Former U.S. Rep. Steve King returns to the program to offer his insights regarding what is likely to happen in Washington once the Democrats retake control of Congress.
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[00:00:31] Commentators and pundits could offer their opinions on what may or may not happen in Washington, but as a result of this post-election landscape. But why don't we just have somebody who was up there for well over a decade as a sitting United States representative. Our good friend Steve King is back with us, and Steve, it's been a month of Sundays since we talked. We've had so many great times together on the air and off. Great to have you back on tonight. I wanted to get you back on as quickly as we could after the election. I appreciate you giving us the time.
[00:01:03] Good honor, James, and all the good friendship we have and the times you like to say on the air and off. I've got some always happy memories whenever we get together to chuckle about some things. And maybe I'm not laughing so much these days after the election, though, James. Well, that is for sure. And hopefully there will be more good times and sunshine to come together, and we will look forward to that. But give us your opinion on this.
[00:01:30] We've got a lot of people who think it's, you know, a gift from heaven. The rhinos are out now, and then we have other people that think that, you know, the end is near. Where do you stand on that stage? Well, I would even distill it even more, Keith. I would just say, and Steve, you know, the main part tonight, I mean, there's been so much post-election analysis, and a lot of this was forecast well in advance of the election. It's not so much that I want to get into tonight but what's coming. But I would ask you first because it is a good question, Keith.
[00:01:56] What were you thinking about, oh, I don't know, 11 p.m. Iowa time on the first Tuesday of this month? Oh, boy. I was standing there at what was an election vigil party, not a victory party, with our Republican candidate, Zach Lane, who is just a once-in-a-lifetime candidate. That didn't mean his campaign was run that way, but he is the candidate he is. And a lot of people would talk to, and as people were turning around, I kept looking up at the television screens.
[00:02:25] Maybe every 15 or 20 seconds I would look up. And from the east coast, Virginia is the first one I remember coming in. Everybody in blue was leading everywhere. I maybe saw two or three that were not, but I can see that trend just coming across the country from the east to the west as the sun rises and sets. And by the time we got to Iowa and it was over pretty quick, we got wiped out hard like many, many other states.
[00:02:53] But we had a governor who lost the governor's race, the attorney general's race, and the U.S. Senate race, and three congressional seats. That's a pretty bad wipeout. And then so interesting, the attorney general we lost was my former chief of staff, Brenda Byrd. And then the governor's race, as I said, I've been engaged in that race for 14 months. So it was a pretty hard hit. But to think about that, I could see that it was a wave election.
[00:03:23] And when I got to Iowa, we're going, well, let's let the red wall block the blue wave. But that didn't happen. It didn't happen all the way across the country in any big way that I could see. And so I guess how I would analyze this is that there was a lot of discontent out there that was fomented by just Democrats saying, affordability, affordability, affordability. You can't afford your gas. We're at war in Iran. It's cost a lot of money.
[00:03:51] And then the discontent with some of the things on the conservative side that said, you had all this corruption. You have the Russia, Russia, Russia hoax, all of those things going on in the Biden administration. The illegal immigration was part of that. And we didn't see a lot done on any of that. So some of the Republicans stayed home and just said, I'm going to send them a message or even flip their votes to send the message.
[00:04:16] The other side of it, I mean, the other piece of it that I think we did not serve very well on that at all is affordability. Democrats ran on a we can't afford the Affordable Care Act. Can you imagine that? I mean, I fought those guys for a long time as hard as anybody except maybe Michelle Bachman. And who would have thought that we would have, okay, 25 years after the September 11th, we've got Mandani, the Muslim mayor of New York.
[00:04:41] And here in this 2026 election, Democrats are running on we can't afford the Affordable Care Act. We've got to do something. So to me, there's a wave, but there was a tsunami too. And the distinction between the wave was driven by some of the politics that I've described and other things on top of that. But then the tsunami was not created by that wave.
[00:05:04] I think the tsunami was created by a very sophisticated AI, globally managed election machine and counting that's been set up more sophisticated than we can keep up with yet. We've been fighting the past election. They got ready for the next election. And I think that's part of it. And whether we investigate it or not, we don't have much appetite to do that among Republicans. But I really think that ought to be. I want to toss this over to Keith for a question.
[00:05:33] And when we come back from our first break in a few minutes, we'll save this topic for the next segment. But the two things I really want to know from you tonight, Congressman, are, number one, is there anything the Republicans can do between now and the time they turn in their access cards, the ones that got voted out, that is? And then secondly, a little later on this hour, what is coming? What's coming? What will the Democrats be doing over the course of the next two years?
[00:05:59] But before we even get to any of that, I would say, too, I mean, it was a smart strategy for the left. Steve, I can remember being so buoyed, you know, so full of hope. The second Trump administration started out so well those first few weeks and months of 2025. We were together in South Carolina. And then, you know, now here we are. 18 months later, it is just an apocalypse. But the Democrats were smart. They haven't changed.
[00:06:29] They're not fundamentally different than what they were promoting during the Biden era. The insane, insane radical leftist, wokest, anti-whiteism. They are still that party. But they were smart enough to just shut up. I can remember, you know, in the early months of Trump 2.0, the Democrats were completely rudderless, completely listless. They had no message.
[00:06:57] But they were able to just not, you know, keep this mask on and say affordability. And people are hurting, and I understand that. And that is a real concern and a real issue. But they were basically just, they didn't show their full cards. They said affordability will take the pain away. And now here they are, and Iran was a big problem, too. But, Keith, you got a question? My comment is this, Steve. I may sound like Pollyanna, but there are some good takeaways from this, I think.
[00:07:26] One is that we swept a bunch of rhinos out. But this is before the presidential election, and I think that there will be an opportunity. First of all, the Democrats don't have a veto-proof majority, thank goodness. So Trump can come in and veto some of the crazier things they want to do. And people will get a preview of what a Democratic president and what a true wipeout would be like.
[00:07:55] And maybe they will come to their senses before the 28th election. What do you think? Go ahead. Deal with that. Well, I appreciate you painting that in there because it does kind of give me a little touch of optimism. I hadn't arrived at those conclusions of my own independent thinking, partly because I was looking at all the bad stuff that happens. And that's not usually my nature, but we're in this place where it's nearly justified. But I think Trump can kill all the bad stuff, and he can kill all the marginally bad stuff.
[00:08:25] That's true. And they don't have a veto-proof majority either place. And a lot of the rhinos that were cutting deals with the Democrats are gone. So we don't have to worry too much about Republicans flipping over on a veto override attempt as far as I can see. Well, for example, Darlene Lindsey and Cindy Hyde-Smith, which I do not think were stellar conservatives,
[00:08:48] because loss, that's the type of – in Tennessee, for example, you know, if things get too bad where you are, just come down here. This is kind of like back to the future. Well, we have – there was no gain. We had – we got through redistricting, we got Steve Cohen out in Memphis.
[00:09:11] But because they pumped in about 30,000 Muslim immigrants to the Nashville suburban area, they won number – the fourth district. Very marginal. I hope that thing is going to be a challenge. I think the Democrats won it by 218 votes. Well, there was a lot of close votes like that, like the Senate race in Mississippi.
[00:09:38] You know, I was down, Steve, with press credentials for Trump's rally in Corinth, Mississippi, a week before the election. You know, trying to rally in Mississippi, I mean, that is not a good thing. You do not expect that, having to – And she lost, they apparently knew what they were doing. But I questioned, you know, why in the hell did the Republican Party put a candidate as weak as Cindy Hyde-Smith in such an important position? Well, they all got wiped out. RINOs, weaker, moderate Republicans, and even people like Boebert.
[00:10:08] I mean, it did go across the board. Steve, music's going to play in seconds, and then we'll come back with what the Republicans can still do that are there, that are not going to be there in January, what they can do between now and then. But a final take on just the election night writ large. Well, just in short, it was a wipeout. And if I were going to be playing the music at the Democrat celebration party, that's the soundtrack I'd have on. It was a wipeout. But then we have to bounce up from that.
[00:10:37] And we will. I believe in our people and our country. All right, when we come back, we have to deal with what's real. We have to deal with reality. This is the reality now. This is the new playing field. Where do we go from here? What's likely to come? We've got a man who can answer those questions born with experience. His own. Congressman Steve King is with us this hour. We'll be right back with him.
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[00:13:14] Because we've heard the lightning step cry, but it was not good for considering what's coming. And it wasn't that long ago. It seems like yesterday that, you know, Steve, I was on mic singing Mack the Knife. We were all so full of hope and vigor and it was all still ahead of us. And then it just, it really was yesterday. I mean, it was only last year. It seems like four years ago now, at least. And now totally different political battlefield.
[00:13:43] And that's what we're here to talk to you about right now. And I guess I would begin on, before we get to what's coming now, yes, Trump can veto. He still has the veto power. We'll look at what's coming for the next two years with Democrats controlling both the House and the Senate. And then we'll look to 2028 with the great and good and learned Steve King. But before we do that later this hour, let's talk about right now.
[00:14:09] Steve, if you were still there, what would you be advising your Republican colleagues to do? What could be done still? Yes, there is an incoming Democratic Congress. But the Republicans who were voted out earlier this month still are able to vote, yes, and have power until January. Am I wrong about that? What could be done right now if they had the will to do it?
[00:14:36] Yeah, this goes on in the lame-deaf session, as we call it, after the election. Some people lose, but this goes on until January 3rd. And it's the same people before the election as it is after. So the configuration is the same. The majority stay in the House and in the Senate. The problem, of course, is the Senate's filibuster. So to get things past that 60-vote threshold in order to bring it to the floor for debate is not going to be there for Republicans.
[00:15:05] But they could, let's see, you could, under reconciliation, if you can get it to be a budget appropriations bill, then you can maybe put some other things on that to make it happen. That's going to be really difficult. But we have a continuing resolution that expires, if I'm correct, on December 11th. That means that there will be a showdown between now and December 11th on whether we keep the government open or not. And who's got the stomach to close the government before Christmas?
[00:15:33] Now they blame it on Democrats, blame it on Republicans. I don't know how that will work. But I don't think that's going to be that hard of a negotiation. I think people are going to want to say, let's not have this fight now. That's my guess. So what might get done? I'm hopeful the Senate will really move hard on some confirmations. I was looking at a number here not that long ago that showed something like 274 confirmations are pending in the United States Senate. They aren't all judges. It's other kinds of appointments.
[00:15:59] So how many of those get done will have a lot to do with how Trump's able to govern in the last second two years, his second term. So the Senate action, though, I just have to say that John Thune did not move the Save America Act. And whatever his reasons were for that, they didn't seem reasonable to me.
[00:16:19] The very survival of the republic is tied up in that, that to shut down the fraudulent elections, require voter IDs and proof of citizenship, et cetera. But whether they can bring that now, that's going to be really tough to make that happen, too. So I think the Senate action is going to be how many confirmations can they get done. The House action is going to be to get a continuing resolution that goes into next year as far as they can go into next year.
[00:16:49] Because if they just kick the can into January, then you've got Democrats commanding all the budget and spending right away. That's kind of what I think. I don't think much can get done. And Democrats, they will hit the ground running in January. And then that's a whole other story. Well, let me ask you this.
[00:17:06] Are Republicans taking the election results as a foregone conclusion and they don't intend to investigate or to, you know, make a real effort to unmask some of this voter fraud that I hear talk about but I don't see any action about? Well, you know, it is interesting, Steve, before you answer that, that how many races – and I'm talking about statewide races. In the case of Cindy Hyde-Smith, yes, she's not particularly charismatic or invigorating.
[00:17:37] But, you know, out of a million votes cast in Mississippi, she lost by, what, a thousand? And you see the same thing with Boebert. You see the same thing in a lot of cases. Some of these – in Alaska, you know, some of these races came down – For the fourth district in Tennessee, you know, are there any plans to contest these things? A lot of things came down to a percent or far less, yes. Well, I'm hopeful there are plans. And if I were having much to say about it, we would be investigating this and contesting it.
[00:18:05] But the climate of this is there's got to be an attitude of defeatism. And I remember when we lost the majority in 2006, how it just took the wind out of our sails. And I had a congressional delegation trip set up to go into the war zone in Iraq. I guess it was Iraq and Afghanistan. In fact, I remember it was. And I had six or seven members. I was going to lead that delegation. And we lost the primary. And I spent Thanksgiving in Afghanistan and in Iraq and in Landstuhl in Germany.
[00:18:35] I went alone. The other five dropped out on me. There was one Democrat and four Republicans. And so they were just deflated. We lost. What are we going to do? And I'm afraid that's there now. I don't think they're going to get aggressive. And if you wait until the Democrats pick up the gavels on January 3rd, there won't be any room for that. What I had to do when we were in the minority was to hold faux hearings. That's a French word, you know, F-A-U-X hearings. And I did that because I couldn't get an official hearing.
[00:19:02] We had immigration violations going on and Americans being killed at the hands of illegals. And so I set those hearings up. We got some press. But that's all you can do when you're in the minority. So I just don't think they're going to be able to bring it in time. And I don't think they have the leverage to really do it the other side of it. The Justice Department can. And that's probably where some of that will be. But also for the court of public opinion. And I spent, I don't know, hours looking through all this election fraud situation.
[00:19:31] As I did in the year 2000 when we had the hanging shads. Although it was more intense than that. I spent like 34 or 37 days I didn't go to bed. I just sat in my chair and worked and napped when I had to. But that's, I just needed to demonstrate my focus and dedication on that. And here, one of the things that I watched was Laura Logan interviewing, oh gosh, Gary. I should have his last name in front of me now. Beltram like that.
[00:19:58] And then they wrote the book, Stolen Elections. And I don't have any of that stuff in front of me. But I watched intently as the video of it. It took me about three days to get through the two and a half hours of it all. But one of the things that Gary, the former CIA agent who was full of the most information. He'd operated around Central America, South America, eight years in Afghanistan. A super CIA agent and a patriotic one that was not compromised.
[00:20:26] And one of the things that he said was, this really caught me because I hadn't thought of this. If you go through the whole history of how they set up the election software program and the Dominion voting machines so that Maduro could steal the election in Venezuela. And then they brought that thing out so that they could go at the United States with a system like that. Connected to servers in Spain. And some of the stuff, I believe, and he didn't say so, was written out of the Philippines. I think the original was Philippines to Venezuela to Spain.
[00:20:56] Broaden out through all of that. And then run it back against the United States. And we've been fighting the election security for the previous elections. But those guys are cutting new paths. So you take what AI has. And if you take the rudiments of what you can do to hack the Dominion and other voting machines, and you use AI so that you... Now, here's where Gary's testimony went. It was that they're not going to go into these hard blue districts,
[00:21:26] into those urban centers that are very intensely Democrat and steal votes there because that's the first place we will look. We will look. But they'll go into the red regions that say you're 70% or 75% Republican, and they'll pull 7%, 8%, 10% out of there, throw it into the pot from statewide. And then they won't use the same algorithm for joining counties. So you can't see the pattern there. It'll just be, well, we thought we were going to win by 75% because that's what the polls said. But we only won by, let's just say, 65%. Well, so what?
[00:21:55] No harm, no foul. We still won these local races. But the sum total for the statewide end up short. And so that formula, that really caught my attention when he said that. And this is a very credible man. I look at Texas where we had Greg Abbott who picked up, was it, four and a half million votes about three times in a row. You got 100,000 more this time. But Democrats produced 1.78 million more votes in that same cycle.
[00:22:25] 100,000 for Republicans, 1.78 million for Democrats. And I've talked with a congressman from Texas today, and I had a friend that's been living in Houston who's a political guy. He probably worked for me. He stopped in yesterday on his way through, and we had about a three and a half hour conversation. All of that, you just cannot get a description of demographic changes and philosophical shifts that add up to something that stark
[00:22:52] that Texas would flip by 26 points in two years. That's just impossible. And so we have got to keep chasing this thing down. And another thing that's disappeared is the exit polls that we used to get. And I haven't heard of exit polls now in two or three or more cycles. Now, there's some reasons for that because there's so many absentee votes and so many mail-in votes that it would be distorted if you just poll the exit. But still, there's got to be a way to chase this thing down.
[00:23:20] And what I see just doesn't look possible when I look at those numbers, especially Texas. And Iowa reflects a very similar thing. Well, let me ask you this. Is there any solution other than going back to, let's say, repealing the Voting Rights Act of 65 and going back to what we had when I was a kid, which was you showed up between 7 o'clock in the morning and 7 in the evening at the polling place with ID, and you had to go to a specific polling place,
[00:23:49] and that was it. But, you know, they had some absentee ballots if you had, like, you know, tickets to show that you were going to be on a cruise or something like that. But this mail-in voting and unrestricted absentee voting and, like you said, the voting machines, you know, they've been a catastrophe. What can we do? All of that, Keith, plus getting the demographics back to what they were when you were a kid. Now, how old are you now, Keith? 75.
[00:24:18] So it's going to take off. Steve, we've got seconds remaining before the break, and we're going to come back. You're going to give us a forecast of what the Democrats have planned for the next two years. Well, there's the music, so 30 seconds. That's the side of that. Meanwhile, I'm with Keith. I want you all to know, I want my country back. The country of what year, Keith? Nineteen of 58. That would be all right. That would be all right with me. I'm going with that one right there. How about you, folks?
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[00:29:57] All right, welcome back. Congressman Steve King, our guest tonight. I mean, the two focal points of interest this evening for this particular conversation is, what, if anything, could the Republicans do between now and the time when those who have been voted out
[00:30:26] leave Washington? And then secondly, what is still yet to come? What can we anticipate for the next two years and then in 2028? That is a little bit more advanced forecast, but I bet you the congressman who has spent so many years in Washington as an elected United States representative can tell us what we can expect from the Democrats here beginning in January. Steve, let's continue the conversation there.
[00:30:55] They get sworn in, and the next two years look like what? Well, the seven levels of you know where. It's going to be awful, but it was Dante's, wasn't it? But anyway, I think the first thing they will try to do is they will try to restore the Enhanced Affordable Care Act premium tax credits. That's what they call it. And, you know, that was stuff that was never supposed to be part of the bill.
[00:31:24] Democrats plugged that in later on. And now they're going to try to provide affordability by taxing all of us to buy down our own health care, our health insurance, I should say. That one just drives me crazy. The Affordable Care Act, Obamacare, is not affordable, so they're going to make it affordable by taxing us to fund it. And we're supposed to take that as, oh, somehow it's a class leveling thing. Sure, because we have a progressive income tax that taxes the people at a higher level, the higher their income is.
[00:31:53] And I remember watching a young inner city guy say, well, wait a minute, this isn't right. It was on a television commercial. So they think they gave us no tax on overtime and no tax on tips and no tax on our retirement funds. Well, most of us low-income people, we don't pay any tax anyway, so what do we care about that? Republicans thought they helped us, but already I was operating without having to pay taxes.
[00:32:18] And so now you've got Medicaid and also Obamacare. Those two things, they're going to try to buy those things down. And including in the Medicaid and also including in the food stamp program, SNAP as they call it, is the work requirement that was put in on that one big beautiful bill. They just despise the idea of requiring somebody to work before we write them a check. And so they're going to do everything they can to remove the work requirements.
[00:32:45] And I don't want to think it produces productivity so there's anything to work with in the first place. That will come. They'll challenge Trump's tariffs, and I don't think they can get that done, but they will challenge that. They'll stir that thing up hard. They'll be picking away at the Iran war, which, by the way, isn't hardly a war. There's not much action going on. It's more or less a holding pattern, and we're trying to keep the straits open. And the oil is flowing through there, and it's coming out of the Middle East in alternative routes. And the spot price on oil has been going down.
[00:33:14] My gas, I saw gas for $3.40 in Oklahoma a couple days ago. That's not too bad. I wouldn't have considered that too high. It just is a little blip in the markets a little over a year ago. But they'll keep pounding away on that. It's the class envy thing. It's their standard practice. And then they want to lower grocery prices and housing supply costs. I know exactly how to fix the high cost of housing. Just load up those tens of millions of illegal aliens we have in this country and ship them back to their home countries or anywhere else.
[00:33:44] And you see a bunch of empty houses and apartments, and the price will come down. Now, that's for sure. And low wages. All these illegal aliens, they suppress the wages. So if you send them home, wages will come up and housing will go down. And gas will get cheaper because there's less demand for it. So will food because there's less demand for it. So a lot of this stuff that's unaffordable is because we can't afford illegal immigration. It was pumped into this country by the tens of millions by Joe Biden.
[00:34:12] That part, people just need to say that out loud. And then the labor supply, if you look at what has happened after Roe v. Wade, 65.5 million abortions committed. And if you do the math on that, some of those would be having babies today. It's about 105 million missing Americans because of the abortion policy. And what did they do to fill the missing labor supply? They brought in people from foreign countries.
[00:34:38] And when I said, you cannot restore your civilization with somebody else's babies, they attacked me for being a racist and a bigot. I remember that. Whatever kind of phobe I was. But it's so utterly true. You can't bring somebody into this country from a foreign culture and amputate their culture. It's inside them. It's endemic to who they are. And if you put enough of them together, they have an enclave. And then they replicate the country they came from. And that breaks down the American civilization and it defies assimilation. All of this. We are, you know. They don't want assimilation.
[00:35:08] They want colonization. Hold on. Keith, you've got to turn your mic on, actually. I was about to say. They don't want assimilation. What they want is colonization. They want to colonize us. Yeah. Reverse colonization. And to no benefit of anyone, unfortunately, this time around. But, well, I... And there's a unique character, James. There's a unique thing going on, too, is that if you look at the Somalis pouring into Minneapolis,
[00:35:34] which they've done for over 20 years, this is the first time in all of history where you had mass migration stimulated by welfare. Never before that happened. Yeah, that's interesting. Yeah. No, I mean, yeah, I hear you. Well, you know, I... Yeah, go ahead. Go ahead. No, no, you go ahead. I'm looking up something, actually. I'm looking up something that pertains to you. Well, I've gotten close enough to what was on in Minneapolis. And I have friends up there, and I travel up there once in a while.
[00:36:05] And I did a congressional delegation trip into Dearborn, Michigan here a few years ago. And as I'd been throughout the Middle East and all those, the no-go zones throughout Europe, I walked among those people to try to absorb what is this global phenomenon of the human migration is pouring in. And then, so then I went to Dearborn and spent a weekend there, probably three plus days going into the mosques and dealing with people going to the halal grocery store, talking to
[00:36:34] the butcher there and those kind of things to get a feel for it. Then I got home and I happened to oddly have a weekend where I had a Friday and a Saturday that was open. And so I thought, hmm, nobody knows where I am, including my wife, I think. But anyway, I just, my car drove alone on up to Minneapolis. It's about four and a half hours. And I went to seven mosques up there and just threaded through that whole Muslim community that's there in Minneapolis to get a sense of what's happening in America. Now Texas has also those kind of enclaves that are growing as fast or faster than they
[00:37:04] are in Minneapolis or Dearborn, Michigan. This is something that eventually it swamps the American civilization and swamps Western civilization. Now even go further, that is that if you look at Caucasian Christians globally, there are about 1.2 billion of us with a B. There are about 2 billion Muslims, which they're anathema of the Christian foundation to our constitution, et cetera. Our birth rate on average, the group I defined is about 1.3 babies per woman.
[00:37:32] The total fertility rate, well below the replacement rate. Theirs is up around, not as high as you think, but maybe 2.7 or 3.2, somewhere in that zone. So I just had them do the math on this. And it comes down to this, that if by the time we get to 74 years to the turn of the century, a population of, I'll say white Caucasians is going to be half of what it is, about 575 million. And the population of Muslims is going to be 8 billion, with a B, 8 billion.
[00:38:01] No, excuse me, that's wrong. That's wrong. It's 4 billion, but it's 8 times what we will be. And so if you see that, the globe collapses on us and the migration is already pushing itself in. We've got to be strong or we're not going to be able to hold this civilization. The math is against us. I remember you and Philip DeWinter together in South Carolina. He's holding the line in Europe. You've done it for 18 years as a congressman here and now as an advocate.
[00:38:28] And I was just looking back, actually, when we had that exchange just a moment ago. Your first appearance on this broadcast, Steve, was four years ago this month. It seems like it was just yesterday. It was November the 26th of 2022, right after Thanksgiving. We had just kicked off the Christmas season programming that year in 2022.
[00:38:53] And since then, you have made now, including tonight, 11 appearances on the program and two conferences. I remember being down in Orlando with you. Our rooms overlook the theme parks. I saw roller coasters. And I'm so thankful for that. Even on nights like this where we're readjusting and recalibrating and planning a new path forward to still have that, that is very important. But you are so right, and you always have been.
[00:39:20] You can't, as you put it, and you just said one of your catchphrases that got you in so much trouble, as I said on CNN one time, this was Keith's line, by the way. He said, when you go on Palazan, say this. You can't have a first-world population with a third-world population. I botched my own line. You can't have a first-world nation with a third-world population. But, you know, Steve, I was actually there with you when you were on the air at the Republican National Convention in 2016.
[00:39:48] We didn't know each other then quite yet. But I was there on Radio Row. You were there doing the Chris Hayes interview. And I did meet you in passing. And I don't know if I've ever even told you this story. I didn't meet you in passing. I met you in passing at that Republican National Convention in 16 when Trump received the nomination. But it wasn't until six years later that we actually came to know each other. But I did meet you. So a lot's happened since then.
[00:40:18] But I still can't say it. I mean, it's been good and bad and better and worse and ups and downs. I don't think we're out of the fight yet. But, man, you know, the next two years are going to be interesting. And we're going to really focus in on that as it applies to the president when we come back with Steve King. What do the Democrats have in store for Trump himself? Not just the nation. Not just the population. Not just our civilization. You know, the West is under assault, as we all know.
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[00:43:07] Well, folks, the place to be right now is, of course, SteveKing.com, where you can get his book, Walking Through the Fire. My fight for the heart and soul of America. When we were down in Florida together at one of these events, Steve brought a pallet of these, I think, assigned for the listening members of this audience, which were all distributed very quickly and with great fanfare.
[00:43:34] Walking Through the Fire, my fight for the heart and soul of America. You can still get his book at SteveKing.com. It's the easiest website to remember, SteveKing.com. And, Steve, before we get into what the Democrats may have planned, not just for the nation, not just for our civilization, but for Trump himself with regards to impeachments and investigations and so on and so forth,
[00:43:56] I want to give you the opportunity to take a wide runway and tell us anything else you want to share with the audience tonight before we get to that. This thought just popped through my head right before we went to the break. And, you know, often people say that I was ahead of my time by 15, 20 years or more, and I have been defending Western civilization for all of that and plenty more beyond that. And it's pretty clear that it is the rest of the world against Western civilization.
[00:44:24] But here's this thought popped through my head, and I just wanted to share this with you because I think it's kind of funny. But about 15 years ago, I found myself in Angela Merkel's chancellor's office in Berlin with maybe four or five, six other members of Congress around the table. And that's not particularly unusual for some of the trips I took. But so this discussion is going in. She's, by the way, she's like a quantum physicist. She has a PhD in that. And I didn't know at the time, but I guess it wouldn't have mattered anyway.
[00:44:51] And so she is pressing us that we need to adopt Germany's policy to take this CO2 and cut down on the emissions and maybe sequester it because CO2 is the great culprit that's going to cause the oceans to boil. You know, I extrapolate or exaggerate just a little bit. But so I'm listening to this, and she's pressing these people, and I'm looking at the other members of Congress, and a couple of them are nodding their heads, and a couple of them are sitting back. And I just thought, okay, I've had about enough of this.
[00:45:16] And so I said, well, the CO2 is a problem now, Chancellor, and I have a solution for us all. And that is we take American ingenuity and German engineering, and we take that CO2 molecule. We split off that oxygen to O2, send it into the atmosphere for people to breathe. We take that carbon, and we compress it, and we heat it, and we turn it into diamonds for the ladies in for industry. Problem solved.
[00:45:43] And that's when I learned that she had an actual German sense of humor, which was not one. But so to finish this, and so today I got to thinking, I wonder if any of that's going on. What's the formula to convert CO2 into diamonds? And so I went now by AI, go in and look, and I found four companies, startup companies in the world, that are actually pulling CO2 out of the air and converting it into diamonds. They're startup companies. It's early in the technology.
[00:46:12] But the very thing I said to her 15 years ago is going on today in four different places in the world. So if they think I have a way of looking into the future, my wife says so. But I was being a little snarky, but I did have the science right. Well, by the way, you mentioned your wife, and we all exist as a result of our wife's indulgences. And so to your wife, Marilyn, and mine, we thank you.
[00:46:39] But, yeah, Keith, if we could only create diamonds out of thin air, yeah, that would be good for us in our fundraising. Well, that is what's going on. Really, the cost of diamonds has gone. It dropped from about $1,000 a carat down to $100 a carat because the naked eye, we can't tell the difference. Boy, zirconia and a real diamond.
[00:47:05] You know, even in 2006 when I bought my wife's wedding ring, I wish that could have been said. But, hey, can you live this long if you're still courting, as it were? Well, so, Steve, here we go with eight minutes remaining and not even that, actually. So let's talk about what's going to happen to Trump. These next two years for Trump with regards to investigations into him, his dealings, his family, impeachment.
[00:47:34] You know, they impeached him time and time again in the midterms, the last term. What's happening now? When the Democrats get back control in January, not just that as it applies to Trump, but everything. Let's go. Go to Steve. Let's go. What's happening? Well, okay, I'm looking at how that works, and it looks like Hakeem Jeffries is going to be the speaker. I don't see much resistance in that. And then when you're going to live into impeachment, that's going to be the Judiciary Committee. That's Jamie Raskin out of Maryland.
[00:48:04] And Jamie is, I served with him, and I battled with that guy. I remember when he came in as a freshman. And he comes from his father. I can't give you the complete definition of it now, but he was deeply entrenched in part of the Marxist agenda that was driven against his country. Sure. And his father's passed away since. And sadly, he also had a son that committed suicide. But Jamie, as chairman of the Judiciary Committee, is aggressive. And his brain doesn't work like any of ours that are listening to this now.
[00:48:34] He plays to win. I'm like our people. He plays to win. He plays to win, and he plays to kill, unlike our people. Well, I think he believes the things that he does. And it's not just cynicism on his part. I think he's steeped in this thing so far that he does think he gets a place to win on top of that. By the way, with Hakeem Jeffries, and I've traveled with him, gone to multiple places around the world.
[00:48:54] I've got to say, if you pardon this brief interruption, some of the greatest moments you've had on this program are your international travels with people like Sheila Jackson Lee. You have stories for days that could compel and entertain. But, you know, time doesn't permit tonight. But go back to what the Democrats have. But you are a fascinating man in every sense of the word. But continue on with the Democrats. Where is this conversation going, James? No, no, no.
[00:49:23] We could do that all day long. But, okay, back to you, Steve. I want to go to when the Queen of Yak, Sheila Jackson Lee, the Queen of Yak fell off the yak. That's one of the best ones. But we're going to turn our clock on that. We have that on tape, yes. But we have other things like this. So I think what is coming out of the Democrats first, Hakeem Jeffries is he is a racist in his view. And I say this from dealing with him, from talking with him, from doing politics with him, but also with traveling and personal.
[00:49:52] He sees the world through the lens, the prism of race. And once he gets it into focus on how it all fits for the race equation, then you have to talk to him about the other things. But it's going to be racial quotas, affirmative action, all of that, because he's a badly discriminated against individual, the incoming speaker of the United States House of Representatives. And then with Jimmy Raskin, he's an aggressive Marxist at his core.
[00:50:18] But I think what they will do is have enough discipline that they'll try to build a case to impeach Trump rather than just impeach him without a case. Because it fell a little flat when Trump made a perfect phone call and they impeached him for a perfect phone call. And then they impeached him after he was out of office. And so those two things were they were pretty weak and they diminished the impact of impeachment. But I think they'll try to build a case and do it down the line of ways. And they'll try to time it as they did before so that it affects the upcoming elections.
[00:50:47] And then they will be doing what they will be breaking down the Republican agenda. They'll be breaking down Trump. They'll be breaking down J.D. Vance. I'll keep tying J.D. Vance in because they don't want to see him as the nominee. That's the extension of the Trump administration. And I'm not saying where I stand on this thing. I just that's what I see them doing. And so the odds of electing a Republican president in 2028 are diminished as a result of this blue wave that we have. That troubles me.
[00:51:15] And that's the biggest concern that I have. They'll attack everything Trump, his tariffs, the Iran war. They'll go after corruption and ethics and they'll go after the trading, stock trading, which is fine with me. Give it to Congress. Put your put your funds in a blind trust and don't use the knowledge base to get rich. I never did. I actually did that, you know, figuratively speaking anyway. And the affordability thing, which I'm messing about. So this is going to be a long, hard grind. And the press is with the Democrats.
[00:51:44] And the Democrats are going to have the gavels. And they will set the agenda. And the Republicans are going to be playing defensive. But if I were there and I've got a really, really good friend of mine as a congressman elect out of my old district. His name is Chris McGowan. He's rock solid in every way that you can think of. And my advice to him is go down to the floor, do special orders, make all the noise you can.
[00:52:07] Create to create the kind of the kind of friction that exposes this leftist Marxist agenda that's coming at us out of House and to a lesser degree, I think, out of the Senate. And that's how I think it shapes up. And I did a lot of that stuff when we were in the minority and ended up with a guy that had more words in the congressional record than anybody else. And the guy that passed more amendments than anybody else. So you can get things done. You've got to fight. And it's not an easy path to be in the minority.
[00:52:35] Although, you know, the Democrats will have to show up or we will put things on them. And that's their job. They're going to have to take responsibility for what they do. I don't think the American people are talking about what's coming at them. So two points, Steve. First of all, do the Democrats have the numbers to actually remove Trump from office? No, I think we've established that.
[00:53:01] Well, or with some turncoat Republicans, apparently, you know. In other words, is this just a tempest in the teapot? Or is there a real serious threat of Trump being removed from office? I don't think there's a serious threat at all. But I do think they will tie him up. They'll be like the little Fusions tying up Gulliver. And Trump's got a tremendous ability to focus.
[00:53:26] Can you imagine if Gulliver had ripped those ropes off from the little Fusions? But Trump has a tremendous ability to multitask, to see through this stuff, to keep all of these plates spinning on the cue sticks. And I thought I could do some of those things. But when I watch him, I'm impressed. He has actually got a tremendous focus. And it goes much deeper than the public or the press actually sees. The things that go on behind the scenes are out the global politics that are there.
[00:53:56] The score is being settled. What he did with Venezuela. What he did with Iran, he didn't have any choice in my view. So let's get that thing done. They're going to try to tie up, cut down his funding for the military. And they're going to tie him up if they can on tariffs. So they'll do everything they can to take down President Trump. But I happen to think that he's smarter than all of us. Well, we'll see. The next two years, it's far different than it was two years ago. There's no doubt about that.
[00:54:25] And two years from now, who knows where we will be. But what one man can do, what another can do. SteveKing.com. Get the book. Fascinating to think about his book. It's sized just right for a stocking stuffer. Christmas is coming up. SteveKing.com. Steve, talk to you again soon. Always good to talk to you. Good stocking stuffer if you have big food.