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Kevin McCarthy 55th Speaker of the House

This year's election will determine the fate of America.

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Speaker 1 Sunday morning. Well, where the heck is our country? What us today? Is one of the smartest guys I know, a leader in our party, a leader in our country, the former speaker, the fifty to fifth Speaker of the House, Kevin McCarthy. Well, Kevin McCarthy, you’ve just about seeing everything.

Where do you want to start this Sunday morning?

Speaker 2 Well, John, first, I just want to thank you for having me back on. But for all your listeners, you know what, with everything that’s going on, we should take a moment and be thankful we live in this country.

We have an opportunity here and we should think very hard and deep, take your personalities out of it, and think about where do you want this country to be four years from now. So then less than two months, we’re going to make a very big decision on our directions.

And we know where it’s gone in this least little bit with Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, and we know what type of country we had under the policies of Donald Trump. And we’ve got a big debate coming up this week, and I just hope we respect other people’s opinion.

Let’s not think it’s personal, but also let’s think about what’s best for the future and for our own children. And I think when you do that, you know these policies that President Trump has put in, You’ll go to the grocery store, prices won’t be so high, We’ll have a secure border, we won’t have wars around the world,

and we’ll be able to have a really more prosperous and hopeful world that’s safer.

Speaker 1 That’s what mister speaker, That’s what we all want. I mean, we are coming so close to World War III. The Chinese are looking to say, what are we going to take advantage of while Joe Biden is still president? The Iranians are looking what are we going to take advantage of before while Joe Biden is still president. The Russians

are saying, let’s see what we get, what else we can get while Joe Biden is no president. And I don’t understand when they’re saying they got equal amount of polling between Trump and Kamala, I don’t understand it.

Speaker 2 Well, I’m really concerned. I thought President Trump did an excellent job this week, and I believe you were there talking about the economics of America and talking about how he was going to make government, more efficient, more effective, and really more accountable for everyone. Here we are where we have Kamala Harris as the VP, having never run

for president, backed out, not having anybody vote for a president, but no policies. We don’t even know what she’s going to do. And how can you pick the leader of the free world? Really with the challenges you have in America and we haven’t seen something like this in the world since nineteen thirty eight, this new access of evil

that you talk about. I ran on Russia, China and North Korea all bounding together. That’s why we actually need a very strong nation. And I think it’s really an easy choice here that President Trump had put us in that place, and we’re in a weaker position because of Kamalist policies. Remember she was the last person in the

room when they made that decision about how to get out of Afghanistan that brought us thirteen note gold Star families.

Speaker 1 Yes, absolutely, I mean it just something went wrong in Afghanistan. And you know what I say, Kevin, the women of Afghanistan are back to the Stone Age. Where are all the women in the world that objected that.

Speaker 2 Well, the other thing you got to think about, for two decades, a twenty year old girl or a last knew nothing of the world that they have now. They understood freedom, They understand that it had equal rights. They were playing soccer, they were going to school. All that was wiped away. And why was it because Joe Biden

and Kamala Harris wouldn’t listen to the military. You know, for the sixteen months before there was no there was no death for American soldiers. We would be able to maintain peace there with a small number and not have all these young women not know what freedom’s like. But you also now have five American embassies that had to

evacuate because we’ve lost another base in Africa. And what happened. We took it over. Russia walked in and took it over. Those are all weak policies, but you don’t know any policies of Kamala Harris. This is what she partook, which it was vi President, How is she going to be different? Now?

I want to see a debate about ideas, and that’s exactly what I saw coming out of President Trump in New York this week, talking about the economics, to get rid of inflation, to give us a higher paying job, to make taxes more equal to everybody.

Speaker 1 I agree. And the other thing I have is the fact that what’s going on in the Red Sea with that tanker about to have a create a problem four times the size of Exxon Valdez. Where are all the environmentalists that should be upset?

Speaker 2 Well, that never would have happened. It’s the week policies under Kamala Harris. But that tanker was attacked the Hoosies Why And you’ve got to understand this. This isn’t me just saying this, because when they went into power, they started treating Iran differently. Instead of upholding the embargo for them to be able to sell their oil, they allow

it to go forward. So Iran now has three million barrels a day they sell and make money on that’s billions of dollars they fund their proxies who have now attacked Israel are now attacking shipping throughout and making the world unsafe. I mean, think about what Kamala did with our border. You know, the southern border is a long

way from New York, but it’s the number one issue that’s happening to your state. Think about your streets, think about your community centers that have been taken over. Think about the crime that is going on, and this all hinges from where Kamala has done it before. In San Francisco, she was a da who wouldn’t prosecute. Look, I’m from California.

I do not wish what she did to my state to the rest of this nation. And that’s why I started this whole conversation. I want to be respectful for people who have difference of opinion, and I want to talk to them, but I want to have a serious conversation because we’re less than sixty days out from voting

for president, and I want I care about my children. I want to make sure that we’re making our best decisions going forward. Who’s going to protect our border, who’s going to take away inflation, Who’s going to give us a better opportunity for security and safety not just home, but around the world.

Speaker 1 I agree one hundred percent, and I don’t know who to forty five percent that’s saying they’re going to vote for Kamala saying that she’s not going to control the border. I mean they should know that by now.

Speaker 2 But first of all, she’s running for president of the United States. Never went through a primarybody vote for she sat down with one person for an interview. It wasn’t for an hour, for twenty some minutes. She had to have her VP there as well. She hasn’t laid out any policies. You cannot be running for the president of

the United States and be afraid to talk and be challenged on your ideas. The country is too great to have such a small idea how to run. And this is all coming from Remember Barack Obama’s team has taken over her campaign. The ideas, don’t talk to the press, the idea that Kamala Harris could never win a long election,

Let’s make it short. Ignore the American people. That is not right. She goes to a high school, they can’t vote. What about talking to as many American people and being questioned. That’s what a democracy in a republic is about. Let’s have a battle of ideas. I see President Trump talking to everybody. I see him doing podcasts and he’s being

challenged on what positions he had before. He doesn’t want to talk to him or lay out her positions because they have been failed. She was in charge of the border. So tell me who in America the supporting her likes her policies on the border, and don’t say, oh, she’s changed him. Now, No, you don’t do that in the

last few years. That’s what you’ve done. What about her foreign policy that’s brought US war around the world and insecurity? What about her inflation? And it’s not just oh, well, she didn’t do that. No, not only did she do it, she cast the deciding vote, the tie breaking vote that brought us inflation.

Speaker 1 Understood Sunday morning, anything else you want to tell the American people.

Speaker 2 Look, you’ll get frustrated with everything that’s going on and around. There is no greater place to be in the world than to be an American. I am so grateful that there is no better place that we can exercise our power by voting that no one person controls it. The government is the power of the people. I take this

so seriously. Stop attacking one another, and let’s debate the idea of less respect, but let’s respectfully talk about what’s best, because I believe at the end of the day, the election will not be close, and less make sure America is stronger going forward for our children than what we’ve had for the last three years.

Speaker 1 I agree with you one hundred and ten percent. Mister speaker. Thank you for your input, thank you for continuing to talk to the American people, and God bless you, and God bless America and I hope America wins on hand novembifet, Thank you, John Yeah,

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