WEBVTT - Don't Be Fooled 0:00:00.520 --> 0:00:04.800 President Biden promised us unity and healing. A lot of 0:00:04.840 --> 0:00:11.440 people expected moderation circumspection from good old sleepy Joe. Instead, 0:00:11.480 --> 0:00:15.760 what we have gotten is the most radical agenda of 0:00:15.800 --> 0:00:19.960 any presidential administration, by my lights, in American history, and 0:00:20.040 --> 0:00:23.279 we are not even halfway through the first hundred days. 0:00:23.560 --> 0:00:32.040 This is Verdict with Ted Cruz. Welcome back to Verdict 0:00:32.080 --> 0:00:34.680 with Ted Cruz. I'm Michael Noles. Thank you all for 0:00:34.760 --> 0:00:36.720 being with us. It is good to be with you again. 0:00:36.920 --> 0:00:41.720 Thanks to everybody who has subscribed on Apple podcasts, on Spotify, 0:00:41.760 --> 0:00:44.640 on YouTube if you haven't already, we would very much 0:00:44.720 --> 0:00:48.840 appreciate your doing that, as everybody is getting canceled these days, 0:00:49.159 --> 0:00:53.240 up to and including doctor Seuss, mister potato Head. We 0:00:53.400 --> 0:00:55.480 fear that big tech could clamp down. So it would 0:00:55.480 --> 0:00:57.520 be great to be with you and have you subscribe 0:00:57.560 --> 0:01:00.520 as well. Senator, I have to tell you I wish 0:01:00.520 --> 0:01:04.360 I had a happy outlook on the first hundred days 0:01:04.360 --> 0:01:07.880 of this administration. It kills me to say this. I 0:01:07.920 --> 0:01:10.720 think we were right when we discussed on this show 0:01:10.880 --> 0:01:13.800 why people ought to fear the worst from President Biden. Yeah, 0:01:13.840 --> 0:01:16.120 these have been dangerous times. But let me first of 0:01:16.160 --> 0:01:19.360 all say, welcome back. It's been too long since we've 0:01:19.400 --> 0:01:21.760 done at Verdict, It's been too long since I've seen you. 0:01:22.600 --> 0:01:25.560 We had intended to do one last week, but but 0:01:25.720 --> 0:01:28.920 unfortunately we discovered there are no TV studios in Cancun. 0:01:30.600 --> 0:01:33.880 You know, Senator, I wasn't going to bring it up 0:01:33.920 --> 0:01:36.680 because some people have said that you ought to apologize, 0:01:36.720 --> 0:01:39.280 and I do think that you ought to apologize to 0:01:39.440 --> 0:01:42.319 me for not inviting me to can Koon. I'm very upset, 0:01:42.360 --> 0:01:44.280 but I'm sure that we'll be able to move on 0:01:44.319 --> 0:01:47.040 from this well. And as you know, in kan Koon, 0:01:47.200 --> 0:01:49.640 smoking Cuban cigars is legal, so I owe you a 0:01:49.720 --> 0:01:55.600 double apology for leaving you where the products from my 0:01:55.680 --> 0:01:59.440 family's homeland are are prohibited. Yes, but I'm glad we 0:01:59.480 --> 0:02:02.800 could clear the air here because it is. It is 0:02:03.120 --> 0:02:05.720 very good to be back with you, even amid all 0:02:05.760 --> 0:02:09.919 this crazy turmoil here in the United States. They're they're 0:02:09.919 --> 0:02:12.079 actually I don't want to just be too doom and 0:02:12.120 --> 0:02:16.200 gloom here, because there actually has been some good news 0:02:16.240 --> 0:02:18.760 in some ways. I know that you and your colleagues 0:02:18.800 --> 0:02:21.840 have been stymying some of the worst impulses of the 0:02:21.880 --> 0:02:25.800 Biden administration, particularly on the nominations, But I want to 0:02:25.800 --> 0:02:28.600 get the bad news out of the way first. Just 0:02:28.720 --> 0:02:31.639 even one single piece of legislation that's made its way 0:02:31.639 --> 0:02:35.400 through the House, the Equality Act, seems to me that 0:02:35.639 --> 0:02:38.680 maybe the single most radical piece of legislation ever in 0:02:38.680 --> 0:02:42.880 American history? Am I wrong? Am I overreacting here? Well? 0:02:42.919 --> 0:02:46.120 Give them time that they will pass even more radical stuff. 0:02:46.480 --> 0:02:49.320 And you know, if I were to sum up the 0:02:49.440 --> 0:02:53.359 first fifty ish days of of of the Biden administration 0:02:54.560 --> 0:02:59.360 with three words, those words would be boring but radical. 0:03:00.600 --> 0:03:03.640 So I think what Joe Biden is doing that's smart 0:03:04.840 --> 0:03:09.000 is not making news. He's dull. He doesn't say much 0:03:09.000 --> 0:03:14.200 of anything. And listen, after four years of every day 0:03:14.280 --> 0:03:17.800 Donald Trump driving the news twenty four to seven, the 0:03:17.880 --> 0:03:25.160 latest tweet, the latest reporters breathlessly grasping their pearls. You know, 0:03:25.200 --> 0:03:27.200 I do think people kind of breathe a sigh of 0:03:27.280 --> 0:03:29.920 relief that you don't wake up and wonder what did 0:03:29.919 --> 0:03:32.920 the President say today? And I think Joe Biden is 0:03:33.040 --> 0:03:36.960 leaning into say as little as possible, be as boring 0:03:37.000 --> 0:03:41.440 as possible. But that is very much a mask. It's 0:03:41.480 --> 0:03:45.920 a mask that is designed to hide the really radical 0:03:45.960 --> 0:03:48.400 agenda they're moving forward. If you look at the nominees 0:03:48.440 --> 0:03:52.520 they're putting forward, you look at the Secretary of Homeland 0:03:52.560 --> 0:03:57.119 Security Mayorkas, who said, just a couple of days ago, 0:03:57.160 --> 0:03:59.880 said there is no crisis at the border, none whatsoever, 0:04:01.920 --> 0:04:04.920 right in the midst of their projecting over one hundred 0:04:04.920 --> 0:04:07.880 thousand unaccompanied children being detained at the border, and there 0:04:07.960 --> 0:04:10.119 is no crisis. There's no crisis because they've gone back 0:04:10.320 --> 0:04:12.680 to catch and release, and their view is, what's the crisis. 0:04:12.680 --> 0:04:15.520 We're letting everyone in. We're just not enforcing our laws. 0:04:15.880 --> 0:04:19.120 We're saying that pattern replicated over and over and over again. 0:04:19.160 --> 0:04:24.920 The Equality Act would be profoundly damaging, damaging to Christian schools, 0:04:25.040 --> 0:04:30.200 damaging to churches, the government forcing anyone, regardless of faith, 0:04:30.320 --> 0:04:40.120 regardless of belief, to embrace the lefts definition of gender, 0:04:40.200 --> 0:04:44.760 or rather lack thereof, and to do otherwise is to 0:04:44.880 --> 0:04:50.919 face serious and crushing legal penalties. That that is that 0:04:50.920 --> 0:04:54.160 that would be a profound transformation and a harmful transformation 0:04:54.200 --> 0:04:59.680 of our country. And yet it's all silently moving forward. 0:04:59.720 --> 0:05:02.960 You know, we're sitting here, it's Wednesday night when you 0:05:03.000 --> 0:05:06.480 and I are recording this, and tomorrow we're going to 0:05:06.560 --> 0:05:10.320 be taking up the so called stimulus bill. Now, the 0:05:10.360 --> 0:05:15.080 stimulus bill actually has nothing to do with stimulus. It's 0:05:15.080 --> 0:05:16.760 a title that might as well have been picked out 0:05:16.760 --> 0:05:21.120 of the air. It's one point nine trillion dollars, nine 0:05:21.160 --> 0:05:24.080 percent of which has to do with COVID nine percent. 0:05:24.279 --> 0:05:28.040 Ninety one percent is not health spending concerning COVID. And 0:05:29.080 --> 0:05:31.159 you know, you think about last year. Last year we 0:05:31.279 --> 0:05:35.640 passed five different COVID relief bills. Every one of them 0:05:35.680 --> 0:05:40.240 was bipartisans every one of them. Republicans worked with Democrats, 0:05:40.320 --> 0:05:42.560 rolled up our sleeves, said all right, let's work together 0:05:42.720 --> 0:05:47.279 on on assistance for healthcare workers. Let's work together on 0:05:47.320 --> 0:05:54.040 assistance for small businesses. Let's work together on vaccinations. Republicans 0:05:54.040 --> 0:05:56.520 are eager to do that again. Look, this COVID crisis 0:05:56.600 --> 0:06:01.000 is real. You could easily achieve a bipartisan bill if 0:06:01.000 --> 0:06:03.240 the Democrats wanted to. But it says something about Joe 0:06:03.240 --> 0:06:07.480 Biden zero interest in anything bipartisan. I think what we're 0:06:07.480 --> 0:06:10.679 going to see tomorrow is their intention is to ram 0:06:10.680 --> 0:06:14.080 this through with fifty Democrats and Kamala Harris breaking the tie. 0:06:14.440 --> 0:06:16.880 They don't want a single Republican vote. They probably won't 0:06:16.880 --> 0:06:20.600 get a single Republican vote because the bill is just 0:06:20.640 --> 0:06:23.719 a whole series of liberal wish lists that have nothing 0:06:23.760 --> 0:06:27.640 to do with COVID. It's just pent up desire and 0:06:27.680 --> 0:06:33.719 in particular desire to take care of their political allies, 0:06:33.800 --> 0:06:37.479 and I think that's a cynical way to approach it. Senator, 0:06:38.279 --> 0:06:41.480 do you think, though, that Republicans are going to face 0:06:41.520 --> 0:06:45.680 any backlash, knowing that the Democrats control the media, do 0:06:45.680 --> 0:06:48.279 you think they're going to face backlash for not voting 0:06:48.360 --> 0:06:52.480 for a COVID relief bill. You know, they're letting people 0:06:53.440 --> 0:06:56.320 hang out to dry amid this unprecedented crisis. I mean, 0:06:56.560 --> 0:07:00.320 will the Democrats succeed in any way at manipulating Publican 0:07:00.400 --> 0:07:03.359 voters even if you know ninety percent or ninety percent 0:07:03.440 --> 0:07:07.360 plus of this bill is just pork for Democrats? Do 0:07:07.400 --> 0:07:10.720 you think that message will be effective at all? We'll 0:07:10.760 --> 0:07:13.360 see There's no doubt the media will relentlessly show for 0:07:13.400 --> 0:07:15.600 the Democrats, because that's what they do now. They don't 0:07:15.640 --> 0:07:19.000 pretend otherwise. You know, I do think you will see 0:07:19.000 --> 0:07:23.240 Republicans voting for significant COVID relief tomorrow in the form 0:07:23.320 --> 0:07:27.640 of this is being brought up through the process called 0:07:27.640 --> 0:07:32.200 budget reconciliation, which we've talked about before. It's the main 0:07:32.480 --> 0:07:37.080 exception to the filibuster rule. It's the main way you 0:07:37.160 --> 0:07:39.840 can pass legislation where you don't need sixty votes in 0:07:39.840 --> 0:07:43.120 the Senate. You can just do it with fifty one. 0:07:43.280 --> 0:07:47.880 Aspect of budget reconciliation is vote Arama. We talked in 0:07:47.920 --> 0:07:52.920 an earlier verdict about vote Arama unlimited amendments. That's by statute, 0:07:52.920 --> 0:07:55.480 and so normally the majority leader can shut down amendments, 0:07:55.480 --> 0:07:58.680 and we've seen sadly majority leaders in both parties do that. 0:07:59.440 --> 0:08:02.560 If you're using budget reconciliation, you can't shut down amendments. 0:08:02.640 --> 0:08:06.400 I expect a lot of amendments tomorrow night. I think 0:08:06.440 --> 0:08:08.680 it is likely we will go all night. I think 0:08:08.760 --> 0:08:10.760 we may go into the morning. We may even go 0:08:11.240 --> 0:08:13.960 further than that into Friday. I think there is a 0:08:14.120 --> 0:08:18.400 real anger among Republicans in the Senate at this bill. 0:08:19.480 --> 0:08:22.800 At you know, Joe Biden gave an inauguration speech talking 0:08:22.800 --> 0:08:26.160 about unity and bipartisanship, and he starts his administration by 0:08:26.200 --> 0:08:28.920 saying to half the country go jump in a lake. 0:08:28.960 --> 0:08:31.920 Today he called the twenty nine million people in Texas, 0:08:31.960 --> 0:08:35.640 he called us Neanderthals. He's mad that Texas is open, 0:08:36.520 --> 0:08:39.000 and so you know, he just apparently we're cavemen. We're 0:08:39.000 --> 0:08:41.439 like in the Geico commercial and we're just we're just cavemen. 0:08:42.080 --> 0:08:45.000 You know. That's uh, you know, great job they're unifying, 0:08:45.559 --> 0:08:48.040 you know, I mean, it's it's reminiscent of Hillary calling 0:08:48.480 --> 0:08:53.640 calling half the country deplorables. It's it is a level 0:08:53.679 --> 0:08:56.520 of condescension. And if you look at this bill. All right, 0:08:56.600 --> 0:09:00.720 so the bill that passed the House had Chuck Schumer's 0:09:00.920 --> 0:09:06.120 Bridge to Canada because apparently that somehow will help us 0:09:06.160 --> 0:09:10.920 defeat COVID. The bill in the House had Nancy Pelosi's 0:09:11.000 --> 0:09:14.840 Tunnel of Love, a tunnel in Silicon Valley. Do I 0:09:14.920 --> 0:09:16.240 want to know what that is? I don't know. This 0:09:16.320 --> 0:09:22.559 doesn't sound it's not X rated. It's just it's just 0:09:22.640 --> 0:09:26.840 a boondoggle port project that Pelosi wanted to bring back 0:09:26.880 --> 0:09:29.360 to Silicon Valley. Has zero to do with COVID, nothing 0:09:29.360 --> 0:09:33.360 at all. And actually even with the media shilling form. 0:09:33.360 --> 0:09:35.960 It was interesting Pelosi blink last night and pulled it out. 0:09:36.880 --> 0:09:42.120 So it's interesting with just the tiniest bit of attention, 0:09:43.080 --> 0:09:46.280 you know, there's a provision in this bill that forgives 0:09:46.440 --> 0:09:54.559 loans to farmers from historically disadvantaged races. Now it is 0:09:54.600 --> 0:09:59.719 explicitly race tiede and it has no income test. So 0:10:00.040 --> 0:10:03.280 if you are a rich farmer who happens to be 0:10:03.320 --> 0:10:06.560 African American, happens to be Hispanic, happens to be Asian, 0:10:07.400 --> 0:10:11.480 your loans will be forgiven. If you're a poor white farmer, 0:10:13.360 --> 0:10:15.920 no soup for you, of course, you're too privileged. But 0:10:16.000 --> 0:10:20.559 it's worse than that. It is explicitly race based. Not 0:10:20.600 --> 0:10:22.520 only are they forgiving it the loans, do you know 0:10:22.559 --> 0:10:24.760 what they're what rate? They're forgiving the loans at one 0:10:24.840 --> 0:10:29.319 hundred and twenty percent. That's literally written into the bill, 0:10:29.360 --> 0:10:32.800 one hundred and twenty percent if you are from an 0:10:32.840 --> 0:10:38.199 historically disadvantage race or ethnicity. Look, we were talking about 0:10:38.200 --> 0:10:40.520 this at lunch and I turned to Ron Johnson. I said, 0:10:40.520 --> 0:10:43.560 I gotta get me a farm. You know, I'm Hispanic Hill. 0:10:43.600 --> 0:10:45.439 If they're if they're gonna like the one hundred and 0:10:45.440 --> 0:10:50.720 twenty percent, like I mean, it is laughable and indefensable, 0:10:50.760 --> 0:10:54.440 and the bill is filled with garbage like that. I 0:10:54.480 --> 0:10:56.400 want to get to just on this point, Senator it's 0:10:56.440 --> 0:10:58.680 something you mentioned because I hadn't heard it put this 0:10:58.720 --> 0:11:01.160 way before, But I think it's somes it up boring 0:11:01.920 --> 0:11:04.960 but radical. And it seems that the way that Joe 0:11:04.960 --> 0:11:06.800 Biden has gotten away with this kind of stuff is 0:11:06.840 --> 0:11:09.319 he doesn't really hold press conferences. He was asked today 0:11:09.320 --> 0:11:11.200 about the briefing he had on the border and all 0:11:11.200 --> 0:11:13.400 these migrants who are coming over. They said, were you 0:11:13.440 --> 0:11:15.320 briefed on the border? He said yes. They said, what 0:11:15.360 --> 0:11:16.840 did you learn? He said a lot, and then he 0:11:16.880 --> 0:11:21.160 just kept walking and wouldn't answer. So it's very effective 0:11:21.200 --> 0:11:23.640 if you can have covered by the media and you 0:11:23.640 --> 0:11:26.920 can just sort of push these things through. People aren't 0:11:26.920 --> 0:11:28.480 going to look at it, and you'll be able to 0:11:28.520 --> 0:11:31.320 get your agenda. But there have been times, as you note, 0:11:31.520 --> 0:11:33.560 where the minute that a little light is shed on 0:11:33.600 --> 0:11:36.560 this in the case of Pelosi's pork spending, or in 0:11:36.600 --> 0:11:39.760 the case of the nomination of Neira Tandon, a particularly 0:11:40.240 --> 0:11:43.520 radical nominee, Joe Biden's nominee for the Office of Management 0:11:43.559 --> 0:11:45.400 and Budget, the minute a little bit of light is 0:11:45.440 --> 0:11:48.280 shined on all of a sudden, Joe Biden has a 0:11:48.360 --> 0:11:51.560 much harder time pushing this agenda through well. So I 0:11:51.559 --> 0:11:55.000 actually take a different lesson from Naratanden. So Nara Tanden 0:11:55.080 --> 0:11:58.079 and was nominated to be the head of the Office 0:11:58.080 --> 0:12:01.640 of Management of Budget. It's a cabinet position, very important 0:12:01.640 --> 0:12:07.240 cabinet position. And I don't know Nara, but apparently she 0:12:07.480 --> 0:12:10.920 was an activist and outspoken and led this political think 0:12:10.920 --> 0:12:16.080 tank shop, and she had this habit of tweeting hard 0:12:16.240 --> 0:12:19.000 partisan attacks at senators and it seemed that she had 0:12:19.000 --> 0:12:21.320 criticized just about every senator. One of the senators she 0:12:21.360 --> 0:12:25.599 criticized all the time was Bernie Sanders because she was 0:12:25.640 --> 0:12:30.400 a hardcore Hillary supporter, so she blasted Bernie constantly. She 0:12:30.600 --> 0:12:35.760 blasted Republicans, Mitch McConnell. I think she called Mitch voldemart, 0:12:36.600 --> 0:12:40.719 which is pretty funny. She blasted Susan Collins. I mean 0:12:40.760 --> 0:12:43.320 she's she's you know, said Susan Collins is the worst. 0:12:44.559 --> 0:12:50.920 And apparently she has nine pages of tweets about me. 0:12:52.679 --> 0:12:54.640 I knew she was not a fan of You're a Senator, 0:12:54.679 --> 0:12:56.040 but I did. I didn't know it was quite that 0:12:56.120 --> 0:12:59.560 extensive for commentary. So my first reaction is, she's really 0:12:59.559 --> 0:13:02.319 not very good at Twitter, because I don't think i've 0:13:02.320 --> 0:13:04.880 ever read a tweet she sent about me and and so, 0:13:04.920 --> 0:13:08.160 and I'm on Twitter a lot, so it says something 0:13:08.200 --> 0:13:10.440 like the only one I know of the content of 0:13:10.440 --> 0:13:14.120 which Rob Portman, Senator Republican from Ohio read at her hearing, 0:13:14.760 --> 0:13:17.840 where she tweeted that that vampires have more heart than 0:13:17.880 --> 0:13:20.760 Ted Cruz and so I hadn't seen it when she 0:13:20.800 --> 0:13:22.440 said it, but when Rob read it at the hearing, 0:13:22.480 --> 0:13:25.600 I laughed out loud, and I jumped on Twitter and said, 0:13:25.880 --> 0:13:28.920 you know why she being so mean to vampires? Yeah, 0:13:28.920 --> 0:13:32.400 that's outrageous. But what's interesting what she went down for 0:13:33.760 --> 0:13:37.600 was not being radical. What she went down for she'd 0:13:37.600 --> 0:13:40.760 criticized a bunch of senators, right, She'd sent some mean tweets. 0:13:40.760 --> 0:13:44.640 It was interesting. Last week I did Hugh Hewitt's radio show, 0:13:44.640 --> 0:13:46.600 and you know Hugh, he's a good guy, he's a friend, 0:13:47.760 --> 0:13:50.600 and interesting that surprised me. Hugh pushed me on this 0:13:50.679 --> 0:13:54.520 and pressed me really hard to vote for Nia Tandon 0:13:54.800 --> 0:13:57.640 and I was like, really, why, like what and he 0:13:57.679 --> 0:14:00.280 was and he's like, well, the standard can't be that 0:14:00.360 --> 0:14:03.920 mean tweets makes you unconfirmable. And I actually had a 0:14:03.920 --> 0:14:06.080 bit of a constitutional debate with you where I said, 0:14:06.080 --> 0:14:12.720 you know, your constitutional scholar, Hugh, the constitutional system provides 0:14:12.760 --> 0:14:15.560 for executive nominations to be made by the president confirmed 0:14:15.559 --> 0:14:18.760 by the Senate. And it has been true since the 0:14:18.880 --> 0:14:22.640 very first Congress that if you attack and blast a 0:14:22.640 --> 0:14:26.040 bunch of senators, you ain't get confirmed. Like it's real. 0:14:26.080 --> 0:14:29.240 Simply that this is not actually a Twitter phenomenon. I 0:14:29.400 --> 0:14:32.600 promise you in the George Washington administration, if you wanted 0:14:32.640 --> 0:14:35.200 to get nominated to the cabinet and you attacked a 0:14:35.240 --> 0:14:36.960 bunch of senitors, they're going to vote against you. That 0:14:37.920 --> 0:14:40.200 Hugh pressed me on. He said, well, she's not the 0:14:40.240 --> 0:14:44.240 worst of Biden's nominees, and I actually agree in terms 0:14:44.240 --> 0:14:48.720 of substance. Mayorkas, the DHS secretary, was much worse. He's 0:14:48.720 --> 0:14:51.880 been a radical, he's pushing for open borders. And I 0:14:51.920 --> 0:14:56.680 think the most indefensible nominee is Javier Bassa, who's been 0:14:56.680 --> 0:15:00.560 nominated to lead a HHS Health and Human Services. And 0:15:01.040 --> 0:15:02.880 Hugh agreed with me on that, and he said, well, 0:15:03.320 --> 0:15:05.640 maybe you should go to Mansion because the reason she 0:15:05.720 --> 0:15:08.359 went down as Joe Mansion said he wouldn't vote for Narritandon, 0:15:08.880 --> 0:15:11.120 and Hugh said, we'll go to Mansion, and you and 0:15:11.240 --> 0:15:13.840 Joe together announce you're going to support Narritandon and he'll 0:15:13.880 --> 0:15:18.560 save her nomination and convince him to vote instead against Bessarah. 0:15:18.560 --> 0:15:20.360 I said, I'll tell you what, Hugh, If you can 0:15:20.440 --> 0:15:22.760 get Mansion to vote No. One Bessarah, sure, I'll vote 0:15:22.760 --> 0:15:26.040 for Narritandon that. And here's why, let's stop for a 0:15:26.080 --> 0:15:29.840 second on Bassarah, because I think it's likely to be 0:15:29.880 --> 0:15:32.280 a party line vote right now. I think it appears 0:15:32.360 --> 0:15:35.600 every Democrat will vote for him, and every Republican will 0:15:35.640 --> 0:15:40.680 vote now. Bassarah is the Attorney general California. It's a 0:15:40.720 --> 0:15:44.120 long time congressman. He's been nominated to be the Secretary 0:15:44.160 --> 0:15:48.360 of Health and Human Services. He's not a doctor. He 0:15:48.400 --> 0:15:52.320 has no scientific background. He has no medical background. He 0:15:52.400 --> 0:15:55.720 has no background and healthcare administration. He has no background 0:15:55.840 --> 0:15:59.160 in virology and vaccines. He has no background even in logistics. 0:16:00.440 --> 0:16:03.160 HHS is right now in the middle of the largest 0:16:03.200 --> 0:16:06.920 vaccine distribution effort our country has ever seen. Joe Biden 0:16:06.960 --> 0:16:11.600 has nominated a trial lawyer who's a radical leftist. As 0:16:11.640 --> 0:16:14.880 far as I can tell, his only experience with healthcare 0:16:16.040 --> 0:16:18.720 is suing the little sisters of the poor, which he denies. 0:16:19.280 --> 0:16:22.960 During his testimony, he said, I never sued the nuns. 0:16:23.000 --> 0:16:27.240 If you're having to explain why you didn't technically sue nuns, 0:16:27.280 --> 0:16:30.080 that's a problem. You're not in a good position, right, 0:16:30.480 --> 0:16:33.880 but you know, just on the merits of it. Pause 0:16:33.920 --> 0:16:36.320 and think about what the reaction would be if a 0:16:36.360 --> 0:16:40.920 Republican president nominated as Secretary of HHS someone with zero 0:16:40.960 --> 0:16:46.960 medical experience, zero health experience, zero experience with anything related 0:16:47.000 --> 0:16:51.440 to HHS in the midst of a global pandemic, when 0:16:51.640 --> 0:16:55.840 HHS is incredibly important. This guy's wildly unqualified. But why 0:16:55.840 --> 0:16:59.400 did he get the nomination? Number one, the Democrats it's 0:16:59.400 --> 0:17:03.320 a box chess exercise, and so he's Hispanic. That fits, 0:17:03.400 --> 0:17:06.119 that fits their desire to check that box. But number two, 0:17:06.880 --> 0:17:10.880 he's been a radical, and so they want want him 0:17:11.000 --> 0:17:14.199 for his political positions. I think we actually ought to 0:17:14.240 --> 0:17:16.960 have someone running HHS who I don't know know something 0:17:17.000 --> 0:17:19.880 about viruses. I mean, I mean that is that asking 0:17:19.960 --> 0:17:25.159 too much? And and Biden claims claims his priorities defeating COVID, 0:17:25.200 --> 0:17:28.320 and yet he nominates someone with no medical experience, and 0:17:28.400 --> 0:17:30.640 mind you at the same time saying follow the science, 0:17:30.720 --> 0:17:33.120 except right, the person he's putting there doesn't know anything 0:17:33.119 --> 0:17:37.280 about science. Well, of course, and the Bissara nomination, especially 0:17:37.280 --> 0:17:42.359 as someone who fled the Republic of California and Nussolini's 0:17:42.359 --> 0:17:44.840 dictatorship of California, as some of us call it. I 0:17:44.880 --> 0:17:48.080 remember Bissarah, he's a very radical guy. But but to 0:17:48.119 --> 0:17:52.320 your point earlier of boring but radical, you know, I 0:17:52.400 --> 0:17:56.439 expect radicalism from someone like Bissarah. I expect radicalism from 0:17:56.440 --> 0:17:59.720 someone like Neritandon. But you made the point. I believe this. 0:17:59.760 --> 0:18:03.520 We that even the so called moderate nominees, people like 0:18:03.680 --> 0:18:07.399 Merrick Garland, who's nominated for Attorney General. He's supposed to 0:18:07.440 --> 0:18:09.159 be the moderate guy, he's supposed to be maybe the 0:18:09.160 --> 0:18:12.159 most moderate person that Biden puts up, he would appear 0:18:12.240 --> 0:18:15.040 to be just as radical as everybody else from his 0:18:15.119 --> 0:18:21.919 testimony maybe. So when Biden nominated Merrick Garland, my initial 0:18:21.960 --> 0:18:24.800 reaction I was relieved, because there are a lot of 0:18:25.960 --> 0:18:29.200 radical partisan lawyers that could have been nominated as AG. 0:18:29.400 --> 0:18:32.320 For that matter, how your but Sarah is actually qualified 0:18:32.320 --> 0:18:35.280 to be AG. He's not qualified for HHS, but he 0:18:35.400 --> 0:18:37.840 is in fact an attorney general. But Sarah is a 0:18:37.920 --> 0:18:40.040 rabbit partisan, so he would have been a much worse 0:18:40.080 --> 0:18:42.800 Attorney general on the face of it than Merrick Garland. 0:18:42.840 --> 0:18:45.240 Merrick Garland spent twenty three years as a Court of 0:18:45.240 --> 0:18:48.680 Appeals judge. He's a Democrat, he was in the Clinton administration, 0:18:49.400 --> 0:18:52.840 but he hasn't built a reputation as a hard partisan. 0:18:53.200 --> 0:18:57.440 His reputation as a judge has been one of integrity 0:18:57.520 --> 0:19:03.119 and he hasn't been seen as overly partisan. I was gratified. 0:19:03.200 --> 0:19:05.040 My reaction was, you know what, this may be about 0:19:05.080 --> 0:19:08.200 the best we can hope for from the Biden administration. 0:19:08.240 --> 0:19:10.240 I think there were a number of Republicans on Senate 0:19:10.320 --> 0:19:15.200 Judiciary that were initially inclined to vote for Merrick Garland. 0:19:16.119 --> 0:19:19.280 And his confirmation hearing, it was remarkable because he refused 0:19:19.320 --> 0:19:23.879 to answer essentially anything. He was asked question after question 0:19:23.920 --> 0:19:27.160 after question, and he just refused to answer them. So 0:19:27.760 --> 0:19:30.280 a lot of the questions concerned John Durham. Now John 0:19:30.320 --> 0:19:33.840 Durham is the special counsel that was appointed to investigate 0:19:35.000 --> 0:19:40.520 the abuse of power Operation Crossfire Hurricane and the extent 0:19:40.600 --> 0:19:44.600 to which the Obama Biden administration broke the law in 0:19:44.720 --> 0:19:50.399 targeting Donald Trump, very important investigation. Marick Garland was asked 0:19:50.400 --> 0:19:53.440 by me and others. Are you going to fire him? 0:19:53.560 --> 0:19:56.080 That is a really important question if you're going to 0:19:56.160 --> 0:19:58.520 have any semblance of integrity and rule of law at 0:19:58.520 --> 0:20:01.719 the Department of Justice. Now, when Bill Barr was nominated 0:20:01.800 --> 0:20:03.880 BAG he was asked the same thing about Bob Muller, 0:20:03.880 --> 0:20:06.800 Are you going to fire him? And Barr said he 0:20:06.840 --> 0:20:10.399 said he would only fire him for good cause. And 0:20:10.440 --> 0:20:13.800 so that was during his confirmation hearing. Barr said, absent 0:20:13.920 --> 0:20:15.760 good cause, no, he wouldn't fire me, and he didn't. 0:20:15.800 --> 0:20:19.840 He let Muller complete his investigation, submit his report. Barr 0:20:20.080 --> 0:20:23.760 kept his word on that. Garland refused to make that commitment. 0:20:23.760 --> 0:20:25.400 We said, how about you hold of the same standard 0:20:25.400 --> 0:20:28.320 Bill Bar did. Would you agree only to fire him 0:20:28.320 --> 0:20:29.840 for a good cause? Nope, can't do that. I don't 0:20:29.880 --> 0:20:32.000 know anything about it. Just don't know anything about it, 0:20:32.960 --> 0:20:34.720 and I'm not going to make the commitment. And he 0:20:34.920 --> 0:20:39.000 did that over and over and over again. And then 0:20:39.040 --> 0:20:41.800 I actually submitted a lot of senators submitted questions for 0:20:41.800 --> 0:20:44.119 the record in writing, and he would see in writing. 0:20:44.160 --> 0:20:48.320 He refused to take a position. He was asked, will 0:20:48.400 --> 0:20:53.359 DJ prosecute people across the border illegally? He said, I 0:20:53.359 --> 0:20:56.280 don't know. I can't tell you, but that shouldn't be complicated. 0:20:56.320 --> 0:20:59.359 The Constitution obliges the president to take care that the 0:20:59.440 --> 0:21:02.320 laws be faithfully executed. He said, I can't tell you 0:21:02.400 --> 0:21:05.959 if we'll prosecute people who crossed the border illegally. I 0:21:06.040 --> 0:21:10.320 asked him if the Department of Justice would urge the 0:21:10.400 --> 0:21:13.679 courts to overturn the Heller decision, which which upheld the 0:21:13.680 --> 0:21:16.160 Second Amendment right to keep into our arms. He wouldn't 0:21:16.160 --> 0:21:19.480 tell us that. One after the other after the other, 0:21:19.600 --> 0:21:23.040 where he refused to answer even the barrass minimum questions. 0:21:23.800 --> 0:21:26.000 And I gotta say it was sad after all of that, 0:21:26.080 --> 0:21:28.280 after essentially telling the senators go jump in a lake, 0:21:28.320 --> 0:21:30.640 I'm not going to answer any of your questions. All 0:21:30.680 --> 0:21:32.399 the Democrats voted for him, and a bunch of the 0:21:32.440 --> 0:21:34.680 Republicans voted for him. Yeah, and you kind of throw 0:21:34.680 --> 0:21:37.359 your hands up in the air. I still don't know 0:21:37.400 --> 0:21:40.439 if he will be a hard partisan as attorney general. 0:21:40.480 --> 0:21:42.960 He is very likely to be confirmed, but I have 0:21:43.119 --> 0:21:47.800 no reason to think that he will have any willingness 0:21:47.840 --> 0:21:51.160 to stand up to the hard partisans that will surround him. 0:21:51.200 --> 0:21:56.240 Based on his performance at his confirmation hearing, it was 0:21:56.320 --> 0:21:59.359 the sergeant's schultze sense I see nothing, I know nothing. 0:21:59.400 --> 0:22:01.959 I mean that that is essentially what he was telling us, 0:22:02.160 --> 0:22:05.240 because what you would hope from the so called moderate nominee. 0:22:05.240 --> 0:22:09.920 I shared your relief actually when it was reported that 0:22:10.000 --> 0:22:11.800 Garland was going to get the nomination over some of 0:22:11.800 --> 0:22:14.439 the radical people. But you would expect from the so 0:22:14.520 --> 0:22:18.280 called moderate nominee to give you some answer, to give 0:22:18.280 --> 0:22:21.320 you some reason to have confidence in their moderation. We 0:22:21.320 --> 0:22:23.240 didn't get that, but you're seeing this as part of 0:22:23.280 --> 0:22:25.800 a broader strategy from the White House. Jen Saki, the 0:22:25.800 --> 0:22:29.200 White House Press Secretary, was asked, will Joe Biden force 0:22:29.520 --> 0:22:33.719 doctors to violate their conscience and performed abortions? She couldn't 0:22:33.720 --> 0:22:36.520 give an answer on that. Jen Saki was asked about 0:22:36.520 --> 0:22:41.080 a possible world in which Mexico sends six hundred to 0:22:41.080 --> 0:22:44.040 eight hundred thousand migrants to the United States to work. 0:22:44.080 --> 0:22:45.719 She was asked for comment on that. She said, well, 0:22:45.720 --> 0:22:51.320 she couldn't possibly comment on that. This just quiet dismissal 0:22:51.359 --> 0:22:55.160 of questions and the kind of boring radicalism that we're 0:22:55.160 --> 0:23:01.359 getting is pretty worrisome, and you know, I have to 0:23:01.400 --> 0:23:03.680 bring it up because you're probably the most famous reader 0:23:03.720 --> 0:23:07.879 of Doctor SEUs in the entire country outside of politics, 0:23:07.880 --> 0:23:11.879 outside of the government. You're seeing private companies canceling Doctor SEUs, 0:23:12.200 --> 0:23:15.160 taking the Spuds off of mister potato Head, and now 0:23:15.560 --> 0:23:21.680 taking very ordinary, mainstream scholarly books off of Amazon, largest 0:23:21.680 --> 0:23:25.720 bookseller in the world because they contradict left wing orthodoxies. 0:23:26.359 --> 0:23:31.040 It feels as though the liberal establishment is colluding and 0:23:31.160 --> 0:23:34.240 closing in on us. It is the death Star and 0:23:34.320 --> 0:23:39.560 they're trying to eliminate all their enemies. Look, hasbro you 0:23:39.600 --> 0:23:42.159 mentioned mister potato head. They dropped the mister. It's now 0:23:42.200 --> 0:23:44.240 just potato head. It's not mister potato head, it's not 0:23:44.280 --> 0:23:47.359 missus potato head, it's just potato head. So much for 0:23:47.440 --> 0:23:50.959 preferred pronouns. And by the way, among the attachments on 0:23:50.960 --> 0:23:54.280