Districts and dont want to be seen as being overly supportive of jim jordan. That said, they might vote differently on the second or third ballot. I think the first ballot is kind of posturing. A sense of where everyone is. And now as you have reported, jim jordan knows who is left out there, who opposes him. And well see if hes there to pull them over. I dont think the party wants a repeat of either what happened two weeks ago or what happened, you know, when mccarthy was first elected. All those ballots. Right now i think there is a sense, its more important to have a speaker at this time than maybe your first choice as speaker. John well, better some speaker than the one you want, interesting way to put it. Right. John if i was curious to note that the number of people who voted no for jim jordan was about the same as voted no for mccarthy back in january. He eventually won them over after extraordinary amount of Horse Trading, including a measure that ended up being his demise. Kin
is people are so angry right now. ever since the pandemic, that got out and there s so much rage and they say it is like there s a heart problem. there s a mental health problem. there is not they don t value life, the people that are doing these acts. what can you tell us that you see? well, you know, lawrence, let me just say this but i think all of what you just said makes sense, you know, people were, you know, certainly doing during the pandemic, they were isolated. did that have a mental health issue? possibly. but here s what we know. and what you rarely hear talked about, especially on the left, i got to say it, is you know, there are no consequences. these individuals, you commit those that commit these violent crimes know, no consequences. so it is free reign. even when you look at, you can compare, you know, a mass shooting, somebody who decides to go in and rob and pillage a
of them? like we thought we had it bad, but they feel like they re having it worse. trey: i think they have it worse because we use children and education as kind of a proxy war for adult wars. and whether some people would argue we used the military for that in the past. i think we re using education. what struck me during your monologue greg is we re not doing well on reading and writing, the things that we fundamentally or frankly teach or children how to teach critically. if we can master that then maybe take on more complicated things but we haven t mastered that. it s a devaluing of life. i was a prosecutor before congress. but also part of the other message you hear from progressive prosecutors is that there s not going to be any consequence. i mean, there was one week, greg, where there were four 17 year olds that went to prison for life without parole. four 17 year olds. which means four people lost their lives, four mothers are
mail to cat. she keeps em. and when kids aren t killing each other with guns, they re dying from drugs. this is upbeat i m telling you. fentanyl defendants among kids rising faster than parents bloop. fentanyl defendants from 14 and under have tripled in the last two years. of course we know where fentanyl comes from. china. just like another poison. tik tok. that relent less faucet of brain wash flowing to every kids room. imagine a device of self destruction delivered into every american home a device that dares you to choke yourself to death to swallow edible objects to embrace ideas that alienate you from your family. that s tik tok. no wonder kids are turning to prescription and he will legal drugs. also fatter do to corn syrup and sugar and porn over real life. so you have diet drugs education isolation antisocial behavior. what are these kids going to be
saying good-bye to their kids for life, or lost their it s just, i don t know, young people sometimes just don t value life, the finality of taking a life. and, yeah, i m glad i m not growing inprimarily because there are cell phones and other recording devices but i m glad i m not growing up like they re growing up. greg: well, that was an upbeat response to my question, trey. looking at my wrist right now, going, tell me wife to get that bathtub warmed up. jim, you have kids, do you ever sometimes stay up at night and wonder if they might murder you in your sleep? jim: i don t worry about that. i m more worried about once in a while my kids bring someone home like, hey, that s they, it, or was. and i go, i what is going on? what is your name? i don t have a name.