Oct. 17, 2023 - The Benny Show - Benny Johnson
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Leading GOP nominee, House Judiciary Chairman Jen Jordan, is gaining some momentum now. | |
| However, there could be as many as 10 or perhaps 20 Republican holdouts, which would, of course, jeopardize his chances. | ||
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Right. | |
| He only could have five, I think. | ||
| Alexandria Hopp joins us live from Washington with the latest. | ||
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Alexandria, could this be the last time we talk about this? | |
| I don't know about that. | ||
| I mean, we saw 15 rounds last time, and it takes four or five Republicans to stand in the way of Jordan's speakership. | ||
| He's hoping, though, that a floor vote today will prompt holdouts to fall in line since those ballots are not cast in secret. | ||
| Yesterday, the Freedom Caucus co-founder from Ohio made major strides, inching him closer to the 217 votes needed for the speakership. | ||
| Jordan had already won over several middle-of-the-road Republicans, and four additional House members changed their minds last night. | ||
| Thanks by this afternoon. | ||
| More will follow suit. | ||
| We need to get a speaker tomorrow. | ||
| The American people deserve to have their Congress, their House of Representatives working. | ||
| And you can't have that happen until you get a speaker. | ||
| So we need to do that. | ||
| Plus, we need to be helping our dearest friend and colleague, our dearest friend and closest ally, Israel. | ||
| We need to help them as well. | ||
| Look, I feel good walking into the conference. | ||
| I feel even better now. | ||
| We've got a few more people we want to talk to, listen to, and then we'll have a vote tomorrow. | ||
| Well, many of the remaining holdouts say that they still intend to vote for Majority Leader Steve Scalise, who abruptly pulled out of the Speaker's race when it was clear he couldn't come up with the 217. | ||
| Others have said that they will vote to re-elect former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. | ||
| His sudden ousting two weeks ago caused a fracture, but he has faith in Congressman Jordan. | ||
| Very good about where Jim Jordan is at. | ||
| He has been an integral part of our team when we took the majority, helping us get the majority. | ||
| Well, today's floor vote, it certainly, as we were talking about, won't guarantee a win for Jordan. | ||
| It could be a repeat of January when it took former Speaker Kevin McCarthy 15 rounds to win the Gabble, guys. | ||
| Whosoever be he worthy shall have the power. | ||
| Please be my guest. | ||
| Be right back. | ||
| Are you even pulling? | ||
| Are you on my team? | ||
| Just represent. | ||
| Pull. | ||
| All right, let's go. | ||
| Come on, Cap. | ||
| It's a very, very interesting theory. | ||
| I have a simpler one. | ||
| You're all not worthy. | ||
| You're all not worthy. | ||
| Come on, baby. | ||
| It's your boy, Benny. | ||
| What's up? | ||
| Happy Tuesday. | ||
| Tuesday morning, October 17th, 2023. | ||
| The House shall vote for Jim Jordan speaker today, live on our show. | ||
| We will bring you the votes for Jim Jordan. | ||
| They start at noon, and it's going to be a heck of a show today. | ||
| Also, ladies and gentlemen, we shall be covering Joe Biden's tripping in Israel. | ||
| He shall be going to Israel. | ||
| Marjorie Taylor Greene will be joining the show in moments. | ||
| Come on! | ||
| And Tom Tiffany as well, who has introduced legislation to ban all people from terrorist countries from entering America. | ||
| Thank you very much, Tom Tiffany. | ||
| My name is Benny Johnson, and this is The Benny Show. | ||
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| Okay, baby, here we go! | ||
| It's the day! | ||
| Jim Jordan, today, the Ascension! | ||
| Speaker-Mageddon! | ||
| The ascension of Jim Jordan to the speaker shall happen today. | ||
| Now, where do we stand? | ||
| Where do we stand? | ||
| Let's put up the vote count. | ||
| Where do we stand right now? | ||
| So we got a couple of holdouts here. | ||
| Jim Jordan can have five people vote against him on the House floor. | ||
| He has five people vote against him. | ||
| Now, why would you vote against Jim Jordan? | ||
| This I do not understand. | ||
| But here we are. | ||
| Here's the list as of this morning. | ||
| There are firm no's. | ||
| There are five. | ||
| I believe that Jim Jordan can still become speaker with five firm no's. | ||
| Leaning no, you have a couple of names. | ||
| And then there are some undecided people who are, you know, not saying anything. | ||
| So that is effectively where we are now. | ||
| Don Bacon is the one that I really don't like. | ||
| Mr. Don Bacon. | ||
| Do we have Don Bacon's district? | ||
| Do we have some images of Don Bacon's, where Don Bacon's from? | ||
| And how his district voted? | ||
| Let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go. | ||
| Don Bacon's the one I don't like. | ||
| Don Bacon's from Nebraska. | ||
| Check this guy out. | ||
| So he represents Nebraska, and here he is. | ||
| Look at the state of Nebraska. | ||
| Look at how Donald Trump did in Nebraska. | ||
| That's red like a sunburn on a ginger Irish person who's been out in the Florida Keys in a dinghy. | ||
| Look at how red that state is. | ||
| That's how red the state of Nebraska is. | ||
| Now, as we covered yesterday, What you are seeing is a very painful truth for the Republican Party. | ||
| That is that not all Republicans are Republicans. | ||
| A lot of Republicans are Democrats. | ||
| And this vote is actually exposing who those people are. | ||
| A lot of Republicans are secret Democrats that go to Washington, D.C. They win states like Nebraska. | ||
| Let's put that back up. | ||
| They win states that look like that. | ||
| They win states that are as red as the surface of mercury on a summer's day. | ||
| And then they go to D.C. and they realize that the old drain the swamp was... | ||
| It's not true. | ||
| D.C. is a lot more like a jacuzzi. | ||
| It's not like a hot tub. | ||
| And it's nice here. | ||
| And I'm getting rich here. | ||
| And all I need to do is what the Democrats tell me. | ||
| Because Democrats control Washington, control the ecosystem of Washington, D.C., and I'm just going to become a Democrat. | ||
| And they go back home, and they get all the PAC money, and they get all the money, and they win their seats, and they go to D.C., and they become Democrats. | ||
| Dan Bongino says this. | ||
| Not all Republicans are Republicans, okay? | ||
| So some Republicans are Democrats, but there are no Democrats who are Republicans. | ||
| That doesn't exist. | ||
| There's no such thing as that. | ||
| Barack Obama actually made sure when a couple of Democrats decided to vote against Obamacare, Barack Obama made sure that the last of what you would call a blue dog Democrat, who was like a free-thinking, vote for like, I don't know, jobs and Christian, Catholic concerns, the Democrats from like the Rust Belt, Barack Obama made sure that those people were gone, exorcised from the party. | ||
| So what you have with the Democrat Party is just a pure hive mind, corporate structure. | ||
| Of smooth-brained lunatics that literally are all on a ball gag and leash. | ||
| Every single one of them, AOC, every single one of them in a leather-bound gimp suit, dog-walked by Nancy Pelosi. | ||
| Not a single one dares step out of line. | ||
| They wrote a letter. | ||
| The squad wrote a letter. | ||
| The squad is so anti-war. | ||
| Squad wrote a letter to say, hey, maybe we should sue for peace in Ukraine. | ||
| They were forced by Nancy Pelosi. | ||
| Nancy Pelosi so took her... | ||
| BDSM whip and whipped them that they, like, the dominatrix, Nancy Pelosi dominatrix came out, right? | ||
| She's like, Paul, put the hammer away. | ||
| It's not that time. | ||
| Now it's time for me to go after the squad. | ||
| And the squad was so whipped in the shape, they recanted the letter. | ||
| The squad! | ||
| The anti-American, like, anti-military industrial complex squad, like, which I agree with them on at least that front. | ||
| No, we shouldn't be in Ukraine fighting a war. | ||
| They actually removed the letter. | ||
| They brought it, they sucked it back in. | ||
| They said, oh, we're sorry, we're sorry we even said that. | ||
| Because they stepped out of line one time. | ||
| So, be awake, open your eyes, and see what lies before us today. | ||
| What lies before us today is an opportunity to see who the scum are in our party. | ||
| Who are the actual Democrats in the Republican Party? | ||
| There are no Republicans in the Democrat Party. | ||
| But there are Democrats in the Republican Party. | ||
| And today we're going to see. | ||
| And we are disgusted because some of those people come from the reddest states out there. | ||
| We put up a graph yesterday. | ||
| I'm not sure if we got that in the show. | ||
| I'd love to see the chart of all of the states from yesterday where people were holdouts from. | ||
| If we don't have it, let's pop it up. | ||
| So what's very interesting is that there's not a single Republican voter who's against Jim Jordan. | ||
| Find me one. | ||
| Jim Jordan has done an incredible job for the grassroots, done an incredible job for our movement. | ||
| He's been a fighter on every front that we appreciate and respect. | ||
| Sometimes he gets a result, sometimes he doesn't, okay? | ||
| This is politics. | ||
| It's a dirty game. | ||
| Sometimes he's backstabbed and often backstabbed by our leadership. | ||
| Who calls Jim Jordan a terrorist? | ||
| These are some of the states, blood-red states of Oklahoma, Idaho, Nebraska, Florida, Georgia. | ||
| Marjorie Taylor Greene will be on the show in just a second. | ||
| Go through what is happening in Georgia where there are holdouts against Jim Jordan. | ||
| Hold up, you might say. | ||
| How can you vote against Jim Jordan when you're from a state that voted for Donald Trump? | ||
| You're in a district that voted for Donald Trump. | ||
| Ruby Red District votes Donald Trump 20 points. | ||
| How can you do that? | ||
| What's that about? | ||
| Because Donald Trump endorsed Jim Jordan, so you'd assume that then it is, like, important for you to sort of follow in line and to just do what your voters want. | ||
| Not only is there not a Republican voter in America that has a problem with Jim Jordan, the vast majority of actual activists and grassroots people are thrilled about Jim Jordan, as we have enumerated on this show, time and time again. | ||
| Because Jim Jordan is us. | ||
| Jim Jordan was swept in with the Tea Party. | ||
| Jim Jordan is a man who has fought our battles and has listened to the grassroots. | ||
| He's a brawler. | ||
| He's a championship wrestler. | ||
| He's a boy from Ohio. | ||
| He's a scrapper. | ||
| Kind of like the rest of us. | ||
| He's got cauliflower ears and a weird hairline. | ||
| Kind of like the rest of us! | ||
| And you know what? | ||
| The guy's seen hard times, and he's come out of them. | ||
| And he fights. | ||
| And he doesn't wear a jacket. | ||
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Kind of like me. | |
| And so, listen, I think that this is awesome. | ||
| An awesome moment. | ||
| Why would anyone vote against Jim Jordan? | ||
| I don't get it. | ||
| Unless you are a Democrat. | ||
| Unless you are compromised, bought, sold, and leveraged. | ||
| Maybe the deep state has something on you. | ||
| This is how it works, people. | ||
| This is why they love Joe Biden. | ||
| There's so much criminality on Joe Biden. | ||
| This is why Joe Biden was perfect. | ||
| He's controllable. | ||
| The moment that there's something that is threatening to you, that they can hold over you, the ghosts in the machine. | ||
| You did something wrong. | ||
| You filed your taxes wrong somewhere sometime. | ||
| They use that as leverage to force you into doing what they want. | ||
| This is a mafia. | ||
| The moment of zen, the moment of true enlightenment, is when you realize that your government is a criminal cartel. | ||
| And that all governments are criminal cartels that are controlled by the people who are not elected. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| And so, what you'll see today, potentially, are some Republicans that are voting because they have leverage leveled against them. | ||
| It has nothing to do with principle. | ||
| They did something naughty, or presumably did something naughty, and then they're being leveraged against. | ||
| The people who vote against Jim Jordan are the rats. | ||
| This is a smoke-out operation. | ||
| We smoke them out. | ||
| They are the rats. | ||
| And apparently the phone lines have been melting through the floor. | ||
| Apparently the phone lines are melting down inside of Congress. | ||
| The phones are actually hot inside of these offices. | ||
| For people calling in. | ||
| You're doing your job. | ||
| I'm doing my job. | ||
| We're doing our job to finally deliver the death blow to the Uniparty in Washington, D.C. Because if there's one thing that Jim Jordan ain't, it's Uniparty. | ||
| They ate him. | ||
| They called Jim Jordan a terrorist. | ||
| John Boehner called Jim Jordan a terrorist. | ||
| Do you think if Jim Jordan was in charge in 2017, when Donald Trump took office, that we would have the America that we have today? | ||
| Are you kidding me? | ||
| Jim Jordan had the gavel in 2017. | ||
| What we would have is a wall. | ||
| A competent border policy. | ||
| Probably would have Donald Trump in the White House still. | ||
| So yes, this is a deep and abiding move in the right direction. | ||
| What does Jim Jordan have to say? | ||
| Last night Jim Jordan went and talked to the press. | ||
| Something that he's very good at. | ||
| Another reason why I like him. | ||
| He's very confident. | ||
| You've all seen him. | ||
| He's a regular on Hannity. | ||
| He's a regular on Fox. | ||
| He's a regular on our show. | ||
| Which is another reason why we love Jim Jordan. | ||
| How great is that? | ||
| Jim Jordan. | ||
| I'm sorry. | ||
| I'm not like... | ||
| Listen, we're going to go through the vote today. | ||
| We're going to wait. | ||
| They're going to start voting here in some 30 minutes. | ||
| Marjorie Taylor Greene is going to join us in a few minutes. | ||
| But we're, like, this is why this is important. | ||
| Listen, you know, Brigaders, I love you. | ||
| Like, we build all of this so that we can have a place where we communicate, laugh, cry, and it's interactive, and a lot of you have emailed, like, with us. | ||
| We do our best. | ||
| We do this for you. | ||
| This is such a valuable audience. | ||
| We care so much about you. | ||
| And here's Jim Jordan coming on the show, I don't know, half dozen times at least over the last year? | ||
| Half dozen times at least. | ||
| Him and Comer, they're coming on, but you wouldn't believe the list of people that are asking to come on this program. | ||
| And we have, I mean, you're going to be amazed. | ||
| You're going to be amazed at the number of people that we have lined up. | ||
| People are ditching. | ||
| Corporate media to come on programs like this. | ||
| And one of the first people who gave us the time of day was Jim Jordan. | ||
| He cares about you. | ||
| We don't have any big corporate sponsorship. | ||
| We're not part of some massive network, right, of people who can donate, you know, some big multinational corporation that can donate to his super PAC. | ||
| Here's a million bucks, Jim. | ||
| No, we are grassroots. | ||
| And I appreciate the super chats. | ||
| I see the super chats rolling in. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Like, we're grassroots. | ||
| We're supported by you. | ||
| And Jim Jordan was on this program, and when he's on this program, man, he goes for like 30 minutes to make sure that you are informed, and he answers all the tough questions, and we're blocking and blocking. | ||
| It's awesome. | ||
| And so we deeply appreciate Jim for that reason. | ||
| Deeply appreciate it. | ||
| It's really cool. | ||
| And one final personal story about Jim Jordan. | ||
| I come from Iowa. | ||
| That's my home state. | ||
| And we love wrestling in Iowa. | ||
| The Hawkeyes, the wrestling team, the University of Iowa wrestling team, was outside of D.C. wrestling Maryland. | ||
| And I'm sitting there with my dad, and in comes a guy with a hoodie on, with like a thing of popcorn, sitting by himself to watch collegiate wrestling, because just for the love of the game, is Jim Jordan. | ||
| I don't know if there's any wrestling fans in the audience, but sure, as I'm sitting here... | ||
| Like, Jim Jordan, a bench down, was, like, there by himself, right? | ||
| His family's in Ohio. | ||
| And he's there to, like, watch college wrestling, eat popcorn, and, like, enjoy the fight. | ||
| Enjoy the grapple. | ||
| Enjoy the combat. | ||
| This is what the guy does in his free time, right? | ||
| He wasn't there as an honored guest. | ||
| He didn't have to be recognized. | ||
| Like, he was a very powerful man in Congress. | ||
| He didn't have the announcement. | ||
| Here's Jim Jordan with us. | ||
| Nothing. | ||
| He went up to College Park, Maryland, for the love of the game, sit by himself, and to watch the combat. | ||
| Jim Jordan's a fighter. | ||
| Very cool to see. | ||
| It's really neat to see this moment. | ||
| And this is a moment where we are taking back what's ours. | ||
| Because that's what this is all about. | ||
| This party is ours. | ||
| It doesn't exist without us. | ||
| Oh, the donors are so important. | ||
| We should listen to the donors. | ||
| Donors mean nothing. | ||
| One vote, one man. | ||
| It's the way it should be. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, one vote, one woman. | ||
| It's the way it should be. | ||
| And we are more powerful than all of them combined. | ||
| The party doesn't exist without us. | ||
| And so it's really wonderful that we finally have a seat at the table. | ||
| We finally have a voice. | ||
| What does that voice say last night? | ||
| Here's Jim Jordan saying, feels good, man. | ||
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Mr. Gordon, how many votes are you willing to go through tomorrow? | |
| Are you going to just go in? | ||
| We need to get a speaker tomorrow. | ||
| The American people deserve to have their Congress. | ||
| Congress, the House of Representatives, working. | ||
| And we can't have that happen to get a speaker, so we need to do that. | ||
| Plus, we need to be helping our dearest friend and colleague-- our dearest friend and closest ally, Israel. | ||
| We need to help them as well. | ||
| The Press: Keep going over and over again. | ||
| Tomorrow, you expect multiple roll calls? | ||
| The President: Well, look, I feel good walking into the conference. | ||
| I feel even better now. | ||
| We've got a few more people we're going to talk to, listen to, and then we'll have a vote tomorrow. | ||
| Would you be opposed to putting Ukraine with Israel? | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Okay, there he goes. | ||
| The man who cares about you, the man who cares about this audience, Jim Jordan. | ||
| Kevin McCarthy is saying that yes, he is confident that there will be a Jim Jordan speakership. | ||
| He tweeted that first thing this morning. | ||
| Says Jim Jordan will become Speaker of the House today. | ||
| Kevin McCarthy last night making the same declaration. | ||
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Good morning McCarthy. | |
| Can Jordan do it on the floor tomorrow? | ||
| Yes. | ||
| All right, baby. | ||
| Matt Gaetz is saying we're down to single digits standing against Jim Jordan. | ||
| Now, here's what's going to happen. | ||
| It's a lot easier if 40 people vote against Jim Jordan, right? | ||
| And there's just this block of 40 people that are like, we won't do it. | ||
| We're compromised. | ||
| The CIA has naughty photos of us in Las Vegas. | ||
| It's a lot harder if it's you. | ||
| You, random person. | ||
| Throw up that list again. | ||
| It's a lot harder if it's you. | ||
| Random guy. | ||
| Don Bacon. | ||
| Crispy Bacon. | ||
| The pig with no legs. | ||
| It's a lot harder if it's just you standing there in the gap. | ||
| And it's you against Jim Jordan. | ||
| So it's much more difficult. | ||
| Let's get that list back up. | ||
| I want people to see. | ||
| And if you're watching right now, I need you to know that if these are one of your members of Congress, you have got to say, I'm never voting for you again. | ||
| You vote against the will of the people. | ||
| Don Bacon, Mike Lauer, Mike Kelly, Carlos Jimenez, Mario, Mario Das Ballart. | ||
| There you go. | ||
| Where are those two? | ||
| ALX, let's go, baby. | ||
| Get me the phone number to call. | ||
| 202-225-3121. | ||
| There is a phone number. | ||
| This is the registry in Congress. | ||
| Where you can call, and you can be directed to their offices, and you can go, baby. | ||
| Now's the time. | ||
| Now's the time. | ||
| Matt Gaetz is saying, Matt Gaetz is saying, call this number. | ||
| There's the number. | ||
| Matt Gaetz is saying, yo, we are down to single digits against Jim Jordan. | ||
| Now that's very important, because from a leverage perspective, you don't want to be the one person that denied Jim Jordan the speakership. | ||
| Because every Republican in the country... | ||
| Most Republicans in the country are thrilled at Jim Jordan being speaker and will like it more than McCarthy being speaker. | ||
| So this is a very good thing. | ||
| Here's Matt from last night. | ||
| Right now I'm very excited about speaker-designate Jim Jordan. | ||
| The opposition to Jim Jordan has dwindled down to the single digits. | ||
| And if we are able to convince just a few more colleagues to go with the rest of the Republican Congress in getting Jim Jordan in the speakership, I don't think there'll be a single viewer of Greg Kelly Reports who doesn't appreciate the upgrade that we made at the position of Speaker of the House. | ||
| I think you're going to see it right away in our oversight work. | ||
| Subpoenas that were bottled up are going to get out the door. | ||
| I think we're going to be able to finally get a subpoena to Hunter Biden. | ||
| And my hope is that we'll be able to put some downward pressure on all of the spending. | ||
| I just saw a report today that we had tens of thousands of Americans just this past month go into bankruptcy, up 18 percent from a year ago. | ||
| Bidenomics isn't working for people. | ||
| And the House of Representatives is the only institution in our federal government that people can place any hope in. | ||
| When you look at the Schumer-controlled Senate and an administration spending more money, more weaponized against our fellow Americans. | ||
| So Jim Jordan will be a great and inspiring leader. | ||
| We've got a little more work to do, but we feel like we've got the wind at our back. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| Again, five people can vote against Jim Jordan. | ||
| I don't know why you would do that. | ||
| It seems suicidal. | ||
| Some people are deeply loyal to Kevin McCarthy, and they say that they will be voting for McCarthy. | ||
| So Jimenez, a guy from Florida, This is a guy also who voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016. | ||
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Huh? | |
| What's that about? | ||
| Well, this is a problem for me to clean up. | ||
| This is a guy in my backyard. | ||
| This guy's from Florida. | ||
| What's going on with this guy? | ||
| I'll donate to his primary opponent right now. | ||
| Florida 28. Dude, you voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016, but you're a Republican? | ||
| Man, see, again, there are Republicans who are Democrats. | ||
| There are no Democrats who are Republicans. | ||
| That's how the system works. | ||
| That's how all of Washington, D.C. works. | ||
| When you get to Washington, D.C., you realize you are utterly trapped inside of a kingdom that is run not just by the Democrat establishment, corporate establishment, and corporate party, but by, like, the radical elements of it. | ||
| Down the street from me worked a fundraiser for the RNC. | ||
| This fundraiser from the RNC was from the Deep South, and they giggled one time when they were over at my house socially. | ||
| Saying that they always lie to people and say that they're Democrats inside of Washington, D.C. These are people that work inside the RNC. | ||
| They giggle and say that they're Democrats because they don't want the stigma of being a Republican in D.C. It's brilliant. | ||
| Actually, listen, man. | ||
| Your environment, nature versus nurture, the nurturing of your environment, that can really have a profound effect on you. | ||
| Where you grow up, how you grow up. | ||
| Culture, man. | ||
| And so the culture of D.C. is rot and corruption, statism. | ||
| And so it was really good when we saw Mike Rogers, who was the big domino to fall yesterday, finally say, yeah, he's going to support Jim Jordan. | ||
| Mike Rogers is the guy who has Lego hair. | ||
| He's in charge of the Armed Services Committee. | ||
| And he's a person who is obviously owned and operated by the warmongering neocon cartel. | ||
| Right? | ||
| All of his campaign staff go off to lobby for Ukraine and go launder money, right? | ||
| So if Jim Jordan stands against that, as we all do as voters, well, then Mike Rogers isn't going to vote against his own corrupt interests, right? | ||
| And getting rich off of the death of people around the world because America's main export is violence. | ||
| And so it was really good that Mike Rogers flipped yesterday. | ||
| That is a... | ||
| Really, really strong sign. | ||
| None of these people that are standing against Jordan have any strength. | ||
| They are not strong. | ||
| They could not withstand or message their way out of this. | ||
| Here's the news from yesterday. | ||
| Wind at their back. | ||
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He did make progress, as you say, over the weekend. | |
| Today he picked up Mike Rogers, the chairman of the Armed Services Committee from Alabama. | ||
| That's kind of seismic here because Mike Rogers adamantly opposed Jim Jordan on Friday and he flipped his script. | ||
| He's for him today. | ||
| Now that could influence other defense hawks to come along and support Jim Jordan. | ||
| Jim Jordan put out a letter today. | ||
| He called for unity among Republicans. | ||
| He wrote, quote, the country cannot afford us attacking each other, Brett. | ||
| Isn't that nice? | ||
| Now, somebody who had an excellent and very prescient tweet this morning, Marjorie Taylor Greene, friend of the show and one of our all-time favorites, Marjorie Taylor Greene said, it's important that we understand what we're uniting around. | ||
| She's been backing Jim Jordan from the get. | ||
| I think she probably would have voted for Jim Jordan in January. | ||
| Marjorie Taylor Greene joins the program now to tell us what are Republicans uniting around. | ||
| Congresswoman, Congresswoman, thank you so much for being on the program. | ||
| I know that you are busy. | ||
| You're getting the shot set up like you're running off to vote here in a moment. | ||
| But please tell us your tweet was Very prescient this morning, saying we must give a message for people to unite around, right? | ||
| So what is that message? | ||
| Uh-oh. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, we will let Marjorie get set. | ||
| It looks like we lost the feed here. | ||
| That's okay. | ||
| Marjorie Taylor Greene is getting set. | ||
| That's the tease, we call it, in the industry. | ||
| That's a tease. | ||
| We need to sit here for a second. | ||
| Our production team is getting... | ||
| Marjorie back in a moment. | ||
| Before we jump back to the Congresswoman as we get this technical difficulty solved, we will remind you that it could be far, far worse. | ||
| There are members of Congress that are saying maybe instead of Jim Jordan, perhaps instead of Jim Jordan, we should bring back George W. Bush. | ||
| As Speaker. | ||
| Oh, yes. | ||
| Oh, yeah. | ||
| Democrats are saying, hey, how about we elect Bush? | ||
| George Bush as Speaker of the House. | ||
| Check this out. | ||
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Would be an improvement over where we are now. | |
| I could see President George W. Bush serving as Speaker of the House. | ||
| He could come back and, you know, and obviously. | ||
| I'm not a real fan of how the Iraq War went, but I would think that any reasonable Republican would be somebody that Democrats could work with if it was part of a system where you didn't... | ||
| All right, here we go. | ||
| Marjorie, you are on live with us. | ||
| Sorry for the... | ||
| Technical difficulties. | ||
| I'm sorry about that, Benny. | ||
| And you're right. | ||
| I would have loved to vote for Jim Jordan in January. | ||
| But he wasn't running back then and told us all he didn't want to do it. | ||
| But thankfully, he stepped up. | ||
| And I'm so excited to support him today. | ||
| But I'm also glad before I came in, I heard you talking about foreign wars and all of this money that's been going to Ukraine. | ||
| And this is one of my red lines. | ||
| We cannot. | ||
| Continue to fund the war in Ukraine. | ||
| It has to stop. | ||
| We have to fight against the weaponized government. | ||
| I was in the D.C. federal courtroom yesterday where Judge Chuckkin handed down the gag order on President Trump, which is absolutely election interference. | ||
| And it is a complete... | ||
| Complete violation of his First Amendment free speech rights. | ||
| We have to fight against that. | ||
| I want to pass my bill to stop transgender surgeries on kids. | ||
| I'm hoping that a speaker, Jim Jordan, will help me do that. | ||
| And there's so much more we need to do. | ||
| But I'm excited. | ||
| We're voting literally at 12 o 'clock here pretty soon. | ||
| So we'll see how it works out. | ||
| And hopefully we can knock this out maybe in one round. | ||
| Maybe we go to 15. I don't know what's going to happen. | ||
| So we had a clip there of a Democrat, Brad Sherman, saying, hey, maybe George W. Bush should be the guy. | ||
| What does that tell you about George W. Bush, by the way? | ||
| It tells you that he was a Democrat. | ||
| Earlier in the show, we've been talking through, there are no Democrats that are Republicans, but there are a lot of Republicans who are actually secret Democrats, right? | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| And they love that party. | ||
| They want the Uniparty. | ||
| This is still a fight. | ||
| So there's a fight between the old guard and basically the New America First movement that's taking over the Republican Party. | ||
| And what you heard right there is a Democrat calling for George Bush to come back because the Democrats love that Republican Party. | ||
| That was the Republican Party that helped the Democrats get everything done. | ||
| But that is the old Republican Party that we are doing everything we can to wipe out and get rid of. | ||
| You're so smart. | ||
| You talk about this stuff every single day on your show. | ||
| This is why your audience loves you. | ||
| It's because we have to transform the Republican Party to be the party for America and the American people. | ||
| How is this vote going to go? | ||
| Give me your handicapping here. | ||
| Well, from what I've heard, there's still some holdouts, so I don't see it happening on the first round. | ||
| If it does, I'd be thrilled. | ||
| But we may have to just keep going at it. | ||
| And that's up to Jim. | ||
| Jim will have to talk to these holdouts and try to get their support. | ||
| I'm hoping that they support him. | ||
| But I'll continue to do the same thing I did when Kevin McCarthy was Speaker. | ||
| I'm going to hold my red lines, Benny. | ||
| It doesn't matter if Jim Jordan is Freedom Caucus. | ||
| It doesn't matter if he's a conservative fighter. | ||
| Being the Speaker of the House is an extremely hard job. | ||
| And that's why... | ||
| Representatives like me have to hold our red lines and make sure that no bills get passed that aren't in line for the America First movement that we need to keep pushing forward with. | ||
| What has your relationship been like with Jim Jordan, hopefully Speaker Jordan soon? | ||
| Have you had any private conversations with him? | ||
| How is this process going for him? | ||
| Yeah, absolutely. | ||
| I'm very close with Jim Jordan. | ||
| He actually was the first member of Congress to endorse me when I ran for Congress back in 2020. | ||
| So I'm excited to see this today. | ||
| But I let him know. | ||
| I said, Jim, I'm still going to hold my red lines. | ||
| I won't send money to Ukraine. | ||
| I want to see that war end. | ||
| Israel wants to fight and defend their own country themselves. | ||
| I don't want to see American troops going into Israel. | ||
| That's not the right thing to do. | ||
| Our border is a disaster. | ||
| We have to defend and secure our border, and that should be the first and only border we care about. | ||
| That's number one. | ||
| Also, Protect Children's Innocence Act is a bill that I want passed on the House floor, and it stops transgender surgeries on children and makes it a felony. | ||
| And I think that's something every Republican should easily be able to vote for. | ||
| But lastly, the weaponized government. | ||
| And we have a weaponized government committee that hasn't really done much. | ||
| I want to see a lot harder work on behalf of Republicans to stop the weaponized government that's going after President Trump, his supporters. | ||
| We know that you have to run here, but a quick follow-up on that. | ||
| Jim Jordan has been the king of oversight. | ||
| What will change with a Speaker Jordan? | ||
| Well, hopefully we will see our impeachment inquiry continue into the Biden crime family. | ||
| And they are a crime family. | ||
| And we are producing evidence after evidence. | ||
| And you'll see more evidence coming out of oversight very likely this week as we've received more information that we subpoenaed. | ||
| So these are all good things. | ||
| But it'll be up to Jim Jordan to get the job done. | ||
| And he has to do it with a very razor-thin majority in the House and not a very... | ||
| A meniable conference. | ||
| There's a lot of fighting that goes on constantly, but we just have to fight it out and do the right thing for our country. | ||
| Benny, I've got to run to the vote. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Thank you, Congresswoman. | ||
| Okay, bye-bye. | ||
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Bye-bye. | |
| Bye-bye. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, we are joined now by Congressman Tom Tiffany. | ||
| Who has some breaking news for us and also some very important legislation that he is sponsoring as it pertains to Israel and Gaza. | ||
| Tom Tiffany, Congressman, welcome to the program. | ||
| Congressman, thank you so very much for being on the program. | ||
| I think the top line news of the day here is, of course, the speaker's vote. | ||
| Can you give us just a quick update from your vantage point, sir? | ||
| How is this going? | ||
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Yeah, we're going to see how this plays out. | |
| You know, there's a few people that are holdouts at this point. | ||
| Will they stick to their guns? | ||
| You know, that's a real good question. | ||
| Will they want multiple votes in order to have Jim Jordan become the Speaker? | ||
| But, you know, I think it's pretty clear for the grassroots activists across America, they want Jim Jordan. | ||
| And I support, after Speaker McCarthy was deposed, I was on the Jordan bandwagon. | ||
| I think he'd be a terrific speaker. | ||
| And by the way, Benny, you know, for me, this is a very different vote. | ||
| And I think for most members, it is also. | ||
| This isn't like voting on a piece of legislation. | ||
| So that Jim shares my political philosophy, or I share his largely, you know, is important. | ||
| But I want to know you got somebody that can manage the conference. | ||
| And I got to tell you, as a member of the Judiciary Committee and watching Jim Jordan's work as chairman. | ||
| How well organized he is, how he gets us very prepared for these high-profile hearings that we have with people like Mayorkas and the FBI director and all these people. | ||
| He really gets us prepared. | ||
| I've seen his organizational capabilities, and that's a big part of the reason why I'm supporting him for speaker. | ||
| Wow, so that's very interesting. | ||
| So you've seen him behind the scenes. | ||
| What is Jim Jordan like behind the scenes? | ||
| You say he's very organized. | ||
| He's been called the king of oversight because he's just been a bulldog for a decade now, going up against the likes of Hillary, Obama, now Biden. | ||
| What is Jim Jordan like behind the scenes? | ||
| Is he tenacious? | ||
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He's always focused, always prepared. | |
| Tenacious, and then he takes it to the opposition. | ||
| And, you know, not in a mean manner, but making sure that we get answers. | ||
| I mean, he wants us, when we're doing these oversight hearings, you know, you think about Mayorkas, he wants us drilling down and getting answers for the American people. | ||
| This is about the American people, and Jim will always tell you that. | ||
| They deserve the truth. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Well, we deserve the truth about what's happening in Israel and in Gaza. | ||
| You, sir, have introduced the Gaza Act to stop Joe Biden from importing Palestinians into this country. | ||
| Obviously, we thank you for this. | ||
| This is, of course, something that we saw disastrously happen in Afghanistan where a bunch of unvetted people from a terrorist hotbed get just brought over to America. | ||
| That seems, of course, suicidal in its policy. | ||
| Can you tell me about your act, sir? | ||
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Yeah, so the act is very simple. | |
| If you have a Palestinian Authority passport or what they call a passport, you cannot get a visa into America. | ||
| After the horrific events in Israel of about 10 days ago, there's no reason for us to have people coming in with that type of ideology that does not fit classic American small-l liberalism. | ||
| And it just does not fit with our values, so we should not allow that. | ||
| But what it was meant to do, Benny... | ||
| It was meant to be a preemptive strike against the Biden administration because they've shown us in the, what, a little over two years that they've been in office that they will press to have people come in in any way that they can. | ||
| They will use immigration parole. | ||
| They'll use any way possible. | ||
| They'll let people be gotaways, over a million of them, coming across our southern border. | ||
| They will use any means possible. | ||
| We saw it with Afghanistan. | ||
| They said they had people vetted. | ||
| Those people were not vetted. | ||
| Before coming into the United States of America, I'm fearful they're going to do the same thing. | ||
| And you have people like the Progressive Caucus, like Representative Bowman, they're saying, bring them on in. | ||
| We should not allow that to happen to the American people. | ||
| It's a national security risk. | ||
| Yes, that's right. | ||
| Maybe if there's a horrible national security risk and somebody needs to pull the fire alarm, Bowman will be right there. | ||
| Right there. | ||
| Ready to go. | ||
| He's even been practicing. | ||
| So I hear the buzzer going off in the background. | ||
| Is that the call to votes? | ||
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It'll be shortly. | |
| We're good yet, Penny. | ||
| Got it. | ||
| So what I have – and I have a question for you about the people who are holdouts against Jim Jordan. | ||
| And perhaps you could illuminate for me something that is a blind spot because as I speak to the grassroots and as I talk to this audience every single day, I don't find a single person. | ||
| And we have a 10 million person audience. | ||
| I don't find a single person who is against Speaker Jim Jordan. | ||
| There are some people who like other guys, right? | ||
| But no one's against Jordan. | ||
| They all like him. | ||
| And most of the grassroots congressmen are thrilled, ecstatic, elated for a Speaker Jim Jordan. | ||
| Here's our moment. | ||
| Freedom Caucus Tea Party. | ||
| Like, this guy's been a fighter for us. | ||
| He's been on the right side of our battles. | ||
| He's always stood up for us. | ||
| He stood up for President Trump. | ||
| True, the activist class, the grassroots class are thrilled about Jim Jordan. | ||
| Yet I see members of Congress from these deep red, dark, ruby red districts, not going to name anyone, that are voting against Jim Jordan. | ||
| Can you please explain that? | ||
| Because it don't make no sense to a guy like me. | ||
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I can't explain it either. | |
| We're just trying to convince them to vote with us today. | ||
| Because you are correct. | ||
| The American people want a fighter. | ||
| And the conservative movement, they want a fighter. | ||
| And we saw that. | ||
| Going back to January, when there were a number of good things that came out of the whole speaker fight that Kevin McCarthy ultimately became speaker. | ||
| I mean, when you have bills no longer becoming a Christmas tree, you get at least 72 hours to be able to review a bill. | ||
| And we had a lot of members. | ||
| Good, strong, conservative members that were put on key committees. | ||
| There were significant gains made there. | ||
| And that's what we're ultimately focused on. | ||
| We've got to keep advancing the ball down the field. | ||
| And I think a Jim Jordan speakership helps make that happen. | ||
| And that's what the American people want also. | ||
| They know we have to have a fighter because they know whether it's inflation, energy, the border. | ||
| Our country is going in the wrong direction. | ||
| And more and more people are recognizing that Barack Obama's commitment to America or his promise to America that he was going to transform it, we're seeing it happen before us. | ||
| And they don't like it. | ||
| They don't want it. | ||
| And they know that there are powerful interests. | ||
| That are trying to stop those of us that want to get back to limited government reforms here in the United States of America. | ||
| There's powerful interests trying to stop that and they want us to fight for them. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Everyone goes to Washington, D.C. and then utterly forgets their voters. | ||
| You haven't. | ||
| You're from Wisconsin, and I don't mean to ask you a gotcha question here, but as a wrestling fan, is it that Jim Jordan brought national championships to the Wisconsin Badgers wrestling team that you, sir, support him? | ||
| I've done my research here. | ||
| You can tell me, is this your bias? | ||
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Oh, Benny, you caught me. | |
| Jim Jordan's a great UW grad. | ||
| And by the way, one of his sons went on to wrestle intercollegiately up at UW-Madison also. | ||
| The reason I support Jim Jordan is he is the man. | ||
| It's his time to be the Speaker of the House of Representatives, to take back America, to take back the America that was established at our founding over 200 years ago. | ||
| He gets it. | ||
| We need Jim Jordan as our speaker. | ||
| He's been a fighter. | ||
| He's been on the right side of every fight for us. | ||
| And so now it's wonderful to see people lining up behind him and fighting for him. | ||
| Thank you so much, Congressman, for being one of those people. | ||
| Godspeed in your vote today. | ||
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Thank you so much, Benny. | |
| OK, ladies and gentlemen, we have, of course, our entire production team here at the ready. | ||
| We are ready to go. | ||
| We're going to bring you the speaker's vote live. | ||
| That speaker's vote starts in 10 minutes. | ||
| What you heard there behind the congressman was... | ||
| That's these little bells that they install in every single congressional office. | ||
| No, it's not Jamal Bowman pulling the fire alarm. | ||
| These little bells. | ||
| And that tells them, we are calling votes. | ||
| We are calling votes. | ||
| And the bells have different sequences to let them know, hey, here's the votes being called, here's the votes ongoing, here's the votes ending, right? | ||
| And so that's them saying, get ready, get on down to the well of the Capitol, the House, and get voting. | ||
| And so these votes are going through, I mean, again, in 10 minutes. | ||
| 10 minutes. | ||
| So we shall bring you the live feed. | ||
| You will see the multiple members of Congress that were on our show voting live for Jim Jordan, and we will see who wants to maintain the status quo. | ||
| Who wants to maintain a world of backstabbers, of people who travel to Washington based on the political will and power of us, based on our grit, work, money, and exercise of blood, sweat, and tears for this country, and us just wanting people to care about America instead of someone else's damn border and some hellhole around the world? | ||
| For us just wanting a group of people to say, hey, I represent you. | ||
| I'm going to represent your interests in this hellscape cesspool that is Washington. | ||
| I'm going to go there to slay dragons, not to cozy up with them, make them my pet, or become their little bitch. | ||
| These people, there are very few of them, Jim Jordan's one of them, who have gone to Washington, D.C. in order to break things. | ||
| And that's a good thing. | ||
| Because D.C. deserves to be broken. | ||
| Deserves to be broken. | ||
| We'll see in moments who's willing to vote to maintain a Republican Party that is a fifth column, that is a fake party. | ||
| It's not real. | ||
| It's Fugazi. | ||
| It's not a real party. | ||
| It's not a real party unless you go, unless you are there to actively agitate against the federal government. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| That's the goal. | ||
| Listen, look at the design. | ||
| Look at the design of our government. | ||
| The goal of the Republican Party should be to return every ounce of power that goes to Washington is power sucked out of your marrow, the political marrow of this country. | ||
| And you go and you travel this country, find me a single city that's doing better than it was four years ago. | ||
| There's not a single place in this country that is doing better under Joe Biden. | ||
| Nothing has gotten better here. | ||
| Everything has gotten worse. | ||
| And why is that? | ||
| Because time after time, we give political power to a party of Judas's and Benedict Arnold's. | ||
| Let me show you Judas and Benedict Arnold. | ||
| I have actually some videos of them. | ||
| First off, let's go with Benedict Arnold, okay? | ||
| The guy who was supposed to be fighting on our side, the guy that maybe some of us even voted for him to be vice president at a certain point. | ||
| I know that I voted for Mitt Romney's ticket in 2012. | ||
| Here we are, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| This man was the vice presidential candidate, became the House Speaker begrudgingly, and released an ad. | ||
| He was shocked. | ||
| This man was shocked when Donald Trump won. | ||
| He was against Donald Trump when Donald Trump was running, didn't do anything to help him. | ||
| Donald Trump wins, and then this man sees an opportunity to seize more power by lying to you so that you'd send him donations. | ||
| We have the lie. | ||
| We've captured it on tape. | ||
| Here's Paul Ryan promising you that he'll build you the wall. | ||
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Here's Paul Ryan. | |
| I had the opportunity to travel down to Texas to go to the Rio Grande Valley and spend time with our Border Patrol. | ||
| When you see what they're up against, it really gives you even greater respect for what they do. | ||
| They clearly need more tools and more support to do their jobs effectively. | ||
| That's why we're going to get this done this week. | ||
| We're going to get this side this week. | ||
| That's why we're going to do it. | ||
| I'm a Boy Scout. | ||
| I'm really excited. | ||
| I cannot wait to go make these huge corporate checks to sell out the voters of my party and to lie to them. | ||
| Multiple times in that short, that's a 20-second clip, that Paul Ryan released the first month of Donald Trump's administration, unified control of government by Republicans, and... | ||
| That ad was released with the words, build the wall. | ||
| We will build the wall. | ||
| And then it ends with, we're going to get it done this week. | ||
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This week! | |
| That was seven years ago? | ||
| Has the wall been built? | ||
| Would your country be operationally better if there was a wall? | ||
| Now, Donald Trump was only asking for like $5 billion for the wall. | ||
| We've sent $150 billion to Ukraine. | ||
| Imagine the wall we could have built for $150 billion. | ||
| What if we had... | ||
| What if there was a person that was like, no, how about Ukraine? | ||
| Like, tough luck? | ||
| We're going to protect America. | ||
| So we're going to put a $150 billion wall on the border. | ||
| Permanent garrisons, I don't know, electrified, whatever. | ||
| Imagine the kind of wall you could have built for the money that we've spent to Ukraine to literally be shoved directly into some tracksuit-wearing, greasy, sleazy Eastern European scum oligarch payoff for Joe Biden, for them not releasing the Joe Biden tapes. | ||
| Yep, that's what's going on. | ||
| So, ladies and gentlemen, this is the Benedict Arnold. | ||
| Here's the Judas. | ||
| The Judas is, of course, John Boehner. | ||
| John Boehner is a man who was ushered into power, not by anything he did, of course, but by the Tea Party and by a grassroots movement of us who are the actual power in this country. | ||
| And we got together and we said, no, screw this. | ||
| Like, what is universal health care? | ||
| What is Obamacare? | ||
| You had to pass it before you had to pass it to see what's inside of it. | ||
| So he says, screw you. | ||
| And we're going to send you there to stop Barack Obama. | ||
| And then what happened? | ||
| Well, John Boehner, even though we gave him all the power to stop Barack Obama, decided to instead do this to us. | ||
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Can we get together? | |
| Now that is a great move. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| So you got any advice? | ||
| So now you want my advice? | ||
| First, stop sending me all these LinkedIn requests. | ||
| And second, here's the beauty of this whole thing. | ||
| You've got all the time in the world to figure this out. | ||
| You can just be you for a while. | ||
| Taking the political power that you give them and using it to glorify Democrats. | ||
| That is what the Republican Party has done. | ||
| That is what the Republican Party has done. | ||
| Either lying to you. | ||
| Paul Ryan did. | ||
| That's bad. | ||
| Or actually, actual betrayal. | ||
| So lying to you is really bad. | ||
| Betrayal is far worse. | ||
| And that is what John Boehner did. | ||
| And now the man who is on the precipice of becoming speaker today stands, if you're asking, oh, will Jim Jordan be the same thing? | ||
| Well, judge a man by his friends, but really judge a man by his enemies. | ||
| That's where you know the real might of a man. | ||
| Judging a man by his enemies. | ||
| Who's Jim Jordan's enemy? | ||
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It was John Boehner. | |
| Reminder, the Democrats are saying, give us George W. Bush. | ||
| What does that tell you? | ||
| Democrats are saying, please nominate George W. Bush. | ||
| We like him. | ||
| That means that George Bush is a Democrat. | ||
| That's what it means. | ||
| Oh, this is statism. | ||
| That's all it is. | ||
| Forever war. | ||
| The exporting of violence. | ||
| That's what George Bush represents. | ||
| George Bush didn't represent you. | ||
| And John Boehner is cut out of the exact same cloth. | ||
| And so who does John Boehner hate the very most? | ||
| Listen to this clip. | ||
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You call some of these members political terrorists. | |
| Oh yeah, Jim Jordan especially. | ||
| My colleague from Ohio. | ||
| I just never saw a guy who spent more time tearing things apart and never building anything. | ||
| Wow, Jim Jordan. | ||
| He's torn D.C. apart. | ||
| I've never seen a guy. | ||
| to D.C. to actually say that this place deserves to be returned to the way the Constitution was written, where we don't have any power. | ||
| Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. | ||
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*cough* Thank you. | |
| The behavior of the Uniparty, man. | ||
| The behavior of the Uniparty. | ||
| This is what John Boehner had to say about Jim Jordan. | ||
| He came to Washington, D.C. as a terrorist. | ||
| Which, of course, I don't like the moniker, right? | ||
| Especially given the current news cycle. | ||
| But nonetheless, he came there to metaphorically blow up these systems that were destroying America, that were offshoring our jobs, that were undermining and destroying our currency, that was hurting regular Americans, especially Americans in places like Ohio, where Jim Jordan's from. | ||
| And Wisconsin and Georgia and everywhere. | ||
| Jim Jordan came to destroy those things to return power back to the people. | ||
| Power is like energy. | ||
| It's thermodynamics. | ||
| It can't be destroyed. | ||
| It can't be created. | ||
| It can't be destroyed. | ||
| So where's the power going to go? | ||
| The power is either going to go to Washington or it's going to go to you. | ||
| Or I guess it's going to go to the World Economic Forum, some globalist governing body. | ||
| So where's the power going to go? | ||
| Founders understood it, man. | ||
| The founders understood it. | ||
| Jim Jordan. | ||
| Had a response to John Boehner calling him a terrorist. | ||
| We have gone into the archives. | ||
| The great producer, our great producer ALX, who may or may not join us, depending on how long these votes go, has an awesome response. | ||
| Jim Jordan responding on CNN way back in the day. | ||
| Where is this clip from? | ||
| 2015. | ||
| To being called a terrorist by John Boehner. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, here's Jim Jordan on CNN. | ||
| Responding to John Boehner back in the day. | ||
| Same guy. | ||
| He's the same guy. | ||
| He doesn't change. | ||
| Classic wrestler for you. | ||
| Go. | ||
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I understand that you obviously feel very passionately about this, but this is also about passion and principle versus governing. | |
| And it's just from people looking in from the outside, and even more importantly, your fellow Republican colleagues think that you are more interested in chaos and sticking to principle than your responsibility of governing. | ||
| We're most interested. | ||
| In adhering to the principles that are consistent with the Constitution, we're most interested in doing what the voters elected us to do in November. | ||
| You don't think this was a big issue in the election last November? | ||
| Of course it was. | ||
| Taking on the president's unconstitutional executive amnesty actions was a huge issue in the election, and the voters spoke overwhelmingly. | ||
| And all we're asking now for Harry Reid to do is follow the process. | ||
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Have you been in any conversations about trying to get rid of House Speaker John Boehner? | |
| That's not the point. | ||
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No, of course not. | |
| Yes or no? | ||
| No, that's not the point. | ||
| The point is to do what we told the voters we were going to do and to do it in a way the United States Constitution, consistent with fundamental fairness, and consistent with the only court to rule on this. | ||
| The only court to rule. | ||
| Do it in a way that's consistent with the federal judge's decision. | ||
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If the House Speaker ends up hot damn. | |
| Jim Jordan, back in the day, vintage clip, 2015, Donald Trump hadn't even announced he was running for president yet. | ||
| And Jim Jordan's like, there is an illegal executive amnesty action that's being taken by this administration to import people that have no connection to this place into America and to grant them citizenship, and that's illegal, and I'm going to stop it. | ||
| He was doing this at the very end because this is, of course, always the action. | ||
| This is the action they're going to take. | ||
| Trust me, this is already in the cards. | ||
| Joe Biden is going to then take the 20 million illegals that have criminal migrants that have rushed into this country. | ||
| And last day, he's just going to say, you're all citizens. | ||
| Trust me, that's the goal. | ||
| And then it will forever fundamentally change the fabric of this nation, change the voting blocks of this nation, change the welfare structure of this nation. | ||
| We already spend every cent that the government takes in. | ||
| We spend on entitlements every single penny. | ||
| Everything else is borrowed. | ||
| Our military, it's all borrowed. | ||
| Nothing, nothing is real. | ||
| It's all fugazi. | ||
| It's all fugazi. | ||
| All of it's fake. | ||
| The only way out is more taxation, severe taxation, neck-breaking taxation, destroys capitalism taxation. | ||
| So this is what we are facing right now. | ||
| This is the playbook for Obama. | ||
| This is the Obama playbook. | ||
| Crush and destroy America through demographics. | ||
| They're on tape talking about it. | ||
| They say it. | ||
| The Castro brothers. | ||
| Hey, we can't wait to turn Texas purple. | ||
| That'll happen demographically. | ||
| Like, this is the plan. | ||
| And this was what Jim Jordan was fighting about in 2015. | ||
| Let's go ahead and hear some more vintage Jim Jordan. | ||
| It's going to listen to old clips of people talking because it shows you whether someone has remained consistent in their beliefs, whether they actually believe what they say, or that they're acting. | ||
| And there are plenty of ways to play controverting clips. | ||
| And show how quickly these people can turn on a dime about what they care about. | ||
| Jim Jordan does not turn. | ||
| Jim Jordan isn't one for turning. | ||
| Jim Jordan is a man who has conviction, who believes what he says, and who fights for what he believes. | ||
| The rarest of all birds in Washington, D.C. Listen to Jim from 2015 again, the same CNN interview, where he's railing against illegal amnesty by the Biden administration for criminal migrants. | ||
| A system that they have now accelerated to the extreme. | ||
| Jordan, on fire. | ||
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One last question. | |
| Do you want the House Republican leadership to succeed or not? | ||
| Of course you want them to succeed because that helps the country succeed. | ||
| That's good for the families we represent. | ||
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The country certainly doesn't look like... | |
| I mean, it just... | ||
| I've covered Congress for a very long time and it feels more chaotic and it is... | ||
| It's impossible at this point for the House Speaker and the leadership team to govern, and they feel like it is because you all just don't take yes for an answer. | ||
| What's best for the country is to fund the Homeland Security Department, to fund the Homeland Security Department, but do it in a way consistent with the Constitution. | ||
| That's what the election was about. | ||
| Last time I checked, Republicans did pretty well in the election last November. | ||
| We're supposed to actually, politicians when they get elected, are actually supposed to do what they told the voters they were going to do when they got the job. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, we have word that they are now starting the prayer on C-SPAN. | ||
| We will have that feed up for you here momentarily. | ||
| And that they are opening up Congress for the speaker's vote. | ||
| So, ladies and gentlemen, we're here. | ||
| It's game time. | ||
| We said we would be ready to go, and here we are. | ||
| I have been wanting, personally, Jim Jordan for a very long time. | ||
| Of course, you know that. | ||
| Some of my favorite allies in Congress, the people that we speak with all the time. | ||
| How are we always two weeks, two months, two years ahead of what's about to happen? | ||
| How is that? | ||
| How is it that what you hear on this program is going to come true two months from now? | ||
| Because we work our sources. | ||
| Because we work our sources and these members of Congress are very, very close with us. | ||
| They care about the brigade. | ||
| They care about you. | ||
| They want you to stay informed. | ||
| And so the people that I respect in Congress, the people who work with me, To make sure that you're informed that I'm communicating correctly what's about to happen. | ||
| Sometimes it's good news, sometimes it's bad. | ||
| Those people want Jim Jordan. | ||
| The people who I respect in Congress want Jim Jordan. | ||
| They're pretty vocal about it. | ||
| Some of them come on this show to say it. | ||
| Some of them say it privately. | ||
| They're very, very vocal about it. | ||
| Jim Jordan has been a friend of this show. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, it looks like they are doing the Pledge of Allegiance now. | ||
| It is no shock that most Democrats are not there for the Pledge of Allegiance, of course. | ||
| The Pledge of Allegiance, perhaps, maybe, to Ukraine. | ||
| Every Democrat would show up. | ||
| Rashida Tlaib has a Palestinian flag outside of her office. | ||
| Here is a call for the speaker. | ||
| Let's go ahead and listen in here. | ||
| Let's just see if there's anything interesting happening here. | ||
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Okay. | |
| Bye. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| So they've been gaveled in. | ||
| And now they're going to begin the speaker. | ||
| I think they're going to just go right into the speaker's vote. | ||
| Call for quorum. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| So you're going to see how many people are present in Congress. | ||
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All right. | |
| All right, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| So we're going to bump back out. | ||
| This is the parliamentary procedure. | ||
| And of course they're going to get – they vote in 15-minute blocks and some super depressed guy from C-SPAN who is sitting there on his mother's flip phone I guess is going to do some report from inside of the Capitol. | ||
| And it looks a lot more like an Alcoholics Anonymous confession than it does a report, but whatever. | ||
| Some people can't be as cool as us and have AR-15s in their shots. | ||
| Okay, all right, all right. | ||
| So anyway, we very much look forward to bringing you a report from inside of the Capitol. | ||
| We have something very special lined up. | ||
| Where we will be going into the Capitol to do a live show, and we'll have more to come on that front, ladies and gentlemen, as we sort out who the Speaker of the House will be. | ||
| Of course, it shall be Jim Jordan. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, why should it be Jim Jordan? | ||
| I know we spent the show talking about it, but we do have an important clip, one of my favorite clips. | ||
| Absolutely my favorite clip of Jim Jordan, where he dressed down. | ||
| Ooh, yikes. | ||
| Nobody wants to dress down Hillary Clinton. | ||
| Please, no matter what you do, Hillary, keep your clothes on, okay? | ||
| Please. | ||
| I didn't mean dress down Hillary Clinton, but what I mean is Jim Jordan took, hopefully, the future gavel that he shall wield and just... | ||
| Boxed around the ears, old hill dog, for getting Americans slaughtered in Benghazi, four Americans losing their lives, Navy SEAL and an ambassador. | ||
| Hillary Clinton wouldn't send any help. | ||
| Hillary Clinton didn't do anything about it. | ||
| Hillary Clinton loved the creation of ISIS. | ||
| She was in charge of creating ISIS and totally destabilizing the Middle East. | ||
| Amazing how it's a feature of the Democrat Party. | ||
| When Republicans are in power, you have peace in the Middle East. | ||
| When Democrats are in power, you have the entire thing collapsing. | ||
| Here is Jim Jordan, the only Republican with stones in his shorts, to actually question Hillary Clinton on this murder of Americans that she allowed. | ||
| We know the attack in Libya had nothing to do with the film. | ||
| It was a planned attack, not a protest. | ||
| Let me read that one more time. | ||
| We know, not we think. | ||
| Not it might be. | ||
| We know the attack in Libya had nothing to do with the film. | ||
| It was a planned attack, not a protest. | ||
| State Department experts knew the truth. | ||
| You knew the truth. | ||
| But that's not what the American people got. | ||
| And again, the American people want to know why. | ||
| Why didn't you tell the American people exactly what you told the Egyptian Prime Minister? | ||
| Well, I think if you look at the statement that I made, I clearly said that it was an attack, and I also said that there were some who tried to justify it on the basis of the video, Congressman. | ||
| But real quick, calling it an attack is like saying the sky's blue. | ||
| Of course it was an attack. | ||
| We want to know the truth. | ||
| The statement you sent out was a statement on Benghazi, and you say vicious behavior as a response to inflammatory material on the Internet. | ||
| If that's not pointing as the motive of being a video, I don't know what is. | ||
| And that's certainly how the American people saw it. | ||
| See this? | ||
| That's the meme, right? | ||
| That's the meme of Hillary Clinton. | ||
| That's what was turned into the meme. | ||
| That was because of Jim Jordan. | ||
| Because of Jim Jordan being like, wait a second, you remember Benghazi? | ||
| What universe were we living in? | ||
| What a great world we have today. | ||
| I mean, there are a lot of reasons to be black-pilled, but, man, I am white-pilled. | ||
| Red-pilled, white-pilled. | ||
| I believe that we are living in an incredible timeline. | ||
| Would they have ever been able to get away with saying that somebody made, like, some rink-or-dink VHS video of Mohammed doing something? | ||
| They tried to blame it on some guy, some guy in California making some home video about the... | ||
| Creation story or something featuring Muhammad. | ||
| I don't even remember. | ||
| They arrested the guy! | ||
| They arrested the guy. | ||
| And saying that that's why Benghazi happened. | ||
| Benghazi happened because this guy made a video in California. | ||
| In his basement. | ||
| With a VHS camcorder. | ||
| That's what they tried to do. | ||
| Jim Jordan sniffed it out, called them out. | ||
| Even when it was very unpopular. | ||
| And destroyed them. | ||
| But, like, today, we would have the capacity to actually destroy them even further. | ||
| Because we have now... | ||
| Collective understanding of, in real time, intel created on shows like this, on X, on social media. | ||
| We're able to collaborate and to put together the pieces as individuals and not wait for people like Hillary Clinton to lie to us or to come up with some manufacture, some excuse for their failures. | ||
| It's a wonderful thing. | ||
| Back then, a lot of people bought that lie because we didn't actually have the mechanisms for questioning these official narratives. | ||
| Your government does lie to you. | ||
| Your government is a criminal cartel that is organized against you. | ||
| And they keep you in line based on the threat of violence. | ||
| That is the current machinations of not just the American government, but every government in the world. | ||
| And the people who are in charge of these governments are puppets. | ||
| They are not actually real. | ||
| They all have paymasters, every single one of them. | ||
| And it's good. | ||
| It's just good to have open eyes and open minds about these things. | ||
| It's very important. | ||
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| So we are, again, witnessing our quorum vote. | ||
| This is the vote to see how many members of Congress are actually physically present to vote, right? | ||
| And so you've got to be physically present to vote. | ||
| I hear there's like one Republican who's missing and not able to actually... | ||
| So in order to like tally the votes, you have to know who's all there. | ||
| And so this is the typical procedure before you go through with like an actual vote. | ||
| Got to see who's all there and who's all accounted for. | ||
| So ladies and gentlemen, we are going to be awaiting this quorum tally. | ||
| It looks like we are seven minutes left. | ||
| And then after that, we are going to be getting the votes, the nominating speeches and the votes for Jim Jordan. | ||
| And we are going to see how many rounds this goes through, but I think that it's very – I think this is quite interesting. | ||
| I want to hear who the nominating speech is. | ||
| I want to hear perhaps from Jim Jordan himself. | ||
| And it looks like people are lining up, right? | ||
| They're taking their seats there, getting ready for these nominating speeches. | ||
| And maybe we'll – maybe they'll call the quorum vote early. | ||
| This is the Democrat side of the aisle. | ||
| You can see Clyburn. | ||
| You can see Clyburn there. | ||
| And you can thank Clyburn, of course, for being the useful imbecile who got Joe Biden elected because Joe Biden... | ||
| They don't want you to ever remember this. | ||
| Joe Biden came in fifth and came in sixth in Iowa and New Hampshire. | ||
| Nobody liked Joe Biden. | ||
| Joe Biden had a failure of a political campaign. | ||
| But what have we talked about? | ||
| The corporate Democrats, with the insane power of their Marxist structures, were able to come down and just order... | ||
| There is no democracy left in the Democrat Party. | ||
| It is full statism. | ||
| It is totally and completely wholly hive mind operated smooth brains that are inside of the Democrat Party. | ||
| And that is why it is quite interesting. | ||
| And I still don't actually believe that this is a bad thing. | ||
| There are some people that are like, oh, this was a bad idea and everything. | ||
| I don't know, man. | ||
| This is the way it's supposed to work. | ||
| This is the way it's supposed to work. | ||
| And I like the messiness of our process. | ||
| Our process is designed to be horribly messy. | ||
| Do you think our founders thought that putting 500 pretentious windbags in a room together from every single different state, from every single different walk of life, and saying that's the system that all legislation is going to originate from, federally? | ||
| Like, they knew that that would be a disaster. | ||
| They knew that would be messy. | ||
| They knew that would be disgusting. | ||
| It would be a mucky, muck job. | ||
| And there were so many... | ||
| They immediately set in place procedures like filibusters and so forth to enable every member of Congress to stop whatever they wanted to from happening. | ||
| It's supposed to be a disaster. | ||
| It's supposed to be a mess. | ||
| Washington, D.C. is supposed to not be functional. | ||
| It's supposed to be dysfunctional. | ||
| It's a good thing. | ||
| There's a man who's been fighting for Washington, D.C. to be dysfunctional. | ||
| I mean, obviously you have Jim Jordan who has been on the right side of government shutdowns, on the right side of oversight for a long time. | ||
| Jim Jordan on the shutdown in 2013 because they went through and they said, we're going to shut the government down for Obamacare. | ||
| Obamacare is wrong and illegal, so we're going to shut the government down. | ||
| That's awesome. | ||
| This is why John Boehner calls the guy a terrorist. | ||
| Because he was just here to tear things down. | ||
| Yes! | ||
| That's what we want! | ||
| That's the way it's supposed to be! | ||
| Jim Jordan, 2013, man. | ||
| Ten years ago. | ||
| Has the man changed? | ||
| Could they find a video of you from ten years ago? | ||
| Would you be the exact same person? | ||
| Jim Jordan is. | ||
| And that's awesome. | ||
| Watch. | ||
| I keep coming back to this idea that... | ||
| Somehow we're the bad guys because we're standing up for the simple concept of fairness. | ||
| This is why people elected us, to stand up and say, you know what? | ||
| We should be treated fairly under the law. | ||
| This law doesn't work. | ||
| We all know we've had 13 days of it's been rolled out. | ||
| It hasn't worked. | ||
| And the other thing that I'm always amazed at, this president can waive the law for big business and for members of Congress, but he can't waive the law during this shutdown. | ||
| for families whose sons gave their lives serving our country and want their death benefit for that. | ||
| I mean, to me, that's unbelievable. | ||
| Isn't that insane? | ||
| What a world that we live in. | ||
| So what he's talking about is, of course, Democrats in 2013 taking and using maximum pain. | ||
| So during the government shutdown, they refused to allow payments for service members and their families for funeral benefits. | ||
| They closed down all the national parks. | ||
| I was living in D.C. at this time. | ||
| I was reporting in D.C. at this time. | ||
| They closed down national parks and everything. | ||
| They put up little, like, the national parks are just big open monuments, right? | ||
| But they put up a little yellow tape saying that they're closed. | ||
| LOL. | ||
| These people, they're such frauds. | ||
| It looks like there's two minutes remaining. | ||
| But Jim Jordan was against it then. | ||
| Now, what are they doing now? | ||
| Well, in a government shutdown, they would still fund Ukraine, right? | ||
| So they would take away the benefits from American service members, but they would still fund Ukraine. | ||
| Jim Jordan is fighting the same battle. | ||
| It's just good to have people. | ||
| It's the same evil tactics. | ||
| It's good to have people who have fought these battles before. | ||
| You want to have a veteran fighter on your side if you go into war. | ||
| And it sounds like people are getting on Jim Jordan's side. | ||
| There's one person who is a member of Congress from my state of Iowa. | ||
| Her name is Marianette Miller Meeks. | ||
| Iowa is, of course, a blood-red state. | ||
| Went for Donald Trump by 20 points. | ||
| I don't know how or why Mariette Miller-Meeks would not be voting for Jordan, but she has announced that she will be voting for Jordan. | ||
| And so that is a very important thing. | ||
| That was one of the holdouts. | ||
| And so, again, they are beginning to break. | ||
| Very few of these people have been, like, super public about voting against Jim Jordan. | ||
| Again, I don't know why. | ||
| Most of the people who are on Jim Jordan no list say they're going to vote for Kevin McCarthy. | ||
| But Kevin McCarthy is fully and wholly in Jim Jordan's corner. | ||
| So expect those people to be able to be peeled off. | ||
| That's what I expect. | ||
| Whether you're peeled off, you certainly should be pissed off. | ||
| And Jim Jordan was back in 2014 with the weaponization of the IRS. | ||
| Do you remember Lois Lerner? | ||
| Lois Lerner was this freakish Karen radical that was tapped by Barack Obama to use the IRS's supreme and superpowers to go after conservatives. | ||
| To audit conservatives. | ||
| My wife's family was one of the victims of this. | ||
| They were like conservative activists. | ||
| And were you one of these victims? | ||
| And then you get this big fat audit from the IRS and the IRS going through everything you've ever done. | ||
| The weaponization of the IRS. | ||
| It was only happening in conservatives. | ||
| I think it happened to Sarah Palin, too, for the crime of running on a ticket against Barack Obama. | ||
| So this was a huge scandal back in the day. | ||
| Jim Jordan on the right side of this one. | ||
| And the only route, remember this, the only route to the truth is through the House of Representatives. | ||
| That's what Madison was talking about, because we know this. | ||
| The investigation of the Justice Department is a complete joke. | ||
| The FBI, on January 13th of this year, the FBI leaks to the Wall Street Journal, no one's going to be referred for prosecution. | ||
| The president on Super Bowl Sunday said there's no corruption, not even a smidgen. | ||
| The person heading the investigation, Barbara Bosserman, gave $6,750 to the president's campaign, a Democrat National Committee, a max-out contributor to the president's campaign. | ||
| And just this week, on Tuesday, in the Judiciary Committee, I asked Eric Holder, have you looked into the leak that the FBI gave to the Wall Street Journal? | ||
| Have you investigated that? | ||
| And his response? | ||
| No, I haven't. | ||
| Wow, a weaponized federal government against the American people for being conservative, penalizing people for their political views. | ||
| Where have I heard that before? | ||
| Where the hell have I heard that before? | ||
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Where? | |
| It seems so familiar. | ||
| Strange that Republicans are such lardasses, such dimwits, and couldn't see this coming, couldn't see this happening, and never defended us. | ||
| And now there's hundreds, thousands of Americans that rot in jail cells because they wore red hats during a peaceful protest, mostly peaceful protest. | ||
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Got it. | |
| So the quorum vote is now done. | ||
| Quorum vote is officially over. | ||
| And we have a quorum of the House. | ||
| And so they will begin, hopefully, immediately, the nominating process for House Speaker. | ||
| It looks like all the members are gathering there on the floor. | ||
| And we're going to get speeches soon. | ||
| But as soon as we get those speeches, they'll be nominating speeches, right, for Jim Jordan. | ||
| As soon as we get those speeches, we will, of course, cut to the audio. | ||
| Right now, it's just going to be a bunch of people murmuring, rabble, rabble, rabble, rabble, rabble. | ||
| But we will bring you those speeches live. | ||
| I'll be very interested to see who speaks on behalf of Jim Jordan. | ||
| Maybe McCarthy, right? | ||
| Give his nominating speech, since the holdouts are McCarthy people. | ||
| Seemingly some of them, right? | ||
| So McCarthy has been 100% on Jim Jordan's side. | ||
| Maybe that's because Jim Jordan's been on McCarthy's side going after some of the initial open-season government weaponization. | ||
| We've, of course, seen this accelerated to a degree that is unrecognizable and that is dystopian and dictatorial. | ||
| But back in the first year of Donald Trump's administration, we received the revelation that at high-level federal Law enforcement were going to stop Donald Trump's election. | ||
| Peter Strzok texting his lover, Lisa Page, that they will stop a Donald Trump election. | ||
| How exactly were they going to do that? | ||
| Oh my. | ||
| How is that not the scandal of the century? | ||
| Well, Jim Jordan did his best to elucidate the actual... | ||
| The reason for those text messages being sent when Peter Strzok and Christopher Wray were in Congress. | ||
| I'm sorry, correction. | ||
| Christopher Wray, FBI director, was in Congress. | ||
| So let's have a listen. | ||
| This is vintage Jim Jordan, back before any of the insanity that we know now about Christopher Wray, saying, what do you mean by stop Donald Trump from being elected? | ||
| Peter Strzok that we learned this past weekend was removed from the special counsel team because he exchanged text messages with a colleague at the FBI that were displayed a pro-Clinton bias. | ||
| Is that accurate? | ||
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Yes. | |
| Talk about the same guy. | ||
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Okay. | |
| Yes. | ||
| Well, here's what I'm not getting. | ||
| Peter Strzok is selected to be on Mueller's team after all this history, put on Mueller's team, and then he's removed for some pro-Clinton text messages. | ||
| I mean, there are all kinds of people on Mueller's team who are pro-Clinton. | ||
| There's been all kinds of stories. | ||
| PolitiFact reported 96% of the top lawyers' contributions went to Clinton or Obama. | ||
| But Peter Strzok, the guy who ran the Clinton investigation, interviewed Mills Abedin, interviewed Secretary Clinton, changed gross negligence of crime to the term extreme carelessness, who ran the Russian investigation, who interviewed Mike Flynn, gets put on Mueller's team, and then he gets kicked off for a text message. | ||
| that's anti-Trump. | ||
| If he kicked everybody off Mueller's team who was anti-Trump, I don't think there'd be anybody left. | ||
| So here, there's got to be something more here. | ||
| It can't just be some text messages that show a pro-Clinton anti-Trump bias. | ||
| There's got to be something What is it? | ||
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Hmm. | |
| How could they have stopped Donald Trump from becoming president? | ||
| Oh. | ||
| I get it. | ||
| They had a dossier created that they all knew was fake AF. | ||
| And they were going to use that to open up criminal investigations into Donald Trump, to open up the Mueller investigation. | ||
| That's how they were going to stop Donald Trump. | ||
| This was the plan all along, of course. | ||
| Every one of these people knew it was fake and fraudulent that the Russians did not help Donald Trump get elected. | ||
| They created this as a smear, as a slimeball tactic. | ||
| They all knew there's not a single person that has corroborated a single thing in here. | ||
| Everyone's admitted it was fake. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen. | ||
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What? | |
| Ah, okay. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, they ran with it anyway. | ||
| So we do have a piece of breaking news here. | ||
| Again, we will make sure that we bring you. | ||
| All of the speeches from the floor. | ||
| The quorum is now over. | ||
| We'll bring you all the nominating speeches and so forth. | ||
| But there is a nominating speech from a very important man that just broke. | ||
| Donald Trump, who's in court in New York, of course, for the continuation of these frauds. | ||
| Donald Trump has walked to the cameras and just seconds ago made this declarative statement on behalf of Jim Jordan. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, we'll do the trick. | ||
| Check this out. | ||
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Mr. President, did you call? | |
| We called for the speaker this weekend for Jim Jordan. | ||
| Yes, he is. | ||
| Thank you, Jim. | ||
| Well, the speaker of the House, he's a fantastic young man. | ||
| He's pretty young still and very strong, very, I guess, very proper opinions about our country. | ||
| He loves our country. | ||
| He wants to see it do well. | ||
| And I think he's going to be confirmed sometime soon. | ||
| We'll show that. | ||
| As you know, many people have now supported him 24 hours ago who was supporting somebody else. | ||
| There seems to be great unification. | ||
| I think Jim Jordan will be a great speaker. | ||
| I think he's going to have the vote soon, if not today, over the next day or two. | ||
| And I think he'll end up being a great speaker. | ||
| What about Biden's trip to Israel? | ||
| Do you think Biden's trip to Israel is political, Mr. President? | ||
| I think everything he does is political. | ||
| And unfortunately everything he does doesn't work out very well. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
| Did you have anything to do with unifying the party behind Jordan? | ||
| Will you be back this afternoon? | ||
| Why return? | ||
| Mr. President, did you call? | ||
| We called for the speaker this weekend for James Jordan. | ||
| Thank you, Mr. Chairman. | ||
| Well, the speaker of the House, he's a fantastic young man. | ||
| He's pretty young still and he's very strong. | ||
| He has very proper opinions about our country. | ||
| He loves our country. | ||
| He wants to see him do well. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, we had to loop that clip in order to make sure that we were all loaded. | ||
| So apologies. | ||
| I'm sure you didn't mind hearing a little bit of our great president talking about how much he wants Jim Jordan. | ||
| Jim Jordan has been a stalwart Donald Trump supporter. | ||
| Jim Jordan has always supported Donald Trump and was a fighter for Donald Trump. | ||
| And would you have had the wall if Jim Jordan was Speaker during Donald Trump's first term? | ||
| Of course you would have. | ||
| We would have had a totally different country. | ||
| A totally different country. | ||
| Still no change on the floor. | ||
| Looks like nine no votes still, says producer ALX. | ||
| So we're going to need to have that number whittled down. | ||
| By four, Jim Jordan can become speaker. | ||
| 218 is the threshold that you need to become speaker. | ||
| And we are going to see if there is a breaking point. | ||
| There is a huddling towards the back of the chamber, according to one of the congressional reporters that we follow, Jake Sherman, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, and Speaker Pelosi. | ||
| So Speaker Pelosi and Jeffries are talking. | ||
| These frauds, man, these people, they are so despicable. | ||
| There was this Mike Rogers character who said that he was going to ask Democrats for a consensus candidate and that they would be effectively working with Democrats to elect a speaker. | ||
| And here, on this program, and publicly, of course, this weekend, I just... | ||
| Hammered the guy. | ||
| We just destroyed this man. | ||
| And he does very much look like a Lego character. | ||
| I think we should... | ||
| Let's see if we can't get that. | ||
| I think it's worth putting up. | ||
| He does very much look like a Lego character. | ||
| Guy has Lego helmet hair. | ||
| Mike Rogers was working to put Nancy Pelosi back in charge of Congress. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| Against the will of the American people. | ||
| This shows you exactly how Washington, institutional Washington, D.C. works. | ||
| Against the will of the American people, Mike Rogers was trying to put – we ripped Pelosi out of that chair. | ||
| They did everything that they possibly could to rig and to cheat in these elections and to keep power in Washington, D.C. We ripped the gavel out of Nancy Pelosi's wicked little translucent skin, skeletor hands, cackling and screaming like the witch with the house dropped on her. | ||
| And then here's Mike Rogers. | ||
| And now we have reports that Jim Jordan and Nancy Pelosi are hatching some little plan in the back of Congress. | ||
| Who's in charge, ladies and gentlemen? | ||
| Who's in charge? | ||
| Well, Nancy Pelosi, if Democrats were to regain power, Nancy Pelosi would be the people in charge. | ||
| Nancy Pelosi is still. | ||
| She's 75 years old, 73 years old. | ||
| Nancy Pelosi is wholly and totally in control of the Democrat Party. | ||
| Hakeem Jeffries is just a muppet for her. | ||
| A Pelosi cutout. | ||
| And Republicans wish to give the Pelosi cutout power. | ||
| It's remarkable. | ||
| There are no Democrats who are Republicans. | ||
| There are a ton of Republicans who are secretly Democrats. | ||
| Jim Jordan, upon the... | ||
| Announcement that Nancy Pelosi would be losing her gavel, Jim Jordan stepped up to the plate and talked about the Biden crime family. | ||
| This was his first speech, his first oversight speech. | ||
| This Congress, again, this man has been on the right side of every issue. | ||
| He hasn't won some of the battles because he's been backstabbed, of course, by his own party. | ||
| But Jim Jordan has been the right side, fighting for the right. | ||
| And here he is, the moment Republicans took control, Jim Jordan stepped up to the dais and said this. | ||
| I think it's a pattern with this administration. | ||
| They haven't been square with us, straight with us, straight with the American people about anything. | ||
| They tell us the border is secure. | ||
| We know it isn't. | ||
| They tell us our debt ceiling bill is going to hurt veterans. | ||
| No, it doesn't. | ||
| Joe Biden said during the campaign... | ||
| That the letter from 51 former intel officials, when he used it in the debate, he portrayed it as if it was organic. | ||
| And we now know, through another investigation that we're all working on, that in fact it was coordinated. | ||
| That letter from 51 former intel officials was coordinated with the Biden campaign. | ||
| So much so, the Biden campaign told Mike Morrell, here's the journalist, we want you to have the story to the letter to first. | ||
| Why not just be straight with us? | ||
| Why not come clean? | ||
| Why not tell us the truth? | ||
| Tell the American people the truth. | ||
| They deserve that from their government. | ||
| Again, the fundamental question is, what did they do to warrant the receipt of millions and millions of dollars? | ||
| Why did Joe Biden's brother, why did Joe Biden's sister-in-law, why did Joe Biden's son, why did so many family members get the money? | ||
| What did they do to warrant receipt of that money? | ||
| That's the fundamental question. | ||
| I want that energy. | ||
| I want that energy in the speaker's seat. | ||
| Speaking of the speaker's seat, Kevin McCarthy has just taken a seat behind Jim Jordan. | ||
| Kevin McCarthy is going to be directly behind Jim Jordan. | ||
| Kevin McCarthy is behaving very honorably here. | ||
| I'm conflicted on this sole point, which is that Kevin McCarthy maybe even seems relieved to not have this position. | ||
| Maybe Matt Gaetz has done Kevin McCarthy a great service by... | ||
| We're leaving him of this position. | ||
| Maybe Kevin McCarthy is relieved to not have this hanging over him and he can go back to the thing that he liked doing the best, which is, you know, Kevin McCarthy likes fundraising. | ||
| Kevin McCarthy raised a billion dollars in 2022 for Republicans. | ||
| He's a hell of a fundraiser. | ||
| And so he wouldn't have to do the, you know, the day-to-day schlepping of the speakership. | ||
| Maybe that's what they've worked out because Kevin McCarthy is way in the corner of Jim Jordan. | ||
| Kevin McCarthy is taking a seat right behind Jim Jordan. | ||
| I believe that Kevin McCarthy will probably give Jim Jordan's nominating speech, most likely. | ||
| That would be a really nice thing to see. | ||
| That would be the unity of the party that we've been looking for. | ||
| Producer ALX tells me there are four outstanding no votes. | ||
| So we'll see. | ||
| Where that – how that plays out. | ||
| We are going to bring you in – we're going to bring you, of course, the – obviously the voting in real time. | ||
| And the quorum vote continues. | ||
| I mean the quorum continues to sort of just have people muddle. | ||
| I will tell you this as somebody who's watched a considerable amount of C-SPAN speeches and as somebody who sat inside of the press gallery. | ||
| In these halls, more hours than I can count. | ||
| I used to have an office, actually, literally right above the news publication that I worked for. | ||
| I had an office right above the press gallery. | ||
| I was working there every single day. | ||
| Every single day, I'd work inside of these galleries. | ||
| This ish goes slowly, man. | ||
| You know? | ||
| By design. | ||
| By design, this stuff goes slowly. | ||
| And so we have... | ||
| So we're going to have this slow as molasses situation here, and what else can you do? | ||
| I mean, we're going to take care of it. | ||
| We're going to call balls and strikes. | ||
| I'm going to show you why Speaker Jordan is the best speaker for the House. | ||
| Apparently, they're waiting for four quorum to come through and then vote. | ||
| So there's three people left that need to come in and tick their box for a quorum. | ||
| Classic. | ||
| Washington, D.C. 15 minutes to just go punch a button and they cannot do it. | ||
| How many of you have kids with iPads that could have punched a button in 15 minutes? | ||
| My kids probably punch a button. | ||
| If you bring my children onto an elevator, they will hit every... | ||
| It's like the scene in Elf where Will Ferrell touches every button, but somehow these grown-ass members of Congress can't be brought in to go touch a button so that we can get on with the business of governing. | ||
| That is exactly what Jim Jordan did. | ||
| Now, we've talked to you about how there wouldn't have been this lie, the Benghazi video. | ||
| The Benghazi video! | ||
| Oh my god. | ||
| Like, I want to find that guy. | ||
| What happened to that guy? | ||
| The guy was arrested. | ||
| They arrested some innocent dude who made a camcorder-like video in his basement. | ||
| And they blamed Benghazi on him. | ||
| As though ISIS in Libya was watching some dude's VHS tapes. | ||
| Jim Jordan called out Hillary Clinton on that. | ||
| We played you that clip. | ||
| The reason why we would have been able to debunk that today, like, be happy. | ||
| Be joyous warriors. | ||
| Be happy warriors. | ||
| Because we have the capacity to actually destroy that. | ||
| We would have never allowed that to happen today. | ||
| They would have never been able to lie like that today. | ||
| They would have been humiliated. | ||
| We just got a bunch of Americans killed! | ||
| Oh, it's because of this guy! | ||
| Making really poorly lit Uh, Mohammed fantasy fiction films in his basement. | ||
| I don't even know what the hell the guy was doing. | ||
| I saw the video. | ||
| It's ridiculous. | ||
| A bunch of people dressed up in bedsheets, like, acting like they're Mohammed or something. | ||
| And Hillary Clinton's like, that's the guy! | ||
| That's why ISIS attacked us in Libya. | ||
| We haven't, like, totally destroyed the Middle East or anything. | ||
| And then refused to protect America. | ||
| The reason why we know this... | ||
| Of course, it's because of X. I mean, a platform that we deeply, deeply enjoy operating on. | ||
| There was a censor, the guy who actually deleted Donald Trump's account. | ||
| They banned Donald Trump from Twitter. | ||
| This guy's name is Yol Roth. | ||
| He is the, he's the wormiest, the wormiest little rat. | ||
| I mean, he's rat-like in his features. | ||
| He's slithery. | ||
| He's a despicable individual, and he was put – he was squirmed like a worm when Jim Jordan brought him in for questioning about banning conservatives on Twitter, which was a hellscape of something that happened to our company, ALX famously. | ||
| Producer ALX was famously banned on Twitter. | ||
| Why? | ||
| Oh, because he was just – because he was too good at it. | ||
| No reason. | ||
| No reason. | ||
| Believe me, I've seen this. | ||
| I saw this all up close. | ||
| I thought I had friends at Twitter. | ||
| Nope. | ||
| The powers that be, the communist and Marxist powers that be decided to ban – My boy, our executive producer, ALX, because he was effective. | ||
| They tried to kill his career. | ||
| Now luckily, the Benny Brigade, this audience, obviously we got our boys. | ||
| We're a family around here. | ||
| We are a family. | ||
| We take care of each other. | ||
| ALX is back now. | ||
| 600,000. | ||
| ALX, you got 600,000? | ||
| You got 600,000 yet on X? | ||
| There you go. | ||
| ALX is back, baby. | ||
| 600,000 people can't be wrong. | ||
| 602,000 to be exact. | ||
| ALX is back, baby. | ||
| But without Elon Musk, we wouldn't know. | ||
| The man who tortured some of the best conservatives out there and who deleted the president of the United States was brought in by Jim Jordan for questioning. | ||
| And it went hard. | ||
| Jim Jordan went hard. | ||
| Ratchet stuff here. | ||
| Watch. | ||
| You've got the government saying your terms of service, which don't have to comply with the First Amendment, but the government saying we don't think these accounts comply with your terms of service, please take them down. | ||
| You see a problem there, Mr. Roth? | ||
| Mr. Chairman, I'm seeing a flashing red light. | ||
| I'm happy to answer the question. | ||
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Do I think that that's a valuable use of the FBI's time? | |
| No, but I don't see in a request for review a problem under the First Amendment, no. | ||
| I sure do. | ||
| I thank the gentleman. | ||
| I'll get back. | ||
| It is... | ||
| Now we are at... | ||
| Let's go. | ||
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Okay. | |
| Speeches. | ||
| Let's go. | ||
| Elise Stefanik giving a nominating speech. | ||
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Let's go. | |
| A time of great crisis across America. | ||
| A time of historic challenges in this very chamber. | ||
| And a time when heinous acts of terror and evil have been committed against our great ally, Israel. | ||
| As this body convenes for the sacred responsibility to elect the next speaker of the People's House, I am reminded of the Book of Esther. | ||
| For such a time is this. | ||
| Jim Jordan will be America's speaker for such a time as this. | ||
| A time when hardworking American families are struggling under the vice of inflation, not able to afford groceries, heat, or gas because of the trillions and trillions of dollars of reckless spending by failed far-left government. | ||
| A time when millions are being illegally trafficked and smuggled across our southern and northern borders due to the catastrophic and inhumane wide-open borders of Joe Biden. | ||
| A time when violent crime is skyrocketing across America. | ||
| Destroying our great cities, suburbs, and small towns, where people no longer feel safe in their homes or in their communities. | ||
| A time when American energy production has been crushed by Joe Biden's radical failed far-left policies, causing seniors, farmers, and families to pay more at the pump and struggle with skyrocketing utility bills. | ||
| A time when the federal government is weaponized against we the people. | ||
| Who they are supposed to serve. | ||
| Stripping us of our God-given constitutional rights and wrongfully targeting conservatives, Catholics, and even parents at school board meetings. | ||
| And a time when the people of our closest and most precious ally, Israel, suffered the bloodiest day since the Holocaust with acts of inhumane evil committed by Hamas terrorists backed by Iran. | ||
| Grotesque atrocities. | ||
| The beheadings of babies, rapes, kidnappings, and slaughter of women, children, and the elderly, and Israelis and Americans taken hostage. | ||
| We are here in this very chamber for such a time as this. | ||
| Jim Jordan will be we the people speaker for such a time as this. | ||
| Our friend and colleague Jim Jordan is a patriot. | ||
| He is an America first warrior who wins the toughest of fights, going after corruption and delivering accountability at the highest levels of government on behalf of we, the people. | ||
| Jim is the voice of the American people who have felt voiceless for far too long. | ||
| Whether as judiciary chair, conservative leader, or representative for his constituents in West Central Ohio, whether on the wrestling mat or in the committee room, Jim Jordan is strategic, scrappy, tough, and principled. | ||
| He is a mentor, a worker, and above all, he is a fighter. | ||
| And the American people know, we know, that Jim Jordan is a winner on behalf of the American people. | ||
| Almost 10 years ago, Many of us sat with our colleague Jim Jordan in this very chamber when Prime Minister Netanyahu delivered his historic joint address, which some of our colleagues across the aisle shamefully boycotted. | ||
| Bibi pointed out that in this very chamber, we serve under the watchful gaze of Moses. | ||
| He said, quote, He went on to say, | ||
| End quote. | ||
| On behalf of the American people, let's face the future with confidence, strength, and hope. | ||
| Let's elect Jim Jordan, our Speaker of the People's House, for such a time as this. | ||
| and I yield back. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| Thank you. | ||
| Generalwoman yields back. | ||
| The chair now recognizes this gentleman from California, Mr. Aguilar. | ||
| Mr. Speaker Pro Tem, with great respect for this institution, as chairman of the Democratic Caucus, I am directed by the vote of that caucus to present for election to the office of the Speaker of the House of Representatives the name of the Honorable Hakeem Jeffries, the pride of Crown Heights, a representative from the state of New York. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Mr. Speaker Pro Tem, this is not the history we wanted to make here in the House. | ||
| It's something that none of us imagined when we were sworn in to this office. | ||
| We are here because the House has been thrown into chaos. | ||
| We are here because this hallowed chamber has been led to a breaking point by two dangerous forces, extremism and partisanship. | ||
| The American people place their faith in us to tackle their most pressing issues, lowering costs, The choice before us is simple. | ||
| Come together on a bipartisan path forward or take us over the cliff. | ||
| Abandon the extremism that is preventing us from getting things done or triple down on division and dysfunction. | ||
| A vote today to make the architect of a nationwide abortion ban, a vocal election denier, And an insurrection insider to the Speaker of this House would be a terrible message to the country and our allies. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Mr. Speaker, it would send an even more troubling message to our enemies. | ||
| That the very people who would seek to undermine democracy are rewarded with positions of immense power. | ||
| We're talking about someone who has spent his entire career trying to hold our country back, putting our national security in danger, attempting government shutdown after government shutdown, wasting taxpayer dollars on baseless investigations with dead ends, authoring the very bill that would ban abortion nationwide without exceptions, and inciting violence on this chamber. | ||
| Even leaders of his own party have called him a legislative terrorist. | ||
| He once said, quote, I didn't come to Congress to make more laws. | ||
| His words speak for themselves. | ||
| When New Yorkers recovering from Hurricane Sandy needed Congress to act, he said no. | ||
| When wildfires ravaged the West, destroying homes and businesses and those residents needed disaster assistance, he said no. | ||
| When the Mississippi River floods devastated the South and communities across state lines needed Congress to act, he said no. | ||
| When our veterans were suffering from disease and dying as a result of their service to our country and Congress passed a bipartisan solution, he said no. | ||
| When our ally in Ukraine looked to Congress for additional support to help defeat Putin, he said no. | ||
| And just before Hamas' brutal terrorist attack on Israel, he said no to fully funding military aid for our ally. | ||
| This body is debating elevating a speaker nominee who has not passed a single bill in 16 years. | ||
| These are not the actions of someone interested in governing or bettering the lives of everyday Americans. | ||
| This is nothing less than the rejection of the oath that we swore to uphold, is duly elected members of this body. | ||
| But on this side of the aisle and throughout this chamber, I'm convinced our oath still matters. | ||
| To fulfill our obligations to the American people, we have no choice today but to vote for a leader of both character and conviction. | ||
| When the Congress first began, we proudly stood next to him as our leader and made a promise to every American. | ||
| House Democrats would work to find common ground. | ||
| On the issues that matter most to the American people whenever possible. | ||
| That we would stand up to extremism whenever necessary. | ||
| Only Hakeem Jeffries can be trusted to keep his word. | ||
| Only Hakeem Jeffries can lead us out of the chaos and towards a path of governance. | ||
| It brings me immense pride to nominate our friend, the Democratic leader, Hakeem Jeffries'speaker. | ||
| Almost. | ||
| I'm not done yet. | ||
| I'm not done yet. | ||
| He may just be the candidate with the most votes, but he is also the candidate with the most credibility. | ||
| If the goal is to continue a 30-year march to hollow out our democratic institutions, weaken our democracy, And emboldened extremists, there's a candidate for you. | ||
| If the goal is to continue taking marching orders from a twice-impeached former president with more than 90 pending felony charges, then there is a candidate for you. | ||
| The world is watching, Mr. Speaker Pro Tem. | ||
| Our allies in Ukraine and Israel are watching and waiting. | ||
| So let's have this vote, but let's be clear. | ||
| A vote for the gentleman from Ohio is a vote to turn your back on national security. | ||
| It's a vote to turn your back on a bipartisan path to fund the government and avoid shutdowns, something we can only do if we reject his nomination. | ||
| House Democrats are in the minority. | ||
| We realize that. | ||
| If House Republicans wanted to elect a speaker without us, then they could have. | ||
| There is still a path forward. | ||
| For both Democrats and Republicans to come together to elect a speaker who can unite us behind a common purpose. | ||
| Keeping the government open on a bipartisan compromise that won more than 300 votes just four months ago in this chamber. | ||
| Taking up an up or down vote on help so Israel can defeat Hamas and Ukraine can defeat Putin. | ||
| And reassuring the American people So, yeah. | ||
| So, yeah. | ||
| That's just a reminder that the lesbian dance theory, liberal arts college activists have taken over Congress. | ||
| What happens when the theater kids take over Congress? | ||
| Hakeem Jeffries! | ||
| He voted now! | ||
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The names of the Honorable Jim Jordan, a representative from the state of Ohio, and the Honorable Hakeem Jeffries, a representative from the state of New York, have been placed in nomination. | |
| Are there further nominations? | ||
| Everyone shut up. | ||
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There being no further nominations, the chair appoints the following tellers. | |
| The gentleman from Wisconsin, Mr. Stile. | ||
| The gentleman from New York, Mr. Morelli. | ||
| The gentleman from Georgia, Mr. Loudermilk. | ||
| The gentlewoman from Alabama, Ms. Sewell. | ||
| The tellers will come forward and take their seats at the desk in front of the Speaker's roster. | ||
| So these are people who witnessed the votes, right, and witnessed the vote counting. | ||
| Who are designates from each party. | ||
| They sit there and they, you know, make sure that the votes are square. | ||
| Of course, we could never do our federal elections like this. | ||
| They would never allow our federal elections to have such transparency. | ||
| But that's a totally, that's a different story. | ||
| Hey, Benny for speaker. | ||
| Maybe someday. | ||
| Maybe someday. | ||
| So, without any further nominations, this is a huge win for Jim Jordan. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| So, I want you to know this is a monster win for Jim Jordan. | ||
| With no other nominations, that means that they can't, like, peel off and have, you know, oh, we decide that we're going to vote for Liz Cheney and Mitt Romney on the unity ticket. | ||
| That kind of stupid asshat stuff, a bunch of smooth-brained CNN watchers inside of Congress, they buy that kind of stuff. | ||
| They go for that kind of stuff. | ||
| So I'm really happy that that candy corn garbage isn't happening. | ||
| This is a very huge thing, that there were no other nominations. | ||
| So it is possible now that Jim Jordan gets it in one vote. | ||
| We'll see what happens. | ||
| Now is the time. | ||
| It is possible that this is the moment that Jim Jordan just goes ahead and gets it. | ||
| I don't know what that was. | ||
| It wasn't our end. | ||
| This is the C-SPAN feed. | ||
| Obviously, this is the only feed that's allowed inside of Congress. | ||
| The C-SPAN feed are the only cameras that are allowed in Congress. | ||
| C-SPAN is a creation of Congress for transparency. | ||
| You can argue whether it's good or not, but we like it for our show. | ||
| And so, again, we are going to be watching the – We're going to be watching the votes here in a moment. | ||
| There is a huge chance that Jim Jordan actually gets this on the first vote. | ||
| Now, here's the details that... | ||
| I didn't want to interrupt the nominating speeches, but here are the details that have been coalescing behind the scenes. | ||
| Apparently, Kevin McCarthy has asked all the people that want to hold out for Jim Jordan to vote present. | ||
| So if they vote present, if they don't vote against Jordan and they vote present, they'll just be counted amongst the majority of Republicans, right? | ||
| So they won't actually have to vote for Jim Jordan. | ||
| I don't know why that's a problem for these people. | ||
| But they won't actually vote for Jim Jordan. | ||
| They'll just vote present. | ||
| And so then they'll be counted as Republicans present, and then the votes will go to Republicans, to the Republican majority. | ||
| Therefore, Jim Jordan could win without anyone voting against him. | ||
| McCarthy is asking his people... | ||
| Not his people, but there have been at least a half dozen people that said, I want to vote for Kevin McCarthy! | ||
| McCarthy's like, fine, just vote present, please. | ||
| McCarthy also sitting, you can see him right there, sitting right behind Jim Jordan. | ||
| So McCarthy throwing his full weight behind Jim Jordan. | ||
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Here's the house come to order. | |
| Here we go. | ||
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The role will now be called, and those responding to their names. | |
| We'll indicate by surname the nominee of their choosing. | ||
| Here we go. | ||
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The reading clerk will now call the roll. | |
| Adams. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Adderholt. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Aguilar. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Alford. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Boom. | ||
| Shout it out! | ||
| Allen. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Remember, we need 218. | ||
| Here it is. | ||
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Jeffries. | |
| Amode. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Armstrong. | ||
| Come on. | ||
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Jordan. | |
| All the way in the back. | ||
| Let's hear it. | ||
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Jordan. | |
| Auchincloss. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Babin. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Bacon. | ||
| McCarthy. | ||
| Okay, so there's a vote for McCarthy. | ||
| Don Bacon from Nebraska. | ||
| There's a vote for Kevin McCarthy. | ||
| Kevin McCarthy's not standing to be speaker. | ||
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Jordan. | |
| Balderson. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Balance. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Banks. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Barr. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Berrigan. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Bean of Florida. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Beatty. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Vince. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Barra. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Bergman. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Fire. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Vice. | ||
| Okay, baby. | ||
| Let's go. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Biggs. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Bilirakis. | ||
| Bilirakis. | ||
| Bishop of Georgia. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Bishop of North Carolina. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Blumenauer. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Rochester. | ||
| I like to vote for a racist. | ||
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Jeffries. | |
| Boebert. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Nice. | ||
| Lauren! | ||
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Do it! | |
| Jeffries. | ||
| Bost. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Shout it out! | ||
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Bowman. | |
| Jeffries. | ||
| Jamal Bowman. | ||
| Pulls the fire alarm. | ||
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Royal of Pennsylvania. | |
| Hakeem Jeffries! | ||
| Bring! | ||
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Brakeen. | |
| Jordan. | ||
| Brown. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Brownlee. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Buchanan. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Buck. | ||
| Buck. | ||
| Bouchon. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| So did Buck not vote? | ||
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Jeffries. | |
| That was Ken Buck from Colorado. | ||
|
unidentified
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Burgess. | |
| Did not vote. | ||
|
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Burleson. | |
| Jordan. | ||
| So that means that they're twisting his arm right now. | ||
|
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Calvert. | |
| Jordan. | ||
| So at the end, they'll ask the people who didn't vote if they want to issue a vote, right? | ||
| So something's going on with Ken Buck. | ||
|
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Jeffries. | |
| Who was one of the holdouts. | ||
|
unidentified
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Jeffries. | |
| Because... | ||
| Ken Bach wants a CNN job. | ||
|
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Cardenas. | |
| Kerry. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Carl. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Carson. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Carter of Georgia. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Carter of Louisiana. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Carter of Texas. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Cartwright. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Kassar. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Case. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Caston. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Castor of Florida. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Castro of Texas. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Chavez de Reamer. | ||
| McCarthy. | ||
| Sheer Phyllis McCormick. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Chu. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Cisco Moni. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Clark of Massachusetts. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Clark of New York. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Cleaver. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Klein. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Cloud. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Clyburn. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Clyde. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Cohen. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Cole. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Collins. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Comer. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Connelly. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Correa. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Costa. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Courtney. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Craig. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Crane. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Crawford. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Crenshaw. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Crockett. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Crow. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Cuellar. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Curtis. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Davids of Kansas. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Davidson. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Davis of Illinois. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Davis of North Carolina. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Dean of Pennsylvania. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| DeGette. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| De La Cruz. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| DeLauro. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| DelBene. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Delusio. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Desaunye. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Desjardins. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| D 'Esposito. | ||
| Lee Zelton. | ||
| Zeltan. | ||
| Diaz-Balart. | ||
| Excuse me. | ||
| Dingle. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Doggett. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Donalds. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Duarte. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Duncan. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Dun of Florida. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Edwards. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Elsie. | ||
| Mike Garcia. | ||
| Garcia. | ||
| Emmer. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Escobar. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Eshoo. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Esfayat. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Estes. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Evans. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Ezell, Jordan. | ||
| Fallon, Jordan. | ||
| Feenstra, Jordan. | ||
| Ferguson, Jordan. | ||
| Finstad, Jordan. | ||
| Fischbach, Jordan. | ||
| Fitzgerald. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Fitzpatrick. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Fleischman. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Fletcher. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Flood. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Foster. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Fushi. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Fox. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Lois Frankel. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Scott Franklin. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Frost. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Fry. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Fulcher. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Gates. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Gallagher. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Gallego. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Garamendi. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Garbarino. | ||
| Zeldin. | ||
| Mike Garcia. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Robert Garcia. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Garcia of Illinois. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Garcia of Texas. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Jimenez. | ||
| McCarthy. | ||
| Golden of Maine, Jeffries. | ||
| Goldman of New York, Jeffries. | ||
| Gomez. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Tony Gonzalez. | ||
| Vicente Gonzalez. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Good of Virginia. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Gutten of Texas. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Gosar. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Gottheimer. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Granger. | ||
| Grainger. | ||
| Scalise. | ||
| Graves of Louisiana. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Graves of Missouri. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Green of Tennessee. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Green of Texas. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Green of Georgia. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Griffith. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Grijalva. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Grossman. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Guest. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Guthrie. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Hageman. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Harder of California. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Harris. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Harshbarger. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Hayes. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Hearn. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Higgins of Louisiana. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Higgins of New York. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Hill. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Hines. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Hinson. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Horsford. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Houchen. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Houlihan. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Hoyer. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Hoyle of Oregon. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Hudson. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Huffman, Jeffries. | ||
| Huizinga, Jordan. | ||
| Hunt, Jordan. | ||
| Issa, Jordan. | ||
| Ivy, Jeffries. | ||
| Jackson of Illinois, Jeffries. | ||
| Jackson of North Carolina. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Jackson of Texas. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Jackson Lee. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Jacobs. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| James. | ||
| James. | ||
| Jayopal. | ||
| Jayapal. | ||
| jefferies jefferies jefferies Johnson of Georgia. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Johnson of Louisiana. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Johnson of Ohio. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Johnson of South Dakota. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Joyce of Ohio. | ||
| Joyce of Ohio. | ||
| Joyce of Pennsylvania. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Camlogger Dove. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Taptor. | ||
| Liberty's first, the Honorable Joaquin Jeffries. | ||
| Jeffries Kane of New Jersey Jordan Keating Jeffries Kelly of Illinois Jeffries Kelly of Mississippi Jordan Kelly of Pennsylvania Scalise Kana, | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Kiggins of Virginia. | ||
| McCarthy. | ||
| McCarthy. | ||
| Kildee, Jeffries. | ||
| Kylie, Jordan. | ||
| Kilmer, Jeffries. | ||
| Kim of California. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Kim of New Jersey. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Krishnamoorthy. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Custer. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Kustoff. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Lahood. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Lalota. | ||
| Zeldin. | ||
| LaMalfa. | ||
| LaMalfa. | ||
| Lamborn. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Landsman. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Langworthy. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Larson of Washington. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Larson of Connecticut. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Latta. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Letourner Jordan Lawler McCarthy Lee of California Jeffries Lee of Florida Jordan Lee of Nevada Jeffries. | ||
| is Lee of Pennsylvania. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Ledger Fernandez. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Lesko. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Letlow. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Levin. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Lou. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Lofgren. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Loudermilk. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Lucas. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Luke Kermeyer. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Luna. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Luttrell. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Lynch. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Mace. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Magaziner. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Maleotakis. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Man. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Manning. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Massey. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Mast. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Matsui. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Macbeth. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| McCarthy. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| McCall. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| McClain. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| McClellan. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| McClintock. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| McCullum. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| McCormick. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| McGarvey. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| McGovern. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| McHenry. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Meeks. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Menendez. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Meng. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Muser. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Mfume. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Miller of Illinois. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Miller of Ohio. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Miller of West Virginia. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Miller Meeks. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Mills. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Molinaro. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Molinar. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Mooney. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Moore of Alabama. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Moore of Utah. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Moore of Wisconsin. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Moran. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Morelli. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Moskowitz. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Moulton. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Moran. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Mullen, Jeffries. | ||
| Murphy, Jordan. | ||
| Nadler, Jeffries. | ||
| Napolitano, Jeffries. | ||
| Neil, Jeffries. | ||
| Negus, Jeffries. | ||
| Nails, Jordan. | ||
| Newhouse, Jordan. | ||
| Nickel, Jeffries. | ||
| Norcross, Jeffries. | ||
| Norman, Jordan. | ||
| None of Iowa. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Obernolte. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Ocasio-Cortez. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Ogles. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Omar. | ||
| Omar. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Owens. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Pallone. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Palmer. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Panetta. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Pappas. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Pascrell. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Payne. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Pelosi. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Peltola Jeffries. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Pence, Jordan. | ||
| Perez, Jeffries. | ||
| Perry, Jordan. | ||
| Peters, Jeffries. | ||
| Pedersen, Jeffries. | ||
| Pfluger, Jordan. | ||
| Phillips, Jeffries. | ||
| Pingree. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Pokan. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Porter. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Posey. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Presley. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Quigley. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Ramirez. | ||
| Jeffries Raskin Jeffries Rushenthaler Jordan Rogers of Washington Jordan Rogers of Alabama Jordan Rogers of Kentucky Jordan Rose, | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Rosendale, Jordan. | ||
| Ross, Jeffries. | ||
| Rouser, Jordan. | ||
| Roy, Jordan. | ||
| Ruiz, Jeffries. | ||
| Ruppersberger. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Rutherford. | ||
| Scalise Ryan. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Salazar. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Salinez. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Sanchez. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Santos. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Sarbanes. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Scalise. | ||
| Jim Jordan. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Scanlon. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Schakowsky. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Schiff. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Schneider. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Skolten. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Schreier. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Schweikert. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Austin Scott. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| David Scott. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Scott of Virginia. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Self. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Sessions. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Sewell. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Sherman. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Cheryl. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Simpson. | ||
| Scalise. | ||
| Slatkin. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Smith of Missouri. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Smith of Nebraska, Jordan. | ||
| Smith of New Jersey, Jordan. | ||
| Smith of Washington, Jeffries. | ||
| Smucker, Jordan. | ||
| Sorensen, Jeffries. | ||
| Soto, Jeffries. | ||
| Spanberger. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Sparks. | ||
| Sparks. | ||
| Stansbury. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Stanton. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Stauber. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Steel, Jordan. | ||
| Stefanik, Jordan. | ||
| Style, Jordan. | ||
| Stubbe, Jordan. | ||
| Stephens, Jeffries. | ||
| Strickland, Jeffries. | ||
| Strong, Jordan. | ||
| Swalwell. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Sykes. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Takano. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Tenney. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Tanadar. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Thompson of California. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Thompson of Mississippi, Jeffries. | ||
| Thompson of Pennsylvania, Jordan. | ||
| Tiffany, Jordan. | ||
| Timmons, Jordan. | ||
| Titus, Jeffries. | ||
| Tlaib, Jeffries. | ||
| Takuda, Jeffries. | ||
| Tonko, Jeffries. | ||
| Torres of California, Jeffries. | ||
| Torres of New York, Jeffries. | ||
| Trahan, Jeffries. | ||
| Trone, Jeffries. | ||
| Turner. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Underwood. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Valadeo. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Van Drew. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Van Dyne. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Van Orden. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Vargas. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Vasquez. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Vesey. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Velasquez. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Wagner. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Wahlberg. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Waltz. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Wasserman Schultz. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| waters. | ||
| Who could hear how to do their versus an insurrection? | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Watson Coleman. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Weber of Texas. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Webster of Florida. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Winstrup. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Westerman. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Wexton. | ||
| Jeffries Wild Jeffries Williams of Georgia Jeffries Williams of New York Jordan Williams of Texas Jordan Wilson of Florida Jeffries. | ||
| Wilson of South Carolina. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Whitman. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Womack. | ||
| Scalise. | ||
| Yacom. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Zinke. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Let's switch pens now. | ||
| All right, so I have 199, 224. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, we have popped off there for the tally of the votes. | ||
| It certainly looks like Jim Jordan's first round voting here has gone down in flames. | ||
| We'll see if somebody changes their votes or changes their votes to present. | ||
| You can still do that. | ||
| There are a lot of rats in the Republican Party, man. | ||
| A lot of rats. | ||
| A lot of scumbags. | ||
| So there's 16 people who voted for someone other than Jim Jordan, even though nobody is standing against Jim Jordan for speakership. | ||
| Not a single person has been nominated. | ||
| This is not even a valid vote, right? | ||
| Like, not a single person been nominated against Jim Jordan. | ||
| So you have 16 Republicans who have effectively voted with Democrats. | ||
| We're getting ready to name them. | ||
| And some people who didn't vote. | ||
| Some members who didn't vote. | ||
| So we have Ken Buck and Victoria Sparks who actually refused to vote. | ||
| Presumably waiting until the very end. | ||
| But we have 16 so far Republicans who voted. | ||
| Not a single Democrat. | ||
| Not a single Democrat. | ||
|
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This will be big. | |
| Bill Arrakis. | ||
| Bill Arrakis. | ||
| Buck. | ||
| Emmer. | ||
| There you go. | ||
| So, Ken Buck voting for Tom Emmer, who's right now the whip, who is again not standing for speaker. | ||
|
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|
Cardenas. | |
| Jeffries. | ||
| James. | ||
| Cole. | ||
| So there's another vote for someone other than Jim Jordan from the Republican side. | ||
|
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Mr. Joyce of Ohio. | |
| Joyce of Ohio. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| LaMalfa. | ||
| McCarthy. | ||
| So there's another Republican who voted for somebody who's not standing to be speaker. | ||
|
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|
So, here we go. | |
| Let's listen to Sparts. | ||
|
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|
Sparts. | |
| Massey. | ||
| So Thomas Massey, again, not standing for election. | ||
| So, as you can hear them tallying up, they're tallying what you see up here. | ||
| 200 votes for Jim Jordan, 212 votes for Jeffries. | ||
| That's every single Democrat. | ||
| Every single Democrat voting for the Democrat nominee. | ||
| Yet you have 20 Republicans who refuse to vote for Jim Jordan. | ||
| Even though there's not a single person that is standing against Jim Jordan for election, ladies and gentlemen, those Republicans are, as follows their last names here, Don Bacon, Chavez Demir, D 'Esposito, Diaz-Balart, Isley, Gambrino, Jimenez, Gonzalez, Granger, Kelly, Kiggins, Lailora, Lawyer, Rutherford, Simpson, Womack. | ||
| Those are Republicans, that is the list that we have so far, that have voted against Jim Jordan by effectively voting for another Republican, if I'm remembering this correctly. | ||
| Not everyone voted for either Kevin McCarthy, Steve Scalise, Tom Colvin got a vote. | ||
| Totally weird. | ||
| Emmer got a single vote. | ||
| So the full list, ladies and gentlemen, of people voting against Jim Jordan. | ||
| Now you see, of course, McCarthy and there's Jordan. | ||
| And they're having, of course, a Republican conference here. | ||
| Jim Jordan is speaking then there with Tom Emmer, who got a vote for speaker. | ||
| Jim Jordan is smiling. | ||
| Perhaps this was just a show of force in order to extract some type of concession from Jordan. | ||
| For, of course, what these people will want is Ukraine funding, funding for Israel, or something to that effect. | ||
| This is a concession operation, it seems. | ||
| But that is more votes against Jim Jordan than I thought there were going to be. | ||
| I thought there would be five, maybe ten, more than I thought. | ||
| And without a single person running against Jim Jordan, we assumed that maybe Jim Jordan could take it on the first ballot. | ||
| So all they need is for people to either switch their votes to present, right? | ||
| And then they'd be lumped in with the Republican majority, or switch their votes to Jordan. | ||
| But now that these votes are being tallied and counted, you're going to see a big goose egg there on the present, right? | ||
| Democrats stick together. | ||
| There are no Democrats that are Republicans. | ||
| There are at least 20 Republicans that are Democrats. | ||
| Now some of these people, it's really fascinating to see, some of these people are out tweeting. | ||
| One of the members tweeted, one of the members who voted against Jim Jordan is Carlos Jimenez, and he's a representative from Florida. | ||
| Florida 28. Tweeting, for the record, I've always been only Kevin. | ||
| I've been okay, meaning only Kevin. | ||
| Eight colleagues joined the socialists in Congress to remove our duly elected Republican Speaker McCarthy. | ||
| That should never have happened in the first place. | ||
| Now, this is a man who voted for Hillary Clinton. | ||
| He voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016. | ||
| What the hell does that tell you? | ||
| That means he's compromised. | ||
| If you're voting against Donald Trump in 2016, then you're compromised. | ||
| So, what are you talking about, joining with the socialists? | ||
| You joined with Hildebeest in 2016 against Donald Trump and against your own party's interests. | ||
| So, again, the rats are being smoked out, but does that mean if he's saying, I'm only Kevin, that means he'll never vote for Jim Jordan? | ||
| Well, that's your problem, is people who will never vote for Jim Jordan, right? | ||
| So, if people are never... | ||
| People are only Kevin or never Jim. | ||
| I guess something that you could, a new pejorative you could create. | ||
| Then you're going to have a hard time because Jim Jordan can only lose five votes. | ||
|
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|
Four votes. | |
| Between four and five depending on who votes present, right? | ||
| And so you have a very sticky situation here. | ||
| You can see there Nancy Pelosi. | ||
| Shoving her dentures back into her mouth. | ||
| Blackout drunk. | ||
| You can see people buckling up. | ||
| What's going to happen? | ||
| I mean, they're tallying the votes. | ||
| Everyone knows what the votes are. | ||
| So, you don't have a House Speaker, right? | ||
| So you need to get to 218 to be a House Speaker. | ||
| Could you potentially have six Republicans vote with Democrats? | ||
| And elect Hakeem Jeffries? | ||
| Yeah, you could. | ||
| You absolutely could. | ||
| I mean, it would be the end of their careers. | ||
|
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|
But it's possible. | |
| There are people, like Ken Buck, who... | ||
| Ken Buck is one of these guys who would love, love to get a job at CNN. | ||
| He's an old dude. | ||
| He wants a job at CNN. | ||
| He wants to get out of politics. | ||
| He never got a part of the Biden grift, and so he didn't become a rich man, presumably, in politics. | ||
| And so now he wishes to go get some cashed-out CNN. | ||
| And this is just CNN paying Republicans like Adam Kinzinger and Liz Cheney to betray their own party, right? | ||
| So they do this. | ||
| It's blood money. | ||
| It's 30 shekels of silver. | ||
| And these rhinos may be, like, hunting, you know, foraging for jobs in cable news, and this is the way to do it. | ||
| Betray your own voters, betray your own party, and shove your giant rhino horn directly up the ass of the interests of your party. | ||
| So, we have a situation where the House might actually recess. | ||
| The House will likely recess right now after Jim Jordan lost 20 votes on the House floor, according to Jake Sherman, one of the... | ||
| Better Capitol Hill reporters out there. | ||
| So we'll see. | ||
| Again, it is important to note that people are pretty upset about this. | ||
| I'm pretty upset about this. | ||
| Jim Jordan is, look, what Republicans are doing, 20 Republicans are doing, by voting against Jim Jordan. | ||
| Are preventing subpoenas from hitting Dr. Fauci, Hunter Biden, Joe Biden, preventing all the oversight work in Congress, and leading to further upheaval. | ||
| Now, are people upset with Matt Gaetz? | ||
| Yeah, I think that some people are very upset with Matt Gaetz. | ||
| We'll take a step back and look at what happens for the rest of the day. | ||
| I think there's a lot of people that have a lot of right to be really upset about. | ||
| This entire situation. | ||
| And I can see it from both sides, quite frankly. | ||
| This is, however, a cataclysmic result of not winning enough seats in Congress. | ||
| If Republicans had a 20-seat majority, this would never happen, right? | ||
| Because you have enough people, especially young people, that would come through and play the game. | ||
| But Republicans have a slim majority, and so you have to, like, govern via that slim majority. | ||
| And so then we get a situation like this. | ||
| People on one side are going to be really, really pissed. | ||
| People on the other side are going to be really pissed. | ||
| I'm really pissed that Jim Jordan didn't do it in the first ballot. | ||
| That would have been awesome. | ||
| And I'm not the only one. | ||
| Brian Kilmeade, actually on Fox, cursed on air, didn't know he had a hot mic on. | ||
| And when people started voting against Jim Jordan, Don Bacon of Nebraska being the first person to do that, Brian Kilmeade had himself a hot mic moment on Fox News. | ||
| We have that captured for you. | ||
| And because there are no speeches going on right now, I know business going on right now. | ||
| Then we'll play that for you. | ||
| You're going to love this. | ||
| I called him a dumbass. | ||
| Watch. | ||
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Jordan. | |
| Auchincloss. | ||
| Jeffries. | ||
| Babin. | ||
| Jordan. | ||
| Bacon. | ||
| McCarthy. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Dumbass. | ||
| Dumbass! | ||
| Alright, well, we have news from one of our favorites, Anna Paulina Luna, who says this has all been expected and that nobody should panic. | ||
| Hold the line. | ||
| This is what they expected, Anna Paulina Luna says. | ||
| Anna Paulina Luna is awesome. | ||
| She's a friend of the show. | ||
| She's friends of us. | ||
| She just had a child. | ||
| A baby. | ||
| Her first. | ||
| And so she was actually, they weren't sure if she was going to be needed to be, you know, she was on maternity leave and if she was going to be needed back in D.C. She arrived in D.C. to vote for Jim Jordan. | ||
| This is her first time back in D.C. Ladies and gentlemen, let's pop back in here to listen to the results. | ||
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Jim Jordan of the state of Ohio has received 200 votes. | |
| The Honorable Hakeem Jeffries of the State of New York has received 212 votes. | ||
| The Honorable Kevin McCarthy of the state of California has received six votes. | ||
| Lee Zeldin of the state of New York has received three. | ||
| The Honorable Steve Scalise of the state of Louisiana has received seven. | ||
| The Honorable Mike Garcia of the state of California has received one. | ||
| The Honorable Tom Emmer of the state of Minnesota has received one. | ||
| The Honorable Tom Cole of the state of Oklahoma has received one. | ||
| The Honorable Thomas Massey of the state of Kentucky has received One. | ||
| No person having received a majority of the whole number of votes cast by surname, a speaker has not been elected. | ||
| Pursuant to Clause 12A of Rule 1, the chair declares the house in recess subject to the call of the chair. | ||
| Okay, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| So here we go. | ||
| House in recess. | ||
| I want to get up this Anna Polina Luna tweet, please. | ||
| Let's throw this up there because I think that's pretty – I think this is pretty important. | ||
| Ana Plena Luna is a friend of the show. | ||
| She's also somebody who's very close with Jim Jordan. | ||
| This has been – had been backing Jim Jordan since the beginning, right, in January. | ||
| She says, hold the line. | ||
| They got it. | ||
| They got it down. | ||
| They've figured this out and that this is expected. | ||
| So what would be the expectation here? | ||
| Now, I know there's a lot of people – we've been reading the comments. | ||
| We've been putting the comments up on screen. | ||
| Honorable Luna, hold the line. | ||
| This is expected. | ||
| Why would this be expected? | ||
| And why are people now starting to flip to Jordan? | ||
| So we now are hearing reports that various members, like Rep. | ||
| LaMifa, has and will switch to Jordan on the next ballot. | ||
| He wanted to vote for McCarthy on the first ballot as a statement of allegiance, I suppose, to McCarthy. | ||
| So now he's switching. | ||
| So there's another vote to Jim Jordan. | ||
| But Jim Jordan's going to need 15 of those people, more than 15 of those people, to switch, right? | ||
| The simple math is that he's going to need the vast majority of those people to switch over and vote for him. | ||
| And then some people vote present. | ||
| That's how McCarthy actually got in. | ||
| McCarthy got in because Matt Gaetz never voted for McCarthy, he voted present. | ||
| So what is the play here? | ||
| You vote against Jim Jordan publicly. | ||
| You announce yourself as one of the 20 Republicans who are voting against Jim Jordan for one reason or another. | ||
| None of them voted for Trump. | ||
| None of them voted like Matt Case once voted for Trump. | ||
| They all voted for other Republicans in the caucus. | ||
| And that is a play, effectively, to state where your political allegiances are and that's a bartering shit, right? | ||
| So all of these people have something they want. | ||
| And then they go back into a room. | ||
| It's one of them with McCarthy and with Jordan and with Tom Emmer and they make a deal and they barter for what they want. | ||
| This is horse trading. | ||
| This is actually commonplace in politics. | ||
| This is something that is normal in politics and it is something that I think is like while it's very frustrating, it's part of the system and it's also something that we should appreciate because what this creates For at least our party, | ||
| is a process of selecting a speaker that gets us united, not like a bunch of smooth-brained, hive-mind, drooling simps on the Democrat side, which every single one of them, like, what happens when the theater kids take over Congress? | ||
| What happens when the theater kids take over Congress? | ||
| Did you see that? | ||
| Did you see, like, the hallelujah chorus there for Hakeem Jeffries? | ||
| Man, I mean, it is like, what happens when you lobotomize an entire party and then, like, allow them to vote? | ||
| Allow them to have, like, some little, sing some little song on the House floor? | ||
| Remember, these are people that link arms and, like, sing and cry and go down to the well of the House and scream every single time one of them is ripped off a committee or every single time one of them has been exposed for sleeping with the Chinese spy, so on and so forth. | ||
| It's so hard to take these people seriously. | ||
| Remember the first impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden? | ||
| Where they're out here singing and dancing. | ||
| These are theater kids. | ||
| They look like Bratz dolls. | ||
| It's so unserious. | ||
| On some level, it's nice because the American people can see the quality of individuals that the Democrats are bringing to Congress. | ||
| On the other hand, this is how our system works. | ||
| So, ladies and gentlemen, that's what's going to happen. | ||
| We have no idea. | ||
| ALX, we have any idea how long the recess is going to be. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Kevin McCarthy is speaking, and we're clipping that. | ||
| We're going to get you McCarthy. | ||
| Sounds like McCarthy is having a – hopped on the cameras and is going to give an update as to what the next tactical move is going to be here. | ||
| Okay, McCarthy, obviously. | ||
| Somebody you don't want to piss off in the Republican Party. | ||
| Like McCarthy. | ||
| I actually have totally warmed to McCarthy over the last eight months. | ||
| I like a Speaker Jordan much better than a Speaker McCarthy. | ||
| But Kevin McCarthy is playing ball here and is really helping out Jim Jordan. | ||
| Kevin McCarthy raised a billion dollars for the Republican Party in the 2022 cycle. | ||
| He'll raise a lot of money in the 2024 cycle. | ||
| So keep Kevin McCarthy on your side. | ||
| And don't vote against what Kevin McCarthy wants you to do because he could destroy you with all the cash that he has. | ||
| That's politics. | ||
| Maybe we've got Kevin McCarthy up, and Kevin McCarthy is out talking to reporters right now. | ||
| We have a clip loading. | ||
| We'll tell you what McCarthy has to say about this. | ||
| He's obviously been through it. | ||
| This is now the hour two and a half, three, hour three of our broadcast. | ||
| How do we stay energized? | ||
| Well, I'm sitting here, ding-a-ling-a-ling, with my blackout coffee. | ||
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| Rolls-Royce drinks some of the fruitiest, sugariest, girliest drinks. | ||
| But that's okay. | ||
| We're going to get them hooked on the old blackout coffee. | ||
| Blackout coffee supports our show, and we drink it. | ||
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| My wife and I used to buy from other companies that hate us. | ||
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| Ladies and gentlemen, Kevin McCarthy is back at it saying this to reporters just moments ago. | ||
| Here we go. | ||
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Now we have rules. | |
| We don't have to be stuck on the floor. | ||
| The interesting part is why we're here. | ||
| Every single Democrat voted to stop one branch of government. | ||
| They created this mess with eight Republicans. | ||
| Every single Democrat did it. | ||
| And so I think what we'll do is we'll go sit down. | ||
| We'll talk to those that have a difference of opinion. | ||
| Did the march in surprise you? | ||
| Move. | ||
| Excuse us. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| Thank you. | ||
| Do you feel bad right now for Mr. Jordan? | ||
| You're supporting for him. | ||
| Do you feel bad for him? | ||
| No, no. | ||
| Don't over read into this. | ||
| This is about the same vote I had in my first vote out. | ||
| No, no, no, no. | ||
| Let's go back to how I got here. | ||
| We wouldn't be here. | ||
| If every single Democrat didn't vote with eight Republicans to shut this place down. | ||
| Every single Democrat and eight Republicans voted to shut down one branch of government. | ||
| That is why we're here today. | ||
| There's no other reason why we're here today but because of that. | ||
| Now we had a vote on the floor. | ||
| It didn't get to the whole point. | ||
| Now we'll take a break, talk to people, and come back and solve it. | ||
| That's really interesting. | ||
| Kevin McCarthy doing the old switcheroo. | ||
| You ever seen that one? | ||
| That's kind of interesting. | ||
| Yeah, every single Democrat voted against McCarthy. | ||
| Now you can see McCarthy's pissed. | ||
| McCarthy's pissed. | ||
| Because McCarthy had a little agreement with an old haggardly drunk named Nancy Pelosi who clapped her... | ||
| body around a splintery broomstick and flew in after she had lost in Congress from her despicable rat infested poop stained district in San Francisco that is I mean, it's way worse than all the headlines say. | ||
| It's one of the few places in America that is actually worse. | ||
| And Kevin McCarthy made an agreement with Pelosi that if... | ||
| There was a vacate the chair that Pelosi would just get a couple of Democrats, like, vote to not vacate the chair, and everything would be good. | ||
| Pelosi backstabbed him. | ||
| McCarthy is angry about that. | ||
| Pelosi, like, you shouldn't make a deal with the devil, especially if the devil is a drunk witch. | ||
| But who cares? | ||
| You made that deal. | ||
| Pelosi betrayed McCarthy. | ||
| That's why those headlines of, like, hey, Pelosi was kicked out of her office. | ||
| That's why you got those headlines, because Kevin McCarthy actually gave her, like, this little cubbyhole office in the Capitol to do fundraising from. | ||
| Pelosi got kicked out. | ||
| That was a retaliation move by McCarthy, by Patrick McHenry, who's now the stand-in speaker pro tem. | ||
| So McCarthy's pissed, and now McCarthy's going to flip this back on Democrats to say, actually, it's all the Democrats that chose to shut down the governing body in Congress. | ||
| Very interesting how Democrats just, I mean, man, they are sheep, dude. | ||
| If you need any further evidence that they are just absolute braying sheep, they just shut down. | ||
| They voted all in favor, in unison, to kick Kevin McCarthy out, along with the Republicans, and now Kevin McCarthy is, like, putting it on the Democrat Party. | ||
| It's very interesting. | ||
| Because, that's right, Matt Gaetz and his contingency could not have done anything if just, like, maybe two or three Democrats voted just present, then Kevin McCarthy would still be Speaker. | ||
| So very curious. | ||
| Very interesting. | ||
| Very curious. | ||
| Very interesting. | ||
| Very fascinating times. | ||
| People are pissed. | ||
| We read the comments. | ||
| We've been putting up the comments for the last three hours. | ||
| We are now well into three hours of our broadcast. | ||
| People are pissed. | ||
| I will tell you this. | ||
| And it is something that I tell you on every single show. | ||
| When we look at those who believe that they have power in the world, whether it be Klaus Schwab or George Soros abroad, or whether it be Joe Biden. | ||
| Barack Obama, the deep state here in our country, they are craven and desirous and clawing with bloody, despicable fingernails for one thing, and that is power, more power. | ||
| They want control. | ||
| But they'll never get it. | ||
| They'll never get it because they're not in control. | ||
| Those people are not in control. | ||
| God is in control. | ||
| Christ is in control. | ||
| God is in control. | ||
| Say it with me. | ||
| God is in control. | ||
| It's not Joe Biden in control, obviously. | ||
| It's not Barack Obama in control. | ||
| It's not all the deep state little pup masters in control. | ||
| It's not the super state, the calcified state, the parasitic state behind us, like that live in the underbelly, Washington. | ||
| Those people are not in control. | ||
| They may think so, just like every evil organization has always thought, every evil person throughout all history, you can count them out. | ||
| Count them off the top of your head. | ||
| Thought that they had all super power. | ||
| Unlimited power! | ||
| That's what they thought. | ||
| And then they were all humiliated. | ||
| By the one who is in control. | ||
| And so that's where we put our faith. | ||
| We don't put our faith in systems. | ||
| We don't put our faith in documents. | ||
| That nobody even, like, Democrats care about the Constitution. | ||
| Think Democrats care about the rule of law. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| We don't put our faith in that. | ||
| We don't put our faith in the police state, big pharma, or any of these jackals. | ||
| Who would gladly sell you out, your town, your community for Ukraine or some settlement. | ||
| They would gladly sell you out wherever you're from. | ||
| Michigan, Wisconsin, Florida, Iowa, Arizona. | ||
| They don't care. | ||
| Wyoming. | ||
| They don't care. | ||
| They love Ukraine a lot more than they love America. | ||
| No, no, no. | ||
| We don't put our faith in those people. | ||
| We put our faith in God. | ||
| And God ain't done with this country yet. | ||
| And so in times like these, especially when the ship feels a little bit unstable, and there are a lot of evil forces out there at play, now is time to straighten up, buckle up, tighten up, to know where power actually comes from, and to know who will have the victory. | ||
| When all these little battles, which are pointless, pass, who has the real victory? | ||
| It's pretty obvious. | ||
| Those who walk. | ||
| With Christ. | ||
| Those who march. | ||
| So march forward. | ||
| Onward, Christian soldier. | ||
| Your verse of the day is from 2 Corinthians 9.8. | ||
| God is able to bless you abundantly so that in all things, at all times, even during a speakership vote, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work. | ||
| Do you feel like you are abounding in all of your good work right now? | ||
| Do you feel like God has blessed you abundantly? | ||
| I certainly feel like that. | ||
| There are like 270,000 things I wish that I could change in my life. | ||
| But actually, you know what? | ||
| Be gone. | ||
| Like, I am abounding in God's grace, God's blessing. | ||
| And I know that God has my back in all these things. | ||
| So I will march on. | ||
| I will march on. | ||
| I will not focus on the negative. | ||
| We're going to focus on the positive. | ||
| And more importantly, we're going to focus on the victory. | ||
| And that... | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, we are assured, judgment shall be sweet and delicious. | ||
| It shall be salty for some. | ||
| It shall be sweet and delicious. | ||
| God has his promise for us, and it is set forth, and so that is what we wish to march towards. | ||
| And so, onward, Christian soldier. | ||
| Be upstanding, men and women. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen of the brigade, the Benny Brigade, we say thank you for watching this three-hour presentation. | ||
| Of Jim Jordan coming close to becoming speaker. | ||
| Not quite there yet. | ||
| But we'll get there, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| And we will be victorious. | ||
| It's your boy Benny. |
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