radio--2020-03-22--Fox News Rundown Extra: A Former FEMA Chief On Coronavirus And The Failure of Personal Responsibilit

Fox News Rundown Extra: A Former FEMA Chief On Coronavirus And The Failure of Personal Responsibility

Earlier this week , host Jessica Rosenthal spoke to Brock Long , the former head of FEMA who led hurricane @ @ @ @ @ 2018 .
He also spearheaded efforts during Northern California 's deadly Camp Fire .
Brock @ @ @ @ @ Trump announced FEMA had been activated in all regions and placed on its highest alert @ @ @ @ @ threat .
We asked the former FEMA director what role the agency can play during @ @ @ @ @ they can help states and local governments .
He also talked about his experience running @ @ @ @ @ learned how underprepared we Americans were and are for a major disaster .
Because of @ @ @ @ @ run our entire conversation .
It was alarming and informative .
On The Fox News @ @ @ @ @ our full conversation with Brock Long and hear more of his concerns about America 's @ @ @ @ @ America must run a `` personally responsibility campaign '' once this crisis is behind us @

Earlier this week, host Jessica Rosenthal spoke to Brock Long, the former head of FEMA who led hurricane recovery efforts in 2017 and 2018. He also spearheaded efforts during Northern California’s deadly Camp Fire.
Brock joined the Rundown after President Trump announced FEMA had been activated in all regions and placed on its highest alert level to combat the coronavirus threat.
We asked the former FEMA director what role the agency can play during a virus outbreak and how they can help states and local governments. He also talked about his experience running FEMA and how he quickly learned how underprepared we Americans were and are for a major disaster.
Because of time, we could not run our entire conversation. It was alarming and informative.
On The Fox News Rundown Extra you will hear our full conversation with Brock Long and hear more of his concerns about America’s preparedness and why he thinks America must run a “personally responsibility campaign” once this crisis is behind us.


radio--2020-04-03--John Rich: Everybody "Stay Home!"

John Rich: Everybody "Stay Home!"

On FOX Across America with Jimmy Failla , country music superstar John Rich talks about his new song , which @ @ @ @ @ and the Coronavirus Task Force 's recommendation for everyone to `` stay home . ''
@ @ @ @ @ say , just stay home .
Everybody just stay home .
And I kept running @ @ @ @ @ thought , you know what ?
Let 's put some music to that , because @ @ @ @ @ remember something than when it 's got a nice little melody and a little beat @ @ @ @ @ thinking maybe this is the official PSA for America going forward . ''

On FOX Across America with Jimmy Failla, country music superstar John Rich talks about his new song, which was influenced by President Trump and the Coronavirus Task Force’s recommendation for everyone to “stay home.”
“I heard the President say, just stay home. Everybody just stay home. And I kept running through my head and I thought, you know what? Let’s put some music to that, because nothing better to make you remember something than when it’s got a nice little melody and a little beat behind it. I’m thinking maybe this is the official PSA for America going forward.”


radio--2020-04-03--Juan Williams: DeSantis Only Shut Down Florida With "Trump Holding His Hand"

On FOX Across America with Jimmy Failla , Fox News 's Juan Williams discussed whether Florida and other states responded @ @ @ @ @ a timely fashion .
`` We 're trying not to be political here , but @ @ @ @ @ the states that have n't shut down yet , I think they 're twelve or @ @ @ @ @ states and Republican governors ?
And DeSantis , he said , go to the amusement @ @ @ @ @ like had to shut down before he issued an order .
And the beaches , @ @ @ @ @ down and then the spring break thing happened .
But I guess that his thinking @ @ @ @ @ issue the order .
Now , Bill Gates the Microsoft billionaire , he said we @ @ @ @ @ but the President wo n't do it .
And he would n't tell DeSantis to @ @ @ @ @ we started to see the exponential rise in the spread of the virus in Florida @ @ @ @ @ it without Trump holding his hand . ''

On FOX Across America with Jimmy Failla, Fox News’s Juan Williams discussed whether Florida and other states responded to the coronavirus crisis in a timely fashion.
“We’re trying not to be political here, but why is it that all the states that haven’t shut down yet, I think they’re twelve or thirteen remaining, are red states and Republican governors? And DeSantis, he said, go to the amusement parks. Disney and the like had to shut down before he issued an order. And the beaches, he just wouldn’t shut down and then the spring break thing happened. But I guess that his thinking is the President didn’t issue the order. Now, Bill Gates the Microsoft billionaire, he said we need a total shutdown, but the President won’t do it. And he wouldn’t tell DeSantis to do it. And until we started to see the exponential rise in the spread of the virus in Florida, DeSantis wouldn’t do it without Trump holding his hand.”


radio--2020-02-28--Is America Ready to Fight the Coronavirus?

Is the U.S. prepared to take on the growing spread of the coronavirus ?
Dr. Syra Madad , senior director @ @ @ @ @ System-wide Special Pathogens Program discusses the outbreak and what Americans should do to protect themselves @ @ @ @ @ Bill Cassidy ( R-LA ) also joins the Rundown to discuss the Trump administration 's @ @ @ @ @ .
John Rich , country music star and host of Fox Nation 's `` The @ @ @ @ @ The Rundown to discuss the inspiration behind his new show and what the phrase , @ @ @ @ @ '' means to him .
Rich , the winner of the fourth season of `` @ @ @ @ @ opens about his relationship with President Trump and how the Commander in Chief has changed @ @ @ @ @ show .

Is the U.S. prepared to take on the growing spread of the coronavirus? Dr. Syra Madad, senior director of New York City’s System-wide Special Pathogens Program discusses the outbreak and what Americans should do to protect themselves from the virus. Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA) also joins the Rundown to discuss the Trump administration’s plan to combat the virus.
John Rich, country music star and host of Fox Nation’s “The Pursuit!”, joins The Rundown to discuss the inspiration behind his new show and what the phrase, “the pursuit of happiness” means to him. Rich, the winner of the fourth season of “Celebrity Apprentice”, also opens about his relationship with President Trump and how the Commander in Chief has changed since hosting the hit reality show.
Plus, commentary by Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace.


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On Friday President Trump terminated the U.S. relationship with the World Health Organization after the United States passed 100,000 deaths due to the Coronavirus .
This as 40 million people are out of work and hundreds of thousands of businesses closed , Eric Hargan is Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services discusses what the Trump administration is doing to safely re-open the country .
President Trump signed an Executive Order this week after his tweets were fact-checked and flagged by Twitter , regarding vote-by-mail fraud concerns and the recent riots in Minneapolis .
Fox News Radio 's White House @ @ @ @ @ @ @ FOX 's Chief Congressional Correspondent Chad Pergram explains the new way Congress is voting during Coronavirus .
Due to the Coronavirus , lawmakers are thinking up ways for U.S. citizens to cast their ballots this November .
Many hoping to make mail-in voting work , but President Trump believes this could lead to voter fraud .
Several states conduct their voting by mail regularly and Jared spoke with two of them .
Washington Secretary of State Kim Wyman and Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold explain how the process works in their states @ @ @ @ @ @ @ National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration is warning of an `` above-normal '' season .
In the midst of a global pandemic , what are residents supposed to do if they need to flee from the path of danger ?
Gerry Bell is a hurricane climate specialist and research meteorologist at NOAA 's Climate Prediction Center and explains what you can expect this hurricane season .

This Week:
On Friday President Trump terminated the U.S. relationship with the World Health Organization after the United States passed 100,000 deaths due to the Coronavirus. This as 40 million people are out of work and hundreds of thousands of businesses closed, Eric Hargan is Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services discusses what the Trump administration is doing to safely re-open the country.
President Trump signed an Executive Order this week after his tweets were fact-checked and flagged by Twitter, regarding vote-by-mail fraud concerns and the recent riots in Minneapolis. Fox News Radio’s White House Correspondent Jon Decker discusses the controversy and FOX’s Chief Congressional Correspondent Chad Pergram explains the new way Congress is voting during Coronavirus.
Due to the Coronavirus, lawmakers are thinking up ways for U.S. citizens to cast their ballots this November. Many hoping to make mail-in voting work, but President Trump believes this could lead to voter fraud. Several states conduct their voting by mail regularly and Jared spoke with two of them. Washington Secretary of State Kim Wyman and Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold explain how the process works in their states.
Hurricane season begins Monday and the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration is warning of an “above-normal” season. In the midst of a global pandemic, what are residents supposed to do if they need to flee from the path of danger? Gerry Bell is a hurricane climate specialist and research meteorologist at NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center and explains what you can expect this hurricane season.


radio--2020-05-06--Is It Safe To Get A Haircut?

Is It Safe To Get A Haircut?

As states begin to reopen or plan to start up their economies and move forward from Covid-19 , how safe @ @ @ @ @ return to normal ?
What precautions need to be taken at the federal , state @ @ @ @ @ the coronavirus from spreading and make people feel safe as we wait on a vaccine @ @ @ @ @ the Senior Director of New York City 's System Special Pathogens Program and she joins @ @ @ @ @ all these questions and more .
She tested positive for COVID in early March just @ @ @ @ @ up .
She has since recovered and is trying to mobilize people like herself to @ @ @ @ @ Diana Berrent , survivor of COVID-19 and founder of Survivor Corps , explains her experience @ @ @ @ @ she is urging other survivors to donate their blood in an effort to find an @ @ @ @ @ commentary by former Clinton pollster and managing partner of the Stagwell Group , Mark Penn @

As states begin to reopen or plan to start up their economies and move forward from Covid-19, how safe is it for people to return to normal? What precautions need to be taken at the federal, state and local levels to keep the coronavirus from spreading and make people feel safe as we wait on a vaccine? Dr. Syra Madad is the Senior Director of New York City’s System Special Pathogens Program and she joins the ‘Rundown’ to answer all these questions and more.
She tested positive for COVID in early March just as the outbreak was ramping up. She has since recovered and is trying to mobilize people like herself to help fight the virus. Diana Berrent, survivor of COVID-19 and founder of Survivor Corps, explains her experience battling the illness and how she is urging other survivors to donate their blood in an effort to find an effective treatment.
Plus, commentary by former Clinton pollster and managing partner of the Stagwell Group, Mark Penn.


radio--2020-06-19--Bolton Book Rocks D.C.

Bolton Book Rocks D.C.

Everyone is talking about Former National Security Adviser John Bolton 's new book about President Trump .
Former Utah Governor @ @ @ @ @ ambassador to Russia under the Trump administration and he joins the 'Rundown ' to react @ @ @ @ @ 's allegations .
Huntsman also discusses his recent Covid-19 diagnosis , why he has decided @ @ @ @ @ of Utah again after two ambassadorships , and what 's like running a campaign during @ @ @ @ @ Juneteenth - when we commemorate the end of slavery in the United States .
Congresswoman @ @ @ @ @ she thinks this year 's remembrance takes on added meaning as protesters across the country @ @ @ @ @ and police reform .
The Texas Democrat also weighs in on the U.S. Supreme Court @ @ @ @ @ and DACA .
Plus , commentary by former White House speechwriter Marc Thiessen .

Everyone is talking about Former National Security Adviser John Bolton’s new book about President Trump. Former Utah Governor Jon Huntsman Jr. served as ambassador to Russia under the Trump administration and he joins the ‘Rundown’ to react to some of the book’s allegations. Huntsman also discusses his recent Covid-19 diagnosis, why he has decided to run for the Governor of Utah again after two ambassadorships, and what’s like running a campaign during the coronavirus.
Today marks Juneteenth – when we commemorate the end of slavery in the United States. Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee discusses why she thinks this year’s remembrance takes on added meaning as protesters across the country continue to demand racial justice and police reform. The Texas Democrat also weighs in on the U.S. Supreme Court’s rulings on gay rights and DACA.
Don’t miss the good news with Tonya J. Powers.
Plus, commentary by former White House speechwriter Marc Thiessen.


radio--2020-05-26--NC Lt. Gov. Dan Forest: Gov. Cooper "Is Playing Politics" With The GOP Convention

On Fox Across America with Jimmy Failla , North Carolina Lt. Gov .
Dan Forest addressed President Trump 's tweets about taking away the GOP Convention from Charlotte and the role Governor Cooper has in that decision .
`` The Governor is holding up the show right now for August .
We 're talking about the very end of August .
That 's further away now than we are from the beginning of this whole coronavirus mess .
And it appears to me that the Governor is playing politics at a time when there 's no doubt that the economy @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the $ 138 million they 're projecting bringing in there would really help the hospitality industry , the restaurant industry and all those workers that are needed to support something like this . ''
`` We 're so far out , we 're opening our state slowly here .
He 's given directives to open things up but we 're talking about months away .
Right now , I believe we should say we 're looking forward to a great convention at the end of August and get things rolling and get people @ @ @ @ @ @ @ over a million people unemployed .
A significant number of those , as you know , come from the hospitality industry .
And so , what a better boost ?
What better boost could you have and say let 's have this convention and inject hundreds of millions of dollars into this economy ? ''

On Fox Across America with Jimmy Failla, North Carolina Lt. Gov. Dan Forest addressed President Trump’s tweets about taking away the GOP Convention from Charlotte and the role Governor Cooper has in that decision.
“The Governor is holding up the show right now for August. We’re talking about the very end of August. That’s further away now than we are from the beginning of this whole coronavirus mess. And it appears to me that the Governor is playing politics at a time when there’s no doubt that the economy in Charlotte and across North Carolina, the $138 million they’re projecting bringing in there would really help the hospitality industry, the restaurant industry and all those workers that are needed to support something like this.”
“We’re so far out, we’re opening our state slowly here. He’s given directives to open things up but we’re talking about months away. Right now, I believe we should say we’re looking forward to a great convention at the end of August and get things rolling and get people some hope. We have over well over a million people unemployed. A significant number of those, as you know, come from the hospitality industry. And so, what a better boost? What better boost could you have and say let’s have this convention and inject hundreds of millions of dollars into this economy?”


radio--2020-05-27--Rep. Will Hurd (R-TX) Says Trump's Scarborough Tweets: "Makes It Harder" To Make The Case To Indepen

Rep. Will Hurd (R-TX) Says Trump's Scarborough Tweets: "Makes It Harder" To Make The Case To Independent & Women Voters Come The Fall

Congressman Will Hurd ( R-TX ) talked with Fox News Radio 's Guy Benson about the Democrats attempt to push through `` Proxy Voting '' amid the Coronavirus outbreak .
Rep. Hurd also poked criticism at President Trump 's Tweets targeting MSNBC host Joe Scarborough .
Saying that this is something , `` I 'm not following '' but `` It takes away from highlighting some of the good things that are happening .
And it makes it harder .
When it comes time in November to make a case to independent voters , too women with a college degree @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The Full Interview Below : Guy Benson : Final hour on the Guy Benson show midway through this week .
Hope you 're having a good Wednesday .
Thank you for being here .
Guy Benson show dot com .
Our Web site .
One stop shop guy Benson show dot com .
Podcast is always free and also available on Spotify and I tunes .
We are pleased to welcome back to the show .
Congressman will hurt a Republican from Texas representing the Twenty Third District in the Lone Star State @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , great to have you back .
Rep.Hurd : Guy , it 's a pleasure to be back with you , man .
Guy Benson : I want to ask you first about a controversy in the House of Representatives involving this new process for voting that Speaker Pelosi and the Democrats are ushering in .
It is voting for members by proxy .
So if you 'd explain what this looks like logistically and then why it is that you and really unified Republicans are opposed to it .
Rep.Hurd : Sure @ @ @ @ @ @ @ I think was two weeks ago , there was a vote on this proxy vote .
And what it said is that one member of Congress can vote for up to 10 other members of Congress .
And there were some rules that were put in , like you had to notify the clerk that you were requesting a proxy and say who it was .
Right .
Now , there was a uniform .
There was uniform opposition to this for a number of reasons .
Now , let me start with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ been Zolf in technology all my life , Congress should be adapting technology to provide better digital facing services to make our work more efficient and all those things right .
I do believe we should be doing better at that .
But ultimately , what the Democrats did in this in this change of the House rules , which know said that you do n't have to physically be here now , the Constitution Article one , Section five says that Congress has the ability to do a quorum and a quorum @ @ @ @ @ @ @ means physical presence is to say you have to to show up .
Right .
And so the Democrats are basically saying that for two hundred thirty one years , even though , you know , when during the Civil War , Congress still met during the World War of 1812 in Washington , D.C. , was on fire .
Congress was still meeting during the the the the Spanish flu .
And , you know , in the nineteen early nineteen hundreds .
Congress was still meeting , saying that now you @ @ @ @ @ @ @ my Republican colleagues and I believe that at the millions of Americans that have been going and doing their job since all of this started .
So , too can Congress , especially now as many places and states are , are reopening .
And so now there 's a legal challenge .
Guy Benson : Right .
Right .
And I saw Speaker Pelosi just blasted it , saying it 's a sad stunt by Republicans .
But I feel like it probably is worth really thinking very hard about changing the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ their votes .
If there 's a big change like that happening , there should probably be bipartisan Buy-In rather than just the majority railroading the thing through , which is what they are doing up to this point .
And Congressman , I 've said on this show many times , especially when we are really in the thick of Corona virus and there were big consequential votes involving trillions of dollars happening .
I thought that maybe looking at remote voting , secure remote voting was something that was worthwhile .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ , Republican and Democrat , were n't interested in that .
Certainly Pelosi and McConnell together were not .
I 'm just trying to understand , why would Pelosi be dead set against each member casting their votes securely from home , but be okay with this proxy 's scheme where you have one member coming in and saying , well , he wants to vote , yay , she wants to vote nay .
This seems a lot more complicated .
Rep.Hurd : It is .
And and then what is ultimately @ @ @ @ @ @ @ my friends on the other side will say , you know , the House has the ability to establish the House rules .
Right .
Which is which is true by a majority vote .
However , you ca n't change the Constitution .
You ca n't do something that is unconstitutional .
And the Constitution clearly state says a quorum is a majority of the body .
Right .
And a quorum means physical presence .
And so .
So what ?
What .
So if you can do any rule , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Guess what ?
If you 're from these states , your vote only counts for half .
But if you 're from other states , it counts twice like this .
This is some of the similar logic that if you say you can make any rules that you want and there 's a broader question and I have a more philosophical question , because the details of a remote voting is not hard .
Right ?
This is a public vote .
This is not like this is a secret .
This @ @ @ @ @ @ @ do it , it is published on C-SPAN .
And all these other locations .
My concern is that if you remove the let 's say we do remote voting now , then .
And we get out of this .
We get back to some , you know , whatever normal means there was that we did it before .
Let 's just keep doing that .
Yeah .
There 's no reason to go up to Washington , D.C. and there 's no reason for us to actually be in a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ makes could potentially make this body , which is incredibly partizan as it is now , even more partizan .
And nothing would ever get done .
Right .
And so those that 's that 's a long term consequence for me of this particular issue , along with the constitutional argument about being a majority is , you know , a majority of this body is 218 .
Guy Benson : See And I think , Congressman , what my perspective is on this is let 's say we went with some @ @ @ @ @ @ @ but temporary because of everything that you just mentioned and not just the complexities , but maybe some of the risks about the new normal being established in a way that would be harmful .
I would be in favor of passing something that would have to be overwhelmingly bipartisan .
That said , it is temporary with a sunset clause that says in order to revamp this , it would need to be agreed to by , let 's say , two thirds majority of the House , which would be a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 's something I would be open to .
That 's not what they 've done here .
So I think .
Rep.Hurd : They literally have done the exact opposite of what you just described .
All right .
And so .
So , yeah .
Look , the only way big things get done up here is doing it in a in a bipartisan manner .
Right .
And that 's why that 's how we were able to get those first four stimulus bills done , because they were negotiated in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ were able to get these big things on it .
All of those things ultimately helped the American people in many different ways .
And so some people are like , man , this is a really arcane , you know , inside the Beltway arguments .
Right .
But but I think there are going to be some some consequences because , look , if your represent there 's somebody in I think like a quarter of the California Democrat California delegation is not coming back .
Right .
And they 're @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and so it 's is that concept .
And if the folks that are stocking our shelves and and getting supplies from point A to point B and doctors and nurses are ever to operate .
And , you know , now a lot of places in Texas and get your hair cut .
And , you know , go to restaurants if those folks are working .
And we should work to it because I actually do believe we 're essential and we should be working on it .
Guy Benson : @ @ @ @ @ @ @ me that you could have people who are just party line voters conceivably never show up , sit at home in the district and fundraise for two years and just , you know , salute whatever leadership wants them to do and tell someone to go cast the vote for them .
I 'm not sure that 's something that a lot of Americans would support , certainly longer term .
But that 's why you have to be careful even about temporary measures , because sometimes people get used to things that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ so temporary .
You so what ?
Congressman , I want to shift to a letter that you sent to the diplomatic delegations here in D.C. of all World Health Organization member nations regarding that organization .
What was the purpose of your letter ?
Rep.Hurd : So the purpose was was twofold .
One , organizations , international organizations like the World Health Organization WTO are important .
Right .
These these organizations were designed for all of us work together on these global issues .
Right .
Getting rid of of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Dealing with things like the global pandemic we 're dealing with now in Cauvin 19 .
And if as an appropriator know , I hope make decisions on on on dollars , federal dollars that go to minutos organizations .
Right .
And I spent I spent a decade of my career overseas as undercover officer in the CIA .
But I my cover was working in the State Department .
So I actually know very well versed in the diplomatic corps as well , too .
And but there are some very @ @ @ @ @ @ @ use these international organizations , we have to trust the leadership of them .
And and there are just some some basic questions that have gone unanswered by the WHL leadership , which which threatens the credibility .
We know that the president pushed a pause on some additional funds going to WHL .
Look , we 've already spent 400 million dollars and sent that to the W8 show for this year .
These were additional funds that were going to for these review .
And I believe that we should be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
And that 's why I went to the heads of the missions in the United States as member .
Of the WHo , their member nations within WHL saying here are a set of questions that we believe that the WHo leadership needs to answer .
And can you help us in advocating for those questions to WHL leadership as well ?
And a basic thing .
Guy Benson : So give us like maybe like the top one or two questions .
Rep.Hurd : Why has China still refused to participate @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , what the rest of the world community has done .
Any any samples around COBA 19 ?
We 're sharing it among all of our scientists and researchers .
Chinese have not participate .
Why has the WHL pressure the Chinese to do that ?
No answers to what is the Chinese response on some of these Chinese researchers that have gone missing ?
These are people that helped us first line about the Cauvin 19th .
And no WHL leadership has been silent on all , .
Guy Benson : Not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ been worse .
They 've they 've broadly praise Tedros , who 's not a medical doctor , but he 's the leader of WHL .
This guy , Tedros , who is Chinese , who is China 's handpicked leader of WHL , who prevailed in that election process .
He has gone out of his way to praise the transparency of China during this process , which is kind of just a sick joke .
Given what you just described and everything else we know about the behavior of the Chinese @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 's outrageous .
And so so here 's what we 're finding .
Right .
And so so the responses that we have gotten back several dozen .
We 're with ya .
We get it .
We 're we 're moving forward and go to openly ask these questions .
And also , earlier this week , the WHL had a vote on doing a review of Cauvin 19 and WHL response .
This was initially , you know , the Chinese fight against this .
And then they did n't want @ @ @ @ @ @ @ know , voting against this .
And so there was a vote at the WHL for that transparency .
Now , the question is when , where , who 's going to be involved ?
Guy Benson : And then will they actually cooperate when the rubber meets the road ?
A few question marks about that , certainly one hundred percent .
And so so but these are all good signs that this is not that this is not just the United States of America that asking these questions .
And we @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the other continents .
Good .
And and it 's a mix of of of countries that think we get it .
We share some the same concerns .
And we 're outraged , too , because , again , the WHL is an important organization that can help us .
That was created to deal with this exact issue we 're in now .
Guy Benson : Yeah , but not if there is corruption or Rhod at the very top .
And I think that this is an important letter .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ demand answers .
Congressman , I want to ask you this , and I. I sometimes hate it .
And I think the media plays this game too often where they get a Republican on the record and then they want their comment on whatever the latest thing .
President Trump has tweeted about .
And I think it 's sort of silly and inane .
However , I did several segments on my show yesterday .
There are some I ca n't just sort of shrug off and ignore .
And the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ continuing even this morning , tweeting this completely insane conspiracy theory about the death of a young woman in 2001 in Joe Scarborough 's old office back in Florida while he was Washington , D.C.. And the implication very heavily from the president over and over again is that Scarbro may have had something to do with her death , even though that has been disproven by the medical examiner .
The family of this woman , including her husband in particular , has effectively begged for this to stop because it has @ @ @ @ @ @ @ president has shrugged that off .
He said yesterday at the press conference that he held that the husband , just like the president , they both want to get to the bottom of this , which is the opposite of what the husband said , the husband said .
We 've gotten to the bottom of this .
There 's nothing here .
It 's a closed case , not a cold case .
And yet the president persists because he 's got a problem with Scarbro and the editorial line on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of Congress , I know you 're on the verge of retirement , but you are a Republican member of Congress .
When you see that type of tweeting , is it different than some of the other stuff ?
Do you have a reaction to it or do you just think it 's sort of par for the course with Trump ?
Rep.Hurd : Well , so one , you know , you should n't be tweeting about things like that that are actually cold .
You know , the cases that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to be honest , this is one of those things that I 'm not following .
This is not something that I know the nuance of other than the fact that , you know , I do n't know .
No .
The old case .
And this is this is something that I think it takes away from our ability to communicate a message .
Right .
It takes away from highlighting some of the good things that are happening .
And it makes it harder .
When it comes time in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ voters , two women with a college degree in the suburbs .
Guy Benson : Well , not just and you know about you know about winning a very tough district .
And when you 're trying to say and the Republican Party , the White House is trying to say , we are focused like a laser on this global pandemic that 's killed nearly a hundred thousand Americans .
And then you see tweet after tweet after tweet about a 2001 debunked conspiracy theory .
It 's it 's , to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ you said your piece and we 've got to leave it there anyway .
Congressman Will heart of Texas .
There are twenty 3rd District in the Lone Star State , a Republican congressman .
Thank you so much for your time today .
Rep.Hurd : Always a pleasure to be on .
We 'll talk to you soon .
Guy Benson : Sounds great .
We 'll be right back .

Congressman Will Hurd (R-TX) talked with Fox News Radio’s Guy Benson about the Democrats attempt to push through “Proxy Voting” amid the Coronavirus outbreak. Rep. Hurd also poked criticism at President Trump’s Tweets targeting MSNBC host Joe Scarborough. Saying that this is something, “I’m not following” but “It takes away from highlighting some of the good things that are happening. And it makes it harder. When it comes time in November to make a case to independent voters, too women with a college degree in the suburbs.”
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Guy Benson: Final hour on the Guy Benson show midway through this week. Hope you’re having a good Wednesday. Thank you for being here. Guy Benson show dot com. Our Web site. One stop shop guy Benson show dot com. Podcast is always free and also available on Spotify and I tunes. We are pleased to welcome back to the show. Congressman will hurt a Republican from Texas representing the Twenty Third District in the Lone Star State. He joins me now. Congressman, great to have you back.
Rep.Hurd: Guy, it’s a pleasure to be back with you, man.
Guy Benson: I want to ask you first about a controversy in the House of Representatives involving this new process for voting that Speaker Pelosi and the Democrats are ushering in. It is voting for members by proxy. So if you’d explain what this looks like logistically and then why it is that you and really unified Republicans are opposed to it.
Rep.Hurd: Sure. So when we were here, I think was two weeks ago, there was a vote on this proxy vote. And what it said is that one member of Congress can vote for up to 10 other members of Congress. And there were some rules that were put in, like you had to notify the clerk that you were requesting a proxy and say who it was. Right. Now, there was a uniform. There was uniform opposition to this for a number of reasons. Now, let me start with as a as a person who’s been Zolf in technology all my life, Congress should be adapting technology to provide better digital facing services to make our work more efficient and all those things right. I do believe we should be doing better at that. But ultimately, what the Democrats did in this in this change of the House rules, which know said that you don’t have to physically be here now, the Constitution Article one, Section five says that Congress has the ability to do a quorum and a quorum is a majority. So a quorum means physical presence is to say you have to to show up. Right. And so the Democrats are basically saying that for two hundred thirty one years, even though, you know, when during the Civil War, Congress still met during the World War of 1812 in Washington, D.C., was on fire. Congress was still meeting during the the the the Spanish flu. And, you know, in the nineteen early nineteen hundreds. Congress was still meeting, saying that now you can’t meet. And most of my Republican colleagues and I believe that at the millions of Americans that have been going and doing their job since all of this started. So, too can Congress, especially now as many places and states are, are reopening. And so now there’s a legal challenge.
Guy Benson: Right. Right. And I saw Speaker Pelosi just blasted it, saying it’s a sad stunt by Republicans. But I feel like it probably is worth really thinking very hard about changing the way in which members of Congress cast their votes. If there’s a big change like that happening, there should probably be bipartisan Buy-In rather than just the majority railroading the thing through, which is what they are doing up to this point. And Congressman, I’ve said on this show many times, especially when we are really in the thick of Corona virus and there were big consequential votes involving trillions of dollars happening. I thought that maybe looking at remote voting, secure remote voting was something that was worthwhile. It seemed like leadership in both chambers, Republican and Democrat, weren’t interested in that. Certainly Pelosi and McConnell together were not. I’m just trying to understand, why would Pelosi be dead set against each member casting their votes securely from home, but be okay with this proxy’s scheme where you have one member coming in and saying, well, he wants to vote, yay, she wants to vote nay. This seems a lot more complicated.
Rep.Hurd: It is. And and then what is ultimately next? Right. And so so my friends on the other side will say, you know, the House has the ability to establish the House rules. Right. Which is which is true by a majority vote. However, you can’t change the Constitution. You can’t do something that is unconstitutional. And the Constitution clearly state says a quorum is a majority of the body. Right. And a quorum means physical presence. And so. So what? What. So if you can do any rule, then you can say, OK. Guess what? If you’re from these states, your vote only counts for half. But if you’re from other states, it counts twice like this. This is some of the similar logic that if you say you can make any rules that you want and there’s a broader question and I have a more philosophical question, because the details of a remote voting is not hard. Right? This is a public vote. This is not like this is a secret. This is something that as soon as I do it, it is published on C-SPAN. And all these other locations. My concern is that if you remove the let’s say we do remote voting now, then. And we get out of this. We get back to some, you know, whatever normal means there was that we did it before. Let’s just keep doing that. Yeah. There’s no reason to go up to Washington, D.C. and there’s no reason for us to actually be in a room together. And so it actually makes could potentially make this body, which is incredibly partizan as it is now, even more partizan. And nothing would ever get done. Right. And so those that’s that’s a long term consequence for me of this particular issue, along with the constitutional argument about being a majority is, you know, a majority of this body is 218.
Guy Benson: See And I think, Congressman, what my perspective is on this is let’s say we went with some form of remote voting that was secure but temporary because of everything that you just mentioned and not just the complexities, but maybe some of the risks about the new normal being established in a way that would be harmful. I would be in favor of passing something that would have to be overwhelmingly bipartisan. That said, it is temporary with a sunset clause that says in order to revamp this, it would need to be agreed to by, let’s say, two thirds majority of the House, which would be a very high bar to achieve. That’s something I would be open to. That’s not what they’ve done here. So I think.
Rep.Hurd: They literally have done the exact opposite of what you just described. All right. And so. So, yeah. Look, the only way big things get done up here is doing it in a in a bipartisan manner. Right. And that’s why that’s how we were able to get those first four stimulus bills done, because they were negotiated in a bipartisan, bicameral way and we were able to get these big things on it. All of those things ultimately helped the American people in many different ways. And so some people are like, man, this is a really arcane, you know, inside the Beltway arguments. Right. But but I think there are going to be some some consequences because, look, if your represent there’s somebody in I think like a quarter of the California Democrat California delegation is not coming back. Right. And they’re being represented by one person. And and so it’s is that concept. And if the folks that are stocking our shelves and and getting supplies from point A to point B and doctors and nurses are ever to operate. And, you know, now a lot of places in Texas and get your hair cut. And, you know, go to restaurants if those folks are working. And we should work to it because I actually do believe we’re essential and we should be working on it.
Guy Benson: It just seems it seems strange to me that you could have people who are just party line voters conceivably never show up, sit at home in the district and fundraise for two years and just, you know, salute whatever leadership wants them to do and tell someone to go cast the vote for them. I’m not sure that’s something that a lot of Americans would support, certainly longer term. But that’s why you have to be careful even about temporary measures, because sometimes people get used to things that get comfortable and then temporary becomes not so temporary. You so what? Congressman, I want to shift to a letter that you sent to the diplomatic delegations here in D.C. of all World Health Organization member nations regarding that organization. What was the purpose of your letter?
Rep.Hurd: So the purpose was was twofold. One, organizations, international organizations like the World Health Organization WTO are important. Right. These these organizations were designed for all of us work together on these global issues. Right. Getting rid of of HIV AIDS and TB and malaria. Dealing with things like the global pandemic we’re dealing with now in Cauvin 19. And if as an appropriator know, I hope make decisions on on on dollars, federal dollars that go to minutos organizations. Right. And I spent I spent a decade of my career overseas as undercover officer in the CIA. But I my cover was working in the State Department. So I actually know very well versed in the diplomatic corps as well, too. And but there are some very like for us to be able to use these international organizations, we have to trust the leadership of them. And and there are just some some basic questions that have gone unanswered by the WHL leadership, which which threatens the credibility. We know that the president pushed a pause on some additional funds going to WHL. Look, we’ve already spent 400 million dollars and sent that to the W8 show for this year. These were additional funds that were going to for these review. And I believe that we should be strengthening our alliances, not weakening them. And that’s why I went to the heads of the missions in the United States as member. Of the WHo, their member nations within WHL saying here are a set of questions that we believe that the WHo leadership needs to answer. And can you help us in advocating for those questions to WHL leadership as well? And a basic thing.
Guy Benson: So give us like maybe like the top one or two questions.
Rep.Hurd: Why has China still refused to participate in sample sharing? So even today, what the rest of the world community has done. Any any samples around COBA 19? We’re sharing it among all of our scientists and researchers. Chinese have not participate. Why has the WHL pressure the Chinese to do that? No answers to what is the Chinese response on some of these Chinese researchers that have gone missing? These are people that helped us first line about the Cauvin 19th. And no WHL leadership has been silent on all,.
Guy Benson: Not just not just that, it’s been worse. They’ve they’ve broadly praise Tedros, who’s not a medical doctor, but he’s the leader of WHL. This guy, Tedros, who is Chinese, who is China’s handpicked leader of WHL, who prevailed in that election process. He has gone out of his way to praise the transparency of China during this process, which is kind of just a sick joke. Given what you just described and everything else we know about the behavior of the Chinese Communist Party in this mess, it’s outrageous. And so so here’s what we’re finding. Right. And so so the responses that we have gotten back several dozen. We’re with ya. We get it. We’re we’re moving forward and go to openly ask these questions. And also, earlier this week, the WHL had a vote on doing a review of Cauvin 19 and WHL response. This was initially, you know, the Chinese fight against this. And then they didn’t want to be the only one, you know, voting against this. And so there was a vote at the WHL for that transparency. Now, the question is when, where, who’s going to be involved?
Guy Benson: And then will they actually cooperate when the rubber meets the road? A few question marks about that, certainly one hundred percent. And so so but these are all good signs that this is not that this is not just the United States of America that asking these questions. And we have gotten responses back from from all the other continents. Good. And and it’s a mix of of of countries that think we get it. We share some the same concerns. And we’re outraged, too, because, again, the WHL is an important organization that can help us. That was created to deal with this exact issue we’re in now.
Guy Benson: Yeah, but not if there is corruption or Rhod at the very top. And I think that this is an important letter. And I think some of these questions demand answers. Congressman, I want to ask you this, and I. I sometimes hate it. And I think the media plays this game too often where they get a Republican on the record and then they want their comment on whatever the latest thing. President Trump has tweeted about. And I think it’s sort of silly and inane. However, I did several segments on my show yesterday. There are some I can’t just sort of shrug off and ignore. And the president over Memorial Day weekend and still continuing even this morning, tweeting this completely insane conspiracy theory about the death of a young woman in 2001 in Joe Scarborough’s old office back in Florida while he was Washington, D.C.. And the implication very heavily from the president over and over again is that Scarbro may have had something to do with her death, even though that has been disproven by the medical examiner. The family of this woman, including her husband in particular, has effectively begged for this to stop because it has no basis. In fact, the president has shrugged that off. He said yesterday at the press conference that he held that the husband, just like the president, they both want to get to the bottom of this, which is the opposite of what the husband said, the husband said. We’ve gotten to the bottom of this. There’s nothing here. It’s a closed case, not a cold case. And yet the president persists because he’s got a problem with Scarbro and the editorial line on that MSNBC show. As a member of Congress, I know you’re on the verge of retirement, but you are a Republican member of Congress. When you see that type of tweeting, is it different than some of the other stuff? Do you have a reaction to it or do you just think it’s sort of par for the course with Trump?
Rep.Hurd: Well, so one, you know, you shouldn’t be tweeting about things like that that are actually cold. You know, the cases that are closed. Right. And and to be honest, this is one of those things that I’m not following. This is not something that I know the nuance of other than the fact that, you know, I don’t know. No. The old case. And this is this is something that I think it takes away from our ability to communicate a message. Right. It takes away from highlighting some of the good things that are happening. And it makes it harder. When it comes time in November to make a case to independent voters, two women with a college degree in the suburbs.
Guy Benson: Well, not just and you know about you know about winning a very tough district. And when you’re trying to say and the Republican Party, the White House is trying to say, we are focused like a laser on this global pandemic that’s killed nearly a hundred thousand Americans. And then you see tweet after tweet after tweet about a 2001 debunked conspiracy theory. It’s it’s, to me, quite frustrating. I know you said your piece and we’ve got to leave it there anyway. Congressman Will heart of Texas. There are twenty 3rd District in the Lone Star State, a Republican congressman. Thank you so much for your time today.
Rep.Hurd: Always a pleasure to be on. We’ll talk to you soon.
Guy Benson: Sounds great. We’ll be right back.


radio--2020-04-22--House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) Slams Pelosi For Not Funding Small Business Loans Sooner

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) Slams Pelosi For Not Funding Small Business Loans Sooner: "There Were 22 Million Reasons Why They Should Have Said Yes"

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy ( R-CA ) slammed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi For Not Funding Small Business ( PPP ) Loans Sooner .
Saying `` There Were 22 Million Reasons Why They Should Have Said Yes , Because There Where 22 Million people Unemployed '' .
Listen to The Full Interview Below : Full Transcript : GUY BENSON , FOX RADIO HOST : Joining me now is Kevin McCarthy .
He is the Republican leader in the House of Representatives , GOP member from the state of California .
Mr. Leader , welcome back to the show .
REP. @ @ @ @ @ @ @ you so much , Ben ( sic ) .
Appreciate it to be back .
BENSON : All right .
So we just had this breakthrough yesterday .
And finally after days and days of frankly Democratic obstructionism , a deal was met .
It was passed out of the Senate .
You guys are up next in the House .
I just want to play for you on this deal what Speaker Pelosi just said about it .
Listen to cut 28 .
REP. NANCY PELOSI ( D-CA ) HOUSE SPEAKER : @ @ @ @ @ @ @ works , they were the ones who held up the works for a package that is more effective , fair and the rest as we go forward .
And I do n't -- you know , they -- they like to say we held up .
No , we did n't hold up , they held up , and now we have prevailed .
This is a real victory .
MCCARTHY : I do n't know how she says that with a straight face .
Let 's just look at the facts .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ 's look at the facts .
More than two weeks ago when this -- when this program first entered to help small business to keep their employees , we realized it became so popular .
So the administration asked for more funding .
Mitch McConnell , the leader in the Senate , in a pro forma meeting goes in with one page .
One page of papers on the Senate floor , requests $ 250 billion more to put into the programs so it will not run out of money , so businesses @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Democrats send people to the floor , because you want to do it by unanimous consent .
They object .
We come back the next week , they object .
The only people who held this up were Democrats .
The record shows it , the history shows it .
But Nancy Pelosi as the speaker went on late night T.V.
, opened a refrigerator I could never afford , pulled out this gourmet ice cream and showed the world that she does not have an understanding of what 's happening .
When @ @ @ @ @ @ @ my first small business .
I worked there .
I was the first to work , I was the last to leave , and I was last to be paid .
Every month I wondered whether we were going to get through .
It took off , it did well .
Do you know what every small business is doing right now ?
Every owner is sitting at their kitchen table wondering how they 're going to stay afloat with their doors closed .
Government is providing them because they said they had @ @ @ @ @ @ @ money if you use 75 percent of it to pay your employees , so they do n't go the unemployment line .
You do n't even have to pay it back , it 's free .
Here 's money for your rent , here 's money for your utilities.We had moved in the last 14 days as much money as the Small Business Administration has been able to move in 14 years .
And the only reason why it stopped is the Democrats objected .
And then the world got upset -- and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , I 'll vote for it .
Nancy is wrong .
BENSON : It -- it is sort of stunning and Orwellian to listen to what you just said .
And I can just say I 've been following this extremely closely on this program , your timeline is absolutely accurate .
This is not a partisan shading or partisan spin .
That is just the truth , what you just said .
And for her -- and she 's giving these interviews with her chocolate and her refrigerators , whatever , while @ @ @ @ @ @ @ empty for small businesses .
She was encouraging , in these interviews from her kitchen , encouraging Senate Democrats , hold the line , keep obstructing , we want a different type of deal .
Finally you guys were able to come to some sort of agreement .
And it 's fine , but there were people sitting there - business owners , trying to figure out - 700,000 were in the pipeline wanting these loans and there was no money to give them .
I mean , a single day can make @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , Congressman , and it seemed like she was oblivious to that .
MCCARTHY : You know how big it 's going to make , Guy ?
Tomorrow on Thursday we 're going to get the new numbers of everyone who had to go to unemployment last week .
Every single one of them pretty much that is going to go to unemployment is because the Democrats held this up .
I said , when they went through it , I could not believe they were doing this .
There were 22 million @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , because we have 22 million people unemployed when they did this .
Every week some new millions of people are there .
And think of the hope - think if you 're a small business owner , you 're holding on - that you made that application , you 've got to have ( inaudible ) applications in , and you 're promising your employees , no , no , no , no , no , we 're going to pay you , we 're going to pay you .
Then they @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 's run out , and the Democrats say no .
And then she goes on television , oh the Republicans did it .
Well history only shows we went in ( ph ) -- and the exact same thing happened when we did our first bill , the CARES Act .
I was in the meeting that Sunday morning when we had Schumer , McConnell , and she said no because she was worried about election law , Planned Parenthood , Green New Deal , and sanctuary cities .
And I literally told @ @ @ @ @ @ @ bill up because you want to change the election and what 's going to happen in November .
This is about the coronavirus .
This is about the health of the Americans and our economy .
BENSON : Yes , it 's brazen - it 's really , really brazen .
I think she figures she 'll get some media cover for it , but man , anyone paying attention knows the truth , and it is not what she said .
By the way , I would mention the Treasury Secretary Steve @ @ @ @ @ @ @ do you guys estimate that -- BENSON : -- this PPP program had saved - he said 30 million jobs have been saved by their estimation .
So let 's talk about what comes next , Mr. Leader , because by some accounts , and I 'm reading some very smart people saying , even though you guys just pumped or are going to pump $ 300 billion more into this program , that could run out in a matter of days very , very quickly , because the demand is high and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ -- then what happens ?
MCCARTHY : Well we 've got numerous programs at work here .
It 's not just here that we 're putting money .
For the small business emergency disaster where a number of people have loans , we put another $ 50 billion in there , but that has a multiplying affect , that 's actually worth about $ 350.Then when you look at what we 've done for our bigger business -- and think about the statistic you have right now - 74 percent of all that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ went to companies that had a payroll of less than $ 60,000 a month .
Sixty percent of all the money that went out went though a small bank , a bank with $ 10 billion in assets , and that 's one of the smaller categories we have .
So you 're looking at a program that 's actually - that 's working .
But when you wonder , why would Nancy Pelosi did this , think about what she did when the president stopped the flights from China .
She had @ @ @ @ @ @ @ no-ban bill to actually make it harder for him to do something like that .
When he said that on January 31st , on February 24th she told everybody come on down to Chinatown , it 's OK. And now she goes back and writes a letter and says the president was wrong .
The president made that decision in January when the World Health Organization was saying it does n't transfer person-to-person .
BENSON : Well I mean , look , she 's also going to - and this is predictable like @ @ @ @ @ @ @ when the bad unemployment numbers come out , she is going to blame those on Trump too , right ?
Even though it was her party that held up all this money.By the way , just so I can ask you - I see your colleague Steve Scalise is on the news channel right now .
What 's the timetable that you guys have been given ?
The Senate got this thing done yesterday .
I know people are desperate for this to become law as soon as possible to replenish that fund @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in the House ?
MCCARTHY : Today we 're not voting , tomorrow we will vote .
Members are coming back .
And we have to vote in a different manner , right ?
So we will break it up .
It wo n't be your normal looking at everybody onto the floor , because we 'll have social distancing .
MCCARTHY : We take all the members , and by their alphabet we break them up into nine different sections .
The last section is if you were late .
And you @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Now her first vote that she wants to have - before she wanted to create proxies .
Remember we got rid of proxies in 1994 , but that was only on committees .
But now she wants to create ( ph ) proxies for the floor .
More than 200 years of a history we 've never allowed this -- MCCARTHY : -- where ( ph ) one member - one member could have 30 , 40 different proxies .
Every person in America has a member of Congress broken up in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Because you lend your voice to that congresswoman or congressman for two years .
That 's your accountability on who you want to do - you do n't lend it to some other member to hold that vote .
And this - they want to use this opportunity to seek power .
Remember what the number three majority whip said , Clyburn , he literally said that coronavirus is an opportunity to restructure government in their liberal view .
You had Congresswoman Jayapal , you know what she said ?
She was upset @ @ @ @ @ @ @ money for small business -- BENSON : Yes , because ( ph ) of leverage .
BENSON : Congressman , we 're up on a break .
So today 's a travel day , tomorrow you 're voting , and then the future , there are more fights to come .
We look forward to having you back on this program .
Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy from the House of Representatives on `` The Guy Benson Show . ''

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) slammed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi For Not Funding Small Business (PPP) Loans Sooner. Saying “There Were 22 Million Reasons Why They Should Have Said Yes, Because There Where 22 Million people Unemployed”.
Listen to The Full Interview Below:
Full Transcript:
GUY BENSON, FOX RADIO HOST: Joining me now is Kevin McCarthy. He is the Republican leader in the House of Representatives, GOP member from the state of California. Mr. Leader, welcome back to the show.
REP. KEVIN MCCARTHY (R-CA): Thank you so much, Ben (sic). Appreciate it to be back.
BENSON: All right. So we just had this breakthrough yesterday. And finally after days and days of frankly Democratic obstructionism, a deal was met. It was passed out of the Senate. You guys are up next in the House. I just want to play for you on this deal what Speaker Pelosi just said about it. Listen to cut 28.
(BEGIN AUDIO CLIP)
REP. NANCY PELOSI (D-CA) HOUSE SPEAKER: So in terms of holding up the works, they were the ones who held up the works for a package that is more effective, fair and the rest as we go forward. And I don’t — you know, they — they like to say we held up. No, we didn’t hold up, they held up, and now we have prevailed. This is a real victory.
(END AUDIO CLIP)
BENSON: OK. Your response?
MCCARTHY: I don’t know how she says that with a straight face. Let’s just look at the facts. Let’s not play politics, let’s look at the facts. More than two weeks ago when this — when this program first entered to help small business to keep their employees, we realized it became so popular. So the administration asked for more funding. Mitch McConnell, the leader in the Senate, in a pro forma meeting goes in with one page. One page of papers on the Senate floor, requests $250 billion more to put into the programs so it will not run out of money, so businesses won’t lay more people off. Democrats send people to the floor, because you want to do it by unanimous consent. They object. We come back the next week, they object. The only people who held this up were Democrats. The record shows it, the history shows it. But Nancy Pelosi as the speaker went on late night T.V., opened a refrigerator I could never afford, pulled out this gourmet ice cream and showed the world that she does not have an understanding of what’s happening. When I was 20 years old I opened my first small business. I worked there. I was the first to work, I was the last to leave, and I was last to be paid. Every month I wondered whether we were going to get through. It took off, it did well. Do you know what every small business is doing right now? Every owner is sitting at their kitchen table wondering how they’re going to stay afloat with their doors closed. Government is providing them because they said they had to close their doors. Here’s money if you use 75 percent of it to pay your employees, so they don’t go the unemployment line. You don’t even have to pay it back, it’s free. Here’s money for your rent, here’s money for your utilities.We had moved in the last 14 days as much money as the Small Business Administration has been able to move in 14 years. And the only reason why it stopped is the Democrats objected. And then the world got upset — and her own members started calling me saying, I’ll vote for it. Nancy is wrong.
BENSON: It — it is sort of stunning and Orwellian to listen to what you just said. And I can just say I’ve been following this extremely closely on this program, your timeline is absolutely accurate. This is not a partisan shading or partisan spin. That is just the truth, what you just said. And for her — and she’s giving these interviews with her chocolate and her refrigerators, whatever, while there were five days with this tank empty for small businesses. She was encouraging, in these interviews from her kitchen, encouraging Senate Democrats, hold the line, keep obstructing, we want a different type of deal. Finally you guys were able to come to some sort of agreement. And it’s fine, but there were people sitting there – business owners, trying to figure out – 700,000 were in the pipeline wanting these loans and there was no money to give them. I mean, a single day can make a huge difference for a small business, Congressman, and it seemed like she was oblivious to that.
MCCARTHY: You know how big it’s going to make, Guy? Tomorrow on Thursday we’re going to get the new numbers of everyone who had to go to unemployment last week. Every single one of them pretty much that is going to go to unemployment is because the Democrats held this up. I said, when they went through it, I could not believe they were doing this. There were 22 million reasons why they should have said yes, because we have 22 million people unemployed when they did this. Every week some new millions of people are there. And think of the hope – think if you’re a small business owner, you’re holding on – that you made that application, you’ve got to have (inaudible) applications in, and you’re promising your employees, no, no, no, no, no, we’re going to pay you, we’re going to pay you. Then they look up on T.V., the money’s run out, and the Democrats say no. And then she goes on television, oh the Republicans did it. Well history only shows we went in (ph) — and the exact same thing happened when we did our first bill, the CARES Act. I was in the meeting that Sunday morning when we had Schumer, McConnell, and she said no because she was worried about election law, Planned Parenthood, Green New Deal, and sanctuary cities. And I literally told her, I am not holding a bill up because you want to change the election and what’s going to happen in November. This is about the coronavirus. This is about the health of the Americans and our economy.
BENSON: Yes, it’s brazen – it’s really, really brazen. I think she figures she’ll get some media cover for it, but man, anyone paying attention knows the truth, and it is not what she said. By the way, I would mention the Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin was asked, how many jobs do you guys estimate that–
MCCARTHY: Thirty million–
BENSON: — this PPP program had saved – he said 30 million jobs have been saved by their estimation. So let’s talk about what comes next, Mr. Leader, because by some accounts, and I’m reading some very smart people saying, even though you guys just pumped or are going to pump $300 billion more into this program, that could run out in a matter of days very, very quickly, because the demand is high and there is this pent-up pipeline of applications — then what happens?
MCCARTHY: Well we’ve got numerous programs at work here. It’s not just here that we’re putting money. For the small business emergency disaster where a number of people have loans, we put another $50 billion in there, but that has a multiplying affect, that’s actually worth about $350.Then when you look at what we’ve done for our bigger business — and think about the statistic you have right now – 74 percent of all that $349 billion that already went out went to companies that had a payroll of less than $60,000 a month. Sixty percent of all the money that went out went though a small bank, a bank with $10 billion in assets, and that’s one of the smaller categories we have. So you’re looking at a program that’s actually – that’s working. But when you wonder, why would Nancy Pelosi did this, think about what she did when the president stopped the flights from China. She had a bill on the floor – a no-ban bill to actually make it harder for him to do something like that. When he said that on January 31st, on February 24th she told everybody come on down to Chinatown, it’s OK. And now she goes back and writes a letter and says the president was wrong. The president made that decision in January when the World Health Organization was saying it doesn’t transfer person-to-person.
BENSON: Well I mean, look, she’s also going to – and this is predictable like the sun rising in the East, when the bad unemployment numbers come out, she is going to blame those on Trump too, right? Even though it was her party that held up all this money.By the way, just so I can ask you – I see your colleague Steve Scalise is on the news channel right now. What’s the timetable that you guys have been given? The Senate got this thing done yesterday. I know people are desperate for this to become law as soon as possible to replenish that fund. What’s the vote schedule today in the House?
MCCARTHY: Today we’re not voting, tomorrow we will vote. Members are coming back. And we have to vote in a different manner, right? So we will break it up. It won’t be your normal looking at everybody onto the floor, because we’ll have social distancing.
BENSON: Right.
MCCARTHY: We take all the members, and by their alphabet we break them up into nine different sections. The last section is if you were late. And you’ll have a timeslot to go through. Now her first vote that she wants to have – before she wanted to create proxies. Remember we got rid of proxies in 1994, but that was only on committees. But now she wants to create (ph) proxies for the floor. More than 200 years of a history we’ve never allowed this–
BENSON: Interesting.
MCCARTHY: –where (ph) one member – one member could have 30, 40 different proxies. Every person in America has a member of Congress broken up in almost an even population. Why? Because you lend your voice to that congresswoman or congressman for two years. That’s your accountability on who you want to do – you don’t lend it to some other member to hold that vote. And this – they want to use this opportunity to seek power. Remember what the number three majority whip said, Clyburn, he literally said that coronavirus is an opportunity to restructure government in their liberal view. You had Congresswoman Jayapal, you know what she said? She was upset that they even agreed to allow this money for small business —
BENSON: Yes, because (ph) of leverage.
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BENSON: Congressman, we’re up on a break. So today’s a travel day, tomorrow you’re voting, and then the future, there are more fights to come. We look forward to having you back on this program. Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy from the House of Representatives on “The Guy Benson Show.”
Thank you, sir.
Thank you,


radio--2020-04-24--Judge Napolitano: MI And NJ Governors "In A Game To Interfere With Personal Liberty" The Most

On Fox Across America with Jimmy Failla , Fox News Senior Judicial Analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano discusses how the Governors of Michigan and New Jersey are infringing on the rights of citizens by using law enforcement to enforce COVID-19 guidelines .
`` These so-called laws were written by governors .
And in our system of government , governors do n't write laws .
They enforce laws that have already been written .
So her executive orders , just like Governor Murphy in New Jersey , that the two of them are almost in a game with each other to see @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Their executive orders are just their guidelines .
However , they are dispatching police to enforce them .
None of these enforcement actions will come to a trial until the courts are open again .
And at that time , the courts will basically say to prosecutors there is no statute .
The governor ca n't write a law and assess a penalty .
That 's the background .
What 's going on in Michigan is an effort by a Republican legislature to tell a Democratic governor , stop with these executive @ @ @ @ @ @ @ money away from you and forbid you from using the police to enforce these things .
Now , that is a local Michigan issue .
There 's probably a little bit of politics and there , Republican against Democrat , but she is the most extreme . ''

On Fox Across America with Jimmy Failla, Fox News Senior Judicial Analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano discusses how the Governors of Michigan and New Jersey are infringing on the rights of citizens by using law enforcement to enforce COVID-19 guidelines.
“These so-called laws were written by governors. And in our system of government, governors don’t write laws. They enforce laws that have already been written. So her executive orders, just like Governor Murphy in New Jersey, that the two of them are almost in a game with each other to see who can interfere with more personal liberty. Their executive orders are just their guidelines. However, they are dispatching police to enforce them. None of these enforcement actions will come to a trial until the courts are open again. And at that time, the courts will basically say to prosecutors there is no statute. The governor can’t write a law and assess a penalty. That’s the background. What’s going on in Michigan is an effort by a Republican legislature to tell a Democratic governor, stop with these executive orders and we’re going to take money away from you and forbid you from using the police to enforce these things. Now, that is a local Michigan issue. There’s probably a little bit of politics and there, Republican against Democrat, but she is the most extreme.”


radio--2020-04-01--Louisiana Senator John Kennedy: We're Catching Hell, But We're Coping

Sen. John Kennedy ( R-LA ) spoke with Brian today about how his state is responding to the coronavirus pandemic .
`` We 're catching hell , Brian , but we 're coping .
Adjusted for population I think we 're number two in the number of cases among the states and number three in deaths . ''
Though Sen. Kennedy expressed optimism that Louisiana will overcome the virus , he also emphasized what his state 's biggest needs are .
`` Everybody 's having trouble finding protective equipment , though we 're doing a little bit better there .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ biggest need frankly is ICU nurses and ventilators , '' he said .
Kennedy went on to say that while they can build more ICU beds , they will need ICU nurses to staff them , saying , `` Nurses really run healthcare of America and it 's hard to find ICU nurses right now . ''
On the topic of the escalating oil price war between Russia and Saudi Arabia , which has been driving oil prices to record lows , Kennedy said , `` The Crown Prince , who makes the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ like a total butt head .
He does n't need to do this .
This is all about market share for Saudi Arabia . ''

Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) spoke with Brian today about how his state is responding to the coronavirus pandemic.
“We’re catching hell, Brian, but we’re coping. Adjusted for population I think we’re number two in the number of cases among the states and number three in deaths.”
Though Sen. Kennedy expressed optimism that Louisiana will overcome the virus, he also emphasized what his state’s biggest needs are.
“Everybody’s having trouble finding protective equipment, though we’re doing a little bit better there. Testing is still an issue… our biggest need frankly is ICU nurses and ventilators,” he said.
Kennedy went on to say that while they can build more ICU beds, they will need ICU nurses to staff them, saying, “Nurses really run healthcare of America and it’s hard to find ICU nurses right now.”
On the topic of the escalating oil price war between Russia and Saudi Arabia, which has been driving oil prices to record lows, Kennedy said, “The Crown Prince, who makes the decisions in Saudi Arabia, is acting like a total butt head. He doesn’t need to do this. This is all about market share for Saudi Arabia.”
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