1 00:00:01,480 --> 00:00:01,880 Speaker 1: Welcome. 2 00:00:01,880 --> 00:00:05,000 Speaker 2: It is Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with 3 00:00:05,080 --> 00:00:09,520 Speaker 2: you and Senator we have got some really important legislation 4 00:00:09,800 --> 00:00:13,440 Speaker 2: that it needs to be talked about that you're working 5 00:00:13,480 --> 00:00:16,880 Speaker 2: on in a bipartisan way. Give people a little bit 6 00:00:16,880 --> 00:00:18,520 Speaker 2: of outdid on that. And also we've got some other 7 00:00:18,560 --> 00:00:20,079 Speaker 2: breaking news we're going to deal with as well. 8 00:00:20,880 --> 00:00:21,640 Speaker 3: Well. That's right. 9 00:00:21,720 --> 00:00:27,200 Speaker 4: So this week I launched major bipartisan legislation focused on 10 00:00:27,400 --> 00:00:30,000 Speaker 4: protecting kids online, and as you know, that's been a 11 00:00:30,080 --> 00:00:34,720 Speaker 4: huge focus of mine for years. But in particular, this 12 00:00:34,800 --> 00:00:39,680 Speaker 4: is focused on AI, artificial intelligence and deep fake technology 13 00:00:40,280 --> 00:00:43,360 Speaker 4: that is being used more and more to exploit children, 14 00:00:43,360 --> 00:00:48,560 Speaker 4: and in particular to create explicit images of teenagers, of women, 15 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:51,920 Speaker 4: and and and to put it publicly, taking their face 16 00:00:52,000 --> 00:00:57,440 Speaker 4: and melding it with explicit sexual images either pictures or videos, 17 00:00:57,800 --> 00:01:01,360 Speaker 4: and making the public and the victims that are happening 18 00:01:02,240 --> 00:01:05,800 Speaker 4: are growing and growing exponentially. And so I've introduced legislation, 19 00:01:05,880 --> 00:01:10,000 Speaker 4: bipartisan legislation number one, to make it a crime to 20 00:01:10,280 --> 00:01:16,919 Speaker 4: publish deep fake images intimate images of an individual without 21 00:01:16,959 --> 00:01:19,160 Speaker 4: their consent. But number two, and this is really the 22 00:01:19,160 --> 00:01:23,160 Speaker 4: most important part of the legislation to mandate that big 23 00:01:23,240 --> 00:01:26,600 Speaker 4: tech companies take down those images at the request of 24 00:01:26,640 --> 00:01:29,000 Speaker 4: the victim. The name of this bill is to Take 25 00:01:29,000 --> 00:01:32,840 Speaker 4: It Down Act, because right now, when you have a victim, 26 00:01:32,880 --> 00:01:36,280 Speaker 4: and we have victims in Texas, we have teenage girls, 27 00:01:36,319 --> 00:01:39,720 Speaker 4: and many of these these deep fakes target teenage girls. 28 00:01:40,040 --> 00:01:43,520 Speaker 4: These images get posted that their friends at school see them, 29 00:01:44,040 --> 00:01:48,160 Speaker 4: and the big tech platforms will not take down the images, 30 00:01:48,200 --> 00:01:51,480 Speaker 4: they leave them up. And so this legislation would create 31 00:01:51,600 --> 00:01:54,400 Speaker 4: a legal and statutory right for a victim, for a 32 00:01:54,480 --> 00:01:58,240 Speaker 4: victim's parents to say, take this garbage down. It's not right, 33 00:01:58,320 --> 00:02:01,200 Speaker 4: it's not real, it's non consentual, and pull it down 34 00:02:01,240 --> 00:02:05,280 Speaker 4: within forty eight hours. And so that legislation we launched 35 00:02:05,440 --> 00:02:09,520 Speaker 4: launched this week and I'm hopeful we'll get that passed. Secondly, Ben, 36 00:02:09,560 --> 00:02:12,160 Speaker 4: we're going to talk about the polling numbers that are 37 00:02:12,160 --> 00:02:15,760 Speaker 4: coming out, and in particular the enormous surge of support 38 00:02:15,840 --> 00:02:19,600 Speaker 4: that Donald Trump and Republicans are seeing among African American voters. 39 00:02:19,600 --> 00:02:22,360 Speaker 4: And I got to say, this has Democrats freaked out, 40 00:02:22,400 --> 00:02:25,880 Speaker 4: This has the corporate media losing their minds. They're very 41 00:02:25,919 --> 00:02:31,000 Speaker 4: frightened about what this portends. And Finally, we're going to 42 00:02:31,080 --> 00:02:33,520 Speaker 4: talk about major news that did not get a whole 43 00:02:33,520 --> 00:02:38,800 Speaker 4: lot of coverage because it actually reveals the absolute abysmal 44 00:02:38,880 --> 00:02:43,200 Speaker 4: failure of the Biden administration's foreign policy and domestic policy. 45 00:02:43,240 --> 00:02:48,080 Speaker 4: And that is, in the month of May, Russia overtook 46 00:02:48,120 --> 00:02:51,680 Speaker 4: the United States as the gas supplier to Europe. That 47 00:02:51,880 --> 00:02:55,480 Speaker 4: is catastrophic. It's catastrophic for jobs in the state of Texas, 48 00:02:55,880 --> 00:02:58,680 Speaker 4: and it's catastrophic for our national security. But it is 49 00:02:58,760 --> 00:03:03,080 Speaker 4: also ornamous benefit to Vladimir Putin in Russia, and that 50 00:03:03,240 --> 00:03:05,440 Speaker 4: is a gift of Joe Biden and the Democrats. We're 51 00:03:05,440 --> 00:03:07,960 Speaker 4: gonna explain that as well. Yeah, no doubt about it. 52 00:03:08,400 --> 00:03:09,760 Speaker 2: One of the things that so many of you that 53 00:03:09,800 --> 00:03:11,520 Speaker 2: are listening have been a part of, and we want 54 00:03:11,520 --> 00:03:14,640 Speaker 2: to say thank you, is helping the people in Israel. 55 00:03:15,080 --> 00:03:18,160 Speaker 2: The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews is on the 56 00:03:18,240 --> 00:03:20,920 Speaker 2: ground right now helping so many people in Israel that 57 00:03:21,040 --> 00:03:24,280 Speaker 2: desperately need your help. 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You're working with Amy 89 00:05:18,560 --> 00:05:25,680 Speaker 2: Klobuchar introducing the tools to address known exploitation of innocent people. 90 00:05:26,120 --> 00:05:29,360 Speaker 2: This has become a moneymaker online, by the way, for 91 00:05:30,080 --> 00:05:33,400 Speaker 2: people that want to do this to celebrities. We saw 92 00:05:33,480 --> 00:05:37,440 Speaker 2: that recently happen with Taylor Swift, and it really brought 93 00:05:37,440 --> 00:05:40,640 Speaker 2: to light just how damaging, uh, these deep fakes can 94 00:05:40,680 --> 00:05:43,120 Speaker 2: be and and and and these and this this kind 95 00:05:43,160 --> 00:05:46,760 Speaker 2: of revenge that some people will take on on X's 96 00:05:46,760 --> 00:05:48,680 Speaker 2: and others or people they just want to harm or 97 00:05:48,760 --> 00:05:51,279 Speaker 2: or even just make money off of. But there's also 98 00:05:51,600 --> 00:05:55,800 Speaker 2: I know people personally who have been affected by this 99 00:05:56,040 --> 00:05:59,440 Speaker 2: that are not famous, that are not a celebrity, and 100 00:05:59,640 --> 00:06:03,440 Speaker 2: it has as ruined the reputation. We have seen warnings 101 00:06:03,480 --> 00:06:07,159 Speaker 2: from parents on the issue of suicide with young girls, 102 00:06:07,240 --> 00:06:10,640 Speaker 2: young teens, young boys who have had been exploited in 103 00:06:10,680 --> 00:06:12,880 Speaker 2: this way with things that aren't real, that are fake, 104 00:06:13,600 --> 00:06:15,520 Speaker 2: and they can't get them taken down. They are then 105 00:06:15,600 --> 00:06:18,360 Speaker 2: bullied and it's been tragic and cost many young people 106 00:06:18,440 --> 00:06:20,680 Speaker 2: their lives. And that's why you guys are doing this. 107 00:06:21,480 --> 00:06:23,680 Speaker 4: Well, that's exactly right. And I'll tell you one of 108 00:06:23,720 --> 00:06:26,359 Speaker 4: the major things that brought this issue to my attention. 109 00:06:27,360 --> 00:06:30,080 Speaker 4: What was actually a call we got from a constituent, 110 00:06:30,640 --> 00:06:32,839 Speaker 4: a mom, a family that live in North Texas and 111 00:06:32,839 --> 00:06:37,839 Speaker 4: Alito and her daughter. A fourteen year old girl was targeted, 112 00:06:37,880 --> 00:06:41,919 Speaker 4: targeted by a classmate, a classmate that took her face 113 00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:44,960 Speaker 4: and her image from social media, from Snapchat and other 114 00:06:45,000 --> 00:06:50,359 Speaker 4: social media and used AI use deep fake technology to 115 00:06:50,520 --> 00:06:54,640 Speaker 4: graft her face onto explicit nude images that were not 116 00:06:54,800 --> 00:06:59,720 Speaker 4: her and publicized those to all of her classmates. And 117 00:06:59,760 --> 00:07:02,479 Speaker 4: so she's fourteen years old. This poor girl goes into 118 00:07:02,520 --> 00:07:06,239 Speaker 4: school with all of her classmates believing that they've seen 119 00:07:06,760 --> 00:07:09,600 Speaker 4: explicit sexual images of her and it was a total lie. 120 00:07:10,160 --> 00:07:15,080 Speaker 4: But obviously it traumatized this this this teenage girl significantly 121 00:07:15,320 --> 00:07:18,400 Speaker 4: as any as any young person. Whatder for that matter. 122 00:07:18,680 --> 00:07:21,880 Speaker 4: Most adults would that that that is a horrific experience 123 00:07:22,360 --> 00:07:25,560 Speaker 4: to go through and and listen, there's always been the 124 00:07:25,600 --> 00:07:29,000 Speaker 4: ability for someone to photoshop and you know, put put 125 00:07:29,480 --> 00:07:33,840 Speaker 4: Ben Ferguson's head on Arnold Schwarzenegger's body. And by the way, 126 00:07:33,880 --> 00:07:36,400 Speaker 4: that was you and Connan the barbarian. I was really impressed. 127 00:07:37,040 --> 00:07:39,920 Speaker 3: Ben. You should not punch the camel. I'm gonna sick 128 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:40,440 Speaker 3: Pete on. 129 00:07:40,480 --> 00:07:40,600 Speaker 5: You. 130 00:07:40,640 --> 00:07:43,760 Speaker 4: Punch you a camel is a bad move. But look, 131 00:07:43,920 --> 00:07:46,680 Speaker 4: if you graft your head onto a different body, it 132 00:07:46,720 --> 00:07:51,480 Speaker 4: was fairly obvious to someone someone watching. What's changed is 133 00:07:52,280 --> 00:07:57,560 Speaker 4: with the deep fake technology, it can now look completely 134 00:07:57,720 --> 00:07:59,840 Speaker 4: real that people can look at it and go do 135 00:08:00,240 --> 00:08:05,080 Speaker 4: I didn't know Ferguson was so ripped and that here's 136 00:08:05,120 --> 00:08:11,280 Speaker 4: an amazing stat Up to ninety five percent of all 137 00:08:11,520 --> 00:08:18,440 Speaker 4: Internet deep fake videos depict non consensual intimate images, up 138 00:08:18,520 --> 00:08:21,840 Speaker 4: to ninety five percent, and the vast majority of them 139 00:08:21,880 --> 00:08:24,480 Speaker 4: target women and girls. And so this is becoming a tool, 140 00:08:24,880 --> 00:08:28,160 Speaker 4: a tool for cyber bullying, a tool for attacking, maybe 141 00:08:28,160 --> 00:08:30,320 Speaker 4: attacking an ex girlfriend or an ex wife or an 142 00:08:30,360 --> 00:08:33,240 Speaker 4: ex partner that you're mad at and using it just 143 00:08:33,320 --> 00:08:37,200 Speaker 4: to smear them and attack them. And so this bill 144 00:08:37,760 --> 00:08:40,559 Speaker 4: I've introduced it along with Amy Klobuchar. Amy klobchar as 145 00:08:40,559 --> 00:08:44,000 Speaker 4: a Democrat, as you know, from Minnesota. It's also co 146 00:08:44,080 --> 00:08:48,120 Speaker 4: sponsored by Cynthia Lummis, who's a Republican from Wyoming, Richard 147 00:08:48,160 --> 00:08:51,880 Speaker 4: Blumenthal who's a Democrat from Connecticut, Shelley Moore Capito is 148 00:08:51,880 --> 00:08:55,120 Speaker 4: a Republican from West Virginia, and Jackie Rosen who's a 149 00:08:55,120 --> 00:08:58,800 Speaker 4: Democrat from Nevada. So we brought together both Republicans and Democrats. 150 00:08:59,800 --> 00:09:02,280 Speaker 4: And the two elements of this are number one, making 151 00:09:02,320 --> 00:09:06,080 Speaker 4: it a crime, making it a felony to publish non 152 00:09:06,120 --> 00:09:10,800 Speaker 4: consensual intimate images without without consent, again against someone's wishes. 153 00:09:11,520 --> 00:09:14,320 Speaker 4: But number two, as I mentioned, and I think this 154 00:09:14,520 --> 00:09:17,400 Speaker 4: is the piece. So there's other bills people have introduced 155 00:09:17,400 --> 00:09:19,240 Speaker 4: that make it a crime to do so, and so 156 00:09:19,240 --> 00:09:20,920 Speaker 4: there are multiple bills and I'm a co sponsor of 157 00:09:20,920 --> 00:09:21,679 Speaker 4: other bills to do that. 158 00:09:21,679 --> 00:09:23,160 Speaker 3: That's a good idea. 159 00:09:23,760 --> 00:09:27,040 Speaker 4: The piece that is not reflected in any other legislation 160 00:09:27,160 --> 00:09:30,040 Speaker 4: I know of that's been filed is the take it 161 00:09:30,120 --> 00:09:36,000 Speaker 4: Down component, which is the obligation on the social media 162 00:09:36,080 --> 00:09:40,560 Speaker 4: company or the big tech company to take the content 163 00:09:40,640 --> 00:09:41,240 Speaker 4: down and so. 164 00:09:41,320 --> 00:09:43,760 Speaker 2: Well, and victims have said this to me, and say 165 00:09:43,800 --> 00:09:47,240 Speaker 2: this to you, is it's one thing that someone does it, 166 00:09:47,240 --> 00:09:49,920 Speaker 2: it's another thing when there's no mechanism to take it 167 00:09:50,000 --> 00:09:52,920 Speaker 2: down when you see it, when it's being used against you. 168 00:09:53,320 --> 00:09:57,360 Speaker 2: We saw this recently with a doctor and nurses and 169 00:09:57,360 --> 00:09:59,400 Speaker 2: they were used and they tried to get it taken down, 170 00:09:59,440 --> 00:10:01,360 Speaker 2: and they couldn't it taken down. Like you just said, 171 00:10:02,240 --> 00:10:06,960 Speaker 2: there's no incentive in essence for these big tech comings 172 00:10:07,000 --> 00:10:10,520 Speaker 2: to even care or notice or respond to you. 173 00:10:11,200 --> 00:10:14,400 Speaker 4: Well, look, that's exactly right. And as we all know, 174 00:10:14,920 --> 00:10:17,840 Speaker 4: this happened to Taylor Swift. So Taylor Swift, you had 175 00:10:17,880 --> 00:10:22,199 Speaker 4: people who took her image and made deep fake, false 176 00:10:22,400 --> 00:10:26,240 Speaker 4: explicit images. And because Taylor Swift is a global superstar, 177 00:10:26,840 --> 00:10:29,360 Speaker 4: she spoke out and big tech took it all down. 178 00:10:29,440 --> 00:10:32,400 Speaker 4: So if you happen to be a global superstar, you 179 00:10:32,440 --> 00:10:35,199 Speaker 4: can get it taken down. But if you're just an 180 00:10:35,280 --> 00:10:38,440 Speaker 4: ordinary kid, you're powerless. And let me tell you a 181 00:10:38,480 --> 00:10:41,320 Speaker 4: story that really illustrates this. At the press conference we 182 00:10:41,360 --> 00:10:46,439 Speaker 4: did this week, we had victims and we had the 183 00:10:46,960 --> 00:10:49,360 Speaker 4: moms of victims who have been targeted by this who 184 00:10:49,400 --> 00:10:53,360 Speaker 4: came and joined us and One of the victims was 185 00:10:53,400 --> 00:10:56,080 Speaker 4: this fourteen year old girl, and I mentioned that her 186 00:10:56,080 --> 00:10:59,440 Speaker 4: mom initially reached out to my office and she's a Texan. 187 00:11:00,520 --> 00:11:04,640 Speaker 4: When I sat down with the mom last week, she 188 00:11:04,840 --> 00:11:09,720 Speaker 4: expressed to me frustration. Last week she said, the images 189 00:11:09,760 --> 00:11:13,760 Speaker 4: are still up. Snapchat has left them up. And she said, 190 00:11:13,800 --> 00:11:16,880 Speaker 4: I've called repeatedly, I've emailed. I've tried to say, take 191 00:11:17,000 --> 00:11:20,520 Speaker 4: down these false images of my daughter. They're horrific, They're wrong, 192 00:11:21,080 --> 00:11:24,360 Speaker 4: and Snapchat basically said, go jump in a lake. She 193 00:11:24,360 --> 00:11:26,400 Speaker 4: got to run around, She couldn't talk to a human being. 194 00:11:26,480 --> 00:11:28,200 Speaker 4: She got referred over and over and over. And they're 195 00:11:28,240 --> 00:11:30,560 Speaker 4: still up. And I'm sitting there in my office and 196 00:11:30,600 --> 00:11:33,079 Speaker 4: I turned to my team and I said, that is garbage. 197 00:11:33,480 --> 00:11:35,080 Speaker 4: And I told my team, I said, I want us 198 00:11:35,120 --> 00:11:38,520 Speaker 4: to get on the phone with Snapchat today. And I 199 00:11:38,559 --> 00:11:41,160 Speaker 4: told my team, if need be, put me on the 200 00:11:41,200 --> 00:11:43,520 Speaker 4: phone with the CEO of Snapchat, and I told the mom, 201 00:11:43,559 --> 00:11:46,880 Speaker 4: we are going to get this taken down within twenty 202 00:11:46,880 --> 00:11:49,400 Speaker 4: four hours. They took the images down now. 203 00:11:49,440 --> 00:11:51,760 Speaker 2: But it took and this is the scary part. It 204 00:11:51,840 --> 00:11:58,240 Speaker 2: took someone getting a hold of you, yes, and then 205 00:11:58,440 --> 00:12:03,160 Speaker 2: having a United States from Texas to then call and 206 00:12:03,559 --> 00:12:06,320 Speaker 2: basically say I want to talk to the CEO to 207 00:12:06,400 --> 00:12:10,160 Speaker 2: get them to respond. The reality is the majority of 208 00:12:10,200 --> 00:12:12,120 Speaker 2: Americans are not going to be able to pull that off. 209 00:12:12,160 --> 00:12:16,320 Speaker 4: And that's exactly lation is important, and it shows it's effortless. 210 00:12:16,360 --> 00:12:18,959 Speaker 4: They could do it instantaneously. They know how to pull 211 00:12:19,000 --> 00:12:23,320 Speaker 4: it down that they're just they're so unaccountable. There's such 212 00:12:23,360 --> 00:12:26,960 Speaker 4: a hubris and arrogance that they don't feel the need 213 00:12:27,000 --> 00:12:31,240 Speaker 4: to respond. So if you're a global superstar, you can 214 00:12:31,240 --> 00:12:33,760 Speaker 4: get it taken down. If you're able to get a 215 00:12:33,800 --> 00:12:36,640 Speaker 4: member of Congress to intervene on your behalf, maybe you 216 00:12:36,679 --> 00:12:39,120 Speaker 4: can get it taken down. But if you're just an 217 00:12:39,280 --> 00:12:42,800 Speaker 4: ordinary teenager in Texas who wakes up one day to 218 00:12:42,920 --> 00:12:47,079 Speaker 4: the friggin' nightmare of walking into eighth grade and every 219 00:12:47,160 --> 00:12:49,400 Speaker 4: kid there is looking at an image on their phone 220 00:12:49,880 --> 00:12:54,640 Speaker 4: that appears to be you doing explicit sexual activity, that 221 00:12:54,800 --> 00:12:59,320 Speaker 4: is an absolute nightmare. And right now, big Tech acts 222 00:12:59,360 --> 00:13:01,880 Speaker 4: with this legislation, I think we're going to get this 223 00:13:01,920 --> 00:13:05,480 Speaker 4: legislation passed. It needs to be passed because you should 224 00:13:05,480 --> 00:13:08,240 Speaker 4: have a right to say, take this damn thing down, 225 00:13:08,280 --> 00:13:09,400 Speaker 4: and take it down now. 226 00:13:09,880 --> 00:13:12,400 Speaker 2: So let's talk about what the big tech world is 227 00:13:12,440 --> 00:13:14,760 Speaker 2: going to respond with, and we've already seen this play. 228 00:13:15,200 --> 00:13:17,599 Speaker 2: They've said, well, look, this is a state issue. The 229 00:13:17,800 --> 00:13:19,960 Speaker 2: states should deal with this, and there's some states that have. 230 00:13:20,080 --> 00:13:23,040 Speaker 2: There's I think over twenty states that have dealt with this. 231 00:13:23,280 --> 00:13:28,319 Speaker 2: But you guys are doing it differently from a federal perspective, 232 00:13:28,679 --> 00:13:30,679 Speaker 2: and that is where there's going to be real teeth 233 00:13:31,120 --> 00:13:34,840 Speaker 2: in the repercussions for those that don't abide by this 234 00:13:35,120 --> 00:13:37,319 Speaker 2: federal law that you guys are working to pass. 235 00:13:37,400 --> 00:13:42,440 Speaker 4: Correct, Correct, and listen. We've talked before about that. That's 236 00:13:42,559 --> 00:13:45,480 Speaker 4: one of the benefits of my role as the ranking 237 00:13:45,559 --> 00:13:48,800 Speaker 4: member on the Senate Committee of Commerce, Science, and Transportation. 238 00:13:49,600 --> 00:13:52,440 Speaker 4: The Commerce Committee has jurisdiction over about forty percent of 239 00:13:52,480 --> 00:13:57,480 Speaker 4: the US economy, and it is as the ranking members 240 00:13:57,520 --> 00:14:01,320 Speaker 4: the senior Republican, I'm able to draw legislation like this, 241 00:14:01,400 --> 00:14:04,640 Speaker 4: as you know. You know, the FA Reauthorization Bill that 242 00:14:04,760 --> 00:14:07,280 Speaker 4: was just signing a law a few weeks ago was 243 00:14:07,320 --> 00:14:09,800 Speaker 4: the one hundredth piece of legislation that I've authored and 244 00:14:09,840 --> 00:14:12,520 Speaker 4: passed into law. And from the Commerce Committee, we have 245 00:14:12,679 --> 00:14:16,160 Speaker 4: jurisdiction over big tech and so few things focused the 246 00:14:16,280 --> 00:14:24,680 Speaker 4: mind of an industry more than the government with jurisdiction 247 00:14:24,960 --> 00:14:28,280 Speaker 4: over that industry. And so states are acting, and I'm 248 00:14:28,280 --> 00:14:30,800 Speaker 4: glad in the state of Texas has acted, and that's important. 249 00:14:31,080 --> 00:14:34,480 Speaker 4: But what we're not seeing is the mechanism to require 250 00:14:35,040 --> 00:14:39,040 Speaker 4: that the content being taken down. And actually we modeled 251 00:14:39,040 --> 00:14:42,240 Speaker 4: it after existing federal legislation. When you're dealing with a 252 00:14:42,360 --> 00:14:46,320 Speaker 4: violation of trademarks or copyrights that you have a right. 253 00:14:46,800 --> 00:14:49,360 Speaker 4: You know, if you are Jimmy Hendrix, and by the way, 254 00:14:49,360 --> 00:14:51,040 Speaker 4: if you're Jimmy Hendrix, you're dead, So I hope you're 255 00:14:51,080 --> 00:14:53,840 Speaker 4: not Jimmy Hendrix. But if you're Jimmy Hendrix or the 256 00:14:53,960 --> 00:14:57,400 Speaker 4: estate of Jimmy Hendrix and someone puts your content online, 257 00:14:57,480 --> 00:14:59,240 Speaker 4: you have a right to say, go take it down, 258 00:15:00,360 --> 00:15:02,680 Speaker 4: because that's my content and I own it. And so 259 00:15:02,720 --> 00:15:07,480 Speaker 4: that's an existing legal mechanism in the world of intellectual property, 260 00:15:07,880 --> 00:15:13,040 Speaker 4: and we borrowed that model for taking down non consensual 261 00:15:13,160 --> 00:15:17,080 Speaker 4: intimate images. Now, I'll say earlier or earlier this week, 262 00:15:17,120 --> 00:15:20,560 Speaker 4: I was talking with an editorial board of a major 263 00:15:20,600 --> 00:15:23,920 Speaker 4: paper in Texas and they were asking I think Devil's 264 00:15:23,960 --> 00:15:26,280 Speaker 4: Advocate questions. But one of the things they said is 265 00:15:26,280 --> 00:15:28,880 Speaker 4: they said well, what about the First Amendment. Isn't there 266 00:15:28,880 --> 00:15:32,400 Speaker 4: a First Amendment right to do this? And I said, no, no, 267 00:15:32,520 --> 00:15:34,960 Speaker 4: there's not. And I said a couple of things. I said, 268 00:15:35,040 --> 00:15:37,960 Speaker 4: number one, from the very beginning of the First Amendment, 269 00:15:38,560 --> 00:15:42,080 Speaker 4: it has never covered defamation. It's never covered libel or slander. 270 00:15:42,640 --> 00:15:46,440 Speaker 4: And so when you have false content that depicts someone 271 00:15:46,480 --> 00:15:50,560 Speaker 4: in a way that is defamatory, and intimate and sexual 272 00:15:50,600 --> 00:15:55,720 Speaker 4: images that are not you are by definition defamatory. That 273 00:15:55,760 --> 00:15:59,080 Speaker 4: has always been understood from from the very first days 274 00:15:59,120 --> 00:16:01,640 Speaker 4: the First Amendment was an adopted as not being within 275 00:16:01,680 --> 00:16:06,040 Speaker 4: the protection of the First Amendment. But secondly, the First 276 00:16:06,080 --> 00:16:09,920 Speaker 4: Amendment free speech protections have never covered the intentional infliction 277 00:16:10,000 --> 00:16:13,320 Speaker 4: of emotional distress. And so so if you engage and 278 00:16:13,360 --> 00:16:17,440 Speaker 4: this is this is connected to uh, connected to defamation. 279 00:16:18,200 --> 00:16:21,280 Speaker 4: But but the First Amendment does does not empower you 280 00:16:21,440 --> 00:16:25,920 Speaker 4: to harass and and and and exploit and abuse other people. 281 00:16:25,920 --> 00:16:28,160 Speaker 4: And you can be sued and liable for doing so. 282 00:16:28,280 --> 00:16:30,720 Speaker 4: And it's no defense to say, well, gosh, under the 283 00:16:30,720 --> 00:16:32,600 Speaker 4: First Amendment, I can say anything I want. 284 00:16:33,840 --> 00:16:36,600 Speaker 3: That's not how how our legal system works. 285 00:16:36,640 --> 00:16:39,800 Speaker 4: And and and it's wise, I said, I think we are 286 00:16:39,880 --> 00:16:42,520 Speaker 4: going to get this done. I think we are likely 287 00:16:42,680 --> 00:16:46,000 Speaker 4: to to get this legislation passed, and when we do, 288 00:16:47,040 --> 00:16:50,640 Speaker 4: it is going to be a major protection for for 289 00:16:50,640 --> 00:16:54,440 Speaker 4: for kids, uh and and and for Americans across the 290 00:16:54,920 --> 00:16:57,280 Speaker 4: country in Texas and across the country. 291 00:16:57,680 --> 00:16:59,720 Speaker 1: And that brings me, and that brings me this question. 292 00:16:59,840 --> 00:17:03,560 Speaker 2: And there are a lot of people, especially parents, grandparents 293 00:17:03,600 --> 00:17:06,600 Speaker 2: are going to be listening, and this is something they say, Hey, 294 00:17:06,680 --> 00:17:09,240 Speaker 2: this isn't Republican Democrat. And this is why I think 295 00:17:09,280 --> 00:17:11,280 Speaker 2: you guys are working so together with you and am 296 00:17:11,359 --> 00:17:13,679 Speaker 2: Kovachar on the others. You mentioned this is just an 297 00:17:13,720 --> 00:17:16,560 Speaker 2: issue of right and wrong. So what do they need 298 00:17:16,640 --> 00:17:18,800 Speaker 2: to do to make sure that their voice is heard, 299 00:17:18,920 --> 00:17:20,640 Speaker 2: especially if they're in favor of this. 300 00:17:20,960 --> 00:17:23,720 Speaker 4: Yeah, look, speak out and make clear that this is 301 00:17:23,760 --> 00:17:25,520 Speaker 4: the right thing to do. Look, you and I are 302 00:17:25,560 --> 00:17:29,719 Speaker 4: both parents. If you could imagine the frustration and so 303 00:17:29,800 --> 00:17:33,360 Speaker 4: many parents listen dealing with big tech generally, and as 304 00:17:33,400 --> 00:17:35,000 Speaker 4: you know, this has been a passion of mine for 305 00:17:35,040 --> 00:17:39,800 Speaker 4: a long time. I've authored and supported multiple bills designed 306 00:17:39,800 --> 00:17:43,080 Speaker 4: to protect kids online. So a different bill that I 307 00:17:43,119 --> 00:17:45,800 Speaker 4: have is a bill called Cosma, where I've joined with 308 00:17:45,800 --> 00:17:51,960 Speaker 4: with Brian Shotts, who's a Democrat from Hawaii and Cosma 309 00:17:53,040 --> 00:17:57,520 Speaker 4: would prohibit children under thirteen from being on social media 310 00:17:57,560 --> 00:17:59,960 Speaker 4: at all. So it would ban that across the board, 311 00:18:00,720 --> 00:18:04,200 Speaker 4: and then children under seventeen, it would prohibit big tech 312 00:18:04,760 --> 00:18:08,399 Speaker 4: from engaging in algorithmic boosting, which is the process that 313 00:18:08,440 --> 00:18:13,440 Speaker 4: they push content at teenagers. And as you know, big tech, 314 00:18:14,480 --> 00:18:17,399 Speaker 4: in the pursuit of the dollar, pushes all sorts of 315 00:18:17,480 --> 00:18:21,440 Speaker 4: horrible content at our kids. They push substance abuse and 316 00:18:21,880 --> 00:18:26,160 Speaker 4: alcohol abuse. They pushed self harm, they push suicidal ideation 317 00:18:27,400 --> 00:18:30,720 Speaker 4: that they push body image particularly for young girls, all 318 00:18:30,760 --> 00:18:36,480 Speaker 4: sorts of body image issues. We're seeing dramatically increasing instances 319 00:18:36,760 --> 00:18:40,200 Speaker 4: of depression, of anxiety. You know, the Surgeon General under 320 00:18:40,280 --> 00:18:41,840 Speaker 4: Joe Biden just wrote an op ed in the New 321 00:18:41,920 --> 00:18:46,560 Speaker 4: York Times decrying the risk to mental health from social 322 00:18:46,640 --> 00:18:50,080 Speaker 4: media of young people. The solution, or at least part 323 00:18:50,119 --> 00:18:52,119 Speaker 4: of the solution, I think, is the legislation I have 324 00:18:52,240 --> 00:18:57,359 Speaker 4: with Brian Shotts. It also includes another bill that I've 325 00:18:57,680 --> 00:19:01,560 Speaker 4: authored with John Fetterman, obviously another Democrat, called the Eyes 326 00:19:01,600 --> 00:19:04,879 Speaker 4: on the Board Bill, which says that any school that 327 00:19:04,960 --> 00:19:08,840 Speaker 4: receives federal funds, which is pretty much all of them, 328 00:19:09,080 --> 00:19:13,560 Speaker 4: is required to ban social media from their Wi Fi 329 00:19:13,760 --> 00:19:17,680 Speaker 4: on campus, because kids on campus ought to be paying 330 00:19:17,720 --> 00:19:21,000 Speaker 4: attention to school and not on snapchat, chat or Instagram 331 00:19:21,040 --> 00:19:21,720 Speaker 4: or something else. 332 00:19:22,800 --> 00:19:26,000 Speaker 3: And what I will say on all of these, Ben, is. 333 00:19:27,760 --> 00:19:31,960 Speaker 4: I literally don't know a parent who is not scared, 334 00:19:32,440 --> 00:19:35,600 Speaker 4: who is not frustrated about how do you protect your 335 00:19:35,680 --> 00:19:36,560 Speaker 4: kids online? 336 00:19:39,280 --> 00:19:40,720 Speaker 1: It's shocking. Now, it's scary. 337 00:19:40,760 --> 00:19:43,119 Speaker 2: It's a wild West, and there seems to be no 338 00:19:43,400 --> 00:19:45,000 Speaker 2: real protections for children. 339 00:19:46,119 --> 00:19:48,679 Speaker 4: And look, when you and I were kids, we didn't 340 00:19:48,680 --> 00:19:52,720 Speaker 4: deal with this. Now that this was not a world. 341 00:19:53,160 --> 00:19:55,960 Speaker 4: You know, when I was a teenager, my parents would 342 00:19:55,720 --> 00:19:57,760 Speaker 4: would have me. I'd like, you know, lay on the 343 00:19:57,800 --> 00:20:02,440 Speaker 4: floor on like the landline phone talking to my girlfriend 344 00:20:02,440 --> 00:20:05,480 Speaker 4: till one in the morning. And that was like as 345 00:20:05,520 --> 00:20:09,400 Speaker 4: much as you dealt with You now have these phones 346 00:20:09,560 --> 00:20:13,199 Speaker 4: that are these portals to just about everything evil in 347 00:20:13,240 --> 00:20:17,400 Speaker 4: the world, sexual predators, to bullies, to people just targeting 348 00:20:17,440 --> 00:20:21,639 Speaker 4: our kids. And you know what's interesting, Ben, So in 349 00:20:21,680 --> 00:20:24,040 Speaker 4: the Senate, as you know, look, there are a lot 350 00:20:24,080 --> 00:20:27,359 Speaker 4: of people who are really damn old. I mean a 351 00:20:27,359 --> 00:20:29,480 Speaker 4: lot of my colleagues are their seventies or eighties or 352 00:20:29,520 --> 00:20:32,800 Speaker 4: even nineties. And I got to admit that my colleagues 353 00:20:32,840 --> 00:20:36,640 Speaker 4: that are of that generation are kind of a little 354 00:20:36,640 --> 00:20:40,160 Speaker 4: bit befuddled by this issue. They look at it and frankly, 355 00:20:41,280 --> 00:20:43,600 Speaker 4: you know, their kids weren't dealing with it when their 356 00:20:43,680 --> 00:20:47,400 Speaker 4: kids were children, and their grandkids are now, but they're 357 00:20:47,440 --> 00:20:50,439 Speaker 4: often less connected to it than they would be. 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Now, there's 418 00:23:58,600 --> 00:24:01,800 Speaker 2: two parts of this that that we should just bring 419 00:24:01,880 --> 00:24:05,320 Speaker 2: up at the very beginning. One, it is amazing that 420 00:24:05,400 --> 00:24:08,760 Speaker 2: no one's calling out just the straight up racism aspect 421 00:24:08,800 --> 00:24:11,280 Speaker 2: of this. That the Democratic Party and the media just 422 00:24:11,320 --> 00:24:14,800 Speaker 2: assumes that if you're black, you must support the Democratic Party, 423 00:24:15,119 --> 00:24:17,840 Speaker 2: and if you don't, then you're basically, in their mind, 424 00:24:18,200 --> 00:24:20,639 Speaker 2: not a real black person. You're not you're not a 425 00:24:21,160 --> 00:24:23,920 Speaker 2: real black woman. You're not a real black mother. Right, 426 00:24:23,960 --> 00:24:25,720 Speaker 2: you're you're not a real black father. No, No, you're 427 00:24:25,760 --> 00:24:29,200 Speaker 2: you're you're an Uncle Tom. You can't leave the Democratic 428 00:24:30,600 --> 00:24:35,040 Speaker 2: plantation to think for yourself because you must be a Democrat, 429 00:24:35,320 --> 00:24:38,600 Speaker 2: a modern day slave in essence, the Democratic Party. And 430 00:24:38,680 --> 00:24:42,040 Speaker 2: now they can't believe that Donald Trump is headed for 431 00:24:42,280 --> 00:24:46,320 Speaker 2: literally historic performance with African American voters, saying we don't 432 00:24:46,400 --> 00:24:46,679 Speaker 2: like this. 433 00:24:46,960 --> 00:24:49,440 Speaker 1: What's happening under the Biden administration, and. 434 00:24:49,400 --> 00:24:53,520 Speaker 2: Biden's support for from black voters under the age of 435 00:24:53,560 --> 00:24:57,240 Speaker 2: fifty has cratered over the last four years, and they 436 00:24:57,280 --> 00:24:58,399 Speaker 2: don't know what to do with this. 437 00:24:59,080 --> 00:25:02,480 Speaker 4: Now, look that that is exactly right. They are shocked 438 00:25:02,560 --> 00:25:07,240 Speaker 4: that they come in with an assumption that anyone who 439 00:25:07,280 --> 00:25:11,160 Speaker 4: is African American must support the Democrats, as Joe Biden 440 00:25:11,640 --> 00:25:15,879 Speaker 4: famously or infamously said, if you're not supporting me, you 441 00:25:15,880 --> 00:25:19,840 Speaker 4: ain't black, which which is just said, an arrogance that 442 00:25:20,560 --> 00:25:26,200 Speaker 4: I think suffuses, suffuses the current Democrat party, and it's 443 00:25:26,280 --> 00:25:29,160 Speaker 4: worth well, I'll tell you what. Just listen to CNN 444 00:25:29,240 --> 00:25:31,359 Speaker 4: as they're discussing these polling numbers. 445 00:25:31,800 --> 00:25:34,960 Speaker 6: Senior data reporter Harrytton is with us. 446 00:25:35,000 --> 00:25:37,880 Speaker 3: So where does the race stand among African American voters 447 00:25:37,960 --> 00:25:38,199 Speaker 3: right now? 448 00:25:38,680 --> 00:25:41,480 Speaker 6: I keep looking for this to change, to go back 449 00:25:41,480 --> 00:25:44,440 Speaker 6: to a historical norm, and it simply put has not yet. 450 00:25:44,480 --> 00:25:45,360 Speaker 1: So this is the. 451 00:25:45,359 --> 00:25:48,640 Speaker 6: Margin or Biden and Trump among black voters. Compare where 452 00:25:48,640 --> 00:25:50,560 Speaker 6: we were at this point in twenty twenty. Compare where 453 00:25:50,560 --> 00:25:52,199 Speaker 6: we are now. You know, at this point, look at this. 454 00:25:52,400 --> 00:25:55,080 Speaker 6: In twenty twenty, Joe Biden was getting eighty six percent 455 00:25:55,119 --> 00:25:58,479 Speaker 6: of the African American vote. Look at where it is now. 456 00:25:58,880 --> 00:26:02,800 Speaker 6: It's seventy percent. That's a sixteen point drop. 457 00:26:02,920 --> 00:26:05,280 Speaker 1: John. And more than that, it's not just. 458 00:26:05,320 --> 00:26:08,639 Speaker 6: That Joe Biden is losing ground, It's that Donald Trump 459 00:26:08,840 --> 00:26:09,639 Speaker 6: is gaining ground. 460 00:26:09,760 --> 00:26:11,400 Speaker 1: You go from seven percent. 461 00:26:11,080 --> 00:26:13,240 Speaker 6: Single digits at f this point in twenty twenty to 462 00:26:13,320 --> 00:26:17,800 Speaker 6: now twenty one percent. And again, John, I keep looking 463 00:26:17,800 --> 00:26:19,679 Speaker 6: for signs that this is going to go back to normal, 464 00:26:19,920 --> 00:26:22,720 Speaker 6: and I don't see it yet in the polling of anything. 465 00:26:22,840 --> 00:26:24,320 Speaker 1: Right now, we're careening. 466 00:26:23,920 --> 00:26:27,639 Speaker 6: Towards historic performance for Republican presidential candidate, the likes of 467 00:26:27,680 --> 00:26:31,200 Speaker 6: which we have not seen in six decades. And when 468 00:26:31,200 --> 00:26:33,240 Speaker 6: you dig into this, I love this. 469 00:26:33,280 --> 00:26:35,560 Speaker 2: By the way, they're basically saying, we need to go 470 00:26:35,600 --> 00:26:37,600 Speaker 2: back to normal and you guys need to get back 471 00:26:37,600 --> 00:26:38,760 Speaker 2: on the Democratic plantation. 472 00:26:38,920 --> 00:26:40,159 Speaker 1: They're saying that on TV. 473 00:26:41,400 --> 00:26:41,600 Speaker 3: Yeah. 474 00:26:41,680 --> 00:26:46,119 Speaker 4: Look, it is not subtle who CNN is rooting for. 475 00:26:46,280 --> 00:26:48,760 Speaker 4: They want Joe Biden to win. They want the Democrats 476 00:26:48,760 --> 00:26:53,159 Speaker 4: to win, and they're they're shocked, and they're terrified and 477 00:26:53,440 --> 00:26:58,359 Speaker 4: they are freaking out. And listen, I think this is 478 00:26:58,400 --> 00:27:01,440 Speaker 4: an incredibly important shift. I think we're seeing African American 479 00:27:01,520 --> 00:27:05,320 Speaker 4: voters moving towards Republicans. I think we're seeing Hispanic voters 480 00:27:05,359 --> 00:27:07,679 Speaker 4: moving towards Republicans even faster. And I think that is 481 00:27:08,359 --> 00:27:11,720 Speaker 4: it's part of the broader demographic shift. We're seeing a 482 00:27:11,800 --> 00:27:15,560 Speaker 4: blue collar voters that are moving towards Republicans. We're seeing 483 00:27:15,680 --> 00:27:19,800 Speaker 4: the old conventional wisdom was that Republicans were the party 484 00:27:19,800 --> 00:27:21,520 Speaker 4: of the rich and Democrats were the party of the 485 00:27:21,560 --> 00:27:24,639 Speaker 4: poor and working class. I'm not sure that was ever true, 486 00:27:24,920 --> 00:27:27,880 Speaker 4: but it is especially not true now it has been 487 00:27:27,920 --> 00:27:31,480 Speaker 4: turned on its head. Today, Democrats are the party of 488 00:27:31,600 --> 00:27:34,760 Speaker 4: rich coastal elites. They're the party of big tech billionaires 489 00:27:35,200 --> 00:27:39,200 Speaker 4: and Hollywood moguls and California environmentalist billionaires. 490 00:27:39,640 --> 00:27:40,480 Speaker 3: And I think. 491 00:27:40,359 --> 00:27:43,360 Speaker 4: Republicans, we're the party of truck drivers and steel workers 492 00:27:43,359 --> 00:27:46,760 Speaker 4: and cops and firefighters and waiters and waitresses and everyone 493 00:27:46,800 --> 00:27:49,639 Speaker 4: who works for a living and has callouses on their hands. 494 00:27:50,040 --> 00:27:53,720 Speaker 4: And I think also, so there's an overlap. Listen, if 495 00:27:53,720 --> 00:27:57,040 Speaker 4: you're right now, Let's say you're an Hispanic guy in 496 00:27:57,080 --> 00:28:01,360 Speaker 4: South Texas and you work in the oil fee and 497 00:28:01,440 --> 00:28:04,080 Speaker 4: you drive a pickup truck and you go bird hunting 498 00:28:04,119 --> 00:28:04,840 Speaker 4: on the weekends. 499 00:28:06,200 --> 00:28:07,439 Speaker 3: You're voting Republican. 500 00:28:08,040 --> 00:28:10,960 Speaker 4: Number one, you're seeing the invasion at our southern border 501 00:28:11,000 --> 00:28:13,720 Speaker 4: the Democrats have caused. But number two, the Democrats have 502 00:28:13,760 --> 00:28:17,119 Speaker 4: declared war on your livelihood and way of life. And 503 00:28:17,160 --> 00:28:20,879 Speaker 4: so we're seeing Hispanics moving Republicans significantly. But African Americans. 504 00:28:21,119 --> 00:28:25,159 Speaker 4: We're seeing movement as well, not as rapidly. But listen 505 00:28:26,880 --> 00:28:29,560 Speaker 4: the simple reality. And I'm going to give Donald Trump credit. 506 00:28:29,600 --> 00:28:31,920 Speaker 4: He went to Detroit, he went to an African American church. 507 00:28:32,000 --> 00:28:34,560 Speaker 4: He made the case. He said, listen, for the black community, 508 00:28:35,800 --> 00:28:38,840 Speaker 4: your lives have gotten a lot worse under Joe Biden, 509 00:28:38,880 --> 00:28:42,520 Speaker 4: the Democrats, between inflation, between crime. You look at what 510 00:28:42,600 --> 00:28:46,320 Speaker 4: has happened. And he made the point illegal immigration. Who 511 00:28:46,320 --> 00:28:49,280 Speaker 4: do you think eleven million illegal immigrants are taking jobs 512 00:28:49,280 --> 00:28:52,760 Speaker 4: from They're not taking jobs. Jake Tapper is not losing 513 00:28:52,760 --> 00:28:56,320 Speaker 4: his job to an illegal immigrant. It's actually a point 514 00:28:56,320 --> 00:29:00,920 Speaker 4: you remember I made in twenty sixteen and the presidential 515 00:29:01,840 --> 00:29:07,280 Speaker 4: where I said, if you suddenly had crossing the border 516 00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:12,120 Speaker 4: a bunch of lawyers and bankers and journalists coming here 517 00:29:12,160 --> 00:29:17,160 Speaker 4: to take the job of rich professionals in the media, 518 00:29:17,320 --> 00:29:19,360 Speaker 4: then you would have a crisis. Then they would lose 519 00:29:19,400 --> 00:29:22,000 Speaker 4: their mind. But their view is no, no, no, that's fine 520 00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:24,280 Speaker 4: to bring eleven million people in who take the job 521 00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:27,200 Speaker 4: of low income workers, who take the job of the 522 00:29:27,240 --> 00:29:29,800 Speaker 4: working class, who take the job of a lot of 523 00:29:30,160 --> 00:29:33,160 Speaker 4: legal immigrants in the Hispanic community, who take the jobs 524 00:29:33,600 --> 00:29:36,560 Speaker 4: of African Americans and drive down their wages. And I 525 00:29:36,560 --> 00:29:40,640 Speaker 4: think you're seeing a lot of voters. I mean, the 526 00:29:40,720 --> 00:29:44,680 Speaker 4: numbers among African American voters have more than doubled, and 527 00:29:44,680 --> 00:29:46,360 Speaker 4: that's got Democrats really freaked out. 528 00:29:46,440 --> 00:29:48,960 Speaker 2: But this goes back to a podcast that we did 529 00:29:49,080 --> 00:29:52,240 Speaker 2: with actually your Congressman Wesley Hunt, Yeah, where he was 530 00:29:52,280 --> 00:29:53,680 Speaker 2: on this show, and I would encourage people to go 531 00:29:53,760 --> 00:29:56,680 Speaker 2: back and listen to it. But he discussed that the 532 00:29:56,720 --> 00:30:00,520 Speaker 2: bigotry of low expectations that the Democrats put on African 533 00:30:00,520 --> 00:30:02,840 Speaker 2: Americans and he says, he said at the time, and 534 00:30:02,920 --> 00:30:04,800 Speaker 2: I'm going back to this quote because I wrote it down. 535 00:30:04,960 --> 00:30:07,080 Speaker 1: It's to create victims. 536 00:30:07,760 --> 00:30:11,360 Speaker 2: And he was talking about how the Democratic Party has 537 00:30:11,400 --> 00:30:16,360 Speaker 2: really victimized the African American community, which with low expectations, 538 00:30:16,800 --> 00:30:20,960 Speaker 2: high crime, high poverty, and basically the government getting you 539 00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:22,760 Speaker 2: addicted to poverty. 540 00:30:23,720 --> 00:30:25,320 Speaker 1: And I encourage you to go back and listen to it. 541 00:30:25,360 --> 00:30:27,760 Speaker 2: But that seems to be the case in essence that 542 00:30:27,800 --> 00:30:30,640 Speaker 2: Donald Trump is now making. And Fox, by the way, 543 00:30:30,640 --> 00:30:32,480 Speaker 2: when these new poll numbers came out, I want you 544 00:30:32,520 --> 00:30:34,640 Speaker 2: to hear how they explained it. 545 00:30:34,680 --> 00:30:39,320 Speaker 5: Listen, Al has Biden down nearly thirty percent among black voters. 546 00:30:39,560 --> 00:30:42,960 Speaker 5: Since the twenty twenty election. What's changed? Look at the economy. 547 00:30:43,200 --> 00:30:45,720 Speaker 5: The optimal color is not black, a brown, it's green. 548 00:30:45,920 --> 00:30:48,240 Speaker 5: You hear me say that almost every day. Trump has 549 00:30:48,240 --> 00:30:51,720 Speaker 5: gained fifteen points in that time. Congressman James CLIBURNE of 550 00:30:51,760 --> 00:30:54,600 Speaker 5: South Carolina, downplaying the numbers here, he says, I don't 551 00:30:54,600 --> 00:30:56,880 Speaker 5: think black voters have left the fold. I don't know 552 00:30:57,080 --> 00:30:59,600 Speaker 5: what is going on with the polling taking place here. 553 00:31:00,280 --> 00:31:03,240 Speaker 5: How can the polls get that so wrong? That's going 554 00:31:03,280 --> 00:31:07,280 Speaker 5: on all over the country. Well, not everybody sees it 555 00:31:07,320 --> 00:31:11,200 Speaker 5: that way. Political reports prominent Black Democrats are setting off 556 00:31:11,240 --> 00:31:14,240 Speaker 5: alarm bells over Biden's black voter problems. 557 00:31:15,200 --> 00:31:18,320 Speaker 2: I mean the arrogance there. Just Cleiburn who's saying, I 558 00:31:18,720 --> 00:31:21,800 Speaker 2: don't believe this. I don't see it. I don't think 559 00:31:21,840 --> 00:31:24,600 Speaker 2: this is actually happening. Right, as he said, that's not 560 00:31:24,640 --> 00:31:27,560 Speaker 2: going on all over the country. How can the polls 561 00:31:27,600 --> 00:31:31,040 Speaker 2: get that so wrong? It's it's it's again. I go 562 00:31:31,160 --> 00:31:33,200 Speaker 2: back to this idea and what Wesley Hunt said on 563 00:31:33,200 --> 00:31:36,680 Speaker 2: the show. The Democratic Party believes they own the black 564 00:31:36,720 --> 00:31:38,760 Speaker 2: community and you cannot leave. 565 00:31:39,640 --> 00:31:42,520 Speaker 4: Well, listen, I would encourage listeners go back, as you 566 00:31:42,600 --> 00:31:45,600 Speaker 4: just said, Ben. Listen to the podcast we did with 567 00:31:45,640 --> 00:31:47,520 Speaker 4: Wesley Hunt, and actually that was one of the video 568 00:31:47,560 --> 00:31:49,600 Speaker 4: ones we did, so you can watch it on YouTube, 569 00:31:49,920 --> 00:31:52,520 Speaker 4: but also go back and listen or watch the podcast 570 00:31:52,640 --> 00:31:55,680 Speaker 4: we did with Eric Johnson, the mayor of mayor of Dallas, 571 00:31:55,720 --> 00:31:58,640 Speaker 4: who's African American and he was elected as a Democrat 572 00:31:58,680 --> 00:32:01,520 Speaker 4: mayor of Dallas. He's now become a Republican. Both of 573 00:32:01,640 --> 00:32:03,840 Speaker 4: both with Wesley Hunt and Erick Johnson, both of them 574 00:32:03,840 --> 00:32:06,360 Speaker 4: are are are friends of mine. We have a real 575 00:32:06,400 --> 00:32:10,720 Speaker 4: discussion about how the Democrat agenda has utterly failed the 576 00:32:10,760 --> 00:32:14,960 Speaker 4: African American community and the approach of Democrats is not 577 00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:19,520 Speaker 4: to provide real policy solutions, but it's instead demagogue. Remember 578 00:32:19,640 --> 00:32:21,640 Speaker 4: Joe Biden went I think it was in front of 579 00:32:21,680 --> 00:32:24,040 Speaker 4: the NAACP if I remember correctly where he said they're 580 00:32:24,080 --> 00:32:28,040 Speaker 4: going to put y'all back in chains, which is ridiculous. 581 00:32:28,080 --> 00:32:29,840 Speaker 4: And by the way, if you want to talk about 582 00:32:29,920 --> 00:32:33,760 Speaker 4: about who enslaved African Americans, the answer to that was Democrats. 583 00:32:33,800 --> 00:32:36,400 Speaker 4: It was Democrats who were the party of slavery. It 584 00:32:36,440 --> 00:32:38,640 Speaker 4: was Democrats who founded the Ku Klux Klan. It was 585 00:32:38,680 --> 00:32:41,520 Speaker 4: Democrats who wrote the Jim Crow Laws, and by the way, 586 00:32:41,760 --> 00:32:45,160 Speaker 4: you're on my party. The Republican Party was founded to 587 00:32:45,520 --> 00:32:48,880 Speaker 4: end slavery. That's why our party was founded. The first 588 00:32:48,920 --> 00:32:53,320 Speaker 4: Republican president was Abraham Lincoln. The Democrats record on race 589 00:32:53,480 --> 00:32:57,800 Speaker 4: issues have been horrible, and yet they demagogue and scare people. 590 00:32:58,320 --> 00:33:01,480 Speaker 4: And I do think you're seeing African American voters saying, 591 00:33:01,520 --> 00:33:05,280 Speaker 4: all right enough, already produce results. And by the way, 592 00:33:05,920 --> 00:33:09,640 Speaker 4: I'll give you three issues that I think resonate powerfully 593 00:33:09,680 --> 00:33:12,920 Speaker 4: in the black community. Number one, inflation in the economy, 594 00:33:13,280 --> 00:33:16,840 Speaker 4: and African Americans are getting hammered by that. Number two, 595 00:33:17,040 --> 00:33:20,440 Speaker 4: safety and the combination of the invasion at our southern border, 596 00:33:20,720 --> 00:33:26,440 Speaker 4: which is endangering African Americans and all Americans. But also 597 00:33:26,720 --> 00:33:31,680 Speaker 4: the Democrats undermining the police, undermining pushing for defunding the police, 598 00:33:31,720 --> 00:33:34,840 Speaker 4: for abolishing the police. That has resulted in a lot 599 00:33:34,880 --> 00:33:37,600 Speaker 4: more African Americans being murdered. And the Democrats like to 600 00:33:37,600 --> 00:33:41,959 Speaker 4: say black lives matter, well, their radical policies result in 601 00:33:42,080 --> 00:33:46,560 Speaker 4: more African Americans being victims of murder. But number three 602 00:33:46,680 --> 00:33:48,880 Speaker 4: is school choice, and as you know, school choice is 603 00:33:48,920 --> 00:33:51,840 Speaker 4: the issue. I think it is the most important domestic 604 00:33:51,880 --> 00:33:53,840 Speaker 4: issue in the country. It is the civil rights issue 605 00:33:53,840 --> 00:33:58,840 Speaker 4: of the twenty first century, and today's Democrats are the 606 00:33:59,040 --> 00:34:02,480 Speaker 4: modern day bull Connor. They are standing at the school 607 00:34:02,520 --> 00:34:06,280 Speaker 4: door saying we will not let low income students out. 608 00:34:06,360 --> 00:34:09,200 Speaker 4: I believe every child in Texas and every child in 609 00:34:09,239 --> 00:34:13,000 Speaker 4: America should have a right to access excellent education. And 610 00:34:13,040 --> 00:34:16,200 Speaker 4: it ought to be about education freedom. The student and 611 00:34:16,320 --> 00:34:20,080 Speaker 4: your parents should decide, not bureaucrats who want to keep 612 00:34:20,160 --> 00:34:20,840 Speaker 4: kids trapped. 613 00:34:22,160 --> 00:34:24,960 Speaker 2: Finally, just to expand on this, it's not just African 614 00:34:25,040 --> 00:34:29,520 Speaker 2: American voters that Biden has lost touch with. There is 615 00:34:29,600 --> 00:34:33,320 Speaker 2: now new data with Hispanic voters. For example, another policy 616 00:34:33,400 --> 00:34:37,600 Speaker 2: that Trump has doubled down on, mass deportations is now 617 00:34:38,000 --> 00:34:41,240 Speaker 2: popular in this country. The majority of registered voters favor 618 00:34:41,280 --> 00:34:46,560 Speaker 2: a new national program to deport all undocumented immigrants currently 619 00:34:46,560 --> 00:34:49,720 Speaker 2: living in the US legally, by sixty two to thirty 620 00:34:49,760 --> 00:34:52,440 Speaker 2: eight percent. That is massive. But here's you break that 621 00:34:52,560 --> 00:34:58,280 Speaker 2: number down. Now, a majority of Hispanic center favor mass 622 00:34:58,320 --> 00:35:02,200 Speaker 2: deportations in America as well, fifty three to forty seven. 623 00:35:02,560 --> 00:35:05,359 Speaker 2: And this is another blow to Joe Biden with quote 624 00:35:05,360 --> 00:35:06,200 Speaker 2: minority voters. 625 00:35:07,760 --> 00:35:12,319 Speaker 4: Well, that's right, and it is the fruits of the 626 00:35:12,400 --> 00:35:15,960 Speaker 4: failures of Democrat open border policies that are people are 627 00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:17,920 Speaker 4: seeing the absolute disaster of it. 628 00:35:17,880 --> 00:35:18,440 Speaker 3: And I'll tell you. 629 00:35:18,560 --> 00:35:22,759 Speaker 4: Years ago, I was doing a national interview with Hore 630 00:35:22,920 --> 00:35:28,279 Speaker 4: ramosre Ramos what was of of course, it is the 631 00:35:28,400 --> 00:35:34,520 Speaker 4: national journalist, and he accused me of being and I'm 632 00:35:34,520 --> 00:35:39,040 Speaker 4: going to quote him a trader to my race because 633 00:35:39,239 --> 00:35:42,360 Speaker 4: I believe in securing the border, and his view was, 634 00:35:43,360 --> 00:35:46,439 Speaker 4: as an Hispanic, I'm not allowed to support security into 635 00:35:46,440 --> 00:35:49,680 Speaker 4: the border. He practically yelled on me in national television 636 00:35:49,680 --> 00:35:51,480 Speaker 4: that I'm a trader at my race. And I asked him, 637 00:35:51,520 --> 00:35:55,359 Speaker 4: I said, tell me, what would happen if I went 638 00:35:55,480 --> 00:35:57,719 Speaker 4: illegally to Mexico? What would they do? And he said, oh, 639 00:35:57,760 --> 00:36:01,439 Speaker 4: they deport you. And It's like, well, okay, okay. If 640 00:36:01,560 --> 00:36:06,360 Speaker 4: Mexico is allowed to enforce its laws, why is America? 641 00:36:06,440 --> 00:36:10,359 Speaker 4: Why are our laws less consequential? And you know it 642 00:36:10,400 --> 00:36:16,560 Speaker 4: almost chairs the national news program on Univision. And yet 643 00:36:17,280 --> 00:36:20,640 Speaker 4: the view that he characterizes as a traitor to your 644 00:36:20,760 --> 00:36:23,200 Speaker 4: race is now, as you noted, according to polling number, 645 00:36:23,600 --> 00:36:26,520 Speaker 4: the view of the majority of Hispanics in America. 646 00:36:26,840 --> 00:36:27,800 Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. 647 00:36:28,120 --> 00:36:31,319 Speaker 2: I want to move finally to another important story, and 648 00:36:31,360 --> 00:36:34,319 Speaker 2: it deals with Russia, and I want people to think 649 00:36:34,360 --> 00:36:37,880 Speaker 2: about this story through the lens of if we're trying 650 00:36:37,880 --> 00:36:41,400 Speaker 2: to stop Russia, and that's the policy of the Biden 651 00:36:41,400 --> 00:36:46,760 Speaker 2: administration from overtaking Ukraine, and the goal is for Russia 652 00:36:46,800 --> 00:36:49,759 Speaker 2: to lose and to fall back, to retreat within their 653 00:36:49,800 --> 00:36:53,319 Speaker 2: borders and to leave Ukraine alone, and for Ukraine to 654 00:36:53,360 --> 00:36:58,000 Speaker 2: stand in Zelensky to stand, et cetera. Then why are 655 00:36:58,040 --> 00:37:00,560 Speaker 2: you allowing what it we're about to tell you about 656 00:37:00,600 --> 00:37:05,120 Speaker 2: to happen, and that is this Russia overtook the United 657 00:37:05,160 --> 00:37:08,959 Speaker 2: States of America as a gas supplier to Europe in May. 658 00:37:09,840 --> 00:37:13,359 Speaker 2: And this is a Texas issue very much, because this 659 00:37:13,440 --> 00:37:16,680 Speaker 2: is an opportunity to highlight how important it is that 660 00:37:16,840 --> 00:37:22,759 Speaker 2: we support in Texas and around the country our exploration 661 00:37:22,960 --> 00:37:27,160 Speaker 2: of natural gas and oil exporation, liquid natural gas and exports. 662 00:37:27,680 --> 00:37:30,840 Speaker 2: You've been working on this, yet the Democratic Party has 663 00:37:30,880 --> 00:37:34,320 Speaker 2: been trying to shut all that down, which only feeds 664 00:37:34,719 --> 00:37:40,920 Speaker 2: the war chest of Russia and Vladimir Putin to overtake Ukraine. 665 00:37:42,160 --> 00:37:43,960 Speaker 3: That's exactly what's happening. You know. 666 00:37:44,040 --> 00:37:47,640 Speaker 4: The Daily Caller focused on this story. They wrote a 667 00:37:47,680 --> 00:37:51,239 Speaker 4: story that entitled Russian gas sales to Europe exceed US 668 00:37:51,360 --> 00:37:54,920 Speaker 4: supply as Ukraine War rages, and let me just read 669 00:37:54,960 --> 00:37:58,040 Speaker 4: the beginning of it. Russia overtook the US in terms 670 00:37:58,080 --> 00:38:01,680 Speaker 4: of natural gas supplied to Europe in May as the 671 00:38:01,719 --> 00:38:05,600 Speaker 4: war in Ukraine continues. According to Financial Times, once the 672 00:38:05,680 --> 00:38:09,439 Speaker 4: leading supplier of gas to Europe, Russian deliveries fell off 673 00:38:09,520 --> 00:38:12,120 Speaker 4: drastically following the start of the war in Ukraine as 674 00:38:12,200 --> 00:38:16,239 Speaker 4: European states rushed to support the Ukrainian cause. According to 675 00:38:16,280 --> 00:38:20,040 Speaker 4: Financial Times, however, despite the West sanctions and attempts to 676 00:38:20,080 --> 00:38:23,560 Speaker 4: get off Russian fuels, Europe is still buying considerable amounts 677 00:38:23,600 --> 00:38:27,120 Speaker 4: of gas from Russia, while the Biden administration has paused 678 00:38:27,160 --> 00:38:31,799 Speaker 4: approvals for new liquefied natural gas LNG export terminals for 679 00:38:32,440 --> 00:38:37,480 Speaker 4: a further complicating Europe's long term energy supply. If you 680 00:38:37,640 --> 00:38:40,719 Speaker 4: look at what has happened, Joe Biden and the Democrats, 681 00:38:40,760 --> 00:38:44,120 Speaker 4: and by the way, the Democrats in Congress are united 682 00:38:44,160 --> 00:38:48,239 Speaker 4: in favor of this policy. They are helping Russia, they 683 00:38:48,280 --> 00:38:52,200 Speaker 4: are hurting our allies, they are hurting Europe, and they're 684 00:38:52,280 --> 00:38:56,240 Speaker 4: hurting jobs in Texas and hurting jobs in America. And listen, 685 00:38:57,080 --> 00:39:01,200 Speaker 4: the United States is globally the number one producer of 686 00:39:01,200 --> 00:39:03,400 Speaker 4: oil and the number one producer of natural gas in 687 00:39:03,440 --> 00:39:07,280 Speaker 4: the world, and we are and should be the dominant 688 00:39:07,400 --> 00:39:11,799 Speaker 4: energy superpower on the face of the earth. Bizarrely, Joe 689 00:39:11,840 --> 00:39:15,720 Speaker 4: Biden the Democrats have this incoherent view that they hate 690 00:39:15,760 --> 00:39:18,439 Speaker 4: oil and gas produced in America, which by the way, 691 00:39:18,520 --> 00:39:21,799 Speaker 4: produces jobs, raises wages here in the United States, but 692 00:39:21,920 --> 00:39:25,480 Speaker 4: they seemingly love oil and gas produced by our enemies. 693 00:39:25,520 --> 00:39:28,439 Speaker 4: They love Russian oil and gas, they love Iranian oil 694 00:39:28,440 --> 00:39:31,440 Speaker 4: and gas, they love Venezuelan oil and gas. And let 695 00:39:31,440 --> 00:39:34,239 Speaker 4: me say, Ben, if someone presses back and says, come on, Ted, 696 00:39:34,280 --> 00:39:38,400 Speaker 4: that's hyperbolic that they don't love oil and gas produced 697 00:39:38,440 --> 00:39:40,719 Speaker 4: by our enemies. Let me point to a simple data point. 698 00:39:40,760 --> 00:39:45,520 Speaker 4: Let's take for example, Iran. Iran, when Joe Biden became president, 699 00:39:45,719 --> 00:39:48,960 Speaker 4: was selling roughly three hundred thousand barrels of oil a 700 00:39:49,080 --> 00:39:52,200 Speaker 4: day in export. It was the principal funder of their 701 00:39:52,239 --> 00:39:55,840 Speaker 4: theocratic regime, that is, the leading state sponsor of terrorism. 702 00:39:56,440 --> 00:40:00,120 Speaker 4: When Joe Biden came in, he stopped vigorously enforcing the 703 00:40:00,160 --> 00:40:03,160 Speaker 4: oil sanctions. By the way, the Trump administration, at my 704 00:40:03,320 --> 00:40:07,360 Speaker 4: vigorous behest, had been aggressively enforcing those sanctions, which is 705 00:40:07,400 --> 00:40:09,719 Speaker 4: why they had dropped the three hundred thousand barrels a day. 706 00:40:10,200 --> 00:40:15,120 Speaker 4: Today Iran is selling two million barrels a day. The 707 00:40:15,480 --> 00:40:20,200 Speaker 4: Biden administrations policy and every Democrat in Congress supports this 708 00:40:21,280 --> 00:40:25,640 Speaker 4: is allowing the Ayatola to reap. They've made over eighty 709 00:40:25,680 --> 00:40:29,960 Speaker 4: billion dollars because the Democrats won't enforce oil sanctions. Likewise, Russia. 710 00:40:30,640 --> 00:40:35,040 Speaker 4: You know, the Democrats say Ukraine, Ukraine, Ukraine, and yet 711 00:40:35,640 --> 00:40:38,680 Speaker 4: Joe Biden is halting the sale of American natural gas 712 00:40:38,680 --> 00:40:41,640 Speaker 4: to Europe, which means the Europeans are buying them from 713 00:40:41,719 --> 00:40:46,319 Speaker 4: Vladimir Putin. The Democrats are literally funding Russia in the 714 00:40:46,360 --> 00:40:50,480 Speaker 4: war against Ukraine. It is incoherent and it's indefensible. 715 00:40:50,640 --> 00:40:52,520 Speaker 2: When you look at this and you see what this 716 00:40:52,560 --> 00:40:59,160 Speaker 2: administration has done. They've empowered Putin, they have empowered the 717 00:40:59,520 --> 00:41:03,560 Speaker 2: terrorists and Middle East. They have allowed for sanctions to 718 00:41:03,760 --> 00:41:08,120 Speaker 2: go just completely overlooked and just look the other way 719 00:41:08,440 --> 00:41:11,400 Speaker 2: and act like they don't even exist. Exists with Iran, 720 00:41:12,200 --> 00:41:15,800 Speaker 2: and you look at this, this is a national security issue, yes, 721 00:41:15,880 --> 00:41:18,759 Speaker 2: as much as it is an issue of oil and 722 00:41:18,840 --> 00:41:21,040 Speaker 2: gas and all this, by the way, you talk about 723 00:41:21,040 --> 00:41:24,560 Speaker 2: the other issue of safety. Here we have the I'm 724 00:41:24,600 --> 00:41:27,319 Speaker 2: pretty sure right now the strategic patroleum reserves in this 725 00:41:27,400 --> 00:41:29,680 Speaker 2: country are at the lowest levels, or close to the 726 00:41:29,680 --> 00:41:31,480 Speaker 2: lowest level they've been in my lifetime. 727 00:41:32,000 --> 00:41:35,560 Speaker 4: Yeah, it's forty or fifty years since the strategic petroleum 728 00:41:35,600 --> 00:41:39,200 Speaker 4: reserve has been this low. And the Biden administration is 729 00:41:39,200 --> 00:41:41,920 Speaker 4: talking about releasing a bunch more oil right before the election, 730 00:41:42,400 --> 00:41:45,040 Speaker 4: try to just goose the economy and cause gas prices 731 00:41:45,040 --> 00:41:47,440 Speaker 4: to drop just a little bit because they think voters 732 00:41:47,440 --> 00:41:50,319 Speaker 4: are stupid. It's the same thing they're doing with their 733 00:41:50,400 --> 00:41:53,640 Speaker 4: fake student loan forgiveness. Remember they did that before the 734 00:41:53,640 --> 00:41:55,719 Speaker 4: twenty twenty two election. They knew it was illegal, they 735 00:41:55,760 --> 00:41:57,440 Speaker 4: knew the courts would strike it down, but they thought 736 00:41:57,520 --> 00:41:58,360 Speaker 4: voters were stupid. 737 00:41:58,640 --> 00:41:59,480 Speaker 3: They're doing it again. 738 00:41:59,560 --> 00:42:01,200 Speaker 4: They know what illegal, they know the courts are going 739 00:42:01,200 --> 00:42:03,520 Speaker 4: to strike it down, but they're trying to fool that. 740 00:42:03,640 --> 00:42:06,000 Speaker 4: They do not have a high impression of young people. 741 00:42:06,640 --> 00:42:09,640 Speaker 4: The same thing with releasing oil to lower the gas prices. 742 00:42:09,640 --> 00:42:13,400 Speaker 4: They think people will forget. But let me say two things. 743 00:42:13,440 --> 00:42:17,719 Speaker 4: In terms of Russia passing the United States as the 744 00:42:17,760 --> 00:42:21,720 Speaker 4: supplier of gas to Europe number one when it comes 745 00:42:21,719 --> 00:42:24,759 Speaker 4: to inflation. You know, as you know last Thursday, Donald 746 00:42:24,800 --> 00:42:26,680 Speaker 4: Trump came to d C. I had lunch with him 747 00:42:26,680 --> 00:42:29,600 Speaker 4: along with all the other Senate Republicans. We spent a 748 00:42:29,640 --> 00:42:32,120 Speaker 4: good chunk of the lunch talking about inflation and talking 749 00:42:32,160 --> 00:42:34,640 Speaker 4: about the Americans who are hurt by inflation. And Trump 750 00:42:35,080 --> 00:42:39,280 Speaker 4: rightly focused on that energy is a huge driver of inflation, 751 00:42:39,440 --> 00:42:42,520 Speaker 4: not just in terms of the bills people pay, whether 752 00:42:42,600 --> 00:42:46,399 Speaker 4: it's their their natural gas bill, or their heating oil bill, 753 00:42:46,480 --> 00:42:50,120 Speaker 4: or their their gasoline bill. But energy is a huge 754 00:42:50,200 --> 00:42:52,319 Speaker 4: driver of the cost of everything else. It's a huge 755 00:42:52,400 --> 00:42:55,239 Speaker 4: driver of the cost of food, whether it is the 756 00:42:55,640 --> 00:42:59,239 Speaker 4: the the oil and gas products that go into fertilizers, 757 00:42:59,239 --> 00:43:01,600 Speaker 4: so that drives up the cost of growing food, or 758 00:43:01,640 --> 00:43:04,239 Speaker 4: whether it is the cost of transporting food all of that, 759 00:43:04,360 --> 00:43:06,600 Speaker 4: or whether it's the cost of refrigerating food in the 760 00:43:06,600 --> 00:43:07,360 Speaker 4: grocery store. 761 00:43:07,760 --> 00:43:09,560 Speaker 3: All of that drives up inflation. 762 00:43:09,680 --> 00:43:12,239 Speaker 4: And so one of the things Trump committed to, and 763 00:43:12,280 --> 00:43:14,920 Speaker 4: I will work hand in hand with them, is leading 764 00:43:14,960 --> 00:43:17,719 Speaker 4: the effort we're going to produce energy here at home, 765 00:43:17,800 --> 00:43:22,240 Speaker 4: and that's going to drive inflation way way down. Biden, 766 00:43:22,239 --> 00:43:25,680 Speaker 4: Inflation is hurting Americans across this country. But let me 767 00:43:25,680 --> 00:43:30,399 Speaker 4: say a second point. Ben, the one justification Democrats could 768 00:43:30,480 --> 00:43:34,440 Speaker 4: try to give. Let's say, for halting liquid natural gas exports, 769 00:43:35,120 --> 00:43:38,320 Speaker 4: is well, yes it hurts jobs, Yes it hurts national security. 770 00:43:38,400 --> 00:43:40,880 Speaker 4: Yes it hurts our allies. Yes it benefits our enemies. 771 00:43:40,880 --> 00:43:44,640 Speaker 4: But they might say, we're doing it because of the environment. 772 00:43:44,680 --> 00:43:46,760 Speaker 4: We're doing it because mother Earth. We're doing it because 773 00:43:46,800 --> 00:43:48,680 Speaker 4: the world is going to end in twelve years. As 774 00:43:48,719 --> 00:43:52,080 Speaker 4: an aside, you notice how it's always twelve years. Forty 775 00:43:52,120 --> 00:43:54,000 Speaker 4: years ago. The world was going to end in twelve years. 776 00:43:54,200 --> 00:43:55,680 Speaker 4: Thirty years ago, the world was going to able to 777 00:43:55,800 --> 00:43:58,279 Speaker 4: end in twelve years. Five years ago, the world was 778 00:43:58,280 --> 00:44:00,000 Speaker 4: going to end in twelve years. The twelve years never 779 00:44:00,040 --> 00:44:02,640 Speaker 4: seems to advance. And next year, my prediction is the 780 00:44:02,640 --> 00:44:04,480 Speaker 4: world's going to end in twelve years. Because that's their 781 00:44:04,480 --> 00:44:10,000 Speaker 4: talking point. But let's say you believed it halting LNG 782 00:44:10,239 --> 00:44:15,040 Speaker 4: sales hurts the environment. Why because it's not like the 783 00:44:15,080 --> 00:44:18,200 Speaker 4: Europeans suddenly say, Okay, we're not going to heat our homes, 784 00:44:18,239 --> 00:44:20,000 Speaker 4: we'll just freeze to death in the winter. We don't 785 00:44:20,040 --> 00:44:22,160 Speaker 4: love our kids, so we'll just let them die. No, 786 00:44:23,080 --> 00:44:25,120 Speaker 4: they're going to heat their homes, So what are they 787 00:44:25,120 --> 00:44:27,120 Speaker 4: going to do? They're doing what they're doing right now, 788 00:44:27,760 --> 00:44:29,600 Speaker 4: which is if they don't buy it from America, they 789 00:44:29,640 --> 00:44:31,440 Speaker 4: buy it from Russia, they buy it from Iran, they 790 00:44:31,480 --> 00:44:34,240 Speaker 4: buy it from Venezuela. They buy it from our enemies. 791 00:44:34,280 --> 00:44:37,520 Speaker 4: And every one of them produces oil and natural gas 792 00:44:37,960 --> 00:44:41,839 Speaker 4: much much dirtier than we do. Or secondly, they do 793 00:44:41,880 --> 00:44:44,520 Speaker 4: what Germany has done, they shift from natural gas to 794 00:44:44,640 --> 00:44:48,800 Speaker 4: coal for electricity production. That pollutes much more and emids 795 00:44:48,920 --> 00:44:54,120 Speaker 4: much more carbon dioxide. So this policy is hurting everybody, 796 00:44:54,160 --> 00:44:55,320 Speaker 4: including the environment. 797 00:44:55,520 --> 00:44:58,800 Speaker 2: Yeah, I never forget that they're spending your money like crazy, 798 00:44:58,880 --> 00:45:02,640 Speaker 2: sending money to you while also helping fund with these 799 00:45:02,680 --> 00:45:06,360 Speaker 2: policies exactly what Vladimir Putin needs, and that is a 800 00:45:06,440 --> 00:45:10,960 Speaker 2: war chest for his military attack on Ukraine, all because 801 00:45:11,000 --> 00:45:13,680 Speaker 2: we're allowing them to be the big player. Don't forget. 802 00:45:13,760 --> 00:45:16,440 Speaker 2: We do the show Monday, Wednesday and Friday. 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