1 00:00:01,280 --> 00:00:01,640 Speaker 1: Welcome. 2 00:00:01,680 --> 00:00:04,400 Speaker 2: It is Vertic with Center Ted Cruise, Ben Ferguson with 3 00:00:04,480 --> 00:00:06,760 Speaker 2: you as well. And if you're listening on the radio, welcome, 4 00:00:06,880 --> 00:00:08,840 Speaker 2: So nice to have you. And if you like the show, 5 00:00:08,880 --> 00:00:10,840 Speaker 2: you love the podcast that we do three days a week, 6 00:00:10,920 --> 00:00:14,040 Speaker 2: so make sure you download Vertic with Ted Cruise wherever 7 00:00:14,120 --> 00:00:18,240 Speaker 2: you get your podcasts. Also it's on YouTube as well. 8 00:00:18,560 --> 00:00:18,840 Speaker 1: Center. 9 00:00:18,920 --> 00:00:21,319 Speaker 2: As we start, I rarely get to give you a 10 00:00:21,320 --> 00:00:23,720 Speaker 2: hard time, so we're just gonna start with that you 11 00:00:23,800 --> 00:00:27,880 Speaker 2: are now officially on TikTok, and I just love the 12 00:00:27,960 --> 00:00:29,840 Speaker 2: number of followers that you have because I don't get 13 00:00:29,840 --> 00:00:32,000 Speaker 2: to give you a hard time. But it's very low, Center, 14 00:00:32,120 --> 00:00:35,480 Speaker 2: like extremely low. Forget the fact we just started the page. 15 00:00:35,800 --> 00:00:36,800 Speaker 1: I just want to say hello. 16 00:00:36,880 --> 00:00:38,519 Speaker 2: It is so if you want to like actually be 17 00:00:38,600 --> 00:00:40,520 Speaker 2: seen when you follow this Center Cruise, like you could 18 00:00:40,520 --> 00:00:43,640 Speaker 2: be the first one, like second, one, third one. 19 00:00:43,440 --> 00:00:45,519 Speaker 1: You could actually see their name, like it could actually 20 00:00:45,560 --> 00:00:45,960 Speaker 1: be there. 21 00:00:46,680 --> 00:00:49,879 Speaker 3: It is terrifying, it is. It is pitiful. So so 22 00:00:49,960 --> 00:00:53,519 Speaker 3: we just opened a TikTok account two days ago. I 23 00:00:53,600 --> 00:00:57,560 Speaker 3: am at a measly two thousand followers, which which is 24 00:00:58,400 --> 00:01:00,720 Speaker 3: which is which is? Look, it's two days into it. 25 00:01:01,240 --> 00:01:04,319 Speaker 3: But you know I got to say. My teenage daughters 26 00:01:04,319 --> 00:01:06,600 Speaker 3: have already told me I'm not nearly cool enough to 27 00:01:06,600 --> 00:01:10,880 Speaker 3: be on TikTok. I will not be doing teenage dance moves, 28 00:01:10,959 --> 00:01:13,600 Speaker 3: although I will neither confirm nor deny. I may have 29 00:01:13,680 --> 00:01:16,600 Speaker 3: done them at their requests at home, but those videos 30 00:01:16,600 --> 00:01:17,600 Speaker 3: are suppressed forever. 31 00:01:18,120 --> 00:01:20,720 Speaker 2: Well, we're also trying to bribe them for said videos 32 00:01:20,720 --> 00:01:22,040 Speaker 2: so we can put them on TikTok. 33 00:01:22,080 --> 00:01:23,760 Speaker 1: There's a full court press from the staff. 34 00:01:24,120 --> 00:01:27,679 Speaker 3: Well, look, I have deliberately stayed off TikTok because when 35 00:01:27,680 --> 00:01:31,039 Speaker 3: the Chinese communists controlled it, I didn't want to be 36 00:01:31,120 --> 00:01:37,800 Speaker 3: subject to their surveillance or propaganda. But because President Trump 37 00:01:37,800 --> 00:01:41,240 Speaker 3: got the deal through and moved them to American ownership 38 00:01:41,240 --> 00:01:45,120 Speaker 3: and control, we've opened up yet a TikTok account. So 39 00:01:45,160 --> 00:01:48,760 Speaker 3: now we're communicat on Twitter, on Facebook, on Instagram. 40 00:01:49,160 --> 00:01:51,040 Speaker 2: And you are going to dance for Mardi Gras, though 41 00:01:51,080 --> 00:01:52,880 Speaker 2: I was told that's like one of the things, like 42 00:01:52,960 --> 00:01:54,720 Speaker 2: certain holidays, you'll do things right. 43 00:01:54,760 --> 00:01:55,400 Speaker 1: That's ben. 44 00:01:55,800 --> 00:01:58,440 Speaker 3: Let me be clear, no matter how many beads you 45 00:01:58,480 --> 00:02:01,560 Speaker 3: give me the answers, No. 46 00:02:00,600 --> 00:02:03,480 Speaker 2: No matter how many beads at tc GET Center, Cruise 47 00:02:03,520 --> 00:02:04,120 Speaker 2: gets that's it. 48 00:02:04,240 --> 00:02:04,800 Speaker 1: I like that. 49 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:08,160 Speaker 2: Now we're gonna I'm gonna test you here. Do you 50 00:02:08,320 --> 00:02:10,480 Speaker 2: know what your handle is? Right when you set it up? 51 00:02:10,520 --> 00:02:13,120 Speaker 3: Do you know that's Ted Ted Cruz. 52 00:02:13,720 --> 00:02:13,800 Speaker 4: This? 53 00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:15,880 Speaker 2: Oh wow, I'm shocked no one took that from you. 54 00:02:15,919 --> 00:02:18,280 Speaker 2: I thought the Chinese would have registered that years ago. Okay, 55 00:02:18,360 --> 00:02:20,840 Speaker 2: so it's just at It's not at Ted Cruz America, 56 00:02:20,919 --> 00:02:22,120 Speaker 2: Ted Cruz Flying Eagle. 57 00:02:22,200 --> 00:02:23,679 Speaker 1: I thought we were gonna have to get creative there. 58 00:02:24,280 --> 00:02:26,600 Speaker 3: I like Ted Cruz SA same thing my Twitter handle is, 59 00:02:26,600 --> 00:02:27,440 Speaker 3: which is Ted Cruz. 60 00:02:27,800 --> 00:02:28,280 Speaker 1: I like it. 61 00:02:28,320 --> 00:02:31,080 Speaker 2: So there you go, at Ted Cruz on TikTok. You 62 00:02:31,080 --> 00:02:32,760 Speaker 2: can be one of the first ones to get on here. 63 00:02:33,040 --> 00:02:33,160 Speaker 4: Now. 64 00:02:33,320 --> 00:02:36,840 Speaker 3: Now Twitter, we're north of ten million between the two accounts, 65 00:02:36,919 --> 00:02:39,280 Speaker 3: so but but we're just a two thousand on TikTok. 66 00:02:39,360 --> 00:02:40,280 Speaker 3: So we got some work to do. 67 00:02:40,760 --> 00:02:42,880 Speaker 1: It's just just north of ten million. I'm glad. I 68 00:02:42,919 --> 00:02:43,640 Speaker 1: love how that was. 69 00:02:43,680 --> 00:02:43,880 Speaker 4: That. 70 00:02:43,880 --> 00:02:46,119 Speaker 2: That is what you call it congressional flex there, That's 71 00:02:46,160 --> 00:02:49,400 Speaker 2: exactly what that was. Yeah, I promise I promised the 72 00:02:49,440 --> 00:02:51,680 Speaker 2: family that was your rebuttal at home as. 73 00:02:51,600 --> 00:02:53,400 Speaker 1: Well when they said you weren't cool enough for TikTok. 74 00:02:53,440 --> 00:02:54,639 Speaker 1: I love it there. 75 00:02:54,760 --> 00:02:57,120 Speaker 2: Yeah, welcome to the crazy world of TikTok, and you 76 00:02:57,120 --> 00:02:59,320 Speaker 2: can make him go forward and backwards with the boomerang things. 77 00:02:59,320 --> 00:03:01,040 Speaker 1: There's lots to think it's going to be exciting to 78 00:03:01,080 --> 00:03:03,000 Speaker 1: see what's out there. I can tell you're excited about 79 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:03,880 Speaker 1: that aspect of it. 80 00:03:03,960 --> 00:03:04,240 Speaker 5: All right. 81 00:03:05,520 --> 00:03:07,920 Speaker 3: I may be doing every TikTok with a cat filter on, 82 00:03:08,040 --> 00:03:10,160 Speaker 3: although I think that's like seven generations ago. 83 00:03:10,960 --> 00:03:11,799 Speaker 1: That's very true. 84 00:03:11,840 --> 00:03:13,639 Speaker 2: So we got a lot to talk about on today's show. 85 00:03:13,639 --> 00:03:15,040 Speaker 2: What are we gonna What are we gonna be? There's 86 00:03:15,040 --> 00:03:16,680 Speaker 2: some big news, so let's go through what we're going 87 00:03:16,760 --> 00:03:17,560 Speaker 2: to talk about today. 88 00:03:17,919 --> 00:03:18,240 Speaker 4: All right. 89 00:03:18,280 --> 00:03:21,480 Speaker 3: So Keith Ellison, the Attorney General of Minnesota, testified the 90 00:03:21,480 --> 00:03:25,519 Speaker 3: Senate this week. It was a train wreck falling off 91 00:03:25,520 --> 00:03:28,200 Speaker 3: a bridge, on fire and exploding. I think that is 92 00:03:28,280 --> 00:03:31,200 Speaker 3: the understated way to put how well his testimony went. 93 00:03:31,480 --> 00:03:34,160 Speaker 3: We're going to give you some excerpts of that. He 94 00:03:34,240 --> 00:03:37,840 Speaker 3: refused to take responsibility for any of the massive fraud 95 00:03:37,880 --> 00:03:40,320 Speaker 3: in his state. He refused to take responsibility for his 96 00:03:40,440 --> 00:03:43,800 Speaker 3: own wrongdoing. He was angry, bitter, and partisan. So it 97 00:03:43,880 --> 00:03:46,320 Speaker 3: was exactly what you would have expected from Keith Ellison. 98 00:03:47,040 --> 00:03:51,000 Speaker 3: We're also going to talk about that Democrats are responsible 99 00:03:51,040 --> 00:03:55,920 Speaker 3: for the single largest spill of sewage in American history. 100 00:03:55,960 --> 00:03:58,360 Speaker 3: And that is not a joke. I am not making 101 00:03:58,400 --> 00:04:01,160 Speaker 3: that up, and the press is not telling you about it. Well, 102 00:04:01,800 --> 00:04:04,600 Speaker 3: Ben and I are. And finally we're gonna we're gonna 103 00:04:04,760 --> 00:04:07,560 Speaker 3: talk about the Save America Act, where it is, what 104 00:04:07,600 --> 00:04:09,880 Speaker 3: the Senate needs to do to pass it, how we 105 00:04:09,920 --> 00:04:12,360 Speaker 3: protect integrity in our elections. All of those are in 106 00:04:12,360 --> 00:04:13,680 Speaker 3: today's pod and today's show. 107 00:04:14,200 --> 00:04:15,360 Speaker 1: Yeah, it's gonna be a good one. 108 00:04:15,440 --> 00:04:17,920 Speaker 2: So make sure you download Verdict with Ted Cruz also 109 00:04:17,960 --> 00:04:19,960 Speaker 2: where every of your podcast, and you can also watch 110 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:21,960 Speaker 2: as I mentioned earlier on YouTube and even some of 111 00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:24,240 Speaker 2: the shorts on TikTok as well. All right, so let's 112 00:04:24,279 --> 00:04:28,480 Speaker 2: start with Ellison testifying and really fail to take accountability 113 00:04:28,520 --> 00:04:32,400 Speaker 2: for Minnesota and the fraud there. It is not surprising 114 00:04:33,000 --> 00:04:36,280 Speaker 2: that he wanted to deflect in a major way. That's 115 00:04:36,320 --> 00:04:39,400 Speaker 2: what he's decided to do, obviously, Senator and and and 116 00:04:39,480 --> 00:04:42,400 Speaker 2: I get the strategy, but it didn't really work out 117 00:04:42,440 --> 00:04:44,640 Speaker 2: for him when he had to answer real questions. 118 00:04:44,680 --> 00:04:45,920 Speaker 1: You can only die so much. 119 00:04:46,560 --> 00:04:49,080 Speaker 3: Yeah, it did not work out at all. We're gonna 120 00:04:49,120 --> 00:04:53,480 Speaker 3: start with with with Josh Holly, my colleague who questioned, 121 00:04:53,560 --> 00:04:57,120 Speaker 3: Keith Ellison did a very good job. Ellison was battling 122 00:04:57,160 --> 00:05:00,240 Speaker 3: and dodging the whole time. But but but the this 123 00:05:00,440 --> 00:05:02,920 Speaker 3: was fiery. To put it mildly, give a listen. 124 00:05:02,960 --> 00:05:05,800 Speaker 4: Try another question. You familiar with the nine billion dollars 125 00:05:05,800 --> 00:05:08,480 Speaker 4: in historic fraud out of your state, including the two 126 00:05:08,600 --> 00:05:12,200 Speaker 4: hundred and fifty million dollars in the Feeding Our Future program? 127 00:05:12,279 --> 00:05:14,039 Speaker 4: Alone you familiar with that? Don't turn to the pages 128 00:05:14,080 --> 00:05:16,000 Speaker 4: in your book to get your potted answers. Are you 129 00:05:16,040 --> 00:05:17,240 Speaker 4: familiar with it? Yes or no? 130 00:05:17,480 --> 00:05:18,680 Speaker 5: Yes, I am familiar with. 131 00:05:18,839 --> 00:05:21,240 Speaker 4: Very familiar, aren't you. Because the people who ran the 132 00:05:21,240 --> 00:05:24,279 Speaker 4: Feeding our Futures program came to you and your official 133 00:05:24,400 --> 00:05:27,080 Speaker 4: office in the state capitol of December eleventh to twenty 134 00:05:27,080 --> 00:05:31,240 Speaker 4: twenty one and ask for your help in getting investigators 135 00:05:31,279 --> 00:05:34,760 Speaker 4: off their backs. They complained to you for upwards of 136 00:05:34,800 --> 00:05:38,680 Speaker 4: an hour about state investigators going after them, and they 137 00:05:38,720 --> 00:05:42,440 Speaker 4: begged you to help them, and you agreed to it amazingly. 138 00:05:42,560 --> 00:05:45,359 Speaker 4: And we know you did. That's because it's all caught 139 00:05:45,400 --> 00:05:48,360 Speaker 4: on tape. Every single sentence is caught on tape. Here's 140 00:05:48,360 --> 00:05:48,680 Speaker 4: what you said. 141 00:05:48,720 --> 00:05:49,120 Speaker 5: Let's take it on. 142 00:05:49,880 --> 00:05:52,360 Speaker 4: You said this sat a question you said to them, 143 00:05:53,040 --> 00:05:56,360 Speaker 4: send me the names of all these folks who are 144 00:05:56,360 --> 00:05:58,800 Speaker 4: investigating them. You said to them, send me their names, 145 00:05:59,360 --> 00:06:01,599 Speaker 4: and I'll take that list and I'll call the person 146 00:06:01,640 --> 00:06:04,520 Speaker 4: over at education who was investigating them and say, what's 147 00:06:04,560 --> 00:06:07,760 Speaker 4: going on? Why am I getting these complaints? Then you 148 00:06:07,800 --> 00:06:10,919 Speaker 4: went on to say, I already have my team working 149 00:06:10,960 --> 00:06:14,320 Speaker 4: on this. What day should we get together to discuss 150 00:06:14,360 --> 00:06:18,640 Speaker 4: it again? You made pledge after pledge to them. You said, 151 00:06:18,640 --> 00:06:21,080 Speaker 4: we've got to make sure this guy who's investigating them 152 00:06:21,320 --> 00:06:24,960 Speaker 4: stops it. You said, you have my attention. I'm concerned 153 00:06:24,960 --> 00:06:28,840 Speaker 4: about this. You said, let's go fight these people, meaning 154 00:06:28,880 --> 00:06:33,400 Speaker 4: the people who are investigating the fraud. Why'd you do it? 155 00:06:33,640 --> 00:06:34,520 Speaker 4: Why did you help them? 156 00:06:34,640 --> 00:06:35,559 Speaker 5: Are you gonna let me answer? 157 00:06:36,240 --> 00:06:36,600 Speaker 4: Please? 158 00:06:36,960 --> 00:06:39,640 Speaker 5: We're all here, so first of all, you're cherry picking 159 00:06:39,640 --> 00:06:40,280 Speaker 5: colts out of there? 160 00:06:40,320 --> 00:06:41,360 Speaker 4: Then why did you help me? 161 00:06:41,400 --> 00:06:43,000 Speaker 5: I thought you were gonna let me answer? Why did 162 00:06:43,000 --> 00:06:44,000 Speaker 5: you let me answer? 163 00:06:44,360 --> 00:06:45,000 Speaker 4: Why did you help? 164 00:06:45,080 --> 00:06:45,159 Speaker 3: You? 165 00:06:45,200 --> 00:06:46,240 Speaker 5: Let me answer? And I'll answer. 166 00:06:46,279 --> 00:06:47,760 Speaker 4: You tell the truth and I'll let you answer. 167 00:06:47,839 --> 00:06:49,880 Speaker 6: I will tell you it'd be a nice change, so 168 00:06:50,680 --> 00:06:53,320 Speaker 6: that I see, mister chairman, I didn't come here to 169 00:06:53,320 --> 00:06:53,839 Speaker 6: be insulted. 170 00:06:53,880 --> 00:06:55,679 Speaker 5: I came here value you came here for the truth. 171 00:06:55,760 --> 00:06:58,920 Speaker 4: Let's have it. Why did you help? Are here? They're 172 00:06:58,920 --> 00:07:01,160 Speaker 4: in black and white, and every remeber this audience and 173 00:07:01,200 --> 00:07:05,200 Speaker 4: their chair listen to the recording. It's fifty four minutes long. 174 00:07:05,320 --> 00:07:07,440 Speaker 4: It's all in public that you can google it right 175 00:07:07,480 --> 00:07:10,720 Speaker 4: now and listen to it and listen to to help them. 176 00:07:10,880 --> 00:07:12,920 Speaker 5: First of all, I didn't help them, you did? No, 177 00:07:13,000 --> 00:07:15,040 Speaker 5: I did not. I certainly didn't. 178 00:07:15,120 --> 00:07:17,720 Speaker 4: You're saying you didn't do anything for them. You you didn't, 179 00:07:17,800 --> 00:07:19,480 Speaker 4: you didn't. Well, wait a minute, I already have my 180 00:07:19,480 --> 00:07:20,920 Speaker 4: team working on this again. That's not you. 181 00:07:20,960 --> 00:07:21,160 Speaker 3: I have. 182 00:07:21,400 --> 00:07:23,080 Speaker 5: I've been with my team. 183 00:07:23,600 --> 00:07:27,960 Speaker 6: My team assisted with the information that led to the 184 00:07:28,000 --> 00:07:29,720 Speaker 6: prosecution and conviction of. 185 00:07:29,640 --> 00:07:32,200 Speaker 4: These didn't You didn't finger to prosecute them. No, you 186 00:07:32,200 --> 00:07:37,240 Speaker 4: did not because you had all bs. You have whistleblowers 187 00:07:37,320 --> 00:07:41,120 Speaker 4: talking to you, one talking by listen, it's my time. 188 00:07:41,200 --> 00:07:42,440 Speaker 5: Doesn't know what you're talking about? 189 00:07:42,480 --> 00:07:46,400 Speaker 4: You, sir, you now encountered. Why did you take your money? 190 00:07:46,880 --> 00:07:47,160 Speaker 1: Center? 191 00:07:47,240 --> 00:07:49,280 Speaker 2: You're a movie guy. What let's see how good you are? 192 00:07:49,360 --> 00:07:51,400 Speaker 2: What's the movie where you can't handle the tree? 193 00:07:51,680 --> 00:07:53,520 Speaker 3: Yes? Okay, but Ben, you and I have been doing 194 00:07:53,520 --> 00:07:57,960 Speaker 3: this too long. It is the greatest missed opportunity. Think 195 00:07:58,440 --> 00:08:01,640 Speaker 3: it is the greatest missed up opportunity in the history 196 00:08:02,000 --> 00:08:06,080 Speaker 3: of Senate hearings. That that that Keith Ellison didn't say 197 00:08:06,160 --> 00:08:10,400 Speaker 3: you want the truth, you can't handle the truth. I 198 00:08:10,440 --> 00:08:14,760 Speaker 3: was like, come on, oh, I mean, it was screaming 199 00:08:14,880 --> 00:08:17,520 Speaker 3: for him to say it. But but listen, the reality 200 00:08:17,600 --> 00:08:22,040 Speaker 3: is Keith Ellison doesn't want anything resembling the truth. Josh 201 00:08:22,120 --> 00:08:25,640 Speaker 3: is right. That entire conversation is on tape, and it 202 00:08:25,720 --> 00:08:29,600 Speaker 3: is the criminals coming to the Attorney General saying would 203 00:08:29,640 --> 00:08:32,760 Speaker 3: you stop the people who are investigating us to find 204 00:08:32,840 --> 00:08:37,760 Speaker 3: our crimes? And the Attorney General, this left wing democrat 205 00:08:37,800 --> 00:08:41,360 Speaker 3: who was getting elected by these criminals, said sure, I'll 206 00:08:41,400 --> 00:08:44,559 Speaker 3: help you. It's all on tape. Josh Holly's question, why'd 207 00:08:44,559 --> 00:08:47,000 Speaker 3: you take the money? Let let's let's listen to to 208 00:08:47,320 --> 00:08:50,559 Speaker 3: that question and what the facts are and and spoiler alert, 209 00:08:50,960 --> 00:08:53,079 Speaker 3: Ellison's just gonna lie. Give a listen. 210 00:08:53,800 --> 00:08:56,280 Speaker 4: Why did you take your money? Why did you take 211 00:08:56,320 --> 00:08:56,920 Speaker 4: their money? 212 00:08:57,160 --> 00:09:00,640 Speaker 6: I didn't you took tens of false thousand, No, that's 213 00:09:00,679 --> 00:09:05,640 Speaker 6: a false ten thousand dollars nine days after the meeting. 214 00:09:05,760 --> 00:09:09,040 Speaker 4: False, you took ten thousand dollars. Here's what happened. They 215 00:09:09,080 --> 00:09:11,760 Speaker 4: went to your office. They so listed in money from you, 216 00:09:12,840 --> 00:09:15,440 Speaker 4: from you. They came to your office, it was your 217 00:09:15,480 --> 00:09:18,160 Speaker 4: official office. You lived with them for fifty four minutes. 218 00:09:18,600 --> 00:09:20,600 Speaker 4: They asked you for help. You pledged it to them, 219 00:09:20,640 --> 00:09:23,360 Speaker 4: and they talked repeatedly about money. In fact, it's all 220 00:09:23,360 --> 00:09:26,520 Speaker 4: they talked. That's a lot of money, money, money, money. 221 00:09:26,559 --> 00:09:29,680 Speaker 4: They said, we will put our dollars in the right place. 222 00:09:29,960 --> 00:09:32,640 Speaker 4: We will support candidates that will fight to protect our interests. 223 00:09:32,640 --> 00:09:35,920 Speaker 4: You replied, that's right. They said that you are securing 224 00:09:35,960 --> 00:09:38,720 Speaker 4: your donor base and securing your power base. You can 225 00:09:38,720 --> 00:09:41,720 Speaker 4: act the way you want. You replied, money is freedom. 226 00:09:42,200 --> 00:09:45,280 Speaker 4: They said, the amount of money circulate I'm reading the transcript. 227 00:09:45,320 --> 00:09:47,800 Speaker 4: The amount of money you're relating in our community today 228 00:09:47,960 --> 00:09:51,080 Speaker 4: is powerful and we haven't realizing it in a meaningful way. 229 00:09:51,120 --> 00:09:54,720 Speaker 4: And you said, give me the specifics. And nine days 230 00:09:54,800 --> 00:09:58,959 Speaker 4: later you took ten thousand dollars from people who were 231 00:09:58,960 --> 00:10:02,040 Speaker 4: then indicted. It's your reports. Why did you do it, sir? 232 00:10:02,240 --> 00:10:03,560 Speaker 4: This was it worth it? 233 00:10:04,320 --> 00:10:06,680 Speaker 5: You know what? This is a theatrical ten thousand. 234 00:10:06,760 --> 00:10:09,120 Speaker 4: This is the truth what a building looks like, of 235 00:10:09,160 --> 00:10:13,280 Speaker 4: which you've had, you helped fraudsters, defraud your spy and 236 00:10:13,400 --> 00:10:17,000 Speaker 4: this government of nine million dollars and you got that 237 00:10:17,160 --> 00:10:18,719 Speaker 4: campaign contribution. 238 00:10:18,280 --> 00:10:18,600 Speaker 1: Out of it. 239 00:10:19,080 --> 00:10:20,120 Speaker 4: You ought to be indicted. 240 00:10:20,280 --> 00:10:23,200 Speaker 5: True, Well, that's the truth. I think we've made the point. 241 00:10:23,240 --> 00:10:25,120 Speaker 5: Let's keep the ten for the record. 242 00:10:25,160 --> 00:10:26,520 Speaker 4: I'll ask how's alling? 243 00:10:26,920 --> 00:10:28,360 Speaker 5: And that's and that's the truth. 244 00:10:28,520 --> 00:10:30,480 Speaker 4: Oh no, this is all on the road. So did 245 00:10:30,520 --> 00:10:33,360 Speaker 4: you bother? O? Did you bother to investigate where the 246 00:10:33,360 --> 00:10:36,320 Speaker 4: money that you facilitated their fraud for where it went? 247 00:10:36,840 --> 00:10:38,280 Speaker 4: Do you know where it went? What it was used for? 248 00:10:38,440 --> 00:10:41,439 Speaker 4: The fraudulent money? I do, because we just heard testimony 249 00:10:41,480 --> 00:10:44,720 Speaker 4: about it yesterday. Because we run with tears in the 250 00:10:44,840 --> 00:10:49,280 Speaker 4: hundreds of millions of dollars to terrorists, to transnational criminal organizations, 251 00:10:49,320 --> 00:10:53,400 Speaker 4: to the drug trade, to drug trafficking, to child trafficking. 252 00:10:53,520 --> 00:10:56,480 Speaker 4: And you took ten thousand dollars. That's a lot and 253 00:10:56,600 --> 00:10:58,800 Speaker 4: help them do it. You know. The other thing is, 254 00:10:58,920 --> 00:11:01,960 Speaker 4: whistleblowers came to you as early as twenty nineteen. Let's 255 00:11:01,960 --> 00:11:05,760 Speaker 4: look as early as twenty nineteen. Whistle blod don't talk 256 00:11:05,760 --> 00:11:09,640 Speaker 4: over me. As early as twenty nineteen, it's my hearing pal. 257 00:11:10,400 --> 00:11:14,040 Speaker 4: As early as twenty nineteen, don't come whistle blowers came 258 00:11:14,080 --> 00:11:15,719 Speaker 4: to well, I should call you prisoner because you ought 259 00:11:15,760 --> 00:11:16,240 Speaker 4: to be in jail. 260 00:11:16,320 --> 00:11:17,280 Speaker 5: Well, see what you get. 261 00:11:17,280 --> 00:11:21,400 Speaker 4: In twenty nineteen, whistleblowers came to you in your office 262 00:11:21,760 --> 00:11:24,880 Speaker 4: and referred to you fraud allegations from Feeding our Futures, 263 00:11:24,880 --> 00:11:26,600 Speaker 4: and you blow them off. Listen to your own state 264 00:11:26,640 --> 00:11:29,760 Speaker 4: newspaper that's allowed at the Minnesota Start Tribune. The Partners 265 00:11:29,760 --> 00:11:32,720 Speaker 4: and Nutrition brought its concerns to the Attorney General's office 266 00:11:32,720 --> 00:11:36,360 Speaker 4: in twenty eighteen and in twenty nineteen, and you did nothing. 267 00:11:36,880 --> 00:11:39,120 Speaker 4: You did nothing for years. The only action you took 268 00:11:39,240 --> 00:11:42,600 Speaker 4: is once all these fraudsters came to your office and 269 00:11:42,679 --> 00:11:44,400 Speaker 4: asked you to get involved and offered your money, and 270 00:11:45,000 --> 00:11:47,400 Speaker 4: then you got involved. Then you talk the money, and 271 00:11:47,440 --> 00:11:48,319 Speaker 4: then you got involved. 272 00:11:48,320 --> 00:11:51,160 Speaker 5: They did not come to my office. You're completely wrong 273 00:11:51,160 --> 00:11:53,959 Speaker 5: about that. You met with it in that fifty twenty. 274 00:11:53,840 --> 00:11:56,360 Speaker 4: Minutes and you took ten thousand dollars and they also 275 00:11:56,360 --> 00:11:59,080 Speaker 4: gave your family money. They gave your family thousands of 276 00:11:59,080 --> 00:12:01,760 Speaker 4: dollars in campaign contributions, is what they gave. 277 00:12:01,840 --> 00:12:02,520 Speaker 5: False statement. 278 00:12:02,679 --> 00:12:05,079 Speaker 6: Let's put the this is you know this is completely 279 00:12:05,120 --> 00:12:06,160 Speaker 6: on the New York Post. 280 00:12:06,600 --> 00:12:09,280 Speaker 4: Yeah, we know the New York Post Minnesota Keith Ellwilson 281 00:12:09,360 --> 00:12:12,160 Speaker 4: ag accepted campaign donations from individuals link to the two 282 00:12:12,240 --> 00:12:14,959 Speaker 4: or fifty million dollars COVID fraud scheme after they were 283 00:12:14,960 --> 00:12:17,800 Speaker 4: in your office. No donations came on December twentieth. Sir, 284 00:12:17,920 --> 00:12:19,840 Speaker 4: you met with them on December the eleventh, and on 285 00:12:19,960 --> 00:12:23,280 Speaker 4: January twentieth, the FBI knocked over their headquarters. 286 00:12:23,360 --> 00:12:24,480 Speaker 5: No, no, that's the. 287 00:12:24,360 --> 00:12:27,800 Speaker 4: Sequence of events here. No, it's you've been right at 288 00:12:27,800 --> 00:12:31,959 Speaker 4: the center of this fraud, not the sequence. And and sir, 289 00:12:32,040 --> 00:12:34,200 Speaker 4: the false you should resign. 290 00:12:34,600 --> 00:12:37,600 Speaker 2: I mean, you look at this hearing and he's like, 291 00:12:37,800 --> 00:12:40,200 Speaker 2: you know, good luck with that, basically putting me in jail. 292 00:12:40,320 --> 00:12:43,360 Speaker 2: He does seem incredibly arrogant, cocky for a guy that's 293 00:12:43,360 --> 00:12:44,520 Speaker 2: being accused of all these things. 294 00:12:44,559 --> 00:12:46,880 Speaker 1: But unrepass they've just been conditioned, right like. 295 00:12:46,880 --> 00:12:50,040 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, he's he's never been called to account. And 296 00:12:50,080 --> 00:12:52,079 Speaker 3: his response is just a lie. Say that's a lie. 297 00:12:52,080 --> 00:12:53,880 Speaker 3: That's a lie. That's lie. By the way, he doesn't 298 00:12:53,880 --> 00:12:56,600 Speaker 3: have any facts to the contrary. And when Josh lays 299 00:12:56,600 --> 00:13:00,600 Speaker 3: out the receipts that he actually received the contribution, received 300 00:13:00,600 --> 00:13:04,560 Speaker 3: them nine days after meeting with the fraudsters, and promising 301 00:13:04,559 --> 00:13:08,480 Speaker 3: to help them. He has no response other than scream, liar, liar, liar. 302 00:13:08,880 --> 00:13:11,680 Speaker 3: But look, it's not just that Keith Ellison, like the 303 00:13:11,720 --> 00:13:15,520 Speaker 3: rest of the Minnesota Democrats, is extreme and radical. Listen 304 00:13:15,559 --> 00:13:20,120 Speaker 3: to him here refusing to condemn Lewis Farrakhn's bigotry and 305 00:13:20,160 --> 00:13:24,200 Speaker 3: anti semitism. This is Bernie Moreno, Senator from Ohio, questioning him. 306 00:13:24,200 --> 00:13:26,520 Speaker 6: Give a listen, I speak against anti Semitism. 307 00:13:26,600 --> 00:13:28,320 Speaker 5: I condemn it as reponent and wrong. 308 00:13:28,440 --> 00:13:31,760 Speaker 7: Let's positive you speak against anti semitism. Will you condemn 309 00:13:31,920 --> 00:13:36,040 Speaker 7: Lewis Ferrikhon's comments saying that Judaism is a dirty religion? 310 00:13:37,520 --> 00:13:40,520 Speaker 6: You know, sir, I thought I was coming here to 311 00:13:40,559 --> 00:13:43,320 Speaker 6: talk about him with that. By no, no, no, I 312 00:13:43,320 --> 00:13:46,719 Speaker 6: thought I was talking about immigration policy. I didn't know 313 00:13:46,800 --> 00:13:50,079 Speaker 6: that we were going to be talking about all these matters. 314 00:13:50,200 --> 00:13:53,199 Speaker 6: I mean, I'm reluctant to just sort of I mean, 315 00:13:53,200 --> 00:13:55,680 Speaker 6: we already had one thing where we didn't mention immigration 316 00:13:55,800 --> 00:13:59,560 Speaker 6: policy at all. I'm fine with you asking about questions 317 00:13:59,600 --> 00:14:01,840 Speaker 6: around asylum and things like that. 318 00:14:01,840 --> 00:14:03,080 Speaker 5: That makes a lot of sense to me. 319 00:14:03,320 --> 00:14:06,040 Speaker 6: But now we're going off in all kind of different directions. 320 00:14:06,320 --> 00:14:08,400 Speaker 6: I think there should be some scope to this hearing, 321 00:14:08,840 --> 00:14:13,439 Speaker 6: and so thank you for your interest, and we both 322 00:14:13,480 --> 00:14:16,080 Speaker 6: share a need to con. 323 00:14:17,200 --> 00:14:17,480 Speaker 1: Senator. 324 00:14:17,720 --> 00:14:19,480 Speaker 2: I love how it's almost like he's trying to steal 325 00:14:19,480 --> 00:14:21,520 Speaker 2: aligne from Donald Trump. They're like, thank you for your 326 00:14:21,560 --> 00:14:23,640 Speaker 2: attention to this matter. You can't make it up. 327 00:14:24,520 --> 00:14:27,520 Speaker 3: Well, and of course he was completely unwilling to condemn 328 00:14:28,080 --> 00:14:33,360 Speaker 3: Lewis Ferrikhan's vicious anti semitism. Keith Ellison is Muslim, Lewis 329 00:14:33,360 --> 00:14:37,720 Speaker 3: ferri Khan is Muslim, and they both have reveled in 330 00:14:37,760 --> 00:14:41,880 Speaker 3: big bigotry. Look a related. He said he was willing 331 00:14:41,920 --> 00:14:45,160 Speaker 3: to talk about immigration. Well, when it comes to the 332 00:14:45,200 --> 00:14:48,480 Speaker 3: anti ice protesters in Minnesota, you remember the ones that 333 00:14:48,520 --> 00:14:52,360 Speaker 3: burst into the church service and disturbed the Christian church. Well, 334 00:14:52,920 --> 00:14:58,680 Speaker 3: Keith Ellison did an interview about that where he said, quote, 335 00:14:59,160 --> 00:15:01,960 Speaker 3: I think that protest is fundamental to American society. You know, 336 00:15:02,000 --> 00:15:04,560 Speaker 3: it's freedom of expression. People have a right to lift 337 00:15:04,600 --> 00:15:06,520 Speaker 3: up their voices and make their peace, and none of 338 00:15:06,560 --> 00:15:09,000 Speaker 3: us are immune to the voice of the public. And 339 00:15:09,040 --> 00:15:13,360 Speaker 3: then he says they're getting tender about a church service now, 340 00:15:14,120 --> 00:15:16,720 Speaker 3: so he is of course siding with the anti ice 341 00:15:16,880 --> 00:15:20,280 Speaker 3: protesters who are disrupting a church service. Which by the way, 342 00:15:20,360 --> 00:15:22,960 Speaker 3: is a violation of federal law, the Federal Face Act. 343 00:15:23,240 --> 00:15:26,440 Speaker 3: And his statement they're getting tender about a church service. 344 00:15:26,800 --> 00:15:30,320 Speaker 3: That's just how intolerant he is. Just a minute ago 345 00:15:30,360 --> 00:15:34,600 Speaker 3: he refused to condemn Lewis Farrakhan's bigotry and anti semitism, 346 00:15:34,840 --> 00:15:38,240 Speaker 3: and instead he said, can we talk about immigration policy? 347 00:15:38,400 --> 00:15:41,520 Speaker 3: Well that that wasn't the best idea either. Bernie Moreno 348 00:15:41,600 --> 00:15:44,200 Speaker 3: did ask him about immigration policy and it didn't go 349 00:15:44,280 --> 00:15:44,600 Speaker 3: so well. 350 00:15:44,600 --> 00:15:47,600 Speaker 7: Give a listen, Mexico and Canada, do you consider those 351 00:15:47,600 --> 00:15:48,840 Speaker 7: to be safe countries or no? 352 00:15:50,080 --> 00:15:52,520 Speaker 5: Generally I do, but there is you do. 353 00:15:54,360 --> 00:15:55,040 Speaker 4: You border Canada? 354 00:15:55,040 --> 00:15:56,880 Speaker 5: Don't insult your neighbors to the north. Now, I love 355 00:15:56,920 --> 00:15:57,840 Speaker 5: my neighbors to the north. 356 00:15:58,160 --> 00:16:01,200 Speaker 7: Is it a generally safe country? Generally yes, so that 357 00:16:01,400 --> 00:16:05,600 Speaker 7: somebody seeking asylum could certainly be safe in Canada and 358 00:16:05,640 --> 00:16:06,480 Speaker 7: Mexico now. 359 00:16:06,880 --> 00:16:11,360 Speaker 6: Now, so like if somebody we do know that in Mexico, 360 00:16:11,360 --> 00:16:13,680 Speaker 6: which is another country I truly admire and think it's 361 00:16:13,680 --> 00:16:17,200 Speaker 6: a wonderful country. But they have been cases of persecution 362 00:16:17,400 --> 00:16:19,600 Speaker 6: people who I have legitimate. 363 00:16:19,200 --> 00:16:22,480 Speaker 7: People aren't safe in Mexico. Refugees cannot be safe in Mexico. 364 00:16:22,680 --> 00:16:25,560 Speaker 5: Some might not be and I think in what I say. 365 00:16:25,440 --> 00:16:27,480 Speaker 7: Insadra shouldn't have a free trade agreement with him. 366 00:16:27,480 --> 00:16:29,000 Speaker 5: Then I didn't say. 367 00:16:28,800 --> 00:16:29,520 Speaker 1: That, Senator. 368 00:16:29,560 --> 00:16:31,560 Speaker 2: He didn't like answering those questions at all, did he 369 00:16:31,600 --> 00:16:33,680 Speaker 2: after he already said he wanted to bring up the topic. 370 00:16:34,680 --> 00:16:37,480 Speaker 3: Yeah, no, he did not. He did not like those 371 00:16:37,560 --> 00:16:40,760 Speaker 3: questions at all. And I got to say his testimony 372 00:16:41,160 --> 00:16:45,320 Speaker 3: was nothing but a bunch of crap. Now that actually 373 00:16:45,320 --> 00:16:48,440 Speaker 3: happens to be highly relevant because our next story is 374 00:16:48,480 --> 00:16:51,840 Speaker 3: really an amazing story that deals with Democrats and a 375 00:16:51,920 --> 00:16:57,160 Speaker 3: bunch of crap. Yeah, Democrats in Washington, d C. And 376 00:16:57,280 --> 00:17:03,600 Speaker 3: Virginia and Maryland. Our response for the largest sewage spill 377 00:17:03,720 --> 00:17:06,359 Speaker 3: in American history. I want to read a headline to you. 378 00:17:07,320 --> 00:17:09,680 Speaker 3: The failure in a section of a seventy two inch 379 00:17:09,760 --> 00:17:14,680 Speaker 3: sewer pipe in Maryland has released close to a billion 380 00:17:15,200 --> 00:17:18,760 Speaker 3: that's with a b a billion gallons of raw sewage 381 00:17:19,440 --> 00:17:24,119 Speaker 3: into the Potomac River just inside the Beltway. It's now 382 00:17:24,200 --> 00:17:30,280 Speaker 3: considered the largest spill of wastewater in US history. Maryland 383 00:17:30,560 --> 00:17:35,399 Speaker 3: and Virginia democrats haven't said a word nothing. 384 00:17:35,440 --> 00:17:36,600 Speaker 1: They don't want you to know about it. 385 00:17:36,640 --> 00:17:38,879 Speaker 2: They don't want you to know this is this is 386 00:17:38,960 --> 00:17:41,639 Speaker 2: like a massive oil spill, except it's raw sewage in 387 00:17:41,680 --> 00:17:44,440 Speaker 2: the Potomac River. It is going to have an impact 388 00:17:44,480 --> 00:17:48,640 Speaker 2: on like everything there, including the fish and the crabs, 389 00:17:48,680 --> 00:17:51,280 Speaker 2: and the whole list goes on and on, and usually 390 00:17:51,520 --> 00:17:54,320 Speaker 2: the left is like the scream and yell and show 391 00:17:54,400 --> 00:17:57,359 Speaker 2: up for the wildlife and peta and all of that 392 00:17:57,400 --> 00:17:59,800 Speaker 2: when you have things happen that they don't like. But 393 00:18:00,080 --> 00:18:01,960 Speaker 2: on this one, they're like, let's just be quiet, and 394 00:18:01,960 --> 00:18:05,720 Speaker 2: actually it's not happening. In A billion gallons that is 395 00:18:05,760 --> 00:18:07,960 Speaker 2: going in of sewage is going into the Potomac right 396 00:18:08,000 --> 00:18:10,360 Speaker 2: like we're just a talk about it. 397 00:18:10,760 --> 00:18:15,280 Speaker 3: Billion gallons of human waste, of human excrement was dumped 398 00:18:15,280 --> 00:18:19,800 Speaker 3: into the Potomac River. And Democrats, look, Democrats answer to 399 00:18:19,840 --> 00:18:22,200 Speaker 3: everything is government. We want government in charge. We want 400 00:18:22,240 --> 00:18:24,360 Speaker 3: government in charge. And the dirty little secret, whether it's 401 00:18:24,359 --> 00:18:27,879 Speaker 3: Minnesota or whether it's Maryland and DC is Democrats are 402 00:18:27,960 --> 00:18:29,360 Speaker 3: really really bad at government. 403 00:18:29,600 --> 00:18:31,920 Speaker 1: They like, when they're in charge, we'll get mine down 404 00:18:32,040 --> 00:18:32,480 Speaker 1: by York. 405 00:18:32,520 --> 00:18:34,520 Speaker 2: And like two weeks he's like, can't figure out how 406 00:18:34,520 --> 00:18:37,159 Speaker 2: to get trash or melt ice or deal with the 407 00:18:37,240 --> 00:18:40,080 Speaker 2: rat problem that happened in a few weeks. 408 00:18:40,160 --> 00:18:42,040 Speaker 3: And and by the way, DC for the last two 409 00:18:42,040 --> 00:18:44,960 Speaker 3: weeks has been buried in snow. They can't figure out 410 00:18:44,960 --> 00:18:48,639 Speaker 3: how to shovel the sidewalks. I mean, they're completely confused. 411 00:18:49,200 --> 00:18:52,119 Speaker 3: I did an event with President Trump out at the 412 00:18:52,160 --> 00:18:55,800 Speaker 3: Treasury Department I think it was two weeks ago. Where 413 00:18:55,840 --> 00:18:58,480 Speaker 3: to get into the Treasury Department, I literally had to 414 00:18:58,560 --> 00:19:01,760 Speaker 3: scale basically this no bank that was about four feet 415 00:19:01,840 --> 00:19:04,639 Speaker 3: high because there was no break in it. That Apparently 416 00:19:05,160 --> 00:19:07,960 Speaker 3: nobody in the Washington DC government can figure out where 417 00:19:08,000 --> 00:19:08,720 Speaker 3: a sidewalk is. 418 00:19:08,920 --> 00:19:11,080 Speaker 2: That's what people want on TikTok. You should have taken 419 00:19:11,119 --> 00:19:12,919 Speaker 2: that video that would have gone viral. 420 00:19:13,440 --> 00:19:17,160 Speaker 3: And my Press secretary was in four inch spike high 421 00:19:17,200 --> 00:19:20,840 Speaker 3: heels and she managed to scale that icy snow bank. 422 00:19:20,880 --> 00:19:23,240 Speaker 3: I thought she was going to break her neck. And 423 00:19:23,480 --> 00:19:26,240 Speaker 3: the problem is she would assue DC and DC's judgment 424 00:19:26,280 --> 00:19:28,960 Speaker 3: proof they have no money because they're run by Democrats. 425 00:19:29,320 --> 00:19:32,560 Speaker 3: But listen to some more details on this sewage spill, 426 00:19:32,600 --> 00:19:35,879 Speaker 3: because I'm curious. Has this been on the six six 427 00:19:35,920 --> 00:19:37,440 Speaker 3: o'clock news on any of the networks. 428 00:19:38,000 --> 00:19:40,600 Speaker 2: No, no one's talking about this. Yeah, I mean, until 429 00:19:40,640 --> 00:19:43,359 Speaker 2: we decide we go through the rundown. I didn't know 430 00:19:43,400 --> 00:19:45,760 Speaker 2: about this until we were planning the show for today. 431 00:19:46,200 --> 00:19:47,480 Speaker 2: Had not heard about it at all. 432 00:19:47,840 --> 00:19:51,320 Speaker 3: The news is completely ignoring it. Here's the headline, or 433 00:19:51,359 --> 00:19:53,800 Speaker 3: here's a little bit of the details. DC Water CEO 434 00:19:53,920 --> 00:19:56,560 Speaker 3: David gadis resolved to do everything possible to reclaim the 435 00:19:56,560 --> 00:20:02,399 Speaker 3: Potomac River after last months disastrous sewer pipe break, he 436 00:20:02,440 --> 00:20:05,600 Speaker 3: said in an open letter to the community Wednesday. The 437 00:20:05,640 --> 00:20:07,960 Speaker 3: failure in a section of seventy two inch sewer pipe 438 00:20:08,000 --> 00:20:10,639 Speaker 3: known as the Potomac Interceptor, result in the release of 439 00:20:10,760 --> 00:20:13,080 Speaker 3: hundreds of millions of gallons of raw sewage into the 440 00:20:13,119 --> 00:20:15,480 Speaker 3: river just inside the Beltway along the C and O 441 00:20:15,560 --> 00:20:18,920 Speaker 3: Canal in Montgomery County, Maryland. It's considered the largest spill 442 00:20:18,960 --> 00:20:20,560 Speaker 3: of wastewater in US history. 443 00:20:21,280 --> 00:20:21,720 Speaker 4: Quote. 444 00:20:21,920 --> 00:20:24,720 Speaker 3: The Potomac River is a shared natural treasure and in 445 00:20:24,800 --> 00:20:28,760 Speaker 3: any event and any event that threatens its health understandably 446 00:20:28,840 --> 00:20:32,800 Speaker 3: causes concern, frustration, and a sense of loss. Those feelings 447 00:20:32,840 --> 00:20:35,120 Speaker 3: are not only valid, they are also shared by all 448 00:20:35,160 --> 00:20:37,399 Speaker 3: of us at d C Water, Gatis said in the letter, 449 00:20:37,920 --> 00:20:42,120 Speaker 3: not mentioning that's why democrats are dropping a billion gallons 450 00:20:42,119 --> 00:20:45,359 Speaker 3: of crap into the water that you care about. The 451 00:20:45,440 --> 00:20:48,280 Speaker 3: letter went on to explain that on January nineteenth, Cruz 452 00:20:48,720 --> 00:20:52,840 Speaker 3: noticed unusual activity and security cameras monitoring an odor control 453 00:20:52,880 --> 00:20:55,680 Speaker 3: facility along the C and O Canal. I would imagine 454 00:20:55,680 --> 00:20:57,280 Speaker 3: that would cause him unusual action. 455 00:20:57,720 --> 00:20:59,840 Speaker 1: A billion gallons. If you can't smell that, you got 456 00:20:59,840 --> 00:21:00,359 Speaker 1: a problem. 457 00:21:01,000 --> 00:21:04,400 Speaker 3: Upon inspection, the crews discovered the break in the day 458 00:21:04,480 --> 00:21:07,720 Speaker 3: since the discovery, DC Water personnelity contractors worked to quote 459 00:21:07,760 --> 00:21:11,960 Speaker 3: contain the overthroat overflow, protect public safety, and begin repairs. 460 00:21:12,359 --> 00:21:15,159 Speaker 3: A bypass system was constructed to pump waste around the 461 00:21:15,200 --> 00:21:17,680 Speaker 3: damaged area the pipe and reinserted into a section of 462 00:21:17,720 --> 00:21:21,800 Speaker 3: the structure downstream. Complicating the repairs was the discovery last 463 00:21:21,840 --> 00:21:25,399 Speaker 3: week of a large rock dam blocking a significant section 464 00:21:25,480 --> 00:21:27,720 Speaker 3: of the pipe about thirty feet south of the break. 465 00:21:28,560 --> 00:21:31,760 Speaker 3: D C Water is waiting for five large capacity pumps 466 00:21:31,800 --> 00:21:34,280 Speaker 3: to arrive from Where do you think they're coming from? 467 00:21:34,440 --> 00:21:36,440 Speaker 1: Where are they me guess Texas. 468 00:21:36,600 --> 00:21:39,320 Speaker 3: And Florida, Texas and Florida to. 469 00:21:39,359 --> 00:21:43,080 Speaker 2: Increase They're going to save the Liberals from their own 470 00:21:44,000 --> 00:21:44,919 Speaker 2: feces it. 471 00:21:44,960 --> 00:21:51,080 Speaker 3: They're sending large pumps to pump, pump the billion gallons 472 00:21:51,080 --> 00:21:56,560 Speaker 3: of crap that the Democrats have dumped into the water. Yeah, 473 00:21:56,800 --> 00:21:59,040 Speaker 3: They then planned to build a bulkhead near the break 474 00:21:59,080 --> 00:22:02,879 Speaker 3: to divert more water so workers can safely remove the boulders. Apparently, 475 00:22:02,920 --> 00:22:05,280 Speaker 3: I want to notice the boulders until then. DC Waters 476 00:22:05,800 --> 00:22:11,920 Speaker 3: expects this to take an extra six weeks to accomplish. 477 00:22:12,000 --> 00:22:13,520 Speaker 2: By the way, no way, in the private sector it 478 00:22:13,560 --> 00:22:15,120 Speaker 2: would take six weeks. I just want to be very 479 00:22:15,119 --> 00:22:17,840 Speaker 2: clear about that. Like in the private sector, it would 480 00:22:17,880 --> 00:22:20,639 Speaker 2: not take you six weeks, and then the private sector 481 00:22:20,640 --> 00:22:22,440 Speaker 2: they would work twenty four to seven to get it fixed. 482 00:22:22,440 --> 00:22:23,680 Speaker 1: Can I get an amen on that one? 483 00:22:24,440 --> 00:22:27,280 Speaker 3: That they would, But fortunately the government is in charge, 484 00:22:27,320 --> 00:22:28,879 Speaker 3: so it's cheap and efficient. Give a listen. 485 00:22:28,960 --> 00:22:29,120 Speaker 4: Yes. 486 00:22:29,520 --> 00:22:32,720 Speaker 3: Gaddis noted that DC Water will be dedicating resources not 487 00:22:32,760 --> 00:22:35,360 Speaker 3: only to the repairs, but also to an environmental restoration 488 00:22:35,440 --> 00:22:38,280 Speaker 3: program to mitigate the damage that's already been done. The 489 00:22:38,359 --> 00:22:42,920 Speaker 3: letter detailed a six hundred and twenty five million dollar 490 00:22:43,080 --> 00:22:47,320 Speaker 3: investment to rehabilitate the Potomac Interceptor as part of a 491 00:22:47,440 --> 00:22:52,440 Speaker 3: ten year, ten billion dollar capital improvement program. At ten 492 00:22:52,440 --> 00:22:55,600 Speaker 3: billion dollar capital improvement program, except for the minor detail 493 00:22:55,640 --> 00:22:58,320 Speaker 3: of dumping a billion gallons of crap into the water 494 00:22:59,280 --> 00:22:59,760 Speaker 3: point at. 495 00:22:59,640 --> 00:23:01,560 Speaker 2: Hours still going out by the way as we're speaking, 496 00:23:01,560 --> 00:23:02,720 Speaker 2: I just want to be clear about that. 497 00:23:03,359 --> 00:23:05,919 Speaker 3: Gattis pointed out that several tunnels they built along the 498 00:23:05,920 --> 00:23:09,920 Speaker 3: northeast boundary are currently building along the Potomac, have resulted 499 00:23:09,960 --> 00:23:14,320 Speaker 3: in billions of gallons of combined sewage being prevented from 500 00:23:14,520 --> 00:23:19,480 Speaker 3: entering the Anacostian Potomac rivers through the Utilities Clean Rivers Project. 501 00:23:19,560 --> 00:23:23,280 Speaker 3: So what he's saying is, well, yeah, we've spilled a 502 00:23:23,320 --> 00:23:26,560 Speaker 3: billion gallons, but we could have spelled billions more. I mean, 503 00:23:26,600 --> 00:23:28,760 Speaker 3: I mean, we brook at all the crap we could 504 00:23:28,800 --> 00:23:32,520 Speaker 3: have dumped in the river, and it's only the worst 505 00:23:32,560 --> 00:23:36,320 Speaker 3: sewage leak in the history of the United States of America. 506 00:23:35,760 --> 00:23:38,200 Speaker 1: And it's not leading on the nightly news. I mean, 507 00:23:39,080 --> 00:23:40,200 Speaker 1: let's just go be clear. 508 00:23:40,800 --> 00:23:45,680 Speaker 2: If this happened in a conservative run city, it would. 509 00:23:45,440 --> 00:23:46,800 Speaker 1: Be on the nightly news. 510 00:23:47,320 --> 00:23:50,280 Speaker 2: Peter would be out there losing their minds, all the 511 00:23:50,440 --> 00:23:51,720 Speaker 2: environmental groups would be. 512 00:23:51,640 --> 00:23:52,879 Speaker 1: Out there losing their minds. 513 00:23:53,160 --> 00:23:55,480 Speaker 2: It would be on the front page of the newspapers 514 00:23:55,560 --> 00:23:59,840 Speaker 2: nationally if it was a conservative place where the largest 515 00:24:00,480 --> 00:24:06,520 Speaker 2: sewer spill in history had happened. But because it's Democrats, 516 00:24:05,800 --> 00:24:08,600 Speaker 2: no one knows what's going on in probably unless you're 517 00:24:08,640 --> 00:24:09,600 Speaker 2: listening to this show. 518 00:24:10,520 --> 00:24:14,919 Speaker 3: And look the consistency of the incompetence of Democrat leaders 519 00:24:14,960 --> 00:24:18,560 Speaker 3: of government. Whether it's Keith Ellison not able to stop 520 00:24:18,600 --> 00:24:21,040 Speaker 3: fraud and in fact being complicit and fraud because he's 521 00:24:21,080 --> 00:24:23,880 Speaker 3: profiting from it. Whether it's the DC mayor who can't 522 00:24:23,880 --> 00:24:26,600 Speaker 3: shovel snow on the sidewalk, whether it is DC and 523 00:24:26,640 --> 00:24:29,720 Speaker 3: Maryland who dump a billion gallons of sewage into the 524 00:24:29,880 --> 00:24:32,719 Speaker 3: river and into the water, or whether it's Gavin Newsom who, 525 00:24:32,760 --> 00:24:38,040 Speaker 3: when you're facing the worst wildfires ever, has dumped the 526 00:24:38,119 --> 00:24:40,600 Speaker 3: water into the Pacific Ocean so it's not available in 527 00:24:40,640 --> 00:24:44,120 Speaker 3: the fire hydrants and everyone's house is burned. And by 528 00:24:44,160 --> 00:24:47,960 Speaker 3: the way, the Marxist mayor of La Karen Bass, who's 529 00:24:48,000 --> 00:24:51,399 Speaker 3: in Africa during the fire and is so focused on 530 00:24:51,520 --> 00:24:54,080 Speaker 3: DEI that she doesn't actually have the resources to fight 531 00:24:54,160 --> 00:24:57,640 Speaker 3: the fire in California, won't let them do fire mitigation strategies. 532 00:24:58,200 --> 00:25:00,640 Speaker 3: All of this, there is a thread throughout it all, 533 00:25:00,720 --> 00:25:03,000 Speaker 3: and it is in competence and people paying the price. 534 00:25:04,480 --> 00:25:08,359 Speaker 2: Senator, let's talk about a big piece of legislation that 535 00:25:08,480 --> 00:25:11,520 Speaker 2: a lot of people are very focused on this country. 536 00:25:11,800 --> 00:25:16,000 Speaker 2: A lot of voters voted on this issue specifically, and 537 00:25:16,080 --> 00:25:19,000 Speaker 2: it deals with the Save America Act. And what has 538 00:25:19,040 --> 00:25:21,040 Speaker 2: happened this week, let's give an update to that. 539 00:25:21,920 --> 00:25:24,840 Speaker 3: Well, the House of Representatives passed the Save America Act. 540 00:25:25,560 --> 00:25:28,199 Speaker 3: Passed it with only one Democrat vote. Every Democrat but 541 00:25:28,359 --> 00:25:32,080 Speaker 3: one voted against it. The Save America Act requires proof 542 00:25:32,119 --> 00:25:34,480 Speaker 3: of US citizenship to register to vote, and it requires 543 00:25:34,480 --> 00:25:37,080 Speaker 3: a photo ID to vote. It's a very simple, straightforward, 544 00:25:37,080 --> 00:25:40,159 Speaker 3: common sense bill. It's now gone over to the Senate. 545 00:25:40,359 --> 00:25:44,159 Speaker 3: I am leading the charge, pressing hard to get the 546 00:25:44,240 --> 00:25:46,640 Speaker 3: Senate to take it up, to use every procedural tool 547 00:25:46,680 --> 00:25:49,359 Speaker 3: we have to force the Senate to vote on it 548 00:25:49,400 --> 00:25:52,119 Speaker 3: and pass it. This week I put out a video 549 00:25:52,240 --> 00:25:56,359 Speaker 3: explaining the issues concisely, and the video went viral. It 550 00:25:56,359 --> 00:25:59,560 Speaker 3: has over a million views. Give a listen, give a watch. 551 00:26:00,320 --> 00:26:03,600 Speaker 3: The House just passed the Save America Act. The Senate 552 00:26:03,680 --> 00:26:06,800 Speaker 3: needs to take it up and pass it. I'm an 553 00:26:06,800 --> 00:26:09,560 Speaker 3: original sponsor of the Save America Act. This is common 554 00:26:09,600 --> 00:26:14,080 Speaker 3: sense legislation. This is legislation that requires proof that you're 555 00:26:14,080 --> 00:26:17,199 Speaker 3: an American citizen in order to register to vote, and 556 00:26:17,280 --> 00:26:21,119 Speaker 3: it requires a photo ID to go in and vote. 557 00:26:21,200 --> 00:26:24,919 Speaker 3: Texas already requires a photo ID. It's an easy, common 558 00:26:24,960 --> 00:26:28,280 Speaker 3: sense step to avoid voter fraud. The vast majority of 559 00:26:28,320 --> 00:26:33,480 Speaker 3: Americans support photo ID, and yet Senate Democrats are doing 560 00:26:33,560 --> 00:26:36,920 Speaker 3: everything they can to block it because they want more 561 00:26:37,200 --> 00:26:40,520 Speaker 3: voter fraud. How do we take it up and pass 562 00:26:40,560 --> 00:26:43,080 Speaker 3: it in the Senate? What I am urging my colleagues 563 00:26:43,640 --> 00:26:46,439 Speaker 3: is that we should use every procedural tool we have 564 00:26:46,920 --> 00:26:51,719 Speaker 3: to defeat a Democrat filibuster, and in particular, we should 565 00:26:51,880 --> 00:26:56,240 Speaker 3: nuke what's called the zombie filibuster. Under the Senate rules, 566 00:26:57,000 --> 00:26:59,800 Speaker 3: everyone has a right to filibuster, to talk as long 567 00:26:59,800 --> 00:27:03,280 Speaker 3: as they want. We should require them to talk as 568 00:27:03,320 --> 00:27:06,520 Speaker 3: long as they can go back to an old style 569 00:27:07,040 --> 00:27:11,000 Speaker 3: talking philibuster like Jimmy Stewart did, and mister Smith goes 570 00:27:11,040 --> 00:27:14,840 Speaker 3: to Washington like I did in twenty thirteen for twenty 571 00:27:14,880 --> 00:27:17,639 Speaker 3: one hours on the floor of the Senate. We should 572 00:27:17,760 --> 00:27:20,920 Speaker 3: use the procedural rules to force the Democrats to do 573 00:27:21,080 --> 00:27:24,639 Speaker 3: a talking filibuster and force them to keep talking and 574 00:27:24,720 --> 00:27:28,400 Speaker 3: talking and talking, and when they can't talk anymore, then 575 00:27:28,480 --> 00:27:31,320 Speaker 3: we should pass the Save America Act. That's what I'm 576 00:27:31,359 --> 00:27:34,360 Speaker 3: merging my colleagues to do. It's what President Trump wants 577 00:27:34,440 --> 00:27:36,560 Speaker 3: us to do, and it's what I hope and pray 578 00:27:36,880 --> 00:27:38,440 Speaker 3: we accomplish. 579 00:27:38,880 --> 00:27:42,359 Speaker 2: Senator you said it, I think perfectly there, and explain 580 00:27:42,680 --> 00:27:44,320 Speaker 2: a little bit more about what it would mean to 581 00:27:44,480 --> 00:27:48,200 Speaker 2: nuke the zombie filibuster so that we get more context 582 00:27:48,200 --> 00:27:50,480 Speaker 2: for that, so people understand in essence what they would 583 00:27:50,480 --> 00:27:51,560 Speaker 2: be advocating for. 584 00:27:52,400 --> 00:27:55,480 Speaker 3: Well, for most of the history of the Senate, the 585 00:27:55,560 --> 00:27:58,760 Speaker 3: filibuster involved talking, involves standing up and talking and talking 586 00:27:58,760 --> 00:28:04,080 Speaker 3: and talking. And in recent decades, the Senate is allowed 587 00:28:04,119 --> 00:28:07,119 Speaker 3: simply whoever is filibustering to say we're going to filibuster, 588 00:28:07,240 --> 00:28:09,280 Speaker 3: you cast a procedural vote, and then you're done, and 589 00:28:09,320 --> 00:28:12,360 Speaker 3: it's treated as blocked. But we don't have to do that. 590 00:28:12,480 --> 00:28:14,960 Speaker 3: We can force them that. There is what's called a 591 00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:19,320 Speaker 3: two speech rule in the Senate that limits every member 592 00:28:19,320 --> 00:28:22,520 Speaker 3: of the Senate to two speeches on any legislative topic. 593 00:28:22,600 --> 00:28:25,560 Speaker 3: And what I've been advocating, and Mike Lee has been advocating, 594 00:28:25,880 --> 00:28:28,760 Speaker 3: and Rick Scott has been advocating, and Ron Johnson has 595 00:28:28,800 --> 00:28:33,040 Speaker 3: been advocating, is that we force them to give the speeches, 596 00:28:33,119 --> 00:28:36,520 Speaker 3: force them to talk, and when they're done talking, then 597 00:28:36,600 --> 00:28:39,880 Speaker 3: you can vote on it. But the thing is, there's 598 00:28:39,920 --> 00:28:42,920 Speaker 3: a price to that because they can fight back, and 599 00:28:42,920 --> 00:28:46,080 Speaker 3: in particular, they can do what's called suggest the absence 600 00:28:46,120 --> 00:28:48,840 Speaker 3: of a quorum. That means we have to be able 601 00:28:48,880 --> 00:28:52,320 Speaker 3: to produce fifty senators on the floor. They're fifty three 602 00:28:52,360 --> 00:28:55,200 Speaker 3: of us. That means we need fifty bodies. It would 603 00:28:55,360 --> 00:28:58,040 Speaker 3: entail very long hours, it would entail all nighters. It 604 00:28:58,080 --> 00:29:00,760 Speaker 3: would entail fifty of us being willing to stand together. 605 00:29:01,400 --> 00:29:04,200 Speaker 3: It's not clear right now that we have fifty Republicans 606 00:29:04,200 --> 00:29:06,080 Speaker 3: willing to do that. I'm trying to make the case 607 00:29:06,480 --> 00:29:10,440 Speaker 3: this is a fight worth fighting, but it would be 608 00:29:10,600 --> 00:29:14,520 Speaker 3: a massive and extended This could extend days or even weeks. 609 00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:17,400 Speaker 3: But I think we should be fighting with everything we got. 610 00:29:17,400 --> 00:29:19,840 Speaker 3: I think this issue is important enough at merits fighting, 611 00:29:19,840 --> 00:29:22,400 Speaker 3: and so I'm trying to make that case to my colleagues. 612 00:29:22,680 --> 00:29:23,920 Speaker 1: All right, let me ask you a question. 613 00:29:23,960 --> 00:29:26,600 Speaker 2: If you nuke it the way that you described it, 614 00:29:26,640 --> 00:29:28,840 Speaker 2: is it just for this one issue and then things 615 00:29:28,880 --> 00:29:31,040 Speaker 2: go back to the regular order of business? How it 616 00:29:31,080 --> 00:29:35,720 Speaker 2: works normal now or would that change it moving forward? 617 00:29:36,480 --> 00:29:38,160 Speaker 2: Explain that, So. 618 00:29:38,640 --> 00:29:42,480 Speaker 3: This is different from nuking the filibuster. So nuking the 619 00:29:42,520 --> 00:29:49,000 Speaker 3: filibuster that phrase involves breaking the Senate rules to change 620 00:29:49,040 --> 00:29:52,840 Speaker 3: the Senate rules. So what happens and we saw, for example, 621 00:29:53,400 --> 00:29:59,479 Speaker 3: the Democrats nuked the filibuster for cabinet appointees and judicial 622 00:29:59,520 --> 00:30:02,800 Speaker 3: appointee and the way they did it, the Senate rules 623 00:30:02,880 --> 00:30:05,000 Speaker 3: made it clear in the terms of the Senate rules 624 00:30:05,560 --> 00:30:11,720 Speaker 3: that a nomination required sixty votes to go forward to 625 00:30:12,080 --> 00:30:17,240 Speaker 3: proceed to it. However, what happened was Harry Reid when 626 00:30:17,240 --> 00:30:20,560 Speaker 3: he was Majority leader. Any ruling of the Chair can 627 00:30:20,600 --> 00:30:23,120 Speaker 3: be challenged on the floor of the Senate, and fifty 628 00:30:23,120 --> 00:30:27,400 Speaker 3: one senators can overrule the ruling of the Chair. And 629 00:30:27,440 --> 00:30:30,360 Speaker 3: so Harry Reid inquired of the chair what is the 630 00:30:30,440 --> 00:30:32,920 Speaker 3: rule and was told the rule is sixty senators and 631 00:30:32,960 --> 00:30:35,160 Speaker 3: then he said, I appeal the ruling of the Chair, 632 00:30:35,520 --> 00:30:38,080 Speaker 3: and the Democrats all voted party line. And when they 633 00:30:38,080 --> 00:30:42,400 Speaker 3: did that, that becomes a binding precedent. So they broke 634 00:30:42,480 --> 00:30:44,400 Speaker 3: the rules of the Senate to change the rules of 635 00:30:44,440 --> 00:30:48,800 Speaker 3: the Senate. It is still in the Senate rules that 636 00:30:48,840 --> 00:30:51,720 Speaker 3: a filibuster can be used to stop legislation, and I 637 00:30:51,760 --> 00:30:54,760 Speaker 3: will say we have used that. Republicans have used that 638 00:30:54,880 --> 00:30:58,600 Speaker 3: to stop terrible legislation from the Democrats. I think that's an. 639 00:30:58,480 --> 00:31:01,600 Speaker 2: Important to say point that we like, yes, you woman, 640 00:31:01,640 --> 00:31:03,640 Speaker 2: need to also understand it's very valuable. 641 00:31:04,920 --> 00:31:08,560 Speaker 3: If the Democrats had succeeded in nuking the filibuster when 642 00:31:08,640 --> 00:31:11,160 Speaker 3: Joe Biden was president, when they had the House and Senate, 643 00:31:11,640 --> 00:31:15,160 Speaker 3: they would have passed legislation number one, striking down every 644 00:31:15,200 --> 00:31:17,200 Speaker 3: photo ID law in the country, and striking down every 645 00:31:17,200 --> 00:31:20,400 Speaker 3: election integrity law in the country. Number two, making DC 646 00:31:20,560 --> 00:31:23,920 Speaker 3: and Puerto Rico both states and electing four new Democrat senators. 647 00:31:24,280 --> 00:31:27,280 Speaker 3: Number three, making every illegal alien in America a US 648 00:31:27,320 --> 00:31:30,240 Speaker 3: citizen and giving them immediate voting rights, which would have, 649 00:31:30,680 --> 00:31:35,160 Speaker 3: among other things, turned Texas bright blue instantaneously. And number four, 650 00:31:35,200 --> 00:31:37,360 Speaker 3: they would have packed the U. S. Supreme Court and 651 00:31:37,400 --> 00:31:41,000 Speaker 3: added four left wing justices immediately to it. I think 652 00:31:41,080 --> 00:31:43,840 Speaker 3: that would have been I don't want to be hyperbolic, 653 00:31:44,520 --> 00:31:46,239 Speaker 3: but I think that would have been essentially the end 654 00:31:46,240 --> 00:31:48,480 Speaker 3: of the Republic. There's no way to turn that around 655 00:31:48,520 --> 00:31:49,120 Speaker 3: if they do that. 656 00:31:49,240 --> 00:31:52,280 Speaker 2: And so how do you put that back in Pandora's Like, 657 00:31:52,320 --> 00:31:53,880 Speaker 2: once that box opened, it's came over. 658 00:31:54,600 --> 00:31:59,600 Speaker 3: It's that agenda. Noticed. The Democrat's top policy agenda is 659 00:31:59,680 --> 00:32:02,120 Speaker 3: all to rig the game and make it impossible to 660 00:32:02,120 --> 00:32:05,200 Speaker 3: ever defeat Democrats. Again, there's nothing they value more than 661 00:32:05,240 --> 00:32:09,200 Speaker 3: staying in power. That's what they wanted to do. This 662 00:32:09,320 --> 00:32:12,760 Speaker 3: is not nuking the filibuster in terms of changing the 663 00:32:12,800 --> 00:32:16,240 Speaker 3: Senate rules. This is using the existing Senate rules and 664 00:32:16,440 --> 00:32:19,360 Speaker 3: just enforcing them, making them stand up and speak. And 665 00:32:19,400 --> 00:32:21,760 Speaker 3: one of the advantages of it is if they're standing 666 00:32:21,880 --> 00:32:24,800 Speaker 3: up and speaking for hours and hours on end, trying 667 00:32:24,800 --> 00:32:29,360 Speaker 3: to stop requiring proof of US citizenship to register to vote, 668 00:32:29,360 --> 00:32:32,440 Speaker 3: trying to stop photo ID. Look, both of those popular 669 00:32:33,280 --> 00:32:37,840 Speaker 3: policies are incredibly popular. Seventy eighty percent of Americans agree 670 00:32:37,880 --> 00:32:40,400 Speaker 3: with photo I D for voting, more than seventy percent 671 00:32:40,440 --> 00:32:42,800 Speaker 3: of African Americans agree with it, more than seventy percent 672 00:32:43,040 --> 00:32:46,480 Speaker 3: of Hispanics agree with it, more than seventy percent of 673 00:32:46,840 --> 00:32:50,360 Speaker 3: Democrat voters agree with it. And so this is a 674 00:32:50,400 --> 00:32:53,040 Speaker 3: fight we should be having. And I'm urging my colleagues. 675 00:32:53,120 --> 00:32:55,200 Speaker 3: Let's stand and fight for voter integrity. 676 00:32:55,520 --> 00:32:57,480 Speaker 1: Yeah, great point there, don't forget. 677 00:32:57,560 --> 00:33:00,520 Speaker 2: We do this show as a podcast Monday, Heday, Wednesday, 678 00:33:00,560 --> 00:33:03,360 Speaker 2: and Friday. Hit that subscriber auto download button wherever you 679 00:33:03,400 --> 00:33:07,320 Speaker 2: get your podcasts. Also follow us on social media on TikTok, 680 00:33:07,400 --> 00:33:09,520 Speaker 2: and a cruise there now at Tech Cruz. We're also 681 00:33:09,560 --> 00:33:12,880 Speaker 2: both on Instagram and on x and Facebook as well, 682 00:33:12,960 --> 00:33:14,720 Speaker 2: and you can watch this show on YouTube as I 683 00:33:14,760 --> 00:33:17,200 Speaker 2: mentioned earlier, so makes you do that. 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