WEBVTT - Reverse Robin Hood 0:00:00.240 --> 0:00:02.840 People think that the President of the United States has 0:00:02.880 --> 0:00:07.240 the power for debt forgiveness. He does not. He can postpone, 0:00:07.720 --> 0:00:11.520 he can delay, but he does not have that power. 0:00:12.160 --> 0:00:15.200 That has to be an act of Congress. The president 0:00:15.320 --> 0:00:19.400 can't do it, So that's not even a discussion. Not 0:00:19.440 --> 0:00:25.440 everybody realizes that. But the president can only postpone, delay, 0:00:25.480 --> 0:00:29.120 but not forgive. That is a quote from Democrat House 0:00:29.160 --> 0:00:35.440 Speaker Nancy Pelosi twenty seven days before Joe Biden unilaterally 0:00:35.520 --> 0:00:45.559 forgave student debt. This is Verdict with Ted Cruz. This 0:00:45.600 --> 0:00:48.360 episode of Verdict with Ted Cruz is sponsored by American 0:00:48.440 --> 0:00:51.040 Hartford Gold. 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Welcome back to Verdict with Ted Cruz. 0:02:24.040 --> 0:02:28.840 I am Michael Knowles, joined as ever by Senator Cruz. 0:02:29.800 --> 0:02:31.440 We're so happy to be with all of you, and 0:02:31.520 --> 0:02:34.679 condolences to all of the poor schmucks out there who 0:02:34.720 --> 0:02:38.239 actually paid off your student debts or your kids student debts. 0:02:38.760 --> 0:02:40.480 You really blew it, folks. You could have gotten a 0:02:40.480 --> 0:02:43.120 freebe but you did the right thing, and now too 0:02:43.160 --> 0:02:47.400 bad for you. It's fairly stunning. You know. I'm reminded 0:02:47.440 --> 0:02:50.000 of mel Brooks when he observed it's good to be 0:02:50.040 --> 0:02:54.359 the king. What Joe Biden is doing is completely lawless. 0:02:54.520 --> 0:02:57.920 So Senator I not only take your word for it 0:02:57.960 --> 0:03:01.240 that this is not legal, I so take Nancy Pelosi's 0:03:01.280 --> 0:03:04.040 word for it. Never thought I would say that's statement. 0:03:04.160 --> 0:03:07.320 But when's the last time Nancy and I agreed this 0:03:07.919 --> 0:03:10.600 might be the one and only time Joe Biden bringing 0:03:10.639 --> 0:03:14.520 the country together. I think the argument they tried to 0:03:14.560 --> 0:03:18.320 make was that this in some way related to the 0:03:18.400 --> 0:03:22.320 Heroes Act after September eleventh, and they're all these kind 0:03:22.360 --> 0:03:26.680 of bizarro expost facto explanations of how Biden did this. 0:03:26.760 --> 0:03:28.880 But I take both of your word for it that 0:03:28.880 --> 0:03:32.320 it's not really legal, and yet obviously he is doing 0:03:32.320 --> 0:03:33.800 it so well. He might not have the right to 0:03:33.800 --> 0:03:36.800 do it, he apparently has the power to do it. 0:03:37.240 --> 0:03:39.760 My question then, is less about the law and more 0:03:39.800 --> 0:03:43.640 about the politics of this Biden. I guess he just 0:03:43.680 --> 0:03:46.360 thinks he's buying votes and the way that machine politics 0:03:46.360 --> 0:03:50.240 has often bought votes. Is this going to work in November. Well, 0:03:50.320 --> 0:03:53.280 let's thank those one at a time. On the law question, 0:03:53.920 --> 0:03:55.760 I think it is clear that he does not have 0:03:55.880 --> 0:03:58.400 the legal authority to do this, and this week's cloak 0:03:58.480 --> 0:04:01.680 Room on Verdict Plus is entirely about that we do 0:04:01.720 --> 0:04:08.000 a deep dive into the statutes, into the asserted justifications. 0:04:08.560 --> 0:04:11.440 The Biden Department of Justice put out a new memorandum 0:04:11.480 --> 0:04:14.720 from the Office Legal Counsel trying to claim it had 0:04:14.760 --> 0:04:17.479 the authority to do this, and so on cloak Room, 0:04:18.240 --> 0:04:21.239 I go into the statutes, into the details and explain 0:04:21.320 --> 0:04:23.880 why all of that is nonsense. And in terms of 0:04:23.920 --> 0:04:28.880 the politics, I don't know. So there are cross cutting concerns, 0:04:28.920 --> 0:04:30.800 and the honest answer is I don't know how this 0:04:30.839 --> 0:04:35.720 will play politically. Let me give the argument for why 0:04:35.760 --> 0:04:38.680 it will play badly for the Democrats, and then I'll 0:04:38.720 --> 0:04:41.960 give the argument why it'll play well. The argument why 0:04:42.000 --> 0:04:47.239 it plays badly is that it is reverse Robin Hood. 0:04:48.000 --> 0:04:51.080 Robin Hood stole from the rich and gave from the poor. 0:04:51.279 --> 0:04:53.560 This is Joe Biden stealing from the poor and giving 0:04:53.560 --> 0:04:55.599 to the rich. And let me give you some statistics. 0:04:56.200 --> 0:05:01.360 According to Brookings, the left wing think to the media, 0:05:01.360 --> 0:05:04.840 and income of households with student loans is seventy six thousand, 0:05:04.880 --> 0:05:08.520 four hundred. Only seven percent of those are below the 0:05:08.560 --> 0:05:12.120 poverty line. So these are not typically the poor that 0:05:12.160 --> 0:05:14.520 we're talking about that have student loans. But look they've 0:05:14.520 --> 0:05:17.480 gone to college or grad school, so that that tends 0:05:17.480 --> 0:05:20.720 to move you up in the income skis strata to 0:05:20.800 --> 0:05:25.080 begin with, among those making payments on their loans. So 0:05:25.160 --> 0:05:27.440 if you exclude the people who aren't making any payments 0:05:28.120 --> 0:05:31.080 and you focus just on those making payments on their loans, 0:05:31.640 --> 0:05:34.880 the media income is eighty six thousand, five hundred dollars, 0:05:35.600 --> 0:05:38.920 so that's starting to get up there, and only four 0:05:39.000 --> 0:05:46.160 percent are in poverty. Overall, the top forty percent of 0:05:46.200 --> 0:05:51.800 American households hold sixty percent of the student loans. How 0:05:51.839 --> 0:05:54.839 many Americans have degrees, Well, thirty seven percent of Americans 0:05:54.880 --> 0:05:58.840 have a bachelor's degree and fourteen percent of Americans have 0:05:58.880 --> 0:06:01.640 a graduate or professional degree. That's courted the Census Bureau 0:06:02.640 --> 0:06:05.360 and the unemployment rate for college graduates right now is 0:06:05.400 --> 0:06:10.679 two point nine percent. Approximately eighty seven percent of American 0:06:10.720 --> 0:06:16.120 adults do not have student loans, so it is benefiting 0:06:16.279 --> 0:06:21.840 a relatively small, discreete class um. This could play very 0:06:21.960 --> 0:06:26.640 badly for Joe Biden if the people who are paying 0:06:26.760 --> 0:06:29.200 for it are pissed off. You know this is this 0:06:29.480 --> 0:06:34.440 will cost every taxpayer on average two thousand, one hundred 0:06:34.440 --> 0:06:36.840 dollars to give away this money. So, Senator, do you 0:06:36.920 --> 0:06:40.000 remember a couple of years ago there was a voter 0:06:40.120 --> 0:06:43.719 or constituent on the campaign trail he approached Liz Warren, 0:06:43.839 --> 0:06:48.120 your colleague, when Senator Warren was pitching student loan forgiveness, 0:06:48.520 --> 0:07:00.640 and he didn't like the idea I'm having. Yep, I 0:07:00.720 --> 0:07:03.799 just want asking questions. My daughter's getting out of school. 0:07:03.880 --> 0:07:07.360 I saved all my money. Just am I gonna get 0:07:07.360 --> 0:07:10.480 my money back? So you're gonna pay for people who 0:07:11.360 --> 0:07:13.360 didn't save the money, so that those of us that 0:07:13.440 --> 0:07:18.160 did the right thing get screwed. My buddy hit Fun 0:07:18.280 --> 0:07:20.840 bought a car, went on vacations. I saved my money. 0:07:21.480 --> 0:07:23.880 He made more than idea, but I worked a double. 0:07:23.880 --> 0:07:26.480 The ship worked extra, my dallars works. He his ten. 0:07:26.920 --> 0:07:30.160 So you're laughing, Yeah, that's exactly what you're doing. We 0:07:30.280 --> 0:07:32.720 did the right thing and we get screwed. I appreciate 0:07:32.800 --> 0:07:38.080 I didn't look like that was playing very well in Peoria. 0:07:38.280 --> 0:07:41.440 And so I do think folks like that guy questioning 0:07:41.480 --> 0:07:45.080 Elizabeth Warren are going to be pissed off. I do think, Uh, 0:07:45.760 --> 0:07:49.840 steel workers and truck drivers and plumbers have a reason 0:07:49.920 --> 0:07:52.880 to be pissed off. All of this could bounce badly 0:07:53.520 --> 0:07:55.560 for Democrats. Don't let me give you the flip argument. 0:07:57.120 --> 0:08:02.080 It may be a political master stroke. Why is that that? 0:08:02.560 --> 0:08:06.520 There's there's a school of thought and economics that's called 0:08:06.560 --> 0:08:11.400 public choice theory, and public choice theory examines how decision 0:08:11.480 --> 0:08:15.480 making is made in a democratic society. And essentially what 0:08:15.600 --> 0:08:19.360 it focuses on is when you have a relatively small 0:08:19.440 --> 0:08:25.560 group with a concentrated benefit and you have a large 0:08:25.640 --> 0:08:31.320 group with a diffuse harm. The small group cares a 0:08:31.400 --> 0:08:35.760 lot about it, and the large group typically doesn't. And 0:08:36.000 --> 0:08:38.880 so look that there is a real risk if if 0:08:39.000 --> 0:08:44.079 you are that that slacker barista who who wasted seven 0:08:44.200 --> 0:08:48.040 years in college studying completely useless things now has loans 0:08:48.080 --> 0:08:51.120 and can't get a job. Joe Biden just gave you 0:08:51.200 --> 0:08:54.880 twenty grand, like holy cow, twenty grand that you know, 0:08:55.000 --> 0:08:57.080 maybe you weren't going to vote in November and suddenly 0:08:57.160 --> 0:08:59.280 you just got twenty grand. And you know, if you can, 0:08:59.400 --> 0:09:01.079 you know, get off the bond for a minute and 0:09:01.520 --> 0:09:04.360 head down to the voting station or just send in 0:09:04.440 --> 0:09:07.839 your mail in ballot that the Democrats have helpfully sent you, 0:09:09.520 --> 0:09:15.880 it could drive up turnout, particularly among young people and 0:09:16.080 --> 0:09:20.240 the people who are getting screwed. It's not necessarily the 0:09:20.360 --> 0:09:23.680 case that they understand they're getting screwed. It's a little 0:09:23.760 --> 0:09:28.559 more diffuse of I'm paying taxes, but it's not like 0:09:28.800 --> 0:09:33.360 you get a bill in October, Dear Michael, send in 0:09:33.440 --> 0:09:37.760 your two thousand, one hundred dollars to pay for slacker 0:09:37.880 --> 0:09:41.440 boys loans getting forgiven. When I think of the whatever 0:09:41.600 --> 0:09:45.400 the estimated three hundred billion to six hundred billion dollars 0:09:45.480 --> 0:09:47.160 that this could cost, we don't have a really firm 0:09:47.240 --> 0:09:50.079 number yet, I think, yeah, that's a lot of money. 0:09:50.600 --> 0:09:54.360 But in the perspective of all the other money that 0:09:54.440 --> 0:09:57.000 the federal government spends, it's it's just not going to 0:09:57.080 --> 0:10:00.240 make a huge difference. So that is one great fear, 0:10:00.440 --> 0:10:04.160 and then the other fear long term as to whether 0:10:04.240 --> 0:10:07.520 or not this is a Democrat political masterstroke is you've 0:10:07.600 --> 0:10:12.160 now created a system of incentives whereby people will be 0:10:12.400 --> 0:10:15.000 more likely to go to college, assuming that they're not 0:10:15.120 --> 0:10:16.959 going to have to pay back their loans, assuming that 0:10:17.120 --> 0:10:19.040 the big Daddy government is going to come in and 0:10:19.400 --> 0:10:21.480 take care of them whenever a Democrat is in the 0:10:21.559 --> 0:10:23.920 White House. And the thing we know about college these 0:10:24.040 --> 0:10:27.240 days is it doesn't train you for jobs. It doesn't 0:10:27.360 --> 0:10:29.840 give you a liberal education that seemed to go out 0:10:29.880 --> 0:10:32.800 the window decades ago. All it really seems to do 0:10:33.520 --> 0:10:36.760 is make people more likely to vote for Democrats. So 0:10:37.120 --> 0:10:39.920 even forgetting even about the midterm elections or twenty twenty four, 0:10:40.080 --> 0:10:43.120 in the long term, as a result of this education 0:10:43.200 --> 0:10:46.600 bill that almost certainly will not result in any real 0:10:46.760 --> 0:10:50.160 additional education for people, you could have Democrats grooming a 0:10:50.240 --> 0:10:52.520 whole new generation of voters to be more likely to 0:10:52.559 --> 0:10:55.720 support them. Well, I think that's possible. I think there's 0:10:55.760 --> 0:10:59.720 another effect that this act is going to drive up inflation. 0:11:00.000 --> 0:11:04.360 I think significantly. You know, it's amazing, between this and 0:11:04.520 --> 0:11:06.959 the build back Broke bill they just jammed through, the 0:11:07.040 --> 0:11:09.880 Democrats have just spent another trillion dollars. Inflation is the 0:11:10.000 --> 0:11:13.200 number one issue in the country, and they're just pouring 0:11:13.360 --> 0:11:18.800 gasoline on it. You know, we just saw today the 0:11:18.920 --> 0:11:22.319 Wall Street Journal reported that that home mortgage rates have 0:11:22.920 --> 0:11:25.280 jumped up even more to five and a half percent. 0:11:26.480 --> 0:11:29.640 You know, look, that's real economic pain for a first 0:11:29.679 --> 0:11:31.920 time home buyer for for that matter, or anyone trying 0:11:31.920 --> 0:11:37.360 to buy a home. One of the effects of the 0:11:37.440 --> 0:11:41.600 inflation most concentrated is going to be on college tuition. 0:11:42.559 --> 0:11:45.480 You know, everyone this does nothing about the crisis. I 0:11:45.480 --> 0:11:50.120 actually agree there's a student loan problem because universities are 0:11:50.280 --> 0:11:52.920 engaged in hyper inflation. You know, they've got you know, 0:11:53.040 --> 0:11:57.800 you're and my alma maters have endowments, you know, thirty 0:11:57.920 --> 0:12:01.920 forty fifty billion dollars, and yet they're bilking students out 0:12:02.000 --> 0:12:05.160 of massive amounts. They keep jacking up the prices year 0:12:05.200 --> 0:12:07.920 after year after year. And they've got tenured faculty who 0:12:08.000 --> 0:12:15.200 teach one class. They've got you know, fifty diversity administrators 0:12:15.280 --> 0:12:18.680 who all make six figure checks. This is the very 0:12:18.840 --> 0:12:25.439 worst of leftist politics, which is they take care of 0:12:25.600 --> 0:12:28.160 their friends and they give them money. You look at 0:12:28.200 --> 0:12:30.280 this build back Broke bill where they paid off all 0:12:30.360 --> 0:12:34.400 these left wing environmentalist groups who are just making billions 0:12:34.480 --> 0:12:36.600 of dollars, and all the Washington lobbyists that are making 0:12:36.640 --> 0:12:39.199 billions of dollars, they take care of their friends and 0:12:39.320 --> 0:12:43.520 they screw their enemies. I mean, for the left, it 0:12:43.720 --> 0:12:48.719 is a zero sum game of reward and retribution, and 0:12:48.920 --> 0:12:52.880 it creates a vicious cycle where all the people they're 0:12:52.920 --> 0:12:57.240 paying off are then going to keep trying to keep 0:12:57.320 --> 0:12:59.280 the people paying them off in power. I'm reminded of 0:12:59.360 --> 0:13:04.920 one of my favorite Simpsons episodes where where Grandpa Simpsons 0:13:04.960 --> 0:13:08.480 has been getting checks for I think it was having 0:13:08.640 --> 0:13:11.319 like itch an Itchy and scratchy cartoon or something, and 0:13:11.400 --> 0:13:13.839 he hadn't done it. It was a mistake, and and 0:13:14.040 --> 0:13:17.280 and Lisa says, well, Grandpa didn't. Didn't you think it 0:13:17.400 --> 0:13:20.320 was strange that you were getting checks in the mail 0:13:20.440 --> 0:13:23.800 for not having done anything? And he says no, Lisa, 0:13:23.840 --> 0:13:29.120 I just figured the Democrats were back in power. Well, 0:13:29.679 --> 0:13:33.760 speaking of the friends of the Democrats, and actually speaking 0:13:33.880 --> 0:13:36.480 of your ability, you know, to send your kids to 0:13:36.559 --> 0:13:39.199 school and to make any money at all, Senator, I 0:13:39.240 --> 0:13:41.559 don't know if you saw this headline, but someone is 0:13:41.600 --> 0:13:45.120 coming for your job. You have got a major figure. 0:13:45.200 --> 0:13:48.719 At least according to CNN and MSNBC, coming after you, 0:13:49.480 --> 0:13:53.800 the future former congress Lady Liz Cheney is launching a 0:13:53.880 --> 0:13:57.600 political action committee. She's targeting not Democrats, of course, she's 0:13:57.679 --> 0:14:03.960 targeting Republicans. And you or at the top of the list. Well, 0:14:04.280 --> 0:14:06.679 you know, you can tell a lot about a person 0:14:06.800 --> 0:14:08.640 by their friends, and you can tell even more by 0:14:08.679 --> 0:14:12.800 their enemies. Listen, I gotta say, Liz Cheney, I've known 0:14:12.920 --> 0:14:15.319 Liz a long time. I've known her twenty plus years. 0:14:16.800 --> 0:14:21.480 Yet there are some people who Donald Trump just broke that. 0:14:21.640 --> 0:14:27.560 They just they hate Trump so much that their mind 0:14:27.680 --> 0:14:31.280 went on Fritz. And I gotta say, Liz is unrecognizable. 0:14:31.400 --> 0:14:34.360 She has become a left wing Democrat now and like 0:14:34.520 --> 0:14:36.640 ten years ago, the idea that Liz Cheney was a 0:14:36.720 --> 0:14:39.280 left wing Democrat would have been ludicrous. Obviously, her dad 0:14:39.400 --> 0:14:43.720 was Dick Cheney. He was a conservative Republican. She was. Look, 0:14:43.800 --> 0:14:47.840 they're both too neo Connie for me. They're both too 0:14:47.960 --> 0:14:51.360 eager to get us involved in foreign wars. But that 0:14:51.600 --> 0:14:57.240 being said, on taxes, on social issues, on most issues, 0:14:57.400 --> 0:15:02.360 Liz Cheney was a down the road conservative Republican. And 0:15:02.520 --> 0:15:04.400 by the way, that's where Wyoming is, and and and 0:15:04.800 --> 0:15:09.160 then Trump came into power and her mind just shattered, 0:15:09.360 --> 0:15:12.440 and and and she what's amazing is that she's become 0:15:13.160 --> 0:15:15.800 It's not even just that she says, Okay, I don't 0:15:15.840 --> 0:15:18.520 like Donald Trump, like I don't like his what he says, 0:15:18.560 --> 0:15:21.040 I don't like how he acts. That's I understand someone 0:15:21.080 --> 0:15:22.760 who says that I don't like everything he says and 0:15:22.840 --> 0:15:24.920 does I like the policies we had acted together. I 0:15:25.000 --> 0:15:27.760 work closely with him on that. But she doesn't limit 0:15:27.800 --> 0:15:30.200 it to that. It's it's like Bill Crystal as someone else, 0:15:30.400 --> 0:15:35.720 like Liz Cheney who has just become a liberal Democrat 0:15:35.760 --> 0:15:40.600 who what they say, you know, Cheney's uh circus act 0:15:40.720 --> 0:15:44.960 on on the January sixth Commission is indistinguishable from what 0:15:45.080 --> 0:15:48.280 Nancy Pelosi would say. It's indistinguishable from what Chuck Schumer 0:15:48.320 --> 0:15:51.760 would say. And so we just had the primary and 0:15:53.200 --> 0:15:57.320 in in Wyoming, and you know, she had won by 0:15:57.760 --> 0:16:00.080 I don't know, seventy eighty percent last time around in 0:16:00.120 --> 0:16:03.520 the primary. This time she didn't just lose. She lost 0:16:04.080 --> 0:16:07.000 by almost forty points. Thirty nine points is what she 0:16:07.160 --> 0:16:11.720 lost by. And the reason is simple. She doesn't represent 0:16:11.840 --> 0:16:14.880 the people of Wyoming anymore. The people of Wyoming are conservative, 0:16:15.400 --> 0:16:19.560 and she's decided she is a Washington, DC left wing 0:16:19.680 --> 0:16:23.120 Democrat now. And so it's completely unsurprising, you know, right 0:16:23.200 --> 0:16:28.880 after she gets just trounced by the voters, there's no remorse, 0:16:28.960 --> 0:16:34.280 there's no contrition, there's no gush. You know, for some reason, 0:16:34.320 --> 0:16:37.120 the people of Wyoming don't think I'm representing them anymore. 0:16:37.120 --> 0:16:40.280 There's none of that. It is. Instead, she says it's 0:16:40.320 --> 0:16:44.080 her mission to do what defeat conservative Republicans. And I 0:16:44.120 --> 0:16:45.920 guess it's a badge of honor that I'm the number 0:16:45.960 --> 0:16:48.440 one person on her list. That she's going to take 0:16:48.560 --> 0:16:50.520 the PAC money she raised, and I think she's gotten 0:16:50.520 --> 0:16:55.160 like seven eight million dollars that came from lefty Democrats 0:16:55.240 --> 0:16:58.560 all over the place, and she's going to use that 0:16:58.760 --> 0:17:02.400 now to attack Republican And listen, there are two things 0:17:02.480 --> 0:17:06.200 Liz Cheney is doing. Number One, she's got a fundraising 0:17:06.240 --> 0:17:09.840 grift where she will raise money like the Lincoln Project. 0:17:09.880 --> 0:17:12.600 Lincoln Project is a great example where it's a fundraising 0:17:12.680 --> 0:17:15.800 grift of people who used to be kind of sort 0:17:15.800 --> 0:17:19.080 of Republicans who now make millions of dollars when they're 0:17:19.160 --> 0:17:23.440 not engaged in other illicit activities. Now make millions of 0:17:23.520 --> 0:17:27.960 dollars raising money from lefties to attack Republicans. And they're, 0:17:28.040 --> 0:17:33.960 to use that phrase useful idiots because their attacks arguably 0:17:34.080 --> 0:17:36.320 have some saliots, because they can say I was once 0:17:36.359 --> 0:17:38.520 a Republican, now I can be a left wing Democrat 0:17:38.600 --> 0:17:41.720 attack them. So she'll engage in a fundraising grift for 0:17:41.840 --> 0:17:45.520 a while. My guess is she probably runs for president, 0:17:46.280 --> 0:17:52.320 she gets crushed, and then she will happily retire to 0:17:52.560 --> 0:17:55.800 being a commentator at either MSNBC or CNN. I don't 0:17:55.800 --> 0:17:59.320 know which one it'll be, or maybe Mother Jones. I mean, 0:17:59.400 --> 0:18:02.800 I mean, I think those are choices. Now, Senator, speaking 0:18:02.880 --> 0:18:07.639 of large amounts of money and empowering bad forces, the 0:18:07.720 --> 0:18:10.520 Iran nuclear deal seems to be back on the table. 0:18:10.720 --> 0:18:13.720 The Obama administration crafted this deal and sent palettes of 0:18:13.800 --> 0:18:18.040 cash to Iran and paid obeisance to Iran after they 0:18:18.119 --> 0:18:20.159 captured our sailors and set them on the path to 0:18:20.240 --> 0:18:22.680 getting a nuclear weapon, all of which was very, very bad. 0:18:22.960 --> 0:18:26.879 And then Obama leaves, Trump comes in, and the Republicans 0:18:26.920 --> 0:18:30.879 and Trump tear up the Iran nuclear deal. Now Biden 0:18:30.960 --> 0:18:34.000 seems to be reviving it, although the details are a 0:18:34.040 --> 0:18:37.000 little bit unclear. I know you've been very, very involved 0:18:37.040 --> 0:18:39.800 in this issue. What do we need to know? Look, 0:18:39.920 --> 0:18:42.440 Biden is desperate to an announce that an Iran deal, 0:18:42.520 --> 0:18:45.200 and he doesn't care what the substances he is willing 0:18:45.280 --> 0:18:49.399 to give the Ayatola. I think literally anything the Ayatola wants. 0:18:50.640 --> 0:18:54.520 It is a political mission for Biden in the White 0:18:54.560 --> 0:19:00.320 House and to say it is indefensible. You know, it 0:19:00.400 --> 0:19:02.720 was a year ago that Biden surrendered to the Taliban 0:19:02.800 --> 0:19:06.800 and Afghanistan. Biden is right now trying to give Iran 0:19:06.960 --> 0:19:10.280 and the Iatola nuclear weapons. That that is the effect 0:19:10.320 --> 0:19:13.440 of the deal that they're negotiating is to make it 0:19:13.520 --> 0:19:16.320 inevitable that Iran has nuclear weapons. And let's be clear, 0:19:17.480 --> 0:19:23.440 the Iatola leads chance of death to America and death 0:19:23.520 --> 0:19:27.680 to Israel with thousands of people. In fact, every year 0:19:27.920 --> 0:19:31.080 they celebrate in Iran what they call Death to America Day, 0:19:31.480 --> 0:19:38.240 and that is it is the anniversary of the Islamic 0:19:38.359 --> 0:19:43.960 Revolutionary Guard taking American hostages in nineteen seventy nine in Iran, 0:19:44.080 --> 0:19:47.320 and that is in effect a national holiday where they 0:19:47.400 --> 0:19:52.800 celebrated in Iran every day. Right now, today, the current 0:19:52.880 --> 0:19:59.200 Iatola Commune is actively trying to murder the former Secretary 0:19:59.280 --> 0:20:02.560 State of the United States Mike Pompeo, the former National 0:20:02.640 --> 0:20:06.800 Security Advisor in the White House, John Bolden, and another 0:20:07.520 --> 0:20:11.080 State Department official, Brian Hook. All three of them have 0:20:11.760 --> 0:20:16.399 hit squads being paid for by the Iranian government actively 0:20:16.520 --> 0:20:19.920 trying to murder them. And you may recall a couple 0:20:19.960 --> 0:20:22.120 of months ago, Tony blink In the Secretary of State 0:20:22.240 --> 0:20:24.960 was testifying in the Senate Form Relations Committee, and I 0:20:25.080 --> 0:20:28.720 asked him in the hearing, I said, is it true 0:20:29.840 --> 0:20:34.440 that the State Department is right now paying two million 0:20:34.600 --> 0:20:40.440 dollars a month for security for Pompeo and Hook to 0:20:40.520 --> 0:20:43.080 protect them from Iranians trying to murder them? He said, yeah, 0:20:43.119 --> 0:20:46.439 that's true. And I said, is it true that as 0:20:46.480 --> 0:20:50.560 you were sitting down in Vienna negotiating with the Iranians, 0:20:51.760 --> 0:20:55.880 that the Biden State Department asked the Iranians, hey, would 0:20:55.920 --> 0:21:00.760 you guys stop actively trying to murder former senior US 0:21:00.840 --> 0:21:06.000 government officials, and that they said no, no, we will 0:21:06.119 --> 0:21:09.920 not stop trying to murder them. And you still sat 0:21:09.960 --> 0:21:13.200 there and said, Okay, well, let's keep negotiating and and 0:21:13.480 --> 0:21:18.399 Blincoln back pedaled and he obfuscated. He didn't want to 0:21:18.400 --> 0:21:21.359 answer that question because the answer is yes, and about 0:21:21.359 --> 0:21:23.360 the only thing I got candor from Lincoln on as 0:21:23.359 --> 0:21:26.560 I said. My next question was, I said, mister secretary, 0:21:28.080 --> 0:21:32.440 would you agree that trying to murder the US Secretary 0:21:32.480 --> 0:21:36.040 of State is a pretty bit big damn deal At 0:21:36.400 --> 0:21:39.359 Blncoln was forced to laugh and say, yeah, okay, that 0:21:39.600 --> 0:21:42.520 that is a big deal. But who I'm stopped Biden, 0:21:45.680 --> 0:21:53.560 it is ludicrous. Here's some good news. The chances that 0:21:53.720 --> 0:21:56.200 the next Republican president, which I think will be in 0:21:56.280 --> 0:22:01.680 twenty twenty five, will rip up whatever ridiculous deal these 0:22:01.760 --> 0:22:04.560 guys negotiate. I think they're very close to one hundred percent. 0:22:05.040 --> 0:22:08.160 And that's something I'm trying to make very very clear. 0:22:08.240 --> 0:22:10.520 I'm trying to lay the basis for it, lay the 0:22:10.600 --> 0:22:14.199 factual credit it for it. The aetola. The biggest thing 0:22:14.240 --> 0:22:16.879 the aetola wants an agreement is some sort of promise 0:22:16.960 --> 0:22:19.840 that will bind the next president. Because Trump the most 0:22:19.920 --> 0:22:23.320 important national security decision he made was to tear up 0:22:23.359 --> 0:22:27.159 the older Rand deal. The next Republican president, whoever it is, 0:22:27.240 --> 0:22:31.119 I think there's widespread agreement whoever the next Republican president is, 0:22:31.600 --> 0:22:35.800 will tear up whatever disastrous deal this is. That's a 0:22:35.960 --> 0:22:39.480 very good thing. And you know, look, one of the 0:22:39.600 --> 0:22:42.960 things that the Biden team is desperately trying to find 0:22:43.119 --> 0:22:46.680 is some way to tie the hands of the next president. 0:22:46.720 --> 0:22:49.680 I don't think they'll succeed, but they're trying to write 0:22:49.760 --> 0:22:53.680 into the agreement clauses that, you know, hand over a 0:22:53.760 --> 0:22:56.399 massive amount of money if the next administration pulls over. 0:22:56.480 --> 0:22:59.920 They're trying to put poison pills in there to prevent 0:23:00.200 --> 0:23:03.960 the next administration from pulling out. We'll see what they 0:23:04.040 --> 0:23:07.080 come up with. But I think regardless, the next president 0:23:07.200 --> 0:23:10.399 is pulling out of this disastrous deal because allowing the 0:23:10.480 --> 0:23:15.680 Aetola to have a nuclear weapon is an unacceptably high 0:23:15.800 --> 0:23:18.639 risk that that weapon would be used to murder millions 0:23:18.680 --> 0:23:22.880 of Americans. Now, the Biden administration is clearly working overtime 0:23:23.000 --> 0:23:27.360 in this regard, but gen Z is not working overtime. 0:23:27.400 --> 0:23:29.639 And I know that we are going overtime, but I 0:23:29.760 --> 0:23:32.680 have to get your opinion on this. This is completely 0:23:33.119 --> 0:23:36.120 outside of the Iran deal or even the Education Bill. 0:23:36.240 --> 0:23:38.600 Is just a cultural matter. But it really shocked me 0:23:38.640 --> 0:23:40.520 as reading the Wall Street Journal that there is a 0:23:40.640 --> 0:23:44.399 trend that has taken over TikTok and all sorts of 0:23:44.840 --> 0:23:47.639 commentary among the zoomers, among Gen z, you know, the 0:23:47.760 --> 0:23:51.760 people younger than millennials, which is the trend of quiet quitting. 0:23:52.240 --> 0:23:55.560 And quiet quitting is when you keep your job. You're 0:23:55.640 --> 0:23:58.320 not You don't quit, you don't resign, you don't even 0:23:58.359 --> 0:24:02.439 get fired. You just do the bare minimum. You clock 0:24:02.600 --> 0:24:05.560 in at nine o'clock on the dot, you clock out 0:24:05.600 --> 0:24:07.280 at five o'clock on the dot. You don't pick up 0:24:07.280 --> 0:24:09.720 your phone, you don't work weekends, you don't do anything. 0:24:10.080 --> 0:24:14.200 And it was so bizarre to read this because I 0:24:14.440 --> 0:24:16.920 was always raised that you just work hard and you 0:24:17.040 --> 0:24:19.000 never stop working hard. And all the guys at the 0:24:19.040 --> 0:24:21.240 top are working really hard. I know you work about 0:24:21.240 --> 0:24:23.359 twenty seven hours a day. I've seen it up close 0:24:23.640 --> 0:24:27.000 in cities all around the country. How do you explain 0:24:27.080 --> 0:24:30.520 this trend and do the zoomers have any sort of 0:24:30.640 --> 0:24:34.280 point when they're looking for work life balance. Well, Michael, 0:24:34.280 --> 0:24:37.639 I gotta say, I think you're being agist, and it 0:24:37.760 --> 0:24:40.040 may just be that you've gotten too old and you're 0:24:40.080 --> 0:24:44.080 too far removed from the youngsters and you need someone 0:24:44.200 --> 0:24:51.080