>> that's not why i ran to congress and why i came to washington d.c. in fact, i was one of the americans in 2016 that looked

at a presidential stage of 17 candidates and the only one that stood out to me was donald john trump. the very man that stood up and represented republican voters and americans across the country that were sick and tired of a republican establishment failing us over and over again. that's why i supported him in 2016, that's why i supported him in 2020 and that's why i support him now. but what happened when president trump became president and the republican majority in the house and the republican majority in the senate is the republican establishment under paul ryan failed president trump and failed the agenda that we wanted to get done. they passed a $1.3 trillion omnibus that did not fund the wall after we had stood at trump rally after trump rally and said build the wall. they failed us.

they funded the uni party agenda. they funded the status quo that washington d.c. just wants to keep going and keep going. and you know what happened? that's why republicans lost the midterms in 2018 and nancy pelosi became speakers. republicans didn't fight, they allowed the russia hoax and what happened when democrats took over the house it was impeachment number one and the entire war against trump continued and that war on president trump are the war same voters ready to go and vote for that man in november and put him in the white house in january and that's exactly what is happening. he's winning poll after poll after poll because he's the only one fighting while the republicans in the house and republicans in washington continue to cave and be part of the uni party. mitch mcconnell has a 6% approval rating for a reason

and that's because he's caved to the democrats and continued the disgusting business model in washington d.c. that thrives on forever wars and thrives on building a bigger government and taking away the freedoms bit by bit by bit of americans. republican voters in america-- americans altogether gave republicans the house. they gave us the house in 2022. you want to know why? because they were fed up with the democratic agenda that is destroying this country. wide open borders. an economy that's crashing. freedoms being stolen. covid shutdowns, all the horrors that happened when joe biden took the white house and democrats took full control. that's why we won the house in 2022. but what have we done with it? what are we giving republican

voters to vote for? president trump is the reason why people are going to turn out in november and i'm here fighting every single day to push my party to be a republican-controlled majority that will fight and pass his agenda when he's in the white house in january and right now, we are not that republican majority. we have a speaker, mike johnson, that we-- by the way i elected him and voted for that man so i have every right to be standing here. it wasn't a choice of america, it was a choice within our republican conference. and i voted for mike johnson because his voting record before he became speaker was conservative. he voted against funding ukraine. he was solidly pro-life. he voted to secure the border. he voted to fight against democrats. fight against the witch hunt against president trump, but

once he became speaker he has become a man that none of us recognize. he passed three continuing resolutions and then he finally passed a two-part omnibus that fully funded joe biden's agenda and the democrat agenda. funded the department of justice that is-- wants president trump in jail for the rest of his life, which is a death sentence. fully funded fbi which raided mar-a-lago and gave them a brand new building as a gift. pro-life mike johnson funded full term abortion clinics. funded the trans agenda on children that 70% of americans are completely against on both sides of the aisle. and he fully funded joe biden's open border policy, the number one issue in america. so i entered a motion to

vacate, but i didn't call it for a vote. i was controlled, i was responsible, i was being conscious and caring about my conference and our majority, it was a warning to stop serving the democrats and support our republican conference and support our agenda. and he didn't do it. and we all went home and republican voters everywhere, americans were raging at mike johnson and he doubled down. he didn't change course. he continued and when we came back, he reauthorized fisa and he was the deciding vote himself to stop the warrant requirement of fisa. he voted it down, but only six months before that, before speaker, he was for it. that was the second betrayal. and then we all went home and america raged and i was still responsible. i was still patient.

and i was still being careful with our republican majority. and then we came back. then we came back and that's when mike johnson fully joined the disgusting business model of washington d.c. to fund forever wars. yes, that's what this is. the uni party is make ukraine great again. the uni party is all about funding every single foreign war. they think this is the business model that needs to be done. americans do not want to send their hard earned tax dollars to fund the murder in foreign countries and fed up with it and screaming as loud as they possibly can. our economy should not be built on the wars in foreign

countries. that's know what our economy should be built on. that's not how you grow jobs in america. that's horrific and needs to end. that's what the uni party does and continues. mike johnson fully embraced it and he funded 61 billion-- 61 more billion dollars to ukraine. funded a war in israel while he funded hamas and gaza. how do you support israel when you're funding hamas and gave more money away while our border stays open and today, 300 americans will die from fentanyl and tomorrow and the next day 300 more americans will die from fentanyl poisoning because there's a war on america, led by the cartels in mexico and nobody in washington d.c. gives a damn and has enough courage to face it. and americans are sick of it.

sick and tired and fed up. and you want to know something, nobody wants to rock the boat in washington d.c. oh, no. that would be uncomfortable, marjorie. we don't want to face the issues, marjorie. let's wait and get through the election, marjorie. let's just assume president trump is going to win and we'll fix it next congress, marjorie. i'm sorry, how many more americans have to die. how many more dead american bodies have to pile up before the house of representatives that's paid for by america's tax dollars actually does something about it? i want to know when this town is going to give a damn about americans. and that's what this is really about. well, there's one thing i know. there's one thing i know. if we get president trump back in the white house in january of 2025, and we are lucky enough to earn the trust again from voters in america to have

a republican majority in this house of representatives, we have a job to do. we cannot let people down again. we cannot fail president trump. and this cannot happen, the maga agenda that i believe in, the make america great again agenda that i support and americans support and the whole reason why republicans are going to turn out and vote in november because they support president trump, we need leaders in the house of representatives that are going to get this done, not working for hakeem jeffries. not working for joe biden, and not going to be twisted and lulled into continuing the disgusting practices of washington d.c. mike johnson is not capable of that job. he has proven it over and over again. now we have hakeem jeffries and the democrats coming out,

embracing mike johnson with a warm hug and a big wet sloppy kiss, and they are ready, they have endorsed him, ready to support him as speaker. they want to keep it going, keep the band together. why? because mike johnson is giving them everything they want. everything they want. every single thing they want. so it's really interesting to me, hakeem jeffries that has gone through round after round of speaker votes and we've all witnessed it, haven't we, america? and i want to tell you i think it's good that america witnessed all of that and the democrats said his name over and over again, they said hakeem jeffries because they wanted to elect him speaker. well, i find it very satisfying that they're ready to vote for mike johnson and you want to know something, i want to see it happen and i want to see recorded votes. i think the american people, by

the way, who i represent, i think the american people need to see a recorded vote of do they-- does congress -- does the members of congress support the uni party? is this what they support? i think every member of congress needs to take that vote and let the chips fall where they may. and so next week, i am going to be calling this motion to vacate, absolutely calling it. i can't wait to see democrats go out and support a republican speaker and have to go home to their primaries and have to run for congress again, having supported a republican speeblg speaker, a christian conservative. i think it will play well, i'm excited about it and can't wait to see my republican conference show their courage and show who we are, because voters deserve it. is the republican party, have they finally learned their

lesson? have they finally heard the message from voters back at home? are they willing to actually fight or are they going to just keep going along to get along because it's really easy to do that in washington d.c. i'm going to tell you at over 34 trillion dollars in debt with millions and millions of people invading our country, an economy that i don't know how is staying afloat because every business owner i know has been suffering and people fed up with the drama on television and fed up with the fighting and fed up with the bull-- from washington d.c. are ready for a republican majority that's ready to support president trump and his agenda in january of 2025, and i'm happy to deliver that vote for everyone next week. and at this time i'd like to turn it over my good friend and ally here, thomas massie and he'll explain his thoughts on this, thank you. >> well, it's an honor to be here today with one of the hardest fighting and most

articulate members of our republican conference. i think she's gone about this in a reasonable way, she is agiven the speaker multiple chance toss chance to resign, to leave. what are the bee trails to our party and country? the first betrayal was the omnibus deal. under kevin mccarthy we did seven separate spending bills. and when mike johnson entered did we work on the other five? no, disposed of and an omnibus bill that spends more than nancy pelosi's omnibus build that builds the fbi a brand new building and here we are in our judiciary committee asking them for answers, they mock us. they thumb their noses at us. and why shouldn't they. if we're going to build them a

new building and send them strongly worded letters as if we're going to do something about their insolence. the second betrayal of mike johnson was passing fisa without warrants. did he do this in the property way? no. the authority for the fisa 702 program rests with the judiciary committee, but mike johnson decided to let the intel committee run this program and when it came and fought hard in the rules committee and fought hard on the warrant and whether you should have a warrant to file on americans. this is a constitutionally redundant vote and it should be obvious to anybody that's read the constitution that you need warrants and you can say, well, poor mike johnson he's got such a slim majority. you can't get everything you want, marjorie taylor greene or thomas massie he's got a slim majority. he was the slim majority that

cost the deciding vote that says you can spy on americans without a warrant. it was 212-212, he didn't vote on the other amendments, he went out of his way to vote no on that amendment and was the deciding vote on fisa without warrants. so, what was the third betrayal? the third and final betrayal? nearly 100 billion dollars for foreign wars and he just put that on the floor. hey, started out as a veterans bill to give veterans better benefits hr15. chuck schumer stripped every word out of it and put the supplemental in it and sent it back to the house and using the rules committee which i sat on, and they pretended like we voted on four separate bills, they changed them to amendments and concurred with the senate bill and sent back to the senate. this whole thing was pre conferenced with chuck schumer.

why is it that in all three bee trails the senate didn't change a word of the bills when they went from the senate to the house? it's because mike johnson was doing chuck schumer and joe biden's biddingment they didn't need to change a word of the bills. chuck schumer wanted those bills exactly as mike johnson passed them and promised. fisa without warrant, omnibus with a new building for the fbi and 100 billion in foreign aid with no border security in it. as ms. greene stated our border is wide open. wide open, this was our last chance for leverage and the speaker gave it all up. now, why would hakeem jeffries endorse a republican speaker? aren't they arch rivals? i mean, what does hakeem jeffries want after all? he wants an open border? he wants to increase spending? he wants to take back the majority and most of all, he

and the democrat conference here want president trump to lose. who do they think can deliver on all four of those things? mike johnson will deliver these things for them, increased spending, open borders, a loss of our majority and a loss for president trump because this is so demote-- de-motivating. and it was from another country, not the american flag. mike johnson should have brought the white flag and waved it in front of us. it was a capitulation, it was humiliation not just to us, but the american taxpayers who pay tax dollars, and fund other country's borders without securing our borders. i'm going to challenge my colleagues to think about it this weekend because as

marjorie taylor greene said, we're coming back and we're voting on this next week and you get to have the choice if you're a republican, are you going to embrace hakeem jeffries like mike johnson has, are you going to embrace the uni party like mike johnson has when you come back are you going to fight for americans who gave us the majority and you may say, oh, well, this is lovely bipartisanship. look you've got hakeem jeffries hugging speaker mike johnson and helping him keep his majority -- or keep his seat, but the reality is, this isn't policy. this isn't like some criminal justice reform where the left and the right can agree. this is about who holds that gavel. right now they are both holding that gavel. they are sharing power about procedures, about what bills will come to the floor. about how long we'll debate those bills and which

committees are compromised by which member. they are sharing power and you may say, i'll close with this, congressman massie hakeem jeffries told you he's going to save mike johnson's bacon. why did through with this, it's a futile exercise. why would you go through with this? look, we didn't get elected to make excuses. we didn't get elect today say we shouldn't even try. we got elected to come here and give it our best. and also, to impose transparency. what we see is coming out of the uni party and it will be consolidated and transparent and apparent next week to all americans when this vote happens. some of our colleagues have thrown up their hands in frustration and apathy. let's not even try, let's coast it out. i tell you what, it's too dangerous to coast this one out. we cannot coast this one out.

hakeem jeffries knows if we coast this out, we loose the majority, spending goes up next fall. he knows the border will stay open and he knows this is going to de-motivate our voters, why try. we will fight the uni party and we'll have the vote last week and look forward to it and i have one last challenge. challenge members of my own conference to think whether they want to join the uni party next week. we have a leadership team, a team of leaders from conference chair, to whip, to majority leader. why do we have a team? we have a team so that when one of them goes off the rails, the other can get-- the others of them can meet with them and say, you are no longer suited for this job. so i challenge the whip, the majority leader, the conference chair, the policy chair, everybody in our conference to sit down with mike johnson and

have that talk and tell him, it's not worth it, mike. it's not worth it to share power with hakeem jeffries just for the vanity of you keeping the title of speaker. it doesn't serve our country, it doesn't serve our conference. they need to ask him to resign. that is what they should do and i challenge them to have that tough discussion. that. we'll take questions. >> if this fails next week as expected will you try to push a vote on this issue. president trump has said positive things about the speaker and aren't you-- >> i'm the supporter for president trump and why i wear this maga hat and that's why i'm fighting against my republican conference to fight harder against the democrats.

mike johnson has fully funded the department of justice who wants to put president trump in jail and that's a death sentence. and fully funded raiding mar-a-lago and fully funded the open border. everybody who is ready to line up ready to vote who is supporting president trump, that's me number one. if this vote fails and the whole conference, the whole congress supports the uni party, let me tell you something, it's not a failure, it's a win for the american people because that's a list of names and the voters and the american people who pay for everywhere-- we're standing on ground they pay for. they pay for that building, they deserve that list. i believe in recorded votes. that's our job. our job is to vote and if anyone is scared of where they're going to vote on a motion to table or if it goes further, then they don't belong here in washington.

they have to be ready to do the hard job. >> why move forward with this in defiance of former president trump and why next week and not-- >> we have to have a republican majority in january and under mike johnson, we won't have one. just like congressman massie said, hakeem jeffries is endorsing mike johnson because he knows that mike johnson is going to hand majority to the democrats in january. it will make our voters not want to vote for him. they're going to vote for president trump the top of the ticket and then skip republican house members because they're disgusted with mike johnson and his leadership, his speakership and the uni party. that's exactly why we have to do this. we have to win in november, we have to have a majority in the house. you want to know why? all you people, your taxes are going up. you know president trump's tax

cuts, it expires this year. however controls the house of representatives, if it's mike johnson and hakeem jeffries, holding hands. and money for ukraine, that check cleared and it wasn't a week and they said ukraine's going to need more money by the end of the summer and that's going to continue. americans don't want it. >> and how come next week and not today? >> everybody needs the weekend to prepare. i'm not irresponsible, i care about my conference. i have been measured, i've given this time, given warning after warning, after warning, we don't have to rush, we can do it next week. >> and it's a somber decision for mike johnson, he deserves the weekend to think about it, he should resign because he knows what's coming next week. what's coming is, his sharing

of power with hakeem jeffries. now, i'm actually not going to concede that the vote will fail. i mean, i think hakeem had to step out in front and get in front of this freight train because he was afraid he didn't have enough democrats who would save mike johnson. i don't think it's something he wanted to do because now it's going to happen, he's going to embrace mike johnson and the question is, will there be enough democrats who overcome the republicans who come to their senses this weekend? they've got a weekend to think about it, but more importantly, mike johnson has a weekend to think about it. >> recorded votes-- >> congresswoman, if this resolution is tabled on monday, will you continue to force votes on it. >> i have to think about. >> how about speaker johnson

not-- (inaudible) >> i'm not into personal attacks, that's not why i'm doing this, nothing to do with mike johnson as a person, but this is about his job performance and i believe in accountability. i voted for mike johnson as speaker and every single day when i am out and about talking to folks in my district or travelling across the country, the one phrase i hear over and over again is, keep fighting. keep fighting. they do not want us to back down. they do not want us to just put it in cruise control and go along to get along and that is what that is. that's exactly what that isment that's full surrender. full surrender to the very agenda that voters all over america said enough, and then in 2022, they gave us the majority to stop the democrat agenda. so, i'm not going to surrender and as thomas massie said when

they were waving the ukraine flag on the united states house of representatives' floor. that's complete surrender, doing nothing for our border, nothing for our border, but securing the border of foreign countries and continuing to fund the slaughter and the battle fields and the bombs, and the horrific injuries, and wiping out a full generation of ukrainian men that will leave women as widows, children as orphans. i'm sorry the american people don't want to pay for that. that's what mike johnson is for. >> let me-- >> go ahead. >> so that charge is leveled from mike johnson against marjorie taylor greene, you're saying that he said she's not a serious lawmaker, is that right? >> in an interview last night. >> okay in an interview last night. she's the most serious representative up here. if you listen to the speech that she just gave, she

captured exactly what republicans back home are thinking. they are tired of this swamp. and what does it mean to the speaker mike johnson to be a serious lawmaker? well, i think it means something different now than it meant six months ago or a year ago when he was a rank and file member because now to him, being a serious lawmaker means betraying our conference, means going with the majority of democrats and abandoning a majority of republicans. i don't think that's a serious speaker. i also don't think it's a serious constitutionalist to cast a deciding vote whether to need a warrant to spy on americans and the warrant provision. i think he needs to look in the mirror before he criticizes marry taylor greene. >> given the speaker's -- what was the difference between hakeem jeffries as speaker and mike johnson as speaker? >> well, you clearly listen to people more than this town. that's exactly what people are

saying everywhere. it's all over the internet in comments, it's being said in coffee shops. it's being said, you go to the town square, that's what people are talking about. they're saying what is the difference? what is the difference between mike johnson and hakeem jeffries? people are saying that they see no difference. there is no difference because mike johnson is sharing the gavel. they're holding it together. and mike johnson is not fighting. he's giving hakeem jeffries full power and that's why hakeem jeffries has given him the biggest endorsement of his lifetime and that's the last thing that the american people wanted to see. >> by the way, just -- on that point about sharing power. it wasn't just hakeem jeffries who endorsed mike johnson, it was their whip. >> that's right. >> it was their caucus chair. their entire leadership team plans on getting a promotion in january thanks to mike johnson.

where is our leadership team? they need to be as united as hakeem's team is and they need to surround mike johnson and say, mike, it's time to leave. >> congresswoman, so, yesterday-- congresswoman last time it took you all to coalesce around the speaker, so who do you have in mind this time around? >> i'm not naming names, but i think that we have people capable, anybody that's willing to fight for our agenda, anyone that refuses to share the power with hakeem jeffries. that's something that we're capable of doing. if we decide to do it. this republican conference can do it, i have watched us do great things. just as thomas massie said, before they ousted kevin mccarthy we passed seven separate appropriation bills. we were passing incredible bills that lined up exactly with the reason why people voted for us and once mike johnson took over, he

completely stopped it all. we only had five left and he just let them go. >> do you want mccarthy back again? >> that's not what i said. he's-- what our conference is doing is someone ready and willing to lead. i have full faith and confidence and we have to do it. >> from the beginning, mike johnson has had the chance to save us from what happened in october. look, he is a lame duck. he's not going to get reelected in january of the he's not going to lead us to any policy wins. he's not going to cut any spending. he's not even going to try. that's why hakeem wants him to remain as speaker. so what should he do at this point? he should do what john boehner did. do you remember when john boehner left, he gave us notice and instead of not having a speaker, we allowed him to remain speaker while we did, as an extracurricular activity, elect another speaker.

it wasn't like it was in october when we came in, we had to come in every day of every week and we all had the same meeting and we couldn't do subpoenas, we couldn't do investigations, everything came to a standstill. mike johnson alone can save us from that ultimate outcome if he would step down, but announce that he's stepping down 10 weeks from now and give us time and allow us to still function as a conference and that's why marjorie put this bill in the hopper. >> that's right. >> that's why we collected co-sponsors and why we're giving him one more weekend to think about it. >> mr. massie, mr. massie. >> yesterday, and (inaudible) are you worried about doing this so close to the election, took three weeks last time and hurt republicans in november? >> no, no, we're not going to have a house majority if we keep mike johnson. it's not going to ham.

happen. this is may 1st, we have all the way until november. we're going to win the house majority when we prove to our voters we're worth voting for. that's the most important thing that we can do. president trump, listen, let's say mike johnson stays speaker and it's the only way that we will get the house majority in november is because president trump drags everybody across the line. and that's-- that could happen, but the reality is, if people are going to cast their votes and this uni party garbage here, they're just going to vote for the democrats like this man said, everyone's saying, what's the difference? there is no difference. >> let me-- >> just to be sure, i guess the fact of the matter is, you have mike johnson because republicans didn't even have a group of names, so you have some sort of short list in mind right now? are you kind of mulling names?

i mean, do you have at least a group of people that you're sort of thinking about? >> let's be honest, we have mike johnson because nobody hated mike johnson. there was nothing in his prior life political or private that qualified him for this job. he's a lost ball in tall weeds. he's unequipped to negotiate with chuck schumer and a lot of people have ideas about why he's betrayed us. i think it's pretty simple he's over his head and so, i would say there are at least a dozen members of our conference who either politically or privately have done things in their life that qualify them to lead and i'd be willing to consider any of them and we don't have a list. >> would you guys-- what do you say to republicans who are saying that you guys are playing into the hand of the democrats that this will cause chaos and essentially-- >> that, that little narrative

that you echoed is a lie and that comes from the republican establishment that republican voters are ready to take a sledgehammer to and destroy. they're fed up with it. you want to know why? that's bull-- >> (inaudible) >> oh, yeah, absolutely. he just had -- he had another thing he had to attend to, yeah, absolutely. >> call the motion to vacate, saying you're voting this back. and it took three weeks to elect mike johnson as leader how do you explain a leadership crisis. >> i think that's the same question that we've answered about four times now. do you have a different question. >> by the way, i'll answer again, even though it's been asked. this is the time to clean house not in october, not in september when he betrays us with another cr or an increase, another omnibus. now is the time to clean house.

there is time. i mean, we're not even done with primaries yet. people aren't focused right now on their general elections, they're still trying to win their primaries. this is when we should take out the garbage, take out the trash, solve these problems that we have so that we can be a united conference so we can somebody in the speaker's chair who actually has an incredible chance of winning speaker in january. look, hakeem and his cohorts and colleagues may bail out mike johnson next week, that remains to be scene, whether it's a bluff or not, but we know they're not going to vote for him in january. >> no. >> and we know that mike johnson can't get a majority of republicans in january. even our colleagues who aren't co-sponsors of this have privately admitted there is no way in hell they're going to vote for mike johnson to be speaker in january. and so, that's why we need to handle it now, put somebody in that seat who can lead our

conference and present a united front to republicans who are going to go vote in november. >> are either of you considering running for speaker? >> everybody, we're going to end the press conference. what i'm calling on is like my colleague here said, mike johnson can do some really-- he can pray about it, think about it all weekend, do the right thing and resign, giving our conference time to elect a new leader, a new speaker of the house. he should reject the endorsement of hakeem jeffries and the entire democrat leadership team. that's not an endorsement that any republican speaker should ever want or embrace and this vote will be called next week and i just want to urge all of our colleagues to prepare for it. it's the right thing to do for america, it's time to clean house and get our conference in order and get ready to support president trump's agenda, god willing he wins in november and we take back full power here in