Speaker 1: Welcome. It is Verdict with Ted Cruz, Weekend Review, Ben
Speaker 1: Ferguson with you, and these are the stories that you
Speaker 1: may have missed that we talked about this week. Number one,
Speaker 1: Hunter Biden agrees to appear, but only if they in
Speaker 1: Congress agree to his demands. So will it actually happen.
Speaker 1: We'll explain the politics behind this, plus Disney now having
Speaker 1: to face the consequences for their liberal ideology, and it
Speaker 1: may surprise you what Disney's plan is moving forward. And finally,
Speaker 1: Senator Ted Cruz makes his silver screen debut. It's a
Speaker 1: funny new movie out called Lady Ballers, and the media
Speaker 1: they're not happy about it at all. It's the Weekend
Speaker 1: Review and it starts right now. Hunter Biden agrees to
Speaker 1: appear before the House Oversight Committee, but I have to
Speaker 1: get your disreaction to his demands after being subpoened that
Speaker 1: he will do it, but only in public. That is
Speaker 1: what his lawyer has now said that yes, he's willing
Speaker 1: to testify it before the House Oversight Committee, only in public.
Speaker 1: According the letter from his attorney that he wrote to
Speaker 1: the Republican lawmakers, I get trying to punch back and
Speaker 1: look like you're on offense. But to be clear, it
Speaker 1: is not crazy to have a subpoena behind closed doors.
Speaker 1: We saw this happen when they were trying to impeach
Speaker 1: not once but twice Donald J. Trump. They had people
Speaker 1: come in behind closed doors and they do these sit
Speaker 1: downs and answer questions under oath. They give their testimony
Speaker 1: in essence, and then we saw the media go berserk
Speaker 1: over who is walking in to give their testimony? Why
Speaker 1: does hunter Biden want it differently? And what's the political
Speaker 1: play here that we may not understand.
Speaker 2: Well, you're right that it's quite common for people to
Speaker 2: be subpoena to testify behind closed doors, and in a
Speaker 2: closed deposition. That happens regularly. Congressional committees that are investigating
Speaker 2: something they like to do that. You can often spend
Speaker 2: more time asking questions. You can you can essentially prepare
Speaker 2: and build the foundations for an open and public hearing.
Speaker 2: It's it's it's the due diligence you do before a hearing,
Speaker 2: and not everyone that you bring in for a closed
Speaker 2: deposition merits a hearing. So I understand why the committee
Speaker 2: initially subpoened him to come in uh for a a deposition.
Speaker 2: I also understand why Hunter Biden came back and said
Speaker 2: he would do it, but only if it's a public hearing.
Speaker 2: His lawyer is a guy named Abbi Lowell. I don't
Speaker 2: know Abby personally, but he has a reputation as one
Speaker 2: of the most experienced and most talented lawyers in Washington
Speaker 2: for fighting congressional investigations. And so he does when when
Speaker 2: when an individual is in a whole lot of trouble
Speaker 2: with a criminal investigation or congressional investigation. Uh, this this
Speaker 2: lawyer is one of the top Washington power brokers for
Speaker 2: fighting back. And the stated reason that Hunter Biden and
Speaker 2: his lawyer gave is they said, well, well, the Republicans
Speaker 2: in the House, when they've done closed door depositions, they
Speaker 2: quote selectively leak portions of the depositions in ways that
Speaker 2: make the witnesses look bad. So we don't want that
Speaker 2: to happen. We want the public to see exactly what
Speaker 2: Hunter says. Now, look, that's a gamble, you know, if
Speaker 2: you're the lawyer. There is a real advantage for Hunter
Speaker 2: in keeping it closed door and not having a video,
Speaker 2: not having it on the news. Will portions of it
Speaker 2: get leaked? Of course, that's what people in politics do
Speaker 2: on both sides all the time. The January sixth Committee
Speaker 2: did it day after day after day after day. Both
Speaker 2: sides do that. But I will say by demanding that
Speaker 2: it be public, there's some degree of protection for Hunter
Speaker 2: Biden and having it be public and that it can't
Speaker 2: be selectively leaked. You get to hear everything he said.
Speaker 2: But it's also a risky play having it be public.
Speaker 2: Even as corrupt as the corporate media is, when Hunter
Speaker 2: Biden tests before the House, the corporate media cannot avoid
Speaker 2: covering it. So it will drive a crap ton of news.
Speaker 2: And I say, crapton is a technical legal term, but
Speaker 2: it will it will be. And you know, look, I
Speaker 2: don't know Hunter Biden. I've never met Hunter Biden. I
Speaker 2: don't know how he is at answering questions, but I
Speaker 2: have no reason to expect that he's a particularly nimble
Speaker 2: or effective witness. And so you're going to have some
Speaker 2: very vigorous questioning. And I will say, listen James Comber.
Speaker 2: We've had James Comber on this podcast for a two
Speaker 2: part interview. If you didn't listen to that, by the way,
Speaker 2: you ought to go back and listen to our two
Speaker 2: part interview with James Comer. You ought to go back
Speaker 2: and listen to our two part interview with Jim Jordan.
Speaker 2: Both of them, we did a deep dive in terms
Speaker 2: of those House investigations and what they've revealed. A date
Speaker 2: my counsel to House Republicans when Hunter Biden testifies in
Speaker 2: an open here is Remember, the reason this is an
Speaker 2: issue of public concern is not about Hunter. It is
Speaker 2: not because he's some poor, sad sack with a substance
Speaker 2: abuse problem. The reason this is a matter of public
Speaker 2: concern is Joe Biden. The reason this is a matter
Speaker 2: of public concern is the evidence indicates that Hunter Biden's
Speaker 2: business was selling favors from Daddy, from Joe Biden to
Speaker 2: corrupt oligarchs in Ukraine and Russia and communist China. And
Speaker 2: so the focus needs to be on Joe Biden, on
Speaker 2: the corruption of the President of the United States, on
Speaker 2: the evidence that the President of the United States sold favors,
Speaker 2: on the evidence that the President of the United States
Speaker 2: solicited and received bribes. And so I hope that that
Speaker 2: House Republicans can can keep that front and center. But
Speaker 2: there's no doubt when Hunter testifies, it is going to
Speaker 2: drive a whole lot of news center.
Speaker 1: Is there any hope that we will ever get to
Speaker 1: see real justice coming out of the House that could
Speaker 1: possibly move somewhere when it comes to the Biden crime family.
Speaker 1: Do you feel like we are getting closer by the
Speaker 1: way that Comer and Jordan are doing this methodically. There
Speaker 1: have been a lot of i say, Monday morning quarterbacking
Speaker 1: and armchair quarterbacking from a lot of people on social
Speaker 1: media are saying, we've screwed this up, We've gotten nowhere.
Speaker 1: They promised to do something, they haven't done it yet.
Speaker 1: Is that a fair assessment, because I think what they've
Speaker 1: been doing is really making sure they do this right
Speaker 1: so it sticks.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Listen, I think both Jim Jordan and James Comer
Speaker 2: are doing an excellent job. I think they're approaching their
Speaker 2: job very seriously. I think they're laying out the evidence
Speaker 2: in a systematic matter. I think that's important. I think
Speaker 2: laying out the evidence for the public matters enormously. I
Speaker 2: believe the House should already have impeached alejandrom Orcas. I
Speaker 2: believe the House should already have impeached Merrick Garland. And
Speaker 2: you know, when it comes to impeachment Abiden. I think
Speaker 2: they're getting very very close to having the evidence to
Speaker 2: impeach Joe Biden as well. The question on all three
Speaker 2: of those is will they have the votes in the House.
Speaker 2: So the House Republicans have an exceptionally narrow majority, they
Speaker 2: have a four vote majority, it's not clear that they
Speaker 2: have the votes to impeach any of them. And so
Speaker 2: that's a fundamental challenge that they face. The new Speaker,
Speaker 2: Mike Johnson. I know Mike very well. He's a conservative.
Speaker 2: I'm confident that Mike would be perfectly willing to impeach
Speaker 2: these officials if he had the votes. But if there
Speaker 2: are five Republicans who say no, there's no magic wand
Speaker 2: that can change that. And so I think given that
Speaker 2: very real dynamic that it is a tiny majority with
Speaker 2: a number of wobbly votes, the best course of action
Speaker 2: the House can do is keep developing the evidence and
Speaker 2: making the case stronger and stronger and stronger, and developing
Speaker 2: it in front of the American people, who ultimately are
Speaker 2: going to be the arbiter. Because look, even if they
Speaker 2: impeached all three of them, none would be removed by
Speaker 2: the Senate. It takes two thirds of the Senate to
Speaker 2: remove an individual and impeachment, and the chances that Senate
Speaker 2: Democrats would vote to do so are zero point zero
Speaker 2: zero zero percent.
Speaker 1: Now, if you want to hear the rest of this conversation,
Speaker 1: you can go back and listen to the full podcast
Speaker 1: from earlier this week. Now onto story number two. Senator,
Speaker 1: you were talking obviously about what's happening with these two
Speaker 1: different organizations within our government, but there's also something that
Speaker 1: happened at Disney.
Speaker 2: Well, that's right, and this is the third of our
Speaker 2: woke triumvirate in terms of facing the consequences for their ideology,
Speaker 2: which is that Disney recently filed its annual SEC report,
Speaker 2: a report that every public company is required to file,
Speaker 2: and here's what they were forced to publicly disclosed. Quote.
Speaker 2: We face risks relating to misalignment with public and consumer
Speaker 2: tastes and preferences for entertainment, travel, and consumer products. And
Speaker 2: it goes on to note, quote the success of our
Speaker 2: businesses depends on our ability to consistently create compelling content. Quote. Generally,
Speaker 2: our revenues and profitability are adversely impacted when our entertainment
Speaker 2: offerings in products, as well as our methods to make
Speaker 2: our offerings and products available to consumers do not achieve
Speaker 2: sufficient consumer acceptance. Further, consumer's perceptions of our positions on
Speaker 2: matters of public interest, including our efforts to achieve certain
Speaker 2: of our environmental and social goals, often differ widely and
Speaker 2: present risks to our reputation and brands. Now, that is
Speaker 2: one of the most stunning corporate disclosures I've ever read,
Speaker 2: because what that means is number one, Disney has lost
Speaker 2: billions of dollars the phrase go woke, go broke. Disney
Speaker 2: has sadly embodied that phrase. I am sure Walt Disney
Speaker 2: is spinning in his grave at horrors at what has
Speaker 2: happened to his namesake. But the fact that they put
Speaker 2: this in their sec disclosures means number one, the money
Speaker 2: they're losing is so significant. Number two, their projections for
Speaker 2: future money that they're going to lose are so significant
Speaker 2: that their lawyers said, damn it, you have to acknowledge
Speaker 2: this in the disclosure, or else you will be sued
Speaker 2: for misleading investors. In other words, we must write these
Speaker 2: words so that when investors sue us and say your
Speaker 2: executives are putting your woke politics ahead of profitability ahead
Speaker 2: of producing entertainment. The consumers want of actually producing family
Speaker 2: friendly entertainment that kids are interested in, and parents want
Speaker 2: their kids to see that your politics matters more to
Speaker 2: you then making the business successful. They want to be
Speaker 2: able to point to this disclosure and say no, no, sorry,
Speaker 2: you invested, and we told you upfront we don't care
Speaker 2: about making a buck. Our politics is all we care about.
Speaker 2: And even if it if it flushes the corporate profits
Speaker 2: out debt down the commode.
Speaker 1: You know, We've had this debate at my house, three boys,
Speaker 1: and we've talked about Disney, and I said to my wife,
Speaker 1: we had a grand debate over it. I'm not giving
Speaker 1: my money to Disney. I'm not going to Disney. I'm
Speaker 1: not going to take them to Disney because I believe
Speaker 1: them when they tell me what their agenda is. Uh
Speaker 1: and now it's in their financial disclosures. This is their agenda.
Speaker 1: And I say this over and over again when when
Speaker 1: having this debate over things like Disney and Woke companies.
Speaker 1: Believe them when they put it in writing, Believe them
Speaker 1: when they when they publish it, Believe them when they
Speaker 1: produce it. Believe then when they promote it. This is
Speaker 1: Disney saying all along, Yes, this is exactly what we're
Speaker 1: trying to do with your kids' minds. Yes, we are
Speaker 1: trying to use what used to be just innocent entertainment
Speaker 1: that you could trust your kid in front of Disney
Speaker 1: Channel or Disney movies. You no longer should have that
Speaker 1: trust with them, and they put it in writing.
Speaker 2: Well, that's right. But look, there's reason to draw optimism
Speaker 2: from this third example, which is that that that for
Speaker 2: many woke corporations, I think they they are feeling the
Speaker 2: heat and they're trying to change direction. You look at CEO,
Speaker 2: the CEO of Disney, Bob Iger. They brought him back
Speaker 2: because Disney was in such a world of hurt. They
Speaker 2: had screwed it up so badly that Bob Ayer came
Speaker 2: back and he is seeking, in his own words to
Speaker 2: quote quiet things down after putting politics front and center. Now,
Speaker 2: IIGRE presumably signed off on this corporate disclosure, and that
Speaker 2: may be a consequence of trying to pivot Disney back. Now.
Speaker 2: They're not doing a great job of it because the
Speaker 2: problem is that they have built a culture where their
Speaker 2: executives are invested in in this woke ideology. And this
Speaker 2: is something I discussed at great length in the book
Speaker 2: on Woke. I talk about Disney at great length. I
Speaker 2: talk about bud Light, I talk about Target, but I
Speaker 2: talk about how all three of them, Disney, bud Light,
Speaker 2: and Target lost billions and billions of dollars. And number one,
Speaker 2: it's had an impact on all three but number two,
Speaker 2: And this is where you should be encouraged. It is,
Speaker 2: I hope and believe, a powerful deterrent for other CEO
Speaker 2: and other corporations that are sitting there saying I don't
Speaker 2: want to be bud Light, I don't want to be Target,
Speaker 2: I don't want to be Disney. And now Disney, according
Speaker 2: to its own corporate disclosure, Disney is saying I don't
Speaker 2: want to be Disney. That may be promising an optimistic
Speaker 2: for the future.
Speaker 1: Finally, Centa, I wanted to There was a story this
Speaker 1: week it and it kind of made me laugh, and
Speaker 1: it sums up I think, are the Bidenomics economy that
Speaker 1: we're in right now. There is a sixteen dollar fast
Speaker 1: food meal. Now that may not shock some people because
Speaker 1: you think, all right, at the higher end, maybe that's
Speaker 1: something that is palatable, but it's a sixteen dollars McDonald's
Speaker 1: meal that may explain voter anger more than any other
Speaker 1: poll at Joe Biden. Like, if this isn't just a
Speaker 1: full circle of where we are now that McDonald's has
Speaker 1: a six a meal that costs sixteen dollars and ten
Speaker 1: cents to be precise, that it's gone viral as a
Speaker 1: man posts the receipt on social media and I and
Speaker 1: I laughed when I saw this because it's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: welcome to Bidenomics.
Speaker 2: Well, it's interesting. The language you used was word for
Speaker 2: word the headline from, of all places, the Washington Post.
Speaker 2: So the Washington Post headline was, quote the viral sixteen
Speaker 2: dollar McDonald's meal that may explain voter anger at Biden.
Speaker 2: So this is the Washington Post saying, you want to
Speaker 2: know why voters are pissed at Joe Biden. Here's why.
Speaker 2: And it goes on to describe that on December twentieth,
Speaker 2: twenty twenty two, a fellow by the name of Toefer
Speaker 2: Olive went to McDonald's in the town of Post Falls, Idaho,
Speaker 2: and he ordered a limited edition smoky double quarter pounder
Speaker 2: BLT with fries and a sprite, and the cost of
Speaker 2: the meal was sixteen dollars and ten cents, and he
Speaker 2: posted that the receipt on TikTok, and the receipt ended
Speaker 2: up getting millions of views, initially a couple one hundred thousand,
Speaker 2: but then when it was reposted and ended up getting
Speaker 2: over two million views. And it goes right to the heart.
Speaker 2: I mean, look, I've been going to McDonald's for as
Speaker 2: long as I can remember, and you used to be
Speaker 2: able to get a burger and fries and a coke
Speaker 2: for five six bucks. You know when prices got more expensive,
Speaker 2: maybe it was seven or eight dollars, but sixteen dollars.
Speaker 2: There's a reason voters are pissed. And this goes right
Speaker 2: to the heart of it. Than when you have Joe
Speaker 2: Biden and Kamala Harrison, Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi spending
Speaker 2: trillions and trillions of dollars that we don't have, barring
Speaker 2: trillions and trillions of dollars and running the printing presses
Speaker 2: days and nights, we see inflation taking off and the
Speaker 2: result is it's sixteen bucks to go to McDonald's as before.
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Speaker 1: week you may have missed. Finally, let's let's talk about
Speaker 1: something that was really fun. I think and I googled this,
Speaker 1: but I got inconclusive data here, Senator, I think that
Speaker 1: you had your silver screen debut with a new movie
Speaker 1: that has come out, Ladyballers. It is a Daily Wire movie, Ladyballers,
Speaker 1: and it's making everybody freak out, which makes even more
Speaker 1: fun in the media. And they're saying you're now starring
Speaker 1: in a trainer film, which really made me laugh when
Speaker 1: I saw that headline, So talk about this debut of yours.
Speaker 1: Congratulations movie star. I guess we can put that on
Speaker 1: the resume, right. This was pretty cool?
Speaker 2: Well, it was very cool. So last night I went
Speaker 2: to the world premiere of the movie and it was
Speaker 2: in Nashville. The name of the movie is Lady Ballers
Speaker 2: and it was put out by the Daily Wire. And
Speaker 2: it's a comedy. It's a really funny comedy. It reads
Speaker 2: it's an awful lot like Dodgeball. It's kind of the
Speaker 2: same sort of slapstick. But the script is really well written.
Speaker 2: It's got a terrific cast. And the premise is that
Speaker 2: you have five guys who won the Tennessee State high
Speaker 2: school basketball championship and twenty years later, they're all kind
Speaker 2: of down on their luck and they decide they're going
Speaker 2: to compete as women's basketball players and dominate women's basketball.
Speaker 2: And because of today's woke ideology, if they say they're women, uh,
Speaker 2: they get praised as as as beautiful and brave and
Speaker 2: and it I got to tell you, the script is
Speaker 2: it's just really damn funny. So I went. It was
Speaker 2: in a big theater in Nashville. The theater was packed,
Speaker 2: everyone was cracking up, laughing. Uh, there are a whole
Speaker 2: bunch of cameos in the movie. Now I have a
Speaker 2: tiny cameo. So so I'm in the movie. I have
Speaker 2: two lines. But but it was fun. I flew to
Speaker 2: Nashville while they were filming.
Speaker 1: Hold On, hold on, how many takes it take you
Speaker 1: to get it right? That's that's the real question, if
Speaker 1: you've gone pro here in the movie world.
Speaker 2: Well, uh, they probably had me do about twenty takes
Speaker 2: of it. Now I don't know that. I don't know
Speaker 2: that I screwed it up nineteen times. But but they
Speaker 2: kept telling me, Okay, do it again, do it again,
Speaker 2: do it again. So I did, did, did, did a
Speaker 2: whole bunch of takes of it. And it was a
Speaker 2: ton of fun. I flew in for one afternoon and
Speaker 2: shot the scene and left it. But it was a
Speaker 2: blast and it was really cool, and I will say
Speaker 2: the movie. Look, this is something we've talked about. That's
Speaker 2: something I talk about at a lot of length in
Speaker 2: my new book on Woke. The chapter on entertainment. Entertainment
Speaker 2: is enormously consequential, and I talk about in the book
Speaker 2: on Woke, how how the the radical left has killed comedy.
Speaker 2: Late night TV shows are unwatchable, and in fact, ironically
Speaker 2: so Jimmy Kimmel. I blast in the book and I
Speaker 2: talk about how, you know, instead of like actually having
Speaker 2: real humor, we now just have angry leftists standing there
Speaker 2: screaming I hate Donald Trump. Donald Trump is the devil. Ironically,
Speaker 2: Jimmy Kimmel took that excerpt from my book and he
Speaker 2: read it his monologue and it was it was actually
Speaker 2: even funnier. Kimmel then followed it up by having a
Speaker 2: drag queen read excerpts of my book to little kids,
Speaker 2: which was as much as I said, it was unfunny.
Speaker 2: That was actually kind of funny that he did that.
Speaker 2: I gotta laugh at that. But look, entertainment is powerful.
Speaker 2: Culture is powerful, and comedy is powerful. And what I
Speaker 2: was happy about this movie is is that it's really funny.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's it is. I mean, I'm as you know,
Speaker 2: I'm a huge movie buff. I love movies. I love comedies.
Speaker 2: I love I love, you know, laughing and cutting up
Speaker 2: and having fun. And this the movie I would recommend
Speaker 2: it to everyone. It's and I'm glad to see. Look,
Speaker 2: the Daily Wire is investing a lot of money and
Speaker 2: trying to compete against Hollywood producing good content. And that's
Speaker 2: one of the critical tools we have to do if
Speaker 2: we're going to take the institutions back.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's so important, and you look at just it's
Speaker 1: not just that when these come out that we support them.
Speaker 1: And I think that's the point you're making is look,
Speaker 1: go watch this movie and support it, because if we do,
Speaker 1: then we get to make more of them and others
Speaker 1: will be inspired when you see people that are trying
Speaker 1: to fight back in spaces that are really hard, like Hollywood,
Speaker 1: and they put something out that's on Netflix. That's something
Speaker 1: that's that has made for our audience, and conservatives, make
Speaker 1: sure you support it because if you don't, the left
Speaker 1: will continue to beat the living crap out of us
Speaker 1: in the entertainment industry and they do change hearts and minds.
Speaker 1: I mean, there was a there were I mean, when
Speaker 1: you ran for president, I'm sure you saw the data
Speaker 1: likability and if Hollywood's behind you, and if you have
Speaker 1: famous stars behind you, I mean, the Democratic National Convention
Speaker 1: is not about the politicians. It's about the movie stars
Speaker 1: and the mood and the music groups that show up
Speaker 1: to entertain the people watching on TV, and they beat
Speaker 1: us at that game. And that's why it's so important
Speaker 1: to get behind movies like this.
Speaker 2: Look, I think that's exactly right. The movie also has
Speaker 2: a bunch of different cares in it. So Ben Shapiro
Speaker 2: is in it, uh, Jeremy Boring Is is actually one
Speaker 2: of the stars of it. Matt Walsh is in it,
Speaker 2: Clay Travis is in it, Riley Gaines is in it,
Speaker 2: Jordan Peterson is in it. So so there are lots
Speaker 2: of of cameos that that are are are really fun
Speaker 2: and and and well done and and like Matt Walsh
Speaker 2: plays basically this like hippie dippy character, who's who's really
Speaker 2: funny and and and Shapiro has just a quick little
Speaker 2: snippet but it's hysterical what what Ben does in it,
Speaker 2: and that it was one of the fun things. And
Speaker 2: actually for for Verdict listeners, UH You're in My dear friend,
Speaker 2: Michael Knowles the the the UH my original co host
Speaker 2: on Verdict. Michael actually has a pretty sizable role in
Speaker 2: the in the UH. In the movie, he plays a
Speaker 2: he plays a TV actor and and he's got you
Speaker 2: know in in in the movie, he's got like a
Speaker 2: little mustache that he wears. And so I saw Michael,
Speaker 2: I saw everyone at the premiere last night, and I
Speaker 2: was giving Michael enormous grief, saying, you know, you really
Speaker 2: need to keep that stash, Michael. I mean it really
Speaker 2: does kind of it has sort of a B level
Speaker 2: porn star actor look like the you know, I said, Michael,
Speaker 2: you're rocking the Ron Jeremy look, and I think it
Speaker 2: really it's worth continuing. Thankfully he had the good judgment
Speaker 2: not to follow my advice on that front.
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