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We have a Speaker! His name is Mike Johnson, and We Give You the Details on Why this is Good for Conservatives · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: We finally have a new Speaker of the House. It's
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  Speaker 1: a name you may not know, and I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: introduce you the new Speaker, Mike Johnson, a man from Louisiana.
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  Speaker 1: He got a unanimous GOP vote and he is vowing
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  Speaker 1: to address the debt, are open borders. And that's just
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  Speaker 1: for starters. Now Here is the part that's the most
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  Speaker 1: impressive about his background that you need to understand. He
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  Speaker 1: is an America first and a MAGA Conservative. He is
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  Speaker 1: a staunch ally of the House Freedom Caucus.
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  Speaker 2: His mentor is Jim Jordan.
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  Speaker 1: He served as legal defense for Donald Trump during both
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  Speaker 1: impeachment trials. He also voted against all Ukraine spending after
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  Speaker 1: the initial bill. He has an F rating from Republicans
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  Speaker 1: for Ukraine.
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  Speaker 2: That's a good thing.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, he objected to certifying the twenty twenty election.
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  Speaker 1: He called to arrest Pelosi after she tore up the
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  Speaker 1: state of the Union. That is his background, So you
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  Speaker 1: understand who Mike Johnson is. He won, and make no
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  Speaker 1: mistake about this. This is a huge victory. You may
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  Speaker 1: not know his name, but you will soon. Speaker Mike Johnson.
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  Speaker 1: It's a huge victory because not only after we got
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  Speaker 1: rid of Kevin McCarthy, the DC establishment fought back. They
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  Speaker 1: clamped down, and they were able to stop good people
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  Speaker 1: like Jim Jordan. But Conservatives one, patriots one, Conservatives in
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  Speaker 1: Congress that stood strong, understood they were running out of
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  Speaker 1: time and.
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  Speaker 2: They need to get this right, and they did get
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  Speaker 2: it right.
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  Speaker 1: For the first time in decades, We the people have
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  Speaker 1: a true conservative voice leading Congress. That's something else you
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  Speaker 1: need to understand about who he is. Now, let's talk
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  Speaker 1: about some of these votes for a minute, just so
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  Speaker 1: you understand he is experienced, by the way, and we'll
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  Speaker 1: talk a little bit about his background for a moment.
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  Speaker 1: He's having been a member of Congress for seven years.
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  Speaker 1: He's in his fourth term right now, so he's not
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  Speaker 1: a newbie. Understands how Washington works and look. And when
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  Speaker 1: you're the Speaker of the House, that's important so that
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  Speaker 1: you understand what victories you can have, what you can win,
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  Speaker 1: and what you'll have no chance of winning on based
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  Speaker 1: on the makeup of Congress. That's part of the experience
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  Speaker 1: that you do want a speaker to have moving in.
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  Speaker 1: He fought by the way for Trump as a member
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  Speaker 1: of his legal defense team. During both these impeachments. What
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  Speaker 1: does that mean. It means he is a staunch Trump ally.
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  Speaker 1: So if Donald Trump is elected president again, he would
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  Speaker 1: have a speaker in theory that he could work hand
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  Speaker 1: in hand with to get stuff done. There's also his
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  Speaker 1: background Johnson Speaker. Johnson is a constitutional attorney. He is
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  Speaker 1: a constitutional attorney who received his degree from Louisiana State University.
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  Speaker 1: He's not a Harvard Ale Ivy League kind of guy.
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  Speaker 1: He's more of your your your common man. And I
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  Speaker 1: love that, okay, And I'm not I'm not. I'm not
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  Speaker 1: saying that I think you can't be a great conservative
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  Speaker 1: and good to Ivy League. A great example of that
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  Speaker 1: is Senator Ted Kruz. But this is a guy that's
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  Speaker 1: kind of true to his roots. He's a part of
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  Speaker 1: Flyover country. He's a conservative evangelical from the South.
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  Speaker 2: I love that.
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  Speaker 1: He's also a family man. He's married with four different children.
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  Speaker 1: His Christian faith is important to him. He often leads
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  Speaker 1: prayers on Capitol Hill. In fact, he was praying on
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  Speaker 1: Capitol Hill before, during, and after these votes his mentor representative,
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  Speaker 1: Jim Jordan. He voted for Jim Jordan for Speaker That's
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  Speaker 1: another part of him that I absolutely love. And Representative
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  Speaker 1: Mike Johnson has a life and a political record.
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  Speaker 2: That is solid as a rock.
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  Speaker 1: He is consistently from the very beginning beginning voted against
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  Speaker 1: the Ukraine Aid except for the very first aid bill.
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  Speaker 1: Most conservatives were okay with that one, but once they
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  Speaker 1: started to see where the money was going and how
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  Speaker 1: it was going to not go to the people that
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  Speaker 1: actually needed it, and that this was going to put
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  Speaker 1: us into an issue of World War IIIE and what
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  Speaker 1: the Democrats were doing with the money and what they
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  Speaker 1: were doing in Zelenskin others, he said, no more money
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  Speaker 1: for Ukraine.
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  Speaker 2: I love that.
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  Speaker 1: Let's talk about those issues that are really important to conservatives.
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  Speaker 1: He is a hardcore, staunch pro life advocate. He has
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  Speaker 1: never wavered on his pro life stands as a conservative evangelical.
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  Speaker 1: He supported President Trump's twenty seventeen executive order. By the way,
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  Speaker 1: and this goes back to national security as well as
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  Speaker 1: border security. He supported President Trump's executive order prohibiting immigration
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  Speaker 1: from seven Muslim countries. Right that they said was you know,
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  Speaker 1: anti Muslim, when really it was about national security. He
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  Speaker 1: stood by the president when that happened and he solidly
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  Speaker 1: votes with a Republican colleagues. He's very policy driven as well.
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  Speaker 1: This is way better than Representative Tom Emmer, way better
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  Speaker 1: than Kevin McCarthy. Now I'll be clear with you, I
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  Speaker 1: would have loved Jim Jordan. Jim is very much in
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  Speaker 1: the mentor of Mike Johnson. But if we couldn't get
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  Speaker 1: Jim through, at least we were able to get Mike
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  Speaker 1: Johnson through. There's also another aspect of this, and there
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  Speaker 1: was a wake up call clearly the Republicans that you
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  Speaker 1: better get your house in order. No pun intended. It
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  Speaker 1: was a unanimous GOP vote. Now let's listen to what
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  Speaker 1: he said as he took the gabbl and addressed the chamber,
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  Speaker 1: a joint chamber in the House.
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  Speaker 2: I want you to hear what he had to say.
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  Speaker 2: Listen carefully.
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  Speaker 3: The challenge before us is great, but the time for
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  Speaker 3: action is now, and I will not let you down.
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  Speaker 3: I want to say to the American people on behalf
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  Speaker 3: of all of us here, we hear you. We know
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  Speaker 3: the challenges you're facing, we know that there's a lot
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  Speaker 3: going on in our country domestically and abroad, and we
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  Speaker 3: are ready to get to work again to solve those problems,
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  Speaker 3: and we will. Our mission here is to serve you well,
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  Speaker 3: to restore the people's faith in this house, in this
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  Speaker 3: great and essential institution. My dad, it was to mentioned
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  Speaker 3: my dad was a firefighter. He was an assistant chief
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  Speaker 3: in the fire department in my hometown of Sreport, Louisiana,
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  Speaker 3: a little town in northwest Louisiana. On September seventeenth, nineteen
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  Speaker 3: eighty four, when I was twelve years old, he was
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  Speaker 3: critically burned and permanently disabled in the line of duty.
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  Speaker 4: All I ever wanted to be when.
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  Speaker 3: I grew up was the chief of the fire department
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  Speaker 3: in Shreeport. But after the explosion on that fateful day,
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  Speaker 3: he nearly died, and it was a long road back,
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  Speaker 3: and it changed all of our life trajectories. I'm to
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  Speaker 3: go to four kids and my dad. He lived with
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  Speaker 3: pain all the rest of his life for decades more.
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  Speaker 3: And I lost my dad to cancer three days before
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  Speaker 3: I got elected to Congress, three days and he wanted
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  Speaker 3: to be there at my election night so badly. On
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  Speaker 3: the first college you graduate in my family, this was
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  Speaker 3: a big deal to him. And so several weeks after that,
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  Speaker 3: it was early twenty seventeen. Twenty seventeen, it was my
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  Speaker 3: freshman term and it fell to me to be in
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  Speaker 3: the rosterrum one night to serve here as speaker pro tem.
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  Speaker 3: I thought that was a big deal until I figured
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  Speaker 3: out that's what you do for freshmen late at night.
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  Speaker 3: And I want to I think, if my memory sirs,
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  Speaker 3: Miss Jackson Lee was was winding down one of her long,
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  Speaker 3: eloquent speeches, and not that I was not enraptured by
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  Speaker 3: her speech, but I looked looked up at the top
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  Speaker 3: of the chamber there and I saw the face of
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  Speaker 3: Moses staring down and I just felt in that moment
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  Speaker 3: the weight of this place right the history that is
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  Speaker 3: revered here in the future, that we are called the Forge,
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  Speaker 3: and I really was just kind of almost overwhelmed with emotion.
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  Speaker 3: It occurred to me in that moment. It had been
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  Speaker 3: several weeks and I had not had an opportunity yet
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  Speaker 3: to grieve my dad's passing, and I just had this
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  Speaker 3: sense that somehow he knew, and I had tears come
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  Speaker 3: into my eyes and I was standing here and I'm
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  Speaker 3: wiping them away, and then it suddenly occurs to me,
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  Speaker 3: the late night sea span viewers are going to think
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  Speaker 3: something's very wrong with the new young congressman from Louisiana.
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  Speaker 2: It wasn't.
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  Speaker 4: She was speech. I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 3: I just knew in that moment that my dad, my
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  Speaker 3: father would be, would be proud of me, and I
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  Speaker 3: felt that he was. And I think all of our
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  Speaker 3: parents are proud of what we're called to do here.
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  Speaker 3: I think all the American people at one time had
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  Speaker 3: great pride in this institution, but right now that's in jeopardy,
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  Speaker 3: and we have a challenge before us right now to
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  Speaker 3: rebuild and restore that trust.
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  Speaker 4: This is a beautiful country.
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  Speaker 3: It's the beauty of America that allows a firefighter's kid
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  Speaker 3: like me to come here and serve in this sacred
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  Speaker 3: chamber where great men and women have served before all
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  Speaker 3: of us, and strive together to build and then preserve
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  Speaker 3: what Lincoln did refer to as a last best hope
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  Speaker 3: of man on earth.
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  Speaker 1: This is a guy that understands history, and I love
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  Speaker 1: that about our new speaker, Mike Johnson. He understands family,
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  Speaker 1: He understands being what success looks like, being the first
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  Speaker 1: one to go to college from his family. It's an
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  Speaker 1: incredible story of the American dream. Being realized and coming
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  Speaker 1: about not because he wanted this job, but because it
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  Speaker 1: finally people looked around the room and said who can
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  Speaker 1: we get elected and who's a good man? And then
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  Speaker 1: they went to Mike Johnson. This was not his goal
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  Speaker 1: in life to be the speaker. To be very clear,
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  Speaker 1: this is a man that's actually serving because others were
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  Speaker 1: obsessed with being a speaker, like Kevin McCarthy.
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  Speaker 2: This is different.
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  Speaker 1: Johnson that you need to understand is he was elected
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  Speaker 1: to Congress in the America First Wave in twenty sixteen
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  Speaker 1: with Donald Trump. That is important, a very important aspect
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  Speaker 1: of who he is. So with his election a speaker,
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  Speaker 1: he effectively what we have is, in a crazy way,
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  Speaker 1: a Trump Republican takeover of Congress. So when people say
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  Speaker 1: are we back, yeah, yeah, this is not a swamp guy.
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  Speaker 1: This is a conservative, Maga Republican guy.
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  Speaker 2: That's what you need to understand. This is a.
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  Speaker 1: Guy that is sincere and authentic in his beliefs. He
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  Speaker 1: has simplistic beliefs on what we need to do and
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  Speaker 1: what he can do as a speaker dealing with the
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  Speaker 1: budget and how out of control it is, dealing with
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  Speaker 1: immigration and border security.
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  Speaker 2: Keep listening to what he says.
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  Speaker 1: Again, this is his historic speech right after being elected speaker.
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  Speaker 4: We stand at a very dangerous time. I've stayed in
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  Speaker 4: the obvious.
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  Speaker 3: We all know that the world is in turmoil, but
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  Speaker 3: a strong America is good for.
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  Speaker 4: The entire world.
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  Speaker 3: We are the beacon of freedom and we must preserve
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  Speaker 3: this grand experiment and self governance it still is. We're
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  Speaker 3: only two hundred and forty seven years into this grand experiment.
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  Speaker 4: We don't know how long it will last, but we
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  Speaker 4: do know that the.
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  Speaker 3: Founders to take the founders told us to take good
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  Speaker 3: care of it. I want to tell all my colleagues
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  Speaker 3: here when I told the Republicans in that room last night,
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  Speaker 3: I don't believe there are any coincidences in a matter
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  Speaker 3: like this. I believe that scripture the Bible is very
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  Speaker 3: clear that God is the one that raises up those
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  Speaker 3: in authority. He raised up each of you, all of us,
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  Speaker 3: and I believe that God has ordained and allowed you.
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  Speaker 3: Hold on, let's just pause there.
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  Speaker 1: You just heard a man who's the speaker of the
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  Speaker 1: house now saying, I believe that God has ordained and
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  Speaker 1: allowed each of us to be brought here together. Does
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  Speaker 1: that sound like another speaker that we've had recently, No,
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  Speaker 1: it is not.
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  Speaker 2: Keep listening again.
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  Speaker 1: This is a man who's openly talking about his faith.
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  Speaker 1: He is proud of his faith. I'm going to back
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  Speaker 1: it up a few seconds because I want you to
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  Speaker 1: really listen.
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  Speaker 3: Is the one that raises up those in authority. He
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  Speaker 3: raised up each of you, all of us. And I
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  Speaker 3: believe that God has ordained and allowed each one of
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  Speaker 3: us to be brought here for this specific moment, in
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  Speaker 3: this time.
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  Speaker 4: This is my belief. I believe that.
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  Speaker 3: Each one of us has a huge responsibility today to
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  Speaker 3: use the gifts that God has given us to serve
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  Speaker 3: the extraordinary people of this great and they deserve it,
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  Speaker 3: and to ensure that our Republic remains standing as the
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  Speaker 3: great beacon of light and hope and freedom. And a
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  Speaker 3: world that desperately needs it. It was in nineteen sixty two,
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  Speaker 3: in nineteen sixty two that our national motto, in God
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  Speaker 3: we Trust, was adorned above this rostrum.
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  Speaker 4: And if you look at the little guide that.
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  Speaker 3: They give tourists and constituents who come and visit the house,
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  Speaker 3: if you turn in there to about page fourteen, in
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  Speaker 3: the middle of that guide, it tells you the history
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  Speaker 3: of this and it says very simply, these words were
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  Speaker 3: placed here above us. This motto was placed here as
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  Speaker 3: a rebuke of the Cold War era philosophy of the
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  Speaker 3: Soviet Union. That philosophy was Marxism and communism, which begins
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  Speaker 3: with the premise that there is no God. This is
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  Speaker 3: a critic distinction that is also articulated in our nation's
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  Speaker 3: birth certificate. We know the language well, the famous second
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  Speaker 3: paragraph that we used to have children memorize in school.
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  Speaker 3: And they don't do that so often anymore, but they should.
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  Speaker 2: GK.
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  Speaker 3: Chesterson was the famous British philosopher and statesman, and he
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  Speaker 3: said one time America is the only nation in the
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  Speaker 3: world that is founded upon a creed. And he said
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  Speaker 3: it's listed with almost theological lucidity in the Declaration of Independence.
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  Speaker 4: What is our creed?
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  Speaker 3: We hold these truths to be self evident, that all
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  Speaker 3: men are created equal, not born equal, created equal, and
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  Speaker 3: they are dowed by the same inalienable rights, with the
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  Speaker 3: same inalienable rights life, liberty, pursuit of happiness. That is
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  Speaker 3: the creed that has animated our nation since its founding,
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  Speaker 3: that has made us the great nation that we are.
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  Speaker 3: And we're in a time of extraordinary crisis right now,
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  Speaker 3: and the world needs us to be strong. They need
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  Speaker 3: us to remember our creed and our admonition. Turmoil and
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  Speaker 3: violence of right to Middle East and Eastern Europe. We
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  Speaker 3: all know what intentions continue to build in the Indo Pacific.
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  Speaker 3: The country demands strong leadership of this body, and we
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  Speaker 3: must not waver. Our nation's greatest ally in the Middle
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  Speaker 3: East is under attack. The first bill that I'm going
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  Speaker 3: to bring to this floor in just a little while,
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  Speaker 3: we'll be in support of our dear friend Israel, and
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  Speaker 3: we're overdue and getting that done. We're going to show
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  Speaker 3: not only Israel, but the entire world that the barbarism
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  Speaker 3: of Hamas that we have all seen play out on
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  Speaker 3: our television screens is wretched and wrong and We're going
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  Speaker 3: to stand for the good in that conflict. We have
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  Speaker 3: a catastrophe at our southern border. The Senate in the
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  Speaker 3: White House can no longer ignore the problem. From Texas
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  Speaker 3: to New York, wave after wave of illegal migrants are
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  Speaker 3: stress in our community to their breaking points. We know
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  Speaker 3: that our streets are being flooded with fentanyl and all
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  Speaker 3: of our communities, children and even adults are dying from it.
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  Speaker 3: The status quo is unacceptable. Inaction is unacceptable, and we
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  Speaker 3: must come together and address the broken border.
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  Speaker 4: We have to do it.
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  Speaker 3: The skyrocketing cost of living is unsustainable, and Americans should
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  Speaker 3: not have to worry about how they're going to feed
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  Speaker 3: their family every week because they can't afford their groceries anymore.
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  Speaker 3: Everybody in this room should think about this. Here's the stats.
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  Speaker 3: Prices have increased over seventeen percent in the last two years.
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  Speaker 3: Credit card interest rates are at the highest level in
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  Speaker 3: nearly three decades. In mortgage rates are now at a
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  Speaker 3: peak we haven't seen since two thousand and one. We
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  Speaker 3: have to bring relief to the American people by reigning
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  Speaker 3: in federal spending and bringing down inflation. The greatest threat
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  Speaker 3: to our national security is our nation's debts, and while
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  Speaker 3: we've been sitting in this room, that's right that the
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  Speaker 3: debt has crossed almost thirty three point six trillion dollars
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  Speaker 3: and the time that it's going to take me to
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  Speaker 3: deliver this speech will go up another twenty million in debt.
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  Speaker 3: It's unsustainable. We have to get the country back on track.
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  Speaker 4: Now.
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  Speaker 3: We know this is not going to be an easy
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  Speaker 3: task and tough decisions will have to be made, but
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  Speaker 3: the consequences if we don't act now are unbearable. We
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  Speaker 3: have a duty to the American people to explain this
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  Speaker 3: to them so they understand it well. And we are
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  Speaker 3: going to establish a bipartisan Debt Commission to begin working
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  Speaker 3: on this crisis immediately.
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  Speaker 4: Immediately.
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  Speaker 3: We all know that we also live in a time
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  Speaker 3: of bitter partisanship. It was noted and it's been on
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  Speaker 3: display here today. Right when our people are losing their
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  Speaker 3: faith in government, when they're losing sight of the principles
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  Speaker 3: that made us the greatest nation in the history of
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  Speaker 3: the world.
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  Speaker 4: I think we got to be mindful of that. We're
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  Speaker 4: going to fight.
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  Speaker 3: We're going to fight vigorously over our core principles because
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  Speaker 3: there are odds a lot of times now in this
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: modern era, we have to sacrifice sometimes our preferences because
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  Speaker 3: that's what's necessary in a legislative body. But we will
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  Speaker 3: defend our core principles to the end, and it's farewell address,
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  Speaker 3: Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: If you want to know why this fight for this
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  Speaker 1: speaker was worth it, all you have to do is
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: listen to what this man has just said. He's talked
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  Speaker 1: about God, he's talked about country. He's talked about the
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: biggest threat to this country is our unsustainable debt. He says,
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: while while I'm giving this speech, our national debt is
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: going to go up by twenty million dollars. It's unsustainable.
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  Speaker 1: It's a threat to our future as a country. He's
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  Speaker 1: talked about the border. He's talked about us coming together
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  Speaker 1: on basic principles and not overreaching the things that we
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  Speaker 1: don't need to be involved in. This is why this
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  Speaker 1: speaker fight was worth it. So the question that I
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: am going to be asked a million times is is
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: this worth it? Was this fight worth it? The answer
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  Speaker 1: is absolutely, Because when you get somebody like this that,
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: by the way, this man was not on anybody's radar screen.
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  Speaker 2: I want to be very clear about that.
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  Speaker 1: We are getting him as a blessing in disguise because
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: we got rid of McCarthy. We had to sacrifice some
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: candidates like Jim Jordan.
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  Speaker 2: I hate that.
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: I think Jim would have been a amazing speaker, But
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: to get Speaker Johnson, which is is now going to
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: be one of the biggest blessings in disguise.
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  Speaker 2: So should you be excited? Yes? Should you be proud
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  Speaker 2: of this fight? Yes?
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  Speaker 1: Did the world end because of us not having a
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  Speaker 1: speaker for the last three weeks?
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  Speaker 2: It did not.
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  Speaker 1: Everything the Left was freaking out over and claiming and
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: trying to make these hits on us. None of it happened, folks,
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: And we got a good speaker because of this fight.
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  Speaker 1: You gotta imagine the left as they're listening to this
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: new speaker Johnson, and they're sitting there going, are you
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: kidding me? Like, you know, they're judging him. You know,
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: they're judging this man's faith, they're judging that this man
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: is from flyover country. They're judging this man because he's
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: talking about principles and values that they have pure disdain for.
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: He's talking about things like fiscal response onsibility will be
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  Speaker 1: what brings down this country. He's talking about national security issues.
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  Speaker 1: Notice that there's nothing that he has said so far
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  Speaker 1: that has been extreme or radical. Notice that if you're liberal,
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: you're going to say it's extreme and radical. Right, defend
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: your country, put your country first. This is a maga conservative,
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: is what. This is a man that came into Congress
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: in twenty sixteen as a as a straight up maga conservative,
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: a Donald Trump candidate.
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  Speaker 2: This is something for me that screams success.
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  Speaker 1: This is a simplistic approach to government's role and a
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  Speaker 1: simplistic approach that we should all be able to get behind.
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  Speaker 2: Right. This is simplistic in a good way. I want
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  Speaker 2: to understand this.
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: This doesn't have to always be complicated, Okay, things don't
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: always have to be.
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  Speaker 2: Overly spun.
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  Speaker 1: This is a man that says, I think I know
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  Speaker 1: what my job is here, and I think I know
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  Speaker 1: how we need to do it, and I understand what
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  Speaker 1: we need to do moving forward, and we need to
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: start saying no to a lot of things instead of
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: saying yes to a lot of government waste. Government's role
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: should be limited, not extended, in everything that we do.
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: That's another thing here that I think is really important
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: is He's not talking about spending money, He's talking about
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: saving money. He also understands history. Again, keep listening, and
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: I playing the more larger clips here because no one
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: knows Mike Johnson. I want you to know who this
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: guy is. Here's more of what he had to say
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  Speaker 1: to Congress.
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: In his farewell address, Thank You, and his farewell addressed,
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: President Reagan explained the secret of his rapport with people,
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: and I like to paraphrase his explanation.
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  Speaker 4: All the time.
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  Speaker 3: He said, you know, they call me the great communicator,
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  Speaker 3: but I really wasn't that. He said, I was just
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: communicating great things, and that the same great things that
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: they've guided in our nation since its founding.
• 24:08
  Speaker 4: What are those great things?
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: I call them the seven core principles of American Conservatism.
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  Speaker 4: But let me concede to you all.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's really quintessentially the core principles of our nation.
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  Speaker 4: I've boil them down.
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  Speaker 3: The individual freedom, limited government, the rule of law, peace
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  Speaker 3: through strength, fiscal responsibility, free markets, and human dignity. Those
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: are the foundations that made us the extraordinary nation that
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: we are. And you and I today are the stewards
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: of those principles. The things that have made us the freest,
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: most powerful, most successful nation in the history of the world.
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: The things that have made us truly exceptional. And this
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: time of great crisis, it is our duty to work
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  Speaker 3: together as previous generations of great leaders have, to face
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: these great challenges and solve these great problems.
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  Speaker 4: I will conclude with this. The job of the.
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  Speaker 3: Speaker of the House is to serve the whole body,
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: and I will. But I've made a commitment to my
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: colleagues here that this Speaker's office is going to be
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: known for decentralizing the power here.
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  Speaker 1: Decentralizing the power here. You just had a Speaker of
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  Speaker 1: the House. And this is why it was worth getting
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  Speaker 1: rid of Kevin McCarthy, who says, we don't need this
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  Speaker 1: much power in WASHINGT d C. In fact, we need
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  Speaker 1: to decentralize the power in Washington, d C. Washington has
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  Speaker 1: become too powerful, is what he's saying. You think Speaker
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: McCarthy would ever say that. You think Nancy Pelosi would
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  Speaker 1: ever say that. You think John Bayner would have ever
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: said that that we need to get rid of the
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  Speaker 1: power structure that we have here. They would never say that.
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: Why would they never say it? Because they don't believe it.
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: They're drunk on power. You know, there's something truly incredible
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  Speaker 1: about how this guy even became the speaker. And I
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: mean that in the in the in the kindest way possible, Like,
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  Speaker 1: I mean that sincerely. I love leaders that are that
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: are called to lead because of circumstance, not because they
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  Speaker 1: are wanting the jobs so badly they're willing to make
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: any deal possible to get it right. That was John Bayner,
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: that was Paul Ryan, that was Kevin McCarthy. They wanted
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: that power so badly, and centralize that power, and expand
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: that power, and and and and sell that power to
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: the highest bidder or lobbyists or donor. This is a guy, now,
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: this speaker, who's talking about decentralizing that power.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, I don't I don't think we should be this powerful.
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: I don't think the United States government should be this
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: powerful in this way. This is going back to the
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: issue of states rights. And remember there are there are
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: Republicans that believe that government spending should always be through
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  Speaker 1: the roof, because if it is, then that means they're
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: the most powerful branch of government. This is a guy
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: who's saying that that is our Achilles heel is a
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: nation that we do not need to be spending. There
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: are a lot of Republicans that would never go along
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  Speaker 1: with that idea because they are like, well, hold on,
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: are you saying that I'm going to give up power.
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: You're saying that you want us to not be as
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: powerful as a body and give power back to the
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: people in power on many issues back to the States.
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  Speaker 1: This is like complete foreign language to many Republicans in Washington,
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: certainly the Democrats. And he's saying it, and not only
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: did he say it, he got a standing ovation from
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: the Republican side when he said it.
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  Speaker 3: Listen, my office is going to be known for members
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: being more involved and having more influence in our processes
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: and all the major decisions that are made here, for
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: predictable processes and regular order.
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  Speaker 4: We owe that to the people.
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: Correct, And I'm going to make this commitment to you,
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  Speaker 3: to my colleagues here and on the other side of
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  Speaker 3: the isle as well.
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  Speaker 4: My office is.
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  Speaker 3: Going to be known for trust and transparency and accountability,
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: for good stewardship of the people's treasure, for the honesty
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: integrity that is incumbent upon us, all of us here
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: in the People's House.
• 28:28
  Speaker 4: Our system of government is not a perfect system.
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: It's got a lot of challenges, but it is still
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: the best one in the world, and we have an
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: opportunity to preserve it. Last thing I'm going to say
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: is a message to the rest of the world. They
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: have been watching this drama play out for a few weeks.
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: We've learned a lot of lessons. But you know what,
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: through adverse, it makes you stronger. Yeah, and we want
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: our allies around the world to know that this body
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: of lawmakers is reporting again to our duty stations. Let
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: the enemies of freedom around the world hear us loud
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  Speaker 3: and clear. The People's House is back in business.
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: Representative Mike Johnson giving his historic speech after being elected.
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  Speaker 1: I wanted you to hear from him, so you know
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  Speaker 1: who he is. Can you be proud of this choice?
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: Yes? Was it worth the pain of the last three weeks? Absolutely?
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: Is this something that happened that I want to happen
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: on a regular basis, Absolutely not. But what I can
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: tell you is this, this is a major step in
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: the right direction for this country and our government and
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: getting rid of Kevin McCarthy and replacing Kevin McCarthy with
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: a man like This is a huge step forward. Congratulations
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: to Speaker Johnson. I look forward to having him on
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: this show very soon and letting you guys hear from him.
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: But pay attention to what he said and the promises
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: that he made. He didn't make a lot of policy promises.
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: He made promises about a smaller government, a limited government
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: with less power and less spending that is different than
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: what we usually hear. He made promises about fighting to
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: secure a border and being a country of laws. That
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: is something we can all be proud of. Make sure
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: you share this podcast with your family and your friends,
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: and I will see you back here tomorrow.