Democrats call emergency meeting after ‘embarrassing’ week

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00:00President Trump right now is giving remarks from the White House, from the Oval Office,

00:05and as soon as we get those taped remarks, we will play them out for all of you to see.

00:09But in the meantime, Democrats are in panic mode, reportedly calling an emergency meeting

00:15yesterday of a dozen House Democrats.

00:18Now, this comes after that embarrassing display during President Trump's joint address to

00:23Congress, including the moment Al Green shouted and waved his cane that led to his censure.

00:30That's your warning.

00:31Remove this gentleman from the chamber.

00:43Hello, everyone.

00:44This is Outnumbered on this Friday.

00:45I'm Kayleigh McEnany here with my co-host, Emily Campagno.

00:48Also joining us, Molly Line, Fox News correspondent, Marie Harf, Fox News contributor and former

00:53State Department spokesperson under President Obama.

00:57And look who it is for the very first time on the couch, House Speaker Mike Johnson.

01:03So good to have you here, Speaker Johnson.

01:05So good to be with you.

01:06I've been wanting to do this for a long time.

01:08So thanks for the opportunity, ladies.

01:09We've been wanting to have you and we are quite excited.

01:11You know, I woke up this morning and I'm reading and, you know, all the congressional publications,

01:16Politico, Punchbowl, Axios.

01:18Here's what they said happened last night.

01:20I was very intrigued by it.

01:21This is after the censure of Al Green.

01:23You have Politico playbook citing Axios that says there was a very unhappy House Democratic

01:28leadership meeting.

01:29They had a come to Jesus meeting with a dozen House lawmakers, Punchbowl elucidating on

01:35that said that this included Maxwell Frost, Jasmine Crockett, two very outspoken Democrats,

01:41and they used the word that they were berated for their behavior.

01:46How ordinary is it for leadership to berate members of their own party?

01:51And were you surprised by this?

01:53I wasn't surprised.

01:54It is extraordinary.

01:55But they did make fools of themselves on the House floor and everyone saw it, everyone

02:00in the country.

02:01It was a reminder to them why we won so decisively in this last election cycle and why they lost.

02:06And they're really a party in total disarray, as you see it on vivid display right now.

02:11They don't have an identified leader.

02:13They don't have any vision for where they're going.

02:15They don't have a platform that they can run on because it was repudiated overwhelmingly

02:19in the election.

02:21So they're sort of flailing about and it blew up on the House floor and I think they

02:25deeply regret it.

02:26At least some of them do.

02:27Others apparently didn't get the message of the election.

02:29No.

02:30Al Green among them.

02:31He becomes the fourth House Democrat to be censured in the last four years.

02:35And Hakeem Jeffries, your counterpart on the other side of the aisle, had this to say about

02:39the censure.

02:41The censure resolution put forth by extreme MAGA Republicans is not worth the paper that

02:52it was written on.

02:54He says it's not worth the paper and House Freedom Caucus members are asking to put forward

02:59a resolution to remove Al Green from his committee assignments.

03:02What are your thoughts on that?

03:03Well, the interesting thing is we he was censured for disrupting the proceedings of the House.

03:08And while I was reading the censure that was voted in, by the way, by 10 House Democrats

03:13who joined Republicans in that, they disrupted the proceedings of the House.

03:17So there's some irony there.

03:19We have to keep decorum.

03:20We have to keep control of the proceedings because we're the greatest deliberative body

03:25in the world and we need to act like it.

03:27And I think this went way over the line.

03:29By the way, these censures, this is not a normal thing.

03:31I mean, he was only the 29th member of the House to be censured in the entire history

03:35of the U.S. Congress.

03:36So it was above the pale.

03:38He's the first person to ever be removed from the floor during a presidential address.

03:42It was appropriate.

03:43And we've got to we've got to maintain control.

03:45You know, Emily's going to hop in here, but just a quick follow up.

03:47What about his committee assignments?

03:49Do you think that's on the table?

03:50Well, I talked to Freedom Caucus members and other Republicans who are deeply concerned

03:53about this.

03:54They say we have to restore control one way or the other.

03:56They need to be real consequences.

03:57And it's something we'll be looking at early next week.

04:00So Mr. Speaker, it seems that there are some some reasonable heads prevailing, right?

04:03We have Michigan State Senator Mallory McMorrow.

04:05She says, look, these Democrats are sick and tired of performative nonsense.

04:09We don't want to see our elected officials trying to be cute or clever, she says.

04:12So back to Tuesday night, Peggy Noonan, Democrat, esteemed WSJ opinion editor, wrote a thoughtful

04:18op ed today where she said, look, I came to three conclusions after Tuesday.

04:22She said they're not serious people talking about her own party, these elected officials

04:26who refuse to stand up, refuse to clap to their job was to show they are an alternative

04:31to Mr. Trump.

04:32And instead, they proved why he won.

04:34And then her third and most important, she said they will continue to lose for a long

04:38time.

04:39And she talked about how to stand and cheer, to show support for these incredible Americans

04:43that were there that evening was to show love.

04:46And instead, she said they brought the hate.

04:48So my question, to quote the Black Eyed Peas, which I got to see in concert a hundred years

04:51ago, where is the love speaker?

04:53And do you think that Democrats will listen to these reasonable voices?

04:56I think most of them won't.

04:59And you saw that by their vote.

05:00They voted against Century Now Green.

05:02They're doubling down, tripling down on their failed policies and their message.

05:06And it does not resonate with the people.

05:08Peggy Noonan used to be a speechwriter for Ronald Reagan.

05:10I mean, she's a pretty keen observer of politics and human nature.

05:14And what she's seen here is a trend that no one can deny, that the Democratic Party has

05:18left the American people.

05:19When I was a kid, I grew up in Louisiana in the deep south.

05:22There weren't many Republicans.

05:24I didn't know many.

05:25But that party left the people of my state and every other state over the years.

05:29And now they went through that woke progressive nonsense.

05:34They went so vigorous and aggressive.

05:36It's almost like the pendulum swung all the way to the left and it clicked.

05:40And now it's sort of moving back.

05:41And what President Trump represents, and our party by extension now, is a force that is

05:45moving that pendulum back to what President Trump says is common sense.

05:50And that was long overdue.

05:51And the people embrace it.

05:53And the polls verify that they're in favor of what we're doing, restoring common sense

05:58and our conservative principles, which I know that we can demonstrate are good for

06:02everyone.

06:03It will lead to human flourishing.

06:04And then we'll keep these new demographics of folks that we gained in this election cycle

06:07and govern for many years to come.

06:09Speaker, it's so interesting.

06:12A lot of Democrats remember Joe Wilson yelling, you lie, at Barack Obama and Marjorie Taylor

06:16Greene and Lauren Boebert saying some really awful things to Joe Biden.

06:20So the State of the Union in general has become a little bit more of a circus, I think.

06:25So Democrats will also remember that.

06:27But you're right in saying that Democrats are searching for a message and a leader.

06:31Now, I'm a Democrat.

06:32I looked at what happened on Tuesday night and did not like a lot of it.

06:35Right.

06:36What I did like was Alyssa Slotkin, the senator from Michigan, who was the official response,

06:40who's a moderate, worked for the George W. Bush CIA, right, worked on Iraq and other

06:45intelligence issues.

06:46And she came out and said prices are higher.

06:49The thing you know, they're firing veterans all around the country.

06:52We are hearing in town halls that voters, you know, Democrats may not be winning them

06:56over quite yet, but Republicans are starting to lose them.

07:00So I'd love your thoughts on sort of her message.

07:03There is a moderate wing of the party and it was on display in that speech.

07:06But also what your members are starting to hear.

07:08We're seeing these town halls where members are getting berated.

07:11You know, I lived through the Obamacare town halls and I learned as a Democrat, you know,

07:15once you start getting those, you know, canceling town halls, things don't look good for you.

07:19So what do you make of sort of this moment and that part of the party and also how your

07:23members are are hearing from folks?

07:25Well, look, are they going to cancel town halls?

07:28I'll say this.

07:29The president is now what is it, 45 days into his administration?

07:33We're transitioning from Bidenomics in the terrible economy that was delivered by the

07:37last administration.

07:39It takes a while to turn that ship around, but we are doing that.

07:42And the Congress is working to codify all the executive orders that the president is

07:45doing.

07:46Now, with regard to the town halls, look, I mean, we have Republicans who want to go

07:49out and be among their constituents and and hear their concerns and dialogue with them.

07:53It's a big part of the job.

07:55But the problem is they're being ambushed right now by what are some, in many cases,

07:59paid protesters.

08:00You've got George Soros funded groups.

08:02They're very well organized.

08:03That's one thing Democrats do very well is this organization.

08:05Right.

08:06And they go in.

08:07They go an hour or two early before the event.

08:09They fill all the seats.

08:10And so the actual constituents of these Republican members can't actually make it into the arenas.

08:15And so it's not a productive dialogue at all.

08:17They're just walking into an ambush.

08:18So we've we've encouraged our members to think thoughtfully about that.

08:23There are a lot of ways now with technology to be in constant dialogue with their constituents.

08:27You can do telephone town halls and get 10,000 people on the phone at the same time.

08:30You can have small group meetings with industry or organization groups or various parts of

08:34your community and to be very productive.

08:36So we want to do the job, do it well, do it efficiently and effectively.

08:40And going walking into a stage production like that doesn't serve anyone's interest.

08:45Thank you, Mr. Johnson.

08:46I know Molly has a question for you and we're going to get to that in just a moment.

08:49But I noticed something this week.

08:50I looked back at Biden's State of the Union last year and I saw you stand when he mentioned

08:56John Lewis and I saw you stand when he mentioned standing as America to get the hostages freed

09:02from Hamas.

09:03You were able to recognize those common humanity moments and it doesn't appear that your colleagues

09:08on the other aisle were able to do that for DJ Daniel, a cancer survivor.

09:13Why do you think you could recognize that, but they could not?

09:16It's a great question.

09:17It was shameful.

09:18I mean, they didn't stand for the families of, you know, Lake and Riley and victims of

09:23crime and all of these things that the hostage who was released after his elderly mother

09:28pleaded for all of that from the tragedy in Israel.

09:32I mean, they missed their opportunity.

09:34And look, a State of the Union or a joint address is meant to be, they're supposed to

09:39be unifying moments.

09:40It's something we all join in together.

09:42It used to be a celebrated event of America.

09:45And so you look for those moments that you can join and all all join together.

09:49President Trump provided many of them and they just sat through it all.

09:52And so I think it sent a profound message to the people.

09:55I mean, it was shameful and I don't know how they explain their way out of that.

09:58Yeah.

09:59Well, you know, we talk about the bingo cards and the waving of the cane at the same time.

10:04There's an opportunity here for more moderate Democrats.

10:07Marie was talking about this to to come forward and appear sane in comparison.

10:12So there is this window of opportunity as the Democrats are trying to figure out where

10:16they're going to go and how they get back on the map.

10:18And while they're definitely throwing a little spaghetti against the wall in a lot of different

10:22respects.

10:23Here we are.

10:24We're about to go into a pretty intense period where we're going to be talking about money.

10:27You know, this is what Congress does.

10:29And there's a lot of criticism right now.

10:31And the Democrats want to put language in about how much power President Trump has and

10:36what Republicans in Congress will do to rein that in.

10:39What do you picture in the coming weeks ahead?

10:41Hopefully not any, you know, Serbian legislative smoke bombs being tossed around.

10:45Expect a little more peace than that.

10:46Well, that's right. And this illustrates that the radical extremists in the Democrat Party

10:51have outnumbered the moderates.

10:52There's only a small handful of moderates left, and that's been on display here over

10:56and over. And they tried to do it, to your point, in the appropriations process.

11:00The Republican appropriators are negotiating in good faith.

11:03They're exchanging top line negotiation numbers back and forth.

11:07And about two weeks ago, the Democrats threw into this outrageous requirement the

11:12stipulation, hey, we won't fund the government unless you tie the hands of the

11:16executive branch, unless you put in all these stipulations and you take away the

11:20authority that they're duly allowed in our system.

11:23And we're not going to do that. They know we're not going to do that.

11:25So it looked like they were trying to engineer a shutdown of the government, which is

11:28terribly irresponsible.

11:29We're not going to do that. We will be running a clean CR next week.

11:33And what that will do is allow us time, allow the White House time, the

11:37administration, to continue the doge efforts, finding all these extraordinary levels of

11:41savings and waste, fraud and abuse.

11:43We'll be able to incorporate that into the budgeting for FY 26, which will start

11:47almost immediately after we're done next week.

11:49And so that's going to be a great innovation.

11:51I think it's going to change the way government works.

11:53I was with Elon Musk in his office across the parking lot from the White House about a

11:58week ago, late at night.

11:59We're meeting, and I said, we're both getting increasingly excited about all the

12:02savings that he's finding.

12:03And I said, we're looking at this differently.

12:04You think of it as a data analyst and a scientist.

12:07I'm looking at this as a constitutional law attorney and a historian.

12:10Elon, it's not just about saving money.

12:12This is revolutionary.

12:14We're going to restore the founder's original vision for the Constitution.

12:17We're going to they wanted a limited federal government that had careful oversight by

12:21Congress. But Congress hasn't been able to do that because they've been hiding the

12:25data. He's found it.

12:26It's going to change the way we do government.

12:27Speaker Johnson, you had a viral moment with Vice President J.D.

12:31Vance during the State of the Union.

12:33It was a well joined addressed to Congress.

12:35I should say it was a hot mic moment.

12:36We want to play that. By the way, I think the speech is going to be great, but I don't

12:41know how you do this. The hardest thing was doing it during Biden when the speech was

12:48a stupid campaign speech.

12:51I mean, what's the backstory?

12:52Did you not know your mic was on?

12:55They turn these mics off all the time.

12:57I didn't know it was on.

12:58And, you know, they're always on.

13:00Sorry about that.

13:01But I was candid there.

13:02It was candid.

13:03It was funny.

13:03And I got to say, you know what?

13:05My sister is in social media, says Organic Works and social media loved that moment.

13:09You joined the ranks of Britney Spears and everyone else who had hot mic moment.

13:12Speaker, it's totally cool.

13:14And the race about number two.

13:15Exactly.

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