Jan. 14, 2023 - The Political Cesspool - James Edwards
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And here to guide you through the murky waters of the political test pool is your host, James Edwards.
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We just had a laugh with Congressman Steve King.
He's been 18 years.
You know, Steve.
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Damn good thing because we don't have any money to pay.
One of the reasons we get along, I think.
But there he is, ladies and gentlemen, for the third time in as many months.
He made his debut on the program back last week of, he opened up the Christmas season.
Last week of November, he was on with us again on Christmas Eve, no less, and now back here the second week of January.
Third time in three months.
Former United States Congressman Steve King.
And Congressman, it is great to have you back for any occasion.
There's been a lot going on in Washington since the calendar flipped to 2023.
And you're going to help us navigate all of that fallout and handicap the winners and losers.
Are you ready?
I think I am ready, but I'm never sure with you guys.
So let's do our best.
Neither are we.
That's for sure.
Well, in your opinion, how did all of the dust settle?
So McCarthy is in, but at what cost?
What prizes did those who are most in line with our opinion get out of all the horse trading that took place?
We talked about a lot of this last week, but now that the dust has settled, how did it end?
Yeah, and just I want to be careful how I conform with what I said now, General Scott Perry, who I think did a terrific job in there and came into his own.
And we saw it.
We saw it publicly, and what was going on privately that has been related to me was just excellent with that man and many of the others that were there.
I mean, I made this argument during the race for the speaker that, you know, you just go ahead and shoot Kevin McCarthy down.
Those other guys that say they were stuck with him now and forever, that nobody else can do that job at Kevin McCarthy.
Well, that's kind of a crazy statement.
330 million of us.
He's the only one.
So is he like the political messiah?
Of course not.
So they never offered an alternative other than McCarthy out of the 201 that were stuck with him.
And so that kind of got pressured in that fashion.
But I said, if you vote McCarthy out and say no speakership for you because of it's a character issue that didn't get raised enough.
It was policy that got discussed.
But if it had been, if they had voted him out, whoever they would have picked out of the out of the corral, the Republican Conference Corral, if that's what they decided to do, would have given them the same issues, the same rules that they were able to negotiate with McCarthy and probably more.
But they did achieve that with McCarthy, and they got to a place where there were a handful, maybe even more than a handful, of I'll say, left to left of moderate Republicans who were ready to cut a deal with the Democrats.
That if McCarthy go ahead and go ahead and let McCarthy win the speakership, cut his deal for all these rules changes that they got.
But then when his rules came to the floor, they were going to team with the Democrats, vote the rules down, and then pass the rules that Nancy Pelosi had probably in the previous Congress.
And that would have then ended up with Kevin McCarthy as speaker and Nancy Pelosi's rules.
So that's what happened with the 20.
They came to that realization.
They stuck together really well, given the pressure that was on them.
And over a two or three vote iteration, once that began to crack, I came away with an important piece, which is the motion to vacate the chair.
That's the most important one.
That's the sword of Domicles hanging over McCarthy's head.
It's the equivalent of a no control confidence vote in a parliamentary system.
And so, but even if you bring that motion, you still have to have a majority that were ready to remove him as speaker.
And so that's the high test thing.
And they got some things along there with the investigations and the special committees.
And it looks like they're going towards a church commission and intensive investigations.
That's all good.
They're bringing some bills that are not going to go anywhere, but they're good messaging bills that we should have voted on a long time ago.
Looks like they're going to vote on a fair tax that would be abolishing the IRS.
They absolutely already voted, I believe, to eliminate the 87,000 IRS agents.
So they've got some things moving there that are messaging and speaking to the American people, even though those things are not going to become law.
But in the end, it was going to be McCarthy as speaker, and they had to find the time there to cut the deal so they could get the best thing out of it that they could.
And I understood this from what I saw C-SPAN-wise and the messages I was getting by phone call and by text.
When it was all done, I had a long conversation from, I'll say, inside the camp that confirmed that I've been interpreting it correctly along the way.
So I'm proud of those people.
And I want to make sure they knew that because I'm the guy that last time we went through this, I said, I will sign this oath in blood.
We need a blood oath so nobody cracks.
Nobody else wanted to prick their finger, I guess.
That's what.
And it wouldn't do for me to sign theirs with my blood.
So some of them cracked and we gained some things and we moved John Boehner out.
And so that's the but they held together without that.
And something that's really important, I think, for people to understand, I was surprised with this.
The first vote that came down, 19 voted against McCarthy.
And I got that text right away that said, hmm, well, we got more votes against McCarthy than we expected.
I mean, they had surprise one or more people step in on that that they didn't have counted on their whip card.
So, and once they dug in, those people stayed.
So, I think we should look at those 20 as really strong stalwarts that brought about the changes that are the great beginning of turning that House of Representatives over to we the people and letting the regular members of Congress, the rank-and-file members of Congress, actually have a voice.
Where Nancy Pelosi and Kevin McCarthy had taken to a place where, as let's see, Chip Roy said, not one single rank-and-file member of Congress was allowed to even bring an amendment to the floor in six years.
I've done six of them in one day and passed them, by the way.
So, that's what they've done.
They said leadership is going to make the decisions.
You can come down, you're going to vote the way we tell you, and go raise money and give it to the party, and then we'll use it against you if we think your politics are too conservative.
All right, I know Keith Alexander, Esquire, let's give you your proper title, wants to weigh in on this.
There's so much to cover.
We are just getting started with Representative King again tonight.
But to his point here, the biggest of the concessions, and this is from The Hill.
The headline reads, McCarthy concessions to win speakership, raise eyebrows.
Now, this is again the establishment news reporting, but it reads, Representative Kevin McCarthy was forced to give in to a series of demands from detractors to win the support necessary to win the speaker's gavel after an historic week of failed ballots.
We talked about that last week.
The changes, which were designed to empower rank and file members at the expense of his own leadership authority, are also raising concerns that they could cripple governing functions of the lower chamber.
One change in particular, which empowers a single lawmaker to launch the process of ousting the speaker, is giving heartburn to lawmakers and both parties.
Both fear a hardline group of conservatives will use it repeatedly to browbeat McCarthy into keeping a crucial, into keeping crucial must-pass bills off the floor.
I said this, Steve.
I said this when people were still lamenting that the red wave didn't extend beyond Florida.
I said, you know what?
Hold on, slow down.
Wait a minute.
This might be a good thing, maybe even the best thing, because the slim majority gives the Republican lawmakers closest to us on the issues more leverage than they would have had if the GOP had won more seats.
Yes or no?
Am I right on that?
We'll come back with that after the break.
Farmer, you are right on that.
It's a good topic.
Thanks.
All right, we'll come back with that.
Keith Alexander will get after it.
So much more to come with the great Steve King, steveking.com.
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Long live the king, said Keith Alexander.
That was a Keith Alexander.
You know, I've stolen so much from Keith over the years.
So much, so many quips, so much wit.
Well, I tell you what, Steve, it's wonderful to hear from you.
We're glad you're like an embedded reporter in Washington, D.C., but unfortunately, I would liken that to being a skin diver for Roto Rooter.
Hey, I tell you what.
We'll take him anyway.
We can get him.
But, you know, we're about to turn up the heat as well, but 18 years in Congress, he's been through this so many times.
But is there something new afoot here?
We were talking about the fact that an inadvertent blessing, perhaps it was, for people of our political persuasion, that the Republicans didn't win with a greater number than they did on election night in the midterms because of what took place last week.
Tell us, what were your thoughts on that?
Well, I thought that the titer bargain gave the guys leverage that put up the fight.
And if there had been 240 or 245 Republicans, as McCarthy seemed to anticipate there would be, he would have had the votes to get re-elected as Speaker.
And the coalition of those that fought the battle the entire week long would have been essentially nullified, neutered.
And so I will say that of some of those whom I talked to that are of the 20, I'll say that there were one or some who were actually praying for a tighter majority than was predicted because they knew they needed to change that operation.
And I absolutely agree with that.
I mean, if we were going to, so in one of the things that makes it so bad is that Kevin McCarthy was taking money from the Republican Party, raising money hand over fist for his own campaign account for multiple PACs that he controlled,
and then using that money to go into congressional districts and Republican primaries and pick the rhino that he could manipulate that would vote for him for speaker and use that money to trash the conservative that would have been one noble member of Congress that could have been in there standing with the 20 and eventually transforming things.
I don't know how many seats he flipped that way from what otherwise would have been conservative to liberal, although I shouldn't say moderate, I guess, Republican.
And also how many races were lost out there because he spent money on people that he really had to have to vote for him.
There's, say, David Valladeo out in California was absolutely going to vote for McCarthy.
He put $13 million into his account.
And I'm thinking of Joe Kent in Washington where he put, I'll say, a lot, I don't know the exact number, but lots of money in the account of Jamie Herrera Butler, who was, I'll say, a McCarthy, what shall I say, acolyte.
And Joe Kent, rock solid, principled, conservative, vocal, smart, former CIA guy.
And he won the primary against Herrera Butler.
But the best I can say for what Republicans did for him after that was he didn't get a lot of help and lost that race in a very close race.
A guy like Joe Kent in there, there must be another 12 or 15 Joe Kent's out there that were expunged by McCarthy's spending sprees against them and against also failing to support the conservative candidates.
In southern Illinois, together was, yes?
I was just going to say Blake Masters was one that comes to mind that McCarthy and the Senate.
That would have been more Mitch McConnell, but together.
Yes.
That's a perfect example of what went on.
Masters had to fight that, and essentially, not quite in his own, but close.
And in the general election, he's moving up where he had a real shot at Mark Kelly, but McConnell wasn't there for him.
And in southern Illinois, Rodney Davis had held a seat down there for a few cycles, and he's a very nice guy.
I mean, I like him a lot.
But he was also to the left of center and a favorite of the leadership because in the chairs were all reflective of left of center, favors of leadership.
But he was thrown in with Mary Miller in a Republican primary.
And Mary Miller, in spite of the help they gave Rodney Davis as the moderate Republican, Mary Miller won that primary in southern Illinois.
And once she won that primary against Kevin McCarthy, then she's one of the voters that said, I don't want him for speaker.
So some of those folks were, I'll say, attacked financially at least by McCarthy that stood on the other side and said, I don't want him for speaker.
I've been fighting him to get here.
Why would I vote him for speaker when he didn't want me here?
So that would account for the freshmen that were in that list of 20 also.
Well, you know, the media coverage, you got to love the American media.
It's just the who, what, where, when, and why of journalism.
No bias whatsoever.
Just the facts.
I saw that the New York Times listed the 20 that you're mentioning, the House Republicans who were holding out and trying to get something for their constituents, whereas, you know, a lot of times that doesn't happen.
But the New York Times actually had a photographic chart of these 20, and they were categorized either as black, Hispanic, or election deniers.
I tweeted something about that out there.
That's the truth.
Well, so anyway, so the dust is settled.
McCarthy is in, but at a great expense, you know, something going to be a church commission that will be able to actually operate and function.
Well, I sure hope that there is.
And I think we have to watch this closely because the thing that they didn't get, and I don't know that they negotiated very hard for it, was that to remove McCarthy's ability to veto any subpoena that's issued by any committee.
And so if you're a chair of a committee, first of all, you're likely handpicked by Kevin McCarthy in the first place.
And I've watched that pattern and seen that come down and shut my agenda down through a committee chair that's looking me in the eye, giving me a promise.
I'm going to do this because it's the right thing and you've earned more than this.
You're positioned for this.
This is my obligation and have Kevin McCarthy give the order in the back room and see that chair come back out and have to say, you aren't going to get my promise.
Why not?
They just aren't going to get it.
I never got answers to that.
But so that really dials down the investigations and takes the teeth out of it and turns it into the mushy Benghazi type hearing that we had in the last time around on that.
But if McCarthy did not have that veto power on subpoenas, then the committee chairs could put the bit in their teeth and start dragging these witnesses in and building a record and really getting to the bottom of it.
So I think it's going to be under question the whole time, which is constrained by McCarthy.
And I'll have some ear into that.
And by the way, these fellows like Scott Perry and Andy Biggs and Ralph Norman and so many others in there that stood in that, stood their ground at the end, their instincts and their intellect and their experience tell them what's going on when that happens.
And they will raise the issue.
They will make the points.
Let me ask you this question, Congressman King.
Is this something that any Republican speaker would have done?
Or is this something that McCarthy and look, McCarthy's McCarthy?
He's no boy, he's no political clown.
But is this something that he should get credit for?
Is this something that anybody who filled the seat would have done?
I'm reading the headline here now.
Kevin McCarthy confirms House panel boot for shift Swalwell and Omar.
So he's removed these three high-profile Democrats from their committee assignments.
Is that anything that he should be lauded for?
Or is that just sort of like a baseline deal that you could have gotten out of anybody?
Well, I'm just not a fan of removing people from their committees.
I just think that when voters elect you and your conference places you, to use that as a cudgel, I mean, look what they did to me for a misquote in the New York Times.
They removed me from all of my committees, my own party.
And in searchable history, no one who has been removed from their committees by their own party has ever survived a subsequent election.
And all of those previous to me were convicted felons.
And so he knew I wouldn't vote for him for speaker.
There were other reasons in there.
All of them were illegitimate because I stood on every square.
There was no vulnerability from an ethical standpoint that they could get at me, and I can guarantee you they were looking.
So he brought that.
So when you bring, so you decide that Omar cannot be seated in a committee because she said, well, it's all about the Benjamins.
That's for, I didn't even know what that meant, except Benjamin Franklin is on a $100 bill.
So it's all about the money with Jews is what at least interpreted to be.
Yeah, and so that doesn't trouble me a lot.
That doesn't give me a bit of heartburn, actually.
It's all about the money with McCarthy.
So, you know, just for that.
But I do think, though, that having Schepp on the Intel Committee, the Select Committee on Intel, that can't be.
He's leaked any slide, and that's enough.
So probably shouldn't even be in Congress, for that matter.
And to make those removals that way, negotiate it with Nancy Pelosi, get that done without pressing fanfare, move them around a little bit, take Omar off of that committee, get her a couple other committees that she wants to be at.
Just don't let her be in a foreign affairs committee where she's going to cause a lot of trouble because what appears to be a bias.
And if she's on that, of all those that trouble me, I wouldn't let her be on foreign affairs because it's just one voice.
And there's not a lot of people.
They need to have somebody that's willing to stand up to the state of Israel, quite frankly.
And I would like to see her stay there just for that reason.
Well, let me ask you this about the committee chairs on this very quickly before we go to a break.
And then I want to come back with what the GOP can do having control of the House, but not the Senate or the White House.
But this was from Anthony Sabatini.
And Sabatini is a former state representative in the state of Florida who I like very much.
The Lincoln Project with this left-wing rhino-type outfit wrote that 11 of the 17 GOP House committee chairs in the 118th Congress voted not to certify the results of the 2020 presidential election.
And Sabatini said, fire the other six immediately.
Representative King, 10 seconds response to that.
I guess that's supposed to be a bad thing.
Here you go, Sabatini.
I like a guy that speaks up and makes it count.
That's right.
We'll be right back with Congressman King.
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Let's do a rapid fire segment with Congressman King.
Let's line him up and knock him out of the park.
The GOP has put forth a proposal to defund the 87,000 IRS agents that have been conscripted to terrorize American taxpayers.
I'm reading now from the American media, which I should never do, but it reads, the House voted 221 to 210 to claw back more than $70 billion or nearly 90% of the new funding for IRS, underscoring Republicans' opposition to the agency expansion and a desire to keep tax enforcement issues in the public eye.
So to me, Congressman, I think that's great messaging, but does it actually help us?
And the reason I ask that is putting forth legislation like that is easy for the GOP to do right now in the House because they know it's going to get killed in the Senate.
They look good to the base.
Was there anything they can do that would just give you, for example, the House of Representatives has total and complete control over without being undone by the Senate.
All right, keep that in mind.
And let me, I'll finish my question without really doing anything of consequence.
Am I right about that?
To Keith's point, is there anything that they can actually do as a function of government that includes a Democratic control Senate and White House?
There are some things they can do that have significant impact, but as far as passing legislation, it's messaging right now.
I mean, all you can do, if you bring, if you cut out the funding that would fund the 87,000 IRS agents, and by the way, I had a briefing from an IRS agent that wanted to say that's not going to happen.
And when I put him on the spot, he had to admit, yeah, the money's there and it could surely happen.
They can just vote and say, no fund goes to here.
And you know that Mitch McConnell's not going to roll Schumer and the Senate.
The president's not even going to have to veto it, but it's messaging.
And you could put at least on the calendar and say, well, next Congress, we've got this we can do.
But what they can do is investigate.
They can call everybody before this Congress and put them under oath and they can drill down and build the record and they can make recommendations for prosecution.
There's a whole plethora of subject matters they need to dig into.
That's fine.
Pass this with an hour debate on either side, but it's not going to make a difference in policy for a long time.
But that's fine if it goes nowhere in the Senate to an extent.
I like the messaging.
I'd rather have hardcore movement, but it is better than what came out of the House over the past two years under the Democrats.
That's the $100 billion for Ukraine, comprehensive immigration reform, gun control, Juneteenth, DC statehood Equality Act, the George Floyd Act, all of the porculus, $1.7 trillion, all of that.
So that's, you know, not to mention packing the Supreme Court.
We're already better than we were, but how about this one then?
And this is a major improvement over the January 6th committee.
Establishing this is a Republican proposal.
Again, not going to go anywhere, but it does establish a difference between the two parties to an extent.
Establishing a select subcommittee on the weaponization of the federal government.
That passed 221 to 211.
I think if they're going to investigate something, investigate these little nests of networks of progressive activists embedded within the bureaucracy and the FBI, the DOJ, the DHS, Congressman.
That's right.
And that investigation has value.
And putting people under oath has value.
What they need to do, and I don't see it in the policies and the rule, but they needed to up the staff members that they had and hire them targeting on the investigations that they want to do.
I don't believe they have enough staff, and the expertise of that staff was probably trained to do defense against the Democrats for four years.
So you need to go find fresh faces and good people that are committed and drill down into that.
That's one of the best things that they can do.
And I hope they do do that.
I know they're going to endeavor to do that.
And you've got some people that are smart in driving that, like Scott Perry and others.
They're going to help bring that out.
We're available.
Yeah, I'm afraid they're going to draft me and put me back in that arena, make me, like, keep a staff or the judiciary staff or something.
But I don't know if I want to be able to do that.
I'm praying for that.
I'm praying for it.
Let me ask you this.
When you were a member of Congress, and we did 18 years, we, the Royal We, once again, you did 18 years in Congress.
Now, but you were there between the years of 2017 and 2019.
We're talking about great messaging, things that we would like to act on, but the Republicans know it's going to be spiked.
And I'd be interested to know if the Republicans did have control of the Senate and the White House, if they would still be so bold.
You were there the years between 2017 and 2019 when the GOP controlled the House, the Senate, and the White House.
Let me ask you this.
Why didn't we get more done then?
And did you advocate for the party being more bold and decisive when that window was open?
Oh, I absolutely did.
And it was frustrating.
To give you an example, I back up a better part of a decade.
And when we won the majority back in 2010, I'm hammering, let's cut off all funding to implement or enforce Obamacare.
And I've got John Boehner saying that repeal and replace.
I'm saying, first I'm saying repeal, but cut off all the funding.
I bring the amendment to cut off all the funding.
John Boehner undercut me, and they cut a deal with the Senate to strip it out.
They also said that they voted 66 times to pass my repeal of Obamacare during that flow of that period of time until we got to the time where it mattered.
And then Paul Ryan wrote this convoluted Obamacare bill that I'll say even today he couldn't explain.
And it was so convoluted that they couldn't get the votes to pass it.
And it really wasn't repeal either.
So they didn't want to repeal Obamacare.
All they had to do was put up the repeal.
He had a 40-word repeal.
It passed the House multiple times.
It was really clear we had the votes to do it, but they wouldn't.
They had to write their own version of Obamacare to attach to it.
Second thing is funding the wall.
And boy, that was Donald Trump's main promise.
I sat down with Paul Ryan.
It would have been in, let's say, probably late August, early September of 2018.
And I negotiated with him or discussed with him.
I need to be sure that you're going to make sure that the money's there for Trump to build his wall.
And it was a one-on-one meeting, door closed, no staff.
And when I got up, I said, I need to understand this clearly.
This discussion is about the wall.
And I'm hearing you tell me that you're committed to providing the funds for it.
I want to hear it again.
And he said, I believe that President Trump deserves the resources to secure the border.
Well, it was within the context of building the wall, not securing the border.
I walked out of there thinking that's the best I got.
But Paul Ryan thought securing the border was what, balloons and motion sensors and more staff down there, whatever.
Mine was build the wall.
And I said to them, if you give me, we were spending $6.6 million a mile for every mile to secure that border.
We're losing 75% of those that tried.
You give me $6.6 million to secure my West Mile out here in rural Iowa.
There won't be a cockroach get across there.
And so we're wasting a lot of money.
And I went to Trump and I said, Trump, you got to shut the government down if he doesn't give you the money before the end of September, because you're not going to get it if you don't have the showdown now.
And he said, Paul Ryan promised me that we'll have the money December 7th, December 7th, 2018.
We know they have to have both.
Republicans didn't repeal Obamacare and Republicans didn't put the funding in for the wall.
All of those commitments that were campaign promises, all they had to do was deliver those two, and they did not.
They worked against them both.
So take that to 2017 and 18.
Those things happened, along with the heartbeat bill got killed right in that arena nearly the same time when I had a full 100% commitment to bring that heartbeat through the Judiciary Committee and mark it up and have it at least where it had a chance to come up on the floor.
And Kevin McCarthy ordered the kill of the heartbeat bill.
So we didn't repeal Obamacare.
We didn't build the wall.
We didn't pass the heartbeat bill.
And we lost the majority.
And a big reason was because we didn't give our base a reason to vote for us.
Let me ask you this, Steve, real quickly.
Who was really behind Obamacare?
Was it Big Pharma?
Was it someone else or some other organization?
It's just a puzzle to me why we would have embarked on that.
Yeah, the people behind it, Big Pharma was one of them, and one of the powerful force.
The second component of that would be the health insurance industry in its entirety.
And they were calculating this: that if you're going to require people to have a health insurance policy, and it's going to be funded by some of the other people's premiums, that's how Obama sold it, plus the government money that was coming into backfill.
That was putting billions of dollars into the health insurance industry, the health insurance industry.
And by the way, coming into that, they conflated these terms between health care and health insurance.
After a while, you couldn't tell even if a Republican was talking about either health care or health insurance.
But so that was the two big forces that came to play there.
And I wanted to have, I wanted to be able to sell insurance across state lines.
I want to be able to have a catastrophic health insurance policy.
I want to be able to set up a lifetime investment account so people could take money out of there to backfill their higher deductible on a catastrophic policy.
We could have had a nation of millionaires by now, by now.
And they would have had a low premium, catastrophic insurance, paying their regular doctor bills and medical bills out of their pocket or even out of their health care policy.
But none of that happens.
And I don't, part of it is their brains don't go to thinking to the horizon letter out over.
And the other one is they're taking their orders from the big donors.
And the big donors wanted big money coming through the health insurance and the healthcare industry.
And that's surely what they have now.
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In message one, we said that Satan, the father of lies, John 8, 44, gave the left evil spiritual power the more they use the lies.
The political left today is the beast.
Now, the Bible confirms that the dragon gave him, the beast, his power.
Revelation 13, 2.
The extra evil spiritual power that comes from the beast by their lying is what accounts for the string of the leftist criminals in the government that have never yet been prosecuted.
It also explains why American capitalists support communism in the 21st century.
Note one, that behavior of capitalists was predicted by Vladimir Lenin, a sell of the beast.
Note two, Henry Ford was a capitalist, and he would have never gone communist.
The difference between Ford and the present day end-time capitalists is that Ford was born and educated in the kingdom of Christ, 19th century America, the New Jerusalem, Revelation 21.
Okay, we're going to let Steve King, someone who speaks legalese, break down this on our final segment.
It's going to be dedicated entirely to Sheila Jackson-Lees.
That's a Democratic congressperson out of Texas.
She's got a chicksaw puzzle-looking piece of a district there near Houston Hobby Airport.
She has put forth this week, Congressman House Resolution 61, and I'm reading it now here in the studio.
And it reads that it is a bill to prevent and prosecute white supremacy-inspired hate crimes and conspiracy to commit white supremacy-inspired hate crime in the United States.
And I was talking with you earlier today.
I said to me, and you correct me if I'm wrong, this appears as though it's that the Democrats would like to make discussion about demographic change, the great replacement, illegal.
And what is a so-called white supremacist?
Is that someone who wants to kill other people because their skin color looks different?
Or is it someone who notices that these changes are occurring and doesn't believe that's in the best interest of themselves and their family or of America?
That is not defined.
And with something like this, the conspiratorial aspects of this resolution ever apply to terrorist organizations like BLM or Antifa.
It seems like any chronic malcontent, if this is passed into law, could hear something someone says that they don't agree with, get offended and sue them on the grounds of this law, or even worse, put them in prison.
Only one way to correct this law, and that is to replace the word white with black wherever it appears in this proposed law.
Well, what's going on here?
I would hope the GOP House would spike this, but it does show for all the people who would say, hey, listen, we never really get anywhere with the Republicans.
This shows what the Democrats would do if they had an absolute majority of government.
What's going on here with House Resolution 61, Congressman?
Well, it does, James.
And I read this bill, too, and thanks for pointing it out to me.
I would not have seen it if it hadn't been for you.
But, of course, I know Sheila and what she brings.
And Sheila is, she sees the world through the lens of racism, of lens of race.
And just the perspective of Sheila Jacksonly, for example, I have, I served with her for 18 years, 16 years on the Judiciary Committee.
I've traveled the world with her, sometimes sitting across from me on long flights and going into places in the world.
Uganda comes to mind.
And I remember sitting in the bus and we're going through Uganda and Sheila's looking out the window and she goes, these are my people.
Sheila, how do you know they're your people?
Well, the answer is they look like she thinks her people look.
Set her out from put her off the bus and leave her there and then she'll find out in a hurry whether they're her people.
Yeah.
Well, that's right.
And I would razz her and razz her.
And my wife was along too.
And I would tell her things like, she was just opposed to the wall, opposed to the fence, and opposed to any kind of barbed wire.
But Africa, the only place where you're safe is inside your own compound with a wall, broken glass and a concertina wire on top.
So I would point those out every time.
Sheila, what do you think of that?
These people, are they stupid?
Or why do they build these things?
It looks like they must work, huh?
And after, you know, about, I don't know how many days of me relentlessly needling her, she said, well, would you treat your little sister like this?
And I said, well, I do, and she can stand up for herself.
And so that was how that went.
And then we were in Morocco, 40-foot hall, 40-foot-high stone walls.
And these stone walls were built.
I would point to that as we're walking underneath.
And I say, Sheila, you see those walls?
Yeah.
They were built by slaves.
Did you know that?
Slaves?
Yeah.
They were built by Christian slaves with Muslim masters.
And then when they got done with them, first they emasculated them so they had, they didn't have their equipment to even urinate, let alone reproduce.
And when they got done with them, they threw them off the wall or into the sea if they were pulling the boats on their corsairs.
So I'm telling her this.
And I said, yeah, it was white Christian slaves.
And so that needles her a little bit.
So she writes this stuff anyway because that's how her mind works.
And I look at this bill and it says, a white supremacy-inspired crime, which isn't defined in this bill in any way that I can find, but it's one that can be a thought crime, which you picked up on, James, a thought crime.
It says if it was motivated, if you motivated the planning, development, preparation, or perpetration of actions that constitute a crime.
So that would be if you planned anything.
And then it goes on and it says a conspiracy to engage in white supremacy inspired hate crime.
And it says that between two or more persons engaged in the planning, development, preparation, or perpetration.
Well, okay, engaged in the planning.
So that means that if somebody sat down with you in your studio and said, you know what, I think we ought to go over here and do this crime to, let's say, let's go graffiti the windows of the Black Lives Matter people.
Okay, now you're both guilty of a white supremacy hate crime because you were engaged.
You're one of two people engaged in the planning.
Okay.
That's how bad that is.
This is where I think it's at.
And we've seen this before, but going back to 2015, let's just say, for instance, our friend, He wasn't involved in this, but I'm just using this as a hypothetical.
Our friend Jared Taylor, who often cites FBI statistics on crimes committed by race.
And then you have somebody like Dylan Roof who sees that and he says, boy, I better go up and shoot a bunch of unarmed elderly people in a black church.
Well, then, is Jared who reported the FBI statistics on racial crimes responsible for the actions of a murderer?
According to Sheila Jackson Lee, he is.
See, if this became law, I think you could connect those dots.
So this is very dangerous.
And I've got a question here now from an attorney friend of ours in Georgia, which I would love to have you answer.
And he writes this: James, can you ask Representative King if it would be possible to bring Congressperson Jackson Lee's bill to criminalize white speech to a vote?
It seems to me, he writes, that this would be a great embarrassment to the Democrats.
It would make them have to either vote publicly to repudiate the very first of the Bill of Rights or to infuriate their anti-white, racist African-American constituency.
Will the Republicans ever play hardball like the Democrats?
That's a loaded and two-part question, but it's a good one.
What do you say, Congressman?
Well, I do think it's a good question.
It's the kind of tactic that I would like to exploit.
But I don't know that it would embarrass the Democrats anymore.
They're beyond being embarrassed.
They are.
And, you know, they voted 210 of them for a baby that survives an abortion that you have to protect that baby and protect that baby's life and give them medical care.
210 of them voted against that.
They voted that if a baby survives an abortion, or if a baby is essentially born and maybe a difficult birth, that the parents and the doctor, the mother and the doctor, get to decide whether that baby is going to starve to death or freeze to death.
That's how bad that is.
And so if a baby, a born baby that's crying and squealing and squirming, if that baby isn't a sacred human life, then, and they're not embarrassed by that.
They're not shamed by that.
I saw Jerry Nadler on the floor arguing why it was dangerous to take a baby to the hospital that maybe survived an abortion.
Even Jerry Nadler had trouble making that argument.
You could tell he was struggling.
But I don't know if you put him on the spot.
I don't know if you can get them embarrassed.
I don't know that you can even, I think they would just go to the floor and do what they did over and over again.
That's why I say we need to take people like Sheila Jackson Lee and Steve Cohen out of Congress by redistricting or any other neat way that we can do.
And you could do it.
We talked about this during the break.
You could do that if the Republican state legislatures in those respective states wouldn't mind being called a racist for removing people like that.
But to the questioner's point, this is an effort to criminalize freedom of speech of whites, as far as I can see it, as far as I read it in the bill.
It is a repudiation of the Bill of Rights.
Will the Republicans force their hand on this?
Is this just their form of messaging?
Is this their form of messaging?
Or could this pass?
Well, I don't think that it's a chance that would pass with a Republican majority, but I don't think they'd bring it up because they just don't want to have a risky thing out there.
They don't know how it's going to break.
So does this get killed in committee?
Does it die in committee?
Well, I think they just don't take it up.
It doesn't get a hearing.
It doesn't get a markup.
I think it's probably dead sitting back in somebody's drawer.
But I think it's important to say this: that one of those provisions in here says at least one of whom, these two or more conspirators, and one of them can just be a silent listener involved in the planning, at least one of whom published material advancing white supremacy, white supremacist ideology, antagonism based on replacement theory.
Okay, so that might be.
Jared Taylor could be accused of this.
I write some op-eds from time to time.
My words are published.
So who defines who's publishing material that advances white supremacy?
They have defined white supremacy to actually be Western civilization, which is the foundation of the first world.
And if you pull all those values out that built this first world, you've got the second world, which has murdered more people than anybody but the abortionists in all of history.
And I mean that sincerely.
That's where that shakes down.
I should say violent death has been brought upon more people by abortion than any other method.
The communist Mao and Stalin between those two together probably killed between 130 and 150 million people, but most of them were starved to death, so it wasn't a violent death.
But abortion has killed the most.
But in any case, the white supremacy piece of this gets tied to Western civilization.
Who makes the decision?
Southern Poverty Law Center.
And I have faced those people and questioned them under oath, and they are some radic leftists that drive their.
And by the way, they were run by.
Well, I don't have any faith, Steve, in the Republican Party.
I don't want to sound like a pessimist, but I think that the people in the Republican Party, I've never heard any Republican say, I think this would be against the interests of my white Republican base, and therefore I'm going to vote against it.
They would never say that.
If you said this would go against the interests of my black constituents, every last one of them would jump on board.
Yeah, I think you got to go.
Well, what do you think about that?
Are they ever going to get to that point where, yeah, hey, you know, we got to actually, we can look at the people who vote for us.
Yes, we want all right-thinking people, regardless of race or creed, to vote for us.
But at the same time, we got to look at who our voters are, and maybe we got to make sure that we're going to be able to do that people keep voting for people that do not want to even acknowledge that they have, you know, they owe a debt to those people for voting them into office.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Who built this country?
Who built this civilization?
Who built the culture in America?
And who fought the wars and who died?
And by the way, there are over 700,000 white Christian men in their graves today who died in the struggle that ended up putting an end to slavery and the battle over states' rights.
And in all of my time dealing with people, I never, and we got the Congressional Black Caucus.
We've got people that run race on their sleeve, especially the blacks do in Congress anyway.
Not once have I heard any of them say, thanks for that blood sacrifice, but they say instead, well, we want to be paid for the sweat of the people that we say were our ancestors, and you need to pay the reparations because you're white.
Yeah, well, that's one of the great Buchanan quotes.
We've heard the grievances, where's the gratitude?
And it's been good.
This situation has been good for a lot of people, but there's never any credit given only more IOUs, I guess you could say.
Well, we said 30 minutes, we went an hour, and that doesn't even feel like enough.
Congressman King, we can't thank you enough.
Third time in as many months.
Thank you for helping us navigate the fallout from D.C. in the last couple of weeks and for breaking down this bill, which is an odious piece of legislation.
Should it be brought to a vote or, God forbid, is startling but not surprising.
That's right.
Well, thanks for being on the stage.
I got a last word on this.
It would be whip reparations.
Blood is worth more than sweat.
Pay for the blood first or first or shut up.
Absolutely.
Pay for Steve King's book first at steveking.com, and he'll even autograph it for you, I think, if you ask him nicely.