WEBVTT - It All Comes Down To This 0:00:00.240 --> 0:00:04.640 It all comes down to this, the final impeachment vote 0:00:04.680 --> 0:00:08.240 on whether or not to remove President Trump from office, 0:00:08.600 --> 0:00:11.080 and straight from the Capitol, we have one of the 0:00:11.200 --> 0:00:22.520 judge slash jurors. This is verdict with Ted Cruz. The 0:00:22.560 --> 0:00:25.759 final vote has happened. Can I get a drum roll? Please? 0:00:26.360 --> 0:00:30.120 The President has not been removed from office. Senator you 0:00:30.160 --> 0:00:32.639 are so shocked and excited by this news that you're 0:00:32.680 --> 0:00:35.879 sitting there tweeting during the introt. Well, I am, I 0:00:35.920 --> 0:00:38.640 was just just reading a second ago, a tweet that says. 0:00:39.120 --> 0:00:43.280 In other Democratic comments, Representative Sheila Jackson Lee suggests that 0:00:43.320 --> 0:00:48.200 the Russians may be behind the Iowa Democratic Caucus app debacle. 0:00:48.760 --> 0:00:52.320 She mentions Russia as she tells FBI Director Chris Ray, 0:00:52.960 --> 0:00:55.880 I hope the Iowa Democrats will ask for an FBI 0:00:56.040 --> 0:00:59.440 investigation on the app. And so I just retweeted it 0:00:59.480 --> 0:01:03.560 and made a very simple observation. Well, Bernie did honeymoon 0:01:03.600 --> 0:01:08.920 in the Soviet Union. So your mind is now past impeachment. 0:01:08.959 --> 0:01:12.160 The impeachment vote has happened, and it turned out the 0:01:12.200 --> 0:01:13.759 way that we all knew it was going to turn out. 0:01:13.920 --> 0:01:17.640 This was the inevitable outcome. Yeah, we knew this in October. 0:01:17.959 --> 0:01:19.920 We knew this in November, we knew this in December, 0:01:19.959 --> 0:01:22.160 we knew this in January, we know this in February, 0:01:22.400 --> 0:01:24.680 and we will know this one hundred years from now. 0:01:25.360 --> 0:01:28.600 This impeachment was always a partisan circus, and it was 0:01:28.640 --> 0:01:32.959 appointing to end with acquittal, right, But it wasn't about 0:01:33.000 --> 0:01:37.320 convicting the president. That That wasn't the Democrats objective. It 0:01:37.360 --> 0:01:41.560 was about appeasing their base. That Hatson. The impeachment and 0:01:41.640 --> 0:01:44.480 the Democratic reaction to the sta State of the Union 0:01:44.560 --> 0:01:49.520 last night are the same thing. Huh. It's like it's 0:01:49.520 --> 0:01:53.320 a different part of the identical phenomenon. Nancy Pelosi ripping 0:01:53.360 --> 0:01:56.480 the speech in half is the same thing as impeachment. 0:01:57.520 --> 0:02:01.560 It is all a giant fu apologies to Donald Trump. 0:02:01.880 --> 0:02:04.560 That's what That's what this whole thing was. But then 0:02:05.600 --> 0:02:07.440 what did they get out of it? I guess if 0:02:07.480 --> 0:02:09.000 if we always knew how it was going to end, 0:02:09.240 --> 0:02:12.160 and it was always a partisan circus, was there a 0:02:12.200 --> 0:02:17.000 political victory? When you the bloods of the mob, it 0:02:17.120 --> 0:02:20.320 satiates the mob, at least briefly, if nothing else. It 0:02:20.360 --> 0:02:23.840 gets messy. I mean, this was look the beginning of 0:02:23.919 --> 0:02:31.320 last year. You had famed centrists like Nancy Pelosi saying no, 0:02:31.320 --> 0:02:34.160 no, no no, no, we can't do impeachment. It can't be partisan. 0:02:34.200 --> 0:02:36.679 It will never succeed. Even Nancy Pelosi didn't want to 0:02:36.680 --> 0:02:41.160 do impeach, you had that wonderful rock of moderation, Jerry 0:02:41.240 --> 0:02:44.800 Nadler saying no, no no, no, no, we can't do we 0:02:44.840 --> 0:02:49.560 can't do impeachment if it's partisan. So what changed? What 0:02:49.840 --> 0:02:56.880 change is their base got angrier and angrier and angrier, 0:02:56.960 --> 0:03:01.960 and ultimately, listen, I viewed Nancy Loosi almost like a 0:03:02.080 --> 0:03:04.880 hostage tied up an abasement somewhere little ironic because we 0:03:04.919 --> 0:03:07.320 are in fact in abasement right now. But but look, 0:03:07.720 --> 0:03:12.360 she's she was telling AOC, she was telling the squad, 0:03:12.440 --> 0:03:19.560 she was telling the fired up Bernie Sanders. Bernista's no, no, no, 0:03:21.000 --> 0:03:23.320 and they just couldn't fight him anymore. And and so 0:03:23.400 --> 0:03:27.320 all of impeachment. One of the reasons I think Pelosi 0:03:27.440 --> 0:03:31.160 was so pissed last night is I think the Democrats 0:03:31.360 --> 0:03:34.679 have done real political damage to themselves in the last 0:03:34.760 --> 0:03:38.520 three months. Then they strengthened President Trump. I mean, I 0:03:38.600 --> 0:03:42.120 mean it. You know, if I were Donald Trump, I 0:03:42.160 --> 0:03:46.040 would send a letter to the FEC today the Federal 0:03:46.040 --> 0:03:50.320 Election Committee saying, dear FEC, I just like clarification, do 0:03:50.400 --> 0:03:53.040 I have to declare Nancy Pelosi's actions as an in 0:03:53.160 --> 0:03:56.080 kind contribution? It is my reelection camp. It has helped 0:03:56.120 --> 0:03:58.520 his numbers. So then I guess this is just what's 0:03:58.560 --> 0:04:03.360 confusing to me. We're saying is Nancy Pelosi and the 0:04:03.440 --> 0:04:06.400 Democrats had to go along with impeachment because they're fired 0:04:06.480 --> 0:04:10.800 up base demanded it. But the impeachment has damaged the Democrats, 0:04:11.120 --> 0:04:14.040 and it was always going to damage the Democrats. I 0:04:14.440 --> 0:04:17.920 think that's right, and I think that their base has 0:04:18.040 --> 0:04:22.400 radicalized and they have no choice but follow them off 0:04:22.440 --> 0:04:25.279 the cliff. Now, there were some surprises today. Yep. We 0:04:25.360 --> 0:04:28.320 had been talking about. Obviously the president was going to 0:04:28.320 --> 0:04:30.599 be acquitted, but there were some swing votes in play. 0:04:30.800 --> 0:04:34.200 Mitt Romney was the biggest one, but also Doug Jones 0:04:34.360 --> 0:04:39.920 of Alabama, who's a Democrat. Also Kirsten Cinema of Arizona. Right, 0:04:39.920 --> 0:04:42.800 there were a few other votes in play. It was 0:04:42.839 --> 0:04:47.360 a completely party lined vote except for Mitt Romney. Well, 0:04:47.440 --> 0:04:51.000 let's take each piece of that. So this weekend, as 0:04:51.000 --> 0:04:53.120 you and I talked about, I thought there were anywhere 0:04:53.160 --> 0:04:57.159 between fifty and fifty six votes for not guilty. We 0:04:57.240 --> 0:05:02.240 ended up at fifty two. Sorry about that. It's been 0:05:02.240 --> 0:05:05.839 a long week, it has. We ended up at fifty two. 0:05:05.920 --> 0:05:09.040 So the six votes that were in play three Republicans 0:05:09.080 --> 0:05:14.320 Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, Mitt Romney, and three Democrats Joe Mansion, 0:05:14.440 --> 0:05:21.200 Kirsten Cinema, Doug Jones. I was right that Collins would 0:05:21.279 --> 0:05:23.600 vote to acquit. I was right that Murkowski would vote 0:05:23.600 --> 0:05:27.320 to acquit. I was wrong on Mitt. So last podcast 0:05:27.360 --> 0:05:29.240 we did, I told you I thought Mitt would be 0:05:29.440 --> 0:05:32.640 a not guilty. I also told you I thought Joe 0:05:32.680 --> 0:05:35.000 Mansion would be a not guilty, Joe Mansion, Democrat from 0:05:35.000 --> 0:05:38.440 West Virginia, but from West Virginia. And I said Cinema 0:05:38.680 --> 0:05:42.440 might be that she was a plausible not guilty. And 0:05:42.600 --> 0:05:46.200 I also told you Doug Jones won't be and Jones 0:05:46.240 --> 0:05:48.600 I was exactly right. Joe Jones is running in Alabama. 0:05:48.600 --> 0:05:51.880 It's a bright red state. Voting for impeachment is a 0:05:52.040 --> 0:05:55.039 terrible vote for Doug Jones. And I think he doesn't care. 0:05:55.080 --> 0:05:59.159 He's like the end of Doctor Strangelove, the guy on 0:05:59.240 --> 0:06:01.719 top of the rock, on top of the bomb with 0:06:01.800 --> 0:06:05.200 a cowboy hat cheering is a fat Jones. It's like 0:06:05.480 --> 0:06:08.200 I'm losing, and damn it, I am going to be 0:06:08.279 --> 0:06:11.000 praised by every liberal in Alabama. There are a few 0:06:11.040 --> 0:06:13.520 of them, are not many, but but he's going to 0:06:13.560 --> 0:06:15.120 be there here. Senator, do you know how I know 0:06:15.160 --> 0:06:18.360 that you are new to political podcasting is that you 0:06:18.360 --> 0:06:22.279 are actually holding up your predictions against reality. Normally we 0:06:22.400 --> 0:06:25.680 just move right along, doesn't matter, no accountability. Mitt Romney 0:06:25.760 --> 0:06:28.000 was the big story. Yeah, Mitt Romney comes out. We 0:06:28.040 --> 0:06:30.520 actually surprised me. We have a clip of it, Mitt 0:06:30.600 --> 0:06:34.640 Romney declaring why he's going to vote against President Trump. 0:06:34.920 --> 0:06:38.880 As a senator juror, I swore an oath before God 0:06:40.040 --> 0:06:47.440 to exercise impartial justice. I am profoundly religious. My faith 0:06:48.120 --> 0:06:52.279 is at the heart of who I am. The grave 0:06:52.360 --> 0:06:56.200 question the Constitution tasks senators to answer is whether the 0:06:56.240 --> 0:07:00.839 President committed an act so extreme and egregious that it 0:07:01.000 --> 0:07:07.360 rises to the level of a high crime and misdemeanor. Yes, 0:07:07.560 --> 0:07:14.360 he did. Your reaction, Look, I think he's wrong. I 0:07:14.400 --> 0:07:18.520 think he is very mistaken, and I think that's unfortunate. 0:07:18.880 --> 0:07:22.080 I think that is a bad decision. I think it's 0:07:22.160 --> 0:07:25.360 it's bad for the country. I think it's bad for MIT, 0:07:26.200 --> 0:07:28.440 and I don't think it's consistent with the Constitution. Now 0:07:28.880 --> 0:07:32.320 that being said, every Senator has to make up his 0:07:32.440 --> 0:07:34.760 or her mind and then that that is what MIT 0:07:34.760 --> 0:07:38.440 has done. But I think that's a very unfortunate decision. 0:07:38.480 --> 0:07:42.560 Do you think Senator Romney's decision to be the only 0:07:42.640 --> 0:07:45.440 vote that to cross party lines to vote against the 0:07:45.480 --> 0:07:48.800 president on actually on only one charge on abuse of power? 0:07:49.040 --> 0:07:50.960 He didn't. He voted to quit the president on the 0:07:50.960 --> 0:07:53.400 other charge, obstruction of Congress. But do you think Senator 0:07:53.480 --> 0:07:57.120 Romney's decision influenced some of those other swing votes on 0:07:57.160 --> 0:08:01.560 the Democratic side. Yeah, that's an interesting question. And maybe 0:08:02.360 --> 0:08:04.320 you know when we started voting, So we voted to 0:08:04.360 --> 0:08:06.360 day at four, so we all came to the Senate floor. 0:08:06.360 --> 0:08:08.840 We got there a few minutes early. Mitch McConnell was 0:08:08.840 --> 0:08:14.440 giving a speech about how impeachment was all nonsense. Yeah, 0:08:15.000 --> 0:08:19.160 four o'clock, the vote comes in. The Chief Justice comes 0:08:19.200 --> 0:08:22.200 and takes the seat, reads the first article. We vote, 0:08:22.200 --> 0:08:24.000 now the way we vote. Every one of us stands 0:08:24.080 --> 0:08:29.360 up and votes either guilty or not guilty. Right before 0:08:29.400 --> 0:08:32.120 that started, it was interesting. Joe Manchin and Kirsten Cinema 0:08:32.200 --> 0:08:35.719 hugged each other. And I have to say, Cinema, who 0:08:35.880 --> 0:08:40.079 who I like? I work with her? She looked pale, 0:08:40.600 --> 0:08:44.000 she looked haggard. I mean it was it was noticeable. 0:08:44.480 --> 0:08:49.079 And I will say another Republican senator was speculating with 0:08:49.120 --> 0:08:53.319 me if Chuck Schumer had had taken them back in 0:08:53.440 --> 0:08:56.760 his office and strapped them to a chair and taken 0:08:56.800 --> 0:08:59.080 out a rubber hose on them. It seemed as though 0:08:59.080 --> 0:09:02.720 it was in their personal political interest to vote to 0:09:02.840 --> 0:09:06.680 acquit the president. So what's interesting is is when Mansion 0:09:06.760 --> 0:09:09.280 cast his vote, I leaned over to David Produce, it's 0:09:09.280 --> 0:09:10.760 next to me on the on the Senate floor, and 0:09:10.840 --> 0:09:14.120 I said, well, Mansion just announced he's not running for reelection. 0:09:14.400 --> 0:09:18.439 That's what it seems like. Look, West Virginia, this may 0:09:18.480 --> 0:09:20.679 be a worst vote for worst vote for Mansion than 0:09:20.679 --> 0:09:23.160 it is for Doug Jones. I'd put West Virginia and 0:09:23.200 --> 0:09:25.840 Alabama side by side in terms of where the voters 0:09:25.840 --> 0:09:29.800 are on that. And I'm actually not shocked that Mansion 0:09:29.840 --> 0:09:31.880 would do that because because I don't think he actually 0:09:31.880 --> 0:09:33.520 really likes the Senate. He used to be governor in 0:09:33.559 --> 0:09:38.240 West Virginia. He liked being Governor Moore, and this was 0:09:38.280 --> 0:09:41.440 a vote. I don't know how much Schumer pounded them. 0:09:41.480 --> 0:09:46.000 I actually wonder the Democrats are much better at party discipline. 0:09:46.200 --> 0:09:48.679 I don't know what Schumer threatens. I don't know if 0:09:48.679 --> 0:09:55.840 he did. This is pure speculation, but it wouldn't shock me. 0:09:55.960 --> 0:09:59.760 So Romney announced earlier this afternoon he was going to 0:09:59.760 --> 0:10:04.320 be a guilty And if Schumer hadn't gotten mansion and 0:10:04.520 --> 0:10:07.640 or sent him a to flip, then I suspect Romney 0:10:07.679 --> 0:10:11.280 coming over Schumer would have said, hey, you can't vote 0:10:11.280 --> 0:10:13.520 the other way because we need the messaging. I haven't 0:10:13.520 --> 0:10:15.760 even seen what the Democrats have said, but I'm sure 0:10:15.800 --> 0:10:18.840 they're all saying it was a bipartisan vote. Well that's 0:10:18.880 --> 0:10:21.600 what changes. This is why the Romney vote matters, is 0:10:21.679 --> 0:10:25.040 not because you don't think so. There are five hundred 0:10:25.040 --> 0:10:28.200 and thirty five members of the United States Congress throughout 0:10:28.240 --> 0:10:35.280 this entire show. It was a diplomatic choice of words. 0:10:36.080 --> 0:10:39.320 I said the second half of the word. They got 0:10:39.320 --> 0:10:42.400 one Republican one out of five hundred and thirty five. 0:10:42.480 --> 0:10:45.760 So you'll forgive me for not being oh terribly excited 0:10:46.120 --> 0:10:49.600 that they got one. This was a partisan endeavor from 0:10:49.679 --> 0:10:52.280 day one, and the fact that that Mitt decided to 0:10:52.280 --> 0:10:54.839 do what he did. Listen, I don't really want to 0:10:54.840 --> 0:10:57.240 pound Mit, frankly, because everyone else on earth is landing 0:10:57.280 --> 0:10:58.800 on him so hard. I don't know if you've checked 0:10:58.800 --> 0:11:02.520 Twitter recently that it's tough on him. But I will say, 0:11:02.600 --> 0:11:07.480 you know one reaction I have, so I'm reminded of 0:11:07.520 --> 0:11:11.200 another difficult moment on the Senate floor. By the way, 0:11:11.240 --> 0:11:14.480 an interesting observation, Mit I think sits at the same 0:11:14.520 --> 0:11:18.000 desk that I sat in as a freshman. Looking at 0:11:18.040 --> 0:11:20.240 that image of that clip, that's the same image that's 0:11:20.280 --> 0:11:25.200 behind me when I'm doing the Obamacare filibuster. He's really junior. 0:11:25.200 --> 0:11:29.280 He's in the back corner. Those were very different speeches, 0:11:29.720 --> 0:11:36.160 very different. But I was reminded of another deeply disappointing 0:11:36.240 --> 0:11:41.559 moment on the floor, which was in twenty seventeen when 0:11:41.600 --> 0:11:45.600 we voted on Obamacare repeal, and you'll recall we came 0:11:45.679 --> 0:11:48.680 one vote short of Obamacare repeal. Now that there's nothing 0:11:48.800 --> 0:11:51.800 I have bled more than taking on and trying to 0:11:51.840 --> 0:11:53.880 repeal Obamacare, I haven't given up on that yet, just 0:11:53.920 --> 0:11:57.960 to be clear, But you'll recall three Republicans voted against it, 0:11:58.000 --> 0:12:00.319 and the last one was John McCain from Arizona, who 0:12:00.320 --> 0:12:03.199 put his put his fist out and sort of wiggled 0:12:03.240 --> 0:12:06.000 it for a minute to thrust his thumb down. And 0:12:06.040 --> 0:12:07.559 that was That was about two in the morning. So 0:12:07.559 --> 0:12:09.560 actually we should have been podcasting that. Yeah in the 0:12:09.559 --> 0:12:15.440 morning's we need to own two am. You know it's 0:12:15.440 --> 0:12:17.160 two am. Do you know where your senator? They have 0:12:17.240 --> 0:12:18.959 got to let you get to your second job. That 0:12:19.280 --> 0:12:24.760 is exactly right. So I remember at that moment and listen, 0:12:24.840 --> 0:12:28.400 John McCain and I we became friends. I respect and 0:12:28.480 --> 0:12:33.319 admire him personally, certainly for his heroism, for his serving 0:12:33.320 --> 0:12:38.040 his country. But I had to turn and walk off 0:12:38.040 --> 0:12:40.679 the Senate floor because if I had spoken to him 0:12:40.720 --> 0:12:44.480 that night, it would not have been language suitable for 0:12:44.559 --> 0:12:47.320 the floor. It was and infuriating though, but but I 0:12:47.360 --> 0:12:51.720 want to draw a distinction. Let me contrast, so someone else. 0:12:52.400 --> 0:12:55.120 The two other no votes that night were Susan Collins 0:12:55.160 --> 0:12:59.360 and Lisa Murkowski. I had a very different sentiment about 0:12:59.400 --> 0:13:02.360 McCain's vote that I did about Collins's vote. Why look, 0:13:02.360 --> 0:13:06.160 I didn't like how Susan voted, but Susan was honest 0:13:06.160 --> 0:13:09.480 with her voters. Susan when she campaigned and when elect 0:13:09.559 --> 0:13:12.800 was elected in Maine, she never campaign saying she opposed Obamacare. 0:13:13.000 --> 0:13:16.400 She's a moderate. The voters of Maine knew what they 0:13:16.440 --> 0:13:18.720 were getting. She she wasn't out there on the stump 0:13:18.760 --> 0:13:22.160 saying if you elect me, I will vote to repeal Obamacare. 0:13:23.000 --> 0:13:26.320 And so I disagree with her on that issue. But 0:13:26.320 --> 0:13:29.240 but but I think being honest with your voters and 0:13:29.320 --> 0:13:31.520 doing what you told them to is is right at 0:13:31.559 --> 0:13:35.600 the heart of what we're supposed to do. YEA, what 0:13:35.760 --> 0:13:38.520 was so infuriating about McCain's vote. He had just been 0:13:38.559 --> 0:13:41.880 re elected and he had run ads all across Arizona, 0:13:42.160 --> 0:13:49.040 John McCain leading the fight to repeal Obamacare. That that's 0:13:49.040 --> 0:13:55.360 why it was so infuriating. And I gotta say about Mitt, 0:13:57.440 --> 0:13:59.720 they saying how he campaigned to get elected to Senate. 0:14:00.320 --> 0:14:03.800 I noticed that if Mitt had wanted to tell the 0:14:03.800 --> 0:14:08.199 people of Utah elect me, and I will be a 0:14:08.360 --> 0:14:11.559 check on Donald Trump. I will stand up to Donald Trump. 0:14:11.720 --> 0:14:13.680 I will be a statesman. And you know what, if 0:14:13.679 --> 0:14:16.240 the people of Utah and elected elected him for that, 0:14:17.120 --> 0:14:21.320 God bless him. But that's not what he told the voters. 0:14:21.320 --> 0:14:28.800 And it's a pattern the rage across this country. Washington 0:14:28.920 --> 0:14:33.000 doesn't doesn't get the rage across this country. That rage 0:14:33.040 --> 0:14:36.920 is what elected Trump is. People were tired of their 0:14:36.920 --> 0:14:40.560 elected officials telling him one thing on the campaign it 0:14:40.680 --> 0:14:43.920 just flat outline, and then doing exactly the opposite. And 0:14:44.040 --> 0:14:47.640 and that I don't have a problem. I don't have 0:14:47.680 --> 0:14:51.080 a problem with Bernie Sanders voting like a socialist. Look, 0:14:51.120 --> 0:14:53.000 his policies are luni and would destroy the country in 0:14:53.040 --> 0:14:56.520 the world. But but other than that, missus Lincoln, how'd 0:14:56.520 --> 0:14:58.080 you like to play? But he tells the people of 0:14:58.200 --> 0:15:01.480 Vermont that I, I don't know, they're cold, they're spoken 0:15:01.520 --> 0:15:03.280 pot and they say that sounds good to us, like, 0:15:03.360 --> 0:15:07.880 I don't know, but it's at least honest. I think 0:15:07.920 --> 0:15:16.560 we need more honesty and politics. And this was not 0:15:16.640 --> 0:15:18.720 what the people of Utah. You know, this actually brings 0:15:18.760 --> 0:15:22.520 us to another point, kind of wrapping up impeachment. You've 0:15:22.520 --> 0:15:26.120 talked a lot about Hunter Biden, Bisma, this corruption on 0:15:26.160 --> 0:15:30.160 the Democratic side, and other senators have gone along with this, 0:15:30.680 --> 0:15:32.320 but you always wondered if it was just maybe a 0:15:32.320 --> 0:15:36.440 little more opportunistic. What we've just heard, this is breaking 0:15:36.440 --> 0:15:40.080 news Senators Chuck Rassley and Ron Johnson have sent letters 0:15:40.120 --> 0:15:44.240 to the Secret Service requesting information on Hunter Biden's travel records. 0:15:44.960 --> 0:15:47.760 Obviously you have been leading the charge to get to 0:15:47.800 --> 0:15:52.280 the bottom of this kind of corruption. Are there going 0:15:52.320 --> 0:15:55.400 to be enough other senators to go along with this 0:15:55.560 --> 0:15:59.680 to get to the bottom of the Biden potential corruption 0:16:00.160 --> 0:16:04.920 or is this just going to be forgotten? I hope so. Um, 0:16:05.640 --> 0:16:08.120 let me say a couple of things on that one. 0:16:09.080 --> 0:16:12.000 In the Senate and in the House. I think the 0:16:12.080 --> 0:16:18.640 political appetite for any further investigation diminished dramatically because Joe 0:16:18.640 --> 0:16:21.360 Biden is in free fall now. Fourth in Utah is 0:16:21.400 --> 0:16:24.840 falling in New Hampshire, Iowa action not YouTube. Sorry, I 0:16:24.880 --> 0:16:28.000 was still so fixated on Senator Romney. Yes in Iowa. Look, 0:16:28.040 --> 0:16:31.440 they're both both states with four letters and lots of owls. 0:16:31.920 --> 0:16:35.520 But but but different, beautiful, but very different. I can't 0:16:35.520 --> 0:16:37.400 believe they say we don't know geography, you know, I 0:16:37.400 --> 0:16:39.800 don't know why they say that about us conservatives. Um 0:16:44.800 --> 0:16:48.120 Biden taking forth in Iowa or who knows? I mean, 0:16:48.160 --> 0:16:50.360 we still don't have results because they still can't count 0:16:50.360 --> 0:16:55.280 the votes. But it is catastrophic for him yeah, what's 0:16:55.320 --> 0:17:00.720 going on behind the scenes. His donors are are in panic, 0:17:01.320 --> 0:17:04.520 his supporters are in panic, His grassroots activists are in panic. 0:17:04.920 --> 0:17:08.399 His campaign staffers are in panic. When you're built on 0:17:08.720 --> 0:17:13.440 being inevitable, placing fourth is kind of a propt because 0:17:13.440 --> 0:17:15.639 that's the whole pitch for the Biden campaign is he's 0:17:15.680 --> 0:17:18.880 the most electable guy. If he doesn't win elections, then 0:17:18.920 --> 0:17:21.560 that whole argument goes away. And remember we talked about 0:17:21.880 --> 0:17:25.840 in a previous podcast, how when the House managers threw 0:17:25.880 --> 0:17:29.600 about Joe Biden under the bus. One Republican senator speculated 0:17:29.640 --> 0:17:33.439 it was because the Democratic superdelegates had soured on Biden, 0:17:33.960 --> 0:17:37.399 and we saw some of that, some of the fruit 0:17:37.440 --> 0:17:40.400 of that playing out in Iowa. What that means they're 0:17:40.440 --> 0:17:42.040 not going to be a lot of Republicans in the 0:17:42.080 --> 0:17:48.600 Senate agitating for investigating further because Biden. Biden is politically speaking, 0:17:48.640 --> 0:17:52.800 a dead man walking right now. Right right that being said, look, 0:17:52.880 --> 0:17:56.560 rule of law matters. Biden was the vice president of 0:17:56.560 --> 0:17:59.200 the United States. The evidence we've walked through on barisma 0:17:59.320 --> 0:18:02.440 and correct option. When I'm back at home at home 0:18:02.440 --> 0:18:05.520 in Texas and doing town halls, and I've done town 0:18:05.520 --> 0:18:07.960 halls in Texas and all across the country. People are 0:18:08.320 --> 0:18:12.640 understandably frustrated. A question you get all the time, how 0:18:12.680 --> 0:18:16.000 come nobody's held accountable? How come people break the law, 0:18:16.280 --> 0:18:20.080 people violate the criminal there's no consequences. They get off 0:18:20.080 --> 0:18:23.800 scott free. What happened to the millions of dollars hunter 0:18:23.840 --> 0:18:27.479 Biden made? By the way, no one has ever answered 0:18:27.480 --> 0:18:30.200 the question that was asked during the trial, what exactly 0:18:30.240 --> 0:18:33.440 did hunter Biden do for the million bucks a year? 0:18:33.520 --> 0:18:35.520 Like the managers are like, we don't want to answer that. 0:18:36.960 --> 0:18:41.920 So my view is absolutely yes, there should be an investigation. 0:18:42.040 --> 0:18:45.960 Now who should investigate? To be honest, there's a game 0:18:46.000 --> 0:18:48.560 of musical chairs in the Senate because no one wants 0:18:48.600 --> 0:18:51.800 to do it. Where no committee chairman wants to do it, 0:18:51.800 --> 0:18:54.919 It's got to be a committee chairman. I don't I 0:18:54.960 --> 0:18:58.840 don't care if it's Judiciary, Foreign Relations, or Intel. I'm 0:18:58.880 --> 0:19:02.280 on two of those three, and I am urging the 0:19:02.359 --> 0:19:05.360 chairman to call them and to investigate. But right now 0:19:05.400 --> 0:19:08.440 you're not seeing any chairman rushing into that breach. And 0:19:09.040 --> 0:19:12.880 they control the gavel, they control the ability to investigate. 0:19:12.880 --> 0:19:18.959 But let me say, secondly, where's DOJ right. The Justice 0:19:19.000 --> 0:19:22.840 Department do have a United States Department of Justice that 0:19:23.080 --> 0:19:26.919 has these people called assistant US attorneys, and they have 0:19:26.960 --> 0:19:31.880 grand juries and their FBI agents when they're not fraudulently 0:19:31.920 --> 0:19:34.520 launching a case against the president and doctoring evidence to 0:19:34.560 --> 0:19:38.800 the fives accord get wire tabs, you've got evidence here 0:19:38.840 --> 0:19:40.560 of a million bucks a year to the son of 0:19:40.600 --> 0:19:45.760 the vice president, with the vice president bragging about getting 0:19:45.760 --> 0:19:48.159 the prosecutor fired. By the way, I don't know. So 0:19:48.240 --> 0:19:50.800 in my Senate speech yesterday, every senator got ten minutes 0:19:50.840 --> 0:19:55.120 to explain, and I quoted from what podcast listeners here 0:19:55.280 --> 0:19:57.520 know that I've affectionately referred to as the son of 0:19:57.520 --> 0:20:01.000 a bitch Cliff and Joe Biden on video saying son 0:20:01.000 --> 0:20:03.600 of a bitch, he got fired. What I've actually asked 0:20:03.640 --> 0:20:07.359 my team to to to research that maybe the first 0:20:07.440 --> 0:20:09.200 time in history, son of a bitch has been set 0:20:09.240 --> 0:20:11.320 on the Senate. So you did not set the milk 0:20:11.440 --> 0:20:16.680 precedent that you participated in, but you may have set Okay, 0:20:16.720 --> 0:20:20.960 that's really and I'll confess what I asked my team 0:20:20.960 --> 0:20:22.679 that they're like, oh, come on, someone had to have 0:20:22.680 --> 0:20:25.679 said it. I said, Look, the Senate's pretty old school. 0:20:25.680 --> 0:20:29.200 I'm not even sure we've had a malarkey on the Senate. No, 0:20:29.320 --> 0:20:31.040 there's been a lot of malarkey, but maybe not a 0:20:31.080 --> 0:20:34.119 mention of malarkey. But by the way, Michael, you did mention. 0:20:34.200 --> 0:20:37.960 I missed this tweet, but you told me that that 0:20:37.960 --> 0:20:41.919 that that Don Junior Junior, Don Junior tweeted about the 0:20:41.960 --> 0:20:46.040 Iowa Caucuses. I'm sorry we were told there'd be no malarkey. 0:20:46.800 --> 0:20:50.200 That's funny. I didn't see Don's tweet, but that's really funny. 0:20:50.359 --> 0:20:54.600 Spot on. Before we go, obviously wrapping up impeachment, we 0:20:54.640 --> 0:20:56.320 need to get to some of the mail bad questions. 0:20:56.400 --> 0:21:00.919 Our listeners have been incredible. Now just what We've been 0:21:00.920 --> 0:21:04.720 doing this for two weeks, over two million audio downloads, 0:21:05.040 --> 0:21:10.480 a ton of listens on YouTube. First question from Nicholas 0:21:11.600 --> 0:21:14.399 is the Verdicts podcast going to continue or was this 0:21:14.440 --> 0:21:19.600 a short lived gem of a listen? We ain't going anywhere, 0:21:19.720 --> 0:21:21.879 all right, I still have a job. This is great. 0:21:22.400 --> 0:21:25.680 We will keep on going and and we're going to 0:21:25.840 --> 0:21:29.320 keep doing the same thing yea, which is trying to 0:21:29.359 --> 0:21:32.280 get to the bottom of issues, trying to engage in substance. 0:21:32.960 --> 0:21:36.320 You know, this podcast was built on a proposition that 0:21:36.920 --> 0:21:39.320 you can attest. A lot of people laughed at us 0:21:39.359 --> 0:21:43.720 for saying yes, which is that people really care about substance. 0:21:43.760 --> 0:21:48.120 They want to understand things. Now, Look, people have jobs, 0:21:48.119 --> 0:21:50.720 they have kids, they have lives. They don't necessarily have 0:21:50.800 --> 0:21:53.440 time to spend days and days and days studying every issue. 0:21:53.440 --> 0:21:56.240 You gotta deal with other stuff. But they do want 0:21:56.240 --> 0:21:58.399 to understand, all right, what's really going on? What are 0:21:58.440 --> 0:22:01.159 the facts? And I had to admit, when it comes 0:22:01.200 --> 0:22:05.920 to cable TV, I don't turn on the cable news stations. 0:22:06.400 --> 0:22:11.440 I get very little from from people screaming anything three minutes, 0:22:11.480 --> 0:22:13.879 sound bites, yelling over each other, and just the talking 0:22:13.920 --> 0:22:16.600 points blah blah blah. Want why it's like it's like 0:22:16.640 --> 0:22:22.240 a Charlie Brown and they're talking. Yeah, it just it doesn't. 0:22:22.280 --> 0:22:24.240 So what we're gonna try to do. We're gonna try 0:22:24.240 --> 0:22:29.679 to address number one, timely pressing issues right now, but 0:22:29.880 --> 0:22:33.720 number two also issues that matter, whether raised by the 0:22:33.800 --> 0:22:36.679 presidential campaign, raised by what's going on in the Senate, 0:22:36.800 --> 0:22:41.560 raised in the Supreme Court, or just issues that matter. 0:22:41.680 --> 0:22:44.320 Socialism versus free enterprise, what's that all about? Those are 0:22:44.359 --> 0:22:47.159 sort of great bumper stickers you can get all, you know, 0:22:47.760 --> 0:22:50.840 jazzed about, but what does it mean? And and I'm 0:22:50.880 --> 0:22:53.440 hoping that that we do it with a combination of 0:22:54.760 --> 0:22:58.000 facts and insight and perhaps some perspectives that you don't 0:22:58.040 --> 0:23:03.240 necessarily get elsewhere, but also having fun. I mean, we're gonna, 0:23:03.359 --> 0:23:06.920 you know, cut up and laugh and and and enjoy ourselves. 0:23:06.920 --> 0:23:09.119 And hopefully that means our listeners will stay with us. 0:23:09.240 --> 0:23:13.240 Right before we go, someone has a new job recommendation 0:23:13.280 --> 0:23:15.359 for you. You've already got two. Maybe you could have 0:23:15.400 --> 0:23:19.680 a third from Lisa thoughts on a Supreme Court seat. 0:23:19.800 --> 0:23:25.200 I think ted would be great. Well, look, I appreciate 0:23:25.240 --> 0:23:29.840 Lisa saying that, And that's a question that I get sometimes. 0:23:30.320 --> 0:23:32.919 I will tell you that the short answer is is 0:23:32.960 --> 0:23:35.920 that I'm not interested in doing that. Really, why not. 0:23:36.000 --> 0:23:38.480 You've worked in the Supreme Court, you clerked, you have 0:23:38.600 --> 0:23:42.520 argued cases before the Supreme Court. I respect, I admire 0:23:42.600 --> 0:23:46.119 the Supreme Court. I think it's massively important, you know 0:23:46.200 --> 0:23:49.320 the big reason. And when I've said this people they 0:23:49.359 --> 0:23:54.479 sometimes don't believe me. But I think a principled federal 0:23:54.560 --> 0:23:59.320 judge stays out of policy fights, stays out of political fights. YEA, 0:24:00.119 --> 0:24:02.560 if I were a judge. That's what I do. If 0:24:02.600 --> 0:24:05.639 I found myself on the Supreme Court, I would follow 0:24:05.720 --> 0:24:07.959 the law and I would follow the Constitution, even if 0:24:07.960 --> 0:24:10.520 it doesn't go along with your particular preference. I don't 0:24:10.680 --> 0:24:12.520 give an issue, and I don't want to stay out 0:24:12.560 --> 0:24:14.720 of policy fights. I don't want to stay out of 0:24:14.720 --> 0:24:17.040 political fights. I want to be right in the middle 0:24:17.119 --> 0:24:20.560 of them. And the right place in our constitutional system 0:24:20.640 --> 0:24:22.639 for that is the Senate. I mean, the Senate was 0:24:22.840 --> 0:24:27.280