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March 6, 2026 21 mins

Why did 357 members of Congress vote to block the release of records detailing sexual harassment and misconduct settlements paid with taxpayer funds? In this episode, we'll deliver an in-depth critique of Congress's opaque handling of sexual harassment investigations, the erosion of political accountability, and the grip of special interests protecting the powerful. On a brighter note, Rep. Nancy Mace's relentless push for transparency, including her recent resolution to force the House Ethics Committee to publicly disclose all related reports and records (with victim details redacted), is paving the way to shatter this bipartisan wall of secrecy.

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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(00:22):
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So today I want to talk about Nancy Mace. So
for those of you who know, you know, and if
you don't, she is a congresswoman from the great state

(00:43):
of South Carolina. A lot of people don't like Nancy
Mace because Nancy Mace does not give a shit about
your feelings. And I got to say, I'm kind of
a big fan of that. I don't know her personally,
never worked with her, but she talks about so many
things that nobody else either wants to or has the

(01:03):
bulls to actually say out loud. And one of those
things was a resolution that she proposed. It was House
Resolution eleven hundred, and I'll read from the text. It
aimed at forcing the House Ethics Committee to publicly release
investigative records regarding sexual harassment by members of Congress. The

(01:25):
effort followed allegations against Representative Tony Gonzalez, who now is
no longer in the race for his reelection. But the
House overwhelmingly voted three fifty seven to sixty five yesterday, No,
two days ago, let's stay the sixth on March fourth
to kill the resolution because it had by partisan opposition.

(01:49):
So think about that for a minute. We have a
bill that's going to expose people who are sexual predators
so much so that they have to pay somebody off
to keep their mouth shut, and three hundred and fifty
seven elected officials, men and women, Republicans and Democrats, voted

(02:10):
to shut it down. Why wouldn't you want to know?
Why do we have people sitting in Congress who are
there to make break and force and talk about laws
follow our Constitution, and in their private lives are so corrupt,
are so morally bankrupt that they have to then use

(02:35):
taxpayer dollars, not their money, taxpayer dollars. It's called a
slushed fund to pay off whoever it is that is
accusing them of said crime. Now, if you're like me
and somebody says I'm going to tell everybody that you
did X, and you know for a fact that you
didn't do actually like, yeah, I have about it. I

(02:56):
don't give a shit. Knock yourself out. I got nothing
to be ashamed of. No skeletons in my closet. It's
a walking Go ahead, take a stroll. Nothing going on there.
But these people are standing lockstep. I mean, how often
do you see the right and the left stand together
at that high three hundred and fifty seven. People think

(03:20):
about the amount of bills that we're trying to pass.
They typically pass always across party lines, right, the Dems
all stick together, the Republicans all stick together, and then
there's like, I don't know, somewhere between five and ten
stragglers depending on the bill. So it's always like two
hundred and ten to like one ninety ware whatever it is.
It's never three hundred and fifty seven. People stood around

(03:42):
and said, Yo, we got to shut this shit down.
The last thing we want is anything in the public
domain exposing that we are, in fact, totally and completely
guilty of sexual assault charges. And we use the American
people's hard earned money to pay people off for their silence.

(04:05):
There's no This is not opinion, this is not conjecture,
this is actualities, right, and the goal again, reading from
the resolution, the goal was to expose records of sexual harassment,
including the investigation reports and findings. It would have required
the Ethics Committee to make records public within sixty days

(04:28):
of the legislation's adoption, all sensitive, identifiable or witness information redacted.
Let's say that again, all sensitive, identifiable or witness information
would be redacted. A lot of people have come out
of this vote saying, well, we couldn't do it because

(04:49):
we didn't want to expose the victims, which is a
load of horseshit. They were never going to expose the victims.
All they wanted to do was exposed the perpetrate, because
why on earth would we want sexual assault predators in
our Congress. And that's not to say they're not among
us all the time, right, But there is something to

(05:11):
be said for you're holding public office, you have a
constituency that has elected you to represent them in front
of the whole country as the person that stands and says, hey,
I'm the head of X and I'm here to represent
the people of such and such district. Oh, by the way,
at night, when everybody's asleep, I go out and I

(05:33):
harass women that are under the age of eighteen and
I sexually assault them. It got so bad I had
to pay one of them off. Would you vote for
that person again? Absolutely not, the opposition said, true story.
Howth Ethics Committee leaders argued the move would chill witness

(05:53):
cooperation and retraumatize victims right because they would be upset
that the people who sexually assaulted them were being held accountable.
Do we not have a massive amount of people throughout
the media and in our government calling for transparency with

(06:17):
the Epstein files. Do we not have people saying every
single day that there should be no reactions with the
people who are the predators in those files. Do we
not publicize and promote every single time we find out
another CEO or person in the UK government, person in

(06:37):
the American government was a part of these Epstein rendezvous.
Do we just not have a former Secretary of State
and President sit before the House Oversight Committee in closed
door session, which we then got some purview through the
hearings when they leaked a little bit out. I guess
whatever was agreed upon between all parties, but we got
to see them testifying and talking about Oh, Bill, do

(06:59):
you remember sitting in that hotel with that underage girl. Nope, nope,
never saw that she wasn't underage. Oh I thought you
said you didn't remember. But now we're trying to pass
legislation that you're not allowed to do this and have
the American people pay off you know, your crimes. And
everybody said no, I including Speaker Johnson. You know, mister

(07:23):
holier than now, really think about that for a minute.
So three hundred and fifty seven members of Congress, they
voted against predators, they voted in lockstep, and they voted
to take part in utter deception against the American people.
It is so beyond the pale. I can honestly say

(07:45):
I actually thought it was a Babylon b story when
I first saw it, because I couldn't believe that this
was happening. And it's not like I wasn't already upset
enough about the fact that we have control as the
Republican party. And let me be very clear, I am
a Republican because it's closer to who I am than
what a Democrat is at the end of the day,

(08:05):
they both suck. They're just one big UNI party. And
I've been saying this for years. There's them and there's us.
That's it. There's nothing in between. And this is the
biggest problem that we have when we try to have accountability,
when we try to have ethics committees, is that the
same people that scream at the top of their lungs

(08:26):
about Epstein because they think that they're going to get
Donald Trump. Which, let's be honest. The Epstein files have
been around for twenty years, and we have had Barack Obama,
of Barack Obama and Joe Biden in office, and you're
telling me neither one of them could get enough information
on President Trump. We're going to get it, now, give
me a break. They had everything that they wanted to
have in those Epstein files, but they knew that there

(08:49):
was nothing about him and way too much about people
on their side of the aisle. The problem is there's
plenty of people from our side of the island there too,
And then we have so many assholes. I mean, we
have the corn Ins, we have the Thune, we have
the Johnsons, I mean Lisa Murkowski Susan Collins. Mitch McConnell,
you know, it's basically becoming an old folks home on

(09:09):
the floor of the Senate. You've been in there for
forty years. You haven't cared about your state in a
really long time. Could you just go now? Yesterday we
lost Steve Danes of Montana. That's a huge loss. Supposedly
they already have the successor, but he's not running again.
And now we have Mark Wayne Mullens from Oklahoma who's
now gone into the role of Department of Homeland Security Director.

(09:31):
So these sorts of things are happening all the time.
We're losing some of the good ones, we're keeping all
of the terrible ones. And now fun is making back
room deals because supposedly he wants Cornyn to get the
nod the Texas Senate position. They want him to keep
that role. Why why do you want to keep John
Cornyn as a senator in the state of Texas. He's

(09:55):
speaking to people that are Muslim in his state. He
is encouraging or mosques to be built. His daughter works
for a lobbying group that is trying to make things
Sharia compliant. Can somebody please explain to me why in
God's great name we want John Cornyn anywhere near the
damn Senate. You may not like that Ken Paxon had

(10:18):
some problems with his wife, or maybe he had an affair,
or he did this, or he did that, But I'll
tell you what, I would rather have a guy that
cheated on his wife and got divorced than a guy
that wants to build three hundred mosques and take money
from these sort of super packs where they're funneling all
the money back into communities that have nothing to do
with assimilation or American values. Ken Paxson is out there,

(10:40):
he's holding people's feet to the fire. That's what I
want from a senator. Don't get me wrong. I'm not
Pollyannish about the fact that the government is ugly and
people lie, and I get it. But there is a
bridge too far. There is a spot where I'm like, listen,
you clearly have I haven't seen your balls in a

(11:01):
really long time, and you have no idea what it
means to stand up for American values. When I say
stand up for American values, when I say let's find
out who is sexually assaulting people, who's a predator in Congress?
That should be like, yeah, no problem, one hundred percent,
I'm all in. Not oh no, we need to lock
that down. Nobody can know that. Let's cover it up.

(11:24):
These are the things that mystify me when people say, well,
you know, we've got to make deals, and now we
have fun trying to make a deal for Cornin with
the President and supposedly he's saying, listen, I need you
to give the nod to Cornin, and if you do that,
I'll bring the save back to the floor. Do you
not understand, John Thune? Seriously, I don't know what's in

(11:47):
the water in South Dakota, but do you not understand
for one second that if the Democrats get the House
and the Senate back, aside from the fact that they
will completely paralyze any legislative efforts that are president tries
to do, aside from that fact, they are going to
pack the courts. They are going to make sure that
every single aspect of what we have done over the

(12:09):
last year and a half is undone. You think the
world is too woke now, you will never be able
to close your eyes again if these assholes get back
in charge and you think they're going to let you
keep your seat. What deal with the devil did you make?
You're not keeping your seat. You're not going to be
a Senator from South Dakota, You're not going to be

(12:31):
the majority leader. None of that is a reality for you.
If they win and if we don't pass the Save
Act and we don't have people that have their papers
and have their information and it's not a thing. This
is the reality of where we're at. And unlessen, until

(12:52):
we pass the Save Act, we're going to be in
big trouble. And if I was President Trump, and I'm not,
but if I was, I will tell you right now,
I would go out and I'd be like, listen, scorched Earth.
John Thune came over last night. He says, if I
support Cornyn, he's going to bring the save back to
the floor. What do you guys want me to do?
Go scorched Earth. Let the people know the piece of

(13:14):
shit that he is. Because I'm telling you right now,
these super packs, with all this Katari money, this Middle
East money, asking us to build more mosque, asking us
to be Sharia compliant, maybe they should be present for
what that actually means. Maybe you guys need to go
to a Sharia court and look at the subjugation of
young girls, some of them younger than nine, being married

(13:37):
to men that are sixty. It's disgusting, but I guess
I shouldn't expect anything from a Congress that is now
telling everybody we don't care about the victims, we care
about the predators. We're suppressing everybody's ability to expose those
who have used your money to pay off their devian activities,
because that's what happened. And Nancy is somebody. This is

(14:01):
a woman who graduated from the Citadel. She's a badass bitch.
She's not here for it, and she's telling you right
now that she's going to keep fighting. She's doing all
the things that so many of these career senators, career
members of the House. I'm sick of it. It is
time once and for all to expose those who abuse

(14:25):
the privilege of holding public office. Your first responsibility is
to us, the American citizens. And for those assholes who
didn't stand during the State of the Union when they
were asked that very question, they are the same people
who voted to support sexual predators yesterday who are screaming
to expose the Epstein files, the aocs, and the Maxine

(14:47):
Waters and the who cares All the idiots right on
the left, there's so many of them, but now they're
voting with the Republicans because everybody wants to shut it down.
So we got backroom deals to be made on the
Save Act, which is our right. Eighty four percent of
Americans left and right want the Save Act because you

(15:08):
got plenty of Democrats. I mean, just listen to Jasmine
Crockett the other day when she lost her Senate primary
against Taller Rico. Oh, it was rigged. Not only did
she say it was rigged, which is absurd, she said
it was rigged by the Republicans. I'm like, yeah, I
got to tell you something, Jasmine. At the end of
the day, if it's between you and tall Rico, while
you both are completely awful and horrible, I'm gonna pick

(15:31):
you because Tallarico is psychotic. I mean, he's calling Jesus
non binary. I don't know how quickly he's going to
get to hell, but I know when he gets there,
he's gonna burn for a real long time. So yeah,
I would pick Jasmine Crockett over tall Rico. But again,
if they want fairness election integrity, they want to know
that their vote is secure past the Save Act. You

(15:53):
go in, you show ID you have to be an
American citizen. I have no idea how you could defend
not wanting that, because the only reason you don't want
that is if you want to give people who don't
pay into the system the right to make votes that
control the system. And the only reason we do that
is because the Democrats know that black and white America
are sick of their bullshit and we're we are not

(16:15):
voting for them. And if they spend five minutes on
social media, they would know that most people, if they
don't say Republican or Democrat, they're aligned on these issues,
all the big ones, how the economy is doing, protecting
our children, protecting the job market, protecting our borders, being
a sovereign nation, all these things. Once you start talking

(16:39):
to people just common sense ideas, you'll find you're on
the same page. It is not until you select party
alignment that you start to see the fistfly. So I'm
done talking to people about parties because, like I said
a few minutes ago, is one big UNI party. It's
us against them, and they showed that yesterday. I want
to play one piece of audio from Larenbert of Colorado

(17:01):
because she actually said something pretty interesting, and I don't
always agree with her, but I did agree what she
had to say here about Congresswoman Mace's resolution to expose
these people and take a listen.

Speaker 2 (17:18):
I'm absolutely disgusted that we could even get to fifty
members of Congress who want immediate transparency. Don't we all
campaign on transparency. Don't we all go out and tell
the American voters that we are leaders and that we
are going to get justice for them, that we are
going to do right by them, and then we hire
their daughters to come work for us. And your tax dollars,

(17:40):
millions and millions of dollars has been used in this
slush fund as hush money to silence victims who have
been sexually harassed, sexually abused by members of Congress. And
then Congress is going to do exactly what it does best,
investigate itself. And we know that of that ever goes anywhere.

(18:01):
The American people demand transparency. And this doesn't just pertain
to a ranch in Arizona or New Mexico or an
island down in the Virgin Islands. This is happening right
here in our nation's capital, and we should be held
to the highest standards. And to every member who voted

(18:22):
to send this to committee, where you know, this was
sent to die on the House floor just moments ago,
I hope you have a jarn good reason to tell
your constituents why you were not going to stand up
for the victims. And I'm glad that we are doing
something about it here in the Oversight Committee. I'm glad
that this motion was made here so we actually have
another chance at transparency.

Speaker 1 (18:43):
But again, these are your tax dollars. These are your
tax dollars that were used.

Speaker 2 (18:47):
To silence victims. They have been settled with victims. And
to the members who voted against this, go home and
tell your daughters what you did to. Go home and
tell your daughters what happens in the workplace, no matter
where it is, in your hometown and your nation's capital,

(19:09):
and tell them what you did to help continue to
cover up decades of corruption. I am absolutely in favor
of this motion.

Speaker 1 (19:18):
How interesting is that, right she's talking about how we
bring our kids over. We have them, you know, come
to work, do internships, whatever it is. But in this moment,
we're unable to protect them. Because it's more important to
protect our special interest. That's exactly what happened this week.
So I'm really hopeful that Nancy Mace continues to be

(19:41):
the one sort of standing outside doing the uh, being
the outlier, if you will, in Congress and saying, you
know what, I'm going to keep fighting the good fight,
because at least she is. She's taken the hits. People
attack her all the time, but she doesn't care. And
I have to say I really respect it. I do.
And for the rest of the representatives that stood up

(20:02):
and actually said I am not going to vote for this,
there were let me take a look here. There were
twenty seven Democrats and thirty eight Republicans that voted to
have these people exposed, which is kind of amazing. But

(20:22):
the people that you would think would be on this list,
the speaker, Johnson's, the AOC's you know, they're not on here,
absolutely not. You know who is on here, Chip Roy Stephanic.
Let me see who else is here? Andy Ogles of Tennessee,
Brandon Gill of Texas, he's great, Andy Biggs of Arizona,

(20:45):
you know, comer. I mean, these are the people that
you know, you expect to see on here, and if
they're not on here, I want to know why. I
don't care if you're one of us or not. I
want to know why. Why did you vot vote to
block this resolution and protect these sexual predators. What in

(21:05):
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(21:25):
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