1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:02,880 Speaker 1: The State of our Union, much like the state of 2 00:00:02,880 --> 00:00:06,440 Speaker 1: our podcast is strong. This is Verdict with Ted Cruz. 3 00:00:13,119 --> 00:00:17,000 Speaker 1: Welcome back to Verdict with Ted Cruz. I'm Michael Knowles, Senator. 4 00:00:17,040 --> 00:00:19,079 Speaker 1: You have just come from the Capitol and the State 5 00:00:19,079 --> 00:00:20,799 Speaker 1: of the Union address. I want to get into that 6 00:00:21,120 --> 00:00:24,000 Speaker 1: because it was one of the greatest State of the 7 00:00:24,079 --> 00:00:26,960 Speaker 1: Union addresses I've ever seen. It was raucous. Before we 8 00:00:27,000 --> 00:00:30,520 Speaker 1: get to that, I have to talk about Iowa because 9 00:00:30,520 --> 00:00:33,440 Speaker 1: the last time I saw you, we were here for 10 00:00:33,560 --> 00:00:37,080 Speaker 1: three hours last night waiting to do a podcast about Iowa, 11 00:00:37,240 --> 00:00:39,640 Speaker 1: and then the results never came in. Look two words 12 00:00:40,080 --> 00:00:45,160 Speaker 1: dumpster fire. I mean it is so last night, last night, 13 00:00:45,400 --> 00:00:48,280 Speaker 1: Monday night, you and I arrived here at nine. The 14 00:00:48,360 --> 00:00:50,559 Speaker 1: plan was we're doing a podcast. So you said, all right, 15 00:00:50,600 --> 00:00:53,320 Speaker 1: we'll get Iowa results and we'll go just on air 16 00:00:53,360 --> 00:00:56,080 Speaker 1: and react to them. And then nine o'clock became ten, 17 00:00:56,440 --> 00:00:58,880 Speaker 1: that became eleven, that became twelve, and we're sitting there 18 00:00:58,920 --> 00:01:01,560 Speaker 1: going we have no results. We still don't have results. 19 00:01:01,600 --> 00:01:03,840 Speaker 1: But the nice thing about a podcast, Look, if we 20 00:01:03,920 --> 00:01:06,759 Speaker 1: had a TV show that went on at nine pm, 21 00:01:06,840 --> 00:01:09,120 Speaker 1: we'd have to go on air and say tonight we 22 00:01:09,240 --> 00:01:11,880 Speaker 1: know nothing and you just kind of sit there and said, 23 00:01:11,880 --> 00:01:13,400 Speaker 1: we said, all right, if we don't know the results, 24 00:01:13,640 --> 00:01:15,800 Speaker 1: let's do the podcast tomorrow. But you remember then we said, 25 00:01:15,800 --> 00:01:18,160 Speaker 1: all right, let's do it at ten am. We didn't 26 00:01:18,160 --> 00:01:19,720 Speaker 1: have results at ten any and we said let's do 27 00:01:19,720 --> 00:01:22,440 Speaker 1: it at three pm. We didn't have results at three pm. 28 00:01:22,440 --> 00:01:25,760 Speaker 1: And we're sitting here now at twelve forty three in 29 00:01:25,800 --> 00:01:29,120 Speaker 1: the morning, and we have sixty percent of Iowa report, 30 00:01:29,240 --> 00:01:31,679 Speaker 1: We have sixty percent of IRA reporting. There is a 31 00:01:31,720 --> 00:01:36,440 Speaker 1: discrepancy between the delegates and the popular vote. Now, you 32 00:01:36,760 --> 00:01:39,440 Speaker 1: happened to win Iowa in twenty sixteen, so I want 33 00:01:39,480 --> 00:01:42,280 Speaker 1: your insider take. But just from what I'm reading, Pete 34 00:01:42,280 --> 00:01:45,200 Speaker 1: Buddha Jedge, who declared victory last night with no results 35 00:01:45,200 --> 00:01:47,720 Speaker 1: in he has twenty should give him some credit. That 36 00:01:48,960 --> 00:01:52,960 Speaker 1: was a ballsy boot. And so look in that scenario, 37 00:01:53,040 --> 00:01:55,560 Speaker 1: and actually the numbers are back in him up. If 38 00:01:55,680 --> 00:01:58,200 Speaker 1: he had come in with three percent, he would have 39 00:01:58,200 --> 00:02:02,320 Speaker 1: looked pretty ridiculous. But that fortune favors the bold. That's 40 00:02:02,360 --> 00:02:05,520 Speaker 1: exactly right now. In terms of delegates, Pete Buddha Judge 41 00:02:05,520 --> 00:02:08,360 Speaker 1: has twenty seven percent, Bernie is at twenty five percent. 42 00:02:08,840 --> 00:02:12,520 Speaker 1: Elizabeth Warren eighteen percent, pour Joe Bibing down at fifteen percent, 43 00:02:12,600 --> 00:02:16,400 Speaker 1: Amy Club Char twelve point six percent, and yet Bernie 44 00:02:16,520 --> 00:02:20,120 Speaker 1: is leading in the popular vote. I think people have 45 00:02:20,280 --> 00:02:23,480 Speaker 1: no idea what the Iowa caucus is, including many Iowans. 46 00:02:24,320 --> 00:02:26,160 Speaker 1: You spent a lot of time in Iowa in twenty 47 00:02:26,160 --> 00:02:28,240 Speaker 1: sixteen and it paid off because you won the state. 48 00:02:29,520 --> 00:02:32,760 Speaker 1: What happened? What does it look like? So? Iowa is 49 00:02:32,840 --> 00:02:38,240 Speaker 1: a state where they take their responsibility very seriously, and 50 00:02:38,320 --> 00:02:43,280 Speaker 1: people pour thousands of hours into grassroots campaigning in Iowa 51 00:02:43,360 --> 00:02:47,360 Speaker 1: because Iowa has proven to be a launching ground where look, 52 00:02:47,560 --> 00:02:52,720 Speaker 1: Iowa rarely Alexa nominee or Alexa president, but it excludes 53 00:02:52,760 --> 00:02:55,040 Speaker 1: a lot of people, and it could elevate someone who 54 00:02:55,080 --> 00:02:59,880 Speaker 1: wasn't a front runner, who wasn't dominant, to major top 55 00:03:00,040 --> 00:03:02,480 Speaker 1: tear status. And so you know, you look at the 56 00:03:02,520 --> 00:03:06,880 Speaker 1: results in Iowa to night or whenever we get them, 57 00:03:06,880 --> 00:03:09,920 Speaker 1: assuming they resemble the ones you just read, it's a 58 00:03:09,919 --> 00:03:14,280 Speaker 1: catastrophic night for Joe Biden. Joe Biden was the inevitable, 59 00:03:14,480 --> 00:03:18,480 Speaker 1: the unstoppable front runner and he's in fourth place. That's 60 00:03:18,480 --> 00:03:22,880 Speaker 1: a big problem. Um, it wasn't a great night for 61 00:03:22,919 --> 00:03:26,680 Speaker 1: Elizabeth Warren Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders are battling for 62 00:03:26,800 --> 00:03:31,000 Speaker 1: who can be the great leftist Hope and Bernie right 63 00:03:31,040 --> 00:03:35,839 Speaker 1: now one if those numbers hold up, and you got 64 00:03:35,840 --> 00:03:38,160 Speaker 1: to assume moving into New Hampshire, the poll numbers out 65 00:03:38,160 --> 00:03:40,800 Speaker 1: of New Hampshire, Bernie as a neighbor in Vermont is 66 00:03:40,840 --> 00:03:46,080 Speaker 1: in a very strong position sout, so Warren coming in third. 67 00:03:46,880 --> 00:03:50,880 Speaker 1: She's still around, but between Bernie and Warren, she's not 68 00:03:50,920 --> 00:03:52,480 Speaker 1: in a great place. It's a great night for Buddha 69 00:03:52,520 --> 00:03:57,640 Speaker 1: Jedge And look, Biden's donors right now are freaking out. 70 00:03:58,400 --> 00:04:01,600 Speaker 1: Biden's supporters are freaking out. And if you figure there's 71 00:04:02,160 --> 00:04:04,720 Speaker 1: twenty to thirty percent of moderate Democrats, they got a 72 00:04:04,760 --> 00:04:08,920 Speaker 1: flee somewhere. Boots did a nice job of throwing himself 73 00:04:08,960 --> 00:04:12,360 Speaker 1: in contention. Klobuchar would have been another person in contention. 74 00:04:14,080 --> 00:04:18,599 Speaker 1: She's not totally out, but fifth place is not. She 75 00:04:18,760 --> 00:04:21,680 Speaker 1: wanted to come in and shock the world with say 76 00:04:21,680 --> 00:04:24,080 Speaker 1: a second place phinish an Ioway. If that had happened, 77 00:04:24,640 --> 00:04:29,000 Speaker 1: it could have really elevated Klobuchar to be the alternative 78 00:04:29,600 --> 00:04:34,080 Speaker 1: to Biden. What you may see some oxygen for is 79 00:04:34,080 --> 00:04:36,880 Speaker 1: a Michael Bloomberg coming in. He seems to be trying 80 00:04:36,920 --> 00:04:40,440 Speaker 1: to veer into this moderate lane. The Biden campaign is collapsing. 81 00:04:41,000 --> 00:04:44,359 Speaker 1: It's amazing what fifty billion dollars could do. But but 82 00:04:44,440 --> 00:04:46,040 Speaker 1: you know, the Democrats of the Party of the People 83 00:04:46,480 --> 00:04:49,120 Speaker 1: and the Party of Poor People, and you know, Frankly, 84 00:04:49,320 --> 00:04:53,680 Speaker 1: you know, Bloomberg does look at Tom Steier and say, 85 00:04:53,720 --> 00:04:57,080 Speaker 1: you're a really poor billionaire. That's true as far as 86 00:04:57,120 --> 00:05:00,160 Speaker 1: billionaires go, it's a rarefied air. But you know, this 87 00:05:00,680 --> 00:05:04,000 Speaker 1: does make the Democratic candidates look a little bit ridiculous, 88 00:05:04,040 --> 00:05:06,760 Speaker 1: in part because the candidate who won the popular vote 89 00:05:07,080 --> 00:05:10,000 Speaker 1: very well may not win the state and didn't. Berney's 90 00:05:10,000 --> 00:05:12,320 Speaker 1: a socialist, so he's going to redistribute his votes to others. 91 00:05:14,360 --> 00:05:19,720 Speaker 1: You know, I gotta say number one that they the Democrats, 92 00:05:19,800 --> 00:05:22,839 Speaker 1: couldn't and it's the state Democratic Party that screwed this up. 93 00:05:23,080 --> 00:05:26,039 Speaker 1: They couldn't figure out how to count the votes. Last 94 00:05:26,160 --> 00:05:28,600 Speaker 1: night I was thinking about, you know, I felt really 95 00:05:28,600 --> 00:05:31,880 Speaker 1: bad for the volunteers. Every one of these candidates have 96 00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:34,520 Speaker 1: people who pour their hearts into it. I mean, I 97 00:05:34,600 --> 00:05:37,800 Speaker 1: remember four years ago in Iowa. I mean, we had 98 00:05:37,880 --> 00:05:41,240 Speaker 1: worked for over a year. We had volunteers who had 99 00:05:41,240 --> 00:05:44,279 Speaker 1: come in from Texas, from all over the country who'd 100 00:05:44,279 --> 00:05:49,360 Speaker 1: moved to Iowa. We actually rented an entire dormitory, a 101 00:05:49,400 --> 00:05:52,600 Speaker 1: college dorm that was filled with volunteers that would go 102 00:05:52,680 --> 00:05:58,160 Speaker 1: out in blizzard conditions knocking on doors. And there's something 103 00:05:58,200 --> 00:06:01,039 Speaker 1: called the Full Grass Leet where Chuck Chuck Grassley, the 104 00:06:01,080 --> 00:06:05,159 Speaker 1: senior senator from Iowa. Chuck goes to all ninety nine 105 00:06:05,200 --> 00:06:11,159 Speaker 1: counties in Iowa every single year, and four years ago 106 00:06:11,200 --> 00:06:14,000 Speaker 1: in Iowa, I did the Full Grass You hit every 107 00:06:14,000 --> 00:06:16,160 Speaker 1: county I hit, and in fact, we hit the ninety 108 00:06:16,240 --> 00:06:19,279 Speaker 1: nine county on the day of the caucus. And it 109 00:06:19,839 --> 00:06:24,800 Speaker 1: look Iowa. You drive through a lot of sparse, rural 110 00:06:24,880 --> 00:06:27,920 Speaker 1: counties you're doing events. I remember one of my favorite events. 111 00:06:28,320 --> 00:06:30,800 Speaker 1: It was about ten thirty at night and it was 112 00:06:30,839 --> 00:06:32,920 Speaker 1: a county where there were not many kind of big 113 00:06:32,960 --> 00:06:35,599 Speaker 1: gathering places. So we did it a gas station and 114 00:06:35,640 --> 00:06:37,560 Speaker 1: it was a pretty big gas station, and it was 115 00:06:37,560 --> 00:06:39,039 Speaker 1: it was on the road, and it was ten thirty 116 00:06:39,080 --> 00:06:40,760 Speaker 1: at night and we had I think close to one 117 00:06:40,800 --> 00:06:44,000 Speaker 1: hundred people came out to the gas station from from 118 00:06:44,040 --> 00:06:47,720 Speaker 1: the county and I jumped behind the counter and uh, 119 00:06:47,839 --> 00:06:50,160 Speaker 1: you know, began serving people coffee because it was ten 120 00:06:50,279 --> 00:06:53,120 Speaker 1: ten thirty at night and they came out here. You know, 121 00:06:53,240 --> 00:06:56,159 Speaker 1: it's a place where people have poured their hearts in. 122 00:06:56,240 --> 00:06:59,680 Speaker 1: And to get to last night, to get to the 123 00:06:59,680 --> 00:07:06,880 Speaker 1: cat complete debacle, it collapses, and to not have a result, Yeah, 124 00:07:06,920 --> 00:07:11,280 Speaker 1: I think that I've never seen anything more messed up. 125 00:07:11,360 --> 00:07:14,480 Speaker 1: So and by the way, Democrats are the people that 126 00:07:14,640 --> 00:07:17,520 Speaker 1: tell you they want the federal government to be in 127 00:07:17,600 --> 00:07:21,120 Speaker 1: charge everything. They think they're geniuses, and so they say, 128 00:07:21,240 --> 00:07:23,280 Speaker 1: put us in charge of your healthcare, put us in 129 00:07:23,360 --> 00:07:25,760 Speaker 1: charge of the economy, put us in charge of your life. 130 00:07:26,320 --> 00:07:30,360 Speaker 1: These people can't count votes. It ain't complicated. You literally 131 00:07:30,400 --> 00:07:33,480 Speaker 1: go to a gymnasium and go stand over there. If 132 00:07:33,520 --> 00:07:35,560 Speaker 1: you're with boden, go stand over there. If you're with birth, 133 00:07:35,640 --> 00:07:38,960 Speaker 1: that's very complicated. But they can control your entire healthcare. 134 00:07:38,760 --> 00:07:42,240 Speaker 1: There is a big contrast right between the Democratic Iowa 135 00:07:42,280 --> 00:07:45,920 Speaker 1: caucus is a complete debacle and tonight's State of the Union, 136 00:07:45,920 --> 00:07:48,800 Speaker 1: which you've just come from. This is the Republican president 137 00:07:49,120 --> 00:07:52,600 Speaker 1: counting off his victories, and the president spent the first 138 00:07:52,680 --> 00:07:55,040 Speaker 1: what twenty twenty five minutes of the speech just listing 139 00:07:55,080 --> 00:07:57,120 Speaker 1: off his victories. I know that you spoke with the 140 00:07:57,160 --> 00:08:00,480 Speaker 1: President a few days before the State of the Union. 141 00:08:00,880 --> 00:08:03,080 Speaker 1: I was obviously not on the phone call, but I 142 00:08:03,160 --> 00:08:06,360 Speaker 1: suspect you've talked about what that speech should look like. 143 00:08:06,920 --> 00:08:08,720 Speaker 1: So I talked to him on Sunday. He called me 144 00:08:09,000 --> 00:08:11,240 Speaker 1: and we visited about a number of topics, but but 145 00:08:11,360 --> 00:08:15,600 Speaker 1: on the State of the Union. I encouraged him. I said, 146 00:08:15,680 --> 00:08:20,000 Speaker 1: make it positive, make it optimistic, focus on substance, focus 147 00:08:20,040 --> 00:08:23,520 Speaker 1: on results, focus on success. Don't focus on impeachment. And 148 00:08:23,600 --> 00:08:26,200 Speaker 1: that was my very explicit advice. I said, mister President, 149 00:08:26,280 --> 00:08:29,280 Speaker 1: for what it's worth, I wouldn't say a word about impeachment. 150 00:08:30,160 --> 00:08:33,840 Speaker 1: And the reason is, look, impeachment's gonna be over tomorrow, 151 00:08:34,400 --> 00:08:37,720 Speaker 1: but there are still potentially a couple of votes in flux. 152 00:08:38,559 --> 00:08:41,520 Speaker 1: So I told the President on Sunday, I said, I 153 00:08:41,520 --> 00:08:45,640 Speaker 1: think the votes, the votes for not guilty will be 154 00:08:45,800 --> 00:08:50,600 Speaker 1: somewhere between fifty and fifty six. Okay, I said, fifty 155 00:08:50,720 --> 00:08:53,240 Speaker 1: is the bare minimum. There will be fifty not guilty votes, 156 00:08:53,280 --> 00:08:55,800 Speaker 1: and I'm confident of that. And as long as he is, 157 00:08:55,840 --> 00:08:59,240 Speaker 1: I mean he'll he would need sixty seven votes of 158 00:08:59,400 --> 00:09:02,480 Speaker 1: guilty to be removed from so that's not going to happen. 159 00:09:02,520 --> 00:09:05,800 Speaker 1: There was never any risk of that. But on the upside, 160 00:09:05,840 --> 00:09:07,720 Speaker 1: I think we could get as high as fifty six 161 00:09:07,920 --> 00:09:11,360 Speaker 1: not guilty votes. And I said, look, mister President, if 162 00:09:11,440 --> 00:09:13,760 Speaker 1: if you gave us state of the Union that people 163 00:09:13,840 --> 00:09:16,439 Speaker 1: saw as spiking the ball and it ticked them off, 164 00:09:16,480 --> 00:09:18,640 Speaker 1: I said, look, a lot of the you could end 165 00:09:18,720 --> 00:09:21,160 Speaker 1: up seeing a few of these votes go south. And 166 00:09:21,280 --> 00:09:23,920 Speaker 1: you have a little insider knowledge here because you're speaking 167 00:09:23,920 --> 00:09:26,120 Speaker 1: to the people who could be those votes that go 168 00:09:26,200 --> 00:09:27,920 Speaker 1: one way or the other, and you're speaking to the 169 00:09:27,920 --> 00:09:31,640 Speaker 1: president and so on. Sunday, the six votes that were 170 00:09:31,640 --> 00:09:37,000 Speaker 1: in play, you had three three Republicans, Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, 171 00:09:37,160 --> 00:09:40,000 Speaker 1: Mitt Romney. Now I told the President, I said, frankly, 172 00:09:40,040 --> 00:09:42,600 Speaker 1: I think all three will vote not guilty. Now we 173 00:09:42,760 --> 00:09:46,040 Speaker 1: know as of tonight Collins and Murkowski have announced they're 174 00:09:46,040 --> 00:09:48,160 Speaker 1: going to vote not guilty, so that that much is right. 175 00:09:48,640 --> 00:09:51,320 Speaker 1: If Mitt has announced, I haven't seen it, so I 176 00:09:51,360 --> 00:09:53,360 Speaker 1: think he probably will as well, but but we'll find 177 00:09:53,400 --> 00:09:56,679 Speaker 1: out tomorrow. On the Democratic side, I think there are 178 00:09:56,679 --> 00:09:59,720 Speaker 1: only three votes that are even plausibly in contention, and 179 00:09:59,720 --> 00:10:02,840 Speaker 1: that's Joe Mansion, who I think probably does vote not guilty. 180 00:10:02,880 --> 00:10:07,000 Speaker 1: He has it seems he's signaled that he's seriously considering 181 00:10:07,080 --> 00:10:09,560 Speaker 1: voting not guilty, breaking with his party. Yeah. I had 182 00:10:09,559 --> 00:10:11,320 Speaker 1: a reporter run up to me in the Capitol all 183 00:10:11,360 --> 00:10:12,760 Speaker 1: excited and said, Hey, what do you think of Joe 184 00:10:12,760 --> 00:10:15,000 Speaker 1: mansion censure motion? And I said, I hope it means 185 00:10:15,040 --> 00:10:17,320 Speaker 1: he's voting not guilty, like you know that. That's what 186 00:10:17,360 --> 00:10:20,280 Speaker 1: he suggested. Instead of voting guilty, removed from office, he 187 00:10:20,360 --> 00:10:23,559 Speaker 1: suggested vote vote for censure, say that the president did 188 00:10:23,559 --> 00:10:25,679 Speaker 1: a bad thing, slap him on the hand, but leave 189 00:10:25,760 --> 00:10:29,080 Speaker 1: him in office. And I think the odds are pretty 190 00:10:29,120 --> 00:10:32,079 Speaker 1: good that Mansion votes not guilty. The other two votes 191 00:10:32,120 --> 00:10:36,080 Speaker 1: that are potentially in play are Kirsten Cinema from Arizona, 192 00:10:36,240 --> 00:10:39,800 Speaker 1: who has she hadn't been in the Senate long, but 193 00:10:39,880 --> 00:10:42,560 Speaker 1: she's been trying to carve out a more moderate path. 194 00:10:42,640 --> 00:10:46,640 Speaker 1: I think it's at least possible she votes not guilt. 195 00:10:46,640 --> 00:10:49,200 Speaker 1: And then the third one is Doug Jones from Alabama, 196 00:10:49,600 --> 00:10:51,760 Speaker 1: who at least possibly could. So my advice to the 197 00:10:51,760 --> 00:10:59,079 Speaker 1: President was, rather than, you know, rather than risk getting 198 00:10:59,080 --> 00:11:02,280 Speaker 1: out of them angry, just focus on the incredible results 199 00:11:02,320 --> 00:11:05,000 Speaker 1: at a positive vision. And I got to say, and 200 00:11:05,040 --> 00:11:06,400 Speaker 1: I wasn't the only one who gave the president of 201 00:11:06,400 --> 00:11:08,439 Speaker 1: that advice that that was a lot of people were 202 00:11:08,440 --> 00:11:11,600 Speaker 1: giving him that advice. But how did he do. I 203 00:11:11,600 --> 00:11:13,200 Speaker 1: don't know that any of us were sure he would 204 00:11:13,240 --> 00:11:15,800 Speaker 1: follow it, to be honest, I don't know that he 205 00:11:15,840 --> 00:11:18,440 Speaker 1: was sure he would follow it, but he was open 206 00:11:18,480 --> 00:11:20,040 Speaker 1: to it when we talked, and I thought he did 207 00:11:20,080 --> 00:11:23,040 Speaker 1: spectacularly at night. It is the best speech I've ever 208 00:11:23,040 --> 00:11:28,840 Speaker 1: seen Donald Trump give. And it started out just relentlessly 209 00:11:29,000 --> 00:11:32,439 Speaker 1: making the case of the substance of victories we've had 210 00:11:32,440 --> 00:11:37,000 Speaker 1: in the last three years. And it was powerful, it 211 00:11:37,040 --> 00:11:43,880 Speaker 1: was compelling, it it was optimistic. And the contrast the 212 00:11:43,920 --> 00:11:50,840 Speaker 1: way congressional Democrats behaved tonight was horrible. They wouldn't even 213 00:11:51,080 --> 00:11:55,839 Speaker 1: stand up or applaud for low unemployment. Or there were 214 00:11:55,840 --> 00:11:59,959 Speaker 1: women wearing white or like the suffragettes, and they wouldn't 215 00:12:00,120 --> 00:12:04,320 Speaker 1: stand up and applaud for female unemployment. It was one 216 00:12:04,480 --> 00:12:06,720 Speaker 1: after the other where the President says, with the lowest 217 00:12:06,800 --> 00:12:11,040 Speaker 1: unemployment in history, stone cold silence, the lowest African American 218 00:12:11,120 --> 00:12:14,839 Speaker 1: unemployment history, stone cold silence, lowest Hispanic unemployment in history, 219 00:12:15,000 --> 00:12:18,680 Speaker 1: stone cold silence. As you point out lowest unemployment for 220 00:12:18,760 --> 00:12:22,280 Speaker 1: women in seventy years, and you have all of these 221 00:12:22,320 --> 00:12:27,280 Speaker 1: congressional women in white who just are sitting there snarlet 222 00:12:27,320 --> 00:12:29,080 Speaker 1: what do they want to? What more could they ask? 223 00:12:29,440 --> 00:12:32,680 Speaker 1: And I like that the President he didn't just have 224 00:12:32,840 --> 00:12:35,760 Speaker 1: one line about it. He had one after the other 225 00:12:36,280 --> 00:12:38,760 Speaker 1: after the other. They were all based on facts, they 226 00:12:38,760 --> 00:12:41,280 Speaker 1: were all based on substance. So when the President says 227 00:12:41,320 --> 00:12:43,600 Speaker 1: the lower fifty percent of income, the people who are 228 00:12:43,600 --> 00:12:46,200 Speaker 1: struggling the most have seen their incomes go up, go 229 00:12:46,280 --> 00:12:48,839 Speaker 1: up the most as a percentage, stone cold silence for 230 00:12:48,920 --> 00:12:51,840 Speaker 1: the Democrats. When he talks about poverty, the lowest African 231 00:12:51,880 --> 00:12:55,320 Speaker 1: American poverty in history, stone cold silence. You know the 232 00:12:55,440 --> 00:12:57,840 Speaker 1: moment in the early part of the speech that was 233 00:12:57,920 --> 00:13:02,640 Speaker 1: most dismaying. The President talked about how seven million Americans 234 00:13:02,640 --> 00:13:05,720 Speaker 1: have come off of food stamps and ten million Americans 235 00:13:05,720 --> 00:13:08,600 Speaker 1: have come off of welfare, and not only did the 236 00:13:08,600 --> 00:13:13,400 Speaker 1: congressional Democrats not applaud, there was hissing. I mean it 237 00:13:13,520 --> 00:13:15,400 Speaker 1: was because you couldn't really hear that on the TV. 238 00:13:15,880 --> 00:13:19,240 Speaker 1: On the floor, they were hissing, and it was like 239 00:13:19,360 --> 00:13:22,480 Speaker 1: it was like some leftists in a college college classroom. 240 00:13:23,480 --> 00:13:26,200 Speaker 1: And I'm going to say that's really twisted, and it 241 00:13:26,240 --> 00:13:30,480 Speaker 1: reveals where the modern Democratic Party is because they're saying, 242 00:13:31,240 --> 00:13:34,360 Speaker 1: they're saying to people who who are struggling that they 243 00:13:34,480 --> 00:13:38,640 Speaker 1: want you to remain dependent, they want you to unemployed, 244 00:13:38,679 --> 00:13:41,880 Speaker 1: they want you to you Those seven million people the 245 00:13:42,000 --> 00:13:45,040 Speaker 1: last three years have gotten jobs. These are real men 246 00:13:45,080 --> 00:13:48,720 Speaker 1: and women. These are single moms who are suddenly now working. 247 00:13:48,760 --> 00:13:52,080 Speaker 1: They're they're providing for their kids. They have the dignity 248 00:13:52,120 --> 00:13:57,360 Speaker 1: of work. The self respect and the approach of the Democrats, 249 00:13:57,400 --> 00:14:02,120 Speaker 1: the congressional Democrats, they hissed that it's bad that they're 250 00:14:02,160 --> 00:14:06,880 Speaker 1: off welfare, and it is revealing of, I think, a 251 00:14:07,080 --> 00:14:11,280 Speaker 1: really cynical attitude. There was also so one of the 252 00:14:11,320 --> 00:14:14,000 Speaker 1: things the president did did really well. They're what are 253 00:14:14,080 --> 00:14:17,400 Speaker 1: called Lenny Stutnick moments. Okay, now what is the Leny 254 00:14:17,400 --> 00:14:20,240 Speaker 1: Sutni moment? So Lenny Stutnick is is we see them 255 00:14:20,240 --> 00:14:22,240 Speaker 1: allott in State of the Unions where the president calls 256 00:14:22,280 --> 00:14:24,400 Speaker 1: someone out in the gallery. Okay, And the origin of 257 00:14:24,400 --> 00:14:26,160 Speaker 1: that it was actually Ronald Reagan who invented that. It 258 00:14:26,200 --> 00:14:29,920 Speaker 1: was nineteen eighty two and Reagan called out Lenny Stuttnik, 259 00:14:30,000 --> 00:14:32,480 Speaker 1: who who who had saved someone who had crashed into 260 00:14:32,480 --> 00:14:36,360 Speaker 1: the Potomac and it look. Reagan was a master showman. 261 00:14:36,520 --> 00:14:38,720 Speaker 1: He understood the power of it. But that was the 262 00:14:38,760 --> 00:14:42,160 Speaker 1: first time in two hundred years of our country's history 263 00:14:42,160 --> 00:14:45,000 Speaker 1: that the president had done that. Now every state of 264 00:14:45,040 --> 00:14:49,800 Speaker 1: the Union. You haven't Lenny Stutning moment. What President Trump 265 00:14:49,840 --> 00:14:53,000 Speaker 1: did with that tonight, I've never seen. And he's taken 266 00:14:53,040 --> 00:14:59,000 Speaker 1: it to another level. So we saw, for example, Rush Limbaugh. 267 00:14:59,000 --> 00:15:04,920 Speaker 1: There was an amazing moment um when the President awarded 268 00:15:05,040 --> 00:15:10,440 Speaker 1: him the Medal of Freedom right there and then and 269 00:15:10,440 --> 00:15:15,440 Speaker 1: and and Milania put it around his neck. Rush, I think, 270 00:15:15,440 --> 00:15:17,880 Speaker 1: and I was sitting kind of right beneath where Rush was, 271 00:15:17,880 --> 00:15:19,840 Speaker 1: so I was looking right up at him. He was 272 00:15:19,880 --> 00:15:25,880 Speaker 1: probably on fifty feet away from me. Rush was so astonished. 273 00:15:25,880 --> 00:15:30,080 Speaker 1: And look, yesterday Rush announced he has stage four lung 274 00:15:30,160 --> 00:15:33,480 Speaker 1: cancer um and and and if you haven't listened to 275 00:15:33,560 --> 00:15:35,960 Speaker 1: his announcement on air, it's it's worth listening to it. 276 00:15:36,160 --> 00:15:39,240 Speaker 1: And you know, Rush, Rush is a friend. He is 277 00:15:39,720 --> 00:15:42,680 Speaker 1: I think the man is a hero, and he's a patriot. 278 00:15:43,640 --> 00:15:47,600 Speaker 1: And you know, I remember having dinner with Rush. I 279 00:15:47,600 --> 00:15:52,200 Speaker 1: think it was twenty fifteen, before the whole presidential campaign 280 00:15:52,200 --> 00:15:54,520 Speaker 1: had started and we were talking about the future, and 281 00:15:54,560 --> 00:15:58,080 Speaker 1: it had been eight years of Obama or seven years 282 00:15:58,080 --> 00:16:01,520 Speaker 1: at the time, and and Rush at the time was 283 00:16:01,560 --> 00:16:04,160 Speaker 1: it was a little I wouldn't say discourage, but he 284 00:16:04,280 --> 00:16:07,440 Speaker 1: wasn't sure we could turn things around. It was a 285 00:16:07,480 --> 00:16:11,120 Speaker 1: discouraging era. And I remember telling him, I said, Rush, 286 00:16:11,760 --> 00:16:15,720 Speaker 1: you have twenty million Americans who listened to you every 287 00:16:15,760 --> 00:16:19,280 Speaker 1: single week. Look, you and I are pretty hot, Daddy 288 00:16:19,320 --> 00:16:23,040 Speaker 1: Skippy happy that we've had two million downloads in two weeks. 289 00:16:23,040 --> 00:16:25,560 Speaker 1: So I look, that ain't nothing. That's pretty good. That's 290 00:16:25,600 --> 00:16:27,640 Speaker 1: not And you know we didn't, by the way, just 291 00:16:27,720 --> 00:16:30,840 Speaker 1: to mention it's in passing, we didn't podcast for a 292 00:16:30,840 --> 00:16:34,400 Speaker 1: few days. Here shows still at number two, even even 293 00:16:34,440 --> 00:16:37,480 Speaker 1: with several days of silence with well, that's the sound 294 00:16:37,520 --> 00:16:41,480 Speaker 1: of silence, that's that's the power of people wanting content. 295 00:16:41,520 --> 00:16:43,160 Speaker 1: But my point was that I said to Russias, I said, look, 296 00:16:43,160 --> 00:16:45,080 Speaker 1: you got twenty million people a week that listened to you. 297 00:16:46,240 --> 00:16:50,880 Speaker 1: If every one of your listeners gets two other people 298 00:16:50,920 --> 00:16:53,760 Speaker 1: to come out and vote, that's it. Just each person 299 00:16:53,880 --> 00:16:58,200 Speaker 1: find two people in America to come vote. That's sixty 300 00:16:58,240 --> 00:17:00,720 Speaker 1: million people. I remember telling Rush was six million people. 301 00:17:00,720 --> 00:17:03,080 Speaker 1: We can turn this country around. Donald Trump won in 302 00:17:03,120 --> 00:17:06,840 Speaker 1: twenty sixteen with sixty two million votes. Those numbers were 303 00:17:06,880 --> 00:17:11,320 Speaker 1: almost and Rush, you know, it's an interesting You and 304 00:17:11,359 --> 00:17:13,040 Speaker 1: I both went on Glenn Beck this morning. We were 305 00:17:13,119 --> 00:17:16,560 Speaker 1: back to back to back. We pounded this podcast. You 306 00:17:16,600 --> 00:17:18,600 Speaker 1: and I think Glenn was ready to strangle us. Both 307 00:17:18,600 --> 00:17:24,600 Speaker 1: the show. Guy's good to um. But both Glenn and 308 00:17:24,600 --> 00:17:27,440 Speaker 1: then I did Hannity earlier tonight, and both of them 309 00:17:27,480 --> 00:17:33,879 Speaker 1: gave beautiful emotional tributes to Rush that he had blazed 310 00:17:33,920 --> 00:17:36,840 Speaker 1: the field. I mean that that he's number one. I mean, 311 00:17:36,880 --> 00:17:39,440 Speaker 1: in many ways, what we're doing right now would be 312 00:17:39,560 --> 00:17:43,720 Speaker 1: unthinkable without Rush. And he was the kind of lonely 313 00:17:43,920 --> 00:17:47,160 Speaker 1: voice in the wilderness. And what was so powerful there 314 00:17:47,200 --> 00:17:52,000 Speaker 1: was all sorts of people across America that we're sitting 315 00:17:52,000 --> 00:17:55,040 Speaker 1: there going I thought I was the only one, and 316 00:17:55,359 --> 00:18:00,239 Speaker 1: he just he spoke for the everyman. He and by 317 00:18:00,280 --> 00:18:03,199 Speaker 1: the way he speaks for the everyman, I don't want to. 318 00:18:03,520 --> 00:18:07,520 Speaker 1: So my mom is a two time cancer survivor. Cancer 319 00:18:07,800 --> 00:18:14,760 Speaker 1: is a horrific, nasty, vicious disease, and having been by 320 00:18:14,840 --> 00:18:20,359 Speaker 1: my mom's side through chemo, through radiation, it's horrible. Rush 321 00:18:20,600 --> 00:18:24,480 Speaker 1: is a tough tenacious fighter. So I mean I sent 322 00:18:24,560 --> 00:18:26,720 Speaker 1: sent Russia note yesterday that one of the things I 323 00:18:26,760 --> 00:18:32,159 Speaker 1: said is, look, yours is an incredibly important voice in 324 00:18:32,200 --> 00:18:34,800 Speaker 1: America and we need you and we're all And it 325 00:18:34,840 --> 00:18:36,720 Speaker 1: was a great moment to see Malania put it on 326 00:18:36,760 --> 00:18:39,800 Speaker 1: and obviously everybody's praying for him. But that that we've 327 00:18:39,840 --> 00:18:42,000 Speaker 1: never seen in terms of a Lenny study, I would 328 00:18:42,080 --> 00:18:45,240 Speaker 1: actually have the metal. And since Rush was blown away, 329 00:18:45,359 --> 00:18:48,680 Speaker 1: there were three times I had tears in my eyes, 330 00:18:48,680 --> 00:18:50,520 Speaker 1: and I've been to now I think seventh State of 331 00:18:50,560 --> 00:18:52,119 Speaker 1: the Unions. I've never had tears in my eyes, and 332 00:18:52,119 --> 00:18:56,879 Speaker 1: I had three times before the other two. That moment Calamueller, 333 00:18:57,320 --> 00:19:03,440 Speaker 1: who was tortured and killed by ISIS, her parents were there. 334 00:19:03,480 --> 00:19:10,520 Speaker 1: The President did an incredible job telling her story, seeing 335 00:19:10,600 --> 00:19:15,640 Speaker 1: them looking up look, particularly as the father of daughters. 336 00:19:16,840 --> 00:19:18,480 Speaker 1: You know, I kept looking at the dad, I mean 337 00:19:18,480 --> 00:19:21,639 Speaker 1: look and the mom, but you know I identified with 338 00:19:21,680 --> 00:19:28,240 Speaker 1: the dad and to know the horrific hell that their 339 00:19:28,320 --> 00:19:33,119 Speaker 1: daughter went through. And the President told a great story 340 00:19:33,160 --> 00:19:37,160 Speaker 1: about the special Forces team naming their mission to take 341 00:19:37,200 --> 00:19:41,479 Speaker 1: out al bag Daddy after her birthday because it ties 342 00:19:41,640 --> 00:19:44,760 Speaker 1: in Look, we all know about the policy accomplished right, 343 00:19:44,960 --> 00:19:47,639 Speaker 1: But the personal story is what I agree. I had 344 00:19:47,680 --> 00:19:53,159 Speaker 1: tears of I it was beautiful and powerful. And the 345 00:19:53,280 --> 00:20:00,600 Speaker 1: third time was the mom with her to the kids, 346 00:20:01,040 --> 00:20:03,320 Speaker 1: who's a soldier and her husband's a soldier and he 347 00:20:03,400 --> 00:20:08,320 Speaker 1: was deployed in Afghanistan, I think. And then the president said, 348 00:20:08,400 --> 00:20:12,000 Speaker 1: and he's back here now, Yeah, we'll talk about a reveal. 349 00:20:12,200 --> 00:20:16,920 Speaker 1: And look on her face and to see him come down, 350 00:20:17,000 --> 00:20:20,240 Speaker 1: that sergeant come down the steps and her like she 351 00:20:20,480 --> 00:20:23,520 Speaker 1: was next to Milanni, and then the joy she expressed 352 00:20:23,520 --> 00:20:26,879 Speaker 1: her kids. I mean seeing him hugs little girl, huggs 353 00:20:26,960 --> 00:20:33,240 Speaker 1: little boy. I okay, that that is a new threshold. 354 00:20:33,280 --> 00:20:35,680 Speaker 1: There's never been a Lenny Stuttning moment where you actually 355 00:20:35,720 --> 00:20:39,680 Speaker 1: reunite a soldier's family right in front of you. I think, 356 00:20:39,720 --> 00:20:43,240 Speaker 1: to the surprise of of of of the family that 357 00:20:43,240 --> 00:20:45,719 Speaker 1: that was incredible, It was powerful. It was it turned 358 00:20:45,800 --> 00:20:49,919 Speaker 1: everything up to eleven and I agree, I mean it was. 359 00:20:49,960 --> 00:20:53,639 Speaker 1: It was just such an effective speech. He didn't mention impeachment, 360 00:20:53,800 --> 00:20:56,520 Speaker 1: which I'm very glad that was part of your conversation, 361 00:20:56,640 --> 00:20:59,560 Speaker 1: and other other people had had encouraged him that way too. 362 00:20:59,760 --> 00:21:03,119 Speaker 1: And by the way, he did a great contrast last week. Yeah, 363 00:21:03,200 --> 00:21:06,680 Speaker 1: last week, I was the White House twice. One day 364 00:21:06,840 --> 00:21:09,679 Speaker 1: for the announcement of his Middle East peace proposal. He 365 00:21:09,760 --> 00:21:12,360 Speaker 1: was there with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin net and Yahoo 366 00:21:12,640 --> 00:21:15,960 Speaker 1: the next day for the signing of the US MCA, 367 00:21:16,000 --> 00:21:19,080 Speaker 1: the Mexico Canada Trade Agreement. And I thought the silent 368 00:21:19,240 --> 00:21:24,040 Speaker 1: contrast of he's working for the country for good, for 369 00:21:24,080 --> 00:21:28,359 Speaker 1: the future, while the Congressional Democrats are just consumed with hate. 370 00:21:28,600 --> 00:21:31,120 Speaker 1: I think that was a really sharp content. And we'll 371 00:21:31,119 --> 00:21:34,000 Speaker 1: see the contrast again tomorrow because you had the State 372 00:21:34,000 --> 00:21:37,040 Speaker 1: of the Union, a really really strong State of the 373 00:21:37,119 --> 00:21:39,879 Speaker 1: Union and State of the Union address. Tomorrow is the 374 00:21:40,119 --> 00:21:42,600 Speaker 1: vote on impeachment. I mean, you're gonna go. It's pretty 375 00:21:42,680 --> 00:21:44,920 Speaker 1: latent into the evening, so you know in a few 376 00:21:44,920 --> 00:21:46,880 Speaker 1: hours you're going to head back to the Senate. How 377 00:21:46,880 --> 00:21:50,359 Speaker 1: does impeachment end? Well, before we finished the State of 378 00:21:50,400 --> 00:21:52,600 Speaker 1: the Union, let me say two quick things on it. Okay, 379 00:21:53,440 --> 00:21:58,600 Speaker 1: Number one, I think the Democrats seemed incredibly out of touch. 380 00:21:58,680 --> 00:22:03,000 Speaker 1: I think to any America and watching, you wonder, why 381 00:22:03,080 --> 00:22:06,560 Speaker 1: can't you cheer for Americans? Yeah, like when the President 382 00:22:06,600 --> 00:22:09,800 Speaker 1: says twelve thousand new factories, we're seeing a blue collar boom. 383 00:22:10,640 --> 00:22:13,080 Speaker 1: Democrats for years have claimed to be the party of 384 00:22:13,119 --> 00:22:15,560 Speaker 1: working men and women, the party of unions, and they're 385 00:22:15,600 --> 00:22:20,959 Speaker 1: sitting there snarling, furious at manufacturing jobs. Um. You know 386 00:22:21,000 --> 00:22:22,840 Speaker 1: when when the President pointed out one of the first 387 00:22:22,840 --> 00:22:24,879 Speaker 1: people who pointed out in the gallery was an African 388 00:22:24,880 --> 00:22:28,440 Speaker 1: American band from Ohio who'd been homeless, who'd been had 389 00:22:28,480 --> 00:22:32,280 Speaker 1: substance abuse problems, and because of an opportunity zone part 390 00:22:32,320 --> 00:22:36,000 Speaker 1: of what we implemented, the tax cuts that incentivizes capital 391 00:22:36,040 --> 00:22:39,720 Speaker 1: and jobs and struggling neighborhoods, he now has a job, 392 00:22:39,840 --> 00:22:43,959 Speaker 1: he's he's he's clean, and he's turned his life around. 393 00:22:44,920 --> 00:22:48,600 Speaker 1: And the Democrats just snarled and and and you think 394 00:22:48,600 --> 00:22:53,720 Speaker 1: about it, most of these inner cities, these these areas 395 00:22:53,720 --> 00:22:56,400 Speaker 1: with with severe poverty, almost all of them are represented 396 00:22:56,440 --> 00:22:59,960 Speaker 1: by Democrats. Yea. And it was literally their own congressional 397 00:23:00,080 --> 00:23:06,720 Speaker 1: representatives angry that their constituents who were struggling are doing 398 00:23:06,760 --> 00:23:12,440 Speaker 1: better that someone else did for them. It ruins their narrative. 399 00:23:12,440 --> 00:23:15,239 Speaker 1: And the moment that I think captured the whole night, 400 00:23:15,359 --> 00:23:18,679 Speaker 1: sadly was at the end of the speech when Nancy 401 00:23:18,720 --> 00:23:21,840 Speaker 1: Pelosi stood up and ripped the speech and half I 402 00:23:21,880 --> 00:23:23,840 Speaker 1: thought that was the constitution. She was ripped. It was 403 00:23:23,840 --> 00:23:26,719 Speaker 1: the speech. Okay, maybe I mistook that, and I was 404 00:23:26,880 --> 00:23:29,000 Speaker 1: I was sitting not very far from her either. I 405 00:23:29,040 --> 00:23:32,320 Speaker 1: was off on the side, was actually sitting between Marco 406 00:23:32,400 --> 00:23:34,440 Speaker 1: Rubio and Rand Paul. It was kind of an interesting 407 00:23:34,920 --> 00:23:36,919 Speaker 1: the day after Aisle. It was sort of amusing. But 408 00:23:37,080 --> 00:23:39,879 Speaker 1: that was just accidental reunion where we walked in, but 409 00:23:39,880 --> 00:23:41,639 Speaker 1: we were kind of I was kind of laughing at 410 00:23:41,920 --> 00:23:45,800 Speaker 1: how the seating worked out. But and the I didn't 411 00:23:45,800 --> 00:23:48,199 Speaker 1: initially see her tear the speech. It was Marco who 412 00:23:48,280 --> 00:23:50,200 Speaker 1: nudge means that, did you see her tearing the speech? 413 00:23:50,240 --> 00:23:51,760 Speaker 1: And I looked up and she was still tearing it, 414 00:23:54,000 --> 00:24:01,200 Speaker 1: and I was seething. It was pitiful and disgusting and 415 00:24:01,920 --> 00:24:07,199 Speaker 1: it I think Nancy Pelosi should be ashamed and disrespectful it. 416 00:24:07,840 --> 00:24:10,800 Speaker 1: I'm fine. I get that parties have different views and 417 00:24:10,840 --> 00:24:12,920 Speaker 1: you don't like. But look, I went to I think 418 00:24:13,000 --> 00:24:16,800 Speaker 1: four State of the Union's Obama gave. He talked about 419 00:24:16,880 --> 00:24:20,359 Speaker 1: all sorts of policies I didn't like, and I didn't 420 00:24:20,400 --> 00:24:22,480 Speaker 1: applaud for all of them. So there's one picture I 421 00:24:22,520 --> 00:24:24,359 Speaker 1: think it was from the twenty thirteen State of the 422 00:24:24,480 --> 00:24:29,639 Speaker 1: Union where you had in a row me. I forget 423 00:24:29,640 --> 00:24:33,880 Speaker 1: the order, but it was me, Chuck Schumer, Kirsten Jella Brand, 424 00:24:33,920 --> 00:24:37,400 Speaker 1: Lindsey Graham, John McCain, and Obama was saying we need 425 00:24:37,400 --> 00:24:41,280 Speaker 1: to give amnesty for illegal aliens. And Schumer and Lindsay 426 00:24:41,320 --> 00:24:43,760 Speaker 1: and McCain and Jilla Brand are all standing cheering, and 427 00:24:43,800 --> 00:24:47,119 Speaker 1: I'm sitting there silently. I'm actually perfectly fine with that picture. 428 00:24:47,240 --> 00:24:50,480 Speaker 1: They want to cheer for amnesty, I ain't gonna that. 429 00:24:50,480 --> 00:24:53,640 Speaker 1: That's fine. I don't mind where there's a policy disagreement 430 00:24:54,440 --> 00:25:00,720 Speaker 1: expressing it. But to rip the speed each and half 431 00:25:01,600 --> 00:25:05,879 Speaker 1: showed a contempt not just for Donald Trump personally, but 432 00:25:05,960 --> 00:25:09,159 Speaker 1: a contempt for the presidency, aempt for the American people 433 00:25:09,880 --> 00:25:14,399 Speaker 1: that I thought was repulsive. And I can tell you 434 00:25:14,440 --> 00:25:18,320 Speaker 1: one Democratic Senator who will remain nameless, but on the 435 00:25:18,400 --> 00:25:21,240 Speaker 1: elevator down he turned to me and said, did Pelosi 436 00:25:21,359 --> 00:25:24,960 Speaker 1: really rip up the speech? You mentioned this the other day, 437 00:25:25,000 --> 00:25:27,919 Speaker 1: you said, and it was this was just tonight, This 438 00:25:27,960 --> 00:25:29,639 Speaker 1: was just like an hour ago, two hours ago. You 439 00:25:29,640 --> 00:25:33,720 Speaker 1: mentioned also how some of these Democratic senators or more 440 00:25:33,760 --> 00:25:38,080 Speaker 1: moderate senators, they really have not liked this intense. He 441 00:25:38,320 --> 00:25:40,920 Speaker 1: was really unhappy with that I said it was pitiful 442 00:25:40,960 --> 00:25:42,960 Speaker 1: and offensive and disgusting, and I was, I was, I 443 00:25:43,040 --> 00:25:47,760 Speaker 1: was genuinely pissed. Yeah, I mean it made me angry, 444 00:25:48,080 --> 00:25:50,919 Speaker 1: and it was interesting this one Democratic senator that's terrible. 445 00:25:51,280 --> 00:25:54,840 Speaker 1: That's completely now. Look he didn't like some of what 446 00:25:54,880 --> 00:26:00,040 Speaker 1: Trump said, but it was sort of the when I 447 00:26:00,080 --> 00:26:05,040 Speaker 1: look at the Congressional Democrats, they're consumed by hate and 448 00:26:05,160 --> 00:26:11,280 Speaker 1: hates ugly. Yeah, it is an ugly like fine, if 449 00:26:11,280 --> 00:26:14,080 Speaker 1: you want to disagree on substance, but we should be 450 00:26:14,240 --> 00:26:18,280 Speaker 1: rooting for the American people. We should be celebrating victories. 451 00:26:18,280 --> 00:26:20,439 Speaker 1: And by the way, my job, I represent twenty eight 452 00:26:20,480 --> 00:26:24,240 Speaker 1: million Texans. I don't just represent the Republicans, and I 453 00:26:24,320 --> 00:26:27,960 Speaker 1: represent Democrats in Texas and libertarians and independence. But you 454 00:26:28,000 --> 00:26:30,880 Speaker 1: know what, if I'm fighting for more jobs and higher 455 00:26:30,920 --> 00:26:34,359 Speaker 1: wages and protecting their rights, that benefits everyone, right, and 456 00:26:34,760 --> 00:26:37,439 Speaker 1: it it made me angry, but it also made me 457 00:26:37,680 --> 00:26:42,160 Speaker 1: sad to see that right now, hatred of Trump consumes 458 00:26:42,200 --> 00:26:45,640 Speaker 1: all else. We ought to all be able to root 459 00:26:45,760 --> 00:26:48,800 Speaker 1: for Americans because that that that should be who we are. 460 00:26:48,920 --> 00:26:51,280 Speaker 1: I was obviously not there in person. I was just 461 00:26:51,280 --> 00:26:53,919 Speaker 1: watching on TV. And I agree with you, the anger 462 00:26:53,960 --> 00:26:58,280 Speaker 1: of the sourpuss, the what appeared to be hatred doesn't 463 00:26:58,280 --> 00:27:00,400 Speaker 1: play well on TV. I'm glad to hear that there 464 00:27:00,440 --> 00:27:03,360 Speaker 1: were there was at least one Democratic colleague who who 465 00:27:03,359 --> 00:27:06,720 Speaker 1: found it troubling as well. Before we go or we're 466 00:27:06,760 --> 00:27:08,399 Speaker 1: obviously so much to get to, we'll have to get 467 00:27:08,400 --> 00:27:11,720 Speaker 1: to more tomorrow. Let's try to get to one or 468 00:27:11,760 --> 00:27:15,720 Speaker 1: two mail bag questions. First question from Miles Iowa caucus 469 00:27:15,800 --> 00:27:24,560 Speaker 1: implosion hilarious thing or the most hilarious thing? Ridiculous napped? 470 00:27:24,720 --> 00:27:27,080 Speaker 1: As I said, I felt bad for the activists, like 471 00:27:27,119 --> 00:27:37,560 Speaker 1: the Pete volunteers who worked, but luck for Democrats who 472 00:27:37,640 --> 00:27:40,520 Speaker 1: want to run everything they ought to demonstrate they can 473 00:27:40,560 --> 00:27:44,480 Speaker 1: count votes first, right, one question, I guess can tease. 474 00:27:44,560 --> 00:27:46,600 Speaker 1: By the way, can you can you imagine these rock 475 00:27:46,640 --> 00:27:51,359 Speaker 1: and scientists taking over and deciding like whether, when and 476 00:27:51,440 --> 00:27:55,159 Speaker 1: if you get a hard transplant? Yeah, that's well, we 477 00:27:55,160 --> 00:27:56,679 Speaker 1: got a system in an app, and I'm sorry the 478 00:27:56,680 --> 00:27:59,840 Speaker 1: app doesn't work, so I'll have to cross some border 479 00:28:01,240 --> 00:28:03,520 Speaker 1: in three days whatever the app operates. Hope you're doing 480 00:28:03,560 --> 00:28:05,399 Speaker 1: all right by then. This is a question. It's a 481 00:28:05,400 --> 00:28:07,159 Speaker 1: little bit on impeachment, but I guess it'll touch on 482 00:28:07,200 --> 00:28:09,000 Speaker 1: tomorrow's vote as well, because tomorrow is going to be 483 00:28:09,040 --> 00:28:10,919 Speaker 1: the big vote. Do you quit the president or do 484 00:28:10,960 --> 00:28:14,960 Speaker 1: you remove him from office? From Karen, I understand treason, bribery, 485 00:28:14,960 --> 00:28:17,199 Speaker 1: and high crimes as grounds for impeachment. What I do 486 00:28:17,280 --> 00:28:20,640 Speaker 1: not understand is misdemeanors. How do you go from treason 487 00:28:20,920 --> 00:28:23,960 Speaker 1: to misdemeanors? So far, no one's explained what that means exactly, 488 00:28:24,240 --> 00:28:27,000 Speaker 1: and I'm hoping you Senator Ken. Yeah. Look, it's a 489 00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:29,600 Speaker 1: good question, and it's a weird term. Some of it 490 00:28:29,640 --> 00:28:33,680 Speaker 1: to remember is the distinction of felonies and misdemeanors didn't 491 00:28:33,840 --> 00:28:37,159 Speaker 1: exist as those terms are understood, because you think of 492 00:28:37,200 --> 00:28:39,720 Speaker 1: a misdemeanor is kind of a minor crime, and so 493 00:28:39,760 --> 00:28:42,320 Speaker 1: that's a confusing part of the phrase. I wouldn't think 494 00:28:42,360 --> 00:28:45,360 Speaker 1: of them as separate categories. The phrase as a whole 495 00:28:45,600 --> 00:28:48,800 Speaker 1: is other high crimes and misdemeanors, and that that was 496 00:28:48,840 --> 00:28:51,880 Speaker 1: a unified So there were misdemeanors at the time the 497 00:28:51,920 --> 00:28:55,760 Speaker 1: Constitution was adopted that were punishable by death. Yikes. So 498 00:28:55,760 --> 00:28:58,000 Speaker 1: so a misdemeanor was not a speeding ticket, it was 499 00:28:58,040 --> 00:29:02,000 Speaker 1: not a parking ticket. It was the phrase high crime 500 00:29:02,080 --> 00:29:05,800 Speaker 1: or misdemeanors were serious crimes, and they were crimes against 501 00:29:05,800 --> 00:29:08,720 Speaker 1: the public trust. They were things like bribery and treason. 502 00:29:08,840 --> 00:29:12,600 Speaker 1: So it wasn't just um, you know, knocking over a 503 00:29:12,640 --> 00:29:16,520 Speaker 1: seven to eleven. It was it was a crime that 504 00:29:16,600 --> 00:29:21,120 Speaker 1: did harm to the public to the nation, like treason. 505 00:29:21,520 --> 00:29:24,760 Speaker 1: But by the way, the you know, one of the 506 00:29:24,840 --> 00:29:29,400 Speaker 1: examples that that Adam Schiff used is is well under 507 00:29:29,440 --> 00:29:33,320 Speaker 1: the definition of high crimes and misdemeanors that that Dershowitz 508 00:29:33,400 --> 00:29:36,280 Speaker 1: and others are saying, what happens if if a president 509 00:29:36,320 --> 00:29:40,320 Speaker 1: allowed Alaska to be invaded? And I gotta say, Dan Sullivan, 510 00:29:40,360 --> 00:29:42,440 Speaker 1: the Center from Alaska was pretty worked up about to say, 511 00:29:42,440 --> 00:29:44,600 Speaker 1: I don't know, I'm against that. Yeah, I oppose the 512 00:29:44,640 --> 00:29:47,480 Speaker 1: invasion of Alaska. And I pointed out Dan and he 513 00:29:47,520 --> 00:29:49,600 Speaker 1: agreed with me on this, But I said, Dan, if 514 00:29:49,600 --> 00:29:52,160 Speaker 1: a president allows a foreign country to invade the United 515 00:29:52,200 --> 00:29:57,920 Speaker 1: States of America, that's treason. That is actively Constitution defines 516 00:29:58,000 --> 00:30:00,880 Speaker 1: treason in the text of the Constitution. And you don't 517 00:30:00,880 --> 00:30:03,280 Speaker 1: get to allow our enemies to invade and take over 518 00:30:03,640 --> 00:30:05,600 Speaker 1: any of the United States. It's a shame that we 519 00:30:05,680 --> 00:30:07,960 Speaker 1: have to teach our legislators that now, although I'm sure 520 00:30:10,360 --> 00:30:14,200 Speaker 1: emphatically so I'm not throwing him. I'm sure though that 521 00:30:14,240 --> 00:30:16,440 Speaker 1: there are going to be many House Democrats who do 522 00:30:16,480 --> 00:30:19,480 Speaker 1: try to impeach the president again for speeding tickets and 523 00:30:19,560 --> 00:30:21,479 Speaker 1: for parking tickets. So that's something to look forward to. 524 00:30:21,800 --> 00:30:24,360 Speaker 1: We will be discussing, obviously the big vote that comes 525 00:30:24,360 --> 00:30:27,400 Speaker 1: out tomorrow, but unfortunately we're out of time today. This 526 00:30:27,480 --> 00:30:37,720 Speaker 1: is Verdict with Ted Cruz. We'll see you tomorrow. 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