Face the Nation: Kevin McCarthy

Interview

BREAK IN TRANSCRIPT

"Yes."

BREAK IN TRANSCRIPT

"Well, that's nothing new. He's tried to do that from the moment I ran for office."

BREAK IN TRANSCRIPT

"Yes, I will survive."

BREAK IN TRANSCRIPT

"No, he hasn't said…"

BREAK IN TRANSCRIPT

"He hasn't said anything about what he's going to do. Look…"

BREAK IN TRANSCRIPT

"Yeah, he -- he…"

BREAK IN TRANSCRIPT

"Look, Gaetz is trying to work with Democrats. He's reached out to Swalwell, to AOC and others."

BREAK IN TRANSCRIPT

"… is, the Senate has not passed one appropriation bill. Each body is supposed to pass 12. We've passed more than 70 percent of the discretionary spending already."

BREAK IN TRANSCRIPT

"I thought it was appropriate…"

BREAK IN TRANSCRIPT

"Well, you said that…"

BREAK IN TRANSCRIPT

"You said that same thing when we -- when we stopped the D.C. from decriminalizing everything. You said the same thing when we said we're going to stop the pandemic…"

BREAK IN TRANSCRIPT

"Well, no…"

BREAK IN TRANSCRIPT

"… you and many the press would -- do think, why pass it? Because the Senate won't take it up and won't sign it."

BREAK IN TRANSCRIPT

"I was confident I could get something on the floor to make sure the option that we would not."

BREAK IN TRANSCRIPT

"But our military…"

BREAK IN TRANSCRIPT

"Well -- well, I wasn't sure it was going to pass. You want to know why?"

BREAK IN TRANSCRIPT

"Did you -- did you watch -- did you watch it?"

BREAK IN TRANSCRIPT

"Did you watch the floor yesterday?"

BREAK IN TRANSCRIPT

"OK, then…"

BREAK IN TRANSCRIPT

"OK, so let's walk -- let's walk through what actually happened."

BREAK IN TRANSCRIPT

"Look, Democrats stick together, but they did not want the bill. They did not -- they -- they were willing to let government shut down, for our military not to be paid."

BREAK IN TRANSCRIPT

"That's right."

BREAK IN TRANSCRIPT

"Well, technically 47, but…"

BREAK IN TRANSCRIPT

"Well, it all comes down to the Senate. The Senate hasn't done one thing."

BREAK IN TRANSCRIPT

"No, because the House is doing their work."

BREAK IN TRANSCRIPT

"Yes, we have."

BREAK IN TRANSCRIPT

"Be -- that's your opinion."

BREAK IN TRANSCRIPT

"...who told people to go somewhere else."

BREAK IN TRANSCRIPT

"No, let me answer -- let me answer your questions…"

BREAK IN TRANSCRIPT

"… since you said we wouldn't do something."

BREAK IN TRANSCRIPT

"… as far from the border as you can see. This is killing Americans every single day."

BREAK IN TRANSCRIPT

"Well, no. No, but that's not fair to just say that. Let's under…"

BREAK IN TRANSCRIPT

"OK."

BREAK IN TRANSCRIPT

"Let's -- let's educate the viewers why there wasn't, because, the day before, there was."

BREAK IN TRANSCRIPT

"… denied that and voted no. So, we could have had border security."

BREAK IN TRANSCRIPT

"I went all the way through everything we could until the last moment."

BREAK IN TRANSCRIPT

"And you know what? We're going to be able to win that."

BREAK IN TRANSCRIPT

"Look, the priority for me is America and our borders.

Now, I support being able to make sure Ukraine has the weapons that they need."

BREAK IN TRANSCRIPT

"But I firmly support the border first. So we've got to find a way that we can do this together."

BREAK IN TRANSCRIPT

"They have more -- they have more than 3 -- they have more than $3 billion right now to be able to help them get through it."

BREAK IN TRANSCRIPT

"If they have some challenge, we can sit down, and we can talk about that. But the American border matters."

BREAK IN TRANSCRIPT

"More Americans are dying on our border than Americans are dying in Ukraine."

BREAK IN TRANSCRIPT

"I'm telling -- I'm telling…"

BREAK IN TRANSCRIPT

"I'm telling you that the American border matters. And that is our priority to make sure we secure that."

BREAK IN TRANSCRIPT

"I'm going to make sure that the weapons are provided for Ukraine, but they're not going to get some big package if the border is not secure."

BREAK IN TRANSCRIPT

"We will work with people in need. But the one thing the White House has to understand, they better be prepared to secure American border. It matters."

BREAK IN TRANSCRIPT

"Well, the -- the bill you think that won't go anywhere could easily do it, H.R.2, remain in Mexico, finish the wall. You've got to change asylum to be able to secure this border."

BREAK IN TRANSCRIPT

"Yes, not want."

BREAK IN TRANSCRIPT

"Not that I -- not that I want it passed. It is passed. And the Senate has done nothing. So, let's see where the Senate can go."

BREAK IN TRANSCRIPT

"OK, so -- OK, so not to be -- but how it works is, the House passes a bill, the Senate passes a bill, and you go to conference."

BREAK IN TRANSCRIPT

"The Senate -- and we've done this in Approps. The Senate has done nothing."

BREAK IN TRANSCRIPT

"But America comes first."

BREAK IN TRANSCRIPT

"Yes. Yes."

BREAK IN TRANSCRIPT

"Well…"

BREAK IN TRANSCRIPT

"Look, I think -- I think President Trump's going to be our nominee and President Trump's going to win, because President Trump's policies made America stronger. We didn't have inflation. We had a secure border."

BREAK IN TRANSCRIPT

We didn't -- we didn't have $100 barrel oil.

So what I totally find is, the president is going to be our nominee, the president is going to win reelection, President Trump, for the basis that we want to make America stronger. And the other thing too is, look what's happening in foreign policy today. You've got five American embassies that had to be evacuated.

You've got this new axis of power growing against. You've got a challenge when you -- our own allies are now turning towards China."

BREAK IN TRANSCRIPT

"It's a lack of leadership, not just in foreign policy within our border and everywhere else."

BREAK IN TRANSCRIPT

"Yes, don't you think that's important, then? One time in 50 years."

BREAK IN TRANSCRIPT

"Do you know how many people will die today from fentanyl coming across our border?"

BREAK IN TRANSCRIPT

"It's the equivalent of an airliner crashing every single day in America."

BREAK IN TRANSCRIPT

"And they refuse to even visit it or do something about it. So, we are going to make sure this border becomes secure."

BREAK IN TRANSCRIPT

"Thank you."

BREAK IN TRANSCRIPT

Source