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Speaker 1: Welcome.

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Speaker 2: It is vernic with center, Ted Cruz Ben Ferguson with you, Senator.

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Speaker 2: I think the big headline everybody knows what that is.

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Speaker 2: It is official. Matt Gates has formerly withdrawn his name

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Speaker 2: for consideration for the attorney general position in President Act

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Speaker 2: Donald Trump's incoming administration.

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Speaker 3: Well, that was stunning news that broke yesterday afternoon. I'll

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Speaker 3: tell you in the Senate, I don't think anyone expected it.

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Speaker 3: It came over the wire and it's a big deal.

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Speaker 3: The day before I had sat down and met with

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Speaker 3: Matt Gates. So I'm going to talk about that. I'm

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Speaker 3: going to talk about that nomination and what's coming next

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Speaker 3: for the Department of Justice. Additionally, this week we saw

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Speaker 3: the stunning news that the International Criminal Court, the ICC

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Speaker 3: has issued arrest warrants for the Prime Minister of Israel,

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Speaker 3: Benjamin Nett Yahoo and for the Israeli Defense Minister. That

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Speaker 3: this is an abomination, it is an attack on Israel,

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Speaker 3: it is an attack on America.

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Speaker 4: We're going to break it down.

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Speaker 3: We're going to break down what the response of the

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Speaker 3: federal government should be, what Donald Trump is going to

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Speaker 3: do about it, And we're also going to break down

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Speaker 3: how Joe Biden, Kamala Harris's weakness is what produced this abomination.

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Speaker 3: And finally we're going to talk about how so much

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Speaker 3: of the corporate media they're just losing their minds. We're

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Speaker 3: going to close with the View and the Herodins on

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Speaker 3: the View just just in absolute misery that Donald Trump

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Speaker 3: has been re elected, that he is going to be

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Speaker 3: the forty seventh president of the United States. And sadly,

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Speaker 3: it's a pattern we're seeing across the corporate media and

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Speaker 3: with elected Democrats where they learn nothing from the election

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Speaker 3: and their response is just absolute rage and despair.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it is that audio. We're going to play it

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Speaker 2: for you a little bit. You don't want to miss it.

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Speaker 2: I want to talk to you real quick about the USCCA,

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Speaker 2: There are law abiding citizens that have to use their

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Speaker 2: Second Amendment rights. You want to make sure you have

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Speaker 2: someone protecting you when you exercise those rights. And there

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Speaker 2: are a lot of activist das right now. They do

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Speaker 2: not like law abiding citizens carrying firearms, and that is

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Speaker 1: All right? Senator. So you met with Matt Gates yesterday.

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Speaker 2: Less than twenty four hours later, Matt Gates has withdrawing

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Speaker 2: his nomination. Let's paint the picture for some of you

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Speaker 2: Because it was an interesting meeting. The Vice President elect

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Speaker 2: and then walk us through how that meeting works?

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Speaker 3: In the in the past week, Matt Gates had met

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Speaker 3: Uh that is not going to be an easy task.

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Speaker 3: And so much of what what I was asking him is, Look,

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Speaker 4: How do you deal with that?

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Speaker 3: How do you ensure that that the Department of Justice

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Speaker 3: be clear, I don't want a Republican Department of Justice.

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Speaker 3: And that is not an easy task. And so what

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Speaker 3: with a mandate, among other things, to to rein in

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Speaker 3: And they're going to be big legal challenges to doing so.

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Speaker 4: How to how to how to carry that out.

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Speaker 2: So when you when you have these conversations, did you

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Speaker 3: And it was as I said, the meeting that I

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Speaker 3: I said, Look, it was a very productive meeting, and

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Speaker 4: He needs to have a hearing. He needs to have

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Speaker 3: The Senate needs to move expeditiously, move forward with a

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Speaker 3: The hearings will get started actually before President Trump is

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Speaker 3: But I got to say, on Thursday afternoon, when the

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Speaker 3: is no time to waste on a needlessly protracted Washington scuffle.

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Speaker 3: Thus I'll be withdrawing my name from consideration to serve

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Speaker 3: as Attorney General. Trump's DOOJ must be in place and

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Speaker 3: ready on day one. I remain fully committed to see

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Speaker 3: I will forever be honored that President Trump nominated me

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Speaker 2: When you look at moving forward politically, what is the

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Speaker 3: try to orchestrate something similar. At the United Nations, we

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Speaker 3: had a vote this week that actually the Biden administration

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Speaker 3: blocked to their credit where the UN was trying to

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Speaker 3: call for an immediate cease fire of the war against Tamas,

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Speaker 3: but they did not include within it a demand that

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Speaker 3: the hostages be released, and the Biden administration vetoed it

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Speaker 3: without the hostages being released as part of the language.

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Speaker 3: But I'm worried in the next two months that they

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Speaker 3: will try to do something very similar to what happened

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Speaker 3: in December of twenty sixteen with two three thirty four.

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Speaker 3: And I think that this ICC arrest warrant is shameful.

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Speaker 3: I also think the incoming Trump administration is going to

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Speaker 3: stand very strongly against this absolutely disgraceful decision.

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Speaker 2: Thune came out and threatened the International Criminal Court with

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Speaker 2: sanctions if it doesn't drop the NETNA WHO warrant for rest.

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Speaker 2: But he also called on Schumer to not wait for

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Speaker 2: the Republicans to get in charge to do the right

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Speaker 2: thing and to do something now on this. He said,

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Speaker 2: if Majority Leader Schumer does not act, the Senate Republicans

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Speaker 2: majority will stand with our key ally Israel and make

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Speaker 2: this another supportive legislation a top priority in the next Congress.

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Speaker 2: Is there a chance that Schumer could actually lead on

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Speaker 2: this as Thum called on him to do, and said,

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Speaker 2: don't make us wait till January.

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Speaker 1: Do the right thing now for Israel.

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Speaker 3: I think the chances are virtually zero so the House

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Speaker 3: has passed legislation to do exactly that, and Schumer has

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Speaker 3: refused to take it up the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

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Speaker 3: We have had legislation before us from Jim rish who's

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Speaker 3: getting ready to be the Republican chairman of the Foreign

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Speaker 3: Relations Committee, to do exactly that, to sanction the ICC

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Speaker 3: for doing this, and the Democrats have refused to take

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Speaker 3: it up. It's basically shut down the Foreign Relations Committee

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Speaker 3: for the last six months because the Democrats have blocked

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Speaker 3: legislation standing up to the ICC. And look that this

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Speaker 3: is on the unfortunate reality that in today's Democrat Party

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Speaker 3: there is a pro Hamas faction of the Democrat Party.

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Speaker 3: And I don't think that is hyperbole. It is tragically

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Speaker 3: the case. They are the ones cheering. We just had

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Speaker 3: votes this week that Bernie Sanders pushed on the floor

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Speaker 3: to cut off weapons to Israel, to cut off thirty

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Speaker 3: two thousand tank rounds to Israel, to cut off over

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Speaker 3: fifty thousand mortar cartridges to Israel, to cut off to

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Speaker 3: cut off the kits that are used to make precision bombs.

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Speaker 3: Now understand the argument of the leftist is that when

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Speaker 3: Israel is bombing Hamas, or Hesbelah, they accidentally have incidental

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Speaker 3: civilian casualties.

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Speaker 4: So what is their response.

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Speaker 3: Take away the ability to have targeted smart bombs, so

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Speaker 3: they can only drop dumb bombs that they can't steer.

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Speaker 4: The difference a precision bomb.

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Speaker 3: You can direct it, so you hit your target and

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Speaker 3: it's much less likely to have collateral damage. These left

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Speaker 3: I just hate Israel so much. They want to say, no,

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Speaker 3: let's take away your ability to target your weapons, so

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Speaker 3: we increase the number of civilians killed. And nineteen Senate

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Speaker 3: Democrats voted to cut off Israel's funds. That pro hamas

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Speaker 3: faction of the Democrat Party. Not every Democrat in the

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Speaker 3: House and Senate is a member of it, but just

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Speaker 3: about every single Democrat is terrified of that faction. And

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Speaker 3: it's why Schumer look that the internal the internal notes

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Speaker 3: from Columbia University when Columbia was having the anti Semitic

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Speaker 3: protest and the leaders of Columbia were talking to Schumer,

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Speaker 3: Schumer told them, don't worry about it. The Democrats, we

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Speaker 3: don't care. It's only the Republicans who care about this.

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Speaker 3: Understand what that admission was, and that was out of

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Speaker 3: Schumer's own mouth, that we the Democrats don't care about

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Speaker 3: violent anti Semites terrorizing students in Columbia University and other universities,

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Speaker 3: threatening Jewish students. It's not a priority for them. Why

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Speaker 3: because they're terrified by the Prohamas faction of the party

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Speaker 3: who supports the radicals and the anti Semites.

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Speaker 4: That is tragically where we are.

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Speaker 3: And so I'm going to predict we will take up

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Speaker 3: the legislation to sanction the ICC, and we will do

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Speaker 3: it early next year when we have a Republican Congress

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Speaker 3: and a Republican president. I don't even know that we'll

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Speaker 3: need that legislation though, because I expect the Trump administration

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