This is not nom, this is bowling, they're a rule. - That ain't junior, America! - It's like, for the fastest, so stand by. - All right everybody, welcome back to the stake for breakfast podcast. If you're a first time listener, welcome to the show. If you're a long time listener, welcome back to America's fastest growing and quickly becoming favorite political podcast. I'm Roan, I've got Noah here with me. - Yo, jumping back into things here and then rounding up our first edition of the podcast, consequently, if you're listening to this one first, press pause, we'll see in a little bit, we had a great first show today, former Trump Secretary of the Interior, David Bernhardt joined us, we were also joined by Indiana Congresswoman, Aaron Houchin. Two great conversations, we took a look at the big boy presser that Joe Biden did last night in addition to that, the response from the concerns that are being raised from his Democrat underlings. We're gonna be jumping into the second of two big Friday editions right now. Donald Trump held an event down at his Doral Golf Course in Miami, Florida for supporters on Tuesday night. Near triple digit heat, Noah, 45,000 people packed the event, Donald Trump spoke for nearly 80 minutes. What can you say about that? - Well, I mean, Biden can't even talk for 10 minutes. - Hey, listen, man. Anyway, basically, yeah. - Great event, well, he attended. The only person I was sad didn't get to make it was Yankee starting pitcher, Nestor Cortez. He wasn't the big event that they held earlier this year in Hialeah, Florida. The Yankees were in town playing the Rays, but they played an evening game which prevented the Yankees pitcher from getting out, but there was a lot of other people in attendance. And we're gonna jump right into it here. VP Hopeful and current Florida Senator Marco Rubio was one of the people who led with remarks before Donald Trump spoke. He was also acknowledged by the former president and current presumptive GOP nominees just for a few more days until it's official. And I think, you know, this is what Donald Trump needed to do. He'd taken enough time, a little bit more than 10 days, since the debate to do a formal speaking event and really be able to, I guess, give him and his team's perspective on the current state of the race, what's going on with the Democrats and all things in between. So let's jump into it shortly after Donald Trump took the stage, he was excited to be there. Sounds like the rally goers were equally as enthusiastic to hear President Trump speak. Let's check it out. - Thank you very much. Thank you, and hello, Dorell. I loved Dorell. Hello, Miami, and hello, Florida. Thank you. There is nowhere else I'd rather be on this beautiful, cold, very cold summer evening than right here in the middle of the 10th hall, beautiful hall, isn't it? Look at that lake, isn't it beautiful? - That's what she said. - On one of the greatest golf courses on Earth, and we really want to thank all of the tens of thousands of people that showed up. This is a lot of people. This is a lot of people. As the world can see, we are under the leadership. The Republican Party is bigger, stronger, more vibrant, and more united than ever, ever, ever before. Every day we are welcoming more Americans to our ranks, African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans, young people, old people, union members, non-union members. Basically everyone is joining our movement because it's a movement of common sense, common sense. - It's one of my favorite talking points of Donald Trump. You've got all this drama behind the scenes from these Policy Institute, America First Legal, the America First Policy Institute, the Heritage Foundation, Google Project 2025, all this shit going on. And you want to know what, Donald Trump, much like in the same sense as he's able to do with the abortion issue, like hey, I have my own personal convictions about abortion. I promise to do X, Y, and Z. We got X, Y, and Z done, boom. Dobs overturned, Roe v. Wade overturned, sent back to the States. We're doing a little federalism right now. I'm good with it. Not for a nationwide abortion ban, end of subject, next. He does the same thing with basically all of his policy points by saying like, listen, I'm the Republican nominee. I'm a Republican, but I'm here for common sense solutions. So we're gonna be middle of the road. Some of them might lean left. The fact of the matter is, the more he can prove that's the candidate he's going to be as president, the more people who won't historically vote for him are going to be coming under the magnet. Don't you think it's a great angle, Noah? - Yeah, it's fantastic. - The common sense candidate. I love it. - I want more common sense, so I agree. - There you go. - So you heard about the challenges that were issued over the course of this? Yes or no? - Yeah. New debate, even some golf? - Yeah, let's get the golf thing going. I wanna see Joe Biden carry a golf bag. - Yeah. - He'll have the most expensive lightweight space age polymers available. - All right, can I say that the biggest standing ovation, even bigger than when Donald Trump took the stage, is when he welcomed formally his son, Baron Trump, who was sitting in the front row, first time at a rally. - Yeah. - And he stood up and acknowledged his father. His father was like, "Whoa, this is a bigger round "of applause than I got, even bigger than Don and Eric." We gotta talk about this, who's really the favorite son? - Nice. - Man, the memes, everything from gladiator to... (laughing) The princess bride are being used to weaponize Baron Trump's entrance to the political arena. Like, he will never forget what they've done to his father and the only thing on his mind is revenge. It's great. And you wanna know what? I've heard that his kid is down. This is what he wants to do. He wants to be there with his father. He wants to be in the moment. I guess we'll see where it goes from here. I think it's awesome that the American First Movement is romanticizing themselves with the idea of Baron Trump being involved. And Donald Trump has alluded to this on the campaign trail in speaking events and at rallies saying that, "Sometimes he sits down and he picks his son..." Listen, that's an age demographic that's critical of this election cycle. So why wouldn't you pick the son's brain and see what you can garner in regards to building up some of the narrative, some of the jokes even? You can only imagine what the group chats and memes look like on Baron Trump's phone. You do think Trump actually comes up with jokes in advance? I don't think he does. I think maybe there's stuff that they might test on focus groups, but those are more like campaign slogans and like awful nicknames for competitors and... Like sloppy Chris Christie. Nemesis. Yeah. But like, I feel like most of the stuff is just completely off the cuff of this guy. All right, before we get into the challenges, did you hear about the Ron DeSantis thing? Which one? Okay, so Ron DeSantis wasn't originally invited to speak at the RNC. And I think that was because, you know, he gave a milk toast endorsement of Donald Trump. He's put out, you know, several instances where he says he's gonna fundraise for him, but it hasn't been too enthusiastic from his end. And I really think that there was a part of me that believed that they were gonna be able to get through the Republican National Convention without Ron DeSantis being there. Because he's pretty hated after this election cycle. The polling showed it. So after I got off the podcast with you on Tuesday, my least favorite Fox News commentator and Never Trumper, Neil Cavuto was on talking shit about Donald Trump. They were actually talking about the Save Act with one of our least favorite America Last Congressman, Chinless Chip Soy. And, you know, for about two minutes and 20 seconds, they went on about the Save Act, but I was like, "Okay, this is not terrible." And then right before Chip Roy's ready to cut or where you would think the interview's gonna end, he's like, "Hey, is it weird to you "that Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley aren't speaking "at the Republican National Convention this week?" And Chip Roy's like, "Eh, you know how he's kind of like, "just towing the party line as stupidly as he can." Well, you know, Donald Trump's nominee. So, you know, the invite of the RNC and the President for the speakers. And, you know, he's like, "Yeah, but don't you just think "that's weird? "Like, this is Ron DeSantis." Oh, yeah, I don't know. It's like Donald Trump's decision. I mean, I mean, I would like him there, but long story short, within like several hours of that, making a cycle around the internet, they announced that Ron DeSantis is going to be there and speak at the RNC, so stupid and annoying. - I feel like I haven't heard anything about that guy in a while. - The only thing I've heard is that Ron DeSantis after this election cycle is really considering being done with politics after this term as governor in Florida, he might get into the media. I heard maybe offered a show on Fox News or something like that, but he's never gonna be the guy. First of all, I'm just gonna put this out there. This is completely, in my opinion, but fight me on it, even in the streets with no shirts on. We will never have a five foot eight president, period. It just doesn't look good. It just doesn't. - Not even with lifts? - No, no, 'cause what is he? Five nine and a half with the lifts? Come on. We're never gonna have a five foot eight president. We're just not going to. You can't hide that shit forever and you're not gonna be able to wear boots and high heels like at NATO conferences and the G7 and any other place he's invited that's outside of the United States and Florida. So it is what it is. And I mean, I'm really kind of over the whole thing. That's probably one of the, I'm looking more forward to seeing what Amber Rose is going to say during her speaking event at the RNC than what Ron DeSantis is gonna see. 'Cause all I have to hear is like fighting the wildness and fraying state of Florida and all this other bullshit that, you know, after a couple lengthy tours through the court systems, all seems to be not true. So all I know is that home owners, insurance rates are through the roofs and there's a lot of floods and power outages in Florida that are pissing people off. So, yeah, and I suppose we haven't had to see his who were wife for the last couple of months either. So I'm not really looking forward to seeing that whole disaster of a family, you know, next week, but that's neither here nor there. We'll just have to see what happens. But, you know, getting back into the challenge here, Donald Trump wanted to give Joe Biden a mulligan when it comes to the first debate and then offer him even a 20-shot advantage when it came to playing a full round of golf. Let's check it out. As you know in our recent debate and in honor of all of you, I dealt Joe Biden even according to the fake news media, the most decisive and overwhelming defeat in the history of presidential debates. I think so, right? I think so. And that was a big crowd that was watching. That was one of the highest rated shows ever on television. So I'm honored to be a part of it. I don't think he's too happy, but, you know, I like being a part of it. But even CNN said, as I walked off the stage, that it was one of the greatest performances they've ever seen. But it was sort of easy, if you want to know the truth. Our victory was so absolute that Joe's own party now wants him to throw in the towel and surrender the presidency after a single 90-minute performance. They want crooked Joe out of the race. It's a shame the way they're treating him. But don't feel sorry for him. He's a very bad guy. He weaponized government. Remember that. He's a very bad guy. Don't feel sorry for him. So tonight I'm officially offering Joe the chance to redeem himself in front of the entire world. No pressure. (crowd cheering) So Marco and Byron and everybody is what we're gonna do. You guys can be referees if you like. Let's do another debate this week so that sleepy Joe Biden can prove to everyone all over the world that he has what it takes to be president. But this time it will be man to man, no moderators, no holes barred. Just name the place any time, anywhere. And in the debate, sleepy Joe also declared that he wanted to test his skills and stamina against mine on the golf course. Can you believe this? I believe this is real life. Did you ever see him swing? He's like this. (crowd cheering) (crowd laughing) That's why this evening, I am also, and this is in honor of you and everybody. It is a 45,000 people. That's a lot of people. (crowd cheering) I'm also officially challenging Crooked Joe to an 18-hole golf match right here. (crowd cheering) Undereau's blue monster considered one of the greatest tournament golf courses anywhere in the world, one of the great courses of the world. It will be among the most watched sporting events in history, may be bigger than the Ryder Cup or even the Masters. And I will even give Joe Biden 10 strokes aside, 10 strokes, that's a lot. That means 20 strokes in case you don't play golf. I will give him 10 strokes aside and if he wins, I will give the charity of his choice any charity that he wants, $1 million. - Best. - Can you imagine if they actually, I mean, they've already been basically just letting Joe hang out to dry. What if somebody tells him that he should do this golf thing and then on top of his normal hours, two, three hours a day of being awake, they have to make him like see a golf clinic or a specialist or something like that to like get better at golfing. - Oh my gosh, oh, a golf pro. - Yeah, a golf pro, that's what I was looking for. I don't know, I don't golf, miniature golf, maybe. - Hey chubs, they got your hand, but I got his head. - Oh boy, man, Noah, for years, you've talked about possible pay-per-views that could bring about world peace. - No, the end world hunger. - Even more such, you know, and I would want as little press on this as possible. You know, it'll be up their asses. Everybody stay back and let them just be two guys out on the golf course for 18 holes. - But the caddy has to be Adam Sandler. - That'd be fantastic. - I don't know what his political leanings are though, he might, he's probably a fucking shit lib. - So he could be Joe Biden. - We could have Kevin James be Donald Trump's caddy. He would be a little bit more MAGA than I believe Adam Sandler is. 'Cause they almost are all shit libs. But yeah, it'd be, I think he should have done it. I think he should, I really do. I think this would be, I mean, the debate thing, no moderators, just those two, that might end in Fisticuffs. But I think this would be good. I don't understand Joe Biden's team, the next day put out like the cringiest fucking response. It was like, you know, oh, we saw Donald Trump issue a challenge to Joe Biden on the golf course. But meanwhile, we've been like lowering our handicap on unemployment by making over 14 million jobs for hardworking Americans, and we've been, you know, getting out of the sand trap by doing this strategy. It was so cringy, just like four bullet points, four golf references. And they're like, Donald Trump continues to be par for the course like underachieving or something, even cringier as the rest of the post, it was so stupid. Yeah, yeah. So Donald Trump probably knew this and would segue right to Joe Biden's normal job of what outside of sleeping and pooping his pants, having the occasional ice cream cone, being the real threat to democracy. Let's check it out. The radical left Democrats have spent this entire election posing as defenders of democracy. You ever hear Biden? He's a threat to democracy. He doesn't even know what the hell the term is. He's Trump is a threat to democracy. This guy, low IQ. He's a low IQ individual. But they're lying in the entire world of Joe Biden's condition. I mean, you see his condition. You see them frantically trying to overturn the results of 50 state primaries and install a new candidate at the behest of their very rich donors. Do you know that we took in record numbers over the last four weeks? Right. And most of it was taken in with small donors, $61 on average, $61. And those people vote. But the Democrats, I think their funding is stopping because I think they're rich, they have a lot of rich donors. We have some, but we don't really focus on it. We focus on the small donor very, to me. One thing, every small donor votes. The rich donors there in Monte Carlo during the election. How's the election going? Joe Biden is a threat to democracy. He's really, he is a major threat to democracy. And Democrats are the ones who really want to destroy democracy in our country. The radical left Democrats rigged the presidential election in 2020. And we're not going to allow them to rig the presidential election in 2024. Well, that was a good point you brought up amid a portion of that clip Noah talking about. I thought the Dems can't do it. Now they're starting to challenge, they're like probing. They're obviously going to get denied because there's literally no standing on this. But now they're starting to probe like, hey, here's the thing. For Joe Biden to not run, and for someone else outside of Kamala Harris, or maybe even her in some states, I don't know the election laws in every different state where they already have the ballots finalized, they would have to do something so severe and hurtful to Joe Biden's legacy. Like they would actually have to admit this is like, we're all starting to find out that this is a big lie, but like that it was all the big lie, that he has been mentally incapable of holding the office of president. And then you're going to have to have specialists come out and attest to this. And it would be a nightmare. That's what I'm saying. Four months till election day. I just don't see it happening. They might just have to be riding with Biden and then save the bench for 2028. This isn't about just Joe Biden not running. This isn't like those Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffery's talking, oh, yeah, I like Joe Biden, but he's going to make the best decision. Like if the decision is him not being the candidate for the Democrat party, then I'll tell you what, Joe Biden's entire legacy is garbage. And I don't really know of like what kind of a severance package do you offer for that? Yeah, that's a good question. I mean, do you see where we're going with this? Like they would have to be 20th amendment, death, or they would have to prove that he is literally a vegetable. And I don't think Joe Biden's necessarily ready to die today. In 25th amendment, it's like doesn't seem like at least his cabinet is down with that. So then when you want to talk about him getting off the ticket because of mental acuity and the performance level needed to be the president of the United States, it's like it's all over and there's no going back. There's no saving anything. People are going to say everything from the legislation. He was able to pass into law to all of these acts that happened with, you know, the green new bullshit and all this stuff that everybody got on board with to Joe Biden taking credit for the NATO summit and how the body has expanded. And even though we know they've made the world way less safe, the credit that they take to say the world has become safer. It's all gone. It's all gone. Yeah. And you're going to find out, unfortunately, that Lloyd Austin, General Millie, Jake Sullivan, Valley Jarrett, Victoria Newland, Lisa Monaco, Merrick Garland, Susan Rice, have been running this country and Joe Biden has not. And it's going to be a sad day. That'll be something that, you know, they won't even it doesn't matter which side of the aisle wins who gets to write the history books, you're not going to be able to put lipstick on that pig. Everybody's going to know it. No, it's not forever. Guys, wherever you're listening to the show today, welcome. I hope you're enjoying it. Second of two big Friday additions to steak for breakfast. Do us a favor and make sure you subscribe to the podcast on every downloadable podcasting platform. It's always going to be free. No paywalls, no super secret commentary on any of the news we're giving you. If you pay us a couple extra bucks more, we're always going to be 100% free. Find us on Apple Spotify. We'll podcast iHeartRadio or wherever you listen to your shows. Just make sure you hit the subscribe button and that it's downloading to your electronic device. In addition, find us on social media. Twitter, get our true social and Instagram is where we have accounts, find them, follow them, hit the notification bell. You'll never miss out on all the great stuff we've got going on down here in the show. Going to be joining Virginia Congressman Ben Klein, member of the Freedom Caucus. You know, I think where Troy Nells gave us some really great perspective on the growing pains and changes that are happening right now within the Freedom Caucus. Obviously, we know that now former member Warren Davison has been voted out. There are calls for a change in leadership following what's going to happen with current chairman Bob Good in his recount. And then what we have a new House Freedom Caucus chairman next year, I've heard some names thrown out there. Consequently, one of them is going to be joining us in our second interview today. And that's Tennessee representative Andy Ogles. We know he's huge supporter of President Trump and the American First Agenda. We know that President Trump is a huge supporter of him and they have a close relationship. So lots of movement parts, but I want to get commentary from both of the Congressman, both Ben Klein and Andy Ogles on what's going on with the House Freedom Caucus, as I think they for the most part done a good job to extend themselves into leadership, help push and direct legislation and moving forward, I think is going to be critical, especially when Donald Trump went back to White House in November. Yeah. So Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and his entire team have been caught red handed. We were just talking about it before our station identification and what essentially would be the biggest cover up in the history of not modern politics, the entirety of American history. And that's if Joe Biden is not the nominee outside of the 25th amendment or death, the reveal that would be disclosed to the American people would probably rival that of when we well, if we ever get UFOs, I'll put it to you that way. Donald Trump was talking about the lack of cognitive abilities displayed by Joe Biden and, you know, finds them all complicit in covering up the phone that you mentioned UFOs because all that shit has disappeared. Yeah, every time something bad happened, they would release the UFO footage or whatever. Yeah, yeah. That's gone. Right. They just gave up. They're like, well, fuck, we're fucked. And they even tried to pin it on Donald Trump recently. He was on, you know, a couple interviews where they like poked him about and he's like, man, he's like, I've seen stuff, but I really don't believe it. That's straight up what he said. I mean, who knows if he's seen bodies or ships or if anything, or if it's just like, you know, the crappy Navy footage from their fighter just getting worked by these UAVs. But the fact of the matter is, I mean, unless he's just not interested in it, he doesn't think it's important to anything that has to do with his legacy. He just doesn't seem like big disinterest in extraterrestrial life. So, but that's either here nor there. Donald Trump calling out the co-conspirators in the Biden coverup, let's check it out. Joe Kamala and the entire Democrat establishment have been caught red handed in the thick of the biggest scandal and the biggest cover up. It's a cover up. That's what it is. And I said it when they hit this guy in the basement and then they cheated on the election. It's a cover up. It's the biggest cover up in political history. As you know, they are all co-conspirators in the sinister plot to defraud the American public about the cognitive abilities of the man in the Oval Office. Some. And he wasn't done there because he would also talk about Hunter Biden. You know, it's interesting to see. And it's as Secretary Bernhardt pointed out today, you know, having your wife as the first lady and sometimes your children around talking about this stuff is one thing. But what Hunter Biden is doing right now, maybe directing US policy if someone is a convicted felon, B, has no security clearance whatsoever and C is fucking Hunter Biden. It should scare every American. And Donald Trump was quick to point that out. He hit a Where's Hunter, but also talked about, you know, the this guy shouldn't be anywhere near the White House or doing anything that has to do with running government agencies. Let's check it out. And that home he's got in Delaware is pretty nice, right? But remember, they said it was it was. I thought he said that home. You know, his son is running it, right? You know that, right? You know that he's running our government. And Jill is helping. Tell us. Where's Hunter? Remember the sign? Where's Hunter? Where's Hunter? He's in the White House. Hunter is in the White House running government right now. They say that's interesting. No wonder Joe doesn't want to give up the job. His own staff says that the only hours he works are 10 a.m. to four. Does anybody here have a job like that? And I doubt he even spends that. And today he's with the people from NATO. And he would go in to tear those guys up and say, enjoy it while it last boys, the party's over and you'll be paying your fair share or we'll be getting out come next year. You got it. You got to think that they're allowing this to happen. Like more ammunition to get rid of Joe. Yeah, like, oh, no, that's fine. Yeah, Hunter. Yeah. Yeah, have Hunter over to the White House. That'd be great. He wants to sit down on a meeting. Perfect. Go ahead. National security threats. He should probably weigh in on those. Yeah. Good point. No one was safe. He would, of course, thank Joe Biden for the best political decision he's ever made. And that's picking the worst political running mate in the history of modern politics. That's Kamal Harris. Let's hear it. Pilots walk into the White House. He says he used to fly planes. He didn't. When truckers come in, he says he used to drive a truck. He didn't. When Jewish people are here, he always attended synagogues, he said. The Jewish people, he didn't attend. They said, did he ever see a synagogue? He doesn't know what a synagogue is. When black people come, he spent his Sundays in black churches. All of its faults, all of its fake. He's a fake. Unfortunately, he was like that in Afghanistan. He was like that with Russia, Ukraine. And he was like that on October 7th. And the attack in Israel. He didn't know what he was doing. But whatever else can be said about crooked Joe Biden, you have to give him credit for one brilliant decision, probably the smartest decision he's ever made. He picked Kamala Harris as his vice president. No, it was brilliant. Because it was an insurance policy, maybe the best insurance policy I've ever seen Marco. If Joe had picked someone even halfway competent, they would have bounced him from office years ago, but they can't because she's got to be their second choice. He has no choice and no chance. I mean, he's 100% right. And they're 100% screwed when it comes to what's going on. You know, what are they going to do now? And like I said, the way they're looking at the selections, narrow down, what would be viable? Who would you have to burn in regards to the 2028 cycle, et cetera? Kamala Harris, Pete Buttigieg, makes a lot of sense for them. But I mean, you run that up against Donald Trump in any of the contenders that he's picking. Oh, they're done. Even with ballot harvesting, they're fucking done. I mean, Pete Buttigieg, he's another one that can't put two sentences together. How many times have we seen him get absolutely worked in those congressional hearings? We're like, they have someone question. And they'd be like, thanks. Let me give you a thoughtful response. You know, back when I was the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, just that and the other thing. And then, you know, what I've applied here to chess feeding in regards to my cabinet level position in the White House, and they're like, what the fuck are you talking about? Answer the question on EVs, dirtbag. Yeah. Or all the roads and bridges you haven't fixed. Yeah, and the racist bridges. It's kind of weird how train disasters kind of just ramped down this year too, almost like that. Well, to some extent, train disasters were fairly common. I just think it became a highlight of the media. It was something for people to latch on to. Now, do I think that there were terrorist attacks and- Sabotage? Sabotage on trains? Yes, 100%. Absolutely. But I mean, it's probably still happening. It's just people are bored with it. And that's much like the attack that's happening on the food industry right now, right? Yeah, I mean, I'm not seeing the chicken farms burning down as much now, but it might very well still be happening. Yeah. Crazy. Much like was the atmosphere at this rally. Last clip I've got before we jump in with Virginia Congressman Ben Klein, as we always play here on the show, is part of the classic closeout, the end of Donald Trump's speaking events. Let's check it out. By the millions and millions right over our southern border, we are a nation that has lost its confidence, lost its willpower, and lost its strength. We are a nation that has lost its way. But we are not going to allow this horror to continue. Less than four years ago, we were a great nation, and we will soon be a great nation again. (audience applauds) With the right leadership, every disaster Joe Biden has created can be fixed and quickly. Every problem can be solved, and every wrong can be rectified, and it will be rectified very quickly. By this time next year, America's borders will be strong, sealed, and secure. Inflation will be in full retreat. Our economy, in our economy, will be at a level that will equal and even surpass what it was four years ago. Optimism will be surging. The American dream will be thriving again for citizens of every race, religion, color, and creed. Law and justice will reign all throughout our land. Freedom will be restored. The flame of liberty will be burning bright. Joe Biden, the worst president in the history of our country, will be a fading memory of the past, and our great silent majority, including the once forgotten men and women of our country, will be the one shaping America's magnificent future when I am the 47th president of the United States. (audience applauds) Because we are all Americans, and together we will show November 5th to be the most important day in the history of America. We are one movement, one people, one family, and one glorious nation under God. And together we will make America powerful again. We will make America wealthy again. We will make America strong again. We will make America proud again. We will make America safe again. We will make America free again. And we will make America great again. Thank you, Florida, thank you very much. Thank you, Miami. God bless everyone. God bless you all, thank you. - What do you think, Noah? Great rally, well, the attended. He hit on less of the campaign talking points and more on his political opponent. He's getting ready to take that momentum into the RNC next week. I think it was, well, he addressed, well, he delivered and exactly what we needed in regards to Donald Trump being out of the campaign trial. What do you think? - It's awesome. How can you even like to say apples and oranges? How can you even compare these two candidates? - The Trump minimum right now is big. There's a lot of, I guess, attention still swirling around who the beat pick is gonna be. I tell everybody again, once it's announced, everyone's gonna have their Huffy Puffies and Hizzy Fitz if it wasn't your guy, but at the end of the day and just like everything else, in order to get this country fixed and back on the right track, get a captain at the wheel and the ship steered in the right direction. It's gonna just take a little bit more coalescing and then we're there. By the time the RNC's over and with the dust clears from the VP pick, we're gonna be three months out from election day. So it's bigger than everyone and requires some backing for President Trump. 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And I know this is something you're looking at heavily heading into the end of this session of Congress, obviously looking to take care of it in a more hands-on manner in the next section of Congress. But out of a lot of the things that you've been, you know, kind of bringing awareness to what are the biggest components that you're looking to, you know, maybe work on legislation towards heading into the next session that's gonna be able to combat what's going on in the streets right now. And that is the fact that the cartel is alive and well in the United States due to Joe Biden and Alejandro Mayorkas' open border policy. And unless we do something about it, it's only gonna become a worse problem for American citizens. - Yeah, Americans are dying because of Joe Biden's open border policies. He is complicit in the drug trade, this human trafficking that's going on in the United States right now. And if you go down to the border and that's been several times, you'll see that the cartel is in operational control down there on U.S. territory, on U.S. soil. We were riding in a convoy of government vans to the border to sea with congressmen in the vans. And these cars hold in in front of us and behind us. These are just nondescript, you know, basic vehicles. And they slowed us down to easily 20 miles an hour on a highway. And we were all kind of asking what's going on? And they said, well, this is the cartel kind of trying to figure out who this is coming up to the border, but it's our border. So that's, you know, it's pretty ridiculous when it comes to that. But when you talk about the drugs coming in, when you talk about the fentanyl killing kids, every community's a border community, you talk about the number of illegals coming into this country, over 8 million, the size of the population of my home state of Virginia, at 8.8 million people coming in and being trafficked and moved across the country, you have a crisis unfolding and it's becoming evident in our hospitals and our schools, in our employment offices, on our streets. It is a crisis that only the next president truly will be able to solve and that president is going to be Donald Trump and he can't get here fast enough. - No, we agree with you there. And then, you know, it's going to be a challenge because I think the biggest thing that Joe Biden has done besides let, by the time we go to the ballot box November, probably close to 20 million illegal aliens into this country. But, you know, the international corporate enterprise that was the cartels, they were getting squeezed in the same sense that Iran was during the Trump administration. They weren't making the billions of dollars they are now. And for how many hundreds of billions of dollars that they're raking in every year at the behest of the consumers in the United States and how they're poisoning this country and other countries all over the world, it seems like it's going to take a pretty decent use of force to have to combat this cartel element. I know Donald Trump is, you know, without saying it exactly, talked about going to war with the cartels and I think that's going to come in a lot of different components, obviously law enforcement. They're probably going to do a whole bunch of things to freeze assets over the world. But if you want to start rooting out the problems and think that the cartel is just going to give up a $55 billion a year human smuggling operation and for the amount of fentanyl that they're able to pour into the United States, it's going to take a village and I hope House Republicans are up for the challenge. - Now, I think we are. We're ready. We need a Senate that's Republican led to actually meet us there and then take it to a president who's going to provide leadership from the top to make sure that it gets done. You know, we've got, the money is a big part of it. If we can use our tools or laws to stop the flow of money in this country and wherever the cartels are putting their money, that's a big part of it. When you turn to designating them as a terrorist organization, that's actually a double edged sword because while it doesn't able you to combat them with force as a terrorist organization, you don't want to give asylum claims to a lot of these people who don't have asylum claims right now are just coming up here from South America, from the Middle East, from anywhere else in the world saying, I want a better job, I want a better life, that's not grounds for asylum, but once you designate the cartels as a terrorist organization, you may inadvertently give them that claim. And so you have to be careful that we do it the right way. That's why we've got great people in Congress like Jim Jordan on the Judiciary Committee, like Mark Green on the Homeland Security Committee who are leading the charge to make sure we do it the right way. You know, that's a great point, one that we haven't talked about on the show yet, but we'll still, I guess we're gonna start to push that as well. You do add a little bit of incentive to the people that are trying to claim fraudulent asylum when you tack on, there's terrorist entities operating within the country that they're supposedly freeing from. And it takes the, just being economic migrants out of the equation when you add that, terrorism component to it as well, that's a great point. I do want to talk about a couple pieces of legislation, some that are making it, some that aren't in the house, obviously the Save Act passed earlier this week. Huge, I mean, you know, for all the pundits that go out there on the other side of the aisle or the ones who are kind of like squish conservatives and say, oh, the rules are already on the books, the laws are already on the books, we just need to enforce them. That obviously is not work. This Joe Biden and his administration have operated in the gray area of the law for the entirety of everything they've done from student loan debt to what they've done with the immigration system and, you know, how the asylum process is working, foreign policy all over the place and anything in between. And, you know, it's one of those things where Republicans have to take the initiative here to pass it up to the upper chamber to see if they can push to get a vote on the floor. And if not, I guess you get a receipt of the entirety of the Democrat Senate. But if you do get a vote on the floor, at least you're gonna have the opportunity to see an election year who's really with it and who's really not. You know, it's time to be bold and brave in the Republican Conference. And I think the Save Act was something that, you know, a lot of people didn't take seriously, but as it was broke down and explained to the American public, a lot of people understand that, listen, just because all these people are coming in and due to broken systems in so many different states, they're not just gonna go out and vote. They're adding those names to the voter rolls and you don't even need someone to physically be there because now the name will always exist. It creates a very big administrative problem and one that's gonna have to take a lot of unraveling to get fixed. But I think the Save Act definitely is a good starting spot. And let's just say we don't even get it passed in this session, something that we'll be looking forward to to pass in another session of Congress as well. What do you think? - I think you're right. I think it's an illuminating process that we've seen in the House. It needs to be done in the Senate as well so that we can just show who is for illegal voting and who is not, who is for securing that you are a citizen before you can register to vote and who wants to continue the current broken system that we have where you can show up with a utility bill and a driver's license, many states give driver's licenses to illegals and enable them somehow to vote. So yes, we have laws on the books but they're as porous as Swiss cheese and so you can drive a truck through them. And so we need to toughen up our laws and actually have an administration that's willing to enforce those laws. Donald Trump will have a justice department that actually stands up for American citizens, the rights of Americans to determine their future and their country's future, not illegals and allowing them to dictate where the tax dollars of American citizens go in terms of flowing and who represents them in Congress and in the White House. - Yeah, it's not gonna be an overnight change either but starting with something like the SAVE Act and seeing legislatively where potentially we could go with retaining and extending the House majority. Obviously, you already mentioned flipping the Senate into Republican control and then getting Donald Trump back in the White House next year. I mean, the sky's the limit and I think Republicans are here for it. Inherent contempt though, not so much. Listen, there's a bunch of members off the hill. Obviously, the tragedy would happen with Representative Massey's wife. I know that Brian Maths' father recently passed away and he was back down in Florida for funeral. But very few Republicans voted no. I was surprised that anybody did at this point after the weaponization of the justice system has been on full display for so long but it is what it is. Do you think moving forward and having everybody up on the hill at a point in the near future? I mean, Anna Paulina Luna made some tail rings to her. You know, we weren't gonna put him in handcuffs and do the perp walk and stuff. We were gonna be finding them 10 grand a day until he kind of said, "Uncle" and released these tapes to the American public. But, you know, it's something that, do you see another vote on this coming at some point in the near future? - I do and credit to Anna Paulina Luna for bringing it to the attention of the country. This is an attorney general who thumbs his nose at Congress who doesn't view the Congress as a co-equal branch of government with the administration and thinks that he can ignore a subpoena from a co-equal branch of government when we're investigating, we're in an impeachment inquiry and we are investigating potential violations of the law by the current president of the United States illegally taking documents and storing them in his garage and whatnot. And when questioned by a special counsel has a faulty memory. And actually, when the Justice Department provides the transcript, the written transcript, admits that they have doctored the transcript and actually removed some of the ums and the a's and changed it. So what we need now is the actual recording of the interview because we wanna see. Her said he's not gonna prosecute in part because while the violations were intentional by the president, which makes me think you should go ahead, he characterized him, he said that he would present to a jury as a well-meaning elderly individual with a faulty memory. We wanna know exactly what led him to that conclusion. Was it a five second pause? Was it a 30 second pause? Was it when he couldn't remember tragic dates in his life, like the death of his son, which was tragic? But that's a legitimate question. And so we need the tapes and that's why we have to continue to push this. - Yeah, I wanna know if there were lawyers putting words in his mouth as well or completing sentences for him. You know, it's becoming abundantly clear. You've had everybody from former Speaker McCarthy to, you know, a leak to the press via a couple cabinet members and then Democrats on his side of the aisle all saying that like when they go to these high level meetings and we're talking about stuff, people are completing sentences, kind of refreshing his memory on who they're talking about or what they're referencing. And it just seems it's a big concern to the American people. I think everybody kind of got like a preview of what's probably on those tapes when they saw the first presidential debate about a week and a half ago because about six minutes in, I know everybody that was a true conservative had their popcorn, I knew that this is gonna be an easy night. But the fact of the matter is it's terrifying because it's achieved executive of essentially the free world, you know, the guy's in charge of the nuclear codes. There's questions on, you know, who's running these meetings? Who's answering the phone in the middle of the night? God forbid something bad happens and we have to take into perspective the fact that this isn't someone who's like an executive running the company that's out of touch with the times this is the president of the United States and the entire world is on fire. So we should be taking it with, you know, as much of a grain of salt as we could because, you know, in the flash of an eye, especially with all the hot stuff that's going on over the planet, we could be in essentially World War III, you wake up one morning and then it's just popping off. - Yeah, the world is on fire. It's thanks to the feckless lack of leadership really of Joe Biden. - Correct. - And around the world, you see cities burning because of his failed leadership. So we do need to make sure that not only that we replace him in November, but that right now we actually have transparency in this administration. We see what decisions are being made. Who's making these decisions? Because we do know that a lot of the Biden White House was the Obama White House. We know Susan Rice came from the Obama White House where she was intelligence director too, the Biden White House where she was director of domestic policy. She's gone now with the cabal of socialists that surrounds this president and is making decisions in all of our agencies across the executive branch are doing untold damage to families across the country, small businesses, our economy, our foreign policy. It is a tragedy of historic proportions and partially in large part because they're literally asleep at the wheel after four o'clock. - Wild times, again, wild times and we're here for it. You know, one other thing I want to touch with you on Congress and before we do a little bit of a preview of the RNC, you know, we had a little bit of hiccup within the House Freedom Caucus lately and there's the whole question of leadership. Obviously, Bob Goode is looking to see if there's gonna be a recount in his congressional district. He's looking at finances and if that's gonna be viable. A couple little movements within members with Warren Davidson being voted out by a slim majority. Earlier this week, you know, we had Congressman Troy Nells who's a frequent guest on the show here kind of, you know, still stumping for the Freedom Caucus and saying all the great things that he wants to do. He's gonna be taken, I guess, you know, some time off from being a member but also talked about his ability and wanting to extend the amount of members that are in it. I think the Freedom Caucus is probably one of the strongest caucuses within the entire Republican House and I think it's continued growth and the whole conference is going through growing pains in this session of Congress. You guys are really starting to generationally change the way things are done. It's not always gonna be about unlimited spending and like working on small things for immigration. You guys want bold, brave and new policies that are gonna get this country back on the right track. So for a member like yourself, you're on judiciary, you're on appropriations and budget. You bring a lot to the table for the Freedom Caucus about, you know, pulling those narratives and the interests of the caucus within all of these committees and I think that's huge for the American people and the America First movement. But just a little commentary on what you guys think you're going through growing pains wise and where you see yourself, you know, and the rest of the caucus going from here. Well, the Freedom Caucus is growing and it continues to attract members. It is the tip of the spear. It is where the fight is being waged by the people against, in many ways, a uniparty that refuses to be responsive and refuses to actually reform the way they operate and get our finances under control and stop the federal government from waging a war against families and small businesses. And so we continue to fight that good fight and our numbers continue to grow. If you look at the numbers of nominees, many Republican nominees for the House have said they wanna join the Freedom Caucus. So we look forward to our numbers growing. - Sure. - But it's actually changing now because we have two committee chairmen who are members of the Freedom Caucus, our Homeland Security and our Judiciary Chairmen are both members of the Freedom Caucus. So we are becoming leaders within the House and that enables us to launch things like Jim Jordan's Weaponization Committee to holding Alejandro Mayorkus in contempt to actually trying to impeach him, to holding the Attorney General in contempt so that we are pushing the envelope and moving the ball forward in terms of holding this administration accountable, but also making sure we change the tone and tenor of the House of Representatives from the Stodgy Uniparty operation that it has been under Boehner, McCarthy and so on to a more assertive, conservative group that of like-minded conservatives who are gonna continue to stand up against a Senate, stand up against an administration for their violations, but also stand up for the American people. - No, you know, I've always looked at the Freedom Caucus as like the check and balance of the Republican Conference for when they start to sway towards the Uniparty, Freedom Caucus could bring him back, you guys meet in the middle and then start working on policy from there on out. And I think moving forward, like you said, members coming in in the next session of Congress, you guys will probably pick up a couple more before this session's over, or people weighing their options and seeing if they wanna get involved, but I like the direction that it's going in. You know, it always sucks when leadership change, but the fact of the matter is you're gonna see, you know, new leadership come in and hopefully take the next step that you guys were continuing to do throughout this session of Congress. All right, Congressman, last thing I wanna touch with you on briefly, R&C is next week. It's gonna be big for President Trump, big for America first. It seems like just about everybody is cold last behind the president. You know, there's a few outliers out there. Donald Trump kind of takes pot shots at him at his speaking events and rallies, but I think this is probably one of the most unified Republican movements we've had in a while heading into a general election cycle. The Democrats on the other hand are, well, you guys should be enjoying the fact that everything they've tried to weaponize against you guys for the last eight years since Donald Trump became president. It's all backfired and now they're going through it. They don't have a leader at the top of the ticket. People aren't, you know, coalescing behind that leadership, you know, it's knives out for everybody. But heading into the R&C, how are you looking at this kind of from your office's perspective and what do you expect the momentum to look like coming out? - I don't have verification on this, but my understanding is this is the first time we've had a July where our Republican presidential candidate has been ahead in the polls over the Democrat presidential candidate in 25 years. So the momentum is with us. The people are waking up and realizing that their president has been asleep at the wheel for the past four years and the bandages or whatever over the eyes of the American people are coming off. So the American people are seeing with clear eyes just how abominable their president is and how much we need to make a change and how when they think about whether their lives were better four years ago, they know that the Trump administration delivered a strong economy, they delivered a secure border, they delivered a peaceful world, and they will continue to see that if they re-elect Donald Trump as president in November. So we're excited to go to Wisconsin to re-nominate President Trump. It's a united party. I know DeSantis is gonna be there speaking and, you know, Hailey has released her delegates to vote for Trump. - Sure. - So we're all together and the Democrats are flailing. So we'll have a great time next week. We were popping popcorn this week just to watch the dimming drip, drip, drip. But I think next week we're just gonna really be excited about the momentum that we're seeing and our chances for not only victory at the White House this November, but taking back the Senate and keeping the house. - Now we're getting all three, we're here for it. We're glad we got to sit down and share with you today, Congressman. Obviously as always, we've got your congressional website, live linked in the show description. For anybody that wants to check out all the great work you're doing online, where can they find you? - client.house.gov is where I am online and Instagram and Facebook, Twitter and on the internet. - Absolutely fantastic. As it is every time we can catch up with the Congressman who's representing Virginia Six, Representative Ben Klein, thanks for jumping on with us today and sir, have a great weekend. - Hey, thanks, you too. - But the reporting is it involves a Biden campaign and they are assessing the viability of a candidacy by the Vice President. Let me bring in Monica, Elba, Monica. What can you tell us about how they're looking at Kamala Harris and why? - Well, NBC News is confirming this was first reported by the New York Times, Chris. But what's significant here is that I'm told by a source that's familiar with this testing that is going on this week, that this is being done in the context of trying to assess how she would fair against the presumptive Republican nominee as a direct result of what we have seen Donald Trump do in the last couple of days, which is to step up his attacks against her specifically, given there are questions about whether Joe Biden will still be the Democratic nominee in November. He insists that he will, but of course we know as you were just discussing because of this pressure from other Democrats and lawmakers that there could be a change here if the President decides to step aside. So the Biden campaign is doing this. I understand that this is being commissioned by the Biden campaign's own analytics team. And importantly, and what we should point out here and what a Democratic operative told us is that essentially this is something you would be doing if you're trying to give a message to President Biden to sort of test how the Vice President would do and whether she may fair better, worse or the same as he is doing in the current polling, but this would be a data point that you could maybe show to the President as he in the weeks ahead could potentially have difficult conversations about his candidacy. Again, the Biden campaign is saying that he is full steam ahead. That is what they're certainly insisting publicly, but I think this is a concession that there are larger conversations going on about if there would be a change at the top of the ticket and that the natural person, as we've been talking about, the mechanisms for how this would work would be Vice President Kamala Harris. So that... - All right, coming back into the news portion of the show here. Last news segment on the back end of two huge Friday editions of "Stake for Breakfast." Noah's a great kitchen up with Congressman Klein. We get him, he's about every six-weeker, but they always make sure they schedule with us. Listen, the guy's dialed in. He's on judiciary, he's on appropriations, he's on the budget committee. The guy knows everything that's going on. He's a member of the Freedom Caucus, gave us a little insight onto what's going on. You know, with those guys and how they're kind of moving some parts around, but I think they're gonna be more than just fine. And it's always great when we can, you know, have a segment where he could share with our listenership some of the things that, you know, he's dialed into and let our listenership kind of digest what his office is all about at the moment. What do you think? - Yeah, I mean, he's solid. I mean, it's less, it's more with that guy. We don't have to have him on every week. - I'd like to have Tim Burchin on every week. - That guy's amazing. - Did you hear about Tim Poole this week? - I didn't listen to that one yet, no. - No, it was a good one. It was a good one. He did really well and they talked about a bunch of stuff. And every time, it was weird. Tim Burchin goes off the rails sometimes. And I like it. He talks about UAVs. He talks about, you know, all this kind of stuff that's outside of the Beltway. It's stuff that other people are interested in more than legislation. But he knows, thinking too about legislation, that guy wants to cut the budget more than probably any congressman up in the hill right now on the Republican side. But, you know, every time Tim Poole tried to go off the rails, it was like the congressman who would bring him back and explain to him what's really going on instead of just, you know, kind of trying to make talking points about bullshit. Like, if you listen to Tim Poole ever, the first 40-ish minutes are always solid. And then it just, they're talking about flat earth and like civil war and all this other bullshit that's like irrelevant by the end of almost every single one of his shows. So, it was a good episode. If you haven't heard it, I believe it was IRL. I think they've put out two episodes since, but it's right in the show description, you know, conversation with Tennessee Congressman Tim Burchit. And I believe he's back next week on Friday, he'll give us a recap of the RNC. So, right now we're gonna be looking at, I guess how the media is making the case for Kamala Harris. And we've kind of, I guess it's the narrative that we're building here for as much as the Dems would like to dream about big tickets. And I guess dream tickets, it's not gonna happen, the selection cycle. The things that would have to happen, Joe Biden possibly dying, wins at the federal level in courts in regards to voting processes in different states, there's just not enough time. So, it would be Kamala if it's gonna be anybody else. And that should scare the shit out of the Democrats because she is one of the worst political candidates in the history of modern politics. You know, I hate to frequently reference her numbers, but I don't think she ever pulled above 5% nationally. She bowed out of the presidential race in 2020 before Iowa, which is the first primary or caucus for the Democrats. It's five states before her state, which is California, there she was pulling at less than 2%. And if you think she's done anything to bolster or improve herself politically over the course of the last three plus years, what was she, the AIs are, the border queen, you know, she's a fucking dumpster fire. She was out of speaking about yesterday is now in addition to Joe Biden, she has to go out on the campaign trail because Joe Biden isn't capable of doing it. And well, Noah, do you remember not Venn diagrams or school buses, not NASA rockets, or the ability to breathe, but when she did her little montage about being burdened and unburdened by the things that have burdened. She remixed it yesterday. Let's check it out. - It taught us that we could do anything and should never be burdened by the limitations of other people to be able or not be able to see what can be. - And this is that community who understands and can see what is possible unburdened by what has been. - Can anybody tell her not to use that? - Since we're in timbers, she gets the full one. I'm pretty sure they did. - Well, at that point, the entire administration is going rogue from what they want to have done with everything at this point. Joe Biden's run on the show. Kamala's like, I want to be next in line, but they don't want her to be next in line. So she's probably pissed. She's doing her own thing. I just don't think anybody's talking anymore. And short of a well-planned plane crash, they're not getting rid of this administration. - Here's the thing, and you want to talk about Joe Biden and how he might potentially hurt other candidates on the Democrat ticket. Listen, you can start making up all the polls you want that Kamala Harris fares better in a head-to-head matchup with Donald Trump. That's 100% complete horseshit. She will fuck over more people in the house and send it than you can imagine, because nobody likes her and everyone hates her. She is not loved. Everything that she does is staged fanfare. Her personality is 100% fake. 'Cause remember, she was like a pseudo actress/call girl. She was like an extra dancer on "In Living Color." And she's just an absolute disaster. Plus, her personality is cringe. She's either talking out here in the streets, or she develops some kind of a southern accent when she's in the south and places like North Carolina. Listen, we haven't really gotten into too much of Kamala Harris. Well, that's disgusting. - Regina. - But, and it's for the aforementioned reasons. She's just not worth it. Donald Trump would destroy her. The media would destroy her. I think if she did, in some instance, if she became the candidate, the mutiny that we're seeing against Joe Biden would be so much worse against her. And if they pair her on a ticket with someone like Mayor Pete Buttigieg. Ouch. All of those people that wish cast Donald Trump winning all 50 states to getting like 10 billion electoral college votes would be probably correct, you know. And it's even like in this race right now, we'll read a couple poll numbers towards the back end of this segment. But, you know, in places where people want to make these races tight, like I understand the Dems have a voter base. The 37 to 40% of vote blue no matter who, the total electorate. Listen, Donald Trump and Joe Biden are not running two points ahead or behind of each other right now. I'm sorry. You know, and I know the pollsters still have several months and these things will either tighten or widen before election day. But to think that Donald Trump is not, you know, extending his lead. And here's the thing. Every single pundit since Donald Trump came down the Golden Nest later, said with his original campaign platform back in 2015, it doesn't matter how many times he runs for president, he will never be a candidate. They get over the 50% threshold in meaningful polls. That's where Donald Trump is right now. No one wants to admit it yet because once you're over 50%, it's over. You know, I understand that the battleground states and those less than 200,000 votes are going to be ones that actually determine the electoral college. But when you look at some of the states that Donald Trump potentially is going to pick back up, let's just say Arizona, Nevada and Georgia, it's going to make some of those other states in the blue wall and the Rust Belt. Not as important, especially in places like Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania are heavily in play. New York single digits, New Jersey single digits, New Hampshire, Donald Trump, slight lead, Virginia, Donald Trump within single digits. It's a nightmare for the Democrats. They have nothing that's working for them. - They're living in a nightmare. Like that's the only way that you can describe what's happening right now. Whether it's the Democrat politicians, the Democrat voters or just shit lives in general, they're living a fucking nightmare right now. - And you would think that they'd want to segue to something that's like actually political that gives the consumer the voter something optimistically to look forward to. Nope, they all come out. Regardless of what's going on with Joe Biden, we are going to stop MAGA Republicans. We are going to save democracy. We are going to protect a woman's right to her own body. And that's it. That's it. - Well, the pericure we're perbecuing. - Yeah. - Yeah, MAGA Republicans, abortion, everything, and saving democracy. Like that is the Democrat platform. They have nothing else. - Or Project 2025. - Google it. - Yeah. - Google it. - I already did my post 'cause there was the original post that like Project 2025 brings back and it was like dine-in pizza hut restaurants. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - Mine was smoking-- - Blockbuster video, yeah. - Mine was smoking sections in restaurants and I found a really good picture from the '80s. - Now there was an ashtray in the Arby's, it was one of them. - Oof, it's a good one. - I remember smoking sections on fucking airplanes. Like that's the shit that didn't made zero sense whatsoever. You're in a fucking sealed tube and you have a smoking section. - Yeah, well, smoking sections in movie theaters. - Yeah, that's wild. - Yeah, yeah. I remember many a times as a young lad going to see movies that I was way too young to see because my parents loved the movies of sticking my fingers in those things and getting a fresh slap across my face because my parents wanted to know what's smelt like burnt ass and it was my pointer finger, my middle finger, and my thumb which were black. So yeah, I could stop. Dude, don't you remember when like, they used to have ashtrays in the, like if you had a big car, like my parents had catalax, they had link-ins and they would have like the bench front seat. And then they're like just hanging in like the leather, like right in the middle, they weren't in like concert. It was just like, they were just sown in ashtrays that you could pull out. Not just the ones on the doors, but they were like in the middle of the seat too. - Yeah. - Wild. Yeah, those were the good times, good times. We need to get back to that stuff. You know, listen, everybody in the '80s smoked, everybody in the '80s drank. Everybody in the '80s did blow. We were a lot healthier nation. Now all we do is we ingest seed oils. We eat junk food. We have Uber Eats and the country. We don't smoke anymore. The country has never been more off track. So I am all for, you know, the end of the '80s, into the first couple of years of the '90s, was like the last part of the golden areas. There was no racism. Everything was perfect. Gatorade came in glass bottles. You could see through a Doritos bag what the chips looked like and the bag was actually full of chips. Life was good. - Well, they're starting to realize now the glass bottles thing was maybe a little bit better. - Yeah, yeah. You know, I sometimes, you know, you have hobbies, Noah. Sometimes I like to just go back and randomly go on eBay and whatever comes to my mind from like the '80s or '90s, I'll go and find like a preserved copy of it whether it be a sealed Gatorade bottle that's glass or something that they just don't have and I'll buy it. Just to like keep in the vault, it's like a- - Yeah, yeah. - I mean, you know, it's nostalgia. You gotta hold on to some things. - I wish I would have kept a lot of that stuff. - Yeah, I actually, at some point, I wanna buy, you know, some people sell them because when the theaters all went out of business, they sold everything off or everything from the popcorn machines to, you know, the neon signs that had the stuff that's illegal in them now and they sell like three, four old movie theaters deets that have the ashtrays in the arms and the seats look really, they're literally folding chairs that are welded together, but I want two or three of them and I wanna throw them in my backyard to be able to watch TV in. - I actually used to have some of the movie theater seats from the theater from when I was a kid and it was like the Edwards theaters. - Yeah. - It was like hand-me-down seats from like the big chain theaters. So they were like all older, but I had them. No fucking idea what I did with them. - Wow. Maybe it's stored somewhere? - I don't have storage anymore. That's probably the problem. I think I was downsizing when I moved, you know, a couple times ago and they probably just went on offer up or Craigslist or something. - Gotcha. - It's a bummer. I wish that was just a lot of them. - I grew up around a historic movie theater. It's now a living museum in North Jersey, the Perth Amboy theaters. Used to be one of the most frequented movie theaters in New Jersey, but due to the fact that it was built on a swamp as is most of the things in North Jersey, it eventually collapsed on itself. And now it's just like a scary movie. It's still there, holes in the roof, chairs still there, you know, the convenience sections still up graffiti everywhere. I know they were starting to tear it down and turn it into like storage, like storage buildings. But yeah, that was, you know, you go over the two huge bridges in North Jersey, at Perth Amboy and as soon as you come over the bridge to go south, you would see the Perth Amboy movie theater. Right next to it was our version of Chuck E. Cheese, Rasmataz. - No, nice. - Yeah. Yeah, good memories growing on. I mean, my dad would keep me out of preschool or kindergarten because he worked nights and take me there during the day. We'd see, you know, the never ending story and then go play whack-a-mole. It was just good times. So, but getting back into the case for Kamala, I'm sorry, probably talking about my childhoods a little bit more interesting than that. Jen Psaki, they wheeled her out. I mean, she's an Obama speaker box, but did get a career opportunity on the back end of her service to the Biden regime. So, you know, her six-figure salary from MSDNC now is where she makes a living. She did, well, it looks like a contributor piece from her bedroom via Zoom on a show, talking about how Kamala Harris is undervalued. Let's check it out. - The vice president, I'm a college vice president now 'cause I keep going here. She is like, in my view, an undervalued talent. She's a very fierce communicator. She's very strong, especially on one of the core issues that made the election maybe won her last time, which is abortion rights. You know, and they said, this is why I think what she did out and did a couple of interviews after the debate. People were, I was sitting on the set with a bunch of other MSMBC anchors and we were like, everybody was like, that was great. It's like, yeah, that's what she's doing out in the country and nobody is really tracking it. It's just, that's who she is. But there is a character out there. There is-- - She is a character. - It's almost like public opinion hasn't caught up with what she is doing out there. And also, we live in a country that is sexist and racist. So like, there is not everybody at all, but there is a level of it that does impact elections. - So she says we live in a-- - This is high. - Sexist's country, but then says not all, but it's definitely out there. It's like, yeah, that's everything. It doesn't mean, yeah, we live in a communist country. It's like, no, there's communist in America. Doesn't make it a communist country. - You know what it does make it? The appropriate place to put one of these. Shut up, bitch! I hate her. She's the worst and you want to know what, from the bedroom, that sounds disgusting. - You are a nasty person. - To the big screen, she made it out of the house and on to late night television, believe it or not, she appeared on, I don't know, late night, what is that, with Jimmy Fallon? And wanted to continue to push that message that America just doesn't understand. We miss everything that we've seen literally with our eyes and heard with our ears for decades now, regarding former California State Attorney General, US Senator from the Golden State, and now Vice President Kamala Harris. And we really need to take into consideration that we should weaponize her undervalued-ness and use that to talk about how awesome she is. Let's take it out. - It does seem by the fact that they keep pressing, that obviously there's an answer they want to hear, that is not the one he keeps giving. - Correct, and he's like, no, no, guys, I've made my decision, I'm continuing to run. It's a little bit of a circle. - It does seem like, were he not to, the options would obviously be Vice President Harris. There's a lot of governors, names who get floated. Like, is there even a way that people are sort of talking behind closed doors about who they think would have a better chance against Donald Trump? - There's lots of talking behind closed doors right now in Washington and around the public. I mean, I'm sure for July 4th, I would try to change the subject with my family and friends to other things. And it was like, yeah, yeah, yeah, life is fine. What's gonna happen with this election? And I think a lot of people are experiencing that. - The Vice President is the clear alternative for a range of reasons. She is the Vice Presidents, first of all, she could use all the money, she could take all the money from the campaign and campaign on it. I think she's an undervalued communicator as well. And she would be the first African American woman to be a President for a candidate, which is a huge deal. But there's a lot of structural advantages too. At the same time, when you reference governors, at Newsome, Whitmer, Shapiro, Moore, for anybody who feels really dark right now, who's a Democrat, there is an amazing crop of people who are gonna be running if there's a democracy still around in a couple of years. That is the good thing. But it's harder for them because they would have to inject themselves in and argue that they should skip over the Vice President, that they can raise the same amount of money, that they can do the structural, they can match the structural advantages. So I think it's more challenging for them. - She also failed to mention, even though she did reference Blacks, that J.B. Pritzker Gretchen Whitmer, Gavin Newsome, and Josh Shapiro, consequently are all white. I also saw that she decided to dust off one of our favorite talking points on the show. I know Noah loves it. - I directed the highest ranking black Indian background, woman in American history. - Good times. The Daily Show hasn't been having a good time. You see John Stewart have a meltdown? - Which one? - Oh, no, he had one directly related to, well, I guess the fallout from the debate, right? And then Joe Biden's dismal performance due in the Sunday morning news circuit when he sat down with Stephanopoulos. I mean, Stephanopoulos got caught in a hot mic moment coming out of work like a day later saying like, yeah, there's no way that this guy finishes his term if he even makes it there. - Oh, he got pee-pee slop for that one. - Big time. And hey, what happens? Then you see Joe Biden kind of fumbling around all week talking about Vice President Trump and Ukrainian President Vladimir Putin. Let's see how they kind of played with it a little bit. Before we check out the focus group they had following that segment. - You know, (audience laughs) perhaps this chart. (audience laughs) - Good. If I may. (audience cheers) Sorry, the pen caps are made of Kevlar. (audience laughs) Very difficult to. Perhaps this chart will illustrate and illuminate the point more clearly. For instance, in 2022 when we saw Biden give a shout out to Representative Jackie. Representative Jackie, you hear? Where's Jackie? I didn't think she was gonna be here. (audience laughs) - Unfortunately, Jackie was dead. (audience laughs) It's something that the president seemed to have known six weeks earlier when he released a condolence statement about her death. So, huh. (audience laughs) (audience laughs) Then there was the recounting of a recent conversation that the president had had with his counterpart, the president of France. - I made a run from Germany. I mean, from France, looked at me and said, I said, you know, why, how long are you back for? (audience laughs) (audience laughs) - Unfortunately, Mitterrand is also dead. (audience laughs) It's longer even than that first lady, so. (audience laughs) And even on teleprompter, things continue to, huh. (audience laughs) Like the reading of the instructions people sometimes add to teleprompter scripts. - The percentage of women who registered to vote and cast a ballot is consistently higher than the percentage of the men who do so, end of quote. Repeat the line. - At the Catholic school I went to was a guy named Riley, last name. Four or more years, pause. (audience laughs) (audience laughs) (audience laughs) (audience laughs) Then of course, to be fair, state of the union, concerned dropped a little bit of the state of the union. He kind of nailed it. But then the debate happened and we kind of, what the (beep) what is, what? - I mean, listen. You wanna talk about people that carry the water for the Democrats, the Daily Show, especially John Stewart has done it for a long time. Again, he will poke fun at the Democrats in a playful way, not the same way that he hammers Republicans in a sense where he tries to demonize everything about us. But when you have a chart that's the amount of fuck ups and frequency of times throughout the course of the last couple of years, and again, it was like dots going up in frequency, a little bit of drop during the state of the union because he was drugged up and held it together for the most part. And then he just took the pen and went right off the chart on the presidential debate. So he's losing in every context, the donors, the party. We're up to 19 now, people in Congress combined upper and lower chamber that have suggested that Joe Biden, she'd get off today. I just saw it come across the wire and 19th person has said, yeah, we should probably go in a different direction. The Obamas, maybe the Clintons, who's next? George Clooney, the shittiest Batman ever. Oh my God, that was bad. Mm hmm. So the Daily Show would do a segment and they said, well, Joe Biden's bad, but we still can't have Trump. So what we need to do is do me a favor, round up some black people and we'll bring them in and call them part of a focus group. And we'll ask questions about threats to democracy and all other stuff. Well, you'd be surprised to know out of the six people they were able to bring in as part of this focus group, just how many were already on the Trump train? Let's check it out. Okay, so who will you be voting for in 2024? Darryl. Do I have to say his name? I don't want to, but more than likely it's gonna be Trump. Yeah, I'll call you that. I'll call you the father. Who are you gonna be voting? Biden. And then, Victor. I'm with her. Oh, Biden, okay. Trump. Trump, Biden. Biden. Trump. Okay, we're an even split. Oh. Which, I didn't see that coming. (laughing) And so, do you think there's gonna be a big shift, any sort of change? I think it's gonna be a big shift. Me too. Big shift, yes. Really? Okay. For me, I've always been a Democrat. And it's like, for the most part, with the Democratic Party, they always make a bunch of promises that they can't deliver. You know, they use the issues of the African-American community as a soapbox to stand on and make promises, you know, just to get us to come out and vote. And then, once we vote and everyone's in place, it's like, well, what happened? Hmm. People were waking up. That was six average Joe's, I guess average James too, from the Empire State of New York. Very interesting. And obviously not staged, because you saw the first guy say Trump, but then it was like Biden, Biden, Biden. And the guy was like, okay, here we go. And then the last two ladies, so out of the three that were going in the direction of Donald Trump, they were two ladies who looked like they were of the age to have families. They weren't old. And when you look at the people who were going with Biden, two gay guys and a granny, who were just, you know, gay people are of the protected class and everything's about pronouns and all that other weird shit when it comes to the Biden administration, then you have some of these deep-rooted, I mean, the granny who was riding with Biden, that's part of the vote blue no matter who. You know, they grew up on these principles and don't worry, Democrats have always taken care of us, even though there's better than average chance that that lady will get mugged and murdered on the way home, walking the streets in New York. So, but the people who voted for Trump in that focus group, like I said, two moms, just off the look test and then a younger guy, I would say he looks like he's in his 40s, but not old. And he kind of said the same thing. And Democrats be lying. When we out here in these streets, like Kamala Harris said last week, it's cringey as that was. So what do you think though? I mean, I think that's a pretty good encapsulation of what we're gonna get on a larger scale come election day, a lot of surprises and the types of people who are gonna come out and vote for Donald Trump, that are starting to understand like, like we're not. I mean, you heard the guy, man, I hate to say his name, but I'm gonna vote for Donald Trump 'cause he knows his life was better four years ago. - Yeah, I mean, how are you gonna argue with that anymore? There's no arguing with things were better. And however you wanna spin that and whatever bullshit you wanna fucking toss on to say that, oh, well, it was the previous administration and blah, blah, blah, blah. And now Joe Biden is suffering because of the previous administration. Like fuck off with that. Nobody believes it anymore. - I'll even take, well, he's racist, but groceries didn't cost as much. Cool, come vote with us. It's like, this is a general election. Donald Trump's running for all Americans. He's not running as the president of the Republican party and people need to understand that. I touched on it a little bit in one of our Tuesday editions of the show. Guys, wherever you're listening today, last call, but just do his favor. Make sure you're subscribed to Stake for Breakfast. It's always gonna be free. No paywalls. Just find us on Apple Spotify, Google Podcast, iHeartRadio, or wherever you listen to your shows. Subscribe, follow, whatever it takes. Make sure it's downloaded into your electronic device. 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Was on CNN talking about, for as much as people would like dream tickets on the Democrat side, now that it looks like Donald Trump is the candidate we've been telling everyone he is for the last eight years, it's not as simple as one thing, so let's check it out. - Like I said, the only one who makes this decision is President Biden. He has communicated, he is in this race, he is going to see it through and he's ready for a second term, and until and unless that changes, I'm all, all. - But you think that there's a possibility he could change his mind? - I don't, I heard nothing to the contrary. I understand that there are people with different opinions. I understand that some are playing fantasy football and wanna just pick a couple of random leaders that they like across the country and design a ticket. That's just not how this works. We have a president who's gotten the nomination, who's earned it, who is going, barreling toward convention, and unless he decides something differently, this is the field and this is the high stakes work. Yeah, so. - Barreling towards convention or falling up the stairs. You know what you're gonna see Noah? People like Gretchen Whitmer, J.B. Pritzker, Gavin Newsom, Josh Shapiro, these governors that are potentially candidates for 2020, none of them are gonna go against Biden. I don't even think if Obama came and said like, wait, do the deed, go against them? You know, because listen, Joe Biden might not be around in 2028, but his family still will be. - Yep. - And if you don't think for all the special interests that the Bidens have been involved in, and they can't hurt you, I guess as Chuck Schumer said, 12 ways from Sunday, then you should probably get your head examined. Listen, for as retarded as it's turning out, Joe Biden is right now, and has much of a ridiculous character he's been in the grand theater of the Senate for the last 50 years. You don't stay disconnected to politics without at least kind of knowing what you're doing. Yep, and people need to take that into consideration. Joe Biden's been along for the ride. Hunter Biden's gotten fat in more ways than one, some involving Skittles as well. And I personally think if the Bidens are gonna go down, they're not going down without a fight. Are we gonna really find out if Big Mike is Big Mike? And that Barack Obama likes to get pegged, stay tuned. I'm here for it though. - There's so many weird rumors about that stuff. - I know, as soon as I saw that this week, I was like, man, how true can that be? Couple of polls, let's take it about real quick. So this is the House forecast. Decision desk, HQ House forecast through July 11th. Probability's Republican, 62% retaining the House seat forecast. This is for the Senate, the Republicans 51 Democrats 48. Projections in the House, 222 Republicans, 213 Democrats. That would be a two-point advantage of where we're at right now in regards to the balance of power. I'll take it, what else do we got? You see the Save Act passed yesterday in the House? Probably shelved forever in the Senate, but... - Yeah, it's going nowhere. - Good job by House Republicans. I was pissed. And you could tell that the Congress people who have already been on the show, rep poaching, rep client, I'm sure Congressman Ogles is gonna be in the same thread as well. Outside of Thomas Massey, whose wife unexpectedly passed away a week ago, and the Florida Congressman Brian Mast, whose father passed away earlier this week, there should have been no excuses for people getting on the planes and getting out of town to get back in the district ahead of the RNC. Before you voted on that inherent contempt for Annapolina Loonie yesterday, there were actually four Republicans who voted no. I was pissed. But you wanna know what, according to Rep Cline, I'm sure Andy Ogles will echo it as well. Once everybody's back up on the hill and they get a couple of meetings in conference, that vote is gonna go to the floor. And I hope he does get fined $10,000 a day because Merrick Garland is holding back from the American people. Another component that might add to changing the matrix of this election cycle. Anyways, here we go, 2024 general election. This is Donald Trump versus everybody, okay? Donald Trump 49, Kamala Harris 43. Donald Trump 48, Bernie Sanders 42. Donald Trump 48, Gavin Newsom 40. Donald Trump 47, Al Gore? Ahh! Mr. Manbair picked himself 42. Donald Trump 48, Hillary Clinton 41. Donald Trump 49, Pocahontas 39. Donald Trump 49, Mayor Pete 39. Donald Trump 46, Joshua Piero 38. Donald Trump 48, Stretchen Gretchen 38. I like it. Full ticket, Donald Trump 44, Joe Biden 40. RFK Jr. 6, West 1, Stein 1. Head to head match up Trump 46 Biden 43. If you listen to those potential match ups there of all the different candidates, who we won't see this election cycle, one thing is common. Donald Trump's pretty much at 48%. It's like I'm already telling you. In reality, Donald Trump is probably at 50% or slightly over it. Once that becomes the trend in polling, this race is essentially over. It will come down to a very, very small amount of districts and regions in the country, and that's it. Because states-wise, Donald Trump would have gobbled up more than he needs to. Something people have talked about for years that he will never do, I think, by the time he gets to November, he could potentially be over the 50% mark. But we'll have to see. What do you think, though? You think he's gonna get there? You think he's already there? - Who knows, man. I don't know what to expect anymore. - Yeah, that's a good point. All right, so there was a good back and forth yesterday between Scott Jennings, who's a CNN contributor, hasn't officially announced, but is the person we've played on the show recently that it's sticking up for, well, at least, not really sticking up for, but pointing out the fact that there was a lot more better things during Donald Trump's presidency than what has gone on during Joe Biden's. And he got into it with the views and in a varo because when all else fails, we've talked about it for years now, rapist, racist, insurrectionists. Let's take it out. - Scott, but here's the deal. - No, no, no, no, no, let me just say this. You support Donald Trump. - Oh, no, no, I haven't announced to him. I work here. - Okay, well, they're obviously not supporting Donald Trump. - You have money to Joe Biden, I'll give money to anybody. I'm here to come down with this. - I will happily give all my money to Joe Biden because if the other choice is Donald Trump, that's a binary choice. But, okay, the other choice is a guy who began lying about how to dodge the draft because of made up bone spurs. He doesn't even remember which foot he had built. - So what level of lying is acceptable? This is what I don't get about this Biden-versed Trump lying debate. Apparently, apparently, if you tell one less lie than Donald Trump, that's good enough. Is that the bar you want to set? This is a scandal. What has been covered up about Biden for the last three and a half years or more by his staff, by Democrats? Look at this George Clooney op-ed. Well, three weeks ago, you know, we all saw it. Why did anybody say anything that night? It's not that they care about the office of the president. It's that they care they're losing. - That's why it's coming in. - That's why I think you got it all wrong. When I think it was, listen, this is not an administration that has lied. It just has-- - Oh, okay. - Not one lie. - You can laugh and you can stop. - Not one lie. - No, but you support an administration that lied about the size of the crowd at the inauguration. - No, absolutely. - That's lies for a living. - I think you're confusing administrations. And I think part of the reason that this hasn't been shut down, frankly, is because there's been breathless and somewhat reckless reporting by media. - Are you saying the journalists are wrong? - Yes, I do. - I think that when you're not, no, okay, let me give you a step. - So meanwhile, it's CNN, that's what it looks like. - It's amazing. - Yeah, it is. It is, and believe me, where you're seeing some people still arguing in the death throngs of sticking up for Joe Biden, I think that's going to start to wane. Who knows? The media might come back and just say, like I've talked about before, well, he is a complete retard, but he's not Donald Trump, we need to get behind him. I mean, at some point we'll cross that zero barrier and they're going to have to make a decision on if democracy really is on the ballot or not. But as we're getting ready to wrap here and jump in with Congressman Ogles from Tennessee, I do have one more clip, and in our last audio clip of the week, there is a, let me see, a little bit of defeatist air coming from MSDNC, the most radical of the news networks, led by one of their most cringiest commentators, Nicole Wallace, sat down with DNC operative and I guess junk lawsuit, filer extraordinaire, Mark Elias yesterday, to talk about, well, something I just mentioned, the end of all things democracy. Let's check it out. - What this show is sought to do for nine years, which is try to close the gap between what people say privately and what is said on live TV. This is from a super donor, this is a pathetic display, where no better than they are, mouthing the talking points that no one believes. A Democratic member of Congress texted me this morning and said it's almost over, just waiting for someone to pull the plug. This is about Joe Biden's candidacy. This is what my colleagues, Jonathan Allen and Carol Lee reported today, quote, "Several of President Joe Biden's closest allies, "including three people who are directly involved "in efforts to re-elect him, "told NBC News they now see his chances of winning at zero." And the likelihood of him taking down fellow Democratic candidates growing, quote, "He needs to drop out when Biden campaign officials said, "He will never recover from this." My phone is full of Biden allies sending me poll numbers, sending me statements from Democratic members of Congress who have defected and who said they have gone home and received no criticism but praise from their constituents for doing it. This is not a president or campaign season about whether tax cuts go up or down. It is not a campaign season that is about whose health plan. This is about whether there is a health plan. This is about whether there is a democracy. This is about whether in January we're covering mass arrests of the Clinton, the Obamas and the Bidens. And I want to know from you, Mark Elias, when the public conversation will match the private one. - So look, I think you're seeing day by day, including today, there are different statements from different members that are coming out on all different sides of this. And that is part of this process that we are unfortunately been stuck in in the last two weeks, as you point out. I do want to add one thing to a point you made though, when you asked David his last question, about who benefits from the cynicism that none of this matters. And the only person who benefits from the cynicism that none of this matters is Donald Trump. The only person who will benefit from people staying home is Donald Trump. And so it is important that when this political process sorts itself out, as it will lead to, because the convention is coming upon us, that all Democrats and all right-thinking people reject the cynicism that is being offered to them by Chris Elizabetha and Susie Wiles, that they reject the cynicism that Donald Trump wants to seep into the discussion. And that we understand the importance. I don't know about you, Noah, but that kind of smells like panic. - A lot of panic. - Yeah, there you go. - A fan of panic. - You know, Markle lies is usually like, well, that's fine, we'll just follow lawsuits on it. We'll bog them down in court forever. It doesn't even look like they have that plan going for me more because Donald Trump keeps winning in the Supreme Court. You know, it's one of those things, and we've said it for a long time. Then the big scheme of things, we all knew that if Donald Trump could handle the law fair, he could handle the attacks on his friends and family and coworkers, and it's constituents, essentially, for how much the American public has had to endure under Joe Biden, that we were gonna find out everything that we saw during his first term in office. The best part about it is, because they have Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. More Americans are seeing that Donald Trump is the clear choice to not only be running in this election, but to be the next president of the United States. I think there's no better way to end it than that, no, we're gonna be jumping in right now with Tennessee Representative Andy Ogles, but before we do, one last check-in with one of our partners. - Hi, this is Beard over at BeardVet Coffee. What's wrong with America today is that Americans are putting convenience over values. We need to start thinking about our dollar as a vote. 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I hope you're doing the same congressman. We've got a bunch of stuff to talk about, starting a little bit of a business that happened in the house this week. We're talking about the passage of the SAVE Act. We know that's something that a lot of you guys got behind big time. For all the punditry that goes around that's saying this is laws on the books. This is a lot of virtue signaling. We all know that our elections across the country are under attack, especially with the amount of illegals that have poured into this country over the last three plus years. We thought it was great to see House Republicans come together and get that bill passed. Where it goes from here? Still up for debate, doesn't look like Chuck Schumer's even gonna let it to the floor. But coming from your office's standpoint about how important it was for you guys to kind of coalesce behind this piece of legislation and make sure the vote passed, just want to get a little commentary on it from you, congressman. - Yeah, absolutely. I mean, there's three really important provisions in there. One, the requirement for a photo ID to register to vote, even if you're doing mail-in balloting. There was a requirement for states to purge their roles of illegals. And so why is that important? Well, because of the motor voter law. So we have illegals who are getting driver's licenses and they're essentially being automatically registered to vote and that's illegal. And so this requirement would force states to clean up the roles and it created a right of action or someone could sue if their state wasn't doing the right thing. - Is this a piece of legislation that you guys are, you know, obviously gonna try and come back to in the next section of Congress. Let's just say if Chuck Schumer lets it sits on the desk for the rest of the session, much like he did with HR1 and HR2 and other pieces of legislation that you guys have put up there, just due to the importance and how much, you know, re-safeguarding our elections is when it comes to the Republican House. - Yeah, absolutely. I mean, I think you're gonna see a lot of big pieces of legislation immediately come up. One would be HR1, which is our energy independence, HR2, which is border security. And then of course, the SAVE Act. You know, all three of those are critical. All three of those are important. All of those are must pass in the 119th toward the next Congress. - Yeah, I know we agree with you guys here. And then, you know, what happened with the vote regarding the inherent contempt for Merrick Garland yesterday, after the SAVE Act, you know, there were some Congress people who were getting off the hill pretty quick. I mean, there's excuses for some, obviously, the tragedy that happened to Representative Massey regarding his wife. We know, I believe Brian Mass's father passed away recently as well. You know, things that have to get tended to, but when you talk about four Republicans who voted no, and then some of the others who might have stayed in D.C., but chose, you know, not to attend the vote, it's kind of interesting to see. We go out and we talk about how bad the justice system has been weaponized against, not just Republicans, but all Americans. And then when a vote comes to hold the top of the ticket at the DOJ accountable, we kind of let one pass. - Yeah, absolutely. I mean, to have four Republicans bail. I mean, you don't see the Democrats doing this. You know, they would have impeached and did impeach Trump three times. They would have impeached anyone. They had the opportunity or reason to. And then, you know, like you said, you had Massey. He had two deaths in his family. Brian Mass, out of death in his family, had an individual had to go to the hospital. So there were votes that were absent that would be excused, like you said. But I do see this coming back up. I think Analuna is going to do the privilege motion again. And I think next time we'll have the votes. - Yeah, I think you will as well. And then moving forward, you know, Peter Navarro, still in jail, albeit he's set to get released soon. Steve Bannon recently checked into a Connecticut prison as well for things regarding what you guys are trying to hold Marigaro and accountable for. You think once this passes and we could start seeing some action, you know, directed in his direction, do you think this is like a game of chicken? Do you think he's going to eventually? I mean, 'cause I know part of this getting released to the public is also up in court as well. I heard Steve Scalise give some commentary on an interview yesterday regarding that. I mean, the American public was able to see like a snapshot or into the window of what Joe Biden's really like at the debate two weeks ago. But, you know, for the release of the rest of this audio tape from the Robert Herrled investigation into the classified documents, it seems like this is something that especially heading into a critical election cycle like this, America needs to know. - Oh, absolutely. But what we've seen, you know, virtually every secretary, every commissioner that comes to Congress, that testifies before Congress, they don't comply, they don't answer questions. So you have an administration that's literally working against American people. You see that with the two-tier justice system, you see that with the various agencies going well beyond their scope of authority, acting as if they're their own Congress, making new laws by rule, attacking Americans, by attacking commerce and not securing the border and, you know, fees and regulations on banks. I mean, just the list goes on and on and on. And so it's important that we continue to fight this fight. It's important that we hold these folks accountable. So Analuna's resolution would create a fine for him on a daily basis, which presumably would have created that incentive for him to comply. And again, we've got to do something. I think we should just hold him in contempt period and be much more harsh in the process. But this is what leadership felt would pass. Obviously, we felt a little short. I do see it coming back. And I do see it succeeding. But it does kind of open the window, give you a peek behind the curtain, that on some of these really important issues that are important to the American people, not every Republican is with us. - No, it's a very good point. You know, for the last couple of shows, we've been putting kind of a little bit of that bug in our listenerships years in regards to the general election cycle, how many Republicans have come around and coalesce behind the ticket, behind the party, behind President Trump. But there still are those outliers out there still who just won't publicly do the things that you need to do to make it seem like we're all on the same page. And it comes at a critical time for Democrats where there's a lot of infighting. You know, a lot of people have described it as disarray. And we're gonna get to that in a second. But you know, one thing I want to stay on in the Streadwall, we're talking about the Department of Justice and things like that. It's the recent uptick in migrant crimes across the country. You know, you can turn it on the news and sit down, whether it's local or some of the cable news networks without seeing some kind of ridiculous heinous crime, being committed against Americans by people who were led into this country by Joe Biden, by Alejandro Mayorkas, without enforcement, from Merrick Garland, et cetera. And you know, when you see the things that Americans are coming incurred with in regards to how the justice system has been weaponized against them, it seems like they've opened up the Pandora's box of just lawlessness across the country. And Americans are looking for help, obviously. We see that coming in a lot of different contexts this November. But just, you know, how do you've kind of seen this ramped up? Listen, just a few months ago, the White House was saying like this whole thing of one migrant crime and you're talking about 10 million illegals come in. Now it's like every day you're seeing like drunk driving, murders, rapes, people possessing child pornography, gang-related activity, et cetera, plus all the cartels that have been able to, you know, come in and open up operation in the United States under Joe Biden as well. Just seems like it's really tough times for Americans. And, you know, I just wanted to kind of get your take on it. - Yeah, so I just dropped a piece of legislation protecting our Women and Children Act that, you know, essentially if an illegal immigrant commits a sexual crime, that crime is punishable by death. And the reason for that is we have 12, 13, 14-year-old girls specifically that are being targeted by these monsters, these illegals. And again, it's New York, it's Iowa, it's Virginia, it's Louisiana, that you had the murder, the rape and murder in Texas. And the list goes on and on. We now have two cases in the last month where illegals have hit families on the interstate or on the highway. And some, if not all of them are in critical condition. And again, again, the murders and the crime, we now have violent, violent South American gangs that now have operations in the United States that never were here before. And we've caught almost 400 terrorists on the Southern border. They just released almost 600 individuals with ties to ISIS into our countries. I mean, this is a systematic attack on our nation and Sleepy Joe Biden, incompetent Joe Biden, meddling mumbling Joe Biden is asleep at the will. And you know, I know we'll get to it in a minute, but his press conference that just occurred, I mean, he called Zelensky Putin for Pete's sake. Goodness gracious, the man standing right there. I mean, it's not like he was talking and he's listing off leaders and he just misspoke, right? It's like Zelensky, all four feet tall of him is standing right there and he's causing Putin. I mean, this is ridiculous, this is absurd. And then later, he calls Kamala Harris Vice President Trump. - Perfect. - I mean, this guy is mentally gone. Maybe he can read a teleprompter, but he doesn't have the fire in his brain to process critical thought, rational thought. I spoke to him at the State of Union and I made a compound statement. And he was unable to decipher and respond to me in a coherent way because it was a complex statement, something that you would just be like answering right away. He couldn't do it. That's the leader of the free world? No, I don't think he's leading anything. I'm not sure, he's not in control of his own faculties. I'm not sure he controls when he goes to the bathroom. And I'm not trying to be mean, but that's how bad off I think he is. - No, I mean, you make some excellent points and then, you know, when you just look at the way that everyone's starting to wake up to what, the wool is no longer over the eyes. The scales continue to fall off. I mean, the media, you could see how frustrated they are that they've had to cover for this for the last three plus years going, well, all the way back to 2019 when he was, you know, running his campaign, the basement campaign. And now it feels like, I mean, you see CNN, the White House put out negative commentary about Dana Bash and Jake Tapper following the debate and that whole news agency, you know, you take their two most senior correspondence and throw them under the bus. Now the whole network is weaponized against Joe Biden and we're getting to the points where we're gonna get leaked soon. I mean, the real ones, what the day to day looks like. You've already seen it. I've seen an interview with former Speaker McCarthy where he said like, people would be finishing his sentences or interjecting when he's trying to talk during high level meetings with, you know, leadership up on Capitol Hill. And I'm assuming we're gonna be getting a lot more of that as people continue to defect. But I don't know what they're gonna do. What is your take on this? You know, we've already passed like zero barrier for ballots in some states. You've got frequent dates passing almost day by day now in other places where, you know, those ballots are gonna be finalized. You've got around $100 million that are tied just to Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. That's non-negotiable. Plus the delegates where if Joe Biden does decide to get out, the delegates don't have to go wherever Joe Biden tells them to. If he says, you know, I'm gonna put up Kamala Harris to run on this ticket. She's gonna run with, let's just say, Mayor Pete and you guys gotta put all your delegates to them. But then, you know, I don't think delegates would be as inclined, especially when you look at the polling and how well those two do in the Blue Wall States and the Rust Belt and places like Arizona and Nevada to get behind them. So do you see Joe Biden just kind of remaining on the ticket and even though frustratingly the Dems are gonna have to kind of take this L or do you think that there's, you know, something else to foot to where we might see Kamala Harris or even someone else by the time they get to the DNC in August? - Well, I've been saying for over a year now that I did not think Joe Biden would be the nominee. And so this isn't a new story for me. This isn't a new talking point for me. I mean, it was clear to me that this man had cognitive decline over a year ago. Obviously, it's accelerated, it's gotten much worse and they can't hide it anymore. Now, they have some legal issues that they have to contend with with the dollars that you just mentioned. You know, can, would the FEC, because of a medical condition, allow them to just shift those dollars over to another presidential race, would they let them just shift that money over to the DNC? And then the DNC would essentially spend on their half by way of a super PAC. I mean, there's a lot of legalese that they're trying to figure out on their side of the ticket, but their problem, I think, is they know they're not going to win the White House. The problem is, is the down ballot negative impact that Joe Biden is having across this country. So you have seats like say, Duarte in California, which is a Republican holds it, but it's a Democrat seat. They expect to pick that one up. You've got a seat in New York. You have other seats like that around the country where you have a Republican in a D2, D4, D8, meaning the Democrat has the advantage. They fully expect a target and win those. That's not the case anymore. - Right. - They're not, you know, but the Biden impact, the Harris impact is real. And so now they risk losing more seats in the House of Representatives. So at the end of the day, part of this calculus is there that they're making. It isn't whether or not they can win the White House. It's damage control. It's triage for the House of Representatives. And quite frankly, there may be an impact on a seat or two in the US Senate as well. - No, I can completely agree with you. I've actually seen some polling that's come out in the last 48 to 72 hours. This suggests numbers in the House and percentage or forecasting to flip the Senate have both gone up in Republican favor. And it's because of all what's going on with Joe Biden and the disarray that he's caused within his own party. And then other side of the aisle, our side of the aisle here, we're heading into the RNC kicks off next week. Should be a fantastic time. We can't be riding a higher wave, even though we're still all working hard and pretending every day when we wake up in the morning, we're 10 points down in the poll, to coalesce the completion of Donald Trump's nomination as the GOP top of the ticket holder. We should find out at some point in the near future as well who the vice president is gonna be and complete that ticket. As you guys are all getting ready to descend on Milwaukee and make this thing official, what can you say about how, listen, just a few short years ago, the Republicans were finished, the walls were closing in, we were on the ropes and now, be it through a lot of challenges and growing pains, you know, we're heading into the RNC and it looks like the party itself is kind of reshaping and getting behind Donald Trump and seems stronger than it has in a very long time. - Yeah, I mean, policy matters and what you've seen is the really the gutting of the American family and family values by the Democrat party. They've left the radical left wing of their party takeover. It's a cancer and Americans are recoiling against it. That's why you have population flight out of California, the states like Tennessee and Florida. That's why Illinois and New York are having population flight to the more Southern, more conservative family oriented states because they're tired of the nonsense. And so what you have with Republicans is we have a platform, we have policy, we have goals and outcomes to fix problems. We're going to secure the border. We're gonna make this energy independent again. We're going to make sure that we're the most dominant predator both economically and militarily speaking around the world. And because of that, the Republican party should be the home of anyone quite frankly that's paying attention. And I think you're gonna see that in the polls. I think Donald Trump is going to win and win handily. And now because of redistricting and the census, there's not going to be a wide swing in the House of Representatives. There's only a handful of seats across the country that are ever going to be in play, at least for the next eight to 10 years. And so, but I think we have the high ground, we have the tactical advantage to win the House, to increase our majority, and then hold it for the next decade. And so there's a scenario here because we're unified, because we have a plan, Donald Trump wins. We've got a great bench, a fantastic bench of talent for the next eight years, where we hold the White House for 12 years, where we hold the Senate for a decade and we hold the House of Representatives for a decade. That's transformative. That affects the Supreme Court, your federal judges, the security of our nation, our economy. We remain the global reserve currency of the world. All of those things that ensure my children's future and your family's future can be done. If we stay together, we work together, and quite frankly, we fight like hell. - You know what, when you talk about the America that we could go back to with a scenario like you just put up, it's very attainable. It's gonna take a lot of to, you know, people checking their egos at the door and doing things for the American people and for their constituents, which for some politicians, that's a difference from what they typically do when they go up to, you know, a Capitol Hill. But we have seen a lot of changes. I think the party, and especially within the Republican Conference of the House, they've made some strides to get away from the middle a little bit more and head towards, you know, more America First direction. And then when you talk about leadership and what it's gonna take to change, you know, we sat down with Congressman Troy Nells on Tuesday. We had Rep Klein in on the show earlier today. We know there had been some changes and a little bit of growing pains within the Freedom Caucus lately, but you wanna know what, for the amount of leadership that they provided in the House, for how much they stump on the America First agenda, for the fact that we have members sitting at the top of committees and in leadership now, I think the Freedom Caucus has taken a huge step forward as well. Now moving forward and coming out of the R&C, you guys are looking to finish the rest of the session strong, head through the election and then get back to work for the American people in the 119th. But speaking on behalf of the Caucus, Congressman, how do you think that moving forward, we're gonna continue to get this body expanded and add members and then continue to provide leadership for the American people? - Yeah, you know, so when you look at the history, the Freedom Caucus, you know, you had Mark Meadows, you had Jim Jordan, you had Rhonda Santis, some of those original founding members, they came together with this idea of having being policy driven, platform driven and trying to move the conference towards a more conservative, quite frankly, on America first agenda before it was America first. And so because of that, because we, you know, we don't always agree, we don't always vote the same way 'cause we're all free agents, we're all members of Congress, we all have districts back home that we represent. But because we, by and large, are using the same talking points or rowing or firing in the same direction, we've been able to move the conference further to the right, more conservative, more America first, you know, so when Donald Trump was in New York, he was being persecuted by a Woke District attorney up there, you know, it was by and large Freedom Caucus members that traveled to New York, that were in the courtroom with him, standing by the president, I was one of those, I went to New York, I spent time with the president, I was in the courtroom with him. And so we have a real opportunity to be that voice, that compass, that conscience, if you will, of the Republican Party to continue to remind, this is what America wants. They want people that are going to fight. That's why Donald Trump's gonna win, I mean, so again, if you're looking at, well, is the Freedom Caucus right in this idea of America first and fight, fight, fight, then look at our president, why is he gonna win? Why is he gonna win in a landslide? Why are there states like New Jersey that he holds a rally just a few weeks ago and over 100,000 people show up, 107? It's because people are sick and tired of being run over by this administration, they're tired of the inflation, they're tired of the crime, and quite frankly, they're tired of illegals coming into this country and getting free healthcare and food stamps and housing and cell phones. Their benefits package is equal to a more than a private that lists in the army. That's absurd. - Yep. - People know that and they're sick of it because they know they are having to pay for it. It's time, you know, I've got a bill. Talk to the president of the United States, Donald Trump. It would be the largest deportation in American history. We've got to do that. And look, this is our country. We get to decide who comes in. We also get to decide who has to leave. That's the future as we go forward. We're gonna have to fight for it. We're gonna have to fight for our economy, to border, but again, we're gonna have to start to boarding people. So as we move forward, we're gonna see a lot of those types of talking points coming out of the Freedom Caucus, reminding the conference and the American people that this is a fight for our republic. The economy is like the Titanic, the future of our nation is like the Titanic, we're on a course. And it's a collision course. And if we don't correct course, if we don't change direction, the outcome is catastrophic. I'm not gonna let that happen. You're not gonna let that happen. And that's why we continue to fight. - No, the fighting is what we need. I like the growing pains. I like the movement more towards the right. I think, you know, a stagnant behavior and just accepting, you know, kind of the small winds where we're accruing right now would be a disastrous moving forward because it kind of leads the complacency. I like that you guys are moving in bright and bold directions for America. And I like that you guys have a plan that lasts longer than the end of this session of Congress. And I think we're gonna leave it on that. Congressman, it was great catching up with you today, rounding out the week here on "Stake for Breakfast." Always a pleasure when you get to down with us. We've got your congressional website live linked as always in the show description today. Anybody want to check you out on social media? Check out the podcast, all the great work you're doing. Legislation, you're pushing or proposing as well. Where can they find you? - Hey, just go to Andiogles.com. Go to Rep. Ogles. I'm easy to find, I'm out there, I'm outspoken. But look, we need you in the fight. We need you to, you know, don't just go to my website. Engage your member of Congress. Reach out, volunteer, phone bank. Don't take for granted that Donald Trump's gonna win. Don't take for granted that you're my member of Congress is gonna win. We need you in the fight. We can take back this country. We can make America great again, but it's up to you. - No, it's a four-month fight till we get to the ballot box and we're here for it. And so is the Congressman who's representing Tennessee Five. Representative Andiogles, thanks for joining us on the show today, sir. Have a great weekend and safe travels to the RNC. - Yes, sir, thank you. - Busy, busy, busy end of the week, but as always, steak for breakfast delivered. If you guys enjoyed this episode of the podcast, I wanna hear the now nearly 420 other editions of the show, just follow us across every downloadable podcasting platform. You can find us on Apple, Spotify, Google Podcast, iHeartRadio, or wherever you listen to your show. Make sure you're following, subscribed. It's always free, and then it's downloading to your electronic device. Also, check us out on social media, Twitter, together, TrueSocial, Instagram, and TikTok is where we have accounts, find them, follow them, hit the notification bell and never miss out on all the great stuff we've got going on down here. That's steak for breakfast. We wanna thank all of our guests for coming in and sharing with us today. The 53rd Secretary of the Interior, Mr. David Bernhardt, Indiana Congresswoman, Aaron Houchin, Virginia Congressman, Ben Klein, and Tennessee Congressman Andiogles. You guys all helped make steak great again. Guys, we're heading into the weekend, but don't worry. By the time our show airs Tuesday, we're gonna be knees deep in the RNC, and we've got a great slate of guests coming in here, just about everybody. We'll be up in Milwaukee, and we'll be bringing you updates live. Marc Avonio, from Republicans for National Renewal, James Blair, from the Trump campaign, Richard Stern from the Heritage Foundation, South Carolina Congressman Ralph Norman, and Kansas Republican Senator, Dr. Roger Marshall, are all set to join. So on behalf of the pot team, I'm Ron. Thanks for listening. Have a great weekend, and take care. (upbeat music) ♪ Everybody's the night to switch eyes ♪ ♪ But there's the body falling crown ♪ ♪ And if it's just like you're breaking ♪ ♪ We're gonna play hard ♪ ♪ You need to be quiet ♪ ♪ You need to be quiet ♪ ♪ You need to be quiet ♪ ♪ You need to be quiet ♪ ♪ We're gonna play hard ♪ ♪ We're gonna play hard ♪ ♪ We're gonna play hard ♪ ♪ We wanna play strong ♪ Has anybody ever tried those paper straws? They're not working, do they? All right? Has anybody ever tried usually the new straws made out of paper, right? It disintegrates as you're drinking. If you have a nice time like this time, this would have no chance. 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