1 00:00:00,280 --> 00:00:03,960 Speaker 1: Made your tensions around the country on the police, on 2 00:00:04,200 --> 00:00:09,960 Speaker 1: criminal justice, on race. Some anarchists are talking about defunding 3 00:00:09,960 --> 00:00:13,240 Speaker 1: the police, abolish the police, ginning up racial tensions. Well, 4 00:00:13,320 --> 00:00:15,960 Speaker 1: we have a serious person here who can speak with 5 00:00:16,079 --> 00:00:20,520 Speaker 1: great authority on real criminal justice reform and on real 6 00:00:20,840 --> 00:00:24,280 Speaker 1: racial experiences in America. This is Verdict with Ted Cruz. 7 00:00:30,680 --> 00:00:33,240 Speaker 1: Welcome back to Verdict with Ted Cruz. I'm Michael Knowles. 8 00:00:33,240 --> 00:00:35,920 Speaker 1: We will get to our special guest in just one second, 9 00:00:35,920 --> 00:00:38,160 Speaker 1: but first I have to thank you so much. We've 10 00:00:38,200 --> 00:00:42,200 Speaker 1: now got over ten million downloads on this podcast, and 11 00:00:42,200 --> 00:00:44,760 Speaker 1: it's all thanks to you. I really exceeded our expectations 12 00:00:44,920 --> 00:00:46,680 Speaker 1: and we're so glad to be able to continue to 13 00:00:46,680 --> 00:00:49,479 Speaker 1: do it. Please head over on Apple Podcasts. I leave 14 00:00:49,520 --> 00:00:51,320 Speaker 1: a five star review if you would like to, and 15 00:00:51,360 --> 00:00:52,840 Speaker 1: if you want to leave less than don't leave anything 16 00:00:52,840 --> 00:00:55,400 Speaker 1: at all. Thank you very much, and please go subscribe 17 00:00:55,600 --> 00:00:59,840 Speaker 1: wherever you listen to podcasts. All right, because the Senator 18 00:00:59,920 --> 00:01:02,280 Speaker 1: is the greatest booking producer in the history of podcasts. 19 00:01:02,440 --> 00:01:05,520 Speaker 1: I am joined by Senator Tim Scott. He is really 20 00:01:05,520 --> 00:01:08,280 Speaker 1: good at what he does, not just in podcast world, 21 00:01:08,280 --> 00:01:12,000 Speaker 1: but in their all worlds. I am so glad. First 22 00:01:12,040 --> 00:01:14,759 Speaker 1: of all, Senator Cruz, thank you for bringing Senator Scott on. 23 00:01:15,319 --> 00:01:20,080 Speaker 1: Senator Scott, you are behind you or the author behind 24 00:01:20,200 --> 00:01:23,959 Speaker 1: probably the most significant piece of legislation that the Senate 25 00:01:24,040 --> 00:01:29,240 Speaker 1: is considering right now. That would be the Justice Act. Yes, listen, 26 00:01:29,400 --> 00:01:31,680 Speaker 1: I'm excited about the Justice side. I wish our Democrat 27 00:01:31,720 --> 00:01:34,280 Speaker 1: colleagues were more excited about not the Justice Act only, 28 00:01:34,520 --> 00:01:37,400 Speaker 1: but about actually serving the community that has been wed 29 00:01:37,440 --> 00:01:41,480 Speaker 1: to the Democrat Party for generations. And they continue to 30 00:01:41,680 --> 00:01:47,680 Speaker 1: under deliver while overpromising. Instead of taking eight today, giving 31 00:01:47,680 --> 00:01:49,760 Speaker 1: them an opportunity to say to the people and the 32 00:01:49,800 --> 00:01:52,360 Speaker 1: communities across the country, we hear you, we see you, 33 00:01:52,640 --> 00:01:54,920 Speaker 1: we are fighting for you. We could have gotten eighty 34 00:01:54,920 --> 00:01:59,600 Speaker 1: percent delivered today. They gave the community zero. They decided 35 00:01:59,640 --> 00:02:03,000 Speaker 1: to make an an election year issue, an election in 36 00:02:03,080 --> 00:02:07,920 Speaker 1: November issue, presidential election issue. And that's just so unfortunate 37 00:02:07,960 --> 00:02:12,520 Speaker 1: for so many kids living in underserved communities, worried about 38 00:02:12,560 --> 00:02:16,079 Speaker 1: making it from their house to the school, always having 39 00:02:16,120 --> 00:02:18,359 Speaker 1: in the back of their consciousness whether or not an 40 00:02:18,360 --> 00:02:21,640 Speaker 1: interaction well in poorly for them. We could have said 41 00:02:21,840 --> 00:02:24,720 Speaker 1: we see you today. I think what would be helpful 42 00:02:25,280 --> 00:02:30,120 Speaker 1: to podcast listeners and viewers. Is knowing some of your 43 00:02:30,160 --> 00:02:33,360 Speaker 1: personal story. This this is a faith journey in a 44 00:02:33,440 --> 00:02:36,640 Speaker 1: life journey for me. Yes, absolutely, And and so you 45 00:02:36,680 --> 00:02:39,000 Speaker 1: know you grew up, you had you had a pretty 46 00:02:39,040 --> 00:02:41,120 Speaker 1: tough upbringing. Absolutely. I grew up in a single parent 47 00:02:41,120 --> 00:02:44,160 Speaker 1: household who mired in poverty. My mother and father got 48 00:02:44,200 --> 00:02:47,359 Speaker 1: divorced when I was about seven years old. I felt 49 00:02:47,400 --> 00:02:51,240 Speaker 1: like this nation, my community, had nothing to offer me. 50 00:02:51,440 --> 00:02:53,400 Speaker 1: So from seven years old, when you come to that 51 00:02:53,480 --> 00:02:58,040 Speaker 1: decision at seven, it's a bad thing. You drift, and 52 00:02:58,160 --> 00:03:00,600 Speaker 1: all drifting leads in their own directions. So by seven, 53 00:03:00,840 --> 00:03:03,799 Speaker 1: from seven to fourteen, I was completely a draft her. 54 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:06,000 Speaker 1: I flunked out of high school. As a freshman, I 55 00:03:06,040 --> 00:03:09,720 Speaker 1: felt world geography and Civics. Now, Civics is the study 56 00:03:09,720 --> 00:03:13,760 Speaker 1: of politics, So God has a sense of humor. You 57 00:03:13,840 --> 00:03:16,280 Speaker 1: can't failing civics in name while arriving in the body 58 00:03:16,360 --> 00:03:19,920 Speaker 1: that the most deliberative body in the history. Right. I 59 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:22,280 Speaker 1: also realized that after being here seven years, I'm not 60 00:03:22,280 --> 00:03:27,480 Speaker 1: the only one failing civics in the US. I also 61 00:03:27,480 --> 00:03:30,560 Speaker 1: felt Spanish in English that year. When you feel Spanish 62 00:03:30,600 --> 00:03:34,839 Speaker 1: and English two languages, no one considers you bilingual. They 63 00:03:34,880 --> 00:03:37,040 Speaker 1: all call you by ignorant because you can't speak in 64 00:03:37,080 --> 00:03:39,720 Speaker 1: any language. But I had two major blessings, a mother 65 00:03:39,760 --> 00:03:43,640 Speaker 1: who believed that the power of prayer would deliver her child, 66 00:03:44,240 --> 00:03:48,440 Speaker 1: and a mentor, a white guy who said, you haven't 67 00:03:48,560 --> 00:03:52,400 Speaker 1: yet discovered was in you. You're looking around at your circumstances. 68 00:03:52,640 --> 00:03:55,840 Speaker 1: He said, that's a wrong view. Your vision has to 69 00:03:55,880 --> 00:03:58,600 Speaker 1: be bigger than the vision you see on the outside. 70 00:03:58,680 --> 00:04:00,320 Speaker 1: And he said, if you look at the mirror and 71 00:04:00,360 --> 00:04:03,720 Speaker 1: you start blaming yourself, don't blame your dad because he's 72 00:04:03,760 --> 00:04:06,280 Speaker 1: not around. Do not blame your mother because she's working 73 00:04:06,400 --> 00:04:09,680 Speaker 1: sixteen hours three days a week and eight hours two 74 00:04:09,720 --> 00:04:11,520 Speaker 1: more days a week to put food on the table. 75 00:04:11,720 --> 00:04:13,920 Speaker 1: He should blame yourself. He said. The beauty of it is, 76 00:04:14,000 --> 00:04:17,080 Speaker 1: if you're the problem, the promise is in here. If 77 00:04:17,080 --> 00:04:21,520 Speaker 1: you see the opportunities from the inside, the obstacles from 78 00:04:21,520 --> 00:04:23,800 Speaker 1: the inside, the opportunities manifests on the osite. And yet, 79 00:04:24,000 --> 00:04:27,320 Speaker 1: what do you make of seeing churches now going up 80 00:04:27,320 --> 00:04:30,479 Speaker 1: in flames. There's a prominent BLM activist on Twitter. He 81 00:04:30,520 --> 00:04:34,040 Speaker 1: said that people need to smash stained glass windows at churches. 82 00:04:34,240 --> 00:04:37,840 Speaker 1: That doesn't seem productive to me. Well, it's also the 83 00:04:37,880 --> 00:04:41,719 Speaker 1: opposite of productive. I would say that that person. I 84 00:04:41,839 --> 00:04:44,760 Speaker 1: wonder what Martin Luther King Junior would say that that person. 85 00:04:45,200 --> 00:04:47,320 Speaker 1: I wonder what John Lewis, who was beaten within an 86 00:04:47,320 --> 00:04:51,160 Speaker 1: inch of his life and never struck back, what would 87 00:04:51,160 --> 00:04:54,960 Speaker 1: he say at the Pettis Bridge when he's nearly bleeding out. 88 00:04:55,080 --> 00:04:56,560 Speaker 1: He would say this because he said it to me. 89 00:04:56,960 --> 00:05:02,039 Speaker 1: Don't get better, get better, Embrace your nation. Know that 90 00:05:02,120 --> 00:05:05,880 Speaker 1: if you continue on your journey, it will happen. We 91 00:05:05,960 --> 00:05:08,719 Speaker 1: took a five thousand year leap in the last fifty years, 92 00:05:09,720 --> 00:05:14,279 Speaker 1: mostly because of non violent protesters who believed in America. 93 00:05:14,560 --> 00:05:18,000 Speaker 1: Frederick Douglas did the exact same thing. Yeah, he said, 94 00:05:18,680 --> 00:05:23,240 Speaker 1: I'm not fighting against the Constitution. I'm fighting on the constitution. Right. 95 00:05:23,279 --> 00:05:24,839 Speaker 1: I'm going to make the nation live up to what 96 00:05:24,880 --> 00:05:28,520 Speaker 1: it says in the Constitution. You know, last week we 97 00:05:28,600 --> 00:05:31,039 Speaker 1: had a number of Senators who went to the floor 98 00:05:31,080 --> 00:05:35,280 Speaker 1: and read doctor Martin Luther King's letter from Birmingham jail, 99 00:05:35,320 --> 00:05:38,039 Speaker 1: which I did last week as well. Him and I 100 00:05:38,080 --> 00:05:41,800 Speaker 1: both participated. Yes, it's bipartisan Democrats and Republicans, and it's 101 00:05:42,640 --> 00:05:46,640 Speaker 1: it's so powerful. You know, we've all read it in school. Yeah, 102 00:05:47,480 --> 00:05:50,760 Speaker 1: but it's different when you hear it, and frankly it's 103 00:05:50,760 --> 00:05:52,320 Speaker 1: different when you read it out loud, and to read 104 00:05:52,360 --> 00:05:58,960 Speaker 1: it on the Senate floor. It is incredibly important, particularly now. 105 00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:02,040 Speaker 1: And and you know, one of the points people forget 106 00:06:02,160 --> 00:06:05,719 Speaker 1: is doctor King wasn't just doctor King, he was Reverend King. 107 00:06:06,480 --> 00:06:09,960 Speaker 1: The letter from the Birmingham Jail was written to my 108 00:06:10,040 --> 00:06:12,800 Speaker 1: fellow clergyman. It was a call to the church. One 109 00:06:12,839 --> 00:06:14,719 Speaker 1: of the things he says in that letter is for 110 00:06:14,800 --> 00:06:18,520 Speaker 1: the church to be a thermostat and not a thermometer. 111 00:06:19,120 --> 00:06:22,640 Speaker 1: Don't just reflect the bigotry of your community. Change it. 112 00:06:22,839 --> 00:06:25,560 Speaker 1: Speak up. It's a call to action. And you look 113 00:06:25,600 --> 00:06:29,799 Speaker 1: at these riots and vandals and tearing down George Washington 114 00:06:29,800 --> 00:06:32,760 Speaker 1: and Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln because you know, Abraham Lincoln 115 00:06:32,800 --> 00:06:39,120 Speaker 1: was such a Confederate percenta. But you know doctor King 116 00:06:39,160 --> 00:06:44,000 Speaker 1: and Frederick Douglas, they made explicit appeals to the founding 117 00:06:44,040 --> 00:06:46,040 Speaker 1: principles of our country. They said, look, we haven't reached 118 00:06:46,080 --> 00:06:48,719 Speaker 1: it yet. But as doctor King said, the arc of 119 00:06:48,800 --> 00:06:53,240 Speaker 1: history bends towards justice. Well, speaking of this justice, I 120 00:06:53,360 --> 00:06:54,800 Speaker 1: do I do want to get to this on this 121 00:06:54,880 --> 00:06:58,240 Speaker 1: exact point, Senator, you have an admirer. I guess in 122 00:06:58,279 --> 00:07:01,640 Speaker 1: the audience this is from Prey who said, other than 123 00:07:01,760 --> 00:07:05,599 Speaker 1: Republican senators like Cruise and Scott and Cotton, where is 124 00:07:05,640 --> 00:07:10,560 Speaker 1: the rest of the Senate gop on justice as we have? 125 00:07:10,800 --> 00:07:15,679 Speaker 1: And the phrase that they used is anarcho communist insurrectionists 126 00:07:15,680 --> 00:07:20,520 Speaker 1: tearing down our country's culture and history. That must be 127 00:07:20,520 --> 00:07:23,280 Speaker 1: a fan of Ted, just is Trey Gotti. I'm sure 128 00:07:23,320 --> 00:07:27,840 Speaker 1: Trey Gotti fan. Take Trey g I did tell him 129 00:07:27,840 --> 00:07:30,520 Speaker 1: the call, so I'm glad he called. Yeah, listen, I 130 00:07:30,560 --> 00:07:33,720 Speaker 1: think our conference is I think we're coming closer and 131 00:07:33,760 --> 00:07:37,120 Speaker 1: closer to the plate. I think many issues we were 132 00:07:37,160 --> 00:07:40,280 Speaker 1: almost shy in our response to some of the challenges 133 00:07:40,280 --> 00:07:41,840 Speaker 1: that we saw in the streets. We just said, and 134 00:07:42,040 --> 00:07:44,720 Speaker 1: know what to do. One of the things that causes 135 00:07:44,760 --> 00:07:47,080 Speaker 1: that kind of paralysis is when you think you have 136 00:07:47,160 --> 00:07:49,880 Speaker 1: to make a choice between law enforcement and communities of color. 137 00:07:50,160 --> 00:07:52,520 Speaker 1: That is not the binary choice on the table today. Yeah, 138 00:07:52,520 --> 00:07:55,880 Speaker 1: the binary choice is for America or against America. In 139 00:07:56,000 --> 00:07:58,440 Speaker 1: order to have that as the actual choice, we have 140 00:07:58,560 --> 00:08:01,560 Speaker 1: to say I am for law spent and I'm for 141 00:08:01,960 --> 00:08:06,560 Speaker 1: community's scholor. No conjunction called or it's and when that happens, 142 00:08:06,600 --> 00:08:09,000 Speaker 1: I think we all rise up. And I've been thankful 143 00:08:09,040 --> 00:08:11,800 Speaker 1: to see the conference coming closer and closer, not into 144 00:08:11,840 --> 00:08:14,880 Speaker 1: the microphone, but to the plate. We had fifty three 145 00:08:14,920 --> 00:08:18,800 Speaker 1: Republicans say, let's start debating. I can't imagine that five 146 00:08:18,840 --> 00:08:21,280 Speaker 1: years ago, because five years ago I can get Democrats 147 00:08:21,320 --> 00:08:23,880 Speaker 1: to come to the debate. Well. And Tim's point about 148 00:08:23,880 --> 00:08:29,160 Speaker 1: and is really important protecting civil rights. That doesn't just 149 00:08:29,240 --> 00:08:33,800 Speaker 1: protect American American citizens. That protects police officers, because police 150 00:08:33,800 --> 00:08:36,160 Speaker 1: officers to do their jobs, they've got to have the 151 00:08:36,160 --> 00:08:38,679 Speaker 1: trust of the community. And I've I've heard from so 152 00:08:38,720 --> 00:08:41,240 Speaker 1: many cops right now who are right now they're demoralized. 153 00:08:41,320 --> 00:08:44,680 Speaker 1: I mean, they're they're painted as as as the demon. 154 00:08:45,320 --> 00:08:48,959 Speaker 1: And I think Tim's Justice Stack was an effort to 155 00:08:49,360 --> 00:08:54,880 Speaker 1: help help the police. Officers said. I have called every 156 00:08:55,240 --> 00:08:58,240 Speaker 1: time there has been a shooting in South Carolina where 157 00:08:58,240 --> 00:09:01,000 Speaker 1: the officer loses his life, I try to make sure 158 00:09:01,000 --> 00:09:03,760 Speaker 1: that I'm the first person to call the spouse or 159 00:09:03,800 --> 00:09:09,720 Speaker 1: the parent. Gregor Lea and outside of Columbia, South Carolina 160 00:09:09,960 --> 00:09:14,520 Speaker 1: lost his life because someone murdered him. The suspect that 161 00:09:14,640 --> 00:09:18,719 Speaker 1: he was pursuing killed him. Left a eighteen month old, 162 00:09:18,760 --> 00:09:24,360 Speaker 1: a little boy, and a beautiful wife, Cassie. I showed 163 00:09:24,400 --> 00:09:28,199 Speaker 1: up at the wake, the viewing and had a conversation 164 00:09:28,240 --> 00:09:30,800 Speaker 1: with her and her parents, and they're surprised to see me. 165 00:09:31,040 --> 00:09:33,560 Speaker 1: I didn't want any cameras around it, don't want anybody there. 166 00:09:33,720 --> 00:09:37,240 Speaker 1: I just wanted to say, I'm so sorry that someone 167 00:09:38,440 --> 00:09:43,160 Speaker 1: killed your husband. Several months later, she called my office 168 00:09:43,559 --> 00:09:49,959 Speaker 1: and she started nonprofit organizations for police officers. I've contributed, 169 00:09:50,400 --> 00:09:54,079 Speaker 1: We've helped, we stay in touch. She's a blessing to 170 00:09:54,160 --> 00:09:58,880 Speaker 1: our community. Here's the point. So many officers lose their 171 00:09:58,920 --> 00:10:02,280 Speaker 1: lives not because they're making thirty thousand dollars a year 172 00:10:02,280 --> 00:10:04,480 Speaker 1: and they're getting rich. It's because when you look at 173 00:10:04,559 --> 00:10:08,000 Speaker 1: Romans thirteen, there's this notion of mission, that there are 174 00:10:08,040 --> 00:10:10,360 Speaker 1: government officials who can be a ministers of the gospel 175 00:10:10,720 --> 00:10:14,480 Speaker 1: carrying a sword a weapon for what purpose? For a 176 00:10:14,679 --> 00:10:20,200 Speaker 1: righteous purpose. Her husband lost his life for a righteous purpose, 177 00:10:20,840 --> 00:10:25,280 Speaker 1: and we should celebrate law enforcement. When when I had 178 00:10:25,320 --> 00:10:27,679 Speaker 1: a major car accident, it was law enforcement that showed 179 00:10:27,760 --> 00:10:31,000 Speaker 1: up and said to me, son, I was laying on 180 00:10:31,040 --> 00:10:32,360 Speaker 1: the side of the road, I went through the windshow 181 00:10:32,440 --> 00:10:34,720 Speaker 1: came back in my car fell asleep on the Interstate 182 00:10:34,720 --> 00:10:38,520 Speaker 1: twenty six, literally on an interstate, rolling through traffic in 183 00:10:38,640 --> 00:10:41,959 Speaker 1: my car. I'm laying there with glass in my backside 184 00:10:42,080 --> 00:10:44,360 Speaker 1: and my back and he looks down at me and said, son, 185 00:10:45,120 --> 00:10:47,040 Speaker 1: your mom is going to be so happy you're alive. 186 00:10:47,800 --> 00:10:49,960 Speaker 1: And I looked at it and say, sir, you don't 187 00:10:50,000 --> 00:10:53,720 Speaker 1: know my mama. But what he was trying to tell 188 00:10:54,160 --> 00:10:57,040 Speaker 1: I didn't hear. What he was trying to tell me 189 00:10:57,559 --> 00:11:02,480 Speaker 1: was that your mother values you right more than this car. Yeah, 190 00:11:02,520 --> 00:11:05,920 Speaker 1: he was saying to me as he bent down and said, son, 191 00:11:06,920 --> 00:11:10,160 Speaker 1: you're so much more valuable. Yeah, you have intrinsic worth, 192 00:11:10,760 --> 00:11:15,640 Speaker 1: far beyond any material possession. He was speaking words of 193 00:11:15,760 --> 00:11:19,240 Speaker 1: affirmation to who I was, well, speaking of words of affirmation. 194 00:11:19,600 --> 00:11:21,960 Speaker 1: I'm glad to hear that you got a nice phone 195 00:11:21,960 --> 00:11:25,199 Speaker 1: call at your office, because I understand you get many 196 00:11:25,320 --> 00:11:27,440 Speaker 1: phone calls that are not very nice at your office. 197 00:11:27,600 --> 00:11:30,480 Speaker 1: You know, I, unfortunately get a lot of phone calls 198 00:11:30,480 --> 00:11:33,560 Speaker 1: that are not that nice, and unfortunately I have learned 199 00:11:33,559 --> 00:11:36,240 Speaker 1: to deal with it. But there are not always words 200 00:11:36,240 --> 00:11:39,079 Speaker 1: of encouragement. You know. This is kind of a this 201 00:11:39,120 --> 00:11:40,880 Speaker 1: is a safe space. We like to think about it. 202 00:11:40,920 --> 00:11:43,760 Speaker 1: I mean this is we try to keep this pretty personal. Yes, seriously, 203 00:11:44,880 --> 00:11:49,080 Speaker 1: could we listen? Yeah. A quick note for our loyal audience. 204 00:11:49,520 --> 00:11:52,400 Speaker 1: What you are about to hear are some profane voicemails 205 00:11:52,480 --> 00:11:55,200 Speaker 1: received by the office of Senator Tim Scott that reflect 206 00:11:55,200 --> 00:11:58,640 Speaker 1: the ongoing racism by certain individuals in this country, specifically 207 00:11:58,679 --> 00:12:02,000 Speaker 1: against black conservative Because it's an important part of the 208 00:12:02,040 --> 00:12:04,800 Speaker 1: context for this episode, we have chosen to play it 209 00:12:04,840 --> 00:12:07,600 Speaker 1: the uncensored sound. If you do not wish to hear 210 00:12:07,600 --> 00:12:16,400 Speaker 1: these recordings, you may choose to tune out. Now, Uncle Tim, 211 00:12:16,520 --> 00:12:22,640 Speaker 1: you're uncle WILLI you coon? Motherfucker you. I hope you're 212 00:12:22,679 --> 00:12:25,640 Speaker 1: choking your fucking tongue in late. Bitch, I don't wish 213 00:12:25,640 --> 00:12:28,640 Speaker 1: sitting good for your motherfucking ass. You are the lowest 214 00:12:29,240 --> 00:12:34,319 Speaker 1: so shit this country ever produced. You sell out, motherfucker 215 00:12:34,920 --> 00:12:38,200 Speaker 1: Your mamma no good, your sperm mother. He's even fucking worse, 216 00:12:38,720 --> 00:12:42,319 Speaker 1: he said, shot to your fucking Mamafaith dot Com catching 217 00:12:42,360 --> 00:12:47,880 Speaker 1: bitch once again. Thank you. This is from the Sunshine State. Also, 218 00:12:49,000 --> 00:12:52,160 Speaker 1: Lisa Grammas, your bitch. You fucking him and he fucking you. 219 00:12:52,160 --> 00:12:55,920 Speaker 1: You sucking him, He's sucking you. Michael Rubens a little bitch, 220 00:12:56,080 --> 00:12:59,760 Speaker 1: he turns on people and motherfucker rich sconsin god damn crook. 221 00:13:00,120 --> 00:13:03,000 Speaker 1: So all you motherfucker's gonna burn in hell together. So 222 00:13:03,160 --> 00:13:05,280 Speaker 1: take your ticket one way to track the hair, you 223 00:13:05,600 --> 00:13:10,160 Speaker 1: sucking motherfuckers. Have a great day and enjoy your evening. Bye. 224 00:13:12,400 --> 00:13:16,400 Speaker 1: This is one imagine being uh, this is the next one. 225 00:13:18,559 --> 00:13:23,600 Speaker 1: My new staff assistant, just graduated from college, first job, 226 00:13:24,280 --> 00:13:28,080 Speaker 1: gets to hear this, bitch, if you had a bill, 227 00:13:28,120 --> 00:13:33,240 Speaker 1: don't you fucking cut You're probably sucking his date. You're nasty, bitch. 228 00:13:33,240 --> 00:13:36,600 Speaker 1: You Oh you fucking folk is nasted. I'm gonna keep 229 00:13:36,640 --> 00:13:39,040 Speaker 1: on calling along that that motherfucker wants to I'm gonna 230 00:13:39,040 --> 00:13:42,040 Speaker 1: sucking my first bit were right, So fuck you motherfuckers, 231 00:13:42,280 --> 00:13:47,480 Speaker 1: you pieces of ship to all come buckets. And then 232 00:13:47,559 --> 00:13:50,680 Speaker 1: later on another one calls to see it's got me 233 00:13:50,679 --> 00:13:56,720 Speaker 1: in the cross errors. That's pretty explicit threatening language. Absolutely, 234 00:13:57,200 --> 00:14:00,760 Speaker 1: there's a level of hate that gets directed at Tim 235 00:14:00,800 --> 00:14:04,839 Speaker 1: that that frankly is different from other members. Acme, why 236 00:14:04,960 --> 00:14:08,240 Speaker 1: is that? I think I know the answer, but unfortunately, 237 00:14:08,400 --> 00:14:14,559 Speaker 1: you know being obviously the racial uh if the racial overtones, 238 00:14:15,200 --> 00:14:18,800 Speaker 1: the the racial words, the slurs, the challenges are being 239 00:14:18,840 --> 00:14:22,280 Speaker 1: a black conservative where you were out of sync with 240 00:14:21,920 --> 00:14:25,360 Speaker 1: the with the he what he thinks is the black cause. 241 00:14:28,200 --> 00:14:36,280 Speaker 1: It incites the kind of rage and anger that could 242 00:14:36,360 --> 00:14:39,920 Speaker 1: lead to violent outcomes in a way that very few 243 00:14:39,960 --> 00:14:43,360 Speaker 1: things I've seen in my life has ever done. And 244 00:14:43,640 --> 00:14:47,280 Speaker 1: you know, when you get sixteen to these, you your 245 00:14:47,320 --> 00:14:51,160 Speaker 1: your your staff, assistance, your your front line folks start 246 00:14:51,200 --> 00:14:55,320 Speaker 1: wondering what in the world. Two eleven, we literally shut 247 00:14:55,320 --> 00:14:58,080 Speaker 1: our phones down because the number of racial slurs that 248 00:14:58,120 --> 00:15:02,520 Speaker 1: we were getting from around the country. Off Calina else. 249 00:15:02,920 --> 00:15:04,960 Speaker 1: I started this journey five years ago because of the 250 00:15:05,000 --> 00:15:08,880 Speaker 1: Walter Scott murder in North Charleston, South Carolina, my hometown 251 00:15:08,960 --> 00:15:12,480 Speaker 1: where I grew up in Frankly, Walter Scott was running 252 00:15:12,520 --> 00:15:15,800 Speaker 1: away from the police. He was shot five times, shot 253 00:15:15,840 --> 00:15:18,200 Speaker 1: out eight times, that shot five times in the bag. 254 00:15:18,720 --> 00:15:22,440 Speaker 1: The officer falsified the police report and said that he 255 00:15:22,720 --> 00:15:26,600 Speaker 1: took his taser when the video came out, which it 256 00:15:26,600 --> 00:15:29,400 Speaker 1: was a few weeks A few weeks later, literally no 257 00:15:29,440 --> 00:15:32,400 Speaker 1: one there was not even a conversation about what happened 258 00:15:32,400 --> 00:15:34,800 Speaker 1: in the incident because we had an incident report, right, 259 00:15:35,160 --> 00:15:37,960 Speaker 1: had it not been for some guy literally walking by 260 00:15:38,280 --> 00:15:42,880 Speaker 1: at the exact right moment the exact right street with 261 00:15:42,920 --> 00:15:48,840 Speaker 1: his phone out capturing the actual interaction, the engagement. Without 262 00:15:48,920 --> 00:15:52,240 Speaker 1: that video, we would not have known Walter Scott's name 263 00:15:52,440 --> 00:15:54,560 Speaker 1: at all. Well, you know, I think the Walter Scott 264 00:15:54,560 --> 00:15:58,240 Speaker 1: won for a lot of us. Sometimes these are complex situations. 265 00:15:58,280 --> 00:16:01,320 Speaker 1: Sometimes the officers used to forces justified the Walter Scott one. 266 00:16:01,400 --> 00:16:03,720 Speaker 1: Everyone looked at that and said, this is outrageous. It's 267 00:16:04,000 --> 00:16:05,960 Speaker 1: just so clear. Yes, And I know there are some 268 00:16:06,000 --> 00:16:08,440 Speaker 1: people in this debate who say that we need to 269 00:16:08,480 --> 00:16:11,080 Speaker 1: abolish the police. The police are hopelessly corrupted. We got 270 00:16:11,080 --> 00:16:13,320 Speaker 1: to I don't know, they're the anarchists in Seattle right now. 271 00:16:13,520 --> 00:16:15,480 Speaker 1: And then there are some people who say the police 272 00:16:15,480 --> 00:16:17,880 Speaker 1: don't need any kind of reform at all. You do 273 00:16:17,920 --> 00:16:20,120 Speaker 1: have an interesting perspective here because you're one of the 274 00:16:20,160 --> 00:16:23,120 Speaker 1: most prominent black politicians in the country and you're the 275 00:16:23,160 --> 00:16:26,680 Speaker 1: author of this criminal criminal justice reform bill. Yeah. And 276 00:16:27,160 --> 00:16:28,840 Speaker 1: one of the reasons why I think I have credit 277 00:16:28,840 --> 00:16:30,520 Speaker 1: building on the topic is not just because I'm an 278 00:16:30,520 --> 00:16:33,440 Speaker 1: African American. That's helpful, especially when so many of these 279 00:16:33,480 --> 00:16:37,520 Speaker 1: incidents are African American men having challenges with law enforcement. 280 00:16:37,560 --> 00:16:40,160 Speaker 1: I'm the guy that got stopped seven times as an 281 00:16:40,200 --> 00:16:44,040 Speaker 1: elected official just driving while bligh stop nine times I 282 00:16:44,120 --> 00:16:46,720 Speaker 1: believed that year seven times for doing nothing, two times 283 00:16:46,720 --> 00:16:49,960 Speaker 1: for speeding, so yeah, speeding prigs, but the other seven 284 00:16:50,000 --> 00:16:54,560 Speaker 1: times for nothing. Eighteen unnecessary stops in the last two decades. 285 00:16:55,000 --> 00:16:56,960 Speaker 1: I would like to just put a pause there for 286 00:16:57,000 --> 00:17:00,240 Speaker 1: a moment, because I actually didn't know that. Yes, this 287 00:17:00,320 --> 00:17:03,120 Speaker 1: is a this is a personal experience of an elected 288 00:17:03,200 --> 00:17:06,920 Speaker 1: US senator. Well, this year, this US senator was stopped 289 00:17:06,920 --> 00:17:12,359 Speaker 1: by police form failing to use my turn signal early 290 00:17:12,520 --> 00:17:16,000 Speaker 1: enough in the lane change. I didn't know that was 291 00:17:16,040 --> 00:17:21,160 Speaker 1: the thing. Yeah, I didn't know, but literally pulled over. 292 00:17:21,200 --> 00:17:23,359 Speaker 1: I got a warning ticket thingfully, but how do you 293 00:17:23,960 --> 00:17:27,920 Speaker 1: full over it? I called the police chief at another department, 294 00:17:27,960 --> 00:17:29,760 Speaker 1: and they said, basically, what they're trying to do is 295 00:17:29,760 --> 00:17:32,159 Speaker 1: get your windows down so that you can see they 296 00:17:32,200 --> 00:17:35,119 Speaker 1: smell any weed or anything in the air. Get a 297 00:17:35,119 --> 00:17:37,520 Speaker 1: look inside your car. He said, this is what we 298 00:17:37,560 --> 00:17:40,760 Speaker 1: call racial profiling. Tom I said, I should have dawned 299 00:17:40,760 --> 00:17:43,840 Speaker 1: on me that the reason for the stop was to 300 00:17:43,880 --> 00:17:45,800 Speaker 1: take a look inside. It just didn't. It didn't occur 301 00:17:45,840 --> 00:17:48,480 Speaker 1: to me, even though that was my eighteenth stop. The 302 00:17:48,560 --> 00:17:51,760 Speaker 1: seventeen stop was last year. For having my blinkers on 303 00:17:52,760 --> 00:17:59,000 Speaker 1: while helping someone find their telephone. And you know this. 304 00:17:59,400 --> 00:18:02,560 Speaker 1: You can't make this up right up. And so fortunately 305 00:18:02,600 --> 00:18:05,280 Speaker 1: for me, I've walked away from each one of those unscathed. 306 00:18:05,320 --> 00:18:08,720 Speaker 1: I mean I've got some scar tissue emotionally, but none physically, 307 00:18:08,840 --> 00:18:11,760 Speaker 1: because it's it's a sort of preposterous thing and you 308 00:18:11,840 --> 00:18:13,359 Speaker 1: can laugh about it, Okay, they pulled you over for 309 00:18:13,400 --> 00:18:17,119 Speaker 1: the blinker, but this is this is a real harassment 310 00:18:17,119 --> 00:18:20,480 Speaker 1: that you have personally experienced. One Walter Scott was pulled 311 00:18:20,480 --> 00:18:23,600 Speaker 1: over for a bust at tail light. There's a video 312 00:18:23,920 --> 00:18:25,800 Speaker 1: at least as a scene. I think it was a 313 00:18:25,880 --> 00:18:28,160 Speaker 1: last AGAs Divide where the guy was riding his bicycle 314 00:18:29,359 --> 00:18:33,320 Speaker 1: and it was pulled over. So what we're talking about 315 00:18:33,359 --> 00:18:35,040 Speaker 1: is real. But what you said it is so important, 316 00:18:35,440 --> 00:18:38,000 Speaker 1: and I think that you've focused on it the importance 317 00:18:38,000 --> 00:18:40,119 Speaker 1: of the body camera. One of the reasons why five 318 00:18:40,200 --> 00:18:42,480 Speaker 1: years ago I started talking about increasing funding for body 319 00:18:42,480 --> 00:18:44,440 Speaker 1: cameras by one hundred million dollars per year for five 320 00:18:44,520 --> 00:18:48,960 Speaker 1: years is because if a picture is worth a thousand words, 321 00:18:49,560 --> 00:18:53,360 Speaker 1: then a video should be worth a thousand pictures, right right, 322 00:18:53,640 --> 00:18:56,200 Speaker 1: Because we have an opportunity not only to see it, 323 00:18:56,440 --> 00:19:00,080 Speaker 1: but to watch it unfold. That is really important and 324 00:19:00,119 --> 00:19:02,719 Speaker 1: I think that dynamic. Had it just been a picture 325 00:19:02,760 --> 00:19:06,000 Speaker 1: of the law enforcement officer on George Floyd's neck, yeah, 326 00:19:06,359 --> 00:19:08,640 Speaker 1: you could debate how long. Yeah, you don't know if 327 00:19:08,720 --> 00:19:12,920 Speaker 1: he's fighting, if it's a violent situation. Without the video, 328 00:19:12,960 --> 00:19:15,680 Speaker 1: you don't understand the country, don't, Yes, don't. You don't 329 00:19:15,680 --> 00:19:19,760 Speaker 1: appreciate it. But eight minutes of forty six seconds left later, 330 00:19:20,320 --> 00:19:22,360 Speaker 1: no one had a question, and you can hear him 331 00:19:22,400 --> 00:19:25,800 Speaker 1: gasping for his breath, saying I can't breathe, pleading for 332 00:19:25,880 --> 00:19:30,080 Speaker 1: his life. I mean, it makes a real difference. Yes, right, 333 00:19:30,240 --> 00:19:33,320 Speaker 1: and if we that united our country, this tells me 334 00:19:33,359 --> 00:19:36,720 Speaker 1: something that's really important. Our country. It is the most 335 00:19:36,760 --> 00:19:40,160 Speaker 1: remarkable country on earth, all the racial divisions we've had 336 00:19:40,640 --> 00:19:43,959 Speaker 1: in the last several years. We saw that picture, and 337 00:19:44,000 --> 00:19:48,080 Speaker 1: because there's something in our instinct that says, that's just wrong. 338 00:19:48,440 --> 00:19:51,280 Speaker 1: We are a nation built on fairness. We've been we've 339 00:19:51,359 --> 00:19:54,600 Speaker 1: we've we've always been a nation that was going to progress. 340 00:19:54,760 --> 00:19:57,520 Speaker 1: We've been making progress for the entire time. We saw 341 00:19:57,600 --> 00:20:00,720 Speaker 1: that was a wait a second, that cannot that cannot be. 342 00:20:01,640 --> 00:20:07,399 Speaker 1: People were shocked stunned, they said that's not actually happening, 343 00:20:08,000 --> 00:20:10,840 Speaker 1: and once they understood that it was, the entire conversation 344 00:20:10,840 --> 00:20:14,800 Speaker 1: around police reform became real. I'm afraid that our friends 345 00:20:14,840 --> 00:20:18,639 Speaker 1: who are playing presidential politics, they're willing to waste the 346 00:20:18,840 --> 00:20:23,240 Speaker 1: moments hoping for an outcome, so they'd rather I could 347 00:20:23,240 --> 00:20:28,000 Speaker 1: be wrong. I think they're willing to run campaign on 348 00:20:28,040 --> 00:20:32,200 Speaker 1: police brutality, maybe more than solve it. We just saw 349 00:20:32,880 --> 00:20:36,159 Speaker 1: Senate Democrats filibuster the Justice Act, and they did it. 350 00:20:36,200 --> 00:20:38,560 Speaker 1: I think it's exactly what Tim said. They want a 351 00:20:38,560 --> 00:20:42,440 Speaker 1: political issue. They want to set campaign in November, rather 352 00:20:42,480 --> 00:20:48,160 Speaker 1: than actually make meaningful progress towards addressing the problem doing 353 00:20:48,160 --> 00:20:50,200 Speaker 1: it responsibly. Look, one of the things Tim did a 354 00:20:50,280 --> 00:20:53,240 Speaker 1: very good job of also is understanding the objective here 355 00:20:53,280 --> 00:20:55,560 Speaker 1: is not to tear down cops. It's not to destroy 356 00:20:57,000 --> 00:21:02,040 Speaker 1: the police officers are keeping vulnerable community's safe. Well and 357 00:21:02,080 --> 00:21:05,120 Speaker 1: frankly to as you just alluded to that, there's no 358 00:21:05,200 --> 00:21:08,240 Speaker 1: doubt in my mind that the people who want character 359 00:21:08,359 --> 00:21:12,440 Speaker 1: driven law enforcement, though most our communities of color, sure, 360 00:21:12,480 --> 00:21:15,359 Speaker 1: the people who are saying whin down nine one one, 361 00:21:15,400 --> 00:21:19,400 Speaker 1: I want someone coming immediately our communities of color, why 362 00:21:19,560 --> 00:21:24,119 Speaker 1: not because they're always crime ridden neighborhoods. It's because your grandmother, 363 00:21:24,640 --> 00:21:26,800 Speaker 1: who may not be able to move out of a 364 00:21:27,040 --> 00:21:31,680 Speaker 1: bad neighborhood economically, should always be in a good neighborhood. 365 00:21:31,800 --> 00:21:38,840 Speaker 1: From a social perspective, they want, I want our family members, 366 00:21:38,960 --> 00:21:42,480 Speaker 1: are loved ones, ourselves to always have a responsive law 367 00:21:42,520 --> 00:21:46,160 Speaker 1: enforcement department. And so this defund police and this autonomous 368 00:21:46,160 --> 00:21:51,200 Speaker 1: own concept is anathetical to everything that we believe is 369 00:21:51,320 --> 00:21:53,840 Speaker 1: dear in the communities of color. You know, one of 370 00:21:53,880 --> 00:21:58,800 Speaker 1: the frustrating things. I mean, race, Slavery is our country's 371 00:21:58,800 --> 00:22:02,679 Speaker 1: original sin. Yes, and race is an issue a lot 372 00:22:02,720 --> 00:22:07,840 Speaker 1: of people demagogue on a lot of Republicans are uncomfortable 373 00:22:07,840 --> 00:22:14,640 Speaker 1: talking about it. Away from it too much. We see 374 00:22:14,680 --> 00:22:17,240 Speaker 1: Democrats this week in the Judiciary Committee, there were several 375 00:22:17,320 --> 00:22:22,119 Speaker 1: Democrats who said, we haven't moved one inch since the 376 00:22:22,200 --> 00:22:26,600 Speaker 1: nineteen sixties on race and what utter garbage, rebated enormous 377 00:22:26,680 --> 00:22:31,399 Speaker 1: strides Jim Crow laws, you had segregated schools. We're making 378 00:22:31,400 --> 00:22:33,439 Speaker 1: a journey now, We've still got a long way to go. Yes, 379 00:22:34,320 --> 00:22:38,879 Speaker 1: But you know, and I think understanding the perspective so 380 00:22:38,960 --> 00:22:43,080 Speaker 1: many people have of why they feel the justice system 381 00:22:43,119 --> 00:22:46,480 Speaker 1: isn't treating them fairly. I think that's important. And Tim 382 00:22:46,560 --> 00:22:49,040 Speaker 1: has spoken up a lot, particularly in the last couple 383 00:22:49,080 --> 00:22:53,040 Speaker 1: of weeks in the conference, sharing his perspectives. But one 384 00:22:53,119 --> 00:22:55,919 Speaker 1: thing that I thought was particularly powerful. People were asking Art, 385 00:22:56,000 --> 00:22:59,440 Speaker 1: what do we do with the Confederate statues and renaming 386 00:22:59,480 --> 00:23:03,280 Speaker 1: in all of this controversy, And your answer, which which 387 00:23:03,320 --> 00:23:06,240 Speaker 1: almost immediately was echoed by just about every Republican senator right, 388 00:23:06,320 --> 00:23:08,600 Speaker 1: I thought was really powerful. Well, thank you can repeat 389 00:23:08,600 --> 00:23:12,520 Speaker 1: it for me since I don't remember it. But if yeah, 390 00:23:12,760 --> 00:23:16,000 Speaker 1: I don't think the country's better off trying to create 391 00:23:16,240 --> 00:23:19,680 Speaker 1: the future than reframe the past. Yeah, we spend almost 392 00:23:19,720 --> 00:23:22,640 Speaker 1: too much time in the rearview mirror and not enough 393 00:23:22,640 --> 00:23:25,440 Speaker 1: time in the windshow. It's hard not to get into 394 00:23:25,400 --> 00:23:28,600 Speaker 1: an accident when all your focus is on yesterday. So 395 00:23:28,720 --> 00:23:33,640 Speaker 1: for us to reframe the past doesn't benefit almost anyone. 396 00:23:34,000 --> 00:23:36,400 Speaker 1: So if we want to reframe the past, however, put 397 00:23:36,480 --> 00:23:38,560 Speaker 1: up more statues. Put up a statue not of just 398 00:23:38,720 --> 00:23:41,439 Speaker 1: Martin Luther King Jr. What about Rosa Parks or our 399 00:23:41,480 --> 00:23:44,080 Speaker 1: book or two at Washington, Washington, Carbor. There's a lot 400 00:23:44,119 --> 00:23:46,720 Speaker 1: of folks that we could celebrate. But tearing something down 401 00:23:46,800 --> 00:23:49,480 Speaker 1: does not necessarily build you up. Number one? Number two, 402 00:23:50,280 --> 00:23:53,360 Speaker 1: Why aren't we spending the time on economic mobility? Why 403 00:23:53,359 --> 00:23:56,080 Speaker 1: are we not spending the time on educational outcomes and 404 00:23:56,160 --> 00:23:58,480 Speaker 1: the poor zip goes in America? Why are we not 405 00:23:58,600 --> 00:24:03,320 Speaker 1: spending the time creating financial literacy and frankly literacy to 406 00:24:03,480 --> 00:24:07,360 Speaker 1: break the pipeline between education and incarceration. If you want 407 00:24:07,400 --> 00:24:09,399 Speaker 1: to spend all the money in the world on something, 408 00:24:09,680 --> 00:24:12,320 Speaker 1: please let it not be on tearing down a statute. 409 00:24:12,680 --> 00:24:16,359 Speaker 1: Let us spend the dollars and the resources on building 410 00:24:16,359 --> 00:24:20,359 Speaker 1: the future where every single American says, yes, that's my country. 411 00:24:20,560 --> 00:24:22,600 Speaker 1: We have just seconds left. But I have to know, 412 00:24:22,760 --> 00:24:25,720 Speaker 1: yes after that, I have to know, with all these 413 00:24:25,840 --> 00:24:29,200 Speaker 1: terrible things in the news, and with particularly awful things 414 00:24:29,200 --> 00:24:31,840 Speaker 1: being directed at you, how do you stay so cheery? 415 00:24:31,880 --> 00:24:34,000 Speaker 1: I mean, why do you keep doing it? Why would 416 00:24:34,000 --> 00:24:36,080 Speaker 1: you sign up for this job? You know? I don't 417 00:24:36,119 --> 00:24:37,639 Speaker 1: think I signed up for this job. I think I 418 00:24:37,680 --> 00:24:39,960 Speaker 1: was called into this job. I think when I became 419 00:24:40,000 --> 00:24:42,800 Speaker 1: a Christian born again believer in nineteen eighty three, the 420 00:24:42,840 --> 00:24:45,120 Speaker 1: Lord had a plan for my life. Jeremiah one five 421 00:24:45,160 --> 00:24:47,439 Speaker 1: talks about before you were in your mother's womb, he 422 00:24:47,520 --> 00:24:49,600 Speaker 1: had a plan for us. I think I was hardwired 423 00:24:49,640 --> 00:24:52,600 Speaker 1: for public service. Why I don't know, the fact that 424 00:24:52,640 --> 00:24:55,639 Speaker 1: I find great joy in serving others is something that 425 00:24:55,680 --> 00:24:57,719 Speaker 1: I think I'm hard wired to do. And frankly, if 426 00:24:57,720 --> 00:25:00,280 Speaker 1: you think about Matthew twenty two thirty seven through thirty nine, 427 00:25:00,320 --> 00:25:03,080 Speaker 1: loving the Lord your God with all your heart, mind, soul, 428 00:25:03,119 --> 00:25:05,639 Speaker 1: and strength. The second commandment is to love your neighbor 429 00:25:05,680 --> 00:25:09,520 Speaker 1: as yourself. How better do we do that by making 430 00:25:09,560 --> 00:25:12,360 Speaker 1: sacrificial offerings of our time, our talent, or our treasure. 431 00:25:12,400 --> 00:25:17,040 Speaker 1: I was a poor kid, no treasure, time, time, talent, 432 00:25:17,960 --> 00:25:20,280 Speaker 1: not enough. So I went into the one area where 433 00:25:20,280 --> 00:25:22,119 Speaker 1: I knew I could make a difference and hopefully make 434 00:25:22,240 --> 00:25:26,159 Speaker 1: Mamma proudly. Senator, you mentioned a frustrated preacher. I think 435 00:25:26,200 --> 00:25:28,560 Speaker 1: maybe a not so frustrated preacher. I think just an 436 00:25:28,560 --> 00:25:31,960 Speaker 1: honest to God inspiring preacher. I can't beat that. Thank you, Senator, 437 00:25:32,320 --> 00:25:35,560 Speaker 1: Thank you, Senator. I'm Michael Knowles. This is Verdict with 438 00:25:35,680 --> 00:25:47,840 Speaker 1: Ted Cruz. This episode of Verdict with Ted Cruz is 439 00:25:47,880 --> 00:25:50,760 Speaker 1: being brought to you by Jobs, Freedom and Security Pack, 440 00:25:50,920 --> 00:25:55,720 Speaker 1: a political action committee dedicated to supporting conservative causes, organizations, 441 00:25:55,800 --> 00:25:59,359 Speaker 1: and candidates across the country in twenty twenty two. Jobs, 442 00:25:59,400 --> 00:26:02,920 Speaker 1: Freedom and Security Pack plans to donate to conservative candidates 443 00:26:03,000 --> 00:26:06,800 Speaker 1: running for Congress and help the Republican Party across the nation.