1 00:00:00,320 --> 00:00:03,520 Speaker 1: Welcoming as verdicts was Senator Ted Cruz Ben Ferguson with 2 00:00:03,640 --> 00:00:06,280 Speaker 1: your Centator. You're in Washington, DC right now, and I 3 00:00:06,320 --> 00:00:09,600 Speaker 1: am going to let people know in advance where we're 4 00:00:09,600 --> 00:00:12,080 Speaker 1: going on the pod today because we have so much news. 5 00:00:12,119 --> 00:00:14,480 Speaker 1: So we're gonna talk about the balloon and the classified 6 00:00:14,480 --> 00:00:16,840 Speaker 1: briefing that you just got out of. We're also going 7 00:00:16,920 --> 00:00:19,840 Speaker 1: to talk about some significant big tech legislation that you 8 00:00:19,880 --> 00:00:23,800 Speaker 1: were authoring. And then there was an amazing hearing today 9 00:00:23,800 --> 00:00:27,520 Speaker 1: that deals with the FCC and gig saw and an 10 00:00:27,600 --> 00:00:30,120 Speaker 1: amazing back and forth. And then we're also if we 11 00:00:30,160 --> 00:00:33,360 Speaker 1: have time, we're gonna get to this shocking about face 12 00:00:33,440 --> 00:00:37,360 Speaker 1: from James Clapper dealing with those the Hunter Biden laptop. 13 00:00:37,960 --> 00:00:40,040 Speaker 1: But before we get to the rest of that, I 14 00:00:40,159 --> 00:00:43,640 Speaker 1: want to talk about this classified briefing that you got 15 00:00:43,640 --> 00:00:47,199 Speaker 1: out of today. What can you tell us about what 16 00:00:47,200 --> 00:00:49,120 Speaker 1: we've learned about the balloon. We've seen a lot of 17 00:00:49,159 --> 00:00:52,680 Speaker 1: the headlines we now are shooting down things left and right. 18 00:00:53,280 --> 00:00:55,880 Speaker 1: There's even been some people out there Centator saying, are 19 00:00:55,920 --> 00:00:59,320 Speaker 1: we maybe overreacting politically because the White House got the 20 00:00:59,320 --> 00:01:01,840 Speaker 1: first one so wrong that they're shooting everything down? There's 21 00:01:01,840 --> 00:01:04,399 Speaker 1: even been people speculating that some of the things we 22 00:01:04,480 --> 00:01:08,039 Speaker 1: may have shut down may have actually been literal space junk. 23 00:01:08,600 --> 00:01:10,600 Speaker 1: And this is just to try to show, you know, 24 00:01:10,640 --> 00:01:13,440 Speaker 1: we're tough on balloons and outer space or you know, 25 00:01:13,480 --> 00:01:16,360 Speaker 1: at sixty thousand feet let's you know, that's kind of 26 00:01:16,360 --> 00:01:19,520 Speaker 1: where America is right now. It's very weird. So what 27 00:01:19,560 --> 00:01:21,560 Speaker 1: can I tell you about it? Not a damn thing. 28 00:01:22,120 --> 00:01:26,560 Speaker 1: So last week on the pod, we talked about the 29 00:01:26,600 --> 00:01:29,440 Speaker 1: classified briefing that I went to last week that focused 30 00:01:29,480 --> 00:01:32,600 Speaker 1: on the first Chinese by balloon, the one that spent 31 00:01:32,640 --> 00:01:36,160 Speaker 1: over a week in American airspace conducting espionage, that ultimately 32 00:01:36,200 --> 00:01:39,520 Speaker 1: Biden shot down over the Atlantic after it traversed the 33 00:01:39,560 --> 00:01:43,520 Speaker 1: continental United States after it had completed its espionage mission. 34 00:01:44,280 --> 00:01:47,720 Speaker 1: Since then, we've had three other objects shot down in space. 35 00:01:49,120 --> 00:01:52,160 Speaker 1: This morning, I went to a second classified briefing on 36 00:01:52,200 --> 00:01:54,360 Speaker 1: the new objects shutdown in space. I have to admit 37 00:01:54,400 --> 00:01:59,160 Speaker 1: I was really curious to find out what they were. 38 00:01:59,520 --> 00:02:05,600 Speaker 1: Now I can't disclose anything said in the classified briefing, 39 00:02:06,680 --> 00:02:09,840 Speaker 1: but to be honest, I don't know that there's anything 40 00:02:09,840 --> 00:02:14,520 Speaker 1: to disclose. It was one of the least satisfying classified 41 00:02:14,600 --> 00:02:19,400 Speaker 1: briefings I've ever had. Their lips were moving. I'm not 42 00:02:19,440 --> 00:02:24,600 Speaker 1: sure what they said. I gotta say, I think the 43 00:02:24,639 --> 00:02:29,119 Speaker 1: American people are quite reasonably asking a whole series of questions. 44 00:02:30,360 --> 00:02:32,520 Speaker 1: What the hell were the things we just shot down? 45 00:02:33,240 --> 00:02:36,480 Speaker 1: Where did they come from? Did they come from China? 46 00:02:36,680 --> 00:02:40,399 Speaker 1: Were they spy satellites or spy balloons or spy drones 47 00:02:40,560 --> 00:02:46,200 Speaker 1: or I don't know, spy kites. What were they doing? 48 00:02:46,280 --> 00:02:48,639 Speaker 1: Why did we shoot them down? What was the danger 49 00:02:48,680 --> 00:02:51,600 Speaker 1: they posed? Those are all really reasonable questions. Those are 50 00:02:51,680 --> 00:02:56,160 Speaker 1: questions I'm hearing from Texans right now. The Biden administration 51 00:02:56,280 --> 00:03:01,560 Speaker 1: is answering zero of them. It's not telling the American people. Actually, 52 00:03:01,560 --> 00:03:04,760 Speaker 1: the moment that I thought was most telling was during 53 00:03:04,760 --> 00:03:08,480 Speaker 1: the classified briefing when a couple of senators shoot out 54 00:03:08,480 --> 00:03:11,320 Speaker 1: the administration and said, look, you owe it to the 55 00:03:11,360 --> 00:03:14,680 Speaker 1: American people to be candid on this, to stand up 56 00:03:14,720 --> 00:03:17,160 Speaker 1: and say here's what we know. And, by the way, 57 00:03:17,200 --> 00:03:20,560 Speaker 1: if the answer is we don't know, we shot some 58 00:03:20,639 --> 00:03:22,520 Speaker 1: damn thing down in the sky and we don't know 59 00:03:22,520 --> 00:03:24,120 Speaker 1: what it is, we don't know where it came from. 60 00:03:24,160 --> 00:03:27,400 Speaker 1: It may have been, you know, Jim Bob jettisoned pickup 61 00:03:27,400 --> 00:03:30,120 Speaker 1: truck into the sky. We don't know if that's the 62 00:03:30,200 --> 00:03:35,120 Speaker 1: answer say it. But right now, this administration believes it 63 00:03:35,200 --> 00:03:39,720 Speaker 1: doesn't owe the American people an explanation. And I all right, 64 00:03:39,800 --> 00:03:41,880 Speaker 1: I gotta ask you something. All right, So, Ben, you're 65 00:03:42,640 --> 00:03:45,560 Speaker 1: forty three, is that right? You don't have to aige 66 00:03:45,600 --> 00:03:48,160 Speaker 1: me that much. Forty one? Give me a little bit, right, 67 00:03:48,240 --> 00:03:50,800 Speaker 1: all right? So I want to test you on something. 68 00:03:51,960 --> 00:03:55,880 Speaker 1: Did you get the reference from the title of our 69 00:03:56,280 --> 00:03:59,160 Speaker 1: last podcast? So our last podcast usually I come up 70 00:03:59,200 --> 00:04:02,520 Speaker 1: with the titles because Ben, he's very talented, but he 71 00:04:02,560 --> 00:04:05,000 Speaker 1: writes long paragraph titles, and I said they're too long. 72 00:04:05,080 --> 00:04:06,680 Speaker 1: I want him punch here, and so I come up 73 00:04:06,680 --> 00:04:10,320 Speaker 1: with more smart assid titles. This is true, this is 74 00:04:10,400 --> 00:04:13,880 Speaker 1: this is totally accurate. A characterizing that too loosely, that 75 00:04:14,040 --> 00:04:19,520 Speaker 1: that is one hundred percent accurate. Um. So the last 76 00:04:19,600 --> 00:04:22,960 Speaker 1: title started out with ninety nine Chinese balloons. And my 77 00:04:23,120 --> 00:04:25,200 Speaker 1: question to you, which I asked several people on my 78 00:04:25,279 --> 00:04:28,280 Speaker 1: staff today, do you get the reference? And none of 79 00:04:28,320 --> 00:04:30,839 Speaker 1: the twenty something year olds on my staff got the reference? 80 00:04:30,880 --> 00:04:33,640 Speaker 1: So do you get the reference? So when I got it, 81 00:04:33,800 --> 00:04:35,680 Speaker 1: the first thing that came to my mind was nine 82 00:04:35,760 --> 00:04:40,200 Speaker 1: nine bottles of beer on the wall. I thought that 83 00:04:40,400 --> 00:04:43,600 Speaker 1: was pretty good. I'm not gonna lie. That's immediately I 84 00:04:43,680 --> 00:04:45,200 Speaker 1: was like nine nine bottles of beer on the wall. 85 00:04:45,240 --> 00:04:49,080 Speaker 1: That's what I thought. Well, then it is the difference. 86 00:04:49,120 --> 00:04:52,360 Speaker 1: So I'm fifty two, you're forty one. That decade matters. 87 00:04:53,200 --> 00:04:54,880 Speaker 1: So what is it in reference to some I'm like 88 00:04:55,000 --> 00:04:58,200 Speaker 1: eighties air band song, I don't know of Yes, all right, well, 89 00:04:58,240 --> 00:05:00,360 Speaker 1: at least I see I can get there quickly that 90 00:05:00,560 --> 00:05:03,000 Speaker 1: that's exactly what it was. It was a song that 91 00:05:03,120 --> 00:05:05,880 Speaker 1: came out in nineteen eighty three by an artist, Nanna, 92 00:05:06,360 --> 00:05:10,640 Speaker 1: a German artist, and it was ninety nine Luft balloons 93 00:05:11,400 --> 00:05:16,280 Speaker 1: and it was ninety nine Luft balloons, Bada Da Da, 94 00:05:17,000 --> 00:05:19,440 Speaker 1: and it was interesting, so I actually pulled it up. 95 00:05:20,120 --> 00:05:25,200 Speaker 1: It was a protest song about ninety nine red balloons 96 00:05:25,240 --> 00:05:27,839 Speaker 1: floating in the summer sky. Panic bells, it's red alert. 97 00:05:27,880 --> 00:05:30,880 Speaker 1: There's something you hear from somewhere else. The war machine 98 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:35,400 Speaker 1: springs to life, opens up one eager eye, focusing it 99 00:05:35,600 --> 00:05:38,120 Speaker 1: on the sky. The ninety nine red balloons go by, 100 00:05:38,800 --> 00:05:41,599 Speaker 1: and it goes on to say, this is it, boys, 101 00:05:41,680 --> 00:05:43,880 Speaker 1: this is war. The president is on the line as 102 00:05:43,960 --> 00:05:46,040 Speaker 1: ninety nine red balloons go by, and it was a 103 00:05:46,200 --> 00:05:50,600 Speaker 1: German protest song, Everyone's a Captain Kirk with orders to identify, 104 00:05:50,760 --> 00:05:54,719 Speaker 1: to clarify and classify, Scrambling the summer Sky, ninety nine 105 00:05:54,800 --> 00:05:58,520 Speaker 1: red balloons go by, and it was this eighties German 106 00:05:58,880 --> 00:06:01,960 Speaker 1: protests song again against War, about this guy and girl 107 00:06:02,040 --> 00:06:05,960 Speaker 1: that released ninety nine red balloons into the sky and 108 00:06:06,120 --> 00:06:10,480 Speaker 1: it feels like they're ninety nine damn Chinese balloons floating. 109 00:06:12,120 --> 00:06:14,960 Speaker 1: All right, I am going to say something. Okay, if 110 00:06:15,000 --> 00:06:17,320 Speaker 1: I get prosecuted, Bet, I want you to provide my 111 00:06:20,360 --> 00:06:23,640 Speaker 1: defense counsel. I'm gonna say something that was said in 112 00:06:23,640 --> 00:06:26,919 Speaker 1: the classified briefing, but I feel very confident this statement 113 00:06:27,040 --> 00:06:30,480 Speaker 1: is not classified. One of the generals who was briefing 114 00:06:30,600 --> 00:06:34,240 Speaker 1: us said that he's been so busy that he woke 115 00:06:34,320 --> 00:06:38,240 Speaker 1: up this morning and he had forgotten it was Valentine's Day, 116 00:06:38,279 --> 00:06:40,320 Speaker 1: and he didn't understand why his wife had given him 117 00:06:40,320 --> 00:06:43,200 Speaker 1: a present. And he said he hadn't gotten anything for 118 00:06:43,360 --> 00:06:45,640 Speaker 1: his wife on Valentine's Day, and he was worried. 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All right, center, My question 150 00:08:24,120 --> 00:08:27,040 Speaker 1: for you first is we've been focusing so much on 151 00:08:27,120 --> 00:08:29,480 Speaker 1: the nine nine balloons, right to go back to the 152 00:08:29,600 --> 00:08:33,240 Speaker 1: to the song here being from China actually, but before 153 00:08:33,280 --> 00:08:36,040 Speaker 1: we get to your substance question, I want to do 154 00:08:36,280 --> 00:08:50,920 Speaker 1: something for the cultural enlightenment of Benjamin Ferguson. I know 155 00:08:51,080 --> 00:09:14,400 Speaker 1: this one. Here's the part everybody's gonna know. Ah, there 156 00:09:14,480 --> 00:09:18,319 Speaker 1: we go, all right center. See, you actually impressed me 157 00:09:18,400 --> 00:09:21,640 Speaker 1: because you actually went to something in the eighties pop 158 00:09:21,760 --> 00:09:26,040 Speaker 1: culture that has twenty three million views on this video 159 00:09:26,160 --> 00:09:29,040 Speaker 1: on YouTube, and then that that came out for that 160 00:09:29,200 --> 00:09:32,680 Speaker 1: when you were a year old. Yes, and I will 161 00:09:32,720 --> 00:09:35,120 Speaker 1: tell you it was depressing. I asked my staff, and 162 00:09:35,280 --> 00:09:37,200 Speaker 1: most of my staffers are in their twenties, and they 163 00:09:37,240 --> 00:09:39,400 Speaker 1: all looked at me or like, we have no idea 164 00:09:39,440 --> 00:09:41,240 Speaker 1: what that is. Yeah, we have no idea. If they 165 00:09:41,400 --> 00:09:43,120 Speaker 1: I would hope if they heard the song they would 166 00:09:43,160 --> 00:09:45,760 Speaker 1: know it. You ever see the movie? Gross? Point blank? Nope, 167 00:09:45,880 --> 00:09:48,200 Speaker 1: never saw it. Oh it's great. It's a movie John 168 00:09:48,280 --> 00:09:52,680 Speaker 1: Cusas Is it in black and white? No? John Cusack 169 00:09:52,800 --> 00:09:54,880 Speaker 1: is a hit man who goes back to his eighties 170 00:09:54,960 --> 00:09:57,120 Speaker 1: high school reunion. He's a hit man there. But they 171 00:09:57,160 --> 00:10:00,440 Speaker 1: played ninety nine Leff balloons. It was sort of a anyway, 172 00:10:00,520 --> 00:10:05,120 Speaker 1: if you are fifty two years old, that pulls the 173 00:10:05,200 --> 00:10:07,839 Speaker 1: nostalgius strings. All right, you had a serious question, why 174 00:10:07,840 --> 00:10:10,559 Speaker 1: are you distracting? Man? Get back to substance. Last question 175 00:10:10,640 --> 00:10:12,559 Speaker 1: on this, just real quick. When you and your family 176 00:10:12,640 --> 00:10:14,760 Speaker 1: were traveling when you were a young boy, did y'all 177 00:10:14,800 --> 00:10:17,640 Speaker 1: stop at hotels? It said color TV? And ac is that? 178 00:10:17,760 --> 00:10:19,720 Speaker 1: What is that? What it was like when you were 179 00:10:19,760 --> 00:10:24,800 Speaker 1: growing up? It wasn't quite like horse and buggy? Okay, 180 00:10:24,920 --> 00:10:26,480 Speaker 1: all right, I just wanted to know. I have a 181 00:10:26,640 --> 00:10:29,000 Speaker 1: I have a feeling that that that that the dad 182 00:10:29,280 --> 00:10:31,599 Speaker 1: your dad pulled over at a hotel with you and 183 00:10:31,679 --> 00:10:38,800 Speaker 1: it said colored television. All right, Um, what do you 184 00:10:39,000 --> 00:10:42,800 Speaker 1: think I got that? I still remember as the coolest 185 00:10:42,960 --> 00:10:46,839 Speaker 1: Christmas present ever when I was six years old. So 186 00:10:46,880 --> 00:10:48,839 Speaker 1: I was six years old, nineteen seventy six. What do 187 00:10:48,880 --> 00:10:54,880 Speaker 1: you think I got anything with batteries? Yes, okay, I have. 188 00:10:55,640 --> 00:10:58,480 Speaker 1: I have absolutely no idea because I didn't. I didn't 189 00:10:58,480 --> 00:11:00,600 Speaker 1: even know they had battery operated to when you were 190 00:11:00,640 --> 00:11:05,520 Speaker 1: around back then. Actually, technic is a blast for me. 191 00:11:05,920 --> 00:11:08,360 Speaker 1: And look in the Senate they call me skippy. They 192 00:11:08,440 --> 00:11:10,800 Speaker 1: think I wear short shorts and a propeller hat because 193 00:11:10,840 --> 00:11:13,160 Speaker 1: the average age there is one hundred and three. So 194 00:11:13,520 --> 00:11:17,480 Speaker 1: you know, it's it's all relative. But nineteen seventy six, 195 00:11:17,559 --> 00:11:20,439 Speaker 1: when I was six years old, for Christmas, I got Pong. 196 00:11:20,640 --> 00:11:22,400 Speaker 1: It actually didn't use batteries. Oh yeah, that was a 197 00:11:22,480 --> 00:11:25,199 Speaker 1: great game. It was the first video game ever, so 198 00:11:25,240 --> 00:11:27,200 Speaker 1: it was before Atari and I you know, I went 199 00:11:27,240 --> 00:11:29,760 Speaker 1: through the whole birth. I mean, I'm a gamer. But 200 00:11:30,040 --> 00:11:33,559 Speaker 1: I got Pong for Christmas and seventy six and it 201 00:11:33,760 --> 00:11:35,920 Speaker 1: was the coolest thing ever. You hooked it up to 202 00:11:36,000 --> 00:11:38,920 Speaker 1: your TV, you turned the dial and it was table 203 00:11:39,000 --> 00:11:41,880 Speaker 1: tennis on. It was the first video game that people 204 00:11:41,920 --> 00:11:44,760 Speaker 1: had at home. Just when I thought we totally lost, 205 00:11:44,800 --> 00:11:47,480 Speaker 1: you've just redeemed yourself all right. Back to this question, 206 00:11:47,559 --> 00:11:50,640 Speaker 1: I have to ask you, everybody that I've talked to 207 00:11:50,760 --> 00:11:53,360 Speaker 1: has been asking me the same thing. Are all these 208 00:11:53,559 --> 00:11:57,320 Speaker 1: objects just from China? Are there other people that may 209 00:11:57,360 --> 00:11:59,599 Speaker 1: have been in on the game that we are just 210 00:12:00,000 --> 00:12:03,120 Speaker 1: now learning about, since his administration really didn't seem to 211 00:12:03,160 --> 00:12:05,199 Speaker 1: be focused on this at all, and we know for 212 00:12:05,280 --> 00:12:08,760 Speaker 1: a fact now that the Trump administration was basically left 213 00:12:08,840 --> 00:12:10,720 Speaker 1: in the dark with balloons that were coming over when 214 00:12:10,800 --> 00:12:13,719 Speaker 1: he was in office. Yeah, the short answer is, I 215 00:12:13,800 --> 00:12:17,280 Speaker 1: have no frigging idea. I don't know. I would like 216 00:12:17,400 --> 00:12:19,839 Speaker 1: to know. I'd like to know what the hell it 217 00:12:19,960 --> 00:12:23,880 Speaker 1: is we shot down, and I think the administration should 218 00:12:24,000 --> 00:12:27,480 Speaker 1: stand up and be candid with the American People's That's 219 00:12:27,520 --> 00:12:29,920 Speaker 1: what a lot of us were urging was, Look, tell 220 00:12:29,960 --> 00:12:33,160 Speaker 1: the American people. I think it's a little weird that 221 00:12:33,320 --> 00:12:36,680 Speaker 1: we've shot four objects down in the last ten days 222 00:12:37,080 --> 00:12:40,439 Speaker 1: and Joe Biden hasn't addressed the American people. Look. Look 223 00:12:40,520 --> 00:12:43,680 Speaker 1: like that's an odd dynamic to say, Okay, here's what's 224 00:12:43,760 --> 00:12:48,000 Speaker 1: going on. We're shooting things out of the sky. I 225 00:12:48,160 --> 00:12:51,199 Speaker 1: did see on Twitter a picture of a guy and 226 00:12:51,360 --> 00:12:55,319 Speaker 1: full body cast who said all I was doing was 227 00:12:55,400 --> 00:12:58,079 Speaker 1: floating along on my balloon at forty thousand feet and 228 00:12:58,200 --> 00:13:02,520 Speaker 1: out of nowhere. Bam bam. Yeah, it is. It is 229 00:13:02,600 --> 00:13:05,120 Speaker 1: surreal to see them not deal with this publicly. Like 230 00:13:05,240 --> 00:13:09,400 Speaker 1: you mentioned, it has disrupted US air travel. A lot 231 00:13:09,440 --> 00:13:12,040 Speaker 1: of people have not talked about that either in the media. 232 00:13:12,160 --> 00:13:14,720 Speaker 1: I mean, this is a significant event that's happened over 233 00:13:14,840 --> 00:13:18,360 Speaker 1: several different states now with shutting down airspace and and 234 00:13:19,240 --> 00:13:22,520 Speaker 1: planes being grounded for several hours. That disrupts people's lives, 235 00:13:22,800 --> 00:13:24,839 Speaker 1: and still not a word from the President. I have 236 00:13:25,000 --> 00:13:27,920 Speaker 1: to ask you, and again it's going to be your opinion, obviously, 237 00:13:28,440 --> 00:13:30,679 Speaker 1: but is this go back to the issue that this 238 00:13:30,880 --> 00:13:35,160 Speaker 1: president time and time again refuses to stand up to China. 239 00:13:35,240 --> 00:13:37,680 Speaker 1: At what point does that concern you from a national 240 00:13:37,760 --> 00:13:41,199 Speaker 1: security standpoint? Well, Ben, I think it's it's a combination 241 00:13:41,280 --> 00:13:44,040 Speaker 1: of things. Number one, when it comes to foreign policy, 242 00:13:44,080 --> 00:13:46,480 Speaker 1: and in particular standing up to the bad guys, standing 243 00:13:46,600 --> 00:13:49,640 Speaker 1: up to our enemies, whether that means China, whether that 244 00:13:49,720 --> 00:13:51,839 Speaker 1: means Russia, whether that means a rand, whether that means 245 00:13:51,960 --> 00:13:54,760 Speaker 1: North Korea, whether that means Venezuela, whether that means Cuba. 246 00:13:55,800 --> 00:13:59,120 Speaker 1: Joe Biden and this foreign policy team is consistently weak 247 00:13:59,280 --> 00:14:01,800 Speaker 1: if you're an of an America, if you're an enemy 248 00:14:01,800 --> 00:14:04,320 Speaker 1: of America, you can count on weakness and appeasement from 249 00:14:04,400 --> 00:14:07,679 Speaker 1: Joe Biden. We saw that with balloon number one. Balloon 250 00:14:07,800 --> 00:14:10,760 Speaker 1: number one, for over a week it was allowed to 251 00:14:10,840 --> 00:14:14,320 Speaker 1: be over US airspace to conduct espionage, and they did nothing. 252 00:14:15,240 --> 00:14:18,720 Speaker 1: That was weakness. But here's the second component. It actually 253 00:14:18,800 --> 00:14:23,520 Speaker 1: explains this whole thing, which is after weakness, they view 254 00:14:23,680 --> 00:14:28,160 Speaker 1: all of foreign policy through the lens of public relations. 255 00:14:28,760 --> 00:14:32,120 Speaker 1: It's a communications battle. It's politics. It's not actually about 256 00:14:32,160 --> 00:14:37,960 Speaker 1: protecting the country. It's about pr So what did the 257 00:14:38,000 --> 00:14:41,280 Speaker 1: administration lean in vigorously on giving you all of these 258 00:14:41,400 --> 00:14:45,960 Speaker 1: reasons why it was fantastic that we let the Chinese 259 00:14:45,960 --> 00:14:48,880 Speaker 1: spy balloon conduct espionage over America for over a week. 260 00:14:49,400 --> 00:14:51,280 Speaker 1: They said, Oh, it's really great because we got to 261 00:14:51,320 --> 00:14:53,640 Speaker 1: spy on them while they were spying on us. Well, 262 00:14:53,680 --> 00:14:56,200 Speaker 1: hawk diggity damn. Wouldn't that be great then if Russia 263 00:14:56,440 --> 00:14:58,800 Speaker 1: and Iran and everyone else sent balloons over us? No, 264 00:15:00,080 --> 00:15:03,480 Speaker 1: that's idiotic. But it's a spin. It's the It's the 265 00:15:03,600 --> 00:15:06,040 Speaker 1: kind of thing a twenty six year old political staffer 266 00:15:06,120 --> 00:15:09,040 Speaker 1: types out as a talking point and they lean in vigorously. 267 00:15:09,080 --> 00:15:13,320 Speaker 1: That also explains the stage they're at now where where 268 00:15:13,320 --> 00:15:17,160 Speaker 1: they're like, you know, Yosemite, Sam just firing at every 269 00:15:17,240 --> 00:15:21,320 Speaker 1: damn target in the sky. And you know, I said 270 00:15:21,360 --> 00:15:23,320 Speaker 1: in the last pot pod that I was glad that 271 00:15:23,440 --> 00:15:26,040 Speaker 1: that Biden finally grew a pair and shot these things down, 272 00:15:26,080 --> 00:15:27,720 Speaker 1: which is what he should have done with the first one. 273 00:15:28,440 --> 00:15:30,320 Speaker 1: I'll say I got a little bit of blowback from 274 00:15:30,400 --> 00:15:32,400 Speaker 1: from some I guys going well, yeah, but we don't 275 00:15:32,400 --> 00:15:35,600 Speaker 1: know what it is he shot down. That's a fair point, 276 00:15:35,760 --> 00:15:38,040 Speaker 1: to be honest. I think there's there's a there's a 277 00:15:38,080 --> 00:15:41,040 Speaker 1: lot of speculation today that's been happening on national news 278 00:15:41,560 --> 00:15:43,880 Speaker 1: that we may have actually been shooting down some stuff 279 00:15:43,880 --> 00:15:47,720 Speaker 1: that they referred to as a literal, literal uh space junk. 280 00:15:48,720 --> 00:15:52,840 Speaker 1: It's I will say I got a text from from 281 00:15:52,880 --> 00:15:55,640 Speaker 1: a buddy of mine who I was making a joke 282 00:15:55,680 --> 00:15:58,840 Speaker 1: about this, and he said, well, I'm at least comforted 283 00:15:58,920 --> 00:16:02,120 Speaker 1: that that means it was little green men in UFOs 284 00:16:02,320 --> 00:16:05,440 Speaker 1: preparing to land. And I can't tell you it wasn't 285 00:16:05,480 --> 00:16:07,520 Speaker 1: little green men in UFOs preparing to land, but I 286 00:16:07,560 --> 00:16:09,080 Speaker 1: can tell you if it was, I don't know it. 287 00:16:09,960 --> 00:16:15,680 Speaker 1: So you know, if that's happening, the Biden administration is 288 00:16:15,760 --> 00:16:19,320 Speaker 1: keeping that really close to the vest. But it does 289 00:16:19,440 --> 00:16:23,880 Speaker 1: make you think that this is being driven not by 290 00:16:25,600 --> 00:16:28,280 Speaker 1: a level headed view of the national security needs of 291 00:16:28,320 --> 00:16:32,880 Speaker 1: the United States, but rather by the desire to tell 292 00:16:33,200 --> 00:16:38,720 Speaker 1: a political pr communications narrative. And so right now they're like, Oh, 293 00:16:39,240 --> 00:16:42,000 Speaker 1: we looked weak. Let's shoot a bunch of crab down 294 00:16:42,040 --> 00:16:44,280 Speaker 1: to show how tough we are. I want to move 295 00:16:44,360 --> 00:16:46,480 Speaker 1: to something else. It's a pretty big deal, and that 296 00:16:46,680 --> 00:16:49,200 Speaker 1: is the fact that you have launched sweeping big tech 297 00:16:49,360 --> 00:16:53,920 Speaker 1: oversight investigation. You are the ranking member of the Senate 298 00:16:54,240 --> 00:17:00,000 Speaker 1: Committee on Commerce, and you've put together this new oversight investigation, 299 00:17:00,280 --> 00:17:02,760 Speaker 1: a big tech talk a little bit about what you 300 00:17:03,000 --> 00:17:06,240 Speaker 1: hope that this will accomplish and how it will hold 301 00:17:06,280 --> 00:17:10,879 Speaker 1: big tech accountable. So in this new Congress, I am 302 00:17:11,000 --> 00:17:13,600 Speaker 1: now the ranking member on the Senate Commerce Committee. What 303 00:17:13,640 --> 00:17:17,360 Speaker 1: does that mean. I'm the senior Republican on the Committee 304 00:17:17,359 --> 00:17:23,800 Speaker 1: of Commerce, Science, and Transportation. The Commerce Committee has jurisdiction 305 00:17:23,920 --> 00:17:27,199 Speaker 1: over about half of the US economy, So it has 306 00:17:27,320 --> 00:17:30,760 Speaker 1: jurisdiction over all of telecom, it has jurisdiction over the Internet, 307 00:17:31,080 --> 00:17:34,520 Speaker 1: it has jurisdiction over Aviation. It has jurisdiction over transportation, 308 00:17:34,600 --> 00:17:37,159 Speaker 1: and as jurisdiction over the Federal Trade Commission, and as 309 00:17:37,280 --> 00:17:40,480 Speaker 1: jurisdiction over the Commerce Department, and as jurisdiction over the 310 00:17:40,520 --> 00:17:46,119 Speaker 1: Department of Transportation, the FAA, the FCC, it has jurisdiction 311 00:17:46,400 --> 00:17:51,800 Speaker 1: over the alphabet soup of a whole bunch of different agencies, 312 00:17:51,880 --> 00:17:56,919 Speaker 1: pipelines and trucking. And so my role as the ranking 313 00:17:57,000 --> 00:17:59,960 Speaker 1: member is I'm the senior Republican. It means that I'm 314 00:18:00,040 --> 00:18:03,399 Speaker 1: in the process right now of hiring staff on the 315 00:18:03,480 --> 00:18:08,080 Speaker 1: committee and basically doubling the size of my Washington staff. 316 00:18:08,119 --> 00:18:10,440 Speaker 1: When you're the ranking member of a full committee, you 317 00:18:10,600 --> 00:18:13,160 Speaker 1: have resources to bring in staff. And so that's really 318 00:18:13,240 --> 00:18:18,480 Speaker 1: potent because I'm bringing in very serious lawyers, economists, policy 319 00:18:18,600 --> 00:18:23,280 Speaker 1: experts to drive an agenda. And with more resources, we're 320 00:18:23,320 --> 00:18:26,600 Speaker 1: able to engage in a lot more issues. And so 321 00:18:27,320 --> 00:18:30,000 Speaker 1: the first big thing that I've done is the ranking 322 00:18:30,119 --> 00:18:34,480 Speaker 1: member of the Commerce Committee is launched an investigation of 323 00:18:34,680 --> 00:18:39,360 Speaker 1: big tech censorship. And so I sent letters this week 324 00:18:40,440 --> 00:18:44,760 Speaker 1: to the CEOs of Google and Meta, the parent of 325 00:18:44,880 --> 00:18:50,280 Speaker 1: Facebook and Instagram and Twitter. Google's the parent of YouTube 326 00:18:50,359 --> 00:18:54,560 Speaker 1: and and also TikTok and asking a whole series of 327 00:18:55,160 --> 00:19:00,440 Speaker 1: specific and detailed questions focused on recommendation algor rhythms, the 328 00:19:00,480 --> 00:19:03,119 Speaker 1: algorithms where they say you're on YouTube and they say, hey, 329 00:19:03,200 --> 00:19:05,920 Speaker 1: you might like this next, and it drives an enormous 330 00:19:05,920 --> 00:19:09,920 Speaker 1: amount of traffic where they suggest the content you might want. 331 00:19:11,000 --> 00:19:16,600 Speaker 1: And right now, the question of recommendation algorithms and whether 332 00:19:16,760 --> 00:19:19,879 Speaker 1: it falls within the protections of Section two thirty of 333 00:19:19,960 --> 00:19:23,360 Speaker 1: the Communications Decency Act, which is the immunity big tech 334 00:19:23,440 --> 00:19:27,240 Speaker 1: companies get from liability. That's a question before the US 335 00:19:27,280 --> 00:19:30,639 Speaker 1: Supreme Court, and so I filed an amicus brief urging 336 00:19:30,720 --> 00:19:35,440 Speaker 1: the court to interpret the immunity narrowly so as to 337 00:19:35,600 --> 00:19:38,399 Speaker 1: not give a safe harbor for censorship and instead to 338 00:19:38,560 --> 00:19:42,520 Speaker 1: encourage free speech. So this oversight letter is going in 339 00:19:42,840 --> 00:19:46,520 Speaker 1: and asking very specific questions about how they determine what 340 00:19:46,640 --> 00:19:50,240 Speaker 1: to recommend, what communications they're having with the federal government 341 00:19:50,280 --> 00:19:54,000 Speaker 1: with Democrats in Congress, what they elevate, what they suppress, 342 00:19:54,680 --> 00:19:59,040 Speaker 1: and over the next two years, I'm going to engage 343 00:19:59,119 --> 00:20:04,120 Speaker 1: in a system at a careful investigation of the wholesale 344 00:20:04,200 --> 00:20:08,600 Speaker 1: censorship of conservative speech we see on big tech. Last 345 00:20:08,640 --> 00:20:10,359 Speaker 1: week I spent a half hour on the phone with 346 00:20:10,440 --> 00:20:13,280 Speaker 1: Elon Musk doing a deep dive into what he's found 347 00:20:13,359 --> 00:20:16,399 Speaker 1: at Twitter, and I think what he has made public 348 00:20:16,520 --> 00:20:19,560 Speaker 1: and what he's revealing for me is serving as a 349 00:20:19,680 --> 00:20:23,720 Speaker 1: roadmap for the investigation for the Commerce Committee, because all 350 00:20:23,800 --> 00:20:26,119 Speaker 1: of the other big tech companies are going, holy crap, 351 00:20:27,119 --> 00:20:29,720 Speaker 1: how can Elon reveal this? They at all assume that 352 00:20:29,800 --> 00:20:33,680 Speaker 1: they would remain all members of the small billionaires club 353 00:20:34,119 --> 00:20:36,320 Speaker 1: that are masters of the universe that get to decide 354 00:20:36,320 --> 00:20:38,080 Speaker 1: who to censor and who to silence and who not 355 00:20:38,240 --> 00:20:43,040 Speaker 1: to And Elon is spoiling the party by making it 356 00:20:43,160 --> 00:20:46,920 Speaker 1: all public. And so my hope is that the results 357 00:20:46,960 --> 00:20:50,800 Speaker 1: of this investigation that we see real and meaningful transparency 358 00:20:51,240 --> 00:20:54,560 Speaker 1: that will make public to the American people what's going on, 359 00:20:55,160 --> 00:20:57,959 Speaker 1: and that we see real and meaningful accountability. And we're 360 00:20:58,000 --> 00:21:00,720 Speaker 1: going to devote a lot of time and energy to 361 00:21:01,080 --> 00:21:04,960 Speaker 1: fighting for free speech online because I think big tech 362 00:21:05,119 --> 00:21:08,040 Speaker 1: censorship is the greatest threat in America to free speech 363 00:21:08,440 --> 00:21:10,679 Speaker 1: and the greatest threat to free and fair elections. Are 364 00:21:10,760 --> 00:21:14,480 Speaker 1: there any Democrats in the Senate that you're working with 365 00:21:14,840 --> 00:21:18,639 Speaker 1: right now on this that say they agree or is 366 00:21:18,680 --> 00:21:22,760 Speaker 1: this a totally partisan issue? Where Democrats say, we got 367 00:21:22,840 --> 00:21:26,240 Speaker 1: what we want. We own big tech, they work with us. 368 00:21:26,400 --> 00:21:29,679 Speaker 1: We get these communication channels behind the scenes. We can 369 00:21:29,760 --> 00:21:32,120 Speaker 1: tell me to silence, to the censor, who to throttle 370 00:21:32,520 --> 00:21:34,560 Speaker 1: what to you know, we can push out, like you said, 371 00:21:34,560 --> 00:21:36,480 Speaker 1: in these algorithms, things that we want you to see 372 00:21:36,560 --> 00:21:39,200 Speaker 1: and make sure that we bury the things of the right. 373 00:21:39,400 --> 00:21:43,200 Speaker 1: Or there's some Democrats that actually understand how Unamerican this 374 00:21:43,359 --> 00:21:46,160 Speaker 1: really is and what a threat this is. I would 375 00:21:46,240 --> 00:21:50,760 Speaker 1: argue to our freedoms in this country. Yeah, maybe is 376 00:21:50,800 --> 00:21:53,119 Speaker 1: the answer to that. I don't know. I would just 377 00:21:53,200 --> 00:21:56,560 Speaker 1: say that didn't sound promising. Listen, I'm trying to convince 378 00:21:56,640 --> 00:22:00,280 Speaker 1: Democrats that they should care about this. Today's Democrat party 379 00:22:01,040 --> 00:22:04,720 Speaker 1: is much more comfortable with censorship than the Democrats of yesteryear. 380 00:22:05,600 --> 00:22:08,040 Speaker 1: But I'm trying to convince Democrats. So some of the 381 00:22:08,160 --> 00:22:10,720 Speaker 1: arguments I'm giving. There a number of Democrats that care 382 00:22:11,440 --> 00:22:14,480 Speaker 1: about the media and they want free and independent journalists. 383 00:22:14,520 --> 00:22:17,760 Speaker 1: And I've been pointing out to them. Listen, big tech 384 00:22:18,119 --> 00:22:21,600 Speaker 1: bullies the media. You look, for example at the Hunter 385 00:22:21,680 --> 00:22:24,840 Speaker 1: Biden fiasco where they forced they block the New York Post, 386 00:22:24,960 --> 00:22:28,000 Speaker 1: they d platform the New York Post because it shared 387 00:22:28,040 --> 00:22:30,359 Speaker 1: a story, it wrote a story they didn't like. They 388 00:22:30,520 --> 00:22:33,640 Speaker 1: bullied political reporters who dared talk about the New York 389 00:22:33,680 --> 00:22:38,159 Speaker 1: Post story. The degree to which the traditional media is 390 00:22:38,359 --> 00:22:43,040 Speaker 1: becoming just captive to an obedient to big tech ought 391 00:22:43,119 --> 00:22:46,560 Speaker 1: to scare you if you want a free and independent media. 392 00:22:47,040 --> 00:22:49,400 Speaker 1: And what I've said, secondly to a number of Democrats, 393 00:22:49,440 --> 00:22:52,879 Speaker 1: I've said, look, I get that right now. Maybe you 394 00:22:53,080 --> 00:22:56,480 Speaker 1: agree with the political views a big tech. You agree 395 00:22:57,280 --> 00:23:01,280 Speaker 1: with what they're promoting, and you agree you disagree with 396 00:23:01,359 --> 00:23:04,920 Speaker 1: what they're censoring, so you might be happy substantively. But 397 00:23:05,040 --> 00:23:07,560 Speaker 1: the question I asked him, I said, look, are you 398 00:23:07,800 --> 00:23:13,080 Speaker 1: sure you want to embrace a system where a handful 399 00:23:13,119 --> 00:23:17,840 Speaker 1: of Silicon Valley billionaires have complete and unfettered power over 400 00:23:18,040 --> 00:23:21,240 Speaker 1: what anyone is allowed to discuss politically in the public 401 00:23:21,320 --> 00:23:24,840 Speaker 1: square in America? I mean, today you agree with them, 402 00:23:24,880 --> 00:23:27,399 Speaker 1: but maybe tomorrow you won't. And by the way, Elon 403 00:23:27,520 --> 00:23:30,040 Speaker 1: Musk is there, now you've already decided you don't agree 404 00:23:30,080 --> 00:23:32,840 Speaker 1: with him. How would you feel if suddenly they start 405 00:23:32,960 --> 00:23:37,640 Speaker 1: censoring your views. I don't want any billionaires or anybody 406 00:23:37,680 --> 00:23:40,960 Speaker 1: else to have the power to censor other Americans. I 407 00:23:41,080 --> 00:23:44,200 Speaker 1: want free speech I want everybody to be able to 408 00:23:44,240 --> 00:23:47,080 Speaker 1: speak in the marketplace of ideas to decide. And I 409 00:23:47,200 --> 00:23:51,280 Speaker 1: will say, look, are Democrats persuaded. Not necessarily, but I'll 410 00:23:51,359 --> 00:23:54,119 Speaker 1: point to last year. You and I talked about this before. 411 00:23:54,720 --> 00:24:00,000 Speaker 1: In the Senate Judiciary Committee. Amy Klobuchar, Democrat, had legislator 412 00:24:00,200 --> 00:24:04,360 Speaker 1: and focused on local media, small newspapers, small local stations 413 00:24:04,880 --> 00:24:08,119 Speaker 1: to enable them to collectively bargain with big tech, to 414 00:24:08,280 --> 00:24:11,080 Speaker 1: force big tech to pay for their content. And it 415 00:24:11,160 --> 00:24:14,000 Speaker 1: was in the Judiciary Committee and I introduced an amendment 416 00:24:14,920 --> 00:24:18,280 Speaker 1: that was targeted at censorship. My laser focus on all 417 00:24:18,320 --> 00:24:21,760 Speaker 1: of this a censorship and it served to restrict big 418 00:24:21,880 --> 00:24:25,520 Speaker 1: tech from engaging in political censorship. And initially in the 419 00:24:25,600 --> 00:24:30,360 Speaker 1: Judiciary Committee, my amendment was adopted and Klobuchart, the Democrats 420 00:24:30,440 --> 00:24:32,360 Speaker 1: pulled down their bill. They're like, oh crap, we can't 421 00:24:32,400 --> 00:24:35,320 Speaker 1: take it with this amendment. It was one of the 422 00:24:35,400 --> 00:24:38,080 Speaker 1: more surreal moments I've ever seen in a committee where 423 00:24:38,160 --> 00:24:40,840 Speaker 1: literally I get an amendment in and so the author 424 00:24:40,880 --> 00:24:43,560 Speaker 1: of the bill pulls it down. Well afterwards, I went 425 00:24:43,600 --> 00:24:45,800 Speaker 1: to Amy's office and we sat there with a notepad 426 00:24:46,480 --> 00:24:50,879 Speaker 1: and wrote an amendment together, and she accepted a substantially 427 00:24:51,000 --> 00:24:54,720 Speaker 1: similar amendment from me that was targeted at big tech censorship, 428 00:24:54,800 --> 00:24:58,320 Speaker 1: trying to rein it in, and the Judiciary Committee passed 429 00:24:58,520 --> 00:25:02,080 Speaker 1: her bill with my amendment. Now, the bill ultimately didn't 430 00:25:02,119 --> 00:25:05,080 Speaker 1: pass on the Senate floor, so it's not law, but 431 00:25:05,280 --> 00:25:08,560 Speaker 1: we did get bipartisan agreement to take a step against censorship, 432 00:25:08,600 --> 00:25:11,040 Speaker 1: and I think that's the beginning, and I'm going to 433 00:25:11,119 --> 00:25:17,399 Speaker 1: keep working at it incrementally and with ferocious determination because 434 00:25:17,440 --> 00:25:21,120 Speaker 1: I think the danger to free speech is existential. Yeah, 435 00:25:21,200 --> 00:25:22,600 Speaker 1: no doubt about it. I want to I want to 436 00:25:22,680 --> 00:25:26,280 Speaker 1: talk about what's happening also in Washington as you're there 437 00:25:26,320 --> 00:25:29,800 Speaker 1: with a very interesting a lot of fireworks today with 438 00:25:29,880 --> 00:25:32,679 Speaker 1: an SEC nominee at gig Song. 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Gg Soong was a nominee for the FEC. 459 00:26:50,240 --> 00:26:52,560 Speaker 1: I am afraid of the FEC because if you do 460 00:26:52,640 --> 00:26:54,960 Speaker 1: what I do every day on radio, you know the 461 00:26:55,040 --> 00:26:58,359 Speaker 1: power the SEC. You understand that they could. They have 462 00:26:58,520 --> 00:27:02,320 Speaker 1: a lot of influence over the airwaves and there's supposed 463 00:27:02,359 --> 00:27:07,399 Speaker 1: to be a nonpartisan, non biased group of individuals. That 464 00:27:07,680 --> 00:27:12,080 Speaker 1: is something that has been fought for years. With the FEC. 465 00:27:12,200 --> 00:27:13,560 Speaker 1: They have a lot of power. A lot of people 466 00:27:13,600 --> 00:27:16,720 Speaker 1: don't know who's on the FEC, but this is a 467 00:27:16,920 --> 00:27:20,800 Speaker 1: new woman who has been nominated, and you've called her 468 00:27:20,840 --> 00:27:24,800 Speaker 1: out for extreme political bias, which is exactly why it 469 00:27:24,880 --> 00:27:27,800 Speaker 1: should just qualify her, whether she's a Republican or Democrat. 470 00:27:27,840 --> 00:27:30,920 Speaker 1: You're not supposed to have partisan hacks sitting there on 471 00:27:31,000 --> 00:27:36,080 Speaker 1: the FEC regulating so many different things that deal with content. Well, 472 00:27:36,240 --> 00:27:39,960 Speaker 1: that's exactly right. Gigisone is Joe Biden's nominee to be 473 00:27:40,040 --> 00:27:44,200 Speaker 1: on the Federal Communications Commission. The FCC has five commissioners, 474 00:27:44,320 --> 00:27:46,719 Speaker 1: three from the majority party who's ever in power, ever 475 00:27:46,840 --> 00:27:49,480 Speaker 1: has the White House, and two from the minority party. 476 00:27:49,560 --> 00:27:53,880 Speaker 1: Gigisone is Biden's nominee. She is from the far left. 477 00:27:53,960 --> 00:27:57,360 Speaker 1: She has been a left wing liberal activist and radical 478 00:27:57,840 --> 00:28:00,199 Speaker 1: her whole life. She's a true believer. I'll credit her. 479 00:28:00,680 --> 00:28:04,120 Speaker 1: She believes in what she's doing. She is a woman 480 00:28:04,200 --> 00:28:09,160 Speaker 1: of the left. She is passionate, but her record is extreme. 481 00:28:09,320 --> 00:28:11,480 Speaker 1: You know you talked about you're afraid of the FCC. 482 00:28:12,040 --> 00:28:17,000 Speaker 1: You should be because gig soone has attacked conservative media. 483 00:28:17,200 --> 00:28:21,160 Speaker 1: She says Fox News is destroying democracy. She describes Fox 484 00:28:21,280 --> 00:28:25,760 Speaker 1: News as state sponsored propaganda. She argued to the FCC 485 00:28:25,960 --> 00:28:31,800 Speaker 1: they should revoke Sinclair's licenses. Sinclair's a major conservative TV outlet. 486 00:28:32,800 --> 00:28:38,360 Speaker 1: She has been vocal in using government power against conservative voices. 487 00:28:38,920 --> 00:28:43,000 Speaker 1: In addition to that, she's got enormous conflicts of interest. 488 00:28:43,080 --> 00:28:47,719 Speaker 1: So we had today her third confirmation hearing. Now that's amazing. 489 00:28:47,840 --> 00:28:51,960 Speaker 1: Usually people have one confirmation hearing. In her instance, she 490 00:28:52,200 --> 00:28:57,120 Speaker 1: had one two years ago. At that first confirmation hearing, 491 00:28:57,240 --> 00:29:01,040 Speaker 1: she hid that she had been on the board of 492 00:29:01,160 --> 00:29:06,280 Speaker 1: directors of a company that was engaged in litigation against 493 00:29:06,320 --> 00:29:10,600 Speaker 1: the major broadcasters for piracy, for stealing their content, and 494 00:29:10,800 --> 00:29:13,520 Speaker 1: the company she was on the board of lost that litigation, 495 00:29:13,640 --> 00:29:18,360 Speaker 1: settled that litigation, and she actively misled the Commerce Committee 496 00:29:18,920 --> 00:29:22,280 Speaker 1: into thinking that the settlement was for thirty two million dollars. 497 00:29:22,920 --> 00:29:25,840 Speaker 1: In fact, the settlement was for seven hundred thousand dollars, 498 00:29:25,880 --> 00:29:29,120 Speaker 1: so it was two percent of what was public. She 499 00:29:29,280 --> 00:29:32,960 Speaker 1: misled the committee about it, she misled the White House 500 00:29:33,000 --> 00:29:35,240 Speaker 1: about it. So we had a second hearing last year 501 00:29:35,760 --> 00:29:38,680 Speaker 1: where that became public how she'd misled the committee. And 502 00:29:38,920 --> 00:29:42,720 Speaker 1: now today with the new Congress, we had a third hearing. 503 00:29:42,760 --> 00:29:44,960 Speaker 1: She did not get confirmed in the previous congress. It 504 00:29:45,040 --> 00:29:48,240 Speaker 1: was a fifty fifty Senate and there were number of 505 00:29:48,280 --> 00:29:52,120 Speaker 1: Democrats who had express concerns. A lot of folks thought 506 00:29:52,240 --> 00:29:55,960 Speaker 1: Biden would withdraw this nominee because it's really doubtful she'll 507 00:29:56,000 --> 00:29:59,520 Speaker 1: get confirmed. She may or may not, but I think 508 00:29:59,600 --> 00:30:02,400 Speaker 1: the far our left wants her so much. They believe 509 00:30:03,120 --> 00:30:07,040 Speaker 1: she will be so aggressive in attacking conservative speech that 510 00:30:07,200 --> 00:30:10,040 Speaker 1: they're willing to fight this fight. So as the ranking 511 00:30:10,080 --> 00:30:13,840 Speaker 1: member on Commerce, my responsibility was to lead the fight 512 00:30:13,960 --> 00:30:16,880 Speaker 1: against her and to lay out her record why she's 513 00:30:17,280 --> 00:30:20,680 Speaker 1: not suitable for the FCC. Yeah. One of the one 514 00:30:20,760 --> 00:30:24,560 Speaker 1: of the I think shocking moments today, it was you 515 00:30:24,920 --> 00:30:29,959 Speaker 1: just calling out not only that she was helping organizations 516 00:30:30,040 --> 00:30:34,720 Speaker 1: and individuals that were attacking conservatives, but also those on 517 00:30:34,840 --> 00:30:39,560 Speaker 1: the left, including Joe Manchin, Gary Peters, John Tester, and 518 00:30:39,680 --> 00:30:42,440 Speaker 1: Christen Cinema. And this was part of this exchange with 519 00:30:42,560 --> 00:30:44,240 Speaker 1: you back and forth. I want everybody to hear it 520 00:30:44,280 --> 00:30:47,239 Speaker 1: because it was just incredible to hear. And then, by 521 00:30:47,280 --> 00:30:49,760 Speaker 1: the way, all of those senators you mentioned are Democrats. 522 00:30:49,880 --> 00:30:53,640 Speaker 1: Every one of the ones you listed are all Democrats. Senators. Yeah, 523 00:30:53,960 --> 00:30:57,680 Speaker 1: and she's attacking them as well through these radical groups 524 00:30:57,880 --> 00:31:02,120 Speaker 1: on the left. And as a podcaster, this is my 525 00:31:02,600 --> 00:31:07,120 Speaker 1: worst nightmare. If she gets confirmed and the Biden administration 526 00:31:07,200 --> 00:31:08,880 Speaker 1: seems to help been on doing it. Take a lishim 527 00:31:08,920 --> 00:31:10,720 Speaker 1: though this back and forth for me today, I thought 528 00:31:10,760 --> 00:31:14,280 Speaker 1: it was brilliant, Misson. I think you have a long 529 00:31:14,560 --> 00:31:19,360 Speaker 1: and consistent career as a zealous partisan advocate. There is 530 00:31:19,400 --> 00:31:21,800 Speaker 1: a role for partisan advocates, it just doesn't happen to 531 00:31:21,880 --> 00:31:26,000 Speaker 1: be on an independent agency charged with overseeing communications in 532 00:31:26,080 --> 00:31:29,480 Speaker 1: the United States. You also have a consistent pattern of 533 00:31:29,600 --> 00:31:33,680 Speaker 1: being unable to perceive conflicts of interest, whether it is 534 00:31:34,120 --> 00:31:37,640 Speaker 1: deceiving this committee in the White House about the Sweetheart 535 00:31:37,680 --> 00:31:42,000 Speaker 1: Settlement that you signed the day after your nomination was announced, 536 00:31:43,120 --> 00:31:45,800 Speaker 1: or whether it is being the only nominee I've seen 537 00:31:45,880 --> 00:31:49,160 Speaker 1: in a decade to make contributions to senators who are 538 00:31:49,240 --> 00:31:54,560 Speaker 1: voting on your nomination while your nomination is pending, or 539 00:31:54,680 --> 00:31:59,840 Speaker 1: whether it is bizarrely supporting an extreme group that blasts 540 00:32:00,280 --> 00:32:03,000 Speaker 1: multiple senators from both parties. Now, I asked you about 541 00:32:03,040 --> 00:32:05,880 Speaker 1: Joe Mansion and the group Fight for Our Future, where 542 00:32:05,880 --> 00:32:09,000 Speaker 1: they ran billboards saying Joe Mansion is corrupt. You said 543 00:32:09,000 --> 00:32:11,440 Speaker 1: you didn't agree with that. I asked you whether you 544 00:32:11,480 --> 00:32:14,120 Speaker 1: agreed with them that John Tester is corrupt. You said 545 00:32:14,120 --> 00:32:16,600 Speaker 1: you didn't agree with that. I asked you whether you 546 00:32:16,680 --> 00:32:19,240 Speaker 1: agreed with them that Gary Peters is corrupt. You said 547 00:32:19,240 --> 00:32:21,760 Speaker 1: you didn't agree with that. Well, I didn't get to finish. Wait, 548 00:32:22,520 --> 00:32:24,400 Speaker 1: are you gonna go to me? Oh I am okay, 549 00:32:25,840 --> 00:32:28,920 Speaker 1: because she's attacked you too. But that was Maria can't 550 00:32:28,960 --> 00:32:32,240 Speaker 1: well the chair. I think an organization the group, but 551 00:32:32,360 --> 00:32:36,440 Speaker 1: not just belong to be queer. When you said that 552 00:32:36,600 --> 00:32:39,600 Speaker 1: is Maria can't rad the chair, that's Democrat? Am I right? Yes, 553 00:32:39,720 --> 00:32:42,600 Speaker 1: that's a Democrat from Washington State who's the chairman of 554 00:32:42,640 --> 00:32:46,360 Speaker 1: the Commerce Committee. So she jumps in and asks are 555 00:32:46,400 --> 00:32:48,200 Speaker 1: you going to call her out for attacking me? And 556 00:32:48,560 --> 00:32:52,280 Speaker 1: I said, oh yes, I am, so keep playing. So 557 00:32:53,200 --> 00:32:56,920 Speaker 1: so this group also ran the following billboard. It is 558 00:32:56,960 --> 00:32:59,800 Speaker 1: a picture of Senator Senator Cinema, also a member of 559 00:32:59,840 --> 00:33:03,440 Speaker 1: the committee, and it's not subtle. In case you want 560 00:33:03,440 --> 00:33:05,880 Speaker 1: to miss the message they're trying to convey, it's in 561 00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:09,480 Speaker 1: bright red right at the top. It says Cinema is corrupt. 562 00:33:10,640 --> 00:33:14,280 Speaker 1: Do you agree with their sentiment that Senator Cinema is corrupt? 563 00:33:14,440 --> 00:33:17,160 Speaker 1: Of course not, of course not okay, you say, of 564 00:33:17,280 --> 00:33:21,680 Speaker 1: course not. So that billboard went up in twenty nineteen. 565 00:33:21,760 --> 00:33:23,640 Speaker 1: At the end of twenty nineteen, what did you do? 566 00:33:24,560 --> 00:33:27,800 Speaker 1: You sent out a fundraising email for this organization at 567 00:33:27,840 --> 00:33:29,880 Speaker 1: the end of twenty nineteen. So after they had put 568 00:33:29,960 --> 00:33:33,600 Speaker 1: this billboard up, did you know about the billboards they 569 00:33:33,640 --> 00:33:36,680 Speaker 1: put up attacking mansion and peters and testers and Cinema. 570 00:33:37,240 --> 00:33:39,320 Speaker 1: I only actually knew the one about Centator Cinema. I 571 00:33:39,320 --> 00:33:41,120 Speaker 1: didn't know about the other ones here, okay, So you 572 00:33:41,280 --> 00:33:45,000 Speaker 1: knew they'd called Senator Cinema corrupt, and after they called 573 00:33:45,040 --> 00:33:48,479 Speaker 1: Senator Cinema corrupt, you asked people to contribute to them. 574 00:33:48,560 --> 00:33:50,800 Speaker 1: Is that correct? I asked people, could you bean not 575 00:33:50,880 --> 00:33:53,480 Speaker 1: because of all that? Yes? Or no? Que time? Yes? 576 00:33:53,680 --> 00:33:56,040 Speaker 1: I did? Okay, So you knew they were calling Senator 577 00:33:56,120 --> 00:33:58,560 Speaker 1: Cinema corrupt and you asked them to contribute afterwards, and 578 00:33:58,600 --> 00:34:00,720 Speaker 1: by the way, the next year, so this is twenty nineteen. 579 00:34:01,840 --> 00:34:05,960 Speaker 1: You know these tactics, You don't mind you were aware 580 00:34:06,000 --> 00:34:08,200 Speaker 1: of them. You've testified you knew about them, at least 581 00:34:08,200 --> 00:34:09,959 Speaker 1: with regard to Senator, sent them on, and you wanted 582 00:34:10,000 --> 00:34:13,120 Speaker 1: people to support them. You also did it again in 583 00:34:13,560 --> 00:34:15,600 Speaker 1: twenty twenty, and Chairman can't well asked if I was 584 00:34:15,640 --> 00:34:18,319 Speaker 1: going to ask about her. I'd like to point out 585 00:34:18,440 --> 00:34:24,360 Speaker 1: this same group sent a letter to Chuck Schumer demanding 586 00:34:24,440 --> 00:34:27,480 Speaker 1: that Chuck Schumer removes Senator Cantwell as the chairman of 587 00:34:27,480 --> 00:34:32,120 Speaker 1: the Commerce Committee. Why because this committee hadn't confirmed you yet. Now, 588 00:34:32,239 --> 00:34:35,680 Speaker 1: I think that's a pretty extreme proposition. I gotta say, 589 00:34:35,800 --> 00:34:39,920 Speaker 1: I've never seen a nominee or a group that the 590 00:34:40,040 --> 00:34:44,520 Speaker 1: nominee fundraises for, demand her own party's chairwoman be fired 591 00:34:45,320 --> 00:34:51,919 Speaker 1: because you haven't been confirmed yet. Do you understand why 592 00:34:52,160 --> 00:34:55,719 Speaker 1: this seems one heck of a conflict of interest. I 593 00:34:55,760 --> 00:34:58,080 Speaker 1: don't see how it's a conflict of interest, Sir. Does 594 00:34:58,120 --> 00:35:01,200 Speaker 1: it seem impartial or does it seem an extreme partisan 595 00:35:01,280 --> 00:35:06,920 Speaker 1: willing to burn burn everything down if either party doesn't 596 00:35:06,920 --> 00:35:11,239 Speaker 1: do what you want? Senator I don't agree with all 597 00:35:11,320 --> 00:35:14,000 Speaker 1: the Fight for the Future's tactics, however, except you raise 598 00:35:14,080 --> 00:35:16,880 Speaker 1: money for them. You know about the raise money for them. 599 00:35:17,040 --> 00:35:20,359 Speaker 1: You send tweets every year asking people to contribute. When 600 00:35:20,400 --> 00:35:23,400 Speaker 1: you ask people to contribute, that's called raising money. Let 601 00:35:23,440 --> 00:35:28,040 Speaker 1: me ask, I mean, Senator, this woman, how in the 602 00:35:28,120 --> 00:35:30,600 Speaker 1: hell did they even think she had a shot? And 603 00:35:30,719 --> 00:35:33,640 Speaker 1: then the second question is does she actually have a 604 00:35:33,760 --> 00:35:36,400 Speaker 1: shot even after you lit her up this with the 605 00:35:36,520 --> 00:35:41,439 Speaker 1: facts the way that you just did. Look, of course 606 00:35:41,520 --> 00:35:44,520 Speaker 1: she has a shot. She has a shot if Democrats 607 00:35:44,640 --> 00:35:49,040 Speaker 1: decide to support her. I think there's I think it's 608 00:35:49,080 --> 00:35:52,600 Speaker 1: quite likely this domination is going to be defeated. I 609 00:35:52,680 --> 00:35:56,839 Speaker 1: think it should be defeated and it's gonna come down. 610 00:35:57,000 --> 00:35:59,960 Speaker 1: I have a high level of confidence that Republicans will 611 00:36:00,120 --> 00:36:03,480 Speaker 1: stand together, that we will have forty nine no votes. 612 00:36:03,560 --> 00:36:07,200 Speaker 1: The question is where a handful of Democrats going to be? 613 00:36:07,360 --> 00:36:11,560 Speaker 1: Where is Joe Mansion going to be? Where is Cinema 614 00:36:11,640 --> 00:36:13,400 Speaker 1: going to be? Where is John Tester going to be? 615 00:36:15,239 --> 00:36:17,640 Speaker 1: Where is Rosen going to be? Where's courts Masto going 616 00:36:17,719 --> 00:36:19,759 Speaker 1: to be? By the way, many of these are the 617 00:36:19,840 --> 00:36:23,479 Speaker 1: same senators that the group she's supported and raised money 618 00:36:23,520 --> 00:36:26,400 Speaker 1: for has blasted by name and called corrupt. So the 619 00:36:26,480 --> 00:36:30,000 Speaker 1: interesting question is are these Democrats senators going to vote 620 00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:33,680 Speaker 1: for her anyway because she's a darling of the left 621 00:36:33,760 --> 00:36:36,799 Speaker 1: wing of the Democrat Party. I hope not. I will 622 00:36:36,880 --> 00:36:42,160 Speaker 1: say it was I thought fairly remarkable testimony that she 623 00:36:42,760 --> 00:36:49,520 Speaker 1: admitted admitted on the stand that she knew about their 624 00:36:49,560 --> 00:36:53,840 Speaker 1: attacks on Cinema and still raise money for anywhere And 625 00:36:54,080 --> 00:36:58,919 Speaker 1: look I actually on some level respect gig soone. She's 626 00:36:58,960 --> 00:37:01,279 Speaker 1: a left wing activists, like, I love her questions or 627 00:37:01,360 --> 00:37:03,400 Speaker 1: did you know about it? Oh yeah? And did you 628 00:37:03,520 --> 00:37:05,800 Speaker 1: raise money afterwards for it? Oh? Yeah? Like she's not 629 00:37:05,880 --> 00:37:09,320 Speaker 1: apologetic about it, She's like, yeah, I'm a left winger. 630 00:37:09,400 --> 00:37:12,520 Speaker 1: I like, I want to beat the heck out anyone 631 00:37:13,560 --> 00:37:18,560 Speaker 1: Democrat or Republican that doesn't embrace left wing policies. Listen, 632 00:37:18,640 --> 00:37:21,920 Speaker 1: that's fine if you're an activist, it just doesn't give 633 00:37:21,960 --> 00:37:24,440 Speaker 1: you comfort as someone who's going to be a regulator 634 00:37:24,520 --> 00:37:27,680 Speaker 1: of communications in this country. I will tell you also, 635 00:37:28,840 --> 00:37:33,880 Speaker 1: while I was while I was laying that out, in 636 00:37:34,040 --> 00:37:36,480 Speaker 1: particular about how the group that she raised money for 637 00:37:38,680 --> 00:37:41,520 Speaker 1: called for Maria kent Well to be fired, Maria sitting 638 00:37:41,600 --> 00:37:44,520 Speaker 1: next to me, and what you didn't get in the audio, 639 00:37:44,680 --> 00:37:47,320 Speaker 1: but if you were listening to it you got is 640 00:37:47,480 --> 00:37:50,680 Speaker 1: Maria's cracking up laughing as I'm laying it out. I mean, 641 00:37:50,800 --> 00:37:55,520 Speaker 1: it really is weird. I've never seen a nominee who 642 00:37:55,600 --> 00:37:57,759 Speaker 1: has this kind of record, So I think we have 643 00:37:57,800 --> 00:38:00,319 Speaker 1: a good shot at defeating this. 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Otherwise why would you sign the letter? 700 00:41:19,040 --> 00:41:22,520 Speaker 1: He says that Politico deliberately distorted the letter that he signed. 701 00:41:22,880 --> 00:41:26,160 Speaker 1: He characterized the Post reporting on Hunter Biden's laptop is 702 00:41:26,200 --> 00:41:33,239 Speaker 1: part of a Russian disinformation operation. Now Clapper is in trouble. Now. 703 00:41:33,320 --> 00:41:35,680 Speaker 1: I think it's fair to say he's trying to cover 704 00:41:35,800 --> 00:41:39,359 Speaker 1: his tracks. Republicans are looking into him and the other 705 00:41:39,520 --> 00:41:42,560 Speaker 1: top people that were on this letter, and they are 706 00:41:42,640 --> 00:41:45,360 Speaker 1: all going to apparently be suppeining to come before Congress 707 00:41:45,520 --> 00:41:49,000 Speaker 1: with these hearings on the House side, and he said, quote, 708 00:41:49,560 --> 00:41:52,800 Speaker 1: all we were trying to do was raise a yellow 709 00:41:52,920 --> 00:41:57,080 Speaker 1: flag that this quote could be Russian disinformation. And then 710 00:41:57,120 --> 00:42:00,839 Speaker 1: he said, Politico deliberately distorted what we said. It was clear, 711 00:42:01,080 --> 00:42:05,040 Speaker 1: he said quote in paragraph five of his letter. Now, 712 00:42:05,840 --> 00:42:10,080 Speaker 1: almost everybody, even moderates to liberals in the media basically 713 00:42:10,160 --> 00:42:12,200 Speaker 1: turned on him in the last twenty four hours, saying, 714 00:42:12,600 --> 00:42:14,880 Speaker 1: you don't get to rewrite this, I want to get 715 00:42:14,960 --> 00:42:18,680 Speaker 1: your reaction to it. Well, first of all, it's worth 716 00:42:18,840 --> 00:42:28,880 Speaker 1: noting that everyone understood that the letter that Clapper and 717 00:42:28,960 --> 00:42:34,160 Speaker 1: the other so called Intelligence Committee the Intelligence Community members 718 00:42:34,239 --> 00:42:41,399 Speaker 1: signed was arguing that the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation. 719 00:42:41,480 --> 00:42:48,120 Speaker 1: What Clapper's saying now is obviously spin, and it's spin 720 00:42:48,560 --> 00:42:51,520 Speaker 1: to try to cover his own rear end because he 721 00:42:51,680 --> 00:42:59,400 Speaker 1: is now subject to subject to scrutiny from the House majority. 722 00:43:00,480 --> 00:43:05,359 Speaker 1: And Okay, so the headline, here's the headline Politico ran 723 00:43:05,440 --> 00:43:13,560 Speaker 1: about Clapper's letter, quote Hunter Biden's story is Russian disinfo. 724 00:43:14,400 --> 00:43:18,239 Speaker 1: Dozens of former Intel officials say so that was the 725 00:43:18,320 --> 00:43:21,880 Speaker 1: story Politico wrote because they leaked the letter to Politico, 726 00:43:22,000 --> 00:43:25,880 Speaker 1: and then lots of other media outlets, CNN and others 727 00:43:26,440 --> 00:43:30,440 Speaker 1: covered the Politico story. Now Clapper at the time, did 728 00:43:30,520 --> 00:43:34,160 Speaker 1: he issue a clarification this story is false. No. Did 729 00:43:34,200 --> 00:43:36,600 Speaker 1: he go on TV and say this is not true. 730 00:43:36,640 --> 00:43:40,440 Speaker 1: I didn't say it was Russian disinformation. No. The reason 731 00:43:40,560 --> 00:43:43,399 Speaker 1: they wrote the letter, the reason they leaked the letter 732 00:43:44,000 --> 00:43:47,359 Speaker 1: is they intended Politico to write exactly what they wrote. 733 00:43:47,400 --> 00:43:50,720 Speaker 1: They intended the useful idiots and the press, the corrupt 734 00:43:50,800 --> 00:43:54,759 Speaker 1: corporate media, to go forth with their lie. And we 735 00:43:54,880 --> 00:43:58,680 Speaker 1: now know it was a lie. That it wasn't Russian disinformation. 736 00:43:58,800 --> 00:44:03,200 Speaker 1: The laptop was true and real. But James Clapper wanted 737 00:44:03,280 --> 00:44:06,200 Speaker 1: that story written two weeks before the election because he 738 00:44:06,239 --> 00:44:10,200 Speaker 1: didn't want anyone to focus on what was in in 739 00:44:10,520 --> 00:44:14,360 Speaker 1: the Hunter Biden laptop. Well, and he even claimed Senator 740 00:44:14,360 --> 00:44:17,240 Speaker 1: in the last twenty four hours that he was quote 741 00:44:17,440 --> 00:44:20,720 Speaker 1: unaware that Biden brought up the letter in his final 742 00:44:20,880 --> 00:44:24,920 Speaker 1: debate with former President Donald Trump and called the Post 743 00:44:25,000 --> 00:44:29,320 Speaker 1: story a bunch of garbage. He said, also, you know 744 00:44:29,400 --> 00:44:31,160 Speaker 1: he said that I didn't know about him, that I 745 00:44:31,320 --> 00:44:34,520 Speaker 1: don't believe him. I think he is lying to us. Well, 746 00:44:34,880 --> 00:44:38,840 Speaker 1: and let maybe clear. So Clapper was the head of 747 00:44:39,160 --> 00:44:43,719 Speaker 1: the Department of National Intelligence under Barack Obama. Clapper has 748 00:44:43,760 --> 00:44:46,960 Speaker 1: been a partisan his entire life. He's an extreme partisan, 749 00:44:47,480 --> 00:44:51,000 Speaker 1: and he has a record of dishonesty. In March of 750 00:44:51,120 --> 00:44:55,720 Speaker 1: twenty thirteen, Clapper was testifying under oath and Senator Ron Widen, 751 00:44:55,760 --> 00:44:59,600 Speaker 1: a Democrat, asked Clapper whether the United States government was 752 00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:04,160 Speaker 1: acting quote any type of data at all on millions 753 00:45:04,640 --> 00:45:11,120 Speaker 1: or hundreds of millions of Americans. Clapper paused and said, no, sir, 754 00:45:12,160 --> 00:45:18,200 Speaker 1: not wittingly. Three months later, Edward Snowden leaked documents revealing 755 00:45:18,280 --> 00:45:22,200 Speaker 1: that the National Security Agency was in fact collecting bulk 756 00:45:22,280 --> 00:45:27,040 Speaker 1: domestic call records on millions of Americans. So Clapper, under 757 00:45:27,120 --> 00:45:31,720 Speaker 1: oath to Congress, flat out lied. That lie became public. 758 00:45:33,040 --> 00:45:36,959 Speaker 1: It prompted legislation that I co sponsored and helped write 759 00:45:37,000 --> 00:45:41,200 Speaker 1: along with Senator Mike Lee, called the USA Freedom Act 760 00:45:41,239 --> 00:45:44,759 Speaker 1: that significantly restricted the ability of the federal government to 761 00:45:45,000 --> 00:45:49,720 Speaker 1: intercept the communications of law abiding American citizens. But Clapper 762 00:45:49,840 --> 00:45:53,680 Speaker 1: was never held accountable. He lied to Congress under oath, 763 00:45:53,719 --> 00:45:56,840 Speaker 1: and he's had a pattern of lying when it advances 764 00:45:56,920 --> 00:46:01,080 Speaker 1: partisan interest. I would point out that clapper partner in crime, 765 00:46:01,200 --> 00:46:04,520 Speaker 1: the director of the CIA under Barack Obama was a 766 00:46:04,600 --> 00:46:08,680 Speaker 1: guy named John Brennan. John Brennan is such a partisan 767 00:46:08,800 --> 00:46:14,520 Speaker 1: he makes James Clapper look moderate. John Brennan has famously 768 00:46:14,640 --> 00:46:19,120 Speaker 1: told the story of when he was interviewing with the CIA, 769 00:46:20,400 --> 00:46:22,920 Speaker 1: they asked him a question during his polygraphy, you ever 770 00:46:22,960 --> 00:46:25,719 Speaker 1: associated with anyone who's called for the violent overthrow of 771 00:46:25,760 --> 00:46:29,080 Speaker 1: the government of the United States? And he described how 772 00:46:29,120 --> 00:46:32,120 Speaker 1: he panicked because he realized that the truthful answer to 773 00:46:32,200 --> 00:46:36,600 Speaker 1: that was yes. So in nineteen seventy six, John Brennan 774 00:46:36,760 --> 00:46:40,040 Speaker 1: was a young college student fresh out of college, and 775 00:46:40,239 --> 00:46:45,400 Speaker 1: there was a presidential election, a presidential election between Jimmy 776 00:46:45,480 --> 00:46:49,799 Speaker 1: Carter and Gerald Ford, and young John Brennan looked at 777 00:46:49,880 --> 00:46:54,160 Speaker 1: Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford and decided, Jimmy Carter is 778 00:46:54,360 --> 00:46:59,280 Speaker 1: not liberal enough for me. I need someone more liberal 779 00:46:59,400 --> 00:47:01,880 Speaker 1: than Jimmy Carter. So what did John Brennan do in 780 00:47:02,000 --> 00:47:05,680 Speaker 1: nineteen seventy six He cast a vote for Gus Hall, 781 00:47:06,560 --> 00:47:09,240 Speaker 1: who was the candidate for President of the United States 782 00:47:09,360 --> 00:47:12,080 Speaker 1: of the Communist Party of the United States of America. 783 00:47:12,760 --> 00:47:16,279 Speaker 1: So he went in and voted for the communist to 784 00:47:16,440 --> 00:47:19,080 Speaker 1: be president of the United States because he thought Jimmy 785 00:47:19,160 --> 00:47:24,040 Speaker 1: Carter was too conservative. That's who Barack Obama named as 786 00:47:24,080 --> 00:47:28,800 Speaker 1: his head of CIA. That was James Clapper's compatriot. Clapper 787 00:47:28,920 --> 00:47:32,120 Speaker 1: had lied previously under oath to Congress, so it should 788 00:47:32,160 --> 00:47:36,400 Speaker 1: be no surprise that in the twenty twenty election these 789 00:47:36,560 --> 00:47:40,439 Speaker 1: same partisan players are comfortable lying and they continue doing 790 00:47:40,520 --> 00:47:43,960 Speaker 1: so well. I hope that they are terrified, and I 791 00:47:44,120 --> 00:47:48,279 Speaker 1: hope that the House Republicans hold them accountable for this. 792 00:47:48,440 --> 00:47:52,200 Speaker 1: They're obviously, especially James Clapper, trying to cover his ass 793 00:47:52,280 --> 00:47:54,879 Speaker 1: now before he asked to come in and testify, because 794 00:47:54,880 --> 00:47:56,680 Speaker 1: they said they're going to get these Sapians, these top 795 00:47:56,760 --> 00:47:59,799 Speaker 1: people in this letter, and they deserve the American people 796 00:47:59,920 --> 00:48:02,080 Speaker 1: is to get these answers, and now him trying to 797 00:48:02,160 --> 00:48:04,480 Speaker 1: rewrite history before he gets there. I think it's a 798 00:48:04,520 --> 00:48:08,160 Speaker 1: good sign the Republicans are making headway there. Centator always 799 00:48:08,200 --> 00:48:10,640 Speaker 1: a pleasure. 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