House Minority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy hits Joe Biden for not taking questions on his calls for a national mask mandate and accuses Democrats of putting politics first in COVID-19 relief talks.
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President, I would have the whole
country wear a mask for three
months everywhere
I like to bring in minority
leader, California, Congressman
Kevin Mccarthy,
and not only was Joe Biden, not
the president, which made it
surreal, but he didnt want to
play it all out,
because usually a president
would take questions after
making an announcement like that
to defend his mandate.
This is the way Jobes presser
ended.
What do you think about that?
Pure trump?
Okay, guys,
he doesnt want an election.
Okay lets go you guys
come on
with the small press corps,
one just asked a question and
they were thrown out the door.
How long can this go on
Kevin? Mccarthy?
Well, the one thing you
should say: if Joe Biden was
president, we would still be
debating whether planes from
China should be coming to
America. Instead of discussing
the six vaccines, we have about
ready to go through Barda and
six hundred therapeutics about to come
online
thats. The fundamental
difference,
Joe Biden doesnt, want to take
the questions.
If you ask him the tough
questions, he was opposed to
stops those flights from China
that saved thousands of lives in
America.
This is a really difficult
problem for Joe Biden,
especially if you ask him any
questions or if he came out of
the basement,
Ainsley whats, going on with
the next stimulus package,
so many people are not able to
pay their bills and House and
Senate not back until September.
This is so frustrating,
but remember this is something
that Nancy Pelosi has done every
step of the way.
If you go back to the Cares act.
Remember that moment in time
when we were about to vote on it
and she flew in at night and
stopped the process for more
than a week to get more money
for the Lincoln Center or the
Kennedy Center,
or remember the time that we had
that money for small business,
the ppp that would pay for those
workers that was, it was so
popular that we were going to
run out of money.
So we warned ahead of time
lets put more in and she stood
in front of a refrigerator and
said no
every single time. The pattern is
she wants to stop any
legislation from moving forward
to harm the economy, to try to
win an election
instead of putting the american
public first, she is putting her
politics.
That is wrong,
and that is really the stumbling
block.
Her own. Her number two Steny
Hoyer has said many times. This
is not the red line. When you are
talking about unemployment
insurance,
but then Nancy Pelosi says it
is
she wants to make the threshold
so high that you cant get
something done
thats? Why? I applaud the
president.
He wont play that political
game.
He took action when Pelosi
wanted to continue to stop it,
so he made sure those people and
prioritizing their paychecks
instead of the pot that Nancy
Pelosi wants to see in her
legislation.
Steve, of course, leader
Mccarthy, the biggest story
this week is Kamala Harris was
selected by Joe Biden to be his
running mate that stunned a lot
of people, because she has really
crushed Joe Biden over about the
last nine months before the
primaries in soundbites, like
this
on the hide amendment. Vice
president, where you made a
decision for years to withhold
resources to poor women to have
access to reproductive
healthcare,
I believe him and I respect
them being able to tell their
story and having the courage to
do it.
Do you believe that the vice
president should enter the race
he is going to have to make
that decision for himself?
You also worked with him to
oppose busing,
and there was a little girl in
California who was part of the
second class to integrate her
public school and she was bused
to school every day
and that little girl was me
Steve. She was very effective at
that particular debate and
people went. Oh lets see what
happens
now. We know after she said all
those things he picked her
yeah
its amazing.
You wonder how bad she wants the
job or she cares about her own
philosophy or principles
lets first, look at who Kamala
Harris is
im from California. I watched Kamala Harris glow up.
I watched Kamala Harris glow up.
I watched her be a attorney.
If you look at San Francisco sky,
high tax sanctuary city
sidewalks, people dont want to
walk
in because of her policies.
People are fleeing the city
today.
That is, could be the results.
Eight years from now
also remember. There were things
that Kamala Harris and Joe Biden
did agree upon on that stage.
They both raised their hands to
take away your private health
insurance.
They both believe that they
could take that health insurance
and give it to an illegal
instead of an American.
So she was rated the most
socialist member of the Senate
more than Bernie Sanders
more than Elizabeth Warren.
That is the Kamala Harris that
people need to understand.
Those are the policies that she
implemented in San Francisco.
Those are the problems that we
see coming forward with America
and she doesnt even respect the
person from the fundamental
principles of what she said on
the campaign stage of Joe Biden.
She questioned whether he should
even stay in the race based upon
believing the women.
So how can she even support this
man, but her own policies is not
something we want for America,
it would not only dismaget and
destroy they want to defund.
We watched what she has done
with the police officers and the
rule of law.
We are watching whats happening
looting around this country.
We dont need that to go
further
Brian. Lastly, just in the last
few seconds, Nancy Pelosi goes
from three point: four to two trillion
shouldnt, the Republicans move
too.
They were at one trillion.
Well lets actually talk
about that,
because there is more than a
trillion dollars right now that
has already been appropriated
that hasnt been Outlaid
wouldnt. You want to do the
smart thing
wouldnt, you want to not waste
money.
If there is already a trillion
sitting there, thats more than
one hundred billion for the states. Why
wouldnt you use that
or more than one hundred billion for
small businesses?
Is it because the trial lawyers
do not want to see liability
protection for the schools and
the small businesses that you
would make an excuse to hold it
up? One more time
remember when we had to get
liability protection for 3M just
to sell us masks.
The Democrats said not first
time
she held that up. Even
every single time. There has been
a common denominator in every
bill. We have done to protect us
from Covid and its been Nancy
Pelosi holding it up,
be it her refrigerator,
be it her flying in on a Sunday
night
it be standing with the trial
lawyers.
She is doing it one more time,
even though we have a trillion
dollars sitting there, that we
can take that we have already
appropriated to meet her number.
Even she refuses in Washington.
Transcript generated on 2020-08-14.