1 00:00:00,600 --> 00:00:02,720 Speaker 1: Center. Nice to be back with you. We've we've been. 2 00:00:02,759 --> 00:00:04,720 Speaker 1: I've seen you a lot this week sub in DC, 3 00:00:05,040 --> 00:00:07,800 Speaker 1: sub back here in Houston, and I do think we 4 00:00:07,840 --> 00:00:12,320 Speaker 1: should explain to people what happened at Sea Pack. It 5 00:00:12,440 --> 00:00:14,239 Speaker 1: was supposed to be and we had dinner of the 6 00:00:14,320 --> 00:00:16,479 Speaker 1: night before, we planned out a big show. Some of 7 00:00:16,520 --> 00:00:18,479 Speaker 1: that we're going to actually do it in today's show. 8 00:00:19,079 --> 00:00:22,680 Speaker 1: But right before we were to go on stage, there 9 00:00:22,760 --> 00:00:25,239 Speaker 1: was a vote called in the Senate that was pushed up. 10 00:00:25,640 --> 00:00:28,000 Speaker 1: You guys, I learned very clearly that they have no 11 00:00:28,040 --> 00:00:31,400 Speaker 1: clue what your schedule is. And then we said, basically, 12 00:00:31,440 --> 00:00:33,600 Speaker 1: all right, here's our audible. All the centers have to 13 00:00:33,680 --> 00:00:36,640 Speaker 1: leave Sepack, go back and vote, we'll have JD vance 14 00:00:36,680 --> 00:00:39,080 Speaker 1: on the show. And that's kind of how it went down, 15 00:00:39,120 --> 00:00:41,959 Speaker 1: which was really fun. Yeah, it was entirely inaudible. So 16 00:00:42,000 --> 00:00:45,040 Speaker 1: we were planning to do the pod from the stage 17 00:00:45,280 --> 00:00:47,040 Speaker 1: of Seapack. It was going to be you and me, 18 00:00:47,400 --> 00:00:49,880 Speaker 1: and then we had a vote at one forty five 19 00:00:50,360 --> 00:00:52,840 Speaker 1: that we had to get back for and so match 20 00:00:52,960 --> 00:00:55,440 Speaker 1: Lap came to me and to you and said, look, 21 00:00:56,280 --> 00:00:59,120 Speaker 1: I got thirty minutes until you guys are telling me 22 00:00:59,200 --> 00:01:01,800 Speaker 1: you got to leave and he said, I've got you 23 00:01:02,640 --> 00:01:05,120 Speaker 1: and I got jd Vance and he said, if you want, 24 00:01:05,120 --> 00:01:07,400 Speaker 1: I just cut the time in half, give you fifteen 25 00:01:07,400 --> 00:01:11,240 Speaker 1: minutes each, which is less time than we're supposed to have. Yeah, 26 00:01:11,360 --> 00:01:13,280 Speaker 1: or you can somehow combine it. And so you and 27 00:01:13,319 --> 00:01:15,560 Speaker 1: I looked at each other and we're like, okay, we're 28 00:01:15,560 --> 00:01:17,640 Speaker 1: gonna do a guest and look, it helps. Jad and 29 00:01:17,640 --> 00:01:20,399 Speaker 1: I are friends. So but it was and you can't 30 00:01:20,400 --> 00:01:22,479 Speaker 1: paign for him, which was I think he actually really 31 00:01:22,640 --> 00:01:24,720 Speaker 1: enjoyed the fact. It was like it was almost coming 32 00:01:24,760 --> 00:01:27,880 Speaker 1: full circle. Yeah. No, it was a nice. But we 33 00:01:28,040 --> 00:01:31,920 Speaker 1: literally didn't know we were doing it until about ten 34 00:01:31,959 --> 00:01:34,959 Speaker 1: minutes before we went on stage with him, and Jad 35 00:01:35,080 --> 00:01:36,520 Speaker 1: had a whole speech prepared, so I don't know what 36 00:01:36,560 --> 00:01:37,880 Speaker 1: he was planning to talk about, but he had a 37 00:01:37,880 --> 00:01:41,240 Speaker 1: speech prepared. And it's like, okay, I'll come on Verdict instead, 38 00:01:41,280 --> 00:01:45,720 Speaker 1: and it now I will say it to give a sense. Look, 39 00:01:45,800 --> 00:01:48,120 Speaker 1: SPAC has a big reach, both for the people in 40 00:01:48,160 --> 00:01:51,240 Speaker 1: the room but also for the people watching. So when 41 00:01:51,680 --> 00:01:53,960 Speaker 1: I invited people, I said listen. If you want to 42 00:01:54,000 --> 00:01:57,320 Speaker 1: subscribe to the podcast, I said, pull out your phone 43 00:01:57,800 --> 00:02:02,559 Speaker 1: and text the word Verdict to two four zero zero five, which, 44 00:02:02,560 --> 00:02:04,520 Speaker 1: by the way, everybody can do right now if you're 45 00:02:04,520 --> 00:02:07,320 Speaker 1: watching this podcast, that's the easiest way where you can 46 00:02:07,600 --> 00:02:10,200 Speaker 1: subscribe the podcast. It's free. But you did that to 47 00:02:10,240 --> 00:02:12,240 Speaker 1: the audience. Yeah, I did that to the audience. I 48 00:02:12,280 --> 00:02:13,919 Speaker 1: told them, pull out your cell phone. And you can 49 00:02:13,960 --> 00:02:16,720 Speaker 1: see all across the audience people pull out their cell phone, 50 00:02:16,720 --> 00:02:19,960 Speaker 1: and I told him text the word verdict to two 51 00:02:20,040 --> 00:02:22,519 Speaker 1: four zero zero five. And I always repeated at least 52 00:02:22,520 --> 00:02:26,200 Speaker 1: twice two four zero zero five. You know how many 53 00:02:26,200 --> 00:02:29,160 Speaker 1: people sent that text? How many? One thousand, one hundred 54 00:02:29,200 --> 00:02:32,040 Speaker 1: and five. That's really cool. And so what you get 55 00:02:32,080 --> 00:02:34,760 Speaker 1: back is a link to subscribe to the podcast. And 56 00:02:35,200 --> 00:02:40,200 Speaker 1: so that was Spack is always a blast. But but 57 00:02:40,280 --> 00:02:43,079 Speaker 1: I thought it was a good and lively show, and 58 00:02:43,680 --> 00:02:46,000 Speaker 1: having JD made it made it all the more fun. 59 00:02:46,160 --> 00:02:47,880 Speaker 1: It was really fun. I got to ask you something 60 00:02:47,880 --> 00:02:51,200 Speaker 1: else quickly because it was an interesting weekend of news coverage. 61 00:02:51,480 --> 00:02:54,959 Speaker 1: There was CPACK and there was Club for Growth their 62 00:02:55,000 --> 00:02:57,920 Speaker 1: meetings sound in Florida. You were one of very few 63 00:02:57,919 --> 00:03:00,960 Speaker 1: that actually did both because they both are very important 64 00:03:00,960 --> 00:03:03,880 Speaker 1: to us winning back the White House, and you went 65 00:03:03,960 --> 00:03:06,560 Speaker 1: to both, which obviously people are like, all right, is 66 00:03:06,600 --> 00:03:09,720 Speaker 1: the Republican Party divided? Is it? Are we gonna get 67 00:03:09,720 --> 00:03:13,240 Speaker 1: our act together and really coalesced and and and work 68 00:03:13,320 --> 00:03:16,440 Speaker 1: together these different wings of the party. I came out 69 00:03:16,440 --> 00:03:19,280 Speaker 1: of Seapack more encouraged. I did not go to Aforda 70 00:03:19,320 --> 00:03:21,720 Speaker 1: with you. Did you come back encourage saying we can 71 00:03:21,760 --> 00:03:23,760 Speaker 1: pull this off? Oh? Yeah? And look, the two are 72 00:03:23,880 --> 00:03:25,800 Speaker 1: very different. I mean there was a lot of media 73 00:03:25,880 --> 00:03:29,640 Speaker 1: coverage saying that Cepack was basically Trump of Palooza, that 74 00:03:29,680 --> 00:03:31,880 Speaker 1: it was a lot of Trump supporters there, and the 75 00:03:31,919 --> 00:03:36,520 Speaker 1: people speaking at Sepack are mostly closely aligned with President Trump. 76 00:03:37,400 --> 00:03:39,480 Speaker 1: Club for Growth. You know, a lot of folks were 77 00:03:39,480 --> 00:03:43,160 Speaker 1: calling it essentially De Santis palooza. Yeah, and a lot 78 00:03:43,240 --> 00:03:47,720 Speaker 1: of the folks there are not aligned with President Trump. 79 00:03:47,720 --> 00:03:49,280 Speaker 1: And I will say it was one of very few 80 00:03:49,280 --> 00:03:52,760 Speaker 1: people to be at both and it's you know, we've 81 00:03:52,800 --> 00:03:55,680 Speaker 1: got a big diverse party. And I'm good friends with 82 00:03:55,720 --> 00:03:57,880 Speaker 1: President Trump. I'm good friends with Rond De Santas too, 83 00:03:57,880 --> 00:04:01,560 Speaker 1: and so I would, uh, and I'm focused with both 84 00:04:01,600 --> 00:04:04,120 Speaker 1: of them and everybody else on trying to trying to 85 00:04:04,160 --> 00:04:05,960 Speaker 1: turn the country round. I think we're in a good 86 00:04:06,000 --> 00:04:09,320 Speaker 1: place overall. Heading into the presidential was that your take 87 00:04:09,400 --> 00:04:11,400 Speaker 1: coming out this weekend, that hey, we're gonna be okay, 88 00:04:11,400 --> 00:04:13,080 Speaker 1: because there's a lot of people that think we're writing 89 00:04:13,120 --> 00:04:15,920 Speaker 1: doom and gloom stories over the weekend. I didn't see 90 00:04:15,960 --> 00:04:18,120 Speaker 1: it that way. Yeah, look, we'll see. There's still a 91 00:04:18,120 --> 00:04:22,000 Speaker 1: whole lot of chaos between now and election day. I 92 00:04:22,040 --> 00:04:24,960 Speaker 1: think Biden is badly off track, and so we've got 93 00:04:24,960 --> 00:04:28,400 Speaker 1: an opportunity for a huge victory in November of twenty 94 00:04:28,480 --> 00:04:32,280 Speaker 1: twenty four. Republicans got to avoid shooting ourselves in our 95 00:04:32,320 --> 00:04:36,080 Speaker 1: own rear end and so hopefully that's what Republicans will do. 96 00:04:36,520 --> 00:04:38,000 Speaker 1: There was a story we were going to get to 97 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:40,279 Speaker 1: talk about at sepack. We didn't get to play it 98 00:04:40,279 --> 00:04:43,720 Speaker 1: because obviously we pulled an audible and it dealt with 99 00:04:43,920 --> 00:04:47,159 Speaker 1: There was actually two different hearings, not one, but two 100 00:04:47,200 --> 00:04:49,680 Speaker 1: different hearings that took place on the same day at 101 00:04:49,680 --> 00:04:53,240 Speaker 1: the same time that were extremely important. Give a little 102 00:04:53,279 --> 00:04:56,400 Speaker 1: background on that day on Capitol Hill, because one of 103 00:04:56,440 --> 00:04:59,760 Speaker 1: them was dealing with Garland and you were questioning there. 104 00:04:59,760 --> 00:05:02,919 Speaker 1: There another one dealing with the FAA and a major 105 00:05:03,000 --> 00:05:05,599 Speaker 1: position there, and they were happening at the exact same time. 106 00:05:05,720 --> 00:05:07,800 Speaker 1: Is that normal? Well, it happens a lot. It's one 107 00:05:07,880 --> 00:05:11,000 Speaker 1: of the stranger things about the Senate is you'll often 108 00:05:11,040 --> 00:05:14,360 Speaker 1: have multiple hearings going on at the exact same time. 109 00:05:15,360 --> 00:05:19,240 Speaker 1: I'm on four different committees. I'm I'm the ranking member 110 00:05:19,279 --> 00:05:21,960 Speaker 1: of Commerce, so the senior Republican on the Commerce Committee. 111 00:05:22,720 --> 00:05:25,320 Speaker 1: I'm on Judiciary, I'm on Foreign Relations, and I'm on 112 00:05:25,400 --> 00:05:27,680 Speaker 1: Rules and Administration. So those are the committees i'm on. 113 00:05:28,640 --> 00:05:31,560 Speaker 1: And frequently you'll have multiple hearings that you have to 114 00:05:31,560 --> 00:05:33,320 Speaker 1: go back and forth and back and forth. So when 115 00:05:33,320 --> 00:05:36,200 Speaker 1: you see empty chairs at a hearing, that sometimes because 116 00:05:36,240 --> 00:05:40,640 Speaker 1: senators having to run to different buildings. It so happened 117 00:05:40,720 --> 00:05:43,279 Speaker 1: that the hearing with Merrick Garland was at the exact 118 00:05:43,320 --> 00:05:47,880 Speaker 1: same time ten am on Wednesday, that the confirmation hearing 119 00:05:48,040 --> 00:05:51,400 Speaker 1: for the Biden's nominee to be Administrator of the FAA, 120 00:05:51,480 --> 00:05:55,080 Speaker 1: really important position in charge of keeping airplanes safe and 121 00:05:55,160 --> 00:05:58,560 Speaker 1: keeping us safe when we fly home. They were both 122 00:05:58,600 --> 00:06:03,840 Speaker 1: at ten am. And what that meant. So Judiciary has 123 00:06:03,880 --> 00:06:07,760 Speaker 1: a rule which is that your order of questioning is 124 00:06:07,800 --> 00:06:10,800 Speaker 1: based on seniority, but it has what's called a gavel rule, 125 00:06:11,640 --> 00:06:15,960 Speaker 1: which it's seniority for every member present when the gavel 126 00:06:16,040 --> 00:06:20,919 Speaker 1: comes down. So if if you're not there when the 127 00:06:20,960 --> 00:06:24,840 Speaker 1: gavel comes down, everyone down Dias jumps in front of you. 128 00:06:25,680 --> 00:06:29,400 Speaker 1: And so I'm fifth in seniority on Judiciary, I'm one 129 00:06:29,440 --> 00:06:32,440 Speaker 1: of the most senior Republicans on Judiciary. So that morning, 130 00:06:32,480 --> 00:06:35,560 Speaker 1: what I had to do is I was in Judiciary 131 00:06:35,600 --> 00:06:38,080 Speaker 1: at ten am, and actually Durban was three minutes late, 132 00:06:38,120 --> 00:06:40,160 Speaker 1: which was kind of really irritating because I just needed 133 00:06:40,200 --> 00:06:44,240 Speaker 1: to be there for him to bang the gavel. I 134 00:06:44,320 --> 00:06:46,760 Speaker 1: was there at gavel, which meant I could speak in 135 00:06:46,800 --> 00:06:49,840 Speaker 1: my order of seniority and not wait until the very 136 00:06:49,920 --> 00:06:53,400 Speaker 1: last Republican to ask my questions. So as soon as 137 00:06:53,440 --> 00:06:57,560 Speaker 1: he banged the gavel, I got up and walked very 138 00:06:57,640 --> 00:07:01,080 Speaker 1: quickly to a totally different building of the Commerce hearing 139 00:07:01,800 --> 00:07:05,159 Speaker 1: where I was the lead, the senior Republican. And so 140 00:07:05,240 --> 00:07:08,599 Speaker 1: the Commerce hearing had already started with my chair empty, 141 00:07:08,640 --> 00:07:11,160 Speaker 1: and I made it there by the time I got started. 142 00:07:11,160 --> 00:07:15,600 Speaker 1: But that that sort of thing happens a lot in 143 00:07:15,640 --> 00:07:19,720 Speaker 1: the Senate. It is a new challenge with my being 144 00:07:19,760 --> 00:07:23,280 Speaker 1: now a ranking member on a full committee, because I've 145 00:07:23,280 --> 00:07:27,080 Speaker 1: got greater responsibilities to be there for much more of 146 00:07:27,080 --> 00:07:30,120 Speaker 1: the hearing than if you're just a member of the committee. 147 00:07:30,120 --> 00:07:33,280 Speaker 1: You usually show up, do your questions and leave, so 148 00:07:33,280 --> 00:07:35,840 Speaker 1: as rancor, you try to be there as much as 149 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:39,960 Speaker 1: as much as possible. That is an interesting thing that 150 00:07:40,400 --> 00:07:42,400 Speaker 1: I guess, and is that new that they do that 151 00:07:42,400 --> 00:07:45,880 Speaker 1: with a gavel that it's always been the gavel rule. 152 00:07:47,160 --> 00:07:51,040 Speaker 1: It's usually pretty easy for me because look, Judiciary, I 153 00:07:51,160 --> 00:07:55,120 Speaker 1: like the issues. I care about it. 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We've also 191 00:09:45,880 --> 00:09:51,120 Speaker 1: seen across the country violent attacks this pregnancy centers by 192 00:09:51,160 --> 00:09:56,079 Speaker 1: similar left wing terrorist groups, including one one graffiti of 193 00:09:56,200 --> 00:10:01,200 Speaker 1: a firebomb building said Jane was here. There have been 194 00:10:01,240 --> 00:10:07,520 Speaker 1: attacks all over the country, and yet that a Department 195 00:10:07,559 --> 00:10:12,200 Speaker 1: of Justice has not brought these violent criminals to justice. 196 00:10:13,160 --> 00:10:16,640 Speaker 1: You contrast that, if you're a violent criminal and you 197 00:10:16,679 --> 00:10:19,680 Speaker 1: attack a crisis pregnancy center, that is not a priority 198 00:10:19,840 --> 00:10:22,680 Speaker 1: in the Biden Department of Justice. Contrast that to Mark Howke, 199 00:10:23,360 --> 00:10:27,679 Speaker 1: who's a pro life activist. He's a sidewalk counselor, and 200 00:10:30,120 --> 00:10:36,280 Speaker 1: he had an altercation with someone who allegedly interfered with 201 00:10:36,360 --> 00:10:38,960 Speaker 1: his son's personal space and threatened him his son, and 202 00:10:39,000 --> 00:10:42,240 Speaker 1: he pushed him. Now, in an ordinary world, pushing someone 203 00:10:42,320 --> 00:10:45,640 Speaker 1: would be maybe a simple misdemeanor assault, but not under 204 00:10:45,679 --> 00:10:48,359 Speaker 1: the Biden Department of Justice. If you're a pro life activist, 205 00:10:48,800 --> 00:10:53,920 Speaker 1: what can you expect. Well, in this instance, according to 206 00:10:53,960 --> 00:10:59,320 Speaker 1: mister Howe's wife, two dozen agents clad in body armor 207 00:10:59,360 --> 00:11:04,280 Speaker 1: and blist helmets and shields in a battering ram showed 208 00:11:04,360 --> 00:11:09,920 Speaker 1: up at his house pointing rifles at his family. Why 209 00:11:09,960 --> 00:11:13,040 Speaker 1: do you send two dozen agents in body armor to 210 00:11:13,120 --> 00:11:16,040 Speaker 1: arrest a sidewalk counselor who happens to be prone life, 211 00:11:16,080 --> 00:11:20,160 Speaker 1: but you don't devote resources to count to prosecute people 212 00:11:20,360 --> 00:11:24,480 Speaker 1: who are violently firebombing crisis pregnancy. It is a priority 213 00:11:24,480 --> 00:11:27,880 Speaker 1: of the department to prosecute and investigate and find the 214 00:11:27,920 --> 00:11:30,520 Speaker 1: people who are doing those fire bombings. They are doing 215 00:11:30,559 --> 00:11:33,720 Speaker 1: it at night and secret, and we have found we 216 00:11:33,800 --> 00:11:37,160 Speaker 1: have found one group which we did prosecute. We found one. 217 00:11:37,160 --> 00:11:38,720 Speaker 1: How many of them been? How many attacks? There have 218 00:11:38,720 --> 00:11:41,319 Speaker 1: been a lot? And if you have any information specifically 219 00:11:41,360 --> 00:11:44,240 Speaker 1: as to who those people are with, we would be 220 00:11:44,280 --> 00:11:47,680 Speaker 1: glad to have. If you're an American, you see this, 221 00:11:47,920 --> 00:11:49,440 Speaker 1: it's got to scare the hell out of you that 222 00:11:49,480 --> 00:11:53,320 Speaker 1: there is two separate ways at this Department of Justice 223 00:11:53,320 --> 00:11:55,800 Speaker 1: is working. Oh are they a Republican? Oh, let's really 224 00:11:55,840 --> 00:11:58,560 Speaker 1: go after their conservative Let's go after them. They're a Christian, 225 00:11:58,640 --> 00:12:02,880 Speaker 1: let's go if they sidewalk counselor, let's send twenty plus 226 00:12:02,920 --> 00:12:07,320 Speaker 1: men there like it's the military rating your home. Well, look, 227 00:12:08,040 --> 00:12:13,120 Speaker 1: the double standard is obvious with regard to the bombings 228 00:12:13,160 --> 00:12:17,080 Speaker 1: and the attacks on crisis pregnancy centers. You heard the 229 00:12:17,080 --> 00:12:20,959 Speaker 1: Attorney General articulate a new rule at the Biden Department 230 00:12:20,960 --> 00:12:25,000 Speaker 1: of Justice. Apparently they don't do violent crimes anymore if 231 00:12:25,040 --> 00:12:27,840 Speaker 1: they happen at night. Yeah, too hard to investigate. You 232 00:12:27,840 --> 00:12:30,000 Speaker 1: know your dad, how many years was your dad a cop? 233 00:12:30,200 --> 00:12:33,760 Speaker 1: I mean decades he was still works with the Sheriff's department. Now, 234 00:12:34,160 --> 00:12:36,520 Speaker 1: So was it the rule that you only went after 235 00:12:36,520 --> 00:12:38,840 Speaker 1: criminals if they committed crimes and during the daytime. No, 236 00:12:38,960 --> 00:12:41,600 Speaker 1: In fact, he usually works still nights because that's when 237 00:12:41,600 --> 00:12:45,920 Speaker 1: the stuff's going down. It's it's the most asinine statement 238 00:12:45,920 --> 00:12:48,240 Speaker 1: of well, gosh, it happened at night. You know why 239 00:12:48,240 --> 00:12:51,680 Speaker 1: they haven't had any prosecutions because he doesn't care about this. 240 00:12:52,000 --> 00:12:56,640 Speaker 1: He is sympathetic to the violent criminals. He made the 241 00:12:56,679 --> 00:13:00,319 Speaker 1: decision to devote thousands upon thousands of man hours to 242 00:13:00,440 --> 00:13:03,480 Speaker 1: going after the January sixth protesters. If you're a little 243 00:13:03,520 --> 00:13:05,880 Speaker 1: old lady who was in the mall on January sixth 244 00:13:05,840 --> 00:13:09,080 Speaker 1: waving an American flag, he wants to know everything about you. 245 00:13:09,280 --> 00:13:11,040 Speaker 1: If there was bank records, if you just happened to 246 00:13:11,040 --> 00:13:13,480 Speaker 1: be in DC during that time, they were saying, well, 247 00:13:13,480 --> 00:13:15,960 Speaker 1: maybe we should look at those people too. It is 248 00:13:16,040 --> 00:13:20,319 Speaker 1: real simple. They aren't bringing prosecutions because it's not a priority, 249 00:13:20,360 --> 00:13:23,600 Speaker 1: because he doesn't care. And you know, Mark how it's amazing. 250 00:13:24,520 --> 00:13:28,640 Speaker 1: He offered to turn himself in. His lawyer said, all right, 251 00:13:28,640 --> 00:13:30,920 Speaker 1: if you're going to prosecute me, my client will turn 252 00:13:31,400 --> 00:13:36,760 Speaker 1: himself in. But the Biden Justice Department decided, nope, we 253 00:13:36,760 --> 00:13:40,559 Speaker 1: don't want you to turn yourself involuntarily. We're sending literally 254 00:13:41,240 --> 00:13:46,000 Speaker 1: twenty plus FBI agents. And I asked him the next question. 255 00:13:46,040 --> 00:13:47,800 Speaker 1: I asked that we didn't play there, but I asked him, 256 00:13:47,800 --> 00:13:51,400 Speaker 1: did you personally authorize that? He claimed he didn't. And 257 00:13:51,480 --> 00:13:54,240 Speaker 1: this is the pattern. Merrick Garland followed, at most of 258 00:13:54,280 --> 00:13:57,560 Speaker 1: the hearing is just dodging responsibly. Well, it's the FBI 259 00:13:57,600 --> 00:13:59,360 Speaker 1: that does it. Well, it's the FBI that does it. Well, 260 00:13:59,520 --> 00:14:02,679 Speaker 1: you know it's it's he's in charge of them. He 261 00:14:02,800 --> 00:14:05,760 Speaker 1: is in charge. The FBI reports to the Attorney General. 262 00:14:06,000 --> 00:14:10,160 Speaker 1: The FBI is under the Department of Justice. And I 263 00:14:10,240 --> 00:14:13,160 Speaker 1: asked him, okay, well it happened. Do you wish to 264 00:14:13,200 --> 00:14:18,360 Speaker 1: apologize to missus Howe and to their seven children that 265 00:14:18,400 --> 00:14:22,480 Speaker 1: were woken up early in the morning by twenty plus 266 00:14:22,520 --> 00:14:27,320 Speaker 1: FBI agents with rifles pointed at them, and he said, no, no, 267 00:14:27,400 --> 00:14:30,200 Speaker 1: he doesn't. He doesn't apologize in the slights. By the way, 268 00:14:31,600 --> 00:14:35,720 Speaker 1: how pushed a guy. You know they brought the case 269 00:14:36,480 --> 00:14:39,680 Speaker 1: Merrick Garland prosecuted, not personally, but the Department of Justice 270 00:14:39,720 --> 00:14:43,640 Speaker 1: under the league. Yeah, the jury acquitted him in a 271 00:14:43,680 --> 00:14:45,960 Speaker 1: matter of minutes. The jury looked at it and said 272 00:14:46,120 --> 00:14:49,440 Speaker 1: this is stupid. No, we're not going to send a 273 00:14:49,480 --> 00:14:53,480 Speaker 1: guy to jail for thirteen years. That's that's what the statue, 274 00:14:54,160 --> 00:14:57,080 Speaker 1: The statute that Merrick Garland went after this, this sidewalk 275 00:14:57,160 --> 00:15:02,440 Speaker 1: counselor on made him live for up to thirteen years. 276 00:15:03,120 --> 00:15:06,160 Speaker 1: And that's the political double standard we have. There was 277 00:15:06,200 --> 00:15:08,240 Speaker 1: two things in that back and forth it really stuck 278 00:15:08,240 --> 00:15:10,800 Speaker 1: out to me. One of them was he's asking you, 279 00:15:10,840 --> 00:15:13,960 Speaker 1: if you have evidence, bring it to him, and it 280 00:15:14,000 --> 00:15:16,560 Speaker 1: was a snarky line. I understood why said it, but 281 00:15:16,600 --> 00:15:18,560 Speaker 1: I also think it was one of those oh you 282 00:15:18,640 --> 00:15:21,520 Speaker 1: know what moments when you watched it afterwards that he 283 00:15:21,640 --> 00:15:25,480 Speaker 1: walked into basically saying I'm literally not looking for evidence 284 00:15:25,520 --> 00:15:27,920 Speaker 1: by default, is what he was basically admitting, saying if 285 00:15:27,920 --> 00:15:29,960 Speaker 1: you've got something, give it to me, because I don't 286 00:15:30,000 --> 00:15:32,520 Speaker 1: have it and I'm not looking for it. Well, and 287 00:15:33,000 --> 00:15:36,520 Speaker 1: look at the last podcast we did at Seepack. We 288 00:15:36,600 --> 00:15:41,520 Speaker 1: played my questioning with him about the protesters at the 289 00:15:41,600 --> 00:15:46,760 Speaker 1: Spring Court Justice's house. He also played ignorance there, and 290 00:15:47,480 --> 00:15:50,000 Speaker 1: there he blamed it on the marshals. And this is 291 00:15:50,000 --> 00:15:53,560 Speaker 1: an interesting So it is true that there were marshals 292 00:15:53,600 --> 00:15:56,600 Speaker 1: there to protect the justices. So I'm glad they were there. 293 00:15:56,360 --> 00:16:00,360 Speaker 1: That was necessary, particularly given that we know someone traveled 294 00:16:00,400 --> 00:16:03,360 Speaker 1: from California with a gun and a knife and burglary 295 00:16:03,400 --> 00:16:07,760 Speaker 1: tools to murder Justice KAVANAUGHI leftist mad about the leaked 296 00:16:07,920 --> 00:16:13,120 Speaker 1: Dabb's decision, but he tried to avoid responsibility by saying 297 00:16:13,400 --> 00:16:17,360 Speaker 1: the marshals decide whether to arrest someone. Now he's right, 298 00:16:17,840 --> 00:16:21,280 Speaker 1: the marshal's on site decide whether to arrest someone. But 299 00:16:21,400 --> 00:16:24,640 Speaker 1: what he refused to take responsibility for is it is 300 00:16:24,680 --> 00:16:29,560 Speaker 1: the prosecutor, and only the prosecutor, who decides whether to 301 00:16:29,640 --> 00:16:33,560 Speaker 1: charge someone, whether to actually go to a grand jury, 302 00:16:34,560 --> 00:16:38,960 Speaker 1: seek an indictment, get an indictment. Only Merrick Garland, only 303 00:16:39,000 --> 00:16:43,720 Speaker 1: the Department of Justice can get a federal indictment. And 304 00:16:43,920 --> 00:16:47,040 Speaker 1: once again you know, he's like, you know, he says, well, gosh, 305 00:16:47,040 --> 00:16:51,280 Speaker 1: no one was arrested. These protesters at the justice's houses 306 00:16:51,600 --> 00:16:54,840 Speaker 1: put up pictures of themselves on social media. There they 307 00:16:54,880 --> 00:16:58,760 Speaker 1: are confessing, and and there the crimes committed which are 308 00:16:58,800 --> 00:17:02,040 Speaker 1: to daunting it, and the statute is clear. I don't 309 00:17:02,080 --> 00:17:03,760 Speaker 1: think we've spent enough time in this. I want you 310 00:17:03,800 --> 00:17:06,439 Speaker 1: to explain why, not just for the Supreme Court, but 311 00:17:06,520 --> 00:17:11,639 Speaker 1: in general, why we have serious laws about intimidation of 312 00:17:11,960 --> 00:17:16,640 Speaker 1: judges of jurors. Why is that in place across all 313 00:17:16,720 --> 00:17:20,360 Speaker 1: sectors of our legal system, because we need to have 314 00:17:20,400 --> 00:17:24,000 Speaker 1: a legal system that operates fairly and free of intimidation. 315 00:17:24,119 --> 00:17:27,119 Speaker 1: So you've got it is a federal crime to protest 316 00:17:28,040 --> 00:17:31,679 Speaker 1: in front of a juror's home in order to influence 317 00:17:31,720 --> 00:17:33,679 Speaker 1: the outcome of a case. You know, you think about it. 318 00:17:33,760 --> 00:17:36,879 Speaker 1: Let's suppose you're a mob boss and you find out 319 00:17:36,920 --> 00:17:39,160 Speaker 1: where the jurors live, and while the jurors are still 320 00:17:39,160 --> 00:17:42,200 Speaker 1: considering the case guilty or not, you send a bunch 321 00:17:42,240 --> 00:17:45,960 Speaker 1: of folks to their homes. That's called jury tampering, and 322 00:17:46,160 --> 00:17:49,639 Speaker 1: you're going to go to jail. Quite rightly, you're supposed to. Anyway. 323 00:17:49,880 --> 00:17:52,520 Speaker 1: You're supposed to the same as true for a judge. Look, 324 00:17:52,880 --> 00:17:57,280 Speaker 1: the protesters were outside the justices houses before the dab's 325 00:17:57,320 --> 00:17:59,919 Speaker 1: opinion had issued, so that there'd been a leaked opinion, 326 00:18:00,600 --> 00:18:03,440 Speaker 1: but the court had not issued the opinion. Any one 327 00:18:03,440 --> 00:18:06,840 Speaker 1: of those justices could have changed their minds. And that's 328 00:18:06,880 --> 00:18:09,240 Speaker 1: why the law says, Look, you're not allowed to go 329 00:18:09,800 --> 00:18:16,840 Speaker 1: and try to intimidate judges into changing their rulings. You're 330 00:18:16,840 --> 00:18:20,680 Speaker 1: not allowed to go try to intimidate jurors into changing 331 00:18:20,680 --> 00:18:23,600 Speaker 1: how they're going to vote in a case. And Merritt 332 00:18:23,600 --> 00:18:25,919 Speaker 1: Garland knows all of that. The amazing thing is he 333 00:18:26,000 --> 00:18:29,320 Speaker 1: was a judge for twenty four years. He knows that. 334 00:18:30,160 --> 00:18:34,000 Speaker 1: He just agrees with the protesters in front of the 335 00:18:34,040 --> 00:18:38,119 Speaker 1: justices homes, and he's sympathetic. Agrees is probably too strong, 336 00:18:38,200 --> 00:18:42,840 Speaker 1: but he's sympathetic to the violent attacks on the crisis 337 00:18:42,880 --> 00:18:46,920 Speaker 1: pregnancy centers. He's certainly not willing to put serious man 338 00:18:46,920 --> 00:18:48,919 Speaker 1: hours into into trying to find out who did it 339 00:18:49,000 --> 00:18:53,480 Speaker 1: because it's it's it's not important to him. One other 340 00:18:53,520 --> 00:18:56,600 Speaker 1: thing in you as a lawyer, I go back in 341 00:18:56,680 --> 00:19:01,000 Speaker 1: my mind to Waco when I see the government ratchet 342 00:19:01,080 --> 00:19:05,960 Speaker 1: up the heat or the pressure on this house with 343 00:19:06,040 --> 00:19:09,200 Speaker 1: these seven kids there, You're putting lives at risk, especially 344 00:19:09,200 --> 00:19:13,000 Speaker 1: when you have direct communication with the attorney saying if 345 00:19:13,040 --> 00:19:16,240 Speaker 1: you're gonna prosecute me, he will turn himself in. I'm 346 00:19:16,240 --> 00:19:20,000 Speaker 1: assuming the reason why they have that communication you turn 347 00:19:20,080 --> 00:19:22,359 Speaker 1: yourself in if you're going to be prosecuted, is so 348 00:19:22,400 --> 00:19:25,639 Speaker 1: that there isn't a misunderstanding or this under siege moment 349 00:19:25,920 --> 00:19:28,320 Speaker 1: or guns drawn when there doesn't need to be guns 350 00:19:28,400 --> 00:19:31,639 Speaker 1: drawn because your attorney is going to walk you into 351 00:19:31,680 --> 00:19:34,600 Speaker 1: a courthouse and book you, and they offer to do it, 352 00:19:34,600 --> 00:19:36,240 Speaker 1: they didn't do it, And I say, wake up, because 353 00:19:36,280 --> 00:19:40,359 Speaker 1: my point is one bad moment, one accident, one ratcheting 354 00:19:40,440 --> 00:19:44,280 Speaker 1: up here. You're putting family members at risk now, just 355 00:19:44,359 --> 00:19:47,680 Speaker 1: because you're trying to say we're the government. Sure, no, no, 356 00:19:47,720 --> 00:19:53,840 Speaker 1: it's it's designed to terrorize. Listen. The Department of Justice 357 00:19:53,840 --> 00:19:56,600 Speaker 1: has not pointed to any evidence that they had reason 358 00:19:56,680 --> 00:20:00,199 Speaker 1: to think that that Holk was dangerous. You know, if 359 00:20:00,200 --> 00:20:03,359 Speaker 1: you're going to arrest Tony Montana from Scarface, then you 360 00:20:03,400 --> 00:20:06,080 Speaker 1: may need twenty agents and rifles and body armor, like 361 00:20:06,119 --> 00:20:09,520 Speaker 1: if you're going to a drug dealer or gang bangers 362 00:20:09,640 --> 00:20:12,160 Speaker 1: or a violent criminal someone that shows that they're willing 363 00:20:12,200 --> 00:20:16,439 Speaker 1: to kill you. Yeah. Look, that's the circumstances where you 364 00:20:16,520 --> 00:20:19,760 Speaker 1: need that kind of show of force for a sidewalk 365 00:20:19,880 --> 00:20:27,600 Speaker 1: counselor who, on all indications it has been not only peaceful, 366 00:20:27,680 --> 00:20:31,879 Speaker 1: but is devoting significant time to trying to save the 367 00:20:31,920 --> 00:20:37,280 Speaker 1: lives of unborn children, not through violence but through speech 368 00:20:37,359 --> 00:20:41,440 Speaker 1: and prayer. The FBI did it to send a statement. 369 00:20:41,840 --> 00:20:45,520 Speaker 1: Number one, they don't care that they terrorize him and 370 00:20:45,560 --> 00:20:48,919 Speaker 1: his family. Those children. Look seven kids. You and I 371 00:20:48,960 --> 00:20:52,719 Speaker 1: are both dads, and imagine how your kids would react 372 00:20:52,760 --> 00:20:55,160 Speaker 1: to twenty agents and body armors showing up and pointing 373 00:20:55,240 --> 00:20:58,960 Speaker 1: rifles out. You'd be terrified. Yeah, and you know, I 374 00:20:59,359 --> 00:21:02,480 Speaker 1: can't imagine that those kids are not having nightmares about it. 375 00:21:02,520 --> 00:21:05,000 Speaker 1: I mean, that is a very And by the way, 376 00:21:05,200 --> 00:21:09,120 Speaker 1: all the neighbors it's like the purp walk. Look, if 377 00:21:09,119 --> 00:21:11,160 Speaker 1: you're a mob boss, you know what, they may put 378 00:21:11,200 --> 00:21:13,479 Speaker 1: handcuffs on you and walk you down the street in 379 00:21:13,480 --> 00:21:16,200 Speaker 1: front of the in front of the cameras to get 380 00:21:16,240 --> 00:21:19,560 Speaker 1: it get on the news. The FBI did this because 381 00:21:19,600 --> 00:21:22,760 Speaker 1: they want to send a message pro life activist, we 382 00:21:22,960 --> 00:21:28,679 Speaker 1: don't like you. And he claimed he didn't personally authorize it. 383 00:21:30,040 --> 00:21:32,040 Speaker 1: He either I don't know if he knew about it 384 00:21:32,160 --> 00:21:34,439 Speaker 1: or not. I didn't. I didn't get a chance to answer. 385 00:21:34,640 --> 00:21:36,119 Speaker 1: It ran out of time, so I didn't get to 386 00:21:36,119 --> 00:21:39,239 Speaker 1: ask him if he knew about it or not. He 387 00:21:39,359 --> 00:21:42,040 Speaker 1: certainly doesn't apologize for it now and he hasn't changed 388 00:21:42,080 --> 00:21:46,320 Speaker 1: anything because and what he did is he just blamed 389 00:21:46,320 --> 00:21:48,960 Speaker 1: the FBI's the FBI's decisions, the FBI decisions, they make 390 00:21:49,000 --> 00:21:52,240 Speaker 1: the decision, then I'm in charge of them. But whatever, 391 00:21:52,760 --> 00:21:57,320 Speaker 1: and if they screw it up badly, a reasonable boss, 392 00:21:57,400 --> 00:21:59,040 Speaker 1: if you didn't know it about it at the time, 393 00:21:59,119 --> 00:22:02,080 Speaker 1: would tell them, you screwed it up badly, don't do 394 00:22:02,160 --> 00:22:04,480 Speaker 1: this again. You know what he did, though, he went 395 00:22:04,480 --> 00:22:06,560 Speaker 1: ahead and prosecuted out so he didn't think it was 396 00:22:06,560 --> 00:22:09,000 Speaker 1: screwed up that badly because he thought it was appropriate 397 00:22:09,240 --> 00:22:12,439 Speaker 1: to go after him on federal charges instead of and 398 00:22:12,560 --> 00:22:16,040 Speaker 1: that was directly under his Department of Justice. Right, you 399 00:22:16,080 --> 00:22:18,359 Speaker 1: can separate yourself from the FBI, just so people understand 400 00:22:18,359 --> 00:22:20,000 Speaker 1: the hierarchy here, and you can say, oh, that was 401 00:22:20,040 --> 00:22:23,719 Speaker 1: the FBI that raided his house, but the decision of prosecute, 402 00:22:23,720 --> 00:22:26,119 Speaker 1: you can't say that's the FBI's decision. That is the 403 00:22:26,200 --> 00:22:31,560 Speaker 1: DOJ's decision, and I would wager a hundred bucks the 404 00:22:31,680 --> 00:22:36,120 Speaker 1: prosecutors were fully aware that they were going on that 405 00:22:36,200 --> 00:22:39,919 Speaker 1: raid early morning. I don't have proof of it, but 406 00:22:40,040 --> 00:22:43,080 Speaker 1: the way it ordinarily operates in a situation like that, 407 00:22:43,160 --> 00:22:46,600 Speaker 1: the prosecutor, maybe not the Attorney General, but the AUSA, 408 00:22:46,680 --> 00:22:49,719 Speaker 1: the assistant US attorney handling the case would know about it, 409 00:22:49,960 --> 00:22:54,720 Speaker 1: and depending at what level. Look, I would love to 410 00:22:54,720 --> 00:22:57,600 Speaker 1: know who at the Department of Justice signed off on 411 00:22:57,680 --> 00:23:00,000 Speaker 1: this use of force, who signed off on this prosecute, 412 00:23:00,680 --> 00:23:03,840 Speaker 1: how far up the chain it went, And if we 413 00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:09,040 Speaker 1: had a Department of Justice that actually was accountable to 414 00:23:09,080 --> 00:23:11,120 Speaker 1: the people, we would know the answer to those questions, 415 00:23:11,760 --> 00:23:19,679 Speaker 1: you know, the questioning From Garland's look, he's offended that 416 00:23:19,880 --> 00:23:24,320 Speaker 1: senators dare ask him questions. He doesn't want to answer anything, 417 00:23:24,440 --> 00:23:27,600 Speaker 1: and much less imply they did something wrong. And it 418 00:23:28,119 --> 00:23:32,280 Speaker 1: is it's not just that he looks at senators on 419 00:23:32,320 --> 00:23:36,119 Speaker 1: the Judiciary Committee, which by the way, is charged with oversight. 420 00:23:36,160 --> 00:23:40,400 Speaker 1: It is literally our responsibility to engage an oversight over 421 00:23:40,440 --> 00:23:43,760 Speaker 1: the Department of Justice, and we do that for both 422 00:23:43,800 --> 00:23:49,520 Speaker 1: Republican and Democrat administrations. But his contempt is really contempt 423 00:23:49,520 --> 00:23:52,960 Speaker 1: for the American people because it is saying you have 424 00:23:53,040 --> 00:23:56,199 Speaker 1: no right to second guess me. I will not answer 425 00:23:56,240 --> 00:24:01,480 Speaker 1: your questions because I don't answer to you. That's really dangerous. Yeah, 426 00:24:01,520 --> 00:24:04,440 Speaker 1: it's dangerous. 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You'll get the best deals of the day 453 00:25:14,359 --> 00:25:17,959 Speaker 1: their new number, eight seven eight Patriot. Senator, you mentioned 454 00:25:17,960 --> 00:25:20,159 Speaker 1: there was a lot going on the same day. The 455 00:25:20,320 --> 00:25:26,359 Speaker 1: FA administrator nominee has become a disaster, and there's also 456 00:25:26,400 --> 00:25:29,480 Speaker 1: an issue here, a public corruption with this individual. But 457 00:25:29,600 --> 00:25:32,240 Speaker 1: I want to start with just you kind of laying 458 00:25:32,280 --> 00:25:35,920 Speaker 1: the groundwork for this guy at this hearing basic questions. 459 00:25:35,960 --> 00:25:38,320 Speaker 1: FA is a big job being in charge of it's 460 00:25:38,320 --> 00:25:41,000 Speaker 1: an even bigger job. And making sure you know, like 461 00:25:41,160 --> 00:25:44,000 Speaker 1: what the FA does kind of important. Take a look. 462 00:25:44,560 --> 00:25:50,600 Speaker 1: Thank you, Madam Chair Mister Washington, you've emphasized your time 463 00:25:50,640 --> 00:25:54,480 Speaker 1: the CEO of the Denver Report twenty months. Have you 464 00:25:54,520 --> 00:25:58,240 Speaker 1: ever flown a plane? Thank you for the question, Senator, No, 465 00:25:58,359 --> 00:26:00,920 Speaker 1: I have never flown a plane. You weren't a military 466 00:26:00,960 --> 00:26:04,800 Speaker 1: pilot or a commercial airline pilot. No center. Have you 467 00:26:04,800 --> 00:26:09,119 Speaker 1: ever worked for an airline, no centator. Have you ever 468 00:26:09,160 --> 00:26:12,439 Speaker 1: worked as an air traffic controller, No senator. Have you 469 00:26:12,440 --> 00:26:15,800 Speaker 1: ever worked for a company that manufactures airplanes? No centator. 470 00:26:16,119 --> 00:26:18,560 Speaker 1: Have you ever worked for a company that fixes airplanes? 471 00:26:19,119 --> 00:26:23,160 Speaker 1: No center. So for twenty months, you've been in charge 472 00:26:23,400 --> 00:26:29,800 Speaker 1: of the Denver Airport. You're in charge of the airport's buildings. Correct, 473 00:26:31,400 --> 00:26:33,359 Speaker 1: I am in charge of everything that goes on at 474 00:26:33,400 --> 00:26:36,760 Speaker 1: that airport. Okay, well, I'm not sure that's exactly right. 475 00:26:36,920 --> 00:26:40,280 Speaker 1: You're you're in charge of parking at the airport. Is 476 00:26:40,280 --> 00:26:41,960 Speaker 1: that correct? How many parking spaces are there at the 477 00:26:41,960 --> 00:26:46,280 Speaker 1: Denver Airport? Thousands? Okay. You're in charge of all the 478 00:26:46,320 --> 00:26:49,000 Speaker 1: shops and restaurants in the airport. How many restaurants are 479 00:26:49,000 --> 00:26:51,879 Speaker 1: there in the Denver Airport? We have anywhere from one 480 00:26:51,960 --> 00:26:55,280 Speaker 1: hundred and fifty to two hundred or so. You're in 481 00:26:55,359 --> 00:26:58,920 Speaker 1: charge of coffee shops and closing stores and news stands. 482 00:27:01,240 --> 00:27:04,840 Speaker 1: You're not in charge of the pilots, are you no, Senator. 483 00:27:05,600 --> 00:27:09,360 Speaker 1: You're not in charge of the airplane mechanics, are you no? Senator? 484 00:27:09,520 --> 00:27:11,400 Speaker 1: You're not in charge of the air traffic controllers? Are 485 00:27:11,400 --> 00:27:16,880 Speaker 1: you no centator? You're not in charge of any of it. Look, 486 00:27:16,920 --> 00:27:22,480 Speaker 1: I got to say this nomination is really astonishing. Look, 487 00:27:22,600 --> 00:27:27,760 Speaker 1: FAA is a really important position. And if you look 488 00:27:27,800 --> 00:27:30,720 Speaker 1: back at the people who've been nominated to lead the 489 00:27:30,800 --> 00:27:37,720 Speaker 1: FAA under both Democrats and Republicans, they're typically really senior 490 00:27:37,840 --> 00:27:41,199 Speaker 1: individuals in aviation. They would be fair to say a 491 00:27:41,320 --> 00:27:47,720 Speaker 1: nonpartisan nominee. Usually, yeah, they're usually someone that has twenty 492 00:27:47,880 --> 00:27:51,600 Speaker 1: thirty forty years experience in aviation. Many of them have 493 00:27:51,640 --> 00:27:53,560 Speaker 1: been military pilots. When I asked you, you're in a 494 00:27:53,600 --> 00:27:57,240 Speaker 1: military pilot. An awful lot of FAA administrators were military pilots. 495 00:27:57,520 --> 00:28:01,400 Speaker 1: An awful lot of them were airline higlots or airline captains. 496 00:28:01,400 --> 00:28:05,840 Speaker 1: Have twenty thirty years flying, you know, flying airline jets, 497 00:28:06,560 --> 00:28:12,000 Speaker 1: um frequently, they have experience in management and an airline. Frequently, 498 00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:18,439 Speaker 1: they'll have experience dealing with aviation safety. Frequently, they'll have 499 00:28:19,640 --> 00:28:24,840 Speaker 1: certifications and other experience. Like it is a technical position. 500 00:28:26,480 --> 00:28:31,200 Speaker 1: And in this instance, Phil Washington, he spent over over 501 00:28:31,240 --> 00:28:33,520 Speaker 1: two decades in the military, and I certainly respect his 502 00:28:33,640 --> 00:28:40,920 Speaker 1: military service. He was in the military, he was not 503 00:28:41,000 --> 00:28:43,800 Speaker 1: involved in aviation, so his military service is honorable. It 504 00:28:43,880 --> 00:28:46,440 Speaker 1: just doesn't have to do this new job. It doesn't 505 00:28:46,440 --> 00:28:48,560 Speaker 1: have anything to do with planes. And then he was 506 00:28:48,600 --> 00:28:51,560 Speaker 1: the head of the La Metro. Now the La Metro 507 00:28:52,880 --> 00:28:57,640 Speaker 1: is buses and trains and and and he's an administrator 508 00:28:57,680 --> 00:29:00,360 Speaker 1: and a bureaucrat. And then he got a pointed to 509 00:29:00,440 --> 00:29:04,160 Speaker 1: be head of the Denver Airport. And look what the 510 00:29:04,200 --> 00:29:10,760 Speaker 1: Biden administration is doing here is they've nominated him because 511 00:29:12,280 --> 00:29:16,640 Speaker 1: some Colorado Democrats care about putting him in this position. 512 00:29:16,960 --> 00:29:21,040 Speaker 1: And they're treating the FAA as a patronage position, they're 513 00:29:21,080 --> 00:29:24,200 Speaker 1: treating it as just a spoil system. Let's stick a 514 00:29:24,280 --> 00:29:29,280 Speaker 1: Democrat because this makes Democrat politicians happy. Both Democrat senators 515 00:29:29,280 --> 00:29:31,840 Speaker 1: from Colorado came to the came to the committee and 516 00:29:31,960 --> 00:29:34,640 Speaker 1: introduced him. And this is all about the Denver mayor 517 00:29:34,840 --> 00:29:39,800 Speaker 1: was there. This is all about we're giving a favor, 518 00:29:39,920 --> 00:29:43,120 Speaker 1: a political favor. And you know what, if there's as 519 00:29:43,160 --> 00:29:46,240 Speaker 1: I put it out, I said, look, if they wanted 520 00:29:46,280 --> 00:29:49,000 Speaker 1: to nominate him to the Amtrak board, and he was 521 00:29:49,040 --> 00:29:52,840 Speaker 1: initially considered for the Amtrak board, that would have probably 522 00:29:52,840 --> 00:29:57,600 Speaker 1: been fine. Like he might well have gotten bipartisan support 523 00:29:57,680 --> 00:29:59,600 Speaker 1: to be on the Amtrak board. Okay, fine, he was 524 00:29:59,640 --> 00:30:02,480 Speaker 1: a at the La Metro, dealt with dealt with train issues. 525 00:30:02,720 --> 00:30:07,440 Speaker 1: That's fine. The FAA, Look, you and I are in 526 00:30:07,520 --> 00:30:10,920 Speaker 1: planes all the time. When you get on an airplane, 527 00:30:10,960 --> 00:30:14,880 Speaker 1: you were counting on the FAA to do everything possible 528 00:30:14,880 --> 00:30:16,880 Speaker 1: to keep you safe. Now, that's not just the air 529 00:30:16,880 --> 00:30:23,360 Speaker 1: traffic control. That's also the pilot, pilot training that that's 530 00:30:23,440 --> 00:30:28,880 Speaker 1: also airplane manufacturer, it's airplane maintenance, you know. I asked 531 00:30:28,960 --> 00:30:31,840 Speaker 1: him about the seven thirty seven mach You recall there 532 00:30:31,840 --> 00:30:34,680 Speaker 1: were two horrific crashes of the seven thirty seven Max. 533 00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:37,480 Speaker 1: Three hundred and forty six people lost their lives in 534 00:30:37,520 --> 00:30:40,840 Speaker 1: those two crashes. When I got into the technical details 535 00:30:40,880 --> 00:30:43,360 Speaker 1: about the seven thirty seven Max and I asked, why 536 00:30:43,440 --> 00:30:47,200 Speaker 1: did those crashes happen? His answer was I don't know 537 00:30:47,240 --> 00:30:50,479 Speaker 1: why they happened. And I said, you know what, I 538 00:30:50,600 --> 00:30:54,000 Speaker 1: believe you, Yeah, I believe you don't know. And that's 539 00:30:54,000 --> 00:30:57,160 Speaker 1: a big friggin problem because the head of the FAA 540 00:30:57,240 --> 00:31:00,520 Speaker 1: should know. By the way, the administrator of the FA 541 00:31:00,600 --> 00:31:03,280 Speaker 1: who at the time, who had been a pilot for 542 00:31:03,640 --> 00:31:08,360 Speaker 1: I think almost forty years, the seven thirty seven Max 543 00:31:08,440 --> 00:31:12,040 Speaker 1: was grounded. Now what happened is Boeing with the seven 544 00:31:12,120 --> 00:31:14,800 Speaker 1: thirty seven Max, had this new system called the MCAST 545 00:31:14,880 --> 00:31:19,600 Speaker 1: system that if you get into some of the technical 546 00:31:19,640 --> 00:31:23,480 Speaker 1: details on the front of the seven thirty seven Max, 547 00:31:23,520 --> 00:31:29,760 Speaker 1: they're two sensors called angle of attack sensors, and one 548 00:31:29,840 --> 00:31:32,280 Speaker 1: of them, at least in one of the two crash crashes, 549 00:31:32,280 --> 00:31:34,560 Speaker 1: it appeared it was sheared off of the plane by 550 00:31:34,560 --> 00:31:37,200 Speaker 1: a bird strike. A bird hit it and broke the 551 00:31:37,240 --> 00:31:42,040 Speaker 1: censor off, and so the result that the MCAST system 552 00:31:42,720 --> 00:31:46,200 Speaker 1: was sending a message to the plane and automatically turning 553 00:31:46,200 --> 00:31:49,080 Speaker 1: the nose down, turning the nose down, turning the nose down. 554 00:31:49,360 --> 00:31:54,360 Speaker 1: And the two crashes that happened, you had relatively inexperienced pilots. 555 00:31:54,400 --> 00:31:57,080 Speaker 1: They were foreign pilots. They didn't have anywhere near the 556 00:31:57,120 --> 00:32:01,800 Speaker 1: experience that a US plot pilot would have. And the 557 00:32:01,920 --> 00:32:04,160 Speaker 1: nose went down, down, down, and it just steered the 558 00:32:04,160 --> 00:32:09,160 Speaker 1: nose into the ground and crashed and killed everyone. And Bowing, unfortunately, 559 00:32:09,200 --> 00:32:13,000 Speaker 1: did not train the pilots about the MCAST system. So presumably, 560 00:32:13,000 --> 00:32:14,760 Speaker 1: and in fact, if you if you listen to the 561 00:32:14,760 --> 00:32:17,760 Speaker 1: back and forth with the air traffic controllers. The pilots 562 00:32:17,760 --> 00:32:19,640 Speaker 1: are essentially saying, what the hell's going on? They don't 563 00:32:19,720 --> 00:32:27,520 Speaker 1: understand why the plane is automatically going down. They grounded 564 00:32:27,520 --> 00:32:31,200 Speaker 1: every seven thirty seven Max for months. They changed the system, 565 00:32:31,240 --> 00:32:34,680 Speaker 1: they changed the training, they went through the training. By 566 00:32:34,720 --> 00:32:37,440 Speaker 1: the way, I sat down and met with pilots and said, okay, 567 00:32:37,480 --> 00:32:39,360 Speaker 1: what would you do? And they explained you to just 568 00:32:39,600 --> 00:32:42,360 Speaker 1: the trim like an experienced pilot. Even if the MCAST 569 00:32:42,480 --> 00:32:46,440 Speaker 1: was operating, an experienced pilot would know how to fix it. 570 00:32:47,240 --> 00:32:49,240 Speaker 1: Now I don't know how to fix it, but but 571 00:32:49,320 --> 00:32:52,600 Speaker 1: an experienced pilot would. And what's interesting is the former 572 00:32:52,680 --> 00:32:55,680 Speaker 1: RAFAE administrator when they allowed the seven thirty seven Max 573 00:32:55,760 --> 00:32:58,600 Speaker 1: back in the air before they did so, he actually 574 00:32:58,600 --> 00:33:02,520 Speaker 1: went and flew the damn thing. I mean, that's it's 575 00:33:02,520 --> 00:33:05,880 Speaker 1: a non political position. Yes, it's it is a true 576 00:33:06,160 --> 00:33:11,640 Speaker 1: safety technology. Understanding air travel, understanding what the military may 577 00:33:11,680 --> 00:33:15,240 Speaker 1: need when it comes to airspace, understanding what civilians need, 578 00:33:15,360 --> 00:33:19,200 Speaker 1: Understanding minimum requirements. Look, if you need heart surgery and 579 00:33:19,400 --> 00:33:22,200 Speaker 1: the hospital tells you, well, hey, this guy's a big 580 00:33:22,240 --> 00:33:24,400 Speaker 1: donor to the hospital, so we're gonna have him to 581 00:33:24,440 --> 00:33:27,440 Speaker 1: the heart surgery. He's not a doctor. But but we 582 00:33:27,480 --> 00:33:30,720 Speaker 1: really like him. You'd you'd say, that's crazy. The FAA 583 00:33:30,800 --> 00:33:36,160 Speaker 1: needs someone who knows something about airplanes. Will his nomination 584 00:33:36,320 --> 00:33:39,720 Speaker 1: make it? I mean the question that you asked, Honestly, 585 00:33:39,840 --> 00:33:42,320 Speaker 1: I didn't think was snarky. It may have come across 586 00:33:42,400 --> 00:33:44,720 Speaker 1: that way because he didn't answer any of the questions 587 00:33:44,840 --> 00:33:47,080 Speaker 1: with a yes. It was all no, I've never done this. 588 00:33:47,000 --> 00:33:51,280 Speaker 1: This I didn't. I was saying, it's showing how glarely 589 00:33:51,320 --> 00:33:53,720 Speaker 1: bad of a nominee. This was. I don't think he'll 590 00:33:53,720 --> 00:34:00,480 Speaker 1: be confirmed. Really. I several Democrats have expressed concerns, and 591 00:34:00,800 --> 00:34:03,240 Speaker 1: I got to say, look, let's say you're a Democrat senator, 592 00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:07,880 Speaker 1: and let's say you're up for reelection in twenty twenty four. 593 00:34:07,880 --> 00:34:11,120 Speaker 1: As a whole bunch of them are do you really 594 00:34:11,160 --> 00:34:14,720 Speaker 1: want to cast a vote to confirm an FA administrator 595 00:34:14,800 --> 00:34:20,120 Speaker 1: with zero experience in aviation or aviation safety. You know, listen, 596 00:34:20,160 --> 00:34:24,879 Speaker 1: if God forbid, in the next two years there's an 597 00:34:24,880 --> 00:34:27,879 Speaker 1: airline crash, and look, we've had a series of near 598 00:34:27,960 --> 00:34:32,400 Speaker 1: misses recently. This position has not had a Senate confirmed 599 00:34:33,280 --> 00:34:38,160 Speaker 1: administrator in a year because the Biden administration doesn't prioritize it. Instead, 600 00:34:38,480 --> 00:34:42,400 Speaker 1: they're using it as a political benefit, as a gift, 601 00:34:42,440 --> 00:34:45,880 Speaker 1: a patronage job, rather than saying, look, we ought to 602 00:34:45,880 --> 00:34:49,080 Speaker 1: have an FAA administrator in there right now who knows 603 00:34:49,120 --> 00:34:51,600 Speaker 1: what he or she is doing and is examining why 604 00:34:51,600 --> 00:34:53,760 Speaker 1: are these near misses happening and how can we prevent 605 00:34:53,760 --> 00:34:58,920 Speaker 1: them from happening. But if you're a Democrat senator, and 606 00:34:59,080 --> 00:35:02,160 Speaker 1: god forbid, their isn't an airline crash, do you really 607 00:35:02,160 --> 00:35:04,560 Speaker 1: want to be going to your voters saying, yeah, I've 608 00:35:04,640 --> 00:35:06,160 Speaker 1: voted to put in place a guy who had no 609 00:35:06,200 --> 00:35:09,040 Speaker 1: idea what he was doing, and now a bunch of 610 00:35:09,040 --> 00:35:12,879 Speaker 1: people well and their lives have been lost. I want 611 00:35:12,880 --> 00:35:14,920 Speaker 1: to also, I think there's a clip of you that 612 00:35:15,160 --> 00:35:19,040 Speaker 1: was brilliant summing up the lack of qualifications. That's guy. 613 00:35:19,040 --> 00:35:20,440 Speaker 1: I want to play that in a moment. Before we 614 00:35:20,440 --> 00:35:21,680 Speaker 1: get that, though, I want to tell you about our 615 00:35:21,680 --> 00:35:23,759 Speaker 1: good friends over at Chalk. 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I want everybody to 635 00:36:29,239 --> 00:36:30,920 Speaker 1: see it. If you miss it, because it's brilliant, take 636 00:36:30,920 --> 00:36:35,600 Speaker 1: a look. FAA administrator is a specialized position. I'm not 637 00:36:35,680 --> 00:36:38,160 Speaker 1: qualified to be FA administrator. I have no idea how 638 00:36:38,160 --> 00:36:39,959 Speaker 1: to fly plane. No one in their right mind would 639 00:36:39,960 --> 00:36:43,000 Speaker 1: put me in charge of aviation safety because I don't 640 00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:45,040 Speaker 1: have that experience. I suspect most of the members of 641 00:36:45,080 --> 00:36:49,840 Speaker 1: this committee are in a similar position the American people 642 00:36:49,920 --> 00:36:52,720 Speaker 1: when they think about aviation safety, When they think about 643 00:36:52,920 --> 00:36:56,160 Speaker 1: I played in this committee a Southwest Airlines and FedEx 644 00:36:56,920 --> 00:37:01,839 Speaker 1: plane almost colliding at Austin's Airport ward, they want an 645 00:37:01,840 --> 00:37:06,000 Speaker 1: FA administrator who knows why those planes crash and knows 646 00:37:06,040 --> 00:37:09,279 Speaker 1: how to fix it to keep them safe. And with 647 00:37:09,320 --> 00:37:13,680 Speaker 1: all respect, mister Washington, it gives no comfort to the 648 00:37:13,719 --> 00:37:18,280 Speaker 1: flying public that their pilot might be a transgendered witch 649 00:37:19,680 --> 00:37:22,080 Speaker 1: but doesn't actually know how to prevent the plane from 650 00:37:22,120 --> 00:37:25,080 Speaker 1: crashing into the ground and killing them. I believe your 651 00:37:25,120 --> 00:37:30,800 Speaker 1: record is woefully lacking, and in fact, you have zero 652 00:37:30,880 --> 00:37:34,719 Speaker 1: aviation safety experience, and I don't believe you'll have the 653 00:37:34,800 --> 00:37:37,880 Speaker 1: votes for confirmation. As you and I visited about earlier 654 00:37:37,920 --> 00:37:40,200 Speaker 1: this week, it reminds me so much by the way 655 00:37:40,200 --> 00:37:42,560 Speaker 1: of Mayor Pete, because there's a great headline this week 656 00:37:42,600 --> 00:37:46,080 Speaker 1: it says Pete starts to rethink how he does his 657 00:37:46,200 --> 00:37:49,560 Speaker 1: job in the wake of the Ohio trained disaster. Really, 658 00:37:49,600 --> 00:37:53,200 Speaker 1: their nominations are so much alike. It's scary. No experience 659 00:37:53,200 --> 00:37:55,759 Speaker 1: in the job they're about to get, and there are 660 00:37:55,840 --> 00:37:59,279 Speaker 1: consequences when you get a job you know nothing about. Yeah, look, Pete, 661 00:37:59,280 --> 00:38:02,439 Speaker 1: buddhag Edge is wildly unqualified for the job he has. 662 00:38:02,960 --> 00:38:05,680 Speaker 1: He's a small town mayor. And we've seen one transportation 663 00:38:05,719 --> 00:38:10,160 Speaker 1: just after after another after another. The FAA reports to 664 00:38:10,239 --> 00:38:13,240 Speaker 1: the Secretary of Transportation. So just like the FBI reports 665 00:38:13,239 --> 00:38:17,400 Speaker 1: to the Attorney General, the FAA administrator reports to the 666 00:38:17,440 --> 00:38:20,920 Speaker 1: Secretary of Transportation. So you know, if if Biden's FA 667 00:38:21,000 --> 00:38:25,280 Speaker 1: nominee is confirmed, I can imagine the conversation of Phil 668 00:38:25,320 --> 00:38:30,280 Speaker 1: Washington saying, well, I don't know what this aviation safety 669 00:38:30,320 --> 00:38:32,080 Speaker 1: is about, and Buddha Jedge say, yeah, I mean either 670 00:38:32,760 --> 00:38:37,480 Speaker 1: let's have lunch, let's look, it is stunning and it's dangerous. 671 00:38:37,920 --> 00:38:42,080 Speaker 1: And look, in some ways this nomination is even more 672 00:38:42,160 --> 00:38:46,200 Speaker 1: dangerous than Buddha jedges. Look, DT is at least a 673 00:38:46,320 --> 00:38:50,919 Speaker 1: big agency, and you assume the components have experts in them. 674 00:38:52,040 --> 00:38:55,160 Speaker 1: When you're talking about the FAA, the guy running it 675 00:38:55,200 --> 00:38:58,520 Speaker 1: is supposed to know what the heck he's doing, and 676 00:39:00,080 --> 00:39:03,360 Speaker 1: Washington doesn't have that background. I'll tell you there's a 677 00:39:03,400 --> 00:39:07,200 Speaker 1: whole different concern with Washington. Pete didn't have by the 678 00:39:07,239 --> 00:39:12,840 Speaker 1: way that we know of, which is when Phil Washington 679 00:39:12,960 --> 00:39:16,960 Speaker 1: was the head of La Metro. There is an ongoing 680 00:39:17,080 --> 00:39:22,200 Speaker 1: public corruption investigation that's happening right now about his time 681 00:39:22,760 --> 00:39:25,440 Speaker 1: as head of the La Metro and in particular giving 682 00:39:25,440 --> 00:39:30,759 Speaker 1: a contract to a nonprofit that ended up doing very 683 00:39:30,840 --> 00:39:33,520 Speaker 1: little to make hundreds of thousands of dollars. And the 684 00:39:33,600 --> 00:39:39,840 Speaker 1: nonprofit was closely connected with an influential Democrat on the board. 685 00:39:40,480 --> 00:39:46,440 Speaker 1: And so the investigation that's ongoing, it's not being conducted 686 00:39:46,480 --> 00:39:51,480 Speaker 1: by some right wing group. It's the La sheriff who 687 00:39:51,520 --> 00:39:56,759 Speaker 1: executed a search warrant. Now, unlike Biden's DOJ I don't 688 00:39:56,760 --> 00:39:59,200 Speaker 1: think the search warrant was executed by twenty agents with 689 00:39:59,600 --> 00:40:03,520 Speaker 1: machine guns, sure, but who executed a search warrant seizing 690 00:40:03,920 --> 00:40:07,839 Speaker 1: the emails and communications from Phil Washington about this appointment. 691 00:40:08,200 --> 00:40:13,319 Speaker 1: And just recently the California Attorney General has taken over 692 00:40:13,360 --> 00:40:18,319 Speaker 1: the investigation. So my office called the staff of the 693 00:40:18,320 --> 00:40:21,799 Speaker 1: California Attorney General last week, a week before the hearing, 694 00:40:21,840 --> 00:40:24,520 Speaker 1: and said, Okay, what's going on with the investigation, and 695 00:40:24,520 --> 00:40:28,560 Speaker 1: they said, it's still ongoing. We're actively investigating, and Phil 696 00:40:28,600 --> 00:40:35,879 Speaker 1: Washington is materially involved in the investigation, and my staff asked, said, well, 697 00:40:37,320 --> 00:40:40,160 Speaker 1: has anyone talked to you about the investigation? Did the 698 00:40:40,160 --> 00:40:42,000 Speaker 1: White House talk to you about the investigation? Did the 699 00:40:42,040 --> 00:40:45,160 Speaker 1: FBI talk to you about the investigation? Did Senate Democrats 700 00:40:45,200 --> 00:40:47,640 Speaker 1: talk to you about the investigation? They're nope, nobody has, 701 00:40:48,320 --> 00:40:51,280 Speaker 1: no one called, no one cares. So he's literally being 702 00:40:51,320 --> 00:40:57,360 Speaker 1: investigated right now, and yet the Biden White House is 703 00:40:57,400 --> 00:40:59,359 Speaker 1: trying to put him in a position without knowing the 704 00:40:59,400 --> 00:41:01,920 Speaker 1: outcome of the investigation, and which we have a clip 705 00:41:01,960 --> 00:41:06,279 Speaker 1: about this. Take a look, and it is more than 706 00:41:06,320 --> 00:41:10,680 Speaker 1: a little troubling. I think it's fair to say California sheriffs, 707 00:41:11,200 --> 00:41:16,680 Speaker 1: the LA Sheriff, and the California Attorney General are not Republicans. 708 00:41:16,719 --> 00:41:19,720 Speaker 1: They're not right wing activists with an act to grind. 709 00:41:20,880 --> 00:41:24,480 Speaker 1: And the fact that this corruption case is ongoing, it's 710 00:41:24,520 --> 00:41:30,719 Speaker 1: truly remarkable that this committee is considering confirming a nominee 711 00:41:31,640 --> 00:41:34,960 Speaker 1: in the middle of an ongoing investigation for public corruption. 712 00:41:35,800 --> 00:41:38,799 Speaker 1: And I am hard pressed to think of anything more 713 00:41:38,880 --> 00:41:44,040 Speaker 1: damaging to the FAA then not only confirming someone who 714 00:41:44,120 --> 00:41:47,160 Speaker 1: is not qualified and has no experience in aviation safety, 715 00:41:47,200 --> 00:41:51,400 Speaker 1: but secondly doing so while a public corruption case is ongoing, 716 00:41:51,480 --> 00:41:56,680 Speaker 1: which according to the terms of the search warrant, implicates 717 00:41:56,680 --> 00:41:59,880 Speaker 1: you directly. And if it so happened that you end 718 00:42:00,160 --> 00:42:03,759 Speaker 1: up indicted as a result of this ongoing investigation, I 719 00:42:03,800 --> 00:42:06,359 Speaker 1: don't know if that will happen or not. The investigation 720 00:42:06,440 --> 00:42:10,560 Speaker 1: needs to conclude. What sort of damage would it do 721 00:42:10,640 --> 00:42:14,480 Speaker 1: to the FAA to have the administrator indicted on public corruption. 722 00:42:14,920 --> 00:42:18,160 Speaker 1: It's a fair question, by the way, It's an important question. 723 00:42:18,160 --> 00:42:20,399 Speaker 1: And you would think this administration when it said let's 724 00:42:20,400 --> 00:42:23,600 Speaker 1: pump the brakes on this guy, maybe we pull them 725 00:42:23,600 --> 00:42:25,640 Speaker 1: off the table, find someone who's qualified, and you have 726 00:42:25,680 --> 00:42:28,440 Speaker 1: They're like nope, full speed ahead. Yeah, look what they 727 00:42:28,520 --> 00:42:31,200 Speaker 1: need to do. They need to pull this nomination and 728 00:42:31,280 --> 00:42:34,480 Speaker 1: they need to nominate someone who's qualified. And if they 729 00:42:34,480 --> 00:42:38,240 Speaker 1: nominate someone who's qualified, who has real experience at aviation safety, 730 00:42:38,280 --> 00:42:40,680 Speaker 1: that person is going to get confirmed with a big 731 00:42:40,719 --> 00:42:43,920 Speaker 1: bipartisan majority. We all want to see someone in the 732 00:42:43,960 --> 00:42:48,680 Speaker 1: FAA who knows how to make air travel safe. And 733 00:42:49,560 --> 00:42:52,800 Speaker 1: right now the Biden White House is putting politics above 734 00:42:52,880 --> 00:42:57,279 Speaker 1: the safety of you and your kids. Well well done 735 00:42:57,280 --> 00:43:00,040 Speaker 1: this week in Washington. I'm glad people know what's going on. 736 00:43:00,520 --> 00:43:02,400 Speaker 1: We're getting to expose the stuff that the media is 737 00:43:02,440 --> 00:43:05,120 Speaker 1: not even covering or talking about. These are two very 738 00:43:05,200 --> 00:43:08,279 Speaker 1: very important hearings for everybody that's watching. Don't forget. We 739 00:43:08,320 --> 00:43:11,400 Speaker 1: do the show three days a week, one days with video, 740 00:43:11,440 --> 00:43:13,919 Speaker 1: the other are just audio only, so you can tell 741 00:43:13,960 --> 00:43:16,680 Speaker 1: Siria or Alexa play Verdict with Ted Cruz. You can 742 00:43:16,800 --> 00:43:20,640 Speaker 1: download it and make sure you get every episode. Wherever 743 00:43:20,760 --> 00:43:25,000 Speaker 1: you get your podcasts, Apple, iHeartRadio app, Spotify, it doesn't matter. 744 00:43:25,160 --> 00:43:27,960 Speaker 1: You can grab it there. 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