1 00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:06,240 Speaker 1: First up, Virginia Governor Abigail Spamberger ran as being a moderate. Well, 2 00:00:06,280 --> 00:00:09,520 Speaker 1: guess what's happened. She's now putting in a radical left 3 00:00:09,560 --> 00:00:12,639 Speaker 1: agenda and we're going to expose it for you. Also, 4 00:00:12,880 --> 00:00:15,680 Speaker 1: we break down the tariffs argument that was at the 5 00:00:15,760 --> 00:00:19,680 Speaker 1: Supreme Court and what it means moving forward. This is 6 00:00:19,800 --> 00:00:22,000 Speaker 1: very important for the president to be able to use 7 00:00:22,040 --> 00:00:25,200 Speaker 1: tariffs to well get better deals for the American people. 8 00:00:25,320 --> 00:00:27,760 Speaker 1: So how would all end. We've got that for you. 9 00:00:28,080 --> 00:00:32,239 Speaker 1: And finally, the Save America Act. It has passed the 10 00:00:32,320 --> 00:00:35,559 Speaker 1: House and headed for the Senate, So do we have 11 00:00:35,640 --> 00:00:38,320 Speaker 1: the votes to get it to become a law. It's 12 00:00:38,360 --> 00:00:41,400 Speaker 1: the weekend review and it starts right now. I want 13 00:00:41,400 --> 00:00:43,960 Speaker 1: Tom to Virginia real quick as well. And this is 14 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:49,000 Speaker 1: another big story that is happening very quickly post election day, 15 00:00:49,159 --> 00:00:51,839 Speaker 1: and it's an important story because I do think this 16 00:00:51,880 --> 00:00:55,680 Speaker 1: could be a real moment of clarity of Hey, the 17 00:00:55,760 --> 00:00:59,840 Speaker 1: midterms are coming out. Pay attention. Democrats are ready and inspired, 18 00:01:00,200 --> 00:01:03,120 Speaker 1: but they are working at light speed to enact their 19 00:01:03,200 --> 00:01:06,440 Speaker 1: radical agenda. You could also argue that they've earned this 20 00:01:06,480 --> 00:01:09,240 Speaker 1: from Donald Trump. Donald Trump came in rocking and rolling 21 00:01:09,319 --> 00:01:12,160 Speaker 1: day one into this second term, he learned a lot 22 00:01:12,200 --> 00:01:14,600 Speaker 1: from his first term. He learned about how fashion get 23 00:01:14,600 --> 00:01:17,720 Speaker 1: things done if you're prepared. And now Democrats seem to 24 00:01:17,720 --> 00:01:20,640 Speaker 1: be doing that with their radical agenda in Virginia. What 25 00:01:20,840 --> 00:01:24,000 Speaker 1: they're already doing there, it is a warning for the midterms. 26 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:25,919 Speaker 1: What can happen if Democrats get power? 27 00:01:26,720 --> 00:01:30,040 Speaker 2: Well, and look, understand that there is no such thing 28 00:01:30,080 --> 00:01:34,560 Speaker 2: as a moderate Democrat anymore. No, they're dead. Abigail Spanberger 29 00:01:34,680 --> 00:01:38,039 Speaker 2: like Ran, claiming to be a moderate, and only the 30 00:01:38,080 --> 00:01:42,000 Speaker 2: most gullible believed her. All of the Democrats, they've been radicalized. 31 00:01:42,800 --> 00:01:46,520 Speaker 2: This is a party that is driven by the open border, 32 00:01:48,000 --> 00:01:52,280 Speaker 2: abolish police, transgenders zealos. So what has she done in 33 00:01:52,320 --> 00:01:54,800 Speaker 2: her first few days. Well, one of the very first 34 00:01:54,840 --> 00:01:57,480 Speaker 2: things she did is she cut ties with ICE in 35 00:01:57,520 --> 00:02:02,440 Speaker 2: federal Immigration enforcement, which means if Virginia has a criminal 36 00:02:02,480 --> 00:02:04,960 Speaker 2: illegal alien, if Virginia has an illegal alien who's a 37 00:02:05,040 --> 00:02:09,320 Speaker 2: murderer or a rapist or or child molester, they will 38 00:02:09,400 --> 00:02:12,520 Speaker 2: let them go and even though they're illegal alien. Virginia 39 00:02:12,639 --> 00:02:15,400 Speaker 2: is now going to refuse to to cooperate with ICE, 40 00:02:15,560 --> 00:02:19,960 Speaker 2: refuse to handle handle hand murderers over to ICE, and 41 00:02:20,080 --> 00:02:23,280 Speaker 2: instead what Abigail Spanberger is saying is the people of 42 00:02:23,360 --> 00:02:26,720 Speaker 2: Virginia would rather that the murderers be released into their 43 00:02:26,760 --> 00:02:32,839 Speaker 2: communities and prey on their children. She's also quite dramatically 44 00:02:33,680 --> 00:02:38,560 Speaker 2: this week signed a redistricting bill that that that is 45 00:02:38,680 --> 00:02:46,120 Speaker 2: nothing short of of of radical and unfortunately, So let's 46 00:02:46,120 --> 00:02:50,040 Speaker 2: do the math. Uh, Virginia has eleven congressional seats right now, 47 00:02:50,080 --> 00:02:55,600 Speaker 2: the current delegation is six Democrats, five Republicans. Virginia just 48 00:02:55,680 --> 00:02:58,280 Speaker 2: had a takeover of Democrats of the state legislature and 49 00:02:58,320 --> 00:03:01,440 Speaker 2: the governor's mansion. They re drew the map and they 50 00:03:01,440 --> 00:03:04,280 Speaker 2: went from six Democrats and five Republicans to a map 51 00:03:04,320 --> 00:03:09,960 Speaker 2: that is designed to produce ten Democrats and one Republican. Now, now, 52 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:12,640 Speaker 2: what does the math mean? So Virginia is is a 53 00:03:12,680 --> 00:03:15,839 Speaker 2: pretty it's a blue to purple state. In twenty twenty four, 54 00:03:17,040 --> 00:03:20,680 Speaker 2: forty seven percent of the state voted for Donald Trump, 55 00:03:21,680 --> 00:03:24,560 Speaker 2: So Kamala won Virginia. But but fifty three forty seven 56 00:03:24,600 --> 00:03:28,000 Speaker 2: it was a very close, close tight the forty seven 57 00:03:28,040 --> 00:03:30,399 Speaker 2: percent of Virginians who voted for Trump, they are now 58 00:03:30,440 --> 00:03:34,639 Speaker 2: going to get nine percent of the congressional representation in 59 00:03:34,680 --> 00:03:37,520 Speaker 2: the state. Wow, how about the fifty two percent of 60 00:03:37,600 --> 00:03:41,040 Speaker 2: Virginia who voted for Harris. You know how much they 61 00:03:41,080 --> 00:03:46,880 Speaker 2: get how much? Ninety one percent? There you go, fifty 62 00:03:46,880 --> 00:03:49,480 Speaker 2: two percent of the state. The Democrats get ninety one 63 00:03:49,560 --> 00:03:56,160 Speaker 2: percent of the congressional representation. Now on Twitter, you could 64 00:03:56,200 --> 00:03:59,280 Speaker 2: hear the left he saying, ah ah, but Texas did it. 65 00:03:59,560 --> 00:04:03,720 Speaker 2: This is all about Texas. Okay, let's look at the math. Texas, 66 00:04:06,120 --> 00:04:11,040 Speaker 2: fifty six percent of Texans voted for Donald Trump. In 67 00:04:11,120 --> 00:04:15,120 Speaker 2: the new map that Texas drew, that fifty six will 68 00:04:15,160 --> 00:04:17,960 Speaker 2: get seventy nine percent of the seat. So look, it 69 00:04:18,040 --> 00:04:21,080 Speaker 2: is drawn to favor the party in power, but it 70 00:04:21,120 --> 00:04:24,440 Speaker 2: is not remotely as brazen by the way California, their 71 00:04:24,480 --> 00:04:28,599 Speaker 2: new map also is designed to give the Democrats more 72 00:04:28,640 --> 00:04:32,240 Speaker 2: than ninety percent of the congressional delegation. And you know what, 73 00:04:33,480 --> 00:04:38,720 Speaker 2: the Northeast is even worse. You look at states like Maine, 74 00:04:38,800 --> 00:04:42,200 Speaker 2: states like New Hampshire, states like Vermont, states like Rhode Island, 75 00:04:42,240 --> 00:04:47,400 Speaker 2: states like Connecticut, where states like Massachusetts, Massachusetts. Do you 76 00:04:47,440 --> 00:04:50,440 Speaker 2: know how many Republican members of Congress ere elected Massachusetts. 77 00:04:50,440 --> 00:04:52,680 Speaker 1: I want to say it's one or zero zero? 78 00:04:53,440 --> 00:04:56,599 Speaker 2: All of New England, all of New England, they're just 79 00:04:56,720 --> 00:05:01,120 Speaker 2: like republicans don't exist. We will erase you. Yeah. 80 00:05:01,160 --> 00:05:04,400 Speaker 1: And by the way, by what happens with this, is 81 00:05:04,440 --> 00:05:05,880 Speaker 1: this going to be a back and forth tit for 82 00:05:05,920 --> 00:05:08,120 Speaker 1: tat when you see this type of egregious so then 83 00:05:08,200 --> 00:05:09,680 Speaker 1: other states are going to have to counter it. Is 84 00:05:09,720 --> 00:05:10,720 Speaker 1: that just how we're going to go? 85 00:05:11,400 --> 00:05:14,599 Speaker 2: So there was a left wing democrat. I responded to this, 86 00:05:14,680 --> 00:05:17,240 Speaker 2: and I tweeted out a brazen abuse of power and 87 00:05:17,279 --> 00:05:20,320 Speaker 2: an insult to democracy. And I went through the numbers 88 00:05:20,320 --> 00:05:24,080 Speaker 2: you just talked about. And this left winging democrat state 89 00:05:24,160 --> 00:05:27,119 Speaker 2: senator came back, who I'd never heard of and actually 90 00:05:27,120 --> 00:05:29,200 Speaker 2: didn't even know about this until someone of my staff 91 00:05:29,520 --> 00:05:32,200 Speaker 2: told me told me about it. But she responded by saying, 92 00:05:32,960 --> 00:05:35,880 Speaker 2: you all started it and we efing finished it. And 93 00:05:35,880 --> 00:05:38,560 Speaker 2: by the way, she did not abbreviate efing. No. So 94 00:05:38,920 --> 00:05:43,120 Speaker 2: she's a charming and lovely person, clearly, yes. And you 95 00:05:43,120 --> 00:05:47,080 Speaker 2: know that there's something richly ironic about it, because every 96 00:05:47,080 --> 00:05:51,640 Speaker 2: Democrat loves to preen about how much they love democracy, 97 00:05:52,600 --> 00:05:56,720 Speaker 2: and yet it's quite evident that they don't care at 98 00:05:56,760 --> 00:05:59,640 Speaker 2: all about democracy. What they care about is keeping democrats 99 00:05:59,640 --> 00:06:02,800 Speaker 2: in power. That's that is practically the only thing they 100 00:06:02,800 --> 00:06:06,520 Speaker 2: care about. I want you to listen to Abigail Spanberger 101 00:06:06,640 --> 00:06:09,839 Speaker 2: talking about jerry mandering, what she thinks about it. 102 00:06:09,880 --> 00:06:13,640 Speaker 3: Give a listen, because Republicans have to depend on redistricting 103 00:06:13,720 --> 00:06:16,159 Speaker 3: and stealing votes and taking seats like they did in 104 00:06:16,200 --> 00:06:20,640 Speaker 3: North Carolina in order to actually be able to win elections. 105 00:06:21,120 --> 00:06:23,120 Speaker 1: So well, we're just going to steal them right back, 106 00:06:23,160 --> 00:06:25,799 Speaker 1: by golly right, there's your liberal logic one on one. 107 00:06:26,120 --> 00:06:30,200 Speaker 2: But it is also the degree. It is far more brazen. 108 00:06:30,240 --> 00:06:33,479 Speaker 2: As I mentioned Texas, fifty six percent of the state 109 00:06:33,560 --> 00:06:37,480 Speaker 2: voted for Donald Trump. The new map, if Republicans win 110 00:06:37,520 --> 00:06:40,000 Speaker 2: in the seats that were drawn, the new map will 111 00:06:40,040 --> 00:06:43,480 Speaker 2: produce seventy nine percent of the congressional delegation to be Republican. 112 00:06:44,240 --> 00:06:48,640 Speaker 2: That is a difference of twenty three percent. So that's 113 00:06:48,640 --> 00:06:52,160 Speaker 2: an additional twenty three percent. What did Virginia do. They 114 00:06:52,200 --> 00:06:55,960 Speaker 2: went from fifty two percent voting for Kamala Harris to 115 00:06:56,520 --> 00:07:01,760 Speaker 2: getting ninety one percent. That is thirty nine points higher. 116 00:07:01,839 --> 00:07:04,560 Speaker 2: That is a massive and it's a grotesque gary matter. 117 00:07:04,640 --> 00:07:07,200 Speaker 2: And by the way, I'm quite confident if they could 118 00:07:07,200 --> 00:07:10,560 Speaker 2: have drawn at eleven zero, they would have you know, 119 00:07:10,600 --> 00:07:16,040 Speaker 2: that there are five districts that slice through northern Virginia 120 00:07:16,120 --> 00:07:18,320 Speaker 2: to get all the liberals that work in the federal government. 121 00:07:18,600 --> 00:07:21,320 Speaker 2: And they basically like take a slice of liberals from 122 00:07:21,360 --> 00:07:25,160 Speaker 2: northern Virginia and then stick it with rural Virginia's to 123 00:07:25,280 --> 00:07:27,560 Speaker 2: rob the votes of the rest of the state. That 124 00:07:28,680 --> 00:07:29,040 Speaker 2: is ritter. 125 00:07:29,800 --> 00:07:32,240 Speaker 1: Now, if you want to hear the rest of this conversation, 126 00:07:32,440 --> 00:07:34,760 Speaker 1: you can go back and listen to the full podcast 127 00:07:34,880 --> 00:07:39,720 Speaker 1: from earlier this week. Now onto story number two. There's 128 00:07:39,760 --> 00:07:42,680 Speaker 1: also an added benefit that we've seen, and there was 129 00:07:42,720 --> 00:07:44,800 Speaker 1: a lot of people that were skeptical, that were nervous, 130 00:07:45,280 --> 00:07:48,560 Speaker 1: and that is how much money we've collected through these tariffs. 131 00:07:49,080 --> 00:07:51,400 Speaker 1: That has been also I think one of those like 132 00:07:51,800 --> 00:07:54,120 Speaker 1: X factors of this as well, because as the president 133 00:07:54,200 --> 00:07:57,520 Speaker 1: was playing this high stakes game of chicken in essence 134 00:07:57,560 --> 00:08:00,720 Speaker 1: and we keep winning, we were also electing an awful 135 00:08:00,760 --> 00:08:02,760 Speaker 1: lot of money. Yeah, that was one of the upsides 136 00:08:02,760 --> 00:08:03,440 Speaker 1: of this as well. 137 00:08:04,440 --> 00:08:07,000 Speaker 2: Unquestionably one hundred and thirty three billion dollars has come 138 00:08:07,040 --> 00:08:09,600 Speaker 2: in already. And let's do a little bit of a 139 00:08:09,600 --> 00:08:12,280 Speaker 2: breakdown of the oral argument. So at the oral argument, 140 00:08:12,440 --> 00:08:15,760 Speaker 2: John Sower, who is the US Solicitor General. He argued 141 00:08:15,760 --> 00:08:19,520 Speaker 2: for the United States. Neil Catchall argued for the plaintiffs, 142 00:08:19,560 --> 00:08:22,800 Speaker 2: the small businesses. Now I know Neil very well. Neil 143 00:08:23,600 --> 00:08:28,520 Speaker 2: was Solicitor General under Obama. Neil clerked at the Supreme 144 00:08:28,560 --> 00:08:30,120 Speaker 2: Court at the same time I did so when I 145 00:08:30,160 --> 00:08:33,520 Speaker 2: was clerky for Chief Justice Renquist. Neil was clerky for 146 00:08:33,559 --> 00:08:36,200 Speaker 2: Stephen Bryer. So we're friends. We've known each other a 147 00:08:36,200 --> 00:08:42,000 Speaker 2: long time. In fact, in two thousand, during the two 148 00:08:42,040 --> 00:08:45,199 Speaker 2: thousand election between George W. Bush and and Al Gore, 149 00:08:46,160 --> 00:08:48,920 Speaker 2: I was part of the litigation team representing Bush and 150 00:08:48,920 --> 00:08:52,360 Speaker 2: Bush versus Gore. Neil was part of the litigation team 151 00:08:52,400 --> 00:08:55,480 Speaker 2: representing al Gore. And we're buddies. We're friends. So we 152 00:08:55,520 --> 00:08:57,560 Speaker 2: would call each other late at night and we were like, 153 00:08:58,040 --> 00:09:01,720 Speaker 2: what kind of ridiculous argument you're making? This is stupid, 154 00:09:01,800 --> 00:09:04,680 Speaker 2: I can't believe you're saying this. And it's a little 155 00:09:04,679 --> 00:09:06,680 Speaker 2: bit just friends giving each other a hard time. And 156 00:09:06,760 --> 00:09:09,200 Speaker 2: we actually had a wager Neil Neil and I did 157 00:09:09,880 --> 00:09:12,679 Speaker 2: on the outcome. I said, look, Bush is gonna prevail. 158 00:09:12,800 --> 00:09:16,240 Speaker 2: We're gonna win. He said, no, Gore's gonna prevail. Well, 159 00:09:16,400 --> 00:09:20,760 Speaker 2: obviously I won that wager, and the wager was dinner, 160 00:09:22,240 --> 00:09:24,480 Speaker 2: and so Neil had to take me out to dinner. 161 00:09:24,480 --> 00:09:26,719 Speaker 2: But you're gonna like this, Ben, do you know what 162 00:09:26,760 --> 00:09:29,280 Speaker 2: Neil did to sort of exact his revenge as he 163 00:09:29,360 --> 00:09:30,360 Speaker 2: was paying off the wager. 164 00:09:31,080 --> 00:09:32,400 Speaker 1: I cannot wait to hear this. 165 00:09:33,040 --> 00:09:35,079 Speaker 2: He took me to a vegetarian restaurant. 166 00:09:36,760 --> 00:09:39,320 Speaker 1: Yeah, if you've ever had dinner with you, that's like 167 00:09:39,400 --> 00:09:42,280 Speaker 1: taking me to a vegetarian restaurant. That's like the worst 168 00:09:42,280 --> 00:09:45,120 Speaker 1: decision ever. So did you what did you even order? 169 00:09:45,480 --> 00:09:47,960 Speaker 2: I don't remember. I have vegetables because they didn't have 170 00:09:47,960 --> 00:09:51,560 Speaker 2: any meat. I'm a carnivore. But I kinda laughed. I 171 00:09:51,640 --> 00:09:54,720 Speaker 2: was like, all right, Neil well played Okay. So Neil 172 00:09:54,840 --> 00:09:58,200 Speaker 2: is a very experienced, very capable Supring Court lawyer. So 173 00:09:58,320 --> 00:10:00,839 Speaker 2: is John Sower. So you had two excellent advocates going 174 00:10:00,880 --> 00:10:05,800 Speaker 2: at it. Let's take Chief Justice Roberts. Chief Justice Roberts 175 00:10:06,760 --> 00:10:11,760 Speaker 2: repeatedly tried to reframe the case away from foreign affairs 176 00:10:11,760 --> 00:10:15,720 Speaker 2: and towards taxation of Americans. So, for example, Chief Justice 177 00:10:15,760 --> 00:10:20,280 Speaker 2: Roberts asked, he said, tariffs and dealings with foreign powers. Yes, 178 00:10:21,000 --> 00:10:23,840 Speaker 2: but the vehicle is the imposition of taxes on Americans 179 00:10:23,840 --> 00:10:27,360 Speaker 2: and that has always been the core power of Congress. 180 00:10:28,160 --> 00:10:31,040 Speaker 2: And John Sower tried to press back on behalf of 181 00:10:31,080 --> 00:10:36,920 Speaker 2: the Trump administration, and Roberts responded, well, who pays the tariff? 182 00:10:37,760 --> 00:10:41,480 Speaker 2: If a tariff is imposed on automobiles, who pays them? 183 00:10:41,600 --> 00:10:44,679 Speaker 2: And the answers I said before is consumers pay some 184 00:10:44,720 --> 00:10:46,839 Speaker 2: of them and the foreign producer pays some of them. 185 00:10:47,559 --> 00:10:52,600 Speaker 2: Roberts went on and he highlighted the structural collision between 186 00:10:52,640 --> 00:10:58,720 Speaker 2: the executive foreign affairs power and Congress's taxing authority. Roberts said, quote, 187 00:11:00,000 --> 00:11:03,880 Speaker 2: I have the president's foreign affairs power Trump that basic 188 00:11:03,920 --> 00:11:09,240 Speaker 2: power of Congress seems to me at least to neutralize 189 00:11:09,280 --> 00:11:13,079 Speaker 2: between the two powers, the executive power and the legislative power. 190 00:11:13,280 --> 00:11:16,360 Speaker 2: And then he said, yes, of course tariffs and dealings 191 00:11:16,400 --> 00:11:20,440 Speaker 2: with foreign powers, but the vehicle is the imposition of 192 00:11:20,520 --> 00:11:25,720 Speaker 2: taxes on Americans. Justice Kagan, so, Justice Kagan is the 193 00:11:25,760 --> 00:11:28,360 Speaker 2: smartest of the liberal justices on the Court by far. 194 00:11:28,440 --> 00:11:30,959 Speaker 2: I know Justice Kagan well, she was the dean of 195 00:11:31,000 --> 00:11:35,040 Speaker 2: the Harvard Law School. She was the US Solicitor General also, 196 00:11:35,520 --> 00:11:39,880 Speaker 2: and she's a very very smart liberal lawyer and judge. 197 00:11:40,960 --> 00:11:43,800 Speaker 2: What Justice Kagan tried to do is frame this all 198 00:11:43,840 --> 00:11:49,240 Speaker 2: within the non delegation doctrine. So Justice Kagan said about 199 00:11:49,240 --> 00:11:52,520 Speaker 2: the taxing power, she said, quote but not with respect 200 00:11:52,520 --> 00:11:56,920 Speaker 2: to tariffs, not with respect to quintessential taxing powers, which 201 00:11:56,960 --> 00:12:01,400 Speaker 2: are given by the Constitution to Congress. And she framed 202 00:12:01,400 --> 00:12:06,120 Speaker 2: the case through the delegation doctrine, saying, quote in consumers' 203 00:12:06,200 --> 00:12:08,360 Speaker 2: research just last year, which is a case the Supreme 204 00:12:08,360 --> 00:12:12,439 Speaker 2: Court just decided, we had a tax before us. If 205 00:12:12,480 --> 00:12:15,760 Speaker 2: there's no ceiling on this tax, we sort of assumed 206 00:12:15,840 --> 00:12:19,319 Speaker 2: if there was no ceiling, it would raise a delegation 207 00:12:19,520 --> 00:12:24,520 Speaker 2: power problem. And then she applied that logic to AEPA. 208 00:12:24,880 --> 00:12:28,040 Speaker 2: She said, how does your argument fit with the idea 209 00:12:28,120 --> 00:12:30,640 Speaker 2: that a tax with no sealing, a tax that can 210 00:12:30,679 --> 00:12:35,600 Speaker 2: be anything the president wants, would raise a pretty deep 211 00:12:35,679 --> 00:12:41,559 Speaker 2: delegation problem. And she rejected the government's argument to relabel tariffs. 212 00:12:41,559 --> 00:12:44,000 Speaker 2: She said, no, not with respect to tariff's, not with 213 00:12:44,080 --> 00:12:48,160 Speaker 2: respect to quintessential taxing powers. Now understand what Justice Kagan 214 00:12:48,280 --> 00:12:51,720 Speaker 2: is doing. The non delegation doctrine is a very important 215 00:12:52,320 --> 00:12:58,079 Speaker 2: constitutional limitation on Congress giving too much power to the executive. 216 00:12:58,440 --> 00:13:01,040 Speaker 2: It is also something conservad what care a great deal 217 00:13:01,080 --> 00:13:04,400 Speaker 2: about I think Justice Kagan, Justice Kagan, the three Liberals 218 00:13:04,440 --> 00:13:07,040 Speaker 2: are going to vote against Trump no matter what, in 219 00:13:07,080 --> 00:13:10,800 Speaker 2: any circumstance. So Kagan is a no. But she's trying 220 00:13:10,880 --> 00:13:13,960 Speaker 2: in a very savvy way to argue it in a 221 00:13:14,000 --> 00:13:17,880 Speaker 2: way that will appeal to Justice Gorsich, Chief Justice Roberts, 222 00:13:19,280 --> 00:13:22,360 Speaker 2: or Justice Barrett. She's trying to frame it in terms 223 00:13:22,400 --> 00:13:26,400 Speaker 2: of Conservative principles. Now, Justice Gorsic, if you look at 224 00:13:26,400 --> 00:13:31,880 Speaker 2: his questions, his question showed a significant degree of skepticism 225 00:13:33,080 --> 00:13:36,960 Speaker 2: to the administration's position, and in particular focusing on the 226 00:13:37,000 --> 00:13:41,200 Speaker 2: Major Questions doctrine. Again, the Major's Questions doctrine is a 227 00:13:41,400 --> 00:13:45,880 Speaker 2: big conservative principle that limits the power of the executive branch. 228 00:13:45,920 --> 00:13:50,000 Speaker 2: It's really important. So Gorsuch asked, what is the limiting 229 00:13:50,040 --> 00:13:56,680 Speaker 2: principle here? And he asked further, if regulate importation includes tariffs, 230 00:13:57,559 --> 00:14:01,520 Speaker 2: what stops the president from imposing them for any asserted 231 00:14:01,600 --> 00:14:06,200 Speaker 2: foreign threat? He asked some hypotheticals. He said, could the 232 00:14:06,240 --> 00:14:11,319 Speaker 2: president impose massive tariffs to address something like climate change 233 00:14:11,880 --> 00:14:14,400 Speaker 2: if that's deemed a foreign threat? It's actually a good question, 234 00:14:15,200 --> 00:14:18,120 Speaker 2: And he pressed further. He said, once you accept that premise, 235 00:14:19,040 --> 00:14:25,280 Speaker 2: it's hard to see what's left of the limitation, Justice Barrett. 236 00:14:26,200 --> 00:14:30,240 Speaker 2: She went on to say, Congress knows how to grant 237 00:14:30,320 --> 00:14:36,680 Speaker 2: tariff authority explicitly, Why isn't clearer language required if Congress 238 00:14:36,720 --> 00:14:40,520 Speaker 2: meant to confer that power? And she pressed the US 239 00:14:40,600 --> 00:14:44,840 Speaker 2: Solicitor General. She said, if regulate imports includes tariffs of 240 00:14:44,840 --> 00:14:48,080 Speaker 2: any size, what work is left for the rest of 241 00:14:48,120 --> 00:14:52,680 Speaker 2: the statute to do? Where do we find the limiting 242 00:14:52,760 --> 00:14:58,800 Speaker 2: principle in the statute itself? So look, in terms of 243 00:14:58,840 --> 00:15:05,240 Speaker 2: the questioning, Roberts appeared skeptical, Gorstch appeared skeptical, and Barrett 244 00:15:05,640 --> 00:15:09,680 Speaker 2: appeared skeptical. So on the conservative side, the justice that 245 00:15:09,680 --> 00:15:14,640 Speaker 2: seemed most receptive was Brett Kavanaugh. And Brett Kavanaugh said 246 00:15:15,320 --> 00:15:19,360 Speaker 2: the Court has historically been very comfortable with very broad 247 00:15:19,440 --> 00:15:23,600 Speaker 2: delegations in the foreign affairs context. So he framed it 248 00:15:23,640 --> 00:15:26,840 Speaker 2: in terms of look, the president has enormous flexibility when 249 00:15:26,880 --> 00:15:31,640 Speaker 2: it comes to foreign affairs. Justice Kavanaugh said in one 250 00:15:31,680 --> 00:15:34,960 Speaker 2: of his opinions that the non delegation concerns have less 251 00:15:35,160 --> 00:15:39,560 Speaker 2: force where Congress is empowering the president and foreign affairs, 252 00:15:40,480 --> 00:15:45,520 Speaker 2: and Justice Kavanaugh focused on the historical practice, said there's 253 00:15:45,560 --> 00:15:50,160 Speaker 2: a long tradition of broad delegations over foreign commerce going 254 00:15:50,200 --> 00:15:56,000 Speaker 2: back to the founding, and he engaged the Solicitor General seriously. 255 00:15:56,040 --> 00:15:59,400 Speaker 2: He said, that's consistent with cases like Chicago and Southern 256 00:15:59,400 --> 00:16:03,680 Speaker 2: Airlines and heard us right, I think Kavanaugh is going 257 00:16:03,720 --> 00:16:06,480 Speaker 2: to be a likely vote to uphold the tariff authority, 258 00:16:08,200 --> 00:16:14,680 Speaker 2: and so that argument was significant. Now, Justice Thomas. Justice 259 00:16:14,720 --> 00:16:18,120 Speaker 2: Thomas historically asked very few questions that was true here, 260 00:16:19,160 --> 00:16:23,000 Speaker 2: but his questions were focused on history and the original 261 00:16:23,120 --> 00:16:28,200 Speaker 2: understanding of the Constitution. So Justice Thomas asked, historically, weren't 262 00:16:28,240 --> 00:16:32,840 Speaker 2: tariffs one of the primary ways Congress regulated foreign commerce? 263 00:16:34,120 --> 00:16:35,600 Speaker 2: And he went back to that. He said, at the 264 00:16:35,600 --> 00:16:39,680 Speaker 2: founding there was a sharp distinction. Was there a sharp 265 00:16:39,720 --> 00:16:45,640 Speaker 2: distinction between regulating imports and imposing duties on them? So 266 00:16:45,720 --> 00:16:47,880 Speaker 2: he was very much focused on what the practice of 267 00:16:47,880 --> 00:16:51,000 Speaker 2: the country has been from the founding. He also asked, 268 00:16:51,840 --> 00:16:57,040 Speaker 2: if tariffs were understood as tools of trade regulation, why 269 00:16:57,080 --> 00:17:01,120 Speaker 2: wouldn't the power to regulate foreign commerce them? Very good question, 270 00:17:02,400 --> 00:17:06,560 Speaker 2: And when it came to non delegate, the non delegation doctrine, 271 00:17:06,600 --> 00:17:11,760 Speaker 2: he said the following quote, non delegation is a modern doctrine. 272 00:17:12,640 --> 00:17:16,439 Speaker 2: What evidence do we have that Congress historically could not 273 00:17:16,720 --> 00:17:21,760 Speaker 2: confer this kind of authority in matters of foreign commerce. 274 00:17:22,720 --> 00:17:26,919 Speaker 2: Justice Thomas's question suggests he is very likely to vote 275 00:17:27,480 --> 00:17:31,800 Speaker 2: in favor of the president's tariff authority. And then let's 276 00:17:31,800 --> 00:17:41,240 Speaker 2: focus on Justice Alito. Justice Alito was really focused on workability, remedies, 277 00:17:41,240 --> 00:17:46,280 Speaker 2: and consequences, so he said he was asking about practicality. 278 00:17:47,160 --> 00:17:51,639 Speaker 2: He said, if we accept your position, what happens to 279 00:17:51,640 --> 00:17:56,359 Speaker 2: all the tariffs that have already been collected? He also highlighted, 280 00:17:56,480 --> 00:17:58,199 Speaker 2: and I think this is critical. This may be the 281 00:17:58,240 --> 00:18:03,040 Speaker 2: most important question asked. There are enormous reliance interest here, 282 00:18:03,720 --> 00:18:06,679 Speaker 2: both for the government and for private actors who have 283 00:18:06,880 --> 00:18:11,320 Speaker 2: ordered their affairs around these teriffs. And he questions the plaintiffs. 284 00:18:11,359 --> 00:18:14,600 Speaker 2: He said, is your position that coomass always use the 285 00:18:14,640 --> 00:18:20,399 Speaker 2: word tariff expressly even in statutes dealing with foreign emergencies? 286 00:18:20,440 --> 00:18:23,840 Speaker 2: That doesn't sound very plausible, and he pressed whether the 287 00:18:23,880 --> 00:18:27,120 Speaker 2: case could be resolved narrowly. He said, why isn't this 288 00:18:27,119 --> 00:18:30,520 Speaker 2: something that can be handled through a limiting construction rather 289 00:18:30,560 --> 00:18:33,600 Speaker 2: than a broad holding that calls into question a lot 290 00:18:33,680 --> 00:18:39,479 Speaker 2: of past practice. I actually think Justice Alitos questioning is 291 00:18:39,560 --> 00:18:44,359 Speaker 2: going to frame what the Court does. Now we have, 292 00:18:44,520 --> 00:18:46,679 Speaker 2: in a lot of big cases of six' three. Divide 293 00:18:46,720 --> 00:18:48,879 Speaker 2: you have the three liberals who vote Against trump on, 294 00:18:48,920 --> 00:18:53,639 Speaker 2: everything and you have six justices that are on the 295 00:18:53,680 --> 00:18:57,119 Speaker 2: conservative side of the, aisle although they. Vary i'm going 296 00:18:57,200 --> 00:18:59,119 Speaker 2: to predict we're going to lose. ONE i don't know, 297 00:18:59,160 --> 00:19:02,959 Speaker 2: which BUT i think we will lose in all likelihood 298 00:19:03,080 --> 00:19:08,680 Speaker 2: Either gorsic or bear, it even Though Chief Justice roberts 299 00:19:10,000 --> 00:19:12,399 Speaker 2: was skeptical at oral. Argument i'm going to predict The 300 00:19:12,480 --> 00:19:15,959 Speaker 2: Chief Justice roberts votes to uphold the, tariffs And i'm 301 00:19:16,000 --> 00:19:17,560 Speaker 2: going to predict that he writes the majority. 302 00:19:17,640 --> 00:19:23,720 Speaker 1: Opinion and, wow the reasons bold, predictions by the, Way 303 00:19:23,760 --> 00:19:24,320 Speaker 1: this makes it. 304 00:19:24,359 --> 00:19:27,800 Speaker 2: Fun and, LOOK i have no insight. INFORMATION i could 305 00:19:27,800 --> 00:19:31,320 Speaker 2: be totally, wrong BUT i do know the court quite. 306 00:19:31,359 --> 00:19:33,760 Speaker 2: WELL i did spend my entire career BEFORE i was 307 00:19:33,800 --> 00:19:38,040 Speaker 2: in The senate was arguing before The. Court and, Look 308 00:19:38,280 --> 00:19:42,200 Speaker 2: roberts in particular is an, institutionalist AND i actually think 309 00:19:42,280 --> 00:19:47,239 Speaker 2: this case is quite similar to The obamacare. Case The 310 00:19:47,280 --> 00:19:52,119 Speaker 2: obamacare case during The obama presidency was a challenge To, 311 00:19:52,160 --> 00:19:57,720 Speaker 2: obamacare and Ultimately Chief Justice roberts Upheld, obamacare AND i 312 00:19:57,760 --> 00:20:00,399 Speaker 2: think he did so because he thought to strike it 313 00:20:00,480 --> 00:20:05,560 Speaker 2: down would be a massive, change would wreak, chaos and 314 00:20:05,600 --> 00:20:08,760 Speaker 2: it would question the legitimacy of the. Court it would 315 00:20:08,800 --> 00:20:10,800 Speaker 2: question the authority of the. Court SO i think he 316 00:20:10,840 --> 00:20:15,360 Speaker 2: made an institutionalist, decision let's not disrupt the status. QUO 317 00:20:16,320 --> 00:20:19,960 Speaker 2: i think that same instinct here is going to lead 318 00:20:20,040 --> 00:20:24,840 Speaker 2: him to, say these tariffs have been, Imposed they've been 319 00:20:24,920 --> 00:20:28,400 Speaker 2: the heart of the president's foreign policy and economic, policy 320 00:20:28,880 --> 00:20:31,199 Speaker 2: and so we're not going to set them. Aside that 321 00:20:31,359 --> 00:20:34,000 Speaker 2: is my. Prediction and you will end up with a 322 00:20:34,040 --> 00:20:37,520 Speaker 2: majority that consists Of Chief Justice roberts writing the majority, 323 00:20:37,560 --> 00:20:45,359 Speaker 2: Opinion thomas And, alito And, cavanaugh and Either barrett or 324 00:20:45,400 --> 00:20:48,520 Speaker 2: gorsicch and the dissenters will be the three liberals and 325 00:20:48,560 --> 00:20:51,240 Speaker 2: either Bear it Or. Gorsich that's my. Prediction we'll see what. 326 00:20:51,240 --> 00:20:52,200 Speaker 2: Happens as. 327 00:20:52,280 --> 00:20:54,040 Speaker 1: Before if you want to hear the rest of this 328 00:20:54,080 --> 00:20:57,040 Speaker 1: conversation on this, topic you can go back and down 329 00:20:57,240 --> 00:20:59,720 Speaker 1: the podcast from earlier this week to hear the entire. 330 00:20:59,760 --> 00:21:03,359 Speaker 1: THING i want to get back to the big story 331 00:21:03,440 --> 00:21:05,840 Speaker 1: number three of the. Week you may have. Missed. Senator 332 00:21:05,960 --> 00:21:09,600 Speaker 1: let's talk about a big piece of legislation that a 333 00:21:09,680 --> 00:21:12,879 Speaker 1: lot of people are very focused on this. COUNTRY a 334 00:21:12,920 --> 00:21:17,199 Speaker 1: lot of voters voted on this issue, specifically and it 335 00:21:17,280 --> 00:21:20,480 Speaker 1: deals with The Save America. Act and what has happened this, 336 00:21:20,520 --> 00:21:21,919 Speaker 1: week let's give an update to. 337 00:21:21,960 --> 00:21:25,520 Speaker 2: That, well The house Of representatives passed The Save America. 338 00:21:25,600 --> 00:21:29,120 Speaker 2: Act passed it with only One democrat. Vote Every democrat 339 00:21:29,160 --> 00:21:32,840 Speaker 2: but one voted against. It The Save America act requires 340 00:21:32,880 --> 00:21:35,119 Speaker 2: proof OF us citizenship to register to, vote and it 341 00:21:35,119 --> 00:21:37,320 Speaker 2: requires a PHOTO id to. Vote it's a very, simple, 342 00:21:37,400 --> 00:21:40,800 Speaker 2: straightforward common sense. Bill it's now gone over to The. 343 00:21:40,840 --> 00:21:45,040 Speaker 2: SENATE i am leading the, charge pressing hard to get 344 00:21:45,080 --> 00:21:47,399 Speaker 2: The senate to take it. Up to use every procedural 345 00:21:47,440 --> 00:21:50,280 Speaker 2: tool we have to force The senate to vote on 346 00:21:50,320 --> 00:21:52,800 Speaker 2: it and pass. It this WEEK i put out a 347 00:21:52,880 --> 00:21:57,200 Speaker 2: video explaining the issues, concisely and the video went. Viral 348 00:21:57,280 --> 00:22:00,040 Speaker 2: it has over a million. Views give a listen and 349 00:22:00,080 --> 00:22:03,320 Speaker 2: give a. Watch The house just passed The Save America. 350 00:22:03,359 --> 00:22:06,680 Speaker 2: Act The senate needs to take it up and pass. 351 00:22:06,720 --> 00:22:09,920 Speaker 2: It i'm an original sponsor of The Save America. Act 352 00:22:09,960 --> 00:22:13,879 Speaker 2: this is common sense. Legislation this is legislation that requires 353 00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:17,080 Speaker 2: proof that you're An american citizen in order to register to, 354 00:22:17,119 --> 00:22:21,199 Speaker 2: vote and it requires a PHOTO id to go in and. 355 00:22:21,280 --> 00:22:25,480 Speaker 2: Vote texas already requires a PHOTO. Id it's an, easy 356 00:22:25,640 --> 00:22:29,240 Speaker 2: common sense step to avoid voter. Fraud the vast majority 357 00:22:29,240 --> 00:22:34,280 Speaker 2: Of americans support PHOTO, id and Yet Senate democrats are 358 00:22:34,280 --> 00:22:37,240 Speaker 2: doing everything they can to block it because they want 359 00:22:37,640 --> 00:22:41,320 Speaker 2: more voter. Fraud how do we take it up and 360 00:22:41,359 --> 00:22:43,480 Speaker 2: pass it in The? Senate WHAT i am urging my 361 00:22:43,600 --> 00:22:47,199 Speaker 2: colleagues is that we should use every procedural tool we 362 00:22:47,400 --> 00:22:52,320 Speaker 2: have to defeat A democrat, filibuster and in, particular we 363 00:22:52,400 --> 00:22:56,840 Speaker 2: should mook what's called the zombie. Filibuster under The senate, 364 00:22:56,920 --> 00:23:00,320 Speaker 2: rules everyone has a right to fillibus or to talk 365 00:23:00,440 --> 00:23:03,480 Speaker 2: as long as they. Want we should require them to 366 00:23:03,680 --> 00:23:06,600 Speaker 2: talk as long as they can go back to an 367 00:23:06,640 --> 00:23:11,440 Speaker 2: old style talking filibuster Like Jimmy stewart, did and Mister 368 00:23:11,480 --> 00:23:15,280 Speaker 2: smith goes To washington LIKE i did in twenty thirteen 369 00:23:15,359 --> 00:23:17,600 Speaker 2: for twenty one hours on the floor of The. Senate 370 00:23:18,080 --> 00:23:21,560 Speaker 2: we should use the procedural rules to force The democrats 371 00:23:21,560 --> 00:23:24,840 Speaker 2: to do a talking filibuster and force them to keep 372 00:23:24,880 --> 00:23:28,000 Speaker 2: talking and talking and, talking and when they can't talk, 373 00:23:28,040 --> 00:23:32,080 Speaker 2: anymore then we should pass The Save America. Act that's 374 00:23:32,119 --> 00:23:34,800 Speaker 2: What i'm urging my colleagues to. Do it's What President 375 00:23:34,840 --> 00:23:37,160 Speaker 2: trump wants us to, do and it's WHAT i hope 376 00:23:37,200 --> 00:23:38,000 Speaker 2: and pray we. 377 00:23:38,080 --> 00:23:42,719 Speaker 1: Accomplish senator you said, IT i think perfectly, there and 378 00:23:42,880 --> 00:23:45,240 Speaker 1: explain a little bit more about what it would mean 379 00:23:45,280 --> 00:23:48,640 Speaker 1: to nuke the zombie filibuster so that we get more 380 00:23:48,720 --> 00:23:51,080 Speaker 1: context for, that so people to understand in essence what 381 00:23:51,119 --> 00:23:52,360 Speaker 1: they would be advocating. 382 00:23:52,440 --> 00:23:55,320 Speaker 2: For, well for most of the history of The, senate 383 00:23:56,440 --> 00:23:59,399 Speaker 2: the filibuster involved, talking involves standing up and talking and 384 00:23:59,440 --> 00:24:04,439 Speaker 2: talking and, talk, Talking and in recent, decades The senate 385 00:24:04,520 --> 00:24:07,480 Speaker 2: is allowed simply whoever is filibustering to say we're going to, 386 00:24:07,560 --> 00:24:10,200 Speaker 2: filibuster you cast a procedural vote and then you're done 387 00:24:10,240 --> 00:24:13,160 Speaker 2: and it's treated as. Blocked but we don't have to do. 388 00:24:13,240 --> 00:24:15,880 Speaker 2: That we can force them. That there is what's called 389 00:24:15,920 --> 00:24:20,040 Speaker 2: a two speech rule in The senate that limits every 390 00:24:20,080 --> 00:24:23,199 Speaker 2: member of The senate to two speeches on any legislative. 391 00:24:23,200 --> 00:24:25,919 Speaker 2: Topic and What i've been, advocating And Mike lee has been, 392 00:24:25,960 --> 00:24:29,680 Speaker 2: advocating And Rick scott has been, advocating And Ron johnson 393 00:24:29,680 --> 00:24:33,560 Speaker 2: has been, advocating is that we force them to give the, 394 00:24:33,600 --> 00:24:37,280 Speaker 2: speeches force them to, talk and when they're done, talking 395 00:24:37,400 --> 00:24:40,520 Speaker 2: then you can vote on. It but the thing is 396 00:24:40,680 --> 00:24:43,800 Speaker 2: there's a price to that because they can fight, back 397 00:24:43,840 --> 00:24:46,639 Speaker 2: and in, particular they can do what's called suggest the 398 00:24:46,680 --> 00:24:49,600 Speaker 2: absence of a. Quorum that means we have to be 399 00:24:49,640 --> 00:24:53,159 Speaker 2: able to produce fifty senators on the. Floor they're fifty 400 00:24:53,160 --> 00:24:56,000 Speaker 2: three of. Us that means we need fifty. Bodies it 401 00:24:56,040 --> 00:24:59,000 Speaker 2: would entail very long. Hours it would entail all, nighters 402 00:24:59,040 --> 00:25:01,440 Speaker 2: it would entail fish of us being willing to stand. 403 00:25:01,440 --> 00:25:04,600 Speaker 2: Together it's not clear right now that we have Fifty 404 00:25:04,640 --> 00:25:06,760 Speaker 2: republicans willing to do. That i'm trying to make the 405 00:25:06,800 --> 00:25:11,280 Speaker 2: case this is a fight worth, fighting but it would 406 00:25:11,359 --> 00:25:15,080 Speaker 2: be a massive and Extended this could extend days or even. 407 00:25:15,160 --> 00:25:18,119 Speaker 2: Weeks BUT i think we should be fighting with everything we. 408 00:25:18,200 --> 00:25:20,560 Speaker 2: GOT i think this issue is important enough at merits, 409 00:25:20,600 --> 00:25:22,879 Speaker 2: fighting and So i'm trying to make that case to my. 410 00:25:22,960 --> 00:25:24,560 Speaker 2: Colleagues all, right let me ask you a. 411 00:25:24,680 --> 00:25:27,360 Speaker 1: Question if you nuke it the way that you described, 412 00:25:27,400 --> 00:25:29,520 Speaker 1: it is it just for this one issue and then 413 00:25:29,600 --> 00:25:32,000 Speaker 1: things go back to the regular order of? Business how 414 00:25:32,000 --> 00:25:36,160 Speaker 1: it works normal now or would that change it moving? 415 00:25:36,320 --> 00:25:38,200 Speaker 1: Forward explain, that. 416 00:25:39,119 --> 00:25:43,399 Speaker 2: So this is different from nuking the, Filibuster so nuking 417 00:25:43,440 --> 00:25:49,639 Speaker 2: the filibuster that phrase involves breaking The senate rules to 418 00:25:49,760 --> 00:25:53,159 Speaker 2: change The senate. Rules so what happens and we, saw for, 419 00:25:53,280 --> 00:26:00,560 Speaker 2: example The democrats nuked the filibuster for cabinet appointees and judicial. 420 00:26:00,600 --> 00:26:03,800 Speaker 2: Appointees and the way they did, it The senate rules 421 00:26:03,880 --> 00:26:06,040 Speaker 2: made it clear in the terms of The senate rules 422 00:26:06,600 --> 00:26:12,760 Speaker 2: that a nomination required sixty votes to go forward to 423 00:26:13,119 --> 00:26:18,240 Speaker 2: proceed to. It, however what happened Was Harry reid when 424 00:26:18,280 --> 00:26:21,600 Speaker 2: he Was majority. Leader any ruling of The chair can 425 00:26:21,640 --> 00:26:24,119 Speaker 2: be challenged on the floor of The, senate and fifty 426 00:26:24,160 --> 00:26:28,440 Speaker 2: one senators can overrule the ruling of The. Chair and 427 00:26:28,480 --> 00:26:31,399 Speaker 2: So Harry reid inquired of the chair what is the 428 00:26:31,480 --> 00:26:33,960 Speaker 2: rule and was told the rule is sixty. Senators and 429 00:26:33,960 --> 00:26:36,200 Speaker 2: then he, SAID i appeal the ruling of The, chair 430 00:26:36,560 --> 00:26:39,359 Speaker 2: and The democrats all voted party, line and when they did, 431 00:26:39,440 --> 00:26:43,560 Speaker 2: that that becomes a binding. Precedent so they broke the 432 00:26:43,640 --> 00:26:45,520 Speaker 2: rules of The senate to change the rules of The. 433 00:26:45,560 --> 00:26:49,960 Speaker 2: Senate it is still in The senate rules that a 434 00:26:50,000 --> 00:26:52,960 Speaker 2: filibuster can be used to stop. Legislation AND i will 435 00:26:53,000 --> 00:26:56,000 Speaker 2: say we have used. That republicans have used that to 436 00:26:56,040 --> 00:26:59,480 Speaker 2: stop terrible legislation from The. DEMOCRATS i think that's. 437 00:26:59,400 --> 00:27:01,879 Speaker 1: An important says valuable is the point that we like, 438 00:27:02,080 --> 00:27:04,080 Speaker 1: yes you, woman need to also understand it's very. 439 00:27:04,160 --> 00:27:09,360 Speaker 2: Valuable if The democrats had succeeded in nuking the filibuster 440 00:27:09,440 --> 00:27:11,800 Speaker 2: When Joe biden was, president when they had The house And, 441 00:27:11,880 --> 00:27:16,040 Speaker 2: senate they would have passed legislation number, one striking down 442 00:27:16,040 --> 00:27:18,080 Speaker 2: every PHOTO id law in the, country and striking down 443 00:27:18,080 --> 00:27:21,080 Speaker 2: every election integrity law in the. Country number, two MAKING 444 00:27:21,200 --> 00:27:24,400 Speaker 2: dc And Puerto rico both states and electing four New democrat. 445 00:27:24,480 --> 00:27:27,960 Speaker 2: Senators number three making every illegal alien In america A 446 00:27:28,080 --> 00:27:31,160 Speaker 2: us citizen and giving them immediate voting, rights which would, 447 00:27:31,160 --> 00:27:35,960 Speaker 2: have among other, things Turned texas bright blue. Instantaneously and number, 448 00:27:35,960 --> 00:27:38,000 Speaker 2: four they would have packed THE. U. S Supreme court 449 00:27:38,240 --> 00:27:41,760 Speaker 2: and added four left wing justices immediately to. IT i 450 00:27:41,800 --> 00:27:44,159 Speaker 2: think that would have BEEN i don't want to be, 451 00:27:44,240 --> 00:27:47,040 Speaker 2: hyperbolic BUT i think that would have been essentially the 452 00:27:47,119 --> 00:27:49,119 Speaker 2: end of the. Republic there's no way to turn that 453 00:27:49,200 --> 00:27:49,960 Speaker 2: around if they do. 454 00:27:50,040 --> 00:27:53,240 Speaker 1: That and so how do you put that back In Pandora's, 455 00:27:53,280 --> 00:27:54,680 Speaker 1: like once that box, opened it's came. 456 00:27:54,720 --> 00:27:59,960 Speaker 2: Over it's that agenda noticed The democrats top policy agenda 457 00:28:00,560 --> 00:28:03,040 Speaker 2: is all to rig the game and make it impossible 458 00:28:03,080 --> 00:28:06,040 Speaker 2: to ever Defeat. Democrats, again there's nothing they value more 459 00:28:06,080 --> 00:28:09,720 Speaker 2: than staying in. Power that's what they wanted to. Do 460 00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:13,719 Speaker 2: this is not nuking the filibuster in terms of changing 461 00:28:13,720 --> 00:28:16,679 Speaker 2: The senate. Rules this is using the Existing senate rules 462 00:28:17,200 --> 00:28:20,240 Speaker 2: and just enforcing, them making them stand up and. Speak 463 00:28:20,280 --> 00:28:22,400 Speaker 2: and one of the advantages of it is if they're 464 00:28:22,480 --> 00:28:25,440 Speaker 2: standing up and speaking for hours and hours on, end 465 00:28:25,520 --> 00:28:30,080 Speaker 2: trying to stop requiring proof OF us citizenship to register to, 466 00:28:30,160 --> 00:28:32,960 Speaker 2: vote trying to stop PHOTO. Id, look both of those 467 00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:38,600 Speaker 2: popular policies are incredibly. Popular seventy eighty percent Of americans 468 00:28:38,600 --> 00:28:41,120 Speaker 2: agree with PHOTO I d for, voting more than seventy 469 00:28:41,160 --> 00:28:43,440 Speaker 2: percent Of African americans agree with, it more than seventy 470 00:28:43,480 --> 00:28:47,320 Speaker 2: percent Of hispanics agree with, it more than seventy percent 471 00:28:47,400 --> 00:28:51,280 Speaker 2: Of democrat voters agree with. It and so this is 472 00:28:51,320 --> 00:28:53,560 Speaker 2: a fight we should be, having And i'm urging my. 473 00:28:53,640 --> 00:28:55,640 Speaker 2: Colleagues let's stand and fight for voter. 474 00:28:55,720 --> 00:28:59,520 Speaker 1: Integrity as, always thank you for listening to verdicts with 475 00:28:59,560 --> 00:29:02,160 Speaker 1: Centered Te, Cruise Ben ferguson with, you don't forget to 476 00:29:02,200 --> 00:29:04,200 Speaker 1: deal with my podcast and you can listen to my 477 00:29:04,240 --> 00:29:06,400 Speaker 1: podcasts every other day you're not listening To verdict or 478 00:29:06,480 --> 00:29:09,040 Speaker 1: each day when you listen To. Verdict, Afterwards i'd love 479 00:29:09,080 --> 00:29:11,760 Speaker 1: to have you as a listener to again The Ben ferguson, 480 00:29:11,800 --> 00:29:14,480 Speaker 1: podcasts and we will see you back here On monday. 481 00:29:14,480 --> 00:29:14,800 Speaker 2: Morning