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Jan. 3, 2023 - Ron Paul Liberty Report
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The End Of The Pelosi Era!

As Republicans are reportedly bruising themselves up behind closed doors over who will be the next Speaker of the House, one thing is certain: today the Pelosi Era in Congress is over. What will be her legacy? Also today, did Trump's Chairman of the Joint Chiefs commit treason? Finally, what does the major Ukraine rocket strike on Russian forces mean for US security?

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Why Congress Isn't In Charge 00:15:07
Hello everybody and thank you for tuning in to the Liberty Report.
With us today is Daniel McAdams, our co-host.
Daniel, good to see you today.
Good morning, Dr. Paul.
How are you this morning?
Doing fine, thank you.
Good, good, good.
And we're preparing.
We have to be prepared.
Government is changing.
But yesterday I was making the argument Congress really isn't in charge.
So why are they paying so much attention to that?
Well, in the meantime, it does serve a purpose.
Distraction from the things they're really doing.
And since I think most government is very secret, and it's done behind the scenes, it's done.
There is a deep state.
I believe there is such a deep state.
That sounds conspiratorial, so I'll change the name someday.
And, you know, the people who really run the show.
So, but big vote soon.
Yeah.
Today.
And the big question is, will they have more than one vote for the first time in 100 years?
Or is McCluskey going to just Kevin McCluskey?
McCarthy.
Well, he went on the first vote.
Yeah, it's a big question.
But people are going to miss Nancy.
Really?
I think.
Which ones?
But you know what?
All I could think of, being in my silly mood, Nancy, Nancy Pelosi ought to get up and say, don't cry for me, America.
Exactly.
She could sing it.
She could sing it.
So she's leaving, but I don't think she's going to have to worry about her investments.
I think she's secure.
There'll be some retirement funds, I think.
And besides, I heard her say, but it's a secret because it's confidential, that she wants to be a stockbroker.
Oh, wow.
So she's going to be a stockbroker.
But, you know, there was one episode, and you and I have talked about this, that I think is so dramatically evil because there's sort of a limit to being nasty.
But I thought the thing that she did at the State of the Union message, I don't care what she says or does with Trump.
But I think if there's nothing left, and I'm arguing that there's not much left of the Congress, that they shouldn't do it.
But her tearing up the speech and casting it down like she was God Almighty, you know, annoyed me a lot.
And I just don't think that she is going to be missed a whole lot, but there's still going to be chaos there, and we know that.
We talked about that yesterday, and a lot of people are interested in it.
Because if there's any truth to what we say that Congress really isn't in control, what do you do about it?
How does it happen?
Should we continue?
Well, I always thought it was worthwhile presenting a position and worked a couple years in Washington.
And, you know, Washington kept doing exactly what they've been doing all along.
But I also believe that information and discussing the issues and inviting young people to listen to it, if we want to have changes and do things, that it should be an educational process.
It should be an understanding of the system.
And then when the people, you know, as a group, decide, well, you know, maybe this has gone too far.
Maybe we should have a much better system where the people actually didn't tell so many lies, you know, and watching.
I mentioned yesterday that, you know, getting somebody telling a lie, The small lie about their resume is minor to the lie that they tell when they take a pledge to obey the Constitution.
And they go out and 90% of the votes they cast, as far as I'm concerned, are unconstitutional.
But I don't think they want to accept this whole thing that that's a lie.
They're able to rationalize that.
And I think that's one of our efforts here is try to get people to see what's actually going on and not to let them get away with the rationalizations and pretend that they know what's going on.
We certainly spend a lot of time in the world today about the whole issue of war and peace.
You know, how do the wars get started?
And that's pretty darn serious.
Yeah.
Well, you think about the legacy of the first woman Speaker of the House in history, U.S. history, and I'm sure she's thinking about her legacy.
But when we think about her legacy, when I do, and I think you suggested it as well, I do think of that moment where she ripped up President Trump's final State of the Union speech.
And in fact, we have that video.
It's that first tweet has a video embedded in it.
If we can watch and refresh ourselves on this moment on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives, it's only 13 seconds, but we should watch it again.
If our internet will cooperate.
You can't watch Nancy.
Well, it's not cooperating now, but there is the moment where she took the speech, and interestingly enough, as he was finishing, you could see her fiddling with her papers, trying to figure out how many pages at once she could rip up and practicing.
Here we go.
Here she is, ripping up the speech on the floor of the house.
Now, she was asked later, why did you do this?
I mean, what's going on with that?
And let's do that second clip, because here's where she explains why she ripped up the president's speech on the floor of the House.
That second tweet, if we can, yeah, let's listen to this.
It's only 10 seconds, so it's a quickie.
Well, you can rip the speech up, Madam Speaker.
Because it was the courteous thing to do, considering the alternative.
Yeah, so it was the most appropriate thing to do, considering the alternative.
What is she threatening?
She was going to smack him in the nose or something.
So I think really at that moment, she revealed a lot.
I think she cheapened the office.
I think she demeaned the office.
There's a lot of evil things that are done on the House floor.
But to me, that just represented the lowest point.
Certainly when I remember being in Congress.
But let's not forget also that she was an absolute liar.
And that is a fact.
And I don't have a clip for this, but we'll all go back the entire Trump era.
In fact, she owes a great thank you to Trump because Trump essentially defined her existence over those four years.
He gave her a raison d'être, you know.
And if you remember all the things she said, Pelosi on Trump.
With Trump, all roads lead to Putin.
She was a chief, chief proponent of this conspiracy theory, which has proven to be a lie cooked up by her party that Trump colluded with the Russians.
That's right.
You know, I remember her well because when I first went to Congress, and I always considered that election a sort of a fluke, what am I doing here?
But that was back, Daniel, before we had Daniel in Washington, before you got there, where they actually went over the bills.
And we were doing the Foreign Affairs bill.
And I had an amendment to get out of the UN and strike all the UN funds.
And that was when you had open debate, you know, a rule, and they would let it go on.
And it was strange.
I probably had a debate with her.
She did most of her side of the argument, and I did it on our side.
And it probably lasted for an hour.
It was real interesting.
And she was dignified in a sense that she wasn't yelling or shouting, and she didn't come across like this.
She was different.
She was still a liberal, but power, I think, something about power corrupting.
I think that might have had an effect over.
And that probably was in the 70s that I'm talking about.
So that's been a few years back.
So she didn't move in the direction of improving her personality, let me tell you that.
Or her character.
Or her character.
And as she leaves, the people in her party may not want to admit this, but there certainly is a cloud over her as she departs.
And if we look at this first photo, this first clip, if we can put it up, and this is from Just the News with John Solomon.
Key Republicans, they say that Pelosi needs to testify about January 6th security failures after bombshell revelations.
And there's a lot of transcripts that have come out for the January 6th Committee.
There's a huge dump at the end of December.
And actually, those transcripts inform our first two stories today.
But from that, if you can put on that next clip, this is what they're talking about.
They told Just the News television that the email and text messages showing Pelosi's staff directly involved in the January 6th security planning directly undercut the claims the speaker made that she has no power or role over security.
Of course, we know that's not true.
And here's a quote from Jim Jordan.
The reason there wasn't a proper security presence on that day goes right to the Speaker's staff in the Speaker's office.
Said Jordan, who will become chairman of the House Judiciary Committee in January.
So what was her role?
We don't know quite yet what her role was in this.
And of course, there are a lot of right-wing conspiracy theories.
Some of them seem to have been proven wrong.
But the idea that a speaker of the House, as you know very well, Dr. Paul, has no control over security is not true.
She controls, along with her counterpart in the Senate, they control the Capitol Hill Police Department.
And that day, that's going to come out.
Yeah.
So there's another legacy of hers, I think.
Right.
You know, there was an interview recently by a man by the name of Moore, I believe.
And he was asked, he asked her, what will a Republican House look like?
A lot of investigations and maybe impeachment.
She says, I won't take any responsibility for all that stuff.
And what would I have done differently?
Won more elections and not given them the power to do what they did.
And this is the key sentence I want to mention.
Make sure that a creature like Donald Trump never became president of the United States.
And I got to thinking, well, that would, you know, they have a different definition of democracy.
We're not exactly gung-ho about their type of democracy.
But they don't even follow their democracy.
So they want to make it so, well, he didn't do the right things, and we did everything in the world to stop him.
We cheated all we could.
And we used the FBI against him, and we have to make sure he can never run again.
And that's still alive and well.
So that's their idea of democracy.
I call it authoritarianism at its worst.
Anti-Americanism.
You know, it really is.
And now what about her role on the January 6th Committee itself?
I mean, that's another one part of her legacy.
And we really hound on this because I think it's one of the most horrible injustices we've had in the last couple of decades.
But remember, when they put that committee together, by tradition, as you know, Republicans can have a couple of members on the committee and they nominate and put them onto the committee.
Well, she, for the first time, stepped in and said, no, you don't get to put on who you want.
You get to put on who I say.
And so she stacked the two Republican slots, as we know, with Kingsinger, the crybaby, and Liz Cheney, who now is out of work.
I think that is a real period, a real disservice to the House of Representatives.
You know, I often wondered if they really believe what they're saying, how bad Trump is.
Well, wouldn't it be to their advantage to get him in office?
Yeah, really.
Then they have a target for him.
But so bad, why wouldn't they help him?
But, you know, I have a theory about all this, and it's just a theory because I don't hear other people talking about this.
I think in a way, he was so unconventional.
He attacked political correctness, and he didn't get punished.
And he actually became president.
But I think that the typical politician that's on the other side became very jealous of this.
How can he do this?
He's defying all the rules, and now he's president of the United States.
So they couldn't do much about it, but just work hard at destroying him, impeach him a couple times.
But I think that morphed into the jealousy turned into vicious hate.
I think the hate is what drives them because if they let him go in office, that ought to help.
But I think his opposition feels intimidated by him.
And that's why they work so hard.
And he invites some of it.
I'm not going to argue that because he's invited some of this, and there are problems.
But I think the average politician up there feel very intimidated that how can he get away with it?
That had occurred on the very first debate that he was in.
And he got away with it.
What do you mean?
He goes after John McCain.
He got away with it.
No, no.
Is he above the law?
Our laws.
It's pretty much of a joke.
When you said jealous, it reminded me of a story that you tell about when you had your first big money bomb that made history.
And they all rushed you on the floor.
How did you do it?
This isn't fair.
How did you raise all that money?
You're not as important as we are.
They wanted the technology.
The last thing they wanted to know, because I would quiz them, and I said, well, maybe it has something to do with my voting record.
No.
That was not.
There was somebody, they knew I wasn't a computer person.
And, you know, this was early on.
And they said, well, there, you have somebody on your staff that really knows how to use that computer and go out.
They only knew.
Our second story for today is also related to this dump of transcripts.
And this reveals a darker and more frightening side, I think, of the government.
You might even call it a deep state.
If you can put this next one on, this is from Jim Haft over at the Gateway Pundit.
Treason, he calls it.
General Mark Milley hid nuclear codes from Trump, held secret calls with Chinese defense officials, then surrendered to Taliban and armed them with 80 billion in weapons.
Now, that's a bit of an incendiary headline.
I get it.
You want to catch attention.
But he captured some of what actually happened.
And if you look in a little bit less inflammatory way at the next piece, I think this is a Yahoo piece.
General Mark Milley Controversy 00:08:32
January 6th panel transcripts so that General Milley agreed with Pelosi that Trump was, quote, crazy.
So she, and we'll do the next thing this is from that article.
Let's do this one, next one here, because this tells you what happens.
So a Speaker of the House asked the chairman of the Joint Chiefs if the nuclear codes are safe because she fears the president is crazy and liable to make a deadly decision to stay in power, he wrote on Monday.
So much of the Pelosi legacy understandably focuses on legislation, but her deep alarm about Trump in the final days and the steps she took from an urgent call to Millie to pushing Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment, then moving to impeach, is a key part of it.
So the Speaker of the House and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff colluded to keep the nuclear codes away from President Trump, who has a constitutional authority as the commander-in-chief of the military.
That is really shocking.
We heard a little bit about it, but now these transcripts really confirm what happened.
Right.
And, you know, the message is that he would deal with the Chinese, but he was whispering in their ears.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
You know, say, you know, don't sweat it.
I'm here, and I'm going to take care of it.
It's not going to happen.
If it is, well, I'm going to warn you about it.
That has to get pretty close to treason, you know, to tell the potential.
At least if the enemy was half of what they claim it is to be.
Some of the information, if you held it in a diplomatic fashion, some of this information, you know, neutralizes things when you have people like Reagan and Gorbachev talking about reducing the number of nuclear missiles.
That's a little bit different than what was going on here.
And, you know, here they work so hard about taking Russia gate that they were guilty of and blaming Trump for it.
At the same time, they have those friends trying to do this to him.
I think that maybe history will work it out.
I keep thinking, you know, the revelations today with Elon Musk, you know, on Twitter.
Maybe I'm just too biased, but it seems to me like that should give Trump more credibility because they more or less are verifying what he said, but they don't present it that way, so I don't think it's changed people's minds too much.
Well, you never know.
Well, here's, let's look at that next one because this is from the transcript.
So if we can look at that next clip, this is a tweet that's pretty fascinating, actually.
This just came out.
This is his testimony.
An extraordinary moment in American history.
A Speaker of the House asked the chairman of the Joint Chiefs if the nuclear codes are safe because she fears the president's crazy.
And this is from the transcript.
Yeah, what prompts her call is concern about the president's stability or mental health.
She even says in the call, you know he's crazy, don't you?
And she's reported to have said, she is reported to have said, General Milley, you agreed with her.
You said, I agree 100% with everything you've said.
The one thing I can guarantee is that the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, I want you to know, I want you to know this in your heart of hearts, I can guarantee you 100% that the military use of military power, whether it's nuclear strike or foreign country of any kind, we're not going to do anything illegal or crazy.
This is direct insubordination to have President Trump's chairman of the Joint Chiefs saying, don't worry, I'm not going to let the President do what he is rightly and constitutionally allowed to do according to the U.S. Constitution as commander-in-chief.
You know, I work on the theory as I read and try to study and understand that the coup has already occurred.
Yeah.
And that a lot of this stuff is incidental and it's fanfare and it's distraction and this type of activity.
It isn't that somebody like Pelosi is in government, so therefore she doesn't know it.
No, I think they have their people in special places because it's the, you know, the people who become Chairman of committees and all that they're not really done by democracy, electing the grassroots up there.
They're done by very special planning and scheming and money.
I don't know which article it was there, but what about all the when she was bragging about how much money she raised?
Yeah, billions of dollars.
That was her great, great thing.
It wasn't one thing about, you know, one thing we did, we moved this country toward a sound currency and less war.
No, it's I raised $10 billion.
It wasn't $10, it was probably a little less than that.
Well, yeah, she'll have more time with Paul, I guess.
Well, should we move on to the last one, or do we still want to talk about Millie?
Nope, think of that.
I think history will judge Millie.
That's for sure.
Well, let's put on that next clip because this is just something that we want to talk about briefly.
We want to look on Ukraine.
This happened on New Year's Day, New Year's Eve slash New Year's Day.
Dozens of Russian soldiers killed in Ukrainian strike on New Year's Eve.
According to the Russians, 63 conscripts were killed when a, and this is interesting, this is the NB News says, NBC News says, when a Ukrainian HIMARS attack on an occupied region, in fact, the Russian media reports accurately that these are American high Mars.
These are the American weapons that were sent over there.
So I think the reason why it made such big news is that it doesn't happen very often, this big concentration of troops.
Unfortunately, on the Ukrainian side, it's a daily occurrence where you lose this number of troops.
But I don't think that's what's interesting.
We talked about it before the show.
What's interesting is how it's being perceived, I think, in Russia, which is that this was an American system, American military system, American missiles in Ukraine, shot, killing dozens of Russian soldiers.
I think that's how it's being perceived there.
Yeah, and it demonstrates the real challenge that we who believe in less war and less war-mongering look at this because the majority, probably of the Republicans and Democrats, are very, very concerned about Russia and China.
It's almost incessant.
And therefore, they keep thinking that this has to change.
But the U.S. position on this, it should be so clear.
And there's been some clarity and good writing on this.
And most of them, when they really want to clarify current events with this, they go back to 2014, with the coup that we participated in.
And yet, you can even go back further with the false promises we made as the Cold War was ending.
And I can understand it.
I hate the idea of people attacking us as a country because I identify with our country.
And there's a lot of good things that have happened, and they've been good in the past.
But they will continue to do that.
I think it's so difficult to have to listen to this and put up with all the complaints that they make.
Yeah.
Well, we do know that the U.S. built, supplied these rockets, probably trained the Ukrainians in how to fire them.
And also, we know that they are assisting them with intelligence, with GPS targeting, showing them where to go.
So they're American missiles using American technology with targeting data provided by the Americans to kill dozens of Russian troops.
Now, it doesn't matter who you blame for this war.
All you have to do is imagine a scenario where there was Chinese-made and supplied missiles in Mexico.
The Chinese gave all the targeting data, and those missiles went in and killed a bunch of Americans on an American base on U.S. soil.
Regardless of who's to blame for the invasion, the fact is in America we would be livid even if we were to blame.
Even if the Syrians somehow were able to do that when we invaded their country, we would be livid because it strikes at the core.
So I think the point to make is we are getting dangerously close to direct involvement when you do these kinds of things.
Now we've read that the Biden administration believes that Russia won't do anything regardless of what we do because they haven't done anything yet.
Americans Would Be Livid 00:04:57
That seems like a big gamble, Dr. Paul.
That's for sure.
You know, I want to mention a story that was a big story.
I don't watch much TV.
Well, I can't say I watch TV, but I flip channels.
I'm always looking for the different versions, what each channel is saying.
And I do about the same thing on sporting events.
I like to sometimes know who's playing and watch the good plays and all.
So last night I did.
Carol and I were watching it, and it had the football game on.
I'd have to think a minute about who was playing, but of course it was the announcement of Hamlin suffering an attack.
And we were watching that, and we really became a bit glued to find out what's going on because it was a medical incident and the ambulance came out and there's still lots of unknowns out there.
But I can't help but confessing that one of the very first thoughts I had was, why would a guy that is what, 24 years old, in perfect health, in perfect shape, you know, have a heart attack?
Yeah.
And they said, well, he got hit hard.
But I bet in the last year or two, he's been hit hard many times to get as far along in sports as he did.
And so I kept thinking, because there are now more stories, if you read all the news, you do find that from high school on up, there's a sudden death syndrome where, and it's usually from the heart, but it's never related to the possibility that it could be from vaccines and booster shots from COVID.
And we know the doctors who have taken a different approach from the very beginning, who have now been proven to be right on their analysis.
And thank goodness Fauci has retired.
I'm afraid they were going to call him up and talk about football.
But anyway, my thoughts were, you know, myocarditis and endocarditis occurs with the booster shot.
I don't think anybody's saying, no, it never happened, but they don't want it to be talked about.
So that, of course, is a possibility.
But the sad part is, it's a sad story.
And people who don't want to hear it, you can't talk about a sick person this way and stir this up.
But I think, you know, some of these stories, when they get buried, a lot of people know about it.
And then eventually, sometimes a week, a month, a year, or ten years later, we learn what goes on.
And the truth comes out.
But to me, it was a very, very sad story.
And I just think that we haven't heard the final word on this.
And I know that we sorry, I know that we don't know what happened.
We're not suggesting we know what happened.
Could be something completely different.
But the real story is that all of a sudden people are now thinking when something like this happens.
They weren't thinking a year and a half ago.
Hmm, I wonder if that's from the shot.
And that's this change that's happened.
We do know the NFL forced these guys to take the shot.
And we know that because the very few who resisted, people like Aaron Rodgers, were demonized.
They just want to kill people.
So we know these two things happen.
We don't know what happened to this young man.
And certainly we feel terrible about it.
But it's just fascinating that all of a sudden the first thought in people's minds, I bet that had to do with that.
Pretty interesting.
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Very good.
And I support that statement fully and entirely because things are good.
And it looks like there's going to be a burst of excitement for the new year, a new Congress, a new speaker, and things like that.
But sometimes the more those new things coming up, you have to look elsewhere to find out what's really going on, whether it's the beginning of a war or whether it's some other shenanigans going on or what the Fed is doing.
We have to keep an eye on it.
And there's plenty of problems, but there's plenty of good things happening out there.
The place where I look when I get a little worried about what's happening is in the areas of the exposure that young people have to the study of honest economic policy, the Austrian School of Economics.
There's a lot of it going on.
And, you know, I met a lot of those young people during the campaigns, and that's been a few years ago.
Plenty Of Problems 00:01:20
And they're falling through and doing things.
So I think those who are still going to the Mises Institute and the various libertarian groups is going to, a lot of seeds are being planted, and nobody knows where they are.
There's always been a remnant.
There's always a reason to believe that things can turn around, but it takes an effort on everybody's part.
But there are some days when you just look at it and say, they, we all have a big problem when you think the number that I use to tell you how much problem we really have, $31 trillion of debt, and you can't run a household, a business, a country, a state, or anything when you're overwhelmed with debt.
And this country is, and the world is, and that has to be taken care of, which means it has to be liquidated.
And that's a painful operation.
But that's why it's crucial we get more people to understand that the medicine you take might give you an upset stomach for an hour or two.
But we need the medicine.
We need the medicine and say that we do not have a free market economy.
We do not enforce the Constitution.
And there's every reason in the world that we have to assume some responsibility to spread the message of peace and prosperity.
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