1 00:00:00,520 --> 00:00:04,800 Speaker 1: President Biden promised us unity and healing. A lot of 2 00:00:04,840 --> 00:00:11,440 Speaker 1: people expected moderation circumspection from good old sleepy Joe. Instead, 3 00:00:11,480 --> 00:00:15,760 Speaker 1: what we have gotten is the most radical agenda of 4 00:00:15,800 --> 00:00:19,960 Speaker 1: any presidential administration, by my lights, in American history, and 5 00:00:20,040 --> 00:00:23,279 Speaker 1: we are not even halfway through the first hundred days. 6 00:00:23,560 --> 00:00:32,040 Speaker 1: This is Verdict with Ted Cruz. Welcome back to Verdict 7 00:00:32,080 --> 00:00:34,680 Speaker 1: with Ted Cruz. I'm Michael Noles. Thank you all for 8 00:00:34,760 --> 00:00:36,720 Speaker 1: being with us. It is good to be with you again. 9 00:00:36,920 --> 00:00:41,720 Speaker 1: Thanks to everybody who has subscribed on Apple podcasts, on Spotify, 10 00:00:41,760 --> 00:00:44,640 Speaker 1: on YouTube if you haven't already, we would very much 11 00:00:44,720 --> 00:00:48,840 Speaker 1: appreciate your doing that, as everybody is getting canceled these days, 12 00:00:49,159 --> 00:00:53,240 Speaker 1: up to and including doctor Seuss, mister potato Head. We 13 00:00:53,400 --> 00:00:55,480 Speaker 1: fear that big tech could clamp down. So it would 14 00:00:55,480 --> 00:00:57,520 Speaker 1: be great to be with you and have you subscribe 15 00:00:57,560 --> 00:01:00,520 Speaker 1: as well. Senator, I have to tell you I wish 16 00:01:00,520 --> 00:01:04,360 Speaker 1: I had a happy outlook on the first hundred days 17 00:01:04,360 --> 00:01:07,880 Speaker 1: of this administration. It kills me to say this. I 18 00:01:07,920 --> 00:01:10,720 Speaker 1: think we were right when we discussed on this show 19 00:01:10,880 --> 00:01:13,800 Speaker 1: why people ought to fear the worst from President Biden. Yeah, 20 00:01:13,840 --> 00:01:16,120 Speaker 1: these have been dangerous times. But let me first of 21 00:01:16,160 --> 00:01:19,360 Speaker 1: all say, welcome back. It's been too long since we've 22 00:01:19,400 --> 00:01:21,760 Speaker 1: done at Verdict, It's been too long since I've seen you. 23 00:01:22,600 --> 00:01:25,560 Speaker 1: We had intended to do one last week, but but 24 00:01:25,720 --> 00:01:28,920 Speaker 1: unfortunately we discovered there are no TV studios in Cancun. 25 00:01:30,600 --> 00:01:33,880 Speaker 1: You know, Senator, I wasn't going to bring it up 26 00:01:33,920 --> 00:01:36,680 Speaker 1: because some people have said that you ought to apologize, 27 00:01:36,720 --> 00:01:39,280 Speaker 1: and I do think that you ought to apologize to 28 00:01:39,440 --> 00:01:42,319 Speaker 1: me for not inviting me to can Koon. I'm very upset, 29 00:01:42,360 --> 00:01:44,280 Speaker 1: but I'm sure that we'll be able to move on 30 00:01:44,319 --> 00:01:47,040 Speaker 1: from this well. And as you know, in kan Koon, 31 00:01:47,200 --> 00:01:49,640 Speaker 1: smoking Cuban cigars is legal, so I owe you a 32 00:01:49,720 --> 00:01:55,600 Speaker 1: double apology for leaving you where the products from my 33 00:01:55,680 --> 00:01:59,440 Speaker 1: family's homeland are are prohibited. Yes, but I'm glad we 34 00:01:59,480 --> 00:02:02,800 Speaker 1: could clear the air here because it is. It is 35 00:02:03,120 --> 00:02:05,720 Speaker 1: very good to be back with you, even amid all 36 00:02:05,760 --> 00:02:09,919 Speaker 1: this crazy turmoil here in the United States. They're they're 37 00:02:09,919 --> 00:02:12,079 Speaker 1: actually I don't want to just be too doom and 38 00:02:12,120 --> 00:02:16,200 Speaker 1: gloom here, because there actually has been some good news 39 00:02:16,240 --> 00:02:18,760 Speaker 1: in some ways. I know that you and your colleagues 40 00:02:18,800 --> 00:02:21,840 Speaker 1: have been stymying some of the worst impulses of the 41 00:02:21,880 --> 00:02:25,800 Speaker 1: Biden administration, particularly on the nominations, But I want to 42 00:02:25,800 --> 00:02:28,600 Speaker 1: get the bad news out of the way first. Just 43 00:02:28,720 --> 00:02:31,639 Speaker 1: even one single piece of legislation that's made its way 44 00:02:31,639 --> 00:02:35,400 Speaker 1: through the House, the Equality Act, seems to me that 45 00:02:35,639 --> 00:02:38,680 Speaker 1: maybe the single most radical piece of legislation ever in 46 00:02:38,680 --> 00:02:42,880 Speaker 1: American history? Am I wrong? Am I overreacting here? Well? 47 00:02:42,919 --> 00:02:46,120 Speaker 1: Give them time that they will pass even more radical stuff. 48 00:02:46,480 --> 00:02:49,320 Speaker 1: And you know, if I were to sum up the 49 00:02:49,440 --> 00:02:53,359 Speaker 1: first fifty ish days of of of the Biden administration 50 00:02:54,560 --> 00:02:59,360 Speaker 1: with three words, those words would be boring but radical. 51 00:03:00,600 --> 00:03:03,640 Speaker 1: So I think what Joe Biden is doing that's smart 52 00:03:04,840 --> 00:03:09,000 Speaker 1: is not making news. He's dull. He doesn't say much 53 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:14,200 Speaker 1: of anything. And listen, after four years of every day 54 00:03:14,280 --> 00:03:17,800 Speaker 1: Donald Trump driving the news twenty four to seven, the 55 00:03:17,880 --> 00:03:25,160 Speaker 1: latest tweet, the latest reporters breathlessly grasping their pearls. You know, 56 00:03:25,200 --> 00:03:27,200 Speaker 1: I do think people kind of breathe a sigh of 57 00:03:27,280 --> 00:03:29,920 Speaker 1: relief that you don't wake up and wonder what did 58 00:03:29,919 --> 00:03:32,920 Speaker 1: the President say today? And I think Joe Biden is 59 00:03:33,040 --> 00:03:36,960 Speaker 1: leaning into say as little as possible, be as boring 60 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:41,440 Speaker 1: as possible. But that is very much a mask. It's 61 00:03:41,480 --> 00:03:45,920 Speaker 1: a mask that is designed to hide the really radical 62 00:03:45,960 --> 00:03:48,400 Speaker 1: agenda they're moving forward. If you look at the nominees 63 00:03:48,440 --> 00:03:52,520 Speaker 1: they're putting forward, you look at the Secretary of Homeland 64 00:03:52,560 --> 00:03:57,119 Speaker 1: Security Mayorkas, who said, just a couple of days ago, 65 00:03:57,160 --> 00:03:59,880 Speaker 1: said there is no crisis at the border, none whatsoever, 66 00:04:01,920 --> 00:04:04,920 Speaker 1: right in the midst of their projecting over one hundred 67 00:04:04,920 --> 00:04:07,880 Speaker 1: thousand unaccompanied children being detained at the border, and there 68 00:04:07,960 --> 00:04:10,119 Speaker 1: is no crisis. There's no crisis because they've gone back 69 00:04:10,320 --> 00:04:12,680 Speaker 1: to catch and release, and their view is, what's the crisis. 70 00:04:12,680 --> 00:04:15,520 Speaker 1: We're letting everyone in. We're just not enforcing our laws. 71 00:04:15,880 --> 00:04:19,120 Speaker 1: We're saying that pattern replicated over and over and over again. 72 00:04:19,160 --> 00:04:24,920 Speaker 1: The Equality Act would be profoundly damaging, damaging to Christian schools, 73 00:04:25,040 --> 00:04:30,200 Speaker 1: damaging to churches, the government forcing anyone, regardless of faith, 74 00:04:30,320 --> 00:04:40,120 Speaker 1: regardless of belief, to embrace the lefts definition of gender, 75 00:04:40,200 --> 00:04:44,760 Speaker 1: or rather lack thereof, and to do otherwise is to 76 00:04:44,880 --> 00:04:50,919 Speaker 1: face serious and crushing legal penalties. That that is that 77 00:04:50,920 --> 00:04:54,160 Speaker 1: that would be a profound transformation and a harmful transformation 78 00:04:54,200 --> 00:04:59,680 Speaker 1: of our country. And yet it's all silently moving forward. 79 00:04:59,720 --> 00:05:02,960 Speaker 1: You know, we're sitting here, it's Wednesday night when you 80 00:05:03,000 --> 00:05:06,480 Speaker 1: and I are recording this, and tomorrow we're going to 81 00:05:06,560 --> 00:05:10,320 Speaker 1: be taking up the so called stimulus bill. Now, the 82 00:05:10,360 --> 00:05:15,080 Speaker 1: stimulus bill actually has nothing to do with stimulus. It's 83 00:05:15,080 --> 00:05:16,760 Speaker 1: a title that might as well have been picked out 84 00:05:16,760 --> 00:05:21,120 Speaker 1: of the air. It's one point nine trillion dollars, nine 85 00:05:21,160 --> 00:05:24,080 Speaker 1: percent of which has to do with COVID nine percent. 86 00:05:24,279 --> 00:05:28,040 Speaker 1: Ninety one percent is not health spending concerning COVID. And 87 00:05:29,080 --> 00:05:31,159 Speaker 1: you know, you think about last year. Last year we 88 00:05:31,279 --> 00:05:35,640 Speaker 1: passed five different COVID relief bills. Every one of them 89 00:05:35,680 --> 00:05:40,240 Speaker 1: was bipartisans every one of them. Republicans worked with Democrats, 90 00:05:40,320 --> 00:05:42,560 Speaker 1: rolled up our sleeves, said all right, let's work together 91 00:05:42,720 --> 00:05:47,279 Speaker 1: on on assistance for healthcare workers. Let's work together on 92 00:05:47,320 --> 00:05:54,040 Speaker 1: assistance for small businesses. Let's work together on vaccinations. Republicans 93 00:05:54,040 --> 00:05:56,520 Speaker 1: are eager to do that again. Look, this COVID crisis 94 00:05:56,600 --> 00:06:01,000 Speaker 1: is real. You could easily achieve a bipartisan bill if 95 00:06:01,000 --> 00:06:03,240 Speaker 1: the Democrats wanted to. But it says something about Joe 96 00:06:03,240 --> 00:06:07,480 Speaker 1: Biden zero interest in anything bipartisan. I think what we're 97 00:06:07,480 --> 00:06:10,679 Speaker 1: going to see tomorrow is their intention is to ram 98 00:06:10,680 --> 00:06:14,080 Speaker 1: this through with fifty Democrats and Kamala Harris breaking the tie. 99 00:06:14,440 --> 00:06:16,880 Speaker 1: They don't want a single Republican vote. They probably won't 100 00:06:16,880 --> 00:06:20,600 Speaker 1: get a single Republican vote because the bill is just 101 00:06:20,640 --> 00:06:23,719 Speaker 1: a whole series of liberal wish lists that have nothing 102 00:06:23,760 --> 00:06:27,640 Speaker 1: to do with COVID. It's just pent up desire and 103 00:06:27,680 --> 00:06:33,719 Speaker 1: in particular desire to take care of their political allies, 104 00:06:33,800 --> 00:06:37,479 Speaker 1: and I think that's a cynical way to approach it. Senator, 105 00:06:38,279 --> 00:06:41,480 Speaker 1: do you think, though, that Republicans are going to face 106 00:06:41,520 --> 00:06:45,680 Speaker 1: any backlash, knowing that the Democrats control the media, do 107 00:06:45,680 --> 00:06:48,279 Speaker 1: you think they're going to face backlash for not voting 108 00:06:48,360 --> 00:06:52,480 Speaker 1: for a COVID relief bill. You know, they're letting people 109 00:06:53,440 --> 00:06:56,320 Speaker 1: hang out to dry amid this unprecedented crisis. I mean, 110 00:06:56,560 --> 00:07:00,320 Speaker 1: will the Democrats succeed in any way at manipulating Publican 111 00:07:00,400 --> 00:07:03,359 Speaker 1: voters even if you know ninety percent or ninety percent 112 00:07:03,440 --> 00:07:07,360 Speaker 1: plus of this bill is just pork for Democrats? Do 113 00:07:07,400 --> 00:07:10,720 Speaker 1: you think that message will be effective at all? We'll 114 00:07:10,760 --> 00:07:13,360 Speaker 1: see There's no doubt the media will relentlessly show for 115 00:07:13,400 --> 00:07:15,600 Speaker 1: the Democrats, because that's what they do now. They don't 116 00:07:15,640 --> 00:07:19,000 Speaker 1: pretend otherwise. You know, I do think you will see 117 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:23,240 Speaker 1: Republicans voting for significant COVID relief tomorrow in the form 118 00:07:23,320 --> 00:07:27,640 Speaker 1: of this is being brought up through the process called 119 00:07:27,640 --> 00:07:32,200 Speaker 1: budget reconciliation, which we've talked about before. It's the main 120 00:07:32,480 --> 00:07:37,080 Speaker 1: exception to the filibuster rule. It's the main way you 121 00:07:37,160 --> 00:07:39,840 Speaker 1: can pass legislation where you don't need sixty votes in 122 00:07:39,840 --> 00:07:43,120 Speaker 1: the Senate. You can just do it with fifty one. 123 00:07:43,280 --> 00:07:47,880 Speaker 1: Aspect of budget reconciliation is vote Arama. We talked in 124 00:07:47,920 --> 00:07:52,920 Speaker 1: an earlier verdict about vote Arama unlimited amendments. That's by statute, 125 00:07:52,920 --> 00:07:55,480 Speaker 1: and so normally the majority leader can shut down amendments, 126 00:07:55,480 --> 00:07:58,680 Speaker 1: and we've seen sadly majority leaders in both parties do that. 127 00:07:59,440 --> 00:08:02,560 Speaker 1: If you're using budget reconciliation, you can't shut down amendments. 128 00:08:02,640 --> 00:08:06,400 Speaker 1: I expect a lot of amendments tomorrow night. I think 129 00:08:06,440 --> 00:08:08,680 Speaker 1: it is likely we will go all night. I think 130 00:08:08,760 --> 00:08:10,760 Speaker 1: we may go into the morning. We may even go 131 00:08:11,240 --> 00:08:13,960 Speaker 1: further than that into Friday. I think there is a 132 00:08:14,120 --> 00:08:18,400 Speaker 1: real anger among Republicans in the Senate at this bill. 133 00:08:19,480 --> 00:08:22,800 Speaker 1: At you know, Joe Biden gave an inauguration speech talking 134 00:08:22,800 --> 00:08:26,160 Speaker 1: about unity and bipartisanship, and he starts his administration by 135 00:08:26,200 --> 00:08:28,920 Speaker 1: saying to half the country go jump in a lake. 136 00:08:28,960 --> 00:08:31,920 Speaker 1: Today he called the twenty nine million people in Texas, 137 00:08:31,960 --> 00:08:35,640 Speaker 1: he called us Neanderthals. He's mad that Texas is open, 138 00:08:36,520 --> 00:08:39,000 Speaker 1: and so you know, he just apparently we're cavemen. We're 139 00:08:39,000 --> 00:08:41,439 Speaker 1: like in the Geico commercial and we're just we're just cavemen. 140 00:08:42,080 --> 00:08:45,000 Speaker 1: You know. That's uh, you know, great job they're unifying, 141 00:08:45,559 --> 00:08:48,040 Speaker 1: you know, I mean, it's it's reminiscent of Hillary calling 142 00:08:48,480 --> 00:08:53,640 Speaker 1: calling half the country deplorables. It's it is a level 143 00:08:53,679 --> 00:08:56,520 Speaker 1: of condescension. And if you look at this bill. All right, 144 00:08:56,600 --> 00:09:00,720 Speaker 1: so the bill that passed the House had Chuck Schumer's 145 00:09:00,920 --> 00:09:06,120 Speaker 1: Bridge to Canada because apparently that somehow will help us 146 00:09:06,160 --> 00:09:10,920 Speaker 1: defeat COVID. The bill in the House had Nancy Pelosi's 147 00:09:11,000 --> 00:09:14,840 Speaker 1: Tunnel of Love, a tunnel in Silicon Valley. Do I 148 00:09:14,920 --> 00:09:16,240 Speaker 1: want to know what that is? I don't know. This 149 00:09:16,320 --> 00:09:22,559 Speaker 1: doesn't sound it's not X rated. It's just it's just 150 00:09:22,640 --> 00:09:26,840 Speaker 1: a boondoggle port project that Pelosi wanted to bring back 151 00:09:26,880 --> 00:09:29,360 Speaker 1: to Silicon Valley. Has zero to do with COVID, nothing 152 00:09:29,360 --> 00:09:33,360 Speaker 1: at all. And actually even with the media shilling form. 153 00:09:33,360 --> 00:09:35,960 Speaker 1: It was interesting Pelosi blink last night and pulled it out. 154 00:09:36,880 --> 00:09:42,120 Speaker 1: So it's interesting with just the tiniest bit of attention, 155 00:09:43,080 --> 00:09:46,280 Speaker 1: you know, there's a provision in this bill that forgives 156 00:09:46,440 --> 00:09:54,559 Speaker 1: loans to farmers from historically disadvantaged races. Now it is 157 00:09:54,600 --> 00:09:59,719 Speaker 1: explicitly race tiede and it has no income test. So 158 00:10:00,040 --> 00:10:03,280 Speaker 1: if you are a rich farmer who happens to be 159 00:10:03,320 --> 00:10:06,560 Speaker 1: African American, happens to be Hispanic, happens to be Asian, 160 00:10:07,400 --> 00:10:11,480 Speaker 1: your loans will be forgiven. If you're a poor white farmer, 161 00:10:13,360 --> 00:10:15,920 Speaker 1: no soup for you, of course, you're too privileged. But 162 00:10:16,000 --> 00:10:20,559 Speaker 1: it's worse than that. It is explicitly race based. Not 163 00:10:20,600 --> 00:10:22,520 Speaker 1: only are they forgiving it the loans, do you know 164 00:10:22,559 --> 00:10:24,760 Speaker 1: what they're what rate? They're forgiving the loans at one 165 00:10:24,840 --> 00:10:29,319 Speaker 1: hundred and twenty percent. That's literally written into the bill, 166 00:10:29,360 --> 00:10:32,800 Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty percent if you are from an 167 00:10:32,840 --> 00:10:38,199 Speaker 1: historically disadvantage race or ethnicity. Look, we were talking about 168 00:10:38,200 --> 00:10:40,520 Speaker 1: this at lunch and I turned to Ron Johnson. I said, 169 00:10:40,520 --> 00:10:43,560 Speaker 1: I gotta get me a farm. You know, I'm Hispanic Hill. 170 00:10:43,600 --> 00:10:45,439 Speaker 1: If they're if they're gonna like the one hundred and 171 00:10:45,440 --> 00:10:50,720 Speaker 1: twenty percent, like I mean, it is laughable and indefensable, 172 00:10:50,760 --> 00:10:54,440 Speaker 1: and the bill is filled with garbage like that. I 173 00:10:54,480 --> 00:10:56,400 Speaker 1: want to get to just on this point, Senator it's 174 00:10:56,440 --> 00:10:58,680 Speaker 1: something you mentioned because I hadn't heard it put this 175 00:10:58,720 --> 00:11:01,160 Speaker 1: way before, But I think it's somes it up boring 176 00:11:01,920 --> 00:11:04,960 Speaker 1: but radical. And it seems that the way that Joe 177 00:11:04,960 --> 00:11:06,800 Speaker 1: Biden has gotten away with this kind of stuff is 178 00:11:06,840 --> 00:11:09,319 Speaker 1: he doesn't really hold press conferences. He was asked today 179 00:11:09,320 --> 00:11:11,200 Speaker 1: about the briefing he had on the border and all 180 00:11:11,200 --> 00:11:13,400 Speaker 1: these migrants who are coming over. They said, were you 181 00:11:13,440 --> 00:11:15,320 Speaker 1: briefed on the border? He said yes. They said, what 182 00:11:15,360 --> 00:11:16,840 Speaker 1: did you learn? He said a lot, and then he 183 00:11:16,880 --> 00:11:21,160 Speaker 1: just kept walking and wouldn't answer. So it's very effective 184 00:11:21,200 --> 00:11:23,640 Speaker 1: if you can have covered by the media and you 185 00:11:23,640 --> 00:11:26,920 Speaker 1: can just sort of push these things through. People aren't 186 00:11:26,920 --> 00:11:28,480 Speaker 1: going to look at it, and you'll be able to 187 00:11:28,520 --> 00:11:31,320 Speaker 1: get your agenda. But there have been times, as you note, 188 00:11:31,520 --> 00:11:33,560 Speaker 1: where the minute that a little light is shed on 189 00:11:33,600 --> 00:11:36,560 Speaker 1: this in the case of Pelosi's pork spending, or in 190 00:11:36,600 --> 00:11:39,760 Speaker 1: the case of the nomination of Neira Tandon, a particularly 191 00:11:40,240 --> 00:11:43,520 Speaker 1: radical nominee, Joe Biden's nominee for the Office of Management 192 00:11:43,559 --> 00:11:45,400 Speaker 1: and Budget, the minute a little bit of light is 193 00:11:45,440 --> 00:11:48,280 Speaker 1: shined on all of a sudden, Joe Biden has a 194 00:11:48,360 --> 00:11:51,560 Speaker 1: much harder time pushing this agenda through well. So I 195 00:11:51,559 --> 00:11:55,000 Speaker 1: actually take a different lesson from Naratanden. So Nara Tanden 196 00:11:55,080 --> 00:11:58,079 Speaker 1: and was nominated to be the head of the Office 197 00:11:58,080 --> 00:12:01,640 Speaker 1: of Management of Budget. It's a cabinet position, very important 198 00:12:01,640 --> 00:12:07,240 Speaker 1: cabinet position. And I don't know Nara, but apparently she 199 00:12:07,480 --> 00:12:10,920 Speaker 1: was an activist and outspoken and led this political think 200 00:12:10,920 --> 00:12:16,080 Speaker 1: tank shop, and she had this habit of tweeting hard 201 00:12:16,240 --> 00:12:19,000 Speaker 1: partisan attacks at senators and it seemed that she had 202 00:12:19,000 --> 00:12:21,320 Speaker 1: criticized just about every senator. One of the senators she 203 00:12:21,360 --> 00:12:25,599 Speaker 1: criticized all the time was Bernie Sanders because she was 204 00:12:25,640 --> 00:12:30,400 Speaker 1: a hardcore Hillary supporter, so she blasted Bernie constantly. She 205 00:12:30,600 --> 00:12:35,760 Speaker 1: blasted Republicans, Mitch McConnell. I think she called Mitch voldemart, 206 00:12:36,600 --> 00:12:40,719 Speaker 1: which is pretty funny. She blasted Susan Collins. I mean 207 00:12:40,760 --> 00:12:43,320 Speaker 1: she's she's you know, said Susan Collins is the worst. 208 00:12:44,559 --> 00:12:50,920 Speaker 1: And apparently she has nine pages of tweets about me. 209 00:12:52,679 --> 00:12:54,640 Speaker 1: I knew she was not a fan of You're a Senator, 210 00:12:54,679 --> 00:12:56,040 Speaker 1: but I did. I didn't know it was quite that 211 00:12:56,120 --> 00:12:59,560 Speaker 1: extensive for commentary. So my first reaction is, she's really 212 00:12:59,559 --> 00:13:02,319 Speaker 1: not very good at Twitter, because I don't think i've 213 00:13:02,320 --> 00:13:04,880 Speaker 1: ever read a tweet she sent about me and and so, 214 00:13:04,920 --> 00:13:08,160 Speaker 1: and I'm on Twitter a lot, so it says something 215 00:13:08,200 --> 00:13:10,440 Speaker 1: like the only one I know of the content of 216 00:13:10,440 --> 00:13:14,120 Speaker 1: which Rob Portman, Senator Republican from Ohio read at her hearing, 217 00:13:14,760 --> 00:13:17,840 Speaker 1: where she tweeted that that vampires have more heart than 218 00:13:17,880 --> 00:13:20,760 Speaker 1: Ted Cruz and so I hadn't seen it when she 219 00:13:20,800 --> 00:13:22,440 Speaker 1: said it, but when Rob read it at the hearing, 220 00:13:22,480 --> 00:13:25,600 Speaker 1: I laughed out loud, and I jumped on Twitter and said, 221 00:13:25,880 --> 00:13:28,920 Speaker 1: you know why she being so mean to vampires? Yeah, 222 00:13:28,920 --> 00:13:32,400 Speaker 1: that's outrageous. But what's interesting what she went down for 223 00:13:33,760 --> 00:13:37,600 Speaker 1: was not being radical. What she went down for she'd 224 00:13:37,600 --> 00:13:40,760 Speaker 1: criticized a bunch of senators, right, She'd sent some mean tweets. 225 00:13:40,760 --> 00:13:44,640 Speaker 1: It was interesting. Last week I did Hugh Hewitt's radio show, 226 00:13:44,640 --> 00:13:46,600 Speaker 1: and you know Hugh, he's a good guy, he's a friend, 227 00:13:47,760 --> 00:13:50,600 Speaker 1: and interesting that surprised me. Hugh pushed me on this 228 00:13:50,679 --> 00:13:54,520 Speaker 1: and pressed me really hard to vote for Nia Tandon 229 00:13:54,800 --> 00:13:57,640 Speaker 1: and I was like, really, why, like what and he 230 00:13:57,679 --> 00:14:00,280 Speaker 1: was and he's like, well, the standard can't be that 231 00:14:00,360 --> 00:14:03,920 Speaker 1: mean tweets makes you unconfirmable. And I actually had a 232 00:14:03,920 --> 00:14:06,080 Speaker 1: bit of a constitutional debate with you where I said, 233 00:14:06,080 --> 00:14:12,720 Speaker 1: you know, your constitutional scholar, Hugh, the constitutional system provides 234 00:14:12,760 --> 00:14:15,560 Speaker 1: for executive nominations to be made by the president confirmed 235 00:14:15,559 --> 00:14:18,760 Speaker 1: by the Senate. And it has been true since the 236 00:14:18,880 --> 00:14:22,640 Speaker 1: very first Congress that if you attack and blast a 237 00:14:22,640 --> 00:14:26,040 Speaker 1: bunch of senators, you ain't get confirmed. Like it's real. 238 00:14:26,080 --> 00:14:29,240 Speaker 1: Simply that this is not actually a Twitter phenomenon. I 239 00:14:29,400 --> 00:14:32,600 Speaker 1: promise you in the George Washington administration, if you wanted 240 00:14:32,640 --> 00:14:35,200 Speaker 1: to get nominated to the cabinet and you attacked a 241 00:14:35,240 --> 00:14:36,960 Speaker 1: bunch of senitors, they're going to vote against you. That 242 00:14:37,920 --> 00:14:40,200 Speaker 1: Hugh pressed me on. He said, well, she's not the 243 00:14:40,240 --> 00:14:44,240 Speaker 1: worst of Biden's nominees, and I actually agree in terms 244 00:14:44,240 --> 00:14:48,720 Speaker 1: of substance. Mayorkas, the DHS secretary, was much worse. He's 245 00:14:48,720 --> 00:14:51,880 Speaker 1: been a radical, he's pushing for open borders. And I 246 00:14:51,920 --> 00:14:56,680 Speaker 1: think the most indefensible nominee is Javier Bassa, who's been 247 00:14:56,680 --> 00:15:00,560 Speaker 1: nominated to lead a HHS Health and Human Services. And 248 00:15:01,040 --> 00:15:02,880 Speaker 1: Hugh agreed with me on that, and he said, well, 249 00:15:03,320 --> 00:15:05,640 Speaker 1: maybe you should go to Mansion because the reason she 250 00:15:05,720 --> 00:15:08,359 Speaker 1: went down as Joe Mansion said he wouldn't vote for Narritandon, 251 00:15:08,880 --> 00:15:11,120 Speaker 1: and Hugh said, we'll go to Mansion, and you and 252 00:15:11,240 --> 00:15:13,840 Speaker 1: Joe together announce you're going to support Narritandon and he'll 253 00:15:13,880 --> 00:15:18,560 Speaker 1: save her nomination and convince him to vote instead against Bessarah. 254 00:15:18,560 --> 00:15:20,360 Speaker 1: I said, I'll tell you what, Hugh, If you can 255 00:15:20,440 --> 00:15:22,760 Speaker 1: get Mansion to vote No. One Bessarah, sure, I'll vote 256 00:15:22,760 --> 00:15:26,040 Speaker 1: for Narritandon that. And here's why, let's stop for a 257 00:15:26,080 --> 00:15:29,840 Speaker 1: second on Bassarah, because I think it's likely to be 258 00:15:29,880 --> 00:15:32,280 Speaker 1: a party line vote right now. I think it appears 259 00:15:32,360 --> 00:15:35,600 Speaker 1: every Democrat will vote for him, and every Republican will 260 00:15:35,640 --> 00:15:40,680 Speaker 1: vote now. Bassarah is the Attorney general California. It's a 261 00:15:40,720 --> 00:15:44,120 Speaker 1: long time congressman. He's been nominated to be the Secretary 262 00:15:44,160 --> 00:15:48,360 Speaker 1: of Health and Human Services. He's not a doctor. He 263 00:15:48,400 --> 00:15:52,320 Speaker 1: has no scientific background. He has no medical background. He 264 00:15:52,400 --> 00:15:55,720 Speaker 1: has no background and healthcare administration. He has no background 265 00:15:55,840 --> 00:15:59,160 Speaker 1: in virology and vaccines. He has no background even in logistics. 266 00:16:00,440 --> 00:16:03,160 Speaker 1: HHS is right now in the middle of the largest 267 00:16:03,200 --> 00:16:06,920 Speaker 1: vaccine distribution effort our country has ever seen. Joe Biden 268 00:16:06,960 --> 00:16:11,600 Speaker 1: has nominated a trial lawyer who's a radical leftist. As 269 00:16:11,640 --> 00:16:14,880 Speaker 1: far as I can tell, his only experience with healthcare 270 00:16:16,040 --> 00:16:18,720 Speaker 1: is suing the little sisters of the poor, which he denies. 271 00:16:19,280 --> 00:16:22,960 Speaker 1: During his testimony, he said, I never sued the nuns. 272 00:16:23,000 --> 00:16:27,240 Speaker 1: If you're having to explain why you didn't technically sue nuns, 273 00:16:27,280 --> 00:16:30,080 Speaker 1: that's a problem. You're not in a good position, right, 274 00:16:30,480 --> 00:16:33,880 Speaker 1: but you know, just on the merits of it. Pause 275 00:16:33,920 --> 00:16:36,320 Speaker 1: and think about what the reaction would be if a 276 00:16:36,360 --> 00:16:40,920 Speaker 1: Republican president nominated as Secretary of HHS someone with zero 277 00:16:40,960 --> 00:16:46,960 Speaker 1: medical experience, zero health experience, zero experience with anything related 278 00:16:47,000 --> 00:16:51,440 Speaker 1: to HHS in the midst of a global pandemic, when 279 00:16:51,640 --> 00:16:55,840 Speaker 1: HHS is incredibly important. This guy's wildly unqualified. But why 280 00:16:55,840 --> 00:16:59,400 Speaker 1: did he get the nomination? Number one, the Democrats it's 281 00:16:59,400 --> 00:17:03,320 Speaker 1: a box chess exercise, and so he's Hispanic. That fits, 282 00:17:03,400 --> 00:17:06,119 Speaker 1: that fits their desire to check that box. But number two, 283 00:17:06,880 --> 00:17:10,880 Speaker 1: he's been a radical, and so they want want him 284 00:17:11,000 --> 00:17:14,199 Speaker 1: for his political positions. I think we actually ought to 285 00:17:14,240 --> 00:17:16,960 Speaker 1: have someone running HHS who I don't know know something 286 00:17:17,000 --> 00:17:19,880 Speaker 1: about viruses. I mean, I mean that is that asking 287 00:17:19,960 --> 00:17:25,159 Speaker 1: too much? And and Biden claims claims his priorities defeating COVID, 288 00:17:25,200 --> 00:17:28,320 Speaker 1: and yet he nominates someone with no medical experience, and 289 00:17:28,400 --> 00:17:30,640 Speaker 1: mind you at the same time saying follow the science, 290 00:17:30,720 --> 00:17:33,120 Speaker 1: except right, the person he's putting there doesn't know anything 291 00:17:33,119 --> 00:17:37,280 Speaker 1: about science. Well, of course, and the Bissara nomination, especially 292 00:17:37,280 --> 00:17:42,359 Speaker 1: as someone who fled the Republic of California and Nussolini's 293 00:17:42,359 --> 00:17:44,840 Speaker 1: dictatorship of California, as some of us call it. I 294 00:17:44,880 --> 00:17:48,080 Speaker 1: remember Bissarah, he's a very radical guy. But but to 295 00:17:48,119 --> 00:17:52,320 Speaker 1: your point earlier of boring but radical, you know, I 296 00:17:52,400 --> 00:17:56,439 Speaker 1: expect radicalism from someone like Bissarah. I expect radicalism from 297 00:17:56,440 --> 00:17:59,720 Speaker 1: someone like Neritandon. But you made the point. I believe this. 298 00:17:59,760 --> 00:18:03,520 Speaker 1: We that even the so called moderate nominees, people like 299 00:18:03,680 --> 00:18:07,399 Speaker 1: Merrick Garland, who's nominated for Attorney General. He's supposed to 300 00:18:07,440 --> 00:18:09,159 Speaker 1: be the moderate guy, he's supposed to be maybe the 301 00:18:09,160 --> 00:18:12,159 Speaker 1: most moderate person that Biden puts up, he would appear 302 00:18:12,240 --> 00:18:15,040 Speaker 1: to be just as radical as everybody else from his 303 00:18:15,119 --> 00:18:21,919 Speaker 1: testimony maybe. So when Biden nominated Merrick Garland, my initial 304 00:18:21,960 --> 00:18:24,800 Speaker 1: reaction I was relieved, because there are a lot of 305 00:18:25,960 --> 00:18:29,200 Speaker 1: radical partisan lawyers that could have been nominated as AG. 306 00:18:29,400 --> 00:18:32,320 Speaker 1: For that matter, how your but Sarah is actually qualified 307 00:18:32,320 --> 00:18:35,280 Speaker 1: to be AG. He's not qualified for HHS, but he 308 00:18:35,400 --> 00:18:37,840 Speaker 1: is in fact an attorney general. But Sarah is a 309 00:18:37,920 --> 00:18:40,040 Speaker 1: rabbit partisan, so he would have been a much worse 310 00:18:40,080 --> 00:18:42,800 Speaker 1: Attorney general on the face of it than Merrick Garland. 311 00:18:42,840 --> 00:18:45,240 Speaker 1: Merrick Garland spent twenty three years as a Court of 312 00:18:45,240 --> 00:18:48,680 Speaker 1: Appeals judge. He's a Democrat, he was in the Clinton administration, 313 00:18:49,400 --> 00:18:52,840 Speaker 1: but he hasn't built a reputation as a hard partisan. 314 00:18:53,200 --> 00:18:57,440 Speaker 1: His reputation as a judge has been one of integrity 315 00:18:57,520 --> 00:19:03,119 Speaker 1: and he hasn't been seen as overly partisan. I was gratified. 316 00:19:03,200 --> 00:19:05,040 Speaker 1: My reaction was, you know what, this may be about 317 00:19:05,080 --> 00:19:08,200 Speaker 1: the best we can hope for from the Biden administration. 318 00:19:08,240 --> 00:19:10,240 Speaker 1: I think there were a number of Republicans on Senate 319 00:19:10,320 --> 00:19:15,200 Speaker 1: Judiciary that were initially inclined to vote for Merrick Garland. 320 00:19:16,119 --> 00:19:19,280 Speaker 1: And his confirmation hearing, it was remarkable because he refused 321 00:19:19,320 --> 00:19:23,879 Speaker 1: to answer essentially anything. He was asked question after question 322 00:19:23,920 --> 00:19:27,160 Speaker 1: after question, and he just refused to answer them. So 323 00:19:27,760 --> 00:19:30,280 Speaker 1: a lot of the questions concerned John Durham. Now John 324 00:19:30,320 --> 00:19:33,840 Speaker 1: Durham is the special counsel that was appointed to investigate 325 00:19:35,000 --> 00:19:40,520 Speaker 1: the abuse of power Operation Crossfire Hurricane and the extent 326 00:19:40,600 --> 00:19:44,600 Speaker 1: to which the Obama Biden administration broke the law in 327 00:19:44,720 --> 00:19:50,399 Speaker 1: targeting Donald Trump, very important investigation. Marick Garland was asked 328 00:19:50,400 --> 00:19:53,440 Speaker 1: by me and others. Are you going to fire him? 329 00:19:53,560 --> 00:19:56,080 Speaker 1: That is a really important question if you're going to 330 00:19:56,160 --> 00:19:58,520 Speaker 1: have any semblance of integrity and rule of law at 331 00:19:58,520 --> 00:20:01,719 Speaker 1: the Department of Justice. Now, when Bill Barr was nominated 332 00:20:01,800 --> 00:20:03,880 Speaker 1: BAG he was asked the same thing about Bob Muller, 333 00:20:03,880 --> 00:20:06,800 Speaker 1: Are you going to fire him? And Barr said he 334 00:20:06,840 --> 00:20:10,399 Speaker 1: said he would only fire him for good cause. And 335 00:20:10,440 --> 00:20:13,800 Speaker 1: so that was during his confirmation hearing. Barr said, absent 336 00:20:13,920 --> 00:20:15,760 Speaker 1: good cause, no, he wouldn't fire me, and he didn't. 337 00:20:15,800 --> 00:20:19,840 Speaker 1: He let Muller complete his investigation, submit his report. Barr 338 00:20:20,080 --> 00:20:23,760 Speaker 1: kept his word on that. Garland refused to make that commitment. 339 00:20:23,760 --> 00:20:25,400 Speaker 1: We said, how about you hold of the same standard 340 00:20:25,400 --> 00:20:28,320 Speaker 1: Bill Bar did. Would you agree only to fire him 341 00:20:28,320 --> 00:20:29,840 Speaker 1: for a good cause? Nope, can't do that. I don't 342 00:20:29,880 --> 00:20:32,000 Speaker 1: know anything about it. Just don't know anything about it, 343 00:20:32,960 --> 00:20:34,720 Speaker 1: and I'm not going to make the commitment. And he 344 00:20:34,920 --> 00:20:39,000 Speaker 1: did that over and over and over again. And then 345 00:20:39,040 --> 00:20:41,800 Speaker 1: I actually submitted a lot of senators submitted questions for 346 00:20:41,800 --> 00:20:44,119 Speaker 1: the record in writing, and he would see in writing. 347 00:20:44,160 --> 00:20:48,320 Speaker 1: He refused to take a position. He was asked, will 348 00:20:48,400 --> 00:20:53,359 Speaker 1: DJ prosecute people across the border illegally? He said, I 349 00:20:53,359 --> 00:20:56,280 Speaker 1: don't know. I can't tell you, but that shouldn't be complicated. 350 00:20:56,320 --> 00:20:59,359 Speaker 1: The Constitution obliges the president to take care that the 351 00:20:59,440 --> 00:21:02,320 Speaker 1: laws be faithfully executed. He said, I can't tell you 352 00:21:02,400 --> 00:21:05,959 Speaker 1: if we'll prosecute people who crossed the border illegally. I 353 00:21:06,040 --> 00:21:10,320 Speaker 1: asked him if the Department of Justice would urge the 354 00:21:10,400 --> 00:21:13,679 Speaker 1: courts to overturn the Heller decision, which which upheld the 355 00:21:13,680 --> 00:21:16,160 Speaker 1: Second Amendment right to keep into our arms. He wouldn't 356 00:21:16,160 --> 00:21:19,480 Speaker 1: tell us that. One after the other after the other, 357 00:21:19,600 --> 00:21:23,040 Speaker 1: where he refused to answer even the barrass minimum questions. 358 00:21:23,800 --> 00:21:26,000 Speaker 1: And I gotta say it was sad after all of that, 359 00:21:26,080 --> 00:21:28,280 Speaker 1: after essentially telling the senators go jump in a lake, 360 00:21:28,320 --> 00:21:30,640 Speaker 1: I'm not going to answer any of your questions. All 361 00:21:30,680 --> 00:21:32,399 Speaker 1: the Democrats voted for him, and a bunch of the 362 00:21:32,440 --> 00:21:34,680 Speaker 1: Republicans voted for him. Yeah, and you kind of throw 363 00:21:34,680 --> 00:21:37,359 Speaker 1: your hands up in the air. I still don't know 364 00:21:37,400 --> 00:21:40,439 Speaker 1: if he will be a hard partisan as attorney general. 365 00:21:40,480 --> 00:21:42,960 Speaker 1: He is very likely to be confirmed, but I have 366 00:21:43,119 --> 00:21:47,800 Speaker 1: no reason to think that he will have any willingness 367 00:21:47,840 --> 00:21:51,160 Speaker 1: to stand up to the hard partisans that will surround him. 368 00:21:51,200 --> 00:21:56,240 Speaker 1: Based on his performance at his confirmation hearing, it was 369 00:21:56,320 --> 00:21:59,359 Speaker 1: the sergeant's schultze sense I see nothing, I know nothing. 370 00:21:59,400 --> 00:22:01,959 Speaker 1: I mean that that is essentially what he was telling us, 371 00:22:02,160 --> 00:22:05,240 Speaker 1: because what you would hope from the so called moderate nominee. 372 00:22:05,240 --> 00:22:09,920 Speaker 1: I shared your relief actually when it was reported that 373 00:22:10,000 --> 00:22:11,800 Speaker 1: Garland was going to get the nomination over some of 374 00:22:11,800 --> 00:22:14,439 Speaker 1: the radical people. But you would expect from the so 375 00:22:14,520 --> 00:22:18,280 Speaker 1: called moderate nominee to give you some answer, to give 376 00:22:18,280 --> 00:22:21,320 Speaker 1: you some reason to have confidence in their moderation. We 377 00:22:21,320 --> 00:22:23,240 Speaker 1: didn't get that, but you're seeing this as part of 378 00:22:23,280 --> 00:22:25,800 Speaker 1: a broader strategy from the White House. Jen Saki, the 379 00:22:25,800 --> 00:22:29,200 Speaker 1: White House Press Secretary, was asked, will Joe Biden force 380 00:22:29,520 --> 00:22:33,719 Speaker 1: doctors to violate their conscience and performed abortions? She couldn't 381 00:22:33,720 --> 00:22:36,520 Speaker 1: give an answer on that. Jen Saki was asked about 382 00:22:36,520 --> 00:22:41,080 Speaker 1: a possible world in which Mexico sends six hundred to 383 00:22:41,080 --> 00:22:44,040 Speaker 1: eight hundred thousand migrants to the United States to work. 384 00:22:44,080 --> 00:22:45,719 Speaker 1: She was asked for comment on that. She said, well, 385 00:22:45,720 --> 00:22:51,320 Speaker 1: she couldn't possibly comment on that. This just quiet dismissal 386 00:22:51,359 --> 00:22:55,160 Speaker 1: of questions and the kind of boring radicalism that we're 387 00:22:55,160 --> 00:23:01,359 Speaker 1: getting is pretty worrisome, and you know, I have to 388 00:23:01,400 --> 00:23:03,680 Speaker 1: bring it up because you're probably the most famous reader 389 00:23:03,720 --> 00:23:07,879 Speaker 1: of Doctor SEUs in the entire country outside of politics, 390 00:23:07,880 --> 00:23:11,879 Speaker 1: outside of the government. You're seeing private companies canceling Doctor SEUs, 391 00:23:12,200 --> 00:23:15,160 Speaker 1: taking the Spuds off of mister potato Head, and now 392 00:23:15,560 --> 00:23:21,680 Speaker 1: taking very ordinary, mainstream scholarly books off of Amazon, largest 393 00:23:21,680 --> 00:23:25,720 Speaker 1: bookseller in the world because they contradict left wing orthodoxies. 394 00:23:26,359 --> 00:23:31,040 Speaker 1: It feels as though the liberal establishment is colluding and 395 00:23:31,160 --> 00:23:34,240 Speaker 1: closing in on us. It is the death Star and 396 00:23:34,320 --> 00:23:39,560 Speaker 1: they're trying to eliminate all their enemies. Look, hasbro you 397 00:23:39,600 --> 00:23:42,159 Speaker 1: mentioned mister potato head. They dropped the mister. It's now 398 00:23:42,200 --> 00:23:44,240 Speaker 1: just potato head. It's not mister potato head, it's not 399 00:23:44,280 --> 00:23:47,359 Speaker 1: missus potato head, it's just potato head. So much for 400 00:23:47,440 --> 00:23:50,959 Speaker 1: preferred pronouns. And by the way, among the attachments on 401 00:23:50,960 --> 00:23:54,280 Speaker 1: the potato head, I don't recall many that actually distinguished 402 00:23:54,320 --> 00:23:56,320 Speaker 1: male and female. I'm glad for that. We didn't need 403 00:23:56,359 --> 00:24:01,199 Speaker 1: to get that quite anatomically specific. True, you know, the 404 00:24:01,320 --> 00:24:07,040 Speaker 1: Doctor SEUs thing is just moronic. And the president removed 405 00:24:07,200 --> 00:24:09,240 Speaker 1: Doctor SEUs from I don't know what is it National 406 00:24:09,280 --> 00:24:11,359 Speaker 1: Reading Week or something. I don't even remember exactly what 407 00:24:11,400 --> 00:24:14,919 Speaker 1: it is, some celebration of reading the Doctor SEUs has 408 00:24:14,960 --> 00:24:17,680 Speaker 1: usually been a part of that. Biden pulled it out 409 00:24:17,680 --> 00:24:21,639 Speaker 1: of You know what's amazing. I looked today on Amazon. 410 00:24:22,560 --> 00:24:25,000 Speaker 1: I was actually checking my own book One Vote Away 411 00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:27,520 Speaker 1: and periodically seeing where I By the way, if you 412 00:24:27,520 --> 00:24:29,959 Speaker 1: haven't gone and bought One Vote Away, go on Amazon. 413 00:24:29,960 --> 00:24:32,000 Speaker 1: You should buy it. It's a great book. Now's the 414 00:24:32,040 --> 00:24:34,160 Speaker 1: time to do it too, before it gets canceled. Well, 415 00:24:34,160 --> 00:24:38,040 Speaker 1: there is that, And I was checking it and do 416 00:24:38,119 --> 00:24:42,679 Speaker 1: you know the author of the top eight best selling 417 00:24:42,680 --> 00:24:45,800 Speaker 1: books on Amazon today number one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, 418 00:24:45,800 --> 00:24:48,879 Speaker 1: and eight. I'm gonna guess Doctor SEUs. And actually of 419 00:24:48,920 --> 00:24:51,399 Speaker 1: the top hundred, more than half of the top hundred 420 00:24:51,400 --> 00:24:54,119 Speaker 1: were Doctor SEUs. It's really funny. I have never seen 421 00:24:54,720 --> 00:24:57,119 Speaker 1: on Amazon anything like this. As people are going on, 422 00:24:57,160 --> 00:24:59,320 Speaker 1: so I jumped on Twitter. I tweeted out a screenshot 423 00:24:59,320 --> 00:25:01,840 Speaker 1: of that and said, you know who knew Joe Biden 424 00:25:01,920 --> 00:25:04,240 Speaker 1: was such a great bookseller, right? You know? I asked 425 00:25:04,280 --> 00:25:06,000 Speaker 1: him if he could try to ban my book. I mean, 426 00:25:06,040 --> 00:25:07,840 Speaker 1: do you know, let's go back to number one on Amazon. 427 00:25:07,920 --> 00:25:12,159 Speaker 1: Well we'll take it. But it is and actually the 428 00:25:12,720 --> 00:25:17,200 Speaker 1: even more the Doctor Seuss thing is is idiotic. It's asinine. 429 00:25:17,440 --> 00:25:23,120 Speaker 1: The even more dangerous thing is Amazon now taking down 430 00:25:23,200 --> 00:25:27,080 Speaker 1: books it disagrees with, right, because Amazon has a near 431 00:25:27,200 --> 00:25:30,040 Speaker 1: monopoly on book sales. Well, I do want to pause 432 00:25:30,080 --> 00:25:32,480 Speaker 1: you there, a senator, because this is an argument I 433 00:25:32,560 --> 00:25:35,119 Speaker 1: hear from left wingers a lot when we decry Cancel 434 00:25:35,200 --> 00:25:38,439 Speaker 1: Culture and Amazon taking down a very humorously titled but 435 00:25:38,480 --> 00:25:41,520 Speaker 1: actually scholarly book from Ryan T. Anderson, which is called 436 00:25:41,520 --> 00:25:43,480 Speaker 1: When Harry Became Sally. That's sort of the book at 437 00:25:43,520 --> 00:25:47,280 Speaker 1: issue here. They say, Michael, this isn't cancel Culture. This 438 00:25:47,359 --> 00:25:50,440 Speaker 1: is a private company that wants to take take out 439 00:25:50,440 --> 00:25:53,440 Speaker 1: a product that they don't agree with that's absolutely within 440 00:25:53,480 --> 00:25:56,879 Speaker 1: their rights. Stop complaining. This is just the free market 441 00:25:56,960 --> 00:25:59,359 Speaker 1: at work. Well, and that's the argument they use on 442 00:25:59,400 --> 00:26:01,840 Speaker 1: social media and big tech generally, they just say, go 443 00:26:01,920 --> 00:26:04,360 Speaker 1: build your own. By the way, Parlor did build their own, 444 00:26:04,400 --> 00:26:06,640 Speaker 1: and big Tech colluded to take them down and destroy them, 445 00:26:07,480 --> 00:26:10,720 Speaker 1: and so they want no competition. It has long been 446 00:26:10,880 --> 00:26:15,080 Speaker 1: US laws that monopolies cannot abuse monopoly power. Amazon and 447 00:26:15,320 --> 00:26:18,680 Speaker 1: Google are the two most powerful companies on the face 448 00:26:18,760 --> 00:26:22,880 Speaker 1: of planet Earth. And when it comes to books, actually 449 00:26:22,960 --> 00:26:27,560 Speaker 1: you're in My mutual friend Ben Shapiro has been really 450 00:26:27,600 --> 00:26:30,000 Speaker 1: good on this topic, and I've been retweeting them a 451 00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:33,560 Speaker 1: lot this week because you know, you think about Fahrenheit 452 00:26:33,600 --> 00:26:39,280 Speaker 1: four fifty one, Ray Bradbury's classic dystopian novel, four fifty 453 00:26:39,320 --> 00:26:42,640 Speaker 1: one being the temperature at which paper burns. That's all 454 00:26:42,680 --> 00:26:47,359 Speaker 1: about censorship and book burning. And today, with Amazon, you 455 00:26:47,400 --> 00:26:50,600 Speaker 1: don't actually have to burn the books anymore because if 456 00:26:51,600 --> 00:26:55,560 Speaker 1: everything is becoming digital, Yeah, you can burn books just 457 00:26:55,640 --> 00:26:59,520 Speaker 1: by hitting delete. If Jeff Bezos gets to decide what 458 00:26:59,560 --> 00:27:02,600 Speaker 1: books exist and what books don't, and you know, sure 459 00:27:02,680 --> 00:27:06,560 Speaker 1: it's a defense. Well maybe there's some bookstore in Peoria 460 00:27:06,640 --> 00:27:10,440 Speaker 1: that has the book, but everyone gets their books from Amazon. 461 00:27:10,880 --> 00:27:17,200 Speaker 1: That is suddenly giving a tech overlord the power to say, 462 00:27:17,400 --> 00:27:20,600 Speaker 1: here are the books that are now you are prohibited 463 00:27:20,600 --> 00:27:24,760 Speaker 1: from reading functionally because our monopoly will not allow anyone 464 00:27:24,760 --> 00:27:27,159 Speaker 1: to get them. Because big tech is already controlling the 465 00:27:27,200 --> 00:27:30,440 Speaker 1: flow of news throughout the Internet, I mean, they're controlling 466 00:27:30,480 --> 00:27:34,960 Speaker 1: the new public square. But this takes that even further. Now, 467 00:27:35,000 --> 00:27:36,800 Speaker 1: as you say, I think it's such an astute point 468 00:27:37,200 --> 00:27:40,600 Speaker 1: when when all the books are digital, they can go 469 00:27:40,680 --> 00:27:43,360 Speaker 1: back and control the flow of classical information. They can 470 00:27:43,400 --> 00:27:46,760 Speaker 1: go in and if some big tech oligarch wanted to 471 00:27:46,800 --> 00:27:49,080 Speaker 1: delete that book from your e reader. It's one reason 472 00:27:49,080 --> 00:27:52,400 Speaker 1: that I find myself now buying physical media much more 473 00:27:52,440 --> 00:27:54,119 Speaker 1: so because it is a threat. And I think to 474 00:27:54,160 --> 00:27:56,320 Speaker 1: throw our hands in the air and say, oh, there's 475 00:27:56,359 --> 00:27:58,440 Speaker 1: nothing we can do. It's a private company. I think 476 00:27:58,440 --> 00:28:02,760 Speaker 1: it totally disregards the enormity of the problem. This has been. 477 00:28:03,119 --> 00:28:04,840 Speaker 1: I'm sorry to say a little bit of a downer 478 00:28:05,440 --> 00:28:07,560 Speaker 1: of an episode and a downer of a first forty 479 00:28:07,600 --> 00:28:09,960 Speaker 1: two days of an administration. So I do want to 480 00:28:10,080 --> 00:28:12,320 Speaker 1: end on a high note with a mail bag question, 481 00:28:12,520 --> 00:28:15,520 Speaker 1: and this is a genuine high note. This question from 482 00:28:15,760 --> 00:28:20,280 Speaker 1: NBA Bubble question for Ted how do you feel about 483 00:28:20,320 --> 00:28:26,600 Speaker 1: Texas being reopened? Fantastic? It needed to happen. It is great. Look, 484 00:28:26,680 --> 00:28:28,520 Speaker 1: Texans want to go back to work, We want to 485 00:28:28,520 --> 00:28:30,439 Speaker 1: go back to school. And by the way, schools, we 486 00:28:30,520 --> 00:28:33,199 Speaker 1: need to be talking more about schools. I'll give you 487 00:28:33,280 --> 00:28:37,760 Speaker 1: a stat that is really stunning. Forty percent of school 488 00:28:37,840 --> 00:28:41,280 Speaker 1: kids in America are back in in person school five 489 00:28:41,360 --> 00:28:49,040 Speaker 1: days a week for less than half. That's staggering. And 490 00:28:51,160 --> 00:28:55,880 Speaker 1: Democratic politicians do not give a damn because these kids, 491 00:28:55,920 --> 00:28:57,920 Speaker 1: by the way, that are not going to school. It's 492 00:28:57,960 --> 00:29:01,680 Speaker 1: now been been a year, it's been a year with 493 00:29:01,720 --> 00:29:04,520 Speaker 1: no school, and these kids are falling behind. The data 494 00:29:04,560 --> 00:29:07,360 Speaker 1: are showing they're falling behind six months, falling behind a year, 495 00:29:07,600 --> 00:29:10,480 Speaker 1: and you never get that back. That's just lost, and 496 00:29:10,480 --> 00:29:15,160 Speaker 1: we're getting a whole generation and it's not uniformly distributed. 497 00:29:15,240 --> 00:29:19,640 Speaker 1: So rich families are finding a way to educate their kids, 498 00:29:20,200 --> 00:29:22,760 Speaker 1: whether it's going to a private school, whether it is 499 00:29:22,800 --> 00:29:28,040 Speaker 1: doing homeschooling, whether it's hiring tutors. If you've got money, 500 00:29:28,160 --> 00:29:30,200 Speaker 1: you're going to make sure your kids are being educated. 501 00:29:30,800 --> 00:29:37,320 Speaker 1: But low income kids, single moms, they don't have those choices, 502 00:29:37,320 --> 00:29:39,160 Speaker 1: they don't have those abilities. And so if the local 503 00:29:39,160 --> 00:29:42,280 Speaker 1: school isn't open, and in particular, if the single moms 504 00:29:42,280 --> 00:29:45,840 Speaker 1: working a couple of jobs and being pulled nine different directions, 505 00:29:46,400 --> 00:29:48,600 Speaker 1: that just means those kids are getting left behind. They're 506 00:29:48,600 --> 00:29:50,560 Speaker 1: not learning to read, they're not learning to write, they're 507 00:29:50,560 --> 00:29:54,400 Speaker 1: not learning the skills they need for life. It disproportionately 508 00:29:54,440 --> 00:29:57,920 Speaker 1: harms African American kids and Hispanic kids, and the Democratic 509 00:29:57,960 --> 00:29:59,960 Speaker 1: Party doesn't care at all. They say follow the side. 510 00:30:00,280 --> 00:30:02,880 Speaker 1: The head of the CDC said kids need to be 511 00:30:02,920 --> 00:30:05,680 Speaker 1: back in school, and they immediately said, oh no, never mind, 512 00:30:05,680 --> 00:30:10,239 Speaker 1: never mind, not that science. Yeah, don't why because the 513 00:30:10,280 --> 00:30:14,400 Speaker 1: teachers union bosses don't want the schools open. And it's 514 00:30:15,000 --> 00:30:18,240 Speaker 1: this goes back to boring. But radical Joe Biden made 515 00:30:18,240 --> 00:30:22,560 Speaker 1: the determination he cares more about the money from and 516 00:30:22,640 --> 00:30:25,680 Speaker 1: the campaign donations from the teachers union bosses than he 517 00:30:25,720 --> 00:30:28,760 Speaker 1: cares about fifty million school kids in this country. And 518 00:30:28,520 --> 00:30:31,680 Speaker 1: and the proof is in the pudding because they're willing 519 00:30:31,720 --> 00:30:35,520 Speaker 1: to so. Gavin Newson, the governor of your former state, 520 00:30:36,520 --> 00:30:39,880 Speaker 1: was blasting Texas As it's utterly reckless because you're opening 521 00:30:39,920 --> 00:30:46,480 Speaker 1: businesses and opening schools. I say, I say, God, bless freedom. 522 00:30:46,800 --> 00:30:48,560 Speaker 1: By the way, the press went a little bit crazy 523 00:30:48,560 --> 00:30:52,680 Speaker 1: because I did William Wallace's Cry of Freedom at Cepack, 524 00:30:52,800 --> 00:30:57,360 Speaker 1: and I think a bunch of reporters started having fits 525 00:30:57,400 --> 00:31:00,280 Speaker 1: and tremors of rage that I would do such a thing. Oh, 526 00:31:00,320 --> 00:31:02,680 Speaker 1: it was so awful. They couldn't bear the word. But 527 00:31:02,760 --> 00:31:05,920 Speaker 1: you know what, Californians are coming to Texas. It's almost 528 00:31:06,040 --> 00:31:10,680 Speaker 1: like vampires and sunlight to use a near attan in reference. 529 00:31:11,120 --> 00:31:14,240 Speaker 1: But look, there's a reason why thousands and thousands and 530 00:31:14,280 --> 00:31:18,240 Speaker 1: thousands of Californians are fleeing Californian coming to Texas because 531 00:31:18,240 --> 00:31:20,000 Speaker 1: you can actually go to work, you can actually have 532 00:31:20,080 --> 00:31:22,920 Speaker 1: a job, you can actually open your small business, you 533 00:31:22,920 --> 00:31:25,680 Speaker 1: can actually have your kids in school, you can actually 534 00:31:25,760 --> 00:31:29,680 Speaker 1: enjoy some freedom that we're not run by a bunch 535 00:31:29,680 --> 00:31:33,160 Speaker 1: of nutbags. And by the way, Newsom, what does it 536 00:31:33,240 --> 00:31:36,320 Speaker 1: say that Newsom is so crazy that he's getting recalled 537 00:31:36,400 --> 00:31:39,960 Speaker 1: in bright blue California, right that even the left wing 538 00:31:40,040 --> 00:31:43,120 Speaker 1: voters there like, whoa dude, You've shut the whole state 539 00:31:43,160 --> 00:31:45,480 Speaker 1: down for a year. This is a problem, and that's 540 00:31:45,480 --> 00:31:48,080 Speaker 1: what Biden wants to do the country. I know this 541 00:31:48,200 --> 00:31:50,720 Speaker 1: is the glimmer of hope that I have to hold 542 00:31:50,720 --> 00:31:52,880 Speaker 1: on to at least. And I think obviously we're going 543 00:31:52,920 --> 00:31:54,440 Speaker 1: to see how this plays out. You're going to be 544 00:31:55,040 --> 00:31:57,560 Speaker 1: up all night at the Senate and voting on these 545 00:31:57,600 --> 00:31:59,360 Speaker 1: sorts of things. Is if we can shed a little 546 00:31:59,360 --> 00:32:03,680 Speaker 1: bit of light, then perhaps we can call people's attention 547 00:32:03,920 --> 00:32:07,880 Speaker 1: to this boring yet radical agenda, and perhaps when you 548 00:32:07,920 --> 00:32:10,360 Speaker 1: call enough people's attention to it, perhaps we'll be able 549 00:32:10,360 --> 00:32:14,200 Speaker 1: to stop it and fight for freedom. We'll have to 550 00:32:14,320 --> 00:32:16,360 Speaker 1: leave it there, but there will be much more to 551 00:32:16,360 --> 00:32:18,880 Speaker 1: talk about next time. I'm Michael Knowles. This is Verdict 552 00:32:18,880 --> 00:32:30,840 Speaker 1: with Ted Cruz. 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