WEBVTT - Gay Marriage, Hunter Biden, & Crypto-Corruption With Democrats! 0:00:00.240 --> 0:00:03.040 There's a major issue in the Senate with gay marriage, 0:00:03.080 --> 0:00:05.800 and Republicans seem to be running to the wrong side 0:00:05.800 --> 0:00:09.160 of the issue. Plus we also have problems at the 0:00:09.240 --> 0:00:12.760 DOJ and now finally the President is starting to feel 0:00:12.800 --> 0:00:16.440 some heat on a new investigation. And lastly, there's some 0:00:16.520 --> 0:00:21.279 cryptocurrency issues with corruption with a Democratic party. This is 0:00:21.400 --> 0:00:24.760 Verdict was Senator Ted Cruz. Senator A lot has happened 0:00:24.760 --> 0:00:27.800 since election day. Nice to sit with you finally after 0:00:27.880 --> 0:00:31.000 a week of you barnstorming the country, and I want 0:00:31.000 --> 0:00:33.800 to get into something that's exciting. Verdict has really been 0:00:33.880 --> 0:00:37.040 driving the news. There's an extremely important issue that's happening 0:00:37.040 --> 0:00:40.000 in washing DC right now on the issue of gay marriage. 0:00:40.120 --> 0:00:44.440 They actually led with your comments from this podcast on 0:00:44.520 --> 0:00:46.920 Fox News Sunday, and I want people to take a 0:00:46.960 --> 0:00:49.160 listen to what it is that you had to say 0:00:49.159 --> 0:00:51.160 and why this is driving the news. Take a look 0:00:51.680 --> 0:00:54.800 about the same sex marriage Bill, the Respect for Marriage Act, 0:00:54.840 --> 0:00:57.560 that essentially has gone through this first vote in the Senate. 0:00:57.560 --> 0:01:00.080 It will have more action down the line, but it 0:01:00.160 --> 0:01:02.760 essentially ensures that all fifty states will recognize same sex 0:01:02.760 --> 0:01:05.560 marriages from other states. Conservatives are warning though, that the 0:01:05.600 --> 0:01:08.160 Biden administration could end up using this as a weapon. 0:01:08.200 --> 0:01:10.640 Here's something that Senator Ted Cruz said on his podcast 0:01:10.680 --> 0:01:15.480 about it this week. Any charity that believes marriage is 0:01:15.520 --> 0:01:18.959 the union of one man and one woman, any charity 0:01:19.000 --> 0:01:22.680 that does not embrace same sex marriage, this bill is 0:01:22.720 --> 0:01:26.160 designed to strip their five oh one C three status, 0:01:26.200 --> 0:01:30.759 to persecute the churches and universities and schools and charities. 0:01:31.120 --> 0:01:33.200 So Senator Mike Lee has, first of all, let's let's 0:01:33.440 --> 0:01:37.360 make one thing clear. Okay, one more time, Ted Cruz 0:01:37.600 --> 0:01:41.480 is one role. Okay, let's find out on that statement 0:01:41.800 --> 0:01:43.880 you would not see in one of the things that 0:01:43.920 --> 0:01:47.400 they gained twelve Republican votes. And I think more on 0:01:47.480 --> 0:01:51.240 final passage is there were greater protections from religious freedom 0:01:51.280 --> 0:01:54.720 put in. And so you see the Mormon Church, you 0:01:54.760 --> 0:01:59.400 see a number of mainstream Protestant denominations, you see a 0:01:59.520 --> 0:02:05.720 series of other faith organizations actually support this marriage equality law. 0:02:05.800 --> 0:02:08.480 And this remember this marriage equality law. It's not only 0:02:08.480 --> 0:02:12.799 about same sex marriage, but it also validates something that 0:02:14.360 --> 0:02:17.359 literally sixty years ago and my state of Virginia was illegal, 0:02:17.480 --> 0:02:20.000 which was interracial marriage. I think this is where the 0:02:20.040 --> 0:02:23.639 vast majority of Americans are at I think you will 0:02:23.639 --> 0:02:26.720 see the numbers even go up in the Senate as 0:02:26.720 --> 0:02:29.440 we get to the final passage. We saw forty seven 0:02:29.639 --> 0:02:33.960 House members, mister Cruz one more time saying stuff that 0:02:34.040 --> 0:02:37.240 has no basis in truth. The fact that's just okay, 0:02:37.280 --> 0:02:40.079 you do critically how we roll. So hold it there, 0:02:41.080 --> 0:02:43.280 all right. So if you look at that segment, I 0:02:43.320 --> 0:02:46.520 gotta say, Mark Warner, he really typifies the Democrats because 0:02:46.520 --> 0:02:50.000 he calls me a liar while not responding to one 0:02:50.080 --> 0:02:52.960 word of the substance of what I said. And that 0:02:53.040 --> 0:02:57.440 really is the Democrat m O. Listen this bill. Let's 0:02:57.440 --> 0:03:00.480 talk about what this bill does accomplish and what it 0:03:00.480 --> 0:03:04.680 doesn't accomplish. The Democrats are pitching this as a bill 0:03:04.840 --> 0:03:07.760 to protect the right to same sex marriage and to 0:03:07.800 --> 0:03:11.000 protect the right to interracial marriage. Well, both of those 0:03:11.040 --> 0:03:16.200 are protected right now by existing law. The US Supreme 0:03:16.280 --> 0:03:19.440 Court has held that gay marriage is a right, and 0:03:19.480 --> 0:03:23.200 it held many decades ago that an interracial marriage is 0:03:23.200 --> 0:03:26.679 a right that ain't changing. And it's important to note 0:03:27.240 --> 0:03:30.520 the Democrats pitch this entire bill based on a false premise, 0:03:30.520 --> 0:03:34.000 which is they suggested there's some chance the Supreme Court 0:03:34.120 --> 0:03:38.800 might revisit the gay marriage ruling. Well, the majority opinion 0:03:38.800 --> 0:03:42.720 in Dabbs, the decision overturning ro versus Wade, said not once, 0:03:42.840 --> 0:03:46.800 not twice, but three times they were not going to 0:03:46.840 --> 0:03:50.680 revisit that decision. In fact, the third time, Justice Alito, 0:03:50.760 --> 0:03:52.840 writing for the majority, said, I don't know how to 0:03:52.880 --> 0:03:55.840 say this anymore. Clearly, we are not going back to 0:03:55.880 --> 0:03:59.720 that decision. So all of this, this bill is based 0:03:59.760 --> 0:04:01.640 on a lie, which is a bunch of Democrats and 0:04:01.680 --> 0:04:04.320 a bunch of folks in the media scaremongering that the 0:04:04.360 --> 0:04:07.040 Supreme Court's going to overturn a decision that they told 0:04:07.080 --> 0:04:10.240 us three times they're not going to overturn a political 0:04:10.280 --> 0:04:15.120 cover for them. It is purely political cover, and it's 0:04:15.160 --> 0:04:19.840 based on Justice Thomas wrote a concurrence that was examining 0:04:19.880 --> 0:04:22.479 the legal basis for roversus. Wade, which is a legal 0:04:22.520 --> 0:04:25.600 doctrine called substitive due process, and he pointed out that 0:04:25.680 --> 0:04:29.359 it had been the legal basis for other decisions like 0:04:29.480 --> 0:04:33.640 the gay marriage decision. But no other justice joined Clarence 0:04:33.640 --> 0:04:37.840 Thomas in that concurrence. So, unless you believe that Joe 0:04:37.920 --> 0:04:40.040 Biden is going to nominate and the Senate is going 0:04:40.080 --> 0:04:43.800 to confirm four new justices to the Court who are 0:04:43.839 --> 0:04:47.640 to the right of Clarence Thomas. The chances of the 0:04:47.680 --> 0:04:50.839 Supreme Court overturning that decision are zero point zero percent. 0:04:51.120 --> 0:04:53.760 And Mark Warner knows that. Every Democrat knows that. But 0:04:53.839 --> 0:04:57.480 this is scaremongering. So you say, Okay, if the Court's 0:04:57.520 --> 0:05:00.800 not going to overturn it, what harm does that this build? Well, 0:05:00.880 --> 0:05:03.520 let me tell you this bill does considerable harm, because 0:05:03.680 --> 0:05:07.640 you know what this fight really is about. It is 0:05:07.680 --> 0:05:13.520 about the Biden administration being able to persecute people of faith, 0:05:14.400 --> 0:05:21.960 being able to persecute churches K through twelve schools, universities, 0:05:22.400 --> 0:05:27.840 and charities that specifically they're a religious basin Christian, Christian, 0:05:28.040 --> 0:05:30.799 or for that matter, Jewish, or for that matter, Muslim, 0:05:31.160 --> 0:05:35.360 any religious organization that believes marriage is the union one 0:05:35.400 --> 0:05:38.160 man and one woman, so whatever it might be. And 0:05:38.480 --> 0:05:40.799 let me point out this is not a hypothetical threat. 0:05:40.600 --> 0:05:44.280 I want to read to you from the transcript at 0:05:44.279 --> 0:05:47.880 the Berghofel oral argument, which was the gay marriage oral argument, 0:05:48.560 --> 0:05:51.240 where the Solicitor General Don Varelli he was in the 0:05:51.279 --> 0:05:58.000 Obama Justice Department, and Justice Alito asked whether the next 0:05:58.080 --> 0:06:03.440 step would be for universities opposed to same sex marriage 0:06:03.720 --> 0:06:06.080 to lose their tax exempt status. So this is in 0:06:06.080 --> 0:06:09.160 the oral argument. And here's what General really replies, quote, 0:06:10.000 --> 0:06:13.320 it's certainly going to be an issue. I don't deny that. 0:06:13.880 --> 0:06:17.800 I don't deny that. Justice Alito, it's going to be 0:06:18.040 --> 0:06:22.440 an issue. That's what the Obama DOJ said. And this 0:06:22.480 --> 0:06:26.880 bill is all about teeing up the Obama or rather 0:06:26.960 --> 0:06:32.520 the Biden IRS to target Christian university, Christian schools, churches, 0:06:33.320 --> 0:06:35.920 and charities. And by the way, this is also not hypothetical. 0:06:35.960 --> 0:06:40.040 The City of Philadelphia went after and targeted Catholic charities 0:06:40.760 --> 0:06:44.039 and said they're not allowed to engage in adoptions because 0:06:44.080 --> 0:06:48.480 Catholic charities in Philadelphia won't provide an adoption for a 0:06:48.520 --> 0:06:51.360 same sex couple. Now, to be clear, same sex couples 0:06:51.360 --> 0:06:53.719 can adopt kids in Philadelphia. There are lots of adoption 0:06:53.800 --> 0:06:57.600 agencies they can use. But the City of Philadelphia said, well, 0:06:57.640 --> 0:07:02.159 if Catholic charities won't participate, out of the business. 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Let's continue this because the discussion goes on 0:08:50.720 --> 0:08:52.920 and everything Mark Warner says about it is wrong. So 0:08:53.000 --> 0:08:54.920 let's hear what he has to say. It's nerd. Miikely 0:08:55.000 --> 0:08:56.840 is among those who say they are sort of toothless 0:08:56.840 --> 0:08:59.599 protections in there for religious minorities, and not minorities, but 0:08:59.760 --> 0:09:02.720 people who hold of whatever faith they are. His conviction 0:09:02.760 --> 0:09:05.960 about traditional marriage is his wording. He's offered this amendment. 0:09:05.960 --> 0:09:08.040 I've got it here in my hand, he says, it's 0:09:08.040 --> 0:09:10.800 done in good faith. It will offer further protection to 0:09:10.840 --> 0:09:13.959 people in religious organizations. Why not allow a vote on 0:09:14.000 --> 0:09:17.440 the amendment if that is truly an issue and it 0:09:17.480 --> 0:09:19.719 may get you more votes, but more protections for those 0:09:19.720 --> 0:09:21.960 whoever religious. I would first of all point out the fact, 0:09:22.480 --> 0:09:26.600 you know, I believe Mike Lee is a member of 0:09:26.600 --> 0:09:32.280 the Mormon Church. Organization, his church, but he's still got 0:09:32.760 --> 0:09:37.000 his church endorsed the legislation. My understanding, and I have 0:09:37.000 --> 0:09:39.480 not followed all of the ins and outs of what 0:09:39.520 --> 0:09:42.760 happened two nights ago. I believe there was an offer 0:09:42.880 --> 0:09:45.680 on a fifty vote margin for mister Lee to have 0:09:45.800 --> 0:09:48.520 that kind of amendment. I think this is a series 0:09:48.559 --> 0:09:51.440 of folks that just don't want this to happen, and 0:09:51.480 --> 0:09:54.600 they're going to throw up roadblock after roadblock after roadball. 0:09:54.640 --> 0:09:56.320 Would you let him have a vote on the amendment again, 0:09:56.440 --> 0:09:59.240 so I would call their fear. My understanding is that 0:09:59.240 --> 0:10:01.640 that vote was offered. Okay, My understand is they want 0:10:01.640 --> 0:10:03.520 to try to do it after Thanksgiving. There's a lot 0:10:03.520 --> 0:10:07.760 of most of them. If the vote was offered this week, 0:10:07.800 --> 0:10:10.200 which I believe it was, and I'm sure you your 0:10:10.280 --> 0:10:12.440 viewers will correct me if I'm wrong with but that 0:10:12.640 --> 0:10:15.120 was kind of the Yeah, talking with his office, they 0:10:15.120 --> 0:10:18.640 want to the subble after Thanksgiving, so other than simply 0:10:18.720 --> 0:10:22.480 trying to delay, Other than simply trying to burn off 0:10:22.520 --> 0:10:25.000 the clock so that we can't get to things like 0:10:26.240 --> 0:10:28.360 to get if he had a chance to have the 0:10:28.480 --> 0:10:32.760 vote on Thursday, why didn't he take the vote? Then? Okay, 0:10:32.840 --> 0:10:36.520 let's stop it right now. So there are several things 0:10:37.320 --> 0:10:39.200 in what he says. First of all, let me point 0:10:39.200 --> 0:10:43.040 out that Mark Warner. Look, most Democrats are eric and 0:10:43.400 --> 0:10:48.440 condescending and supercilious, but that nasty little jab that, well, 0:10:48.480 --> 0:10:50.200 Mike Lee's a member of the Mormon Church. The Mormon 0:10:50.280 --> 0:10:52.680 Church supports it. I mean, I mean going after Mike 0:10:52.760 --> 0:10:56.880 on his faith. That's disgusting. Yeah, it's Mark Warner ought 0:10:56.920 --> 0:11:02.160 to be embarrassed and ashamed. Now what happened here with 0:11:02.200 --> 0:11:04.400 the Mormon Church because actually goes on to repeat Mormon 0:11:04.480 --> 0:11:08.480 Church like nineteen times. Well, unfortunately, there is a senator 0:11:09.760 --> 0:11:13.640 who supports this bill from the state of Utah, whose 0:11:13.720 --> 0:11:17.480 name Mit Romney, who happens to have some real juice 0:11:17.559 --> 0:11:20.320 within the Mormon Church. He's kind of a big deal 0:11:20.360 --> 0:11:23.880 in Utah. And Mitt Romney has pulled out all the 0:11:23.960 --> 0:11:27.600 stops lobbying his church, and he convinced one senior figure 0:11:27.640 --> 0:11:30.880 in the church to put out a statement in favor 0:11:30.920 --> 0:11:33.480 of this bill. That senior figure, I'm sorry to say, 0:11:33.520 --> 0:11:38.520 got terrible legal advice. And if Mitt Romney weren't lobbying 0:11:38.520 --> 0:11:40.040 the heck out of it, I assume they wouldn't have 0:11:40.040 --> 0:11:42.800 done the statement, but Mitt was able to get it done. Now, 0:11:44.000 --> 0:11:47.760 what Shannon Breene there says is the provisions in the 0:11:47.800 --> 0:11:50.920 bill are toothless, and they are so what the bill is. 0:11:50.960 --> 0:11:54.600 The Democrats put into the bill language that says nothing 0:11:54.679 --> 0:11:59.680 in this bill Shelby construed to deny tax exempt status 0:11:59.720 --> 0:12:02.600 to any buddy. Now, this is I'm going to explain 0:12:02.679 --> 0:12:04.559 something to you, and this is why people hate lawyers. 0:12:06.760 --> 0:12:10.400 Nobody's suggesting the bill is going to deny tax exempt status. 0:12:10.480 --> 0:12:13.839 What's going to happen is after the bill passes, the 0:12:13.840 --> 0:12:17.280 Biden IRS is going to deny tax exempt status. And 0:12:17.280 --> 0:12:19.480 they're gonna say, you know what, it's not the bill 0:12:19.559 --> 0:12:23.920 doing it, it's us. We are doing it. And so 0:12:24.040 --> 0:12:26.840 Mike Lee as drafted an amendment. It's a strong amendment 0:12:26.880 --> 0:12:31.400 that prohibits the Biden i rs from stripping tax exempt 0:12:31.440 --> 0:12:35.800 status for any institution based on their views on marriage. 0:12:37.040 --> 0:12:41.079 That's what the Democrats are blocking. Now, this is an example, 0:12:41.080 --> 0:12:43.600 and this it's not controversial. What he's asking for is 0:12:43.640 --> 0:12:47.640 exactly what anyone would ask for in this scenario. They're 0:12:47.720 --> 0:12:49.439 just terrified that you would take away the power of 0:12:49.440 --> 0:12:54.720 the RS to then literally destroy conservative Christian religious organizations. 0:12:54.760 --> 0:12:58.240 This is an at tax religion. So it is controversial 0:12:58.240 --> 0:13:02.559 because today's Democrats hate religion liberty. They want to use 0:13:02.640 --> 0:13:06.920 the irs to go after religious institutions. Mike Lee's amendment 0:13:06.960 --> 0:13:10.079 would prevent them. Now, you just heard Mark Warner say 0:13:10.120 --> 0:13:13.160 several times we offered him a vote. And this is 0:13:13.200 --> 0:13:16.120 where actually verdict takes people inside the Senate in a way, 0:13:16.160 --> 0:13:18.160 it's really hard if you're not serving in the body 0:13:18.160 --> 0:13:21.200 to understand the games that are being played. It's true 0:13:21.800 --> 0:13:23.560 they did offer a vote, said we'll have a vote 0:13:23.600 --> 0:13:25.719 on the floor of the Senate a fifty vote threshold 0:13:26.200 --> 0:13:29.720 should mike Lee's amendment be adopted. Now, here's what will happen. 0:13:29.760 --> 0:13:31.800 If there's a vote on the Senate floor at a 0:13:31.840 --> 0:13:36.520 fifty vote threshold, the amendment will fail. Why will it fail? 0:13:37.640 --> 0:13:41.520 Every Democrat will vote no. They're fifty of them came 0:13:41.559 --> 0:13:45.199 over and there are also twelve Republicans who are supporting this. 0:13:45.240 --> 0:13:47.320 So at a fifty vote threshold. By the way, even 0:13:47.360 --> 0:13:49.800 if every Republican voted for Mike Lee's amendment, So let's 0:13:49.800 --> 0:13:53.480 assume best case, all the d's vote no, all the 0:13:53.640 --> 0:13:57.280 rs vote yes. Kamala Harris chose up cast the tie 0:13:57.280 --> 0:14:00.600 breaking vote no, and Mike's amendment fails. Now, what Marcus 0:14:00.640 --> 0:14:03.319 saying is, we'll give you your vote. You little children, 0:14:03.320 --> 0:14:05.040 now sit down and shut up and let us pass 0:14:05.080 --> 0:14:09.040 the bill. Well, in order for this bill to pass, 0:14:09.160 --> 0:14:12.520 there's one more vote that matters, which is the Monday 0:14:12.559 --> 0:14:17.239 after Thanksgiving. The final vote is at a sixty vote threshold. 0:14:18.040 --> 0:14:24.080 They can't pass this bill without sixty senators voting yes. Now, 0:14:24.080 --> 0:14:29.720 as we discussed on the Friday podcast, twelve Republican Senators 0:14:30.280 --> 0:14:34.440 voted yes. Those twelve are Susan Collins of Maine, Rob 0:14:34.480 --> 0:14:38.200 Portman of Ohio, Tom Tillis of North Carolina, Met Romney 0:14:38.240 --> 0:14:41.760 of Utah who's leading the charge on this, Lisa Murkowski 0:14:41.800 --> 0:14:45.160 of Alaska, Roy Blunt of Missouri, Richard Burr of North Carolina, 0:14:45.440 --> 0:14:48.760 Shelley Moore capital of West Virginia, sent the alumnus of Wyoming, 0:14:49.120 --> 0:14:53.040 Dan Sullivan of Alaska, Todd Young of Indiana, Jonie Ernst 0:14:53.040 --> 0:14:56.000 of Iowa. Those are the twelve. Now I'm going to 0:14:56.040 --> 0:14:59.760 set aside for a second that several of those are retiring. 0:15:00.080 --> 0:15:04.640 Rob Portman's retiring, Roy Blunt's retiring, Richard Burr's retiring, and 0:15:04.680 --> 0:15:09.480 I find it particularly noxious that retiring Republican senators run 0:15:09.480 --> 0:15:11.160 and embrace the left on the way out in a 0:15:11.200 --> 0:15:13.200 way they would be very unlikely to do so if 0:15:13.200 --> 0:15:16.640 they actually had to run freec Yeah, but you know what, 0:15:16.760 --> 0:15:18.720 this will be very popular on K Street when they're 0:15:18.720 --> 0:15:21.600 lobbyists and it's you want to see the swamp, This 0:15:21.720 --> 0:15:27.400 is the swamp. But there's another very simple point. If 0:15:27.440 --> 0:15:32.200 you want to prevent the Biden i rs from targeting 0:15:32.200 --> 0:15:37.360 and persecuting Christian churches, schools, universities, and charities, three of 0:15:37.400 --> 0:15:43.760 these twelve need to say to the Democrats either adopt 0:15:44.040 --> 0:15:48.720 Mike Lee's amendment or we will vote no on cloture 0:15:48.800 --> 0:15:55.600 on Monday. If three of the twelve grow one vertebrae 0:15:55.680 --> 0:15:59.200 of a spine. And this is where look my frustration 0:15:59.240 --> 0:16:02.720 with Republicans. This should not be a hard one. By 0:16:02.720 --> 0:16:05.120 the way, this should be a very simple three of 0:16:05.160 --> 0:16:07.080 the twelves shouldn't even be twelve to start with. It 0:16:07.080 --> 0:16:10.120 should be trivially simple. And it's the difference between a 0:16:10.200 --> 0:16:12.280 show vote, if we got the vote, Mark Warners saying 0:16:12.280 --> 0:16:13.640 we'll give you a vote, We'll give you a vote. 0:16:13.760 --> 0:16:16.160 That's because he knows they can win the vote. And 0:16:16.240 --> 0:16:17.840 I'll tell you. I was talking with one of the 0:16:17.880 --> 0:16:22.080 Democrat leads last week in the Cloak Crew, and that 0:16:22.240 --> 0:16:25.880 Senator was saying, well, the Democrats won't accept Mike Lee's amendment. 0:16:25.880 --> 0:16:29.560 They're just a hard no. Well, you know what, if 0:16:29.600 --> 0:16:32.240 you don't accept the amendment, the answer ought to be 0:16:32.400 --> 0:16:35.400 your bill won't pass. And that's our hard no. That's 0:16:35.400 --> 0:16:39.960 how the game should be played, except Republicans never play hardball. 0:16:41.520 --> 0:16:45.080 It's a game. It's a charade. Three of those twelve, 0:16:45.200 --> 0:16:50.320 you can see the twelve, any three of them could say, 0:16:50.480 --> 0:16:54.120 if you want to pass the bill, you must adopt 0:16:54.320 --> 0:16:58.400 Mike Lee's amendment. And by the way, the Democrats argue, oh, 0:16:58.440 --> 0:17:01.840 our bill already does exactly what Mike Lee's amendment does. Well, 0:17:01.840 --> 0:17:03.280 if that's the case, it ought to be easy to 0:17:03.320 --> 0:17:07.879 adopt Mike Lee's amendment. It doesn't. They are lying. And 0:17:07.920 --> 0:17:10.080 in fact, I'm gonna make a prediction for you right now. 0:17:11.960 --> 0:17:15.639 If the twelve Republicans decline to stand up to the 0:17:15.680 --> 0:17:20.280 Democrats and say I will vote no Enclosure unless Mike 0:17:20.400 --> 0:17:23.119 Lee's amendment is adopted. Not a fake vote, not a 0:17:23.200 --> 0:17:26.400 pretend show vote. It's adopted in the bill. If that 0:17:26.440 --> 0:17:30.600 doesn't happen, my prediction is in the next two years. 0:17:30.600 --> 0:17:34.240 So Shannon Bream is a graduate of Liberty University, largest 0:17:34.280 --> 0:17:36.399 Christian university in the country. I'm gonna make a prediction 0:17:36.400 --> 0:17:39.960 for you. I'm gonna bet you one hundred dollars that 0:17:40.040 --> 0:17:43.080 if the Republicans can't find a backbone that in the 0:17:43.119 --> 0:17:47.240 next two years, the Biden Irs will go after Liberty 0:17:47.359 --> 0:17:51.560 University to strip their tax exempt status. I believe that's 0:17:51.600 --> 0:17:55.160 what this fight is all about. And the Democrats are 0:17:55.240 --> 0:17:59.160 playing games, trying to hide from it, and they also 0:17:59.200 --> 0:18:01.719 see an opportunity here. You just mentioned it. You go 0:18:01.760 --> 0:18:04.520 back to the game. They understand that there's some centers 0:18:04.520 --> 0:18:07.719 that would traditionally say no to this who are retiring, 0:18:08.040 --> 0:18:10.160 and they can get them to say yes to it. Now. 0:18:10.320 --> 0:18:12.159 Part of it's the timing. It has to be the 0:18:12.160 --> 0:18:15.680 timing yes. And by the way, it's designed so that 0:18:15.720 --> 0:18:19.880 this key vote is the Monday after Thanksgiving. It's what's 0:18:19.880 --> 0:18:22.240 called the comeback vote. So it's scheduled for five thirty 0:18:22.240 --> 0:18:24.480 pm on Monday, So everyone flies in and you literally 0:18:24.520 --> 0:18:27.160 get off the airplane and come straight to vote. So 0:18:27.200 --> 0:18:31.600 there's no discussion among Republicans and what they're counting on. Look, 0:18:31.640 --> 0:18:37.240 I understand why these twelve Republicans voted for this. There's 0:18:37.280 --> 0:18:40.440 no doubt public views on gay marriage have changed, and 0:18:40.480 --> 0:18:44.880 there are now a significant percentage of Americans who support 0:18:44.920 --> 0:18:47.560 gay marriage. And those numbers have changed dramatically. Not too 0:18:47.600 --> 0:18:52.120 long ago, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton pretended they opposed 0:18:52.160 --> 0:18:55.399 gay marriage. So I mean, there's no doubt the public 0:18:55.400 --> 0:18:58.720 opinion has changed significantly. What I urged my colleagues, I said, listen, 0:18:59.400 --> 0:19:02.600 if you've decided, as a political matter, you want to 0:19:02.600 --> 0:19:05.359 say you support gay marriage, I got a suggestion for you. 0:19:05.440 --> 0:19:07.800 Type up a press release and send it out that 0:19:07.880 --> 0:19:10.840 says I, Senator so and so embrace gay marriage and 0:19:10.880 --> 0:19:13.840 think it's awesome, hunky dory, cool, that's all fine. You 0:19:13.840 --> 0:19:16.480 want to do a press release, knock yourself out, make 0:19:16.480 --> 0:19:23.040 your own political determinations on that. This is about empowering 0:19:23.520 --> 0:19:28.760 the Biden irs to persecute the people they believe that 0:19:28.840 --> 0:19:30.800 are their enemies. That it's not just the people they 0:19:30.800 --> 0:19:39.360 deny tax exempt status to these abusive thugs that Biden 0:19:39.680 --> 0:19:43.960 employees are going to go to one hundred different schools 0:19:43.960 --> 0:19:49.520 and universities and charities and demand change your position, abandon 0:19:49.600 --> 0:19:52.960 what you believe your faith teaches you must embrace gay marriage, 0:19:53.320 --> 0:19:57.160 or else will deny your tax exempt status. So they 0:19:57.200 --> 0:19:59.359 may only get and try to survive without that taxes 0:19:59.560 --> 0:20:03.320 status business. None of these universities or schools will be 0:20:03.320 --> 0:20:05.240 able to make it if they lose their taxes emptasks. 0:20:05.280 --> 0:20:07.280 Just like many of the churches in the country, if 0:20:07.320 --> 0:20:09.760 they lost their taxes EMP status, they would no longer 0:20:09.760 --> 0:20:11.480 be able to afford to even the property taxes of 0:20:11.520 --> 0:20:13.199 the church and where it is in their city. And 0:20:13.280 --> 0:20:17.120 it's not just TAXESEMP status, it's you're ineligible for any 0:20:17.119 --> 0:20:20.399 government benefits, You're ineligible for any government contracts. So what 0:20:20.480 --> 0:20:23.200 did the city of Philadelphia try to do? Catholic charities 0:20:23.200 --> 0:20:26.520 can't do adoptions now that got struck down in court, 0:20:26.600 --> 0:20:30.199 but this bill could change that. That's what makes this 0:20:30.280 --> 0:20:34.359 so dangerous. Look, you know, a university that refuses to 0:20:34.440 --> 0:20:37.919 knuckle under this administration could say no student can get 0:20:37.960 --> 0:20:39.760 a pell grant to go to your university. We're going 0:20:39.800 --> 0:20:43.040 to cut off. It's not just tax exempt status. We're 0:20:43.119 --> 0:20:47.000 going to use the muscle of the federal government to 0:20:47.320 --> 0:20:52.639 persecute you, And for the life of me, I don't 0:20:52.760 --> 0:20:58.200 understand why anyone, much less twelve Republicans would be part 0:20:58.240 --> 0:21:02.680 and parcel of empower the Biden Irs to persecute people 0:21:02.680 --> 0:21:05.879 of faith. Vertical listeners are very engaged. They like to 0:21:05.880 --> 0:21:09.960 get involved. What is the ask of listeners right now 0:21:10.359 --> 0:21:13.040 to what can they do to try to stop this? 0:21:13.240 --> 0:21:15.760 Is it to go at the only way center stuff? 0:21:15.840 --> 0:21:17.479 Is it to call your friends in these states and 0:21:17.520 --> 0:21:20.480 say call these senators and and specifically because I get 0:21:20.520 --> 0:21:23.040 this all the time and you do too, But people say, 0:21:23.080 --> 0:21:25.639 what am I asking for? Is it you're demanding the 0:21:25.720 --> 0:21:29.040 mic Le Amendment? That this is you must adopt that. 0:21:29.240 --> 0:21:34.120 The only way it gets stopped and it being the 0:21:34.200 --> 0:21:37.879 threat of the Biden Irs targeting and persecuting people of 0:21:37.920 --> 0:21:41.359 faith is if the mic Le Amendment is adopted. And 0:21:41.400 --> 0:21:45.359 so I believe all twelve of those Republicans should say 0:21:46.720 --> 0:21:51.160 we will vote no on cloture the sixty vote threshold YEP, 0:21:51.920 --> 0:21:54.960 unless the mic Lee Amendment is adopted. And by the way, 0:21:55.000 --> 0:21:57.560 all twelve of those Republicans say, oh, we want the 0:21:57.600 --> 0:22:02.160 religious liberty protection, so they that's what they're saying. So 0:22:02.200 --> 0:22:06.480 to make what they're saying true. We need three of 0:22:06.520 --> 0:22:10.320 those twelve to say I'm a non cloture unless the 0:22:10.359 --> 0:22:13.160 Micaly Amendment is adopted. You now know your marching orders. 0:22:13.200 --> 0:22:15.520 If you're a listener to verdict, this is exactly why 0:22:15.560 --> 0:22:18.200 we do the show. You need to get involved. Call 0:22:18.240 --> 0:22:21.280 your centers. You know what you're asking for their especially 0:22:21.280 --> 0:22:24.359 if you have family and friends in these states, you 0:22:24.440 --> 0:22:26.919 need to let them know and tell them this is 0:22:26.960 --> 0:22:28.639 what we have to do, and it has to be 0:22:28.680 --> 0:22:31.160 done very quickly because this is going to happen right 0:22:31.160 --> 0:22:33.840 after Thanksgiving. It's going to happen a week from today. 0:22:34.280 --> 0:22:37.680 It will be the Monday after Thanksgiving at five thirty pm. 0:22:38.280 --> 0:22:41.440 By six pm, they will either have sixty votes or 0:22:41.480 --> 0:22:43.320 they won't. And this is what they think of the 0:22:43.359 --> 0:22:47.639 American people. I want to be clear on purpose, because 0:22:47.640 --> 0:22:50.399 they think you're not paying attention. They're hoping you're not 0:22:50.400 --> 0:22:52.119 paying attention, and they're right. A lot of people take 0:22:52.119 --> 0:22:53.600 your week off, a lot of people spend time with 0:22:53.600 --> 0:22:56.240 their family. You're going to see your family. My family's 0:22:56.280 --> 0:22:58.960 come to see me. Everybody operates pretty much in that 0:22:59.040 --> 0:23:01.320 same world. You take a few days off, you hang 0:23:01.320 --> 0:23:04.040 out with your family, you make memories, and you usually 0:23:04.040 --> 0:23:07.240 are disconnected from what's happening politically. That's why they make 0:23:07.320 --> 0:23:09.640 the first vote five thirty, when you come back from 0:23:09.640 --> 0:23:12.600 the day after Thanksgiving. Well, and sometimes those votes are 0:23:12.640 --> 0:23:17.600 non consequential, sometimes it's a non controversial district judge or something. 0:23:18.000 --> 0:23:20.840 But the decision to put this vote on the comeback vote, 0:23:21.240 --> 0:23:24.160