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Smoke Rises, Speaker Found - October 25th, Hour 1
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It's like weird.
My voice has been going in and out all day.
It just, you know, it just happens.
If you're in this business, you talk as much as I do.
You know, no, I'm not sick.
I can, no, I don't have COVID.
No, I'm not infectious.
No, you don't have to worry.
I know my vocal cords.
Funny story.
You want the funny story?
So I did the last time when I lost my voice or was losing my voice, and it just, it just stuck with me.
Wouldn't go away.
And finally, my doctor said, I want you to, when's the last time you had your vocal cords checked?
And I said, never.
And he goes, how many years you've been on radio?
I'm like, 34.
He goes, never?
All right.
So my main doctor sends me to the doctor.
The guy turns out to be a guy that is taking care of, I won't name drop, but like all the top singers you would know.
The guy, all the Metropolitan Opera singers in New York City takes care of all of them.
And so he says, okay, when's the last time you had your vocal cords checked?
And I said, I've never had them checked.
He just says, how long have you been on radio?
You said 33, four years you've been on radio.
I said, yes, sir.
And he goes, how many years on TV?
10.
He goes, you know, I don't think I've ever met anybody like you.
He goes, you know, he refers to anybody that uses their voice for their living.
He goes, you're a vocal athlete.
You need to have your vocal cords checked.
Anyway, he checked them.
I got to watch the video after.
He goes, they're perfect.
He goes, absolutely fine.
He goes, I don't even see any irritation.
He goes, you'll be fine in like three days.
I just want you to use this gargle with this garbage for three days and you'll be fine.
I don't know what it was.
Some garbage.
At least I didn't have to go on Predat Zone.
Anyway, I digress.
We do have a speaker of the House, Mike Johnson.
We're going to get to some of his comments earlier.
We do have a disaster of a president.
Now, Joe Biden comes out to speak as soon as the Republicans in the House pick their speaker.
I'm sure it was just a mere coincidence that they timed it perfectly for the moment that the speaker was going to address the entire Congress.
His speech was actually amazing.
I mean, I'm going to play enough of it for you that I think you'll think the same way.
And a lot of people are asking, all right, who is Mike Johnson?
What do we know about him?
I'll get into that in a second.
But Joe Biden barely could get through his press conference and he only took three questions, just three.
It was, what was it, a total of nine minutes, around nine, ten minutes.
Very, very short.
Very, very short.
They were billing this as a big Joe's first press conference since October 7th.
No, it's been his first meeting since the terrorist attack on Israel.
No, this guy never gives a real press conference.
He has no intention of ever giving a real press conference.
Anyway, so let me just play the three questions that he was asked and answered.
I'll play them in one after another, and then we'll come back on the other side.
I'll give you my thoughts.
You've told Iran to, quote, be careful as your administration tries to prevent the Israeli-Hamas war from expanding into a larger Middle East conflict.
But should Americans be worried that the war already is escalating?
And after you answer that question, I'd like one more follow-up, please.
One or two more, huh?
Joey, look, we have had troops in the region since 9-11 to go after ISIS and prevent its re-emergence in both, anyway, in the region, having nothing to do with Israel at all.
My warning to the Ayatollah was that if they continue to move against those troops, we will respond.
And he should be prepared.
It has nothing to do with Israel.
Yeah, your conversations with Prime Minister Netanyahu, who obviously you've known for decades, and you had a very emotional trip there last week to Israel.
Have you sought assurances from him that he will hold off on the ground invasion into Gaza until the safe relief release of the hostages can be assured?
And of course, those include 10 uncounted for Americans.
No.
What I have indicated to him is that if that's possible to get these folks out safely, that's what he should do.
It's their decision.
But I did not demand it.
I pointed out to him: if it's real, it should be done.
Thank you.
But aren't these hostages in jeopardy if there is a ground invasion?
You want to make a speech?
No, look, obviously they're in jeopardy.
The question is whether or not there's any way of getting them out.
If we get them out, we should get them out.
After 22 days, House Republicans just elected Mike Johnson of Louisiana as the Speaker of the House.
Johnson advocated conspiracy theories about voting machines in a rigged election in 2020.
He encouraged his colleagues to join a lawsuit to invalidate the results of four states.
So if you win re-election in 2024, are you worried that a Speaker Johnson would again attempt to overturn the election?
No.
Why not?
Because he can't.
Look, just like I was not worried that the last guy would be able to overturn the election.
They have about 60 lawsuits all the way to the Supreme Court and every time they lost.
I understand the Constitution.
In the 18 days since Hamas killed 1,400 Israelis, the Hamas-controlled Gaza Health Ministry says Israeli forces have killed over 6,000 Palestinians, including 2,700 children.
You've previously asked Netanyahu to minimize civilian casualties.
Do these numbers say to you that he is ignoring that message?
What they say to me is I have no notion that the Palestinians are telling the truth about how many people are killed.
I'm sure innocents have been killed.
And it's the price of waging a war.
I think we should be incredibly careful.
I think not we, the Israelis should be incredibly careful to be sure that they're focusing on going after the folks that are propagating this war against Israel.
And it's against their interest when that doesn't happen.
But I have no confidence in the number that the Palestinians are using.
No confidence.
And why doesn't, am I the only one that's noticing, why does he refuse to say that Hamas is a terrorist organization?
Am I the only one that is noticing that?
You know, we have Hamas using doctors, nurses, staffers at their largest hospitals as human shields.
We had 24 American troops wounded in Iran-backed drone strikes.
And he's not address.
That is not a press conference, nine minutes, which they build this as a press conference.
And why is he getting away with not having to answer any questions, basically?
How is that possible?
Can I make one odd observation?
I'm sure it's not odd.
I'm sure it's...
I honestly only heard it when I just listened to it again.
In the beginning, where Joe begins that first question, he looks before he even answers the question and says only one or two more, right?
That's it.
So this big production that this is going to be his dual press conference with Australia, the first since October 7th, he literally is already looking for the end.
It hasn't even started.
He hasn't even answered the first question.
I just sit here and I'm like, I get so frustrated at all of this.
This is not an issue where you need a lot of deep thought and more, you know, about who is responsible for this.
And if you're worried about collateral damage, how many more weeks does Israel have to wait for Joe Biden to be saying, I didn't demand assurance from Netanyahu to hold off the ground invasion until hostages are released.
He should, if possible.
They're in tunnels.
We know that from one of the released hostages.
And if you're really confident that if you give enough time to a terrorist organization that was beheading babies and killing children and teenagers and women and raping them, then you're putting your confidence in the wrong spot because that's not going to work.
I just, it drives me crazy.
But the official radio broadcaster of the U.S. government, Voice of America, they're now refusing to describe Hamas as a terrorist organization, which at least so far has yet to prompt any protests from the Biden administration.
And they control the voice of America.
Well, they're a terrorist organization and they have in their charter the destruction of Israel.
One poll shows 73% of Americans want Biden to use the Marines to rescue American hostages.
If they had actionable intelligence, I would say, you know, I love our guys so much.
If they could pull that sucker off, nobody would be happier than me.
But they've got to have a location.
I tend to think that they're probably spread out throughout Gaza and it's not going to be, oh, one location.
There's every hostage.
I wish it was that way, but wishing it doesn't make it so.
You know, and Hamas with their, they're just evil.
I mean, you can't describe any other way.
And when is Joe going to react to the 24 U.S. military personnel now wounded last week after two American military bases in Iraq and Syria were hit by drones?
When are they going to be held accountable?
You know, when is there going to be accountability now that we have a new speaker, Congresswoman Tlaib, doubling down again in spite of worldwide intelligence and confirmation that Israel did not bomb a hospital in Gaza, that the bomb that landed next to the hospital in the parking lot that destroyed the cars in the parking lot,
but not all of them, just a couple of them, that was fired from inside of Gaza by the Islamic Jihad, another terror organization funded by Iran, running their proxy wars as they usually do.
But, you know, we have the Hamas caucus led by Congresswoman Tlaib doubling down on this bogus Israeli bombing claim.
It's just, it's unbelievable to me.
Anyway, one thing in Florida that I noticed, Governor DeSantis down there is coordinating with the chancellor of the state university system to crack down on student groups in the state that say they have support for Hamas terrorism, which possibly involves terminating the student chapters and suspending school administrators.
Well, I mean, at some point, what do we call people that support terrorist?
You know, how would you feel after 9-11, the language that we've been hearing from some of our most prestigious universities and our prestigiously, you know, tenured professors at these institutions.
That, you know, what if they were blaming the United States or the idiot U.N. Secretary General, this didn't just happen in a vacuum, and now expressing shock today that, oh, he was taken out of context.
No, he wasn't.
We played the context.
No point going down that road.
But the point is, you know, this is not an issue that requires deep thought.
This is one that requires simple moral clarity.
There is right, there is wrong.
There is evil, and there is good.
And the people that were murdered by this terrorist organization, they have caused all the harm, all the misery.
They're the people that have built this network of tunnels for the purpose of capturing and killing innocent Israelis.
They're the ones that were supposed to use that money for infrastructure and hospitals and schools, etc.
But they didn't do any of this.
Prime Minister Netanyahu from earlier said, this is our darkest hour and was thanking the Czech prime minister who was with him.
And I appreciate the fact that you are standing here with us.
And he went on to say, I'm very pleased to welcome you.
The Czech Republic has been very, very strongly supportive of Israel throughout good times and dark times.
This is our darkest hour.
And I appreciate the fact you're standing here.
Your support is invaluable.
I welcome you to Israel.
I always say standing with Israel, there's only one thing better than that, and that is standing in Israel.
And you're doing both.
It was a good line.
It is a very, very difficult time.
And the last thing they need is outside forces, you know, telling them what to do.
Israel is now preparing the ground invasion, according to Prime Minister Netanyahu.
We are preparing the ground invasion of the Gaza Strip.
And one of the clearest statements yet that this is now, I know we've been saying it for a while, but tactically, strategically, we can say it all day.
Oh, let's go into Gaza.
But then they have to worry about the complications if Hezbollah in the north starts a two-front war.
Then they got to worry about, you know, rockets being fired from Syria.
Now we have the Houthis.
They fired a rocket.
By the way, Saudi Arabia intercepted a missile fired by the Houthi rebels in Yemen that was headed for Israel.
They stopped it.
And then you have to worry about and take seriously the threats of Iran that they will involve themselves.
All right, so we're watching this closely.
I know a lot of you want to talk about the new speaker, Mike Johnson.
You know, I think I'm just going to let his speech stand on its own, and I'll play it maybe after the news at the bottom of the hour, because I'm sure most of you were working, didn't have an opportunity to hear it.
And to me, it was very impressive for a lot of reasons.
I don't want to influence your decision on it, but it's good that the People's House is yet opened again.
I think that's a good thing.
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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.
On the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you listen.
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.
Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, we break down the news and bring you behind the scenes inside the White House, inside the Senate, inside the United States Supreme Court.
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All right, so a lot of you have a lot of questions.
All right, who is Mike Johnson, the new speaker of the house?
I'm going to let Mike Johnson introduce himself to you.
He gave a really interesting speech.
I thought it was smart.
The guy's a constitutional lawyer.
His dad was a fireman that I think became assistant chief.
He believes in religious liberty, the right to life.
He has a very conservative voting record.
Everybody in the Freedom Caucus that I talked, they all voted for him today.
And they all know him, like him.
He's taken on very hard, difficult fights over the years.
So I'm hearing nothing but good things.
I just don't have that relationship with him that I've had with other people.
Yeah, I still would have liked Jim Jordan, but Hannity never gets his way.
Nobody listens to Hannity and Hannity never gets his way in life.
But anyway, so we'll play that when we get back.
We also have coming up all things simple man Bill O'Reilly.
We'll get Newt Kingrich's take on the new speaker and much more as we continue.
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All right.
So everyone's asking about this Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson.
How about we let you decide your first impression?
We've gone over some of his voting record, gone over where he stands.
This guy has been very, very pro-life, religious freedom, big on that too, other conservative issues.
Here is the new Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson.
I want to say to the American people, on behalf of all of us here, we hear you.
We know the challenges you're facing.
We know that there's a lot going on in our country, domestically and abroad, and we are ready to get to work again to solve those problems, and we will.
Our mission here is to serve you well, to restore the people's faith in this House, in this great and essential institution.
My dad, it was mentioned, my dad was a firefighter.
He was an assistant chief in the fire department in my hometown of Shreveport, Louisiana, a little town in northwest Louisiana.
On September 17, 1984, when I was 12 years old, he was critically burned and permanently disabled in the line of duty.
All I ever wanted to be when I grew up was the chief of the fire department in Shreport.
But after the explosion on that fateful day, he nearly died, and it was a long road back, and it's changed all of our life trajectories.
I'm the oldest of four kids.
And my dad, he lived with pain all the rest of his life for decades more.
And I lost my dad to cancer three days before I got elected to Congress, three days.
And he wanted to be there at my election night so badly.
I'm the first college graduate in my family.
This was a big deal to him.
And so it was several weeks after that.
It was early 2017, 2017.
It was my freshman term.
And it fell to me to be in the rostrum one night to serve here as Speaker pro tem.
I thought that was a big deal until I figured out that's what you do for freshmen late at night.
And I want to, I think if my memory serves, Ms. Jackson Lee was winding down one of her long, eloquent speeches.
And not that I was not enraptured by her speech, but I looked up at the top of the chamber there and I saw the face of Moses staring down.
And I just felt in that moment the weight of this place, right?
The history that is revered here and the future that we are called to forge.
And I really was just kind of almost overwhelmed with emotion.
It occurred to me in that moment, it had been several weeks, and I had not had an opportunity yet to grieve my dad's passing.
And I just had this sense that somehow he knew.
And I had tears come to my eyes, and I was standing here, and I'm wiping them away, and then it suddenly occurs to me the late-night C-SPAN viewers are going to think something's very wrong with the new young congressman from Louisiana.
It wasn't Shewa's speech.
I'm sorry.
I just knew in that moment that my dad, my father, would be proud of me, and I felt that he was.
And I think all of our parents are proud of what we're called to do here.
I think all the American people at one time had great pride in this institution.
But right now, that's in jeopardy.
And we have a challenge before us right now to rebuild and restore that trust.
This is a beautiful country.
It's the beauty of America that allows a firefighter's kid like me to come here and serve in this sacred chamber where great men and women have served before all of us and strived together to build and then preserve what Lincoln did refer to as the last best hope of man on earth.
We stand at a very dangerous time.
I'm stating the obvious.
We all know that.
The world is in turmoil.
But a strong America is good for the entire world.
We are the beacon of freedom, and we must preserve this grand experiment in self-governance.
It still is.
We're only 247 years into this grand experiment, and we don't know how long it will last.
But we do know that the founders told us to take good care of it.
I want to tell all my colleagues here when I told the Republicans in that room last night: I don't believe there are any coincidences in a matter like this.
I believe that Scripture, the Bible, is very clear that God is the one who raises up those in authority.
He raised up each of you, all of us.
And I believe that God has ordained and allowed each one of us to be brought here for this specific moment in this time.
This is my belief.
I believe that each one of us has a huge responsibility today to use the gifts that God has given us to serve the extraordinary people of this great country, and they deserve it.
and to ensure that our replic remains standing as the great beacon of light and hope and freedom in a world that desperately needs it.
It was in 1962, in 1962, that our national motto, In God We Trust, was adorned above this rostrum.
And if you look at the little guide that they give tourists and constituents who come and visit the house, if you turn in there to about page 14 in the middle of that guide, it tells you the history of this.
And it says very simply: these words were placed here above us.
This motto was placed here as a rebuke of the Cold War-era philosophy of the Soviet Union.
That philosophy was Marxism and communism, which begins with the premise that there is no God.
This is a critical distinction that is also articulated in our nation's birth certificate.
We know the language well.
The famous second paragraph that we used to have children memorize in school, and they don't do that so often anymore, but they should.
G.K. Chesterton was the famous British philosopher and statesman, and he said one time, America is the only nation in the world that is founded upon a creed.
And he said it's listed with almost theological lucidity in the Declaration of Independence.
What is our creed?
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, not born equal, created equal.
And they are endowed by the same inalienable rights, with the same inalienable rights, life, liberty, pursuit of happiness.
That is the creed that has animated our nation since its founding, that has made us the great nation that we are.
And we're in a time of extraordinary crisis right now.
And the world needs us to be strong.
They need us to remember our creed and our admonition.
Turmoil and violence have rocked the Middle East and Eastern Europe.
We all know it, and tensions continue to build in the Indo-Pacific.
The country demands strong leadership of this body, and we must not waver.
Our nation's greatest ally in the Middle East is under attack.
The first bill that I'm going to bring to this floor in just a little while will be in support of our dear friend Israel, and we're overdue in getting that done.
We're going to show not only Israel, but the entire world that the barbarism of Hamas that we have all seen play out on our television screens is wretched and wrong, and we're going to stand for the good in that conflict.
We have a catastrophe at our southern border.
The Senate and the White House can no longer ignore the problem.
From Texas to New York, wave after wave of illegal migrants are stressing our communities to their breaking points.
We know that our streets are being flooded with fentanyl, and all of our communities, children, and even adults are dying from it.
The status quo is unacceptable.
Inaction is unacceptable, and we must come together and address the broken border.
have to do it.
The skyrocketing cost of living is unsustainable and Americans should not have to worry about how they're going to feed their family every week because they can't afford their groceries anymore.
Everybody in this room should think about this.
Here's the stats.
Prices have increased over 17% in the last two years.
Credit card interest rates are at the highest level in nearly three decades, and mortgage rates are now at a peak we haven't seen since 2001.
We have to bring relief to the American people by reining in federal spending and bringing down inflation.
The greatest threat to our national security is our nation's debt.
And while we've been sitting in this room, that's right, the debt has crossed almost $33.6 trillion.
And the time that it's going to take me to deliver this speech will go up another $20 million in debt.
It's unsustainable.
We have to get the country back on track.
Now, we know this is not going to be an easy task, and tough decisions will have to be made.
But the consequences, if we don't act now, are unbearable.
We have a duty to the American people to explain this to them so they understand it well.
And we are going to establish a bipartisan debt commission to begin working on this crisis immediately.
Immediately.
We all know that we also live in a time of bitter partisanship.
It was noted, and it's been on display here today, right?
When our people are losing their faith in government, when they're losing sight of the principles that made us the greatest nation in the history of the world, I think we've got to be mindful of that.
We're going to fight.
We're going to fight vigorously over our core principles because they're at odds a lot of times now in this modern era.
We have to sacrifice sometimes our preferences because that's what's necessary in a legislative body.
But we will defend our core principles to the end.
In his farewell address, thank you.
In his farewell address, President Reagan explained the secret of his rapport with people.
And I like to paraphrase his explanation all the time.
He said, You know, they call me the great communicator, but I really wasn't that.
He said, I was just communicating great things, and they're the same great things that have guided our nation since its founding.
What are those great things?
I call them the seven core principles of conservative concede to you all.
I think it's really quintessentially the core principles of our nation.
I boil them down to individual freedom, limited government, the rule of law, peace through strength, fiscal responsibility, free markets, and human dignity.
Those are the foundations that made us the extraordinary nation that we are.
And you and I today are the stewards of those principles.
The things that have made us the freest, most powerful, most successful nation in the history of the world.
The things that have made us truly exceptional.
In this time of great crisis, it is our duty to work together, as previous generations of great leaders have, to face these great challenges and solve these great problems.
I will conclude with this: the job of the Speaker of the House is to serve the whole body, and I will.
But I've made a commitment to my colleagues here that this Speaker's office is going to be known for decentralizing the power here.
My office is going to be known for members being more involved and having more influence in our processes and all the major decisions that are made here for predictable processes and regular order.
We owe that to the people.
That's right.
And I'm going to make this commitment to you, to my colleagues here, and on the other side of the aisle as well.
My office is going to be known for trust and transparency and accountability, for good stewardship of the people's treasure, for the honesty and integrity that is incumbent upon us, all of us, here in the people's house.
Our system of government is not a perfect system.
It's got a lot of challenges, but it is still the best one in the world, and we have an opportunity to preserve it.
Last thing I'm going to say is a message to the rest of the world.
They have been watching this drama play out for a few weeks.
We've learned a lot of lessons, but you know what?
Through adversity, it makes you stronger.
And we want our allies around the world to know that this body of lawmakers is reporting again to our duty stations.
Let the enemies of freedom around the world hear us loud and clear.
The People's House is back in business.
Thank you.
We will do our duty here.
We will serve you well.
We will govern well.
And we'll make you proud in this institution again.
We're going to fight every day to make sure that is true.
I look forward to the days ahead.
I genuinely believe in my heart that the best days of America are still ahead of us.
God bless you, and God bless the United States of America.
Thank you.
All right, the new speaker of the house, that is Mike Johnson.
Well, the people's house is back open.
By the way, I never panicked.
Remember, I kept saying, they're going to get it resolved.
Relax.
I'm not at that point yet.
Told you, I just refuse to get panicked.
I just, because it has to resolve.
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