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The from the heart of the washington Swamp On Capitol Hill where in mere moments we will be joined by the 56th Speaker Of The House of representatives mike johnson for his very first tv interview since becoming speaker. Now the louisiana native now is third in line to be president. He has vowed to secure our southern border, decentralize our federal government, reform the weaponized and politicized doj and fbi and bring the Republican Caucus together with a thin majority and, predictably, this was not hard to predict, the left has launched a fullscale attack on the new speaker led, of course, by did dnc calling him a Maga Extremist and much more. And advising him not to get comfortable in his new position. Now coming up, were going to ask him how he plans to deal with his political adversaries, what are his top agenda items, how will he keep this caucus together . Plus well check in on israels looming Ground Invasion in gaza, a short incursion last night, the first of what we expect to be a major ground war in the days and weeks ahead. But first we start with Breaking News out of maine tonight where we are tracking a developing situation near the home of robert card. Hes the suspected mass shooter responsible for at least 18 murders, 13 injured. Here now with the very latest, she is on the ground in maine for us tonight, mollie line has the latest on this mollie, thanks for being with us. Sean, thanks for having me tonight. As you mentioned the manhunt continues, theres a significant amount of activity in the suspects home town of bowdoin. Theyve really foe kissed in on a group of properties on meadows road and in the last couple of hours weve seen choppers overhead on that road and a Search Warrant being executed there at that property. Law enforcement on a mega Phone Yelling for quite some time calling for robert or anyone in that home to come on out, to come out peacefully. Per Maine State Police those announcements heard over the loud speaker mega phone are standard Search Warrant announcements when theyre executing a Search Warrant for safety of everyone. Its unknown Fen Robert Card is in any of the homes theyre searching. Law enforcement officials just doing their Due Diligence tracking down every lead and those properties are associated with this suspect so theyre doing everything they can to find out what sort of clues they might be able to draw from that area. They also did use a series of flashing bangs earlier in the evening, once again another tactic, an intention to draw out the suspect if he is there. Not necessarily any proof that he actually was. Things unfolded yesterday just a little bit before 7 00, Lewiston Police responding to those two mass shooting incidents, one in a bowling alley, another at a bar and bill yard hall. By 10 25 in the evening, county officials called a county wide shelter in place order. Even now authorities are still asking people to stay in their homes and Lewiston Police originally calling robert card A Person Of Interest he is now clearly a suspect in this homicide mass murder case. The coast guard, worth noting, also involved now. They were up in the sky now earlier today over boothbay harbor, thats notably because the subaru, the vehicle that is associated with this suspect, was found in a Community Called list bin, not so far from here, about a 10minute drive from lewiston, and theres a river there, and this suspect is known to have some familiarity with boats and also with weapons as well. Internal Law Enforcement communication revealing that this individuals a firearms instructor, a member of the army reserves, and that over the summer had been suffering an escalating Mental Health crisis essentially, ended up being committed for a series of weeks and getting treatment. So that speaks to potentially how dangerous this individual really may be. Law enforcement officials are warning the public that he is Armed And Dangerous and right now they are still running down every lead. A lot of different agencies involved in this. Sean. Sean all right, mollie line, thank you for that report. Stay with us, well be back to you throughout the hour tonight as news breaks and my exclusive interview with the house speaker, the new speaker, mike johnson, in just moments. First, lets get Quick Reaction to what is going on on the ground in maine with national Law Enforcement and Counter Terrorism analyst former israeli 0 aaron cohen is back and former Dc Police Detective Fox News Contributor ted williams. Aaron, lets get your take, very predictably people are already talking in the nations capitol about new gun laws. Maine does have some of the more lenient laws on the books for a state in the country, no Background Check on the purchaser, and they have they dont have their socalled yellow paper, red flag laws, theyre under a lot of controversy tonight, conceal carry without a permit is limited to people who are 21 or older. However, when you look at the background, what do we see . Somebody recently fired . Somebody that clearly had some mental issues. If, in fact, they have him surrounded tonight. Should this be a gun debate at this time and what is your take on what Law Enforcement is doing right now and why have they not entered that home that they have surrounded since this afternoon. I dont think its the time right now, sean, to turn inwards and start debating. I dont think this is political we dont want this to be politicized right now. We coronavirus those conversations down the road specifically when it comes to Mental Health. That is the big red flag. When someone has been committed and has had a breakdown that is something i would be looking at. I dont have a problem with guns you dont have a problem with guns as long as youre safe and trained with it. And given the State Of The World right now its not a bad thing to be able to defend yourself. Moving to the situation right now with that house thats being surrounded, Law Enforcements going to exercise every lead right now. This is an intelligence hunt they want to know where the suspect is, take you back to 2012, chris dorner went on a rampage, started killing cops, ended up booting two, two and a half hours up to big bear, multiple swat teams were on him, took a long time to get that information. It will move quicker now, we have cell phones, we have the photo of the suspect out, he is obviously the main Person Of Interest at this point. So intelligence number one, making sure we get every lead. Number two, if, in fact he is in that structure right now now its time to slow it down, and when im training swat teams this is what we call slow and deliberate. If theres no hostages inside we go slow we want to peel that can open nice and tender. But if hes barricaded, this would be a barricaded subject, if there are no hostages, lets tire him out, start communicating with him, get a phone in there and start getting some dialogue in there and see if we can get him out alive. We obviously want to take him out alive putting on my us Law Enforcement hat on here. We are not dealing with terrorism that we know, that we know, and you know sean i dont believe in coincidences that things happen freakishly at a time when were in a Monster Conflict in israel. But lets try and talk him out tire him down no hostages end it peacefully and put cuffs on him and make an arrest without anybody else getting killed. If there are hostages, its a different situation, federal laws are violated, Hostage Rescue Team would be on scene. But the good news is that a lot of these agencies, sean, theyve gotten a lot better over the years. Even these smaller agencies. Ive been running around training them for close to 20 years. Theyve got the gear now, they have the weaponry, they have the tactics, their mindsets gotten better. Everyones in better shape now. The tone has changed. So weve just got to let these guys do what theyre going to do and theyre going to go in there and make entry if they have to, and if they do and theres no hostages it will be very slow, very deliberate, but im leaning towards theyre going to try and get him to come out. Sean aaron good advice. Ted williams, lets get your take. I would assume Law Enforcement obviously would have night vision, something that would be able to aid and assist them. Probably they would be able to sense where a human body would be through heat sensing of some kind. Do you agree with aaron . Anything else you want to add to that . Well, i agree with what youve just said about Heat Sensing Equipment that would tell you perhaps if hes in that house. Now, the thing about it is, theyre only going to wait for so long. Normally they would do an activity of this nature during the daytime because the daytime is the most friendliest time for Law Enforcement and to Law Enforcement. So since they waited here at night, i think a swat team, i understand theres an Armored Vehicle on the scene there and theres a good possibility that theyve already gone in. And one of the things that they would normally do with a swat team coming on the scene like that, sean, would be to send the dogs in. And so i dont know if theyve done that, but i just got word that there were Law Enforcement agencies leaving that home. And, so, if that is true and can be corroborated, its more likely than not that they have eliminated that property. And that is what Law Enforcement officers are trying to do. Theyre going through what we would define as a process of elimination. Sean right. Simply meaning they eliminate that house. What makes me to believe its more likely than not that hes not in that house, is that after this carnage last night, Law Enforcement immediately was at those homes. So they had those homes under surveillance. And so its a part, sean, of a process of elimination, but this guy could be anywhere. We know that he ditched his car in leften maine we know he had jet skis, we know there are waterways, we know the cost guard is now looking down those waterways. He may not even be in the state of maine at this immediate time. Sean ted williams, well see. Law enforcement still surrounding the house so theres still got to be some interest there. Well have more this throughout the hour tonight. Thank you both. We appreciate it. Aaron and ted. Now to the big news out of capitol hill where louisiana congressman mike johnson, he was just elected Speaker Of The House. Now, notably, johnson is not a creature of the swamp, a son of a fireman from louisiana, he was first elected to congress in 2017 but quickly earned a reputation of someone who could communicate well and get things done without making enemies. Pretty hard in this town unless youre friends with dogs and cats, thats about the only friend you usually get in washington. As a prior member of the Judiciary Committee, thats jim jordans committee, the Armed Services committee and a stint as the chairman of the republican study committee, johnson has been very busy. He has consistently supported lower taxes, law and order, and Second Amendment protections. And a secure border. He has also fought against bidens weaponization at our department of justice and the fbi and whether theyve been politicized. Also he is against the woke far left propaganda now indoctrinating our kids. As speaker His First Measure was a resolution in support israels right to selfdefense after the hamas Terrorist Attacks and his first major bill will, in fact, be saying byebye to joe bidens Green New Deal radical socialism. Johnson also has a plan to keep the government open while getting our spending in check without chaos, infighting or drama. That is the goal. No easy task, to say the least, especially when you have such a slim majority. So how will they get it done . Joining us now with more, americas brand new Speaker Of The House, his first interview, mr. Speaker, good to see you, sir. Thanks sean. Welcome to capitol hill. Sean all right, two weeks ago, did you think have you gotten used to the word speaker yet . I havent sean. Ive been in the job about 48 hours now and its kind of surreal to be honest. I want to say at the outset god be with the Law Enforcement officers handle the situation in maine our prayers have been with the situation the families, everyone in the house have been dmield on that all day, its really something. So just to address that at the front end we would be remiss if we didnt mention it. Sean already though youre emersed in democrats and this happens with almost every shooting incident. The media call by the left in this country, we need more gun laws, we need more legislation. Yeah. Sean whats your answer to that . The end of the day the problem is the human heart. Its not guns, its not the weapons. At the end of the day we have to protect the right of the citizens to protect themselves and thats the Second Amendment thats why our party is so strong with that. I agree with the comments of your guest, this is not the time to be talking about legislation were in the middle of the crisis right now but i want you to know and the American People to know that all the members of the house here are deeply concerned with the families involved and everyone. We pray for the Law Enforcement officers doing that, hard job tonight that most people dont have the bravery to do. Sean you talk about the human heart, if somebody really wants to kill innocent people theres a lot of ways people can do it beyond using a gun. Yeah. Sean im sure this will become a bigger issue throughout the days moving forward. Is there any specific gun law that you would look at, or any new legislation you would look at . Well, been in the job for 48 hours. Well see. I mean there will be lots of discussion as there are after these heartbreak tragedies but your point is well taken. You know, in europe and in other places, they use vehicles to mow down crowds in parades, theyve done that here in the United States. Its not the weapon its the underlying provenlt i believe we have to address the root problems and Mental Health obviously as in this case is a big issue and we have to seriously address that as a society and as a government and theres lots of measures pending on that as well. Sean you have a very warm welcome from the dnc. They said you were an antiabortion, Maga Extremist, mike johnson. That was their first words. Oh, yeah, welcome to the job. Sean welcome to your new job. Then they went on to say you were the cosponsor to institute an extreme abortion ban, well get into detail, nationwide. You want to cut Social Security and medicare. And heres some free advice from mike johnson, and that is, dont get comfortable. Weve been here before. This is the same exact maga extremism that the American People have already reject and they will do it again. I thought that was the warmest welcome you could ever want from the democratic party. How about that . Yeah, welcome to the job. They dont know me a lot of these people dont know me and i think if they would talk to some of my colleagues here even on the other side of the aisle that have worked with me for the seven years ive been on capitol hill they would tell you those things are not true. Give me a chance. Let me have a chance to lead here and youll see what im really about. Sean let me ask you, because a lot of people dont know you, and before i get to some really heavy duty questions, issues of Great National importance, what do you want people to know about you . There were things about you that i learned in the leadup to this interview. I didnt know you didnt legally adopt a young 14year old, but you basically adopted him. It would have taken four years to finalize it. And he happened to be africanamerican and he was your first son. And now you have four other children. And one of them, this son was named michael, your other 14 year old is jack. And you said some pretty deep profound things that you think is harder for your africanamerican son than your biological son in life. Are you saying thats institutional racism in the country . What are you referring to . No. Its a reality, thorax having raised two 14 year old boys in america and in the state of louisiana. They had different experiences. And im not so sure it was all about skin color but it is about culture and society. Michael, the our first, came from a really troubled background and had a lot of challenges. Jack, on the other hand, was raised in our household from the time he was born. And it struck me, sean, that its a reality that there are different, there are different paths in life and people have lots of things they have to overcome. So it gives you a lot of empathy. It allows you to see into the heart of people and really try to understand them better. And that comes in handy in this arena. Because were really expected to hate our colleagues on the other side of the aisle and beat them all the time as enemies, politicallyspeaking. But you have to recognize that this is a system that was built upon disagreement. I mean, what the founders intended here, in this legislative context, is were going to come to the table with very different fill city of philadelphia i can core ideas and principles and we have to arm wrestle with that and reach consensus to move the ball forward for the American People. Thats what its built upon and right now people are going to their corners and refusing to talk. We have to get over that. Sean i dont know how we reconcile a lot of these issues. You either believe in climate alarmism or energy independence. How do you reconcile that . How do you reconcile key fund dismantle versus funding Law Enforcement . And no bail laws versus bail laws . How do you reconcile secure borders or sanctuary states and cities. Very controversial issues. Yes. Sean and i dont know where the middle ground is. Do you see it . There is less and less middle ground over the decades, the parties have grown very far apart. Theres a wide cam now. If you rewound back 40 or 50 years there wasnt really a lot of difference between the republican and democratic parties if you compared the platforms, there were nuances about policy but they were trying to do whats right for the country. The allegation here about some of our colleagues is thats not really their agenda. Some of them really would like to trade what we have for a europeanstyle socialist form of government. We know that that is a terribly idea so we sand for our foundational ideas. What you have to do is get down to those principles and use the facts though them the reality. Socialism is a dead end, communism and marxism are terrible things. Its been responsible for the deaths of tense of millions of innocent people over the 20th century alone. Right . That is not the path we want to go down. America is different and we are exceptional because we stand on certain foundational principles. I said in my speech the other night was that last night . All my hours are running together now. Sean i think it was yesterday. I talked about the Core Principles of American Conservatism, individual freedom, limited government, rule of law, peace through strength free markets and Human Dignity and under each of those there would be subcategories but thats what we stand for. I call them the Core Principles of American Conservatism but its really the Core Principles of america itself. Were different. Were exceptional. The reason were the freest most powerful successful nation in the world is because thats what we stand for and those values and those principles are under assault right now and we have to defend them every day with everything we have. Sean let me ask you. You had a bipartisan briefing with President Biden, Hakeem Jeffries was there, other leaders were there. You got a phone call from President Biden. Tell us about it. How did it go . Actually had a visit with the president at the white house today for about 15 minutes or 15 or 20 minutes. The other parties were running late so it was he and i sitting there together. It was a meet and greet. I had only met him once before. It was cordial and pleasant. I have no problem with President Biden as an individual, right . You respect the office. Its a biblical admonition that you give honor where honor is due and thats the respect we have in office. President but he and i agree on almost no policy so we didnt get into that too much but there will be time on that in the days ahead. Sean is there any one thing on policy that you can say hes done a really good job on this or that . I cant. I cant. I think its been a failed presidency and all the problems, some of those you articulated already at the outset of the problem here were caused by Policy Choices. And thats the problem i have with him. Its philosophical. Sean look, im sure, if youve ever seen my show, and i dont know, i didnt ask you if youve ever watched it, the president , in my view, has been struggling cognitively. Its a significant decline that i see. Im not sure if you saw the tape, the interview that he gave a gaggle on Air Force One when he was flying back from israel after, by the way, a lot of allied nations did not want to meet with him, leaders did not want to meet with him which i found to be a pretty big snub. I dont know if you saw that tape. Do you see, in joe biden, a cognitive decline and, if so, is that a danger to the country . I do. I think most of us do. Thats reality. This is not a personal slight to him. It has to do with age and acumen and everyones different, everyone ages differently. Clearly if you look at a tape of joe biden making an argument in the Senate Judiciary committee a few years ago and you see a speech that he delivers now, theres a difference. Again, its not a personal insult to him. Its just reality. And this is whats concerning to us is that we cannot project weakness of any kind on the world stage right now. This is a dangerous time for all the things going on arnold the world, the world is a tinder box. A Strong America is good for the whole world and we have to project strength. Reagan used to remind us all the time, its peace through strength. If america shows weakness it invites aggression by our adversaries and thats what youre seeing around the world and thats an important thing to remember and also sean also remember, ive been watching your show since as long as i can retchings all 25 years . Sean people said ive been watching you since i was in first grade. I remember when your hair was dark than mine. Sean it was a lot darker. Speaker i think youll catch up quickly. Its already happening. Sean especially with the smaller majority. Yeah. Sean already, the press, the left, have come at you and come at you hard. Uhhuh. Sean specifically ill give you two big issues, one on the issue, you once worked for the Alliance Defense fund a Christian Advocacy Group and comments you made both in writing and advocacy for this group about Homo Sexuality calling it sinful destructive and not supporting gay marriage. Quote, no clear right to sodomy in the constitution. You have been getting hammered on this. Yeah. Sean and i want to ask you about it. I want to know exactly, you know, where you stand. Some of these comments were 15 years ago. I dont even remember some of them. I was a litigator that was called upon to defend the state marriage amendments, if you remember back in the early 2000s, think there was over 35 states somewhere in that number, that the people went to the ballot in their respective states and they amended their State Constitutions to say marriage is one man and one womanen i was a religious liberty defense and was called to do that in court. Theres been questions about this, anybody that knows me knows this is true. I am a rule of law guy. I made a career defending the rule of law. I respect the rule of law. When the Supreme Court issued an opinion that became the law of the land. I respect the rule of the law but i also genuinely love all people regardless of their life style choice. This is not about the people themselves. I am a biblebelieving christian. Someone asked me today in the media, its curious, people are curious, what does mike johnson think about any issue under the sun . I said, well, go pick up a bible off your shelf and read it. Thats my world view. Thats what i believe. Sean thats your personal world view. My personal world view. Heres the thirngs everybody comes to the House Of Representatives with deep personal convictions but all of our personal convictions are not going to become law. This is a big body of people. Theres 435 members in the house. You have to argue and find consensus in all of that. So i have no agenda other than whats best for the American People and to defend the rule of law and thats what were doing. Sean so then let me ask you on the issue of abortion where youve been very pro life. Yeah. Sean obviously that comes from your issue of faith. You had argued against roe, bad law. Yes. Sean dobbs happened. Yes. Sean that issue now has been sent back to the states. On either one of these issues, gay marriage, abortion, in the next 14 months as youre going to be the Speaker Of The House, Stooge Motion to vacate never comes up which i think is awful shouldnt be there. I think were going to change it. Sean or have a higher bar, 25 people instead of any one member. But on those two issues where theyve come at you so hard and youre explaining your personal view and youre kind of by by for kading it away from your political view, do you see any scenario where either issue would be an agenda item for you and the republicans in the next 14 months or any point down the line. First of all in the marriage issue no one has discussed that for as long as i can remember. This has been settled by the score in 2015. So thats the decision. Now, they changed the definition of marriage that had been regarded by basically every Human Society for 5,000 years but when five justices on the Supreme Court changed it that became the law of the land. Im a constitutional law attorney, i respect that and we move forward. The Abortion Issue is different. The table was just reset. Dobbs opinion overturned roe which was probably one of the worst Supreme Court opinion. Sean roe v wade. Roe v wade. Sean you like the states to decide. My entire career for 25 years states should have the right to do this. Theres no National Consensus for the people on what to do with that issue on a federal issue for certain. We have such big priorities in this moment right now sean. We have israel being attacked, we have unrest. We have the ukraine situation weve got to deal with. We have china being aggressive, iran with all the metling and china russia and iran working together, this is a dangerous time, the economys in the tank, the borders overrun, people are dying from fentanyl issues, all of these issues, these are the front line manners that have our attention right now and the rest of these things theyre just using for political attacks. Sean so basically youre saying these issues will not be coming up and youre going to focus on the agenda items you laid out already and the ones we just mentioned which we will go into some detail with. Let me ask you one other question on this, and this has come up on, well, controversial, you had authored legislation called the stop the sexualization of children act of 2022. Okay. Now, i looked deeply into this act. Your critics have said or dubbed it, its a federal dont say gay measure. By the way, the word gay was never in the florida legislation, in fairness to governor desantis, and yet this, when you look at exactly what this is, it would prohibit the use of federal funds to develop, implement, facilitate or fund any sexually oriented program, event, literature, for children under the age of 10. Now, a lot of our kids in a lot of School Districts around the country, they cant read, write, do math, science, theyre not learning history and they certainly need to learn computers. So to the age of 10, very specifically. But youre not talking about anything droned. No. And if you poll this Will Anywhereer in the country, almost any state, any community theyre going to say moms and dads should be the ones responsible for talking about these sensitive issues with their children, not the Public School stechlt i mean, hell take that debate somewhere, main street in any town hall in any city in america. I would love for them to challenge us on that because thats what the American People believe and thats what i believe. Sean let me ask. I have a lot of questions. As you point out, there is a lot going on in the world right now. Let me throw some numbers at you because i think theyre very important. We have war in europe, we have ukraine and weve got russia. And it seems very precarious there. Already joe biden has given 76. 8 billion to yvjt he wants 61 billion more. He wants 14 billion to go to israel. And i think and then he wants to put money on the border probably to satisfy conservatives in the house and get their support on ukraine, for example, which seems to be his top priority. A big disparity in the amount of money. I have some criticisms about the issue of ukraine. Number one, if youre going to fight a war you should fight it to win it. I thought the president made a horrible mistake by denying migs offered by poland and made an horrible mistake putting Handcuffs On The Zelenskyy Army on how they can fight and what weapons they can and cannot use like cluster bombs. I dont like europe doesnt pay their fair shave. They have 78 billion he wants another 61 billion how will you deep he wants to tie all the issues together which now gets into the budgetary process. Will you go issue by issue . I told the staff at the white house today that our consensus among House Republicans is that we need to by for indicate those issues. I agree with your assessment in ukraine and thats why the American People are demanding real accountability for the use of those dollars. We cant allow Vladimir Putin to prevail in ukraine because i dont believe it would stop there and would probably encourage and empower china to perhaps make a move on taiwan. We have these concerns. Were not going to abandon them but we have a responsibility, a stewardship responsibility over the precious treasure of the American People and we have to make sure that the white house is providing the people with some accountability for the dollars. We want to know what the objective there is, what is the end game in beening why. The white house has not provided that. I was at the white house for a couple have hours today and i told the staff there that this writes we are. This is where the House Republicans are. So were going to sean that kind of money, america having a proxy war with putin and russia. Its a great concern. We have a group of colleagues led by mark garcia, a brilliant litigator and top gun pilot and some of our veterans have gotten together, dan crenshaw and others, came up with a document that came up with 12 critical questions for the white house to answer as a condition for our supplying the additional support. These are not hard questions, things the white house should be forthcoming about. I delivered that myself. Sean oh, you did deliver it. I delivered it myself today into the National Security advisor jake sullivan. Sean did he read it. He said hes studying it. Sean tonight during the show. Yes. We want to be cooperative. We need to Work Together on this. But we owe it to the people to know what the plan is, where the moneys going to be spent and we need some auditing for the dollars already sent over there. These are not tough questions. Israels a separate matterment were going to bring a stand alone israel funding measure 14 billion. Is 14 billion enough. Israels requested a little less than that actually, the white house did by way of israel and 14. 5 billion specifically is what were looking at. Its a very specific number tied to very specific measures. But heres the important thing that distinguishes House Republicans the other team, were going to find pay fors in the budget. Were not just printing money to send it overseas were going to find the cuts he will where to do that. Sean let me ask you this. In israel its very complicated. Syria is now firing missiles into israel. The houthis rebels which i dont know why joe biden once designated a terrorist group, hes taken away that designation, why, i dont know. They tried to fire missiles into israel. In north you have hezbollah and you have lebanon, in the south where gaza killed 1400 including 30 americans and americans are being held hostage. Beyond the money part, is there any involvement you see, or any reason for any Military Involvement by the United States, would congress support that . Because it seems like, with the maneuverings of our navy and other indications, special forces, maybe to rescue american hostages, any movement that you would support that you can think of now . Its a very delicate situation, it changes by the hour. Were watching it very closely. One thing the House Republicans resolved on is we must stand with our most important ally in the middle east and thats israel. We certainly hope it doesnt come to boots on the ground. If it comes to that and we communicated this to the white house staff as well today, that, you know, we have the article one power in legislative branch of government and they have article two, they have very limited authority on what they can do to respond without coming to dong seek consent. And even my democrat colleagues, sean, that are, committees of jurisdiction understand this and the Foreign Affairs committee. Theres a purpose for that. The reason the framers put that into the constitution is they wanted a multitude of wise counsel to decide on a declaration of war, they wanted duly elected representatives of the people to make that decision collectively and not one commander in chief sitting in an office. Sean heres my worst fear, worst Case Scenario for the middle east. Israel will be fighting a 2front war. Yeah. Sean gaza, hamas in the south. Ey. Sean as soon as the Ground Incursion which could happen at any minute begins, i would expect more rockets to be fired from the north from lebanon, hezbollah, they both have something in common that theyre getting military strategy, weaponry, Money Support from iran. Yeah. Sean thats the head of the snake. Now we have another problem. Syria has involved itself in this conflict. Another problem, the houthis seem to be wanting to involve themselves and you have comments made by the leaders of iran that they, themselves, may get involved in a conflict. If that happens, correct me if you think im wrong, i would say all bets are off in the middle east. We could have a fullout war in the middle east. Israel at the center of it. And at that point, if israels existence is put in jeopardy, i dont think Prime Minister netanyahu, who ive known for almost 30 years, i dont think theres anything he wont do to preserve and protect his country from people that have committed their lives to destroy it. He has to do that, and around here people throw around the phrase existential threat. They have an existential threat every day. Their neighbors want to eliminate them and wipe them off the map. So Prime Minister netanyahu is resolved, ive spent time with him personally, i know him as well, hes a strong leader at this point in time and will do what is necessary. And america will back him up. They tell us when were in israel and youve been there, they say the reason that we are able to sustain ourselves and survive is because everyone knows that our big ally is america. And thats an Important Role that we have in the world. Were not the worlds policemen but a Strong America, as i said, is good for the whole world, because its the perception that we would be there to defend freedom and thats been our role, thats the reagan doctrine. A lot of friends in our pear are becoming more isolationists and i understand the concerns. We cant be dropping money out of helicopters around the world because we also have a 33. 5 trillion debt of our own. I saw a sign that said 33. 6. Did we go to six . Great. Sean probably from this afternoon. It goes so quick you cant track it. Thats the concern. We are deeply concerned about all nations of free people of the world but we have to take care of our own house first so thats also part of this delicate a calculation and the decision. Sean ive been to israel during a flareup in i believe 2014 and at that point i got to see up front and go inside the Terror Tunnels that are built by hamas. By the way, all of the money and resources, that was given to the Palestinian People for infrastructure and schools and hospitals but they have this Massive Network of Terror Tunnels and when you go inside its mind numbing this is how they spend their money and time because they want to capture is reels and take them hostage. But one particular city ten thousand rockets theyve been hit with in ten years and these kids play indoors in bunker playgrounds. My question to you is simple. If joe biden wants do give 100 million to the palestinians for humanitarian relief. Sounds great on paper. I have zero confidence one penny will make it to the Palestinian People, because hamas has been for forcing feeble stay and pointing guns at the palestinians that want to leave. Right, they use the palestinians as shields. They dont even provide the people with clean Drinking Water were supposed to believe theyre going to use u. S. Aid for humanitarian purposes . Count me as a skeptic. Okay. We have to be careful about what we are he doing there, we dont juan to empower the Terrorist Groups our hearts go out to innocent Palestinian People of course as we do with anyone in a terrible situation like that. But we have to be very discerning in our policy and open from this. Thats why were demanding, House Republicans are demanding more information from the white house so that we can help and make these critical decisions. Look, were going to stand by israel but we have to be careful where its done. Sean what about did hundred million for the humanitarian relief for palestinians. I think its a tough issue. Were going to have to see what that is tied to. The House Democrats are very resolute on that and they try to portray us about being uncaring. We care about that as well but we have to be very careful that were not further funding Terrorist Organizations that are trying to wipe israel off the map. Sean can you explain why then president obama vicePresident Biden did this billion dollars deal with iran, can you explain why joe biden made a deal with the iranians for 6 billion to be freed up . Money that was held that they had no access to . Yeah. Were in fits over that. I dont understand it at all. I dont understand most of their Foreign Policy and i think its gotten us in the shape that were in. We have big disagreements with them. Were asking for and demand an accountability on that as well. And we have to the white house has to improve how theyre messaging this and how theyre explaining it to people because we all have to understand that we have a right to. This is the precious treasure of the American People and if youre sending iran money we know that iran is directly tied to all of this. Hamas and hezbollah are proxies of iran and theyre tied in now with russia and china. Its a new axis of evil, thats how we see it and it has to be addressed. Sean you say israel with all the funding of terror and these Terror Organizations theyre within their right to fight back and directly at iran. Of course. That was noted, the First Act Of My Speakership is that we passed that resolution to articulate that and make it very clear where we stand. The house is back in business and we are going to stand with is gee i call it the new axis of evil, china, russia, iran. Yeah. Sean how big a threat. Its huge, the biggest threat. Since world war ii we have been the big kid on the block, right, the last real super power, after the ussr failed, weve been unrivaled. China is a near peer to peer adversary to us now and their goal is to rebuild the empire. So were doing everything we can to ensure we maintain our military superiority. Were the only nation that has the ability to project power and force like that around the globe right now, but chinas doing its best to encroach upon that power and you see theyre even putting out posts around us Buying Up Farm Land in states here in the u. S. All of these things have to be addressed at the federal level the state level with legislatures and even in some local cal is the, we have chinese ccp owned companies coming in and opening shop on main street in some small towns. Sean theyre buying our farm land. Yes. Sean theyre buying our ranch land and land near military installations. Yes. Sean would we be allowed to buy it there. Of course not. And they allowed a chinese spy balloon to float unimpede for eight days. We scratch our heads a lot about the biden decisions, it may be tied in some ways from some of the money they joel embiid you are on the house Judiciary Committee weve been watching the House Oversight committee with james comer. Yes. Sean theres issues involving two congressmen in particular, a democrat and republican, George Santos the republican, many charges have been filed against him. And then the issue of congresswoman talib, and others, and this talk of censure and talk of removal. Do you support either . Were working through those issues. Ill tell you i talked to the authorizes of some of these resolutions today that want to deal with that. Heres the reality, sean, we have a 4seat majority in the house. It is possible that number may be reduced even more in the coming weeks and months. And so well have what may be the most razor thin majority in the history of the congress. We have no margin for error. And so George Santos is due due process, right . My understanding is i think hes appearing in a federal court tomorrow. And we have to allow due process to play itself out. Thats what our system of justice is for. Sean hes not convicted hes charged. Hes charged. If were going to expel people from congress because theyre charged of a crime or accused thats a problem. Sean joe biden has allowed over 7. 5 Million People into this country illegally, it will probably be over Eight Million even freebl terror watch lists and from iran and syria. How do you get the border secure and what is your assessment of secretary of Homeland Security mayorkas . Should he be impeached . Listen, you know my duties here have included judiciary and the federal government. In my assessment almost every federal agency under the Biden Administration have been weaponized. The agencies designed to serve and protect the people are being used against them and we have many examples and you talked about all of it on your show before. Mayorkas has been an abject failure i believe hes committed impeachable offenses and ive been on record saying that for a long long time. Hes very appeared in an Oversight Committee we have jurisdiction in his departmentment less than four months into office and i saw where this was headed and i told him in a clip that went viral mr. Mayorkas you need to get your resume prepared because i thought he was headed toward a dead end on this. The investigations are going forward, james comer and the Oversight Committee are doing an exceptional job, jim jordan chairman of judiciary has head lead that. We have gotten a lot of information. Sean youre on the judiciary exitee. Let me ask you. Do you believe that joe bidens department of justice, do you believe our fbi has been politicized . Do you believe its been weaponized . Do wove a dual justice system. Absolutely we have a twotiered system of justice and that erodes the peoples faith in our system of justice its self. And this is what i reminded Merrick Garland when he was in front of us, the Attorney General, Christopher Wray at the fbi, the greatest theft is not the individual issues its that the people are losing their 98 the system of justice sean you cannot maintain a constitutional republican a government by and for the people if the people doubt that the system is fair, you know if they believe theres two tiers of justice then the system doesnt work at all. And so i think garlands been a great threat, the worst Attorney General in the history of the United States. Sean joe biden swore to the American People both as a candidate and as president , not one time did he ever speak to his son, his brother, or anybody, for that matter, about their foreign business dealings. We know that is a flatout lie. Weve learned from james comer and his investigation that we are talking about Tens Of Millions of dollars taken in from a lot of adversarial countries, some of our top geopolitical foes like china, russia, ukraine. Yeah. Sean romania, mexico, other countries, Tens Of Millions. Theyve discovered all of these shell corporations. Theyve discovered nine particular biden Family Members have been paid. And then you have the issue of joe on tape admitting that he used our money, Taxpayer Money to leverage A Billion Dollars in loan guaranties, which was Obama Administration policy, to fire a prosecutor investigating his son. Well, one of the benefits of that, his son continued to get paid for a job he admits he had no experience in at a time where he was dealing with a drug problem. That sound like to you . Thats a pretty good recitation of the facts and as john adams said facts are stubborn things theyre hard to ignore. I believe the documents are proving all that as my good brother jamie comer often says, the bank records dont lie. So we have the receipts on so much of this now. Its a real problem. Thats the reason that we shifted into the Impeachment Inquiry Stage on the president himself because, if, in fact, all the evidence leads to where we believe it will, thats very likely impeachable offenses. You know, thats listed as a cause for impeachment in the constitution, bribery and other high crimes and misdemeanors briberys listed there and it looks and smells a lot like that and i think the evidence were going to follow the truth where it leads and engage in due process because again were the rule of law party. I know people are getting anxious and restless and they just want somebody to be impeached but we dont do that like the other team. We have to base it upon the evidence and the evidence is coming together. Well see where it leads. Sean let me go back to the budget if i may for a second. Sure. Sean this whole issue of regular order, we have four of the 12 Appropriations Bills that have already been dealt with. My understanding is thats about 70 of the budget. Yeah. Sean so you have eight more to go. Youve talked about a shortterm cr that you would be willing to maybe have until january or maybe even into april. Would there be we talked about a clean cr. Would you have conditions . For example, chip roy and Byron Donalds had a plan, okay, well, well give you a cr but its not going to be clean, were going to cut Government Spending by 8 and secure the border and protect our military and veterans. Would you have conditions to a cr. I think we have to if, indeed we do that. November 17th of course is the deadline that was extended the. Sean yeah you have about coming quickly. Sean 21 days. Were speeding it up as quickly as possible that was my commitment to my col ease when they made me Speaker Of The House. In fact we passed one of the bills a couple hours ago before you arrived here. We got it off the house floor the energy and water bill that was a big box we had to check and we did that. Were going forward. Chip and byron are at the table with others, were working through this with the ideas and trying to ensure that if another Stop Gap Measure is required, that we do it with certain conditions and i think there will be conditions the American People can live with and the consensus that we we can build around here in the house. Sean let me ask you this. Twothirds of this country now are living paycheck to paycheck. Yes. Sean many of those people cant afford bare necessities. I know biden has been crowing about bidenomics, i know they got good numbers today, however a lot of economists i spoke to earlier today, this doesnt look good at all. They think were in a bubble that is about to burst and its going to be even worse especially in the housing market. New Home Construction is stopping, sale of preexisting homes a disaster. How bad is this economy . How long can we sustain another, what, two trillion in debt that joe biden took on last year . And how do we get inflation down once and for all . I have friends of mine, just three years ago, they were getting Interest Rates for a 30 year fixed Rate Mortgage at 3 now it averages 8 , nobodys going to sell their home and buy another home because its thousands of dollars more for the same type of home. It grinds the economy to a halt, its a disaster thats the word you used and thats appropriate. Into is are Policy Choices that got us in this situation. If you remember rewind in your mind to right back before the pandemic began in the Trump Administration we had the greatest economy in the history of the world because we cut taxes cut regulations, focused on American Energy dominance, we were doing and following all the policies that led to economic as you can see and growths for all americans, everyone, in every demographic all boats were rising. We can achieve that again but you have to do almost exactly the opposite of what the Biden Administration is pursuing and doing. This is not Rocket Science but were so far down the road now that we have to make these changes quickly. And were trying to urge our democratic colleagues to take a look again at the basic facts. I mean Interest Rates are so high now theyre going to continue to rise apparently. Sean double digit i can see it coming. Let me ask the question maybe this way. Because you do have such a small majority and obviously that didnt help kevin mccarthy. I think you should get rid of the motion to vacate and raise the bar dramatically, 20, 25 people at least. My question is specifically on the economy, if you pass your budgets in the house, youre going to sends it over to the senate theyre going to rip it up line by line, youll go into conference but the only way you can succeed is if you as speaker are able to hold your slim majority. Yes. Sean thats going to be a herculean task. How do you plan on doing that . With truth and transparency and relationships. You know, this is a business thats beefed on that. My colleagues trust me, im grateful for that. Its earned. And im going to do well by them and were going to govern well. Were going to show the American People we can. When you get into negotiations in the Conference Committee the Speaker Of The House and the leader of our party has to have a strong hand so if we can keep the team together, keep rowing in the same direction, look, everybodys got to give up on some of their preferences, none of us will get everything we want. Ill never ask any of my colleagues to compromise Core Principles because i share those principles with them. But Ronald Reagan used to teach us i would and i am very optimistic and am bullish on the future of america and change the way washington works sean. We have a Once In A Lifetime opportunity here and thats the vision i cast to my colleagues i believe it to my core. Were going to take this day by day decision by decision but keep everything together and move the ball forward for the American People. I genuinely believe we can get this done. Sean one of the things that i have said over and over again to anybody that will listen, although i can look in this camera and say honestly nobody ever listens to me. Not true, not true. Sean but i try. Its my strong belief that all republicans, youre either going to win together or youre going to be, in the eyes of the American People, youre going to win on your agenda or youre going to lose and i dont see any way of winning if you dont all stick together. I know you have this group of egos if you will. I hope everybody will maybe hear your admonition, can we become energy dominate and maybe start paying down our debt. Can we come up with sound Foreign Policy to help out our allies in a time of a dire time for them . I mean these challenges run deep. And then you have the issue of law and order, safety, security, open borders. Pretty scary times. Do you think this countrys in decline . I think right now were in very desperate dimes. The hours late and the crisis is great but heres where im encouraged in previous generations from the framers the founders of this country all the way through times of the revolutionary period, the civil war, the great depression, the other world wars, when the leaders here got in trouble, that was beyond the scope of what they could solve themselves, individually or collectively. You know what they did they sought define guidance for it. We have in god we trust right above the roster there and i pointed that out in my speech. Sean is this the ben franklin moment. It is exactly right, the same thing. And were calling one another to humble ourselves and recognize that the challenges are so great, but thats where real opportunity is presented. I believe that god is not done with america yet. Okay . I still believe in that motto. Its not just a quaint saying to me. Its what the nation was founded upon this belief shall its what distinguishes us from the communist marxist socialist countries around the world it is and we ought to appeal to that and believe if we do god will give us his favor and i believe well solve these problems. Sean i did ask you before the show and ill make this the last question, and i said, because i believe that if you take this majority and you can somehow pull these dispar it groups together i believe it will be good for the country because im very clear about my conservatism, i believe those policies are best for my country and i want the best for our country. I do, too. Sean this country, ive had a life frankly thats undeserved and i just really so i asked you, i said, would it be okay when you came back once you get settled, youve had less than 48 hours and we appreciate you doing the interview, and bring the disparit groups in a room and do it for an hour and see what issues that we can find full agreement on. I would like to know what those issues are and where the disagreements are. Will you be willing to have us back . Of course were working on that and thats a great admonition. This is a people full of great faith. Sean theres some big egos. Yeah well washington has that sometimes. Were going to work through it. Sean mr. Speaker, we appreciate your time thank you for being with us. Thank you. Sean also breaking tonight we have other Breaking News and other updates from the Biden Corruption probes, according to senator Chuck Grassley the fbi is now sitting on criminal allegations involving joe, hunter and james biden from over 40 separate confidential human sources. Meanwhile earlier this week, scott brady the former u. S. Attorney for the Western District of pennsylvania, told the house Judiciary Committee in a closeddoor interview that the fbi literally hindered the Hunter Biden Probe and that special counsel david weiss actually skipped a briefing on the Biden Bribery allegations. Also breaking tonight, House Oversight chairman james comer is now demanding that the white house provide records proving that the 200,000 payment to joe from his brother was, in fact, a loan. I guess that paperwork would be easy to produce. Heres when we lent the two00, heres the proof that it was lent. There you go. Anyway fellow house Judiciary Committee member jim jordan is with us. You just heard from your new speaker. Yeah. Sean are you glad its not you . Well, i think your audience heard, sean, what a good man mike johnson is. And im proud to have him as our Speaker Of The House. Hes worked on our committee. Hes a man of just solid character as you can see, a christian man who cares about this great nation and i think hes going to work his tail off. Plus as you can see just a sharp guy whos argued cases in front of the Supreme Court. Hes the kind of guy we need at this particular point in american history. Im proud to count him as a friend and proud hes the Speaker Of The House. Sean let me ask you, jim, as the head of this powerful judiciary, you are looking into the weaponization, whether our department of justice and our fbi have been weaponized. Yep. Sean we have all this new information coming out every day, three committees really doing independent investigations though they really do correlate. Right sean and function as one big one. On the issue of what we found out about these 40, you know, people that real sources to the fbi, and y you read the story hw it was not brought to the attention, how the fbi and the doj seem to do nothing about it. This is where the first 1023 form came isnt it . Right. And that finding that mr. Grassley talked about, Senator Grassley talked about was butt stressed by what we learned in the deposition with us attorney scott brady earlier this week. Because mr. Brady was tasked by the Attorney General of the United States on january 3, 2020, sean, to be the Clearing House for all information related to hunter biden, the investigation, and ukraine. And so he goes to the fbi, mr. Brady does, and says giver me that information i want to take a look at it, well get it to the proper u. S. Attorney handling the investigative work, and the fbi didnt tell him about the confidential human source for six months, six months. Sean congressman, ive got to stop you. Apparently air strikes have taken place. Jennifer griffin at the pentagon right now. Oh, wow. Sean jennifer this sounds like huge news. Sean, we can report, based senior Military Sources that u. S. War planes have carried out air strikes tonight inside syria against iranian proxy forces. We dont know the number of strikes. We were told earlier today to expect that perhaps f15s and f16s would be involved in the air strikes but we dont have confirmation yet about how many war planes. But those strikes have been carried out. Im told it is in response to the more than dozen strikes against u. S. Bases. The message is a clear message designed to iran and its proxy forces to stop carrying out these drone and Rocket Attacks against u. S. Bases. But im told that the planes have safely left the area and than the air strikes are complete at this time. They were targeting multiple locations inside syria and iranian proxy forces, sean. Sean so important, jennifer. Thank you for that Breaking News, especially in light of the fact that American Forces have been attacked by both iraq and by syria. We appreciate that news. We continue, though, with Judiciary Committee chairman jim jordan. I want you to respond to that in the less than two minutes we have left, tell us about this interview that you did in your committee and what you learned. Well, with scott brady we also learned that i asked mr. Brady in that interview, sean, when did you learn about the laptop . And he got a smile on his face and he said, when the story went public in the New York Post on october 14th. So they didnt even tell scott brady about the laptop and the pertinent information on that lop top about ukraine and Hunter Bidens dealings with ukraine. That shows you what speaker johnson talked about, how these agencies have been turned against the American People. When they wont share that information with the individual tasked by the Attorney General of the United States to look into this and filter it out the way its supposed to be, that tells you how bad it is. And then you have what Senator Grassley has added to that the last couple days with these 40 individuals, thats how serious the situation is and why were proceeding in our Impeachment Inquiry Phase of our oversight work. Sean real quick, jim, you know, the fact that syria and iraq have been american soldiers have been attacked in both syria and iraq recently. Im actually my initial instinct is to be glad that they fought back they fired back. Yep, yep. Sean im happy at that news. Your reaction quick. Same here. I want to get the details but, you know, when someone attacks the United States servicemen and women, we have to respond back. So i want to see whats happened here but it shows you how serious this Wholeall Situation is and why we need strength projected from the oval office. Sean all right. Jim jordan, thank you as always. Thats all the time we have left this evening. Stand by though, continuing coverage on all the Breaking News tonight. The manhunt, whats happened with these strikes, Trace Gallagher takes over from here. Thank you