Transcript of MAGA Mike Panics in Public as His Job Is in Imminent Jeopardy

Wow. Maga Mike Johnson, Republican Speaker of the House, is just losing all control. He's flalling after Friday, where he adjorned the House of Representatives once again, continuing to tell the Maga Republican Congress member, Stay away from the house, stay on vacation as the government shutdown begins to hit the date which it will be the longest government shutdown in American history. Maga Mike Johnson was making his rounds on the various TV shows and media networks. He spoke with the Wall Street Journal, and he was asked about the lawsuit filed by Democratic Congresswoman-elect Adalita Grijalva from Arizona's seventh Congressional district against him and the sergeant at arms to swear her in so that she can function as an actual congresswoman after winning her election many, many weeks ago. They're refusing to swear her in, and Maggie Mike Johnson saying, Oh, well, that's just because the government shut down, so we can't swear her in. Yes, you You've sworn other people in all the time in pro forma sessions, and the government shutdown doesn't affect that. And by the way, you all caused the government shutdown. And the reason you're refusing to swear in Griehalva is because she would become the 218 signature on the Epstein discharge petition, which would then result in the release of the Epstein file.

So that's one of the reasons that you all are continuing this government shutdown. But Maga Mike, in this interview with the Wall Street Journal, says, All right, Adelita, bring it, sister. Bring it, bring it, bring It, Sister? To just swear her in, you weirdo. What do you mean, Bring It, Sister? Here, play this clip.

But here's the thing. I'm following the Pelosi precedent on this. They're saying that this is some constitutional violation or something. It's a joke. The attorney general from Arizona just wants publicity. She's logged on to this as well. Let me get her a day in the sun. Bring it, sister. Okay.

Sahil Kapoor writes, Speaker Johnson is officially keeping the house in recess for another week as a Friday with no No sign of when it'll return. The house has not been in a regular session since September 19th. Highly unusual. Never has happened really before. Adalita for Arizona, Adalita Grijalva, was elected on September 23rd and still hasn't been sworn in despite her repeated request. As our Editor-in-Chief, Ron Filipkowski, writes, Today, Mike Johnson will keep the house adjured for the 81st day out of the last 93 days, 12 days of work in over three months with full pay and benefits. The MAGA Republicans get full pay and benefits. They did send $40 billion to Argentina and are importing Argentian beef to screw over our ranchers as well. They get universal health care in Argentina, by the way, as 20 million Americans will lose their health care coverage very soon. Philip Kausky writes, The Senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown. Senate's been holding hearings. I've shown you some of those. It's about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files, and Trump wants the government shut down. Trump doesn't the government to work. For the past 6-9 months, we've effectively been in a government shutdown anyway.

Now it's just official. So Maga Mike is then asked on CNN with Kaitlyn Collins. So if you have this health care plan that you're talking about, why not share it with people so the American people can know transparently, what's your plan? Why don't you share what your plan is, Maggie Mike? If you claim that you have a plan better than the Affordable Care Act with the subsidies, talk about it. Here's what Maggie Mike says. Here, play this clip.

But if you have ideas and you have plans, why not have that out there to talk about in the public so the people can hear that debate happening? I mean, you could have committees in session right now.

They will, Katie.

Talking about this.

I think the question is maybe when. We need to get back to regular session so we can. No, we're not going to allow Chuck Schumer to play selfish political games and hold the American people hostage. We will not negotiate with legislative terrorists. We're not We're not going to let them do that. We can't. We owe it to the people to get this government operated again. Republicans have now voted 12 or 13 times, counting the House and Senate, 13 times to open the government, and the Democrats have voted 13 times to close it down. It is wrong. There is no reason for it.

You're not going to share it with us until the end of the government shutdown, which is being caused by the fact that you're taking away health care from 20 million Americans? I mean, look, if you just want to listen to what MAGA Republican congress members are saying, they don't know what MAGA Mike's even talking about. They don't know. They haven't seen the plan. So even the Congress members saying, We'd like to see the plan. Right here, for example, is you have Mark Alford, MAGA Republican congressman. He's asked on seeing in. So do you know what Mike's talking about with the health care planet? Here, play this clip. House Speaker Mike Johnson told our Kaitlyn Collins a few nights ago that Republicans have proposals to address the health care subsidies and that they could have them ready, quote, immediately. I mean, look, over 400,000 people in Missouri are enrolled in the marketplace. Have you seen those proposals that Speaker Johnson is talking about? What are they then? And enlighten me. No, I have not. I would like to. I'm coming back up to DC on Tuesday to meet with my staff there and check in on them.

We have been doing tremendous work in our district, covering all 24 counties. I will tell you this, Omar. I don't think the Democrats are serious about this. They are using this as leverage. They want the pain. They want I have these statements to come out from the insurance companies come November first. We've heard from Democrats who see these states for health care. And John Soon, the Senate majority leader, actually proposed to get this on the House, on the Senate floor for debate and a vote. He promised that to them, and they said no to that. So if you asked me, Hey, Ben, what do you think is better than the affordable care act? I would tell you there needs to be universal health care. That means health care should be free, in my view, to every Americans. And I think rich people should be taxed more in order to provide health care to everybody. That's my own view. And if these billionaires are writing checks for $138 million to fund six hours of payroll for the United States military, or if we see these billionaires spending tens of millions of dollars to defeat Mamdani or whatever, they clearly have the money in order to pay a little bit more taxes each so that everybody in this country gets health care and we won't have a health care crisis.

So I believe universal health care. The alternative is Affordable Care Act, Obamacare, which has led to 20 million plus Americans getting insurance. Then you use the subsidies to lower the costs of the monthly premiums. Otherwise, it'll cost $20,000 a year, which Americans can't afford if the subsidies are not extended by Trump and the imagas. Then if you have a third plan, let us know. I mean, Trump has always said, Oh, I'll let you know. Remember the first term in two weeks, in two weeks, or I'll lower prescription drug prices 1,600%. Those aren't plans. You're not telling us the truth. Hey, everybody. Ben Meisellus here from the Midas Touch Network. I wanted to let you know about my podcast partner, Michael Popox, new law firm. It's called the Popox Firm. Michael Popack is pursuing his dream of starting his own law firm, really based on the popular demand by all the Midas, Mighty, and Legal AFers who are approaching Michael Popox with their cases and saying, Can you help us? And at that time, Popack was not able to. So he went out on his own. He started the Popak firm, where he is now handling catastrophic injury cases like car accident cases, trucking cases, Now, practice cases, big negligence cases, wrongful death cases.

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And then he voted against. Nobody understands it. Sir, you said during the campaign, you had concepts of a plan.

Do you have an actual plan at this point for health care?

Yes, we have concepts of a plan that would be better.

Still just concepts? Do you have a fully developed plan?

Let me explain.

Then Caroline Levet was asked, So what's the President's way he's going to stop rising health care costs? And Levet's like, We're not going to tell you until the shutdown's over. What do you mean you're not going to tell us? What does that even mean? What's the point of what you're doing as a government? If it's just to inflict pain, I guess that's what you think the point is. Here, play this clip.

First is, we understand that the President, Republicans, will not negotiate on ACA extensions until the government reopens. If and when that happens, what What does the President think should be or what are his plans for preventing rising health care costs from the kids?

It's a very good question, and I'll leave that to the President to negotiate that when Democrats vote to reopen the government.

When it comes to lowering health care costs, the President is deeply committed to this. It's why he has spent so much time and effort negotiating with big pharma to lower the health care costs of prescription drugs.

Well, then you have this Pennsylvania woman who's explaining her situation. On average, health care costs in Pennsylvania will go up 103%.

I'm 51 years old, a hair stylist. I've been doing hair for 32 years now. I would call myself low, lowest, not even middle I knew cuts were going to happen in different areas with the government. I knew, but I didn't know they were going to take our health care. This is big. My plan without the subsidy right now is almost 600 a month. If I imagine that with a 15% increase on top. I don't know how anyone in my income bracket can afford to absorb 600 plus a month for health care. I don't know. It just sucks. I'll go back to either being uninsured and paying cash out of pocket for doctor visits or medical.

I saw the stat that this family in Colorado, that's making $85,000 a year. They're going to see their health care costs go up $20,000 a year. They're not going to be able to afford it, obviously. I showed you the clip, right, of the lady in Pennsylvania. Now, going back to Maga Mike Johnson. He lies and then says Adelita Grijalva should be working. Why isn't she working? She's got a staff. Here, play this clip.

Rep Grijalva can work. Rep Elect Grijalva can work for her constituents right now. Constituent Services answering the phone. She has computers and 16 employees, and There's no excuse for it. The Epstein files are being released. 43,000 pages now. There was another batch of documents dumped on Friday of last week, which included Epstein's personal ledgers, his financial ledgers, his daily calendar, his flight logs, all the things that people have been saying they wanted. It's all coming out. Why? Because the House Oversight Committee has been working through this period, even when we're not on the House floor, to go through and dig through the Epstein estate files and all the rest and get them out. So these are all distractions, all distractions from the main point. They have shut the government down for political purposes, and we got to get it reopened.

And Adelita Grijalva made it very clear that he's a liar and that she can't. Here's what she had to say.

Well, and you're talking about how people call it, they still hear your dad's voice. Even on smaller things than that, logistical things, you can't get into Capitol Hill right now after certain hours because of the shutdown, unless you have a Hill badge. I mean, that's where we're broadcasting from right now. But you technically could not be on set with us tonight because Because you can't come in to the Hill property this late at night. No, I can. I could hit your ride with you, maybe, but I can't go on my own. I mean, even when if you saw I joined the Democratic caucus and walked down Capitol Hill, we took the steps down and I stood there with them. Someone had to come get me from security. I cannot get in without going through security. I mean, there are logistics and real things that come with being sworn in. Even graciously, the people that trying to help me get my office up and going. There's so many things that they know I can't do.

Then Adelita Grijalva also pointed out that, once again, Speaker Johnson shut down votes early and sent people home to avoid a vote on the Epstein files. Here, let's play this clip.

He shut down votes early and sent people home a week early to avoid a vote on the Epstein files. I do think more than anything, this was an issue that Trump ran on. Day one, I'm going to release those Epstein files. And that's why everybody's so mad. Yeah, people were very... I mean, it didn't matter what party. You're like, great, because whoever committed a crime, whoever's implicated, needs to deal with legal consequences to that. And the survivors need to have an opportunity to start to rebuild their lives and put this behind them. I can't imagine what it feels like to continue to have this issue front and center over and over again. And it's just like a wound that they can't heal from until Until there is justice for the victims.

Then, of course, Maga Mike doesn't know anything about Donald Trump trying to pay himself $230 million from the Department of Justice because Trump claims he experiences pain and suffering from the 2020 election. Play this clip. You said yesterday you were still trying to get the details of this $230 million the President has asked for justice to want to pay for the Reva Mills. Now that you've had some time left to get the details, are you okay with taxpayers potentially to be on the hook for that money?

I'm not trying to dodge the question. I haven't had time to get the details. Okay, that's still on my list, things to do list. Yesterday was almost literally a 21-hour workday. Yes, sir.

And then here's Maga Mike saying, The Republican Party is the party of health care, the party to fix health care. Okay, well, you're not. But then just show us what your plans are. Here, play this clip.

When the government dumps more money on a bad system, it makes it worse. And that is the reality. We have to make everybody face that. And then we got to build the consensus around solutions. We have lots of ideas. The Republican Party is the party ready to fix that, and we're demonstrating that every day. We brought down cost in Medicaid, and we strengthened the program in the Big Beautiful Bill because we got ineligible enrollees off the program, and we brought down the cost. It's going to save the CBO, says the measures that we did in that bill on Medicaid, for example, are going to save $185 billion. So they're good ideas, Joe. We just need time to work through the consensus to do it, but we got to get the lights back on here. Again, we got to open the government so that all of that can happen.

You know what? I think that gives away the whole game right here. And look, even Marjorie Taylor-Greene is saying, Prices and everything are too high and insurance costs are too high right now. Here's what Marjorie Taylor-Green says. Play this clip.

Food prices are high, rent is high, home prices are ridiculously high, cars are high, auto insurance, home insurance, health insurance is insane, energy prices are high. I can tell you that in my own electric bills, they're much more expensive than they were even a year ago.

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