1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:04,519 Speaker 1: The Olympics are on and nobody is watching. The Olympics 2 00:00:04,519 --> 00:00:07,760 Speaker 1: have reached a record low in terms of ratings, down 3 00:00:07,880 --> 00:00:11,800 Speaker 1: forty three percent over the Winter Games in twenty eighteen, 4 00:00:12,240 --> 00:00:16,480 Speaker 1: down twenty percent over the previous lowest rated Olympics all 5 00:00:16,520 --> 00:00:19,960 Speaker 1: the way back in the nineteen eighties. So nobody is 6 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:23,279 Speaker 1: watching the Olympics, nobody wants to watch the Olympics, and 7 00:00:23,520 --> 00:00:26,759 Speaker 1: even more distressing, our own athletes don't seem to want 8 00:00:26,760 --> 00:00:31,200 Speaker 1: to play for the American teams. What has happened to 9 00:00:31,280 --> 00:00:34,840 Speaker 1: America's role in the world. 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Have 82 00:04:20,760 --> 00:04:23,120 Speaker 1: you been watching the Olympics? To be honest, I have 83 00:04:23,240 --> 00:04:28,480 Speaker 1: not turned it on even once. I have seen the snippets, 84 00:04:29,120 --> 00:04:34,400 Speaker 1: frankly on Twitter of the opening ceremonies where they had 85 00:04:34,560 --> 00:04:41,000 Speaker 1: a wager athlete light the torch and it was so obnoxious. 86 00:04:42,040 --> 00:04:46,560 Speaker 1: The Chinese Communist Party literally has one million weekers, more 87 00:04:46,640 --> 00:04:51,240 Speaker 1: than one million weekers in concentration camps right now. They 88 00:04:51,279 --> 00:04:55,920 Speaker 1: are being tortured, murdered, they are working in slave labor. 89 00:04:56,400 --> 00:05:02,800 Speaker 1: And for the propaganda of the Chinese Communist Party to 90 00:05:03,600 --> 00:05:06,240 Speaker 1: use this wager athlete to say everything is great. And 91 00:05:06,279 --> 00:05:10,919 Speaker 1: I got to say, NBC Savannah Guthrie, you know said, well, 92 00:05:11,040 --> 00:05:16,839 Speaker 1: critics accuse China doing this, Well, okay, it is a genocide. 93 00:05:17,520 --> 00:05:21,039 Speaker 1: Those are the facts. They are literally trying to exterminate 94 00:05:21,120 --> 00:05:25,600 Speaker 1: the leaguers. But NBC wants to apologize for the Chinese 95 00:05:25,640 --> 00:05:31,080 Speaker 1: communist atrocities and get given that, you know, I can't 96 00:05:31,160 --> 00:05:35,160 Speaker 1: bring myself to watch it. It just is these games 97 00:05:35,200 --> 00:05:38,320 Speaker 1: never should have happened in China. It's wrong that that 98 00:05:38,320 --> 00:05:41,520 Speaker 1: that that the International Olympic Committee allowed China to host 99 00:05:41,600 --> 00:05:44,760 Speaker 1: these games. Now, what do you think is at play here? 100 00:05:44,760 --> 00:05:47,279 Speaker 1: Because there are a couple of dynamics going on. One, 101 00:05:47,680 --> 00:05:50,719 Speaker 1: you have communist China doing all sorts of heinous, horrible 102 00:05:50,720 --> 00:05:53,040 Speaker 1: things in their own country and around the world, so 103 00:05:53,120 --> 00:05:55,400 Speaker 1: people just don't want to tune in for that too. 104 00:05:55,520 --> 00:05:59,080 Speaker 1: You've got this strange dynamic where an American athlete born 105 00:05:59,080 --> 00:06:02,200 Speaker 1: and raised in San Francisco. Though frankly, maybe that explains it. 106 00:06:02,360 --> 00:06:06,760 Speaker 1: An American athlete choosing to compete not for America, her country, 107 00:06:07,080 --> 00:06:10,280 Speaker 1: but for China, the country that her mother is from, 108 00:06:10,880 --> 00:06:15,320 Speaker 1: to compete for the Chinese Communist Party. It seems so shocking, 109 00:06:15,400 --> 00:06:18,000 Speaker 1: so disgusting to me that an American would ever want 110 00:06:18,000 --> 00:06:22,040 Speaker 1: to compete for any other country, to say nothing of China. 111 00:06:22,839 --> 00:06:26,240 Speaker 1: What is it a revulsion at China? Is a revulsion 112 00:06:26,400 --> 00:06:28,400 Speaker 1: at America? Or is it just that people are tuning 113 00:06:28,400 --> 00:06:31,200 Speaker 1: out of the mainstream media? So look, I don't know, 114 00:06:31,360 --> 00:06:33,520 Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know this athlete. I was certainly 115 00:06:33,520 --> 00:06:36,800 Speaker 1: saddened by those headlines. You know, I want to be 116 00:06:36,880 --> 00:06:39,320 Speaker 1: a little bit careful throwing rocks. I guess she has 117 00:06:39,400 --> 00:06:42,400 Speaker 1: renounced her citizenship. She's decided she wants to be a 118 00:06:42,520 --> 00:06:46,760 Speaker 1: Chinese national. Okay, that that is an unusual choice. That's 119 00:06:46,760 --> 00:06:50,720 Speaker 1: not a choice many people make. Most people don't go 120 00:06:50,839 --> 00:06:53,880 Speaker 1: from freedom to tyranny. Most people don't choose to subject 121 00:06:53,920 --> 00:06:58,640 Speaker 1: themselves to the oppression of a communist dictatorship. I don't 122 00:06:58,680 --> 00:07:02,080 Speaker 1: know what a reasoning was. I don't know her thinking was. UM. 123 00:07:02,240 --> 00:07:06,640 Speaker 1: I will say I am saddened whenever anyone gives up 124 00:07:06,640 --> 00:07:11,400 Speaker 1: on America. UM, that that is an unfortunate thing. You know, 125 00:07:11,440 --> 00:07:14,520 Speaker 1: it reminds me if this is not exactly the same, 126 00:07:14,600 --> 00:07:17,040 Speaker 1: but another guy from the San Francisco area, remember what 127 00:07:17,120 --> 00:07:19,880 Speaker 1: was his name, John Walker Lynne, the American Taliban. It 128 00:07:20,000 --> 00:07:22,480 Speaker 1: was in Marin County, and decided he wanted to go 129 00:07:22,520 --> 00:07:24,800 Speaker 1: be a Taliban. I'm not suggesting she's a terrorist, so 130 00:07:25,320 --> 00:07:29,320 Speaker 1: I don't want that to be a false equivalency. M 131 00:07:30,520 --> 00:07:34,560 Speaker 1: but it was someone born and raised in America deciding 132 00:07:34,640 --> 00:07:37,760 Speaker 1: to pledge their allegiance to a foreign power and to 133 00:07:37,840 --> 00:07:40,720 Speaker 1: an oppressive foreign power to a foreign power that that 134 00:07:40,880 --> 00:07:50,000 Speaker 1: commits atrocities. M you know that it's we don't know 135 00:07:50,040 --> 00:07:52,520 Speaker 1: the whole story there, but it but it's certainly a 136 00:07:52,560 --> 00:07:57,320 Speaker 1: dismaying development, and it speaks, I think, to a deeper problem, 137 00:07:57,440 --> 00:08:00,040 Speaker 1: not just this one girl or a handful of a 138 00:08:00,040 --> 00:08:02,720 Speaker 1: fleets who want to compete for other countries. But you're 139 00:08:02,960 --> 00:08:08,400 Speaker 1: seeing on the left a disavowal of American power and influence, 140 00:08:08,400 --> 00:08:11,080 Speaker 1: because they say America is immoral and unjust in a 141 00:08:11,160 --> 00:08:14,280 Speaker 1: terrible place, and wherever it goes, it just oppresses people. 142 00:08:14,560 --> 00:08:17,760 Speaker 1: But you're also seeing on the right a sort of 143 00:08:18,320 --> 00:08:21,640 Speaker 1: disappointment with America looking around and and saying, what are 144 00:08:21,640 --> 00:08:24,640 Speaker 1: we doing when we go overseas? Are we fighting to 145 00:08:25,360 --> 00:08:27,880 Speaker 1: I don't know, raise the Pride flag over Kndahar, What 146 00:08:27,920 --> 00:08:30,680 Speaker 1: does it even mean? I think you're seeing a little bit, 147 00:08:30,960 --> 00:08:35,480 Speaker 1: certainly in in certain aspects of the right, a demoralization 148 00:08:35,600 --> 00:08:39,360 Speaker 1: there as well. What are we Are we just in 149 00:08:39,400 --> 00:08:42,000 Speaker 1: a national malaise, Senator, the likes of which we might 150 00:08:42,000 --> 00:08:44,520 Speaker 1: have seen in the seventies. Look, some people are and 151 00:08:44,600 --> 00:08:48,559 Speaker 1: some are not. And unfortunately this really does follow a 152 00:08:48,600 --> 00:08:56,400 Speaker 1: political polarization the left. It is proudly and brazenly anti American. Yea, 153 00:08:57,200 --> 00:09:01,520 Speaker 1: whether it is you know, Nike celebrating Colin Kaepernick and 154 00:09:01,880 --> 00:09:05,840 Speaker 1: pulling the Betsy Ross flag off their shoes, which actually 155 00:09:06,080 --> 00:09:08,800 Speaker 1: truth in advertising is what they followed. Nike would put 156 00:09:08,800 --> 00:09:10,760 Speaker 1: the Chinese flag on their shoes because that's where their 157 00:09:10,760 --> 00:09:13,520 Speaker 1: shoes are made, and in fact that they would put 158 00:09:13,600 --> 00:09:16,720 Speaker 1: Chinese children on their shoes because it's Chinese children who 159 00:09:17,320 --> 00:09:21,400 Speaker 1: sadly are are forced far too often into slave labor. 160 00:09:22,040 --> 00:09:26,600 Speaker 1: But the left generally, you know ESPN covering the Olympics, 161 00:09:26,600 --> 00:09:29,800 Speaker 1: there was you know, one clown on ESPN who did 162 00:09:29,840 --> 00:09:34,720 Speaker 1: this moral equivalence and says, well, yes, they're Chinese concentration camps, 163 00:09:35,120 --> 00:09:38,800 Speaker 1: but you know, who are we to judge because America 164 00:09:38,840 --> 00:09:43,000 Speaker 1: has faults also, and Michael he literally says, well, states 165 00:09:43,040 --> 00:09:47,520 Speaker 1: like Georgia and Texas passed voter ID laws, So apparently 166 00:09:48,240 --> 00:09:52,800 Speaker 1: requiring a driver's license to vote is equivalent to creating 167 00:09:52,800 --> 00:09:56,640 Speaker 1: a concentration camp, putting a million people in them, torturing them, 168 00:09:56,720 --> 00:10:01,040 Speaker 1: raping them, murdering them. That's exactly like requiring an ID 169 00:10:01,160 --> 00:10:05,520 Speaker 1: to vote. It makes sense. It's the most assinine moral equivalency. 170 00:10:05,559 --> 00:10:08,600 Speaker 1: And I do wonder if you know, people that grow 171 00:10:08,720 --> 00:10:16,520 Speaker 1: up surrounded by that leftism, they're incapable of making judgments. 172 00:10:17,320 --> 00:10:20,080 Speaker 1: You know, it was America perfect, of course not but 173 00:10:20,080 --> 00:10:25,559 Speaker 1: but the idea that we are literally, the Biden administration 174 00:10:26,000 --> 00:10:32,880 Speaker 1: is the number one customer for slave labor coming out 175 00:10:33,360 --> 00:10:37,240 Speaker 1: of communist China. John Kerry, when he was asked about 176 00:10:37,960 --> 00:10:40,040 Speaker 1: about the slave labor camps, he says, well, that's not 177 00:10:40,120 --> 00:10:43,520 Speaker 1: my department. You know, I've joked, but it's not really 178 00:10:43,520 --> 00:10:45,760 Speaker 1: a joke that John Kerry should be named the customer 179 00:10:45,800 --> 00:10:49,760 Speaker 1: of the year for the Chinese communist slave labor. Several 180 00:10:49,800 --> 00:10:52,560 Speaker 1: months ago, I introduced an amendment on the floor that 181 00:10:52,720 --> 00:10:57,360 Speaker 1: said it should be illegal for the US government to 182 00:10:57,480 --> 00:11:01,680 Speaker 1: purchase products and in particular or electric cars, electric batteries, 183 00:11:01,679 --> 00:11:07,640 Speaker 1: solar panels made with slave labor in China. Right, every 184 00:11:07,720 --> 00:11:11,079 Speaker 1: single Democrat voted no except Joe Manchon. Joe Manchon was 185 00:11:11,080 --> 00:11:13,640 Speaker 1: the one Democratic voted yes. Everyone else voted no. The 186 00:11:13,679 --> 00:11:19,000 Speaker 1: amendment failed, and you know, it is stunning. We are literally, 187 00:11:19,840 --> 00:11:22,400 Speaker 1: you know, if you look through history at times when 188 00:11:22,400 --> 00:11:29,040 Speaker 1: there have been concentration camps without exception, those are shameful, deplorable, disgusting, 189 00:11:29,120 --> 00:11:33,240 Speaker 1: times that history is not kind to and we are 190 00:11:33,440 --> 00:11:38,000 Speaker 1: funding concentration camps right now by purchasing the fruits of 191 00:11:38,040 --> 00:11:44,880 Speaker 1: that slave labor. It's grossly immoral, and today's Democrats don't care. 192 00:11:45,320 --> 00:11:49,720 Speaker 1: This raises my next question because a lot of people 193 00:11:49,720 --> 00:11:52,520 Speaker 1: are suggesting, well, it's ideological. You know, the radical left 194 00:11:52,520 --> 00:11:54,640 Speaker 1: to hate America, and they do hate America, and they 195 00:11:54,640 --> 00:11:57,160 Speaker 1: protest the flag, and so there's no question there's an 196 00:11:57,200 --> 00:12:01,200 Speaker 1: ideological element here. Well, and they're taught America is evil 197 00:12:01,320 --> 00:12:05,200 Speaker 1: and that the evil is at best equivalent and in 198 00:12:05,240 --> 00:12:10,640 Speaker 1: many ways worse than really evil stuff globally. And no, 199 00:12:10,800 --> 00:12:14,240 Speaker 1: they're not the same. No, George W. Bush was not 200 00:12:14,320 --> 00:12:17,320 Speaker 1: Aidolf Hitler. No, Donald Trump was not Aidolf Hitler. And 201 00:12:17,360 --> 00:12:21,120 Speaker 1: the nuts who say that are nuts. Right, But then 202 00:12:21,200 --> 00:12:24,720 Speaker 1: this raises this question, how does China keep getting away 203 00:12:24,760 --> 00:12:27,679 Speaker 1: with it? Is it just because we're all brainwashed? Or 204 00:12:28,480 --> 00:12:31,720 Speaker 1: is it because of cold hard cash? Is because China 205 00:12:31,760 --> 00:12:35,200 Speaker 1: owns a ton of our debt. Our businesses in America 206 00:12:35,200 --> 00:12:38,080 Speaker 1: are totally in bed with the Chinese. They make all 207 00:12:38,080 --> 00:12:39,559 Speaker 1: of our goods. I mean, is it is it an 208 00:12:39,559 --> 00:12:43,360 Speaker 1: economic problem? It is massively an economic problem. And by 209 00:12:43,400 --> 00:12:46,280 Speaker 1: the way, the political problem is an economic problem. So 210 00:12:46,720 --> 00:12:50,080 Speaker 1: one of the things to understand about the Democratic Party today, 211 00:12:50,880 --> 00:12:54,040 Speaker 1: they are structurally pro China. Now what does that mean. 212 00:12:54,640 --> 00:12:59,280 Speaker 1: That means that they're leading supporters are all completely in 213 00:12:59,280 --> 00:13:02,680 Speaker 1: bed with China. So who is today's Democratic Party funded by. 214 00:13:02,800 --> 00:13:05,840 Speaker 1: It's funded by big tech, big tech, er monster supporters 215 00:13:05,840 --> 00:13:10,520 Speaker 1: of the Democratic Party. It's funded by big business, giant corporations, 216 00:13:10,600 --> 00:13:14,280 Speaker 1: almost all of which are overwhelmingly Democrat right now. It's 217 00:13:14,360 --> 00:13:19,000 Speaker 1: funded by big Hollywood, and it's funded by big universities. 218 00:13:19,720 --> 00:13:22,680 Speaker 1: All four of those big tech, big business, big Hollywood, 219 00:13:22,679 --> 00:13:27,920 Speaker 1: big universities are up to their eyeballs with the Chinese Communist. 220 00:13:28,280 --> 00:13:31,800 Speaker 1: They have billions of dollars depending on the Chinese Communist. 221 00:13:32,000 --> 00:13:34,480 Speaker 1: And so the people who write the checks that keep 222 00:13:34,600 --> 00:13:36,959 Speaker 1: Joe Biden in power, that keep Kamala Harris in power, 223 00:13:37,000 --> 00:13:39,640 Speaker 1: that keep Chuck Schumer in power, that keep Nancy Pelosi 224 00:13:39,679 --> 00:13:43,920 Speaker 1: in power, they have billions of dollars at stake with 225 00:13:44,200 --> 00:13:51,120 Speaker 1: keeping us intertwined with communist China. So the Democratic Party 226 00:13:51,360 --> 00:13:54,960 Speaker 1: does not want to decouple, does not want to delink. 227 00:13:55,320 --> 00:13:57,679 Speaker 1: They may occasionally have a little bit of tough rhetoric 228 00:13:57,760 --> 00:14:01,280 Speaker 1: because they realize that the Chinese commun poll badly, right, 229 00:14:01,640 --> 00:14:07,439 Speaker 1: but they are opposed to actually doing anything about China. Well, 230 00:14:07,480 --> 00:14:09,680 Speaker 1: he who pays the piper calls the tune. But then 231 00:14:09,960 --> 00:14:12,520 Speaker 1: the next question would be, how do we fix that? 232 00:14:12,880 --> 00:14:16,040 Speaker 1: If this is not merely the ideological whims of some 233 00:14:16,160 --> 00:14:20,080 Speaker 1: koukie leftist politicians, but this is really a structural issue, 234 00:14:20,200 --> 00:14:22,960 Speaker 1: as you say, I think quite persuasively, then what's the 235 00:14:22,960 --> 00:14:25,560 Speaker 1: answer to that? How do we fight back? Well, I 236 00:14:25,600 --> 00:14:28,160 Speaker 1: do think the debate has changed, and it's changed a lot. 237 00:14:28,320 --> 00:14:30,680 Speaker 1: You know, when I got to the State a decade ago, 238 00:14:32,240 --> 00:14:36,960 Speaker 1: I was arguing then in twenty thirteen, that China poses 239 00:14:36,960 --> 00:14:40,200 Speaker 1: the single greatest geopolitical threat to the United States over 240 00:14:40,240 --> 00:14:44,080 Speaker 1: the next century. That I believe this. I think it 241 00:14:44,160 --> 00:14:48,239 Speaker 1: is a massive The goal of the Chinese communist dictators 242 00:14:49,560 --> 00:14:54,680 Speaker 1: is global domination, and they are playing the game not 243 00:14:54,800 --> 00:14:58,160 Speaker 1: on the short term, but over decades and over the 244 00:14:58,200 --> 00:15:02,040 Speaker 1: next century. And I got to say, when I got 245 00:15:02,080 --> 00:15:06,280 Speaker 1: to DC and started saying that that was a lonely view, 246 00:15:06,720 --> 00:15:10,840 Speaker 1: almost all of Washington thought that view was nuts. Every 247 00:15:10,880 --> 00:15:14,200 Speaker 1: Democrat did, Every Democrat remember Joe Biden used to say, 248 00:15:14,240 --> 00:15:17,560 Speaker 1: come on, man, come on man, there are friends, Come 249 00:15:17,560 --> 00:15:23,080 Speaker 1: on man. But back then most of the Republicans believe 250 00:15:23,160 --> 00:15:25,800 Speaker 1: that also, most of the Republicans, you know, you go 251 00:15:25,880 --> 00:15:29,080 Speaker 1: back to twenty thirteen, twenty fourteen, the Republican Party was 252 00:15:29,120 --> 00:15:31,520 Speaker 1: in a very significant way the Chamber of Commerce party, 253 00:15:31,520 --> 00:15:35,480 Speaker 1: and the Chamber of Commerce looked at China and saw 254 00:15:35,800 --> 00:15:40,240 Speaker 1: big bucks, and the Republican enlightened view was, well, we 255 00:15:40,240 --> 00:15:42,000 Speaker 1: can make a whole lot of money in China and 256 00:15:42,120 --> 00:15:45,760 Speaker 1: eventually that human rights and democracy stuff, well, we'll worry 257 00:15:45,760 --> 00:15:47,720 Speaker 1: about it another time. You know, there's a clip that 258 00:15:47,800 --> 00:15:50,440 Speaker 1: makes the rounds now of Joe Biden way back when 259 00:15:50,440 --> 00:15:54,160 Speaker 1: this was ten years ago now saying that arising China 260 00:15:54,320 --> 00:15:56,480 Speaker 1: is good for America, it's good for the whole world, 261 00:15:56,480 --> 00:15:58,920 Speaker 1: and we should encourage arising China. And one of the 262 00:15:58,960 --> 00:16:01,640 Speaker 1: reasons why it's little tough to use that clip against 263 00:16:01,680 --> 00:16:05,560 Speaker 1: him is because many, if not most Republicans at the 264 00:16:05,600 --> 00:16:08,840 Speaker 1: same time, we're saying the exact same thing. No, that's 265 00:16:08,880 --> 00:16:12,920 Speaker 1: that's exactly right. It was there were a handful of 266 00:16:13,000 --> 00:16:14,880 Speaker 1: us that we're calling out the threat of China, and 267 00:16:15,520 --> 00:16:20,600 Speaker 1: we were we were lonely voices in Washington. I will 268 00:16:20,640 --> 00:16:23,760 Speaker 1: say two things have really changed that and they both 269 00:16:23,800 --> 00:16:25,120 Speaker 1: you know, you asked, how do we deal with this 270 00:16:25,200 --> 00:16:27,000 Speaker 1: in the long term. Two things have changed that for 271 00:16:27,040 --> 00:16:30,960 Speaker 1: the better. Number one is Donald Trump and and Trump 272 00:16:31,360 --> 00:16:36,000 Speaker 1: changed the discussion on China fundamentally. Trump came in, talked 273 00:16:36,000 --> 00:16:40,200 Speaker 1: about China, China. He changed the pronunciation, really he did. 274 00:16:40,280 --> 00:16:42,200 Speaker 1: He did. I don't know a very good Trump impersonation, 275 00:16:42,320 --> 00:16:48,320 Speaker 1: but but he but by force of will change the 276 00:16:48,440 --> 00:16:50,800 Speaker 1: focus to China considerably. And I will say in the 277 00:16:50,800 --> 00:16:55,480 Speaker 1: Republican Party that that made a real difference. But then secondly, 278 00:16:55,640 --> 00:17:00,560 Speaker 1: what really changed it was COVID and and COVID, Chinese 279 00:17:00,600 --> 00:17:05,359 Speaker 1: Communist government's complicity in covering up COVID, and now the 280 00:17:05,440 --> 00:17:11,320 Speaker 1: overwhelming evidence suggests complicity in COVID likely being released from 281 00:17:11,320 --> 00:17:15,000 Speaker 1: a Chinese government lab in Wuhan, and the very real 282 00:17:15,040 --> 00:17:18,240 Speaker 1: possibility that it was the Chinese Communist government that developed 283 00:17:18,320 --> 00:17:25,159 Speaker 1: COVID through gain a function research, and that culpability in 284 00:17:25,920 --> 00:17:29,199 Speaker 1: something that has taken so many lives in America across 285 00:17:29,280 --> 00:17:34,440 Speaker 1: the world, that has destroyed trillions of dollars in jobs 286 00:17:34,440 --> 00:17:40,440 Speaker 1: and productivity and savings, that has changed the fundamental view 287 00:17:40,560 --> 00:17:44,520 Speaker 1: of the Chinese Communist here at home and abroad. And 288 00:17:44,600 --> 00:17:47,280 Speaker 1: I think that is potent. Now, as long as the 289 00:17:47,280 --> 00:17:50,240 Speaker 1: government in the US is controlled by Biden, Schumer and Pelosi, 290 00:17:50,359 --> 00:17:52,280 Speaker 1: they're not going to do a damn thing about China. 291 00:17:52,440 --> 00:17:56,439 Speaker 1: But I'm hopeful when the election happens in November and 292 00:17:56,480 --> 00:17:59,480 Speaker 1: we see new Republican leadership in the House and Senate 293 00:17:59,720 --> 00:18:02,840 Speaker 1: will see I hope, leaders willing to stand up and 294 00:18:03,960 --> 00:18:06,359 Speaker 1: take on China directly. And then in twenty four we 295 00:18:06,400 --> 00:18:09,080 Speaker 1: need a strong Republican president who's willing to take on 296 00:18:09,240 --> 00:18:12,520 Speaker 1: China because it's not going to happen from today's Democratic Party. 297 00:18:12,960 --> 00:18:15,560 Speaker 1: So you've got the China issue seems clear enough at 298 00:18:15,600 --> 00:18:21,200 Speaker 1: least today, Republicans against China, Democrats very pro China, really 299 00:18:21,320 --> 00:18:25,399 Speaker 1: bought and paid for by China. Then there's another issue, 300 00:18:25,440 --> 00:18:28,680 Speaker 1: which is Iran. And for a much longer time, Republicans 301 00:18:28,800 --> 00:18:32,200 Speaker 1: have opposed Iran and Iran's attempts to get a nuclear 302 00:18:32,200 --> 00:18:35,679 Speaker 1: weapon and Iran's attempts to grow, and the Democrats just 303 00:18:35,880 --> 00:18:39,159 Speaker 1: keep coming back to Iran. Barack Obama signed to the 304 00:18:39,160 --> 00:18:42,520 Speaker 1: Iran nuclear Deal. Donald Trump comes into office, rips up 305 00:18:42,560 --> 00:18:45,400 Speaker 1: that deal now again. Joe Biden seems to be trying 306 00:18:45,440 --> 00:18:47,960 Speaker 1: to revive it. As far as I can tell, without 307 00:18:48,000 --> 00:18:51,320 Speaker 1: any input from the US Senate. Yeah. No, it really 308 00:18:51,440 --> 00:18:56,240 Speaker 1: is incredibly dangerous and it is a story the Democrats 309 00:18:56,320 --> 00:18:59,440 Speaker 1: history in Iran is horrific. You go back to Jimmy Carter, 310 00:19:00,200 --> 00:19:03,640 Speaker 1: where you know, the Shava Ran was a US ally 311 00:19:04,040 --> 00:19:10,240 Speaker 1: supported America and then they had an Islamist revolution led 312 00:19:10,240 --> 00:19:14,960 Speaker 1: by the Ayatola Komine which, among other things took Americans 313 00:19:15,000 --> 00:19:18,720 Speaker 1: hostage and held our Americans hostage for four hundred and 314 00:19:18,760 --> 00:19:23,600 Speaker 1: forty four days. And Jimmy Carter, who had undermined our 315 00:19:23,640 --> 00:19:27,119 Speaker 1: ally the Shaw and then sat there helplessly while the 316 00:19:27,160 --> 00:19:31,840 Speaker 1: revolution that displaced the Shaw held Americans hostage. Now Jimmy 317 00:19:31,840 --> 00:19:35,440 Speaker 1: Carter was even worse than sitting there helplessly. He sent 318 00:19:35,480 --> 00:19:38,000 Speaker 1: a rescue team in to try to rescue the hostages. 319 00:19:38,840 --> 00:19:41,879 Speaker 1: This is before you were alive, Michael, just a glint 320 00:19:41,880 --> 00:19:46,520 Speaker 1: in my father's eye. Indeed, the rescue team crashed in 321 00:19:46,560 --> 00:19:50,800 Speaker 1: the desert. The helicopters crashed with no opposing fire. They 322 00:19:50,800 --> 00:19:53,480 Speaker 1: weren't even confronting the enemy. I mean, it was the 323 00:19:53,640 --> 00:19:58,879 Speaker 1: incompetence of the Carter administration had not been mad until 324 00:19:58,920 --> 00:20:01,879 Speaker 1: we got the bidens today. But before we do that, 325 00:20:01,960 --> 00:20:06,040 Speaker 1: let's go in between let's go and by the way, 326 00:20:06,160 --> 00:20:12,160 Speaker 1: the Ayatola Cominy release the hostages the day that Ronald 327 00:20:12,200 --> 00:20:14,680 Speaker 1: Reagan was sworn in, literally as Reagan put his hand 328 00:20:14,720 --> 00:20:18,200 Speaker 1: on the Bible raised his hand on the oath, January twentieth, 329 00:20:18,240 --> 00:20:22,359 Speaker 1: nineteen eighty one, is when the Ayatola released the hostages 330 00:20:22,880 --> 00:20:25,520 Speaker 1: because he understood there was a new sheriff in town 331 00:20:25,720 --> 00:20:27,879 Speaker 1: and Reagan was going to blow the crap out of 332 00:20:27,920 --> 00:20:31,000 Speaker 1: them if they didn't let the Americans go it. You 333 00:20:31,160 --> 00:20:36,040 Speaker 1: couldn't ask for a better demonstration of weakness and appeasement 334 00:20:36,480 --> 00:20:40,400 Speaker 1: versus piece their strength. Right all right, fast forward to Obama. 335 00:20:42,040 --> 00:20:46,800 Speaker 1: Obama first term big domestic agenda is Obamacare and Dodd 336 00:20:46,800 --> 00:20:52,680 Speaker 1: Frank Obama gets reelected in twenty twelve. Obama's second term 337 00:20:52,680 --> 00:20:56,119 Speaker 1: major agenda was a nuclear deal with Iran, and in 338 00:20:56,160 --> 00:20:58,920 Speaker 1: fact Ben Rhodes, who was the Deputy National Security Advisor 339 00:20:58,920 --> 00:21:02,800 Speaker 1: in the Obama White House, he described an Iran nuclear 340 00:21:02,880 --> 00:21:06,359 Speaker 1: deal as the Obamacare of the second term, which I 341 00:21:06,400 --> 00:21:12,080 Speaker 1: think he meant his a compliment. You look at the 342 00:21:12,160 --> 00:21:18,800 Speaker 1: Obama Iran deal, John Kerry negotiated it with Iran. It 343 00:21:19,119 --> 00:21:23,840 Speaker 1: is absolutely catastrophic. The Iran deal on its face was 344 00:21:23,840 --> 00:21:29,080 Speaker 1: a total capitulation to Iran, and it is dangerous that 345 00:21:29,240 --> 00:21:35,240 Speaker 1: the Obama Iran Deal put in Iran unavoidably on a 346 00:21:35,280 --> 00:21:39,800 Speaker 1: path to having a nuclear weapon. I led the opposition 347 00:21:40,080 --> 00:21:42,119 Speaker 1: to the Iran Deal in the Senate, and in fact, 348 00:21:43,119 --> 00:21:46,959 Speaker 1: you know, it was interesting. As the presidential campaign started 349 00:21:47,000 --> 00:21:51,479 Speaker 1: getting going in twenty fifteen, I helped organize a huge 350 00:21:51,600 --> 00:21:54,840 Speaker 1: rally on the steps of the Capitol, thousands of people 351 00:21:54,880 --> 00:21:58,680 Speaker 1: in opposition to the Iran Deal. I invited Donald Trump 352 00:21:58,680 --> 00:22:00,919 Speaker 1: to the rally and it was interesting. He was like, 353 00:22:00,920 --> 00:22:02,720 Speaker 1: why would you invite me to your rally? You're running 354 00:22:02,720 --> 00:22:05,879 Speaker 1: against me. He was like, well, and I just said, well, Donald, 355 00:22:05,920 --> 00:22:09,159 Speaker 1: because when I invite you, every TV camera in the 356 00:22:09,240 --> 00:22:13,160 Speaker 1: universe follows you. And I want to stop this deal 357 00:22:13,240 --> 00:22:16,439 Speaker 1: because I don't want a theocratic lunatic. Now there's a 358 00:22:16,480 --> 00:22:20,080 Speaker 1: different Ietola. The old one was the Aetola Komeni. The 359 00:22:20,160 --> 00:22:23,720 Speaker 1: new Iotola is the Aetola Kamene. Just when you think 360 00:22:23,760 --> 00:22:26,960 Speaker 1: the iranis you can't get more confusing. The two guys 361 00:22:27,000 --> 00:22:30,080 Speaker 1: have almost the same name. And look, there's an easy solution. 362 00:22:30,160 --> 00:22:33,600 Speaker 1: Call him the Aetola. He's a bearded Jehadas who wants 363 00:22:33,640 --> 00:22:37,200 Speaker 1: to murder us. And by the way, the Iatola Kamene, 364 00:22:37,200 --> 00:22:44,639 Speaker 1: like the Ietola Komeni literally chance death to America and 365 00:22:44,840 --> 00:22:47,280 Speaker 1: death to Israel. And he was doing this, This is 366 00:22:47,320 --> 00:22:51,360 Speaker 1: not hyperbole. While John Kerry in the State Department were 367 00:22:51,440 --> 00:22:57,480 Speaker 1: negotiating the Iran nuclear deal, the Ayatola was leading mobs 368 00:22:57,480 --> 00:23:00,640 Speaker 1: in Iran chanting death to America. They actually have every 369 00:23:00,720 --> 00:23:04,040 Speaker 1: every year they celebrate Death to America Day and it's 370 00:23:04,040 --> 00:23:11,160 Speaker 1: the anniversary of the revolutionaries taking Americans hostage. And yeah, 371 00:23:11,200 --> 00:23:13,920 Speaker 1: there's a great political cartoon that came out about that time. 372 00:23:13,920 --> 00:23:16,840 Speaker 1: I think it was twenty fifteen that had the Ayatola 373 00:23:16,880 --> 00:23:20,400 Speaker 1: and had John Kerry and it had the Ayatola saying 374 00:23:20,600 --> 00:23:24,240 Speaker 1: death to America, and it had John Kerry saying, can 375 00:23:24,280 --> 00:23:28,199 Speaker 1: we meet you halfway? Yeah? Could we just be mortally 376 00:23:28,240 --> 00:23:30,720 Speaker 1: wounded in some way? Well, so this is what the 377 00:23:30,840 --> 00:23:33,040 Speaker 1: left says, because if you look at the facts on 378 00:23:33,080 --> 00:23:36,040 Speaker 1: the face, it seems absurd that the left would continue 379 00:23:36,200 --> 00:23:40,400 Speaker 1: and Democrats specifically and Carrie and Biden specifically would try 380 00:23:40,440 --> 00:23:43,399 Speaker 1: to get this deal. But what they have said is 381 00:23:43,760 --> 00:23:47,080 Speaker 1: look forget about that. That's all just pr from the malas. 382 00:23:47,119 --> 00:23:50,200 Speaker 1: They don't really believe it don't listen to the Republicans. 383 00:23:50,400 --> 00:23:52,959 Speaker 1: This deal is not only not going to give Iran 384 00:23:53,080 --> 00:23:56,520 Speaker 1: a bomb, but it is going to prevent Iran from 385 00:23:56,520 --> 00:23:59,360 Speaker 1: getting a bomb. And on an issue like Iran, as 386 00:23:59,400 --> 00:24:01,480 Speaker 1: we've as we've just said, it's hard to keep track 387 00:24:01,480 --> 00:24:04,840 Speaker 1: of the guy's names. It's difficult to know who to believe. 388 00:24:05,320 --> 00:24:08,320 Speaker 1: So you're right, those are the talking points. And I 389 00:24:08,359 --> 00:24:11,760 Speaker 1: will say a couple of things. So I actually met 390 00:24:11,800 --> 00:24:15,399 Speaker 1: today with a Biden nominee to be an ambassador in 391 00:24:15,440 --> 00:24:19,080 Speaker 1: the Middle East, and we were talking about Iran and 392 00:24:19,440 --> 00:24:22,400 Speaker 1: the nuclear agreement, and he made a comment he said, 393 00:24:22,440 --> 00:24:27,480 Speaker 1: I think everyone agrees with the foreign policy world that 394 00:24:27,560 --> 00:24:31,400 Speaker 1: Iran must never get a nuclear bomb. And I sort 395 00:24:31,440 --> 00:24:33,199 Speaker 1: of stopped him, and I laughed and said, let me 396 00:24:33,240 --> 00:24:35,919 Speaker 1: be clear, I don't think everyone agrees with that. I 397 00:24:35,960 --> 00:24:40,439 Speaker 1: think the Biden White House is perfectly okay with Iran 398 00:24:40,560 --> 00:24:43,160 Speaker 1: having a nuclear weapon. And I said, look, go back 399 00:24:43,200 --> 00:24:45,720 Speaker 1: to the Obama white House. So when Obama was newly 400 00:24:45,760 --> 00:24:49,040 Speaker 1: elected president, one of the very first speeches he ever 401 00:24:49,119 --> 00:24:51,080 Speaker 1: gave was in the Middle East. He went to the 402 00:24:51,119 --> 00:24:55,119 Speaker 1: University of Cairo and he at the University of Kiro. 403 00:24:55,160 --> 00:24:58,080 Speaker 1: He gave a speech and he said that Iran has 404 00:24:58,160 --> 00:25:02,359 Speaker 1: a right and he used that word right to nuclear technology. 405 00:25:03,280 --> 00:25:07,120 Speaker 1: Now that is absurd. I'm familiar with the right to life, 406 00:25:07,200 --> 00:25:09,679 Speaker 1: to liberty, to property. There is no right to nukes. 407 00:25:10,240 --> 00:25:13,280 Speaker 1: And if you're a crazy, theocratic lunatic who wants to 408 00:25:13,359 --> 00:25:15,800 Speaker 1: murder millions of people, you especially don't have a right 409 00:25:15,840 --> 00:25:20,120 Speaker 1: to nukes. Fast forward, there was an article that got 410 00:25:20,119 --> 00:25:25,359 Speaker 1: a lot of attention during the Obama administration by a 411 00:25:25,400 --> 00:25:28,200 Speaker 1: writer in the Atlantic. And what got all the attention 412 00:25:28,359 --> 00:25:31,200 Speaker 1: was a senior White House official in the Obama White House. 413 00:25:31,200 --> 00:25:33,639 Speaker 1: In fact, a lot of people speculated it was Obama himself, 414 00:25:33,640 --> 00:25:38,880 Speaker 1: but that was never conclusively confirmed. But this senior Obama 415 00:25:38,920 --> 00:25:42,280 Speaker 1: official referred to Benjamin net and Yahoo, the Prime Minister 416 00:25:42,280 --> 00:25:45,720 Speaker 1: of Israel, as chicken shit, and it was sort of 417 00:25:45,720 --> 00:25:50,320 Speaker 1: a startling it. It got a lot of attention. My 418 00:25:50,440 --> 00:25:53,399 Speaker 1: view was always that that actually wasn't much of news. 419 00:25:53,480 --> 00:25:57,560 Speaker 1: It was obvious that the Obama White House viewed net 420 00:25:57,560 --> 00:25:59,879 Speaker 1: and Yahoo with contempt. They treated him like crap like. 421 00:26:00,359 --> 00:26:03,000 Speaker 1: The fact that they directed that epithet to them was 422 00:26:03,040 --> 00:26:05,959 Speaker 1: not surprising in the slightest for anyone who watched how 423 00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:10,520 Speaker 1: they treated them. What was interesting in that same quote, 424 00:26:10,560 --> 00:26:14,600 Speaker 1: senior Obama White House officials said, the good thing is, 425 00:26:14,640 --> 00:26:17,840 Speaker 1: and I'm paraphrasing, but this is pretty accurate. The good 426 00:26:17,920 --> 00:26:22,280 Speaker 1: thing is we've delayed Israel from acting for so long 427 00:26:23,240 --> 00:26:28,840 Speaker 1: that they're no longer capable, militarily capable of acting to 428 00:26:29,119 --> 00:26:35,440 Speaker 1: prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear arsenal. And those are 429 00:26:35,640 --> 00:26:39,760 Speaker 1: chilling words where listen, I think Obama and Biden they're 430 00:26:39,880 --> 00:26:42,280 Speaker 1: leftists that it's this same we were talking a minute 431 00:26:42,280 --> 00:26:45,960 Speaker 1: ago with respect to China about the anti americanism on 432 00:26:46,000 --> 00:26:51,080 Speaker 1: the left. They view American leadership in the world as illegitimate. 433 00:26:51,240 --> 00:26:54,080 Speaker 1: They think we have no right. What right do we 434 00:26:54,200 --> 00:26:58,000 Speaker 1: have to deny to these peaceful little Iranians a nuclear bomb? 435 00:26:58,280 --> 00:27:01,560 Speaker 1: That's just American arrogance. Well, you know what, people that 436 00:27:01,640 --> 00:27:04,160 Speaker 1: want to murder us, I want to keep the weapons 437 00:27:04,200 --> 00:27:06,600 Speaker 1: that they can use to murder us out of their hands. 438 00:27:07,359 --> 00:27:11,040 Speaker 1: The left doesn't believe this. I totally agree with that, 439 00:27:11,119 --> 00:27:13,800 Speaker 1: But then, Senator, what do you say to Look, this 440 00:27:13,880 --> 00:27:17,760 Speaker 1: is a longstanding Democrat held belief. Even if they won't 441 00:27:17,800 --> 00:27:20,320 Speaker 1: admit it publicly, they'll at least admit it on background. 442 00:27:20,359 --> 00:27:23,040 Speaker 1: And they've obviously been working toward a world in which 443 00:27:23,040 --> 00:27:26,320 Speaker 1: Iran will have an easier time getting a nuclear weapon. Okay, 444 00:27:26,600 --> 00:27:29,200 Speaker 1: what do you say to those who tell you, look, 445 00:27:29,640 --> 00:27:32,119 Speaker 1: Iran talks a big game on destroying Israel. They're not 446 00:27:32,160 --> 00:27:34,520 Speaker 1: going to destroy Israel. Iran is not going to come 447 00:27:34,520 --> 00:27:36,800 Speaker 1: over and detonate a nuclear bomb in the United States. 448 00:27:36,840 --> 00:27:39,000 Speaker 1: They have no reason to do it, no incentive to 449 00:27:39,040 --> 00:27:41,320 Speaker 1: do it. A lot of countries have nuclear weapons for 450 00:27:41,320 --> 00:27:44,200 Speaker 1: goodness sakes, you know, Pakistan, North Korea, a bunch of places. 451 00:27:44,200 --> 00:27:46,159 Speaker 1: We don't want to have nuclear weapons. They've got them. 452 00:27:46,200 --> 00:27:47,560 Speaker 1: A lot of more people are going to get them. 453 00:27:47,680 --> 00:27:51,000 Speaker 1: What's the big deal? This does not pose an existential 454 00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:54,200 Speaker 1: threat to the United States. I think these are people 455 00:27:54,280 --> 00:27:58,760 Speaker 1: that do not understand evil, and they don't understand. If 456 00:27:58,800 --> 00:28:01,159 Speaker 1: history teaches anything it is that if somebody tells you 457 00:28:01,240 --> 00:28:05,360 Speaker 1: they want to kill you, you should believe them, believe them. 458 00:28:06,520 --> 00:28:09,520 Speaker 1: I'll give one example, the so called father of the 459 00:28:09,520 --> 00:28:13,000 Speaker 1: Iranian nuclear program, an Iranian scientist who has since gone 460 00:28:13,000 --> 00:28:15,879 Speaker 1: to meet his maker, many say, at the hands of 461 00:28:15,920 --> 00:28:20,120 Speaker 1: the Israeli Massad. He had written in his last will 462 00:28:20,160 --> 00:28:23,040 Speaker 1: and testament that he wanted the following words written on 463 00:28:23,080 --> 00:28:28,720 Speaker 1: his tombstone. Here lies a man who sought the annihilation 464 00:28:29,000 --> 00:28:35,040 Speaker 1: of Israel. Not loving father, you know, good husband, No, no, 465 00:28:35,520 --> 00:28:41,280 Speaker 1: just soldier, sailor tinker Taylor. No, No, it's think about 466 00:28:41,360 --> 00:28:44,080 Speaker 1: just how much hatred you have to have that that's 467 00:28:44,080 --> 00:28:47,360 Speaker 1: what you wanted to be remembered for. I want to 468 00:28:47,440 --> 00:28:52,360 Speaker 1: murder as many people as possible. That's like I'm a vicious, racist, 469 00:28:52,480 --> 00:28:55,800 Speaker 1: bigot who wants to commit mass murder. And look, you 470 00:28:55,840 --> 00:29:00,000 Speaker 1: talked about North Korea. North Korea with nukes is incredibly dangerous. 471 00:29:00,120 --> 00:29:06,760 Speaker 1: Jong Un is a megalomaniacal, narcissistic dictator. It was a 472 00:29:06,800 --> 00:29:10,200 Speaker 1: catastrophic mistake for the Clinton administration to screw up and 473 00:29:10,240 --> 00:29:15,200 Speaker 1: allow him to develop nuclear weapons. Now that he has them, 474 00:29:15,240 --> 00:29:20,960 Speaker 1: there is some chance, possibly of something resembling rational deterrence, 475 00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:23,080 Speaker 1: because the one thing that Kim wants is to stay 476 00:29:23,080 --> 00:29:25,480 Speaker 1: in power, and he does know if he used a 477 00:29:25,560 --> 00:29:27,960 Speaker 1: nuclear weapon that that would be the end of his regime, 478 00:29:28,840 --> 00:29:32,200 Speaker 1: that that the imbalance of power, he would be destroyed. 479 00:29:33,120 --> 00:29:35,800 Speaker 1: The danger with the Ayatola, and this is where religion 480 00:29:36,000 --> 00:29:40,680 Speaker 1: is particularly dangerous, is that he's a theocratic zealot. It's 481 00:29:40,760 --> 00:29:44,080 Speaker 1: not just if he were an ordinary dictator. You may 482 00:29:44,720 --> 00:29:47,240 Speaker 1: be able to have some real cost benefit analysis. But 483 00:29:47,320 --> 00:29:52,080 Speaker 1: when you have a zealot who embraces death and suicide, 484 00:29:52,080 --> 00:29:54,720 Speaker 1: it's it's it's like the math of suicide bombers. When 485 00:29:54,760 --> 00:29:56,640 Speaker 1: you have people that are willing to strap dynamite to 486 00:29:56,680 --> 00:29:58,680 Speaker 1: their chest and walk into a bus or walk into 487 00:29:58,680 --> 00:30:03,280 Speaker 1: a shopping mall, ordinary deterrence doesn't work if they're willing 488 00:30:03,280 --> 00:30:06,680 Speaker 1: to blow themselves up. The Aetola knows if he detonated 489 00:30:06,680 --> 00:30:12,080 Speaker 1: a nuclear weapon that the consequences would be hundreds of thousands, 490 00:30:12,120 --> 00:30:14,959 Speaker 1: if not millions of Iranians killed in the war. I mean, 491 00:30:15,000 --> 00:30:21,320 Speaker 1: the consequences would be devastating. The danger for a religious 492 00:30:21,400 --> 00:30:23,840 Speaker 1: zealot is that he just might be willing to make 493 00:30:23,880 --> 00:30:26,640 Speaker 1: that cost benefit analysis. If I get to murder, he 494 00:30:26,760 --> 00:30:30,360 Speaker 1: might say millions of Jews, it's worth it that that 495 00:30:30,800 --> 00:30:36,160 Speaker 1: I will be rewarded with seventy two virgins. What they 496 00:30:36,160 --> 00:30:38,880 Speaker 1: didn't mention that where that the virgins were gomer pile. 497 00:30:38,960 --> 00:30:40,840 Speaker 1: But that's different. Yeah, you don't, you don't, you don't 498 00:30:40,840 --> 00:30:42,479 Speaker 1: want They don't put it in the fine print. Yep. 499 00:30:43,000 --> 00:30:46,880 Speaker 1: That is profoundly dangerous. And I think if it Ran 500 00:30:46,960 --> 00:30:51,120 Speaker 1: acquires a nuclear weapon, the odds are unacceptably high. They 501 00:30:51,160 --> 00:30:55,000 Speaker 1: would detonate it in the skies of Tel Aviv or 502 00:30:55,080 --> 00:31:00,400 Speaker 1: Jerusalem or New York or Los Angeles. Now what are 503 00:31:00,400 --> 00:31:04,000 Speaker 1: those odds. I don't know. I don't want to find 504 00:31:04,000 --> 00:31:06,520 Speaker 1: out that that's not a roll of the dice. I'm 505 00:31:06,520 --> 00:31:11,280 Speaker 1: interested in finding out. Let's suppose Iran gets a nuke 506 00:31:11,360 --> 00:31:15,480 Speaker 1: and that doesn't happen, they don't use it. The best 507 00:31:15,520 --> 00:31:19,400 Speaker 1: case scenario, Well, if Iran gets a nuke, every other 508 00:31:19,440 --> 00:31:22,800 Speaker 1: country in the Middle East suddenly will feel the urge 509 00:31:22,840 --> 00:31:25,560 Speaker 1: to get nuclear weapons as well. The Saudi Arabians will 510 00:31:25,600 --> 00:31:28,320 Speaker 1: want nukes, the UAE will want us, and Cutter will 511 00:31:28,360 --> 00:31:31,320 Speaker 1: want nukes. They'll all want nukes to defend themselves against 512 00:31:31,360 --> 00:31:33,680 Speaker 1: the Iranians. It's it's actually one of the ironies. I 513 00:31:33,760 --> 00:31:40,680 Speaker 1: joked that. Amazingly enough, Barack Obama inadvertently deserve the Nobel 514 00:31:40,720 --> 00:31:45,440 Speaker 1: Peace Prize they gave him because he actually brought the 515 00:31:45,480 --> 00:31:48,080 Speaker 1: Arabs and the Israelis together. All he had to do 516 00:31:48,160 --> 00:31:51,400 Speaker 1: was negotiate a deal that would give the Iranians nuclear weapons, 517 00:31:51,400 --> 00:31:54,080 Speaker 1: and the Arabs and Israelis said, are you frigging nuts, 518 00:31:54,720 --> 00:31:59,160 Speaker 1: Let's put aside our differences. Yes, because because look they 519 00:31:59,280 --> 00:32:03,000 Speaker 1: understand that an Iran with nukes, Iran today is the 520 00:32:03,080 --> 00:32:05,600 Speaker 1: leading state sponsor of terrorism. Even if they don't use 521 00:32:05,600 --> 00:32:08,520 Speaker 1: the nukes, every other country in the Middle East gets 522 00:32:08,600 --> 00:32:11,880 Speaker 1: nukes to counter Iran. Talk about a tinderbox that you're 523 00:32:11,920 --> 00:32:15,520 Speaker 1: just like throwing gunpowder into. And on top of that, 524 00:32:16,360 --> 00:32:21,600 Speaker 1: if Iran is willing to fund terrorists murdering Americans across 525 00:32:21,720 --> 00:32:26,320 Speaker 1: the world today without nuclear weapons, how aggressive do you 526 00:32:26,360 --> 00:32:29,720 Speaker 1: think they would be with nuclear weapons where they feel 527 00:32:29,760 --> 00:32:32,400 Speaker 1: they have impunity. And by the way, that's the best 528 00:32:32,440 --> 00:32:38,680 Speaker 1: case scenario. So Obama ran deal, disastrous deal. They gave 529 00:32:38,680 --> 00:32:41,880 Speaker 1: over one hundred billion dollars to the Ayatola. On the 530 00:32:41,920 --> 00:32:43,959 Speaker 1: face of it, the deal was obvious it would end 531 00:32:44,040 --> 00:32:47,120 Speaker 1: up with a nuclear weapon. Why number one at sunset 532 00:32:47,160 --> 00:32:49,280 Speaker 1: it after a decade it went away. So on the 533 00:32:49,360 --> 00:32:52,000 Speaker 1: terms of it, Obama was like, yeah, ten years from now, 534 00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:56,560 Speaker 1: you can have a problem. Secondly, the deal gives them 535 00:32:56,560 --> 00:32:59,240 Speaker 1: one hundred billion dollars, counts on them to be honest. 536 00:33:00,520 --> 00:33:06,920 Speaker 1: It provided that any inspection of nuclear facilities you had 537 00:33:06,960 --> 00:33:11,760 Speaker 1: to give a RAN twenty one day's advanced notice just 538 00:33:11,800 --> 00:33:15,120 Speaker 1: to tidy up the place. Yeah, you know, I've suggested 539 00:33:15,200 --> 00:33:19,280 Speaker 1: I imagine a law that said, before a search warrant 540 00:33:20,640 --> 00:33:23,520 Speaker 1: is executed on a drug dealer, you've got to give 541 00:33:23,560 --> 00:33:25,600 Speaker 1: them twenty one a day's advanced notice of the place 542 00:33:25,640 --> 00:33:29,080 Speaker 1: to be searched. Do you think you would find anything? Yeah? 543 00:33:29,200 --> 00:33:33,440 Speaker 1: Probably not. Not only that, the deal, on the face 544 00:33:33,480 --> 00:33:37,000 Speaker 1: of it says there's certain sites, sites designated as military 545 00:33:37,080 --> 00:33:40,960 Speaker 1: sites that are exempt from inspections. Now, if they're sites 546 00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:43,560 Speaker 1: that are exempt from inspections, gosh, where do you think 547 00:33:43,600 --> 00:33:46,520 Speaker 1: it is that they met? They will develop the nuclear weapons? Right, 548 00:33:47,200 --> 00:33:51,560 Speaker 1: this was a deal as radical as the Obama folks were, 549 00:33:51,600 --> 00:33:54,880 Speaker 1: as carry were. No one can look at this deal 550 00:33:54,880 --> 00:33:56,880 Speaker 1: and conclude anything other than it. Ran will get a 551 00:33:56,960 --> 00:33:59,240 Speaker 1: nuclear weapon under this deal. They were okay with it. 552 00:33:59,680 --> 00:34:03,080 Speaker 1: Then Trump ended the deal most important national security decision 553 00:34:03,120 --> 00:34:06,440 Speaker 1: Trump made. I spent an enormous amount of time with 554 00:34:06,480 --> 00:34:09,120 Speaker 1: President Trump urging him to end the deal. Well, now 555 00:34:09,800 --> 00:34:14,080 Speaker 1: Biden wants to re enter the deal, and it is 556 00:34:14,560 --> 00:34:17,440 Speaker 1: I think his top foreign policy objective to re enter 557 00:34:17,480 --> 00:34:20,960 Speaker 1: the deal. Biden is desperate to enter a deal that 558 00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:24,359 Speaker 1: will be worse than the Obama deal. It is an 559 00:34:24,400 --> 00:34:28,040 Speaker 1: ideological commitment. So I brought together a group of thirty 560 00:34:28,120 --> 00:34:32,160 Speaker 1: three Senators wrote a letter to Biden making clear that 561 00:34:32,239 --> 00:34:36,359 Speaker 1: under a law that we passed that that was the 562 00:34:36,360 --> 00:34:41,439 Speaker 1: Iran Review legislation, that no deal can have force without 563 00:34:41,520 --> 00:34:45,239 Speaker 1: being submitted to Congress first of all, for review and 564 00:34:45,280 --> 00:34:48,480 Speaker 1: a vote. The Biden administration is going to ignore that law. 565 00:34:48,520 --> 00:34:50,160 Speaker 1: They intended to fy that law. And by the way, 566 00:34:50,160 --> 00:34:52,520 Speaker 1: the right way to do any deal is submit a 567 00:34:52,560 --> 00:34:55,040 Speaker 1: treaty that takes two thirds of the Senate to ratify. 568 00:34:55,120 --> 00:34:56,759 Speaker 1: But they can't get the vote, so they're going to 569 00:34:56,880 --> 00:34:59,239 Speaker 1: ram through a bad deal. Can they do that? Though? 570 00:34:59,280 --> 00:35:01,080 Speaker 1: I mean, if they have to institution says the Senate's 571 00:35:01,080 --> 00:35:03,960 Speaker 1: got to ratify treaties, then how how can the White 572 00:35:03,960 --> 00:35:05,799 Speaker 1: House just go in and say, well, no, this isn't 573 00:35:05,800 --> 00:35:08,840 Speaker 1: a treaty, it's just a it's a it's a nice 574 00:35:09,080 --> 00:35:13,839 Speaker 1: it's a fun compact between friends, between nation friends. So 575 00:35:13,880 --> 00:35:17,919 Speaker 1: that's basically what Obama did, and I and others made 576 00:35:17,920 --> 00:35:21,320 Speaker 1: clear in order for this to have force, it has 577 00:35:21,360 --> 00:35:24,879 Speaker 1: to be a treaty. And and actually, here's a way 578 00:35:24,880 --> 00:35:27,239 Speaker 1: to illustrate it is actually go back to the Trump administration. 579 00:35:27,280 --> 00:35:29,000 Speaker 1: We're sort of jumping in the timeline, but let's go 580 00:35:29,000 --> 00:35:31,560 Speaker 1: to the beginning of the Trump administration, both the State 581 00:35:31,600 --> 00:35:35,319 Speaker 1: Department in the Defense Department under Donald Trump wanted to 582 00:35:35,320 --> 00:35:38,600 Speaker 1: stay in the Iran deal. Rex Tillerson was Secretary of State. 583 00:35:38,640 --> 00:35:39,960 Speaker 1: He said, we need to stay in the Rand deal. 584 00:35:40,040 --> 00:35:44,600 Speaker 1: Jim Madis, who's a Democrat, was Secretary Defense, and he said, 585 00:35:44,640 --> 00:35:46,600 Speaker 1: we need to stay in. Maddis used to say, and 586 00:35:46,640 --> 00:35:49,240 Speaker 1: he said this both public and private. He said, America 587 00:35:49,320 --> 00:35:51,880 Speaker 1: gave our word, we need to keep our word. And 588 00:35:52,200 --> 00:35:55,719 Speaker 1: I told him General and later Miss Secretary, No, America 589 00:35:55,760 --> 00:35:58,080 Speaker 1: did not give our word right. There were two ways, 590 00:35:58,080 --> 00:36:00,360 Speaker 1: and only two ways, that we give our word in 591 00:36:00,400 --> 00:36:05,239 Speaker 1: a binding international context under the Constitution. Number one, through 592 00:36:05,360 --> 00:36:08,239 Speaker 1: legislation that passes both houses of Congress and assigned it 593 00:36:08,320 --> 00:36:11,560 Speaker 1: a law that is a formal commitment as a legal commitment. 594 00:36:11,600 --> 00:36:14,680 Speaker 1: Or Number two, the typical way for an international agreement, 595 00:36:14,719 --> 00:36:18,239 Speaker 1: as a treaty negotiated and signed by the President and 596 00:36:18,320 --> 00:36:20,480 Speaker 1: ratified by two thirds of the Senate. Those are the 597 00:36:20,520 --> 00:36:24,000 Speaker 1: two ways America can give our word that are binding. 598 00:36:25,120 --> 00:36:28,440 Speaker 1: This deal was neither, and we made absolutely clear to 599 00:36:28,520 --> 00:36:36,839 Speaker 1: Obama that the Senate rejected it, and thankfully Trump ended 600 00:36:36,920 --> 00:36:39,840 Speaker 1: up agreeing with me. He overruled his own secretary of 601 00:36:39,880 --> 00:36:42,600 Speaker 1: State in his own Secretary Defense and ended the deal. 602 00:36:43,239 --> 00:36:46,440 Speaker 1: But and it was the most important foreign policy decision. 603 00:36:46,480 --> 00:36:50,920 Speaker 1: Now Biden's trying to negotiate it. The reports are they're 604 00:36:50,960 --> 00:36:52,880 Speaker 1: close to a deal. The one thing that saved us 605 00:36:52,920 --> 00:36:55,600 Speaker 1: from a deal so far as the Iranians are so extreme, 606 00:36:55,640 --> 00:36:59,040 Speaker 1: they see so much weakness with Biden that they're demanding 607 00:36:59,040 --> 00:37:02,439 Speaker 1: an even bigger sweet deal that Obama gave him. Their 608 00:37:02,600 --> 00:37:05,680 Speaker 1: unreasonableness may delay this a little bit. But what the 609 00:37:05,719 --> 00:37:09,239 Speaker 1: eyetolas holding out for is he's saying to Biden, what 610 00:37:09,320 --> 00:37:11,919 Speaker 1: I want as a commitment that will last and will 611 00:37:12,000 --> 00:37:16,400 Speaker 1: last beyond this administration. And what I've said repeatedly is 612 00:37:17,480 --> 00:37:20,400 Speaker 1: Joe Biden can't give you that because the next Republican 613 00:37:20,440 --> 00:37:24,279 Speaker 1: president who comes in is going to rip this deal up, 614 00:37:24,400 --> 00:37:28,440 Speaker 1: just like the last Republican president is. This is disastrous, 615 00:37:28,440 --> 00:37:30,640 Speaker 1: but Biden wants to sign it anyway. Well, speaking of 616 00:37:30,680 --> 00:37:32,920 Speaker 1: acts of violence, I think our listeners are going to 617 00:37:32,960 --> 00:37:35,839 Speaker 1: commit acts of violence, potentially with nuclear weapons on me 618 00:37:36,080 --> 00:37:38,120 Speaker 1: if we don't get to at least one mail. Bad question. 619 00:37:38,239 --> 00:37:40,080 Speaker 1: So I want to get to that before we go. 620 00:37:41,239 --> 00:37:43,480 Speaker 1: There were a number of great questions that came in 621 00:37:43,800 --> 00:37:46,439 Speaker 1: this one though, is completely out of left field, and 622 00:37:47,080 --> 00:37:48,759 Speaker 1: it ties in with a little bit of a news story, 623 00:37:48,760 --> 00:37:51,359 Speaker 1: so I wanted to bring it up from Spack says, 624 00:37:51,440 --> 00:37:56,440 Speaker 1: what is Ted Cruise's view regarding the legality of illicit drugs? 625 00:37:56,560 --> 00:37:59,560 Speaker 1: Love the show. I've been a fan from episode one, 626 00:37:59,800 --> 00:38:02,919 Speaker 1: and it ties into the news because Joe Biden might 627 00:38:02,960 --> 00:38:06,000 Speaker 1: not be able to give us very much in this economy, 628 00:38:06,520 --> 00:38:09,160 Speaker 1: but he is promising to give out free crack pipes, 629 00:38:09,320 --> 00:38:12,360 Speaker 1: so it's a topic at the top of people's minds. 630 00:38:13,400 --> 00:38:15,640 Speaker 1: It's a great question. But let me stop, Michael, how 631 00:38:15,760 --> 00:38:18,680 Speaker 1: is that not a headline from the Babylon b It 632 00:38:18,800 --> 00:38:22,239 Speaker 1: literally is the case of the Biden administration is giving 633 00:38:22,239 --> 00:38:24,000 Speaker 1: out free crack pipes, because this will be good for 634 00:38:24,040 --> 00:38:27,239 Speaker 1: America if everyone's smoking crack, you know, talk about a 635 00:38:27,280 --> 00:38:30,320 Speaker 1: great crime policy as many people on crack as possible. 636 00:38:30,400 --> 00:38:33,480 Speaker 1: These are your Democrats. He actually went further. He said 637 00:38:33,480 --> 00:38:36,440 Speaker 1: that crack pipes were important for racial equity, which seems 638 00:38:36,480 --> 00:38:39,640 Speaker 1: extremely offensive to me to say that, but so not 639 00:38:39,680 --> 00:38:42,920 Speaker 1: only extremely offensive. If you were to come up with 640 00:38:42,960 --> 00:38:46,600 Speaker 1: a conspiracy theory, this would usually be attributed to Republicans. 641 00:38:46,600 --> 00:38:50,040 Speaker 1: If you were to say racist and the media conspiracy 642 00:38:50,080 --> 00:38:53,840 Speaker 1: theorists always claimed them to be Republicans the CIA, so 643 00:38:53,880 --> 00:38:57,800 Speaker 1: this is another one. CIA wants to give crack pipes 644 00:38:57,880 --> 00:39:02,279 Speaker 1: to minorities to destroy minority communities. That sounds like a 645 00:39:02,320 --> 00:39:05,880 Speaker 1: conspiracy theory, except Biden is saying that's what he wants 646 00:39:05,920 --> 00:39:08,480 Speaker 1: to do. It's like, holy crap, you want to fight 647 00:39:08,520 --> 00:39:11,680 Speaker 1: for minority communities. Get the kids off crack. Don't give 648 00:39:11,719 --> 00:39:14,040 Speaker 1: them crackpipes. All right, that's a good rule of thumb. 649 00:39:14,080 --> 00:39:17,000 Speaker 1: Get get the kids off crack. Yes, reasonable people can 650 00:39:17,040 --> 00:39:20,160 Speaker 1: disagree on lots of questions here, but I think we 651 00:39:20,200 --> 00:39:23,520 Speaker 1: can all agree don't give the kids crack pipes. Amen. 652 00:39:23,680 --> 00:39:27,160 Speaker 1: Not a great idea. Just say no. Just say no. 653 00:39:27,760 --> 00:39:31,239 Speaker 1: Because we're high on life. We're high on all of this. Uh, 654 00:39:32,120 --> 00:39:34,399 Speaker 1: we're high on all this great content that we're trying 655 00:39:34,440 --> 00:39:36,839 Speaker 1: to bring to our Verdict listeners. So if you haven't 656 00:39:36,880 --> 00:39:39,400 Speaker 1: subscribed already, you should go go and subscribe. 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We're actually going to do a 667 00:40:06,320 --> 00:40:11,960 Speaker 1: deep dive into the Democrat crack pipe controversy. There's I mean, 668 00:40:12,000 --> 00:40:14,200 Speaker 1: I guess I should be used to saying sentences like 669 00:40:14,200 --> 00:40:16,080 Speaker 1: that since we've had to deal with Hunter Biden for 670 00:40:16,080 --> 00:40:18,920 Speaker 1: the last however many years. At this point, it's a 671 00:40:18,960 --> 00:40:22,080 Speaker 1: low blow. I know, I couldn't resist. I couldn't resist. 672 00:40:22,160 --> 00:40:24,000 Speaker 1: But this is a good conversation. This is about the 673 00:40:24,000 --> 00:40:27,080 Speaker 1: philosophy of the thing right, whether the libertarian version of 674 00:40:27,160 --> 00:40:29,359 Speaker 1: the conservative version of the war on drugs is not 675 00:40:29,400 --> 00:40:32,439 Speaker 1: only the most effective, but the most constitutional. So we're 676 00:40:32,480 --> 00:40:35,359 Speaker 1: going to dive into this. This is a topic, as 677 00:40:35,400 --> 00:40:38,920 Speaker 1: you know, that creates a little discord among the republic 678 00:40:38,960 --> 00:40:41,600 Speaker 1: among members of the Republican Party, so that's always fun 679 00:40:41,640 --> 00:40:44,000 Speaker 1: to dive into that. Again. The Cloak Room is a 680 00:40:44,040 --> 00:40:47,040 Speaker 1: brand new series on Verdict Plus with Senator Ted Cruiz. 681 00:40:47,080 --> 00:40:49,680 Speaker 1: It's cohosted by me, Liz Wheeler. Basically, I'm going to 682 00:40:49,719 --> 00:40:52,360 Speaker 1: pick the Senator's brain like I would in a strategy session. 683 00:40:52,360 --> 00:40:54,960 Speaker 1: It's behind the scenes peak into the details of what 684 00:40:55,040 --> 00:40:58,120 Speaker 1: goes on in DC, just like the actual cloakroom of 685 00:40:58,239 --> 00:41:00,480 Speaker 1: the Senate. 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Promo code Cloakroom 695 00:41:29,160 --> 00:41:32,959 Speaker 1: for one month free trial on your annual subscription. Sounds wonderful, Liz, 696 00:41:33,000 --> 00:41:35,480 Speaker 1: I intend to raise a glass to the new series. 697 00:41:35,600 --> 00:41:38,160 Speaker 1: I intend to raise a cigar. I will not raise 698 00:41:38,239 --> 00:41:41,160 Speaker 1: a crack pipe. I'm Michael Knowles. This is Verdict with 699 00:41:41,200 --> 00:41:52,720 Speaker 1: Ted Cruz. See you next time. 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