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Speaker 1: Welcome.

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Speaker 2: It is a verdict with Senator Ted Cruz Ben Ferguson

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Speaker 2: with you, and we've got a jam packed show, including

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Speaker 2: this pretty shocking number of emails that we now are

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Speaker 2: trying to get our hands on, and it's more than

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Speaker 2: five thousand, the deal with Biden's fake email addresses that

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Speaker 2: he had set up. We're also going to give you

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Speaker 2: an update on some pretty impressive legislative movements that have

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Speaker 2: happened through Senata Cruz's office.

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Speaker 1: And also you're not going to want to miss this.

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Speaker 2: Into the show tonight, we have put together one of

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Speaker 2: the most incredible montages that deals with the media and

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Speaker 2: how they covered Donald Trump referring to Banana Republic issues

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Speaker 2: and they're completely silent right now. What's happening at the

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Speaker 2: DOJ covering for Biden. That is something that's going to

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Speaker 2: go viral. You're not going to want to miss that.

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Speaker 2: But first, Senator, I want to get your reaction to

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Speaker 2: this shocking new intel that is out and that is

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Speaker 2: former President of Barack Obama. They're now saying should allow

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Speaker 2: the National Archives to release President Joe Biden's emails and

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Speaker 2: records linked to his alias. These are his fake email

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Speaker 2: address accounts. That is now what people are calling for.

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Speaker 2: Explain this a little bit more so if you will

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Speaker 2: understand just how important these emails may be.

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Speaker 3: Well, sure, we did a previous podcast focused on the

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Speaker 3: fact that it's now come to light that Joe Biden,

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Speaker 3: when he was Vice president, he used fake emails.

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Speaker 4: He had pseudonyms.

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Speaker 3: The three that we know of that he used were

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Speaker 3: he would use these pseudonyms on official government emails that

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Speaker 3: were to and from Hunter Biden. Now, Hunter Biden was

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Speaker 3: not an employee of the US government. He was his son,

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Speaker 3: and what has been reported is that some, if not many,

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Speaker 3: of them concerned Ukraine. You know, if you're wondering how

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Speaker 3: much the Biden family business was Hunter selling access to

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Speaker 3: and more fundamentally favors from Daddy. The news that broke

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Speaker 3: this week is the number of emails with Joe Biden's

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Speaker 3: fake email addresses. The National Archives and Record Administration acknowledged

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Speaker 3: that they possessed up to five thousand, four hundred of them.

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Speaker 3: That's a stunning number. Look, as I said, we had

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Speaker 3: a prior pod where we discussed there is no legitimate

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Speaker 3: his son about Ukraine at the same time that Hunter

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Speaker 3: Biden was making millions of dollars being paid by a

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Speaker 3: Ukrainian oligarch for Daddy's favors. The fact that the volume

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Speaker 3: and by the way, the National Archives and Record Administration

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Speaker 3: still hasn't handed them over, So we don't know what

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Speaker 3: Joe Biden was saying. We don't know why it was,

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Speaker 3: why is it how did he determine when he used

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Speaker 3: seen Joe Biden answer a question about this because the

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Speaker 3: White House believes he's not accountable to the American people.

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Speaker 3: And we've seen the corporate media completely silent on this. CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, NBC.

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Speaker 3: They don't cover it. It's not news. Why because it

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Speaker 2: Do you remember when the media freaked out, and I

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Speaker 2: of Watergate proportions, and there were missing phone calls that

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Speaker 2: you imagine if Donald Trump would have had alias email

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Speaker 3: Well, listen, if you use a Burner email, a fake email,

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Speaker 2: It's going to be very interesting, Senator, to see how

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Speaker 2: he has requested the Archives hand over all documents and

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Speaker 2: communications in which then Vice President Joe Biden used these

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Speaker 2: The Archives, he says, need to be transparent and provide

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Speaker 2: interesting to see how this plays out. We're going to

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Speaker 2: keep covering it for you, Senator. I also want to

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Speaker 2: when it comes time to vote on important legislation. There's

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Speaker 2: a lot of it that happened recently. We've had so

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Speaker 2: much breaking news we didn't get to talk about as

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Speaker 2: to fix that right now, because there were some big

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Speaker 2: as well. Let's talk about how big these winds were

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Speaker 3: Well, sure, And I want to focus on a single day,

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Speaker 3: I've been traveling across the state of Texas at doing

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Speaker 3: And on that one day, I passed eight separate pieces

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Speaker 4: It was a big deal to.

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Speaker 3: Pass eight pieces of legislation. That there are a lot

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Speaker 3: terrible for a lot of reasons, including that it denies

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Speaker 3: hurts conservative speech in particular. It's an example of corporate

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Speaker 3: America silencing one of the most important platforms for conservative speech. Well,

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Speaker 3: I teamed up with Ed Marquee, the single most liberal

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Speaker 3: Committee passed it with overwhelming bipartisan support. So that was

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Speaker 4: A big deal. That impacts you.

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Speaker 3: You have a radio station, radio show, It impacts all

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Speaker 2: It's incredible legislation and it's also, as you mentioned as well,

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Speaker 3: Well, sure, the first two passed the Commerce Committee. The

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Speaker 2: Senator, did you ever think you were ever going to

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, thank you for passing that. I do appreciate

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Speaker 2: How concerned are you, real quick on that piece of

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Speaker 2: Our strategical reserves are at the lowest levels I think

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Speaker 2: But when you look at this from a standpoint of

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Speaker 3: Well, when this legislation is signed into law, and I

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Speaker 3: And as I debated on the Senate floor and made

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Speaker 2: And it truly is I think scary that in Washington

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Speaker 3: This should be a no brainer, but at least for

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Speaker 4: And the way it works is to build any.

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Speaker 3: economic growth in the state of Texas. Every year, we

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Speaker 3: have over eight hundred billion dollars of trade and commerce

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Speaker 3: between Texas and Mexico. And by speeding up the construction

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Speaker 3: of these bridges, or the expansion of these bridges, that

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Speaker 3: will result in thousands upon thousands of new jobs in Texas.

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Speaker 3: That will result in billions of dollars of new economic activity.

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Speaker 3: And it will benefit Texas farmers and ranchers and small

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Speaker 3: businesses and manufacturers. And it will benefit consumers all across

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Speaker 3: the country who will be able to get goods in

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Speaker 3: their stores cheaper, with less transportation costs, with less delay.

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Speaker 3: And it also benefits US national security by helping us

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Speaker 3: move more and more manufacturing out of China and closer home,

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Speaker 3: either to the United States or do our close neighbors,

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Speaker 3: which improves our national security as well. And that was

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Speaker 3: a massive victory that I'd spent two years fighting to get,

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Speaker 3: and we got it passed with overwhelming bipartisan support on

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Speaker 3: the Senate floor.

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Speaker 2: Why does something like that take two years to get

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Speaker 2: the votes when it seems like it's such a common

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Speaker 2: sense piece of legislation that helps not just Texas but

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Speaker 2: so many other states and individuals. And it really seems

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Speaker 2: like it's saying that's non political and sally it helps

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Speaker 2: Republicans more than Democrats.

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Speaker 1: This helps everyone, well, it does.

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Speaker 3: And look to this state. I can't figure out why

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Speaker 3: the Biden administration adopted this policy. We've never been able

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Speaker 3: to find a senior official who takes responsibility for it

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Speaker 3: or defends it. And my theory is there some bureaucrat,

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Speaker 3: either in the bowels of the State Department or in

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Speaker 3: the bowels of the White House, who is a little

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Speaker 3: green New Deal knucklehead and who just decided, no, we

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Speaker 3: don't want anything built, nothing until all the environmental stuff

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Speaker 3: is fully complete, because it makes this knucklehead feel good. Now, ironically,

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Speaker 3: the policy of the Biden administration not only was it

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Speaker 3: terrible for jobs, it was terrible for the environment. If

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Speaker 3: you look at the World Trade Bridge, the World Trade

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Speaker 3: Bridge is in Laredo and it is the largest land

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Speaker 3: port in the United States.

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Speaker 4: It is a bridge on which there are.

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Speaker 3: Massive, massive amounts of commerce traveling through their every day.

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Speaker 3: On any given day, on the Mexican side of the bridge,

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Speaker 3: you will see a line of eighteen wheelers that will

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Speaker 3: extend four five six miles and those eighteen wheelers will

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Speaker 3: sit there sometimes four, five, six, seven, eight hours waiting

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Speaker 3: to cross the bridge in a giant bottleneck. And by

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Speaker 3: the way, when they're sitting there, they're spewing pollution in

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Speaker 3: the air. They're spewing carbon in the air. It is

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Speaker 3: terrible for the environment to force those eighteen wheelers to

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Speaker 3: sit there. And you also have a problem that when

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Speaker 3: they sit there that long, the drivers can time out.

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Speaker 3: There are limits on how long a driver can drive,

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Speaker 3: and if they sit there in a bottleneck all day long,

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Speaker 3: they then have to park overnight, and it extends the

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Speaker 3: transportation time even more. The city of Laredo and it

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Speaker 3: wants to expand the World Trade Bridge from eight lanes,

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Speaker 3: they want to add ten additional lanes that would dramatically

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Speaker 3: accelerate trade and commerce across that bridge. And yet, so

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Speaker 3: when I first found out about this issue, was was

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Speaker 3: a little over two years ago, and it was fairly

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Speaker 3: early in the Biden administration, and it was when the

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Speaker 3: city leaders from the city of Laredo came to meet

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Speaker 3: with me in DC and they came to my office.

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Speaker 3: And I regularly meet with leaders from cities all across

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Speaker 3: the state of Texas and counties across Texas and business

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Speaker 3: leaders across Texas, and this was a number of leaders

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Speaker 3: from Laredo who raised this issue said, gosh, the new

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Speaker 3: Biden administration, they just switched their policy and now they're

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Speaker 3: not granting these permits. And that was the first I'd

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Speaker 3: heard of it, because it was a new issue with

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Speaker 3: the new administration. And so the process it started with

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Speaker 3: me having my policy team say, okay, let's look into this.

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Speaker 3: Let's figure out how do these permits work, why do

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Speaker 3: you need them, what's the delay? And we started by

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Speaker 3: just pressing informally by making a call to the State Department,

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Speaker 3: by making multiple calls to the State Department, by pressing

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Speaker 3: pressing number one, mid level bureaucrats and ultimately senior level

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Speaker 3: leaders at the State Department. That unfortunately did not create move.

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Speaker 3: I sat down with Pete Buddhajege, the Secretary of Transportation,

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Speaker 3: in my office, and I leaned in hard on him

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Speaker 3: and I said, look, this is a stupid policy and

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Speaker 3: the administration is hurting the environment, hurting transportation. You need

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Speaker 3: to press state to change what they're doing. Buddha Judge

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Speaker 3: says he said he would try to be helpful, and

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Speaker 3: then as far as I can tell, uh did not

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Speaker 3: do anything, or if he did anything, it didn't succeed

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Speaker 3: because State did nothing to change their policy. The next

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Speaker 3: step is I worked to try to build bipartisan consensus

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Speaker 3: in the South Texas Congressional delegation and I wrote a

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Speaker 3: letter to Secretary of State Tony Blincoln. The letter was

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Speaker 3: joined by John Cornyn, my colleague in the Senate from Texas,

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Speaker 3: and then it was joined by Henry Quayar, who was

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Speaker 3: a Democrat from South Texas, Monica Dela Cruz who was

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Speaker 3: a Republican from South Texas, the Cente Gonzalez who is

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Speaker 3: a Democrat from South Texas, and Tony Gonzalez, who is

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Speaker 3: a Republican from South Texas. So we got all of

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Speaker 3: the South Texas congrest National delegation all to join my

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Speaker 3: letter to Tony Blinken saying this new policy is idiotic,

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Speaker 3: it hurts Texas, its hurts America.

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Speaker 4: You need to change it.

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Speaker 3: And unfortunately, once again the Biden administration basically said go

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Speaker 3: jump in a lake. They just they just stiff armed us.

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Speaker 3: They just did nothing. And this is a this is

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Speaker 3: a good one to go a little bit of a

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Speaker 3: deeper die because it actually shows how you fight and

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Speaker 3: win battles in the US Senate, and that I did

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Speaker 3: several things. One of the things I did is I

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Speaker 3: place holds on multiple State Department nominees, and I said,

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Speaker 3: they can't move forward until we get this bridge problem solved.

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Speaker 3: That has a way of really focusing the mind of

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Speaker 3: the senior leadership, both in the State Department and the

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Speaker 3: White House. And so I'm a big believer in using

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Speaker 3: both carrot and stick. The stick was you don't get

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Speaker 3: your nominees until you fix that problem. The carrot, because

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Speaker 3: I'm the ranking member on the Commerce Committee, I have

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Speaker 3: the ability to sign off or block legislation that is

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Speaker 3: moving through the Commerce Committee, and one piece of legislation

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Speaker 3: we're working on is the FAA reauthorization. There are lots

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Speaker 3: of senators who care about different elements of the FAA reauthorization,

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Speaker 3: and so some of my colleagues on the Foreign Relations

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Speaker 3: Committee had amendments they cared deeply about that I worked

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Speaker 3: to get included in that bill, which, in turn, when

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Speaker 3: I needed to move this bridge legislation on the Senate

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Speaker 3: Foreign Relations Committee, they were more than willing to help

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Speaker 3: me move it forward. Ultimately, to move it through the

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Speaker 3: Senate Foreign Relations Committee. I had to get the chairman,

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Speaker 3: Bob Menendez to support me, and that took significant horse trading.

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Speaker 3: It took ultimately getting the Biden State Department and the

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Speaker 3: Biden White House to back down. We had an email

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Speaker 3: exchange where the Biden State Department said, so, let me

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Speaker 3: get this straight. If we agree to go along with

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Speaker 3: Cruise's legislation, he'll lift the holes on our nominees. And

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Speaker 3: my guys said, yeah, of course. The whole point of

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Speaker 3: these holesques to get the problem fixed. If you fix

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Speaker 3: the problem, yeah, we'll lift the holes. And both stayed

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Speaker 3: and the White House said, wow, that seems like a

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Speaker 3: really good deal to us. We want to get these

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Speaker 3: nominations moving. That's what it took to move the administration,

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Speaker 3: and that, in turn, along with some additional legislative negotiation,

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Speaker 3: is what it took to bring the Democrats on board.

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Speaker 3: But that process takes literally hundreds of hours and takes it.

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Speaker 3: It ultimately took two years to get done. But at

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and this last one is a big deal. It

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Speaker 3: the Senate floor that day, the eighth piece of legislation

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Speaker 3: altogether that I passed that day, and it concerns semiconductors.

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Speaker 3: And then we've talked about this on the pod before

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Speaker 3: as well. When it comes to economic and national security

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Speaker 3: vulnerabilities of the United States, there are few that are

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Speaker 3: more acute than our vulnerability on advanced semiconductors, which right

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Speaker 3: now the vast majority of advanced semiconductors are manufactured in

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Speaker 3: China or Taiwan, and we manufactured very few of them

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Speaker 3: here in the United States.

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Speaker 1: And we didn't realize event ill.

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Speaker 2: This was until COVID happened, and that's when it could

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Speaker 2: we realize this is a national security issue as well.

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Speaker 4: Absolutely right.

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Speaker 3: Just about every piece of electronics you use uses semiconductors.

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Speaker 3: And whether that is your iPhone, whether that's your computer,

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Speaker 3: whether that's your car or truck, we use them. And

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Speaker 3: where whether it's the spy fridge that is monitoring Ben

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Speaker 3: and his boxers getting midnight snacks, all of them are

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Speaker 3: using it. And that I apologize to our listeners for

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Speaker 3: that image. I really didn't mean to keep in your head.

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Speaker 3: It's cruel, but nonetheless, hopefully some of you chuckled as

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Speaker 3: you're listening. Not only is it an economic vulnerability, but

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Speaker 3: it's a military vulnerability. Just about every weapons system we

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Speaker 3: use in the military, whether it is a fighter jet,

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Speaker 3: whether it's a tank, whether it is a missile system,

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Speaker 3: whether it's radars, just about all of the equipment relies

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Speaker 3: on advanced semiconductors. And not only are we dependent on China,

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Speaker 3: but Taiwan. One of the reasons why China's military threat

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Speaker 3: to Taiwan is so profoundly dangerous is if China invaded

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Speaker 3: Taiwan and they took over that semiconductor manufacturing capacity, they

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Speaker 3: would have the ability to put a stranglehold to literally

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Speaker 3: crater the US economy at their whim, and also to

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Speaker 3: hold our military captive that we couldn't get the chips

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Speaker 3: we need. Remember during COVID and coming out of it,

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Speaker 3: the massive shortages there were of new cars and trucks.

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Speaker 3: That was because of a shortage and chips that you

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Speaker 3: couldn't get a new car truck because without the chips

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Speaker 3: they couldn't make them. So it is a national security imperative.

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Speaker 3: I believe to bring advanced semiconductor manufacturing back to the

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Speaker 3: United States, and in the last Congress, Congress passed a

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Speaker 3: bill called the Chips Act. The Chips Act had two elements.

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Speaker 3: One element of it was what was called the fabs AC.

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Speaker 3: The fabs AC lessened the tax burden on new semiconductor manufacturing.

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Speaker 3: I was a co sponsor of the fabs Act and

657
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Speaker 3: enthusiastically supported it. The second component of the Chips Act

658
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Speaker 3: was direct federal funds billions of dollars in subsidies for

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Speaker 3: building semiconduct manufacturing. I voted against that because I think

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Speaker 3: that corporate welfare is a bad idea and I think

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00:36:05,920 --> 00:36:09,920
Speaker 3: you get into the specter of corruption when US taxpayer

662
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Speaker 3: dollars are going in multi billion dollar corporate checks to

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Speaker 3: giant corporations. That being said, it passed. Once it passed,

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Speaker 3: my view is, okay, if the federal government's going to

665
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Speaker 3: spend that money, it ought to spend it in a

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Speaker 3: way that meets clear objective standards and metrics based on merit,

667
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Speaker 3: and it shouldn't be politicized. And in Texas there are

668
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Speaker 3: tens of billions of dollars of new manufacturing that that

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Speaker 3: that is currently in planning and underway to manufacture semiconductors.

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Speaker 3: And what's happening now is suddenly people, as they're building

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Speaker 3: these new fabs are discovering that the federal environmental regulations,

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Speaker 3: that the NIPA regulations, can be unbelievably burdensome and they

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Speaker 3: can delay a new semiconductor FACS potentially for years. And

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Speaker 3: even Democrats were discovering, wait a second, if we want

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Speaker 3: to build these plants, we've got to expedite, we've got

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Speaker 3: to streamline these regulatory burdens. So what happened is there

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Speaker 3: was what was initially pitched as bipartisan legislation in the

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Speaker 3: House and also in the Senate that would lessen the

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Speaker 3: regulatory burdens on new new fabs, and so I looked

680
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Speaker 3: at that legislation, and the sponsors of it wanted to

681
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Speaker 3: attach it to the NDAA. Now for them to be

682
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Speaker 3: able to attach it, that legislation is in the jurisdiction

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Speaker 3: of the Commerce Committee, which means they needed the sign

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Speaker 3: off of the Chairman and of myself.

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Speaker 4: I had an absolute veto.

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Speaker 3: As I studied the legislation, I discovered that what they

687
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Speaker 3: said in their press releases, which is this lessens the

688
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Speaker 3: regulatory burdens on new plants, was not entirely accurate because

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Speaker 3: as drafted, it functioned as essentially a subsidy for blue states,

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Speaker 3: a subsidy because what it's said was if your states

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Speaker 3: state environmental standards are stricter, if they are tougher than

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Speaker 3: the federal standards, then you get an exemption from the

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Speaker 3: federal requirements. But if not, you're out of luck. You

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Speaker 3: got to comply with all the federal regulatory provisions. Now

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Speaker 3: what that meant is if it had passed, it would

696
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Speaker 3: have been basically a subsidy for states like New York

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Speaker 3: and California, and it would have screwed Texas. It was

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Speaker 3: a harm to the state of Texas. And so since

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Speaker 3: they needed my approval, to get it on the NDAA.

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Speaker 3: When they sent it over to me, my answer was,

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Speaker 3: which part of hell, no, do you not understand a

702
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Speaker 3: subsidy for blue states that hurts Texas. I'm not signing

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Speaker 3: off on what I did next, Ben, And this is

704
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Speaker 3: again important in terms of how you win these legislative fights.

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Speaker 3: I directed my legislative staff, let's draft legislation that actually

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Speaker 3: does what their press release says, that lessens the regulatory

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Speaker 3: burdens on building.

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Speaker 4: New fabs in the United States. We did that.

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Speaker 3: Mark Kelly, who had been the lead sponsor of the

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Speaker 3: original legislation, the Democrat from Arizona. Mark came to me

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Speaker 3: and he said, ted, would you be willing to work

712
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Speaker 3: with me on drafting legislation that could actually pass? And

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Speaker 3: look there looking at it again, billions of dollars of

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Speaker 3: semiconductor manufacturing in Arizona. So Mark cared deeply about it,

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Speaker 3: and I said, sure, I'm happy to do that. And

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Speaker 3: so my office redrafted the legislation, working with Mark Kelly's

717
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Speaker 3: legislation a legislative team, and we ended up attaching that bill.

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Speaker 3: It was Kelly Cruz to the NDAA. It is a big,

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Speaker 3: big deal. It will produce billions of dollars of economic

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Speaker 3: activity in Texas and in states across the country. It

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Speaker 4: That was a big, big deal.

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Speaker 2: Finally, I want to pay off on what we tease

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Speaker 2: a banana republic.

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Speaker 1: What's funny is it's actually the media that was.

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Speaker 2: it up, what's funny is now no one's talking about

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Speaker 2: the banana republic that we're living in. We have it

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Speaker 2: and we're going to go back and forth. You're going

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Speaker 2: to hear them talking about Donald Trump and Bill Barr

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Speaker 2: back in twenty nineteen, twenty twenty with the election, and

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Speaker 2: then you're going to hear some of the different things

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Speaker 2: they said back and forth about it with today.

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Speaker 1: Take a listen carefully.

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Speaker 2: This is truly shocking, and share this on your social

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Speaker 2: media platforms.

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Speaker 5: Right Attorney General and position to do it. We now

789
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Speaker 5: know they really have been trying to gin up criminal

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Speaker 5: prosecutions and criminal investigations into the president's perceived enemies, politically

791
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Speaker 5: motivated persecution. Right courtesy of Bill Barr. I'll roll in

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Speaker 5: the FBI on you. That's how banana republics work.

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Speaker 1: Right.

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Speaker 3: The home of the forty fifth president of the United

795
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Speaker 3: States has been rated by the FBI.

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Speaker 5: Mister Trump is using the Justice Department to go after

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Speaker 5: his perceived enemies.

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Speaker 1: I feel worried.

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Speaker 5: About the prospect of the Justice Department being used as

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Speaker 5: a tool of this president or any our little banana republic.

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Speaker 5: Any capable prosecutor can get a grand jury to hand

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Speaker 5: down an indictment of something as innocent as a ham Sandway.

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Speaker 1: An indictment was unsealed charging Donald J. Trump. He news

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Speaker 1: on former President Trump. He's been indicted for the fourth

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Speaker 1: time in five months.

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Speaker 5: The bar on the present's behalf is weaponizing the Justice

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Speaker 5: Department to go after the president's enemies. When you win

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Speaker 5: an election, you don't seek to just prosecute the losing side.

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Speaker 5: President using the Justice Department as a weapon to get

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Speaker 5: what he wants.

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Speaker 3: The Department of Justice is totally politicized, seeking the Department

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Speaker 3: of Justice on political opponents.

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Speaker 6: Threatening to imprison his political rival Banana Republic style.

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Speaker 1: Trying to exact revenge against all of his enemies.

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Speaker 6: Timp dictator and a Banana Republic.

816
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Speaker 3: Is acting more like a Banana Republic dictator.

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Speaker 5: He's using government resources to go after his political opponent.

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Speaker 6: Essentially, we are a Banana republic that we are seeking

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Speaker 6: to have a bogus in criminal investigation into a political opponent.

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Speaker 2: And that's using the Department of Justice to also target

821
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Speaker 2: trust's political opponent for nefarious reasons.

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Speaker 5: This is a massive abuse of power and a betrayal

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Speaker 5: of our value.

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Speaker 2: President of the United States is targeting a family member

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Speaker 2: of a political opponent. This is the type of thing

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Speaker 2: that happens in a Banana Republic.

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Speaker 5: And trying to take out a political rival in Joe Biden,

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Speaker 5: criminally investigating an American political rival, someone the president's worried

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Speaker 5: about losing to in the next election, to investigate my

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Speaker 5: principal opponent or a principal opponent in the upcoming election.

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Speaker 1: Houston, we have a problem. Don't you think that's something

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Speaker 1: that should be investigated.

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Speaker 6: When the incumbent political party opens a counter intelligence investigation

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Speaker 6: on the candidate of the opposing party.

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Speaker 4: You know.

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Speaker 3: Trump is itching to politicize the Justice Department and the

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Speaker 3: Attorney General has been super shady.

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Speaker 5: A president is weaponizing the Department of Justice to bring

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Speaker 5: cases against his enemies to the Department of Justice is

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Speaker 5: in an existential crisis.

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Speaker 1: Again.

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Speaker 5: It's yet another example of the Justice Department basically losing

843
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Speaker 5: all of its independence in this administration. This is now

844
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Speaker 5: about corrupting the next election, and for me, this was

845
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Speaker 5: crossing the red line. A president who is actively trying

846
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Speaker 5: to potentially steal the upcoming election, but.

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Speaker 3: To try to take at a political rival, the end goal.

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Speaker 1: Being twenty twenty.

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Speaker 3: Donald Trump and his Attorney General are using the Justice Department.

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Speaker 5: The only difference between this and a Banana Republic is.

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Speaker 1: That Trump does not eat fruit.

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Speaker 3: The twenty twenty election is really the last chance we

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Speaker 3: have to stop our system from fully sliding into a

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Speaker 3: corrupt Banana Republic. Bill Barr has done everything that Donald

855
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Speaker 3: Trump has wanted him to.

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Speaker 1: Living in a Banana Republic right now.

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Speaker 3: When you start using the Justice Department to go after your.

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Speaker 4: Enemies, that's very very dangerous.

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Speaker 5: Donald Trump is using the Department of Justice to go

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Speaker 5: after his enemies in any way that he can, having

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Speaker 5: the head of the chief federal law enforcement agency essentially

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Speaker 5: working on his behalf to investigate a political rival.

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Speaker 1: To investigate the family of a political opponent.

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Speaker 4: Basically banana republic behavior.

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Speaker 6: We're no better than some some banana republic and he's.

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Speaker 1: Using the abuse of power in every.

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Speaker 4: Element or the presidency to try to do something to

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Speaker 4: smear me. We just have to demonstrate that he will

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Speaker 4: not take power if he does run.

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Speaker 1: If he does run.

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Speaker 2: Wow, Centaer when you hear it together, there is no

872
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Speaker 2: such thing as as a media that's authentic or genuine anymore.

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00:47:20,960 --> 00:47:24,759
Speaker 2: This is all straight up propaganda. And they accuse the

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Speaker 2: Trump administration of doing exactly what's happening in real life

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Speaker 2: right now.

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Speaker 3: Well, that's exactly right. The corporate media today is utterly

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Speaker 3: and completely corrupt. It's hypocritical. The irony is what they

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Speaker 3: were accusing Trump of doing and the Trump doj of doing.

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Speaker 4: They weren't doing.

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Speaker 3: You didn't see the Trump Department of Justice trying to

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Speaker 3: indict Joe Biden. You didn't see them using the Trump

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Speaker 3: Department of Justice to go after their enemies. You didn't

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Speaker 3: see this kind of abuse of power, the politicization that

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Speaker 3: is unfolded. Look in over two hundred years of our

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Speaker 3: nation's history, we've never indicted a president or a former president,

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Speaker 3: and now we have done so not just once, but

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Speaker 3: four separate times in the last year. And you want

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Speaker 3: to talk about a banana republic, that's what banana republics do.

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Speaker 4: And the fact that all of.

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Speaker 3: These useful idiots on TV use that language, it shows

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Speaker 3: that they actually understand what abuse of power looks like,

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Speaker 3: what it means, but they just don't care. It is

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Speaker 3: only from their perspective an abuse of power if it's

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Speaker 3: the side they don't like, even if the side they

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Speaker 3: don't like isn't doing it. And it's a principle we've

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Speaker 3: talked about quite a bit, which is what the left

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Speaker 3: accuses their opponents of doing is almost without exception, what

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Speaker 3: they are in fact doing themselves.

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Speaker 4: And I got to say.

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Speaker 3: That is powerful, powerfully true in that montage, because every

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Speaker 3: single thing they falsely accused the Trump Department of Justice

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Speaker 3: and the Trump FBI of doing is exactly what the

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Speaker 3: Biden DOJ and the Biden FBI has been doing.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, make sure you take this podcast, share this with

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Speaker 2: it is so powerful.

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