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Who is 0:03:10.800 --> 0:03:16.840 Ray Epps and specifically, what was the FBI's involvement in 0:03:17.400 --> 0:03:19.760 January sixth? Well, look, I think it is a very 0:03:19.760 --> 0:03:21.799 good question, and it's a question right now we don't 0:03:21.800 --> 0:03:24.360 have an answer to. We have seen for the past 0:03:24.480 --> 0:03:28.160 year the Biden Department of Justice, the Biden FBI Stonewall, 0:03:28.680 --> 0:03:33.120 refused to answer questions, refused to take any accountability. And 0:03:33.400 --> 0:03:37.040 we've also seen, sadly the Biden Department of Justice be 0:03:37.280 --> 0:03:41.360 deeply politicized. We've seen this Attorney general used d J 0:03:42.120 --> 0:03:45.560 as a weapon to go after President Biden's political enemies. 0:03:46.000 --> 0:03:49.160 And ray Epps was a fellow who was there on 0:03:49.280 --> 0:03:53.200 January fifth. January sixth, there are numerous videos of him 0:03:53.840 --> 0:03:57.600 on the Capitol, on the Capitol grounds and leading up 0:03:57.640 --> 0:04:02.120 to the Capitol, urging people to enter into the Capitol. 0:04:02.200 --> 0:04:05.040 And in particular there there's one video that is that 0:04:05.200 --> 0:04:08.720 is very curious where he's you know, he's wearing a 0:04:08.760 --> 0:04:11.200 Maga hat. He certainly appears to be a Trump supporter, 0:04:11.680 --> 0:04:15.080 and he's screaming to the crowd, Uh, this is the 0:04:15.160 --> 0:04:17.960 day before January sixth, this is January fifth. He's saying, 0:04:18.000 --> 0:04:20.599 we must go into the Capitol, not just up to 0:04:20.640 --> 0:04:24.640 the capitol, we must go into the capitol. Let's take 0:04:24.640 --> 0:04:32.680 a look at it. Because the crowd's reaction is is remarkable. Tomorrow, 0:04:33.279 --> 0:04:48.000 he didn't you go into the capitol, So, Michael, it's 0:04:48.040 --> 0:04:51.640 it's very curious behavior. The crowd, as you see, begins 0:04:51.720 --> 0:04:57.320 channing fed fed, fed, fed fed. And the next day 0:04:57.320 --> 0:05:01.920 on January sixth, there they're also potographs of this fellow, 0:05:01.920 --> 0:05:05.440 mister Epps, talking to someone else wearing a trump had 0:05:05.520 --> 0:05:09.080 whispering in his ear. And then five seconds later, and 0:05:09.120 --> 0:05:10.680 you can actually on the video see that it's a 0:05:10.680 --> 0:05:13.520 total of five seconds, the person he was talking to 0:05:13.680 --> 0:05:16.440 is suddenly trying to tear down the barricades to the Capitol. 0:05:16.520 --> 0:05:22.120 And the obvious inference is that mister Epps urged him 0:05:22.760 --> 0:05:25.680 to try to tear down the barricades. That's certainly what 0:05:25.720 --> 0:05:29.440 the fellow does five seconds after listening to whatever it 0:05:29.520 --> 0:05:33.640 is that mister Epps says. Now, the FBI posted a 0:05:33.760 --> 0:05:37.800 public posting with a picture of mister Epps asking for 0:05:38.040 --> 0:05:42.159 help identifying this person. Who is this person? They identified 0:05:42.240 --> 0:05:45.039 him as someone that they wanted to question that presumably 0:05:45.080 --> 0:05:50.320 they potentially wanted to charge, and then magically he disappeared 0:05:50.320 --> 0:05:52.839 from the FBI posting, and when they put out the 0:05:52.880 --> 0:05:55.720 next list of pictures, mister Epps was gone, and I 0:05:55.760 --> 0:05:58.719 think a lot of folks are wanting to know what 0:05:58.880 --> 0:06:01.480 I asked today at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, I 0:06:01.960 --> 0:06:06.239 asked the FBI senior official at the FBI if mister 0:06:06.320 --> 0:06:10.080 Epps was a fed what was he a federal agent? 0:06:10.200 --> 0:06:14.680 Was he a confidential informant? Was he actively We saw 0:06:14.760 --> 0:06:17.480 that he was actively urging people to commit criminal conduct? 0:06:17.480 --> 0:06:20.479 But what was he doing so at the behest of 0:06:20.560 --> 0:06:23.960 the FBI and the Department of Justice and the FBI 0:06:24.040 --> 0:06:28.160 and DJ refuse to answer that, did any FBI agents 0:06:28.320 --> 0:06:33.839 or FBI informants actively encourage and incite crimes of violence? 0:06:33.839 --> 0:06:38.520 On January sixth, six Sir, I can't answer that, Miss Saburn. 0:06:39.640 --> 0:06:46.680 Who is Ray Epps? Yep, I'm aware of the individual, Sir, 0:06:47.560 --> 0:06:51.760 I don't have the specific background to him. Well, there 0:06:51.760 --> 0:06:54.360 are a lot of people who are understandably desired about 0:06:54.400 --> 0:06:59.040 mister Eburn about I mean, these four words, these are 0:06:59.040 --> 0:07:01.760 a completely valid question. It doesn't matter which end of 0:07:01.760 --> 0:07:03.440 the political spectrum you're on. This is a question that 0:07:03.480 --> 0:07:05.320 we all want to know the answer, because here's the thing, 0:07:05.680 --> 0:07:08.279 this should be a very easy question for the FBI 0:07:08.400 --> 0:07:12.080 to answer. If the FBI knows that ray Epps is 0:07:12.120 --> 0:07:13.960 not a FED, then they should just deny it to 0:07:14.000 --> 0:07:16.440 put an end to these questions. I mean, those on 0:07:16.440 --> 0:07:18.160 the left try to paint this as a conspiracy theory. 0:07:18.200 --> 0:07:21.160 It's not. It's a valid question because the FBI's engaged 0:07:21.200 --> 0:07:24.880 in this type of entrapment behavior before, with the Gretchen 0:07:24.920 --> 0:07:27.120 Whittmer plot, for example, and so all the FBI has 0:07:27.160 --> 0:07:29.200 to say is, no, he's not a FED. No, FEDS 0:07:29.240 --> 0:07:31.480 did not engage in any kind of entrapment behavior, and 0:07:31.560 --> 0:07:33.880 yet the FBI is refusing to do so. And listen 0:07:33.880 --> 0:07:36.800 to this. This is the statement from the January sixth Committee. 0:07:36.920 --> 0:07:40.920 They say, quote, the Committee has interviewed Epps. Epps informed 0:07:41.000 --> 0:07:43.000 us that he was not working, that he was not 0:07:43.040 --> 0:07:45.720 employed by, working with, or acting at the direction of 0:07:45.760 --> 0:07:48.680 any law enforcement agency on January fifth or sixth, or 0:07:48.720 --> 0:07:50.440 at any other time, and that he has never been 0:07:50.480 --> 0:07:54.080 an informant for the FBI or any other law enforcement agency. 0:07:53.360 --> 0:07:57.240 This is the statement from the January sixth Committee. And 0:07:57.280 --> 0:07:59.560 honestly I laughed when I saw this because ray Epps 0:07:59.560 --> 0:08:02.480 them using ray Epps's words his denial that he was 0:08:02.520 --> 0:08:06.480 a FED, as I guess their insinuation that he has 0:08:06.520 --> 0:08:08.720 not a FED. I thought to myself, well, Ray ups 0:08:08.760 --> 0:08:10.480 denying he's a FED is exactly what he would say 0:08:10.520 --> 0:08:15.240 if he were a FED. It does raise more questions 0:08:15.440 --> 0:08:17.480 than I think it answers, and we will have a 0:08:17.480 --> 0:08:21.360 lot of questions from our wonderful subscribers are Verdict plus 0:08:21.360 --> 0:08:24.360 subscribers coming up in the mailbag not too long from now. 0:08:24.440 --> 0:08:26.800 Is that right? That is correct? And there are questions 0:08:26.800 --> 0:08:29.240 related to I mean, as you know this, this clip 0:08:29.280 --> 0:08:31.960 of your senator went wildly viral on social media, millions 0:08:31.960 --> 0:08:34.760 of views, and a lot of people have questions about 0:08:34.960 --> 0:08:37.760 how this can be investigated and what kind of accountability 0:08:37.800 --> 0:08:40.520 there would be if these questions are not answered correctly, 0:08:40.720 --> 0:08:42.400 or if they're answered in the way that we think 0:08:42.400 --> 0:08:44.280 they might be answered. I'm going to go over there 0:08:44.280 --> 0:08:45.960 and collect all of those will answer them at the 0:08:46.000 --> 0:08:47.680 end of the show. Anybody who wants to ask a 0:08:47.760 --> 0:08:50.440 question can join us on Verdict plus at Verdict with 0:08:50.480 --> 0:08:53.959 Ted Cruz dot com slash plus and I'll see in 0:08:53.960 --> 0:08:57.040 a few minutes, wonderful we'll seeing a second Senator. I 0:08:57.080 --> 0:08:59.480 want to get to what Liz just brought up, which 0:08:59.559 --> 0:09:03.400 is that the January sixth committee partisan, though it may 0:09:03.480 --> 0:09:06.480 be is saying that Ray Epp says he's not a FED, 0:09:06.559 --> 0:09:09.600 he's never been an informant. So what do we make 0:09:09.640 --> 0:09:12.480 of that? Oh, well, it could be true. It could 0:09:12.520 --> 0:09:16.720 be false that the January sixth committee is wildly partisan. 0:09:16.760 --> 0:09:19.040 It is a kangaroo committee. It is set up by 0:09:19.080 --> 0:09:23.040 Democrats with an explicit purpose to elect Democrats, and it's 0:09:23.080 --> 0:09:26.480 going to be a partisan show committee from day one. 0:09:26.520 --> 0:09:28.560 So I don't give a lot of credence to their statements. 0:09:30.120 --> 0:09:33.319 I don't know if if mister Epps is a FED 0:09:33.440 --> 0:09:37.520 or not. His behavior is odd, it's weird when you 0:09:37.559 --> 0:09:40.480 watch how he behaved, how the crowd reacted to him, 0:09:40.679 --> 0:09:44.960 when they start channing FED that that's fairly suspicious. And look, 0:09:44.960 --> 0:09:49.040 it's important to distinguish. The FBI has federal agents, and 0:09:49.040 --> 0:09:51.480 they have federal agents who go undercover. That that is 0:09:51.480 --> 0:09:56.960 a legitimate law enforcement investigative technique to go undercover in groups, 0:09:57.040 --> 0:10:01.840 particularly if you anticipate that that that criminal conduct may occur. 0:10:02.600 --> 0:10:05.880 What the FBI can't do and shouldn't do, and it's 0:10:05.920 --> 0:10:09.720 improper for them to do, is for them to instigate 0:10:09.840 --> 0:10:13.800 criminal conduct. So the FBI can't join the Michael Knowles 0:10:13.800 --> 0:10:18.599 book club, and while you're sitting there reading some incredibly dry, 0:10:18.640 --> 0:10:23.520 you know, Latin book about the medieval times, say hey, 0:10:23.600 --> 0:10:26.160 let's go knock off a bank tomorrow. Come on, Michael, 0:10:26.160 --> 0:10:28.920 are you mad enough to knock knock over a bank? 0:10:29.400 --> 0:10:33.520 If the FBI agent instigates the criminal activity, if the 0:10:33.559 --> 0:10:37.800 FDBI agents incite you to commit criminal activity, that's where 0:10:37.840 --> 0:10:39.880 they cross the line. And the reason so many people 0:10:39.880 --> 0:10:43.040 are concerned about mister Repps is what we saw in 0:10:43.080 --> 0:10:47.640 the video. He is urging people to commit criminal activity 0:10:47.679 --> 0:10:50.959 that ultimately a lot of people have been are being 0:10:51.040 --> 0:10:56.040 prosecuted for. And so it was really stunning. I asked 0:10:56.120 --> 0:11:00.760 the FBI over and over and over again, did FBI 0:11:00.840 --> 0:11:05.080 agents commit acts of violence? On January sixth, the FBI 0:11:05.200 --> 0:11:09.080 refused to answer that question whether or not FBI agents 0:11:09.160 --> 0:11:13.040 committed acts of violence. I asked, did they incentivize, did 0:11:13.040 --> 0:11:17.280 they incite? Did they urge others to commit acts of violence? Again, 0:11:17.360 --> 0:11:22.199 the FBI refused to answer. And look, I get most 0:11:22.280 --> 0:11:24.640 law enforcement agencies. If you ask them, do you have 0:11:24.640 --> 0:11:26.800 an undercover officer or do you have an informant somewhere, 0:11:26.840 --> 0:11:28.040 they're gonna say, I'm not going to tell you, and 0:11:28.120 --> 0:11:34.080 then that's fairly typical law enforcement behavior. This is unusual 0:11:34.200 --> 0:11:38.880 the level of public scrutiny. There is a public accountability 0:11:38.920 --> 0:11:42.960 that needs to occur. If the federal government was actively 0:11:43.160 --> 0:11:49.360 encouraging illegal conduct, was actively encouraging violence, that is incredibly 0:11:49.440 --> 0:11:53.240 concerning because it is an abusive power. And look, everyone 0:11:53.400 --> 0:11:56.760 views this in the context that we remember the four 0:11:56.840 --> 0:11:59.520 years of the Trump presidency. We remember the FBI, the 0:11:59.520 --> 0:12:01.960 intelligence community, in the Department of Justice, in the deep 0:12:02.040 --> 0:12:07.559 state actively conspiring against the president. We remember the FBI 0:12:08.000 --> 0:12:13.199 fraudulently altering a document submitting it to a federal court, 0:12:13.240 --> 0:12:15.560 creating counterfeit. And by the way, this is not me 0:12:15.679 --> 0:12:18.840 saying this, This is the Department of Justice Inspector General 0:12:19.120 --> 0:12:25.040 that outlined how these deep state operatives were so passionately 0:12:25.080 --> 0:12:28.559 anti Trump that they broke the law. And so it 0:12:28.600 --> 0:12:32.320 does raise the question did that happen on January sixth? 0:12:32.360 --> 0:12:35.959 And the fact that the Biden Department of Justice refuses 0:12:36.000 --> 0:12:40.680 to answer is deeply, deeply concerning. And I got to say, 0:12:41.880 --> 0:12:46.480 even for Democrats it ought to be concerning. And I'm 0:12:46.480 --> 0:12:48.480 not going to out anybody, but I will tell you 0:12:48.520 --> 0:12:53.360 I had a conversation with a Democratic senator today who 0:12:53.440 --> 0:12:57.240 saw the questioning in Judiciary and he said, you know, 0:12:57.280 --> 0:12:59.199 I gotta tell you, I'd never heard of this guy 0:12:59.320 --> 0:13:04.120 ray Apps before or that hearing. That's really troubling. And 0:13:04.240 --> 0:13:06.000 he said, I'd like to know that answer now. I'm 0:13:06.040 --> 0:13:09.920 not going to out this senator because it frankly he 0:13:10.040 --> 0:13:12.040 or she would come under a lot of heat for 0:13:12.160 --> 0:13:15.040 saying that publicly because the Democrats don't let you buck 0:13:15.120 --> 0:13:20.119 their party. But if anyone genuinely cares about the integrity 0:13:20.160 --> 0:13:25.839 of law enforcement, you ought to be troubled by law 0:13:26.000 --> 0:13:31.640 enforcement in trapping people incentivizing criminal conduct. That's not what 0:13:31.720 --> 0:13:34.800 law enforcement is supposed to be doing. And I think 0:13:34.840 --> 0:13:38.600 the Biden DOJ needs to have some real transparency answering 0:13:38.600 --> 0:13:41.000 these questions. But how are we going to get an answer? 0:13:41.080 --> 0:13:44.640 Because you, I think brought this issue and this man 0:13:44.840 --> 0:13:47.520 ray Apps to national attention today in a way that 0:13:47.720 --> 0:13:50.760 he had not been before. But the FBI just stonewalled 0:13:50.800 --> 0:13:52.160 you and said, well, we're not going to tell you. Well, 0:13:52.160 --> 0:13:53.959 we're not going to tell you. Well, I can't answer that, 0:13:54.240 --> 0:13:57.760 and you know, apologies, but I don't exactly take the 0:13:57.800 --> 0:14:01.520 FBI at their word, especially these stays, so are we 0:14:01.559 --> 0:14:03.880 ever going to if a United States Senator in an 0:14:03.880 --> 0:14:06.480 open hearing can't get an answer out of the FBI, 0:14:06.679 --> 0:14:08.480 is that it We just have to believe them because 0:14:08.520 --> 0:14:11.840 they say so. Well, it doesn't have to be. Look, 0:14:12.160 --> 0:14:14.440 Republicans are in the minority right now in the Senate, 0:14:14.520 --> 0:14:18.640 so I lack the ability to subpoena anything. It takes 0:14:18.640 --> 0:14:22.160 a majority of a committee to subpoena something. If you 0:14:22.280 --> 0:14:25.160 had even one Democrat willing to break from the herd 0:14:25.200 --> 0:14:27.600 and say let's get an answer to that, that would 0:14:27.640 --> 0:14:30.760 be a step in the right direction. What needs to 0:14:30.800 --> 0:14:33.040 happen at this point, The first step we can do 0:14:33.080 --> 0:14:36.720 is shina light. What needs to happen is we need 0:14:36.800 --> 0:14:40.120 reporters actually do their job. We need reporters to ask 0:14:40.120 --> 0:14:42.240 the Attorney General who has ray apps? Did you have 0:14:42.320 --> 0:14:46.000 confidential informants? Did they incite violence? What are the details? 0:14:46.560 --> 0:14:50.080 You need reporters to ask Democratic senators why don't you care? 0:14:50.160 --> 0:14:55.760 Why aren't you asking this question? Why are you allowing 0:14:55.800 --> 0:15:00.960 the Department of Justice to stonewall We need sufficient public 0:15:01.040 --> 0:15:05.680 uproar that the Department of Justice is forced to have 0:15:05.760 --> 0:15:10.640 some accountability. It may take until a year from now. 0:15:10.680 --> 0:15:13.000 A year from now, I believe we will have at 0:15:13.000 --> 0:15:16.320 a minimum of Republican House of Representatives. We may and 0:15:16.400 --> 0:15:18.600 I hope we'll have a Republican Senate a year from 0:15:18.600 --> 0:15:21.640 now as well. If that happens, I very much hope 0:15:21.680 --> 0:15:24.200 that we see a House and or a House and 0:15:24.280 --> 0:15:28.160 Senate willing to use the subpoena power to get answers 0:15:28.200 --> 0:15:31.120 to this. But but absent that, we've got to have 0:15:31.200 --> 0:15:35.120 enough public attention that the Democrats are guilted or shamed 0:15:35.840 --> 0:15:39.240 or feel enough heat that they have to answer questions 0:15:39.240 --> 0:15:42.600 and get to the truth. I don't think that it 0:15:42.640 --> 0:15:45.560 makes a lot of sense right now to expect bipartisanship, 0:15:46.080 --> 0:15:49.840 because last I checked, the Democrats are trying to whip 0:15:49.840 --> 0:15:52.720 all the votes they can to get rid of the filibuster, 0:15:52.960 --> 0:15:57.320 to ram through the federalization of elections. You actually have 0:15:57.640 --> 0:16:00.840 come to be the public enemy number one, at least 0:16:00.880 --> 0:16:03.320 for the White House. They're whipping votes against you on 0:16:03.360 --> 0:16:06.200 this issue of Nordstream two and Russia trying to build 0:16:06.240 --> 0:16:09.960 a pipeline. So it does seem like the stakes are 0:16:10.080 --> 0:16:13.200 very very high right now, and any Democrat who bucks 0:16:13.200 --> 0:16:15.440 the party line is going to be thrown into the 0:16:15.440 --> 0:16:19.240 outer darkness. Well, Michael, that's exactly right. The Biden White 0:16:19.240 --> 0:16:23.520 House is fighting me tooth and dale on multiple fronts. 0:16:23.520 --> 0:16:26.120 They're fighting me on January sixth, they're fighting me trying 0:16:26.120 --> 0:16:28.560 to cover up what happened. They're fighting me on the 0:16:28.640 --> 0:16:32.120 filibuster and their attempt to federalize elections. And they're fighting 0:16:32.160 --> 0:16:36.680 me ironically in defense of Russia and Nordstream two. You know, 0:16:36.720 --> 0:16:38.560 if you look at January six the other half of 0:16:38.600 --> 0:16:41.400 the hearing this morning is I asked the Department of Justice. 0:16:41.440 --> 0:16:43.240 I said, all right, how many people have been charged 0:16:43.480 --> 0:16:46.600 with crimes of violence? If you assault a police officer, 0:16:46.920 --> 0:16:51.480 if you physically assault a police officer, you should be prosecutor, 0:16:51.520 --> 0:16:53.920 you should go to jail. Nobody should be able to 0:16:54.000 --> 0:16:57.080 violently assault a cop. But I asked, especially if it's 0:16:57.080 --> 0:17:00.240 a fan who's doing it. Yeah, how many people have 0:17:00.280 --> 0:17:03.760 been charged with crimes of violence? Barbent of Justice refused 0:17:03.760 --> 0:17:06.639 to answer. How many people have been charged with non 0:17:06.800 --> 0:17:10.080 violent crimes? They refused to answer. I asked how many 0:17:10.119 --> 0:17:13.679 people are currently incarcerated? They refused to answer. I asked 0:17:13.760 --> 0:17:17.520 of those people, how many have been placed in solitary confinement, 0:17:17.840 --> 0:17:21.000 both violent and nonviolent. They refused to answer, and then 0:17:21.000 --> 0:17:23.639 I asked, I said, all right, let's look at a 0:17:23.640 --> 0:17:27.600 different instance where we had violence across the country, which 0:17:27.600 --> 0:17:31.680 were Black Lives Mattered Antifa riots all over the country. 0:17:32.280 --> 0:17:35.320 So on January sixth, there were roughly one hundred and 0:17:35.320 --> 0:17:39.760 forty police officers who reported assaults on January sixth. That is, 0:17:41.080 --> 0:17:45.080 those cases involving violence need to be investigated and prosecuted. 0:17:46.119 --> 0:17:50.360 In twenty twenty, Black Lives Matter and Antifa riots injured 0:17:50.440 --> 0:17:55.600 roughly seven hundred and fifty police officers nationwide, seven hundred 0:17:55.600 --> 0:17:58.560 and fifty cops. I asked the Department of Justice, though 0:17:58.560 --> 0:18:01.680 seven hundred and fifty cops that we're injured. How many 0:18:01.720 --> 0:18:04.399 crimes of violence have been charged? I don't know the 0:18:04.400 --> 0:18:07.000 answer to that. How many nonviolent crimes have been charged? 0:18:07.160 --> 0:18:09.040 I don't know the answer to that. How do you 0:18:09.119 --> 0:18:16.879 explain the differential the political partisan prosecution that anybody you 0:18:16.920 --> 0:18:18.920 know a little old lady who came to the mall 0:18:18.960 --> 0:18:22.680 on January sixth waving an American flag and singing God 0:18:22.680 --> 0:18:26.240 Bless America, the Biden DOJ is going to come down 0:18:26.240 --> 0:18:31.120 on like a ton of bricks. But some Antifa rioter 0:18:31.320 --> 0:18:35.520 whose firebombing police cars, they can't be bothered to prosecute 0:18:35.560 --> 0:18:41.120 and the Biden DOJ just stiff arm did the Heisman said, 0:18:41.160 --> 0:18:44.280 we're not answering anything we don't know. There needs to 0:18:44.280 --> 0:18:50.480 be accountability there. On the filibuster, Chuck Schumer is trying 0:18:50.520 --> 0:18:54.960 to ram through an exception of the filibuster to federalize elections, 0:18:54.960 --> 0:18:58.679 and in particular what he wants as a bill that 0:18:58.720 --> 0:19:03.440 would subject any change in election laws to what's called preclarance. 0:19:03.480 --> 0:19:07.680 Preclarance means the Department of Justice, This same politicized Department 0:19:07.720 --> 0:19:10.520 of Justice that has no transparency, that is behaving in 0:19:10.600 --> 0:19:15.399 nakedly partisan ways. He wants unelected bureaucrats of the Biden 0:19:15.440 --> 0:19:19.200 Department of Justice in charge of every election of America, 0:19:19.280 --> 0:19:21.919 and he wants them to have the ability to strike 0:19:22.040 --> 0:19:26.880 down laws adopted by democratically elected legislature. So I represent 0:19:26.920 --> 0:19:30.280 the state of Texas. They're twenty nine million Texans. The 0:19:30.359 --> 0:19:34.360 people of the state of Texas support voter ID, support 0:19:34.440 --> 0:19:37.920 requiring an identification to go vote. Eighty percent of Americans 0:19:37.920 --> 0:19:42.080 support voter ID. The vast majority of African Americans support 0:19:42.160 --> 0:19:45.560 voter ID. Well, the head of the Civil Rights Division 0:19:45.560 --> 0:19:48.119 and Department of Justice, is a left wing activist, is 0:19:48.160 --> 0:19:51.320 one of the leading advocates of abolishing the police in 0:19:51.359 --> 0:19:57.960 the country. She is a hard liberal partisan, and the 0:19:58.000 --> 0:20:02.040 Schumer Democrats are saying she should have the power to 0:20:02.280 --> 0:20:07.000 Trump to set aside, to repeal laws that twenty nine 0:20:07.040 --> 0:20:10.320 million Texans through the democratic process want adopted. It is 0:20:10.320 --> 0:20:13.600 a brazen power grab, and I'm help leading the effort 0:20:13.600 --> 0:20:17.919 to stop they're destroying the filibuster, to stop there destroying 0:20:17.920 --> 0:20:21.959 the integrity of elections, to fight against voter fraud because 0:20:22.000 --> 0:20:24.639 Biden and Schumer and Pelosi have decided voter fraud is 0:20:24.680 --> 0:20:27.760 good for Democrats. But the issue here, of course is 0:20:28.200 --> 0:20:30.680 if we're getting back actually to the issue of ray 0:20:30.680 --> 0:20:33.840 Apps in the investigation of the FBI, we can't do 0:20:33.880 --> 0:20:37.240 anything until we win more elections and get a majority 0:20:37.240 --> 0:20:41.040 in the Senate. If the Democrats grab this power, it's 0:20:41.040 --> 0:20:43.480 going to be much much, much much harder. I think 0:20:43.480 --> 0:20:45.200 in a lot of Democrats minds, they think it will 0:20:45.200 --> 0:20:48.399 give them a permanent majority because they're going to be 0:20:48.400 --> 0:20:51.720 taking all the power for running the elections. So how 0:20:51.880 --> 0:20:54.720 urgent is this issue? Am I am? I just clutching 0:20:54.720 --> 0:20:56.520 my pearls and waking up in a cold sweat for 0:20:56.960 --> 0:21:00.280 no reason, or is there a genuine threat here. We're 0:21:00.280 --> 0:21:02.920 looking at a generational kind of powagram, So listen that 0:21:03.359 --> 0:21:06.399 there is a real threat here. On the filibuster. It 0:21:06.440 --> 0:21:10.760 all comes down to Joe Mansion and Kirsten Cinema. So 0:21:10.760 --> 0:21:16.040 far they have resisted ending the filibuster. What Schumer is 0:21:16.080 --> 0:21:18.760 trying is to say, well, let's just make a limited, 0:21:18.960 --> 0:21:23.000 narrow exception for voting rights, because voting rights are so 0:21:23.040 --> 0:21:27.240 important to mind you. The bill he's pushing actually undermines 0:21:27.320 --> 0:21:30.400 voting rights. It puts an unelected bureaucrat with the ability 0:21:30.400 --> 0:21:33.879 to throw out laws adopted through voting rights through the 0:21:33.920 --> 0:21:37.960 democratic process. So it's an anti voting rights bill. But 0:21:38.080 --> 0:21:41.960 their rhetoric they claim it's voting rights and listen, I 0:21:42.000 --> 0:21:43.879 don't know if the Democrats are going to do it 0:21:43.960 --> 0:21:48.120 or not. They're putting massive pressure on Mansion in Cinema. 0:21:48.280 --> 0:21:53.280 If they give into it, it will have a massive 0:21:53.400 --> 0:21:56.040 negative effect on the integrity of elections. It will be 0:21:56.200 --> 0:21:58.880 used to undermine voter id laws. It will be used 0:21:58.920 --> 0:22:02.639 to undermine laws prohibiting ballot harvesting. It will be used 0:22:02.920 --> 0:22:06.480 to undermine every reasonable, common sense law that states have 0:22:06.560 --> 0:22:09.080 adopted to try to protect the integrity of elections. So 0:22:09.160 --> 0:22:13.359 it is dangerous. Democrats are doing it nakedly as a 0:22:13.400 --> 0:22:17.919 power grab. But the irony is it's a power grab 0:22:18.040 --> 0:22:20.919 on like multiple levels. It's like an Escher painting that 0:22:21.000 --> 0:22:24.920 it folds in itself over and over again. What they 0:22:24.960 --> 0:22:27.480 want to do to elections is a power grab. The 0:22:27.600 --> 0:22:30.040 way they want to do it is a power grab 0:22:30.560 --> 0:22:33.560 because to eliminate the filibuster, they have to break the 0:22:33.640 --> 0:22:36.879 Senate rules in order to change the Senate rules. And 0:22:36.960 --> 0:22:40.280 you know, today I was part of a press conference 0:22:40.320 --> 0:22:44.000 with about a dozen other Republican senators where I and 0:22:44.040 --> 0:22:48.120 others had great fun reading from a Chuck Schumer's speech. 0:22:48.960 --> 0:22:50.800 By the way, those are words that have never before 0:22:50.880 --> 0:22:53.520 been uttered in the English language. Great fun reading from 0:22:53.520 --> 0:22:57.520 a Chuck Schumer's speech. But it was in two thousand 0:22:57.520 --> 0:23:01.560 and five where he was railing against some Republicans that 0:23:01.600 --> 0:23:05.119 we're talking about ending the filibuster then, and he said 0:23:05.240 --> 0:23:09.000 that if you break the rules to change the rules, 0:23:09.119 --> 0:23:15.160 that it would turn America into a quote banana republic, 0:23:16.119 --> 0:23:21.880 and that it would be quote doomsday for democracy. That 0:23:22.040 --> 0:23:26.320 is Charles Schumer on what knooking the filibuster would mean, 0:23:27.040 --> 0:23:31.160 and yet now he's trying banana republican doomsday for democracy 0:23:31.359 --> 0:23:35.440 to use the Schumer words. Why look, Frankly, the real 0:23:35.440 --> 0:23:38.479 reason is Schumer's terrified AOC is going to primary him 0:23:38.520 --> 0:23:40.720 from the left, and so he wants to give the 0:23:40.840 --> 0:23:44.280