On today's episode of the Triggered with Don Jr Podcast, we have with us the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Kevin McCarthy. We talk about all the craziness that went down over the past few weeks in Washington, D.C. and the impact it has had on the country. We also talk about the McCarthy 2.0 strategy and how he's actually delivering on the promises he said he was going to make. We also get into why I think it's so important to be unafraid of those who are trying to take out our beliefs, our values, and everything we stand for as Americans. Don't miss it! Tweet me if you have any thoughts, suggestions, or opinions on any of the topics covered in this episode. I'm always open to suggestions for topics or topics for future guests. Tweet Me! Timestamps: 3:00 - What's going on in Washington DC? 4:30 - How should we react to the McCarthy strategy 5:15 - What do you think of the McCarthy plan 6:40 - What are your thoughts on Schiff, Pelosi, and Schiff? 7:20 - Is it a good or bad idea? 8:10 - Who's the best person to take on the establishment? 9:20 10:00 11:30 What's your opinion on the McCarthy's strategy? 12:15 13:40 15:00 | What should we do next? 16:10 17:30 | Who are you would like to see in 2020? 18:40 | What are you waiting for? 19:15 | What's the most important thing? 21:30 Is it possible for me to do? 22:10 | Which side of the aisle you're going to vote for in 2020 23: What do I think I'm going to support? 25:30 Do you think I m going to do in 2020 ? 26:20 | What would you like to hear from my next episode? 27:00 Do you agree with my thoughts on the other side? 29: What s your favorite part? 31:00 / 32:00 Is there a better option? 35:00 + 32:30 Are you surprised by what I m gonna do in the future? 33:00 What s going to be my favorite part of the interview?
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00:02:27.000Okay, number one, we must be unafraid for those who are trying to take out our beliefs, our values, everything that we stand for as Americans.
00:02:36.000It's going to be awesome. I hope you guys love the interview, and I'll see you live right at the end.
00:02:42.000I'm excited about you finally doing a podcast.
00:02:45.000You know, it's been a long time coming.
00:02:47.000I guess I've been talking smack on every other platform.
00:02:49.000Finally, the guys at Rumble were like, hey, would you do something long for them?
00:02:52.000I'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.
00:02:57.000So now I'm going to judge you on how you do about asking questions instead of answering them.
00:03:01.000Well, I wanted to actually sort of be just a conversation.
00:03:04.000We've known each other for a long time, so I'll put that out there for the guys.
00:03:09.000And I was a supporter of everything that went on over the last few weeks.
00:03:13.000Thank 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.
00:03:20.000I 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.
00:03:29.000That's probably true. Well, hopefully it's the Democrats who are disappointed and the Republicans who are surprised by it.
00:03:34.000We saw Based McCarthy just last night.
00:03:37.000I mean, I thought that question from the reporter about Schiff and Swallow.
00:03:42.000You 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.
00:03:52.000So 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.
00:04:01.000And what's unique is it's different than any other committee.
00:04:06.000And I'm not playing like the Democrats.
00:04:08.000I'm not playing politics. But on the Intel Committee, it's national security.
00:04:12.000This 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.
00:04:19.000And we've watched what Adam Schiff did.
00:04:20.000He lied, right? When Devin Nunes put out his memo about the law, he used his chair and said, no, Devin's wrong.
00:04:26.000The inspector general came out and said, no, you knew you were wrong and you said it.
00:04:29.000You've got John Radcliffe with the DNI, right?
00:04:53.000I 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.
00:06:26.000Of 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?
00:06:33.000And you did a great job of this, which was not like, I'm not letting any Democrats on there.
00:06:37.000No. There's 200 people to choose from.
00:06:40.000Why 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.
00:06:48.000And there's a difference. And I know that because sitting there for nine hours...
00:06:55.000We had no comms with the outside world.
00:06:57.000I 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.
00:07:05.000Like, just, you know, for me, that's like an average Tuesday right now, right?
00:07:08.000I 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.
00:07:15.000during 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.
00:07:26.000But think about what we're missing here.
00:07:28.000The 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.
00:07:35.000So what I'm doing is taking the politics out of it, putting it back to where it's supposed to be.
00:07:40.000I'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.
00:07:49.000Because what they're supposed to be doing is protecting this nation.
00:07:53.000And 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.
00:08:01.000They just can't get the security clearance.
00:08:04.000They don't have the integrity to be on Intel.
00:08:07.000I 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.
00:08:13.000And 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.
00:08:24.000It's so shocking. Speaking of that, let's talk about Jim Jordan.
00:08:29.000Obviously, 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.
00:08:42.000And by the way, I don't think anyone You know, at least in the know, right?
00:08:46.000There'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.
00:08:52.000But 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.
00:09:01.000Talk about the evolution of that relationship.
00:09:03.000You know, it's interesting. Jim and I came into Congress together.
00:09:05.000We were really close. And as we progressed, there was challenges.
00:09:10.000And what's interesting, four years ago, he ran against me for leader.
00:10:01.000I put him in charge of the weaponization select committee.
00:10:04.000We haven't had something like this in 1970.
00:10:06.000Who's best to go look after what the FBI and everybody else has been doing?
00:10:10.000Jim has been doing a lot. But the reason why he's in there nominated, we have worked hand in hand together.
00:10:16.000We know his strength and my strength, and together we create synergy.
00:10:20.000Yeah, and that's the interesting thing, again, the people sort of out of the know.
00:10:22.000They 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.
00:10:31.000You 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.
00:12:50.000Yeah, Devin Nunez was the one guy You know, so Devin and I have been friends long before we ever got elected.
00:13:01.000We 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?
00:13:08.000And 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.
00:13:55.000And the reality is, like, same with Devin.
00:13:57.000I 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?
00:14:10.000I mean, I look today at what happened at Twitter.
00:14:13.000I don't believe Elon thought they were doing that much.
00:14:16.000Now 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.
00:14:23.000Well, but you know what's interesting with Twitter?
00:14:24.000Like, 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.
00:14:30.000But 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.
00:14:36.000But when he even started talking about the takeover, it's like they were burning the documents.
00:14:41.000My engagement went through the roof, the files went through.
00:14:43.000You had no growth, and all of a sudden...
00:14:46.000I 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.
00:14:51.000They'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.
00:14:55.000Like not 3,000, like three single digit.
00:15:00.000Then he took over and for like two months I was getting great growth and engagement.
00:15:03.000But it does seem like, and again, I don't know if he's maybe not as focused on it.
00:15:07.000Yeah. But that engagement and the engagement of a lot of other conservative accounts has gone back down to like pre-Elon levels.
00:15:13.000Yeah, we got to watch. We got to see that.
00:15:14.000I'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.
00:15:23.000Well, I see the engagement. I don't want to ever see one of these platforms.
00:15:26.000Yeah, 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.
00:15:33.000Right. It's just people are passionate about it.
00:15:36.000This 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%.
00:15:44.000And 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.
00:15:53.000I'll even take a little disadvantage because by nature of the following, I'm already at a disadvantage.
00:15:58.000Like, that seems to have gone back down to almost worse.
00:16:42.000That'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.
00:17:23.000It's so typical of the, you know, the Saul Alinsky, you know, rules for radicals.
00:17:26.000Like, accuse them of doing all the things- What you're doing.
00:17:28.000And we've seen it time and time again.
00:17:30.000We saw it with the sanctimony, you know, from Joe Biden with the classified documents.
00:17:34.000He 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.
00:17:41.000You know, that's really concerning here because the other thing that we just created, and this is a thing people have got to understand.
00:17:48.000In the first week, we had a very big bipartisan vote.
00:17:51.000We created a select committee on China.
00:19:06.000That 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.
00:19:25.000So how did that come out as a synonym?
00:19:27.000I 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.
00:19:36.000I couldn't get my own testimony without anything else just to even see it so that he could have the documents from the Senate.
00:20:01.000How come the HRT? You know, the hostage rescue team doesn't exactly do search warrants, right?
00:20:05.000It 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.
00:22:50.000This is what I believe. After watching what they did with your father about impeachment, use it politically, I'll never use it politically.
00:22:57.000That doesn't mean we won't use it politically.
00:22:59.000So 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.
00:23:06.000But what people have to understand what's happening on this border, it's wide open like it's never been before.
00:23:11.000They tell you how many gotaways, 250,000, you're talking more than 4 million.
00:23:15.000Well, those are the only ones that count, right?
00:23:17.000But fentanyl, 300 people will die today.
00:23:21.000That's the equivalent of an airliner crashing every day in America, and they're doing nothing about it.
00:23:25.000And it's coming from China through the border here.
00:23:28.000And what's happening is, it's killing our very brightest, right?
00:23:35.000Those are the years when they serve in the military.
00:23:37.000Those are the years where they have the biggest future.
00:23:39.000To me, it actually feels, it's not like these are just drug dealers.
00:23:42.000It actually feels to me like this is a PSYOP type, this is how to- They're doing it on purpose.
00:23:46.000Yes. 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.
00:24:00.000And it's destroying the generation that is the greatest strength in Europe.
00:24:04.000Yeah. The other thing that people don't quite realize is happening, Every city is a border city now.
00:25:25.000Mark 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.
00:25:34.000And so the Democrats can no longer ignore it, right?
00:25:37.000And 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.
00:25:44.000Why? Because there's a shootout by the cartels running through, right?
00:25:48.000These cities, if you sat back, they would have all Democrats elected.
00:25:51.000They're all switching parties because of what has happened and the atrocities that they're seeing, and no one's standing up for them.
00:25:57.000But if you're a D.C. sitting behind a desk in here, there's no consequence.
00:26:00.000Yes! 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.
00:26:08.000Well, that was the, I mean, that was like the most DC thing ever.
00:26:12.000You know what I mean? It's the before and after.
00:26:14.000It's like, hey, there's no problem if we don't see it.
00:27:13.000Jamie Comer's there. Got a lot of information.
00:27:15.000She's going to be on the select committee on COVID. I mean, think about this.
00:27:19.000The atrocity that we went through with COVID, the Democrats are in the majority and they never once had a hearing on where it originated.
00:27:27.000Wouldn'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?
00:27:40.000Like, do you think maybe that's the most plausible answer?
00:27:43.000And of course it was. But that we could lie and that Fauci could get away.
00:27:47.000And then his wife's on the other side that's sort of doing the oversight.
00:27:50.000I'm like, there was no checks and balances in this thing.
00:27:52.000Well, think about how they treated your father when he stopped the airlines coming to our country.
00:28:28.000It'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?
00:28:35.000It's clear they've gotten a hold of those institutions.
00:28:38.000How do we keep the ball moving forward?
00:28:41.000How 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?
00:29:31.000And the one thing we need the American public is to stay with us.
00:29:34.000And 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.
00:29:41.000When 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.
00:29:50.000You know, that's their platform right now.
00:29:52.000Now, you know, again, there are moderate Democrats in America.
00:29:55.000I 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.
00:30:01.000Now, where I think we struggle is in elections because we also haven't played the game that they do.
00:30:05.000I 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.
00:30:18.000Because 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.
00:30:25.000I hate Don Jr. with a freaking passion.
00:31:31.000Mike Lawler is an amazing candidate, right?
00:31:33.000And we have more than five members that are sitting in seats that won by more than 10 points.
00:31:39.000We won in Oregon. You look at Juan Siskimani.
00:31:42.000So 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.
00:31:50.000Well, so in the congressional seats, I can see how that can work.
00:31:54.000There's just more to work. It's the smaller, yeah.
00:31:55.000When you're talking about either statewide or national races, that's when you lose your rent.
00:31:59.000Someone can go to a door and knock on the door of someone who couldn't tell you who's even running.
00:32:03.000It's like, don't worry, we'll call your ballot.
00:32:05.000It'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?
00:32:13.000You 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.
00:32:18.000But we have a lot of good states who have changed from this.
00:32:20.000I 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?
00:32:35.000Look, if I had an election and I lost, I want to understand that I trust.
00:32:39.000Okay, 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...
00:33:19.000You 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.
00:33:28.000So why don't you just have to cut off 30 days before?
00:33:31.000That's plenty enough time if you care about voting to be able to make that happen.
00:33:35.000And then what the Democrats are really doing, I think about this ranked system.
00:33:57.000I got a lot of third votes. What does that mean?
00:33:59.000Okay, so speaking of votes, how have things gone with, you know, the 20 sort of holdouts?
00:34:05.000You know, I actually think, people will be shocked by this, but it's gone very well.
00:34:09.000And really, with the Democrats, they'd never show that, but that's really democracy at its work.
00:34:15.000Well, 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.
00:34:21.000But 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.
00:34:27.000I 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?
00:34:38.000You're winning those guys over, but what's the relationship with those guys now?
00:34:42.000And 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.
00:34:48.000There's some out there wanting to do it for the camera, but there's others.
00:34:52.000I'll tell you, like Chip Roy, he was there for policy questions.
00:34:55.000And like any relationship, if you have conflict and you work through it, you only have a stronger bond.
00:35:01.000You know, the Bible tells us, you know, Iron sharpens iron, right?
00:35:06.000And it's better that we have that discussion now than later in this year.
00:35:12.000Now we're going to be more productive.
00:35:14.000Now we're more united. Now we're more focused.
00:35:17.000The Democrats, they don't know what's coming at them.
00:35:19.000Yeah, 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.
00:35:30.000But this is what is going to happen here.
00:35:32.000It'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.
00:35:39.000People don't realize the public wasn't invited here.
00:35:41.000You open back up. One of the first orders of business was removing the magnetometers.
00:35:46.000Not at the main entrance, but to get on the floor.
00:36:14.000The 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.
00:36:21.000And so what does that mean? It means any member can offer an amendment.
00:36:26.000Smith goes to Washington, that always happens.
00:36:28.000No. For seven years, it's never happened here.
00:36:31.000This is the change that we've been able to make as we went through all this.
00:36:35.000So 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.
00:36:42.000Maybe 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.
00:36:49.000Watching 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.
00:38:17.000It's a different situation, but what was the difference between 15 and now?
00:38:19.000What did you learn from 15 that you applied?
00:38:21.000Well, having 15 made me stronger this time.
00:38:24.000Because 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?
00:39:55.000Maybe you wear it to the State of the Union.
00:39:56.000That's got to be coming up pretty soon.
00:39:58.000If Nancy Pelosi can rip up the State of the Union, you should be able to wear a Viking helmet again.
00:40:02.000But the one thing I would say there is...
00:40:06.000I am prepared better because you've gone through the fire.
00:40:09.000And I know what the Democrats will do to me.
00:40:11.000I know what they'll say about me. I don't care anymore.
00:40:13.000It's kind of like Winston Churchill. I don't care what history is going to write because it's my intention to write it.
00:40:18.000I 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.
00:40:48.000But, you know, again, I guess that also probably takes a...
00:40:51.000But you also know who you are, and you know your own truth.
00:40:56.000So when they make these lies up about you, you just laugh.
00:41:00.000Those people who know me know what the truth is.
00:41:02.000Those people who want to believe something just on there, I've just watched what this media has done.
00:41:07.000Forget it. I'm going to fight for the American public.
00:41:09.000I'm going to sit and do what I believe is right, and at the end of the day, somebody else can judge me then.
00:41:14.000Yeah, and I think when you do that, they'll actually fight for you.
00:41:17.000Yes. And I'm seeing that in this last, you know, even the sort of the shift in sort of the mentality.
00:41:21.000Again, 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?
00:41:30.000So, you know, they're seeing that and like, oh, wow, you know, this is Kevin 2.0.
00:43:53.000I 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.
00:43:59.000So just like in the speaker's race, I never give up.
00:44:54.000That's what this country embeds in you and rewards you for doing.
00:44:58.000Yeah, 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.
00:45:06.000Now, again, I understand where I come from in my background.
00:45:08.000I get it. But, like, my father made sure I worked minimum wage jobs.
00:45:11.000Oh, yeah. And I could drive a D10 Caterpillar.
00:45:14.000And, like, you know, I also worked for tips, which is something I think that's really important that everyone should understand.
00:46:28.000None of them had it easy, but that's why they're successful here.
00:46:32.000I 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.
00:46:40.000I watch some of them now and they had a trust fund and they had another job, but they got appointed somewhere.
00:46:45.000But, you know, look, Jim Jordan, Yeah, it's amazing.
00:46:48.000This guy, what was it, 142-1 or something in his wrestling?
00:49:06.000You're going to tell me there's no waste out there?
00:49:08.000There's no efficiencies? They just print a trillion dollars.
00:49:11.000I mean, do they have any concept of what that does?
00:49:13.000Well, that's... That's how we got inflation.
00:49:16.000Again, 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.
00:49:24.000Imagine 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.
00:49:30.000With the price of gas, who's it hurting?
00:49:32.000The working class. It has to drive to get to their jobs.
00:49:34.000The eggs. Eggs are unbelievable, the price today.
00:49:38.000But it doesn't stop us from sending billions of dollars to countries that hate our guts.
00:49:43.000They're sending millions to Tunisia for their ability for more tourism.
00:49:48.000Really? We're borrowing this money from China to send it someplace else?
00:49:54.000Well, 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.
00:50:02.000But see, this is what I loved when your father came into power.
00:50:05.000They had never had somebody in the office of the president that had a business mind.
00:50:10.000I remember they're sitting there and, you know, Korea saying, oh, we need these new missiles or Saudi Arabia to defend.
00:50:16.000He goes, okay, but you've got to pay for them.
00:50:52.000And 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.
00:50:58.000Why? Because they negotiated with President Trump.
00:51:27.000It was like $275 per man, woman, and child in America.
00:51:32.000Like, 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.
00:51:39.000I'd love to sort of see when, you know, we're at like $130 in that one.
00:51:42.000And I understand some of the nuance of it, but like...
00:51:45.000Is that always just a blank check, especially when we're leaving 86 billion to the Russians?
00:53:26.000The 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.
00:54:45.000And 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.
00:54:54.000And what they've done is save lives by it.
00:58:38.000He 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.
00:58:44.000Yeah. And that's what people are like, America was winning under a lot of those policies.
00:58:50.000I 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?
00:58:56.000We don't have the Senate, we don't have the White House, but we can get oversight.
00:59:01.000We can get oversight. But look what we've been able to do by person.
00:59:04.000We've been able to do the China Select Committee, speak with one voice, make us stronger.
00:59:08.000But we also did the Strategic Petroleum Reserve that you can't sell it to China.
00:59:12.000Well, 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.
00:59:20.000How does this work? But you know what?
00:59:21.000We've got enough Democrats to vote that we could override his veto.
00:59:41.000Now, 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.
00:59:49.000And, you know, a couple of weeks ago, Nancy Pelosi sold $3 million worth of Google.
00:59:53.000Now, you know, a public servant for life that has $3 million just in Google alone What do you think about that?
00:59:58.000Because 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.
01:00:09.000Well, watch what Paul did when you had, he invested calls and puts, right?