0 >> sean: that's all the time we have this evening. thank you for being with us. thank you for making this show possible. we hope you will set your dvr so you never miss an episode of hannity. don't forget for news any time all the time, it's fox news.com, hannity.com. in the meantime, let not your heart be troubled, laura ingraham, the ingraham angle is next. you have a killer kick as show. i don't want to interrupt it. >> laura: you had a great show i don't even have anything creative to say. you have a very bland tie on. it's very -- it's not a salmon color. you don't have pink or yellow. you look like a normal person tonight. nothing i can say. this is so boring. seriously, an awesome show. >> sean: have a great show. really nice to talk to you, though. >> laura: all right, love yeah, buddy i'm laura ingraham. this is the ingraham angle from washington tonight. gop sellouts, the focus of tonight's angle. now, i can't tell you how many republicans i have spoken to lately who are pretty disillusioned and demoralized. election after election, they vote, some of them volunteer. they donate to a party that when push comes to shove seems to actually detest them. now, in big issues like trade and foreign policy, budgets, republican leadership seems far more comfortable cutting deals to satisfy democrats than they are with working to satisfy their conservative base. now, we saw this dynamic play out yesterday when 12 republican senators, all the usual suspects, voted for the deceptively titled, respect for marriage act. while purporting the safeguard marital rights of same sex couples, the law will actually end up gutting the religious libber rights across the country. social conservatives are insulted but not surprised. we just learned this week that republicans are going to cave on another huge issue, spending. now, on december 16, the government will run out of money. it's convenient how the deadline always runs right up to christmas vacation when all of the members are desperate to get out of town. before that deadline, congress can do one of three things -- first, it could simply pass nothing and shut the government down, and that would mean they would cease federal spending on all nonessential services. you get your social security check, veterans get their benefits, etc. we know they hate doing this because that move, while it is drastic, forces members to stay in town, figure it out, and be more accountable for the obscene amount of spending that it usually just runner stamps. second, and less drastic a solution for them would be to pass a temporary spending pill in the form of what's called a continuing resolution. this would freeze spending for some 30 days or some limited period of time. the obvious benefit of this would be that republicans would end up being in control of the house by the time the cr runs out. and, thus, the republicans would have much more say over the huge pops of money that going to be spent, or not spent at all, in some cases. the third option is what both schumer and mcconnell apparently prefer -- and i'm talking about having one giant -- or as my son would say, ginormous spending bill, that would fund the entire government for the coming year. so, no separate bills, in other words, for various departments. it would all be in just one giant bill. this gives cob can huge latitude. billions more for pet causes like climate change. the hiring of the 87,000irs agents. and, of course, never-ending money for ukraine. now, this concession by the master strategist, mitch mcconnell, puts republicans in a box. with spending questions off of the table, they'll lose most of the real leverage they had to advance their own priorities in the new year. so, at this point, should any of us be surprised, though, that mcconnell just announced that, quote, there's wide spread agreement that would be better off with an omni bus than a temporary spending bill, or a cr. wide spread agreement among whom? certainly not the republican party. and tonight, we learned via john thune who's leading the efforts for the gop that the appropriators are trading, now negotiating, and shelby, senator richard shelby of alabama and patrick lahey of vermont are engaged and we'll see if they can strike a deal. okay. think about this for a moment. gop interest are being represented, nothing personal against them, but by richard shelby, an old establishment guy. he's 8 years old. and whose political career is over. that is a joke. look, mitch mcconnell prefers it obscene guard gant wan spending bills because it makes the job easier. it means in the end they won't have to deal with conservatives quite as much in the new year, certainly not in the house. more today, mccobble knows if he reaches a deal this month, then the outgoing speaker nancy pelosi can be trusted to push it through the house. can the same be said about mccarthy in january? as one gop senator told politico this week, nobody wants to hand ken mccarthy a grenade with a pin already pulled. wow. he trusts pelosi more than mccarthy. mcconnell. washington swamp really is a trough with more and more pigs feeding at it every tday. chief among them are our defense contractors who get an ice cream sundae with a cherry on top from mitch. mcconnell has a price. he's insisting that defense spending receive a bigger boost than nondefense spending. okay, you cannot make up how irresponsible this is. this is not the 180s when the military leaders were reliably conservative, unfailingly traditional. now our military leadership hates us all. mcconnell should demand transparency and accountability for the nearly $20 billion in hardware and humanitarian assistance we already sent to ukraine. he should be demanding an audit of pentagon spending there, not runner stamping what the white house wants in this new package. which, by the way, ends up all totalled, when you total it up with the new supplemental will have spent $100 billion in the year 2022 to 2023. and we have an open border, tens of thousands of our own vets living in gutters across america. and we don't help them? but $100 billion to ukraine. this is disgusting. the entire episode reminds me of the infrastructure fiasco where 1 gop senators decided to sign on with the democrats giving biden the bipartisan victory he talked about in the midterms. when he agreed to this, mcconnell et al. squandered all of the leverage they could have used with the climate change bill which we remember passed with zero republican votes in august. my god, then they claim like everything on the hill is a negotiation? well, by giving the dem is this win, mcconnell ends up avoiding having to work with the freedom caucus when we're talking about the military spending and tb huge omni bus bill in the fall. but, my friends, the pentagon's budget is not sacrosanct. and our woke military needs to be subject to more oversight, period. consider this contrast, the run and hide with the take no prisoners approach to someone like a ron desantis. he didn't choose to sell out and keep his seat at the table, he fought disney and he won. >> these are parents' rights, important policies in our state that are very popular. so, they brought this on themselves. all we did was stand up for what's right. and, yes, they're a big powerful company. but you know what? we stand up for our folks and i don't care what a burbank-based california company says about our laws. >> laura: keep the government contracts coming, kids never stop. more unnamed sources talking to the accomplishment media complaining they can't keep the party unified. they probably are going to blame trump for that. but if mitch mcconnell's team wants to blame someone, their bosses are going to need to look in the mirror, whether it's the snarky comments of the senate candidates or the willingness to cram through this out of control pork-filled omni bus. mcconnell comes off of totally disinterested in the people who actually win his party elections now, they praise mcconnell as a formidable fighter. but he uses his talents too often to help lick rals just spend more money. being part of the establishment means never having to say you ear sorry. the only person explaining this is senator bill cassidy of louisiana. you're going to recall that the angle on that issue obliterated him. >> you guys got played on this. you had to vote first or agree first. they still haven't shown the text of their legislation, have they, sir? >> they -- >> make them show -- >> you made it easy for them. >> laura: can mcconnell or cassidy point to one house or senate seat that the republicans won because of their massive infrastructure bill? now, there's going to come a time, probably, in the next few years, when mitch mcconnell is going to need conservative support for the priorities and the candidates that won't be there like the cynical bargain like the one he's making on this omni bus. in the end, reckless spending in the back, it's not good for politics or for america. that's the angle. mike brawn sits on the senate budget and appropriation committees, i know that's a harsh assessment. i listed the three options they do have, one is a temporary extension. now, you say you normally vote against bills like that. but not this time. explain. >> so, this time we'd be handing the keys over to nancy pelosi, who we just fired to do all of the spending according to what they want to do. it's been on display for the last two years. we do this all the time. laura, last year, we didn't complete the spending until march. so, there's no rush. i'm on the budget committee. you know who gavels us in there?? bernie sanders. he's never done anything about budget mechanics. so, there's no good reason to give the dems, nancy pelosi as her swan song, another year. we're $18 trillion in debt, now we're $31 trillion. we're running $1.5 trillion deficits with this nonsense. you can do through budgeting and proper appropriations all of this where you didn't bring it down to the brink. why would we, now, when politics have change in the house, let nancy pelosi put her fingerprints on this. you don't need to. this place has gotten so out of line, it's hard to imagine where we are as a country. >> laura: we kind of learn in this hill piece tonight and in politico earlier today that mitch mcconnell would prefer to work with nancy pelosi than he would kevin mccarthy that's where we are right now. republicans have to understand, if they agree -- republicans agree to this omni bus, that is a fact. you would rather work with nancy pelosi than work with kevin mccarthy and risk the pentagon not getting a blank check for ukraine or for whatever else they want to do. do you agree with that? >> no, there should be something kevin mccarthy embraces to lay a blueprint out for what republicans are going to do. a lot of what happened in the last election, we weren't clearly for something. we've been -- over the years, i asked the republican senator the other evening, how many times have we drug 10 to 12 democrats along with the republican initiative? he said, i can't remember ever. you've gone through two or three of them where they drag 10 to 15 republicans along on their deals. i think people in the heartland, indiana where i'm from, they're sick and tired of that, not to mention they brought earmarks back. so they did without earmarks for ten years. and now they brought them back last year. this place is going to hit the ditch hard if a few of us don't start standing up. we did recently. recently in the senate, there was some discussion that brought it to a head in our own caucus that we're not going to keep putting up with this rolling over the democrats, the unholy alliance. they roll us because they want everything we want on defense pleases the neocons and they get everything they want on domestic spending and we're another $1.5 trillion in debt. >> laura: and you have no leverage you have no leverage to push the conservative. is it true you're running for government of indiana? is that coming out, yes? >> i filed the papers to put me in a position to do so. i worked hard to get here. everything i observed, it's going to take a real house cleaning. we'll get it done eventually. i think most of the solutions in this country are going to come from governors in states. you mentioned a good one down in florida. my time is too valuable to see this place yet even deeper into the hole when nobody seems to be worried about it. so, yeah. >> laura: disgusting would you support mike pence to run for your seat if he decided to run for senate. >> i'd ideally like to get someone who came outside of the farm system of politics, career politicians that normally stop us. that's where i came from. since i've been here, i've been able to speak with freedom and not worry about, well, is it going b to cost me a committee chair. do i have to make this this vote to get a campaign check. it's not the way it should work. the founders said, serve, get back to your farm and your business. we've gotten so far away from that. i don't think we never could have imagined we'd end up where we are right now. >> 88-year-old shelby running the negotiations right now. senator ron, thank you. you're a rarity. given everything we just laid out, why would republican voters even show up anymore. luckily, someone with common sense is going to lead the gop's autopsies post midterms. the co-chair. the rnc committee woman from california is going to join us now. harmid. now, i have some qualms about this this public autopsy. the democrats never do public autopsies. they get together to figure out their strategy. first of all, why is it a good idea? and if it's internally discussed new ideas or strategies, what are they? >> well, thanks, laura. i don't even like the term "autopsy." autopsy assumes the patient is dead and the rnc is very much not dead. i do think we are on life support. and i do think that we need radical interventions in order to become a functioning and winning party again. so, you know, i looked at politico yesterday. i was surprised to see that i've been signed up for a six-month committee project. i'm an unpaid volunteer at the rnc. i hate committees and i don't think we can wait six months to give our ideas. so, i'm not speaking on behalf of the rnc tonight. but as a six-year member of the rnc, i have specific ideas of things that we need to change in order to win. the key reason we have is winning elections. there is ( no other reasons. we've been fooling ourselves and gaslighting. >> what's the most -- slow down, slow down. >> laura: you're so smart, you're putting out great ideas the major problem that you see, the major impediment, and perhaps we're seeing this play out right now in georgia is what? >> we are not chasing ballots. we're chasing we motions. but we're not doing what democrats do. we're making sure we hunt down every republican ballot and get it to the polls and get it in early. this is not popular with a lot of he pubs. but it is the reality in many states. i just saw it in the ground in arizona. that's how the democrats run pathetic and mediocre candidates, like katie hobbs and john fetterman. they get their voters to turn on the ballots. we don't. that's a thing of a past. we need to get with it in states where it's legal. where it isn't legal, the legislature could change it. we have to play the game we have, not what we wish we had. that's the number one thing i wish we could change. >> another problem facing the candidates is they're being outspend in fundraising. blake masters spent $1 for every $7.50 by mark kelly. laxalt, another bad proportion spending 1 to 380 by cortez masto. what's happening with the fundraising. if you're mitch mcconnell and you cut all of these horrible deals, who's going to cut the checks, when they think republicans are acting like democrats. >> blake masters was ripped off by the senate leadership. mitch mcconnell chose to spend millions to alaska. he had a winnable race, he didn't. we need to quit comparing rnc to dnc. that's not the game. it all of the fundraising dnc does to dark money groups, nonprofits, infrastructure. we don't do that. we have to get smart about that. laura, i think we need to move and decentralize the rnc's functions out of dc and back into the country where americans are, where our voters are. and enb gabling in much more here for now. i could go on. but we have to change things how we run the elections and the rnc. happy to be part of that process and i hope we see some change. >> the populists, they have to be more powerful and stronger than the establishment types. more establishment in the rnc as well. we're excited about your role and good luck. why are so many allowed to lobby for china -- lobby for tiktok next, chris rufo got his hands on the video of disney ceo's bob i goer's first meeting since returning. are they backing down from their positions? 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