Speaker 1: I love it when we get to have a joint
Speaker 1: address to Congress, to stay of the Union and Senator
Speaker 1: Cruise and I get to do a combined podcast. Welcome
Speaker 1: it is Verdict with Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you,
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Speaker 2: Senator you just I'm curious for a joint address. Do
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Speaker 1: That's all right, Ben Ferguson with Ted Cruz. That's a
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Speaker 2: There you go. I'm just trying to help you out.
Speaker 2: I like that.
Speaker 1: And Ben Ferguson Podcasts with Ted Cruz. We'll get a
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Speaker 3: I'm sold. I'm sold.
Speaker 1: You just left the Joint Session Center and it was
Speaker 1: one hell of a night. If there's anything you can say,
Speaker 1: Democrats pretty much stood for.
Speaker 3: Nothing like it at all.
Speaker 2: Well, look, this is where doing the podcast is fun.
Speaker 2: It is twelve twenty eight in the morning. I just
Speaker 2: got got home to my DC apartment about five minutes
Speaker 2: ago and just left the State of the Union and
Speaker 2: the State of the Union. I got to say it
Speaker 2: was I think a spectacular State of the Union addressed
Speaker 2: from President Trump. It's the fifth one hees given. I
Speaker 2: think it was triumphant. I think it was positive. I
Speaker 2: think it was forward looking. I think it emphasized exactly
Speaker 2: what you and I predicted in Monday's pod that he
Speaker 2: was going to emphasize. It emphasized promises, made promises, kept
Speaker 2: the victories we've seen in the first month and a
Speaker 2: half of the presidency. But I got to say all
Speaker 2: of that was overshadowed in many ways by the utterly
Speaker 2: disgraceful behavior of the Democrats. It was something I've never
Speaker 2: seen before. It was shocking, it was disrespectful, it was defiant,
Speaker 2: it was delusional. We're gonna break it all down. We're
Speaker 2: gonna break down the best parts of the speech, the
Speaker 2: best things President Trump had to say, and we're going
Speaker 2: to talk about what it indicates that today's Democrat party
Speaker 2: stands for nothing, applat for nothing, does not cheer on America.
Speaker 2: It is something never before seen at a State of
Speaker 2: the Union address. We're going to break it down and
Speaker 2: what it means.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was truly an incredible night, and like you said,
Speaker 1: I think it's probably the best speech the presents ever given.
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Speaker 3: I want to start with what stole the show?
Speaker 1: You mentioned in a second ago, and and you, I know,
Speaker 1: probably had a mental list in your in your head.
Speaker 1: In there in the room, I was making notes on
Speaker 1: my phone and putting them out on acts of all
Speaker 1: the things that democratic lawmakers couldn't stand up to honor.
Speaker 3: It's a long list.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but look, let's start with the very beginning of
Speaker 2: the night. The very beginning of the night is when
Speaker 2: the President walks onto the floor of the Senate and
Speaker 2: he's introduced the President of the United States, and not
Speaker 2: a single Democrat stood, not a single Democrat applauded. Now, Ben, listen,
Speaker 2: I've been to thirteen State of the Union addresses. I've
Speaker 2: gone to everyone since I got elected to the Senate,
Speaker 2: and I actually love going to the State of the Union.
Speaker 2: There's a pageantry to it, there's something amazing. It's more
Speaker 2: fun when your guys in office. It's more fun when
Speaker 2: you get to cheer on your own party, but I
Speaker 2: go when the Democrats are in office. And I got
Speaker 2: to tell you, every single time Joe Biden walked in,
Speaker 2: every single time Barack Obama walked in, I stood up
Speaker 2: and I applauded. Not because I I agreed with their agendas.
Speaker 2: Their agendas were disgraceful and disastrous, but because I respect
Speaker 2: the office of President of the United States, and I
Speaker 2: respect the American people. And and I have never once
Speaker 2: seen the opposing party refused to applaud for the president.
Speaker 2: Understand what a break with tradition that is. Even in
Speaker 2: past years, the Democrats applauded at the outset for the
Speaker 2: President of the United States until tonight and and the
Speaker 2: entire night. I guess I'm actually grumpy with the Democrats
Speaker 2: because they've they've stolen my favorite game to play at
Speaker 2: the State of the Union.
Speaker 1: So, by the way, I know this game, and that's
Speaker 1: why I'm laughing right now, because it was a great
Speaker 1: game you created years ago.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and we've talked about it in the pod before.
Speaker 2: So the State of the Union address. Look, if your
Speaker 2: party's in power, it's you know, I joke, it's it's
Speaker 2: like I actually was. I was sitting with Dave mcormick,
Speaker 2: the new Center from Pennsylvania, who's you know, an our
Speaker 2: Army veteran, And I said, all right, David is going
Speaker 2: to be like pt in the army. Get ready for
Speaker 2: Jane fond fondo aerobics. You're gonna pop up and down
Speaker 2: and up and down and imagine the Trump. The President's
Speaker 2: wearing leg warmers and you're just gonna be doing nothing
Speaker 2: but every four words, standing up and applauding. And that's
Speaker 2: what we did. I got to say, you know, my
Speaker 2: my thighs are killing me from from from from just
Speaker 2: doing squats all night.
Speaker 1: But I want to see the stats, by the way,
Speaker 1: on your R ring. I want to know what's the
Speaker 1: what's the calorie burn during a state the longest stay
Speaker 1: of the Union ever?
Speaker 3: With Donald Trump speaking? Now that's real intel I need.
Speaker 2: So I so, I don't know. I could look at
Speaker 2: it in a second, And I don't know if they
Speaker 2: count as steps because we're not moving. We're just standing
Speaker 2: and sitting and standing and sitting and standing in city.
Speaker 2: But what I like doing during the State of the
Speaker 2: Union is watching the opposing party and picking out like
Speaker 2: a couple of senators or House members and typically the
Speaker 2: more moderate ones, and watching them agonize over what to
Speaker 2: applaud or what to stand for it in the past,
Speaker 2: you know, I'd look at like a Joe mansion and
Speaker 2: you know he he would be you know, America is great,
Speaker 2: and you'd see a few Democrats applaud for that, even
Speaker 2: stand we support the troops, and they'd kind of agonize, Oh, okay,
Speaker 2: I guess I could support the troops. But then they'd
Speaker 2: go back and forth. Tonight they stood for nothing. So
Speaker 2: they stood that. They did not stand for Joscelyn Nungeri's mother,
Speaker 2: the twelve year old beautiful girl raped and murdered in
Speaker 2: Texas by I legal immigrants. They would not stand for Alexis.
Speaker 2: They did not stand for Lake and Riley's mother and sister.
Speaker 2: They did not stand for a thirteen year old kid
Speaker 2: surviving brain cancer. Like how do you not like like, okay,
Speaker 2: I'm a crazy partisan who hates Trump, but okay, thirteen
Speaker 2: year old kids surviving brain cancer wants to be a
Speaker 2: cop like ull Like literally every single State of the
Speaker 2: Union address that has been given from the beginny of time,
Speaker 2: every person on the floor would have stood for the
Speaker 2: thirteen year old kid or survive brain cancer. Zero Democrats stood.
Speaker 2: I looked at them. They didn't.
Speaker 1: Still, it was an emotional in there because I was
Speaker 1: watching it and I got choked up watching it, and
Speaker 1: there was a lot of people that were texting me, like, dude,
Speaker 1: I'm crying right now. Because when you see a little
Speaker 1: kid and how big his eyes got. You may not
Speaker 1: have been able to see it from the floor because
Speaker 1: they zoomed in, but when they said we're gonna make
Speaker 1: you an agent, his eyes got so big.
Speaker 3: He clearly didn't know what was going to happen.
Speaker 1: His dad didn't know either, and it was just one
Speaker 1: of those get a lump in your throat, choke up moments.
Speaker 2: So I will say it was emotional, but it was true.
Speaker 2: When you were in the chamber, we couldn't see the
Speaker 2: kid's facial expressions. It was just too far away that
Speaker 2: you couldn't see it. So I saw his facial expressions
Speaker 2: for the first time about a half hour ago, when
Speaker 2: I did Hannity and Sean played the close up and
Speaker 2: so I could see, you know, I mean, I saw
Speaker 2: the k and it was beautiful and we were cheering
Speaker 2: and like when you know, Trump made him an honorary
Speaker 2: Secret Service agent. That was really cool. But you're right,
Speaker 2: the close up of his facial expressions was was really powerful.
Speaker 2: And he's a Texan. DJ Daniel Daniel is a Texan.
Speaker 2: You had Alexis Nunger. It was a Texan. But but
Speaker 2: it was amazing. Look, the Democrats did not stand.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: They didn't stand for cutting taxes. They didn't stand for
Speaker 2: no taxes on tips.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: They didn't stand for automakers building new manufacturing plants in America.
Speaker 2: They didn't stand for steel workers that. They didn't stand
Speaker 2: for border patrol agents. It was they didn't stand for
Speaker 2: a kid going to West Point whose father was a
Speaker 2: police officer killed in the line of duty, and the
Speaker 2: President admitted him to West Point in the middle of
Speaker 2: the speech, which was a pretty amazing moment too, Like
Speaker 2: I it was, but but I will say this is
Speaker 2: actually a there was There's one thing the entire night
Speaker 2: they stood and clapped for. You know what it was?
Speaker 2: What was that they stood and clapped for giving hundreds
Speaker 2: of billions of dollars to Ukraine. There you go.
Speaker 1: I knew there was a moment there and but the
Speaker 1: pant when the feet I saw you could hear the
Speaker 1: room get louder, but I wasn't sure if they were
Speaker 1: standing for it.
Speaker 3: And so that was the moment.
Speaker 2: So not everyone stood, but a number of them stood.
Speaker 2: A number of them pulled out Ukrainian flags. None of
Speaker 2: them had American flags, but a number of them pulled
Speaker 2: out Ukrainian flags. And I got to say, Look, you
Speaker 2: could have disagreements about the war on Ukraine, but what
Speaker 2: the hell does it say about Democrats that they will
Speaker 2: cheer for Ukraine but not for America.
Speaker 1: You go back to what you said about those emotional moments.
Speaker 1: There was also moments in there that were good for
Speaker 1: the American people.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and just policies.
Speaker 1: I mean, you can't clap for tax cuts, you can't
Speaker 1: clap for a secure border, which was something by the way,
Speaker 1: they said that they were in favor of. Remember when
Speaker 1: they were like, well it's us that we're in favor
Speaker 1: of it. Us still workers, they couldn't clap for. They
Speaker 1: couldn't clap for you know, the I go back to
Speaker 1: the West Point for a moment. That was another emotional
Speaker 1: moment where you've got a young man that's getting into
Speaker 1: West Point who had a tragedy in his family life,
Speaker 1: and they wouldn't stand for that. And then the capture
Speaker 1: of terrorists, by the way, that one.
Speaker 2: Actually was for murdering service the thirteen servicemen and women
Speaker 2: in Afghanistan capturing the terrorists, and they're not happy to
Speaker 2: capture the terrorists. People.
Speaker 1: Can we play that clip because it's an important one.
Speaker 1: Just this is what the President said. It's not hard
Speaker 1: to clap for this or stand for this. It should
Speaker 1: be like a universal everyone stand moment to.
Speaker 4: The country tonight and please to announce that we have
Speaker 4: just apprehended the top terrorists responsible for that toutrocity and
Speaker 4: he is right now on his way here to face
Speaker 4: the swift sword of American justice.
Speaker 1: I mean that that was, by the way, break news
Speaker 1: in n nine point nine percent of the people I'm
Speaker 1: assuming in.
Speaker 2: The room certainly to me, I didn't know that.
Speaker 1: To you, okay, So I was wondering if you guys
Speaker 1: knew that before, because it seemed like that everybody was
Speaker 1: kind of caught off guard, like that was new to everyone.
Speaker 1: And yet the President says it. You can hear half
Speaker 1: the room or up the other ass like no, no, no,
Speaker 1: my guy, terriss. That kills Americans that we're bringing back
Speaker 1: to America. No, that's under Donald Trump can't.
Speaker 2: And listen, I was looking over at the Democrats and
Speaker 2: repeatedly turning to the folks around me, just saying, what
Speaker 2: the hell is wrong with these people? Like it is,
Speaker 2: how do you not cheer for that? And I think
Speaker 2: the answer is they're so filled with hate. This is
Speaker 2: now the party of hate and rage. And they hate
Speaker 2: Donald Trump, the hay Deal on Musk and and they're
Speaker 2: just and they're they hate the voters that elected Donald Trump.
Speaker 2: And so there always were points listen in Democrats State
Speaker 2: of the Union addresses, there have been a number of
Speaker 2: things that I applauded for. If they say something that
Speaker 2: I agree with, I happily applaud for if they, you know,
Speaker 2: anytime they talk about supporting the troops. By the way,
Speaker 2: at a State of the Union. So the Supreme Court
Speaker 2: never never applauds other than they applaud at the beginning.
Speaker 2: So the Supreme Court applauds traditionally at the President of
Speaker 2: the United States when he's introduced, and that's typically the
Speaker 2: only thing they applaud for. The Joint Chiefs, they usually
Speaker 2: do the same thing. They'll applaud at the introduction of
Speaker 2: the President of the United States. But I'll tell you
Speaker 2: the Joint chiefs they applauded at the kid when he
Speaker 2: was admitted to West Point, and it was I noticed
Speaker 2: the general's applauding, and yet not a Democrat would. And
Speaker 2: I got to say, Ben, there was a lot in
Speaker 2: this speech to applaud for. As I said, I think
Speaker 2: this is the best speech President Trump has ever given,
Speaker 2: and so I was happy and enthusiastically applauding. Now, if
Speaker 2: you did not have two hours to listen to the
Speaker 2: speech tonight, if you didn't actually watch it, we've tried
Speaker 2: to help you out on this podcast. So we have
Speaker 2: a montage where we've selected some of the key moments
Speaker 2: of the speech. And it's a little over three minutes,
Speaker 2: so it's not very long. So you didn't have two hours,
Speaker 2: here's three minutes that sums up the best moments from
Speaker 2: President Trump's State of the Union address tonight.
Speaker 4: I returned to this chamber tonight to report that America's
Speaker 4: momentum is back, our spirit is back, our pride is back,
Speaker 4: our confidence is back, and the American dream is surging
Speaker 4: bigger and better than ever before.
Speaker 3: Are we of ended.
Speaker 4: Weaponized government, where as an example, a sitting president is
Speaker 4: allowed to viciously prosecute his political opponent like me.
Speaker 2: How did that work out?
Speaker 4: Not to? Apa? Not to? Within hours of taking the
Speaker 4: oath of office, I declared a national emergency on our
Speaker 4: southern border, and I deployed the US military and border
Speaker 4: patrol to repel the invasion of our country. And what
Speaker 4: a job they've done. As a result, illegal border crossings
Speaker 4: last month were by far the lowest ever recorded ever.
Speaker 4: To unshackle our economy, I have directed that for every
Speaker 4: one new regulation, ten old regulations must be eliminated, just
Speaker 4: like I did in my very successful first day, and
Speaker 4: I have stopped all government censorship and brought back free
Speaker 4: speech in America.
Speaker 2: It's back.
Speaker 4: We've ended the tyranny of so called diversity, equity, and
Speaker 4: inclusion policies all across the entire federal government, and indeed
Speaker 4: the private sector and our military and our country will
Speaker 4: be worked no longer. I also signed an executive order
Speaker 4: to ben men from playing in women sports, and in
Speaker 4: the near future, I want to do what has not
Speaker 4: been done in twenty four years balance the federal budget.
Speaker 3: We're going to balance it.
Speaker 4: One point three million people from ages one hundred and
Speaker 4: fifty to one hundred and fifty nine and over one
Speaker 4: hundred and thirty thousand people according to the Social Security databases.
Speaker 3: Our age over one hundred.
Speaker 4: And sixty years old. We have a healthier country than
Speaker 4: I thought, Bobby, including to finish one thousand and thirty
Speaker 4: nine people between the ages of two hundred twenty and
Speaker 4: two hundred and twenty nine, one person between the age
Speaker 4: of two hundred and forty and two hundred and forty nine,
Speaker 4: and one person is listed at three hundred and sixty
Speaker 4: years of age, more than one hundred years, more than
Speaker 4: one hundred years older than our country. But we're going
Speaker 4: to find out where that money's going, and it's not
Speaker 4: going to be pretty.
Speaker 1: I mean this speech to go back to what you
Speaker 1: said at the beginning. Number one, It did not feel long.
Speaker 1: And there's an art when you're speech writing that you
Speaker 1: want to be done before people are ready for you
Speaker 1: to be done. Yeah, this speech did not seem long.
Speaker 1: I want to know what it felt like when you
Speaker 1: were in the chamber.
Speaker 3: Number one.
Speaker 1: But two, like the President came in and just brought
Speaker 1: the heat, and I think the American people are going
Speaker 1: to respond to this.
Speaker 2: Oh, look, I thought it was a terrific speech. As
Speaker 2: I said, it was optimistic, it was positive, it was
Speaker 2: focused on results, the results that the President has been
Speaker 2: producing and Republicans have been producing in just over forty days.
Speaker 2: I mean, I mean, it really is incredible. It was
Speaker 2: also a funny speech, like that whole litany going through
Speaker 2: that the people on Social Security over one hundred and
Speaker 2: twenty and over two hundred years and over three hundred
Speaker 2: years old. Every line of it was funny. He had
Speaker 2: a whole litany he went through Doge and the wasteful
Speaker 2: spending that was just hysterical. And by the way, we're
Speaker 2: cracking up laughing. All the Republicans, no Democrat laughed like
Speaker 2: even on the funny lines as he goes through, they
Speaker 2: support every bit of waste possible and just across the board.
Speaker 2: Now in terms of the length, so this was the
Speaker 2: longest State of the Union in history. And I'll tell
Speaker 2: you so, I was sitting I was sitting with Tommy
Speaker 2: Tubberville from Alabama. I was sitting with Josh Holly from Missouri,
Speaker 2: and I was sitting with Dave McCormick from Pennsylvania.
Speaker 3: So so, so how does that work? How do you
Speaker 3: decide to you sit with. Is it just happen organically,
Speaker 3: you guys hang out?
Speaker 2: No, no, no, you just kind of we all all the
Speaker 2: senators gather on the Senate floor and then we walk
Speaker 2: from the Senate floor over the over the House floor
Speaker 2: across the Capitol and we walk in together. And and
Speaker 2: the House saves the front seats for the Senate, and
Speaker 2: so they actually give give the best seats to the Senate,
Speaker 2: which is nice, nice of the House to do. And
Speaker 2: and so there are a whole bunch of seats I
Speaker 2: presume one hundred seats that that are kept in the front,
Speaker 2: and they have little placards on the seats that say
Speaker 2: reserve for a senator. Uh. But but other than leadership
Speaker 2: like John Thune and and and the elected leadership, they
Speaker 2: have seats that are reserved specifically for them. But for
Speaker 2: everyone else, it's just senator. And you can sit wherever
Speaker 2: you want. And so just as you walk in, you
Speaker 2: take the open seats. So it's a little bit happenstance.
Speaker 2: But as as we were, we were prepared ring, we
Speaker 2: actually had a friendly wager on how long the speech
Speaker 2: was going to go. So so I bet that it
Speaker 2: was going to go ninety three minutes, so an hour
Speaker 2: and thirty three minutes. Josh Holly, who was sitting next
Speaker 2: to me, bet it was going to go an hour
Speaker 2: and thirty seven minutes.
Speaker 3: Okay, just plan a little bit of prices, right.
Speaker 2: Little price is right. Tommy Tuberville and and uh Dave
Speaker 2: McCormick both bet an hour and forty minutes. So we
Speaker 2: were all in the same neighborhood. And actually the one
Speaker 2: who won was Holly. So so it was in fact
Speaker 2: an hour and thirty eight minutes. So I was five
Speaker 2: minutes off, but Josh was only one minute off, and
Speaker 2: if he'd got another minute, McCormick and Tubberville would have won.
Speaker 2: But but but it was so it was interesting that
Speaker 2: that that those were the four of our.
Speaker 3: How you guys picked that number?
Speaker 1: By the way it was it did you see enough
Speaker 1: beforehand or excerpts or themes you know, or original we got.
Speaker 2: We had not seen a text of it at all.
Speaker 2: It's just knowing Donald Trump and having been the State
Speaker 2: of the Union addresses before. Look, I mean, we knew
Speaker 2: it was going to be about an hour and a half,
Speaker 2: maybe a little bit more, and so that uh uh,
Speaker 2: we knew he had a lot to say. It was
Speaker 2: not going to be a short speech, and and but
Speaker 2: it didn't feel long. You're right, I mean it was.
Speaker 2: There was storytelling in it. It was funny, it was
Speaker 2: relating powerful moments. And then, as I said, the the
Speaker 2: antics of the Democrats really look, including sadly Al Green,
Speaker 2: congressman from from your in my hometown Houston, who stood
Speaker 2: up and just made a complete ass of himself.
Speaker 1: And I was going to ask you on that one,
Speaker 1: because it played on TV like it was very clearly
Speaker 1: pre planned. And for me, they don't know him. This
Speaker 1: is the guy that he's now called for turning impeached
Speaker 1: a third time. He led impeachment first second, that's like
Speaker 1: his thing, and so as soon as the presidents elected,
Speaker 1: it's like, oh yeah, yeah, we got impeach a sky
Speaker 1: and we're going to call for impeachment. It it played
Speaker 1: on TV like it was one hundred percent pre planned
Speaker 1: by him to do that, or maybe even the Democratic Party.
Speaker 1: I don't know if they were involved. This is just
Speaker 1: his own brainchild. What was it like being there though?
Speaker 2: So look, I think everyone was shocked, shocked and not chocked.
Speaker 2: We expected the Democrats to misbehave and engage in antics.
Speaker 2: I didn't expect that they would refuse to applaud for anything,
Speaker 2: and I've never seen there have been a couple of
Speaker 2: instances where where House members have called out like have
Speaker 2: you know Joe Wilson famously said said when Obamacare said?
Speaker 2: When Obama said, I think it was on Obamacare, if
Speaker 2: you want your health in church, you can keep it,
Speaker 2: And Joe Wilson famously called out, you lie. And that
Speaker 2: was a big deal that one congressman called out two words.
Speaker 2: Was a big deal that people still talk about a
Speaker 2: decade later.
Speaker 1: And so by the way, the media totally freaked out
Speaker 1: the entire night afterwards, like I can't believe to do this,
Speaker 1: he shouldn't be in Congress, she resign, I mean, And
Speaker 1: then tonight nothing from the mainstream media on this one.
Speaker 2: And look he stood up, he interrupted the speech. And
Speaker 2: by the way, I don't know, could you hear what
Speaker 2: he was saying?
Speaker 3: No, we could not.
Speaker 1: It just I thought it very interesting that it looked
Speaker 1: like Speaker Johnson was ready in cases happened because he
Speaker 1: looked down to read the words he was reading about
Speaker 1: the rules.
Speaker 2: So what he was saying, it's interesting what he got
Speaker 2: mad at He got mad when Trump said I've got
Speaker 2: a mandate from the election, and al Green stood up
Speaker 2: and he was yelling, saying, you don't have a mandate.
Speaker 2: You do not have a mandate. And it was the
Speaker 2: Democrats are in absolute denial. They're in denial that the
Speaker 2: election happened. Look, the facts are straightforward. Trump. Of the
Speaker 2: seven swing states, he won all seven. He won the
Speaker 2: popular vote in this country, something that Republicans haven't done
Speaker 2: for twenty years. He won a Republican House and a
Speaker 2: Republican Senate. Any way you look at it, that's a mandate.
Speaker 2: And yet that's what al Green was screaming about. And
Speaker 2: he kept on screaming and interrupting the president. The president
Speaker 2: finally had to stop. I mean, he was standing right
Speaker 2: in the middle and just screaming and trying to yell
Speaker 2: over the president, and the Speaker gaveled him down and said, listen,
Speaker 2: if you don't maintain decorum, the sergeant at arms will
Speaker 2: remove you. And al Green kept on yelling, and so
Speaker 2: the sergeant at arms removed him. And by the way,
Speaker 2: the Speaker said tonight on Hannity that al Green is
Speaker 2: likely going to be censured by the House of representatives,
Speaker 2: which which I think is unsurprising because if you if
Speaker 2: you disturb an official proceeding like that, that's that's the
Speaker 2: natural remedy.
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Speaker 1: I want to go back to one other point that
Speaker 1: we mentioned earlier, but I think it's important to kind
Speaker 1: of expand on it. And it was a shocking moment
Speaker 1: of just either completely out of touch or this Democratic Party,
Speaker 1: I guess you could just say, is in a sense
Speaker 1: just completely lost. You had not a single Democrat applaud
Speaker 1: Peyton McNabb who suffered brain damage after a volleyball spiked
Speaker 1: by a trans person, a man that acting like a woman, ended.
Speaker 3: Her hopes of a college career.
Speaker 1: That's how significant the injury was, and it made her
Speaker 1: retire and also took potentially like a scout, changed her
Speaker 1: life forever.
Speaker 3: And they couldn't even clap for her.
Speaker 2: No, not a Democrat clap for not one. And by
Speaker 2: the way, just this past week, every single Democrat in
Speaker 2: the Senate voted against protecting girls from boys competing in sports,
Speaker 2: every one of them. And you know in the campaign listen,
Speaker 2: in my reelection campaign, Colin all Red claims I don't
Speaker 2: support boys playing in girls sports. Well, every Senate and
Speaker 2: except the fact that he voted for it over and
Speaker 2: over and over again, every single Senate Democrat when they're
Speaker 2: on reelection campaigns they tell the voters, I don't support
Speaker 2: boys and girls sports, and yet every single one of
Speaker 2: them just voted for it, and not a one of
Speaker 2: them applauded. I mean, it's the simple reality of how
Speaker 2: extreme their party is.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: I will tell you one thing that that was particularly
Speaker 2: meaningful to me was all the Texans whom President Trump
Speaker 2: honored a night, including Alexis Nungary, the mom of Joscelyn. Now,
Speaker 2: Alexis was going to be my guest tonight. Every senator
Speaker 2: gets one guest, and I had invited Alexis. She was
Speaker 2: coming up as my guest, and then the President invited her.
Speaker 2: So she went and she was sitting with Milania Trump.
Speaker 2: I was really grateful for the the for her being
Speaker 2: invited by the President to come there. And then right
Speaker 2: next to Milania Trump was Elliston Barry. And Elliston Berry
Speaker 2: is someone also another Texan who was the inspiration for
Speaker 2: the Take It Down Act. So, Elliston Barry's a fifteen
Speaker 2: year old girl from North Texas from Aledo who, when
Speaker 2: she was fourteen and a freshman in high school, a boy,
Speaker 2: a classmate of hers, took an innocent social media picture
Speaker 2: of her and used artificial intelligence to create a deep
Speaker 2: fake naked image of her that appeared to be real
Speaker 2: but it was fake, and then sent it to her classmates.
Speaker 2: And she was the inspiration for my legislation to Take
Speaker 2: It Down Act, which passed the Senate unanimously.
Speaker 1: And by the way, how many times have you been
Speaker 1: involved in legislation that was passed unanimously in your career
Speaker 1: in the Senate.
Speaker 2: A lot of times. I've passed one hundred and one
Speaker 2: different pieces of legislation into law. A number of them
Speaker 2: were unanimous, the Senate off And if you do the work,
Speaker 2: you can bring people together and pass something. And actually,
Speaker 2: just yesterday, the first Lady, Milanie Trump came to the Capitol,
Speaker 2: first time she has this first lady the second term,
Speaker 2: supporting the Take It Down Act, and we did a
Speaker 2: round table, which we're gonna we're gonna talk about significantly
Speaker 2: more on Friday's pod. But we did a round table
Speaker 2: where Milania Trump heard from Elliston Berry, heard from other
Speaker 2: victims of non consensual intimate images and called on the
Speaker 2: House to pass the Take It Down Act. And President
Speaker 2: Trump tonight called in the House to pass the date
Speaker 2: Take It Down Act. So I was really glad the
Speaker 2: two people directly next to to Malania Trump to her left,
Speaker 2: where two Texans Elliston Berry and Alexis Nungary and and
Speaker 2: and that made me very happy.
Speaker 1: It was that that may have been one of the
Speaker 1: best parts of the night. Let's talk about what this
Speaker 1: looks like moving forward. I think the President's speech is
Speaker 1: going to play very well with the American people. I
Speaker 1: think it's going to help with momentum moving forward.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I also do think that the American people, in the
Speaker 1: way they were watching this on TV saw the the
Speaker 1: the shocking moments when they wouldn't stand for children that were,
Speaker 1: you know, murdered by illegal immigrants, their families, police officers
Speaker 1: die in the lie of dooy duty.
Speaker 3: It was on the list.
Speaker 1: I mean, you look at all of this, bringing an
Speaker 1: American hostage home from Russia, by the way, they wouldn't
Speaker 1: stand for that. That was another moment we left at earlier.
Speaker 1: Were you shocked by that as well?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 2: And you and I covered Mark Fogel coming back, We
Speaker 2: covered that on the podcast when had happened. That was
Speaker 2: one of the multiple times I turned to the folks
Speaker 2: around me and I'm like, what the hell is wrong
Speaker 2: with these people? Like, like, how do you not. This
Speaker 2: is not partisan. This is not I get that they
Speaker 2: don't cheer for, you know, conservative ideas because they're all
Speaker 2: wacko lefties, But how do you not cheer for things
Speaker 2: that are just unambiguously good. And it's today's Democrat party,
Speaker 2: it's accommodation. They become the party of hate and rage
Speaker 2: and they're in denial. They don't know how to respond
Speaker 2: to this election other than to fume and glare. And
Speaker 2: I got to say, if you're an elected Democrat, how
Speaker 2: do you think this is a good message to the
Speaker 2: American people. We hate everyone and everything that's the Democrats like.
Speaker 2: I don't get that.
Speaker 1: No, I don't either. So what happens now? This is
Speaker 1: my prediction. I think the presence proval rating is going
Speaker 1: to stay solid and in certain categories, support on certain
Speaker 1: issues will actually rise coming out of this State of
Speaker 1: the Union. I think this is going to continue the
Speaker 1: momentum on on things like DOGE and even in some
Speaker 1: of the issues that we're talking about that are in
Speaker 1: tough ones, whether it's dealing with Mexico and cartels, or
Speaker 1: tariffs or Canada and fetanol. The list goes on and on.
Speaker 1: I think same thing on Ukraine funding. I think this
Speaker 1: could catapult him to even greater near term success. That's
Speaker 1: a lot of political capital that obviously you want your
Speaker 1: your prediction.
Speaker 2: Look, I agree with you. I think the American people
Speaker 2: are going to be happy with this speech. They're going
Speaker 2: to be happy with the results. The American people are
Speaker 2: happy with successes for America. And we're getting on the border,
Speaker 2: seeing illegal immigrations and illegal boarding crossings drop over ninety percent.
Speaker 2: That's an unambiguous victory. On energy, Seeing energy production going up,
Speaker 2: seeing regulations being repealed, seeing wasteful spending being eliminated, those
Speaker 2: are unambiguous victories. In terms of jobs, he went through
Speaker 2: the investments, the investments on new investments, whether from Oracle
Speaker 2: or Apple, or car companies bringing new factories here. Those
Speaker 2: are big wins. Those are the sorts of things. Those
Speaker 2: are the sorts of things. Frankly, when Joe Biden talked
Speaker 2: about if you know, he had Democrats and their speeches
Speaker 2: would talk about a new factory, and you know what,
Speaker 2: the Republicans would all stand and chair, because, hey, a
Speaker 2: new factory in America is a good thing. And we
Speaker 2: even if we don't support many, if not most, of
Speaker 2: Biden and Obama's policies. We cheer for the American people.
Speaker 2: I think that the president's message was really strong, but
Speaker 2: I also think the contrast with the Democrats made it
Speaker 2: even stronger.
Speaker 4: And so.
Speaker 2: I think this was a good night for America, but
Speaker 2: not a good night for today's Democrat party.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Great point. It's always fun to get to do a
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