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Speaker 1: to Verdict with Ted Cruz. I am Michael Knowls. Be

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Speaker 1: subscribe on any platform. Merritt Garland, the Attorney General will

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Speaker 1: not stand for attacks on the integrity of Joe Biden's

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Speaker 1: Biden's DOJ, A comprehensive guide. And speaking of books, Senator,

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Speaker 1: The Attorney General six the FEDS on Donald Trump's home

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Speaker 1: we need more Gonorea in the world, or you know,

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Speaker 1: maybe the Biden White House we need more monkeypox. I mean,

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Speaker 1: it's it's this is not what the people want, and

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Speaker 1: you are right. It is designed to go after ordinary Americans.

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Speaker 1: It's not designed to go after billionaires. It's not designed

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Speaker 1: to go after giant corporations. By the way, this bill

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Speaker 1: also has massive subsidies for giant corporations, so the Democrats

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Speaker 1: are perfectly happy to take care of their friends in

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Speaker 1: corporate America. This is designed to go after small businesses.

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Speaker 1: This is designed to go after families. This is designed

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Speaker 1: to send a swarm of IRS agents like locusts to

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Speaker 1: descend on America. But even worse, overlay it with the

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Speaker 1: pattern of how the Biden administration uses law enforcement. I

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Speaker 1: think they want this to be used to harass conservatives,

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Speaker 1: to harass Republicans. We saw under Barack Obama the IRS

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Speaker 1: targeting conservative groups, Tea party groups, pro constitution groups, pro

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Speaker 1: Israel groups, targeting and weaponizing the IRS. They want eighty

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Speaker 1: seven thousand new agents to do this even more and

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Speaker 1: to give you a sense of what they envision. So

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Speaker 1: the IRS posted job postings already. They got very excited

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Speaker 1: about this, and here are the job postings they posted.

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Speaker 1: It says major duties adhere to the highest standards of conduct,

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Speaker 1: especially in maintaining honesty and integrity. Okay, that's good work.

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Speaker 1: A minimum of fifty hours per week, which may include

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Speaker 1: irregular hours, and be on call twenty four to seven

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Speaker 1: including holidays and weekends. Okay, so this is going to

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Speaker 1: be a lot of IRS agents here all the time.

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Speaker 1: All right, Okay, what about what next? Maintain a level

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Speaker 1: of fitness necessary to effectively respond to life threatening situations

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Speaker 1: on the job. Carry a firearm and be willing to

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Speaker 1: use deadly force if necessary. And here's the final bullet point,

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Speaker 1: be willing and able to participate in arrests, execution of

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Speaker 1: search warrants, especially on mar Lago and other dangerous assignments

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Speaker 1: other than the Mara Lago bit. Every word of that

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Speaker 1: is verbatim in the IRS posting, and it's so bad

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Speaker 1: they pulled it down like people suddenly noticed. Wait, you're

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Speaker 1: advertising for Jack Buddhed thugs like like that. That's what

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Speaker 1: the posting says, give us leftist with guns to go

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Speaker 1: after Conservatives and Americans. That's what they want. And the

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Speaker 1: image I have of a typical IRS employee is a

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Speaker 1: sort of bookish looking fellow with maybe a pocket protector

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Speaker 1: and a green visor on, you know, clicking on it.

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Speaker 1: So are you looking in the mirror? Micro I there

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Speaker 1: was a softball that I just sent up to you.

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Speaker 1: You know what I usually don't picture though, I usually

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Speaker 1: don't picture Rambo kicking down people's doors. Though conservatives often

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Speaker 1: speak of these government agencies as being so over the

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Speaker 1: top and aggressive against ordinary Americans. Now it seems that

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Speaker 1: the IRS is admitting it. That's what they want. Well

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Speaker 1: it is. And you know the sort of lefties on

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Speaker 1: Twitter say, oh, well, it's just tax sheets and if

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Speaker 1: you're not doing anything wrong, don't worry about it. Well,

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Speaker 1: apparently they've never been subjected to an IRS audit. Because

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Speaker 1: when you have the government come after you, number one,

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Speaker 1: it can cost you thousands or tens of thousands or

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Speaker 1: even hundreds of thousands of dollars to defend yourself. And

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Speaker 1: and especially in a context where an administration is willing

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Speaker 1: to target their enemies on that inflicting that kind of

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Speaker 1: cost and pain. One of the things I talk about

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Speaker 1: in Injustice Corrupted, I talk about True the Vote. I

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Speaker 1: talk about Katherine Engelbrecht, who's a grassroots activist. She founded

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Speaker 1: a group called King Street Patriots in Houston. I know

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Speaker 1: Catherine well, she founded a group called True the Vote.

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Speaker 1: Under Obama, they sent out the dogs to come after

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Speaker 1: and everyone went after her. So she got audited, She

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Speaker 1: and her husband's business got audited. OSHO went and did

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Speaker 1: safety inspections atf went after her husband for having sold

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Speaker 1: years earlier a gun for like two hundred dollars. Like

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Speaker 1: every federal agency, they said, this is persona non grata

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Speaker 1: as as mister Burns would say, release thounds. That's what

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Speaker 1: they did. How did it? How did this bill get through?

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Speaker 1: You were obviously there. You were staying up all night

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Speaker 1: while I've been up with my crying newborn child. You

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Speaker 1: were up for sixteen hours straight and vote a rama

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Speaker 1: to ram through this bill. I was really hoping that Cinema,

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Speaker 1: maybe Mansion, the moderate Dems who have resisted the most

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Speaker 1: outrageous predations of the Biden administration. I was hoping they

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Speaker 1: wouldn't cave, And yet they did. So what were they

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Speaker 1: each given ferraris or something? What did Biden do to

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Speaker 1: win their votes? Look, unfortunately, they're both Democrats, and so

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Speaker 1: they had previously stood up and said no, But at

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Speaker 1: the end of the day they gave in. This is

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Speaker 1: a terrible bill. So this bill spends hundreds of billions

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Speaker 1: of dollars in corporate welfare, in boondoggles. It's going to

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Speaker 1: be We're gonna see a whole lot of cylindros, We're

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Speaker 1: going to see a whole lot of quote green energy

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Speaker 1: companies headed by former Democrats, staffers with lobbyists that support Democrats,

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Speaker 1: who are suddenly getting millions or billions of dollars from

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Speaker 1: the federal government, and that money is going to be

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Speaker 1: allocated not based on what they can do, but based

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Speaker 1: on who their friends are, based on their political influence.

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Speaker 1: And they're going to take those millions and billions of

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Speaker 1: dollars and turn around and hold fundraisers for Joe Biden

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Speaker 1: and Kamala Harris and Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi. It's

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Speaker 1: pure political graft, paying off their buddies. That's one component,

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Speaker 1: but there's another component of it. So Biden and the

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Speaker 1: Democrats keep telling us that they want number one to

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Speaker 1: stop inflation. They've called this the Inflation Reduction Act. It

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Speaker 1: truly is an Orwellian name. It's like calling a can

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Speaker 1: of gasoline the fire reduction tool, like this will increase inflation.

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Speaker 1: It is literally hundreds of billions of dollars of yet

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Speaker 1: more spending. Even Bernie Sanders it admits right. Senator Bernie

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Speaker 1: Sanders came out and he referred to it as the

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Speaker 1: so called Inflation Reduction Act, because even he is socialist,

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Speaker 1: is willing to admit that's spending a bunch of money

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Speaker 1: on all this nonsense. Is not going to do anything

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Speaker 1: about inflation. Well, and he's understating it because it'll make

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Speaker 1: inflation worse, will exacerbate inflation. It is, we have inflation

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Speaker 1: because the federal government has spent hundreds of billions of

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Speaker 1: dollars it didn't have. The Democrats solution was, let's spend

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Speaker 1: hundreds of billions more. That will produce more inflation. But

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Speaker 1: they actually made it even worse because it also includes

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Speaker 1: billions of dollars of new taxes. Now, Joe Biden, every

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Speaker 1: Democrats say they want to lower the price of gas

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Speaker 1: at the pump. Now they're lying. They don't mean this.

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Speaker 1: There are lots of reasons we know they're lying. There

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Speaker 1: are lots of things Biden could do to lower prices

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Speaker 1: at the pump, like stop assaulting oil and gas production

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Speaker 1: in the US with regulations. But on the face of it,

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Speaker 1: this bill imposes billions and new taxes on oil and

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Speaker 1: gas production. If you want prices of something to go down,

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Speaker 1: you don't vote for billions and new taxes on the thing.

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Speaker 1: You're saying, we want prices to go down by and

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Speaker 1: we had what's called voter ramis, so how does that operate.

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Speaker 1: The tool that the Democrats used to pass this is

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Speaker 1: the Budget Act of nineteen seventy four, and it's what's

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Speaker 1: called reconciliation. We've talked about this before. The most important

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Speaker 1: thing about it is it's a significant exception to the filibuster.

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Speaker 1: Passing something under reconciliation takes only fifty votes, not sixty.

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Speaker 1: They're limitations. You can't do everything under reconciliation, but you

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Speaker 1: can do a lot. You can do taxes under reconciliation.

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Speaker 1: You can do a lot of spending under reconciliation. So

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Speaker 1: they used budget reconciliation. But one of the consequences of it.

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Speaker 1: Under the statute there are unlimited amendments, and normally the

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Speaker 1: majority can stop the minority from having amendments, but under reconciliation,

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Speaker 1: it's the one big exception they can't do that. So

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Speaker 1: we have the ability. I have the ability as an

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Speaker 1: individual senator to offer as many amendments as I want.

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Speaker 1: So we were there all night and well into the

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Speaker 1: next day offering amendments. We had an amendment on stripping

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Speaker 1: out the gas taxes. For all the Democrats who say

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Speaker 1: they don't want gas taxes. They don't want gas prices

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Speaker 1: to go up. Every single Democrat voted no. All of

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Speaker 1: them are on record voting in favor of new taxes

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Speaker 1: on oil and gas, which means when your gas prices

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Speaker 1: go up, you know who's to blame. So, Michael, I

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Speaker 1: had four amendments that I forced. I think it was

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Speaker 1: the most of any of the Republicans. All four I

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Speaker 1: think were important. One of the amendments I forced was

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Speaker 1: a simple amendment that deleted the hiring of eighty seven

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Speaker 1: thousand new IRS agents. Just deleted that from the bill,

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Speaker 1: said nope, we're not doubling the funding of the IRS.

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Speaker 1: We're not hiring eighty seven thousand new IRS agents. We

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Speaker 1: voted on it. It was fifty fifty. Every Republican voted

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Speaker 1: yes for my amendment. Every Democrat voted no. That means

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Speaker 1: every single Democrat was the deciding vote. Democrats in Georgia

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Speaker 1: and Arizona, Nevada, New Hampshire, all of them were the

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Speaker 1: deciding vote in favor of eighty seven thousand new IRS agents.

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Speaker 1: I had another amendment that would prohibit the federal government

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Speaker 1: from selling oil from our strategic petroleum reserve. Two Communist China,

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Speaker 1: which is you know, Joe Biden is sold over two

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Speaker 1: million barrels of oil to communist China from the strategic

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Speaker 1: Petroleum Reserve. We voted on it. Every Democrat but four

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Speaker 1: voted against it, so there were four. This particular amendment

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Speaker 1: was at a sixty vote threshold, so they had some

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Speaker 1: votes to give away. Normally amendments are at a fifty

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Speaker 1: vote threshold, but in this case we had a ruling

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Speaker 1: from the parliamentarian that set it at sixty. So four Democrats,

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Speaker 1: the two from Georgia, one from Nevada, and one from

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Speaker 1: New Hampshire voted with me, but every other Democrat voted

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Speaker 1: against it. So Mark Kelly and Arizona voted for Joe

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Speaker 1: Biden to sell oil paid for by the taxpayers to

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Speaker 1: communist China. By the way, Joe Mansion voted for selling

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Speaker 1: oil to communist China. John Tester not on the ballot

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Speaker 1: this time, but it'll be on the ballot in two years.

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Speaker 1: In Montana voted for Biden to be able to sell

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Speaker 1: oil to communist China. These are dumb, dumb votes, but

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Speaker 1: the Democrats voted it down. Let me tell you my

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Speaker 1: final two amendments, because they're going to blow you away.

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Speaker 1: The DC public schools have implemented a vaccine mandate that

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Speaker 1: they require all students in order to go to school,

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Speaker 1: have a COVID vaccine, and that's kicking in in the

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Speaker 1: next week or two when school starts. Here the stats

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Speaker 1: in DC of the students in DC, roughly eighty five

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Speaker 1: percent of the students have been vaccinated. That means fifteen

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Speaker 1: percent of the students have not. So the DC schools

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Speaker 1: have decided to throw fifteen percent of the students out

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Speaker 1: of school. It gets even worse when you look at

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Speaker 1: the demographics among African American students and they're an enormous

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Speaker 1: percentage of the students in DC schools or African American.

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Speaker 1: Sixty percent of African American students in the DC public

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Speaker 1: schools are vaccinated. That means forty percent are not. I

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Speaker 1: forced to vote to eliminate the DC vaccine mandate for COVID.

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Speaker 1: Every single Democrat voted no. Every one of them voted

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Speaker 1: literally to throw forty percent of the black kids out

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Speaker 1: of school. And by the way, forever to literally you're

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Speaker 1: a fourteen year old African American kid in DC. Guess what,

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Speaker 1: you're a high school dropout now. Because every Democrat voted

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Speaker 1: unless you comply to their demand to get this vaccine,

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Speaker 1: you're done with schools. Sucks to be you. It was

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Speaker 1: a stunning vote, and every single one of them voted

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Speaker 1: to throw those kids out of school. Let me tell

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Speaker 1: you my final amendment. We've talked a lot about Merrick

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Speaker 1: Garland and the FBI targeting parents as domestic terrorist under

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Speaker 1: the Patriot Act. And by the way, even though Garland

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Speaker 1: tried to backtrack in front of Senate Judiciary Committee last week,

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Speaker 1: we had the head of the FBI in front of

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Speaker 1: the Senate Judiciary Committee. I asked him about it. The

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Speaker 1: FBI has interviewed, has interrogated dozens of parents because they

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Speaker 1: spoke up at school boards. They're implementing this. They are

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Speaker 1: doing this because I remember that they called them these

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Speaker 1: parents domestic terrorists, and you thought, yeah, well that's just

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Speaker 1: this is insane. But I at least believed there's no

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Speaker 1: way that they're actually going to act on this. They're

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Speaker 1: doing it all over the country. Wow, Wow, they are

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Speaker 1: doing it all over the country. They are bringing in

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Speaker 1: moms and dads, they're interrogating them. And so I had

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Speaker 1: a imple amendment that said the FBI should not target

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Speaker 1: parents as domestic terrorists for speaking up at school boards.

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Speaker 1: Every single Democrat voted no, failed by one vote. That

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Speaker 1: means every Democrat on the ballot November is the deciding

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Speaker 1: vote in favor of the FBI targeting you, targeting mom

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Speaker 1: and dad as a domestic terrorist. That is a It

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Speaker 1: was an amazingly stupid vote. I actually think if they

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Speaker 1: had any sense, like if Schumer were not such a

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Speaker 1: wild eyed partisan, he would have told all his guys

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Speaker 1: vote for that, let's all get on record and say,

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Speaker 1: don't target parents as domestic terrorists. That would have been

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Speaker 1: a rational Democrat responding to that vote. The fact that

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Speaker 1: he said, every one of you go walk the plank. Listen.

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Speaker 1: This issue single handedly elected Glen Yunkan in Virginia, and

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Speaker 1: now every Democrat is on record saying we're with the

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Speaker 1: g man going after mom and dad. It was stunning

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Speaker 1: and radical and extreme. That is surprising because I understand

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Speaker 1: the Democrat vote on the COVID vaccine. The consequences are horrific,

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Speaker 1: but I get it. They're saying, we are so bought

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Speaker 1: in on vaccine mandates. It's so important to us. We're

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Speaker 1: willing to take the political heat for this vote. But

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Speaker 1: I think calling parents domestic terrorists, that's really so important

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Speaker 1: to you that you're going to risk what happened to

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Speaker 1: Yuncan in Virginia, what we're seeing play out in Florida.

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Speaker 1: This education issue so important right now to voters, you're

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Speaker 1: really going to risk that just so that you can

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Speaker 1: keep sicking the federal government on concerned parents. And they're saying, yes,

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Speaker 1: the Democrats are saying that is important enough to us

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Speaker 1: to risk it. Well, and you know why they do it, Michael.

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Speaker 1: They do it because they know the corporate media is corrupt.

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Speaker 1: They know they won't get called out about on it.

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Speaker 1: So you and I are talking about it, But let

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Speaker 1: me ask you, have you seen any TV station talking

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Speaker 1: about that vote. I mean, we do have better ratings

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Speaker 1: in CNN, but do you definitely have better ratings than

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Speaker 1: their shows? But you don't. You're not seeing this anywhere

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Speaker 1: in the liberal press. It's why Democrats are so radical

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Speaker 1: and so extreme because they're and again I talk about

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Speaker 1: it in Justice Corrupted, which, by the way, everyone going

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Speaker 1: do it right now. Go to Amazon, click pre order

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Speaker 1: but I talk about the corrupt corporate media has played

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Speaker 1: a major role in producing this corruption because it teaches

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Speaker 1: democrats I can abuse my power and I won't get

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Speaker 1: called out on it, that there will be no consequences.

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Speaker 1: And so if you're a Democrat and you're like, should

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Speaker 1: I vote on whether or not the FBI should target

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Speaker 1: parents as domestic terrorists, Well, I'll just vote party line

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Speaker 1: because no reporter will ask me about it. No headline

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Speaker 1: back home, no coverage with nothing will address this issue.

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Speaker 1: So I'm safe and immune. If we have some campaigns

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Speaker 1: in November that don't suck, that are actually competent and

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Speaker 1: capable on the Republican side, every one of these votes

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Speaker 1: out to appear in campaign ads. But before the ads,

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Speaker 1: you ought to have real journalists asking about it. But

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Speaker 1: the number of real journalists left in the world is

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Speaker 1: vanishingly small. Before we go, Senator, speaking of accountability, I

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Speaker 1: want to get to at least one question from the

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Speaker 1: Verdict plus subscribers, And so this question comes from Eileen,

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Speaker 1: who says, I kind of feel like this raid on

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Speaker 1: Mara Lago could also be a smokescreen for something else

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Speaker 1: that they want to distract us from. They do it

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Speaker 1: all the time. Does anything come to mind? November can't

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Speaker 1: come fast enough. PS. I love to barbecue, but I

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Speaker 1: can't find the Jack Daniels original recipe, any replacement suggestions

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Speaker 1: from attack X. And I think even casey masterpiece is gone.

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Speaker 1: So we're really seeing two distinct issues brought up in

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Speaker 1: this question. I'll let you take them in either order

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Speaker 1: you prefer, all right, So I'll start with with with

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Speaker 1: just a confession that I like to eat barbecue, but

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Speaker 1: I'm not much of a barbecure myself. Um. I have

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Speaker 1: a big green egg in the backyard that that I'll

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Speaker 1: grill up a burger a steak on. But to be honest,

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Speaker 1: for good barbecue, I just go to a Texas barbecue

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Speaker 1: joint and eat it there. So um, I have nothing,

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Speaker 1: nothing of value to impart uh. In terms of the

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Speaker 1: best way to prepare it, I find the best way

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Speaker 1: to prepare it just ordering it, um right. The best

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Speaker 1: way to make it, make it is make a reservation.

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Speaker 1: Fair enough, fair enough, it's a good it's a it's

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Speaker 1: a good manly answer. Just call it it is. But

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Speaker 1: you know, look, I can grill up a burger or

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Speaker 1: steak that that much I can do but but, but

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Speaker 1: my my cooking repertoire is pretty limited. Um YEA look,

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Speaker 1: in terms of a distraction, I mean, it's right to

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Speaker 1: be skeptical. They're doing a ton that is bad. I

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Speaker 1: don't think this was deliberately a distraction. I think this

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Speaker 1: was tone deaf. I think this was we talked about

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Speaker 1: it earlier in the pod. The partisans at DOJ. They've

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Speaker 1: drunk the kool aid. Everyone they know hates Donald Trump.

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Speaker 1: He is the devil, they believe, and so everyone they

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Speaker 1: know has been like eagerly, Like you know, if you

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Speaker 1: saw Stephen Colbert who had, you know, practically an epileptic

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Speaker 1: seizure he was so excited with the FBI raid. I

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Speaker 1: think it's it's it's the bias of reinforcements that they're

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Speaker 1: just tone deaf and eager to charge in do I

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Speaker 1: think it is a carefully calibrated plan to distract from

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Speaker 1: something specific and otherwise no, is it part of distracting

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Speaker 1: from the disaster of inflation and gas prices and crime

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Speaker 1: and open borders. Yes, so all of January sixth is

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Speaker 1: a political circus designed to distract from the failures of

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Speaker 1: the Biden agenda. So in that context, This is also

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Speaker 1: a distraction from that, but I don't think it's specifically

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Speaker 1: hiding one particular pernicious thing, in part because I think

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Speaker 1: they're doing one hundred pernicious things all at once, right,

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Speaker 1: and it never ascribed to four dhs that which is

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Speaker 1: equally explained by a blunder and incompetence. Very good point.

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Speaker 1: Now there is much more to discuss, but not with me.

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Speaker 1: The rest to discuss will be for the Verdict plus

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Speaker 1: subscribers with our friend Liz Wheeler on cloakroom. Liz, what

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Speaker 1: will you be talking about High Michal High Center. I

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Speaker 1: gotta say, after sitting here and watching and listening to

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Speaker 1: this ups for the past hour, this feels very different

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Speaker 1: to me. There have been a lot of federal agencies

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Speaker 1: who have abused their power and targeted the American people

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Speaker 1: a lot of different times, and I think this time

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Speaker 1: the American people feel that a line has been crossed.

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Speaker 1: I've never seen the emotion and the passion and the

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Speaker 1: fury as I've seen this week. It just feels different.

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Speaker 1: On the cloakroom, Senator, and I'm addressing this to you

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Speaker 1: because you don't know what we're going to talk about

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Speaker 1: until I tell you on air. We're going to talk

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Speaker 1: about Alex Jones. I know interesting topic. There's actually some

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Speaker 1: very interesting legal questions as it pertains to the defamation

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Speaker 1: trial that Alex Jones just underwent, about slander and libel

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Speaker 1: and the different types of damages, whether they're compensatory, whether

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Speaker 1: they're punitive and prool an unusual punishment. So please join

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Speaker 1: us over there. We're going to be talking about that.

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Speaker 1: more about the gay frogs. It's amazing that the man

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Speaker 1: was right on the gay frogs. We have to leave

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Speaker 1: it there on Michael Knowles. This is Verdict with Ted Cruz.

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