Tom DeLay
Former Majority Leader of the United States House of RepresentativesWikipedia
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Nov 8, 2026
James ClyburnGUEST
This is unprecedented, these mid-decade redistricting.
James ClyburnGUEST
Tom DeLay did that.
James ClyburnGUEST
Tom DeLay had a mid-decade redistricting down in Texas, and he picked up five seats when he did.
James ClyburnGUEST
And in fact, I'm sure there was that history that started MAGA, Trump knows, to doing this.
James ClyburnGUEST
So this was not unprecedented.
Chad PergramCORRESPONDENT
Who gets into leadership is decided, for the reasons I've just stated about the math, at the subatomic political level.
Chad PergramCORRESPONDENT
I mean, John Boehner was left for dead in the late 1990s and then won an upset in a leadership election after Tom DeLay came back to be majority leader and then became Speaker of the House.
Chad PergramCORRESPONDENT
Kevin McCarthy was supposed to succeed John Boehner and Paul Ryan said he would not be speaker of the House.
Chad PergramCORRESPONDENT
And then he was elected two weeks later.
Tara SetmayerGUEST
Right.
Tara SetmayerGUEST
You had Newt Gingrich, Dick Armey, Tom DeLay.
Tara SetmayerGUEST
All of those guys had a specific policy agenda.
Tara SetmayerGUEST
They were actually interested in governing.
Carl HigbieSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
You remember those guys? They're the ones who funneled taxpayer money into plane tickets for caravans of migrants during Biden.
Carl HigbieSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
She also worked for the Equal Justice Center, also part of the legal team that sued the then House Majority Leader Tom DeLay over campaign finance issues, which what happened? Oh, that's right.
Carl HigbieSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
That thing was totally overturned by two higher courts.
Carl HigbieSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
She has a worse conviction track record than Jack Smith, who was overturned by the Supreme Court in his prosecution of the Virginia governor, by the way.
Greg FinkHOST
But it wasn't like a public Republican campaign.
Greg FinkHOST
It wasn't like Newt Gingrich would have done or Dick Army would have done or Tom DeLay would have done.
Greg FinkHOST
or any of the Republican guys, or Dick Gephardt on the Democrat side, or Tom Daschle or those guys.
Greg FinkHOST
We saw on both sides.
Veronica KemenyHOST
Yeah.
John SalakHOST
But, you know, like I said, I think the whole Republican Party needs to look at, particularly the House, look at a new leadership model and get some people in there that are a little more responsive, you know, because it's obvious the message, whatever Steve, you know, it's like when they had Tom DeLay, you know, Tom, I don't know if you remember Tom DeLay from Texas to Hammer.
John SalakHOST
You know, again, corruption, you know, arm twisting, all kinds of stuff that you didn't want to associate with the Republican Party.
John SalakHOST
That's the kind of crap that was going on up in Washington, D.C. And we got rid of them, but we paid a price for it, you know, when that happened.
Robert EvansHOST
We'll discuss that shortly, but by the time this happened, Hastert had already cozied up to his next round of mentors.
Robert EvansHOST
These would include Newt Gingrich and, most importantly, Tom DeLay.
Robert EvansHOST
Hmm.
Robert EvansHOST
Old Tom DeLay.
Robert EvansHOST
We don't talk about him much anymore either.
Robert EvansHOST
It's been too long.
Miles GrayGUEST
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Robert EvansHOST
lot of guys we don't talk about because of the scandals from this era of Republican politics.
Katie CouricHOST
i have to ask you about the check check with corruption are you suggesting the corruption during the george w bush administration is anything like the corruption witnessing in the trump administration because you gave that a check check
Rahm EmanuelGUEST
okay but wait a second you did have tom delay go to jail you did have jack abramov go to jail you had a series of members that had to resign in the middle of the term and you had some corruption around iraq it's not nobody And I'm from Chicago, so we have a high standard.
Rahm EmanuelGUEST
Nobody is like Donald Trump.
Rahm EmanuelGUEST
They invented
Rahm EmanuelGUEST
Okay? We're insulted when people take our real estate here.
Rahm EmanuelGUEST
But, I mean, what Donald Trump, his family, his kids are doing, what Lutnick's kids are doing, nobody has ever seen this.
Rahm EmanuelGUEST
But corruption, remember, we put the first website up ever, about 18 months out, the House that Tom DeLay built.
Rahm EmanuelGUEST
it was all around corruption bob ney had to resign in the middle of it cunningham had to resign so it's not close but it was a dominant undercurrent to the election this is a level of corruption that the con that the founders of the constitution try to stop foreign money this guy took 450 million dollars from the uae two days for his crypto business you got a book out about Kushner getting paid by the UAE and Saudis and others in a secret bank account while he's a government employee.
David IversonHOST
And in that – it's a fascinating interview because the – he gives the example.
David IversonHOST
He says, well, at some point, the Democrats are going to have to come to Tom DeLay and say, hey, we need your help on this.
David IversonHOST
And at other times, Tom DeLay is going to have to go to the Democrats and say, I need your help on that.
David IversonHOST
So – You have to be able to work with the other side.
David IversonHOST
And the problem I see here is, again, I'm going to go back to the folks wearing red hats that always attend the same rallies that end up living in the same political bubble.
Janet PorterHOST
And guess what? Once you've seen Goliath fall, there's nobody that can tell you it can't be done.
Janet PorterHOST
And so when we first introduced the heartbeat bill back in 2017, with the help of former majority leader Tom DeLay, we met with over 200 members of Congress, Bishop.
Janet PorterHOST
And we actually had 174 co-sponsors on this bill.
Janet PorterHOST
That's 44 more votes to get it passed in the House.
23 MINS LATER
Janet PorterHOST
She's been there.
Janet PorterHOST
And so when we tell that, she tells her testimony.
Janet PorterHOST
I mean, I give my spiel and Tom DeLay talks and other members of the team present facts and figures and she tells about her abortion.
Janet PorterHOST
And you see them take this posture to where they're crossed their arm.
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