With talking points in hand CBS’s Margaret Brennan drops all pretenses and goes straight into her role as defender of the Biden regime in the White House.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy appears on Face the Nation for a dueling narrative contest with Ms. Brennan. WATCH (transcript below):
[Transcript] -Mr. Speaker, good morning to you.
REPRESENTATIVE KEVIN MCCARTHY (R-California): Good morning. Thanks for having me back in studio.
MARGARET BRENNAN: It must be sobering to hear that reminder.
REPRESENTATIVE KEVIN MCCARTHY: Well, it took me a little while to get there, but it feels good.
(LAUGHTER)
MARGARET BRENNAN: Well, you are here now at this key moment in time. And I want to get to some of the top agenda items.
You have accepted an invitation to meet with President Biden. When will that happen, and what offer will you put on the table?
REPRESENTATIVE KEVIN MCCARTHY: Well, we’re going to meet this Wednesday.
I know the president said he didn’t want to have any discussions, but I think it’s very important that our whole government is designed to find compromise. I want to find a reasonable and a responsible way that we can lift the debt ceiling, but take control of this runaway spending.
I mean, if you look at the last four years, the Democrats have increased spending by 30 percent, $400 billion. We’re at a 120 percent of GDP. We haven’t been in this place to debt since World War 2. So we can’t continue down this path.
And I don’t think there’s anyone in America who doesn’t agree that there’s some wasteful Washington spending that we can eliminate.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Mm-hmm.
REPRESENTATIVE KEVIN MCCARTHY: So, I want to sit down together, work out an agreement that we can move forward to put us on a path to balance, at the same time, not put any — any of our debt in jeopardy at the same time.
MARGARET BRENNAN: But avoid a default, in other words?
REPRESENTATIVE KEVIN MCCARTHY: Yes.
MARGARET BRENNAN: But do you have any indication that the president is willing to discuss both lifting the debt ceiling and the issue of future spending?
REPRESENTATIVE KEVIN MCCARTHY: Well, if he’s changed his mind from his whole time in the Senate and vice president before — I mean, he literally led the talks in 2011 and he praised having those talks. This is what he’s always done in the past.
And if he listens to the American public, more than 74 percent believe we need to sit down and find ways to eliminate this wasteful spending in Washington. So, I don’t believe he would change his behavior from before, and I know there’s a willingness on our side to find a way that we can find a reasonable and responsible way to get this done.
MARGARET BRENNAN: But, right, I mean, you know why I’m asking that…
REPRESENTATIVE KEVIN MCCARTHY: Yes.
MARGARET BRENNAN: … in terms of not linking one as leverage for the other.
REPRESENTATIVE KEVIN MCCARTHY: Yes.
Well, in my first conversation — and, to be fair, the president, when he called me to congratulate winning speaker, this is one of the first things I brought up to him. And he said we’d sit down together.
Now, I know his staff tries to say something different, but I think the president is going to be willing to make an agreement together.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Well, we’ll watch for that on Wednesday.
REPRESENTATIVE KEVIN MCCARTHY: I’m hopeful, yes.
MARGARET BRENNAN: I want to dig into what you are willing to put on the table because Republicans campaigned on fiscal responsibility.
You promised you won’t spend more next year than you did last year. Are you willing to consider any reductions to Social Security and Medicare?
REPRESENTATIVE KEVIN MCCARTHY: No. Let’s take those off the table. We want to…
MARGARET BRENNAN: Completely?
REPRESENTATIVE KEVIN MCCARTHY: Yes.
I mean, if you read our commitment to America, all we talk about is strengthening Medicare and Social Security. So — and I know the president says he doesn’t want to look at it, but we’ve got to make sure we strengthen those. I think…
MARGARET BRENNAN: What do you mean by strengthen them? You mean lift the retirement age, for example?
REPRESENTATIVE KEVIN MCCARTHY: No, no, no.
What I’m talking about, Social Security and Medicare, you keep that to the side. What I want to look at is, they’ve increased spending by 30 percent, $400 billion, in four years. When you look at what they have done, adding $10 trillion of debt for the next 10 years in the short time period, if you just look a month ago, they went through and they never even passed a bill through appropriations in the Senate.
While Mr. Schumer has been leader, he’s never passed a budget. He’s never passed the appropriation bill. He simply waits to the — to the end of the year and allowed two senators who are no longer here to write a $1.7 trillion omnibus bill. I think we…
MARGARET BRENNAN: You want to work with Democrats to come to agreement on a budget?
REPRESENTATIVE KEVIN MCCARTHY: Yes.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Is that what you’re saying?
REPRESENTATIVE KEVIN MCCARTHY: Yes, I — I first think our very first responsibility, we both should have to pass a budget. We both should have to pass the appropriations bill, so the country can see the direction we’re going.
But you cannot continue the spending that has brought this inflation, that has brought our economic problems. We’ve got to get our spending under control.
MARGARET BRENNAN: OK, just fact-check, though, 25 percent of the debt was incurred during the last four years of the Trump presidency. I mean, this is cumulative debt over many, many years.
REPRESENTATIVE KEVIN MCCARTHY: Yes, well, over the short — this time period.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Yes.
REPRESENTATIVE KEVIN MCCARTHY: But you’ve also found that you had a pandemic.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Right.
REPRESENTATIVE KEVIN MCCARTHY: And, as that pandemic comes down, those programs leave. I have watched the president say he cut it.
No, it is spending $500 billion more than what was projected. They have spent more. And we’ve got to stop the waste.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Is defense spending on the table?
REPRESENTATIVE KEVIN MCCARTHY: Well, look, I — I want to make sure we’re protected in our defense spending, but I want to make sure it’s effective and efficient.
I want to look at every single dollar we’re spending, no matter where it’s being spent. I want to eliminate waste wherever it is.
MARGARET BRENNAN: But when you became speaker, you did come to that agreement I have referenced of capping ’24 spending at ’22 levels.
REPRESENTATIVE KEVIN MCCARTHY: Well, look, listen…
MARGARET BRENNAN: So that would call for reductions.
REPRESENTATIVE KEVIN MCCARTHY: Well, I mean, look, you’re going to tell me, inside defense, there’s no waste? Others? I mean…
(CROSSTALK)
MARGARET BRENNAN: So defense spending is up for negotiation?
REPRESENTATIVE KEVIN MCCARTHY: They spend a lot of — I think everything, when you look at discretionary, is sitting there.
It’s like every single household. It’s like every single state. We shouldn’t just print more money. We should balance our budget. So I want to look at every single department. Where can we become more efficient, more effective, and more accountable? That should be…
MARGARET BRENNAN: So, more efficiencies in Social Security and Medicare as well?
REPRESENTATIVE KEVIN MCCARTHY: The one thing I want to say, we take Social Security…
MARGARET BRENNAN: Completely?
REPRESENTATIVE KEVIN MCCARTHY: … and Medicare off the table.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Would you support a short-term debt limit extension until September, buy more time for talks?
REPRESENTATIVE KEVIN MCCARTHY: Look, I don’t want to sit and negotiate here.
I would rather sit down with the president, and let’s have those discussions. The one thing I do know is, we cannot continue the waste that is happening. We cannot continue just to spend more money and leverage the debt of the future of America.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Right.
REPRESENTATIVE KEVIN MCCARTHY: We’ve got to get to a balanced budget.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Well, and I think many people would agree with you on the issue of fiscal responsibility, but there’s that deadline on the calendar in terms of facing potential default.
Are you saying…
REPRESENTATIVE KEVIN MCCARTHY: Well, wait. Wait a minute…
MARGARET BRENNAN: … you will guarantee the United States will not do that?
REPRESENTATIVE KEVIN MCCARTHY: Listen, we’re not going to default.
But let me be very honest with you right now. So we hit the statutory date. But let’s take a pause. We have hundreds of billions of dollars. This won’t come to fruition until sometime in June. So the responsible thing to do is sit down like two adults and start having that discussion.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Mm-hmm.
REPRESENTATIVE KEVIN MCCARTHY: Unfortunately, the White House was saying before, like, they wouldn’t even talk.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Right.
REPRESENTATIVE KEVIN MCCARTHY: I’m — I’m thankful that we’re meeting on Wednesday, but that’s exactly what we should be doing.
And we should be coming to a responsible solution. Every family does this. What is — what has happened with the debt limit is, you reached your credit card limit. Should we just continue to raise the limit? Or should we look at what we’re spending?
MARGARET BRENNAN: Well, it’s paying past commitments.
REPRESENTATIVE KEVIN MCCARTHY: If Chuck Schumer — yes, but if — no, no.
Chuck Schumer never passed a budget since he’s been leading. He’s never passed an appropriation bill. Those are the most basic things that Congress should do. And what — if you’re going to show to the American public where you want to spend your money, and if you’re going to ask the hardworking taxpayer for more of their money, you first should lay out how you’re going to spend it, and you should eliminate any waste, so you don’t have to raise more taxes.
MARGARET BRENNAN: But just to put a fine point on it, because it matters a lot to the markets in particular, you will avoid a default? You will not let that happen on your watch?
REPRESENTATIVE KEVIN MCCARTHY: Look, there will not be a default.
But what is really irresponsible is what the Democrats are doing right now, saying you should just raise the limit.
MARGARET BRENNAN: But would you…
REPRESENTATIVE KEVIN MCCARTHY: I think…
MARGARET BRENNAN: Would you get in the way — if 15 Republicans came to you and said they would be willing to raise the debt limit…
REPRESENTATIVE KEVIN MCCARTHY: The only person — but let me be very clear.
MARGARET BRENNAN: … would you allow them to do so with Democrats?
REPRESENTATIVE KEVIN MCCARTHY: The person — the only person who is getting in the way right now is the president and Schumer. They won’t even pass a budget. They won’t even negotiate. We have now until June.
I want to make sure we have something responsible, something that we can move forward on and something that we can balance our debt with. So I’m looking for sitting down. That’s exactly what I have been asking for. The only one who’s playing with the markets right now is the president to have the idea that he wouldn’t talk.
Does the president really believe and, really, all your viewers, do you believe there’s no waste in government? Do you believe there was no waste in that $1.7 trillion? That’s what we were spending just four weeks ago. So, I think the rational position here is, sit down, eliminate the waste and put us on a path to balance.
MARGARET BRENNAN: We’ll watch for that meeting on Wednesday.
I want to ask you about your vision of leadership. You made a number of deals within your party to win the speakership. Senator Mitch McConnell, your Republican colleague, said: “Hopefully McCarthy was not so weakened by all this that he can’t be an effective speaker.”
How can you effectively govern with a very narrow majority and when your conference is so divided?
REPRESENTATIVE KEVIN MCCARTHY: Well, that may be somebody else’s opinion. So let’s just see what my father always said. It’s not how you start. It’s how you finish.
So, let’s — you see what happened in the first week. So, in the very first week, we have passed what? We repealed the 87,000 IRS agents. We bipartisanly created a new Select Committee on China, where 146 Democrats joined with us.
We bipartisanly passed to stop the Strategic Petroleum Reserve being sold to China, where 113 Democrats joined with us. We have just now, for the first time on the House — it hasn’t happened in seven years, the entire time the Democrats were in the majority, where you had an open rule.
And let me explain what that is. An open rule allows every single member of the House to offer an amendment on a bill. So what I’m trying to do here is let every voice in America have their ability inside the House. We opened the House back up so the public could actually join.
MARGARET BRENNAN: So you’re arguing you haven’t been weakened? But…
REPRESENTATIVE KEVIN MCCARTHY: I — no, it’s only been strengthened.
Maybe people didn’t like what they saw that we didn’t win on the very first vote, but that was democracy. And what you found at the end of the day, we’re actually stronger.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Well, I would…
REPRESENTATIVE KEVIN MCCARTHY: You know what else?
MARGARET BRENNAN: Yes.
REPRESENTATIVE KEVIN MCCARTHY: We changed it where members of Congress now have to show up for work. I know, in the Senate, they don’t come very often.
But if you look what we’ve been able to do, we’re transforming Congress. We’re looking for solutions.
MARGARET BRENNAN: But you also allowed one — just one member now can force a vote to oust you as speaker.
REPRESENTATIVE KEVIN MCCARTHY: OK.
MARGARET BRENNAN: How can you expect to serve in the next two years in this role?
REPRESENTATIVE KEVIN MCCARTHY: Exactly how every other speaker has served with that.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Without those rules like that right now.
REPRESENTATIVE KEVIN MCCARTHY: No.
MARGARET BRENNAN: That’s a risk.
REPRESENTATIVE KEVIN MCCARTHY: OK.
MARGARET BRENNAN: I mean, do you really think you can control the Freedom Caucus and some of those more conservative members who gave you such a hard time?
REPRESENTATIVE KEVIN MCCARTHY: Everybody has a voice.
But let me — let me explain that. That one vote to vacate, that’s not new. That’s been around for 100 years. The only person who took it away when they got a small majority was Nancy Pelosi. So, Nancy felt she did not have the power to stay in office if that was there. I’m very comfortable in where we are.
MARGARET BRENNAN: OK.
REPRESENTATIVE KEVIN MCCARTHY: So I don’t have any fear in that.
MARGARET BRENNAN: You don’t regret any of the concessions you made?
REPRESENTATIVE KEVIN MCCARTHY: The only concession I made was taking it from five to one, where it’s been around for 100 years.
MARGARET BRENNAN: I want to ask you about some of the makeup of your caucus.
REPRESENTATIVE KEVIN MCCARTHY: Yes.
MARGARET BRENNAN: According to CBS records, 70 percent of the House GOP members denied the results of the 2020 election.
You’ve put many of them on very key committees, Intelligence, Homeland Security, Oversight. Why are you elevating people who are denying reality like that?
REPRESENTATIVE KEVIN MCCARTHY: Well, if you look to the Democrats, their ranking member, Raskin, had the same thing, denied Trump when Bush was in there. Bennie Thompson, who was the…
(CROSSTALK)
MARGARET BRENNAN: Did you see those numbers we just put up there?
REPRESENTATIVE KEVIN MCCARTHY: Did you see the — yes.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Seventy percent.
REPRESENTATIVE KEVIN MCCARTHY: Did you also be fair and equal and where you looked at Raskin did the same thing. Bennie Thompson, who’s a ranking member and was the chair?
These individuals were chair in the Democratic Party.
MARGARET BRENNAN: I’m asking you, as leader of Kevin McCarthy’s House…
REPRESENTATIVE KEVIN MCCARTHY: But I’m also — I’m also…
MARGARET BRENNAN: … why you made these choices. These were your choices.
REPRESENTATIVE KEVIN MCCARTHY: Yes, They’re my choices, but they’re the conference choices.
But I’m also asking you, when you look to see just Republicans, Democrats have done the same thing. So maybe it’s not denying. Maybe it’s the only opportunity they have to have a question about what went on during the election.
So, if you want to hold Republicans to that equation, why don’t you also hold Democrats? Why don’t you hold Jamie Raskin? Why don’t you hold Bennie Thompson, when Democrats had appointed them to be chair? I never once heard you ask Nancy Pelosi or any Democrat that question when they were in power in the majority, when they questioned…
MARGARET BRENNAN: You’re talking about things going back to 2000, which was a time…
REPRESENTATIVE KEVIN MCCARTHY: Well, you’re talking about…
MARGARET BRENNAN: … when I didn’t have this show back then…
REPRESENTATIVE KEVIN MCCARTHY: Yes.
MARGARET BRENNAN: … which is why I’m asking you now about your leadership.
REPRESENTATIVE KEVIN MCCARTHY: No, on, but they were — they were in power last Congress. So, why — why…
MARGARET BRENNAN: But you’re talking about questions from 2000 election.
REPRESENTATIVE KEVIN MCCARTHY: But you’re asking me about that happened to another Congress.
MARGARET BRENNAN: About these choices you just made, you just made.
REPRESENTATIVE KEVIN MCCARTHY: You’re asking about questions for another Congress.
So, the only thing I’m simply…
MARGARET BRENNAN: This is your Congress.
REPRESENTATIVE KEVIN MCCARTHY: These — these are members who just got elected by their constituents, and we put them into committees, and I’m proud to do it.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Let me ask you about some specifics then. Marjorie Taylor Greene, you put her on a new subcommittee to investigate the origins of COVID.
REPRESENTATIVE KEVIN MCCARTHY: Yes.
MARGARET BRENNAN: She compared mask requirements to the type of abuse Jews were subjected to during the Holocaust. She called for Fauci to be arrested and imprisoned, and she spread conspiracy theories.
How is anyone supposed to take that work seriously and find that work credible?
REPRESENTATIVE KEVIN MCCARTHY: Very well. You look at all of it, so you have all the questions out there. I think what the American public…
MARGARET BRENNAN: You think these are legitimate questions?
REPRESENTATIVE KEVIN MCCARTHY: I think what the American public wants to see is an open dialogue in the process. This is a select committee where people can have all the questions they want, and you’ll see the outcome.
MARGARET BRENNAN: You know that there is a lot of doubt about institutions and faith in institutions in this country.
REPRESENTATIVE KEVIN MCCARTHY: Oh, yes, when you saw what happened in Congress where they had proxy voting, where bills didn’t go through committees, and you…
(CROSSTALK)
MARGARET BRENNAN: I don’t think most people know what proxy voting is.
REPRESENTATIVE KEVIN MCCARTHY: Well, let — well let — Well, let’s explain what proxy…
MARGARET BRENNAN: But — but approval…
(CROSSTALK)
REPRESENTATIVE KEVIN MCCARTHY: But I think it would be fair to your viewers…
MARGARET BRENNAN: Approval level, according to Gallup, of Congress is at 22 percent. Approval level of journalists is also not very high, I will give you that.
But doesn’t it further wear down credibility when you put someone who is under state, local, federal, and international investigation as a representative of your party on committees?
REPRESENTATIVE KEVIN MCCARTHY: Are you talking about Swalwell?
MARGARET BRENNAN: I’m talking about George Santos…
REPRESENTATIVE KEVIN MCCARTHY: No, I…
MARGARET BRENNAN: … representative from New York.
REPRESENTATIVE KEVIN MCCARTHY: Well, we should have that discussion. So let’s have that discussion.
You want to bring up Santos, and let’s talk about the institution itself, because I agree wholeheartedly that Congress is broken. And I think your — I think your listeners or viewers should understand what proxy voting was, because it never took place in Congress before.
MARGARET BRENNAN: But I’m asking you about George Santos.
REPRESENTATIVE KEVIN MCCARTHY: I know you asked me a question. Let me ask you.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Because you could put it to a vote to try to oust him.
REPRESENTATIVE KEVIN MCCARTHY: You asked me a question. I would appreciate if you let me answer.
So let’s go through this, because it’s not one simple answer. Congress is broken, based upon what has transpired in the last Congress. The American public wasn’t able to come in to see us. People voted by proxy, meaning you didn’t have to show up for work, Bills didn’t go — have to go through committee.
So what I’m trying to do is open the people’s house back for the people so their voice is there, so people are held accountable.
So, now, as I just had in the last week, for the first time in seven years…
MARGARET BRENNAN: Yes.
REPRESENTATIVE KEVIN MCCARTHY: … every member got to vote.
MARGARET BRENNAN: If you got a third of your caucus to vote to oust him, you could do so.
(CROSSTALK)
MARGARET BRENNAN: Do you — you don’t think you could get your Republicans to do that?
REPRESENTATIVE KEVIN MCCARTHY: I wasn’t finished answering the question.
So, if every single new person brought into Congress was elected by their constituents, what their constituents have done is lend their voice to the American public. So those members can all serve on committee.
Now, what I’m trying to do is change some of these committees as well, like the Intel Committee is different than any other committee.
MARGARET BRENNAN: So, you’re just not going to answer the question I asked?
REPRESENTATIVE KEVIN MCCARTHY: Well, no, I — no, you don’t get a question whether I answer it. You asked a question. I’m trying to get you through that.
MARGARET BRENNAN: I don’t think you’ve said the name George Santos, like, once.
(LAUGHTER)
MARGARET BRENNAN: I have asked you a few times.
REPRESENTATIVE KEVIN MCCARTHY: But you know what? I just — but — but…
MARGARET BRENNAN: You’re talking about proxy voting and other things.
REPRESENTATIVE KEVIN MCCARTHY: No, no, no, but — no, you started the question with Congress was broken, and I agreed with you.
MARGARET BRENNAN: No. Congress…
REPRESENTATIVE KEVIN MCCARTHY: But I was answering the question of how Congress is broken and how we’re changing it.
So, if I can finish the question that you asked me, how Congress is broken, I equated every single member…
MARGARET BRENNAN: Yes.
REPRESENTATIVE KEVIN MCCARTHY: … that just got elected by their — by their constituents. They have a right to serve.
MARGARET BRENNAN: OK.
REPRESENTATIVE KEVIN MCCARTHY: So that means that Santos can serve on a committee…
MARGARET BRENNAN: OK.
REPRESENTATIVE KEVIN MCCARTHY: … the same way Swalwell, who had a relationship with a Chinese spy.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Speaker…
REPRESENTATIVE KEVIN MCCARTHY: But they will not serve on Intel, because I think…
(CROSSTALK)
MARGARET BRENNAN: They’re wrapping me in the control room, because we have a break.
REPRESENTATIVE KEVIN MCCARTHY: Well that’s unfortunate. I wish I could answer the question.
MARGARET BRENNAN: I have to leave it there. I would love to have you back.
REPRESENTATIVE KEVIN MCCARTHY: I would love to be able to come back and have time to answer the questions.
MARGARET BRENNAN: OK. We’ve spent a lot of time here, and I have more questions for you.
But I got to go.
Brennan is just another Democrat spokesmouth.
You might as well replace her with Adam Schiff.
Exactly. Brennan is an empty suit.
McCarthy shows in this interview his finest attribute, he’s smooth and can cut deals. He came out the winner here.
Very Impressive. I hope he is the POTUS within 30 days.
Best line…
BRENNAN: ‘But doesn’t it further wear down credibility when you put someone who is under state, local, federal, and international investigation as a representative of your party on committees?’
REPRESENTATIVE KEVIN MCCARTHY: Are you talking about Swalwell? 🙂
I would have asked about Biden….he should be in that same position after all of his hidden papers that his son could have access to, not under lock and key like Trump had the ones he had.
She’s insufferable.
This is why these “interviews” hold no interest for me. To much interrupting from a woman who clearly didn’t want answers.
(I’d slap her, but I couldn’t reach her from here.)
LOL
Oh, and deservedly…slap!
Brennan banged her own head
😂😂😂
Like Scarlett slapped Prissy.
😂😂😂😂😂😁
I don no nuhfin boud burvin no baybees
😂😂😂!!
I virtually slapped her. Not as good as the real thing, but will have to suffice.
The satisfaction you must have gotten from that, rita😁
She was doing what she was told by the person in her ear.
She was cutting across McCarthy so much, yap yap yap, I doubt she could even hear any voice in her ear. Just her own.😉
That’s exactly what these “interviews” are always set up to do. A smarmy TeeVee person lobs predetermined gotcha questions, while pointedly ignoring the answers. The person in the ‘hot seat’ is perpetually on the defensive.
I’m tired of watching the same ENEmedia m.o., over and over again. It’s as pointless as “arguing” with troll armies and bots. And it’s dangerous to passively assist them in relentlessly pushing coordinated, 4am talking points/ propaganda as the “news” of the day.
No more pressure valve news ‘releases’ for me! It’s high time we get down to the brass tacks.
I am waiting for God’s children to step up and take the reins from these interviewers.. by completely ignoring their pre-determined “gotchas” ..and taking that brief window of opportunity, in a culture of pure censorship and gaslighting, to hammer home OUR talking points.
For example:
INTERVIEWER: “Ronna McDaniel’s re-election RNC.. Blah blah blah.. ”
A: “Last week, my brother-in-law suddenly collapsed and DIED.. I’m sorry to change the subject here.. but this is just SO unsettling.. I mean.. people I KNOW PERSONALLY are now having heart emergencies and SUDDEN onset aggressive cancers, right after their mRNA injections..”
Completely ignore the flustered ‘comebacks’ and continue hammering home YOUR talking points. Wait for them to stop speaking, and then add:
“You know, my BIL took the mRNA vaccines. Yet he got one infection after the other.. and SUDDENLY now he is dead..”
Interviewer: “Blah blah blah..”
A: “WHY does the WEF plan to ‘vaccinate’ us with mRNA through our FOOD sources? And is Pfizer CREATING new viruses with targeted evolution?”
You get the idea.. plant our own seeds for discussion instead of constantly feeding *their* false talking points. How about WE go into that interview with our own agenda, for once?
Quite simply, TODAY, the hot topic in the western world should be.. and is .. GENOCIDE.
I’m sure these people go to some sort of school to learn their “interviewing techniques”. There is definitely a love of their own voices in each one.
Or as I said elsewhere… DEMOCIDE. The murder of citizens by their own government.
Well put. We need to find our *own* voices and take *offensive* positions in these debates.
President Trump had a great debating style that set these cretins back on their heels, sputtering in confusion.
He always commanded any stage he entered and sucked the air out of the room. Oh, how the globalists hated him for that!
We don’t need F-15’s or even AR-15’s to take over the governments of the world. Nope, we just need the will of the people to finally stand up and say… “F@@K YOU!!!”
It’s Glorious to see Humanity finally come together on this front. Fear and propaganda is all they have and all they’re ever going to have.
She’s as slimy as John Brennan. Are you sure she isn’t his seed?
Nah
He’s a EUNUCH
I think her daddy is Edward J Brennan. His father was Edward A Brennan, who was CEO of Sears. Margaret’s mother was Jane, and Edward is now married to a Deborah, but I’m pretty sure it’s the right Edward as he has been honored at Niagara University which is where Margaret got her doctorate.
She comes from money and privilege.
In 2016, Brennan and his wife, Deborah, provided a financial gift to Niagara University to honor his father and establish the Edward A. Brennan Center for Language, Culture, and Leadership, and he continues to be active in the work of the center, which focuses on leading, learning and serving the needs of international families and students, as well as English language learners within the community through agencies that serve the needs of refugee, migrant and immigrant populations.
https://www.wnypapers.com/news/article/current/2021/05/13/146620/global-business-leader-edward-j.-brennan-named-chairman-of-niagara-university-board-of-trustees
This Brennan chick is a shrew.
She is an outright Leftist. McCarthy did a great job against her. Keep it up, Kevin!
Cut that _______’s tongue out
WoW!!
I thank my lucky stars every time SD includes the transcript when Marge Brennan is in the video 😇
Couldn’t agree more Tiff!
Something about reading the transcript as opposed to actually having to LISTEN TO M. BRENNAN serves to keep my blood pressure in check. 🙂
#Metoo
Rather read than have to listen to any of them ….stupid leftists’. All they can do is try harder to kill the American dreams.
We must inoculate ourselves so that we can wade into the swamp, recognize them, and thrown them on the bank in the sunlight to dry up and rot. So we recognize them by their lies and deceptive actions, which are far more shrewd than the crazy democrats who just have their passions. It is the repub RINOs who are robbing us blind.
Sunlight, at every corner. Sunlight in the night. Read and avoid. Read and illuminate. We outnumber them. Keep pushing MAGA patriots into the political arena. Start movements locally where your friends and family are feeling it in their pocketbook, in their declining medical care, in their children’s empty education and brainwashing.
In your local areas, start asking:
Just FYI – I was in Swedish Hospital in 2016 and my heart stopped, woke up in ICU. Next day the hospitalist (a handsome black Dr) said he had almost discharged me and then thought “no, I’d better keep her.
Far as I’m concerned he saved my life…along with the others who saved me…and there were quite a few involved.
8. Why has Big Harma enjoyed a complete legal liability shield for childhood vaccines since 1986?
9. Why are mRNA gene experiments being considered for inclusion in the childhood ‘vaccination’ schedule?
Yeah. Somehow, she manages to be even more annoying that Chuck Todd. Not sure how she would test against Joy Behar.
Her name is Joyless Behar. She is evil.
I know Brennan is a lightweight but the encouraging item to come out of this cluster of an interview is that the activist press has lost control of the narrative.
Exactly
In our new corporatist, fascist culture, the rich and powerful have clearly chosen the one Party that will ultimately form the one-Party State, and that party is the Democrat Party.
I’m watching the owner of the Philadelphia Eagles, Jeff Lurie, being buddy-buddy with the actor Bradley Cooper in his owner’s private box at today’s playoff game.
Jeff Lurie is the creep who pretended his team would attend the White House in 2018 after they won the Super Bowl. The Eagles didn’t show up, and the point of this act of incredible rudeness was to embarrass Donald Trump. Nothing else.
Bradley Cooper played Chris Kyle in the movie American Sniper, a movie very popular with conservatives. In fact, Cooper, like almost all Hollywood actors, is a big-time Democrat.
The Democrats believe the clock is ticking on the two-Party American style of democracy; based on the egregious 2020 election, they’re right.
That and the fact that we will do nothing to stop them, thank God I’m older.
Eh, some players will see their missed opportunity later.
Them staying away from thee Whitehouse only hurts them.
Most athletes seem to grasp that their athletic careers are only Act I.
Very few retire until they simply can’t go on.
Sandy Koufax retired at 30 because he required pain-killing drugs to function, and he feared becoming an addict.
The owners like Lurie exist as a different social class, even though they now pay the players $millions.
The understanding of social class is maybe the most profound concept existing in American culture.
The divide between Democrat and Republican has become an exercise in social class, more than anything else. The leaders of the Republican Party are embarrassed by the voters they rely upon.
F** ’em!
LOL! The Corporate Shill couldn’t deal with the Speaker laying out some facts! Kevin slayed the Corporate Barker. Too funny 🙂
Hey woohoowee! I think he slayed one of the snakes.
Howdy, gf 🙂 Hope you’re doing well!
I am. You too!
Yes he did! Good to see you!
And you as well 🙂
Republicans should have agreed to completely avoid these Sunday shows.
Can you imagine her even attempting to interview Pelosi, or any D like an attack dog. There would be serious reprecussions for Brennan if she had anywhere near a contentious interview like that. Thought Mc Carthy did as well as he could considering the circumstances.Pray and help others.
I disagree.
They should go on them and set the place on fire.
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If they can and will do as great a job as Kevin just did against Margaret, we will slay them!
“Avoid Sunday shows” and hostile interviewers is advise still frequently offered, especially to President Trump.
Should Republicans stay in comfy echo chambers and ideologically pure bubbles?
Remember Christs responses when the Pharisees gave Him the “advise” to only preach to those pious enough to enter a temple?
Thankfully some people have the courage to leave the temples and go to where the lost sheep congregate.
It’s all about the narrative.
This is the best any Repug can ever hope for when they go on Government controlled media to be interviewed by Government controlled journalists. He did just fine. He should not go on her show again. These Demcommies have to learn that being rude to people because you are both stupid and arrogant is not a good way to get future interviews.
Great Job Kevin. Way to stonewall that B and get the truth out. You nailed her every time. Bravo!
I guess B means bitch.I agree
I have to give it to McCarthy here…he did pretty well.
Frankly, I wouldn’t even bother appearing on any of those liberal media outlets if I were any of the republicans and I’d make it known why as publicly as I could…Twitter, Rumble etc.
McCarthy did good; Ms. Brennan is just this side of impossible to listen to.
If it weren’t for sites like this exposing her, nobody would have heard of the interview.
Three legs to the politician’s stool:
1: judgement
2: political savvy
3: Communication skills
So far, I like his comm skills (ability to simply explain the complex while being interviewed by an enemy) and his political savvy (evidenced by how he successfully handled and incorporated the Freedom Caucus concerns). We’ll see about his judgement since he’s not yet been tested.
I agree… McCarthy is well seasoned to not fall into any traps.. in her case she is out of his league..🤣👍
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This is great, I love it and he smiles while he eviscerates the “charming” Ms Brennan.
I sure miss the non arrogant Tim Russert.
She is an attractive Karen.
OMG Margaret is a Good name for her. I love how someone finally put her in her place. It’s like it was her narrative only.
A Few Good Men:
-You want truth
You can’t handle the truth!
Game/set/match McCarthy.
Did McCarthy buy some camo gear lately?
Been practicing at the gun range?
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How do these nut-job incompetents rise to the level of influence they have? Who the heck is Margaret Brennan? The news organizations in the United States can’t find real news people?
Hahaha! When SoH McCarthy brought up the Swalwell and Fang Fang relationship, Brennan all of a sudden ‘ had to go’.
Seriously…..who even watches this shit?
My life is so much better watching reruns of Cheers and Frazier
Other than Tucker’s show, I watch Gunsmoke and the Andy Griffith shows; well, at times I watch a movie on TMC.
Actually, except for places like this that mock her, no one.
Brennan cannot contain her hateful heart towards conservatives. The more sense we make the more off the rails they get, very disgusting people.
They will implode. hopefully in the very near future.
Are imploding, in my opinion. The public discourse has certainly changed. Masks, gone, travel, reinstated, some mandates lifted. Oh, and there is discourse in the house about whether we ought be sending tanks and stuff to Ukraine… None of this is what the party at Davos was hoping for. They had planned a swift entry into permanent masking, lockdowns and clot shots.
My only concern is that in our disdain for the betrayal of our institutions, we throw the baby out with the bath water.
We need to make sure we don’t volunteer for a worse form of government.
“You’re speaking facts, so my producer is telling me we’re out of time”.
Pathetic hack.
i was impressed with him
I don’t know how one puts up with these harpies; I would have
wanted to punch her
MARGARET BRENNAN: I don’t think most people know what proxy voting is.
REPRESENTATIVE KEVIN MCCARTHY: Well, let — well let — Well, let’s explain what proxy…
Did she call her own viewers stupid?
Then doesn’t it make sense for CBS to take a minute to explain proxy voting to their ignorant viewers nationwide instead of talking about a single Representative from NY?
Nope. She was too busy trying to hang Santos around Republicans neck.
Bravo for McCarthy. He did a great job batting back at her. I think she was a little flustered. LOL!
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I think he did very well.
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Salon Boy got beat up by a girl.
She never laid a glove on him.
Two minutes in McCarthy says he believes what the rEsident of the Oval Office says… at that point I do not listen to anything else. McCarthy believes the rEsident of the Oval Office is a functioning human being.
BS
What McCarthy states publicly about the resident of the WH has no bearing on what he actually believes.
Perhaps revisit what McCarthy said, this time viewing his comments as wording designed to give Republicans a narrative advantage during the debt ceiling psywar for the hearts and minds of normies
I’m starting to think Santos is driving the libs crazy
Yes, what’s their real beef with Santos, seeing as our gubmint and ENEmedia, are hardly arbiters of virtue and ethics themselves? These swamp rats break our laws every single day, like the treasonous co-conspirators they are! And we’re supposed to believe these traitors really care about Santos resume?
She’s one of hundreds of mainstream news mouthpieces that stop me from watching most television. All I see is them saying Trump colluded with the the Russians. That’s how I trust their word or not.
Why trust McCarthy when he acknowledges Xiden is not brain dead?
Well, in my first conversation — and, to be fair, the president, when he called me to congratulate winning speaker, this is one of the first things I brought up to him. And he said we’d sit down together.
Sorry…..my belief is that pedojoe knows EXACTLY what he is doing.
o’dumbler got a pass ’cause no one wanted to be called a racist.
hildabeast’s pass would have been the gender card, (albeit, technically she is neither gender).
pedojoe is riding the excuse of likeable ‘ole uncle joe. We can’t pick on our elders, (esp the handicapped).
NO FOLKS………HE KNOWS EXACTLY WHAT HE IS DOING!!!!
Until one of these Eunuch R’s states the fact that rEsident Xiden is a puppet and has NO CLUE what he is talking about, we are toast. SSDD. FUBAR. We can expose TS docs in every Senator, Congressman, DS actor and it won’t create a ripple in the swamp.
What are you formally known as??? What are you now? A waste of space commenter?
Would calling Biden a clueless puppet help Republicans win the battle over raising the debt ceiling?
A major part of who wins this debt ceiling battle relies on who wins the narrative and framing battles ie winning the hearts and minds of still media tranced normies.
Normie questions: Who are the good guys? Who are the bad guys?
Perhaps these Republican “Eunuchs” are focused on winning the psywar and budget battle?
Perhaps what these “Eunuchs” say and don’t say are based on their desire the win these battles?
Personally, I hope more and more of these Republican “Eunuchs” emerge.
Kevins communication skills and media savvy deployed in this exchange were both impressive and encouraging.
Thank you, Sundance, for highlighting this interaction.
This is the part I luv to hear! The Chinese spy & Swalwell!! Keep repeating, repeating, repeating….yes. I think Kev can bury Stalwell if he keeps repeating this.
REPRESENTATIVE KEVIN MCCARTHY: So that means that Santos can serve on a committee…
MARGARET BRENNAN: OK.
REPRESENTATIVE KEVIN MCCARTHY: … the same way Swalwell, who had a relationship with a Chinese spy.
I don’t think McCarthy realized he was negotiating with someone with far more power likely than Joe Biden. I wonder what will come of the Wednesday meeting where Joe doesn’t want to discuss anything at all, and his circle is basically telling Kevin to go pound sand. Margaret was an attack dog, relentless as a pack of pit bulls all by her lonesome almost except the voices in her ear. Kevin did well. Could have been much more forceful about the whole election denier issue they love so much. 70% are election deniers? That should have caused outrage. Says who? Deny reality? If you’re telling me that the election was the most secure and legitimate ever, I would have to question your grasp on reality. Legitimate questions deserve answers and yes we are going to look into that as well as this kangaroo J6 witchhunt and put rules in place to prevent it happening again if possible. Put that in your pipe and smoke it Margaret.
I wipe my brow in support of McCarthy’s presence on this DS program. He did a great job of not letting Brennan get the upper hand. Wow oh wow; she is a Left wing servant. McCarthy did a great job in not letting her manipulate the so-called interview. Keep it up, Kevin!
he did a really good job…..
Gotta break for commercials. Any doubt about who controls American politics?
No, no doubt. I also think that we are finally exposing THEM. I have to add that Elon’s “Twitter Files” is an asset to us. We need all the help we can get. C’mon Patriots, do not let up! With the help of God and all of us, we can do this!!!
I got dizzy just reading it.
Margaret Brennan just totally embarrassed herself in this interview with McCarthy. Keep it up, Kevin!!!
This interview pretty much personifies why folks like Trump….Trump is unabashed and answers questions boldly…the antithesis of McCarthy….not a huge fan of McCarthy…at all….yet here we are…STUCK with him….sigh….
Frankly, I am more concerned with the news reports hinting at a 2025 military conflict with China…What is our Congress doing to prevent that???
Oh right…they make money off the backs of our military children when they go to war….
Hey… red-ish tie… that’s a start, I guess..
Don’t see why any Conservative would go on these Lefty ragtag platforms. They are so anti Conservative and Pro Democrat that it becomes laughable at times. Let these TV wonders work with the Left, the ratings would obviously go down, but the conversations would match the players. Never liked the Lefty “gotcha” game they love to play! Trump is the only one to put them in their place. There’s a reason the Left has to rely on fraud to get elected, yet we never hear about that from them. Someone should start asking these Democrat candidates what the are to run on. Something like raising taxes and what else!
Who watches the MSM Sunday talk shows these days? I thought they were mostly a thing of the past and not relevant, except to brainwashed Lefties. I can’t imagine that their ratings are what they used to be.
If I may, I hate both of those mouth pieces.