Rep. Eli Crane to ‘country club Republicans’: Managing U.S. decline not enough, start taking shots, hit back
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🗓️ 21 June 2023
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Arizona Congressman Eli Crane calls out ‘country club Republicans’ and discusses shaking up the status quo in Congress. The Freedom Caucus member says the recent forced vote for censuring Congressman Adam Schiff which 20 Republican voted against, was an opportunity for Americans to see the truth and not continue to be ‘gas-lighted’ by their Representatives. Crane says to his fellow Republican colleagues in Congress that, ‘at some point, you guys are gonna have to join us and start hitting back. Because right now, only one side is throwing blows, is taking shots. And that's one of the reasons the we're headed in the trajectory that we're in. The days of country club Republicans just managing the decline of this country, you see where it's gotten us, and it's nowhere good.” Crane also says the problem with D.C. is “not that we don't have enough people that went to law school, or they don't have high enough IQs. It's that we don't have enough people up here that actually have moral courage and backbone, and who are willing to stand in the gap and say; No, you're not doing that anymore. We're not going to allow it anymore. And as a matter of fact, we're going to fight back, and we're going to take shots right back at you, but in my opinion, that's the only way out of this is if the Republican Party learns how to fight again.”
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| 0:00.0 | Hello America and happy Wednesday, a very busy Wednesday in Washington, consequential Wednesday |
| 0:11.8 | all around, starting with the first ever public testimony by special counsel John Durham. |
| 0:16.8 | And it was a doozy, starting with an extraordinary clash with several Democrats who tried to |
| 0:22.9 | attack the integrity of John Durham. |
| 0:26.1 | He said it clearly. |
| 0:27.1 | The only people I care about my reputation are people that I care for and my Lord and Savior, |
| 0:32.2 | obviously, we're referring to Jesus. |
| 0:34.9 | Pretty powerful moment. |
| 0:36.8 | There were some other pushbacks on people like Adam Schiff, a very, very dramatic day there. |
| 0:42.4 | But the news wasn't the clashes. |
| 0:44.6 | Those were sort of expected with the Democrats and the stunts that they now pull during these |
| 0:49.4 | oversight hearings. |
| 0:50.8 | The news was John Durham emphatically confirmed that at least in the Russia collusion case, |
| 0:56.8 | there was a dual system of justice. |
| 0:59.3 | And he did it in the most powerful way you can imagine. |
| 1:03.1 | I want to get to that in a second. |
| 1:04.9 | But first, let me tell you what our show lineup is today. |
| 1:07.4 | Congressman Eli Crane from Arizona, one of the rebel freshmen making a big difference in |
| 1:11.9 | just a few short months in Congress. |
| 1:14.3 | He's going to be here to talk about the debt deal centering Adam Schiff, which advanced |
| 1:18.0 | a little while ago and so much more. |
| 1:19.9 | We certainly don't want to miss that. |
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