We have to speak as one voice. We will only be successful if we work together or we'll

lose individually. This is very fragile that we are the only stopgap for this Biden administration.

And if we don't do this right, the Democrats can take the majority. If we play games on

the floor, the Democrats can end up picking who the speaker is.

Kevin McCarthy warning Republicans in the House of Representatives that if they don't

vote for him, they can make Nancy Pelosi speaker again. They might lose the whole thing.

It would all be for naught. It would be moot.

I think, honestly, that the Republican members of the House will eventually fall into line

and vote for the sometimes articulate Kevin McCarthy, who often needs a translator.

You know, sometimes they have like sign language interpreters for things like that.

You don't need to sign language interpreter. You need an actual semantic interpreter for

Kevin McCarthy. A great deal of the time. Not the most well-spoken speaker that we've

ever seen in the United States. But he's sending up a flare there. And it will sort

itself out. And there will be, you know, this and that and concessions and horse trading

and yadda yadda and he will become the speaker of the House. Now with with that said, let

me get back because I I shared with you this a an editorial, the editorial page, whereas

you might expect to the Washington Post today free speech on trial. Photograph of a Chinese

man, a media tycoon in Hong Kong, Jimmy Lie. He's in jail and he's facing trial. And

the communist might put him in prison for life for life because he ran a newspaper and

they don't like that. And he said bad things about them. So they arrested him. And freedom

of speech is a dangerous job. Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lie wrote, you know, I said that

all the time. Nothing gets you in trouble like the truth is kind of a variation on that.

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