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Speaker 1 (00:01):
I want to get to two different stories real quick
that are really important heading in to next year. And
number one, it deals with House Speaker Johnson. There have
been a lot of people that are out there that
have been trying to start a war between Speaker Johnson
with a cr and with Donald Trump and wanting him
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to lose a speakership. Now there's been chaos because the
margin of victory for the Republicans in the House has
been so small that people, for example, like Matt Gates
have been able to cost people their jobs in leadership positions.
He was clearly able to do that with Kevin McCarthy,
costs him the job he won his entire life Speaker
of the House, and now Ken McCarthy's no longer even
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in Congress. This has gotten a little bit out of
control because there have been a few people that realize
how much power they have if they go against their
own party. We need to learn a little bit from
the Democratic Party here. We need to act like adults
and not have people going rogue just for their own
personal gain or for attention, or for fame, or for
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tweets and likes and retweets. And we need to have
some order in the House Speaker Johnson. I want to
be clear, I think is by far the best conservative
that we could get.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
If you get rid.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Of Speaker Johnson and then you have to rely on
Democrats to get a deal done with a new speaker,
you're gonna get a much more liberal speaker. I don't
believe you're gonna get a more conservative speaker than Speaker Johnson.
Do I think Speaker Johnson is like the most hardcore
conservative out there?
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Is he my perfect speaker?
Speaker 1 (01:38):
No, but I think he's the best speaker we can get,
the most conservative speaker we can get with this thin
margin that.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
We have right now.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Now, there have been a lot of people pushing for
their own fame on social media, trying to start a
war between Speaker Johnson. These are a lot of these
are quote hardcore conservatives who want there to be a
tests and they want to seem extremely powerful in their tweets,
who are trying to start this war with Mike Johnson,
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trying to cost them a jobs they can flex their muscles,
and these people I hate the most.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Now.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
One of the reasons why I hate some of these
hardcore quote conservative influencers on social media and podcasters is
because you can buy their support. A lot of people
don't know this, but some of the biggest tweeters in
the conservative movement, you can buy their tweets. You can
call them, you can offer them five, ten, fifteen, twenty, twenty, five,
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thirty thousand dollars or more for them to do campaigns
to either promote a candidate or to trash an opponent.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
This is happening more often.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Now, how do I know this happening because I know
some of the people that have paid some of these
hardcore conservative influencers significant cash for them to say certain things. Now,
let's let me explain how unauthored some of these tweets are.
Many of the people that are buying tweets will send
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the exact tweet they want the conservative social media influence
that has million plus followers on Facebook or Twitter or
on Instagram, and they'll do a deal and they'll say, Hey,
we're going to pay your company twenty grand or thirty
grand or fifteen thousand, depending on their number of followers,
for you to echo this person that we want to
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either save or get elected. This has become normal practice
for them, and they're making I want to be clear,
millions of dollars off of doing this. There are many
that are out there that are saying things against Speaker
Johnson right now that.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
I actually don't believe, believe what they're saying.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
They're getting paid by groups and organizations and others to
say this, and it's a problem.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Like it's a really big problem.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
And I want you to understand that if you see
what I would refer to as a coordinated effort out
of nowhere to attack a congressman. A great example of
this is chip Roy chip Roy a week ago, there
was a lot of people that went after chip Roory
out of out Roy, out of nowhere, and it was
a coordinate attack.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
I believe that it was a paid for, coordinated attack.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
And this is just one example to try to shut
him up and get him back in line. And they
were mad at him, and it was a power play,
and this is what is being done by special interest
groups in the conservative movement. Now, chip Roy survived it,
He's gonna be okay. But there are a lot of
people that are like, if you don't do this, then
you should be primaried, for example by Donald Trump. A
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lot of those types of tweets that you saw, and
you can go back and find.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Them were paid for.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
That campaign was a orchestrated financial campaign, and many of
the biggest names that were tweeting some things like that,
like if you don't agree with this with MAGA, then
you should be primaried. Those tweets were not authentic, They
were not They were paid to play tweets. Again, how
do I know this because I know some of the
people that were paying, and I know some of the
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people that are being paid.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
In fact, I know some of the people that are
being paid. Well.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Now, to be clear, I have never accepted money for
a tweet that I didn't write, that I didn't believe in. Now,
I could sell tweets, I could sell Facebook posts, and
I could make for my family well into the six figures.
I could sell access, for example, to my show. There
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are people on social media, by the way, with large
followings on YouTube and large followings and podcasts. You can
actually buy topics in their show, episodes in their show
as part of your marketing campaign.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
So let me explain how that works.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Let's say there's somebody out there that's like running for office,
or someone that's in trouble and they need good press.
There are certain podcasts that you can call and say, hey,
I want you to come on your show, and I
want you to do a full throated support of this
embattled congressman or governor or attorney general, whoever it may be,
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and if you'll do it, then we'll pay you X
to do that show.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
I've never in my life done that.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
I want to be clear, and I will never do
that because that is exactly the opposite of what I
believe in.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
That is paid propaganda.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
If someone calls me and says, I'll give you another
example of this. Someone called me and offered me money
to do a show advocating or supporting for an individual
I believe in the individual, and I told him, I said,
Number one, I can't be bought. Number two, I actually
like your guy, and I am more than happy to
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give him supporting words because I believe in him and
what he's done.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
I'm not gonna take money to do it.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
And the reason why I'm not gonna take money is
because then I am a pay to play individual. I
my audience wouldn't know what I believe in or what
is me pushing them propaganda Things that I don't actually
care about, things that don't actually believe in things I
would have never said, and they're listening to shows that
I would have never done on my own, but I
took a buck to do it. By the way, this
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is also an interesting part of this is one of
the reasons why you know, there's some people that get
frustrated because they hear advertising in radio and in podcasts.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
That's how we make our money.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
I could actually make a lot more money if I
didn't do those ads and I just took pay to play.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Hey, I'll support this guy.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Pay me twenty five grand and I'll do a show,
or fifteen grand or ten grand, and I'll do a
segment that you guys can then echo that sounds genuine
and authentic of me saying this politician and what he's
doing right now is the greatest thing since sliced bread.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
I could do that, and I can make a lot
more money.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
In fact, I know different podcasters that are making millions
of dollars doing pay to play fake segments about things
they actually don't care about, are people they don't really
care about, just to get that money, just to get
that cash. And so I say that to give you
a warning over when you see things like the Mike
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Johnson anger, and you see they're like, oh, well, he
deserves to not be the speaker anymore. Be careful not
to be taken advantage of now. The other reason why
I bring this up is because here's the story in
the headline. Donald Trump has come out and endorses Mike
Johnson amid the fight for his gavel. And I think
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this is the right decision for Donald Trump because he
understands exactly what I told you a second ago, which
is Mike Johnson is a good man. Mike Johnson is
a sincere Christian man, and Mike Johnson is the most
conservative speaker. I think we could get elected right now,
and we don't need to go through another fight and
look like we are in total chaos and anarchy the
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day we take over. Mike Johnson's gonna work not just average,
but he's gonna work very well with Donald Trump. And
that is exactly why President elect Trump endorsed Speaker Johnson
Monday morning, after leaving Johnson twisting of the wind as
some described the media for eleven days, Trump posted a
two hundred and thirty two word soliloquy on True Social
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touting his electoral romp and attacking Democrats for weaponize the
government against him. At the very end, he endorsed Johnson
for Speaker using this language. Let's not all caps, Let's
not blown this great opportunity which we have been given
the American people. All caps need immediate relief from all
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the destructive policies of the last administration. Speaker Johnson is
a good, hard working religious man. He will do the
right thing and we will continue to all caps win.
He has my complete and total endorsement. And then he
said all caps maga with three exclamation points. Let me
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explain to you what many of these people wanted to
sell you, and many of them were paid for and
bought when they were trying to attack Speaker Johnson, quote
from one article. Johnson was left twisting in the win
after December the nineteenth, when Johnson failed to deliver on
Trump's desire to lift the dead ceiling as part of
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a government spinning deal. Reports that Trump fumed from mar Lago,
coupled with Trump's silence as criticism against Johnson rose, cast
doubts on Trump's commitment to Johnson. Again, I think a
lot of this was just a whole bunch of made
up crap. Okay, And if I'm wrong here, then I
don't think Donald Trump would have put out the statement
that he said saying that Johnson has his full and
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total support. Trump's endorsement is likely the only thing that
could save Johnson. The article goes on to say Representative
Thomas Massey, a Republican from Kentucky, had pledged not to
vote for Johnson, who could only lose one additional vote
on the House floor and keep his gavel. So the
question is, could you get someone better than Speaker Johnson?
Speaker 2 (11:18):
The answer is no, I do not believe.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
I also don't like that everybody that becomes a speaker
right now is being held hostage by any one person
that's disgruntled or or wants to use their leverage to
get themselves either a bigger position a better committee seat.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
This is total.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
Anarchy in the House right now on the Republican side.
And I'll say this, we need to take a play
out of the Democrats playbook, which is to unite and
to act like we have a thirty person majority and
not have people coming in there, for example like Thomas Massey,
who out of nowhere have this incredible amount of power
and also outside influence Okay, that is coming in from
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God knows who to decide to do this. Plus we're
talking about him. Some of this is just about someone
becoming famous. Representative Thomas Massey pledging not to vote for
Johnson only helps the Democratic Party, It only helps there
be chaos. It only helps the left. It does not
help conservatives. It does not help maga's agenda. It does
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not help Donald Trump, It does not help the Senate.
It doesn't help any of us that are actually caring
about reducing the size of government, lowering government regulations, getting
rid of high taxes, and getting rid of just total leftist.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Woke agenda items. So I'll go back to what I said.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
I think this is exactly the reason why Donald Trump
came out and said I am endorsing him.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
He is my guy.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Now, other Republicans who occasionally have buck Trump before, including
on the December nineteenth vote to fund the government and
raise the debt ceiling, have indicated they have quote displeasure
with Johnson. Again, there's a problem with some of these
individuals who don't realize that it's not always a speaker
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you want, it's getting the best speaker that you can
get with a slim majority. Now, in theory, if all
the Republicans would stick together, we could have gotten even
more of a maybe conservative person. The problem is you
don't have a hardcore group of conservatives. You have some
moderates that ran as Republicans, you have some establishment Republicans,
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you have some rhinos. And when you have a slim
majority where you can only lose two votes total, you
got to look at Okay, not is this the perfect candidate.
The question is is this the best candidate can get
the votes needed now? Speaker Johnson putting out this tweet
on x quote, thank you, President Trump.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
I'm honored and humbled by your support.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
As always, together, we will quickly deliver on you'r a
mayor first agenda and usher in the new Golden Age
of America. The American people demand and deserve that we
waste no time. Let's get to work, and that's what.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
This is all about.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
This is all about getting to work and making sure
that the vote on January the third is a roll
call vote. The House must select a speaker in order
to certify the election on January the sixth, and we
do not need to have some stupid fight breakout all
because there are people that are a being paid to
tweet certain things, all right, And I think that's really important, Okay,
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I mean it's it's so frustrating because I'm not gonna
sit here and I don't want to name names.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
I want to be clear. I'm not trying to do that.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
But I want you to understand that there are people
out there that have gained a conservative following and now
they're willing to sell out to say just about anything
as long as it's close to being on brand, including
starting wars within the conservative movement, just so they.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Can make more money.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
And there are a lot of big, big names in
social media, and I tell you look at their tweets
and then look at other people in their same sphere
and if you notice a trend, and a great example
is what we saw with chip Roy this last week.
If you notice a trend of kind of the same
group of quote MAGA influencers tweeting out the same messaging,
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there's a very good chance that they're bought and paid for.
It may not even be what they believe at all,
it is that they are bought and that they are
paid for by all of these different people that are
wanting to influence Washington. There are some people, by the
way that one influence over Speaker Johnson and having this
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fight is a way for them to kind of remind
them like, hey, don't screw with us, you better listen
to us, right, And how do they buy that in
on it's over Johnson, Well, you start making it look
like he's going to lose his job, you start paying
people to tweet out things, and then Speaker Johnson is
in a bad spot, and that's exactly what they want
for their leverage. So the next time they walk into
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Speaker Johnson and they're like, hey, buddy, how are you
we need this? You think Speaker Johnson's going to be
more likely or less likely to listen to them? I
think you can all agree it's pretty clear they're going
to be He's going to be more likely to listen
to them. And this is unfortunately what is happening by
some in the MAGA world, all right, who are out
there and they are four hired political assassins and they
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make money doing it, not because they believe it, because
they're just making money actually doing it. Let me also
just put it in perspective what actually matters. Right now,
I'll give you a great example of a breaking news
story right now, Washington DC US attorney Matthew Graves. You
may not remember that name, Matthew Graves, but it's a
very important name. Matthew Graves was the main prosecutor on
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January the sixth cases. This is the guy that went
around the world, or at least I say the US,
to round up grandmothers and grandfathers, round them up to
put them in jail, saying that they were trying to
overthrow the government. Because they were in and around the Capitol.
They walked in peacefully. They doors are let open in
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some cases by actual policemen. They didn't wreck anything, they
didn't steal anything, they didn't do anything at all.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
This is a guy who.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Has now reportedly resigned ahead of Donald Trump taking office.
These are the stories that we need to be focused on.
Why do you resign because he knows he abused his power.
And look, I think this guy's going to try to
go make a bunch of money. He's going to try
to go to the to the you know, to the
other side and work at some big law firm.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
These are the cases that I care about.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
I'll give you another example of how what we should
be focused on right now. CBS News reporter is finally
admitted that Biden's quote obvious cognitive decline is the quote
most underreported twenty twenty four story. So I don't want
to be arguing over Speaker Johnson. Speaker Johnson has my
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full support. I want to be clear about that. Speaker
Johnson has my full support. What I do care about
is holding the media accountable and the left accountable for
their abuse of power. President Joe Biden's qute obvious cognitive
decline was the most underreported story of twenty twenty four.
That is with the CBS News reporter Jan Crawford claimed
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on Sunday, conceding that there was massive cognitive decline. Mental
acuity appeared obvious to all but members of the corporate media,
whose very job it was to cover the White House
and its occupant. Crawford, the network's chief legal correspondent, state
of the nature of the entire twenty twenty four election
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could have been reshaped if by Yden's mental fitness had
been addressed earlier in the election cycle by the Washington
Press corps. In the end, then it would have changed
how they decided to have a primary and to actually
have a grand debate and maybe they wouldn't have been
stuck with Kamala Harris.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Let that also sink in for a second.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
It is truly incredible to me that we are even
having the conversation right now about Speaker Johnson. We shouldn't
be having this conversation about Speaker Johnson. And every time
they have a war start out within the MAGA community,
just remember the Democratic Party.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
They're winning. This is their plan.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
They want there to be divisiveness, they want there to
be chatter, they want there to be anger, they want
there to be a fight between other Republicans. So we
better focus in and get it together, folks, or they will.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
End up winning many wars that we should win.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
Now, there's this part of this that I want you
to know about that is becoming an issue as well.
There are many that are hoping that Donald Trump will
come in and that there will be a big fight
and they will get rid of Speaker Johnson, and that
there will be chaos within the Republican Party. I'm going
to say what I said earlier. I'm going to warn
you about this right now. Speaker Johnson at this point
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is clearly the most conservative speaker that we could get
and if we get rid of Speaker Johnson, I'm telling
you right now, we're going to get a much more
liberal speaker. That is why Democrats are pushing for this. Okay,
I'll give you an example of how they're starting to
bring this into an issue On ABC this week. What
did they say about Speaker Johnson? What they said was, well,
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he's in real trouble and they're wanting this to be
the story going into January. Listen carefully join now by
ABC News contributing political correspondent and Political.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
Capital Bureau chief Rachel Bade.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
So, Rachel, why did so many Republicans defy Trump?
Speaker 3 (20:58):
Well, you know, John, in a lot of ways, I
think I feel like President Trump was sort of asking
for the impossible in this situation. I mean, there's been
a lot of hot takes out there that he in
some way has lost his juice with Republicans or his
sway with the party. I don't buy that, and I'll
tell you why. I mean, if you look at debt
ceiling votes, historically, this is a toxic vote for Republicans,
especially when you're trying to raise the debt ceiling without
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corresponding spending cuts or really any spending cuts whatsoever. And
I went back and looked at a lot of the
votes on the debt ceiling in past years, even when
President Trump was president before, and way more Republicans opposed it.
I'm talking about in the hundreds up to two hundred
at one point, and so I'm surprised that only thirty
eight Republicans actually opposed this. The bigger issue, in my view,
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is this sheer breakdown in communication between President Trump and
Speaker Johnson here, I mean President Trump.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
By the way, you notice how all this is doom
and gloom, Like are you hearing this? We cut fifteen
hundred pages of government waste and they're saying it's doom
and gloom. We cut a bill with transparency because of
the end into Donald Trump and Elon Musk and X
and putting it out there, having transparency for the people,
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and they're telling you it's doom and gloom. I want
you to understand that what happened to Donald Trump in
twenty sixteen is exactly the way the media is wanting
twenty twenty four to go. He's lost his juice, he's
he's already in trouble. Things are. This is a disaster
for Republicans. They're already fighting. I can't believe that in
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cut government spending. I can't believe that they were in
this situation. Donald Trump had an unrealistic expectation for Republicans,
all of.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
This doom and gloom.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
Even in a successful vote that cut a bill by
fifteen hundred pages, eighty something percent of the pages disappeared
because of transparency. And somehow they start every single Sunday
morning talk show saying the same damn thing. Wow, Donald
Trump may have lost his juice. Donald Trump got screwed
by Republicans. The Speaker of the House is going to
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lose everything. Oh, look how bad things are. Woe is me?
Look how terrible things are. Look how awful things are.
One after another, after another, after another after another. Doom
and gloom, doom and gloom, doom and gloom, doom and gloom,
doom and gloom. It's constant with these people, it is constant.
And so what I would say is, when you hear this,
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look at the reality of the situation. Was this a
success this week? Yes, what I've loved for the debt
cealing have been raised. Yes, But I'm also realist and
I know that the Democrats have controled the Senate and
they weren't going to vote for that, and then there
would have been a government shutdown, and it wasn't gonna
hurt Joe Biden because he's already out of office, and
then Donald Trump could have inherited a government that was
shut down. Listen to ABC This Week where they say,
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and then this war between Speaker Johnson Donald Trump.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
Oh, it's really bad, folks.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
Hellan Johnson. He wanted him to do this right after
the election. That they've been talking about this for a
long time. Johnson's folks have been sort of under the
impression that this wasn't a big priority for President Trump
until two days before the deadline when he came up
and sort of blew up the deal. Also, President Trump
was under the impression that when he did add the
debt ceiling to the CR the Continuing Resolution, that it
was actually going to pass, and that's why he sort
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of leaned in and tried to sort of say, look, Republicans,
you need to do this. If he had known he
was going to lose thirty eight Republicans, he wouldn't have
done this. And so the relationship right now, I mean
They've got some work to do if they want to
be effective next year.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
Johnson, They've got some work to do, folks. I don't believe,
by the way, any of the craps you just said.
I think Donald Trump leaned in to cut fifteen hundred
pages of a sixteen hundred plus page bill, and that's
what he leaned in on. Did he get everything he
wanted to know? Our Democrats in control of the Senate? Yes,
is there a slim majority in the House?
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Was this going to be tough to do right before
people are leaving and many people are leaving Congress forever
that lost reelection because they're one to stick it to
Donald Trump, including some Republicans at loss.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
Yes. Do I believe in this doom and gloom the
way that they're talking about it? I do not.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
I do not at all. And then listen to this
part where I are, well, now we got it. We
got a problem with Speaker Johnson.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
But Speaker getywhere there it's the million dollar question right now,
john I will say people have underestimated Johnson quite a
bit in the past year, and oftentimes he's sort of,
you know, out last his naysayers here. But the situation
is different. I mean, I've talked to a lot of
Trump folks over the past couple of days, and Trump
has really soured on him. It feels like something in
this relationship has really broken the days it needs Trump
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to get reelected. Absolutely he needs Trump, and not only
does he need Trump's endorsement, He's going to need President
Trump to lean in to actually get that gavel. And
right now I'm hearing from people that there's a real
question about whether Trump's going to lift a finger for
him to do this. I think the question Trump has
to ask himself is is ousting Johnson worth potentially upending
his agenda at the beginning of the year and creating
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this sort of stall in momentum. I mean, look, we
remember the speakership chaos when McCarthy's. A whole month went
by and we had no idea who was leaving the conference.
Right now, this speakership vote is set for January third.
President Trump, his victory is set to be certified on
January sixth. I was talking to someone last night, pretty
high up and Republican on the Hill, who was saying
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that without a speaker you can't certify his election, So
does he really want to do this. Does he want
to stall his agenda, but perhaps he feels like it's
worth it. I guess time will tell, all right, Rachel bag.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
By the way, I want to tell you multiple reasons
why I disagree with the analysis that I just played
for you. I don't believe that their rift is anything
close to what they're trying to do on TV, which
is to trying to start a civil war. I believe
that Speaker Johnson and Donald Trump have a good working relationship.
They have done multiple events together recently. He's been down
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at mar Lago recently. Multiple times. They had multiple events
together on the campaign trail. They helped raise money to
get others elected, Republicans elected, and they worked really well.
Getting Donald Trump into tight race is to make sure
that they were able to win a Senate majority, as
thin as it may be. A House majority, I should say,
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as sin as it may be. I don't believe this
idea that Speaker Johnson is in serious trouble. In fact,
I would argue that Donald Trump is smart enough right
now to say, hey, I need to move forward with
an agenda with a conservative, and Speaker Johnson is the
best conservative that could get elected right now. What they're
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hoping is that this is a party in chaos. But
remember this is all about doom and gloom, and I'm
warning you the propaganda is full speed ahead right now.
We have a Speaker who had a very tight majority
and got a deal done to avert a government shutdown,
which they would have definitely blamed on Donald Trump. That
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didn't happen either. We have a debt ceiling vote that's
going to come up, no doubt about it. But the
reality is they've got now time to think about how
they're going to do it, and how they're gonna do
it in the best way possible. I will go back
to what I said at the beginning. I don't believe
that Speaker Johnson has a massive sourd relationship with Donald
Trump right now. I think that's a media telling a lie.
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I wanted to start a civil war. You need to
remember they lie to you on purpose for a reason.
They lie to you on purpose because they want you
to hate Trump, and they want you to hate Speaker Johnson,
and they want you to think they can't govern, and
they want you to be angry.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
Don't take the bait.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
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Speaker 2 (28:40):
Thank you for listening, and I'll see you back here
tomorrow
I want to get to two different stories real quick
that are really important heading in to next year. And
number one, it deals with House Speaker Johnson. There have
been a lot of people that are out there that
have been trying to start a war between Speaker Johnson
with a cr and with Donald Trump and wanting him
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to lose a speakership. Now there's been chaos because the
margin of victory for the Republicans in the House has
been so small that people, for example, like Matt Gates
have been able to cost people their jobs in leadership positions.
He was clearly able to do that with Kevin McCarthy,
costs him the job he won his entire life Speaker
of the House, and now Ken McCarthy's no longer even
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in Congress. This has gotten a little bit out of
control because there have been a few people that realize
how much power they have if they go against their
own party. We need to learn a little bit from
the Democratic Party here. We need to act like adults
and not have people going rogue just for their own
personal gain or for attention, or for fame, or for
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tweets and likes and retweets. And we need to have
some order in the House Speaker Johnson. I want to
be clear, I think is by far the best conservative
that we could get.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
If you get rid.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Of Speaker Johnson and then you have to rely on
Democrats to get a deal done with a new speaker,
you're gonna get a much more liberal speaker. I don't
believe you're gonna get a more conservative speaker than Speaker Johnson.
Do I think Speaker Johnson is like the most hardcore
conservative out there?
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Is he my perfect speaker?
Speaker 1 (01:38):
No, but I think he's the best speaker we can get,
the most conservative speaker we can get with this thin
margin that.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
We have right now.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Now, there have been a lot of people pushing for
their own fame on social media, trying to start a
war between Speaker Johnson. These are a lot of these
are quote hardcore conservatives who want there to be a
tests and they want to seem extremely powerful in their tweets,
who are trying to start this war with Mike Johnson,
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trying to cost them a jobs they can flex their muscles,
and these people I hate the most.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Now.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
One of the reasons why I hate some of these
hardcore quote conservative influencers on social media and podcasters is
because you can buy their support. A lot of people
don't know this, but some of the biggest tweeters in
the conservative movement, you can buy their tweets. You can
call them, you can offer them five, ten, fifteen, twenty, twenty, five,
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thirty thousand dollars or more for them to do campaigns
to either promote a candidate or to trash an opponent.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
This is happening more often.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Now, how do I know this happening because I know
some of the people that have paid some of these
hardcore conservative influencers significant cash for them to say certain things. Now,
let's let me explain how unauthored some of these tweets are.
Many of the people that are buying tweets will send
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the exact tweet they want the conservative social media influence
that has million plus followers on Facebook or Twitter or
on Instagram, and they'll do a deal and they'll say, Hey,
we're going to pay your company twenty grand or thirty
grand or fifteen thousand, depending on their number of followers,
for you to echo this person that we want to
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either save or get elected. This has become normal practice
for them, and they're making I want to be clear,
millions of dollars off of doing this. There are many
that are out there that are saying things against Speaker
Johnson right now that.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
I actually don't believe, believe what they're saying.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
They're getting paid by groups and organizations and others to
say this, and it's a problem.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Like it's a really big problem.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
And I want you to understand that if you see
what I would refer to as a coordinated effort out
of nowhere to attack a congressman. A great example of
this is chip Roy chip Roy a week ago, there
was a lot of people that went after chip Roory
out of out Roy, out of nowhere, and it was
a coordinate attack.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
I believe that it was a paid for, coordinated attack.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
And this is just one example to try to shut
him up and get him back in line. And they
were mad at him, and it was a power play,
and this is what is being done by special interest
groups in the conservative movement. Now, chip Roy survived it,
He's gonna be okay. But there are a lot of
people that are like, if you don't do this, then
you should be primaried, for example by Donald Trump. A
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lot of those types of tweets that you saw, and
you can go back and find.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Them were paid for.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
That campaign was a orchestrated financial campaign, and many of
the biggest names that were tweeting some things like that,
like if you don't agree with this with MAGA, then
you should be primaried. Those tweets were not authentic, They
were not They were paid to play tweets. Again, how
do I know this because I know some of the
people that were paying, and I know some of the
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people that are being paid.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
In fact, I know some of the people that are
being paid. Well.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Now, to be clear, I have never accepted money for
a tweet that I didn't write, that I didn't believe in. Now,
I could sell tweets, I could sell Facebook posts, and
I could make for my family well into the six figures.
I could sell access, for example, to my show. There
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are people on social media, by the way, with large
followings on YouTube and large followings and podcasts. You can
actually buy topics in their show, episodes in their show
as part of your marketing campaign.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
So let me explain how that works.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Let's say there's somebody out there that's like running for office,
or someone that's in trouble and they need good press.
There are certain podcasts that you can call and say, hey,
I want you to come on your show, and I
want you to do a full throated support of this
embattled congressman or governor or attorney general, whoever it may be,
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and if you'll do it, then we'll pay you X
to do that show.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
I've never in my life done that.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
I want to be clear, and I will never do
that because that is exactly the opposite of what I
believe in.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
That is paid propaganda.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
If someone calls me and says, I'll give you another
example of this. Someone called me and offered me money
to do a show advocating or supporting for an individual
I believe in the individual, and I told him, I said,
Number one, I can't be bought. Number two, I actually
like your guy, and I am more than happy to
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give him supporting words because I believe in him and
what he's done.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
I'm not gonna take money to do it.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
And the reason why I'm not gonna take money is
because then I am a pay to play individual. I
my audience wouldn't know what I believe in or what
is me pushing them propaganda Things that I don't actually
care about, things that don't actually believe in things I
would have never said, and they're listening to shows that
I would have never done on my own, but I
took a buck to do it. By the way, this
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is also an interesting part of this is one of
the reasons why you know, there's some people that get
frustrated because they hear advertising in radio and in podcasts.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
That's how we make our money.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
I could actually make a lot more money if I
didn't do those ads and I just took pay to play.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Hey, I'll support this guy.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Pay me twenty five grand and I'll do a show,
or fifteen grand or ten grand, and I'll do a
segment that you guys can then echo that sounds genuine
and authentic of me saying this politician and what he's
doing right now is the greatest thing since sliced bread.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
I could do that, and I can make a lot
more money.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
In fact, I know different podcasters that are making millions
of dollars doing pay to play fake segments about things
they actually don't care about, are people they don't really
care about, just to get that money, just to get
that cash. And so I say that to give you
a warning over when you see things like the Mike
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Johnson anger, and you see they're like, oh, well, he
deserves to not be the speaker anymore. Be careful not
to be taken advantage of now. The other reason why
I bring this up is because here's the story in
the headline. Donald Trump has come out and endorses Mike
Johnson amid the fight for his gavel. And I think
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this is the right decision for Donald Trump because he
understands exactly what I told you a second ago, which
is Mike Johnson is a good man. Mike Johnson is
a sincere Christian man, and Mike Johnson is the most
conservative speaker. I think we could get elected right now,
and we don't need to go through another fight and
look like we are in total chaos and anarchy the
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day we take over. Mike Johnson's gonna work not just average,
but he's gonna work very well with Donald Trump. And
that is exactly why President elect Trump endorsed Speaker Johnson
Monday morning, after leaving Johnson twisting of the wind as
some described the media for eleven days, Trump posted a
two hundred and thirty two word soliloquy on True Social
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touting his electoral romp and attacking Democrats for weaponize the
government against him. At the very end, he endorsed Johnson
for Speaker using this language. Let's not all caps, Let's
not blown this great opportunity which we have been given
the American people. All caps need immediate relief from all
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the destructive policies of the last administration. Speaker Johnson is
a good, hard working religious man. He will do the
right thing and we will continue to all caps win.
He has my complete and total endorsement. And then he
said all caps maga with three exclamation points. Let me
(10:12):
explain to you what many of these people wanted to
sell you, and many of them were paid for and
bought when they were trying to attack Speaker Johnson, quote
from one article. Johnson was left twisting in the win
after December the nineteenth, when Johnson failed to deliver on
Trump's desire to lift the dead ceiling as part of
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a government spinning deal. Reports that Trump fumed from mar Lago,
coupled with Trump's silence as criticism against Johnson rose, cast
doubts on Trump's commitment to Johnson. Again, I think a
lot of this was just a whole bunch of made
up crap. Okay, And if I'm wrong here, then I
don't think Donald Trump would have put out the statement
that he said saying that Johnson has his full and
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total support. Trump's endorsement is likely the only thing that
could save Johnson. The article goes on to say Representative
Thomas Massey, a Republican from Kentucky, had pledged not to
vote for Johnson, who could only lose one additional vote
on the House floor and keep his gavel. So the
question is, could you get someone better than Speaker Johnson?
Speaker 2 (11:18):
The answer is no, I do not believe.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
I also don't like that everybody that becomes a speaker
right now is being held hostage by any one person
that's disgruntled or or wants to use their leverage to
get themselves either a bigger position a better committee seat.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
This is total.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
Anarchy in the House right now on the Republican side.
And I'll say this, we need to take a play
out of the Democrats playbook, which is to unite and
to act like we have a thirty person majority and
not have people coming in there, for example like Thomas Massey,
who out of nowhere have this incredible amount of power
and also outside influence Okay, that is coming in from
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God knows who to decide to do this. Plus we're
talking about him. Some of this is just about someone
becoming famous. Representative Thomas Massey pledging not to vote for
Johnson only helps the Democratic Party, It only helps there
be chaos. It only helps the left. It does not
help conservatives. It does not help maga's agenda. It does
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not help Donald Trump, It does not help the Senate.
It doesn't help any of us that are actually caring
about reducing the size of government, lowering government regulations, getting
rid of high taxes, and getting rid of just total leftist.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Woke agenda items. So I'll go back to what I said.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
I think this is exactly the reason why Donald Trump
came out and said I am endorsing him.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
He is my guy.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Now, other Republicans who occasionally have buck Trump before, including
on the December nineteenth vote to fund the government and
raise the debt ceiling, have indicated they have quote displeasure
with Johnson. Again, there's a problem with some of these
individuals who don't realize that it's not always a speaker
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you want, it's getting the best speaker that you can
get with a slim majority. Now, in theory, if all
the Republicans would stick together, we could have gotten even
more of a maybe conservative person. The problem is you
don't have a hardcore group of conservatives. You have some
moderates that ran as Republicans, you have some establishment Republicans,
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you have some rhinos. And when you have a slim
majority where you can only lose two votes total, you
got to look at Okay, not is this the perfect candidate.
The question is is this the best candidate can get
the votes needed now? Speaker Johnson putting out this tweet
on x quote, thank you, President Trump.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
I'm honored and humbled by your support.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
As always, together, we will quickly deliver on you'r a
mayor first agenda and usher in the new Golden Age
of America. The American people demand and deserve that we
waste no time. Let's get to work, and that's what.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
This is all about.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
This is all about getting to work and making sure
that the vote on January the third is a roll
call vote. The House must select a speaker in order
to certify the election on January the sixth, and we
do not need to have some stupid fight breakout all
because there are people that are a being paid to
tweet certain things, all right, And I think that's really important, Okay,
(14:36):
I mean it's it's so frustrating because I'm not gonna
sit here and I don't want to name names.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
I want to be clear. I'm not trying to do that.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
But I want you to understand that there are people
out there that have gained a conservative following and now
they're willing to sell out to say just about anything
as long as it's close to being on brand, including
starting wars within the conservative movement, just so they.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Can make more money.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
And there are a lot of big, big names in
social media, and I tell you look at their tweets
and then look at other people in their same sphere
and if you notice a trend, and a great example
is what we saw with chip Roy this last week.
If you notice a trend of kind of the same
group of quote MAGA influencers tweeting out the same messaging,
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there's a very good chance that they're bought and paid for.
It may not even be what they believe at all,
it is that they are bought and that they are
paid for by all of these different people that are
wanting to influence Washington. There are some people, by the
way that one influence over Speaker Johnson and having this
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fight is a way for them to kind of remind
them like, hey, don't screw with us, you better listen
to us, right, And how do they buy that in
on it's over Johnson, Well, you start making it look
like he's going to lose his job, you start paying
people to tweet out things, and then Speaker Johnson is
in a bad spot, and that's exactly what they want
for their leverage. So the next time they walk into
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Speaker Johnson and they're like, hey, buddy, how are you
we need this? You think Speaker Johnson's going to be
more likely or less likely to listen to them? I
think you can all agree it's pretty clear they're going
to be He's going to be more likely to listen
to them. And this is unfortunately what is happening by
some in the MAGA world, all right, who are out
there and they are four hired political assassins and they
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make money doing it, not because they believe it, because
they're just making money actually doing it. Let me also
just put it in perspective what actually matters. Right now,
I'll give you a great example of a breaking news
story right now, Washington DC US attorney Matthew Graves. You
may not remember that name, Matthew Graves, but it's a
very important name. Matthew Graves was the main prosecutor on
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January the sixth cases. This is the guy that went
around the world, or at least I say the US,
to round up grandmothers and grandfathers, round them up to
put them in jail, saying that they were trying to
overthrow the government. Because they were in and around the Capitol.
They walked in peacefully. They doors are let open in
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some cases by actual policemen. They didn't wreck anything, they
didn't steal anything, they didn't do anything at all.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
This is a guy who.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Has now reportedly resigned ahead of Donald Trump taking office.
These are the stories that we need to be focused on.
Why do you resign because he knows he abused his power.
And look, I think this guy's going to try to
go make a bunch of money. He's going to try
to go to the to the you know, to the
other side and work at some big law firm.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
These are the cases that I care about.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
I'll give you another example of how what we should
be focused on right now. CBS News reporter is finally
admitted that Biden's quote obvious cognitive decline is the quote
most underreported twenty twenty four story. So I don't want
to be arguing over Speaker Johnson. Speaker Johnson has my
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full support. I want to be clear about that. Speaker
Johnson has my full support. What I do care about
is holding the media accountable and the left accountable for
their abuse of power. President Joe Biden's qute obvious cognitive
decline was the most underreported story of twenty twenty four.
That is with the CBS News reporter Jan Crawford claimed
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on Sunday, conceding that there was massive cognitive decline. Mental
acuity appeared obvious to all but members of the corporate media,
whose very job it was to cover the White House
and its occupant. Crawford, the network's chief legal correspondent, state
of the nature of the entire twenty twenty four election
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could have been reshaped if by Yden's mental fitness had
been addressed earlier in the election cycle by the Washington
Press corps. In the end, then it would have changed
how they decided to have a primary and to actually
have a grand debate and maybe they wouldn't have been
stuck with Kamala Harris.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Let that also sink in for a second.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
It is truly incredible to me that we are even
having the conversation right now about Speaker Johnson. We shouldn't
be having this conversation about Speaker Johnson. And every time
they have a war start out within the MAGA community,
just remember the Democratic Party.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
They're winning. This is their plan.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
They want there to be divisiveness, they want there to
be chatter, they want there to be anger, they want
there to be a fight between other Republicans. So we
better focus in and get it together, folks, or they will.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
End up winning many wars that we should win.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
Now, there's this part of this that I want you
to know about that is becoming an issue as well.
There are many that are hoping that Donald Trump will
come in and that there will be a big fight
and they will get rid of Speaker Johnson, and that
there will be chaos within the Republican Party. I'm going
to say what I said earlier. I'm going to warn
you about this right now. Speaker Johnson at this point
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is clearly the most conservative speaker that we could get
and if we get rid of Speaker Johnson, I'm telling
you right now, we're going to get a much more
liberal speaker. That is why Democrats are pushing for this. Okay,
I'll give you an example of how they're starting to
bring this into an issue On ABC this week. What
did they say about Speaker Johnson? What they said was, well,
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he's in real trouble and they're wanting this to be
the story going into January. Listen carefully join now by
ABC News contributing political correspondent and Political.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
Capital Bureau chief Rachel Bade.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
So, Rachel, why did so many Republicans defy Trump?
Speaker 3 (20:58):
Well, you know, John, in a lot of ways, I
think I feel like President Trump was sort of asking
for the impossible in this situation. I mean, there's been
a lot of hot takes out there that he in
some way has lost his juice with Republicans or his
sway with the party. I don't buy that, and I'll
tell you why. I mean, if you look at debt
ceiling votes, historically, this is a toxic vote for Republicans,
especially when you're trying to raise the debt ceiling without
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corresponding spending cuts or really any spending cuts whatsoever. And
I went back and looked at a lot of the
votes on the debt ceiling in past years, even when
President Trump was president before, and way more Republicans opposed it.
I'm talking about in the hundreds up to two hundred
at one point, and so I'm surprised that only thirty
eight Republicans actually opposed this. The bigger issue, in my view,
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is this sheer breakdown in communication between President Trump and
Speaker Johnson here, I mean President Trump.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
By the way, you notice how all this is doom
and gloom, Like are you hearing this? We cut fifteen
hundred pages of government waste and they're saying it's doom
and gloom. We cut a bill with transparency because of
the end into Donald Trump and Elon Musk and X
and putting it out there, having transparency for the people,
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and they're telling you it's doom and gloom. I want
you to understand that what happened to Donald Trump in
twenty sixteen is exactly the way the media is wanting
twenty twenty four to go. He's lost his juice, he's
he's already in trouble. Things are. This is a disaster
for Republicans. They're already fighting. I can't believe that in
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cut government spending. I can't believe that they were in
this situation. Donald Trump had an unrealistic expectation for Republicans,
all of.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
This doom and gloom.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
Even in a successful vote that cut a bill by
fifteen hundred pages, eighty something percent of the pages disappeared
because of transparency. And somehow they start every single Sunday
morning talk show saying the same damn thing. Wow, Donald
Trump may have lost his juice. Donald Trump got screwed
by Republicans. The Speaker of the House is going to
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lose everything. Oh, look how bad things are. Woe is me?
Look how terrible things are. Look how awful things are.
One after another, after another, after another after another. Doom
and gloom, doom and gloom, doom and gloom, doom and gloom,
doom and gloom. It's constant with these people, it is constant.
And so what I would say is, when you hear this,
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look at the reality of the situation. Was this a
success this week? Yes, what I've loved for the debt
cealing have been raised. Yes, But I'm also realist and
I know that the Democrats have controled the Senate and
they weren't going to vote for that, and then there
would have been a government shutdown, and it wasn't gonna
hurt Joe Biden because he's already out of office, and
then Donald Trump could have inherited a government that was
shut down. Listen to ABC This Week where they say,
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and then this war between Speaker Johnson Donald Trump.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
Oh, it's really bad, folks.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
Hellan Johnson. He wanted him to do this right after
the election. That they've been talking about this for a
long time. Johnson's folks have been sort of under the
impression that this wasn't a big priority for President Trump
until two days before the deadline when he came up
and sort of blew up the deal. Also, President Trump
was under the impression that when he did add the
debt ceiling to the CR the Continuing Resolution, that it
was actually going to pass, and that's why he sort
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of leaned in and tried to sort of say, look, Republicans,
you need to do this. If he had known he
was going to lose thirty eight Republicans, he wouldn't have
done this. And so the relationship right now, I mean
They've got some work to do if they want to
be effective next year.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
Johnson, They've got some work to do, folks. I don't believe,
by the way, any of the craps you just said.
I think Donald Trump leaned in to cut fifteen hundred
pages of a sixteen hundred plus page bill, and that's
what he leaned in on. Did he get everything he
wanted to know? Our Democrats in control of the Senate? Yes,
is there a slim majority in the House?
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Was this going to be tough to do right before
people are leaving and many people are leaving Congress forever
that lost reelection because they're one to stick it to
Donald Trump, including some Republicans at loss.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
Yes. Do I believe in this doom and gloom the
way that they're talking about it? I do not.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
I do not at all. And then listen to this
part where I are, well, now we got it. We
got a problem with Speaker Johnson.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
But Speaker getywhere there it's the million dollar question right now,
john I will say people have underestimated Johnson quite a
bit in the past year, and oftentimes he's sort of,
you know, out last his naysayers here. But the situation
is different. I mean, I've talked to a lot of
Trump folks over the past couple of days, and Trump
has really soured on him. It feels like something in
this relationship has really broken the days it needs Trump
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to get reelected. Absolutely he needs Trump, and not only
does he need Trump's endorsement, He's going to need President
Trump to lean in to actually get that gavel. And
right now I'm hearing from people that there's a real
question about whether Trump's going to lift a finger for
him to do this. I think the question Trump has
to ask himself is is ousting Johnson worth potentially upending
his agenda at the beginning of the year and creating
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this sort of stall in momentum. I mean, look, we
remember the speakership chaos when McCarthy's. A whole month went
by and we had no idea who was leaving the conference.
Right now, this speakership vote is set for January third.
President Trump, his victory is set to be certified on
January sixth. I was talking to someone last night, pretty
high up and Republican on the Hill, who was saying
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that without a speaker you can't certify his election, So
does he really want to do this. Does he want
to stall his agenda, but perhaps he feels like it's
worth it. I guess time will tell, all right, Rachel bag.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
By the way, I want to tell you multiple reasons
why I disagree with the analysis that I just played
for you. I don't believe that their rift is anything
close to what they're trying to do on TV, which
is to trying to start a civil war. I believe
that Speaker Johnson and Donald Trump have a good working relationship.
They have done multiple events together recently. He's been down
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at mar Lago recently. Multiple times. They had multiple events
together on the campaign trail. They helped raise money to
get others elected, Republicans elected, and they worked really well.
Getting Donald Trump into tight race is to make sure
that they were able to win a Senate majority, as
thin as it may be. A House majority, I should say,
(27:07):
as sin as it may be. I don't believe this
idea that Speaker Johnson is in serious trouble. In fact,
I would argue that Donald Trump is smart enough right
now to say, hey, I need to move forward with
an agenda with a conservative, and Speaker Johnson is the
best conservative that could get elected right now. What they're
(27:28):
hoping is that this is a party in chaos. But
remember this is all about doom and gloom, and I'm
warning you the propaganda is full speed ahead right now.
We have a Speaker who had a very tight majority
and got a deal done to avert a government shutdown,
which they would have definitely blamed on Donald Trump. That
(27:51):
didn't happen either. We have a debt ceiling vote that's
going to come up, no doubt about it. But the
reality is they've got now time to think about how
they're going to do it, and how they're gonna do
it in the best way possible. I will go back
to what I said at the beginning. I don't believe
that Speaker Johnson has a massive sourd relationship with Donald
Trump right now. I think that's a media telling a lie.
(28:13):
I wanted to start a civil war. You need to
remember they lie to you on purpose for a reason.
They lie to you on purpose because they want you
to hate Trump, and they want you to hate Speaker Johnson,
and they want you to think they can't govern, and
they want you to be angry.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
Don't take the bait.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
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wherever you can.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
Please write us a five story review.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
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Speaker 2 (28:40):
Thank you for listening, and I'll see you back here
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