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| It's great to be back, by the way. | |
| I took my long vacation of the year. | |
| I am refreshed. | |
| I am centered. | |
| I have gotten myself back in a position. | |
| I'm just as focused as I can be. | |
| I hope you all had a great holiday, great Christmas. | |
| I wish all of you all God's blessings in the new year. | |
| Uh we a lot happened since I was away. | |
| The Idaho murder case, they now have their suspect. | |
| I'm glad to hear that. | |
| The Jihadi wannabe attack in Times Square, that happened. | |
| Uh we'll get to the issue. | |
| I'm gonna explain in all the detail what's going on in on the House floor right now with Speaker McCarthy, or if he becomes speaker, the battle over the speakership. | |
| Uh McCarthy now has lost his second vote to be speaker. | |
| Um, and there's a reason why I'm not alarmed about this the way others are. | |
| It it is frustrating. | |
| They should have settled this a long time ago, and I told the people involved that they need to get in a room, they need to leave their cell phones and their egos at the door, and they need to sit down and come to an agreement. | |
| And I've told them way before Christmas that this needs to happen. | |
| And here we are, and I said otherwise it's gonna look like a clown show. | |
| And we're not quite at that point yet, but it's getting there because they now have had two votes, and while McCarthy is getting the most votes for the Republicans that they you have a group of people that I'm not sure exactly what they want. | |
| Uh, and some people say, well, well, what about an alternative? | |
| Jim Jordan. | |
| Jim Jordan just nominated McCarthy, and he did it passionately. | |
| We'll we'll play some of that tape a little later later. | |
| Um, I know most of you by now have seen this hit that took place on Damar Hamlin last night uh as he was playing Buffalo Bills player, and it looked it looked like an average normal hit. | |
| There was nothing out of out of line. | |
| For example, you've seen hits where you have helmet to helmet, you know, real hard crashes that could obviously impact great concussion scenarios or spine injuries or neck injuries. | |
| That was not the case here. | |
| It was a clean hit. | |
| Uh there was nothing bad about it. | |
| Uh Damar Hamlin, you know, went down, got up, and then he went down again. | |
| And then for the next nine minutes, they're performing CPR on this guy because he went into full cardiac arrest. | |
| He's now in a hospital, he's now intubated. | |
| We're told that he's resting comfortably, but he's in very critical condition. | |
| And I think we also saw something on a sports field that I wish we saw more often in all of life, and that was a group of people on both teams, you know, circling around uh Damar, and you could see them visibly shaken by what had happened there. | |
| They had to bring out the paddles to revive this guy's heart. | |
| And you gotta hope and pray doesn't have any remaining residual uh physical uh deficiencies after all is said and done here. | |
| Um, for example, the call, if you listen to Joe Buck and Troy Aikman, it was you know, it was just a normal hit. | |
| They didn't say, Wow, that I've never seen a hit like that before. | |
| Listen. | |
| Here's it is wide open to midfield and lowers the shoulder for 13. | |
| This word Joe Burrow Is so good. | |
| And now another Bill's player is down. | |
| So exactly who that is. | |
| Maybe Hamlin. | |
| Jordan Poyer was able to go tonight. | |
| He was iffy. | |
| They're only pro bowler on this very good defense. | |
| Hamlin's taking the place for the injured Micah Hyde. | |
| And that is Damar Hamlin. | |
| A big piece of this defense for Sean McDermott. | |
| All right, so then Joe Buck discussed the timeline. | |
| This happened at 8 55.03 during the game or during the period. | |
| And here's Joe Buck discussing that timeline. | |
| Fell at 8.55.03. | |
| Was on his back, and it went from wondering what was going on to... | |
| Wondering about head injury to then frantically administering CPR to this 24-year-old safety. | |
| And this is a Bills team. | |
| During the break, we watched Sean McDermott call his team over and say, we're going to say a prayer. | |
| We're going to say a prayer for Damar. | |
| What was amazing about this is you've you've heard me so often say that sports is the most unifying moment that brings people of all different backgrounds together. | |
| You have people of all races, all backgrounds, all religions, all coming together with a shared passion. | |
| Socioeconomic differences, all of that put aside because of a shared passion of a sport, shared passion of a home team. | |
| That's why I didn't like politics being, you know, brought into the NFL, albeit through Colin Koepernick, etc. | |
| etc. | |
| Last night you saw the best in everybody. | |
| You saw the best in both teams. | |
| You know, you saw these these big, you know, gladiators out, you know, crying their eyes out because they knew the severity of what was going on down there. | |
| Nine minutes they were they were literally performing CPR on this guy. | |
| It took, you know, electric paddles to get him apparently to revive his heart after suffering cardiac arrest, and and it's not often you actually see an ambulance, you know, brought onto the field to bring this guy out. | |
| And um, and then the game was called. | |
| I think that was the right decision. | |
| I've I've yet to hear anybody disagree with that. | |
| Maybe some have, I don't know. | |
| Um, but anyway, our prayers are with him. | |
| And you know, we have our gladiator sports. | |
| We admire. | |
| Every guy that steps onto a football field knows that they're putting their life in jeopardy, knows that they they're putting it all on the line. | |
| Average career of a football player, professional football player, is less than four years. | |
| And yet they go on the field willingly and and they they put their heart and their soul into this. | |
| And, you know, I know everybody's praying hard for uh for Damar Hamlin and his family is as I know all of you are in this this audience as well. | |
| Um let me go to what's going on. | |
| McCarthy has lost the second vote now today uh for speaker. | |
| He is by far the leader in all of this, a little behind the scenes. | |
| I had talked to a lot of people. | |
| A lot of this has been building for some period of time. | |
| And my advice to people was look, I'm not getting too involved in this. | |
| This is this is your job. | |
| I'm not a congressman or a congresswoman. | |
| But what they should have been doing since election day is they should have been hammering out the differences. | |
| Once they knew they had the majority, they should have been hammering out the differences. | |
| Now the agenda is pretty well set. | |
| We know that Kevin McCarthy has agreed to have the investigation run by Jim Jordan, who nominated him earlier today, into whether or not the FBI has been politicized and whether the Department of Justice has been weaponized. | |
| We know that James Comer will be doing an investigation, his words, not mine, into President Joe Biden, who we now know beyond any any doubt, lied to the American people repeatedly when he said he never had a conversation with Hunter about his foreign business dealings. | |
| We know we knew that back In the Ukrainian impeachment days, because he was out there demanding leveraging your tax dollars to get a prosecutor in Ukraine fired. | |
| Um, why would a vice president ever do that? | |
| You're not getting the billion dollars, you got six hours, and son of a bee, they did it. | |
| They fired the prosecutor, who turns out was investigating Hunter. | |
| Uh, so that's gonna happen. | |
| An investigation into the origins of COVID. | |
| That's going to happen. | |
| Then, of course, an investigation into the disaster that was the pull-out in Afghanistan and how you prevent something like that from ever happening again. | |
| So they should have gotten in a room, and my message was clear to some of the people that I talked to. | |
| And I'm I'm not I'm I'm being very transparent that I talked to these people because I saw this train wreck coming. | |
| I don't think it's at a train wreck level yet. | |
| I don't think it's at a clown show level yet, but if they don't resolve these differences soon, it will be that. | |
| And they'll be showing the country that they're not prepared to lead and and looking pretty stupid in the process. | |
| But let me tell you what's happening. | |
| So we have the 118th Congress is now convened as of noon today. | |
| They call it opening day. | |
| Um, this pageantry, all the predictable stuff in the beginning, and lawmakers they go on the Capitol floor, they bring their families from all over the country, and you have kids running up and down the aisles, and freshmen bring everyone to Capitol Hill. | |
| They pack their offices with constituent supporters and families and donors, and you know, they they have you know little delicacies and food and finger sandwiches, whatever. | |
| Um, anyway, maybe like the first day of school, as Chad Pagram uh paragram said uh in in his Hitchhiker's Guide to the vote for the Speaker of the House. | |
| Anyway, that is what happens in the beginning. | |
| And then the vote for speaker, which is the first order of business, is supposed to happen around two o'clock. | |
| This, by the way, none of this what we're watching today has happened in the last century. | |
| It's for the first time in a century, things you know have not gone down as it usually does happen. | |
| And once you pick a speaker, then the speaker swears in the entire body, and then we're off to the races. | |
| I don't know how many days before people's patience are going to run very thin that Republicans can't start their investigations, can't start their commitment to America promises, and and how this is ultimately all going to play out, but it's gonna have to play out because for the first time in a century, all right. | |
| So now we've had two votes. | |
| And in both cases, Kevin McCarthy had over what, 200 votes, and he needs two eighteen. | |
| So he's shy by X number. | |
| Uh, but the first order of business today would be electing a speaker. | |
| It can't do anything, they can't swear in new members until the House chooses the speaker. | |
| The last time that the speaker vote went to a second ballot, even was 1923. | |
| Then it took nine ballots and three days before the House re-elected Speaker Frederick Gillette from Massachusetts, and then the House, you know, frittered away two weeks before electing Speaker Howell uh Cobb in 1849. | |
| That's that's how infrequently this has happened. | |
| Um, but what happens is the clerk of the House, Cheryl Johnson calls the House to order. | |
| That happened earlier today at noon, and then she is the holdover from the Democratically controlled house. | |
| She presides from the dais. | |
| She's in charge of the House until members select a speaker. | |
| So the longer it takes Republicans to figure out a speaker, the longer that the House is run by an appointee of Nancy Pelosi. | |
| And the first thing the House then has to do is take attendance. | |
| All members elected in November are asked to come to the chamber and record their presence. | |
| House starts at at 434 members, 222 Republicans, 212 Democrats, one vacancy, uh that representative from Virginia that died just after the election. | |
| Uh then it's on to the selection of speaker. | |
| And it was it was uh conference chairwoman Stefanic nominating McCarthy, and then later on it was Jim Jordan nominating McCarthy. | |
| You know, he here's here's what I'm having a hard time understanding. | |
| Like I really hated what Mitch McConnell did at the end of the last session. | |
| An omnibus bill when Republicans would be able to weigh in and cut back on ridiculous spending of Joe Biden and his agenda. | |
| And Mitch McConnell and Republicans went along with the Democrats, and instead of doing a continuing resolution, they did a full-on year year's budget omnibus bill with reckless spending, pork projects, etc. | |
| etc. | |
| It should never have happened. | |
| McCarthy's committed to all these investigations. | |
| McCarthy's committed to all these assignments for Freedom Caucus members. | |
| Here's the interesting part, which says, I'm not sure why this is even necessary. | |
| McCarthy has agreed to allow, and he was fighting it, but he agreed as of two days or three days ago to a motion to vacate. | |
| Meaning any five Republicans at any point, if they feel he's not living up to his promises, they can then hold another vote for speaker. | |
| And they can bring that up. | |
| That's something that Nancy Pelosi never allowed. | |
| So in other words, there is an escape valve for them if they want it. | |
| Anyway, we'll get to that. | |
| And uh I'm sure we'll be talking about it all throughout the day. | |
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| I know a lot of you are frustrated by all of this. | |
| And in many ways, you're right to feel that way. | |
| They had a lot of time knowing that they won the leadership in the House to do all of this business. | |
| And in my view, it's sort of like a family... | |
| There's some family business that you handle behind closed doors, and it's only among family members. | |
| At the end of the day, what I said to many of them was let me make sure you're clear and that you understand that you will succeed together or you will fail together. | |
| There's not going to be any middle ground here. | |
| Either you're going to go forward with the promises you made to your voters, your constituents, and serve them, uh, or you, or you're not going to be able to do it. | |
| Now, this is day one. | |
| We can miss a day. | |
| We can miss two days. | |
| Uh, Do I think that McCarthy he was dead set against the omnibus that the Senate went along with? | |
| But there's very specific things that he's now putting down, that he is now put down on paper in writing. | |
| Forget about the personalities involved here. | |
| He's going forward with the investigations into whether the FBI's politicized, the DOJ's weaponized. | |
| He's investigating Joe Biden and his relationship with Hunter and his foreign business partners. | |
| He's investigating the origins of COVID-19. | |
| He's investigating the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan. | |
| They're going forward with their America first, make America Great Again, commitments to America agenda. | |
| So and you have the motion to vacate, which means if he doesn't keep his promises, you can throw them out at any time. | |
| All right, 25 now to the top of the hour, watching the uh two votes, Kevin McCarthy failing to get the total of 218, the threshold. | |
| He now has had two votes today, all at the same was a 203, uh so 19 against at this particular point in time. | |
| The now the successful speaker candidate doesn't need 218 to be very clear here. | |
| I know this gets complicated for a lot of people. | |
| The problem is that if several members cast ballots for someone else by name, such as a scenario blocking McCarthy from obtaining the majority, um, even though he may have the votes, but that's not the rule. | |
| The successful speaker candidate doesn't need 218. | |
| Pelosi and former speakers Newt Gingrich, John Boehner each prevailed in at least one speaker election with fewer than 218 votes, but complicating that factor is that the magic number for speaker is unknown until the first tally is complete, and we now know that the total of ballots cast uh for someone by name. | |
| So if there's no winner, the house votes again and again and again until there's a speaker selected. | |
| Um I'm not at the point of worrying yet. | |
| There are some things developing that that do concern me, and I'll explain in a minute, but um, but that's the way the process works. | |
| Now things can get even more chaotic. | |
| You know, McCarthy didn't now have failed on the first two ballots, the House will find itself in a posture not seen in a hundred years. | |
| That's a lot of precedent as to how things should unfold in the House. | |
| And we know this, um, you know, Cheryl Johnson, the Democratic clerk of the House will remain in charge in the interim. | |
| And there are no members of the House because they've not been sworn in yet. | |
| There are no members in the House of Representatives. | |
| The House is not fully constituted because there's no speaker to swear them in. | |
| The members elect only become members when they're sworn in by the speaker. | |
| You know, remember all the family members, you know, everybody that flew in to Washington and friends and donors and college buddies and and kids, and they're running all over the place when they open the House floor today. | |
| But anyway, this you know somebody here is going to blink at some point, and it's gonna play out. | |
| The hope is of the people that have been working the hardest to get rid of uh McCarthy that they're gonna somehow uh find a as someone else to emerge. | |
| Now, Andy Biggs in conference from Arizona was the alternative, and he got very few votes. | |
| And you have people like him, a congressman Bob Good, Ralph Norman, Matt Gates, Matt Rosendale of Montana, and then you've got you know another nine or so people, not more than that, uh 14 or so people that that have not been sold on this. | |
| The thing that the problem that I have with most of it is that in these agreements, the talks leading into today, what's called the motion to vacate had been discussed and discussed in great specificity and detail. | |
| And I don't want to get too deep into the weeds, but a motion to vacate, I I believe the number is either five or ten that McCarthy agreed to, That means at any given time, if again, and the expressed concern of some of these names that I've mentioned to you are that he's not going to follow through on his promises and the agenda and the investigations and the use of the power of the purse and | |
| the commitments to America, there's nothing that I can see that is going to stop Kevin from doing that at this point. | |
| And if you have the ability down the road if to hold him accountable, which they've not had in a long time, Nancy Pelosi did not have a motion to vacate, meaning that if Kevin McCarthy becomes Speaker, doesn't keep his promises, they would have an escape hatch to get rid of them. | |
| Which a lot of people, which every speaker doesn't want at all, but that he agreed to. | |
| But anyway, if this drags on through, say January 13th, the lawmakers themselves and certain aides start not getting paid. | |
| However, it is possible the House could eventually elect a speaker without an outright majority. | |
| In both the elections of Howell Cobb in 1849 and Nathaniel Banks in 1856, the repeated voting wore members down, and for both Cobbs and Banks, the House adopted a resolution which then allowed it to peak, pick a speaker with a simple majority. | |
| In other words, the House resolution said that the winner simply secured the most votes. | |
| It is possible that the House could do the same under these circumstances if it goes on long enough. | |
| Then we've got another scenario, and that is the issue involving George Santos, happens to be in my district. | |
| Well, lucky me. | |
| But anyway, we we noted earlier that once the House concludes their initial quorum call, the next order of business is first to pick the speaker, then to uh swear everybody in. | |
| Um anyway, so why you know why we're in this position, I don't know. | |
| My suggestion to all of these people is they need to get in a room, they need to close the door, they need to shut off their cell phones, and they need to hammer out an agreement. | |
| And I thought the agreement was the commitments to America. | |
| I thought the agreement was the judiciary investigation of Jim Jordan and the investigation into President Biden by Congressman Jims Comer, and an investigation into the origins of COVID and the investigation in Afghanistan. | |
| I thought that was the agenda. | |
| On the positive side, it was control the borders, defund the IRS, um, you know, the America first, make America great again agenda, bring America back to energy independence, etc. | |
| So we'll have to see. | |
| Um the Article 1, Section 2 of the Constitution says no person shall be a representative who shall not have obtained the age of 25 years and been seven years a citizen in the U.S. Uh who shall not, when elected, be an inhabitant of that state in which they shall be chosen. | |
| You know, Santos, in that case, because people want to make it a big issue about him, has met that bar, and it'll be up to the voters in Long Island in the next election if they want to keep them. | |
| Article 1, Section 5 of the Constitution also says that the House and the Senate have the final say as to who is seated, which brings us to a phenomenon in Congress known as exclusion. | |
| The House has challenged the seating of dozens of members over the years, and lawmakers have raised questions about the ethics, finances, whatever uh of individuals, et cetera, et cetera. | |
| But you know, now we're again getting a little too deep into the weeds. | |
| You know, if you if you if you the one thing, the one caveat that I have in this that would make me concerned is there was one report on the political wire that said McCarthy's opponents in the House are now reportedly warning that they'd rather see Democrat Hakeem Jeffries become Speaker than drop their opposition to McCarthy. | |
| Now, if it gets to that point, they are the dumbest people that are ill equipped at leading anything. | |
| And I'll predict right now that if anything remotely close to this happens, the Republican voters can kiss all of us goodbye. | |
| We'll be done. | |
| In a private meeting yesterday, Matt Gates, Lauren Bobert, Scott Perry told Kevin McCarthy they don't mind, according to political wire, if the speaker vote goes to plurality and Democrat Hakeem Jeffries is elected because they will fight him. | |
| Well, but then you don't get the committee assignments. | |
| Then you lose the power of investigation. | |
| Then you give up the power of the purse, the very things that everybody around the country was fighting for in the last election. | |
| Anyway, so if their objective isn't to win the speakership for one of their own, uh, or maybe just weaken Kevin McCarthy, you know, maybe maybe that's all they want. | |
| We're really what they should be doing is agreeing on an agenda. | |
| It's it's really not that is this really that complicated for people? | |
| I don't know why. | |
| Um it's just not that complicated for me. | |
| And you know, I go back to what Ronald Reagan said. | |
| The person that agrees with you 80% of the time is a friend and an ally and not a 20% traitor. | |
| You know, Republicans have a hard time with that aspect, especially when you consider on the issue of taxes and regulation and energy and borders and immigration. | |
| I mean, all of these things are 90 10 issues. | |
| Those are going to be the issues that they deal with. | |
| You know, the investigations are the investigations. | |
| McCarthy's already committed to it. | |
| We know who will be running them. | |
| And now in the meantime, we're just wasting time as you know, they have their little, you know, fight that should have been dealt with long before they ever got on the floor on the floor. | |
| So, how do you get out of this? | |
| I don't know. | |
| I think reason, do I expect reason to rule the day? | |
| Doesn't look like it's gonna rule the day today. | |
| That's what I can say. | |
| But we'll see how long this goes. | |
| Scholis reveals the first legislation, you know, they're gonna lay out their bold agenda. | |
| Scalise said that their agenda they're gonna bring up on the House floor when they assume power. | |
| Uh and it's very, very clear. | |
| He listed eight bills, three resolutions that he will be scheduling for Republicans to take up in the first two weeks of work once they can get everybody sworn in. | |
| We have a lot of work ahead of us the next year as we begin to get the country back on the right track. | |
| American voters have made their desire for change clear in the midterm election. | |
| And, you know, they want to deal with soaring inflation, the rise in violent crime, the crisis of illegal immigration. | |
| He pointed out the last two years have been hard on working families. | |
| They've been very hard on working families. | |
| Um by the way, Democrats tried to move to seal January 6th evidence for 50 years. | |
| Can you believe this? | |
| Lawmaker said they wanted to make their work public to underscore the seriousness of the January 6th breach and Trump's alleged efforts to overturn the election. | |
| However, some of the committee's work, such as videotape of hundreds of witness interviews, uh, will not be made public. | |
| Meanwhile, they've been leaking only small portions and tidbits just to that that are the most damaging as possible to Republicans and to Trump. | |
| This they're so full of crap. | |
| I mean, it's just such a lie. | |
| It's just so typical, it's so Washington. | |
| You know, um, 2022 was the worst year for the stock market since 2008. | |
| In case you're interested, in case you don't think this vote for speaker matters. | |
| The CBO is now found the the inflation of Joe Biden unleashed with his spending bonanza has now punished the middle class in this country the hardest of all. | |
| Whatever I've been saying, the poor, the middle class, people on fixed incomes, they're getting clobbered. | |
| The typical American household has paid approximately $10,000 in inflation taxes since Biden has taken office. | |
| And by the way, there's a lot more to come. | |
| I mean, there's a I'll give you a list of the Biden taxes, all of which kills the middle class, the poor, and people on fixed income. | |
| $6.5 billion natural gas tax. | |
| By the way, that tax hike violates Biden's pledge not to raise taxes on Americans making under 400,000 a year. | |
| Uh, so if you use natural gas, six point five billion dollar Biden tax. | |
| If you use uh gasoline or need oil in any way, there's a twelve billion dollar crude oil tax, which will also be passed on to the middle class in this country. | |
| There's a $1.2 billion coal tax that will increase household energy bills. | |
| That'll further increase the amount of money you you need to heat your home. | |
| A $74 billion uh stock tax. | |
| That's going to hit everybody's $401K and everyone's IRA and everyone's pension plan. | |
| Uh but as I just mentioned, 2022 was the worst year for the stock market since 2008. | |
| And on top of that, the average family in American household has paid $10,000 in Biden inflation to this point. | |
| I mean, all of this is on the American taxpayer. | |
| You know, retirement accounts hold the largest share of corporate stocks, and now Joe is going to tax it even further. | |
| Then he's added to that $225 billion, a corporate income tax hike, which by the way, I will remind you, nobody else seems to remember. | |
| Corporations don't pay taxes. | |
| Now, if you live in New York, I want you to know that there's a new law that is now in effect. | |
| You can now use dead human bodies for human composting. | |
| Apparently, joining six other five other liberal states. | |
| Apparently, the 60-day chemical-free compost mortem process involves putting a person's dead body in a vessel with organic material like straw, alfalfa, sawdust, then seal the box attached to an HVAC system, and the remains are allowed to decompose. | |
| At the 30-day mark, the contents are screened for inorganic material and remaining bone is then broken up and put back in your compost pile. | |
| Oh, I can't wait to grow my vegetables on that. | |
| Sounds amazing. | |
| Did you know that, Linda? | |
| I think you're going to be an excellent gardener and human composter. | |
| I look forward to this. | |
| Your next year next career. | |
| Mm-hmm. | |
| Minimum wage now up dramatically in New York, paid sick leave. | |
| You know, all these agenda, all these liberal states, they are running people away. | |
| Illinois Police Reform Act, uh, which means more defunding, dismantling, uh, more Nobel laws. | |
| Uh, California, they have their pink tax law uh on shampoo and other personal items marketed to women. | |
| Uh it bans stores from charging a different price on gender. | |
| I mean, they want every aspect of your life controlled. | |
| We're gonna run through this tonight in detail on Hannity 9 Eastern on the Fox News channel. | |
| By the way, new emails show that Nancy Pelosi was way more responsible for security failures on January 6th. | |
| We need that investigator too. | |
| All right, 800 941 Sean as we kick off the new year. | |
| John Solomon has an investigative report into the Biden's. | |
| We'll get to that. | |
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