Mike Flood and Ilhan Omar

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
It'll grind people's gears. And one of the things that
we've learned over the last several years since Donald Trump
got into political office that seemingly grinds people's gears is
that he wants Republicans to work together. And if you
are a Republican in office and you do not vote

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in line with other conservative Republicans, then you are a
trader or you are what the term we've heard really
emerge over the last few years is rhino. You're a
Republican in name only, You're a rhino. Actually quite clever,
if I do say so myself. But you know that

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this is the world in which we live. Yesterday some
news broke that involves one of our local representatives, Mike Flood. Now,
for whatever it's worth, Don Bacon has caught most of
the flack from people who say he's not conservative enough.

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He's very opposed to things that Donald Trump does, and
he's not running for reelection. I have to remind people
be careful what you wish for, because now if you
get a more highly conservative person who is unabashed in
the way that they have viewpoints and they're very very

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pro Trump, they are not going to have a great
opportunity to win the Omaha district. Here it is just
not going to happen. John Ewing winning the mayor's race
and now is our mayor. And then you look at
the last couple of presidential elections in the Omaha district,
and you look at how Dan Osborne did in the

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Senate race against deb Fisher. I mean, it is honestly
a miracle that Don Bacon has maintained his status in
office as long as he has by being a Republican
at all. He has found ways to kind of do
what he thinks is right as a representation of his district,
even if sometimes he gets called a rhino for it.

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But Mike Flood now finds himself on that side of
the fence, whereas Don Bacon does not. Yesterday, there was
a vote and Nancy Mace brought this to the floor
wanting to censure and remove ilean Omar from her committee
assignments because of her incitement for political violence based on

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the way that she talked in the aftermath of the
Charlie Kirk assassination. And the motion failed by one vote,
two fourteen to two thirteen. You might be saying, how
did it fail? I thought Republicans had a majority. Well,
Republicans do have a majority. Four Republican representatives voted against

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censuring and removing ilian Omar from her from her posts
in her committees. Now, Corey Mills of Florida is one
of these people. That's an interesting person to put here,
and I will explain why in a second. Jeff Heard
from Colorado, Tom McClintock of California, and Mike Flood from

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Nebraska were the other three the voted against censuring ileon Omar. Now,
again Corey Mills comes up. He was also facing a
retaliatory censure that the far left we're going to bring
up and if eleon Omar ended up getting, if they
ended up voting in favor of censuring eleon Omar, they

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were going to bring that to the table, trying to
censure and remove Corey Mills from assignments on committees in
the House of Representatives. That was dropped when this censure failed.
So think about that. There's politics back and forth. Now
I don't know if that would have won or not,
but still the fact that that existed needs to be mentioned.

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The Tom mcclintick mentioned he condemned the response to Illian Omar,
but didn't want to move forward based on First Amendment rights.
This is one thing that you're going to notice with
all these people except you know, these four that voted against,
specifically the three that aren't Corey Mills, including Mike Flood,
It's about what does this mean for the First Amendment

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of the United States of America, and that it's a
little bit more complex than just saying, you know, hey,
we want her to stop talking about things. At the
same time, you could absolutely read into the things that
she said as an inciting of political violence for the future.
And again, Nancy May's posted this, she supported isis, she

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supported the Muslim Brotherhood. She's incited political violence, and Congress
has now protected her. Yeah, it's a tough one. But again,
and if you continue to want to censure people and
you don't feel like you have the right grounds to
do that, you're opening up a can of worms. It's
hard to put back on top.