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It's a crazy world! | |
Crazy world! | ||
Somebody's gotta have the same views. | ||
It's a crazy world. | ||
It's a crazy world. | ||
Somebody's gotta have the same views. | ||
All right, joining me today for our last roundtable before the election is Congressman Jim Jordan and Congressman Chip Roy, both multiple-time Rubin Report guests. | ||
Gentlemen, welcome back to the Reuben Report on this very important Friday. | ||
Good to be with you. | ||
Great to join today. | ||
Now, I asked you guys, I didn't want to have to say congressman every three seconds in this thing, so I asked you guys if I could just call you by your first name for the purposes of this. | ||
You both gave me the thumbs up. | ||
So Chip, I gotta start with you. | ||
First off, you're in a t-shirt. | ||
You look like you're in a car. | ||
There's a lot going on in the world right now. | ||
At least Jim looks like he's working. | ||
What are you doing over there? | ||
Yeah, well, we've been covering the state of Texas. | ||
I've been out helping Ted Cruz. | ||
I was at an event with him last night. | ||
We had an event right here a few miles from where I'm sitting in Dripping Springs, Texas, night before last. | ||
It's a close race, but we're working hard to try to get it across the finish line. | ||
And today, believe it or not, I was picking up a truckload of dirt because I had some trees that got assaulted by deer and I had to move and replant them. | ||
So I was doing that midday and I got stuck at the dirt place. | ||
So you get me a t-shirt for me and I'm wearing a Longhorn t-shirt and my Aggie wife is going to be mad at me. | ||
You're doing the job of government and actual work at the same time. | ||
And Congressman Jordan, I take it you're at the Capitol right now, right? | ||
Well, actually, we're home. | ||
I've been traveling. | ||
I was in, I guess, seven different states over the last 11, 12 days and got home yesterday. | ||
So, yeah, we're doing this from home and got the camera all lined up and hoping it's going to work out. | ||
But good to be with. | ||
Always good to be with the star of Gutfeld. | ||
I saw you the other night. | ||
You get a chance to do that. | ||
We're going to take. | ||
Chip's got a gum and a t-shirt. | ||
We get to hang out with the guy who was great on Gutfeld the other night. | ||
So good to be with you. | ||
Clip that and put that on the internet. | ||
Alright, well basically for the next half hour or 40 minutes or so, what I want to focus on more than anything else is sort of the media framing around this election because to me that seems to be the real fight at this point. | ||
It's not really the Republican versus Democrat thing anymore, the conservative versus liberal. | ||
It's sort of how much juice does the system have to kind of lie to people and how many people are kind of waking up against that. | ||
So let's just dive into some of the things happening this week. | ||
We will start with the ladies. | ||
At The View, and somehow they are still defending Joe Biden calling us garbage people and Nazis and Hitler and all that stuff. | ||
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Trust me, there is a completely unfair standard with Donald Trump. | |
No, I'm saying there's an unfair standard where his supporters have just decided it's baked in when he insults people, but they do take offense. | ||
Deplorables did matter. | ||
That comment from Hillary Clinton did matter. | ||
But I would say that Joe Biden is still the president. | ||
I'd like him to be working on getting the hostage as that. | ||
He doesn't... | ||
Chip, that line right there that Whoopi said at the end, it turned out she was right. | ||
Like, the fact that they still do this, we are days out from this thing, the garbage comment, that they never seem to look in the mirror, that is the thing that I sort of can't get over at this point. | ||
Yeah, I mean, what we're getting out of the radical progressive left is an example of Trump derangement syndrome on steroids, and they can't seem to understand where America is right now. | ||
I literally, joking aside about where I am, getting a pile of dirt, I just met with a guy who's a steel fabricator. | ||
He welds stuff. | ||
He welded a big funnel, basically, for these guys to run dirt through. | ||
And he was just talking about the price of steel. | ||
He was asking me, what's going to happen in the election? | ||
What's going to happen? | ||
We need President Trump. | ||
And he said, look, if we have four more years of this, we're out of work. | ||
We're out of business. | ||
That's where real America actually is. | ||
The view, that is not real America. | ||
What you're hearing out of the radical progressive left, and frankly, some of these Republicans, these ninnies that run around hand-wringing, worrying about, oh my gosh, and they've got the same Trump derangement syndrome, they don't have an understanding of where, what again, I call real America, where they are. | ||
Jim does in Ohio, I'm sure. | ||
I'm not going to speak for him. | ||
I can tell you in Texas and the people that were at Ted's rally last night, they just want their country back. | ||
It's that simple. | ||
And those people on The View, they don't represent them. | ||
They're in their little bubble where they can do exactly what you just described. | ||
Jim, is that the crazy part that I think we're all kind of seeing right now, which is that the Trump-MAGA thing at this point isn't traditionally Republican or anything else. | ||
It's just pro-America. | ||
It's just pro this guy wanting the price of steel to go down and someone making sure that we have a border. | ||
Yeah, we have something we very seldom get in American politics. | ||
We got back-to-back administrations now running for the top job. | ||
And you can do a direct comparison. | ||
Under Trump, we had a secure border. | ||
Under Biden-Harris, no border. | ||
Under Trump, we had $2 gas. | ||
Under Biden-Harris, $4 gas. | ||
Under Trump, we had stable prices. | ||
Now we have record inflation. | ||
We had safe streets. | ||
We have record crime. | ||
The FBI just revised their crime stats, I think, last week. | ||
So the country gets it, and this disdain they have for country boys and hillbillies or whatever they want to call them is just that. | ||
It's just disdain. | ||
Call us deplorables, call us whatever you want, but the country sees through it. | ||
I think about You know, people I run union. | ||
My dad was a union worker. | ||
My mom cleaned houses. | ||
They are 110% for Donald Trump. | ||
That is the phenomena that he has created. | ||
And I would say we are a completely different party now, Dave. | ||
We're a party that is much more populous, but still rooted in conservative principle, which is frankly where I thought we should have been all along. | ||
And Donald Trump has brought that about. | ||
I mean, I can personalize this by saying that, Jim, a couple years, maybe six years ago, your guys reached out to me about doing an event with you, and I was like, oh my god, I'm going to do something with right wing Jim Jordan, and clearly that has all bared out because we're all on the same side here. | ||
I want to jump over for a second. | ||
I would just add, Dave, but obviously it is. | ||
Did you ever think you would see Donald Trump, Elon Musk, RFK Jr., and Tulsi Gabbard on the same team? | ||
Dave Rubin on that team? | ||
You can just keep going. | ||
It's because of the attack on liberty, the censorship, everything else. | ||
So it is a whole new coalition coming together. | ||
I called up RFK Jr., Six, seven weeks ago, whenever he endorsed President Trump. | ||
And we first, we laughed because I told him, I said, you know, I invited him in as a witness. | ||
I invited him, Tulsi Gabbard. | ||
And I told him, I said, we took some heat for doing that. | ||
At the time, a year and a half ago, we invited me in. | ||
But I said, we look like geniuses now that this new coalition's coming together. | ||
And it's fascinating to see the change in the party. | ||
And it's rooted around common sense. | ||
It's rooted around respect for everybody. | ||
It's rooted around protecting the First Amendment, protecting free speech. | ||
And it's just fascinating to see it all happen. | ||
And we even got Hulk Hogan, which to me at the MSG rally, that was the coolest thing, seeing him come out. | ||
I want to show you this 19-second video that Mazemore put together on Twitter that I think sums up why so many of us have been censored for so long. | ||
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I want to speak to you tonight about the need for us to lower the temperature in our politics. | |
And remember, or we may disagree, we are not enemies. | ||
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We're neighbors, we're friends, co-workers, citizens, and most importantly, we're our fellow Americans. | |
The only garbage I see floating out there is your supporters. | ||
Chip, I'm going to go out on a limb here and assume that the hypocrisy does not shock you at this point. | ||
So here's the thing. | ||
That's what we're dealing with in terms of how they view, as I said earlier, real America. | ||
And if I can piggyback for a second on what Jim just talked about with respect to RFK Jr., Tulsi. | ||
You know, Tulsi lives in Austin. | ||
RFK, Jim's right. | ||
He came and testified at a hearing. | ||
I had my son there. | ||
My son was reading a C.S. Lewis book, and RFK stopped, sat down, talked to him about that book, and that was a great book. | ||
And we started texting back and forth now for two years, talking about what I call healthcare freedom. | ||
And yesterday I wrote something in response to something that Jonah Goldberg put out where he was mocking RFK Jr. | ||
saying that he was a quack and that how any rightful thinking conservative or libertarian would view him that way because he questions things about cell phones and whether they cause cancer and obviously stuff on vaccines. | ||
And my point was pretty simple in what I wrote. | ||
It was that the American people are tired of institutions that are failing us. | ||
They're tired of the government that is feeding them a line of bull, telling them that, oh, you're not going to be immune from COVID if you had the disease before. | ||
And you must take this vaccine without, you know, focusing on the reality of the impact of the vaccines or dealing with all of the issues that RFK is properly focusing on right now with respect to what we put in our bodies. | ||
The processed food, all of those things that matter for regular Americans. | ||
who are seeing cancer rates go up. | ||
I'm a cancer survivor. | ||
And all of this is relevant to what you were just saying. | ||
Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, the radical progressive Democrats, and too often old guard Republicans believe that government can make decisions for you. | ||
I think we have a new and growing coalition of people who want to put liberty first, put the Constitution first, And understand that we've got to question all of these assumptions that we've been operating under, where the powers that be decide how we live. | ||
That's the new coalition, and President Trump is doing a great job building it. | ||
So I want to show you two images of Trump this week. | ||
The man who was flipping fries last week became a garbage man this week with the Trump garbage truck, and there he is with the garbage man vest. | ||
He gave the entire speech in it. | ||
Jim, you were early in on Trump first time around, and throughout the primary, obviously, this time around, fully supported him the entire time. | ||
Does he just understand culture more than anyone else? | ||
I mean, is that really what the magic here is? | ||
Yeah, he has this phenomenal ability to relate to his supporters. | ||
I equate it to the coach-athlete relationship. | ||
The really good coaches are the ones where the athlete knows that the coach has their best interests at heart. | ||
And I think President Trump's supporters, there's that same dynamic there. | ||
You see it at every rally when... | ||
When he speaks, the people there, he'll use a line. | ||
He said, they're coming after me because I'm fighting for you. | ||
And his reporters fully understand that. | ||
And he's just amazing in all settings. | ||
When he walked into the barbershop, I found that amazing. | ||
When he was asked the question, I thought it was really funny. | ||
When he was asked during McDonald's, when he was serving fries and stuff, one of the videos I saw, they asked him, what's your favorite food at McDonald's? | ||
And he paused and he goes, well, I like it all. | ||
And the truth is he does. | ||
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I've seen him eat jacks, I've seen him eat fries, I've seen him eat quarter-pounders. | |
So he is just straightforward, honest. | ||
And the thing with him is he's genuine. | ||
Some people may not like everything he stands for, but I certainly think he's been a tremendous president, going to be another great president when he gets his second term. | ||
But the difference between him is he's genuine. | ||
Kamala Harris and Joe Biden are always pretending. | ||
They're always acting in some way for the audience. | ||
He is straight who he is, and he just tells that to the American people, and we appreciate that straightforward, genuine approach that he has with the American people. | ||
Chip, you know, you and I were obviously DeSantis guys in the primary. | ||
I'm very proud of fighting for what I thought was the right candidate, and I'm fully proud of supporting Donald Trump right now. | ||
Our side had a proper primary, unlike the other side and everything else. | ||
In a weird way, do you think that gives you a little extra juice in fighting for Trump now, in that we did it the right way, and he is the candidate, and it's like, hey, we do it openly. | ||
You guys do it behind closed doors. | ||
Yeah, sure. | ||
I'm glad you asked that question. | ||
Jim and I were talking about this a little bit yesterday, you know, and he and I are both good friends with our friend Thomas Massey, another Ron DeSantis supporter. | ||
I apologize not for supporting Ron DeSantis. | ||
He's a good man and a good friend. | ||
I supported Ted Cruz in 2016. | ||
I was his chief of staff, but I'm a big fan and supporter of President Trump for a lot of the reasons Jim just articulated. | ||
President Trump is in fact real. | ||
More importantly, Donald Trump loves America. | ||
He loves unabashed America. | ||
He loves the hardworking Americans that made America great and that he wants to make America great again. | ||
That has been who he was when he came to Washington to drain the swamp, to build the wall, and to make America great again. | ||
I believe that's the Donald Trump of today. | ||
And look, the Lord works in mysterious ways. | ||
And I truly believe that. | ||
That's not just a statement. | ||
I'm a cancer survivor. | ||
I don't know why I got through cancer and other people didn't. | ||
I believe God gave me some more time on this planet to go try to change it and make it better. | ||
And I believe that President Trump sees a little bit in the wake of what happened in Pennsylvania with the attempt at assassination. | ||
I think he is looking at what he can do over the next four years. | ||
In a different way than he did. | ||
Wendy, a little bit, he was the dog that caught the car in 2016 and had to form an administration, had to learn how bad the swamp really was. | ||
And frankly, it was worse than he even thought when he said drain the swamp. | ||
Jim knows it. | ||
Jim's been battling it for over a decade. | ||
I know it. | ||
And so, look, I'm proud of having supported Ron DeSantis. | ||
But as you said, I'm proud, proud. | ||
I want to state here openly so everybody understands. | ||
I am proud to support Donald Trump. | ||
He is a great American, and he will be a great president. | ||
And I look forward to working with him alongside Jim to accomplish good things. | ||
Not only do I agree with that, obviously, but one of the things that I've said repeatedly is one of my concerns with Trump, say, a year ago was that he was not going to be able to assemble a team properly. | ||
And yet to Jim's point earlier and what you just said, now it's like, oh, you got Elon and you got Bobby and you got Tulsi and suddenly all these other tech people that could get involved. | ||
And it's like now now it seems like you are voting for a team, not just a man. | ||
And I just don't know that it's going to get much better. | ||
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And they had a man who was not doing too well cognitively. | ||
They then installed this other lady. | ||
He made the garbage comment and she kind of went against it. | ||
I'll let you decide. | ||
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President Biden put this comment last night about garbage. | |
Listen, I think that, first of all, he clarified his comments, but let me be clear, I strongly disagree with any criticism of people based on who they vote for. | ||
Wow, so is she saying that we're not all Nazis now, Jim, or is just garbage a bit much? | ||
Yeah, I think she's just reacting to the moment there. | ||
I mean, look, they've called his names on and on. | ||
I still remember when, what was it, a year or two ago when Joe Biden stood in front of Independence Hall and all that red, crazy background and everything going on. | ||
It was some strange speech he gave there. | ||
I think he called half the country fascist. | ||
There is a disdain they have for us, and they do think that they're—remember in the debate when J.D. was debating Tim Walz, and J.D. kicked his tail and did such a good job. | ||
About two-thirds of the way through the debate, I thought J.D. said something really, really good. | ||
He said, I will take the common sense of the American people over the experts every time. | ||
I feel like they just think they're better. | ||
Fauci thinks he's smarter than all of us. | ||
Some of these folks in the government think they're better, and that's why they're able to say, oh, we can tell you what you can post, what you can say, what you can tweet, what's misinformation, what's disinformation, what's malinformation, this whole censorship thing. | ||
It's because deep down, I think they think they're better than just regular American. | ||
And President Trump doesn't take that approach, which is so refreshing because that's the way it's supposed to be. | ||
I will tell you how bad it is. | ||
When we had that hearing, Chip was talking about this earlier as well. | ||
When we had RFK Jr. | ||
come in and testify, in that hearing, the Democrats made a motion. | ||
I think it was Debbie Wasserman Schultz. | ||
Chip may remember. | ||
One of the Democrats made a motion to go to executive session So that you kick everyone out and no one can hear what he's going to say. | ||
So think about it. | ||
They didn't want anyone to hear what RFK Jr. | ||
was going to testify to in a hearing on censorship. | ||
I mean, you can't make this up. | ||
That's how much they think they're smarter than the rest of us Americans. | ||
I think that is getting through to so many people. | ||
And one of the key reasons, there was a survey a week and a half ago The top issue is inflation, which of course is understandable. | ||
It's the cruelest tax there is. | ||
But second on the list was the censorship issue, the attack on the First Amendment. | ||
I mean, it's number two on the survey. | ||
So Americans, I think, rightly understand where the left wants to go and this new coalition coming together to push back on all these people who think they're better than us. | ||
Chip, what do you make of what seemingly is this bizarro tension between Biden and Kamala now? | ||
I mean, do you kind of buy that he actually is trying to hamper her some way because he's not happy how he got pushed out? | ||
Well, I certainly think it's obvious that Jill Biden isn't happy that Joe Biden got pushed out. | ||
And I think that there's no love lost right now between the two camps, the Biden camp and the Harris camp. | ||
All of the reporting in Washington makes clear that that's the case. | ||
But look, if you go back to what happened, you go back to the debate, it was very clear that the powers that be in the Democratic Party wanted to set Joe Biden up for failure. | ||
They didn't think that they could win with someone who was having the mental deficiencies, the issues in terms of recall and all of the missteps that were happening. | ||
So they set that debate up, I believe, for failure. | ||
And that they could then push him aside and run with Kamala. | ||
That explains why they did it so early, by the way, in June, where they normally do these debates in the fall. | ||
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And I think that they're now having to live with the consequences of that. | ||
And they're now seeing how bad Kamala Harris is in real time. | ||
They're stuck with it. | ||
And now you're seeing the tension unfold in real time. | ||
And look, that is what it is. | ||
You alluded to it before. | ||
We had a real process. | ||
We ran multiple candidates. | ||
We went to Iowa. | ||
President Trump won overwhelmingly. | ||
It lasted about another month. | ||
And then at the end of the day, President Trump was chosen through the proper process. | ||
He now has the backing of Of the vast majority of, well, hopefully the American people and virtually all Republicans because we went through that process. | ||
They tried to end run the system because they don't believe in the system. | ||
They don't believe in America. | ||
All this crap about democracy and protecting democracy. | ||
No, no, no. | ||
For them, it's protecting their little fiefdom, their ability to control what we think. | ||
They don't believe in sovereignty. | ||
They want to dump millions of people into our country so they can get their Marxist dreams. | ||
That's their goal, however it takes, whatever it takes for them to accomplish it. | ||
And by the way, it's worth noting that it's not the first time the Republicans did the right thing during a primary process. | ||
In 2016, the entire establishment didn't want Trump, but they ran a proper primary process, and he won, and they accepted it, which is a little different than what the Democrats did with Bernie. | ||
But it's not just Kamala that's having trouble messaging this stuff. | ||
Her surrogates have just been absolutely terrible. | ||
Check this out from Harris campaign spokeswoman LaFonza Butler. | ||
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Faced some real criticism for saying at first that she wouldn't change anything about Joe Biden's agenda to saying that she is a very different person and a different candidate. | |
How do you convince voters at the end of the day who she is and what she stands for? | ||
Yeah, look, I think President Biden and the partnership that he and Vice President Harris have had has had an incredibly positive impact on moving our country forward. | ||
But she very much is a very is a different person with a different lived experience from a middle class family. | ||
And she's going to center what she has learned from the American people all across this country. | ||
Jim, everyone says word salad when it comes to Kamala, but these surrogates, in essence, are doing the same thing. | ||
It's less, I suppose, word salad, but it's more just lived experience, middle class family. | ||
It's these sort of meaningless phrases that I don't think anyone's buying anymore. | ||
No, they're not. | ||
And Americans know what they see. | ||
They know what's happened. | ||
I mean, again, we get this direct comparison. | ||
I had a reporter ask me not too long ago, Congressman, you're always critical of the Biden-Harris administration. | ||
Is there anything good that they've done? | ||
And I actually gave it a fair shake. | ||
I thought for a second, I'm like, I can't think of one thing. | ||
Everything is worse. | ||
I mean, and everything is worse. | ||
And it was done intentionally. | ||
I mean, do you think about the border? | ||
They intentionally decided on day one. | ||
Chip knows this issue well from being down in Texas. | ||
They decided on day one that they were going to change the key policies. | ||
And now we've had over 10 million people come in the country. | ||
So deliberate and intentional decisions made that harmed the country. | ||
I think the American people see it for what it is, and that's why they always got to pretend and say one thing to one group, and whatever question it is, they'll kind of go along with that question depending on who the person is. | ||
It's like, Trump just gives it to you straight. | ||
He's real, he's genuine, and I think the American people respect that, and they remember how good it was just a few years ago. | ||
Chip, to that point, are you seeing anyone on the other side of the aisle? | ||
I think I've asked both of you this multiple times, but maybe something's changed. | ||
I doubt it. | ||
Are you seeing anyone on the other side of the aisle that's pushing back against this nonsense, or is it basically just everyone's in on it, and maybe they need sort of a destruction of the party to, you know, sort of come back in some more sensible way? | ||
Well, I'm sure Jim agrees with me. | ||
I've seen very little pushback. | ||
They walk in lockstep. | ||
We're seeing that in texts of Colin Allred trying to run as a quote-unquote moderate, and he was pretty much a Nancy Pelosi, Hakeem Jeffries, Chuck Schumer, Kamala Harris leftist, all the way down, up and down the agenda, voting against HR2, voting against the SAVE Act, voting against every one of the proper policies that we put forward. | ||
But let me just observe. | ||
I do think it is worth noting. | ||
Josh Shapiro broke from Democrats in his rhetoric in Pennsylvania. | ||
I do think it is worth noting that there have been ads. | ||
I think it's Senator Casey running ads, basically trying to align himself with President Trump. | ||
So a Democratic Party that was confident in what it was doing wouldn't be doing that. | ||
So you do have Democrats who are at least figuring it out politically. | ||
Whether or not they understand it ideologically yet, I don't think they do. | ||
I think they're panicking, and so they're now looking at it saying, well, I guess we're going to have to figure out how to make nice, because it looks like we're going to be working with these guys, or they need to try to do it politically. | ||
But ideologically, I've not seen much of it. | ||
A handful of examples, for example, five Democrats voted with us on the SAVE Act, two from Texas, requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote in federal elections. | ||
A couple of other votes like that. | ||
Forty-two Democrats voted with us on the sanctions on the International Criminal Court for trying to make a war criminal out of Netanyahu. | ||
But for the most part, they're in lockstep against a normal agenda for the American people. | ||
To your point about the ideological mess there, and check out this clip. | ||
This is from CNBC that had New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy on, and he was basically asked, hey, what do you think about Kamala's policies? | ||
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You like Kamala Harris, not just against... | |
Let me ask you, do you believe we should abolish the filibuster? | ||
And you can answer after I do it. | ||
How about getting rid of private insurance? | ||
How about taxing unrealized gains? | ||
How about nationalizing energy? | ||
How about mandatory gun buybacks like Australia? | ||
How about decriminalizing illegal crossings? | ||
Ending cash bail? | ||
How Child gender reassignment surgery being paid for in prison. | ||
Raising the corporate tax rate, what are your favorite proposals from Kamala Harris that make you like her so much? | ||
Joe, for a Jersey guy, you sound like you're on the Trump campaign, for crying out loud. | ||
Come on, man. | ||
You're cherry-picking stuff. | ||
Which of those do you like? | ||
Are you in favor of venting the filibuster? | ||
We'll go one by one. | ||
Are you? | ||
I'm not sure on the filibuster, honestly. | ||
So you're not going to talk about any specifics? | ||
What's that? | ||
I think fair tax policy is sensible. | ||
What does that mean, fair? | ||
What does that mean, fair? | ||
Fair means you pay what you should pay. | ||
Well, you know I live in your state, Governor. | ||
Do you think if I pay 55% total, is that fair for me, or do I need to pay 80%? | ||
What would be fair for you? | ||
Because I live in your state. | ||
Joe, I said that up front. | ||
Believe me, I know you do. | ||
But you sound like you're on the Trump campaign. | ||
I don't know what the right number is. | ||
I mean, do I even have to ask a question? | ||
Just go for it, Jim. | ||
Yeah, they can't talk about their policies because their policies are crazy. | ||
I mean, the idea that we're going to tax unrealized gains, are you serious? | ||
Do you want to ruin the economy? | ||
I remember two years ago when Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders did the response to the State of the Union. | ||
She had a great line. | ||
She said, the divide in America today is normal versus crazy. | ||
And you can just go down the list, which is what they were doing on the show there. | ||
I mean, it's crazy to defund the police. | ||
It's crazy not to have a border. | ||
It's crazy to let non-citizens vote in the election. | ||
It's crazy to have men compete against women in sports. | ||
It's crazy to tax unrealized gains. | ||
It's crazy to get rid of, to pack the court. | ||
You can just keep going. | ||
But therefore, all of that, that's why they have to pretend all the time. | ||
That's why Sherrod Brown's running commercials here in Ohio, just like Bob Casey is in Pennsylvania, saying, oh, I like a lot of Trump policies and cozying up to those. | ||
Because their policies, their beliefs are crazy. | ||
And again, I think that is getting through. | ||
Chip, we've chatted many times on and off camera. | ||
I know that you know what your job is and what you're doing and what you're voting on. | ||
And Jim, obviously the same goes for you. | ||
Are you amazed when you see someone like a governor of New Jersey who seemingly can't comment on the filibuster? | ||
All right, fine. | ||
That's dealt with in the House. | ||
But on tax rates, he might be able to make some declarative statement on that and he can't even do that. | ||
Well, they just don't actually believe in any of the policies that Kamala Harris is talking about, or if they do, meaning the candidates, right? | ||
They don't actually agree with her on these things, or if they do, they can't say it. | ||
I think that it's the latter. | ||
I think they're crazy and believe in these policies, but they just can't say it, and they don't like getting called out on it. | ||
But you remember that ending scene in Christmas Vacation? | ||
When Chevy Chase is sitting there, Clark character, and he's like, worse? | ||
How can it get any worse? | ||
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And the fact is, I would say, well, it can't get any worse, but it can. | ||
As bad as it has been, it could get worse if you followed the prescription of what Kamala Harris wants to do for America. | ||
Whereas Donald Trump wants to restore American greatness, Kamala Harris wants to put us on the crazy train to destruction of the American dream. | ||
And that's what I think the American people are seeing if they're allowed to see it. | ||
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Okay, let's talk about Tim Walz for a second, because if you think that Kamala is unqualified and not ready for the job and everything else, she chose a man who I cannot believe has been running a state for a couple of years now, although it's not doing particularly well, obviously, Minnesota. | ||
And here he is with his closing message to Americans. | ||
Donald Trump has descended into madness over the last few weeks. | ||
And I think some of you don't miss on this. | ||
Go do your Google on this. | ||
Donald Trump's got this big rally going at Madison Square Garden. | ||
There's a direct parallel to a big rally that happened in the mid-1930s at Madison Square Garden. | ||
And don't think that he doesn't know for one second exactly what they're doing there. | ||
Jim, I was at the rally. | ||
There were Israeli flags there, American flags. | ||
There were Orthodox Jews. | ||
There was literally a woman in a burqa, and that is what America is all about. | ||
These people are completely out of control, and I probably should stop saying anything else, I think, because we will get demonetized, so go ahead. | ||
Yeah, I mean, nobody buys that. | ||
And I think the irony to me is that Tim Walsh says something ridiculous like that about President Trump and about Republicans. | ||
Meanwhile, he's the guy who set up the snitch line so that, you know, in COVID, if you're walking your dog outside after a certain hour without a mask on, you're going to get arrested. | ||
I mean, you've got to report your neighbor. | ||
You've got to be kidding. | ||
I hate that so bad. | ||
This idea you're going to snitch on your neighbor for exercising their liberty and their freedom. | ||
There's so many things about Tim Walls, the way he handled the whole Minneapolis situation during the summer 2020. | ||
But that fixed-line baloney is the worst. | ||
And then for him to turn around and say something that ridiculous, and I've said it several times, that we, the people of this great country, see through all that garbage. | ||
And it's why you're seeing every data point. | ||
Early voting, swing state polls, national polls, just the energy and enthusiasm you feel for President Trump. | ||
Every metric is moving in the right direction for President Trump and for Republicans because people, I think, are sick of that kind of talk and those kind of actions. | ||
Well, to your point, the more that they do this, the more they seem to unify the rest of us. | ||
Listen to this from Walls. | ||
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I want to get your reaction to the president's comments, but I want to put it into a larger context of your recent comment comparing the Sunday Trump rally to a Nazi rally. | |
And I would also throw in there Obama's bitter clingers, guns and religion comment from a while back, the deplorable line from Hillary Clinton's campaign, and the way that Democrats are seen by some voters as disrespecting them. | ||
And I have to ask, does that undercut this closing message of unity from your campaign? | ||
No, certainly not. | ||
And for Tony, for me, I've represented rural areas. | ||
I've represented Democrats, Republicans, Independents. | ||
Same thing with the Vice President. | ||
Look, you saw a presidential speech last night at the Ellipse that is the best of America, one that's talking about unifying us, one that's talking about bringing folks to the table, one that the American tradition of disagreeing and debating, but still doing it in a respectful manner. | ||
You gotta kind of admire it, Chip. | ||
He can call us Nazis and garbage people and then also tell you that they're the ones that are bringing us together. | ||
Yeah, this is the piece that I find the most offensive and the most problematic. | ||
For them to use that phrase, Nazis, right? | ||
It tells you exactly where they're coming from. | ||
Meanwhile, it is they who are walking away from Israel. | ||
It is they who are empowering Iran by lifting the sanctions, endangering Israel, endangering our national security. | ||
It is they who are sitting on a bill in the Senate that would have sanctioned the International Criminal Court for trying to make Netanyahu a war criminal. | ||
Bill, I was proud to offer it if we pass out of the Senate, but it is Chuck Schumer that's killing that. | ||
It is they who are walking away from Israel and basically trying to continue to fund the United Nations like UNRWA, which was sending all of that money to Hamas. | ||
They are the ones that are standing in the way of the people of Israel. | ||
So for them to get up and try to associate Donald Trump with Adolf Hitler and Nazism It's offensive. | ||
And it's offensive to everyone who ever stood up and fought against the Nazi regime. | ||
Now, I don't go around hand-wringing about, oh my God, I'm offended. | ||
Neither does Donald Trump. | ||
Neither does Jim Jordan. | ||
Neither do you. | ||
But it is telling who these people are. | ||
And these are not people who believe and love in America like President Trump does. | ||
And that's why there's a movement afoot right now. | ||
That's why there's a new coalition. | ||
And that's why I'm hopeful for Tuesday. | ||
So I have one more on this Nazi nonsense, because I'm completely with you, and then I want to get into some of the actual work that you guys are doing, not just the names that we're being called. | ||
But the guys from Triggernometry were on Joe Rogan discussing the MSG rally, and I think this illustrates quite well how normal people are not buying the nonsense anymore. | ||
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These hype-up elections. | |
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I went to that Trump rally. | |
It's one of the greatest shows I've ever seen. | ||
You must not have watched MSNBC because it's a Nazi rally. | ||
There were so many Israeli flags there, it was unbelievable. | ||
Yeah, there was a lot of Israeli flags there. | ||
Israeli flags, loads of Jews, loads of people recognized the same line. | ||
Super hard to call it a Nazi flag with a lot of Israeli flags. | ||
I mean, it's just so silly, this bullshit. | ||
But that's what they're doing. | ||
They're just trying to win. | ||
They're trying to win. | ||
But you can't... | ||
Words have f***ing meaning, Joe. | ||
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They do, yeah. | |
They're supposed to, and for a reason. | ||
And that word, it's supposed to have a very specific meaning. | ||
And it's like, it was a kind of a thing where, like, if someone said that about somebody, you'd go like, holy sh**, I better really make sure this guy isn't that. | ||
I better really make sure this isn't that. | ||
Yeah, it used to be like, oh my god, that guy's a Nazi? | ||
Like, you'd want to follow him, see where he's going to some secret meeting. | ||
Like, oh my god, he's really a Nazi. | ||
It's so irresponsible. | ||
It really grinds my gears, that sh**, man. | ||
It's just, I know you want to win, but this isn't winning. | ||
This is making the whole thing f**king worse. | ||
Yeah, it's not good. | ||
It's not good. | ||
And it also is not good for them because all those mainstream media companies, all the MSNBCs of the world that are doing this kind of you're going to lose more and more credibility. | ||
Like you're already hemorrhaging credibility. | ||
This is the reason why the Washington Post, why Jeff Bezos had to make that, write that article. | ||
So we need more representation of conservative voices. | ||
We can't be just endorsing presidents because you all agree to one thing. | ||
And you want to, like, educate the world. | ||
We're not activists. | ||
We're supposed to be journalists. | ||
This is the reason why this business is hemorrhaging money and lost amazing amounts of credibility. | ||
Like, stunning. | ||
Never seen a time where more people have lost faith in mainstream news. | ||
Jim, putting aside the Nazi stuff for a moment, Rogan's point there about what's happening with the mainstream media versus online media, you've been at the forefront of the censorship situation for years. | ||
You discovered that actually one of my tweets was censored by the government during COVID. As you told me, you get absolutely nothing. | ||
You don't get a letter. | ||
You don't get a sorry. | ||
You get nothing. | ||
It is what it is. | ||
But is that... | ||
Right there, exactly. | ||
A perfect illustration of what's going on here. | ||
That three guys who I think were smoking pot, just shooting the shit, are making a hell of a lot more sense than basically anyone on mainstream media at this point. | ||
Definitely what's going on. | ||
And As Chip knows, we've spent a bulk of our time on the committee this year trying to dig into this censorship effort and exposing what's going on. | ||
And again, I think the country's figuring it out. | ||
And I think Bezos, to some degree, by the Post not endorsing, saying, well, wait, we've got to get back to some level of credibility with the people of this country. | ||
So the one thing I would say about this is, though, the left is not only crazy— The left has a template. | ||
They have a formula they follow all the time. | ||
The left will tell a lie. | ||
Big media will typically report the lie. | ||
Big tech will amplify the lie. | ||
And then when we tell the truth, they call us racists or fascists or some other name. | ||
And pretty soon our position will be proven true. | ||
But by that point, they're on to the next lie. | ||
And we're always chasing it. | ||
Well, I think that's finally breaking down the country saying, wait a minute, we don't believe the initial lie you're telling anymore. | ||
We don't care what big media does. | ||
We don't care what big tech does. | ||
And I think that's happening, and it's so refreshing to see that we are coming back to what one of our witnesses said in a hearing is really the hallmark of Western civilization. | ||
The ability to have a debate and talk about things and not be concerned that the government's going to try to chill your speech or attack you or limit your speech. | ||
It's really refreshing to see. | ||
Chip, are you confident at all? | ||
I mean, obviously, Twitter X is a zillion times better under Elon. | ||
I don't know that that can actually be quantified. | ||
Are you confident that the other social media platforms will not be doing crazy shenanigans over the next couple of days? | ||
Or are we just in too deep to even have any sense? | ||
Well, let me just first give a shout out to Jim in terms of the resources that have been deployed through the great staff and the great members of the Judiciary Committee to try to expose this for the American people. | ||
I mean, that's part of our job. | ||
And you know what? | ||
The Americans rightly get frustrated. | ||
They say, well, you know, you're having another hearing. | ||
What are you doing? | ||
Well, I mean, when you don't have control of the Department of Justice, it's much more difficult for us to do something. | ||
Board willing, if we retake the executive branch on Tuesday and we have the House and the Senate, we need to continue to expose, but we need to do even more to root out the problem, both in terms of changing it in the administration, but also having some accountability for what a lot of people have done. | ||
We've had some great witnesses. | ||
You know, Jim mentioned RFK Jr., Uh, we've had, you know, folks like, uh, Alexis non gray, uh, talking about the border issue in her daughter, but we've had, you know, uh, Catherine Harris, who was talking about the whistleblowers who, you know, she's been in the news the last couple of days and the IRS whistleblowers. | ||
I can go down the list, but Jim can go down it better. | ||
But the point is, it's all real. | ||
Okay. | ||
The laptop issue in 2020, that was a real thing that happened. | ||
That was an historic event and it was a blight. | ||
On our great system. | ||
It's the Democrats have been out there bleeding about how, oh, you guys were, you know, standing in the way of the transition of power. | ||
No, they were literally using the power of big tech, colluding with government to prevent the actual knowledge Americans need to be able to go out and cast votes. | ||
They were lying, they were obfuscating, and they were trying to change the course of history. | ||
and they did it using technology that you're rightly raising questions about right now. | ||
And Jim's been out there leading on Section 230. | ||
There are other things we need to do if we get the trifecta again. | ||
And I'll just say this time, we need to do better than we did in 2017 with the House and the Senate working in coordination with a Trump administration to make transformative change. | ||
On that note, let me talk... | ||
Go ahead, Jim. | ||
I would add just one thing. | ||
Did you ever think that Mark Zuckerberg would write the Judiciary Committee and tell us, yeah, we were pressured to censor by the Biden-Harris administration. | ||
Yes, we did censor. | ||
You know, yes, we did suppress the laptop story, and no, I'm not going to ever spend Zucker bucks anymore in an election. | ||
Did you ever think that would happen? | ||
I think it happened because now they understand what's going on in the country, and this real, you know, go figure, Americans actually like the First Amendment, for goodness sake. | ||
So I think that is a telling sign, along with this new coalition that's come together behind President Trump. | ||
I am very encouraged by it all. | ||
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All right, so I want to talk about the SAVE Act before we finish up today because this is super interesting what happened in the House this week. | ||
Let me read this from Greg Price. | ||
Reminder, nearly every single House Democrat voted against the SAVE Act because they assured us that it's already illegal for non-citizens to vote and that this kind of thing never happens. | ||
And the results... | ||
We're Republicans 216 and no Democrats said yay, and the nays were five Republicans and 198 Democrats. | ||
And let me just read to you a quick definition of the SAVE Act, and then I want to hear your guys' thoughts on this. | ||
The Safeguard American Voter Eligibility, SAVE Act, is a legislative measure aimed at strengthening voter eligibility verification and I think? | ||
Or other government-issued identification that confirms U.S. citizenship. | ||
Chip, you referenced this before, so let me go to you first on this one. | ||
I mean, this seems like something that is just obvious that nobody should be against, and yet about 200 Dems against it. | ||
What's going on here? | ||
Well, first of all, I will say, you know, that's a team effort, but I am proud of the fact that it was my staff and my team that authored this bill. | ||
We put it together, working with great lawyers and people associated with the Trump administration, Cleta Mitchell, people like Stephen Miller, Kim Cuccinelli, others that are expert on these laws. | ||
And by doing that, we were making very clear that we should simply require that there be documentary proof of citizenship for Americans to be able to vote in federal elections. | ||
That's it. | ||
Democrats, you know, rejoined and said, well, that's unnecessary, as you point out, right? | ||
They said, oh, this isn't necessary because it's already unlawful to vote if you're a non-citizen. | ||
But the truth is, federal law has been interpreted, I think probably wrongly, but nevertheless, it's been interpreted and is being applied to actually limit the ability of states to check citizenship. | ||
So for example, Arizona has two systems, one for state and local, one for federal. | ||
They do that because they're prohibited from checking the citizenship on federal, but they do for state and local. | ||
Now we saw what happened in Virginia yesterday with the United States Supreme Court coming out and saying, hey, They thankfully overturned a lower court absurd ruling order in which they were telling Virginia that they couldn't clean off 1,500 non-citizens from their voter rolls. | ||
Glenn Youngkin said something interesting on Fox yesterday morning when he said, I'm glad the court did what they did. | ||
He was proud of Attorney General Meores in Virginia, but that we needed to get the SAVE Act enacted into law Because we need that to guarantee that only citizens vote. | ||
As you alluded to, only five Democrats supported it in the House, two of whom are Texans, by the way. | ||
I don't think that's a coincidence. | ||
And over in the Senate, Chuck Schumer has refused to move it. | ||
It's because they know this is a deadly issue for them. | ||
But more than that, politically, they don't want it. | ||
They want non-citizens to vote. | ||
That's why they've dumped 5.5 million people into the United States plus 2 million gotaways. | ||
It's purposeful. | ||
Jim, I take it that you agree with the sentiment there. | ||
Yeah, anything. | ||
Chip's being humble. | ||
He did a tremendous amount of work on the SAVE Act. | ||
Chuck Schumer just won't bring it up. | ||
It's no accident. | ||
Chuck Schumer won't bring it up. | ||
Oh, we don't need it. | ||
But, oh, then the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department goes around and starts suing states like Virginia. | ||
The Secretary of State in Ohio got a letter. | ||
He called me two and a half weeks ago and said, hey, I just got a letter from the Civil Rights Division saying we can't clean up our voter rolls like we've been doing within this 90 days before an election. | ||
This is what's happening. | ||
So I don't think that's... | ||
That's any accident. | ||
But again, You know, someone said they didn't let millions of people in the country for nothing. | ||
So this is the scary part. | ||
All the metrics and measurements and data all point in good direction for Republicans. | ||
But there is this concern about millions of people who come into the country and the Civil Rights Division is telling Secretary of State and Governors, you can't keep non-citizens off your voter registration roll. | ||
You've got to be kidding me. | ||
And Chuck Schumer won't bring the bill up. | ||
That should tell us everything about where the Democrat Party is. | ||
So one more clip for you guys. | ||
It is a quote-unquote joke by quote-unquote comedian Jimmy Kimmel. | ||
I don't know if you guys know about this, but we have an election coming up on... | ||
I feel pretty relaxed about it. | ||
I've really been enjoying the week. | ||
In times like these, it's important to remember that cannabis is legal in our state. | ||
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Thank you. | |
If you can vote early, vote early. | ||
If you can't vote early, vote on time. | ||
If you want to vote for Trump, vote late. | ||
Vote very late. | ||
You're voting on Thursday or maybe Friday. | ||
All right. | ||
I don't know that I need you guys to comment on the comedy. | ||
I do want to say that I will be voting no since he mentioned cannabis. | ||
I personally will be voting no on Amendment 3 here in Florida to legalize marijuana. | ||
It's a complete boondoggle, even if you're for marijuana and all of that stuff. | ||
We'll discuss that, actually, I think on Monday with Governor DeSantis live on the show. | ||
But all of that aside, let me just get some predictions from you guys. | ||
The one thing that nobody wants to do... | ||
You can just nod if you think Trump's going to win. | ||
I sense you both think Trump is going to win, right? | ||
We're on that one. | ||
We're on that one. | ||
And then what I'm really curious from you guys is what do you think is going to happen in the House? | ||
Jim, you first. | ||
I think we're going to win everything. | ||
I mean, I like our chances in the House. | ||
I think we're going to pick up seats. | ||
But I also think Bernie Marino is going to beat Sharon Brown. | ||
I campaigned with him a number of times in Ohio. | ||
I campaigned with Dave McCormick, who's a great candidate, Pennsylvania. | ||
I think we're going to win the Senate. | ||
And more seats than I think people are predicting. | ||
We know we're going to win West Virginia. | ||
It looks like we're definitely going to win Montana. | ||
But I think we're going to win Ohio and Pennsylvania and maybe Wisconsin, Michigan as well. | ||
So I feel good up and down the ticket for Republicans. | ||
All right, that was bullish. | ||
What do you got, Chip? | ||
Thanks for that question, Dave. | ||
I mean, look, I believe that President Trump's going to win. | ||
I think he's going to sweep the Sun Belt. | ||
I think that he's going to do well in the northern states. | ||
I think he can at least do well to win one of them. | ||
He only has to win, really, Pennsylvania, Michigan, or Wisconsin. | ||
The trend is in the right direction. | ||
But we've got to finish strong in order to get that done. | ||
I think in the House, we're probably looking at something like 223 to 212. | ||
That would be the, I think, upper end. | ||
I think that's an 11-seat margin. | ||
I think certainly 789 is very doable. | ||
And in the Senate, I think we could be looking at 52 to 53 because the maps favor us. | ||
We'll definitely have the Senate. | ||
And I think Senator Cruz will do well in the end in Texas, despite literally tens of millions of dollars pouring in against him. | ||
So I feel good about the direction. | ||
I think that people are getting tired and souring on Kamala Harris. | ||
And I think President Trump has been finishing strong. | ||
But let's just hope that's the case because our country depends on it. | ||
This isn't just a choice between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris. | ||
This is a choice about the future of our country and whether our kids are going to live free. | ||
So let's all get out there and get it done. | ||
Thanks for having me on. | ||
All right, guys, that is it. | ||
Our last Friday show before the election. | ||
It is Friday, so there is no postgame show. | ||
Guys, get out there. | ||
Have a great weekend. | ||
If you haven't voted yet, vote. | ||
I personally, I'm voting on Election Day on Tuesday. | ||
But just make sure your friends and family are aware of what's going on if they've been living under a rock or in a cave or in a garbage can. | ||
And let's save this freaking country. | ||
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