Rep. Doug Collins, R-Ga., discusses the importance of Georgia's Senate runoffs and Congress passing a coronavirus relief bill.
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Pete Jillian, thank you very
much now lets bring in someone
who was there last night, Georgia
GOP congressman Doug Collins,
congressman thanks for being
here this morning
the president was in familiar
form. Last night
we got you almost take for
granted. How often he did
rallies like this. I believe this
was his first post election.
What was it like to be there and
set the stakes of these key
Georgia races?
Well, thank you, PETE its
good to be with you all this
morning.
Yeah this president, in his form,
is doing these rallies and last
night he came to Georgia and
brought the truth of the fact.
These two Senate races are so
important in the future of
America.
This is not just now just two
Senate races in Georgia.
This is actually about changing
the direction of the United
States Senate and putting it in
the hands of Chuck Schumer and
an agenda that is so radical
left that we cannot allow this
to happen, and the president
made it very clear last night
in everything thats going on, he
set the stage and said no matter
what you may feel about the
election and how the
controversies have been
going on. He made it very clear,
David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler
need to be elected because John
Ossoff and Raphael Warnock
would take this country down a
path thats too far extreme and
left, and he was in good form.
Last night
will congressman the president
was in good form when it came to
you. He had very complementary
things to say about you
lets play a clip and then ill.
Ask you a question.
Watch this
president Trump Doug. You want
to run for governor in two years.
Applause,
President Trump, a good looking
governor
will congressman. Let me ask you
a pointed, but also a broad
question as well.
The pointed question is: do you
want to run for governor in two
years, but the broader question
is this:
what should Georgians make of to
some extent some messages that
can seem conflicting,
in other words, theres? Some
doubt out there about the trust
in the system, the voting system
and, as you can hear there, some
frustration with Governor Brian
Kemp, the Secretary of
State as well, but also
recognition of how important
these two senatorial races are.
So the broad question is what
should Georgians think about the
entire state of these
messages and what they should be
doing and pointedly? Are you
interested in run r fog governor?
I appreciate the president
hes a good friend. The only
political decision im looking
at right now is helping David
Perdue and Kelly Loeffler get
elected, and I dont think
theres two messages here and
two conflicting messages:
its an anomaly to actually say
that you have to decide and make
sure that our elections have the
integrity. They need that
everybody show up and everybody
vote and, at the same time, make
sure that everybody does show up
and vote for Kelly Loeffler and
David Perdue.
Those are not conflicting
messages.
Those are honest messages.
Remember weve, just I just dealt
with four years of the
Democratic Party that, to
this day still never recognized
Donald Trump as the President,
the hashtag notmypresident all
of the investigations, and this
president was never
accepted, and the election was
never accepted a few years ago.
Why dont? We allow a little bit
of time to go through where the
president can have his legal
challenges and make sure the
elections are safe, secure
and every legal vote is counted
especially here in Georgia, as
we have two election races
coming up for Kelly Loeffler and
David Perdue. But again I think
the president just making the
clear point that we can do
more than one thing at a time
we can make sure our elections
are safe, while at the same time
ensuring the Senate does not go
to the radical left.
Jedediah congressman lets
talk, Covid, 19 relief,
a lot of businesses around the
country getting increasingly
concerned increasingly
desperate for that relief.
Nancy Pelosi now coming out
saying that shes, okay, with a
smaller bill, the timing of that
obviously terribly interesting
and highly political
Bernie Sanders now saying, though,
a new nine hundred dollars billion bipartisan
workers tells me that this is
not a bill that should be passed
Jedediah. So the truth is here
that, while politicians are
arguing about it, people are
just out there needing help.
Where does this land? When does
the help arrive?
Well, thats, a great question,
but you know look
there will be no bill acceptable
to Bernie Sanders if it wasnt
a government takeover of our
economy. So lets just be honest
about that and put him to the
side and then look in the
dictionary of political
hypocrisy, be Nancy Pelosi. The
speaker who all through the
fall would never come to the
table and discuss getting relief
before the election and then
miraculously now that she
believes Joe Biden won. The
election and vaccine is
around the corner. Okay, ill!
Look at something different.
That is despicable.
What the speaker said the other
day in not playing politics and
now playing politics. There are
people out there who are hurting
right now.
We wanted to see relief target,
our businesses and those
communities that need this
help and the president last
night spoke about this in the
rally when he said he wants
to see this relief happen.
Speaker Pelosi should be ashamed
of herself for actually now
showing what weve known all
along, and that is that this is a
political decision for her. That
shes been saying. The only thing
I get from Speaker Pelosi is now.
She just admitted what weve
known all along.
She played politics with people.
S lives on Covid response,
PETE, absolutely she said it
couldnt be lower than
two dollars trillion and now here we are
at nine hundred billion and it makes no
sense other than through a
political lens.
Congressman Doug Collins come
back after the special
election and well ask you the
same question and force you
to actually answer it about
whether you want to run for
governor
laughter.
Transcript generated on 2020-12-06.