1 00:00:01,480 --> 00:00:04,400 Speaker 1: Welcome. It is a verdict of Senator Ted Cruz. Ben 2 00:00:04,440 --> 00:00:08,280 Speaker 1: Ferguson with you. Senator. We're sitting here Wednesday midday and 3 00:00:08,320 --> 00:00:10,560 Speaker 1: we were waiting to see what was going to happen 4 00:00:11,119 --> 00:00:13,640 Speaker 1: with the big news on Donald Trump as he said 5 00:00:13,720 --> 00:00:16,200 Speaker 1: he was going to get arrested on Tuesday. That time 6 00:00:16,200 --> 00:00:19,599 Speaker 1: frame has now changed and it looks like Democrats maybe 7 00:00:19,600 --> 00:00:25,079 Speaker 1: getting cold feet. Fox News announced it this way, but 8 00:00:25,200 --> 00:00:28,280 Speaker 1: we began America reports with the developing story. Grand jury 9 00:00:28,320 --> 00:00:31,520 Speaker 1: proceedings in the hush money case against former President Trump 10 00:00:31,680 --> 00:00:35,239 Speaker 1: canceled for today this as we await news and a 11 00:00:35,280 --> 00:00:40,800 Speaker 1: possible indictment now, Senator, this obviously was a shock moment 12 00:00:40,840 --> 00:00:43,800 Speaker 1: for many that we're expecting an indictment. But if you 13 00:00:43,960 --> 00:00:47,360 Speaker 1: listen to the news, and I'm talking about the liberals 14 00:00:47,360 --> 00:00:52,520 Speaker 1: out there, they were campaigning for this. Van Jones actually 15 00:00:52,560 --> 00:00:56,560 Speaker 1: went on TV on CNN last night and was pretty 16 00:00:56,640 --> 00:01:00,840 Speaker 1: much making a public plea to this activist day, do 17 00:01:00,920 --> 00:01:03,520 Speaker 1: not do this. This is a bad move. It will 18 00:01:03,560 --> 00:01:07,000 Speaker 1: actually hurt Democrats more than anybody else. Here's how he 19 00:01:07,120 --> 00:01:10,360 Speaker 1: put it on CNN. Oh, if anybody is a Republican 20 00:01:10,480 --> 00:01:13,760 Speaker 1: and they have been afraid that there's some conspiracy, some 21 00:01:13,840 --> 00:01:19,000 Speaker 1: well organized conspiracy among progressives. They can relax now, because 22 00:01:19,040 --> 00:01:21,880 Speaker 1: you would not start with this charge. You would start 23 00:01:21,920 --> 00:01:24,959 Speaker 1: with the charge in Georgia where he was interfering with elections. 24 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:26,839 Speaker 1: You would start with the charge that he was helping 25 00:01:26,840 --> 00:01:29,959 Speaker 1: the insurrections and a coup. You wouldn't start with an 26 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:34,840 Speaker 1: eight year old porn star payoff. So just again, this 27 00:01:34,920 --> 00:01:37,200 Speaker 1: is proof, if nothing else, that the progressives are not 28 00:01:37,400 --> 00:01:39,319 Speaker 1: very well organized. This is not the one you would 29 00:01:39,319 --> 00:01:42,720 Speaker 1: start with. That said, I hear my conservative friends saying 30 00:01:42,800 --> 00:01:47,480 Speaker 1: he's being overcharged. It's so aggressive, it's so terrible. Welcome 31 00:01:47,520 --> 00:01:54,120 Speaker 1: to my world, folks. Prosecutors overcharging, being overaggressive, being ridiculous 32 00:01:54,200 --> 00:01:56,800 Speaker 1: with minor stuff and turning it into major stuff. Happens 33 00:01:56,920 --> 00:02:00,680 Speaker 1: every single day in America, every courthouse in America. I 34 00:02:00,720 --> 00:02:02,880 Speaker 1: think you want to be consistent now if you're concerned 35 00:02:02,880 --> 00:02:06,200 Speaker 1: that this particular person named Donald Trump is being overcharged 36 00:02:06,240 --> 00:02:08,640 Speaker 1: mistreated by a prosecutor, joined the rest of us who 37 00:02:08,680 --> 00:02:10,600 Speaker 1: are trying to stop that from happening to ordinary people. 38 00:02:10,760 --> 00:02:14,360 Speaker 1: But my view about this is I think that the 39 00:02:14,400 --> 00:02:17,480 Speaker 1: heat is on this da. I think he's going to 40 00:02:17,560 --> 00:02:20,040 Speaker 1: make a very sober decision and I would not be 41 00:02:20,080 --> 00:02:22,920 Speaker 1: surprised if he doesn't step back from the brain. Doesn't 42 00:02:22,919 --> 00:02:25,400 Speaker 1: step back from the brain, Senator, I've never seen a 43 00:02:25,400 --> 00:02:29,680 Speaker 1: democratic operative go on national TV speaking directly to DA 44 00:02:29,840 --> 00:02:33,399 Speaker 1: saying don't do this in this way. Well, you're right, 45 00:02:33,480 --> 00:02:35,440 Speaker 1: and I think this is a big deal. Number one, 46 00:02:36,280 --> 00:02:40,160 Speaker 1: This potential indictment is garbage. It is legally frivolous, It 47 00:02:40,280 --> 00:02:44,560 Speaker 1: is baseless, It is pure partisan hatred. It is the 48 00:02:44,600 --> 00:02:48,640 Speaker 1: weaponization of our legal system, of our justice system. I 49 00:02:48,680 --> 00:02:52,600 Speaker 1: would encourage everyone if you didn't listen to Monday's podcast, 50 00:02:53,160 --> 00:02:56,239 Speaker 1: you should go back and listen to it. The entire podcast. 51 00:02:56,280 --> 00:03:00,440 Speaker 1: On Monday, we went through chapter and verse the detailed 52 00:03:00,520 --> 00:03:05,200 Speaker 1: reasons why this prosecution is utterly baseless. We walked through 53 00:03:05,560 --> 00:03:08,800 Speaker 1: the statutes under which the New York DA is looking 54 00:03:08,840 --> 00:03:11,960 Speaker 1: at Donald Trump and the reasons why neither the facts 55 00:03:11,960 --> 00:03:14,960 Speaker 1: nor law remotely supported. And it's important to understand what's 56 00:03:14,960 --> 00:03:17,919 Speaker 1: happening here. You won't get it from watching the news. 57 00:03:18,040 --> 00:03:21,000 Speaker 1: Monday's podcast will walk you through and give you that information. 58 00:03:21,760 --> 00:03:25,760 Speaker 1: What is striking, though, is ever since it became public 59 00:03:26,280 --> 00:03:30,239 Speaker 1: that an arrest and indictment of Trump was imminent, we've 60 00:03:30,320 --> 00:03:35,160 Speaker 1: seen Democrats freaking out. And I got to say, the 61 00:03:35,200 --> 00:03:40,960 Speaker 1: attitude of many Democrats right now is remarkable. It frankly, 62 00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:46,360 Speaker 1: it reminds me of Monty Python. And here's the Democrats 63 00:03:46,720 --> 00:03:56,680 Speaker 1: response today. I mean, Senator, I love that part of 64 00:03:56,680 --> 00:03:59,160 Speaker 1: the movie, and it's so accurate to the Democrats there 65 00:03:59,280 --> 00:04:03,600 Speaker 1: literally screen at this, DA, do not do this, Do 66 00:04:03,640 --> 00:04:07,360 Speaker 1: not give this gift of a ridiculous indictment to Donald 67 00:04:07,360 --> 00:04:11,720 Speaker 1: Trump and turn him into a martyr literally runaway. Yeah, look, 68 00:04:12,200 --> 00:04:15,040 Speaker 1: that is certainly the reaction of a lot of Democrats. 69 00:04:16,520 --> 00:04:19,680 Speaker 1: You and I observed on Monday's podcast that if they 70 00:04:19,800 --> 00:04:23,240 Speaker 1: go ahead with this arrest and this indictment, when the 71 00:04:23,320 --> 00:04:25,800 Speaker 1: case is blown out of the water in court, which 72 00:04:25,800 --> 00:04:29,320 Speaker 1: it will be, that the effect, ironically will be a 73 00:04:29,400 --> 00:04:33,840 Speaker 1: massive backfire where this left wing George Soros funded DA 74 00:04:34,040 --> 00:04:38,159 Speaker 1: may well have played a pivotal role in reelecting Donald 75 00:04:38,160 --> 00:04:40,040 Speaker 1: Trump as President of the United States. And I think 76 00:04:40,080 --> 00:04:43,080 Speaker 1: a whole lot of Democrats are realizing this and going, 77 00:04:43,120 --> 00:04:46,599 Speaker 1: holy crap, we hate the guy, but this is really dumb, 78 00:04:46,720 --> 00:04:51,520 Speaker 1: and it's we'll see if Bragg actually runs away. So 79 00:04:51,560 --> 00:04:54,880 Speaker 1: the reason we don't have news today, Look, we had 80 00:04:54,920 --> 00:04:58,320 Speaker 1: anticipated based on what was publicly said that there would 81 00:04:58,360 --> 00:05:03,000 Speaker 1: be an indictment this mo morning, and what happened instead 82 00:05:03,120 --> 00:05:06,800 Speaker 1: is Alvin Bragg told the grand jury stay home, don't 83 00:05:06,839 --> 00:05:08,880 Speaker 1: put in today. I gotta get you to put your 84 00:05:08,960 --> 00:05:12,440 Speaker 1: lawyer had on centator here. For people that understand, don't understand, 85 00:05:12,520 --> 00:05:14,960 Speaker 1: or maybe never been in a court with a grand 86 00:05:15,080 --> 00:05:19,520 Speaker 1: jury or dealt with this, How abnormal is this? What 87 00:05:19,680 --> 00:05:22,240 Speaker 1: is happening behind the scenes? How does this work when 88 00:05:22,279 --> 00:05:23,920 Speaker 1: you tell a grand jury to stay home? And why 89 00:05:23,960 --> 00:05:27,080 Speaker 1: does that usually happen? Yeah, Look, there are two types 90 00:05:27,080 --> 00:05:29,559 Speaker 1: of juries in our criminal justice system. There's a grand 91 00:05:29,640 --> 00:05:33,440 Speaker 1: jury and a petit jury. A grand jury occurs before 92 00:05:33,480 --> 00:05:38,040 Speaker 1: the trial, and a grand jury consists of citizens from 93 00:05:38,080 --> 00:05:41,760 Speaker 1: the community who are impaneled for an extended period of time, 94 00:05:42,400 --> 00:05:45,440 Speaker 1: and the prosecutor will go and present evidence to the 95 00:05:45,480 --> 00:05:49,080 Speaker 1: grand jury seeking an indictment, and the prosecutor does that 96 00:05:49,640 --> 00:05:53,200 Speaker 1: without the defense attorney present, So it's a one sided presentation, 97 00:05:53,680 --> 00:05:57,080 Speaker 1: and it's the prosecutor presenting evidence to say is this 98 00:05:57,320 --> 00:06:00,640 Speaker 1: enough to charge the defendant with whatever or crime they're 99 00:06:00,640 --> 00:06:05,040 Speaker 1: trying to indict him on. The prosecutor has enormous leeway 100 00:06:05,080 --> 00:06:07,800 Speaker 1: with the grand jury. There's an old line that has 101 00:06:07,839 --> 00:06:11,320 Speaker 1: repeated gazillion times, which is a prosecutor could indict a 102 00:06:11,320 --> 00:06:13,760 Speaker 1: ham Sandwich. And part of the reason is the ham 103 00:06:13,800 --> 00:06:16,480 Speaker 1: Sandwich doesn't get a lawyer, so it's the prosecutor is 104 00:06:16,520 --> 00:06:20,799 Speaker 1: alone with the grand jury. In this instance, the reason 105 00:06:20,880 --> 00:06:23,320 Speaker 1: that the Manhattan DA would have told the grand jury 106 00:06:23,400 --> 00:06:27,720 Speaker 1: stay home, don't come in today is that Alvin Bragg 107 00:06:27,800 --> 00:06:31,679 Speaker 1: made the decision he didn't want to indict Donald Trump today. Now, 108 00:06:32,400 --> 00:06:35,400 Speaker 1: at least according to public reporting, they're coming in tomorrow 109 00:06:35,440 --> 00:06:38,920 Speaker 1: on Thursday, So we may have a podcast coming up 110 00:06:39,520 --> 00:06:42,039 Speaker 1: where we have different news to report. The fact that 111 00:06:42,120 --> 00:06:46,040 Speaker 1: he hit pause does not necessarily mean that Bragg is 112 00:06:46,120 --> 00:06:49,520 Speaker 1: hitting stop. And you have to assume that Bragg, like 113 00:06:49,600 --> 00:06:52,640 Speaker 1: every other Democrat, has trumped arrangement syndrome. They hate him 114 00:06:52,680 --> 00:06:55,560 Speaker 1: so much he may not be able to stop. But 115 00:06:55,640 --> 00:07:00,520 Speaker 1: I will say, look, I think the American people generally 116 00:07:01,360 --> 00:07:09,360 Speaker 1: are not terribly interested in obsessing on the personal misconduct 117 00:07:09,360 --> 00:07:13,880 Speaker 1: in the sex lives of politicians. We famously had Bill 118 00:07:13,920 --> 00:07:16,800 Speaker 1: Clinton and his impeachment, and I think one of the 119 00:07:16,800 --> 00:07:19,480 Speaker 1: reasons why Bill Clinton survived all of that is the 120 00:07:19,520 --> 00:07:23,640 Speaker 1: American people they certainly didn't admire Bill Clinton's conduct, but 121 00:07:23,720 --> 00:07:25,840 Speaker 1: at the end of the day, they were much more 122 00:07:25,880 --> 00:07:30,440 Speaker 1: interested and focused on official corruption rather than the personal 123 00:07:30,520 --> 00:07:34,280 Speaker 1: failings that Bill Clinton may have had. We've sadly seen 124 00:07:34,360 --> 00:07:41,520 Speaker 1: politicians from both parties have serious moral failings and sexual improprieties. 125 00:07:42,000 --> 00:07:45,720 Speaker 1: But I do think a lot of Democrats are pretty 126 00:07:45,760 --> 00:07:50,280 Speaker 1: dismayed that their opening salvo of the criminal justice system 127 00:07:50,440 --> 00:07:54,760 Speaker 1: is focused on an alleged affair with a porn star. 128 00:07:54,880 --> 00:07:58,119 Speaker 1: I think a lot of the voters they knew about 129 00:07:58,160 --> 00:08:01,720 Speaker 1: this already. They knew about this at the time, and 130 00:08:01,760 --> 00:08:05,640 Speaker 1: they made their decisions on whom to vote for based 131 00:08:05,720 --> 00:08:09,200 Speaker 1: on what policies would impact their lives and their families. 132 00:08:09,640 --> 00:08:14,560 Speaker 1: And so I hope Bragg actually listens to the Democrats 133 00:08:14,560 --> 00:08:16,720 Speaker 1: who are freaking out. And by the way, I hope 134 00:08:16,720 --> 00:08:20,480 Speaker 1: the other prosecutors, I hope Merrick Garland, who the Department 135 00:08:20,480 --> 00:08:24,559 Speaker 1: of Justice prosecution is potentially far more dangerous. We've talked 136 00:08:24,560 --> 00:08:26,880 Speaker 1: at length about how I believe Merrick Garland for the 137 00:08:26,920 --> 00:08:30,960 Speaker 1: same reason Alvin Bragg wants to indict and prosecute Trump, 138 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:34,920 Speaker 1: Merrick Garland does two. I hope all of these prosecutors 139 00:08:34,960 --> 00:08:40,240 Speaker 1: engaged in partisan justice stop and just do their jobs. 140 00:08:40,280 --> 00:08:43,600 Speaker 1: The threshold for indicting a president's never happened in the 141 00:08:43,640 --> 00:08:48,480 Speaker 1: history of our country. The threshold should be high, it 142 00:08:48,559 --> 00:08:53,600 Speaker 1: should be meaningful. It should not be explain why because 143 00:08:53,640 --> 00:08:55,760 Speaker 1: some people may not understand the reason why we've had 144 00:08:55,800 --> 00:08:57,400 Speaker 1: such a threshold. I mean, you go back to even 145 00:08:57,520 --> 00:09:01,000 Speaker 1: Nixon when he laughed at the presidents. The reason why 146 00:09:02,120 --> 00:09:04,680 Speaker 1: is the man who came into that position of power 147 00:09:04,760 --> 00:09:09,520 Speaker 1: to become the president, basically pardon him completely. Was he said, 148 00:09:09,880 --> 00:09:12,960 Speaker 1: it's not good for the country. We don't want to 149 00:09:13,000 --> 00:09:17,200 Speaker 1: be going after political leaders, especially a former president, and 150 00:09:17,360 --> 00:09:20,320 Speaker 1: turn us into a third world country where you send 151 00:09:20,360 --> 00:09:23,280 Speaker 1: people into exile and you arrest former leaders when other 152 00:09:23,280 --> 00:09:26,360 Speaker 1: people win elections, and so be it if it hurts me, 153 00:09:26,480 --> 00:09:29,320 Speaker 1: but it's for the good of the country. Well, that's 154 00:09:29,360 --> 00:09:32,560 Speaker 1: exactly right. And you know, Stalin famously said, show me 155 00:09:32,600 --> 00:09:36,480 Speaker 1: the man, and I'll show you the crime. Prosecutors have 156 00:09:36,520 --> 00:09:39,120 Speaker 1: a lot of discretion. Prosecutors have a lot of authority 157 00:09:39,960 --> 00:09:44,400 Speaker 1: if you unleash a team of prosecutors on anybody. You know, 158 00:09:44,400 --> 00:09:46,960 Speaker 1: I had a bunch of reporters yesterday asking me about that. 159 00:09:47,320 --> 00:09:49,560 Speaker 1: You know, well, don't you think it's good we're investigating 160 00:09:49,600 --> 00:09:51,800 Speaker 1: if Trump's committed a crime, I said, Look, if we 161 00:09:51,920 --> 00:09:56,000 Speaker 1: investigated descended prosecutors on you, I'm certain we'd find you've 162 00:09:56,000 --> 00:09:59,440 Speaker 1: committed a crime. You may have this morning driving to work, 163 00:09:59,440 --> 00:10:05,840 Speaker 1: you probably sped at some level. The criminal justice system 164 00:10:06,000 --> 00:10:10,000 Speaker 1: is meant to work for serious crimes, where there's real injury, 165 00:10:10,040 --> 00:10:12,920 Speaker 1: where there's real victims. Now, that's true, whether it is 166 00:10:12,920 --> 00:10:15,520 Speaker 1: a violent crime or whether it's a crime of corruption. 167 00:10:16,720 --> 00:10:21,240 Speaker 1: Look the evidence about the Biden family corruption making millions 168 00:10:21,280 --> 00:10:26,680 Speaker 1: of dollars, selling access and selling government policies. Whether it 169 00:10:26,800 --> 00:10:30,160 Speaker 1: is to Barisma, the Ukrainian natural gas company, or whether 170 00:10:30,200 --> 00:10:34,280 Speaker 1: it is to the Chinese Communist Party. Those are serious 171 00:10:34,280 --> 00:10:39,680 Speaker 1: and real questions of public policy and corruption. But you 172 00:10:39,720 --> 00:10:42,199 Speaker 1: know you talked about third world countries. Listen, Sadly, a 173 00:10:42,280 --> 00:10:44,880 Speaker 1: lot of countries in the world have a history of 174 00:10:45,000 --> 00:10:48,600 Speaker 1: one administration. One party will be in power, then the 175 00:10:48,640 --> 00:10:50,559 Speaker 1: next party gets in power, and one of the first 176 00:10:50,559 --> 00:10:53,280 Speaker 1: things they do is lock up their predecessors, go after 177 00:10:53,320 --> 00:10:56,520 Speaker 1: their predecessors and say okay, now you're going to jail. 178 00:10:56,559 --> 00:11:00,880 Speaker 1: And ultimately that is incredibly hard, harmful for the rule 179 00:11:00,920 --> 00:11:05,400 Speaker 1: of law, it's incredibly harmful for democracy, and because prosecutors 180 00:11:05,400 --> 00:11:09,679 Speaker 1: have so much power. We don't want Republicans when they 181 00:11:09,679 --> 00:11:13,360 Speaker 1: come in office unleashing all of that force trying to 182 00:11:13,440 --> 00:11:16,720 Speaker 1: just incarceerate their opponents. We don't want Democrats in power 183 00:11:17,080 --> 00:11:20,520 Speaker 1: unleashing all their force trying to incarceerate their opponents. You know, 184 00:11:20,559 --> 00:11:24,280 Speaker 1: I talk about this at length in my latest book, 185 00:11:24,320 --> 00:11:27,720 Speaker 1: Justice Corrupted, about the way it's supposed to work, and 186 00:11:27,840 --> 00:11:33,360 Speaker 1: in this instance, particularly with respect to a former president, 187 00:11:33,400 --> 00:11:38,720 Speaker 1: and especially a former president of the opposing party, we 188 00:11:38,840 --> 00:11:42,800 Speaker 1: shouldn't see the kind of ticky tack indictments. Look, this 189 00:11:42,880 --> 00:11:46,720 Speaker 1: New York statute is a bookkeeping statute. It's a misdemeanor 190 00:11:46,800 --> 00:11:49,360 Speaker 1: on its face. It's the sort of thing that on 191 00:11:49,400 --> 00:11:52,600 Speaker 1: the terms of it, if Trump is committed to violation, 192 00:11:52,760 --> 00:11:55,240 Speaker 1: Hillary Clinton has two And we talked about that at 193 00:11:55,320 --> 00:12:00,480 Speaker 1: length on Monday's podcast. And so if you said earlier, 194 00:12:00,480 --> 00:12:02,640 Speaker 1: and I'll say it again, go back and listen to 195 00:12:03,440 --> 00:12:05,640 Speaker 1: If you missed the last podcast, go back and get 196 00:12:05,679 --> 00:12:08,640 Speaker 1: it because it will lay out so much of what 197 00:12:08,679 --> 00:12:11,199 Speaker 1: we're referencing right now. If you missed it, it's worth 198 00:12:11,240 --> 00:12:13,959 Speaker 1: going back and listening to. Senator I also want to 199 00:12:13,960 --> 00:12:18,200 Speaker 1: ask you about just a basic political question about this. 200 00:12:18,679 --> 00:12:20,839 Speaker 1: There's some of the media they've been saying Donald Trump 201 00:12:20,960 --> 00:12:24,199 Speaker 1: is terrified. MSNBC said he's shaking in his boots of 202 00:12:24,280 --> 00:12:27,800 Speaker 1: being indicted. I completely disagree with that. 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If I was Donald Trump, the only 227 00:13:51,360 --> 00:13:53,200 Speaker 1: the only thing I would be arguing over is what 228 00:13:53,320 --> 00:13:55,600 Speaker 1: to where and how big I should grin If they 229 00:13:55,640 --> 00:14:00,720 Speaker 1: make me come in and do a mugshot. Well, I'm 230 00:14:00,720 --> 00:14:02,959 Speaker 1: confident the answer to that will be if there's a 231 00:14:03,040 --> 00:14:07,040 Speaker 1: mug shot, Trump will be smiling ear to ear. And 232 00:14:07,920 --> 00:14:11,000 Speaker 1: I think you're right. I think he is perfectly happy 233 00:14:11,040 --> 00:14:15,120 Speaker 1: to have this ridiculous prosecution targeted at him. I think 234 00:14:15,120 --> 00:14:21,200 Speaker 1: it benefits him politically, and that's precisely why Democrats are 235 00:14:21,240 --> 00:14:23,560 Speaker 1: running away. I will say, by the way, just a 236 00:14:23,600 --> 00:14:25,920 Speaker 1: minute ago, I had that sort of nagging voice in 237 00:14:25,960 --> 00:14:28,640 Speaker 1: the back of my mind. I said that Stalin was 238 00:14:28,680 --> 00:14:30,160 Speaker 1: the one who said show me the man. I'll show 239 00:14:30,200 --> 00:14:31,800 Speaker 1: you the crime, and part of me was saying, well, 240 00:14:31,880 --> 00:14:34,120 Speaker 1: I don't think that's right, So I just googled. It 241 00:14:34,120 --> 00:14:36,400 Speaker 1: turned out I was sort of right, but sort of wrong. 242 00:14:36,480 --> 00:14:41,160 Speaker 1: It wasn't actually Stalin who said that. It was Lavrentia Barria, 243 00:14:41,320 --> 00:14:44,960 Speaker 1: who was the longest serving secret police chief working for 244 00:14:45,080 --> 00:14:48,680 Speaker 1: Joseph Stalin again, and what he said, his quote was 245 00:14:48,720 --> 00:14:50,360 Speaker 1: show me the man and I'll show you the crime. 246 00:14:50,840 --> 00:14:54,120 Speaker 1: And he served as deputy Premier from nineteen forty one 247 00:14:54,280 --> 00:14:57,160 Speaker 1: until Stalin's death in nineteen fifty three, and he was 248 00:14:57,200 --> 00:15:00,880 Speaker 1: in charge of the Gulags and he understood, whoever it is, 249 00:15:00,920 --> 00:15:04,160 Speaker 1: Ben Ferguson, he may well have committed a felony while 250 00:15:04,200 --> 00:15:07,680 Speaker 1: recording this podcast for all we know. But if we 251 00:15:07,760 --> 00:15:11,440 Speaker 1: unleash the secret police on him, we're going to find something. Yeah, 252 00:15:11,560 --> 00:15:14,160 Speaker 1: And that's what this seems to be about. There is 253 00:15:14,360 --> 00:15:17,160 Speaker 1: one audio equip I've got to just play for you, 254 00:15:17,200 --> 00:15:19,600 Speaker 1: and I do think this tells you a lot about 255 00:15:19,600 --> 00:15:22,720 Speaker 1: the mindset of the left right now. They are obsessed 256 00:15:22,760 --> 00:15:26,360 Speaker 1: and have been since twenty sixteen with putting Donald Trump 257 00:15:26,400 --> 00:15:30,240 Speaker 1: in jail. The view put it this way, this morning, 258 00:15:30,520 --> 00:15:34,240 Speaker 1: I want to start this with this update. Uh, you 259 00:15:34,240 --> 00:15:39,800 Speaker 1: know who is still at large? He is yes, he is, 260 00:15:39,560 --> 00:15:43,560 Speaker 1: he yes, hasn't been arrested. No, like you predicted. Well, 261 00:15:43,640 --> 00:15:46,400 Speaker 1: you know, you kind of have to weigh it with 262 00:15:46,480 --> 00:15:49,560 Speaker 1: all the other stuff he said, and you figure it. Well, 263 00:15:50,240 --> 00:15:52,520 Speaker 1: you know you said you won the election, you didn't win. 264 00:15:52,840 --> 00:15:56,680 Speaker 1: Good point. Senday, come and arrescue. I send that to Joya. 265 00:15:56,720 --> 00:16:02,160 Speaker 1: Why don't we start believing him now? He manipulated everybody though, 266 00:16:02,440 --> 00:16:05,000 Speaker 1: we all wrote to the occasion, the papers, everybody just 267 00:16:05,040 --> 00:16:11,440 Speaker 1: went there. So many people were excited. Eliah. Yeah. I 268 00:16:11,520 --> 00:16:14,120 Speaker 1: mean this is their obsession, and that's where I think 269 00:16:14,160 --> 00:16:16,480 Speaker 1: Bragg probably said, the people want me to do this, 270 00:16:16,600 --> 00:16:19,080 Speaker 1: the media wants me to do this. They're all pushing 271 00:16:19,160 --> 00:16:21,000 Speaker 1: for this. I'll be the guy to do it. And 272 00:16:21,040 --> 00:16:24,080 Speaker 1: really it may help him politically because there's a very 273 00:16:24,080 --> 00:16:28,320 Speaker 1: good chance he wants to run for governor of New York. Well, 274 00:16:28,360 --> 00:16:30,760 Speaker 1: I think it's amusing that the views take on it 275 00:16:30,840 --> 00:16:34,000 Speaker 1: is Oh no, no, he wasn't going to be arrested. Look, 276 00:16:34,120 --> 00:16:36,520 Speaker 1: it's clear Bragg was planning to arrest him, and I'm 277 00:16:36,600 --> 00:16:40,240 Speaker 1: planning to arrest him this week. That's why there's been 278 00:16:40,280 --> 00:16:44,200 Speaker 1: this Democrat freak out because I think Democrats realized it 279 00:16:44,280 --> 00:16:49,600 Speaker 1: was an enormous stumble. The case is legally frivolous. Anyone 280 00:16:49,640 --> 00:16:52,040 Speaker 1: who looks at it, you can't with a straight face 281 00:16:52,680 --> 00:16:57,080 Speaker 1: argue that you should go after Trump based on this 282 00:16:57,200 --> 00:17:03,960 Speaker 1: New York bookkeeping violation that has no application to this. 283 00:17:04,040 --> 00:17:07,480 Speaker 1: It's a statute that says you can't have a false 284 00:17:07,560 --> 00:17:11,960 Speaker 1: bookkeeping business record, and in this instance he's trying to 285 00:17:12,400 --> 00:17:14,960 Speaker 1: the statute of limitations has run. In other words, he 286 00:17:15,080 --> 00:17:18,840 Speaker 1: can't charge the misdemeanor offense, so he's got to try 287 00:17:18,880 --> 00:17:22,480 Speaker 1: to bootstrap it into a federal election law offense, which 288 00:17:22,480 --> 00:17:25,840 Speaker 1: the Federal Election Commission declined to prosecute, the Department of 289 00:17:25,920 --> 00:17:28,880 Speaker 1: Justice declined to prosecute, the Southern District of New York 290 00:17:28,920 --> 00:17:33,120 Speaker 1: declined to prosecute, and the Mueller investigation declined to prosecute. 291 00:17:33,160 --> 00:17:36,520 Speaker 1: So everyone who's looked at this says there's no there there. 292 00:17:36,840 --> 00:17:41,520 Speaker 1: And yet if you wake up every morning growling and 293 00:17:41,640 --> 00:17:45,360 Speaker 1: hating Donald Trump, like Woppie Goldberg does, like Alvin Bragg does, 294 00:17:46,119 --> 00:17:49,120 Speaker 1: then you don't care about the facts of the law. 295 00:17:49,200 --> 00:17:51,840 Speaker 1: You just want to get the guy. And I think 296 00:17:51,880 --> 00:17:55,400 Speaker 1: what has happened this week so far is it may 297 00:17:55,400 --> 00:17:58,640 Speaker 1: be that Bragg's getting cold feet because Democrats are so 298 00:17:58,840 --> 00:18:03,960 Speaker 1: terrified of the consequences of this frivolous prosecution. Yeah, no 299 00:18:04,000 --> 00:18:05,520 Speaker 1: doubt about it. I want to talk about a couple 300 00:18:05,560 --> 00:18:09,360 Speaker 1: of different victories, real quick, Senator. One of those deals, 301 00:18:09,440 --> 00:18:12,439 Speaker 1: and we talked about this in a prior pod, with 302 00:18:12,680 --> 00:18:18,840 Speaker 1: the idea of Phil Washington heading the FAA. You've got 303 00:18:18,880 --> 00:18:21,280 Speaker 1: some news to break on that. But before we get 304 00:18:21,320 --> 00:18:23,520 Speaker 1: to it, I want people to hear what you had 305 00:18:23,560 --> 00:18:26,560 Speaker 1: to say from the fourth Senate last night. Let me 306 00:18:26,640 --> 00:18:30,960 Speaker 1: suggest to the members of the Senate, if God forbid 307 00:18:32,800 --> 00:18:34,560 Speaker 1: that were to happen in the next two years, and 308 00:18:34,600 --> 00:18:38,400 Speaker 1: I pray that it does not, I can tell you 309 00:18:38,480 --> 00:18:42,159 Speaker 1: I certainly wouldn't want to be a Senator who voted 310 00:18:42,200 --> 00:18:45,760 Speaker 1: to confirm an administrator the FAA who's never flown a plane, 311 00:18:45,800 --> 00:18:48,480 Speaker 1: who doesn't know anything about aviation safety and has no 312 00:18:48,600 --> 00:18:52,720 Speaker 1: idea why the plane crashed. I don't know how I'd 313 00:18:52,760 --> 00:18:57,960 Speaker 1: go home and explain to thirty million Texans that, well, 314 00:18:59,560 --> 00:19:02,639 Speaker 1: you know, my political party nominated him, and so I 315 00:19:02,760 --> 00:19:05,240 Speaker 1: just I went with party loyalty and voted to confirm 316 00:19:05,320 --> 00:19:08,159 Speaker 1: the guy, even though he didn't have the experience to 317 00:19:08,160 --> 00:19:12,600 Speaker 1: do the job. I don't believe mister Washington's going to 318 00:19:12,600 --> 00:19:19,159 Speaker 1: be confirmed. I personally I respect his military service. When 319 00:19:19,200 --> 00:19:24,080 Speaker 1: he testified before the committee, he seemed like a decent 320 00:19:24,160 --> 00:19:29,800 Speaker 1: and capable man. But he's also a man who doesn't 321 00:19:29,840 --> 00:19:34,840 Speaker 1: know anything about airplanes. And if there's any job in 322 00:19:34,880 --> 00:19:37,439 Speaker 1: the entire federal government where you need to know not 323 00:19:37,520 --> 00:19:42,960 Speaker 1: just something about airplanes, a lot about airplanes, it is 324 00:19:43,000 --> 00:19:45,280 Speaker 1: to be the administrator of the FAA. We need a 325 00:19:45,359 --> 00:19:49,760 Speaker 1: Senate confirmed leader in this job quickly, and I would 326 00:19:49,880 --> 00:19:56,280 Speaker 1: urge the President withdraw this nomination and nominate either Acting 327 00:19:56,320 --> 00:20:02,280 Speaker 1: Administrator Nolan, or, if not him, somebody liked with decades 328 00:20:02,320 --> 00:20:05,240 Speaker 1: of real experience, so that we can have a Senate 329 00:20:05,240 --> 00:20:09,720 Speaker 1: confirmed leader with the knowledge and judgment and expertise to 330 00:20:09,800 --> 00:20:13,840 Speaker 1: do everything humanly possible to keep your family safe and 331 00:20:13,960 --> 00:20:16,760 Speaker 1: my family safe, and to keep the flying public safe. 332 00:20:17,040 --> 00:20:20,840 Speaker 1: We have a responsibility. We have a responsibility to do 333 00:20:20,880 --> 00:20:25,080 Speaker 1: this right. I yield the floor now, Center, You've got 334 00:20:25,119 --> 00:20:28,119 Speaker 1: an update on this nominee. And before I get to that, 335 00:20:28,560 --> 00:20:30,560 Speaker 1: I want to tell you about our friends of Patriot Mobile. 336 00:20:30,880 --> 00:20:33,080 Speaker 1: If you have a cell phone and nine percent of 337 00:20:33,160 --> 00:20:36,919 Speaker 1: you listening, do make the switch to the only conservative 338 00:20:37,000 --> 00:20:40,840 Speaker 1: Christian cell phone company in the US Patriot Mobile, because 339 00:20:40,840 --> 00:20:43,320 Speaker 1: when you pay your bill every month at no extra charge, 340 00:20:43,400 --> 00:20:46,680 Speaker 1: you you're actually supporting causes you believe in. I'm talking 341 00:20:46,680 --> 00:20:48,800 Speaker 1: about standing out for our First and Second Amendment right, 342 00:20:48,880 --> 00:20:53,960 Speaker 1: standing up for unborn children, even helping with adoptions. 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This 362 00:21:53,200 --> 00:21:56,280 Speaker 1: morning we had the markup where Phil Washington was scheduled 363 00:21:56,280 --> 00:21:58,879 Speaker 1: to be voted on in the Commerce Committee that began 364 00:21:58,920 --> 00:22:01,520 Speaker 1: at ten am, and am I had every reason to 365 00:22:01,520 --> 00:22:04,119 Speaker 1: believe that we were going to vote on Phil Washington. 366 00:22:04,680 --> 00:22:08,240 Speaker 1: A few minutes later, Maria Kentwell, the Democrat chair, announced 367 00:22:08,320 --> 00:22:12,000 Speaker 1: that the committee was delaying the vote on Phil Washington, 368 00:22:12,000 --> 00:22:15,520 Speaker 1: that we were not voting on Phil Washington today. I 369 00:22:15,560 --> 00:22:17,480 Speaker 1: think the reason is simple, they don't have the votes. 370 00:22:17,680 --> 00:22:23,240 Speaker 1: And listen, Washington is wildly unqualified to do this job. 371 00:22:23,920 --> 00:22:27,879 Speaker 1: The job is ADM Administrator of the FAA. Millions of 372 00:22:27,880 --> 00:22:32,359 Speaker 1: Americans fly on planes every year. Mister Washington doesn't know 373 00:22:32,440 --> 00:22:35,959 Speaker 1: anything about planes. He's not a pilot. He's never been 374 00:22:35,960 --> 00:22:38,639 Speaker 1: a military pilot. He's never been a commercial airline pilot. 375 00:22:39,200 --> 00:22:41,840 Speaker 1: He's never worked for an airline. He's never worked at 376 00:22:41,840 --> 00:22:47,280 Speaker 1: the FA. He's never worked in airplane manufacturer. He's never 377 00:22:47,320 --> 00:22:50,360 Speaker 1: worked in airplane repair. He's never worked as an air 378 00:22:50,400 --> 00:22:54,560 Speaker 1: traffic controller. His career has been dealing with buses and trains. 379 00:22:54,600 --> 00:22:56,879 Speaker 1: Buses and trains are great, but they don't fly in 380 00:22:56,920 --> 00:23:05,080 Speaker 1: the air. And his nomination, on its face is he 381 00:23:05,280 --> 00:23:08,439 Speaker 1: is wildly unqualified for this job. I believe all of 382 00:23:08,440 --> 00:23:10,720 Speaker 1: the Republicans agree with that, but there have been a 383 00:23:10,800 --> 00:23:16,040 Speaker 1: number of Democrats who have expressed publicly concerns and listen, 384 00:23:16,160 --> 00:23:18,919 Speaker 1: something like the FAA I don't think should be a 385 00:23:18,960 --> 00:23:22,480 Speaker 1: partisan position. I don't particularly want a Republican FAA administrator 386 00:23:22,560 --> 00:23:25,240 Speaker 1: or a Democrat FAA administrator. I want a guy who 387 00:23:25,280 --> 00:23:28,520 Speaker 1: knows how to keep planes in the air. And I'll 388 00:23:28,560 --> 00:23:34,320 Speaker 1: point out there is right now somebody, Billy Nolan, who 389 00:23:34,359 --> 00:23:39,080 Speaker 1: is the acting administrator of the FAA. Joe Biden selected him, 390 00:23:39,200 --> 00:23:42,800 Speaker 1: named him the acting administrator. Unlike Phil Washington, he has 391 00:23:42,880 --> 00:23:46,440 Speaker 1: decades of experience in aviation. He has decades of experience 392 00:23:46,480 --> 00:23:49,280 Speaker 1: in aviation safety. He's a pilot, he's been a commercial 393 00:23:49,280 --> 00:23:55,120 Speaker 1: airline pilot, he has multiple certifications in aviation safety. He's 394 00:23:55,160 --> 00:23:59,760 Speaker 1: been a senior official at the FAA. There's an obvious solution, 395 00:23:59,800 --> 00:24:02,399 Speaker 1: and I'll tell you I just suggested this at a 396 00:24:02,440 --> 00:24:04,879 Speaker 1: hearing a couple of weeks ago, and to kind of 397 00:24:04,880 --> 00:24:09,040 Speaker 1: take you behind the scenes, when I sat down at 398 00:24:09,040 --> 00:24:11,600 Speaker 1: the hearing, it was a hearing where Billy Nolan was testifying. 399 00:24:11,640 --> 00:24:13,879 Speaker 1: I had not planned to say this, and my staff 400 00:24:13,920 --> 00:24:16,359 Speaker 1: hadn't written out remarks on it. But just as I 401 00:24:16,400 --> 00:24:20,760 Speaker 1: was listening to him testify, the contrast between his knowledge 402 00:24:20,760 --> 00:24:25,360 Speaker 1: of aviation and Washington's lack of knowledge was really striking. 403 00:24:25,400 --> 00:24:27,080 Speaker 1: So I turned to my staffers in the back and 404 00:24:27,080 --> 00:24:28,800 Speaker 1: I said, look, what do you think of mine just 405 00:24:28,920 --> 00:24:32,359 Speaker 1: suggesting how about this guy? And my team thought that 406 00:24:32,440 --> 00:24:34,520 Speaker 1: made sense, and so I just leaned forward to the 407 00:24:34,560 --> 00:24:37,880 Speaker 1: microphone and said, listen, if the Biden White House wants 408 00:24:37,880 --> 00:24:42,760 Speaker 1: a successful nomination withdraw Washington named Billy Nolan, and he 409 00:24:42,800 --> 00:24:46,240 Speaker 1: will get confirmed with a big bipartisan vote, and we 410 00:24:46,320 --> 00:24:51,040 Speaker 1: need to have a qualified Senate confirmed leader of the FAA. Listen. 411 00:24:51,080 --> 00:24:56,080 Speaker 1: We've seen over and over again airlines almost colliding. God forbid, 412 00:24:56,119 --> 00:25:00,560 Speaker 1: we have some horrific mass casualty event when the Biden 413 00:25:00,600 --> 00:25:05,240 Speaker 1: administration doesn't have a Senate confirmed leader of the FAA. 414 00:25:05,320 --> 00:25:09,159 Speaker 1: They need to fix this now. And today's announcement that 415 00:25:09,760 --> 00:25:14,439 Speaker 1: they are quote postponing the vote, it may be like 416 00:25:14,520 --> 00:25:18,199 Speaker 1: Alvin Bragg's announcement that he's postponing the grand jury coming in, 417 00:25:18,240 --> 00:25:23,479 Speaker 1: it may be postponed permanently. I hope both of them are. 418 00:25:23,520 --> 00:25:28,240 Speaker 1: But but if the administration withdraws Phil Washington, it would 419 00:25:28,240 --> 00:25:31,640 Speaker 1: be another big victory. As you know, we already defeated 420 00:25:31,680 --> 00:25:35,359 Speaker 1: Gigi Soone, who Biden had nominated to the FCC, the 421 00:25:35,400 --> 00:25:38,840 Speaker 1: Federal Communications Commission, because she was radical and had an 422 00:25:38,840 --> 00:25:43,119 Speaker 1: extreme record. I think there's a very good chance the 423 00:25:43,119 --> 00:25:45,400 Speaker 1: Phil Washington nomination is going to go down as well, 424 00:25:45,440 --> 00:25:48,840 Speaker 1: and we will get instead someone qualified and with the 425 00:25:48,920 --> 00:25:51,440 Speaker 1: knowledge to keep your family safe and my family safe 426 00:25:51,440 --> 00:25:53,119 Speaker 1: when we go up on an airplane. Yeah, and there 427 00:25:53,119 --> 00:25:56,680 Speaker 1: should be a non political position. It should be one 428 00:25:56,720 --> 00:26:00,040 Speaker 1: that should be bipartisan. When you're approving someone and it 429 00:26:00,119 --> 00:26:02,360 Speaker 1: looks like they don't have the votes because they can 430 00:26:02,400 --> 00:26:04,879 Speaker 1: count easily, right, I mean, they know where they stood 431 00:26:05,040 --> 00:26:08,280 Speaker 1: this morning at ten am. Well, look, I think the 432 00:26:08,400 --> 00:26:11,639 Speaker 1: vote was scheduled this morning because the White House wanted 433 00:26:11,680 --> 00:26:16,080 Speaker 1: to put political pressure onto Democrats to force them to 434 00:26:16,200 --> 00:26:19,160 Speaker 1: support him, even though he's not qualified. And I'm sure 435 00:26:19,640 --> 00:26:23,920 Speaker 1: there was massive arm twisting, probably going on until late 436 00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:27,000 Speaker 1: last night or even early this morning. But the fact 437 00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:29,040 Speaker 1: that they delayed the votes, it tells me that their 438 00:26:29,160 --> 00:26:32,920 Speaker 1: arm twisting didn't work, and I think it's likely we're 439 00:26:32,920 --> 00:26:35,960 Speaker 1: going to see this nomination withdrawn. That's what should happen. 440 00:26:36,560 --> 00:26:38,720 Speaker 1: I can tell you I heard from inside the Biden 441 00:26:38,760 --> 00:26:42,480 Speaker 1: White House that when I suggested Billy Nolan that they 442 00:26:42,480 --> 00:26:46,120 Speaker 1: that that reverberated throughout the halls of the White House. 443 00:26:46,160 --> 00:26:48,600 Speaker 1: They're like, what, holy crap, you mean there's a way 444 00:26:48,640 --> 00:26:51,080 Speaker 1: we can get a guy through and get a guy 445 00:26:51,119 --> 00:26:53,800 Speaker 1: through fast. And let's be clear, I don't know Billy Nolan. 446 00:26:53,880 --> 00:26:56,040 Speaker 1: I'm not suggesting him because he's a Republican. I'm not 447 00:26:56,080 --> 00:26:59,600 Speaker 1: suggesting him because he's my guy. He's the person the 448 00:26:59,720 --> 00:27:03,760 Speaker 1: by an administration named as their acting administrator. I'm just 449 00:27:03,840 --> 00:27:06,600 Speaker 1: looking at qualifications and knowledge. And when I asked Billy 450 00:27:06,680 --> 00:27:10,600 Speaker 1: Nolan questions about the FAA and keeping airline travel safe, 451 00:27:10,920 --> 00:27:14,600 Speaker 1: he can answer those questions when I ask Phil Washington. 452 00:27:14,640 --> 00:27:17,920 Speaker 1: I asked Phil Washington, for example, a couple of years ago, 453 00:27:17,960 --> 00:27:20,960 Speaker 1: we had the horrific crashes of the seven thirty seven Maxes, 454 00:27:21,000 --> 00:27:24,720 Speaker 1: two different crashes. Three hundred and forty six lives were 455 00:27:24,760 --> 00:27:28,160 Speaker 1: lost in those two crashes. I asked him, why did 456 00:27:28,160 --> 00:27:31,080 Speaker 1: the planes crash? He said, I don't know. You know, 457 00:27:31,240 --> 00:27:34,120 Speaker 1: that's kind of a pretty big frigging problem. I told him, 458 00:27:34,119 --> 00:27:37,400 Speaker 1: I said, mister Washington, I believe you. I believe that 459 00:27:37,480 --> 00:27:42,159 Speaker 1: you don't know, and that's why you're not qualified to 460 00:27:42,359 --> 00:27:45,560 Speaker 1: lead this agency, because the head of the FA should 461 00:27:45,680 --> 00:27:48,840 Speaker 1: know exactly why they crashed, and in particular, should know 462 00:27:49,359 --> 00:27:51,640 Speaker 1: what we need to do to prevent it from happening 463 00:27:52,760 --> 00:27:55,960 Speaker 1: in another flight. Yeah, you wish that this administration would 464 00:27:56,000 --> 00:27:59,760 Speaker 1: start taking these positions seriously. It is thank goodness you 465 00:27:59,800 --> 00:28:03,320 Speaker 1: were able to really ask these questions. A lot of 466 00:28:03,400 --> 00:28:07,680 Speaker 1: that went viral by just showing people how inadequate this 467 00:28:07,760 --> 00:28:11,440 Speaker 1: nominee is for this specific job, and that is where 468 00:28:11,560 --> 00:28:14,359 Speaker 1: it clearly made an impact, even on Democrats, which is 469 00:28:14,400 --> 00:28:17,320 Speaker 1: a great news for all of us when it comes 470 00:28:17,320 --> 00:28:20,520 Speaker 1: to safety. This is a non political appointee and it 471 00:28:20,600 --> 00:28:24,719 Speaker 1: should never be a political person. And I'm glad that 472 00:28:24,800 --> 00:28:27,760 Speaker 1: there's some success it looks like here that has happened 473 00:28:27,800 --> 00:28:30,000 Speaker 1: with this. Finally, I want to ask you about another 474 00:28:30,119 --> 00:28:33,320 Speaker 1: and this for me is a huge deal. As a 475 00:28:33,359 --> 00:28:37,400 Speaker 1: broadcaster is someone that does radio in TV for a living. 476 00:28:38,320 --> 00:28:42,080 Speaker 1: When you see people be d platformed, whether it's individuals 477 00:28:42,080 --> 00:28:46,400 Speaker 1: on social media or from TV, networks. It is a 478 00:28:46,440 --> 00:28:49,320 Speaker 1: scary moment. We're now being told that there has been 479 00:28:49,360 --> 00:28:53,200 Speaker 1: a deal that's been done to get Newsmax back on 480 00:28:53,280 --> 00:28:56,480 Speaker 1: the air. This is something that you went all in 481 00:28:56,560 --> 00:29:02,360 Speaker 1: for from a freedom of speech perspective, not silencing conservative networks, 482 00:29:02,400 --> 00:29:05,040 Speaker 1: and now it looks like a deal is together to 483 00:29:05,240 --> 00:29:09,720 Speaker 1: bring back Newsmax to a carrier that dropped them. Well, 484 00:29:09,720 --> 00:29:12,560 Speaker 1: that's exactly right, and this is news that broke today 485 00:29:12,640 --> 00:29:15,440 Speaker 1: just a couple of hours ago. But it is a huge, 486 00:29:15,560 --> 00:29:19,560 Speaker 1: huge victory, as regular listeners of the podcast will recall, 487 00:29:20,640 --> 00:29:24,480 Speaker 1: Direct tv D platform Newsmax and about a year ago, 488 00:29:24,640 --> 00:29:28,160 Speaker 1: Democrat members of Congress wrote to direct TV and said, 489 00:29:28,200 --> 00:29:31,600 Speaker 1: there are three conservative cable news outlets, Fox News, Direct 490 00:29:31,600 --> 00:29:34,880 Speaker 1: TV and one America News. Please d platform all three 491 00:29:34,920 --> 00:29:37,080 Speaker 1: of them. We don't like what they're saying, we don't 492 00:29:37,160 --> 00:29:39,320 Speaker 1: like the customers can hear what they're saying, so please 493 00:29:39,360 --> 00:29:44,160 Speaker 1: throw them off the air. Unfortunately, Direct TV D platformed 494 00:29:44,160 --> 00:29:46,320 Speaker 1: One America News. I think that was wrong, it was 495 00:29:46,360 --> 00:29:49,920 Speaker 1: a mistake. I think it was silencing conservative voices. And 496 00:29:49,960 --> 00:29:53,080 Speaker 1: then in the last couple of months, Direct tv D 497 00:29:53,280 --> 00:29:56,560 Speaker 1: platformed Newsmax and so they had thrown two of the 498 00:29:56,640 --> 00:30:00,880 Speaker 1: three right of center cable news stations off of the air. 499 00:30:02,560 --> 00:30:05,640 Speaker 1: I was deeply concerned when they threw Newsmax off the air. 500 00:30:06,480 --> 00:30:09,040 Speaker 1: I had just started as the ranking member on the 501 00:30:09,080 --> 00:30:12,560 Speaker 1: Senate Commerce Committee, and so I immediately launched an investigation 502 00:30:13,520 --> 00:30:17,480 Speaker 1: from the Senate Commerce Committee. I brought together three other senators. 503 00:30:17,520 --> 00:30:21,640 Speaker 1: I brought together Mike Lee and Tom Cotton, and also 504 00:30:21,720 --> 00:30:24,680 Speaker 1: Lindsay Graham, who's the ranking member of the Judiciary Committee. 505 00:30:24,680 --> 00:30:27,680 Speaker 1: So you had Lindsay on Judiciary. Obviously I'm on Judiciary 506 00:30:27,680 --> 00:30:30,280 Speaker 1: as well, you had me as the ranker on Commerce. 507 00:30:31,040 --> 00:30:34,400 Speaker 1: That all of us together had a whole series of 508 00:30:34,520 --> 00:30:39,040 Speaker 1: very specific questions examining what Direct TV had done, and 509 00:30:39,160 --> 00:30:42,560 Speaker 1: also examining AT and T in Texas specific group, who 510 00:30:42,560 --> 00:30:46,400 Speaker 1: are the parent companies of direct TV. I can tell 511 00:30:46,440 --> 00:30:49,760 Speaker 1: you that they did not like that congressional scrutiny. They 512 00:30:49,760 --> 00:30:53,720 Speaker 1: were very displeased, and what I conveyed to them was 513 00:30:53,800 --> 00:30:57,680 Speaker 1: simple and unequivocal. If you want the investigation to stop, 514 00:30:57,720 --> 00:31:02,000 Speaker 1: if you want the scrutiny to stop, put Newsmax back 515 00:31:02,160 --> 00:31:04,920 Speaker 1: on air. That needs to be the outcome. Put them 516 00:31:04,960 --> 00:31:06,959 Speaker 1: back on air. Look, you don't have to watch them, 517 00:31:07,040 --> 00:31:08,920 Speaker 1: you don't have to listen to them. I happen to 518 00:31:08,960 --> 00:31:12,600 Speaker 1: think Newsmax is awesome. I watched them regularly. I go 519 00:31:12,640 --> 00:31:15,840 Speaker 1: on Newsmax regularly. But if you don't like Newsmax, change 520 00:31:15,840 --> 00:31:18,400 Speaker 1: the channel. There are lots of lefty channels that you 521 00:31:18,440 --> 00:31:23,520 Speaker 1: can watch. But the resolution of this, I laid drew 522 00:31:23,520 --> 00:31:27,200 Speaker 1: a line in the sand and said the resolution of 523 00:31:27,240 --> 00:31:30,720 Speaker 1: this needs to be Newsmax back on air. And as 524 00:31:30,760 --> 00:31:33,760 Speaker 1: of ten am this morning, they've announced Newsmax is going 525 00:31:33,800 --> 00:31:36,640 Speaker 1: back on air. So it was an unequivocal victory, a 526 00:31:36,840 --> 00:31:40,800 Speaker 1: victory for free speech, a victory for consumers, of victory 527 00:31:40,840 --> 00:31:43,320 Speaker 1: for thirty million Texans who want to be able to 528 00:31:43,360 --> 00:31:46,680 Speaker 1: turn on their TV and watch a variety of views 529 00:31:46,720 --> 00:31:49,520 Speaker 1: and get news from across the spectrum. So it's a big, 530 00:31:49,560 --> 00:31:51,920 Speaker 1: big win today. Yeah, it's huge, and it's something that 531 00:31:51,960 --> 00:31:53,760 Speaker 1: if you guys wouldn't have fought for this so hard 532 00:31:53,760 --> 00:31:55,880 Speaker 1: in the Senate, I think it would have never have happened. 533 00:31:55,880 --> 00:32:00,320 Speaker 1: So congratulations obviously on that for as you said, free speech, 534 00:32:00,320 --> 00:32:03,080 Speaker 1: and we don't want to cancel either side of free speech. 535 00:32:03,400 --> 00:32:06,840 Speaker 1: That's what people seem to not understand about conservatism. We 536 00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:09,960 Speaker 1: want all free speech to stay there. As you mentioned 537 00:32:10,040 --> 00:32:12,800 Speaker 1: both sides, it would be terrible if you were canceling 538 00:32:12,800 --> 00:32:15,400 Speaker 1: everything on the left and only keeping on the right, 539 00:32:15,440 --> 00:32:19,040 Speaker 1: because again there's precedent. That's not what free speech is, 540 00:32:19,200 --> 00:32:21,080 Speaker 1: and this is going to be a very big victory 541 00:32:21,080 --> 00:32:25,440 Speaker 1: and precedents that's important. Look, you and I aren't saying 542 00:32:25,520 --> 00:32:28,120 Speaker 1: take MSNBC off the air. We're not saying takes the 543 00:32:28,240 --> 00:32:30,800 Speaker 1: never would the air. Now, I will say that the 544 00:32:30,920 --> 00:32:33,760 Speaker 1: viewers are saying that they have minis scool viewers. This 545 00:32:33,800 --> 00:32:37,240 Speaker 1: podcast Verdict with Ted Cruz, we get more viewers than 546 00:32:37,320 --> 00:32:41,680 Speaker 1: MSNBC or CNN. So the people are voting with their feet, 547 00:32:41,760 --> 00:32:45,640 Speaker 1: with their eyeballs, with their ears. But look, I think 548 00:32:45,720 --> 00:32:51,240 Speaker 1: having the unhinged leftist radicals on MSNBC and CNN talking, 549 00:32:51,320 --> 00:32:53,080 Speaker 1: I think that's actually good for us. I think it 550 00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:57,320 Speaker 1: shows how ridiculous their views are. I don't want them silenced. 551 00:32:57,600 --> 00:33:01,840 Speaker 1: I just want to be able to counter their misinformation 552 00:33:02,280 --> 00:33:05,960 Speaker 1: with the facts and the truth. And having Newsmax Now 553 00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:09,240 Speaker 1: back on air provides one other outlet through which you 554 00:33:09,280 --> 00:33:11,600 Speaker 1: can do that. Yeah, I totally agree with that. I 555 00:33:11,600 --> 00:33:13,680 Speaker 1: want to ask you one last question about moving forward 556 00:33:13,720 --> 00:33:15,480 Speaker 1: with Trump. 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If Donald Trump does in fact not get indicted, 584 00:34:48,640 --> 00:34:52,400 Speaker 1: is that good for the entire country and precedent to 585 00:34:52,480 --> 00:34:54,960 Speaker 1: kind of pull back on these activists. Is that going 586 00:34:55,040 --> 00:34:57,000 Speaker 1: to be the big outcome of this that you see 587 00:34:57,280 --> 00:35:01,040 Speaker 1: overall moving forward? Look, I hope believe this week that 588 00:35:01,120 --> 00:35:04,320 Speaker 1: we have seen three huge victories. The one that is 589 00:35:04,400 --> 00:35:07,279 Speaker 1: unequivocal is Newsmax and Newsmax being on air is a 590 00:35:07,320 --> 00:35:11,799 Speaker 1: complete victory. The other two may be big victories, and 591 00:35:11,840 --> 00:35:15,400 Speaker 1: they are Trump and the FAA administrator. If the FAA 592 00:35:15,400 --> 00:35:18,400 Speaker 1: administrator gets pulled because he's unqualified, that will be a 593 00:35:18,480 --> 00:35:21,000 Speaker 1: second huge victory. The fact that they canceled his vote 594 00:35:21,000 --> 00:35:24,960 Speaker 1: today is a very positive sign if Trump. If Alvin 595 00:35:25,000 --> 00:35:27,439 Speaker 1: Bragg backs off and says I'm not going to bring 596 00:35:27,520 --> 00:35:31,560 Speaker 1: this frivolous, baseless partisan prosecution, that is a huge victory. 597 00:35:31,560 --> 00:35:33,799 Speaker 1: It's a victory for the rule of law. We know 598 00:35:33,880 --> 00:35:37,319 Speaker 1: that he at least paused, just like Phil Washington's confirmation, 599 00:35:37,760 --> 00:35:40,280 Speaker 1: and he told the grand jury stay home today. Now 600 00:35:40,600 --> 00:35:42,480 Speaker 1: that pause could be short lived. He could bring the 601 00:35:42,520 --> 00:35:44,880 Speaker 1: grand jury back tomorrow and they could indict him tomorrow, 602 00:35:46,000 --> 00:35:48,520 Speaker 1: and we'll see what happens. By the way, I will 603 00:35:48,560 --> 00:35:50,680 Speaker 1: note you know, you know, one of the questions we 604 00:35:50,719 --> 00:35:52,920 Speaker 1: talked about in the last podcast, you said, well, well, 605 00:35:52,960 --> 00:35:56,839 Speaker 1: what will it be like when he's arrested. And I 606 00:35:56,880 --> 00:35:59,000 Speaker 1: don't know for sure if and when they do that, 607 00:35:59,080 --> 00:36:02,160 Speaker 1: but but at least the local prosecutor in Palm Beach 608 00:36:02,200 --> 00:36:05,759 Speaker 1: County has said that that he will not be handcuffed 609 00:36:06,520 --> 00:36:09,600 Speaker 1: because the Secret Service won't let law enforcement lay hands 610 00:36:09,600 --> 00:36:11,480 Speaker 1: on him. And so you have an interesting dynamic when 611 00:36:11,480 --> 00:36:15,080 Speaker 1: the Secret Service is protecting the president that apparently, at 612 00:36:15,120 --> 00:36:18,680 Speaker 1: least according to the local prosecutor, they won't won't let 613 00:36:18,719 --> 00:36:24,160 Speaker 1: them handcuff the foreign president. But if Alvin Bragg goes forward, 614 00:36:24,200 --> 00:36:26,040 Speaker 1: they may well do a perp walk. They will do 615 00:36:26,080 --> 00:36:30,640 Speaker 1: presumably fingerprint him, they'll presumably do a mug shot if 616 00:36:30,680 --> 00:36:35,840 Speaker 1: that stops. If if the Democrats getting cold feet stops 617 00:36:35,880 --> 00:36:39,000 Speaker 1: Alvin Bragg, that is a huge victory for the rule 618 00:36:39,040 --> 00:36:41,799 Speaker 1: of law. That would be a very good thing for America. 619 00:36:41,960 --> 00:36:44,160 Speaker 1: Yeah all right, Well, here's what I will tell you. 620 00:36:44,280 --> 00:36:48,279 Speaker 1: Hit subscriber auto download because if something does break, we'll 621 00:36:48,280 --> 00:36:50,319 Speaker 1: probably do a special pod, so you don't want to 622 00:36:50,320 --> 00:36:53,000 Speaker 1: miss it. So hit that subscriber auto download button and 623 00:36:53,040 --> 00:36:54,359 Speaker 1: we'll see you back here real soon.