giving you the stories behind the headlines mark simone on w o r hey uh joe concha the great columnist you read his column

in the messenger that's a good uh great new website the messenger you can read joe concha there

of course you see them all over a fox news fox business and get his best-selling book. It's a great book about Joe Biden. It's

called Come On Man. And he's with us right now. Joe Concha, how you doing? Well, I was worried going

into this interview, Mark, because there's so little things to talk about in the news that I don't think

we'd be able to get through our usual seven or eight minutes. Yes, I know, but the last thing I want to do ever is discuss Kevin McCarthy. It's the most dreary subject. Would you agree, Nixon used to call guys like that, it used to say they're a first-rate, second-rate guy. I mean, he's not really a great, great leader, is he? Well, no, because he gave

away all of his leverage, right? Yeah. What you got to like about Donald Trump is that when

government shutdowns have happened in the past, he would literally say, as they were going into them,

all right, shut it down if we're not to agree on it. In other words, he never took that off the table.

McCarthy did, and so what does he expect Democrats to do, right? So, I mean, good riddance, I suppose, the question is now who replaces them, right? And I have a great scenario for you. What do you think of Donald Trump as House Speaker for, like, say, the next six months? Well, he's he's actually talking about it he's taking

him seriously he's discussing he should yeah think about it mark it's the state of the union

80 million people are watching joe biden's going on about how great binomics is or how the border

secure are touting how crime is down 14 percent since last month type of thing, you know, just

spinning every number possible.

And then above Biden's left shoulder, sitting next to Kamala Harris is Donald Trump,

House Speaker, making only faces that Trump could make and can speak this belief.

Right?

Would that be awesome?

And then at the end of the speech, he rips up the speech like Pelosi did. And then the next day, he's running an impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden, his 2024 opponents. If that isn't the best entertainment ever, I don't know what it. Yeah. But knowing Trump, he wouldn't rip up the speech, that's just a cheap Pelosi thing. He would take it and like turn it upside down and backwards and try to like,

like he can't figure it out like it's a weird speech. You're right. That's a good point. So hopefully he takes the job. I mean, because who's going to cross him, right? Yeah. You know, McCarthy, the other thing, apparently Pelosi changed a rule on her way out the door,

a speaker, that one person can bring up the vote to oust you.

It was a little booby trap she put in there for McCarthy, and he wasn't smart enough to see it and reverse it.

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