1 00:00:01,120 --> 00:00:01,480 Speaker 1: Welcome. 2 00:00:01,520 --> 00:00:04,200 Speaker 2: It is Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with 3 00:00:04,240 --> 00:00:07,600 Speaker 2: you as always and Senator this is one of those 4 00:00:07,640 --> 00:00:10,720 Speaker 2: shows that I really hope people grab their pins, their 5 00:00:10,760 --> 00:00:14,640 Speaker 2: paper and they're gonna hopefully learn a lot, and it's 6 00:00:14,640 --> 00:00:17,200 Speaker 2: gonna deal with something that we're gonna break down. It's 7 00:00:17,200 --> 00:00:20,440 Speaker 2: the threat of ending the filibuster. Now, people hear that 8 00:00:20,480 --> 00:00:22,200 Speaker 2: word and some of these two like I don't know 9 00:00:22,200 --> 00:00:24,760 Speaker 2: what it means. We're gonna explain it to you and 10 00:00:24,800 --> 00:00:28,520 Speaker 2: what this new threat from Kamala Harris means to this country, 11 00:00:28,800 --> 00:00:31,520 Speaker 2: to the Republic, to democracy in general. 12 00:00:32,120 --> 00:00:33,120 Speaker 1: That's exactly right. 13 00:00:33,680 --> 00:00:37,440 Speaker 3: We are going to explain in this podcast today we 14 00:00:37,479 --> 00:00:40,800 Speaker 3: are less than forty days out from the elections. 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You go back, you're watching an old 61 00:02:51,960 --> 00:02:54,080 Speaker 2: episode of The West Wing, which you and I love, 62 00:02:54,560 --> 00:02:57,200 Speaker 2: but we're political junkies, and a lot of people just 63 00:02:57,240 --> 00:02:59,519 Speaker 2: tune out, like I don't even know what they're talking about. 64 00:02:59,800 --> 00:03:04,239 Speaker 2: So let's break down what the filibuster is, what its 65 00:03:04,280 --> 00:03:06,880 Speaker 2: intent is, why we had it in the first place, 66 00:03:07,120 --> 00:03:09,880 Speaker 2: and then why Kama Harris is threatening to get rid 67 00:03:09,880 --> 00:03:10,120 Speaker 2: of it. 68 00:03:11,400 --> 00:03:15,120 Speaker 3: Well, the filibuster is actually very simple to understand. It 69 00:03:15,240 --> 00:03:18,359 Speaker 3: is the requirement in the US Senate that in order 70 00:03:18,400 --> 00:03:23,320 Speaker 3: to proceed on major legislation, you need sixty votes. You 71 00:03:23,360 --> 00:03:26,520 Speaker 3: can't just proceed with fifty votes, but you need a 72 00:03:26,560 --> 00:03:29,560 Speaker 3: super majority. You need sixty out of one hundred. There 73 00:03:29,560 --> 00:03:32,960 Speaker 3: are one hundred senators, and almost any major legislation to 74 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:35,200 Speaker 3: go forward, you've got to get sixty votes. What it 75 00:03:35,280 --> 00:03:38,920 Speaker 3: forces you to do is on most major issues to 76 00:03:38,920 --> 00:03:44,080 Speaker 3: get bipartisan support. It prevents Democrats when they get in office, 77 00:03:44,120 --> 00:03:48,680 Speaker 3: from enacting a radical agenda. Now there's another meaning of 78 00:03:48,680 --> 00:03:50,920 Speaker 3: the word filibuster. It's the one many people think of, 79 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:53,480 Speaker 3: and they think of the old movie mister Smith goes 80 00:03:53,520 --> 00:03:56,320 Speaker 3: to Washington, and they think of Jimmy Stewart standing on 81 00:03:56,360 --> 00:03:59,000 Speaker 3: the Senate floor and talking and talking and talking. And 82 00:03:59,040 --> 00:04:01,920 Speaker 3: it's true a philibuster. Or you'll recall my first year 83 00:04:01,960 --> 00:04:05,160 Speaker 3: in the Senate, I did a twenty one hour filibuster. 84 00:04:05,280 --> 00:04:07,640 Speaker 3: I stood on the floor of the Senate. I did 85 00:04:07,640 --> 00:04:09,600 Speaker 3: not sit down. I did not leave the floor of 86 00:04:09,640 --> 00:04:12,119 Speaker 3: the Senate. I did not go to the bathroom. That's 87 00:04:12,200 --> 00:04:15,000 Speaker 3: actually the most frequent question I get no, you cannot 88 00:04:15,040 --> 00:04:16,839 Speaker 3: go to the bathroom because you cannot leave the floor 89 00:04:16,880 --> 00:04:20,040 Speaker 3: of the Senate for twenty one hours. 90 00:04:20,279 --> 00:04:22,960 Speaker 2: And a pro tip, right, do not wear cowboy boots. 91 00:04:22,960 --> 00:04:25,320 Speaker 2: I think someone told you that, if I remember the story. 92 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:28,680 Speaker 3: Correctly, well it was actually if you remember in twenty thirteen, 93 00:04:28,880 --> 00:04:31,960 Speaker 3: Ran Paul earlier in the year had done an eleven 94 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:36,200 Speaker 3: hour filibuster and he was sharing some thoughts on it, 95 00:04:36,240 --> 00:04:38,440 Speaker 3: and he said, Number one what he said was wear 96 00:04:38,520 --> 00:04:42,800 Speaker 3: comfortable shoes, which was really good advice. I wear cowboy 97 00:04:42,880 --> 00:04:45,400 Speaker 3: boots almost every single day in the Senate. The day 98 00:04:45,440 --> 00:04:47,839 Speaker 3: of my filibuster, I went the day before and bought 99 00:04:47,880 --> 00:04:50,680 Speaker 3: black tennis shoes, and I wore black tennis shoes. And 100 00:04:50,720 --> 00:04:53,880 Speaker 3: I actually have to admit, ben I confessed on the 101 00:04:53,880 --> 00:04:56,800 Speaker 3: floor of the Senate mid filibuster. I apologized to the 102 00:04:56,839 --> 00:05:01,640 Speaker 3: people of Texas that I lacked to wear my boots 103 00:05:01,680 --> 00:05:03,839 Speaker 3: for twenty one hours and so but the tennis shoes 104 00:05:03,880 --> 00:05:09,120 Speaker 3: did save my calves. The other thing Rand said, and 105 00:05:09,160 --> 00:05:11,600 Speaker 3: this was excellent advice. He said he wasn't taken down 106 00:05:11,680 --> 00:05:13,719 Speaker 3: by his legs, he was taken down by his bladder, 107 00:05:14,480 --> 00:05:17,880 Speaker 3: and that was very good advice. And look I didn't know. 108 00:05:18,000 --> 00:05:19,400 Speaker 3: I don't know if you ever tried to go twenty 109 00:05:19,440 --> 00:05:20,799 Speaker 3: one hours without going to the restroom. 110 00:05:20,839 --> 00:05:23,240 Speaker 1: It's not something long time. That's just a long time. 111 00:05:23,640 --> 00:05:26,520 Speaker 3: So let me give a very simple principle, nothing in, 112 00:05:26,640 --> 00:05:29,479 Speaker 3: nothing out there you go in the entire course of 113 00:05:29,520 --> 00:05:32,279 Speaker 3: twenty one hours. I drank one very small glass of 114 00:05:32,279 --> 00:05:35,400 Speaker 3: water and that that helped. 115 00:05:37,279 --> 00:05:39,920 Speaker 2: But I ask a personal note here, with what point 116 00:05:39,960 --> 00:05:42,880 Speaker 2: were you just looking at the clock? Like when did 117 00:05:42,920 --> 00:05:45,320 Speaker 2: you when was your first time in your head when 118 00:05:45,320 --> 00:05:46,480 Speaker 2: you thought about tapping out? 119 00:05:46,520 --> 00:05:47,839 Speaker 1: How many hours in? I gotta know? 120 00:05:48,400 --> 00:05:52,960 Speaker 3: So actually never, So there was an intense point. So 121 00:05:53,040 --> 00:05:57,160 Speaker 3: I started middle of the afternoon and I went all night, 122 00:05:57,240 --> 00:05:59,640 Speaker 3: and you know, midnight, one, two, and three in the morning. 123 00:05:59,680 --> 00:06:01,839 Speaker 3: About three in the morning, you're a little bit punch drunk, 124 00:06:01,880 --> 00:06:04,880 Speaker 3: and Mike Lee is there, and and he was there, 125 00:06:04,880 --> 00:06:07,119 Speaker 3: and he's a little punch drunk, and you know, we're 126 00:06:07,480 --> 00:06:09,800 Speaker 3: you know, you're just kind of There are points during 127 00:06:09,800 --> 00:06:13,039 Speaker 3: the filibuster where you're just really tired. They had people 128 00:06:13,120 --> 00:06:16,760 Speaker 3: showing up and participating. Now, what you can do in 129 00:06:16,800 --> 00:06:20,120 Speaker 3: a filibuster is you can yield to a question, and 130 00:06:20,160 --> 00:06:22,680 Speaker 3: so one of the ways people will support someone in 131 00:06:22,760 --> 00:06:25,479 Speaker 3: a filibuster is is if I'm standing up there filibustering, 132 00:06:25,520 --> 00:06:28,599 Speaker 3: and let's say Senator Ferguson walks up and can stand 133 00:06:28,640 --> 00:06:31,720 Speaker 3: and say, well, the Senator yield for a question. And 134 00:06:31,760 --> 00:06:34,320 Speaker 3: you can say I will yield for a question without 135 00:06:34,360 --> 00:06:37,240 Speaker 3: yielding the floor. I still have the floor. But what 136 00:06:37,400 --> 00:06:39,479 Speaker 3: someone can do is they can step up and ask 137 00:06:39,520 --> 00:06:43,320 Speaker 3: a thirty minute question and basically give a speech or 138 00:06:43,320 --> 00:06:45,160 Speaker 3: say whatever they want, and then at the end of 139 00:06:45,200 --> 00:06:47,600 Speaker 3: it say wouldn't you agree and hand it back to you. 140 00:06:47,680 --> 00:06:49,960 Speaker 1: So it is a way. Can you sit down? 141 00:06:50,320 --> 00:06:50,360 Speaker 4: No? 142 00:06:50,520 --> 00:06:52,279 Speaker 1: For that, okay, you cannot see it. 143 00:06:52,400 --> 00:06:54,760 Speaker 3: You must stay standing. If you sit down, you have 144 00:06:54,800 --> 00:06:55,640 Speaker 3: yielded the floor. 145 00:06:56,120 --> 00:06:58,320 Speaker 2: Now can you lean on the podium for that thirty 146 00:06:58,320 --> 00:07:01,960 Speaker 2: minute question? Not really okay, but it's just a way 147 00:07:02,000 --> 00:07:04,520 Speaker 2: to just not have to talk. Yeah, it lets you 148 00:07:04,640 --> 00:07:06,960 Speaker 2: rest your voice for a little bit. And so throughout 149 00:07:07,000 --> 00:07:10,400 Speaker 2: the twenty one hour filibuster there were multiple people who 150 00:07:10,480 --> 00:07:14,679 Speaker 2: spelled me and jumped in and gave me a period 151 00:07:14,720 --> 00:07:19,920 Speaker 2: to rest my voice. But so the longest filibuster in 152 00:07:20,040 --> 00:07:22,600 Speaker 2: history was strong thermon against the Civil Rights Act, and 153 00:07:22,680 --> 00:07:27,440 Speaker 2: that's twenty four hours. I wanted to break that record. Unfortunately, 154 00:07:27,480 --> 00:07:32,080 Speaker 2: when I was filibustering, Harry Reid had already entered into 155 00:07:32,200 --> 00:07:37,200 Speaker 2: the Senate floor via unanimous consent, an agreement that at 156 00:07:37,320 --> 00:07:39,960 Speaker 2: noon the next day we would immediately proceed to the 157 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:40,520 Speaker 2: next matter. 158 00:07:41,200 --> 00:07:42,840 Speaker 1: So if you. 159 00:07:42,920 --> 00:07:46,600 Speaker 3: Seize the floor and there's no unanimous consent request in place, 160 00:07:47,200 --> 00:07:49,160 Speaker 3: you can keep the four as long as you want. 161 00:07:50,280 --> 00:07:52,040 Speaker 1: I had do you think you could have made it? 162 00:07:52,280 --> 00:07:54,000 Speaker 1: Yea three more hours? Really? 163 00:07:54,920 --> 00:07:58,360 Speaker 3: So I had locked into the Senate rules an endpoint 164 00:07:58,440 --> 00:08:01,080 Speaker 3: of noon the next day, and I didn't have any 165 00:08:01,120 --> 00:08:04,800 Speaker 3: way to extend it. So at like eleven am, I 166 00:08:04,880 --> 00:08:07,600 Speaker 3: actually had my team go and ask Carrie Reid was 167 00:08:07,600 --> 00:08:11,200 Speaker 3: the majority leader, asked carry Reid's team if they would 168 00:08:11,200 --> 00:08:15,160 Speaker 3: allow me to extend it to break strom Thurman's record, 169 00:08:15,920 --> 00:08:20,000 Speaker 3: and Harry they just said no, They just which I actually, 170 00:08:20,040 --> 00:08:22,880 Speaker 3: I really dislike that the record for the longest filibuster 171 00:08:23,280 --> 00:08:27,120 Speaker 3: is is a Democrat philibustering against the civil rights laws. 172 00:08:27,160 --> 00:08:29,880 Speaker 3: I mean, I think that needs to be broken, and 173 00:08:30,200 --> 00:08:32,319 Speaker 3: I have no doubt at twenty one hours I easily 174 00:08:32,360 --> 00:08:35,680 Speaker 3: could have gone another three hours that that was not 175 00:08:35,760 --> 00:08:36,880 Speaker 3: an issue at that point. 176 00:08:37,040 --> 00:08:39,440 Speaker 2: Did you now you've got a sharp mind and I'm 177 00:08:39,520 --> 00:08:41,440 Speaker 2: asking the question their bails is thinking right now. So 178 00:08:41,440 --> 00:08:42,840 Speaker 2: I'm going to do this because this is so fun 179 00:08:42,840 --> 00:08:45,760 Speaker 2: for me because I'm warning, did your mind start? And 180 00:08:45,800 --> 00:08:47,679 Speaker 2: I'm just talking about how many hours were you up? 181 00:08:47,800 --> 00:08:49,840 Speaker 2: Did you take a nap before you started? 182 00:08:50,040 --> 00:08:53,280 Speaker 3: No crap, Now, it's just just an all nighter. I 183 00:08:53,320 --> 00:08:54,160 Speaker 3: had different material. 184 00:08:54,240 --> 00:08:54,400 Speaker 1: Now. 185 00:08:54,440 --> 00:08:57,960 Speaker 3: Look, I was filibustering about all of the problems of 186 00:08:58,000 --> 00:09:00,760 Speaker 3: Obamacare and how it was hurting Texans and hurting Americans. 187 00:09:00,760 --> 00:09:02,719 Speaker 3: And I was walking through so a lot of the filibuster. 188 00:09:03,200 --> 00:09:07,960 Speaker 3: I'm reading people's examples. I'm talking about how individual people 189 00:09:08,000 --> 00:09:11,720 Speaker 3: are are losing their doctor. Remember Obama lied if you 190 00:09:12,559 --> 00:09:14,520 Speaker 3: want to keep your doctor and keep your doctor, Well, 191 00:09:14,520 --> 00:09:17,080 Speaker 3: that was a lie. Many people could not keep their doctor, 192 00:09:17,280 --> 00:09:19,080 Speaker 3: they could not keep their health insurance. And so I 193 00:09:19,160 --> 00:09:22,240 Speaker 3: was walking through all the examples of how this was 194 00:09:22,320 --> 00:09:26,240 Speaker 3: hurting Americans. I was also during that filibuster, I read 195 00:09:26,280 --> 00:09:28,280 Speaker 3: a number of tweets on the Senate floor. I think 196 00:09:28,280 --> 00:09:30,840 Speaker 3: that's the first time in history tweets have been read 197 00:09:30,880 --> 00:09:33,800 Speaker 3: on the Senate floor. And there was a hashtag that 198 00:09:33,880 --> 00:09:38,280 Speaker 3: trended that was make DC Listen, and it was trending 199 00:09:38,320 --> 00:09:40,440 Speaker 3: globally to use. 200 00:09:40,360 --> 00:09:42,360 Speaker 1: A phone or did someone have to print those. 201 00:09:42,200 --> 00:09:44,280 Speaker 3: Offs that they would print them out and hand them 202 00:09:44,280 --> 00:09:46,160 Speaker 3: to me. And I had staff that was giving me 203 00:09:46,280 --> 00:09:48,720 Speaker 3: materials that would come in. So people would send in 204 00:09:48,800 --> 00:09:51,240 Speaker 3: stories and I'm read them on the Senate floor. People 205 00:09:51,280 --> 00:09:55,920 Speaker 3: would send in tweets. This was also the filibuster where 206 00:09:55,960 --> 00:09:57,880 Speaker 3: you may recall I read greet angs at Ham. 207 00:09:58,520 --> 00:10:00,600 Speaker 1: Now do you know why I I had green eggs 208 00:10:00,600 --> 00:10:00,920 Speaker 1: at Ham? 209 00:10:01,559 --> 00:10:03,839 Speaker 2: It was heared girls right at bedtime, the time you 210 00:10:03,880 --> 00:10:04,840 Speaker 2: would normally. 211 00:10:04,840 --> 00:10:07,400 Speaker 3: That that that that's exactly right. So so it was 212 00:10:07,840 --> 00:10:09,520 Speaker 3: the girls were little. I mean that, I mean that 213 00:10:09,720 --> 00:10:16,320 Speaker 3: they were what uh four and six and uh and 214 00:10:16,440 --> 00:10:20,280 Speaker 3: so three and three and five. They weren't younger than that, 215 00:10:20,280 --> 00:10:21,160 Speaker 3: they were three and five. 216 00:10:21,640 --> 00:10:23,680 Speaker 2: So one of the first things you ever showed me, 217 00:10:23,800 --> 00:10:26,840 Speaker 2: if I'm not mistaken, at your house, is a picture 218 00:10:26,840 --> 00:10:28,880 Speaker 2: of them seeing you on TV. Either you show me 219 00:10:28,920 --> 00:10:31,240 Speaker 2: on your phone or I think it's framed in your house, right. 220 00:10:31,080 --> 00:10:33,560 Speaker 3: And it's not in my house, It's it's in my 221 00:10:33,600 --> 00:10:37,079 Speaker 3: office in DC, and so it is okay. Yeah, So 222 00:10:37,280 --> 00:10:40,360 Speaker 3: what happened when they were little? At night when I 223 00:10:40,440 --> 00:10:42,200 Speaker 3: was home, I would read them bedtime stories and it's 224 00:10:42,240 --> 00:10:43,920 Speaker 3: you know, so it's really fun. I'm sure you read 225 00:10:43,920 --> 00:10:45,920 Speaker 3: your kids bedtime stories. It's a great thing to do. 226 00:10:46,559 --> 00:10:48,719 Speaker 3: And so and I tried to do that every night 227 00:10:48,720 --> 00:10:50,480 Speaker 3: when I was at home, read them bedtime stories. And 228 00:10:50,520 --> 00:10:53,720 Speaker 3: so since I was going, uh, we came up as 229 00:10:53,720 --> 00:10:55,840 Speaker 3: actually guy and my on my team that came up 230 00:10:55,880 --> 00:10:57,240 Speaker 3: with the idea of, well, why don't you read them 231 00:10:57,280 --> 00:10:58,680 Speaker 3: a bedtime story during the filibuster? 232 00:10:59,360 --> 00:11:01,040 Speaker 1: And so Green Eggs and Ham. 233 00:11:01,160 --> 00:11:02,880 Speaker 3: When I was a kid Green Eggs and Ham was 234 00:11:02,960 --> 00:11:05,079 Speaker 3: my favorite book as a little kid, and I have 235 00:11:05,200 --> 00:11:07,800 Speaker 3: read it to the girls many many times. And so 236 00:11:08,840 --> 00:11:11,440 Speaker 3: we called home and told him turn on the TV, 237 00:11:11,640 --> 00:11:15,080 Speaker 3: turn on C Span, and I read them Green Eggs 238 00:11:15,080 --> 00:11:16,800 Speaker 3: and Ham because it was their bedtime. And the picture 239 00:11:16,880 --> 00:11:18,520 Speaker 3: you saw as a picture of the two of them, 240 00:11:19,200 --> 00:11:24,720 Speaker 3: they're both in their pajamas. It's it's absolutely adorable. Katherine, 241 00:11:24,760 --> 00:11:27,240 Speaker 3: who's three at the time, they're in matching pajamas, which 242 00:11:27,320 --> 00:11:29,840 Speaker 3: which sadly they're teenagers now so they don't match it anymore, 243 00:11:30,080 --> 00:11:31,439 Speaker 3: but at three and five they matched. 244 00:11:31,440 --> 00:11:32,240 Speaker 1: It was precious. 245 00:11:32,720 --> 00:11:35,360 Speaker 3: Catherine is reaching her hand out and touching the TV 246 00:11:35,480 --> 00:11:38,600 Speaker 3: and it's just like in wonderment that like, wait, daddy 247 00:11:38,720 --> 00:11:40,839 Speaker 3: is reading me Doctor Seuss on TV, and it's just 248 00:11:41,040 --> 00:11:45,640 Speaker 3: the look is is hysterical. And then Caroline, who's my 249 00:11:45,800 --> 00:11:49,880 Speaker 3: eldest whom I adore. She's five, and she's just cracking 250 00:11:50,000 --> 00:11:54,760 Speaker 3: up laughing. And look, Caroline has always been pretty cynical kid, 251 00:11:55,400 --> 00:11:58,079 Speaker 3: and and pretty much nothing I've done in the Senate 252 00:11:58,120 --> 00:12:00,439 Speaker 3: has impressed her. When I when I came home after that, 253 00:12:01,160 --> 00:12:03,240 Speaker 3: she looked at me. She had her arms crossed and 254 00:12:03,320 --> 00:12:07,280 Speaker 3: she went, okay, Dad, that was kind of cool. And 255 00:12:07,440 --> 00:12:09,360 Speaker 3: so it was like, yes, you know, I mean, look, 256 00:12:09,400 --> 00:12:11,559 Speaker 3: scoring points with with your five year old. 257 00:12:11,960 --> 00:12:13,640 Speaker 1: It's hard with a five year old to score points, 258 00:12:13,720 --> 00:12:14,440 Speaker 1: let's be honest. 259 00:12:15,200 --> 00:12:17,080 Speaker 3: So but that's why I read Green Eggs and Ham. 260 00:12:17,120 --> 00:12:22,240 Speaker 3: It's because it was bedtime. But that filibuster is not 261 00:12:22,760 --> 00:12:25,440 Speaker 3: the really consequential one, because at the end of the day, 262 00:12:26,320 --> 00:12:31,480 Speaker 3: a filibuster can delay things for twenty one hours or 263 00:12:31,559 --> 00:12:34,240 Speaker 3: twenty four hours, but at the end of the day, 264 00:12:34,280 --> 00:12:37,320 Speaker 3: if there's a dedicated majority that moves forward, you can't 265 00:12:37,360 --> 00:12:40,760 Speaker 3: talk long enough to stop it. So what the filibuster 266 00:12:40,960 --> 00:12:44,040 Speaker 3: really is that is of consequence, is how the Senate 267 00:12:44,200 --> 00:12:48,640 Speaker 3: rules operate in order to proceed to take up most 268 00:12:48,800 --> 00:12:53,559 Speaker 3: forms of legislation, you must have sixty votes to do 269 00:12:53,720 --> 00:12:56,520 Speaker 3: what it's called invoking cloture, which is just a fancy 270 00:12:56,840 --> 00:13:01,840 Speaker 3: procedural word for ending debate. Because US senators have unlimited debate, 271 00:13:02,320 --> 00:13:04,520 Speaker 3: you've got to end debate before you have a vote, 272 00:13:04,800 --> 00:13:09,160 Speaker 3: and that takes sixty votes. The requirement of sixty votes 273 00:13:09,200 --> 00:13:15,800 Speaker 3: has stopped most of the dramatic and extreme proposals from 274 00:13:15,840 --> 00:13:19,560 Speaker 3: the Democrats from going into office. And so just this week, 275 00:13:20,200 --> 00:13:23,480 Speaker 3: Kamala Harris was explicit she plans to end the filibuster. 276 00:13:23,520 --> 00:13:25,559 Speaker 3: I want you to listen to her saying that, and 277 00:13:25,600 --> 00:13:27,600 Speaker 3: then we're going to talk about what it means, because 278 00:13:27,720 --> 00:13:31,880 Speaker 3: this is if she follows through on this, it will 279 00:13:32,000 --> 00:13:34,079 Speaker 3: be the end of America as we know it. 280 00:13:34,160 --> 00:13:35,600 Speaker 1: So give a listen to what Kamala said. 281 00:13:36,160 --> 00:13:38,640 Speaker 5: Now to abortion, you've said you want to work with 282 00:13:38,800 --> 00:13:42,880 Speaker 5: Congress to pass a federal bill to codify abortion rights. 283 00:13:43,520 --> 00:13:46,040 Speaker 5: How do you plan to get enough support in Congress 284 00:13:46,280 --> 00:13:49,920 Speaker 5: to restore abortion rights when you'd likely need to pass 285 00:13:49,960 --> 00:13:53,080 Speaker 5: a Senate filibuster, you'd have potential legal hurdles. 286 00:13:53,720 --> 00:13:55,959 Speaker 4: Well, let me first say to all your listeners, you 287 00:13:56,160 --> 00:14:00,800 Speaker 4: must reelect your Senator Tammy Baldwin because we need the 288 00:14:00,920 --> 00:14:03,959 Speaker 4: votes in Congress to do exactly what you are saying, 289 00:14:04,280 --> 00:14:07,000 Speaker 4: and that's true, and it is well within our reach 290 00:14:07,720 --> 00:14:10,439 Speaker 4: to hold on to the majority in the Senate and 291 00:14:10,600 --> 00:14:14,240 Speaker 4: take back the House. And so I would also emphasize 292 00:14:14,280 --> 00:14:18,120 Speaker 4: that while the presidential election is extremely important and dispositive 293 00:14:18,160 --> 00:14:21,800 Speaker 4: of where we go moving forward, it also is about 294 00:14:21,880 --> 00:14:24,000 Speaker 4: what we need to do to hold on to the 295 00:14:24,080 --> 00:14:27,360 Speaker 4: Senate and win seats in the House. That being said, 296 00:14:27,560 --> 00:14:29,720 Speaker 4: I've been very clear I think we should eliminate the 297 00:14:30,120 --> 00:14:34,680 Speaker 4: filibuster for row and we need and get us to 298 00:14:34,760 --> 00:14:38,040 Speaker 4: the point where we fifty one votes would be what 299 00:14:38,200 --> 00:14:41,920 Speaker 4: we need to actually put back in law the protections 300 00:14:42,000 --> 00:14:45,480 Speaker 4: for reproductive freedom and for the ability of every person 301 00:14:45,600 --> 00:14:47,960 Speaker 4: and every woman to make decisions about their own body 302 00:14:48,040 --> 00:14:49,800 Speaker 4: and not have their government tell them what to do. 303 00:14:51,120 --> 00:14:53,720 Speaker 2: So, to be clear, what she's talking about in this 304 00:14:53,840 --> 00:14:55,840 Speaker 2: filibuster is extremely different. 305 00:14:56,600 --> 00:14:59,960 Speaker 3: Well, what she is talking about is ending the reques 306 00:15:00,040 --> 00:15:03,320 Speaker 3: environment that you need sixty votes to move to major legislation, 307 00:15:03,520 --> 00:15:07,200 Speaker 3: allowing the Senate to move forward with just fifty votes, 308 00:15:07,240 --> 00:15:09,520 Speaker 3: and the Vice President, now, let me tell you, and 309 00:15:09,840 --> 00:15:11,920 Speaker 3: she's tried to frame it in terms of abortion, but 310 00:15:12,000 --> 00:15:13,840 Speaker 3: she's not talking about limiting it to that at all. 311 00:15:14,240 --> 00:15:19,480 Speaker 3: She's talking about fundamentally changing the Senate, and that fundamentally 312 00:15:19,600 --> 00:15:23,320 Speaker 3: changes the country. Let me tell you why. So, Look, 313 00:15:23,360 --> 00:15:25,400 Speaker 3: you and I both hope we have a great election 314 00:15:25,960 --> 00:15:29,200 Speaker 3: in November. We hope that Donald Trump is re elected president. 315 00:15:29,560 --> 00:15:31,520 Speaker 3: We hope we have a Republican Senate and we have 316 00:15:31,560 --> 00:15:33,680 Speaker 3: a Republican House. And if we do, there's a lot 317 00:15:33,800 --> 00:15:35,880 Speaker 3: of good things that can happen. We'll do another podcast 318 00:15:36,200 --> 00:15:38,560 Speaker 3: where we talk about the good things that will happen 319 00:15:39,000 --> 00:15:42,520 Speaker 3: with a great election. But let's focus on this podcast 320 00:15:43,080 --> 00:15:46,160 Speaker 3: on the bad things that will happen with a bad election. 321 00:15:47,160 --> 00:15:49,240 Speaker 3: If we wake up the day after election Day and 322 00:15:49,320 --> 00:15:52,760 Speaker 3: Kamala Harris has been elected president and the Democrats have 323 00:15:52,840 --> 00:15:58,560 Speaker 3: won the House, and the Democrats gain one seat in 324 00:15:58,680 --> 00:16:03,560 Speaker 3: the Senate, one here's what happens. So right now, Chuck 325 00:16:03,640 --> 00:16:06,960 Speaker 3: Schumer has forty nine votes to end the filibuster. He 326 00:16:07,040 --> 00:16:10,080 Speaker 3: needs one more. If he goes from forty nine votes 327 00:16:10,560 --> 00:16:13,880 Speaker 3: to fifty votes to end the filibuster, I want to 328 00:16:14,000 --> 00:16:17,360 Speaker 3: tell you what January of twenty twenty five will look like. 329 00:16:18,440 --> 00:16:21,120 Speaker 3: The first thing Chuck Schumer is the majority leader, will 330 00:16:21,200 --> 00:16:26,280 Speaker 3: do in January twenty twenty five is eliminate the filibuster forever. 331 00:16:26,400 --> 00:16:29,600 Speaker 3: And the way that operates, by the way, is doing 332 00:16:29,720 --> 00:16:34,240 Speaker 3: something called the nuclear option, which is he would move 333 00:16:34,400 --> 00:16:39,240 Speaker 3: to proceed to a piece of legislation, and they'd probably 334 00:16:39,320 --> 00:16:42,960 Speaker 3: do it to something something abortion related, because that's been 335 00:16:43,000 --> 00:16:46,920 Speaker 3: the context of the promises that many politicians have made. 336 00:16:48,000 --> 00:16:52,000 Speaker 3: And he would then ask a question of the presiding 337 00:16:52,080 --> 00:16:57,120 Speaker 3: officer a parliamentary inquiry, what is the vote threshold to 338 00:16:57,240 --> 00:17:01,040 Speaker 3: move to proceed to this and the precise officer would say, 339 00:17:01,120 --> 00:17:04,439 Speaker 3: under the Senate rules, it requires sixty votes to proceed 340 00:17:04,520 --> 00:17:09,240 Speaker 3: to this matter. He would then appeal the ruling of 341 00:17:09,359 --> 00:17:13,080 Speaker 3: the chair. That's called the nuclear option. To appeal the 342 00:17:13,160 --> 00:17:15,840 Speaker 3: ruling of the chair, you overturn what the chair has 343 00:17:15,960 --> 00:17:19,520 Speaker 3: just ruled. That it requires sixty votes. In order to 344 00:17:19,600 --> 00:17:22,160 Speaker 3: overturn the ruling of the chair, you only need fifty votes. 345 00:17:23,000 --> 00:17:24,720 Speaker 3: So what he would do is appeal the ruling of 346 00:17:24,760 --> 00:17:26,520 Speaker 3: the chair. You'd have a vote on the Senate floor 347 00:17:27,080 --> 00:17:31,760 Speaker 3: and fifty Democrats would vote to overturn the ruling of 348 00:17:31,880 --> 00:17:34,959 Speaker 3: the chair. The Vice President in this horrible scenario, it's 349 00:17:35,000 --> 00:17:39,959 Speaker 3: Tim Waltz would concur and the result would be number one, 350 00:17:40,080 --> 00:17:42,360 Speaker 3: the ruling of the chair is overturned. But number two, 351 00:17:42,560 --> 00:17:45,760 Speaker 3: that becomes a precedent that binds the Senate, and it 352 00:17:45,880 --> 00:17:49,159 Speaker 3: effectively amends the Senate rules so that it no longer 353 00:17:49,280 --> 00:17:54,399 Speaker 3: requires sixty votes to proceed to legislation, it requires instead fifty. 354 00:17:55,320 --> 00:17:59,200 Speaker 3: That's a bunch of procedural gobbledygook. The important thing to 355 00:17:59,320 --> 00:18:04,640 Speaker 3: know about it is with one additional left wing democrat, 356 00:18:04,880 --> 00:18:08,600 Speaker 3: just one, Chuck Schumer can end the filibuster. If he 357 00:18:08,760 --> 00:18:11,560 Speaker 3: does that, let me tell you the first four bills 358 00:18:11,600 --> 00:18:14,000 Speaker 3: that Chuck Schumer will pass into law now. 359 00:18:14,080 --> 00:18:16,040 Speaker 2: But before we give you that list, I want to 360 00:18:16,040 --> 00:18:18,440 Speaker 2: tell it to you real quick about the International Fellowship 361 00:18:18,520 --> 00:18:21,399 Speaker 2: of Christians and Jews. 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That's 383 00:19:42,240 --> 00:19:47,280 Speaker 1: eight eight eight four eight eight four three two five. 384 00:19:47,560 --> 00:19:52,399 Speaker 2: You can also give securely online by going to support 385 00:19:53,119 --> 00:20:00,399 Speaker 2: IFCJ dot org. That's one word support if CJ, or 386 00:20:00,760 --> 00:20:04,760 Speaker 2: call them eight to eight for eight eight IFCJ. And 387 00:20:04,880 --> 00:20:07,399 Speaker 2: I say this sincerely, thank you for all of you 388 00:20:07,960 --> 00:20:11,800 Speaker 2: that are getting together and standing with Israel. All right, Senator, 389 00:20:11,880 --> 00:20:15,440 Speaker 2: so you said four major things that would happen. Let's 390 00:20:15,560 --> 00:20:18,240 Speaker 2: roll through those because this is really how I think 391 00:20:18,240 --> 00:20:20,400 Speaker 2: a lot of people should be looking at the importance 392 00:20:20,480 --> 00:20:21,119 Speaker 2: of this election. 393 00:20:21,600 --> 00:20:25,320 Speaker 3: Yes, the first bill Schumer would pass if he ends 394 00:20:25,359 --> 00:20:28,840 Speaker 3: the filibuster is S one. S one is the first 395 00:20:28,920 --> 00:20:32,840 Speaker 3: bill Chuck Schumer introduces in every Senate. S one is 396 00:20:32,920 --> 00:20:38,760 Speaker 3: a federal takeover of all elections in America. S one 397 00:20:39,359 --> 00:20:45,280 Speaker 3: strikes down every election integrity law in the country. It 398 00:20:45,400 --> 00:20:49,920 Speaker 3: strikes down every photo ID law in the country. It 399 00:20:50,200 --> 00:20:56,840 Speaker 3: legalizes ballot harvesting in every state in the Union. It 400 00:20:57,040 --> 00:21:01,560 Speaker 3: automatically registers to vote millions of felons, and it automatically 401 00:21:01,640 --> 00:21:06,600 Speaker 3: registers to vote millions of illegal aliens. S one is 402 00:21:06,720 --> 00:21:12,160 Speaker 3: designed so that Democrats never lose another election. S one 403 00:21:12,400 --> 00:21:17,680 Speaker 3: is designed to massively increase voter fraud on election day. 404 00:21:18,200 --> 00:21:20,480 Speaker 3: That would be the first bill Schumer would pass. He 405 00:21:20,560 --> 00:21:23,160 Speaker 3: has forty nine votes to do that. One more would 406 00:21:23,200 --> 00:21:25,880 Speaker 3: given the vote he needs. The second thing he would 407 00:21:25,920 --> 00:21:29,960 Speaker 3: do is add two new states to the Union. He 408 00:21:30,000 --> 00:21:32,760 Speaker 3: would add d C and he would add Puerto Rico. 409 00:21:32,840 --> 00:21:34,960 Speaker 3: By the way, it does not take a constitutional amendment 410 00:21:35,000 --> 00:21:37,160 Speaker 3: to add a state to the Union. It only takes 411 00:21:37,200 --> 00:21:39,800 Speaker 3: a law that passes Congress and assigned by the President. 412 00:21:39,880 --> 00:21:43,960 Speaker 3: Now that law can be filibustered, but if Schumer ends 413 00:21:44,000 --> 00:21:46,520 Speaker 3: the filibuster, he can pass it with just fifty votes. 414 00:21:47,480 --> 00:21:52,280 Speaker 3: The reason Schumer wants to add d C in Puerto 415 00:21:52,400 --> 00:21:55,119 Speaker 3: Rico is because Schumer and the Democrats believe d C 416 00:21:55,280 --> 00:21:59,560 Speaker 3: and Puerto Rico would elect four new Democrat Senators. That 417 00:21:59,720 --> 00:22:04,680 Speaker 3: means if we started next year with fifty Democrats and 418 00:22:04,840 --> 00:22:08,160 Speaker 3: fifty Republicans in the Senate, we would end next year 419 00:22:08,280 --> 00:22:12,280 Speaker 3: with fifty four Democrats and fifty Republicans in the Senate. 420 00:22:12,840 --> 00:22:16,120 Speaker 3: Schumer would do that so that the Republicans would never 421 00:22:16,400 --> 00:22:19,720 Speaker 3: again win a majority in the United States Senate. That'd 422 00:22:19,760 --> 00:22:22,480 Speaker 3: be the second bill he passes. The third bill he 423 00:22:22,520 --> 00:22:27,879 Speaker 3: would pass would be to grant amnesty and immediate voting 424 00:22:28,000 --> 00:22:32,040 Speaker 3: rights to every single illegal alien in America. Now, we 425 00:22:32,119 --> 00:22:34,440 Speaker 3: don't have a firm count of that, but it is 426 00:22:34,600 --> 00:22:37,680 Speaker 3: upwards of twenty million illegal immigrants. We know eleven and 427 00:22:37,720 --> 00:22:39,520 Speaker 3: a half million have come in under Joe Biden and 428 00:22:39,600 --> 00:22:42,440 Speaker 3: Kamala Harris. We are north of twenty million. If you 429 00:22:42,480 --> 00:22:46,520 Speaker 3: had them all together in Texas, they're two to three 430 00:22:46,600 --> 00:22:50,320 Speaker 3: million illegal immigrants living in Texas now. Ben if they 431 00:22:50,480 --> 00:22:54,920 Speaker 3: do that the instant they do that, Texas turns blue. 432 00:22:55,880 --> 00:22:59,240 Speaker 2: If Chuck Schumer, you say that, and they're gonna say, okay, 433 00:22:59,280 --> 00:23:01,160 Speaker 2: how does constantly term beliefs? 434 00:23:01,200 --> 00:23:04,240 Speaker 3: So explain that, Because if Chuck Schumer and the Democrats 435 00:23:04,320 --> 00:23:07,440 Speaker 3: grant immediate voting rights to every illegal alien in Texas, 436 00:23:07,480 --> 00:23:10,640 Speaker 3: they're two to three million illegal aliens, they would vote 437 00:23:10,760 --> 00:23:17,040 Speaker 3: overwhelmingly Democrat. The Democrats believe this, and the effect of 438 00:23:17,200 --> 00:23:22,280 Speaker 3: that would be every single statewide elected official in Texas 439 00:23:22,320 --> 00:23:25,600 Speaker 3: would lose the next election. The governor would lose, the 440 00:23:25,680 --> 00:23:29,000 Speaker 3: lieutenant governor would lose, the attorney general would lose. We 441 00:23:29,160 --> 00:23:33,840 Speaker 3: have nine Republican Supreme Court justices. All nine would lose. 442 00:23:34,640 --> 00:23:40,119 Speaker 3: Texas would immediately become California. It would not be slow, 443 00:23:40,240 --> 00:23:43,240 Speaker 3: it would not be gradual. It would be instantaneous. With 444 00:23:43,520 --> 00:23:47,119 Speaker 3: three million additional illegal aliens voting in the next election, 445 00:23:47,840 --> 00:23:52,720 Speaker 3: Texas is California. That's number three, and then number four. 446 00:23:53,760 --> 00:23:56,320 Speaker 3: They would pack the United States Supreme Court. They would 447 00:23:56,359 --> 00:24:01,959 Speaker 3: grow the Supreme Court from nine justices to thirteen justices. Now, 448 00:24:02,000 --> 00:24:05,200 Speaker 3: it does not take a constitutional amendment to change the 449 00:24:05,280 --> 00:24:07,440 Speaker 3: number of justices on the court. That can be done 450 00:24:07,480 --> 00:24:11,639 Speaker 3: by statute, but that statute can be filibustered if you 451 00:24:11,720 --> 00:24:14,600 Speaker 3: get rid of the filibuster. The Schuber only needs fifty 452 00:24:14,720 --> 00:24:18,880 Speaker 3: votes plus the vice president. They would add four left 453 00:24:18,960 --> 00:24:22,120 Speaker 3: wing justices to the court. It would go to thirteen justices. 454 00:24:22,960 --> 00:24:25,159 Speaker 3: And I got to tell you something, Ben, Look I 455 00:24:25,280 --> 00:24:29,000 Speaker 3: am you know me well, I'm an optimist. I believe 456 00:24:29,119 --> 00:24:31,640 Speaker 3: in America. I believe the future of America is bright. 457 00:24:31,760 --> 00:24:34,800 Speaker 3: I believe tomorrow is brighter than today. I believe we 458 00:24:34,880 --> 00:24:40,119 Speaker 3: are moving in a good direction. In that scenario, I 459 00:24:40,280 --> 00:24:45,120 Speaker 3: have no answer. I view what I've just described as 460 00:24:45,200 --> 00:24:50,760 Speaker 3: a system ending event. You look through history, great nations rise, 461 00:24:50,840 --> 00:24:55,720 Speaker 3: great nations fall. Yeah, there is I view what I 462 00:24:55,960 --> 00:24:59,000 Speaker 3: just described as the end of the United States of 463 00:24:59,040 --> 00:25:03,720 Speaker 3: America as we know, and there's no way to turn 464 00:25:03,840 --> 00:25:07,960 Speaker 3: that back. And here's the terrifying thing, Ben, I don't 465 00:25:08,040 --> 00:25:10,400 Speaker 3: believe a word of what I just said is hyperbole. 466 00:25:10,480 --> 00:25:15,320 Speaker 3: I don't believe I'm exaggerating anything. Chuck Schumer has forty 467 00:25:15,560 --> 00:25:19,520 Speaker 3: nine votes to do everything I just described. And I 468 00:25:19,600 --> 00:25:24,160 Speaker 3: think most Americans have no idea that we are one 469 00:25:24,440 --> 00:25:30,359 Speaker 3: Senate seat away from that calamity, from that irreversible situation. 470 00:25:31,160 --> 00:25:35,600 Speaker 3: I know that most Texans have no awareness that Texas 471 00:25:35,760 --> 00:25:38,760 Speaker 3: is that close to flipping instantly blue. I think a 472 00:25:38,840 --> 00:25:41,720 Speaker 3: lot of Texans view, well, even if everything goes crazy 473 00:25:41,800 --> 00:25:45,000 Speaker 3: and the rest of the country will be fine, where Texas, 474 00:25:45,080 --> 00:25:46,240 Speaker 3: We're going to be just fine. 475 00:25:47,040 --> 00:25:51,159 Speaker 1: This scenario, you want to ask, what keeps me up 476 00:25:51,240 --> 00:25:51,600 Speaker 1: at night? 477 00:25:51,720 --> 00:25:55,919 Speaker 3: It is the scenario I just described, and we are 478 00:25:56,240 --> 00:25:58,080 Speaker 3: literally one vote away from that happening. 479 00:25:58,200 --> 00:26:01,040 Speaker 2: So let's look at the evidence to really back up 480 00:26:01,119 --> 00:26:04,160 Speaker 2: what you just said. And and you look at the Democrats. 481 00:26:04,320 --> 00:26:07,400 Speaker 2: They have for the last several years really been trying 482 00:26:07,440 --> 00:26:12,119 Speaker 2: to undermine the Supreme Court. They have leaked from the 483 00:26:12,200 --> 00:26:15,840 Speaker 2: Supreme Court the Roe v. Wade decision for example. The 484 00:26:15,960 --> 00:26:21,119 Speaker 2: Democrats have been trying to intimidate Supreme Court justices, and 485 00:26:21,440 --> 00:26:25,080 Speaker 2: we saw just how hostile they allowed people to get 486 00:26:25,240 --> 00:26:28,520 Speaker 2: towards the Supreme Court justice in their homes. I mean 487 00:26:28,640 --> 00:26:32,640 Speaker 2: that the media has been undermining the Supreme Court as 488 00:26:32,720 --> 00:26:37,040 Speaker 2: well and acting like the Supreme Court is this outdated 489 00:26:37,119 --> 00:26:40,879 Speaker 2: body that should be changed. So when you say that 490 00:26:41,000 --> 00:26:43,080 Speaker 2: we're one vote away and this is what would happen, 491 00:26:44,160 --> 00:26:47,640 Speaker 2: they're the ones that have been doing all the things 492 00:26:47,760 --> 00:26:52,600 Speaker 2: you would do for this possible opportunity if it actually arises, 493 00:26:52,640 --> 00:26:54,359 Speaker 2: and you can say yeah, like We've been saying this 494 00:26:54,480 --> 00:26:54,920 Speaker 2: for years. 495 00:26:54,960 --> 00:26:57,760 Speaker 1: We think the Supreme Court should be packed. Right, Yeah, 496 00:26:57,800 --> 00:27:01,440 Speaker 1: look that that that's correct. And here's the math. 497 00:27:01,560 --> 00:27:05,040 Speaker 3: Today there's a fifty one forty nine Democrat majority in 498 00:27:05,080 --> 00:27:09,000 Speaker 3: the Senate. However, of those fifty one, they're two Democrats, 499 00:27:09,280 --> 00:27:13,680 Speaker 3: Joe Manchin and Kirsten Cinema, who have both voted against 500 00:27:13,880 --> 00:27:16,680 Speaker 3: ending the filibuster. So Chuck Schumer tried to end the filibuster. 501 00:27:17,640 --> 00:27:21,159 Speaker 3: They had a vote on it, and forty nine Democrats 502 00:27:21,240 --> 00:27:25,719 Speaker 3: voted to end the filibuster. Had either Mansion or Cinema flipped, 503 00:27:26,359 --> 00:27:28,760 Speaker 3: they would have had the votes. But the two of 504 00:27:28,840 --> 00:27:32,440 Speaker 3: them are the only things that stopped it. Now, I'm 505 00:27:32,480 --> 00:27:35,520 Speaker 3: going to tell you something we know for an absolute certainty, 506 00:27:35,600 --> 00:27:39,080 Speaker 3: in January of next year, neither Mansion nor Cinema will 507 00:27:39,119 --> 00:27:39,400 Speaker 3: be there. 508 00:27:40,240 --> 00:27:40,680 Speaker 1: Very true. 509 00:27:41,119 --> 00:27:43,560 Speaker 3: Both of them their terms are done, neither of them 510 00:27:43,600 --> 00:27:46,360 Speaker 3: are running for reelection. It's one hundred percent they will 511 00:27:46,440 --> 00:27:50,359 Speaker 3: be gone. That means that Schumer is going into this 512 00:27:50,520 --> 00:27:55,040 Speaker 3: election with forty nine votes to end the filibuster. If 513 00:27:55,119 --> 00:28:00,119 Speaker 3: he picks up one anywhere, he gets to fifty, and 514 00:28:00,240 --> 00:28:03,600 Speaker 3: if Tim Waltz is the vice president, he has everything 515 00:28:03,720 --> 00:28:08,600 Speaker 3: he needs to end the filibuster, and I want to 516 00:28:08,640 --> 00:28:11,240 Speaker 3: make a point here. Also, you notice none of the 517 00:28:11,320 --> 00:28:16,200 Speaker 3: things I listed were economic. I didn't list in the 518 00:28:16,320 --> 00:28:21,320 Speaker 3: calamity in the Parade of Horribles. I didn't list seventy 519 00:28:21,359 --> 00:28:27,560 Speaker 3: percent marginal tax rates. I didn't list massively confiscatory death taxes. 520 00:28:28,560 --> 00:28:34,439 Speaker 3: I didn't list wealth taxes that tax you on unrealized 521 00:28:34,520 --> 00:28:39,280 Speaker 3: capital gains. I didn't list banning fracking and shutting it 522 00:28:39,360 --> 00:28:42,800 Speaker 3: down oil and gas exploration in the United States. I 523 00:28:42,920 --> 00:28:47,760 Speaker 3: didn't list nationalization of mineral rights. Look to be honest, 524 00:28:47,840 --> 00:28:52,680 Speaker 3: the economic stuff, the socialism that follows like night follows day, 525 00:28:52,800 --> 00:28:57,280 Speaker 3: because the Democrat's top priority, the four things I listed 526 00:28:57,360 --> 00:29:00,680 Speaker 3: are all about seizing control and making it permit making 527 00:29:00,760 --> 00:29:06,120 Speaker 3: it impossible that Democrats ever lose. And you know, there's 528 00:29:06,160 --> 00:29:10,520 Speaker 3: something deeply Freudian about how democrats behave because they talk 529 00:29:10,960 --> 00:29:16,520 Speaker 3: incessantly about saving democracy, and yet today's Democrats are profoundly 530 00:29:16,640 --> 00:29:20,200 Speaker 3: anti democratic. Their number one priority is making it so 531 00:29:20,320 --> 00:29:23,680 Speaker 3: the voters can never ever, ever, ever ever vote them 532 00:29:23,680 --> 00:29:27,080 Speaker 3: out of power. And once they're in power, look on 533 00:29:27,200 --> 00:29:31,840 Speaker 3: the economic stuff, the only constraints are just how crazy 534 00:29:31,880 --> 00:29:35,160 Speaker 3: are Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren willing to go. But 535 00:29:35,600 --> 00:29:39,640 Speaker 3: it is look at countries like Venezuela. Once you get 536 00:29:40,480 --> 00:29:44,960 Speaker 3: one party locked in power with no ability to constrain them, 537 00:29:45,760 --> 00:29:52,280 Speaker 3: the country goes downhill incredibly quickly, and I think terrible policies. 538 00:29:53,320 --> 00:29:58,440 Speaker 3: Look policies. I didn't mention gun confiscation, going after the 539 00:29:58,520 --> 00:30:02,080 Speaker 3: Second Amendment, going after liberty, going after the First Amendment. 540 00:30:02,360 --> 00:30:04,240 Speaker 3: They packed the Supreme Court. You're not going to have 541 00:30:04,360 --> 00:30:07,600 Speaker 3: the courts backstopping any of the rights in the Bill 542 00:30:07,640 --> 00:30:10,560 Speaker 3: of Rights. All of that happens as a matter of course. 543 00:30:11,320 --> 00:30:16,040 Speaker 3: Schumer's first focus is power, and if he can lock 544 00:30:16,120 --> 00:30:20,240 Speaker 3: in power forever, that really is the end of our democracy, 545 00:30:20,320 --> 00:30:24,040 Speaker 3: and ironically it's the number one priority of today's Democrats. 546 00:30:25,080 --> 00:30:27,640 Speaker 2: Let me go back to a very consequential vote, and 547 00:30:27,760 --> 00:30:32,120 Speaker 2: I just want to remind people perspective on this filibuster. 548 00:30:32,240 --> 00:30:36,080 Speaker 2: In the sixty plus, when we go back to Obamacare, 549 00:30:36,320 --> 00:30:38,880 Speaker 2: what was the number on Obamacare? How many votes did 550 00:30:39,760 --> 00:30:40,360 Speaker 2: that pass with? 551 00:30:40,560 --> 00:30:41,160 Speaker 1: Do you remember? 552 00:30:41,920 --> 00:30:44,560 Speaker 3: Well, the way they passed to Obamacare was through a 553 00:30:44,680 --> 00:30:50,240 Speaker 3: special budget procedure called budget reconciliation. And budget reconciliation is 554 00:30:50,400 --> 00:30:56,280 Speaker 3: the most important exception to the filibuster. Budget reconciliation comes 555 00:30:56,320 --> 00:30:58,880 Speaker 3: from a law called the Budget Act of nineteen seventy five, 556 00:30:59,440 --> 00:31:02,280 Speaker 3: and it's a special procedure for adopting a budget, and 557 00:31:02,520 --> 00:31:07,560 Speaker 3: under that statute, it is exempt from the filibuster, so 558 00:31:07,680 --> 00:31:09,840 Speaker 3: you can pass it with a majority. That's how they 559 00:31:09,920 --> 00:31:14,400 Speaker 3: did Obamacare, as they did it using budget reconciliation. By 560 00:31:14,440 --> 00:31:19,760 Speaker 3: the way, the Trump tax cuts were passed using budget reconciliation, 561 00:31:21,320 --> 00:31:23,760 Speaker 3: so they were not subject to the filibuster. No Democrat 562 00:31:23,840 --> 00:31:26,680 Speaker 3: voted for the Trump tax cuts. If you look at 563 00:31:26,760 --> 00:31:31,280 Speaker 3: things like the Orwellian named Inflation Reduction Act that was 564 00:31:31,360 --> 00:31:34,320 Speaker 3: passed by the Democrats using budget reconciliation. So there are 565 00:31:34,480 --> 00:31:38,880 Speaker 3: things that can be done that typically involve spending and 566 00:31:39,080 --> 00:31:44,080 Speaker 3: taxing that can be done with just fifty votes. But 567 00:31:45,080 --> 00:31:50,720 Speaker 3: the structural changes to our republic, things like the federal 568 00:31:50,760 --> 00:31:54,160 Speaker 3: takeover of all elections in this country, or adding two 569 00:31:54,240 --> 00:31:58,160 Speaker 3: new states to the Union, or granting immediate voting rights 570 00:31:58,200 --> 00:32:01,720 Speaker 3: to every illegal alien in America, that cannot be done 571 00:32:02,400 --> 00:32:06,040 Speaker 3: through budget reconciliation. Packing the Supreme Court cannot be done 572 00:32:06,360 --> 00:32:11,200 Speaker 3: through budget reconciliation. The statute lays out specific categories of 573 00:32:11,280 --> 00:32:16,000 Speaker 3: what can and can't be done through reconciliation. So the 574 00:32:16,560 --> 00:32:19,360 Speaker 3: sort of simplest way to think about it is spending 575 00:32:19,480 --> 00:32:21,880 Speaker 3: in taxes you can get around the filibuster. 576 00:32:22,720 --> 00:32:25,600 Speaker 1: Everything else as a general matter, you can't see. 577 00:32:25,680 --> 00:32:27,680 Speaker 2: And that's why I want to remind people because we 578 00:32:27,760 --> 00:32:29,920 Speaker 2: were talking about that during the time and it came 579 00:32:30,040 --> 00:32:32,200 Speaker 2: up that you know, the sixty votes and how important 580 00:32:32,240 --> 00:32:35,200 Speaker 2: it is, and it's a hard threshold if you change it, 581 00:32:35,360 --> 00:32:38,400 Speaker 2: and you think about how consequential, for example, Obamacare was 582 00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:41,560 Speaker 2: and during that time when there was almost a super majority, 583 00:32:41,560 --> 00:32:44,680 Speaker 2: and YadA, YadA, YadA, and you go, okay, there's a 584 00:32:44,720 --> 00:32:47,040 Speaker 2: reason why it was set up this way. The entire 585 00:32:47,280 --> 00:32:49,880 Speaker 2: United States of America's history changes if you get rid 586 00:32:49,920 --> 00:32:50,040 Speaker 2: of this. 587 00:32:50,120 --> 00:32:53,080 Speaker 1: Am I wrong? You are absolutely right. 588 00:32:53,200 --> 00:32:59,280 Speaker 3: Look, if Schumer ends the filibuster, no Republican ever wins again. 589 00:33:00,440 --> 00:33:01,800 Speaker 1: It is one party rule. 590 00:33:02,840 --> 00:33:06,640 Speaker 3: And so ask yourself, how has Hugo Chaves and Nicholas 591 00:33:06,720 --> 00:33:11,800 Speaker 3: Maduro been for Venezuela that will be and listen. Some 592 00:33:11,920 --> 00:33:14,360 Speaker 3: people listening might say, oh, come on, that's too much. 593 00:33:14,440 --> 00:33:20,640 Speaker 3: You shouldn't compare Kamala Harris to Nicholas Maduro. Well, if 594 00:33:20,720 --> 00:33:24,680 Speaker 3: their policy is to lock themselves in their party into power, 595 00:33:24,800 --> 00:33:29,080 Speaker 3: forever and to disempower the voters from ever ever ever 596 00:33:29,320 --> 00:33:31,840 Speaker 3: being able to take them out of power. That is 597 00:33:32,040 --> 00:33:35,800 Speaker 3: exactly what Chavez and Maduro have done. That's what Castro 598 00:33:35,920 --> 00:33:39,440 Speaker 3: have done. It is the strategy of dictators and it 599 00:33:39,600 --> 00:33:44,640 Speaker 3: is a shocking thing that today's Democrats no longer believe 600 00:33:45,680 --> 00:33:49,480 Speaker 3: in order to save democracy, they're willing to destroy democracy. 601 00:33:50,360 --> 00:33:52,080 Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's that is really sad. 602 00:33:52,480 --> 00:33:55,000 Speaker 2: I want to tell all of you about something really 603 00:33:55,040 --> 00:33:57,120 Speaker 2: cool that I got to do, and that was due 604 00:33:57,400 --> 00:34:02,920 Speaker 2: training this past week with BURNA with less lethal and 605 00:34:03,080 --> 00:34:07,240 Speaker 2: the burner systems. It was unbelievable. Now increased crime and 606 00:34:07,440 --> 00:34:10,480 Speaker 2: violence around our country. We need to remember that personal 607 00:34:10,560 --> 00:34:13,239 Speaker 2: safety and security for you and your family is the 608 00:34:13,320 --> 00:34:16,640 Speaker 2: most important thing in life. And I'm a massive advocate 609 00:34:16,719 --> 00:34:18,920 Speaker 2: for the Second Amendment. If I didn't have a firearm 610 00:34:18,960 --> 00:34:21,520 Speaker 2: with me one day, I wouldn't be here today. I 611 00:34:21,600 --> 00:34:24,560 Speaker 2: had to use it to save my life. Thank goodness 612 00:34:24,600 --> 00:34:26,799 Speaker 2: I had that. But there's many times where you need 613 00:34:26,880 --> 00:34:28,840 Speaker 2: to be able to defend yourself and de escalate a 614 00:34:28,920 --> 00:34:34,200 Speaker 2: situation without having to worry about the irreversible consequences of 615 00:34:34,280 --> 00:34:39,160 Speaker 2: deadly force. 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It is a 620 00:34:52,880 --> 00:34:57,120 Speaker 2: fabulous compliment to owning firearms, and if you or your 621 00:34:57,239 --> 00:34:59,000 Speaker 2: family is in the situation. 622 00:34:58,600 --> 00:35:02,920 Speaker 1: Where you feel threatened, you can now start with less. 623 00:35:03,040 --> 00:35:06,759 Speaker 2: Lethal It is also legal in all fifty states and 624 00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:09,800 Speaker 2: no permits or background checks are needed. 625 00:35:10,239 --> 00:35:12,560 Speaker 1: Now I have these and I own them. 626 00:35:12,680 --> 00:35:15,080 Speaker 2: I also got them for my sister in law and 627 00:35:15,160 --> 00:35:18,320 Speaker 2: my mother in law, my own mother, my sister, and 628 00:35:18,520 --> 00:35:21,960 Speaker 2: my wife. It is amazing. Now I own these and 629 00:35:22,080 --> 00:35:24,239 Speaker 2: I want you to check them out. You should look 630 00:35:24,320 --> 00:35:27,080 Speaker 2: at them for your family members, especially if you have 631 00:35:27,160 --> 00:35:29,839 Speaker 2: a daughter that maybe is living off at college by 632 00:35:29,880 --> 00:35:33,960 Speaker 2: herself or living at a new location and she's by 633 00:35:34,040 --> 00:35:36,239 Speaker 2: herself and you want to have something there to help 634 00:35:36,320 --> 00:35:39,640 Speaker 2: protect her. Berna is the answer, and it's designed for 635 00:35:39,800 --> 00:35:44,360 Speaker 2: easy use by all age groups eighteen and over. The 636 00:35:44,440 --> 00:35:48,000 Speaker 2: Burner launcher has powerful deterrence like tear gas and kinetic 637 00:35:48,120 --> 00:35:52,360 Speaker 2: rounds with a sixty foot range, one shot can incapacitate 638 00:35:52,400 --> 00:35:55,480 Speaker 2: attackers from up to forty minutes, and after doing the training, 639 00:35:55,520 --> 00:35:57,879 Speaker 2: I can tell you they're not joking. It is also 640 00:35:58,040 --> 00:36:01,480 Speaker 2: used by government agencies and law enforcement around the country, 641 00:36:02,320 --> 00:36:04,720 Speaker 2: and more than a half million units have already been sold. 642 00:36:05,320 --> 00:36:10,080 Speaker 2: So visit burn up by r in a dot com 643 00:36:10,640 --> 00:36:15,279 Speaker 2: slash verdict. That's burn up b why R in a 644 00:36:15,600 --> 00:36:19,640 Speaker 2: dot com slash verdict? And get ten percent off your purchase? 645 00:36:20,160 --> 00:36:24,080 Speaker 2: That's b why R in a dot com slash verdict? 646 00:36:24,160 --> 00:36:29,760 Speaker 2: For ten percent off burna dot com slash verdict. Senator, 647 00:36:30,120 --> 00:36:34,520 Speaker 2: let me ask two questions to wrap this up. There 648 00:36:34,600 --> 00:36:37,600 Speaker 2: may be people that say, look, if there is a 649 00:36:38,120 --> 00:36:40,120 Speaker 2: let's say they get it and they get rid of 650 00:36:40,160 --> 00:36:42,920 Speaker 2: the filibuster, it'll come back in a couple of years. 651 00:36:43,239 --> 00:36:45,759 Speaker 2: Maybe there's like a little bit of an overreaction here. 652 00:36:46,560 --> 00:36:49,320 Speaker 2: I go back in history, and I'm a student of history. 653 00:36:49,560 --> 00:36:53,000 Speaker 2: You are, and you love history as well. When consequential 654 00:36:53,080 --> 00:36:57,000 Speaker 2: things usually happen within our government. A great example is Obamacare. 655 00:36:57,560 --> 00:37:00,400 Speaker 2: Once it's done, it is extremely hard to do it. 656 00:37:00,920 --> 00:37:03,000 Speaker 2: And so if people think, well, maybe they do it 657 00:37:03,040 --> 00:37:04,799 Speaker 2: and we'll get it back, maybe they throw four more 658 00:37:04,800 --> 00:37:06,520 Speaker 2: people on the Supreme Court, but we could get it 659 00:37:06,560 --> 00:37:09,720 Speaker 2: back to nine if we really wanted to how impossible 660 00:37:09,760 --> 00:37:12,520 Speaker 2: would it be to undo some of the things you 661 00:37:12,680 --> 00:37:15,320 Speaker 2: talked about if it actually went into effect because the 662 00:37:15,360 --> 00:37:16,960 Speaker 2: Democrats win in November. 663 00:37:17,800 --> 00:37:21,160 Speaker 3: Well, understand that the four things I listed are all structural, 664 00:37:21,880 --> 00:37:25,480 Speaker 3: so once they happen, you can undo them if you 665 00:37:25,520 --> 00:37:30,200 Speaker 3: have twenty million illegal immigrants voting Democrats win. Texas isn't 666 00:37:30,239 --> 00:37:33,959 Speaker 3: the only state that turns blue. North Carolina turns blue, 667 00:37:34,800 --> 00:37:38,920 Speaker 3: Georgia turns blue, Arizona turns blue. I mean you have 668 00:37:39,239 --> 00:37:42,560 Speaker 3: suddenly swing states that are not swing states anymore. This 669 00:37:42,760 --> 00:37:46,680 Speaker 3: is why the Democrats, they're just focused on power. You 670 00:37:46,800 --> 00:37:50,080 Speaker 3: look at if it's right, DC will elect Democrats for 671 00:37:50,120 --> 00:37:53,200 Speaker 3: all eternity if it becomes a state. Puerto Rico, I 672 00:37:53,239 --> 00:37:56,120 Speaker 3: don't think it's one hundred percent correct that Puerto Rico 673 00:37:56,160 --> 00:37:59,880 Speaker 3: would only elect Democrats. We have seen Republicans elected in 674 00:38:00,000 --> 00:38:03,400 Speaker 3: Puerto Rico, although partisan politics doesn't line up in Puerto 675 00:38:03,480 --> 00:38:07,359 Speaker 3: Rico exactly like it does in the mainland. But if 676 00:38:07,400 --> 00:38:09,960 Speaker 3: the Democrats are correct that that's four new Democrats in 677 00:38:10,000 --> 00:38:12,600 Speaker 3: the Senate. It is very difficult to see a map 678 00:38:12,680 --> 00:38:16,840 Speaker 3: that ever again elects a Republican majority in the Senate. 679 00:38:18,160 --> 00:38:20,960 Speaker 3: So there will never be an opportunity to reverse it. 680 00:38:21,000 --> 00:38:24,880 Speaker 3: And by the way, you can look to what happened 681 00:38:24,920 --> 00:38:28,960 Speaker 3: with the Supreme Court. So if you look at Supreme 682 00:38:29,000 --> 00:38:36,520 Speaker 3: Court nominations, Harry Reid exercised the nuclear option, the same 683 00:38:36,640 --> 00:38:40,680 Speaker 3: method for ending the filibuster for legislation. Harry Reid exercised 684 00:38:40,719 --> 00:38:44,560 Speaker 3: the nuclear option to end the filibuster for judicial nominations, 685 00:38:45,160 --> 00:38:48,080 Speaker 3: and he did so. When he did so, I remember 686 00:38:48,120 --> 00:38:51,080 Speaker 3: I was on the Senate floor, and he did exactly 687 00:38:51,160 --> 00:38:53,200 Speaker 3: what I said. He asked for a ruling from the chair. 688 00:38:53,320 --> 00:38:55,719 Speaker 3: He appealed the ruling of the chair, and all the 689 00:38:55,760 --> 00:38:58,560 Speaker 3: Democrats voted with him, and they overturned it. And so 690 00:38:59,280 --> 00:39:04,200 Speaker 3: to confirm it, Judge, you only need now fifty votes 691 00:39:04,239 --> 00:39:07,640 Speaker 3: plus the Vice President. And I remember being on the 692 00:39:07,680 --> 00:39:11,120 Speaker 3: Senate floor. I turned to Amy Klobuchar, a Democrat from Minnesota, 693 00:39:11,160 --> 00:39:13,800 Speaker 3: and all the Democrats were voting like lemmings to and 694 00:39:13,880 --> 00:39:17,360 Speaker 3: the filibuster. And I told her then, I said, you 695 00:39:17,520 --> 00:39:21,520 Speaker 3: realize the consequence of this. We are going to get 696 00:39:21,680 --> 00:39:26,480 Speaker 3: more justices like Clarence Thomas and antonin Scalia. And that 697 00:39:26,719 --> 00:39:31,480 Speaker 3: is unequivocally correct. And in fact, if you want to 698 00:39:31,640 --> 00:39:35,160 Speaker 3: know why Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett and Neil 699 00:39:35,200 --> 00:39:38,840 Speaker 3: Gorsich were confirmed. It is because the Democrats ended the 700 00:39:38,920 --> 00:39:42,840 Speaker 3: filibuster for judicial nominations. If they hadn't, there is no 701 00:39:43,080 --> 00:39:46,080 Speaker 3: chance on earth Cavanaugh or Amy Cony Barrett gets confirmed 702 00:39:46,440 --> 00:39:48,719 Speaker 3: because it would have taken sixty votes, and there weren't 703 00:39:48,760 --> 00:39:51,960 Speaker 3: going to be sixty votes for any nominee that had 704 00:39:52,000 --> 00:39:56,880 Speaker 3: a proven record of being conservative. So it changed markedly 705 00:39:57,920 --> 00:40:02,239 Speaker 3: the kinds of judges that Trump could nominate. Once the 706 00:40:02,440 --> 00:40:06,600 Speaker 3: change is made procedurally, it never ever ever goes back. 707 00:40:07,640 --> 00:40:11,560 Speaker 2: Final question for you, and that is you look at 708 00:40:11,640 --> 00:40:16,400 Speaker 2: what you just said in this show, and it changes 709 00:40:16,600 --> 00:40:20,160 Speaker 2: my perspective. And I do this with you three days 710 00:40:20,200 --> 00:40:24,360 Speaker 2: a week and talk politics every day because the easy issue, 711 00:40:24,719 --> 00:40:28,640 Speaker 2: right is the economy stupid And that's the number one issue. 712 00:40:28,840 --> 00:40:31,560 Speaker 2: Most voters say number two, they say the border. This 713 00:40:31,920 --> 00:40:34,640 Speaker 2: issue to me, now after we've gone through it is 714 00:40:35,480 --> 00:40:38,120 Speaker 2: even bigger than those two issues when it comes to 715 00:40:38,160 --> 00:40:39,280 Speaker 2: the future of this country. 716 00:40:39,440 --> 00:40:44,439 Speaker 3: Is that a fair take in terms of long term future? Yes, 717 00:40:45,560 --> 00:40:48,120 Speaker 3: it is absolutely a fair take. It is, as I said, 718 00:40:48,200 --> 00:40:50,840 Speaker 3: the single thing that keeps me up at night that 719 00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:54,480 Speaker 3: we are that close to losing our entire country, and 720 00:40:54,560 --> 00:40:59,000 Speaker 3: I think almost everyone is oblivious to it. I look, 721 00:40:59,040 --> 00:41:01,640 Speaker 3: you and I are both tech. How many Texans do 722 00:41:01,760 --> 00:41:06,360 Speaker 3: you know that realize that we could be three months 723 00:41:06,440 --> 00:41:11,120 Speaker 3: away from Texas becoming California becoming a bright blue plate state. 724 00:41:11,239 --> 00:41:13,560 Speaker 3: By the way, if that happens, I'll make a crazy 725 00:41:13,640 --> 00:41:16,400 Speaker 3: prediction that I hope and pray never comes true. If 726 00:41:16,440 --> 00:41:19,120 Speaker 3: the Democrats and the Filibuster, if they grant voting rights 727 00:41:19,160 --> 00:41:23,600 Speaker 3: to every illegal alien in America, every illegal alien in Texas, 728 00:41:24,560 --> 00:41:26,719 Speaker 3: Beto O'Rourke would be the next governor of the state 729 00:41:26,760 --> 00:41:29,640 Speaker 3: of Texas. I don't think that's an exaggeration. I think 730 00:41:29,680 --> 00:41:30,879 Speaker 3: that is actually quite likely. 731 00:41:31,600 --> 00:41:31,759 Speaker 4: Yeah. 732 00:41:31,880 --> 00:41:34,319 Speaker 2: Well, it's the reason why Democrats are importing so many 733 00:41:34,360 --> 00:41:36,560 Speaker 2: illegal immigrants right now. They think they can give them 734 00:41:36,560 --> 00:41:38,719 Speaker 2: the right to vote, give them citizenship, and bam, as 735 00:41:38,760 --> 00:41:42,320 Speaker 2: you described it, it changes everything in one day. I 736 00:41:42,440 --> 00:41:45,200 Speaker 2: hope all of you listening will really take this show 737 00:41:45,440 --> 00:41:47,920 Speaker 2: and share it with your friends, put it up on 738 00:41:48,080 --> 00:41:51,480 Speaker 2: social media so others hear it. This is why I 739 00:41:51,719 --> 00:41:54,719 Speaker 2: love doing this show with the Center, because I feel 740 00:41:54,800 --> 00:41:57,520 Speaker 2: like I learned things, and I hope you do as well, 741 00:41:57,880 --> 00:42:00,560 Speaker 2: and we get to talk about these important issues don't 742 00:42:00,640 --> 00:42:03,719 Speaker 2: forget hit that subscribe or auto download button so you 743 00:42:03,880 --> 00:42:06,400 Speaker 2: never miss an episode. We do this Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 744 00:42:06,440 --> 00:42:10,160 Speaker 2: and a week in review recap on Saturdays and on 745 00:42:10,239 --> 00:42:14,120 Speaker 2: those in between days, grab my podcast, the Ben Ferguson Podcast. 746 00:42:14,239 --> 00:42:16,640 Speaker 2: I'll keep you up to date on the news on 747 00:42:16,760 --> 00:42:18,880 Speaker 2: those in between days and breaking news as well, so 748 00:42:19,000 --> 00:42:21,720 Speaker 2: grab the Ben Ferguson podcast as well and The Senator 749 00:42:21,760 --> 00:42:24,520 Speaker 2: and I will see you back here on Saturday for 750 00:42:24,600 --> 00:42:25,440 Speaker 2: the weekend review.