Speaker 1: Welcome. It is verdict was Senator Ted Cruz ben Ferguson
Speaker 1: with you as always and Senators so you guys worked
Speaker 1: late into the evening. As I guess, the big guy
Speaker 1: in charge the Senate decided, let's cram some more bad
Speaker 1: bills down the throats of Americans while they're not paying
Speaker 1: attention on a Friday night.
Speaker 2: What all went down, Well, that's exactly right. We had
Speaker 2: a late night voting session Friday night went till two
Speaker 2: in the morning, and it was really astonishing. The Democrats
Speaker 2: doubled down on open borders, they doubled down on weakness
Speaker 2: towards Iran, they doubled down on anti Israel bias, they
Speaker 2: doubled down on extremism. These Dems have decided they know
Speaker 2: which side their bread is buttered, and it is the
Speaker 2: open border, radical leftist view. And we saw vote after
Speaker 2: vote after vote that every Democrat, like Lemmings, jumped off
Speaker 2: the cliff of these extreme positions, including a whole bunch
Speaker 2: of Democrats who are on the ballot in November. Those
Speaker 2: vote votes Friday night are going to be front and
Speaker 2: center in every one of those races. Not only that,
Speaker 2: but we also have the state of Michigan. This is
Speaker 2: actually quite remarkable. The state of Michigan is offering you
Speaker 2: five hundred dollars to house an illegal alien in your home.
Speaker 2: This is the taxpayers of Michigan. This is their response
Speaker 2: to Biden's open borders is hey, five hundred bucks, and
Speaker 2: you too can have an illegal alien in your home.
Speaker 2: Just hope it doesn't have to be a criminal illegal alien.
Speaker 2: And finally, we're going to talk today about the Biden
Speaker 2: administration putting out written guidance in their National Intelligence Agency
Speaker 2: saying no longer refer to radical Islamic terrorism as well
Speaker 2: Islamic that that offends their politically correct sensitivities. And so
Speaker 2: if we can just remove any reference to Islam from
Speaker 2: Palestinian Islamic Jahad, from Jahad, from isis, from al Qaeda,
Speaker 2: just omit their motivation, that would be a lot better
Speaker 2: for them politically. If they could just have the entire
Speaker 2: intelligence agencies ignore what's actually going on.
Speaker 1: It is sad, but it's true. It's really there in writing,
Speaker 1: and we're going to go through all of it. Let
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Speaker 1: Center Usually you guys come back on Thursdays. That's kind
Speaker 1: of the normal working schedule for the Senate. All of
Speaker 1: a sudden, they throw a bunch of stuff into Friday
Speaker 1: that take the trash out day, so no one's paying attention.
Speaker 1: Everybody's off for the weekend, and you guys were voting
Speaker 1: late into the night. This had to also deal with
Speaker 1: the issue of a another possible government shut down. So
Speaker 1: how bad did the American people get screwed?
Speaker 2: Well? Very badly. What happened was Chuck Schumer was trying
Speaker 2: to ram through the trillion dollar plus massive omnibus government
Speaker 2: funding bill, and we were there all day Friday, and
Speaker 2: a lot of us, a lot of the Republicans opposed
Speaker 2: this bill, and we introduced a whole series of amendments,
Speaker 2: and we wanted votes on the amendments, and Schumer had
Speaker 2: a problem because the amendments we were seeking votes on
Speaker 2: are eminently reasonable, their common sense, they're overwhelmingly popular with
Speaker 2: the American people, and his Democrats that are on the
Speaker 2: ballot November were terrified of voting for these amendments. So
Speaker 2: we spent all day Friday just in paralysis because Schumer
Speaker 2: didn't know what to do, and Schumer didn't know what
Speaker 2: to do, and in particular, John Tester in Montana really
Speaker 2: really really didn't want to vote on these amendments. Chared
Speaker 2: Brown in Ohio really really really didn't want to vote
Speaker 2: on these amendments. Jackie Rosen and Nevada didn't want to
Speaker 2: vote on these amendments. Tammy Baldwin Wisconsin didn't want to
Speaker 2: vote on these amendments. Bob Casey in Pennsylvania didn't want
Speaker 2: to vote on these amendments. So we spent all day
Speaker 2: Friday just in limbo. I actually spent a good chunk
Speaker 2: of the day Friday playing basketball because we just had
Speaker 2: nothing else to do, so I played hoops while while
Speaker 2: Schumer and the Democrats trying to figure their stuff out. Finally,
Speaker 2: late at night Friday night, Schumer decides, all right, screw it,
Speaker 2: We're gonna take all the votes and I'm going to
Speaker 2: force all my members to cast every terrible vote they can.
Speaker 2: And you know what, We're so confident that the media
Speaker 2: is corrupt. They can cast these votes and no one
Speaker 2: will know. So let me walk through some of these votes,
Speaker 2: because it is astonishing. One of the very first votes
Speaker 2: was an amendment I had, and my amendment was very simple.
Speaker 2: My amendment would have barred the Biden administration from sending
Speaker 2: billions of dollars to Iran. Iran is led by the Ayatola,
Speaker 2: a radical, theocratic, genocidal aniac. The Biden administration has already
Speaker 2: flowed over one hundred billion dollars to Iran, but since then,
Speaker 2: Iran not only is the world leading states funder of terrorism,
Speaker 2: not only has launched over a hundred attack on US
Speaker 2: servicemen and women in the Middle East, but funded October seventh.
Speaker 2: They are the principal funder of Hamas. They've given over
Speaker 2: ninety percent of Hamas's funding. They're the principal funder of Hezbolah.
Speaker 2: So in the wake of October seventh, Israel is the
Speaker 2: middle of war, and I stood up and said, it's
Speaker 2: real simple. If you stand with Israel, if you stand
Speaker 2: with America against Iran. This ought to be a very
Speaker 2: simple vote. Don't send billions of dollars to Iran. Right
Speaker 2: now the Biden administration is trying to send another ten
Speaker 2: billion dollars to Iran. This was a straight up vote.
Speaker 2: We ended up voting. Every single Demo Democrat voted no,
Speaker 2: actually except one Bob Menendez. At the very end, he
Speaker 2: sat there silent. He sat there silent, he was glowering,
Speaker 2: and then he voted yes. Now, look, Menendez is pretty
Speaker 2: mad at his own party. He's facing indictment, he's facing prosecution.
Speaker 2: His party has basically thrown him out of the party.
Speaker 2: He might run as an independent in the state of
Speaker 2: New Jersey. He has long been the best Democrat when
Speaker 2: it comes to standing up to Iran compared to the others.
Speaker 2: And so his vote, a component of Bob's vote, I think,
Speaker 2: was a screw you to Schumer and the rest of
Speaker 2: the Democrat Party. But that being said, it is astonished
Speaker 2: that Tester and Brown and Casey and Rosen, they all
Speaker 2: cast their vote and said, yep, we're all four sending
Speaker 2: billions of dollars to the Ayahtola who chance death to
Speaker 2: America and death to Israel, even while he's funding Hamas'
Speaker 2: death squads.
Speaker 1: Right now, you look at the fight here and it
Speaker 1: is shot that you guys are even having to have
Speaker 1: this battle, even have these types of fights, and yet
Speaker 1: the American people seem to lose yet again. How do
Speaker 1: Democrats keep getting away with this? And I'm saying that
Speaker 1: in a real Standpoin, Is it because the media doesn't
Speaker 1: talk about what they're actually doing on a Friday night
Speaker 1: at midnight? Is that the main core thing that people
Speaker 1: don't even realize how bad they're getting screwed.
Speaker 2: Oh look, when it's late at night, most of the
Speaker 2: reporters are in bed, So most of the reporters weren't
Speaker 2: even there covering it. And it doesn't matter if they're
Speaker 2: awake or not. The media is broken. They do not
Speaker 2: view their role as actually reporting on news. They don't
Speaker 2: report both sides. They are advocates for the left wing
Speaker 2: of the Democrat Party. The media wants to send billions
Speaker 2: of dollars to Iran, so they're not going to tell
Speaker 2: you that every Democrat voter except Bob a nen Endez
Speaker 2: just voted to send billions of dollars to Iran. Let's
Speaker 2: walk through some of the rest of these votes, because
Speaker 2: these votes are actually astonishing usly bad. All right. Another
Speaker 2: one of the votes we had was a vote that
Speaker 2: was introduced by Ted Budd. This was a vote that said,
Speaker 2: we should deport illegal immigrants who have violently assaulted police officers.
Speaker 2: Very simple question. You have an illegal immigrant if he
Speaker 2: violently assaults a cop, for example, the six illegal immigrants
Speaker 2: in New York who beat up to New York cops.
Speaker 2: Once you beat up a cop, you should be deported.
Speaker 2: This ought to be easy. Yeah, Like to be honest,
Speaker 2: grab one hundred people in any state in America. Don't
Speaker 2: have to be a red state, make it a purple state,
Speaker 2: make it a blue state. Ask one hundred people, if
Speaker 2: an illegal immigrant beats up a cop, should they be deported?
Speaker 2: An overwhelming majority will say hell yes, anywhere you go. Well,
Speaker 2: Ted Bud teed this up. By the way, this was
Speaker 2: one of the amendments that had tester terrified, that had
Speaker 2: Shared Brown terrified, that that had Bob Casey terrified. Well,
Speaker 2: you know what the vote was. Every single Democrat voted no.
Speaker 2: They are now on record against deporting illegal aliens who
Speaker 2: violently assault police officers.
Speaker 1: It's not just that. Let's talk about the importing of
Speaker 1: illegal immigrants. And this was one of the votes that
Speaker 1: you guys had to deal with, and it was it
Speaker 1: was something that was brought up by Bill Haggerty, one
Speaker 1: of your colleagues out of Tennessee, that was like, hey,
Speaker 1: can we all at least agree that we shouldn't be
Speaker 1: spinning the American taxpayers dollars to import on chartered flights
Speaker 1: three hundred and twenty thousand and twenty twenty three that
Speaker 1: we know of illegal immigrants in America on top of
Speaker 1: the millions that have already come in, why are we
Speaker 1: importing them? And yet every Democrat voted against that as well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, look, that's exactly right. Bill Haggerty had motion to
Speaker 2: prohibit the Department of Homeland Security from using funds to quote, facilitate, provide,
Speaker 2: or purchase air transportation from a foreign country to the
Speaker 2: United States for an alien in order for such an
Speaker 2: alien to utilize the parole process. And this was target
Speaker 2: at the Biden administration having flown three hundred and twenty
Speaker 2: thousand illegal immigrants into America from Cuba, from Haiti, from Nicaragua,
Speaker 2: and from Venezuela. Now they did this in secret. They
Speaker 2: did this in the dark of night. We know they've
Speaker 2: flown over three hundred and twenty thousand illegal immigrants into
Speaker 2: this country to forty three different airports. But they will
Speaker 2: not tell us what airports they flew them to. They
Speaker 2: say it's a national security risk to tell us what
Speaker 2: airports they're flying these into. But we do know at
Speaker 2: least one of them, which is last week, a twenty
Speaker 2: six year old Haitian named Corey Alvarez, who entered under
Speaker 2: Biden's parole program, was arrested in Massachusetts for the rape
Speaker 2: of a fifteen year old disabled girl. That was last week. Now, look,
Speaker 2: I get Massachusetts as a bright blue liberal state, but
Speaker 2: even in Massachusetts, if you ask people, do you want
Speaker 2: Joe Biden flying illegal immigrants out of Haiti into Massachusetts,
Speaker 2: letting them go and by the way, one of them
Speaker 2: he just did just raped a fifteen year old disabled girl.
Speaker 2: Even in Massachusetts, the voters would say hell no. But
Speaker 2: we voted on it, and every single Democrat voted no,
Speaker 2: straight party line vote.
Speaker 1: So when you move forward with this and this, because
Speaker 1: I think going to come down to November. How much
Speaker 1: of this could come back to haunt the Democrats and
Speaker 1: what they just did the American people, or is this
Speaker 1: now just business as usual? And Democrats say, look at
Speaker 1: least our voters, A majority of them don't pay attention
Speaker 1: or agree with us, or just don't care. Is this
Speaker 1: the lowest level of I would also argue apathy you've
Speaker 1: ever seen in America, especially when there's so many issues
Speaker 1: like this that you just described. I mean, I would
Speaker 1: have never thought it would have been politically a reason
Speaker 1: to stand and band together for Democrats say, yes, we
Speaker 1: are in fact going to take millions and millions of
Speaker 1: dollars and we are going to fly I legal immigrants
Speaker 1: in the United States of America and some of them
Speaker 1: are doing these heinous and horrendous crimes, and yet we're
Speaker 1: still gonna stay lockstep with the president of United States
Speaker 1: of America in a presidential election year.
Speaker 2: To top all that off, well, I think they feel
Speaker 2: utterly unaccountable. They know that the media is broken. By
Speaker 2: the way, did you see the media covering any of this?
Speaker 2: Did you see any discussion of this on the six
Speaker 2: o'clock news with Sunday shows yesterday were the Sunday shows
Speaker 2: sitting around going what has happened to the Democrat Party?
Speaker 2: How do they vote for such crazy things?
Speaker 3: You know?
Speaker 2: What happened? Instead? Chuck Todd just about had a hysteric
Speaker 2: breakdown crying on Meet the Press because why because NBC
Speaker 2: hired Ronald McDaniel is as a commentator and he could
Speaker 2: not handle Lease. My god, she's a Republican. Can you believe?
Speaker 2: You know? She was a Republican? How could we hire
Speaker 2: someone who spoke on behalf of Republicans? Let me tell
Speaker 2: you something interesting. Chuck Todd before he was hired, was
Speaker 2: a Democrat staffer. Tim Russert, the legend of NBC before
Speaker 2: he was hired, was a Democrat staffer. George Stephanopoulos before
Speaker 2: he was hired, was a senior Democrat staffer in the
Speaker 2: Clinton white House. Jensaki, who was a senior Democrat staffer
Speaker 2: in the Biden White House. She was literally the Biden
Speaker 2: press secretary, charge with lying to the American people every
Speaker 2: day on behalf of Joe Biden. She not only got hired,
Speaker 2: she has her own primetime show. And yet Chuck Todd
Speaker 2: practically had to be medicated that how dare NBC hire
Speaker 2: one Republican, the world will end no wonder. NBC doesn't
Speaker 2: cover these horrible votes by Democrats. ABC doesn't cover it,
Speaker 2: CBS doesn't cover it, CNN doesn't cover it. MSNBC doesn't
Speaker 2: cover it. The Washington Post doesn't cover it. The New
Speaker 2: York Times doesn't cover it. None of them cover it
Speaker 2: because they are They're not just part of the team.
Speaker 2: They are the advance fighting forces of the team. Their
Speaker 2: objective is to keep driving the Democrat Party left left,
Speaker 2: and so they know that no matter what bad vote
Speaker 2: gets cast, it will never be covered.
Speaker 1: Back home, you mentioned this fight, and just to put
Speaker 1: it in perspective, there are a lot of people that
Speaker 1: are concerned over government spending. Part of what you guys
Speaker 1: obviously were dealing with with government spending, but there was
Speaker 1: you know, there's a third realm in politics. They say,
Speaker 1: never talk in a presidential election you're about social security
Speaker 1: or insolvency or any of those issues.
Speaker 2: And we see our national debts going up.
Speaker 1: I think it's a trillion time hours on the average
Speaker 1: every now one hundred days, three trillion in the year,
Speaker 1: and people are talking about this. Jenet Yellen was even
Speaker 1: asked questions and the media didn't cover this. The Biden
Speaker 1: Treasury Secretary Jenet Yellen literally admitted that Biden doesn't actually
Speaker 1: have a plan for social security. No one covered that
Speaker 1: like shocking, massive breaking news this week either.
Speaker 2: The media. There is virtually no one in the corporate
Speaker 2: media who even pretends to be a journalist anymore. I'll
Speaker 2: give you another example. One of the other amendments we
Speaker 2: voted on was Ted budd had a different amendment, but
Speaker 2: that was the Lake and Riley Act, and it was
Speaker 2: an amendment that would prohibit funding from being used to
Speaker 2: grant immigration status to any alien who is charged with,
Speaker 2: arrested for convicted of acts that constitute the essential elements
Speaker 2: of burglary, theft, larceny, or shoplifting. It was designed respond
Speaker 2: to the horrific murder of Lake and Riley and what happened.
Speaker 2: We had to vote on the Senate floor. Every single
Speaker 2: Democrat voted no, all of them straight party line. Why
Speaker 2: because they know they're not asked about lacoln Riley when
Speaker 2: they get home, when they do a press interview, nobody
Speaker 2: asks them about Lake and Riley. That is not their narrative.
Speaker 1: I got to play at Jennet Yellen because for the
Speaker 1: people that miss this. This is the Biden Treasury Secretary
Speaker 1: admitting Biden doesn't have a plan to deal with one
Speaker 1: of the biggest issues in our country that affects many seniors.
Speaker 3: Has Treasury really not looked at Okay, we're already charging
Speaker 3: four point nine trillion for the deficit for Medicare, for
Speaker 3: a lot of other things, and now we've got to
Speaker 3: add social but we haven't done the math to figure
Speaker 3: out how much that tax rate.
Speaker 4: To the President doesn't have a plan. He has principles,
Speaker 4: he wants to work with Congress to find a way
Speaker 4: to protect Social Security and stinted solvency beyond twelve and
Speaker 4: he doesn't.
Speaker 3: Have a plan, Madam Secretary, how could he justify not
Speaker 3: having a plan when he's been in office for three
Speaker 3: years already.
Speaker 4: He believes it's important to work with Congress.
Speaker 3: And Madam Secretary, he has not worked with us at
Speaker 3: all on this Senate Finance Committee.
Speaker 1: I mean, Senator, to be very clear with the American people,
Speaker 1: the Treasury Secretary of the United States of America, Jenet Yellen,
Speaker 1: said to on Capitol Hill on Thursday, Biden doesn't actually
Speaker 1: have a plan for SOB security, but he's got principles
Speaker 1: and that should be good enough for all of us.
Speaker 2: Well, look, on one level, it's remarkable that Yellen was
Speaker 2: that candid, but she wasn't entirely honest. Because he does
Speaker 2: have a plan for social security. His plan is to
Speaker 2: demigogue the heck out of it, to attack Republicans, to
Speaker 2: say Republicans want to bankruptcial security, Republicans want to destroy
Speaker 2: social Security. Mind you, it's a total lie. He knows
Speaker 2: it's a total lie. But it doesn't matter. The Democrats,
Speaker 2: rather than a rest their own radical policies, they're going
Speaker 2: to scream and yell that Republicans hate old people, Republicans
Speaker 2: hay women, Republicans eight children, Republicans hate kittens, Republicans hate
Speaker 2: flowers and sunshine. Look like it is. It is all
Speaker 2: just rhetoric. And by the way that I mention Donald
Speaker 2: Trump as the devil, that is the Democrat re election
Speaker 2: plan right there. And so when it comes to Social Security,
Speaker 2: do they know that on the current path, so security
Speaker 2: is careening towards insolvency and bankruptcy. Yes, are they willing
Speaker 2: to do a damn thing about it? No, What they
Speaker 2: want to do instead is just demagogue the issue, and
Speaker 2: Yellen's quite candid about it. Nope, we're not going to
Speaker 2: fix it. We're just going to use it for political
Speaker 2: attacks and cross our fingers and see what happens.
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Speaker 1: really brings it down to the doubling down as you
Speaker 1: described early on by Democrats on the open border policy
Speaker 1: and illegal immigrants. It's a story coming out of Michigan.
Speaker 1: And the reason why this, I think is so shocking
Speaker 1: to me is there's new poll numbers out over the
Speaker 1: weekend that show that Donald Trump, who lost Michigan to
Speaker 1: Joe Biden the last election he won it in sixteen,
Speaker 1: Trump now tops Biden by eight points in a Michigan poll.
Speaker 1: That is significant. The president's approval rating in Michigan is
Speaker 1: it thirty five percent? So what has Michigan been doing?
Speaker 1: I guess it's time to buy votes. They're now offering
Speaker 1: homeowners a five hundred dollars a month stipend if they'll
Speaker 1: welcome what they describe as newcomers. What that is is
Speaker 1: an illegal immigrant into their home, and the state of
Speaker 1: Michigan will subsidize you five hundred dollars, it says, in
Speaker 1: a month up to a year, So basically six grand
Speaker 1: is what they're willing to give you to house someone.
Speaker 2: Now, well, that's right. The program that Michigan has rolled
Speaker 2: out it's called the Newcomer Rental Subsidy, and it's designed
Speaker 2: to provide shelter outside of state shelters for so called
Speaker 2: refugees and refugees is simply the term they use for
Speaker 2: illegal aliens. It lasts for up to a year, and
Speaker 2: according to Michigan, those eligible include refugees, assilees, special immigration
Speaker 2: visa holders, victims of human trafficking, Cuban entrance, Haitian entrance,
Speaker 2: Afghan national and Ukrainian humanitarian paroleese. So get this, The
Speaker 2: state of Michigan is quite literally paying individuals, paying homeowners
Speaker 2: to house illegal immigrants in their house. And by the way,
Speaker 2: it's not just them. Others who qualify include individuals who
Speaker 2: arrived under the family Reunification parole process for El Salvador, Guatemada, Honduras,
Speaker 2: and Columbia. Who in Michigan. What Michigan taxpayer says, You
Speaker 2: know what I really want. I want my taxes going
Speaker 2: to paying my neighbor to put an illegal immigrant that
Speaker 2: Joe Biden led into this country into his house and
Speaker 2: we'll send them five hundred bucks a month to keep
Speaker 2: the illegal immigrant there. That is how nutty today's Democrat
Speaker 2: Party is on this issue.
Speaker 1: Well, and my question is that I'm not joking when
Speaker 1: I say this. Is this not a form of just
Speaker 1: buying votes? If you're talking at each person is now
Speaker 1: we're sick thousand dollars to a Michigan a homeowner to
Speaker 1: house them. And I don't know if there's a you know,
Speaker 1: a cap that you can only have one or maybe
Speaker 1: have two. What if it's a family. I'm assuming we're
Speaker 1: not going to break up the family. So is if
Speaker 1: you have a family of four and you house them,
Speaker 1: are we now talking that there were twenty four thousand
Speaker 1: dollars to your bottom line? How is that not the
Speaker 1: Democratic Party basically buying vote, saying hey, you better keep
Speaker 1: us in office, you better vote for us, because we're
Speaker 1: we're twenty four grand a year to you right now.
Speaker 2: Well, and look, I'll read you a quote from Amy Hovey,
Speaker 2: who is the executive director of the Michigan State Housing
Speaker 2: Development Authority, who said the program would help migrants quote
Speaker 2: build a new life here. And she said, quote this
Speaker 2: program is truly a win win as it addresses the
Speaker 2: most pressing barrier to refugee resettlement by meeting housing needs
Speaker 2: while setting up families for success with increased employment and opportunities.
Speaker 2: That's the position of Democrat Party. You too, can have
Speaker 2: an illegal alien in your house.
Speaker 1: Do they care about the cost of housing going up.
Speaker 1: I mean, is that a conversation you guys have in DC.
Speaker 1: Is that a question that anyone asks of the Democrats
Speaker 1: when you have this many illegal immigrants coming into America.
Speaker 1: I'll go back to what you were talking about the
Speaker 1: very beginning in these votes. It's not just the three
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty thousand legal immigrants that we have flown
Speaker 1: into this country at the taxpayer's dollars paying for these
Speaker 1: charter flights. But if you look at how many illegal
Speaker 1: immigrants have come across the southern border since Joe Biden
Speaker 1: was sworn in, it's at least at minimum seven point
Speaker 1: two million illegal immigrants have entered the US under the
Speaker 1: Biden administration, which is greater than the population of thirty
Speaker 1: six individual states in America. And now we see housing
Speaker 1: cost issues, rent cost issues, and we see inflationary issues,
Speaker 1: and we see that we're seeing wages that are being
Speaker 1: undermined by illegal immigrants. If Michigan does this and other
Speaker 1: states go along with it, which other states are as well,
Speaker 1: they're saying the same thing, hous an illegal immigrant will
Speaker 1: give you cash. Is that not the definition of undermining
Speaker 1: hard working American families who are just struggling to survive.
Speaker 2: Well, look, you got to understand the modern Democrat view
Speaker 2: as they can spend unlimited money, trillions of dollars, they
Speaker 2: can print unlimited money, and if they want more, they'll
Speaker 2: just tax the hell out of you. And it's a
Speaker 2: giant Ponzi scheme where they print money, they raise taxes,
Speaker 2: they spend more money, Inflation goes up, so they print
Speaker 2: more money. And when it comes to if the voters
Speaker 2: don't like it, don't worry. They'll change the composition of
Speaker 2: the voters. They'll let ten point four million people into
Speaker 2: this country illegally. Those guys the Democrats are confident will
Speaker 2: vote Democrat, and so they stay in power. That is,
Speaker 2: you know, there used to be a time when you
Speaker 2: could have a common sense discussion. There are no longer
Speaker 2: any Democrats in Washington and Congress who engage in common sense.
Speaker 2: I mean, look, we saw these votes, every single one
Speaker 2: of them lined up over and over and over again.
Speaker 2: Illegal immigrant who beat up a cop, Nope, don't support him.
Speaker 2: Like fuck, tell me what world does a sane or
Speaker 2: rational person believe that? And yet every Senate Democrat there
Speaker 2: that's their view.
Speaker 1: Last question on this when when they vote lockstep like
Speaker 1: that is that pre planned with a conversation they have
Speaker 1: behind closed doors and they say, hey, no matter what
Speaker 1: they throw at you, no matter how sane it is,
Speaker 1: you do not agree with the Republicans on anything. Bull stop.
Speaker 2: It's why it took all night. They knew what we
Speaker 2: were gonna have votes on. We had put forward these
Speaker 2: early mements we want votes on, and we spent the
Speaker 2: entire day Friday just doing nothing because Schumer was talking
Speaker 2: to his Democrats saying, okay, here are the votes. We
Speaker 2: need every Democrat to stand lock arms and just vote
Speaker 2: against all of them.
Speaker 1: And he had John, I want me through Friday that
Speaker 1: day because people don't understand I think how dysfunctional Schumer
Speaker 1: can make things when they're trying to get things done
Speaker 1: like this, So you guys wake up Friday. You know
Speaker 1: you had to stay over another day.
Speaker 2: But we didn't wait. We actually thought we would be
Speaker 2: done Friday afternoon. In a normal world we would have been.
Speaker 2: We stayed there the whole night.
Speaker 1: So tell me, like, you guys wake up Friday morning,
Speaker 1: do you have a vote schedule yet? And then he
Speaker 1: changed theirs. He just say, hey, wake up and stand
Speaker 1: by until I tell you when you get to vote.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's much more of the latter. And the way
Speaker 2: the Senate works works as a strange place. So the
Speaker 2: majority leader only has one real power under the rules,
Speaker 2: and it's what's called priority of recognition, which means he
Speaker 2: is recognized first if he's on the floor, and he
Speaker 2: uses that to control the Senate calendar to fill the
Speaker 2: pending business with whatever he wants so that no one
Speaker 2: else can can put anything else on the Senate calendar.
Speaker 2: So you spend a lot of time just sitting around waiting.
Speaker 2: It's a very weird thing. I'll tell you when I was,
Speaker 2: you know, new in the Senate, and I'd be a
Speaker 2: typical Senate week. You will fly to d C Monday mornings,
Speaker 2: and you'll fly home Thursday nights, and then typically I'm
Speaker 2: home in Houston Thursday nights. Friday, I travel somewhere around Texas.
Speaker 2: Sometimes Saturday, I travel around Texas. I try to spend
Speaker 2: Sunday's home with a family, and then Monday morning I
Speaker 2: fly back to d C. That that's the usual rhythm
Speaker 2: of things. But on Thursdays I would call home. Back
Speaker 2: when when Republicans had the majority, I would call home
Speaker 2: and my daughters would ask, well, are you coming home tonight?
Speaker 2: And I'd say, I don't know. It depends what Mitch schedules.
Speaker 2: When he schedules votes, and we have no idea. My
Speaker 2: daughters used to say, is that mean man gonna let
Speaker 2: you come home? And by that mean man, they meant
Speaker 2: Mitch McConnell. Because you literally have no control over your schedule.
Speaker 2: It is. It is utterly incoherent. So Friday we spent
Speaker 2: all day we were waiting to see if a deal
Speaker 2: would be reached. We were waiting to see if a
Speaker 2: deal would be reached, and throughout the afternoon and evening
Speaker 2: it looked like there was going to be no deal.
Speaker 2: At midnight Friday night, funding for the federal government was
Speaker 2: set to expire and we were going to have a shutdown.
Speaker 2: So as the evening went on, I was on the
Speaker 2: Senate floor for a while it looked like there was
Speaker 2: no deal. I went with some senators, grab some food,
Speaker 2: watch some basketball, and actually I had gone home, I
Speaker 2: changed out of my suit, was getting ready to go
Speaker 2: to bed, and then after eleven PM, I got the note,
Speaker 2: note we're getting ready to vote, and we began voting
Speaker 2: at eleven fifty six PM, so I had to get
Speaker 2: dressed again head back to the Capital. Everyone did, and
Speaker 2: we voted from eleven fifty six pm until two oh
Speaker 2: three am is when it was over. But that's just
Speaker 2: kind of how hectic things are.
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Speaker 1: this story broke it's not being covered, of course, by
Speaker 1: the media, because why would they want to tell you
Speaker 1: about this. But apparently now the Biden administers decided, we
Speaker 1: don't want to offend extremists, jihadis extremists, and they want
Speaker 1: to change the way you talk about actual terrorists.
Speaker 2: Well, that's exactly right. This is a story that The
Speaker 2: Daily Wire broke, and it's a memo that was sent
Speaker 2: by the diversity, equity and inclusion officials at the Biden
Speaker 2: administration's top intelligence agency, and it warns personnel not to
Speaker 2: use quote problematic phrases when discussing Islamic terrorism and foreign
Speaker 2: adversaries such as China. The unclassified newsletter, and it's from
Speaker 2: the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, is called
Speaker 2: Quote the Dive, and it was obtained through Freedom Information
Speaker 2: Act requests by The Daily Wire. It argues in its
Speaker 2: cover story that the intelligence community needs to focus on
Speaker 2: quote changing terminology related to counter terrorism because quote words matter.
Speaker 2: Here's more quote the article is about one of our
Speaker 2: goals disentangling Islam from words and phrases used to discuss
Speaker 2: terrorism and extreme violence. It goes on to declare that
Speaker 2: trying to remove quote certain phrases to identify international terrorism
Speaker 2: threats that are hurtful to Muslim Americans. Some of the
Speaker 2: problematic phrases include, but are not limited to, Salafi jihadist, jihadist,
Speaker 2: Islamic extremist, Sunni Shia extremism, and radical Islamist.
Speaker 1: Only in America. Could you have a memo that someone
Speaker 1: took this much time and waste his time under the
Speaker 1: Biden administration to make people that are directly associated with
Speaker 1: terrorism feel better about I guess what, not being a terrorist.
Speaker 2: Well, and sadly, this is continuing the path of putting
Speaker 2: politics above national security that we saw when Barack Obama
Speaker 2: was president. When Barack Obama was president, I actually chaired
Speaker 2: a hearing that examined the purge that the Obama White
Speaker 2: House insisted DHS do to remove from their records any
Speaker 2: reference to radical Islamic terrorism, or Islam or Muslis or
Speaker 2: Muslim or jahadist. And they erased over eight hundred times.
Speaker 2: They erased those words from their records. And by the way,
Speaker 2: the word purge, that's not me adding that word to it.
Speaker 2: That was the word that was used by the political
Speaker 2: official in the Obama White House in the instructions to DHS.
Speaker 2: Purge your files. Well, these same radicals are now running
Speaker 2: Biden's intelligence agencies. And this article is part of a
Speaker 2: newsletter that is created by odn I that the Office
Speaker 2: of the Director of National Intelligence, Intelligence Community Diversity, Equity
Speaker 2: and Inclusion and Accessibility Office, and it was sent to
Speaker 2: personnel throughout the intelligence community, which includes the CIA, the NSSA,
Speaker 2: the FBI, the DHS, and the Department of Justice. All
Speaker 2: of them are being told the fact that Palestinian Islamic
Speaker 2: Jihad was one of the two terrorist groups that carried
Speaker 2: out October seventh. October seventh was carried out by Hamas
Speaker 2: and Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Apparently that is an inconvenient fact
Speaker 2: to the language commissars, who I presume want to edit
Speaker 2: out the word Islamic from the name of the terrorist group,
Speaker 2: Palestinian Islamic Jahad. Look, they're not murdering Jews because they
Speaker 2: disliked their hairstyle. They are murdering Jews because they have
Speaker 2: a perverted view of radical Islam that mandates Jahad and
Speaker 2: countering Jahadism, countering the radical religious extremism behind it is
Speaker 2: only possible if you acknowledge it exists, and so on.
Speaker 2: One level you say, Okay, this sort of language, political
Speaker 2: correctness stuff, it's silly, But in this instance, it's much
Speaker 2: worse than silly. It is dangerous because if the intelligence
Speaker 2: community has no idea, refuses to acknowledge what is actually happening,
Speaker 2: it means they will be utterly ineffective in fighting against
Speaker 2: it and keeping Americans in our allies safe.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and this is one of those moments when you say,
Speaker 1: what are they focusing their time on right now? Is
Speaker 1: it political correctness or is it actually keeping us safe
Speaker 1: from actual jihadis terarris that they're afraid of offending by
Speaker 1: using the name. It reminds me a lot of the
Speaker 1: President saying that the a individual that killed an innocent
Speaker 1: young girl in Georgia was an illegal immigrant and then
Speaker 1: apologized to the illegal immigrants for calling that individual who
Speaker 1: is the alleged murderer an illegal immigrant. It's like, what
Speaker 1: are you focusing on? What is important to you? Protecting
Speaker 1: innocent people, protecting people from tears tax or is it
Speaker 1: this pr PC wokeness? Is that matter more than actually
Speaker 1: fighting the bad guys?
Speaker 2: Well, unfortunately, based on things like their late night votes
Speaker 2: where every Democrat voted against the American citizens voted in
Speaker 2: favor of illy aliens voted in favor of sending billions
Speaker 2: of dollars to Iran. It's not difficult to figure out
Speaker 2: where their priorities lie right now. Yeah, great point.
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