House minority leader Kevin Mccarthy also have a briefing with reporters earlier today at the capitol. He spoke about the president ial election and the number of incoming republican women members of the house. This is about 20 minutes. Good morning, all. Paused tothe country recognize our nations veterans. On behalf of the entire republican conference, i want to express our heartfelt appreciation to every veteran who served our country. Their commitment to service, the love of country exemplifies the very best of america. They deserve leaders in washington who will hold the line and do their part in protecting our individual liberties at home. That is why could not be prouder of the House Republicans and those who would join us in the next congress. You will be the most diverse class we have ever had. Many have already dubbed this year the year of the republican woman, and it couldnt be truer in that statement. Are proposed to have 29 republican Women Joining our ranks, passing the previous rep previous record. Democrats are set to have the slimmest democrat majority since world war ii. Pundits doubted us, polls were stacked against us, i dont believe one person in this room would the cook report said we would lose 1520. The majority leader, steny hoyer said just days before the election that they would gain 15 seats and republicans would lose them. , i guessof the dccc for a few days longer, pose that there would be doubledigit victories. Nancy pelosi claims she was not only winning the majority, she was having to elections this november, that it would be such a large victory, she would guarantee the majority for the next election as well. They were all wrong. Not one republican incumbent lost. Won from miami to new york to minnesota, to california. The democrats one was an open seat, and they claim to have one a redistricting in north carolina. The republicans didnt even run. I heard the speaker call it a mandate. It was a mandate against socialism. It was a mandate against defunding the police. It was a mandate against wasting a majority that the democrats had done for the last congress. While the democrats praise socialism and advocated to defund the police, our members made a commitment to america that they would restore our way of life, rebuild our economy, and renew the american dream. We are eager and ready to show up to work. Unlike the democrats. Yesterday chairperson lofgren signed she signaled that the democrats have interest or in place to ensure democrats can continue to get paid for not showing up to work. Americans across this country dont have the privilege to do. Millions of americans have already returned to work and millions more want to return. If theyre willing to show up in person, so can we. Mannerbe done in a safe to minimize the risk for members, for staff, employees, and for you, the press. Just as we did with the proxy voting scheme, House Republicans will stand up and defend the constitution. Even if it gets in the way of the democrats vacations and road trips to rocket launches. Believe congress is essential. We believe we just spent billions of dollars saying you will be the voice for all you in your district. You should show up and be that voice. Just like in may, when i put myself and tom and rodney davis, get a plan to open up the house safely, with test, which the speaker denied us. The ability to have room separated and distanced so we could have in a safe manner. Even to this day, the speaker has no plan of how to have the house safely open up. Our success is already threatening democrats. Instead of planning to work with us, they are already plotting ways to silence the minority partys voice in congress. As many of you know, they want to change the rules of the motion to recommit. Its the only way a legislative body allows the minority just to have one amendment to a bill. Its the only way the minority be the influence to improve legislation and serve as their constituents voice in d. C. We wont let them silence us. This election cycle has made one thing clear. The Republican Party is now the party of the american worker. That is the actual mandate that we had from the voters. We are going to fight them. Push back against democrats radical policies and we will continue to put america first. With that, lets open it up for questions. With regard to the election, nancy pelosi and speaker schumer have said basically that with lawsuits, all it is doing is jeopardizing the democracy of america. Not at all. You got a hand recount going in georgia. Every recount needs to be finished. Youve got challenges inside courts. Every challenge needs to be heard. Guard us of who you support in this election, at the end of the day, we want americans to be united. Regardless of how this outcome is, we want to be able to trust the election. If there was something that was wrong in this election, we do not want to repeat it for the future, either. Just as we watched the race in 2000, it carried out more than 37 days because there were court cases. 150 you have more than million americans voting, lets make sure we get this right. Democrats pin hopes on about 10 seats. Can republicans now say that , Going Forward for the next two cycles . Everyplace is going to be competitive in the future. The democrats said they were going to flip texas. The cook report had it as a tossup at the end. They believe theyre going to win all these open seats. They believe they were going to defeat incumbents. They did not repeat one republican incumbent who ran for reelection. The open seats, they only won one. In texas, they didnt defeat one down there. Just like in every other state, were going to have some amazing women. They will add to the delegation of texas into the Republican Party. How concerned are you about the [indiscernible] who has talked about and supported qanon, creating controversy for your conference . She walked around with the bible how are you going to deal with that . Rep. Mccarthy you mentioned twopart to people who are going to join our party, and both of them have denounced you in on. The only thing i would ask denounced qanon. All,nk its fair for do feel that the legal efforts are the recounts will change the result in any single state or overturn anything related to the overall election . I follow data numbers. I thought early on that arizona, based on the number of votes that were left out would switch back to President Trump. I dont know if thats going to be the case as these things narrow. Let me give you an example on him microlevel. County we had two congressional seats. They tell me theres votesimately 150,000 left. They cant tell me in which district they are. I just watched a race in new jersey that the ap called and probably way too soon. Tom kane is coming back up. Because in the manner weve had this election is different than others. Have done it before, others have not. Some mailed it to everyone. Some counted certain votes coming in and it would be disproportionate. Democrats more likely voted in the absentee portion and republicans overwhelming voted on election day. In this case, in new jersey, they counted the votes based on when they came in. So it looked like a member had a really high margin, so they called the vote. So the new ones that are counting, tom kane is leading by 60 . So the answer to your question lets wait until we have all the information. Recount bying to hand in georgia. Thats going to take some time. Its a close race. We had a close race in the last election. Yes, some of them could switch. Democratsion of what what is your plan to continue to increase diversity . Rep. Mccarthy exactly the plan i told you two years ago. I believe the Republican Party is much more diverse than what reflects on the floor. I think this election proved it. When you look at who ran, who represented the party and where they are from. When you look at the results in the outcome, its only in this room when we get a new record for the number of women, more diverse, it only makes us stronger. Thats what makes america strong. Were reflecting on that. Think about where we one. We want to seats in miami. Maria salazar, carlos gimenez. Maria defeated the congresswoman who was the former secretary of health and human services. Called herself a pragmatic socialist. When i listen to the democratic allus on twitter, theyre we defeated a sitting chairman of the committee. Been here more than 30 years. Dccc in the race and it was questioned on Election Night whether she was going to win. Should at least let us have what took place that night. It was an unbelievable night for republicans in congress. Something that we told you about two years ago, that we would be more diverse, exactly the way we look across the party. Those people put their name on the line. Not only if you take us from two thes ago, only 44 women won primary. This time, 94. More women ran as republicans than any time in history of the Republican Party. 225 ran this time. We are doing fabulous, and we will continue it. Whats going to happen with the success of the women, the success of the diversity, its going to empower others to see, you can do it, i can do it, too. Maybe been quite about my beliefs in this party, but i know this party has a place for me, so they are going to join. Doa twopart question, what you want on covid relief in the coming months, because presumably you will have some say. He wants anell says targeted small package. Next congress, you will have a pretty powerful minority. Im curious how you think about that in 2009, when you are the minority, you didnt participate much with obama, im just curious about your orientation going into the next congress if biden is the president , which it seems obvious to most people. Rep. Mccarthy the first thing, i want politics to end on covid. Ive been in all the discussions with the leaders. Ive never watched one leader play politics with anything more than nancy pelosi. She played politics from the first time we did the cares act. Ive watched her time and again, she had one mission only. She was willing to sacrifice her own members. Remember what she said prior to departure when we were talking about covid and the problem solvers had put a plan up. What she called the problem solvers. They are irrelevant. She knew her own members were going to lose. Her tone of vision was, it didnt matter what the issue is, but if i can make President Trump weaker foreign election, im going to do it. What she did in that instance is , she sacrificed our economy and people who were hurting. The election is now over. I think it was very clear that she should end her politics about it and we should be able to get into a room, weve got money sitting there. The republicans put on the floor 37 times to be able to vote for money for ppp. Theres more than 137 billion sitting there. She dispersed congress because she was afraid i was going to do a motion to recommit. She change how we voted to the floor. Our continuing resolution. Simply because she was afraid people would have gotten resources and help. So the number one thing that has to happen, the only thing standing in the way, in my view, is speaker pelosi. And you know what . We have more information today. Theres more than 100 billion sitting there for states. This is money that is already appropriated. Why is it being held up . People need some relief, and we can provide it. That money goes to small businesses. It doesnt go to the owners, it goes to the employees. It pays the rent. Its every small city we know, the person who had a dream and took a risk. It lets them stay around. Thats all that has to get done. Thinking about the next congress, ive put a lot of thought into it. Verse going to wait to see who holds up to become speaker. Ive been through those battles. They are not easy. It takes 218 on the floor. There are 15 democrats who voted against it against the speakership of nancy pelosi the last time. 10 of those 15 democrats will be back. If 10 democrats vote again against nancy pelosi, she will not be speaker. You see, the numbers are different. It is the smallest democrat majority since world war ii. Chair toconference congresswoman aoc, it doesnt seem like theyre getting along very well. There fighting on the fundamental of who they are. For what they champion and what they lost over. And they have the exact same Leadership Team that they lost last time with. Ifont know in history theres ever been a Leadership Team to lose the majority twice. We will know for sure whether that will be in history. [indiscernible] they both say joe biden should have access to classified information in repairing for transition. Rep. Mccarthy only because i knew you were coming, i wanted to make sure what joe biden said. Im part of the gang of eight. I do trust our intel community. Look, access to classified information is useful , but im not in a position to make any decisions on those issues anyway. So as i said, one president at a time. He will be president until january 20. Would be nice to have it, but its not critical. I think i kind of stand with joe biden. I will trust the intel community. Hes not president right now. Dont know if he will be president january 20, but whoever is will get the information. Youre watching cspan, your unfiltered view of government. 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