Rough transcript of Hour 1
Hour 1 Segment 1
Man, its great to be back. Ive been chomping at the bit. Champing at the
bit. You know, folks, when things are written quickly on an iPhone and the
iPhone changes the words and theyre posted and so forth, sometimes theres
typos, right, Mr. Producer? Its the nature of the beast. We all know thats
the way it goes. First things first, I want to congratulate Governor DeSantis
on his swearing in. We had family members there and friends. I wish I could
have participated, but it was my time to come back. And thats just a
wonderful thing. So I wanted to point that out. You know, I can do the
predictable. I can come behind this microphone and beat my chest and pat
myself in the back of the head and try and demonstrate that Im a bigger
right winger than the next guy. And I can just beat the hell out of Kevin
McCarthy. I could beat the hell out of Kevin McCarthy as I have in the past.
As I do with McConnell, as I did with Paul Ryan, as I did with Boehner, for
whom I was public enemy number one, and frankly worked with Mark Meadows back
then to help remove Banner. But this isnt some conservative revolt, ladies
and gentlemen. This isnt some principled revolt. I heard my friend Chip Roy
speak and I said, okay, were all against an open border. Were all against
whats happening with fentanyl. We know all the issues that are driving us
crazy and and that we want to confront and deal with. And yet my talk with at
least three members of the Freedom Caucus over the weekend, and one of whom
Ive spoken to over a period of a couple of weeks, demonstrates to me. This
has nothing to do with that. So I could come behind this microphone and
pretend I know whats going on. Without doing my work, without digging into
it. But Im telling you whats going on. At least five members of this group
were negotiating. Hed become chairman or subcommittee chairman in exchange
for their votes. To help the country. To help their party or to help
themselves. Matt Gage was accused of saying in front of a number of people.
Hes denying it now. But Id like to know the truth. That if Hakeem Jeffries
becomes speaker, who cares? Because all will do is vote against all his
wishes. Did he say it or didnt he? I have no idea. There are others who want
to changes. One in particular who wanted to be in charge of. All decisions
come to the legal briefs and legal objectives of the House. Republicans want
to get involved and not to get involved in cases. And the individuals. Not
even a lawyer. And I could go on and on. You have members of the original
five, this guy. Good, who won by the skin of his teeth. And Virginia. Who
took $2 million from McCarthys campaign. Our friend Lauren Boebert. I do
consider a friend. She took almost 1.9 million and Im glad they did. But
then to say youre against the swap and youre going to stand up against the
swap. Ive got a lot more to say about this. First of all, social media is a
cancer. I post there. But I do not get involved in the comments. And so
people send me these comments. Please stop sending me the comments. I never
knew you were a rhino. I never knew you were a sellout. I never knew you
supported McCarthy. This is why so many people on TV and radio are knee jerk.
They dont want to have to be attacked and deal with it. I dont care. Whats
right is right. This isnt about supporting McCarthy, quote unquote. They
were going to be on their fourth ballot tonight and they dont have a
candidate. They keep nominating Jim Jordan as Jim Jordan a RINO as Jim Jordan
a sellout. Well, why do they keep voting for him? Not 20 of them voted for
Jim Jordan. Did Jim Jordan not go to the floor of the House and nominate the
second time? Kevin McCarthy. I didnt nominate Kevin McCarthy. He nominated
Kevin McCarthy. A second time, voted for him three times. Says he is not
interested. Im not doing that. Hes doing that. The choice isnt between
McCarthy and Jordan. There is no choice between McCarthy and anybody. Andy
Biggs got ten votes. Out of the Freedom Caucus. There are 44 or 45 members of
the Freedom Caucus, depending on how you count. 20 of them voted for Jordan,
which means 24 or 25 of them voted for McCarthy. This isnt a battle over
conservatism. You know, it reminds me of the Marxist left. They wrap
themselves in the safe, self-righteous arguments. The American people are
sick and tired of this. The American people are sick and tired of that. Yes,
we are. And were sick and tired of what we watch today. Get on with it. We
want the Bidens investigated now. We want the border secured now. And down
the list. Now, the house isnt going to get everything it wants because it
has to deal with McConnell in the Senate. Its got to deal with the executive
branch. But go on offense when youre fighting like this. To what end? Im
not clear. That doesnt appear to be a winning strategy. It doesnt appear to
be a winning strategy. So I guess the rhinos include Massie from Kentucky who
voted for McCarthy. Mooney from West Virginia. Who voted for McCarthy. Jordan
himself. They keep nominating. I guess hes ultimately a rhino, too. We just
didnt know it. McClintock from California, one of the most solid members
ever. Banks from Indiana. Palmer from Alabama, and I can go down the list.
Meanwhile. Whos Ogles? Whos Rosendale? Whos south. Whos Crane? Whos
Clyde? Whos Cloud? Whos breech? Him. Seriously. Theyre the conservatives
Im rallying around. Well, who are they? What have they ever done? Nothing.
No, no, no. You dont understand. We got to rally around those guys. Why?
Rally round. People havent done anything. Who? I dont even know. Who you
dont even know. Thats half of the 20. Because we know Biggs led the effort
against convention of states in Arizona and abused the rules in the state
Senate when he was president to block the vote. Wow. Theres theres Biggs
gets his ten big votes. I dont even know what Gates has ever done other than
give good speeches and and rail against witnesses. And a big pom pom carrier
for Paul Ryan early on. Again, Im just pointing this out. Im not going to
come to the radio. You know, this stuffs good. We shouldnt be. What are you
talking about? What? Stuffs good? We know what the problems are in this
country. And we know who the problem people are in this country. The leaders.
The party members. We got it. We know. We dont need to be taught that
lesson. Marjorie Taylor GREENE. Shes with reporters today on Capitol Hill.
And heres what she said when she came out of a meeting with them. These are
the various opponents, and I think it was McCarthy and others. Cut one, Go.
We have been negotiating, talking, debating back and forth in our conference,
trying to come to a really good package. And its amazing. As a matter of
fact, Ill quote Matt Hayes. He said, its exquisite. Thats what he said on
our conference call on Sunday. But in that conference meeting there, we found
out that there were several members, three, in fact, that went in last night
and were demanding positions for themselves, demanding gavel concessions,
demanding subcommittees, demanding for people to be taken off committees and
people to be put on committees. Three, three Republicans out of our 222. I
want you all to know I have not done that for myself. The only thing I have
done is it is debate and and request and argue amongst my peers for the right
things, for the rules package and for our agenda for the American people. And
thats the only thing Ive done. I havent asked for one thing for my for
myself. And Im the only Republican that has zero committees. So you would
think I would be the one in there asking for something. But I havent done
that. But I find out that its my Freedom Caucus colleagues and my supposed
friends that went and did that. And they asked nothing for me. Nothing.
Thats what I found out in there. Im furious. Let me tell you something.
While the conservatives that the base supports and believe in, let me let me
remind everyone theyre not perfect either. Scott Perry, before his general
election, refuse to vote against the bill that was all about the gay marriage
bill. He didnt, but he he refused to vote against it. He voted for it. Then
when it came back around after his election, he was able to vote against it.
Conservatives would not like that. Let me remind everyone this Matt Smith
compared Kevin McCarthy to Paul Ryan, my friend Matt Gaetz. He supported Paul
Ryan almost more than anyone. Its still on his social media. As a matter of
fact, his first vote in Congress was for Paul Ryan as speaker, and then he
cheered him on for nearly a year and a half or more when people like me were
at home furious at Paul Ryans speakership because it wasnt passing the MAGA
agenda that we are supporting. Chip Roy He refused to object on January six.
Thats not what our base wanted. He also sat out the vote for the January six
committee. Theres many more, Bob Good. $2 million for Kevin McCarthy to get
elected. Lauren Boebert under $2 million from Kevin McCarthy to get elected.
Many more people have taken care of McCarthys money to get elected. And then
theres a few of them that dont want to support him as speaker. So imagine
that this is not anything about the country. This is all about never, Kevin.
They just dont like Kevin McCarthy. You cannot be successful in anything if
you arent able to walk it around, make your own, make what you want and get
a deal done, and then walk away with the W and get to work and not worry
about who you like and who you dont like. This is not about prom king. This
is not about a pastor. This is about electing a person to sit in the
speakers chair so that we can all get to work. And out of 222 Republicans,
let me remind everyone, theres 218 votes to get something passed. That means
all of us are powerful, every single faction in the Republican Party. So
there is not going to be a tiny little group that is going to demand their
way because they want subcommittee chairs and they want certain power
positions. That is not how this works. And that is the worst thing they can
do for the country. And Im furious over it. Now, I dont know that woman.
Ive never spoken to her in my life. Ive never been a greatest fan of hers.
But there she speaks, I think, in a very wise way. A very wise way. There is
nobody in the House of Representatives. Whos more of a libertarian, more
than a constitutionalist. Then Tom Massie of Kentucky. Period. And I dont
always agree with him because hes, in my view, sometimes more libertarian
than conservative. But so what? Hes voting for McCarthy. Its not because he
agrees with McCarthy. Because he knows the country is on the edge. The
countrys on the edge. Well, Mark, we can wait two or three days. Youre
weakening the position of speaker under the Republicans. Youre showing
Biden, youre showing the FBI, youre showing foreign nations, youre showing
the Democrats, youre showing McConnell the Senate, that whomever becomes the
Republican speaker is going to be weak. Itll take a handful of Republicans
to stop that speaker. And you may not always agree with those handful of
Republicans. This is why the chest beating and the back rubbing and the head
touching by some TV and radio hosts is so putrid and frustrating. I was
involved in three presidential primaries. One more, but personally, all three
for Reagan. I dont have a problem with a fight and going on the right to win
a fight. More when I return.
Hour 1 Segment 2
Lets all follow Higgs. Bishop Breach and cloud. Fly crane. On and on and on.
People we dont even know. Now, I dont know about you, but I dont do stuff
like that. I think for myself. Dont you? And this idea that these are the
true conservatives making the true fight. And if you dont agree with them,
then you must support McCarthys views and so forth. It is so stupid. Its an
embarrassment. Its an absurdity. I mean, you got Jim Crow. Why is Jim Jordan
backing McCarthy? Why is Jim Jordan nominating McCarthy? Why is Donald Trump
backing McCarthy? Thomas Massie, Whats that all about? Jim Banks and Tom
McClintock. Are they all sellouts? Do they know something? I dont know and
you dont know? I mean, Steve Miller, Charlie Kirk, and we all salons and we
are rhinos is at it because how many of these. No names. Were supposed to
follow them.
Hour 1 Segment 3
You keep hearing about these rule changes. Rule changes. These rule changes
that they want. Well, lets go with that. Does anybody share them with you?
No, I dont think they have. Why? Well, its easier just to pat yourself in
the head and scream at the microphone. And this is in part from the Hill and
other sources that Ive pulled together, public sources. They spent a lot of
time, the Republicans discussing the motion to vacate the chair, which is the
mechanism for ousting the speaker. Until four years ago, any member could
file a privilege motion to vacate the chair. When a measure is privileged, it
could be brought up for a vote over the objection of the leadership. Freedom
Caucus members used the motion of vacate in 2015. No, Mark Meadows did
because I worked with him to help force out then Speaker John Boehner.
McCarthy ran for speaker but then dropped out just before the conference
nomination vote amid opposition from the same Freedom Caucus. Democrats
change the motion to vacate the role in 2019 after tacking back, taking back
the majority to say its only privileged if offered at the direction of
party, caucus or conference, because obviously they didnt want to take out
Pelosi. Now, Freedom members wanted to restore the old rule, but the rules
package keeps the current rule in place with a key exception. Listen to this.
Languages added that would allow a motion of vacate to be privileged if only
five members of the majority party sign on to the resolution. That means five
Republicans. These same five could band together and force a vote on ousting
McCarthy or whomever the House elect speaker. Thats what they said they
wanted. Thats what they got. Thats how you hold his feet to the fire. Just
like that. Its hard to get five members we see. Its not hard to get five
members. And they got it. But thats not enough. What else? Another rules
designed to limit those to a single subject. Specifically, the new rule would
prohibit members from introducing bills or joint resolutions after February
one without including a statement for the Congressional Record designating a
single subject of the legislation. Another change is a ban on the Rules
Committee practice of waiving points of order against amendments that violate
that House are germane This rule. In other words, the amendment needs to be
germane to the legislation. Instead, the package creates a new rule requiring
the House to vote on any motions to waive dreaminess for an amendment after
up to 20 minutes of debate. So hes completely opening up the system.
McCarthy has also agreed to not waive an existing House rule requiring those
to be released at least three days, 72 hours before a House floor vote.
Virginia GOP Representative Morgan Griffith, a Freedom Caucus member whod
been undecided on hoodie support for speaker, said in a statement. He went
back McCarthy after he agreed to this single subject and strictly germane.
This rules. I believe these changes can dramatically improve our legislative
process, he said, because Leader McCarthy agreed to these rule changes. Ive
agreed to vote for Speaker of the House. Now what you see is that a lot of
what McCarthy has done and the other leadership, whomever they are, have
done. Less than half of the Freedom Caucus is now voting against. In other
words, they negotiated. That is the freedom call. We want some of these rules
and okay, we negotiated. Heres some of the rules. But they wont take yes
for an answer. And one of the Freedom Caucus guys told me. That some of them,
like Gates, just hate McCarthy and theres not a damn thing they can be done,
at least right now, to get them to vote for him. Biggs is another one. Its
that simple. Its that simple. Theres nothing he can do. And so theyre
using the tightness of the vote to even scores. The rule package also sets up
a vote on resolution to establish a select Judiciary subcommittee. To
centralize investigations into the executive branch called the Select
Committee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. You folks who
really listen to this program and understand it rather than the commenters on
the Twitter and so forth. You might recall I discussed this with Jim Jordan.
Remember that, Mr. Producer? That they ought to have a special committee,
subcommittee, something. Where all the investigations are focused and
centralized because that way the overlay will assist them both in terms of
resources and in terms of the knowledge base. So theyve agreed to that. This
new rules package also returned some House rules Republicans had when they
were in the majority that Democrats got rid of in 2019. It eliminates a few
rules Democrats had in place for the past two Congresses. Several of those
are budget related rules that Republicans feel better adhere to their
spending and tax priorities. The GOP replaced Democrats preferred pay as you
go rule, which requires legislation adding to the deficit be offset by
spending cuts or tax increases with a cut as you go. A rule that only
requires offsets of bills increase mandatory spending. Well, so in other
words, you have to cut spending. If you add new spending, not raise taxes or
deficit spending thats in there. Also on the tax cutting, spare Republicans
would restore a rule requiring a 3/5 supermajority vote to pass any tax
increases. That, by the way, is in the Liberty Amendments. This is largely
has been obviously not largely, but completely rejected by the Democrats.
Another rule that could help Republicans with tax cuts require the CBO, the
Congressional Budget Office and the Joint Committee on Taxation. Listen to
this. To incorporate macro economic effects like changes in economic output
and employment into their official cost estimates for major legislation to
the extent practicable. So in other words, like this, this covert money that
went out with the massive subsidies of individuals not to work, they would be
required now to report on what that impact would be on the economy and on the
labor force. Similar rule applies to the same definition. Okay, that doesnt
apply. The rule package will get rid of Democrats. Gephardt Rule. This is all
public information. Nobody slipped me the information. All you have to do if
youre a host is lock it up. That would allow the House to automatically send
a measure extending the debt limit to the Senate when it adopts a budget
resolution. It would reinstate the home and rule, which allows members to
offer appropriation amendments targeting the jobs or salaries of federal
employees. A new rule would require any appropriation bills reported to the
floor to include a spending reduction account to state whether the measures
budget authority exceeds the subcommittee allocations. What theyre concerned
about is you get the subcommittee hearings and votes. It goes to the full
committee. So everybodys blown off. The subcommittee in the full committee
adds whatever it wants. This rule would say, no, it cant do that. The
package restores two budget points of order, one that can be raised against
amendments to. So you can see there is level after level after level of
fiscal responsibility and control. What else? Directing the January six
Select Committee, which is not being renewed to transfer all its records to
the House Administration Committee by January 17. None of this can be done,
by the way. Not one piece of the while these battles are going on.
Establishing a select oversight subcommittee with up to 12 majority members
and five minority members to investigate the origins of the Corona pandemic
and make legislative recommendations reducing the minimum time for floor
votes from 5 minutes to 2 minutes so he can actually get more votes. Change
it in the name of two committees. Oversight and reform would be oversight and
accountability and educational labor would be education in the workforce.
Requiring each standing committee except appropriations, ethics and rules to
adopt an authorization of oversight plan for submission to the Oversight and
House Administration Committees. Directing the Ethics Committee to establish
a process for members of the public to flag potential violations. Requiring
the speaker to establish a bipartisan task force to review House ethics rules
and regs and submit a report on recommended improvements. Excuse me, allowing
only non-government witnesses to participate in hearings remotely, meaning
government officials must testify in person, striking a rule allowing the
Washington, D.C. mayor and governors of U.S. territories access to the House
chamber, directing House officials to broaden the availability of documents
in machine readable formats, continuing improving the electronic document
repository for committee documents so they can read what they how theyre
voting on. Establishing rules for considering various bills Republicans plan
to take up in early January. And more. And theyre still fighting. And so you
get people boneheads. In and out of the media, in and out of the house, in
and out of the Republican Party. Who dont share this information with you
because they dont want you to realize exactly whats taking place. That all
the principal conservatives are not one of the 20 all of the 20, that there
are serious, principled conservatives. Who are voting as part of the
significant majority. And one to institute the rules. Want to get the
investigations underway? Do not. Do not want to bended the demands of a
relative handful of members who are making personal demands to empower
themselves in many cases. If this is bothering you. If you are wanting one of
the many who are contacting me, sending, what are they doing? If you
understand, this isnt about conservatism, but its about power. Its about
power. Then the people in this audience need to get on their phones. They get
on their emails, however you communicate with your member of Congress. Im
talking about Republican members of Congress now and in a civil way. Civil
way to communicate with them and tell them youve had enough. If Jim Jordan
were in fact. And in line or running for speaker. That would be one thing.
But hes nominated McCarthy. And if there were a true leader among these 20.
Some of them are would be leaders in the future, in my view, a couple of
them, not many. Thats great. But we need to take on the enemy now. We are
literally weakening the very thin majority. They have in the house. Its just
a matter of time till the public. But even more, the base turns on these
people because theyre going to be disgusted with the inaction. And let me
tell you something. Biden and his people have already been already been
empowered by this. When I wasnt here, I saw this piece in Politico White
House to Jim Jordan and James Colmer. Sorry, but you have to restart your
oversight requests all over again. In other words, theyre giving them the
middle finger and theyre saying youre not even in the majority on a
committee yet. You dont even have a majority staff. Were going to ignore
everything you sent us when you were in the minority because you did not
represent the majority in the House. Therefore, you did not represent the
House. So that process now is going to be months and months and months behind
as Biden and the Democrats drag their feet on. These matters have to get
resolved, sometimes in court, sometimes not. And guess what? If they hold
somebody in contempt of Congress, I seriously doubt the Department of Justice
is going to prosecute them. What do you think? Meanwhile, the executive
branch rolls on the war on Trump war zone wears on, the attacks on pro-
lifers, go on the open borders, go on and on and on and on. And the idea that
all of a sudden theyre going to have a new leader, a leader, whomever,
filming the blank names weve never heard of before. Whos going to be more
effective and stronger at fighting this stuff is nuts. Who is it? Who is he?
Who is she? We get to have a say, too, dont we? So if youre concerned that
every day that goes by, were losing our freedoms, were losing ground when
losing our country. I would encourage you to get on the phone, get on your
email. Contact your member of Congress immediately if their Republican of
their Democrat doesnt matter in this case because times running out. Oh,
and by the way, before I left here during the holidays. I pointed out that
certain rhinos and so-called moderate Democrats, of which there are none,
actually. Were going to be talking about a way to have sort of a bipartisan,
quote unquote, or shared government. Well, that started today. Democrats are
reaching out to some of these so-called moderate that are liberal
Republicans. To see if they can provide the support to do just that. I just
read to you all these wonderful rules. These committees need to get started.
It doesnt happen overnight. The White House is already dragging its feet.
The fight with the FBI and the Department of Justice and Homeland Security is
going to take a united party. Its going to take a lot of work. And theyre
pissing their time away. Ill be right back.
Hour 1 Segment 4
So, Mr. Producer, I use kamikazes, right. To describe some of these guys
before I left. Right. Brother Newt uses it. Brother Trey uses it. Brother,
everybody is. I love it. I love it. New Years resolutions Still away. Go for
it, baby. Why not? Heres a piece of news. Mack Boner targets Mark Levin.
Really crazy, right? You see, ladies and gentlemen, Ive been doing this for
20 years, and I call him as I see him. And I tell you what I believe.
Whatever the reaction, I dont try and read your minds and try and play to
the audience. I try and tell you what I believe from my heart and my soul and
my thinking process. And before I came on radio 20 years ago, nobody attacked
the so-called establishment. Nobody even called them the establishment. And
during an interview, a politico. This is years ago, five years ago, on news
Newsmax, Who was the right wing guy? Levin He went really crazy, right, And
got a big audience. And he dragged HANNITY to the dark side. He dragged Rush
to the dark side. And these guys I used to talk to them all the time, never
talked to me. And I never wanted to talk to him. And let me just end this
hour. We got two more big, powerful hours coming. We are the conservatives.
We are the constitutionalists. We are the ones who are consistent. We are not
the politicians. We dont want committee assignments. Were not looking for
money to run campaigns. We call them straight as we see them. This crap is
exactly what it smells like. Ill be right back.