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directing saying what they're going to do. that's been concerning to me. they are few and far between because right now we are in the middle of a crisis and if you look at this campus here, if you go two blocks away. [inaudible] the only place that is not working right now is the house inside the capital. >> is the reason less to do with the virus, if there meeting in the senate and more to do with the power play come this way nancy pelosi can actually write the bills in her office, no committee input, no input except from her lieutenants and then invite the members back for the sole purpose of ramming through her legislation? is about really what's going on. >> you are 100% correct. this isn't about reopening a campus. this is about restoring the voice of america during this critical time so if we are not meeting we don't have input. you don't have the americans

voice coming through. so empowering the speaker even greater so she can write one or 2 trillion-dollar bill with no input, no accountability, and then call everybody back in a crisis time and you only have this opportunity to vote up or down and not everybody is in the chambers at one time because of the social distancing. it empowers the speaker even greater. she wants to take it one step further. because, if she can't bring everybody back, she still wants their votes or she wants to change how we vote into proxy so she could have 200 votes, write a bill, no one gets a say and then just pass it by herself. >> so what you're saying by this proxy voting is she could have a hundred or 200 of her members they look when i can come to washington, your vote is my vote, you vote for me. this is so distant from our founding. this is close to be a represented republic. the fact that she's writing bills with a handful and the fact that she's even thinking

of proxy voting, i mean she has done more damage to the health o house of representatives. this impeachment, same thing. she violated the traditions of how you address impeachment and so forth. what kind, you don't have a filibuster rule, what can you do other than bang the pots and pans. >> while the rules are very different in the house. you are 100% correct. our founders would be ashamed. they expect us to assemble, but what she is doing is going directly against the founders article 145 and six because she mor the more she keeps us away she can stay in san francisco, write the bill and now the idea that to take a proxy vote, people across america lend their voice to their congresswoman or congressmen and hold them accountable every two years. they cannot hold accountable somebody who passes that vote onto somebody else. and that's what is so critical. we have proven we can come

back, the senate is back and we can work. i have actually laid out a plan for more than a month of how we can do this in a safe manner, just as states are opening up but if you look at the history of america, congress has met during the civil war during every crisis, during 911, congress is still able to meet and carry out the role they should be doing and we should be doing that too. >> entered the president of the united states really call her bluff when he said look will have testing for everybody so that is if somebody has a positive test they will be part of the chamber, they won't meet, but if people have negative test than they can meet and so forth. you mitigate as you are pointing out like everybody else, put your mask and gloves on, stay 6 feet away, you can still function, americans are doing this all over the country, but really i just wanted to put a fine thorn in this, nancy pelosi really is about power, ironfisted power and she is crushing the

tradition in the way your set up in the house is really the nature of the beast, it's very, very difficult to do anything about it if you're not going to honor the customs and traditions of our country and the house of representatives. let me ask you this kevin mccarthy, you also have an individual by the name of adam schiff who runs the house intelligence committee, but you wouldn't know it. how many hearings have they had prior to the pandemic on china, on the potential for a pandemic, on china's military buildup, on china, he's running an impeachment hearing over there. didn't he let us down to? >> he let us more than down. the intel committee is much different than every other one. they are selected directly by their leaders. i appoint the republican, the speaker appoints the democrat. what you have found with adam schiff line, and remember what the intel committee is. they get information the other

members will never know. they are relying upon these individuals to be truthful to them, time and again, adam schiff has lied to the country. he should be removed from that committee, and then he turned that committee in to an impeachment committee which was not the place or form for it. he rigged the system. he even had the members on the committee when they could talk or when they could be spoken. many withhold information for all those hearings they had down in the basement there is still one that he did not release, the inspector general. why because it probably dealt with the whistleblower. remember when he lied to the american public when he was asked on a sunday show if you knew who the whistleblower was, nobody really wished he did. we found out later that he met with him. that goes against every president that we know, did the inspector general know that he met with him beforehand? adam schiff was very upset that somehow the president was going to withhold the whistleblower from communicating, no it was adam

schiff. why? because it didn't play into his plan and his farce of what he went to try to impeach this president. this is the greatest that we ever had of coming to a coup in our nation, and we need to hold people accountable for this. this is the rule of law, and this cannot stand. mark: you know, republican leader you have a temporary person as director of national intelligence who really is a standup guy, grenell, ambassador grenell, and even before he was there they declassified and had declassified a total of 53 documents, there were various reductions related to the hearings, witnesses that were held by the house intelligence committee, and their efforts, and they have told him that you're free to release all this information to the press and the american people but he won't do it. how can we have one member from california who is a left

wing partisan who is a trump hater who is a lieutenant of nancy pelosi withhold from the american people 53 documents i have been declassified. >> you know what's even more interesting, in 2018 the intel committee voted unanimously, republican and democrat to send them down so they could relieve them. he's going against the rule block. if he does not he is not more powerful and does not have the right to withhold them. and it plays into question why would he hold them up. would it show that he had lied time and again to the american public? that he put america through a nightmare based upon lies, just as he said there was nothing wrong with the fisa court and we learned lo and behold, yes it was corrupt and what they said and what they did, or those within the fbi of the higher echelon, what they went after and what they

made up trying to course coerce individuals, when you sit back and look at this and you analyze it, they spied on this president in his campaign and then they covered it up. they need to be held accountable and, could this intel committee with adam schiff be withholding information that could prove otherwise, that case itself to the american public, when the committee itself voted unanimously to release it. mark: you know, i've been around a little while, i've watched houses and sent senate, i've never seen anything like it. i've never seen house of representatives take taxpayer money to political partisan hearings, partisan hearings are one thing but literately partisan hearings trying to take out a president of the united states, covering up for the obama administration. let me ask this question. there's a lot of committees in

the house of representatives. the democrats control every one of them and every chairman is given the blessing from the speaker of the house. has there been a single hearing on the fbi's buying on a presidential candidate ordered them lying to a federal court to get a warrant illegally for different times. has there been a single hearing on the unmasking of michael flynn by somebody in the obama administration. has there been a single hearing on any of this now that nancy pelosi is controlling the house of representatives. >> we have not found one of those. >> what about hearing going to china. i've worked for more than a year trying to get a bipartisan meeting and committees, the same number of republican and democrat prior to this virus, what china has been doing about a threat to america, what they're doing in our education system when you look at the professors of harvard being laid off and the technology they have, but now, with what they have done with the virus, lied to the world, china's deception directly led to american deaths, and you know, i did get nancy pelosi

to agree to do that, but just before we went to announce the names she backtracked in february. so i've gone forward and put our own task force together and welcome democrats to join with us, but this is not a partisan issue. this is an american issue for the next century and she's not willing to do that because she is only focused on trying to impeach the president and make everything political. there comes a moment in time that even the most lyrical person should put people before politics. mark: when we come back kevin mccarthy, i want to pursue this. you are telling me, the american people that after agreeing to it she backed out on having a bipartisan committee to investigate china's activities militarily in terms of stealing our intelligence and every other way and the speaker of the house refuses now to participate, is that what you're saying? >> that's exactly what i'm saying. it goes so far that even in the washington post, read josh

logan's article this week. he had an article written about our committee being bipartisan. he already wrote it but he didn't post it so he wrote a new article this week when we enlisted the new task force coming forward. it's an interesting article. i don't always recommend the washington post for you to read, but i do on this one. mark: all right. mark: all right. we'll be right back. my time is thin, but so is my lawn. now there's scotts thick'r lawn 3-in-1 solution. with a soil improver! seed! and fertilizer to feed! now yard time is our time. this is a scotts yard. we know you're always at univethere for them.x, that's why our advisors are always here for you. learn more at phoenix.edu. -excuse me.

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mark: welcome back kevin mccarthy, i want to bac get back to china and the refusal of the speaker of the house having already agreed to join you in a bipartisan joint committee to investigate all things china. china stealing act technology, china is using propaganda on university campuses which is buying influence, china is massively building up its military aimed at the united states, it's an offense of posture, china is climbing all water rights and air rights in the south china sea, china's military is being built up like never before, according to our own pentagon intelligence sources, and

you're telling me that you wanted a special bipartisan committee to look into china and now with the coronavirus, on top of everything else and the speaker of the house is giving you the stiff arm? is that what's going on. >> that's exactly correct. in february we were going to announce it and they walked back. i invited them even today to join with us. it's more important today than a year ago when i asked them. >> you know what else china's doing that we should learn through this, think about our supply chain. we don't make aspirin, vitamin, penicillin, china controls those critical minerals. we look at the ppe, the personal protection equipment, what did china do during this wuhan chuck crisis. what they did, they fought domestic flights from wuhan into beijing but they allowed the international flights to go around the world. what about their influence with the world health organization to lie to the rest of the world. thankfully we have president trump who went against that information and stop those flight coming to america with chinese back in january.

that saved many, many lives for us, but now we have a situation knowing the deception of china, the speaker knows this, and now she's denying that. it's more important now than ever before that we work together as one nation to confront all what china's doing, not just to us but to around the world. >> while she is very quick to put together a lot of committee to investigate the president again and the handling of the coronavirus. i just wish we could put together committee to investigate pelosi and her chairman on how they were handling the coronavirus. i would ask you this though, joe biden, the nominee for the democrat party, he's very close to the regime in china. the regime in china likes joe biden very much. if they had their way, joe biden would be the next

president of the united states. are you concerned god forbid if we had joe biden as president of the united states and nancy pelosi as speaker and chuck schumer as the head of the senate, are you concerned about all the progress that we have made under president trump in trying to engage, confront and control what china is doing to this country come about all of it or a lot of it will be lost? >> and very concerned. the question for the american public will be, who is best to rebuild the economy and whose best to stand up to china so that the next century is ours. it's very clear on that answer that is president trump. it's most interesting here though that it's not because he became president. candidate trump was saying the same thing. citizen sure on was saying the same thing. it's just now that the rest of the world has finally realized what president trump had warned us about for so many decades. it's happening here. think about what transpired this week. we watch this president never stopped working. we watched him this week fly out to arizona, we watched joe biden who didn't even.

[inaudible] i would be concerned with our ability to carry anything out. >> i think you're right. it's amazing, the very people who wanted to hear john bolton and more witnesses in the senate trial, the very woman, nancy pelosi who delayed the senate trial, you watch them, the president was late. he was on this while you guys were stuck in your impeachment mode. that's number one. and i'll ask you this, i have never seen a president coordinate with 50 governors like this president has. i've never seen a president coordinate with the private sector as this president has and he's put all politics aside. the enormous amount of resources going into blue states, blue cities, new york, new york city, california, northern new jersey and so forth and so on has been extraordinary. the attacks on him that there are gaps and he's responsible for deaths and so forth and so on, i think that's the first in american history.

>> it's by far her first. he didn't send one navy hospital ship to a red state. only to the blue state. i watched just recently the governor of new jersey, a democrat come and praise this president and say when we needed ventilators he was there. i watched the governor of new york who complains about everything and if we look at the recent study about a week ago, 55% of all the death came from new york unfortunately and new jersey. this president built hospitals. he delivered ventilators, and then he was delivering them and governor cuomo was complaining, the governor had ventilators sitting in storage that he wasn't bringing out. now, he's sharing with other states based upon what president trump was able to accomplish. president trump has never stopped working. when he wa was in congress, they were impeaching him. when they were shutting him down, joe biden was calling him a racist. then you had nancy pelosi telling everybody to come down to chinatown, but this

president has continued to work. that's why the question is very clear. if you want to rebuild this economy, stand up to china, president trump needs to be elected but the real question is he needs the congress to work with him, not against him. him. mark: we'll be right back. if you have a garden you know, weeds are low down little scoundrels. draw the line with roundup. the sure shot wand extends with a protective shield to target weeds precisely and kill them right down to the root. roundup brand. trusted for over 40 years.

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as work, and that's what they want to do. when you go throughout this country, fast food restaurants, the drive-through's are open, curb pick up food, you can go to coffee, cafés, you can see what's going on in our grocery stores, we've got, these are all heroes in the sense that the economy, to the extent that it's moving at all, it's thanks to these people in some ways resisting these blue state governors. what is it about some of these blue state governors who seem to enjoy ruling with an iron fist. they say it's about health, but it's so ridiculous in some of these cases. we've seen it, even some courts have stepped in here. were never going to get our economy back unless these guys and gals start to take seriously the need and desires of these small businessmen and these workers.

>> we can open up in a safe manner. i was a small business owner. when i was 20 years old i took a risk and there's one thing i've always learned. i was the first to work on the last sleep and i was last to be paid. i made all my decisions around the kitchen table. for these governors to shut everybody down without giving them an opportunity to do it safely is going to collapse the economy, and what would add to the suicide and death toll then. >> we can work together to open this backup. small businesses employ more people than anybody else. that's why the program that president trump created for small business, the paycheck protection, that had put out more money and more loans in 14 days and the small business ministration data in 14 years. that's why. [inaudible] the majority of the money went to community banks, not government. it was unique operation and he saved 30 million jobs. think about how much more we can do if president trump, the businessman who understands who built up the strongest economy we've ever had before this virus came from a distant land that we did not ask for,

we did not want, but we will defeat it together and that's how we have to work. then you have the president working with blue state governors as well, but let him lead and we will be in a much stronger place, more small businesses back up and running and america we'll be back on top once again. >> kevin mccarthy, i read these pieces in the new york times and the washington post and they usually do it well before i have a meal, and i look at them and say this president isn't uniting the people. he just plays to his base, he believes dividing is the way to get elected, and i read these papers and i listen to these broadcast and these so-called journalists, they don't want the country uniting around trump. they've never wanted the country united around him. whether it's russia, ukraine, the coronavirus, you watch these press conferences that the press president have. they send in these kamikaze reporters that have just the turn of the tables figuratively speaking. they don't support you.

they don't want the country to rally around this and yet as you were telling me we have a president here, how many presidents face this kind of situation with all the death and an economy that's collapsed and who stand strong and leaving us out of this and is trying to lead us out. >> you know mark, they don't like the president. they don't like you, they don't like your view. based upon our belief in these country, our value is what we stand for. but the uniqueness we stand for, we have a president who doesn't care what the press says but he cares about this country and he did long before he became president. i've never seen a person with this much willpower, with the attack on him, his family, the lives, he's facing something other presidents have not. i thought last week when he did that townhall it was the appropriate setting because the greatest challenge of her charter constitution was the civil war. remember what lincoln accomplished not only bring the country back together but he planned what the country

would look like for the next 50 years. he built the intercontinental railway. that's what this president is doing. he's facing a virus that we didn't create but we'll be back in our engineering enchant ingenuity will solve this. we had more than any other countries been able to do. america will solve this problem. we will find a vaccine together and we find that vaccine will not only solve it for america but for the rest of world as well. and it's the leadership of this president with the public, private partnership and the engineer d of america that will do it. mark: republican leader kevin mccarthy, thank you very much and be well. we'll be right back.k.k.k.k. thanks for sharing your diy haircuts. thanks for sharing your savage moves, and especially your awkward ones. thanks for sharing your cute kids. and your adorable pets. now it's our turn to share... with the geico giveback. a 15% credit on car and motorcycle policies for both current and new customers.

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committee chaired by eliot engel and you're the ranking republican on the subcommittee for oversight and investigation. tell me, when it comes to china have you had many hearings on oversight and investigations with respect to the military buildup? , stealing our technology, paying for propaganda on our college campuses, and now the coronavirus? have you had any hearings in the last two month? let me ask you that way. >> no, actually can't remember a memorable hearing since i took this position january 19 when pelosi got hurt cabell. you only mentioned not only what would make for one good hearing but would make for a good series of hearings, and i really hope that elliott and nancy pelosi are secretly tuning into your show every sunday evening and they can get some pointers for some good topics. let me ask you this, don't hold your breath by the way. mark: let me ask you this. i'm quite concerned about, as are others, the supply chain

that china actually thought about blackmailing us in our prescription drugs at some point, they have enormous power over aspects of our economy. the president of the united states was the first president i know who is standing up to them and trying to unravel this mess. as long as the democrats can control the house of representatives and nancy closely runs the place with an iron fist, is there ever going to be legislation that comes out of the house of representatives that tries to get america back. >> not unless they can find a way to blame president trump for it. that's the problem that their adversary is donald trump where donald trump is talking about fighting an invisible enemy, whether it's coronavirus or standing up to adversaries like china or iran, you have this consumption occupying the mind, the spirit of members of

congress, members of the media where they are just all inch take-out donald trump this november so i wouldn't hold my breath waiting for that bill to come out, and it is really important, in order for us to be better prepared for any pandemic in the future like we've never been prepared at all in our nations history in the past, we should be starting to work together right now between our national stockpiles, state stockpiles, domestic emergency manufacturing plant, whether it's ventilators or personal protective equipment to the maximum extent possible, it's medicine as well, that we have the ability within our own borders to be prepared for that next outbreak without having to rely on foreign countries, especially a country like china. >> that's a great idea for legislation that we should be working on and working to implement, but instead there is this focus on november and trying to take down donald trump at all cost so there is a distortion of who our adversaries are as a country,

and unfortunately too many people are looking within. there's atrophy inside nancy pelosi's bipartisan muscles in a way where she doesn't have that ability to work with this president, but she should. this president would work with democrats and republicans in congress wherever there can be common ground at any moment of any day where there could be that commonality of interest engel, but unfortunately, as november gets closer you're only seeing more and more atrophy. i didn't think we could get any worse than what we experienced throughout impeachment push where, for half a year, our country was being hijacked by the speaker in this partisan approach toward taking down this president, and somehow we've managed to make it even worse here as we go through this pandemic where we should be united not as republicans or democrats but americans first and not all my colleagues agree with me. >> congressman, i'm very troubled by this. i look at history, it would be the equivalent of a republican

speaker and republican minority leader in the senate trying to undermine franklin roosevelt while the powers are are rising in japan and germany and italy, trying to distract him, trying to take attention away from these crucial national security issues. you sit on the foreign affairs committee. this is a league committee, a committee that should be all over china whether it's the coronavirus or what's going on in the south china sea, threats to us, our supply chain, our allies, and they're not holding hearings, they're not interested at all because nancy pelosi is focused on power. if removing a president and electing joe biden president. again, your combat veteran, i want to ask your question. would you be comfortable if joe biden was commander-in-chief under the

circumstances given what you've seen and heard from joe biden and his close relationship with the chinese government? >> i wouldn't feel comfortable with joe biden as the president for one very basic question that none of his handlers has answered yet, if joe biden was elected president, then who would be the president? obviously it wouldn't be joe biden. who would be running our government, whether it's foreign affairs or domestic policy, i wouldn't feel comfortable and joe biden vintage 2020 isn't the same joe biden of anyone's memories in the past where maybe he was sharper, maybe he had a little more pep in his step. maybe he was quicker, he was more suited to be able to make those decisions based off of recommendations around the table so until someone gives me a good answer as to who would be the president if joe biden was elected president, which i think we all should be entitled to going into november's election, no i don't feel comfortable with it, and to your point about why we should be having hearings and the fact that were not, were not even in

washington. the senate was in session this past week, the house wasn't. there is important work to do on the house foreign affairs committee we should be having not just a classified briefing with regard to the origin of the coronavirus, but also being able to have public hearings so our constituents, the american public, can know to the maximum extent possible whatever it is we know. let's talk about china censoring social media. maybe forcing the arm of concessions and misdemeanors for doctors who are trying to inform the public. suppressing information about human to human transmission on coronavirus. how about the world health organization using communists chinese talking points to help prevent that early detection and to prevent that transparency that was needed earlier. we are the house foreign affairs committee, and i believe we have a duty, we have a burden to be, right now, in washington, having meetings, in a skiff and

finding out the max amount of intelligence in finding out how to translate that toward informing our country of everything they are interested in knowing because if you want to fight a pandemic, it's really important to have early detection and that was a sacrifice that many my colleagues just aren't concerned about. mark: we'll be right back. all right, let's do it. yeah. (laughing) "show me what you're made of." so we showed it our people,

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congressma congressman. my question is this, when you look at the way that nancy pelosi and the democrats and the media conduct themselves, they would love to blame donald trump on the death of this virus. it's the most appalling thing. they hav refused to rally around a president who's doing everything he can to fight this invisible enemy and rebuild the economy, questioning him, doubting him every step of the way. not in a journalistic way but in a way to rip at his credibility. meanwhile i look at these governors who've done a very poor job. i won't mention governor cuomo, you might be his friend so i've got be careful about that, just kidding, but then

china. they don't really seem to want to know where this really happened. you hear the secretary of state speak and other people speak about china come you can't mention china or the lab in china, and it must be conspiracy theories and so forth. my question to you congressman, is this. do they hate donald trump more than they hate the communist regime in china which is in fact an exit stencil threat to this country. >> many do. there are some who fear their people, whether it's a member of congress fearing a liberal enraged base in their district that hates donald trump worse than anyone else abroad, and may be members of the media who are afraid that if they say something that is fair, that is not bias that even might be friendly and positive toward the president, that they will get roasted on twitter and other forms of social media. for some of the media outlets

their business model has been one to be taken out donald trum trump. where if the gdp, for that quarter, was over 3% they will talk about michael cohen transcripts benefits under 3% then we'll talk about how the gdp numbers missed its mark. part of it is also a business model. i think you do have members coming up actual members of the media and some warm members of congress, who in their own heart, their own mind, their own approach to this, that they despise this president more so than any name you could throw at them abroad and it's shocking. for me, barack obama was my president, i didn't vote for him in 2008 or 2012, but i didn't think of boycotting his state of the union address. if he said something that i agreed with during a state of the union address, i will join my colleagues in being supportive and showing support, united as americans, but now what we are seeing

which leads to many boycotting , some wanting to walk out, most wanting to sit on their seat while the president is talking about positive numbers that were going on before we started coronavirus because we had historically low unemployment, our markets were hitting historic highs, to celebrate america, but instead the speaker ripped up the speech at the end of it which, oh by the way, also included talking about the need to work together to fight coronavirus so, to answer your question, for some of my colleagues yes, for others i also think if they're looking at their own personal goals, their own selfish political pursuits and because their base reelected them, they want to make them happy by lighting their own hair on fire and trying to burn it down rather than trying to find ways to work with this president and move our country forward even though that's the best way for them to honor their oath.

>> it's amazing, almost two month ago the president of the united states was talking about how it's time to start looking at areas to reopen the economy and as experts came to him and said we need another 30 days. he gives it another 30 days, he comes back again and says we need to start opening the economy. tell me, don't these experts and democrats and media types trust the american people? don't they think we know how to wear masks and gloves and walk at the same time? don't they think we want to protect ourselves and our family as well as our businesses and our jobs? the idea that we need governors to tell us how to pray, where to pray, when to pray and so forth and so on to me is so appalling and i'm worried that some of these governors, blue state governors, but a couple red state governors to our getting awfully used to what i call these soft, ironfisted tactics which are getting less and less soft every day. they're not so willing to lift the boot off the throat of the economy and i'm wondering, in

part, particularly the democrats in washington d.c. if they want to pin the president of the united states on the economy while in the states they are slowing things down. i'm not saying this is a conspiracy theory, i'm saying this as an ideology. what are your thoughts. >> some of them will say it out loud. i remember that the belmar interview that he had a few months back when they were talking about the advantage, and it was an nbc reporter sitting there with him where they were discussing the advantage of our economy slipping into a recession because it would cause short-term pain but it would help donald trump out of office. i don't think it's conspiracy theory when so many of them are actually willing to say this stuff out loud. they will do it on live tv. i believe that you have seen an inconsistency amongst these governors and i think it's a lack of understanding of just how much americans cherish freedom and liberty and prosperity, the american dream is for our country to be the best version of itself, not to

be some version of some other country somewhere else on this planet, and i believe that as we are going through these weeks that are ahead, these governors can best serve their states by getting their economy roaring again. do it smartly, do it precisely in a way that prevents another outbreak. public health is important but you can't hold back this great economy from unleashing itself. mark: we'll be right back.

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welcome back. your district is pretty much in the middle of things up there in new york. how is it looking now and do you see a hopeful future? >> absolutely we see hopeful future. were along long island and have had over 75000 cases of coronavirus, it was very rough for a few weeks. were still not out of the woods but were seeing the hospitalizations going down, more available hospital beds, icu beds, ventilators, people have a good spirit thanks for healthcare workers and all the front-line workers, the grocery store workers, the truckers, the farmers and the people have been working hard through this. our law enforcement, i believe the spirit is positive, we are

ready to do this fast, the weather is warming and hopefully we'll be back sooner than later. the report from here on long island where it has been hit especially hard as one that has a lot of positivity despite the challenges. >> all right. well it's good to know that the house is trying to get back to work and that's always been a tactic on nancy pelosi's part so she could write the legislation in her office and i invite y'all come back and voted into law because she really doesn't believe in representative government. she believes in the iron fist. is there any way to fix that? 30 seconds or less. how we fix this because house of representatives is not like this senate. there's very few breaks on a speaker that's out-of-control. >> the very best way to fix it is to take the gavel out of nancy's hand this coming november. we need to be choosing what type of a government we want for us and anyone out there who is listening, if they want to wake up today after complaining about an election,

you have to participate met congressman, thanks very much. we appreciate it. and, be safe there now that you fellas are going to finally meet in the house of representatives. we will see you next time on life, liberty and levin. >> he's an innocent man, he is a great gentleman, he was targeted by the obama administration, and he was targeted in order to try and take down a president and what they've done is a disgrace and i hope a big price will be paid. >> the whole thing was a orchestrated and set up within the fbi, klapper, brennan and the oval office fighting president obama. >> so you think this goes all the way up to the top, to president obama. >> absolutely. >> explosive comments there from michael flynn's lawyer. u