The GOP is under pressure to elect a Speaker.

0:00 Speaker 1 Joining us now here on the show is the former Speaker of the House, Kevin McCarthy. Mister Speaker, it’s so great to have you here as we are talking about everything happening in Israel. I don’t know if there’s any greater friend to Israel in America than you.

0:16 Speaker 2 You’ve been over there.

0:17 Speaker 1 This is a time for leadership, This is a time for moral clarity.

0:21 Speaker 2 Your thoughts, mister speaker, You.

0:24 Speaker 3 Couldn’t be more correct. This is a time that we have not seen since the Holocaust. You know, those young children who were burned and babies and killed in the Kabouts. I was just there in February twenty two taking a number of members, and I’ve just been to Israel and may speaking at the Kanesset for their seventy fifth anniversary.

0:45 Only the second speaker that would be invited to do this. But what we have found is this is Hamas and they must be destroyed. But this comes directly from Iran. You can’t declare one of both of those. And something that the President needs to do. The six billion is one thing about freezing it, but the billions of dollars

1:03 that Iran gets comes from this administration not enforcing the sanctions that are already in law. When President Biden came to office, Iran was only producing four hundred thousand barrels of oil a day. Today they’re producing three million. Because you won’t enforce it, and you’ve got to oil at one hundred dollars a barrel, they’re making billions of dollars.

1:24 The other thing we’ve got to make sure is make sure that Israel has all the arms they need to defend themselves and to destroy hump Off. The entire world needs to stand with them. I know where we’re moving into is the ground, but we have to be one hundred percent supportive and bring all of our allies together

1:43 to defend Israel to get this work done.

1:46 Speaker 1 Absolutely, And we are talking to the former Speaker of the House, maybe the next one who knows, Kevin McCarthy, John Katzimatitis.

1:55 Speaker 4 I hate to say form I hope the future. Meanwhile, the administration is telling Israel to delay is God’s operations. What should be our attitude?

2:09 Speaker 3 Our attitude two should be we would support you in whatever you have to do to destroy Hamas we’ve watched what has happened this Biden administration. This wouldn’t be taking place if they hadn’t seen they’d been planning this for quite some time, especially after what happened in Afghanistan. This Biden administration should be focused on five point things. The

2:29 first one is bringing back every single American hostage. We should change the behavior of this administration that no American will get left behind like what happened in Afghanistan. We should reverse what this Biden administration doing paying for our hostages.

2:43 We should tell the entire world if you take an American, there will be consequences for taking that American and we’re not going to reward you for doing that. We should arm Israel to be able to make sure the Iron Dome has all the weaponry to need, but we should provide Israel with the precision weapons they need to make

3:02 sure they can destroy Hamas. We should look at our own intel because what’s happening on our border we’ve watched from this Biden administration or wide open. We could have a sell inside America today because of how in the number of people were touching on the terrorist watch list.

3:19 We should look at the anti Semitism that’s going on in America. We should look at every single college campus and what Mark Rowan is doing is University of pen Thank God for him standing up that we cannot allow these colleges to be doing this and we should look at what’s happening in Congress. We have people elected to

3:40 Congress saying anti Semitism, and you have a Democrat leader in Hakeem Jeffries when he gets asked about what to leave and others are saying about Israel calling it apart TI saying this is caused by America providing them resource.

3:53 He said, no comment. That is unacceptable, That is not leadership and that cannot stand.

3:59 Speaker 1 You speaker, Kevin McCarthy, and I always say, once a speaker, always a speaker, and we’re so honored to have you here on Kats and Cosby.

4:06 Speaker 2 You hit on a lot of topics there. You hit on the border. I don’t you know.

4:10 Speaker 1 To me, I am so concerned. We’ve had that wide open southern border. Some new numbers that just came out recently were individuals from Syria, Aron and Lebanon that we had terror tized. These are the ones we know about.

4:25 These are just in the last few days. This is so concerning. How vulnerable do you think we are, especially as we’re hearing this day of rage that they’re putting out and we see these protests all over. It’s a really concerning, dangerous time in America.

4:39 Speaker 3 We should be very concerned. Look, I have focused ever since the Biden administration came in and they opened up this border. I was one of the first down there that first blew the whistle on border agents telling me that we’re catching people on the terrorists watch list. Think about twenty nineteen. That wasn’t very long ago. We caught

4:57 zero people on the FBI Terrorists watch List. Think about how serious you have to be to be put on that. Just this year alone, we have caught more than one hundred and fifty one individuals now, going from zero just a couple of years ago to one hundred and fifty one.

5:11 But we’re catching people coming into California that were on Tario watch list from Yemen. This is where you see these rallies. And think about this, the amount of time it took to plan the attack on Israel. You know they’re planning that around the world, and they know the one place they could come into America with nobody looking

5:30 is our border. And they’re coming from one hundred and sixty different countries, and think about these are only the people we know. Think about the people we didn’t see and didn’t catch that could be sitting inside America today.

5:42 And this administration, I’m telling you it’s on their responsibility of what they have done, and we have warned them about it.

5:49 Speaker 1 And mister Speaker, I want to ask you too, Kevin McCarthy, because what’s happening with the speakers race at this time? Boy, do we need just important leadership in this country? Could it go to you know, another fifteen votes?

6:01 Speaker 2 Where are we headed?

6:03 Speaker 3 You know, this is very disturbing to me because you know, today is a payday for all our men and women in the uniform. And what happened was there were eight people led by Matt Gates and every single Democrat. Can you imagine just four percent of the Republican Party partnering with every dimer This is to lead, This is Adam shift,

6:26 this is Swagwell, these eight Republicans to throw out the Republican speaker, all because I thought it was best to make sure our troops got paid. Could you imagine what’s happening right now on that aircraft carrier in the Mediterranean and that stripe group. What we’re asking them to do, and they’re worried back home if they’re going to be

6:47 able to make their rent payment. I didn’t think that was smart. So if I have to lose my job standing up for the men and women in uniform, and what about those on the border right now that are worried about the terrorists coming in? They would be being paid.

7:01 I just don’t understand how we can allow four percent of the Republican Party to work with Nancy Pelosi, Adam Shift and Eric Swalwell to determine who the Republican Speaker is. But that’s what Matt Gates has done, and it has put us into chaos.

7:16 Speaker 1 And mister Speaker, we have a former New York Governor, David Patterson’s a quick question for you here.

7:22 Speaker 5 Mister speaker, how are you the House rules? Would they allow for a unanimous vote to declare a speaker for a week, say, just to clear up some of these tragic issues, the fact that the House is not in session and everything else going on around the world. They had to be some reasonable way. I’m not saying it’s

7:47 your fault. I’m just saying they had to be some reasonable way to get the business done. And get as you said, the military paid without sitting here looking honestly like their amateurs.

8:00 Speaker 3 Very true, and just so all your listeners, the military is being paid based upon what I led to do to make sure we’ve got that continuing resolution, that stop gap funding. Why we get the rest of the work done.

8:11 The challenge here is we want to be able to do a resolution in support of Israel, and what’s happening is all the Democrats are blocking that. Because I put in a speaker pro Tim so they could continue the continuity of government. The Democrats went right to the Parliament that that person can’t do anything. So the Democrats worked

8:30 with eight Republicans to bring us chaos, and now they’re working to try to create greater chaos. I think we need to put people before politics instead of doing what Hakeem Jeffries had been doing, just playing politics with this.

8:43 Speaker 1 And just before I let you go, Kevin McCarthy, the speaker, and we’re so happy to have you here. Do you we just heard reports that Jim Jordan had that there was a closed conference vote. Of course it hasn’t gone to the floor. Where do you see it headed with him?

9:00 Do you think it’s him? Do you think it’s another candidate. Are you endorsing anyone, just so we know.

9:04 Speaker 3 Yes, yes, I support Jim Jordan fully. Jim was a great ally to me, worked hard, and we came into Congress together. He just won the what people would think is the primary. Inside the conference, we’ve got some people not there yet. I think we just get together, work a little longer, and we could have a new speaker

9:25 in Jim Jordan next week.

9:26 Speaker 1 All right, well, we will be watching closely. Speaker Kevin McCarthy. We love and appreciate you so much, and please come back on again soon.

9:35 Speaker 2 We always love having you here.

9:37 Speaker 3 All right, thank you all so very much. Let’s stand with Israel.

9:40 Speaker 2 Yeah, for sure, thank you so much. Absolutely,