1 00:00:01,400 --> 00:00:04,080 Speaker 1: Welcome. It is a verdict with Senator Ted Cruz Ben 2 00:00:04,160 --> 00:00:07,080 Speaker 1: Ferguson with you as always, and if you're a regular, 3 00:00:07,120 --> 00:00:10,960 Speaker 1: you know we put out our podcasts Monday, Wednesday and Fridays. 4 00:00:11,840 --> 00:00:14,560 Speaker 1: This is Thursday. And why are we going to day 5 00:00:14,560 --> 00:00:17,760 Speaker 1: early Because there's some legislation that's going to be introduced 6 00:00:17,760 --> 00:00:20,520 Speaker 1: by the Senator that's extremely important and it deals with 7 00:00:21,160 --> 00:00:25,520 Speaker 1: school safety and the shooting issue that just happened in Nashville. Senator, 8 00:00:26,680 --> 00:00:30,200 Speaker 1: this is something that is heartbreaking for me and I 9 00:00:30,240 --> 00:00:33,320 Speaker 1: know for you because what you're working on in the 10 00:00:33,400 --> 00:00:36,680 Speaker 1: legislation is exactly the same thing that could have been 11 00:00:36,720 --> 00:00:40,760 Speaker 1: done in September of twenty twenty two. Here we are 12 00:00:40,800 --> 00:00:44,199 Speaker 1: again after another school shooting where there are not guards 13 00:00:44,200 --> 00:00:46,280 Speaker 1: there to protect these kids. It was a gun free 14 00:00:46,360 --> 00:00:51,320 Speaker 1: zone without a resource officer, and we had the same outcome, unfortunately. 15 00:00:51,720 --> 00:00:55,240 Speaker 1: And now you're going to continue to fight to protect 16 00:00:55,320 --> 00:00:59,520 Speaker 1: our kids in their schools with resource officers and with 17 00:00:59,560 --> 00:01:02,400 Speaker 1: everything that you could possibly need to do everything you 18 00:01:02,440 --> 00:01:05,360 Speaker 1: can to keep kids safe. Well, let me say first 19 00:01:05,360 --> 00:01:08,880 Speaker 1: of all, what happened at Covenant School in Nashville. It's 20 00:01:08,920 --> 00:01:15,319 Speaker 1: just terrific. It is every parent's nightmare. A deranged lunatic 21 00:01:16,200 --> 00:01:22,440 Speaker 1: murdered three nine year old children, murdered three adults. I 22 00:01:22,560 --> 00:01:28,479 Speaker 1: gotta say, I cannot imagine the quantity of evil that 23 00:01:28,640 --> 00:01:32,640 Speaker 1: leads someone to murder children. It is I think it 24 00:01:32,800 --> 00:01:37,720 Speaker 1: is the worst crime there is. There is a level 25 00:01:37,800 --> 00:01:41,280 Speaker 1: of lunacy. And by the way, when I say someone 26 00:01:41,360 --> 00:01:44,399 Speaker 1: one thing, to be clear, I will not say the 27 00:01:44,480 --> 00:01:48,520 Speaker 1: someone's name. And this is actually a policy that I 28 00:01:48,680 --> 00:01:52,320 Speaker 1: strictly enforce on myself. I don't repeat the names of 29 00:01:52,360 --> 00:01:56,320 Speaker 1: these mass murderers. They want to be remembered, they want 30 00:01:56,360 --> 00:01:59,000 Speaker 1: to be go down in history and infamy. I think 31 00:01:59,040 --> 00:02:04,120 Speaker 1: they deserve to be forgotten as the deranged lunatics they are. 32 00:02:04,200 --> 00:02:06,840 Speaker 1: And I wish everyone in politics, I wish everyone in 33 00:02:06,880 --> 00:02:10,880 Speaker 1: the media would follow the same rule. And I'll refer 34 00:02:10,960 --> 00:02:15,320 Speaker 1: to the shooter. I'm happy to repeat a victim's name, 35 00:02:16,720 --> 00:02:20,840 Speaker 1: but these monsters do not deserve to have their names repeated. 36 00:02:21,760 --> 00:02:27,120 Speaker 1: What happened at that school is grotesquely evil. I think 37 00:02:27,160 --> 00:02:32,200 Speaker 1: of the pastor of that Christian school whose little girl 38 00:02:32,320 --> 00:02:36,360 Speaker 1: was murdered that day, the agony of the parents, the 39 00:02:36,360 --> 00:02:42,040 Speaker 1: agony of the children. It is horrific. And you know, 40 00:02:42,160 --> 00:02:48,320 Speaker 1: we've seen with this terrible crime, We've seen all the 41 00:02:48,440 --> 00:02:53,560 Speaker 1: pathologies of our political system. We've seen the instant the 42 00:02:53,680 --> 00:03:00,480 Speaker 1: news broke, the Democrats leaping immediately to their political objective 43 00:03:00,480 --> 00:03:05,200 Speaker 1: of gun control. They seem never as filled with joy 44 00:03:05,240 --> 00:03:08,600 Speaker 1: as in the wake of a horrific mass murder because 45 00:03:08,600 --> 00:03:12,200 Speaker 1: it lets them advance their political position. We saw the 46 00:03:12,280 --> 00:03:16,600 Speaker 1: media eagerly participating at that at the outset, and then 47 00:03:16,600 --> 00:03:20,160 Speaker 1: we saw a remarkable about face because when the news 48 00:03:20,280 --> 00:03:25,280 Speaker 1: came that the shooter was an individual who's transgender, who 49 00:03:25,360 --> 00:03:28,640 Speaker 1: appears to have been targeting the school because it's a 50 00:03:28,720 --> 00:03:31,440 Speaker 1: Christian school, Suddenly the media didn't know what to do 51 00:03:31,520 --> 00:03:35,520 Speaker 1: because that was not their preferred narrative, and so the 52 00:03:35,600 --> 00:03:37,680 Speaker 1: media has been in a bit of crisis. They haven't 53 00:03:37,720 --> 00:03:42,080 Speaker 1: been sure whether to just ignore it all together or 54 00:03:42,240 --> 00:03:45,080 Speaker 1: try to spin it. Some of the most absurd spins 55 00:03:45,080 --> 00:03:49,400 Speaker 1: that the media has tried is, this mass murder is 56 00:03:49,440 --> 00:03:55,200 Speaker 1: your fault. If you believe that five year old shouldn't 57 00:03:55,200 --> 00:04:00,000 Speaker 1: go to explicit drag shows, if you believe that children 58 00:04:00,040 --> 00:04:03,720 Speaker 1: and shouldn't be mutilated to try to change their biological 59 00:04:03,800 --> 00:04:07,120 Speaker 1: gender because they lacked the maturity to make that decision, 60 00:04:07,160 --> 00:04:11,200 Speaker 1: then it's your fault. This lunatic murdered those children. All 61 00:04:11,240 --> 00:04:16,520 Speaker 1: of that. It is infuriating, But I got to tell you, Ben, 62 00:04:16,560 --> 00:04:19,960 Speaker 1: there's something more infuriating than that, which is I believe 63 00:04:20,040 --> 00:04:24,240 Speaker 1: this could have been prevented. Look. I've been the US 64 00:04:24,320 --> 00:04:27,279 Speaker 1: Senator from Texas for eleven years now. One of the 65 00:04:27,320 --> 00:04:30,320 Speaker 1: worst and hardest aspects of this job is that I've 66 00:04:30,360 --> 00:04:35,240 Speaker 1: been on the ground at mass shooting after mass shooting, 67 00:04:35,240 --> 00:04:40,400 Speaker 1: after mass shooting. I was there at Santa Fe High School. 68 00:04:40,400 --> 00:04:43,680 Speaker 1: Santa Fe High School, It's about forty five minutes from 69 00:04:43,720 --> 00:04:46,320 Speaker 1: my house. I was home that morning when the shooting happened. 70 00:04:46,960 --> 00:04:49,680 Speaker 1: I got the call within minutes of the shooting, jumped 71 00:04:49,720 --> 00:04:51,480 Speaker 1: in a truck and headed down there. I was there 72 00:04:52,160 --> 00:04:54,320 Speaker 1: a little more than an hour after the shooting occurred. 73 00:04:54,360 --> 00:04:56,479 Speaker 1: I was there with the students, with the families. I 74 00:04:56,560 --> 00:05:00,760 Speaker 1: saw the horrors of that lunatic that murdered those children. 75 00:05:02,720 --> 00:05:06,480 Speaker 1: I was there in Sutherland Springs the sight of the 76 00:05:06,520 --> 00:05:10,320 Speaker 1: worst church shooting in the history of our country. A 77 00:05:10,440 --> 00:05:14,359 Speaker 1: deranged lunatic who came in and murdered innocent people, including 78 00:05:14,920 --> 00:05:19,839 Speaker 1: shooting point blank an eighteen month old infant. I stood 79 00:05:21,279 --> 00:05:24,680 Speaker 1: in that sanctuary the day after the shooting. When I 80 00:05:24,800 --> 00:05:29,160 Speaker 1: was there, there was still blood everywhere across the sanctuary. 81 00:05:29,160 --> 00:05:32,360 Speaker 1: There was shattered glass, there were pews that had been 82 00:05:32,839 --> 00:05:36,400 Speaker 1: strewn about as people terrified tried to flee for their lives. 83 00:05:36,400 --> 00:05:39,840 Speaker 1: I remember seeing a shattered cell phone covered with blood. 84 00:05:40,760 --> 00:05:45,680 Speaker 1: That mass shooting was stopped only because a heroic neighbor, 85 00:05:45,720 --> 00:05:49,159 Speaker 1: a plumber named Stephen Williford, heard the shooting, went and 86 00:05:49,200 --> 00:05:52,760 Speaker 1: grabbed his R fifteen, ran down and engaged with a shooter, 87 00:05:52,839 --> 00:05:55,800 Speaker 1: shot the shooter and took him out. I was there 88 00:05:55,800 --> 00:05:59,080 Speaker 1: on the ground in El Paso after that mass shooting. 89 00:05:59,160 --> 00:06:01,920 Speaker 1: I was in Midland Odessa after that mass shooting. I 90 00:06:01,960 --> 00:06:06,359 Speaker 1: was in Dallas, Texas, after a crazed Black Lives Matter 91 00:06:06,520 --> 00:06:10,720 Speaker 1: radical murdered five police officers. I've been to two damn 92 00:06:10,760 --> 00:06:14,039 Speaker 1: many of these, And let me start by Sam Ben. 93 00:06:14,080 --> 00:06:18,240 Speaker 1: When you and I were kids, this wasn't a thing. Yeah, 94 00:06:18,279 --> 00:06:22,239 Speaker 1: it didn't happen. Like look, when you went to school, 95 00:06:22,360 --> 00:06:25,320 Speaker 1: Maybe you worried about getting in a fight in the playground, 96 00:06:25,360 --> 00:06:29,080 Speaker 1: maybe you might get a bloody nose, But I don't 97 00:06:29,080 --> 00:06:34,320 Speaker 1: remember once in school worrying that some psychopath was going 98 00:06:34,400 --> 00:06:37,880 Speaker 1: to come shoot us. Yeah. I asked my dad. I said, Dad, 99 00:06:37,880 --> 00:06:40,120 Speaker 1: did you ever worry about us in school and even 100 00:06:40,160 --> 00:06:42,080 Speaker 1: in church? And he said he was in law enforcement. 101 00:06:42,080 --> 00:06:45,520 Speaker 1: He said no, never, never, once did I ever think 102 00:06:45,560 --> 00:06:47,360 Speaker 1: I need to teach you how to hide under a desk, 103 00:06:47,480 --> 00:06:49,720 Speaker 1: or hide from a shooter, or what to do if 104 00:06:49,720 --> 00:06:52,640 Speaker 1: you hear gunshots in the hallway of a school. This 105 00:06:52,720 --> 00:06:57,000 Speaker 1: is a new thing. Look, you're a parent, Ben, it 106 00:06:57,160 --> 00:07:00,640 Speaker 1: scares the hell out of you. Yeah. Well, my wife 107 00:07:00,680 --> 00:07:02,560 Speaker 1: and I had the conversation what do we say to 108 00:07:02,640 --> 00:07:06,839 Speaker 1: our kids now? And how do we talk to them? 109 00:07:06,920 --> 00:07:10,560 Speaker 1: My oldest is six about if this happens, what is 110 00:07:10,600 --> 00:07:14,160 Speaker 1: he to do? Do we have that conversation? How do 111 00:07:14,240 --> 00:07:17,600 Speaker 1: you have that conversation? This is something that no parent 112 00:07:17,680 --> 00:07:19,520 Speaker 1: wants to even have to talk about with their kids, 113 00:07:19,520 --> 00:07:23,080 Speaker 1: But the reality is now we are forced to. We 114 00:07:23,200 --> 00:07:26,080 Speaker 1: are forced to. Every parent is scared for their kids, 115 00:07:27,160 --> 00:07:34,160 Speaker 1: and every rational person wants to prevent this. And listen, 116 00:07:34,160 --> 00:07:37,960 Speaker 1: I've spent eleven years in the Senate number one fighting 117 00:07:38,000 --> 00:07:41,560 Speaker 1: to stop the Democrats' efforts at gun control, which are 118 00:07:41,960 --> 00:07:47,000 Speaker 1: unconstitutional and they don't work. They don't stop mass murders, 119 00:07:47,080 --> 00:07:51,280 Speaker 1: and the Democrats that's not their priority. But I've also 120 00:07:51,360 --> 00:07:54,840 Speaker 1: been fighting to stop these crimes. I don't want to 121 00:07:54,880 --> 00:07:57,840 Speaker 1: see another parent who's lost their kids. I've seen too 122 00:07:57,920 --> 00:08:02,040 Speaker 1: many of them. And if you want to stop violent crimes, 123 00:08:02,040 --> 00:08:04,800 Speaker 1: there's a way to do it, which is you target 124 00:08:04,840 --> 00:08:08,560 Speaker 1: the bad guys. You target target the felons, the fugitives, 125 00:08:08,560 --> 00:08:11,520 Speaker 1: those with serious mental illness. You go after them, You 126 00:08:11,680 --> 00:08:14,480 Speaker 1: prosecute them, you put them in jail. When they try 127 00:08:14,480 --> 00:08:18,960 Speaker 1: to illegally buy guns, you lock them up. You protect people. 128 00:08:19,040 --> 00:08:22,520 Speaker 1: You also secure our schools. If you look at ever 129 00:08:22,560 --> 00:08:28,400 Speaker 1: since Columbine, these deranged people think, okay, I can be famous, 130 00:08:29,280 --> 00:08:33,080 Speaker 1: and they go target children. And so if you want 131 00:08:33,080 --> 00:08:36,160 Speaker 1: to protect our kids, the steps that are most important 132 00:08:37,080 --> 00:08:40,920 Speaker 1: are making our schools safer, enhancing physical security, and the 133 00:08:41,120 --> 00:08:46,599 Speaker 1: single biggest step that matters is having armed police officers 134 00:08:47,120 --> 00:08:51,520 Speaker 1: on campus at the front door so they can stop 135 00:08:51,600 --> 00:08:55,520 Speaker 1: a lunatic before he or she gets into the campus 136 00:08:55,880 --> 00:08:58,880 Speaker 1: and is able to kill kids. That's how you stop 137 00:08:58,880 --> 00:09:03,440 Speaker 1: a bad guy. And so look in the wake of Uvaldi, 138 00:09:03,480 --> 00:09:07,840 Speaker 1: and I was there at Yuvaldi right after the tragedy. 139 00:09:07,840 --> 00:09:13,040 Speaker 1: It was horrific. It happened in Texas. The evil is indescribable. 140 00:09:13,880 --> 00:09:19,920 Speaker 1: After Uvaldi. I filed legislation that would provide very substantial 141 00:09:20,000 --> 00:09:25,360 Speaker 1: funds to enhance the physical security of schools. That would 142 00:09:25,679 --> 00:09:30,199 Speaker 1: double the number of police officers in schools and by 143 00:09:30,240 --> 00:09:34,959 Speaker 1: the way, public schools, private schools, parochial schools. It would 144 00:09:35,000 --> 00:09:40,240 Speaker 1: give the funds fifteen billion dollars to put armed police 145 00:09:40,280 --> 00:09:44,480 Speaker 1: officers on campus, so if any lunatic comes after your kids, 146 00:09:45,200 --> 00:09:48,960 Speaker 1: there'd be an officer there or multiple officers there to 147 00:09:49,240 --> 00:09:52,520 Speaker 1: stop them before they got in. And it also provided 148 00:09:53,040 --> 00:09:57,640 Speaker 1: ten billion dollars in funding for mental health counselors. So 149 00:09:57,679 --> 00:10:02,880 Speaker 1: many of these crimes are committed by deeply disturbed young people, 150 00:10:03,679 --> 00:10:09,640 Speaker 1: and having the counseling there to stop these troubled teenagers 151 00:10:09,720 --> 00:10:13,440 Speaker 1: before they commit a horrific crime of violence is incredibly important. 152 00:10:13,440 --> 00:10:16,480 Speaker 1: And here's the thing that's so frustrating. I tried to 153 00:10:16,480 --> 00:10:20,480 Speaker 1: pass this legislation and the Democrats blocked it. I forced 154 00:10:20,480 --> 00:10:23,480 Speaker 1: to vote on it. The bill was called Cruiz Barosso, 155 00:10:24,000 --> 00:10:27,080 Speaker 1: so I wrote it along with John Barrasso from Wyoming. 156 00:10:28,360 --> 00:10:33,440 Speaker 1: Every single Democrat voted no. They wanted to pass a 157 00:10:33,679 --> 00:10:36,800 Speaker 1: gun control bill instead, so protecting the schools was not 158 00:10:36,840 --> 00:10:40,320 Speaker 1: their priority. They wanted to take away the firearms of 159 00:10:40,400 --> 00:10:45,000 Speaker 1: law abiding citizens. After that, after every Democrat had voted no, 160 00:10:45,160 --> 00:10:47,680 Speaker 1: I went to the Senate floor and I tried to 161 00:10:47,720 --> 00:10:50,319 Speaker 1: pass the bill by unanimous consent. Now, the way unanimous 162 00:10:50,360 --> 00:10:54,840 Speaker 1: consent works is you stand up, asked to pass it 163 00:10:54,880 --> 00:10:58,079 Speaker 1: by unanimous consent, and if one senator stands up and objects, 164 00:10:58,440 --> 00:11:03,640 Speaker 1: it gets killed. In this instance, the person who objected 165 00:11:04,640 --> 00:11:07,760 Speaker 1: was Chris Murphy, who was the Democrat from Connecticut. He's 166 00:11:07,800 --> 00:11:11,240 Speaker 1: the leading advocate of gun control in the Senate, and 167 00:11:11,360 --> 00:11:16,880 Speaker 1: he stood up and with no justification whatsoever, objected and 168 00:11:17,160 --> 00:11:23,200 Speaker 1: killed the legislation that could have prevented this murder at 169 00:11:23,200 --> 00:11:26,720 Speaker 1: the Covenant School, that could have funded having a police 170 00:11:26,760 --> 00:11:31,400 Speaker 1: officer at the front door to shoot this lunatic before 171 00:11:32,200 --> 00:11:36,600 Speaker 1: the shooter killed even a single child. I cannot tell 172 00:11:36,600 --> 00:11:39,520 Speaker 1: you how angry i'm about that that we could have 173 00:11:39,800 --> 00:11:44,640 Speaker 1: stopped this, but the Senate Democrats weren't willing to do 174 00:11:44,679 --> 00:11:47,120 Speaker 1: what it takes to stop this. And you mentioned it, 175 00:11:47,120 --> 00:11:51,199 Speaker 1: it was because they didn't want to arm and protect 176 00:11:51,240 --> 00:11:55,200 Speaker 1: the kids. They wanted the solution to the problem to 177 00:11:55,440 --> 00:11:58,959 Speaker 1: only be one option, which was to takeaway our Second 178 00:11:58,960 --> 00:12:02,040 Speaker 1: Amendment rights. You could even see this after the shooting 179 00:12:02,040 --> 00:12:06,880 Speaker 1: that happened in Nashville. Immediately they said that it was 180 00:12:06,960 --> 00:12:09,080 Speaker 1: the gun's fault. It was an AR fifteen. We found 181 00:12:09,080 --> 00:12:10,719 Speaker 1: out it was an AR fifteen that she was using 182 00:12:10,760 --> 00:12:13,080 Speaker 1: in the videos. It was a car beam that uses 183 00:12:14,000 --> 00:12:17,120 Speaker 1: the same ammunition that handguns use. It was not an 184 00:12:17,400 --> 00:12:20,319 Speaker 1: AR fifteen. And then in fact, if you really want 185 00:12:20,360 --> 00:12:23,440 Speaker 1: to get into it, the only AR fifteen that was 186 00:12:23,600 --> 00:12:27,600 Speaker 1: used in that confrontation between the shooter and the police 187 00:12:28,160 --> 00:12:31,480 Speaker 1: was the police officer who used an AR fifteen to 188 00:12:31,520 --> 00:12:36,080 Speaker 1: take her down. And the media lied about all of it. Yep. 189 00:12:36,600 --> 00:12:39,000 Speaker 1: And I will say, Ben, I know you've watched as 190 00:12:39,040 --> 00:12:42,840 Speaker 1: I have the bodycam footage of those officers. Let me 191 00:12:42,880 --> 00:12:47,080 Speaker 1: commend those officers, those Nashville police officers who went in 192 00:12:47,440 --> 00:12:50,160 Speaker 1: right after the shooting it began, and the bodycam footage. Look, 193 00:12:50,160 --> 00:12:51,960 Speaker 1: they're coming onto the campus. They don't know where the 194 00:12:51,960 --> 00:12:54,760 Speaker 1: shooter is, they don't know what's happening. They're scared. Anyone 195 00:12:54,800 --> 00:12:57,240 Speaker 1: would be scared in that instance. But they're searching, they're 196 00:12:57,280 --> 00:12:59,960 Speaker 1: trying to save the kids. They're running up the stairs. 197 00:13:00,120 --> 00:13:03,840 Speaker 1: They hear the gunshots, and they don't run away, they 198 00:13:03,840 --> 00:13:06,560 Speaker 1: don't hide, they run towards the gun shots. They run 199 00:13:06,600 --> 00:13:09,160 Speaker 1: towards the gun shots, they engage with the shooter, and 200 00:13:09,200 --> 00:13:11,600 Speaker 1: they take the shooter down. And I gotta say, watching 201 00:13:11,640 --> 00:13:17,160 Speaker 1: that bodycam footage, those officers are heroes. And the fact 202 00:13:17,240 --> 00:13:20,600 Speaker 1: that they engage and took that shooter out saved many 203 00:13:20,720 --> 00:13:23,760 Speaker 1: lives that day. That shooter would have kept killing children, 204 00:13:23,760 --> 00:13:26,760 Speaker 1: would have kept killing adults, and the only thing that 205 00:13:26,880 --> 00:13:30,600 Speaker 1: stopped the shooter was the officer's heroism. Now imagine the 206 00:13:30,679 --> 00:13:35,680 Speaker 1: same thing with one detail changed. Instead of the officers 207 00:13:35,720 --> 00:13:39,320 Speaker 1: coming in fifteen minutes after the shooting began, because that's 208 00:13:39,320 --> 00:13:42,839 Speaker 1: when they got to the school, imagine the officers are 209 00:13:42,880 --> 00:13:45,600 Speaker 1: there at the front door to begin with. The shooter 210 00:13:45,720 --> 00:13:48,240 Speaker 1: came in and shot through the front door, shot through 211 00:13:48,240 --> 00:13:51,440 Speaker 1: the glass, and entered through the glass. If the shooter 212 00:13:51,480 --> 00:13:53,680 Speaker 1: had tried that and there'd been an officer or multiple 213 00:13:53,679 --> 00:13:57,160 Speaker 1: officers there, they would have shot the shooter dead on 214 00:13:57,200 --> 00:14:01,640 Speaker 1: the steps, and those precious children would be alive. That's 215 00:14:01,679 --> 00:14:05,880 Speaker 1: why it matters to have police officers there to protect 216 00:14:05,920 --> 00:14:12,440 Speaker 1: our kids. It's why it's so infuriating that Democrats are 217 00:14:12,600 --> 00:14:17,240 Speaker 1: adamantly opposed to doing what would actually work to stop 218 00:14:17,800 --> 00:14:20,440 Speaker 1: these kind of horrific crimes. 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It's a clip from September twenty 257 00:16:27,800 --> 00:16:31,840 Speaker 1: twenty two where you were advocating then for exactly what 258 00:16:31,840 --> 00:16:34,640 Speaker 1: you're saying we need now and after Nashville. There's just 259 00:16:34,720 --> 00:16:38,560 Speaker 1: more proof. This is what needs to happen been legislative session. 260 00:16:39,400 --> 00:16:41,960 Speaker 1: I ask unanimous consent, that the Senate proceed to the 261 00:16:42,000 --> 00:16:46,920 Speaker 1: immediate consideration of S. Four eight four five, which is 262 00:16:46,960 --> 00:16:50,880 Speaker 1: at the desk. Further, that the bill be considered read 263 00:16:50,960 --> 00:16:53,840 Speaker 1: a third time in past, and that the motion to 264 00:16:53,920 --> 00:16:58,040 Speaker 1: reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table. Is 265 00:16:58,040 --> 00:17:02,640 Speaker 1: there objection and President sent from a Connecticut and a 266 00:17:02,680 --> 00:17:08,439 Speaker 1: President I object, objection is heard, Madame President. What we 267 00:17:08,560 --> 00:17:13,800 Speaker 1: just saw on this floor was stunning. I am genuinely 268 00:17:13,800 --> 00:17:17,160 Speaker 1: at a loss for words. This bill is common sense. 269 00:17:18,119 --> 00:17:23,960 Speaker 1: There is not a constituent in Texas, or Nevada or Connecticut. 270 00:17:24,880 --> 00:17:28,000 Speaker 1: If you asked, would it be a good thing to 271 00:17:28,119 --> 00:17:30,880 Speaker 1: have more police officers keeping our kids safe? Wouldn't say, 272 00:17:30,880 --> 00:17:34,639 Speaker 1: of course it would. There's not a constituents of ours 273 00:17:34,800 --> 00:17:36,560 Speaker 1: who if you asked, would it be a good thing 274 00:17:36,600 --> 00:17:39,719 Speaker 1: to have more mental health counselors on campus to stop 275 00:17:39,760 --> 00:17:42,280 Speaker 1: people from committing crimes, would say, of course it would. 276 00:17:43,440 --> 00:17:45,520 Speaker 1: I was informed a few days ago that when I 277 00:17:45,560 --> 00:17:48,359 Speaker 1: was going to seek unanimous consent, the Senator from Connecticut 278 00:17:49,240 --> 00:17:53,600 Speaker 1: was going to object. Now, the Senator from Connecticut styles 279 00:17:53,640 --> 00:17:56,919 Speaker 1: himself the leading advocate of gun control in the US Senate. 280 00:17:58,359 --> 00:18:01,440 Speaker 1: I was asked by reporters, why are the Democrats objecting 281 00:18:01,440 --> 00:18:03,480 Speaker 1: to this? And I'll tell you what I told reporters. 282 00:18:04,280 --> 00:18:08,440 Speaker 1: I have no idea. They haven't said, they haven't told 283 00:18:08,480 --> 00:18:12,000 Speaker 1: me why they object to it, and so I was 284 00:18:12,119 --> 00:18:16,880 Speaker 1: genuinely looking forward to seeing the Senator from Connecticut's remarks. 285 00:18:16,880 --> 00:18:19,239 Speaker 1: I was sitting here waiting to see, why do you 286 00:18:19,320 --> 00:18:22,840 Speaker 1: oppose more police officers to keep our kids safe? Why 287 00:18:22,880 --> 00:18:29,160 Speaker 1: do you oppose mental health counselors in schools. I've been 288 00:18:29,200 --> 00:18:31,280 Speaker 1: in the Senate ten years. The Senator from Connecticut and 289 00:18:31,280 --> 00:18:34,719 Speaker 1: I were elected at the same time. I've engaged in 290 00:18:34,760 --> 00:18:37,720 Speaker 1: many debates on this floor, including with the Senator from Connecticut. 291 00:18:39,520 --> 00:18:43,800 Speaker 1: The fact that he chose not to say a word 292 00:18:47,640 --> 00:18:53,880 Speaker 1: about why he objects is stunning. I find myself genuinely flabbergasted. 293 00:18:55,720 --> 00:18:57,280 Speaker 1: I will say one of the reasons I think the 294 00:18:57,280 --> 00:19:00,760 Speaker 1: Senator from Connecticut feels content not only not to argue, 295 00:19:00,800 --> 00:19:02,680 Speaker 1: but now to walk off the floor and not even 296 00:19:02,720 --> 00:19:07,560 Speaker 1: listen to the debate he's ostensibly participating in. One of 297 00:19:07,560 --> 00:19:10,000 Speaker 1: the reasons he feels free to do so is if 298 00:19:10,040 --> 00:19:12,440 Speaker 1: you look up to the Senate gallery, I can count them. 299 00:19:12,480 --> 00:19:18,600 Speaker 1: There are precisely zero reporters in this gallery. Not a 300 00:19:18,680 --> 00:19:22,159 Speaker 1: single one of the corporate media will report on this. 301 00:19:22,200 --> 00:19:24,959 Speaker 1: And I think the Center from Connecticut feels absolutely certain 302 00:19:26,040 --> 00:19:29,480 Speaker 1: when he walks out, he will have reporters that will say, 303 00:19:29,880 --> 00:19:32,360 Speaker 1: tell me how terrible Donald Trump is, and he'll lean 304 00:19:32,440 --> 00:19:36,119 Speaker 1: in and say, oh, Donald Trump is really terrible. But 305 00:19:36,240 --> 00:19:38,400 Speaker 1: not a one of the reporters will ask, hey, wait 306 00:19:38,440 --> 00:19:40,760 Speaker 1: a second, why don't you want police officers keeping our 307 00:19:40,840 --> 00:19:45,040 Speaker 1: kids safe? None of them will. The Democrats are protected 308 00:19:46,119 --> 00:19:52,640 Speaker 1: by a dishonest army of propagandists in the corporate media. 309 00:19:52,880 --> 00:19:56,000 Speaker 1: See Ann will not have a paddle sitting around discussing 310 00:19:56,240 --> 00:20:01,080 Speaker 1: why is it that the Democrats sent police do not 311 00:20:01,480 --> 00:20:05,920 Speaker 1: care to defend their positions. Let me tell you. When 312 00:20:05,960 --> 00:20:09,760 Speaker 1: there's a mass murdering and the Democrats stand up and 313 00:20:09,800 --> 00:20:12,959 Speaker 1: give speeches and they point at Republicans and say blood 314 00:20:13,119 --> 00:20:17,679 Speaker 1: is on your hands, it's great political rhetoric. It's dishonest, 315 00:20:19,640 --> 00:20:23,639 Speaker 1: but boy, it gins up their donors. It gets people 316 00:20:23,640 --> 00:20:26,160 Speaker 1: to go and write checks to Democrats and fund their 317 00:20:26,200 --> 00:20:32,760 Speaker 1: campaigns well. We just saw reveals the Democrats have one 318 00:20:32,800 --> 00:20:35,560 Speaker 1: objective when a mass murder happens, and that is to 319 00:20:35,720 --> 00:20:38,680 Speaker 1: take away the Second Amendment rights of law abiding citizens. 320 00:20:38,800 --> 00:20:43,320 Speaker 1: That is always, always, always their solution. Never Mind that 321 00:20:43,320 --> 00:20:45,920 Speaker 1: it doesn't work, never mind that it doesn't stop violent crime. 322 00:20:46,200 --> 00:20:49,320 Speaker 1: Never mind that if you look at the jurisdictions across 323 00:20:49,359 --> 00:20:54,879 Speaker 1: the country with the strictest gun control laws, almost every 324 00:20:54,920 --> 00:21:01,720 Speaker 1: single one of them consistently has among the highest crime 325 00:21:01,800 --> 00:21:06,800 Speaker 1: rates and murder rates. Earlier this year, the Senator from 326 00:21:06,800 --> 00:21:11,320 Speaker 1: Connecticut authored his big gun control package, rammed it through 327 00:21:11,359 --> 00:21:16,800 Speaker 1: this body, a package which will do nothing, zero to 328 00:21:17,080 --> 00:21:22,080 Speaker 1: stop mass murders. We will see another mass murder. I 329 00:21:22,240 --> 00:21:26,560 Speaker 1: pray that we don't, but evil exists in the world. 330 00:21:26,760 --> 00:21:30,760 Speaker 1: And if another lunatic attacks the school and there's not 331 00:21:30,840 --> 00:21:33,600 Speaker 1: a police officer at the front door to stop him, 332 00:21:35,000 --> 00:21:40,720 Speaker 1: remember right now, remember this moment when the Democrats said, no, 333 00:21:41,240 --> 00:21:45,240 Speaker 1: we will not protect our kids. There are lots of 334 00:21:45,320 --> 00:21:49,679 Speaker 1: arguments Senator from Connecticut could have made. He chose to 335 00:21:49,680 --> 00:21:53,520 Speaker 1: make none of them. Senator, it's amazing he chose to 336 00:21:53,560 --> 00:21:57,000 Speaker 1: make none of them. And what you're talking about there 337 00:21:57,119 --> 00:22:00,600 Speaker 1: clearly shows the agenda of the Democratic party, which is 338 00:22:00,640 --> 00:22:04,119 Speaker 1: not to protect kids, even when there are queer vulnerabilities 339 00:22:04,160 --> 00:22:06,840 Speaker 1: that we keep witnessing every time there's one of these 340 00:22:06,840 --> 00:22:09,159 Speaker 1: mass shootings and there's no one there to be a 341 00:22:09,160 --> 00:22:11,800 Speaker 1: first responder, and we have to wait on police, and 342 00:22:11,920 --> 00:22:14,840 Speaker 1: even when it's done perfectly like it was done in Nashville, 343 00:22:15,359 --> 00:22:19,639 Speaker 1: it was still what fourteen minutes in. Yeah. Look, I 344 00:22:20,160 --> 00:22:23,560 Speaker 1: will say listening to that again, it infuriates me once 345 00:22:23,600 --> 00:22:29,480 Speaker 1: again because we could do much much more to keep 346 00:22:29,520 --> 00:22:34,639 Speaker 1: our kids safe, and the Democrats who claim to care 347 00:22:34,840 --> 00:22:40,200 Speaker 1: so desperately much, they're the ones who block it. Now. 348 00:22:40,359 --> 00:22:45,919 Speaker 1: I will say one of the standard Democrat talking points 349 00:22:45,960 --> 00:22:51,520 Speaker 1: now is following Uvaldi. Anytime you say, if you want 350 00:22:51,520 --> 00:22:54,280 Speaker 1: to protect our kids, we need more police officers, they 351 00:22:54,359 --> 00:22:57,840 Speaker 1: point out the police officers didn't do what they needed 352 00:22:57,840 --> 00:23:01,280 Speaker 1: to do in Uvaldi, And I got to say, that's right. 353 00:23:02,520 --> 00:23:06,560 Speaker 1: The officers in Uivaldi screwed up badly. They sat there 354 00:23:07,320 --> 00:23:11,240 Speaker 1: forever while the shooting was ongoing. The timeline now shows 355 00:23:11,600 --> 00:23:14,920 Speaker 1: that it was an hour and fourteen minutes from when 356 00:23:14,920 --> 00:23:18,520 Speaker 1: the first police officer arrived on campus to when the 357 00:23:18,600 --> 00:23:22,200 Speaker 1: officers stormed into the classroom and killed the shooter. During 358 00:23:22,240 --> 00:23:26,320 Speaker 1: that hour and fourteen minutes, gunshots were going off, one 359 00:23:26,480 --> 00:23:28,919 Speaker 1: after the other after the other during that hour. In 360 00:23:28,960 --> 00:23:32,600 Speaker 1: fourteen minutes, children were calling into nine one one in 361 00:23:32,840 --> 00:23:39,520 Speaker 1: panicked terror. And tragically, because the officers didn't go in earlier, 362 00:23:40,200 --> 00:23:43,600 Speaker 1: we ended up having nineteen fourth graders and two teachers 363 00:23:44,040 --> 00:23:47,920 Speaker 1: murdered that day. And that makes me angry too. I 364 00:23:48,359 --> 00:23:52,560 Speaker 1: was there right after that shooting. I met with the 365 00:23:52,640 --> 00:23:56,400 Speaker 1: leadership of the police officers, who lied to us, who 366 00:23:56,440 --> 00:23:59,399 Speaker 1: lied to me, who lied to John Cordon, the other senator, 367 00:23:59,440 --> 00:24:02,840 Speaker 1: who lied to Greg Gabbath, the governor, and almost everything 368 00:24:02,880 --> 00:24:06,119 Speaker 1: they described to about what had happened in Uvaldi was wrong, 369 00:24:06,840 --> 00:24:09,960 Speaker 1: as we found out the several days that followed. But 370 00:24:10,680 --> 00:24:15,440 Speaker 1: the lesson that Democrat and lefty activists have taken from 371 00:24:15,480 --> 00:24:20,240 Speaker 1: that is because the police officers there did not act 372 00:24:20,320 --> 00:24:26,120 Speaker 1: swiftly to take out the shooter. Therefore they've concluded police 373 00:24:26,119 --> 00:24:30,320 Speaker 1: officers can never stop a shooter, and that is wrong. Look, 374 00:24:30,359 --> 00:24:34,280 Speaker 1: I wish those officers had gone in and Uvaldi within 375 00:24:34,400 --> 00:24:37,040 Speaker 1: minutes of getting there and had taken out that shooter, 376 00:24:37,119 --> 00:24:40,800 Speaker 1: and there would be a lot more children alive today 377 00:24:40,800 --> 00:24:45,800 Speaker 1: if they'd done that. They didn't, and that that is 378 00:24:45,960 --> 00:24:50,600 Speaker 1: a absolute tragedy. But I got to say one of 379 00:24:50,640 --> 00:24:55,000 Speaker 1: the things that Nashville shows is there talking points that 380 00:24:55,119 --> 00:24:59,960 Speaker 1: cops don't stop mass shootings is a total lie. In Nashville, 381 00:25:00,400 --> 00:25:03,160 Speaker 1: the officers did what should have been done in Vivaldi, 382 00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:06,040 Speaker 1: which is the instant they found out about it. They 383 00:25:06,040 --> 00:25:08,520 Speaker 1: went in, they had bulletproof vest, they went in and 384 00:25:08,560 --> 00:25:11,520 Speaker 1: they shot the shooter and they took them out. That's 385 00:25:11,560 --> 00:25:14,760 Speaker 1: what they should have done. But I gotta say it's 386 00:25:14,840 --> 00:25:20,640 Speaker 1: also what is so frustrating. The only thing Democrats want 387 00:25:20,680 --> 00:25:22,120 Speaker 1: to do if they say, you know, if we take 388 00:25:22,160 --> 00:25:26,440 Speaker 1: Ben Ferguson's guns, that'll be great. You know, Ben, You're 389 00:25:26,520 --> 00:25:28,720 Speaker 1: not going to be a mass murderer. I have zero 390 00:25:28,800 --> 00:25:33,040 Speaker 1: concerns about that the Democrats. To be honest, the Democrats 391 00:25:33,040 --> 00:25:36,040 Speaker 1: don't have concerns either. They don't think law abiding citizens 392 00:25:36,040 --> 00:25:43,119 Speaker 1: are going to become commit crimes. But ideologically they have 393 00:25:43,280 --> 00:25:46,159 Speaker 1: set their priorities. We want the guns. We want the 394 00:25:46,280 --> 00:25:49,440 Speaker 1: guns from law abiding citizens. We want to take away 395 00:25:49,520 --> 00:25:53,639 Speaker 1: your right to protect your home and your family. And look, 396 00:25:53,760 --> 00:25:58,959 Speaker 1: I have led the fight against their unconstitutional gun control 397 00:25:59,000 --> 00:26:03,280 Speaker 1: proposals from day one in the Senate. But what I 398 00:26:03,320 --> 00:26:07,200 Speaker 1: genuinely don't understand is why they pair it with an 399 00:26:07,240 --> 00:26:12,800 Speaker 1: absolute refusal to go after gun criminals. What is weird 400 00:26:14,320 --> 00:26:17,119 Speaker 1: is if you're a law abiding citizen who poses no threat, 401 00:26:17,160 --> 00:26:20,320 Speaker 1: they want to disarm you. If you're a gang banger 402 00:26:20,480 --> 00:26:23,680 Speaker 1: who's shooting people, they want to elect you free from jail. 403 00:26:24,320 --> 00:26:26,639 Speaker 1: They don't want to lock up the criminals who commit 404 00:26:26,680 --> 00:26:29,600 Speaker 1: crimes with guns. They just want the people who don't 405 00:26:29,640 --> 00:26:33,520 Speaker 1: commit crimes to lose their guns. I was having in 406 00:26:33,640 --> 00:26:35,440 Speaker 1: this debate earlier today. You and I were talking about 407 00:26:35,440 --> 00:26:38,040 Speaker 1: this before, where I was debating the issue of guns 408 00:26:38,119 --> 00:26:42,600 Speaker 1: with HARALDA riverin Piers Morgan and I went back and 409 00:26:42,640 --> 00:26:46,600 Speaker 1: I try to simplify it. I'm all right, that's when 410 00:26:46,640 --> 00:26:50,080 Speaker 1: you're yeah. But I look at them and they're they're 411 00:26:50,119 --> 00:26:52,439 Speaker 1: the mouthpiece of being anti gun. They're the mouthpiece of 412 00:26:52,440 --> 00:26:55,320 Speaker 1: obsession of taking away guns. And I asked them the 413 00:26:55,400 --> 00:26:57,119 Speaker 1: question because I try to bring it down to a 414 00:26:57,160 --> 00:26:59,600 Speaker 1: basic level when I'm trying to change someone's mind, I'm like, 415 00:27:00,119 --> 00:27:03,560 Speaker 1: this is what I don't understand. Why is it that 416 00:27:03,600 --> 00:27:06,320 Speaker 1: we protect our money in our banks with more security 417 00:27:06,320 --> 00:27:09,760 Speaker 1: than we protect our children in our schools. Why is 418 00:27:09,760 --> 00:27:12,040 Speaker 1: it that we defend and protect our present with guns, 419 00:27:12,480 --> 00:27:15,040 Speaker 1: but we won't protect our kids in our schools with guns. 420 00:27:15,359 --> 00:27:18,000 Speaker 1: Why is it that we defend and protect our celebrities 421 00:27:18,040 --> 00:27:20,240 Speaker 1: with guns, but we don't do it with our children. 422 00:27:20,640 --> 00:27:23,000 Speaker 1: We do it at our courts, We do it with 423 00:27:23,040 --> 00:27:26,280 Speaker 1: our valuables. We do it at places like jewelry stores. 424 00:27:26,600 --> 00:27:29,639 Speaker 1: We do it even at sporting events. We want to 425 00:27:29,640 --> 00:27:31,840 Speaker 1: protect people at sporting events, but we don't want to 426 00:27:31,840 --> 00:27:34,720 Speaker 1: protect our kids in our schools. We do this at 427 00:27:34,760 --> 00:27:38,000 Speaker 1: any major event, music, festival. The list goes on and on, 428 00:27:38,359 --> 00:27:40,640 Speaker 1: and the only thing that we seem to keep having 429 00:27:41,000 --> 00:27:43,840 Speaker 1: to quote protect our kids is this is a gun 430 00:27:43,880 --> 00:27:47,280 Speaker 1: free zone, and this is a place where you're not 431 00:27:47,280 --> 00:27:49,840 Speaker 1: allowed to bring a gun. Well, every single time someone 432 00:27:49,880 --> 00:27:51,879 Speaker 1: tests that right and says, okay, I'm not going to 433 00:27:51,960 --> 00:27:54,639 Speaker 1: buy by that rule, what happens. We usually have massive 434 00:27:54,680 --> 00:27:58,800 Speaker 1: loss and carnage. And I think it's very clear now 435 00:27:58,840 --> 00:28:06,639 Speaker 1: that we should protect our children with more ferocious passion 436 00:28:07,080 --> 00:28:10,800 Speaker 1: and defense than we do money in our banks. We 437 00:28:11,119 --> 00:28:14,320 Speaker 1: shouldn't value our dollars more than our children, but we do. 438 00:28:14,440 --> 00:28:16,679 Speaker 1: Every bank I've ever been to has an armed guard, 439 00:28:16,960 --> 00:28:20,480 Speaker 1: and they have really good doors to protect the valuables. 440 00:28:20,800 --> 00:28:23,560 Speaker 1: We're gonna learn a lot from Nashville, Senator, and you 441 00:28:23,600 --> 00:28:25,280 Speaker 1: and I both know that we're gonna We saw the 442 00:28:25,400 --> 00:28:28,280 Speaker 1: video or shooting through those glass doors. There are gonna 443 00:28:28,320 --> 00:28:30,359 Speaker 1: have to be things that change. They're already. It was 444 00:28:30,359 --> 00:28:33,040 Speaker 1: a first question I asked my kids school, Hey, we've 445 00:28:33,040 --> 00:28:35,159 Speaker 1: got some of those glass doors now, knowing that even 446 00:28:35,160 --> 00:28:37,080 Speaker 1: when they're locked, it's how easy you can get through them. 447 00:28:37,280 --> 00:28:39,360 Speaker 1: And they already said, we're on it. That's why I 448 00:28:39,440 --> 00:28:41,360 Speaker 1: was told immediately, we're on that. We're looking at this, 449 00:28:41,440 --> 00:28:43,680 Speaker 1: we're gonna learn from this. But when I went in 450 00:28:43,720 --> 00:28:45,560 Speaker 1: and rolled my kid, my wife and I had very 451 00:28:45,560 --> 00:28:48,200 Speaker 1: different conversations. We were looking at schools for my youngest 452 00:28:48,240 --> 00:28:53,480 Speaker 1: and she was talking about academics. She was talking about faith. 453 00:28:54,160 --> 00:28:56,920 Speaker 1: She was talking about, you know, religious teaching at the school. 454 00:28:57,120 --> 00:28:59,800 Speaker 1: These things matter. The number one thing I asked about 455 00:28:59,880 --> 00:29:02,840 Speaker 1: was I want to know about safety here. I want 456 00:29:02,880 --> 00:29:04,680 Speaker 1: to know that there are men and women are I 457 00:29:04,680 --> 00:29:06,719 Speaker 1: don't care who they are, that are able to protect 458 00:29:06,720 --> 00:29:09,640 Speaker 1: my child if there is some sort of circumstance. That 459 00:29:09,720 --> 00:29:11,840 Speaker 1: was my number one priority, And I'm granted I have 460 00:29:11,840 --> 00:29:15,080 Speaker 1: a different perspective. I used a gun to protect my life. 461 00:29:15,120 --> 00:29:16,880 Speaker 1: To save my life, I didn't have a gun with me, 462 00:29:16,920 --> 00:29:18,800 Speaker 1: I wouldn't be here doing the show with you today. 463 00:29:19,160 --> 00:29:21,800 Speaker 1: So I call it PTSD from that moment in my 464 00:29:21,800 --> 00:29:23,360 Speaker 1: life where I had to pull the trigger to save 465 00:29:23,400 --> 00:29:26,480 Speaker 1: my life. But I realize that if you don't have 466 00:29:26,520 --> 00:29:28,360 Speaker 1: a good guy there with a gun, you are waiting 467 00:29:28,360 --> 00:29:30,920 Speaker 1: on the good guy to get there, whether it's three minutes, 468 00:29:30,960 --> 00:29:33,520 Speaker 1: five minutes, eight minutes, or ten minutes or fourteen minutes, 469 00:29:33,560 --> 00:29:35,680 Speaker 1: even if you get it perfect like they did in Nashville. 470 00:29:36,840 --> 00:29:39,560 Speaker 1: This is very personal because I know that that moment 471 00:29:39,800 --> 00:29:41,720 Speaker 1: when I needed a gun, If I didn't have it 472 00:29:41,760 --> 00:29:44,560 Speaker 1: at that moment to respond at that moment, I was 473 00:29:44,960 --> 00:29:49,240 Speaker 1: a dead person. I was a dead man. And if 474 00:29:49,280 --> 00:29:51,560 Speaker 1: we care about all these other things so much, center 475 00:29:51,880 --> 00:29:56,520 Speaker 1: that doesn't worry you that the Democrats are this obsessed 476 00:29:56,560 --> 00:29:59,440 Speaker 1: with gun control. They can't understand that we are valuing 477 00:29:59,440 --> 00:30:01,880 Speaker 1: all these other things above the lives of children. That's 478 00:30:01,880 --> 00:30:06,640 Speaker 1: what I just can't understand. Well, look, it is very 479 00:30:06,720 --> 00:30:11,360 Speaker 1: much like yesterday's podcast we talked about Alejandro may Orcus, 480 00:30:11,440 --> 00:30:15,479 Speaker 1: the Secretary of Homeland Security, and his testimony before the 481 00:30:15,480 --> 00:30:20,880 Speaker 1: Senate Judiciary Committee and the cross examination that I gave 482 00:30:20,920 --> 00:30:25,120 Speaker 1: to him. You know, in respect to our southern border, 483 00:30:26,120 --> 00:30:29,440 Speaker 1: the Democrats have a political objective maximize the number of 484 00:30:29,480 --> 00:30:31,920 Speaker 1: illegal aliens because they think they will vote Democrat and 485 00:30:32,000 --> 00:30:37,080 Speaker 1: keep them in power. And they're willing to ignore suffering. 486 00:30:37,120 --> 00:30:41,000 Speaker 1: They're willing to ignore children being physically abused, sexually abused. 487 00:30:41,200 --> 00:30:44,520 Speaker 1: They're willing to ignore dead bodies piling up, the Biden 488 00:30:44,640 --> 00:30:48,080 Speaker 1: bodybags piling up. They're willing to ignore one hundred thousand 489 00:30:48,080 --> 00:30:51,880 Speaker 1: overdoses last year, the highest in history, because all they 490 00:30:51,920 --> 00:30:55,960 Speaker 1: care about is their political objective. The exact same thing 491 00:30:56,080 --> 00:30:58,760 Speaker 1: is true when it comes to guns. They have a 492 00:30:58,760 --> 00:31:03,120 Speaker 1: political objective arm law abiding citizens and it excites all 493 00:31:03,160 --> 00:31:05,960 Speaker 1: of their activists who give moneies and fund their campaigns. 494 00:31:07,040 --> 00:31:12,040 Speaker 1: They're willing to oppose the common sense steps that would 495 00:31:12,120 --> 00:31:16,520 Speaker 1: actually stop these crimes because the only thing that matters 496 00:31:16,520 --> 00:31:18,440 Speaker 1: to them is their political objective. And let me be clear. 497 00:31:18,720 --> 00:31:21,560 Speaker 1: You were talking about the importance of the right to 498 00:31:21,600 --> 00:31:23,400 Speaker 1: keep and bear arms, which as you know, I believe 499 00:31:23,400 --> 00:31:27,640 Speaker 1: in passionately, and the right to protect yourself and your family. 500 00:31:27,680 --> 00:31:32,480 Speaker 1: And look, in schools there are vigorous debates about, for example, 501 00:31:32,560 --> 00:31:34,840 Speaker 1: should teachers allowed to be armed. I think the answer 502 00:31:34,920 --> 00:31:38,400 Speaker 1: should be yes, absolutely. I pointed out in schools there 503 00:31:38,400 --> 00:31:41,440 Speaker 1: are a lot of teachers, you know, sometimes Jim teachers 504 00:31:41,520 --> 00:31:44,840 Speaker 1: or others who are former law enforcement, who are former military, 505 00:31:44,840 --> 00:31:47,000 Speaker 1: who are trained to know how to handle a firearm. 506 00:31:47,200 --> 00:31:49,880 Speaker 1: I think a school would be safer if teachers were 507 00:31:49,920 --> 00:31:52,320 Speaker 1: allowed to be armed. Now the Left comes back with 508 00:31:52,360 --> 00:31:56,320 Speaker 1: these sort of crazy hypotheticals of imagining this ninety year 509 00:31:56,320 --> 00:31:59,200 Speaker 1: old librarian that you're suddenly thrusting a forty four magnum 510 00:31:59,240 --> 00:32:02,760 Speaker 1: in her hands as she's teetering on her walker, and 511 00:32:03,240 --> 00:32:06,440 Speaker 1: nobody is talking about forcing teachers to be armed. To 512 00:32:06,520 --> 00:32:10,880 Speaker 1: be clear, it is about allowing teachers who have the 513 00:32:10,960 --> 00:32:13,400 Speaker 1: training and experience and know how to use a firearm 514 00:32:13,480 --> 00:32:15,520 Speaker 1: to be in a position to use it. But here's 515 00:32:15,520 --> 00:32:18,400 Speaker 1: my point on this. You and I both agree that 516 00:32:18,480 --> 00:32:21,720 Speaker 1: makes sense. But let's say someone doesn't. I think that's 517 00:32:21,720 --> 00:32:26,000 Speaker 1: actually an issue on which reasonable minds can disagree. Here's 518 00:32:26,040 --> 00:32:29,560 Speaker 1: my point. What I was proposing wasn't allowing teachers to 519 00:32:29,560 --> 00:32:35,520 Speaker 1: be armed. It was having police officers present on campus. 520 00:32:35,800 --> 00:32:39,880 Speaker 1: And to be clear, every damned Democrat politician who voted 521 00:32:39,920 --> 00:32:42,680 Speaker 1: against it, which would be every single Democrat senator in 522 00:32:42,720 --> 00:32:46,680 Speaker 1: the Senate. All of them are protected by the Capitol 523 00:32:46,720 --> 00:32:52,240 Speaker 1: police every single day. I don't understand it's why, by 524 00:32:52,280 --> 00:32:55,400 Speaker 1: the way, the reason I said in that floor speech, 525 00:32:56,040 --> 00:32:59,040 Speaker 1: I said, you couldn't find a constituent in Texas or 526 00:32:59,080 --> 00:33:03,320 Speaker 1: Connecticut or the presiding officer that day was Jackie Rosen 527 00:33:03,400 --> 00:33:09,000 Speaker 1: from Nevada, and the Democrat a Democrat, and the Democrat 528 00:33:09,040 --> 00:33:12,200 Speaker 1: who objected was from Connecticut. I could go to Connecticut 529 00:33:12,280 --> 00:33:15,000 Speaker 1: and I don't think you could find a parent who 530 00:33:15,040 --> 00:33:18,360 Speaker 1: would say, gosh, I wouldn't like to have a police 531 00:33:18,400 --> 00:33:22,600 Speaker 1: officer president at my school. And yet all of the 532 00:33:22,640 --> 00:33:27,080 Speaker 1: Democrats voted against it, and they objected and blocked it. 533 00:33:28,120 --> 00:33:34,200 Speaker 1: And it's worth underscoring what I said that day. I said, look, tragically, 534 00:33:34,240 --> 00:33:37,400 Speaker 1: there's going to be another lunatic who comes to a 535 00:33:37,440 --> 00:33:40,000 Speaker 1: school to murder kids. I wish there wasn't, but there 536 00:33:40,080 --> 00:33:43,880 Speaker 1: is evil in this world. And if there is not 537 00:33:44,000 --> 00:33:48,240 Speaker 1: a police officer at the front door, remember this day, well, 538 00:33:48,240 --> 00:33:51,040 Speaker 1: you know what that happened in Nashville, Tennessee, at the 539 00:33:51,080 --> 00:33:54,440 Speaker 1: Covenant School. Another lunatic came to a school and there 540 00:33:54,600 --> 00:33:57,959 Speaker 1: wasn't a police officer there. And if the Democrats hadn't 541 00:33:58,040 --> 00:34:03,120 Speaker 1: shut this down, the legislation I proposed could have put 542 00:34:03,160 --> 00:34:06,160 Speaker 1: a police officer there and could have saved the lives 543 00:34:06,160 --> 00:34:09,000 Speaker 1: of everyone murdered that day. I want to talk about 544 00:34:09,080 --> 00:34:11,680 Speaker 1: funding because one of the things that Democrats say is 545 00:34:11,719 --> 00:34:15,440 Speaker 1: we can't afford this, and they're gonna say back in September, 546 00:34:15,520 --> 00:34:17,799 Speaker 1: when you did this in twenty twenty two, well, this 547 00:34:17,920 --> 00:34:20,080 Speaker 1: is a pine the sky idea that we couldn't afford. 548 00:34:20,600 --> 00:34:22,759 Speaker 1: Let's talk about the financial side this. It's got to 549 00:34:22,800 --> 00:34:24,680 Speaker 1: be paid for before we do that. I want to 550 00:34:24,680 --> 00:34:26,680 Speaker 1: tell you about our friends at Patriot Mobile. 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I want to talk 577 00:35:44,560 --> 00:35:46,640 Speaker 1: about the funding side this because there are going to 578 00:35:46,680 --> 00:35:48,799 Speaker 1: be so many different people that say, well, we just 579 00:35:48,840 --> 00:35:53,400 Speaker 1: can't afford this, all right, The question is can we? 580 00:35:53,760 --> 00:35:56,439 Speaker 1: And you had a plan for that last year there 581 00:35:56,520 --> 00:35:58,600 Speaker 1: was money sitting there that could have been used for this. 582 00:35:59,000 --> 00:36:01,120 Speaker 1: I want to play that from your four speech. Then 583 00:36:02,520 --> 00:36:05,239 Speaker 1: I'm now going to propound a second unanimous consent bill. 584 00:36:06,480 --> 00:36:10,160 Speaker 1: There right now one hundred and thirty five billion dollars 585 00:36:11,560 --> 00:36:17,640 Speaker 1: in unspent COVID relief funds to schools. Under the rules 586 00:36:17,640 --> 00:36:20,160 Speaker 1: the Democrats have put in place, those funds cannot be 587 00:36:20,320 --> 00:36:25,719 Speaker 1: spent on school security. The second bill that I'm going 588 00:36:25,800 --> 00:36:28,759 Speaker 1: to ask this body to pass is a bill that 589 00:36:28,880 --> 00:36:33,920 Speaker 1: is very simple. It's one page. It says schools can 590 00:36:34,120 --> 00:36:36,520 Speaker 1: spend some of that one hundred and thirty five billion 591 00:36:37,719 --> 00:36:40,799 Speaker 1: on school security. They can decide what to spend it on. 592 00:36:42,280 --> 00:36:44,600 Speaker 1: But if they decide they want to hire an additional 593 00:36:44,600 --> 00:36:47,560 Speaker 1: police officer, they can spend the money on that. If 594 00:36:47,600 --> 00:36:50,360 Speaker 1: they decide they want to enhance the physical security of 595 00:36:50,400 --> 00:36:52,439 Speaker 1: their campus to make their students safer, they can spend 596 00:36:52,440 --> 00:36:57,000 Speaker 1: it on that. They can invest in school security. Right 597 00:36:57,040 --> 00:37:00,200 Speaker 1: now the Democrats have blocked them from doing this. These 598 00:37:00,200 --> 00:37:03,760 Speaker 1: are funds Congress has already appropriated that haven't been spent. 599 00:37:05,360 --> 00:37:08,520 Speaker 1: And this bill is unbelievably simple. It says the schools 600 00:37:08,600 --> 00:37:15,440 Speaker 1: can choose to invest in school security their Formatam President, 601 00:37:15,480 --> 00:37:19,120 Speaker 1: as if in legislative session, I ask unanimous consent that 602 00:37:19,160 --> 00:37:23,239 Speaker 1: the Committee on Health Education Labor and Pensions be discharged 603 00:37:23,320 --> 00:37:27,759 Speaker 1: from further consideration of S. Four five eight six, and 604 00:37:27,840 --> 00:37:31,719 Speaker 1: that the Senate proceed to its immediate consideration. Further, that 605 00:37:31,760 --> 00:37:34,480 Speaker 1: the bill be considered read a third time in past, 606 00:37:35,160 --> 00:37:38,719 Speaker 1: and that the motion to reconsider be considered made and 607 00:37:38,800 --> 00:37:42,680 Speaker 1: laid upon the table. Pretty straightforward, right, You would think 608 00:37:42,719 --> 00:37:45,399 Speaker 1: that they would say, oh, we have funds, let's do this, 609 00:37:45,480 --> 00:37:48,000 Speaker 1: let's give it a shot, and yet they still said no. 610 00:37:49,160 --> 00:37:53,800 Speaker 1: Chris Murphy had a very eloquent speech in response. He said, quote, 611 00:37:54,800 --> 00:38:02,359 Speaker 1: I object the Democrats. They literally don't give a damn now, 612 00:38:02,560 --> 00:38:05,520 Speaker 1: mind you, you know you said a moment ago, said, well, 613 00:38:06,400 --> 00:38:08,719 Speaker 1: some people will say how can we afford this? To 614 00:38:08,719 --> 00:38:10,600 Speaker 1: be honest, no Democrat would say this. They don't care 615 00:38:10,640 --> 00:38:14,440 Speaker 1: how you can afford something. They will spend trillions that 616 00:38:14,480 --> 00:38:18,080 Speaker 1: we don't have. They spend like drunken sailors. And that's 617 00:38:18,120 --> 00:38:20,200 Speaker 1: not fair to the sailors, because the sailors are spending 618 00:38:20,200 --> 00:38:23,880 Speaker 1: their own money. So no Democrat in fact asked the 619 00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:27,240 Speaker 1: question how do we pay for this? Because that could 620 00:38:27,280 --> 00:38:31,560 Speaker 1: not conceivably matter to them. They simply objected. And I 621 00:38:31,600 --> 00:38:34,800 Speaker 1: want you to look what I said on the Senate 622 00:38:34,800 --> 00:38:37,160 Speaker 1: floor there was one hundred and thirty five billion dollars 623 00:38:37,160 --> 00:38:42,600 Speaker 1: Congress had already appropriated for schools that had not been spent. 624 00:38:43,800 --> 00:38:45,880 Speaker 1: And all I was saying is, look, if a school 625 00:38:45,920 --> 00:38:49,200 Speaker 1: wants to it's got all this cash raining down from Washington. 626 00:38:49,640 --> 00:38:51,239 Speaker 1: It ought to be able to use some of it 627 00:38:51,280 --> 00:38:57,120 Speaker 1: to make the school safer. I genuinely, look, I think 628 00:38:57,160 --> 00:39:01,120 Speaker 1: I'm a fairly bright guy. I don't know how to 629 00:39:01,320 --> 00:39:04,239 Speaker 1: articulate the argument against it. Like if you tasked me, 630 00:39:04,920 --> 00:39:08,680 Speaker 1: I don't know. Maybe the CHAT, GPS, the AI program 631 00:39:08,719 --> 00:39:11,120 Speaker 1: is better than I did. If you task that, you 632 00:39:11,160 --> 00:39:14,840 Speaker 1: could come up with give a speech against allowing schools 633 00:39:14,880 --> 00:39:18,080 Speaker 1: to spend some of the COVID relief money on school security. 634 00:39:18,120 --> 00:39:19,919 Speaker 1: Maybe it could come up with a speech. I don't 635 00:39:19,960 --> 00:39:22,880 Speaker 1: know what I would say. I was a college debater. 636 00:39:22,960 --> 00:39:28,319 Speaker 1: I'm pretty good at debating a lot of propositions. I genuinely, ben, 637 00:39:28,440 --> 00:39:30,759 Speaker 1: do not know what arguments you would give, And you 638 00:39:30,800 --> 00:39:34,880 Speaker 1: know what, neither do the Democrats, because they know the 639 00:39:34,920 --> 00:39:37,600 Speaker 1: media is utterly corrupt. Look this week, as I've had 640 00:39:37,680 --> 00:39:40,520 Speaker 1: reporters stop me and ask about the shooting, and all 641 00:39:40,520 --> 00:39:42,960 Speaker 1: they say is, well, is it time to pass gun control? 642 00:39:43,560 --> 00:39:45,439 Speaker 1: And I say no, it's time to pass the bill 643 00:39:45,480 --> 00:39:50,040 Speaker 1: I introduced over a year ago that could have stopped 644 00:39:50,040 --> 00:39:52,680 Speaker 1: this mass murder by putting police officers on the ground, 645 00:39:52,920 --> 00:39:55,799 Speaker 1: by allowing schools to invest in school safety, that the 646 00:39:55,840 --> 00:40:00,239 Speaker 1: Democrats block. And I've asked probably a dozen reporters this week. 647 00:40:00,840 --> 00:40:03,480 Speaker 1: I've said, has any one of you asked even a 648 00:40:03,520 --> 00:40:09,239 Speaker 1: single Democrat? Why did you vote against increasing the number 649 00:40:09,280 --> 00:40:12,800 Speaker 1: of cops in schools? Why did you vote against allowing 650 00:40:14,440 --> 00:40:18,160 Speaker 1: schools to invest in school safety? To the best of 651 00:40:18,200 --> 00:40:21,400 Speaker 1: my knowledge, no reporter has asked any of those Democrats. 652 00:40:21,400 --> 00:40:24,399 Speaker 1: Certainly no reporter has asked Joe Biden. He doesn't get 653 00:40:24,480 --> 00:40:28,279 Speaker 1: questions like that now. He rarely answers questions harder than 654 00:40:28,320 --> 00:40:33,200 Speaker 1: what's your favorite flavor of ice cream? But the two 655 00:40:33,239 --> 00:40:37,480 Speaker 1: exchanges you played in this podcast, I will wager a 656 00:40:37,680 --> 00:40:41,719 Speaker 1: thousand dollars that nobody listening to this podcast has heard 657 00:40:41,760 --> 00:40:46,280 Speaker 1: those exchanges before unless you sit there watching c SPAN. 658 00:40:47,320 --> 00:40:50,239 Speaker 1: And it's kind of like twelve little old ladies that 659 00:40:50,280 --> 00:40:52,239 Speaker 1: watch c SPAN all day long and the rest of 660 00:40:52,239 --> 00:40:57,759 Speaker 1: America is busy living their lives. You haven't heard that. 661 00:40:58,320 --> 00:41:01,239 Speaker 1: And as I mentioned in the first floor speech, the 662 00:41:01,360 --> 00:41:04,839 Speaker 1: Senate gallery was empty. The reporters refused to cover it, 663 00:41:05,560 --> 00:41:09,160 Speaker 1: and then they come back and say, well, the Republicans 664 00:41:09,200 --> 00:41:11,520 Speaker 1: have no answer. So one of the classic back and forth. 665 00:41:13,200 --> 00:41:17,200 Speaker 1: When this horrific crime happened, I sent out a tweet 666 00:41:17,239 --> 00:41:19,880 Speaker 1: and I said, Heidi and I are praying for the 667 00:41:19,960 --> 00:41:22,799 Speaker 1: families who lost their loved ones. Were praying for the 668 00:41:22,840 --> 00:41:26,600 Speaker 1: community at Covenant School. You know, may God's peace and 669 00:41:26,719 --> 00:41:30,040 Speaker 1: grace be upon them. And listen. I'm a Christian as 670 00:41:30,040 --> 00:41:33,600 Speaker 1: a believer. When people are hurting, when people are suffering, 671 00:41:33,640 --> 00:41:35,600 Speaker 1: I will lift them up in prayer. I believe in 672 00:41:35,640 --> 00:41:38,920 Speaker 1: the power of prayer. I don't know that there's anything 673 00:41:38,960 --> 00:41:41,040 Speaker 1: that triggers the left more than that. And they start 674 00:41:41,080 --> 00:41:44,440 Speaker 1: screaming thoughts and prayers, thoughts and prayers, and they hate 675 00:41:44,440 --> 00:41:48,319 Speaker 1: thoughts and prayers. And one of the things that I've 676 00:41:48,360 --> 00:41:51,839 Speaker 1: said this week is so their standard talking point is 677 00:41:51,840 --> 00:41:54,960 Speaker 1: thoughts and prayers aren't enough. Now here's the amazing thing. 678 00:41:55,000 --> 00:41:58,080 Speaker 1: I think prayer is incredible and powerful and important. But 679 00:41:58,120 --> 00:42:01,040 Speaker 1: I actually agree with the statement thought and prayers aren't enough. 680 00:42:02,000 --> 00:42:04,480 Speaker 1: We ought to have thoughts and prayers. We also ought 681 00:42:04,480 --> 00:42:08,080 Speaker 1: to have armed police officers on campus to stop the 682 00:42:08,120 --> 00:42:12,120 Speaker 1: next lunatic because I don't want another little kid killed, 683 00:42:12,719 --> 00:42:18,160 Speaker 1: and yet the Democrat and media lie is well, the 684 00:42:18,200 --> 00:42:22,400 Speaker 1: only solution to this is gun control. Republicans have no 685 00:42:22,480 --> 00:42:26,000 Speaker 1: answer to these crimes other than thoughts and prayers. Well, 686 00:42:26,040 --> 00:42:28,600 Speaker 1: I have a very detailed answer, and it is the 687 00:42:28,760 --> 00:42:32,400 Speaker 1: Democrats who are blocking it from happening. How will this 688 00:42:32,480 --> 00:42:34,680 Speaker 1: go down? I know you're going to look at this legislation. 689 00:42:34,800 --> 00:42:36,800 Speaker 1: That's why we're doing this show a day early. Instead 690 00:42:36,800 --> 00:42:38,760 Speaker 1: of putting it out on Friday, we're doing on Thursday. 691 00:42:39,120 --> 00:42:41,759 Speaker 1: What can people be watching for and how will this work? 692 00:42:41,800 --> 00:42:44,080 Speaker 1: And who do they need to be calling? Because I 693 00:42:44,160 --> 00:42:45,920 Speaker 1: think a lot of people say tell me what to do, 694 00:42:46,040 --> 00:42:50,200 Speaker 1: give me guidance. Is it Call your senators tomorrow and say, hey, 695 00:42:50,200 --> 00:42:54,120 Speaker 1: support this. Well, the plan is this afternoon, I'm going 696 00:42:54,160 --> 00:42:55,719 Speaker 1: to go back to the Senate floor and I'm going 697 00:42:55,760 --> 00:42:58,120 Speaker 1: to try to pass these again by unanimous consent. So 698 00:42:58,120 --> 00:42:59,959 Speaker 1: it's going to be the same proceeding you just play. 699 00:43:00,520 --> 00:43:03,200 Speaker 1: I'm going to do it again this afternoon. As I 700 00:43:03,239 --> 00:43:06,120 Speaker 1: sit here right now, I don't know for a fact 701 00:43:06,600 --> 00:43:09,319 Speaker 1: that the Democrats will object, but I'll be astonished if 702 00:43:09,320 --> 00:43:11,560 Speaker 1: they don't. I don't know if it'll be Chris Murphy 703 00:43:11,600 --> 00:43:13,640 Speaker 1: or objects, or if they send someone else to do it. 704 00:43:14,120 --> 00:43:16,160 Speaker 1: But my plan is to go to try to pass 705 00:43:16,239 --> 00:43:20,440 Speaker 1: this tomorrow. And my assumption, and we'll talk about this 706 00:43:20,480 --> 00:43:23,920 Speaker 1: in the next podcast on Monday. But my assumption is 707 00:43:23,920 --> 00:43:26,120 Speaker 1: the Democrats will object, and I think they will do 708 00:43:26,160 --> 00:43:29,080 Speaker 1: the exact same thing. They will refuse to engage in 709 00:43:29,120 --> 00:43:32,280 Speaker 1: a substance of debate. They won't defend their positions. They'll 710 00:43:32,280 --> 00:43:34,480 Speaker 1: just send someone up there to say I object and 711 00:43:34,520 --> 00:43:36,320 Speaker 1: then run off the floor. By the way I talked 712 00:43:36,320 --> 00:43:39,640 Speaker 1: about while I'm giving the floor speech, Chris Murphy literally 713 00:43:39,640 --> 00:43:41,719 Speaker 1: walked off the floor. He did not care what I 714 00:43:41,719 --> 00:43:45,279 Speaker 1: had to say. He doesn't care about the substance of 715 00:43:45,280 --> 00:43:48,320 Speaker 1: how to stop these crimes. He's got a political agenda. 716 00:43:48,400 --> 00:43:51,279 Speaker 1: And so my assumption is the Democrats will do it 717 00:43:51,320 --> 00:43:54,799 Speaker 1: again later this afternoon, and we'll know for sure. 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