This is Rumble with Michael Moore and there is so much chaos
going on in the house right now. The on the house floor in
Congress. I just I what's what?
Now they're screaming, I don't know.
It's it's Kevin McCarthy trying to become the speaker of the
house. He's been voted down three times
in a row. They're trying to go for a
fourth vote here, but but he doesn't have the votes and he's
now he's oh my God. Kevin, let's throw it to Kevin.
Karthi right now. Oh, the humanity.
And that is where we're at honest-to-god, folks.
I have not seen anything on TV. This funny.
Since. Maybe a couple of years ago that
Bo Burnham special on Netflix. That was hilarious, this though,
this send the Emmy, For best comedy to the Republican Party
in the United States Congress. Because what took place
yesterday? I don't know.
If you saw it, if you have a chance to go back and look at
it, it was unbelievable. First time in 100 years, we're
the party that had won control of the house, was not able to
elect its own speaker. And the Democrats had nothing to
do with the Democrats. Didn't get in the way of
Democrats. Just voted for their guy, Hakeem
Jeffries a congressman from New York.
There's 222, Republicans, 212, Democrats, you need, 218 votes
to have the majority to win the job, as Speaker of the House.
And it was almost like this. If you'd landed, if you came
from another planet, You're an Alien land in the Congress
yesterday, you would think looking around that, the
Democrats had won the House of Representatives on the
Democratic side. They're all sitting there
laughing Telling jokes they brought their kids.
One of the male Congressman had a one of those Papoose.
What do they call it when you strap the kid on the front of
you? What do you call that, never
looks safe to me. But there's a, he's walking up
and down this Democrat with his baby on his chest.
You got other kids running around.
They looks like there's some kind of party going on, on the
Democratic side of the house floor on the other side.
I'd there is a friggin Civil War.
The day began yesterday, with a Kevin McCarthy, the Republican
leader calls them into a private room.
All the Republicans, like, let's get this worked out.
Let's not go out there and make it look like fools, you know, we
need the 218 votes, but there were, at least four or five
hardcore, right? Wingers that, no way.
Were they going to vote for Kevin McCarthy for reasons?
I still don't quite understand, but I guess they see him as not
as a Either head or not a certainly not a sympathizer for
the Democrats. He's been backed by Trump to be
the speaker of the house, but they got into some screaming
match with each other. They started dropping f-bombs
and cursing at each other and it just the whole thing, came
unglued, then they came out on the floor of the house and you
know, literally if you are watching this on TV, you're
watching the wheels of a clown car coming off, one at a time.
Boom, boom. Boom, boom.
Boom. And this is the party that
supposedly one. How often have we had to listen
to the media. Tell us for almost two months
now that the Republicans have won the House of
Representatives. The Republicans will control the
House of Representatives. It's going to be a
republican-controlled house. Control that if you tuned in
yesterday, there were no control.
It was nothing but chaos and pandemonium.
Nobody knew what to do McCarthy, who's supposedly, the leader
couldn't lead, and then just the whole scene on the Republican
side. You've got 222 sitting there but
118 are insurrectionist An election deniers they're all in
there. We're in the house on January 6
2021 when after a six-hour, deadly Insurgency, and Riot.
By right-wing Republicans outside and inside the Capitol
building and a few hours later when they are able to restore
order to the house. These 118, they voted to not
certify Joe Biden as the duly elected president of the United
States. That's what the rioters were
unable to do during the day with violence.
They would finish the mission of the Insurgency because they had
a right to vote. They would vote to essentially
overthrow the government overturn, the election.
And that's what they did. That's what they did.
They voted not to certify Biden. Fortunately, they lost.
But, this group, they came back in there yesterday, because they
got re-elected, they're all in there.
They're all in there being seated.
After committing, this treasonous act of trying to
overturn the election on the night of January 6 that year
Constitution says, amendment 14 Section 3.
That if you participate in an Insurgency or Rebellion, and
you've taken an oath as a member of Congress, and you've
participated in this or if you've given Aid and comfort to
those who are trying to promote and participate in an
Insurgency, you are not allowed to take your seat in the
Congress, or to hold any public office in this country.
And yet they've allowed in nearly 120, Republicans who
participated in the coup attempt, back on January, 6,
2021, All right, so you've got all the all these
insurrectionists who have been elected or re-elected to
Congress running around on the house floor.
Now on top of that you've got at least a half a dozen, real,
right wing Republicans who hate Kevin McCarthy their leader and
they don't want to vote for him for a speaker of the house.
So they're all running around the house floor and they're
Visiting more and more Republicans not to vote for the
Republican that's running for speaker of the house.
And then you've got this one lone man, sitting in the very
last row on the house, floor, all by himself.
Everyone shutting him, parents pulling their children away from
him and he's just sitting there by himself.
It's Jorge Santos. Or so we think it is and he's
got leprosy. So, Jorge Santos is there and
he's tweeting out. I just got sworn into office by
the Speaker of the House. No, you weren't.
There was no speaker that they that's what you were sitting
there. While they're trying to have
ballot after ballot to get my car through the speaker.
He was never elected yesterday. So the first thing you send out
from the floor of Congress, Is a lie.
Oh man, it was crazy. Crazy watching this yesterday.
And every time they'd hold a vote for who should be Speaker
of the House who comes in first, the Democratic leader Hakeem
Jeffries of New York. He wins every vote for speaker
of the house. Even though the Republicans have
more Representatives, it was the best comedy I have seen in ages.
Now Jeffrey said, show up expecting to be speaker of the
house and yet, here he wins the first round again.
If you were that alien from Mars, or wherever you'd think,
again, the Democrats had won the House of Representatives.
They're all relaxed, they're still telling jokes, everybody's
giving Nancy a hug and and Hakeem Jeffries gets more votes
than the Republican Kevin McCarthy.
So they call for another ballot, they hold another roll call vote
of all 435. Actually, there's one person
didn't show up, but as I told you after the November election,
they start dropping like flies in the last Congress. 16 elected
members of Congress. Never made it to the end of the
two-year term either because they passed away, or they were
brought up on charges scandals indictments.
They got caught doing something. So they quit.
They decided to go room for another office or whatever, but
we already have sadly one member of Congress passed away since
the election. And now we have one that didn't
show up yesterday, and of course, you got the wire from
Long Island, the Long Island liar, sitting there.
I don't know how long he's going to actually last, but we got
4234 voting and you got Hakeem Jeffries with the most votes,
but he doesn't have the 218 either 280 volts so they have a,
they have a second ballot. On the second ballot.
The tally was Hakeem Jeffries in first place with 212 votes.
Kevin McCarthy in second place with again, 203 votes.
And then Jim Jordan in third place.
Biggs dropped out. So Jim Jordan with 19 votes, 19.
Wait a minute. This started in the morning with
only four or five Republicans saying that they were going to
vote against and try to block McCarthy from winning.
Now, it's grown from four to 19. Wow, so the look of McCarthy's
face so they're going to go to a third vote, all of a sudden, no
these these hints from these other congressmen.
That are sitting there with McCarthy, there's a shot of the
table in McCarthy is sitting there alone.
I'm like, oh my God, his own people are deserting them.
Later. Somebody got Trump on the phone
and said you still support him for a speaker.
Well I'm just going to see how this all turns out.
It's what Trump says because of course he can never support a
loser so now McCarthy's all alone.
They're good they're doing now they're calling the third roll
call and now Jordan's gone from 19 to 20 votes McCarthy's.
Got 200, two votes and Hakeem Jeffries number one in first
place with two. In 12 votes.
So, on the day that the losing Democrats are supposed to have
lost all this power. The day ends, they have to
adjourn and there is no speaker of the house.
There is no Republican control. There's no control at all going
on in there and they decided to wait until today.
Speaking to you here on, this is Wednesday morning so they're
going to convene again at noon today and do a fourth ballot.
This is only happened one time in our entire history of this
country, where it went to more than one or two ballots.
This is now going to be the fourth ballot.
Last time it happened. I think was 1855 and it went for
they did balance every day for two full months.
That is the Log Jam. That has now been created and,
you know, the Democrats have not caused the same.
Just they're just over there telling jokes and slapping each
other. On the back and having a good
time, you know, they haven't broken out the wine coolers yet
but you know, they'll get to it. But he the Republican side is
still just looks like a crazy mess.
They wheeled in a bunch of pizzas last night.
There's pizza boxes somewhere laying around half-eaten pizzas,
just Total Insanity and I couldn't have been happier.
I was laughing, so hard. How do we luck out like this?
How do it because, you know, we're near not this lucky,
whether your Progressive or liberal you call yourself a
Democrat, you belong to the Democratic party, you're an
independent, but you voted for the Democrats, this time,
whatever it is, You know and look we we put up a big blue
wall. We stop the Red Wave McCarthy
said they were going to win 60 new seats in the House and what
do they end up? Winning eight.
Eight or nine more. That's it.
So it's a big embarrassing moment for them.
And as each vote is progressed MacArthur keeps losing more
votes. Hakeem Jeffries continues to
stay in first place. As the right now, I guess the
unofficial Victor of Speaker of the House Man, I know you say to
yourself sometimes, maybe there is a God in heaven.
Come on. Admit it because the moments
like this. How do you explain it?
The Stars never lineup for the liberal Lefty and of things
here, right? And yet here we are Hakeem
Jeffries holding Court, over on the Democratic side of things
here. The Republicans unable to elect
their own speaker. They hold the most votes, you
know, this is going to start again at noon today.
I can't. I'm just, I'm canceling
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voice. So, the Democrats only need to
flip for republicans. Why not do that?
Then you would have the 218 votes that you need.
Here's what I don't understand in, this is why we often do lose
because the people that represent us in public office or
often times, especially in the past, don't want to play
hardball. They want to play Kumbaya.
I mean, there's that many Republicans that barely won in
November and they won. They won re-election in a
district that has now turned blue.
In other words, their congressional district is a
majority Democratic District, which means their chance of
winning in the next election. Not very good.
And if they were smart, they'd switch parties right now,
declare themselves a Democrat Caucus vote with the Democrats.
It's if they can't say they're a Democrat, just say you're an
independent but you're going to caucus with the Democrats if
they did that. First of all, the Democrats
would control the house immediately, and they would then
have the votes to elect Hakeem Jeffries as the speaker of the
house. And all this talk about how the
Republicans won, the house goes right out the window.
And the Democrats control the house for the next two years.
That could happen if we had Democratic Party leaders, who
really knew how to play hardball and knew their political
science. Because, what you do is you go
to those four, five, six, moderate Liberal Republicans.
And you say, you know, you not part of this anymore.
The whole trunk thing. This has been a disaster.
It's essentially killed the Republican Party, come on over.
Leave the dark side, come to the light.
Then you barter with them, ask them what committee, they want
to be the chair of give it to them, roll the red carpet out
for them, do whatever you could do legally to get them on our
side. We just need a few of them and
suddenly were the majority suddenly Jeffries is the speaker
of the house. I know, that'll be the end of
this incredible two to three episode comedy that we've been
watching here. But you know, this is
government. They need to Vern, we need to
get some serious laws pass, we have the Senate still and with
one extra vote, because we picked up a republican seat on
our side so we could get a lot done.
And yes, it's not that they won't be bumps in the road.
It's not that mansion in cinema aren't still.
There they are, but a hell of a lot better than it felt on
November 9th, for some people. So I don't know if anybody is
listening, anybody who works for these Representatives, he's
Democrats in Congress, this is the day to do some horse
trading. This is the day to reach your
hand out. To those Republicans who are
representing blue Democratic districts and bring them over.
Now that's just me. I know whistling in the wind,
there goes Mike again. I guess the last thing I want to
say about this is that if you have been fearful of the
Republicans or Trump or Trump coming back or whatever.
If you just watch a few minutes of this, you are going to relax
greatly relaxed, your anxiety will go down.
Your despair will go down, you'll realize that even if they
figure out some way out of the mess that they're in, on the
Speaker of the House issue. They're going to have the most
difficult time, getting along with each other, and trying to
get things through that. They are never going to be able
to get through, and, of course, they'll go to, if they do get it
through, goes to the Senate and the Democrats will kill it.
Right there. So, the power they hold really
is no power. We saw what they're capable of
yesterday which is a complete inability to govern.
I'm telling you, this could have been a greater early January
gift to be able to see That when all else fails, you can count on
the Republicans to not be able to find their way out of a paper
bag. So spirits up everyone.
We have an interesting two years ahead of us right now.
There is no control of the house.
They're not going to get Jack done.
I mean seriously. Fear not fellow Americans and
people around the world. I wouldn't say we're in good
hands tonight but we're about as good a hands as you can get in
this country right now, so I'll take that for the time being And
the rest of us will keep doing our work.
If you had a chance to listen to the 12 episode series that I'm
in the middle of right now. Here on my podcast, the blue
dots in a red. See how to win when you're blue
in a red State. We've done Eight Episodes so
far. We've got four more episodes to
go. This week is a little mini
episodes give it a listen, especially if you live in a red
state, or you have family or friends that live in a red
State. I provide the secret sauce for
how we can Can start getting more Democrats elected in these
red areas. We did a lot of it on November
8th. A lot of Democrats elected in
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ballot proposals that you and I support.
So, there's good news ahead there, too.
If you have a chance to listen to this little mini series
within the rumble podcast, I encourage you to do that.
We'll be back tomorrow with a new episode of that.
Thanks everybody. Thanks to my producer and
editor. Or Angela, vargo's thanks to all
of you who participate in this democracy.
It's been the most amazing, 24 hours, and it's going to
continue today at noon. They say, we lost the house on
November 8, is it possible that we're going to end up?
Winning. But in order to do that, we had
to lose the losers, became the winners.
The champions. Of the world.