Speaker 1: Welcome.
Speaker 2: It is a verdict with Senator Ted Cruz Ben Ferguson
Speaker 2: with you, and we've got a jam packed show, including
Speaker 2: this pretty shocking number of emails that we now are
Speaker 2: trying to get our hands on, and it's more than
Speaker 2: five thousand, the deal with Biden's fake email addresses that
Speaker 2: he had set up. We're also going to give you
Speaker 2: an update on some pretty impressive legislative movements that have
Speaker 2: happened through Senata Cruz's office.
Speaker 1: And also you're not going to want to miss this.
Speaker 2: Into the show tonight, we have put together one of
Speaker 2: the most incredible montages that deals with the media and
Speaker 2: how they covered Donald Trump referring to Banana Republic issues
Speaker 2: and they're completely silent right now. What's happening at the
Speaker 2: DOJ covering for Biden. That is something that's going to
Speaker 2: go viral. You're not going to want to miss that.
Speaker 2: But first, Senator, I want to get your reaction to
Speaker 2: this shocking new intel that is out and that is
Speaker 2: former President of Barack Obama. They're now saying should allow
Speaker 2: the National Archives to release President Joe Biden's emails and
Speaker 2: records linked to his alias. These are his fake email
Speaker 2: address accounts. That is now what people are calling for.
Speaker 2: Explain this a little bit more so if you will
Speaker 2: understand just how important these emails may be.
Speaker 3: Well, sure, we did a previous podcast focused on the
Speaker 3: fact that it's now come to light that Joe Biden,
Speaker 3: when he was Vice president, he used fake emails.
Speaker 4: He had pseudonyms.
Speaker 3: The three that we know of that he used were
Speaker 3: Robin Ware, Robert L. Peters, and j rb Ware. And
Speaker 3: he would use these pseudonyms on official government emails that
Speaker 3: were to and from Hunter Biden. Now, Hunter Biden was
Speaker 3: not an employee of the US government. He was his son,
Speaker 3: and what has been reported is that some, if not many,
Speaker 3: of them concerned Ukraine. You know, if you're wondering how
Speaker 3: much the Biden family business was Hunter selling access to
Speaker 3: and more fundamentally favors from Daddy. The news that broke
Speaker 3: this week is the number of emails with Joe Biden's
Speaker 3: fake email addresses. The National Archives and Record Administration acknowledged
Speaker 3: that they possessed up to five thousand, four hundred of them.
Speaker 3: That's a stunning number. Look, as I said, we had
Speaker 3: a prior pod where we discussed there is no legitimate
Speaker 3: reason for the sitting Vice president of the United States
Speaker 3: to use a fake email on official government emails to
Speaker 3: his son about Ukraine at the same time that Hunter
Speaker 3: Biden was making millions of dollars being paid by a
Speaker 3: Ukrainian oligarch for Daddy's favors. The fact that the volume
Speaker 3: of it now is up to five thousand, four hundred emails,
Speaker 3: and by the way, the National Archives and Record Administration
Speaker 3: still hasn't handed them over, So we don't know what
Speaker 3: Joe Biden was saying. We don't know why it was,
Speaker 3: why is it how did he determine when he used
Speaker 3: his real email and when he used the fake names
Speaker 3: Robin Ware, Robert L. Peters, or jrb Ware. We haven't
Speaker 3: seen Joe Biden answer a question about this because the
Speaker 3: White House believes he's not accountable to the American people.
Speaker 3: And we've seen the corporate media completely silent on this. CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, NBC.
Speaker 3: They don't cover it. It's not news. Why because it
Speaker 3: counters their official propaganda line and so they just utterly
Speaker 3: ignore it. But on its face, there is no legitimate
Speaker 3: explanation for this, and the Biden White House has not
Speaker 3: even tried to suggest a legitimate explanation for this.
Speaker 2: Do you remember when the media freaked out, and I
Speaker 2: think it was on January the sixth, where they said
Speaker 2: that the White House was it was a cover up
Speaker 2: of Watergate proportions, and there were missing phone calls that
Speaker 2: day from the phone logs, and then they had egg
Speaker 2: on their face and they found out no, no, he
Speaker 2: was just using a cell phone during that time, so
Speaker 2: those calls wouldn't have actually been on the official transcripts
Speaker 2: from the White House. They were talking about these missing
Speaker 2: periods of time. They lost their mind over that. Can
Speaker 2: you imagine if Donald Trump would have had alias email
Speaker 2: it like Burner email accounts that he used while he
Speaker 2: was the president, or anyone at the White House at
Speaker 2: any level of importance, they would have gone full blown
Speaker 2: investigation into this.
Speaker 3: Well, listen, if you use a Burner email, a fake email,
Speaker 3: if you use a Burner phone, as it's now been reported,
Speaker 3: Joe Biden did the natural implication, as you're trying to
Speaker 3: hide something, you're trying to get around the law, there's
Speaker 3: a reason you're hiding who you are. If not, there's
Speaker 3: no reason to have the fake email. And again, the
Speaker 3: White House has not attempted to give any any innocent
Speaker 3: explanation for this, and to be honest, I can't imagine
Speaker 3: what an innocent explanation would be. But they're in a
Speaker 3: An explanation is well, gosh, we're the White House and
Speaker 3: so the media doesn't cover it.
Speaker 2: It's going to be very interesting, Senator, to see how
Speaker 2: this plays out, because we do know the House Oversight
Speaker 2: Committee Chairman James Comer, who we had on a two
Speaker 2: part series here and I'll say it again if you
Speaker 2: missed it, go back and listen to what he had
Speaker 2: to say about the money coming into the family. But
Speaker 2: he has requested the Archives hand over all documents and
Speaker 2: communications in which then Vice President Joe Biden used these
Speaker 2: names you just mentioned, Robert Peters, Robin.
Speaker 1: Ware, jrb Ware.
Speaker 2: The Archives, he says, need to be transparent and provide
Speaker 2: these unredacted records to the GOP Oversight. It will be
Speaker 2: interesting to see how this plays out. We're going to
Speaker 2: keep covering it for you, Senator. I also want to
Speaker 2: move on to something else, and I don't think people
Speaker 2: realize what a day in the life in Washington, or
Speaker 2: a week in the life of Washington can look like
Speaker 2: when it comes time to vote on important legislation. There's
Speaker 2: a lot of it that happened recently. We've had so
Speaker 2: much breaking news we didn't get to talk about as
Speaker 2: much as I think we should have. And I want
Speaker 2: to fix that right now, because there were some big
Speaker 2: wins that you were leading on legislation, you were leading
Speaker 2: on for the people in Texas and in this country
Speaker 2: as well. Let's talk about how big these winds were
Speaker 2: right before recess.
Speaker 3: Well, sure, And I want to focus on a single day,
Speaker 3: and that was Thursday, the last week of July, which
Speaker 3: is the last day the Senate was in session. We've
Speaker 3: been on recess for the past several weeks and so
Speaker 3: I've been traveling across the state of Texas at doing
Speaker 3: events all over Texas. But the last day we were
Speaker 3: in session was the Thursday, the last week of July.
Speaker 3: And on that one day, I passed eight separate pieces
Speaker 3: of legislation.
Speaker 4: It was a big deal to.
Speaker 3: Pass eight pieces of legislation. That there are a lot
Speaker 3: of members of the Senate that don't pass eight pieces
Speaker 3: of legislation after years of serving in this and I
Speaker 3: passed eight in a single day. And so I just
Speaker 3: wanted to walk through that day to give a sense
Speaker 3: of what can be accomplished fighting for Texas in a
Speaker 3: single day. So two of them passed out of the
Speaker 3: Senate Commerce Committee. And as you know, I'm the ranking member,
Speaker 3: the senior Republican on the Senate Commerce Committee, and there
Speaker 3: were two different bills that I'd introduced, both of which
Speaker 3: passed the Senate Commerce Committee that day. One of them
Speaker 3: focuses on AM radio, and we've talked about that bill
Speaker 3: here on this podcast before, which is that eight automakers
Speaker 3: announced they were pulling AM radios off of brand new
Speaker 3: cars and trucks. I think that's a terrible step. It's
Speaker 3: terrible for a lot of reasons, including that it denies
Speaker 3: people disaster information in the case of a hurricane or
Speaker 3: a fire or tornado or some other natural disaster. It
Speaker 3: hurts rural Americans who rely on AM radio, and it
Speaker 3: hurts conservative speech in particular. It's an example of corporate
Speaker 3: America silencing one of the most important platforms for conservative speech. Well,
Speaker 3: I teamed up with Ed Marquee, the single most liberal
Speaker 3: member of the Senate, in legislation called the Am Radio
Speaker 3: for Every Vehicle Act, which mandates that new cars and
Speaker 3: trucks include AM radio, and that legislation passed. The Commerce
Speaker 3: Committee passed it with overwhelming bipartisan support. So that was
Speaker 3: victory number one.
Speaker 4: A big deal. That impacts you.
Speaker 3: You have a radio station, radio show, It impacts all
Speaker 3: sorts of people on the radio, but it impacts up
Speaker 3: to eighty million Americans who listen to AM radio every
Speaker 3: single month.
Speaker 2: It's incredible legislation and it's also, as you mentioned as well,
Speaker 2: a safety issue. You look at the hurricane that is
Speaker 2: that we're dealing with right now in Forda. It's going
Speaker 2: to be going up the East coast and I've already
Speaker 2: heard it and talked to friends down there. They're already
Speaker 2: reminding people grab your crank AM radios to keep up
Speaker 2: when the power goes out so that you know what's
Speaker 2: going on. And I think there were many that thought
Speaker 2: of this as a way to silence con served a
Speaker 2: talk radio. Yes, there's no doubt there was a political
Speaker 2: side of this as well. But this other part was
Speaker 2: a safety issue. When hurricanes hit, when there's natural disasters
Speaker 2: that happened and they're talking about it. I was watching
Speaker 2: the Weather Channel today as a storm was developing, this
Speaker 2: hurricane and strengthening. They were saying, make sure you have
Speaker 2: your crank AM radio. That is something that saves lives
Speaker 2: and situations like this. And that's also why it was
Speaker 2: so important to make sure these AM raiders, because there
Speaker 2: are people after storms hit and even before they can
Speaker 2: go out to their car, turn it on for a second,
Speaker 2: listen to the latest updates of what's happening. And that's
Speaker 2: something that happens or those crank radios or battery powered
Speaker 2: radios with AM it's so vitally important for safety as well.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and other media often go down in the case
Speaker 3: of a disaster, so's it's critical for getting people out
Speaker 3: of harm's way. A second piece of legislation that I
Speaker 3: authored that also passed the Conference Committee that day is
Speaker 3: legislation called the Ticket Act, and it concerns if you
Speaker 3: go online and you buy sports tickets, you go buy
Speaker 3: baseball tickets, or football or basket tickets, or you buy
Speaker 3: concert tickets you want to go see your favorite artists
Speaker 3: pay and all of us have had the experience where
Speaker 3: you go online to buy tickets and you pick out
Speaker 3: your seats and you're really excited, and then you get
Speaker 3: to the final step of the transaction and you see
Speaker 3: fees that are just massive. The fees can be as
Speaker 3: upwards of forty to fifty sixty percent of the total
Speaker 3: amount you're paying, and you don't learn until the very
Speaker 3: last step when you're entering your credit card. And so
Speaker 3: I joined with Maria Cantwell, the Democrat from Washington State
Speaker 3: is the chairman of the committee, and authored legislation that
Speaker 3: requires online ticket brokers to disclose the total amount of
Speaker 3: the ticket price with the fees up front, so that
Speaker 3: when you're searching, you can know, Okay, if this ticket's
Speaker 3: going to cost me one hundred dollars, I'm not going
Speaker 3: to think it's fifty bucks and get surprised on the
Speaker 3: back end as a consumer, I'm going to get to
Speaker 3: know upfront and have the information to be able to comparison,
Speaker 3: shop and make informed choices.
Speaker 2: It is an important piece as well, because, as you've mentioned,
Speaker 2: it happens so often where people get to that end
Speaker 2: and then and they're like, really, now, this is what
Speaker 2: it is, and it's a surprise or shock. And that's
Speaker 2: why it is another piece of just transparency. It shouldn't
Speaker 2: be this hard, by the way, to be transparent when
Speaker 2: it comes to basic things like this in commerce, and
Speaker 2: yet you have to spend time doing this, and that's
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Speaker 2: not just these two pieces of legislation, but more than
Speaker 2: that that happened on this single day. Walk us down
Speaker 2: that again, that path of what else happened.
Speaker 3: Well, sure, the first two passed the Commerce Committee. The
Speaker 3: remaining six pieces of legislation that I passed that day
Speaker 3: all passed the entire Senate, the full Senate, and all
Speaker 3: of them on that day, the last Thursday in July,
Speaker 3: we passed the National Defense Authorization Act, which is the
Speaker 3: big bill that passes every year that authorizes the Department
Speaker 3: of Defense in our military, and it's critical for ensuring
Speaker 3: that we can defend our nation, and it is considered
Speaker 3: must pass legislation so that if you can author amendments
Speaker 3: that get attached to it, those amendments get passed into
Speaker 3: law and sign into law. I had six different amendments
Speaker 3: that passed on this year's NDAA. So one of the
Speaker 3: amendments I had was very focused on defense in the
Speaker 3: state of Texas, and it was ensuring that B one
Speaker 3: bomber wings remain in service for at least three more years,
Speaker 3: at least until twenty twenty six, until they're actually replaced
Speaker 3: by newer B TWE twenty one bombers. And this is
Speaker 3: critically important number One, to preserve the US's long range
Speaker 3: strike capabilities. But number two, many of those B one
Speaker 3: bomber wings are right now housed at Dias Air Force
Speaker 3: Base in Abilene, Texas, and we're in the process of
Speaker 3: replacing B one bombers with B twenty ones. B twenty
Speaker 3: ones are much more advanced bombers, but it takes time
Speaker 3: to produce the B twenty ones, and there's great concern
Speaker 3: number one in West Texas that the B ones will
Speaker 3: be taken down before they're replaced by the B twenty ones.
Speaker 3: And so there's been a battle year after year to
Speaker 3: make sure that we don't decommission the b ones until
Speaker 3: we have B twenty ones in place to replace them.
Speaker 3: That battle's happened every year for a number of years,
Speaker 3: and I've managed to win temporary delays in it. This
Speaker 3: year we got a three year freeze, which is critically
Speaker 3: important for ensuring our defense capability but also for protecting
Speaker 3: West Texas and Dias Air Force Base.
Speaker 4: So a second.
Speaker 3: Amendment that also passed that day is legislation that I
Speaker 3: introduced that focused on what are called spy fridges, which
Speaker 3: is there are all sorts of impliances that you buy,
Speaker 3: whether they're refrigerators, whether they're microwaves, whether they're stoves or ovens,
Speaker 3: that are smart devices, and they have built in cameras
Speaker 3: and and or recorders, and often people don't know when
Speaker 3: you're buying a fridge. You don't think to ask, gosh,
Speaker 3: is is my refrigerator recording me in my kitchen? And
Speaker 3: so I authored legislation. It's very very similar to the
Speaker 3: legislation we talked about before in the Ticket Act. It's
Speaker 3: disclosure legislation that says, if there's an appliance that's being
Speaker 3: sold to consumers that can record you, that has a
Speaker 3: camera either a video camera an audio recorder, that they
Speaker 3: have to disclose to you the consumer. Hey, your your
Speaker 3: fridge is spying on you. And that likewise was bipartisan
Speaker 3: legislation that likewise passed on the floor of the Senate.
Speaker 2: Senator, did you ever think you were ever going to
Speaker 2: have to pass legislation that would tells like consumers if
Speaker 2: their products would possibly be able to spy on them.
Speaker 1: I mean, it does sound insane.
Speaker 2: It's extremely important, but did you ever think when you
Speaker 2: ran for the Senate that this would be something we
Speaker 2: would need?
Speaker 1: And fast forward to twenty twenty three, it's insane to me.
Speaker 3: It really is nuts, and it's where technology is taking us.
Speaker 3: It's where so much of corporate America violates the privacy
Speaker 3: of consumers. And look, the next time, Ben, you're walking
Speaker 3: to the fridge at two in the morning and your
Speaker 3: box of shorts to get a midnight snack, just just
Speaker 3: remember that video may be in the hands of whoever
Speaker 3: sold you the fridge.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, thank you for passing that. I do appreciate
Speaker 2: that I think all of us can say yes on
Speaker 2: that one. What else was on the list, all right, So.
Speaker 3: Two other amendments that both concerned oil. One of them
Speaker 3: concerns Nordstream two. We've talked a lot about Nordstream two,
Speaker 3: which is the pipe line that Putin was building from
Speaker 3: Russia to Germany. And I had an amendment that holds
Speaker 3: accountable the corrupt responsible the corrupt officials who were responsible
Speaker 3: for building and or maintaining Nordstream too, and so that
Speaker 3: passed on that Thursday as well. The second one focused
Speaker 3: on US oil, and in particular our strategic Petroleum Reserve.
Speaker 3: And as you know, Joe Biden has sold down our
Speaker 3: strategic petroleum reserve to the lowest level it's been at
Speaker 3: in four decades. And the strategic Petroleum Reserve is there
Speaker 3: to protect our economy, to protect our national security, to
Speaker 3: ensure that we have energy in a time of crisis,
Speaker 3: and Joe Biden's used it to try to temporarily lower
Speaker 3: gas prices right before the last election to get a
Speaker 3: political benefit from it. And so I teamed up with
Speaker 3: Joe Manchin and authored legislation to prohibit the federal government
Speaker 3: from selling oil from the Strategic petroleum reserve to China, Russia, Iran,
Speaker 3: or North Korea, not to sell it to our enemies.
Speaker 3: And that is not a hypothetical threat, because Joe Biden
Speaker 3: in fact sold over a million barrels of oil from
Speaker 3: the US's strategic petroleum reserve to Communist China. And given that,
Speaker 3: I thought that was absurd. Joe Manchin and I teamed
Speaker 3: up together to pass this legislation and that was the
Speaker 3: fourth piece of legislation on the Senate floor that passed
Speaker 3: on that Thursday.
Speaker 2: How concerned are you, real quick on that piece of
Speaker 2: legislation that this administration is setting us up for a disaster.
Speaker 2: Our strategical reserves are at the lowest levels I think
Speaker 2: they've been in my lifetime. I can't remember how many
Speaker 2: decades it is, but and they're getting lower. Also, the
Speaker 2: shock that we've been allowing, when we do release some
Speaker 2: of this oil for to actually go to our adversaries
Speaker 2: is even more shocking, especially when some of it was
Speaker 2: connected directly to companies that apparently the Biden crime family
Speaker 2: had invested interest in a tanker that went straight to China.
Speaker 2: But when you look at this from a standpoint of
Speaker 2: national security, there doesn't seem to be a course correction.
Speaker 2: Yet is there anything that you guys can do in
Speaker 2: Congress in the Senate to correct this or this is
Speaker 2: sole discretion where those reserves are of the president.
Speaker 3: Well, when this legislation is signed into law, and I
Speaker 3: fully expect that it will be, it will take out
Speaker 3: of the President's hands the ability to sell that oil
Speaker 3: to our enemies, to sell it to China or Russia,
Speaker 3: or Iran in North Korea, and those four countries are specified.
Speaker 3: And I'll tell you previously, I went to the Senate
Speaker 3: floor and tried to pass this legislation as freestanding legislation,
Speaker 3: and Senate Democrats came down and objected at that time,
Speaker 3: and they countered with their own proposal to make it
Speaker 3: illegal for any American company to sell any oil or
Speaker 3: gas to any foreign nation, which is utterly bizarre, would
Speaker 3: destroy tens of thousands of jobs in the United States.
Speaker 3: And as I debated on the Senate floor and made
Speaker 3: the case, I said, look, one of the reasons why
Speaker 3: we shouldn't be selling oil to our enemies is we
Speaker 3: ought to be instead sending it to our friends and
Speaker 3: letting our friends come off of Russian oil where there's
Speaker 3: a war waging in Ukraine, and Russia's getting its revenue
Speaker 3: from selling oil and gas. And I put it out,
Speaker 3: the Democrats take the proposition let's not sell oil to
Speaker 3: our enemies, and they translate it to let's not sell
Speaker 3: oil to our friends, which is an utterly bizarre next
Speaker 3: step because it hurts US national security. And I got
Speaker 3: to say, when it comes to energy policy, this administration
Speaker 3: and congressional Democrats regularly hurt US national security by making
Speaker 3: us more and more vulnerable to foreign players and by
Speaker 3: weakening the US energy and industry and in fact waging
Speaker 3: war on domestic oil and gas production. And so this
Speaker 3: legislation that passed was a significant step to take away
Speaker 3: the Biden administration's ability to undermine our security and in
Speaker 3: pursuit of their own political edgita.
Speaker 2: And it truly is I think scary that in Washington
Speaker 2: now you would even have to pass legislation that says, yeah,
Speaker 2: don't give our old reserves to our enemies.
Speaker 3: This should be a no brainer, but at least for
Speaker 3: the Biden White House. Not only is it not a
Speaker 3: no brainer, it's directly contrary to what they've done, which
Speaker 3: is why this legislation was necessary. The last two pieces
Speaker 3: of legislation that I passed on that day are the
Speaker 3: two biggest, and they both have huge consequences, not just
Speaker 3: for the state of Texas and for the entire country.
Speaker 3: One deals with four bridges from Texas to Mexico. And
Speaker 3: we've talked about this at length on the POD as well,
Speaker 3: so I'll just quickly summarize, but there are four bridge
Speaker 3: projects right now pending in Texas to either build brand
Speaker 3: new bridges that go from Texas to Mexico or to
Speaker 3: expand existing bridges.
Speaker 4: And the way it works is to build any.
Speaker 3: Bridge in the United States requires what's called a nipa
Speaker 3: environmental review in that standard US law. But if you're
Speaker 3: building an international bridge, if you're crossing a border to
Speaker 3: another country, you are required to get a special permit
Speaker 3: from the President of the United States. And the way
Speaker 3: it used to operate is the President would grant that
Speaker 3: permit contingent upon the neper review being completed, and that
Speaker 3: expedited the whole process because it let you move through quickly.
Speaker 3: When Biden came into power, they announced they were reversing
Speaker 3: that process, and in particular, the President announced he would
Speaker 3: grant no permits whatsoever for new bridges across the international
Speaker 3: borders unless until the Neeper review was entirely concluded. What
Speaker 3: that did is it delayed all four of these bridge
Speaker 3: projects substantially, potentially two three four years. And not only
Speaker 3: did it delay it that long, it potentially delayed it
Speaker 3: even longer because a number of the project's sponsors were
Speaker 3: having difficulty getting financing, because the banks didn't want to
Speaker 3: commit to financing until the presidential permit was granted, and
Speaker 3: because the Biden White House wouldn't grant the presidential permit,
Speaker 3: everything slowed down.
Speaker 4: This was stupid.
Speaker 3: This hurt Texas, it hurt America, and so I introduced
Speaker 3: legislation expediting the approval of these bridges and mandating in
Speaker 3: particular that once the legislation is signed that Biden has
Speaker 3: sixty days has a shot clock. He has sixty days
Speaker 3: to grant the permits, and if he doesn't grant the
Speaker 3: permits within sixty days, they're deemed automatically granted as a
Speaker 3: matter of law. That legislation I got bipartisan support, and
Speaker 3: it was passed on the Senate floor as part of
Speaker 3: the NDAA. Ben This has massive impact for jobs and
Speaker 3: economic growth in the state of Texas. Every year, we
Speaker 3: have over eight hundred billion dollars of trade and commerce
Speaker 3: between Texas and Mexico. And by speeding up the construction
Speaker 3: of these bridges, or the expansion of these bridges, that
Speaker 3: will result in thousands upon thousands of new jobs in Texas.
Speaker 3: That will result in billions of dollars of new economic activity.
Speaker 3: And it will benefit Texas farmers and ranchers and small
Speaker 3: businesses and manufacturers. And it will benefit consumers all across
Speaker 3: the country who will be able to get goods in
Speaker 3: their stores cheaper, with less transportation costs, with less delay.
Speaker 3: And it also benefits US national security by helping us
Speaker 3: move more and more manufacturing out of China and closer home,
Speaker 3: either to the United States or do our close neighbors,
Speaker 3: which improves our national security as well. And that was
Speaker 3: a massive victory that I'd spent two years fighting to get,
Speaker 3: and we got it passed with overwhelming bipartisan support on
Speaker 3: the Senate floor.
Speaker 2: Why does something like that take two years to get
Speaker 2: the votes when it seems like it's such a common
Speaker 2: sense piece of legislation that helps not just Texas but
Speaker 2: so many other states and individuals. And it really seems
Speaker 2: like it's saying that's non political and sally it helps
Speaker 2: Republicans more than Democrats.
Speaker 1: This helps everyone, well, it does.
Speaker 3: And look to this state. I can't figure out why
Speaker 3: the Biden administration adopted this policy. We've never been able
Speaker 3: to find a senior official who takes responsibility for it
Speaker 3: or defends it. And my theory is there some bureaucrat,
Speaker 3: either in the bowels of the State Department or in
Speaker 3: the bowels of the White House, who is a little
Speaker 3: green New Deal knucklehead and who just decided, no, we
Speaker 3: don't want anything built, nothing until all the environmental stuff
Speaker 3: is fully complete, because it makes this knucklehead feel good. Now, ironically,
Speaker 3: the policy of the Biden administration not only was it
Speaker 3: terrible for jobs, it was terrible for the environment. If
Speaker 3: you look at the World Trade Bridge, the World Trade
Speaker 3: Bridge is in Laredo and it is the largest land
Speaker 3: port in the United States.
Speaker 4: It is a bridge on which there are.
Speaker 3: Massive, massive amounts of commerce traveling through their every day.
Speaker 3: On any given day, on the Mexican side of the bridge,
Speaker 3: you will see a line of eighteen wheelers that will
Speaker 3: extend four five six miles and those eighteen wheelers will
Speaker 3: sit there sometimes four, five, six, seven, eight hours waiting
Speaker 3: to cross the bridge in a giant bottleneck. And by
Speaker 3: the way, when they're sitting there, they're spewing pollution in
Speaker 3: the air. They're spewing carbon in the air. It is
Speaker 3: terrible for the environment to force those eighteen wheelers to
Speaker 3: sit there. And you also have a problem that when
Speaker 3: they sit there that long, the drivers can time out.
Speaker 3: There are limits on how long a driver can drive,
Speaker 3: and if they sit there in a bottleneck all day long,
Speaker 3: they then have to park overnight, and it extends the
Speaker 3: transportation time even more. The city of Laredo and it
Speaker 3: wants to expand the World Trade Bridge from eight lanes,
Speaker 3: they want to add ten additional lanes that would dramatically
Speaker 3: accelerate trade and commerce across that bridge. And yet, so
Speaker 3: when I first found out about this issue, was was
Speaker 3: a little over two years ago, and it was fairly
Speaker 3: early in the Biden administration, and it was when the
Speaker 3: city leaders from the city of Laredo came to meet
Speaker 3: with me in DC and they came to my office.
Speaker 3: And I regularly meet with leaders from cities all across
Speaker 3: the state of Texas and counties across Texas and business
Speaker 3: leaders across Texas, and this was a number of leaders
Speaker 3: from Laredo who raised this issue said, gosh, the new
Speaker 3: Biden administration, they just switched their policy and now they're
Speaker 3: not granting these permits. And that was the first I'd
Speaker 3: heard of it, because it was a new issue with
Speaker 3: the new administration. And so the process it started with
Speaker 3: me having my policy team say, okay, let's look into this.
Speaker 3: Let's figure out how do these permits work, why do
Speaker 3: you need them, what's the delay? And we started by
Speaker 3: just pressing informally by making a call to the State Department,
Speaker 3: by making multiple calls to the State Department, by pressing
Speaker 3: pressing number one, mid level bureaucrats and ultimately senior level
Speaker 3: leaders at the State Department. That unfortunately did not create move.
Speaker 3: I sat down with Pete Buddhajege, the Secretary of Transportation,
Speaker 3: in my office, and I leaned in hard on him
Speaker 3: and I said, look, this is a stupid policy and
Speaker 3: the administration is hurting the environment, hurting transportation. You need
Speaker 3: to press state to change what they're doing. Buddha Judge
Speaker 3: says he said he would try to be helpful, and
Speaker 3: then as far as I can tell, uh did not
Speaker 3: do anything, or if he did anything, it didn't succeed
Speaker 3: because State did nothing to change their policy. The next
Speaker 3: step is I worked to try to build bipartisan consensus
Speaker 3: in the South Texas Congressional delegation and I wrote a
Speaker 3: letter to Secretary of State Tony Blincoln. The letter was
Speaker 3: joined by John Cornyn, my colleague in the Senate from Texas,
Speaker 3: and then it was joined by Henry Quayar, who was
Speaker 3: a Democrat from South Texas, Monica Dela Cruz who was
Speaker 3: a Republican from South Texas, the Cente Gonzalez who is
Speaker 3: a Democrat from South Texas, and Tony Gonzalez, who is
Speaker 3: a Republican from South Texas. So we got all of
Speaker 3: the South Texas congrest National delegation all to join my
Speaker 3: letter to Tony Blinken saying this new policy is idiotic,
Speaker 3: it hurts Texas, its hurts America.
Speaker 4: You need to change it.
Speaker 3: And unfortunately, once again the Biden administration basically said go
Speaker 3: jump in a lake. They just they just stiff armed us.
Speaker 3: They just did nothing. And this is a this is
Speaker 3: a good one to go a little bit of a
Speaker 3: deeper die because it actually shows how you fight and
Speaker 3: win battles in the US Senate, and that I did
Speaker 3: several things. One of the things I did is I
Speaker 3: place holds on multiple State Department nominees, and I said,
Speaker 3: they can't move forward until we get this bridge problem solved.
Speaker 3: That has a way of really focusing the mind of
Speaker 3: the senior leadership, both in the State Department and the
Speaker 3: White House. And so I'm a big believer in using
Speaker 3: both carrot and stick. The stick was you don't get
Speaker 3: your nominees until you fix that problem. The carrot, because
Speaker 3: I'm the ranking member on the Commerce Committee, I have
Speaker 3: the ability to sign off or block legislation that is
Speaker 3: moving through the Commerce Committee, and one piece of legislation
Speaker 3: we're working on is the FAA reauthorization. There are lots
Speaker 3: of senators who care about different elements of the FAA reauthorization,
Speaker 3: and so some of my colleagues on the Foreign Relations
Speaker 3: Committee had amendments they cared deeply about that I worked
Speaker 3: to get included in that bill, which, in turn, when
Speaker 3: I needed to move this bridge legislation on the Senate
Speaker 3: Foreign Relations Committee, they were more than willing to help
Speaker 3: me move it forward. Ultimately, to move it through the
Speaker 3: Senate Foreign Relations Committee. I had to get the chairman,
Speaker 3: Bob Menendez to support me, and that took significant horse trading.
Speaker 3: It took ultimately getting the Biden State Department and the
Speaker 3: Biden White House to back down. We had an email
Speaker 3: exchange where the Biden State Department said, so, let me
Speaker 3: get this straight. If we agree to go along with
Speaker 3: Cruise's legislation, he'll lift the holes on our nominees. And
Speaker 3: my guys said, yeah, of course. The whole point of
Speaker 3: these holesques to get the problem fixed. If you fix
Speaker 3: the problem, yeah, we'll lift the holes. And both stayed
Speaker 3: and the White House said, wow, that seems like a
Speaker 3: really good deal to us. We want to get these
Speaker 3: nominations moving. That's what it took to move the administration,
Speaker 3: and that, in turn, along with some additional legislative negotiation,
Speaker 3: is what it took to bring the Democrats on board.
Speaker 3: But that process takes literally hundreds of hours and takes it.
Speaker 3: It ultimately took two years to get done. But at
Speaker 3: this point, this legislation I believe is extremely likely to
Speaker 3: be signed into law by the end of the year,
Speaker 3: and once it is, the sixty day shot clock starts
Speaker 3: and that is going to benefit South Texas massively.
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Speaker 2: I know there's one more on your list you also
Speaker 2: want to talk about.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and this last one is a big deal. It
Speaker 3: was the sixth piece of legislation that I passed on
Speaker 3: the Senate floor that day, the eighth piece of legislation
Speaker 3: altogether that I passed that day, and it concerns semiconductors.
Speaker 3: And then we've talked about this on the pod before
Speaker 3: as well. When it comes to economic and national security
Speaker 3: vulnerabilities of the United States, there are few that are
Speaker 3: more acute than our vulnerability on advanced semiconductors, which right
Speaker 3: now the vast majority of advanced semiconductors are manufactured in
Speaker 3: China or Taiwan, and we manufactured very few of them
Speaker 3: here in the United States.
Speaker 1: And we didn't realize event ill.
Speaker 2: This was until COVID happened, and that's when it could
Speaker 2: we realize this is a national security issue as well.
Speaker 4: Absolutely right.
Speaker 3: Just about every piece of electronics you use uses semiconductors.
Speaker 3: And whether that is your iPhone, whether that's your computer,
Speaker 3: whether that's your car or truck, we use them. And
Speaker 3: where whether it's the spy fridge that is monitoring Ben
Speaker 3: and his boxers getting midnight snacks, all of them are
Speaker 3: using it. And that I apologize to our listeners for
Speaker 3: that image. I really didn't mean to keep in your head.
Speaker 3: It's cruel, but nonetheless, hopefully some of you chuckled as
Speaker 3: you're listening. Not only is it an economic vulnerability, but
Speaker 3: it's a military vulnerability. Just about every weapons system we
Speaker 3: use in the military, whether it is a fighter jet,
Speaker 3: whether it's a tank, whether it is a missile system,
Speaker 3: whether it's radars, just about all of the equipment relies
Speaker 3: on advanced semiconductors. And not only are we dependent on China,
Speaker 3: but Taiwan. One of the reasons why China's military threat
Speaker 3: to Taiwan is so profoundly dangerous is if China invaded
Speaker 3: Taiwan and they took over that semiconductor manufacturing capacity, they
Speaker 3: would have the ability to put a stranglehold to literally
Speaker 3: crater the US economy at their whim, and also to
Speaker 3: hold our military captive that we couldn't get the chips
Speaker 3: we need. Remember during COVID and coming out of it,
Speaker 3: the massive shortages there were of new cars and trucks.
Speaker 3: That was because of a shortage and chips that you
Speaker 3: couldn't get a new car truck because without the chips
Speaker 3: they couldn't make them. So it is a national security imperative.
Speaker 3: I believe to bring advanced semiconductor manufacturing back to the
Speaker 3: United States, and in the last Congress, Congress passed a
Speaker 3: bill called the Chips Act. The Chips Act had two elements.
Speaker 3: One element of it was what was called the fabs AC.
Speaker 3: The fabs AC lessened the tax burden on new semiconductor manufacturing.
Speaker 3: I was a co sponsor of the fabs Act and
Speaker 3: enthusiastically supported it. The second component of the Chips Act
Speaker 3: was direct federal funds billions of dollars in subsidies for
Speaker 3: building semiconduct manufacturing. I voted against that because I think
Speaker 3: that corporate welfare is a bad idea and I think
Speaker 3: you get into the specter of corruption when US taxpayer
Speaker 3: dollars are going in multi billion dollar corporate checks to
Speaker 3: giant corporations. That being said, it passed. Once it passed,
Speaker 3: my view is, okay, if the federal government's going to
Speaker 3: spend that money, it ought to spend it in a
Speaker 3: way that meets clear objective standards and metrics based on merit,
Speaker 3: and it shouldn't be politicized. And in Texas there are
Speaker 3: tens of billions of dollars of new manufacturing that that
Speaker 3: that is currently in planning and underway to manufacture semiconductors.
Speaker 3: And what's happening now is suddenly people, as they're building
Speaker 3: these new fabs are discovering that the federal environmental regulations,
Speaker 3: that the NIPA regulations, can be unbelievably burdensome and they
Speaker 3: can delay a new semiconductor FACS potentially for years. And
Speaker 3: even Democrats were discovering, wait a second, if we want
Speaker 3: to build these plants, we've got to expedite, we've got
Speaker 3: to streamline these regulatory burdens. So what happened is there
Speaker 3: was what was initially pitched as bipartisan legislation in the
Speaker 3: House and also in the Senate that would lessen the
Speaker 3: regulatory burdens on new new fabs, and so I looked
Speaker 3: at that legislation, and the sponsors of it wanted to
Speaker 3: attach it to the NDAA. Now for them to be
Speaker 3: able to attach it, that legislation is in the jurisdiction
Speaker 3: of the Commerce Committee, which means they needed the sign
Speaker 3: off of the Chairman and of myself.
Speaker 4: I had an absolute veto.
Speaker 3: As I studied the legislation, I discovered that what they
Speaker 3: said in their press releases, which is this lessens the
Speaker 3: regulatory burdens on new plants, was not entirely accurate because
Speaker 3: as drafted, it functioned as essentially a subsidy for blue states,
Speaker 3: a subsidy because what it's said was if your states
Speaker 3: state environmental standards are stricter, if they are tougher than
Speaker 3: the federal standards, then you get an exemption from the
Speaker 3: federal requirements. But if not, you're out of luck. You
Speaker 3: got to comply with all the federal regulatory provisions. Now
Speaker 3: what that meant is if it had passed, it would
Speaker 3: have been basically a subsidy for states like New York
Speaker 3: and California, and it would have screwed Texas. It was
Speaker 3: a harm to the state of Texas. And so since
Speaker 3: they needed my approval, to get it on the NDAA.
Speaker 3: When they sent it over to me, my answer was,
Speaker 3: which part of hell, no, do you not understand a
Speaker 3: subsidy for blue states that hurts Texas. I'm not signing
Speaker 3: off on what I did next, Ben, And this is
Speaker 3: again important in terms of how you win these legislative fights.
Speaker 3: I directed my legislative staff, let's draft legislation that actually
Speaker 3: does what their press release says, that lessens the regulatory
Speaker 3: burdens on building.
Speaker 4: New fabs in the United States. We did that.
Speaker 3: Mark Kelly, who had been the lead sponsor of the
Speaker 3: original legislation, the Democrat from Arizona. Mark came to me
Speaker 3: and he said, ted, would you be willing to work
Speaker 3: with me on drafting legislation that could actually pass? And
Speaker 3: look there looking at it again, billions of dollars of
Speaker 3: semiconductor manufacturing in Arizona. So Mark cared deeply about it,
Speaker 3: and I said, sure, I'm happy to do that. And
Speaker 3: so my office redrafted the legislation, working with Mark Kelly's
Speaker 3: legislation a legislative team, and we ended up attaching that bill.
Speaker 3: It was Kelly Cruz to the NDAA. It is a big,
Speaker 3: big deal. It will produce billions of dollars of economic
Speaker 3: activity in Texas and in states across the country. It
Speaker 3: will produce thousands of new jobs, and critically, it does
Speaker 3: so in a way that it doesn't put a finger
Speaker 3: on the scale benefiting big blue states at the expense
Speaker 3: of the state of Texas. It was a massive victory
Speaker 3: and a hea and have eight victories simultaneously in one
Speaker 3: single day at the Senate.
Speaker 4: That was a big, big deal.
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Speaker 2: Finally, I want to pay off on what we tease
Speaker 2: at the very beginning. We know just how corrupt the
Speaker 2: media is, and lately it feels like we are in
Speaker 2: a banana republic.
Speaker 1: What's funny is it's actually the media that was.
Speaker 2: Talking about the banana banana Republic when Donald Trump was
Speaker 2: looking to investigate the corruption of the Biden crime family.
Speaker 2: Now that we actually have that level of corruption in
Speaker 2: our White House and the DOJ that is trying to
Speaker 2: cover it up, in the FBI that's trying to cover
Speaker 2: it up, what's funny is now no one's talking about
Speaker 2: the banana republic that we're living in. We have it
Speaker 2: montage that we put together and we want to play
Speaker 2: it for you. You're gonna want to share this with
Speaker 2: your family and your friends. This is an incredible moment,
Speaker 2: and we're going to go back and forth. You're going
Speaker 2: to hear them talking about Donald Trump and Bill Barr
Speaker 2: back in twenty nineteen, twenty twenty with the election, and
Speaker 2: then you're going to hear some of the different things
Speaker 2: they said back and forth about it with today.
Speaker 1: Take a listen carefully.
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Speaker 5: Right Attorney General and position to do it. We now
Speaker 5: know they really have been trying to gin up criminal
Speaker 5: prosecutions and criminal investigations into the president's perceived enemies, politically
Speaker 5: motivated persecution. Right courtesy of Bill Barr. I'll roll in
Speaker 5: the FBI on you. That's how banana republics work.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 3: The home of the forty fifth president of the United
Speaker 3: States has been rated by the FBI.
Speaker 5: Mister Trump is using the Justice Department to go after
Speaker 5: his perceived enemies.
Speaker 1: I feel worried.
Speaker 5: About the prospect of the Justice Department being used as
Speaker 5: a tool of this president or any our little banana republic.
Speaker 5: Any capable prosecutor can get a grand jury to hand
Speaker 5: down an indictment of something as innocent as a ham Sandway.
Speaker 1: An indictment was unsealed charging Donald J. Trump. He news
Speaker 1: on former President Trump. He's been indicted for the fourth
Speaker 1: time in five months.
Speaker 5: The bar on the present's behalf is weaponizing the Justice
Speaker 5: Department to go after the president's enemies. When you win
Speaker 5: an election, you don't seek to just prosecute the losing side.
Speaker 5: President using the Justice Department as a weapon to get
Speaker 5: what he wants.
Speaker 3: The Department of Justice is totally politicized, seeking the Department
Speaker 3: of Justice on political opponents.
Speaker 6: Threatening to imprison his political rival Banana Republic style.
Speaker 1: Trying to exact revenge against all of his enemies.
Speaker 6: Timp dictator and a Banana Republic.
Speaker 3: Is acting more like a Banana Republic dictator.
Speaker 5: He's using government resources to go after his political opponent.
Speaker 6: Essentially, we are a Banana republic that we are seeking
Speaker 6: to have a bogus in criminal investigation into a political opponent.
Speaker 2: And that's using the Department of Justice to also target
Speaker 2: trust's political opponent for nefarious reasons.
Speaker 5: This is a massive abuse of power and a betrayal
Speaker 5: of our value.
Speaker 2: President of the United States is targeting a family member
Speaker 2: of a political opponent. This is the type of thing
Speaker 2: that happens in a Banana Republic.
Speaker 5: And trying to take out a political rival in Joe Biden,
Speaker 5: criminally investigating an American political rival, someone the president's worried
Speaker 5: about losing to in the next election, to investigate my
Speaker 5: principal opponent or a principal opponent in the upcoming election.
Speaker 1: Houston, we have a problem. Don't you think that's something
Speaker 1: that should be investigated.
Speaker 6: When the incumbent political party opens a counter intelligence investigation
Speaker 6: on the candidate of the opposing party.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 3: Trump is itching to politicize the Justice Department and the
Speaker 3: Attorney General has been super shady.
Speaker 5: A president is weaponizing the Department of Justice to bring
Speaker 5: cases against his enemies to the Department of Justice is
Speaker 5: in an existential crisis.
Speaker 1: Again.
Speaker 5: It's yet another example of the Justice Department basically losing
Speaker 5: all of its independence in this administration. This is now
Speaker 5: about corrupting the next election, and for me, this was
Speaker 5: crossing the red line. A president who is actively trying
Speaker 5: to potentially steal the upcoming election, but.
Speaker 3: To try to take at a political rival, the end goal.
Speaker 1: Being twenty twenty.
Speaker 3: Donald Trump and his Attorney General are using the Justice Department.
Speaker 5: The only difference between this and a Banana Republic is.
Speaker 1: That Trump does not eat fruit.
Speaker 3: The twenty twenty election is really the last chance we
Speaker 3: have to stop our system from fully sliding into a
Speaker 3: corrupt Banana Republic. Bill Barr has done everything that Donald
Speaker 3: Trump has wanted him to.
Speaker 1: Living in a Banana Republic right now.
Speaker 3: When you start using the Justice Department to go after your.
Speaker 4: Enemies, that's very very dangerous.
Speaker 5: Donald Trump is using the Department of Justice to go
Speaker 5: after his enemies in any way that he can, having
Speaker 5: the head of the chief federal law enforcement agency essentially
Speaker 5: working on his behalf to investigate a political rival.
Speaker 1: To investigate the family of a political opponent.
Speaker 4: Basically banana republic behavior.
Speaker 6: We're no better than some some banana republic and he's.
Speaker 1: Using the abuse of power in every.
Speaker 4: Element or the presidency to try to do something to
Speaker 4: smear me. We just have to demonstrate that he will
Speaker 4: not take power if he does run.
Speaker 1: If he does run.
Speaker 2: Wow, Centaer when you hear it together, there is no
Speaker 2: such thing as as a media that's authentic or genuine anymore.
Speaker 2: This is all straight up propaganda. And they accuse the
Speaker 2: Trump administration of doing exactly what's happening in real life
Speaker 2: right now.
Speaker 3: Well, that's exactly right. The corporate media today is utterly
Speaker 3: and completely corrupt. It's hypocritical. The irony is what they
Speaker 3: were accusing Trump of doing and the Trump doj of doing.
Speaker 4: They weren't doing.
Speaker 3: You didn't see the Trump Department of Justice trying to
Speaker 3: indict Joe Biden. You didn't see them using the Trump
Speaker 3: Department of Justice to go after their enemies. You didn't
Speaker 3: see this kind of abuse of power, the politicization that
Speaker 3: is unfolded. Look in over two hundred years of our
Speaker 3: nation's history, we've never indicted a president or a former president,
Speaker 3: and now we have done so not just once, but
Speaker 3: four separate times in the last year. And you want
Speaker 3: to talk about a banana republic, that's what banana republics do.
Speaker 4: And the fact that all of.
Speaker 3: These useful idiots on TV use that language, it shows
Speaker 3: that they actually understand what abuse of power looks like,
Speaker 3: what it means, but they just don't care. It is
Speaker 3: only from their perspective an abuse of power if it's
Speaker 3: the side they don't like, even if the side they
Speaker 3: don't like isn't doing it. And it's a principle we've
Speaker 3: talked about quite a bit, which is what the left
Speaker 3: accuses their opponents of doing is almost without exception, what
Speaker 3: they are in fact doing themselves.
Speaker 4: And I got to say.
Speaker 3: That is powerful, powerfully true in that montage, because every
Speaker 3: single thing they falsely accused the Trump Department of Justice
Speaker 3: and the Trump FBI of doing is exactly what the
Speaker 3: Biden DOJ and the Biden FBI has been doing.
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