1 00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:03,080 Speaker 1: The news cycle always makes it feel like the world 2 00:00:03,160 --> 00:00:06,960 Speaker 1: is on fire, but sometimes the world is actually on fire. 3 00:00:07,000 --> 00:00:10,799 Speaker 1: And we have seen riots breakout across this country coast 4 00:00:10,840 --> 00:00:15,840 Speaker 1: to coast, arson buildings burning down, all stemming from the 5 00:00:15,960 --> 00:00:19,280 Speaker 1: killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. This is now spread 6 00:00:19,280 --> 00:00:22,479 Speaker 1: out into a much larger movement, much larger action, to 7 00:00:22,480 --> 00:00:25,400 Speaker 1: the point the National Guardsman troops have been called in 8 00:00:25,560 --> 00:00:30,400 Speaker 1: to help maintain the peace. Very very overwhelming for a 9 00:00:30,440 --> 00:00:33,360 Speaker 1: lot of us. Luckily, we will break down the whole 10 00:00:33,440 --> 00:00:44,360 Speaker 1: story and what it means. This is verdict with Ted Cruz, Senator. 11 00:00:45,520 --> 00:00:47,760 Speaker 1: A lot has happened since last Friday, since the last 12 00:00:47,800 --> 00:00:51,040 Speaker 1: time we spoke. I can't even believe. I mean, it 13 00:00:51,080 --> 00:00:54,560 Speaker 1: seems like just a completely different political situation now. And 14 00:00:54,760 --> 00:00:56,600 Speaker 1: you see it everywhere, not just on the news. You 15 00:00:56,640 --> 00:01:01,320 Speaker 1: see it on social media, people posting various hashtags and 16 00:01:01,360 --> 00:01:03,720 Speaker 1: if you don't post a certain hashtag, you're smeared. Is 17 00:01:03,720 --> 00:01:06,280 Speaker 1: a bigot and a racist. We're at each other's throats. 18 00:01:07,160 --> 00:01:09,840 Speaker 1: I mean, literal buildings are on fire. I know you 19 00:01:09,959 --> 00:01:14,080 Speaker 1: spoke on the Senate floor about this this week. What's 20 00:01:14,080 --> 00:01:17,759 Speaker 1: your take? Well, listen, this has been a tough week 21 00:01:17,800 --> 00:01:20,440 Speaker 1: in our nation's history. What we've seen all across the 22 00:01:20,480 --> 00:01:25,440 Speaker 1: country has been really, really hard. How do you think 23 00:01:25,480 --> 00:01:28,240 Speaker 1: through this, Well, I mean, let's start with some first principles. 24 00:01:29,959 --> 00:01:35,839 Speaker 1: Don't murder people, don't hurt people. Yeah, don't steal from people. 25 00:01:37,360 --> 00:01:40,480 Speaker 1: You know, when it comes to the constitution, every one 26 00:01:40,520 --> 00:01:43,040 Speaker 1: of us has a right to free speech. Every one 27 00:01:43,120 --> 00:01:45,800 Speaker 1: of us has a right to protest, to speak. But 28 00:01:45,880 --> 00:01:48,480 Speaker 1: what you don't have a right to do is commit 29 00:01:48,520 --> 00:01:50,400 Speaker 1: acts of violence. What you don't have a right to 30 00:01:50,440 --> 00:01:55,440 Speaker 1: do is shatter store windows. What you don't have a 31 00:01:55,520 --> 00:01:57,600 Speaker 1: right to do is burn police cars. What you don't 32 00:01:57,600 --> 00:02:00,520 Speaker 1: have a right to do is murder police, all officers. 33 00:02:01,040 --> 00:02:04,120 Speaker 1: And so we're seeing all of these come crashing in. 34 00:02:05,240 --> 00:02:09,160 Speaker 1: It started with something truly horrific. What happened to George Floyd. 35 00:02:09,919 --> 00:02:15,079 Speaker 1: It was wrong, it was evil, it was grotesque. At 36 00:02:15,120 --> 00:02:17,440 Speaker 1: this point, all of us have seen those eight minutes 37 00:02:17,440 --> 00:02:21,560 Speaker 1: of video. What happened to George Floyd was wrong, and 38 00:02:21,639 --> 00:02:26,240 Speaker 1: the criminal justice system needs to hold those who violated that, 39 00:02:26,360 --> 00:02:31,360 Speaker 1: which in that instance was four Minneapolis police officers, one 40 00:02:31,400 --> 00:02:33,720 Speaker 1: who put his knee on his neck and took mister 41 00:02:33,800 --> 00:02:37,360 Speaker 1: Floyd's life grotesquely, and three others who stood around and 42 00:02:37,360 --> 00:02:42,760 Speaker 1: didn't stop him. But then we saw the anger, the 43 00:02:42,840 --> 00:02:48,480 Speaker 1: paroxysms that came out of that initially manifesting protests. Now, look, 44 00:02:48,560 --> 00:02:56,160 Speaker 1: protests are perfectly legitimate. They are are quintessentially American. We 45 00:02:56,280 --> 00:02:58,519 Speaker 1: have the right under the First Amendment to speak out 46 00:02:58,720 --> 00:03:01,760 Speaker 1: and to speak out for racial equality, to speak out 47 00:03:01,800 --> 00:03:04,840 Speaker 1: for equal justice under law. The law should apply to 48 00:03:05,000 --> 00:03:09,600 Speaker 1: everyone fairly, regardless of your skin color, and and and 49 00:03:09,840 --> 00:03:17,959 Speaker 1: the protests calling for standing for racial equality. We were 50 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:22,080 Speaker 1: in the best tradition of America. But then we saw 51 00:03:23,240 --> 00:03:29,360 Speaker 1: violent criminals. Then we saw terrorists. Then we saw looters 52 00:03:29,360 --> 00:03:36,040 Speaker 1: and thieves infiltrate these protests and begin rinking mayhem, begin 53 00:03:37,200 --> 00:03:41,960 Speaker 1: destroying communities, begin committing acts of violence. And I gotta 54 00:03:42,000 --> 00:03:49,040 Speaker 1: say to every one of those violent criminals who slipped 55 00:03:49,160 --> 00:03:54,080 Speaker 1: into the otherwise peaceful protests and began rioting and committing 56 00:03:54,120 --> 00:03:57,320 Speaker 1: acts of terror, what they did was not only wrong 57 00:03:57,320 --> 00:04:01,160 Speaker 1: when criminally was bigoted, because what they did is they 58 00:04:01,200 --> 00:04:06,280 Speaker 1: tried to corrupt a legitimate expression of free speech and 59 00:04:06,480 --> 00:04:10,240 Speaker 1: and a laudable goal, a goal this nation was built 60 00:04:10,280 --> 00:04:14,040 Speaker 1: on the proposition that all of us are created equal. 61 00:04:14,280 --> 00:04:17,520 Speaker 1: They tried to corrupt it and it was wrong, and 62 00:04:17,640 --> 00:04:22,520 Speaker 1: and and I got to say, watching our country burn 63 00:04:23,640 --> 00:04:28,919 Speaker 1: this past week, it's been horrifying, it has been, and 64 00:04:28,960 --> 00:04:33,520 Speaker 1: it's got to stop. Senator. I'm actually struck by the 65 00:04:33,800 --> 00:04:37,680 Speaker 1: simplicity of your observation because it's something that we're we 66 00:04:37,720 --> 00:04:40,440 Speaker 1: actually haven't gotten from the mainstream media, we haven't gotten 67 00:04:40,480 --> 00:04:44,240 Speaker 1: from a lot of politicians, which is, let's go back 68 00:04:44,279 --> 00:04:48,040 Speaker 1: to first principles. It's wrong to murder, it's wrong to steal. 69 00:04:48,240 --> 00:04:51,600 Speaker 1: It's wrong to commit violence against innocent people. It's good 70 00:04:51,800 --> 00:04:55,719 Speaker 1: to voice your own expressions of anger and injustice, it's 71 00:04:55,760 --> 00:04:58,480 Speaker 1: good for justice to be served. Still wrong to steal, 72 00:04:58,640 --> 00:05:01,599 Speaker 1: still wrong to murder. I was watching CNN. That's a 73 00:05:01,640 --> 00:05:04,720 Speaker 1: statement that I rarely utter, but I was watching CNN 74 00:05:04,960 --> 00:05:08,599 Speaker 1: and Chris Cuomo, the brother of the Democratic governor of 75 00:05:08,600 --> 00:05:13,960 Speaker 1: New York, Chris Cuomo, came out and explicitly defended violent 76 00:05:14,360 --> 00:05:18,520 Speaker 1: protest which also known as riots, also known as domestic terrorism. 77 00:05:18,520 --> 00:05:21,240 Speaker 1: I mean, he said, actually, show me where it says 78 00:05:21,720 --> 00:05:25,200 Speaker 1: that protests have to be polite and peaceful. Could you 79 00:05:25,240 --> 00:05:28,800 Speaker 1: show him where it says that, Senator, Well, there is 80 00:05:28,839 --> 00:05:31,599 Speaker 1: this little thing called the United States Constitution. Oh, Yeah, 81 00:05:31,760 --> 00:05:35,880 Speaker 1: the Bill of Rights, the First Amendment protects the right 82 00:05:35,960 --> 00:05:41,480 Speaker 1: of the people to peaceably assemble peaceably. To assemble peaceably 83 00:05:41,680 --> 00:05:44,200 Speaker 1: is right in there. So there's a difference. You can 84 00:05:44,320 --> 00:05:47,000 Speaker 1: stand up and protests, and by the way, some of 85 00:05:47,040 --> 00:05:51,440 Speaker 1: the most effective protests in the world have been peaceable, 86 00:05:51,760 --> 00:05:55,240 Speaker 1: non violent protest. I want to touch on Antifa, and 87 00:05:55,360 --> 00:05:58,640 Speaker 1: I think you've actually honed in here on what lies 88 00:05:58,680 --> 00:06:01,479 Speaker 1: at the heart of this. It's not just Chris Cuomo 89 00:06:01,600 --> 00:06:04,560 Speaker 1: going out and saying protests should be violent. It's at 90 00:06:04,640 --> 00:06:08,360 Speaker 1: Keith Ellison, the Attorney General of Minnesota, held up a 91 00:06:08,400 --> 00:06:12,440 Speaker 1: photo smiling with a book called the Antifa Handbook, smiling 92 00:06:12,440 --> 00:06:16,760 Speaker 1: in photos with people in Antifa. Antifa stands for anti fascist. 93 00:06:17,279 --> 00:06:19,720 Speaker 1: They don't behave like anti fascists. I mean they do 94 00:06:19,760 --> 00:06:22,680 Speaker 1: in the sense that they behave like radical communists and anarchists. 95 00:06:22,680 --> 00:06:26,560 Speaker 1: When you march in and violently assault people, you were 96 00:06:26,640 --> 00:06:30,800 Speaker 1: being FA. You're not Antifa, You're FA. You've gone full 97 00:06:30,839 --> 00:06:33,400 Speaker 1: FA here, and you know, I think the President this 98 00:06:33,440 --> 00:06:36,440 Speaker 1: week said that he wants to classify them as a 99 00:06:36,520 --> 00:06:39,840 Speaker 1: terrorist organization and a very very basic definition of terrorism. 100 00:06:39,839 --> 00:06:43,760 Speaker 1: They're using violence against civilians to achieve political ends. It's 101 00:06:43,760 --> 00:06:46,400 Speaker 1: as simple as it gets. It seems pretty clear. What 102 00:06:46,960 --> 00:06:49,159 Speaker 1: is the role of Antifa here and what does it 103 00:06:49,200 --> 00:06:50,840 Speaker 1: say about the state of our country that you've got 104 00:06:50,839 --> 00:06:55,719 Speaker 1: elected officials voicing support for them. Well, listen. For two years, 105 00:06:55,720 --> 00:06:59,080 Speaker 1: I've been calling on the Trump administration to designate Antifa 106 00:06:59,080 --> 00:07:03,359 Speaker 1: as a domestic terrorist organization. I introduced a resolution last 107 00:07:03,400 --> 00:07:06,160 Speaker 1: year in the Senate calling on Antifa to be designated 108 00:07:06,200 --> 00:07:09,400 Speaker 1: because they go in and they commit violent assaults. They 109 00:07:09,440 --> 00:07:15,440 Speaker 1: commit violent attacks, and these typically are our young anarchists. 110 00:07:15,560 --> 00:07:23,440 Speaker 1: They're often rich white college kids who wear masks. And look, 111 00:07:23,880 --> 00:07:26,760 Speaker 1: you know that they're sitting there with their thousand dollars 112 00:07:26,840 --> 00:07:32,240 Speaker 1: iPhones saying capitalism is evil, let's burn it all to 113 00:07:32,280 --> 00:07:35,400 Speaker 1: the ground. And interestingly enough, they're not burning their dorm 114 00:07:35,480 --> 00:07:37,880 Speaker 1: room to the ground. No, no, no, no no, no, that 115 00:07:37,160 --> 00:07:40,720 Speaker 1: that would be too much. They're going into the inner 116 00:07:40,760 --> 00:07:43,480 Speaker 1: city and they're burning to the ground the communities that 117 00:07:43,800 --> 00:07:46,800 Speaker 1: that people have to live in it and it is 118 00:07:47,000 --> 00:07:53,280 Speaker 1: it's grotesque, it's wrong. And look, Keith Ellison's son is 119 00:07:53,280 --> 00:07:57,240 Speaker 1: a city council member in Minneapolis. He tweeted out that 120 00:07:57,320 --> 00:08:01,000 Speaker 1: he stands with Atifa. There Antifa, they're literally burning his 121 00:08:01,080 --> 00:08:04,760 Speaker 1: city to the ground, and these Democratic politicians. And I'll 122 00:08:04,760 --> 00:08:11,960 Speaker 1: tell you if anyone behave worse than that, it's Hollywood celebrities. 123 00:08:12,640 --> 00:08:17,320 Speaker 1: So Hollywood celebrities are all engaged in this virtue signaling 124 00:08:17,320 --> 00:08:21,520 Speaker 1: where they're giving money to bail the rioters out of jail. 125 00:08:22,320 --> 00:08:28,360 Speaker 1: And this is literally so, you know, I engage with 126 00:08:28,400 --> 00:08:30,600 Speaker 1: some of these celebrities and asked, hey, hey, wait a second. 127 00:08:31,480 --> 00:08:33,599 Speaker 1: You know, justin Timberlake was like, oh, give money to 128 00:08:33,679 --> 00:08:36,040 Speaker 1: this fund to bail the writers out of jail. How 129 00:08:36,040 --> 00:08:39,680 Speaker 1: about you give money to a fund to rebuild the 130 00:08:39,760 --> 00:08:43,360 Speaker 1: African American and Hispanic owned small businesses that have been 131 00:08:43,400 --> 00:08:46,400 Speaker 1: burned to the ground by these violent criminals, instead of 132 00:08:46,440 --> 00:08:51,400 Speaker 1: bailing the criminal out of jail. Right, help the innocent victims. 133 00:08:52,720 --> 00:08:57,640 Speaker 1: And let's take another component of it, the words black 134 00:08:57,679 --> 00:09:02,959 Speaker 1: lives matter. Ye, this has been at inchous point. Yeah 135 00:09:03,000 --> 00:09:08,680 Speaker 1: it shouldn't be. Do black lives matter, absolutely, yes, unequivocally period, 136 00:09:09,679 --> 00:09:12,040 Speaker 1: Black lives matters. But here's the part that's deemed, Oh, 137 00:09:12,080 --> 00:09:14,000 Speaker 1: you can't say that. You can't say black lives matter, 138 00:09:14,080 --> 00:09:17,960 Speaker 1: Hispanic lives matter, Asian lives matter, White lives matter, human 139 00:09:18,080 --> 00:09:21,920 Speaker 1: life matters. Right, and and Okay, so why is that 140 00:09:21,960 --> 00:09:24,160 Speaker 1: a political statement? This is so. I actually had this 141 00:09:24,200 --> 00:09:27,400 Speaker 1: conversation with with my daughters today where they were talking 142 00:09:27,400 --> 00:09:31,000 Speaker 1: about some YouTuber that raised a bunch of money for BLM. 143 00:09:31,360 --> 00:09:33,760 Speaker 1: Of course, my daughters already know the acronym BLM. I like, 144 00:09:34,000 --> 00:09:36,720 Speaker 1: so tell me what what does BLM stand for? And 145 00:09:37,120 --> 00:09:39,440 Speaker 1: you know, my daughter said, what you know? Equality? Equality 146 00:09:39,520 --> 00:09:43,520 Speaker 1: is good and I was like, yeah, that's that's certainly true. 147 00:09:45,160 --> 00:09:50,480 Speaker 1: But if you look at the radicals who are co 148 00:09:50,679 --> 00:09:55,360 Speaker 1: opting the message black lives matter, what they're advocating is 149 00:09:55,440 --> 00:10:00,480 Speaker 1: number one, an absolute assault on police. I'll tell you 150 00:10:00,480 --> 00:10:03,439 Speaker 1: who it hurts. It hurts African Americans, It hurts Hispanics 151 00:10:03,640 --> 00:10:06,040 Speaker 1: because you know why, because when this happens, if you 152 00:10:06,040 --> 00:10:07,720 Speaker 1: look at what happened in Ferguson, you look at what 153 00:10:07,800 --> 00:10:11,440 Speaker 1: happened in Baltimore, there's something called the Ferguson effect, which 154 00:10:11,480 --> 00:10:13,880 Speaker 1: is essentially that when cops feel like, okay, if I 155 00:10:14,200 --> 00:10:17,719 Speaker 1: get it in an interaction, maybe with a criminal, and 156 00:10:18,280 --> 00:10:22,040 Speaker 1: somehow it gets violent, my whole life can be destroyed 157 00:10:22,040 --> 00:10:24,480 Speaker 1: by career, can be destroyed by family can be destroyed, 158 00:10:24,679 --> 00:10:26,760 Speaker 1: And the perfectly rational thing to do is, hey, I'm 159 00:10:26,760 --> 00:10:28,920 Speaker 1: going to step back. I'm not going to engage, of course, 160 00:10:29,080 --> 00:10:31,280 Speaker 1: And what you see happen over and over again as 161 00:10:31,320 --> 00:10:34,800 Speaker 1: the murder rate skyrocket. Right. We saw that happened in Ferguson, 162 00:10:34,840 --> 00:10:37,000 Speaker 1: we saw that happen in Baltimore, and you end up 163 00:10:37,000 --> 00:10:39,959 Speaker 1: with a laite. If you are committed to the proposition 164 00:10:40,000 --> 00:10:44,400 Speaker 1: black lives matter, demonizing the cops will end up with 165 00:10:44,480 --> 00:10:47,559 Speaker 1: more Black lives being lost more because, by the way, 166 00:10:47,559 --> 00:10:52,160 Speaker 1: the people being murdered most frequently right by violent criminals, 167 00:10:52,200 --> 00:10:58,080 Speaker 1: by gangs are people in low income neighborhoods, and often 168 00:10:58,080 --> 00:11:01,480 Speaker 1: they're African Americans or Hispanic Well, this is I think 169 00:11:01,480 --> 00:11:04,320 Speaker 1: the key point here, because you know, people see that 170 00:11:04,320 --> 00:11:06,680 Speaker 1: phrase black lives matter, and they say, if you don't 171 00:11:06,800 --> 00:11:11,240 Speaker 1: support this organization and the most radical leaders of this organization, 172 00:11:11,480 --> 00:11:13,680 Speaker 1: then somehow you don't care about black lives. And the 173 00:11:13,720 --> 00:11:18,760 Speaker 1: fact is virtually statistically nobody in this country thinks black 174 00:11:18,800 --> 00:11:23,280 Speaker 1: lives don't matter. Anybody with any political influence it believes 175 00:11:23,280 --> 00:11:25,800 Speaker 1: black lives matter. Anybody with any media influence believes black 176 00:11:25,840 --> 00:11:29,000 Speaker 1: lives matter. Anybody with any business influence, right, major corporations 177 00:11:29,000 --> 00:11:31,440 Speaker 1: don't any millions and millions of dollars to Black Lives Matter. 178 00:11:31,600 --> 00:11:33,839 Speaker 1: Anybody with an Instagram account or a Twitter account or 179 00:11:33,920 --> 00:11:37,439 Speaker 1: Facebook believes black lives matter. Everybody agrees on this point. 180 00:11:37,600 --> 00:11:41,000 Speaker 1: But some radicals, some people pushing things that are not 181 00:11:41,040 --> 00:11:43,640 Speaker 1: so great, that are not so popular, are co opting 182 00:11:43,640 --> 00:11:46,760 Speaker 1: that very basic message that everybody agrees with and using 183 00:11:46,760 --> 00:11:50,800 Speaker 1: it to put push radical leftist ideas that the vast, 184 00:11:50,920 --> 00:11:54,160 Speaker 1: vast majority of Americans don't want. And it's so cynical, 185 00:11:54,280 --> 00:11:57,400 Speaker 1: and it's so bullying, and it's so intimidating that I 186 00:11:57,440 --> 00:11:59,040 Speaker 1: think a lot of people are just lost on what 187 00:11:59,120 --> 00:12:03,320 Speaker 1: to do. So, Michael, I'll give an example. One of 188 00:12:03,360 --> 00:12:07,360 Speaker 1: the agenda items of the radicals that are leading this 189 00:12:07,400 --> 00:12:12,960 Speaker 1: movement is to use their phrase defund the police. This 190 00:12:13,000 --> 00:12:16,360 Speaker 1: past week that was tweeted by Hillary Clinton's former press secretary, 191 00:12:16,800 --> 00:12:19,960 Speaker 1: defund the police. Let me ask you for a second, 192 00:12:20,240 --> 00:12:23,439 Speaker 1: how good do you think it would be for African 193 00:12:23,480 --> 00:12:26,559 Speaker 1: American communities if there were no police officers? Yeah, not quit. 194 00:12:26,640 --> 00:12:28,679 Speaker 1: Just the drug dealers could run free, if the street 195 00:12:28,679 --> 00:12:31,440 Speaker 1: gangs could run free. It's already the murder rates are 196 00:12:31,559 --> 00:12:34,760 Speaker 1: are are horrific. How good would it be for your 197 00:12:34,800 --> 00:12:37,000 Speaker 1: family or mind? How many Americans this week, as you 198 00:12:37,040 --> 00:12:40,640 Speaker 1: watch the rioting, thought about the right to keep in 199 00:12:40,720 --> 00:12:44,200 Speaker 1: bear arms. I'm sure the lines are around how many? 200 00:12:44,280 --> 00:12:48,480 Speaker 1: How many? How many? Thought about what happens if that 201 00:12:48,559 --> 00:12:54,960 Speaker 1: mob comes to my house? Right, and that that is 202 00:12:55,800 --> 00:13:03,439 Speaker 1: an extreme agenda and it's not right. You know what, 203 00:13:04,360 --> 00:13:07,120 Speaker 1: here's the name. The media doesn't want to talk about it. 204 00:13:08,480 --> 00:13:14,040 Speaker 1: David Dorn. David Dorne was a retired police officer in 205 00:13:14,120 --> 00:13:19,440 Speaker 1: Saint Louis, Missouri. David Dorne was shot by rioters. He 206 00:13:19,520 --> 00:13:22,520 Speaker 1: was protecting the pawn shop. He's a small businessman. He 207 00:13:22,559 --> 00:13:27,400 Speaker 1: was shot and murdered. David Dorn spent four decades serving 208 00:13:27,480 --> 00:13:30,880 Speaker 1: honorably as a police officer. And David Dorn was murdered 209 00:13:31,360 --> 00:13:35,079 Speaker 1: by this rioting, and yet the media didn't want to 210 00:13:35,120 --> 00:13:38,760 Speaker 1: talk about him. Yeah, if you believe in black lives matters, 211 00:13:39,280 --> 00:13:43,040 Speaker 1: David Dorn's life matters, give you another name. David Underwood, 212 00:13:43,600 --> 00:13:48,280 Speaker 1: who was another law enforcement officer, was murdered Las Vegas. 213 00:13:48,280 --> 00:13:50,319 Speaker 1: You had another law who was also David under was 214 00:13:50,320 --> 00:13:54,240 Speaker 1: African American as well. We had two African American police 215 00:13:54,280 --> 00:13:59,559 Speaker 1: officers murdered by this rioting, and yet the woke virtue 216 00:13:59,640 --> 00:14:05,760 Speaker 1: signal allerts in Hollywood on CNN, on Twitter, those lives 217 00:14:05,800 --> 00:14:08,559 Speaker 1: don't matter to them at all, right, and it's wrong. Look, 218 00:14:08,600 --> 00:14:11,920 Speaker 1: we should protect everybody's life, and we should have a 219 00:14:11,960 --> 00:14:14,960 Speaker 1: passion in this whole racial issue and this whole issue 220 00:14:14,960 --> 00:14:16,960 Speaker 1: of the protests and the riots. I mean, in the 221 00:14:17,000 --> 00:14:20,920 Speaker 1: fact of the riots and the protests. Probably the most 222 00:14:20,960 --> 00:14:24,200 Speaker 1: outrageous cynicism is that just a week ago, we were 223 00:14:24,240 --> 00:14:27,800 Speaker 1: told if you go outside to do anything, you're killing grandma, 224 00:14:27,840 --> 00:14:31,480 Speaker 1: You're endangering people because of the coronavirus. If you go 225 00:14:31,480 --> 00:14:34,960 Speaker 1: God forbid to protest any of the lockdown orders, you 226 00:14:35,000 --> 00:14:38,200 Speaker 1: are a terrible, no good, awful person. And then this 227 00:14:38,240 --> 00:14:40,800 Speaker 1: week we're told by the very same public health experts, 228 00:14:40,840 --> 00:14:43,840 Speaker 1: by the very same politicians, everybody should go out by 229 00:14:43,840 --> 00:14:48,520 Speaker 1: the hundred thousand to protest in this left wing narrative. 230 00:14:48,560 --> 00:14:50,200 Speaker 1: I mean, people look at that, and I think our 231 00:14:50,240 --> 00:14:54,240 Speaker 1: capacity for outrage just goes out the window. Right. Well, Look, 232 00:14:54,280 --> 00:14:56,800 Speaker 1: one of the more ridiculous hypocrites on this has been 233 00:14:56,800 --> 00:14:59,680 Speaker 1: Billed de Blasio in New York who de Blasio was 234 00:14:59,720 --> 00:15:02,280 Speaker 1: asked this list last week, So if you can come 235 00:15:02,280 --> 00:15:05,480 Speaker 1: and protest and get much much closer than six feet apart. 236 00:15:06,360 --> 00:15:08,600 Speaker 1: Can we go to church, can we go to synagogue? 237 00:15:08,600 --> 00:15:11,160 Speaker 1: And de Blasio said no, no no, no, no, no, because 238 00:15:11,400 --> 00:15:14,800 Speaker 1: because there's a history of racial discrimination in America, but 239 00:15:14,840 --> 00:15:19,320 Speaker 1: there's no history of religious discrimination. What utter crap. By 240 00:15:19,400 --> 00:15:22,239 Speaker 1: the way, not mean you want to talk about millennia 241 00:15:22,960 --> 00:15:28,720 Speaker 1: of racial of racial discrimination, yes, but but a religious persecution. 242 00:15:29,000 --> 00:15:32,000 Speaker 1: I mean, we are in a country that was literally 243 00:15:32,080 --> 00:15:36,240 Speaker 1: founded by people fleeing religious persecution. You look at the 244 00:15:36,240 --> 00:15:38,880 Speaker 1: pilgrims who arrived here. They arrived to come to a 245 00:15:38,960 --> 00:15:41,400 Speaker 1: land where they could practice their faith. And by the way, 246 00:15:41,560 --> 00:15:44,320 Speaker 1: you want to talk about people persecuted for faith, you 247 00:15:44,360 --> 00:15:46,560 Speaker 1: look at the Jewish community in New York City, who 248 00:15:46,600 --> 00:15:50,280 Speaker 1: do Blasio has singled out for persecution over and over 249 00:15:50,320 --> 00:15:54,600 Speaker 1: and over again. You know, Jews in World War two, 250 00:15:54,680 --> 00:16:00,640 Speaker 1: six million Jews were murdered in the Holocaust. To say 251 00:16:00,680 --> 00:16:05,880 Speaker 1: there's no history of religious discrimination, it's absurd. Is a 252 00:16:05,920 --> 00:16:13,160 Speaker 1: political leftist, anti American narrative. That is nonsense, and the 253 00:16:13,240 --> 00:16:17,280 Speaker 1: hypocrisy of it is really coming out amid all this chaos. 254 00:16:17,800 --> 00:16:23,840 Speaker 1: Two point five million jobs added in May. The economy 255 00:16:23,960 --> 00:16:26,400 Speaker 1: is now, I mean the stock market surged when we 256 00:16:26,440 --> 00:16:28,800 Speaker 1: got this news. Is there a chance that we could 257 00:16:28,800 --> 00:16:31,080 Speaker 1: see something like a V shaped recovery. Is there a 258 00:16:31,200 --> 00:16:34,960 Speaker 1: chance that we could come out of this thing pretty strong? Look, 259 00:16:35,000 --> 00:16:38,640 Speaker 1: I hope. So the job numbers are fantastic. We're seeing 260 00:16:38,680 --> 00:16:42,080 Speaker 1: states all across the country reopening. Texas is reopening. And 261 00:16:42,440 --> 00:16:45,560 Speaker 1: let me say that this is a powerful sign. Open 262 00:16:45,880 --> 00:16:49,960 Speaker 1: up the economy. Now, yeah, let people go back to work. Now, 263 00:16:50,000 --> 00:16:53,360 Speaker 1: that doesn't mean ignore all of the efforts we're doing. 264 00:16:53,400 --> 00:16:56,000 Speaker 1: You look, we can engage in social distancing, we can 265 00:16:56,040 --> 00:16:59,800 Speaker 1: continue to be prudent, but open it up. Let people 266 00:16:59,840 --> 00:17:02,280 Speaker 1: go back to work. Two and a half million new jobs. Now, 267 00:17:02,280 --> 00:17:05,400 Speaker 1: we've had forty million people lose their jobs, so two 268 00:17:05,400 --> 00:17:07,480 Speaker 1: and a half million. But you know what, it's the 269 00:17:07,480 --> 00:17:09,400 Speaker 1: first time in a long time we haven't seen job 270 00:17:09,480 --> 00:17:12,199 Speaker 1: numbers that were several million going down, right, So instead 271 00:17:12,200 --> 00:17:14,879 Speaker 1: of going down, they're going back up sharply. And I 272 00:17:14,920 --> 00:17:18,080 Speaker 1: hope we keep seeing it go back up. The forty 273 00:17:18,119 --> 00:17:20,920 Speaker 1: million jobs that went away were self inflicted. We did 274 00:17:20,960 --> 00:17:25,320 Speaker 1: this to stop the pandemic. Now let's let people open up. 275 00:17:25,400 --> 00:17:28,000 Speaker 1: Let's let them get back to work and and and 276 00:17:28,440 --> 00:17:31,160 Speaker 1: get the economy movie again that these job numbers are 277 00:17:31,240 --> 00:17:35,320 Speaker 1: really encouraging and we need to keep keep moving in 278 00:17:35,359 --> 00:17:37,879 Speaker 1: that direction. That's great news. And before we get to mailbag, 279 00:17:37,880 --> 00:17:39,960 Speaker 1: because I do want to hit the mailbag, there is 280 00:17:40,119 --> 00:17:43,160 Speaker 1: there is one more story on the subject of destruction 281 00:17:43,440 --> 00:17:46,240 Speaker 1: that I've got to get back to. Obviously, destruction has 282 00:17:46,280 --> 00:17:48,280 Speaker 1: been in the news a lot, but it's important, I think, 283 00:17:48,320 --> 00:17:54,040 Speaker 1: to talk about your absolute destruction of Rod Rosenstein's testimony 284 00:17:54,240 --> 00:17:58,520 Speaker 1: before the Senate when when you were discussing the gross 285 00:17:59,040 --> 00:18:03,480 Speaker 1: mishandling of things over the past several years at the DOJ, 286 00:18:04,320 --> 00:18:05,959 Speaker 1: Could you just tell us a little bit about this 287 00:18:06,000 --> 00:18:07,800 Speaker 1: because I think for those of us who have been 288 00:18:08,200 --> 00:18:11,960 Speaker 1: gasolit for years and years on this subject of how 289 00:18:11,960 --> 00:18:14,840 Speaker 1: the DOJ was going after Trump, I think it was 290 00:18:15,320 --> 00:18:17,960 Speaker 1: just so refreshing to see you shed light on what 291 00:18:18,040 --> 00:18:20,199 Speaker 1: was really happening. What we now know, as more and 292 00:18:20,240 --> 00:18:23,600 Speaker 1: more information has got in public, is that the Obama 293 00:18:23,640 --> 00:18:30,280 Speaker 1: Biden administration politicized the FBI, politicized the Department of Justice, 294 00:18:30,320 --> 00:18:36,440 Speaker 1: politicized the intelligence community, and targeted at the Trump campaign. 295 00:18:36,480 --> 00:18:40,960 Speaker 1: Targeted them at Donald Trump directly. They targeted them with 296 00:18:41,080 --> 00:18:44,400 Speaker 1: wire taps, directed at a Carter Page, a senior adviser 297 00:18:44,440 --> 00:18:47,520 Speaker 1: to the Trump campaign. They targeted it with spy sent 298 00:18:47,600 --> 00:18:51,320 Speaker 1: in wearing wires confidential import formance to the Trump campaign. 299 00:18:51,280 --> 00:18:54,919 Speaker 1: They're opposing campaign, and they went after in particular, General 300 00:18:54,960 --> 00:18:58,600 Speaker 1: Michael Flynn, a three star general who'd spent his entire 301 00:18:58,680 --> 00:19:02,560 Speaker 1: life fighting for this country, and they directly targeted. We 302 00:19:02,640 --> 00:19:06,280 Speaker 1: now know that the decision to target them went all 303 00:19:06,320 --> 00:19:09,040 Speaker 1: the way to the top. On January fifth, twenty seventeen, 304 00:19:09,720 --> 00:19:11,720 Speaker 1: there's a meeting in the White House in the Oval Office. 305 00:19:11,720 --> 00:19:15,399 Speaker 1: Barack Obama was there, Joe Biden was there, James Comey 306 00:19:15,440 --> 00:19:17,959 Speaker 1: was there, the head of the FBI, and he reported 307 00:19:18,000 --> 00:19:20,400 Speaker 1: to the President and to the Vice President about their 308 00:19:20,440 --> 00:19:24,080 Speaker 1: targeting of Michael Flynn, the incoming National Security Advisor. Sally Yates, 309 00:19:24,080 --> 00:19:26,439 Speaker 1: who was the acting Attorney General, said she didn't know 310 00:19:26,440 --> 00:19:31,359 Speaker 1: anything about it. So she learned that the FBI was 311 00:19:31,400 --> 00:19:35,520 Speaker 1: targeting the incoming national security advisor from Barack Obama. Because 312 00:19:35,560 --> 00:19:40,879 Speaker 1: the FBI was briefing the president directly. That is such 313 00:19:41,000 --> 00:19:46,280 Speaker 1: an abuse of power. And if you look at everything 314 00:19:46,280 --> 00:19:48,320 Speaker 1: that has come out, the Inspector General report at the 315 00:19:48,359 --> 00:19:52,480 Speaker 1: Department of Justice showed that the FBI was totally politicized. 316 00:19:52,480 --> 00:19:57,600 Speaker 1: It showed seventeen material misstatements that were made to the 317 00:19:57,640 --> 00:20:00,919 Speaker 1: FISA court. It also showed that that a senior FBI 318 00:20:01,080 --> 00:20:07,080 Speaker 1: lawyer fraudulently altered evidence and so, and here's what he did, 319 00:20:07,080 --> 00:20:09,040 Speaker 1: because it's worth her memory. I mean, it really is. 320 00:20:09,840 --> 00:20:13,399 Speaker 1: It's like out of a bad spy movie. So they're 321 00:20:13,400 --> 00:20:17,960 Speaker 1: trying to get a warrant to wire tap Carter Page, 322 00:20:17,960 --> 00:20:20,520 Speaker 1: and they're trying to renew the warrant, and Carter Page 323 00:20:20,560 --> 00:20:22,840 Speaker 1: is talking to a bunch of Russians. And so, look, 324 00:20:22,880 --> 00:20:25,200 Speaker 1: if you're talking to a bunch of Russians, that's ordinarily 325 00:20:25,280 --> 00:20:27,320 Speaker 1: kind of suspicious. Why are you talking to a bunch 326 00:20:27,359 --> 00:20:30,640 Speaker 1: of Russians? Now he is a Russia expert, so but 327 00:20:30,920 --> 00:20:33,440 Speaker 1: even so there's a little bit of suspicion there. So 328 00:20:33,480 --> 00:20:36,400 Speaker 1: the FBI sent an email to the CIA, said, hey, 329 00:20:36,560 --> 00:20:40,080 Speaker 1: is this guy working for you? Because if you're working 330 00:20:40,119 --> 00:20:43,439 Speaker 1: for the CIA on going after the Russians, then you 331 00:20:43,440 --> 00:20:45,199 Speaker 1: probably ought to be talking to the Russians if you're 332 00:20:45,200 --> 00:20:48,200 Speaker 1: working for the CIA. CIA sends an email back, Yep, 333 00:20:48,240 --> 00:20:51,920 Speaker 1: he's working for US. So CIA says in writing, Carter 334 00:20:52,000 --> 00:20:54,760 Speaker 1: Page is working for the United States government when he's 335 00:20:54,800 --> 00:20:58,760 Speaker 1: talking to the Russians. The FBI lawyer takes that email 336 00:20:58,800 --> 00:21:01,920 Speaker 1: and alters it and literally changes that one hundred and 337 00:21:01,920 --> 00:21:05,160 Speaker 1: eighty degrees the opposite. Instead of yes, he's working for us, 338 00:21:06,160 --> 00:21:09,440 Speaker 1: he alters it and creates a fraudulent document, No, he's 339 00:21:09,480 --> 00:21:12,480 Speaker 1: not working for us, and that gets submitted to the court. 340 00:21:12,720 --> 00:21:14,480 Speaker 1: If you or I did that in any court in 341 00:21:14,520 --> 00:21:18,240 Speaker 1: a traffic ticket, right, if you created a fraudulent document 342 00:21:18,280 --> 00:21:21,040 Speaker 1: and submitted it, you would go to jail. I would 343 00:21:21,119 --> 00:21:25,119 Speaker 1: go to jail. And so Rod Rosenstein was testifying. And 344 00:21:25,240 --> 00:21:30,399 Speaker 1: by the way, Rosenstein signed one of those applications, and 345 00:21:34,440 --> 00:21:36,560 Speaker 1: I laid out that history that I just walked through, 346 00:21:36,600 --> 00:21:40,760 Speaker 1: and I said, listen, you were coming into a deeply politicized, 347 00:21:41,840 --> 00:21:46,800 Speaker 1: corrupted law enforcement environment. There are two and only two possibilities. 348 00:21:46,880 --> 00:21:51,560 Speaker 1: One you were complicit in the weaponization of law enforcement 349 00:21:52,680 --> 00:21:59,200 Speaker 1: against one political party, or you were grossly neglighent. Those 350 00:21:59,200 --> 00:22:02,440 Speaker 1: are the only two choice. And when we walked through, 351 00:22:02,520 --> 00:22:06,679 Speaker 1: I said, look, did you did you know about the 352 00:22:06,760 --> 00:22:09,280 Speaker 1: Steel dossier that was the basis of this whole application. 353 00:22:09,520 --> 00:22:11,960 Speaker 1: The principal witnessed behind it and said, oh, it's not reliable. 354 00:22:11,960 --> 00:22:13,479 Speaker 1: It was all just a bunch of guys talking at 355 00:22:13,480 --> 00:22:15,560 Speaker 1: a bar. It's not reliable. Did you know that. No, 356 00:22:17,040 --> 00:22:19,640 Speaker 1: did you know that there was a bunch of exculpatory information. No, 357 00:22:20,880 --> 00:22:24,640 Speaker 1: did you know that this lawyer had fraudulently created this document? No? 358 00:22:25,040 --> 00:22:26,679 Speaker 1: Did you know that the guy was working for the 359 00:22:26,720 --> 00:22:30,480 Speaker 1: CIA at the time. No, did you know that the DNC, 360 00:22:30,680 --> 00:22:34,600 Speaker 1: the Democratic National Committee, had paid for this oppo research 361 00:22:35,560 --> 00:22:39,600 Speaker 1: pile of lies? No? And Rosenstein just didn't ask any 362 00:22:39,600 --> 00:22:42,400 Speaker 1: of it. He was just a rubber stamp. He just said, well, 363 00:22:42,440 --> 00:22:44,560 Speaker 1: the FBI told me that, so I just listened to them. 364 00:22:44,960 --> 00:22:48,640 Speaker 1: And what it raised Now, it's interesting, Rosenstein testified. He said, 365 00:22:48,640 --> 00:22:50,200 Speaker 1: if he knew what he knew now, he never would 366 00:22:50,200 --> 00:22:54,040 Speaker 1: have signed it. He would not have approved the wire tap. 367 00:22:54,160 --> 00:22:56,440 Speaker 1: That now means the next step is to go ask 368 00:22:56,520 --> 00:22:59,400 Speaker 1: people like James Comby, go ask people like Andrew McCabe, 369 00:22:59,640 --> 00:23:06,479 Speaker 1: the happy at the FBI, because there were people lying 370 00:23:06,640 --> 00:23:10,439 Speaker 1: and complicit and the responsibility I believe goes all the 371 00:23:10,520 --> 00:23:13,480 Speaker 1: way to the top. And I got to say in 372 00:23:13,520 --> 00:23:17,360 Speaker 1: this hearing, one of the most interesting things Michael Senate 373 00:23:17,400 --> 00:23:21,679 Speaker 1: Democrats so desperately wanted to change the topic that they 374 00:23:22,080 --> 00:23:24,600 Speaker 1: I mean, you could see the panic. No, no, no, no, 375 00:23:24,760 --> 00:23:27,840 Speaker 1: don't ask they and they just didn't care about law 376 00:23:27,960 --> 00:23:31,640 Speaker 1: enforcement being abused. And look, I understand why Joe Biden 377 00:23:31,760 --> 00:23:35,200 Speaker 1: is their nominee. They don't want anything that touches Joe Biden. 378 00:23:35,240 --> 00:23:38,480 Speaker 1: They want zero fall. And they've elevated Obama the sainthood 379 00:23:38,520 --> 00:23:41,280 Speaker 1: so so so in their narrative, Obama could never do 380 00:23:41,320 --> 00:23:45,520 Speaker 1: anything wrong and and and Biden is their only hope. 381 00:23:46,400 --> 00:23:51,880 Speaker 1: And but I gotta say so, I asked this week yesterday, 382 00:23:51,880 --> 00:23:53,680 Speaker 1: actually it is a Senate here, and I said, look, 383 00:23:54,440 --> 00:23:59,320 Speaker 1: what would you guys think if Donald Trump did exactly 384 00:23:59,480 --> 00:24:03,000 Speaker 1: what Obama and Biden did? What would you think if 385 00:24:03,040 --> 00:24:06,359 Speaker 1: Donald Trump today sent the FBI to wire tap the 386 00:24:06,440 --> 00:24:09,639 Speaker 1: Joe Biden presidential campaign? Right? What would you think today 387 00:24:09,840 --> 00:24:14,040 Speaker 1: if Donald Trump sent in FBI spies wearing wires to 388 00:24:14,119 --> 00:24:17,840 Speaker 1: the Joe Biden presidential campaign? What would you think today 389 00:24:17,880 --> 00:24:24,280 Speaker 1: if Donald Trump's directed the FBI to submit fraudulent evidence 390 00:24:24,400 --> 00:24:27,960 Speaker 1: to a federal court to target the Biden campaign. And 391 00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:30,919 Speaker 1: by the way, we also know that General Michael Flynn, 392 00:24:30,960 --> 00:24:35,199 Speaker 1: that his identity was unmasked, was revealed by Joe Biden 393 00:24:35,280 --> 00:24:40,600 Speaker 1: himself personally and directly. Joe Biden did that. That's stunning. 394 00:24:41,359 --> 00:24:43,520 Speaker 1: And I got to say also, so one of the 395 00:24:43,560 --> 00:24:47,280 Speaker 1: things that became public in recent weeks. There's an email 396 00:24:48,400 --> 00:24:53,720 Speaker 1: from Susan Rice. It stated January twentieth, twenty seventeen. Now, Michael, 397 00:24:54,440 --> 00:24:56,040 Speaker 1: you and I both know what that date is. That 398 00:24:56,200 --> 00:24:59,439 Speaker 1: is the date Donald Trump was being sworn in. So 399 00:24:59,440 --> 00:25:01,600 Speaker 1: Susan Ry, this is a national security advisor. She's on 400 00:25:01,600 --> 00:25:04,080 Speaker 1: her way out. Now. Think about it. Usually your last 401 00:25:04,160 --> 00:25:06,720 Speaker 1: day in the office. What are you doing. You're packing 402 00:25:06,800 --> 00:25:11,399 Speaker 1: up your desk, picking up the plants, take the photos down. 403 00:25:12,920 --> 00:25:17,680 Speaker 1: She sends an email to herself. Just pause to think 404 00:25:17,720 --> 00:25:19,439 Speaker 1: for a second. Your last day in the office. What 405 00:25:19,480 --> 00:25:21,960 Speaker 1: do you want to do? You send an email to yourself. 406 00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:26,440 Speaker 1: It's one of the funniest CYA emails you've ever read. 407 00:25:26,520 --> 00:25:31,359 Speaker 1: She says three times that President Obama has directed this 408 00:25:31,400 --> 00:25:34,480 Speaker 1: investigation into Flynn, and she says three times it's by 409 00:25:34,520 --> 00:25:36,440 Speaker 1: the book, by the book, by the book, by the book. 410 00:25:39,160 --> 00:25:41,760 Speaker 1: The only reason you send that is you're sitting there going, 411 00:25:41,760 --> 00:25:43,480 Speaker 1: oh crap, the new guys are gonna come in and 412 00:25:43,520 --> 00:25:45,520 Speaker 1: they're gonna find out about all this. Let me write 413 00:25:45,560 --> 00:25:47,359 Speaker 1: an email to say we're doing everything by the book. 414 00:25:49,920 --> 00:25:56,440 Speaker 1: It The only reason you write that email is indicative 415 00:25:56,480 --> 00:25:59,159 Speaker 1: of a deeply guilty conscious. I think I think we 416 00:25:59,280 --> 00:26:03,320 Speaker 1: need to know who abuse the political process. There needs 417 00:26:03,320 --> 00:26:05,840 Speaker 1: to be accountability, and those who broke the law need 418 00:26:05,880 --> 00:26:07,960 Speaker 1: to be prosecuted. That's right. It's evidence of a guilty 419 00:26:08,000 --> 00:26:10,560 Speaker 1: conscience and the cleverness to realize this isn't going to 420 00:26:10,600 --> 00:26:13,720 Speaker 1: be looking very good when the new guys get into power. 421 00:26:13,880 --> 00:26:15,720 Speaker 1: Before we go, I've just got to get to a 422 00:26:15,720 --> 00:26:19,520 Speaker 1: few maale back questions here. First one from Margo, why 423 00:26:19,520 --> 00:26:23,119 Speaker 1: are you two still socially distancing? Go get a cigar together, 424 00:26:23,440 --> 00:26:27,960 Speaker 1: Senator your thoughts damn straight? Come to DC next week? 425 00:26:28,000 --> 00:26:31,840 Speaker 1: Will film that works for me? All right? John asks? 426 00:26:32,080 --> 00:26:34,040 Speaker 1: What are the effects this will have on the twenty 427 00:26:34,040 --> 00:26:37,040 Speaker 1: twenty election? Do you think this hurts Trump, Moore or Biden? 428 00:26:40,040 --> 00:26:45,640 Speaker 1: I don't know. I think twenty twenty is incredibly volatile. Yeah, 429 00:26:45,680 --> 00:26:48,680 Speaker 1: I think it depends Number one, on what happens with coronavirus. 430 00:26:48,760 --> 00:26:53,960 Speaker 1: If the numbers suddenly starts skyrocketing, that is really bad 431 00:26:54,000 --> 00:26:57,800 Speaker 1: for America, but that's also probably bad for Trump as well. 432 00:26:58,720 --> 00:27:01,880 Speaker 1: Number two, what happens with the account me If if 433 00:27:03,119 --> 00:27:06,520 Speaker 1: we see massive job losses between now and election days, 434 00:27:06,520 --> 00:27:08,879 Speaker 1: that's really bad for Trump. If we see with the 435 00:27:08,920 --> 00:27:10,760 Speaker 1: sort of thing we just saw in these job numbers, 436 00:27:10,760 --> 00:27:14,320 Speaker 1: the economy coming back, that's really good. And and this 437 00:27:14,320 --> 00:27:20,640 Speaker 1: this racial divisioning and division and rioting. Um look, rioting, 438 00:27:20,680 --> 00:27:25,800 Speaker 1: I think scares people. I think it as it also 439 00:27:26,880 --> 00:27:30,119 Speaker 1: shows just radical, how radical and extreme the Democrats are. 440 00:27:31,080 --> 00:27:36,360 Speaker 1: It's really unmasked them that that that I don't think 441 00:27:36,400 --> 00:27:43,280 Speaker 1: has helped Joe Biden. If a Democratic presidency means the 442 00:27:43,440 --> 00:27:46,160 Speaker 1: radicals who want to burn our cities to the ground 443 00:27:46,240 --> 00:27:50,480 Speaker 1: or put in charge, that ain't good. So how all 444 00:27:50,520 --> 00:27:52,760 Speaker 1: of this plays out. I look at this election and 445 00:27:52,800 --> 00:27:55,919 Speaker 1: I think there's a huge delta. What I hope we 446 00:27:55,960 --> 00:27:59,639 Speaker 1: will see is I hope we will see the economy 447 00:27:59,680 --> 00:28:04,639 Speaker 1: coming back, optimism coming back, hope, and the promise of America. 448 00:28:04,960 --> 00:28:06,800 Speaker 1: And if that's the case, we could see a really 449 00:28:06,800 --> 00:28:09,199 Speaker 1: good election. We could see the president reelected by a 450 00:28:09,200 --> 00:28:12,600 Speaker 1: big margin. We could see the Republican majority in the 451 00:28:12,640 --> 00:28:15,280 Speaker 1: in the Senate grow, and we could see Republicans taking 452 00:28:15,320 --> 00:28:17,800 Speaker 1: the House. That's what I hope will happen. That people 453 00:28:17,840 --> 00:28:22,439 Speaker 1: will look at this craziness of Nancy Pelosi and the extreme, 454 00:28:22,600 --> 00:28:25,960 Speaker 1: radicalized left and say, we don't want any of that. 455 00:28:27,440 --> 00:28:33,000 Speaker 1: But this is uncharted territory, and so if if things 456 00:28:33,080 --> 00:28:36,440 Speaker 1: go really badly, we could end up with a terrible 457 00:28:36,440 --> 00:28:40,600 Speaker 1: election right uncharted territory in many ways. Darrell asks, what's 458 00:28:40,600 --> 00:28:42,640 Speaker 1: your take on the use of military personnel to help 459 00:28:42,720 --> 00:28:46,080 Speaker 1: quell the riots. I know your senate colleague Tom Cotton 460 00:28:46,160 --> 00:28:47,959 Speaker 1: got the New York Times and a lot of trouble 461 00:28:48,200 --> 00:28:50,360 Speaker 1: because he weighed in on this, and some of the 462 00:28:50,360 --> 00:28:55,080 Speaker 1: younger Time staffers were very upset by it. Well, okay, 463 00:28:55,160 --> 00:28:57,520 Speaker 1: so so let me take two different issues there, because 464 00:28:57,560 --> 00:29:02,400 Speaker 1: they're both worth addressing. The New York Times you literally 465 00:29:02,440 --> 00:29:06,880 Speaker 1: can't write satire about them anymore. They're so ridiculous an extreme. 466 00:29:07,400 --> 00:29:10,840 Speaker 1: So Tom Cotton wrote an op ed in The Times 467 00:29:10,880 --> 00:29:13,120 Speaker 1: that said, send the troops in, advocated for sending in 468 00:29:13,120 --> 00:29:16,760 Speaker 1: the military to bring peace to the cities, and the 469 00:29:16,800 --> 00:29:22,040 Speaker 1: New York Times began to have an epileptic fit. Like 470 00:29:22,040 --> 00:29:27,000 Speaker 1: like like, their reporters began began trembling, and one after 471 00:29:27,080 --> 00:29:30,200 Speaker 1: the other, they were triggered and they were mad. How 472 00:29:30,320 --> 00:29:34,680 Speaker 1: dare you publish this view? This view is violence to me. 473 00:29:34,760 --> 00:29:37,360 Speaker 1: And you've got reporters. You know, you remember that the 474 00:29:37,440 --> 00:29:42,680 Speaker 1: old archetype of the tough grizzled reporter Shane Smoking was 475 00:29:42,680 --> 00:29:45,840 Speaker 1: going to speak truth to power, was gonna uncover whatever's 476 00:29:45,880 --> 00:29:50,640 Speaker 1: going on. You've now got these pansies who are reporters 477 00:29:50,680 --> 00:29:53,880 Speaker 1: that are just like Mommy. Scary words. Scary words hied 478 00:29:53,960 --> 00:29:58,440 Speaker 1: me from the scary words like Okay, if you disagree 479 00:29:58,480 --> 00:30:02,920 Speaker 1: with Tom Cotton, all right, buckaroo, here's a crazy idea. 480 00:30:03,160 --> 00:30:05,960 Speaker 1: Man up and argue why you think he's wrong. That's okay, 481 00:30:07,160 --> 00:30:09,800 Speaker 1: that's called free speech. And by the way, listen, I 482 00:30:10,200 --> 00:30:12,480 Speaker 1: actually think Tom, I don't. I don't agree with everything 483 00:30:12,480 --> 00:30:15,360 Speaker 1: Tom said, and you actually look at the substance of it. 484 00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:18,400 Speaker 1: How do you keep cities safe in terms of how 485 00:30:18,440 --> 00:30:22,160 Speaker 1: it operates under the law. The first line of defense 486 00:30:22,720 --> 00:30:25,560 Speaker 1: are our police officers. It's why I'm so vigorous and saying, 487 00:30:25,720 --> 00:30:28,800 Speaker 1: don't undermine our cops. Let let law enforcement do its job. 488 00:30:28,960 --> 00:30:32,600 Speaker 1: We've seen a lot of democratic politicians basically tying police 489 00:30:32,600 --> 00:30:36,600 Speaker 1: officers hands behind their back, preventing them from keeping cities safe. 490 00:30:36,600 --> 00:30:39,920 Speaker 1: And so the first line of a line of defense 491 00:30:40,080 --> 00:30:42,800 Speaker 1: are the police. The second line of defense is the 492 00:30:42,880 --> 00:30:45,520 Speaker 1: national guard. And so if the police are overwhelmed, you 493 00:30:45,560 --> 00:30:48,640 Speaker 1: can call up the national guard that provides an additional 494 00:30:48,680 --> 00:30:51,200 Speaker 1: wave of strength, and the military is available. Look, there 495 00:30:51,280 --> 00:30:53,680 Speaker 1: is a long tradition of the military in a case 496 00:30:53,760 --> 00:30:58,320 Speaker 1: of violent insurrection, in case of rioting, coming in, but 497 00:30:58,760 --> 00:31:01,680 Speaker 1: the military is the third and final step. And so 498 00:31:03,960 --> 00:31:06,520 Speaker 1: I think there's some Republican politicians that are showing how 499 00:31:06,520 --> 00:31:10,680 Speaker 1: tough they are by saying sending the Marines on day one. Well, look, 500 00:31:11,040 --> 00:31:13,360 Speaker 1: if we need to, yes, we need to do whatever 501 00:31:13,520 --> 00:31:17,040 Speaker 1: is needed to keep people safe, but let's start with 502 00:31:18,160 --> 00:31:21,560 Speaker 1: not handcuffing the police officers and let them actually protect 503 00:31:21,600 --> 00:31:25,600 Speaker 1: our communities. And the military should only be a last resort, 504 00:31:25,640 --> 00:31:28,920 Speaker 1: I believe right, fair point much more. We'll have to 505 00:31:29,000 --> 00:31:31,280 Speaker 1: leave it there. We'll have to wait until the next episode. 506 00:31:31,280 --> 00:31:34,200 Speaker 1: But Senator, if that Stogy invitation is real, I will 507 00:31:34,240 --> 00:31:36,120 Speaker 1: call the airline right now. I will book a ticket 508 00:31:36,160 --> 00:31:38,800 Speaker 1: and I will see you in DC. Together. You and 509 00:31:38,840 --> 00:31:42,160 Speaker 1: I are gonna light some fires. That works for me. 510 00:31:42,520 --> 00:31:45,320 Speaker 1: See on the East coast. Senator, I'm Michael Knowles. This 511 00:31:45,400 --> 00:31:55,480 Speaker 1: is Verdict with Ted Cruz. 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