WEBVTT - Civil Liberties Under Attack 0:00:00.320 --> 0:00:04.320 Remember civil liberties with all the Obama gates, spying and 0:00:04.440 --> 0:00:08.039 due process under attack, and the endless lockdowns, they might 0:00:08.080 --> 0:00:11.479 seem like a distant memory. We will get into all 0:00:11.520 --> 0:00:20.160 of it. This is Verdict with Ted Cruz. Welcome back 0:00:20.160 --> 0:00:23.239 to Verdicts with Ted Cruz. I'm Michael Knowles, Senator. The 0:00:23.360 --> 0:00:25.880 last time that we spoke, the biggest story of the 0:00:25.960 --> 0:00:29.880 day was the exoneration of Michael Flynn, President Trump's first 0:00:30.040 --> 0:00:34.120 national security advisor. The DJ dropped the case into him, 0:00:34.320 --> 0:00:37.400 the FBI set him up. This was a huge miscarriage 0:00:37.400 --> 0:00:42.080 of justice, but thankfully the case was being dismissed until 0:00:42.240 --> 0:00:45.360 I just read a headline that the judge is not 0:00:45.440 --> 0:00:49.120 letting go of the case even though the prosecution said 0:00:49.159 --> 0:00:51.040 that they were pulling out of it. Can you explain 0:00:51.080 --> 0:00:54.240 to me how that's even possible. What's going on? It 0:00:54.400 --> 0:00:58.040 is ridiculous that this federal judge. We've seen too many 0:00:58.120 --> 0:01:01.000 judges on the bench behaving like their members of the 0:01:01.040 --> 0:01:07.080 resistance and signing up to to really the partisan objective 0:01:07.200 --> 0:01:13.759 of attacking the president and this administration. Listen, everything about 0:01:13.800 --> 0:01:18.560 this Michael Flynn investigation and prosecution stinks from the get go, 0:01:18.840 --> 0:01:22.320 and and what has come public in the last couple 0:01:22.319 --> 0:01:26.280 of weeks is stunning. What we now know is number 0:01:26.280 --> 0:01:30.520 one Attorney General Bill Barr, when he came in, assigned 0:01:30.600 --> 0:01:35.959 a US attorney who is a long time, experienced veteran 0:01:36.000 --> 0:01:38.520 with the FBI and the Department of Justice to go 0:01:38.640 --> 0:01:41.360 and invest go look at this case and make sure 0:01:41.760 --> 0:01:45.000 nothing untoward happened. And he went and investigated, and they 0:01:45.080 --> 0:01:48.040 were horrified by what they found. They found that the 0:01:48.080 --> 0:01:51.080 FBI agents going after Michael Flynn Number one. The FBI 0:01:51.120 --> 0:01:52.560 was going to dismiss the case because they didn't have 0:01:52.560 --> 0:01:55.280 any evidence. And then Peter Struck, who we've seen as 0:01:55.360 --> 0:02:01.000 a rapidly partisan Trump pater, stopped from being closed and 0:02:01.000 --> 0:02:04.279 said how lucky they were that their incompetence, that's his word, 0:02:04.720 --> 0:02:07.200 was such that it saved them from closing the case. 0:02:07.600 --> 0:02:10.840 And they decided, all right, let's go interview him and 0:02:11.480 --> 0:02:15.480 see if we can somehow entrap him in a lie 0:02:16.320 --> 0:02:18.600 in order too. And this is the FBI zone notes 0:02:18.960 --> 0:02:21.720 get him fired, get him to lie so we can 0:02:21.760 --> 0:02:24.919 get him fired. That's not the FBI's job. Why are 0:02:24.919 --> 0:02:28.560 they trying to get the national security advisor for the 0:02:28.600 --> 0:02:32.400 newly elected president fired? So that came out initially, but 0:02:32.440 --> 0:02:36.000 it gets worse. And by the way, James Comey bragged, 0:02:36.320 --> 0:02:40.160 the old FBI director bragged in an interview how essentially 0:02:40.160 --> 0:02:43.880 he suckered General Flynn, who's a decorated three star general, 0:02:43.919 --> 0:02:47.160 by the way, who's who's spent his whole life fighting 0:02:47.200 --> 0:02:50.720 to defend this country. They suckered General Flynn into this, 0:02:50.720 --> 0:02:54.400 this interview where where they said, oh, you don't need 0:02:54.440 --> 0:02:55.799 a lawyer, No, no no, no, you don't need to tell 0:02:55.800 --> 0:02:58.160 the White House counsel about it. We're just coming to 0:02:58.440 --> 0:03:03.000 chat chat and he was and actually Komy said something 0:03:03.040 --> 0:03:06.440 the effect of, you know, a White House that knew 0:03:06.440 --> 0:03:08.240 what they were doing would never have fallen for this. 0:03:08.360 --> 0:03:10.760 Of course, they did this right after Trump was elected, 0:03:10.960 --> 0:03:13.040 right when they're getting started, when they're getting their team 0:03:13.080 --> 0:03:16.760 in place. But but it's worse than that. What's come 0:03:16.760 --> 0:03:19.560 out in this last week are two things that are 0:03:19.560 --> 0:03:23.560 beyond stunning. One, we know that there was a January 0:03:23.639 --> 0:03:27.920 fifth meeting in the White House with President Obama. The 0:03:27.960 --> 0:03:31.520 President Obama was directly part of the meeting where it 0:03:31.600 --> 0:03:34.360 was discussed with senior law enforcement and intelligence that they 0:03:34.360 --> 0:03:38.320 were targeting the National Security Advisor for the incoming president. 0:03:38.840 --> 0:03:42.800 Not only that, we know that Joe Biden was at 0:03:42.840 --> 0:03:48.160 that meeting, and stunningly that Joe Biden personally directed the 0:03:48.360 --> 0:03:52.280 unmasking of General Flynn. Let's let's unmask his name. Normally 0:03:52.280 --> 0:03:55.560 the intelligence reports, the intercepts come around with names blocked out. 0:03:55.880 --> 0:03:59.920 Joe Biden personally said, unmask him, let's see his name. 0:04:00.640 --> 0:04:04.240 And then on top of that, in the last week 0:04:04.320 --> 0:04:09.520 of the Obama administration, Susan Rice, the National Security Advisor, 0:04:10.120 --> 0:04:14.320 send an email to herself and to the intelligence community saying, 0:04:14.840 --> 0:04:17.640 under the directions of President Obama, and she made this clear, 0:04:17.680 --> 0:04:21.880 this was coming from Barack Obama himself, you may not 0:04:22.080 --> 0:04:26.040 be able to share certain aspects of national security information 0:04:26.400 --> 0:04:31.640 concerning Russia with the incoming president. What in the hell 0:04:31.920 --> 0:04:34.839 like this has never happened in the history of our country, 0:04:35.040 --> 0:04:42.200 an outgoing administration launching a political investigation, a political persecution, 0:04:42.240 --> 0:04:45.560 and telling all of the deep state bureaucrats when the 0:04:45.600 --> 0:04:49.280 new president comes in, he's not your president. You don't 0:04:49.320 --> 0:04:52.440 have to tell him what's going on. Just go after him, 0:04:52.520 --> 0:04:55.320 target him and trap him, set him up. I mean, 0:04:55.360 --> 0:04:59.520 it was stunning and in more than two centuries of 0:04:59.520 --> 0:05:04.400 our nation history. I'm not aware of any outgoing administration 0:05:04.480 --> 0:05:07.320 that ever so much has tried to do this to 0:05:07.400 --> 0:05:10.520 the new administration. It is wrong, it is offensive, it 0:05:10.600 --> 0:05:13.640 has grotesque And so the Department of Justice came in 0:05:13.680 --> 0:05:17.120 and said, we shouldn't have brought this case. We don't 0:05:17.160 --> 0:05:20.040 have the evidence. Let's dismiss it. Now. Here's what happens 0:05:20.040 --> 0:05:23.960 when the prosecutor does that. The judge says, case dismissed. Right, 0:05:24.080 --> 0:05:27.000 prosecutor is not going to prosecute you. The case is dismissed. 0:05:27.040 --> 0:05:30.919 But this judge apparently has has strapped on his little 0:05:30.920 --> 0:05:33.919 pink hat and he's decided he's part of the resistance. 0:05:33.960 --> 0:05:37.719 So number one, he issued this call to a meeky 0:05:37.760 --> 0:05:40.440 to friends of the court. You guys, tell me if 0:05:40.440 --> 0:05:45.640 this prosecution should continue even though the prosecutors aren't prosecuting it. 0:05:46.480 --> 0:05:48.960 And then he appointed another judge who happens to be 0:05:48.960 --> 0:05:54.000 a democratic appointing as well the coincidence, no assess whether 0:05:54.200 --> 0:05:58.840 he should charge Michael Flynn with perjury. All right, well, 0:05:58.920 --> 0:06:03.200 let me give you a clue. Judge, you or your 0:06:03.320 --> 0:06:07.520 body who you've appointed, don't charge anybody with anybody. Go'll 0:06:07.560 --> 0:06:09.560 read that document that you may have put away a 0:06:09.600 --> 0:06:13.120 long time ago, called the constitution. They're three articles Article one, 0:06:13.200 --> 0:06:15.200 Article two, an article three that set up our constitution. 0:06:15.240 --> 0:06:17.640 They're seven all together, but three that set set up 0:06:17.680 --> 0:06:20.919 our government. You're an Article three. You're the judiciary. It 0:06:21.080 --> 0:06:24.120 is the executive that charges, it is the judiciary that 0:06:24.160 --> 0:06:28.919 tries the case. And so this is grotesque. It is 0:06:28.920 --> 0:06:32.400 a violation of civil liberties. And of course all the 0:06:32.520 --> 0:06:36.440 left wing partisans don't care because they hate Trump. It 0:06:36.640 --> 0:06:40.520 is offensive. This is a very bizarre case. I'm glad 0:06:40.560 --> 0:06:42.920 you could lay that out because I've had trouble trying 0:06:42.920 --> 0:06:45.159 to relate. You have a Michael Flynn. Part of it 0:06:45.160 --> 0:06:48.880 relates to this January fifth meeting, how it relates to 0:06:49.160 --> 0:06:51.680 Susan Rice and Barack Obama and now Joe Biden. We've 0:06:51.760 --> 0:06:55.400 learned this is being called Obama Gate. The mainstream media 0:06:55.440 --> 0:06:58.799 are denying that Obama Gate exists, just like they denied 0:06:59.000 --> 0:07:02.680 all the rest of Brock Obama's presidential scandals. You're saying, 0:07:03.440 --> 0:07:07.520 this is possibly unprecedented, this is historic. This is an 0:07:07.520 --> 0:07:11.480 egregious abuse of power. I don't know of any history. 0:07:11.480 --> 0:07:14.520 They've been administrations that that didn't like each other before 0:07:14.600 --> 0:07:17.200 that shifted from one to the other. But but one 0:07:17.240 --> 0:07:21.080 of the hallmarks of our democratic system, of our constitutional 0:07:21.120 --> 0:07:25.120 republic is the peaceful transition of power from one party 0:07:25.120 --> 0:07:27.440 to another. We're not a bean at a republic. We 0:07:28.080 --> 0:07:32.560 don't go to try to prosecute those we disagree with 0:07:32.600 --> 0:07:36.000 because of political disagreements. We enforced the law regardless of party. 0:07:36.040 --> 0:07:39.440 That's that's what our tradition is. You know, the closest 0:07:39.480 --> 0:07:43.880 I can think of it is when the Clinton administration 0:07:44.000 --> 0:07:47.920 was leaving in the George W. Bush administration came in. Well, 0:07:48.040 --> 0:07:51.000 we knew that that that that the Clintons did steal 0:07:51.040 --> 0:07:53.040 the silverl wear from the White House residence, but that 0:07:53.120 --> 0:07:56.800 was the furniture that that was uniquely characteristic of them. 0:07:57.280 --> 0:08:01.400 But the outgoing Clinton White House staff, they did on 0:08:01.440 --> 0:08:04.600 a number of the keyboards in the White House they 0:08:04.680 --> 0:08:06.960 pulled the letter W off of and you know, it's 0:08:06.960 --> 0:08:10.960 George W. Bush. And that was sort of a juvenile prank. 0:08:11.440 --> 0:08:15.480 But they didn't unleash the Department of Justice and the 0:08:15.520 --> 0:08:19.160 FBI and the intelligence community to set up to entrap, 0:08:19.280 --> 0:08:24.400 to prosecute, to target the incoming administration. The National Security 0:08:24.400 --> 0:08:29.840 Advisor to unleash wire taps on the incoming administration's campaign 0:08:30.200 --> 0:08:36.240 to base it on a bogus dossier compiled by the 0:08:36.320 --> 0:08:42.280 opposite Bye bye, I guess the outgoing administration's own party, 0:08:42.520 --> 0:08:45.040 paid for by the DNC, paid for by Hillary Clinton. 0:08:46.000 --> 0:08:49.400 What a grotesque abuse of power. And let me tell 0:08:49.440 --> 0:08:53.480 you something. The Senate needs to do something about it. 0:08:54.200 --> 0:08:57.640 The Senate needs to have every one of these clowns 0:08:57.679 --> 0:09:00.320 that abused their power brought in front of us and 0:09:00.440 --> 0:09:04.160 testify under oath, the entire array of them, the ones 0:09:04.200 --> 0:09:07.680 that we're sitting in that White House. I'm talking James Comey, 0:09:07.760 --> 0:09:11.360 I'm talking Yates, I'm talking Susan Rice, I'm talking Joe Biden, 0:09:11.360 --> 0:09:14.920 I'm talking Barack Obama. Every one of them should testify 0:09:15.360 --> 0:09:20.800 about their weaponizing and politicizing law enforcement and the intelligence 0:09:20.840 --> 0:09:28.160 community to prosecute, target and wrongfully go after the next 0:09:28.200 --> 0:09:30.240 the incoming president of the United States. That's right, and 0:09:30.320 --> 0:09:33.120 it's so corrupt. And even if you're a Trump hater 0:09:33.240 --> 0:09:35.839 out there, even if you're glad you know that the 0:09:36.080 --> 0:09:40.000 outgoing administration was going after the incoming administration, all of 0:09:40.040 --> 0:09:42.880 that it does come down also to a question of 0:09:42.960 --> 0:09:46.480 civil liberties. And it's not just being attacked by government 0:09:47.080 --> 0:09:50.080 thugs who are spying on people. Were also seeing this 0:09:50.080 --> 0:09:53.120 in other places. You had a great tweet earlier today. 0:09:53.400 --> 0:09:56.840 This was in regard to Betsy DeVoss, the Education Secretary, 0:09:57.080 --> 0:10:01.440 who said that Betsy DeVoss is now issued these policies 0:10:01.440 --> 0:10:04.920 that will protect the accused on college campuses. But the 0:10:05.040 --> 0:10:09.640 ACLU is now going after Betsy divoce for protecting civil liberties, 0:10:09.679 --> 0:10:12.160 even though the ACLU is supposed to be the American 0:10:12.200 --> 0:10:15.040 Civil Liberties Union. So you tweeted out, ACLU moves to 0:10:15.120 --> 0:10:18.280 delete the C and the L from their name. Hereafter 0:10:18.400 --> 0:10:22.760 it shall be the ADPU, the American Democratic Party Union. 0:10:22.960 --> 0:10:26.480 They are for all criminal defendants unless they're Republicans, and 0:10:26.520 --> 0:10:29.720 they are for all sexual assault victims unless they are 0:10:29.760 --> 0:10:33.240 accusing Democrats. Can you just tell us a little bit 0:10:33.280 --> 0:10:36.920 about the Betsy divorce decision, what that means on campus, 0:10:37.120 --> 0:10:42.240 and how on earth the ACLU now opposes civil liberties. Look, 0:10:42.280 --> 0:10:46.679 it is crazy. Let's start with Betsy Divace's Secretary of Education, 0:10:46.720 --> 0:10:50.959 the Obama administration when it came to college campuses, that 0:10:51.080 --> 0:10:56.120 they really got radicalized and sexual assault is a horrific evil. 0:10:56.160 --> 0:10:58.800 I've spent a lot of my life in law enforcement, 0:11:00.120 --> 0:11:03.560 secuting those who commit sexual assault. It has been a 0:11:03.600 --> 0:11:06.600 lifelong passion of mind. It is a grotesque evil that 0:11:06.640 --> 0:11:10.560 should be punished. What criminal defendants have rights, We have 0:11:10.640 --> 0:11:12.480 due process, we have a bill of rights. We have 0:11:13.720 --> 0:11:17.360 where people are an accusers entitled to the presumption of innocence. 0:11:17.760 --> 0:11:20.480 What the Obama Department of Education did is they use 0:11:20.559 --> 0:11:23.960 the federal education dollars to try to course frankly, a 0:11:24.000 --> 0:11:26.160 bunch of radicals on campuses who were happy to do 0:11:26.200 --> 0:11:30.559 this anyway into creating these start chambers where where if 0:11:30.600 --> 0:11:35.360 there's an accusation of sexual assault, the accused is presumed 0:11:35.360 --> 0:11:39.360 guilty and has little or no rights, can't confront their accuser, 0:11:39.400 --> 0:11:41.480 can't even know what the charge is in some cases, 0:11:41.520 --> 0:11:45.120 I mean it really is. It's cough gas. Where where 0:11:45.160 --> 0:11:47.560 you have been charged, we will not inform you what 0:11:47.640 --> 0:11:49.360 the charge is, We will not inform you who is 0:11:49.440 --> 0:11:52.160 raising the allegations. You can't call witnesses in your defense 0:11:52.160 --> 0:11:54.280 because you don't know what you're charged with. But here 0:11:54.280 --> 0:11:57.400 are the consequences. Okay, that's not fair, that's not right, 0:11:57.480 --> 0:12:01.560 that's not just. But but in the radical leftist world, 0:12:03.240 --> 0:12:09.000 it was politically expedient. The Department Education said, no, we're 0:12:09.040 --> 0:12:13.080 going to follow federal law, and that means we're not 0:12:13.160 --> 0:12:17.040 going to force colleges just to just to immediately summarily 0:12:17.200 --> 0:12:22.199 execute anyone who's facing an accusation. Instead, there should be 0:12:22.679 --> 0:12:27.160 a fair fact fighting proceeding that respects due process. Now, 0:12:27.840 --> 0:12:30.960 in any ordinary circumstance, you take the ASLU a SLU. 0:12:31.040 --> 0:12:32.720 I disagree with a lot of the things they do, 0:12:33.360 --> 0:12:37.000 but they were formed to protect civil liberties, and in fact, 0:12:37.040 --> 0:12:39.960 to protect civil liberties of those who have been charged 0:12:40.000 --> 0:12:42.800 with something. Those who have been accused with something, many 0:12:42.800 --> 0:12:45.720 times they're guilty, and if they're guilty, they should be punished. 0:12:45.760 --> 0:12:50.720 But you're entitled to have due process protections. Here's the 0:12:50.760 --> 0:12:54.240 problem the ASILU, like most of the left, Donald Trump 0:12:54.320 --> 0:12:56.920 has driven the nuts. I mean that they're they're just 0:12:57.080 --> 0:13:00.920 that they're in straight jackets, babbling bugs, bunny. I mean, 0:13:00.960 --> 0:13:03.120 I mean, they just they don't make any sense anymore. 0:13:03.440 --> 0:13:07.760 And so ASO used to support all criminal defendants. Okay, 0:13:07.760 --> 0:13:09.640 I understand that. Sometimes I don't like it if it's 0:13:09.640 --> 0:13:12.520 mass murders, that they've taken it too far. But okay, 0:13:12.559 --> 0:13:14.800 that's at least a coherent position is I'm going to 0:13:14.880 --> 0:13:18.920 support criminal defendants against government prosecution, defend their rights. A 0:13:19.000 --> 0:13:21.360 cl you hadn't doing that anymore. Where is the ACLU, 0:13:21.440 --> 0:13:26.000 And Michael Flynn show me the ACOU coming in and saying, judge, 0:13:26.559 --> 0:13:29.240 if the prosecution is just missing the case, you can't 0:13:29.280 --> 0:13:32.640 become judge, prosecutor and presumably execution. I don't know if 0:13:32.640 --> 0:13:34.560 the judge is gonna lock him in his own jail 0:13:34.640 --> 0:13:39.400 cell too. Any reasonably coherent ACOU would be standing alongside 0:13:39.559 --> 0:13:43.360 Michael Flynn. But god forbid, he's a Republican and worked 0:13:43.360 --> 0:13:45.200 for Trump. Oh no, no, no no, no, a CLU has 0:13:45.240 --> 0:13:49.040 got nothing to do with it. On the flip side, 0:13:49.120 --> 0:13:52.720 you know they want a virtue signal on sexual assault. 0:13:53.120 --> 0:13:56.720 Where's the ACLU on the allegations against Joe Biden? I 0:13:56.760 --> 0:13:59.679 don't recall the ACLU. And by the way, you remember 0:13:59.720 --> 0:14:05.600 the lieutenant governor of Virginia, pretty serious allegations rape against him. 0:14:05.800 --> 0:14:08.080 But but but he's a Democrat. Of course you've forgotten him. 0:14:08.080 --> 0:14:12.439 Has any media outlet covered that for six months? It's disappeared? 0:14:12.440 --> 0:14:15.760 Why because he's a Democrat. Where's the ILU on that? 0:14:15.880 --> 0:14:22.440 And so it is at this point so shamelessly partisan 0:14:23.520 --> 0:14:29.040 that it ought to be possible to defend principles, defend 0:14:29.080 --> 0:14:33.800 the Constitution, defend the Bill of Rights with coherency and 0:14:34.160 --> 0:14:39.880 and fairness. Let's look, when there's a sexual assault allegation. 0:14:39.960 --> 0:14:43.240 I believe the alleged victims should be treated with respect, 0:14:43.280 --> 0:14:46.760 should be listened to, should the allegations should be treated seriously. 0:14:47.120 --> 0:14:50.000 But it still depends on the evidence. The accused deserves 0:14:50.000 --> 0:14:52.840 a presumption of innocence, and you should look to the 0:14:52.880 --> 0:14:55.640 facts that that's actually a fair and neutral way to 0:14:55.680 --> 0:14:59.800 apply it. It's not the way these hardcore lefty partisans are. 0:15:00.240 --> 0:15:03.000 That's right. We have kangaroo courts on college campuses that 0:15:03.040 --> 0:15:06.520 are trampling over the due process rights of the accused, 0:15:06.640 --> 0:15:09.320 and that for some reason, these panels of professors are 0:15:09.800 --> 0:15:12.440 dealing with one of the most serious crimes you can commit, 0:15:12.520 --> 0:15:14.760 not our criminal justice system, but for some reason, these 0:15:15.080 --> 0:15:17.880 random professors and deans. You've got the kangaroo courts there. 0:15:17.880 --> 0:15:19.720 You got the kangaroo courts at the federal level now 0:15:20.080 --> 0:15:23.560 trying to continue the persecution of Michael Flynn. We're looking around, 0:15:23.560 --> 0:15:26.040 We're saying, what happened to our civil liberties and I 0:15:26.080 --> 0:15:29.640 think for most Americans, the way it really affects our 0:15:29.640 --> 0:15:32.720 lives is we were told fifteen days to slow the spread. 0:15:32.720 --> 0:15:34.680 We're going to give up some of our civil liberties 0:15:34.880 --> 0:15:37.720 because obviously there's this epidemic going around and we want 0:15:37.720 --> 0:15:40.640 to keep everybody safe. Now, you know, I think a 0:15:40.640 --> 0:15:43.360 lot of states are being very reasonable about this, reacting 0:15:43.360 --> 0:15:48.440 to evidence some states some cities are becoming downright arbitrary 0:15:48.520 --> 0:15:51.280 in their power grabs. They're saying that these power grabs 0:15:51.320 --> 0:15:55.720 are going to go on indefinitely, or have those places 0:15:55.760 --> 0:16:01.640 just simply lost our civil liberties. Well, let me make 0:16:01.720 --> 0:16:04.280 two points, one on sexual assault and then one more 0:16:04.320 --> 0:16:11.360 generally on individual liberty and civil liberties. Yeah, on sexual assault. Look, 0:16:11.400 --> 0:16:18.920 I have argued and one numerous cases dealing with prosecuting 0:16:18.960 --> 0:16:21.680 and in some cases seeking the death penalty for child 0:16:21.760 --> 0:16:24.000 rapists and those who committed sexual assault. I think it 0:16:24.040 --> 0:16:28.840 needs to be punished very seriously. I've also been leading 0:16:28.840 --> 0:16:32.320 the fight, along with New York Democrat Kirsten Jellabrand, to 0:16:32.600 --> 0:16:35.640 change the way sexual assault is prosecuted in the military. 0:16:35.760 --> 0:16:38.840 The military, unfortunately has been a long problem where the 0:16:38.840 --> 0:16:42.320 decisions charging decisions right now are made by the commanding officer, 0:16:42.640 --> 0:16:45.320 and the problem is you get conflicts of interest and 0:16:46.480 --> 0:16:49.760 victims of sexual assault the military don't don't feel confident 0:16:49.840 --> 0:16:53.040 to come forward with those allegations. So I've long been 0:16:53.080 --> 0:16:56.920 an advocate of changing the charging decisions from the commanding 0:16:56.960 --> 0:17:01.720 officer to a military rear prosecutor, so keeping it within 0:17:01.760 --> 0:17:04.840 the military, but not in the immediate change of command, 0:17:05.160 --> 0:17:09.280 so the prosecutor can fairly evaluate the evidence, be credible 0:17:09.680 --> 0:17:12.840 and decide whether or not there's sufficient evidence to charge 0:17:12.880 --> 0:17:15.920 sexual assault. The reason I bring that up is all 0:17:15.960 --> 0:17:20.280 of the virtue signaling lefties. For eight years Barack Obama 0:17:20.359 --> 0:17:23.000 was president. He could have changed it any day, he 0:17:23.040 --> 0:17:26.160 could have changed how sexual assault in the military is prosecuted, 0:17:26.320 --> 0:17:29.560 and Barack Obama for eight years refused to do it. 0:17:30.280 --> 0:17:32.679 That actually would make a difference, and it needs to 0:17:32.720 --> 0:17:36.200 be done. So your second point about about individual liberties 0:17:37.760 --> 0:17:41.760 we are seeing in any crisis. You remember the movie 0:17:41.840 --> 0:17:46.840 Wall Street. Yes, there's a great Saint scene where where 0:17:47.040 --> 0:17:52.479 Lou the old broker, says says to Charlie Sheen. You 0:17:52.520 --> 0:17:54.760 know I'm going to paraphrase this and mess this up, 0:17:54.800 --> 0:17:57.640 but something to the effect of there comes a time 0:17:57.640 --> 0:18:00.160 in a crisis when a man stares into the abyss, 0:18:00.480 --> 0:18:02.840 and in the abyss is where he finds his character, 0:18:03.000 --> 0:18:06.080 and that is what saves him from the abyss. That's 0:18:06.520 --> 0:18:08.600 close to it. It's a good rendition. Look in a 0:18:08.680 --> 0:18:15.480 ton in a time of crisis, you see someone's character. Yeah, 0:18:15.680 --> 0:18:19.120 and we are seeing the character of these petty authoritarian 0:18:19.280 --> 0:18:24.639 tyrants who are running around stripping away civil liberties. You know. 0:18:24.760 --> 0:18:27.439 Just earlier today, I saw a video of a woman 0:18:27.480 --> 0:18:31.400 in New York, an African American bomb who was walking 0:18:31.440 --> 0:18:33.840 with her son. He's I don't know, maybe three or 0:18:33.880 --> 0:18:37.000 four years old, young child, walking through the subway and 0:18:37.560 --> 0:18:40.760 she committed apparently the cardinal sin of She wasn't wearing 0:18:40.800 --> 0:18:44.880 a mask, and she was surrounded by police officers who 0:18:45.000 --> 0:18:47.320 threw her to the ground, wrestled her to the ground, 0:18:47.800 --> 0:18:52.440 pushed her into number one, the nasty, dirty subway station floor, 0:18:52.480 --> 0:18:54.880 which I can't imagine anyone laying down and handcuffed her. 0:18:55.080 --> 0:18:59.080 And her little son is sitting there watching this. By 0:18:59.119 --> 0:19:02.280 the way, where's the AA you you want to talk about? 0:19:02.640 --> 0:19:07.480 But like, okay, and I'm not saying it's so easy 0:19:07.520 --> 0:19:10.560 for people to embrace extremes. I'm not saying never wear 0:19:10.920 --> 0:19:12.919 a mask ever. I wear a mask when I'm on 0:19:12.920 --> 0:19:14.679 an airplane. I wear a mask when I'm go to 0:19:14.680 --> 0:19:16.720 the grocery store. I'm wearing a mask. I want to 0:19:16.720 --> 0:19:20.320 be respect public safety. But it could have been really 0:19:20.320 --> 0:19:22.919 different if they had given her a mask, if they hadn't, Like, 0:19:24.320 --> 0:19:29.800 you shouldn't be throwing young moms to the ground in 0:19:29.800 --> 0:19:32.600 front of their little kids and handcuffing them for not 0:19:32.680 --> 0:19:36.440 wearing a mask. That's just stupid. But these authoritarian tyrants, 0:19:36.800 --> 0:19:40.600 they believe in government power. They hate liberty. It's the 0:19:40.720 --> 0:19:44.639 same numbskulls. It's different numbskulls, but the same type of 0:19:44.720 --> 0:19:51.000 numbskulls who sent in bulldozers in California to fill a 0:19:51.080 --> 0:19:56.080 skate park with sand. Like what I mean that video, 0:19:56.080 --> 0:19:57.880 If you haven't seen it, you ought to watch it. 0:19:58.359 --> 0:20:00.600 And by the way, I think it would be perfectly 0:20:00.600 --> 0:20:04.479 reasonable for the local officials to have a police officer 0:20:04.560 --> 0:20:07.080 there and say say, kids, you guys need to socially distanced. 0:20:07.119 --> 0:20:10.480 Don't all gather together, spread apart and be safe. But 0:20:10.560 --> 0:20:14.800 you know, look, if a kid wants to go skateboarding, like, 0:20:15.200 --> 0:20:20.320 it's only malicious tyranny. Yes, that fills a skatepart with sand, 0:20:20.400 --> 0:20:23.919 that's just dumb. And it's the same malicious tyranny that 0:20:23.960 --> 0:20:26.720 throws a mom on the floor and handcuffs her in 0:20:26.720 --> 0:20:28.640 front of her little kid. And of course, the people 0:20:28.640 --> 0:20:31.800 who filled that skatepark should have known that teenage skateboard 0:20:31.800 --> 0:20:34.560 punks are not exactly known for following the rules, so 0:20:34.600 --> 0:20:36.520 they were obviously going to dig the sand out and 0:20:36.560 --> 0:20:39.160 go right back to skateboarding. More power to them. I 0:20:39.200 --> 0:20:41.919 really enjoyed it. And lest I checked a skateboarders are 0:20:42.000 --> 0:20:46.240 are loaners, certainly, all the skateboarders I've known. And by 0:20:46.280 --> 0:20:50.840 the way, for anyone who who's sort of young and 0:20:51.400 --> 0:20:56.399 hip and rebellious, remember it is the lefty Dems ye, 0:20:56.880 --> 0:20:59.480 that are trying to strip away your freedom. Remember who's 0:20:59.520 --> 0:21:02.560 doing it, Remember the tyrants. And by the way, you 0:21:02.600 --> 0:21:06.240 know you're in California right now, I don't see actually 0:21:06.400 --> 0:21:10.359 the monitors watching you, although I kind of expect a 0:21:10.400 --> 0:21:13.560 Skynet drone to come in any moment now and like 0:21:13.680 --> 0:21:17.000 find you. But but I gotta say, there are a 0:21:17.040 --> 0:21:21.880 lot of Californians looking to flee, including some pretty prominent players. 0:21:22.520 --> 0:21:26.280 You know. I noticed Elon Musk was it is. I mean, 0:21:26.280 --> 0:21:28.160 he's one of the wealthiest guys, one of the most 0:21:28.160 --> 0:21:30.679 successful guys in California. I think he's put his houses 0:21:30.720 --> 0:21:32.560 on the market. He said he's going to move to 0:21:32.560 --> 0:21:36.040 either Nevada or Texas. You're seeing a number of other people, Senator, 0:21:36.080 --> 0:21:37.840 is this an invitation or we should we all just 0:21:37.880 --> 0:21:42.159 go down to Texas? Now? Yes, with a caveat. So 0:21:43.320 --> 0:21:45.919 you're all invited, but there needs to be an entrance exam. 0:21:45.960 --> 0:21:47.800 If you're going to vote for the sort of lefty 0:21:47.840 --> 0:21:50.800 commies that screwed up California, please stay where you are 0:21:50.840 --> 0:21:53.320 and enjoy what you voted for. If you're willing to 0:21:53.359 --> 0:21:57.040 come for freedom, we would welcome you. And so Elon Musk. 0:21:57.359 --> 0:22:00.399 Look his Tesla factory. He wants to open, as workers 0:22:00.440 --> 0:22:03.159 want to open, and the petty tyrant said, no, you 0:22:03.160 --> 0:22:06.320 can't work. And by the way, there was a Democratic 0:22:06.400 --> 0:22:10.840 state legislator who sent out a tweet that was fu 0:22:11.320 --> 0:22:16.720 Elon Musk, what on earth is going on that elected 0:22:16.760 --> 0:22:21.359 officials are tweeting expletives at their constituents. These are the 0:22:21.400 --> 0:22:24.720 same clowns who last week we talked about the elected 0:22:24.760 --> 0:22:28.800 Democratic judge in Dallas that demanded of Shelley Luther the hairdresser. 0:22:28.840 --> 0:22:33.360 Apologize to your elected officials. You guys are not frigging overlords. 0:22:33.400 --> 0:22:37.879 Get off your power trip and don't curse at your constituents. 0:22:37.880 --> 0:22:41.000 And so I sent out a tweet to Delon Musk saying, 0:22:41.240 --> 0:22:44.199 come to Texas. We welcome you. We love jobs, we 0:22:44.320 --> 0:22:46.520 like making cars and trucks down here. We'd love to 0:22:46.560 --> 0:22:50.399 have Tesla. By the way, I gotta say Tesla's I 0:22:50.400 --> 0:22:52.320 don't have a test save some friends who have it. 0:22:52.840 --> 0:22:57.480 They're amazing drives. And my girls desperately want us to 0:22:57.520 --> 0:23:00.359 get a Tesla because so the coolest thing is on 0:23:00.400 --> 0:23:03.000 the giant TV screen in the middle. I guess there's 0:23:03.000 --> 0:23:05.600 a button that makes a fart noise from each of 0:23:05.600 --> 0:23:09.439 the seats, which to a nine year old and twelve 0:23:09.520 --> 0:23:11.640 year old and even to a forty nine year old 0:23:11.840 --> 0:23:14.960 year old really damn funny that is. I don't know 0:23:15.000 --> 0:23:17.159 about that. Well, how do I want? And you know 0:23:17.160 --> 0:23:20.359 who also it was talking of moving to Texas. Is 0:23:20.440 --> 0:23:24.680 Joe Rogan? That's right now, Joe Rogan. Joe Rogan said, 0:23:25.080 --> 0:23:27.680 all right, I can't stand it. I may move to Texas. 0:23:27.680 --> 0:23:31.119 I said, Joe, we'd welcome you here now you and 0:23:31.200 --> 0:23:34.040 I know Joe had been the number one podcast until 0:23:34.200 --> 0:23:38.160 till Joe Rogan was dethroned by yours truly and this 0:23:38.200 --> 0:23:41.560 podcast here right, Yes, I do remember that. Well. I 0:23:41.800 --> 0:23:44.360 hope I hope he didn't take it so hard that 0:23:44.440 --> 0:23:47.560 he realized that, you know, really that huge podcast is 0:23:47.560 --> 0:23:50.120 in Texas. It's at the Cruise Residence. So he's got 0:23:50.119 --> 0:23:52.960 to go go see where the magic is. And look, 0:23:53.320 --> 0:23:56.600 Joe Rogan had his flirtation with Bernie Sanders. And if 0:23:56.600 --> 0:23:59.360 he thinks that that big government status or the way 0:23:59.400 --> 0:24:01.040 to go, then to day where you are, Joe, We 0:24:01.080 --> 0:24:03.119 don't want you if you want to bring that that 0:24:03.280 --> 0:24:06.600 that that that kind of tatalitarianism to us. But but 0:24:06.760 --> 0:24:10.440 if if this has made you realize, you know, people 0:24:10.480 --> 0:24:12.320 like to be free, leave me the hell alone. That 0:24:12.600 --> 0:24:17.320