0:00

We did a press

0:02

conference in here

0:05

and it wasn't

0:05

like you'd

0:08

see before the members get up and

0:17

we

0:23

invited parents and kids and

0:25

we invited parents that had the challenges,

0:28

right? was you'll remember him the father

0:31

from Loudoun County that his daughter,

0:34

he comes and tells his story. But

0:37

then you have a young mother from Rhode Island, her

0:39

child went to kindergarten

0:42

and all she wanted to know was on the curriculum. They

0:44

said, well, you gotta ask us, you gotta put a written form.

0:47

She goes, okay, well then I had 100 questions. Then

0:49

they had a meeting to sue her for

0:52

she was asking questions. It was unbelievable.

0:54

And you think at times these stories

0:57

that they just happen in one little place,

0:59

you know. You hear about that male

1:01

swimmer against the women. Well, no one you start

1:04

having their discussion,

1:05

it's happening everywhere. And

1:07

so we like to bring more people in. And

1:10

the other thing we're doing, taking our

1:12

hearings out of Washington. We've

1:14

had them along the border. We've

1:16

had them in different parts of the country make

1:19

the committees go out to listen to the public.

1:23

You can make some noise for that. That's good, yeah, yeah,

1:25

there you go. I

1:30

also like the way we started that. I didn't even have to ask

1:32

a question. You could just talk. I'll

1:34

just sit here with my legs crossed for an hour and we'll

1:37

make it work. We've been interviewed before. He's

1:40

like most people in California. He used to live

1:42

there. Now he moves to Florida. But

1:45

I'd go down to his house and we'd do a show. Well,

1:48

let's start actually, since you talked

1:50

about the parental rights vote, which

1:52

did pass

1:53

but not one democrat voted

1:55

for it five republicans voted

1:57

against it

2:00

Transparency, that's all it was about.

2:02

And I find when I talk to these guys,

2:04

I listen to my audience, that's what most

2:06

people want right now out of government, whether

2:08

it's the schools or whether it's here in DC, just

2:11

show us what's going on, be honest with us, don't

2:13

treat us like children. Are you shocked

2:16

that not one Democrat could vote

2:18

for it? And because I can't go

2:20

more than a minute without talking about AOC,

2:23

unfortunately, that in

2:25

her speech where she was railing against it, she called

2:28

it fascism. she called it

2:30

fascism i take it nothing's probably surprises

2:32

you know you know what's interesting and this is

2:34

what people have to understand i've come to

2:36

understand that the threat they're

2:38

very extreme in their beliefs i

2:40

mean think about in

2:43

congress when you put a bill across the desk h

2:46

r is the house resolution of right to get stamped

2:48

by the order in which you go but

2:50

the majority reserves one through ten and

2:53

the democrats get eleven through twenty

2:56

so you can pick what's most important Now our

2:58

number one bill is going to be HR1,

3:01

which we'll vote on this week, and that'll be for energy

3:03

independence, okay? The Democrats

3:05

were in the majority. Their number one bill

3:08

was election law reform,

3:09

that they wanted to rig the system. That'll make taxpayers

3:12

pay for it and have a czar and all that. We

3:14

made the Parents Bill of Rights, HR5, for

3:17

a couple different reasons. One, that's

3:19

when kindergarten starts your five years old. But

3:22

it really had five pillars. Parents

3:25

should know what's being taught in the school,

3:27

Give us the curriculum. Now make us go have to find

3:30

it, send it to us, and what books are there

3:32

to read? They say we're banning books. We never

3:34

said anything about it. Just tell us what you want us

3:36

to read, right? Shouldn't we know? The

3:38

next thing we thought,

3:39

we should know, how do you

3:41

spend the money? Is taxpayer money?

3:44

What's it being spent on in schools? Is it going just

3:46

to administration? Is it going, where's it going?

3:49

We wanna protect our children's privacy.

3:52

Are they selling the data, right? We

3:55

want to know is there a violent

3:57

activity because what will happen is a

3:59

child... be heard on campus but you're only telling those

4:01

two children. That father,

4:04

what happened to him, he

4:06

went and told, but the person

4:08

who molested his daughter had

4:10

already done it before. And

4:13

the last part is a parent has a right to

4:15

be heard. You should be able to go to a school board meeting

4:18

and not say you're a terrorist.

4:22

I'm a big conservative, federalist and

4:24

all that. That's not getting a school board. That's just respect

4:27

in the process And that's just transparency.

4:30

I'm very big on transparency. The

4:34

Democrats try to attack me all the time when

4:37

I provide information, when they try to

4:39

only show certain parts. Well, let the public

4:42

make that decision. That's

4:43

the difference, I think, when we had this

4:46

discussion before. I was born

4:48

into a Democratic family, but never a Democrat. So

4:50

I really think my philosophy and beliefs

4:53

are stronger than others, because I chose

4:55

to reject what I heard for something

4:57

different. And what I

4:59

believe in a philosophy, I trust you.

5:01

I'm gonna give you the information, but I also

5:04

trust you to fail or succeed. I'm not gonna pre-determine

5:06

that.

5:07

So I don't wanna do just policy here,

5:10

because I'm guessing, how many of you, is this the

5:12

first time either in, well in the capital itself?

5:14

I assume many of you, right? So,

5:17

yeah, so how weird is it on just

5:19

a day-to-day basis that you're in this building

5:22

right now where pretty much everyone's here right now for the

5:24

most part, right? And you're in this building

5:26

with these people that the ideas

5:28

are just so diametrically opposed with

5:30

each other and, you know, they say some pretty nasty

5:33

things about you and you gotta say some things about them

5:35

and sometimes they're on your side of the aisle doing that.

5:37

Yeah,

5:37

no, no, look, if you

5:40

follow the speakers race, most people win on the first

5:42

round, okay? It's kinda tough. He

5:44

had a rough week, he had a rough week. But

5:47

you know what? I'm Irish and Italian, so it's okay.

5:51

I have the best fights in my neighborhood, right? And

5:53

most fights go 15 rounds, so that's okay. But

5:56

I'll tell you a story. So if you watched

5:58

the speaker's race, there was...

6:00

There's one staffer who sat next to me at John

6:02

Leganski and everybody wants to know, he's a really smart kid.

6:04

He went to Stanford, he interned for, the

6:06

youngest guy ever on the floor. And his brother's

6:09

about to become an ordained priest. And his

6:12

brother sent him a book of prayers, you know, before

6:14

it all. And he went and we

6:17

would keep a tally sheet of everybody's

6:19

name and he'd keep voting. And before

6:21

the speaker votes, he just put a

6:23

handful down there. And when the speaker

6:25

race was over, He said, you know what,

6:28

we always knew it was gonna go to 15. I

6:30

said, well, how did we always know? He goes, you

6:33

know, I didn't get a chance to finish all the prayers in

6:35

the book, and this weekend I did. You know how many prayers

6:37

were in that book? 15 prayers. He

6:39

goes, you know how many ballots I just take, I

6:42

just grabbed the handful of put down there? So

6:44

sometimes God has a plan for you, you

6:47

just don't know it yet, right? I could

6:49

have been speaker before, we were in the majority,

6:51

it was gonna be handed to me, but I made a mistake

6:53

on a interview,

6:56

and Lombehold pulled back, we went back

6:58

into the minority,

6:58

and an interesting thing happened. So

7:01

four years ago, I became leader of

7:03

the Republican Party and Pelosi became

7:05

speaker. We have a five-seat majority.

7:08

In those four years, we

7:11

picked up six more seats. Six Democrats

7:13

lost their congressional seats in California.

7:15

No one writes about this. She lost her majority in

7:17

her home state that people think is really blue,

7:20

right? But we were able to win. If

7:24

anyone ever wants to run for office,

7:26

this is what I would tell you, and how long should the

7:28

members stay in office? If you don't

7:30

get goosebumps looking at that Capitol,

7:32

walking into this building, it's time for you to leave.

7:35

Right? I feel so privileged

7:37

to even have this opportunity, right? I get

7:39

goosebumps now just talking to you about it. Think about

7:41

it, we're sitting in the Rayburn Room, right? The

7:43

chambers is right there. Those

7:47

chambers were

7:49

opened in 1857. George

7:52

Washington was never sworn in here, right? George

7:54

Washington was sworn in on Wall Street and in Philadelphia,

7:57

okay? Every president

7:59

since...

8:00

has either been sworn in on the east side,

8:02

over on the west side. The first president to be sworn in

8:05

on the west side was Reagan, he'd tell you he

8:07

wanted to look towards California, right? But,

8:10

my favorite place in this whole building,

8:12

if you go and take a tour, is that room right

8:15

there, it's Statuary Hall. So when

8:17

the building was first built, the country

8:19

wasn't 50 states, it wasn't as large, people

8:21

had desks. This dome is the second

8:23

dome, they had to enlarge the dome when they

8:25

enlarged the building, like the Supreme

8:28

Court was over on the Senate side. So that

8:30

was the chambers. And it's really

8:32

a nice floor. It wasn't then, it was

8:34

spittoons, people spinning, people had

8:36

fights, because this was before

8:38

the Civil War, right? But

8:42

they put a tile with anyone

8:44

who had ever been a member of Congress and became president.

8:47

So you could see where they sat. So

8:49

if you go all the way in the back, there's

8:51

a tile there, like Father

8:55

Sierra. There's a tile in front

8:57

of it, it's where Abraham Lincoln sat. He was a one-term

9:00

congressman. That's all he served.

9:02

So he sat in the back. And he was kind

9:05

of a quiet

9:07

man. And if you

9:09

go in the back, back there, they had a mail room. And

9:11

we call it the Lincoln Room. He'd go back there and tell his stories.

9:14

But I like to stand right where that tile

9:16

is, stand there and look front, like at the front

9:18

of it, envision it being loud.

9:21

They'd have microphones on it. And then look back

9:24

and look at the lady above the clock. She's Theo.

9:27

She's supposed to be inscribing what happens

9:29

there. And just look at the clock and

9:32

pause and look at the time. Look

9:34

at the time and say, oh, it's 2.30. And

9:37

you want to know why that's my favorite spot? That's the

9:39

same clock, the same view Abraham

9:42

Lincoln had. And I'll promise

9:44

you, he's looked at it many times, and you're standing

9:46

right where he is.

9:49

Runs for Senate loses, runs

9:51

for president.

9:52

And this is one of the things that drives me as a Republican.

9:56

He's the first Republican president.

9:58

Here's a nation not even know

10:00

if it's going to sustain itself. He builds

10:02

the intercontinental railroad. That's like

10:05

inventing the internet, right, during the time.

10:07

That he's looking that the future is going to be brighter.

10:10

But this is what I think all

10:12

Americans should pause. Did you

10:14

see that poll in the Wall Street Journal where we're not patriotic

10:17

anymore, we don't want to have children, we're not religious?

10:20

That concerns me. And

10:22

what I would say is, look

10:24

Look at Lincoln's words, right?

10:27

And what I believe if Lincoln, if he

10:29

was interviewing Lincoln today and Lincoln was here,

10:32

Lincoln would first take off his top hat, he'd be a tall

10:34

man, he has a high voice, but

10:36

he would tell you about the Gettysburg Address.

10:39

Four score and seven years ago our forefathers

10:41

brought forth on this continent a new nation, right?

10:45

Conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition

10:47

that we're all equal. He goes on to

10:49

say, but if we fail government of the people

10:52

by the people for the people,

10:54

shall not perish from

10:56

earth. But think about when he wrote this and

10:58

why he said it, okay? We're not

11:00

the world power.

11:02

We're not even a country we're divided, but

11:04

he knew America was more than a country, an

11:06

idea that we would still sustain

11:09

ourselves the concept

11:11

of by the people for the people is more

11:13

powerful than anything else. But

11:15

name me one other nation that's conceived

11:17

in liberty and dedicated the proposition that we're

11:20

all equal. We're not a perfect nation.

11:22

who strive to be a more perfect nation. But

11:24

we should be more patriotic.

11:28

I mean, this idea, and this goes

11:30

long answer to your short question. I

11:32

will put bills on the floor. I don't even remember the question.

11:34

Honestly.

11:35

I just now did. I

11:38

think I asked you what it's like to work in a place when

11:40

people don't like you. Okay, so

11:43

we had a resolution on the floor denouncing

11:46

socialism, okay? This is

11:49

not a college campus. This is not

11:51

Berkeley. This is people elected

11:53

to the U.S. House of Representatives, all the history

11:55

of America, and 100 Democrats

11:57

couldn't vote no.

11:59

Can you? believe that? So

12:01

it goes back to your question, could I believe

12:04

that not one Democrat would stand up?

12:06

That's an extreme position and I

12:09

say this with all due respect, the

12:11

Democrats when I grew up, they were not that way.

12:14

You would find places, and look, we

12:16

have passed, I'll get this wrong, somewhere

12:21

about 43 or 48 bills, okay?

12:24

Over like 37 of them have

12:27

all been bipartisan. There's There's been more

12:29

than 4,000 Democrat votes on these,

12:32

right? And so you can

12:34

find common ground with both sides,

12:36

but how can it not be common

12:39

ground that parents can know what's being taught in their kid's

12:41

school?

12:42

No way do they get to say what

12:44

the curriculum or what the books are being

12:46

read, just tell us what you're doing.

12:49

And that's wrong. So how do we get over

12:51

that? Because I think that that seems to be probably

12:53

the first, there's a lot of problems, but seems to be the

12:55

first one, that when you look back and you go,

12:58

okay, well, these guys aren't, you know, they are

13:00

afraid to denounce socialism. Many

13:02

of them do view the founding of the country

13:05

as a net negative to the world, things of that nature.

13:08

How do we get past that before we get into the battles

13:10

of, okay, you want this tax break and

13:12

you want that spending bill? Well, it's tough too, because

13:15

it's just like a D.C. crime. Now, all

13:17

of you stay safe here, but,

13:19

you know, D.C. is not a state. They want to make it

13:21

a state.

13:22

And the city council went

13:24

and decriminalized, carjacking,

13:26

even forms of murder. So

13:28

we could do something about it. We put

13:31

it on the floor

13:32

to not allow that to happen.

13:34

One member on the Democratic side

13:36

got mugged on her way to work, and she lives in a really

13:38

nice area. But it's not unusual,

13:41

right? You talk to staff. It happens all

13:43

the time. Rand Paul is one of his staff members. He got stabbed.

13:45

He was stabbed two days ago. I think he's incredible. Or

13:47

the other weekend before, in broad

13:50

daylight in the middle of the weekend, at a gunpoint,

13:53

So Rob and the

13:55

phone and everything else taken. Carjackings,

13:57

we did this in February. that.

14:00

At that time, we had only about 30 some

14:02

days into the new year and there were 65 carjackings.

14:05

When we passed this, the president said he would veto

14:07

it.

14:08

Only 31 Democrats voted with us. That's

14:11

not a partisan issue to be safe. So

14:14

what is it you hear from them? What do you hear privately

14:16

when they vote against it? They think they have to

14:18

lock together that somehow, oh,

14:20

that I'm agreeing with the Republican. No, you

14:22

want your streets safe.

14:24

And they said, but DC

14:27

should be a state and we should have our hands off.

14:29

The delegate for D.C., Norton, she

14:32

did a rally before it was gonna come

14:34

back, right? And she had it

14:36

at Union Station in the middle of the day at three

14:38

o'clock. And if you watch the video of the rally,

14:41

somebody gets carjacked during the rally. You

14:43

can't make this up. You

14:45

can't make it up. But

14:49

this is the other thing, and this is what scares me. So

14:52

it wasn't just about D.C., it's about what's

14:54

happening across this nation in crime, from

14:56

Chicago and others, and I believe There

14:58

are some waking up, but the majority are not, because they

15:00

think they can't stand up to them. DC also

15:03

says anybody can vote.

15:05

Okay, we're in pretty much an

15:07

international city, are we not? Because

15:09

you have all these embassies. So you can belong to the

15:11

Chinese Communist Party, be a Chinese,

15:14

and work at that embassy, and DC now said you can vote

15:17

in your elections here. What do you think they

15:19

would want to vote for and embarrass our

15:21

nation's capital?

15:23

That's what concerns me. That's

15:25

beyond common sense. That's an extreme

15:28

position that goes beyond the foundation

15:30

of the nation. So what do you think Republicans

15:32

can do better than? One of the lines that these guys hear

15:35

me say probably five times a week is

15:37

you don't have to be a Republican, but you cannot

15:39

be a Democrat. And the reason I frame it that way

15:42

is it's obvious they've for the

15:44

most part gone off the deep end. But

15:46

there clearly is some sort of branding issue

15:48

or something that I think might be changing. I

15:50

do believe that. That for example,

15:52

the Republicans obviously didn't get that red wave

15:55

in the midterm. So people clearly are

15:57

stepping away from the Democrats, but they're kinda.

16:00

I don't know, these Republicans. The

16:02

other thing too, we should look at why didn't

16:05

the red wave come?

16:06

And we should be very honest with ourselves. There's

16:09

a couple different reasons why, and I'll tell you. Look, as

16:11

a leader, I'm fortunate

16:13

in both terms we've won. But

16:16

could we have won more? Yeah, we could

16:18

have.

16:19

I had three candidates in Pennsylvania

16:21

that overperformed the Republican gubernatorial

16:24

candidate by 2014 and 11 and did not win.

16:28

This idea that we're

16:31

just gonna pick whoever and think we're gonna win in

16:33

November, no. The top of the ticket's gonna

16:35

hurt you below the ticket. And this idea

16:38

that we're, it almost happens that

16:40

we're better at attacking other Republicans

16:42

than standing up for the policies we believe in.

16:45

Well that gets us nowhere. And

16:47

the other thing too is, if you wanna

16:49

be in the majority, and this is what Reagan said,

16:52

if you agree with us 80% of the time, you're there.

16:55

Somebody who wins in Texas is gonna be different

16:57

someone who wins in California. And if you want to sit

16:59

back and where did we win the majority? We won

17:01

five new seats in New York. We won in California.

17:04

We won in Oregon. We won in Arizona,

17:07

places that other Republicans lost, and

17:09

to be frank, in the last two cycles

17:11

we've lost the presidency, both cycles

17:13

lost in the Senate.

17:15

We've lost governors. The only place

17:17

we've won is in the House. And the one thing I will say, the

17:19

determining factor, the quality of the candidate.

17:22

We have extraordinary candidates who've

17:24

won. And sometimes it's very important

17:27

to get the right person through the primary. And

17:29

you shouldn't just say, okay, well, this

17:31

person is the most conservative. Well,

17:34

who's the most conservative who can win in November?

17:37

That's another thing we have to think, because you've got to have the gavel

17:39

to govern. The uniqueness, like we have a

17:41

five-seat majority.

17:42

They don't hand the gavels out in small, medium,

17:45

and large. We get the same size gavel. And

17:48

this is a place that as Republicans should wake up. So

17:51

I look back at the vote saying,

17:53

where could we have done better?

17:55

Top of the ticket hurt. Supreme

17:59

Court decision.

18:00

made a difference too in different places where

18:02

the Democrats played it, it did. So

18:04

you think it hurt more than anticipated maybe?

18:07

Yeah, much more than the polling showed. It determined

18:09

turnout and motivation. In 2012,

18:13

we had 234 members and

18:15

we didn't even win the popular vote in the House. In 2016,

18:18

we peaked. We

18:21

had 242 members and we won

18:23

the popular vote by one point. Today

18:25

we have 222 members. You know

18:27

what our popular vote was?

18:28

We want to buy three points. Two points

18:31

better than the time before. Seven points

18:33

better than we did two years prior.

18:37

So what it means is it's more competitive.

18:39

We've had redistricting. So it's not

18:41

that you're gonna have these big majorities that you think things

18:43

are just gonna happen. And

18:46

people look through different points, right? I

18:48

mean, think for a moment. How many of you are from

18:50

Pennsylvania?

18:52

The one thing I learned is Democrats

18:54

will vote for whoever,

18:56

as long as they're a Democrat. You

19:00

know? But I will tell you. Where

19:02

is John Federman? Where is he? I

19:07

don't know. But I'm

19:09

just, you know, all due respect. I mean,

19:11

it's

19:12

just very difficult. But Republicans,

19:15

and this is where I say we've got to be honest with

19:18

ourselves and we've got to do it before you get the election.

19:21

If we have a poor candidate, rightfully

19:24

so, we won't all walk and lock step and

19:26

vote for that person. Right for itself. So

19:28

what we really should do in the primary,

19:31

not beat up on each other,

19:32

but pick the very best person who's gonna be

19:34

able to win and carry it. And sometimes

19:37

we say if you're not, no one's gonna be 100% with each other,

19:40

but do we have a core foundation with one another?

19:43

I'll

19:43

tell you guys something funny about John Federman. I actually

19:45

saw Dr. Oz a couple weeks ago at

19:47

Jordan Peterson's house at a party, and

19:50

he looked like he got punched in the

19:52

face. The guy cannot believe

19:54

that he lost to Federman. It

19:56

is still, anywho.

20:00

What do you make of, as you know,

20:02

I lived in Cali, I made a very public exit

20:04

to the free state of Florida, things seem to be.

20:06

I'm not giving up, I'm not giving up. You

20:09

know I didn't want to leave that house, but that was the only thing

20:11

that was keeping me there was a home. I didn't want to

20:13

leave that house, but I could afford to buy that house.

20:17

But what do you make of the general idea

20:19

now that the states do seem to be

20:21

going their separate way, and that is what federalism's

20:24

all about? I mean, I feel like I

20:26

moved to a new country, not a new state. Each state

20:28

is a pilot program. And if there's one thing you look

20:30

in the nation, every 10 years we do a census.

20:33

This is the first time in the history

20:35

of California that we lost

20:37

a congressional seat, the time before we stayed

20:39

equal. And what states lost? New York,

20:42

California, Illinois, what states

20:44

gained? Texas and Florida? It's

20:46

a pilot program that's telling the country,

20:49

right? And how many of you have friends

20:51

that have moved?

20:52

Why? Because of the policies. And

20:55

it should wake

20:57

the other states up to

20:59

change. Do you have any hope for Cali? I mean,

21:01

obviously you're still a representative in Cali.

21:04

I mean, do you have hope that that thing can move? Yeah, because

21:07

look, I've won five seats in the last four

21:09

years in California, Republican and Congress. They

21:12

make the system harder. The other thing you have to remember,

21:14

too, California has, when it

21:16

comes to election law, they mail everybody

21:18

a ballot whether you ask for one or not.

21:20

They don't clean up their rolls. They

21:22

make it legal that you can harvest

21:25

somebody's ballot, and we still win.

21:28

So it doesn't matter what state you

21:30

live in, find what the rules are, and

21:32

go out and fight for what you believe in. The

21:34

hard part is most people who are leaving

21:36

California have a more conservative

21:39

view. You know, these other states say, oh,

21:41

we don't want the Calvary. I want them back. There

21:44

are a lot of the other voters, but we're

21:46

learning, and also the other thing too

21:48

Because if you look at the Republican Party now

21:50

in the House,

21:52

more women, more minorities, the most

21:54

black Republicans since Reconstruction. So

21:57

don't think we can't compete anywhere.

22:00

in

22:00

the country, we can't. But I believe it's

22:02

the policy. And so I don't give

22:04

up because the pendulum always swings. How

22:06

much do you view the mainstream media as an

22:08

impediment to what you're trying to do at this point?

22:10

They obviously are losing control to a certain degree,

22:13

but you know, every day on the show, I'm putting out

22:15

the lies of the view and the lies of

22:18

Meet the Press and the lies of CNN and

22:21

MSNBC and the whole thing. They're

22:23

never with you guys. They don't mind lying over

22:26

and over and over again. Do you

22:28

view it as a problem still Or in some ways,

22:30

is it a win because we can expose it now?

22:32

Well, I think the

22:34

American public on both sides of the aisle do

22:37

not trust what they're being told

22:39

most of the time. Because they've found that

22:41

there's lots of times that it hasn't been right. I

22:44

live in each and every day. I

22:46

can walk up and do a press conference. I

22:48

tell you, right after passing, the

22:51

parents build lights. And they'll

22:53

ask me something about something else, right?

22:56

But to tell you the secret

22:58

is I kind of enjoy the battle

23:00

now. I don't know if you want any of my press

23:03

conferences. I decided when I became

23:05

speaker, I'm going to do something

23:07

different. I do a lot of things

23:09

different. Hakeem Jeffrey's office

23:11

is right where that used to be my office. But I treat

23:13

Hakeem the way I wanted to be treated. And

23:16

I think that's the reason. We

23:18

should be the first ones that respect people who have

23:20

difference of opinion of us. Because we get upset

23:23

if people don't give us the respect of our opinions.

23:25

Well, how can you do that if you don't respect? So

23:27

I try to provide there. But

23:30

I don't go down and do a press conference in the press room. I

23:32

do it at the Statuary Hall. I do it out here. And

23:35

they all come around me. They

23:37

ask me some of them. They'll ask me

23:39

this one question when I was dealing from the beginning

23:42

about an intel. I

23:44

remove, shift, and swallow. I

23:47

did it for a purpose,

23:49

not for a political purpose. And this

23:51

one reporter asked me the question. And

23:53

then as soon as I start to answer, She says, I'm not answering

23:55

the question. So my point is, you

23:58

have a right to ask me the question.

24:00

But you do not have a right to say whether I answered

24:02

or not. My answer is your answer. But

24:05

I mean, think about it. I was really concerned

24:07

about Intel committees different than all the other

24:09

committees. This is where you get the security

24:11

clearance, OK? The

24:13

members who sit on there only get appointed by their leaders.

24:19

They find things out that other

24:21

members don't, right? And we make decisions

24:23

in there to protect all of us with information

24:26

we know. And because of source and others, you really

24:28

can't let other people know. Well, Schiff

24:31

used that position to lie about what he knew, which

24:33

you can't be there.

24:35

Swalwell got on as a sophomore,

24:37

and the minute he gets on, the FBI come and tells us

24:39

he's got a relationship with a Chinese spy. No

24:42

disrespect, I just don't think that qualifies

24:44

you, right? Um. No

24:47

disrespect, no disrespect. But,

24:50

there's 200 other members she could have pointed, right?

24:52

Yeah. I never knew about this until I came later,

24:54

and I read the papers. Right, the FBI come and give me the

24:56

briefing.

24:57

There's no way he should have been on there, and he was tapped on

24:59

there. And so I just

25:01

said, no,

25:02

anybody that has a relationship with any spy, you

25:05

can't be on the committee. It's just, I

25:07

mean, it's not a high bar, but.

25:10

Wait, I have to pause you for a sec, because

25:13

when I had you at the house in Cali,

25:15

you told me about that for the first time, was the first time

25:17

I heard about it. And we then

25:19

clipped that a million times and it got millions

25:21

of views and people were sharing it before you were

25:24

a speaker and now. But

25:26

he's still here, he's still in this building.

25:29

If you have a relationship with the Chinese spy,

25:31

no disrespect, isn't that,

25:32

I just became very Italian to see that, isn't

25:36

that just like, you gotta go now, like

25:38

you can't stay here, you don't have to go home, but you gotta

25:40

stay here. I believe in the rule of law, the

25:43

voters decide who their member of Congress

25:45

is.

25:46

I could dislike that person, I could think that person

25:48

did something wrong, but

25:50

there's nothing that disqualifies

25:52

him

25:54

from being a member, That's why he's

25:56

a member and I give him committees. but

25:58

I'm not giving you a

26:00

security clearance. He cannot, if

26:02

he was to leave this job and

26:04

he went to the private sector, he could not get

26:06

a security clearance because he had a relationship

26:08

with a Chinese spy. So why would we give him

26:10

a government security clearance? And they attacked

26:12

before. And so what I did, I

26:15

went down when the Intel Committee

26:18

first constituted and I had Hakeem come with

26:20

me. And I told all the members, look, I want

26:22

you to work together. I don't want partisanship

26:25

in this office because this is a committee

26:27

that should think just as Americans, Right?

26:30

And this is the other thing I'm doing. I'm

26:32

really afraid which country

26:34

captures AI and quantum first.

26:37

Okay?

26:38

And we should be really concerned

26:40

as Americans of what's happening

26:42

with Russia, China,

26:45

North Korea, and Iran. If you

26:47

study history, this is very similar

26:49

to the 1930s. They're creating

26:51

an axis of power of

26:54

supporting one another against

26:56

the West, democracy and freedom.

26:59

The only two times President

27:02

Xi has left his country since

27:04

the pandemic was to meet with this group.

27:08

It's very concerning to me. And so

27:11

MIT teaches a course in quantum

27:13

and AI that they actually provide

27:16

to the generals in our military. I'm

27:18

having everybody on the Intel take it

27:20

together. So they think like

27:22

a swat, right? A strength, weakness, opportunity, threats.

27:24

you think as an American, not as a Republican and Democrat,

27:27

right? Because whatever happens, if we fail,

27:29

it's not one party failing, it's a nation that's failing.

27:32

And I'm going to have them come in and teach it to the

27:34

entire Congress. The

27:36

only time we really get together

27:38

outside of committees and

27:40

cameras is when we have classified briefings.

27:43

And it's usually about a thread, a balloon, or something

27:45

else, right? And so

27:47

I recently had one where all the Republicans

27:50

and Democrats went together in the auditorium. what it

27:52

was about, our debt.

27:54

And I didn't make it partisan. I had

27:57

the Congressional Budget Office come in and tell because

27:59

this is...

28:00

This is what you should be worried

28:02

about too. Look, we have a lot of problems. We have

28:04

a border that's not secure. We have Fentanyl

28:06

coming across. We have inflation, all that. But

28:09

the three greatest, biggest challenges,

28:11

I think, to our nation going forward is

28:13

our debt, our education system in

28:15

China. Okay? And we're not going to tackle

28:17

those unless you tackle together. And what

28:19

I wanted to do is not in a partisan way,

28:22

but really look at this debt. The CBO

28:24

tells us in the next 10 years,

28:27

we'll have to pay 10.5 trillion

28:29

just in interest, okay? But let me put it

28:31

in perspective. 10.5 trillion in

28:33

the next 10 years. Do you know how much we've paid in interest

28:36

since 1940 till today?

28:38

In those 83 years, nine trillion.

28:42

This is the interest on your credit card, okay,

28:44

people? This is what makes you upset.

28:46

And for the first time in the next 10 years, three

28:48

of the trust funds will go broke. Highway,

28:51

Medicare, and Social Security. And the president

28:53

all yells, oh, Republicans wanna cut it. No,

28:55

by him doing nothing, it automatically

28:58

gets cut.

28:59

He's cutting it by ignoring this problem. And

29:02

if you look at 50-year averages,

29:04

on 50-year average, we normally spend

29:07

about 21% of GDP, OK? Right

29:10

now, he's spending 23.7% on his way to 25%. On

29:15

average, the amount of revenue we bring in

29:18

on 50 years is usually about 17.1%. Do

29:22

you know how much revenue per GDP we're bringing

29:24

right now, 20%. You know how many

29:26

times we've done that in the history of America? Only twice. So

29:29

it's not

29:30

a revenue problem. We have more money at any

29:32

given time

29:34

coming in, but we're spending. They

29:36

added 5.9 trillion, and

29:39

they wonder why inflation was black.

29:41

And what happened when inflation came? Interest rates went

29:43

up, and now it causes a banking problem. And

29:46

then he wants to ignore the debt ceiling like

29:48

someone should just pass that without

29:51

changing it. And to me, the debt

29:53

ceiling is you give your child a credit

29:55

card. They charge it up. You're responsible

29:57

for paying it. Did you just raise

29:59

the limit or do you look at what they're spending it on?

30:02

So that's the approach I'm taking and it's

30:04

pretty hard that the president tries to ignore it. Do

30:07

you admire sometimes the fact that they can get away

30:09

with this kind of stuff? I mean the Inflation Reduction

30:12

Act, which had nothing to do

30:14

with inflation. Right. I

30:17

mean it literally caused inflation, but

30:20

they get away with it, the media runs cover form

30:22

and then you have to come out here and explain

30:25

things about growth and GDP and people are like,

30:27

but the Inflation Reduction Act. You

30:30

gotta be strong-willed in this and you gotta have

30:32

a

30:32

willingness not to give up.

30:34

Because you could work as hard as you can, they could say

30:36

something that's not true, but you gotta wake up the next

30:38

day and come back.

30:40

This country is too great for small

30:43

ideas, right?

30:44

And

30:46

I just believe, even in the

30:48

last election, maybe it didn't turn out exactly as you

30:50

wanted,

30:51

but think about had we not won the majority of

30:53

the House, what would be happening? sometimes

30:57

we've got to thank for what we got right

30:59

then and work harder

31:00

that's exactly what we have to do thankful

31:03

you get out until the story we're

31:05

trying to be a work trying and what's

31:07

interesting i think that you'd find from this audience if i pulled

31:10

these guys you know my audience is kind

31:12

of all over the place there's probably a couple

31:15

pop to maybe maybe

31:17

at most democrats there might be two in here

31:20

maybe not maybe not You

31:23

see that? Everybody kind of froze, not me. There might

31:25

be Democrats who listen, but don't try them. There are definitely

31:27

former Democrats. How about former Democrats, right?

31:29

That's all right. Ronald Reagan wasn't former. Right,

31:31

exactly. He was awesome. Yeah. Let

31:35

me ask you about the hearings. We're always

31:37

watching hearings. I'm always playing clips of hearings

31:39

and we're dragging out Twitter executives and

31:42

all of these people and Fauci, you know, can

31:44

lie about vaccines

31:46

or what we funded and all of this stuff. We

31:48

play these clips and people are like, oh, it's

31:50

great,

31:50

Rand Paul got them and this happened, that

31:53

happened, Ted Cruz got him, but then no

31:55

one gets fired. Nothing seems to actually

31:57

change. And I think that that is now.

32:00

something that you guys, that's my personal advice,

32:03

would be that that's something that you guys should be focusing

32:05

on. Like, what happens after the hearing?

32:07

It's not enough for us to just be like,

32:09

oh, Fauci lied, Twitter

32:11

executives lied, et cetera. Okay,

32:13

so let's think about this. Let's also

32:16

look at what has happened since we won the majority. We

32:18

won the majority, weren't sworn in yet, but

32:20

we were able to get in the NDAA

32:22

that

32:23

those in the service no longer mandate that

32:25

they had the vaccines, so they weren't gonna be kicked out.

32:28

That's a victory, right? so they stopped firing people

32:30

who live there. Is it a coincidence

32:33

that Fauci then announced that he wasn't gonna

32:35

stay around? Do you know something

32:37

else that we created? We created a select committee

32:39

on COVID. Is it a coincidence

32:42

that once we start the hearings, then they

32:44

acknowledge, well, there is information

32:47

that it could have come from the Wuhan lab

32:50

of the Wuhan COVID, right? Who

32:55

is the guy that used to have the nighttime show, the

32:57

comedian?

32:58

John Stewart when he brought it to call they're

33:01

not there they named a lab

33:04

after yeah

33:05

um...

33:08

it's interesting down now they're providing

33:10

certain information as we're going after they make

33:12

it very difficult now that we have subpoena

33:14

power but i think

33:17

you'll find at the end of the day when we get

33:19

the information now we're not going to pre-determine

33:22

if we don't have all the facts we're going to take people

33:24

through and see all the facts and i think

33:27

what's one Another thing that's happening in this

33:29

country that's a problem, there's no consequences

33:31

for people's action. That's what's happened

33:33

with crime. That's what's happened in our schools,

33:36

right? And when they see it happening in government,

33:39

then why should they not? And I think that's

33:41

part of the point. Look. So

33:43

how does that actually change? I mean, do you need a Republican

33:45

president to then do something about it? So

33:48

let's say the laws. You expose these guys. Okay,

33:50

we, Fauci lied under, let's just say.

33:52

Or one of these guys. Is Fauci at a job

33:54

anymore? Right, so okay, but one of these, or

33:56

if we found out who exactly if the government

33:58

was guiding to it. We also...

34:00

changed

34:01

some of the rules in the house when we took over. So

34:03

I mean, it's hard for us, like, you get mad at somebody, okay,

34:06

defund the whole department. Well, that doesn't work, you're

34:08

not gonna defund. Now we have a specific

34:10

place we can go, so we can go there.

34:13

But what's interesting to me, you brought up Twitter, and

34:16

I think Elon's doing a fabulous job there, to be

34:18

honest with you. And what Elon is doing,

34:20

not picking sides, he's just letting the information out and

34:22

the Democrats are getting mad, right? But

34:24

we watched what happened that it's even worse and

34:26

we imagine that government was

34:29

in with business now, going

34:31

after people on what their beliefs were,

34:34

but then he had some Democrat reporters

34:37

write, what happened to Matt the other day? The

34:39

IRS comes to his house. Yep.

34:42

So sometimes our hearing shows

34:44

light stops actions. We're

34:48

not prosecutors, so we

34:50

can't prosecute somebody. We

34:53

can defund certain jobs,

34:55

but we don't have the ability to prosecute so we have the ability

34:57

to show the light and give all the information

34:59

and also controls per strings so

35:02

we'll take every power we have to

35:04

try to correct actions

35:06

what else is on your mind that may not

35:08

be on our mind i mean and by our

35:10

mind i mean the things that i'm talking about on the show the

35:12

things that these guys are talking about like what else

35:14

is coming down the pike that that you're either worried

35:17

about or excited for but i

35:19

mean i

35:21

if you're not excited as an american

35:23

Do you want to live somewhere else?

35:26

It may not be perfect here, but we have an

35:28

opportunity to make it better, right? So

35:30

every day, I'm an optimist. I wake up every day.

35:33

If there's the one current thing, I'm worried about

35:35

how the president's handling the debt ceiling.

35:37

He's ignoring it. He's walking us in to

35:40

some type of debt problem because he's

35:42

just ignoring the problem. I'm worried about the next

35:44

generation. We're at 120% of GDP in debt. We've

35:48

only been here during World War II. That means

35:50

our debt's larger than our economy with

35:52

another 20%.

35:54

So what are you doing to the resignation? So

35:57

when you say that to your colleagues on the other side, What do they

35:59

say? They fundamentally just believe you can

36:01

just print money. I mean, we've got to print here.

36:03

Yes, because they've been doing it. Yeah, they fundamentally. That's

36:05

the belief. That's actually the belief. That's what

36:08

caused... Look, Milton Freeman was my favorite economist.

36:10

He says there's only one entity

36:12

that can create inflation, government,

36:15

when they spend too much. He also

36:17

says there's only one way out of inflation, is

36:19

that the interest rates have to be higher than the

36:21

inflation rate. Well, we can't afford that. You're

36:24

going to be... Interest rates over six, seven percent,

36:27

it's going to be... Go on. Then I'm worried

36:29

about the future. I look at these other four countries

36:31

creating access of power.

36:35

I've watched what a lack of leadership has happened,

36:37

okay? Think about when the president

36:40

got in,

36:41

Afghanistan,

36:44

creating 13 new gold star families. So

36:46

you know what, we had a hearing on this. For the whole

36:48

time, they never went and had a hearing,

36:51

because they're afraid of what they're gonna find out. Why

36:53

would you do that to our military? You wanna never repeat

36:55

that. He didn't listen to the military leaders,

36:58

he made his own decision. He actually

37:00

had a sniper that had the

37:02

bomber in his sights.

37:04

But

37:07

where did that bomber come from? Take it a step back further.

37:10

He was in the prison in Bagram. So

37:12

had he not moved out of Bagram where we caught the

37:14

worst people for the last decade, that

37:16

person would have never got out and put

37:19

a bomb on to kill the Americans.

37:22

And then they wouldn't look at the system. But

37:24

what happened after that? It

37:27

set us back two decades. The

37:29

Chancellor of Germany now goes to

37:31

China. China has now just brokered

37:33

a deal in the Middle East between Saudi Arabia

37:35

and Iran. That used to be the leadership

37:37

of America at Camp David, right?

37:40

So what he's done is he's lowered

37:42

the standards of America to

37:45

our allies and to our adversaries,

37:47

pushing them further there. It also

37:50

brought upon Ukraine, right? Because

37:52

then he goes, meets with Putin. Putin

37:54

saw what happened in Afghanistan. And

37:56

what does he do when he meets with Putin? He lifts

37:58

the sanctions off Nord Stream.

38:00

too. He gives him a welcome map.

38:02

Back in 2015 I met with then Vice

38:04

President Biden trying to encourage him

38:07

to sell the javelins to

38:09

Ukraine so they can stop if

38:11

any Russian tanks come in. He says no

38:14

Merkel won't like that. I said well let's train

38:16

him on and keep it in Poland so it's there close. No.

38:19

Remember when he spent too much and he told us inflation

38:21

was transitory? That's the worst

38:24

punishment you can ever do to your own citizens.

38:27

It takes money directly out of view and he

38:29

told us it was transitory. Then the interest

38:31

rates went up, then banks got in trouble. We're

38:34

weaker around the world. Then he comes

38:36

out and he picks one form of energy, makes

38:38

our energy cost higher, cuts jobs

38:41

out of America, it harms emissions.

38:43

Let me tell you this.

38:46

American natural gas is 41% cleaner

38:49

than Russian natural gas. If we

38:52

If we sell American

38:54

natural gas, not just to our allies, to

38:57

our adversaries, global emissions

38:59

will go down further than any Democrat

39:01

bill out there.

39:02

And you know what else will happen? Geopolitically,

39:05

the world will be safer. There'll be more

39:07

American jobs. You'll have a better environment.

39:09

You'll have a stronger America. You'll have a safer

39:12

world. And

39:13

he tells us, I'm going to veto that on

39:15

demand. What? Makes no

39:17

sense. Don't you care about

39:20

the country? Don't you care about the world? And

39:22

all he does is empower his IRA

39:24

bill, inflation reduction. That's

39:27

a stimulus bill for China

39:29

mandating one form of energy. Where

39:32

are you going to buy the windmills? Where are you going to buy the solar

39:34

panels? China.

39:36

And if you watch what he's done

39:38

is he shut down our minerals. China

39:41

controls 90% of all critical minerals. They

39:44

control 95% of the processing. So

39:47

when we open up a new mine in America,

39:49

we've got to send them over there to be processed.

39:52

One thing we did do when we took the majority, I've

39:54

been wanting to do this for four years, I created

39:56

the select committee on China.

40:00

The things that we have failed at,

40:02

we have not spoken with one voice about

40:04

China. China has systematically, we used

40:06

to copper, key in

40:08

all these renewables and everything else. Back

40:11

in the 90s, we produced three times as

40:13

much. They now produce eight times. Why?

40:15

Because they've gone around the world collecting it, why

40:17

we shut ours down. Why are

40:19

we empowering them? We shouldn't

40:22

be dependent upon them on anything.

40:25

We should bring it back to America, and back

40:27

to just North and South America

40:30

as well. And what he's done

40:32

is make us weaker on that stage and it's only been

40:34

two years. So what keeps me

40:36

up is that leadership.

40:38

Who do you think is driving that? I mean,

40:41

so you believe that this is really Joe

40:43

Biden himself.

40:44

Okay. Okay. I

40:46

know you're not. I know you're not.

40:51

Now, I could ask this question a lot. Note how he had

40:53

to shift in his seat. Yes, yes, okay.

40:56

I've met with him quite a few times.

40:59

It's him. And remember, when he

41:01

was running for president, he

41:05

was about to be beaten. They all collapsed, right? And

41:07

then he had to go and publicly sign

41:10

an agreement with Bernie Sanders.

41:12

When he gave the state of the union, one

41:15

of my toughest jobs was just to sit behind there,

41:17

right? And I was respectful. I did not tear

41:20

up the speech. I could disagree and anything else. There's

41:25

a difference in speakers. I respect the

41:27

office I have, I respect his office, I respect

41:29

him in his office. I

41:32

heard Democrats yelling to Bernie Sanders,

41:34

you wrote that speech, you wrote that speech,

41:37

and Bernie's smiling. Remember

41:39

what he pledged to get their votes,

41:41

that's where he went so far. That's

41:44

the extreme position. And remember, Bernie

41:46

Sanders is not a Democrat. He's a

41:48

socialist. And he's never balked

41:50

away from that.

41:52

Did you happen to see the clip of Bernie on

41:54

Real Time with Bill Maher a couple weeks ago where

41:56

he asked him the difference between equity inequality,

41:59

which is the entire socialist program

42:02

and Bernie literally said he didn't know and then Bill

42:04

had to walk him through it. I mean it's incredible.

42:06

Bill Maher has been pretty interesting.

42:08

We're trying to get him there. You ever get the call?

42:12

You ever get the call? You know I had been on that show

42:14

before. I was

42:16

on that show before I was ever elected.

42:19

What were you doing? It was when I was on HBO.

42:21

I was a young Republican. Now

42:24

don't go back and try to find the kids. But

42:26

not getting the call

42:29

these the

42:31

there was a day and on first of all the design she

42:33

was on it yeah one of the guys

42:35

that was on a he had a hit

42:37

show at the time

42:39

and i think a comedian well what do you what do you think you gotta

42:41

do to get those last liberals these

42:43

guys know i focus on that group as i always

42:45

say there's not that many people that can shift

42:47

right now right we have yet you have your hardcore republicans

42:50

have your hardcore democrats but i think the disaffected

42:53

liberal is the group that

42:55

you can still shifted is the bill martyce

42:57

which is why i focus on him so much what

42:59

was it that you do there you know we sit back and say

43:02

like what what am i doing

43:04

to shift them i actually think the democrats

43:06

are doing more to shift

43:08

i think with i think it would be as bill mar about

43:11

me four years ago that kevin doesn't have anything

43:13

nice to say so i don't believe anything

43:15

says i think he's so disgusted

43:17

by these democrat policies what's really

43:20

happened is when the democrats could took control

43:22

of everything

43:23

what brought us inflation what brought defunding

43:26

of the please what brought us crime you know And

43:28

then they try to just

43:30

give talking points that they're like, they're strong on

43:33

crime. Well, no.

43:34

I mean, did you put anyone in

43:37

jail that was burning our federal buildings?

43:39

No.

43:41

I mean, and what's really concerning

43:43

to America now too is we

43:46

respect the rule of law and we respect

43:48

equal justice. But when justice is

43:50

only weighed on one side,

43:52

that's what we don't like. That is what

43:54

gets us infuriated.

43:56

And I really think what the Democrats have done has

43:58

moved Bill Barr more.

44:00

that he said this is no longer

44:02

where I stood. I really wonder in time,

44:04

if you look back in history for many a times,

44:08

would John Kennedy be a Democrat today?

44:11

No. His policies are not where the Democratic

44:13

Party is at. Anti-war, low

44:15

tax. Yeah. What would

44:17

America have looked like had

44:20

Abraham Lincoln not been assassinated, right? Malice

44:23

towards none.

44:24

We wouldn't wait until the 1950s to civil

44:27

rights. And this is something for people

44:29

who are Republican and conservative, don't

44:31

let the Democrats take this away, okay?

44:35

The Democrats had a bill on the floor

44:37

last Congress to remove some statues.

44:39

I walked down the floor and the Republicans said, oh,

44:42

I'm all for it.

44:43

I think you should remove more statues and I think you

44:45

should change your name. There's not one Republican

44:48

statue we ever have to remove.

44:50

The Jim Crow law

44:52

was brought to us by Democrats,

44:55

okay? Think about what happened. In

44:57

my office, you have a portrait of

44:59

Abraham Lincoln, but you have a portrait of Joseph Rainey.

45:02

You know Joseph Rainey is the first black

45:04

American to get elected to Congress. He was a Republican

45:07

in 1870. You know when the first

45:09

black American Democrat was elected 60 years

45:11

later? You know, Joseph Rainey

45:13

wasn't the only black Republican elected, a number

45:16

of them were elected. So then we had a presidential

45:18

race that was close. And so the Democrats

45:20

partnered with the Republicans and said you won, but

45:23

only on one condition.

45:25

You remove the federal troops from the south.

45:27

And when they removed the federal troops from the south,

45:29

lo and behold, Democrats then defeated Republicans.

45:32

And what did they do when they defeated Republicans? They

45:35

changed the election law and brought Jim

45:37

Crow laws in and picked people

45:39

based upon who can go there.

45:41

Remember the Republican Party,

45:44

what it was founded upon. So when

45:46

the Democrats, they removed five portraits

45:49

of Democrat speakers. Okay, you should.

45:52

But every statue they wanted to remove was of

45:54

a Democrat, sent to us from

45:56

a state that the democrat majority

45:58

was in the voted for it that

46:00

was accepted by a congress that was

46:02

a majority of democrats

46:03

why do you keep your name

46:05

change the name of the party we don't have to

46:08

change the name of the republican party because

46:10

we were founded on the idea that we're all equal

46:12

we fought for the idea the people were

46:14

equal and fair and at times i've

46:17

watched when you say how can you change they

46:20

don't know the history they don't know the

46:22

story and we need to tell it more

46:24

often so is that it education

46:26

fundamentally i mean is that why we have to get the back

46:29

more than anything else because people believe now

46:31

that 1619 project was you

46:33

know the true story of America. We create our

46:35

history. I mean the idea that Columbus

46:39

is bad, the idea

46:42

that you

46:43

know you can't say Christmas, I

46:46

mean

46:47

our founders were some of the most

46:49

religious people

46:51

right. We believe in religious

46:53

freedom though. I mean the idea

46:56

in our schools what I'm most worried about

46:58

is

47:00

nobody in the Taliban

47:02

or in the Chinese army are worried about a pronoun

47:05

nobody okay

47:09

with all respect they're just want

47:11

to fight to win at the end of

47:13

the day we may have the right pronouns

47:16

but if we lose the war we're out right

47:18

and they only understand fear but also

47:21

the idea of our children I'm not worried

47:23

about my kids competing with your kids I'm worried about

47:25

our kids competing with India and China.

47:29

And the great equalizer in

47:31

America is the education system. And

47:34

why it's the Democrats who fight charter schools.

47:36

And this is the other thing that's so great about states. What

47:38

Arizona has done, what Florida has done that

47:42

allows your tax dollars to follow

47:44

your students so they can go to a better

47:46

school. It's your choice. You

47:49

know, that's going to change. And who does that help

47:51

the most? Really, those

47:53

who are lower income in America and many times

47:55

many more minorities than others. I

47:58

tell you, today I was very excited.

48:00

I had a school group that was from

48:02

my hometown here. And

48:04

it's a charter school that

48:06

was developed by this one family, the Grims. Any

48:09

of you ever eat these baby carrots?

48:11

Okay, they just sold, but there was two families

48:14

in my district that grew 80% of all the carrots

48:16

in the country. And you want a secret? There's no

48:19

such thing as a baby carrot. They're regular carrots. We

48:21

chop them, charge you more and you buy them. We love

48:23

you for that, okay? But. Good

48:25

night, everybody. That's it, that's it. But

48:27

what they were doing is, They're a great, you

48:29

know, anybody, these families that owned businesses

48:32

and became a very big business, well they would put all

48:34

this money away to give scholarships to their employees,

48:37

children, go to college. And they felt, well you're not taking

48:39

them up. Well they weren't getting into college. Well

48:41

we gotta go further down. Well they found the

48:43

school district. So they were gonna pay to put

48:45

in a charter school. The school district

48:48

fought them. But when they finally got the charter

48:50

school came in, and this

48:52

is 90% will be immigrants

48:54

in this community. They wear uniforms,

48:56

they take extra, They take extra

48:59

classes, right? And the thing I will tell you,

49:01

in the first two years, this school's

49:03

scores are competing with the highest

49:05

scores of anywhere in the county. And

49:08

we just had, for the first time, the eighth

49:10

graders have been there. They just came and had

49:12

a picture with me in the rotunda. And the excitement

49:15

on these kids' faces that one

49:17

little girl said, you could tell, man, she was

49:19

the class president, she would get right up on zone, zone,

49:21

I want a picture with you. And I'm thinking, you're

49:24

gonna be speaker one day, right? I

49:26

mean, but how proud an opportunity. That's

49:29

the great equalizer in America. We talk about everybody

49:31

being

49:31

equal, but let's give them an equal opportunity.

49:34

And let's not hold people back. We

49:37

got three minutes left, and then you gotta

49:39

get back to work. So I

49:41

will ask you one tough one at the end. You've talked

49:43

a lot about civility here. The

49:46

audience obviously knows my feelings about what's

49:48

going on in Florida and Governor DeSantis.

49:51

Obviously I supported Trump. Trump supported

49:53

you in the speakership. This

49:56

seems to be coming to a head one way

49:58

or another. I've been

50:00

concerned about the civility also, because

50:03

I don't want to see mutually assured destruction.

50:06

If Trump ends up president and DeSantis

50:08

stays as my governor, that'll be just fine with me. If

50:11

DeSantis is president, that'll be fine with me. But

50:13

I don't want to destroy the whole thing. And I sense

50:16

we really are in a dangerous spot where we have

50:18

a lot of the momentum that you've talked about here, and

50:20

civility and the right ideas and things of that nature.

50:23

But it's like a tinderbox in a way,

50:26

maybe because of some of the personalities. I always

50:28

think we should do this. Whenever I sit down, like I was

50:30

sitting down

50:31

with some members yesterday, we

50:34

were talking around each other, and I said, well, what

50:36

do we want to achieve? Okay,

50:39

you take everybody out of running, what do you want to achieve? You

50:41

want to stop the bad policies.

50:43

So you want somebody else in the White House,

50:45

right?

50:46

So you got to understand too, what's the

50:48

debate going to be about? All the things

50:50

that Biden has done that somebody

50:52

else could do better. I think

50:54

that resonates more with the public. It

50:56

gets more people to vote. It's about addition, not subtraction,

50:59

okay? And so it's tough when you

51:01

get into competition, but members

51:03

should really see that whoever runs. And

51:05

lots of times whoever the front runners today is not

51:07

the nominee. And whatever we think the issue

51:10

is today is probably not gonna be the issue

51:12

in another November from now.

51:15

But I think the democratic

51:18

policies will always be the issue, right?

51:20

And I just don't think the

51:24

country wants another four years of Joe Biden.

51:26

We just don't believe we can sustain that. And

51:29

don't do damage to one another

51:31

that allows him to get in, because they're gonna give you

51:33

a lot of bait, don't take it. Note

51:36

he did not say Trump nor DeSantis

51:38

in that entire thing. That was very slick.

51:41

Guys, please make some noise for the speaker of the

51:43

house, Kevin McCarthy. Thank you. Thank

51:45

you, everyone. Thank you. Thank you. Thank

51:48

you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank

51:51

you.

51:54

Thanks for tuning into The Rubin Report. Don't

51:56

forget to review, share, and subscribe

51:58

to this podcast. If you're looking. for early

52:00

and exclusive content, you can join me on

52:02

Locals at rubinreport.locals.com.