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Or if you prefer text messaging, 0:01:53.120 --> 0:01:56.120 you can text the word cactus to six five five 0:01:56.320 --> 0:01:59.560 three two. Again, the phone number is eight five five 0:02:00.040 --> 0:02:02.880 seven six eight one eight eight three. Or you can 0:02:02.880 --> 0:02:06.000 send the word cactus via text message to six five 0:02:06.120 --> 0:02:09.799 five three two. You'll be glad you did. Welcome back 0:02:09.840 --> 0:02:12.880 to Verdict. I'm Michael Knowles, joined as ever by my 0:02:12.960 --> 0:02:18.000 favorite taco, Senator, Ted Cruz. Senator, how spicy are you 0:02:18.000 --> 0:02:23.480 feeling today? I feel like a good Charissa and egg 0:02:23.560 --> 0:02:28.799 and cheese taco And Michael, I gotta say there are 0:02:28.919 --> 0:02:34.880 times when life imitates satire. If Saturday Night Live was 0:02:34.960 --> 0:02:39.760 trying to mock an out of touch Democrat going in 0:02:39.840 --> 0:02:43.680 front of an Hispanic audience and saying, you guys are 0:02:43.720 --> 0:02:48.720 a bunch of tacos. Look like I'm sorry, Tina Fey 0:02:48.760 --> 0:02:54.679 could have delivered that line. Your tacos and the Bogadas. 0:02:55.880 --> 0:02:59.600 It isn't Bogata the Capitol Colombia like like like apparently 0:03:00.080 --> 0:03:04.640 Jill's never been to Aga. I mean, it's that is 0:03:04.800 --> 0:03:11.280 just weird, and it's it typifies the out of touch 0:03:11.919 --> 0:03:18.000 Democrat condescension to Latin xes. By the way, that conference 0:03:18.200 --> 0:03:21.160 was the Latin X explosion. And I gotta tell you 0:03:21.280 --> 0:03:24.399 right now, anyone who puts an X in the word 0:03:24.480 --> 0:03:29.040 Latino or Latina ain't actually one of them. It is 0:03:29.200 --> 0:03:34.000 only a woke white leftist are the only people that 0:03:34.080 --> 0:03:38.520 stick xes in it. And that's apparently why the Bidens 0:03:38.560 --> 0:03:41.440 think we're tacos. I can't wait for Joe Biden to 0:03:41.520 --> 0:03:45.320 pander to my community, the Italian American community, and say, 0:03:45.400 --> 0:03:49.040 you know, you, you Italian Americans, you're greasier than a 0:03:49.080 --> 0:03:53.080 bowl of sponge. You are slipperier than a nice focaccia bread. 0:03:53.240 --> 0:03:54.680 I don't think it would do a lot to win 0:03:54.760 --> 0:03:57.680 over the Italian vote. And I do know Democrats have 0:03:57.760 --> 0:04:01.440 been struggling with the Hispanic vote recycled. The Republicans say, 0:04:01.440 --> 0:04:04.320 we're about to make huge inroads with the black community 0:04:04.440 --> 0:04:06.240 or the Hispanic community. But if you look at the 0:04:06.280 --> 0:04:09.200 numbers right now, it would appear that massive chunks of 0:04:09.200 --> 0:04:13.080 the Hispanic voting block are moving right word right now. 0:04:13.120 --> 0:04:15.120 So do you think that the taco pandering is going 0:04:15.160 --> 0:04:19.120 to win them back? So look, Michael, in all seriousness, you, 0:04:19.400 --> 0:04:22.640 Michael Knowles, are a spicy meatball. Thank you, thank you. Hi. 0:04:22.760 --> 0:04:26.640 Maybe a taco, but you are a meat ball with 0:04:26.800 --> 0:04:30.760 an extra zest. I've set it for years. And look, 0:04:30.839 --> 0:04:34.040 since I'm I'm Irish at Italian too, maybe I got 0:04:34.040 --> 0:04:35.960 a little meatball in my taco and I don't know, 0:04:36.000 --> 0:04:37.640 Irish with a pint of Guennis, I don't know. I 0:04:37.720 --> 0:04:40.880 don't even know. It's it's that's not too bad. I've 0:04:40.920 --> 0:04:44.039 never had Guinnis for breakfast, but breakfast taco and there 0:04:44.120 --> 0:04:49.359 we go. We're set. It's actually amazing what is happening 0:04:49.520 --> 0:04:53.839 with Hispanic voters. By the way, there's an interesting there 0:04:53.960 --> 0:04:56.159 was polling some time ago that I saw. I haven't 0:04:56.200 --> 0:04:59.520 seen it recently, but five ten years ago the polling 0:04:59.720 --> 0:05:06.320 was is that people whose self reference as Hispanic tend 0:05:06.360 --> 0:05:10.240 to be more conservative, people whose self reference as Latino 0:05:11.279 --> 0:05:15.799 tend to be further left, and people who self reference 0:05:15.839 --> 0:05:18.480 as Chicano tend to be the furthest left. And it's 0:05:18.520 --> 0:05:21.760 just kind of an interesting language piece. I don't know 0:05:21.839 --> 0:05:24.240 if that still holds, because that polling data is a 0:05:24.279 --> 0:05:26.240 little bit out of date. I think the people who 0:05:26.279 --> 0:05:30.480 self identify as Latins they actually tend to skew white. 0:05:30.520 --> 0:05:33.799 I think they're entirely white and not yes and and 0:05:33.800 --> 0:05:38.479 and and woke and confused. It's the opposite of days 0:05:38.560 --> 0:05:43.479 and confused. It it's very well, you know, it's an 0:05:43.520 --> 0:05:49.600 amazing thing. The Democrats numbers among Hispanics are plummeting, and 0:05:49.839 --> 0:05:53.320 we saw that with Mira Flores, who was elected in 0:05:53.400 --> 0:05:56.599 Texas special election just a couple of weeks ago. The 0:05:56.720 --> 0:06:00.680 district runs from just south of San Antonio all the 0:06:00.760 --> 0:06:03.599 way down to Brownsville to the southern tip of Texas. 0:06:03.640 --> 0:06:07.240 It literally right on the border with Mexico. That is 0:06:07.240 --> 0:06:12.240 a district that hasn't had a Republican represented since eighteen 0:06:12.800 --> 0:06:20.240 seventy one. That's a long time. And I've been predicting 0:06:20.279 --> 0:06:22.239 for a long time I think all of South Texas 0:06:22.279 --> 0:06:25.440 is going to turn red. By the way, Miraflores's district 0:06:25.640 --> 0:06:29.520 is the second most Hispanic congressional district in the entire 0:06:29.600 --> 0:06:33.839 United States of America. It's it's something like eighty four 0:06:33.880 --> 0:06:36.200 percent Hispanic. I'm not remembering the exact number, but it's 0:06:36.240 --> 0:06:38.479 in the neighborhood of eighty four percent. Is that a 0:06:38.520 --> 0:06:41.280 fluke or is that a bell weather for the mid terms? 0:06:41.480 --> 0:06:44.760 I think it is very much a bell weather. There 0:06:44.760 --> 0:06:47.719 are two other congressional seats in South Texas are that 0:06:47.760 --> 0:06:51.040 are represented by Democrats right now, I think there is 0:06:51.080 --> 0:06:53.599 a very good chance that at least two out of 0:06:53.600 --> 0:06:58.200 those three will be represented by Republicans come January, and 0:06:58.240 --> 0:07:01.080 it might be all three of the those three. And 0:07:01.200 --> 0:07:05.640 interestingly enough, those Republicans, the candidates, all three are Hispanic women. 0:07:05.680 --> 0:07:08.599 I've endorsed all of them. I'm campaigning for all of them. 0:07:09.400 --> 0:07:12.600 And throughout the Rio Grand Valley at South Texas, it 0:07:12.720 --> 0:07:16.400 has voted Democrat for over one hundred years. That's how 0:07:16.440 --> 0:07:20.200 long it's been. And there's all sorts of things that 0:07:20.240 --> 0:07:24.600 are causing that. I mean, it's the you know, the 0:07:24.920 --> 0:07:29.040 the out of touch wokeness of calling people Latin X. 0:07:29.040 --> 0:07:31.600 And by the way, who sends the first lady to 0:07:31.640 --> 0:07:36.320 a conference called the Latin X conference? And that taco thing. 0:07:36.360 --> 0:07:39.360 Here's the amazing thing that what an ad lib. This 0:07:39.440 --> 0:07:41.800 wasn't a Joe Biden like screw up because they just 0:07:41.920 --> 0:07:45.680 let him like meander off and talk. She was reading 0:07:45.720 --> 0:07:49.679 from a teleprompter. Yeah, a White House staffer wrote those 0:07:49.760 --> 0:07:53.520 lines and thought, isn't this great if we call them 0:07:53.520 --> 0:07:55.960 all tacos, they'll clearly vote for us if we do that. 0:07:55.960 --> 0:07:59.080 That's a really important point because you've seen a ton 0:07:59.120 --> 0:08:02.200 of gaffs this week from Joe Biden. Biden at one 0:08:02.240 --> 0:08:03.960 point the White House tried to cover this up, but 0:08:04.000 --> 0:08:07.840 he actually read on the teleprompter, repeat the line, repeat 0:08:07.880 --> 0:08:09.480 the line now. But he didn't repeat the line. He 0:08:09.520 --> 0:08:11.440 just read, repeat the line. You've seen all sorts of 0:08:11.480 --> 0:08:14.520 gaffs suggesting that he kind of forgot that he was 0:08:14.560 --> 0:08:16.760 the president at one point, and so we've come to 0:08:16.800 --> 0:08:19.360 expect that from Biden. But what you're pointing out here is, no, 0:08:19.480 --> 0:08:22.000 this is the alleged adults in the room, the people 0:08:22.000 --> 0:08:24.000 who were supposed to be the geniuses who have their 0:08:24.000 --> 0:08:25.960 finger on the pulse of the base and the electorate. 0:08:26.320 --> 0:08:29.040 They're the ones who put the taco line into the speech. 0:08:29.960 --> 0:08:34.520 It looks the Democrats look down on the American people 0:08:34.559 --> 0:08:36.360 as a whole, look down on voters as a whole, 0:08:36.360 --> 0:08:39.520 but they especially looked down on minorities. I remember Joe 0:08:39.559 --> 0:08:41.440 Biden is the one who went I think it was 0:08:41.480 --> 0:08:45.960 at the NAACP when he was vice president and said 0:08:46.000 --> 0:08:52.120 about Republicans, They're gonna put you back in chains. The 0:08:52.280 --> 0:08:55.439 Democrats look at Hispanics and they think we are a 0:08:55.440 --> 0:09:02.880 bunch of ignorant I don't even know how to describe 0:09:02.880 --> 0:09:06.600 what they think abouts, but they think we just we 0:09:06.880 --> 0:09:12.400 have to vote Democrat and there's no sense of wanting 0:09:12.440 --> 0:09:14.600 to earn the votes. I'll tell you, if you are 0:09:15.559 --> 0:09:18.599 an Hispanic guy in South Texas and you work in 0:09:18.679 --> 0:09:22.440 the oil field, and you drive a pickup truck and 0:09:22.520 --> 0:09:25.880 you go bird hunting on the weekends, Joe Biden and 0:09:25.960 --> 0:09:30.640 Kamala Harris and the Democrats want to destroy your livelihood, 0:09:31.559 --> 0:09:36.600 want to endanger your family by open borders and chaos. 0:09:36.600 --> 0:09:40.200 And you know what, You're voting Republican. And that is 0:09:40.280 --> 0:09:44.440 happening at amazing numbers. And I can't wait to see 0:09:45.320 --> 0:09:51.280 three Hispanic women, Republicans from the Rio Grand Valley standing 0:09:51.360 --> 0:09:55.479 up to Nancy Pelosi and AOC and all these liberals 0:09:55.960 --> 0:09:59.079 who insist, Hey, illegal immigration is just hunky dorry, It's 0:09:59.120 --> 0:10:02.240 just fine the people who are living it. No, it's not. 0:10:02.320 --> 0:10:07.480 And I think the fact that this White House wrote 0:10:07.520 --> 0:10:10.000 this into a speech A set the first Lady to 0:10:10.040 --> 0:10:15.079 this ridiculous conference, and b wrote these condescending lines into 0:10:15.120 --> 0:10:19.600 the speech, I think it's indicative of just how badly 0:10:19.920 --> 0:10:22.880 Biden and the Democrats are doing with Hispanics nationally. And 0:10:22.880 --> 0:10:24.440 I think we're going to see a real sea change 0:10:24.440 --> 0:10:27.800 in this election. Well, it seems to me the greater 0:10:27.880 --> 0:10:29.600 fear for the White House right now is not just 0:10:29.640 --> 0:10:32.800 that they're losing Hispanics. It seems that they're losing all 0:10:32.840 --> 0:10:35.800 of the Democrats. There are these poll numbers coming out 0:10:35.840 --> 0:10:38.240 that the majority of Democrats don't want Biden to be 0:10:38.280 --> 0:10:41.439 the nominee in twenty twenty four. And even worse than 0:10:41.480 --> 0:10:44.480 losing the Democrat voters, it seems to me that the 0:10:44.520 --> 0:10:49.040 White House is losing the Democrat establishment, the Democrat media, 0:10:49.160 --> 0:10:53.000 the Democrat press. You're seeing lots of negative stories coming 0:10:53.000 --> 0:10:55.120 out about Biden in the new York Times, in the 0:10:55.160 --> 0:10:58.600 Washington Post, in all of the corporate press, kind of 0:10:58.640 --> 0:11:03.600 stoking the flame of this Democrat uprising against Biden. Is 0:11:03.679 --> 0:11:07.600 this a sign that the machine, the party, and the 0:11:07.679 --> 0:11:10.040 powers that be have had it with Biden and they 0:11:10.040 --> 0:11:13.760 want a different option in twenty twenty four. Yes, And 0:11:14.320 --> 0:11:17.240 it's also listen, I think the chances that Biden runs 0:11:17.240 --> 0:11:20.880 in twenty four minuscule. He ain't running, He's not up 0:11:20.920 --> 0:11:24.400 to the job. Down he says he's running. But to 0:11:24.440 --> 0:11:27.080 be honest, any president says he's running, You say that 0:11:27.200 --> 0:11:29.240 so you're not a lame duck. So I understand why 0:11:29.240 --> 0:11:31.600 he says he's running. I don't believe for a second 0:11:31.679 --> 0:11:34.960 that he's running. He's clearly not up to the task today. 0:11:35.559 --> 0:11:37.560 I mean, this is a man who shakes hands with 0:11:37.640 --> 0:11:39.600 the empty air. This is a man who they send 0:11:39.640 --> 0:11:42.920 staffers dressed as the Easter Bunny to prevent him from 0:11:43.040 --> 0:11:48.440 wandering and getting lost. It is I think there's no 0:11:48.520 --> 0:11:51.600 chance he's running. But some of these stories. You gotta 0:11:51.679 --> 0:11:54.760 understand our ambitious Democrats trying to take him out. And 0:11:55.040 --> 0:11:59.800 we can already see the daggers between Kamala Harris and 0:12:00.000 --> 0:12:02.640 Pete Buddha jedge, both of which are are It's not 0:12:02.679 --> 0:12:07.280 even daggers, it's chainsaws, it's it's it's Patriot missiles they're 0:12:07.320 --> 0:12:11.200 firing against. They probably scuds, but um. And by the way, 0:12:11.240 --> 0:12:14.960 Gavin Newsom, now you know your former governor chiming in 0:12:15.080 --> 0:12:17.640 and trying desperately to say, look at me, look at me. 0:12:18.640 --> 0:12:21.400 This is and then you're gonna have Elizabeth Warren riding 0:12:21.440 --> 0:12:28.720 in on a rainbow unicorn. It's uh, the twenty four 0:12:28.760 --> 0:12:32.160 Democratic primary has started already, and it ain't pretty. They're 0:12:32.200 --> 0:12:35.480 going to light each other up and and and Biden 0:12:35.600 --> 0:12:38.559 is just a casualty of that. Newsom is buying airtime 0:12:38.600 --> 0:12:40.760 in Florida. That's kind of a weird thing to do 0:12:41.000 --> 0:12:43.360 if you're focused on rebuilding your state. It's not a 0:12:43.400 --> 0:12:45.400 weird thing to do if you want to position yourself 0:12:45.559 --> 0:12:48.480 for twenty twenty four. You mentioned our friend Lahwatha, there 0:12:48.840 --> 0:12:52.640 is Warren. Elizabeth Warren seems to be riding in on 0:12:52.679 --> 0:12:56.480 this issue of abortion. She's focusing so intently. I mean, 0:12:56.520 --> 0:12:58.559 you can almost see the fire in her eyes when 0:12:58.679 --> 0:13:01.160 when she lights up first about the league, then about 0:13:01.160 --> 0:13:03.560 the dabb's decision, now about the pro life laws all 0:13:03.600 --> 0:13:08.520 around the country. You had a pretty bizarre exchange today 0:13:08.720 --> 0:13:13.640 in the Senate there was a hearing on abortion. I 0:13:13.720 --> 0:13:17.559 looked at polls. I saw that for only fifteen percent 0:13:17.559 --> 0:13:20.400 of the electorate is abortion the top issue. Most people 0:13:20.520 --> 0:13:23.080 don't vote on abortion, whether we're talking pro life or 0:13:23.120 --> 0:13:27.920 pro abortion. The Democrats abortion position abortion on demand, without 0:13:27.920 --> 0:13:30.080 apology until the moment of birth. That is not where 0:13:30.080 --> 0:13:33.280 the American people are. No poles suggest that it is. 0:13:33.280 --> 0:13:35.640 Is this going to be a winner for Liz Warren? 0:13:35.920 --> 0:13:38.439 Do the Democrats really think that they should keep putting 0:13:38.440 --> 0:13:42.440 their pro abortion talking points in before the midterms? So, look, 0:13:42.480 --> 0:13:44.440 it might well be a winner for her in the 0:13:44.480 --> 0:13:48.640 Democrat primary. Their primary has been a become a race 0:13:48.720 --> 0:13:52.000 to the crazy left. It's not a winner I don't 0:13:52.000 --> 0:13:55.559 believe in the general election. And you know you mentioned 0:13:55.600 --> 0:13:57.640 we had a hearing today in the Judiciary Committee that 0:13:58.040 --> 0:14:00.360 Dick Durbin, the chairman of the committee, held it was 0:14:00.440 --> 0:14:05.840 designed to describe what an apocalyptic hell we're living in 0:14:06.160 --> 0:14:10.840 post obs that without Row, America is an unrecognizable it's 0:14:10.880 --> 0:14:14.080 mad Max at Thunderdome, It's it's it's it's truly horrific. 0:14:14.679 --> 0:14:17.520 And I got to say, I think the hearing went really, 0:14:17.679 --> 0:14:20.040 really badly for Democrats. I think by the end of 0:14:20.040 --> 0:14:24.120 the hearing even the Democrats were starting to recognize this, 0:14:24.120 --> 0:14:26.080 this is not going the way we wanted it to. 0:14:26.480 --> 0:14:29.480 Senator I think you're being modest. Actually, I think what 0:14:29.600 --> 0:14:34.400 happened is that you you personally rhetorically shived poor Dick Durbin. 0:14:34.640 --> 0:14:37.200 And you didn't do it by lobbing any bombs. You. 0:14:37.520 --> 0:14:39.240 All I saw was the one clip of you talking 0:14:39.240 --> 0:14:42.200 about Dick Durbin. You just read his own words back 0:14:42.240 --> 0:14:46.119 to him. Well, I pointed out that that the Democrat 0:14:46.240 --> 0:14:49.400 Party used to have room for diversity, used to have 0:14:49.560 --> 0:14:53.560 some voices of reasonableness on all sorts of issues. Look 0:14:53.600 --> 0:14:56.920 on foreign policy, there were Scoop Jackson Democrats there. There 0:14:56.640 --> 0:15:02.760 there there were more moderate Democrats planned parenthood versus Casey. 0:15:02.800 --> 0:15:05.200 A lot of people don't know that. The Casey there 0:15:05.480 --> 0:15:08.720 was Governor Bob Casey Senior. He was a Democrat. He 0:15:08.800 --> 0:15:13.720 was strongly pro life. Today's Democrats have said, if you're 0:15:13.760 --> 0:15:16.000 pro life, get out of the party. We don't want you. 0:15:18.160 --> 0:15:20.880 And so at the hearing, I took a chance to 0:15:20.880 --> 0:15:25.240 say to say, all right, we should reflect on just 0:15:25.360 --> 0:15:28.920 how radicalized the Democrat Party's gotten on abortion. And I said, 0:15:28.920 --> 0:15:33.840 for example, when Roe versus Wade was decided nineteen seventy three, 0:15:34.120 --> 0:15:36.520 one person who was very critical was a person named 0:15:36.600 --> 0:15:40.640 Joseph Robinette Biden Junior, who said in nineteen seventy four, quote, 0:15:41.600 --> 0:15:45.800 I don't like the Supreme Court decision on abortion. I 0:15:45.840 --> 0:15:49.120 think it went too far. I don't think that a 0:15:49.200 --> 0:15:51.800 woman has the sole right to say what should happen 0:15:51.880 --> 0:15:54.120 to her body. So that was Joe Biden and seventy four, 0:15:54.560 --> 0:15:57.480 and I put her. I said, well, okay, maybe seventy 0:15:57.480 --> 0:16:01.680 four is a long time ago. He he's woken up 0:16:01.720 --> 0:16:04.920 since then. Well, let's look at Joe Biden in two 0:16:05.000 --> 0:16:07.400 thousand and seven. Two thousand and seven, it's just fifteen 0:16:07.440 --> 0:16:10.600 years ago. Joe Biden is on Meet the Press, Tim 0:16:10.680 --> 0:16:15.560 Rossert says, quote you supported that ban on late term abortions, 0:16:15.920 --> 0:16:20.640 and Biden said, quote, I did, and I do. That 0:16:20.800 --> 0:16:23.000 was just fifteen years ago. That was the position of 0:16:23.080 --> 0:16:26.760 Joe Biden. Just a few weeks ago, the Democrats voted 0:16:27.080 --> 0:16:30.040 to strike down every ban in the country on late 0:16:30.160 --> 0:16:33.960 term abortions, and every single Democrat but one voted for 0:16:34.080 --> 0:16:38.480 it the view of Joe Biden fifteen years ago or 0:16:38.560 --> 0:16:41.680 nineteen seventy four is no longer allowed in today's radicalized 0:16:41.720 --> 0:16:45.200 Democrat Party. And then here's what you reference that I 0:16:45.240 --> 0:16:47.360 pointed out to show just how far it was gotten. 0:16:48.040 --> 0:16:51.920 It's not just Joe Biden. The Chairman of the Judiciary Committee, 0:16:51.960 --> 0:16:55.960 Dick Durban. In June of nineteen eighty three, Durban wrote 0:16:55.960 --> 0:16:58.800 a letter and here I quoted, it's the hearing. The 0:16:58.920 --> 0:17:02.720 letter says, quote, I have clearly studied the issue of 0:17:02.760 --> 0:17:07.720 abortion in depth, and I'm in favor of the Eagleton Amendment, 0:17:08.160 --> 0:17:12.160 which states clearly that the right to abortion is not 0:17:12.600 --> 0:17:17.679 guaranteed by the US Constitution. The effect of this amendment 0:17:18.200 --> 0:17:22.719 will to return us to the legal environment which existed 0:17:22.840 --> 0:17:26.639 before Row versus Wade in nineteen seventy three, and it 0:17:26.680 --> 0:17:30.439 was signed Richard J. Durbin, Member of Congress. And it 0:17:30.480 --> 0:17:33.119 wasn't just in nineteen eighty three. Fast forward in nineteen 0:17:33.160 --> 0:17:37.000 eighty nine. So six years later, Chairman Durbin wrote again, 0:17:37.040 --> 0:17:41.439 and here's a quote. I believe we should end abortion 0:17:41.520 --> 0:17:45.240 on demand and at every opportunity. I have translated this 0:17:45.359 --> 0:17:51.480 belief into votes in the Houses of representatives. I continue 0:17:51.560 --> 0:17:55.399 to believe the Supreme Court's decision in Row versus Wade 0:17:56.160 --> 0:18:04.280 should be reversed. Dick Urban now the chairman Democrat Chairman 0:18:04.520 --> 0:18:07.760 of the Judiciary Committee, and he's one of the people 0:18:07.800 --> 0:18:12.639 who happily voted to strike down every single restriction of 0:18:12.680 --> 0:18:16.640 abortion on the country and to allow unlimited abortion on demand. 0:18:16.880 --> 0:18:21.359 Because the Democrats are wildly out of step on this issue. 0:18:21.600 --> 0:18:26.720 What's amazing is that you're reading their own words. You're 0:18:26.880 --> 0:18:29.439 gutting their argument with their own words from the distant 0:18:29.440 --> 0:18:32.119 past and the not so distant past. Wasn't even the 0:18:32.119 --> 0:18:36.000 craziest exchange that I saw. Frankly, it might not have 0:18:36.040 --> 0:18:38.520 even been in the top two craziest exchanges that I 0:18:38.520 --> 0:18:41.920 saw during this hearing. Today, the Democrats put forward some 0:18:42.080 --> 0:18:46.240 pro abortion radical and your colleague from Texas Senator Senator 0:18:46.320 --> 0:18:49.359 Cornyn couldn't get an answer out of her, or it 0:18:49.400 --> 0:18:50.880 took a while to get an answer out of her 0:18:51.080 --> 0:18:55.400 on the value of babies. Yeah, it was really extreme. 0:18:55.760 --> 0:18:57.880 I do want to say before we leave the Durban thing, 0:18:58.600 --> 0:19:02.280 so I give my questioning with a poster board behind 0:19:02.359 --> 0:19:06.199 me with the images of the letters from Durban with 0:19:06.240 --> 0:19:09.600 his signature and look to be honest, I mean, I'm 0:19:09.800 --> 0:19:12.800 filaying the guy who's sitting about eight feet from me. 0:19:13.440 --> 0:19:17.800 I read all of these quotes. I end my remarks 0:19:17.960 --> 0:19:21.520 with what the Supreme Court has done is returned this 0:19:21.600 --> 0:19:25.480 deeply personal, deeply important, deeply contested, contentious issue to the 0:19:25.560 --> 0:19:29.320 voters to let the American people decide. That's democracy and 0:19:29.440 --> 0:19:32.920 all of us should be happy about that. Durban then 0:19:33.119 --> 0:19:36.280 has a chance to response. Here's his response. I'm going 0:19:36.320 --> 0:19:41.400 to quote it in full. Thank you, Senator Cruz. It's 0:19:41.400 --> 0:19:44.639 a smart response. That literally is how he responds to 0:19:44.720 --> 0:19:48.560 my reading his letter two letters while I'm sitting with 0:19:48.560 --> 0:19:50.320 a picture of him behind me. Well, what's he going 0:19:50.400 --> 0:19:52.120 to say? What's he going to say? He's sitting there, 0:19:52.160 --> 0:19:54.359 you got him dead to riot, so he knows he 0:19:54.440 --> 0:19:58.040 can't win. Sorry, Okay, moving on, all right. So then 0:19:58.080 --> 0:20:00.320 we get to Corn and Corn and asked questions after me, 0:20:00.400 --> 0:20:05.240 and there was this this law professor who is as 0:20:05.440 --> 0:20:10.560 radical a Democrat witness as I've ever seen. She's African 0:20:10.600 --> 0:20:15.120 American woman. She's a law professor who's specialty is abortion. 0:20:15.560 --> 0:20:17.439 So like she is at a law school and all 0:20:17.480 --> 0:20:20.960 she does is advocate for abortion. All day long and son. 0:20:21.640 --> 0:20:24.919 Cornet starts by saying that her testimony says that that 0:20:25.080 --> 0:20:29.159 African Americans have abortions at a rate three times or 0:20:29.200 --> 0:20:33.399 four times greater than non white Americans. And he asks 0:20:33.400 --> 0:20:36.600 her is that a good thing? Is that systemic racism? 0:20:36.840 --> 0:20:40.439 And she won't answer whether it's a good thing for 0:20:40.480 --> 0:20:43.000 there to be more black abortions or not. She refuses 0:20:43.000 --> 0:20:47.000 to answer that. So then Cornon goes in and he said, 0:20:47.000 --> 0:20:51.400 asks a very simple question, do you think that a 0:20:51.440 --> 0:20:58.639 baby that is delivered alive has value? This witness is 0:20:58.720 --> 0:21:03.920 silent for I went back countered it one second, two seconds, 0:21:04.680 --> 0:21:12.760 three seconds, four seconds, and finally she says, yes, I 0:21:12.760 --> 0:21:14.560 got to tell you in the room those four seconds 0:21:14.560 --> 0:21:17.320 were a long time. The question was do you think 0:21:18.000 --> 0:21:22.440 a baby that is delivered alive has value? So so 0:21:22.560 --> 0:21:25.280 Corning goes on and says, do you think that a 0:21:25.359 --> 0:21:30.000 baby that is not yet born has value? I believe 0:21:30.080 --> 0:21:33.000 that a person with a capacity for pregnancy has value. 0:21:33.280 --> 0:21:36.760 They have intelligence, they have agency. Corning comes back, no, 0:21:37.640 --> 0:21:41.920 I'm talking about the baby, Professor Bridges, and I'm talking 0:21:41.920 --> 0:21:45.720 about the person with a capacity phonomic Senator Corny, you're 0:21:45.760 --> 0:21:50.480 not answering the question I'm asking Professor Bridges with the 0:21:50.520 --> 0:21:54.760 smugness of a leftist who views all of us with 0:21:54.880 --> 0:22:00.879 condescending sneering. I'm answering a more interesting and tries again, 0:22:02.160 --> 0:22:05.240 do you think that a baby that is not yet born, 0:22:06.200 --> 0:22:10.679 let's say the day before this mother delivers, do you 0:22:10.760 --> 0:22:16.679 think that baby has value? Her answer, I think that 0:22:16.720 --> 0:22:19.000 the person with a capacity for pregnancy has value, and 0:22:19.040 --> 0:22:21.480 they should have the ability to control what happens to 0:22:21.560 --> 0:22:24.960 their life. Now, I got to say, even among advocates 0:22:24.960 --> 0:22:32.360 for abortion, it is stunning to have a witness who 0:22:32.480 --> 0:22:42.040 is unwilling to acknowledge that an infant in a mother's 0:22:42.080 --> 0:22:46.240 womb who is nine months pregnant has any value whatsoever. 0:22:46.400 --> 0:22:48.680 That is not a sentence she's willing to say. Look, 0:22:48.720 --> 0:22:51.000 there are people who are pro abortion who could say, yes, 0:22:51.040 --> 0:22:54.840 of course the child has value, but I value the 0:22:55.160 --> 0:22:58.919 mother's liberty interest more. I understand that position. That's not 0:22:58.960 --> 0:23:05.520 what she said. She's unwilling to articulate to acknowledge one 0:23:05.600 --> 0:23:08.440 iota value and the child. And it took her four 0:23:08.520 --> 0:23:12.440 seconds to acknowledge that even a baby that's been born 0:23:12.560 --> 0:23:15.480 has value. Well, she wouldn't even acknowledge the question I mean, 0:23:15.960 --> 0:23:19.439 to me, that's even almost crazier that it would be 0:23:19.560 --> 0:23:22.600 like asking, Hey, Michael, do you think that babies have value? 0:23:22.600 --> 0:23:24.640 And I'll say I think the nineteen ninety eight New 0:23:24.680 --> 0:23:28.359 York Yankees have value. You say, Okay, sure, that's fine, 0:23:28.080 --> 0:23:31.040 but that's not what I'm asking you. And did you 0:23:31.080 --> 0:23:34.720 notice a really weird tick? So this whole questioning with 0:23:34.800 --> 0:23:39.840 Cornan occurred after I had asked my questions. Did you 0:23:39.960 --> 0:23:44.399 notice a word that she didn't use in response to 0:23:44.400 --> 0:23:47.919 any of those questions? The most controversial word around today. 0:23:49.600 --> 0:23:53.160 It's the word that Justice Katangi Brown Jackson doesn't know 0:23:53.880 --> 0:23:57.000 what a woman is. And she kept using this this 0:23:57.160 --> 0:24:02.960 phrase a person with a capacity for pregnancy, which I 0:24:03.000 --> 0:24:06.080 don't think I've ever heard that phrase until this afternoon. 0:24:07.240 --> 0:24:12.359 And that led to one of the most astonishing exchanges. 0:24:12.400 --> 0:24:16.720 So after Cornin, Josh Holly from Missouri had an opportunity 0:24:16.720 --> 0:24:20.240 to question her, and he couldn't help but ask about 0:24:20.280 --> 0:24:23.760 this bizarre phrase she kept using, a person with capacity 0:24:23.800 --> 0:24:28.080 for pregnancy. You've referred to people with a capacity for pregnancy? 0:24:29.160 --> 0:24:34.480 Would that be women? Many women, SIS women have the 0:24:34.520 --> 0:24:36.879 capacity for pregnancy. Many SIS women do not have the 0:24:36.920 --> 0:24:40.040 capacity for pregnancy. There are also trans men who are 0:24:40.040 --> 0:24:42.439 capable of pregnancy, as well as non binary people who 0:24:42.480 --> 0:24:45.320 are capable of pregnancy. So this isn't really a women's 0:24:45.440 --> 0:24:48.920 rights issue. It's we can recognize that this impacts women 0:24:48.960 --> 0:24:51.800 while also recognizing that it impacts other groups. Those things 0:24:51.800 --> 0:24:55.600 are not mutually exclusive. Senator Holly Oh, So, your view 0:24:55.720 --> 0:24:58.359 is is that the core of this right then, is 0:24:58.400 --> 0:25:02.440 about what? So I want to recognize that your line 0:25:02.440 --> 0:25:07.160