Magamike Johnson, the Republican Speaker of the House, is panicking as member...
party want him out. They think that he is the worst Speaker of the House ever Magamike. As you
“know, shut down the House of Representatives until at least July 13th, when there was a full”
fledge revolt in the past week and a half against Magamike's leadership, the Magar Republican extremists in the House blocked Magamike from passing a rule as it's called in order to keep Congress running. So Magamike panicked and he was like, okay, everybody go home until July 13th. So Magamike shut down the House of Representatives until at least July 13th and now we're hearing other Magar Republican leaders mock him for that and they're preparing. They see blood in the water
for them to take over leadership when Magamike cost the Republicans the House of Representatives in the mean term. So by way of example, you've got Magar Republican Congress member Jason Smith. He went public with his criticism of Magamike. It wasn't just a criticism as raw story says.
“Mike Johnson was shamed by Magalon makers over his leadership problems. Fix it or else in this as”
the Magar Republicans are in a full fledge revolt against him. Let me show you what Jason Smith Magar Republican Congress member. He's like the number three top ranking Republican in the House
of Representatives. He went on state regime media Fox and here's what he said. He said,
"We don't need you recessing. Stop sending us home. You're making us all look dumb. Magamike here playing this clip." Is there something more that Johnson can be doing here because out of the last seven speakers? Johnson has had the most failed rule votes at nine. Next behind him was Kevin McCarthy at three and before that there had not been a failed rule since Dennis Haster. Johnson's defense is always that he's got the slimist majority in history,
but you know, when the rule vote on the NDA, the skinny version of the Save America bill failed last week, it's not like he was, you know, keeping members at home and twisting arms and having the president make phone calls. He said you guys home. At what point does this become a leadership problem more than a function of a slim majority? You know, we do have a slim majority. I knew that going into the big beautiful bill. I knew I could only lose two votes in the House and three
in the Senate. We only lost two in the House, three in the Senate, but we were able to third that
needle. It's all about bringing people together. I truly, truly believe that we have to figure out what a team is. We don't need to be recessing when we hit a bump on the road. We need to,
“we need to have a conference meeting, go and hash it out, fix the problem, and that's what”
Speaker Banner, Speaker McCarthy, Speaker Ryan would do, and I strongly insist that let's get the job done for the American people, and I think that you'll see that. With less than 30 seconds. So that was on state regime media earlier, and then thereafter, MAGA Micos on, and MAGA Micos goes right out of Donald Trump's playbook, and MAGA Micos like, okay, okay, I hear what he's saying, but folks, we're dealing with communists right now. We're dealing with Mom Donnie, and people
like that have killed hundreds of millions of people have died because of the beliefs of people like Mom Donnie. What the hell are you talking about? Rent stabilization boards, not raising rent for two years, the horror, giving people free healthcare, universal healthcare, single pair, the horror, making sure that all Americans receive education that they deserve with the horror to make sure that Americans can afford rent, can live the American dream,
can afford to buy and own their homes, the horror to make sure that there can be universal pre-K, to make sure that there can be universal childcare. Oh my God, is this what they're really asking for, to make sure that people can work with dignity and get paid, not just a minimum wage that is not enough to afford the basics of their life, but to be able to actually live a thriving life.
I'll have people get paid a wage with dignity, the horror. Here's what MAGA Micos to say,
let's play it. Mom Donnie got elected in New York. I've been out of the campaign trail country, why? Across the coast, every swing district, the blue state's rent state's saying the
Same thing.
and you better be very serious about this. This is a serious threat to our whole system of government.
“These are Marxists. It's communism, socialism, those are deviations of Marxism,”
begins with the opposite premise of America, and it is a serious threat to us. These people want to say they're saying it out loud. They want to abolish all borders. They want to abolish all prisons. They want to defund the police. They want to abolish the US Senate. They want to pack the Supreme Court. They want the government to take over control of all production. This is communism, and it has led to the murder of innocent people, tens of millions of them in the 20th century alone.
We have to fight this. We're no longer just in an election cycle. We were saying it was common since versus crazy. Now it's common since versus communism, and everybody needs to wake up.
And then you have MAGA Micosale Kail Kail Kail. But here's what we're going to do.
We're going to come up with a reconciliation package. It's going to be big. It's going to be beautiful. It's going to be irresistible to Republicans. And this way, we're going to do this voter suppression. Everybody's going to be happy with MAGA Mic and we're going to suppress people's votes because yeah, Donald Trump doesn't give a shit because Donald Trump doesn't care about affordability when it comes to housing. He hasn't even signed that housing bill. Donald Trump doesn't care about
health care. He'll just lie and say, your health care prices are down 800% just make up numbers.
“But when it comes to voter suppression, that's what we're going to focus on. Why? Because these”
people are losers. They have loser fascist ideas. People like MAGA Mic and Donald Trump are not patriots. They hate America. They hate you. They hate this country. All they want to do is take and take and steal and cheat and commit crimes. That's what they want to do. Here's a MAGA Mic has to say. Let's play it. What we're planning to do is send over a bill that will be
irresistible for any Republican really incredible piece of legislation that will get the job done.
Meaning that we will continue to increase affordability. We'll reduce fraud, waste, abuse, and government. And we'll secure elections. Every Republican would vote for that if package correctly. And that's what we're planning to do right now. All right. So that's where Save America Act is going to move to the Senate. It's probably through that plan. Oh, I want to bring in right now. I want to bring in Democratic Congress member,
Crystal Luzio from Pennsylvania, true Patriot. Let me bring in Congress member Delusio. I interviewed him just before. Let me bring in the interview. I just did with Congress member Delusio from Pennsylvania. Bring in it. I want to bring in Congress member Crystal Luzio from Pennsylvania. Congressmen, great to see it. You know, these economic reports that are coming in are very dire. I mean, we're seeing no job creation. We're visions from prior job reports, you know,
showing that even when there were bad job reports in the past, it's even worse than we expected, you know, in prior months. You know, in Donald Trump's out there saying, this is the golden age. He's got his national economic advisor Kevin Hassett saying, hope is right around the corner.
The stage is set for the, and it's always right around the corner. And you know, it's going
to happen as they keep on crashing this thing. They're just going to then find their target to blame and say, we were about to do it. We were so close. And then the Democrats. And then this person. So, so how do we, how do we deal with it when people in your district and across this country are suffering? And they are, right? People in Pennsylvania and Western Pennsylvania all over are getting hammered by high prices. Gas, yes, the place you see every day and Donald Trump
starting the Iran war has driven up gas prices tremendously. There's still north of $4 a gallon in my part of the world. It wasn't just the war in Iran. He started to make life more expensive. Right? He started all these trade wars that have been pounding small businesses, especially pounding farmers. I go on and on and has done nothing, frankly, to address this heavy consolidation of industries. This like corporate monopolization or economy, even the very weak action that
the DOJ and the Trump administration took on the meat packers. What was he talking about the meat packers? Beef has gone up tremendously in cost. And there is heavy, heavy consolidation. And the Trump administration did nothing about it. So, we see this roll up. It might be private equity. It might be just overwhelming corporate power. We see it squeeze people on prices, kill small businesses, and we're all paying for it. Whether you're Pennsylvania or anywhere else, Donald Trump has
made so much of this worse. The scale of his grift and self enrichment, you know, and I believe
“criminality while the American people is suffering, the scale is so big. I think that's what he's”
relying on, hoping that people just can't even comprehend these numbers. I mean, people can understand how you did 10 trades and you manipulate and markets during this period of time. 21,000 trades,
Crazy.
every single day and timed around critical events where they were either kind of, you know,
massive, you know, massive tanking of the economy or, you know, buying dips when the economy, you know, when you had the market rising, you know, and then the crypto ventures, you know, bringing in the foreign money to world liberty, financial and just seeing all that. I mean, how do you talk to your constituents about that? Because, you know, what Trump will do, the pivot is, you know, politics is corrupt in general. You know, there's corruption here, there's corruption there,
they did it. We did it. Everybody does it. This is on such a different level, though, that it is, you know, beyond comprehension. This corruption and the level of corruption from Trump and people around
it is unprecedented. I mean, $1.4 billion through crypto ventures alone should just shock your
“conscience and it does. I think the reporting is that Ian is family took in north of $2 billion”
of analyzing these financial disclosures. And as you said, its crypto schemes, its foreign government, and foreign government back business deals, it's the stock trades. And look, what I'm doing stuff, it could be a town hall, whatever. And I talk about corruption. I talk about banning members of Congress and people like the president from trading stocks. You know, the folks even with the mega hats are clapping along because they're right. This is corrupt stuff. It should, it should
gross you out and by the way, the corruption comes at a cost because when you are defrauding people, when you are engaged in these pay-to-place schemes, it doesn't just have no victim. It, it, it, it erodes trust on our whole system. And there's somebody else on the other side of that trade, especially this meme coin scheme. And these are supporters and deep believers in Donald Trump. We just took money from it this scheme. It's just nasty stuff.
Right. I mean, when you look at what his crypto ventures earned, I mean, it looks like earned
two plus billion dollars. Then you look at the people who bought into it, they lost two billion
dollars. Anyway, it doesn't have to be that way. I mean, even if you're going to do a venture, you know, people would think, okay, you know what? I'm in a business. I have shareholders. I have stakeholders. My job as a fiduciary is to create shareholder. Even if you thought in those terms, you know, yes, the leadership can make money. That's no, no one saying the leadership can't make money. But it should be based upon bringing everybody along for the ride. And to me,
it's a perfect analog to what's happening in this country where Trump has viewed the country as a
“zero sum game. I believe he didn't want to sign the housing bill because he believes if we give”
new people housing, we're taking away housing from the private equity firms and we're harming people to help people. And everything I think he just sees through the lens if we're going to help the American people, we then must be hurting my rich oligarch friends and my friends, the oligarchs, me, my family. We've only made money our life when we take from other people. I mean, you look at those the charts of the Trump investments, how he does versus his investors,
or how he does versus the people who buy the mean quotes. And it looks like the U.S. economy, it's that K shape thing that everybody talks about where he's made all the money and everybody's lost all the money. Yeah, and look, as I say, doing this fine, you're a private business person, okay, you're not. You're the president. You occupy the highest office in the land. You have access to so many levers of power that you can abuse that you are abusing to enrich yourselves at the
public's expense, right? The kind of information even a member of Congress learns. We see members of Congress abuse that power and trade stock. That's like on steroids for the president of people around him can do. And a bunch of ways you just pointed out they're doing it. They're not shy about it and they're making lots of money just like pigs of the trough man ripping off the public care. You know, you talk about, you know, who this Trump regime is looking out for the right one
oligarchs, private equity, you know, one of the things that we see, I'm I'm when I'm not doing my discharge network, I'm a sports law professor and I talk about this in my class where you now have private equity trying to kind of gobble up rights to children's sports, to kids sports and kids sports leagues. And, you know, for people who are like, you know, well, you know, there's so much
“to focus on right now. Should we be focusing on these, you know, vulture practices in kigsports?”
I say yes because it's also symptomatic of a broader issue. If the private equity is going after
Your child's little league, it tells you that there's nothing off limits in w...
try to take away the American dream and take away the refuge that we have in family and fun
“in order to extract profits. And I know you're fighting against that talk about it.”
Yeah, I introduce this lead kids play act with Senator Murphy and some others to get private equity and vulture investors out of youth sports. And let's start with the problem. They have turned youth sports into a luxury item. Think about that. In America, sports are supposed to be the great equalizer. Every kid should be able to show up on a field, on a court, whatever and have their shot. You'll learn about discipline and hard work. I'm from place where we believe Black
and Gold and Western Pennsylvania sports matters to us. They matter all over the country. But man, they have rolled up so many different parts of youth sports. They jacked up the cost for families.
This is now like a $40 billion industry, making money off of parents and what their kids
to play. So we go right at some of these nasty practices in the bill. We're trying to kick out these vulture investors. Remember, this isn't just like some other part of the economy. We're talking about youth sports where there is a good and there's an interest here that is bigger than just making money. Kids have in a shop to play matters for society, it matters for the country.
“And I see these vulture investors. I think they should have nothing to do. I mean, nowhere near”
making money off the back of kids. Of course, I know you're running for a reelection right now as well. Talk to us though about what you're seeing in your district and what you're seeing in Pennsylvania. And if you're seeing the vibe shift that appears to be kind of taking place, you know,
from my vantage point. But I never want to, I just spoke with someone out in Iowa. I just spoke with
someone out in Indiana. You know, and they're saying, you know, we've never seen anything, you know, like it. I mean, Pennsylvania, Commonwealth, you generally purple, very swing state. What are you seeing? I mean, you saw what went down in 2024. Are you seeing differences right now? What do you see? Yeah, Pennsylvania's have turned against Donald Trump. His numbers are imploding. But let me be clear about something. That does not automatically translate to Democrats.
Are going to win. It's an opportunity. I'm going to say this as a guy who Donald Trump threatened to imprison and that call for my hanging, just opposing Trump is not enough. Democrats have to seize this moment to frankly restore the American dream. I mean, people are tired of getting ripped off and working hard. And their life doesn't line up to what their hard
“works should give them. Should earn them? And I think this is a chance because Donald Trump has failed”
so remarkably for Democrats to frankly dream bigger than just meeting this affordability crisis. We got to put juice back in the American dream to build out a good life for people to make hard work pay off. And this is a real opportunity to do that given his failures. So I sense the voters have turned against Donald Trump. They've turned against these Republicans who are so weak and doing whatever he wants. Democrats have to offer more. And I see so many of us in that
economic fight. But it's a moment for us to seize it. Congressman delusio appreciate you coming on
as always and appreciate the great work you're doing. And I think it'll be enlightening to a lot of
our viewers what's going on. I mean, sure a lot of them know what's happening in kids sports like that. But you know, it's a really like into it because it is a horrific, horrific practice. And then you know what happens next? Then he's private equities won't want these tax breaks relating to it and they want exemptions because now they're saying, look, we're doing it in the public. The slippery slope kind of continues right of of how they then want to use children as kind of as a kind of
clutching against other other taxes and things like that. Yeah, and thanks for having me, I'm in. All right, everybody hit subscribe. Let's get to seven million subscribers. Want to stay plugged in? Become a subscribers for our sub stack at mightestplus.com. You'll get daily recaps from Mountfield Cowsky at three episodes of our podcast and more exclusive content, only available at mightestplus.com.
