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Speaker 1: Every amount of money. If if I please, if I

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Speaker 1: I'm like, dude, relax. He looked. He's like he's like

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Speaker 1: he literally just looks. He looks up at me like like,

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Speaker 1: because we don't wear ties here, what are you doing?

431
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Speaker 1: I was like, okay, I had to get a whole

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Speaker 1: new wardrobe for this. It costs a lot of money.

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Speaker 1: I went in the hole job. Yeah, getting a new job.

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Speaker 1: So Wesley his story. He's a brand new member of Congress,

435
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Speaker 1: has has been there all of two months. Uh. He

436
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Speaker 1: is my congressman represents Houston. Uh he is a West

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Speaker 1: Point graduate. Have you hazed him yet? Like with problems

438
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Speaker 1: for four years? Okay? Good good? I was going to

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Speaker 1: make fun of his his pocket square congressman. I feel

440
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Speaker 1: like you should. Really the presidential campaign, we had a

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Speaker 1: guy in charge of what we called the pocket Square Coalition, okay,

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Speaker 1: which is basically all the DC lobbyists. So that that

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Speaker 1: was that was officially square coalition. Uh. So Wesley went

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Speaker 1: to West Point, played football at west Pool. Uh, went

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Speaker 1: to Saint John's high school here in Houston, played football

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Speaker 1: at Saint John's here, and he was he good because

447
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Speaker 1: he did fall down a step the other day. I

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Speaker 1: just make it was he was he good athletes Here.

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Speaker 1: I'm with a college tennis player, a college football player,

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Speaker 1: and I'm a friggin debater. But at least you won.

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Speaker 1: You did win debate at some level. I have no doubt, mind,

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Speaker 1: you know. And that really was very effective for for

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Speaker 1: attracting college girls. Uh yeah, yeah. You pull out your

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Speaker 1: briefcase and they would swoon, right, They're like, that's a

455
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Speaker 1: man going places because he has that briefcase. So you're

456
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Speaker 1: you're new to Congress, you enjoying it so far, because

457
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Speaker 1: it's been a little spicy since you got there. But

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Speaker 1: we had it. We had quite the first week, to

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Speaker 1: be honest with you, But it was an amazing experience

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Speaker 1: to see just how our democracy works. We are not

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Speaker 1: run by by kings and by queens and by monarchs.

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Speaker 1: We are all run by we the people. And so

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Speaker 1: what you saw in that first week, although it seemed

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Speaker 1: a bit arduous, it was an example of how we

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Speaker 1: operate as a people. And I loved being a part

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Speaker 1: of that first week to be honest with you, I

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Speaker 1: think it was good for the country. You and I

468
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Speaker 1: talked about this, but look, I think the fight resulted

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Speaker 1: in major concessions. Yes, that resulted in dramatically increasing the

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Speaker 1: chances that our conservative that our Republican majority in the

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Speaker 1: House will actually be a conservative majority. And standard fight

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Speaker 1: that is correct, And for the last few weeks we

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Speaker 1: saw that on full display. We've had some very good votes.

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Speaker 1: In fact, the first vote that I took as a

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Speaker 1: congressman was to repeal eighty seven thousand I rs agents.

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Speaker 1: That's the first vote I took. I'm very proud of that,

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Speaker 1: and that was actually a part of that negotiation that

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Speaker 1: first week. Well, and I'll tell you Wesley, when he

479
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Speaker 1: was brand new, right in the middle of that that battle,

480
00:27:14,320 --> 00:27:17,119
Speaker 1: his wife gave birth to a beautiful baby boy that

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Speaker 1: he flew back because he was a little bit premature.

482
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Speaker 1: Everybody right now saying, well, you're the one that left

483
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Speaker 1: and came he was there, You're the one, but for

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Speaker 1: his newborn son. Yeah, And then he turned around and

485
00:27:28,640 --> 00:27:30,040
Speaker 1: his son was doing all right. He had a couple

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Speaker 1: of health issues, then he was doing all right. And

487
00:27:31,440 --> 00:27:33,400
Speaker 1: then Wesley jumped on a plane and flew back. What's

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Speaker 1: his name? I gotta ask him. I'm a Dada three.

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Speaker 1: He is named after my father. It's Willie Parrish Hunt,

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Speaker 1: the second's name. How's he doing. He's doing fantastic. In fact,

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Speaker 1: he's doing way better than me. There you go at

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Speaker 1: this point. But that kid was the most prayed over

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Speaker 1: kid for forty eight hours in the entire country. And

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Speaker 1: I attribute the way he's doing right now to the

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Speaker 1: level of No. It was a bit. It was everybody's like, well,

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Speaker 1: they got to get this guy back. He had a

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Speaker 1: baby and yeah, and you know the amazing thing is

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Speaker 1: you can actually match diapers to a pocket square. Yes,

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Speaker 1: I cannot be honest the formula, Yeah, be honest. Does

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Speaker 1: he have baby air Jordan's jet? Of course he does.

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00:28:14,680 --> 00:28:18,359
Speaker 1: I see, I knew it. Yeah, your kid has one

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Speaker 1: hundred dollars shoes. He's living a good life. He's living

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Speaker 1: a good life. So you got so Wesley, just a

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Speaker 1: few weeks into Congress is already at hearings, causing a

505
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Speaker 1: bit of a stir. You've got TC sial of approval.

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Speaker 1: I know this because we talked about this, and so

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Speaker 1: we've got a clip from one of the Earth he's

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Speaker 1: been there two months. This is a clip from one

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Speaker 1: of the hearings in the House that that's worth taking

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Speaker 1: a look at. My colleague, mister Gooden talked about race

511
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Speaker 1: and using the word racism and racist. And I've been

512
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Speaker 1: black for a long time, sir, so I get it,

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Speaker 1: and I and I've been a minority in this country

514
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Speaker 1: for a very long time. Um, but this is actually

515
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Speaker 1: not about race. This is actually an issue of public safety.

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Speaker 1: And if I call this, if I call this an invasion, sir,

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Speaker 1: I'm not racist. I can assure you I'm not racist.

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Speaker 1: What I can assure you is that I want to

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Speaker 1: make sure that Fintnol doesn't indiscriminately kill any race, religion, color,

520
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Speaker 1: or creed because Fintnol doesn't care where you're from, Fittnol

521
00:29:22,520 --> 00:29:28,200
Speaker 1: doesn't care about race. Fittenol kills indiscriminately. This gentleman right

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Speaker 1: here works his tail off every single day to stop

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Speaker 1: that from happening. Now, there's been a break in the

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Speaker 1: damn and that's pretty obvious because a couple of years ago,

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Speaker 1: of course, we had some problems, but it wasn't amplified

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Speaker 1: to the level that we are seeing every single day,

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Speaker 1: and The reason why we have to be careful with

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Speaker 1: what we call and what we deem racist moving forward

529
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Speaker 1: in the future is because we stop we stop losing,

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Speaker 1: we start to lose focus on what the actual problem is.

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Speaker 1: This administration, a Democrat party unfortunately, uses race as a

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Speaker 1: scapegoat for everything and as somebody that wants to make

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Speaker 1: sure that we do attack racist issues when they do occur.

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Speaker 1: We can't be the boy who cried wolf and blame

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Speaker 1: racism all the time. So look, that was very well said,

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Speaker 1: but it's also really important to be said, and and

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Speaker 1: and Wesley, You're not supposed to exist according to the media.

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Speaker 1: According to the media, the only people who are allowed

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Speaker 1: to be Republicans are old, fat white guys. And you

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00:30:36,720 --> 00:30:39,000
Speaker 1: certainly are not allowed to be a black man and

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Speaker 1: be Republican. That that you know, Actually, what was it?

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Speaker 1: Joe Biden the presidential campaign said, if you're not voting

543
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Speaker 1: for you ain't black? That I mean? And they believe it. Yes,

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Speaker 1: And you're right. Look, I'm an Hispanic man. I'm not

545
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Speaker 1: supposed to be Republican. And even worse, I'm not supposed

546
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Speaker 1: to be a conservative. Like to be a conservative Republican,

547
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Speaker 1: you're to actually want to secure the border. Yes, ramhost

548
00:31:06,880 --> 00:31:10,960
Speaker 1: on air called me a traitor to my race, and

549
00:31:11,040 --> 00:31:15,080
Speaker 1: I actually asked him, I said, if I crossed illegally

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Speaker 1: into Mexico, what would they do? And he said, do

551
00:31:18,440 --> 00:31:23,600
Speaker 1: they deport you? Quait? Why can they enforce their laws

552
00:31:23,600 --> 00:31:28,240
Speaker 1: and we can enforce ours. But look, I think it's

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Speaker 1: important and it's interesting. You are not the only black

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Speaker 1: freshman Republican West Point graduate in this Congress. That tell

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00:31:43,960 --> 00:31:48,360
Speaker 1: about it's even better that two of us. It's me

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Speaker 1: and John James. And for the record, I will let

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Speaker 1: you know that of all the academies in this country

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Speaker 1: and not consider them to be the leadership institutions of

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Speaker 1: the entire world, and I want to name them in

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Speaker 1: order of merit. Of course West Point, of course, Naval Academy,

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Speaker 1: Air Force Academy, Coastard Academy, Merchant Marine Academy. We've never

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Speaker 1: seen a black congressman, senator, or president ever from any

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Speaker 1: one of our academies. Eisenhower was a Republican and Grant

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Speaker 1: was a Republican. And of course Jimmy Carter Naval Academy. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'll let you decide how that, how that worked out

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Speaker 1: for everybody? Yeah, but I will tell you that we've

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Speaker 1: never had a black person, a person of color, actually

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Speaker 1: ascend to these ranks. And we've had two in the

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Speaker 1: exact same class the one hundred and eighteenth Congress. And

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Speaker 1: we're from the same class at West Point, and we're

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Speaker 1: both blackstoin and and there's there's three of us. There's

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Speaker 1: one Democrat and he's white pat Ryan, serious class. How

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Speaker 1: many articles are written about the two of you? And

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Speaker 1: this is certainly breaking history. And I know you're I

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Speaker 1: know you're a but I'm asking this to show the

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Speaker 1: bias and the media. This is a historic moment. Yes,

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Speaker 1: it is. It's an incredible moment. The fact that there's

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Speaker 1: not what but two of you and you were classmates.

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Speaker 1: That's a Time magazine, that's a newsweek typee. There should

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Speaker 1: be a standing ovation everywhere you go rolling it out.

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Speaker 1: It should be that story. So how many times have

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Speaker 1: you guys been called for a human interest piece on

583
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Speaker 1: that story alone? Forget politics us alone. It hasn't happened.

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Speaker 1: There you go, and it allows my point too. So

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Speaker 1: I'm a big fan of talking about black excellence in

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Speaker 1: terms of regardless of what party you're affiliated with, black

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Speaker 1: excellence is black excellence, even if you're or a Republican

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00:33:41,840 --> 00:33:45,280
Speaker 1: Clarence Thomas, that is black excellence. And for whatever reason,

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00:33:45,320 --> 00:33:48,120
Speaker 1: it only matters when you're a Democrat. And this is

590
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Speaker 1: the fight that we have, that we have in our hands.

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Speaker 1: Clarence Thomas is not black. Yeah, he's not. Just the

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Speaker 1: most ridiculous it is. They are vicious. Yes, if you

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00:34:01,280 --> 00:34:07,360
Speaker 1: dare disagree with with their demanded orthodox he looked. This week,

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Speaker 1: Don Lemon went on and explained that Nicky Haley past

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Speaker 1: because he says women are in their prime in their

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Speaker 1: twenties or thirties, and if you disagree, or maybe forties,

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Speaker 1: so he could see, hold on, but if you disagree,

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Speaker 1: what was the response? That is the best part of

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Speaker 1: the line. Just good, just google that there. Yeah, it's

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Speaker 1: and it was. Look, it was blatantly misogynist, yes, but

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Speaker 1: it was leftist misogyny because because Nicky Haley is a Republican,

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Speaker 1: she's not a woman. Can you imagine saying that about

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Speaker 1: Hillary Clinton being pastor prime? Just plug with your job.

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Speaker 1: You would have lost your duke. You'd be canceled, right,

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Speaker 1: you would have would be immediate canceled. And and as

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Speaker 1: you know, there were two women sitting next to him

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Speaker 1: on CNN, who were just flabberg Yeah that he said it,

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Speaker 1: and they're just you know, Poppy comes and says, you

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00:35:04,960 --> 00:35:11,960
Speaker 1: mean prime for childbirth? Yeah, like it was. But it's

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Speaker 1: the same contempt. Yes, she's not a woman, you're not black,

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Speaker 1: you're only they have Look if you look at the

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Speaker 1: Supreme Court, the left never liked anton in Scalia, but

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Speaker 1: they could live with him. He was allowed to be

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Speaker 1: a conservative. Sure you can respected. They were respected. They

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Speaker 1: respected that. They loathe Clarence Thomas Um And you know, listen, Westland,

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Speaker 1: I've been friends a long time. He's running. What did

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Speaker 1: y'all first meet? How did talk about that for a second? Well,

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Speaker 1: we met when when he was running for Congress a

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Speaker 1: couple of years ago, and I supported him in his

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Speaker 1: first bid for Congress. He didn't win the first time.

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Speaker 1: And I actually was talking to you right after the

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Speaker 1: election walking walking the day bood walk in my DAI signup.

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Speaker 1: You called me and I called him, I'm walking the

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Speaker 1: dog and I said I saw your sign us right

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Speaker 1: after he hadn't won two years ago, and I said, Wesley,

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Speaker 1: you did a hell of a job. You impressed a

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Speaker 1: lot of people and mark my words, you're gonna win. Yes,

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Speaker 1: you don't always win your first race, but you're gonna win. O.

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Speaker 1: Reagan would attest to that. Yes, but look, part of

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Speaker 1: the reason the Democrats and the media try to erase

631
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Speaker 1: you is because you're very inconvenient for their narrative. Yes. Um,

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Speaker 1: they believe that any Republican position, any conservative position, is racist,

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Speaker 1: and that is their go to It's what you just

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Speaker 1: went in that clip. No matter what it is, it's racist.

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Speaker 1: So I mean, let me ask you, as as a

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Speaker 1: black man, why are you a Republican? And I imagine

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Speaker 1: you get that question sometimes from people that are confused.

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Speaker 1: I'm a Republican because I don't prescribe to the soft,

639
00:36:59,600 --> 00:37:04,560
Speaker 1: biggest tree of low expectations. My parents are people that

640
00:37:04,719 --> 00:37:06,759
Speaker 1: raised us in this country and they set up this

641
00:37:06,840 --> 00:37:08,640
Speaker 1: send to us at a very early age. If you

642
00:37:08,680 --> 00:37:11,880
Speaker 1: can't make it here, then you can't make it anywhere.

643
00:37:12,360 --> 00:37:15,359
Speaker 1: End of discussion. Hence the reason why my sister went

644
00:37:15,400 --> 00:37:17,640
Speaker 1: to West Point. I went to West Point and my

645
00:37:17,760 --> 00:37:20,000
Speaker 1: brother went to West Point. Now, my brother went to

646
00:37:20,000 --> 00:37:22,000
Speaker 1: Harvard Business School, and so I had to go to

647
00:37:22,000 --> 00:37:24,280
Speaker 1: Cornell and get three Masters of the reason four years

648
00:37:24,440 --> 00:37:28,839
Speaker 1: to match as Harvard because we're competitive like that. And

649
00:37:28,880 --> 00:37:32,600
Speaker 1: my sister was a instructor at West Point where my

650
00:37:32,680 --> 00:37:36,600
Speaker 1: brother and I were cadets. That's because my parents had

651
00:37:36,320 --> 00:37:39,759
Speaker 1: I had high expectations for us. And when I look

652
00:37:39,800 --> 00:37:42,719
Speaker 1: at Democrats right now, that tell us that people love

653
00:37:42,760 --> 00:37:47,400
Speaker 1: color and black and brown people can't ascertain an ID

654
00:37:48,040 --> 00:37:52,000
Speaker 1: to go vote, I think to myself, Wow, you think

655
00:37:52,080 --> 00:37:55,200
Speaker 1: so little of a group of people that they can't

656
00:37:55,239 --> 00:37:59,120
Speaker 1: do the menial task of attaining a government issued ID

657
00:37:59,560 --> 00:38:02,839
Speaker 1: just to vote. And I would reject that holistically, And

658
00:38:02,920 --> 00:38:05,160
Speaker 1: that's what makes me a cripture. It isn't I've said

659
00:38:05,160 --> 00:38:07,080
Speaker 1: this for a long time, and I never backed down.

660
00:38:07,080 --> 00:38:09,480
Speaker 1: When I was at CNN, we were talking about voter

661
00:38:09,560 --> 00:38:11,200
Speaker 1: ID and it became such a big issue, and I

662
00:38:11,280 --> 00:38:13,400
Speaker 1: kept saying, it's incredibly racist, and I would always just

663
00:38:13,520 --> 00:38:16,040
Speaker 1: do every the minority worst. Yeah, I said to Don Lemon,

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00:38:16,040 --> 00:38:17,520
Speaker 1: we were just talking about Don Lemon. I said, it's

665
00:38:17,560 --> 00:38:22,040
Speaker 1: incredibly racist to imply that an African American man or

666
00:38:22,160 --> 00:38:25,840
Speaker 1: woman cannot get an ID at the same levels of

667
00:38:25,880 --> 00:38:29,680
Speaker 1: any other person, Like, do you understand how condescending, how

668
00:38:29,840 --> 00:38:33,640
Speaker 1: racist that statement is that you're implying that they're so

669
00:38:33,719 --> 00:38:36,040
Speaker 1: behind the time, solely based on the color of their skin,

670
00:38:36,280 --> 00:38:39,239
Speaker 1: that they can't be expected to have an ID at

671
00:38:39,239 --> 00:38:41,719
Speaker 1: the same level as anyone else. They tell me, as

672
00:38:41,719 --> 00:38:43,960
Speaker 1: a Leftiano, I'm too stupid to get a driver's exactly.

673
00:38:45,000 --> 00:38:47,520
Speaker 1: And by the way, if you actually talk to real people,

674
00:38:47,560 --> 00:38:51,240
Speaker 1: there's a reason that roughly seventy percent of African Americans

675
00:38:51,280 --> 00:38:55,960
Speaker 1: in this country's support photo ID. Yeah, of course to vote. Yeah,

676
00:38:56,000 --> 00:39:02,480
Speaker 1: it is. But the Democrat political qual model is based

677
00:39:02,520 --> 00:39:07,560
Speaker 1: on stoking racial fear. And part of it is they

678
00:39:07,680 --> 00:39:13,440
Speaker 1: try to convince people that their party is historically the

679
00:39:13,520 --> 00:39:16,799
Speaker 1: champion for civil rights and the Republicans are historically the

680
00:39:16,800 --> 00:39:19,399
Speaker 1: bad guys. And I got to say, as a matter

681
00:39:19,440 --> 00:39:25,759
Speaker 1: of history, that's exactly backwards. Look, the Democrat parties record

682
00:39:25,920 --> 00:39:29,759
Speaker 1: on race is disgraceful. People don't know the history of it,

683
00:39:29,920 --> 00:39:33,120
Speaker 1: and that's part of where we've want is disgraceful. Yes,

684
00:39:33,440 --> 00:39:38,319
Speaker 1: so the Democrat Party founded the ku Klux Klan, the

685
00:39:38,400 --> 00:39:41,239
Speaker 1: ku Klux Let's just be careful and say that's a fact.

686
00:39:41,320 --> 00:39:43,680
Speaker 1: And if you don't believe it's take Downloman's advice. Google it.

687
00:39:44,000 --> 00:39:48,000
Speaker 1: So google it. And in fact, you're here's someone google

688
00:39:48,040 --> 00:39:52,319
Speaker 1: an inidividual named Nathan Bedford Forrest. Nathan Bedford Forrest, who

689
00:39:52,360 --> 00:39:54,400
Speaker 1: is the founder of the KKK. He was a Confederate

690
00:39:54,440 --> 00:39:59,480
Speaker 1: general buried in my in my hometown of Memphis. He

691
00:39:59,640 --> 00:40:04,120
Speaker 1: was a national delegate to the Democrat National Convention in

692
00:40:04,160 --> 00:40:08,480
Speaker 1: eighteen sixty. If you look at virtually every leader of

693
00:40:08,520 --> 00:40:14,879
Speaker 1: the clan, they were all Democrats. Now Democrats, they say, okay, fine, fine,

694
00:40:14,920 --> 00:40:18,920
Speaker 1: So that's the eighteen sixties. But fast forward. The Democrats

695
00:40:18,960 --> 00:40:22,120
Speaker 1: got enlightened later. Okay, let's get let let's move to

696
00:40:22,160 --> 00:40:24,680
Speaker 1: the nineteen forties and fifties and sixties civil rights here,

697
00:40:25,840 --> 00:40:28,920
Speaker 1: let's move to the Jim Crow Laws. Yes, Jim Crow Laws.

698
00:40:29,280 --> 00:40:34,479
Speaker 1: Who wrote them? Democrats? Democrats in the South. Jim Crow

699
00:40:34,560 --> 00:40:41,400
Speaker 1: Laws were written by white Democrats to stop black voters

700
00:40:42,040 --> 00:40:45,880
Speaker 1: from voting white Democrats out of office and to stop

701
00:40:45,920 --> 00:40:50,080
Speaker 1: them from electing Republicans. They were literally written that to

702
00:40:50,280 --> 00:40:55,759
Speaker 1: protect Democrats in office. Now you can google it. By

703
00:40:55,760 --> 00:41:02,280
Speaker 1: the way, you probably you probably can't google it because

704
00:41:02,320 --> 00:41:04,239
Speaker 1: big tech so bad they might suppress all of it.

705
00:41:04,360 --> 00:41:12,880
Speaker 1: That's you get there. So and by the way, the

706
00:41:12,920 --> 00:41:20,680
Speaker 1: Republican Party was literally founded to abolish slavery. The Party

707
00:41:20,680 --> 00:41:25,000
Speaker 1: of Lincoln. The first Republican president was Abraham Lincoln. The

708
00:41:25,080 --> 00:41:29,560
Speaker 1: reason our party exists is because slavery was an evil abomination.

709
00:41:29,760 --> 00:41:40,040
Speaker 1: You're thinking the history of it, and so, okay, here's

710
00:41:40,080 --> 00:41:42,520
Speaker 1: how the leftist tries to get around all this. They say, well, okay,

711
00:41:42,560 --> 00:41:45,920
Speaker 1: maybe all that's true, though they actually deny it. But

712
00:41:46,160 --> 00:41:50,760
Speaker 1: then in the Civil Rights Erah, democrats got enlightened. Really

713
00:41:51,920 --> 00:41:56,360
Speaker 1: Civil Rights Act of nineteen sixty four, a much higher

714
00:41:56,400 --> 00:42:00,080
Speaker 1: percentage of Republicans in Congress voted for it than to

715
00:42:00,239 --> 00:42:03,600
Speaker 1: pass because Republican. It passed because Republicans fought for it,

716
00:42:04,000 --> 00:42:07,760
Speaker 1: and Democrats, who was it that was were opposing it.

717
00:42:07,760 --> 00:42:14,720
Speaker 1: It was Democrats who philipbustered it. Fast forward even further.

718
00:42:15,640 --> 00:42:21,520
Speaker 1: They say, well, that's ancient history. Okay, let's go a

719
00:42:21,600 --> 00:42:26,920
Speaker 1: year ago. A year ago, the governor of Virginia was

720
00:42:26,920 --> 00:42:29,839
Speaker 1: a guy named Ralph Northern. Ralph Northern a Democrat. Now

721
00:42:29,840 --> 00:42:35,680
Speaker 1: you may recall the scandal that it's still out there,

722
00:42:36,560 --> 00:42:39,719
Speaker 1: but it's actually a very revealing incident. So in his

723
00:42:39,800 --> 00:42:43,160
Speaker 1: medical school yearbook, he selected a photograph of two people,

724
00:42:43,200 --> 00:42:46,680
Speaker 1: one dressed as a klansman, one dressed in black face,

725
00:42:47,360 --> 00:42:49,560
Speaker 1: and the media, of course, No one discovered this when

726
00:42:49,560 --> 00:42:51,600
Speaker 1: he was running for office, a little bit only after.

727
00:42:51,840 --> 00:42:54,759
Speaker 1: It was only after after. It happens that way, it

728
00:42:54,800 --> 00:42:57,839
Speaker 1: wasn't news while he was while a Republican could win. Yeah,

729
00:42:58,080 --> 00:43:02,879
Speaker 1: it was only news afterwards. And the media, oddly enough

730
00:43:03,000 --> 00:43:06,439
Speaker 1: called that the black face scandal. Now, I gotta say,

731
00:43:06,840 --> 00:43:09,759
Speaker 1: I find it an odd there's a little bit of

732
00:43:09,800 --> 00:43:12,879
Speaker 1: an obsession with black face that look, I get how

733
00:43:12,960 --> 00:43:16,200
Speaker 1: it could be seen as offensive, although it is amazing.

734
00:43:16,239 --> 00:43:19,520
Speaker 1: It seems apparently every Democrat politician in the state of

735
00:43:19,560 --> 00:43:22,480
Speaker 1: Virginia has dressed in black face, as they all one

736
00:43:22,560 --> 00:43:30,200
Speaker 1: after the other Jimmy Kill every late night comic. Yeah so,

737
00:43:31,880 --> 00:43:36,080
Speaker 1: but what I found bizarre is why they focused on

738
00:43:36,320 --> 00:43:39,160
Speaker 1: the black face when here's what Ralph Northam said when

739
00:43:39,200 --> 00:43:41,399
Speaker 1: the day the story broke. He said, yeah, I could

740
00:43:41,440 --> 00:43:43,200
Speaker 1: have been one of those two people in the picture.

741
00:43:43,239 --> 00:43:46,720
Speaker 1: I don't know and I don't know which one, which

742
00:43:46,800 --> 00:43:52,480
Speaker 1: means he said he could have been the guy dressed

743
00:43:52,520 --> 00:43:56,600
Speaker 1: as a klansman. Now pause and think for a second.

744
00:43:56,640 --> 00:44:01,040
Speaker 1: I'm going to postulate a really crazy standard. If you

745
00:44:01,080 --> 00:44:06,560
Speaker 1: cannot say, categorically, with no wiggle words, I have never

746
00:44:06,600 --> 00:44:10,200
Speaker 1: in my life dressed as a clansman or in blackface.

747
00:44:13,440 --> 00:44:17,759
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna take clansmen just just just if you

748
00:44:17,840 --> 00:44:21,279
Speaker 1: cannot say I have never dressed as a clansman, maybe

749
00:44:21,280 --> 00:44:23,960
Speaker 1: you shouldn't be in public office. Yeah. There a governor

750
00:44:24,600 --> 00:44:30,439
Speaker 1: like a governor pontificating sanctimoniously on race. Yeah. And and

751
00:44:30,480 --> 00:44:32,319
Speaker 1: by the way, okay, you say are a year ago,

752
00:44:32,360 --> 00:44:36,439
Speaker 1: that's ancient history. Okay, so let's go today. You talked

753
00:44:36,440 --> 00:44:41,879
Speaker 1: about Joe Biden's record on race ninety four crime bill, Well,

754
00:44:41,920 --> 00:44:46,000
Speaker 1: there is that. There is also Robert Bird. I would say,

755
00:44:46,120 --> 00:44:49,959
Speaker 1: there's a there's a very famous funeral. So Robert Byrd

756
00:44:50,320 --> 00:44:55,560
Speaker 1: eulogized him. Ye, was an Exalted Cyclops of the KKK.

757
00:44:55,760 --> 00:44:58,799
Speaker 1: What is it with these bigoted idiots coming up with

758
00:44:58,920 --> 00:45:02,200
Speaker 1: ridiculous titles, But they he liked things like exalted Cyclops

759
00:45:03,239 --> 00:45:07,280
Speaker 1: and he was a Democrat. That was an official title. Yeah,

760
00:45:07,320 --> 00:45:09,359
Speaker 1: because he recruited people to the clan. So he wasn't

761
00:45:09,360 --> 00:45:13,480
Speaker 1: just in the clan the Exalted Cyclops. Other racists to

762
00:45:13,560 --> 00:45:16,440
Speaker 1: join the clan. That's what Robert Byrd did. And he

763
00:45:16,480 --> 00:45:18,799
Speaker 1: was a Democrat senator from West Virginia. And he wasn't

764
00:45:18,800 --> 00:45:22,080
Speaker 1: just a Democrat Senator from West Virginia. He was the

765
00:45:22,239 --> 00:45:29,440
Speaker 1: Democrat Senate majority leader. Believable, an exalted Cyclops of the

766
00:45:29,480 --> 00:45:33,520
Speaker 1: Kuklux Klan. Now he died. I think his funeral was

767
00:45:33,560 --> 00:45:37,280
Speaker 1: in twenty eleven, I believe. Do you know who spoke

768
00:45:37,480 --> 00:45:40,520
Speaker 1: at Robert Bird's funeral? The President of the United States

769
00:45:40,560 --> 00:45:44,759
Speaker 1: of America right now, Joseph Robinette Biden Junior, gave a

770
00:45:44,800 --> 00:45:49,920
Speaker 1: eulogy exalted and said, if you were to become president,

771
00:45:50,080 --> 00:45:52,880
Speaker 1: America would have been a better place. Implied it disgusting,

772
00:45:53,360 --> 00:45:57,520
Speaker 1: said his good friend Robert Byrd. I got another crazy proposition.

773
00:45:59,680 --> 00:46:04,960
Speaker 1: If you can't say I have never eulogized and praised

774
00:46:05,000 --> 00:46:12,120
Speaker 1: an exalted Cyclops of the ku Klux Klan, maybe you

775
00:46:12,160 --> 00:46:14,800
Speaker 1: ought to slow down a little bit when pontificating based

776
00:46:14,800 --> 00:46:18,160
Speaker 1: on race. Yes, but how many people know any of

777
00:46:18,160 --> 00:46:21,319
Speaker 1: this history because the left and the media won't tell

778
00:46:21,360 --> 00:46:25,560
Speaker 1: it the school in the schools they want. They don't

779
00:46:25,600 --> 00:46:28,680
Speaker 1: go anywhere near any of this in the public schools today.

780
00:46:29,320 --> 00:46:31,400
Speaker 1: And this is what I love the beauty of this conversation,

781
00:46:31,680 --> 00:46:35,000
Speaker 1: and that is, sir, you are my senator and now

782
00:46:35,080 --> 00:46:37,840
Speaker 1: the honor of being your congressman, and you're a Cuban

783
00:46:37,840 --> 00:46:40,919
Speaker 1: American and I am a black man. And what's really

784
00:46:40,960 --> 00:46:43,399
Speaker 1: funny about this is why the why the left would

785
00:46:43,600 --> 00:46:48,120
Speaker 1: absolutely pontificate about how we cannot exist. Here we are

786
00:46:48,200 --> 00:46:51,560
Speaker 1: sitting here in Unison with same the same conservative values,

787
00:46:51,840 --> 00:46:55,400
Speaker 1: so different backgrounds from different parts of the earth. My

788
00:46:55,520 --> 00:46:59,520
Speaker 1: great great grandfather was a slave. Really, but my great

789
00:46:59,560 --> 00:47:04,680
Speaker 1: great and father rose Down Plantation in about thirty three

790
00:47:04,719 --> 00:47:08,359
Speaker 1: miles north of bat Rouge, Louisiana. Wow. Yes, and rose

791
00:47:08,400 --> 00:47:11,480
Speaker 1: Down Plantation is still is still there today. Wow. And

792
00:47:11,600 --> 00:47:14,879
Speaker 1: here we are having this conversation about conservative values. Isn't

793
00:47:14,880 --> 00:47:19,480
Speaker 1: that cool fact that cares about what we look like? Yeah,

794
00:47:19,520 --> 00:47:22,399
Speaker 1: this is the argument that the left cannot deal with

795
00:47:22,680 --> 00:47:24,839
Speaker 1: because it does not fit their narrative. Well, and let

796
00:47:24,880 --> 00:47:27,560
Speaker 1: me make it. That's absolutely right. And let me make

797
00:47:27,560 --> 00:47:31,239
Speaker 1: it also a substant point connected to that. You know,

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00:47:31,239 --> 00:47:32,880
Speaker 1: a minute ago, we were talking about the history of

799
00:47:32,920 --> 00:47:34,920
Speaker 1: the parties, and then the reason the history matters is

800
00:47:34,960 --> 00:47:37,319
Speaker 1: because it's what the media and the Democrats use to

801
00:47:37,640 --> 00:47:43,440
Speaker 1: scare minority vote exactly. But the substance matters too. The

802
00:47:43,560 --> 00:47:50,360
Speaker 1: Democrat policy agenda is absolutely horrific. If you sat down

803
00:47:50,440 --> 00:47:55,160
Speaker 1: and said, let's design a policy agenda to devastate the

804
00:47:55,200 --> 00:47:58,840
Speaker 1: African American community in the Hispanic community. You could not

805
00:47:59,120 --> 00:48:04,200
Speaker 1: come up with any anything more effective than the Democrat agenda.

806
00:48:04,480 --> 00:48:10,719
Speaker 1: You look at number one, the war on police, abolish

807
00:48:10,760 --> 00:48:16,240
Speaker 1: the police. You know, every time you see Democrats demonizing cops,

808
00:48:16,239 --> 00:48:19,320
Speaker 1: what inevitably happens. The cops pull back, they stop enforcing

809
00:48:19,400 --> 00:48:22,480
Speaker 1: the laws vigorously, and crime rates and motter rates go up.

810
00:48:22,600 --> 00:48:25,720
Speaker 1: And if you think black lives matter, apparently the lives

811
00:48:25,760 --> 00:48:28,520
Speaker 1: that you don't think matter are the African Americans who

812
00:48:28,520 --> 00:48:31,319
Speaker 1: are murdered in much greater number when the police are

813
00:48:31,360 --> 00:48:35,680
Speaker 1: not out locking up the murderers. And the gang banks,

814
00:48:35,800 --> 00:48:39,040
Speaker 1: Bill reform, prison reform all ads to drive the cops crazy.

815
00:48:39,600 --> 00:48:41,920
Speaker 1: They go and arrest people, they immediately let them out.

816
00:48:41,960 --> 00:48:44,759
Speaker 1: We're now doing this bill reform based on what your

817
00:48:44,760 --> 00:48:47,319
Speaker 1: means are, so you can get no bail even if

818
00:48:47,320 --> 00:48:50,120
Speaker 1: you commit heinous crimes based on your means, because they

819
00:48:50,160 --> 00:48:53,799
Speaker 1: say it's racist to have a real tough bail on

820
00:48:53,880 --> 00:48:55,560
Speaker 1: someone if they say they don't have the means to

821
00:48:55,600 --> 00:48:59,120
Speaker 1: get out, And that's just again, it's costing people their lives,

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00:48:59,120 --> 00:49:02,040
Speaker 1: specifically the African American community, and it's it's it's not

823
00:49:02,080 --> 00:49:07,120
Speaker 1: just crime. You look at the left wing assault on

824
00:49:07,160 --> 00:49:10,320
Speaker 1: the family. Go back to the black family in the

825
00:49:10,400 --> 00:49:14,960
Speaker 1: nineteen fifties and the nineteen sixties, where you had wrong

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Speaker 1: two parent households. You talked about your parents, you're talking

827
00:49:18,880 --> 00:49:20,839
Speaker 1: about your daughter, you talked about your your upbringing. Here

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00:49:21,160 --> 00:49:23,719
Speaker 1: seventy yes, it was either last year year before, seventy

829
00:49:23,760 --> 00:49:26,120
Speaker 1: four percent of all African American children in America were

830
00:49:26,120 --> 00:49:27,880
Speaker 1: born in a single parent household and it was the

831
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Speaker 1: other number's gonna rose. Yes, that's exactly right, and people

832
00:49:33,480 --> 00:49:36,720
Speaker 1: don't know it. Look the great society, the left wing

833
00:49:36,920 --> 00:49:40,200
Speaker 1: policies that said we're going to give you welfare payments,

834
00:49:40,200 --> 00:49:43,279
Speaker 1: We're going to disincentivize marriage, and divide the home, and

835
00:49:43,360 --> 00:49:46,480
Speaker 1: divide the home. The government became the father. There was

836
00:49:46,520 --> 00:49:48,719
Speaker 1: no shame, and a father leaving there was no shame,

837
00:49:48,760 --> 00:49:54,120
Speaker 1: and a father abandoning their children, and they trapped generations

838
00:49:54,239 --> 00:50:00,200
Speaker 1: of low income Hispanics and African Americans independency. So I've

839
00:50:00,239 --> 00:50:04,920
Speaker 1: said a thousand times when when my dad was washing

840
00:50:05,000 --> 00:50:07,719
Speaker 1: dishes in Austin, Texas in nineteen fifty seven, he was

841
00:50:07,760 --> 00:50:10,120
Speaker 1: making fifty cents an hour, and he couldn't speaking. Wow.

842
00:50:11,320 --> 00:50:15,040
Speaker 1: Thank god, some well meaning liberal didn't come put his

843
00:50:15,120 --> 00:50:16,839
Speaker 1: arm around him and say, raphail, let me take care

844
00:50:16,880 --> 00:50:20,520
Speaker 1: of it exact, let me. Let me give you a check,

845
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Speaker 1: Let me make you a dependence. You don't need to work.

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00:50:23,800 --> 00:50:26,320
Speaker 1: You don't need to work hard. That's hard work, washing

847
00:50:26,360 --> 00:50:29,120
Speaker 1: your dishes. Your hands are read and they hurt. Yeah,

848
00:50:29,400 --> 00:50:31,359
Speaker 1: just sit at home on your ass and I'll send

849
00:50:31,360 --> 00:50:34,320
Speaker 1: you a check. It would have been, to be honest,

850
00:50:34,360 --> 00:50:36,480
Speaker 1: it would have been less destructive if someone came by

851
00:50:36,520 --> 00:50:39,360
Speaker 1: with a bat and beat him with it. Yes, because

852
00:50:39,400 --> 00:50:46,759
Speaker 1: that you heal from. And the Democrat agenda has trapped

853
00:50:47,080 --> 00:50:52,600
Speaker 1: generations in poverty and dependency where you have one, two

854
00:50:52,680 --> 00:50:57,359
Speaker 1: or three, four generations un weelfare and unable to get

855
00:50:57,400 --> 00:51:01,560
Speaker 1: off of it, unable to get the dignity of a job.

856
00:51:02,320 --> 00:51:05,600
Speaker 1: And then throw on top of that failed schools and

857
00:51:05,760 --> 00:51:08,640
Speaker 1: no way to get out and against you're getting a

858
00:51:08,680 --> 00:51:10,640
Speaker 1: voutcher to get a kid out of the failing school.

859
00:51:10,800 --> 00:51:15,640
Speaker 1: It's to create victims. So imagine if my parents raised me,

860
00:51:15,760 --> 00:51:18,920
Speaker 1: then they told me, you know what, this world is

861
00:51:18,960 --> 00:51:21,319
Speaker 1: so much against you in America, is so bad that

862
00:51:21,400 --> 00:51:24,640
Speaker 1: you can't even get an id. Rely on me and

863
00:51:24,680 --> 00:51:27,160
Speaker 1: I will give you a check. Imagine if my parents

864
00:51:27,200 --> 00:51:30,200
Speaker 1: told me that every single day, I certainly wouldn't be

865
00:51:30,239 --> 00:51:33,440
Speaker 1: an honest as congressman. And that's what I mean by

866
00:51:33,440 --> 00:51:36,560
Speaker 1: the soft, biggest for your little expectations. Yeah, that's how

867
00:51:36,600 --> 00:51:40,239
Speaker 1: they keep people voting for them, by promising the very

868
00:51:40,360 --> 00:51:42,759
Speaker 1: bare minimum. And as somebody that has spent a lot

869
00:51:42,800 --> 00:51:45,480
Speaker 1: of time in the United States government, we're working in

870
00:51:45,520 --> 00:51:48,000
Speaker 1: the army. I can tell you if the government is

871
00:51:48,040 --> 00:51:50,799
Speaker 1: giving you something, I can assure you you could do

872
00:51:50,880 --> 00:51:53,120
Speaker 1: better on your own. Yeah. You know, I'll tell you

873
00:51:53,120 --> 00:51:54,719
Speaker 1: what my dad told me when I was a kid

874
00:51:54,760 --> 00:51:58,960
Speaker 1: about racism. And he said, look, when I came out

875
00:51:59,000 --> 00:52:01,240
Speaker 1: of school, he came out of yours to Texas class

876
00:52:01,280 --> 00:52:03,960
Speaker 1: of sixty one, he said, when I was applying for

877
00:52:04,000 --> 00:52:09,200
Speaker 1: a job, he said, I had a very heavy Spanish accent.

878
00:52:09,280 --> 00:52:12,520
Speaker 1: I'm obviously a foreigner. Yeah, And he said, if I'm

879
00:52:12,560 --> 00:52:14,920
Speaker 1: applying for a job and there's an American applying for

880
00:52:14,920 --> 00:52:20,359
Speaker 1: the job and we're equally qualified, he said, they'd hire

881
00:52:20,360 --> 00:52:23,279
Speaker 1: the American. And he wasn't actually that upset about it.

882
00:52:23,320 --> 00:52:24,759
Speaker 1: He said, you know what, he said, you know what,

883
00:52:24,840 --> 00:52:28,640
Speaker 1: in Cuba, they'd hire me. He said that to him. Yeah,

884
00:52:28,640 --> 00:52:31,000
Speaker 1: he's just like, look in Cuba, they'd hire me. Here

885
00:52:32,239 --> 00:52:35,520
Speaker 1: if I'm the immigrant, they're going to hire the American.

886
00:52:35,640 --> 00:52:38,319
Speaker 1: And he said his answer to that as he said, look,

887
00:52:38,400 --> 00:52:41,160
Speaker 1: I just resolved. He said, I'm gonna be three times

888
00:52:41,160 --> 00:52:43,480
Speaker 1: as good as the other guy. He said, I'm gonna

889
00:52:43,520 --> 00:52:46,920
Speaker 1: make it so you had to be an idiot to

890
00:52:47,000 --> 00:52:51,759
Speaker 1: hire the other guy. And and that principle, it's part

891
00:52:51,800 --> 00:52:56,879
Speaker 1: of what's so destructive about the Democrat message in minority

892
00:52:56,920 --> 00:53:01,719
Speaker 1: communities is they they teach older in their victims, yes,

893
00:53:02,440 --> 00:53:09,080
Speaker 1: which means they discourage them from doing the hard damn

894
00:53:09,160 --> 00:53:12,480
Speaker 1: work too. As my dad said, be two or three

895
00:53:12,520 --> 00:53:15,560
Speaker 1: times as good as the other guy, and to climb

896
00:53:15,640 --> 00:53:18,040
Speaker 1: that ladder, and then later on in life he's better

897
00:53:18,080 --> 00:53:20,919
Speaker 1: for it. Yes. So instead of sitting around, sitting back

898
00:53:20,920 --> 00:53:23,279
Speaker 1: on your heels and saying that well somebody had it

899
00:53:23,400 --> 00:53:25,600
Speaker 1: easier than me, or they were given more if they

900
00:53:25,600 --> 00:53:28,719
Speaker 1: had more inheritance, you had to work in those formative

901
00:53:28,800 --> 00:53:32,160
Speaker 1: years three four or five times as hard as and

902
00:53:32,200 --> 00:53:36,000
Speaker 1: then twenty years later then you become a better person.

903
00:53:36,360 --> 00:53:41,000
Speaker 1: You work harder, and you persevere, and that is called growth,

904
00:53:41,120 --> 00:53:43,920
Speaker 1: and that is called the American dream. And so what

905
00:53:43,960 --> 00:53:47,680
Speaker 1: the left tries to do is try to create equal outcomes.

906
00:53:47,719 --> 00:53:51,520
Speaker 1: You cannot create equal outcomes. This country is a meritocracy.

907
00:53:51,719 --> 00:53:55,280
Speaker 1: It's about effort. I get it. Some people have it easier,

908
00:53:55,400 --> 00:53:58,800
Speaker 1: harder than others. But those that work hard can find

909
00:53:58,880 --> 00:54:02,479
Speaker 1: and make a way. And you could outwork yourself out

910
00:54:02,480 --> 00:54:06,480
Speaker 1: of somebody that's been given everything. I'll tell you something

911
00:54:06,560 --> 00:54:11,560
Speaker 1: Ben that Wesley will get. But if you're black or Hispanic,

912
00:54:11,640 --> 00:54:13,680
Speaker 1: I guarantee you've had people say to you. And I've

913
00:54:13,719 --> 00:54:15,960
Speaker 1: had people say to me, oh, you just got where

914
00:54:15,960 --> 00:54:19,080
Speaker 1: you are an affirmative action. The only way you got

915
00:54:19,080 --> 00:54:23,080
Speaker 1: into school is affirmative action and it and they just

916
00:54:23,880 --> 00:54:26,319
Speaker 1: burns me up. But like, how many times have you

917
00:54:26,360 --> 00:54:35,040
Speaker 1: heard that? Seriously, Flair, it's my, it's my, it's square,

918
00:54:35,080 --> 00:54:37,080
Speaker 1: you see the good one. It's one of the reasons,

919
00:54:37,120 --> 00:54:40,719
Speaker 1: actually we were joking before about sports or debate. It's

920
00:54:40,719 --> 00:54:43,759
Speaker 1: one of the reasons I like debate because you go

921
00:54:43,800 --> 00:54:47,040
Speaker 1: into debate, two teams walk into a room, it's no

922
00:54:47,120 --> 00:54:50,880
Speaker 1: affirmative action, and one wins and one loses. And and

923
00:54:51,360 --> 00:54:54,239
Speaker 1: it was It's It's why I spent all four years

924
00:54:54,239 --> 00:54:57,919
Speaker 1: of college almost every weekend on the debate circuit, because

925
00:54:57,960 --> 00:54:59,880
Speaker 1: you'd go in and there was a winner and loser,

926
00:55:00,040 --> 00:55:02,600
Speaker 1: and you want it based on your own skill and

927
00:55:02,640 --> 00:55:05,920
Speaker 1: your own merit, and it was a way of responding

928
00:55:06,239 --> 00:55:14,799
Speaker 1: and it was inevitably supercilious liberals. All right, I'll tell

929
00:55:14,800 --> 00:55:17,319
Speaker 1: you a story you'll like. I cannot wait. I love it.

930
00:55:17,600 --> 00:55:24,279
Speaker 1: So I'm in law school and Harvard Law Review. Every

931
00:55:24,360 --> 00:55:27,880
Speaker 1: year they select forty editors class about five hundred and

932
00:55:27,920 --> 00:55:31,440
Speaker 1: sixty people forty editors, so they're a total of eighty two.

933
00:55:31,600 --> 00:55:33,960
Speaker 1: They're forty second year law students, forty third year law

934
00:55:34,000 --> 00:55:35,279
Speaker 1: students that are on the Law Review. And the Law

935
00:55:35,360 --> 00:55:37,839
Speaker 1: Review it's kind of a weird thing law schools. It's

936
00:55:37,880 --> 00:55:40,520
Speaker 1: sort of it's a legal journal, but it's also this

937
00:55:40,640 --> 00:55:45,360
Speaker 1: like super prestigious thing that opens up clerkships, opens up jobs.

938
00:55:45,400 --> 00:55:48,799
Speaker 1: It's it's historically it's the best students at the law school.

939
00:55:48,840 --> 00:55:51,359
Speaker 1: So the Law Review is treated as a big deal

940
00:55:52,719 --> 00:55:55,719
Speaker 1: when I was there. The way they selected it is

941
00:55:55,800 --> 00:55:59,319
Speaker 1: they had thirty two of the slots. Half of them

942
00:55:59,680 --> 00:56:03,000
Speaker 1: were based on a writing competition that was a week long,

943
00:56:03,200 --> 00:56:07,239
Speaker 1: incredibly grueling writing competition. The other half were based on

944
00:56:07,400 --> 00:56:10,040
Speaker 1: grades and the writing competition. So that's thirty two of

945
00:56:10,040 --> 00:56:12,799
Speaker 1: the forty slots, and then they had up to eight

946
00:56:12,800 --> 00:56:15,440
Speaker 1: of the slots reserved for affirmative action. So that was

947
00:56:15,480 --> 00:56:19,759
Speaker 1: a policy explicitly affirmative. So my second year on the

948
00:56:19,800 --> 00:56:21,879
Speaker 1: law my first year on the Law Review, second year

949
00:56:21,880 --> 00:56:25,040
Speaker 1: of law school, there were several of us who were conservatives,

950
00:56:25,040 --> 00:56:28,960
Speaker 1: who were editors, and some of my buddies decided they

951
00:56:28,960 --> 00:56:31,400
Speaker 1: wanted to force a vote to end affirmative action on

952
00:56:31,400 --> 00:56:34,080
Speaker 1: the Law Review. Now I have to admit I thought

953
00:56:34,120 --> 00:56:37,000
Speaker 1: affirmative action was wrong, but I also could count votes,

954
00:56:37,000 --> 00:56:39,160
Speaker 1: and I said, we're not going to win, like, like,

955
00:56:39,200 --> 00:56:42,520
Speaker 1: why are you wasting your time? Yeah, but they wanted to.

956
00:56:42,600 --> 00:56:44,320
Speaker 1: I said great. So we went and we met in

957
00:56:44,360 --> 00:56:45,880
Speaker 1: a classroom and so there are all eight of us

958
00:56:45,880 --> 00:56:48,319
Speaker 1: in a classroom. We're debating whether or not to end

959
00:56:49,239 --> 00:56:55,520
Speaker 1: affirmative action. And I remember this one particularly arrogant liberal

960
00:56:56,560 --> 00:57:02,319
Speaker 1: stood up and said, if we end affirmative action, the

961
00:57:02,400 --> 00:57:07,920
Speaker 1: Law Review will be nothing but white men. And I

962
00:57:08,000 --> 00:57:10,720
Speaker 1: was sitting in the back. I actually wasn't really engaged

963
00:57:10,760 --> 00:57:15,080
Speaker 1: in the art. That's racist. Yeah, just for the record,

964
00:57:15,080 --> 00:57:18,640
Speaker 1: you don't even have to google it. Yes, and it

965
00:57:18,760 --> 00:57:22,760
Speaker 1: pissed me off. I can't I can't imagine you got

966
00:57:22,800 --> 00:57:25,240
Speaker 1: that mad. And I stood up in the back and

967
00:57:25,280 --> 00:57:28,000
Speaker 1: I said, all right, you want to understand why affirmative

968
00:57:28,000 --> 00:57:32,960
Speaker 1: action is evil. You just heard it because this sack

969
00:57:33,000 --> 00:57:38,640
Speaker 1: of yeah just said that he believes on merit. If

970
00:57:38,640 --> 00:57:41,960
Speaker 1: it's objective merit, the only people who will rise to

971
00:57:42,040 --> 00:57:48,000
Speaker 1: the top are white men. Now, number one, I'm an

972
00:57:48,000 --> 00:57:50,280
Speaker 1: Hispanic and you want to throw your damn transcript on

973
00:57:50,280 --> 00:57:52,000
Speaker 1: the table, I'll put mine next to it, and let's

974
00:57:52,040 --> 00:57:55,840
Speaker 1: let's see who's performance better at law school. You miserable, arrogant,

975
00:57:55,840 --> 00:57:59,400
Speaker 1: little jerk. Yeah, but I said, number two, you want

976
00:57:59,400 --> 00:58:03,160
Speaker 1: to understand just how invidious this is. At the time.

977
00:58:03,200 --> 00:58:05,000
Speaker 1: I don't know about now, but at the time, there

978
00:58:05,040 --> 00:58:09,000
Speaker 1: was only racial affirmative action. There was not gender affirmative action.

979
00:58:09,040 --> 00:58:12,040
Speaker 1: There was not affirmative action for women. I said to

980
00:58:12,080 --> 00:58:14,200
Speaker 1: every woman here, what he just said is he thinks

981
00:58:14,200 --> 00:58:18,040
Speaker 1: based on merit, no women could possibly get here. By

982
00:58:18,080 --> 00:58:20,280
Speaker 1: the way, periodically there would be a debate on adding

983
00:58:20,280 --> 00:58:22,120
Speaker 1: women to affirmative action. There was all the women editors

984
00:58:22,120 --> 00:58:25,240
Speaker 1: who voted against it because they understood that doing so

985
00:58:25,320 --> 00:58:30,280
Speaker 1: cheapen their credential sure, but the assumptions what utter crap.

986
00:58:32,400 --> 00:58:36,240
Speaker 1: But the Left embraces those views, and part of their

987
00:58:36,320 --> 00:58:41,120
Speaker 1: views it actually explains their arrogance. Is so if you

988
00:58:41,240 --> 00:58:44,600
Speaker 1: get anything, you ought to be damn grateful they gave

989
00:58:44,680 --> 00:58:47,400
Speaker 1: this to you, and in response, you ought to shut

990
00:58:47,440 --> 00:58:51,960
Speaker 1: up and obey them. That's the Democratic Party. That's literally

991
00:58:52,000 --> 00:58:53,960
Speaker 1: the Democratic Party. Now, I do want to tell you,

992
00:58:54,000 --> 00:58:56,080
Speaker 1: I don't think you know this, but I do want

993
00:58:56,080 --> 00:59:00,600
Speaker 1: to mention a bill that I entered Duce that we

994
00:59:00,720 --> 00:59:03,480
Speaker 1: just got passed the month before you arrived in Congress

995
00:59:04,040 --> 00:59:07,360
Speaker 1: that actually you'll care about because it impacts West Point

996
00:59:07,480 --> 00:59:11,840
Speaker 1: very directly, and it is so all of the service

997
00:59:11,880 --> 00:59:14,240
Speaker 1: academies thank you for doing this, but go ahead. Yes,

998
00:59:14,680 --> 00:59:19,040
Speaker 1: have had in place a rule, and it's a horrific rule.

999
00:59:19,120 --> 00:59:22,320
Speaker 1: It is a rule that says cadets cannot get pregnant.

1000
00:59:22,960 --> 00:59:26,280
Speaker 1: And if a cadet gets pregnant, yes, the cadet had

1001
00:59:26,320 --> 00:59:31,360
Speaker 1: three choices. Number one, you could have an abortion. Wow.

1002
00:59:31,920 --> 00:59:36,680
Speaker 1: Number two, you can voluntarily give your child up to

1003
00:59:36,720 --> 00:59:42,360
Speaker 1: adoption and surrender your parental rights permanently and legally surrender

1004
00:59:42,400 --> 00:59:46,080
Speaker 1: your parental rights. Or number three, you can withdraw from

1005
00:59:46,120 --> 00:59:50,880
Speaker 1: the service academy. Those were the choices they gave cadets. Now,

1006
00:59:51,120 --> 00:59:54,640
Speaker 1: I would assume that cadets sometimes got impregnated by people

1007
00:59:54,680 --> 00:59:58,400
Speaker 1: they actually worked with who are also serving the military. Yes,

1008
00:59:59,000 --> 01:00:04,120
Speaker 1: so ostensibly the policy applied to women and men, but

1009
01:00:04,240 --> 01:00:06,800
Speaker 1: it was very deferential in how it was applied, because

1010
01:00:07,120 --> 01:00:10,520
Speaker 1: men could could get a woman pregnant and escape the

1011
01:00:10,560 --> 01:00:13,040
Speaker 1: consequences of the policy, whereas if you're a woman and

1012
01:00:13,040 --> 01:00:16,360
Speaker 1: you're pregnant, there ain't no hiding it. You're facing it.

1013
01:00:16,920 --> 01:00:20,320
Speaker 1: So I looked at this and thought it was completely indefensible,

1014
01:00:21,520 --> 01:00:25,200
Speaker 1: and so I ended up teaming up with a Democrat,

1015
01:00:25,320 --> 01:00:28,360
Speaker 1: Kirsten Gila Brand, Democrat from from New York, who's a

1016
01:00:28,360 --> 01:00:31,560
Speaker 1: good friend and she and I have worked together quite

1017
01:00:31,560 --> 01:00:34,240
Speaker 1: a bit. But she and I introduced a bill that

1018
01:00:34,400 --> 01:00:38,040
Speaker 1: was called the Cadet Act, Yes, and it was Cruise

1019
01:00:38,080 --> 01:00:42,800
Speaker 1: Jella Brand, and it instructed the Service academies to end

1020
01:00:42,880 --> 01:00:47,720
Speaker 1: these policies and to adopt policies that if a cadet

1021
01:00:47,800 --> 01:00:50,520
Speaker 1: gets pregnant, that allows her to give birth to her

1022
01:00:50,640 --> 01:00:56,480
Speaker 1: child and continue to have parental rights. In December, the

1023
01:00:56,520 --> 01:01:00,400
Speaker 1: Cadet Act passed into law. Thank you, And just last

1024
01:01:00,560 --> 01:01:07,240
Speaker 1: week DoD promulgated the rules to the service academies to

1025
01:01:07,280 --> 01:01:12,800
Speaker 1: implement it, you can see, and so they no longer

1026
01:01:14,720 --> 01:01:17,560
Speaker 1: kick out. You can see there a picture of a

1027
01:01:17,680 --> 01:01:20,720
Speaker 1: US Air Force Academy graduate in twenty eleven. And by

1028
01:01:20,760 --> 01:01:24,320
Speaker 1: the way, and so my team spoke to a number

1029
01:01:25,200 --> 01:01:30,160
Speaker 1: of cadets faced with this choice. Some were pressured into

1030
01:01:30,200 --> 01:01:36,600
Speaker 1: having an abortion and regretted it. Others terminated their parental rights. Yes,

1031
01:01:37,160 --> 01:01:41,640
Speaker 1: graduated and then would go back and adopt their own child.

1032
01:01:42,280 --> 01:01:46,280
Speaker 1: A classmate they did that. So really, yes, at a classmate,

1033
01:01:46,280 --> 01:01:48,920
Speaker 1: they did that exact thing I've had. I had another

1034
01:01:48,920 --> 01:01:53,640
Speaker 1: classmate that got pregnant and then took a leave of absence.

1035
01:01:53,720 --> 01:01:57,760
Speaker 1: So then she resigned from West Point and then have

1036
01:01:57,880 --> 01:02:01,120
Speaker 1: the baby and then had to turn her parental rights

1037
01:02:01,160 --> 01:02:04,640
Speaker 1: to her mother, and then she re enrolled, and then

1038
01:02:04,680 --> 01:02:08,120
Speaker 1: west Point accepted her, and then she graduated the following year,

1039
01:02:08,520 --> 01:02:11,080
Speaker 1: and then after she graduated, then she then took on

1040
01:02:11,120 --> 01:02:16,360
Speaker 1: their parental rights away from her mother. That's ludicrous. Yeah,

1041
01:02:17,000 --> 01:02:19,320
Speaker 1: so thank you sir for this. Well, and it takes

1042
01:02:19,320 --> 01:02:21,400
Speaker 1: as long to get it done. And this was there

1043
01:02:21,440 --> 01:02:23,120
Speaker 1: for so long, by the way, I graduated in two

1044
01:02:23,160 --> 01:02:25,600
Speaker 1: thousand and four, So I mean, this has now been

1045
01:02:25,600 --> 01:02:28,560
Speaker 1: twenty years into making. Who knows who has suffered under

1046
01:02:28,600 --> 01:02:32,080
Speaker 1: those Dratonian rules before, So this is I'm very grateful

1047
01:02:32,120 --> 01:02:35,320
Speaker 1: for this, and it was an interesting example also. So

1048
01:02:35,360 --> 01:02:37,720
Speaker 1: I was talking with a reporter this past week who

1049
01:02:37,840 --> 01:02:41,040
Speaker 1: was asking said, well, look, Jilla Brand is a liberal Democrat.

1050
01:02:41,080 --> 01:02:44,280
Speaker 1: How did you two work on this? And you know

1051
01:02:44,400 --> 01:02:47,560
Speaker 1: this obviously concerns abortion front and center, and listen, I

1052
01:02:47,600 --> 01:02:50,760
Speaker 1: am strongly pro life. She is very much pro choice.

1053
01:02:50,760 --> 01:02:53,560
Speaker 1: We disagree on the question of abortion. But you know

1054
01:02:53,600 --> 01:02:58,480
Speaker 1: what we both agree on that forced abortion is terrible. Yeah,

1055
01:02:58,520 --> 01:03:01,960
Speaker 1: that that sixing you to do that to keep it.

1056
01:03:02,120 --> 01:03:05,600
Speaker 1: If if a mother wants to keep her child, you

1057
01:03:05,640 --> 01:03:07,280
Speaker 1: should not be kicked out of West Point for that.

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Speaker 1: For those purposes, you shouldn't be kicked out of West

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Speaker 1: Point for it. It makes no sense. It was an

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Speaker 1: idiotic policy. But I was really glad to see that

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Speaker 1: we could get Democrats and Republicans to come together and

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Speaker 1: that changed just this week. Thank you, well done. What

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Speaker 1: a great thing to end on. That's a big victory.

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Speaker 1: Great to have you with us. This is fun. Thank

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Speaker 1: you for having me. Hey, thoroughly enjoyed it. We really

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