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Last I checked, 85 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:35,680 Speaker 1: the vote was forty nine in favor fifty one against. 86 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:38,960 Speaker 1: Am I crazy. Is this just my legal ignorance or 87 00:04:39,040 --> 00:04:42,240 Speaker 1: is that not a filibuster? Yes, you stopped trying to 88 00:04:42,320 --> 00:04:45,279 Speaker 1: bring math into it. The fact is a majority of 89 00:04:45,279 --> 00:04:48,320 Speaker 1: the Senate voted against this radical bill. But the press 90 00:04:48,360 --> 00:04:50,800 Speaker 1: doesn't like that news that the real headline should be 91 00:04:50,880 --> 00:04:55,360 Speaker 1: bipartisan majority of the Senate rejects radical pro abortion bill. 92 00:04:55,480 --> 00:04:59,400 Speaker 1: That would in fact be the accurate headline. But you know, 93 00:04:59,440 --> 00:05:01,479 Speaker 1: it's interesting. The other part of the headline, it's not 94 00:05:01,560 --> 00:05:05,680 Speaker 1: just the filibuster part that is inaccurate, is the part 95 00:05:05,760 --> 00:05:09,119 Speaker 1: that says codifies Row. This bill does nothing of the sword. 96 00:05:09,200 --> 00:05:12,400 Speaker 1: It doesn't. When you read codifies Row, you think, oh, 97 00:05:12,440 --> 00:05:16,359 Speaker 1: it goes back to the way things were before the 98 00:05:16,400 --> 00:05:18,839 Speaker 1: Supreme Court decides the Dobbs case. Well, no, that's not 99 00:05:18,880 --> 00:05:22,840 Speaker 1: what this bill does. If this bill passed, it would 100 00:05:22,920 --> 00:05:26,440 Speaker 1: be a radical bill. It would strike down just about 101 00:05:26,520 --> 00:05:30,120 Speaker 1: every reasonable, common sense restriction on abortion that has been 102 00:05:30,200 --> 00:05:34,080 Speaker 1: enacted the last forty nine years. Under ROW. It's been 103 00:05:34,160 --> 00:05:38,280 Speaker 1: deemed permissible even already, for states to limit late term abortions, 104 00:05:38,320 --> 00:05:41,560 Speaker 1: for states to restrict taxpayer funding of abortions, for states 105 00:05:41,560 --> 00:05:46,760 Speaker 1: to require parental consent or parental notification. This Democrat bill 106 00:05:46,800 --> 00:05:49,640 Speaker 1: strikes all those laws down. This Democrat bill is the 107 00:05:49,760 --> 00:05:53,359 Speaker 1: unlimited Abortion for All bill. Think about it for a 108 00:05:53,400 --> 00:05:56,680 Speaker 1: minute that forty nine Democrats were happy to vote for that. 109 00:05:57,000 --> 00:05:59,960 Speaker 1: The only one who voted with the Republicans was Joe Mann. 110 00:06:00,960 --> 00:06:04,400 Speaker 1: The bill couldn't codify ROW because parts of Row versus 111 00:06:04,440 --> 00:06:07,119 Speaker 1: Weight have already been overruled. They were overruled by Planned 112 00:06:07,120 --> 00:06:10,919 Speaker 1: Parenthood v. Casey, which changed some of the reasoning and 113 00:06:10,960 --> 00:06:14,080 Speaker 1: some of the processes for abortion. And so you know, 114 00:06:14,320 --> 00:06:17,040 Speaker 1: this has been an ongoing debate for a long time. 115 00:06:17,640 --> 00:06:22,280 Speaker 1: Your colleague, Senator Elizabeth Warren yesterday said that the dabb's 116 00:06:22,320 --> 00:06:26,520 Speaker 1: decision could represent an extremist, right wing Supreme Court imposing 117 00:06:26,560 --> 00:06:30,640 Speaker 1: its views on the American people because if versus Weight 118 00:06:30,760 --> 00:06:33,760 Speaker 1: is overruled, then you'll have a situation where the majority 119 00:06:33,800 --> 00:06:37,920 Speaker 1: of states will impose severe restrictions on abortion immediately. If 120 00:06:37,960 --> 00:06:40,440 Speaker 1: the majority of states are going to impose new restrictions, 121 00:06:40,440 --> 00:06:43,359 Speaker 1: how is the Supreme Court imposing its views on the people. 122 00:06:44,279 --> 00:06:47,600 Speaker 1: This is literally an example where for Democrats and the press, 123 00:06:47,880 --> 00:06:50,520 Speaker 1: up is down, right, has left, everything is backwards and 124 00:06:50,640 --> 00:06:55,279 Speaker 1: upside down. You have Democrats screaming that overturning Row is 125 00:06:55,279 --> 00:06:58,920 Speaker 1: an assault on democracy. In fact, if the Court does 126 00:06:58,960 --> 00:07:02,400 Speaker 1: overturn Row, it is a victory for democracy. Rowe was 127 00:07:02,440 --> 00:07:06,120 Speaker 1: an assault on democracy. Roe versus Wade was seven unelected 128 00:07:06,160 --> 00:07:10,360 Speaker 1: lawyers in black robes saying, you stupid voters don't know 129 00:07:10,400 --> 00:07:12,960 Speaker 1: how to resolve these issues rights. We're not going to 130 00:07:13,080 --> 00:07:14,760 Speaker 1: let you do this now. For one hundred and eighty 131 00:07:14,800 --> 00:07:16,920 Speaker 1: five years, literally from the beginning of our country until 132 00:07:16,960 --> 00:07:20,760 Speaker 1: nineteen seventy three, questions of abortion were decided by the 133 00:07:20,840 --> 00:07:24,040 Speaker 1: voters and by the state legislatures that were elected by 134 00:07:24,040 --> 00:07:27,240 Speaker 1: the voters. Roe said no more. They said, we don't 135 00:07:27,240 --> 00:07:30,080 Speaker 1: believe in democracy. And the reason Democrats are freaking out 136 00:07:30,160 --> 00:07:34,080 Speaker 1: right now is you know, when poker at tell is 137 00:07:34,120 --> 00:07:37,320 Speaker 1: when they do something that gives away what their hand 138 00:07:37,440 --> 00:07:40,120 Speaker 1: is when they're and they're trying to represent something other 139 00:07:40,160 --> 00:07:42,480 Speaker 1: than what their hand is here, the Democrats have a tell. 140 00:07:43,640 --> 00:07:47,920 Speaker 1: Number one, The fact that they're freaking out is a 141 00:07:48,000 --> 00:07:52,120 Speaker 1: tell that they know their views on abortion are radical 142 00:07:52,160 --> 00:07:54,680 Speaker 1: and out of touch with the American people. Forty nine 143 00:07:54,680 --> 00:07:58,560 Speaker 1: of the Democrats today voted for a law that allows 144 00:07:58,600 --> 00:08:01,320 Speaker 1: abortion up until the home and of birth, literally until 145 00:08:01,400 --> 00:08:05,040 Speaker 1: the child is being born. This Democrat bill would allowed 146 00:08:05,040 --> 00:08:07,440 Speaker 1: to abortion. Do you know the latest polling, You know 147 00:08:07,480 --> 00:08:10,360 Speaker 1: what percent of Americans agree with abortion up until the 148 00:08:10,440 --> 00:08:13,640 Speaker 1: very instant of birth? Six percent? Wow, six percent of 149 00:08:13,640 --> 00:08:17,360 Speaker 1: Americans agree with the position of forty nine out of 150 00:08:17,400 --> 00:08:21,800 Speaker 1: fifty Democrats and Joe Biden and Kamala Harris Elizabeth Warren 151 00:08:21,880 --> 00:08:25,400 Speaker 1: when she's screaming and ranting and raving, it's because the 152 00:08:25,520 --> 00:08:27,440 Speaker 1: voters are going to be allowed to do what they 153 00:08:27,480 --> 00:08:31,720 Speaker 1: think is right and not be subject to her radical decrees. Now, 154 00:08:31,720 --> 00:08:34,880 Speaker 1: the Democrats have another tell, which is you notice that 155 00:08:35,120 --> 00:08:37,960 Speaker 1: when they're talking about the Dabbs decision, they very very 156 00:08:38,000 --> 00:08:44,480 Speaker 1: quickly say, if this decision goes into effect, it will 157 00:08:44,520 --> 00:08:49,400 Speaker 1: strike down the availability of contraceptives, it will strike down 158 00:08:50,160 --> 00:08:54,120 Speaker 1: gay marriage and an interracial marriage. That the New York 159 00:08:54,200 --> 00:08:57,880 Speaker 1: Times went so far. The editorial board the New York 160 00:08:57,880 --> 00:09:01,520 Speaker 1: Times suggested that there are multiples in the Union that, 161 00:09:01,600 --> 00:09:06,200 Speaker 1: if they were allowed to, would ban interracial marriage. What 162 00:09:06,520 --> 00:09:13,360 Speaker 1: utter garbage, you bigoted, moronic Manhattan leftist elite, lying sacks 163 00:09:13,400 --> 00:09:16,520 Speaker 1: of crap. But how do you really feel? Yeah, it 164 00:09:17,000 --> 00:09:18,880 Speaker 1: kind of pisses me off. And I would note by 165 00:09:18,880 --> 00:09:22,680 Speaker 1: the way that these racist leftists of the New York Times, 166 00:09:23,400 --> 00:09:25,600 Speaker 1: there may be no one on planet Earth whom they 167 00:09:25,679 --> 00:09:29,560 Speaker 1: despise more than Justice Clarence Thomas, who is married to 168 00:09:29,600 --> 00:09:32,040 Speaker 1: a white woman. He is in an interracial marriage. I 169 00:09:32,080 --> 00:09:36,120 Speaker 1: suspect Clarence Thomas would be quite surprised if he were 170 00:09:36,120 --> 00:09:39,280 Speaker 1: doing something to strike down interracial marriage. But the only 171 00:09:39,360 --> 00:09:41,880 Speaker 1: people who imagine interracial marriage is going to be struck 172 00:09:41,920 --> 00:09:45,280 Speaker 1: down is radical leftist because they've never actually met a 173 00:09:45,320 --> 00:09:51,000 Speaker 1: conservative voter, so they think we're all bigoted clansmen. But 174 00:09:51,200 --> 00:09:55,360 Speaker 1: here's the tell on this. When the Democrats and the 175 00:09:55,440 --> 00:10:00,360 Speaker 1: press are not defending their positions on abortion, it's because 176 00:10:00,400 --> 00:10:04,240 Speaker 1: they know their positions on abortion are wildly out of 177 00:10:04,240 --> 00:10:08,240 Speaker 1: the mainstream. So anytime you hear them talking about contraception 178 00:10:08,360 --> 00:10:11,680 Speaker 1: or marriage, it's because they're trying to change the subject. Well, 179 00:10:11,880 --> 00:10:14,240 Speaker 1: so this raises a question to me that I do 180 00:10:14,280 --> 00:10:16,800 Speaker 1: not have an answer to, which is why would the 181 00:10:16,840 --> 00:10:20,439 Speaker 1: Democrats bring up this bill? It makes them look extremely foolish. 182 00:10:20,600 --> 00:10:23,400 Speaker 1: It gives away the whole game. It shows that actually 183 00:10:23,760 --> 00:10:26,640 Speaker 1: the overruling of Row is not an assault on democracy, 184 00:10:26,640 --> 00:10:29,600 Speaker 1: that actually most people don't want this kind of crazy, 185 00:10:29,720 --> 00:10:33,720 Speaker 1: extreme abortion agenda. Elizabeth Warren admitted it herself in this 186 00:10:33,800 --> 00:10:37,800 Speaker 1: column in Marie Claire Magazine. Wait, you're reading Marie Claire magazine. 187 00:10:37,800 --> 00:10:40,800 Speaker 1: Oh constantly, Michael, Why are you reading Marie Claire magazine? 188 00:10:40,800 --> 00:10:43,280 Speaker 1: And what is Marie Claire Magazine? I am so I 189 00:10:43,320 --> 00:10:45,840 Speaker 1: cannot believe how uncultured you are. Senator. Next you're going 190 00:10:45,880 --> 00:10:48,320 Speaker 1: to tell me you don't read Glamor either. I only 191 00:10:48,400 --> 00:10:52,160 Speaker 1: raise Cosmo for teams only because that's fair enough. So 192 00:10:52,200 --> 00:10:54,559 Speaker 1: why are they doing this? They've got egg on their face. 193 00:10:54,920 --> 00:10:57,959 Speaker 1: It looks pathetic. Is it just to appease the base? 194 00:10:59,000 --> 00:11:03,600 Speaker 1: You've got to understand today's Democrats are captured by the 195 00:11:03,720 --> 00:11:09,440 Speaker 1: radical activists on every issue. On immigration, they're captured by 196 00:11:09,480 --> 00:11:15,320 Speaker 1: the open border radicals, on issues of dr gender, they're 197 00:11:15,400 --> 00:11:21,160 Speaker 1: they're captured by the transgender radicals, and and and on 198 00:11:21,240 --> 00:11:25,320 Speaker 1: issues of abortion, they actually don't care about the swing voter. 199 00:11:25,400 --> 00:11:27,520 Speaker 1: They don't care about the American people. They don't care 200 00:11:27,520 --> 00:11:31,600 Speaker 1: about the soccer mom. They care about the radicals who 201 00:11:31,679 --> 00:11:35,120 Speaker 1: control the money and control the foot soldiers in the 202 00:11:35,160 --> 00:11:39,040 Speaker 1: Democratic Party. And here's proof of it. Chuck Schumer could 203 00:11:39,080 --> 00:11:41,600 Speaker 1: have had a vote today that he would have won 204 00:11:41,640 --> 00:11:45,320 Speaker 1: a buipartisan majority on so just it's a fifty fifty 205 00:11:45,320 --> 00:11:50,040 Speaker 1: cent fifty Democrats fifty Republicans. Two of the Republicans, Susan 206 00:11:50,040 --> 00:11:53,720 Speaker 1: Collins and Lisa Murkowski, have explicitly stated, in fact, they've 207 00:11:53,720 --> 00:11:58,360 Speaker 1: introduced legislation that would do something like codifi row. It 208 00:11:58,400 --> 00:12:01,680 Speaker 1: would it would take some elements of abortion off the table. 209 00:12:02,280 --> 00:12:04,920 Speaker 1: It would leave some of the restrictions like partial birth 210 00:12:05,000 --> 00:12:08,280 Speaker 1: and taxpayer funding and prettal consent of prettal notification in place, 211 00:12:08,720 --> 00:12:12,520 Speaker 1: but it would it would be more accurately described as 212 00:12:12,559 --> 00:12:16,600 Speaker 1: codifying Row than this current radical bill. If Schumer had 213 00:12:16,600 --> 00:12:18,679 Speaker 1: brought that up, he would have won today fifty three 214 00:12:18,720 --> 00:12:21,199 Speaker 1: to forty seven. He would have gotten the forty nine 215 00:12:21,240 --> 00:12:24,120 Speaker 1: Democrats have voted for this, He would have gotten Joe 216 00:12:24,120 --> 00:12:26,439 Speaker 1: mentioned who he lost. He would have gotten two Republicans. 217 00:12:26,480 --> 00:12:29,840 Speaker 1: Now it still wouldn't have passed because it would take 218 00:12:29,920 --> 00:12:31,840 Speaker 1: sixty to go up, but we would have had a 219 00:12:31,880 --> 00:12:35,040 Speaker 1: vote that was fifty fifty three forty seven, and the 220 00:12:35,120 --> 00:12:38,920 Speaker 1: Democrats could accurately say bipartisan majority of the Senate votes 221 00:12:39,200 --> 00:12:42,920 Speaker 1: to rebuke the Court. They don't care, their radicals don't 222 00:12:42,960 --> 00:12:48,400 Speaker 1: actually want anything like a middle ground. They are appeasing 223 00:12:48,640 --> 00:12:51,560 Speaker 1: the crazies. Well, speaking of the craziest center, I mean, 224 00:12:51,600 --> 00:12:55,040 Speaker 1: you're kind of seeing this right now in Washington, d C. 225 00:12:55,200 --> 00:12:58,800 Speaker 1: In Virginia, which is that the White House is refusing 226 00:12:58,840 --> 00:13:02,880 Speaker 1: to condemn the protesters who were showing up not even 227 00:13:02,960 --> 00:13:05,760 Speaker 1: just to the Supreme Court, which is a questionable practice 228 00:13:05,760 --> 00:13:07,160 Speaker 1: in and of itself, and we can get to it. 229 00:13:07,320 --> 00:13:10,240 Speaker 1: They're showing up to the homes of judges where their 230 00:13:10,320 --> 00:13:14,480 Speaker 1: children sleep, protesting, screaming in residential neighborhoods. The White House 231 00:13:14,520 --> 00:13:16,120 Speaker 1: has asked about that, what do they do? They shrugged 232 00:13:16,120 --> 00:13:18,720 Speaker 1: their shoulders. The last pod, we talked about how this 233 00:13:18,800 --> 00:13:21,840 Speaker 1: leak of the Supreme Court decision is an attempt to 234 00:13:21,880 --> 00:13:25,040 Speaker 1: destroy the Supreme Court's attempt to tear down the rule 235 00:13:25,080 --> 00:13:28,199 Speaker 1: of law, and it's an attempt to use political pressure 236 00:13:28,240 --> 00:13:30,880 Speaker 1: to bully the justices into changing their votes, and it 237 00:13:30,920 --> 00:13:33,199 Speaker 1: really goes right to the heart of the integrity of 238 00:13:33,200 --> 00:13:36,559 Speaker 1: the institution. This is the next step of that, which 239 00:13:36,600 --> 00:13:39,040 Speaker 1: is the radical showing up at the private homes of 240 00:13:39,080 --> 00:13:42,680 Speaker 1: the justices, trying to intimidate them, trying to frighten them, 241 00:13:42,720 --> 00:13:47,200 Speaker 1: trying to threaten them. And by the way, it's not 242 00:13:47,240 --> 00:13:49,280 Speaker 1: just at the homes of the justices. These guys are 243 00:13:49,320 --> 00:13:53,199 Speaker 1: also showing up at pro life advocacy groups, at pro 244 00:13:53,240 --> 00:13:56,679 Speaker 1: life pregnancy centers. There was one in Wisconsin that they 245 00:13:56,679 --> 00:14:00,480 Speaker 1: threw a Molotov cocktail on that they burned, that they 246 00:14:00,559 --> 00:14:03,160 Speaker 1: spray painted and vandalized. There was another one in Denton, 247 00:14:03,200 --> 00:14:06,679 Speaker 1: Texas that they spray painted and vandalized. There were people 248 00:14:06,760 --> 00:14:10,040 Speaker 1: showing up at Catholic churches across the country and harassing 249 00:14:10,120 --> 00:14:13,000 Speaker 1: people going to Mass on Sunday. I mean, it's just 250 00:14:13,600 --> 00:14:16,640 Speaker 1: number one. These are vile, evil, bigoted people. I'm sorry 251 00:14:16,640 --> 00:14:18,920 Speaker 1: if you go to anyone's church and harass them at church, 252 00:14:20,360 --> 00:14:22,360 Speaker 1: that there is a circle of hell just for you. 253 00:14:22,520 --> 00:14:26,640 Speaker 1: That that is contemptuous, even if you disagree with them. 254 00:14:26,720 --> 00:14:30,400 Speaker 1: Leave them alone at church, and leave them alone at home. 255 00:14:30,680 --> 00:14:33,160 Speaker 1: And I got to say the intimidation at the homes 256 00:14:33,160 --> 00:14:37,960 Speaker 1: of the justices to see Jensaki repeatedly refused to condemn it. 257 00:14:37,960 --> 00:14:41,320 Speaker 1: It's just peaceful. You know, several hundred angry people outside 258 00:14:41,360 --> 00:14:44,280 Speaker 1: your house while your children are inside, screaming and yelling 259 00:14:44,280 --> 00:14:48,040 Speaker 1: and cursing. It, that's just peaceful. It's repulsive. Well, it's 260 00:14:48,080 --> 00:14:50,440 Speaker 1: also against the law, is I mean, you know you 261 00:14:50,760 --> 00:14:53,400 Speaker 1: reference the acts of violence at the pro life center 262 00:14:53,480 --> 00:14:56,880 Speaker 1: is the pro life pregnancy centers. But obviously that's against 263 00:14:56,880 --> 00:14:59,440 Speaker 1: the law. It's also against the law to show up 264 00:14:59,480 --> 00:15:02,760 Speaker 1: to it. Judges home, It's right there in the US Code. 265 00:15:02,800 --> 00:15:06,480 Speaker 1: You know it better than I do. Where are the prosecutions? 266 00:15:06,520 --> 00:15:09,200 Speaker 1: Where are the handcuffs? So let's talk about that. The 267 00:15:09,240 --> 00:15:12,920 Speaker 1: particular federal provision you're talking about is eighteen USC. Section 268 00:15:13,000 --> 00:15:16,960 Speaker 1: fifteen oh seven, and it says, whoever with the intent 269 00:15:17,040 --> 00:15:20,400 Speaker 1: of interfering, with, obstructing, or impeding the administration of justice, 270 00:15:21,040 --> 00:15:24,960 Speaker 1: or with the intent of influencing any judge, juror witness, 271 00:15:25,160 --> 00:15:28,840 Speaker 1: or court officer in the discharge of his duty, pickets 272 00:15:28,920 --> 00:15:31,320 Speaker 1: or parades inter near a building housing a court of 273 00:15:31,320 --> 00:15:35,600 Speaker 1: the United States or internear a building, or residents occupied 274 00:15:35,760 --> 00:15:38,800 Speaker 1: or used by such judge, juror witness, or court officer 275 00:15:41,600 --> 00:15:44,280 Speaker 1: shall be fined under this title or in prison not 276 00:15:44,360 --> 00:15:47,720 Speaker 1: more than one year, or both. So they're clearly doing that. 277 00:15:47,760 --> 00:15:49,640 Speaker 1: They're picketing at the home of a judge with an 278 00:15:49,640 --> 00:15:52,440 Speaker 1: intent of influencing the judge's decision. It's a straight out 279 00:15:52,480 --> 00:15:56,480 Speaker 1: federal crime. And Merrick Garland and the corrupt Biden Department 280 00:15:56,480 --> 00:15:58,760 Speaker 1: of Justice is nowhere to be found. They're not enforcing 281 00:15:58,760 --> 00:16:01,360 Speaker 1: the law. And this is it is a form of 282 00:16:01,400 --> 00:16:03,840 Speaker 1: obstruction of justice. It is trying to get the judge 283 00:16:04,120 --> 00:16:08,600 Speaker 1: to change their mind, to change their vote, to change 284 00:16:08,600 --> 00:16:12,560 Speaker 1: their decision. And I'll point out it's not just federal law. Actually, 285 00:16:13,160 --> 00:16:18,320 Speaker 1: Virginia law likewise has a provision and it is section 286 00:16:18,600 --> 00:16:23,320 Speaker 1: eighteen point two Das four eighteen and section eighteen point 287 00:16:23,320 --> 00:16:27,280 Speaker 1: two Dash four nineteen of the Code of Virginia that 288 00:16:27,800 --> 00:16:32,280 Speaker 1: makes it a crime to piket the residence of an individual. 289 00:16:33,000 --> 00:16:37,360 Speaker 1: And so Virginia likewise, for those justices who live in Virginia, 290 00:16:37,400 --> 00:16:40,760 Speaker 1: you've got both a federal crime and a crime in Virginia. 291 00:16:40,800 --> 00:16:44,520 Speaker 1: And this is going to someone's home, I'm going to suggest, 292 00:16:44,640 --> 00:16:47,600 Speaker 1: is inherently threatening and intimidating. It's one thing to go 293 00:16:47,640 --> 00:16:49,440 Speaker 1: to the office. Look, there have been protests on the 294 00:16:49,440 --> 00:16:51,360 Speaker 1: steps of the Supreme Court. Are actually right below the 295 00:16:51,400 --> 00:16:54,960 Speaker 1: steps of the Supreme Court from the beginning of our country, 296 00:16:54,680 --> 00:16:57,760 Speaker 1: from when the Supreme Court building was built and before 297 00:16:57,840 --> 00:17:01,560 Speaker 1: that in the Capitol. That's perfectly fine. You want to 298 00:17:01,600 --> 00:17:03,920 Speaker 1: protest on them all, that's perfectly fine. You want to 299 00:17:03,960 --> 00:17:07,760 Speaker 1: protest to the public square, that's perfectly fine. There's a 300 00:17:07,800 --> 00:17:10,800 Speaker 1: reason you go to someone's home. You go to someone's 301 00:17:10,840 --> 00:17:14,120 Speaker 1: home because that's where they sleep, that's where their children are, 302 00:17:14,520 --> 00:17:16,800 Speaker 1: that's where their physical safety is. What do you make 303 00:17:16,800 --> 00:17:20,199 Speaker 1: of Chuck Schumer saying that, look, this is this is 304 00:17:20,240 --> 00:17:22,800 Speaker 1: the business. We've chosen to quote him and Wroth and 305 00:17:22,880 --> 00:17:27,000 Speaker 1: the Godfather, and Chuck Schumer said that he has protesters 306 00:17:27,000 --> 00:17:29,040 Speaker 1: at his house three or four times a week sometimes. 307 00:17:29,359 --> 00:17:32,280 Speaker 1: And if the judges didn't want that, while they're in 308 00:17:32,320 --> 00:17:34,600 Speaker 1: the wrong line of work, well they are in a 309 00:17:34,600 --> 00:17:37,000 Speaker 1: different line of work. This is not the business they 310 00:17:37,000 --> 00:17:40,879 Speaker 1: have chosen. Politics is one thing. And listen, when I 311 00:17:40,960 --> 00:17:43,280 Speaker 1: ran for office, when Schumer ran for office, part of 312 00:17:43,280 --> 00:17:45,639 Speaker 1: the job is to be responsive to the people, and 313 00:17:45,960 --> 00:17:50,000 Speaker 1: that means protests are a perfectly legitimate part of the 314 00:17:50,119 --> 00:17:53,240 Speaker 1: political process because each of us elected to the Senate, 315 00:17:53,280 --> 00:17:57,600 Speaker 1: elected to the Congress are required or had the responsibility 316 00:17:57,640 --> 00:18:02,600 Speaker 1: of representing our constituents. The justices are not elected representatives. 317 00:18:02,640 --> 00:18:06,160 Speaker 1: Their responsibilities to the Constitution and to the law. Now, 318 00:18:06,160 --> 00:18:09,760 Speaker 1: the Democrats think this is the business the justices have chosen. 319 00:18:10,560 --> 00:18:13,639 Speaker 1: And when Chuck Schumer stood on the floor steps of 320 00:18:13,640 --> 00:18:17,760 Speaker 1: the Supreme Court and threatened the justices by name and said, 321 00:18:17,760 --> 00:18:20,520 Speaker 1: if you decide this decision we're wrong, you will have 322 00:18:20,760 --> 00:18:25,960 Speaker 1: unleashed the whirlwind, he was threatening them. And so the 323 00:18:26,080 --> 00:18:28,240 Speaker 1: job of a politician the job of a justice is 324 00:18:28,320 --> 00:18:31,720 Speaker 1: very different. There's a reason it is a federal criminal 325 00:18:31,720 --> 00:18:33,800 Speaker 1: offense to do this to a judge and it's not 326 00:18:33,880 --> 00:18:37,400 Speaker 1: a federal criminal offense to do this to an elected official, 327 00:18:37,440 --> 00:18:40,760 Speaker 1: because the jobs are different, and you shouldn't be using 328 00:18:40,840 --> 00:18:44,520 Speaker 1: threats and intimidation to try to change a judicial decision. 329 00:18:44,640 --> 00:18:48,240 Speaker 1: Now that being said, I actually think what's happening to 330 00:18:48,320 --> 00:18:51,840 Speaker 1: elected officials, whether Chuck Schumer or anyone else, has gone 331 00:18:51,840 --> 00:18:56,080 Speaker 1: too far. Look, public service means a lot, but it 332 00:18:56,119 --> 00:19:00,520 Speaker 1: shouldn't have to entail threats to the safety and lives 333 00:19:00,560 --> 00:19:03,679 Speaker 1: of your kids. I think it should be treated as 334 00:19:03,680 --> 00:19:09,000 Speaker 1: a criminal offense protesting a residential neighborhood, that there are time, place, 335 00:19:09,040 --> 00:19:12,720 Speaker 1: and manner restrictions. If a protest is designed to threaten 336 00:19:13,080 --> 00:19:15,520 Speaker 1: and harass an individual, you can do it at the office, 337 00:19:15,560 --> 00:19:17,240 Speaker 1: you can do it in the public square, but you 338 00:19:17,240 --> 00:19:20,960 Speaker 1: shouldn't be allowed to go and harass people at their homes. 339 00:19:21,680 --> 00:19:24,800 Speaker 1: I totally agree. There is nothing in the text or 340 00:19:24,880 --> 00:19:26,920 Speaker 1: spirit of the First Amendment that says you have a 341 00:19:27,040 --> 00:19:29,399 Speaker 1: right to go to a residential neighborhood and scare a 342 00:19:29,400 --> 00:19:32,320 Speaker 1: bunch of kids. Schumer is not my favorite person in 343 00:19:32,320 --> 00:19:33,880 Speaker 1: the world, but I think he ought to be able 344 00:19:33,880 --> 00:19:36,240 Speaker 1: to sleep at night without people standing outside screaming. And 345 00:19:36,359 --> 00:19:38,159 Speaker 1: by the way, he didn't tell you who it is 346 00:19:38,200 --> 00:19:43,040 Speaker 1: protesting him. It's not conservatives. It's crazy leftist, for whom 347 00:19:43,119 --> 00:19:47,120 Speaker 1: Schumer is not crazy enough. That's the interesting thing. There's 348 00:19:47,119 --> 00:19:50,520 Speaker 1: another Senator who I will not name, who protesters through 349 00:19:50,640 --> 00:19:54,280 Speaker 1: a rock through their window that shattered and cut one 350 00:19:54,320 --> 00:19:58,639 Speaker 1: of their children quite severely. From the shattering glass, we 351 00:19:58,800 --> 00:20:02,640 Speaker 1: are going to see violets. I am very concerned that 352 00:20:02,680 --> 00:20:05,680 Speaker 1: we may see violence directed at the Supreme Court, at 353 00:20:05,720 --> 00:20:10,840 Speaker 1: these justices. This is the kind of extreme hatred and 354 00:20:11,119 --> 00:20:18,320 Speaker 1: violence that the Democrats embrace if it favors their partisan ends. 355 00:20:18,440 --> 00:20:20,280 Speaker 1: There is some good news. I mean, one, I think 356 00:20:20,280 --> 00:20:22,560 Speaker 1: the reason they're doing this is because they're losing in 357 00:20:22,560 --> 00:20:25,240 Speaker 1: the political arena and so they're getting desperate. But two, 358 00:20:25,840 --> 00:20:30,080 Speaker 1: you also I felt to introduce a great bill on 359 00:20:30,520 --> 00:20:33,560 Speaker 1: a completely different topic. But well not a completely different 360 00:20:33,560 --> 00:20:36,240 Speaker 1: topic actually, because the bill you introduced was about my body, 361 00:20:36,320 --> 00:20:39,960 Speaker 1: my choice. Namely, it was to give American service members 362 00:20:40,560 --> 00:20:43,600 Speaker 1: to protect them from being punished for refusing to take 363 00:20:43,800 --> 00:20:47,200 Speaker 1: the experimental COVID vaccines. Well, that's right. So the bill 364 00:20:47,240 --> 00:20:50,600 Speaker 1: I introduced this week is a bill. It's called the 365 00:20:50,640 --> 00:20:57,520 Speaker 1: Allowing Military Exemptions Recognizing Individual Concerns about New Shots Act 366 00:20:57,760 --> 00:21:03,000 Speaker 1: or the Americans Act. Oh you you guys with your acronyms, 367 00:21:03,040 --> 00:21:05,040 Speaker 1: that is the best acronym I've heard in a long 368 00:21:05,080 --> 00:21:08,639 Speaker 1: time in legislature. Well, I'd like to claim credit. I can. 369 00:21:08,800 --> 00:21:11,119 Speaker 1: It was the great, great guys on my team that 370 00:21:11,240 --> 00:21:13,119 Speaker 1: came up with it. But I laughed out loud and 371 00:21:13,119 --> 00:21:17,120 Speaker 1: said let's go with it and the bill. Thirteen other 372 00:21:17,160 --> 00:21:20,119 Speaker 1: Senators joined being introducing it. And the bill is very simple. 373 00:21:20,400 --> 00:21:24,480 Speaker 1: The bill would stop the military from firing soldiers and 374 00:21:24,520 --> 00:21:28,000 Speaker 1: sailors and airmen and marines if they declined to take 375 00:21:28,040 --> 00:21:32,600 Speaker 1: the COVID vaccine. We're seeing thousands of soldiers and sailors 376 00:21:32,640 --> 00:21:36,159 Speaker 1: and airmen and marines and coast guardsmen and guardians threatened 377 00:21:36,720 --> 00:21:41,040 Speaker 1: with being fired. We're seeing cadets at our service academies 378 00:21:41,400 --> 00:21:44,639 Speaker 1: threatened with being thrown out. We're seeing people in the 379 00:21:44,720 --> 00:21:47,720 Speaker 1: reserves being thrown out. It is grotesque, it is wrong, 380 00:21:47,760 --> 00:21:50,720 Speaker 1: it is an abusive power. This bill says you can't 381 00:21:50,760 --> 00:21:54,000 Speaker 1: throw anyone out because they decline to get a vaccine. 382 00:21:54,040 --> 00:21:57,200 Speaker 1: It also says if someone has been thrown out, they 383 00:21:57,240 --> 00:22:00,480 Speaker 1: can come back in if they want that. It's choice. 384 00:22:00,520 --> 00:22:02,800 Speaker 1: If they want to come back in, they can do it. 385 00:22:02,840 --> 00:22:05,640 Speaker 1: And if they choose not to come back in, if 386 00:22:05,680 --> 00:22:09,400 Speaker 1: you have discharged them, it's something less than honorable discharge. 387 00:22:09,440 --> 00:22:13,359 Speaker 1: That will adjust their discharge status to reflect their actual service. 388 00:22:13,400 --> 00:22:17,959 Speaker 1: In other words, we shouldn't be weakening our ability to 389 00:22:17,960 --> 00:22:21,199 Speaker 1: defend this nation, to keep this nation safe because of 390 00:22:21,240 --> 00:22:25,320 Speaker 1: a political agenda from the left. It's your body, your choice. 391 00:22:25,320 --> 00:22:27,080 Speaker 1: You ought to be able to decide whether or not 392 00:22:27,119 --> 00:22:30,120 Speaker 1: to take the COVID vaccine. And this should be a 393 00:22:30,160 --> 00:22:34,080 Speaker 1: simple common sense bill, which means, of course the Democrats 394 00:22:34,119 --> 00:22:37,400 Speaker 1: are likely to oppose it party line. Of course, you'll 395 00:22:37,720 --> 00:22:40,439 Speaker 1: notice there'll just be a one hour period where they 396 00:22:40,560 --> 00:22:42,960 Speaker 1: stop chanting my body, my choice that as well, your 397 00:22:43,000 --> 00:22:45,680 Speaker 1: bill is up for debate. Then after they'll of course 398 00:22:45,720 --> 00:22:47,600 Speaker 1: go right back to it before we go as usual 399 00:22:47,640 --> 00:22:49,160 Speaker 1: running late. I do want to get to a few 400 00:22:49,200 --> 00:22:52,520 Speaker 1: mail back questions from our wonderful Verdict. At listeners you 401 00:22:52,560 --> 00:22:55,200 Speaker 1: can join, not you, Senator, I think you're already a member, 402 00:22:55,240 --> 00:22:57,800 Speaker 1: but you you out there in the tubes land, you 403 00:22:57,840 --> 00:23:00,800 Speaker 1: can join Verdict Plus. Over at locals you can subscribe, 404 00:23:00,840 --> 00:23:03,520 Speaker 1: get lots of extra content. We've got our Friendlies. Wheeler 405 00:23:03,520 --> 00:23:07,119 Speaker 1: hosts a series there with Senator Cruz Cloakroom, and you 406 00:23:07,119 --> 00:23:09,679 Speaker 1: can submit your questions to the mailback. So, Senator, rapid 407 00:23:09,720 --> 00:23:14,320 Speaker 1: fire round. First up from Steven very important question, Ted, Michael, 408 00:23:14,840 --> 00:23:17,680 Speaker 1: how do you take your coffee cream? No sugar, lots 409 00:23:17,680 --> 00:23:20,399 Speaker 1: of cream though I like my coffee like I know, 410 00:23:20,480 --> 00:23:22,040 Speaker 1: I'm not going to quote that line from Airplane, but 411 00:23:22,119 --> 00:23:26,040 Speaker 1: I do take my coffee black. Great movie, one of 412 00:23:26,040 --> 00:23:29,920 Speaker 1: the greatest movies of all time. From Rod, Senator, why 413 00:23:29,960 --> 00:23:32,920 Speaker 1: is the GOP still so focused on the fiscal side 414 00:23:32,920 --> 00:23:36,159 Speaker 1: of things when voters care about the social side. I 415 00:23:36,200 --> 00:23:37,960 Speaker 1: don't know, do you even agree with that premise, Senator, 416 00:23:38,520 --> 00:23:41,879 Speaker 1: depends who in the GOP. I think there is a 417 00:23:41,920 --> 00:23:46,199 Speaker 1: generational difference. I think there are particularly Republicans who've been 418 00:23:46,240 --> 00:23:48,359 Speaker 1: in Congress a long time who are your kind of 419 00:23:48,400 --> 00:23:53,600 Speaker 1: traditional You could call them business Republicans, or if you 420 00:23:53,600 --> 00:23:55,520 Speaker 1: want to be more pejorative, you could call them country 421 00:23:55,520 --> 00:23:58,879 Speaker 1: club Republicans who tend to want to tax a little 422 00:23:58,880 --> 00:24:01,280 Speaker 1: bit less, spend a little bit more, and a runaway 423 00:24:01,320 --> 00:24:04,680 Speaker 1: from the social issues. I actually think those numbers are shrinking. 424 00:24:05,920 --> 00:24:08,800 Speaker 1: I think more and more people recognize there is a 425 00:24:08,840 --> 00:24:12,680 Speaker 1: culture war going on, and we didn't start it. The 426 00:24:12,800 --> 00:24:16,240 Speaker 1: left has decided to try to destroy our culture. The Look, 427 00:24:16,240 --> 00:24:18,600 Speaker 1: we have a incoming Supreme Court justice who can't tell 428 00:24:18,640 --> 00:24:21,639 Speaker 1: you what a woman is right. We have Disney that 429 00:24:21,720 --> 00:24:25,000 Speaker 1: has promised that they will have a gay or transgender 430 00:24:25,080 --> 00:24:27,760 Speaker 1: character in every movie they put out. By the way, 431 00:24:27,800 --> 00:24:30,760 Speaker 1: I will note again when verdict was on the road 432 00:24:31,400 --> 00:24:33,800 Speaker 1: that that that that the one quip I said of 433 00:24:33,960 --> 00:24:37,040 Speaker 1: you know, parents could could would like to be able 434 00:24:37,080 --> 00:24:39,200 Speaker 1: to trust their movies and not have to worry about 435 00:24:39,240 --> 00:24:42,439 Speaker 1: turning on some movie and seeing Mickey going at it 436 00:24:42,480 --> 00:24:46,000 Speaker 1: with Pluto. Oh my goodness, the left lost their mind 437 00:24:46,440 --> 00:24:50,320 Speaker 1: that I'm sorry, all the in depth constitutional analysis that 438 00:24:50,359 --> 00:24:53,280 Speaker 1: we may have had in the podcast got dwarf, but 439 00:24:53,440 --> 00:24:56,160 Speaker 1: by the image of one little mouse and one little 440 00:24:56,200 --> 00:24:59,160 Speaker 1: dog doing unspeakable things that the Libs were titilated. There's 441 00:24:59,200 --> 00:25:04,040 Speaker 1: no question about it. I you look, culture is where 442 00:25:04,080 --> 00:25:07,240 Speaker 1: the battle is because they recognize that they destroy our culture, 443 00:25:07,800 --> 00:25:10,400 Speaker 1: they destroy our country. There's some overlap too. I think 444 00:25:10,400 --> 00:25:12,400 Speaker 1: it was Patrick Denin who made this point. He said, 445 00:25:12,440 --> 00:25:14,560 Speaker 1: when you think about the debt, what does that tell 446 00:25:14,600 --> 00:25:16,520 Speaker 1: you about our culture? What does it tell you that 447 00:25:16,560 --> 00:25:19,160 Speaker 1: our culture is leaving as an inheritance to the next 448 00:25:19,200 --> 00:25:23,120 Speaker 1: generation a bunch of debt. You know that the economic part, 449 00:25:23,119 --> 00:25:25,800 Speaker 1: the fiscal part, has a cultural aspect as well. So 450 00:25:26,160 --> 00:25:28,560 Speaker 1: I will tell you, Michael, one of the crueler things 451 00:25:28,560 --> 00:25:31,680 Speaker 1: that my daughters say to me. My daughters are eleven 452 00:25:31,680 --> 00:25:34,919 Speaker 1: and fourteen, and when they think I'm when they're irritated 453 00:25:34,920 --> 00:25:39,080 Speaker 1: with me, which is not infrequently, they'll say, okay, Boomer, 454 00:25:39,960 --> 00:25:42,480 Speaker 1: and it's like, damn it, I am not a boomer. 455 00:25:42,600 --> 00:25:46,000 Speaker 1: I am firmly gen X. Now now you know you're 456 00:25:46,440 --> 00:25:54,680 Speaker 1: you're a millennial. Stop insulting me. Please, look the boomer generation, 457 00:25:56,840 --> 00:25:59,560 Speaker 1: the credit card bill they have racked up is the 458 00:25:59,640 --> 00:26:06,800 Speaker 1: great in the history of humanity. One generation, the me generation, 459 00:26:08,480 --> 00:26:10,800 Speaker 1: and their kids and grandkids are going to be paying 460 00:26:10,800 --> 00:26:12,720 Speaker 1: for it forever and ever. But I got to say 461 00:26:13,000 --> 00:26:15,000 Speaker 1: to my fourteen year old Michael, I'm sorry to tell 462 00:26:15,040 --> 00:26:17,600 Speaker 1: you you're a boomer too. She thinks all of us 463 00:26:18,000 --> 00:26:21,080 Speaker 1: boomer is synonymous with way too old, and she puts 464 00:26:21,080 --> 00:26:23,680 Speaker 1: all of us in that camp. We're all boomers. Now, 465 00:26:24,280 --> 00:26:27,199 Speaker 1: final question, Senator, before I let you go. This is 466 00:26:27,240 --> 00:26:29,680 Speaker 1: from Michael, not me, I promise, He says, will the 467 00:26:29,720 --> 00:26:33,200 Speaker 1: overturning of Rovie Wade be the issue that causes people 468 00:26:33,240 --> 00:26:36,679 Speaker 1: to self segregate red states and blue states to the 469 00:26:36,720 --> 00:26:40,600 Speaker 1: point where a peaceful national divorce would be all that 470 00:26:40,720 --> 00:26:43,439 Speaker 1: prevents a civil war? We've seen a lot of civil 471 00:26:43,560 --> 00:26:45,919 Speaker 1: unrest as they call it around as this. Are we 472 00:26:45,960 --> 00:26:48,920 Speaker 1: headed towards civil war on this issue? Spring Court Justice 473 00:26:48,960 --> 00:26:52,600 Speaker 1: Lewis brandeis referred to federalism, the system of fifty states, 474 00:26:53,080 --> 00:26:55,359 Speaker 1: as laboratory as a democracy. We've talked a lot on 475 00:26:55,359 --> 00:26:59,320 Speaker 1: this podcast about laboratories. A democracy. I think it's perfectly 476 00:26:59,320 --> 00:27:04,320 Speaker 1: healthy if different states have different policies that reflect the 477 00:27:04,400 --> 00:27:08,040 Speaker 1: values of their residence. Friend of mine, as a tech guy, 478 00:27:08,160 --> 00:27:14,160 Speaker 1: very successful, moved from Northern California to Miami, and I 479 00:27:14,240 --> 00:27:16,560 Speaker 1: was having brunch with him in Miami and he described 480 00:27:16,640 --> 00:27:20,960 Speaker 1: how when his friends from Palo Alto would come visit 481 00:27:21,000 --> 00:27:23,320 Speaker 1: him in Miami, he'd go out take him out to dinner, 482 00:27:23,359 --> 00:27:25,560 Speaker 1: and he'd drive a fancy sports car because he did 483 00:27:25,640 --> 00:27:28,679 Speaker 1: very well in tech, and he'd parked the car on 484 00:27:28,720 --> 00:27:32,400 Speaker 1: the street, and he said his friends from northern California 485 00:27:32,400 --> 00:27:34,480 Speaker 1: would freak out, what are you doing parking on the street, 486 00:27:34,480 --> 00:27:36,240 Speaker 1: Because what he said is if you park your car 487 00:27:36,240 --> 00:27:39,480 Speaker 1: on the street in northern California, it will get broken into, 488 00:27:39,520 --> 00:27:43,119 Speaker 1: it will get keyed. And I remember thinking, that's really 489 00:27:43,200 --> 00:27:46,840 Speaker 1: bizarre that the simple act of being able to park 490 00:27:46,880 --> 00:27:50,879 Speaker 1: your car on the street is this flex of like, 491 00:27:51,200 --> 00:27:54,160 Speaker 1: holy cow, this is what happens when you have a 492 00:27:54,240 --> 00:27:58,400 Speaker 1: functioning police force and your rights are protected. We will 493 00:27:58,440 --> 00:28:02,879 Speaker 1: see some self segregation, but idiotic policies like abolishing the 494 00:28:02,920 --> 00:28:05,879 Speaker 1: police will see the chaos that follows from that. Also, 495 00:28:06,640 --> 00:28:12,200 Speaker 1: in some ways, it reminds me of the cold war 496 00:28:13,200 --> 00:28:16,040 Speaker 1: and the countries in Eastern Europe behind the Iron Curtain. 497 00:28:16,720 --> 00:28:20,200 Speaker 1: And you know, when I was a little kid in 498 00:28:20,880 --> 00:28:26,359 Speaker 1: the nineteen seventies, my dad owned a seismic data processing company, 499 00:28:26,359 --> 00:28:28,160 Speaker 1: a small business and my father and my mother ran 500 00:28:28,200 --> 00:28:32,160 Speaker 1: together and he got hired in the late nineteen seventies 501 00:28:32,400 --> 00:28:37,000 Speaker 1: to install a computer system for the government of Albania. 502 00:28:37,080 --> 00:28:40,360 Speaker 1: Now Albania was a Communist government at the time, and 503 00:28:40,400 --> 00:28:42,320 Speaker 1: my father at the time was a Canadian citizen. He 504 00:28:42,360 --> 00:28:44,560 Speaker 1: wasn't an American citizen. They wouldn't hire an American, but 505 00:28:44,600 --> 00:28:46,880 Speaker 1: because my dad was Canadian citizen, they would hire him. 506 00:28:47,840 --> 00:28:50,440 Speaker 1: And so he went over He went over there, and 507 00:28:50,760 --> 00:28:55,600 Speaker 1: you want to talk about like frozen in time, poverty, misery, 508 00:28:56,080 --> 00:28:58,840 Speaker 1: the oppression of the Albanian government. But it was very 509 00:28:58,840 --> 00:29:01,960 Speaker 1: interesting when my father went there the first time, the 510 00:29:02,040 --> 00:29:08,959 Speaker 1: Albanian people were told Albania is the only completely electrified 511 00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:13,320 Speaker 1: country in the world, that no other country on Earth 512 00:29:13,360 --> 00:29:17,160 Speaker 1: has electricity except Albania. We are the only ones with electricity. 513 00:29:17,200 --> 00:29:21,240 Speaker 1: The second time my father went over there, he met 514 00:29:21,280 --> 00:29:23,560 Speaker 1: them initially in Munich and then went to Albanian like 515 00:29:23,600 --> 00:29:26,880 Speaker 1: two Albanians, Madam. In Munich, they told the Albanians as 516 00:29:26,960 --> 00:29:31,480 Speaker 1: they left. Guess what. There are now two fully electrified 517 00:29:31,480 --> 00:29:36,200 Speaker 1: countries in the world, Albania and Germany. And it reminds 518 00:29:36,240 --> 00:29:40,320 Speaker 1: me a little bit of like these deep blue state 519 00:29:40,480 --> 00:29:45,560 Speaker 1: prisoners who believe that everything being shut down, their schools 520 00:29:45,600 --> 00:29:49,080 Speaker 1: being shut down, their words being censored, being afraid that 521 00:29:49,120 --> 00:29:51,360 Speaker 1: their neighbors will get mad at them if they say 522 00:29:51,400 --> 00:29:55,840 Speaker 1: the wrong thing. The you know, kind of not knowing 523 00:29:55,880 --> 00:29:59,600 Speaker 1: what a woman is. I'm not sure people in blue 524 00:29:59,600 --> 00:30:03,560 Speaker 1: states are aware. It's different anywhere else. I was talking 525 00:30:03,560 --> 00:30:05,960 Speaker 1: to my relatives in New York, so is my wife, 526 00:30:06,000 --> 00:30:08,760 Speaker 1: sweet little Elisa, and they said, oh this, I can't 527 00:30:08,760 --> 00:30:12,480 Speaker 1: wait until this COVID is over finally, and my wife says, 528 00:30:13,560 --> 00:30:16,000 Speaker 1: it's been over for us for a while. You're seeing 529 00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:19,520 Speaker 1: this right now, You're seeing two different visions for the country. Frankly, 530 00:30:19,640 --> 00:30:22,360 Speaker 1: just look at the abortion protests outside the court on 531 00:30:22,400 --> 00:30:25,120 Speaker 1: the one hand, screaming, yelling, nasty people. On the other hand, 532 00:30:25,200 --> 00:30:29,480 Speaker 1: people praying, serene, well behaved. What kind of country do 533 00:30:29,520 --> 00:30:31,680 Speaker 1: you want to live in? These are options that we're 534 00:30:31,680 --> 00:30:33,720 Speaker 1: seeing throughout the culture. We've got to leave at their 535 00:30:33,760 --> 00:30:37,000 Speaker 1: senator in the meantime, I'm Michael Knowles. This is Verdict 536 00:30:37,120 --> 00:30:49,000 Speaker 1: with Ted Cruz. This episode of Verdict with Ted Cruz 537 00:30:49,200 --> 00:30:52,120 Speaker 1: is being brought to you by Jobs, Freedom and Security Pack, 538 00:30:52,320 --> 00:30:57,120 Speaker 1: a political action committee dedicated to supporting conservative causes, organizations, 539 00:30:57,200 --> 00:31:00,800 Speaker 1: and candidates across the country. In twenty twenty two, Job's 540 00:31:00,840 --> 00:31:04,320 Speaker 1: Freedom and Security Pack plans to donate to conservative candidates 541 00:31:04,400 --> 00:31:08,200 Speaker 1: running for Congress and help the Republican Party across the nation.