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Jan. 12, 2023 - Sean Hannity Show
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Health Tips from O'Reilly - January 11th, Hour 2
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Who doesn't love the Rocky movie series with Sylvester Stallone?
I love all of those movies.
Linda, you share a passion for that as well, right?
Obsessed.
I absolutely love them.
There's a reason I'm playing this as the introduction to Bill O'Reilly today instead of Simple Man by Leonard Skynyrd.
It's because Bill O'Reilly on his website today has with the new year, healthy eating tips, advice for his audience on better ways to manage their health.
And I think we're going to probably find ourselves in a little bit of disagreement here, but all things, Bill O'Reilly of BillO'Reilly.com.
The self-proclaimed Simple Man, Bill O'Reilly, is with us.
How are you, sir?
You know, the Rocky Soundtrack, best movie soundtrack of all time.
Agree.
Totally.
You know, I play it in the car when I'm zooming around looking for healthy food, Hannity.
And that's why I want my audience and the Hannity audience as well to stay around as long as possible and to be nimble and not be weighed down with disease caused by food.
All right.
Now, I find this interesting because now, do you work out?
Yeah.
I mean, I work out in the sense that I walk a lot and I do power walks like the Roman Centurions.
Well, you know about 10,000 steps a day.
That is.
I don't count the steps, Hannity.
That's for.
You don't have to count them, Bill.
That's on your iPhone, Bill.
It's not hard.
I would know how to do that.
I kind of just take the Terradog and I walk out and I go a couple of hours.
How long?
How many miles?
A couple of miles.
Okay.
And a couple miles back or just a couple of miles total.
Two altogether.
I don't want to be ridiculous about it.
I have the same waist size, Hannity, I had in college.
Okay, you know me.
You know, for my age, which is astronomical, it's through the roof.
You're like Dick Clark.
Remember, Dick?
Without the hair.
So I don't have to do marathons or kung fu like you do.
I can just walk the terror dog and I'm good.
Well, let me ask you, if you're really serious about changing your health, you know I train in an hour and a half a day, and then I've added to that cardio, either walking or riding a stationary bike watching TV.
Why don't you come over?
I don't do kung fu.
I do mixed martial arts.
Yeah, Fanny, I'm solving those problems.
I appreciate the invitation.
You got to get your ass out of bed like I do and get out there.
And you got to train now.
I'm in good shape.
I mean, look, this is a serious thing, though.
And I'm really happy we're talking about it to the largest radio audience in the world, which is the Hannity radio audience.
what we have in america now is deceit so um when it was found that tobacco caused cancer nicotine the government launched into it it's not it's not the nicotine not because i i wait i I like tobacco.
It's the additives and the chemicals in the cigarettes, right?
Okay, the government launched in and did this.
Everyone knows in the medical community that sugar will kill you.
Yet, no one on the government side is publicizing that, and the media certainly isn't because of the enormous amount of advertising that the soft drink companies, the cookie companies do.
And it's the same thing with the fast food.
I mean, if you're on that drive-in line more than once a week, you're hurting yourself.
Okay, but they spend so much money advertising these food companies.
Oh, come on.
Are you saying people are so gullible that they don't know when they go to like I go to McDonald's occasionally, not very often.
I don't even really like it like I used to.
I've never been out an hour and a half a day.
You can go to McDonald's four times because you work it off.
But the obesity rate in this country is astronomical.
Everybody knows that, and that leads to diabetes.
It leads to everything else.
All I want, and I'm a simple man, is for people to be aware of that.
Because we have products now, dessert products, drink products that cut out most of the sugar and the bad stuff and taste pretty good.
So why wouldn't you switch over and elongate?
I'm not the food police.
Listen, I agree with your smart life eating tips.
I agree with what you say about sugar.
Even though I do consume nicotine, I think it's smart not to.
All right, let's compare diets.
Give me a typical Bill O'Reilly diet day and then I'll share mine with you.
So I'll eat some Irish oatmeal in the morning.
What is Irish?
Ah, you're Irish.
It tastes good.
What is the Irish part?
What's the difference between regular oatmeal and Irish oatmeal?
It's not as refined.
It comes in grains.
You put in your water or your milk.
I use milk.
You stir it up.
You put a little honey on it.
Okay, and you got it.
It's a good deal.
By the way, honey is sugar, but keep going.
But a little bit is okay.
It's not refined sugar.
I get honey right from the bees.
They just bring it over.
Okay.
Bill O'Reilly, the beekeeper.
Go ahead.
An English muffin or sourdough toast with some butter on it.
That's bread.
I don't eat a lot of bread either.
Keep going.
Yeah, sourdough doesn't turn to sugar.
So if you're eating a lot of bread and pasta, that's all turning to sugar.
Sourdough bread does not.
And it tastes good.
So anyway, that's breakfast.
Then for lunch, it depends.
Usually a tuna sandwich, something like that, but not a lot.
And then dinner before 6.30.
Very important.
You don't eat after 6.30.
And if you get hungry during the day, my go-to is cashew nuts.
It tastes good.
They're healthy.
And I drink water.
Again, if you're hungry, you drink water with a little lemon or lime in it.
Then the hunger goes away.
And for dinner, I'll have anything, anything that appeals to me at the moment.
Okay, it depends how hungry I am.
But I'm not one of these, okay, I'll have four carrots and three Brussels sprouts.
I don't do that.
Okay?
Whatever is appealing to me at night.
And you don't drink alcohol at all.
By the way, by the way, Bill O'Reilly, you're one of the top list of people that should drink.
That's right.
And if I did drink, I'd be in the penitentiary.
So I was fine.
That's probably true.
I shouldn't drink or take drugs, and I never have.
All right.
Here's a Hannity day.
Ready?
Yep.
Before my feet hit the floor and I say my prayers and thank God for the many blessings in my life and for him to watch over me and protect me, I will drink a gallon of water before I leave my bed.
One gallon.
I suck down four 16-ounce bottles of water every day.
You have a porta potty right next to the bed.
Pretty much.
Okay, I get up, I get dressed, I go down, I train.
I train for an hour and a half.
Now, that includes the following: we train mixed martial arts.
It's an eclectic blend of arts, Krab Maga, Kempo, Japanese Jiu-Jitsu, boxing, situational street fighting.
We also train with blades and knives and firearms.
And I have now incorporated weightlifting in the last year and a half to my routine.
And I can now, for example, press just using 100-pound dumbbells.
I can get them up in the air, which I never could when I started a year and a half ago, not even close.
So I've built up my strength a lot, built up a lot of body muscle, which I'd never had.
Then I eat my first meal of the day.
Usually it's either egg whites, it'll be four or five, along with grilled onions and like a little bit of chopped meat for flavor, all protein, or three eggs and onions and chopped meat.
You're not cooking that, Hannity.
I make that every day.
Who's cooking that for you?
I make it myself.
Bill, I make it every single day myself.
You're standing at the stove cooking that.
Sweet Baby James has been living with me for six months because his house wasn't closing.
Sweet Baby James, come in here and tell Bill O'Reilly, is it true?
Do I cook every meal myself?
Yeah, he's a pretty good chef.
He cooks every meal himself.
Every meal.
That's astounding.
Okay, I make usually most weeks, I will boil a chicken and I'll put some chicken bouillon in it.
After radio.
Live chicken?
No, not no, Bill.
I don't put a live chicken in the pot, Bill.
Out of your mind.
If you're a naturalist, you could be throwing a chicken in there.
All right.
It's a little chicken bullion, probably a little too much salt in it, but that's okay.
And I put a lot of broth around it.
And after radio, I usually will take a bowl of the broth, maybe with a little bit of chicken, depending how hungry I am.
I can't, I agree.
You should try to stop eating at 6:30 at night if you can, but with my schedule, it's impossible.
And then after TV, I will usually make myself, I'll have a little bit more chicken broth along with either a hamburger or a pork chop or a steak, maybe with a little salad.
And that's it.
During the 10:30, 11 at night?
I will eat that at 10.30 at night.
And then I'll pour myself one vodka drink with Tito's and happily, hopefully, you know, fall asleep before 4.
You don't sleep.
You're a vampire.
You're like Trump.
I don't sleep a lot.
I never have.
I wish I could.
You know, look, if I had your conscience, I wouldn't be sleeping either.
It has nothing to do with my conscience.
And then, you know, often after radio, before I'll eat the soup, I'll either walk for an hour if I have the time and make phone calls, or I'll just jump on the bike for a half hour and I'll do the bike for a half hour, watch some TV.
You know, you sound like Jack Lelaine.
Remember Jack Lelaine?
Unfortunately, I do.
It's a black and white television, Bill.
Most people don't remember.
It's amazing.
But anyway.
Well, here's the other thing, though.
And on the weekends, I cheat.
On the weekends, if I feel like having pasta, which I really don't have a desire for like I used to, I'll have that.
I like ravioli.
I'll have that.
Or this weekend, I had shrimp scampi, too much butter, but I had it anyway.
Listen, it's all in moderation.
All I want is for people to be aware that if you're going to go down the sugar trail or the fast food trail, you're going to die sooner and in pain.
All right, quick break.
We'll come right back more with Simple Man, Rocky Himself, Bill O'Reilly.
AllthingsO'Reilly at BillO'Reilly.com as we continue.
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Bill O'Reilly is with us, Simple Man himself, as we're talking about New Year's resolution and better health choices for people.
Shouldn't the federal government be doing this?
That's what really torques me off.
No, I don't need the federal government to tell me how to live my life and eat.
Health warnings up just like they did before.
Oh, stop, Bill.
It didn't stop one person.
Oh, yes, it did.
Cigarettes can cause...
Cigarettes can crash in America.
By the way, you can still buy cigarettes, and your government makes more money off a pack of cigarettes than tobacco companies.
When we were...
When we were growing up, 50% of the American adults were smoking.
Now it's down to 20.
And that's because of the bad publicity and health.
And there are alternatives for people that like nicotine like me.
There's the gum, there's the patch.
Well, I don't care about what we want people to be healthy.
And it's the pain that these sugar-laden diseases and the food-borne diseases bring.
Well, that's where diabetes comes from.
It's type 2 diabetes.
And that then puts you at a greater risk for a heart attack or a stroke.
All true.
Yeah, we want you to.
But I want to get you in the Hannity Dojo.
I want you to show up.
No, I'm not going to hit you.
We're not going to.
I'm going to hit me, Hannity.
That would be a massive lawsuit.
I want you to hit me.
You probably will provoke me to hit you.
But I want you to come over.
We'll train at whatever level you're at.
There's no judgment in a dojo.
But however, I think you would find it really interesting.
Number one.
Number two, I think you'd see the benefit of it.
And maybe you'd want to add this to your routine every day.
Maybe that means getting your ass out of bed an hour earlier every day.
I get up early anyway because I got the terror dog.
But if I come over, do I have to do the wax on, wax off thing?
Do I have to do that?
No, but you do have to bow in.
I mean, we're pretty traditional.
Yeah, you bow in.
I mean, this is, you know, an art.
And it's the art of martial arts, the art of self-defense.
And it's a pretty intense training.
Like, for example, how many push-ups do you think you could do in a row?
I don't know, 10, 12.
Oh, boy.
That's pretty bad, Bill.
Nose to the carpet, nose to the carpet push-ups.
Yeah.
But you see, if you just did push-ups, like, can you do a V-up?
You know what a V-up is?
No, at my station in life, I don't have to be the rock.
You don't have to be the rock, but if you could build up to, say, doing 50 push-ups, 100 push-ups a day, number one, you're going to build muscle mass, and God forbid you get sick, you're going to need that muscle mass.
Number two, it's not for vanity.
I'm not doing this for vanity.
I don't care what I look like.
Nobody else cares what I look like either.
I'm doing it because it's healthy.
It's hard.
It also challenges me.
But at my station in life, all I want to do is maintain.
And again, I'll go back to Dick Clark.
Dick and I, I mean, there it is.
Nobody knows how old I am, and nobody could guess.
I would let you throw your hardest punch and hit me in the stomach, and it'll land like you just hit a rock.
Wow.
That's how much working out I do.
What if I hit you with a board?
I wouldn't let you.
I'd break your jaw.
That's what I do.
Right.
I don't want to.
Can you imagine having Bill O'Reilly's jaw sewn shut for a month or six weeks?
A lot of people would love me for that.
You could do a GoFundMe on that.
Definitely.
I think you're right.
All right.
I'm challenging you to consider one day in the dojo, you can film it and air it on billoreilly.com.
Wow.
Do I have to wear that dopey outfit?
No, I just wear sweatpants and a dojo sweatshirt.
That's it.
All right.
I'm going to wear a BillO'Reilly.com hat.
Is that okay?
Of course you have to.
And you might as well plug in whatever else you're selling, a doormat or something.
Do you know that last Sunday on the New York Times list, Killing the Legends was number 13?
Again, this is like seven months old.
It's been out since September.
Crazy.
Well, we're proud of you.
Sunday.
All right, this is a very.
All right.
Your challenge this year is give me a date, and we're bringing you in the dojo with my sensei, and we're going to give you a Hannity workout.
All right, I'm bringing my lawyer with me, Swifty.
Bring Swifty the lawyer.
Swifty can come.
All right.
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All right, so last night we went to the swamp, the sewer, only to come back to the other swamp and sewer where we're at, which is foolishly we are at.
Anyway, so and I went there after all that went on last week.
I wanted to find out, take the temperature.
One of the things I kept saying last week was: everyone's got to listen to me.
The agenda is set.
The agenda is in concrete.
The investigations are happening.
The commitments to America are all going to be voted on.
You know, at the end of the day, I think they could have solved this before January 3rd.
I like a lot of all the changes.
I can't think of one I don't like, to be honest.
But anyway, so I wanted to do this town hall.
We had Kevin McCarthy, Jim Comer, James Jordan.
Jim Jordan was on.
We had people like Elise Stefanik and Steve Scalise.
You know what?
We had a great time.
Anyway, I want to run some of this from last night so you can hear for yourself and see if you have more confidence after this interview.
I have a feeling that 222 people agree on Jim Jordan's investigation, and that would be into whether the FBI's politicized, the DOJ weaponized.
They weaponized from homeland, FBI.
You know, we've watched him get out of control with no check and balance.
But last week was tough.
But remember what my father always said: it's not how you start, it's how you finish.
And let me tell you what happened after last week.
Our very first bill, we repealed 87,000 IRSAs.
We promised to do that.
We promised to do it.
We made it in our commitment to America, which you've talked a lot about, and we'll check it off as they go.
I have my own copy.
Yeah, but you know what else we did next?
We just passed the church-style committee that Jim Jordan will run, looking at the weaponization of government.
You know what we just passed right now?
A select committee on China.
And we got 146 Democrats to vote with us.
Pelosi would never allow this.
They had an agreement with her, and she backed away the night before.
So you want to bring jobs back from China to America.
You want to stop them from buying our farmland.
You want to stop them from stealing our intellectual property.
This is where it all starts.
And this is only our first couple days in power.
So the power of the purse, which we'll talk about at length, the power of subpoena, those are the two big powers you have.
Okay, let's go, let's focus on the investigation part.
Jim Jordan in appropriations.
Then we got James Calmer.
They'll both be joining us tonight.
Yes.
And he'll be looking into the Biden family syndicate.
We know everybody in this room knows one thing: that Joe Biden lied.
When Joe Biden said not one time did he ever talk to his son Hunter about his foreign business dealings, we have photographic evidence and evidence of meetings that had taken place and witnesses that will attest to such.
We've got documents that they denied us until we're in the majority.
Do you think the president, more than 40 years of being elected, why do you think he finally went to the border?
Because we were sworn in.
He knows what's coming.
You've got to secure your border, and we're going to use every power we have to make sure we protect this country and look out for the American taxpayer.
I think last week, at least a part of it, was Republicans around the country were disappointed in past speakers.
I'll give one example, John Boehner.
I was disappointed in John Boehner.
And I think that there were people that wanted the assurances.
I had interviewed you enough.
I had asked you repeatedly the commitments to America.
I have my version right here, which we'll talk about.
And they wanted to know these investigations were real.
What other investigations?
Well, you've got to hold government accountable.
For the whole time the Democrats have been in power, all they've done is increase spending.
Why don't we have a check-in balance?
Think of this.
When the Republicans were in power last time for eight years, you know how much discretionary spending increased in those eight years?
Zero.
They were in power for four years.
They increased it by 30%.
They went from spending $4 trillion to $7 trillion.
We don't have that type of money.
They created inflation.
So we've got to get our country under control financially.
How do we do that too?
Energy policy.
Watch what they've done to make us weak.
They made our price of gas go up, but they made us weak around the world.
We're going to become energy independent.
Our border's not secure.
But look what they have done to our schools as well, right?
We're going to pass a Parents' Bill of Rights.
Also, when you think about this as well, when we look at checks and balances, you've got Comer, oversight, you got Jim Jordan, a judiciary, but every single committee has an oversight committee.
So every dollar matters how we spend it, and we're going to be looking at everything.
No more blank checks.
Okay, and by the way, you will vote on every appropriations bill independently.
Yes.
All 12 of them.
Yes.
Okay, we'll get to that.
What other investigations are COVID?
Why don't we know where COVID started?
They wouldn't have any hearings on it.
We have that.
Why shouldn't we know what happened in Afghanistan those last two months?
13 Gold Star families have a right to know, but more importantly, this nation has a right to know so it never happens again.
We should know what happened with China and where the money's going.
We know the documents are there.
I think the country has a right to know that as well.
But the weaponization of what the FBI is.
Again, Fauci?
Well, that goes right into COVID.
We have our own ability to oversee that and look into that.
Now let's get to the issue of finances and money and spending.
And why don't you explain how this process now will be different?
And we're coming up against the debt ceiling vote and what that's going to mean.
That might be the first test of how committed the Republican Party in the House is to really holding the line on spending.
Am I wrong on that?
No, you're not wrong on that.
But think for one moment.
We cannot, one of the greatest threats we have to this nation is our debt.
It makes us weak in every place that we can.
We have never been at this high of debt to GDP except during World War II.
It's the Biden Family Foreign Syndicate.
Remember, they used their political status to profit, peddle, influence, zero-experience hunter, House Republicans vowing to investigate every single corner of it.
All right, the people that will be leading two of the most important investigations, along with Speaker Kevin McCarthy, we have the House Judiciary Committee Chairman, that's Jim Jordan, House Oversight Committee Chairman, that's James Comer.
Guys you've been on a lot.
Jim, you'll be investigating.
You're both Jim's Jim Jordan.
You will be investigating whether the FBI has been politicized and whether the DOJ has been weaponized.
What do you see so far?
Well, it's not a question of whether that's happened.
It has, because we've had now dozens of FBI agents come to us taking whistleblower status, talking about how political things have become.
And I would step back and look at the big picture.
We had a Department of Justice that treated moms and dads as terrorists, used the Patriot Act of the United States.
That's like terrorists at school board meetings.
You got the FBI that paid Twitter $3 million.
Not one, not two, but $3 million to censor conservative viewpoints on their platform.
And then, of course, you got what we've seen happen across government in so many other agencies where it's been weaponized against the very people they're supposed to serve.
The Department of Homeland Security tried to set up a disinformation governance board as if some federal agencies should tell the American people what they're allowed to say, what they're not allowed to say.
If that's not a direct attack on the First Amendment, I don't know what is.
And that's what we're going to look into, because the first step in stopping it is you have to get all the facts on the table for the country to see.
Then you go about stopping and making sure it never happens again.
Let me ask you this.
Did the FBI, in 2016 and 2020, in the presidential elections, did they put their thumb on the scale?
I can give you detail.
I know you have the detail, but for example, in 2020, FBI agents, in early October, after they were warned by Bruce Orr not to use the dossier, they flew over to Great Britain and they met with Christopher Steele.
They offered him a million dollars to prove that the dossier that Hillary Clinton paid for, the Russian dossier, was true.
He couldn't claim his money.
But then by the end of the month, it became the bulk of the FISA application, and it was unverified.
But I would argue that.
They got away with it.
Now we have the recent case.
They suppressed all this information about Hunter Biden's laptop.
Did they put their thumb on the scale?
And I would argue, as my colleague Matt Gates has said in committee, I would argue was all the other elections as well.
So 2016, they spy on Trump's campaign and do what you just described.
2018, it's the Mueller investigation.
2020, they suppressed the Hunter Biden story.
And in 2022, 91 days before the midterm election, they raided President Trump's home.
Which, oh, by the way, is quite a contrast between what we learned yesterday, how they treated President Trump, and what we learned yesterday, where Joe Biden now had classified information at the Biden Center that they knew about before the election, but somehow that didn't get made public.
Will this be like a church committee moment?
Will this be that true reform that what should be the premier law enforcement agency in the world, the FBI, will we be able to restore it to the great greatness it once had?
That's our goal.
Rank-and-file agents are good men and women.
We know that by the fact that dozens of them come talk to us about what they see happening and how concerned they are about it.
So we know that.
So that's our goal, our objective.
But we're going to do everything we can.
We're going to do it in a vigorous way.
We're going to do it in an aggressive way.
We're going to do it in a way that's consistent with the Constitution.
But we're going to do it because that's our job.
This is not about, they said today on the floor when we passed the resolution creating this, they said on the floor today, Mr. Nadler was quoted in the paper and they went after us today on the floor.
They said this is political and we're going to fight it tooth and nail.
Why?
We're protecting the First Amendment.
We're protecting the American people.
Why would you fight it, Democrat?
I thought you guys embraced the Constitution like we all do.
Love the First Amendment and the rights we enjoy.
That's what this is about.
And we're going to do everything we can to protect American citizens' First Amendment liberties.
They should join with us, not fight it.
I agree with you if they had integrity.
You know what?
We won't play like them.
They want to put somebody on the committee?
Put them on the committee.
We're not presetting this thing to be political because that's not what it should be.
We're going to follow the Constitution.
Jim will follow wherever the information takes us.
But this hasn't happened since 1970.
And I think it's gotten so far out of control.
You hear from all, not just the American citizens, but the whistleblowers at the FBI are coming to us.
We're going to hear from them.
That's our goal.
You know, the whistleblower status, they have to agree, but we hope that some of these individuals, I think they will, because frankly, a number of them have been retaliated against, which is not allowed to happen.
Well, I think they would be wrong.
And I actually kind of said that, you're not allowed to talk to members of Congress or the Senate.
I'm like, day after we first talked about on your show, the very next day he issues a memorandum saying, hey, be careful.
Here's the rules when you're going to talk to Congress.
That looks to me like a definite infringement on their liberty, their right to go tell us what's going on in those agencies.
And they believe this.
They love this agency.
They want this agency to be what it was.
It's funny, a friend of mine retired from the FBI.
He said, it is not what I signed up for.
Exactly.
That's how much it changed.
Your investigation, you said something that was deep and profound.
People think, now, the FBI had the Hunter Biden laptop in December 2019.
That's why the FBI meeting with big tech once a week prior to the 2020 election, say, oh, you might get disinformation about Hunter.
They could have verified Hunter in five minutes, either him doing drugs or other things with other people, but I won't go into those details.
But they didn't.
You're going to be investigating.
You said the President of the United States, Joe Biden, lied to this country, didn't he, when he said he never discussed his foreign business deal.
He's with his son.
Absolutely.
We have produced pictures, we've produced emails, we've produced documents that show that not only did Joe Biden know very well what his son and brother were doing with respect to influence peddling, but he was also a part of it.
As many of you likely recall, Texas Congressman Chip Roy was critical in bringing all sites together last week to unify around a new speaker.
And I believe that the party is now stronger and even more unified around what is the America First conservative Make America Great Again agenda.
You played a big role.
I gave you props last week on TV.
I met them.
I know behind the scenes.
You tried to bridge the gap.
You were successful.
How hard was it?
Well, look, beating the swamp is hard.
And everybody here is committed to doing that.
And sometimes you've got to break a little glass, sometimes a little temporary conflict thing.
The American people were drawn in last week.
They were drawn into what we were trying to accomplish on their behalf, to fight for them.
They want to believe that we're here fighting for them.
And I was delighted to work with my colleagues here.
And this morning in the Republican conference, I think there was a new sense of unity, a new sense of purpose.
United behind a mission, a mission to stop funding a government, a government filled with bureaucrats and tyrants rolling over the American people, denying their liberties, undermining their freedoms.
We have a unique opportunity.
Kevin has an historic opportunity right now to carry this country forward.
I look around the room.
Brian Fitzpatrick behind me, French Hill and Garrett Graves.
We worked together all last week to make this happen.
My fellow Texans, Ronnie Jackson, Brian Babin, who worked hard on the Texas border plan that's a part of this deal.
Look, we're all united to stand up for the American people.
That stuff was important.
We got through it.
But now, look, we've got the tools.
We've got some of the transparency.
Now the work lies ahead.
We've got to unite and go execute.
And Byron, you also worked hard behind the scenes.
By the way, it had to feel a little good to get some votes for Speaker.
It was cool.
I'll admit that.
It was really cool.
But I lost to this guy, you know, so what am I going to do?
No, it was a point in time where, you know, there were some members who believed in my abilities, but the number one thing was bringing this thing together.
Obviously, the world was watching.
We all knew that.
But like Chip said, we had a responsibility to make sure, number one, we had a plan and we had an agenda that Speaker McCarthy has built for our conference.
The thing that we were looking for is making sure that every tool in this building is utilized to make that happen.
And so the job was simple.
Find a way to get everybody together so we can get the job done and get down to business.
And that's what we're doing.
We have 30 seconds left, Mr. Speaker.
What do you want the American people to hear last?
Where are you taking this group of this majority?
I want them to understand this is their house.
This is their government.
And we will always listen to them and we will always fight for them.
What our battle last week was to only make us stronger to represent you.
It doesn't matter if you're Republican, Democrat, or Independent.
Your voice matters and you have a voice here.
Our commitment to America, what we campaigned on, we will keep it.
We're showing it each and every day.
We might stumble at times, but the one thing I hope everybody learned from me, we will never give up.
And I'll never give up on the American public.
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