1 00:00:00,320 --> 00:00:03,680 Speaker 1: We are in the belly of the beast, the left coast, 2 00:00:04,200 --> 00:00:07,280 Speaker 1: La La Land. We have left the politicians, we have 3 00:00:07,440 --> 00:00:10,560 Speaker 1: moved on over to show business. And yet even here, 4 00:00:11,080 --> 00:00:14,840 Speaker 1: even in the heart of leftism, there are some people, 5 00:00:15,160 --> 00:00:18,400 Speaker 1: including our guest, who have decided it was too much, 6 00:00:18,640 --> 00:00:21,760 Speaker 1: who have decided to walk away. This is Verdict with 7 00:00:21,800 --> 00:00:29,920 Speaker 1: Ted Cruz. Welcome back to Verdict with Ted Cruz. I'm 8 00:00:29,920 --> 00:00:34,159 Speaker 1: Michael Knowles. We are in sunny Hollywood, California. Senator. Thank 9 00:00:34,200 --> 00:00:36,640 Speaker 1: you for flying out here, and also thank you to 10 00:00:36,720 --> 00:00:41,280 Speaker 1: our guest, a show biz man, not someone usually in politics, 11 00:00:41,760 --> 00:00:48,280 Speaker 1: Isaiah Washington. But Isaiah, you have become very politically active here, 12 00:00:48,479 --> 00:00:51,400 Speaker 1: maybe not of your own desire, but because you have 13 00:00:51,520 --> 00:00:55,920 Speaker 1: contradicted some of the leftist orthodoxies of Hollywood, and they 14 00:00:55,920 --> 00:00:59,080 Speaker 1: don't take that very well. Yes, yes, I have been 15 00:00:59,120 --> 00:01:02,240 Speaker 1: a contradiction in this town for twenty four years. I've 16 00:01:02,360 --> 00:01:04,000 Speaker 1: said that a lot of checks from a lot of 17 00:01:04,040 --> 00:01:05,559 Speaker 1: people I did not like, and a lot of people 18 00:01:05,560 --> 00:01:08,120 Speaker 1: who did not like me for various reasons, and had 19 00:01:08,160 --> 00:01:10,360 Speaker 1: none of them had anything to do with politics. It 20 00:01:10,440 --> 00:01:13,120 Speaker 1: had everything to do with microaggressions. You know, back in 21 00:01:13,160 --> 00:01:15,040 Speaker 1: the nineties, there weren't a lot of people that looked 22 00:01:15,080 --> 00:01:18,280 Speaker 1: like me and colorism. There were certain people like you know, 23 00:01:18,360 --> 00:01:21,640 Speaker 1: you may have heard of guy Eddie Murphy Western Side. 24 00:01:21,680 --> 00:01:24,399 Speaker 1: She may have heard of those guys my name's sake. 25 00:01:24,440 --> 00:01:28,240 Speaker 1: I probably noticed this guy named um Denzel Denzel Washington 26 00:01:30,520 --> 00:01:33,520 Speaker 1: that I was kind of popular, pretty popular time magazine 27 00:01:33,560 --> 00:01:36,600 Speaker 1: named Arsenio Hall. Oh yeah, you know, don seetle those guys. 28 00:01:36,640 --> 00:01:39,520 Speaker 1: So I studied them back in nineteen eighty eight, before 29 00:01:39,520 --> 00:01:42,760 Speaker 1: I became a California in New York in theater, I 30 00:01:42,760 --> 00:01:45,399 Speaker 1: swore I would never do television because that's not cool. 31 00:01:45,959 --> 00:01:47,760 Speaker 1: And then you became a big TV star. Oh, I 32 00:01:47,800 --> 00:01:49,720 Speaker 1: did a commercion and I got a check in the 33 00:01:49,760 --> 00:01:53,320 Speaker 1: mailbox and I was completely corrupted. That is what it 34 00:01:53,400 --> 00:01:56,520 Speaker 1: set me on to study what kind of actor can 35 00:01:56,560 --> 00:01:58,320 Speaker 1: I be in this town that I know I don't 36 00:01:58,320 --> 00:02:00,600 Speaker 1: want to be in. So I had to start to 37 00:02:00,600 --> 00:02:03,560 Speaker 1: figure out the looks of my engineering background in the military. 38 00:02:04,120 --> 00:02:07,040 Speaker 1: I took ten years to say, what what's missing? How 39 00:02:07,080 --> 00:02:10,800 Speaker 1: can I fit in? Because they have these great names, 40 00:02:10,840 --> 00:02:13,480 Speaker 1: these great businesses, and they have these will Smiths, and 41 00:02:13,520 --> 00:02:16,000 Speaker 1: I know they only pink one at a time for 42 00:02:16,040 --> 00:02:18,640 Speaker 1: whatever reason. It's like a pecking order out here. Couldn't 43 00:02:18,639 --> 00:02:20,760 Speaker 1: take it personally, so I had to take it in 44 00:02:20,800 --> 00:02:22,720 Speaker 1: a business way to figure out how can I fit in, 45 00:02:22,800 --> 00:02:25,120 Speaker 1: how can I catch up? I'm starting late in the game. 46 00:02:25,440 --> 00:02:27,280 Speaker 1: So what drew you to the world of acting? Did 47 00:02:27,280 --> 00:02:29,200 Speaker 1: you always know it's what you wanted to do or no? 48 00:02:29,240 --> 00:02:33,520 Speaker 1: I had a midlife crisis twenty three, shortly after a 49 00:02:33,560 --> 00:02:36,280 Speaker 1: space shuttle blew up. I was working as a private 50 00:02:36,280 --> 00:02:38,680 Speaker 1: sector in hern the Virginia with an organization and at 51 00:02:38,680 --> 00:02:40,680 Speaker 1: the time we had a facts we didn't have an 52 00:02:40,720 --> 00:02:44,760 Speaker 1: internet nineteen eighty six right, eighty five eighty six, and 53 00:02:44,840 --> 00:02:48,280 Speaker 1: I was very concerned, a lowly positioned about oll rings. 54 00:02:48,960 --> 00:02:50,640 Speaker 1: And at the time I was like, you know, we 55 00:02:50,680 --> 00:02:52,359 Speaker 1: need to take a look at the shelf life of 56 00:02:52,400 --> 00:02:55,200 Speaker 1: these ole rings that are going out in the world. Now. 57 00:02:55,320 --> 00:02:59,079 Speaker 1: I don't know if there was a connection, but I 58 00:02:59,160 --> 00:03:01,520 Speaker 1: knew there was a problem with the old rings for 59 00:03:01,680 --> 00:03:03,959 Speaker 1: the space shuttle and it went up anyway, and what 60 00:03:04,080 --> 00:03:06,959 Speaker 1: I started become really politicized after. Even when I was 61 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:10,440 Speaker 1: in the military during the regular years, I started seeing 62 00:03:10,480 --> 00:03:12,200 Speaker 1: things that I didn't want to see, like why are 63 00:03:12,240 --> 00:03:15,000 Speaker 1: we putting Christo mcculiff and these people up in the 64 00:03:15,040 --> 00:03:18,360 Speaker 1: ship when there's some issues, and all I remember were 65 00:03:18,400 --> 00:03:20,160 Speaker 1: a lot of people around me going, he's got to 66 00:03:20,160 --> 00:03:22,040 Speaker 1: go up. It's got to go up because the president 67 00:03:22,160 --> 00:03:25,639 Speaker 1: ratings are down. We need we need to boost literally 68 00:03:25,919 --> 00:03:29,040 Speaker 1: where it went up and it blew up. Yeah, I 69 00:03:29,160 --> 00:03:31,320 Speaker 1: heard a lot of people. We know the story. I 70 00:03:31,400 --> 00:03:34,120 Speaker 1: think for me, I was clinically depressed because no one 71 00:03:34,240 --> 00:03:36,120 Speaker 1: I didn't know what to do with the information I had. 72 00:03:36,200 --> 00:03:38,680 Speaker 1: No one was really listening. But I think at the time, 73 00:03:38,680 --> 00:03:40,080 Speaker 1: when I look back on it, it's a good question. 74 00:03:40,080 --> 00:03:41,840 Speaker 1: I think I was clinically depressed but didn't know it. 75 00:03:42,400 --> 00:03:44,480 Speaker 1: And at that point I left, walked away from my wife, 76 00:03:44,480 --> 00:03:46,440 Speaker 1: I walked away from everything. I worked, away from my 77 00:03:46,680 --> 00:03:48,760 Speaker 1: big screen television back in the eighties, a unit to 78 00:03:48,760 --> 00:03:51,120 Speaker 1: do like a big old bowling ball, the big red, 79 00:03:51,160 --> 00:03:54,600 Speaker 1: green look ugly thing. Right, I had to Askott my pipe. 80 00:03:54,640 --> 00:04:00,280 Speaker 1: I walked away from my cards. Everything ended up homeless, wow, 81 00:04:00,360 --> 00:04:05,760 Speaker 1: and ended up in Windy's were here, I was Engageburger 82 00:04:06,720 --> 00:04:10,440 Speaker 1: with there hungry across the street, was sleeping on my 83 00:04:10,520 --> 00:04:13,400 Speaker 1: lawn solo my furniture. I think I just completely lost it, 84 00:04:15,480 --> 00:04:18,000 Speaker 1: and I said I'm gonna pretend that I'm gonna eat 85 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:19,600 Speaker 1: this Winnie's burger. That's when they were making a good 86 00:04:19,640 --> 00:04:21,560 Speaker 1: Winnie's burger, when it was really a big thick square 87 00:04:21,560 --> 00:04:27,040 Speaker 1: of meat. Is that the sat there, smell the food, 88 00:04:27,279 --> 00:04:29,680 Speaker 1: pretended that I had eaten and went back. I was 89 00:04:29,800 --> 00:04:32,280 Speaker 1: no longer hungry, And at that point I felt like, 90 00:04:32,640 --> 00:04:34,720 Speaker 1: if I can act like I've eaten and I haven't 91 00:04:34,720 --> 00:04:38,040 Speaker 1: eaten in three days, And I asked, God, if you 92 00:04:38,360 --> 00:04:42,919 Speaker 1: tell me what I'm supposed to do, I promise you 93 00:04:43,600 --> 00:04:48,000 Speaker 1: I would be the best at that thing, of whatever 94 00:04:48,040 --> 00:04:50,800 Speaker 1: it is. The next day, I was given an opportunity 95 00:04:50,800 --> 00:04:53,720 Speaker 1: to audition for a play called Can Can. I wasn't 96 00:04:53,720 --> 00:04:56,480 Speaker 1: a dancer. They wanted me to come and dance. I 97 00:04:56,600 --> 00:04:58,280 Speaker 1: lied to said I could do a pier. I didn't 98 00:04:58,279 --> 00:05:00,160 Speaker 1: know what a pier of what was? Then say can 99 00:05:00,160 --> 00:05:01,440 Speaker 1: you do a pek turn? I didn't know what a 100 00:05:01,480 --> 00:05:03,520 Speaker 1: pek turn was? So I looked at all the other 101 00:05:03,560 --> 00:05:06,120 Speaker 1: guys that was doing these new turns and went out 102 00:05:06,120 --> 00:05:08,560 Speaker 1: there and made a complete food out of myself. So 103 00:05:08,600 --> 00:05:10,200 Speaker 1: they had fun with me, and they said, Okay, that's 104 00:05:10,240 --> 00:05:13,640 Speaker 1: god awful. Can you do a cart wheel? So I 105 00:05:13,680 --> 00:05:16,320 Speaker 1: did three cart Wheels did not get the job, but 106 00:05:16,400 --> 00:05:18,560 Speaker 1: I got the attention of another musical director to put 107 00:05:18,600 --> 00:05:20,880 Speaker 1: me in a play in a church and that was 108 00:05:20,960 --> 00:05:23,120 Speaker 1: my first play called Frankenbeans, where I played a gay 109 00:05:23,200 --> 00:05:26,320 Speaker 1: character that was in effect with HIV pot blown as wow. 110 00:05:26,640 --> 00:05:28,640 Speaker 1: That was my first role. And from there I got 111 00:05:28,640 --> 00:05:31,520 Speaker 1: to Howard University or Kats who's writing the book now? 112 00:05:31,680 --> 00:05:36,200 Speaker 1: Who's behind many people from Debbie Allen, Alicia Rashad, A 113 00:05:36,200 --> 00:05:38,520 Speaker 1: lot of people went to hire University. She put me on, 114 00:05:38,600 --> 00:05:41,720 Speaker 1: put me on the New York City Kids original play 115 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:44,960 Speaker 1: member for the City Kids Repertoire Theater dealing with kids, 116 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:48,080 Speaker 1: the city at risk children. But Lake Yoba came out 117 00:05:48,120 --> 00:05:51,279 Speaker 1: of that and then did a commercial, got the money, 118 00:05:51,800 --> 00:05:53,719 Speaker 1: did a little one Life to Live. That'st thing I know. 119 00:05:54,560 --> 00:05:57,080 Speaker 1: I'm in LA didn't want to be, but I figured 120 00:05:57,080 --> 00:05:59,479 Speaker 1: that if I find a role where I can play 121 00:05:59,480 --> 00:06:03,360 Speaker 1: a thug with a heart, if I can play a 122 00:06:03,400 --> 00:06:06,480 Speaker 1: thug that looked like he's intelligent, like in Romeo Must Die, 123 00:06:07,480 --> 00:06:09,640 Speaker 1: then I might be able to work more than everybody else. 124 00:06:11,040 --> 00:06:13,000 Speaker 1: So that is what I saw was missing. I saw 125 00:06:13,040 --> 00:06:17,840 Speaker 1: these stereotypes of bad guys, crips, bloods, yea not really much. 126 00:06:18,320 --> 00:06:20,360 Speaker 1: I said, I need to play a bad guy or 127 00:06:20,400 --> 00:06:23,120 Speaker 1: a thug that has a little bit more intelligence, and 128 00:06:23,160 --> 00:06:25,919 Speaker 1: it worked well. This is an aspect of Hollywood is 129 00:06:26,640 --> 00:06:28,840 Speaker 1: there are always just boxes and you got to fit 130 00:06:28,880 --> 00:06:30,840 Speaker 1: into this boxing. Oh, it's only one or two guys 131 00:06:30,839 --> 00:06:32,159 Speaker 1: that get to fit in that box at a time. 132 00:06:32,920 --> 00:06:36,880 Speaker 1: Sam Jackson he created his just he worked so much 133 00:06:37,279 --> 00:06:39,560 Speaker 1: that he just beat them down with his talent. That 134 00:06:40,320 --> 00:06:43,400 Speaker 1: he just worked so much. That's another way he just 135 00:06:43,440 --> 00:06:45,880 Speaker 1: became Sam Jackson. But you've you've had a great career 136 00:06:45,920 --> 00:06:49,080 Speaker 1: in Hollywood. I have. But you know, in a certain sense, 137 00:06:49,720 --> 00:06:53,159 Speaker 1: you don't fit into a box. No, I hit him. 138 00:06:53,279 --> 00:06:57,640 Speaker 1: I'm the kind of person that being at taxing, you 139 00:06:57,720 --> 00:07:00,560 Speaker 1: try to put me in a box. Still you and 140 00:07:00,600 --> 00:07:02,520 Speaker 1: I grew up in the same town. Yeah, he's still 141 00:07:02,560 --> 00:07:06,200 Speaker 1: a family history. They're all dying off. Moved out unfortunately, 142 00:07:06,720 --> 00:07:09,360 Speaker 1: my mom passing two two thousand and one, same years 143 00:07:09,360 --> 00:07:12,200 Speaker 1: and Leah, you know, so that was my transition. But 144 00:07:12,200 --> 00:07:13,680 Speaker 1: I don't have a reason to go back to Houston 145 00:07:13,720 --> 00:07:16,080 Speaker 1: and go to David Busters anymore. Yeah, or where my 146 00:07:16,120 --> 00:07:19,160 Speaker 1: boots anymore, where my hats and all that. But I 147 00:07:19,200 --> 00:07:21,880 Speaker 1: don't have any reason to go back to Houston. But yeah, 148 00:07:21,880 --> 00:07:25,240 Speaker 1: you know I was a f a. I roteoed. Uh wow, 149 00:07:25,560 --> 00:07:28,840 Speaker 1: we did. Uh you know, what we call mule saddling 150 00:07:29,240 --> 00:07:31,160 Speaker 1: was a big deal. You ever seen the mule cry? 151 00:07:31,240 --> 00:07:36,200 Speaker 1: It's really sad cry. They crab blood, they cry blood. Literally, 152 00:07:36,240 --> 00:07:38,160 Speaker 1: it's like, damn one of my treating this mule this way. 153 00:07:38,200 --> 00:07:40,920 Speaker 1: He doesn't want to move. But that's the Democrats for you, 154 00:07:43,520 --> 00:07:47,440 Speaker 1: just all right, So that's not a popular statement in Hollywood. 155 00:07:47,560 --> 00:07:52,040 Speaker 1: What jackass Democrats? Anything about the Democrats that are short 156 00:07:52,080 --> 00:07:58,400 Speaker 1: of all of the above? Uh huh? So what what's 157 00:07:58,440 --> 00:08:04,400 Speaker 1: Hollywood's politics like from the inside. I never really knew 158 00:08:04,520 --> 00:08:08,040 Speaker 1: until I went to the White House for Trump. So 159 00:08:08,440 --> 00:08:11,160 Speaker 1: supporting a policy that I believe then that's letting out 160 00:08:11,240 --> 00:08:13,520 Speaker 1: nine one present of the men that's getting out of 161 00:08:13,560 --> 00:08:15,720 Speaker 1: federal prison for the first time, fis looked like me. 162 00:08:16,600 --> 00:08:18,800 Speaker 1: So when Meek Mill didn't want to go because jay 163 00:08:18,880 --> 00:08:21,120 Speaker 1: Z told him not to go, and I understand that 164 00:08:21,120 --> 00:08:23,360 Speaker 1: you want to mess with his paper, well you're already 165 00:08:23,400 --> 00:08:24,720 Speaker 1: messing with my paper. So I had to figure out 166 00:08:24,720 --> 00:08:27,200 Speaker 1: how to make paper on my own, right, literally, Well, 167 00:08:27,360 --> 00:08:32,160 Speaker 1: I like the Federal Reserve. Yeah, I had to figure 168 00:08:32,200 --> 00:08:34,440 Speaker 1: out how to survive without you. And I've done that 169 00:08:34,480 --> 00:08:37,280 Speaker 1: for twelve years, and I always say that up to 170 00:08:37,360 --> 00:08:39,880 Speaker 1: that point, I was twelve years of slave, so you thought. 171 00:08:40,960 --> 00:08:44,880 Speaker 1: And then I happened, ironically be freed. On a tweet 172 00:08:45,000 --> 00:08:47,800 Speaker 1: from April Foods Day that I as a tweet of 173 00:08:48,040 --> 00:08:51,800 Speaker 1: Ernie saying, look at this. I'm being blown away with 174 00:08:51,800 --> 00:08:55,319 Speaker 1: this man getting off this teleprompter and helping these returning citizens, 175 00:08:55,880 --> 00:08:58,360 Speaker 1: letting them out of federal prison. Now we got a 176 00:08:58,360 --> 00:09:01,000 Speaker 1: man that's sitting here working for Anchorage. The first Orange 177 00:09:01,040 --> 00:09:06,400 Speaker 1: man supposedly bother said that the biggest cannabist company in 178 00:09:06,440 --> 00:09:09,000 Speaker 1: the world or is not in the country, selling weed. 179 00:09:10,360 --> 00:09:14,880 Speaker 1: And here I am being ostracized, and it's created for 180 00:09:14,960 --> 00:09:18,520 Speaker 1: supporting a policy that's freeing out people that look like 181 00:09:18,600 --> 00:09:22,280 Speaker 1: me that was called selling weed. So I made a 182 00:09:22,320 --> 00:09:24,640 Speaker 1: tweet saying, isn't it funny that I was talking to 183 00:09:24,679 --> 00:09:27,920 Speaker 1: this guy named a forty four Obama talking about nothing 184 00:09:27,960 --> 00:09:30,280 Speaker 1: but the black agenda, nothing about Africa where we promise. 185 00:09:30,440 --> 00:09:32,199 Speaker 1: But here I am watching this man who's supposed to 186 00:09:32,200 --> 00:09:36,360 Speaker 1: be a racist, freeing people poor people. So that was 187 00:09:36,360 --> 00:09:38,200 Speaker 1: a big issue for you. That was a big sort 188 00:09:38,200 --> 00:09:42,760 Speaker 1: of criminal Justice reform. It still is, and I'm really 189 00:09:42,800 --> 00:09:46,840 Speaker 1: disturbed because the Left has tricked these useful idiots to 190 00:09:47,000 --> 00:09:51,040 Speaker 1: the point to turn the First Step Act into not 191 00:09:51,080 --> 00:09:53,679 Speaker 1: a non secretary but like it never made history. It 192 00:09:53,720 --> 00:09:55,800 Speaker 1: was never all that fighting that everybody had to get 193 00:09:55,840 --> 00:09:59,800 Speaker 1: behind in a bipartisan way. Now now you forced this 194 00:09:59,840 --> 00:10:01,600 Speaker 1: man the Korea a ten year in prison, I think 195 00:10:01,640 --> 00:10:04,240 Speaker 1: from ten and down monuments. So now you're gonna take 196 00:10:04,280 --> 00:10:07,160 Speaker 1: these same people that look like me, most of them 197 00:10:07,200 --> 00:10:09,760 Speaker 1: not really from here, but still the opjects of you 198 00:10:09,800 --> 00:10:12,080 Speaker 1: taking these people and now I'm putting them back in 199 00:10:12,120 --> 00:10:18,560 Speaker 1: federal prison. That doesn't seem like an accident to me. Well, 200 00:10:18,559 --> 00:10:22,079 Speaker 1: and you know, look the Democrats they had eight years 201 00:10:22,080 --> 00:10:24,360 Speaker 1: of the White House under Bill Clinton. They had eight 202 00:10:24,440 --> 00:10:27,160 Speaker 1: years of the White House under Barack Obama. They didn't 203 00:10:27,160 --> 00:10:30,840 Speaker 1: pass criminal justice reform. They didn't they didn't do anything. 204 00:10:30,880 --> 00:10:34,000 Speaker 1: And First Step back, I was a big supporter of it. 205 00:10:34,880 --> 00:10:37,680 Speaker 1: I was in the Oval Office when the President signed it. 206 00:10:38,840 --> 00:10:41,800 Speaker 1: And my view, you know, I've been involved in criminal 207 00:10:41,840 --> 00:10:45,440 Speaker 1: justice a long time. I see a big difference between 208 00:10:45,559 --> 00:10:48,319 Speaker 1: violent offenders and non violent offenders. Oh what we call 209 00:10:48,720 --> 00:10:53,840 Speaker 1: survival crimes. Yeah, Look, if you've got a young African American, 210 00:10:53,960 --> 00:10:57,800 Speaker 1: young Hispanic who gets busted for possession of marijuana and 211 00:10:57,840 --> 00:11:01,880 Speaker 1: serves a long prison term. That can really be unjust. 212 00:11:02,000 --> 00:11:07,080 Speaker 1: And that's a very different crime than someone who's murdered someone, 213 00:11:07,200 --> 00:11:10,240 Speaker 1: someone who's raped someone. You commit violent crime. The whole 214 00:11:10,240 --> 00:11:13,439 Speaker 1: purpose of law enforcement is to stop violent criminals and 215 00:11:13,520 --> 00:11:15,720 Speaker 1: keep people safe. But I think the First Step Act 216 00:11:16,080 --> 00:11:18,120 Speaker 1: took a very important step to saying, if it's a 217 00:11:18,200 --> 00:11:21,839 Speaker 1: non violent crime, you know, some eighteen nineteen year old 218 00:11:21,920 --> 00:11:23,920 Speaker 1: kid who made a mistake, this may have seemed like 219 00:11:24,000 --> 00:11:26,480 Speaker 1: the only way out, and it was a mistake, but 220 00:11:27,000 --> 00:11:29,880 Speaker 1: ruining the kid's whole life is not the right step, 221 00:11:29,920 --> 00:11:36,000 Speaker 1: and it was It was remarkable that Donald Trump championed 222 00:11:36,040 --> 00:11:38,920 Speaker 1: that and that we got it done as a bipartisan matter. 223 00:11:39,280 --> 00:11:41,640 Speaker 1: Democrats talked about it forever but never did anything on 224 00:11:42,520 --> 00:11:47,720 Speaker 1: You're absolutely right, you know, Um, I probably committed more 225 00:11:47,720 --> 00:11:49,680 Speaker 1: felonies in the military than I've ever done in my 226 00:11:49,720 --> 00:11:52,320 Speaker 1: probate life. Really, I made my problem my first nine 227 00:11:52,400 --> 00:11:55,200 Speaker 1: hundred and fifty thousand dollars seven weeks in the military 228 00:11:55,240 --> 00:11:58,280 Speaker 1: in the Philippines. Some of the top biggest officers in 229 00:11:59,240 --> 00:12:01,280 Speaker 1: the thing. But I had to do it because if 230 00:12:01,280 --> 00:12:04,000 Speaker 1: you didn't, you could get fragged, literally killed in the 231 00:12:04,000 --> 00:12:06,080 Speaker 1: Philippines and Clark every base at this time. This is truth. 232 00:12:06,880 --> 00:12:09,880 Speaker 1: So it was so bad I went on. I went 233 00:12:09,920 --> 00:12:14,560 Speaker 1: so deep to survive that my commanding officer brought me 234 00:12:14,600 --> 00:12:16,600 Speaker 1: into I talked about this on my podcast. So there's 235 00:12:16,640 --> 00:12:19,560 Speaker 1: no statue limitations. And I don't know whether the bag 236 00:12:19,600 --> 00:12:21,960 Speaker 1: of money that I buried in Philippines is so don't 237 00:12:22,000 --> 00:12:25,559 Speaker 1: ask me, don't. But I had to do it because 238 00:12:25,600 --> 00:12:28,839 Speaker 1: I wanted to live. So I understand how corruptions worked 239 00:12:28,840 --> 00:12:31,480 Speaker 1: on both sides. We were busily listening to the stars 240 00:12:31,480 --> 00:12:34,160 Speaker 1: and stripes every day. The Russians are coming, The Russians 241 00:12:34,200 --> 00:12:36,360 Speaker 1: are coming. The Russians are coming, The Russians are coming. 242 00:12:36,600 --> 00:12:39,080 Speaker 1: But yet I'm doing these things with other people that 243 00:12:39,160 --> 00:12:42,000 Speaker 1: have all this metal on their shoulders, and we're all going, 244 00:12:43,720 --> 00:12:46,119 Speaker 1: like the money that we're getting paid by the taxpayers, 245 00:12:46,160 --> 00:12:50,280 Speaker 1: it wasn't enough, huh. It wasn't enough, and it didn't 246 00:12:50,320 --> 00:12:54,400 Speaker 1: stop this behavior of corruption, And it was at nineteen 247 00:12:54,520 --> 00:12:56,880 Speaker 1: I was a part of it too, at the highest level. Well, 248 00:12:57,080 --> 00:12:59,400 Speaker 1: you know, corruption can be at a big issue, can 249 00:12:59,400 --> 00:13:01,240 Speaker 1: be a big idea. One thing we talk a lot 250 00:13:01,280 --> 00:13:04,040 Speaker 1: about on the show is the kind of diversity of 251 00:13:04,120 --> 00:13:07,640 Speaker 1: thought on the right among conservatives. So so we've gotten 252 00:13:07,679 --> 00:13:11,480 Speaker 1: your kind of acting and professional evolution, but did you 253 00:13:11,520 --> 00:13:14,040 Speaker 1: have a political evolution. It would seem at one point 254 00:13:14,040 --> 00:13:15,800 Speaker 1: you would have said you were on the left and 255 00:13:15,800 --> 00:13:17,280 Speaker 1: then you were on the right. Or maybe not. Maybe 256 00:13:17,320 --> 00:13:18,840 Speaker 1: I have that wrong. Well, my acting, like I was saying, 257 00:13:18,880 --> 00:13:21,040 Speaker 1: started at nineteen. I had to act like I was 258 00:13:21,080 --> 00:13:25,240 Speaker 1: a decent human beings. As an airman, we all had 259 00:13:25,280 --> 00:13:28,920 Speaker 1: to act like we were professionals. Now imagine I'm nineteen, 260 00:13:29,120 --> 00:13:31,680 Speaker 1: but I can't go off the base and drink alcohol 261 00:13:31,720 --> 00:13:33,199 Speaker 1: because I'm not twenty one. When I got back to 262 00:13:33,200 --> 00:13:35,640 Speaker 1: hollymand aff a space. My point is the goal to 263 00:13:35,679 --> 00:13:38,720 Speaker 1: this that I saw so much, seeing so many things 264 00:13:38,760 --> 00:13:40,839 Speaker 1: that didn't add up coming as a little country boy 265 00:13:40,840 --> 00:13:42,760 Speaker 1: out of Houston. But you go to church, it was 266 00:13:42,800 --> 00:13:44,480 Speaker 1: white and it was black. There was no great it 267 00:13:44,520 --> 00:13:46,520 Speaker 1: was in between. My point of bringing that up is 268 00:13:46,920 --> 00:13:48,880 Speaker 1: is that people have to do what they have to 269 00:13:48,920 --> 00:13:52,360 Speaker 1: do if they didn't have the opportunity to do what 270 00:13:52,400 --> 00:13:55,080 Speaker 1: they were supposed to do. And what I mean by that, 271 00:13:55,559 --> 00:13:58,440 Speaker 1: I didn't get the scholarships to the colleges I wanted 272 00:13:58,440 --> 00:14:00,640 Speaker 1: to go to because there was corruption in high school. 273 00:14:00,760 --> 00:14:03,240 Speaker 1: All at Willard Ridge High School. The coach decided he's 274 00:14:03,240 --> 00:14:04,400 Speaker 1: going to get it a kick back to try to 275 00:14:04,400 --> 00:14:07,040 Speaker 1: send me to a smaller program. Well that was the 276 00:14:07,080 --> 00:14:10,600 Speaker 1: first scandal. So I've been a part of scandals since 277 00:14:10,640 --> 00:14:12,360 Speaker 1: I can remember. I've been part of dealing with things 278 00:14:12,400 --> 00:14:16,360 Speaker 1: where you go. And I've never really been political until 279 00:14:16,360 --> 00:14:18,720 Speaker 1: I decided, well who was in power? Well, Reagan was 280 00:14:18,720 --> 00:14:22,760 Speaker 1: in office, so Reagan is our boss. Didn't get to vote, 281 00:14:22,960 --> 00:14:25,760 Speaker 1: so whatever Reagan says, Reagan, we have to do. To 282 00:14:25,800 --> 00:14:27,400 Speaker 1: the point when I finally got in the middle of 283 00:14:27,440 --> 00:14:29,680 Speaker 1: an element, I'm like, why are we sending f fives 284 00:14:29,680 --> 00:14:33,360 Speaker 1: to Central America? Why are we sending live ordinance in Thailand? 285 00:14:33,920 --> 00:14:35,520 Speaker 1: Only to find out that we were doing things we 286 00:14:35,520 --> 00:14:38,720 Speaker 1: weren't supposed to do with taxpayers money. Why are we 287 00:14:38,800 --> 00:14:42,000 Speaker 1: dropping bombs Vietnam? Oh, well, somebody wanted to clear out 288 00:14:42,000 --> 00:14:45,920 Speaker 1: all the landmines. Well who for what? Not a wartime situation. 289 00:14:45,920 --> 00:14:49,280 Speaker 1: It's a lot of money. Shut up. Now I find out, Oh, well, 290 00:14:49,280 --> 00:14:51,920 Speaker 1: there's a big resort being built that you were activity 291 00:14:52,000 --> 00:14:54,040 Speaker 1: for how long? Four years? That's why I got out, 292 00:14:54,280 --> 00:14:57,600 Speaker 1: so I buy politics. I became political by saying that 293 00:14:58,040 --> 00:15:01,400 Speaker 1: I'm working for corporations. I'm not working you or you, 294 00:15:01,880 --> 00:15:03,920 Speaker 1: I'm not working for the people. And I found out 295 00:15:03,920 --> 00:15:06,880 Speaker 1: either from nineteen to twenty one, I want nothing to 296 00:15:06,920 --> 00:15:09,640 Speaker 1: do with this, and then I jumped into private sector. 297 00:15:10,720 --> 00:15:14,880 Speaker 1: Reagan needs get a bump. People die. So it seems 298 00:15:14,920 --> 00:15:18,840 Speaker 1: like I've always been reminded of people that are doing 299 00:15:19,000 --> 00:15:21,880 Speaker 1: things they shouldn't be doing, but they make it look 300 00:15:21,920 --> 00:15:25,360 Speaker 1: like it's really cool, this is the right thing to 301 00:15:25,440 --> 00:15:28,560 Speaker 1: do and it's really great. Tell us about the walk 302 00:15:28,600 --> 00:15:31,760 Speaker 1: away movement and what and what what that means to you. Well, 303 00:15:32,640 --> 00:15:37,400 Speaker 1: a friend of mine h who's a Sirian Leoni and 304 00:15:37,440 --> 00:15:39,360 Speaker 1: who went to me with the Sirian when I got 305 00:15:39,440 --> 00:15:41,040 Speaker 1: my do a citizenship and I wanted to see how 306 00:15:41,040 --> 00:15:43,480 Speaker 1: I can help the most stigmatized country in West Africa 307 00:15:43,600 --> 00:15:45,000 Speaker 1: that couldn't get any help, to talk to all the 308 00:15:45,080 --> 00:15:47,240 Speaker 1: senators Senta Obama at the time, about how we can 309 00:15:47,320 --> 00:15:50,840 Speaker 1: remove the stigma of this country. She I didn't like 310 00:15:51,000 --> 00:15:52,840 Speaker 1: how I was treated in the press again to bring 311 00:15:52,960 --> 00:15:56,840 Speaker 1: up this topsic narrative that wasn't accurate in the first place. 312 00:15:57,240 --> 00:15:59,160 Speaker 1: Of my exit of this show with mental show right. 313 00:15:59,720 --> 00:16:03,160 Speaker 1: So at this point I actually got angry after I 314 00:16:03,240 --> 00:16:05,520 Speaker 1: was a good guy, like, okay, I shouldn't said what 315 00:16:05,600 --> 00:16:07,480 Speaker 1: I said. The ghost glows I've been drinking. I told 316 00:16:07,480 --> 00:16:09,920 Speaker 1: the truth, but it wasn't a good place to say that. Okay, 317 00:16:10,080 --> 00:16:12,040 Speaker 1: you know you don't say the word that everybody's accusing 318 00:16:12,040 --> 00:16:14,040 Speaker 1: you or saying it wasn't. I had a good idea, 319 00:16:14,680 --> 00:16:17,240 Speaker 1: but I told the truth. I'm not a liar. It's truth. 320 00:16:18,280 --> 00:16:21,360 Speaker 1: So this comes back up again and again. I'm not 321 00:16:21,480 --> 00:16:26,440 Speaker 1: doing anything wrong. I decide I'm gonna walk away. So 322 00:16:26,560 --> 00:16:28,000 Speaker 1: she said you need to join the walk Away. I 323 00:16:28,040 --> 00:16:29,080 Speaker 1: didn't know what it was. I just thought it was 324 00:16:29,120 --> 00:16:31,360 Speaker 1: a good term. So everything I was tweeting that I 325 00:16:31,440 --> 00:16:34,360 Speaker 1: was pissed off about and reminding people of my good works. 326 00:16:34,400 --> 00:16:36,960 Speaker 1: I used hashtag walk away so much that it got 327 00:16:37,000 --> 00:16:40,320 Speaker 1: Brandon Stroke's attention and like, dude, that's my brand, Like 328 00:16:40,400 --> 00:16:42,520 Speaker 1: what are you doing? Are you with me? Or it 329 00:16:42,600 --> 00:16:44,520 Speaker 1: getst me? Like what's going on? So he hit me. 330 00:16:44,520 --> 00:16:48,200 Speaker 1: I'm like, who are you? I'm Brandon Strike Striker, he 331 00:16:48,200 --> 00:16:51,160 Speaker 1: said Struck. So we got together. I got on Varney 332 00:16:51,160 --> 00:16:54,520 Speaker 1: in Company. We linked up. I supported him and used 333 00:16:54,600 --> 00:16:57,440 Speaker 1: my platform, and then I started tweeting like craz started 334 00:16:57,480 --> 00:17:01,040 Speaker 1: tweeting like crazy, and it started driving the Democrats crazy. 335 00:17:01,120 --> 00:17:05,879 Speaker 1: Everybody attacked the April Run, everybody rolling mind not crush them. 336 00:17:06,440 --> 00:17:09,280 Speaker 1: Everybody that came to me Mark labout Hill, I crush 337 00:17:09,359 --> 00:17:13,000 Speaker 1: them because anybody know me on Twitter, I get very blue. Yeah, 338 00:17:13,280 --> 00:17:15,600 Speaker 1: I'm not scared. I will cuss you out in some 339 00:17:15,680 --> 00:17:20,520 Speaker 1: of the most extraordinarily creative ways on Twitter. I'm very 340 00:17:20,640 --> 00:17:23,520 Speaker 1: entertaining well, and they all blocked me. This is something 341 00:17:23,560 --> 00:17:25,840 Speaker 1: about Hollywood as in centator. You've spent a lot of 342 00:17:25,880 --> 00:17:27,399 Speaker 1: time in Hollywood. I mean, it's kind of like an 343 00:17:27,680 --> 00:17:32,399 Speaker 1: unknown fact of politics that a lot of Hollywood conservatives 344 00:17:32,680 --> 00:17:35,280 Speaker 1: have supported you for years and you've known them. And 345 00:17:36,560 --> 00:17:39,479 Speaker 1: the thing about Hollywood is they're very big characters, very 346 00:17:39,560 --> 00:17:42,880 Speaker 1: eccentric personalities out here, and yet so it's so weird 347 00:17:43,000 --> 00:17:45,040 Speaker 1: to me that you got this whole fun place with 348 00:17:45,160 --> 00:17:48,080 Speaker 1: such wild characters and personalities, and yet when it comes 349 00:17:48,119 --> 00:17:53,920 Speaker 1: to politics, they're all exactly the same. They're all identical ideology, 350 00:17:54,160 --> 00:17:56,920 Speaker 1: and if you disagree with that, you get kicked out. 351 00:17:57,359 --> 00:18:00,560 Speaker 1: And I found out why why I was talking to 352 00:18:00,640 --> 00:18:03,720 Speaker 1: a person or we will remain nameless. But I was 353 00:18:03,800 --> 00:18:05,919 Speaker 1: at an event and he asked me, man, what are 354 00:18:05,960 --> 00:18:09,520 Speaker 1: you doing. You're hurting me. That's so, what are you 355 00:18:09,600 --> 00:18:13,600 Speaker 1: talking about. You're killing me. You're on the wrong team. 356 00:18:13,960 --> 00:18:18,639 Speaker 1: He says. If I don't get this mayor reelected, if 357 00:18:18,680 --> 00:18:21,240 Speaker 1: we can't get Trump out of here, I'm gonna lose 358 00:18:21,320 --> 00:18:23,600 Speaker 1: my access to the bag. And I said, what are 359 00:18:23,600 --> 00:18:28,320 Speaker 1: you talking about? It's this man, I got great opportunities. 360 00:18:28,320 --> 00:18:30,920 Speaker 1: I got kids. Man, I want build my foundational wealth. 361 00:18:30,960 --> 00:18:32,960 Speaker 1: And these people will let me know where all the 362 00:18:33,040 --> 00:18:36,200 Speaker 1: residential places. I can get all the inside information on 363 00:18:36,280 --> 00:18:39,000 Speaker 1: how what I can invest in. If I lose them, 364 00:18:39,400 --> 00:18:41,800 Speaker 1: I don't know anybody in the conservative parties. I don't 365 00:18:41,840 --> 00:18:44,240 Speaker 1: know any Republicans. They don't like me. I don't have 366 00:18:44,280 --> 00:18:47,600 Speaker 1: a relationship with them. It has nothing to do with politics. 367 00:18:48,359 --> 00:18:50,600 Speaker 1: These people in the Hollywood are fighting for their greed. 368 00:18:50,840 --> 00:18:53,919 Speaker 1: She's saying, it's it's an establishment, it's it's a personal 369 00:18:53,960 --> 00:18:55,680 Speaker 1: interest kind of thing. I mean, you see this completely 370 00:18:55,720 --> 00:18:58,760 Speaker 1: talked about this with China, right, the relationship between Hollywood 371 00:18:58,760 --> 00:19:03,000 Speaker 1: and China really and as you know, Hollywood is terrified 372 00:19:03,200 --> 00:19:06,239 Speaker 1: piss off China. They've been broke since two thousand and eight. Yes, 373 00:19:06,359 --> 00:19:09,399 Speaker 1: China has paid for anything. There's a man named John Lasseter, 374 00:19:09,800 --> 00:19:12,399 Speaker 1: yeah used to. I think he's still run Will Smith's company. 375 00:19:12,920 --> 00:19:15,080 Speaker 1: I got invited to a special little meeting. I felt 376 00:19:15,080 --> 00:19:16,800 Speaker 1: like I got the little cans. We can hear them, 377 00:19:16,880 --> 00:19:18,399 Speaker 1: understand the Mandarin. I feel like I was at the 378 00:19:18,520 --> 00:19:21,399 Speaker 1: un so somehow I don't know why they invited me. 379 00:19:21,760 --> 00:19:24,720 Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm like, I'm like the big tabletell like 380 00:19:24,800 --> 00:19:26,200 Speaker 1: I'm the run guy. I know you show up on 381 00:19:26,240 --> 00:19:28,720 Speaker 1: podcasts and talk about it, right, so I'm there. John 382 00:19:28,800 --> 00:19:30,800 Speaker 1: Laster is arrogant, and other people are arrogant, and the 383 00:19:30,920 --> 00:19:33,800 Speaker 1: Chinese are sitting there talking about the different levels of copyrights, 384 00:19:33,880 --> 00:19:36,080 Speaker 1: like there's twenty four levels of copyright, Like if you 385 00:19:36,160 --> 00:19:37,600 Speaker 1: try to sue them on one, it's like, no, you 386 00:19:37,640 --> 00:19:41,200 Speaker 1: can't because there's I learned so much from these Chinese 387 00:19:41,400 --> 00:19:44,680 Speaker 1: and all they were asking the special meeting with SAG afterwards, 388 00:19:44,920 --> 00:19:48,600 Speaker 1: give us some respect. You didn't respect jetly enough, and 389 00:19:48,800 --> 00:19:50,760 Speaker 1: you know you didn't make him a star. Just take 390 00:19:50,840 --> 00:19:53,600 Speaker 1: one of our Chinese people and just actors and make 391 00:19:53,640 --> 00:19:56,639 Speaker 1: them a huge star, like Tom Cruise, like like Meryl Streep. 392 00:19:57,760 --> 00:20:01,840 Speaker 1: And they fell asleep the guy fell asleep on the stage. Yeah, 393 00:20:01,880 --> 00:20:04,560 Speaker 1: said John, I saw you do it. He fell asleep, Arguly, 394 00:20:04,760 --> 00:20:07,040 Speaker 1: he fell asleep on the stage in front of the 395 00:20:07,160 --> 00:20:10,879 Speaker 1: Chinese that's paying his bills, all of them, each, one 396 00:20:10,920 --> 00:20:14,160 Speaker 1: of the major executives. They fell asleep like they had 397 00:20:14,280 --> 00:20:19,280 Speaker 1: no care. They played the game like, yeah, we're broke. Well, 398 00:20:19,320 --> 00:20:21,760 Speaker 1: Hollywood is paying the bill. I mean, China rather is 399 00:20:21,760 --> 00:20:23,880 Speaker 1: paying the bills for Hollywood. But it seems that there's 400 00:20:23,920 --> 00:20:26,080 Speaker 1: a political dimension of this as well. It's not just 401 00:20:26,280 --> 00:20:29,520 Speaker 1: that they're infiltrating top Gun or something. There's an agenda 402 00:20:29,640 --> 00:20:32,000 Speaker 1: here on the international level. So as you know, I 403 00:20:32,119 --> 00:20:37,320 Speaker 1: just got sanctioned by the Communist government of China. They 404 00:20:37,400 --> 00:20:42,200 Speaker 1: announced that I am banned from China. Why because I 405 00:20:42,280 --> 00:20:45,120 Speaker 1: don't like communists and I criticize them and call them out. 406 00:20:45,160 --> 00:20:48,960 Speaker 1: The Communist Government of China. They're murderers, they're torturers. They've 407 00:20:49,000 --> 00:20:52,600 Speaker 1: got one million wagers in the concentration camps right now. 408 00:20:53,080 --> 00:20:56,160 Speaker 1: They're censoring and and by the way, among other things, 409 00:20:56,240 --> 00:21:00,960 Speaker 1: their censorship helped create the coronavirus pandemic because you had 410 00:21:01,280 --> 00:21:05,720 Speaker 1: Chinese Trusians they censored. Did you say that the viruses 411 00:21:05,760 --> 00:21:09,560 Speaker 1: from China eight is from which and the Chinese government 412 00:21:09,720 --> 00:21:12,760 Speaker 1: is response, did you just say this is a plandemic 413 00:21:12,880 --> 00:21:20,000 Speaker 1: that this is Do you know that that when the 414 00:21:20,040 --> 00:21:23,960 Speaker 1: whistleblowers Chinese doctors in December of last year, said hey, 415 00:21:24,040 --> 00:21:26,440 Speaker 1: we got an outbreak here, this is a problem, the 416 00:21:26,600 --> 00:21:31,719 Speaker 1: Chinese government arrested them and said, you cannot any responsible 417 00:21:31,760 --> 00:21:35,200 Speaker 1: government would step in, send health professionals, quarantine the people. 418 00:21:35,600 --> 00:21:37,720 Speaker 1: And this this may well have been stopped as a 419 00:21:37,760 --> 00:21:40,080 Speaker 1: regional outbreak, and all of the death all of the 420 00:21:40,160 --> 00:21:42,959 Speaker 1: economic shutdown, all of the misery could have been stopped. 421 00:21:42,960 --> 00:21:45,439 Speaker 1: But the Chinese government didn't do that. And I've been 422 00:21:45,560 --> 00:21:47,520 Speaker 1: calling them out and so you asked why why they 423 00:21:47,600 --> 00:21:49,760 Speaker 1: sanctioned me. One of the reasons they sanctioned me is 424 00:21:49,800 --> 00:21:51,960 Speaker 1: in October, I flew to Taiwan, and I flew to 425 00:21:52,040 --> 00:21:54,120 Speaker 1: Hong Kong, and I met with the protesters in Hong Kong, 426 00:21:54,640 --> 00:21:57,080 Speaker 1: two million people in the streets. I did one of 427 00:21:57,119 --> 00:21:59,840 Speaker 1: the Sunday shows dressed in all black and solid day 428 00:22:00,200 --> 00:22:02,560 Speaker 1: with the protesters. Are you asking for it? Oh? You better? 429 00:22:02,640 --> 00:22:07,200 Speaker 1: But my dad, Wait a minute, I got chill boobs. 430 00:22:09,480 --> 00:22:13,600 Speaker 1: You're gonna get us all y'all, Y'll check this room. 431 00:22:15,720 --> 00:22:19,119 Speaker 1: I'm real. I don't like communists, I don't like it 432 00:22:19,240 --> 00:22:22,320 Speaker 1: doesn't work. And yet know my dad was imprisoned and 433 00:22:22,440 --> 00:22:27,000 Speaker 1: tortured by Bautista in Cubea. Sonya was in prison and 434 00:22:27,080 --> 00:22:29,960 Speaker 1: tortured by Fidel Castro, And so when it comes to 435 00:22:30,040 --> 00:22:33,520 Speaker 1: standing up to communists, I'm eager to do so. And 436 00:22:33,560 --> 00:22:35,680 Speaker 1: I gotta tell you, Hollywood is scared to do so. 437 00:22:36,320 --> 00:22:38,639 Speaker 1: They're not scared. They just don't have a personal interest 438 00:22:38,720 --> 00:22:41,360 Speaker 1: to protect anyone who's not part of the club. It's 439 00:22:41,359 --> 00:22:45,080 Speaker 1: about building their foundational wealth. It's about like purge what 440 00:22:45,280 --> 00:22:47,720 Speaker 1: Ethan Hawk did to the character the one black character 441 00:22:47,800 --> 00:22:50,080 Speaker 1: that tried to help his dog ass He says, so 442 00:22:50,119 --> 00:22:51,680 Speaker 1: I'm gonna save you, and I'm gonna help save you, 443 00:22:51,760 --> 00:22:54,159 Speaker 1: and they still stabbed and almost trying to kill him 444 00:22:54,160 --> 00:22:56,840 Speaker 1: in the movie. It's just, you know, a thankless job. 445 00:22:56,960 --> 00:22:58,800 Speaker 1: Do you think a middle all of this, there's any 446 00:22:58,880 --> 00:23:03,760 Speaker 1: hope that you're right? I guess it was a crazy 447 00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:05,800 Speaker 1: premise to begin with. You don't think there's any way 448 00:23:05,840 --> 00:23:08,720 Speaker 1: that Hollywood's gonna break apart from the leftist consensus. The 449 00:23:08,800 --> 00:23:12,200 Speaker 1: thing enforce I wanted you to explaining the HR seven 450 00:23:12,359 --> 00:23:14,480 Speaker 1: forty eight how they became one thing and became a 451 00:23:14,600 --> 00:23:16,920 Speaker 1: care act. But that's another one. Like one minute was 452 00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:18,639 Speaker 1: this a lot of people hitting me like wait a minute, 453 00:23:18,720 --> 00:23:20,960 Speaker 1: this was done and before he shut down? You know, 454 00:23:21,080 --> 00:23:23,399 Speaker 1: lu little why is this to build this way? But 455 00:23:23,560 --> 00:23:26,800 Speaker 1: my thing is no, no, it's not about that. It's 456 00:23:26,800 --> 00:23:30,760 Speaker 1: about distraction. Huh. No, one's asking the right questions. Why 457 00:23:30,840 --> 00:23:36,480 Speaker 1: would Bob Eiger step down? Why you gotta Why can 458 00:23:36,520 --> 00:23:39,680 Speaker 1: you not open up a nation as large as California 459 00:23:40,000 --> 00:23:44,840 Speaker 1: makes all this money driving cars? Why are you gonna 460 00:23:44,880 --> 00:23:47,520 Speaker 1: lose all this money when you are a state that 461 00:23:47,960 --> 00:23:51,800 Speaker 1: has produces thirty of all of the wealth and to 462 00:23:51,960 --> 00:23:55,280 Speaker 1: this nation. Just just put up the wall and just 463 00:23:55,359 --> 00:23:58,480 Speaker 1: say you want to succeed. Just just be I would 464 00:23:58,560 --> 00:24:00,680 Speaker 1: you know, I wouldn't respect the Democrats and Gavin News 465 00:24:01,400 --> 00:24:05,200 Speaker 1: and answer Pelosi and Kamlahart. If you say you want 466 00:24:05,240 --> 00:24:08,480 Speaker 1: to kill us, you want to hurt veterans and bring 467 00:24:08,560 --> 00:24:10,680 Speaker 1: in illegal immigrants, you don't want to close your borders, 468 00:24:11,280 --> 00:24:15,960 Speaker 1: Just tell us you want to succeed. Just stop playing 469 00:24:16,080 --> 00:24:19,960 Speaker 1: at this thing. Don't hurt innocent people. Let's just get 470 00:24:20,000 --> 00:24:23,560 Speaker 1: it on. Well, Isaiah, I'll make a prediction right now, 471 00:24:23,640 --> 00:24:27,080 Speaker 1: Please do which is if Joe Biden wins, God forbid, 472 00:24:27,480 --> 00:24:29,800 Speaker 1: I don't want him to win. But if he wins, 473 00:24:29,800 --> 00:24:33,240 Speaker 1: I know what's gonna happen. The day after he wins, 474 00:24:34,080 --> 00:24:37,120 Speaker 1: they'll declare everything's better. They'll open up the schools, they'll 475 00:24:37,160 --> 00:24:39,680 Speaker 1: open up the economy. Suddenly, they'll say, everyone go back 476 00:24:39,760 --> 00:24:43,320 Speaker 1: to work. And you're seeing so many people in politics 477 00:24:43,400 --> 00:24:46,800 Speaker 1: and the media that just hate the president and they 478 00:24:46,880 --> 00:24:49,920 Speaker 1: want everything shut down. They want every school, they want 479 00:24:49,920 --> 00:24:53,080 Speaker 1: every business, they want everything shut down right until election 480 00:24:53,200 --> 00:24:56,280 Speaker 1: day because they think it'll change the album. And if 481 00:24:56,359 --> 00:24:58,720 Speaker 1: they weren't happened, I can sit here and safely tell 482 00:24:58,800 --> 00:25:03,000 Speaker 1: you that they're all six million people that will be very, 483 00:25:03,359 --> 00:25:08,680 Speaker 1: very happy to see Biden try to go onto the 484 00:25:08,720 --> 00:25:11,280 Speaker 1: White House. You will have a civil war and it 485 00:25:11,359 --> 00:25:17,080 Speaker 1: will be over within six months, guarantee. How do I know? 486 00:25:17,920 --> 00:25:20,000 Speaker 1: I know? And the one thing we know too is 487 00:25:20,080 --> 00:25:22,520 Speaker 1: unfortunately we're not going to We could go on, we 488 00:25:22,600 --> 00:25:25,359 Speaker 1: could go on for hours, but unfortunately the one thing 489 00:25:25,400 --> 00:25:28,480 Speaker 1: we do know pertaining to Hollywood is the revolution will 490 00:25:28,520 --> 00:25:31,080 Speaker 1: be televised or maybe it will be live streamed. I 491 00:25:31,119 --> 00:25:33,680 Speaker 1: should mention too, Isaiah before before we head out. You 492 00:25:33,800 --> 00:25:36,280 Speaker 1: have a show on Fox Nation. You've got Kitchen Talk 493 00:25:36,320 --> 00:25:38,560 Speaker 1: on Fox Nation, which you've got to check out with 494 00:25:38,720 --> 00:25:41,840 Speaker 1: Isaiah Washington. And the next time, well, hopefully California does 495 00:25:41,880 --> 00:25:44,800 Speaker 1: not secede before we can get the Senator back out here, 496 00:25:45,240 --> 00:25:47,680 Speaker 1: and we'll have to continue the conversation next time. I 497 00:25:47,840 --> 00:26:00,159 Speaker 1: am Michael Knowles. This is Verdict with Ted Cruz. This 498 00:26:00,359 --> 00:26:03,119 Speaker 1: episode of Verdict with Ted Cruz is being brought to 499 00:26:03,200 --> 00:26:06,600 Speaker 1: you by Jobs, Freedom and Security Pack, a political action 500 00:26:06,680 --> 00:26:11,680 Speaker 1: committee dedicated to supporting conservative causes, organizations, and candidates across 501 00:26:11,760 --> 00:26:15,080 Speaker 1: the country. 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