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"They privately had opportunities to speak with them. I know that either one of them are great talent and we got a good bench. So I do believe that whoever becomes our next speaker is going to be able to lead this house as long as we change the rules and give them the power that they need so that we don't have, again, this Donnybrook of a handful of people taking down the entire House representative. Are these not are there any of them repentant? Are any of the 10 saying to anyone, I screwed up, I'm sorry? You know, absolutely not. And, you know, two things here. You know, one, Kevin McCarthy was doing a great job as speaker and he was delivering for the American public. He was making certain that he was negotiating hard bargains with with a Democrat Senate and a Democrat president. He was making that difference of a Republican leading the House. The second thing is, is unfortunately, in the environment that we're in, the more attention that some of these individuals get, the more they're emboldened. And this certainly was a very, very, you know, circus spectacle that feeds right into that.I just got to tell you, Mr. Chair, I've been doing this longer than you. I mean, I've been at this a long time. I've never seen the Republicans act this stupid before. So, yeah, good luck in rebuilding. I don't know who's going to take this job. Thank you, sir. Chairman of the House Intel Committee, Mike Turner, great man, great former mayor of Dayton, former I mean, just a good guy, smart guy. If you're on Intel. Everybody knows you're serious. That's the bottom line. They say that home is where the heart is. Maybe that's why so many fall in love with Big Pine Key and Florida's lower keys, with epic ocean views, unspoiled wilderness, sandy beaches, abundant wildlife, RV resorts and Stock Island's rustic charm. Florida's lower keys don't skip a beat. For more about the lower keys and the latest safety protocols, visit flakies.com slash lower keys.
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"Right, because Vladimir Putin, being a authoritarian leader, we've seen what he's done with energy, we've seen what he's done with natural gas. He uses the resources of his country as one of those weapons to propagate his authoritarian regime. And he certainly just as he's threatened countries with losing natural gas, with with not being able to access Russian oil, certainly he would do the same with food. Now, Mr. Chairman, I want to talk to you about the Iran initiative. The Iranian mullahs got together four or five years ago and they decided they would co-op some Americans and they succeeded. But some of those Americans ended up on Team Biden. Does the House Intel have that briefing yet or are we still all working from just what's in the public domain? I can only discuss what's in the public domain. I can tell you that we have to be very concerned about Iran's reach. Obviously, they're a self-declared adversary of the United States. I think this administration is spending way too much time negotiating with Iran and trying to placate Iran in their quest to try to get back into what's known as the JCPOA, the nuclear enrichment deal with Iran. Of course, we saw them paying billions of dollars for what were American hostages. I don't think this administration understands the real threat that Iran poses to the United States. All right. So we can't go further than there. At least tell me that the director of the CIA and the director of national intelligence has come before your committee and they appear to have a grasp on the breadth and depth of CCP espionage in the United States. Do you think that is the case? I can tell you that Director Burns and Director Avril Haines, director of national intelligence and director of CIA are excellent. They're doing an incredible job of people in the Biden administration. They are two that stand out that are standing up for national security, are responsive to our committee. They're working daily on the issues and the threats that threaten our country and certainly working with us together. So how do you describe that? I try and explain to people we used to do KGB novels and everyone kind of knew about Soviet boards bad enough and all that kind of I don't think anyone has any idea what the chai comms are up to. Mr. Chairman, do you? You know, I, I, I think we certainly have a grasp of your intelligence community currently is working diligently and I think is doing an excellent job at trying to to ferret out the threats to our country and make certain people have the information that they need and counter those national security threats. I do think the Biden administration is slow on the uptake on all of that. I mean, it's amazing to see the threats that the intelligence community identifies to the Biden administration has no policy and undertakes nothing. And then, of course, if the administration is slow, they certainly aren't communicating those to the American public and letting the public know what threats are there. So I do think that the the the bus stops there. I think the Biden administration is certainly accepting a threat level that that is very, very different. Last question, Mr. Chairman, Director Wray is going to be replaced by any Republican who wins. I understand that. In the meantime, is the counterintelligence division at the bureau with whom I used to work long ago and far away and they were good at what they did. Are they still functioning even as the bureau kind of gets buffeted by politicization at the top level? Yes, I believe so. And you're absolutely right. I mean, the director, Ray and the FBI, there are a number of real issues and real reforms that need to occur to the FBI. But I think on the counterintelligence side, on the national security side of the FBI is a working team with the intelligence community. Do they come over and brief you? I mean, does Ray actually sit down with you in closed session because he's not very communicative in open session? Yes, he's been to our committee and I speak to him on a regular basis. I appreciate that very last political question. Have you talked to Jim Jordan yet? Because I don't know that Jim Jordan wants to take the arrows in the back that come with being speaker. He's very good at judiciary. Do you know if he wants to be speaker? I do not. I spoke to both Jim and Steve Scalise last night as we were all leaving. They keep the capital.
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"Governor Ron DeSantis, keep coming back. Good to talk to you. I look forward to the next debate in November in Miami on your home turf. Thank you, Governor. Thank you. Take care. Bye bye. Jim Garrity is my colleague as a contributed editor of The Washington Post. He is a contributing columnist at The Washington Post and at The National Review online where the morning jolt comes out. Jim, you've been doing this a long time, not as long as me, but a long time. I think yesterday was the dumbest day to be a Republican ever. What do you think? The theme of today's morning jolt is what is the point of the Republican Party? What what is it supposed to do? What what does it exist to do? Because I feel like it's really not clear anymore. I went back and I looked at the the National Democracy Institute. That's a small D democracy. It's not capital D Democratic Party. It's a nonprofit. And they have this definition of what Democratic parties are, of what a political party's role in democratic system is. And I don't think Republicans do that anymore. I think that, you know, the whole it certainly doesn't have any clear ideology. It certainly doesn't have any clear sense of what its agenda is. It doesn't have everybody in the party pulling their like there's always been ideological diversity. There's always been this different ways of thinking. But, you know, once your party has a slim majority, well, we all got to hang together. Otherwise, you know, we're not going to have a speaker. And I'll admit, I was surprised. I had my entire and I my entire attitude towards McCarthy was, well, you know, yeah, you got a bunch of people who are complaining about him, but you can't beat something with nothing. So who do you replace him with? And the attitude of these eight Republicans was, well, we'll figure that out later. It's ten, Jim. I insist on including Dan Bishop and Ralph Norman, because while they did not vote to oust the speaker, they were part of the knucklehead five who started the ball down the hill two weeks ago on the defense appropriations rule. So Bishop and Norman are part of the ten Wile E. Coyote Republicans. And as you noted, many of these guys are either definitely running for statewide office and other offices next cycle. A lot of them are thinking about it. Rosendale is thinking of running for Senate. Norman was apparently thinking about running against Lindsey Graham in the primary. Gates says he's he says he I'm not thinking about running for governor of Florida, but everybody in Florida tells me I should. OK, yeah, sure. Right. You know, and so forth, like here's the thing, like it's tough to build consensus, but when some of these guys in your caucus don't plan on hanging around, this place is just a stepping stone. I'm not interested in actually it's much easier to burn your bridges. It's much easier to alienate your colleagues if you're going to if you got one foot out the door. So, you know. Jim, if you were Patrick McHenry and you are the speaker pro tem, you're running everything until you're replaced. Would you try and put into place a 15 month budget deal with the not insane Democrats and the not insane Republican wreckers and send it over to the Senate so that we can at least get back to focusing on binomics and China? Because this is truly a destructive, self-destructive act by these 10. That's an intriguing thought, I had not really put much thought into that scenario, Hugh, but I will point out that, like, so you got two vacancies, you need 217 votes to have a speaker. There are two hundred and was it 10, two hundred twelve Democrats right now. Right. Two hundred and twenty one Republicans, two hundred twelve Democrats. That's right. So you need five. So conceivably, if there are five House Republicans who get fed up with this. Who are worried about their own reelection in swing districts, suburbs, something like that, and they say, you know, I could live with a Henry Cuellar. I could live with a Jared Golden. I could I could live with one of the more conservative Democrats being speaker. Then conceivably, you could have a Democrat as speaker. They could get that 217 votes. I'm not saying it's definitely going to happen. I'm just going to say that is now within the range of possibilities. It's an interesting way to say to the, you know, the knucklehead caucus, oh, you guys think you're uninfluential now? Let's have a Democratic speaker of the House. Let's see how influential you feel then. Right. You know, the trouble with that, though, is you lose the gavels on oversight and we need oversight on justice. I mean, the place is a madhouse. The executive branch cannot be free of subpoenas for another 18 months. Well, Matt Bates has gone out there and saying the entire impeachment effort is failure theater and it's not doing it doing a darn bit of good. Yeah, I like my favorite Matt Gaetz quote yesterday. On everything, how every other House Republican has been doing the entire year. Yeah, my favorite Gaetz quote yesterday is not that one. It's I am not going to run for speaker. That's like he is also not going to compete in the giant slalom in the next Winter Olympics. That's like I'm not going to run a 230 marathon. That was great. Matt Gaetz, I think he should. Someone should nominate him. You know, yeah. Yeah. So big concession for him to, you know. What do you want McCarthy to do? You want him to stay? I do, because I know I've glimpsed the McCarthy machine. It is a giant machine, but it is usually put together by people who actually want to accomplish things. I don't know that we have a party apparatus anymore after this. And the damage is pretty deep. I agree the entire because I was skeptical anyway, and it wasn't skeptical that there wasn't criticisms of McCarthy. He's just, you know, he's a human being. He's he's going to make mistakes. You know, again, he's in a situation where he's got very little leverage. And I think he's getting like you could argue on the margins. Maybe you could like, you know, he's got he's got a small House majority. He doesn't have the Senate. He doesn't have he's got a Democrat in the White House. He's you know, there's only so much you can do. I thought that, you know, yeah, maybe you get rid of them, but you just realize you have no consensus on who the replacement is. So you end up going back to McCarthy. Now, McCarthy says he's not running for the position again. He says he's you know, he's done his time. I wouldn't be shocked if there is no consensus candidate to replace them. Like, I mean, you know, maybe. But if the whole point of this is like, well, we're not we're going to get rid of McCarthy and we're going to finally fix this with Steve Scalise. But Steve Scalise is fighting blood cancer. So he's looking OK, but he's going to be going through chemotherapy. God bless him. I'm so glad he's, you know, got through the shooting. OK, but like, is this a guy who's going to be in a condition to be running the House for the next couple of who wants a job? Who in the world wants to deal with Matt Gaetz and Nancy Mace, the two ends of the knucklehead caucus on the right and the left with whom you cannot reason? Because they're like the weather vane. And if it blows, they blow. So I don't know who wants to. I'm kind of in favor of McHenry remaining speaker pro tem for the rest of the session, passing a budget with with, you know, 90 percent of the Republicans and five percent of the Democrats and go on home and let the committees work because we're not going to get anything passed. Right. Well, I just meant to say, you know, how how great will Gates's move be if he I got rid of McCarthy and put a McCarthy lieutenant in the job for the rest of the what was the point of all this? Well, you know, you know, you turn the place upside down. Let me show you the point of all this, Jim. I thought I'd hit rock bottom until I went to my email last night and I got a Matt Gates email to me saying I'm under attack, fellow conservative. I need your immediate attention. I was attacked in capitals and booed in capitals by rhinos and capitals for underlining, asking you to weigh in and contribute to this fight. So I've hit bottom. I'm getting Matt Gates email. I got on his list somehow. I've done everything I could to stay away from his list. OK, first of all, can I point out, I know everybody I know is on it gets on every political email list, even though they've never signed up for anything. So that's that's problem number one. Problem number two is I get the tax and I get a lot of Democratic fundraising tax. No, I don't respond. I put this out. I put this out to your listeners and viewers. When you get a political text that really bugs you respond. You have angered me so much. I am donating the legal maximum to your opponent. And I want to see I will do whatever it takes to see your guy go down in flames. And they stop they stop texting. They they do. Oh, that works. Yeah, that gets their attention. You know, that won't work with Matt Gates, because that assumes that there's someone with a brain on the other end of the line. I want to conclude percent of House Republicans voted to keep McCarthy in place. And his attitude is ninety five percent of the House Republican caucus is rhinos. They just the whole. Well, OK. All right. Guess what? That means you're on the extreme. That means you're like that you what your definition of squish, your definition of rhino now encompasses more than nine out of 10 Republicans. That's the situation. Now, I just had on Governor DeSantis and I'll play the rest of his interview that I played aired. I talked to him and I'll hear it in the next segment. He's very serious and on message, Jim. He's running the anti happy campaign. He's running. This is hard. It's going to take two terms. We got to start at the top. We got to get rid of the people at Justice. And then we got to push down things of the state. And I mean, he's running a hard edge campaign. Will it work? I think if it doesn't work, all everything we're lamenting about the lawmakers on Capitol Hill is actually a reflection of the problems within the Republican primary voters in the electorate, in that we say, oh, these guys aren't these guys on Capitol Hill aren't serious. They're only interested in camera attention. They're only interested in fundraising and stuff like that. Well, if DeSantis goes out there and flops and let's face it, he's not he's over 15 percent in a whole bunch of polls. It's not looking great for him when he's saying all the right things, when he's got the most, you know, arguably the best record of any governor, Republican governor in the country, serious, knows the policy, knows the details, is the guy who can get it done. If you ditch all that for a guy who's ranting on truth social all the time, then it says the Republican Party isn't a governing party and doesn't want to be a governing party. And wants to be, you know, Matt Gaetz is the Congressman from Newsmax, and that's all the whole public republicans really want. You know, I'm not going to agree with that because I am Switzerland. But I will tell you that the DeSantis Trump debate is an important one and we ought to be having it. But the Democrats have got one in court and the other one blocked from serious media. It's truly a difficult situation. Jim Garrity over at National Review. I'll look for the morning joke this morning. Thank you for joining me. Welcome back America, I'm Hugh Hewitt. Chairman Mike Turner helms the Intelligence Committee in the House of Representatives. He hails from Dayton. He's a Buckeye. Congressman, good morning. Welcome back. Great to have you. Good morning Hugh, thanks for having me. Now, no one from Ohio joined the Knucklehead caucus yesterday. Crane, Buck, Biggs, Rosendale, Gaetz, Good, Mace, Burchette. And then Norman and Bishop are honoring members because they got the ball rolling. What happens in the House caucus? Now, I want to talk to you about Intel and we'll get to that. But what happens next? Sure. Well, there certainly is chaos on Capitol Hill, Hugh. And as you know, Kevin McCarthy was basically removed because he refused to shut down the government. And those who wanted the government shut down, which would have accomplished nothing, have now instead shut down the House of Representatives. So we're on pause now as the House looks to the successor for Kevin. And we certainly have some great talent. Hugh Scalise, obviously, is number two, is the natural successor. Jim Jordan has shown tremendous amount of leadership. Both of them would do an excellent job. But I tell you, if we're going to be able to move forward and get past this disruption, we're going to have to change the rules of the House so that no one can do this again. The rules previously, when Nancy Pelosi was speaker, would not have permitted this. We had started to change the rules to make certain that that we could function. If we're going to pick a leader for our team, we need to act like a team. And one person should and a group of 10 joining together should not be able to take them down. Now, Mr. Chairman, I am curious if you think it is possible for Speaker Pro Tem McHenry to put together an 18 month spending plan, bring it up with the 90 percent of the caucus that are normal conservative Republicans, get a few Democrats to sign on because they get a couple of things that they want and then send it over to the Senate, because this is a dysfunctional House with these 10 people and it's not going to get better. Do you think that's possible to do it that way? Well, my understanding and I certainly have talked to Patrick McHenry and he is certainly great to have him in this position at this point, because he'll be stable and he's also a great leader, highly substantive. But according to the rules, he only has the authority to be able to convene the House for the purposes of electing a speaker and a few other administrative items. So those types of big policy issues, I think, would evade him. But, you know, you're right that we've got to govern and people can't just sit on the sidelines and expect that we're going to get anything done. Will any of the 10 be in any way punished? Newt Gingrich wants them all exiled and primaried. I have no idea what the authority of the caucus is other than to change their office. I'd put Matt Gaetz in the basement if you have a basement. But what is that? What can the caucus do? Well, there's no question that these individuals have changed their relationship with the rest of the caucus, and I think our first number one job is to get a speaker elected. And then, you know, after that, we need to have a discussion as to what our rules should be so that this doesn't happen again. And then I think obviously an analysis of, you know, how was it that this was allowed to happen and make certain that as a team, we stay together and corporately, this isn't allowed to happen again. All right. Well, let me go over to the the writ that you have, which is House Intel. I just talked with Governor DeSantis about his campaign and I asked him the grand strategy if he's the president. And of course, it begins with China. Do you think that the Russia-China alliance is breakable easily in the way that some members of the other Republican would-be presidential campaigns are saying? Well, I don't know that it's that breakable needs to be totally broken, but it certainly needs to be diminished. And then the process for that starts with Ukraine and making certain that Russia is not successful as as Russia undertakes its aggression and its ruthless murdering of Ukrainians. China needs to see Russia not be successful there, one, that the world's democracies will stand against authoritarianism, but also, two, that Russia as a potential ally is weak and it doesn't have a great ability to execute as a partner to China. Now, Chairman, someone who's very wired told me yesterday that support for Ukraine is now a minority position in polling of Republicans, I'm kind of stunned by that because I've been around since a kid in the Reagan White House and we always kind of supported anyone who was against Russia, even when it was the Soviet Union. Is that your sense that half the party is against funding Ukraine? No, what I think it is, and we have to be cognizant of this, the Ukraine defense has been funded through a Democrat administration and through Nancy Pelosi's prior funding bills. And those are Democrat bills, which means they're loaded up. They have more money in them than they need and they don't they don't focus on the core function of defense. I think, you know, when you talk about a 40 billion dollar bill passed by the House and signed by Biden that said 12 billion to Ukraine, you know, there's a lot in it that doesn't need to be in a package like that. I think if the American people had confidence that what was happening was actually funding of Ukraine, just of military operations to be able to keep them, to be able to hold back Russian aggression, I think the American people understand that that's in our national security interests. It's certainly when you listen to Vladimir Putin, he says, I'm not stopping at Ukraine. We have to stop him then in Ukraine. And I think the American public understand that he also would control 30 percent of the world's wheat if he actually wins that war. And that might be good for a few farmers in America, but I don't think they want that kind of a win because it will drive up the cost of of of bread for everybody in America. And it's already six bucks a loaf.
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"Radio 1000 FM 97 7 your information station sponsored by Muckleshoot casino. Thanks for joining us. I'm Kim Shepard. Here's a look at the headlines. House scrambling Republicans to find a new House speaker after Kevin McCarthy was voted out of the role this week. Oklahoma Congressman Kevin Hearn Ohio Congressman Jim Jordan and Majority Leader Steve Scalise all said to be in the running students at Seattle's Garfield High sheltered in place this afternoon after gunshots rang out damaging property. At the same time one teen reportedly suffered minor injuries in some sort of fight on campus. Police believe the suspects may have all taken off in cars. More than 75 ,000 workers at Kaiser Permanente are strike on and the union is accusing Kaiser of engaging in unfair labor practices. ABC's Alex Stones joining on us the Northwest News line and it sounds like the Kaiser facilities are going to remain open despite the strike. Yeah says and Kaiser that there may be impacts you know like getting a blood draw I know one colleague that had that plan for tomorrow and now that's been off and there will be doctors appointments that are moved around but when it comes to the emergency room and emergent care Kaiser is saying based on using contract workers that they slower may be than it normally would be but that they're still up and running and this is everybody from nurses to x -ray to cleaners and the ERs who work in Kaiser facilities in five different states the Kaiser is in eight states but this right now involves workers in five of the states and what the workers want Kim they say they want a twenty five dollar an hour minimum wage that's four dollars more than what Kaiser wants to to give them they want yearly increases they want more staffing and a really a lot of it comes down to the ranks have been decimated since the pandemic and the workers say that they are just overworked and overwhelmed right now Carolyn Lucas represents the workers we want is simple we want Kaiser executives to listen to frontline health care workers and bargain in good faith now this could impact 13 million patients Kaiser is saying it is working on this it hears what the workers are saying it says it needs a fair this agreement that out of it's still bargaining they were bargaining overnight last night both sides say that there were some agreements that were made during that bargaining but still not a total deal that they're not done with it and the workers Kim are saying that that thing levels really now they believe their claim is at unsafe levels crisis levels Kaiser says it gets it said that they need to bring up staffing levels but it's hard to find workers for hospitals right now and that they say they'll continue while all this is going on and the Kaiser workers in Washington state have a contract that expires at the end of this month they're currently voting on whether or not to authorize a strike to join the picket lines how much larger could this get? well about another it looks like maybe ten to twenty thousand workers on the in those states where they're they're not currently a picketing and there was a day a couple of weeks ago where they did a one -day strike in many areas as they were getting close to the end and negotiating was was underway and they haven't been able to get to a deal and so they're not there yet but by tonight or tomorrow they may be there they're talking right now you know the staffing levels issue is is something that's being seen in so many industries right now I mean we just look at the strike and one of their bargaining elements was that they wanted minimum staffing on productions of course if they have don't that minimum staffing they can just not create the television show or the movie but when it comes to health care you can't just just say well we're not gonna treat patients because we don't have the staff how do they deal with this well and that's the argument the right now that they have you know an emergency room or elsewhere that at this point the the workers claim that they are working understaffed and that they've been dealing with it Kaiser says it's not as bad as what the workers have been making it sound like the workers say yes it has been and that they want numbers to go up i mean it's everything we hear about from lines hospitals to to i mean it's every industry right now where the workers are saying there's not enough staff have one one more for you michael ramy an ultrasound tech in san diego he puts it this way if kaiser would invest in their staff here and make an investment in the patients and take on the uh education and training that we need we have ways to solve this staffing crisis and to better care for our patients but he says they are not there yet but they they feel like they will get there but this is a big part of it of then they say they need more workers in the are in his and offices you know i mean across the the system and they say right now they're not getting them abc's alex on the northwest news line six twenty at northwest news radio time for your charts stock dot com money updates after tumbling yesterday stocks rebounded today technology shares stronger than the broader market s and p five hundred rose thirty four points the down dust jules gained one hundred twenty seven and the tech heavy nasdaq composite leaked one hundred seventy six or one and a third percent with continued strength in both of its popular f -series pickup ford motor reporter year -over -year seven point seven percent jump in third -quarter u .s. vehicle sales year -to -date ford sales are up nine point two percent among electric vehicles boards mustang maki drove sales that's your money now money news at twenty and fifty past every hour still ahead the best t .v. shows of the past twenty four years time abc's jason athenson with more on that coming up there's a new way to stay connected and stay informed news radio crystal clear on hd your radio go to one oh one point five f .m. hd to check back often and never miss a information thing your station guys for those of you with a full head of hair congratulations studies show that one of the most attractive physical features is a full head of hair want to know the least attractive and most aging well it's hair loss no amount of car house or success can make up for that thinning or balding as it leaves the greatest lasting physical impression and it doesn't have to be that way advanced hair has the quick one -day solution to your hair loss and can make you look 10 to 20 years younger advanced hair has improved tens of thousands of lives including mine no more expensive pills or topicals just your very own natural hair guaranteed to grow did I mention that your own natural hair begins to regrow the very next day and can grow for life for your free consultation call 425 -449 8185 and if you qualify get 250 dollars off and 250 free hair graphs 425 -449 -8185 or advancedhair .com advancedhair com at qfc we shorten the time from harvest to home so you can get more days of freshness with your favorites crisp and crunchy broccoli delicious bananas creamy avocados and more we also perform actions
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"First game in year more than Jamal a Adams took a knee to the helmet attempting to tackle the Giants Daniel Jones. A woozy Adams helped off the field and then he emerged from the medical tent yelling at the independent concussion doctor who was appointed by NFL and Players Association. Now ESPN reports the league is considering discipline for Jamal Adams with a bye week as Seattle hopes he is ready to play at Cincinnati October 15th. Washington State Cougs fired up to play in the historic Rose Bowl Stadium noon Saturday against UCLA especially for a Southern California lab receiver Kyle Williams. Oh yeah I used to grow up and go into the Rose Bowl. Family friend Jordan lastly used to play UCLA so we used to always go to his games and you know it's just fun being back in the atmosphere in the environment having my mom my niece and my nephew be able to see me for the first time. It's Wednesday night soccer 730 at Seattle's Lumen Field. The Sounders kick it with the LA Galaxy. Seattle Kraken and BCA for preseason hockey tonight against the Canucks. And Lexi Thompson is no stranger to making golf history. Heck at age she played in the Women's US Open. Now the 28 year old Thompson has accepted a sponsor's invitation to play against the guys next weekend at the Shriner's Children's Open in Las Vegas. Sports with sports at and 10 40 after the hour. Northwest News Radio. Northwest News Times 611. Kevin McCarthy is no longer Speaker of the House after a small coalition of Republican lawmakers banded together and with the support of Democrats voted him out. They say it was because he was ineffective and too willing to work with Democrats. But McCarthy says, you know it was personal. It had nothing to do about spending. Mariana Alfaro is covering this for the Washington Post and she spoke with Northwest News Radio's Frank Lindsey. So who is going to figure out today, but so far there's been three possible candidates starting with Jim Jordan from Ohio, who he told reporters that he will be running for speaker next week. And that's kind of who we're hearing a lot of thinking Republicans about right now, followed by Ken Hearn, who is also not saying he's that running, but he's been meeting with other Republicans. Right now he came out of meeting with the Texas Republican. And then there's Steve Scalise, the House majority leader, who we know he is currently being treated for cancer, but he's also in the running. So those are the three names being floated around here on the Hill today. How soon do you see a new speaker elected? Well, the Republican conference sounds very confident that they can figure this out next by Tuesday and have votes either then or by midweek. Given how chaotic everything has been, we'll see if that actually happens and see if they can unite behind a candidate by Democrats are obviously standing behind Hakeem Jeffries, the minority leader, and they will continue voting for him if we come to that. But we saw that happen in January where all Democrats voted to support him. So that's kind of where we're at right now. What's Kevin McCarthy had to say since he was removed? Well, he's kind of had this very interesting press conference last night when he was heading out of the Capitol. He said, if I had an advice for the next speaker is just kind of don't do it like I recommend this to anyone. And I think he is very much very defensive in saying that he did the right thing for the party and that it was Matt Gaetz kind of light the house on fire. We're hearing that echoed by a lot of other Republicans on Kevin McCarthy's side today. They're saying that Gaetz is the one that's kind of created all havoc this in here and you know they don't strike out the possibility of you know having some consequences for him once they figure out the next speaker. And without a speaker can the House of Representatives do any business? Not really they can't make they can have hearings but they can't really pass you know stuff like the budget which is you know running out in 45 days that we have November 17th deadline fund to the government if not we're going to face another shutdown or the possibility of a shutdown. So that's why they need a speaker because right now we're working on very unknown territory this has never happened before where a speaker was ousted. And so you know you talk to Republicans right now they're saying we're figuring out but we're also playing with new rules like we don't really know what the rules are. And so not much business could happen on the speaking with Northwest News Radio's Frank Lindsey. 614 at Northwest News Radio your home for news breaking traffic and weather every 10 minutes on the force. Kimmy Klein is in the high performance homes traffic center. In Tacoma, I see what's holding you up right now. We have an accident on the ramp from South and I 5 to westbound Highway
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
"kevin mccarthy" Discussed on The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
"No, I think you're exactly right. I think doing Biden shows you doing those other considerations. What that got you, you know, he did Kamala Harris. And the problem is the number one thing you have to do is somebody that can do the job. Number two is somebody that shares your vision and shares your priorities. And yes, as you say, that can articulate that and be a good spokesman for it. And so so that's what I would look for. I wouldn't worry about the political considerations in terms of this or that. I don't think ultimately it really makes a difference. I think this is your first decision as the president, effectively. And it's going to you're going to be judged off the quality of that executive decision. When I ran for governor the first time in Florida, I made a great pick. We've got a great lieutenant governor, Jeanette Nunez. My opponent made a pick that wasn't as good. And then this reelection, my opponent picked the head of the Miami Dade teachers unions. And so the window it's a window into your executive decision making. And so you got to get that right. But the most important thing is someone you're on that stage with someone you're waving. They say that person can be president and that person is somebody that shares the governor's agenda. And you need you need someone to take the message to the other side. I mean, you really need a fighter. Let me go back to Russia. George W. Bush thought he could deal with Putin. Barack Obama sent the reset button. Hillary Clinton thought she could deal with Putin. Donald Trump thought he could deal with Putin. Joe Biden thinks he can deal with Putin. And his appeasement ended up with the second invasion of Ukraine. How do you approach Putin, who is a very evil man, Governor? So it's not through personality. It's not that I'm somehow going to charm him. It's using the leverage that we have at our disposal. I mentioned the energy doing that, working with allies to be able to bring pressure to bear. These guys, they don't respond to, you know, kind overtures. They don't respond to personality. They don't all just want to hold hands and have a better world. They respond to leverage and they respond to strength. And so we have to do that. I think that when presidents have been strong, I think it's been a successful deterrent for bad actors. Biden was kind of the worst of our worlds because, I mean, he comes in and it was just one thing after another. And that really greenlit, I think, a lot of bad people to do a lot of bad things. Now, let's switch to domestic policy. One of your big wins that nobody knows much about is New College. I applaud completely changing out the board. They named a new president yesterday, which was their acting president. That's great. They are considering doing away with tenure. I think tenure is a disease that is spread throughout the United States. As president, what can you do about tenure from K through 12 and in colleges that are state funded? Through the accreditation cartel. So we're going to totally blow up the accreditation cartel right now. Part of the reason universities operate they are is because they need to get accredited. And these accreditors are all trying to create the types of universities that we that we object to as conservatives. So we're going to have alternative accreditors. It's going to be instead of you have to have gender studies or you have to have DEI to get accredited. It'll be the opposite. We're not going to credit you if you have DEI and some of these other things. And so that is going to create, I think, an opportunity for a lot of innovation and higher ed. New president. They got rid of things like CRT. They abolished the gender studies department. They rebranded the university as being the best classical publicly funded liberal arts college. And it's modeled after Hillsdale College. The number of parents across this country who are interested in applying is unbelievable. And they were struggling to get applications. And we were lucky because our out of state tuition in Florida is about sixteen thousand dollars. Our in states about sixty four hundred dollars. So it's a bargain. It's a great, great place to go. But there's a huge, huge demand. So we're going to use the accreditation. I think that's going to be a good thing. And I do think you're going to see a lot of changes in higher ed. Another thing we're going to do is we're going to make the universities responsible for the for the loans. That's going to cause them to change their behavior because they're not going to be able to go on ideological joy rides with their curriculum, knowing that if somebody gets out of the university and they can't afford to get by, that the university may end up be on the hook. So you're going to see much more focus in terms of the subjects that are going to be offered because of those incentives. Now, Governor, the first couple of debates have sort of wandered away from Bidenomics. They start on Bidenomics and then they wander away into into some pretty bizarre stuff. You won the last debate with a walk off home run when you rejected the question by the moderators. What are these debates to be discussing? I think they need to be discussing the economy, particularly why we're in this mess. I think it's important to point out it all started with covid in March of twenty twenty. There was massive borrowing, printing and spending under both Republicans and Democrats that led to the interest rates being where they are. And it's put a lot of people in a world of hurt. We obviously need to reverse those policies. We need to discuss Biden's attempt to impose an ideological control over the economy, whether that's the Green New Deal, whether that's other things that they're doing in all aspects of the economy. It's bad for freedom and it's ultimately going to be very bad for a standard of living. We need to talk about having energy independence and energy dominance. We do need to talk about the border and our sovereignty and the fentanyl overdoses that are happening as a result of that. That moderator in the other debate was trying to blame Americans for the fentanyl overdoses. I was shocked that she would even try to do something like that. We need to talk about the growth of the administrative state. How are we going to reconstitutionalize government and end weaponization of agencies like the IRS and the FBI? Those are all really, really significant issues that I run the table nationally. We're going to have a House and Senate majority. We're going to have opportunities to get a lot of this stuff done. So we're going to be ready to go on day one. A lot of people just want the government to run by executive order. That's not constitutional. You know that. Will you force the responsibility back down to the states? Because I'm tired of phones and executive orders. I'm tired of presidents trying to do everything. It's not supposed to work that way. It's a federalist system. Are you committed to that? So with immigration, one of the key portions of our border plan is to deputize the states to enforce immigration law. I want them to do it. Texas wants to do it. Some of these want to do it. So we're going to be doing that. We will be devolving power back to the states. Look, there is a role for executive orders. I mean, if the agencies are doing things that are bad, you do an executive order to revoke the nonsense that Biden's doing. If we wanted to have the agencies behave in a better way, you could do an order. But the executive order is about how government operates. You can't do executive orders over society. You need legislation in Congress or you need the states to be able to do it. But one of the things we do, everything that we're doing, we have a mind we have a mind about, OK, well, 50 some senators, you need 50 in reconciliation. What can we put into that package? I think we can do stuff with school choice. I think we can do stuff with naval buildup. I think we can do obviously we're going to repeal a lot of Biden stuff or as much as we can to get into there, reduce the deficit, extend the tax rates. So all of that stuff are things that we're going to be ready to go with so that we know we can actually get this stuff to stick. Because if you look at what Biden did when he came in, he reversed every single Trump policy basically on day one. And it's just been off to the races there. So you've got to be able to get this stuff to stick legislatively and you've got to empower the states so that they're able to get stuff to stick. Last question, Governor. We need an attorney general who actually knows DOJ, who has the respect of judges around the country and can attract talent. Do you have anyone in mind? Because we cannot swing and miss on that, as we did with Jeff Sessions, who I like, but he was a terrible attorney general. I've got I've got some people in mind. I say here's the qualities I'm looking for. Yes, very smart, a constitutionalist, strong legal mind. But somebody has a backbone because that swamp does not want DOJ reformed. So when you go in there and you clean house, you are going to face a lot of blowback. And so you just have to be OK with getting smeared in The New York Times and by CNN and all these and just know that you're representing American people outside of the DC who want to see this justice system corralled. And you have a huge opportunity to make a great difference for the country. But it is going to come at a cost. So if you don't have that spine of steel, if you don't have that backbone, don't even bother applying.
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
"kevin mccarthy" Discussed on The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
"Yes, it's very concerning. And again, the issue that you and I talk most about our ability to deter war with China and then win the new Cold War of the long term, I fear is suffering. We don't have 18 months to waste. We simply cannot waste 18 months awaiting the coming of some messianic presidential figure to solve all our problems. Congress needs to step up and lay the foundation for a successful foreign policy in the short term, in the mid term and in the long term. Yeah. If you have a chance to encourage McHenry today to go over and sit down with Senate leadership on the Republican side and do a package, take the heat and then go back to financial services, what he's really good at, and let someone have 15 months of just a clear sailing, because we can't do this three or four more. Well, we can. We probably will, actually. I've been around longer. There's actually probably no way out of this, but I'm glad you're at work with the time. Did you stay there all night or did you just come in this morning? I have to do a few meetings this morning, Hugh. But hey, I want to reassure you, Hugh, I want to end on a note of optimism and just say it's always darkest before it gets pitch black. That's exactly. We could do this all again next week. I mean, really. But these these 10 knuckleheads are not going to Wile E. Coyote, congressman, are not going anywhere. Chairman Gallagher, thank you for joining us. Keep doing the work of this special select committee, please. I'll be right back. America, stay tuned. When the government used emergency edicts during COVID to restrict the gathering and worship of churches, three pastors facing the risk of imprisonment, unlimited fines and their own churches being ripped apart, took a courageous stand and reopened their doors and the face of a world that chose to comply. The Essential Church is a feature length documentary that explores the struggle between the church and government throughout history. This fascinating story uncovers those who've sacrificed their lives throughout history for what they truly believe in. We discover why the church is essential and how we prove that this stand remains true from a scientific, legal and most importantly, biblical perspective. This is not your typical movie. It'll change your life. You need to see this movie with your friends and family. The Essential Church is streaming today exclusively at Salem now dot com. That's Essential Church streaming at Salem now dot com. Hey, good morning, Governor. How are you? Good. How are you doing? I'm great. I would be committing malpractice if I didn't ask for your reaction to what happened yesterday in the House of Representatives. You are an alumni of the House. What do you think? Well, it's a strong contrast to how we do business in Florida. I think you see a lot of theater, a lot of chaos. I'm not sure it ever leads to any results, whereas in Florida, everything we do is is calculated to deliver outcomes and to create a better life for the people down here. I also think just reflecting on you had like, what, five or six members, Republicans joined with all these Democrats. You know, we were supposed to have a red wave in 2022. And that didn't happen. It happened in Florida. And we delivered four additional Republicans. But that was one of the best environments to run in for Republicans, probably since like the 1940s. And we totally muffed it. And I think that that this is part of the follow on from that. But we just need leadership. I mean, we need to put leaders out there, deliver for the folks that we represent. So I think that we need we need order, we need smooth government operations and we need to deliver results. That's what we've done in Florida for the last five years. And you see the contrast. Governor, now let me turn to the big stuff. I had dinner last night with a Marine Corps general, not general officer, a field officer. And they asked me to ask you about grand strategy. And I read your your promises to fix the military and how you are going to do that, quote, within six months, the performance of all personnel in forest and our command and staff billets will be reviewed and goes on. It's very good plan. He asked, though, what is the grand strategy you will sit down by me, the resolute desk on day one with specifically China, Russia and Iran? They are working together. How do you break up that deal? Well, we need a whole society approach to fending off the CCP. This is our top threat. This decade will be the decisive decade. This is a military confrontation, perhaps a technological, economic, cultural, all of those things. We need to be have national policy geared towards fending off the CCP. And I think that Washington's policy, the D.C. kind of smart said they they've had all bark and very little bite with respect to China. I think on the current course, China will surpass us as we get into the next decade to some of the things we're going to do. You need more hard power in the Indo-Pacific. We are going to have a naval buildup. We'll have we'll shoot for three hundred fifty five ships after the first term and we'll get to three hundred eighty five ships after term two. But I think even more importantly than that, reinvigorating our defense industrial base and our shipbuilding capacity so that within 20 years we could get close to six hundred ships. I think that we had an opportunity when covid hit to really mobilize the country behind a common purpose of fending off the CCP. And we could have started doing some of this naval buildup there, but that's really, really important. And so we're going to do that. But I think everything we do is going to be viewed through the prism of how do we counter the China threat? Obviously, there's other threats in the world and we'll deal with those. But just like Reagan dealt with the Soviets, above all else, we need our grand strategy to focus on China above all else. Now, Governor, how does Russia fit in that? Because what my officer friends had last night, what's the end state that he envisions in Russia vis-a-vis Ukraine? What do you consider stability for the world in a position from which we can turn to the main player in the threat, which is China in the new Cold War? Well, we can stop empowering Russia through a dysfunctional energy policy. You can have the Green New Deal. I don't want that. I think it's bad. But just understand, when you go in Biden's direction, you are helping Russia. You're helping Iran. You're helping Venezuela. You're also helping China. So we put out in Midland, Texas, a couple of weeks ago our plan for American energy dominance. We're going to choose Midland over Moscow. We're going to choose the Marcellus over the Mullahs and we're going to choose Bakken over Beijing. Biden is effectively funding both sides of that conflict. His energy policy helps Moscow. He's also relieved sanctions on Iran and then, of course, did the six billion. They're very much invested in helping Russia with all those things. But I think we have the economic levers to be able to weaken Russia, and that's just beyond the current conflict. That is what they rely on. And Biden's energy policy will make Russia more powerful. My energy policy will weaken Russia. Now, you are a veteran and a Navy man, but you realize I think you realize the budget just can't continue on as it has. We have to re reallocate between the Navy, the Army, the Air Force, the Space Force and the Coast Guard. Do you have a plan and do you have someone in mind who would be the sec def that would come in and really do what Weinberger did for Reagan, which is reshuffle the DOD so that we get it back to warfighting? Yes, and so I would say rather than name and name, I'd say what I'm looking for in a sec def is somebody, one, I think it's been a mistake to have some of the retired generals go in. I supported the Mattis waiver. I think he's a great officer. But I think you need somebody who's not part of kind of that club, somebody that's got strong executive skills, and that's really going to be able to hold people accountable. It's not going to be popular in Washington, but is going to be willing to make the tough decisions and show that there's a new sheriff in town because the bureaucracy in the Pentagon is totally out of control. I do think that if you're if you're pursuing a China strategy like like I would, you do need a stronger Navy and a Marine Corps. I mean, that's just the reality of the threat that we face. So we're going to do that, but we're going to have a culture of accountability. It's to me, you look at the Afghanistan debacle, not one person has been held accountable for that entire Afghanistan debacle. And I kind of feel like 50 years ago, if that had happened, there would have been massive resignations, massive terminations. And yet you had none of that. So so we do need to have a culture of accountability and we will deliver that. When you get there, if you're the president, will you do an after action report on everything from closing Bagram right down to Abigail? And will you name names? Yes, absolutely. We need to. All right. I appreciate that. I want to talk about running mates for a second, Governor, because it's always been a tradition to wait till the last week. That's a stupid tradition. I want a fighter and I want generational change. And I say that as a 67 year old, we just cannot have an old running mate. We you know, we don't need a Lloyd Benson. We know. What is your idea for running mate? Because I don't believe in racial and gender balance on the ticket. I want someone who can fight and articulate.
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
"kevin mccarthy" Discussed on The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
"Welcome back America. I'm Gugioh. Mary Catherine Hamm is co-host of the Getting Hammered podcast with Vic Mattis. Good morning, Mary Catherine. How are you? Good morning. I'm all right. Well, we have 10 members of the Knucklehead Caucus, and I'm including Ralph Norman and Dan Bishop because they got the ball rolling and then they ran for cover when they realized they were sinking the ship. Do you know Eli Crane, Ken Buck, Andy Biggs, Matt Rosendale, Matt Gaetz, Bob Goode, Nancy Mace, Tim Burchette, Norman or Bishop, do you know any of them? Not personally, no. I think I've run into Biggs before, but other than that, and Gaetz as well in green rooms, but not a lot of personal experience with them. All right. Do you know what's going on with Nancy Mace because Kevin raised and spent $2 million for her and she turned around and knifed him. I don't get that at all. But the other ones I don't get either, but she just stands out. No idea? Yeah. I mean, no one can figure out Nancy Mace in general. I feel like everyone's been trying to put their finger on exactly what her driving force is. And I saw somebody had a theory yesterday that I thought was kind of interesting, which is that the gumption required to be the first woman that gets through the Citadel means that you just don't have to listen to anyone tell you what to do. And she chooses whatever path she chooses on whatever day. And I think there might be something to that. Well, I hope she gets primaried. We can't. I mean, what do you think happens now? This Congress is blown. It's done. They might as well pass the CR and just get the 2025 because this is a mess. Well, that's what's depressing about it, right? Because there were moves toward regular order, which is something that I am in favor of. I was like, oh, look, we have appropriations bills making it through committee. They're being marked up. They're moving. This is good news. And here we've just shot ourselves in the foot entirely. The thing about me is that I probably agree with people who want to watch it burn in some respects because there's many things I don't want the federal government doing. There's many ways I think we could stop them from doing some of those things. However, if you want to work outside of the current structure, if you want to do something radical, you've got to have a plan. You don't just blow it up and then tell me that that is serving some purpose because I see no purpose and I don't see how you – Biggs was talking about how we're going to get to regular order somehow after we do this. How's that going to happen? There was no plan. I think we can all agree they are the Wile E. Coyote members of the Knucklehead Caucus. Who wants this job, Mary Catherine? I mean, would you want this job at this point? We've gone through McCarthy and Paul Ryan and John Boehner and they all get blown up. Who wants this job? First of all, don't curse me by putting me in the running, Hugh. You know they can put anyone in that spot. This is the problem with this sort of death spiral, right, is that when you blow everyone up, you narrow the number of people who might want to do this job to more and more, I think, unqualified people or less and less qualified people and you have to hope for somebody who is a decent person who's crazy enough to put themselves in this position. When Paul Ryan took it, I always joke that he was like the guy in Clerks where he's like, I'm not even supposed to be here today, right? But he ended up there, so you have to hope for that. But I think your choice has become more and more limited. Well, we tried the Dean Martin Caucus with John Boehner and that didn't work. Then we tried the wonky Congress with Paul Ryan and that didn't work. Then we tried the genuine political architect and that didn't work. So I don't, does Steve Scalise dare put up his hand? He's the natural successor, but I mean, does he dare do that? I mean, I've heard no mutterings about that yet, which you would think you would hear already if he were going to. And then my question is, now that the Knucklehead Caucus, as I think you've appropriately named them, have the power of social media and can command this amount of attention, thereby sort of negating any punishment they get from leadership if they step out of line in these ways, how do you form a caucus that can keep itself together? That is, now obviously Nancy Pelosi is capable of it, but our tools seem to not be working. So we need to figure out what the tools are and who the person is who can use them. And again, a much narrower field of candidates than we had before. Now they blew up the workroom. The craft shop is in shattered. I'm kind of hoping that Patrick McHenry stays as Speaker Pro Tem. Kevin hangs around, keeps the organization together, and they expand the majority, and he comes back. But do you think that's possible? Look, I think it's become much less possible to expand the majority when you do this, because people, first of all, I'm closely following this, and I can't put any reason on this decision, right? There are people who are not closely following this, and all they see is, oh, they just decided to not do their work. Now they're gone for a full week until they even decide to vote again, right? Because this is what this has caused. They won't be doing any work. And that is what people say. Now come right in our car. Luca Brasi is in the back seat. Don't worry about that. Matt Gaetz and Luca Brasi are back there. Do not worry about those guys in the back seat. Come be our speaker. I mean, it's the dumbest moment. I've been doing this for 33 years on the air. It's the dumbest moment of the Republican Party. It's really, it's really quite remarkable. Don't go anywhere, America. I'm coming right back. Next hour, Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida joins me. Stay tuned, America. I'm Hugh Hewitt. Morning, Gloria America. Bonjour, hi, Canada. I'm Hugh Hewitt. On the day after the dumbest day in Republican Party history, Congressman Mike Gallagher, chairman of the House Select Committee on the engagement with the Chinese Communist Party, joins me. One of the great things Kevin McCarthy got going was your committee, Chairman Gallagher. Does it continue its important work uninterrupted? It does continue. As I read the rules and understand in consultations with the parliamentarian, committee work can continue so we could continue to have briefings, hold hearings. We will continue our investigations, all of our public communication, our internal work. We just can't bring legislation through committees, which doesn't affect us because we don't have a legislative jurisdiction, but we can't bring legislation to the floor, which does affect us because as you know, there's a host of China-related legislation that's backlogged in the Congress. Things like banning or forcing a sale of TikTok, a coherent outbound investment regime, amending CFIUS so that the Chinese can't buy, land your sensitive military bases. These are all things that need to be legislated by Congress, not subject to the whim of the executive branch. And until we have a speaker, it's simply not possible. On the point about the executive branch, if you'll permit me, Hugh, all this chaos does, our inability to be disciplined with our narrow majority, and it is very narrow, it empowers the executive branch, which is the last thing that conservatives want. It makes the federal government less accountable. At least under Speaker McCarthy, we were doing aggressive oversight of the executive branch for the first time in years. I get that passing conservative legislation was hard, but the people that deposed the speaker opposed his conservative continuing resolution, which had border security and a commission to fix our long-term debt issue. And then they cited our inability to pass conservative spending legislation as a reason for his proposal. It makes no sense. It's recursive logic. Well, yeah, the attempt to impose any kind of coherence on this is impossible. Newt Gingrich said it last night. Derek Van Orden, one of your new colleagues, said it. People from as old as Newt Gingrich and as young in the Congress as Derek Van Orden all know the same thing. But what happens next? I mean, you had a conference meeting last night, right? A caucus meeting. What happens next? Well, it was very short. And Patrick McHenry, who's acting speaker pro tem, everything is basically subject to his decision right now. He said it made sense for us to go home, come back on Tuesday. The candidates who want to run for speaker in the interim can prepare their agenda, their pitch. We will have a meeting on Tuesday night wherein the various candidates will make their case. And then depending on how that goes, I will have an internal vote in the caucus and then hopefully go to the floor Wednesday or Thursday for a speaker vote that hopefully avoids what happened in January, which is a prolonged and protracted speaker fight. That's the plan right now. But as you know, the deadline for another government shutdown is bearing down upon us. So an obvious question to ask the candidates in addition to what they intend to do about China, which admittedly I'm biased, but that is the most important question. What are we going to do about our Defense Department and our ability to beat communist China? And what legislation do you plan to bring to the floor on that? In addition to that, what's your short term plan for avoiding another fiasco with the government shutdown leading to an internal speaker fight? Otherwise we're just going to be doing the circular firing squad. Now I will admit I have sort of a radical view that now is the time to do once you get past the short term spending fight. Now is the time to do a complete reorganization and reform of the budget and appropriations process. It makes absolutely no sense. The fundamental divide between authorizing and approach committees makes absolutely no sense. If you go back to the dryer commission in the mid 90s, one of the things they recommended was collapsing the appropriations committees into the authorizing committees. Simple things like aligning the fiscal year with the regular year, which is the lowest of low hanging fruit, would go a long way towards avoiding this complete chaos. I actually think there's a lot you can do in bipartisan fashion to clean up the nuts and bolts of how we budget or don't budget as the case may be. Could the speaker pro tem of the House, Patrick McHenry, bring up a spending bill, an omnibus or a collection of our appropriations bills and send them over to the House? I mean, can he do that so that we do not cripple the new speaker with day one with the same knuckleheads? That I do not know, Hugh. As I read the rules, I think he could. I think he decides what comes to the floor and now put aside the question of whether he would want to do that, whether that will be wise for him or the caucus, I guess. And the caveat that I actually don't know the definitive answer to that question. But as I read it, I think he could bring something to the floor and elide the committees in the process and maybe falls on that grenade so that the new speaker has a blank slate. Yeah, that's what I'm worried about. I am worried about the same 10 knuckleheads will do it again because that which gets rewarded gets repeated. They're getting clicks. I don't know what Nancy Mace was thinking about. I have no idea what Eli Crane was thinking about. I know what Dan Bishop thought. And Ralph Norman took the temperature and they said, oh, we're going to screw ourselves in our states. And it's too late for them. So they didn't vote with the eight. But I have just there's no clue there. So maybe we use Patrick McHenry is a very smart guy to get a 15 month budget done. That does what we need to get done and then wait for the election to tell us if we have a president or not. There are worse things than a than a suboptimal budget negotiation outcome. One of them would be losing the 2024 election to the Democrats. I mean, look at the cost of losing the Senate on January 5th, 2021, if my dates are correct. I mean, the cost is trillions of dollars and counting again for like a lack of internal discipline and teamwork in the Republican Party and self-sabotage in the Republican Party. Now we risk doing the same thing in the House, which is the one chamber that we have control of and the only thing standing in the way of Biden and a complete sort of Green New Deal fantasy turning America into Europe light at this point. So I get a narrow majority is hard. Nobody gets 100 percent of what they want. I've been forced to accept lower defense top lines than I would like. But the only way to be successful in a narrow majority is aggressive oversight, teamwork, return to regular order and a willingness to make principal compromise without compromising your principles. Now, we can't do that, though. I mean, that's not possible. So I'm thinking McHenry goes and gets the DOD appropriation. That is the most important thing, the DOD appropriation, the Homeland Security appropriation. And then he says to the to the most reasonable Democrats, let's pass this and send it over to the Senate and see what comes back and challenge the Senate to get it back in a hurry. And then he stays as the interim speaker because nobody wants his job. Chairman Gallagher, nobody wants to get knifed in the back. Yeah, you wouldn't wish it on your worst enemy. There's something I wonder, Hugh, if I can express this in a way that makes sense. I think there's something bigger understand going on here, which is all these precedents. We're breaking all these precedents right from pulling fire alarms to threatening executions to to deposing speakers like there are no norms anymore that are that are not capable of being shattered. And some of the most important rules in our system of government are not written down. They just come back to basic decency and and, you know, restraints on human behavior. And I worry about the escalating spiral that creates, because usually when one party does it, the other party does it, which is why I think a lot of Democrats yesterday are going to regret voting to depose Speaker McCarthy and then celebrating that fact, because what goes around comes around. Yeah. Late Roman Republic stuff. I mean, it just continue. And I by the way, I applaud Speaker Pro Tem McHenry throwing out Nancy Pelosi and Steny Hoyer from their cubbies, because that was part of the deal, right? They were supposed to treat you like generous gentlemanly people in a gracious fashion. And then they pulled the cork on Kevin yesterday. So out they go. And I'm all for that. But it is late Roman Republic stuff.
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"Welcome back to The Breakdown with me and LW. It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin and the big picture power shifts remaking our world. What's going on, guys? It is Wednesday, October 4th, and today we're discussing so many interesting political stories. Broader political US machinations that have some interesting implications for the crypto industry. Before we get into that, however, if you are enjoying The Breakdown, please go subscribe to it, give it a rating, give it a review, or if you want to dive deeper into the conversation, come join us on the Breakers Discord. You can find a link in the show notes or go to bit .ly slash breakdown pod. Hello, friends. Happy hump day. Now, I mentioned yesterday that I wasn't going to do full SPF trial updates every day. My current plan, although it's, of course, always subject to change, is effectively to save up every few days for really important stuff and give you the full rundown. Now, that said, I will try to give you the very highest highlights if there's anything super important. And really, the only big notable detail yesterday was around witnesses. In addition to the FTX leaders that we know had cut deals with the Justice Department and who were planning on testifying against Sam, including Gary Nashad and Caroline, it appears as though former COO Constance Wang, and probably most notably to the crypto community, former Alameda Co CEO Sam Tribuco, are also planning on testifying. Given that that other Sam has not been heard from, effectively since he went off on his boat in the summer of 2022, that one certainly got some tongues wagging. Now, that said, when it comes to the crypto industry and its actual future, the much more interesting story was drama in Congress. I'm excited to dig into that. But before we do, I'm also thrilled to announce that the breakdown today is welcoming a new sponsor. That sponsor is Kraken. Now, Kraken is a company I've known forever. Their founder and former CEO Jesse Powell is one of the true OGs of the space. And I've just known tons of super high integrity people who have ended up working with Kraken. And I think that that comes out in a lot of different ways, including them being super early, for example, to proof of reserves. I'm really excited to have Kraken on board as a sponsor, and so you will be hearing from them over the course of the show and in future shows as well. But let's talk congressional drama and what it means for crypto. TLDR, House Republicans have plunged into disarray as the fallout from last week's narrowly averted government shutdown plays out. Specifically, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has been ousted from his position after Matt Gaetz filed a motion to vacate, calling for a vote to remove the speaker. Now, this outcome always had some chance of being in the cards. McCarthy was elected speaker in January after a torturous, modern record 15 rounds of voting. McCarthy made a range of concessions and deals with various GOP factions in order to gather enough support to be elected speaker. Among them was a rule change that would allow any single House member to call for a vote to remove him at any time. Gaetz, who was one of the primary agitators pushing for a government shutdown last week, unsurprisingly pulled that trigger on Monday evening. The last straw seemed to be the revelation of a secret deal between McCarthy and the Biden White House to ensure ongoing Ukraine funding. On Tuesday, the House voted 216 to 210 in favor of McCarthy's removal. Several conservative Republicans joined with Democrats to support the motion. This is the first time in US history that the Speaker of the House has been removed by a vote. Indeed, even calling for a vote is extraordinarily rare, with the last one taking place over 100 years ago in 1910. Now, of course, there will be plenty of places where you can go discuss and hear about what it represents in terms of the state of American politics and the deepening divides within the Republican Party, but that's not really what matters in the context of this show. What matters is that shortly after the vote concluded, Republican Chairman of the House Financial Services Committee Patrick McHenry assumed the Speaker's role and graveled the chamber into recess. McHenry will now serve as the interim Speaker until a vote can be held next Wednesday. So the first part of the story is, of course, that Patrick McHenry, as you will well know from listening to this show, is one of the most pro -crypto congressmen we have. As leader of the House Financial Services Committee, he has worked very hard to push a number of different bills, including the stablecoin bill, through. And so the fact that we now have an ally sitting in that vaunted position should be a powerful thing, right? Well, practically speaking, the House will be held out of session until that vote next Wednesday, meaning that McHenry will not have an opportunity to advance a legislative agenda. Getting back then to who might end up as the Speaker, Gates and the rest of the House Freedom Caucus don't have anywhere near enough votes to advance their own candidate, but they are numerous enough to act as a veto for other potential speakers. McCarthy, for his part, has said he does not intend to put his name forward for consideration in next week's vote. And so, among a long list of potential candidates as a replacement, support appears to be coalescing around two options. First is House Majority Leader Steve Scalise. Scalise is currently finishing up treatment for blood cancer, but enjoys broad respect from both the establishment and radical wings of the Republican Party. The other leading candidate is House Majority Whip Tom Emmer. Emmer is, of course, known to the crypto space as a fierce advocate of sensible crypto regulation. He has advanced numerous bills on clarity for token issuers and resisting the creation of a CBDC. Now, Gates, for his part, has spoken kindly of both frontrunners. On Monday night, he said, I think the world of Steve Scalise. I think he'd make a phenomenal speaker. At the same time, Gates noted that unclear resolution to medical issues make it difficult to know whether Scalise will be an appropriate choice. On Tuesday night, he said something very similar about Emmer and ended the day with a shortlist of six candidates he would be willing to support, including both Emmer and Scalise. Now, if Emmer succeeds in gathering the votes to become the next House Speaker, he has an opportunity to push forward a crypto legislative agenda prior to next year's election. There are currently two bills which have been ratified by a committee and stand ready to be voted on in the House. One bill provides regulatory clarity for stablecoins, while the other establishes a regulatory framework for the crypto industry more broadly, including a division of power between the SEC and the CFTC. Neither bill is expected at this stage to have the votes to get past the Democrat -controlled Senate to become law. But that said, there have been some recent rumblings that Senate Banking Committee Chairman Sherrod Brown could be open to a deal with McHenry. Specifically, he might be willing to support crypto legislation in exchange for McHenry's support in passing cannabis banking reform. Now, we are still a long way from Emmer being placed in charge of the House agenda. There's no telling how long it could take to elect a Speaker. The last time around, this process took the better part of a week to resolve. And since then, the fractures within the Republican Party appear to have become more entrenched. Then after that, once a Speaker is elected, crypto ally or not, the number one consideration will be putting in place long -term government funding. The stopgap funding measures which were passed last weekend will run out in mid -November. The House Freedom Caucus has grown increasingly clear in their calls to reform the way congressional appropriations operate. Since 1990, the U .S. government no longer puts forward formal budgets with individual financing bills. Instead, the government is funded using omnibus legislation which deals with the entire annual spending in one gigantic bill. Gates called for a major reform of this system and a return to fiscal conservatism on Tuesday night in front of Congress. Gates said, You know what I think paralyzes us? Continuing to govern by continuing resolution in omnibus. You know what I think throws this institution into chaos? Marching us towards the dollar not being the global reserve currency anymore. Real chaos is when the American people have to go through the austerity that is coming if we continue to have $2 trillion annual deficits. Now, Democrats, for their part, appeared content to allow the chaos to play out. Ahead of voting with the House Freedom Caucus to remove McCarthy as Speaker, House Democrat leader Hakeem Jeffries said that the chamber has plunged unprecedented into dysfunction. So, bringing it back around to the crypto industry, I think there are a couple things to note. One, even if we get Emmer, his hands are somewhat going to be tied by the legislative body that he inherits and all of the challenges that it represents. As you've probably heard over and over from me, my base case is that we effectively limp over the line of the next election cycle without really getting much done in legislation of any form between now and then. Could this re -galvanize people and lead to some better outcomes? It's totally possible, but for those who are looking for the sunny side for crypto, it's probably very measured in terms of potentially nudging these few bills that have some amount of momentum forward rather than some big radical overhaul. Still, of course, if you're going to choose between a crypto ally as the Speaker of the House and not a crypto ally, it's pretty clear who we want. Now, for the second half of our show, we are going to stay in government land, but before we do that, a quick note from today's sponsor, Kraken. Kraken Pro is an incredible resource for advanced and professional traders. The all -in -one experience allows advanced traders to switch seamlessly between spot trading and other advanced products with a UI that is highly customizable to your unique trading style. With institutional -grade performance, Kraken Pro is Kraken's most powerful platform ever. Go to pro .kraken .com to get started. Thanks again to Kraken for supporting the breakdown. Alright, so as I mentioned, the other big story is that the SEC has been denied an early chance to appeal the Ripple case. On Tuesday, the judge refused to grant the SEC certification to pursue an interlocutory appeal. An interlocutory appeal is when a party is allowed to appeal a partial decision in an overall lawsuit before the case has been fully decided. The SEC had sought to appeal two parts of the decision from the Ripple case prior to a full trial on the question of whether Ripple executives had aided and abetted securities laws violations. Those two parts of the proposed appeal were that sales of Ripple tokens to retail investors through an exchange, known as programmatic sales, as well as the distribution of tokens to contractors and staff, both constituted unregistered securities transactions. The judge said that the SEC had failed to meet the legal standard required to bring an interlocutory appeal. Specifically, they wrote in their order that the SEC is not arguing that the court applied the law incorrectly. Instead, the SEC argued that the judge incorrectly applied factual analysis of the Howey test to the specific set of circumstances in the case. Digging in, the judge clarified their original decision. They wrote that they had not ruled that sales of tokens through an exchange can never produce a reasonable expectation of profits based on the efforts of others in order to satisfy the Howey test. Instead, the judge's decision was that the specific set of facts presented in the Ripple case did not satisfy the Howey test. As an extension of that logic, the judge also rejected the idea that the Ripple case has significant precedential value for other token cases. They stated that that would misconstrue the court's ruling. The order clarified that The court held that based on the totality of the circumstances in this case, including an examination of the facts, circumstances, and economic realities of the transactions, Ripple's programmatic sales could not lead investors to reasonably expect profits from Ripple's efforts. The judge explained that their analysis was based on a multitude of factors and did not turn on the fact that Ripple's offers and sales were on crypto asset trading platforms. They even referred specifically to an order made in the Terraform Labs lawsuit as well as the Library case and stated that the decisions were not in conflict because they deal with entirely separate sets of facts. Peels are only allowed to deal with a dispute on the state of the law rather than a disagreement on how the law has been applied in a particular case. In rejecting the SEC's argument that there was a substantial disagreement about the state of the law, the judge wrote that To simplify it down, the judge appears to be saying that there is no dispute that the Howey test is the correct legal theory to apply in the Ripple case, nor is there any dispute about the judge's understanding of the Howey test. The only disagreement the judge could find on the SEC's application was in how this judge applied the Howey test to the specific facts of the case. The judge ruled that this was not a disagreement subject to appeal. So what are the takeaways of this ruling? Well, one, the decision seems to severely restrict the SEC's ability to appeal the Ripple decision whatsoever. If the regulator wants to bring an appeal, they will need to find new grounds and argue that the judge got the law wrong rather than simply made a decision that they disagreed with. More broadly, this order seemed like an implicit criticism of the SEC's strategy of regulation by enforcement. If each token case relies on a separate set of facts and is of limited precedential value, the theory that the SEC can simply win a handful of cases and apply those precedents broadly across the entire industry appears much more shaky than it previously might have. Finally, the judge in the Ripple case appears to have given a lot of thought on how to make their decision unable to be appealed. This order did not give the impression that the judge was looking to make decisions that would need ratification in an appellate court. Instead, it appears that the original Ripple decision was written in such a way to make it resistant to appeals. They seem to have thought through the arguments that might be made to force an appeal and worked around them in advance. In terms of what's next, the judge set a trial date in April to deal with the remaining issues in the case, and the SEC will be able to make another attempt at an appeal once that trial winds up. Now, a lot of folks in the industry were, of course, very excited about this. Brad Garlinghouse, the CEO at Ripple, said, just that XRP in this case wasn't one, and that even though some XRP acquirers purchased it for speculation, the SEC didn't prove it was tied to the efforts of Ripple. Now, on the flip side, although the judge's decision was fairly firm, some crypto lawyers did caution against celebrating too early. Gabriel Shapiro, the general counsel at Delphi Labs, said, don't get too excited about the denial of SEC's interlocutory appeal in Ripple. It doesn't mean the SEC lost its appeal. It means that if the SEC wants to appeal, it has to appeal everything at once after the trial. Still, some useful clarification of Judge Torres's opinion. Consensus lawyer Bill Hughes, however, thought the decision was a more significant blow to the SEC, tweeting, SEC served another L in the Ripple case. Crypto has been calling BS on this making it up as you go approach. Good to see at least one court also taking note. So, friends, overall, a fairly exciting day in crypto land. We got a demonstration of how U .S. politics, as disconnected as it might seem from crypto, actually has an impact on how the industry might grow and develop in this country. And we got yet further evidence that when it comes to the rule of law and protecting this industry's right to, you know, be an industry, the courts are, at least at this time, our best backstop. In any case, that is where we will wrap for today. Excited to share more evolutions with you as they come. Thanks one more time to Kraken for sponsoring the breakdown. And until tomorrow, be safe and take care of each other. Peace.
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"Good morning, Gloria America, Bonjour High Candidate, you do it live inside the Beltway where Kevin McCarthy, a very good speaker, is no longer the Speaker of the House because the knucklehead caucus led by Matt Gaetz deposed him yesterday. Eight Republicans plus their two conspirators. Let's not forget Ralph Norman and Dan Bishop belong in the knucklehead caucus because they started the boulder down the hill last week. Ken Buck, Dan Bishop, Matt Rosendale, Ralph Norman and Andy Biggs two weeks ago began what became the deposition, the coup against Kevin McCarthy, which succeeded last night when eight of them joined, or yesterday afternoon when eight of them joined, 206 Democrats to toss out Kevin McCarthy. That is Eli Crane, Ken Buck, Andy Biggs, Marilyn Matt Rosendale, Matt Gaetz, Bob Goode, Nancy Mace, Tim Burchette. Now, the two who are truly knuckleheads are Ralph Norman and Dan Bishop who realized suddenly that their statewide hopes are doomed when they threw the Republican caucus into chaos. They tried to hide last night, but then Bishop and Ralph Norman are in the knucklehead caucus. So it's Crane, Buck, Biggs, Rosendale, Gaetz, Goode, Mace, Burchette, Norman and Dan Bishop. I'll play some Kevin McCarthy as we go on. By the way, there was a mass shooting last night at 925 at Morgan State University, an HBCU in Baltimore, and five people were wounded and the shooter is still at large. So I'll bring you updates on that as that occurs. That happened last night at 930. But I don't have anything else to tell you other than five people were wounded and they haven't got the killer, the would-be killer, who was in a dorm room and opened fire. It had bad memories of Texas in there. But let's get to the story at hand. I want to play for you. Newt Gingrich, who said it as well as anyone could because he's a former speaker, right? The Republicans have a lot of former speakers. The Democrats only have one, which goes to tell you why the country is in such terrible shape, is that we got a bunch of morons in the caucus who act like morons all the time and take no counsel with anybody. I mean, Nancy Mace. Honestly, I have no idea. Kevin McCarthy got her elected, raised her two million dollars, got it directed by the NRCC into her 2020 race for Congress. She got reelected. She voted against Kevin McCarthy and she got some incoherent babbling. Now, you've never heard any of these people. Dwayne, double check with me here. We might have had Eli Crain on when he tricked me back when he was running, but I've been on. I'm not convinced we had Crain on. He canceled like 25 times. I think we had Mace on once as part of a couple of weeks after the midterms, we had like all the women winning candidates. You might have been on once. Ken Buck has been on a lot because I thought Ken Buck was a good guy. Turns out he's a turncoat. Can't be trusted. Andy Biggs we've never had on. Merrill and Matt Rosendale will never be on here. Matt Gaetz, of course not. Bob Goode wouldn't recognize him on the train. Tim Burchette is the guy who's sitting in Morgan Ortega's seat because the good old boys in Tennessee threw Morgan Ortega's off so they could elect one of their own, only one of their own didn't win. And this guy is Mr. UFO is in there and he prayed about it and he thinks that Kevin McCarthy was somehow condescending towards him. So a great example of Christianity at work in Tim Burchette. Ralph Norman, who wanted to be a senator, and that's over. Dan Bishop, who wanted to be the attorney general, and that's over. But here is Mr. New talking to Sean Andy last night. Cut number six. Well, first, I think it's a very sad day because I think Kevin McCarthy is one of the most talented leaders I've ever worked with. I think that he accomplished an amazing amount for having a small majority and being having to take on both the Senate and the White House. And I think this is really a tragic outcome. This was a leader who both gained seats in 2020, gained seats in 2022, increased the number of women members, increased the number of veterans, increased the number of minority members. And he had a vision for a better future. And let's be clear here, Sean, you know, if the University of Georgia Bulldogs were the number one team in the country right now, if you started a game and four of the members of the offensive squad decided they were actually on the Alabama side and began tackling your own people, you probably get them off the field. Well, think about what we saw today. Four percent, four percent decided they were so morally superior, so intellectually pure, so patriotically better that they would side with the Democrats. And that's what they did in order to defeat the entire Republican House caucus. Ninety six percent of the Republicans voted for McCarthy. Four percent voted against him. From my position as a longtime Republican activist, they're traitors. All eight of them should, in fact, be primaried. They should all be driven out of public life. What they did was to go to the other team to cause total chaos. We ought to be focusing on Biden. We ought to be focusing on the economy. We ought to be focusing on the border. Instead, you're going to get a week or 10 days of the media focusing on Republican disarray. It's an astonishingly destructive behavior by a handful of egocentric people who think they're superior to 96 percent of the conference. I couldn't say it better. You can't say it better. Mr. Newt said it best. Dan Crenshaw explained what's going on here on Newsmax yesterday. Congressman Crenshaw cut number three. They list out their specific complaints about McCarthy, I'll be honest, it's personal in the end, it's personal. I'll give it to you for example, this past week, they forced they forced him into a position that they could then punish him for. They voted against the hyper conservative stopgap bill that had our border security bill that had 30 percent cuts to non-defense discretionary spending. It was like a conservative wish list. They made sure that tanked just so you'd have to pass a clean CR in order to keep the government open and then they could punish him for it. There's a game being played here that I think people need to be aware of. It's not just based on these high minded principles and nobility, it's just not. It's personal and I think they should be honest about that. It puts us in uncharted territory and it makes us weaker with respect to Democrats. There's no winning strategy here. There is no winning, there is no strategy that would require a brain. If I only had a brain, let's do one more, Chip Roy on Steve Deese's show yesterday, cut number seven. No, I mean, you talked about a circle of your discretion, a pleasure. I know what you're doing there. I would also argue that some of our brothers and sisters, particularly in the MAGA camp, I think, particularly enjoy the circular firing squad. You want to come at me and call me a rhino, you can kiss my ass. Look, I've spent a lifetime fighting for limited government conservatism. I have laid it all on the line. I've not seen my family for two days in the last 30 days. You go around talking your big game and you thump in your chest on Twitter, yeah, come in my office, come out of a debate, mother. You know why? Because I'm standing up for this country every single day. And Steve, I'm not going to give up. I'm not going to go to a nunnery because God damn it, there were people who were buried over in Normandy who deserve us to stand up for what they fought for. So that's what I'm going to do. And all of you out there. My gosh, Chip, I'm angry, too, with the 10 morons. But Chip Roy is a conservative who actually tried to advance, he used the leverage vote and the five of the 15 who held Kevin McCarthy hostage. You didn't know it at the time you were empowering the knuckleheads and you thought that they would be that you thought that they were actual conservatives. They're not. They're not conservative. They're wreckers. And they got it wrecked. And I don't know how they rebuild it. I don't know what to do next. I don't know if it'll be Scalise. It's not going to be Jim Jordan. I like Jim Jordan, a good friend of mine, but he's from the Freedom Caucus and the Freedom Caucus can't be the speaker. Maybe Patrick McHenry. I don't know. I want the person who can best hold together the McCarthy machine. But that guy's named McCarthy. The McCarthy machine got the Republican majority. Stopped Joe Biden dead in the tracks. Stopped the inflationary death cycle of spending more money and printing more money. And made got the Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party going, got the weaponization committee going, got the gavel in the Republican hands. That's all Kevin McCarthy. That's all crashed and burned because of Matt Gaetz and the knuckleheads. So once again, let me just remind you, their names are, because I got to, I already put it away. I want to forget who they are, but I can't forget who they are. Eli Crane, Ken Buck, Andy Biggs, Matt Rosendale, Matt Gaetz, Bob Goode, Nancy Mace, Tim Burchette, Ralph Norman, Dan Bishop. That's the Knucklehead Caucus. That's the official ruiner, the people without any idea what they're doing. They're incompetent. They are the caucus of knuckleheads. And they're all giving each other high fives. And they should go on a cruise together. They should run the knucklehead cruise and see who signs up for that. Raise some money like they're always doing. They were doing last night. I got a text message, an email message from Matt Gaetz last night, because obviously they don't know who they're sending it to. Raising money because he's under attack. Seriously, do a cruise. Get going. I'll be right back. America, stay tuned. I am Gugioh. 1-800-520-1234 if you want to join in.
The Eric Metaxas Show
A highlight from Roger Stone
"Ladies and gentlemen, are you ready to listen to a man of grace, sophistication, integrity, and whimsy? Well, so are we. But until such a man shows up, please welcome Eric Mataxas. Well, ladies and gentlemen, do not adjust your TV sets. I'm wearing a different kind of wig today, and I know it's jarring, but let's just go with it. The wig master. Yeah, he's outdone himself today. I was going to say he was taken ill. He was taken ill. But in any event, enough about my wig. Chris, what about your wig? is My wig an original. Listen, today is, I believe, Tuesday, right? So we should probably tell people who's on the show, and then we're going to joke around more. Who's on the show? In a couple of minutes, probably not wearing any kind of wig at all, will be my guest, Roger Stone. Roger Stone will be talking about the Kevin McCarthy, Matt Gaetz battle. McCarthy and Gaetz. If you're wondering what to make of that, and you don't have time to listen to the show, Gaetz is right. McCarthy needs to be kicked out. But that's just my opinion. We'll see what Roger Stone has to say. He is a genius, political genius, and I'm excited to hear what he has to say. It kind of reminds me of the old Star Trek episode where Kirk and Spock have to fight each other to the death. It reminds everyone of that, but please continue. Spock was kind of under a spell. He wasn't himself, and they had to fight each other. Right. Kirk didn't want to hurt Spock because he knew that, you know. But maybe it's a bad analogy. It's just like that. Ladies and gentlemen, it's just like that. If you don't have any more time, just take that home. It's on In hour two, we're talking to Doug Grothheis. That's a Dutch name. I want to say up front, I hate the Dutch. I despise you people. And I'm going to bring it to Doug Grothheis. Enough with the Dutch stuff. But we're going to talk to him about theological stuff. We're going to talk to Roger Stone about political stuff in a couple of seconds. Before that, we should mention several things. Number one, I've been working on a sequel to Letter to the American Church. It's called Religionless Christianity, God's Answer to Evil. Working on a book is very stressful on me. That's why I'm wearing this wig because the eczema and psoriasis really flare up, and you've got to cover that up just from stress. So I'm working on that book. I'm doing a lot of travel. The Letter to the American Church book, some of you know, there's a study guide that goes with it. And we've mentioned that the documentary film, there's a documentary film. And I think we're pushing back the release date. The film is just about ready to go. But I think we're trying to set it up as a fathom event. I will be screening it in churches around the country. But we don't book. It's not about a movie. It's about saving America from sliding into the abyss. It's very, very bleak. If you pay attention to what's going on in the news, most of it seems unbelievable, the evil that we're facing and the silence of the church in the face of evil. So stay tuned on that. The way they attack President Trump, the way they attack Mike Lindell, what's really gross to me is there are people out there who don't care. And I think to myself, who are you? Do you understand what kind of a country this is? In this country, we don't play those political games. We actually have justice under the law. We're supposed to have those things. And you're supposed to care about those things. I don't care where you are politically or who you like or don't like. So it really is amazing to me where we are. So we're going to be talking obviously to Roger Stone about that in a few minutes. But let me ask you again to support Mike Lindell, please, by going to mystore .com or mypillow .com and using the code Eric. But what he's going through, even yesterday, I read a whole new thing that they're attacking him. It's just despicable that we're at that point in the country where that kind of stuff is happening. I mentioned I was traveling. I was. You remind me of that. I forget the name of the song. It's a classic rock song about the guy who's on the road every night. He's going to town to town. You're kind of like a 70s rocker.
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
A highlight from Kevin McCarthy ousted as Speaker of the House
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Mike Gallagher Podcast
A highlight from Who Will Be The Next House Speaker?
"Breaking news. This is a special edition of the Mike Gallagher Show. Kevin McCarthy has been ousted as Speaker of the House. The yeas are 216. The nays are 210. The resolution is adopted. The office of Speaker of the House of the United States House of Representatives is hereby declared vacant. Seemingly coming out of nowhere, history was made this week as a small group of Republicans partnered with all the Democrats in the House to end McCarthy's leadership. I would say that my conversations with the former president leave me with great confidence that I'm doing the right thing. What happens next? Here's Mike Gallagher in the Relief Factor studios. Oh, boy. Well, here we go. Chaos reigns supreme in Washington, D .C., and now the Republicans lost their Speaker of the House thanks to the efforts of eight Republicans who decided it was time to tear off the Band -Aid and make a change. Now, we've got a lot of challenging bad news to tackle with these eight Republicans who sided with all the Democrats, really, realistically, all the Democrats sided with the eight Republicans, and shame on the Democrats, but on the other hand, you're not going to count on them to get the Republicans out of the way of themselves. So this is a Republican headache, and boy, is it a massive headache. If you saw that Patrick McHenry, the acting Speaker, slam that gavel down, how that gavel didn't break is a miracle. That's got to be the sturdiest gavel in the history of all gavel manufacturing. People are livid. People are enraged. Newt Gingrich calling Matt Gaetz and the others traitors for what they did, traitors. And when you go down that path, we know what happens. We all know what the penalty is for treason. There's a lot of heat right now and a lot of confusion, especially Nancy Mace. Who saw that coming out of South Carolina? If it weren't for Kevin McCarthy, Nancy Mace doesn't have her seat in Congress, and she stabbed him in the back. So before we try to sort through the many challenges we face, let me give you some reason for some optimism. Close your eyes for just a minute and fantasize about this. I've now heard from a number of people. I know for a fact Donald Trump has been contacted about possibly him being an interim speaker. Is that a reality? I don't know. He'd be great. But actually, I want Donald Trump to be the next president of the United States. If he wants to be speaker, I want him to be president of the United States. He's still going to be running for president. That's where we need him is at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. If he wants to be speaker, then that's fine, too. Wow. Can you think of a wilder scenario than acting Speaker of the House, Donald J. Trump? Oh, my gosh. Just a thought. Just a thought. All right. Let's get into the brass tacks. Whenever there's a huge historic story like this, I don't like a ton of talking heads. I want to hear from the American people. The Ph .D. weight loss and nutrition line is open to you, 800 -655 -MIKE, 800 -655 -6453. It seems to me that there are certainly two sides to this argument. The side that supports Matt Gaetz and the seven other Republicans argues it was time to rip off the Band -Aid, McCarthy didn't fulfill certain promises he made in order to get elected in the first place, our spending is out of control, we're funding Ukraine, we're not doing things we promised to the American people, and good for them. Now, the other side of it is it's a bad idea to do this when we have so much momentum. The timing is terrible. It puts the Republican Party in disarray. It creates absolute pandemonium, and it's not a very productive thing to do. That's the other side of it. Or you could go under the third rail and do what others on air and in print are doing. Matt Gaetz is a moron, and he's a monster, and there's some ethics thing that he's hiding, and there's bodies buried, and Ralph Norman will never win again. Even though Ralph Norman voted for Kevin McCarthy, he got thrown under the bus with the rest of them by a lot of the establishment Republicans because he even entertained the thought of dumping Kevin McCarthy. None of them are ever going to win again. They're finished. We should kick them out.
Bloomberg Radio New York - Recording Feed
Monitor Show 14:00 10-04-2023 14:00
"With Bloomberg, you get the story behind the story, the story behind the global birth rate, behind your EV battery's environmental impact, behind sand, yeah, sand, you get context and context changes everything. Go to Bloomberg .com to get context. 24 hours and we thank you for our signature panel here at Bloomberg Politics Contributors. Rick and Jeannie, I'm Joe Matthew in Washington, Kaley Lyons is on the way in next, we're just getting started. Hour 2 of Sound On starts right now. This is actually what will decide this race. Bloomberg Sound On, politics, policy and perspective from DC's top names. Federal spending combined with too -lax monetary policy has produced this 40 -year high on inflation. China policy is driven basically by domestic politics. American families are finding themselves further behind the eight ball. To get anything done in this Congress, it's going to have to be done in a bipartisan way. Bloomberg Sound On with Joe Matthew and Kaley Lyons on Bloomberg Radio. We have a race for speaker. Welcome to Hour 2 of Sound On as Congressman Jim Jordan and Congressman Steve Scalise, the majority leader, announce runs for the gavel just a day after Kevin McCarthy lost his. Got a week left to a scheduled election in the House and we'll talk this out in just a moment with Terry Haynes, the founder of Pangea Policy, was a senior staffer in the U .S. House when the continuity of government plan was drafted and something we'll talk to him about straight ahead. Later, we'll look inside the race for speaker and the role that Donald Trump made.
Crypto Banter
A highlight from IMMINENT Stock Market MELTDOWN Could Take Bitcoin To $42,000!
"Listen, if you're in crypto, you need to watch today's show till the very end, because yesterday was a huge turning point for crypto. Most people aren't going to admit it, but that's because they don't know what's happening under the hood. But let me show you a few things that build the case. So first of all, yesterday, we had the stock markets absolutely obliterated yesterday, everything was red. While this was happening, we were getting a credit meltdown. This is a TLT bond, which shows 10 to 20 year credit. And this shows a capitulation candle in the credit rating. But while this was going on, something very interesting happened in Bitcoin, Bitcoin was flat and up. In fact, Bitcoin didn't respond. Now, as I said to you, most people will say, well, this is a coincidence. It's just, you know, Bitcoin's had its day and it was it. But I'm going to show you today why anyone who says that just hasn't got their eyes on them all, doesn't really know what's happening under the hood. I'm going to show you exactly what's going on and why Bitcoin held and actually started climbing when the stock markets and the credit markets were starting to collapse. Also today, we want to talk about another big coup for crypto that happened in the US government. Because if you weren't paying attention, this is what happened yesterday, a historical day in the US government. On this vote, the yeas are 216. The nays are 210. The resolution is adopted. Without objection, the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. The of office Speaker of the House of the United States House of Representatives is hereby declared vacant. And just like that, Kevin McCarthy, who was the Republican Speaker of the House, was fired from his role. And now we have a new Speaker of the House who's very, very, very pro crypto. This could be a massive turning point for crypto. And if you want to talk about another third big event that happened yesterday, we should talk about what happened in the XRP case or the Ripple SEC versus case, because that was another massive win for crypto. So all in all, yesterday was a big turning point for crypto. Today, what we're going to do is analyze why. And I'm going to show you why I think that this rally is actually going to continue. So let's go. Tell you one thing, if we were in the midst of a Uber bull market yesterday, the market, the crypto markets would have had their biggest day in a long, long, long time. But because we've reached a stage where people are getting apathetic, we didn't get the pump that we that we that we were waiting for. And I think if I understand what's happening in the crypto markets, a lot of people are actually getting flushed out of the crypto markets because what's happening is every time these people start to trade or every time it is another green candle up, people try and trade as we get the reversal, they get messed up again and they lose their money and they get flushed out the system. And after that happens five or six times, they kind of say, look, we're not coming back to crypto. We hate crypto as an asset class. You just lose money and they start feeling almost like an apathy. And if it's not an apathy, it's almost like an anger or resentment towards crypto. Now that's the natural market mechanism to get people flushed out. If you're feeling that like that, be careful that you're not falling into the market cycle, because that's what the market cycle is trying to do at this part of the cycle. We can talk about that today. I'm going to show you how this part of the cycle is designed to get the last of the weekends out before we actually go into the raging bull market. I'm going to show you where we get into, why, where and why we get into raging bull market. And I'm going to show you how the fundamentals and the technicals align exactly to show you that this is what's going to happen. When I was preparing the show and I realized what was actually going on, I was like, Holy shit, I cannot believe what is actually going on here. I think yesterday was one of the biggest turning points that we've had for crypto. And I think we need to analyze why yesterday was such a big turning point for crypto. So if you're here and you haven't been shaken out by the markets, let me know that you're still here. Design entity is still here. Chuck Strickland is still here. Lindsey B is still here. Space is Vibes still here. There are a lot of us who are still here and I mean, some of our friends have been flashed out and that's okay because that's what markets are supposed to do, but you're here and you're present. So let me know if you're present. Also, if you're not already subscribed to the channel, you know what to do. Subscribe to the channel. Now's the best time to do it. We're also going to bring you another channel. We've got another channel called Banta Plus, which I think you should subscribe to. There's a link below. Go and subscribe because there's a lot of additional content, premium content that's going to be on that channel.
Tech Path Crypto
A highlight from 1277. Crypto Regulation Under Threat | Republicans Fight + FTX Trial Begins
"All right, so we could be nearing a space in time in which crypto regulation could be at its worst risk ever. And that's going to talk about a breakdown of a lot of things that are happening all at once right now, starting with the Speaker of the House. We'll break into all this good stuff. You guys don't want to miss this one. My name is Paul Baron. Welcome back to The Tech Path. All right, let's start with where this kind of this rub between Matt Gaetz, Kevin McCarthy, Speaker of the House. If you know anything about politics, basically, you got a good guy, bad guy. One guy said that I was going to do this. He didn't do it. And it all kind of boiled up to the shutdown that we just averted. Listen to what they had to say here. This is leading out with Matt Gaetz. If there's a deal made with Democrats, the only deal is to make one with McCarthy, because I'm not offering anything and won't offer anything. So if the Democrats want to adopt him, they can adopt him. Declaring the office of Speaker of the House of Representatives to be vacant resolved that the office of Speaker of the House of Representatives is hereby declared to be vacant. The vote has to take place within two legislative days. We don't know exactly when that's going to be. Have you talked to anyone to gauge their interests on becoming speaker? It's McCarthy. I've had a number of people call me sua sponte to express their own interest. Can you name it? I could, but I'm not going to. Will you block or vote against every Republican rule if he remains speaker? I haven't contemplated that. All right. So Gaetz has definitely got a burr under his saddle for McCarthy. And mainly this, again, goes back to this whole broken promises scenario that happened when McCarthy was put into the speaker position. Now, why is this important to crypto? This could cause a massive slowdown in regulatory alignment with what's going to happen around because right now we're talking about pushing back out of October. This is going to have a lot of effect. And then you've got other things playing into this. So stick around because this whole video, we're going to break down all these little things that you need to be paying attention to because it will have some significant impact here. A couple of things from this article right here, let me go to the headline here. Matt versus Goliath now a nuisance has become a mortal threat to Kevin McCarthy's speakership. Couple of points I want to highlight here. If all Dems vote against the speaker, if all Dems vote against the speaker, Matt would only need Matt Gaetz, would only need the support for four Republicans, which he is likely to get. That would be the scenario that would oust the speaker of the House right now. And as you heard in the clip, it's going to happen in the next couple of days. So pretty big deal. Democrat Jared Moskowitz, who has known Gaetz for over a decade and served him with Florida, obviously Gaetz out of Florida legislature, used an analogy from Avengers movie and the House had come to an Armageddon. We're also kind of here because McCarthy gave Matt Gaetz the Infinity Stones and now what a surprise Matt Gaetz is trying to snap his fingers and make him go away. It was inevitable. I thought this was fun. Anyway, point being, we've got a lot of disagreement in D .C. and unfortunately crypto legislation is going to get caught up in this. And I think that's the concern we have to look at. I want to go to this next clip really breaking down McCarthy's position as opposed to what Matt Gaetz had to say. Listen in. Speaker, what are the Democrats asking you for? As you try to build support, I imagine from Democrats in this case, I imagine they're going to try to drive a hard bargain. You know what? They haven't asked for anything. I'm not going to provide anything. He's been blaming me for some for an ethics complaint against him that happened in the last Congress. I have nothing to do with. He wants me to try to wipe that away. I'm not going to do that. That's illegal. If that's the case, then I think we've got real problems. He says he's coming for you. Can you survive? Yes, I'll survive. You know, this is personal with Manta. Democrats could cross over and follow Gaetz's lead on this. Look, Gaetz is trying to work with Democrats. He's reached out to Swalwell, to AOC and others. But if that's the way we're going to govern, I don't think America is going to be successful. Look, most of it in the press probably thought we would have shut down yesterday, too. But no, we did not. Were you confident we wouldn't shut down? I was confident I could get something on the floor to make sure the option that we would not. But you weren't sure it was going to pass. Well, I wasn't sure it was going to pass. You want to know why? Because the Democrats tried to do everything they can not to let it pass. They did. Democrats were the ones who voted for this in a larger number than Republicans. 90 Republicans voted against it. You got 45 days. That's right.
Bloomberg Radio New York - Recording Feed
Monitor Show 06:00 10-04-2023 06:00
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Bloomberg Radio New York - Recording Feed
Monitor Show 23:00 10-04-2023 23:00
"Interactive brokers' clients earn up to 4 .83 % on their uninvested, instantly available USD cash balances. Rates subject to change. Visit ibkr .com slash interest rates to learn more. And his great interview with Howard Marks, co -chair and co -founder of Oaktree Capital. I'm Denise Pellegrini and this is Bloomberg. Stay with us. Top stories and global business headlines coming up right now. Broadcasting 24 hours a day at Bloomberg .com and the Bloomberg Business Act. This is Bloomberg Radio. For the first time in U .S. history, the Speaker of the House has been removed. The chamber voted 216 to 210 to boot Kevin McCarthy from his job today in a historic vote forced by Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz. Gaetz was angry McCarthy worked with Democrats to pass a short -term funding bill to keep the government open. I think $33 trillion in debt is chaos. I think that facing a $2 .2 trillion annual deficit is chaos. I think that not passing single -subject spending bills is chaos. An election for the new Speaker of the House is set to be held next Wednesday. Members leaving the House GOP conference meeting said a candidate forum for speaker will be held next Tuesday, with the election held the following day. The judge and former President Trump's civil fraud trial in New York has issued a limited gag order. The decision came after Trump made a post on Truth Social that attacked the judge's clerk. The gag order bars all parties in the case from making social media posts or public comments about the judge's staff. A national emergency alert test will blare out across the U .S. tomorrow. According to FEMA, every TV, radio and cell phone will be interrupted with an emergency message at 2 .20 p .m. Eastern.
Mark Levin
Part 1: How Freedom Caucus Members Voted on Kevin McCarthy
"For McCarthy Paul Gosar Arizona 9 voted for McCarthy Darrell ice at California 48 their Freedom Caucus members voted for McCarthy Lauren Boebert Colorado 3rd voted for McCarthy Ken Buck who we now know as best buddies with Liz Cheney for God's sakes who hates Kevin McCarthy well he did as he was directed apparently he voted against McCarthy Matt Gaetz you know well Kat Florida's third voted for McCarthy Bill Posey Florida 8 voted for McCarthy Anna Luna I think she just had a wasn't there Greg Stube Florida 17th voted for McCarthy and where Trump supporters Byron Donald's Florida 19 voted for McCarthy Andrew Clyde Georgia 9 voted for McCarthy these are Freedom Caucus Mike Collins Georgia 10 voted for McCarthy Marjorie Taylor Greene Georgia 14 voted for McCarthy Russ Fulcher Idaho 1 voted for McCarthy Mary Miller Illinois 15 very delightful lady my wife and I met her and her husband voted for McCarthy Clay Higgins Louisiana 3rd voted for McCarthy Mike Johnson Louisiana 4 voted for McCarthy Andy Harris Maryland 1 voted for McCarthy Eric Burleson Missouri 7
Mark Levin
Part 3: How Freedom Caucus Members Voted on Kevin McCarthy
"Voted for McCarthy Michael Cloud Texas 27 voted for McCarthy Burgess Owens Utah 4th voted for McCarthy Bob Good Virginia 6th voted against McCarthy Ben Cline Virginia 6th voted for McCarthy Morgan Griffith Virginia 9th voted for McCarthy Alex Tony West Virginia 2nd voted for McCarthy Tom Tiffany Wisconsin 7th voted for McCarthy Harriet Hegeman who replaced Liz Cheney Wyoming at large voted for McCarthy she replaced Liz Cheney who urged Mr. Buck one of the 8th to vote against McCarthy I just went through the list of the freedom caucus. I guess they're all neo -cons, rhinos, sellouts, big government leftists too. Now these people are conservatives who understand everything that's at stake now. The existential threats all around us. Where do you think Hakeem Jeffries is today? Think he's having a party? Now the one question Matt Gaetz has not been asked is when is the last time he spoke to Hakeem Jeffries is or there any of the surrogates or any of the others in the Democrat party? Because it's interesting, Hakeem Jeffries puts out a note this morning and tells all the Democrats to vote against McCarthy when he said it was a party. I wasn't born yesterday. I didn't fall off the two. You're intelligent people. You're wise people. You know what the hell is going on too.
Mark Levin
Part 2: How Freedom Caucus Members Voted on Kevin McCarthy
"For McCarthy Matt Rosendale Montana 2nd has voted against McCarthy and everything else every step of the way Greg Murphy North Carolina 3rd voted for McCarthy Dan Bishop he had a little Twitter back and forth voted for McCarthy Jim Jordan spoke on his behalf and voted for McCarthy Ohio 4 Max Miller used to work for Trump Ohio 7 voted for McCarthy Warren Davidson Ohio 8 and second folks all right all right Josh Brechin Oklahoma 2nd voted for McCarthy Scott Perry good man out of Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 10th voted for Jeff Duncan South Carolina 3rd voted for McCarthy Ralph Norman South Carolina 5th voted for McCarthy Deanna Harshbarger Tennessee 1st voted for McCarthy Scott Desjarlais Tennessee 4th voted for McCarthy Andy Ogles Tennessee 5th voted for McCarthy Keith Self Texas 3rd voted for McCarthy Ronnie Jackson of Texas Trump's former doctor Texas 13 voted for McCarthy Randy Weber Texas 14 voted for McCarthy Chip Roy Texas 21 voted for McCarthy Troy Nells
Mark Levin
Levin's Message to Republican Reps. Buck, Gaetz, & Rosendale
"The others and I don't need handed to they the power to the Democrats to take out somebody who was elected speaker. By the vast majority of the Freedom Caucus, Republican the Study Committee, these are conservatives. And the hypocrisy and the contradictions that come out of that mouth of Matt Gaetz is really unbelievable. Just because he talks like an auctioneer selling a used car doesn't mean he's substantively correct. Now what am I talking about? He goes on and on and on about how Kevin McCarthy's working with the Democrats. Really? They just voted unanimously to get rid of them. And they voted unanimously with you Mr. Gaetz. Why was that? Why did they vote unanimously to get rid of McCarthy and you voted with them? And yet, you voted with them, a unanimous Democrat party. Incredible when you think about it. Also pretty all kinds of things going on behind the scenes that you and I will never know. That the vast majority of the conservatives in the House Republican caucus won't know. If I ever vote or AOC or Bowman, then you'll know somebody's holding a gun to my head. Oh Mark, Mark. You know we had to work with the Russians to defeat Hitler. Correct.
The Charlie Kirk Show
"kevin mccarthy" Discussed on The Charlie Kirk Show
"All right, Kurt, let's summarize it. It looks like this vote is going to happen. What is the best case scenario from this point forward? I think it's likely he's going to lose the speakership. The best case scenario would be quickly picking a new Republican speaker. But what's the name of that guy? Because as I recall, back in January, we went through 15 iterations before we got to Kevin McCarthy. So who's the other guy? What's the alternative? I mean, I feel like, you know, you're on a date with an ex-girlfriend and you say, hey, let's go out to eat. Where do you want to go? I don't know. I don't care. OK, let's go Chinese. I don't want to go Chinese. OK, let's go Cuban. I don't want to go Cuban. Let's get hamburgers. I don't want hamburgers. That's how. What's the answer? You can't just say no all the time. You're not a two year old. I need an answer. And it doesn't make me a squish or love Kim Bush or or Paul Ryan, because I'd like a plan. I'd like to know what we're doing and how we plan on doing it. No, no, no. Kurt, you don't understand. I am now by the way, calling me a rich. I got to be honest. That's amazing. If I'm a rhino or I say that there is a war on white people and being trans is a mass delusion and that we're being invaded via the great replacement of the third world. But Charlie's a rhino because because Kurt, I want a plan. Yes. Yes. You clearly love Soros and Jeff. It's just like I. I can't deal with I can deal with disagreement. I do. By the way, some of the audience is just disagreeing and they've been polite. But I'd say that hundreds of people are just like they're coming after my motives. They're like, you're an establishment hack. I'm like, really? OK. Words actually mean something. OK. When you say words like establishment, neocon, these actually have rhino. They have meanings. It's not just a replacement word for something that you think is kind of bad or it just pleased you. They have actual meanings. And I don't think it's too much to expect people to understand them and use them. Yes. Disagree with me. Fine. I'm a lawyer. Everyone I talk to all day literally disagrees with me. OK. Doesn't offend me. What offends me is people who haven't thought their stuff through and who have sloppy, weak, emotion driven thinking because that never, ever works. That is well said. Kurt, plug your book, plug whatever you want. You've been generous with your time. Go get Overlord. It's the eight Kelly Turnbull novel inspired by Andrew Breitbart. Back when I worked for him, he said, go out, make the media you want. This is the eighth full of action. America is split into red and blue. You send the red hero into the blue America and they're crazy and they're insane. And there's guns. You got a dog. Look at that cover by conservative artist Solidity Hollywood. It is fun. I am number one in military thrillers right now. Number one in the world in military thrillers. That's quite a category. That's quite a category. That's pretty cool. Military thrillers. I didn't even know that existed. That's pretty cool. Congratulations, Kurt. All right. We'll have you on soon. Thank you so much. Look, I just want to speak directly to you guys, the audience. I love the feedback. I don't take it personally. I find it laughable, but don't allow your anger, your emotions to guide you in a bad direction. Here's a good rule of life. And I'm only 29 going to be 30 soon. Here's one of my rules of life. I make my worst decisions when I'm angry. I do not think clearly when I'm angry. When I get in a debate on a college campus and somebody is angry, I know I'm going to beat them in a debate because they're not thinking clearly. They're not they're not they're not doing.They are not rationally considering everything. So be measured. Let your temper go out and then ask yourself the question, is there a plan? Whatever that plan may or may not might be. Thanks so much for listening, everybody. Email us your thoughts as always. Freedom at Charlie Kirk dot com. Thanks so much for listening and God bless. For more on many of these stories and news you can trust, go to Charlie Kirk dot com. When I grow up, I want to work for a woke company like super woke. When I grow up, I want to be hired based on what I look like rather than my skills. I want to be judged by my political beliefs. I want to get promoted based on my chromosomes. When I grow up, I want to be offended by my co-workers and walk around the office on eggshells and have my words policed by HR words like grandfather, peanut gallery, long time no see, no can do. When I grow up, I want to be obsessed with emotional safety and do workplace sensitivity training all day long. When I grow up, I want to climb the corporate ladder just by following the crowd. I want to be a conformist. I want to weaponize my pronouns. What are pronouns? It's time to grow up and get back to work. Introducing the number one woke free job board in America. Red balloon dot work.
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"kevin mccarthy" Discussed on The Charlie Kirk Show
"So, so, OK, so there's a this hasn't happened. Let's just tell you the history of this, Kurt. This hasn't happened in one hundred thirteen years. And I do think that's because we are we are living with such largess in the sense of the borders are open. There's so much anger and frustration. In some ways, this is inevitable, right? The country is collapsing. People are looking for any sort of pressure release valve. Kurt. Yeah, that's true. But, you know, there's there's good pressure releases like hitting the gym and there's bad pressure releases like opening up three bottles of Jack Daniels and chugging them. OK, this is chugging the Jack Daniels. We're not going to feel good tomorrow. We're going to regret it greatly. And it's not going to accomplish anything. Look, I understand frustration. I'm also an adult. Incremental progress is all we're going to get. We're not going to fix everything overnight. OK, and and to the extent politicians promise that they will and McCarthy did. Oh, we're going to repeal 87000 IRS agents. No, you're not. And you should not say that you're going to. But I haven't heard a better idea than McCarthy. And he's been doing about as well as we can. And we've actually gotten a lot out of this in terms of investigations. So I don't know where it goes from here, but I'm pretty sure it ain't going to be better. So I love that. I mean, I love that idea of like the hangover. Yes. You know, when the fog clears and your high, you know, dissipates. I don't know if we're going to be feeling great when all of a sudden, you know, Speaker Mase all of a sudden announces that she has 30 Democrats with her, you know, or, you know, don't think it can't happen. No, I'm not. No, no, no, no, no, no. This is this is not a joke. People have called me names all morning. Charlie, stop. You know, I said no, no, no, no. You're in the midst of a congressional session. This is a different ballgame than January. I mean, you're talking about you could have a Dusty Johnson, Don Bacon, Hakeem Jeffries, you know, that guy that just got mugged, whatever that guy, Quallaro, whatever his name is. Right. Yeah, whatever. I mean, anything can happen at this point. And oh, yeah. Oh, absolutely. Look, I can see Nancy Mase and you would see what she promised Hakeem Jeffries. Hey, we're closing down the Biden investigation that she was all for 15 minutes ago in a heartbeat. Yeah. And by the way, if you get a more moderate speaker, they could just close down every one of these subpoenas. There's no impeachment. Everyone. Yeah. And by the way, our audience says we don't care about any of that. And that's that's I disagree. Hey, everybody, Charlie Kirk here. Do you get the feeling that the unthinkable is going to happen soon? Well, I do. Between the distractions, the smokescreens, the media, we probably might not even see it coming. You are nine meals away from anarchy. That's why it's so smart to invest in emergency food right now. As they say, quote, it's better to have it, not need it than to need it and not have it. My Patriots supplies the nation's leader in high quality emergency food had to my patriotsupply.com. That is my patriotsupply.com and prepare today with emergency food that will stay fresh for up to 25 years. Enjoy a wide variety of delicious food kits offering over 2000 calories every day for optimum strength under stress. And don't forget about water filtration and purification products. These are perfect for your bug out bag, survival supply and camping pack. One thing is for sure in this world. We all need to stock up before panic sets in order by 3 p.m. and your item ships the same day. And that is really fast. Go to mypatriotsupply.com. It's time to prepare for what's coming. My patriotsupply.com.
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"kevin mccarthy" Discussed on The Charlie Kirk Show
"You know, we always come up to the end. And this time I look, I think McCarthy, by pushing it off, 45 days, got the best possible deal from the circumstances that everybody put it because, you know, again, he doesn't have absolute power. As we're seeing right now, he's got to herd 218 cats. And, you know, it's hard enough to herd two cats. This was going to happen eventually anyway, because there are rewards for doing this. If you look at Matt Gaetz, Matt Gaetz has gained more attention than he will ever get in the has ever had and will ever get in the future right now, because he's perceived as damaging the Republican brand, which it appears to me he's doing. But he gets a reward out of it. He wants to run for governor. He doesn't intend to be in the next Congress, necessarily. Now, let's see what he's got to lose. There is there is a chance, but it's a small chance that, let's say, Chip Roy or a more conservative become speaker. Is that? But it doesn't seem as if that is going to happen. Because, by the way, Nancy Mace is voting to vacate Kevin McCarthy. She's the most like a rat. She's all over the place. I just I get a kick out of her. I got to be honest. Get into the Chardonnay again. No, Nancy Mace votes to vote. She votes for a criminal referral against Steve Bannon. And then she goes on a Steve Bannon show like nine months later. And now she is she just does whatever she wants. It's it's actually maybe she wants to be speaker. Maybe that's what she maybe she wants to be speaker. So all she does is speak. I haven't seen her do anything but run her mouth. Um, it look, if you're on the side of Nancy Mace with all the Democrats, this is what I call an indicator. This is where you go, wait, time for a personal inventory about the path I've chosen. So let's play Cut 42. Let's play Cut 42. Mr. Speaker, I rise to a question of the privileges of the House and offer the resolution I previously noticed. The clerk will report the resolution. House Resolution 757 resolved that the office of the Speaker of the House of Representatives is hereby declared to be vacant. The resolution qualifies as a question of the privileges of the House. For what purpose does the gentleman from Oklahoma seek recognition? Motion to table at the desk. The clerk will report the motion. Mr. Cole of Oklahoma moves to lay the resolution on the table. So the only question that remains is who's going to vote present or will the Democrats break with the caucus, which won't happen because they don't want, you know, they're dead Pomeranian in the bed. So it's just a simple majority at this point. And again, the present votes could change the math a little bit. Right. So that. Yes. So it's not that the cake is baked, but it certainly looks like it very well might be baked. But Matt Gaetz, Ken Buck, Andy Biggs, Tim Burchette, Sparks, Davidson, Rosendale, Mace and Goode are forcing the vote. So those are 10 votes to say that we want the vote, how they will vote. We will see. And I think it only takes three or four if every Democrat goes with them. And so then let's just build this out, Kurt. So that means literally we're going to go right back to where we were in January. All the committees are going to be put in suspension, all the looking into Merrick Garland, all the weaponization of government stuff at the FBI, all the January 6th stuff. That's all kind of put in suspension. We had 15 rounds last time and we're going to start again. So, Kurt, walk us through deja vu all over again. Well, first thing Matt Gaetz does is walk off the floor of the house to an adoring throng of regime media people who are going to love him for the next 15 minutes. And that's going to be wonderful. Jamal Bowman is sitting there going, yeah, I'm forgotten in all of this. Donald Trump is up in New York experiencing a witch burning, the likes of which our country has never seen. But we're not going to cover that because Matt Gaetz and his pals have to get their time in the house. Ken Buck's going to go get his CNN contract. Bob Gooda, Virginia, is going to tank the legislative agenda, legislative elections in Virginia. This is just great stuff if you're a Democrat. And it is going to be kind of aligning with the Democrat. Right. So so but the question but here's the question and I don't know the answer. And Nancy Banks. Well, yeah, I don't the most unpredictable member of Congress I've ever seen. She's totally predictable because, mark my words, tomorrow she's going to get on like MSNBC, like with Scarborough. And she's going to be like, I can't believe how dysfunctional Congress is. We have to work together to build bridges to a brighter tomorrow. No, that's right. On Morning Joe, on Morning Mika, or she might start the Mace for Speaker campaign. So Mace for Speaker. Nancy Mace is to Republicans what Mika Brzezinski is to the institution of marriage. I'll let everyone do that math. Let's let that sink in.
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"kevin mccarthy" Discussed on The Charlie Kirk Show
"OK, Kurt, I want to read this email from Bobby who emailed us. Charlie McCarthy is responsible for the narrow house victory to begin with. He dumped money and effort into bearing MAGA candidates. Now you want to use the argument of our limited power against holding him accountable for all our failings. Why do you think he wanted the limited number control? It's a gun to our head. We've been manipulated. It's time to remove him. Time for a new speaker. Get your head in the game. So, Kurt, how should we respond to that? Well, that's just dumb. Look, I blame McCarthy at some level to the less than other senior Republicans, but it was a group effort screwing up 2022. And the idea that there's some sort of like seven dimensional chat where he only has a couple people majority because that's like to his advantage. You know, stop. Stop with the childish stuff. One of the problems that we have, Charlie, is a lot of people came into politics energized by Donald Trump. And that itself is not bad. But a lot of them have not do not understand how actual politics works. OK. And it's not this conspiracy thing. It's not these leper geniuses. These are not Bond villains. OK. These are not super smart. Ernst Stavros Blofeld's in their volcano lair. They're regular people with regular faults. And many of them not exceptional in any way. So the idea that there's some sort of giant conspiracy going on. No, it's exactly what it seems. It's people having to make deals, people having to make compromises and other people not not accepting the fact that, you know, most of America is not as conservative as you are, Charlie, as I am, as your viewers and listeners are. We've got to get along with a majority of people who are more liberal than we are, even on the Republican side. How do we do that? We're not dictators. We don't have absolute power. We've got to make incremental progress. And we've got to accept that sometimes we're not going to win.
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"kevin mccarthy" Discussed on The Charlie Kirk Show
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"kevin mccarthy" Discussed on The Charlie Kirk Show
"All right, Kurt Schlichter continues with us. The vote is ongoing right now to vacate the chair. Breaking news, every Democrat will be voting to vacate the chair. There will be no dissension. So, Kurt, I don't know if you can see a screen here. This is what happens if a single Democrat votes out of line. Play cut 30. It's one of the most powerful scenes in movie. Walk us through that scene, Kurt. Well, you know, Walt's the director who doesn't do what Tom Hagen says in The Godfather wakes up and finds Rosie O'Donnell's head in his bed. And it's it's it's a tragedy. It's horrible. And it's a it's an enforcement tool. I'm not saying that we as Republicans should act like that. I'm saying a fact. This is why the Democrats they don't want to wake up with, you know, their Chihuahua's head in their bed. No, they're like, no, no. As I said, if AOC ever filed a motion to vacate Pelosi, her her aunt would be deported. Her brother would be, you know, indicted for something. She would lose her parking pass and her boyfriend would lose his job all before Nancy Pelosi is done with her third screwdriver at 9 a.m. So, Kurt, let me ask you, I want to just there's some really good meeting emails here. Brett, for example, Charlie, first time ever I disagreed with you. It is simple. McCarthy was given all year to follow through with promises. Accountability must be carried out. And, you know, it never is in government. Republicans must learn to do what they promise for the people in leadership and I'll read another email here. Charlie, so if we the listeners are so stupid because we are sick of betrayal, what big plan do you guys have? Haven't heard a plan from each one of you. Again, lots lots of anger today. Kurt, how should we respond to those? Well, look, I think Kevin McCarthy, again, who I have no special love for, you know, to me, politicians are fungible. One is as good as the other. It's simply a matter of what you can do for me at a given moment. It would be, you know, Kevin McCarthy has been doing about as good a job as you can do in the situation he's given, which is a majority of four people. And it is, I mean, it's very hard to do whatever you want when you don't have the power to do it. And I think he's for instance gone on vacation in August. I would have made everybody stay until we got the stuff done. But I can't let the perfect be the enemy of the good. And he was good enough. I don't see an alternative. If you just want to burn things down, you know, you get burned too. I prefer not to be burned, Charlie. I prefer, you know, victories one after the other, small ones, step by step, with some defeats over a massive self-inflicted defeat. So some people say then, Charlie, what is your guys's plan? I think our plan is pretty simple, Kurt. This is my perspective, is that we have to just kind of put our hands up and be like, Congress is a massive disappointment. Try to get the appropriations bill. Not going to celebrate it. I'm going to focus my attention on trying to win the White House while simultaneously thinking that a circus in Congress is not good. I'm not going to defend it. I'm not going to say it's a beautiful thing. I'm not. I'm just I'm I'm kind of done with Congress as it is. And I think part of the issue is, Kurt, is people think that we can get that we can get some sort of rip-roaring Congress. We can't even get that in Texas. Well, you know, we haven't made the case that we can govern and we're busy making a case that we can't. But look at the progress we have made. We could have some better negotiating position for the budget. We're not going to get the budget we want because we only have a four-seat majority. But one thing we have done is uncovered this whole Biden corruption thing, which never would have happened without a majority and may just come to a flying stop when we don't have a conservative speaker, because we may get a moderate speaker. And what do you think the Democrats price for supporting a speaker with some moderate Republicans is going to be? If you don't think, Barry, this whole Biden thing is on the price tag, you're crazy. Kurt Schlichter, I feel the anger, everybody. Let's see what happens. We are going to be without a speaker likely very soon.
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"kevin mccarthy" Discussed on The Charlie Kirk Show
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Start a high school or college chapter today at tpusa.com. Email me as always freedom at charleykirk.com. Buckle up everybody. Here we go. Charlie what you've done is incredible here. Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus. I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk's running the White House folks. I want to thank Charlie. He's an incredible guy. His spirit, his love of this country. He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created Turning Point USA. We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country. That's why we are here. Brought to you by the loan experts I trust, Andrew and Todd at Sierra Pacific Mortgage at andrewandtodd.com. Joining us now is Kurt Schlichter, author of Overlord, eighth in the series. Check it out. I'm hearing great things about it in the People's Republic series. Kurt, thank you for taking the time. Kurt, I was thinking who could we have on the show that's not going to hold anything back. Make our audience laugh about the Shakespearean tragedy and drama that we are witnessing. Kurt, how should we think about what is happening right now as we speak? Motion to vacate of Kevin McCarthy. Well, the whole thing reminds me of the sin of Onam. I think, you know, I'm trying to keep it FCC compliant here, Charlie. I'm an army guy. I want to know what the objective is. I don't like Kevin McCarthy. He's not my pal. I am completely indifferent to what happens to him. He is a tool in every sense of the word, but mostly to be used for an objective. What's the objective? Matt Gaetz. Why now? Why here? Why this? I know what the plan is. To the extent is it starts with vacating the chair. And step two, we're going to skip over that. And then step three is some better situation happens. I don't understand the plan. I understand that we've got a presidential primary going on. While we are talking about this, we are not talking about the lawfare against President Trump. We are not talking about the candidates and their policies. We are not talking about the Hunter Biden revelations that even The Washington Post can't ignore anymore. We're not talking about Jamal Bowman, who can't figure out the difference between a door and a fire alarm. I actually believe him there. I do think he is that dumb. Instead, we've got Matt Gaetz being followed by hundreds of regime media reporters who for the first time ever are thrilled to ask what Matt Gaetz, a hardcore conservative thinks only because they think it's going to cause chaos among the Republicans, which it is. And he appears to be eating this up. He appears to be loving this. He appears to have a personal beef against Kevin McCarthy. Not sure that his personal beef should have any play in here. Look, I'm all about winning. I don't understand how that wins. I haven't had a good explanation of how vacating the chair wins. Again, not a pal of Kevin McCarthy. It's not my favorite guy. I don't like him. I don't love him. But he's over when Matt Gaetz tosses him out with the help of the Democrats, who will never do anything that's good for the Republicans. So you could tell, you know, it's an important indicator. If the Democrats are united behind you in doing something, that's when you think, huh, maybe this isn't such a great idea. So I'm, you know, I'm concerned with winning legislative elections in Virginia, where we have to show people who have doubts about conservatives that we can govern. I'm concerned about winning in Kentucky, where we have a very important governor who's very likely to have to replace Mitch McConnell, whose health is failing. I want to, you know, is this going to help those things or hurt those things? What's the answer? I don't you take a giant leap to do something that hasn't been done in 113 years. You know, I'd like to know what the plan is. Am I crazy? No, no, there is no plan. And I understand the anger from the base. I'm going to read some emails here, though, Kurt. And I know and I get it because we have been betrayed on every major issue. So I get it. I feel the same way. I'm not even trying to do happy talk. I'm not trying to do. I'm just asking, guys, before you storm the Bastille, what's next? And there is this there's this amazing dialog that happened. I'm trying to remember what New York City liberal was, but it was the Black Panthers. I think I think I had you on once and we talked about this. So the Black Panthers came to some sort of white liberal cocktail soiree and all the white liberals were like fawning over them, the Black Panthers, best thing ever. And some brave soul, you know, listens to the speech and the Black Panthers say, we're going to burn it all down. We're going to do this. And somebody asked the question, they said, but but what next? And the Black Panther responds, he says, well, you can't know everything, man. It's like, OK, hold on a second. Like, let's climb up, like let's I get the anger. I understand it. But here's let me just read some of these emails here, because, again, I have received thousands of very nasty messages, not even because I'm saying we shouldn't be doing this. I'm saying that this has probably not been thought through, like just what the one, two, three, four is. Right. So I'll read one of these emails here. Right. Charlie, the time has come to burn it all down. They're all the same. It can't get any worse than what we have. What is your response to that, Kurt? That's about the stupidest thing I've ever heard. And I think we need to sugarcoating it with our people. OK, I've been in the ruins of a civil war. It gets a lot worse. We have problems here, you know, and I find it interesting that guys like you and I, who no one is going to mistake for a squish unless they are actively stupid or think the listener is actively stupid, are saying, wait a minute, stop it. We need a plan. We need a direction. We need to figure out what the heck we're going to do. And it can't just be, well, let's just see what happens. Let's toss this guy out with no idea who follows. You know what's going to happen? A bunch of Republican squishes, the same one the base is infuriated at, are going to get together with a bunch of Democrats and they're going to put in a squish Republican speaker like they got down in Texas, the same kind of creep who was behind impeaching Ken Paxton. And then they're going to go, I can't believe it. You know, I keep thinking of that meme, the guy riding on his bike and he's saying, dang, these Republicans, they're screwing everything up. He sticks some between the tusks, folks in his wheel. He raps, he goes, oh, they're really annoying. Look what they did to me. The anger is understandable. And yes. And but so some I could read I could read, by the way, the audience is ninety nine percent in the direction of vacate storm, the best deal, take the head and all that. But let's let's just go through a fact, which is that the people that will be voting for motion to vacate, you know, they say they've been live to him betrayed and I'm going to take their word at it. Right. I'm not there. They are. I'm not going to. But they will they will vote with that. They will vote for every Democrat. So is it correct, Kurt, to say that this is a gift to the Democrat Party? Well, the Democrats sure think so. Democrats are excited about this. Every single Democrat wouldn't be voting for this thing if they didn't think it was good for the Democrats. That hold on, hold on. You know, that sounds obvious, but time out, time out. Say that again, because that that that that's not Barry the lead. OK, hold on. I want you to repeat what you just said. Say it again. Every single Democrat would not be voting for this if every single Democrat did not think this was good for the Democrats and bad for us. That sounds so obvious, but because the Democrats never vote against their own interest ever. No, no, they don't know about their political party interest, not the interest of their constituents, of their power. No, I look I think you're right. And I, you know, I'm. I understand people are frustrated. Grow up. We have a four seat majority of one house of the Congress. OK, there are a bunch of reasons why that's true. Many of them the fault of our own party and our own choices and actions. But that's where we are. You know, I can't believe why isn't he decreeing blah, blah, blah. Because, you know, maybe you should have paid more attention that that Schoolhouse Rock. I'm just a bill thing because it's it doesn't work like that. We have got to make incremental movements. We are not going to make this is this is not going to be a giant sweeping cavalry charge. This is going to be bayonet fighting inch by inch. And sometimes you're going to lose ground. Sometimes the bad guys score points. The goal is to move forward, but you never move forward by losing. I don't want to make any broad proclamations, but we will. It looks like we're not going to have the House next year. I'm just going to tell you right now it was this is not making it more likely for most of our audience doesn't care. And they're telling us and that's not what they will. But they will. Once they abolish the Electoral College, I'm going to get a lot of e-mails. Yeah. Well, I can't believe I'm doing this. Well, believe it. And you thought it was a great idea. No, I would rather not be in the I told you so mode. I know I get it out. I know when when Washington, D.C. becomes a state, I don't want to have to replay this segment. I don't. Yeah, exactly. Guys, think. 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The Charlie Kirk Show
A highlight from The Fall of Kevin McCarthy? with Kurt Schlichter
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Start a high school or college chapter today at tpusa .com. Email me as always freedom at charleykirk .com. Buckle up everybody. Here we go. Charlie what you've done is incredible here. Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus. I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk's running the White House folks. I want to thank Charlie. He's an incredible guy. His spirit, his love of this country. He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created Turning Point USA. We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country. That's why we are here. Brought to you by the loan experts I trust, Andrew and Todd at Sierra Pacific Mortgage at andrewandtodd .com. Joining us now is Kurt Schlichter, author of Overlord, eighth in the series. Check it out. I'm hearing great things about it in the People's Republic series. Kurt, thank you for taking the time. Kurt, I was thinking who could we have on the show that's not going to hold anything back. Make our audience laugh about the Shakespearean tragedy and drama that we are witnessing. Kurt, how should we think about what is happening right now as we speak? Motion to vacate of Kevin McCarthy. Well, the whole thing reminds me of the sin of Onam. I think, you know, I'm trying to keep it FCC compliant here, Charlie. I'm an army guy. I want to know what the objective is. I don't like Kevin McCarthy. He's not my pal. I am completely indifferent to what happens to him. He is a tool in every sense of the word, but mostly to be used for an objective. What's the objective? Matt Gaetz. Why now? Why here? Why this? I know what the plan is. To the extent is it starts with vacating the chair. And step two, we're going to skip over that. And then step three is some better situation happens. I don't understand the plan. I understand that we've got a presidential primary going on. While we are talking about this, we are not talking about the lawfare against President Trump. We are not talking about the candidates and their policies. We are not talking about the Hunter Biden revelations that even The Washington Post can't ignore anymore. We're not talking about Jamal Bowman, who can't figure out the difference between a door and a fire alarm. I actually believe him there. I do think he is that dumb. Instead, we've got Matt Gaetz being followed by hundreds of regime media reporters who for the first time ever are thrilled to ask what Matt Gaetz, a hardcore conservative thinks only because they think it's going to cause chaos among the Republicans, which it is. And he appears to be eating this up. He appears to be loving this. He appears to have a personal beef against Kevin McCarthy. Not sure that his personal beef should have any play in here. Look, I'm all about winning. I don't understand how that wins. I haven't had a good explanation of how vacating the chair wins. Again, not a pal of Kevin McCarthy. It's not my favorite guy. I don't like him. I don't love him. But he's over Matt when Gaetz tosses him out with the help of the Democrats, who will never do anything that's good for the Republicans. So you could tell, you know, it's an important indicator. If the Democrats are united behind you in doing something, that's when you think, huh, maybe this isn't such a great idea. So I'm, you know, I'm concerned with winning legislative elections in Virginia, where we have to show people who have doubts about conservatives that we can govern. I'm concerned about winning in Kentucky, where we have a very important governor who's very likely to have to replace Mitch McConnell, whose health is failing. I want to, you know, is this going to help those things or hurt those things? What's the answer? I don't you take a giant leap to do something that hasn't been done in 113 years. You know, I'd like to know what the plan is. Am I crazy? No, no, there is no plan. And I understand the anger from the base. I'm going to read some emails here, though, Kurt. And I know and I get it because we have been betrayed on every major issue. So I get it. I feel the same way. I'm not even trying to do happy talk. I'm not trying to do. I'm just asking, guys, before you storm the Bastille, what's next? And there is this there's this amazing dialog that happened. I'm trying to remember what New York City liberal was, but it was the Black Panthers. I think I think I had you on once and we talked about this. So the Black Panthers came to some sort of white liberal cocktail soiree and all the white liberals were like fawning over them, the Black Panthers, best thing ever. And some brave soul, you know, listens to the speech and the Black Panthers say, we're going to burn it all down. We're going to do this. And somebody asked the question, they said, but but what next? And the Black Panther responds, he says, well, you can't know everything, man. It's like, OK, hold on a second. Like, let's climb up, like let's I get the anger. I understand it. But here's let me just read some of these emails here, because, again, I have received thousands of very nasty messages, not even because I'm saying we shouldn't be doing this. I'm saying that this has probably not been thought through, like just what the one, two, three, four is. Right. So I'll read one of these emails here. Right. Charlie, the time has come to burn it all down. They're all the same. It can't get any worse than what we have. What is your response to that, Kurt? That's about the stupidest thing I've ever heard. And I think we need to sugarcoating it with our people. OK, I've been in the ruins of a civil war. It gets a lot worse. We have problems here, you know, and I find it interesting that guys like you and I, who no one is going to mistake for a squish unless they are actively stupid or think the listener is actively stupid, are saying, wait a minute, stop it. We need a plan. We need a direction. We need to figure out what the heck we're going to do. And it can't just be, well, let's just see what happens. Let's toss this guy out with no idea who follows. You know what's going to happen? A bunch of Republican squishes, the same one the base is infuriated at, are going to get together with a bunch of Democrats and they're going to put in a squish Republican speaker like they got down in Texas, the same kind of creep who was behind impeaching Ken Paxton. And then they're going to go, I can't believe it. You know, I keep thinking of that meme, the guy riding on his bike and he's saying, dang, these Republicans, they're screwing everything up. He sticks some between the tusks, folks in his wheel. He raps, he goes, oh, they're really annoying. Look what they did to me. The anger is understandable. And yes. And but so some I could read I could read, by the way, the audience is ninety nine percent in the direction of vacate storm, the best deal, take the head and all that. But let's let's just go through a fact, which is that the people that will be voting for motion to vacate, you know, they say they've been live to him betrayed and I'm going to take their word at it. Right. I'm not there. They are. I'm not going to. But they will they will vote with that. They will vote for every Democrat. So is it correct, Kurt, to say that this is a gift to the Democrat Party? Well, the Democrats sure think so. Democrats are excited about this. Every single Democrat wouldn't be voting for this thing if they didn't think it was good for the Democrats. That hold on, hold on. You know, that sounds obvious, but time out, time out. Say that again, because that that that that's not Barry the lead. OK, hold on. I want you to repeat what you just said. Say it again. Every single Democrat would not be voting for this if every single Democrat did not think this was good for the Democrats and bad for us. That sounds so obvious, but because the Democrats never vote against their own interest ever. No, no, they don't know about their political party interest, not the interest of their constituents, of their power. No, I look I think you're right. And I, you know, I'm. I understand people are frustrated. Grow up. We have a four seat majority of one house of the Congress. OK, there are a bunch of reasons why that's true. Many of them the fault of our own party and our own choices and actions. But that's where we are. You know, I can't believe why isn't he decreeing blah, blah, blah. Because, you know, maybe you should have paid more attention that that Schoolhouse Rock. I'm just a bill thing because it's it doesn't work like that. We have got to make incremental movements. We are not going to make this is this is not going to be a giant sweeping cavalry charge. This is going to be bayonet fighting inch by inch. And sometimes you're going to lose ground. Sometimes the bad guys score points. The goal is to move forward, but you never move forward by losing. I don't want to make any broad proclamations, but we will. It looks like we're not going to have the House next year. I'm just going to tell you right now it was this is not making it more likely for most of our audience doesn't care. And they're telling us and that's not what they will. But they will. Once they abolish the Electoral College, I'm going to get a lot of e -mails. Yeah. Well, I can't believe I'm doing this. Well, believe it. And you thought it was a great idea. No, I would rather not be in the I told you so mode. I know I get it out. I know when when Washington, D .C. becomes a state, I don't want to have to replay this segment. I don't. Yeah, exactly. Guys, think. 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Mike Gallagher Podcast
A highlight from Rep. Matt Gaetz plans to oust GOP House Speaker Kevin McCarthy
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Now, from the ReliefFactor .com studios, here's Mike Gallagher. Can everybody sort of cool it with the attacks against Matt Gaetz right now? What is going on? I'm telling you what, nothing upsets establishment Republicans more than disruptors. I suppose that's why they despise Donald Trump. I suspect the same people, many of the same, not all, but many of the same people who are attacking the Freedom Caucus, the Ralph Normans and the Matt Gaetzs and the Marjorie Taylor Greens, the same people who hate them, hate Trump. You know, we all sit around, we talk a good game about fixing Washington and trying to stop the out of control spending and flushing good money down the drain after bad and getting some fiscal responsibility going. But then when somebody tries to do it, we lop their heads off. We want it to be business as usual. Now, let me qualify. If you're not following this, this has been a wild weekend. Matt Gaetz went on TV saying, I'm going to try to lead an insurrection against Kevin McCarthy. We're going to have an ouster of Kevin McCarthy. I'm going to get him out of there. I'm going to get Democrats to side with me. There's all kinds of reporting that he's even offering subpoena power to the Democrats because he really doesn't like Kevin McCarthy. We get it. Kevin McCarthy gets it. Matt Gaetzs has never liked Kevin McCarthy. These guys are going to be butting heads forever. OK, so be it. McCarthy led to the...was able to avert a government shutdown with no funding for Ukraine. I think that's a win. I don't know that it's a win with a capital W, but it's a win. We got through it. With hours to spare. So Matt Gaetzs is livid. I guess he wanted a government shutdown. OK. He's an elected representative. He's representing his constituents in Florida. He can feel the way he wants to feel. And, you know, if he wants to take on Kevin McCarthy, all right, so be it. Might not be a great idea. It seems to me Republicans have some momentum right now, and this threatens that momentum. But having said that, I don't know why people on our side are attacking Gaetzs the way they are. Mark Levin, who I consider a friend, I actually love the guy. I think Mark Levin is one of the smartest guys around. He's calling Matt Gaetzs a traitor. Literally a traitor. Mark Levin posted of Matt Gaetzs, This clown is a Benedict Arnold. He killed a CR slashing spending by 8 % and strengthening border security. Now he plots and schemes with the most radical Marxist Democrats in the House, including AOC and the Progressive Caucus. Reject this demagogue. He is the uni -party leader, and he has no intention of cutting spending or securing the border. Boy, that seems a little harsh, don't you think? I mean, Trump is the ultimate disruptor. And it's going to be fascinating to see what exactly Trump does with all of this. Now he's in New York today trying to ward off this wack job, you know, civil suit against him. And he's sitting in on day one of his trial. But here's what Matt Gaetzs said on CNN over the weekend as a result of Kevin McCarthy heading up an effort to avert a government shutdown. It apparently enraged Congressman Gaetzs, who took to CNN and said this. Speaker McCarthy made an agreement with House conservatives in January. And since then, he has been in brazen, repeated, material breach of that agreement. This agreement that he made with Democrats to really blow past a lot of the spending guardrails we had set up is a last straw. And then overnight, I learned that Kevin McCarthy had a secret deal with Democrats on Ukraine. So as he was baiting Republicans to vote for a continuing resolution without Ukraine money, saying that we were going to jam the Senate on Ukraine, he then turns around and makes a secret deal. Now, I know you and I probably have different views on U .S. involvement in Ukraine. But however you think about that question, it should be subject to open review analysis and not some backroom deal. So a motion to vacate tomorrow? I do intend to file a motion to vacate against Speaker McCarthy this week. I think we need to rip off the Band -Aid. I think we need to move on with new leadership that can be trustworthy. Now, this gets complicated because Speaker McCarthy is going to have to rely on Democrats to come to his rescue. If enough Democrats side with Matt Gaetz, guess what? McCarthy might be out. And you could have an argument, we could have a solid substantive debate about whether that's good or bad for us. You know what's good for us? I don't think there's any dispute. Disruptors. Do you want more of the same? Are you OK with business as usual in Washington, D .C.? Are you satisfied with the way things have been going? With the reckless spending and the over -the -top nonsense like writing Ukraine a blank check. I have to tell you, with the exception of Mark Levin, and I have tremendous respect for him, I don't know what's up with why he would call Matt Gaetz a traitor to his country. Matt Gaetz may not be everyone's cup of tea, but I thought this is a time where we all agreed that we needed some disruption. I thought this was a time when we expect fighters in Washington, not people who are going to play footsie with the Democrats. And most importantly, I don't like, pardon my metaphor here or my imagery, but I don't like hearing people urinate all over the millions of people who are lifting Matt Gaetz and Marjorie Taylor Greene and the other fighters in Congress up. What does that say about what those of us with a platform think of millions of people who want a good old -fashioned street fight in Washington over out -of -control spending and fiscal irresponsibility? I mean, I'm not trying to be wishy -washy on this. Again, I think McCarthy has done a pretty solid job as Speaker of the House. It can't be easy. It's not easy. You've got a lot of warring factions within the GOP, and the problem is the Republicans have some momentum right now. And I don't want to see anything interrupt the momentum heading into November. We've got an important election in Virginia. We've got big things coming. I just, I'm absolutely mystified at the vitriol that a lot of people are demonstrating towards Matt Gaetz. I don't think that's helpful. I don't think that's productive. Can't we disagree respectfully? Because I have a lot of respect for the millions of people, many of whom listen to this show, who believe that disruption is in order. I have a lot of respect for people who appreciate what Matt Gaetz is trying to do. Even if it may be the wrong outcome, even if I might disagree with trying to oust Kevin McCarthy, I don't like the wild -eyed attacks that I'm hearing directed towards these renegades in the House. Because I just think it's very, very disrespectful to millions of people who appreciate what Gaetz is trying to do. Now, do you agree with this or not? We've got a lot of text messages already pouring in on the MyPillow text line as we kick off the first Monday in October. It's October the 2nd, 2023, here in the Relief Factor studios. Here's where people are texting me right now. Here's Pennsylvania. I don't want more of the same. I think Mark Levin is a warmonger. Here's Colorado. I 100 % agree with Mark Levin. Matt Gaetz seems like he's a glory hound who hates McCarthy. He wants to oust Kevin, but he has no plan to replace him. And finally, people are attacking, this is from Ohio, people are attacking Matt Gaetz because he's an idiot. And the people who voted him in are idiots. He just wants to make a name for himself, hoping to be governor of Florida. Well, what do you think? Let's find out. I want to open up the Ph .D. weight loss and nutrition phone number to you. 800 -655 -MIKE, 17 past the hour. Do you understand my point about respectfully disagreeing with what the Freedom Caucus and the others are doing with McCarthy without taking their heads off? Do you agree with me that Matt Gaetz reflects the disruptor status that Donald Trump gave us and why we love Donald Trump? Does that make sense to you or am I missing the boat here? Straighten me out. If you disagree, you go to the top of the line. But however you feel, I want you to join us. Flood the zone here with your phone calls. I want to jam our phone lines with your voice, with your perspective. Again, the Ph .D. weight loss number is 800 -655 -MIKE, 800 -655 -6453. Hope you join us.
Bloomberg Radio New York - Recording Feed
Monitor Show 15:00 10-03-2023 15:00
"With Bloomberg, you get the story behind the story, the story behind the global birth rate, behind your EV batteries environmental impact, behind sand, yeah sand, you get context and context changes everything. Go to Bloomberg .com to get context. From Oklahoma who chairs the House Rules Committee speaking live on the House floor after we witnessed the vote here on the motion to table and breaking news this hour, Kevin McCarthy has lost that important test vote. We will now move on to a motion to vacate before midnight tomorrow. It could happen at any time when Kevin McCarthy decides to call for that vote. We have learned that the rebels, as I read on the terminal, do have the votes to oust him as speaker. The first time in a hundred years we've seen a motion to vacate. This time might be different in that it may well pass. We want to send things to New York now. I'm Joe Matthew in Washington. I appreciate you walking through all of this with me today. Carol Master and Simone Foxman standing by in New York for Bloomberg Business Week. Guys, this has been a remarkable afternoon in Washington. No doubt about it and this is a critical vote and we will find out what ultimately is, Joe, the future of the U .S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. As you said, though, it does not look good at this moment. We're going to continue to monitor what is going on on the House floor as they consider removing and McCarthy ultimately see where that leads in terms of do we get a new House Speaker and what that means for policy or whether or not somehow Kevin McCarthy is able to woo more to his side and maintain his position. It is a critical day, once again, when it comes to U .S. politics. We are live in the Bloomberg Interactive Brokers Studio streaming on YouTube and of course Bloomberg Originals live here at Bloomberg headquarters. Carol Master along with Simone Foxman. We know Joe and the team continuing to track this. They'll come back later at 5 p .m. Wall Street time on Bloomberg Television certainly to continue.
The Charlie Kirk Show
"kevin mccarthy" Discussed on The Charlie Kirk Show
"But then I put them into another negotiation where I was able to get 20 billion into the future that they're going to spend on IRS because I cut so long. They want to repurpose that money. Okay. So now I set myself up for the next debate in appropriations. What do you think's better to use that money? IRS agents or border security? So at the same time I'm negotiating for the first one, I'm setting up for the negotiator next time. Now I had to make a decision. There are some conservatives, well, you didn't get all of it. Well, it's pretty hard when they have the Senate and the presidency and they already have all the money. Just give it back to me. Well, I just got everything they're going to do this year, expand the majority, win the Senate and the presidency and take it all back next year and take 20 billion of the future already. So I made a decision. I got a pretty good chunk of it right now and they can't start. And I set myself up to fight them in the next fight. And I think I put myself in a pretty good place to have that fight on our philosophy and where the American public is with them and make them lose another argument. So it's the timing of the debate and set yourself up for the next debate. And the grit is whatever you don't get, if you feel you got enough, you start the next day for the next fight and you set yourself up coming out of that to win again. Listen, as students begin heading back to school, do you think they'll be learning about the founding principles that made America the freest, most prosperous nation in history? Will they learn that our unalienable rights are God-given and not granted by government? Will they be given a full and honest account of our nation's history? The answer to all these questions is yes for students at Hillsdale College. And these days, in addition to teaching college students, Hillsdale has extended its teaching to K through 12 students and lifelong learners like you and me. If you're not doing so already, one of the best ways to start learning from my friends at Hillsdale is through In Primus, Hillsdale's free digest of liberty. My listeners can sign up for free at the special website, which is available for a limited time. It's at charlie4hillsdale.com. I look forward to In Primus each month, and you can too. It's interesting, useful, and free, the best and smartest in conservative constitutionalist thought. Find out more about Hillsdale and In Primus at charlie4hillsdale.com. They're an excellent college, America's greatest college, charlie4hillsdale.com.
The Charlie Kirk Show
"kevin mccarthy" Discussed on The Charlie Kirk Show
"You may be smart. You may come from a great area but the first time you hit a wall, you quit. Then you decide you're a loser. If you hit a wall and you're not successful, that's just an experience. You only lose when you give up and I just have continued that model as I've gone through. Now, Mr. Speaker, I've seen that throughout the years. I got to tell you, he earned that speakership. I mean, every event to every part of the country, Congressman McCarthy has been working, serving his constituents and outworking the competition. Let's define these terms grit, stamina, hustle. For a lot of these students here when they're involved in student government politics, it's not dissimilar just on a smaller scale of the smear, the slander. I'm sure many of you have stories of complaints being filed against you when you're running for student president, all sorts of stupid, silly stuff. I got to tell you, Mr. try becoming student body president of Texas A &M. Where's our Texas A &M delegate? There we go. I know we have Colorado State University, one of our best. These are tough races and so there's some similarity what you're dealing with here. Speak to some of the daily disciplines, the mentality, how you train your mind, your entire being to be able to have that kind of attitude of grit and hustle. First, you're proving you can do it right now because you run for office on campus. You're at a disadvantage to start out with because you're conservative. They try to make the rules tougher for you to even defile, right? And then they try to discredit you on your beliefs and what you're doing. So it's a good testing ground at the very beginning of where you go. You want to know my average week? We all studied, you know, the five stages of grief, right? You're in denial, you lash out, you're angry, then the acceptance come and all that. Well, I have like the five D's for the press in DC, right? Every Monday starts out with, you can't pass the bill. Then Tuesday becomes doubt, right? We just heard from one of your members, you can't pass the rule. Wednesday comes, the headline is the biggest challenge to McCarthy's speakership this week. Thursday, I passed the bill. They said, well, that wasn't a big deal. And then Friday, they're disappointed. It happens each and every week. And you know what I do? So in my office, I have a couple of different portraits, okay? I have a portrait of Abraham Lincoln. He's in black and white, first Republican president. You know, when the Democrats bring a bill to the floor and they want to remove a statue, I'm the first one to sign up for it. Because I'll promise you, it's not a Republican. It's a Democrat you have to remove. And so I go the floor and I say, I'm all for this bill, but this bill doesn't go far enough. You need to change the name of your party. Because if you don't like the statue, if you don't like the person, what they stood for, that was your party. You should change your name at the same time. We had to remove four portraits of speakers, all four Democrats. We had to remove statues here based upon their beliefs that was sent to us by a Democrat majority state legislature accepted by a majority of Democrats in Congress. Abraham Lincoln and the basis of our party of why it was created that were conceived in liberty and that we're all equal. If Abraham Lincoln was never assassinated, we never would have had Jim Crow laws. Those were Democrats that created that. Think of Abraham Lincoln when you want to think of grit. At 23, he loses a race for the legislature. He fails in business. His girlfriend dies at 26. He has a nervous breakdown at 27. He gets elected to Congress for one term, but can't be re-nominated. He loses a race for speaker. It's what I admire most about him. He loses a race for Senate. He fails in business again. He loses a race for VP. He loses a race for Senate again. Then he gets elected for president age 52. And never once did he blame Buchanan when he's elected November 1860 sworn in March 1861, seven states lead the union. And the height of our greatest challenge to our to our Constitution was the Civil War. He builds the Intercontinental Railway. That's like inventing the internet. He looks at the future at the same time, bringing us together. Reagan's portraits in color and he's and you've got to remember this, not just in running for office and your school campuses, but writing what you believe in your classrooms. If you believe your principles bring people more freedom, don't be angry about it. Be happy. If you watch the 15 rounds of speaker, did I ever get angry? Because I knew the outcome. If you're getting upset with something they're writing about you, don't be angry. You write the history. You follow forward on your principles and the outcome will be different if you stick to your principle. If you're happy, people want to associate with you. If you think being angry means you're more conservative just means people don't want to hang out with you or come to Thanksgiving dinner. Be true to your beliefs and you will succeed. If Lincoln was here, Lincoln would tell us this one thing. Believe in the exceptionalism of America. And I watched too often the liberals, even in Congress, they are quick to criticize America and praise some other country. We're not perfect, but we strive to be a more perfect unit. But this is what Lincoln would tell you. Believe in the exceptionalism of America. You know why I think would say that? The Gettysburg Address. Four score and seven years ago, our forefathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation conceived in liberty and dedicated proposition that we're all equal. He goes on to say, but if we fail, government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from Earth. Think about the moment he gave that. Thousands of brothers just died. Hundreds of thousands of brothers have been dying. And he's sitting on a battlefield. We're not the strongest nation in the world. We're divided together. But he knows we will be the most powerful and sustain ourselves because government is of the people, by the people, for the people. But name me one other nation that's conceived in liberty and dedicated the proposition that we're all equal. There is not another nation in the world. The closest would come Israel. We had the president of Israel here yesterday. One party gave you anti-semitic comments. One party had members who wouldn't show up. One party had nine members vote against the resolution in support of relation of Israel. Israel has been only alive as a country for 75 years and 11 minutes after they became a country, the first country to recognize it was America. We should never back away from where the Republican party has been based or why we were created. 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"kevin mccarthy" Discussed on The Charlie Kirk Show
"The U.S. dollar has lost 85% of its value since the 70s, when the dollar decoupled from gold, and the government seems bent on continuing the tradition. Charlie Kirk here. From now until after the elections, the government can print as much money as they want. The last time they did that, inflation went up 9%. Gold is the only asset that has proven to withstand inflation. Invest in gold with Noble Gold Investments. You will get a 24-carat, one-fourth of an ounce gold standard coin for free. Just use promo code kirk. Go to noblegoldinvestments.com. That's noblegoldinvestments.com, the only gold company I trust. Hey, everybody. Today on The Charlie Kirk Show. So we have a special project at Turning Point USA, where we train and encourage student leaders to run for student body president. And we just recently had them at a conversation with Speaker Kevin McCarthy in DC. And this was our conversation. Speaker McCarthy showed them around the United States House of Representatives. He was a great host. And instead of the typical political chat, he talked about leadership and the advice that he had for our young student leaders. If you guys want to support Turning Point USA, go to tpusa.com. That's tpusa.com. Get engaged and get involved. I think you guys will really enjoy this conversation. Might be a little different than what you are expecting. This is much more about student empowerment and leadership. And honestly, you look at what Turning Point USA has been able to do over the last 11 years. It is remarkable. And thank you for supporting it and enjoy this conversation. Email us freedom at charliekirk.com. Buckle up everybody. Here we go. Charlie, what you've done is incredible here. Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus. I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk's running the White House folks.