CPAC Now: America UnCanceled- Best of CPAC 2022 feat. Jim Jordan and Mollie Hemingway

Welcome to CPAC Now America Uncanceled. Sorry, Matt can't be here tonight with me. He's actually down in Wichita, Kansas, his hometown, to have some book signings out there with his new book, The Desecrator. So I'm sure he's going to have a great couple of days there. Although here at CPAC, we are working hard and there's so much going on. And I just want to tell you just, you know, we're carefully looking at what's happening in the news. Obviously, there's been so many developments as the Russian forces move closer to the capital of Kiev. And really, we're trying to sort out what will be happening next. So we're going to keep a close eye on that. We have some great guests next week, including Ambassador Rick Grinnell, to address these issues and this horrible invasion that we're seeing happening in Ukraine. So far, what we're watching is also the United States basically pulling back, not agreeing with the Polish decision to make sure the MiGs can get over to Ukraine. Again, a setback for the Ukrainian army and just another disappointment coming from our NATO allies and from the United States. Look, this is a tricky part right now. It's figuring out how much the United States and NATO can support Ukraine without a direct confrontation with Russia. That's going to be a big, big issue as we go along, as the next couple of weeks unfold. But lots of tragedy happening. So, you know, keep the Ukrainians in your prayers as they are really the loss of life, the loss of the destruction that we're seeing on the ground. These images are just heartbreaking. But, you know, we are here at CPAC continuing to monitor that. There's also so much more going on. We are excited to let you all know that we've launched our billboard ads on Times Square. This is the first time we've done that at CPAC. The first one that we put out was one about making sure we defund Planned Parenthood and obviously stand on the side of life. We've seen the destruction that Planned Parenthood has done in many of these minority communities, especially in the black and Hispanic communities where there has been so many unborn babies killed. And our goal here at CPAC is always to stand on the side of life. It's something that's very personal for both me and Matt and for our CPAC team that's very involved in the pro-life movement. So I just wanted to give you all some quick updates of what's happening here at CPAC. Now I want to have you watch this great interview between Matt Schlapp and Jim Jordan at CPAC Florida. Take a look. Hi all. Are those Buckeyes? What is that? Imagine that, some Buckeyes. Hey Jeff, how are you? So I think that we're on a pretty good show by the way. Okay. The whole thing is amazing. It's okay. Yeah, it's pretty good. We've come a long way. I've been to a lot of them and they're all good, but this is really good. Come on, let him have it. Do you love the guy? Can you imagine having Jim Jordan's job and you still smile and, you know, it's amazing. It's a great country. In spite of the left, it's a great country. And as you and Mercy were just talking about, the people get it. You know, you saw it a few months ago. It started with a few moms. I know we've got some of them here. A few moms in Loudoun County. Then it was a few more moms. Pretty soon some dads got involved. And the next thing you know, Glenn Youngkin's governor of a blue state. And then never forget, two weeks after that, two weeks after that, you had a few weeks after that, you had 12, 12 jurors in a courtroom in Kenosha with the mob outside. Right. Who did the right thing. Followed, followed the facts, followed the truth, followed due process. And I think it's building. It's, you know, north of our, north of our border, it's truckers and standing for freedom. And it's, you can feel it happening in our great country. You can. The I've had, I have to admit, since the last election, I had some times when I thought, you know, maybe America will be ended. Maybe it's coming, you know, coming home to a bad conclusion. And I felt pessimistic at times. It's funny after that, after that Kenosha result, after what happened in Virginia. I mean, think about this. It's tough to be a politician. Can you imagine being a politician in San Francisco and being too radical for the school board? I mean, that's kind of insane. That's a tough badge to have. How do you feel? Do you feel like we're gonna turn this thing around? I do. I do. Someone said this. I think it's, it's accurate. There's, there's potential this year for a kind of a total realignment of parties. Seems to me the Democrat party is now the party of the super mega wealthy who live on the coast and people who don't work. And we're the party of everybody else. And that is a good place to be. And that phenomenon, that, that phenomenon really started with, with president Trump fighting for middle-class working class people and putting America first and making America great again, and just standing up for the people who actually make the country work. And so I think you're seeing that, that kind of realignment. They're the party of the, we're the party of people who work. They're the party of people who don't, or who are the ones on the coast who have all the, you know, the, the so-called elite. I really liked the way it's shaping up and, you know, we never, never want to get overconfident. We got, we got almost eight months until the election. So we gotta, we gotta campaign hard, but always be confident, never be overconfident. That's where I think we need to be. And I think the country have figured out, has figured out that the Biden administration can't do anything right. And I don't like to say that because you want to cheer for your country, but that's just, unfortunately where we're at. So I'm, I'm, I'm thinking there's going to be a big change come this midterm election. I always, as the news media, or at least most of it, the bad part of it tells us that things have gotten back to normal in Washington and the country's in this, you know, better place. Cause we've all unified. I don't know if you know this, Jim, we're, we're unified now. Has the, has this really work around the clock commander in chief, has he called you recently to ask you about, but that doesn't happen? No, I have not talked to president Biden, but I was there a little over a year ago on inauguration day. And I heard this speech like the whole country did, where he talked about unifying the country. And frankly, that would be helpful. We are, we are too divisive as a nation in many ways. But he talked about that at his speech. And then literally a few hours later, went to the oval office and signed 20 executive orders that divided the country. So that's been the disconnect and everything they've done policy-wise has been, as I said before, a complete disaster and further divides the country. I mean, you all know the list, but we went from a secure border to complete chaos. We went from stable prices to record 40 year high inflation. We went from safe streets to increasing crime in every major urban area in our country. We went from being respected around the world, projecting strength from the oval office to what, what we've seen with, with the debacle, that was the exit from Afghanistan and a host of other things. So again, there's nothing that's been, been done that I think has been done the right way. And maybe the thing that scares me the most is what they've done to the first amendment, what they've done to the constitution. And I, I probably tell this to every group I get a chance to speak to, every right we enjoy under the first amendment has been assaulted. Every, you got five rights, your right to practice your faith, your right to assemble, right to petition your government, freedom of press, freedom of speech, everyone's been attacked. And, and maybe the, the one most attacked is, is freedom of speech. And that was a, that was a whole conference a year ago. We saw this woke, this cancel culture mindset happening. But if you can't talk, if you can't speak, none of your other rights mean anything. You cause you, if you can't talk, you can't practice your faith. You can't share your faith. You don't have freedom of the press. You can't petition your government if you're not allowed to speak. And that's what the left goes after. That's why it's so dangerous and why we have to win. You know, there's a big, there's a big group of people that can't, are not allowed to speak. They don't get the chance to speak. And that's the unborn child. And we see the Supreme Court has taken up this Dobbs case. You're a strong advocate for the rights of the unborn. Do you think the Supreme Court will turn this question of regulating abortion back to the states and do the constitutional thing? And do you think the country can handle that when that happens? Yeah, we're Americans. We can handle anything. And that that's the right thing to do. Look, the sanctity of life is, is, is just that. I mean, it's, it's, it's sacred and it needs to be protected. We all understand that. I'm hopeful the Supreme Court is going to do the right thing. I think they are. And, um, you know, we'll, we'll, why, why do you think they are? Well, because I mean, because of Gorsuch and Kavanaugh and Coney Barrett, three amazing justices that President Trump put on the court, just like he said he was going to do when he ran for the job and we elected him. So I do think we'll get the, uh, the, the right decision there, but we'll see now when, if, and when we get the right decision, just be ready for the Democrats are literally then going to go full tilt, I think, on trying to pack the court and we'll have to deal with that. They've introduced the legislation. They've had this commission. Uh, we'll see how that, that plays out, but I I'm hopeful that the United States Supreme Court will uphold and protect life and reach the right decision in that case. So this, we have this whole question of packing the court, breaking all these democratic norms that are coming from this new Marxist democratic party embracing the softer term socialism. I don't know if you saw in our merch store, we say, um, uh, socialism is just communism for slow learners. We're kind of all on the same spectrum. You should get the shirt, but it's all on the same spectrum. I think one of the things that the people here that I keep hearing from them through the most concerned about is they keep giving the Republican party power. And this is not aimed at you, although you've been there a while and you're going to get some real seniority if we get this majority back and you'll make a difference. But if we give the Republican party back power, do they finally get the fact that we got to push for all these things we care about? No, we have to, uh, yeah, if we win, I mean, the way I, the way I see it, if we win and Lord willing, I think we're going to, if we win, we got to pass key legislation that shows the country what we're for. Like we need to pass, we should not in any way be funding gain of function research. We shouldn't, that's got to be one of the bills we pass. Um, we have to do something on, on, on the fact that 2 million people have illegally entered our country over the past year. So we've got to do something on immigration that, that secures our border. And then we also have to pass something on, on the attack from big tech that they, they, the, the censorship and attack on conservatives from big tech, namely the section two 30, taking away the liability protection. But remember Joe, Joe Biden will still be president. So those pieces of legislation aren't going to become law, but we should pass them anyway, show the country what we're for and begin to frame up the 2024 race. When I believe president Trump is going to run again. And do you have any inside? No, no, no. There's a guy speaking tonight who may have some knowledge. Yeah. Um, never know the, uh, but I think he is, I want him to. And I think if he runs, he's going to win and then whoever the Democrats put up, but you help frame up the 2024 race. And then in addition to that, we need to do the investigation. Part of our constitutional duty is oversight. We need to do the investigations, not because we're the legislative branch. We can't, we can't prosecute or indict anyone, but for the simple fact, the American people, all of you, the whole country deserves the truth. We need to know for certain did Dr. Fauci know two years ago that this virus came from a lab. Did he know that? I think he did. So we need to know that we, we, we need to know, we need to know why the Biden administration, it seems to me has taken the intentional position of not, not having a border, but just, there's no other way to interpret this. It's deliberate. It's intentional. It's it's, they're just letting folks come in and kids are dying. Yeah. And bad things are happening to young people and to women. And it's, it's, it's just wrong. And we need to know, particularly if the judiciary committee, the oversight we're going to have to do, why the department of justice had sent out this email to FBI agents saying, put this designation, this threat tag label on parents. I would love to ask Merrick Garland, the simple question, what's the number, how many parents currently have that designation associated with their name? So those are the kinds of investigations we're going to have to do if the American people put us in charge. Uh, so everything they say is a conspiracy theory eventually turns out to be true. He was Biden. Sure was how long you think? Well, it's certainly since remember all the things that happened in 16 that they first take the dossier, which they know is false. They take it to the court. When they go to the court, they lie about information. And Clinesmith, Mr. Clinesmith, you know, was indicted for it. Uh, then they, then they have this individual that under the alias as return. When you have someone go bump into George Papadopoulos in Europe using an alias, that's called spying, right? So we know all that happened. And now we find out from the latest Durham filing that it goes right to the Clinton campaign. And, uh, this is, looks like it happened while he was candidate. It looks like it happened while he was president elect and looks like it happened. Um, it looks like it happened while he was actually while, while president Trump was actually president of the United States. And that's, that's not supposed to happen. I know you're a polite man. That's what I heard. I think the biggest concern is two systems of justice. If you are participate in the violence and the riots of black lives matter, leading politicians, not only won't condemn you, they'll spring you out of the joint and you're back on the street the next day. Uh, if you do these terrible things in terms of using your power and government power to spy on your political opponents, um, it seems to either get whitewashed or just take forever for anybody to be held accountable. And then when someone is held accountable, it's almost like that's taken care of and expunged. They get back their pension and everything else. Can this finally stop? And there's one system of justice, no matter who you vote for, for president. Let's hope so. It's, it's supposed to work that way in this great country. Um, I think if, if president Trump runs and wins, which again, I think he's going to, um, if he does that, you put the right person in charge at the justice department and you do hold people accountable and you do the investigation you're supposed to do. That's the only way it works. Um, now we don't know, we, we know John, John Durham by, by all appearances is being thorough, being deliberate and, and going after the truth and the facts. So we'll see where all this shakes out. The scariest thing I, I took away from what he filed two weeks ago was some of the language he used. He said it was designed to create an inference and a narrative about president Trump and this false accusation that he was somehow polluting with Russia, which we know wasn't true. But think of those, that terminology inference and create a narrative. That's what we used to call framing somebody trying to frame a presidential candidate, a president elect, and potentially even the president of the United States. That is really scary stuff for our country and just underscores this assault on Liberty. We have seen in the weaponization of government. We have seen the left used to go after their political opponents. It's, it's as wrong as it can be. And people who do it should in fact, and now it's not just the department of justice, which has become a cesspool that at least half the country now doesn't trust what it does. In many cases, we don't trust what many of these intelligence agencies tell us because of these lies. And now Congress under Nancy Pelosi is in on the game with this one six commission, which you're supposed to be serving on. But for the first time in our history, the majority told the minority in the name of Jim Jordan, you can't pick your own members to be on this false committee. So think about it. Democrats, Democrats had closed this year, closed the Capitol, allowed proxy voting, kicked Republicans off committee, won't let Republicans serve on the select committee. First time in American history that's happened, are getting ready to try to end the electoral college, end the filibuster, pack the court. And we've caught them actually taking evidence, altering evidence to January 6th committee and lying to the American people about it. And yet they turn around and say, oh, it's Donald Trump and Republicans who are a threat to democracy. I mean, you can't make this stuff up. So and oh, we were also they're also trying to keep our colleague off the ballot in North Carolina. I mean, think about it. Yeah, we're a threat to democracy. But you're trying to prevent someone from running for office who's already a member of Congress and letting the people of North Carolina select who they want. That's scary. But this is this is today's Democrat Party completely controlled by the left. And it's again, it just underscores why we have to win, why it's so important. We all work hard, go out and campaign campaign, not overconfidently, but confidently and win this midterm election. All right, Jim Jordan, we love you for everything we do. Keep up the great work. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Thank you, brother. Thank you all. Hey, everyone, this is Matt Schlapp with CPAC. And it's my privilege to tell you that we've got a very important project that we've just announced the First Amendment Fund. 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Please donate to the C3 to help these victims across the country, including those who are just involved in politics to make sure they have the legal representation they need to be able to live their great American life. Welcome back to CPAC Now, America Uncanceled. I hope you enjoyed that interview with Matt Schlapp and Jim Jordan. That is just one of many interviews and speeches that happened on the CPAC stage. You can watch all of the programming there on conservative dot org because it was really a remarkable event. One of the big issues that popped up during CPAC Florida was this on election integrity. That's obviously something that the Democrats for a long time have tried to shape this narrative of, you know, voter suppression. And of course, they're not in favor of voting voting I.D.'s. One person who really wrote a book about this really understands what happened in our election cycle is Molly Hemingway. And I want to leave you with this great interview between Matt Schlapp and Molly Hemingway talking about her book Rigged, which is a must read and talking about the issues that she became aware of during the last election and what the Democrats plans are to basically, you know, change up our election system. So let's take a listen. You guys seen this book? Who's bought this book? I think after this conversation, everyone's going to buy this book. Thanks for being here, Molly. Great to be here with you. OK, we don't have a lot of time because we got some big speakers today. I don't know if you're aware of that. Almost as big as you, by the way, it means a lot to us that you're here. I think you got a lot of fans in this room. And I love the book. I'm going to put it right here. And I'm going to ask you, the first thing that comes to my mind is I've been asked a lot about this question on the election. Why did you title it Rigged? It was the thing I cared about deeply. It was something I'd been thinking about before the election even happened because I was so frustrated by the corruption of our media, the corruption of big tech. And it turned out to be the perfect title because I ended up digging into election laws and seeing just how completely the 2020 election was controlled by things that aren't really a great thing for us to have in this country. If questioning the results of a presidential election were a crime, as some people have asserted in the last year or so, the entire Democrat Party and the entire media establishment would be rotting in prison right now. That's exactly right. They have not actually accepted a presidential election that they lost since George H.W. Bush. You know, George W. Bush, they said, was selected, not elected. They wrote they made documentaries about the 2004 election where they claimed that Karl Rove had hacked machines to get into them. But nothing compares to what happened in 2016 when the entire establishment refused to accept the results of a presidential election they lost and they fell into this or invented this incredibly delusional conspiracy theory that Donald Trump had stolen the election by colluding with Russia. And they kept to that and they wrote stories about it, even though it was a completely invented, ridiculous conspiracy theory. And that is an important part of understanding why also they were willing to do so much in 2020 to make sure that he did not continue in power. So what they accuse us of doing they're guilty of. We all lived through it. 2016 through 2020 was horrific. I mean, it was it was every media outlet. It was it was levers of government. And it was it was an insane conspiracy theory. And it had real, real ramifications for trust in media and trust in institutions. I've talked on this stage before how when Ambassador Rick Grinnell called me and said, hey, would you come out to Nevada right after the election? And I said, of course, and we went out to Nevada. And I told everybody on the plane I was with that, you know, I'd been involved in the recount in Florida and other recounts when I was at the White House and such. And the I said, you know, when you get on the ground, it's really hard to find evidence. And we don't we probably won't find enough to make a difference. But we should still go out there because, by the way, any voting crime is still a crime. We hit the ground and we found enough fraud that I believe that Donald Trump won Nevada and not Joe Biden. People keep saying there's no evidence of any fraud. You guys made this up because none of the judges would look at the evidence. What did you find? So I focused on a few different states than Nevada. But one of the problems with what happened in twenty twenty was this widespread manipulation of our election laws. The Constitution says that if you're changing election laws, it should be handled through state legislatures. Sometimes that happened in the lead up to twenty twenty. Frequently, it didn't. And this was part of a widespread concerted effort by Democrats to to change voting laws to enable the flooding, the zone of tens of millions of mail in ballots at the same time that they decreased scrutiny of mail in ballots. In addition to that, they had just like incomprehensibly large private funding which enabled a takeover of our government election offices. Mark Zuckerberg gave close to half a billion dollars to take over government election offices to run Democrat get out the vote operations in the blue areas of swing states. This meant that people were involved in everything from ballot design, ballot translation, registering Democrat voters, reaching out to Democrat voters, being involved in the ballot counting. They just kind of took over key places that enabled this this really dramatic result. You remember that the twenty twenty election came down to forty three thousand votes across three states. And by focusing on mostly, you know, you're thinking Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Georgia, Arizona. They were able to have a really good outcome for them, but but it was not good for the country. I was just on NBC News back there in the corner and you get this constant question about why don't you guys stop talking about the twenty twenty election? Don't you have to explain what happened and the illegal activity so that it never happens again? So it's important to remember how, you know, this didn't just affect a presidential election. This also affected control of the Senate. We are living through right now the results of what happened in the twenty twenty election. And it was it was incredibly large. The ramifications are so big when you look at what's happening in Ukraine, for instance, when you look at what's happening with our energy production, when you're looking at what's happening with China. These are very big results that do matter. But it doesn't just matter. Looking back, it matters going forward. If you enable a corruption of the election system, if you enable this widespread problems that lead to distrust and lack of confidence, that's a threat to our republic. The bedrock of our republic is that we must have elections that are free and fair and transparent and trusted. And we you know, this is something that we've had to fight about throughout the whole history of our republic, because as you note, the time to do this is when the election laws are written, because once they're done, it's very difficult to conclusively detect fraud or other problems. That's why you fight about what the rules are. But people know that we need to have the security. You take something like voter ID. This is something that President Biden says is Jim Crow 2.0. Voter ID is something that at least 80% of the country supports. It's a basic, you know, it just makes sense that you would do something like this. It's important that you fight for that because people who want to corrupt the election don't want to have voter ID. They want to make it easier to have manipulation of elections and not be able to trust them. And that's that is a threat to the republic. Well, wait a minute. Are you saying that Stacey Abrams isn't the governor of Georgia? I mean, I'm pretty sure she is. Yeah. Oh, but I wanted to say that about Georgia, too. You look at that state, and people say, you know, people think this this discussion is just about the 2020 presidential election. This funding by Zuckerberg in Georgia knows tens of millions of dollars. And it affected, again, not just the presidency, but control of the Senate. That's right. Look at Florida, which had less of this type of funding. It went, you know, one point Republican to three points Republican in those four years. Georgia went from five points Republican to one point Democrat. It was because of this Zuckerberg funding. And it was because of a focus on this that people really need to be aware of. And they need to be monitoring it so that it doesn't happen in the future so that they can trust the elect the electoral results. So we have a lot of corruption, including in the legal profession, where we talked about from this stage with Senator Hagerty that if you're a Trump supporter, if you're a conservative, as I say, an American who loves America and her founding, it's hard to find a lawyer. But yet the left has a ready made law firm, Perkins Coie, that is the go to firm to find dossiers and fake evidence on Russian collusion. Make sure you change the election laws. Don't follow the laws. Mark Elias is the tip of the spear on all this, not following the rules on the elections. How is this possible? So one of the things I couldn't believe when I was researching my book was to see that Mark Elias was at the center of the 2020 election because I had covered the Russia collusion hoax for years. And he was the guy who was actually involved in hiring Fusion GPS, which invented the dossier, which caused all of these problems, you know, getting it into the into the intel agencies. The same guy was the one who was running the operation to change hundreds of laws and make them and sort of degrade the integrity of our election system. And he's now started his own law group. I think I thought that that was because he was gaining power and even going to make this legal juggernaut against American rule following even stronger. But it might be that he's in a little bit of trouble. Yes, it might be. I'm not sure. But there is something to be said about how people on the left have really invested in this issue. People on the right need to invest on it in it as well, particularly as we have this expansive period of time with ballots and not a lot of scrutiny of the same. People who care about elections need to be involved. They need to be engaged in community oversight. They need to know what the laws are in their in their state, in their community, and they need to be there. You know, people think of, for instance, being an election watcher or an election judge that happens on election day. But in many states, it can happen for weeks or even months prior to election day. And it's important that people care about their country, be witnessing that throughout the whole time. The the other problem we have is judges, even Republican judges in these states are intimidated sometimes and they're too political. They're thinking through, well, there might be an explosion of violence if I bring up the wrongdoing. If the judges won't do their jobs when there's wrongdoing and the legislators are nervous to combat the illegality, that puts us in a tough place. That means no one's going to take care of it. So historically, courts don't like to get involved in election disputes. Although they did in 2000, right? And in 2020, well, there were so many changes happening in 2020. There were actually hundreds of court cases and litigation going on. So they did get involved. They get nervous when they don't have enough time. But there's also that issue that you have very partisan elections in certain states. Pennsylvania has a very partisan Supreme Court that just completely destroyed election integrity in that commonwealth. And it's important that people, again, be focused on that as well. But you were also saying something about the Perkins-Cooey Law Group. One of the things I thought was so damaging about what happened recently was people on the left were actually threatening attorneys who were helping out election efforts or election integrity efforts. And if you can't have good counsel, you don't really have, again, a free republic. You don't have free and fair elections. It's important that we fight to make sure that all people can get good legal representation. Okay, so the book is great. And I do recommend everybody get it. And everyone knows where they can get books. They all have their favorite places. Am I right? Yep. This is everywhere. It's everywhere. It's sold. You know, the news media, most outlets were very nervous to cover election fraud because they were, I think, nervous to say, to weigh in on the matter altogether. But also, I think people speak too narrowly. So election fraud can frequently be a very limited concept that just deals with particular intentional illegality. What actually happened in the 2020 election was so much bigger than just that. It was this intentional manipulation. You might remember Time Magazine actually admitted this, that there was a cabal of powerful people across multiple industries and whatnot. To fortify the election. To fortify the election. And that's something that is much, much bigger than that. But it also raises an issue, which is we have a completely corrupted propaganda press. They don't engage in holding people accountable. They just exist to sort of help elite regimes maintain power. They were a horrible player in this 2020 election by covering up stories, inventing stories, and they need to be dealt with. Molly Hemingway, thank you for writing this book. Thank you. Thank you for being at CPAC. I think this book is the first step to making sure it never happens again. Thank you. Thank you. Hope you all enjoyed these great interviews with these great patriots. And remember, you can watch more of CPAC Florida, whatever you might have missed, go to conservative.org. And don't forget to follow us on all social media platforms, including Truth Social, at CPAC, at Mercedes Schlapp, or at M Schlapp, so you can stay up to date with the great interviews we're doing, as well as events that might be coming up in your area. So we hope to see you soon. Thanks so much. Good night.