WEBVTT - Qatar’s Billion‑Dollar Influence Machine, Clarence Thomas Challenges Progressivism & the Liberal Heckler’s Veto Playbook Week In Review 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:00.600 Welcome. 0:00:00.640 --> 0:00:03.720 It is Verdict with Ted CRU's weekend Review. Ben Ferguson 0:00:03.760 --> 0:00:05.320 with you, and here are the stories that we talked 0:00:05.320 --> 0:00:07.720 about this week that you may have missed. First up, 0:00:08.119 --> 0:00:12.560 Katar spending serious money to hire pr firms in America 0:00:12.800 --> 0:00:16.960 to cover for them. We expose it all. Also, Senator 0:00:17.040 --> 0:00:19.960 Cruz talks about his new book and it's an incredible 0:00:20.079 --> 0:00:24.079 interview that he has done over hours with Clarence Thomas, 0:00:24.120 --> 0:00:26.680 the Supreme Court Justice. So what is the book about. 0:00:26.720 --> 0:00:31.479 We'll explain it. And finally, law school students decided to 0:00:32.040 --> 0:00:36.840 not allow a fellow lawyer to actually speak on campus 0:00:37.200 --> 0:00:40.360 should they have the chance to actually even become lawyers 0:00:40.640 --> 0:00:43.360 or ever sit on a bench as a judge. We'll 0:00:43.360 --> 0:00:45.879 break that down for you as well. It's the weekend 0:00:45.920 --> 0:00:48.959 Review and it starts right now. I want to move 0:00:49.000 --> 0:00:51.800 to Katar real quick, and that is another big story here. 0:00:52.200 --> 0:00:55.200 Katar is a country that's very interesting how they spend 0:00:55.240 --> 0:00:59.080 their money. They certainly do it to influence our opinion 0:00:59.200 --> 0:01:02.000 of them as a name. That is something that's very 0:01:02.000 --> 0:01:04.600 important to them. And they spend millions and millions and 0:01:04.600 --> 0:01:07.440 millions of dollars on our universities trying to gain favor, 0:01:07.800 --> 0:01:09.840 to have people think of them in a positive light. 0:01:10.560 --> 0:01:15.000 Qatar is now hiring pr firms, big ones in DC 0:01:16.160 --> 0:01:19.120 to help cover and to whitewash them right now with 0:01:19.240 --> 0:01:23.080 their supportive terrorist activities in the Middle East. Let's just 0:01:23.240 --> 0:01:25.880 expose that for everybody right now so you understand. And plus, 0:01:25.920 --> 0:01:27.800 Guitar has been interesting because it also deals with our 0:01:27.840 --> 0:01:29.760 friend guy by the Navi, Tucker Carlson. 0:01:30.480 --> 0:01:34.160 Yeah. Look, Qatar is the number one foreign funder of 0:01:34.280 --> 0:01:35.320 US universities. 0:01:35.560 --> 0:01:38.039 And to get more than China, by the way, which 0:01:38.080 --> 0:01:41.240 is something that is a point that a massive asterisk, 0:01:41.319 --> 0:01:43.680 because China's also tried to buy a significant amount of 0:01:43.680 --> 0:01:46.160 influence in the US and our universities as well. And 0:01:46.240 --> 0:01:49.880 think about the size of China and compare it to Qatar, 0:01:50.720 --> 0:01:53.960 And that tells you just how important Guitar believes getting 0:01:54.000 --> 0:01:56.480 the minds of our kids and our colleges to look 0:01:56.520 --> 0:01:58.080 at them in some way a positive way. 0:01:59.600 --> 0:02:02.200 Let's give give you a sense of the scope. The 0:02:02.320 --> 0:02:06.280 number one foreign donor to US university's is Cutter between 0:02:06.440 --> 0:02:09.720 nineteen eighty six and two thousand and five. What do 0:02:09.760 --> 0:02:10.760 you think they've given. 0:02:11.360 --> 0:02:12.399 I want to say billions? 0:02:12.480 --> 0:02:16.640 Is that too much, seven point seven billion with a 0:02:16.680 --> 0:02:18.680 bre you go, yeah, you know how much they gave 0:02:18.720 --> 0:02:19.880 in twenty twenty five? 0:02:20.480 --> 0:02:21.040 How much? 0:02:21.320 --> 0:02:25.000 Over one billion? Yeah, they are flooding cash. Number two 0:02:26.000 --> 0:02:27.480 is China. Where do you think China is? 0:02:28.280 --> 0:02:31.120 I'm going to guess a little bit below them, but 0:02:31.200 --> 0:02:32.280 definitely close to a billion. 0:02:33.000 --> 0:02:36.400 Well, in terms of the overall twenty five I'll give 0:02:36.400 --> 0:02:38.239 you the twenty five numbers in a second. In terms 0:02:38.320 --> 0:02:41.160 of the window eighty six to present, the total is 0:02:41.200 --> 0:02:42.360 six point four billion. 0:02:42.800 --> 0:02:43.240 There you go. 0:02:44.040 --> 0:02:47.840 The next ones or Saudi Arabia, the United Kingdom, Germany 0:02:47.880 --> 0:02:53.040 and Canada. Now what about this last year? The most 0:02:53.040 --> 0:02:56.960 recent disclosures from twenty twenty five and identify cutter over 0:02:57.000 --> 0:03:01.519 one point one billion, the United Kingdom over six hundred 0:03:01.520 --> 0:03:04.920 and thirty three million, China over five hundred and twenty 0:03:04.960 --> 0:03:08.639 eight million, Switzerland over four hundred and fifty one million, 0:03:09.320 --> 0:03:13.600 Japan over three hundred and seventy four million, Germany over 0:03:13.639 --> 0:03:18.440 two hundred and ninety two million, and Saudi Arabia over 0:03:18.440 --> 0:03:22.720 two hundred eighty five million. The top university recipients of 0:03:22.760 --> 0:03:26.600 those foreign funds in twenty twenty five are Carnegie Mellon 0:03:26.720 --> 0:03:32.119 almost a billion dollars, MIT almost a billion dollars, Stanford 0:03:32.240 --> 0:03:36.080 over seven hundred and seventy five million, and Harvard University 0:03:37.040 --> 0:03:39.480 over three hundred and twenty four million. And if you 0:03:39.520 --> 0:03:42.000 look at the entire window from nineteen eighty six to 0:03:42.040 --> 0:03:46.279 the end of twenty twenty five, Harvard University is disclosed 0:03:46.320 --> 0:03:50.400 that it has received more money from counterparties located in 0:03:50.520 --> 0:03:53.800 countries of concern, which are countries that are enemies of 0:03:53.840 --> 0:03:59.800 America than any other institution of higher education, totaling over 0:03:59.800 --> 0:04:03.480 six hundred and ten million dollars, and Harvard is followed 0:04:03.480 --> 0:04:07.600 by MIT four hundred and ninety million, n YU four 0:04:07.720 --> 0:04:11.480 hundred and sixty two million, Stanford four hundred and eighteen million, 0:04:11.560 --> 0:04:14.640 and Yale University over four hundred million. 0:04:14.720 --> 0:04:18.159 By the way, translation, our universities are for sale to 0:04:18.200 --> 0:04:19.440 the people that hate America the. 0:04:19.400 --> 0:04:23.680 Most they are and the list of those universities that 0:04:24.520 --> 0:04:27.120 receive the most money from the countries that hate us 0:04:27.160 --> 0:04:30.599 are almost exactly the list of the universities that had 0:04:30.600 --> 0:04:33.400 the worst anti Semitic protest. I mean, Cutter knows what 0:04:33.440 --> 0:04:39.280 it's getting. Seven point seven million dollars ain't cheap. And 0:04:40.440 --> 0:04:44.560 you know what is is fascinating on this also is 0:04:44.600 --> 0:04:48.440 you look at all the countries that invest real money, 0:04:49.560 --> 0:04:53.000 and if you look at that, the number one is Cutter, who, 0:04:53.000 --> 0:04:56.719 among other things, fund from US. Do you know who 0:04:56.760 --> 0:04:59.920 is what country is not on the top seventy countries? 0:05:00.920 --> 0:05:01.480 What is that? 0:05:01.960 --> 0:05:05.200 Israel? Yeah, And I just want to say, for all 0:05:05.200 --> 0:05:08.160 the knuckleheads online or it's like, oh, Israel runs everything, 0:05:08.240 --> 0:05:11.160 Israel's paying for everything. Israel's the money bags. 0:05:11.960 --> 0:05:12.880 They're buying influence. 0:05:12.960 --> 0:05:15.920 Yeah, it actually is really funny if you look at 0:05:15.920 --> 0:05:17.839 the list of countries, I'm just going to read it 0:05:17.880 --> 0:05:19.560 in descending order because I'm going to show you all 0:05:19.560 --> 0:05:22.480 the countries that put more money in US universities than 0:05:22.520 --> 0:05:30.560 Israel does. Cutter, England, China, Saudi Arabia, Bermuda, Canada, Bermuda, 0:05:30.920 --> 0:05:39.239 Hong Kong, Japan, Switzerland, India, Germany, the United Arab Emirates, France, Singapore, Australia, Kuwait, Denmark, 0:05:39.279 --> 0:05:43.960 the Netherlands, Brazil, Sweden, South Korea, Spain, Norway, Thailand. Is 0:05:44.360 --> 0:05:48.440 there is Israel. I'm sorry, I misspoke. Israel falls right 0:05:48.560 --> 0:05:54.400 below Thailand and below even Bermuda. There you go, that's 0:05:54.440 --> 0:05:58.920 where they fall. And I separately jumped online on AI 0:05:59.680 --> 0:06:03.400 to ask, you know, just how where does Israel rank 0:06:03.440 --> 0:06:06.200 as a foreign funder of US universities? And the answer 0:06:06.320 --> 0:06:10.200 from Google AI Israel is not a top tier foreign 0:06:10.200 --> 0:06:13.719 funder of US universities by volume. Well, Middle Eastern nations 0:06:13.720 --> 0:06:17.560 like Cutter in Saudi Arabia have donated billions. Israel's contributed 0:06:17.560 --> 0:06:20.760 significantly less, with estimates of roughly three hundred million in 0:06:20.800 --> 0:06:24.160 donations over the past twenty five years, often focused on 0:06:24.240 --> 0:06:27.880 specific research or academic partnerships. And so it just just 0:06:28.000 --> 0:06:33.320 worth underscoring because if you live in the twisted world 0:06:33.320 --> 0:06:37.840 of Twitter yeah and Twitter comments, you think Israel's pay 0:06:38.000 --> 0:06:39.120 for everything? Yeah? 0:06:39.279 --> 0:06:42.240 Yeah, And I think they'd be ten x Qatar or 0:06:42.240 --> 0:06:43.080 any other country. 0:06:43.520 --> 0:06:46.400 So there's a reason Cutter has hired these two Washington 0:06:46.440 --> 0:06:49.480 PR firms. So one of the firms, it's the Qatar Foundation, 0:06:49.600 --> 0:06:53.719 a state run nonprofit that Doha uses to pedal influence 0:06:53.720 --> 0:06:58.480 at American higher education, hired the Washington Media Group at 0:06:58.480 --> 0:07:02.040 a rate of forty thousand per month. So good business 0:07:02.080 --> 0:07:07.000 to be a lobbyist to provide quote strategic communications support 0:07:07.680 --> 0:07:12.040 that enhance public understanding of its long standing academic partnerships 0:07:12.440 --> 0:07:17.080 with US universities located in Education City, Cutter. According to 0:07:17.120 --> 0:07:20.160 the firm's March thirtieth federal disclosion registering it as a 0:07:20.200 --> 0:07:25.880 foreign agent. The Washington Media Group describes itself as quote, 0:07:25.880 --> 0:07:30.400 a female and minority owned company that crafts solutions to 0:07:30.480 --> 0:07:36.360 high profile crises and protects and repairs reputations. Its CEO 0:07:36.880 --> 0:07:40.560 and president and the agent listed on the contract with 0:07:40.640 --> 0:07:45.000 the Cutter Foundation is a woman named Crystal Patterson, who 0:07:45.040 --> 0:07:48.040 has a long history of running digital strategy and communication 0:07:48.560 --> 0:07:53.520 for Democrats such as Hillary Clinton, Ted Kennedy, and former Rep. 0:07:53.560 --> 0:07:55.760 Tim Ryan. She worked for the left wing Center for 0:07:55.800 --> 0:08:02.400 American Progress, focusing on quote, immigration and diversity policy. According 0:08:02.400 --> 0:08:05.080 to her bio, in other words, immigration let in more 0:08:05.200 --> 0:08:08.680 anti American Islamists who hate America, so then they can 0:08:08.720 --> 0:08:11.800 destroy America like sadly they're destroying many of the countries 0:08:12.600 --> 0:08:15.640 of Europe. She also is a graduate of Northwestern University, 0:08:16.080 --> 0:08:21.400 which boasts a campus in Doha in Cutter that holds 0:08:21.400 --> 0:08:26.559 a contract with Cutter forbidding its students and faculty from 0:08:26.560 --> 0:08:32.520 criticizing the Katari regime. Let me repeat that Northwestern has 0:08:32.559 --> 0:08:36.839 a campus and Cutter that holds a contract with Cutter 0:08:37.600 --> 0:08:42.400 forbidding its students and faculties from criticizing the Katari regime. 0:08:43.360 --> 0:08:45.679 It makes sense. That's money well spent right there. 0:08:45.920 --> 0:08:50.559 Look, you can't bite the hand that feeds you. The 0:08:50.640 --> 0:08:54.400 Cutter Foundation also retained the law firm Venable at a 0:08:54.440 --> 0:08:57.520 monthly rate of twenty five thousand dollars for government relations 0:08:57.559 --> 0:09:01.400 services quote pertaining to the public profile of the foundation. 0:09:02.320 --> 0:09:05.839 Thenable will quote help ensure that members of Congress and 0:09:05.880 --> 0:09:10.319 the Administration have an accurate understanding of Cutter foundation support 0:09:10.400 --> 0:09:14.040 for education and it's work with US universities. You know what, 0:09:14.360 --> 0:09:17.079 the fact that they're freaking out and hiring lobbyists is 0:09:17.120 --> 0:09:20.080 a good thing because people are onto them. By the way, 0:09:20.080 --> 0:09:22.440 these are the same guys that host the leadership of 0:09:22.480 --> 0:09:26.120 Hamas in Cutter. They live like billionaires, they live like kings. 0:09:26.480 --> 0:09:31.960 They fund Al Jazeera. They're spreading Islamus propaganda, They're supporting 0:09:31.960 --> 0:09:35.800 the Muslim Brotherhood. They're spreading anti American garbage, they're spreading 0:09:35.800 --> 0:09:40.359 anti Semitic garbage. They're funding these violent radicals on campuses, 0:09:40.440 --> 0:09:43.679 these communists on campus. By the way, and I will say, 0:09:44.400 --> 0:09:48.600 you know what, Cutter also funded what's the head spies 0:09:48.640 --> 0:09:52.120 spying on me. It's been publicly reported they hired spies. 0:09:52.520 --> 0:09:54.720 They look they wanted to know what you were doing, sir. 0:09:55.080 --> 0:09:57.120 Yeah, I got to say, my life's pretty boring. So 0:09:57.320 --> 0:10:01.040 you know, if you want to see me at home 0:10:01.160 --> 0:10:03.600 at at at what time? Is it midnight? 0:10:03.720 --> 0:10:06.760 Yeah, it's it's it's one in the morning, service one 0:10:06.800 --> 0:10:09.599 in the morning. I hired me for fifty grand I 0:10:09.640 --> 0:10:10.880 would have told him what you were doing at one 0:10:10.920 --> 0:10:11.600 in the morning doing. 0:10:12.760 --> 0:10:16.080 Yeah, No, it's it's really exciting. There is you know, 0:10:16.200 --> 0:10:18.960 Heidi and the girls are sound asleep, and I'm in 0:10:19.080 --> 0:10:21.720 the room sadly not too far from the cat litter 0:10:21.800 --> 0:10:25.360 for for our cats that that that that Carolina doors, 0:10:25.720 --> 0:10:28.880 so that their spies I think are pretty bored right now. 0:10:29.040 --> 0:10:31.439 Now, if you want to hear the rest of this conversation, 0:10:31.679 --> 0:10:34.040 you can go back and listen to the full podcast 0:10:34.120 --> 0:10:37.880 from earlier this week. Now onto story number two. 0:10:38.280 --> 0:10:38.640 All right. 0:10:38.880 --> 0:10:43.880 Last week Clarence Thomas gave a speech at the University 0:10:43.880 --> 0:10:48.440 of Texas and the speech was positively magisterial. In fact, 0:10:48.520 --> 0:10:51.040 I texted Justice Thomas and I told him thank you 0:10:51.120 --> 0:10:52.920 that that was an important speech. 0:10:52.960 --> 0:10:54.120 It was beautifully done. 0:10:55.280 --> 0:10:57.440 I want to play a minute of the speech so 0:10:57.480 --> 0:11:01.240 you can hear. Because this was this really sort of 0:11:01.320 --> 0:11:04.840 encapsulates who he is. I was proud of UT for 0:11:04.920 --> 0:11:08.480 inviting him. I think the student body, those in attendance 0:11:08.480 --> 0:11:12.120 were enraptured. Give a listen. Listen to what Justice Thomas 0:11:12.160 --> 0:11:14.000 said last week in a speech at UT. 0:11:15.200 --> 0:11:20.600 There isn't a single judge I know who does hard 0:11:20.720 --> 0:11:23.040 things because they get joy out of it. They do 0:11:23.160 --> 0:11:26.160 hard things because they signed up to do hard things. 0:11:26.720 --> 0:11:29.920 And they may not agree with it, and it may 0:11:29.960 --> 0:11:32.720 be difficult, they may think it's not a great law. 0:11:33.440 --> 0:11:37.559 But their job as Article three judges is to enforce 0:11:37.640 --> 0:11:40.080 the law, to interpret it, and to apply it to 0:11:40.120 --> 0:11:43.880 that particular case. When I first became a judge, judge 0:11:43.920 --> 0:11:50.760 Larry Siverman, who's unfortunately passed away, said, ask yourself before 0:11:50.840 --> 0:11:54.880 each case, what is my role in this case as 0:11:54.920 --> 0:11:58.480 a judge? Notice how that limits you, not as a person, 0:11:58.960 --> 0:12:02.600 not as a Catholic, not as a policy maker, not 0:12:02.679 --> 0:12:07.680 as a husband, as a judge. And that is early 0:12:07.760 --> 0:12:09.400 on that required more. 0:12:09.200 --> 0:12:14.760 Discipline, more discipline. Yeah, that's a great way of putting 0:12:14.760 --> 0:12:19.240 that from Krarence Thomas are and you said earlier being 0:12:19.280 --> 0:12:21.280 a kid in the audience at UT getting to hear 0:12:21.320 --> 0:12:23.679 this conversation truly an incredible moment. 0:12:24.080 --> 0:12:25.960 And I will say when he's talking about being a 0:12:26.040 --> 0:12:28.079 judge and more discipline, a lot of what I talk 0:12:28.120 --> 0:12:30.800 about in the book is his approach to being a 0:12:30.920 --> 0:12:35.160 judge and it's very much Look his grandfather, he was 0:12:35.240 --> 0:12:39.200 raised by his grandfather. His grandfather worked him hard, yea. 0:12:39.720 --> 0:12:42.920 He worked. He worked delivering fuel oil, he worked on 0:12:42.960 --> 0:12:45.200 the farm, he helped build their home on the farm. 0:12:45.520 --> 0:12:51.679 He worked his fingers literally bloody. His grandfather during the 0:12:52.080 --> 0:12:55.720 bitter cold of the winter, would not let Clarence Thomas 0:12:55.720 --> 0:12:58.360 wear gloves because he thought gloves made you soft. He 0:12:58.440 --> 0:13:02.000 wanted to make him a strong and tough and discipline. 0:13:02.040 --> 0:13:04.720 And part of what Clarence Stemas does, yes. 0:13:06.320 --> 0:13:09.640 The school of hard knocks mentality behind a lot of 0:13:09.720 --> 0:13:13.680 great men. They had really tough people in their life 0:13:13.679 --> 0:13:15.240 that made them into great men. 0:13:15.400 --> 0:13:18.600 And that's an example of that well. And Clarence Thomas 0:13:18.600 --> 0:13:21.360 had enormous expectations on him and his approach to being 0:13:21.400 --> 0:13:24.640 a justice. There are a lot of justices who use 0:13:24.760 --> 0:13:27.000 much more high falut and rhetoric. You look at Clarence 0:13:27.040 --> 0:13:30.800 Thomas opinions. They're plain spoken, they're very matter of fact 0:13:30.880 --> 0:13:34.319 that they are designed so they can be read by 0:13:34.360 --> 0:13:37.320 every man, so they can and look, he was growing 0:13:37.400 --> 0:13:40.760 up in Georgia with a lot of poor African Americans 0:13:40.800 --> 0:13:43.839 surrounding them, many of whom were illiterate. His grandparents who 0:13:43.920 --> 0:13:49.160 raised him were almost functionally illiterate. They had very limited 0:13:49.200 --> 0:13:52.240 reading skills. And so he tries to write his opinions 0:13:52.240 --> 0:13:55.520 in a way that they are accessible, they're straightforward, and 0:13:55.559 --> 0:13:59.120 he approaches each opinion. I use the analogy in the book. 0:13:59.360 --> 0:14:02.320 It's like a carpenter. It's like someone building a home. 0:14:02.600 --> 0:14:05.839 He lays the foundation, he frames the house. He does 0:14:05.880 --> 0:14:08.760 it peace after peace, trying to get to the truth. 0:14:09.320 --> 0:14:12.680 And the title of the book, going further. If you 0:14:12.800 --> 0:14:15.400 look at thirty plus years of Clarence Thomas's time on 0:14:15.440 --> 0:14:19.400 the Court, his consistent theme is we should go further. 0:14:19.520 --> 0:14:22.120 That's a quote from his dissent in the term limits case. 0:14:22.800 --> 0:14:27.120 But it is a theme that other great conservative justices 0:14:27.160 --> 0:14:31.000 would say, let's do X, and he would say, no, 0:14:31.520 --> 0:14:34.800 let's go further. And his focus is let's get back 0:14:35.080 --> 0:14:37.840 to the original understanding of the Constitution. Let's go all 0:14:37.880 --> 0:14:41.720 the way and the impact he has had has changed 0:14:42.200 --> 0:14:45.120 law profoundly. And I want you to listen to him 0:14:45.120 --> 0:14:49.560 again at ut last week talking about the importance of 0:14:49.600 --> 0:14:53.560 the Constitution but also the importance of the Declaration of Independence, 0:14:53.560 --> 0:14:57.640 and I think Clarence Thomas emphasizes and highlights the Declaration 0:14:57.840 --> 0:14:59.800 more than any other. Justice Here, give a listen. 0:15:01.520 --> 0:15:07.040 None of our rights come from the government. All of 0:15:07.080 --> 0:15:13.280 the government's authority comes from our consent, and the structure 0:15:13.440 --> 0:15:17.680 and limited role of government is to assure that it 0:15:17.720 --> 0:15:22.080 does not exceed the authority to which we have consented 0:15:22.880 --> 0:15:28.600 or intrude on our natural rights. The Constitution is the 0:15:28.640 --> 0:15:33.480 means of government. It is the declaration that announces the 0:15:33.600 --> 0:15:40.080 ends of government. The Constitution achieves this purpose by protecting 0:15:40.240 --> 0:15:45.640 our natural rights and our liberties from concentrated power and 0:15:45.760 --> 0:15:52.720 excessive democracy. Our Constitution creates a separation of powers and 0:15:52.840 --> 0:15:57.600 federalism truly for the first time in modern history, to 0:15:57.760 --> 0:16:03.360 prevent the government from becoming so strong that it threatens 0:16:03.520 --> 0:16:04.720 our natural rights. 0:16:07.480 --> 0:16:10.080 He takes his time, and that's one of the things 0:16:10.360 --> 0:16:11.280 he doesn't wing it. 0:16:11.400 --> 0:16:13.240 He understood putting on a show speaks. 0:16:13.480 --> 0:16:16.520 Yeah, he's these words are deliberate, and you can tell 0:16:16.560 --> 0:16:20.480 that he has just an incredible amount of passion and 0:16:20.640 --> 0:16:23.440 care for this country. And I also think when you 0:16:23.480 --> 0:16:26.680 get a little bit older, you probably are thinking about 0:16:26.680 --> 0:16:28.920 your legacy and what you're leaving behind. And he clearly 0:16:28.960 --> 0:16:31.120 speaks that way to those students, going, Hey, I'm not 0:16:31.160 --> 0:16:34.520 always going to be here being a shepherd. Somebody else 0:16:34.640 --> 0:16:36.320 is going to have to step forward and do this, 0:16:36.400 --> 0:16:39.400 and it may take a lot of people to accomplish 0:16:39.400 --> 0:16:40.440 what he's done in his lifetime. 0:16:40.840 --> 0:16:43.160 Well, and I'll tell you again. In that ut speech, 0:16:43.200 --> 0:16:46.560 he contrasts the principles of the Declaration of Independence, the 0:16:46.560 --> 0:16:51.000 principles of the Constitution, the immutable principles upon which our 0:16:51.040 --> 0:16:56.080 country was founded. He contrasts them with progressivism. And progressivism 0:16:56.240 --> 0:16:58.400 I think has been a poison that that that has 0:16:58.480 --> 0:17:02.560 led the United States a very dangerous direction. Listened to justice, 0:17:02.600 --> 0:17:03.480 Thomas draw in that. 0:17:03.440 --> 0:17:08.800 Contrast, progressivism seeks to replace the basic premises of the 0:17:08.840 --> 0:17:14.639 Declaration of Independence and hence our form of government. It 0:17:14.720 --> 0:17:18.200 holds that our rights and our dignities come not from 0:17:18.240 --> 0:17:23.000 God but from government. It requires of the people a 0:17:23.080 --> 0:17:29.119 subservience and weakness incompatible with a constitution premise on the 0:17:29.200 --> 0:17:32.240 transcendent origin of our rights. 0:17:32.760 --> 0:17:36.119 Wow. I mean wow, what else can you say besides wow? 0:17:37.640 --> 0:17:40.320 And by the way, you might say, well, gosh, is 0:17:40.760 --> 0:17:44.480 progressivism really at war with the principles of the Declaration 0:17:44.520 --> 0:17:46.879 of Independence. You may remember last year at a Senate 0:17:46.880 --> 0:17:54.040 Formulations committee when Tim Kaine, Democrat from Virginia, was questioning 0:17:54.080 --> 0:17:57.080 a nominee to the State Department of President Trump nominated 0:17:57.080 --> 0:18:01.119 the State Department who had written in his testimony that 0:18:01.240 --> 0:18:04.920 our rights come from God, not government. And Tim kin 0:18:05.480 --> 0:18:08.120 got outraged and he said, that is a radical statement. 0:18:08.160 --> 0:18:11.120 That is a dangerous statement. That is an extreme statement. 0:18:11.680 --> 0:18:14.720 That is the kind of thing theocratic societies like a 0:18:14.880 --> 0:18:19.040 Rand build believe. We don't believe that God doesn't give 0:18:19.119 --> 0:18:21.879 us our rights. Government does. And I walked in right 0:18:21.920 --> 0:18:24.080 as Tim Kaine was saying this, and I had a 0:18:24.080 --> 0:18:27.760 whole line of questioning that I had planned to go 0:18:27.800 --> 0:18:29.280 down on the hearing, and I threw it all in 0:18:29.359 --> 0:18:33.560 the trash, and I spoke shortly after Tim Kaine, and 0:18:33.600 --> 0:18:36.119 I said, you know, Tim Kaine said, the idea that 0:18:36.160 --> 0:18:38.920 our rights come from God is a radical and dangerous 0:18:38.920 --> 0:18:42.240 and extreme idea. And he's right, it is. It also 0:18:42.359 --> 0:18:45.240 happens to be the founding principle upon which our nation 0:18:45.640 --> 0:18:49.240 was created. And I said, listen, if you don't believe me, 0:18:49.600 --> 0:18:52.800 maybe you're inclined. You're politically left of center, and you 0:18:52.800 --> 0:18:56.040 may be inclined not to believe me. If you don't, 0:18:57.119 --> 0:19:02.120 maybe you might believe another Virginian who wrote, we hold 0:19:02.160 --> 0:19:05.159 these rights. We hold these truths to be self evident, 0:19:05.320 --> 0:19:09.120 that all men are created equal, and that they are 0:19:09.240 --> 0:19:15.800 endowed by their creator, not by government, not by the DNC, 0:19:16.520 --> 0:19:20.359 but by God Almighty, with certain unelienable rights. That among 0:19:20.400 --> 0:19:23.680 these are life liberty in the pursuit of happiness. That was, 0:19:23.720 --> 0:19:27.640 of course Thomas Jefferson. That was in the declaration. That's 0:19:27.640 --> 0:19:30.320 what justice Thomas is referring. And part of what was 0:19:30.359 --> 0:19:35.959 so disturbing about Tim Kaine, so cavalierly dismissing the idea 0:19:35.960 --> 0:19:38.639 that our rights come from God and instead insisting they 0:19:38.640 --> 0:19:43.040 come from government. Is Tim Kaine and the Democrat Party 0:19:43.119 --> 0:19:45.920 is not some crazy radical. He's not Bernie Sanders, he's 0:19:45.920 --> 0:19:50.440 not Elizabeth Warren. He was Hillary Clinton's vice presidential nominee. 0:19:50.480 --> 0:19:53.399 He is about as mainstream a Democrat as you can find. 0:19:54.240 --> 0:19:58.200 And it really shows how progressivism has suffused the Democrat 0:19:58.240 --> 0:20:02.320 Party and I got to say at ut last week 0:20:02.400 --> 0:20:07.280 also Justice Thomas talked about the need to engage and 0:20:07.320 --> 0:20:09.440 engage in the fight for truth. Here give a listen. 0:20:10.280 --> 0:20:13.280 I think if we don't stand up and take ownership 0:20:13.320 --> 0:20:16.360 of our country and take responsible for it, we are 0:20:16.400 --> 0:20:20.320 slowly letting others control how we think and what we think. 0:20:22.040 --> 0:20:25.040 I think the beauty of going to school is that 0:20:25.119 --> 0:20:27.720 you learn how to think for yourselves. You develop the 0:20:27.800 --> 0:20:32.480 discipline to think things through you. If you think it's 0:20:32.920 --> 0:20:36.240 losing confidence, then you get up and you participate. You 0:20:36.240 --> 0:20:40.560 don't sit on the sidelines. You think that the that 0:20:40.600 --> 0:20:44.359 the state is being run and inconsistent with how you feel, 0:20:44.560 --> 0:20:48.040 and you get up and you participate. You prepare yourself. 0:20:48.359 --> 0:20:51.800 If you think that the medical profession is not right, 0:20:51.880 --> 0:20:55.760 when you become a doctor or be a medical person 0:20:55.920 --> 0:20:59.199 and you deal with that. I think we need to 0:20:59.240 --> 0:21:01.160 take ownership of our country. 0:21:01.359 --> 0:21:06.000 It's our country, it's our country, and man, you know, 0:21:06.040 --> 0:21:07.679 one of the things he said there that was interesting 0:21:07.720 --> 0:21:09.120 is he said, you know, you go to school to learn, 0:21:09.320 --> 0:21:10.960 you know, to figure out what you believe in, what 0:21:11.000 --> 0:21:13.440 you think, and those of things. I think the last 0:21:13.480 --> 0:21:15.680 and to learn how to think and learn how to think. 0:21:15.760 --> 0:21:18.920 They think, No, No, you come here so we can indoctrinate you, yep, 0:21:19.200 --> 0:21:21.480 and tell you what to think, and tell you what 0:21:21.640 --> 0:21:24.480 to say, and tell you what to protest, and tell 0:21:24.520 --> 0:21:27.840 you what how to act. That is the difference between 0:21:27.840 --> 0:21:31.240 conservatism and liberalism on a college campus. 0:21:31.640 --> 0:21:34.320 Well, let me say this. If you're a young person, 0:21:34.400 --> 0:21:37.960 maybe you're in high school, maybe you're in college. Maybe 0:21:38.000 --> 0:21:41.280 you're a young professional. Maybe you're not that young anymore. 0:21:41.320 --> 0:21:41.800 Maybe you're in. 0:21:41.800 --> 0:21:44.000 Your thirties, or your forties, or your fifties, or maybe 0:21:44.040 --> 0:21:48.760 your sixties, seventy eighty, maybe you're in your nineties. If 0:21:48.800 --> 0:21:53.800 you want a hero, I think you could do a 0:21:53.840 --> 0:21:56.320 lot worse than Clarence Thomas. 0:21:56.840 --> 0:21:58.440 That's a great I'm putting it. 0:21:59.080 --> 0:22:02.720 He is someone. Look, I spent the better part of 0:22:02.720 --> 0:22:06.120 a year writing this book. There's a lot of things 0:22:06.200 --> 0:22:09.520 to devote my time to. The reason I wrote this 0:22:09.600 --> 0:22:12.359 book is I believe this book needed to be written. 0:22:12.440 --> 0:22:15.880 His story needed to be told. His autobiography is great, 0:22:15.920 --> 0:22:18.840 but it was written a long time ago, and a 0:22:18.840 --> 0:22:22.760 lot of people today haven't read it. And his jurisprudence. 0:22:22.800 --> 0:22:25.359 There have been other other books that have been written 0:22:25.400 --> 0:22:29.240 that have been academic discussions of his jurisprudence, and if 0:22:29.320 --> 0:22:32.040 you're a federal judge, if you're a law professor, that 0:22:32.080 --> 0:22:35.600 can be useful. But there's very little in terms of 0:22:35.720 --> 0:22:39.360 if you're just an American who cares about our country, 0:22:39.400 --> 0:22:43.919 who cares about truth, there's very little that explains what 0:22:44.200 --> 0:22:47.120 Clarence Thomas has stood for, what he said when he's 0:22:47.240 --> 0:22:50.600 argued on the court. And this book I've tried to 0:22:50.640 --> 0:22:53.080 do so in a way that it's fun, that is interesting, 0:22:53.119 --> 0:22:57.159 that's telling inside stories. And so again, the website is 0:22:57.200 --> 0:23:00.840 Goingfurther dot Com, Going Further dot Com. I'd encourage you 0:23:00.880 --> 0:23:03.400 if you're listening to this podcast right now, if you're 0:23:03.440 --> 0:23:05.600 watching on YouTube, just click over on your phone to 0:23:05.680 --> 0:23:10.359 Going Further dot Com. Pre order a copy, and you know, 0:23:10.400 --> 0:23:13.920 you may even think about this. Will be August. If 0:23:13.960 --> 0:23:16.600 you have if you have a child, if you have 0:23:16.640 --> 0:23:19.080 a grandchild, if you have relative, you have a friend, 0:23:20.119 --> 0:23:25.240 Birthday's coming up, Christmas is coming up. This book I 0:23:25.359 --> 0:23:27.400 wrote because I want people to read it. I want 0:23:27.400 --> 0:23:30.919 people to read it because I think Clarence Thomas's life, 0:23:31.359 --> 0:23:38.440 his journey, his principles, his commitment to truth, and his courage. 0:23:39.119 --> 0:23:39.800 As before. 0:23:40.000 --> 0:23:41.880 If you want to hear the rest of this conversation 0:23:42.160 --> 0:23:44.480 on this topic, you can go back and dow the 0:23:44.680 --> 0:23:47.200 podcast from earlier this week to hear the entire thing. 0:23:48.520 --> 0:23:50.840