1 00:00:00,320 --> 00:00:04,320 Speaker 1: Remember civil liberties with all the Obama gates, spying and 2 00:00:04,440 --> 00:00:08,039 Speaker 1: due process under attack, and the endless lockdowns, they might 3 00:00:08,080 --> 00:00:11,479 Speaker 1: seem like a distant memory. We will get into all 4 00:00:11,520 --> 00:00:20,160 Speaker 1: of it. This is Verdict with Ted Cruz. Welcome back 5 00:00:20,160 --> 00:00:23,239 Speaker 1: to Verdicts with Ted Cruz. I'm Michael Knowles, Senator. The 6 00:00:23,360 --> 00:00:25,880 Speaker 1: last time that we spoke, the biggest story of the 7 00:00:25,960 --> 00:00:29,880 Speaker 1: day was the exoneration of Michael Flynn, President Trump's first 8 00:00:30,040 --> 00:00:34,120 Speaker 1: national security advisor. The DJ dropped the case into him, 9 00:00:34,320 --> 00:00:37,400 Speaker 1: the FBI set him up. This was a huge miscarriage 10 00:00:37,400 --> 00:00:42,080 Speaker 1: of justice, but thankfully the case was being dismissed until 11 00:00:42,240 --> 00:00:45,360 Speaker 1: I just read a headline that the judge is not 12 00:00:45,440 --> 00:00:49,120 Speaker 1: letting go of the case even though the prosecution said 13 00:00:49,159 --> 00:00:51,040 Speaker 1: that they were pulling out of it. Can you explain 14 00:00:51,080 --> 00:00:54,240 Speaker 1: to me how that's even possible. What's going on? It 15 00:00:54,400 --> 00:00:58,040 Speaker 1: is ridiculous that this federal judge. We've seen too many 16 00:00:58,120 --> 00:01:01,000 Speaker 1: judges on the bench behaving like their members of the 17 00:01:01,040 --> 00:01:07,080 Speaker 1: resistance and signing up to to really the partisan objective 18 00:01:07,200 --> 00:01:13,759 Speaker 1: of attacking the president and this administration. Listen, everything about 19 00:01:13,800 --> 00:01:18,560 Speaker 1: this Michael Flynn investigation and prosecution stinks from the get go, 20 00:01:18,840 --> 00:01:22,320 Speaker 1: and and what has come public in the last couple 21 00:01:22,319 --> 00:01:26,280 Speaker 1: of weeks is stunning. What we now know is number 22 00:01:26,280 --> 00:01:30,520 Speaker 1: one Attorney General Bill Barr, when he came in, assigned 23 00:01:30,600 --> 00:01:35,959 Speaker 1: a US attorney who is a long time, experienced veteran 24 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:38,520 Speaker 1: with the FBI and the Department of Justice to go 25 00:01:38,640 --> 00:01:41,360 Speaker 1: and invest go look at this case and make sure 26 00:01:41,760 --> 00:01:45,000 Speaker 1: nothing untoward happened. And he went and investigated, and they 27 00:01:45,080 --> 00:01:48,040 Speaker 1: were horrified by what they found. They found that the 28 00:01:48,080 --> 00:01:51,080 Speaker 1: FBI agents going after Michael Flynn Number one. The FBI 29 00:01:51,120 --> 00:01:52,560 Speaker 1: was going to dismiss the case because they didn't have 30 00:01:52,560 --> 00:01:55,280 Speaker 1: any evidence. And then Peter Struck, who we've seen as 31 00:01:55,360 --> 00:02:01,000 Speaker 1: a rapidly partisan Trump pater, stopped from being closed and 32 00:02:01,000 --> 00:02:04,279 Speaker 1: said how lucky they were that their incompetence, that's his word, 33 00:02:04,720 --> 00:02:07,200 Speaker 1: was such that it saved them from closing the case. 34 00:02:07,600 --> 00:02:10,840 Speaker 1: And they decided, all right, let's go interview him and 35 00:02:11,480 --> 00:02:15,480 Speaker 1: see if we can somehow entrap him in a lie 36 00:02:16,320 --> 00:02:18,600 Speaker 1: in order too. And this is the FBI zone notes 37 00:02:18,960 --> 00:02:21,720 Speaker 1: get him fired, get him to lie so we can 38 00:02:21,760 --> 00:02:24,919 Speaker 1: get him fired. That's not the FBI's job. Why are 39 00:02:24,919 --> 00:02:28,560 Speaker 1: they trying to get the national security advisor for the 40 00:02:28,600 --> 00:02:32,400 Speaker 1: newly elected president fired? So that came out initially, but 41 00:02:32,440 --> 00:02:36,000 Speaker 1: it gets worse. And by the way, James Comey bragged, 42 00:02:36,320 --> 00:02:40,160 Speaker 1: the old FBI director bragged in an interview how essentially 43 00:02:40,160 --> 00:02:43,880 Speaker 1: he suckered General Flynn, who's a decorated three star general, 44 00:02:43,919 --> 00:02:47,160 Speaker 1: by the way, who's who's spent his whole life fighting 45 00:02:47,200 --> 00:02:50,720 Speaker 1: to defend this country. They suckered General Flynn into this, 46 00:02:50,720 --> 00:02:54,400 Speaker 1: this interview where where they said, oh, you don't need 47 00:02:54,440 --> 00:02:55,799 Speaker 1: a lawyer, No, no no, no, you don't need to tell 48 00:02:55,800 --> 00:02:58,160 Speaker 1: the White House counsel about it. We're just coming to 49 00:02:58,440 --> 00:03:03,000 Speaker 1: chat chat and he was and actually Komy said something 50 00:03:03,040 --> 00:03:06,440 Speaker 1: the effect of, you know, a White House that knew 51 00:03:06,440 --> 00:03:08,240 Speaker 1: what they were doing would never have fallen for this. 52 00:03:08,360 --> 00:03:10,760 Speaker 1: Of course, they did this right after Trump was elected, 53 00:03:10,960 --> 00:03:13,040 Speaker 1: right when they're getting started, when they're getting their team 54 00:03:13,080 --> 00:03:16,760 Speaker 1: in place. But but it's worse than that. What's come 55 00:03:16,760 --> 00:03:19,560 Speaker 1: out in this last week are two things that are 56 00:03:19,560 --> 00:03:23,560 Speaker 1: beyond stunning. One, we know that there was a January 57 00:03:23,639 --> 00:03:27,920 Speaker 1: fifth meeting in the White House with President Obama. The 58 00:03:27,960 --> 00:03:31,520 Speaker 1: President Obama was directly part of the meeting where it 59 00:03:31,600 --> 00:03:34,360 Speaker 1: was discussed with senior law enforcement and intelligence that they 60 00:03:34,360 --> 00:03:38,320 Speaker 1: were targeting the National Security Advisor for the incoming president. 61 00:03:38,840 --> 00:03:42,800 Speaker 1: Not only that, we know that Joe Biden was at 62 00:03:42,840 --> 00:03:48,160 Speaker 1: that meeting, and stunningly that Joe Biden personally directed the 63 00:03:48,360 --> 00:03:52,280 Speaker 1: unmasking of General Flynn. Let's let's unmask his name. Normally 64 00:03:52,280 --> 00:03:55,560 Speaker 1: the intelligence reports, the intercepts come around with names blocked out. 65 00:03:55,880 --> 00:03:59,920 Speaker 1: Joe Biden personally said, unmask him, let's see his name. 66 00:04:00,640 --> 00:04:04,240 Speaker 1: And then on top of that, in the last week 67 00:04:04,320 --> 00:04:09,520 Speaker 1: of the Obama administration, Susan Rice, the National Security Advisor, 68 00:04:10,120 --> 00:04:14,320 Speaker 1: send an email to herself and to the intelligence community saying, 69 00:04:14,840 --> 00:04:17,640 Speaker 1: under the directions of President Obama, and she made this clear, 70 00:04:17,680 --> 00:04:21,880 Speaker 1: this was coming from Barack Obama himself, you may not 71 00:04:22,080 --> 00:04:26,040 Speaker 1: be able to share certain aspects of national security information 72 00:04:26,400 --> 00:04:31,640 Speaker 1: concerning Russia with the incoming president. What in the hell 73 00:04:31,920 --> 00:04:34,839 Speaker 1: like this has never happened in the history of our country, 74 00:04:35,040 --> 00:04:42,200 Speaker 1: an outgoing administration launching a political investigation, a political persecution, 75 00:04:42,240 --> 00:04:45,560 Speaker 1: and telling all of the deep state bureaucrats when the 76 00:04:45,600 --> 00:04:49,280 Speaker 1: new president comes in, he's not your president. You don't 77 00:04:49,320 --> 00:04:52,440 Speaker 1: have to tell him what's going on. Just go after him, 78 00:04:52,520 --> 00:04:55,320 Speaker 1: target him and trap him, set him up. I mean, 79 00:04:55,360 --> 00:04:59,520 Speaker 1: it was stunning and in more than two centuries of 80 00:04:59,520 --> 00:05:04,400 Speaker 1: our nation history. I'm not aware of any outgoing administration 81 00:05:04,480 --> 00:05:07,320 Speaker 1: that ever so much has tried to do this to 82 00:05:07,400 --> 00:05:10,520 Speaker 1: the new administration. It is wrong, it is offensive, it 83 00:05:10,600 --> 00:05:13,640 Speaker 1: has grotesque And so the Department of Justice came in 84 00:05:13,680 --> 00:05:17,120 Speaker 1: and said, we shouldn't have brought this case. We don't 85 00:05:17,160 --> 00:05:20,040 Speaker 1: have the evidence. Let's dismiss it. Now. Here's what happens 86 00:05:20,040 --> 00:05:23,960 Speaker 1: when the prosecutor does that. The judge says, case dismissed. Right, 87 00:05:24,080 --> 00:05:27,000 Speaker 1: prosecutor is not going to prosecute you. The case is dismissed. 88 00:05:27,040 --> 00:05:30,919 Speaker 1: But this judge apparently has has strapped on his little 89 00:05:30,920 --> 00:05:33,919 Speaker 1: pink hat and he's decided he's part of the resistance. 90 00:05:33,960 --> 00:05:37,719 Speaker 1: So number one, he issued this call to a meeky 91 00:05:37,760 --> 00:05:40,440 Speaker 1: to friends of the court. You guys, tell me if 92 00:05:40,440 --> 00:05:45,640 Speaker 1: this prosecution should continue even though the prosecutors aren't prosecuting it. 93 00:05:46,480 --> 00:05:48,960 Speaker 1: And then he appointed another judge who happens to be 94 00:05:48,960 --> 00:05:54,000 Speaker 1: a democratic appointing as well the coincidence, no assess whether 95 00:05:54,200 --> 00:05:58,840 Speaker 1: he should charge Michael Flynn with perjury. All right, well, 96 00:05:58,920 --> 00:06:03,200 Speaker 1: let me give you a clue. Judge, you or your 97 00:06:03,320 --> 00:06:07,520 Speaker 1: body who you've appointed, don't charge anybody with anybody. Go'll 98 00:06:07,560 --> 00:06:09,560 Speaker 1: read that document that you may have put away a 99 00:06:09,600 --> 00:06:13,120 Speaker 1: long time ago, called the constitution. They're three articles Article one, 100 00:06:13,200 --> 00:06:15,200 Speaker 1: Article two, an article three that set up our constitution. 101 00:06:15,240 --> 00:06:17,640 Speaker 1: They're seven all together, but three that set set up 102 00:06:17,680 --> 00:06:20,919 Speaker 1: our government. You're an Article three. You're the judiciary. It 103 00:06:21,080 --> 00:06:24,120 Speaker 1: is the executive that charges, it is the judiciary that 104 00:06:24,160 --> 00:06:28,919 Speaker 1: tries the case. And so this is grotesque. It is 105 00:06:28,920 --> 00:06:32,400 Speaker 1: a violation of civil liberties. And of course all the 106 00:06:32,520 --> 00:06:36,440 Speaker 1: left wing partisans don't care because they hate Trump. It 107 00:06:36,640 --> 00:06:40,520 Speaker 1: is offensive. This is a very bizarre case. I'm glad 108 00:06:40,560 --> 00:06:42,920 Speaker 1: you could lay that out because I've had trouble trying 109 00:06:42,920 --> 00:06:45,159 Speaker 1: to relate. You have a Michael Flynn. Part of it 110 00:06:45,160 --> 00:06:48,880 Speaker 1: relates to this January fifth meeting, how it relates to 111 00:06:49,160 --> 00:06:51,680 Speaker 1: Susan Rice and Barack Obama and now Joe Biden. We've 112 00:06:51,760 --> 00:06:55,400 Speaker 1: learned this is being called Obama Gate. The mainstream media 113 00:06:55,440 --> 00:06:58,799 Speaker 1: are denying that Obama Gate exists, just like they denied 114 00:06:59,000 --> 00:07:02,680 Speaker 1: all the rest of Brock Obama's presidential scandals. You're saying, 115 00:07:03,440 --> 00:07:07,520 Speaker 1: this is possibly unprecedented, this is historic. This is an 116 00:07:07,520 --> 00:07:11,480 Speaker 1: egregious abuse of power. I don't know of any history. 117 00:07:11,480 --> 00:07:14,520 Speaker 1: They've been administrations that that didn't like each other before 118 00:07:14,600 --> 00:07:17,200 Speaker 1: that shifted from one to the other. But but one 119 00:07:17,240 --> 00:07:21,080 Speaker 1: of the hallmarks of our democratic system, of our constitutional 120 00:07:21,120 --> 00:07:25,120 Speaker 1: republic is the peaceful transition of power from one party 121 00:07:25,120 --> 00:07:27,440 Speaker 1: to another. We're not a bean at a republic. We 122 00:07:28,080 --> 00:07:32,560 Speaker 1: don't go to try to prosecute those we disagree with 123 00:07:32,600 --> 00:07:36,000 Speaker 1: because of political disagreements. We enforced the law regardless of party. 124 00:07:36,040 --> 00:07:39,440 Speaker 1: That's that's what our tradition is. You know, the closest 125 00:07:39,480 --> 00:07:43,880 Speaker 1: I can think of it is when the Clinton administration 126 00:07:44,000 --> 00:07:47,920 Speaker 1: was leaving in the George W. Bush administration came in. Well, 127 00:07:48,040 --> 00:07:51,000 Speaker 1: we knew that that that that the Clintons did steal 128 00:07:51,040 --> 00:07:53,040 Speaker 1: the silverl wear from the White House residence, but that 129 00:07:53,120 --> 00:07:56,800 Speaker 1: was the furniture that that was uniquely characteristic of them. 130 00:07:57,280 --> 00:08:01,400 Speaker 1: But the outgoing Clinton White House staff, they did on 131 00:08:01,440 --> 00:08:04,600 Speaker 1: a number of the keyboards in the White House they 132 00:08:04,680 --> 00:08:06,960 Speaker 1: pulled the letter W off of and you know, it's 133 00:08:06,960 --> 00:08:10,960 Speaker 1: George W. Bush. And that was sort of a juvenile prank. 134 00:08:11,440 --> 00:08:15,480 Speaker 1: But they didn't unleash the Department of Justice and the 135 00:08:15,520 --> 00:08:19,160 Speaker 1: FBI and the intelligence community to set up to entrap, 136 00:08:19,280 --> 00:08:24,400 Speaker 1: to prosecute, to target the incoming administration. The National Security 137 00:08:24,400 --> 00:08:29,840 Speaker 1: Advisor to unleash wire taps on the incoming administration's campaign 138 00:08:30,200 --> 00:08:36,240 Speaker 1: to base it on a bogus dossier compiled by the 139 00:08:36,320 --> 00:08:42,280 Speaker 1: opposite Bye bye, I guess the outgoing administration's own party, 140 00:08:42,520 --> 00:08:45,040 Speaker 1: paid for by the DNC, paid for by Hillary Clinton. 141 00:08:46,000 --> 00:08:49,400 Speaker 1: What a grotesque abuse of power. And let me tell 142 00:08:49,440 --> 00:08:53,480 Speaker 1: you something. The Senate needs to do something about it. 143 00:08:54,200 --> 00:08:57,640 Speaker 1: The Senate needs to have every one of these clowns 144 00:08:57,679 --> 00:09:00,320 Speaker 1: that abused their power brought in front of us and 145 00:09:00,440 --> 00:09:04,160 Speaker 1: testify under oath, the entire array of them, the ones 146 00:09:04,200 --> 00:09:07,680 Speaker 1: that we're sitting in that White House. I'm talking James Comey, 147 00:09:07,760 --> 00:09:11,360 Speaker 1: I'm talking Yates, I'm talking Susan Rice, I'm talking Joe Biden, 148 00:09:11,360 --> 00:09:14,920 Speaker 1: I'm talking Barack Obama. Every one of them should testify 149 00:09:15,360 --> 00:09:20,800 Speaker 1: about their weaponizing and politicizing law enforcement and the intelligence 150 00:09:20,840 --> 00:09:28,160 Speaker 1: community to prosecute, target and wrongfully go after the next 151 00:09:28,200 --> 00:09:30,240 Speaker 1: the incoming president of the United States. That's right, and 152 00:09:30,320 --> 00:09:33,120 Speaker 1: it's so corrupt. And even if you're a Trump hater 153 00:09:33,240 --> 00:09:35,839 Speaker 1: out there, even if you're glad you know that the 154 00:09:36,080 --> 00:09:40,000 Speaker 1: outgoing administration was going after the incoming administration, all of 155 00:09:40,040 --> 00:09:42,880 Speaker 1: that it does come down also to a question of 156 00:09:42,960 --> 00:09:46,480 Speaker 1: civil liberties. And it's not just being attacked by government 157 00:09:47,080 --> 00:09:50,080 Speaker 1: thugs who are spying on people. Were also seeing this 158 00:09:50,080 --> 00:09:53,120 Speaker 1: in other places. You had a great tweet earlier today. 159 00:09:53,400 --> 00:09:56,840 Speaker 1: This was in regard to Betsy DeVoss, the Education Secretary, 160 00:09:57,080 --> 00:10:01,440 Speaker 1: who said that Betsy DeVoss is now issued these policies 161 00:10:01,440 --> 00:10:04,920 Speaker 1: that will protect the accused on college campuses. But the 162 00:10:05,040 --> 00:10:09,640 Speaker 1: ACLU is now going after Betsy divoce for protecting civil liberties, 163 00:10:09,679 --> 00:10:12,160 Speaker 1: even though the ACLU is supposed to be the American 164 00:10:12,200 --> 00:10:15,040 Speaker 1: Civil Liberties Union. So you tweeted out, ACLU moves to 165 00:10:15,120 --> 00:10:18,280 Speaker 1: delete the C and the L from their name. Hereafter 166 00:10:18,400 --> 00:10:22,760 Speaker 1: it shall be the ADPU, the American Democratic Party Union. 167 00:10:22,960 --> 00:10:26,480 Speaker 1: They are for all criminal defendants unless they're Republicans, and 168 00:10:26,520 --> 00:10:29,720 Speaker 1: they are for all sexual assault victims unless they are 169 00:10:29,760 --> 00:10:33,240 Speaker 1: accusing Democrats. Can you just tell us a little bit 170 00:10:33,280 --> 00:10:36,920 Speaker 1: about the Betsy divorce decision, what that means on campus, 171 00:10:37,120 --> 00:10:42,240 Speaker 1: and how on earth the ACLU now opposes civil liberties. Look, 172 00:10:42,280 --> 00:10:46,679 Speaker 1: it is crazy. Let's start with Betsy Divace's Secretary of Education, 173 00:10:46,720 --> 00:10:50,959 Speaker 1: the Obama administration when it came to college campuses, that 174 00:10:51,080 --> 00:10:56,120 Speaker 1: they really got radicalized and sexual assault is a horrific evil. 175 00:10:56,160 --> 00:10:58,800 Speaker 1: I've spent a lot of my life in law enforcement, 176 00:11:00,120 --> 00:11:03,560 Speaker 1: secuting those who commit sexual assault. It has been a 177 00:11:03,600 --> 00:11:06,600 Speaker 1: lifelong passion of mind. It is a grotesque evil that 178 00:11:06,640 --> 00:11:10,560 Speaker 1: should be punished. What criminal defendants have rights, We have 179 00:11:10,640 --> 00:11:12,480 Speaker 1: due process, we have a bill of rights. We have 180 00:11:13,720 --> 00:11:17,360 Speaker 1: where people are an accusers entitled to the presumption of innocence. 181 00:11:17,760 --> 00:11:20,480 Speaker 1: What the Obama Department of Education did is they use 182 00:11:20,559 --> 00:11:23,960 Speaker 1: the federal education dollars to try to course frankly, a 183 00:11:24,000 --> 00:11:26,160 Speaker 1: bunch of radicals on campuses who were happy to do 184 00:11:26,200 --> 00:11:30,559 Speaker 1: this anyway into creating these start chambers where where if 185 00:11:30,600 --> 00:11:35,360 Speaker 1: there's an accusation of sexual assault, the accused is presumed 186 00:11:35,360 --> 00:11:39,360 Speaker 1: guilty and has little or no rights, can't confront their accuser, 187 00:11:39,400 --> 00:11:41,480 Speaker 1: can't even know what the charge is in some cases, 188 00:11:41,520 --> 00:11:45,120 Speaker 1: I mean it really is. It's cough gas. Where where 189 00:11:45,160 --> 00:11:47,560 Speaker 1: you have been charged, we will not inform you what 190 00:11:47,640 --> 00:11:49,360 Speaker 1: the charge is, We will not inform you who is 191 00:11:49,440 --> 00:11:52,160 Speaker 1: raising the allegations. You can't call witnesses in your defense 192 00:11:52,160 --> 00:11:54,280 Speaker 1: because you don't know what you're charged with. But here 193 00:11:54,280 --> 00:11:57,400 Speaker 1: are the consequences. Okay, that's not fair, that's not right, 194 00:11:57,480 --> 00:12:01,560 Speaker 1: that's not just. But but in the radical leftist world, 195 00:12:03,240 --> 00:12:09,000 Speaker 1: it was politically expedient. The Department Education said, no, we're 196 00:12:09,040 --> 00:12:13,080 Speaker 1: going to follow federal law, and that means we're not 197 00:12:13,160 --> 00:12:17,040 Speaker 1: going to force colleges just to just to immediately summarily 198 00:12:17,200 --> 00:12:22,199 Speaker 1: execute anyone who's facing an accusation. Instead, there should be 199 00:12:22,679 --> 00:12:27,160 Speaker 1: a fair fact fighting proceeding that respects due process. Now, 200 00:12:27,840 --> 00:12:30,960 Speaker 1: in any ordinary circumstance, you take the ASLU a SLU. 201 00:12:31,040 --> 00:12:32,720 Speaker 1: I disagree with a lot of the things they do, 202 00:12:33,360 --> 00:12:37,000 Speaker 1: but they were formed to protect civil liberties, and in fact, 203 00:12:37,040 --> 00:12:39,960 Speaker 1: to protect civil liberties of those who have been charged 204 00:12:40,000 --> 00:12:42,800 Speaker 1: with something. Those who have been accused with something, many 205 00:12:42,800 --> 00:12:45,720 Speaker 1: times they're guilty, and if they're guilty, they should be punished. 206 00:12:45,760 --> 00:12:50,720 Speaker 1: But you're entitled to have due process protections. Here's the 207 00:12:50,760 --> 00:12:54,240 Speaker 1: problem the ASILU, like most of the left, Donald Trump 208 00:12:54,320 --> 00:12:56,920 Speaker 1: has driven the nuts. I mean that they're they're just 209 00:12:57,080 --> 00:13:00,920 Speaker 1: that they're in straight jackets, babbling bugs, bunny. I mean, 210 00:13:00,960 --> 00:13:03,120 Speaker 1: I mean, they just they don't make any sense anymore. 211 00:13:03,440 --> 00:13:07,760 Speaker 1: And so ASO used to support all criminal defendants. Okay, 212 00:13:07,760 --> 00:13:09,640 Speaker 1: I understand that. Sometimes I don't like it if it's 213 00:13:09,640 --> 00:13:12,520 Speaker 1: mass murders, that they've taken it too far. But okay, 214 00:13:12,559 --> 00:13:14,800 Speaker 1: that's at least a coherent position is I'm going to 215 00:13:14,880 --> 00:13:18,920 Speaker 1: support criminal defendants against government prosecution, defend their rights. A 216 00:13:19,000 --> 00:13:21,360 Speaker 1: cl you hadn't doing that anymore. Where is the ACLU, 217 00:13:21,440 --> 00:13:26,000 Speaker 1: And Michael Flynn show me the ACOU coming in and saying, judge, 218 00:13:26,559 --> 00:13:29,240 Speaker 1: if the prosecution is just missing the case, you can't 219 00:13:29,280 --> 00:13:32,640 Speaker 1: become judge, prosecutor and presumably execution. I don't know if 220 00:13:32,640 --> 00:13:34,560 Speaker 1: the judge is gonna lock him in his own jail 221 00:13:34,640 --> 00:13:39,400 Speaker 1: cell too. Any reasonably coherent ACOU would be standing alongside 222 00:13:39,559 --> 00:13:43,360 Speaker 1: Michael Flynn. But god forbid, he's a Republican and worked 223 00:13:43,360 --> 00:13:45,200 Speaker 1: for Trump. Oh no, no, no no, no, a CLU has 224 00:13:45,240 --> 00:13:49,040 Speaker 1: got nothing to do with it. On the flip side, 225 00:13:49,120 --> 00:13:52,720 Speaker 1: you know they want a virtue signal on sexual assault. 226 00:13:53,120 --> 00:13:56,720 Speaker 1: Where's the ACLU on the allegations against Joe Biden? I 227 00:13:56,760 --> 00:13:59,679 Speaker 1: don't recall the ACLU. And by the way, you remember 228 00:13:59,720 --> 00:14:05,600 Speaker 1: the lieutenant governor of Virginia, pretty serious allegations rape against him. 229 00:14:05,800 --> 00:14:08,080 Speaker 1: But but but he's a Democrat. Of course you've forgotten him. 230 00:14:08,080 --> 00:14:12,439 Speaker 1: Has any media outlet covered that for six months? It's disappeared? 231 00:14:12,440 --> 00:14:15,760 Speaker 1: Why because he's a Democrat. Where's the ILU on that? 232 00:14:15,880 --> 00:14:22,440 Speaker 1: And so it is at this point so shamelessly partisan 233 00:14:23,520 --> 00:14:29,040 Speaker 1: that it ought to be possible to defend principles, defend 234 00:14:29,080 --> 00:14:33,800 Speaker 1: the Constitution, defend the Bill of Rights with coherency and 235 00:14:34,160 --> 00:14:39,880 Speaker 1: and fairness. Let's look, when there's a sexual assault allegation. 236 00:14:39,960 --> 00:14:43,240 Speaker 1: I believe the alleged victims should be treated with respect, 237 00:14:43,280 --> 00:14:46,760 Speaker 1: should be listened to, should the allegations should be treated seriously. 238 00:14:47,120 --> 00:14:50,000 Speaker 1: But it still depends on the evidence. The accused deserves 239 00:14:50,000 --> 00:14:52,840 Speaker 1: a presumption of innocence, and you should look to the 240 00:14:52,880 --> 00:14:55,640 Speaker 1: facts that that's actually a fair and neutral way to 241 00:14:55,680 --> 00:14:59,800 Speaker 1: apply it. It's not the way these hardcore lefty partisans are. 242 00:15:00,240 --> 00:15:03,000 Speaker 1: That's right. We have kangaroo courts on college campuses that 243 00:15:03,040 --> 00:15:06,520 Speaker 1: are trampling over the due process rights of the accused, 244 00:15:06,640 --> 00:15:09,320 Speaker 1: and that for some reason, these panels of professors are 245 00:15:09,800 --> 00:15:12,440 Speaker 1: dealing with one of the most serious crimes you can commit, 246 00:15:12,520 --> 00:15:14,760 Speaker 1: not our criminal justice system, but for some reason, these 247 00:15:15,080 --> 00:15:17,880 Speaker 1: random professors and deans. You've got the kangaroo courts there. 248 00:15:17,880 --> 00:15:19,720 Speaker 1: You got the kangaroo courts at the federal level now 249 00:15:20,080 --> 00:15:23,560 Speaker 1: trying to continue the persecution of Michael Flynn. We're looking around, 250 00:15:23,560 --> 00:15:26,040 Speaker 1: We're saying, what happened to our civil liberties and I 251 00:15:26,080 --> 00:15:29,640 Speaker 1: think for most Americans, the way it really affects our 252 00:15:29,640 --> 00:15:32,720 Speaker 1: lives is we were told fifteen days to slow the spread. 253 00:15:32,720 --> 00:15:34,680 Speaker 1: We're going to give up some of our civil liberties 254 00:15:34,880 --> 00:15:37,720 Speaker 1: because obviously there's this epidemic going around and we want 255 00:15:37,720 --> 00:15:40,640 Speaker 1: to keep everybody safe. Now, you know, I think a 256 00:15:40,640 --> 00:15:43,360 Speaker 1: lot of states are being very reasonable about this, reacting 257 00:15:43,360 --> 00:15:48,440 Speaker 1: to evidence some states some cities are becoming downright arbitrary 258 00:15:48,520 --> 00:15:51,280 Speaker 1: in their power grabs. They're saying that these power grabs 259 00:15:51,320 --> 00:15:55,720 Speaker 1: are going to go on indefinitely, or have those places 260 00:15:55,760 --> 00:16:01,640 Speaker 1: just simply lost our civil liberties. Well, let me make 261 00:16:01,720 --> 00:16:04,280 Speaker 1: two points, one on sexual assault and then one more 262 00:16:04,320 --> 00:16:11,360 Speaker 1: generally on individual liberty and civil liberties. Yeah, on sexual assault. Look, 263 00:16:11,400 --> 00:16:18,920 Speaker 1: I have argued and one numerous cases dealing with prosecuting 264 00:16:18,960 --> 00:16:21,680 Speaker 1: and in some cases seeking the death penalty for child 265 00:16:21,760 --> 00:16:24,000 Speaker 1: rapists and those who committed sexual assault. I think it 266 00:16:24,040 --> 00:16:28,840 Speaker 1: needs to be punished very seriously. I've also been leading 267 00:16:28,840 --> 00:16:32,320 Speaker 1: the fight, along with New York Democrat Kirsten Jellabrand, to 268 00:16:32,600 --> 00:16:35,640 Speaker 1: change the way sexual assault is prosecuted in the military. 269 00:16:35,760 --> 00:16:38,840 Speaker 1: The military, unfortunately has been a long problem where the 270 00:16:38,840 --> 00:16:42,320 Speaker 1: decisions charging decisions right now are made by the commanding officer, 271 00:16:42,640 --> 00:16:45,320 Speaker 1: and the problem is you get conflicts of interest and 272 00:16:46,480 --> 00:16:49,760 Speaker 1: victims of sexual assault the military don't don't feel confident 273 00:16:49,840 --> 00:16:53,040 Speaker 1: to come forward with those allegations. So I've long been 274 00:16:53,080 --> 00:16:56,920 Speaker 1: an advocate of changing the charging decisions from the commanding 275 00:16:56,960 --> 00:17:01,720 Speaker 1: officer to a military rear prosecutor, so keeping it within 276 00:17:01,760 --> 00:17:04,840 Speaker 1: the military, but not in the immediate change of command, 277 00:17:05,160 --> 00:17:09,280 Speaker 1: so the prosecutor can fairly evaluate the evidence, be credible 278 00:17:09,680 --> 00:17:12,840 Speaker 1: and decide whether or not there's sufficient evidence to charge 279 00:17:12,880 --> 00:17:15,920 Speaker 1: sexual assault. The reason I bring that up is all 280 00:17:15,960 --> 00:17:20,280 Speaker 1: of the virtue signaling lefties. For eight years Barack Obama 281 00:17:20,359 --> 00:17:23,000 Speaker 1: was president. He could have changed it any day, he 282 00:17:23,040 --> 00:17:26,160 Speaker 1: could have changed how sexual assault in the military is prosecuted, 283 00:17:26,320 --> 00:17:29,560 Speaker 1: and Barack Obama for eight years refused to do it. 284 00:17:30,280 --> 00:17:32,679 Speaker 1: That actually would make a difference, and it needs to 285 00:17:32,720 --> 00:17:36,200 Speaker 1: be done. So your second point about about individual liberties 286 00:17:37,760 --> 00:17:41,760 Speaker 1: we are seeing in any crisis. You remember the movie 287 00:17:41,840 --> 00:17:46,840 Speaker 1: Wall Street. Yes, there's a great Saint scene where where 288 00:17:47,040 --> 00:17:52,479 Speaker 1: Lou the old broker, says says to Charlie Sheen. You 289 00:17:52,520 --> 00:17:54,760 Speaker 1: know I'm going to paraphrase this and mess this up, 290 00:17:54,800 --> 00:17:57,640 Speaker 1: but something to the effect of there comes a time 291 00:17:57,640 --> 00:18:00,160 Speaker 1: in a crisis when a man stares into the abyss, 292 00:18:00,480 --> 00:18:02,840 Speaker 1: and in the abyss is where he finds his character, 293 00:18:03,000 --> 00:18:06,080 Speaker 1: and that is what saves him from the abyss. That's 294 00:18:06,520 --> 00:18:08,600 Speaker 1: close to it. It's a good rendition. Look in a 295 00:18:08,680 --> 00:18:15,480 Speaker 1: ton in a time of crisis, you see someone's character. Yeah, 296 00:18:15,680 --> 00:18:19,120 Speaker 1: and we are seeing the character of these petty authoritarian 297 00:18:19,280 --> 00:18:24,639 Speaker 1: tyrants who are running around stripping away civil liberties. You know. 298 00:18:24,760 --> 00:18:27,439 Speaker 1: Just earlier today, I saw a video of a woman 299 00:18:27,480 --> 00:18:31,400 Speaker 1: in New York, an African American bomb who was walking 300 00:18:31,440 --> 00:18:33,840 Speaker 1: with her son. He's I don't know, maybe three or 301 00:18:33,880 --> 00:18:37,000 Speaker 1: four years old, young child, walking through the subway and 302 00:18:37,560 --> 00:18:40,760 Speaker 1: she committed apparently the cardinal sin of She wasn't wearing 303 00:18:40,800 --> 00:18:44,880 Speaker 1: a mask, and she was surrounded by police officers who 304 00:18:45,000 --> 00:18:47,320 Speaker 1: threw her to the ground, wrestled her to the ground, 305 00:18:47,800 --> 00:18:52,440 Speaker 1: pushed her into number one, the nasty, dirty subway station floor, 306 00:18:52,480 --> 00:18:54,880 Speaker 1: which I can't imagine anyone laying down and handcuffed her. 307 00:18:55,080 --> 00:18:59,080 Speaker 1: And her little son is sitting there watching this. By 308 00:18:59,119 --> 00:19:02,280 Speaker 1: the way, where's the AA you you want to talk about? 309 00:19:02,640 --> 00:19:07,480 Speaker 1: But like, okay, and I'm not saying it's so easy 310 00:19:07,520 --> 00:19:10,560 Speaker 1: for people to embrace extremes. I'm not saying never wear 311 00:19:10,920 --> 00:19:12,919 Speaker 1: a mask ever. I wear a mask when I'm on 312 00:19:12,920 --> 00:19:14,679 Speaker 1: an airplane. I wear a mask when I'm go to 313 00:19:14,680 --> 00:19:16,720 Speaker 1: the grocery store. I'm wearing a mask. I want to 314 00:19:16,720 --> 00:19:20,320 Speaker 1: be respect public safety. But it could have been really 315 00:19:20,320 --> 00:19:22,919 Speaker 1: different if they had given her a mask, if they hadn't, Like, 316 00:19:24,320 --> 00:19:29,800 Speaker 1: you shouldn't be throwing young moms to the ground in 317 00:19:29,800 --> 00:19:32,600 Speaker 1: front of their little kids and handcuffing them for not 318 00:19:32,680 --> 00:19:36,440 Speaker 1: wearing a mask. That's just stupid. But these authoritarian tyrants, 319 00:19:36,800 --> 00:19:40,600 Speaker 1: they believe in government power. They hate liberty. It's the 320 00:19:40,720 --> 00:19:44,639 Speaker 1: same numbskulls. It's different numbskulls, but the same type of 321 00:19:44,720 --> 00:19:51,000 Speaker 1: numbskulls who sent in bulldozers in California to fill a 322 00:19:51,080 --> 00:19:56,080 Speaker 1: skate park with sand. Like what I mean that video, 323 00:19:56,080 --> 00:19:57,880 Speaker 1: If you haven't seen it, you ought to watch it. 324 00:19:58,359 --> 00:20:00,600 Speaker 1: And by the way, I think it would be perfectly 325 00:20:00,600 --> 00:20:04,479 Speaker 1: reasonable for the local officials to have a police officer 326 00:20:04,560 --> 00:20:07,080 Speaker 1: there and say say, kids, you guys need to socially distanced. 327 00:20:07,119 --> 00:20:10,480 Speaker 1: Don't all gather together, spread apart and be safe. But 328 00:20:10,560 --> 00:20:14,800 Speaker 1: you know, look, if a kid wants to go skateboarding, like, 329 00:20:15,200 --> 00:20:20,320 Speaker 1: it's only malicious tyranny. Yes, that fills a skatepart with sand, 330 00:20:20,400 --> 00:20:23,919 Speaker 1: that's just dumb. And it's the same malicious tyranny that 331 00:20:23,960 --> 00:20:26,720 Speaker 1: throws a mom on the floor and handcuffs her in 332 00:20:26,720 --> 00:20:28,640 Speaker 1: front of her little kid. And of course, the people 333 00:20:28,640 --> 00:20:31,800 Speaker 1: who filled that skatepark should have known that teenage skateboard 334 00:20:31,800 --> 00:20:34,560 Speaker 1: punks are not exactly known for following the rules, so 335 00:20:34,600 --> 00:20:36,520 Speaker 1: they were obviously going to dig the sand out and 336 00:20:36,560 --> 00:20:39,160 Speaker 1: go right back to skateboarding. More power to them. I 337 00:20:39,200 --> 00:20:41,919 Speaker 1: really enjoyed it. And lest I checked a skateboarders are 338 00:20:42,000 --> 00:20:46,240 Speaker 1: are loaners, certainly, all the skateboarders I've known. And by 339 00:20:46,280 --> 00:20:50,840 Speaker 1: the way, for anyone who who's sort of young and 340 00:20:51,400 --> 00:20:56,399 Speaker 1: hip and rebellious, remember it is the lefty Dems ye, 341 00:20:56,880 --> 00:20:59,480 Speaker 1: that are trying to strip away your freedom. Remember who's 342 00:20:59,520 --> 00:21:02,560 Speaker 1: doing it, Remember the tyrants. And by the way, you 343 00:21:02,600 --> 00:21:06,240 Speaker 1: know you're in California right now, I don't see actually 344 00:21:06,400 --> 00:21:10,359 Speaker 1: the monitors watching you, although I kind of expect a 345 00:21:10,400 --> 00:21:13,560 Speaker 1: Skynet drone to come in any moment now and like 346 00:21:13,680 --> 00:21:17,000 Speaker 1: find you. But but I gotta say, there are a 347 00:21:17,040 --> 00:21:21,880 Speaker 1: lot of Californians looking to flee, including some pretty prominent players. 348 00:21:22,520 --> 00:21:26,280 Speaker 1: You know. I noticed Elon Musk was it is. I mean, 349 00:21:26,280 --> 00:21:28,160 Speaker 1: he's one of the wealthiest guys, one of the most 350 00:21:28,160 --> 00:21:30,679 Speaker 1: successful guys in California. I think he's put his houses 351 00:21:30,720 --> 00:21:32,560 Speaker 1: on the market. He said he's going to move to 352 00:21:32,560 --> 00:21:36,040 Speaker 1: either Nevada or Texas. You're seeing a number of other people, Senator, 353 00:21:36,080 --> 00:21:37,840 Speaker 1: is this an invitation or we should we all just 354 00:21:37,880 --> 00:21:42,159 Speaker 1: go down to Texas? Now? Yes, with a caveat. So 355 00:21:43,320 --> 00:21:45,919 Speaker 1: you're all invited, but there needs to be an entrance exam. 356 00:21:45,960 --> 00:21:47,800 Speaker 1: If you're going to vote for the sort of lefty 357 00:21:47,840 --> 00:21:50,800 Speaker 1: commies that screwed up California, please stay where you are 358 00:21:50,840 --> 00:21:53,320 Speaker 1: and enjoy what you voted for. If you're willing to 359 00:21:53,359 --> 00:21:57,040 Speaker 1: come for freedom, we would welcome you. And so Elon Musk. 360 00:21:57,359 --> 00:22:00,399 Speaker 1: Look his Tesla factory. He wants to open, as workers 361 00:22:00,440 --> 00:22:03,159 Speaker 1: want to open, and the petty tyrant said, no, you 362 00:22:03,160 --> 00:22:06,320 Speaker 1: can't work. And by the way, there was a Democratic 363 00:22:06,400 --> 00:22:10,840 Speaker 1: state legislator who sent out a tweet that was fu 364 00:22:11,320 --> 00:22:16,720 Speaker 1: Elon Musk, what on earth is going on that elected 365 00:22:16,760 --> 00:22:21,359 Speaker 1: officials are tweeting expletives at their constituents. These are the 366 00:22:21,400 --> 00:22:24,720 Speaker 1: same clowns who last week we talked about the elected 367 00:22:24,760 --> 00:22:28,800 Speaker 1: Democratic judge in Dallas that demanded of Shelley Luther the hairdresser. 368 00:22:28,840 --> 00:22:33,360 Speaker 1: Apologize to your elected officials. You guys are not frigging overlords. 369 00:22:33,400 --> 00:22:37,879 Speaker 1: Get off your power trip and don't curse at your constituents. 370 00:22:37,880 --> 00:22:41,000 Speaker 1: And so I sent out a tweet to Delon Musk saying, 371 00:22:41,240 --> 00:22:44,199 Speaker 1: come to Texas. We welcome you. We love jobs, we 372 00:22:44,320 --> 00:22:46,520 Speaker 1: like making cars and trucks down here. We'd love to 373 00:22:46,560 --> 00:22:50,399 Speaker 1: have Tesla. By the way, I gotta say Tesla's I 374 00:22:50,400 --> 00:22:52,320 Speaker 1: don't have a test save some friends who have it. 375 00:22:52,840 --> 00:22:57,480 Speaker 1: They're amazing drives. And my girls desperately want us to 376 00:22:57,520 --> 00:23:00,359 Speaker 1: get a Tesla because so the coolest thing is on 377 00:23:00,400 --> 00:23:03,000 Speaker 1: the giant TV screen in the middle. I guess there's 378 00:23:03,000 --> 00:23:05,600 Speaker 1: a button that makes a fart noise from each of 379 00:23:05,600 --> 00:23:09,439 Speaker 1: the seats, which to a nine year old and twelve 380 00:23:09,520 --> 00:23:11,640 Speaker 1: year old and even to a forty nine year old 381 00:23:11,840 --> 00:23:14,960 Speaker 1: year old really damn funny that is. I don't know 382 00:23:15,000 --> 00:23:17,159 Speaker 1: about that. Well, how do I want? And you know 383 00:23:17,160 --> 00:23:20,359 Speaker 1: who also it was talking of moving to Texas. Is 384 00:23:20,440 --> 00:23:24,680 Speaker 1: Joe Rogan? That's right now, Joe Rogan. Joe Rogan said, 385 00:23:25,080 --> 00:23:27,680 Speaker 1: all right, I can't stand it. I may move to Texas. 386 00:23:27,680 --> 00:23:31,119 Speaker 1: I said, Joe, we'd welcome you here now you and 387 00:23:31,200 --> 00:23:34,040 Speaker 1: I know Joe had been the number one podcast until 388 00:23:34,200 --> 00:23:38,160 Speaker 1: till Joe Rogan was dethroned by yours truly and this 389 00:23:38,200 --> 00:23:41,560 Speaker 1: podcast here right, Yes, I do remember that. Well. I 390 00:23:41,800 --> 00:23:44,360 Speaker 1: hope I hope he didn't take it so hard that 391 00:23:44,440 --> 00:23:47,560 Speaker 1: he realized that, you know, really that huge podcast is 392 00:23:47,560 --> 00:23:50,120 Speaker 1: in Texas. It's at the Cruise Residence. So he's got 393 00:23:50,119 --> 00:23:52,960 Speaker 1: to go go see where the magic is. And look, 394 00:23:53,320 --> 00:23:56,600 Speaker 1: Joe Rogan had his flirtation with Bernie Sanders. And if 395 00:23:56,600 --> 00:23:59,360 Speaker 1: he thinks that that big government status or the way 396 00:23:59,400 --> 00:24:01,040 Speaker 1: to go, then to day where you are, Joe, We 397 00:24:01,080 --> 00:24:03,119 Speaker 1: don't want you if you want to bring that that 398 00:24:03,280 --> 00:24:06,600 Speaker 1: that that that kind of tatalitarianism to us. But but 399 00:24:06,760 --> 00:24:10,440 Speaker 1: if if this has made you realize, you know, people 400 00:24:10,480 --> 00:24:12,320 Speaker 1: like to be free, leave me the hell alone. That 401 00:24:12,600 --> 00:24:17,320 Speaker 1: doesn't mean anarchy. It means respects civil liberties, respect freedom. 402 00:24:17,359 --> 00:24:21,200 Speaker 1: If you're willing to stand for freedom, come to Texas. 403 00:24:21,400 --> 00:24:23,600 Speaker 1: We want. And you know, the Joe Rogan move and 404 00:24:23,640 --> 00:24:26,719 Speaker 1: the Elon Musk move are both interesting because I know 405 00:24:26,760 --> 00:24:28,399 Speaker 1: that Joe was a Bernie bro for a while, but 406 00:24:28,440 --> 00:24:30,920 Speaker 1: he really is a sort of independent thinker. You can't 407 00:24:30,920 --> 00:24:33,879 Speaker 1: always nail him down on one political party or the other. 408 00:24:34,119 --> 00:24:37,359 Speaker 1: And the fact that the effect of this government overreach 409 00:24:37,640 --> 00:24:40,040 Speaker 1: has been to tell people who like Elon Musk or 410 00:24:40,080 --> 00:24:41,959 Speaker 1: like Joe Rogan, who are a little more independent minded, 411 00:24:43,000 --> 00:24:45,560 Speaker 1: maybe the left is really not where the future is. 412 00:24:45,600 --> 00:24:47,840 Speaker 1: Maybe the left is not not where your interests are. 413 00:24:48,200 --> 00:24:51,320 Speaker 1: That could have some serious effects for November. Obviously, there 414 00:24:51,320 --> 00:24:54,040 Speaker 1: are a lot of a lot of variables are found. Well, 415 00:24:54,400 --> 00:24:57,320 Speaker 1: am I remembering right that that that Joe Rogan had 416 00:24:57,359 --> 00:25:01,160 Speaker 1: an episode that he had Elon Musk on where they 417 00:25:01,240 --> 00:25:04,720 Speaker 1: both smoke pot. I believe he's on the podcast. I 418 00:25:04,720 --> 00:25:06,880 Speaker 1: don't know if he inhaled, but they did both smoke pot, 419 00:25:09,040 --> 00:25:11,320 Speaker 1: so I don't know if if maybe there's sort of 420 00:25:11,359 --> 00:25:15,159 Speaker 1: a libertarian streak that's coming out that's okay, You're welcome 421 00:25:15,200 --> 00:25:17,040 Speaker 1: to come here to you and I might have an 422 00:25:17,040 --> 00:25:20,040 Speaker 1: episode in which, you know I was asking you before 423 00:25:20,080 --> 00:25:21,960 Speaker 1: if you owned a smoking jacket, I can see you 424 00:25:22,040 --> 00:25:24,200 Speaker 1: pull it out like a Sherlock Holmes pipe or something. 425 00:25:24,320 --> 00:25:26,119 Speaker 1: That's true. We could that's I guess that's one thing 426 00:25:26,160 --> 00:25:29,600 Speaker 1: I could bring from California to Texas. Well. I'll have 427 00:25:29,600 --> 00:25:32,840 Speaker 1: to save that for a future episode. Obviously, Before we go, 428 00:25:32,920 --> 00:25:35,200 Speaker 1: we got to get to some mailbag questions. There are 429 00:25:35,200 --> 00:25:38,040 Speaker 1: a lot of people who have questions all over the place, 430 00:25:38,040 --> 00:25:40,399 Speaker 1: so let's get right into it. From Nick, Senator, what 431 00:25:40,400 --> 00:25:43,280 Speaker 1: do you think, if you think anything at all about 432 00:25:43,320 --> 00:25:46,360 Speaker 1: that video that came out of Georgia, the shooting of 433 00:25:46,440 --> 00:25:50,840 Speaker 1: the man Ahmad Arbory by those two guys in the truck. 434 00:25:51,280 --> 00:25:53,000 Speaker 1: Do you have any take on this? This is being 435 00:25:53,000 --> 00:25:55,560 Speaker 1: On one hand, people are saying that these were crypto 436 00:25:55,680 --> 00:25:58,440 Speaker 1: clansmen and it's a modern day lynching. On the other hand, 437 00:25:58,480 --> 00:26:01,560 Speaker 1: people are saying even possibly it was justified. I think 438 00:26:01,640 --> 00:26:05,320 Speaker 1: most people are not taking either of those extreme positions. 439 00:26:05,400 --> 00:26:09,359 Speaker 1: What is your take? Look, I saw the video of 440 00:26:09,359 --> 00:26:11,680 Speaker 1: the shooting. I think I think it's really troubling, and 441 00:26:12,200 --> 00:26:16,320 Speaker 1: so I'm glad to see that the prosecution is moving forward. 442 00:26:16,359 --> 00:26:20,640 Speaker 1: Based on what I've seen, what happened seems wrong. Now, now, look, 443 00:26:20,800 --> 00:26:23,720 Speaker 1: this whole theme has of this show. We focused on 444 00:26:23,760 --> 00:26:26,600 Speaker 1: civil liberties, and so the defendants have a right to 445 00:26:26,640 --> 00:26:28,320 Speaker 1: presumption of it is since they have a right to 446 00:26:28,320 --> 00:26:31,879 Speaker 1: do process, and so so the trial ought to go forward. 447 00:26:31,920 --> 00:26:33,800 Speaker 1: They ought to look at what the actual evidence is. 448 00:26:33,840 --> 00:26:35,840 Speaker 1: We don't know all the evidence but I got to say, 449 00:26:36,880 --> 00:26:39,600 Speaker 1: you know, anytime you have two people driving up in 450 00:26:39,640 --> 00:26:45,160 Speaker 1: a truck and shooting an unarmed man, that's really problematic, 451 00:26:45,240 --> 00:26:49,760 Speaker 1: and certainly with the tragic history of race in our country, 452 00:26:50,960 --> 00:26:55,199 Speaker 1: it raises it's messed up. So I'm glad that the 453 00:26:55,240 --> 00:26:57,720 Speaker 1: prosecutors are moving forward based on what I've seen, there's 454 00:26:57,720 --> 00:27:01,640 Speaker 1: certainly enough evidence to move forward. But the process needs 455 00:27:01,640 --> 00:27:04,480 Speaker 1: to play out, and we need to find out the truth. 456 00:27:04,640 --> 00:27:07,200 Speaker 1: That's too reasonable, Senator. That has no place on Twitter 457 00:27:07,280 --> 00:27:09,159 Speaker 1: or anywhere else on the Internet. You have to have 458 00:27:09,240 --> 00:27:11,560 Speaker 1: a very extreme position, or else you're not allowed to 459 00:27:11,640 --> 00:27:14,040 Speaker 1: voice it on the Internet. From Vince, is there any 460 00:27:14,119 --> 00:27:17,960 Speaker 1: legislation planned or being proposed to curtail the suppression of 461 00:27:18,040 --> 00:27:22,199 Speaker 1: content on social media platforms? Or could or should this 462 00:27:22,280 --> 00:27:25,399 Speaker 1: be a private citizen endeavor to sue where needed or 463 00:27:25,400 --> 00:27:29,000 Speaker 1: where possible all of the above. Yes. As you know, 464 00:27:29,119 --> 00:27:31,639 Speaker 1: a huge focus of mine has been the power of 465 00:27:31,720 --> 00:27:35,400 Speaker 1: big tech, and big tech is engaging in censorship. It's 466 00:27:35,400 --> 00:27:40,400 Speaker 1: a handful of Silicon Valley billionaires who frankly are too 467 00:27:40,440 --> 00:27:45,520 Speaker 1: often petty tyrants and authoritarians themselves, and then they feel unchecked. 468 00:27:46,760 --> 00:27:49,000 Speaker 1: You know, I shared a hearing a number of months 469 00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:53,520 Speaker 1: ago on censorship a Big Tech where we put up 470 00:27:53,720 --> 00:27:57,879 Speaker 1: an internal PowerPoint from Google and it was entitled the 471 00:27:57,920 --> 00:28:00,840 Speaker 1: Good Censor. And by the way, that Google's own term, 472 00:28:00,920 --> 00:28:03,399 Speaker 1: that's not my term, that's how they entitled it. And 473 00:28:03,480 --> 00:28:07,040 Speaker 1: they described how the Internet used to be believe in 474 00:28:07,240 --> 00:28:11,880 Speaker 1: laise fair free speech. Yeah, but instead Big Tech they said, 475 00:28:11,920 --> 00:28:14,560 Speaker 1: had made a decision to move towards what they called 476 00:28:14,960 --> 00:28:20,840 Speaker 1: a European style censorship model. And they identified Google, Facebook, YouTube, 477 00:28:20,880 --> 00:28:24,320 Speaker 1: Twitter as the kind of major players. That's exactly right, 478 00:28:24,400 --> 00:28:27,800 Speaker 1: and I think it is a profound threat to democracy. 479 00:28:28,240 --> 00:28:31,200 Speaker 1: I give you a recent example, YouTube which has been 480 00:28:31,480 --> 00:28:33,760 Speaker 1: Google and YouTube have been the worst offenders. By the way, 481 00:28:33,800 --> 00:28:36,280 Speaker 1: I mean Google, they used to have their motto be 482 00:28:37,320 --> 00:28:39,840 Speaker 1: do no Evil. Now I think they've just deleted the 483 00:28:39,880 --> 00:28:43,160 Speaker 1: first two words. Now their motto is just evil, like 484 00:28:43,320 --> 00:28:48,000 Speaker 1: they're just shameless. Yeah, you know, Google's gone after Prager University. 485 00:28:48,040 --> 00:28:52,360 Speaker 1: One of the more absurd examples they restricted as adult content. 486 00:28:52,840 --> 00:28:56,160 Speaker 1: Prager use episode on the Ten Commandments. You really can't 487 00:28:56,200 --> 00:29:01,080 Speaker 1: make this crap up the Ten Commandments because it discuss murder. 488 00:29:02,320 --> 00:29:08,080 Speaker 1: I mean I guess it does. Like you know, you 489 00:29:08,120 --> 00:29:12,560 Speaker 1: would think that that that that these techy autocracts would 490 00:29:12,560 --> 00:29:15,920 Speaker 1: actually pause and say, Okay, maybe we're beclowning ourselves too 491 00:29:16,000 --> 00:29:19,040 Speaker 1: much here, let's stop. But YouTube's latest and in the 492 00:29:19,080 --> 00:29:21,880 Speaker 1: midst of the pandemic they said they're going to block 493 00:29:21,920 --> 00:29:24,640 Speaker 1: and pull down any video that disagrees with the health 494 00:29:24,720 --> 00:29:28,920 Speaker 1: recommendations from the World Health Organization. Now, the WHO, as 495 00:29:28,960 --> 00:29:35,960 Speaker 1: you know, has really disgraced itself, yeah, by its willingness 496 00:29:36,000 --> 00:29:39,760 Speaker 1: to be a puppet for the communist government in China 497 00:29:39,800 --> 00:29:44,800 Speaker 1: to repeat Chinese communist lies to repeat. In January, the 498 00:29:44,880 --> 00:29:48,400 Speaker 1: WHO was loudly saying that the Chinese lie there is 499 00:29:48,440 --> 00:29:51,640 Speaker 1: no human to human transmission of coronavirus. Okay, if YouTube 500 00:29:51,640 --> 00:29:54,800 Speaker 1: followed that, that that plan if you were one of 501 00:29:54,840 --> 00:29:59,760 Speaker 1: the communists, the Chinese physician whistleblowers who heroically stood up 502 00:30:00,200 --> 00:30:03,600 Speaker 1: against it, stood up and pointed out the coronavirus if 503 00:30:03,600 --> 00:30:06,560 Speaker 1: you made a video on YouTube, apparently are YouTube's policies, 504 00:30:06,600 --> 00:30:11,240 Speaker 1: they pull you down because the WHO says coronavirus cannot 505 00:30:11,280 --> 00:30:18,040 Speaker 1: pass from person to person. What uttered garbage. And so 506 00:30:18,600 --> 00:30:21,640 Speaker 1: we need to do much more to go after big tech. 507 00:30:22,080 --> 00:30:27,240 Speaker 1: That includes potentially repealing Section to thirty the Communications Decency Act. 508 00:30:27,240 --> 00:30:31,320 Speaker 1: Which gives them a special protection from liability that Congress 509 00:30:31,320 --> 00:30:34,400 Speaker 1: has passed nobody else gets. I've been leading the edge 510 00:30:34,400 --> 00:30:40,840 Speaker 1: on that. It also includes looking at antitrust litigation or 511 00:30:42,160 --> 00:30:44,960 Speaker 1: a case from the Department of Justice. These are monopolies 512 00:30:44,960 --> 00:30:47,800 Speaker 1: that are abusing their monopoly power. I think we've got 513 00:30:47,880 --> 00:30:49,560 Speaker 1: to do more, and I think it's a profound threat 514 00:30:49,560 --> 00:30:51,720 Speaker 1: to our democracy. It is, it's an urgent threat. It 515 00:30:51,720 --> 00:30:54,600 Speaker 1: does happen a lot on YouTube. Maybe they'll take this 516 00:30:54,640 --> 00:30:56,680 Speaker 1: episode down. I don't know. I hope they don't. And 517 00:30:56,920 --> 00:30:59,440 Speaker 1: if they do, I bet the ACLU will be nowhere 518 00:30:59,480 --> 00:31:02,760 Speaker 1: in sight to defend us so much. No, no, no no, no, 519 00:31:02,920 --> 00:31:05,960 Speaker 1: the a sail you will be with big tech saying yes, 520 00:31:06,280 --> 00:31:12,320 Speaker 1: we're all for silencing speech because we are partisan lefties. 521 00:31:12,320 --> 00:31:15,960 Speaker 1: It really, it's sad. It's a sad thing to see. 522 00:31:16,240 --> 00:31:19,280 Speaker 1: That's the ACLU, the ADPU. As you say that that 523 00:31:19,320 --> 00:31:22,320 Speaker 1: will be the next one, will probably be even further 524 00:31:22,360 --> 00:31:24,760 Speaker 1: into the upside down by then, but we'll we'll just 525 00:31:24,800 --> 00:31:26,880 Speaker 1: have to wait until next time. That's our show. I'm 526 00:31:26,880 --> 00:31:37,200 Speaker 1: Michael Knowles. This is Verdict with Ted Cruz. 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