1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:04,200 Speaker 1: Thanks. I want to ask you about the question about 2 00:00:04,400 --> 00:00:08,639 Speaker 1: migrants whether they have or haven't been walking across the 3 00:00:08,640 --> 00:00:13,600 Speaker 1: Southwest border. Senator Ted Cruz has publicly invited and suggested 4 00:00:13,880 --> 00:00:18,400 Speaker 1: that you've come down to see that for yourself. Senator 5 00:00:18,480 --> 00:00:23,520 Speaker 1: Ted Cruz of Texas, he's suggested that you come down 6 00:00:23,520 --> 00:00:26,119 Speaker 1: and see for yourself whether migrants are actually crossing the 7 00:00:26,160 --> 00:00:28,640 Speaker 1: border or by foot. Is that something that you would 8 00:00:28,680 --> 00:00:31,560 Speaker 1: take them up on. So I've been to the border. 9 00:00:31,880 --> 00:00:36,880 Speaker 1: I went in twenty eighteen. I stood outside facilities where 10 00:00:36,960 --> 00:00:41,239 Speaker 1: the Trump administration was separating families, tearing babies out of 11 00:00:41,240 --> 00:00:45,200 Speaker 1: their mother's arms. Some of those kids still haven't been 12 00:00:46,240 --> 00:00:50,360 Speaker 1: reunited with their families. And so one thing I will 13 00:00:50,400 --> 00:00:54,360 Speaker 1: say is I certainly don't need lectures or invitations from 14 00:00:54,360 --> 00:00:59,920 Speaker 1: Republicans about the border or border policies. And you know, 15 00:01:00,160 --> 00:01:03,320 Speaker 1: and I certainly won't take advice on border from from 16 00:01:03,360 --> 00:01:09,160 Speaker 1: anyone who voted against securing record level of funding for 17 00:01:09,280 --> 00:01:13,640 Speaker 1: the Department of Homeland Security, and and you know, and 18 00:01:13,680 --> 00:01:17,040 Speaker 1: while folks are sending invites, I'll use this opportunity to 19 00:01:18,160 --> 00:01:21,920 Speaker 1: invite him or anyone else next time to vote for 20 00:01:22,120 --> 00:01:27,200 Speaker 1: record funding for DHS. As President Biden has requested, so 21 00:01:27,240 --> 00:01:35,480 Speaker 1: we'll move on. Nope, we'll move on from that. 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I am Michael Knowles, and if you 53 00:03:12,960 --> 00:03:15,200 Speaker 1: want to bring this show, by the way to a 54 00:03:15,320 --> 00:03:18,760 Speaker 1: campus near you, time is running out to apply. We 55 00:03:18,800 --> 00:03:22,400 Speaker 1: will be going on tour with Young America's Foundation. You 56 00:03:22,440 --> 00:03:25,080 Speaker 1: can apply. We've just got a week or so left 57 00:03:25,480 --> 00:03:30,320 Speaker 1: at YAF dot org slash Verdict and maybe the White 58 00:03:30,320 --> 00:03:34,040 Speaker 1: House Press Secretary. We'll talk about you and your fellows students, 59 00:03:34,120 --> 00:03:36,640 Speaker 1: because they sure seem to be tuning in here. Senator, 60 00:03:37,280 --> 00:03:42,240 Speaker 1: I think we're the first, second, third, and now fourth 61 00:03:42,320 --> 00:03:45,600 Speaker 1: podcast that the White House has referenced from the press briefing. 62 00:03:46,360 --> 00:03:48,640 Speaker 1: You know, it really is quite striking. And maybe when 63 00:03:48,680 --> 00:03:51,720 Speaker 1: we're doing our college tour, we ought to film Verdict 64 00:03:51,880 --> 00:03:56,360 Speaker 1: down on the border and invite Karine to come down 65 00:03:56,440 --> 00:03:58,680 Speaker 1: to Verdict and be on the podcast and she can 66 00:03:58,760 --> 00:04:01,000 Speaker 1: lie directly on the podcas cast rather than doing it 67 00:04:01,040 --> 00:04:04,720 Speaker 1: from the White House. Look, I had to say, it 68 00:04:05,240 --> 00:04:09,200 Speaker 1: is studying. Look, no one is surprised to see a 69 00:04:09,280 --> 00:04:12,920 Speaker 1: press flack flacking. That's what they do. She's supposed to 70 00:04:12,920 --> 00:04:15,960 Speaker 1: spend whether you're a Democrat or Republican. White House Press 71 00:04:15,960 --> 00:04:24,479 Speaker 1: Secretary spins. What is wild about this is she is brazenly, openly, 72 00:04:25,080 --> 00:04:29,840 Speaker 1: shamelessly lying, and at this point she knows she is, 73 00:04:29,920 --> 00:04:33,440 Speaker 1: and everyone in the room knows she is. This all 74 00:04:33,520 --> 00:04:37,960 Speaker 1: started when she said at a previous briefing that people 75 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:40,400 Speaker 1: are not walking across the border. It's just not happening. 76 00:04:40,440 --> 00:04:44,559 Speaker 1: That is not happening. Now, that's not kind of sort 77 00:04:44,560 --> 00:04:47,400 Speaker 1: of right, that's not a little bit wrong. It is 78 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:52,000 Speaker 1: precisely exactly opposite. And the imitation that I issued to her, 79 00:04:52,720 --> 00:04:55,240 Speaker 1: as I said, come down to the border and spend 80 00:04:55,279 --> 00:04:57,560 Speaker 1: one hour with me, go out on patrol with a 81 00:04:57,560 --> 00:05:03,200 Speaker 1: border patrol Union sixty minutes you pick the time doesn't matter. 82 00:05:03,279 --> 00:05:05,920 Speaker 1: Pick any hour of the day. We'll go out for 83 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:10,960 Speaker 1: sixty minutes, and I guarantee you we will encounter not one, 84 00:05:11,040 --> 00:05:13,880 Speaker 1: but multiple groups of illegal immigrants, because they are coming 85 00:05:13,920 --> 00:05:17,320 Speaker 1: twenty four hours a day. Every time I've gone out there, 86 00:05:17,360 --> 00:05:19,920 Speaker 1: it doesn't take sixty minutes. It takes about five minutes 87 00:05:19,920 --> 00:05:22,400 Speaker 1: before you encounter the first group, and it is a 88 00:05:22,520 --> 00:05:26,920 Speaker 1: steady stream of humanity. And I suggested to her also, 89 00:05:26,920 --> 00:05:30,680 Speaker 1: I said, okay, you said, as we just played in 90 00:05:30,680 --> 00:05:32,680 Speaker 1: that clip, that you don't need to be lectured by 91 00:05:32,720 --> 00:05:36,240 Speaker 1: Republican senators. I said, I'll tell you what. Bring the 92 00:05:36,440 --> 00:05:39,560 Speaker 1: entire Washington press corps. Bring them all down to the 93 00:05:39,640 --> 00:05:42,080 Speaker 1: valley with us. You and I can go out for 94 00:05:42,120 --> 00:05:44,240 Speaker 1: an hour and we'll hold a press conference, and one 95 00:05:44,320 --> 00:05:46,440 Speaker 1: or two things will happen. If we don't encounter anyone, 96 00:05:47,200 --> 00:05:50,560 Speaker 1: I'll stand up and say I was wrong. But when 97 00:05:50,600 --> 00:05:54,479 Speaker 1: we encounter multiple groups women, children, one after the other 98 00:05:54,520 --> 00:05:57,520 Speaker 1: after the other, you'll stand up and you'll admit you 99 00:05:57,600 --> 00:06:00,720 Speaker 1: were lying, and not just lie. You were lying from 100 00:06:00,760 --> 00:06:06,240 Speaker 1: the White House deliberately and repeatedly. And to be clear, 101 00:06:06,279 --> 00:06:10,479 Speaker 1: it's not just her lying. Joe Biden's responsible he's paying 102 00:06:10,560 --> 00:06:14,120 Speaker 1: for her to lie. And all of the corporate media 103 00:06:14,200 --> 00:06:17,120 Speaker 1: that sat there silently, that haven't run fact checks, we 104 00:06:17,160 --> 00:06:20,880 Speaker 1: haven't seen pants on fire because none of the corporate media. 105 00:06:21,040 --> 00:06:24,360 Speaker 1: This is an objective, factual statement, and it is objectively 106 00:06:24,360 --> 00:06:27,920 Speaker 1: and completely false. All of the corporate media is complicit 107 00:06:28,040 --> 00:06:31,840 Speaker 1: in the lies. And actually this week she escalated it 108 00:06:31,839 --> 00:06:37,080 Speaker 1: even more where she said absurdly, Joe Biden has done 109 00:06:37,240 --> 00:06:40,760 Speaker 1: more to secure the border than Donald Trump. Like that 110 00:06:41,160 --> 00:06:44,159 Speaker 1: is I actually wonder if the reporters and the press 111 00:06:44,160 --> 00:06:48,040 Speaker 1: briefing move back a few feet because they're afraid lightning 112 00:06:48,160 --> 00:06:51,640 Speaker 1: is going to strike her as she stands there, Like 113 00:06:53,320 --> 00:06:56,920 Speaker 1: I cannot think of a White House Press secretary who 114 00:06:57,000 --> 00:07:00,680 Speaker 1: repeatedly brazenly lied to the American people the way she 115 00:07:00,839 --> 00:07:07,640 Speaker 1: is doing, even Jensaki, who would spin like crazy. But 116 00:07:07,720 --> 00:07:11,120 Speaker 1: I can't think of flat out objective lies of the 117 00:07:11,240 --> 00:07:14,240 Speaker 1: kind that Karine is now making a weekly, if not 118 00:07:14,440 --> 00:07:18,240 Speaker 1: daily occurrence. So the lie is pretty shocking. I don't 119 00:07:18,280 --> 00:07:20,440 Speaker 1: think anybody buys it. You just look at the numbers. 120 00:07:20,440 --> 00:07:23,240 Speaker 1: You're going to get two million plus illegal aliens this year, 121 00:07:23,560 --> 00:07:25,560 Speaker 1: way more than you got under Trump, way more than 122 00:07:25,600 --> 00:07:29,120 Speaker 1: we've ever gotten. But I guess what is confusing to 123 00:07:29,200 --> 00:07:35,000 Speaker 1: me is one, does she really believe that anybody in America, Republican, independent, 124 00:07:35,080 --> 00:07:38,000 Speaker 1: or Democrat, believes that Joe Biden is tougher on illegal 125 00:07:38,000 --> 00:07:41,080 Speaker 1: immigration than Donald Trump. No, not a single person believes that. 126 00:07:41,280 --> 00:07:46,240 Speaker 1: But but furthermore, Biden and the Democrats ran on opening 127 00:07:46,320 --> 00:07:49,440 Speaker 1: up the border. They said Trump's restrictive border policies are 128 00:07:49,520 --> 00:07:53,200 Speaker 1: bad and immoral and Unamerican, and diversity is our strength, 129 00:07:53,280 --> 00:07:55,960 Speaker 1: and no person is illegal and come across the border. 130 00:07:56,000 --> 00:08:00,880 Speaker 1: I mean, they explicitly said that. So is this new 131 00:08:00,920 --> 00:08:04,000 Speaker 1: line coming out of the White House, beyond it being dishonest, 132 00:08:04,440 --> 00:08:08,640 Speaker 1: is it a reflection that, wait a second, voters actually 133 00:08:08,680 --> 00:08:11,760 Speaker 1: don't like the policies that we ran for president on, 134 00:08:11,960 --> 00:08:13,600 Speaker 1: and so now we're just going to pretend that those 135 00:08:13,640 --> 00:08:16,560 Speaker 1: were never our policies in the first place. So I 136 00:08:16,600 --> 00:08:19,520 Speaker 1: think it is. And it's a combination of number one, 137 00:08:19,760 --> 00:08:22,600 Speaker 1: speaking to the hard left partisans who are with them 138 00:08:22,600 --> 00:08:26,360 Speaker 1: no matter what, and number two, they're counting on the 139 00:08:26,440 --> 00:08:31,680 Speaker 1: media to assist in the cover up. Look, it's reminiscent. 140 00:08:31,760 --> 00:08:35,000 Speaker 1: She's also said in recent weeks about school shutdowns. When 141 00:08:35,040 --> 00:08:37,920 Speaker 1: the nape scores came back so we had. NAPE is 142 00:08:37,920 --> 00:08:41,559 Speaker 1: the National Assessment of fourth graders. It's considered the gold 143 00:08:41,640 --> 00:08:46,640 Speaker 1: standard for testing educational progress, and the national standards show 144 00:08:46,960 --> 00:08:51,040 Speaker 1: that fourth graders have had a dramatic drop in both 145 00:08:51,120 --> 00:08:54,520 Speaker 1: mass scores and reading scores, the biggest drop since the 146 00:08:54,600 --> 00:08:59,240 Speaker 1: NAPE test has begun being implemented. It is massive. It 147 00:08:59,360 --> 00:09:04,480 Speaker 1: is obvious because of the school shutdowns, and not only that, 148 00:09:04,720 --> 00:09:08,760 Speaker 1: the racial gap has widened to the widest level ever 149 00:09:08,880 --> 00:09:10,600 Speaker 1: because the people who got hurt the most by the 150 00:09:10,640 --> 00:09:13,960 Speaker 1: school shutdowns were low income kids, many of which are 151 00:09:14,000 --> 00:09:17,600 Speaker 1: African American and Hispanic. And so the racial gap under 152 00:09:17,679 --> 00:09:21,040 Speaker 1: Joe Biden congratulations, dams have gotten much broader. So what 153 00:09:21,080 --> 00:09:23,480 Speaker 1: does Kareem do. She stands up and says, well, Joe 154 00:09:23,520 --> 00:09:27,400 Speaker 1: Biden worked to reopen schools, and it was Republicans who 155 00:09:27,440 --> 00:09:32,520 Speaker 1: blocked us. And it is a level of okay, that's 156 00:09:32,559 --> 00:09:38,560 Speaker 1: not just spin inversion, that is flat out mendacity. It 157 00:09:38,640 --> 00:09:42,559 Speaker 1: was Republicans, certainly on this podcast and from the Senate floor. 158 00:09:42,640 --> 00:09:46,920 Speaker 1: I was screaming early early on, open up the schools, 159 00:09:46,960 --> 00:09:50,000 Speaker 1: send the kids back to schools, let them go. Republicans 160 00:09:50,000 --> 00:09:52,280 Speaker 1: across the country where and by the way, people like 161 00:09:52,400 --> 00:09:57,080 Speaker 1: Greg Abbott and Rhnda Santis were opening up schools. Amazingly enough, 162 00:09:57,200 --> 00:10:03,480 Speaker 1: in the Biden White Houses world, these dastardly Republicans managed 163 00:10:03,520 --> 00:10:08,280 Speaker 1: to shut down schools only in bright blue jurisdictions controlled 164 00:10:08,280 --> 00:10:12,719 Speaker 1: by Democrats. Now that's some nefarious power. I'm going to 165 00:10:12,800 --> 00:10:16,280 Speaker 1: shut down the schools in New York City, but not 166 00:10:16,360 --> 00:10:20,000 Speaker 1: in any place where there's actually Republican leadership. It is asinine. 167 00:10:20,280 --> 00:10:24,000 Speaker 1: But she tells that lie because the Washington Post won't 168 00:10:24,000 --> 00:10:26,199 Speaker 1: call her on it, because CNN won't call her on it, 169 00:10:26,320 --> 00:10:28,280 Speaker 1: because the New York Times won't call her on it, 170 00:10:28,480 --> 00:10:36,440 Speaker 1: And so it's gas lighting taken to just a The 171 00:10:36,480 --> 00:10:40,760 Speaker 1: word Orwellian is used too often, but it is truly Orwellian. 172 00:10:40,840 --> 00:10:43,640 Speaker 1: Two plus two is five, but it's not even that. 173 00:10:43,720 --> 00:10:46,560 Speaker 1: It's two plus two is umbrella. Yeah, I mean that's 174 00:10:46,600 --> 00:10:49,680 Speaker 1: what they're doing now, the Senator, I can't help, but 175 00:10:49,760 --> 00:10:52,920 Speaker 1: notice you just mentioned Governor DeSantis. And while I'm very 176 00:10:52,960 --> 00:10:55,200 Speaker 1: pleased that people in the White House are listening to 177 00:10:55,200 --> 00:10:57,640 Speaker 1: this show, I have to wonder if some people down 178 00:10:57,640 --> 00:11:00,200 Speaker 1: in Florida are listening to this show as well, because 179 00:11:00,200 --> 00:11:03,160 Speaker 1: there's a great headline that just came out about something 180 00:11:03,240 --> 00:11:06,920 Speaker 1: to Santis and the Florida Republicans are doing. They've just 181 00:11:07,040 --> 00:11:12,960 Speaker 1: sent airplanes full of illegal aliens to Martha's vineyard. And 182 00:11:13,480 --> 00:11:16,520 Speaker 1: I cheered when I saw the headline, and then I 183 00:11:16,520 --> 00:11:20,280 Speaker 1: had to think, you know, there's a certain podcast hosted 184 00:11:20,280 --> 00:11:23,360 Speaker 1: by a certain senator from Texas that has been calling 185 00:11:23,880 --> 00:11:28,760 Speaker 1: exactly for that for many weeks now, and I just 186 00:11:28,800 --> 00:11:30,440 Speaker 1: can't help but wonder if that may have had some 187 00:11:30,480 --> 00:11:34,280 Speaker 1: effect on this policy going into effect. I was thrilled 188 00:11:34,320 --> 00:11:36,719 Speaker 1: when the Governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, took me up 189 00:11:36,720 --> 00:11:39,800 Speaker 1: on the ID and began sending illegal immigrants, first to DC, 190 00:11:40,080 --> 00:11:42,680 Speaker 1: then to New York, then to Chicago. It's had a 191 00:11:42,720 --> 00:11:47,199 Speaker 1: fantastic event as these these Democratic mayors have lost their 192 00:11:47,240 --> 00:11:51,880 Speaker 1: minds and declared national emergencies. The mayor of DC declared 193 00:11:51,880 --> 00:11:55,280 Speaker 1: a national emergency or a city emergency because six thousand 194 00:11:55,360 --> 00:11:59,400 Speaker 1: illegal immigrants were sent to DC. Of course, we've had 195 00:11:59,520 --> 00:12:03,880 Speaker 1: since Biden became president, we have had four point two 196 00:12:04,440 --> 00:12:08,400 Speaker 1: million illegal immigrants cross illegally with Biden as president. It 197 00:12:08,520 --> 00:12:12,520 Speaker 1: is horrific. That's a crazy number. Four point two million. 198 00:12:12,600 --> 00:12:15,760 Speaker 1: That is a crazy number. It is larger than many 199 00:12:15,800 --> 00:12:18,960 Speaker 1: of the states of our Union. I mean four point 200 00:12:19,080 --> 00:12:22,240 Speaker 1: two million since Joe Biden put his hand on the 201 00:12:22,280 --> 00:12:25,440 Speaker 1: Bible and took the oath of office. That's what's coming. 202 00:12:25,520 --> 00:12:29,480 Speaker 1: It continues to get worse. And what is amazing about 203 00:12:29,520 --> 00:12:34,040 Speaker 1: when red state governors, first Texas now Florida are shipping 204 00:12:34,559 --> 00:12:38,840 Speaker 1: two blue strongholds is the Democrats, who talk a good 205 00:12:38,880 --> 00:12:41,200 Speaker 1: game immediately flipped tailed. So I want to give you 206 00:12:41,200 --> 00:12:45,319 Speaker 1: a quote from Martha's Vineyard. When I introduced the legislation, 207 00:12:45,440 --> 00:12:49,920 Speaker 1: you had democrats. Democrats in the House of Representatives slammed me. 208 00:12:51,760 --> 00:12:54,480 Speaker 1: But I want to read from the county commissioner of 209 00:12:54,520 --> 00:13:00,199 Speaker 1: Martha's Vineyard, Keith chattonover and here's the quote he's at 210 00:13:00,240 --> 00:13:04,960 Speaker 1: about my legislation. I would love to see Martha's Vineyard 211 00:13:05,800 --> 00:13:09,960 Speaker 1: become a haven for new immigrants in the country. But 212 00:13:10,080 --> 00:13:12,800 Speaker 1: Senator Cruz has no idea what he's talking about regarding 213 00:13:12,800 --> 00:13:16,720 Speaker 1: a border crisis. He went on to say, immigrants make 214 00:13:16,760 --> 00:13:20,439 Speaker 1: our country stronger, as evidenced by immigration from Brazil and 215 00:13:20,480 --> 00:13:22,800 Speaker 1: other countries to the vineyard. And he is trying to 216 00:13:22,840 --> 00:13:27,160 Speaker 1: whip up racial anxieties for political gain, which is essentially 217 00:13:27,160 --> 00:13:31,560 Speaker 1: the entire GOP platform. Anyhow, that's before they arrived. I 218 00:13:31,600 --> 00:13:34,959 Speaker 1: want to see if after two, three, four, five, six, ten, 219 00:13:35,760 --> 00:13:40,360 Speaker 1: one hundred planeloads or bus loads, if the county commissioner 220 00:13:40,400 --> 00:13:43,680 Speaker 1: has the same view, and I'm going to predict he's 221 00:13:43,679 --> 00:13:46,280 Speaker 1: going to do exactly the same as the mayor from 222 00:13:46,360 --> 00:13:48,280 Speaker 1: DC and the mayor from New York and the mayor 223 00:13:48,320 --> 00:13:51,440 Speaker 1: from Chicago, which is runs screaming, oh crap, this is 224 00:13:51,440 --> 00:13:54,040 Speaker 1: a real problem. All those mayors, by the way, they're 225 00:13:54,080 --> 00:13:58,959 Speaker 1: doing that after five thousand, maybe ten eleven thousand illegal 226 00:13:59,000 --> 00:14:03,080 Speaker 1: aliens in their cities. Not a drop in the bucket, 227 00:14:03,320 --> 00:14:05,800 Speaker 1: A fraction of an iota of a drop in the 228 00:14:05,840 --> 00:14:08,560 Speaker 1: bucket when you're talking about four point two million foreign 229 00:14:08,640 --> 00:14:12,120 Speaker 1: nationals coming into the country. I'm so pleased. Big kudos 230 00:14:12,360 --> 00:14:15,840 Speaker 1: to Governor Abbott for following up on this. Big kudos 231 00:14:15,840 --> 00:14:18,760 Speaker 1: to Governor de Santis for following up on this. And 232 00:14:19,560 --> 00:14:21,160 Speaker 1: all I can say is, there are a lot of 233 00:14:21,160 --> 00:14:23,720 Speaker 1: other red state governors, and there is a major illegal 234 00:14:23,720 --> 00:14:26,120 Speaker 1: immigration problem in this country, and there are a whole 235 00:14:26,120 --> 00:14:29,440 Speaker 1: lot of other liberal cities that you mentioned there. I 236 00:14:29,480 --> 00:14:31,960 Speaker 1: want to see more airplanes. I want to see more buses. 237 00:14:33,040 --> 00:14:36,800 Speaker 1: Doll out those tickets. Give these blue state and blue 238 00:14:36,800 --> 00:14:39,880 Speaker 1: city mayors some of a taste of their own medicine 239 00:14:39,960 --> 00:14:42,760 Speaker 1: and put them on the record. Look, I think that's 240 00:14:42,800 --> 00:14:46,120 Speaker 1: exactly right, and it makes it impossible for the Biden 241 00:14:46,200 --> 00:14:51,880 Speaker 1: White House to defend their lies when you have blue 242 00:14:51,920 --> 00:14:56,520 Speaker 1: Democrat mayors suddenly realizing, oh wow, this is an enormous 243 00:14:56,520 --> 00:14:59,440 Speaker 1: bird and honest. And to put it in perspective, So 244 00:14:59,560 --> 00:15:03,400 Speaker 1: DC is a big city. The mayor declared an emergency 245 00:15:03,440 --> 00:15:06,120 Speaker 1: when six thousand, five hundred illegal immigrants had been sent 246 00:15:06,160 --> 00:15:10,840 Speaker 1: to DC. Let's take Del Rio, Texas. Del Rio, Texas 247 00:15:10,960 --> 00:15:13,200 Speaker 1: is a border city. It's on the Rio Grand River 248 00:15:14,080 --> 00:15:17,520 Speaker 1: Del Rio, Texas. Its population is about thirty thousand people. 249 00:15:18,800 --> 00:15:22,720 Speaker 1: I was down there where when under the bridge that 250 00:15:22,760 --> 00:15:24,880 Speaker 1: crosses the Rio Grand that's right there in Del Rio 251 00:15:25,640 --> 00:15:31,480 Speaker 1: there were at one time fifteen thousand illegal immigrants, almost 252 00:15:31,480 --> 00:15:34,760 Speaker 1: all of whom were from Haiti, and they were crossing it. 253 00:15:34,840 --> 00:15:37,600 Speaker 1: And you want to talk about people freaking out, this 254 00:15:37,640 --> 00:15:41,800 Speaker 1: is one small town that had fifty percent, five zero 255 00:15:41,920 --> 00:15:45,280 Speaker 1: percent of the population of the town crossing in a 256 00:15:45,360 --> 00:15:51,880 Speaker 1: single day. That's what Texas is facing. And so look 257 00:15:52,640 --> 00:15:55,920 Speaker 1: sending them to blue jurisdictions has a purpose, which is 258 00:15:55,960 --> 00:16:00,920 Speaker 1: to cause these hypocrites to be forced to acknowledge their 259 00:16:01,000 --> 00:16:04,560 Speaker 1: hypocrisy and admit that it's a crisis. They're right that 260 00:16:04,640 --> 00:16:07,440 Speaker 1: it's a crisis, but it's an even bigger crisis for 261 00:16:07,560 --> 00:16:12,000 Speaker 1: Texas and for other states along the border. Now, speaking 262 00:16:12,080 --> 00:16:16,480 Speaker 1: of legislation that you've filed, turning away from this absolutely 263 00:16:16,840 --> 00:16:20,160 Speaker 1: marvelous new approach on immigration, which I'm which I again 264 00:16:20,400 --> 00:16:25,040 Speaker 1: encourage other GFP governors to follow. Going back to the Senate, 265 00:16:25,240 --> 00:16:28,080 Speaker 1: there were some fireworks that took place, and all I'm 266 00:16:28,120 --> 00:16:30,240 Speaker 1: getting is, we actually haven't really talked about this yet, 267 00:16:30,280 --> 00:16:32,440 Speaker 1: so I'm really going to be hearing it mostly for 268 00:16:32,480 --> 00:16:35,920 Speaker 1: the first time now on air, but I've read the headlines. 269 00:16:36,280 --> 00:16:39,400 Speaker 1: There was a school safety bill that you pushed in 270 00:16:39,680 --> 00:16:43,480 Speaker 1: the Senate that looked like it could pass by unanimous consent, 271 00:16:43,680 --> 00:16:47,400 Speaker 1: and then one Democrat senator shot the thing down. And 272 00:16:47,440 --> 00:16:49,880 Speaker 1: I saw the main points of the bill. They didn't 273 00:16:49,880 --> 00:16:53,040 Speaker 1: seem particularly right wing or extreme or Republican. They seemed 274 00:16:53,200 --> 00:16:59,280 Speaker 1: perfectly common sense. What happened, Well, it's September. School is 275 00:16:59,320 --> 00:17:01,760 Speaker 1: starting and school kids across the country are going back 276 00:17:01,760 --> 00:17:04,800 Speaker 1: to school, including kids in Uvaldi, where we had just 277 00:17:04,840 --> 00:17:07,679 Speaker 1: a few months ago the worst school shooting in Texas 278 00:17:07,760 --> 00:17:11,000 Speaker 1: history was horrific, and I think we need to do 279 00:17:11,160 --> 00:17:13,840 Speaker 1: much much more to keep our kids safe. And so 280 00:17:13,920 --> 00:17:16,200 Speaker 1: I have legislation. When the Senate took up its gun 281 00:17:16,240 --> 00:17:20,359 Speaker 1: control bill, I authored the lead alternative to the Democrats 282 00:17:20,400 --> 00:17:22,480 Speaker 1: gun control bill, and it was legislation that was called 283 00:17:22,520 --> 00:17:25,359 Speaker 1: Cruiz Barosso, and it had all sorts of elements to 284 00:17:25,480 --> 00:17:27,679 Speaker 1: go after violent criminals, to lock them up, to get 285 00:17:27,760 --> 00:17:31,440 Speaker 1: them off the streets, to protect our kids. The Democrats 286 00:17:31,520 --> 00:17:35,320 Speaker 1: party line vote voted against it. So what I did 287 00:17:35,440 --> 00:17:39,199 Speaker 1: today is I took just the school safety components of 288 00:17:39,240 --> 00:17:42,679 Speaker 1: Cruiz Barosso, so not the whole thing, but what was 289 00:17:42,800 --> 00:17:45,840 Speaker 1: focused directly at enhancing school safety. And in particular it 290 00:17:45,880 --> 00:17:48,880 Speaker 1: was thirty billion dollars, and that's with a bee of funding. 291 00:17:49,600 --> 00:17:52,639 Speaker 1: Thirty billion dollars of funding to enhance school safety. And 292 00:17:52,680 --> 00:17:56,359 Speaker 1: it has a number of elements. One element is doubling 293 00:17:56,400 --> 00:17:59,520 Speaker 1: the number of police officers in schools so that we 294 00:17:59,560 --> 00:18:03,680 Speaker 1: have twice as many police officers on campus. They're physically 295 00:18:03,720 --> 00:18:07,600 Speaker 1: to protect our kids, to stop praise madmen from from 296 00:18:07,640 --> 00:18:12,800 Speaker 1: getting into classrooms and trying to murder our children. Number two, 297 00:18:13,880 --> 00:18:18,359 Speaker 1: it has ten billion dollars to hire fifteen thousand new 298 00:18:18,560 --> 00:18:24,640 Speaker 1: mental health professionals to help spot these deranged young men 299 00:18:24,760 --> 00:18:27,320 Speaker 1: before they commit these kind of crimes, to help intervene 300 00:18:27,440 --> 00:18:30,880 Speaker 1: early to stop this before it happens. And in addition 301 00:18:30,920 --> 00:18:34,800 Speaker 1: to that, it is as funding for school safety improvements 302 00:18:34,800 --> 00:18:38,919 Speaker 1: throughout the campus, things to make the campus more physically secure. 303 00:18:40,080 --> 00:18:42,000 Speaker 1: So what I did today as I stood up on 304 00:18:42,000 --> 00:18:46,639 Speaker 1: the Senate floor and I asked unanimous consent for the 305 00:18:46,680 --> 00:18:48,840 Speaker 1: Senate to pass it. Now, the procedures in the Senate, 306 00:18:48,880 --> 00:18:50,800 Speaker 1: if you ask, it's called asking for a U see 307 00:18:50,880 --> 00:18:56,200 Speaker 1: unanimous consent. The presiding officer then says is their objection, 308 00:18:56,760 --> 00:18:59,760 Speaker 1: and if nobody objects, it passes it. It passes the 309 00:18:59,800 --> 00:19:02,280 Speaker 1: same in it and it is treated as having passed 310 00:19:02,359 --> 00:19:07,560 Speaker 1: one hundred to nothing. So there's a process for a UC, 311 00:19:07,920 --> 00:19:11,320 Speaker 1: which is before you seek a UC, you tell the 312 00:19:11,320 --> 00:19:13,360 Speaker 1: other side you're going to do it so they can 313 00:19:13,440 --> 00:19:17,080 Speaker 1: determine if they're going to object. So I told the 314 00:19:17,160 --> 00:19:19,600 Speaker 1: Democrats last week I was going to seek UC to 315 00:19:19,680 --> 00:19:22,960 Speaker 1: pass this, and we heard from the Democrats that they're 316 00:19:22,960 --> 00:19:25,639 Speaker 1: going to object it. In particular, we heard Chris Murphy, 317 00:19:26,240 --> 00:19:29,080 Speaker 1: who was the Democrat from Connecticut, was going to object. 318 00:19:29,920 --> 00:19:32,120 Speaker 1: And I did a media interview a few days ago 319 00:19:32,160 --> 00:19:34,960 Speaker 1: where a reporter asked me, said, well, well, what is 320 00:19:35,000 --> 00:19:37,840 Speaker 1: his objection going to be? And I told the report 321 00:19:37,880 --> 00:19:40,399 Speaker 1: I said, actually, I don't know. I have no idea 322 00:19:40,480 --> 00:19:44,720 Speaker 1: because they haven't articulated any substantive reasons why the bill 323 00:19:44,840 --> 00:19:48,120 Speaker 1: is a bad idea. They haven't indicated anything they oppose. 324 00:19:48,560 --> 00:19:50,560 Speaker 1: So I said, I guess I'm looking forward to hear 325 00:19:50,640 --> 00:19:53,320 Speaker 1: what he has to say. So I stand up. I 326 00:19:53,320 --> 00:19:55,520 Speaker 1: give a speech in favor of it, saying we need 327 00:19:55,560 --> 00:19:57,280 Speaker 1: to do more, we need to keep our kids safe. 328 00:19:57,600 --> 00:19:59,679 Speaker 1: This is a common sense bill. This ought to be 329 00:19:59,800 --> 00:20:03,640 Speaker 1: a bill that passes one hundred to nothing. Presiding Officer 330 00:20:03,720 --> 00:20:06,359 Speaker 1: turns and says, is there any objection? And Chris Murphy 331 00:20:06,400 --> 00:20:08,879 Speaker 1: stands up and he says, and I'm going to read 332 00:20:08,920 --> 00:20:14,960 Speaker 1: you the entirety of his speech, Madam President, I object 333 00:20:17,119 --> 00:20:22,199 Speaker 1: periclean wow, soaring oratory. And I have to admit I 334 00:20:22,200 --> 00:20:28,880 Speaker 1: stood up at that point and I was flabbergasted. I've 335 00:20:28,880 --> 00:20:32,400 Speaker 1: been in the Senate ten years. I've never seen that 336 00:20:32,520 --> 00:20:38,720 Speaker 1: happen on a debate on the Senate floor. He provided 337 00:20:39,160 --> 00:20:41,960 Speaker 1: not one word of argument, not one reason why it 338 00:20:42,000 --> 00:20:44,840 Speaker 1: was a bad idea, not one harm. He has no 339 00:20:44,880 --> 00:20:49,720 Speaker 1: basis to object. He simply says I object and kills it. 340 00:20:49,760 --> 00:20:53,040 Speaker 1: And I said, look at a time when I mean 341 00:20:53,080 --> 00:20:57,600 Speaker 1: our kids, there is a real problem of mass murderers, 342 00:20:57,600 --> 00:21:00,480 Speaker 1: of lunatics, who are targeting schools, who are targeting churches, 343 00:21:00,680 --> 00:21:03,240 Speaker 1: who are targeting malls. I mean it is crime, is 344 00:21:03,280 --> 00:21:07,040 Speaker 1: a serious problem which has gotten worse under Democrats. And 345 00:21:07,440 --> 00:21:12,440 Speaker 1: this is this legislation would be the most comprehensive of 346 00:21:12,480 --> 00:21:15,800 Speaker 1: the most far reaching, the most serious school safety legislation 347 00:21:16,160 --> 00:21:18,840 Speaker 1: ever enacted by the federal government. And the Democrats are 348 00:21:18,880 --> 00:21:23,320 Speaker 1: killing it. Chris Murphy's killing it without even bothering to 349 00:21:23,359 --> 00:21:25,320 Speaker 1: explain why. And I further said, on the Senate floor, 350 00:21:25,359 --> 00:21:28,280 Speaker 1: I said, you know, there's a reason he feels he 351 00:21:28,280 --> 00:21:30,720 Speaker 1: can do that. And I pointed up to the Senate 352 00:21:30,720 --> 00:21:33,040 Speaker 1: gallery where the reporters normally sit, and I said, if 353 00:21:33,040 --> 00:21:38,120 Speaker 1: you look at the gallery, the number of reporters presently 354 00:21:38,200 --> 00:21:42,879 Speaker 1: here is zero point zero zero, not a single but 355 00:21:43,000 --> 00:21:47,040 Speaker 1: reporter bothered to show up. Why is it that the 356 00:21:47,080 --> 00:21:50,000 Speaker 1: senator from Connecticut feels he can just kill this bill 357 00:21:50,359 --> 00:21:53,639 Speaker 1: and provide zero reasoning as to why, because he knows 358 00:21:53,760 --> 00:21:59,760 Speaker 1: the docile corporate media won't report on it, won't tell 359 00:21:59,800 --> 00:22:02,280 Speaker 1: an when it happened, and we'll never ask him. He 360 00:22:02,359 --> 00:22:05,159 Speaker 1: knows he will not get a question. Why did you 361 00:22:05,320 --> 00:22:09,040 Speaker 1: single handedly prevent us from doubling the number of police 362 00:22:09,080 --> 00:22:13,760 Speaker 1: officers on school campuses? Why did you kill fifteen thousand 363 00:22:13,760 --> 00:22:18,240 Speaker 1: new mental health counselors on school campuses? Because the media propagandists. 364 00:22:19,359 --> 00:22:25,000 Speaker 1: And by the way, I then asked for a second, 365 00:22:25,040 --> 00:22:28,160 Speaker 1: you see, I said, Look, I had assumed he would 366 00:22:28,200 --> 00:22:30,679 Speaker 1: present some argument as to why he thought this was 367 00:22:30,680 --> 00:22:32,240 Speaker 1: a bad idea. I don't know what it is because 368 00:22:32,240 --> 00:22:35,040 Speaker 1: he chose not to, so I said, And maybe he 369 00:22:35,160 --> 00:22:37,159 Speaker 1: disliked how we were spending it. Maybe he says we 370 00:22:37,200 --> 00:22:40,440 Speaker 1: should spend more on counselors than on cops. I don't, 371 00:22:40,440 --> 00:22:42,560 Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't. I mean, he didn't say anything. 372 00:22:43,520 --> 00:22:46,320 Speaker 1: So my second amendment was, there are right now, there's 373 00:22:46,359 --> 00:22:51,679 Speaker 1: one hundred and thirty billion dollars in unspent COVID relief 374 00:22:51,680 --> 00:22:55,560 Speaker 1: funds designated for schools. So Congress has appropriated it. It's 375 00:22:55,600 --> 00:22:58,440 Speaker 1: sitting there, it hasn't been spent. The way my bill 376 00:22:58,560 --> 00:23:01,240 Speaker 1: was paid for is it was using had unspent COVID funds, 377 00:23:01,280 --> 00:23:03,840 Speaker 1: so it did not cost any additional money because that's 378 00:23:03,880 --> 00:23:07,880 Speaker 1: money that has already been allocated to schools. But I said, 379 00:23:07,880 --> 00:23:10,280 Speaker 1: all right, if he doesn't like how my bill is 380 00:23:10,320 --> 00:23:13,080 Speaker 1: spending it, I had a very simple, one page bill 381 00:23:14,400 --> 00:23:19,560 Speaker 1: that simply says schools, if they wish to, can spend 382 00:23:20,040 --> 00:23:24,480 Speaker 1: some of that COVID relief money on enhancing school security. 383 00:23:24,520 --> 00:23:27,440 Speaker 1: So they can spend some of it on hiring police officers, 384 00:23:27,560 --> 00:23:30,120 Speaker 1: or spend some of it on enhancing the physical security 385 00:23:30,119 --> 00:23:32,960 Speaker 1: on campus. Right now, the Democrats have put in place 386 00:23:33,040 --> 00:23:35,440 Speaker 1: rules that stop them from doing that. So the very 387 00:23:35,440 --> 00:23:38,840 Speaker 1: simple rule let the schools decide if they want to 388 00:23:38,840 --> 00:23:42,320 Speaker 1: spend it on school safety. What did Murphy do? Stood 389 00:23:42,400 --> 00:23:45,800 Speaker 1: up and objected and gave a very short speech, this 390 00:23:45,880 --> 00:23:51,160 Speaker 1: time maybe a minute or two, where he says, I'm 391 00:23:51,240 --> 00:23:55,639 Speaker 1: not arguing because this isn't real. He says, this is clickbait, 392 00:23:57,920 --> 00:24:03,159 Speaker 1: to which I responded, okay, is very real. And in 393 00:24:03,320 --> 00:24:05,960 Speaker 1: order for both of these bills, or either of these 394 00:24:05,960 --> 00:24:08,280 Speaker 1: bills to pass, the Senator for Connecticut had to do 395 00:24:08,320 --> 00:24:14,000 Speaker 1: one thing, just shut up. If he simply had closed 396 00:24:14,080 --> 00:24:20,400 Speaker 1: his mouth, these bills would have passed unanimously. But he's 397 00:24:20,520 --> 00:24:22,880 Speaker 1: unwilling to do it, and it's because the Democrats, when 398 00:24:22,920 --> 00:24:25,480 Speaker 1: it comes to crime and mass shootings, they have one 399 00:24:25,480 --> 00:24:28,880 Speaker 1: political objective, and that's taking away the Second Amendment rights 400 00:24:28,880 --> 00:24:31,960 Speaker 1: of law abiding citizens. When it comes to actually stopping 401 00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:35,760 Speaker 1: these crimes, not only are they not interested in doing it, 402 00:24:35,840 --> 00:24:42,439 Speaker 1: they actively and affirmatively oppose serious steps to enhance the 403 00:24:42,520 --> 00:24:45,840 Speaker 1: security of schools, and we saw it tragically today. It's 404 00:24:45,880 --> 00:24:49,800 Speaker 1: also just such weak sauce to say, I object and 405 00:24:49,840 --> 00:24:57,080 Speaker 1: I want to participate because politics involves a certain aspect 406 00:24:57,080 --> 00:24:59,240 Speaker 1: of rhetoric and theater to it. Yes, of course that's 407 00:24:59,240 --> 00:25:03,200 Speaker 1: what politics. It involves talking and making speeches and persuading 408 00:25:03,400 --> 00:25:07,600 Speaker 1: fellow members. Yeah, duh, of course that's politics. And that, 409 00:25:07,920 --> 00:25:09,920 Speaker 1: to me is such a weak sauce. But it's also 410 00:25:10,280 --> 00:25:13,240 Speaker 1: not really a plausible objection because he's saying, this is clickbait. 411 00:25:13,320 --> 00:25:16,280 Speaker 1: This is clickbait. But to your point, the media didn't 412 00:25:16,320 --> 00:25:18,959 Speaker 1: show up. The press weren't even there. And this actually 413 00:25:19,000 --> 00:25:23,879 Speaker 1: brings me, to my mind an even more amazing moment, 414 00:25:24,200 --> 00:25:26,840 Speaker 1: which is, as far as I can tell, Senator, and 415 00:25:26,960 --> 00:25:31,240 Speaker 1: please fill in the details here. The Democrats had a 416 00:25:31,280 --> 00:25:35,520 Speaker 1: pro media cartel bill that they've been working on for 417 00:25:35,560 --> 00:25:39,719 Speaker 1: a very long time to give our corporate left wing 418 00:25:40,240 --> 00:25:44,639 Speaker 1: propagandist media even more power, and specifically to try to 419 00:25:44,640 --> 00:25:46,879 Speaker 1: get some more money at a big tech but maybe 420 00:25:46,920 --> 00:25:49,040 Speaker 1: to wield some more power than they already do over 421 00:25:49,080 --> 00:25:51,040 Speaker 1: all the rest of US and over free speech in 422 00:25:51,080 --> 00:25:54,280 Speaker 1: the country. And as far as I can tell, you 423 00:25:54,600 --> 00:25:58,480 Speaker 1: single handedly derailed it somehow, even though the Democrats still 424 00:25:58,560 --> 00:26:01,200 Speaker 1: run the Senate. How did that happen? So we had 425 00:26:01,200 --> 00:26:04,080 Speaker 1: a markup last week in the Senate Judiciary Committee on 426 00:26:04,520 --> 00:26:11,000 Speaker 1: a bill that is called the Journalism Competition Protection Act, 427 00:26:11,600 --> 00:26:15,159 Speaker 1: and it actually I would characterize the bill differently than 428 00:26:15,240 --> 00:26:18,600 Speaker 1: you did, um in that I think there are some 429 00:26:18,680 --> 00:26:22,959 Speaker 1: good aspects of the bill, and I was genuinely mixed 430 00:26:22,960 --> 00:26:24,679 Speaker 1: on whether the bill was a good idea or not. 431 00:26:25,480 --> 00:26:30,280 Speaker 1: What the bill purports to do is to help smaller 432 00:26:30,400 --> 00:26:35,280 Speaker 1: journalistic out outlets and in particular local media, so local broadcasters, 433 00:26:36,320 --> 00:26:40,439 Speaker 1: local newspapers. Right now, if you're a local newspaper and 434 00:26:40,480 --> 00:26:43,960 Speaker 1: you write a story, big tech can take your story 435 00:26:44,000 --> 00:26:47,240 Speaker 1: and put it online and run ads like get ad 436 00:26:47,280 --> 00:26:50,840 Speaker 1: revenue from putting your story your content that you produced online. 437 00:26:51,359 --> 00:26:56,240 Speaker 1: Big tech can and does makes billions of dollars distributing 438 00:26:56,280 --> 00:26:58,560 Speaker 1: the content you provided that. You know, look, if you 439 00:26:58,600 --> 00:27:03,920 Speaker 1: were a musician, a radio station wouldn't have the ability 440 00:27:03,960 --> 00:27:06,520 Speaker 1: to take your music and play it against your wishes 441 00:27:07,119 --> 00:27:10,080 Speaker 1: and make money off of it without paying you. Right. 442 00:27:10,119 --> 00:27:13,600 Speaker 1: So the argument from local media is what we have 443 00:27:14,040 --> 00:27:17,199 Speaker 1: either written these stories or put together these news stories 444 00:27:17,240 --> 00:27:20,440 Speaker 1: in the case of broadcast TV, and big tech just 445 00:27:20,840 --> 00:27:24,800 Speaker 1: monetizes it for themselves and doesn't pass anything. So what 446 00:27:24,920 --> 00:27:30,000 Speaker 1: this bill does is it allows smaller journalistic outlets, and 447 00:27:30,040 --> 00:27:34,560 Speaker 1: it defines smaller journalistic outlets as those with fifteen hundred 448 00:27:34,560 --> 00:27:40,200 Speaker 1: employers employees or fewer. So it excludes the New York 449 00:27:40,200 --> 00:27:42,440 Speaker 1: Times and the Wall Street Journal in the Washington Post, 450 00:27:42,480 --> 00:27:45,200 Speaker 1: for example, because they all have more than fifteen hundred employees. 451 00:27:45,680 --> 00:27:50,320 Speaker 1: But smaller outlets can band together and can form a 452 00:27:50,480 --> 00:27:55,919 Speaker 1: joint group to negotiate with big tech in order to 453 00:27:55,960 --> 00:27:59,680 Speaker 1: get paid for their content. What you're describing, Senator, actually 454 00:27:59,680 --> 00:28:03,399 Speaker 1: see fine, and so so then my question would be 455 00:28:04,200 --> 00:28:08,280 Speaker 1: why derail it? Yeah, so, and it's modeled after what 456 00:28:08,480 --> 00:28:11,240 Speaker 1: happened in Australia where they did something very similar to 457 00:28:11,280 --> 00:28:14,280 Speaker 1: it and Facebook said We're not going to comply, and 458 00:28:14,320 --> 00:28:16,000 Speaker 1: then like two days later they said, oh crap, we 459 00:28:16,080 --> 00:28:19,040 Speaker 1: need all this content. So now they're paying the local media. 460 00:28:19,080 --> 00:28:23,600 Speaker 1: So it was in significant respects successful in Australia. That 461 00:28:23,680 --> 00:28:26,679 Speaker 1: was the model for this. So this was a bill 462 00:28:26,720 --> 00:28:31,159 Speaker 1: that was authored by Amy Klobuchar, the Democrat from Minnesota, 463 00:28:31,200 --> 00:28:34,320 Speaker 1: and John Kennedy, the Republican from from Louisiana. Was a 464 00:28:34,320 --> 00:28:38,000 Speaker 1: good friend of mine and a really good guy. And 465 00:28:38,080 --> 00:28:40,840 Speaker 1: I said at the Markup, so I was being lobbied 466 00:28:40,840 --> 00:28:43,280 Speaker 1: by both sides on this. Big tech hates this bill. 467 00:28:43,360 --> 00:28:46,760 Speaker 1: So that's that's a plus. Anything big tech hates I 468 00:28:46,840 --> 00:28:52,680 Speaker 1: have a natural inclination to. Like Here's what I said 469 00:28:52,680 --> 00:28:56,880 Speaker 1: at the Markup. I said, when I look at big 470 00:28:56,920 --> 00:29:00,760 Speaker 1: tech in journalism, the single greatest threat to free speech 471 00:29:00,800 --> 00:29:05,320 Speaker 1: we have today is big tech censorship. And I don't 472 00:29:05,360 --> 00:29:12,800 Speaker 1: want anything we do to increase big tech censorship. Moreover, 473 00:29:13,440 --> 00:29:17,560 Speaker 1: I want anything we do to decrease big tech censorship. 474 00:29:17,560 --> 00:29:21,479 Speaker 1: And what this bill did was create an exemption from 475 00:29:21,520 --> 00:29:25,360 Speaker 1: the antitrust laws. So ordinarily, a bunch of competitors you 476 00:29:25,400 --> 00:29:27,320 Speaker 1: can't get all the newspapers in a state to come 477 00:29:27,360 --> 00:29:30,760 Speaker 1: together and negotiate, is one that violates the antitrust laws. 478 00:29:30,800 --> 00:29:34,600 Speaker 1: So this bill creates an exemption from the antitrust laws 479 00:29:34,640 --> 00:29:36,880 Speaker 1: to let them come together and negotiate with big tech. 480 00:29:36,920 --> 00:29:43,000 Speaker 1: And so I introduced an amendment. I said, the immunity 481 00:29:43,040 --> 00:29:47,320 Speaker 1: from antitrust under this bill does not apply to any 482 00:29:47,360 --> 00:29:53,240 Speaker 1: negotiations or agreements concerning content moderation, concerning censorship. In other words, 483 00:29:53,240 --> 00:29:55,840 Speaker 1: you can get together and negotiate on price. You can 484 00:29:55,880 --> 00:29:58,360 Speaker 1: say you got to pay me for what we're producing. 485 00:29:59,080 --> 00:30:01,240 Speaker 1: But what you can't get together as you can't get 486 00:30:01,280 --> 00:30:03,800 Speaker 1: a media cartel together with a big tech cartel and 487 00:30:03,840 --> 00:30:08,800 Speaker 1: say hey, let's all agree that we will censor any 488 00:30:08,880 --> 00:30:13,160 Speaker 1: story about Donald J. Trump. And this bill would give 489 00:30:13,160 --> 00:30:15,600 Speaker 1: that immunity for manitrust laws for them to get together 490 00:30:15,640 --> 00:30:21,560 Speaker 1: as a cartel and collude to censor more effectively. And 491 00:30:21,640 --> 00:30:24,480 Speaker 1: so it says, hey, if this is about price, they 492 00:30:24,560 --> 00:30:28,520 Speaker 1: let them negotiate on price, but censorship should not be 493 00:30:28,680 --> 00:30:32,080 Speaker 1: a topic that is covered by this bill. And so 494 00:30:32,120 --> 00:30:37,680 Speaker 1: we vote on it, and all the Republicans vote for me, 495 00:30:37,720 --> 00:30:40,880 Speaker 1: including John Kennedy. And what John Kennedy says at the markup, 496 00:30:40,960 --> 00:30:44,040 Speaker 1: he says, listen, I want to help the local newspapers 497 00:30:44,040 --> 00:30:46,640 Speaker 1: and local stations, but I'm not interested in censorship, and 498 00:30:47,080 --> 00:30:50,480 Speaker 1: what Cruiz is saying seems very reasonable that when they're bargaining, 499 00:30:50,520 --> 00:30:53,000 Speaker 1: they shouldn't be bargaining about censorship, they should be bargaining 500 00:30:53,040 --> 00:30:58,640 Speaker 1: about price. So Amy Klobuchar got very angry, begins screaming 501 00:30:58,680 --> 00:31:01,320 Speaker 1: at John Kennedy in the market. She's like, we had 502 00:31:01,360 --> 00:31:03,760 Speaker 1: a deal and you're not. You're not following our deal. 503 00:31:03,800 --> 00:31:05,720 Speaker 1: He's like, we didn't have a deal to allow censorship. 504 00:31:05,760 --> 00:31:08,760 Speaker 1: That wasn't our deal. So they're going back and forth 505 00:31:08,800 --> 00:31:12,480 Speaker 1: and we have a committee vote. Now here's what's very interesting. 506 00:31:14,400 --> 00:31:18,240 Speaker 1: One of the Democrats, John Ossoff from Georgia, was not there. 507 00:31:19,160 --> 00:31:23,440 Speaker 1: He actually had COVID and was an India, so he 508 00:31:23,520 --> 00:31:28,440 Speaker 1: was out of the country. Normally, if you are absent, 509 00:31:28,480 --> 00:31:31,440 Speaker 1: if a senator is absent from a mark up, your 510 00:31:31,560 --> 00:31:34,360 Speaker 1: staff can have a proxy to vote for you. So 511 00:31:34,400 --> 00:31:37,920 Speaker 1: even if you're not physically there, your staff can cast 512 00:31:37,960 --> 00:31:42,880 Speaker 1: a proxy vote that counts well. Osoff was not physically 513 00:31:42,920 --> 00:31:45,720 Speaker 1: there and he had not given his staff the proxy 514 00:31:45,760 --> 00:31:48,520 Speaker 1: to vote. They didn't have a vote from him one 515 00:31:48,560 --> 00:31:51,960 Speaker 1: way or the other. So we voted on my amendment. Jesshry. 516 00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:55,880 Speaker 1: Committee has eleven Democrats and eleven Republicans. We voted on it, 517 00:31:55,920 --> 00:31:58,840 Speaker 1: and the vote was eleven to ten, eleven ours voting 518 00:31:58,920 --> 00:32:01,840 Speaker 1: yes and only Tends voting no because asof wasn't there. 519 00:32:03,080 --> 00:32:05,680 Speaker 1: Dick Durban, the chairman of the committee, has head explode, 520 00:32:05,720 --> 00:32:10,320 Speaker 1: like like they're it is worth watching how these Dems 521 00:32:10,320 --> 00:32:14,680 Speaker 1: are just fulminating and spewing and they're losing their minds. 522 00:32:15,280 --> 00:32:19,920 Speaker 1: And then Michael, what happened next was truly hysteric. Amy klobucharcis, 523 00:32:20,040 --> 00:32:22,280 Speaker 1: so my amendment's been adopted. It's now part of her bill. 524 00:32:23,200 --> 00:32:25,840 Speaker 1: And she says, well, if this isn't the bill, I 525 00:32:25,880 --> 00:32:28,400 Speaker 1: can't support my bill. There you go, I no longer 526 00:32:28,520 --> 00:32:32,240 Speaker 1: it is. I no longer support my own bill. And 527 00:32:32,400 --> 00:32:35,080 Speaker 1: she said, and we're gonna pull it down. I made 528 00:32:35,080 --> 00:32:37,360 Speaker 1: clear if you adopt my amendment, I'll vote for your bill. 529 00:32:38,440 --> 00:32:40,800 Speaker 1: And once the amendment was adopted, I would have voted 530 00:32:40,880 --> 00:32:45,880 Speaker 1: for it. But it was amazing because the Democrats made 531 00:32:45,920 --> 00:32:50,760 Speaker 1: clear in that mark up that they value censorship over 532 00:32:50,840 --> 00:32:55,520 Speaker 1: anything else. It's total vindication of the Republican skepticism, right 533 00:32:55,560 --> 00:32:57,320 Speaker 1: because the Democrats come out they say, this is just 534 00:32:57,320 --> 00:33:00,480 Speaker 1: a bill about helping small newspapers, which I'm totally four. 535 00:33:00,560 --> 00:33:03,960 Speaker 1: You're totally for. I think most people are totally for. Okay, great, okay, man, 536 00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:05,520 Speaker 1: you're not going to censor right now. No, we're not 537 00:33:05,520 --> 00:33:07,320 Speaker 1: going to censor. Okay, great, Well, I'm just going to 538 00:33:07,400 --> 00:33:10,000 Speaker 1: put in this little amendment that says you can't use 539 00:33:10,040 --> 00:33:13,160 Speaker 1: this as a way to censor everybody. Then the amendment 540 00:33:13,200 --> 00:33:15,360 Speaker 1: passes and then they say, yeah, never mind. It's just 541 00:33:15,440 --> 00:33:17,560 Speaker 1: it just tells you what they were after the whole time. 542 00:33:18,560 --> 00:33:25,920 Speaker 1: It was truly brazen, and I think it was revealing. 543 00:33:25,960 --> 00:33:33,320 Speaker 1: It showed censorship and silencing of the political opposition has 544 00:33:33,360 --> 00:33:37,200 Speaker 1: become a core value of today's Democrat party. They support it, 545 00:33:37,520 --> 00:33:41,160 Speaker 1: and apparently they're now willing to vote against their own 546 00:33:41,240 --> 00:33:47,200 Speaker 1: bills if there's anything in them that might actually stop 547 00:33:47,800 --> 00:33:51,760 Speaker 1: big tech from censoring Michael Knowles. That's amazing, that's amazing. 548 00:33:51,920 --> 00:33:55,560 Speaker 1: I love it. I even I just love the whole 549 00:33:55,640 --> 00:33:59,040 Speaker 1: kind of nitty gritty technical way. Because ass Off was 550 00:33:59,080 --> 00:34:01,640 Speaker 1: out and you saw your life. I love the whole thing. 551 00:34:01,800 --> 00:34:04,120 Speaker 1: Speaking of close votes, though, I've got to ask you 552 00:34:04,160 --> 00:34:07,320 Speaker 1: about a vote that's coming up that is causing me 553 00:34:07,360 --> 00:34:09,279 Speaker 1: to lose my hair. You know, I count on my 554 00:34:09,320 --> 00:34:11,160 Speaker 1: hair for a like count on it for like three 555 00:34:11,200 --> 00:34:13,200 Speaker 1: inches of height, and it's causing me to pull my 556 00:34:13,239 --> 00:34:17,759 Speaker 1: hair out. There is going to be this gay marriage vote. Now, 557 00:34:17,760 --> 00:34:21,520 Speaker 1: the Supreme Court in o burghfel redefines marriage, and that's that. 558 00:34:21,640 --> 00:34:25,520 Speaker 1: I guess. Now the Democrats want to enshrine this in law. 559 00:34:25,600 --> 00:34:27,360 Speaker 1: So I actually pass along and say, now this is 560 00:34:27,360 --> 00:34:31,279 Speaker 1: the definition of marriage. And some Republicans seem to be 561 00:34:32,160 --> 00:34:36,240 Speaker 1: wanting to go along with this, possibly some Republican senators, 562 00:34:36,400 --> 00:34:40,040 Speaker 1: some Republican candidates. I don't see any reason to do this. 563 00:34:40,120 --> 00:34:43,799 Speaker 1: The Supreme Court has already spoken. It's just I mean, 564 00:34:43,840 --> 00:34:46,520 Speaker 1: this is to the left of Barack Obama circa twenty eleven. 565 00:34:46,600 --> 00:34:49,040 Speaker 1: I just none of this is making sense to me. 566 00:34:49,239 --> 00:34:52,719 Speaker 1: And I was looking at the numbers. Is this thing 567 00:34:52,760 --> 00:34:56,440 Speaker 1: going to pass? So I don't know. And it is 568 00:34:56,480 --> 00:35:00,920 Speaker 1: even worse than you described. So what we're hearing is 569 00:35:00,960 --> 00:35:03,640 Speaker 1: that this is likely to be what's called the comeback 570 00:35:03,760 --> 00:35:08,000 Speaker 1: vote next Monday. So Monday typically when everyone flies back 571 00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:10,719 Speaker 1: to DC for session, the first vote of the day 572 00:35:10,800 --> 00:35:12,719 Speaker 1: is at five thirty pm on a Monday, and that's 573 00:35:12,800 --> 00:35:14,680 Speaker 1: late enough that even from the West coast, you can 574 00:35:14,719 --> 00:35:16,839 Speaker 1: fly in and get there in time. To vote. That's 575 00:35:16,840 --> 00:35:18,960 Speaker 1: called the comeback vote, and it's what brings everyone back 576 00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:22,640 Speaker 1: to DC. We are hearing this week that the comeback 577 00:35:22,719 --> 00:35:24,640 Speaker 1: vote on Monday is going to be the vote on 578 00:35:25,120 --> 00:35:28,680 Speaker 1: this bill. And there are a couple of components of 579 00:35:28,680 --> 00:35:35,719 Speaker 1: this bill. Number one, it is responding to a made 580 00:35:35,840 --> 00:35:38,720 Speaker 1: up threat because, and we've talked about this at length, 581 00:35:39,600 --> 00:35:46,000 Speaker 1: the Supreme Court majority and Dobbs explicitly said not once, 582 00:35:46,040 --> 00:35:49,839 Speaker 1: not twice, but three times that the Court was not 583 00:35:50,000 --> 00:35:52,640 Speaker 1: going to revisit a burger Fell. It was not going 584 00:35:52,719 --> 00:35:56,240 Speaker 1: to revisit its decision on gay marriage. You have Clarence Thomas, 585 00:35:56,239 --> 00:36:01,359 Speaker 1: who wrote one concurrence, suggesting that, but the five justices 586 00:36:02,200 --> 00:36:06,160 Speaker 1: explicitly said, no, we're not going to. The third time, 587 00:36:06,239 --> 00:36:09,520 Speaker 1: Justice Alito, writing for the majority, says, I don't know 588 00:36:09,560 --> 00:36:15,080 Speaker 1: how to say this anymore clearly, No, no, no. So 589 00:36:15,960 --> 00:36:19,160 Speaker 1: as much as the Democrats and the media want to 590 00:36:19,200 --> 00:36:21,560 Speaker 1: suggest that the Court is suddenly on the verge of 591 00:36:21,560 --> 00:36:27,200 Speaker 1: overturning that decision, the Court's majority said unequivocally it was not. 592 00:36:29,480 --> 00:36:34,720 Speaker 1: So it's not trying to do address an affirmative threat 593 00:36:34,760 --> 00:36:37,960 Speaker 1: to gay marriage, which which people could be concerned about. 594 00:36:38,520 --> 00:36:40,840 Speaker 1: It's engaged in politics. But you know, look, if it 595 00:36:40,880 --> 00:36:45,640 Speaker 1: were empty politics, that would be problematic, but not necessarily 596 00:36:45,640 --> 00:36:48,520 Speaker 1: the end of the world. But it's worse than that 597 00:36:49,719 --> 00:36:54,080 Speaker 1: because if this bill passes, it repeals the Federal Defensive 598 00:36:54,080 --> 00:36:56,120 Speaker 1: Marriage Act, which Bill Clinton signed in a a law it 599 00:36:56,239 --> 00:36:59,680 Speaker 1: used to be Democrats would agree with defending marriage, but 600 00:37:00,000 --> 00:37:07,560 Speaker 1: it also a men's federal law defining marriage to encompass 601 00:37:08,920 --> 00:37:12,719 Speaker 1: whatever any state says marriage is that any state that 602 00:37:12,840 --> 00:37:17,279 Speaker 1: is that makes anything called a marriage legal is automatically 603 00:37:17,360 --> 00:37:19,200 Speaker 1: legal for federal law. And by the way, that's not 604 00:37:19,239 --> 00:37:21,480 Speaker 1: even limited to two people. That means of a state 605 00:37:21,960 --> 00:37:26,120 Speaker 1: made polygamy legal federal law would immediately recognize polygamy as 606 00:37:26,120 --> 00:37:31,080 Speaker 1: federal law. I mean, I mean it is broadreaching. It's 607 00:37:31,160 --> 00:37:34,040 Speaker 1: it's even worse than that, because you know, there was 608 00:37:34,080 --> 00:37:36,359 Speaker 1: an oral argument that Don Varelli, who had been the 609 00:37:36,360 --> 00:37:39,960 Speaker 1: Solicitor General under Barack Obama, was presenting before the Supreme Court, 610 00:37:41,040 --> 00:37:47,400 Speaker 1: where where Justice Alito asked, well, isn't the next step 611 00:37:48,640 --> 00:37:51,279 Speaker 1: for the irs to go after the five oh one 612 00:37:51,360 --> 00:37:56,960 Speaker 1: C three status of any institution that does not agree 613 00:37:57,000 --> 00:38:00,560 Speaker 1: with gay marriage? And Varilli admits, oh, yes, yes, that 614 00:38:00,560 --> 00:38:04,520 Speaker 1: that is the next step. And if this bill passes, 615 00:38:06,000 --> 00:38:08,719 Speaker 1: the effect will be, and I'll make a prediction right now, 616 00:38:08,760 --> 00:38:11,319 Speaker 1: if this bill passes and Joe Biden signs it into law, 617 00:38:11,960 --> 00:38:18,400 Speaker 1: the Biden Irs will use this bill to target schools 618 00:38:18,520 --> 00:38:24,040 Speaker 1: K through twelve schools, to target universities, to target charities, 619 00:38:24,560 --> 00:38:31,200 Speaker 1: and to target churches that maintain a traditional definition of marriage, 620 00:38:31,200 --> 00:38:34,480 Speaker 1: whether that is a Biblical definition of marriage, or whether 621 00:38:34,560 --> 00:38:39,160 Speaker 1: that is a Jewish synagogue or a Muslim mosque, or 622 00:38:39,200 --> 00:38:42,640 Speaker 1: any religion that teaches that marriages the union of one 623 00:38:42,680 --> 00:38:47,440 Speaker 1: man and one woman. The Biden Irs, if this bill passes, 624 00:38:47,480 --> 00:38:49,799 Speaker 1: will be empowered to go after them, to go to 625 00:38:49,840 --> 00:38:54,759 Speaker 1: your church and say, unless you accept gay marriage, we 626 00:38:54,880 --> 00:38:57,799 Speaker 1: are stripping you of your five oh one C three 627 00:38:59,000 --> 00:39:03,160 Speaker 1: tax status, which you want to talk about opening up 628 00:39:03,280 --> 00:39:07,280 Speaker 1: a massive new front in the assault on religious liberty. 629 00:39:07,640 --> 00:39:11,720 Speaker 1: This bill is about empowering the Biden Irs to target 630 00:39:11,800 --> 00:39:14,960 Speaker 1: every church and school and university and charity in America 631 00:39:15,120 --> 00:39:19,440 Speaker 1: that refuses to knuckle under to their view of gay marriage. 632 00:39:19,480 --> 00:39:22,239 Speaker 1: I think it's incredibly dangerous. And yet, Michael, you asked me, 633 00:39:22,320 --> 00:39:26,759 Speaker 1: is it going to pass? I don't know every Democrat's 634 00:39:26,760 --> 00:39:29,640 Speaker 1: going to vote for it, and there have been multiple 635 00:39:29,680 --> 00:39:32,359 Speaker 1: Republican senators who said they will too. I don't know 636 00:39:32,400 --> 00:39:37,160 Speaker 1: if they get to sixty or not, but given the 637 00:39:37,200 --> 00:39:40,640 Speaker 1: threat to religious liberty, I think it would be profoundly 638 00:39:40,719 --> 00:39:44,520 Speaker 1: dangerous if this passage. It's just unconscionable to me that 639 00:39:44,600 --> 00:39:47,640 Speaker 1: a Republican senator would even consider voting for this, because 640 00:39:47,760 --> 00:39:51,400 Speaker 1: to your point, even if you support gay marriage, even 641 00:39:51,440 --> 00:39:55,440 Speaker 1: if you support o Bergafelt, whatever, to say that you 642 00:39:55,440 --> 00:39:59,080 Speaker 1: want to empower the federal government Joe Biden's irs. We 643 00:39:59,160 --> 00:40:02,239 Speaker 1: know that Biden is is pretty loose and capricious when 644 00:40:02,239 --> 00:40:06,239 Speaker 1: it comes to wielding the executive agencies to crush his 645 00:40:06,360 --> 00:40:09,400 Speaker 1: political opponents. That you would empower them to go after 646 00:40:09,440 --> 00:40:12,840 Speaker 1: schools and churches and charities and all these organizations because 647 00:40:12,840 --> 00:40:16,520 Speaker 1: they have the temerity to continue to hold the view 648 00:40:16,520 --> 00:40:19,759 Speaker 1: of marriage that everyone threat all of history, all around 649 00:40:19,760 --> 00:40:22,399 Speaker 1: the world held until about seven years ago. It's just 650 00:40:23,280 --> 00:40:27,719 Speaker 1: I have such low expectations for people in the political 651 00:40:27,800 --> 00:40:30,640 Speaker 1: establishment that I thought nothing could shock me anymore. But 652 00:40:30,719 --> 00:40:36,080 Speaker 1: it's the most outrageous thing I've heard in politics in years. 653 00:40:36,120 --> 00:40:39,359 Speaker 1: I think, yeah, and and look, this is a very 654 00:40:39,440 --> 00:40:42,279 Speaker 1: real threat to show this is not hypothetical. The City 655 00:40:42,320 --> 00:40:50,320 Speaker 1: of Philadelphia denied Catholic Charities participation in adoption services because 656 00:40:50,440 --> 00:40:54,960 Speaker 1: Catholic charities did not embrace gay marriage, as they believed 657 00:40:55,000 --> 00:40:57,879 Speaker 1: it was contrary to their faith. And that case went 658 00:40:57,920 --> 00:40:59,439 Speaker 1: all the way to the Supreme Court and the Sprining 659 00:40:59,440 --> 00:41:01,560 Speaker 1: Court struck it down and said you can't exclude them. 660 00:41:02,360 --> 00:41:07,920 Speaker 1: The difference is, once this bill passes, they'll go back 661 00:41:07,960 --> 00:41:10,439 Speaker 1: and they'll try to exclude Catholic charities. They'll go back 662 00:41:10,440 --> 00:41:13,680 Speaker 1: and they'll target any charity, any church, at a school, 663 00:41:13,680 --> 00:41:18,440 Speaker 1: at a university that dares disagree, and it is a 664 00:41:18,840 --> 00:41:22,400 Speaker 1: green light for religious persecution from the Zealots and the 665 00:41:22,400 --> 00:41:26,000 Speaker 1: Biden Irs. Well, we were mentioning it's not just the 666 00:41:26,040 --> 00:41:28,120 Speaker 1: Republican senators who were talking about this. A lot of 667 00:41:28,160 --> 00:41:31,400 Speaker 1: candidates are being asked about this now. And I know 668 00:41:31,440 --> 00:41:33,799 Speaker 1: that you've been hitting the campaign trail like crazy for 669 00:41:33,880 --> 00:41:36,000 Speaker 1: some of these Republican candidates. You were just up in 670 00:41:36,040 --> 00:41:39,799 Speaker 1: New Hampshire, I believe with is it Caroline Levitt? Who is? 671 00:41:40,040 --> 00:41:43,239 Speaker 1: She was behind and then she just and she was 672 00:41:43,280 --> 00:41:46,080 Speaker 1: being outspend. Then she jumps ahead. So you're you're very 673 00:41:46,160 --> 00:41:48,239 Speaker 1: much you know you're you're going to all of these 674 00:41:48,280 --> 00:41:50,680 Speaker 1: places you see what's happening? One, I want to ask 675 00:41:50,719 --> 00:41:53,680 Speaker 1: you about that race. But two, where do we stand? 676 00:41:53,760 --> 00:41:56,600 Speaker 1: I'm getting such conflicting information right now from pretty much 677 00:41:56,640 --> 00:41:59,200 Speaker 1: every news source. Are we going to take the House 678 00:41:59,640 --> 00:42:01,680 Speaker 1: or do we have a shot at the Senate? What's 679 00:42:01,719 --> 00:42:03,719 Speaker 1: the state of the race. All right, well, let me 680 00:42:03,760 --> 00:42:05,759 Speaker 1: start with your first question. So we had a great 681 00:42:05,800 --> 00:42:09,719 Speaker 1: victory this week. There is New Hampshire had their primaries 682 00:42:09,760 --> 00:42:16,000 Speaker 1: on Tuesday, and for one of the two congressional seats 683 00:42:16,000 --> 00:42:19,240 Speaker 1: in New Hampshire, it's a very close seat. A Democrat 684 00:42:19,280 --> 00:42:21,439 Speaker 1: holds it now, but it's it's a seat that could 685 00:42:21,440 --> 00:42:23,719 Speaker 1: go either way, could go Democrat or Republican. And there 686 00:42:23,760 --> 00:42:27,239 Speaker 1: was a contested primary. The top two candidates in the 687 00:42:27,280 --> 00:42:31,160 Speaker 1: primary were number one, a woman who I supported named 688 00:42:31,200 --> 00:42:36,400 Speaker 1: Caroline Levitt. Caroline is twenty five years old. She is young, 689 00:42:37,160 --> 00:42:41,000 Speaker 1: She is attractive, articulate, dynamic. She worked in the Trump 690 00:42:41,080 --> 00:42:43,960 Speaker 1: White House. She worked on the press team in the 691 00:42:44,000 --> 00:42:46,359 Speaker 1: Trump White House. She is a New Hampshire native, grew 692 00:42:46,440 --> 00:42:48,799 Speaker 1: up there, went to college there, played softball at St. 693 00:42:48,800 --> 00:42:55,600 Speaker 1: Anselm's College. Is a really dynamic candidate and she's a conservative. 694 00:42:56,480 --> 00:43:00,040 Speaker 1: If elected, she will be the youngest woman ever to 695 00:43:00,080 --> 00:43:04,480 Speaker 1: serve in the House Representatives. She's you know, gen z, 696 00:43:04,719 --> 00:43:06,840 Speaker 1: she's not even you know, she's not gen x, or 697 00:43:06,840 --> 00:43:13,480 Speaker 1: even why she's gen z. Her principal opponent was a 698 00:43:13,600 --> 00:43:17,960 Speaker 1: much more moderate candidate who had been Chris Christie's executive 699 00:43:18,000 --> 00:43:20,280 Speaker 1: director in New Hampshire. So he was a New Jersey 700 00:43:20,320 --> 00:43:24,600 Speaker 1: Republican who moved to New Hampshire to run Chris kissed 701 00:43:24,640 --> 00:43:33,040 Speaker 1: Christie's campaign and was not remotely as conservative as Caroline. However, 702 00:43:34,560 --> 00:43:38,759 Speaker 1: the DC party bosses, if given a primary between a 703 00:43:38,760 --> 00:43:45,160 Speaker 1: conservative and a moderate, reliably almost inevitably back the MOD 704 00:43:45,239 --> 00:43:48,080 Speaker 1: and put big money behind the MOD because they want 705 00:43:48,120 --> 00:43:52,400 Speaker 1: conservatives to lose. We've seen the DC party bosses attacking 706 00:43:52,400 --> 00:43:55,319 Speaker 1: conservatives and primaries all over the country this year. It's 707 00:43:55,360 --> 00:43:58,640 Speaker 1: been really a problem. I've been fighting them in many 708 00:43:58,680 --> 00:44:02,080 Speaker 1: of those races. Well, in this race, the DC party 709 00:44:02,120 --> 00:44:09,200 Speaker 1: bosses and lobbyists spent five million dollars attacking Caroline Leavitt. 710 00:44:09,360 --> 00:44:13,719 Speaker 1: Five million dollars flooded the airwaves with attack ads, and 711 00:44:13,760 --> 00:44:15,720 Speaker 1: by the way, in New Hampshire, five million dollars buys 712 00:44:15,800 --> 00:44:18,760 Speaker 1: a lot of TV ads, right right, I mean that's 713 00:44:18,760 --> 00:44:21,680 Speaker 1: a lot of money for any congressional race, but especially wow, 714 00:44:21,800 --> 00:44:25,520 Speaker 1: that's crazy well, and ironically, that's five million dollars that 715 00:44:25,640 --> 00:44:29,319 Speaker 1: was given by Republican donors to retake the House, not 716 00:44:29,440 --> 00:44:33,120 Speaker 1: to try to defeat Conservatives in primaries, but the party 717 00:44:33,160 --> 00:44:37,759 Speaker 1: bosses here they want House members who will not rock 718 00:44:37,840 --> 00:44:40,280 Speaker 1: the boat, who will obey them, who will just salute 719 00:44:40,360 --> 00:44:44,480 Speaker 1: and take orders. Five million dollars. I saw what was happening. 720 00:44:44,520 --> 00:44:48,000 Speaker 1: I endorsed Caroline early on. I'm raising money for her, 721 00:44:48,120 --> 00:44:51,600 Speaker 1: raising hard money for her. And then last week, last Thursday, 722 00:44:51,640 --> 00:44:53,040 Speaker 1: I got in a plane and I flew to New 723 00:44:53,040 --> 00:44:56,280 Speaker 1: Hampshire and did a big rally for It was awesome. 724 00:44:56,320 --> 00:45:00,400 Speaker 1: It was at a VFW VFW hall that that I 725 00:45:00,560 --> 00:45:03,680 Speaker 1: hung out and drank beer and there were hundreds of 726 00:45:03,719 --> 00:45:05,640 Speaker 1: people there and there was energy and there was a 727 00:45:05,800 --> 00:45:09,120 Speaker 1: grassroots enthusiasm. And she was losing, she was behind in 728 00:45:09,200 --> 00:45:12,760 Speaker 1: the polls, but the rally, the rally dominated the news 729 00:45:12,880 --> 00:45:15,239 Speaker 1: up there. We had a lot of enthusiam. Actually, right 730 00:45:15,280 --> 00:45:17,680 Speaker 1: after the rally, she went on Tucker Carlson had a 731 00:45:17,719 --> 00:45:23,120 Speaker 1: fantastic interview with Tucker that we watched from the VFW hall. 732 00:45:23,239 --> 00:45:25,920 Speaker 1: She was filming it outside and so we're all sitting 733 00:45:25,920 --> 00:45:29,000 Speaker 1: there having a beer watching it and everyone's cheering her, 734 00:45:29,000 --> 00:45:31,279 Speaker 1: and then she came in and got a hearty round 735 00:45:31,320 --> 00:45:37,480 Speaker 1: of applause. Well, the election Tuesday night, she won, despite 736 00:45:37,520 --> 00:45:41,319 Speaker 1: five million dollars being spent by DC party bosses. She 737 00:45:41,440 --> 00:45:44,280 Speaker 1: won anyway, and she's now the candidate for the general election, 738 00:45:44,560 --> 00:45:47,160 Speaker 1: and I think she's got a very good chance of winning, 739 00:45:47,920 --> 00:45:52,400 Speaker 1: of defeating an incumbent Democrat, and of being a really 740 00:45:52,560 --> 00:45:55,880 Speaker 1: strong leader in Washington. Senator, there's so much more to 741 00:45:55,880 --> 00:45:58,279 Speaker 1: talk about, but not with me. What is left to 742 00:45:58,320 --> 00:46:00,360 Speaker 1: talk about is going to be on the room with 743 00:46:00,400 --> 00:46:05,120 Speaker 1: our friend Liz Wheeler. Liz, what will you be discussing? Hi, Michael, Hi, Senator. 744 00:46:05,320 --> 00:46:07,960 Speaker 1: We're gonna put on our legal hats for the cloakroom 745 00:46:07,960 --> 00:46:11,520 Speaker 1: and discuss a very controversial ruling from the Supreme Court 746 00:46:11,560 --> 00:46:15,560 Speaker 1: in which the Court is essentially forcing a Jewish university 747 00:46:15,920 --> 00:46:21,000 Speaker 1: to officially give recognition to an LGBTQ club, which is 748 00:46:21,040 --> 00:46:24,640 Speaker 1: in violation of that university's orthodox Jewish belief. So we're 749 00:46:24,680 --> 00:46:26,720 Speaker 1: going to discuss the nitty gritty of what this ruling 750 00:46:26,800 --> 00:46:29,760 Speaker 1: is and the sort of political aspect of it too. 751 00:46:29,880 --> 00:46:34,440 Speaker 1: Because Roberts and Kavanaugh sided with the leftist justices. So 752 00:46:34,480 --> 00:46:36,520 Speaker 1: you can join us with that discussion. 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