1 00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:04,440 Speaker 1: Welcome. It's Verdict with Ted Cruz Ben Ferguson with you. 2 00:00:04,519 --> 00:00:07,200 Speaker 1: We've got a lot to talk about, including the big 3 00:00:07,240 --> 00:00:11,479 Speaker 1: exciting news Nancy Pelosi is out. Also the leadership fight 4 00:00:11,560 --> 00:00:13,640 Speaker 1: in this Senate. We're going to get into that, plus 5 00:00:13,640 --> 00:00:18,080 Speaker 1: a big vote on gay marriage. And finally, Republicans paying 6 00:00:18,120 --> 00:00:20,520 Speaker 1: off ready to rock and roll as they've taken the 7 00:00:20,520 --> 00:00:22,799 Speaker 1: majority in the House. They are now going to be 8 00:00:22,840 --> 00:00:25,320 Speaker 1: looking into the Biden crime family. What does this mean 9 00:00:25,520 --> 00:00:29,440 Speaker 1: moving forward? That is going to be on today's podcast now, Senator, 10 00:00:29,520 --> 00:00:32,519 Speaker 1: I want to get to this big exciting moment and 11 00:00:32,600 --> 00:00:35,199 Speaker 1: we should enjoy it because you fought hard for this. 12 00:00:35,360 --> 00:00:38,479 Speaker 1: The bus tour was it was part of this mission 13 00:00:38,520 --> 00:00:40,600 Speaker 1: to make sure we could get the House out of 14 00:00:40,600 --> 00:00:44,080 Speaker 1: the hands of the leadership of Nancy Pelosi. It is official. 15 00:00:44,159 --> 00:00:49,200 Speaker 1: The Republicans control the House. Nancy Pelosi retiring from leadership today, 16 00:00:49,600 --> 00:00:53,279 Speaker 1: that was obviously a massive story. So I just want 17 00:00:53,280 --> 00:00:56,560 Speaker 1: to say one very simple thing. Nancy Pelosi is gone. 18 00:00:57,000 --> 00:01:01,680 Speaker 1: Nancy Pelosi is gone. Nancy Pelosi, she is gone. Hot 19 00:01:01,720 --> 00:01:05,720 Speaker 1: diggity damn. Nancy Pelosi is gone. And it amazing. I mean, 20 00:01:05,720 --> 00:01:07,959 Speaker 1: it really is, like when this happened today, I was 21 00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:11,080 Speaker 1: sitting there hosting out Numbered, and no one knew if 22 00:01:11,120 --> 00:01:13,920 Speaker 1: she was going to resign from leadership or not. We 23 00:01:13,920 --> 00:01:15,959 Speaker 1: were sitting there on set, and I was sitting there 24 00:01:15,959 --> 00:01:18,280 Speaker 1: with Kenny mcinenny, and we were like, all right, what's 25 00:01:18,280 --> 00:01:21,840 Speaker 1: the over under? And apparently senter. She went home last 26 00:01:21,920 --> 00:01:24,640 Speaker 1: night with two different speeches, one if she was going 27 00:01:24,680 --> 00:01:26,920 Speaker 1: to stand leadership and one if she wasn't, and there 28 00:01:27,000 --> 00:01:29,759 Speaker 1: was zero leaks, no one knew what she was gonna say, 29 00:01:30,040 --> 00:01:32,280 Speaker 1: and she finally said it, I am no longer going 30 00:01:32,319 --> 00:01:34,840 Speaker 1: to be in leadership, and the entire set just was 31 00:01:34,880 --> 00:01:38,399 Speaker 1: a gas. Look, that's incredible. I had not heard that. 32 00:01:39,880 --> 00:01:42,199 Speaker 1: I will tell you, as you know, when we did 33 00:01:42,880 --> 00:01:47,560 Speaker 1: the month long seventeen state national bus tour, the closing 34 00:01:47,600 --> 00:01:50,080 Speaker 1: of my speech at every single rally, and you were 35 00:01:50,120 --> 00:01:53,520 Speaker 1: at a bunch of them, Ben was, I said, I 36 00:01:53,760 --> 00:01:56,440 Speaker 1: and whoever I was campaigning with, whatever House member or 37 00:01:56,440 --> 00:02:00,600 Speaker 1: Senate member I was Senate Canada was campaigning with, I said, 38 00:02:00,720 --> 00:02:03,720 Speaker 1: you know, I and JD am going to be walking 39 00:02:03,760 --> 00:02:07,280 Speaker 1: down the hallway in the Capitol and we're going to 40 00:02:07,360 --> 00:02:13,639 Speaker 1: bump into a little man wearing overalls carrying a screwdriver 41 00:02:14,200 --> 00:02:18,920 Speaker 1: coming to change the sign on Nancy Pelosi's door, and 42 00:02:19,040 --> 00:02:22,480 Speaker 1: inevitably the crowd would go wild at that point, and 43 00:02:22,520 --> 00:02:27,200 Speaker 1: then I would say, and Nancy is gonna get on 44 00:02:27,360 --> 00:02:33,800 Speaker 1: her broom. People would laugh, and I'd say, Okay, that's 45 00:02:33,840 --> 00:02:38,720 Speaker 1: not fair, that's not right. Nancy is going to get 46 00:02:38,760 --> 00:02:45,360 Speaker 1: on her private jet the USS broom, and she's gonna 47 00:02:45,400 --> 00:02:52,480 Speaker 1: fly back to San Francisco. And for her sake, I 48 00:02:52,560 --> 00:02:54,360 Speaker 1: really hope that her husband doesn't pick her up at 49 00:02:54,360 --> 00:03:00,959 Speaker 1: the airport. When I said that, the crow wing crazy. 50 00:03:01,160 --> 00:03:03,919 Speaker 1: In one state, two state, three state, four state, five states, 51 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:10,040 Speaker 1: seventeen states, the crowd went crazy. And listen, we're all 52 00:03:10,120 --> 00:03:14,080 Speaker 1: bummed that last week's election wasn't much much better. It 53 00:03:14,160 --> 00:03:16,200 Speaker 1: should have been phenomenal. We should have had a big 54 00:03:16,240 --> 00:03:18,240 Speaker 1: majority in the Senate. We should have had a massive 55 00:03:18,280 --> 00:03:22,720 Speaker 1: majority in the House. We don't. But let's take a 56 00:03:22,760 --> 00:03:27,520 Speaker 1: moment to celebrate and say we did something that really mattered, 57 00:03:28,080 --> 00:03:30,960 Speaker 1: which is we want a majority in the House of Representatives, 58 00:03:30,960 --> 00:03:34,000 Speaker 1: and Nancy Pelosi is out of a job, and America 59 00:03:34,120 --> 00:03:37,720 Speaker 1: is better off, Our liberty is safer, our lives are 60 00:03:37,880 --> 00:03:45,600 Speaker 1: more secure because the most radical demogogic socialist left wing 61 00:03:45,680 --> 00:03:49,720 Speaker 1: speaker of the House in the history of America is 62 00:03:49,800 --> 00:03:53,920 Speaker 1: now out of a job. Let's talk about how meaningful 63 00:03:54,080 --> 00:03:56,800 Speaker 1: this would have been over the last two years. For example, 64 00:03:56,880 --> 00:03:59,960 Speaker 1: to put in compare and contrast center, if the republic 65 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:02,320 Speaker 1: Wikins would have had the House, yes people are bombed. 66 00:04:02,320 --> 00:04:04,960 Speaker 1: We don't have the Senate where yes, people are upset 67 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:07,440 Speaker 1: that he's still the President of the United States of America. 68 00:04:07,600 --> 00:04:10,840 Speaker 1: But having the ability to say no in the House 69 00:04:11,480 --> 00:04:14,880 Speaker 1: is so significant to stopping so much damage had been 70 00:04:14,920 --> 00:04:17,080 Speaker 1: done just over the last two years, for example, if 71 00:04:17,080 --> 00:04:19,640 Speaker 1: we would have had one of those chambers. So what 72 00:04:19,720 --> 00:04:21,520 Speaker 1: does it mean? What does having the House mean? It 73 00:04:21,520 --> 00:04:24,800 Speaker 1: means number one will have real oversight. We'll have meaningful oversight. 74 00:04:24,839 --> 00:04:28,720 Speaker 1: We'll have House committees issuing subpoenas, engaging an oversight of 75 00:04:28,760 --> 00:04:33,039 Speaker 1: the abuses, the ridiculous policies from this administration. That's a 76 00:04:33,040 --> 00:04:36,960 Speaker 1: big deal. Number two. It will mean we will not 77 00:04:37,200 --> 00:04:41,279 Speaker 1: have the disastrous legislation of the last two years. If 78 00:04:41,320 --> 00:04:45,479 Speaker 1: Democrats have a massive tax increase, it ain't gonna pass 79 00:04:45,560 --> 00:04:49,159 Speaker 1: a Republican House. If Democrats want to make the District 80 00:04:49,200 --> 00:04:52,560 Speaker 1: of Columbia a state and add two new Democrats senators, 81 00:04:53,279 --> 00:04:56,960 Speaker 1: it ain't gonna pass a Republican House. 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Well, we need to do that. I was 124 00:07:19,160 --> 00:07:22,920 Speaker 1: encouraged to see Jim Jordan and James Comber come out 125 00:07:22,920 --> 00:07:26,400 Speaker 1: and say they're going to investigate, for example, the corruption 126 00:07:26,440 --> 00:07:30,080 Speaker 1: with Hunter Biden. Now, as everyone who is a regular 127 00:07:30,120 --> 00:07:33,840 Speaker 1: listener of this podcast knows, we've been talking for a 128 00:07:33,880 --> 00:07:37,440 Speaker 1: long time that the issue with Hunter Biden is not 129 00:07:38,200 --> 00:07:42,680 Speaker 1: his personal challenges. He is a troubled soul. It is 130 00:07:42,760 --> 00:07:48,240 Speaker 1: clear he's had a anguished life where he struggled with 131 00:07:48,280 --> 00:07:53,840 Speaker 1: substance abuse his entire life. If that were it, if 132 00:07:53,880 --> 00:07:59,120 Speaker 1: he was some sad sap with substance abuty issues, it 133 00:07:59,160 --> 00:08:03,080 Speaker 1: would not be an issue of public concern. What matters 134 00:08:03,120 --> 00:08:08,600 Speaker 1: about Hunter Biden is the official corruption of Joe Biden. 135 00:08:08,840 --> 00:08:13,640 Speaker 1: Joe Biden is the target of these investigations. Whether it's Barisma, 136 00:08:13,880 --> 00:08:18,080 Speaker 1: the Ukrainian natural gas company that paid Hunter Biden a 137 00:08:18,280 --> 00:08:23,760 Speaker 1: million dollars a year and all of the evidence suggests 138 00:08:23,840 --> 00:08:29,120 Speaker 1: that was essentially Paola to get protection from Joe Biden, 139 00:08:29,640 --> 00:08:33,400 Speaker 1: or whether it's communist China paying Hunter Biden millions of 140 00:08:33,440 --> 00:08:36,280 Speaker 1: dollars a year with ten percent for the big guy. 141 00:08:36,600 --> 00:08:39,920 Speaker 1: Again to Joe Biden. What the House is focused on? 142 00:08:39,960 --> 00:08:43,760 Speaker 1: I was very pleased. They had a press conference Tuesday 143 00:08:43,800 --> 00:08:47,880 Speaker 1: morning where they said, we're focusing not on Hunter, but 144 00:08:48,080 --> 00:08:52,120 Speaker 1: on Joe Biden's corruption. On how much Joe Biden has 145 00:08:52,120 --> 00:08:56,800 Speaker 1: been for sale, being sold to the enemies of America, 146 00:08:56,920 --> 00:09:01,200 Speaker 1: being sold to foreign governments, being sold at aged in corruption, 147 00:09:01,800 --> 00:09:07,959 Speaker 1: literally millions of dollars into the Biden family bank accounts. 148 00:09:09,000 --> 00:09:12,000 Speaker 1: That's important, and I got to say I was really 149 00:09:12,080 --> 00:09:17,520 Speaker 1: encouraged the press conference yesterday morning that Jim Jordan and 150 00:09:17,600 --> 00:09:22,080 Speaker 1: James comber Hill was exactly on the themes that you 151 00:09:22,200 --> 00:09:25,440 Speaker 1: and I have been talking about on this podcast for months, 152 00:09:26,160 --> 00:09:29,840 Speaker 1: which is the focus is Joe Biden, not Hunter Biden, 153 00:09:30,120 --> 00:09:33,640 Speaker 1: and Hunter is just the conduit for the corruption that 154 00:09:33,720 --> 00:09:36,480 Speaker 1: goes straight to the President of the United States. It's 155 00:09:36,520 --> 00:09:38,199 Speaker 1: not only that, but there seems to be a real 156 00:09:38,240 --> 00:09:43,040 Speaker 1: comfort level now, Senator with whistle blowers. Jim Jordan mentioned this, 157 00:09:43,120 --> 00:09:45,800 Speaker 1: and I want to play this because it seems that 158 00:09:45,840 --> 00:09:48,679 Speaker 1: people now feel safe to come out the woodworks and 159 00:09:49,080 --> 00:09:52,440 Speaker 1: risk their careers by whistle blowing on the corruption the 160 00:09:52,440 --> 00:09:55,320 Speaker 1: deep state at the FBI. And here's how Jim Jordan's 161 00:09:55,320 --> 00:09:58,040 Speaker 1: described it. At that press conference. You mentioned a moment 162 00:09:58,080 --> 00:10:01,920 Speaker 1: ago it reports. Two weeks ago Uiciary Committee a report 163 00:10:01,960 --> 00:10:05,920 Speaker 1: that talked about the political influence and the political shenanigans 164 00:10:05,960 --> 00:10:09,280 Speaker 1: going on in our Justice Department, based on fourteen FBI 165 00:10:09,320 --> 00:10:11,880 Speaker 1: agents who come talk to our office as whistle blowers. 166 00:10:12,360 --> 00:10:14,480 Speaker 1: One of those agents said, and this is the term 167 00:10:14,520 --> 00:10:17,200 Speaker 1: he used. He said, at the highest levels of the FBI, 168 00:10:17,280 --> 00:10:20,720 Speaker 1: specifically the Washington Field office. He said, it's rotted to 169 00:10:20,760 --> 00:10:23,000 Speaker 1: the core. Not talking about rank and file agents they're 170 00:10:23,040 --> 00:10:25,760 Speaker 1: doing good, good work, talking about the top people at 171 00:10:25,760 --> 00:10:29,480 Speaker 1: the Washington Field up. I mean, he says, rotten to 172 00:10:29,600 --> 00:10:32,839 Speaker 1: the core, and the whistle blowers in Washington, DC are 173 00:10:32,840 --> 00:10:35,880 Speaker 1: coming to him with this, and I think that's where 174 00:10:36,120 --> 00:10:38,360 Speaker 1: once it takes one or two brave people to come 175 00:10:38,360 --> 00:10:41,240 Speaker 1: forward center as whistle blowers. And now it looks like 176 00:10:41,280 --> 00:10:44,160 Speaker 1: the floodgates have just opened now that the Republicans have 177 00:10:44,200 --> 00:10:46,400 Speaker 1: the majority in the House, and that may be the 178 00:10:46,400 --> 00:10:49,040 Speaker 1: biggest blessing out of all of this. Well, I think 179 00:10:49,080 --> 00:10:52,040 Speaker 1: that's exactly right. Jim Jordan is a close friend of mine. 180 00:10:52,559 --> 00:10:55,760 Speaker 1: He and I have been in the foxholes battling against 181 00:10:55,800 --> 00:10:58,680 Speaker 1: the forces of darkness over and over and over again. 182 00:10:58,720 --> 00:11:01,160 Speaker 1: I gotta tell you, just like Jim Jordan. I've had 183 00:11:01,280 --> 00:11:06,520 Speaker 1: multiple FBI agents and multiple DOJ prosecutors come to me, 184 00:11:06,600 --> 00:11:11,040 Speaker 1: come to my office as whistleblowers and say the politicization, 185 00:11:11,200 --> 00:11:14,640 Speaker 1: the corruption at DOJ and the FBI is enormous. As 186 00:11:14,640 --> 00:11:16,640 Speaker 1: you know, the book I just wrote the last couple 187 00:11:16,679 --> 00:11:20,439 Speaker 1: of weeks, Justice Corrupted, How the Left is weaponized the 188 00:11:20,520 --> 00:11:25,560 Speaker 1: legal system, is entirely about how the Democrats have turned 189 00:11:25,600 --> 00:11:29,760 Speaker 1: the DOJ and the FBI into political weapons to attack 190 00:11:29,840 --> 00:11:33,880 Speaker 1: their enemies. This is a real and important problem and 191 00:11:34,800 --> 00:11:37,120 Speaker 1: one of the great benefits that we have a majority 192 00:11:37,120 --> 00:11:41,360 Speaker 1: in the House. We're now going to have chairman willing 193 00:11:41,400 --> 00:11:47,520 Speaker 1: to investigate this corruption. And when you twist and pervert 194 00:11:47,679 --> 00:11:51,559 Speaker 1: the Department of Justice and the FBI, it is an 195 00:11:51,600 --> 00:11:54,839 Speaker 1: incredible danger to the rule of law and to our 196 00:11:54,880 --> 00:11:57,720 Speaker 1: individual liberty. Now, Ben, I'll tell you some people on 197 00:11:57,760 --> 00:12:01,040 Speaker 1: the right say abolish the FBI. I understand that sentiment. 198 00:12:01,040 --> 00:12:04,480 Speaker 1: They're so corrupt, I get it. I'm not in the 199 00:12:04,559 --> 00:12:07,640 Speaker 1: camp of abolished the FBI, y because they do a 200 00:12:07,679 --> 00:12:10,960 Speaker 1: lot of work that is really important, fighting terrorists, fighting 201 00:12:10,960 --> 00:12:16,880 Speaker 1: bank robbers, fighting child predators who kidnap and sexually assault kids. 202 00:12:17,360 --> 00:12:20,920 Speaker 1: All of that law enforcement work God bless the FBI. 203 00:12:21,080 --> 00:12:23,880 Speaker 1: Go catch the bad guys, Go catch criminals, Go catch 204 00:12:24,040 --> 00:12:29,080 Speaker 1: terrorists trying to murder American citizens. But what Obama and 205 00:12:29,160 --> 00:12:32,360 Speaker 1: now Biden have really endeavored to do, and sadly with 206 00:12:32,440 --> 00:12:36,400 Speaker 1: real success, is direct them away from never mind the 207 00:12:36,440 --> 00:12:39,360 Speaker 1: next al Qaeda nine to eleven terrorists who want to 208 00:12:39,360 --> 00:12:41,719 Speaker 1: fly a plane into a building. Don't focus on that. 209 00:12:42,440 --> 00:12:45,320 Speaker 1: Go focus on moms and dads speaking at school boards. 210 00:12:45,679 --> 00:12:50,720 Speaker 1: Go focus on soldiers in Israel and the IDF. Asdj 211 00:12:51,000 --> 00:12:53,680 Speaker 1: is recently announced, the FBI is going to be trying 212 00:12:53,720 --> 00:12:56,920 Speaker 1: to target our friend and ally, the nation of Israel. 213 00:12:57,000 --> 00:13:00,960 Speaker 1: Go target pro life activists who dare to speak up 214 00:13:00,960 --> 00:13:04,520 Speaker 1: in favor of life and that politicization. It's what my 215 00:13:04,559 --> 00:13:09,160 Speaker 1: book Justice Corrupt is all about. It is incredibly wrong, 216 00:13:09,840 --> 00:13:13,319 Speaker 1: and I believe we need to use whatever levers of 217 00:13:13,360 --> 00:13:15,520 Speaker 1: power we have to stop it. You know, one of 218 00:13:15,559 --> 00:13:18,240 Speaker 1: the things that representive comer said on the Hunter Biden 219 00:13:18,280 --> 00:13:20,320 Speaker 1: pro he said, and I said this again today, you 220 00:13:20,360 --> 00:13:22,400 Speaker 1: and I have talked about this. This is no longer 221 00:13:22,400 --> 00:13:25,480 Speaker 1: about Hunter Biden. This is about the president. Yes, And 222 00:13:25,600 --> 00:13:28,640 Speaker 1: he said, today the Bidens became millionaires. And I want 223 00:13:28,679 --> 00:13:31,880 Speaker 1: to play this clip by simply offering access to the 224 00:13:32,000 --> 00:13:37,199 Speaker 1: family and the United States government. President let fall forty 225 00:13:37,520 --> 00:13:41,600 Speaker 1: Victory Committee. Republicans have identified over fifty countries the Biden 226 00:13:41,640 --> 00:13:43,920 Speaker 1: families sought businesses in on the international side of the 227 00:13:43,920 --> 00:13:47,240 Speaker 1: Biden family business, The deals were often led by Hunter Biden, 228 00:13:47,240 --> 00:13:50,480 Speaker 1: and that map there behind clay shows all the countries 229 00:13:50,720 --> 00:13:55,319 Speaker 1: where the Bidens had a footprint in international business dealings. 230 00:13:56,880 --> 00:13:59,360 Speaker 1: The investigation reveals a family that engaged with some of 231 00:13:59,360 --> 00:14:02,920 Speaker 1: America's powerful adversaries, planning to sell one of the largest 232 00:14:02,960 --> 00:14:05,400 Speaker 1: sources of cobalt for electric vehicles in the world to 233 00:14:05,440 --> 00:14:10,120 Speaker 1: the Chinese, for example. The Bidens flourished and became millionaires 234 00:14:10,120 --> 00:14:14,760 Speaker 1: by simply offering access to the family. Among the dozens 235 00:14:14,760 --> 00:14:17,600 Speaker 1: of shell companies the Biden set up, there were millions 236 00:14:17,600 --> 00:14:20,640 Speaker 1: of dollars of wire transfers, flights on an air Force 237 00:14:20,720 --> 00:14:24,200 Speaker 1: two to conduct personal business, and meetings with heads of state. 238 00:14:24,480 --> 00:14:27,720 Speaker 1: While Joe Biden was aware of what was happening, all 239 00:14:27,800 --> 00:14:32,520 Speaker 1: the while, he turned a blind eye. Many transactions related 240 00:14:32,560 --> 00:14:35,360 Speaker 1: to these businesses have raised red flags at US banks. 241 00:14:36,000 --> 00:14:39,040 Speaker 1: A Suspicious Activity Report, or SSAR is a document a 242 00:14:39,080 --> 00:14:41,440 Speaker 1: bank must file with the Treasury Department when a transaction 243 00:14:41,520 --> 00:14:44,480 Speaker 1: is suspected to be related to money laundering or fraud 244 00:14:44,920 --> 00:14:49,120 Speaker 1: or other types of criminal activity. According to media reports, 245 00:14:49,120 --> 00:14:53,240 Speaker 1: the Biden family accumulated over one hundred and fifty tsars 246 00:14:54,680 --> 00:14:57,480 Speaker 1: one ssar generated by an American bank to the Treasury 247 00:14:57,480 --> 00:15:02,360 Speaker 1: Department connects Hunter Biden, and this business associates international human trafficking, 248 00:15:03,000 --> 00:15:06,480 Speaker 1: among other illegal activities. The money that was being made 249 00:15:06,480 --> 00:15:08,680 Speaker 1: from foreign principles in the same room as Joe Biden 250 00:15:08,760 --> 00:15:12,800 Speaker 1: was increasingly spent on furthering illegal activity. The Star show 251 00:15:12,840 --> 00:15:16,479 Speaker 1: that Hunter Biden was conducting business with suspected human traffickers. 252 00:15:17,320 --> 00:15:19,800 Speaker 1: I mean, Senator, this is not just and this was 253 00:15:19,880 --> 00:15:24,760 Speaker 1: breaking news. More than fifty countries involved in human trafficking, 254 00:15:25,560 --> 00:15:28,280 Speaker 1: involved with the worst people in the world in China 255 00:15:28,640 --> 00:15:30,760 Speaker 1: and trying to sell American resources. I mean, when you 256 00:15:30,800 --> 00:15:35,720 Speaker 1: think about fifty countries, this was very clearly a mafia 257 00:15:35,840 --> 00:15:40,960 Speaker 1: style enterprise where the kingpen, the big guy is Joe Biden, 258 00:15:40,960 --> 00:15:43,280 Speaker 1: who's now our president. Then he was the vice president 259 00:15:43,320 --> 00:15:45,120 Speaker 1: when much of this was going on as well. But 260 00:15:45,240 --> 00:15:47,920 Speaker 1: apparently none of this has stopped and all these suspicious 261 00:15:47,920 --> 00:15:50,520 Speaker 1: activity reports of Democrats have been blocking us and be 262 00:15:50,520 --> 00:15:52,960 Speaker 1: able to get those. Will we be able to see those? Now? 263 00:15:53,040 --> 00:15:56,360 Speaker 1: Three Republicans have control of the House. Look, I hope so, 264 00:15:56,840 --> 00:15:59,680 Speaker 1: and I have confidence in the House Chairman that are 265 00:15:59,760 --> 00:16:03,320 Speaker 1: leading these investigations. I've got to say, you think about it. 266 00:16:03,360 --> 00:16:08,160 Speaker 1: In over two centuries of our American history, we've had 267 00:16:09,240 --> 00:16:13,080 Speaker 1: forty six presidents. We've had vice presidents under every one 268 00:16:13,080 --> 00:16:17,880 Speaker 1: of them. We have never had a vice president, not 269 00:16:18,080 --> 00:16:23,200 Speaker 1: once in over two hundred years, whose family made millions 270 00:16:23,240 --> 00:16:28,320 Speaker 1: of dollars selling access to the vice president. That is 271 00:16:28,360 --> 00:16:30,800 Speaker 1: the very essence of corruption. And by the way, not 272 00:16:30,960 --> 00:16:34,560 Speaker 1: selling access to the vice president to Americans, to lobbyists 273 00:16:34,560 --> 00:16:38,200 Speaker 1: that we've had before, we've had sort of the domestic 274 00:16:38,280 --> 00:16:45,080 Speaker 1: access corruption, selling access to foreign adversaries, selling access to 275 00:16:45,160 --> 00:16:50,680 Speaker 1: the communist Chinese government, selling access to Barisma, the corrupt 276 00:16:50,800 --> 00:16:54,480 Speaker 1: Ukrainian natural gas company. The degree to which it was 277 00:16:54,720 --> 00:16:58,560 Speaker 1: brazenly you know, it feels like an episode of The 278 00:16:58,560 --> 00:17:02,560 Speaker 1: Sopranos were literally they'd show up with Hunter Buden with 279 00:17:02,600 --> 00:17:05,480 Speaker 1: a paper bag full of cash and say it is 280 00:17:05,600 --> 00:17:09,919 Speaker 1: ten percent for the big guy. Like that should not 281 00:17:10,119 --> 00:17:14,720 Speaker 1: be reality, That should be bad fiction on HBO, But 282 00:17:14,840 --> 00:17:19,800 Speaker 1: it is reality. The Democrat majorities in Congress desperately want 283 00:17:19,800 --> 00:17:21,480 Speaker 1: to cover it up. And I do think one of 284 00:17:21,480 --> 00:17:25,359 Speaker 1: the real consequences of House majorities is that we're going 285 00:17:25,440 --> 00:17:31,000 Speaker 1: to see serious oversight, testimony, hearing subpoenas. We're going to 286 00:17:31,119 --> 00:17:34,040 Speaker 1: get the facts. I think that's important. I want to 287 00:17:34,040 --> 00:17:36,800 Speaker 1: move to the Senate side, and there's been this fight 288 00:17:37,119 --> 00:17:40,840 Speaker 1: for leadership in the Senate. We've talked about this, Mitch 289 00:17:40,880 --> 00:17:44,400 Speaker 1: McConnell's seven percent approval writing among Republican voters right now 290 00:17:44,800 --> 00:17:46,879 Speaker 1: he walked out, made it clear, he said, I have 291 00:17:46,960 --> 00:17:48,960 Speaker 1: the votes. I have the votes. I have the votes, 292 00:17:49,280 --> 00:17:52,320 Speaker 1: whether it's decided today, tomorrow, the next day, I have 293 00:17:52,400 --> 00:17:56,159 Speaker 1: the votes. In other words, I dare you to challenge me, 294 00:17:56,400 --> 00:17:58,760 Speaker 1: or to come after me, or to try to find 295 00:17:58,840 --> 00:18:01,760 Speaker 1: someone else to do this job. You better just get 296 00:18:01,800 --> 00:18:04,919 Speaker 1: back in your positions. I am the leader, even in 297 00:18:04,920 --> 00:18:08,840 Speaker 1: the minority. I have the votes. Where are we now 298 00:18:08,880 --> 00:18:14,480 Speaker 1: with all of this, Well, dare accepted. So the last 299 00:18:14,480 --> 00:18:19,119 Speaker 1: podcast we did Wednesday morning, I was walking into the 300 00:18:19,240 --> 00:18:25,040 Speaker 1: leadership elections, and when that occurred, the very first thing 301 00:18:25,040 --> 00:18:27,480 Speaker 1: that happened literally we sat down. So I want to 302 00:18:27,480 --> 00:18:31,680 Speaker 1: paint the picture the leadership elections for the Republican conference 303 00:18:31,720 --> 00:18:35,239 Speaker 1: are held in the old, the historic Senate Chamber, So 304 00:18:35,280 --> 00:18:38,200 Speaker 1: it's not the Senate floor today, it's the old Senate chamber. 305 00:18:38,200 --> 00:18:41,040 Speaker 1: It's the Senate chamber where in the Civil War one 306 00:18:41,160 --> 00:18:44,679 Speaker 1: senator beat another senator almost to death with a cane. 307 00:18:45,280 --> 00:18:48,200 Speaker 1: It's small, it's intimate, you're on top of each other. 308 00:18:49,160 --> 00:18:51,680 Speaker 1: So we're in there. The very first thing it's done, 309 00:18:51,680 --> 00:18:54,840 Speaker 1: it's called to order, and the first thing that happened 310 00:18:54,920 --> 00:18:57,920 Speaker 1: is I stood up and I made a motion. I said, 311 00:18:57,960 --> 00:19:02,919 Speaker 1: I move that we delay this vote until after the 312 00:19:02,960 --> 00:19:06,960 Speaker 1: Georgia runoff. What proceeded was a couple of hours of 313 00:19:07,000 --> 00:19:10,959 Speaker 1: debate where many senators stood up and argued on both sides. 314 00:19:11,480 --> 00:19:14,800 Speaker 1: My argument was simple, Number one, we don't know who's 315 00:19:14,800 --> 00:19:16,880 Speaker 1: going to be in the Republican conference in this next 316 00:19:16,880 --> 00:19:20,679 Speaker 1: Senate and herschel Walker deserves us say and who the 317 00:19:20,720 --> 00:19:25,560 Speaker 1: next Republican leader is. But number two, more fundamentally, we 318 00:19:25,640 --> 00:19:28,520 Speaker 1: need a debate, in a discussion about how we're going 319 00:19:28,560 --> 00:19:31,600 Speaker 1: to lead our Republicans going to fight. What are we 320 00:19:31,640 --> 00:19:34,840 Speaker 1: going to fight on? Is there any issue on which 321 00:19:34,880 --> 00:19:38,800 Speaker 1: we're willing to fight? We had a vigorous debate. Now 322 00:19:38,840 --> 00:19:40,600 Speaker 1: I'll tell you I've been in the Senate ten years. 323 00:19:41,359 --> 00:19:43,439 Speaker 1: In the ten years i've been there, Mitch McConnell's never 324 00:19:43,520 --> 00:19:45,720 Speaker 1: been challenged. We've never had to vote on leadership. There's 325 00:19:45,720 --> 00:19:48,879 Speaker 1: never been even a discussion or debate about what the 326 00:19:48,920 --> 00:19:51,760 Speaker 1: agenda will be. At the end of a couple of 327 00:19:51,800 --> 00:19:56,000 Speaker 1: hours debate, we took a vote and I got sixteen votes. 328 00:19:56,640 --> 00:20:00,399 Speaker 1: Now they're forty nine Republicans, so my motion failed, but 329 00:20:00,680 --> 00:20:04,920 Speaker 1: twenty five was success. So I got sixteen. We were 330 00:20:05,119 --> 00:20:08,359 Speaker 1: nine short of the twenty five it would have taken 331 00:20:08,840 --> 00:20:14,720 Speaker 1: to delay the election. Ben That is a big damn deal. 332 00:20:14,800 --> 00:20:19,520 Speaker 1: That's never happened before. It was the first serious leadership 333 00:20:19,600 --> 00:20:24,240 Speaker 1: challenge in the sixteen years that Mitch McConnell has been 334 00:20:24,240 --> 00:20:26,960 Speaker 1: the Republican leader. That's a big deal. I think it's 335 00:20:27,000 --> 00:20:30,199 Speaker 1: justified because we had an election where we should have 336 00:20:30,240 --> 00:20:34,159 Speaker 1: had a massive victory and we didn't. And you know, 337 00:20:34,200 --> 00:20:37,560 Speaker 1: as we talked about in prior podcasts, if you have 338 00:20:37,600 --> 00:20:39,959 Speaker 1: a football team that's the number one in the nation 339 00:20:40,280 --> 00:20:43,120 Speaker 1: and it loses big game after big game after big game, 340 00:20:43,520 --> 00:20:46,480 Speaker 1: you fire the coach. We didn't have the votes to 341 00:20:46,520 --> 00:20:50,920 Speaker 1: fire the coach, but we came very very close, and 342 00:20:51,000 --> 00:20:53,879 Speaker 1: I hope it will lead to Republicans in the Senate 343 00:20:54,480 --> 00:20:57,440 Speaker 1: now being willing to fight in a way that they 344 00:20:57,440 --> 00:21:00,679 Speaker 1: haven't been the last two years. What have themality? I mean, 345 00:21:00,720 --> 00:21:04,960 Speaker 1: you come back to DC right after election day. Everybody 346 00:21:05,040 --> 00:21:08,240 Speaker 1: knows where we are with the House, everybody your colleagues 347 00:21:08,280 --> 00:21:10,520 Speaker 1: know where we are now with the Senate. I mean, 348 00:21:10,640 --> 00:21:14,040 Speaker 1: are you're obviously angry and pissed off. That makes sense, 349 00:21:14,400 --> 00:21:17,480 Speaker 1: and it makes sense with you because you care about 350 00:21:17,480 --> 00:21:20,040 Speaker 1: this country. You wanted the Republicans to win, You want 351 00:21:20,080 --> 00:21:22,919 Speaker 1: to majority. You worked hard to try to get it. 352 00:21:22,960 --> 00:21:26,720 Speaker 1: We came up short. But are other Senators angry or 353 00:21:26,800 --> 00:21:28,600 Speaker 1: is it just business as usually? Like, Oh, it is 354 00:21:28,640 --> 00:21:30,280 Speaker 1: what it is. We're in the minority for another two 355 00:21:30,320 --> 00:21:33,840 Speaker 1: years and we'll see what happens then. So it varies. Look, 356 00:21:33,840 --> 00:21:37,040 Speaker 1: I think everyone's frustrated. I mean, you'd have to be dead, 357 00:21:37,080 --> 00:21:39,720 Speaker 1: you'd have to be blind and oblivious not to be frustrated. 358 00:21:40,080 --> 00:21:42,720 Speaker 1: He's leadership frustrated. Maybe that's a better way of saying it. 359 00:21:43,160 --> 00:21:47,920 Speaker 1: Not really, leadership is engaged in the blame game. They 360 00:21:47,920 --> 00:21:51,240 Speaker 1: are trying desperately to blame the results of the election 361 00:21:51,240 --> 00:21:54,240 Speaker 1: on Donald J. Trump, and so that's their messages Trump 362 00:21:54,280 --> 00:21:57,040 Speaker 1: did it, Trump did it? Trump did it? And listen, 363 00:21:57,920 --> 00:22:01,639 Speaker 1: this was enough of a cluster that there is blame 364 00:22:01,760 --> 00:22:05,080 Speaker 1: to go around everyone. I'm not saying anyone is immune 365 00:22:05,119 --> 00:22:10,240 Speaker 1: from blame, but leadership is trying so hard to paint 366 00:22:10,240 --> 00:22:13,840 Speaker 1: the blame on Trump that they're pretending that their actions. 367 00:22:14,680 --> 00:22:17,520 Speaker 1: The case I made to my colleagues, I stood up 368 00:22:17,560 --> 00:22:20,840 Speaker 1: and said, listen, for the last two years, over and 369 00:22:20,960 --> 00:22:27,399 Speaker 1: over again, we have passed Democrat priorities with all of 370 00:22:27,400 --> 00:22:32,640 Speaker 1: the Democrats, every single Democrat, all fifty Democrats and ten 371 00:22:32,720 --> 00:22:37,040 Speaker 1: to fifteen Republicans. We do that over and over and 372 00:22:37,080 --> 00:22:40,520 Speaker 1: over again. And I said, listen, the Democrats never do 373 00:22:40,640 --> 00:22:43,600 Speaker 1: this when we had a Republican majority in the Senate. 374 00:22:43,640 --> 00:22:47,840 Speaker 1: There were no cases, zero where you had all fifty 375 00:22:47,880 --> 00:22:51,520 Speaker 1: Republicans and ten or fifteen ds. They don't do it 376 00:22:51,840 --> 00:22:56,480 Speaker 1: because from their perspective, their only focus is defeat the Republicans' agenda. 377 00:22:56,880 --> 00:23:00,719 Speaker 1: To hell with you. On our side, our guys are chumps. 378 00:23:00,760 --> 00:23:04,360 Speaker 1: They're like, oh, okay, the Democrats want to do something here, 379 00:23:04,440 --> 00:23:07,520 Speaker 1: let us help. And so the question that I asked, 380 00:23:07,560 --> 00:23:11,760 Speaker 1: and in that historic Senate chamber, I asked Mitch McConnell 381 00:23:12,440 --> 00:23:18,240 Speaker 1: tell the conference, is there any issue, even one on 382 00:23:18,320 --> 00:23:22,680 Speaker 1: which you are willing to fight? Maybe we should fight. 383 00:23:22,680 --> 00:23:25,520 Speaker 1: We're going to be taking up very shortly the National 384 00:23:25,560 --> 00:23:29,280 Speaker 1: Defense Authorization Act. That's a great avenue to fight. The 385 00:23:29,320 --> 00:23:34,120 Speaker 1: Biden to administration is trying to fire thousands of soldiers 386 00:23:34,160 --> 00:23:38,200 Speaker 1: and sailors and airmen and marines. I think that is assinine. 387 00:23:38,520 --> 00:23:43,720 Speaker 1: It's idiotic, it's indefensible. Those servicemen and women decline to 388 00:23:43,760 --> 00:23:47,040 Speaker 1: take the COVID vaccine, and the Biden administration is saying, 389 00:23:47,520 --> 00:23:50,640 Speaker 1: we don't care that you've defended our nation, that you've 390 00:23:50,720 --> 00:23:53,600 Speaker 1: dedicated your life to keep you our country safe. If 391 00:23:53,640 --> 00:23:56,520 Speaker 1: you don't knuckle under or take this vaccine, you're fire. 392 00:23:57,000 --> 00:24:00,000 Speaker 1: I think that's grotesque. So I stood up and argue 393 00:24:00,080 --> 00:24:04,000 Speaker 1: to my colleagues, stand and fight, grow a pair, like, 394 00:24:04,240 --> 00:24:07,719 Speaker 1: actually fight for real. And the only way you can 395 00:24:07,800 --> 00:24:12,920 Speaker 1: fight is to deny cloture on the NDAA. What is 396 00:24:12,960 --> 00:24:16,280 Speaker 1: the NBA? The National Defense Authorization Act. It will not 397 00:24:16,480 --> 00:24:20,040 Speaker 1: pass unless sixty Senators vote for it. You'll get all 398 00:24:20,080 --> 00:24:25,200 Speaker 1: fifty Democrats, so are there If ten Republicans vote for it, 399 00:24:25,200 --> 00:24:28,280 Speaker 1: it's passed, and guess what, those fighting men and women 400 00:24:28,320 --> 00:24:30,120 Speaker 1: are fired I said, all right, if you don't want 401 00:24:30,119 --> 00:24:32,399 Speaker 1: to fight on that, how about fight on the eighty 402 00:24:32,440 --> 00:24:35,120 Speaker 1: seven thousand new IRS agents. That's what I was gonna 403 00:24:35,160 --> 00:24:37,600 Speaker 1: literally ask you, is is that question? Because there's a 404 00:24:37,600 --> 00:24:42,080 Speaker 1: lot of speculation now that if Republicans are smart on 405 00:24:42,119 --> 00:24:44,679 Speaker 1: this coming out of the House into the Senate, that 406 00:24:44,880 --> 00:24:48,200 Speaker 1: this could be the opportunity where the president actually asked 407 00:24:48,200 --> 00:24:50,520 Speaker 1: to veto use a veto to get rid of something, 408 00:24:50,560 --> 00:24:54,480 Speaker 1: which would be a very interesting moment, especially going into 409 00:24:54,480 --> 00:24:57,880 Speaker 1: the presidential election. How to Republicans play this to get 410 00:24:57,920 --> 00:24:59,960 Speaker 1: rid of these agents? But look, you know the white 411 00:25:00,320 --> 00:25:03,840 Speaker 1: is going to stand out. So the question I asked 412 00:25:03,920 --> 00:25:07,720 Speaker 1: leadership is are we willing to fight in a way 413 00:25:07,760 --> 00:25:11,399 Speaker 1: that uses actual leverage? So what leadership is fond of 414 00:25:12,520 --> 00:25:16,320 Speaker 1: is let's schedule a vote on the floor. Everyone votes, 415 00:25:16,640 --> 00:25:19,080 Speaker 1: and then we lose, and we can go home and 416 00:25:19,119 --> 00:25:21,560 Speaker 1: tell our constituents, look, we voted against it. It's not 417 00:25:21,640 --> 00:25:24,000 Speaker 1: our fault. But oh way, the country, Oh well, the 418 00:25:24,000 --> 00:25:28,960 Speaker 1: country is screwed. If you want to stop it, you 419 00:25:29,119 --> 00:25:32,199 Speaker 1: actually have to use the levers of power you have. 420 00:25:32,680 --> 00:25:35,240 Speaker 1: If you want to stop the forced vaccination of servicemen 421 00:25:35,320 --> 00:25:40,199 Speaker 1: and women, you block the NDAA because Democrats want to 422 00:25:40,280 --> 00:25:44,800 Speaker 1: pass that, So that's using leverage. Next year, there are 423 00:25:44,840 --> 00:25:48,840 Speaker 1: two and only two major lever points. One is the 424 00:25:48,880 --> 00:25:52,720 Speaker 1: government funding bills, either the Continuing Resolution or the omnibus 425 00:25:52,720 --> 00:25:57,840 Speaker 1: funding bill. The other is the debt ceiling. If both 426 00:25:57,880 --> 00:26:02,040 Speaker 1: of those, the Democrats desperately want to pass. So historically, 427 00:26:02,960 --> 00:26:07,840 Speaker 1: if you exert leverage on those, the minority has been 428 00:26:07,880 --> 00:26:12,119 Speaker 1: able to get concessions over and over and over again. Now, 429 00:26:12,920 --> 00:26:15,160 Speaker 1: let's say you stand up on the government funding bill 430 00:26:15,200 --> 00:26:17,880 Speaker 1: and say we're not going to fund the government if 431 00:26:17,880 --> 00:26:21,320 Speaker 1: the funding includes eighty seven thousand new IRS agents, which 432 00:26:21,440 --> 00:26:23,920 Speaker 1: is what I think we should do. Here's what Joe 433 00:26:23,920 --> 00:26:27,680 Speaker 1: Biden is going to say. He's gonna bellow, the Republicans 434 00:26:27,680 --> 00:26:31,159 Speaker 1: are shutting down the government. All of the Democrats in 435 00:26:31,200 --> 00:26:34,640 Speaker 1: Congress are gonna bellow the Republicans are shutting down the government. 436 00:26:35,080 --> 00:26:38,840 Speaker 1: The corporate media, which is utterly corrupt in a Democrat mouthpiece, 437 00:26:39,040 --> 00:26:42,240 Speaker 1: is gonna bellow the Republicans are shutting down the government. 438 00:26:42,440 --> 00:26:45,679 Speaker 1: And what I asked our leadership is, are you the 439 00:26:45,840 --> 00:26:49,560 Speaker 1: friggan Republican leadership going to echo the message of the 440 00:26:49,640 --> 00:26:53,200 Speaker 1: Democrats and the media that the Republicans are shutting down 441 00:26:53,200 --> 00:26:56,600 Speaker 1: the government. If you do, we will lose. The short answer, 442 00:26:56,640 --> 00:27:00,480 Speaker 1: Ben Mitch McConnell didn't answer those questions, but I will 443 00:27:00,520 --> 00:27:04,399 Speaker 1: say we got sixteen votes to delay the election, and 444 00:27:04,440 --> 00:27:07,320 Speaker 1: then Rick Scott ran against Mitch McConnell. I voted for 445 00:27:07,400 --> 00:27:10,640 Speaker 1: Rick Scott. I'm tired of Mitch McConnell's leadership. I don't 446 00:27:10,680 --> 00:27:14,359 Speaker 1: think he's done it right. We had eleven Senators who 447 00:27:14,400 --> 00:27:17,800 Speaker 1: did not vote for Mitch McConnell. That is a big 448 00:27:17,920 --> 00:27:22,160 Speaker 1: damn deal. Mitch McConnell's been the leader for sixteen years. 449 00:27:22,720 --> 00:27:27,400 Speaker 1: In sixteen years, he has had zero senators vote against him. 450 00:27:27,560 --> 00:27:32,000 Speaker 1: This year, eleven senators didn't support him. That's a step 451 00:27:32,040 --> 00:27:34,560 Speaker 1: forward what your usual suspects either. I mean, it was 452 00:27:34,600 --> 00:27:38,760 Speaker 1: a pretty wide ranging group of eleven, and I want 453 00:27:38,760 --> 00:27:41,000 Speaker 1: you to mention just some of those names. People need 454 00:27:41,040 --> 00:27:43,080 Speaker 1: to understand. This wasn't just kind of a core group 455 00:27:43,119 --> 00:27:45,520 Speaker 1: that is you know, you know that you're you're good 456 00:27:45,520 --> 00:27:47,800 Speaker 1: friends with. I mean, this was a cross the spectrum 457 00:27:47,920 --> 00:27:50,760 Speaker 1: where you got these eleven from. So we don't know 458 00:27:50,880 --> 00:27:56,720 Speaker 1: exactly who voted. The vote was thirty seven Republicans voted 459 00:27:56,760 --> 00:28:00,840 Speaker 1: for Mitch. Ten Republicans voted for Rick Scott. I was 460 00:28:00,880 --> 00:28:04,720 Speaker 1: one of the ten, and one Republican voted president, which 461 00:28:04,760 --> 00:28:07,880 Speaker 1: is really weird. I don't know who that was. So 462 00:28:08,640 --> 00:28:11,800 Speaker 1: ten voted for another leader and one didn't vote for Mitch. 463 00:28:11,800 --> 00:28:15,639 Speaker 1: So it's a total of eleven. About half of the 464 00:28:15,680 --> 00:28:18,800 Speaker 1: people have self identified. And that's what I wanted to 465 00:28:18,800 --> 00:28:20,359 Speaker 1: get to is I mean, there were somebody that were 466 00:28:20,400 --> 00:28:23,119 Speaker 1: open saying, hey, I'm just gonna be honest about this. 467 00:28:23,240 --> 00:28:25,320 Speaker 1: I think he should he should not be in leadership. 468 00:28:25,640 --> 00:28:28,560 Speaker 1: And by the way, if we had a functioning press corps, 469 00:28:29,160 --> 00:28:31,760 Speaker 1: they ought to ask every damn Republican, how did you vote? 470 00:28:32,160 --> 00:28:35,160 Speaker 1: Like this should be public. A lot of my colleagues 471 00:28:35,200 --> 00:28:37,560 Speaker 1: the reason they voted for Mitch is he's the single 472 00:28:37,640 --> 00:28:41,640 Speaker 1: largest owner to almost every Republican in the conference. He 473 00:28:41,760 --> 00:28:44,200 Speaker 1: stood up there and said to senator after center, he 474 00:28:44,240 --> 00:28:47,040 Speaker 1: pointed at them and said, you, I gave you thirty 475 00:28:47,040 --> 00:28:49,840 Speaker 1: million dollars. You, I gave you forty million dollars. You 476 00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:52,920 Speaker 1: I gave you fifty million dollars. By the way, for me, 477 00:28:53,760 --> 00:28:57,520 Speaker 1: he gave me zero dollars. For Mike Lee, he gave 478 00:28:57,600 --> 00:29:02,640 Speaker 1: him zero dollars. For Ron Joson in Wisconsin, six years 479 00:29:02,640 --> 00:29:04,960 Speaker 1: ago he gave him zero dollars. Now, I will say, 480 00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:09,200 Speaker 1: to Mitch's credit, this cycle, Ron had a vigorous reelection 481 00:29:09,280 --> 00:29:12,440 Speaker 1: campaign and Mitch put thirty forty million dollars into it. 482 00:29:12,480 --> 00:29:15,960 Speaker 1: So I'm glad of it this time. But historically in 483 00:29:15,960 --> 00:29:20,400 Speaker 1: the Conference there have been three Republicans willing to stand 484 00:29:20,480 --> 00:29:25,080 Speaker 1: up and fight against Mitch McConnell, Me, Mike Lee, and 485 00:29:25,240 --> 00:29:29,680 Speaker 1: Ron Johnson. Now in more recent months, Rick Scott has 486 00:29:29,800 --> 00:29:34,000 Speaker 1: joined that group. But the maddening thing is almost nobody 487 00:29:34,040 --> 00:29:37,960 Speaker 1: else does. And a huge factor in why that's the 488 00:29:38,040 --> 00:29:42,320 Speaker 1: case is because Mitch McConnell every cycle spends between three 489 00:29:42,360 --> 00:29:47,720 Speaker 1: and four hundred million dollars in his superpack, supporting virtually 490 00:29:47,760 --> 00:29:52,680 Speaker 1: every Republican. So the fact that we got a third 491 00:29:52,720 --> 00:29:54,960 Speaker 1: of the Conference to vote with me to delay the 492 00:29:55,040 --> 00:30:00,320 Speaker 1: leadership election is shocking. It's stunning, and I hope that 493 00:30:00,440 --> 00:30:04,440 Speaker 1: it begins to change leadership's willingness to fight. I don't 494 00:30:04,440 --> 00:30:06,720 Speaker 1: know if that will be the case, but I think 495 00:30:06,800 --> 00:30:10,920 Speaker 1: this week was a big, big deal. It was a 496 00:30:10,960 --> 00:30:13,360 Speaker 1: big week because I think it also made it clear 497 00:30:13,480 --> 00:30:16,640 Speaker 1: that there's a lot of Conservatives out there voters that 498 00:30:16,680 --> 00:30:20,520 Speaker 1: are paying attention and expecting more of their elected efficiencies, 499 00:30:20,880 --> 00:30:23,360 Speaker 1: and they're paying attention to what you're going to do 500 00:30:23,440 --> 00:30:25,160 Speaker 1: with the majority in the House and what you're going 501 00:30:25,200 --> 00:30:27,320 Speaker 1: to do to stop the Democrats in the Senate or 502 00:30:27,320 --> 00:30:30,400 Speaker 1: at least fight them, as you mentioned at the very beginning. 503 00:30:30,880 --> 00:30:33,680 Speaker 1: And this brings us up to this big gay marriage vote. 504 00:30:33,760 --> 00:30:37,520 Speaker 1: You know, there was no time wasted by Democrats coming 505 00:30:37,560 --> 00:30:40,120 Speaker 1: back and making sure that they could get as much 506 00:30:40,160 --> 00:30:42,600 Speaker 1: stuff done as they possibly could get done as quickly 507 00:30:42,600 --> 00:30:46,040 Speaker 1: as they can before they lose this power, and this 508 00:30:46,120 --> 00:30:50,040 Speaker 1: is a very important vote. What happened with that, well, 509 00:30:50,200 --> 00:30:53,000 Speaker 1: a lot of what we discussed in the leadership election 510 00:30:53,720 --> 00:30:56,840 Speaker 1: is that for two years we pass bill after bill 511 00:30:57,800 --> 00:31:02,560 Speaker 1: with all the Democrats and ten to fifteen Republicans. And 512 00:31:02,960 --> 00:31:05,240 Speaker 1: the case I made, I said, how come the Democrats 513 00:31:05,320 --> 00:31:08,280 Speaker 1: manage over and over again to unite all of the 514 00:31:08,320 --> 00:31:11,960 Speaker 1: Democrats and to divide our party in a way that 515 00:31:12,120 --> 00:31:16,440 Speaker 1: screws us? But that's not the case. Or Burgher Fell 516 00:31:16,640 --> 00:31:20,400 Speaker 1: was the Supreme Court decision where the court struck down 517 00:31:20,440 --> 00:31:24,360 Speaker 1: the marriage laws all across this country and mandated gay 518 00:31:24,440 --> 00:31:27,920 Speaker 1: marriage all across the country. Now, the predicate for the 519 00:31:27,960 --> 00:31:32,080 Speaker 1: Democrats taking this bill up is the Dabbs decision, which 520 00:31:32,080 --> 00:31:36,640 Speaker 1: overturned Roversus Wade and returned decisions about abortion to the 521 00:31:36,680 --> 00:31:41,600 Speaker 1: state legislatures so the voters could decide Inburgh Fell. Justice 522 00:31:41,680 --> 00:31:45,920 Speaker 1: Thomas wrote a concurrence where he suggested that the Court 523 00:31:46,120 --> 00:31:50,800 Speaker 1: might want to reconsider all of its substantive due process decisions, 524 00:31:50,840 --> 00:31:53,880 Speaker 1: including Aburgh Fell. The left lost their mind and they 525 00:31:53,960 --> 00:31:59,840 Speaker 1: freaked out. Now, importantly, it's worth understanding the majority of 526 00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:04,640 Speaker 1: opinion and Dobbs the case overturning Row said not once, 527 00:32:04,760 --> 00:32:09,400 Speaker 1: not twice, but three times, we are not going to 528 00:32:09,440 --> 00:32:13,040 Speaker 1: revisit Oberghafell. We're not going to revisit the question of 529 00:32:13,120 --> 00:32:16,560 Speaker 1: gay marriage. The third time. Justice Alito, writing for the majority, 530 00:32:16,680 --> 00:32:22,400 Speaker 1: said I don't know how to say this more clearly. No, no, no. 531 00:32:23,240 --> 00:32:27,560 Speaker 1: So the whole predicate for this bill is Democrats scaremongering saying, oh, 532 00:32:27,560 --> 00:32:29,760 Speaker 1: the Supreme Court's going to strike down the game marriage ruling. 533 00:32:30,240 --> 00:32:34,120 Speaker 1: It's not, and it's told us it's not. But this 534 00:32:34,200 --> 00:32:40,480 Speaker 1: bill is Congress embracing gay marriage. Now, folks listening to 535 00:32:40,520 --> 00:32:43,480 Speaker 1: this might agree with that, might disagree with that. There's 536 00:32:43,520 --> 00:32:46,400 Speaker 1: a lot of disagreement across the country, and gay marriage 537 00:32:46,560 --> 00:32:49,880 Speaker 1: is one of the issues on which public opinion has 538 00:32:49,920 --> 00:32:53,880 Speaker 1: been changing dramatically. But the consequences of this bill are 539 00:32:54,000 --> 00:33:00,000 Speaker 1: much more than Congress acknowledging and passing into law gay marriage, 540 00:32:59,840 --> 00:33:05,880 Speaker 1: because I believe this bill, if it becomes law, will 541 00:33:05,920 --> 00:33:10,640 Speaker 1: set the stage for the Biden Irs to target churches, 542 00:33:11,200 --> 00:33:16,640 Speaker 1: to target religious universities, to target religious schools K through twelve, 543 00:33:16,720 --> 00:33:21,840 Speaker 1: to target religious social services like Catholic charities that do 544 00:33:21,920 --> 00:33:27,280 Speaker 1: adoption services, to target schools like Bring Them Young. Anyone 545 00:33:27,360 --> 00:33:32,240 Speaker 1: that believes in a biblical definition of marriage, anyone that 546 00:33:32,280 --> 00:33:35,280 Speaker 1: believes that marriage of the union of one man and 547 00:33:35,320 --> 00:33:39,400 Speaker 1: one woman, whether they're Christian, whether they're Jewish, whether they're Muslim, 548 00:33:39,440 --> 00:33:43,240 Speaker 1: whatever faith they are. Any any organization that does not 549 00:33:43,360 --> 00:33:47,560 Speaker 1: accept gay marriage, I think faces an enormous risk of 550 00:33:47,600 --> 00:33:53,400 Speaker 1: the Biden DOJ and the Biden Irs targeting them, suing them, 551 00:33:53,760 --> 00:33:58,240 Speaker 1: and revoking their five oh one C three tax exempt status. 552 00:33:58,240 --> 00:34:01,400 Speaker 1: And that is the real risk of this bill. And 553 00:34:01,440 --> 00:34:05,880 Speaker 1: I gotta tell you it is sad and unfortunate because 554 00:34:06,000 --> 00:34:08,440 Speaker 1: we had a vote on it, and all of the 555 00:34:08,520 --> 00:34:14,680 Speaker 1: Democrats voted yes, of course, but sadly twelve voted yes 556 00:34:14,719 --> 00:34:19,440 Speaker 1: as well. Susan Collins of Baine Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, 557 00:34:19,840 --> 00:34:25,560 Speaker 1: Rob Portman of Ohio, Mitt Romney of Utah. Those four 558 00:34:25,600 --> 00:34:31,200 Speaker 1: are not terribly surprising. But here the next eight. Tom 559 00:34:31,239 --> 00:34:36,720 Speaker 1: tell Us of North Carolina, Roy Blunt of Missouri, Cynthia 560 00:34:36,800 --> 00:34:41,880 Speaker 1: Lummus of Wyoming, Richard Burr of North Carolina, Richard is retiring, 561 00:34:43,239 --> 00:34:49,080 Speaker 1: Shelley Moore, capital of West Virginia, Dan Sullivan of Alaska, 562 00:34:49,440 --> 00:34:54,919 Speaker 1: Joanie Ernst of Iowa, and Todd Young of Indiana. Those 563 00:34:54,960 --> 00:35:01,719 Speaker 1: are the twelve who voted yes. I gotta say I'm frustrated. 564 00:35:01,800 --> 00:35:06,839 Speaker 1: Doesn't begin to describe it. I am beyond upset. So 565 00:35:06,920 --> 00:35:10,880 Speaker 1: we had a lunch on Wednesday, right before the vote. 566 00:35:11,800 --> 00:35:14,720 Speaker 1: It's the steering lunch. Mike Lee as the chairman of Steering. 567 00:35:15,040 --> 00:35:17,680 Speaker 1: I'm on the Steerman Steering Executive Committee. So that's the 568 00:35:17,760 --> 00:35:21,359 Speaker 1: lunch where we discuss policy issues. We talked about this bill. 569 00:35:22,719 --> 00:35:26,280 Speaker 1: Virtually every single Republican who voted yes skip the lunch, 570 00:35:27,320 --> 00:35:29,239 Speaker 1: So of those twelve, I think three or four of 571 00:35:29,280 --> 00:35:34,160 Speaker 1: them were there, so they didn't discuss. They didn't hear 572 00:35:35,080 --> 00:35:37,560 Speaker 1: how the Biden I r RS is going to go 573 00:35:37,640 --> 00:35:42,400 Speaker 1: after Christian grade schools and strip their five O one 574 00:35:42,440 --> 00:35:46,040 Speaker 1: C three status. Is going to go after Christian universities 575 00:35:46,080 --> 00:35:48,680 Speaker 1: and strip their five O one C three status. This 576 00:35:48,719 --> 00:35:51,120 Speaker 1: bill provides a private right of action, So you're going 577 00:35:51,160 --> 00:35:57,840 Speaker 1: to get left wing radical litigant suing Christian or Jewish 578 00:35:57,920 --> 00:36:03,719 Speaker 1: or Muslim chart to organizations or even churches. If your 579 00:36:03,920 --> 00:36:08,240 Speaker 1: church doesn't accept gay marriage, get ready to be sued. 580 00:36:09,040 --> 00:36:11,720 Speaker 1: And I got to tell you, I find it utterly 581 00:36:11,800 --> 00:36:16,680 Speaker 1: insane that twelve Republicans agreed with this. And by the way, 582 00:36:16,760 --> 00:36:21,239 Speaker 1: Mike Lee has an amendment that would explicitly prohibit the 583 00:36:21,280 --> 00:36:24,800 Speaker 1: irs of the government from discriminating against people because of 584 00:36:24,840 --> 00:36:29,719 Speaker 1: their religious beliefs on marriage. And yet the Democrats who 585 00:36:29,719 --> 00:36:34,239 Speaker 1: support this bill said, hell no, we won't take Mike 586 00:36:34,360 --> 00:36:39,360 Speaker 1: Lee's amendment, And the Republicans who support this bill said, 587 00:36:39,520 --> 00:36:41,319 Speaker 1: who's Mike Lee. I'm sorry, we don't know what you're 588 00:36:41,360 --> 00:36:45,960 Speaker 1: talking about. Why do you think we lost on election day? 589 00:36:46,440 --> 00:36:50,239 Speaker 1: While rolling over to Democrats is a big part of it, 590 00:36:50,600 --> 00:36:54,880 Speaker 1: And damn it, Ben, we need to stop it. It's amazing. 591 00:36:55,000 --> 00:36:58,960 Speaker 1: How can people that are listening have an impact on 592 00:36:59,480 --> 00:37:04,040 Speaker 1: this specifically? I mean, is it basically the damage is done? 593 00:37:04,280 --> 00:37:06,080 Speaker 1: Or should you still be reaching out to you that 594 00:37:06,120 --> 00:37:10,000 Speaker 1: your senator especially those that you mentioned. No, we're going 595 00:37:10,040 --> 00:37:12,720 Speaker 1: to have another vote. We'll have another vote the Monday 596 00:37:12,760 --> 00:37:18,080 Speaker 1: after Thanksgiving. And it's a sixty vote threshold. So of 597 00:37:18,120 --> 00:37:22,720 Speaker 1: those twelve Republicans who voted yes, if three of them 598 00:37:22,800 --> 00:37:27,279 Speaker 1: says say, we're not going to support this unless Mike 599 00:37:27,440 --> 00:37:32,920 Speaker 1: Lee's amendment protecting religious liberty is added, we can stop 600 00:37:32,960 --> 00:37:36,440 Speaker 1: this travesty. And by the way, why are Democrats rhyming 601 00:37:36,440 --> 00:37:39,360 Speaker 1: this through now because they know in January they'll be 602 00:37:39,400 --> 00:37:41,839 Speaker 1: a Republican House and they can't get it done. So 603 00:37:41,920 --> 00:37:44,680 Speaker 1: this is the lame duck. This is their last gasp 604 00:37:45,440 --> 00:37:49,280 Speaker 1: where they're saying to the electorate, screw you, we don't 605 00:37:49,320 --> 00:37:52,880 Speaker 1: care that you voted a Republican majority. Now I get Ben, 606 00:37:53,440 --> 00:37:56,960 Speaker 1: if you're Chuck Schumer, if you're Nancy Pelosi, screw you 607 00:37:57,040 --> 00:38:01,480 Speaker 1: to Republican voters. I understand where that comes from, But 608 00:38:02,120 --> 00:38:07,280 Speaker 1: why are Republican senators supporting that? That makes zero sense 609 00:38:07,320 --> 00:38:11,160 Speaker 1: to me. Yeah, it really does it. It's asinine at 610 00:38:11,239 --> 00:38:13,719 Speaker 1: least there's just, as you said, this vote after Thanksgiving, 611 00:38:14,120 --> 00:38:16,279 Speaker 1: so reach out. One last thing I want to ask 612 00:38:16,320 --> 00:38:18,960 Speaker 1: you about, Senator, and that is this, Oh, by the way, 613 00:38:19,800 --> 00:38:22,160 Speaker 1: we want to give out amnesty to every illegal immigrant 614 00:38:22,160 --> 00:38:24,160 Speaker 1: in the country, and we need to do it. The 615 00:38:24,160 --> 00:38:27,960 Speaker 1: new Democratic line is because we need workers and Americans 616 00:38:27,960 --> 00:38:31,560 Speaker 1: aren't having enough kids, so therefore we should give out amnesty. 617 00:38:32,560 --> 00:38:35,640 Speaker 1: I didn't think Democrats could be so transparent in a 618 00:38:35,719 --> 00:38:38,279 Speaker 1: moment when they're asking for amnesty, but they were. They 619 00:38:38,360 --> 00:38:42,920 Speaker 1: basically said, we've been screwing you, undermining your family, undermining 620 00:38:42,960 --> 00:38:46,640 Speaker 1: traditional households. It's work. We've been aboarding children left and right. 621 00:38:46,760 --> 00:38:49,440 Speaker 1: It's worked. And now we're going to say because of 622 00:38:49,440 --> 00:38:52,920 Speaker 1: a lack of population, this is their argument that therefore 623 00:38:52,920 --> 00:38:55,800 Speaker 1: we now need to give out amnesty to every single 624 00:38:55,800 --> 00:38:59,080 Speaker 1: illegal immigrant that's in this country. Your reaction to that 625 00:38:59,160 --> 00:39:03,160 Speaker 1: play by them, that was again right away. Clearly they're 626 00:39:03,160 --> 00:39:05,280 Speaker 1: going to make this an issue for the presidential election. 627 00:39:06,080 --> 00:39:08,560 Speaker 1: So a bunch of Democrats senators who were up for 628 00:39:08,600 --> 00:39:13,240 Speaker 1: reelection this year, they ran millions of dollars of ads 629 00:39:13,239 --> 00:39:16,920 Speaker 1: saying we are fighting to secure the border. Now. It 630 00:39:16,960 --> 00:39:20,120 Speaker 1: was fundamentally dishonest because every single time they've had an 631 00:39:20,160 --> 00:39:25,319 Speaker 1: opportunity to vote, they voted against securing the border. But 632 00:39:25,719 --> 00:39:28,319 Speaker 1: that's what they claimed to the voters, and some of them, 633 00:39:28,360 --> 00:39:32,560 Speaker 1: like Mark Kelly in Arizona got re elected lying to 634 00:39:32,600 --> 00:39:36,719 Speaker 1: the voters. What happens after election day? The Democrats immediately 635 00:39:36,719 --> 00:39:38,080 Speaker 1: come back and they say, what do we want to 636 00:39:38,080 --> 00:39:40,880 Speaker 1: do with the lame duck? Not secure the border? Apparently 637 00:39:40,920 --> 00:39:44,040 Speaker 1: all of their ads had no bearing on reality. What 638 00:39:44,040 --> 00:39:46,400 Speaker 1: do they want to do? They want to grant amnesty. 639 00:39:46,520 --> 00:39:52,800 Speaker 1: Joaquin Castro, who's a left wing Democrat congressman from Texas, 640 00:39:53,160 --> 00:39:57,160 Speaker 1: he's leading the charge saying, let's grant amnesty to the 641 00:39:57,200 --> 00:40:01,520 Speaker 1: so called dreamers, that's their priority. He represents a South 642 00:40:01,600 --> 00:40:06,640 Speaker 1: Texas district that is feeling the pain of illegal immigration. 643 00:40:06,719 --> 00:40:11,640 Speaker 1: But Joakin Castro doesn't give a damn about the children 644 00:40:12,120 --> 00:40:16,600 Speaker 1: being physically assaulted, being sexually assaulted by human traffickers. He 645 00:40:16,640 --> 00:40:21,000 Speaker 1: doesn't care about the women being raped by human traffickers. 646 00:40:21,000 --> 00:40:24,560 Speaker 1: He doesn't care about the dead bodies left on the 647 00:40:24,680 --> 00:40:28,239 Speaker 1: farms and the ranches of Texas farmers and ranchers. He 648 00:40:28,280 --> 00:40:33,280 Speaker 1: doesn't care about the hundred thousand Americans who died last 649 00:40:33,360 --> 00:40:39,080 Speaker 1: year of fetanol overdoses from Chinese fetanol flooding across the border. 650 00:40:39,360 --> 00:40:42,520 Speaker 1: He didn't care about any of that. What is his priority? Hey, 651 00:40:42,920 --> 00:40:47,520 Speaker 1: Let's grant amnestate of the people here illegally today. That's 652 00:40:47,560 --> 00:40:52,240 Speaker 1: today's Democrat Party, and I gotta say Joakin Castro represents 653 00:40:52,280 --> 00:40:57,200 Speaker 1: them perfectly. They are radicals who do not care about you, 654 00:40:57,200 --> 00:41:02,799 Speaker 1: your safety, your family, liberty, your life. That's what this 655 00:41:02,840 --> 00:41:05,960 Speaker 1: fight is all about, you know, I gotta say, Center. 656 00:41:06,080 --> 00:41:08,279 Speaker 1: The other great part about this show today is the 657 00:41:08,320 --> 00:41:11,279 Speaker 1: fact that we got to have and give some good 658 00:41:11,320 --> 00:41:16,000 Speaker 1: news and in the show by reminding everybody Nancy Pelosi 659 00:41:16,280 --> 00:41:19,840 Speaker 1: is no longer the Speaker of the House. That is 660 00:41:19,880 --> 00:41:23,240 Speaker 1: what this midterm election was, Ben, Ben, could you repeat 661 00:41:23,280 --> 00:41:26,799 Speaker 1: that again? Yeah, yeah, Nancy Pelosi is no longer the 662 00:41:26,800 --> 00:41:28,880 Speaker 1: Speaker of the House. All Right, one more time. I 663 00:41:28,920 --> 00:41:32,040 Speaker 1: just I just need to hear those words. Nancy Pelosi 664 00:41:32,120 --> 00:41:37,239 Speaker 1: has resigned from leadership, right, She's she's almost a commoner. Now. 665 00:41:37,280 --> 00:41:38,839 Speaker 1: I love this. I don't know how much that's gonna 666 00:41:38,840 --> 00:41:42,200 Speaker 1: affect her incenters. All right, let me ask you a question, Ben, Yeah, 667 00:41:42,239 --> 00:41:45,800 Speaker 1: what's the over under on how long till Nancy Pelosi 668 00:41:45,920 --> 00:41:49,640 Speaker 1: retires to Florida and as a constituent around descendis? Oh? 669 00:41:49,680 --> 00:41:54,439 Speaker 1: I think it'll be well within let's go, I say 670 00:41:54,640 --> 00:41:59,759 Speaker 1: seven months, all right, seven months? Seven okay, listeners, I 671 00:42:00,040 --> 00:42:03,040 Speaker 1: want you to hold Ben accountable seven months. So we're 672 00:42:03,040 --> 00:42:06,640 Speaker 1: in November. Run forward seven months from now. Then I'm 673 00:42:06,640 --> 00:42:08,399 Speaker 1: gonna trust you to bring this up on the show, 674 00:42:08,440 --> 00:42:12,439 Speaker 1: and we're gonna ask is Nancy Pelosi a Florida voter? 675 00:42:12,640 --> 00:42:14,520 Speaker 1: And I think she'll be bored out of her mind. 676 00:42:14,640 --> 00:42:17,719 Speaker 1: I think she's gonna try to shepherd the Democrat young 677 00:42:17,840 --> 00:42:19,880 Speaker 1: new leadership through and I think at some point you 678 00:42:19,920 --> 00:42:21,399 Speaker 1: canna say, all right, screw it, I'm out of here. 679 00:42:21,640 --> 00:42:23,399 Speaker 1: I don't think she finishes her Do you think she'll 680 00:42:23,400 --> 00:42:26,640 Speaker 1: finish your term? I don't absolutely not. Yeah, there, I 681 00:42:26,800 --> 00:42:28,319 Speaker 1: see we're in a green up by the way, on 682 00:42:28,360 --> 00:42:32,160 Speaker 1: the overunder. I'm taking the under really okay, I like this. 683 00:42:32,440 --> 00:42:34,120 Speaker 1: I like this. All right, we got we got a 684 00:42:34,120 --> 00:42:36,359 Speaker 1: little wager here. I like this. Dias mark that we're 685 00:42:36,400 --> 00:42:39,000 Speaker 1: gonna have to save this audio. We'll play it back 686 00:42:39,040 --> 00:42:40,680 Speaker 1: one day. One of us is gonna be right, one 687 00:42:40,680 --> 00:42:43,200 Speaker 1: of us is gonna be wrong, and that's gonna be 688 00:42:43,200 --> 00:42:46,720 Speaker 1: really fun. Center. It's always a pleasure. And by the way, Diaz, 689 00:42:46,760 --> 00:42:50,640 Speaker 1: if I'm wrong, delete the audio. I love it. I 690 00:42:50,680 --> 00:42:52,319 Speaker 1: love it. And see now you know who show it 691 00:42:52,360 --> 00:42:56,120 Speaker 1: really is. We'll see you guys back here on Monday morning. 692 00:42:56,200 --> 00:42:58,920 Speaker 1: We will also have a video podcast that we will 693 00:42:58,920 --> 00:43:00,680 Speaker 1: put out on Monday as well, so you can watch 694 00:43:00,680 --> 00:43:03,560 Speaker 1: that on social media on YouTube as well. Senor, I 695 00:43:03,600 --> 00:43:05,359 Speaker 1: know you're traveling this a couple of days. Be safe 696 00:43:05,360 --> 00:43:07,319 Speaker 1: on the road, and we'll see everybody back here on 697 00:43:07,360 --> 00:43:08,000 Speaker 1: Monday morning.