WEBVTT - LIVE from Miami at YAF’s Freedom Conference 0:00:06.280 --> 0:00:09.680 Well, I'm very confused. If not a Joe Biden press conference. 0:00:09.760 --> 0:00:12.680 This is not a Joe Biden press conference. You know, 0:00:13.240 --> 0:00:16.319 something occurs to me sitting here seeing all these people. Well, 0:00:16.320 --> 0:00:19.400 it's not six reporters in little circles spread out alone. No, No, 0:00:19.440 --> 0:00:22.560 it's the opposite of that. Actually, it's hundreds of people here. 0:00:22.960 --> 0:00:27.760 We have been told for a year you can't go outside, 0:00:28.440 --> 0:00:31.080 you can't talk to anybody, you can't see anybody, you 0:00:31.080 --> 0:00:34.240 can't have any holidays, you can't go on social media 0:00:34.280 --> 0:00:36.640 because if you go on social media, you're obviously going 0:00:36.680 --> 0:00:39.680 to be kicked off. You can't start your own social 0:00:39.720 --> 0:00:42.360 media platforms because that's a very very bad thing. 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You have to subscribe, submit your questions, 0:01:24.680 --> 0:01:27.440 make sure they're really really good questions, and then we 0:01:27.520 --> 0:01:29.720 will be answering them a little bit later. Want to 0:01:29.760 --> 0:01:33.920 thank as always the Logan family for sponsoring this event 0:01:34.000 --> 0:01:36.319 many other events for YAFF, and I want to thank 0:01:36.360 --> 0:01:38.399 all of you for being here. Senator, you must be 0:01:38.480 --> 0:01:41.560 so happy to be in Miami right now. You have 0:01:41.680 --> 0:01:46.360 just left a place that there's chaos in the house. 0:01:46.760 --> 0:01:50.639 There's chaos at the capitol. More broadly, the whole city 0:01:50.920 --> 0:01:55.280 looks like Baghdad at this point. It's somehow Washington, d c. 0:01:55.720 --> 0:01:59.400 Seems even crazier and less pleasant than it usually does, 0:01:59.680 --> 0:02:03.360 and we get to be in Miami. The lunatics are 0:02:03.440 --> 0:02:10.280 running the asylum. It is absolutely crazy. I mean, we 0:02:10.400 --> 0:02:14.320 have fences everywhere, we have soldiers wherever you look. The 0:02:14.560 --> 0:02:18.480 entire place is locked down, and AOC is spending every 0:02:18.560 --> 0:02:24.520 day saying I'm being murdered. I don't want I don't 0:02:24.520 --> 0:02:26.880 know if we're gonna break news. Did you do it? 0:02:27.000 --> 0:02:31.560 Or are you an attempted murder urgent? I am innocent 0:02:31.680 --> 0:02:34.000 of that particular chart good. I know there have been 0:02:34.080 --> 0:02:36.359 rumors for years and years about you. Although I will 0:02:36.400 --> 0:02:40.760 decline to give answers about northern California, and that's for 0:02:40.919 --> 0:02:48.080 your own protection, there is you know, I do feel 0:02:48.120 --> 0:02:50.440 in a way like this is deja vu all over again. 0:02:50.760 --> 0:02:52.760 One year ago. I feel like I've heard you say 0:02:52.800 --> 0:02:58.320 that before. One year ago. We started this podcast because 0:02:58.400 --> 0:03:01.120 we were at the last impeachment trial. Now it just 0:03:01.120 --> 0:03:04.120 seems to happen every single year. We've got another impeachment trial, 0:03:04.280 --> 0:03:06.799 We've got all of these Joe Biden nominees coming up, 0:03:07.000 --> 0:03:10.480 You've got absolute madness going on in the House of Representatives. 0:03:10.760 --> 0:03:14.600 What is the insider of you right now? From Washington? Look, 0:03:14.639 --> 0:03:19.480 it's crazy on every front the House of Representatives. What 0:03:19.520 --> 0:03:21.600 did they do in the House of Representatives this week? 0:03:21.600 --> 0:03:25.360 You've got Nancy Pelosi driving it, But it really is 0:03:25.440 --> 0:03:28.959 AOC and it's the squad. It's their craziness that is 0:03:29.040 --> 0:03:32.919 driving the agenda. So we spent much of this week 0:03:33.000 --> 0:03:36.120 with the House of Representatives talking about some tweets that 0:03:36.240 --> 0:03:40.560 Marjorie Taylor Green had sent in years past, because that 0:03:40.720 --> 0:03:43.680 is the pressing objective. Next week in the Senate, we're 0:03:43.680 --> 0:03:46.720 going to spend the entire week impeaching a president who's 0:03:46.720 --> 0:03:49.160 already left the White House, and as a private citizen, right, 0:03:49.680 --> 0:03:53.480 it's Bunker's right because I'm actually glad you brought up 0:03:53.480 --> 0:03:57.240 the Marjorie Taylor Green of it all, because if I 0:03:57.280 --> 0:03:59.920 didn't see clips on CNN, I would have no idea 0:04:00.280 --> 0:04:02.480 who this person is. But it would seem that the 0:04:02.560 --> 0:04:06.440 Democrats are trying to contrive some kind of controversy out 0:04:06.440 --> 0:04:10.480 of old social media posts. They're now voting to strip 0:04:10.480 --> 0:04:13.280 her of her committee assignments, and I just sort of think, 0:04:13.600 --> 0:04:17.000 even beyond any question about her, why am I supposed 0:04:17.000 --> 0:04:19.440 to care? This is the people's business. Aren't they supposed 0:04:19.440 --> 0:04:22.320 to be passing laws and actually working for the good 0:04:22.320 --> 0:04:24.680 of the American people. Well, look, I have not met 0:04:24.680 --> 0:04:26.720 her yet. I imagine I will at some point. She's 0:04:26.760 --> 0:04:29.440 a newly elected member of Congress. She's been in office 0:04:29.760 --> 0:04:35.000 all of a month, right, But as I understand it, 0:04:35.040 --> 0:04:37.520 she said some pretty crazy things. And look, some of 0:04:37.560 --> 0:04:39.640 the things she said I certainly don't agree with. I 0:04:39.640 --> 0:04:42.320 don't think you should run around saying someone should shoot 0:04:42.440 --> 0:04:44.800 Nancy Pelosi in the head. I think threatening violence is 0:04:44.839 --> 0:04:47.760 not a good thing. But this entire circus was put 0:04:47.800 --> 0:04:51.120 forward because the Democrats in the media, they like to 0:04:51.160 --> 0:04:54.120 find somebody on the Republican side of things who said 0:04:54.240 --> 0:04:59.320 something really outlandish and then put together this entire kangaroo chord. 0:05:00.080 --> 0:05:01.719 And I will say what they did this week. So 0:05:01.880 --> 0:05:04.839 yesterday the House voted and they stripped over committee assignments. 0:05:05.560 --> 0:05:09.719 That's actually a really chilling precedent. It is, to the 0:05:09.760 --> 0:05:12.400 best of my knowledge, the first time in history that 0:05:12.520 --> 0:05:16.120 any political party has stripped a member of the opposing 0:05:16.200 --> 0:05:19.640 party of their committee assignments. And this will not be 0:05:19.680 --> 0:05:23.040 the last. You want to talk about a dangerous threshold 0:05:23.040 --> 0:05:26.960 across I'm reminded of being on the Senate floor in 0:05:27.240 --> 0:05:31.479 twenty thirteen when Harry Reid the Democrats used the nuclear 0:05:31.520 --> 0:05:35.760 option to lower the threshold for confirming judges, and more 0:05:35.800 --> 0:05:38.039 than a few of us told the Democrats you're going 0:05:38.080 --> 0:05:41.279 to regret this. Yeah, and you're going to regret this sooner. 0:05:42.160 --> 0:05:45.120 I remember telling Amy Klobuchar and the Senate floor that night, 0:05:45.160 --> 0:05:47.920 I said, because you've done this, we will end up 0:05:47.960 --> 0:05:51.239 with more antonin Scalias and Clarence Thomas's on the Supreme 0:05:51.279 --> 0:05:53.760 Court because of this step you've taken. Right now and 0:05:54.200 --> 0:05:57.480 we saw that play forward. Listen. Once this threshold has 0:05:57.480 --> 0:06:01.360 been crossed, it's not hard to imagine maybe in two 0:06:01.440 --> 0:06:08.279 years suddenly Democrats say some freshman Democrats who say some crazy, 0:06:08.279 --> 0:06:10.400 outlandish things I know would be really hard to find 0:06:10.480 --> 0:06:15.720 any I can't imagine. No, it's a level of escalation. 0:06:15.760 --> 0:06:20.800 And let make another point. Have you noticed that democrats 0:06:20.800 --> 0:06:25.080 and the media right now they're in high dungeon about 0:06:25.080 --> 0:06:29.760 how much they love democracy. Yes, they love democracy. Mind you, 0:06:30.360 --> 0:06:33.560 if there's one thing objectively that democrats do not love 0:06:33.600 --> 0:06:38.080 it as democracy. They despise democracy only every front. How 0:06:38.080 --> 0:06:40.240 do we know this because they don't actually want to 0:06:40.320 --> 0:06:45.640 let the people decide. So why did democrats want judicial 0:06:45.680 --> 0:06:49.920 activist on the courts? Because on contested public policy issues, 0:06:49.960 --> 0:06:52.880 they don't actually want the voters to decide. Right, you know, 0:06:52.880 --> 0:06:55.919 on a question of abortion, they don't want voters in 0:06:55.960 --> 0:06:58.200 the state to debate about what should the laws be 0:06:58.240 --> 0:07:00.400 on abortion? And they don't They don't want to see 0:07:00.440 --> 0:07:02.880 all fifty states having different standards. They don't want to 0:07:02.880 --> 0:07:04.920 see drug laws decided by the states. They don't want 0:07:04.920 --> 0:07:07.360 to see marriage laws decided by the states. They want 0:07:07.360 --> 0:07:11.280 to decree one rule for everyone, and you look at 0:07:11.280 --> 0:07:14.640 this Marjorie Taylor Green thing. One of the things that's 0:07:14.640 --> 0:07:17.640 striking is is what they stripped her or committee assignments for, 0:07:17.680 --> 0:07:21.120 as I understand it, or all things she said before 0:07:21.200 --> 0:07:24.040 she was elected, Right, So the voters had those in 0:07:24.080 --> 0:07:26.200 front of them and they decided to elect her. Look, 0:07:26.720 --> 0:07:29.360 if someone thinks she's nutty, there is a remedy in 0:07:29.400 --> 0:07:32.400 our system for that, which is the voters couldn't decide, Okay, 0:07:32.400 --> 0:07:36.480 we want someone else. And it is amazing. As the 0:07:36.560 --> 0:07:41.080 Democrats are acting to stifle democracy, they are at the 0:07:41.160 --> 0:07:44.800 same time piously intoning I sure do love democracy. You know, 0:07:44.880 --> 0:07:47.080 this is such an important point. And I actually haven't 0:07:47.120 --> 0:07:50.600 heard other people mention this about the whole circus that's 0:07:50.640 --> 0:07:53.040 going on in the House of Representatives right now. There 0:07:53.120 --> 0:07:55.160 is this irony that they're talking about how much they 0:07:55.240 --> 0:07:57.360 love democracy, but then of course they want to stifle 0:07:57.400 --> 0:08:00.480 the will of voters. But then there's this other aspect, 0:08:00.480 --> 0:08:03.480 which is, you know, the Democrats never go after their 0:08:03.520 --> 0:08:07.000 own members. As you alluded to, they might have one 0:08:07.080 --> 0:08:09.840 or two sort of kookie members, maybe more than one 0:08:09.920 --> 0:08:11.720 or two, and maybe a little bit more than kookie, 0:08:11.880 --> 0:08:14.080 And but they don't go after them. And this is 0:08:14.120 --> 0:08:15.800 something that I think a lot of us are seeing 0:08:15.840 --> 0:08:19.520 this week. Democrats have unified government. They already had the bureaucracy, 0:08:19.560 --> 0:08:21.720 they already had big tech, they already have the universities, 0:08:21.800 --> 0:08:25.280 on and on and on. Democrats in this country seem 0:08:25.400 --> 0:08:30.560 much more talented at wielding political power, at actually getting 0:08:30.680 --> 0:08:34.880 things done than Republicans, who are sort of busy in 0:08:34.920 --> 0:08:40.280 fighting or losing the opportunities that have been given to them. Well, 0:08:40.320 --> 0:08:43.880 there's a reason for that, which is today's Democratic party 0:08:43.880 --> 0:08:46.880 as a command and control party. It is a party 0:08:46.880 --> 0:08:50.440 of authoritarians. It is a party of statists. Now that 0:08:50.480 --> 0:08:54.360 means they follow orders, they are collectivists. They are willing 0:08:54.480 --> 0:08:58.000 to subject themselves to authority. Listen, on the right, what 0:08:58.200 --> 0:09:00.200 unites people on the right in a room like this. 0:09:00.320 --> 0:09:03.120 You'll have some people who are conservatives, some people who 0:09:03.120 --> 0:09:06.240 are libertarians, some people who are just lonely and looking 0:09:06.240 --> 0:09:09.560 to make friends. I mean, you'll you'll have a wide array. 0:09:10.559 --> 0:09:12.520 And by the way, those are not mutually exclusive. You 0:09:12.559 --> 0:09:16.040 can have some of all of that. But if there's 0:09:16.120 --> 0:09:20.560 one thing that unifies the center right, it is a 0:09:20.640 --> 0:09:24.360 respect for the individual. It is it is an understanding 0:09:24.400 --> 0:09:27.240 that you can decide what you believe, you can decide 0:09:27.640 --> 0:09:30.120 how you worship, you can decide what you do with 0:09:30.200 --> 0:09:33.240 your life, you can decide what you say. All of 0:09:33.280 --> 0:09:37.480 that individual freedom. It's great, But then our problem is 0:09:37.520 --> 0:09:39.960 we can never get everyone on the same page because 0:09:39.960 --> 0:09:44.080 we're you know, hurting cats right is unfair to the cats. Now, 0:09:44.120 --> 0:09:47.640 do you think that the Democrats have given conservatives an opening? 0:09:47.720 --> 0:09:49.679 Because this has always been a problem on the right. 0:09:49.760 --> 0:09:51.720 It's one of our strengths, but it's one of our problems. 0:09:51.800 --> 0:09:54.360 Is you know, you put a hundred conservatives into a 0:09:54.440 --> 0:09:57.240 room together, they will find the one issue that each 0:09:57.280 --> 0:09:59.719 of them disagrees with the other one, and so it's 0:09:59.840 --> 0:10:04.160 very how dare you say they won't. But do you 0:10:04.200 --> 0:10:06.240 think the Democrats have given us sort of an opening 0:10:06.280 --> 0:10:11.080 here because until the past couple of years, something like 0:10:11.200 --> 0:10:14.440 the American flag that was a symbol we could all 0:10:14.480 --> 0:10:17.400 agree on. Right. You know, no person in their right mind, 0:10:17.400 --> 0:10:19.120 even if they're on the left, is going to campaign 0:10:19.120 --> 0:10:22.520 against the American flag until they start to do that, 0:10:22.679 --> 0:10:24.680 until they start to kneel in front of the flag 0:10:24.800 --> 0:10:28.320 or disrespect the flag or not stand for it. Do 0:10:28.400 --> 0:10:32.280 you think now conservatives have this opportunity to say, well, 0:10:32.280 --> 0:10:35.080 one thing that unites us is we want to conserve 0:10:35.160 --> 0:10:37.280 the place. You know, we like this place, we like 0:10:37.400 --> 0:10:40.760 our rituals, we like our local communities. Has the left 0:10:40.760 --> 0:10:44.120 gone radical enough to give us that opening? It's probably 0:10:44.160 --> 0:10:48.040 what I'm most optimistic about is the crazies are setting 0:10:48.040 --> 0:10:53.319 the agenda. Their ideas don't work the next two years. Listen, 0:10:53.320 --> 0:10:55.160 they're gonna be a tough two years for our country 0:10:55.679 --> 0:10:59.319 because we're going to see right now, there's an anger. 0:10:59.440 --> 0:11:01.600 There's a la tree on the left. I mean, I 0:11:01.640 --> 0:11:05.200 mean there is a spirit where they're trying to destroy 0:11:05.280 --> 0:11:08.360 their enemies. Yeah, I mean it's like Robesphere setting up 0:11:08.400 --> 0:11:11.640 guillotines in the street. I mean, they're objective. You look 0:11:11.679 --> 0:11:15.640 at impeachment next week. Impeachment next week is because they 0:11:15.640 --> 0:11:18.200 hate Donald J. Trump and they want to destroy him. 0:11:18.200 --> 0:11:20.840 They want to assault the earth. By the way, remember 0:11:20.880 --> 0:11:23.520 we're talking a minute ago about how democrats love democracy. 0:11:24.360 --> 0:11:27.080 What is their stated reason for impeachment. Well, if they 0:11:27.120 --> 0:11:29.600 don't impeach him and prohibit him from running again, he 0:11:29.679 --> 0:11:32.200 might run again, and you know what, those idiot voters 0:11:32.280 --> 0:11:36.040 might vote for him. Now, you could be upset at that. 0:11:36.120 --> 0:11:39.480 I get that, yeah, but you don't get to claim 0:11:39.520 --> 0:11:44.360 you're defending democracy when the evil you're trying to prevent 0:11:44.559 --> 0:11:46.679 is the people might vote in a way you don't like. Well, 0:11:46.679 --> 0:11:50.000 And this is something ironic, also ironic with the Democrats. 0:11:50.040 --> 0:11:54.680 They accuse the right of upending precedent constitutional norms. The 0:11:54.880 --> 0:11:57.320 country is going to hell in a handbasket. They are 0:11:57.360 --> 0:12:01.800 the ones who are who are again and again destroying precedent, 0:12:02.080 --> 0:12:05.720 as you mentioned, taking a Republican congressman off of her committees, 0:12:06.160 --> 0:12:09.319 impeaching a former president. To my knowledge, that has never 0:12:09.360 --> 0:12:12.199 been done. I would like if you wouldn't mind a 0:12:12.240 --> 0:12:15.360 little insider baseball here, because you know, Senator, you're looking 0:12:15.400 --> 0:12:18.559 pretty good. You're looking pretty sprightly. Thank you you are. 0:12:19.120 --> 0:12:21.320 But I know somehow, you know, I'm the one who 0:12:21.440 --> 0:12:24.199 just had a kid, and you are getting less sleep 0:12:24.240 --> 0:12:28.200 than I am. You, so actually, in terms of delivering 0:12:28.240 --> 0:12:30.360 the kid, that one wasn't you. That was not I 0:12:30.440 --> 0:12:33.320 felt everyone kept making about my wife. I don't know. 0:12:33.320 --> 0:12:34.520 I felt like I was doing a lot of work 0:12:34.520 --> 0:12:37.800 in that room, but you, somehow were getting less sleep 0:12:37.840 --> 0:12:40.240 than I am. You basically pulled an all nighter last 0:12:40.360 --> 0:12:45.240 night in DC. You're then preparing for the impeachment impeachment 0:12:45.440 --> 0:12:48.760 next week. What is happening? I mean, there is a 0:12:48.760 --> 0:12:51.280 lot going on that it seems so opaque to a 0:12:51.320 --> 0:12:53.320 lot of us. So last night we were on the 0:12:53.360 --> 0:12:56.599 Senate floor. We were doing what's called vota rama, and 0:12:57.040 --> 0:12:59.679 that went until five twenty five in the morning, So 0:12:59.720 --> 0:13:02.720 we were there all night. Got home, I went to 0:13:02.720 --> 0:13:04.400 sleep at six, got up at nine, so I had 0:13:04.400 --> 0:13:07.600 three hours sleep and flew to Miami. So if I 0:13:07.760 --> 0:13:11.600 nod off, just kind of nudged me midway through. So 0:13:11.679 --> 0:13:15.320 what is vote arama? Look, the Senate for the past 0:13:15.480 --> 0:13:19.840 twenty years or so has been pretty rigidly controlled by 0:13:19.880 --> 0:13:23.079 whoever the majority leader is, and as a general matter, 0:13:23.120 --> 0:13:27.760 they stop really both sides from offering amendments. And we 0:13:27.840 --> 0:13:30.800 have really a rule by majority leaders on both sides. 0:13:30.880 --> 0:13:34.679 Either Chuck Schumer and Mitch McConnell are super senators because 0:13:34.720 --> 0:13:38.720 they shut down amendments. The Democrats want to do lots 0:13:38.760 --> 0:13:42.960 of bad stuff. The principal procedural impediment they face in 0:13:43.000 --> 0:13:45.839 the Senate is the filibuster, the requirement of sixty votes 0:13:46.120 --> 0:13:50.760 to move forward on legislation. The biggest exception to the 0:13:50.800 --> 0:13:56.000 filibuster is something called budget reconciliation. Now that's a process. 0:13:56.040 --> 0:13:58.559 It comes from a statute called the Budget Act of 0:13:58.640 --> 0:14:00.880 nineteen seventy five, and it sets out a process for 0:14:00.920 --> 0:14:04.400 passing a budget. The budget is really the side show. 0:14:05.160 --> 0:14:07.880 What is important is by statute it only takes fifty 0:14:07.920 --> 0:14:10.880 votes to pass and not sixty. So it's this big 0:14:10.920 --> 0:14:15.640 glaring exception to what otherwise is legislation that's got a 0:14:15.640 --> 0:14:19.040 clear a fillibuster. So the Democrats just took up their 0:14:19.040 --> 0:14:23.760 first budget reconciliation. We could see three budget reconciliations this year, 0:14:23.840 --> 0:14:26.720 all as vehicles to just pass bad laws they want 0:14:26.720 --> 0:14:31.320 to pass. Ye, this was the first one. Under that statute. Though, 0:14:32.440 --> 0:14:36.640 senators can offer unlimited amendments, and so the way the 0:14:36.720 --> 0:14:39.360 majority leader stops a senator from offering an amendment is 0:14:39.360 --> 0:14:42.720 a procedural mechanism called filling the tree, where basically they 0:14:42.760 --> 0:14:44.920 offer all the available amendments so no one else can 0:14:44.960 --> 0:14:48.200 offer one. On reconciliation, you can't stop it. And so 0:14:48.280 --> 0:14:50.560 we had yesterday, I don't know, we vote on a 0:14:50.600 --> 0:14:53.640 forty or fifty amendments and we just stood there. Now, 0:14:53.680 --> 0:14:56.800 what happened during most of the day is the Democrats 0:14:56.840 --> 0:15:01.200 were slow walking the votes, and so they were dragging 0:15:01.240 --> 0:15:03.840 it out. It was theoretically ten minute votes, but they'd 0:15:03.840 --> 0:15:07.040 take thirty, they'd take forty five. Then towards the end 0:15:07.040 --> 0:15:09.920 of it, we're all seated at our desks and we're 0:15:09.960 --> 0:15:13.560 doing faster votes, and each side gets up and gets 0:15:13.560 --> 0:15:17.400 to speak for a minute. Okay, And so look, if 0:15:17.440 --> 0:15:19.440 you're in the minority, which we are, it's a fifty 0:15:19.520 --> 0:15:24.080 fifty Senate they are. It is the most narrow majority possible, 0:15:24.360 --> 0:15:27.960 fifty fifty with a vice president breaking the tie. What 0:15:28.040 --> 0:15:30.200 you try to think of when you're in the minority 0:15:30.360 --> 0:15:33.360 is what are votes that would really suck to vote 0:15:33.360 --> 0:15:35.000 on them here on the other side, because because you 0:15:35.040 --> 0:15:38.480 don't really have a chance of putting forth this kind 0:15:38.480 --> 0:15:41.720 of groundbreaking, substantive legislation for your own side, there's no 0:15:41.760 --> 0:15:44.240 way that's going to get through. It is forcing the 0:15:44.280 --> 0:15:46.240 majority hates it. They don't want any of these voes, 0:15:46.720 --> 0:15:49.200 but it is forcing them to take votes they don't like. 0:15:49.320 --> 0:15:52.280 So a bunch of us filed a ton of amendments 0:15:52.280 --> 0:15:54.000 that we voted on them and voted on them, and 0:15:54.080 --> 0:15:57.080 a number of the amendments passed. Now here's a level 0:15:57.120 --> 0:16:00.760 of the kind of ridiculousness of the game. So so 0:16:00.840 --> 0:16:02.680 let me tell you three amendments that passed, and I 0:16:02.680 --> 0:16:09.440 actually wrote down the details. So three passed. One supports 0:16:09.440 --> 0:16:12.320 the Keystone pipeline, said Joe Biden made a mistake shutting 0:16:12.320 --> 0:16:15.680 down the Keystone Pipeline, killing eight thousand jobs. That passed 0:16:15.680 --> 0:16:17.200 on the floor of the Senate by a vote of 0:16:17.240 --> 0:16:20.520 fifty two to forty eight. Every Republican voted for it. 0:16:21.360 --> 0:16:24.160 Joe Mansion voted for it. Democrat from West Virginia. John 0:16:24.200 --> 0:16:27.200 Tester voted for it, Democrat from Montown. A second amendment 0:16:28.080 --> 0:16:31.800 said that any stimulus checks that go out should not 0:16:32.040 --> 0:16:36.840 go to illegal immigrants. So that amendment passed fifty eight 0:16:36.880 --> 0:16:40.560 to forty two. So I have to pause you there, Senator, 0:16:40.960 --> 0:16:45.960 forty two elected senators think that we should send our 0:16:46.000 --> 0:16:49.200 tax money to illegal aliens in the country. Look, forty 0:16:49.240 --> 0:16:50.760 of them might think we should send them only to 0:16:50.840 --> 0:17:04.639 illegal aliens. So this Democratic party is nuts. But Hassan, Hickenoper, Kelly, Mansion, Peters, Cinema, Stabeno, 0:17:05.160 --> 0:17:09.119 and Tester all voted for don't send them to le lands. 0:17:09.160 --> 0:17:12.520 And the third one was a vote in support of fracking, 0:17:13.240 --> 0:17:15.520 that we're not going to shut down fracking. So all 0:17:15.560 --> 0:17:18.000 of these Republicans offered, fracking is a good thing. That 0:17:18.119 --> 0:17:26.359 passed fifty seven forty three. So Bennett Colorado, Casey Pennsylvania, Heinrich, 0:17:26.760 --> 0:17:31.600 New Mexico, Hick and Looper Colorado, Luhan, New Mexico, Mansion, 0:17:31.640 --> 0:17:35.639 West Virginia, Tester, Montana. So you might say, hey, that's great, 0:17:35.680 --> 0:17:41.280 those are three victories. Yeah, I'm sensing a butt. You 0:17:41.320 --> 0:17:44.680 know what the last thing we voted on is it's 0:17:44.720 --> 0:17:50.360 what's called colloquially a wraparound amendment, which is Chuck Schumer's 0:17:50.400 --> 0:17:52.479 stands up as the very last amendment. It offers an 0:17:52.480 --> 0:17:55.320 amendment to strip out all of the amendments that we're 0:17:55.320 --> 0:17:58.919 adopted during the course of the night. It is literally 0:17:58.960 --> 0:18:02.120 a race every thing we just did for the last 0:18:02.160 --> 0:18:05.960 fifteen hours. Do you know what the vote was on 0:18:06.040 --> 0:18:13.760 the wrap around amendment? What fifty to fifty And we 0:18:13.880 --> 0:18:17.080 saw on that amendment to the very first vote ever 0:18:17.200 --> 0:18:21.000 cast by Vice President Kamala Harris to break the tie 0:18:21.880 --> 0:18:24.920 and strip out those policies. So, by the way, and look, 0:18:24.960 --> 0:18:29.320 this is this is one of many reasons people despise politicians. 0:18:30.960 --> 0:18:34.280 Why did these Democrats vote this way? Because when when 0:18:34.359 --> 0:18:36.760 Joe Mansion and John Tester go home. When John Tester 0:18:36.840 --> 0:18:40.600 goes home to Montana, says, I voted for the Keystone pipeline, 0:18:41.200 --> 0:18:45.520 a sure bub but then you voted against it about 0:18:45.560 --> 0:18:48.280 about five hours later or ten hours later. It seems 0:18:48.280 --> 0:18:50.840 to me John Kerry like built a whole presidential campaign 0:18:50.880 --> 0:18:54.679 on exactly that I voted for it before ioted against it. 0:18:55.240 --> 0:18:59.720 But it's the ridiculous game where all of these votes 0:18:59.760 --> 0:19:03.840 were show votes because on the vote they cared about 0:19:03.920 --> 0:19:07.479 the party discipline vote. Every single one of them lines 0:19:07.600 --> 0:19:10.919 up and says, erase the amendments and go back to 0:19:11.000 --> 0:19:13.919 the Bernie Bernie Sanders spend the poloza right. Well, you know, 0:19:14.359 --> 0:19:17.720 the fracking vote is interesting to me because you'll recall 0:19:18.680 --> 0:19:21.560 so long ago, a few months ago, on the campaign trail, 0:19:22.000 --> 0:19:24.760 Joe Biden said, come on, man, I'm not gonna ban fracking. 0:19:24.840 --> 0:19:28.080 Come on man, that really doesn't sound like Joe, No, 0:19:28.280 --> 0:19:30.760 not at all. No, it's not Kamala Harris, same thing. 0:19:31.600 --> 0:19:34.080 H'm not gonna ban fracking. And then of course they're 0:19:34.119 --> 0:19:36.480 gonna ban fracking. They're gonna ban all these sorts of things. 0:19:37.520 --> 0:19:40.480 The amazing thing is PolitiFact would say you were lying 0:19:41.160 --> 0:19:44.040 when you said they were gonna ban fracking. Yeah, during 0:19:44.080 --> 0:19:46.600 the campaign, and now they'll say you're lying when you 0:19:46.680 --> 0:19:49.119 say they said they weren't gonna ban fracking. I know 0:19:49.160 --> 0:19:51.000 they're gonna they're gonna say I'm lying when I just 0:19:51.040 --> 0:19:53.400 read the PolitiFact from three months ago. They're gonna they're 0:19:53.400 --> 0:19:55.760 gonna need to fact check me on that as well. 0:19:56.400 --> 0:20:00.960 But do you know my favorite PolitiFact? So twenty eighteen, 0:20:01.000 --> 0:20:05.680 I'm running for reelection for Senate and uh fellow ran 0:20:05.760 --> 0:20:12.120 against me, a guy named Beto Is he's that skateboarder. 0:20:12.480 --> 0:20:15.520 I think I saw him somewhere on the He jumps 0:20:15.520 --> 0:20:21.040 on tables. Um. So, when he entered the race, we decided, 0:20:21.040 --> 0:20:23.200 all right, we want to welcome him to the race 0:20:23.960 --> 0:20:30.200 with a kind, loving, gentle embrace. Um So we put 0:20:30.240 --> 0:20:34.680 out a parody song, and the song was based on 0:20:34.760 --> 0:20:36.440 if you're going to play in Texas, you gotta have 0:20:36.440 --> 0:20:39.680 a fiddle in the band. Except the one we put out. 0:20:39.760 --> 0:20:42.040 We said, if you're gonna run in Texas, you can't 0:20:42.080 --> 0:20:53.840 be a liberal man. And so we hired musicians who 0:20:53.840 --> 0:20:56.200 were really quite good and had the whole thing, and 0:20:56.560 --> 0:21:00.000 it uh and you know it begins why by saying, 0:21:00.040 --> 0:21:03.439 and Beto wants those open borders and he wants to 0:21:03.440 --> 0:21:10.560 take our guns. We put this ad out, PolitiFact fact 0:21:10.640 --> 0:21:17.040 checks it. Fact check your song, my parody song. Do 0:21:17.119 --> 0:21:19.520 you know puff the Magic Dragon actually didn't live in 0:21:19.560 --> 0:21:23.720 a land called Honely. No, it's an amazing thing. Wow, 0:21:24.000 --> 0:21:27.520 pants on fire, you know. But but they fact check 0:21:27.560 --> 0:21:31.359 it and they say it is literally pants on fire 0:21:31.520 --> 0:21:36.959 falls that Beto wants to take our guns. So fast 0:21:37.000 --> 0:21:45.760 forward to Senate race. We win, He loses minor detail. 0:21:47.960 --> 0:21:53.120 He goes to New Mexico and eats dirt. I don't 0:21:53.160 --> 0:21:56.840 ask me, I've been That's what he did. Um And 0:21:56.920 --> 0:22:00.359 then he runs for president as a Democrat. And the 0:22:00.440 --> 0:22:05.080 poor guy was so startled because his basse, by which 0:22:05.080 --> 0:22:11.240 I mean the reporters. Ye who look when he was 0:22:11.320 --> 0:22:14.320 running against me, they were like groupies at a Rolling 0:22:14.359 --> 0:22:20.520 Stone concert, throwing their underwear at it. Literally right if 0:22:20.560 --> 0:22:27.760 they were underwear, Yes to Edgy, it's a podcast. You 0:22:27.840 --> 0:22:31.800 can say whatever you want. The instant he was running 0:22:31.840 --> 0:22:35.240 against Bernie and Kamala, the heroes of the left, the 0:22:35.400 --> 0:22:38.720 press turned on him and the poor guy was, what 0:22:38.800 --> 0:22:42.320 the hell just happened? It's utterly startled. But you remember 0:22:42.720 --> 0:22:47.840 at one of the Democratic debates he said, damn right, 0:22:48.600 --> 0:22:54.880 I'm gonna take your AR fifteen. And then his campaign 0:22:54.960 --> 0:22:59.480 website began selling T shirts that's said on the front 0:22:59.480 --> 0:23:03.200 of them, damn right, I'm gonna take your AAR fifteen, 0:23:04.480 --> 0:23:08.840 at which point I couldn't resist jumping on Twitter and saying, hey, PolitiFact, 0:23:10.080 --> 0:23:12.639 when you fact checked my statement that Beta wants to 0:23:12.640 --> 0:23:16.240 take our guns and you said that was false, are 0:23:16.280 --> 0:23:17.920 you going to buy one of his teachers? Are? Yeah? 0:23:17.960 --> 0:23:19.280 Do you can? I send you a link to his 0:23:19.640 --> 0:23:23.879 Shopify account because you know they did this to us today, Actually, politifant, no, 0:23:23.920 --> 0:23:27.320 I'm sorry. Was Snopes Daily Wire and my show at 0:23:27.320 --> 0:23:30.240 the Daily Wire, we ran this headline. It said, there's 0:23:30.240 --> 0:23:33.600 a report out that AOC was not in the Capitol 0:23:33.640 --> 0:23:37.520 Building during the riot on January sixth, and that was 0:23:37.560 --> 0:23:40.600 that was the whole headline, and we got a fact 0:23:40.680 --> 0:23:45.000 check mostly false, mostly Okay, So when it's mostly false, 0:23:45.080 --> 0:23:48.119 they say what's true and they say what's false? So 0:23:48.160 --> 0:23:51.240 I said, well, let's let's just see what's true about 0:23:51.280 --> 0:23:55.560 this headline was report AOC was not in the Capitol 0:23:55.560 --> 0:24:00.480 Building or the riot. What's true, AOC was not in 0:24:00.480 --> 0:24:04.120 the Capitol Building during the riot. But what's false is 0:24:04.280 --> 0:24:06.399