WEBVTT - More Biden Balloon Deceptions plus Twitter Bans a US Senator 0:00:00.400 --> 0:00:03.440 Welcome at his verdict of Senator Ted Cruz Ben Ferguson 0:00:03.480 --> 0:00:06.120 with you as well, and Senator, you just got out 0:00:06.120 --> 0:00:11.560 of classified briefings that deal with something the President refused 0:00:11.600 --> 0:00:13.319 to bring up during the State of the Union, and 0:00:13.360 --> 0:00:17.279 that is the Chinese government and their balloons and the 0:00:17.320 --> 0:00:19.520 fact that they went all the way across our country 0:00:19.520 --> 0:00:21.079 and then finally he said sorry, I'll deal with it 0:00:21.120 --> 0:00:24.080 after they pretty much got anything they wanted. What did 0:00:24.079 --> 0:00:27.800 you learn today that the American people need to know about? Well, 0:00:27.840 --> 0:00:31.400 I spent two hours today in a classified briefing in 0:00:31.440 --> 0:00:33.879 the skiff down in the basement of the Capitol. And 0:00:33.960 --> 0:00:35.960 by the way, I'll point out that when I left 0:00:35.960 --> 0:00:39.080 the classified briefing, I didn't bring any classified materials with 0:00:39.080 --> 0:00:40.680 me because you can't bring it out of the skiff, 0:00:40.680 --> 0:00:42.280 and so I don't have any at home with me. 0:00:42.320 --> 0:00:44.720 I don't have many any anywhere else. That seems to 0:00:44.720 --> 0:00:48.360 be very unlike Joe Biden, who seems to have classified 0:00:48.400 --> 0:00:52.040 materials everywhere he goes. But the two hour briefing was 0:00:52.280 --> 0:00:56.840 entirely on the Chinese spy balloon, and it was a 0:00:56.960 --> 0:01:00.880 detailed briefing. It included senior official from the Department of 0:01:00.880 --> 0:01:04.640 Defense and the Department of State and the intelligence community 0:01:04.720 --> 0:01:08.240 walking through what happened, and they revealed quite a lot 0:01:09.040 --> 0:01:11.720 because it was classified. I'm not going to repeat anything 0:01:11.800 --> 0:01:16.480 that was said there, but I can characterize the administration's 0:01:16.680 --> 0:01:22.920 position is they are spinning mightily. Number One, They're trying 0:01:22.959 --> 0:01:26.520 to diminish the seriousness of the damage to national security 0:01:27.319 --> 0:01:31.120 that happened from the espionage that China was allowed to 0:01:31.280 --> 0:01:34.880 undertake in the United States. I did not find their 0:01:34.920 --> 0:01:42.360 spinning credible. Number two, they were presenting highly legalistic arguments 0:01:43.840 --> 0:01:47.600 as to why they didn't shoot down the balloon when 0:01:47.600 --> 0:01:51.720 it first entered US airspace. And mind you, they did 0:01:51.760 --> 0:01:55.520 shoot down the balloon a week later, after it had 0:01:55.520 --> 0:01:58.240 spent a week in US airspace, after it had been 0:01:58.280 --> 0:02:02.080 able to hover over sensitive military facilities and other facilities 0:02:02.120 --> 0:02:06.360 that that implicate national security, and after it had traversed 0:02:06.400 --> 0:02:08.960 the entire United States of America. Was only when it 0:02:09.000 --> 0:02:11.919 crossed out into the Atlantic off the coast of South 0:02:11.960 --> 0:02:14.640 Carolina that more than a week later, they finally shut 0:02:14.680 --> 0:02:16.959 it down. You know, I have to say it was 0:02:17.000 --> 0:02:24.639 really striking listening to the administration give these these over 0:02:24.919 --> 0:02:31.040 lawyered answers suggesting that there were impediments to they're shooting 0:02:31.040 --> 0:02:33.399 it down in Alaska. Apparently you can shoot it down 0:02:33.440 --> 0:02:39.760 off of South Carolina, but not Alaska, which is assinine it. 0:02:42.080 --> 0:02:44.720 I practiced law for a lot of years. It was 0:02:45.040 --> 0:02:49.240 it reeked of after the fact, rationalization and trying to 0:02:49.240 --> 0:02:55.000 find a justification for impotently doing nothing for the entire 0:02:55.080 --> 0:02:59.240 week it was over the United States. And just from 0:02:59.280 --> 0:03:03.760 the public time line, there's one thing that is critically 0:03:03.840 --> 0:03:05.920 important that I don't think many people have focused on. 0:03:05.960 --> 0:03:09.840 So the public timeline, it was Saturday, January twenty eighth 0:03:09.880 --> 0:03:14.720 when the balloon began entering American territory, entering Alaskan airspace 0:03:14.840 --> 0:03:20.880 near the Aleutian Islands. And that was on the twenty eighth. 0:03:21.360 --> 0:03:26.480 By the thirtieth, two days later it left American territorium, 0:03:26.560 --> 0:03:30.440 was over Canada. Did we warn Canada? By the way? 0:03:30.480 --> 0:03:32.959 I mean, is that something that we would have done? 0:03:33.160 --> 0:03:35.200 And I know when we say we found the same 0:03:35.320 --> 0:03:38.880 coming over Alaska, but that's when the public noticed it. 0:03:39.080 --> 0:03:42.200 Do we even know if our military noticed it before then? 0:03:43.840 --> 0:03:46.680 So I know the answers to both of those questions 0:03:48.760 --> 0:03:51.920 I'm not able to answer what I will say is 0:03:52.360 --> 0:03:59.960 is that NORAAD and Northcom operates in close coordination with Canada, 0:03:59.640 --> 0:04:05.840 and so our military is in frequent consultation and discussion 0:04:05.880 --> 0:04:09.400 with their Canadian counterparts. That's as much as I can say. 0:04:10.600 --> 0:04:13.200 But here's the other piece that we know, again from 0:04:13.200 --> 0:04:17.719 public reports, not from the briefing. Today, Tuesday, January thirty first, 0:04:18.720 --> 0:04:22.280 was the first day President Biden was briefed, which means 0:04:23.440 --> 0:04:26.760 the Chinese spy balloon was over Alaska for two days, 0:04:28.720 --> 0:04:34.480 over US soil, conducting surveillance, and yet Joe Biden had 0:04:34.520 --> 0:04:37.400 not been brought in the loop. Joe Biden had not 0:04:37.560 --> 0:04:41.760 been briefed, and so a lot of us, myself included, 0:04:42.720 --> 0:04:46.279 have asked why the hell didn't they shoot it down 0:04:46.440 --> 0:04:50.400 when it first entered Alaska. And just from the public record, 0:04:50.480 --> 0:04:53.560 one of the facts that's there is when it entered Alaska, 0:04:53.720 --> 0:04:58.560 Joe Biden had no idea because the commander in chief 0:04:59.720 --> 0:05:02.159 had not been informed at that point. That that's a 0:05:02.720 --> 0:05:05.280 what is the chain of command? Because you just you 0:05:05.760 --> 0:05:09.160 just giving that information immediately brings up the question does 0:05:09.200 --> 0:05:11.880 the military get to make the decision when it's over 0:05:11.880 --> 0:05:14.080 a lask if the president doesn't notice shoot it down 0:05:14.839 --> 0:05:17.400 or does it go to the commander in chief every time? 0:05:17.400 --> 0:05:19.200 And they just said, ah, we don't need to inform 0:05:19.279 --> 0:05:21.679 him of this. I mean that that's a either way. 0:05:21.720 --> 0:05:24.240 That is a shocking reality that there could be this 0:05:24.360 --> 0:05:28.560 much of a disconnect. So that there is existing statute 0:05:28.600 --> 0:05:31.640 that governs this, that that that if if if there 0:05:31.720 --> 0:05:37.000 is an airship, an unmanned airshift with with with hostile intent, 0:05:37.080 --> 0:05:41.880 with hostile capacity, that our military commanders have the legal 0:05:41.920 --> 0:05:45.480 authority to engage and to take it out. Uh And 0:05:45.480 --> 0:05:49.480 and so the northcom commander has the authority to do that. 0:05:49.640 --> 0:05:52.440 They also have the authority to engage and take it 0:05:52.480 --> 0:05:56.560 out if it if it is engaged in hostile intelligence gathering, 0:05:56.600 --> 0:05:59.479 which which I think in this instance it plainly was. 0:06:01.520 --> 0:06:06.000 It is to some extent a judgment call when and 0:06:06.080 --> 0:06:09.000 to what extent it is reported up the chain of 0:06:09.040 --> 0:06:13.520 command to the commander in chief. So you know, in 0:06:13.520 --> 0:06:19.480 a hypothetical where where suddenly you see something that has 0:06:19.600 --> 0:06:24.000 say a bomb payload, that could do harm in an 0:06:24.000 --> 0:06:27.760 immediate circumstances, our military can engage and take it out 0:06:28.680 --> 0:06:32.760 in the instance to protect the American homeland. Well, let's 0:06:32.800 --> 0:06:34.520 talk about that you're going in a skiff for this 0:06:34.600 --> 0:06:38.919 classified briefing. Who gets invited to this is that? And 0:06:39.040 --> 0:06:42.000 what qualifies you to get this briefing? Can any senator 0:06:42.080 --> 0:06:43.560 ask to be a part of this, to be a 0:06:43.560 --> 0:06:45.680 part of this briefiefing or just based on the committees 0:06:45.720 --> 0:06:49.240 that you are appointed to that you serve on. So 0:06:49.279 --> 0:06:52.640 there are often classified briefings that are committee based, and 0:06:52.720 --> 0:06:55.640 so I serve on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. We 0:06:55.720 --> 0:07:00.000 have many classified briefings on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. 0:07:00.080 --> 0:07:02.840 Previously served on the Senate Arm Services Committee. We had 0:07:02.880 --> 0:07:06.080 many classified briefings on the Senate Arm Services Committee. So 0:07:06.160 --> 0:07:10.240 there are committee specific reasons that you'll go to classified briefings. 0:07:10.720 --> 0:07:14.680 There are also periodically all senator briefings. That's what this was. 0:07:14.760 --> 0:07:17.720 So every senator was invited. If you are a US senator, 0:07:17.800 --> 0:07:21.880 you that this was at TSSCI, so at a high 0:07:21.960 --> 0:07:24.800 level of clearance, and all senators have that clearance by 0:07:24.880 --> 0:07:29.240 virtue of being elected senators. And virtually all the senators 0:07:29.240 --> 0:07:31.360 were there. I didn't notice anyone missing, but it was 0:07:31.400 --> 0:07:34.680 certainly was a full room and there was a lot 0:07:34.720 --> 0:07:38.600 of interest. I stayed until the very end, and and 0:07:38.640 --> 0:07:43.600 I'm going to point out something else that is striking 0:07:43.640 --> 0:07:46.440 and yet not a lot of people have noticed and 0:07:46.480 --> 0:07:50.400 focused on, which is on February fourth, the same day 0:07:50.440 --> 0:07:54.559 that the Biden administration shot down the balloon. The Biden 0:07:54.560 --> 0:07:58.640 administration was getting a lot of criticism, obviously for having 0:07:58.680 --> 0:08:03.000 allowed this balloon to stay in US airspace and conduct 0:08:03.080 --> 0:08:07.720 surveillance for over a week. On the day on that day, 0:08:07.720 --> 0:08:12.280 on February fourth, the Biden administration arranged a briefing with 0:08:12.360 --> 0:08:17.560 the media with a quote senior defense official. And one 0:08:17.600 --> 0:08:23.080 of the things that I asked about in the briefing 0:08:23.240 --> 0:08:27.240 today was who that senior defense official was. And I 0:08:27.280 --> 0:08:28.880 got an answer to that, but I can't tell you 0:08:28.920 --> 0:08:33.200 the answer to that. But the transcript of the briefing 0:08:33.320 --> 0:08:38.079 from the unnamed senior defense official included the following paragraph 0:08:38.200 --> 0:08:40.680 that that individual told the reporters on the day the 0:08:40.679 --> 0:08:45.719 balloon was shut down. Quote PRC Government surveillance balloons transited 0:08:45.760 --> 0:08:50.680 the continental United States briefly at least three times during 0:08:50.720 --> 0:08:54.520 the prior administration, and once that we know of at 0:08:54.520 --> 0:08:58.440 the beginning of this administration, but never for this duration 0:08:58.520 --> 0:09:00.679 of time. And so you'll recall when the balloon was 0:09:00.720 --> 0:09:06.560 shot down. This paragraph suddenly became a major talking point 0:09:07.440 --> 0:09:11.040 that the defenders of the Biden White House began using, saying, well, 0:09:11.040 --> 0:09:13.480 three times there were balloons during the Trump administration. And 0:09:13.520 --> 0:09:16.640 you'll recall, as it played out, we then had a 0:09:16.679 --> 0:09:19.720 series of senior officials from the Trump administration, like the 0:09:19.760 --> 0:09:24.160 Secretary of State, like the Director of National Intelligence publicly 0:09:24.240 --> 0:09:26.400 say I don't know what these guys are talking about. 0:09:27.080 --> 0:09:29.480 That didn't happen. We don't know anything about it. In 0:09:29.480 --> 0:09:31.440 other words, they weren't briefed on it, and they see 0:09:31.480 --> 0:09:35.520 they were held in the dark. Well, it turns out 0:09:36.559 --> 0:09:42.000 that at the time the Biden administration was telling reporters 0:09:42.559 --> 0:09:46.480 that this happened three times during the Trump administration, the 0:09:46.480 --> 0:09:51.320 Biden administration knew full well that nobody in the Trump 0:09:51.360 --> 0:09:56.160 administration was aware of this. They knew that, and so 0:09:56.200 --> 0:09:59.760 they were deliberately misleading the reporters by saying, well, happened 0:09:59.800 --> 0:10:05.200 three times out under Trump. And they were speaking the 0:10:05.240 --> 0:10:10.160 truth technically, but they were omitting a major part because 0:10:10.559 --> 0:10:12.920 the obvious inference when you hear that is, oh, and 0:10:13.320 --> 0:10:16.880 Trump didn't do anything about it, And they know full 0:10:17.360 --> 0:10:20.920 well that Trump didn't know about it. The Secretary of 0:10:20.920 --> 0:10:23.400 State didn't know about it. Secretary Defense didn't know about it. 0:10:23.720 --> 0:10:28.480 And so the Biden administration was perfectly happy to spend 0:10:28.559 --> 0:10:31.840 the reporters, and the reporters were perfectly happy to be 0:10:31.960 --> 0:10:35.640 spun and to midsly the American public on purpose to 0:10:35.640 --> 0:10:40.120 cover their rear end political spin. And it was deliberate 0:10:40.360 --> 0:10:45.280 on a matter of really important national security. I want 0:10:45.280 --> 0:10:47.360 to ask you about another public report that's come out 0:10:47.400 --> 0:10:50.080 that the Chinese by balloon passing over Sense of Sites 0:10:50.200 --> 0:10:54.079 quote could have collected communications. The State Department has now 0:10:54.120 --> 0:10:57.560 revealed that. Before I ask you about that aspect of this, 0:10:57.600 --> 0:10:59.080 I want to tell you about our friends over at 0:10:59.080 --> 0:11:03.120 Patriot Mobile. If you are a conservative and you're proud 0:11:03.160 --> 0:11:05.920 to be a conservative, and you're proud to defend conservative values, 0:11:06.240 --> 0:11:08.560 and you've got a cell phone, you need to check 0:11:08.559 --> 0:11:11.880 out Patriot Mobile. Why when you switch to Patriot Mobile, 0:11:11.880 --> 0:11:14.400 you get the same exact cell phone coverage you're used 0:11:14.400 --> 0:11:16.760 to right now. You get to keep your same cell 0:11:16.800 --> 0:11:18.720 phone number, You get to keep your same cell phone 0:11:18.760 --> 0:11:20.520 or upgrade to a new one if you want to. 0:11:21.040 --> 0:11:23.760 But when you pay your bill every month, you're actually 0:11:23.840 --> 0:11:27.760 supporting causes that you believe in we're talking about setting 0:11:27.800 --> 0:11:29.720 up for the First and the Second Amendment. We're talking 0:11:29.720 --> 0:11:32.080 about setting up for the rights onboard. We're talking about 0:11:32.080 --> 0:11:36.079 helping people with adoptions. These are the things that Patriot 0:11:36.120 --> 0:11:41.440 Mobile uses your dollars to actually advocate and support. If 0:11:41.840 --> 0:11:44.640 you are ready to fight back, then do it with 0:11:44.679 --> 0:11:47.600 your cell phone a bill you're already going to pay, 0:11:48.160 --> 0:11:51.640 support conservative causes and make the switch. Go online to 0:11:51.679 --> 0:11:54.840 Patriot Mobile dot com slash verdict. You'll get the best 0:11:54.880 --> 0:11:57.520 deals of the day. You can also call them eight 0:11:57.640 --> 0:12:01.800 seven eight Patriot. That's eight seven eight Patriot used the 0:12:01.840 --> 0:12:04.360 promo code verdict. You'll get the best deals they have 0:12:04.480 --> 0:12:07.760 right now eight seven eight Patriot or Patriotmobile dot com 0:12:07.800 --> 0:12:11.760 slash verdict center that this was for me, I think 0:12:11.800 --> 0:12:15.240 honestly shocking when this came out. The State Department is 0:12:15.280 --> 0:12:18.800 admitted that the Chinese spy balloon that floated over the 0:12:18.880 --> 0:12:22.360 United States America for these eight days, including floating over 0:12:22.520 --> 0:12:26.000 vital national security sites, was equipped they now say, with 0:12:26.080 --> 0:12:30.880 intendas that likely could collect our communications. How concerns of 0:12:30.960 --> 0:12:34.920 the American people be about that aspect of the spy balloon, Well, 0:12:34.920 --> 0:12:37.400 I think we should be very concerned. It was a 0:12:37.440 --> 0:12:40.320 balloon that was launched for the purpose of espionage, for 0:12:40.360 --> 0:12:44.640 the purpose of presumably taking photographs, perhaps using infrared or 0:12:44.679 --> 0:12:50.600 other technology, and attempting to intercept communications, attempting to gather 0:12:51.280 --> 0:12:54.600 information that can be used to undermine the national security 0:12:54.600 --> 0:12:56.120 of the United States. And if you look at the 0:12:56.120 --> 0:13:00.640 flight path of this balloon, it was very liberate that 0:13:00.720 --> 0:13:03.800 it went over sensitive sites. It went over sites, the 0:13:04.040 --> 0:13:09.679 military sites. It went over sites that are extremely sensitive 0:13:09.720 --> 0:13:13.040 from a national security perspective. And by the way that 0:13:13.200 --> 0:13:15.240 you and I, if we were in a private plane, 0:13:15.280 --> 0:13:17.120 are not allowed to fly over and if we did, 0:13:17.200 --> 0:13:20.640 it would probably be shot down. That's how secure these 0:13:20.640 --> 0:13:23.760 sites are. Well I'm not sure we'd be shot down, 0:13:23.840 --> 0:13:29.480 but they are sites that are highly secure. And the 0:13:29.520 --> 0:13:32.520 Biden administration made a decision to allow this to happen. 0:13:32.600 --> 0:13:34.840 They could have shot it down in Alaska. Mind you, 0:13:34.880 --> 0:13:37.400 no one even bothered to tell Joe Biden about it 0:13:37.440 --> 0:13:40.679 when it was over Alaska. But they could have shot 0:13:40.720 --> 0:13:43.640 it down there. They could have shot it down in 0:13:43.720 --> 0:13:45.760 the wilderness of Canada. They could have shot it down 0:13:45.840 --> 0:13:49.720 in Idaho or Montana, and they didn't. They allowed it 0:13:50.000 --> 0:13:55.599 to spend a week collecting intelligence. That intelligence presumably was 0:13:56.240 --> 0:13:59.440 sent up via satellite back to Beijing, so that Beijing 0:13:59.520 --> 0:14:04.560 has what ever information they gathered and stole. Presumably the 0:14:04.679 --> 0:14:08.080 Chinese Communist government has that information now, and it was 0:14:08.120 --> 0:14:12.480 only after the mission was complete, after the espionage was done, 0:14:13.160 --> 0:14:17.079 that they shot it down in the Atlantic Ocean. I 0:14:17.120 --> 0:14:20.360 think that was a reckless decision, but I also think 0:14:20.440 --> 0:14:23.640 it was a dangerous decision because it projected weakness. It 0:14:23.720 --> 0:14:27.240 projected weakness to the Chinese Communist government and to every 0:14:27.240 --> 0:14:31.040 other enemy of America because it told them that they 0:14:31.080 --> 0:14:37.680 could brazenly enter American airspace conduct espionage on sensitive military secrets. 0:14:37.840 --> 0:14:42.240 And this president, this commander in chief would not act 0:14:42.440 --> 0:14:45.120 to prevent that. Last question on this, I want to 0:14:45.120 --> 0:14:46.800 ask you, and this is something I just think that 0:14:46.880 --> 0:14:50.720 we should debunk very quickly. I've actually seen commentators and 0:14:50.880 --> 0:14:53.680 people on social media saying, well, you don't have to 0:14:53.720 --> 0:14:56.680 worry about what information China got, because we shot this 0:14:56.720 --> 0:14:59.640 thing down. They didn't get their balloon back. That to 0:14:59.720 --> 0:15:01.880 me maybe one of the biggest lies that I've seen 0:15:01.960 --> 0:15:04.120 that has kind of happened over the last several days. 0:15:04.600 --> 0:15:08.120 This information that they were stealing was going back up 0:15:08.160 --> 0:15:10.160 to their satellites in real time at what they didn't 0:15:10.160 --> 0:15:12.680 need to get their balloon back to basically get all 0:15:12.720 --> 0:15:16.680 the intel In all likelihood, that's exactly how this operated, 0:15:16.800 --> 0:15:20.080 was that it was sending the information back to China 0:15:20.520 --> 0:15:23.920 real time so that it doesn't have to go back 0:15:23.960 --> 0:15:27.000 to China for them to get the data. Senator, before 0:15:27.040 --> 0:15:29.520 we get to some other big news things happening on 0:15:29.640 --> 0:15:31.960 Commerce and Judiciary, which you're a member of, and I 0:15:31.960 --> 0:15:33.600 know you want to give an important update on what's 0:15:33.600 --> 0:15:36.600 happening in DC this week on that on those committees, 0:15:36.880 --> 0:15:40.120 I want to talk to guys out there listening about 0:15:40.160 --> 0:15:42.800 something that's really important, and that's about being a real 0:15:42.840 --> 0:15:46.080 American man. Look in the midst of the relentless war 0:15:46.240 --> 0:15:49.800 masculinity in America today, I want you to know that 0:15:49.880 --> 0:15:52.280 there is something that can help you with strength and 0:15:52.360 --> 0:15:57.520 vitality over weakness and complacency. If you have felt like 0:15:57.560 --> 0:15:59.840 you're losing that edge a little bit, then you need 0:15:59.880 --> 0:16:04.320 to check out Chalkhoq. They're here to help real American 0:16:04.360 --> 0:16:08.000 men take back their right to proudly maximize their masculinity 0:16:08.040 --> 0:16:11.600 by boosting to stosterone levels up to twenty percent over 0:16:11.680 --> 0:16:15.240 ninety days now I've been taking Chalk it's spelled choq 0:16:15.880 --> 0:16:18.560 and for two weeks now. This is what I've been 0:16:18.600 --> 0:16:20.880 doing and what I can tell you is it's working. 0:16:21.040 --> 0:16:24.600 I'm taking the Mail Vitality Stack manufactured right here in 0:16:24.600 --> 0:16:28.760 the USA. Chalk is a natural herbal supplement that are 0:16:28.840 --> 0:16:32.760 clinically proven to have game changing effects on your energy, 0:16:33.040 --> 0:16:36.920 your focus, your mood, and your libido. So maximize your 0:16:36.960 --> 0:16:43.520 masculinity today at Chalk cchoq dot com. That's chalkhoq dot com. 0:16:43.640 --> 0:16:46.680 Use the promo code verdict for thirty five percent off 0:16:46.800 --> 0:16:51.960 any Chalk subscriptions for life Chalk dot com Code verdict 0:16:51.960 --> 0:16:54.480 for thirty five percent off. Senator, I want you to 0:16:54.480 --> 0:16:56.680 give us some updates on what you're working on right 0:16:56.720 --> 0:16:59.080 now on these important committees, because you've had a lot 0:16:59.120 --> 0:17:02.320 of meetings over the last twenty four forty hours. Well, 0:17:02.400 --> 0:17:04.639 today was a busy day. In addition to the classified 0:17:04.680 --> 0:17:07.919 briefing on the Chinese by balloon, we also had hearings 0:17:07.920 --> 0:17:11.480 in both the Commerce Committee and the Judiciary Committee. The 0:17:11.760 --> 0:17:17.119 morning started in Judiciary with the Senate Democrats taking up 0:17:17.359 --> 0:17:22.480 twenty nine judicial nominees who were who had been nominated 0:17:22.600 --> 0:17:25.040 last year and had not gotten confirmed, and they were 0:17:25.080 --> 0:17:27.960 moving moving them forward out of committee. Now these were 0:17:28.200 --> 0:17:32.719 these included many of the most extreme and radical nominees. 0:17:33.160 --> 0:17:37.239 These include the judicial nominee who, at a conference at 0:17:37.359 --> 0:17:43.120 actually my alma mater, Princeton University, reportedly said that police 0:17:43.320 --> 0:17:47.159 kill unarmed black men every single day. And she reportedly 0:17:47.200 --> 0:17:50.440 agreed with that statement. When she was questioned about it 0:17:50.920 --> 0:17:54.320 at her confirmation hearing, she said, well, I said that 0:17:54.400 --> 0:17:59.160 as an advocate. Now, mind you, that statement is wildly 0:17:59.359 --> 0:18:03.560 blatantly false. It's not remotely true as a factual matter, 0:18:03.880 --> 0:18:07.320 and it's an incredibly harmful statement because if people believe it, 0:18:07.320 --> 0:18:09.840 it is a lie that has real consequences and that 0:18:10.000 --> 0:18:15.040 endangers the lives of police officers. And three times she said, well, 0:18:15.080 --> 0:18:17.680 it was as an advocate, so you know, apparently, look, 0:18:17.720 --> 0:18:20.480 I spent a lot of years practicing law as an advocate. 0:18:20.840 --> 0:18:23.400 You're not entitled to lie either that It's not like 0:18:23.440 --> 0:18:26.120 you have the ability when you're just being an advocate 0:18:26.119 --> 0:18:30.000 to lie. She subsequently, after a confirmation hearing, tried to 0:18:30.040 --> 0:18:32.000 say in a letter, oh no, I don't think I 0:18:32.000 --> 0:18:35.480 said this after all, But she did it after the 0:18:35.520 --> 0:18:37.800 hearing when there was no opportunity to ask her questions. 0:18:37.840 --> 0:18:40.200 She was one of the judges. They were moving forward 0:18:40.640 --> 0:18:43.720 another judge, another district court nominee, as a judge who 0:18:43.720 --> 0:18:49.440 described himself as a wild eyed liberal and described how 0:18:49.440 --> 0:18:52.600 he is motivated every morning to get out of bed 0:18:52.720 --> 0:18:58.439 by his hatred for conservatives. And I asked the Democrats 0:18:58.440 --> 0:19:01.160 on the committee, I said, look, this is who's been 0:19:01.200 --> 0:19:04.040 nominated to be a district judge in New York. How 0:19:04.080 --> 0:19:05.959 would you feel if you were a Republican, you were 0:19:06.000 --> 0:19:09.520 a conservative in New York, there are some and you 0:19:09.640 --> 0:19:12.000 found yourself in front of a federal judge who has 0:19:12.080 --> 0:19:15.440 said he gets up every morning motivated by his hatred 0:19:16.040 --> 0:19:22.280 for you. That's a person obviously unfit and without a 0:19:22.359 --> 0:19:26.399 judicial temperament suitable to be a judge. And then I 0:19:26.480 --> 0:19:29.160 also asked about the district court nominee that we talked 0:19:29.200 --> 0:19:33.240 about on a previous podcast, who went under questioning from 0:19:33.320 --> 0:19:36.320 John Kennedy didn't know what Article five of the Constitution was, 0:19:36.880 --> 0:19:40.240 didn't know, which is not a trick question. If you 0:19:40.320 --> 0:19:43.240 miss that in our pod, go back and listen to 0:19:43.280 --> 0:19:47.280 that podcast that we did, because you explained how basic 0:19:47.840 --> 0:19:52.480 that that question is to any legal scholar, any anybody 0:19:52.480 --> 0:19:57.160 that's a lawyer, especially if you are looking to serve 0:19:57.200 --> 0:19:59.760 at this level, you would be prepared to know about 0:19:59.760 --> 0:20:02.679 this well. And the follow up, John Kennedy asked, he 0:20:02.720 --> 0:20:06.480 asked about what's an Article two of the Constitution, and 0:20:07.280 --> 0:20:10.320 she said she didn't know, she couldn't remember. Now that 0:20:11.280 --> 0:20:14.160 that is not a gotcha question, that is not obscure. 0:20:14.760 --> 0:20:18.000 That is a question that any first year law student 0:20:18.040 --> 0:20:21.320 could answer. And if you couldn't answer it, you would 0:20:21.440 --> 0:20:25.080 flunk constitutional law. It is very simple. So the first 0:20:25.080 --> 0:20:29.200 three articles of the Constitution. Article one establishes the Congress, 0:20:29.680 --> 0:20:33.800 the legislative branch of our government. Article two establishes the 0:20:33.840 --> 0:20:36.479 President of the United States, and the executive branch. An 0:20:36.560 --> 0:20:41.320 Article three establishes the judiciary. This person is nominated to 0:20:41.359 --> 0:20:44.640 be what is called an Article three judge. And yet 0:20:44.680 --> 0:20:47.000 apparently she doesn't even know what that is. She didn't 0:20:47.000 --> 0:20:49.919 know what Article two was. And I pointed out at 0:20:49.920 --> 0:20:53.119 the hearing that Dick Durban, the Democrat chairman of the committee, 0:20:53.800 --> 0:20:57.760 said after that hearing, well, there are probably a lot 0:20:57.760 --> 0:21:00.600 of members of our committee that couldn't answer those questions either, 0:21:00.760 --> 0:21:03.840 And so I brought that up, and I said, I 0:21:03.840 --> 0:21:07.840 thought that was really an astonishing statement. And I said, 0:21:07.880 --> 0:21:10.119 I'm confident that everyone on the Republican side of the 0:21:10.119 --> 0:21:13.360 aisle could answer the question what's article too? But but 0:21:14.400 --> 0:21:17.280 I find it stunning to the Democrats here that your 0:21:17.400 --> 0:21:19.800 chairman is saying you have no idea what Article two 0:21:19.840 --> 0:21:21.800 of the Constitution is it? And I had said I 0:21:21.840 --> 0:21:24.000 would do this on the podcast, so I followed through it. 0:21:24.119 --> 0:21:26.680 I said, does anyone here what who admit right now 0:21:26.720 --> 0:21:30.080 you don't know what Article two is? And they all 0:21:30.119 --> 0:21:32.280 stared away and stared at their phones, and stared at 0:21:32.280 --> 0:21:37.280 their shoes and did everything to avoid eye contact. And 0:21:37.359 --> 0:21:40.359 it's a ridiculous point, as I said, listen, it's real simple. 0:21:40.760 --> 0:21:43.040 Anyone who doesn't know what Article two of the Constitution 0:21:43.240 --> 0:21:46.200 is has no business serving on the Senate Judiciary Committee, 0:21:46.320 --> 0:21:49.959 and certainly has no business serving as a federal judge. 0:21:50.000 --> 0:21:53.480 And and I made a plea to my Democrat colleagues. 0:21:53.520 --> 0:21:55.720 I said, look, what is wrong with you people. You 0:21:55.800 --> 0:22:01.240 have rubber stamped every single Biden judiciariinee, one hundred percent 0:22:01.280 --> 0:22:03.159 of them in the last two years. You have voted 0:22:03.160 --> 0:22:07.200 for every single nominee, no matter how bad, no matter 0:22:07.240 --> 0:22:10.000 how extreme. And by the way, every other Senate Democrat 0:22:10.040 --> 0:22:12.119 has as well. All of the judicial nominees when they 0:22:12.119 --> 0:22:14.920 went to the floor. One hundred percent of the Democrats 0:22:14.920 --> 0:22:17.720 have voted for all of them. And I put it out. 0:22:17.720 --> 0:22:22.280 I said, look, during the Trump administration, Trump nominated some 0:22:22.359 --> 0:22:26.200 fantastic judges. We confirmed some fantastic judges, but there were 0:22:26.200 --> 0:22:30.080 several nominees that were not fantastic nominees that had problems. 0:22:30.440 --> 0:22:35.440 And as Republican Senators who actually take seriously the quality 0:22:35.520 --> 0:22:39.520 and caliber and qualifications of the judiciary, we push back 0:22:39.600 --> 0:22:43.679 and made clear to the Trump White House those nominees 0:22:43.720 --> 0:22:46.200 would not get confirmed. And I looked at my colleagues 0:22:46.200 --> 0:22:50.280 and said, are none of you willing to stand up 0:22:50.320 --> 0:22:53.399 for anything? Will you at least admit a judge should 0:22:53.400 --> 0:22:55.679 know what Article two of the Constitution is? Will you 0:22:55.720 --> 0:22:58.679 at least admit a judge shouldn't have a record of 0:22:58.760 --> 0:23:02.600 saying he has motivated by hatred for conservatives each and 0:23:02.720 --> 0:23:06.199 every day. Not a single Democrats said a word. The 0:23:06.320 --> 0:23:10.080 only substance of response I got as I said, look, 0:23:10.960 --> 0:23:17.919 your behavior suggests that if Joe Biden nominated a ham sandwich, 0:23:18.840 --> 0:23:22.199 you would vote to confirm the ham Sandwich is a judge. 0:23:22.720 --> 0:23:25.639 And the only substant of response I got is Corey 0:23:25.680 --> 0:23:28.360 Booker chimed in afterwards and he said, I just want 0:23:28.359 --> 0:23:30.920 to clarify one thing. He said, I'm a vegan, so 0:23:30.960 --> 0:23:34.639 I would not vote to confirm a ham sandwich, which 0:23:34.880 --> 0:23:40.760 he was pretty funny. Yeah that, And actually Corey Booker 0:23:40.840 --> 0:23:42.920 is a pretty good guy. He and I are get 0:23:42.920 --> 0:23:45.960 along well and are often kidding each other back and forth. 0:23:46.680 --> 0:23:49.640 But it spoke volume that neither Durban nor anyone else 0:23:49.720 --> 0:23:52.080 engaged in any of the substance. And then, like the 0:23:52.119 --> 0:23:57.560 Politburo in the Soviet Union, they all voted dah and 0:23:57.800 --> 0:24:01.680 moved on the nominees and they do not care. They'll 0:24:01.720 --> 0:24:05.800 fill the judiciary with left wing zealots and they don't 0:24:05.800 --> 0:24:09.200 even feel, as far as I can tell, a twinge 0:24:09.240 --> 0:24:12.280 of remorse or guilt. What scares me more than liberal 0:24:12.440 --> 0:24:14.600 is an ignorant liberal. And if you have these types 0:24:14.640 --> 0:24:19.080 of individuals on our court system, it terrifies me what 0:24:19.119 --> 0:24:22.400 it means when you walk into their courtroom knowing that 0:24:22.440 --> 0:24:24.120 this is who they're putting there. And I think every 0:24:24.119 --> 0:24:27.040