Congresswoman Nancy Mace champions House Resolution 1100, which failed 357 to 65 on March 4th, as lawmakers rejected transparency regarding sexual harassment slush funds. McLaughlin condemns this bipartisan silence as moral bankruptcy, contrasting it with public demands for Epstein file access while attacking Senator John Cornyn's mosque support and Senator John Thune's alleged backroom deals. The segment highlights Representative Lauren Boebert's outrage over using tax dollars to silence victims, ultimately framing the vote as evidence of deep corruption that threatens election integrity and justice for accusers. [Automatically generated summary]
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So today I want to talk about Nancy Mace.
So for those of you who know, you know, and if you don't, she is a congresswoman from the great state of South Carolina.
A lot of people don't like Nancy Mace because Nancy Mace does not give a shit about your feelings.
And I got to say, I'm kind of a big fan of that.
I don't know her personally, never worked with her, but she talks about so many things that nobody else either wants to or has the balls to actually say out loud.
And one of those things was a resolution that she proposed.
It was House Resolution 1100.
And I'll read from the text.
It aimed at forcing the House Ethics Committee to publicly release investigative records regarding sexual harassment by members of Congress.
The effort followed allegations against Representative Tony Gonzalez, who now is no longer in the race for his reelection.
But the House overwhelmingly voted 357 to 65 yesterday, no, two days ago, what's today, the 6th, on March 4th, to kill the resolution because it had bipartisan opposition.
So think about that for a minute.
We have a bill that's going to expose people who are sexual predators so much so that they have to pay somebody off to keep their mouth shut.
And 357 elected officials, men and women, Republicans and Democrats, voted to shut it down.
Why wouldn't you want to know?
Why do we have people sitting in Congress who are there to make, break, enforce, and talk about laws, follow our Constitution, and in their private lives are so corrupt, are so morally bankrupt that they have to then use taxpayer dollars, not their money, taxpayer dollars.
It's called a slushed fund to pay off whoever it is that is accusing them of said crime.
Now, if you're like me and somebody says, I'm going to tell everybody that you did X and you know for a fact that you didn't do X, you're like, yeah, how about it?
I don't give a shit.
Knock yourself out.
I got nothing to be ashamed of.
No skeletons in my closet.
It's a walk-in.
Go ahead, take a stroll.
Nothing going on there.
But these people are standing lockstep.
I mean, how often do you see the right and the left stand together at that high?
357 people.
Think about the amount of bills that we're trying to pass.
They typically pass always across party lines, right?
The Dems all stick together, the Republicans all stick together, and then there's like, I don't know, somewhere between five and 10 stragglers, depending on the bill.
So it's always like 210 to like 191, whatever it is.
It's never 357 people stood around and said, yo, we got to shut this shit down.
The last thing we want is anything in the public domain exposing that we are in fact totally and completely guilty of sexual assault charges and we used the American people's hard-earned money to pay people off for their silence.
There's no, this is not opinion.
This is not conjecture.
This is actualities, right?
And the goal, again, reading from the resolution, the goal was to expose records of sexual harassment, including the investigation reports and findings.
It would have required the ethics committee to make records public within 60 days of the legislation's adoption.
All sensitive, identifiable, or witness information redacted.
Let's say that again.
All sensitive, identifiable, or witness information would be redacted.
A lot of people have come out of this vote saying, well, we couldn't do it because we didn't want to expose the victims, which is a load of horseshit.
They were never going to expose the victims.
All they wanted to do was expose the perpetrators because why on earth would we want sexual assault predators in our Congress?
And that's not to say they're not among us all the time, right?
But there is something to be said for you're holding public office.
You have a constituency that has elected you to represent them in front of the whole country as the person that stands and says, Hey, I'm the head of X and I'm here to represent the people of such and such district.
Oh, by the way, at night when everybody's asleep, I go out and I harass women that are under the age of 18 and I sexually assault them.
It got so bad I had to pay one of them off.
Would you vote for that person again?
Absolutely not.
The opposition said, true story: health ethics committee leaders argued the move would chill witness cooperation and re-traumatize victims.
Right, because they would be upset that the people who sexually assaulted them were being held accountable.
Do we not have a massive amount of people throughout the media and in our government calling for transparency with the Epstein files?
Do we not have people saying every single day that there should be no redactions with the people who are the predators in those files?
Do we not publicize and promote every single time we find out another CEO or person in the UK government, person in the American government was a part of these Epstein rendezvous?
Did we just not have a former Secretary of State and president sit before the House Oversight Committee in closed door session, which we then got some purview through the hearings when they leaked a little bit out, I guess, whatever was agreed upon between all parties.
But we got to see them testifying and talking about, oh, Bill, do you remember sitting in that hot tub with that underage girl?
Nope, nope, never saw that.
She wasn't underage.
Oh, I thought you said you didn't remember.
But now we're trying to pass legislation that you're not allowed to do this and have the American people pay off your crimes.
And everybody said no.
Including Speaker Johnson, you know, Mr. Holier than now.
Really think about that for a minute.
So 357 members of Congress, they voted against predators, they voted in lockstep, and they voted to take part in utter deception against the American people.
It is so beyond the pale.
I can honestly say I actually thought it was a Babylon B story when I first saw it because I couldn't believe that this was happening.
And it's not like I wasn't already upset enough about the fact that we have control as the Republican Party.
And let me be very clear.
I am a Republican because it's closer to who I am than what a Democrat is.
At the end of the day, they both suck.
They're just one big uniparty.
And I've been saying this for years.
There's them and there's us.
That's it.
There's nothing in between.
And this is the biggest problem that we have when we try to have accountability, when we try to have ethics committees, is that the same people that scream at the top of their lungs about Epstein because they think that they're going to get Donald Trump, which let's be honest, the Epstein files have been around for 20 years.
And we have had Barack Obama, Barack Obama, and Joe Biden in office.
And you're telling me neither one of them could get enough information on President Trump?
We're going to get it now.
Give me a break.
They had everything that they wanted to have in those Epstein files, but they knew that there was nothing about him and way too much about people on their side of the aisle.
Problem is there's plenty of people from our side of the aisle in there too.
And then we have so many assholes.
I mean, we have the Cornyns, we have the Thunes, we have the Johnsons.
I mean, Lisa Murkowski, Susan Collins, Mitch McConnell.
You know, it's basically becoming an old folks home on the floor of the Senate.
You've been in there for 40 years.
You haven't cared about your state in a really long time.
Could you just go?
Now, yesterday we lost Steve Daines of Montana.
That's a huge loss.
Supposedly they already have the successor, but he's not running again.
And now we have Mark Wayne Mullins from Oklahoma, who's now gone into the role of Department of Homeland Security Director.
So these sorts of things are happening all the time.
We're losing some of the good ones.
We're keeping all of the terrible ones.
And now Thune is making backroom deals because supposedly he wants Cornyn to get the nod, the Texas Senate position.
They want him to keep that role.
Why?
Why do you want to keep John Cornyn as a senator in the state of Texas?
He's speaking to people that are Muslim in his state.
He is encouraging more mosques to be built.
His daughter works for a lobbying group that is trying to make things Sharia compliant.
Can somebody please explain to me why in God's great name we want John Cornyn anywhere near the damn Senate?
You may not like that Ken Paxton had some problems with his wife or maybe he had an affair or he did this or he did that.
But I'll tell you what.
I would rather have a guy that cheated on his wife and got divorced than a guy that wants to build 300 mosques and take money from these sort of super PACs where they're funneling all the money back into communities that have nothing to do with assimilation or American values.
Ken Paxton is out there.
He's holding people's feet to the fire.
That's what I want from a senator.
Don't get me wrong.
I'm not Pollyannish about the fact that the government is ugly and people lie.
And I get it.
But there is a bridge too far.
There is a spot where I'm like, listen, you clearly haven't seen your balls in a really long time and you have no idea what it means to stand up for American values.
When I say stand up for American values, when I say let's find out who is sexually assaulting people, who's a predator in Congress, that should be like, yeah, no problem, 100%.
I'm all in.
Not, oh, no, we need to lock that down.
Nobody can know that.
Let's cover it up.
These are the things that mystify me when people say, well, you know, we've got to make deals.
And now we have Thune trying to make a deal for Cornyn with the president.
And supposedly he's saying, listen, I need you to give the nod to Cornyn.
And if you do that, I'll bring the SAVE Act to the floor.
Do you not understand, John Thune?
Seriously, I don't know what's in the water in South Dakota, but do you not understand for one second that if the Democrats get the House and the Senate back, aside from the fact that they will completely paralyze any legislative efforts that our president tries to do, aside from that fact, they are going to pack the courts.
They are going to make sure that every single aspect of what we have done over the last year and a half is undone.
You think the world is too woke now?
You will never be able to close your eyes again if these assholes get back in charge.
And you think they're going to let you keep your seat?
What deal with the devil did you make?
You're not keeping your seat.
You're not going to be a senator from South Dakota.
You're not going to be the majority leader.
None of that is a reality for you if they win.
And if we don't pass the SAVE Act and we don't have people that have their papers and have their information and it's not a thing.
This is the reality of where we're at.
And unless and until we pass the SAVE Act, we're going to be in big trouble.
And if I was President Trump, and I'm not, but if I was, I will tell you right now, I would go out and I'd be like, listen, scorched earth.
John Thune came over last night.
He says if I support Cornyn, he's going to bring the SAVE Act to the floor.
What do you guys want me to do?
Go scorched earth.
Let the people know the piece of shit that he is.
Because I'm telling you right now, these super PACs with all this Qatari money, this Middle East money, asking us to build more mosques, asking us to be Sharia compliant, maybe they should be present for what that actually means.
Maybe you guys need to go to a Sharia court and look at the subjugation of young girls, some of them younger than nine, being married to men that are 60.
It's disgusting.
But I guess I shouldn't expect anything from a Congress that is now telling everybody, we don't care about the victims.
We care about the predators.
We're suppressing everybody's ability to expose those who have used your money to pay off their deviant activities.
Because that's what happened.
And Nancy Mace is somebody, this is a woman who graduated from the Citadel.
She's a badass bitch.
She's not here for it.
And she's telling you right now that she's going to keep fighting.
She's doing all the things that so many of these career senators, career members of the House, I'm sick of it.
It is time once and for all to expose those who abuse the privilege of holding public office.
Your first responsibility is to us, the American citizens.
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And for those assholes who didn't stand during the State of the Union when they were asked that very question, they are the same people who voted to support sexual predators yesterday who are screaming to expose the Epstein files, the AOCs and the Maxine Waters and the, who cares?
All the idiots, right, on the left.
There's so many of them.
But now they're voting with the Republicans because everybody wants to shut it down.
So we got backroom deals attempting to be made on the SAVE Act, which is our right.
84% of Americans, left and right, want the SAVE Act because you got plenty of Democrats.
I mean, just listen to Jasmine Crockett the other day when she lost her Senate primary against Tallarico.
Oh, it was rigged.
Not only did she say it was rigged, which is absurd, she said it was rigged by the Republicans.
I'm like, yeah, I got to tell you something, Jasmine.
At the end of the day, if it's between you and Tallarico, while you both are completely awful and horrible, I'm going to pick you because Tallarico is psychotic.
I mean, he's calling Jesus non-binary.
I don't know how quickly he's going to get to hell, but I know when he gets there, he's going to burn for a real long time.
So yeah, I would pick Jasmine Crockett over Tallarico.
But again, if they want fairness, election integrity, they want to know that their vote is secure, pass the SAVE Act.
You go in, you show ID, you have to be an American citizen.
I have no idea how you could defend not wanting that because the only reason you don't want that is if you want to give people who don't pay into the system the right to make votes that control the system.
And the only reason we do that is because the Democrats know that black and white America are sick of their bullshit and we are not voting for them.
And if they spend five minutes on social media, they would know that.
Most people, if they don't say Republican or Democrat, they're aligned on these issues.
All the big ones.
How the economy is doing, protecting our children, protecting the job market, protecting our borders, being a sovereign nation, all these things.
Once you start talking to people, just common sense ideas, you'll find you're on the same page.
It is not until you select party alignment that you start to see the fist fly.
So I'm done talking to people about parties because like I said a few minutes ago, it's one big uni party.
It's us against them.
And they showed that yesterday.
I want to play one piece of audio from Lauren Boeber of Colorado because she actually said something pretty interesting.
And I don't always agree with her, but I did agree what she had to say here about Congresswoman Mace's resolution to expose these people.
Take a listen.
I am absolutely disgusted that we couldn't even get to 50 members of Congress who want immediate transparency.
Don't we all campaign on transparency?
Don't we all go out and tell the American voters that we are leaders and that we are going to get justice for them, that we are going to do right by them?
And then we hire their daughters to come work for us.
And your tax dollars, millions and millions of dollars, has been used in this slush fund as hush money to silence victims who have been sexually harassed, sexually abused by members of Congress.
And then Congress is going to do exactly what it does best, investigate itself.
And we know that none of that ever goes anywhere.
The American people demand transparency.
And this doesn't just pertain to a ranch in Arizona or New Mexico or an island down in the Virgin Islands.
This is happening right here in our nation's capital.
And we should be held to the highest standards.
And to every member who voted to send this to committee where you know this was sent to die on the House floor just moments ago, I hope you have a darn good reason to tell your constituents why you were not going to stand up for the victims.
And I'm glad that we are doing something about it here in the oversight committee.
I'm glad that this motion was made here so we actually have another chance at transparency.
But again, these are your tax dollars.
These are your tax dollars that were used to silence victims.
They have been settled with victims.
And to the members who voted against this, go home and tell your daughters what you did today.
Go home and tell your daughters what happens in the workplace, no matter where it is, in your hometown, in your nation's capital, and tell them what you did to help continue to cover up decades of corruption.
I am absolutely in favor of this motion.
How interesting is that, right?
She's talking about how we bring our kids over.
We have them, you know, come to work, do internships, whatever it is.
But in this moment, we're unable to protect them because it's more important to protect our special interest.
That's exactly what happened this week.
So I'm really hopeful that Nancy Mace continues to be the one sort of standing outside, doing the outlier, if you will, in Congress and saying, you know what?
I'm going to keep fighting the good fight.
Because at least she is.
She's taking the hits.
People attack her all the time, but she doesn't care.
And I have to say, I really respect it.
I do.
And for the rest of the representatives that stood up and actually said, I am not going to vote for this, there were, let me take a look here.
There were 27 Democrats and 38 Republicans that voted to have these people exposed, which is kind of amazing.
But the people that you would think would be on this list, the Speaker Johnsons, the AOCs, you know, They're not on here.
Absolutely not.
Andy Ogles of Texas00:01:35
You know who is on here?
Chip Roy, Stefanik.
Let me see who else is here.
Andy Ogles of Tennessee.
Brandon Gill of Texas.
He's great.
Andy Biggs of Arizona.
You know, Comer.
I mean, these are the people that, you know, you expect to see on here.
And if they're not on here, I want to know why.
I don't care if you're one of us or not.
I want to know why.
Why did you vote to block this resolution and protect these sexual predators?
What in the God's name is wrong with you?
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