At a House Republican press briefing on Tuesday, Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) spoke about Vice President Kamala Harris.
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00:00Thank you, Whip.
00:04The Democrat Party proved last week that they have absolutely no respect for their own voters.
00:10They literally jettisoned throughout the votes of 14 million Democrats who went to the polls
00:14to select Joe Biden as their nominee and went behind closed doors where party bosses pulled
00:21the will of their voters and replaced Joe Biden with Kamala Harris.
00:26Now it begs the question, let's look at Kamala Harris's record as vice president.
00:31She's still the sitting vice president, but she's also been the architect of many of President
00:36Biden's worst failures, not the least of which is her main responsibility that she's been
00:42given in three and a half years.
00:43That is the job of Borders Are.
00:45When President Biden tapped her to be the Borders Are, it took her months to even get
00:50out to the border.
00:52She said many times that the border is secure.
00:55Everybody in America knows that's a lie.
00:57In fact, it's the largest crisis in America, affecting every community throughout this
01:03country with drugs, with opioids that are killing about 150 Americans every day, bringing
01:08in criminals to every community in America.
01:12And Kamala Harris has been responsible for this epic failure.
01:17In fact, she's called for open borders.
01:20What else is she called for?
01:21Good luck when she goes to Pennsylvania and talks about her energy policies, where she
01:25wants to ban fracking.
01:27She has been against American energy her whole career while allowing foreign countries like
01:32Russia and Iran to put billions of dollars into their pockets, selling their energy around
01:37the world while crushing American energy and the jobs that go with it here at home.
01:44We all know what Kamala Harris did raising money for the Minnesota Freedom Fund when
01:48radicals were out protesting and ultimately getting arrested, attacking cops, doing other
01:54things.
01:55She's shown disdain over and over again, saying we need to rethink policing, embracing the
02:00defund police movement.
02:02That's Kamala Harris's record.
02:04She is far to the left of Joe Biden.
02:06And we know the failures of the Biden-Harris administration all too well.
02:11That's going to be a problem they're going to continue to have.
02:14They hold nobody accountable for their failures.
02:17And unfortunately, the American people are the ones who pay the price.
02:21We laid out a really strong alternative at our convention in Milwaukee.
02:25I was proud to be there with our other leaders here.
02:28And what we saw is an incredibly unified Republican Party with a clear and focused agenda.
02:34President Trump laid it out himself, as did all the other speakers, talking about what
02:38we will do to help those families who are struggling under the weight of this radical
02:43Biden-Harris administration.
02:45That's led to record inflation, higher costs at the grocery store, at the gas station,
02:50in this court, all around the world.
02:53Kamala Harris couldn't even find the time to go greet Prime Minister Netanyahu yesterday
02:57when he arrived in the United States.
02:59And in fact, Vice President Harris is boycotting tomorrow's speech by Prime Minister Netanyahu.
03:07That's disgraceful.
03:09Why will she not come and show support for our greatest ally in the Middle East while
03:13they're at war from terrorist organizations funded by Iran?
03:20These are the kind of questions that they're going to have to answer.
03:22And finally, when you watched that hearing yesterday with Secret Service Director Chytil,
03:28I think everybody in America knows she's not up to the job.
03:31And it's an important job.
03:32It's a job where the main mission is to protect presidents and former presidents of the United
03:37States with a zero-fail mission, as Mr. Langworthy talked about.
03:42And not only did she fail, but she actually lied to us and the American people multiple
03:46times just in the last 10 days.
03:49We had been hearing for months that President Trump's team was denied additional Secret
03:53Service protection that they had asked for.
03:56And what did we hear from the Secret Service Director?
03:58A vehement pushback.
04:00They said, no, that's not true.
04:02For days, they said it wasn't true.
04:04They didn't just ignore what we were saying.
04:07They actually said it wasn't true.
04:10And then the day before, Director Chytil comes before the Oversight Committee, where she
04:14has to testify at the threat of perjury, they all of a sudden leak out the truth.
04:20And that is that, yes, in fact, the Secret Service Director Chytil did deny the Trump
04:25team additional Secret Service protection.
04:28Why did she lie to the American people and members of Congress for about a week about
04:32such an important detail?
04:35She talked about the inability to protect the roof where the shooter positioned himself.
04:44She said it was too high of a pitch.
04:46And then yesterday, you had Carlos Jimenez, a colleague of ours, 70 years old on the roof,
04:50just walking around saying, look at this.
04:52This is not difficult to maneuver.
04:55She lied about that, too.
04:57She has no credibility to the point where literally Republicans and Democrats are united
05:01calling on her to step down.
05:04This is not an entitlement position she has.
05:06She works for the American people, and she failed in her mission.
05:09Joe Biden needs to remove her if she doesn't have the self-respect to step down.
05:14And we're going to continue to push for that as well.
05:16Now I'd like to bring up the man who's leading our charge, and that is Speaker Mike Johnson.