the world. it s not one of those positiono you give tgiveo elderly men who have campaigned from the b their basement. if you wantent. to be the guy in ls second in line from the presidency in america, you ve got to work for it. to work and kevin mccarthy ca has worked for it this week.t whatever you think othinf, theyt the feeling mccarthy would crawl naked through a sewer to get this gig. et thi s and that s not necessarily an insult, by the way. it s what it takes, obviously. maybe it s what it should take. so if you take a deep breath and you think about it foringtor a second, nothing we have seen in washington recently the supposedly apocalyptic world ending drama of politicians arguing with each. s none of it qualifies as especially unusual or even bad. this is what democracy lookst up like when you get up close. i want one thing.ote to s you want another thing. we schedule a vote to seecase who gets it, or in this case, eleven votes, but whatever . bu how is
president to at least hang the political consequences around the democrats so that in 2020 four we can actually go to the american people and say, you know what, we tried to do something. we tried to fix the problems. we need something better and a president to make that happen. a , i have total confidence. i think a lot of our viewers have confidence in high hopes that you will be leading a charge just not for being crazy, but just to restore sanity to the country. but i have to ask you personally, so many people have come to washington with those hopes and then they get completely captured not just by lobbies, but in their heads. they start caring about the dumb things that people in the city care about. how are you going to keep your mind focused on the things that you were elected to do? but i guess, tucker, i just remember where i came from, and that s the promise that i make to the people of ohio. and i made it during the campaign trail. you re not always going to agree with
that washington hatees, s on aas bipartisan basis, it s accountability. and unfortunately, republ the republican party is no different in that noic one is ever punished for failure orford ever forced to explain how those failures happen. and as a result of that lack of accountability, no one ever improves. everybody just keeps getting rewarded. gngfor producing the same disastrous. think about that. if you raised your kids like that, they d be in prison. so maybe the main thing that s making people mad is that republican voters see the same people in charge. producing the same mediocre results,be the m paying a lotyia more attention to lobbyists than to them. that s not democracy, actually . loit s the opposite of democrac. and watching this drives them insane. it s a fair bet that most people don t hate kevin mccarthy as a man. he s no mitcmah mcconnell. niceg prettuyy nice guy, actually b but most normal people do hate the system that keeps promotecay kevin mccarthy for tur
but we also recognize that a lot of the people had been betrayed by their own government. i m not going to forget that. and the people who love me, the people who made me who i am, they re not going to let me forget it either. so i think that s the thing that s going to separate me from the pack. that s going to make sure that i stay grounded in things that people actually sent me to washington to accomplish. and , of course, expect you and your viewers and everybody else to hold my feet to the fire because we don t need people who rearrange the deck chairs as the country goes down . we need people who actually are fighting to save an american way of life for the next generation. that s why i m doing this. there s no other reason to do it in my mind. and i aim to do it with every single intention. that s the plan, tucker. and you ll, i m sure, keep me honest if i ever fall short. we sure appreciate events with a few politicians i know personally who s not absurdist. so thank you and
fenmore. you d think they would make some effort like you don t have google. you know what? you can t even wikipedia fellow that much can kill pretty much everyone on the planet. biden says you kill maybe a thousand. look, you re out of it. you can barely speak. but this is serious, very serious. almost nobody cares. finally, someone got elected who does care to the united states senate about this and a lot of other things that matter. jd vance is now a senator from ohio, hasn t been on tv since his election and we re happy to have him join us right now. senator , thank you so much for coming on . so you ve you ve been in washington, what, just couple of days, really. what what i just have to ask ,what s your perception? what s your your first reaction ? well, i guess my first reaction, tucker, is they don t work very hard because we got sworn in on tuesday and then we started a three week recess. so i m actually back in my home in cincinnati right now.