Speaker 1: The news cycle always makes it feel like the world
Speaker 1: is on fire, but sometimes the world is actually on fire.
Speaker 1: And we have seen riots breakout across this country coast
Speaker 1: to coast, arson buildings burning down, all stemming from the
Speaker 1: killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. This is now spread
Speaker 1: out into a much larger movement, much larger action, to
Speaker 1: the point the National Guardsman troops have been called in
Speaker 1: to help maintain the peace. Very very overwhelming for a
Speaker 1: lot of us. Luckily, we will break down the whole
Speaker 1: story and what it means. This is verdict with Ted Cruz, Senator.
Speaker 1: A lot has happened since last Friday, since the last
Speaker 1: time we spoke. I can't even believe. I mean, it
Speaker 1: seems like just a completely different political situation now. And
Speaker 1: you see it everywhere, not just on the news. You
Speaker 1: see it on social media, people posting various hashtags and
Speaker 1: if you don't post a certain hashtag, you're smeared. Is
Speaker 1: a bigot and a racist. We're at each other's throats.
Speaker 1: I mean, literal buildings are on fire. I know you
Speaker 1: spoke on the Senate floor about this this week. What's
Speaker 1: your take? Well, listen, this has been a tough week
Speaker 1: in our nation's history. What we've seen all across the
Speaker 1: country has been really, really hard. How do you think
Speaker 1: through this, Well, I mean, let's start with some first principles.
Speaker 1: Don't murder people, don't hurt people. Yeah, don't steal from people.
Speaker 1: You know, when it comes to the constitution, every one
Speaker 1: of us has a right to free speech. Every one
Speaker 1: of us has a right to protest, to speak. But
Speaker 1: what you don't have a right to do is commit
Speaker 1: acts of violence. What you don't have a right to
Speaker 1: do is shatter store windows. What you don't have a
Speaker 1: right to do is burn police cars. What you don't
Speaker 1: have a right to do is murder police, all officers.
Speaker 1: And so we're seeing all of these come crashing in.
Speaker 1: It started with something truly horrific. What happened to George Floyd.
Speaker 1: It was wrong, it was evil, it was grotesque. At
Speaker 1: this point, all of us have seen those eight minutes
Speaker 1: of video. What happened to George Floyd was wrong, and
Speaker 1: the criminal justice system needs to hold those who violated that,
Speaker 1: which in that instance was four Minneapolis police officers, one
Speaker 1: who put his knee on his neck and took mister
Speaker 1: Floyd's life grotesquely, and three others who stood around and
Speaker 1: didn't stop him. But then we saw the anger, the
Speaker 1: paroxysms that came out of that initially manifesting protests. Now, look,
Speaker 1: protests are perfectly legitimate. They are are quintessentially American. We
Speaker 1: have the right under the First Amendment to speak out
Speaker 1: and to speak out for racial equality, to speak out
Speaker 1: for equal justice under law. The law should apply to
Speaker 1: everyone fairly, regardless of your skin color, and and and
Speaker 1: the protests calling for standing for racial equality. We were
Speaker 1: in the best tradition of America. But then we saw
Speaker 1: violent criminals. Then we saw terrorists. Then we saw looters
Speaker 1: and thieves infiltrate these protests and begin rinking mayhem, begin
Speaker 1: destroying communities, begin committing acts of violence. And I gotta
Speaker 1: say to every one of those violent criminals who slipped
Speaker 1: into the otherwise peaceful protests and began rioting and committing
Speaker 1: acts of terror, what they did was not only wrong
Speaker 1: when criminally was bigoted, because what they did is they
Speaker 1: tried to corrupt a legitimate expression of free speech and
Speaker 1: and a laudable goal, a goal this nation was built
Speaker 1: on the proposition that all of us are created equal.
Speaker 1: They tried to corrupt it and it was wrong, and
Speaker 1: and and I got to say, watching our country burn
Speaker 1: this past week, it's been horrifying, it has been, and
Speaker 1: it's got to stop. Senator. I'm actually struck by the
Speaker 1: simplicity of your observation because it's something that we're we
Speaker 1: actually haven't gotten from the mainstream media, we haven't gotten
Speaker 1: from a lot of politicians, which is, let's go back
Speaker 1: to first principles. It's wrong to murder, it's wrong to steal.
Speaker 1: It's wrong to commit violence against innocent people. It's good
Speaker 1: to voice your own expressions of anger and injustice, it's
Speaker 1: good for justice to be served. Still wrong to steal,
Speaker 1: still wrong to murder. I was watching CNN. That's a
Speaker 1: statement that I rarely utter, but I was watching CNN
Speaker 1: and Chris Cuomo, the brother of the Democratic governor of
Speaker 1: New York, Chris Cuomo, came out and explicitly defended violent
Speaker 1: protest which also known as riots, also known as domestic terrorism.
Speaker 1: I mean, he said, actually, show me where it says
Speaker 1: that protests have to be polite and peaceful. Could you
Speaker 1: show him where it says that, Senator, Well, there is
Speaker 1: this little thing called the United States Constitution. Oh, Yeah,
Speaker 1: the Bill of Rights, the First Amendment protects the right
Speaker 1: of the people to peaceably assemble peaceably. To assemble peaceably
Speaker 1: is right in there. So there's a difference. You can
Speaker 1: stand up and protests, and by the way, some of
Speaker 1: the most effective protests in the world have been peaceable,
Speaker 1: non violent protest. I want to touch on Antifa, and
Speaker 1: I think you've actually honed in here on what lies
Speaker 1: at the heart of this. It's not just Chris Cuomo
Speaker 1: going out and saying protests should be violent. It's at
Speaker 1: Keith Ellison, the Attorney General of Minnesota, held up a
Speaker 1: photo smiling with a book called the Antifa Handbook, smiling
Speaker 1: in photos with people in Antifa. Antifa stands for anti fascist.
Speaker 1: They don't behave like anti fascists. I mean they do
Speaker 1: in the sense that they behave like radical communists and anarchists.
Speaker 1: When you march in and violently assault people, you were
Speaker 1: being FA. You're not Antifa, You're FA. You've gone full
Speaker 1: FA here, and you know, I think the President this
Speaker 1: week said that he wants to classify them as a
Speaker 1: terrorist organization and a very very basic definition of terrorism.
Speaker 1: They're using violence against civilians to achieve political ends. It's
Speaker 1: as simple as it gets. It seems pretty clear. What
Speaker 1: is the role of Antifa here and what does it
Speaker 1: say about the state of our country that you've got
Speaker 1: elected officials voicing support for them. Well, listen. For two years,
Speaker 1: I've been calling on the Trump administration to designate Antifa
Speaker 1: as a domestic terrorist organization. I introduced a resolution last
Speaker 1: year in the Senate calling on Antifa to be designated
Speaker 1: because they go in and they commit violent assaults. They
Speaker 1: commit violent attacks, and these typically are our young anarchists.
Speaker 1: They're often rich white college kids who wear masks. And look,
Speaker 1: you know that they're sitting there with their thousand dollars
Speaker 1: iPhones saying capitalism is evil, let's burn it all to
Speaker 1: the ground. And interestingly enough, they're not burning their dorm
Speaker 1: room to the ground. No, no, no, no no, no, that
Speaker 1: that would be too much. They're going into the inner
Speaker 1: city and they're burning to the ground the communities that
Speaker 1: that people have to live in it and it is
Speaker 1: it's grotesque, it's wrong. And look, Keith Ellison's son is
Speaker 1: a city council member in Minneapolis. He tweeted out that
Speaker 1: he stands with Atifa. There Antifa, they're literally burning his
Speaker 1: city to the ground, and these Democratic politicians. And I'll
Speaker 1: tell you if anyone behave worse than that, it's Hollywood celebrities.
Speaker 1: So Hollywood celebrities are all engaged in this virtue signaling
Speaker 1: where they're giving money to bail the rioters out of jail.
Speaker 1: And this is literally so, you know, I engage with
Speaker 1: some of these celebrities and asked, hey, hey, wait a second.
Speaker 1: You know, justin Timberlake was like, oh, give money to
Speaker 1: this fund to bail the writers out of jail. How
Speaker 1: about you give money to a fund to rebuild the
Speaker 1: African American and Hispanic owned small businesses that have been
Speaker 1: burned to the ground by these violent criminals, instead of
Speaker 1: bailing the criminal out of jail. Right, help the innocent victims.
Speaker 1: And let's take another component of it, the words black
Speaker 1: lives matter. Ye, this has been at inchous point. Yeah
Speaker 1: it shouldn't be. Do black lives matter, absolutely, yes, unequivocally period,
Speaker 1: Black lives matters. But here's the part that's deemed, Oh,
Speaker 1: you can't say that. You can't say black lives matter,
Speaker 1: Hispanic lives matter, Asian lives matter, White lives matter, human
Speaker 1: life matters. Right, and and Okay, so why is that
Speaker 1: a political statement? This is so. I actually had this
Speaker 1: conversation with with my daughters today where they were talking
Speaker 1: about some YouTuber that raised a bunch of money for BLM.
Speaker 1: Of course, my daughters already know the acronym BLM. I like,
Speaker 1: so tell me what what does BLM stand for? And
Speaker 1: you know, my daughter said, what you know? Equality? Equality
Speaker 1: is good and I was like, yeah, that's that's certainly true.
Speaker 1: But if you look at the radicals who are co
Speaker 1: opting the message black lives matter, what they're advocating is
Speaker 1: number one, an absolute assault on police. I'll tell you
Speaker 1: who it hurts. It hurts African Americans, It hurts Hispanics
Speaker 1: because you know why, because when this happens, if you
Speaker 1: look at what happened in Ferguson, you look at what
Speaker 1: happened in Baltimore, there's something called the Ferguson effect, which
Speaker 1: is essentially that when cops feel like, okay, if I
Speaker 1: get it in an interaction, maybe with a criminal, and
Speaker 1: somehow it gets violent, my whole life can be destroyed
Speaker 1: by career, can be destroyed by family can be destroyed,
Speaker 1: And the perfectly rational thing to do is, hey, I'm
Speaker 1: going to step back. I'm not going to engage, of course,
Speaker 1: And what you see happen over and over again as
Speaker 1: the murder rate skyrocket. Right. We saw that happened in Ferguson,
Speaker 1: we saw that happen in Baltimore, and you end up
Speaker 1: with a laite. If you are committed to the proposition
Speaker 1: black lives matter, demonizing the cops will end up with
Speaker 1: more Black lives being lost more because, by the way,
Speaker 1: the people being murdered most frequently right by violent criminals,
Speaker 1: by gangs are people in low income neighborhoods, and often
Speaker 1: they're African Americans or Hispanic Well, this is I think
Speaker 1: the key point here, because you know, people see that
Speaker 1: phrase black lives matter, and they say, if you don't
Speaker 1: support this organization and the most radical leaders of this organization,
Speaker 1: then somehow you don't care about black lives. And the
Speaker 1: fact is virtually statistically nobody in this country thinks black
Speaker 1: lives don't matter. Anybody with any political influence it believes
Speaker 1: black lives matter. Anybody with any media influence believes black
Speaker 1: lives matter. Anybody with any business influence, right, major corporations
Speaker 1: don't any millions and millions of dollars to Black Lives Matter.
Speaker 1: Anybody with an Instagram account or a Twitter account or
Speaker 1: Facebook believes black lives matter. Everybody agrees on this point.
Speaker 1: But some radicals, some people pushing things that are not
Speaker 1: so great, that are not so popular, are co opting
Speaker 1: that very basic message that everybody agrees with and using
Speaker 1: it to put push radical leftist ideas that the vast,
Speaker 1: vast majority of Americans don't want. And it's so cynical,
Speaker 1: and it's so bullying, and it's so intimidating that I
Speaker 1: think a lot of people are just lost on what
Speaker 1: to do. So, Michael, I'll give an example. One of
Speaker 1: the agenda items of the radicals that are leading this
Speaker 1: movement is to use their phrase defund the police. This
Speaker 1: past week that was tweeted by Hillary Clinton's former press secretary,
Speaker 1: defund the police. Let me ask you for a second,
Speaker 1: how good do you think it would be for African
Speaker 1: American communities if there were no police officers? Yeah, not quit.
Speaker 1: Just the drug dealers could run free, if the street
Speaker 1: gangs could run free. It's already the murder rates are
Speaker 1: are are horrific. How good would it be for your
Speaker 1: family or mind? How many Americans this week, as you
Speaker 1: watch the rioting, thought about the right to keep in
Speaker 1: bear arms. I'm sure the lines are around how many?
Speaker 1: How many? How many? Thought about what happens if that
Speaker 1: mob comes to my house? Right, and that that is
Speaker 1: an extreme agenda and it's not right. You know what,
Speaker 1: here's the name. The media doesn't want to talk about it.
Speaker 1: David Dorn. David Dorne was a retired police officer in
Speaker 1: Saint Louis, Missouri. David Dorne was shot by rioters. He
Speaker 1: was protecting the pawn shop. He's a small businessman. He
Speaker 1: was shot and murdered. David Dorn spent four decades serving
Speaker 1: honorably as a police officer. And David Dorn was murdered
Speaker 1: by this rioting, and yet the media didn't want to
Speaker 1: talk about him. Yeah, if you believe in black lives matters,
Speaker 1: David Dorn's life matters, give you another name. David Underwood,
Speaker 1: who was another law enforcement officer, was murdered Las Vegas.
Speaker 1: You had another law who was also David under was
Speaker 1: African American as well. We had two African American police
Speaker 1: officers murdered by this rioting, and yet the woke virtue
Speaker 1: signal allerts in Hollywood on CNN, on Twitter, those lives
Speaker 1: don't matter to them at all, right, and it's wrong. Look,
Speaker 1: we should protect everybody's life, and we should have a
Speaker 1: passion in this whole racial issue and this whole issue
Speaker 1: of the protests and the riots. I mean, in the
Speaker 1: fact of the riots and the protests. Probably the most
Speaker 1: outrageous cynicism is that just a week ago, we were
Speaker 1: told if you go outside to do anything, you're killing grandma,
Speaker 1: You're endangering people because of the coronavirus. If you go
Speaker 1: God forbid to protest any of the lockdown orders, you
Speaker 1: are a terrible, no good, awful person. And then this
Speaker 1: week we're told by the very same public health experts,
Speaker 1: by the very same politicians, everybody should go out by
Speaker 1: the hundred thousand to protest in this left wing narrative.
Speaker 1: I mean, people look at that, and I think our
Speaker 1: capacity for outrage just goes out the window. Right. Well, Look,
Speaker 1: one of the more ridiculous hypocrites on this has been
Speaker 1: Billed de Blasio in New York who de Blasio was
Speaker 1: asked this list last week, So if you can come
Speaker 1: and protest and get much much closer than six feet apart.
Speaker 1: Can we go to church, can we go to synagogue?
Speaker 1: And de Blasio said no, no no, no, no, no, because
Speaker 1: because there's a history of racial discrimination in America, but
Speaker 1: there's no history of religious discrimination. What utter crap. By
Speaker 1: the way, not mean you want to talk about millennia
Speaker 1: of racial of racial discrimination, yes, but but a religious persecution.
Speaker 1: I mean, we are in a country that was literally
Speaker 1: founded by people fleeing religious persecution. You look at the
Speaker 1: pilgrims who arrived here. They arrived to come to a
Speaker 1: land where they could practice their faith. And by the way,
Speaker 1: you want to talk about people persecuted for faith, you
Speaker 1: look at the Jewish community in New York City, who
Speaker 1: do Blasio has singled out for persecution over and over
Speaker 1: and over again. You know, Jews in World War two,
Speaker 1: six million Jews were murdered in the Holocaust. To say
Speaker 1: there's no history of religious discrimination, it's absurd. Is a
Speaker 1: political leftist, anti American narrative. That is nonsense, and the
Speaker 1: hypocrisy of it is really coming out amid all this chaos.
Speaker 1: Two point five million jobs added in May. The economy
Speaker 1: is now, I mean the stock market surged when we
Speaker 1: got this news. Is there a chance that we could
Speaker 1: see something like a V shaped recovery. Is there a
Speaker 1: chance that we could come out of this thing pretty strong? Look,
Speaker 1: I hope. So the job numbers are fantastic. We're seeing
Speaker 1: states all across the country reopening. Texas is reopening. And
Speaker 1: let me say that this is a powerful sign. Open
Speaker 1: up the economy. Now, yeah, let people go back to work. Now,
Speaker 1: that doesn't mean ignore all of the efforts we're doing.
Speaker 1: You look, we can engage in social distancing, we can
Speaker 1: continue to be prudent, but open it up. Let people
Speaker 1: go back to work. Two and a half million new jobs. Now,
Speaker 1: we've had forty million people lose their jobs, so two
Speaker 1: and a half million. But you know what, it's the
Speaker 1: first time in a long time we haven't seen job
Speaker 1: numbers that were several million going down, right, So instead
Speaker 1: of going down, they're going back up sharply. And I
Speaker 1: hope we keep seeing it go back up. The forty
Speaker 1: million jobs that went away were self inflicted. We did
Speaker 1: this to stop the pandemic. Now let's let people open up.
Speaker 1: Let's let them get back to work and and and
Speaker 1: get the economy movie again that these job numbers are
Speaker 1: really encouraging and we need to keep keep moving in
Speaker 1: that direction. That's great news. And before we get to mailbag,
Speaker 1: because I do want to hit the mailbag, there is
Speaker 1: there is one more story on the subject of destruction
Speaker 1: that I've got to get back to. Obviously, destruction has
Speaker 1: been in the news a lot, but it's important, I think,
Speaker 1: to talk about your absolute destruction of Rod Rosenstein's testimony
Speaker 1: before the Senate when when you were discussing the gross
Speaker 1: mishandling of things over the past several years at the DOJ,
Speaker 1: Could you just tell us a little bit about this
Speaker 1: because I think for those of us who have been
Speaker 1: gasolit for years and years on this subject of how
Speaker 1: the DOJ was going after Trump, I think it was
Speaker 1: just so refreshing to see you shed light on what
Speaker 1: was really happening. What we now know, as more and
Speaker 1: more information has got in public, is that the Obama
Speaker 1: Biden administration politicized the FBI, politicized the Department of Justice,
Speaker 1: politicized the intelligence community, and targeted at the Trump campaign.
Speaker 1: Targeted them at Donald Trump directly. They targeted them with
Speaker 1: wire taps, directed at a Carter Page, a senior adviser
Speaker 1: to the Trump campaign. They targeted it with spy sent
Speaker 1: in wearing wires confidential import formance to the Trump campaign.
Speaker 1: They're opposing campaign, and they went after in particular, General
Speaker 1: Michael Flynn, a three star general who'd spent his entire
Speaker 1: life fighting for this country, and they directly targeted. We
Speaker 1: now know that the decision to target them went all
Speaker 1: the way to the top. On January fifth, twenty seventeen,
Speaker 1: there's a meeting in the White House in the Oval Office.
Speaker 1: Barack Obama was there, Joe Biden was there, James Comey
Speaker 1: was there, the head of the FBI, and he reported
Speaker 1: to the President and to the Vice President about their
Speaker 1: targeting of Michael Flynn, the incoming National Security Advisor. Sally Yates,
Speaker 1: who was the acting Attorney General, said she didn't know
Speaker 1: anything about it. So she learned that the FBI was
Speaker 1: targeting the incoming national security advisor from Barack Obama. Because
Speaker 1: the FBI was briefing the president directly. That is such
Speaker 1: an abuse of power. And if you look at everything
Speaker 1: that has come out, the Inspector General report at the
Speaker 1: Department of Justice showed that the FBI was totally politicized.
Speaker 1: It showed seventeen material misstatements that were made to the
Speaker 1: FISA court. It also showed that that a senior FBI
Speaker 1: lawyer fraudulently altered evidence and so, and here's what he did,
Speaker 1: because it's worth her memory. I mean, it really is.
Speaker 1: It's like out of a bad spy movie. So they're
Speaker 1: trying to get a warrant to wire tap Carter Page,
Speaker 1: and they're trying to renew the warrant, and Carter Page
Speaker 1: is talking to a bunch of Russians. And so, look,
Speaker 1: if you're talking to a bunch of Russians, that's ordinarily
Speaker 1: kind of suspicious. Why are you talking to a bunch
Speaker 1: of Russians? Now he is a Russia expert, so but
Speaker 1: even so there's a little bit of suspicion there. So
Speaker 1: the FBI sent an email to the CIA, said, hey,
Speaker 1: is this guy working for you? Because if you're working
Speaker 1: for the CIA on going after the Russians, then you
Speaker 1: probably ought to be talking to the Russians if you're
Speaker 1: working for the CIA. CIA sends an email back, Yep,
Speaker 1: he's working for US. So CIA says in writing, Carter
Speaker 1: Page is working for the United States government when he's
Speaker 1: talking to the Russians. The FBI lawyer takes that email
Speaker 1: and alters it and literally changes that one hundred and
Speaker 1: eighty degrees the opposite. Instead of yes, he's working for us,
Speaker 1: he alters it and creates a fraudulent document, No, he's
Speaker 1: not working for us, and that gets submitted to the court.
Speaker 1: If you or I did that in any court in
Speaker 1: a traffic ticket, right, if you created a fraudulent document
Speaker 1: and submitted it, you would go to jail. I would
Speaker 1: go to jail. And so Rod Rosenstein was testifying. And
Speaker 1: by the way, Rosenstein signed one of those applications, and
Speaker 1: I laid out that history that I just walked through,
Speaker 1: and I said, listen, you were coming into a deeply politicized,
Speaker 1: corrupted law enforcement environment. There are two and only two possibilities.
Speaker 1: One you were complicit in the weaponization of law enforcement
Speaker 1: against one political party, or you were grossly neglighent. Those
Speaker 1: are the only two choice. And when we walked through,
Speaker 1: I said, look, did you did you know about the
Speaker 1: Steel dossier that was the basis of this whole application.
Speaker 1: The principal witnessed behind it and said, oh, it's not reliable.
Speaker 1: It was all just a bunch of guys talking at
Speaker 1: a bar. It's not reliable. Did you know that. No,
Speaker 1: did you know that there was a bunch of exculpatory information. No,
Speaker 1: did you know that this lawyer had fraudulently created this document? No?
Speaker 1: Did you know that the guy was working for the
Speaker 1: CIA at the time. No, did you know that the DNC,
Speaker 1: the Democratic National Committee, had paid for this oppo research
Speaker 1: pile of lies? No? And Rosenstein just didn't ask any
Speaker 1: of it. He was just a rubber stamp. He just said, well,
Speaker 1: the FBI told me that, so I just listened to them.
Speaker 1: And what it raised Now, it's interesting, Rosenstein testified. He said,
Speaker 1: if he knew what he knew now, he never would
Speaker 1: have signed it. He would not have approved the wire tap.
Speaker 1: That now means the next step is to go ask
Speaker 1: people like James Comby, go ask people like Andrew McCabe,
Speaker 1: the happy at the FBI, because there were people lying
Speaker 1: and complicit and the responsibility I believe goes all the
Speaker 1: way to the top. And I got to say in
Speaker 1: this hearing, one of the most interesting things Michael Senate
Speaker 1: Democrats so desperately wanted to change the topic that they
Speaker 1: I mean, you could see the panic. No, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: don't ask they and they just didn't care about law
Speaker 1: enforcement being abused. And look, I understand why Joe Biden
Speaker 1: is their nominee. They don't want anything that touches Joe Biden.
Speaker 1: They want zero fall. And they've elevated Obama the sainthood
Speaker 1: so so so in their narrative, Obama could never do
Speaker 1: anything wrong and and and Biden is their only hope.
Speaker 1: And but I gotta say so, I asked this week yesterday,
Speaker 1: actually it is a Senate here, and I said, look,
Speaker 1: what would you guys think if Donald Trump did exactly
Speaker 1: what Obama and Biden did? What would you think if
Speaker 1: Donald Trump today sent the FBI to wire tap the
Speaker 1: Joe Biden presidential campaign? Right? What would you think today
Speaker 1: if Donald Trump sent in FBI spies wearing wires to
Speaker 1: the Joe Biden presidential campaign? What would you think today
Speaker 1: if Donald Trump's directed the FBI to submit fraudulent evidence
Speaker 1: to a federal court to target the Biden campaign. And
Speaker 1: by the way, we also know that General Michael Flynn,
Speaker 1: that his identity was unmasked, was revealed by Joe Biden
Speaker 1: himself personally and directly. Joe Biden did that. That's stunning.
Speaker 1: And I got to say also, so one of the
Speaker 1: things that became public in recent weeks. There's an email
Speaker 1: from Susan Rice. It stated January twentieth, twenty seventeen. Now, Michael,
Speaker 1: you and I both know what that date is. That
Speaker 1: is the date Donald Trump was being sworn in. So
Speaker 1: Susan Ry, this is a national security advisor. She's on
Speaker 1: her way out. Now. Think about it. Usually your last
Speaker 1: day in the office. What are you doing. You're packing
Speaker 1: up your desk, picking up the plants, take the photos down.
Speaker 1: She sends an email to herself. Just pause to think
Speaker 1: for a second. Your last day in the office. What
Speaker 1: do you want to do? You send an email to yourself.
Speaker 1: It's one of the funniest CYA emails you've ever read.
Speaker 1: She says three times that President Obama has directed this
Speaker 1: investigation into Flynn, and she says three times it's by
Speaker 1: the book, by the book, by the book, by the book.
Speaker 1: The only reason you send that is you're sitting there going,
Speaker 1: oh crap, the new guys are gonna come in and
Speaker 1: they're gonna find out about all this. Let me write
Speaker 1: an email to say we're doing everything by the book.
Speaker 1: It The only reason you write that email is indicative
Speaker 1: of a deeply guilty conscious. I think I think we
Speaker 1: need to know who abuse the political process. There needs
Speaker 1: to be accountability, and those who broke the law need
Speaker 1: to be prosecuted. That's right. It's evidence of a guilty
Speaker 1: conscience and the cleverness to realize this isn't going to
Speaker 1: be looking very good when the new guys get into power.
Speaker 1: Before we go, I've just got to get to a
Speaker 1: few maale back questions here. First one from Margo, why
Speaker 1: are you two still socially distancing? Go get a cigar together,
Speaker 1: Senator your thoughts damn straight? Come to DC next week?
Speaker 1: Will film that works for me? All right? John asks?
Speaker 1: What are the effects this will have on the twenty
Speaker 1: twenty election? Do you think this hurts Trump, Moore or Biden?
Speaker 1: I don't know. I think twenty twenty is incredibly volatile. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think it depends Number one, on what happens with coronavirus.
Speaker 1: If the numbers suddenly starts skyrocketing, that is really bad
Speaker 1: for America, but that's also probably bad for Trump as well.
Speaker 1: Number two, what happens with the account me If if
Speaker 1: we see massive job losses between now and election days,
Speaker 1: that's really bad for Trump. If we see with the
Speaker 1: sort of thing we just saw in these job numbers,
Speaker 1: the economy coming back, that's really good. And and this
Speaker 1: this racial divisioning and division and rioting. Um look, rioting,
Speaker 1: I think scares people. I think it as it also
Speaker 1: shows just radical, how radical and extreme the Democrats are.
Speaker 1: It's really unmasked them that that that I don't think
Speaker 1: has helped Joe Biden. If a Democratic presidency means the
Speaker 1: radicals who want to burn our cities to the ground
Speaker 1: or put in charge, that ain't good. So how all
Speaker 1: of this plays out. I look at this election and
Speaker 1: I think there's a huge delta. What I hope we
Speaker 1: will see is I hope we will see the economy
Speaker 1: coming back, optimism coming back, hope, and the promise of America.
Speaker 1: And if that's the case, we could see a really
Speaker 1: good election. We could see the president reelected by a
Speaker 1: big margin. We could see the Republican majority in the
Speaker 1: in the Senate grow, and we could see Republicans taking
Speaker 1: the House. That's what I hope will happen. That people
Speaker 1: will look at this craziness of Nancy Pelosi and the extreme,
Speaker 1: radicalized left and say, we don't want any of that.
Speaker 1: But this is uncharted territory, and so if if things
Speaker 1: go really badly, we could end up with a terrible
Speaker 1: election right uncharted territory in many ways. Darrell asks, what's
Speaker 1: your take on the use of military personnel to help
Speaker 1: quell the riots. I know your senate colleague Tom Cotton
Speaker 1: got the New York Times and a lot of trouble
Speaker 1: because he weighed in on this, and some of the
Speaker 1: younger Time staffers were very upset by it. Well, okay,
Speaker 1: so so let me take two different issues there, because
Speaker 1: they're both worth addressing. The New York Times you literally
Speaker 1: can't write satire about them anymore. They're so ridiculous an extreme.
Speaker 1: So Tom Cotton wrote an op ed in The Times
Speaker 1: that said, send the troops in, advocated for sending in
Speaker 1: the military to bring peace to the cities, and the
Speaker 1: New York Times began to have an epileptic fit. Like
Speaker 1: like like, their reporters began began trembling, and one after
Speaker 1: the other, they were triggered and they were mad. How
Speaker 1: dare you publish this view? This view is violence to me.
Speaker 1: And you've got reporters. You know, you remember that the
Speaker 1: old archetype of the tough grizzled reporter Shane Smoking was
Speaker 1: going to speak truth to power, was gonna uncover whatever's
Speaker 1: going on. You've now got these pansies who are reporters
Speaker 1: that are just like Mommy. Scary words. Scary words hied
Speaker 1: me from the scary words like Okay, if you disagree
Speaker 1: with Tom Cotton, all right, buckaroo, here's a crazy idea.
Speaker 1: Man up and argue why you think he's wrong. That's okay,
Speaker 1: that's called free speech. And by the way, listen, I
Speaker 1: actually think Tom, I don't. I don't agree with everything
Speaker 1: Tom said, and you actually look at the substance of it.
Speaker 1: How do you keep cities safe in terms of how
Speaker 1: it operates under the law. The first line of defense
Speaker 1: are our police officers. It's why I'm so vigorous and saying,
Speaker 1: don't undermine our cops. Let let law enforcement do its job.
Speaker 1: We've seen a lot of democratic politicians basically tying police
Speaker 1: officers hands behind their back, preventing them from keeping cities safe.
Speaker 1: And so the first line of a line of defense
Speaker 1: are the police. The second line of defense is the
Speaker 1: national guard. And so if the police are overwhelmed, you
Speaker 1: can call up the national guard that provides an additional
Speaker 1: wave of strength, and the military is available. Look, there
Speaker 1: is a long tradition of the military in a case
Speaker 1: of violent insurrection, in case of rioting, coming in, but
Speaker 1: the military is the third and final step. And so
Speaker 1: I think there's some Republican politicians that are showing how
Speaker 1: tough they are by saying sending the Marines on day one. Well, look,
Speaker 1: if we need to, yes, we need to do whatever
Speaker 1: is needed to keep people safe, but let's start with
Speaker 1: not handcuffing the police officers and let them actually protect
Speaker 1: our communities. And the military should only be a last resort,
Speaker 1: I believe right, fair point much more. We'll have to
Speaker 1: leave it there. We'll have to wait until the next episode.
Speaker 1: But Senator, if that Stogy invitation is real, I will
Speaker 1: call the airline right now. I will book a ticket
Speaker 1: and I will see you in DC. Together. You and
Speaker 1: I are gonna light some fires. That works for me.
Speaker 1: See on the East coast. Senator, I'm Michael Knowles. This
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