Speaker 1: My billy cutting in the Great American I monitor all
Speaker 1: events simultaneously around the world.
Speaker 2: One thing happening this morning.
Speaker 1: I watch MSNBC, I watched CNN, I watched Fox News,
Speaker 1: I watched Newsmax. All about what's happening today at noon
Speaker 1: in the House of Representatives, and the most are saying
Speaker 1: that we won't have a speaker. It won't be white
Speaker 1: smoke from the Sistine Chapel until later this afternoon. But
Speaker 1: a man on the floor walking in close is Warren Davidson,
Speaker 1: congressman from the I think is it the eighth congressional district?
Speaker 2: I have the number, correct, Congressman.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's the eighth thing. It's the west side of Cincinnati,
Speaker 3: goes right to the city limits and then goes about
Speaker 3: to throw the way up the Indiana lines. Get Western Hamilton, Butler, Preble,
Speaker 3: dark in a little bit of Miami County.
Speaker 2: All right, what's going to happen?
Speaker 1: I'm watching the news cable show said it's not going
Speaker 1: to happen today. The media is rooting for chaos, confusion,
Speaker 1: and a crisis. They want to demonstrate that you Republicans
Speaker 1: are incompetent, you don't know what you're doing. You can't
Speaker 1: pick a later all hell's break and loose. What is
Speaker 1: the reality. Do we have white or black smoke over
Speaker 1: the Systeine Chapel? Do we have a speaker?
Speaker 3: Well, Congress needs to be laser focused on implementing the
Speaker 3: Agenda forty seven. That's what the Republican Party said as
Speaker 3: the platform at the convention is Donald Trump's plan to
Speaker 3: make America great again. And look, the base has got,
Speaker 3: you know, just reasons to be upset with Mike Johnson.
Speaker 3: Thomas Massey's given a voice to that. He's definitely gonna vote. No.
Speaker 3: We can lose one vote, but if we lose too,
Speaker 3: he's not gonna have the votes. And you know, I
Speaker 3: think I think Mike Johnson finds a way to put
Speaker 3: the deal together. You can't have a stronger ally than
Speaker 3: Donald Trump, but he's worked hard to seal the votes.
Speaker 3: Donald Trump wants Mike Johnson. I think Donald Trump's the
Speaker 3: leader of our parties. We support him and get them there. Look,
Speaker 3: you know Patton said it, well, you know, a good
Speaker 3: plan well executed beats you know, today, beats a perfect
Speaker 3: plan next week. And I think that's what we're up
Speaker 3: against right here.
Speaker 2: Well, it's all about the numbers.
Speaker 1: There's two hundred and nineteen Republicans, two hundred and fifteen Democrats,
Speaker 1: and I guess the extra congressional seats not been determined yet.
Speaker 1: And so if the number gets to be two eight
Speaker 1: if the number gets to be two seventeen, let's say two,
Speaker 1: don't do it. If the votes two seventeen for the
Speaker 1: Republican Mike Johnson and two fifteen for a Keem Jefferies,
Speaker 1: is Johnson the speaker each got the majority of those
Speaker 1: casting the ballots, but not to two eighteen. Does it
Speaker 1: take two eighteen or two seventeen.
Speaker 3: It takes a majority of those president voting, and you
Speaker 3: can vote, you can vote president. Uh. And you know
Speaker 3: there's ways to game this. Chad Pergrim, you know, good
Speaker 3: guy from Butler County, grew up there, but he's a
Speaker 3: Fox analyst. He put a breakdown on this, and it gets,
Speaker 3: you know, sort of tricky in terms of how the
Speaker 3: gamesmanship could go. Here. Reality is if you if you've
Speaker 3: only got two people and he got two seventeen to
Speaker 3: two fifteen, we haven't elected a speaker yet, so it'll
Speaker 3: be another ballot.
Speaker 1: All right, What is the issue, Thomas Massey, I've had
Speaker 1: him on many times. I like the guy a lot.
Speaker 1: He has offered some personal tragedies of late, which is
Speaker 1: the unfortunate demise of his beautiful wife, and he was
Speaker 1: perceived as being possibly a cabinet nominee that didn't work out.
Speaker 1: Thomas Massey's main point is that Donald Trump supported Paul
Speaker 1: Ryan speaker and how did that work out?
Speaker 2: Answer is not very well.
Speaker 1: And so the Trumpster now is in the most powerful
Speaker 1: position any Republican has ever been in when it comes
Speaker 1: to influence in the House of Representatives. The main issue
Speaker 1: Massy has is federal government spending. We borrow a new
Speaker 1: trillion dollars of fresh cash every one hundred days. Suddenly
Speaker 1: we're going to be bankrupt. And many have talked about
Speaker 1: the fact that we have to greatly increase the debt
Speaker 1: limit well above thirty seven trillion dollars to function in
Speaker 1: the government. Does Congress and Massey have a point about
Speaker 1: saying that we are essentially bankrupt and we can't keep
Speaker 1: doing what we're doing, and the fact that Trump supported
Speaker 1: Paul Ryan didn't work out so well. He says, well,
Speaker 1: maybe this won't work out.
Speaker 2: So well either. Talk.
Speaker 1: First of all, the issue of the debt, and the
Speaker 1: deaf said, explain that to the American people.
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, look, we're bankrupt in our country. I think
Speaker 3: everybody realizes that. You know, there's people out there saying, oh,
Speaker 3: you have a printing press, you can just print more money.
Speaker 3: And that's true. During COVID era, we kind of proved
Speaker 3: that you can print more money. But that doesn't mean
Speaker 3: that the money will buy the same amount of stuff.
Speaker 3: That's the nature of inflation. We printed more money. Now
Speaker 3: it takes more money to buy the same basket of
Speaker 3: goods that you used to buy. You just don't have
Speaker 3: the kind of spending power you used to have. And
Speaker 3: look Massy's Thomas Massey had a great exchange with former
Speaker 3: Speaker Newt Gingrich on Twitter. You know, Gingridge kind of
Speaker 3: called out people that were like, you guys need to
Speaker 3: get in line and get behind Johnson, and you know,
Speaker 3: you know, he challenged anyone to debate, and Massey said,
Speaker 3: challenge accepted and laid out a pretty good case for
Speaker 3: why he's voting the way that he is. And I
Speaker 3: respect Thomas Massey's you know, man with no guile, people,
Speaker 3: what's he after? He looks at every vote discreetly, He
Speaker 3: votes what he believes is the right thing. And I
Speaker 3: do think some of that that's, you know, exactly what
Speaker 3: we need, and I respect it, and I think everyone
Speaker 3: that really knows him does that. He's not trying to
Speaker 3: manipulate the game for personal things. There are other people
Speaker 3: that may. We'll see how that goes. But you know,
Speaker 3: the point he makes is valid in terms of Mike Johnson.
Speaker 3: He wouldn't have gotten the job if he'd done the things.
Speaker 3: If he said he was going to do the things
Speaker 3: that he ended up doing as speaker, he had a
Speaker 3: pretty rough stretch this last Congress. He wasn't you know,
Speaker 3: he got the job because everybody likes Mike Johnson. He's
Speaker 3: a nice guy, but his results haven't been great. And
Speaker 3: you know, it's a little bit of a thing against
Speaker 3: President Trump. He did a head off to say you're
Speaker 3: fired a lot in his first term because he did
Speaker 3: hire some bad folks and they didn't execute the plan well.
Speaker 3: But I think that you know, Trump is going to
Speaker 3: call the plays and we're going to have to execute him. Here.
Speaker 3: Massey's critique is even in the little home stretch here,
Speaker 3: where the basic play was don't do an omnibus. You know,
Speaker 3: Johnson went with Democrats to do a sort of mini
Speaker 3: omnibus with fifteen hundred some pages and giant plan. He's like,
Speaker 3: you can't have this guy. And I think Trump's like, no, no,
Speaker 3: I know who I'm dealing with, Ridney Johnston. Let's roll.
Speaker 3: And I think most of the party is going to
Speaker 3: say Trump's the leader of our party. Let's get in
Speaker 3: line and make it happen.
Speaker 1: Well, the most important thing is changing. The people of
Speaker 1: America voted for change. They voted for reform. When I
Speaker 1: saw the first news conference of the FBI, et cetera
Speaker 1: after the massacre in New Orleans and the special Agent
Speaker 1: in charge of the FBI in New Orleans, I think
Speaker 1: it's the Southern District of Louisiana had a nose ring
Speaker 1: and she's telling us this is not terrorism. There's no
Speaker 1: evidence this is terrorism. When a shall we say a Muslim,
Speaker 1: a Muslim with a pickup truck is rolling down Bourbon
Speaker 1: Street and also what's happening is he has an ISIS
Speaker 1: flag on the back of his truck.
Speaker 2: Now there's a clue, Charlock.
Speaker 1: It didn't take a brilliant investigator and say, you know,
Speaker 1: that might be terrorism. We need complete reform as you
Speaker 1: may know, of the Department of Justice, the FBI, the
Speaker 1: Department of Defense. When we have FBI Special ass in
Speaker 1: charge with the nosering at a news conference saying that
Speaker 1: there's no evidence of terrorism when the ISIS flag is
Speaker 1: flown over Bourbon Street? How about that, Sherlock? Is that evidence?
Speaker 1: Do you get fired up about this kind of stuff
Speaker 1: like I do? And secondly, I'm glad you brought that up.
Speaker 1: The chairman of All State and they sponsor the Sugar Bowl,
Speaker 1: did this opening ad yesterday for the Notre Dame Great Victory,
Speaker 1: and he talked about America's addiction to divisiveness and negativity.
Speaker 1: We must be willing to accept persons imperfections. That's the
Speaker 1: president of All State. I'm not in good hands telling America,
Speaker 1: you know what, You're addicted to divisiveness and negativity and
Speaker 1: you have to be more willing to accept people's imperfections
Speaker 1: like flying the ISIS flag on Bourbon Street and killing
Speaker 1: fourteen people.
Speaker 2: Can you smell what I'm cooking?
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, he needs the people's elbow. Somebody needs to
Speaker 3: come off the top rope. And I'm pretty sure when
Speaker 3: he shows up to the board meeting they might be
Speaker 3: delivering that to him. I'm sure the shareholders are out
Speaker 3: there selling like crazy. People are probably like, man, if
Speaker 3: I only knew his short all State, you know, terrible, terrible,
Speaker 3: you know, ad by all State, And you're right. You know, Look,
Speaker 3: this is why Trump's campaign has to be followed through on.
Speaker 3: And we've got to get cash to tell run in
Speaker 3: the FBI. We've got to get to Gabbard as the
Speaker 3: Director of National Intelligence. We got to get Pete hag
Speaker 3: Seth in at the Department of Defense. Weve got to
Speaker 3: get Robert F. Kennedy controlling our helping human services and
Speaker 3: provide accountability for all this disinformation, misinformation and frankly police
Speaker 3: state stuff that went on during COVID. And you know
Speaker 3: why do they keep doing it? Well, because you didn't
Speaker 3: punish him last time. Then people say that sounds like retribution.
Speaker 3: That's not retribution, that's justice, and that's exactly what people want.
Speaker 3: And that's why we need to get pivot right off
Speaker 3: of the get into offense starting at noon right now
Speaker 3: in this next vote coming up, and we need to
Speaker 3: elect the speaker and get on offense. Well.
Speaker 1: The chairman President of also and also said that the
Speaker 1: MASCAR of Americans was an imperfection. Well, we do our best,
Speaker 1: but try not to kill fourteen people while you're at it.
Speaker 1: And lastly, with what degree of confidence do you say,
Speaker 1: Congressman Davidson, now by the close of business today, we'll
Speaker 1: have a new speaker.
Speaker 3: Well, I can't say that I'm one hundred percent confidence.
Speaker 3: There's certainly a possibility that this won't turn out that way,
Speaker 3: but I do feel confident we're going to elect a
Speaker 3: good speaker and we're going to run President Trump's offense.
Speaker 3: So I think people are committed to doing that and
Speaker 3: I'm looking forward to it. And I look, we're gonna
Speaker 3: have not just President Trump, We're going to have a
Speaker 3: great Ohioan, our current senator and soon to be Vice
Speaker 3: President jd. Vance. I think people are right to have
Speaker 3: a lot of energy and enthusiasm, and I really look
Speaker 3: forward to doing my share of the task to make
Speaker 3: America great again.
Speaker 2: Is Matt Gates? There is he actually reason out there.
Speaker 3: He started at o In. I mean he was on
Speaker 3: TV at oa In last night, so I think he
Speaker 3: started his contract there. But technically he won an election
Speaker 3: in November, so some people are speculating he could come
Speaker 3: and take his oath. But I think you would have
Speaker 3: an ethics challenge again because you can't earn money. You
Speaker 3: can't earn money, you know, significant money outside of you know,
Speaker 3: your investment and things like that. You can't get paid
Speaker 3: a salary from somebody else and be in Congress.
Speaker 1: Well, Nancy Pelosi did. She's worth two hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: million dollars. I guess that's a different issue, but none that.
Speaker 1: There was speculation this morning that Matt Gates would be
Speaker 1: there and then he gets sworn in and then vote
Speaker 1: and the OAN one America's network like a cable network.
Speaker 1: I think he started last night. But who Matt Gates
Speaker 1: doesn't always care about ethics, so what the hell?
Speaker 3: I mean?
Speaker 1: He could be an important vote? So is he the
Speaker 1: one vote missing of the of the of the two
Speaker 1: nineteen to two fifteen to see the one vote he's.
Speaker 3: The one thee Yeah, because it's like at least Deephonic
Speaker 3: in Mike Waltz. We're both nominated for positions in the
Speaker 3: Trump administration. Stefonic for you an ambassador and Waltz for
Speaker 3: National Security Advisor. But they won't start until January twentieth,
Speaker 3: so they should be here in present in voting for
Speaker 3: the speaker. Surely.
Speaker 1: All right, Congressman, I know you're on the floor getting there,
Speaker 1: and we'll see what happens, hopefully by two three o'clock today.
Speaker 1: But you're predicting, are you predicting? On the first ballot
Speaker 1: he will not be the speaker, but by the second
Speaker 1: or third he will be.
Speaker 3: Well, look, I don't know that the first ballot will
Speaker 3: be smooth. I don't know whether they'll close the vote
Speaker 3: or not, but I think there'll be a little bit
Speaker 3: of drama on the first ballot. At what I do
Speaker 3: think we're going to elect Mike Johnson speaker today.
Speaker 1: All right, Congressman Warren Davidson of the eighth Congressional District,
Speaker 1: thanks for coming on the Bill Cunningham Show, and we'll
Speaker 1: see what you know. The media is rooting for chaos, confusion,
Speaker 1: and hopefully there's some sense that we have to get
Speaker 1: on with the people's business. Elect Mike Johnson and away
Speaker 1: we go. And Congressman Davidson, thank you very much.
Speaker 3: Yeah, nevertheless, keep calm and defend freedom. We got to
Speaker 3: get a fight to win, and so thanks for highlighting it.
Speaker 3: God bless you and all your listeners.
Speaker 1: Thank you very much Warren Davidson of the eighth Congressional District,
Speaker 1: and Leu's continue with more, and this morning. There's one
Speaker 1: thing the media demands and the Democrats, and that is
Speaker 1: complete confusion and chaos and havoc, which I kind of
Speaker 1: enjoy myself, by the way, but one thing that Keem
Speaker 1: Jefferies cannot be elected the speaker, and the Democrats are
Speaker 1: hoping he's going to get two hundred and fifteen votes
Speaker 1: and that somehow there will be such difficulties on the
Speaker 1: Republican side that somehow Hakeem Jeffries, the Brooklyn Liberal, will
Speaker 1: sneak in and become the speaker.
Speaker 2: We pray that doesn't occur. So let's continue with more.
Speaker 1: And by the way, the ballards is spelled b ll ards,
Speaker 1: the ballards that pop out of the ground. The reason
Speaker 1: they weren't in place is because there were a lot
Speaker 1: of New Orleans beads there from several months ago, which
Speaker 1: was last April, that had made the up and down
Speaker 1: movement of these ballards impossible, and the City of New
Speaker 1: Orleans didn't fix it.
Speaker 2: So put that in your pipe and smoke it. Continue
Speaker 2: with more.
Speaker 1: Bill Cunningham, the Great American Live and shown me the
Speaker 1: Bengals playing Tomorrow Night for all the marvels we hope
Speaker 1: on news radio seven hundred ww