House Minority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy joins 'Fox & Friends.'
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Brian Ainsley and Steve
Brian all right Kristin,
thanks so much
lets bring in Congressman Kevin
Mccarthy,
congressman good to see you
theres one thing: a common
thread: all these liberal mayors
who are standing up to the
president are not liked by the
protesters, including the one in
Oakland.
They wanted to actually attack
her house and defile some of her
property.
Would the president be better
off just letting the people
speak and letting the evidence
be the carnage and chaos that
theyve allowed to take root?
You know, politically, you
wanted to do that. Maybe that
would help hum, but this
president cares too much about
the american people.
He cares about safety and
security.
He cares about why its named
operation legend a 4 year old
boy, killed in his sleep in
Kansas City,
Brian, she says thats a
political stunt, the mayor of
Chicago.
No,
what a political stunt is that
is shocking and astonishing to
me is that Democrats continue to
shrug their stories and say
people will do what people do.
This is an opportunity to bring
law and order and justice back
to America,
those people who are living in
those cities in the autonomous
zones and others they cry for
the idea of justice. They cry
for the idea of freedom and
security and safety,
its unfortunate that the
president has to do what hes
doing.
Why have we gone so far?
These mayors, their political
beliefs, are so great that they
dislike this president and you
and I and our beliefs so much
that theyll allow weekend after
weekend, young children to be
murdered upon numbers that are
astonishing for this nation that
they wouldnt work with the
federal government to bring
security and safety back to
their own streets.
Steve leader, Mccarthy,
Kristin Fisher, just set up
weve got two different kinds of
operations going on
in Chicago and in Albuquerque
and in Kansas City, its
operation, legend
theyre surging officers to
where the crime is really bad,
but at the same time youve got
the federal agents up in
Chicago rather up in
Portland over one hundred federal
agents, and they are simply e
there to protect federal assets.
What an upside down world are? We
living in where the localities
will not protect the federal
assets to the point where weve
got to send in reinforcements
and then the locals say get out
thats astonishing to me
thats why I introduced a bill
that could withhold funding for
these local localities if they
dont, protect the statues and
the responsibility of what they
had,
because I know firsthand ive
had a dear friend that her
brother was killed working for
the federal government,
protecting the courthouse in one
of in Oakland California,
during one of those protests,
pulled up in a van open it and
shoot Officer Underwood, simply
because he was an officer
standing in front of a
courthouse
that is the America that we see
under these cities and thats.
Why? I applaud this president for
protecting american citizens,
regardless of what these mayors
political beliefs are
its a responsibility that we
bring safety back to America?
Ainsley many Americans are
watching from afar or but they
are upset about whats happening
in our country.
But this all stems from the
shooting of George Floyd and
then before that people were
trapped in their houses because
of corona
youre. Talking about a sense, a
relief package for individuals
and everyone wants to know: are
they going to get another check?
The republican senators are
revealing their bill.
Do you know the answer to that?
Do you think that there will be
another bill and how much will
people get
well? The important part is
they will get their
unemployment.
The addition from the federal
government is not one size fits
all
remember when we crafted that
bill its China lying to us, not
knowing how long covid would be
with us
is so we crafted something
quickly,
but one size doesnt fit all
the same from Bakersfield
California to New York.
We want to make sure it helps
the individuals who are
unemployed and also brings
people back to work
thats. Why im focused on
liability protection is so were
not suing the schools. These
trial lawyers or small
businesses
help those small businesses that
need that PPP to continue to
grow. To get out of this and
lets help people get back to
work.
So what about those pro growth
ideas that brings that supply
chain back to America?
Did we learn nothing from China?
Its very concerning to me- and
I dont know what the Chinese
have on the Democratic Party,
but they have a China problem.
They will not hold China
accountable.
They will not even bring bills
up on this floor that the Senate
has passed.
I worked with the speaker for
more than a year to get a
bipartisan before Covid
committee dealing with China an
equal number of Republicans and
Democrats.
They agreed, but right before we
named it, they said no,
they will not uphold the
accountability to China,
Brian Brian. They closed the
Houston consulate. A lot of
people say if you really want to
get to China close the San
Francisco consulate, because its
right near Silicon Valley
do you believe that, like the
Russians in two thousand and sixteen, the Chinese
are fomenting some of the unrest
through social media in american
cities?
I believe in the end, when we
study all this, you will find
that there are foreign agitators
that are part of this that are
helping
Brian. Is it China,
I think theres a number of
countries doing it.
I think from the standpoint. Why
do they go after our founding
fathers? Why do they go after
the foundation of what makes
America great?
America is exceptional,
theres, no other nation in the
world that is conceived in
liberty and dedicated to the
proposition that were all
equal
thats. Why? When America leads
the world is safer
Americas more than a country
Americas, an idea
it would make people in Hong
Kong rise up.
They will even rise up in
Tiananmen Square at the goddess
of democracy. That looks like the
I statue of liberty to crave the
ideas of freedom that America
stands for, that shining city
city on a hill
thats, why we cannot allow
whats happening in Portland,
Chicago and others, while
innocent Americans are being
killed, because these mayors want
to play politics instead of
standing for the values of what
this country believes in
Steve. You know and leader
Mccarthy, given the nature of
the polarization in the country,
its not surprising that,
according to a brand new Cato
poll, nearly two thirds of
Americans are afraid to share
their political views,
theyre afraid they might lose a
job, they might lose some
friends
when you look at the breakdown.
Seventy seven percent of conservatives are afraid
to share their opinion and fifty two percent-
that should say centrist,
liberals are afraid to
so. You know weve heard about
the secret trump voter, who was
afraid to say, is yeah im for
Donald Trump, because the poll
taker would think. Oh that guy
is such and such,
but over half of centrist
democrats. Liberals are afraid
to reveal how they feel
what are they afraid to say,
and what do they worry? People
will think of them
its not just what you worry
about, whether youll be able to
keep your job.
Weve got a football coach that
simply wore a t shirt. Maybe it
was on top of the pile to take
his kids fishing.
He lost a million dollars in his
contract.
People said he should be fired.
These are the same type of
marxist tactics, weve found used
in communist countries as well
to demonize individuals for
individual thought
in America. We believe the
individual can have differences
of opinion,
but today in this culture they
want to dehumanize you. If you
have a difference of opinion,
I think thats very unhealthy
and we should not be afraid to
give our values our thoughts,
our positions, our opinions,
but a lot of this is beginning
to look like two thousand and sixteen, whereas they
thought the Democrats that
they were just going to win.
I know theres a silent majority
out there that believes in the
cornerstone and the Foundation
of security and safety that
they want to rebuild, renew and
restore this nation to the
greatness that we know we can
be that tomorrow is better than
today,
and I know those people are
going to support the Trump
administration because hes
willing to stand up for you, the
american public, and not afraid
to tell you his beliefs,
Ainsley, maybe thats, why those
centrists are too afraid.
Transcript generated on 2020-07-29.