And OUTFRONT now, the
secretary of transportation,
Pete Buttigieg.
Now, secretary.
The author of this book,
Scott McKay,
whose Speaker Johnson
has called a dear friend,
Write something else.
I wanted to read you in part, he says.
Nobody in the administration
knows anything
about how transportation
and logistics work.
Something else
that was made unmistakably obvious
when the supply chain
disintegrated in the summer on gay
Mayor Pete Buttigieg’s watch.
Okay.
What do you think this obsession is over?
You and your sexual orientation?
It seems like
they just can't think of anything
else, right?
There's no discussion
of what we actually did.
I'd be happy to spend all day
talking about how in that
very same season, when they said
Christmas was going to be canceled
because of supply chain problems,
we wound up having an all time
record high
in terms of goods
moving through our ports.
But in the meantime,
you have somebody
who is taken seriously
by none
other than the speaker of the House
of the United States,
basically suggesting
that the reason
we had supply
chain problems in the rebound
from COVID
wasn't because of the factories in China
shutting down
and then sending their ships here
all at once.
It was because the secretary
of transportation
is married to a guy and not to a woman.
They just can't seem to let go of this.
So the speaker, Mike
Johnson, wrote the foreword
for the book, as you know, in the book.
The author writes,
Buddha Judge is a rather queer choice
for transportation secretary,
not just because he's
a member
of the LGBTQ community
and obnoxiously so.
And then continues
the author to write about your 2020
campaign quote.
But a judge ran on the fact
that he is openly and obnoxiously gay.
The central precept of his campaign
being that Christians
objecting to his lifestyle
were bad at religion while he is not.
All right. That's that's
that that's in the
book and in his forward to this
Mike Johnson calls the book
and I quote, a valuable
and timely contribution.
What's your reaction even to that?
Where do you even
where do you in start with this, Right.
It's 20, 23, I guess.
2022, when the book came out.
And we're still talking about people
this way
based on who they are,
who they love America.
Most of America
at least has moved on
from this kind of thing.
And what's obnoxious is the idea
that you can be coming back to
to race or sexuality,
as this author does constantly.
You know,
not just the way he talks about me,
but the way he talks
about Cabinet colleagues of mine,
all kinds of things
that mostly seem to come back
to an obsession with identity,
with either who you're married to or what
your race is.
And very little is certainly very
little of use
about how to make this country
a better place.
So, Andrew Kaczynski,
you just heard him play
what Speaker
Johnson said
last year about the book, book
obviously glowing praise,
including that
he said that he wrote the foreword
because he believed in the product
and he endorsed the work.
He said, quote, I love the book.
All right.
Today, though,
in light of all these things
and these things that we are reading
to you
out, calls a spokesperson for
the Speaker Johnson.
And that person says, quote,
The speaker had never read the passages
highlighted in the CNN story,
which he strongly disagrees with.
He wrote the foreword
as a favor to a friend
supportive of the general
theme of the book,
but not as an endorsement
of all the opinions expressed.
What do you say to that?
Saying? Ever saw these
phrases I just read you?
Pretty hard to believe.
I mean, look,
I've often been called to
to write a blurb for a book.
He didn't just do that.
He didn't
just put a quote on the back of it.
He wrote a foreword that is in the book.
Then had this guy on his podcast
and then went out of his way
to say things, associating himself
both with the author and with the book.
So that just doesn't pass the smell test.
And also,
what is in here is not inconsistent
with things that Johnson himself
has said publicly.
Right.
It's not the first time
far from that,
that he's promoted anti LGBTQ views.
He's done it for decades, as Kay
File discovered.
Just listen to this. Secretary.
It's time for an honest
conversation about homosexuality.
There's freedom to change if you want to.
Homosexual behavior is something you do.
It's not something that you are.
One in four high school
students identifies
as something other than straight.
We're losing the country.
So those are all things he said.
He wrote,
as you know,
2004, multiple
editorials against same sex marriage,
including one secretary
where he says experts
project that homosexual marriage
is the dark harbinger
of chaos and sexual anarchy
that could doom
even the strongest republic.
He talks about it a lot.
He seems fixated on it.
And it's really troubling for millions
of Americans,
including me and my husband.
And, you know,
this is, again, not just some fringe
radical member of Congress,
although I would argue
these positions are certainly radical.
It's the speaker of the House
and he is second in line
for the American presidency.
Well, I mean, it is pretty incredible
to see some of this
and to see those editorials.
And while I think it's important that
that you come out and speak about it, I,
of course, share what
maybe you didn't say,
but perhaps you feel that it's incredibly
frustrating that you would even have
to be doing some. So at this this time.
Thank you very much.
I appreciate it.
Thanks for having me on.