HANNITY: “Anyway, here with more and so much, House minority leader Kevin McCarthy is with us. Let me know if I get this right. So you now have been the minority leader for two years and today was the first day that you went to the White House to meet with Joe, Nancy and Chuck and Mitch McConnell?”

McCarthy: “No, we went one at a time at the 100-day mark, but since then we have never been back together. The reason why he called us down is because he once again intentionally misled us. He said he had a rail strike solved in September when he knew that he didn’t want the American public to know before the election that he didn’t. Remember what he told us, that inflation was transitory. Remember he told us that the influx of illegals was seasonal, that the Taliban wouldn’t take over Afghanistan, again and again. But now we’re just weeks away from the busiest season of the entire year of Christmas and our whole infrastructure could shut down based upon this administration’s negotiation with the rail. This pro-union individual who has failed once again and he’s asking government to step in to try to solve this problem, but he’s begging the House and Senate to do it, just to take the bill up tomorrow when people have not even read it.”

HANNITY: “All right, so here we have eight other unions that have signed off on the agreement, but you have at the 11th hour, you have all of these different unions, 12 in total, representing rail workers, etc., etc., they’re not going along with it. The deal they’re being offered is a 24% raise, $5,000 in bonuses retroactive to 2020 meaning the average employee would get an immediate pay-out of $11,000. Seems like a pretty generous offer. Are we going to let these rail workers just hold the entire country, our supply line, our fuel lines hostage at this point?”

McCarthy: “We won’t. But think about that. How many people got a 24% raise in the last year? The reason they did that is because this administration forced the companies to have to do it. The only reasons I believe these unions are holding it up, because they think this president would make them give even more. It’s jeopardizing the economy of America. That’s why our supply chain is not working. This administration doesn’t understand how to make an economy work, to get out of the way and let the private sector run it. Once again, he has continued to fail. Remember the other lie that he told us, that he didn’t ask Saudi Arabia not to change their pumping until after the election. We found out that came true as well. This is a man who has made our energy costs higher, our transportation costs, he’s made inflation continue to rise with the runaway spending, he has a border that is not secure. Today in that meeting I invited him to go down to the border with me. I just went there. I talked about what has happened. In El Paso last week, I just went over an overpass, 70,000 people have come across there just in the last seven weeks, in one overpass in El Paso. If he continues down this path and if he lifts Title 42, that means 13 million more people will come across just in the next two years where he’s still serving.”