.000 I take the majority of the rest of the money. I put it in one stock.

00:43:46.000 Because one thing you'll learn, I'm a risk taker.

00:43:48.000 I make 30% of my money in six weeks.

00:43:50.000 So the end of the semester comes.

00:43:53.000 I take my money on the market, I refinance some of my cars, and I go and I try to buy a franchise, but no one will sell me one because I'm 20 years old.

00:43:59.000 So just like in the speaker's race, I never give up.

00:44:01.000 So I go and I open a deli.

00:44:03.000 My cousin had a yogurt shop.

00:44:05.000 He'd ridden this place before, so I sublet this place.

00:44:07.000 And there's three lessons I learned in my business.

00:44:09.000 I was the first to work, last to leave, last to be paid.

00:44:11.000 But you know what? I had it for almost two years.

00:44:14.000 Pretty successful. I now have enough money that I can pay my whole way through college as long as I go to Cal State.

00:44:20.000 And nobody in my family had finished a four-year degree yet.

00:44:22.000 So I sell my business. I'm going to college.

00:44:24.000 I open up the local newspaper.

00:44:25.000 And the local congressman says, become an intern in Washington, DC. Well, he'd be lucky to have me.

00:44:31.000 So I apply, and you know what he does?

00:44:33.000 He turns me down. So you know what the end of the story is?

00:44:35.000 I'm now elected to the seat I couldn't get an internship for, and now I'm the 55th Speaker of the House.

00:44:42.000 Only in America can that happen.

00:44:43.000 That's amazing. You don't give up.

00:44:45.000 And you know what? What taught me each time, if there was an obstacle, Don't quit because it's an obstacle.

00:44:53.000 Find a way around it.

00:44:54.000 That's what this country embeds in you and rewards you for doing.

00:44:58.000 Yeah, and I feel like that's also something that's missing in so much of Congress, where people are just, they've just been, they've never actually had that hustle.

00:45:06.000 Now, again, I understand where I come from in my background.

00:45:08.000 I get it. But, like, my father made sure I worked minimum wage jobs.

00:45:11.000 Oh, yeah. And I could drive a D10 Caterpillar.

00:45:14.000 And, like, you know, I also worked for tips, which is something I think that's really important that everyone should understand.

00:45:18.000 It is. That aspect of things.

00:45:20.000 But in D.C., I feel like so much of that is lacking.

00:45:23.000 No one's ever had to make payroll.

00:45:25.000 No one's signed the front of a check as opposed to the back.

00:45:28.000 So it's sort of unique.

00:45:29.000 And again, you always come to expect that to not exist in these offices.

00:45:34.000 Yeah. I know, but if you spend a little time with our conference, you will find there's many stories just like that.

00:45:40.000 I mean, there's stories of Juan Siskamani, who immigrates when he's 11 years old.

00:45:45.000 He wins his primary.

00:45:47.000 He calls me almost in tears because he's two blocks away from the house.

00:45:51.000 He mowed the lawn and washed the car with his father to earn extra money.

00:45:54.000 His father drove the bus, and now he's a U.S. comment.

00:45:57.000 Morgan the Trail. A Navy SEAL for 14 years, right?

00:46:01.000 Risking his life all the time.

00:46:02.000 Or Mike Garcia, right?

00:46:04.000 Who F-18s, who runs in a seat in LA that Biden carries by 15 points.

00:46:11.000 I mean, people thought no Republican could win, but no, he wins it time and again.

00:46:15.000 Because it's just... Lori Chavez-Dorema in Oregon, right?

00:46:19.000 I mean, there's so many. Jen Kiggins in Virginia, who was a helicopter pilot.

00:46:23.000 Her husband was an F-18 pilot, started having children.

00:46:26.000 She becomes a nurse practitioner.

00:46:28.000 None of them had it easy, but that's why they're successful here.

00:46:32.000 I guess we've got to highlight those stories more because it feels like every story on the other side, if it's even remotely unique, and frankly, most of them aren't.

00:46:40.000 I watch some of them now and they had a trust fund and they had another job, but they got appointed somewhere.

00:46:45.000 But, you know, look, Jim Jordan, Yeah, it's amazing.

00:46:48.000 This guy, what was it, 142-1 or something in his wrestling?

00:46:52.000 But he takes that same mentality now.

00:46:55.000 So when people say, oh, is he going to get everything?

00:46:58.000 Just wait. It may take him a while, but he'll find it.

00:47:01.000 I had a buddy that wrestled at Ohio State, and I was like, well, how good was he?

00:47:05.000 He was like, He's all American.

00:47:09.000 Oh, unbelievable. 1.00

00:47:17.000 It's literally like the dumbest. 1.00

00:47:19.000 There's nothing to it. But it didn't stop him from trying to run with it, which is... 0.99

00:47:22.000 Well, you watch. Now, we have a lot of new Republicans you're going to find that are committee chairs.

00:47:27.000 The Democrats are already bragging that they've raised millions of dollars to go after us and vilify us, right?

00:47:33.000 Because they want to demonize us.

00:47:35.000 Because why? They want to protect that Washington is not held accountable.

00:47:40.000 That's their whole reason.

00:47:41.000 Why are they afraid? What do they have to hide?

00:47:43.000 Let's talk about, I mean, the Pentagon loses, what was it, $220 billion?

00:47:47.000 Yeah. You know, and now we're getting into a budget time and we're talking about some of those things.

00:47:51.000 So I saw, you know, I think my father's right on this one.

00:47:53.000 I'd love to hear your thoughts on it. But sort of the Republicans now, we must get rid of Medicare and Social Security.

00:47:59.000 I'm like, wait a minute. So the one entitlement that people actually pay into for their entire lives.

00:48:03.000 A, you crush your own people.

00:48:04.000 I'm like, you know, the Democrats are really good at crushing our people to give free stuff to their people.

00:48:09.000 We're crushing our own people who...

00:48:11.000 Actually funded these things for their entire lives.

00:48:13.000 Don't get me wrong. We won't touch Medicare or Social Security.

00:48:17.000 No, listen. They just crafted an omnibus that I opposed.

00:48:23.000 Two senators wrote who are no longer in office.

00:48:26.000 They jammed us at Christmas for $1.7 trillion and told us we had to vote for it.

00:48:31.000 The whole time Schumer's been leader has never written a budget.

00:48:35.000 And now the president sits back and says, well, you need to just lift the debt limit and just do it with nothing.

00:48:40.000 Well, no. If you have a child and they're charging up the credit card, you don't just keep raising the limit.

00:48:46.000 You look at where you're spending.

00:48:48.000 Every household has to do this.

00:48:50.000 So I'm simply saying, look, let's be responsible.

00:48:52.000 Let's be reasonable. Let's be sensible.

00:48:54.000 But let's sit down.

00:48:56.000 And you're going to tell me out of these trillions of dollars, because this is what has happened.

00:48:59.000 When the Democrats took over, just those four years, their discretionary spending has gone up 30%.

00:49:04.000 $400 billion.

00:49:06.000 You're going to tell me there's no waste out there?

00:49:08.000 There's no efficiencies? They just print a trillion dollars.

00:49:11.000 I mean, do they have any concept of what that does?

00:49:13.000 Well, that's... That's how we got inflation.

00:49:16.000 Again, if I'm the guy that's a little upset when I'm filling up my tank or when I go to buy eggs, if it bothers me, it probably doesn't change much my day to day.

00:49:24.000 Imagine what it's doing to a real family and they don't understand that concept or don't even think about it, which is scary.

00:49:30.000 With the price of gas, who's it hurting?

00:49:32.000 The working class. It has to drive to get to their jobs. 1.00

00:49:34.000 The eggs. Eggs are unbelievable, the price today.

00:49:38.000 But it doesn't stop us from sending billions of dollars to countries that hate our guts.

00:49:43.000 They're sending millions to Tunisia for their ability for more tourism.

00:49:48.000 Really? We're borrowing this money from China to send it someplace else?

00:49:54.000 Well, that's the other... I mean, we actually give aid to China who we borrow from and owns and steals from us and costs us probably trillions in IP that they're stealing. 0.80

00:50:02.000 But see, this is what I loved when your father came into power.

00:50:05.000 They had never had somebody in the office of the president that had a business mind.

00:50:10.000 I remember they're sitting there and, you know, Korea saying, oh, we need these new missiles or Saudi Arabia to defend.

00:50:16.000 He goes, okay, but you've got to pay for them.

00:50:19.000 What? We gotta pay for it?

00:50:21.000 We thought the American taxpayer.

00:50:22.000 No, no, no, no. I remember having some of these conversations with him, and he's like, well, have we ever asked for them to pay?

00:50:28.000 No one ever thought. And they're like, no, we never thought to do it, so ask.

00:50:30.000 And they're like, okay, we'll pay for it.

00:50:31.000 And I'm like, wait a minute, that just happened?

00:50:34.000 They didn't even think about it?

00:50:36.000 I remember we were up at Camp David.

00:50:38.000 We're having a meeting in the Situation Room.

00:50:40.000 Your father gets up to use the restroom.

00:50:42.000 And so one of the generals there, we're having a discussion, and he goes, he's not in the room, so I have to ask.

00:50:48.000 Why do we do it this way?

00:50:50.000 You know, no one had ever done that.

00:50:52.000 And the uniqueness, too, is I read this article, like, Boeing's really upset because they're losing all this money on the new Air Force One.

00:50:58.000 Why? Because they negotiated with President Trump.

00:51:01.000 You know who wins?

00:51:02.000 The American taxpayer.

00:51:04.000 Well, that's why I literally, I think I read something this morning just, you know, scrolling through, you know, truth or something.

00:51:09.000 Putin is now negotiating with the Taliban.

00:51:15.000 To buy the equipment that we just left.

00:51:18.000 The Taliban. Now, again, people argue about what the number was.

00:51:20.000 I've read up to 86 billion.

00:51:22.000 86 billion is not an insignificant number.

00:51:25.000 And we're like... I did the math.

00:51:27.000 It was like $275 per man, woman, and child in America.

00:51:32.000 Like, do we just give it to them? Now they're selling it to Putin, who's going to use it against Ukraine, who, you know, we're also funding a lot of it.

00:51:39.000 I'd love to sort of see when, you know, we're at like $130 in that one.

00:51:42.000 And I understand some of the nuance of it, but like...

00:51:45.000 Is that always just a blank check, especially when we're leaving 86 billion to the Russians? 0.54

00:51:49.000 No blank check. Where's our strategy?

00:51:50.000 Why would you fund something without having a strategy of how you're going to win?

00:51:54.000 That's how you lose wars.

00:51:55.000 But the interesting thing is, what they left behind in Afghanistan was more Black Hawk helicopters than Australia has. 0.59

00:52:01.000 The majority of NATO has.

00:52:03.000 And they just left it. And this is another thing that we're going to investigate.

00:52:07.000 What happened those last two months in Afghanistan?

00:52:09.000 We should learn, because that should never happen again.

00:52:12.000 But the Democrats would never look at it.

00:52:14.000 Why? Because you know who made those decisions?

00:52:16.000 President Biden made those, instead of listening to his generals.

00:52:19.000 Correct. And yet, if Trump oversaw a disaster like that, heads would roll.

00:52:24.000 What was scary about that one, I mean, I've done it sort of a lot in speaking, is just watching the generals.

00:52:30.000 We could not have seen it coming.

00:52:32.000 I'm like, dude, you've been in charge for 20 years.

00:52:33.000 You couldn't see that coming? How is that even possible?

00:52:37.000 But the part that nobody talks about, Putin has been in power for four different presidents.

00:52:43.000 For Bush, for Obama, for Trump, and for Biden.

00:52:48.000 And he's invaded another country in three of those four presidents.

00:52:51.000 The only time he did not invade another country, President Trump was then.

00:52:55.000 Why? Result. Yes!

00:52:58.000 I'd say balls, but... 0.99

00:52:59.000 They didn't want to challenge him. 0.98

00:53:01.000 North Korea stopped testing missiles, but they go right back after that.

00:53:05.000 So what's your favorite Trump story?

00:53:07.000 There's so many. Even I am still surprised at some of them.

00:53:13.000 You know what? The thing that people don't realize about him, and I want to tell you some personal stories.

00:53:18.000 There's great stories.

00:53:19.000 No one has a work ethic like him.

00:53:21.000 I'd be in there late into the night and he just keeps going.

00:53:24.000 And then he works the phone later.

00:53:26.000 The side people don't see about him, the times I would go with him to maybe there was a place that there was a fire or there was a shooting.

00:53:36.000 People don't see how kind he is.

00:53:40.000 I'll give you this example, too.

00:53:41.000 So I went to Mar-a-Lago during COVID and something happened, so nobody could be there.

00:53:45.000 And he's sitting on the couch, coming in.

00:53:46.000 He goes, Kevin, come in here. There's a young kid here.

00:53:49.000 And this is where this story gets to.

00:53:51.000 He's not 18 yet.

00:53:52.000 He has cancer. But they won't let him take the chemo that he needs.

00:53:56.000 He's got to wait these months. Yeah.

00:53:58.000 And your father's signing everything.

00:54:00.000 He's like, you know what? You come back on me and all that.

00:54:04.000 No one even knew.

00:54:06.000 And I had one of the 13 Gold Star families from Afghanistan.

00:54:10.000 They come to see me and they're upset.

00:54:12.000 They're in my office. I call your father.

00:54:14.000 He's no longer president. He's playing golf.

00:54:17.000 He's spending all the time with them, right?

00:54:18.000 And they're saying, you know, the government want to put somewhere where we're paying ourselves and we went to the Trump Hotel.

00:54:22.000 At the end, he goes, Kevin, wait, I want to talk to you.

00:54:24.000 He gets on the phone with me and this is what he says.

00:54:27.000 I'm going to go call the manager.

00:54:28.000 You tell them I'm picking up their tap.

00:54:31.000 He didn't want anybody to know.

00:54:32.000 He didn't put it on truth.

00:54:34.000 He didn't put a tweet. He told me privately, and he pays for it.

00:54:37.000 And that's the thing no one sees about him.

00:54:39.000 And we never would have got Right to Try if it wasn't for the president.

00:54:43.000 He would call me every night.

00:54:45.000 And what Right to Try does, if somebody is seriously sick, and you've got a drug out there that they want to test forever, but they want to try it, let them try it.

00:54:54.000 And what they've done is save lives by it.

00:54:58.000 And it seems so obvious.

00:54:59.000 Yes! It's common sense.

00:55:00.000 To not move that paperwork. Like, you're in your death's bed.

00:55:02.000 Like, give it a shot. Yeah.

00:55:04.000 I mean, it's interesting that you say that story because I hear so many of those from people.

00:55:08.000 And even as I've seen it, whether it's people that have worked with us forever or whatever he's done that's unique.

00:55:13.000 But actually, I thought it was perhaps his greatest maybe political weakness Was that he never wanted to show his empathetic side.

00:55:21.000 He's like, I'm dealing with China. 0.99

00:55:22.000 I'm dealing with Russia. I'm dealing with Iran. 1.00

00:55:25.000 I can't be soft.

00:55:27.000 I'm like, you don't have to be soft with them, but like show that side.

00:55:30.000 But he still had that old school sort of dramatic, like whatever it was.

00:55:34.000 Yeah, I don't know how he grew up.

00:55:36.000 He actually has so much more of that empathy that I think you needed for suburban women.

00:55:42.000 But he was like, nope, we're on a world stage.

00:55:44.000 We are literally, whether we're at war or just...

00:55:47.000 Much closer to it with someone else.

00:55:49.000 I'm never going to show weakness.

00:55:50.000 And I was actually like, man, I wish you would do this.

00:55:52.000 I wish people got to...

00:55:54.000 So we were flying up.

00:55:55.000 We're going to do... He's up for re-election.

00:55:58.000 We're flying up to New Hampshire.

00:56:00.000 He's going to do one of his rallies.

00:56:01.000 As we're going, he gets word that two Americans were killed and their bodies were coming back to Dover.

00:56:08.000 And so we go up to the rally.

00:56:09.000 He walks back to us. He goes, I'm cutting the rally short because I'm going to be there for that family.

00:56:14.000 And so he did the rally.

00:56:16.000 He cut it short. And most of the members stayed.

00:56:18.000 I flew with him. And when you go back to Dover, so I walk in and there are young Marines, very young mother or wife.

00:56:25.000 She she is in a place she doesn't believe her husband's dead.

00:56:28.000 And he he consults her.

00:56:31.000 He goes out to the field.

00:56:33.000 It is raining. You do not have an umbrella.

00:56:36.000 He sits there as a respect for these men who lost their lives.

00:56:40.000 Was he taking his watch? Not once.

00:56:43.000 And you know what though? He's consoling the family.

00:56:46.000 We go through all that.

00:56:47.000 We get back on the plane and he walks in.

00:56:50.000 And this is where he won't ever show.

00:56:52.000 I can see in his eyes and he said, those men should not have to die in vain.

00:56:57.000 Why do we have...

00:56:59.000 I mean, and this is the part that people don't see, and I wish they did.

00:57:03.000 I've literally tried, but again, you're...

00:57:04.000 You know, as a son, you see.

00:57:06.000 But I've watched him, too, the pride he has in his children.

00:57:09.000 And this is what I'll say, too.

00:57:10.000 Look, raising a family is not easy.

00:57:14.000 You know, you're a great father. But they don't see him as a father.

00:57:16.000 They don't see him as a grandfather. I see your kids walk up and...

00:57:19.000 It doesn't matter what they are. But you know what?

00:57:23.000 You think of your life, okay?

00:57:25.000 He was successful. He comes from a successful life.

00:57:29.000 I've watched all you kids as brothers and sisters love one another.

00:57:33.000 You're not into drugs.

00:57:35.000 You don't have problems. You don't have laptops.

00:57:37.000 You don't have these other things. According to the press, I'm really into drugs.

00:57:44.000 I've been around you guys privately.

00:57:47.000 It is a real family that has real love for one another.

00:57:51.000 And really, it stems of what he did as a father.

00:57:56.000 I appreciate that. Yeah, no, I want him to show some of that, but you know, again, you're not gonna...

00:58:01.000 Hey, there were times that probably also didn't want him tweeting, and people were like, have you ever thought about maybe asking him...

00:58:05.000 No, I never thought of that. I never thought of...

00:58:07.000 Everybody would always say that.

00:58:09.000 You're on CNN in 20 minutes.

00:58:11.000 Like, what are the talking points? It's like, I don't know, man.

00:58:13.000 You're on your own. Just go figure it out.

00:58:15.000 I would tell him this. I would say...

00:58:17.000 We'd be talking, oh, that'd be a good tweet.

00:58:18.000 I said, you know, my mom used to tell me in the summer, if you ate, you had to wait 30 minutes before you get in the pool.

00:58:25.000 Why don't we wait 30 minutes on this tweet?

00:58:28.000 Then he'd look at me and go, I wouldn't be sitting in this seat if I took you in the pool. 0.97

00:58:32.000 And there's truth to that. That's the other thing that people have got to understand.

00:58:34.000 You sometimes have to take, you know, that good with it.

00:58:37.000 The success comes from it.

00:58:38.000 He was a disruptor. And if he didn't disrupt, I mean, people will sit back and say, maybe something about his personality, but no one complains about his policies.

00:58:44.000 Yeah. And that's what people are like, America was winning under a lot of those policies.

00:58:50.000 I hope we can get that back. And again, I think, listen, the reality of the situation for you is like, I don't think we're going to be passing a lot of legislation, right?

00:58:56.000 We don't have the Senate, we don't have the White House, but we can get oversight.

00:59:01.000 We can get oversight. But look what we've been able to do by person.

00:59:04.000 We've been able to do the China Select Committee, speak with one voice, make us stronger.

00:59:08.000 But we also did the Strategic Petroleum Reserve that you can't sell it to China.

00:59:12.000 Well, apparently the Republicans are trying to jack up your gas prices because Joe Biden wanted to deplete it with no guarantee that they'll ever fill it up again.

00:59:20.000 How does this work? But you know what?

00:59:21.000 We've got enough Democrats to vote that we could override his veto.

00:59:24.000 He wants to veto this.

00:59:25.000 And that's a big one.

00:59:26.000 If we can do that, I mean, honestly, as sort of diehard as I am on one side, I wouldn't mind seeing some of that.

00:59:32.000 So maybe the last question, because it's about your predecessor, right?

00:59:35.000 Yes. I guess Josh Hawley yesterday introduced the Pelosi Act.

00:59:39.000 About trading in Congress.

00:59:41.000 Now, again, I'm fine with little guys if they have a stock portfolio or an IRA or something like that trading, but, you know, the DOJ is apparently investigating Google for something.

00:59:49.000 And, you know, a couple of weeks ago, Nancy Pelosi sold $3 million worth of Google.

00:59:53.000 Now, you know, a public servant for life that has $3 million just in Google alone What do you think about that?

00:59:58.000 Because I think the American people, and again, I don't think they care if you have an IRA, but it's when it's conveniently, they magically bought the exact company that sells the exact drug or sold right before a disaster.

01:00:09.000 Well, watch what Paul did when you had, he invested calls and puts, right?

01:00:14.000 That's different than buying a stock.

01:00:16.000 You think it's an option.

01:00:17.000 And he did it by a time period and it was all technology stock while they were negotiating whether bills were going to come to the floor.

01:00:24.000 Look, when you're Speaker of the House, you can determine what comes to the floor.

01:00:29.000 And that's where she was.

01:00:30.000 That's what Paul was doing. Other people can't do that.

01:00:33.000 So, look, I don't have a lot of money, but my investments are all in mutual funds, so you can't determine whatever else.

01:00:38.000 I think there is a problem.

01:00:40.000 You've got to build a trust in this institution.

01:00:42.000 And I'm really looking at this.

01:00:43.000 I want to do it on a bipartisan basis, but if anybody's in leadership, they shouldn't be able to be doing options or stocks.

01:00:50.000 You've got to report. Now, I get...

01:00:53.000 You got 435 members, they can't change an outcome, but if you're a chairman of a committee, you might be able to change it.

01:00:58.000 Well, I think you could also still shed light on those who are not willing to be honest about it or be public about it.

01:01:05.000 But you want, just as we want to trust our elections, we want to trust our elected officials too.

01:01:12.000 And you don't want to put ourselves in the place where we can influence anything like that and be purchasing that.

01:01:18.000 You could do that another time and another place.

01:01:20.000 What does success look like at the end of two years going into the next election?

01:01:24.000 We secure our border.

01:01:26.000 We start the movement, become energy independent.

01:01:28.000 We start the trajectory down from our spending to get us on a path to try to balance.

01:01:34.000 We hold government accountable.

01:01:36.000 We pass a parent's bill of rights.

01:01:39.000 And I think those are things that are very doable to make happen.

01:01:42.000 We just need the American public to join with us.

01:01:44.000 You know, I think they are with you.

01:01:46.000 I think, you know, we got to get through the noise and we got to show them what we're up against.

01:01:52.000 And that's not an easy thing, but we're off to a great start, man.

01:01:54.000 And anything I can do to help as well.

01:01:56.000 You've been a big help already.

01:01:57.000 Thank you, my friend. Take care.

01:02:01.000 Okay, guys, I hope you enjoyed that interview.

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01:02:29.000 That's gonna be a great part of this platform.

01:02:31.000 Thanks a lot to Kevin McCarthy, the Speaker of the House.

01:02:34.000 That was absolutely awesome.

01:02:35.000 I thought that was really cool.

01:02:35.000 Hopefully you guys got something out of that and if you have further questions for him,

01:02:39.000 maybe we'll have to have him back on and we can get into even further detail,

01:02:42.000 but I figured, you know, 90 minutes with the third most powerful man in the US government,

01:02:47.000 pretty big deal.

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