WEBVTT - Putting Points on the Board with Eric Schmitt 0:00:00.560 --> 0:00:03.240 So I don't know if you guys watch The Bachelor, 0:00:03.840 --> 0:00:06.440 but every season they say, oh, this is the most 0:00:06.559 --> 0:00:10.160 dramatic season ever. I feel like we often say that 0:00:10.240 --> 0:00:14.360 with elections, this is the most important election ever. But 0:00:14.480 --> 0:00:17.640 it is this November. We have a choice to make 0:00:17.760 --> 0:00:20.639 about what kind of country we want to be. Do 0:00:20.680 --> 0:00:23.480 we want to be a free country like our founding 0:00:23.520 --> 0:00:27.200 fathers envisioned, like the Founding generation envisioned, or do we 0:00:27.240 --> 0:00:29.720 want to be a tyranny where you have a dictator 0:00:29.920 --> 0:00:32.840 like Joe Biden, who went out and addressed the nation 0:00:32.880 --> 0:00:38.200 in a primetime speech at Philadelphia's Independence Hall, a place 0:00:38.240 --> 0:00:41.400 where both the United States Declaration of Independence in the 0:00:41.479 --> 0:00:44.720 United States Constitution were debated and adopted by our founding 0:00:44.760 --> 0:00:48.560 fathers in the Founding Generation, who went out there, looked 0:00:48.560 --> 0:00:51.440 Americans in the eye, and a primetime address in a 0:00:51.560 --> 0:00:55.000 slap to the face of that legacy, making a mockery 0:00:55.040 --> 0:00:59.560 of the sacrifice that those brave men charted. They charted 0:00:59.600 --> 0:01:02.080 a different path for our nation, making a mockery out 0:01:02.080 --> 0:01:05.160 of this constitutional republic, making a mockery out of her freedoms, 0:01:05.480 --> 0:01:07.640 making a mockery out of our country. And sitting there 0:01:07.640 --> 0:01:13.600 and slandering seventy million patriotic Americans, smearing them, saying that 0:01:13.680 --> 0:01:15.560 they are the enemy. There are enemies of the state. 0:01:16.000 --> 0:01:18.759 And you saw that that imagery of Joe Biden sitting 0:01:18.800 --> 0:01:22.360 there with the blood red stage, the Marines and the 0:01:22.360 --> 0:01:25.280 backdrop looking like he's standing in front of the gates 0:01:25.319 --> 0:01:28.039 of Hell as a dictator. I mean he is. But 0:01:28.120 --> 0:01:30.960 that was intentional. I mean, he wanted to stoke fear 0:01:31.360 --> 0:01:34.880 and people. The message was clear, I'm in control. Submit 0:01:35.280 --> 0:01:37.440 That's what he wanted. And what he was doing was 0:01:37.600 --> 0:01:40.920 the mother ing of seventy five million Americans, You and me, 0:01:41.319 --> 0:01:43.280 the people listening to this podcast, many of them are 0:01:43.360 --> 0:01:45.200 or maybe you didn't vote for Trump, that's fine too, 0:01:45.360 --> 0:01:48.000 but it was the mothering of them. And we've seen 0:01:48.080 --> 0:01:50.480 this in society's if you go through it, I mean, 0:01:50.520 --> 0:01:52.040 this has happened before. I mean you look at the 0:01:52.040 --> 0:01:55.800 most extreme example, the horrors we witnessed in Europe and Germany. 0:01:56.120 --> 0:01:59.120 I mean, that was a uniquely terrible time in history. 0:01:59.160 --> 0:02:00.880 I pray to God we ver see that again. I 0:02:00.960 --> 0:02:03.240 don't think we're heading down that path, but it's always 0:02:03.280 --> 0:02:05.240 instructive to look at history, and you can look at 0:02:05.280 --> 0:02:08.160 Holocaust survivors like Paul Herzegg and he said that he 0:02:08.200 --> 0:02:12.600 remembers the precise moment he was made to feel fundamentally 0:02:12.919 --> 0:02:17.079 different in n after the Nazis invaded his home country 0:02:17.080 --> 0:02:19.519 of Hungary, and he said, it didn't take very long 0:02:19.560 --> 0:02:22.200 before the edict came out every Jew must wear yellow star. 0:02:22.919 --> 0:02:25.360 This is the first time I realized that I'm different, 0:02:25.480 --> 0:02:27.520 even among my friends. We've we've seen it all over 0:02:27.560 --> 0:02:29.400 the world, not just in what we saw in Germany 0:02:29.400 --> 0:02:32.839 and Europe. We've seen are in Cambodia, Rwanda, Turkey, We've 0:02:32.840 --> 0:02:35.280 saw it in the Jim Crow South. I mean, is 0:02:35.280 --> 0:02:37.160 that the kind of stuff we want to return to? 0:02:37.840 --> 0:02:40.040 This other rang of people, but this time based on 0:02:40.120 --> 0:02:46.040 political views seventy million Americans, the intentional dehumanization of this group, 0:02:46.040 --> 0:02:49.639 which then sets up a path for potential discrimination and persecution. 0:02:50.120 --> 0:02:51.959 They've called this fascist. I mean, think about it. The 0:02:52.000 --> 0:02:54.200 guy the president in the United States, the guy who 0:02:54.320 --> 0:02:56.679 is quite literally at this time, trying to imprison his 0:02:56.720 --> 0:02:59.839 political opponent, has thoughts on fascism, uh, you know, and 0:02:59.840 --> 0:03:02.280 and less it's an instructional how too. He doesn't really 0:03:02.320 --> 0:03:04.239 have a leg to stand on. But we've seen this 0:03:04.360 --> 0:03:08.160 mothering happen in more recent events, right, I mean remember 0:03:08.440 --> 0:03:11.720 COVID and the forced vaccinations of Americans. I mean Joe 0:03:11.760 --> 0:03:14.640 Biden knew that the COVID shots would not stop the 0:03:14.639 --> 0:03:18.440 spread of COVID, Yet he went out there and outsweeping mandates, 0:03:18.440 --> 0:03:21.000 trying to force the vaccination on you know, at least 0:03:21.040 --> 0:03:23.880 a hundred million Americans, almost two thirds of all workers. 0:03:23.880 --> 0:03:26.440 In addition of purging the military of people who didn't 0:03:26.440 --> 0:03:28.639 want to get at healthcare workers as well. This is 0:03:28.680 --> 0:03:30.960 one of the reasons I chose not to get vaccinated one. 0:03:30.960 --> 0:03:32.560 I didn't need it too. I saw it as an 0:03:32.560 --> 0:03:35.000 affront to me and my freedom. I saw it as tyranny. 0:03:35.200 --> 0:03:38.800 It was my own fight against tyranny to the degree 0:03:38.800 --> 0:03:40.680 I could. And if you saw what he did, even 0:03:40.680 --> 0:03:43.440 ahead of Christmas, he warned of this winner of severe 0:03:43.480 --> 0:03:46.520 illness and death for the unvaccinated, for themselves, their families, 0:03:46.560 --> 0:03:50.200 and the hospitals soon overwhelmed. And he sent that message intentionally, 0:03:50.200 --> 0:03:53.240 and the message was clear, your unvaccinated family members and 0:03:53.280 --> 0:03:56.680 your unvaccinated friends are a danger to society. They are 0:03:56.720 --> 0:03:58.680 a threat. It was a stoke division. It was to 0:03:58.800 --> 0:04:01.320 other the unvaccednade in the country. I felt it. I 0:04:01.320 --> 0:04:03.240 had friends and family turned their backs to me. I'm 0:04:03.240 --> 0:04:06.200 sure many people listening have experienced this, either during COVID 0:04:06.600 --> 0:04:10.440 or just with stuff with Trump stuff politics. We've seen 0:04:10.480 --> 0:04:13.200 the other ring happen in places like Canada. You had 0:04:13.280 --> 0:04:17.480 the Trudeau regime freeze bank accounts belonging to the Freedom 0:04:17.520 --> 0:04:20.320 Convoy protesters and their supporters, I mean authorities in that 0:04:20.440 --> 0:04:24.680 country seized bank accounts associated with protest organizers and and 0:04:24.720 --> 0:04:27.599 businesses tied to the blockade. You have the two main 0:04:27.800 --> 0:04:30.760 organizers are expected to go on trial in September of 0:04:30.800 --> 0:04:33.200 two thousand and twenty three. And in the IRN is 0:04:33.200 --> 0:04:37.520 that Joe Biden says that this is because Maga Conservatives 0:04:37.520 --> 0:04:42.320 are dangerous because they questioned election. But then he hires 0:04:42.440 --> 0:04:46.440 a spokesperson who has a history of questioning elections. Or 0:04:46.520 --> 0:04:49.320 you look at Nancy Pelosi tweeting, and I think it 0:04:49.400 --> 0:04:53.520 was seen that election was hijack so clearly they don't 0:04:53.560 --> 0:04:56.520 have a problem with questioning elections. And then he cites 0:04:56.680 --> 0:05:01.919 violence which we saw on January six, but was silent. 0:05:02.120 --> 0:05:05.000 Cities burned down, and his dozens of people were murdered. 0:05:05.720 --> 0:05:09.680 He was silent when there's an attempted assassination against Supreme 0:05:09.680 --> 0:05:12.960 Court Justice Brett Cabina. I don't remember strongly worded defenses 0:05:13.400 --> 0:05:16.839 of Brett Kavanaugh. We saw some you know, mealy mouse stuff, 0:05:16.880 --> 0:05:20.120 nothing strong. I don't remember hearing from him in any 0:05:20.160 --> 0:05:23.800 strong way or even at all during the assassination attempt 0:05:23.800 --> 0:05:27.280 against congressional Republicans that left the House Manority whip leader 0:05:27.720 --> 0:05:31.000 Steve Scalise, who was shot critically injured during the attack, 0:05:31.080 --> 0:05:34.680 had to have several surgeries to save his life. Where 0:05:34.720 --> 0:05:37.679 was Joe Biden? Then? You know? I don't remember hearing 0:05:37.680 --> 0:05:41.480 from him heading into the twenty six election when in 0:05:41.640 --> 0:05:45.440 San Jose protesters attacked Trump supporters and are on video 0:05:46.040 --> 0:05:50.080 of punching Trump supporters. I don't remember hearing from him. 0:05:50.080 --> 0:05:52.520 On August nine, two thousand and sixteen, when a sixty 0:05:52.560 --> 0:05:54.680 two year old man wearing a Donald Trump shirt was 0:05:54.800 --> 0:05:58.719 viciously attacked by a crowbar wielding man. I don't remember 0:05:58.720 --> 0:06:01.360 hearing from him. In October or of two thousands sixteen, 0:06:01.480 --> 0:06:05.680 when the Republican headquarters in North Carolina was firebombed. I 0:06:05.680 --> 0:06:09.920 don't remember hearing from him in at the inauguration when uh, 0:06:09.920 --> 0:06:12.120 they're setting the city on fire and setting cars on fire, 0:06:12.600 --> 0:06:15.479 or in March when a Tennessee mortarists and try to 0:06:15.640 --> 0:06:19.120 run Representative David Kustof off the road. I mean, the 0:06:19.160 --> 0:06:20.960 list goes on. There's so many examples. I just I 0:06:21.000 --> 0:06:22.960 don't have time to give him, so I don't remember 0:06:23.400 --> 0:06:27.120 him being there. Or when Maxine Waters was encouraging, you know, 0:06:27.200 --> 0:06:29.960 protesters and rioters to get up in the faces of people, 0:06:30.000 --> 0:06:32.919 or Kamala Harris told Jacob Blake who showed up at 0:06:32.920 --> 0:06:35.839 a woman's house to revictimize her and pulled a knife 0:06:35.920 --> 0:06:38.360 on police officers. Kamala Harris, his own vice president who 0:06:38.400 --> 0:06:41.000 he picked, said she was proud of him. Where was 0:06:41.040 --> 0:06:44.160 he then? Or when she was encouraging people to bail 0:06:44.200 --> 0:06:47.480 out violent rioters? Where was he then? Does he have 0:06:47.520 --> 0:06:50.600 a problem with that violence? But we all know why 0:06:50.680 --> 0:06:54.160 he's dehumanizing us, why he's demonizing us. One he wants 0:06:54.200 --> 0:06:56.640 to use the power of government against us. We've seen 0:06:56.680 --> 0:06:59.760 this happen with President Trump. We've seen it happen with 0:06:59.839 --> 0:07:04.599 the Department of Justice labeling parents as terrorists, or what 0:07:04.640 --> 0:07:06.039 we're going to see with the I R S soon 0:07:06.120 --> 0:07:09.279 with the beefed up EIGHTI seven thousand agents, so we've 0:07:09.320 --> 0:07:13.600 seen that. But also because he's a failing regime. Nothing 0:07:13.600 --> 0:07:16.360 in this country is going right. He's ruined everything, inflation, 0:07:16.600 --> 0:07:20.200 the border, crime, in the streets, nothing is going right. 0:07:20.240 --> 0:07:22.320 And everybody knows that. The majority of the country thinks 0:07:22.360 --> 0:07:26.680 we're on the wrong track. He's destroying the country. So 0:07:26.720 --> 0:07:30.160 this is desperation. It's a man clinging to power as 0:07:30.160 --> 0:07:33.360 he feels power slipping through his hands like sand. He's 0:07:33.400 --> 0:07:36.920 losing power. And this is what desperate people do, desperate things. 0:07:36.920 --> 0:07:40.040 And it's desperation to go on a primetime speech and 0:07:40.120 --> 0:07:44.640 label seventy five million Americans as enemies of the state. 0:07:45.240 --> 0:07:48.480 And I think there's a real effort to demoralize conservatives 0:07:48.640 --> 0:07:51.680 in the turnout for the mid terms. Even see a 0:07:51.720 --> 0:07:56.320 lot of these bogus registered voter surveys which helped Democrats. 0:07:56.840 --> 0:07:59.440 When you look at likely voter surveys, Republicans are doing 0:07:59.520 --> 0:08:03.200 much better. Of the landscape looks much more favorable two Republicans. 0:08:03.240 --> 0:08:05.040 I mean, there was even a recent pull from the 0:08:05.080 --> 0:08:09.520 Trafalgar Group showing the Republican in Washington State who's running 0:08:09.520 --> 0:08:14.160 for Senate in striking distance in Washington State. That's insane. 0:08:14.560 --> 0:08:17.160 So don't believe a lot of this garbage you're being fed. 0:08:17.280 --> 0:08:19.280 Or you can look at the state of Florida. Republican 0:08:19.400 --> 0:08:23.559 registered Republicans now outnumber Democrats by over two hundred fifty 0:08:23.640 --> 0:08:27.800 thousand people in Florida, which used to be a purple state. 0:08:28.280 --> 0:08:32.440 You look at New Jersey new registration number. Since Democrats 0:08:32.480 --> 0:08:36.199 netted seven thousand, six hundred eighty four new voters, Republicans 0:08:36.280 --> 0:08:41.600 gained seventy nine thousand, one hundred and eleven. So don't 0:08:41.679 --> 0:08:45.199 let yourself get demoralized, don't let yourself fiel down trodden. 0:08:45.200 --> 0:08:47.880 This is what they want. We've got to turn out 0:08:47.880 --> 0:08:50.439 in November. This is one of the most important elections, 0:08:50.440 --> 0:08:52.800 if not the most important election of our lifetime. And 0:08:52.840 --> 0:08:56.880 we've got a candidate who is running for Senate in Missouri. 0:08:57.000 --> 0:08:59.640 You know him as the Attorney General, Eric Schmidt. He's awesome, 0:08:59.760 --> 0:09:02.440 right how he is because of a lawsuit that he 0:09:02.840 --> 0:09:06.680 and the Attorney General of Louisiana filed has uncovered critical 0:09:06.720 --> 0:09:10.560 information about collusion between our own government and big tech 0:09:10.640 --> 0:09:13.200 and trying to silence and censor Americans. So we're going 0:09:13.240 --> 0:09:15.720 to talk to him about that he also fought on 0:09:15.760 --> 0:09:18.559 the vaccine as well to try to protect Americans from 0:09:18.559 --> 0:09:21.720 having to get it. This guy is a fighter and 0:09:21.800 --> 0:09:24.600 he's running for Senate. So we're going to talk to 0:09:24.679 --> 0:09:27.600 him about everything I just laid out in my concerns 0:09:28.360 --> 0:09:30.960 and hearing from him someone who is going to go 0:09:31.040 --> 0:09:33.320 to the Senate and fight for us, going to go 0:09:33.360 --> 0:09:35.360 to the Senate and fight this tyranny that we are 0:09:35.400 --> 0:09:40.040 seeing and we are experiencing in America. So with that, 0:09:40.240 --> 0:09:43.240 the current Attorney General of Missouri, or Schmidt, but soon 0:09:43.320 --> 0:09:56.800 to be Senator enjoy Attorney General Eric Schmidt, thanks so 0:09:56.880 --> 0:09:59.080 much for joining the show. You're running for Senate, so 0:09:59.200 --> 0:10:01.440 you're a busy I right now, so I really appreciate 0:10:01.480 --> 0:10:03.840 you taking the time. It's great to be with you. 0:10:04.080 --> 0:10:07.360 It really is. I mean, what a time to be life. 0:10:07.520 --> 0:10:11.120 We watched that speech from Joe Biden, you know, taking 0:10:11.160 --> 0:10:14.480 the stage in a primetime address to essentially say that 0:10:14.559 --> 0:10:18.000 seventy five million Americans are enemies of the state. I 0:10:18.000 --> 0:10:19.920 want to play a clip and then get your reaction 0:10:20.080 --> 0:10:22.760 on the other side. What as I stand here tonight, 0:10:23.960 --> 0:10:29.440 equality and democracy are under assault. We do ourselves no 0:10:29.600 --> 0:10:33.320 favor to pretend otherwise, too much of what's happening in 0:10:33.360 --> 0:10:38.840 our country today is not normal. Donald Trump and the 0:10:38.880 --> 0:10:45.360 Migor Republicans representing extremism that threatens the very foundations of 0:10:45.360 --> 0:10:48.760 our republic. Why do you think he gave that speech? 0:10:48.840 --> 0:10:52.320 What what's the intent behind it? I think it's meant 0:10:52.320 --> 0:10:56.600 to distract from his abysmal record as president. I mean, 0:10:56.640 --> 0:10:59.680 you see, look, coming out of the Trump presidency, we had, 0:11:00.360 --> 0:11:03.360 you know, record job growth and wage growth. You had 0:11:03.400 --> 0:11:06.400 a secure border, you had energy dominance, and that has 0:11:06.440 --> 0:11:09.800 all gone away, and you how have record inflation. Um, 0:11:09.960 --> 0:11:13.160 you have a struggling economy. We have a president that's 0:11:13.200 --> 0:11:16.480 going to Saudi Arabia begging for oil and shipping our 0:11:16.720 --> 0:11:20.640 strategic national patroleum to China with gas prices that are 0:11:20.640 --> 0:11:23.000 sky high. I mean, and and and and by the way, 0:11:23.000 --> 0:11:25.000 a totally poorous order where you have sent and all 0:11:25.080 --> 0:11:27.920 streaming across the border, killing people in our community. So 0:11:28.240 --> 0:11:31.080 his record is terrible. So all he has left is 0:11:32.200 --> 0:11:36.400 really kind of an unprecedented assault by an American president 0:11:36.520 --> 0:11:41.199 on half of the country. I mean, that is essentially categorizing, 0:11:41.760 --> 0:11:46.160 you know, seventy five million people as the enemy. And 0:11:46.200 --> 0:11:48.800 it's just it's a very desperate attempt, and I think 0:11:48.800 --> 0:11:51.199 it came across as such, I hope to most of 0:11:51.240 --> 0:11:54.240 the American people that, um, you know, this is just 0:11:54.480 --> 0:11:58.320 this president is completely lost his bearings. The left, which 0:11:58.360 --> 0:12:01.440 controls the Democrat Party is hell been on power and control. 0:12:01.480 --> 0:12:04.640 And I think they know reckoning is coming Lisa in November, 0:12:04.679 --> 0:12:07.240 and this is just their latest attempt to distract from that. Well, 0:12:07.240 --> 0:12:09.200 and we've already seen them, you know, walk it back, 0:12:09.720 --> 0:12:12.800 clearly realizing that having him in front of this freery 0:12:12.880 --> 0:12:15.160 red backdrop, looking like he's in front of the gates 0:12:15.160 --> 0:12:17.439 of Hell with his arms up like a dictator, might 0:12:17.440 --> 0:12:22.679 not be the best imagery heading into a deter images matter, right, 0:12:22.679 --> 0:12:25.040 I mean Reagan of course, you know, standing in front 0:12:25.080 --> 0:12:28.360 of the Brandenburg Gate and saying Mr Gorba chop teared 0:12:28.360 --> 0:12:30.680 down this wall. And then you you having a president 0:12:30.720 --> 0:12:32.679 now that looks like it's out of a movie, like 0:12:32.760 --> 0:12:35.920 he's like a sith lord, you know, standing in front 0:12:35.960 --> 0:12:39.360 of these red gates demanding you know some sort of 0:12:39.600 --> 0:12:43.080 struggle session or some you know from half the country. 0:12:43.240 --> 0:12:45.760 Is very bizarre. So whoever, and then he had you know, 0:12:45.800 --> 0:12:48.640 the military behind them. It was just all the optics 0:12:48.640 --> 0:12:51.040 were terrible in the content of the speech, and you 0:12:51.120 --> 0:12:54.280 just you know, played a precipit of that was just 0:12:54.320 --> 0:12:56.960 so divisive. And this is a guy that supposedly ran 0:12:57.040 --> 0:12:59.640 as the you know, the nice grandpa that was gonna 0:12:59.760 --> 0:13:01.800 unite the country. I mean, far be it from that. 0:13:02.080 --> 0:13:04.160 So well, I didn't want to play too much of 0:13:04.160 --> 0:13:05.600 it because I didn't want to do that to you 0:13:05.760 --> 0:13:08.360 or the audience again for you know, and then for 0:13:08.400 --> 0:13:11.240 those of us who are forced to watch it. Uh. 0:13:11.440 --> 0:13:13.920 I think what concerns me is it really was this 0:13:14.080 --> 0:13:18.000 other ring of seventy five million people. And you can 0:13:18.040 --> 0:13:21.560 really go throughout history and see what can it leads to. 0:13:21.840 --> 0:13:23.880 Sometimes when you have this other ring, We've seen it 0:13:23.880 --> 0:13:27.000 in Germany, we've seen it in Cambodia, Rwanda, Turkety, this 0:13:27.400 --> 0:13:30.839 dehumanization of a group of people. So I don't think 0:13:30.840 --> 0:13:35.480 that should be taken lightly. Where where does this go? Well, 0:13:35.520 --> 0:13:37.520 I think it's important to put at least in a 0:13:37.640 --> 0:13:41.320 broader context. So you're right, it's a very dangerous ideology 0:13:41.320 --> 0:13:46.440 where you're dehumanizing, you know, stello countrymen because they have 0:13:46.480 --> 0:13:50.520 a different political belief than you. And meanwhile, here's what 0:13:50.600 --> 0:13:55.239 else is happening. You've got the FBI that's been weaponized 0:13:55.240 --> 0:13:57.920 now by the Department of Justice, which is after past 0:13:58.000 --> 0:14:01.920 political opponents, likely future plitical opponent and former president that 0:14:02.080 --> 0:14:04.240 just looks like it comes out of a third world 0:14:04.280 --> 0:14:08.760 banana republic. You've got the FBI weaponized against parents, investigating 0:14:08.760 --> 0:14:12.040 parents under the Patriot Act for showing up to school 0:14:12.040 --> 0:14:15.400 board meetings. You have eighties seven thousand I R S 0:14:15.440 --> 0:14:19.000 agents being fanned across the country to go after taxpayers 0:14:19.400 --> 0:14:22.240 and the middle class. Uh. And then you know, uh, 0:14:22.480 --> 0:14:24.640 the FBI looking the other way on like the Hunter 0:14:24.720 --> 0:14:27.280 Biden laptop story and things like that. So you put 0:14:27.320 --> 0:14:29.280 all of that stuff together in by the way, with 0:14:29.280 --> 0:14:31.640 our recent lawsuit and some of the revelations that have 0:14:31.720 --> 0:14:34.760 come out this week against the by administration Missouri suit 0:14:35.200 --> 0:14:40.280 their coordination with big tech. They are directing Facebook and 0:14:40.320 --> 0:14:45.520 Twitter on content in d platforming people for quote unquote misinformation. 0:14:45.600 --> 0:14:48.120 The same administration that had a Ministry of Truth, a 0:14:48.240 --> 0:14:52.280 Disinformation Governance Board. I mean, talk about not being normal. 0:14:52.600 --> 0:14:55.400 You know, we're not having traditional political debates right now 0:14:55.400 --> 0:14:59.920 about tax cuts and entitlement reform. The Democrats literally are 0:15:00.040 --> 0:15:02.880 two votes away in the United States Senate, from adding 0:15:02.960 --> 0:15:05.200 states the Union and pack in the Supreme Court and 0:15:05.280 --> 0:15:09.880 federalizing elections, granting amnesty, trying to fundamentally change this country forever. 0:15:10.920 --> 0:15:13.200 That's what's at stake in this election. And so I 0:15:13.200 --> 0:15:17.080 think as conservatives, as Republicans, our role here is to 0:15:17.240 --> 0:15:19.720 save the country and to get it back, not so 0:15:19.760 --> 0:15:23.200 that Washington can aggregate more power and reward and punish, 0:15:23.520 --> 0:15:25.560 but to give that power back to people, whether it's 0:15:25.640 --> 0:15:28.680 deregulation or tax cuts, and get back to a place 0:15:28.720 --> 0:15:32.520 where people find meaning in their communities and at church, 0:15:32.840 --> 0:15:37.480 in other organizations, as opposed to consolidating all of that, 0:15:37.800 --> 0:15:40.040 you know, everything you want in life with one person 0:15:40.080 --> 0:15:42.920 in Washington. It doesn't work that way, and it's dangerous. 0:15:43.600 --> 0:15:45.920 It is dangerous. I mean, fortunately, we still have the 0:15:45.960 --> 0:15:49.920 bare bones of what are founding fathers built as a country. 0:15:49.960 --> 0:15:52.280 You know, checks and balances in the first and second moment, 0:15:52.320 --> 0:15:54.800 which are critical for free societies and which are both 0:15:54.920 --> 0:15:57.800 under attack. You know, talk a little bit more about 0:15:57.880 --> 0:16:01.000 that lawsuit that you file, the law with the Attorney 0:16:01.000 --> 0:16:04.760 General of Louisiana and the information that you uncovered with it, 0:16:04.760 --> 0:16:07.760 which is crucial with about the First Amendment, so, so 0:16:07.800 --> 0:16:10.800 talk a little bit about the lawsuit and what you found. Yeah, 0:16:10.800 --> 0:16:12.600 and and to such on a broader point that you 0:16:12.640 --> 0:16:16.520 mentioned is thankfully our founders recognize there are great students 0:16:16.520 --> 0:16:19.760 of history and these tyrannical regimes that had you know, 0:16:19.800 --> 0:16:23.120 existed at the time they knew human nature, right, and 0:16:23.120 --> 0:16:25.920 people try to aggregate power. That's what every tyrant and 0:16:25.920 --> 0:16:28.080 dictator does, so they meant to spread it out right, 0:16:28.200 --> 0:16:34.120 checks and balances, separation of powers, federalism where states created 0:16:34.120 --> 0:16:36.440 the federal government to be a government of limited powers, 0:16:36.440 --> 0:16:38.120 and when they get out of that lane, the states 0:16:38.160 --> 0:16:40.520 can sue to check that. And it's all meant to 0:16:40.520 --> 0:16:43.160 protect individual liberty. And so a lot of the lawsuits 0:16:43.160 --> 0:16:45.280 that we filed these have been based on this right 0:16:45.320 --> 0:16:48.640 that an agency like OSHA, which was created to make 0:16:48.680 --> 0:16:51.880 sure forklips deep when they back up, isn't supposed to 0:16:51.880 --> 0:16:55.800 be forcing a medical procedure on eighty million Americans, right. 0:16:55.800 --> 0:16:57.640 So we filed that lawsuit Missouri was the first of 0:16:57.640 --> 0:16:59.920 files in the Supreme Court, and one but we filed 0:17:00.400 --> 0:17:04.400 earlier this year, a landmark lawsuit um against the Biden 0:17:04.400 --> 0:17:09.880 administration for their direct coordination, collusion, and direction of this 0:17:10.080 --> 0:17:13.680 you know, vast censorship enterprise they have with big tech. 0:17:14.080 --> 0:17:16.919 Big tech is so we filed that lawsuit a judge 0:17:17.000 --> 0:17:20.240 order recovery. So we're getting documents now, and what we've 0:17:20.280 --> 0:17:25.000 found is senior Facebook officials direct you know, communicating directly 0:17:25.000 --> 0:17:28.480 with the surgeon. Here's some more we call a censorship 0:17:28.560 --> 0:17:31.399 roundtable essentially right to figure out what else they can 0:17:31.480 --> 0:17:34.359 be doing. Two D platform people who dared to question 0:17:34.720 --> 0:17:38.560 you know, the regime's uh, you know, stated position on things. 0:17:39.080 --> 0:17:41.240 And then they had like these special ways that they 0:17:41.240 --> 0:17:45.520 could government officials could go and essentially takedown content themselves 0:17:46.200 --> 0:17:50.720 as for I think they're called preferred um flagging status 0:17:50.800 --> 0:17:55.040 or something like that. So this was pretty extensive. And 0:17:55.080 --> 0:17:57.600 in addition to that, those are the things that we 0:17:57.680 --> 0:18:00.440 currently know. What we don't know now is what the 0:18:00.480 --> 0:18:03.400 Department of Justice is trying to block, which are communications 0:18:03.440 --> 0:18:06.840 with White House officials, you know, in the White House 0:18:06.920 --> 0:18:09.280 with Facebook. And that's the next phase of the lawsuit 0:18:09.359 --> 0:18:11.480 is we're gonna get at that stuff too, because we 0:18:11.560 --> 0:18:14.000 want to know how high this go, how high it goes, 0:18:14.240 --> 0:18:16.120 and how wide it goes, because I think it's important 0:18:16.280 --> 0:18:18.720 to making sure this stuff stops and it doesn't happen again. 0:18:19.320 --> 0:18:22.399 And what kind of information were they try were they 0:18:22.440 --> 0:18:26.840 trying to suppress in center specifically? Do we know? So 0:18:26.880 --> 0:18:28.280 a lot of this had a lot of this had 0:18:28.320 --> 0:18:31.000 to do with COVID. So essentially the lawsuits based on 0:18:31.040 --> 0:18:35.840 a few things, right, you know, election issues, um Hunter, Biden, 0:18:35.920 --> 0:18:40.640 laptop issues, and COVID related stuff. And the vast majority 0:18:40.640 --> 0:18:42.240 of the stuff that we were able to encode cover 0:18:42.440 --> 0:18:45.560 so far having to do with COVID, right, them trying 0:18:45.560 --> 0:18:50.000 to you know, snuff out misinformation or disinformation and the 0:18:50.040 --> 0:18:53.520 government's direct role in doing that. And and they were, 0:18:54.200 --> 0:18:57.359 you know, sort of unapologetic about this, you know they 0:18:57.400 --> 0:19:00.879 and you had Jen Psaki standing there's saying we're working 0:19:00.880 --> 0:19:04.040 with our Facebook partners, are you know, our social media 0:19:04.119 --> 0:19:06.119 partners in trying to take this stuff down? I mean, 0:19:06.160 --> 0:19:08.800 they were admitting it. And so this is the first 0:19:08.840 --> 0:19:11.560 time in this lawsuit now where we've got to you know, 0:19:11.640 --> 0:19:14.080 look under the hood where we actually get documents, because 0:19:14.160 --> 0:19:16.560 a lot of times what happens, Lisa is people file 0:19:16.840 --> 0:19:19.480 these lawsuits against Facebook or something and ends up in 0:19:19.520 --> 0:19:22.719 the Northern District of California and never sees the light 0:19:22.760 --> 0:19:25.359 of day. So this is the first lawsuit, you know, 0:19:25.400 --> 0:19:28.000 we filed against the government of the United States, Joe 0:19:28.080 --> 0:19:31.840 Biden and his administration, and we're getting, um, some documents. 0:19:31.880 --> 0:19:34.280 There's a lot more to uncover here, but this is 0:19:34.320 --> 0:19:37.520 more than anybody's seen before. But again, these are we've got, 0:19:37.560 --> 0:19:40.360 you know, example after example in our motion to get 0:19:40.400 --> 0:19:42.760 more information some of the stuff we've gotten, and it's 0:19:42.800 --> 0:19:46.439 these are text messages again directly to the Surgeon General. 0:19:46.680 --> 0:19:51.720 These are uh, you know, emails saying can you take 0:19:51.760 --> 0:19:54.560 this down? You know, and then somebody from Instagram saying 0:19:54.680 --> 0:19:57.080 on it and it's taken down. I mean, that's not 0:19:57.320 --> 0:20:00.359 what's supposed to happen. Like, the government doesn't get to 0:20:00.440 --> 0:20:03.359 say what you get to say. They don't get to 0:20:03.400 --> 0:20:06.720 tell you what content is appropriate. And then you heard 0:20:06.760 --> 0:20:10.440 the um, you know, the Press Secretary this week say, well, 0:20:10.640 --> 0:20:14.120 what do you consider extremism something that's outside the mainstream? Well, 0:20:14.119 --> 0:20:16.840 what does that mean? You know, the government again in 0:20:16.840 --> 0:20:20.040 the United States doesn't get to decide that right descent 0:20:20.160 --> 0:20:24.640 is important. Um, you know, having people having unpopular opinions 0:20:24.640 --> 0:20:26.520 at the time. By the way, most of those have 0:20:26.560 --> 0:20:28.800 been proven to be true, you know, especially as it 0:20:28.840 --> 0:20:31.560 relates to COVID when we were told you know, masking, 0:20:31.600 --> 0:20:34.000 you know these cloth masks work, Well that was bogus. 0:20:34.359 --> 0:20:37.080 But people were being you know, the platforms and reputations 0:20:37.200 --> 0:20:40.000 ruined because they dare to question the regime. And that's 0:20:40.040 --> 0:20:42.720 something that should be very scary to people in this country. 0:20:42.720 --> 0:20:45.280 And why this lawsuits is so important, Well, I feel 0:20:45.320 --> 0:20:53.280 that because I tend to very often have unpopulargeole. Well 0:20:53.400 --> 0:20:55.160 I'm by nature, I mean, I'm kind of like, I'm 0:20:55.200 --> 0:20:57.960 kind of a contrarian to uh maybe that's how I 0:20:58.040 --> 0:21:00.520 ended up doing what I do now. But it's it's 0:21:00.520 --> 0:21:03.800 an important case because, I mean, the First Amendment is 0:21:03.840 --> 0:21:06.560 the beating heart of our constitution. You know, it is 0:21:06.600 --> 0:21:09.399 the ultimate pressure release foul because most places in the 0:21:09.400 --> 0:21:14.560 world they resolve these disputes through violence, and in this country, 0:21:14.560 --> 0:21:17.280 we decided, hey, we're going to settle these issues on 0:21:17.320 --> 0:21:20.080 the town square and people get to say things that 0:21:20.119 --> 0:21:23.440 are unpopular. It might actually make you angry, but they 0:21:23.480 --> 0:21:26.359 get to say them. So when the government is basically 0:21:26.400 --> 0:21:29.520 coming in and cracking down on the speech and saying 0:21:29.520 --> 0:21:31.800 you don't get to do that, that's a problem. And 0:21:31.840 --> 0:21:34.040 again that's at the heart of this lawsuit. What's also 0:21:34.119 --> 0:21:36.440 to your point, it's you know, the heartbeat of freedom 0:21:36.760 --> 0:21:38.560 in a country. I mean, there's a reason why you 0:21:38.600 --> 0:21:40.840 can go through and look at communist regimes, whether it 0:21:40.920 --> 0:21:43.520