MAGA Mike Suffers Nightmare over GOP Holiday Revolt

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2:52Ben Meiselas:third grade teacher, giving you a report card and mocking you in front of the world. You are a punchline, MAGA Mike. You are pathetic and people are bringing out the receipts right now, especially as we learn of this MAGA Republican exodus, a mass resignation that may take place over Thanksgiving according to numerous sources and our own sources here at the Midas Touch Network. We've got those receipts, Maga Mike. Like I remember during the government shutdown every other day, you would give an interview where you promised that there would be a healthcare plan released immediately when the government shutdown ended.

3:39Ben Meiselas:Remember when you said this on CNN to Caitlin Collins? Because I remember it. Here, play this clip. Is it the government reopened tonight? Would Republicans have a plan to address the Obamacare? Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. We have proposals to. Yeah, we could have that ready immediately. Yes. But now, Maga Mike, right before Thanksgiving, your wife gave an interview with you on the Katie Miller podcast with Stephen Miller's wife's podcast, like the 200 people watch. And I guess I'm one of them to get these clips, by the way. And Kelly Johnson, Maga Mike's wife, goes, he always overestimates his abilities to get things done.

4:24Ben Meiselas:And he underestimates how much time it will take. I swear, I think that's what my second grade report card may have said. But, you know, you grow out of that phase. OK, Maga Mike, here, let's play this clip of his wife. Let's play it. What's he most often wrong about? Oh, dear. Do we have enough time, Doc?

4:45how long something's going to take him, I would say. So she says, I overestimate my ability to accomplish goals. He overestimates his ability to get things done and underestimates maybe how much time it will take. So he says, I should be able to do this in 30 minutes, you know, and then here we are two hours later. It's like, yeah, no.

5:07Ben Meiselas:And she's so right. while she humiliates you in front of the world, MAGA Mike. Because I also remember when you went on Larry Kudlow, remember? During the shutdown and you have a whole notebook full of ideas. Remember that? Here, play this clip. Subsidizing the insurance companies is not the answer because it just drives the cost up even further. So we need to look at the root causes. The Republican Party is the party that is working on that, has been working on it, and has more ideas going forward. We've got to bring down the costs. And you can do that in a responsible way that also increases access and quality of care.

5:40And we've got we got notebooks full of ideas on how to do that. We've got to build consensus around it.

5:44Ben Meiselas:Well, none of those ideas have been presented. You have a lot of very vulnerable MAGA Republicans and Republicans in the House right now who are like, can we please extend these Affordable Care Act subsidies? Because there's a massive amount of people in our state who are about to be kicked off of health care if we don't extend these subsidies by December 31st. They're already getting their letters in the mail right now. And then you have other MAGA Republicans saying, no, you can't give people health care, MAGA Mike. That's socialism. That's communism. How dare we help people stay alive? So utterly pathetic.

6:23Ben Meiselas:Here's the headline from the Daily Beast, but we've reported about this here on the Midas Touch Network Punchbowl News has a good exclusive on this. Raging House Republicans warn of flood of retirement announcements coming. And this unnamed senior House Republican tells Punchbowl News that the moderate members in the House right now are apoplectic. Big word right there. They're pissed. They're angry. They're livid. They're beyond livid at this point about what MAGA Mike is doing. Every week, it's more censures, public flogging of members, and a massive redistricting strategy that's blown up in our faces.

7:06Ben Meiselas:This House Republican Congress member says the floodgates will be wide open with retirement announcements after holidays with the family. It's a tinderbox. Morale has never been lower. Mike Johnson will be stripped of his gavel and they will lose the majority before the term is out. And by the way, I hate to say this, Marjorie Taylor Greene called it when she was saying, look, MAGA Mike, he doesn't have a healthcare plan. She goes, it's non-existent. Here's what she said on News Nation, play this clip. Mike Johnson is telling us to stay home and not do our jobs. So what does Mike Johnson, like if you were to be able to talk to Mike Johnson right now, you would tell him what?

7:47I tell him the same thing I told him last week, and I yelled at him on the phone on our GOP conference call. What'd you say? Is that is where is our health health care plan? It's nonexistent. Democrats created this problem years ago, but Republicans have never fixed it. And I said we need to be back at work and not being in session is basically pathetic. What do you say to you? He gave me the same talking points he gives to the press every single day.

8:10Ben Meiselas:And should I show more of MAGA Mike just being, oh, what's the right word here? I don't want to say it, being humiliated by his wife. We'll just put it that way. But Maga Mike says that his own 15-year-old son is humiliated by him and makes him drop him off blocks away from the school so that nobody sees him. And his wife says the kids are embarrassed of Maga Mike. Your wife is saying your own children are embarrassed about you. Here play this clip. What's your daily routine like as a family? It varies, right? I mean, we're kind of in triage every day, and every day is different. There's no pattern for the schedule.

8:52So everybody has to be very adaptable. I will say, though, that he is now taking, he takes our son to school. And so that kind of starts the day. And he and our youngest get some good quality time together on the way to school, which has been really nice because, you know, we didn't have that when we were back in Louisiana. Of course, it's in the motorcade, so I have to drop him off a block away from school. Because he gets embarrassed. Yes. He doesn't want that much attention drawn to it. When the kids...

9:18Ben Meiselas:But on a serious note, Maga Mike says that he's never visited a grocery store. That's an interesting admission. Play this clip. So when you became speaker, you got a security detail. When's the last time you've gone to CVS, a grocery store? Very seldom. Yes. Because it's such an ordeal, you know? You know, I didn't realize how vulnerable my old luggage was until I started traveling more. Seriously, have you ever thought about how easy it is to break into your luggage? You're constantly leaving it with hotel staff, airline employees, even sitting alone in the overhead bin. And a ballpoint pen can pierce most luggage zippers in seconds.

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11:36Ben Meiselas:Then Magamike refers to his job as being like a firefighter. And he goes, I got to put out all of these fires every day. No, you're the arsonist. Trump's the arsonist. The magas are the arsonist. And you ain't the firefighter. You're the arsonist as well. Here, play this clip. What's the most annoying part about being a speaker? Probably no downtime. Yeah. Hardly any downtime for me. No, that's right. Even when you think the work of the day is done and you put the phone down, I mean, this would be 1130 at night. Ring, ring, what? Another crisis, you know? I mean, you're sort of like a firefighter in a way you have to put up fires every hour.

12:18Ben Meiselas:And then as we know that what, over the past, what is it, 130 days, the Republicans have worked, what, 12 days? They've worked like 12 days, 12 of 120 basically. But Mag and Mike says, I've never taken a day of vacation. Watch Mag and Mike say this, play this clip. I haven't had a vacation day in two years. I haven't been off in two years. literally. So it really does. Maybe Christmas Day. Christmas Day, but even then, even then, last Christmas, I'm taking calls from members with their drama, you know. Well, Mega Mike, I do remember when you would go on Fox State Regime Media during the shutdown while you were on vacation and you would say that you have a health care plan, but it's like it's highly classified information, your health care plan, And you can share it on conference calls with anybody.

13:11Ben Meiselas:Here, play this clip. So another thing that happened this weekend is open enrollment began for Obamacare. People are seeing a change in their premiums, essentially, if these subsidies that are set to expire at the end of the year are not changed, renewed, handled in some way. Last time you were here, we talked about Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, who had some real frustrations about this. Where is the Republican plan? I know you two had talked. Well, she posted this on X this week. She says Johnson said he's got ideas and pages of policy ideas and committees of jurisdiction are working on it.

13:41But he refused to give one policy proposal to our GOP conference on our own conference call. Apparently, I have to go into a SCIF referencing a protected intel sharing type place to find out the Republican health care plan. And there are a lot of exclamation points there. Yeah, I don't know what to say about that. I mean, that's absurd. Obviously, we're not going to be on a conference call explaining all of our plans and strategies for health care reform because they're leaked in real time. Literally, when I have a conference call with all my members, it's tweeted out by journalists. They're supposed to be private, but they're not.

14:16And so Marjorie knows that. She knows she can come into my office any day at any hour and I'll lay out everything for her. The committees of jurisdiction, the people who specialize in all of this, have been working on this around the clock for a long time. In fact, we published 60 or 70 pages of health care reform ideas in 2019 when I was the chair of the Republican Study Committee, the largest caucus in Congress. Our ideas have been out there for a long time. We're formulating the final plan that will bring down premiums. There's only one party in America that is going to do that.

14:44Ben Meiselas:But, Meg and Mike, I thought you never took vacations. What are you talking about? And then I love this part of the interview on the Katie Miller podcast that nobody watched but me to get you these clips, which is MAGA Mike's wife, Kelly, says that she was so surprised that her loser husband actually became the speaker. It's like, shocked me. He's a loser. She doesn't say that he's a loser. I'm saying that. But that's the implication, I think. Here play this clip. So with that, you essentially went from being a regular member from just a district in Louisiana to being speaker practically overnight.

15:23What was that adjustment like for your family, like flying up here when he was getting sworn in, right? If you go back in time, it all felt very rushed and not something I don't believe you guys prepared for. Oh, no, not at all. In fact, it was such a surprise that I wasn't even here for it. As I told him, I said, we don't know what's going to happen. I mean, we've already seen what's already happened. And so I'm just, I'm not going to, I'm not going to come up there. And then, so I missed it. But yeah, our lives changed overnight. And we were not prepared for it, but we've just been taking it one day at a time.

16:04And we are adjusting finally. We are finally getting used to it.

16:08Ben Meiselas:And then, of course, you had Magamike as the government shutdown was winding down, saying that he was not committed to bringing up any deals to save Obamacare or extend the subsidies. Play this clip.

16:38in a bipartisan fashion. If something passes the Senate, it would only pass on a bipartisan basis. Would you bring it up? Well, the bill that's going to pass. To extend the subsidies, that later vote. I can't commit to anything that hasn't even passed through the Senate yet. I mean, I've never done that. I'm very consistent. I've been speaker for over two years. And one of the reasons I've held the capital is because I don't go out and predetermine outcomes. It's a member driven institution, as it should be. And I'm really insistent about that. We've got to get back to regular order. And that's what we're doing.

17:06Ben Meiselas:And then you have Donald Trump on Air Force One as he was heading to Mar-a-Lago to go on another taxpayer-funded vacation, four days, five, what is he? He left on what? Tuesday. And so he's been there Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and maybe longer. And Donald Trump has asked, so are you planning to extend the Affordable Care Act subsidies? Because let's be real, Americans need this to be extended because otherwise they're going to get kicked off of their health insurance. People are waiting to buy insurance from the exchanges, the ACA exchanges. At this point, you see like California, 35, 40 % down in purchasing of healthcare plans.

17:50Ben Meiselas:But across the country, 20%, 25%, 15%. People are waiting to see if these ACA subsidies get extended. Otherwise, they'll lose healthcare. And then if they get sick, they die. It's not a good situation. So Trump, right before Thanksgiving, can you show compassion, Donald, and just say you want to do it? He goes, nope. Why would we do that? I don't want to extend the subsidies. Here, play this clip. Are you going to extend those subsidies? I'd rather not. Somebody said I want to extend them for two years. They don't want to extend them for two years. I'd rather not extend them at all. It may be some kind of an extension, maybe necessary to get something else done because the Unaffordable Care Act has been a disaster.

18:33It's a disaster and I said it was when it first got put in unfortunately We lost a couple of Republican votes and the Democrats voted for it's a Democrat plan And the premiums are going up And it's the Democrats fault But you know they are negotiating with me. It's very interesting. They want to see something happen Who are you talking to on the Democrats though? But we have a lot of Democrats want this plan to happen They would love to see the money go to the people and the people go out and get their own health care. And there would be nothing like it.

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