WEBVTT - America On Fire 0:00:00.240 --> 0:00:03.080 The news cycle always makes it feel like the world 0:00:03.160 --> 0:00:06.960 is on fire, but sometimes the world is actually on fire. 0:00:07.000 --> 0:00:10.799 And we have seen riots breakout across this country coast 0:00:10.840 --> 0:00:15.840 to coast, arson buildings burning down, all stemming from the 0:00:15.960 --> 0:00:19.280 killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. This is now spread 0:00:19.280 --> 0:00:22.479 out into a much larger movement, much larger action, to 0:00:22.480 --> 0:00:25.400 the point the National Guardsman troops have been called in 0:00:25.560 --> 0:00:30.400 to help maintain the peace. Very very overwhelming for a 0:00:30.440 --> 0:00:33.360 lot of us. Luckily, we will break down the whole 0:00:33.440 --> 0:00:44.360 story and what it means. This is verdict with Ted Cruz, Senator. 0:00:45.520 --> 0:00:47.760 A lot has happened since last Friday, since the last 0:00:47.800 --> 0:00:51.040 time we spoke. I can't even believe. I mean, it 0:00:51.080 --> 0:00:54.560 seems like just a completely different political situation now. And 0:00:54.760 --> 0:00:56.600 you see it everywhere, not just on the news. You 0:00:56.640 --> 0:01:01.320 see it on social media, people posting various hashtags and 0:01:01.360 --> 0:01:03.720 if you don't post a certain hashtag, you're smeared. Is 0:01:03.720 --> 0:01:06.280 a bigot and a racist. We're at each other's throats. 0:01:07.160 --> 0:01:09.840 I mean, literal buildings are on fire. I know you 0:01:09.959 --> 0:01:14.080 spoke on the Senate floor about this this week. What's 0:01:14.080 --> 0:01:17.759 your take? Well, listen, this has been a tough week 0:01:17.800 --> 0:01:20.440 in our nation's history. What we've seen all across the 0:01:20.480 --> 0:01:25.440 country has been really, really hard. How do you think 0:01:25.480 --> 0:01:28.240 through this, Well, I mean, let's start with some first principles. 0:01:29.959 --> 0:01:35.839 Don't murder people, don't hurt people. Yeah, don't steal from people. 0:01:37.360 --> 0:01:40.480 You know, when it comes to the constitution, every one 0:01:40.520 --> 0:01:43.040 of us has a right to free speech. Every one 0:01:43.120 --> 0:01:45.800 of us has a right to protest, to speak. But 0:01:45.880 --> 0:01:48.480 what you don't have a right to do is commit 0:01:48.520 --> 0:01:50.400 acts of violence. What you don't have a right to 0:01:50.440 --> 0:01:55.440 do is shatter store windows. What you don't have a 0:01:55.520 --> 0:01:57.600 right to do is burn police cars. What you don't 0:01:57.600 --> 0:02:00.520 have a right to do is murder police, all officers. 0:02:01.040 --> 0:02:04.120 And so we're seeing all of these come crashing in. 0:02:05.240 --> 0:02:09.160 It started with something truly horrific. What happened to George Floyd. 0:02:09.919 --> 0:02:15.079 It was wrong, it was evil, it was grotesque. At 0:02:15.120 --> 0:02:17.440 this point, all of us have seen those eight minutes 0:02:17.440 --> 0:02:21.560 of video. What happened to George Floyd was wrong, and 0:02:21.639 --> 0:02:26.240 the criminal justice system needs to hold those who violated that, 0:02:26.360 --> 0:02:31.360 which in that instance was four Minneapolis police officers, one 0:02:31.400 --> 0:02:33.720 who put his knee on his neck and took mister 0:02:33.800 --> 0:02:37.360 Floyd's life grotesquely, and three others who stood around and 0:02:37.360 --> 0:02:42.760 didn't stop him. But then we saw the anger, the 0:02:42.840 --> 0:02:48.480 paroxysms that came out of that initially manifesting protests. Now, look, 0:02:48.560 --> 0:02:56.160 protests are perfectly legitimate. They are are quintessentially American. We 0:02:56.280 --> 0:02:58.519 have the right under the First Amendment to speak out 0:02:58.720 --> 0:03:01.760 and to speak out for racial equality, to speak out 0:03:01.800 --> 0:03:04.840 for equal justice under law. The law should apply to 0:03:05.000 --> 0:03:09.600 everyone fairly, regardless of your skin color, and and and 0:03:09.840 --> 0:03:17.959 the protests calling for standing for racial equality. We were 0:03:18.000 --> 0:03:22.080 in the best tradition of America. But then we saw 0:03:23.240 --> 0:03:29.360 violent criminals. Then we saw terrorists. Then we saw looters 0:03:29.360 --> 0:03:36.040 and thieves infiltrate these protests and begin rinking mayhem, begin 0:03:37.200 --> 0:03:41.960 destroying communities, begin committing acts of violence. And I gotta 0:03:42.000 --> 0:03:49.040 say to every one of those violent criminals who slipped 0:03:49.160 --> 0:03:54.080 into the otherwise peaceful protests and began rioting and committing 0:03:54.120 --> 0:03:57.320 acts of terror, what they did was not only wrong 0:03:57.320 --> 0:04:01.160 when criminally was bigoted, because what they did is they 0:04:01.200 --> 0:04:06.280 tried to corrupt a legitimate expression of free speech and 0:04:06.480 --> 0:04:10.240 and a laudable goal, a goal this nation was built 0:04:10.280 --> 0:04:14.040 on the proposition that all of us are created equal. 0:04:14.280 --> 0:04:17.520 They tried to corrupt it and it was wrong, and 0:04:17.640 --> 0:04:22.520 and and I got to say, watching our country burn 0:04:23.640 --> 0:04:28.919 this past week, it's been horrifying, it has been, and 0:04:28.960 --> 0:04:33.520 it's got to stop. Senator. I'm actually struck by the 0:04:33.800 --> 0:04:37.680 simplicity of your observation because it's something that we're we 0:04:37.720 --> 0:04:40.440 actually haven't gotten from the mainstream media, we haven't gotten 0:04:40.480 --> 0:04:44.240 from a lot of politicians, which is, let's go back 0:04:44.279 --> 0:04:48.040 to first principles. It's wrong to murder, it's wrong to steal. 0:04:48.240 --> 0:04:51.600 It's wrong to commit violence against innocent people. It's good 0:04:51.800 --> 0:04:55.719 to voice your own expressions of anger and injustice, it's 0:04:55.760 --> 0:04:58.480 good for justice to be served. Still wrong to steal, 0:04:58.640 --> 0:05:01.599 still wrong to murder. I was watching CNN. That's a 0:05:01.640 --> 0:05:04.720 statement that I rarely utter, but I was watching CNN 0:05:04.960 --> 0:05:08.599 and Chris Cuomo, the brother of the Democratic governor of 0:05:08.600 --> 0:05:13.960 New York, Chris Cuomo, came out and explicitly defended violent 0:05:14.360 --> 0:05:18.520 protest which also known as riots, also known as domestic terrorism. 0:05:18.520 --> 0:05:21.240 I mean, he said, actually, show me where it says 0:05:21.720 --> 0:05:25.200 that protests have to be polite and peaceful. Could you 0:05:25.240 --> 0:05:28.800 show him where it says that, Senator, Well, there is 0:05:28.839 --> 0:05:31.599 this little thing called the United States Constitution. Oh, Yeah, 0:05:31.760 --> 0:05:35.880 the Bill of Rights, the First Amendment protects the right 0:05:35.960 --> 0:05:41.480 of the people to peaceably assemble peaceably. To assemble peaceably 0:05:41.680 --> 0:05:44.200 is right in there. So there's a difference. You can 0:05:44.320 --> 0:05:47.000 stand up and protests, and by the way, some of 0:05:47.040 --> 0:05:51.440 the most effective protests in the world have been peaceable, 0:05:51.760 --> 0:05:55.240 non violent protest. I want to touch on Antifa, and 0:05:55.360 --> 0:05:58.640 I think you've actually honed in here on what lies 0:05:58.680 --> 0:06:01.479 at the heart of this. It's not just Chris Cuomo 0:06:01.600 --> 0:06:04.560 going out and saying protests should be violent. It's at 0:06:04.640 --> 0:06:08.360 Keith Ellison, the Attorney General of Minnesota, held up a 0:06:08.400 --> 0:06:12.440 photo smiling with a book called the Antifa Handbook, smiling 0:06:12.440 --> 0:06:16.760 in photos with people in Antifa. Antifa stands for anti fascist. 0:06:17.279 --> 0:06:19.720 They don't behave like anti fascists. I mean they do 0:06:19.760 --> 0:06:22.680 in the sense that they behave like radical communists and anarchists. 0:06:22.680 --> 0:06:26.560 When you march in and violently assault people, you were 0:06:26.640 --> 0:06:30.800 being FA. You're not Antifa, You're FA. You've gone full 0:06:30.839 --> 0:06:33.400 FA here, and you know, I think the President this 0:06:33.440 --> 0:06:36.440 week said that he wants to classify them as a 0:06:36.520 --> 0:06:39.840 terrorist organization and a very very basic definition of terrorism. 0:06:39.839 --> 0:06:43.760 They're using violence against civilians to achieve political ends. It's 0:06:43.760 --> 0:06:46.400 as simple as it gets. It seems pretty clear. What 0:06:46.960 --> 0:06:49.159 is the role of Antifa here and what does it 0:06:49.200 --> 0:06:50.840 say about the state of our country that you've got 0:06:50.839 --> 0:06:55.719 elected officials voicing support for them. Well, listen. For two years, 0:06:55.720 --> 0:06:59.080 I've been calling on the Trump administration to designate Antifa 0:06:59.080 --> 0:07:03.359 as a domestic terrorist organization. I introduced a resolution last 0:07:03.400 --> 0:07:06.160 year in the Senate calling on Antifa to be designated 0:07:06.200 --> 0:07:09.400 because they go in and they commit violent assaults. They 0:07:09.440 --> 0:07:15.440 commit violent attacks, and these typically are our young anarchists. 0:07:15.560 --> 0:07:23.440 They're often rich white college kids who wear masks. And look, 0:07:23.880 --> 0:07:26.760 you know that they're sitting there with their thousand dollars 0:07:26.840 --> 0:07:32.240 iPhones saying capitalism is evil, let's burn it all to 0:07:32.280 --> 0:07:35.400 the ground. And interestingly enough, they're not burning their dorm 0:07:35.480 --> 0:07:37.880 room to the ground. No, no, no, no no, no, that 0:07:37.160 --> 0:07:40.720 that would be too much. They're going into the inner 0:07:40.760 --> 0:07:43.480 city and they're burning to the ground the communities that 0:07:43.800 --> 0:07:46.800 that people have to live in it and it is 0:07:47.000 --> 0:07:53.280 it's grotesque, it's wrong. And look, Keith Ellison's son is 0:07:53.280 --> 0:07:57.240 a city council member in Minneapolis. He tweeted out that 0:07:57.320 --> 0:08:01.000 he stands with Atifa. There Antifa, they're literally burning his 0:08:01.080 --> 0:08:04.760 city to the ground, and these Democratic politicians. And I'll 0:08:04.760 --> 0:08:11.960 tell you if anyone behave worse than that, it's Hollywood celebrities. 0:08:12.640 --> 0:08:17.320 So Hollywood celebrities are all engaged in this virtue signaling 0:08:17.320 --> 0:08:21.520 where they're giving money to bail the rioters out of jail. 0:08:22.320 --> 0:08:28.360 And this is literally so, you know, I engage with 0:08:28.400 --> 0:08:30.600 some of these celebrities and asked, hey, hey, wait a second. 0:08:31.480 --> 0:08:33.599 You know, justin Timberlake was like, oh, give money to 0:08:33.679 --> 0:08:36.040 this fund to bail the writers out of jail. How 0:08:36.040 --> 0:08:39.680 about you give money to a fund to rebuild the 0:08:39.760 --> 0:08:43.360 African American and Hispanic owned small businesses that have been 0:08:43.400 --> 0:08:46.400 burned to the ground by these violent criminals, instead of 0:08:46.440 --> 0:08:51.400 bailing the criminal out of jail. Right, help the innocent victims. 0:08:52.720 --> 0:08:57.640 And let's take another component of it, the words black 0:08:57.679 --> 0:09:02.959 lives matter. Ye, this has been at inchous point. Yeah 0:09:03.000 --> 0:09:08.680 it shouldn't be. Do black lives matter, absolutely, yes, unequivocally period, 0:09:09.679 --> 0:09:12.040 Black lives matters. But here's the part that's deemed, Oh, 0:09:12.080 --> 0:09:14.000 you can't say that. You can't say black lives matter, 0:09:14.080 --> 0:09:17.960 Hispanic lives matter, Asian lives matter, White lives matter, human 0:09:18.080 --> 0:09:21.920 life matters. Right, and and Okay, so why is that 0:09:21.960 --> 0:09:24.160 a political statement? This is so. I actually had this 0:09:24.200 --> 0:09:27.400 conversation with with my daughters today where they were talking 0:09:27.400 --> 0:09:31.000 about some YouTuber that raised a bunch of money for BLM. 0:09:31.360 --> 0:09:33.760 Of course, my daughters already know the acronym BLM. I like, 0:09:34.000 --> 0:09:36.720 so tell me what what does BLM stand for? And 0:09:37.120 --> 0:09:39.440 you know, my daughter said, what you know? Equality? Equality 0:09:39.520 --> 0:09:43.520 is good and I was like, yeah, that's that's certainly true. 0:09:45.160 --> 0:09:50.480 But if you look at the radicals who are co 0:09:50.679 --> 0:09:55.360 opting the message black lives matter, what they're advocating is 0:09:55.440 --> 0:10:00.480 number one, an absolute assault on police. I'll tell you 0:10:00.480 --> 0:10:03.439 who it hurts. It hurts African Americans, It hurts Hispanics 0:10:03.640 --> 0:10:06.040 because you know why, because when this happens, if you 0:10:06.040 --> 0:10:07.720 look at what happened in Ferguson, you look at what 0:10:07.800 --> 0:10:11.440 happened in Baltimore, there's something called the Ferguson effect, which 0:10:11.480 --> 0:10:13.880 is essentially that when cops feel like, okay, if I 0:10:14.200 --> 0:10:17.719 get it in an interaction, maybe with a criminal, and 0:10:18.280 --> 0:10:22.040 somehow it gets violent, my whole life can be destroyed 0:10:22.040 --> 0:10:24.480 by career, can be destroyed by family can be destroyed, 0:10:24.679 --> 0:10:26.760 And the perfectly rational thing to do is, hey, I'm 0:10:26.760 --> 0:10:28.920 going to step back. I'm not going to engage, of course, 0:10:29.080 --> 0:10:31.280 And what you see happen over and over again as 0:10:31.320 --> 0:10:34.800 the murder rate skyrocket. Right. We saw that happened in Ferguson, 0:10:34.840 --> 0:10:37.000 we saw that happen in Baltimore, and you end up 0:10:37.000 --> 0:10:39.959 with a laite. If you are committed to the proposition 0:10:40.000 --> 0:10:44.400 black lives matter, demonizing the cops will end up with 0:10:44.480 --> 0:10:47.559 more Black lives being lost more because, by the way, 0:10:47.559 --> 0:10:52.160 the people being murdered most frequently right by violent criminals, 0:10:52.200 --> 0:10:58.080 by gangs are people in low income neighborhoods, and often 0:10:58.080 --> 0:11:01.480 they're African Americans or Hispanic Well, this is I think 0:11:01.480 --> 0:11:04.320 the key point here, because you know, people see that 0:11:04.320 --> 0:11:06.680 phrase black lives matter, and they say, if you don't 0:11:06.800 --> 0:11:11.240 support this organization and the most radical leaders of this organization, 0:11:11.480 --> 0:11:13.680 then somehow you don't care about black lives. And the 0:11:13.720 --> 0:11:18.760 fact is virtually statistically nobody in this country thinks black 0:11:18.800 --> 0:11:23.280 lives don't matter. Anybody with any political influence it believes 0:11:23.280 --> 0:11:25.800 black lives matter. Anybody with any media influence believes black 0:11:25.840 --> 0:11:29.000 lives matter. Anybody with any business influence, right, major corporations 0:11:29.000 --> 0:11:31.440 don't any millions and millions of dollars to Black Lives Matter. 0:11:31.600 --> 0:11:33.839 Anybody with an Instagram account or a Twitter account or 0:11:33.920 --> 0:11:37.439 Facebook believes black lives matter. Everybody agrees on this point. 0:11:37.600 --> 0:11:41.000 But some radicals, some people pushing things that are not 0:11:41.040 --> 0:11:43.640 so great, that are not so popular, are co opting 0:11:43.640 --> 0:11:46.760 that very basic message that everybody agrees with and using 0:11:46.760 --> 0:11:50.800 it to put push radical leftist ideas that the vast, 0:11:50.920 --> 0:11:54.160 vast majority of Americans don't want. And it's so cynical, 0:11:54.280 --> 0:11:57.400 and it's so bullying, and it's so intimidating that I 0:11:57.440 --> 0:11:59.040 think a lot of people are just lost on what 0:11:59.120 --> 0:12:03.320 to do. So, Michael, I'll give an example. One of 0:12:03.360 --> 0:12:07.360 the agenda items of the radicals that are leading this 0:12:07.400 --> 0:12:12.960 movement is to use their phrase defund the police. This 0:12:13.000 --> 0:12:16.360 past week that was tweeted by Hillary Clinton's former press secretary, 0:12:16.800 --> 0:12:19.960 defund the police. Let me ask you for a second, 0:12:20.240 --> 0:12:23.439 how good do you think it would be for African 0:12:23.480 --> 0:12:26.559 American communities if there were no police officers? Yeah, not quit. 0:12:26.640 --> 0:12:28.679 Just the drug dealers could run free, if the street 0:12:28.679 --> 0:12:31.440 gangs could run free. It's already the murder rates are 0:12:31.559 --> 0:12:34.760 are are horrific. How good would it be for your 0:12:34.800 --> 0:12:37.000 family or mind? How many Americans this week, as you 0:12:37.040 --> 0:12:40.640 watch the rioting, thought about the right to keep in 0:12:40.720 --> 0:12:44.200 bear arms. I'm sure the lines are around how many? 0:12:44.280 --> 0:12:48.480 How many? How many? Thought about what happens if that 0:12:48.559 --> 0:12:54.960 mob comes to my house? Right, and that that is 0:12:55.800 --> 0:13:03.439 an extreme agenda and it's not right. You know what, 0:13:04.360 --> 0:13:07.120 here's the name. The media doesn't want to talk about it. 0:13:08.480 --> 0:13:14.040 David Dorn. David Dorne was a retired police officer in 0:13:14.120 --> 0:13:19.440 Saint Louis, Missouri. David Dorne was shot by rioters. He 0:13:19.520 --> 0:13:22.520 was protecting the pawn shop. He's a small businessman. He 0:13:22.559 --> 0:13:27.400 was shot and murdered. David Dorn spent four decades serving 0:13:27.480 --> 0:13:30.880 honorably as a police officer. And David Dorn was murdered 0:13:31.360 --> 0:13:35.079 by this rioting, and yet the media didn't want to 0:13:35.120 --> 0:13:38.760 talk about him. Yeah, if you believe in black lives matters, 0:13:39.280 --> 0:13:43.040 David Dorn's life matters, give you another name. David Underwood, 0:13:43.600 --> 0:13:48.280 who was another law enforcement officer, was murdered Las Vegas. 0:13:48.280 --> 0:13:50.319 You had another law who was also David under was 0:13:50.320 --> 0:13:54.240 African American as well. We had two African American police 0:13:54.280 --> 0:13:59.559 officers murdered by this rioting, and yet the woke virtue 0:13:59.640 --> 0:14:05.760 signal allerts in Hollywood on CNN, on Twitter, those lives 0:14:05.800 --> 0:14:08.559 don't matter to them at all, right, and it's wrong. Look, 0:14:08.600 --> 0:14:11.920 we should protect everybody's life, and we should have a 0:14:11.960 --> 0:14:14.960 passion in this whole racial issue and this whole issue 0:14:14.960 --> 0:14:16.960 of the protests and the riots. I mean, in the 0:14:17.000 --> 0:14:20.920 fact of the riots and the protests. Probably the most 0:14:20.960 --> 0:14:24.200 outrageous cynicism is that just a week ago, we were 0:14:24.240 --> 0:14:27.800 told if you go outside to do anything, you're killing grandma, 0:14:27.840 --> 0:14:31.480 You're endangering people because of the coronavirus. If you go 0:14:31.480 --> 0:14:34.960 God forbid to protest any of the lockdown orders, you 0:14:35.000 --> 0:14:38.200 are a terrible, no good, awful person. And then this 0:14:38.240 --> 0:14:40.800 week we're told by the very same public health experts, 0:14:40.840 --> 0:14:43.840 by the very same politicians, everybody should go out by 0:14:43.840 --> 0:14:48.520 the hundred thousand to protest in this left wing narrative. 0:14:48.560 --> 0:14:50.200 I mean, people look at that, and I think our 0:14:50.240 --> 0:14:54.240 capacity for outrage just goes out the window. Right. Well, Look, 0:14:54.280 --> 0:14:56.800 one of the more ridiculous hypocrites on this has been 0:14:56.800 --> 0:14:59.680 Billed de Blasio in New York who de Blasio was 0:14:59.720 --> 0:15:02.280 asked this list last week, So if you can come 0:15:02.280 --> 0:15:05.480 and protest and get much much closer than six feet apart. 0:15:06.360 --> 0:15:08.600 Can we go to church, can we go to synagogue? 0:15:08.600 --> 0:15:11.160 And de Blasio said no, no no, no, no, no, because 0:15:11.400 --> 0:15:14.800 because there's a history of racial discrimination in America, but 0:15:14.840 --> 0:15:19.320 there's no history of religious discrimination. What utter crap. By 0:15:19.400 --> 0:15:22.239 the way, not mean you want to talk about millennia 0:15:22.960 --> 0:15:28.720 of racial of racial discrimination, yes, but but a religious persecution. 0:15:29.000 --> 0:15:32.000 I mean, we are in a country that was literally 0:15:32.080 --> 0:15:36.240 founded by people fleeing religious persecution. You look at the 0:15:36.240 --> 0:15:38.880 pilgrims who arrived here. They arrived to come to a 0:15:38.960 --> 0:15:41.400 land where they could practice their faith. And by the way, 0:15:41.560 --> 0:15:44.320 you want to talk about people persecuted for faith, you 0:15:44.360 --> 0:15:46.560 look at the Jewish community in New York City, who 0:15:46.600 --> 0:15:50.280 do Blasio has singled out for persecution over and over 0:15:50.320 --> 0:15:54.600 and over again. You know, Jews in World War two, 0:15:54.680 --> 0:16:00.640 six million Jews were murdered in the Holocaust. To say 0:16:00.680 --> 0:16:05.880 there's no history of religious discrimination, it's absurd. Is a 0:16:05.920 --> 0:16:13.160 political leftist, anti American narrative. That is nonsense, and the 0:16:13.240 --> 0:16:17.280 hypocrisy of it is really coming out amid all this chaos. 0:16:17.800 --> 0:16:23.840 Two point five million jobs added in May. The economy 0:16:23.960 --> 0:16:26.400 is now, I mean the stock market surged when we 0:16:26.440 --> 0:16:28.800 got this news. Is there a chance that we could 0:16:28.800 --> 0:16:31.080 see something like a V shaped recovery. Is there a 0:16:31.200 --> 0:16:34.960 chance that we could come out of this thing pretty strong? Look, 0:16:35.000 --> 0:16:38.640 I hope. So the job numbers are fantastic. We're seeing 0:16:38.680 --> 0:16:42.080 states all across the country reopening. Texas is reopening. And 0:16:42.440 --> 0:16:45.560 let me say that this is a powerful sign. Open 0:16:45.880 --> 0:16:49.960 up the economy. Now, yeah, let people go back to work. Now, 0:16:50.000 --> 0:16:53.360 that doesn't mean ignore all of the efforts we're doing. 0:16:53.400 --> 0:16:56.000 You look, we can engage in social distancing, we can 0:16:56.040 --> 0:16:59.800 continue to be prudent, but open it up. Let people 0:16:59.840 --> 0:17:02.280 go back to work. Two and a half million new jobs. Now, 0:17:02.280 --> 0:17:05.400 we've had forty million people lose their jobs, so two 0:17:05.400 --> 0:17:07.480 and a half million. But you know what, it's the 0:17:07.480 --> 0:17:09.400 first time in a long time we haven't seen job 0:17:09.480 --> 0:17:12.199 numbers that were several million going down, right, So instead 0:17:12.200 --> 0:17:14.879 of going down, they're going back up sharply. And I 0:17:14.920 --> 0:17:18.080 hope we keep seeing it go back up. The forty 0:17:18.119 --> 0:17:20.920 million jobs that went away were self inflicted. We did 0:17:20.960 --> 0:17:25.320 this to stop the pandemic. Now let's let people open up. 0:17:25.400 --> 0:17:28.000 Let's let them get back to work and and and 0:17:28.440 --> 0:17:31.160 get the economy movie again that these job numbers are 0:17:31.240 --> 0:17:35.320 really encouraging and we need to keep keep moving in 0:17:35.359 --> 0:17:37.879 that direction. That's great news. And before we get to mailbag, 0:17:37.880 --> 0:17:39.960 because I do want to hit the mailbag, there is 0:17:40.119 --> 0:17:43.160 there is one more story on the subject of destruction 0:17:43.440 --> 0:17:46.240 that I've got to get back to. Obviously, destruction has 0:17:46.280 --> 0:17:48.280 been in the news a lot, but it's important, I think, 0:17:48.320 --> 0:17:54.040 to talk about your absolute destruction of Rod Rosenstein's testimony 0:17:54.240 --> 0:17:58.520 before the Senate when when you were discussing the gross 0:17:59.040 --> 0:18:03.480 mishandling of things over the past several years at the DOJ, 0:18:04.320 --> 0:18:05.959 Could you just tell us a little bit about this 0:18:06.000 --> 0:18:07.800 because I think for those of us who have been 0:18:08.200 --> 0:18:11.960 gasolit for years and years on this subject of how 0:18:11.960 --> 0:18:14.840 the DOJ was going after Trump, I think it was 0:18:15.320 --> 0:18:17.960 just so refreshing to see you shed light on what 0:18:18.040 --> 0:18:20.199 was really happening. What we now know, as more and 0:18:20.240 --> 0:18:23.600 more information has got in public, is that the Obama 0:18:23.640 --> 0:18:30.280 Biden administration politicized the FBI, politicized the Department of Justice, 0:18:30.320 --> 0:18:36.440 politicized the intelligence community, and targeted at the Trump campaign. 0:18:36.480 --> 0:18:40.960 Targeted them at Donald Trump directly. They targeted them with 0:18:41.080 --> 0:18:44.400 wire taps, directed at a Carter Page, a senior adviser 0:18:44.440 --> 0:18:47.520 to the Trump campaign. They targeted it with spy sent 0:18:47.600 --> 0:18:51.320 in wearing wires confidential import formance to the Trump campaign. 0:18:51.280 --> 0:18:54.919 They're opposing campaign, and they went after in particular, General 0:18:54.960 --> 0:18:58.600 Michael Flynn, a three star general who'd spent his entire 0:18:58.680 --> 0:19:02.560 life fighting for this country, and they directly targeted. We 0:19:02.640 --> 0:19:06.280 now know that the decision to target them went all 0:19:06.320 --> 0:19:09.040 the way to the top. On January fifth, twenty seventeen, 0:19:09.720 --> 0:19:11.720 there's a meeting in the White House in the Oval Office. 0:19:11.720 --> 0:19:15.399 Barack Obama was there, Joe Biden was there, James Comey 0:19:15.440 --> 0:19:17.959 was there, the head of the FBI, and he reported 0:19:18.000 --> 0:19:20.400 to the President and to the Vice President about their 0:19:20.440 --> 0:19:24.080 targeting of Michael Flynn, the incoming National Security Advisor. Sally Yates, 0:19:24.080 --> 0:19:26.439 who was the acting Attorney General, said she didn't know 0:19:26.440 --> 0:19:31.359 anything about it. So she learned that the FBI was 0:19:31.400 --> 0:19:35.520 targeting the incoming national security advisor from Barack Obama. Because 0:19:35.560 --> 0:19:40.879 the FBI was briefing the president directly. That is such 0:19:41.000 --> 0:19:46.280 an abuse of power. And if you look at everything 0:19:46.280 --> 0:19:48.320 that has come out, the Inspector General report at the 0:19:48.359 --> 0:19:52.480 Department of Justice showed that the FBI was totally politicized. 0:19:52.480 --> 0:19:57.600 It showed seventeen material misstatements that were made to the 0:19:57.640 --> 0:20:00.919 FISA court. It also showed that that a senior FBI 0:20:01.080 --> 0:20:07.080 lawyer fraudulently altered evidence and so, and here's what he did, 0:20:07.080 --> 0:20:09.040 because it's worth her memory. I mean, it really is. 0:20:09.840 --> 0:20:13.399 It's like out of a bad spy movie. So they're 0:20:13.400 --> 0:20:17.960 trying to get a warrant to wire tap Carter Page, 0:20:17.960 --> 0:20:20.520 and they're trying to renew the warrant, and Carter Page 0:20:20.560 --> 0:20:22.840 is talking to a bunch of Russians. And so, look, 0:20:22.880 --> 0:20:25.200 if you're talking to a bunch of Russians, that's ordinarily 0:20:25.280 --> 0:20:27.320 kind of suspicious. Why are you talking to a bunch 0:20:27.359 --> 0:20:30.640 of Russians? Now he is a Russia expert, so but 0:20:30.920 --> 0:20:33.440 even so there's a little bit of suspicion there. So 0:20:33.480 --> 0:20:36.400 the FBI sent an email to the CIA, said, hey, 0:20:36.560 --> 0:20:40.080 is this guy working for you? Because if you're working 0:20:40.119 --> 0:20:43.439 for the CIA on going after the Russians, then you 0:20:43.440 --> 0:20:45.199 probably ought to be talking to the Russians if you're 0:20:45.200 --> 0:20:48.200 working for the CIA. CIA sends an email back, Yep, 0:20:48.240 --> 0:20:51.920 he's working for US. So CIA says in writing, Carter 0:20:52.000 --> 0:20:54.760 Page is working for the United States government when he's 0:20:54.800 --> 0:20:58.760 talking to the Russians. The FBI lawyer takes that email 0:20:58.800 --> 0:21:01.920 and alters it and literally changes that one hundred and 0:21:01.920 --> 0:21:05.160 eighty degrees the opposite. Instead of yes, he's working for us, 0:21:06.160 --> 0:21:09.440 he alters it and creates a fraudulent document, No, he's 0:21:09.480 --> 0:21:12.480 not working for us, and that gets submitted to the court. 0:21:12.720 --> 0:21:14.480 If you or I did that in any court in 0:21:14.520 --> 0:21:18.240 a traffic ticket, right, if you created a fraudulent document 0:21:18.280 --> 0:21:21.040 and submitted it, you would go to jail. I would 0:21:21.119 --> 0:21:25.119 go to jail. And so Rod Rosenstein was testifying. And 0:21:25.240 --> 0:21:30.399 by the way, Rosenstein signed one of those applications, and 0:21:34.440 --> 0:21:36.560 I laid out that history that I just walked through, 0:21:36.600 --> 0:21:40.760 and I said, listen, you were coming into a deeply politicized, 0:21:41.840 --> 0:21:46.800 corrupted law enforcement environment. There are two and only two possibilities. 0:21:46.880 --> 0:21:51.560 One you were complicit in the weaponization of law enforcement 0:21:52.680 --> 0:21:59.200 against one political party, or you were grossly neglighent. Those 0:21:59.200 --> 0:22:02.440 are the only two choice. And when we walked through, 0:22:02.520 --> 0:22:06.679 I said, look, did you did you know about the 0:22:06.760 --> 0:22:09.280 Steel dossier that was the basis of this whole application. 0:22:09.520 --> 0:22:11.960 The principal witnessed behind it and said, oh, it's not reliable. 0:22:11.960 --> 0:22:13.479 It was all just a bunch of guys talking at 0:22:13.480 --> 0:22:15.560 a bar. It's not reliable. Did you know that. No, 0:22:17.040 --> 0:22:19.640 did you know that there was a bunch of exculpatory information. No, 0:22:20.880 --> 0:22:24.640 did you know that this lawyer had fraudulently created this document? No? 0:22:25.040 --> 0:22:26.679 Did you know that the guy was working for the 0:22:26.720 --> 0:22:30.480 CIA at the time. No, did you know that the DNC, 0:22:30.680 --> 0:22:34.600 the Democratic National Committee, had paid for this oppo research 0:22:35.560 --> 0:22:39.600 pile of lies? No? And Rosenstein just didn't ask any 0:22:39.600 --> 0:22:42.400 of it. He was just a rubber stamp. He just said, well, 0:22:42.440 --> 0:22:44.560 the FBI told me that, so I just listened to them. 0:22:44.960 --> 0:22:48.640 And what it raised Now, it's interesting, Rosenstein testified. He said, 0:22:48.640 --> 0:22:50.200 if he knew what he knew now, he never would 0:22:50.200 --> 0:22:54.040 have signed it. He would not have approved the wire tap. 0:22:54.160 --> 0:22:56.440 That now means the next step is to go ask 0:22:56.520 --> 0:22:59.400 people like James Comby, go ask people like Andrew McCabe, 0:22:59.640 --> 0:23:06.479 the happy at the FBI, because there were people lying 0:23:06.640 --> 0:23:10.439 and complicit and the responsibility I believe goes all the 0:23:10.520 --> 0:23:13.480 way to the top. And I got to say in 0:23:13.520 --> 0:23:17.360 this hearing, one of the most interesting things Michael Senate 0:23:17.400 --> 0:23:21.679 Democrats so desperately wanted to change the topic that they 0:23:22.080 --> 0:23:24.600 I mean, you could see the panic. No, no, no, no, 0:23:24.760 --> 0:23:27.840 don't ask they and they just didn't care about law 0:23:27.960 --> 0:23:31.640 enforcement being abused. And look, I understand why Joe Biden 0:23:31.760 --> 0:23:35.200 is their nominee. They don't want anything that touches Joe Biden. 0:23:35.240 --> 0:23:38.480 They want zero fall. And they've elevated Obama the sainthood 0:23:38.520 --> 0:23:41.280 so so so in their narrative, Obama could never do 0:23:41.320 --> 0:23:45.520 anything wrong and and and Biden is their only hope. 0:23:46.400 --> 0:23:51.880 And but I gotta say so, I asked this week yesterday, 0:23:51.880 --> 0:23:53.680 actually it is a Senate here, and I said, look, 0:23:54.440 --> 0:23:59.320 what would you guys think if Donald Trump did exactly 0:23:59.480 --> 0:24:03.000 what Obama and Biden did? What would you think if 0:24:03.040 --> 0:24:06.359 Donald Trump today sent the FBI to wire tap the 0:24:06.440 --> 0:24:09.639 Joe Biden presidential campaign? Right? What would you think today 0:24:09.840 --> 0:24:14.040 if Donald Trump sent in FBI spies wearing wires to 0:24:14.119 --> 0:24:17.840 the Joe Biden presidential campaign? What would you think today 0:24:17.880 --> 0:24:24.280 if Donald Trump's directed the FBI to submit fraudulent evidence 0:24:24.400 --> 0:24:27.960 to a federal court to target the Biden campaign. And 0:24:28.000 --> 0:24:30.919 by the way, we also know that General Michael Flynn, 0:24:30.960 --> 0:24:35.199 that his identity was unmasked, was revealed by Joe Biden 0:24:35.280 --> 0:24:40.600 himself personally and directly. Joe Biden did that. That's stunning. 0:24:41.359 --> 0:24:43.520 And I got to say also, so one of the 0:24:43.560 --> 0:24:47.280 things that became public in recent weeks. There's an email 0:24:48.400 --> 0:24:53.720 from Susan Rice. It stated January twentieth, twenty seventeen. Now, Michael, 0:24:54.440 --> 0:24:56.040 you and I both know what that date is. That 0:24:56.200 --> 0:24:59.439 is the date Donald Trump was being sworn in. So 0:24:59.440 --> 0:25:01.600 Susan Ry, this is a national security advisor. She's on 0:25:01.600 --> 0:25:04.080 her way out. Now. Think about it. Usually your last 0:25:04.160 --> 0:25:06.720