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'Squad' reportedly expected to double in size 'Socialist Hellhole' · INSIGHT TODAY

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  Speaker 1: Well, Democrat control of Congress may seem like a dream
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  Speaker 1: for House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, but it can quickly
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  Speaker 1: become a nightmare as the squad grows to as many
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  Speaker 1: as 16 members. Now, if Democrats take Congress with a
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  Speaker 1: slim majority, Jeffries will have to bend the knee to
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  Speaker 1: the far-left radicals who will force votes on a series
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  Speaker 1: of socialist demands. Fox News contributor Robert Wolf and former
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  Speaker 1: RNC national spokesperson Elizabeth Pipko joins us now. Thanks for
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  Speaker 1: being here on the couch.
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  Speaker 2: It's so exciting.
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  Speaker 1: 48 hours to go, and I've talked a lot about this. Robert,
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  Speaker 1: I want to start with you, and that is you
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  Speaker 1: currently have two actual DSA card-carrying members here. in Congress,
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  Speaker 1: AOC and Rashida Tlaib. But you have Claire Valdez in
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  Speaker 1: New York, Chevalier here in New York, Mila Kiros in Colorado,
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  Speaker 1: Donovan McKinney in Michigan, in Detroit, one of the safest
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  Speaker 1: Democrat seats, and a handful of others. They're going to
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  Speaker 1: double or triple almost for sure overnight. How will that
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  Speaker 1: impact whether or not Hakeem Jeffries becomes speaker if Democrats
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  Speaker 1: win control of the House, which many polls are predicting?
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  Speaker 1: And how may it affect the caucus, in terms of
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  Speaker 1: what they're going to be pushing the party to do?
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  Speaker 3: DAVID BROOKS JR.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, first of all, I'm not a socialist, and
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  Speaker 2: so I've never supported anyone in the DSA, at least
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  Speaker 2: to my knowledge. One, I don't think it will have
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  Speaker 2: really any impact. I think we're going to have about
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  Speaker 2: 230 seats. If you look at what's happened the last
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  Speaker 2: half a dozen years with the squad, I think they
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  Speaker 2: vote along Democratic lines over 99 percent of the time.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know one piece of legislation that's changed because
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  Speaker 2: of the squad. And so this idea that they're going
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  Speaker 2: to impact the direction of the House is just not accurate.
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  Speaker 2: We haven't seen that. The numbers don't show that. And
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  Speaker 2: I think Hakeem's going to be the speaker. And I
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  Speaker 2: think that they're going to vote along party lines. There's
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  Speaker 2: a big difference.
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  Speaker 3: But wait a minute.
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  Speaker 2: OK, go ahead.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm going to bring in Liz to this because,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you you raise a good point, but they
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  Speaker 1: haven't really had the numbers to get the legislation. But
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  Speaker 1: the rhetoric and the direction and the energy in the
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  Speaker 1: party with abolishing ICE and The anti-law enforcement was the
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  Speaker 1: Democratic-Socialist agenda, and that's leading the party right now. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you never— the current Senate minority leader, Chuck Schumer, was a
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  Speaker 1: shut-the-border-down-deportum guy until he wasn't because he got pulled to
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  Speaker 1: the left by socialists.
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  Speaker 2: It did.
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  Speaker 3: Look, I respectfully disagree. Look, I think the reason that
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  Speaker 3: this investigation is as hot as it is, it's not
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  Speaker 3: because we know what's coming at the end of the
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  Speaker 3: Ilhan Omar story. We don't. It's because she has this
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  Speaker 3: disdain for our country because she has said so many
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  Speaker 3: inflammatory things. She's had held policy positions that I think
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  Speaker 3: the majority of people did not realize a Democrat could hold.
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  Speaker 3: And now that the squad is going to multiply, it's
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  Speaker 3: not just numbers, it's influence. They're going to have leverage
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  Speaker 3: over a Democrat.
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  Speaker 2: Party.
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  Speaker 3: That's why it's so important for the president to hold
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  Speaker 3: his majority on Tuesday, because we now know what the
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  Speaker 3: Democrats are going to look like. This is not the
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  Speaker 3: moderate party they're pretending to be. And it's a party that, unfortunately,
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  Speaker 3: is growing in numbers when it comes to hate for
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  Speaker 3: our own country. And I don't think we can afford that.
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  Speaker 1: Robert, I'm going to let you in.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I'm glad Elizabeth respectfully disagreed. There you go. Here's
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  Speaker 2: what I will say. If we want to talk about socialism,
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  Speaker 2: we should just talk facts. Facts is the most socialist
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  Speaker 2: person right now is sitting in the White House. They
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  Speaker 2: are taking stakes in private companies. That is the emphasis
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  Speaker 2: of socialism. And we should just be clear.
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  Speaker 1: You're telling me Donald Trump, what do I do with that?
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  Speaker 2: We should look up what socialism is. It's taking stakes
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  Speaker 2: in private company. It's government run. You know, we're seeing
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  Speaker 2: what he's doing in NVIDIA and Intel. That's what socialism is.
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  Speaker 3: Government investment can exist in capitalist societies. It's not exactly true.
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  Speaker 3: Donald Trump is investing to try to make sure our
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  Speaker 3: country grows and protect our national security. Not how it works.
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  Speaker 3: And he speaks very openly against this kind of rhetoric
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  Speaker 3: where Democrats, unfortunately, cannot.
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  Speaker 2: He's also telling energy companies they're making too much money.
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  Speaker 2: He wants to put price caps. We can go down
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  Speaker 2: the list.
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  Speaker 3: And Democrats are saying, we love communism. We can go
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  Speaker 3: down that.
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  Speaker 2: List, too.
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  Speaker 1: Look, President Trump is quite clear about the unique situation
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  Speaker 1: with intel, so I don't want to relitigate that. But
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  Speaker 1: I do think it's interesting, Robert, that as a guy
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  Speaker 1: that's a pretty moderate Democrat— Total capitalist.
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  Speaker 2: Was a banker. Capitalist.
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  Speaker 1: The President Trump is the strongest, most ardent supporter of
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  Speaker 1: free market capitalism. And what the DSA is offering and
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  Speaker 1: trying to do with Medicare for All and so many
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  Speaker 1: other programs is ultimately to have big government socialism. And
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  Speaker 1: the president points out that no society, no country in
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  Speaker 1: history has ever taxed itself through big government socialism into prosperity.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm in agreement with President Trump. First of all,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not for Medicare for All. Although I'm for staying
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  Speaker 2: with a private option, private sector employee race. We have
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  Speaker 2: 150 million people. With that being said, we may need
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  Speaker 2: to look at a public option because we have too
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  Speaker 2: many people that can't afford health care that's off health care.
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  Speaker 1: I got to leave it there. I'll give you the
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  Speaker 1: last 10 seconds.
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  Speaker 3: I just want to say it's not just those running
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  Speaker 3: for office. It's the Democrat Party as a whole. Gallup
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  Speaker 3: polling shows that majority of Democrats view socialism favorably, unlike Republicans.
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  Speaker 1: Great conversation, Robert Wolf, Elizabeth Pipko. We'll be talking in
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  Speaker 1: 48 hours time and see what the results are. Thanks
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  Speaker 1: for being here.