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Oct. 5, 2023 - Sean Hannity Show
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What's Next for the GOP? - October 4th, Hour 1

Sean reacts to the news that Speaker McCarthy is not running for Speaker and what's next for the House GOP.  What's next for the GOP?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Let me just tell you where I am mentally, emotionally.
I've hit the reset.
That's all there is to it.
Things are what they are.
And yesterday come and yesterday's gone.
Now, the question is for Republicans moving forward, they can be successful.
You know, this could be a, you know, in the end, it may work out great.
I don't know.
I don't have a crystal ball.
I will tell you this, if they dither and they, you know, go on forever and ever and this takes a long period of time.
Why do you look like you're talking to me when you're not?
But if this goes on for a long period of time, this is, you know, this could turn into a political disaster for Republicans.
They need to get moving and get moving quick.
Now, I know there's been some criticism of some.
As of the plan right now is next Tuesday, all of the potential speakers, guys like Scalise, we're going to talk about Jim Jordan has now thrown his hat in the ring, and I'll be very upfront.
Jim Jordan is my choice to be the next speaker of the House.
And they will be peppered with questions on Monday by the entire conference.
And we expect a vote on Tuesday, the first vote on Tuesday, for Speaker of the House.
Now, I hope it doesn't take 15 votes.
I hope that we're going to make a rules change.
I'll tell you right now, every single person that runs for that needs to be united on this one front, that the idea that any one member can put forward a motion to vacate, that just doesn't fly.
That is not practical.
You got a little over a year for this person to show and to prove themselves that they're worthy to be the speaker and keep the promises that they make to the caucus.
Now, if you want to raise the bar and say that you only need 25 or you only need 30 people, and I see you stealing that candy, Ali.
I see what's going on there.
You know, Ali worked for.
Oh, my God, that's cold.
Allie worked for Rush Limbaugh.
She now works for Clay Travis and Buck Sexton.
And she just came in.
They all come into our studio to steal our candy.
I'm glad that she's outside the door, not in the studio now.
She's like, no, I'm not.
She just looked mortified that I mentioned her name on it.
We got a stash of candy and moonshine.
I mean, we have everything you could ever want in a radio studio.
That's what it takes to get through this.
Well, it takes for you guys.
Not for me.
I once tried like a sip of that stuff and I'm like, oh, this is a real deal, man.
You know, I'm like, how the hell do people drink that?
Maybe give me like a full bowl of punch and I'll put a shot in it.
I mean, that's how strong this stuff is.
Anyway, I digress.
So we can't have a motion to vacate, in my view.
Now, maybe that stops the process right in its tracks.
If that's the case, then, you know, at the end of the day, I'm just being philosophical here.
Republicans are either going to be successful together or they're going to fail together.
There's not going to be any in-between.
There just isn't.
Now, I like Steve Scalise, by the way, praying for him.
I know he's been dealing with cancer treatments.
He has some type of blood cancer disorder.
I've heard it's not that serious.
It's treatable.
You know, I hope he lives a long, happy life.
I respect him.
In my view, he's too closely associated with Kevin.
And at this point, I don't think anybody wants to go through it.
But when you have a situation where 96% of a caucus, you know, are only up against four members of a caucus that can partner with the opposition party that votes lockstep.
I mean, Democrats, how many times have I said this?
They circle the wagons and Republicans create a circular firing squad.
And Republicans have got to get on the same page.
Ultimately, and I guess this is my only area of criticism or frustration in this process is where it was unnecessary is it and there were legitimate criticisms of McCarthy.
McCarthy had promised to return to regular order on spending bills, appropriations bills.
Now, to their credit, about 70% of that work was done by passing four out of the 12 appropriations bills.
But that represented about 70% of the budget.
That's not enough.
So real full credit, Freedom Caucus members, they're the most conservative group in the House.
They have disparate groups.
They have the Tuesday group.
They have the study group.
They have more moderate Republicans.
So you got varying factions and you got a tiny majority.
You know, you've got a four or five seat margin at best.
Some days it's three.
So they really do have to, in the end, be united in where they stand or else nothing is going to work.
And if they're killing each other, instead of focusing on, as Donald Trump had put on Truth Social yesterday, instead of going after the radical, Democratic climate, you know, religious cult alarmists, if they're not united together, then they can't defeat what they're doing to the country.
And right now, there really are two very huge, well, three very huge priorities.
One is the continued oversight, and that would be three committees, ways and means, that's Jason Smith's committee, the House Government and Accountability Committee, that's James Comer, and the House Judiciary Committee, which is Jim Jordan.
Now, Jim Jordan, now, I know over the years he's been reluctant in resistance to throw his hat in the ring.
I was very happy to see that he has thrown his hat in the ring here.
Sent out a letter to his colleagues, quote, dear colleague, the American people have entrusted us to lead the in the House of Representatives.
Our majority has had success in the first nine months of the 118th Congress.
We should be proud of what we have achieved together in these divided times, but our work is not done.
Far-left progressive policies are destroying our communities, our security, our future.
We have soaring crime across the country.
We have an administration with open border policies that have caused chaos and left our country vulnerable.
We have seen federal agencies turned on the American people, silencing speech online, targeting parents at school board meetings, flagging pro-life Catholics as potential domestic terror threats.
I added domestic and terror.
Anyway, we have witnessed blatant double standards in federal law enforcement.
We continue to spend too much money, and Americans are suffering under Joe Biden's economy.
The Republican majority must continue to address the issues that matter to the American people.
We must address rising crime in major cities, reject soft on-crime, pro-criminal policies.
We must get our fiscal house in order and reduce spending so that we can leave more to the next generation than a crushing deficit in debt.
We must do our constitutional oversight of the federal bureaucracy to ensure they work for the American people, not the other way around.
And we must continue working to secure the border and protect our national security.
We agreed at the beginning of the Congress that there are three fundamental things the House must do.
Pass the bills that need to be passed, do the oversight, rein in the spending.
And working with Chairman Green and our leadership, I helped deliver the most significant legislative accomplishment this Congress, the strongest immigration and border enforcement bill ever.
Now, with other committee chairs and members of the Judiciary Committee, I am doing the oversight and holding the administration accountable.
And I have been among the leaders in pushing for fiscal discipline my entire career.
We are at a critical crossroad in our nation's history.
Now is the time for our Republican conference to come together to keep our promises to Americans.
The problems we face are challenging, but they are not insurmountable.
We can focus on the changes that improve the country and unite us in offering real solutions.
But no matter what we do, we must do it together as a conference.
I respectfully ask for your support for Speaker of the House of Representatives.
So my answer is, I want Jim Jordan.
There's my answer.
Some of you may disagree, and I'm perfectly fine with that.
Steve Scalise is a good man, but it seems it's like to me at this early hour, it's going to come down to these two.
Now, if you have the people that pretty much, you know, and I'm not criticizing Matt Gates.
Matt Gates had, it was personal between them.
That part I wish didn't exist.
It definitely was because I know both of them, have spoken to both of them, and a lot of this was personal.
That's one.
Number two, I do think that there was some valid criticism of Speaker McCarthy.
The budget deal they made back in May, you know, was not a good deal.
And a lot of Republicans, rightly, in my view, were angry that he partnered with Democrats.
That was dumb.
And the fact that he had basically a do-over in this situation and, you know, did not, he knew that he had promised that we get back to regular order and passing the appropriations bill.
In that sense, Gates telegraphed everything that he was going to do yesterday.
In my view, that could have been avoided if they just stayed with regular order.
If they didn't go on vacation for a month in August and take that long summer recess, they wouldn't have had the time pressure that they had when they came back after Labor Day to get the appropriations bills completed, and they only got four of the eight of them done.
Now, there was an off-ramp that was set up by Byron Donalds and Chip Roy and Scott Perry from the Freedom Caucus.
And that was, okay, well, the first offer was 8% spending cuts across the board, but for Defense, Department of Homeland Security, meaning border security, and for our veterans.
Okay, I thought that was a reasonable bridge, CR.
That would have worked for me.
If I was in Congress, I would have gone for that deal.
The only people that went against it, they weren't the more moderate liberal members of the Republican caucus.
There are 18 Republican House members that come from districts that Joe Biden won.
They're all risking their careers by voting for that type of provision.
But they went with it.
And these guys had to work really hard and dig deep behind the scenes to make that happen.
Anyway, it was people at that point.
The handwriting was on the wall.
It didn't matter what Chip Roy or Byron Donalds or Scott Perry put together.
Their goal at that point had already shifted and it was to get McCarthy.
That's how I see it.
Now, with that said, you deal with the hand you dealt, not with the hand, you know, you're not dealt.
That's on McCarthy because he made the promise, in my view.
So some of that criticism is legitimate.
You know, on the issues of term limits and on the issues of a balanced budget amendment, yeah, I think we need to hold Democrats accountable, get their votes on the record.
And that's certainly something that needs to be a priority in this Congress.
Didn't need to happen right away.
And there was no chance in hell that either one of those were ever going to become law.
It would die in the Senate.
It wouldn't even get anywhere near Joe Biden's desk where he would have vetoed it if it ever did anyway.
So really the focus.
And then the second round of options off-ramp offered by, again, Chip Roy, Byron Donalds, and Scott Perry was a 30% cut.
Now, this one even went further.
It increased spending for defense, increased spending to secure the border, and increased spending for veterans programs.
Okay?
Everything else, 30%, wipe it out, just to get a 30-day reprieve and have a continuing resolution.
We ended up with a crappy one in the end because you had some Republicans partner with Democrats and they passed a clean CR, and none of those provisions were in there.
So we're the loser for 45 days.
But in the interim, you know, under those two scenarios, now, again, that was a good bridge so that the appropriations bills, which people like Congressman Matt Gates and others wanted, that could have been completed.
And then order would have been regular order and maybe just 30 days late.
Not the biggest deal, considering it hasn't happened, I think, since Newt Gingrich.
Newt Gingrich's speaker balanced budget four times, hadn't been done in my lifetime before, and hasn't been done since.
So I give him a lot of credit.
But, you know, the people that voted against even that deal, it was not the moderates and it was not the more liberal Republicans.
This was Matt Gates and a lot of these guys that voted to boot McCarthy.
Now, this doesn't have to end in a disaster.
It could end with Speaker Jim Jordan.
And if that's the outcome of this, that would be a good outcome.
But I'll tell you this, if Jim Jordan does this, or if anybody wants this job, I think you're nuts if you take it and any one member can, you know, stop all work in Congress and immediately put forward a motion to vacate the chair.
And then we go through this again and again and again and again.
The guy has a little over a year.
Whoever you choose, if it's Jordan Great, he will have a little over a year to prove to you that he's capable of keeping his word and standing on the promises that he makes.
If you're not happy after a year and a half, when you get to the 119th Congress, if you even have power, because the longer this goes on, the chances get greater that you won't have power.
They need to resolve this quickly because the patience of the American people is going to grow thin.
But at that point, you will then have a track record and then you're going to decide, do you stick with the current speaker or do you move on to the next one?
Anyway, 800-941-Sean, if you want to be a part of the program.
And I'm not in panic.
All these people relax.
They have time to fix this, restore order.
The top priorities are oversight, securing our borders, stopping Joe's open borders policies, and reducing the massive amount of debt they're throwing on our kids.
That's it.
Anyway, holiday season is upon us.
And you know what?
That could be pretty stressful in and of itself.
I've got an unforgettable gift that you can give your whole family, bring your family together, prioritizing health and wellness.
And they've got the best suggestion, and that is a Michael Phelps swim spa from Master Spas.
Imagine slipping into the warm, soothing waters right in the comfort of your backyard.
Linda, you do it pretty much on a daily basis.
You love it.
I can't wait for the videos you're going to put up abuse swimming.
Listen, I am telling you right now, I can see the seam coming off of it as it gets colder out, and I get to go in there and swim all year long.
And guess what?
It only took them a day to put it in.
So I, you know, it was like do you run out there in your bathing suit in the hotel?
No, I wear the robe because I'm cold.
I'm not that brave.
But then I, you know, I don't wear the robe in the bed.
But you have no shoes on.
Do I have shoes on?
No, no shoes.
No shoes.
No shoes.
That's essentially it.
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Hey there, I'm Mary Catherine Hamm.
And I'm Carol Markowitz.
We've been in political media for a long time.
Long enough to know that it's gotten, well, a little insane.
That's why we started Normally, a podcast for people who are over the hysteria and just want clarity.
We talk about the issues that actually matter to the country without panic, without yelling, and with a healthy dose of humor.
We don't take ourselves too seriously, but we do take the truth seriously.
So if you're into common sense, sanity, and some occasional sass.
You're our kind of people.
Catch new episodes of Normally every Tuesday and Thursday.
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I'm Ben Ferguson.
And I'm Ted Cruz.
Three times a week we do our podcast, Verdict with Ted Cruz.
Nationwide, we have millions of listeners.
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One other point on this, you know, look, uncertainty reigns supreme.
My advice, nobody listens to my advice.
Linda, you know examples of really great advice.
Matter of fact, we discussed this today that I have given people in politics.
Really professional.
And would you agree, you know, really, really good advice.
And had they only listened to me, you know, they'd be in a lot better shape, true or false.
True.
True.
I do it often, right?
I offer advice.
What's advice, you know, that and what will get you, you know, a ham sandwich, maybe.
On sourdough or rye?
Sourdough.
I don't eat rye.
Anyway, so, you know, there's a risk here.
Here's where the Republicans now, they better get their act together and they better understand the electorate mood at the time.
People are pissed off.
I'm pissed off.
I'm angry.
I'm upset.
I don't like the direction of this country.
I don't like, you know, I have a ton of economic news.
You want me to share the bad news with you now or you want me to share it with you later?
Because none of it is any good for the American family that, you know, nearly two-thirds of Americans live in paycheck to paycheck.
All these Americans suffering needlessly.
Now we're back to $4 a gallon gasoline and going higher and predictions of $150 a barrel for gasoline.
You know what?
All of this is preventable.
All the crime, all the disorder in our towns and cities from dismantle and defund the police.
It is destroying the fabric of our society.
You know, all this open borders, Joe Biden, by the end of this year, it's going to be around 8 million plus illegal immigrants, none of them vetted, allowed into the country because he won't enforce the laws of the land, nor will he go about the process of changing the laws.
You know, he just wiped out, well, $9 billion in student loan debt today.
How nice.
Nice of him to be able to do that, considering a court ruled that he didn't have the right to do that.
But, you know, Joe is not exactly an uphold your oath and the Constitution guy, as we've learned many, many times.
But the American people are suffering.
We see a dual justice system.
We see we don't have equal justice or equal application of our laws in this country anymore.
You know, we have unnecessary economic pain on the American people because of these idiotic energy policies, these idiotic economic policies.
You know, the price of a mortgage is now going up to 8% for a 30-year fixed mortgage.
Well, that's done great to help the new housing market because new home construction has come to a screeching halt.
Not in Florida, not in Tennessee, not in the Carolinas because so many people are getting the hell out of high-taxed and states with tons of regulation.
They're getting the hell out.
And I'm not far behind them.
I got to get out of here because this is ridiculous.
You know, now the AOC proposed today, oh, we're going to have a 5% tax.
Then they want an illegal immigrant tax for New York.
I'm like, what do you do with all the money we give you?
Do you live in New York City?
It's 13.5% income tax rate, just the same as California.
Well, how come Florida is a zero income tax state?
Texas, a very low-income tax state.
Tennessee, nothing.
You don't pay income taxes in state income taxes in Tennessee.
Pay very low rates in the Carolinas.
I'd rather have zero, but it's still a lot better.
How did we get to the point where we raise interest rates from in the 30-year fixed rate mortgages?
I know people that have 2.8%, 2.9%.
That's what you got?
Ethan has to, you have 2.8?
2.7.
I hate you.
No, I don't hate you.
You know what?
I'm happy for you.
Now, if you wanted to, you have a growing family.
How many kids you got now?
Two.
Right.
Okay.
So you got two kids, growing family.
What if you wanted a bigger home?
Would you even consider moving at this time?
You can't.
And maybe a different state if you're moving the show.
Well, that's okay.
Then get ready.
You know, let's get out of here.
Let's get everyone pack up together.
Allied vans lines.
I'll pay for the move.
Let's get out of here.
I don't think Linda's budging out of Pennsylvania.
She's a Pennsylvania person.
Can't get away from those cheese steaks in Pennsylvania.
First of all, the last time I had her there.
Oh, my God.
The only thing keeping me in Pennsylvania is family and the kids.
All right, understood.
You can also make it.
Not to mention on Palestine.
I'm not going to blend in Florida.
Well, you can put on fake 10.
Nobody will know.
Oh, my God.
You know, go get that spray thing that a lot of people get, which I'd never got.
Anyway, look at this.
10-year treasury yield hits the highest level since 2007.
Bankruptcy is now at an all-time high.
I mean, this is a disaster.
And now we've had inflation go up yet again the next last two months.
And with the price of energy going through the roof, inflation is only going to continue to soar.
So 8% for a 30-year mortgage is going to look cheap in two years from now.
Mortgage rates, this is right out of CNBC.
Mortgage rate races towards 8% after hitting a high not seen since the late 2000.
I mean, that's 23 years ago.
You think anybody cares about our national debt?
We just announced a couple of weeks ago that we've now topped the $33 trillion mark in U.S. debt.
Zero Hedge points out the U.S. added a whopping $275 billion in new debt in one day yesterday.
Total U.S. debt is $33 trillion.
I'm sorry.
$33 trillion, $33.442 trillion.
I can't even, you know, who knows?
Millions, billions, trillions, trillions.
It's a lot of money.
How do you pay that back?
Well, the best way would be to be energy independent.
But Americans are suffering.
And this gets to the heart of why Republicans getting their act together and show that they're going to get their act together and do it expeditiously is going to matter.
You know, I've heard some people talk, well, they want to punish Matt Gates.
Sorry, that's not the answer.
You know, revenge at this time is not the answer.
Solutions are now the answer.
Okay, Kevin made a few mistakes here that ended up being really, really costly for him personally.
But I hate to say this, and I don't mean any disrespect to Kevin.
I think what happened to him, frankly, is unfair.
I thought the deal that Chip Roy and Byron Donalds and Scott Perry made were legitimate.
The people that stopped it, they had a very different agenda.
They were going to take this opportunity.
They've been pissed off since the last budget deal, and they were going to take this opportunity to move with the motion to vacate.
It was baked in the cake.
It was done.
So now we're looking for a new speaker.
Now, am I happy that Jim Jordan has stepped up as a candidate?
I think he's one of the best Republican congressmen in the country we have.
I think he's one of the most articulate, and I know he's one of the hardest working.
And I also know he's a man of his word.
I think he'll keep his word and his promises, and I think he'll be able to, you know, create great consensus.
However, if he's going to take that job under the constant threat that one member at any moment can bring the house to a standstill with a motion to vacate, no, I don't think that's fair.
And I think that rule has to be changed.
And it's got to be make it 25, make it 30 people.
You just can't put the power in one person like this.
But I'll tell you right now, that might be a hill that some people want to die on.
You know, I was surprised.
And one thing I will say about Gates today, you know, he was criticizing.
Well, first he criticized the temporary speaker because they're not coming back into work until Tuesday, this guy, pro tem Patrick McHenry.
And, you know, he has sharp criticism of him.
However, there is a process here.
These guys do need to announce that they're running.
They do need to try and build consensus behind their bill.
There need to be questions that are going to be asked by the conference that are very, very important.
I like that the speaker pro tem threw Speaker Pelosi out of the office that Kevin McCarthy allowed her to stay in, even though he didn't have to do it.
But then I really was a little amazed.
You know, it's kind of like, you know, Gates is going scorched earth here because then he started mocking Congressman Jim Jordan's assertion that House Republicans have accomplished much in the way of oversight this year, characterizing their efforts as failure theater.
Now, I've had this discussion with Matt Gates, and I know where his head is on this.
And his head is, well, why haven't we, if it was Dodd Jr., he would have been subpoenaed, you know, 15 times by now.
There's a methodology to all this.
There's got to be some reason associated rather than emotion sometimes.
And the reality is, thanks to Jim Comer and thanks to Jason Smith and Jim Jordan, you know, we've learned a lot about the Biden family syndicate.
We've learned a lot about the weaponization of our Department of Justice.
We've learned a lot about our dual justice system.
You know, we've learned a lot about the Biden family syndicate.
For example, we had no idea.
You know, we knew Joe had said repeatedly as a candidate and as a president, oh, he never spoke to his son, brother, or anybody about their foreign business deals.
Now we know that he used to call into meetings with Hunter and his foreign business partners.
Now we know he met with Hunter and their foreign business partners at Cafe Milano.
Now we know about all these shell corporations that they used to funnel the tens and tens of millions of dollars into that apparently, according to Comer, got distributed to not one but nine Biden family members.
They have been unpeeling every layer of the onion.
And by the way, they have not had a cooperative Department of Justice or FBI or anybody for that matter.
They had to fight for their suspicious activity reports.
They had to fight to get the 1023 form.
They had to fight to get basic fundamental information.
Now, once you get the banking records of Jim Biden and the banking records of Hunter Biden, now you got a lot more to question him about.
So there is a process to getting that.
We're going to get there.
So I just had a hard time understanding why are we criticizing and attacking Jim Jordan and investigations that have literally, they're bearing a lot of fruit.
Apparently, he was on a podcast on Bannon's podcast today with Nancy Mace.
By the way, Nancy Mace was one of the people that voted that Bannon should be held in contempt, which is stupid from my position, just like Peter Navarre was stupid.
You know, the thing is, is either one of them could have played the game.
They could have gone in.
They made a choice to take a stand.
And I kind of respect people if they want to take a stand.
But they could have gone in and pled the fifth, walked out of there, and they would have no contempt problem.
So they did it, you know, as I'm sure their way of protesting things.
So, you know, we've got to be careful here.
You know, meanwhile, you got the Democrats are destroying the country before our eyes.
Our enemy, Joe Biden, is a cognitive mess.
It has no idea what day of the week it is.
We have a Democratic Party and a congressman pulling an alarm seemingly on purpose.
Another Democratic senator indicted on bribery charges.
A Democratic congressman carjacked at gunpoint in our nation's capital.
You know, then you've got Gavin Newsom appointing a far-left activist, not even from his own state to the U.S. Senate.
I mean, that's laughable.
A high-level Iranian spy ring.
You've got an unholy alliance that has emerged, the new axis of evil with China, Russia, Iran, and it looks like even North Korea is going to be a part of this.
The national debt just jumps an eye-popping $275 billion in one day.
They want to give another $200 billion or $100 billion to Ukraine on top of all the other monies that they've given as Europe doesn't lift a finger in comparison, and it's their continent that needs the protection.
They're not a member of NATO.
We're under no obligation to do it.
And if America's got to bear the brunt of the war, you can't have a president that's not willing to fight to win the war.
So stop wasting our money and stop wasting our time because that's not going to work.
Well, we can't have cluster bombs.
No, I'm going to veto those MiGs.
No, no, Poland can't give MiGs to Zelensky.
Well, why are we there?
Why are we pouring good money after bad?
Well, Hannity, that money is a loan.
It's not a loan.
It's like Hunter Biden getting, you know, $5 million in a forgivable no-interest loan.
It's one of those loans.
So my advice to Republicans is you stop with the retribution, stop with the infighting.
Jim Jordan, to me, would be the perfect person to lead the Republicans, but he's got to have the freedom to be him and can't live every day with the threat of a motion to vacate that'll shut down all action in the House because then they'll truly look stupid after a point.
And if they can't agree on Jordan, if he's not the guy, and they can't agree on Scalise, then they're going to get blamed for the chaos that is being created there.
And every one of them will go down on the same ship together.
They're either going to succeed together or they're going to fail together.
And there's not going to be any middle ground.
There's not going to be, well, some people win and some people lose.
No, they're all going to look dumb and they're all going to look bad and it's all going to suck.
And then the House is not going to, meaning the country is not going to be better off.
Anyway, 800-941, Sean.
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