WEBVTT - Migrant Madness 0:00:00.040 --> 0:00:04.200 Thanks. I want to ask you about the question about 0:00:04.400 --> 0:00:08.639 migrants whether they have or haven't been walking across the 0:00:08.640 --> 0:00:13.600 Southwest border. Senator Ted Cruz has publicly invited and suggested 0:00:13.880 --> 0:00:18.400 that you've come down to see that for yourself. Senator 0:00:18.480 --> 0:00:23.520 Ted Cruz of Texas, he's suggested that you come down 0:00:23.520 --> 0:00:26.119 and see for yourself whether migrants are actually crossing the 0:00:26.160 --> 0:00:28.640 border or by foot. Is that something that you would 0:00:28.680 --> 0:00:31.560 take them up on. So I've been to the border. 0:00:31.880 --> 0:00:36.880 I went in twenty eighteen. I stood outside facilities where 0:00:36.960 --> 0:00:41.239 the Trump administration was separating families, tearing babies out of 0:00:41.240 --> 0:00:45.200 their mother's arms. Some of those kids still haven't been 0:00:46.240 --> 0:00:50.360 reunited with their families. And so one thing I will 0:00:50.400 --> 0:00:54.360 say is I certainly don't need lectures or invitations from 0:00:54.360 --> 0:00:59.920 Republicans about the border or border policies. And you know, 0:01:00.160 --> 0:01:03.320 and I certainly won't take advice on border from from 0:01:03.360 --> 0:01:09.160 anyone who voted against securing record level of funding for 0:01:09.280 --> 0:01:13.640 the Department of Homeland Security, and and you know, and 0:01:13.680 --> 0:01:17.040 while folks are sending invites, I'll use this opportunity to 0:01:18.160 --> 0:01:21.920 invite him or anyone else next time to vote for 0:01:22.120 --> 0:01:27.200 record funding for DHS. As President Biden has requested, so 0:01:27.240 --> 0:01:35.480 we'll move on. Nope, we'll move on from that. 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I am Michael Knowles, and if you 0:03:12.960 --> 0:03:15.200 want to bring this show, by the way to a 0:03:15.320 --> 0:03:18.760 campus near you, time is running out to apply. We 0:03:18.800 --> 0:03:22.400 will be going on tour with Young America's Foundation. You 0:03:22.440 --> 0:03:25.080 can apply. We've just got a week or so left 0:03:25.480 --> 0:03:30.320 at YAF dot org slash Verdict and maybe the White 0:03:30.320 --> 0:03:34.040 House Press Secretary. We'll talk about you and your fellows students, 0:03:34.120 --> 0:03:36.640 because they sure seem to be tuning in here. Senator, 0:03:37.280 --> 0:03:42.240 I think we're the first, second, third, and now fourth 0:03:42.320 --> 0:03:45.600 podcast that the White House has referenced from the press briefing. 0:03:46.360 --> 0:03:48.640 You know, it really is quite striking. And maybe when 0:03:48.680 --> 0:03:51.720 we're doing our college tour, we ought to film Verdict 0:03:51.880 --> 0:03:56.360 down on the border and invite Karine to come down 0:03:56.440 --> 0:03:58.680 to Verdict and be on the podcast and she can 0:03:58.760 --> 0:04:01.000 lie directly on the podcas cast rather than doing it 0:04:01.040 --> 0:04:04.720 from the White House. Look, I had to say, it 0:04:05.240 --> 0:04:09.200 is studying. Look, no one is surprised to see a 0:04:09.280 --> 0:04:12.920 press flack flacking. That's what they do. She's supposed to 0:04:12.920 --> 0:04:15.960 spend whether you're a Democrat or Republican. White House Press 0:04:15.960 --> 0:04:24.479 Secretary spins. What is wild about this is she is brazenly, openly, 0:04:25.080 --> 0:04:29.840 shamelessly lying, and at this point she knows she is, 0:04:29.920 --> 0:04:33.440 and everyone in the room knows she is. This all 0:04:33.520 --> 0:04:37.960 started when she said at a previous briefing that people 0:04:38.000 --> 0:04:40.400 are not walking across the border. It's just not happening. 0:04:40.440 --> 0:04:44.559 That is not happening. Now, that's not kind of sort 0:04:44.560 --> 0:04:47.400 of right, that's not a little bit wrong. It is 0:04:48.000 --> 0:04:52.000 precisely exactly opposite. And the imitation that I issued to her, 0:04:52.720 --> 0:04:55.240 as I said, come down to the border and spend 0:04:55.279 --> 0:04:57.560 one hour with me, go out on patrol with a 0:04:57.560 --> 0:05:03.200 border patrol Union sixty minutes you pick the time doesn't matter. 0:05:03.279 --> 0:05:05.920 Pick any hour of the day. We'll go out for 0:05:06.000 --> 0:05:10.960 sixty minutes, and I guarantee you we will encounter not one, 0:05:11.040 --> 0:05:13.880 but multiple groups of illegal immigrants, because they are coming 0:05:13.920 --> 0:05:17.320 twenty four hours a day. Every time I've gone out there, 0:05:17.360 --> 0:05:19.920 it doesn't take sixty minutes. It takes about five minutes 0:05:19.920 --> 0:05:22.400 before you encounter the first group, and it is a 0:05:22.520 --> 0:05:26.920 steady stream of humanity. And I suggested to her also, 0:05:26.920 --> 0:05:30.680 I said, okay, you said, as we just played in 0:05:30.680 --> 0:05:32.680 that clip, that you don't need to be lectured by 0:05:32.720 --> 0:05:36.240 Republican senators. I said, I'll tell you what. Bring the 0:05:36.440 --> 0:05:39.560 entire Washington press corps. Bring them all down to the 0:05:39.640 --> 0:05:42.080 valley with us. You and I can go out for 0:05:42.120 --> 0:05:44.240 an hour and we'll hold a press conference, and one 0:05:44.320 --> 0:05:46.440 or two things will happen. If we don't encounter anyone, 0:05:47.200 --> 0:05:50.560 I'll stand up and say I was wrong. But when 0:05:50.600 --> 0:05:54.479 we encounter multiple groups women, children, one after the other 0:05:54.520 --> 0:05:57.520 after the other, you'll stand up and you'll admit you 0:05:57.600 --> 0:06:00.720 were lying, and not just lie. You were lying from 0:06:00.760 --> 0:06:06.240 the White House deliberately and repeatedly. And to be clear, 0:06:06.279 --> 0:06:10.479 it's not just her lying. Joe Biden's responsible he's paying 0:06:10.560 --> 0:06:14.120 for her to lie. And all of the corporate media 0:06:14.200 --> 0:06:17.120 that sat there silently, that haven't run fact checks, we 0:06:17.160 --> 0:06:20.880 haven't seen pants on fire because none of the corporate media. 0:06:21.040 --> 0:06:24.360 This is an objective, factual statement, and it is objectively 0:06:24.360 --> 0:06:27.920 and completely false. All of the corporate media is complicit 0:06:28.040 --> 0:06:31.840 in the lies. And actually this week she escalated it 0:06:31.839 --> 0:06:37.080 even more where she said absurdly, Joe Biden has done 0:06:37.240 --> 0:06:40.760 more to secure the border than Donald Trump. Like that 0:06:41.160 --> 0:06:44.159 is I actually wonder if the reporters and the press 0:06:44.160 --> 0:06:48.040 briefing move back a few feet because they're afraid lightning 0:06:48.160 --> 0:06:51.640 is going to strike her as she stands there, Like 0:06:53.320 --> 0:06:56.920 I cannot think of a White House Press secretary who 0:06:57.000 --> 0:07:00.680 repeatedly brazenly lied to the American people the way she 0:07:00.839 --> 0:07:07.640 is doing, even Jensaki, who would spin like crazy. But 0:07:07.720 --> 0:07:11.120 I can't think of flat out objective lies of the 0:07:11.240 --> 0:07:14.240 kind that Karine is now making a weekly, if not 0:07:14.440 --> 0:07:18.240 daily occurrence. So the lie is pretty shocking. I don't 0:07:18.280 --> 0:07:20.440 think anybody buys it. You just look at the numbers. 0:07:20.440 --> 0:07:23.240 You're going to get two million plus illegal aliens this year, 0:07:23.560 --> 0:07:25.560 way more than you got under Trump, way more than 0:07:25.600 --> 0:07:29.120 we've ever gotten. But I guess what is confusing to 0:07:29.200 --> 0:07:35.000 me is one, does she really believe that anybody in America, Republican, independent, 0:07:35.080 --> 0:07:38.000 or Democrat, believes that Joe Biden is tougher on illegal 0:07:38.000 --> 0:07:41.080 immigration than Donald Trump. No, not a single person believes that. 0:07:41.280 --> 0:07:46.240 But but furthermore, Biden and the Democrats ran on opening 0:07:46.320 --> 0:07:49.440 up the border. They said Trump's restrictive border policies are 0:07:49.520 --> 0:07:53.200 bad and immoral and Unamerican, and diversity is our strength, 0:07:53.280 --> 0:07:55.960 and no person is illegal and come across the border. 0:07:56.000 --> 0:08:00.880 I mean, they explicitly said that. So is this new 0:08:00.920 --> 0:08:04.000 line coming out of the White House, beyond it being dishonest, 0:08:04.440 --> 0:08:08.640 is it a reflection that, wait a second, voters actually 0:08:08.680 --> 0:08:11.760 don't like the policies that we ran for president on, 0:08:11.960 --> 0:08:13.600 and so now we're just going to pretend that those 0:08:13.640 --> 0:08:16.560 were never our policies in the first place. So I 0:08:16.600 --> 0:08:19.520 think it is. And it's a combination of number one, 0:08:19.760 --> 0:08:22.600 speaking to the hard left partisans who are with them 0:08:22.600 --> 0:08:26.360 no matter what, and number two, they're counting on the 0:08:26.440 --> 0:08:31.680 media to assist in the cover up. Look, it's reminiscent. 0:08:31.760 --> 0:08:35.000 She's also said in recent weeks about school shutdowns. When 0:08:35.040 --> 0:08:37.920 the nape scores came back so we had. NAPE is 0:08:37.920 --> 0:08:41.559 the National Assessment of fourth graders. It's considered the gold 0:08:41.640 --> 0:08:46.640 standard for testing educational progress, and the national standards show 0:08:46.960 --> 0:08:51.040 that fourth graders have had a dramatic drop in both 0:08:51.120 --> 0:08:54.520 mass scores and reading scores, the biggest drop since the 0:08:54.600 --> 0:08:59.240 NAPE test has begun being implemented. It is massive. It 0:08:59.360 --> 0:09:04.480 is obvious because of the school shutdowns, and not only that, 0:09:04.720 --> 0:09:08.760 the racial gap has widened to the widest level ever 0:09:08.880 --> 0:09:10.600 because the people who got hurt the most by the 0:09:10.640 --> 0:09:13.960 school shutdowns were low income kids, many of which are 0:09:14.000 --> 0:09:17.600 African American and Hispanic. And so the racial gap under 0:09:17.679 --> 0:09:21.040 Joe Biden congratulations, dams have gotten much broader. So what 0:09:21.080 --> 0:09:23.480 does Kareem do. She stands up and says, well, Joe 0:09:23.520 --> 0:09:27.400 Biden worked to reopen schools, and it was Republicans who 0:09:27.440 --> 0:09:32.520 blocked us. And it is a level of okay, that's 0:09:32.559 --> 0:09:38.560 not just spin inversion, that is flat out mendacity. It 0:09:38.640 --> 0:09:42.559 was Republicans, certainly on this podcast and from the Senate floor. 0:09:42.640 --> 0:09:46.920 I was screaming early early on, open up the schools, 0:09:46.960 --> 0:09:50.000 send the kids back to schools, let them go. Republicans 0:09:50.000 --> 0:09:52.280 across the country where and by the way, people like 0:09:52.400 --> 0:09:57.080 Greg Abbott and Rhnda Santis were opening up schools. Amazingly enough, 0:09:57.200 --> 0:10:03.480 in the Biden White Houses world, these dastardly Republicans managed 0:10:03.520 --> 0:10:08.280 to shut down schools only in bright blue jurisdictions controlled 0:10:08.280 --> 0:10:12.719 by Democrats. Now that's some nefarious power. I'm going to 0:10:12.800 --> 0:10:16.280 shut down the schools in New York City, but not 0:10:16.360 --> 0:10:20.000 in any place where there's actually Republican leadership. It is asinine. 0:10:20.280 --> 0:10:24.000 But she tells that lie because the Washington Post won't 0:10:24.000 --> 0:10:26.199 call her on it, because CNN won't call her on it, 0:10:26.320 --> 0:10:28.280 because the New York Times won't call her on it, 0:10:28.480 --> 0:10:36.440 And so it's gas lighting taken to just a The 0:10:36.480 --> 0:10:40.760 word Orwellian is used too often, but it is truly Orwellian. 0:10:40.840 --> 0:10:43.640 Two plus two is five, but it's not even that. 0:10:43.720 --> 0:10:46.560 It's two plus two is umbrella. Yeah, I mean that's 0:10:46.600 --> 0:10:49.680 what they're doing now, the Senator, I can't help, but 0:10:49.760 --> 0:10:52.920 notice you just mentioned Governor DeSantis. And while I'm very 0:10:52.960 --> 0:10:55.200 pleased that people in the White House are listening to 0:10:55.200 --> 0:10:57.640 this show, I have to wonder if some people down 0:10:57.640 --> 0:11:00.200 in Florida are listening to this show as well, because 0:11:00.200 --> 0:11:03.160 there's a great headline that just came out about something 0:11:03.240 --> 0:11:06.920 to Santis and the Florida Republicans are doing. They've just 0:11:07.040 --> 0:11:12.960 sent airplanes full of illegal aliens to Martha's vineyard. And 0:11:13.480 --> 0:11:16.520 I cheered when I saw the headline, and then I 0:11:16.520 --> 0:11:20.280 had to think, you know, there's a certain podcast hosted 0:11:20.280 --> 0:11:23.360 by a certain senator from Texas that has been calling 0:11:23.880 --> 0:11:28.760 exactly for that for many weeks now, and I just 0:11:28.800 --> 0:11:30.440 can't help but wonder if that may have had some 0:11:30.480 --> 0:11:34.280 effect on this policy going into effect. I was thrilled 0:11:34.320 --> 0:11:36.719 when the Governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, took me up 0:11:36.720 --> 0:11:39.800 on the ID and began sending illegal immigrants, first to DC, 0:11:40.080 --> 0:11:42.680 then to New York, then to Chicago. It's had a 0:11:42.720 --> 0:11:47.199 fantastic event as these these Democratic mayors have lost their 0:11:47.240 --> 0:11:51.880 minds and declared national emergencies. The mayor of DC declared 0:11:51.880 --> 0:11:55.280 a national emergency or a city emergency because six thousand 0:11:55.360 --> 0:11:59.400 illegal immigrants were sent to DC. Of course, we've had 0:11:59.520 --> 0:12:03.880 since Biden became president, we have had four point two 0:12:04.440 --> 0:12:08.400 million illegal immigrants cross illegally with Biden as president. It 0:12:08.520 --> 0:12:12.520 is horrific. That's a crazy number. Four point two million. 0:12:12.600 --> 0:12:15.760 That is a crazy number. It is larger than many 0:12:15.800 --> 0:12:18.960 of the states of our Union. I mean four point 0:12:19.080 --> 0:12:22.240 two million since Joe Biden put his hand on the 0:12:22.280 --> 0:12:25.440 Bible and took the oath of office. That's what's coming. 0:12:25.520 --> 0:12:29.480 It continues to get worse. And what is amazing about 0:12:29.520 --> 0:12:34.040 when red state governors, first Texas now Florida are shipping 0:12:34.559 --> 0:12:38.840 two blue strongholds is the Democrats, who talk a good 0:12:38.880 --> 0:12:41.200 game immediately flipped tailed. So I want to give you 0:12:41.200 --> 0:12:45.319 a quote from Martha's Vineyard. When I introduced the legislation, 0:12:45.440 --> 0:12:49.920 you had democrats. Democrats in the House of Representatives slammed me. 0:12:51.760 --> 0:12:54.480 But I want to read from the county commissioner of 0:12:54.520 --> 0:13:00.199 Martha's Vineyard, Keith chattonover and here's the quote he's at 0:13:00.240 --> 0:13:04.960 about my legislation. I would love to see Martha's Vineyard 0:13:05.800 --> 0:13:09.960 become a haven for new immigrants in the country. But 0:13:10.080 --> 0:13:12.800 Senator Cruz has no idea what he's talking about regarding 0:13:12.800 --> 0:13:16.720 a border crisis. He went on to say, immigrants make 0:13:16.760 --> 0:13:20.439 our country stronger, as evidenced by immigration from Brazil and 0:13:20.480 --> 0:13:22.800 other countries to the vineyard. And he is trying to 0:13:22.840 --> 0:13:27.160 whip up racial anxieties for political gain, which is essentially 0:13:27.160 --> 0:13:31.560 the entire GOP platform. Anyhow, that's before they arrived. I 0:13:31.600 --> 0:13:34.959 want to see if after two, three, four, five, six, ten, 0:13:35.760 --> 0:13:40.360 one hundred planeloads or bus loads, if the county commissioner 0:13:40.400 --> 0:13:43.680 has the same view, and I'm going to predict he's 0:13:43.679 --> 0:13:46.280 going to do exactly the same as the mayor from 0:13:46.360 --> 0:13:48.280 DC and the mayor from New York and the mayor 0:13:48.320 --> 0:13:51.440 from Chicago, which is runs screaming, oh crap, this is 0:13:51.440 --> 0:13:54.040 a real problem. All those mayors, by the way, they're 0:13:54.080 --> 0:13:58.959 doing that after five thousand, maybe ten eleven thousand illegal 0:13:59.000 --> 0:14:03.080 aliens in their cities. Not a drop in the bucket, 0:14:03.320 --> 0:14:05.800 A fraction of an iota of a drop in the 0:14:05.840 --> 0:14:08.560 bucket when you're talking about four point two million foreign 0:14:08.640 --> 0:14:12.120 nationals coming into the country. I'm so pleased. Big kudos 0:14:12.360 --> 0:14:15.840 to Governor Abbott for following up on this. Big kudos 0:14:15.840 --> 0:14:18.760 to Governor de Santis for following up on this. And 0:14:19.560 --> 0:14:21.160 all I can say is, there are a lot of 0:14:21.160 --> 0:14:23.720 other red state governors, and there is a major illegal 0:14:23.720 --> 0:14:26.120 immigration problem in this country, and there are a whole 0:14:26.120 --> 0:14:29.440 lot of other liberal cities that you mentioned there. I 0:14:29.480 --> 0:14:31.960 want to see more airplanes. I want to see more buses. 0:14:33.040 --> 0:14:36.800 Doll out those tickets. Give these blue state and blue 0:14:36.800 --> 0:14:39.880 city mayors some of a taste of their own medicine 0:14:39.960 --> 0:14:42.760 and put them on the record. Look, I think that's 0:14:42.800 --> 0:14:46.120 exactly right, and it makes it impossible for the Biden 0:14:46.200 --> 0:14:51.880 White House to defend their lies when you have blue 0:14:51.920 --> 0:14:56.520 Democrat mayors suddenly realizing, oh wow, this is an enormous 0:14:56.520 --> 0:14:59.440 bird and honest. And to put it in perspective, So 0:14:59.560 --> 0:15:03.400 DC is a big city. The mayor declared an emergency 0:15:03.440 --> 0:15:06.120 when six thousand, five hundred illegal immigrants had been sent 0:15:06.160 --> 0:15:10.840 to DC. Let's take Del Rio, Texas. Del Rio, Texas 0:15:10.960 --> 0:15:13.200 is a border city. It's on the Rio Grand River 0:15:14.080 --> 0:15:17.520 Del Rio, Texas. Its population is about thirty thousand people. 0:15:18.800 --> 0:15:22.720 I was down there where when under the bridge that 0:15:22.760 --> 0:15:24.880 crosses the Rio Grand that's right there in Del Rio 0:15:25.640 --> 0:15:31.480 there were at one time fifteen thousand illegal immigrants, almost 0:15:31.480 --> 0:15:34.760 all of whom were from Haiti, and they were crossing it. 0:15:34.840 --> 0:15:37.600 And you want to talk about people freaking out, this 0:15:37.640 --> 0:15:41.800 is one small town that had fifty percent, five zero 0:15:41.920 --> 0:15:45.280 percent of the population of the town crossing in a 0:15:45.360 --> 0:15:51.880 single day. That's what Texas is facing. And so look 0:15:52.640 --> 0:15:55.920 sending them to blue jurisdictions has a purpose, which is 0:15:55.960 --> 0:16:00.920 to cause these hypocrites to be forced to acknowledge their 0:16:01.000 --> 0:16:04.560 hypocrisy and admit that it's a crisis. They're right that 0:16:04.640 --> 0:16:07.440 it's a crisis, but it's an even bigger crisis for 0:16:07.560 --> 0:16:12.000 Texas and for other states along the border. Now, speaking 0:16:12.080 --> 0:16:16.480 of legislation that you've filed, turning away from this absolutely 0:16:16.840 --> 0:16:20.160 marvelous new approach on immigration, which I'm which I again 0:16:20.400 --> 0:16:25.040 encourage other GFP governors to follow. Going back to the Senate, 0:16:25.240 --> 0:16:28.080 there were some fireworks that took place, and all I'm 0:16:28.120 --> 0:16:30.240 getting is, we actually haven't really talked about this yet, 0:16:30.280 --> 0:16:32.440 so I'm really going to be hearing it mostly for 0:16:32.480 --> 0:16:35.920 the first time now on air, but I've read the headlines. 0:16:36.280 --> 0:16:39.400 There was a school safety bill that you pushed in 0:16:39.680 --> 0:16:43.480 the Senate that looked like it could pass by unanimous consent, 0:16:43.680 --> 0:16:47.400 and then one Democrat senator shot the thing down. And 0:16:47.440 --> 0:16:49.880 I saw the main points of the bill. They didn't 0:16:49.880 --> 0:16:53.040 seem particularly right wing or extreme or Republican. They seemed 0:16:53.200 --> 0:16:59.280 perfectly common sense. What happened, Well, it's September. School is 0:16:59.320 --> 0:17:01.760 starting and school kids across the country are going back 0:17:01.760 --> 0:17:04.800 to school, including kids in Uvaldi, where we had just 0:17:04.840 --> 0:17:07.679 a few months ago the worst school shooting in Texas 0:17:07.760 --> 0:17:11.000 history was horrific, and I think we need to do 0:17:11.160 --> 0:17:13.840 much much more to keep our kids safe. And so 0:17:13.920 --> 0:17:16.200 I have legislation. When the Senate took up its gun 0:17:16.240 --> 0:17:20.359 control bill, I authored the lead alternative to the Democrats 0:17:20.400 --> 0:17:22.480 gun control bill, and it was legislation that was called 0:17:22.520 --> 0:17:25.359 Cruiz Barosso, and it had all sorts of elements to 0:17:25.480 --> 0:17:27.679 go after violent criminals, to lock them up, to get 0:17:27.760 --> 0:17:31.440 them off the streets, to protect our kids. The Democrats 0:17:31.520 --> 0:17:35.320 party line vote voted against it. So what I did 0:17:35.440 --> 0:17:39.199 today is I took just the school safety components of 0:17:39.240 --> 0:17:42.679 Cruiz Barosso, so not the whole thing, but what was 0:17:42.800 --> 0:17:45.840 focused directly at enhancing school safety. And in particular it 0:17:45.880 --> 0:17:48.880 was thirty billion dollars, and that's with a bee of funding. 0:17:49.600 --> 0:17:52.639 Thirty billion dollars of funding to enhance school safety. And 0:17:52.680 --> 0:17:56.359 it has a number of elements. One element is doubling 0:17:56.400 --> 0:17:59.520 the number of police officers in schools so that we 0:17:59.560 --> 0:18:03.680 have twice as many police officers on campus. They're physically 0:18:03.720 --> 0:18:07.600 to protect our kids, to stop praise madmen from from 0:18:07.640 --> 0:18:12.800 getting into classrooms and trying to murder our children. Number two, 0:18:13.880 --> 0:18:18.359 it has ten billion dollars to hire fifteen thousand new 0:18:18.560 --> 0:18:24.640 mental health professionals to help spot these deranged young men 0:18:24.760 --> 0:18:27.320 before they commit these kind of crimes, to help intervene 0:18:27.440 --> 0:18:30.880 early to stop this before it happens. And in addition 0:18:30.920 --> 0:18:34.800 to that, it is as funding for school safety improvements 0:18:34.800 --> 0:18:38.919 throughout the campus, things to make the campus more physically secure. 0:18:40.080 --> 0:18:42.000 So what I did today as I stood up on 0:18:42.000 --> 0:18:46.639 the Senate floor and I asked unanimous consent for the 0:18:46.680 --> 0:18:48.840 Senate to pass it. Now, the procedures in the Senate, 0:18:48.880 --> 0:18:50.800 if you ask, it's called asking for a U see 0:18:50.880 --> 0:18:56.200 unanimous consent. The presiding officer then says is their objection, 0:18:56.760 --> 0:18:59.760 and if nobody objects, it passes it. It passes the 0:18:59.800 --> 0:19:02.280 same in it and it is treated as having passed 0:19:02.359 --> 0:19:07.560 one hundred to nothing. So there's a process for a UC, 0:19:07.920 --> 0:19:11.320 which is before you seek a UC, you tell the 0:19:11.320 --> 0:19:13.360 other side you're going to do it so they can 0:19:13.440 --> 0:19:17.080 determine if they're going to object. So I told the 0:19:17.160 --> 0:19:19.600 Democrats last week I was going to seek UC to 0:19:19.680 --> 0:19:22.960 pass this, and we heard from the Democrats that they're 0:19:22.960 --> 0:19:25.639 going to object it. In particular, we heard Chris Murphy, 0:19:26.240 --> 0:19:29.080 who was the Democrat from Connecticut, was going to object. 0:19:29.920 --> 0:19:32.120 And I did a media interview a few days ago 0:19:32.160 --> 0:19:34.960 where a reporter asked me, said, well, well, what is 0:19:35.000 --> 0:19:37.840 his objection going to be? And I told the report 0:19:37.880 --> 0:19:40.399 I said, actually, I don't know. I have no idea 0:19:40.480 --> 0:19:44.720 because they haven't articulated any substantive reasons why the bill 0:19:44.840 --> 0:19:48.120 is a bad idea. They haven't indicated anything they oppose. 0:19:48.560 --> 0:19:50.560 So I said, I guess I'm looking forward to hear 0:19:50.640 --> 0:19:53.320 what he has to say. So I stand up. I 0:19:53.320 --> 0:19:55.520 give a speech in favor of it, saying we need 0:19:55.560 --> 0:19:57.280 to do more, we need to keep our kids safe. 0:19:57.600 --> 0:19:59.679 This is a common sense bill. This ought to be 0:19:59.800 --> 0:20:03.640 a bill that passes one hundred to nothing. Presiding Officer 0:20:03.720 --> 0:20:06.359 turns and says, is there any objection? And Chris Murphy 0:20:06.400 --> 0:20:08.879 stands up and he says, and I'm going to read 0:20:08.920 --> 0:20:14.960 you the entirety of his speech, Madam President, I object 0:20:17.119 --> 0:20:22.199 periclean wow, soaring oratory. And I have to admit I 0:20:22.200 --> 0:20:28.880 stood up at that point and I was flabbergasted. I've 0:20:28.880 --> 0:20:32.400 been in the Senate ten years. I've never seen that 0:20:32.520 --> 0:20:38.720 happen on a debate on the Senate floor. He provided 0:20:39.160 --> 0:20:41.960 not one word of argument, not one reason why it 0:20:42.000 --> 0:20:44.840 was a bad idea, not one harm. He has no 0:20:44.880 --> 0:20:49.720 basis to object. He simply says I object and kills it. 0:20:49.760 --> 0:20:53.040 And I said, look at a time when I mean 0:20:53.080 --> 0:20:57.600 our kids, there is a real problem of mass murderers, 0:20:57.600 --> 0:21:00.480 of lunatics, who are targeting schools, who are targeting churches, 0:21:00.680 --> 0:21:03.240 who are targeting malls. I mean it is crime, is 0:21:03.280 --> 0:21:07.040 a serious problem which has gotten worse under Democrats. And 0:21:07.440 --> 0:21:12.440 this is this legislation would be the most comprehensive of 0:21:12.480 --> 0:21:15.800 the most far reaching, the most serious school safety legislation 0:21:16.160 --> 0:21:18.840 ever enacted by the federal government. And the Democrats are 0:21:18.880 --> 0:21:23.320 killing it. Chris Murphy's killing it without even bothering to 0:21:23.359 --> 0:21:25.320 explain why. And I further said, on the Senate floor, 0:21:25.359 --> 0:21:28.280 I said, you know, there's a reason he feels he 0:21:28.280 --> 0:21:30.720 can do that. And I pointed up to the Senate 0:21:30.720 --> 0:21:33.040 gallery where the reporters normally sit, and I said, if 0:21:33.040 --> 0:21:38.120 you look at the gallery, the number of reporters presently 0:21:38.200 --> 0:21:42.879 here is zero point zero zero, not a single but 0:21:43.000 --> 0:21:47.040 reporter bothered to show up. Why is it that the 0:21:47.080 --> 0:21:50.000 senator from Connecticut feels he can just kill this bill 0:21:50.359 --> 0:21:53.639 and provide zero reasoning as to why, because he knows 0:21:53.760 --> 0:21:59.760 the docile corporate media won't report on it, won't tell 0:21:59.800 --> 0:22:02.280 an when it happened, and we'll never ask him. He 0:22:02.359 --> 0:22:05.159 knows he will not get a question. Why did you 0:22:05.320 --> 0:22:09.040 single handedly prevent us from doubling the number of police 0:22:09.080 --> 0:22:13.760 officers on school campuses? Why did you kill fifteen thousand 0:22:13.760 --> 0:22:18.240 new mental health counselors on school campuses? Because the media propagandists. 0:22:19.359 --> 0:22:25.000 And by the way, I then asked for a second, 0:22:25.040 --> 0:22:28.160 you see, I said, Look, I had assumed he would 0:22:28.200 --> 0:22:30.679 present some argument as to why he thought this was 0:22:30.680 --> 0:22:32.240 a bad idea. I don't know what it is because 0:22:32.240 --> 0:22:35.040 he chose not to, so I said, And maybe he 0:22:35.160 --> 0:22:37.159 disliked how we were spending it. Maybe he says we 0:22:37.200 --> 0:22:40.440 should spend more on counselors than on cops. I don't, 0:22:40.440 --> 0:22:42.560 I don't know, I don't. I mean, he didn't say anything. 0:22:43.520 --> 0:22:46.320 So my second amendment was, there are right now, there's 0:22:46.359 --> 0:22:51.679 one hundred and thirty billion dollars in unspent COVID relief 0:22:51.680 --> 0:22:55.560 funds designated for schools. So Congress has appropriated it. It's 0:22:55.600 --> 0:22:58.440 sitting there, it hasn't been spent. The way my bill 0:22:58.560 --> 0:23:01.240 was paid for is it was using had unspent COVID funds, 0:23:01.280 --> 0:23:03.840 so it did not cost any additional money because that's 0:23:03.880 --> 0:23:07.880 money that has already been allocated to schools. But I said, 0:23:07.880 --> 0:23:10.280 all right, if he doesn't like how my bill is 0:23:10.320 --> 0:23:13.080 spending it, I had a very simple, one page bill 0:23:14.400 --> 0:23:19.560 that simply says schools, if they wish to, can spend 0:23:20.040 --> 0:23:24.480 some of that COVID relief money on enhancing school security. 0:23:24.520 --> 0:23:27.440 So they can spend some of it on hiring police officers, 0:23:27.560 --> 0:23:30.120 or spend some of it on enhancing the physical security 0:23:30.119 --> 0:23:32.960 on campus. Right now, the Democrats have put in place 0:23:33.040 --> 0:23:35.440 rules that stop them from doing that. So the very 0:23:35.440 --> 0:23:38.840 simple rule let the schools decide if they want to 0:23:38.840 --> 0:23:42.320 spend it on school safety. What did Murphy do? Stood 0:23:42.400 --> 0:23:45.800 up and objected and gave a very short speech, this 0:23:45.880 --> 0:23:51.160 time maybe a minute or two, where he says, I'm 0:23:51.240 --> 0:23:55.639 not arguing because this isn't real. He says, this is clickbait, 0:23:57.920 --> 0:24:03.159 to which I responded, okay, is very real. And in 0:24:03.320 --> 0:24:05.960 order for both of these bills, or either of these 0:24:05.960 --> 0:24:08.280 bills to pass, the Senator for Connecticut had to do 0:24:08.320 --> 0:24:14.000 one thing, just shut up. If he simply had closed 0:24:14.080 --> 0:24:20.400 his mouth, these bills would have passed unanimously. But he's 0:24:20.520 --> 0:24:22.880 unwilling to do it, and it's because the Democrats, when 0:24:22.920 --> 0:24:25.480 it comes to crime and mass shootings, they have one 0:24:25.480 --> 0:24:28.880 political objective, and that's taking away the Second Amendment rights 0:24:28.880 --> 0:24:31.960 of law abiding citizens. When it comes to actually stopping 0:24:32.000 --> 0:24:35.760