1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:03,239 Speaker 1: Welcome. In his verdict with Ted Cruz, the Week in Review, 2 00:00:03,320 --> 00:00:05,600 Speaker 1: Ben Ferguson with you, and these are the stories that 3 00:00:05,680 --> 00:00:07,880 Speaker 1: you may have missed that we talked about this week. 4 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:12,800 Speaker 1: First up, deportations. They're happening at record pace. More than 5 00:00:12,840 --> 00:00:16,680 Speaker 1: two million illegal immigrants have been deported from this country 6 00:00:16,720 --> 00:00:19,520 Speaker 1: this year and it's having a major effect now on 7 00:00:19,880 --> 00:00:24,360 Speaker 1: rental prices of homes and housing prices. So what could 8 00:00:24,360 --> 00:00:27,320 Speaker 1: happen going into twenty twenty six. It could be very 9 00:00:27,400 --> 00:00:30,479 Speaker 1: big news for you if you're looking to rent or 10 00:00:30,520 --> 00:00:32,479 Speaker 1: buy a new home. We'll have that for you in 11 00:00:32,479 --> 00:00:36,320 Speaker 1: a moment. Also, we found out in writing that there 12 00:00:36,400 --> 00:00:40,360 Speaker 1: was no cause to raid Donald Trump's home at mar Lago, 13 00:00:40,960 --> 00:00:43,279 Speaker 1: So how did the FBI get away with doing it 14 00:00:43,640 --> 00:00:47,000 Speaker 1: and who actually ordered it knowing that those in the 15 00:00:47,040 --> 00:00:51,760 Speaker 1: field were saying there is no probable cause. And finally, 16 00:00:52,080 --> 00:00:56,200 Speaker 1: three big wins in the last year that affect all Americans. 17 00:00:56,320 --> 00:00:58,640 Speaker 1: We go through those wins and what it means for you. 18 00:00:59,120 --> 00:01:02,720 Speaker 1: It's the weekend, Rey, and it starts right now. Finally, 19 00:01:02,720 --> 00:01:06,160 Speaker 1: I want to move to another shocking, breaking news story, 20 00:01:06,200 --> 00:01:08,600 Speaker 1: and that is if you get rid of people in 21 00:01:08,640 --> 00:01:11,600 Speaker 1: this country, they're here illegally, then you don't have to 22 00:01:11,680 --> 00:01:15,000 Speaker 1: compete for them. Center for Housing, we have seen the 23 00:01:15,319 --> 00:01:19,039 Speaker 1: medium age of first time home buyers. The number skyrocket 24 00:01:19,120 --> 00:01:22,200 Speaker 1: to forty plus years old, depending on where you live. 25 00:01:22,800 --> 00:01:24,920 Speaker 1: It's the highest we've seen in certainly in my lifetime, 26 00:01:24,920 --> 00:01:27,120 Speaker 1: and the highest we've seen since World War One. I 27 00:01:27,120 --> 00:01:30,000 Speaker 1: think if I looked at the data correctly, that was 28 00:01:30,080 --> 00:01:33,920 Speaker 1: something that should be very eye opening. Rental prices have 29 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:37,679 Speaker 1: also skyrocketed, because well, you're competing when it comes to 30 00:01:37,760 --> 00:01:42,040 Speaker 1: renting a home, especially those entry level homes. With tens 31 00:01:42,040 --> 00:01:45,520 Speaker 1: of millions of illegal immigrants, we are now finally seeing 32 00:01:45,880 --> 00:01:49,240 Speaker 1: Donald Trump's deportations and the shutting down the southern border 33 00:01:49,280 --> 00:01:53,160 Speaker 1: completely turning into guess what, lower rent and lower home 34 00:01:53,200 --> 00:01:54,960 Speaker 1: prices for Americans. 35 00:01:55,760 --> 00:01:58,560 Speaker 2: Yeah, and look, this is at the end of the day, 36 00:01:58,680 --> 00:02:02,240 Speaker 2: very simple economics. And in economics one oh one you 37 00:02:02,360 --> 00:02:07,280 Speaker 2: learn that prices. Prices are determined by two factors, supply 38 00:02:07,760 --> 00:02:11,840 Speaker 2: and demand and their their graft, and where they intersect 39 00:02:11,880 --> 00:02:14,560 Speaker 2: is where the price is. So supply, it's pretty simple 40 00:02:14,600 --> 00:02:18,600 Speaker 2: to understand the more of something there is, the lower 41 00:02:18,639 --> 00:02:23,079 Speaker 2: the price is. If there are a whole bunch of houses, 42 00:02:23,120 --> 00:02:24,960 Speaker 2: the price of housing goes down. If there are a 43 00:02:24,960 --> 00:02:28,280 Speaker 2: whole bunch of bananas, the price of bananas go down. 44 00:02:28,800 --> 00:02:32,080 Speaker 2: But the other thing that determines price is demand. If 45 00:02:32,160 --> 00:02:34,080 Speaker 2: there are a ton of people that want to buy 46 00:02:34,720 --> 00:02:38,120 Speaker 2: houses or bananas, the price goes up. And so those 47 00:02:38,120 --> 00:02:42,680 Speaker 2: two counterbalance each other. And actually rising prices typically are 48 00:02:42,720 --> 00:02:45,400 Speaker 2: a market signal that we need more supply. And so 49 00:02:46,120 --> 00:02:49,960 Speaker 2: if banana prices skyrocket because suddenly people decide they really 50 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:52,680 Speaker 2: really like bananas, you know what's gonna happen. People are 51 00:02:52,720 --> 00:02:55,240 Speaker 2: going to plant more bananas and grow more bananas to 52 00:02:55,320 --> 00:02:57,239 Speaker 2: meet the demand, and the price will fall. 53 00:02:57,320 --> 00:02:58,480 Speaker 3: Well, what did Joe Biden do. 54 00:02:58,639 --> 00:03:04,680 Speaker 2: Joe Biden imported allowed more than twelve million illegal aliens 55 00:03:04,680 --> 00:03:06,519 Speaker 2: to come into this country. Now, when they came into 56 00:03:06,520 --> 00:03:09,240 Speaker 2: this country, most of those illegal aliens didn't live in 57 00:03:09,280 --> 00:03:12,160 Speaker 2: a tenth They didn't sleep on a park bench. They 58 00:03:12,200 --> 00:03:14,160 Speaker 2: went and rented an apartment, or they rented a house, 59 00:03:14,240 --> 00:03:16,600 Speaker 2: or they bought a house. And you bring in twelve 60 00:03:16,600 --> 00:03:19,680 Speaker 2: million people, that's twelve million people that are trying to 61 00:03:19,680 --> 00:03:23,440 Speaker 2: rent and when demand goes up a lot, you end 62 00:03:23,520 --> 00:03:26,600 Speaker 2: up having prices go up. Now, now here's what Scott 63 00:03:26,600 --> 00:03:32,640 Speaker 2: Besson reported. Scott Besson said that last month, apartment rents 64 00:03:32,680 --> 00:03:36,600 Speaker 2: fell one point one percent compared to the same time 65 00:03:36,720 --> 00:03:40,760 Speaker 2: last year, and they dropped five point two percent compared 66 00:03:40,760 --> 00:03:43,920 Speaker 2: to the same time period in twenty twenty two, when 67 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:48,000 Speaker 2: rent had peaked under Joe Biden and Besson did an 68 00:03:48,040 --> 00:03:51,960 Speaker 2: interview on Fox Business Channel where he said rents are 69 00:03:52,000 --> 00:03:54,840 Speaker 2: down and the story the Biden administration doesn't want to 70 00:03:54,880 --> 00:03:58,440 Speaker 2: talk about the mass, unfettered immigration that pushed up rents, 71 00:03:59,240 --> 00:04:04,320 Speaker 2: especially for working Americans, and he continued to say, there's 72 00:04:04,320 --> 00:04:07,440 Speaker 2: a recent study out from the Wharton School that shows 73 00:04:07,560 --> 00:04:12,600 Speaker 2: every one percent increase in population, rents went up one percent. 74 00:04:13,680 --> 00:04:17,440 Speaker 2: So President Trump, by enforcing the border and sending home 75 00:04:17,520 --> 00:04:21,720 Speaker 2: more than two million illegals, we're now seeing rents coming 76 00:04:21,760 --> 00:04:24,480 Speaker 2: down substantially. I think that will continue for the rest 77 00:04:24,520 --> 00:04:27,719 Speaker 2: of the year. We brought down interest rates and so 78 00:04:27,839 --> 00:04:30,599 Speaker 2: we brought mortgage rates down, and I think everything else 79 00:04:30,680 --> 00:04:33,160 Speaker 2: will follow that. That is a major victory. And by 80 00:04:33,160 --> 00:04:36,440 Speaker 2: the way, it's exactly what President Trump said on the 81 00:04:36,480 --> 00:04:39,480 Speaker 2: campaign trail, which is that if we deport the illegal 82 00:04:39,520 --> 00:04:42,520 Speaker 2: aliens that Joe Biden's open borders brought into this country, 83 00:04:42,839 --> 00:04:44,760 Speaker 2: the result is going to be rents are going to 84 00:04:44,800 --> 00:04:47,120 Speaker 2: come down and housing is going to be more affordable. 85 00:04:47,200 --> 00:04:49,400 Speaker 2: We now have the data backing that up. You know. 86 00:04:49,520 --> 00:04:51,520 Speaker 1: Messaging, I think center is going to be so important 87 00:04:51,520 --> 00:04:54,440 Speaker 1: going into the midterms. And one of the things I 88 00:04:54,440 --> 00:04:57,720 Speaker 1: do think we have not messaged well enough on our 89 00:04:57,839 --> 00:05:01,039 Speaker 1: side is what is about to happen twenty twenty six. 90 00:05:01,200 --> 00:05:03,720 Speaker 1: And there are laws that were passing twenty twenty five 91 00:05:04,320 --> 00:05:07,680 Speaker 1: that are enacted in twenty twenty six. You combine what 92 00:05:07,760 --> 00:05:11,120 Speaker 1: you just said about home prices and what the Treasury 93 00:05:11,120 --> 00:05:14,440 Speaker 1: Secretary was talking about there with something that's going to 94 00:05:14,480 --> 00:05:16,919 Speaker 1: have a huge impact on our economy. No tax on 95 00:05:17,000 --> 00:05:20,120 Speaker 1: tips is coming in this new year. No tax on 96 00:05:20,200 --> 00:05:24,240 Speaker 1: overtime is coming this year, and no tax on Social 97 00:05:24,240 --> 00:05:28,760 Speaker 1: Security for seniors is coming. Those are three massive victories 98 00:05:29,040 --> 00:05:31,440 Speaker 1: that I think many Americans have actually kind of forgotten 99 00:05:31,480 --> 00:05:34,000 Speaker 1: about that are going to be implemented this year. That's 100 00:05:34,040 --> 00:05:37,000 Speaker 1: going to have a very big impact on our economy, 101 00:05:37,000 --> 00:05:39,000 Speaker 1: but also affordability and living. 102 00:05:39,520 --> 00:05:42,320 Speaker 2: Now, that's exactly right, and I got to say, by 103 00:05:42,360 --> 00:05:47,360 Speaker 2: the way, for people that make substantial tipped wages or overtime, 104 00:05:49,279 --> 00:05:51,720 Speaker 2: millions of Americans are going to be entitled to a 105 00:05:51,760 --> 00:05:54,680 Speaker 2: refund from the IRS starting in January, starting in just 106 00:05:54,680 --> 00:05:56,960 Speaker 2: a couple of weeks, they'll be entitled to a refund 107 00:05:57,440 --> 00:06:00,440 Speaker 2: because of those tax cuts, because of the work family 108 00:06:00,480 --> 00:06:08,160 Speaker 2: tax cut. And look, the latest mantra of both Democrats 109 00:06:08,160 --> 00:06:10,479 Speaker 2: in the media, because in many instances they're one and 110 00:06:10,520 --> 00:06:14,920 Speaker 2: the same, is affordability. Now affordability, I am certain that 111 00:06:14,920 --> 00:06:17,680 Speaker 2: that came from a focus group the Democrats put on 112 00:06:17,760 --> 00:06:20,120 Speaker 2: that that was a word they could blame and blame 113 00:06:20,200 --> 00:06:23,839 Speaker 2: on Trump. Affordability about twelve minutes ago, used to be 114 00:06:23,880 --> 00:06:26,840 Speaker 2: called two things. Jobs and inflation. That's how we used 115 00:06:26,880 --> 00:06:30,280 Speaker 2: to talk about it. Jobs were seeing economic growth and 116 00:06:30,720 --> 00:06:34,920 Speaker 2: that is coming from the historic tax cut we pass 117 00:06:34,960 --> 00:06:38,240 Speaker 2: and it's coming from President Trump's incredible leadership cutting job 118 00:06:38,320 --> 00:06:43,599 Speaker 2: killing regulation. And then inflation. We are seeing inflation coming down, 119 00:06:43,720 --> 00:06:47,760 Speaker 2: and this is interesting. The HUD Department Housing and Urban 120 00:06:48,080 --> 00:06:53,840 Speaker 2: Development Department published this month a report an investigation that 121 00:06:54,360 --> 00:06:59,320 Speaker 2: concluded Biden's importing of millions of migrants drove up prices 122 00:06:59,320 --> 00:07:02,640 Speaker 2: for America who are low income but who do not 123 00:07:02,920 --> 00:07:06,000 Speaker 2: receive public assistance. And here's what the report concluded. Quote 124 00:07:06,560 --> 00:07:10,400 Speaker 2: one key cause of elevated worst case needs is immigration 125 00:07:11,120 --> 00:07:13,800 Speaker 2: between twenty twenty one and twenty twenty four, the foreign 126 00:07:13,840 --> 00:07:17,200 Speaker 2: born population of the United States increased more than six million, 127 00:07:17,880 --> 00:07:21,480 Speaker 2: the largest such increase over such a short period in 128 00:07:21,520 --> 00:07:26,720 Speaker 2: American history. This immigration driven increase in households has contributed 129 00:07:26,760 --> 00:07:31,640 Speaker 2: to a significant increase in housing demand, thus driving up 130 00:07:31,680 --> 00:07:36,880 Speaker 2: housing prices. In fact, in some markets, immigration is accounted 131 00:07:36,920 --> 00:07:40,440 Speaker 2: for nearly all of the increase in housing demand in 132 00:07:40,520 --> 00:07:44,720 Speaker 2: recent years. That is hurting affordability. 133 00:07:44,200 --> 00:07:45,600 Speaker 3: All, nearly all. 134 00:07:46,640 --> 00:07:47,640 Speaker 1: What else do you need to know? 135 00:07:48,040 --> 00:07:52,960 Speaker 2: Yeah, that's Democrat policies killed jobs and drove up inflation. 136 00:07:53,080 --> 00:07:57,160 Speaker 2: And right now, under common sense conservative policies, we're seeing 137 00:07:57,280 --> 00:08:00,800 Speaker 2: jobs come back and we're making progress turn around and 138 00:08:00,880 --> 00:08:05,440 Speaker 2: driving down the Biden inflation that hurt so many Americans. 139 00:08:05,720 --> 00:08:08,120 Speaker 1: Now, if you want to hear the rest of this conversation, 140 00:08:08,320 --> 00:08:10,720 Speaker 1: you can go back and listen to the full podcast 141 00:08:10,760 --> 00:08:11,960 Speaker 1: from earlier this week. 142 00:08:13,040 --> 00:08:14,520 Speaker 3: Now onto story number two. 143 00:08:15,000 --> 00:08:17,560 Speaker 1: New files are revealing that the Department of Justice and 144 00:08:17,600 --> 00:08:21,800 Speaker 1: the FBI quote did not have cause to raid mar Lago. 145 00:08:22,200 --> 00:08:24,320 Speaker 1: Hold on a second, you're telling me the people in 146 00:08:24,400 --> 00:08:27,760 Speaker 1: charge of Government Center under the Biden regime knew that 147 00:08:27,800 --> 00:08:30,560 Speaker 1: they were going after Donald Trump for political reasons. And 148 00:08:30,600 --> 00:08:32,440 Speaker 1: not because they thought he broke a law. Can't I 149 00:08:32,520 --> 00:08:33,640 Speaker 1: could not imagine this. 150 00:08:34,280 --> 00:08:35,720 Speaker 3: You know, it really is astonishing. 151 00:08:35,760 --> 00:08:38,560 Speaker 2: So the Department of Justice and FBI handed documents over 152 00:08:38,960 --> 00:08:40,480 Speaker 2: to the Senate Judiciary Committee. 153 00:08:40,480 --> 00:08:43,280 Speaker 3: And here's what Fox News has reported about those documents. 154 00:08:43,840 --> 00:08:46,640 Speaker 2: FBI doubted probable cause for mar A Lago raid, but 155 00:08:46,720 --> 00:08:52,000 Speaker 2: pushed forward amid pressure from Biden doj emails reveal quote 156 00:08:52,080 --> 00:08:54,240 Speaker 2: very little has been developed related to who might be 157 00:08:54,280 --> 00:08:58,679 Speaker 2: culpable for mishandling the documents. An FBI official wrote, the 158 00:08:58,760 --> 00:09:01,640 Speaker 2: FBI did not believe it had probable cause to raid 159 00:09:01,840 --> 00:09:04,920 Speaker 2: President Donald Trump's mar A Laga home in twenty twenty two, 160 00:09:05,000 --> 00:09:07,960 Speaker 2: but move forward amid pressure from the Biden Justice Department, 161 00:09:08,400 --> 00:09:11,920 Speaker 2: with an official saying he didn't quote give a damn 162 00:09:12,080 --> 00:09:16,960 Speaker 2: about the optics of the search. Newly declassified documents reveal 163 00:09:18,600 --> 00:09:21,480 Speaker 2: and you have emails between the FBI and the Justice 164 00:09:21,520 --> 00:09:23,640 Speaker 2: Department in the months leading up to the August twenty 165 00:09:23,679 --> 00:09:27,040 Speaker 2: twenty two rate of mar A Lago, and FBI officials 166 00:09:27,160 --> 00:09:30,840 Speaker 2: explicitly expressed concern about a lack of probable cause to 167 00:09:30,920 --> 00:09:37,240 Speaker 2: execute the search warrant on the president's residents. Quote very 168 00:09:37,280 --> 00:09:39,880 Speaker 2: little has been developed related to who might be culpable 169 00:09:39,880 --> 00:09:42,200 Speaker 2: for mishandling the documents. This is written by an FBI 170 00:09:42,280 --> 00:09:45,160 Speaker 2: agent serving as the assistant Special Agent in charge to 171 00:09:45,200 --> 00:09:49,800 Speaker 2: another FBI official quote from the interviews. The Washington Field 172 00:09:49,800 --> 00:09:53,840 Speaker 2: Office has gathered information suggesting that there may be additional boxes, 173 00:09:53,880 --> 00:09:55,960 Speaker 2: presumably of the same type as we're sent back to 174 00:09:56,040 --> 00:09:59,120 Speaker 2: Nara in January at mar a Lago. The Washington Field 175 00:09:59,160 --> 00:10:01,800 Speaker 2: Office has been drafted a search warrant AFFIDAVID related to 176 00:10:01,800 --> 00:10:05,240 Speaker 2: those potential boxes, but has some concerns that the information 177 00:10:05,320 --> 00:10:07,959 Speaker 2: is single source, has not been corroborated, and. 178 00:10:07,960 --> 00:10:09,040 Speaker 3: May be dated. 179 00:10:10,240 --> 00:10:15,640 Speaker 2: Dojcs opines, however, that the search warrant meets the probable 180 00:10:15,679 --> 00:10:19,040 Speaker 2: cause standard quote. Even as we continue down a path 181 00:10:19,080 --> 00:10:21,760 Speaker 2: towards a search warrant, the Washington Field Office believes that 182 00:10:21,800 --> 00:10:25,960 Speaker 2: a reasonable conversation with the former President's attorney stating that 183 00:10:26,000 --> 00:10:28,280 Speaker 2: the FBI and DOJ are reading a search warrant and 184 00:10:28,320 --> 00:10:31,480 Speaker 2: developed information there may be more documents at mar Lago 185 00:10:31,640 --> 00:10:34,880 Speaker 2: ought not to be discounted. At a minimum, Even if 186 00:10:34,920 --> 00:10:37,600 Speaker 2: the former president's attorney is correct and the documents were 187 00:10:37,640 --> 00:10:42,040 Speaker 2: all declassified or believed to be disc classified, it can 188 00:10:42,120 --> 00:10:45,120 Speaker 2: be reasonably argued that the documents remain sensitive and should 189 00:10:45,120 --> 00:10:48,280 Speaker 2: be properly secured until the matter of classification is sorted out. 190 00:10:48,960 --> 00:10:51,839 Speaker 2: This conversation could easily be accomplished at the same time 191 00:10:52,240 --> 00:10:55,120 Speaker 2: that the Washington Field Office presses forward with the investigation 192 00:10:55,200 --> 00:10:59,320 Speaker 2: and continues building out the search warrant. Weeks later, an 193 00:10:59,400 --> 00:11:02,400 Speaker 2: FBIA agent rights in a new email, quote, this is stunning. 194 00:11:03,240 --> 00:11:07,240 Speaker 2: We haven't generated any new facts, but keep being given 195 00:11:07,360 --> 00:11:12,040 Speaker 2: draft after draft after draft. Absent a witness coming forward 196 00:11:12,080 --> 00:11:16,320 Speaker 2: with recent information about classified on site. At what point 197 00:11:16,559 --> 00:11:21,000 Speaker 2: is it fair to table this? The agent rights it 198 00:11:21,080 --> 00:11:24,920 Speaker 2: is time consuming for the team and not productive if 199 00:11:24,960 --> 00:11:30,600 Speaker 2: there are no new facts supporting probable cause. Another email 200 00:11:30,679 --> 00:11:34,079 Speaker 2: revealed that the Washing Washington the FBI's Washington Field Office 201 00:11:34,160 --> 00:11:38,480 Speaker 2: quote did not believe and has articulated a DOJCS that 202 00:11:38,520 --> 00:11:41,880 Speaker 2: we have established probable cause for the search warrant for 203 00:11:41,960 --> 00:11:43,880 Speaker 2: classified records at mar A Lago. 204 00:11:44,000 --> 00:11:44,880 Speaker 3: Let me read that again. 205 00:11:45,400 --> 00:11:49,280 Speaker 2: The FBI Washington Field off is this is in writing quote, 206 00:11:49,320 --> 00:11:54,240 Speaker 2: did not believe and has articulated to the DOJCS that 207 00:11:54,280 --> 00:11:57,920 Speaker 2: we have established probable cause for the search warrant for 208 00:11:58,040 --> 00:12:03,480 Speaker 2: classified weapons of classified records at Mara a Lago and 209 00:12:03,559 --> 00:12:06,880 Speaker 2: the response quote do joz opine that they do have 210 00:12:06,960 --> 00:12:11,960 Speaker 2: probable cause requesting a wide scope including residents, office storage space, 211 00:12:12,880 --> 00:12:16,600 Speaker 2: and the FBI also said a raid would be quote 212 00:12:16,600 --> 00:12:22,880 Speaker 2: counterproductive and suggested quote alternative, less intrusive, and likely quicker 213 00:12:22,920 --> 00:12:27,560 Speaker 2: options for resolution to reclaim any potential classified records. 214 00:12:27,800 --> 00:12:31,240 Speaker 3: This is stunning it because I can't. I don't think 215 00:12:31,280 --> 00:12:31,520 Speaker 3: you can. 216 00:12:31,679 --> 00:12:35,680 Speaker 1: You can overstate how stunning this is that the Field 217 00:12:35,679 --> 00:12:38,839 Speaker 1: Office they're saying this is stupid. This is abuse of 218 00:12:38,960 --> 00:12:41,080 Speaker 1: power in essence, and they're to the point where they're 219 00:12:41,080 --> 00:12:42,440 Speaker 1: putting it in writing. 220 00:12:43,160 --> 00:12:46,120 Speaker 2: And by the way, what it means if you don't 221 00:12:46,120 --> 00:12:49,880 Speaker 2: have probable cause for a search warrant, but you nonetheless 222 00:12:50,240 --> 00:12:55,040 Speaker 2: engage in the search, the search is illegal without probable cause. 223 00:12:55,080 --> 00:12:59,319 Speaker 2: You don't have a basis for the search that is justified. 224 00:12:59,320 --> 00:13:01,720 Speaker 2: And if the FBI is saying it would be illegal 225 00:13:02,080 --> 00:13:06,439 Speaker 2: to search President Trump's home, apparently the Biden Department of Justice, 226 00:13:06,440 --> 00:13:10,559 Speaker 2: they were so partisan. Their objective was not to actually 227 00:13:10,600 --> 00:13:11,480 Speaker 2: prosecute a crime. 228 00:13:12,160 --> 00:13:13,199 Speaker 3: Their objective was. 229 00:13:13,160 --> 00:13:15,880 Speaker 2: To stop the American people from voting for Donald Trump. 230 00:13:15,960 --> 00:13:19,120 Speaker 2: They were acting as political operatives, and so their view 231 00:13:19,640 --> 00:13:21,599 Speaker 2: as one of the officials said, they don't give a 232 00:13:21,679 --> 00:13:25,160 Speaker 2: damn about the optics. The optics they wanted was President 233 00:13:25,160 --> 00:13:27,360 Speaker 2: Trump in a mug shot. They got that optic, but 234 00:13:27,400 --> 00:13:32,120 Speaker 2: it backfired on them, backfired bigly. As President Trump might 235 00:13:32,120 --> 00:13:35,480 Speaker 2: have said in the first term. But this was a 236 00:13:35,520 --> 00:13:39,319 Speaker 2: political persecution. And what's stunning is they knew it. 237 00:13:39,280 --> 00:13:39,800 Speaker 3: At the time. 238 00:13:40,480 --> 00:13:43,400 Speaker 1: Well, let's go to accountability. And this is where some 239 00:13:43,440 --> 00:13:47,719 Speaker 1: of people listening and watching this on Facebook or on 240 00:13:48,200 --> 00:13:51,679 Speaker 1: YouTube are gonna want to ask the question that I'm 241 00:13:51,720 --> 00:13:55,360 Speaker 1: going to ask you now it's qlear abuse of power. 242 00:13:55,800 --> 00:14:00,160 Speaker 1: Where's the accountability? Because at this point, it's like, we 243 00:14:00,280 --> 00:14:03,440 Speaker 1: know they did it, We've got the information, we know 244 00:14:03,559 --> 00:14:07,480 Speaker 1: that they were breaking the law or the rules, and 245 00:14:07,760 --> 00:14:10,040 Speaker 1: no one seems to be held accountable for this. So 246 00:14:10,400 --> 00:14:12,320 Speaker 1: in the rest of my lifetime, I have a feeling 247 00:14:12,320 --> 00:14:13,960 Speaker 1: there's going to be a Democrat that's going to get 248 00:14:14,000 --> 00:14:16,480 Speaker 1: back in the White House. What then, why would there 249 00:14:16,520 --> 00:14:19,000 Speaker 1: be an incentive for them not to abuse their power 250 00:14:19,040 --> 00:14:21,400 Speaker 1: and go after any other conservatives in the same way. 251 00:14:21,600 --> 00:14:23,040 Speaker 3: So there wouldn't be an incentive. 252 00:14:23,040 --> 00:14:25,080 Speaker 2: And look, who knows, it may not be a Democrat 253 00:14:25,200 --> 00:14:27,400 Speaker 2: in the White House. It may the Democrat Party may 254 00:14:27,440 --> 00:14:30,440 Speaker 2: have radicalized so much that maybe the next nominee will 255 00:14:30,440 --> 00:14:33,040 Speaker 2: be a member of the Turtle Turtle Island Liberation Front. 256 00:14:33,080 --> 00:14:36,480 Speaker 2: I mean, that's that's how extreme these guys are getting. Look, 257 00:14:36,480 --> 00:14:38,480 Speaker 2: there has to be accountability, there has to be people 258 00:14:38,520 --> 00:14:40,920 Speaker 2: who engage in the abuse of power need to be fired. 259 00:14:40,960 --> 00:14:44,280 Speaker 2: Now the Trump Department of Justice and FBI have fired 260 00:14:44,280 --> 00:14:46,640 Speaker 2: a number of people. That's that's moving in the right direction. 261 00:14:46,760 --> 00:14:49,640 Speaker 2: But anyone who knew they were participating in an abuse 262 00:14:49,720 --> 00:14:54,200 Speaker 2: of justice and abuse of power, and anyone who knew 263 00:14:54,200 --> 00:14:56,840 Speaker 2: that it was illegal, let me ask, why was there 264 00:14:56,880 --> 00:15:00,840 Speaker 2: not anyone who stood up and said this is not 265 00:15:02,000 --> 00:15:04,600 Speaker 2: right at the Department of Justice to abuse our power. 266 00:15:04,640 --> 00:15:05,960 Speaker 2: Why were there no whistleblowers? 267 00:15:05,960 --> 00:15:07,360 Speaker 3: Why was there. 268 00:15:07,280 --> 00:15:11,440 Speaker 2: No no pushback from within d OJ? 269 00:15:13,360 --> 00:15:15,280 Speaker 1: You know if she ask you that question. There's a 270 00:15:15,320 --> 00:15:17,120 Speaker 1: lot of appointees, so that and I want to get 271 00:15:17,120 --> 00:15:18,240 Speaker 1: in the weeds here on this because I do think 272 00:15:18,240 --> 00:15:20,720 Speaker 1: it's important to paint the picture. When I was in 273 00:15:20,760 --> 00:15:25,000 Speaker 1: the Bush administration, there are political appointees and there's non political. 274 00:15:25,400 --> 00:15:28,280 Speaker 1: There's lifers, there's people that stay in certain positions at 275 00:15:28,320 --> 00:15:31,800 Speaker 1: the DOJ, for example, at the FBI, they don't change 276 00:15:31,840 --> 00:15:34,720 Speaker 1: based on the election or who is in the White 277 00:15:34,720 --> 00:15:37,560 Speaker 1: House or who's in charge of the House or the 278 00:15:37,560 --> 00:15:41,840 Speaker 1: Senator of Congress in general, that those individuals are the 279 00:15:41,840 --> 00:15:43,520 Speaker 1: ones that you would hope would stand up here. The 280 00:15:43,680 --> 00:15:48,120 Speaker 1: problem seems to be that there's either massive fear when 281 00:15:48,200 --> 00:15:50,520 Speaker 1: the Democrats were in charge that their careers would be 282 00:15:50,680 --> 00:15:54,240 Speaker 1: over a or B that they just put in so 283 00:15:54,400 --> 00:15:58,400 Speaker 1: many of their liberal friends that the entire DOJ leadership 284 00:15:58,440 --> 00:16:00,480 Speaker 1: and those below them that were the me the non 285 00:16:00,520 --> 00:16:05,200 Speaker 1: political appointees were actually incredibly partisan. I go back to 286 00:16:05,360 --> 00:16:07,720 Speaker 1: you know, Peter Struck and Lisa Page or whatever the 287 00:16:07,720 --> 00:16:10,600 Speaker 1: hell their names were. That's I mean, there's two examples 288 00:16:10,600 --> 00:16:14,200 Speaker 1: of quote non political people that were absolutely political. 289 00:16:15,200 --> 00:16:19,200 Speaker 2: There are far too many extreme partisans who burrowed into 290 00:16:19,280 --> 00:16:22,880 Speaker 2: both agencies, the FBI and the Department of Justice. As 291 00:16:22,960 --> 00:16:25,680 Speaker 2: you know, a book I wrote a few years ago 292 00:16:25,880 --> 00:16:28,880 Speaker 2: was called Justice Corrupted, How the Left has weaponized our 293 00:16:28,960 --> 00:16:32,880 Speaker 2: legal system, and I detailed This was written at the 294 00:16:32,880 --> 00:16:35,200 Speaker 2: beginning of the Biden administration, so I did not cover 295 00:16:36,000 --> 00:16:39,040 Speaker 2: the prosecutions of Trump or the Marlago ray because it 296 00:16:39,040 --> 00:16:39,600 Speaker 2: hadn't happened. 297 00:16:39,680 --> 00:16:41,880 Speaker 1: By the way, how right were you on writing that book, 298 00:16:42,040 --> 00:16:43,800 Speaker 1: I mean knowing what happened afterwards. 299 00:16:43,800 --> 00:16:47,360 Speaker 2: Good Grief, And the book starts chapter one is actually 300 00:16:47,360 --> 00:16:48,080 Speaker 2: about Watergate. 301 00:16:48,120 --> 00:16:50,680 Speaker 3: It's about Nixon. And I am not a Richard Nixon fan. 302 00:16:50,760 --> 00:16:51,280 Speaker 3: I think he was. 303 00:16:51,360 --> 00:16:55,280 Speaker 2: He was corrupt and dishonest, and he abused power. But 304 00:16:56,440 --> 00:16:58,720 Speaker 2: if you look at one of the things Nixon tried 305 00:16:58,760 --> 00:17:00,640 Speaker 2: to do is get the Department of Justice and the 306 00:17:00,680 --> 00:17:03,880 Speaker 2: FBI to go after his political enemies. But at the 307 00:17:03,960 --> 00:17:07,960 Speaker 2: time DOJ and the FBI and the I R S. 308 00:17:08,040 --> 00:17:08,920 Speaker 3: They all resisted. 309 00:17:08,920 --> 00:17:11,840 Speaker 2: They pushed back and said, no, that's an abuse of 310 00:17:11,840 --> 00:17:15,600 Speaker 2: our power. We're not going to do that. And what 311 00:17:15,800 --> 00:17:20,760 Speaker 2: Richard Nixon tried to do, Joe Biden succeeded in doing 312 00:17:20,880 --> 00:17:24,760 Speaker 2: why because nobody, not a political not not not careers, 313 00:17:24,840 --> 00:17:27,399 Speaker 2: nobody pushed back effectively and stopped it. 314 00:17:27,920 --> 00:17:28,600 Speaker 3: And and and. 315 00:17:29,920 --> 00:17:35,600 Speaker 2: We saw that started with Barack Obama. Barack Obama weaponized. 316 00:17:34,920 --> 00:17:37,440 Speaker 3: The Department of Justice, the FBI, the I R S. 317 00:17:38,160 --> 00:17:41,520 Speaker 3: And then when Trump became president and those partisans. 318 00:17:41,000 --> 00:17:43,159 Speaker 1: Flicker about it. I do want people to understand that 319 00:17:43,200 --> 00:17:46,040 Speaker 1: he was he was very smart about it. Compared to this, 320 00:17:46,200 --> 00:17:48,960 Speaker 1: the blaze and abuse of power by the Biden administration 321 00:17:49,400 --> 00:17:51,320 Speaker 1: but there were and I want to remind just a 322 00:17:51,320 --> 00:17:54,920 Speaker 1: couple a couple examples of the abuse of power under 323 00:17:54,960 --> 00:17:57,639 Speaker 1: Barack Obama. Give us a couple of those highlights if 324 00:17:57,640 --> 00:17:59,720 Speaker 1: you will remember what they did do and how this 325 00:18:00,000 --> 00:18:01,800 Speaker 1: already a long time ago, and and the reason why 326 00:18:01,880 --> 00:18:04,440 Speaker 1: is center there were a lot of people that got 327 00:18:04,440 --> 00:18:07,960 Speaker 1: into the dj yeah, and the FBI then that were 328 00:18:08,200 --> 00:18:10,720 Speaker 1: lower in rank, who are now running the damn place. 329 00:18:10,800 --> 00:18:12,760 Speaker 1: When if you fast forward to the Biden years. 330 00:18:12,960 --> 00:18:14,720 Speaker 2: Yeah, you look at I mean, one of one of 331 00:18:14,760 --> 00:18:17,439 Speaker 2: the classic examples of lowest learner at the i R 332 00:18:17,560 --> 00:18:20,800 Speaker 2: S and and and the i R S deliberately targeted 333 00:18:20,800 --> 00:18:24,159 Speaker 2: conservative groups. It targeted tea party groups, It went after 334 00:18:24,200 --> 00:18:27,320 Speaker 2: them and persecuted them, and and and the search words 335 00:18:27,320 --> 00:18:29,520 Speaker 2: they were among among things they were looking for as 336 00:18:29,560 --> 00:18:32,959 Speaker 2: any group dedicated to the Constitution of the Bill of Rights. Yeah, 337 00:18:33,000 --> 00:18:35,600 Speaker 2: and mind you, they didn't mean the ACLU, they didn't 338 00:18:35,640 --> 00:18:39,679 Speaker 2: mean leftist groups that they meant anyone that was conservative, 339 00:18:39,680 --> 00:18:41,720 Speaker 2: any pro Israel groups they targeted. 340 00:18:41,760 --> 00:18:42,840 Speaker 3: I mean, it was an. 341 00:18:42,720 --> 00:18:47,520 Speaker 2: Ideological purge, and it was an ideological purge that the 342 00:18:47,520 --> 00:18:50,760 Speaker 2: political officials did everything they could to cover up. And 343 00:18:50,760 --> 00:18:55,280 Speaker 2: and ultimately, you know, you look at Eric Holder, who 344 00:18:55,320 --> 00:19:00,119 Speaker 2: was Attorney General, described himself as Barack Obama's wingman, and 345 00:19:00,160 --> 00:19:03,240 Speaker 2: he ended up being held in contempt of Congress, which 346 00:19:03,400 --> 00:19:09,320 Speaker 2: was stunning. But it began during the Obama administration. When 347 00:19:09,320 --> 00:19:13,800 Speaker 2: Trump became president, many of those partisans they burrowed into 348 00:19:13,840 --> 00:19:17,240 Speaker 2: senior career positions at the agency, and for four years 349 00:19:17,280 --> 00:19:20,879 Speaker 2: the first Trump term, they waged war on Donald Trump 350 00:19:20,920 --> 00:19:25,680 Speaker 2: from within the agency, trying to overturn the duly elected president, 351 00:19:25,720 --> 00:19:29,320 Speaker 2: trying to overturn an election. And then when Biden got 352 00:19:29,320 --> 00:19:31,959 Speaker 2: into power, they came out in the open, and they 353 00:19:31,960 --> 00:19:34,240 Speaker 2: were brazen. And part of the reason Biden was so 354 00:19:34,320 --> 00:19:36,960 Speaker 2: much worse than Obama is they saw there were no 355 00:19:37,040 --> 00:19:39,840 Speaker 2: consequences when it happened under Obama, that it worked, that 356 00:19:39,880 --> 00:19:43,000 Speaker 2: they were able to weaponize the system, and I suspect 357 00:19:43,520 --> 00:19:48,200 Speaker 2: many good people just left the agencies and those many 358 00:19:48,240 --> 00:19:52,320 Speaker 2: of those who remained were either they were afraid or 359 00:19:52,359 --> 00:19:52,720 Speaker 2: they were. 360 00:19:52,600 --> 00:19:53,959 Speaker 3: Willing to go along with it. 361 00:19:53,760 --> 00:19:59,520 Speaker 2: But it's why one of the most important obligations responsibilities 362 00:19:59,560 --> 00:20:02,080 Speaker 2: that the Trump dj and the Trump FBI have is 363 00:20:02,119 --> 00:20:06,400 Speaker 2: to restore integrity to those agencies, to go after criminals 364 00:20:06,400 --> 00:20:10,000 Speaker 2: and bad guys like terrorists planning to set off bombs 365 00:20:10,000 --> 00:20:14,720 Speaker 2: in Los Angeles rather than using it to target political opponents. 366 00:20:15,000 --> 00:20:18,399 Speaker 1: What will accountability look like specifically on these emails and 367 00:20:18,440 --> 00:20:21,240 Speaker 1: the people there? And will Congress get involved in this 368 00:20:21,720 --> 00:20:23,920 Speaker 1: now seeing this letter Grassly, etc. 369 00:20:25,320 --> 00:20:28,560 Speaker 2: Yeah, Look, I would certainly expect we'll see hearings in Congress. 370 00:20:28,560 --> 00:20:32,000 Speaker 2: I'd like to see the Senate Judiciary Committee hold hearings 371 00:20:32,040 --> 00:20:35,000 Speaker 2: on this and engage in oversight. This was released by 372 00:20:35,080 --> 00:20:39,280 Speaker 2: Chuck Grassley, the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, so that's beneficial. 373 00:20:39,320 --> 00:20:41,960 Speaker 2: And you know, look, I want to commend the Trump 374 00:20:42,160 --> 00:20:45,000 Speaker 2: Justice Department for handing these emails over. Part of the 375 00:20:45,040 --> 00:20:48,439 Speaker 2: reason that the Biden DOJ wrote these is because they 376 00:20:48,480 --> 00:20:51,520 Speaker 2: thought no one would ever know that. They thought Biden 377 00:20:51,600 --> 00:20:53,639 Speaker 2: was going to be re elected or Kamala Harris was 378 00:20:53,680 --> 00:20:57,280 Speaker 2: going to be elected, and so this would remain hidden forever. 379 00:20:57,960 --> 00:21:00,800 Speaker 2: What change the rules is you have an Attorney General 380 00:21:00,840 --> 00:21:03,400 Speaker 2: and a new FBI director who decided we're gonna give 381 00:21:03,440 --> 00:21:05,800 Speaker 2: this to We're going to show the American people exactly 382 00:21:05,840 --> 00:21:06,600 Speaker 2: what was going on. 383 00:21:07,000 --> 00:21:09,040 Speaker 3: That was the right thing to do. As before. 384 00:21:09,240 --> 00:21:11,080 Speaker 1: If you want to hear the rest of this conversation 385 00:21:11,400 --> 00:21:13,720 Speaker 1: on this topic, You can go back and dow the 386 00:21:13,880 --> 00:21:16,440 Speaker 1: podcast from earlier this week to hear the entire thing. 387 00:21:17,720 --> 00:21:20,040 Speaker 1: I want to get back to the big story, number 388 00:21:20,080 --> 00:21:20,680 Speaker 1: three of the week. 389 00:21:20,720 --> 00:21:21,800 Speaker 3: You may have missed. 390 00:21:21,960 --> 00:21:25,200 Speaker 1: Center as we're doing our year review. I love getting 391 00:21:25,240 --> 00:21:27,240 Speaker 1: to say this one. We had a big win on 392 00:21:27,280 --> 00:21:29,480 Speaker 1: the issue of space. We're not talking about you finding 393 00:21:29,520 --> 00:21:32,040 Speaker 1: aliens or anything, but we do have an update on 394 00:21:32,200 --> 00:21:34,679 Speaker 1: space that's near and dear to your heart with NASA 395 00:21:34,680 --> 00:21:37,560 Speaker 1: and Houston of course talk about the big victory there. 396 00:21:38,240 --> 00:21:38,560 Speaker 3: Well. 397 00:21:38,600 --> 00:21:42,960 Speaker 2: In the Working Families tax cut, we invested ten billion 398 00:21:43,040 --> 00:21:47,000 Speaker 2: dollars in NASA and commercial space, and in particular in 399 00:21:47,080 --> 00:21:50,919 Speaker 2: going back to the Moon. And again because that falls 400 00:21:50,960 --> 00:21:53,680 Speaker 2: within the jurisdiction of the Commerce Committee, I wrote this provision. 401 00:21:53,720 --> 00:21:55,960 Speaker 2: And we are in a race to go back to 402 00:21:56,000 --> 00:21:58,400 Speaker 2: the Moon. We're in a race with China. China has 403 00:21:58,440 --> 00:22:00,560 Speaker 2: said publicly they are going to go to the Moon by 404 00:22:00,600 --> 00:22:03,199 Speaker 2: twenty thirty and they're trying to get back there. And 405 00:22:03,240 --> 00:22:05,639 Speaker 2: it's also a race not just to get there, but 406 00:22:06,080 --> 00:22:10,320 Speaker 2: to also to build sustained human habitation on the surface 407 00:22:10,359 --> 00:22:12,720 Speaker 2: of the Moon, to begin mining on the surface of 408 00:22:12,760 --> 00:22:15,520 Speaker 2: the Moon. That's the next challenge that we're moving towards 409 00:22:15,800 --> 00:22:19,240 Speaker 2: China is moving full speed ahead. And we did major 410 00:22:19,359 --> 00:22:23,120 Speaker 2: investments to say America is going to beat China back 411 00:22:23,160 --> 00:22:26,080 Speaker 2: to the Moon. We are going to have sustained human 412 00:22:26,119 --> 00:22:29,920 Speaker 2: habitation on the lunar surface or insist lunar orbit. And 413 00:22:30,359 --> 00:22:33,840 Speaker 2: that investment, it is in the bill. It is critically important. 414 00:22:33,840 --> 00:22:35,800 Speaker 2: And the objective is for us to land on the 415 00:22:35,840 --> 00:22:39,520 Speaker 2: Moon by twenty twenty eight, two years before China, with 416 00:22:39,720 --> 00:22:43,800 Speaker 2: President Trump still in the Oval office. And that investment 417 00:22:43,840 --> 00:22:45,760 Speaker 2: will make it. And I'll tell you this is a 418 00:22:45,800 --> 00:22:46,640 Speaker 2: point I made. 419 00:22:47,040 --> 00:22:48,040 Speaker 3: If we lose. 420 00:22:48,240 --> 00:22:50,160 Speaker 2: If we were to lose the race to the Moon, 421 00:22:51,080 --> 00:22:53,879 Speaker 2: I think the impact of seeing the Chinese on the 422 00:22:53,880 --> 00:22:56,040 Speaker 2: Moon before we could get there, I think it would 423 00:22:56,080 --> 00:22:59,199 Speaker 2: be a bigger blow to the country than Sputnik was 424 00:22:59,240 --> 00:23:03,679 Speaker 2: Sputnik when the Russians launched the first satellite, Sputnik around 425 00:23:03,680 --> 00:23:06,520 Speaker 2: the Earth, it was a massive blow. It started the 426 00:23:06,560 --> 00:23:10,520 Speaker 2: space race, and I think losing the Moon to China 427 00:23:10,560 --> 00:23:13,959 Speaker 2: would be orders of magnitude worse. That investment is in there. 428 00:23:14,000 --> 00:23:17,400 Speaker 2: It matters, and it matters also enormously. They're over fifty 429 00:23:17,480 --> 00:23:21,360 Speaker 2: thousand high paying jobs in Texas that are directly connected 430 00:23:21,400 --> 00:23:25,199 Speaker 2: to space, so it's big for jobs, jobs in the 431 00:23:25,200 --> 00:23:26,040 Speaker 2: economy as well. 432 00:23:26,640 --> 00:23:29,800 Speaker 1: Selfishly, I just think it would be so cool for kids' 433 00:23:29,800 --> 00:23:35,080 Speaker 1: minds to be blown to see NHD people walking on 434 00:23:35,160 --> 00:23:39,120 Speaker 1: the moon. Just the wonder and the inspiration that would 435 00:23:39,160 --> 00:23:41,119 Speaker 1: come from that for an entire generation, you know, with 436 00:23:41,160 --> 00:23:44,880 Speaker 1: everything that's yeseah and technology driven, Like just to have 437 00:23:44,920 --> 00:23:47,040 Speaker 1: a moment of pause where we're like, we went to 438 00:23:47,080 --> 00:23:49,520 Speaker 1: the moon and you can see an HD. I can't 439 00:23:49,560 --> 00:23:51,679 Speaker 1: imagine what that does for kids that are dreamers for 440 00:23:51,800 --> 00:23:53,920 Speaker 1: their futures and their education as well. 441 00:23:54,200 --> 00:23:58,359 Speaker 2: Look, I spend a lot of time at Johnson's Space Center. 442 00:23:58,400 --> 00:24:00,320 Speaker 2: I spend a lot of time with NASA, and like 443 00:24:00,359 --> 00:24:02,920 Speaker 2: the inspiration that astronauts provide. 444 00:24:03,440 --> 00:24:03,640 Speaker 3: Uh. 445 00:24:03,640 --> 00:24:06,639 Speaker 2: Now do you know the connection that Rice University has 446 00:24:06,680 --> 00:24:07,800 Speaker 2: to us going to the moon. 447 00:24:07,680 --> 00:24:08,240 Speaker 3: The first time? 448 00:24:08,520 --> 00:24:08,639 Speaker 1: No? 449 00:24:08,680 --> 00:24:09,040 Speaker 3: I do not. 450 00:24:10,040 --> 00:24:12,520 Speaker 2: So it was at Rice University at the at the 451 00:24:12,600 --> 00:24:13,280 Speaker 2: Rice Stadium. 452 00:24:13,320 --> 00:24:14,960 Speaker 3: You've been to that that football stadium? 453 00:24:15,359 --> 00:24:20,240 Speaker 2: Uh, that that JFK gave the speech where he committed 454 00:24:20,720 --> 00:24:22,920 Speaker 2: we will go to the moon within a decade and 455 00:24:22,920 --> 00:24:27,720 Speaker 2: and and in fact what he said he said, Uh 456 00:24:27,760 --> 00:24:32,560 Speaker 2: why does Rice play the University of Texas? They do 457 00:24:32,760 --> 00:24:36,520 Speaker 2: so not because it is easy, but because it is hard, 458 00:24:37,080 --> 00:24:39,639 Speaker 2: and that was that was his explanation for why. 459 00:24:39,520 --> 00:24:41,159 Speaker 3: Are we going to the moon. We're going to the 460 00:24:41,160 --> 00:24:41,600 Speaker 3: Moon for. 461 00:24:41,560 --> 00:24:45,480 Speaker 2: The same reason Rice plays ut not because it easy, 462 00:24:45,720 --> 00:24:49,119 Speaker 2: because it's it's hard, and it inspired millions of kids. 463 00:24:49,640 --> 00:24:50,800 Speaker 3: We're going to do that again. 464 00:24:50,840 --> 00:24:54,520 Speaker 2: But it's also critical listen there there there are major 465 00:24:54,640 --> 00:24:57,760 Speaker 2: economic benefits. I've predicted for a long time. The first 466 00:24:57,840 --> 00:25:00,520 Speaker 2: trillionaire is going to be made in Spain. That may 467 00:25:00,520 --> 00:25:03,320 Speaker 2: well be elon Musk He's already halfway there. 468 00:25:04,280 --> 00:25:05,280 Speaker 3: I think the. 469 00:25:05,160 --> 00:25:06,840 Speaker 2: Mining that we're going to see on the Moon and 470 00:25:06,960 --> 00:25:10,560 Speaker 2: ultimately on Mars is going to generate enormous economic activity. 471 00:25:10,760 --> 00:25:14,040 Speaker 2: And it also matters from national security and from a 472 00:25:14,080 --> 00:25:18,720 Speaker 2: military perspective. Controlling what is quite literally the high ground 473 00:25:19,160 --> 00:25:21,280 Speaker 2: is really important for keeping America safe. 474 00:25:21,680 --> 00:25:23,520 Speaker 1: Cafe standards. I want to make sure we get this 475 00:25:23,560 --> 00:25:25,200 Speaker 1: in there before the end of the show. Let's talk about 476 00:25:25,240 --> 00:25:26,160 Speaker 1: that victory as well. 477 00:25:27,600 --> 00:25:30,360 Speaker 2: Another provision I wrote in the bill, we zeroed out 478 00:25:30,440 --> 00:25:32,840 Speaker 2: cafe standards. Now, what are the cafe standards? 479 00:25:32,880 --> 00:25:36,600 Speaker 3: There? The rules the Biden administration put in. 480 00:25:36,640 --> 00:25:38,960 Speaker 2: Place to drive up the cost of your car and 481 00:25:39,040 --> 00:25:41,200 Speaker 2: drive up the cost of your truck, and what they 482 00:25:41,200 --> 00:25:43,600 Speaker 2: did is they jacked up the mileage it had to 483 00:25:43,600 --> 00:25:46,760 Speaker 2: get to what were unsustainable levels. And they were doing 484 00:25:46,760 --> 00:25:49,320 Speaker 2: that because they wanted to ban the internal combustion engine. 485 00:25:49,320 --> 00:25:52,160 Speaker 2: They wanted to make it impossible for you to buy 486 00:25:52,160 --> 00:25:54,680 Speaker 2: a gasoline car. They wanted to force you to buy 487 00:25:54,720 --> 00:25:55,600 Speaker 2: an electric vehicle. 488 00:25:55,960 --> 00:25:57,120 Speaker 3: Now, Alouise, let's be clear. 489 00:25:57,160 --> 00:26:00,880 Speaker 1: It also put you and your family at risk. Yeah, 490 00:26:00,880 --> 00:26:04,520 Speaker 1: because of having to be forced to make the cars lighter. 491 00:26:04,840 --> 00:26:06,840 Speaker 1: They had to get rid of the steel in cars 492 00:26:06,880 --> 00:26:09,320 Speaker 1: that made them so safe, like tanks. And that's the 493 00:26:09,320 --> 00:26:12,360 Speaker 1: reason why everything's now in plastic and the bumpers and 494 00:26:12,440 --> 00:26:15,359 Speaker 1: you've had a small wreck. You see how things just shatter. 495 00:26:15,480 --> 00:26:17,679 Speaker 1: It's because they're trying to meet those standards. 496 00:26:18,119 --> 00:26:18,280 Speaker 3: Yeah. 497 00:26:18,320 --> 00:26:21,800 Speaker 2: Look, my first car was a nineteen seventy eight Ford Fairmont. 498 00:26:21,800 --> 00:26:23,240 Speaker 2: It was my grandfather's car that. 499 00:26:23,200 --> 00:26:25,280 Speaker 3: He gave it to me. It was we called it 500 00:26:25,359 --> 00:26:26,200 Speaker 3: the green Bomb. 501 00:26:26,240 --> 00:26:29,080 Speaker 1: When you were younger, I knew it. That was confirmation, right. 502 00:26:28,680 --> 00:26:30,879 Speaker 3: Right, are you kidding? That was the coolest car. We 503 00:26:30,920 --> 00:26:33,040 Speaker 3: called it the green Bomb, and it was a tank. 504 00:26:33,119 --> 00:26:35,960 Speaker 2: And if you got a sixteen year old boy, all 505 00:26:36,000 --> 00:26:39,359 Speaker 2: sixteen year old boys are idiots. And for the teenagers, listening. 506 00:26:39,400 --> 00:26:41,880 Speaker 2: I apologize, but I was there. I was an idiot, 507 00:26:42,040 --> 00:26:44,120 Speaker 2: and I promise you when you get older you understand 508 00:26:44,160 --> 00:26:47,359 Speaker 2: it's just part of life growing up. And like putting 509 00:26:47,400 --> 00:26:49,560 Speaker 2: your kids in a car that is big enough that 510 00:26:49,600 --> 00:26:52,359 Speaker 2: if they hit something like an idiot, that they're not 511 00:26:52,480 --> 00:26:55,600 Speaker 2: going to be badly hurt or killed. That matters. We 512 00:26:55,760 --> 00:26:58,600 Speaker 2: zeroed it out. The effect of that is going to 513 00:26:58,600 --> 00:27:01,560 Speaker 2: be the lower the cost of you getting a car 514 00:27:01,640 --> 00:27:04,840 Speaker 2: or a truck lowered by thousands of dollars. That's another 515 00:27:04,920 --> 00:27:06,639 Speaker 2: victory that is in the bill. And it also is 516 00:27:06,680 --> 00:27:09,720 Speaker 2: going to save life, just as you said, because you'll 517 00:27:09,720 --> 00:27:11,600 Speaker 2: be able to make cars that are safer with more 518 00:27:11,640 --> 00:27:12,760 Speaker 2: steel and less plastic. 519 00:27:13,320 --> 00:27:15,919 Speaker 1: Yeah, it really is incredible. Finally, one last thing I 520 00:27:15,920 --> 00:27:17,760 Speaker 1: do want to hit, and it's important one to end 521 00:27:17,760 --> 00:27:20,480 Speaker 1: the show. Take it down act something that you worked 522 00:27:20,520 --> 00:27:22,560 Speaker 1: so hard on and became reality as well this year, 523 00:27:22,600 --> 00:27:23,880 Speaker 1: and it keeps kids safe. 524 00:27:24,080 --> 00:27:25,359 Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a great victory. 525 00:27:25,400 --> 00:27:28,200 Speaker 2: Look that there is a growing problem with what's called 526 00:27:28,280 --> 00:27:32,960 Speaker 2: non consensual intimate imagery, and we're talking both real world 527 00:27:33,040 --> 00:27:36,360 Speaker 2: so called revenge porn, where you have boyfriend or girlfriend, 528 00:27:36,440 --> 00:27:39,480 Speaker 2: they have an intimate relationship, they take explicit pictures or 529 00:27:39,520 --> 00:27:41,719 Speaker 2: videos of each other and then they have a breakup 530 00:27:41,760 --> 00:27:44,040 Speaker 2: and they get one of them is ticked off and decides, 531 00:27:44,040 --> 00:27:45,320 Speaker 2: all right, I'm going to stick it to you and 532 00:27:45,320 --> 00:27:47,959 Speaker 2: I'm going to release this to the world. And it 533 00:27:48,040 --> 00:27:52,520 Speaker 2: is a grotesque violation of privacy. Nobody has a right 534 00:27:52,600 --> 00:27:56,480 Speaker 2: to do that to somebody else. There is, secondly, a 535 00:27:56,560 --> 00:28:02,960 Speaker 2: more recent aspect of that, which is deep fakes, and 536 00:28:03,320 --> 00:28:06,600 Speaker 2: people are using AI to create deep fakes where they 537 00:28:06,600 --> 00:28:09,879 Speaker 2: take pictures of real people and they use AI to 538 00:28:09,960 --> 00:28:12,879 Speaker 2: make it appear that they're naked or in explicit and 539 00:28:12,920 --> 00:28:16,840 Speaker 2: sexual situations. More than ninety five percent of the victims 540 00:28:16,880 --> 00:28:21,040 Speaker 2: of this are women or teenage girls. And so I 541 00:28:21,200 --> 00:28:23,320 Speaker 2: drafted a bill that's called to Take It Down Act. 542 00:28:23,359 --> 00:28:26,159 Speaker 2: That number one makes it a crime, makes it a 543 00:28:26,160 --> 00:28:30,639 Speaker 2: felony to post non consensual intimate imagery, either real pictures 544 00:28:31,119 --> 00:28:35,120 Speaker 2: or fake pictures. And secondly, it gives you the right, 545 00:28:35,200 --> 00:28:38,640 Speaker 2: if God forbid, you're the victim of this, any tech 546 00:28:38,720 --> 00:28:41,800 Speaker 2: platform that is displaying that content, you have a federal 547 00:28:41,800 --> 00:28:45,200 Speaker 2: statutory right to demand they take it down and they 548 00:28:45,240 --> 00:28:48,080 Speaker 2: have to take it down immediately. And we pass that 549 00:28:48,120 --> 00:28:51,040 Speaker 2: through the Senate, We pass that through the House. The 550 00:28:51,040 --> 00:28:54,200 Speaker 2: First Lady Milania Trump was a big champion. She joined 551 00:28:54,240 --> 00:28:57,160 Speaker 2: with me and I was in the Rose Garden right 552 00:28:57,200 --> 00:28:59,240 Speaker 2: next to the President and right next to the First 553 00:28:59,320 --> 00:29:03,880 Speaker 2: Lady when he's sign that legislation protecting kids, protecting teenage girls, 554 00:29:03,880 --> 00:29:09,160 Speaker 2: teenage boys, women, protecting everyone, and also standing up to 555 00:29:09,280 --> 00:29:13,440 Speaker 2: the abuse of AI, creating deep fakes and victimizing people. 556 00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:17,320 Speaker 1: As always, thank you for listening to Verdict with senter 557 00:29:17,400 --> 00:29:19,800 Speaker 1: Ted Cruz Ben Ferguson with you don't forget to deal 558 00:29:19,920 --> 00:29:22,160 Speaker 1: with my podcast and you can listen to my podcasts 559 00:29:22,160 --> 00:29:24,120 Speaker 1: every other day you're not listening to Verdict or each 560 00:29:24,200 --> 00:29:26,640 Speaker 1: day when you listen to Verdict. 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