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Before we begin, 39 00:02:13,760 --> 00:02:16,560 Speaker 1: I want to get to a ton of mailbag questions 40 00:02:16,600 --> 00:02:21,160 Speaker 1: today because we have a ton of new subscribers because 41 00:02:21,320 --> 00:02:25,320 Speaker 1: you and this show and even the series, the subscriber 42 00:02:25,320 --> 00:02:27,679 Speaker 1: only series Cloakroom of this show have been all over 43 00:02:27,720 --> 00:02:30,760 Speaker 1: the news all week because you had the goal, the 44 00:02:31,000 --> 00:02:36,520 Speaker 1: temerity to express the view on marriage that was held 45 00:02:36,520 --> 00:02:39,280 Speaker 1: by it literally every single person in the country, including 46 00:02:39,320 --> 00:02:43,200 Speaker 1: Barack Obama about ten or eleven years ago. And you 47 00:02:43,480 --> 00:02:47,919 Speaker 1: expressed a view of the constitution that has been held 48 00:02:47,960 --> 00:02:53,640 Speaker 1: by conservatives since time immemorial. How dare you, sir? We 49 00:02:53,720 --> 00:02:56,079 Speaker 1: are living in a strange and bizarre land. I will 50 00:02:56,080 --> 00:02:59,520 Speaker 1: say we crossed a threshold. So multiple times on Verdict, 51 00:02:59,520 --> 00:03:04,040 Speaker 1: this podcast has driven the agenda and discussion, and indeed 52 00:03:04,040 --> 00:03:07,440 Speaker 1: we've seen the Biden White House from the press room 53 00:03:07,480 --> 00:03:13,359 Speaker 1: podium responding to this podcast in multiple times this week. However, 54 00:03:13,440 --> 00:03:15,720 Speaker 1: we crossed a dou threshold. It wasn't just Verdict that 55 00:03:15,760 --> 00:03:18,520 Speaker 1: was driving the news. It was Cloakroom, which is, as 56 00:03:18,560 --> 00:03:22,679 Speaker 1: you noted, the paid subscriber service on Verdict. Plus that 57 00:03:23,400 --> 00:03:28,080 Speaker 1: one eighteen second snippet that got put out and it's 58 00:03:28,120 --> 00:03:33,440 Speaker 1: actually it's a fascinating illustration of the lefty Twitter media world. 59 00:03:34,320 --> 00:03:38,520 Speaker 1: So one lefty hack on Twitter put out this eighteen 60 00:03:38,600 --> 00:03:43,320 Speaker 1: second snippet of Cloakroom, every other blue check lefty immediately 61 00:03:43,360 --> 00:03:49,440 Speaker 1: amplified it, and within minutes just about every corporate media 62 00:03:49,720 --> 00:03:53,240 Speaker 1: outlet was running with it as their key story, and 63 00:03:53,280 --> 00:03:57,240 Speaker 1: it culminated amusingly enough this week in Chuck Schumer, the 64 00:03:57,280 --> 00:04:01,160 Speaker 1: Senate majority leader, denouncing me on the Senate floor as 65 00:04:01,320 --> 00:04:08,560 Speaker 1: unhinged based on that eighteen second snippet from Cloakroom the 66 00:04:08,640 --> 00:04:13,120 Speaker 1: Paige Show on Verdict Plus that that we just need 67 00:04:13,160 --> 00:04:21,360 Speaker 1: to mark that that new territory because left wing twitter 68 00:04:21,480 --> 00:04:27,520 Speaker 1: verse media industrial complex. It is truly remarkable. And apparently 69 00:04:27,560 --> 00:04:29,160 Speaker 1: they're not as cheap as I thought they work, as 70 00:04:29,160 --> 00:04:31,640 Speaker 1: they're shelling out for the extra service so they can 71 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:35,360 Speaker 1: watch the subscriber only show. So, and I do need 72 00:04:35,400 --> 00:04:38,640 Speaker 1: to say to every communist, every leftist, to every Marxist, 73 00:04:38,720 --> 00:04:41,960 Speaker 1: every person trying to destroy the country, obviously you need 74 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:46,080 Speaker 1: to subscribe to Verdict Plus because you can't know what 75 00:04:46,200 --> 00:04:53,200 Speaker 1: these nefarious conservative constitutionalist are doing unless you subscribe. And 76 00:04:53,279 --> 00:04:57,960 Speaker 1: so I will take great pleasure at at the Marxist 77 00:04:58,120 --> 00:05:02,760 Speaker 1: helping fund our podcast and keep this operation going spreading 78 00:05:02,880 --> 00:05:07,640 Speaker 1: truth through their absolute sea of lies. That's right, you'll 79 00:05:07,720 --> 00:05:10,920 Speaker 1: really show us Libs by subscribing and watching all of 80 00:05:10,960 --> 00:05:14,120 Speaker 1: the content that we put out here. Not only did 81 00:05:14,160 --> 00:05:18,680 Speaker 1: your comment drive the news cycle, Senator, it also led 82 00:05:18,680 --> 00:05:21,719 Speaker 1: to a vote in the House of Representatives to codify 83 00:05:22,440 --> 00:05:26,360 Speaker 1: the Obergefell decision. Actually go a little further as a podcast. 84 00:05:26,440 --> 00:05:29,880 Speaker 1: Ever driven a vote the next week in the US 85 00:05:29,920 --> 00:05:34,120 Speaker 1: House of Representatives. I'm not aware of that threshold ever 86 00:05:34,160 --> 00:05:38,520 Speaker 1: being crossed. So the House Deems bring this up, and 87 00:05:38,760 --> 00:05:43,040 Speaker 1: it was obviously a ridiculous vote. There is absolutely no 88 00:05:43,200 --> 00:05:47,440 Speaker 1: risk of the Supreme Court over ruling Oberghafell. The Court majority, 89 00:05:47,480 --> 00:05:51,640 Speaker 1: and Dobbs said as much. Clarence Thomas and his concurrence suggested, 90 00:05:51,680 --> 00:05:54,320 Speaker 1: perhaps we should revisit that in some other cases. He 91 00:05:54,360 --> 00:05:57,760 Speaker 1: couldn't get a single other justice, including any of the Conservatives, 92 00:05:57,920 --> 00:06:00,840 Speaker 1: to sign on to that. So there's really nope. As 93 00:06:00,880 --> 00:06:04,120 Speaker 1: a political matter, there's no risk of this whatsoever. And 94 00:06:04,160 --> 00:06:08,960 Speaker 1: then the Democrats bring this bill out of their sheer 95 00:06:09,000 --> 00:06:11,680 Speaker 1: shock and anger that you haven't changed your view on 96 00:06:11,760 --> 00:06:13,960 Speaker 1: marriage from the view that's been held for all of 97 00:06:14,000 --> 00:06:17,320 Speaker 1: human history and your view of the Constitution. Even more importantly, 98 00:06:17,440 --> 00:06:21,040 Speaker 1: the boy the Constitution should be interpreted and understood. And 99 00:06:21,320 --> 00:06:24,880 Speaker 1: the vote comes up in the House and forty seven 100 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:32,279 Speaker 1: House Republicans vote to enshrine a new definition of marriage. Yeah, 101 00:06:32,360 --> 00:06:34,839 Speaker 1: so let's take those water to time. Let's let's start 102 00:06:34,880 --> 00:06:36,919 Speaker 1: with what actually I said on the cloak room. So 103 00:06:36,960 --> 00:06:40,279 Speaker 1: the eighteen second snippet that they seized upon is where 104 00:06:40,279 --> 00:06:43,040 Speaker 1: I said that a Burgha Fell was clearly wrong, it 105 00:06:43,120 --> 00:06:47,359 Speaker 1: was wrongly decided, which is exactly what I said the 106 00:06:47,440 --> 00:06:50,640 Speaker 1: day it came down. It's what I believed then and 107 00:06:50,720 --> 00:06:54,920 Speaker 1: every day since then, and it's what virtually every conservative 108 00:06:54,920 --> 00:06:57,760 Speaker 1: in the planet believe then and still believes now, even 109 00:06:57,760 --> 00:07:01,080 Speaker 1: if there's some Republicans scared to say it now. In 110 00:07:01,160 --> 00:07:03,840 Speaker 1: a Burgher Fell, the Supreme Court struck down the marriage 111 00:07:03,920 --> 00:07:07,800 Speaker 1: laws of states across the country, invented a brand new right. 112 00:07:08,560 --> 00:07:12,480 Speaker 1: The proper way, I believe under the Constitution to decide 113 00:07:12,480 --> 00:07:15,400 Speaker 1: the question of marriage and whether marriage should extend the 114 00:07:15,440 --> 00:07:18,600 Speaker 1: same sex couples is through the democratic process. And actually 115 00:07:18,600 --> 00:07:21,800 Speaker 1: the democratic process was moving in that direction. The advocates 116 00:07:22,600 --> 00:07:25,440 Speaker 1: of gay marriage were winning in multiple states. They were 117 00:07:25,480 --> 00:07:29,920 Speaker 1: persuading the voters, and the democratic process was operating. Those 118 00:07:29,960 --> 00:07:32,480 Speaker 1: who disagreed were making their case, and there was a 119 00:07:32,960 --> 00:07:36,920 Speaker 1: full fledged democratic debate until the Supreme Court said no, sorry, 120 00:07:36,960 --> 00:07:39,560 Speaker 1: silly people, there's only one right answer. You must adopt 121 00:07:39,560 --> 00:07:44,520 Speaker 1: what we decree. What they left out is you and 122 00:07:44,560 --> 00:07:46,720 Speaker 1: I had actually it was Liz Wheeler and I had 123 00:07:46,760 --> 00:07:49,720 Speaker 1: an extended discussion where she asked me. The entire cloak 124 00:07:49,800 --> 00:07:53,679 Speaker 1: Room focused on Clarence Thomas's concurrence in the Dab's decision, 125 00:07:54,520 --> 00:07:58,120 Speaker 1: where he called into question the subset of due process jurisprudence, 126 00:07:58,120 --> 00:08:01,000 Speaker 1: and he mentioned a number of other cases dealing with contraception, 127 00:08:01,080 --> 00:08:03,960 Speaker 1: dealing with sodomy, and dealing with gay marriage, and he 128 00:08:04,000 --> 00:08:07,760 Speaker 1: suggested that those opinions should be revisited. And what I 129 00:08:07,920 --> 00:08:15,120 Speaker 1: articulated at great length in the full Cloakroom podcast is 130 00:08:15,160 --> 00:08:21,120 Speaker 1: that the Supreme Court said, repeatedly, explicitly, unambiguously, no, we 131 00:08:21,200 --> 00:08:24,560 Speaker 1: are not revisiting these precedents. Nothing in this decision calls 132 00:08:24,640 --> 00:08:26,760 Speaker 1: him into question. We're not going to do it. At 133 00:08:26,800 --> 00:08:29,520 Speaker 1: one point, the majority opinion says, we don't know how 134 00:08:29,520 --> 00:08:33,720 Speaker 1: we can say this any clearer. No, no, no, As 135 00:08:33,760 --> 00:08:37,480 Speaker 1: you noted Justice Thomas, yes, he raised the issue. He 136 00:08:37,520 --> 00:08:40,320 Speaker 1: was not joined by a single justice, so eight justices 137 00:08:40,360 --> 00:08:43,880 Speaker 1: declined to join that opinion. I said that at great length, 138 00:08:46,120 --> 00:08:50,679 Speaker 1: all of the lefty Twitter activists, all of the corrupt 139 00:08:50,679 --> 00:08:54,160 Speaker 1: corporate media, ignored that entire discussion. We actually put out 140 00:08:54,200 --> 00:08:56,559 Speaker 1: the entire six minute segment we put it out on 141 00:08:56,840 --> 00:08:59,160 Speaker 1: social media to say, look, if you want to know 142 00:08:59,200 --> 00:09:02,400 Speaker 1: what the discussion was, here's a radical and crazy idea. 143 00:09:02,440 --> 00:09:05,920 Speaker 1: Maybe you could actually listen to what it was. I said. 144 00:09:07,760 --> 00:09:09,680 Speaker 1: Almost no one in the media could be bothered to 145 00:09:09,679 --> 00:09:12,439 Speaker 1: do that. And there's a reason they seized upon this 146 00:09:12,559 --> 00:09:15,320 Speaker 1: is there's a broader political point and when we've talked 147 00:09:15,320 --> 00:09:17,640 Speaker 1: about this sum on the podcast, but it's worth underscoring. 148 00:09:19,200 --> 00:09:24,080 Speaker 1: Democrats know that abortion is a political loser for them. 149 00:09:25,000 --> 00:09:27,360 Speaker 1: So they're a handful of left wing activists in DC 150 00:09:27,520 --> 00:09:30,520 Speaker 1: who are thinking, Okay, maybe the decision on row is 151 00:09:30,559 --> 00:09:32,439 Speaker 1: going to be the hail Mary that saves the mid 152 00:09:32,640 --> 00:09:35,600 Speaker 1: terms from the disaster it's going to be for Democrats otherwise. 153 00:09:36,240 --> 00:09:41,440 Speaker 1: But real and serious Democrats don't actually think that. Elected 154 00:09:41,480 --> 00:09:43,800 Speaker 1: democrats don't think that. And how do we know that 155 00:09:44,840 --> 00:09:49,120 Speaker 1: because their immediate reaction is not to focus on the 156 00:09:49,280 --> 00:09:52,600 Speaker 1: fact that their policy preference of unlimited abortion on demand 157 00:09:52,600 --> 00:09:55,960 Speaker 1: in all circumstances with no limits is now no longer 158 00:09:56,000 --> 00:09:59,600 Speaker 1: mandated by the federal courts, because that's a really unpopular 159 00:09:59,679 --> 00:10:03,640 Speaker 1: position in America, But it's rather to suggest, you know 160 00:10:03,679 --> 00:10:06,079 Speaker 1: what this means, they're going to take away birth control. 161 00:10:06,080 --> 00:10:09,560 Speaker 1: They're gonna take away the right to consensual sodomy, They're 162 00:10:09,559 --> 00:10:12,920 Speaker 1: going to take away gay marriage laws. Now, those are 163 00:10:12,960 --> 00:10:17,160 Speaker 1: all issues that pull much better than the Democrats radical 164 00:10:17,240 --> 00:10:21,600 Speaker 1: view on abortion, and when they immediately shift to those issues, 165 00:10:22,600 --> 00:10:25,160 Speaker 1: they're giving you a tell. They're telling it just like 166 00:10:25,240 --> 00:10:28,240 Speaker 1: in poker when someone is bluffing and they whether they 167 00:10:28,240 --> 00:10:30,640 Speaker 1: twist their ring or they sweat or they fidget, they 168 00:10:30,760 --> 00:10:33,720 Speaker 1: you know, people have tells that let you know what 169 00:10:33,760 --> 00:10:36,000 Speaker 1: they really think and believe. That's what the Democrats are 170 00:10:36,000 --> 00:10:40,440 Speaker 1: doing and the reason they hyper ventilated in every media outlet. 171 00:10:40,880 --> 00:10:44,400 Speaker 1: I got to say, CNN, I sort of feel like 172 00:10:44,480 --> 00:10:47,000 Speaker 1: you and I deserve a credit on CNN shows because 173 00:10:47,000 --> 00:10:50,079 Speaker 1: they filled their shows this week just with us. That 174 00:10:50,480 --> 00:10:52,480 Speaker 1: was all of their content, apparably there was nothing else 175 00:10:52,520 --> 00:10:55,880 Speaker 1: happening in the world, because it let them tell the 176 00:10:56,040 --> 00:11:01,079 Speaker 1: story that a burgher Fella is going to be reversed, 177 00:11:01,120 --> 00:11:03,680 Speaker 1: even though the Supreme Court said emphatically it's not going 178 00:11:03,720 --> 00:11:06,360 Speaker 1: to be reversed. Right, and then, as you noted, it 179 00:11:06,480 --> 00:11:10,640 Speaker 1: predicated the vote in the House of Representatives to say, 180 00:11:11,240 --> 00:11:14,840 Speaker 1: if bilbergha Fell is reversed, we're voting to enshrine gay 181 00:11:14,840 --> 00:11:18,680 Speaker 1: marriage and federal law, and to repeal the Defensive Marriage Act, 182 00:11:18,720 --> 00:11:22,840 Speaker 1: which had passed overwhelmingly in Congress and which that crazed 183 00:11:22,960 --> 00:11:27,839 Speaker 1: right wing radical Bill Clinton signed into law. So you 184 00:11:28,120 --> 00:11:32,160 Speaker 1: get this vote in the House. I'm no expert here, Senator. 185 00:11:32,240 --> 00:11:34,800 Speaker 1: You know, I don't work at the Capitol, but I 186 00:11:34,840 --> 00:11:37,600 Speaker 1: think that means it's going to your place. I think 187 00:11:37,600 --> 00:11:40,120 Speaker 1: that means it's going to the Senate for a vote. 188 00:11:40,840 --> 00:11:42,880 Speaker 1: If you had asked me three days ago, I would 189 00:11:42,880 --> 00:11:45,840 Speaker 1: have said, this doesn't stand a chance of going anywhere 190 00:11:45,920 --> 00:11:48,360 Speaker 1: the Senate. Republicans are going to stand firm. This is 191 00:11:48,400 --> 00:11:51,960 Speaker 1: an obvious this is an obvious issue. And yet after 192 00:11:52,000 --> 00:11:54,240 Speaker 1: that vote in the House, I have to wonder, is 193 00:11:54,280 --> 00:11:57,240 Speaker 1: this thing actually going to make it out of the Senate. Well, 194 00:11:57,760 --> 00:12:01,480 Speaker 1: it's not clear if it's going to get floor time. 195 00:12:01,600 --> 00:12:03,920 Speaker 1: And we've got just a couple of weeks left before 196 00:12:03,920 --> 00:12:07,000 Speaker 1: the August recess when Democrats want to get home in campaign, 197 00:12:07,080 --> 00:12:10,440 Speaker 1: they've got a bunch of Democrats on the ballot, and 198 00:12:10,640 --> 00:12:13,080 Speaker 1: there's a lot of other bad things Democrats are trying 199 00:12:13,120 --> 00:12:15,040 Speaker 1: to do. So they've got a lot of legislation they're 200 00:12:15,040 --> 00:12:20,280 Speaker 1: trying to ram through, including their last gasp at build 201 00:12:20,280 --> 00:12:23,000 Speaker 1: back broke, and so there's a limited number of days 202 00:12:23,000 --> 00:12:27,160 Speaker 1: of floor time. That being said, Schumer said this week 203 00:12:27,200 --> 00:12:29,760 Speaker 1: he intends to take this up for a vote, which 204 00:12:29,760 --> 00:12:33,840 Speaker 1: will burn several days of floor time. That was the 205 00:12:33,880 --> 00:12:37,080 Speaker 1: speech where he also described me as unhinged for cloak room. 206 00:12:37,880 --> 00:12:42,760 Speaker 1: And if it comes up to move to proceed to 207 00:12:42,760 --> 00:12:45,200 Speaker 1: the bill, we'll take sixty votes. That's the standard rule 208 00:12:45,200 --> 00:12:49,080 Speaker 1: in the Senate. It presumably will get all fifty Democrats. 209 00:12:49,720 --> 00:12:52,920 Speaker 1: So the question is does it get ten Republicans. It 210 00:12:53,000 --> 00:12:55,160 Speaker 1: got what was at forty five Republicans in the House 211 00:12:55,559 --> 00:12:59,000 Speaker 1: forty seven? I think forty seven. At least one of 212 00:12:59,040 --> 00:13:02,199 Speaker 1: my colleagues is old reporters publicly intends to vote yes. 213 00:13:02,240 --> 00:13:04,760 Speaker 1: That's Tom tell Us from North Carolina who's told reporters 214 00:13:04,800 --> 00:13:07,920 Speaker 1: he's going to be a yes. I could tell you 215 00:13:08,120 --> 00:13:11,160 Speaker 1: we had a discussion today in the Senate Republican conference 216 00:13:11,160 --> 00:13:18,120 Speaker 1: at lunch where there were multiple Republicans who, if they 217 00:13:18,160 --> 00:13:20,839 Speaker 1: didn't say yes, they sure we're showing a lot of 218 00:13:20,960 --> 00:13:26,320 Speaker 1: leg to use a euphemism, I don't know that this 219 00:13:26,360 --> 00:13:29,680 Speaker 1: ought to be This ought to be a really easy 220 00:13:29,800 --> 00:13:35,400 Speaker 1: vote Number one, because it's pure empty political messaging. Supreme 221 00:13:35,440 --> 00:13:37,199 Speaker 1: courts said they're not going to overturn a Burger fell. 222 00:13:37,280 --> 00:13:41,839 Speaker 1: So the entire reason Democrats are having this vote is 223 00:13:42,240 --> 00:13:46,320 Speaker 1: for political messaging and really to distract from every other 224 00:13:46,360 --> 00:13:48,880 Speaker 1: aspect of their agenda that's a train wreck, which is 225 00:13:49,360 --> 00:13:54,079 Speaker 1: inflation and crime and immigration and everything else. But secondly, 226 00:13:54,080 --> 00:13:56,400 Speaker 1: look my views on the substance. I believe marriage is 227 00:13:56,400 --> 00:13:59,120 Speaker 1: the union one man and one woman. And that's what 228 00:13:59,240 --> 00:14:02,440 Speaker 1: I have always believed. It's what I believe now. There 229 00:14:02,480 --> 00:14:06,120 Speaker 1: are people who disagree with me, and the people who 230 00:14:06,160 --> 00:14:08,240 Speaker 1: disagree with me are entitled to their views, and they're 231 00:14:08,360 --> 00:14:11,040 Speaker 1: entitled to participate in the democratic process, and they're entitled 232 00:14:11,400 --> 00:14:14,760 Speaker 1: to prevail in the democratic process if their arguments carry 233 00:14:14,800 --> 00:14:18,800 Speaker 1: a majority vote. It is interesting. I hope it's not 234 00:14:18,880 --> 00:14:22,800 Speaker 1: the case that a bunch of Republicans who used to 235 00:14:22,840 --> 00:14:28,120 Speaker 1: say that quite emphatically no longer believe that. But to 236 00:14:28,160 --> 00:14:30,960 Speaker 1: be honest, I don't know, Michael, of course, I mean 237 00:14:31,000 --> 00:14:33,600 Speaker 1: this is I'm with you. I hold the view of 238 00:14:33,640 --> 00:14:37,480 Speaker 1: marriage that has existed forever. I sometimes say I hold 239 00:14:37,480 --> 00:14:40,720 Speaker 1: the view of marriage that Obama and Hillary and Biden 240 00:14:41,080 --> 00:14:44,920 Speaker 1: and all the prominent Democrats of today held until very 241 00:14:45,000 --> 00:14:48,000 Speaker 1: very recently, and by the way, that the voters of 242 00:14:48,040 --> 00:14:50,800 Speaker 1: California in two thousand and eight, bright blue left wing 243 00:14:50,880 --> 00:14:54,680 Speaker 1: California voted for in two thousand and eight. So I 244 00:14:54,760 --> 00:14:57,360 Speaker 1: don't know that there has been a public policy issue 245 00:14:57,520 --> 00:15:01,880 Speaker 1: on which views have changed more dramatic than the issue 246 00:15:01,880 --> 00:15:07,040 Speaker 1: of gay marriage. And it's on the question of life. 247 00:15:08,880 --> 00:15:11,320 Speaker 1: Views of the American voters have been moving in the 248 00:15:11,360 --> 00:15:14,120 Speaker 1: direction of life, but on the question of marriage, they 249 00:15:14,160 --> 00:15:17,600 Speaker 1: clearly are moving in the other direction. And that's indisputable. 250 00:15:18,040 --> 00:15:23,560 Speaker 1: And it's really quite quite a remarkable journey from where 251 00:15:24,280 --> 00:15:26,960 Speaker 1: even a decade the debate was, of course, but I 252 00:15:27,360 --> 00:15:31,560 Speaker 1: just think even for people who disagree, even for Republicans 253 00:15:31,560 --> 00:15:33,800 Speaker 1: who for whatever reason, have changed their views over the 254 00:15:33,880 --> 00:15:38,600 Speaker 1: last five or seven years, this is such a nakedly 255 00:15:39,080 --> 00:15:44,200 Speaker 1: obvious political trap being pointlessly as in terms of the 256 00:15:44,240 --> 00:15:48,400 Speaker 1: substance of the policy being pointlessly laid out by the Democrats. 257 00:15:48,440 --> 00:15:52,160 Speaker 1: The only reason is to trap Republicans. Why on earth 258 00:15:52,200 --> 00:15:55,360 Speaker 1: would any of these these Republican senators take it. Those 259 00:15:55,400 --> 00:15:57,560 Speaker 1: forty seven in the House took at hook line and Sinker. 260 00:15:57,720 --> 00:16:01,160 Speaker 1: I hope, senator, I hope your colleagues are wiser than that. 261 00:16:01,240 --> 00:16:04,120 Speaker 1: You know, you know who I know is wiser the 262 00:16:04,160 --> 00:16:06,400 Speaker 1: subscribers to this podcast, so I do want to get 263 00:16:06,440 --> 00:16:09,840 Speaker 1: to some of their questions for enough of CNN, Enough 264 00:16:09,840 --> 00:16:12,800 Speaker 1: of Nancy Pelosi. A first question up from Jeff. This 265 00:16:12,880 --> 00:16:15,840 Speaker 1: actually does have to do with another piece of legislation 266 00:16:16,000 --> 00:16:18,840 Speaker 1: that's making its way around the Capitol. Jeff says, I've 267 00:16:18,880 --> 00:16:23,120 Speaker 1: been reading about a proposed reform to the Electoral Count Act. 268 00:16:24,160 --> 00:16:26,400 Speaker 1: All I really know about it is that it's being 269 00:16:26,400 --> 00:16:30,480 Speaker 1: pushed by Democrats and Rhinos. So I instinctively don't like it, 270 00:16:31,080 --> 00:16:33,800 Speaker 1: but I want to keep an open mind. What is 271 00:16:33,840 --> 00:16:37,800 Speaker 1: the act and should we support it? So, Jeff, a 272 00:16:37,840 --> 00:16:40,760 Speaker 1: great question, and that's frankly a good instinct is if 273 00:16:40,760 --> 00:16:44,160 Speaker 1: the people pushing it are not reliable conservatives that ought 274 00:16:44,200 --> 00:16:46,800 Speaker 1: to give you a really big hint the direction it's going, 275 00:16:48,160 --> 00:16:50,640 Speaker 1: what is the act? To be honest, I'm not sure. Look, 276 00:16:52,040 --> 00:16:57,360 Speaker 1: Democrats and a lot of wabbly Republicans who are really 277 00:16:57,440 --> 00:17:00,440 Speaker 1: unhappy about January sixth and the fact that I stood 278 00:17:00,480 --> 00:17:03,760 Speaker 1: up and objected. I objected under the Electoral Count Act, 279 00:17:03,800 --> 00:17:06,280 Speaker 1: an act that has been on the laws for one 280 00:17:06,359 --> 00:17:11,520 Speaker 1: hundred and fifty years, and I objected on the grounds 281 00:17:11,600 --> 00:17:16,720 Speaker 1: that the Electoral votes were not made consistent with law. 282 00:17:16,760 --> 00:17:18,919 Speaker 1: That's what the statute sets out that you can make 283 00:17:18,960 --> 00:17:23,560 Speaker 1: an objection on. And you'll recall I based my objection 284 00:17:23,640 --> 00:17:28,119 Speaker 1: on calling for the appointment of an election commission to 285 00:17:28,160 --> 00:17:31,840 Speaker 1: consider the evidence of voter fraud on the merits on 286 00:17:31,880 --> 00:17:35,120 Speaker 1: the substance to an emergency ten day audit, and determined 287 00:17:35,160 --> 00:17:37,359 Speaker 1: the extent to which fraud occurred in the extent to 288 00:17:37,359 --> 00:17:39,560 Speaker 1: which it impacted the outcome of the election. That was 289 00:17:39,680 --> 00:17:43,119 Speaker 1: modeled after what Congress did in eighteen seventy six, the 290 00:17:43,160 --> 00:17:46,960 Speaker 1: election between Rutherford B. Hayes and Samuel Tilden. In that election, 291 00:17:47,000 --> 00:17:49,520 Speaker 1: as in twenty twenty, there were serious allegations of voter 292 00:17:49,600 --> 00:17:52,800 Speaker 1: fraud in eighteen seventy six, Congress didn't throw up its 293 00:17:52,800 --> 00:17:55,720 Speaker 1: hands and say we're powerless, we can't do anything about it. No, 294 00:17:55,960 --> 00:17:59,800 Speaker 1: they appointed an election commission. It consisted of five Senators, 295 00:17:59,800 --> 00:18:02,600 Speaker 1: five House members, five Supreme Court justices, and they did 296 00:18:02,640 --> 00:18:06,840 Speaker 1: exactly what I recommended. All the Democrats and some of 297 00:18:06,880 --> 00:18:09,240 Speaker 1: the Republicans don't like that idea, and so this is 298 00:18:09,240 --> 00:18:12,480 Speaker 1: a proposal to change that. I don't know the details 299 00:18:12,480 --> 00:18:14,040 Speaker 1: of how they're going to change it, because they literally 300 00:18:14,080 --> 00:18:16,480 Speaker 1: have just announced it today and so I haven't seen 301 00:18:16,560 --> 00:18:20,120 Speaker 1: what they've announced. I will say, as I was walking 302 00:18:20,160 --> 00:18:25,240 Speaker 1: in to film this podcast, some left wing not on Twitter, 303 00:18:25,280 --> 00:18:27,119 Speaker 1: and I really do spend too much time reading what 304 00:18:27,200 --> 00:18:29,680 Speaker 1: left wing not say on Twitter. We all do. But oh, 305 00:18:29,760 --> 00:18:33,400 Speaker 1: actually it was a lefty reporter for the Washington Post. 306 00:18:33,520 --> 00:18:36,720 Speaker 1: He tweeted out, So the only question in this bill 307 00:18:37,880 --> 00:18:41,680 Speaker 1: is do you want the decision about presidential electors made 308 00:18:41,720 --> 00:18:45,080 Speaker 1: by the federal courts or made by Speaker of the 309 00:18:45,119 --> 00:18:49,560 Speaker 1: House Jim Jordan and Senate Majority Leader Ted Cruz. And 310 00:18:49,880 --> 00:18:53,240 Speaker 1: I promptly retweeted him, and I said, sounds good to me. Yeah, 311 00:18:53,480 --> 00:18:57,919 Speaker 1: So I'm sure that's their nightmare scenario. I was okay 312 00:18:57,920 --> 00:19:00,960 Speaker 1: with it. That sounds that sounds just just fine to me. 313 00:19:01,880 --> 00:19:06,359 Speaker 1: Next question from Wanda, why are January sixth speaking of 314 00:19:06,440 --> 00:19:09,800 Speaker 1: January sixth? Why are January sixth defendants being held in 315 00:19:09,920 --> 00:19:15,120 Speaker 1: terrible conditions on ridiculous charges when Stephen Colbert's staffers get 316 00:19:15,119 --> 00:19:18,120 Speaker 1: off the hook for doing basically the same thing. That's 317 00:19:18,119 --> 00:19:22,679 Speaker 1: referring to Stephen Colbert's staffers who broke into parts of 318 00:19:22,680 --> 00:19:24,399 Speaker 1: the capital that they weren't supposed to be in in 319 00:19:24,480 --> 00:19:28,399 Speaker 1: order to embarrass Republican politicians because the Biden Department of 320 00:19:28,480 --> 00:19:32,199 Speaker 1: Justice is fundamentally corrupt and political. It is politicized, it 321 00:19:32,320 --> 00:19:34,920 Speaker 1: is weaponized. As you know. I've got a book coming 322 00:19:34,920 --> 00:19:38,399 Speaker 1: out in September, the title of which is Justice Corrupted. 323 00:19:38,440 --> 00:19:41,720 Speaker 1: How the Left has weaponized our legal system. It goes 324 00:19:41,760 --> 00:19:45,600 Speaker 1: into this in great detail, sadly Merrick Garland. Merrick Garland 325 00:19:45,640 --> 00:19:47,919 Speaker 1: was someone who spent over two decades on the Federal 326 00:19:47,920 --> 00:19:52,160 Speaker 1: Court of Appeals. He built a reputation as a fairly 327 00:19:52,280 --> 00:19:57,879 Speaker 1: a political, reasonable judge. I don't know that I've ever 328 00:19:57,920 --> 00:20:02,959 Speaker 1: seen anyone trash their reputation faster than Merritt Garland has 329 00:20:03,000 --> 00:20:04,359 Speaker 1: done in the year and a half he's had his 330 00:20:04,440 --> 00:20:08,120 Speaker 1: Attorney general. It's reminiscent of what the NFL did when 331 00:20:08,119 --> 00:20:10,600 Speaker 1: they declared war on their fans and like just lit 332 00:20:10,640 --> 00:20:14,399 Speaker 1: themselves on fire. Like The degree to which Garland is 333 00:20:14,480 --> 00:20:20,800 Speaker 1: willing to allow DOJ to be the frontline soldiers for 334 00:20:20,840 --> 00:20:25,960 Speaker 1: the Partisans in the White House is unprecedented and it's dangerous. 335 00:20:25,960 --> 00:20:27,879 Speaker 1: And I'll tell you when it comes to people who 336 00:20:27,960 --> 00:20:30,680 Speaker 1: are wrongfully in prison. For January sixth, I have been 337 00:20:30,720 --> 00:20:34,320 Speaker 1: pressing on it repeatedly. I've been pressing DJ for answers. 338 00:20:34,640 --> 00:20:37,000 Speaker 1: Who is imprisoned, What are their charges? How many of 339 00:20:37,000 --> 00:20:39,119 Speaker 1: them are violent? If they committed acts of violence, they 340 00:20:39,119 --> 00:20:42,800 Speaker 1: should be prosecuted. And that's my view, regardless of whether 341 00:20:42,840 --> 00:20:45,240 Speaker 1: I agree or disagree with their politics. If you commit 342 00:20:45,320 --> 00:20:47,640 Speaker 1: an act of violence, if you assault a police officer, 343 00:20:47,920 --> 00:20:50,120 Speaker 1: you ought to go to jail. But if they didn't 344 00:20:50,160 --> 00:20:55,280 Speaker 1: commit acts of violence, then peaceful protest is fully protected 345 00:20:55,320 --> 00:20:59,760 Speaker 1: by the Constitution. And this Department of Justice is being 346 00:21:00,160 --> 00:21:04,639 Speaker 1: used as a political weapon to persecute those who exercise 347 00:21:04,720 --> 00:21:08,680 Speaker 1: their First Amendment rights in peaceful protests without committing acts 348 00:21:08,680 --> 00:21:12,200 Speaker 1: of violence because the Biden White House disagrees with them. 349 00:21:12,200 --> 00:21:15,160 Speaker 1: And it is shameful. It is disgraceful. And I'll tell 350 00:21:15,160 --> 00:21:18,280 Speaker 1: you every time I press the Department of Justice for 351 00:21:18,359 --> 00:21:22,119 Speaker 1: answers on the January six protesters comparing them, say to 352 00:21:22,160 --> 00:21:25,800 Speaker 1: how DJ handled the violent rioters in the Antifa and 353 00:21:25,840 --> 00:21:30,120 Speaker 1: Black Lives Matter riots, This Department of Justice essentially says, 354 00:21:30,160 --> 00:21:32,080 Speaker 1: go jump in a lake. We won't tell you. It's 355 00:21:32,119 --> 00:21:34,200 Speaker 1: none of your business. We're not going to answer it. 356 00:21:34,200 --> 00:21:38,720 Speaker 1: It is And our corrupt corporate media has zero, zero, 357 00:21:38,880 --> 00:21:41,960 Speaker 1: zero interest in reporting on any of this no. Of course, Now, 358 00:21:42,400 --> 00:21:46,040 Speaker 1: assuming Republicans do retake the House, maybe the Senate in 359 00:21:46,119 --> 00:21:51,520 Speaker 1: the midterms. Will that give conservatives enough leverage to make 360 00:21:51,800 --> 00:21:55,200 Speaker 1: some progress on this issue of the two tracks of justice, 361 00:21:55,200 --> 00:21:57,560 Speaker 1: whether we're talking about the January six people in Colbert 362 00:21:57,880 --> 00:22:00,680 Speaker 1: or even more broadly than that. So I hope so, 363 00:22:00,760 --> 00:22:05,440 Speaker 1: and I have some modest level of optimism. I think 364 00:22:05,480 --> 00:22:08,520 Speaker 1: the chances of Republicans taking the House are overwhelming. They're 365 00:22:08,560 --> 00:22:12,359 Speaker 1: well north at ninety percent, and I think a Republican House, 366 00:22:12,400 --> 00:22:14,920 Speaker 1: the odds are very high that we will have oversight 367 00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:19,400 Speaker 1: hearings on many of these topics. I expect House Republicans, 368 00:22:19,400 --> 00:22:24,000 Speaker 1: particularly conservatives, to be aggressive in oversight of the Biden administration. 369 00:22:25,080 --> 00:22:27,680 Speaker 1: The Senate is less certain. I put the odds about 370 00:22:27,680 --> 00:22:29,879 Speaker 1: sixty five thirty five that we take the Senate. If 371 00:22:29,880 --> 00:22:32,840 Speaker 1: we take the Senate, I hope the Senate engages in 372 00:22:32,920 --> 00:22:36,520 Speaker 1: oversight as well. You know, there's a difference in style 373 00:22:36,600 --> 00:22:42,040 Speaker 1: and temperament between House oversight and Senate oversight. House oversight 374 00:22:42,080 --> 00:22:45,359 Speaker 1: it's typically more partisan, it's typically more aggressive. It's it's 375 00:22:46,359 --> 00:22:50,919 Speaker 1: they have bigger flamethrowers in the House. They you know, 376 00:22:50,960 --> 00:22:53,760 Speaker 1: they torch each other many house members D's and ours 377 00:22:53,760 --> 00:22:58,760 Speaker 1: hate each other, insult each other. The Senate is a 378 00:22:58,840 --> 00:23:02,959 Speaker 1: much more genteel place. When I arrived, it scared the 379 00:23:02,960 --> 00:23:07,520 Speaker 1: hell out of them. Um you know, it reminded me 380 00:23:07,560 --> 00:23:10,520 Speaker 1: of one of my favorite comedy riffs, Michael, have you 381 00:23:10,520 --> 00:23:13,280 Speaker 1: ever seen Robin Williams do his riff on golf? I 382 00:23:13,320 --> 00:23:16,240 Speaker 1: think I have. Okay, it is one of the funniest 383 00:23:16,240 --> 00:23:19,840 Speaker 1: comedy riffs ever done. I love it. Language warning, it 384 00:23:19,920 --> 00:23:22,920 Speaker 1: is profane, but it's Robert Williams. He's funny as all hell. 385 00:23:23,359 --> 00:23:25,479 Speaker 1: And he's talking about golf and how golf is made up. 386 00:23:25,480 --> 00:23:27,719 Speaker 1: But I listened to it regularly because it just doubled 387 00:23:27,760 --> 00:23:32,240 Speaker 1: me over laughing. But at one point he's talking about 388 00:23:32,240 --> 00:23:36,680 Speaker 1: Tiger Woods and the reaction of sort of uptight country 389 00:23:36,680 --> 00:23:40,280 Speaker 1: clubbers when Tiger Woods started showing up and dominating golf, 390 00:23:40,720 --> 00:23:43,960 Speaker 1: and and and he does a a you know voice 391 00:23:43,960 --> 00:23:46,920 Speaker 1: of you know, oh my, now we're gonna let him 392 00:23:46,920 --> 00:23:49,399 Speaker 1: into our clubs, And it was just, you know, you 393 00:23:49,840 --> 00:23:54,600 Speaker 1: can picture you know, almost invariably rich liberals sort of 394 00:23:54,640 --> 00:23:59,479 Speaker 1: horrified when Tiger Woods showed up. I have to admit 395 00:23:59,560 --> 00:24:01,440 Speaker 1: that was a little bit the reaction when I showed 396 00:24:01,480 --> 00:24:03,560 Speaker 1: up at the Senate. Some of the same folks were like, 397 00:24:03,680 --> 00:24:07,240 Speaker 1: you know, oh goodness, what is this uh rabble rouser 398 00:24:07,320 --> 00:24:12,960 Speaker 1: doing here? This whacko bird, this maniac. So, for those 399 00:24:12,960 --> 00:24:15,240 Speaker 1: of y'all who may remember, whacko bird was the term 400 00:24:15,359 --> 00:24:18,879 Speaker 1: John McCain used for me. He uh. And I was 401 00:24:18,960 --> 00:24:22,680 Speaker 1: particularly gratified when some grassroots activists made a baseball cap 402 00:24:23,800 --> 00:24:25,960 Speaker 1: with a picture of Daffy Duck on it and the 403 00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:28,280 Speaker 1: word whacco bird. I keep it in my office, and 404 00:24:28,359 --> 00:24:33,000 Speaker 1: it was sort of I happily embraced the title. Look. 405 00:24:33,200 --> 00:24:36,720 Speaker 1: The Senate with a Republican majority will engage in oversight. 406 00:24:36,920 --> 00:24:40,760 Speaker 1: It will almost surely be more restrained and genteel than 407 00:24:40,760 --> 00:24:45,600 Speaker 1: the House. But the Senate also carries with it typically 408 00:24:45,720 --> 00:24:50,439 Speaker 1: a greater gravitas, a greater A Senate hearing can have 409 00:24:50,560 --> 00:24:54,440 Speaker 1: a real impact. And so I hope we see vigorous 410 00:24:54,520 --> 00:24:57,400 Speaker 1: oversight in both the House and Senate, and and that 411 00:24:57,480 --> 00:25:01,439 Speaker 1: could help. I also expect the Biden administration to do 412 00:25:01,520 --> 00:25:04,840 Speaker 1: with the Obama administration did when we had Republican majorities, 413 00:25:05,080 --> 00:25:10,480 Speaker 1: which is stiff arm ignore, defy. It is one of 414 00:25:10,520 --> 00:25:15,280 Speaker 1: the interesting things watching the Dems setting all sorts of precedents, 415 00:25:15,320 --> 00:25:20,040 Speaker 1: including trying to prosecute Steve Bannon for defying congressional Subpoenas 416 00:25:20,680 --> 00:25:22,359 Speaker 1: you know, in a few months, the other party is 417 00:25:22,359 --> 00:25:23,960 Speaker 1: going to have the power to issue of subpoenas. And 418 00:25:24,200 --> 00:25:28,920 Speaker 1: these are some interesting precedents they're setting. And I'm almost 419 00:25:29,240 --> 00:25:33,920 Speaker 1: certain the bidendj will refuse to prosecute anyone for contempt 420 00:25:33,920 --> 00:25:37,600 Speaker 1: of Congress for defying a Republican subpoena because this Department 421 00:25:37,600 --> 00:25:40,800 Speaker 1: of Justice is not actually focused on enforcing the law. 422 00:25:41,640 --> 00:25:45,119 Speaker 1: They're willing to become essentially the enforcement arm of the DNC. 423 00:25:46,320 --> 00:25:51,040 Speaker 1: But real oversight, I believe is coming. But these prosecutions 424 00:25:51,080 --> 00:25:53,840 Speaker 1: that the orange jumpsuit that is good for the goose 425 00:25:54,080 --> 00:25:56,520 Speaker 1: is good for the gander, they make those sorts of 426 00:25:56,560 --> 00:25:58,879 Speaker 1: things and multiple sizes. So I agree, I think the 427 00:25:58,880 --> 00:26:03,160 Speaker 1: Democrats should be cautious. A question from Aaron is Cookie 428 00:26:03,160 --> 00:26:09,639 Speaker 1: Monster racist? Give me the reasoning on that. So I 429 00:26:09,760 --> 00:26:13,000 Speaker 1: picked fights with lots of muppets. I've picked fights with 430 00:26:13,160 --> 00:26:15,800 Speaker 1: Big Bird, I picked fights with Elmo, I picked fights 431 00:26:15,800 --> 00:26:17,800 Speaker 1: with Mickey and Pluto or not muppets, but in the 432 00:26:17,840 --> 00:26:21,880 Speaker 1: sort of vague genre. But but the Cookie Monster thing, 433 00:26:21,920 --> 00:26:24,520 Speaker 1: he's blue and he likes cookies. I'm not sure, Michael. 434 00:26:24,560 --> 00:26:26,920 Speaker 1: Can you help me out on this? I can. I 435 00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:30,959 Speaker 1: know so you have been the news for I don't know, 436 00:26:31,080 --> 00:26:34,879 Speaker 1: ninety five percent of CNN airtime this week. But the 437 00:26:34,920 --> 00:26:38,879 Speaker 1: other news story is that Cookie Monster is apparently racist. 438 00:26:39,200 --> 00:26:42,840 Speaker 1: At some theme park or parade or whatever, a Cookie 439 00:26:42,840 --> 00:26:47,320 Speaker 1: Monster figure a person like he ignored some African American children. 440 00:26:47,480 --> 00:26:50,280 Speaker 1: Is that was that Cookie Monster did or did not? 441 00:26:50,400 --> 00:26:52,760 Speaker 1: It's not even really clear. He's wearing this big suit 442 00:26:52,800 --> 00:26:54,840 Speaker 1: and he's high fiving people as he walks, and then 443 00:26:55,119 --> 00:26:57,520 Speaker 1: there were these two little black girls and they wanted 444 00:26:57,560 --> 00:26:59,560 Speaker 1: a high five, and he didn't high five them, and 445 00:26:59,560 --> 00:27:03,160 Speaker 1: then he kept walking. And the interpretation of this when 446 00:27:03,160 --> 00:27:07,160 Speaker 1: it was posted on Instagram was that it's basically David 447 00:27:07,240 --> 00:27:10,560 Speaker 1: Duke wearing a furry blue suit and dressed up like 448 00:27:10,560 --> 00:27:14,320 Speaker 1: a puppet. Now, maybe Cookie Monster is racist, but to 449 00:27:14,400 --> 00:27:17,840 Speaker 1: jump to that conclusion to me seems a little premature. 450 00:27:18,840 --> 00:27:21,240 Speaker 1: So I haven't seen the video, so I can provide 451 00:27:21,440 --> 00:27:24,679 Speaker 1: no direct knowledge on it. I'm sorry, I'm behind in 452 00:27:24,800 --> 00:27:29,600 Speaker 1: my Cookie Monster theme park video watching the stories, but 453 00:27:29,720 --> 00:27:32,320 Speaker 1: I will say this, I believe all children deserve a 454 00:27:32,400 --> 00:27:38,320 Speaker 1: high five. I'm pro child and bold stance. And you know, 455 00:27:38,480 --> 00:27:42,080 Speaker 1: if if, if, if these young children didn't get high fives, 456 00:27:42,119 --> 00:27:45,080 Speaker 1: I think that was terrible and they deserve high fives. 457 00:27:45,359 --> 00:27:49,440 Speaker 1: I'm against it. I'm against those people not getting the 458 00:27:49,520 --> 00:27:52,760 Speaker 1: high five that they deserve. If you elect me, high 459 00:27:52,760 --> 00:27:55,560 Speaker 1: fives for everybody. Yep. And by the way, since since 460 00:27:55,600 --> 00:27:58,480 Speaker 1: big Berg, Big Big Bird and Elmo have come out 461 00:27:58,480 --> 00:28:02,320 Speaker 1: as Democrats and the Democrats for two hundred years have 462 00:28:02,440 --> 00:28:05,639 Speaker 1: been racist, you can answer your own question. You know, 463 00:28:07,480 --> 00:28:09,760 Speaker 1: if A, then B, if B then C, you can 464 00:28:09,800 --> 00:28:13,080 Speaker 1: connect the dots using the Transiti property. That is true. 465 00:28:13,200 --> 00:28:15,120 Speaker 1: That's true. We're getting a little math, and he really 466 00:28:15,160 --> 00:28:19,680 Speaker 1: does feel like Sesame Street. Next question from Caligula, I 467 00:28:20,080 --> 00:28:22,960 Speaker 1: hope not the real one. If Biden is not the 468 00:28:23,000 --> 00:28:29,040 Speaker 1: Democrat nominee in twenty twenty four, who will be good question. 469 00:28:29,600 --> 00:28:31,920 Speaker 1: So I believe Biden will not be the nominee. He's 470 00:28:31,920 --> 00:28:34,600 Speaker 1: not going to run. He is too old, he is 471 00:28:34,680 --> 00:28:38,720 Speaker 1: beyond the capacity, he is severely diminished. Everyone knows this. 472 00:28:38,800 --> 00:28:42,120 Speaker 1: All the Republicans know this, all the Democrats know this. Look, 473 00:28:42,480 --> 00:28:44,800 Speaker 1: Biden is pretending he's going to run because of course 474 00:28:44,800 --> 00:28:46,360 Speaker 1: he doesn't want to be a lamed Dock. I get 475 00:28:46,400 --> 00:28:48,560 Speaker 1: that that's actually the right thing for Biden to do. 476 00:28:48,600 --> 00:28:50,960 Speaker 1: Any president in his position would pretend he's going to run. 477 00:28:51,680 --> 00:28:56,200 Speaker 1: I don't think anyone believes it when Biden doesn't run, 478 00:28:56,320 --> 00:28:58,320 Speaker 1: and he's going to delay announcing that as long as 479 00:28:58,320 --> 00:28:59,960 Speaker 1: possible because he doesn't want to be a lame doc. 480 00:29:01,040 --> 00:29:04,120 Speaker 1: I think we're going to see a free for all, 481 00:29:04,880 --> 00:29:10,640 Speaker 1: bloody war in the Democratic Party. I think right now 482 00:29:10,760 --> 00:29:15,520 Speaker 1: Kamala Harris and Pete buddhag Edge are firing bazukas at 483 00:29:15,560 --> 00:29:18,840 Speaker 1: each other every day. I think they are stabbing knives 484 00:29:18,840 --> 00:29:21,480 Speaker 1: in each other's back. I think they are planning stories. 485 00:29:21,520 --> 00:29:26,240 Speaker 1: I think it is open war. I think Elizabeth Warren 486 00:29:27,320 --> 00:29:30,480 Speaker 1: is only a hair behind them. I think Elizabeth will 487 00:29:30,560 --> 00:29:33,400 Speaker 1: run as well. She's clearly ambitious as all get out. 488 00:29:34,280 --> 00:29:38,440 Speaker 1: She thinks she'll ride the Row decision all the way 489 00:29:38,480 --> 00:29:42,640 Speaker 1: to the Democratic primary nomination. And then Gavin Newsom is 490 00:29:42,680 --> 00:29:46,160 Speaker 1: making a play from California. He's he no longer has 491 00:29:46,200 --> 00:29:48,560 Speaker 1: Michael Knowles to torment, he no longer has the Daily 492 00:29:48,600 --> 00:29:50,800 Speaker 1: Wire to torment, so now he wants to torment all 493 00:29:50,840 --> 00:29:53,760 Speaker 1: of America. I do think it's funny that Gavin has 494 00:29:53,800 --> 00:29:55,640 Speaker 1: gone all the way to Florida to run ads just 495 00:29:55,680 --> 00:29:58,400 Speaker 1: so Ben Shapiro can see them because he wants to 496 00:29:58,520 --> 00:30:03,280 Speaker 1: chase him from the Pacific to the Atlantic. That's obviously 497 00:30:03,280 --> 00:30:08,080 Speaker 1: a presidential play by Gavin. And look, I'm not remotely 498 00:30:08,120 --> 00:30:14,880 Speaker 1: an expert on Democratic presidential primaries, but right now I 499 00:30:14,960 --> 00:30:19,240 Speaker 1: see those four as likely the top tier tier. I 500 00:30:19,360 --> 00:30:22,440 Speaker 1: don't think at look, you will get other people Amy Kloba, 501 00:30:22,520 --> 00:30:27,240 Speaker 1: Charle Ron. I like Amy, She's she's actually sometimes less 502 00:30:27,320 --> 00:30:30,200 Speaker 1: crazy than some of the other members of her party. Yea, 503 00:30:30,560 --> 00:30:36,240 Speaker 1: this is these are slight gradations, which means to me 504 00:30:36,400 --> 00:30:39,960 Speaker 1: the Democratic primary base won't want her. I think they 505 00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:43,320 Speaker 1: haven't learned their lesson yet. They're still in crazytown. They're 506 00:30:43,360 --> 00:30:46,880 Speaker 1: doubling down on crazytown. I think if Bernie were five 507 00:30:46,960 --> 00:30:49,240 Speaker 1: years younger, he would run again, and he could easily 508 00:30:49,280 --> 00:30:54,160 Speaker 1: win the nomination. Bernie is probably just old enough that 509 00:30:55,200 --> 00:30:58,520 Speaker 1: he suggested he's gonna run. I think that's probably a 510 00:30:58,560 --> 00:31:02,600 Speaker 1: head fake that that that at this age he decides, Okay, 511 00:31:02,640 --> 00:31:05,240 Speaker 1: my time has passed. So my guess is those four 512 00:31:05,400 --> 00:31:08,920 Speaker 1: the top tier. If only we could get another another 513 00:31:08,960 --> 00:31:10,960 Speaker 1: Bernie run, if only for the memes. But I think 514 00:31:10,960 --> 00:31:14,840 Speaker 1: you're probably right, he's probably passed his prime. From Anna 515 00:31:15,240 --> 00:31:19,600 Speaker 1: cultural question, Brad Pitt has set a new male fashion 516 00:31:19,720 --> 00:31:23,000 Speaker 1: trend by wearing a skirt to the red carpet of 517 00:31:23,040 --> 00:31:27,680 Speaker 1: his new movie Premiere. That happened months after Harry Styles 518 00:31:27,880 --> 00:31:33,840 Speaker 1: posed an address for a magazine, Senator Cruz. Senator Cruz, 519 00:31:34,040 --> 00:31:37,120 Speaker 1: do you plan to embrace this new open minded style 520 00:31:37,880 --> 00:31:45,200 Speaker 1: or are you a patriarchal, heteronormative oppressor? Option B, Option B. 521 00:31:45,320 --> 00:31:49,240 Speaker 1: Obviously that was clear a mile away. I got no 522 00:31:49,320 --> 00:31:54,960 Speaker 1: interest in wearing a skirt. The only possible exception might 523 00:31:55,040 --> 00:31:58,480 Speaker 1: be if I'm in Glasgow at a party and they 524 00:31:58,520 --> 00:32:01,160 Speaker 1: convinced me to wear a kilt. The real Scotsman were 525 00:32:01,200 --> 00:32:05,080 Speaker 1: nothing under their kilts. I'm not a real Scotsman, so 526 00:32:05,160 --> 00:32:07,440 Speaker 1: that does not seem at all tempting to me. It 527 00:32:07,480 --> 00:32:10,040 Speaker 1: actually sounds kind of cold, because Scotland is really kind 528 00:32:10,040 --> 00:32:11,520 Speaker 1: of cold a lot at the time of the year, 529 00:32:11,960 --> 00:32:14,320 Speaker 1: and like, I'm not interested in a breeze like that, 530 00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:19,720 Speaker 1: Like sounds thoroughly unpleasant. All right, I will tell a 531 00:32:19,920 --> 00:32:25,240 Speaker 1: story from college debating days, so I'm terrified to know 532 00:32:25,280 --> 00:32:28,000 Speaker 1: how this is going to connect. Senator Okay, so it 533 00:32:28,080 --> 00:32:33,560 Speaker 1: involves my alma mater, and you're alma mater. Now I'm 534 00:32:33,560 --> 00:32:36,280 Speaker 1: really terrified to know how this connects. When I was 535 00:32:36,320 --> 00:32:41,720 Speaker 1: at a freshman at at Princeton at the Yale Debate tournament, 536 00:32:41,920 --> 00:32:44,320 Speaker 1: in the final round, there was a team from Princeton 537 00:32:44,920 --> 00:32:47,840 Speaker 1: who were sophomores. I was a freshman, so I was 538 00:32:47,880 --> 00:32:50,520 Speaker 1: watching it. In the final round team from Princeton, really 539 00:32:50,520 --> 00:32:56,280 Speaker 1: talented debaters, and a team from Scotland, Glasgow A. And 540 00:32:56,320 --> 00:33:00,440 Speaker 1: the lead speaker there was a fellow named Auson Lalley. 541 00:33:00,440 --> 00:33:02,520 Speaker 1: I don't know what he's maybe in politics or something. 542 00:33:02,560 --> 00:33:04,720 Speaker 1: It was incredibly talented speaker. He was the lead speaker 543 00:33:04,760 --> 00:33:09,840 Speaker 1: for Glasgow A. And the tradition in college debate was 544 00:33:10,040 --> 00:33:13,840 Speaker 1: that final rounds were typically humorous because the two teams 545 00:33:13,880 --> 00:33:17,120 Speaker 1: that broke to the final round qualified for nationals, and 546 00:33:17,280 --> 00:33:20,360 Speaker 1: so everyone watching the debate had lost, so they were 547 00:33:20,400 --> 00:33:22,320 Speaker 1: all pissed off, and so you kind of you tried 548 00:33:22,360 --> 00:33:24,600 Speaker 1: to do a funny round to entertain the people who 549 00:33:24,680 --> 00:33:29,719 Speaker 1: had lost. And so the Princeton team of sophomores they 550 00:33:29,760 --> 00:33:34,800 Speaker 1: got up in the case they proposed, is America is 551 00:33:34,920 --> 00:33:38,440 Speaker 1: better than England? They got they got up, and they 552 00:33:38,480 --> 00:33:41,360 Speaker 1: had all of these funny reasons why America is better 553 00:33:41,440 --> 00:33:46,360 Speaker 1: than England. And the lead speaker for the opposition, this 554 00:33:46,520 --> 00:33:49,360 Speaker 1: fellow Austin Liley from Glasgow. He got up and he's 555 00:33:49,360 --> 00:33:50,840 Speaker 1: in a full kilt. So this is how it knnects, 556 00:33:50,840 --> 00:33:54,400 Speaker 1: because he's dressed in a full kilt and he goes, 557 00:33:55,560 --> 00:34:01,160 Speaker 1: mister speaker, sir, there are few things you can do. 558 00:34:02,440 --> 00:34:04,440 Speaker 1: And a Scotsman when he's in his kilt, has a 559 00:34:04,520 --> 00:34:06,640 Speaker 1: sock that goes all the two socks that go all 560 00:34:06,640 --> 00:34:09,360 Speaker 1: the weapon. He has a ceremonial dagger in his sock. 561 00:34:10,320 --> 00:34:13,200 Speaker 1: So he pulls out the dagger and goes, there are 562 00:34:13,280 --> 00:34:18,480 Speaker 1: few things you can do to kiss wolf A Scooch 563 00:34:18,640 --> 00:34:24,800 Speaker 1: more then to confuse him with an Englishman. And he 564 00:34:25,080 --> 00:34:28,279 Speaker 1: sticks the dagger into the podium and it's just like 565 00:34:28,440 --> 00:34:32,520 Speaker 1: it's stuck into the podium at Yale. The entire room 566 00:34:33,520 --> 00:34:37,239 Speaker 1: erupts in laughter. I mean, it just brings the house down. 567 00:34:37,760 --> 00:34:43,200 Speaker 1: He spends the remainder of his speech just mercilessly battering 568 00:34:43,320 --> 00:34:46,000 Speaker 1: my teammates. I mean it was back and forth. The 569 00:34:46,320 --> 00:34:49,480 Speaker 1: round was over at that point. Yeah, fast forward to 570 00:34:49,520 --> 00:34:51,640 Speaker 1: the very end of the round. He's clearly won the round. 571 00:34:52,760 --> 00:34:55,200 Speaker 1: The very end his last speech. As Rebuttally's up there 572 00:34:55,200 --> 00:34:59,160 Speaker 1: and he's about to close, he goes, all right, I 573 00:34:59,320 --> 00:35:02,680 Speaker 1: know you've been waiting for it, so i'll give it 574 00:35:02,760 --> 00:35:06,359 Speaker 1: to you. I can't give it anymore. Kept in, I'm 575 00:35:06,440 --> 00:35:11,920 Speaker 1: giving it all. She's good, And with that again, the 576 00:35:12,320 --> 00:35:17,240 Speaker 1: entire room lost it, and he returned to his seat 577 00:35:17,480 --> 00:35:22,040 Speaker 1: in triumphant victory. In that circumstance, wearing a skirt which 578 00:35:22,120 --> 00:35:26,040 Speaker 1: was a kilt was a strong and manly thing to do. Yes, 579 00:35:26,920 --> 00:35:31,040 Speaker 1: Hollywood actors or singers doing it. Let me just be 580 00:35:31,200 --> 00:35:35,200 Speaker 1: mild and say, not my thing. Not so much, I agree. 581 00:35:35,239 --> 00:35:38,000 Speaker 1: I also, by the way, Senator, do know what became 582 00:35:38,080 --> 00:35:41,839 Speaker 1: of mister Lally. He actually became He became the groundskeeper 583 00:35:41,920 --> 00:35:45,360 Speaker 1: on the Simpsons, which is which is unfortunate. You know, 584 00:35:45,400 --> 00:35:47,960 Speaker 1: I know everyone thought maybe he could have become a 585 00:35:48,000 --> 00:35:52,640 Speaker 1: big political fac is funny, That is funny. All right, 586 00:35:53,080 --> 00:35:55,360 Speaker 1: I think we have time for at least right, And 587 00:35:55,400 --> 00:35:58,080 Speaker 1: I promise you when the libel suit gets filed against you, 588 00:35:58,320 --> 00:36:01,160 Speaker 1: I will recommend a lawyer who's really expensive to represent you. 589 00:36:01,640 --> 00:36:04,000 Speaker 1: Thank you so much. I appreciate that. I know you're 590 00:36:04,120 --> 00:36:06,520 Speaker 1: very busy, but if you could get me a pricey lawyer. 591 00:36:06,560 --> 00:36:11,360 Speaker 1: That'd be great. From cautiously optimistic, this actually relates to school. 592 00:36:11,560 --> 00:36:15,520 Speaker 1: Dear senator, I'm a T fourteen law student who will 593 00:36:15,560 --> 00:36:17,000 Speaker 1: be I don't even know what that means, a T 594 00:36:17,160 --> 00:36:19,080 Speaker 1: fourteen law student who will be working at a big 595 00:36:19,160 --> 00:36:22,640 Speaker 1: law firm after I graduate. I'm very passionate about litigation. 596 00:36:22,960 --> 00:36:25,680 Speaker 1: How valuable is it to clerk for a federal judge? 597 00:36:27,000 --> 00:36:31,040 Speaker 1: Great question, massively valuable if you want to be a litigator. 598 00:36:31,080 --> 00:36:34,200 Speaker 1: It's the single most important thing you can do. I 599 00:36:34,320 --> 00:36:36,719 Speaker 1: clerk for two judges. I clerked for Mike Ludig, who 600 00:36:36,760 --> 00:36:38,400 Speaker 1: was a judge in the Federal Court of Appeals, and 601 00:36:38,520 --> 00:36:41,600 Speaker 1: then I clerked for Chief Justice William Rnquist on the 602 00:36:41,680 --> 00:36:45,680 Speaker 1: Supreme Court. I learned more each year of my clerkship 603 00:36:45,760 --> 00:36:47,640 Speaker 1: than I did all of law school. It is the 604 00:36:47,960 --> 00:36:50,239 Speaker 1: single biggest thing you can do to learn to be 605 00:36:50,280 --> 00:36:53,640 Speaker 1: a litigator. One of the problems in law school is 606 00:36:54,000 --> 00:36:59,040 Speaker 1: you understand legal cases as these sort of abstract academic things. 607 00:37:00,200 --> 00:37:03,360 Speaker 1: You don't understand that judges are people. You don't understand 608 00:37:03,400 --> 00:37:07,680 Speaker 1: how judges actually make decisions. The interaction, particularly in an 609 00:37:07,719 --> 00:37:10,640 Speaker 1: appellate court, between multiple judges, the back and forth and 610 00:37:10,840 --> 00:37:15,000 Speaker 1: clerking gives you an inside view to it that that 611 00:37:15,400 --> 00:37:18,040 Speaker 1: is just you know, I remember Chief Justice Ranquist. It 612 00:37:18,080 --> 00:37:21,000 Speaker 1: was amazing. So I clerked for him nineteen ninety six 613 00:37:21,040 --> 00:37:25,440 Speaker 1: to ninety seven. That was his twenty fifth anniversary as 614 00:37:25,440 --> 00:37:29,320 Speaker 1: a justice. It was his tenth anniversary as Chief Justice. 615 00:37:30,760 --> 00:37:33,160 Speaker 1: And for him when we'd have a case coming up 616 00:37:35,160 --> 00:37:39,160 Speaker 1: and it was a case that you'd studied in law 617 00:37:39,239 --> 00:37:41,320 Speaker 1: school and you thought of it as Smith versus Jones, 618 00:37:41,480 --> 00:37:43,360 Speaker 1: you know, it was sort of an abstract that stands 619 00:37:43,400 --> 00:37:46,480 Speaker 1: for this proposition of law. What was amazing about the 620 00:37:46,600 --> 00:37:49,920 Speaker 1: Chief is for him it was a memory, and it 621 00:37:50,120 --> 00:37:53,040 Speaker 1: was a memory of sitting at conference with the other 622 00:37:53,160 --> 00:37:57,040 Speaker 1: eight justices discussing and debating the case, and the Chief 623 00:37:57,080 --> 00:38:01,439 Speaker 1: would be like, oh, yes, that was the case when 624 00:38:01,800 --> 00:38:06,080 Speaker 1: thorough Good wanted to do such and such, but we 625 00:38:06,280 --> 00:38:10,560 Speaker 1: didn't agree with that, And it just it gives you 626 00:38:10,719 --> 00:38:16,160 Speaker 1: an insight into how courts actually reach decisions. If you 627 00:38:16,280 --> 00:38:18,960 Speaker 1: want to do trial work, clerking at the district court 628 00:38:19,080 --> 00:38:21,600 Speaker 1: is incredibly helpful. If you want to do a pellet work, 629 00:38:21,640 --> 00:38:24,800 Speaker 1: clerking at at a pellet court is incredibly helpful. But 630 00:38:24,920 --> 00:38:32,080 Speaker 1: I enthusiastically recommend judicial clerkships. Well, next question from Godzilla rules, 631 00:38:32,760 --> 00:38:36,720 Speaker 1: do you think the Antichrist in the Bible is alive today? 632 00:38:39,520 --> 00:38:46,000 Speaker 1: I don't know. You know, the Bible says Jesus is coming, 633 00:38:46,120 --> 00:38:50,680 Speaker 1: but no man knows the hour. And look, I grew 634 00:38:50,800 --> 00:38:53,520 Speaker 1: up in the evangelical world, Southern Baptist world, where they 635 00:38:53,560 --> 00:38:56,480 Speaker 1: are all sorts of things saying the Antichrist is this 636 00:38:56,760 --> 00:38:58,839 Speaker 1: or that or the other this is you know, whether 637 00:38:58,880 --> 00:39:01,399 Speaker 1: the Antichrist is brock Bomb or the ni christis Donald Trump. 638 00:39:01,440 --> 00:39:04,239 Speaker 1: I've like, whoever it is, I've heard a thousand people 639 00:39:04,280 --> 00:39:07,040 Speaker 1: of the Antichrist. I guess I have a degree of 640 00:39:07,160 --> 00:39:11,239 Speaker 1: humility in that if I see someone stand up and 641 00:39:11,400 --> 00:39:13,840 Speaker 1: mandate that we must all get six six six tattooed 642 00:39:13,880 --> 00:39:15,359 Speaker 1: on our forehead in the back of our hand, I'll 643 00:39:15,400 --> 00:39:20,720 Speaker 1: be like, Okay, now you're telling that somewhere. But short 644 00:39:20,760 --> 00:39:26,239 Speaker 1: of that, I'm going to express Look, the world could 645 00:39:26,360 --> 00:39:29,160 Speaker 1: end tomorrow, it could end a thousand years from now, 646 00:39:29,320 --> 00:39:33,279 Speaker 1: it could end ten thousand years from now, and if 647 00:39:33,360 --> 00:39:35,480 Speaker 1: you look at biblical prophecy, there are all sorts of 648 00:39:35,560 --> 00:39:38,480 Speaker 1: ways to interpret it that I'll just say I ain't 649 00:39:38,560 --> 00:39:42,600 Speaker 1: smart enough to say I know the answer, and so 650 00:39:45,960 --> 00:39:48,200 Speaker 1: I think we should live as if we've got a 651 00:39:48,239 --> 00:39:50,640 Speaker 1: whole lifetime ahead of us, and we're going to have 652 00:39:50,800 --> 00:39:54,279 Speaker 1: the biggest impact on our community and our neighbors in 653 00:39:54,360 --> 00:39:58,440 Speaker 1: our world. And if the Savior chooses to come earlier, 654 00:40:00,360 --> 00:40:03,360 Speaker 1: we will welcome and celebrate that that happy moment. But 655 00:40:03,920 --> 00:40:06,920 Speaker 1: in the meantime, we have work to do right ready 656 00:40:07,000 --> 00:40:09,359 Speaker 1: to die tomorrow, but planning to live for a very 657 00:40:09,440 --> 00:40:11,160 Speaker 1: long time and get a lot of things done. And 658 00:40:11,320 --> 00:40:13,719 Speaker 1: to your point, Senator, I think anyone who tells you 659 00:40:13,880 --> 00:40:18,200 Speaker 1: that they understand with crystal clarity the Book of the Apocalypse, 660 00:40:18,360 --> 00:40:20,840 Speaker 1: revelation or so, that is how you know with certainty 661 00:40:21,320 --> 00:40:23,920 Speaker 1: that person is completely insane. They certainly don't know what 662 00:40:23,960 --> 00:40:26,120 Speaker 1: you're talking about. But I do love the point. Sometimes 663 00:40:26,200 --> 00:40:28,680 Speaker 1: people will ask, do you think we're living in the 664 00:40:28,880 --> 00:40:33,120 Speaker 1: end times? And I always think, well, somebody's going to 665 00:40:33,160 --> 00:40:35,719 Speaker 1: be living in the end times. I don't think we are. 666 00:40:35,760 --> 00:40:39,200 Speaker 1: I wouldn't bet on it exactly, but I guess somebody's 667 00:40:39,239 --> 00:40:42,880 Speaker 1: going to so I will say so. Growing up in Houston, 668 00:40:43,040 --> 00:40:44,960 Speaker 1: I was a little kid. For a period of time 669 00:40:45,000 --> 00:40:47,000 Speaker 1: we went to First Baptist Church, and the pastor there, 670 00:40:47,080 --> 00:40:50,360 Speaker 1: John Beside, you did a year long sermon series in 671 00:40:50,400 --> 00:40:52,000 Speaker 1: the Book of Revelation, and I think I was, like, 672 00:40:52,080 --> 00:40:53,919 Speaker 1: I don't know, nine or ten years old at the time, 673 00:40:54,760 --> 00:40:57,120 Speaker 1: and I thought it was fascinating. I mean, it really 674 00:40:57,320 --> 00:41:00,440 Speaker 1: was interesting. And today Heidi and I were members at 675 00:41:00,440 --> 00:41:03,719 Speaker 1: First Baptist, the same church, and our pastor today is 676 00:41:03,760 --> 00:41:06,200 Speaker 1: the successor to John Bisignia's Gunam Greg Mott is a 677 00:41:06,400 --> 00:41:12,120 Speaker 1: wonderful pastor, incredible man of God, very scholarly, but very humble, 678 00:41:12,280 --> 00:41:16,040 Speaker 1: very down to earth, which is unusual for a pastor 679 00:41:16,120 --> 00:41:19,240 Speaker 1: to big church. But he did an extended sermon series 680 00:41:19,280 --> 00:41:23,279 Speaker 1: on the Book of Revelation that was just fascinating, and 681 00:41:23,560 --> 00:41:26,319 Speaker 1: having as a kid listened to one, I didn't remember 682 00:41:26,360 --> 00:41:30,640 Speaker 1: what the pastor said forty years ago, but it was 683 00:41:30,880 --> 00:41:38,080 Speaker 1: it was. The Book of Revelation is challenging, it's fascinating, 684 00:41:39,200 --> 00:41:43,520 Speaker 1: and there's so much imagery that that you know, things 685 00:41:43,600 --> 00:41:46,960 Speaker 1: could have all kinds of meanings, and I certainly don't 686 00:41:47,000 --> 00:41:53,400 Speaker 1: purport to know which interpretation is right as to what 687 00:41:53,600 --> 00:41:55,440 Speaker 1: all is going to happen in the end times and 688 00:41:56,360 --> 00:41:58,839 Speaker 1: when it's going to start. Before we go, one last 689 00:41:58,960 --> 00:42:03,839 Speaker 1: question this is from our very un cactus masks are 690 00:42:03,920 --> 00:42:06,319 Speaker 1: coming back to our school. We've been told it's because 691 00:42:07,320 --> 00:42:10,160 Speaker 1: is getting bad again, But to me it seems like 692 00:42:10,400 --> 00:42:12,600 Speaker 1: just a way to gin up anxiety for the midterms 693 00:42:12,800 --> 00:42:15,759 Speaker 1: and distract from Biden's bad policy. What are y'all's thoughts? 694 00:42:16,000 --> 00:42:18,920 Speaker 1: Is manipulating COVID fear the only way for the Dems 695 00:42:18,960 --> 00:42:23,160 Speaker 1: to stave off the red wave? Oh? Look, I think 696 00:42:23,200 --> 00:42:25,359 Speaker 1: it's one hundred percent. They're going to try something. Whether 697 00:42:25,480 --> 00:42:28,000 Speaker 1: it is COVID, whether it is monkey pox, I don't 698 00:42:28,000 --> 00:42:32,879 Speaker 1: know what it is. But the issue set they don't 699 00:42:32,960 --> 00:42:37,080 Speaker 1: want the election to be about is inflation, gas prices, 700 00:42:37,200 --> 00:42:40,600 Speaker 1: crime and illegal immigration. If that's what the election is about. 701 00:42:41,920 --> 00:42:44,640 Speaker 1: Republicans are winning fifty to seventy seats in the House, 702 00:42:44,719 --> 00:42:46,920 Speaker 1: We're taking the Senate with a big majority, and it 703 00:42:47,120 --> 00:42:51,440 Speaker 1: is a absolute Democrat bloodbat and so they're desperate to 704 00:42:51,520 --> 00:42:54,160 Speaker 1: change the topic to anything. COVID has been a good, 705 00:42:54,200 --> 00:42:56,839 Speaker 1: reliable one, So we'll see if if they have any 706 00:42:56,880 --> 00:43:02,680 Speaker 1: hook to do it, they'll try. But and I think 707 00:43:02,760 --> 00:43:05,600 Speaker 1: masks are part of it. I also think most Americans 708 00:43:05,640 --> 00:43:10,480 Speaker 1: are just done with masks. I'm like, I'm certainly there. 709 00:43:10,600 --> 00:43:14,719 Speaker 1: But although I will say it was thoroughly amusing so 710 00:43:15,239 --> 00:43:21,239 Speaker 1: let Last week, several Democrats, including Chuck Schumer, were out 711 00:43:21,320 --> 00:43:25,840 Speaker 1: because they tested positive for COVID. I don't know if 712 00:43:25,880 --> 00:43:29,080 Speaker 1: they were symptomatic or not, but I do think that 713 00:43:29,800 --> 00:43:33,319 Speaker 1: Democrats are testing much more frequently when they're asymptomatic than 714 00:43:33,640 --> 00:43:37,160 Speaker 1: Republicans are. And I've joked I want to introduce a 715 00:43:37,239 --> 00:43:41,680 Speaker 1: resolution mandating that Democratic senators must take COVID tests every day, 716 00:43:42,880 --> 00:43:44,719 Speaker 1: because I, for one, don't feel safe. And even if 717 00:43:44,719 --> 00:43:47,920 Speaker 1: they have no symptoms whatsoever, if they test positive, they're out. 718 00:43:48,000 --> 00:43:49,799 Speaker 1: They can't vote on the Senate floor, and they can't 719 00:43:49,840 --> 00:43:52,760 Speaker 1: pass socialism, the Green New Deal and build back broken, destroying, 720 00:43:52,800 --> 00:43:55,520 Speaker 1: bankrupt the country, and strip our constitutional rights and destroy 721 00:43:55,600 --> 00:44:00,440 Speaker 1: the republic. And that seems only responsible. I think effect 722 00:44:00,440 --> 00:44:03,800 Speaker 1: twice a day'd be even better. And an ancillary to 723 00:44:03,920 --> 00:44:06,200 Speaker 1: that is I think Democrats should be required to wear 724 00:44:06,320 --> 00:44:11,080 Speaker 1: masks forever. The only problem is their masks aren't tight 725 00:44:11,200 --> 00:44:13,560 Speaker 1: enough because we can still hear them talking. That's right, 726 00:44:13,600 --> 00:44:15,880 Speaker 1: you make a great point. Maybe double mask, triple mask, 727 00:44:16,400 --> 00:44:19,759 Speaker 1: twenty or thirty masks. We will find out what the 728 00:44:19,920 --> 00:44:23,040 Speaker 1: next crazy issue that the Democrats want to distract with, 729 00:44:23,800 --> 00:44:29,000 Speaker 1: probably momentarily, because you will be sticking around for a 730 00:44:29,280 --> 00:44:32,840 Speaker 1: Cloakroom conversation with our friend Liz Wheeler. I'm sure CNN 731 00:44:32,960 --> 00:44:35,719 Speaker 1: is tuned in. They want to set their programming for 732 00:44:36,200 --> 00:44:39,160 Speaker 1: the coming week. Liz, what will you be making their 733 00:44:39,200 --> 00:44:43,399 Speaker 1: heads explode with this time? Hi Michael, Hi, Senator, good 734 00:44:43,400 --> 00:44:45,720 Speaker 1: to see you both. Thanks for having me back. And Senator, 735 00:44:45,800 --> 00:44:48,040 Speaker 1: aren't you the same guy that I've seen splashed all 736 00:44:48,080 --> 00:44:52,000 Speaker 1: over CNN headlines, in international headlines all over the world 737 00:44:52,040 --> 00:44:57,239 Speaker 1: for saying something, you know, something so well constitutional and conservative. 738 00:44:57,680 --> 00:44:59,160 Speaker 1: This is what we do on the cloak Room. This 739 00:44:59,360 --> 00:45:02,320 Speaker 1: is it's a really fun series that we do on 740 00:45:02,640 --> 00:45:06,839 Speaker 1: your Verdict plus community. Today we're talking about the Wisconsin 741 00:45:07,000 --> 00:45:10,880 Speaker 1: Supreme Court. The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled on the twenty 742 00:45:10,960 --> 00:45:14,480 Speaker 1: twenty election on the infamous drop boxes and said that 743 00:45:14,520 --> 00:45:18,440 Speaker 1: those drop boxes were illegal not just for elections moving forward, 744 00:45:18,760 --> 00:45:20,920 Speaker 1: but for past elections too. So we're going to talk 745 00:45:20,920 --> 00:45:24,880 Speaker 1: about the legal implications of this. And you know, CNN, 746 00:45:24,960 --> 00:45:26,680 Speaker 1: we're looking forward to seeing you over there, all of 747 00:45:26,760 --> 00:45:30,600 Speaker 1: the new subscribers, both conservatives and the Kami Lives. We 748 00:45:30,680 --> 00:45:32,400 Speaker 1: will see you over there. You can actually even use 749 00:45:32,480 --> 00:45:35,040 Speaker 1: my promo code, which is Cloakroom to get your first 750 00:45:35,200 --> 00:45:38,200 Speaker 1: months free on your annual subscription. 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