Speaker 1: Welcome.
Speaker 2: It is vernic with center, Ted Cruz Ben Ferguson with you, Senator.
Speaker 2: I think the big headline everybody knows what that is.
Speaker 2: It is official. Matt Gates has formerly withdrawn his name
Speaker 2: for consideration for the attorney general position in President Act
Speaker 2: Donald Trump's incoming administration.
Speaker 3: Well, that was stunning news that broke yesterday afternoon. I'll
Speaker 3: tell you in the Senate, I don't think anyone expected it.
Speaker 3: It came over the wire and it's a big deal.
Speaker 3: The day before I had sat down and met with
Speaker 3: Matt Gates. So I'm going to talk about that. I'm
Speaker 3: going to talk about that nomination and what's coming next
Speaker 3: for the Department of Justice. Additionally, this week we saw
Speaker 3: the stunning news that the International Criminal Court, the ICC
Speaker 3: has issued arrest warrants for the Prime Minister of Israel,
Speaker 3: Benjamin Nett Yahoo and for the Israeli Defense Minister. That
Speaker 3: this is an abomination, it is an attack on Israel,
Speaker 3: it is an attack on America.
Speaker 4: We're going to break it down.
Speaker 3: We're going to break down what the response of the
Speaker 3: federal government should be, what Donald Trump is going to
Speaker 3: do about it, And we're also going to break down
Speaker 3: how Joe Biden, Kamala Harris's weakness is what produced this abomination.
Speaker 3: And finally we're going to talk about how so much
Speaker 3: of the corporate media they're just losing their minds. We're
Speaker 3: going to close with the View and the Herodins on
Speaker 3: the View just just in absolute misery that Donald Trump
Speaker 3: has been re elected, that he is going to be
Speaker 3: the forty seventh president of the United States. And sadly,
Speaker 3: it's a pattern we're seeing across the corporate media and
Speaker 3: with elected Democrats where they learn nothing from the election
Speaker 3: and their response is just absolute rage and despair.
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Speaker 1: All right? Senator. So you met with Matt Gates yesterday.
Speaker 2: Less than twenty four hours later, Matt Gates has withdrawing
Speaker 2: his nomination. Let's paint the picture for some of you
Speaker 2: that listen to the show that say, how does this work?
Speaker 2: Because it was an interesting meeting. The Vice President elect
Speaker 2: was in the meeting as well. From what I understand,
Speaker 2: he was walking around Capitol Hill with Matt. When you
Speaker 2: when you see each other and you know both of
Speaker 2: these men, how does it work? Does he come into
Speaker 2: your office? Is just a three to close the door
Speaker 2: and then walk us through how that meeting works?
Speaker 4: Well?
Speaker 3: In the in the past week, Matt Gates had met
Speaker 3: with all of the Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee,
Speaker 3: and and so he reached out, and his team reached
Speaker 3: out asked for a meeting. Of course, we said yes,
Speaker 3: And and so I met with Matt on on Wednesday afternoon,
Speaker 3: early evening, and and the meeting. He was in the meeting,
Speaker 3: and then Jade Vance was accompanying him to all of
Speaker 3: those meetings as well. And and so we met actually
Speaker 3: in a room in the Capitol that they were holed
Speaker 3: up in a room in the Capitol, and and I
Speaker 3: came and sat down and met with about a half
Speaker 3: hour meeting. And it was a very positive and substantive meeting.
Speaker 3: I will say I did not know Matt Gates. I've
Speaker 3: I've met him I think once or twice before, basically
Speaker 3: in a green room before going on a hit on Fox.
Speaker 3: But but I'd never never had a conversation with him.
Speaker 3: So so when I sat down to meet him, it
Speaker 3: was the first time I'd ever had a substant conversation
Speaker 3: with them. And and we had, as I said, I think,
Speaker 3: a worthwhile conversation. Uh, the bulk of what what we
Speaker 3: talked about is as I asked him, what what's your
Speaker 3: vision for DJ. Look, I don't know that there is
Speaker 3: a more important appointment that President Trump will make than
Speaker 3: than the appointment to be Attorney general. And in particular
Speaker 3: because under Joe Biden, the Department of Justice has been
Speaker 3: so corrupted, so politicized, so weaponized, uh that that we
Speaker 3: need a strong attorney general to come in and clean house,
Speaker 3: to come in and restore integrity to the Department of Justice.
Speaker 3: Uh that is not going to be an easy task.
Speaker 3: And so much of what what I was asking him is, Look,
Speaker 3: how do you get that done? How do you take
Speaker 3: on the hardcore partisans that have burrowed into career positions
Speaker 3: throughout d OJ.
Speaker 4: How do you deal with that?
Speaker 3: How do you ensure that that the Department of Justice
Speaker 3: does what it is designed to do, which which is
Speaker 3: to enform course the law, regardless of party. Let me
Speaker 3: be clear, I don't want a Republican Department of Justice.
Speaker 3: I don't want a Democrat Department of Justice. I want
Speaker 3: a Department of Justice that enforces the law regardless of party.
Speaker 3: And that is not an easy task. And so what
Speaker 3: I was mostly doing is asking him, how would you
Speaker 3: get that done? How would you take it on? What
Speaker 3: in your background has prepared you to do that? What's
Speaker 3: your vision? How would you execute it? I also asked
Speaker 3: quite a few questions about Listen, President Trump has a
Speaker 3: big and bold agenda, and he has a major mandate
Speaker 3: from the voters on election day. As Attorney general, how
Speaker 3: would you go about advising the president how to effectively
Speaker 3: implement his agenda. Listen, everything the president tries to do
Speaker 3: over the next four years, Democrats are going to sue him.
Speaker 3: Blue states are going to sue him. Left wing attorney
Speaker 3: generals are going to sue him. Special interest groups are
Speaker 3: going to sue him. And so we need a Department
Speaker 3: of Justice that is smart and savvy and knows how
Speaker 3: to defend that litigation, knows how to prevail, and and
Speaker 3: knows how to how to implement a litigation strategy that
Speaker 3: that number one defends the policies of the president and
Speaker 3: the administration. But number two, that that that has a
Speaker 3: real vision, a real vision. Listen, this president was elected
Speaker 3: with a mandate, among other things, to to rein in
Speaker 3: out of control job killing regulations, to reign in the
Speaker 3: administrative state. That is a major objective of President Trump
Speaker 3: and this new administration. It's a major objective of mine.
Speaker 3: And they're going to be big legal challenges to doing so.
Speaker 3: And so so I think President Trump needs an attorney
Speaker 3: general who can give smart, serious advice on on.
Speaker 4: How to how to how to carry that out.
Speaker 2: So when you when you have these conversations, did you
Speaker 2: know that there was a chance that within twenty hours
Speaker 2: of you having that meeting less than that that Matt
Speaker 2: Gates is going to pull out? And what was the
Speaker 2: word on Capitol Hill?
Speaker 4: No idea at all?
Speaker 3: And it was as I said, the meeting that I
Speaker 3: had with him was very positive. And I came out
Speaker 3: there are horder reporters that were in the hallway that
Speaker 3: were waiting with bated breath, how the meeting go, How
Speaker 3: the meeting go, and what I told them there is
Speaker 3: I said, Look, it was a very productive meeting, and
Speaker 3: I think Matt Gates is entitled to a full and
Speaker 3: fair confirmation process.
Speaker 4: He needs to have a hearing. He needs to have
Speaker 4: a hearing quickly. We need to move.
Speaker 3: The Senate needs to move expeditiously, move forward with a
Speaker 3: confirmation of all of President Trump's cabinet members. That'll get
Speaker 3: started that the hearings will get started early in January.
Speaker 3: The hearings will get started actually before President Trump is
Speaker 3: sworn in, because the new Senate we will be sworn
Speaker 3: in at the beginning of January, so we'll have two
Speaker 3: and a half weeks where the new Senate is in office,
Speaker 3: but Trump has not yet been sworn in because he
Speaker 3: doesn't become president until January twentieth. So we'll begin hearings
Speaker 3: of major cabinet appointees starting in early January. You can't
Speaker 3: vote them out of committee then because they're not formally
Speaker 3: nominated until Trump becomes president and nominates them, So there
Speaker 3: is a you can't confirm someone before they're nominated, but
Speaker 3: you can do the hearing and you can get prepared
Speaker 3: so as soon as they're nominated, you can vote and
Speaker 3: confirm them.
Speaker 4: And I think we need to move expeditiously to do that.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 3: But I got to say, on Thursday afternoon, when the
Speaker 3: news broke, it was a complete surprise to me. I
Speaker 3: think it was a surprise to anybody if anybody knew
Speaker 3: about it. That they certainly didn't indicate that they did.
Speaker 3: And it I you know, I found out over Twitter
Speaker 3: it did just you know, Gates put out a statement
Speaker 3: and you know, I was in in a meeting and
Speaker 3: I got text. I got a text over the phone
Speaker 3: that just sent me the Twitter statement. I was like, wow, okay,
Speaker 3: And I think I think most most Senators were very surprised. Now,
Speaker 3: my assumption is that Gates did so because he and
Speaker 3: the team, the Trump team, perceive some real difficulties in
Speaker 3: Senate confirmation. And there certainly have been multiple Senators who
Speaker 3: expressed significant concern about Gates's background. I don't know if
Speaker 3: he would have had the votes to be confirmed or not.
Speaker 3: But his statement that he put out what it said,
Speaker 3: And I'll just read the statement that Gates put out
Speaker 3: on X He said, quote, I had excellent meetings with
Speaker 3: senators yesterday. I appreciate their thoughtful feedback and the incredible
Speaker 3: support of so many. While the momentum was strong, it
Speaker 3: is clear that my confirmation was unfairly becoming a distraction
Speaker 3: to the critical work of the Trump Vance transition. There
Speaker 3: is no time to waste on a needlessly protracted Washington scuffle.
Speaker 3: Thus I'll be withdrawing my name from consideration to serve
Speaker 3: as Attorney General. Trump's DOOJ must be in place and
Speaker 3: ready on day one. I remain fully committed to see
Speaker 3: that Donald J. Trump is the most successful president in history.
Speaker 3: I will forever be honored that President Trump nominated me
Speaker 3: to lead the Department of Justice, and I'm certain he
Speaker 3: will save America. So that was his statement, And as
Speaker 3: I said, I think in particular, the timing was a
Speaker 3: surprise to most, if not every senator.
Speaker 2: When you look at moving forward politically, what is the
Speaker 2: best move now for the president. Is that is to
Speaker 2: take his time or do you expect we're going to
Speaker 2: name pretty quickly, so you can move on from the
Speaker 2: Gates story and say, hey, that's old news.
Speaker 1: Let's go to the next thing.
Speaker 2: I got to get somebody in there, because, as you mentioned,
Speaker 2: this is a hearing for whoever the next nominee is
Speaker 2: that needs to be on the books, and they need
Speaker 2: to be having the meetings that you were literally having
Speaker 2: twenty four hours ago.
Speaker 3: Yeah, look, I expect they will move relatively quickly. I
Speaker 3: will say, it's more important to get it right than
Speaker 3: to get it super fast.
Speaker 4: As I said, I don't know that there's a.
Speaker 3: More important appointment that that that Trump will make that
Speaker 3: than Attorney general, and and and it needs to be
Speaker 3: a serious lawyer. It needs to be someone with integrity,
Speaker 3: It needs to be someone with with legal savvy with
Speaker 3: and it needs to be someone with with a steel backbone.
Speaker 3: And and so look, there were multiple press reports of
Speaker 3: of different people that Trump had interviewed that he was
Speaker 3: looking at. One of the people who was reported in
Speaker 3: the press reports is a guy named Bob Jeffra I know.
Speaker 4: Bob very well.
Speaker 3: Bob uh is the head of Sullivan Cromwell, which is
Speaker 3: one of the biggest law firms in the country.
Speaker 4: It's based in New York.
Speaker 3: And and Bob is was a former law clerk to
Speaker 3: Chief Justice William Renquist. And and and I've known Bob
Speaker 3: for thirty years. And and he's a He's a smart,
Speaker 3: serious lawyer who would certainly be up to the task
Speaker 3: if if that's who Trump decided to nominate. That there
Speaker 3: were other names that were tossed around. There was some
Speaker 3: discussion about Mike Lee. I think Mike Lee would do
Speaker 3: a terrific job. I don't think Mike is interested in
Speaker 3: the job, but I think he'd he'd be terrific if
Speaker 3: he was willing to do it. But I think what
Speaker 3: is really important is that they get it right and
Speaker 3: they appoint someone who is prepared to really turn around
Speaker 3: the battleship that is the Department of Justice and bring
Speaker 3: it back to what it's supposed to be.
Speaker 2: I've got my short list and I'm looking over it.
Speaker 2: And I was having this conversation earlier, all Right, what's next?
Speaker 2: And I'm going to ask the question. And I think
Speaker 2: the majority of people listening right now are thinking in
Speaker 2: their head too, why not a guy by the name
Speaker 2: of Senator Ted Cruz from Texas.
Speaker 1: He's an attorney.
Speaker 2: He knows the Constitution backwards and forwards, and maybe even
Speaker 2: can write it in different languages. For goodness sakes, that's
Speaker 2: how well you know it. And there are people that
Speaker 2: are gonna be sitting here the same way. I am
Speaker 2: going like this, scream Senator Ted Cruz, is your name?
Speaker 1: Should that?
Speaker 2: I mean, would you look at that if it was,
Speaker 2: if it was a conversation? And because I have you
Speaker 2: at the top of my list, not because I know you,
Speaker 2: but because I think you could do the job incredibly well.
Speaker 3: Well, look, it is certainly humbling to be discussed in
Speaker 3: that context, and I appreciate it. I am not interested
Speaker 3: in the job. I am going to stay right where
Speaker 3: I am. I'm going to stay in the United States Senate.
Speaker 3: As you know, I'm getting ready to be to the
Speaker 3: chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee. You know, I just
Speaker 3: got an incredible responsibility and mandate from the people of Texas.
Speaker 3: Thirty million Texans made the decision to re elect me
Speaker 3: and send me to the Senate to fight, and frankly,
Speaker 3: I think in the US Senate. The Senate is going
Speaker 3: to be the battlefield for many of the victories that
Speaker 3: we need to win over the next four years. The
Speaker 3: Senate is going to be the battlefield for securing the border.
Speaker 3: The Senate is going to be the battlefield for cutting
Speaker 3: taxes and simplifying the tax code. The Senate is going
Speaker 3: to be the battlefield for repealing job killing regulations. The
Speaker 3: Senate is going to be the battlefield for strengthening our
Speaker 3: national security, standing with Israel, for defeating Hamas and Hesbela,
Speaker 3: for standing up to China. And I think I am
Speaker 3: frankly more needed in the Senate. I think I could
Speaker 3: have a bigger and more lasting impact in the Senate.
Speaker 3: And so I care intensely who's going to be Attorney General?
Speaker 3: And I hope it is someone very strong, very capable,
Speaker 3: And I fully expect to work closely with whomever Trump appoints.
Speaker 4: But it ain't gonna be me.
Speaker 2: Final question on this, and Matt deals with the other nominees.
Speaker 2: What do you expect when it comes to meetings? I mean,
Speaker 2: is it going to be locked and loaded with other
Speaker 2: nominees or is this one still going to take president
Speaker 2: if it's named quickly?
Speaker 1: And how does that order of who you meet with? Work?
Speaker 3: Well, it tends to vary committee by committee. So Matt Gates,
Speaker 3: for example, was meeting with the Republicans on the Judiciary Committee.
Speaker 3: And the reason is obvious, which is the Attorney General
Speaker 3: goes first to the Judiciary Committee. The Judiciary Committee holds
Speaker 3: the hearing, and then you have to be voted out
Speaker 3: of committee, and then it goes to the floor of
Speaker 3: the Senate. There are other people, for example, Pete Hegseth
Speaker 3: has been nominated for Secretary of Defense. I assume Pete
Speaker 3: is meeting with members of the Senate Armed Services Committee,
Speaker 3: because Senate Armed Services Committee would be the committee that
Speaker 3: would hold as confirmation hearings, and you naturally prioritize meeting
Speaker 3: with members of the committee. So for each cabinet appointee,
Speaker 3: that's going to be decided initially by what is the
Speaker 3: committee of jurisdiction that will hold the confirmation hearing and
Speaker 3: that will have oversight jurisdiction.
Speaker 1: So for.
Speaker 3: So for the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation,
Speaker 3: we've got jurisdiction over a lot of the federal government.
Speaker 3: The Secretary of Commerce will come before our committee, the
Speaker 3: Secretary of Transportation will come before our committee. The chairman
Speaker 3: and the commissioners of the FTC of the FCC, they'll
Speaker 3: all come before our Committee. The administrator of the FAA,
Speaker 3: administrator of NASA will come before our committee, and so
Speaker 3: all of those various folks will naturally meet with members
Speaker 3: of the Commerce Committee on Foreign Affairs. Marco Rubio has
Speaker 3: been nominated to be Secretary of State, He's naturally going
Speaker 3: to meet with members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Speaker 3: Now that one's a little bit different because Marco's on
Speaker 3: the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. So am I I know
Speaker 3: Marco very well. We were sort of talking and laughing
Speaker 3: about I mean, it's a different I think Marco's going
Speaker 3: to be confirmed quite easily. That being said, they will
Speaker 3: systematically initially meet with the Senators on the Committee of Jurisdiction,
Speaker 3: and normally you meet with the other side as well.
Speaker 3: Normally you meet with I would expect them to meet
Speaker 3: certainly with the Democrats on the committee that has jurisdiction,
Speaker 3: and then depending on the position, they will meet with
Speaker 3: others as well. And so it's not it's not uniform.
Speaker 3: Every cabinet nominee doesn't meet with all one hundred senators,
Speaker 3: but on the degree of importance of the nomination and
Speaker 3: who the individual senator is, if they have particular equities
Speaker 3: or they're particularly involved in a subject matter, then there
Speaker 3: would be those meetings as well, but that's on more
Speaker 3: of an ad hoc basis.
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Speaker 2: to pull an audible real quick, because I should have
Speaker 2: mentioned this earlier. But as we were just talking about Israel,
Speaker 2: the ICC issued an arrest warrant for Net and Yahoo
Speaker 2: and glant and they also they're like, oh, yeah, we
Speaker 2: threw in a hamask guide too, so it looks like
Speaker 2: we're being equal here.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: This is a shocking attack by the ICC on net Yahoo,
Speaker 2: and also one that makes it very tough for him
Speaker 2: to travel more than likely the way he needs to
Speaker 2: because of the threat of being arrested, for example, if
Speaker 2: he is traveling to many parts of Europe.
Speaker 3: Well, it is an absolute outrage and and the ICC
Speaker 3: already had very very questionable legitimacy, but but with this decision,
Speaker 3: the International Criminal Court has just become a kangaroo court.
Speaker 3: And and and frankly, that's not fair to kangaroos. I mean,
Speaker 3: I mean it is It is an absolute This is
Speaker 3: a a political act of anti Israel hatred and and
Speaker 3: anti Semitism that sadly infests so many of our international
Speaker 3: institutions that that that that just hate Israel profoundly. And
Speaker 3: I believe the United States we should impose sanctions on
Speaker 3: every individual in in issuing this arrest warrant, from the
Speaker 3: prosecutor to the judges, everyone involved. They should be sanctioned
Speaker 3: by the United States government. We should also make clear
Speaker 3: that we will sanction anyone who attempts to enforce this
Speaker 3: arrest warrant. If you're a French prosecutor, be prepared to
Speaker 3: have American sanctions put on you if you try to
Speaker 3: enforce this utterly lawless.
Speaker 4: Arrest warrant. And understand, the reason.
Speaker 3: That the ICC did this is because of Joe Biden
Speaker 3: and Kamala Harris's incredible weakness. Listen, the ICC has no
Speaker 3: jurisdiction over Israel. Israel is not a party to the ICC.
Speaker 3: It also has no jurisdiction over the United States of America.
Speaker 3: And understand, this is a threat not just against Israel,
Speaker 3: although it is very much that, but this is a
Speaker 3: threat against America. This is a threat against the people
Speaker 3: who hate America. Imagine these same bigots who hate Israel
Speaker 3: how much they would love to issue an arrest warrant
Speaker 3: for Donald Trump, for the Secretary of State or the
Speaker 3: Secretary of Defense of the United States. And it is
Speaker 3: only because Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are so weak
Speaker 3: that the ICC felt empowered to issue this. It's not
Speaker 3: an accident that this came out after the presidential election,
Speaker 3: but before Trump was sworn in. That is when the
Speaker 3: enemies of Israel and the enemies of America historically have
Speaker 3: done some of the worst actions against the United States
Speaker 3: and against Israel. It is when if you remember, at
Speaker 3: the end of Obama, the last time we were in
Speaker 3: this comparable moment, which is a democratic administration was ending
Speaker 3: and Donald Trump was getting ready to be sworn in
Speaker 3: as president. That would have been November and December of
Speaker 3: twenty sixteen, right after the election. Obama was leaving. And
Speaker 3: remember what the Obama administration did. They orchestrated UN Resolution
Speaker 3: two three three four, which is one of the most
Speaker 3: shameful resolutions ever to be voted on in the United Nations,
Speaker 3: and the Obama administration it This resolution denounced much of
Speaker 3: modern Israel as illegitimate and illegally occupied. It denounced the
Speaker 3: Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem as illegitimate and illegally occupied. It
Speaker 3: denounced the Whaling Wall in Jerusalem as illegally occupied and illegitimate.
Speaker 3: And what happened is the Obama State Department orchestrated it.
Speaker 3: They got others to push it, and they just stood
Speaker 3: back and abstained. And I will tell you this week,
Speaker 3: I had a classified briefing with Tony blink in the
Speaker 3: Secretary of State, and I asked him very directly in
Speaker 3: that briefing, is the Biden administration going to do the
Speaker 3: same thing, Because last time y'all did that, it profoundly
Speaker 3: hurt Israel. It was used by the enemies of Israel
Speaker 3: to justify all sorts of targeting against the people of Israel.
Speaker 3: And I'm very concerned the Biden administration is going to
Speaker 3: try to orchestrate something similar. At the United Nations, we
Speaker 3: had a vote this week that actually the Biden administration
Speaker 3: blocked to their credit where the UN was trying to
Speaker 3: call for an immediate cease fire of the war against Tamas,
Speaker 3: but they did not include within it a demand that
Speaker 3: the hostages be released, and the Biden administration vetoed it
Speaker 3: without the hostages being released as part of the language.
Speaker 3: But I'm worried in the next two months that they
Speaker 3: will try to do something very similar to what happened
Speaker 3: in December of twenty sixteen with two three thirty four.
Speaker 3: And I think that this ICC arrest warrant is shameful.
Speaker 3: I also think the incoming Trump administration is going to
Speaker 3: stand very strongly against this absolutely disgraceful decision.
Speaker 2: Thune came out and threatened the International Criminal Court with
Speaker 2: sanctions if it doesn't drop the NETNA WHO warrant for rest.
Speaker 2: But he also called on Schumer to not wait for
Speaker 2: the Republicans to get in charge to do the right
Speaker 2: thing and to do something now on this. He said,
Speaker 2: if Majority Leader Schumer does not act, the Senate Republicans
Speaker 2: majority will stand with our key ally Israel and make
Speaker 2: this another supportive legislation a top priority in the next Congress.
Speaker 2: Is there a chance that Schumer could actually lead on
Speaker 2: this as Thum called on him to do, and said,
Speaker 2: don't make us wait till January.
Speaker 1: Do the right thing now for Israel.
Speaker 3: I think the chances are virtually zero so the House
Speaker 3: has passed legislation to do exactly that, and Schumer has
Speaker 3: refused to take it up the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Speaker 3: We have had legislation before us from Jim rish who's
Speaker 3: getting ready to be the Republican chairman of the Foreign
Speaker 3: Relations Committee, to do exactly that, to sanction the ICC
Speaker 3: for doing this, and the Democrats have refused to take
Speaker 3: it up. It's basically shut down the Foreign Relations Committee
Speaker 3: for the last six months because the Democrats have blocked
Speaker 3: legislation standing up to the ICC. And look that this
Speaker 3: is on the unfortunate reality that in today's Democrat Party
Speaker 3: there is a pro Hamas faction of the Democrat Party.
Speaker 3: And I don't think that is hyperbole. It is tragically
Speaker 3: the case. They are the ones cheering. We just had
Speaker 3: votes this week that Bernie Sanders pushed on the floor
Speaker 3: to cut off weapons to Israel, to cut off thirty
Speaker 3: two thousand tank rounds to Israel, to cut off over
Speaker 3: fifty thousand mortar cartridges to Israel, to cut off to
Speaker 3: cut off the kits that are used to make precision bombs.
Speaker 3: Now understand the argument of the leftist is that when
Speaker 3: Israel is bombing Hamas, or Hesbelah, they accidentally have incidental
Speaker 3: civilian casualties.
Speaker 4: So what is their response.
Speaker 3: Take away the ability to have targeted smart bombs, so
Speaker 3: they can only drop dumb bombs that they can't steer.
Speaker 4: The difference a precision bomb.
Speaker 3: You can direct it, so you hit your target and
Speaker 3: it's much less likely to have collateral damage. These left
Speaker 3: I just hate Israel so much. They want to say, no,
Speaker 3: let's take away your ability to target your weapons, so
Speaker 3: we increase the number of civilians killed. And nineteen Senate
Speaker 3: Democrats voted to cut off Israel's funds. That pro hamas
Speaker 3: faction of the Democrat Party. Not every Democrat in the
Speaker 3: House and Senate is a member of it, but just
Speaker 3: about every single Democrat is terrified of that faction. And
Speaker 3: it's why Schumer look that the internal the internal notes
Speaker 3: from Columbia University when Columbia was having the anti Semitic
Speaker 3: protest and the leaders of Columbia were talking to Schumer,
Speaker 3: Schumer told them, don't worry about it. The Democrats, we
Speaker 3: don't care. It's only the Republicans who care about this.
Speaker 3: Understand what that admission was, and that was out of
Speaker 3: Schumer's own mouth, that we the Democrats don't care about
Speaker 3: violent anti Semites terrorizing students in Columbia University and other universities,
Speaker 3: threatening Jewish students. It's not a priority for them. Why
Speaker 3: because they're terrified by the Prohamas faction of the party
Speaker 3: who supports the radicals and the anti Semites.
Speaker 4: That is tragically where we are.
Speaker 3: And so I'm going to predict we will take up
Speaker 3: the legislation to sanction the ICC, and we will do
Speaker 3: it early next year when we have a Republican Congress
Speaker 3: and a Republican president. I don't even know that we'll
Speaker 3: need that legislation though, because I expect the Trump administration
Speaker 3: to act unilatterally. I think there's ample authority under the
Speaker 3: law for them to act. Even if the Democrats filibuster
Speaker 3: legislation to sanction the ICC, I think the president will
Speaker 3: have ample authority to act come January twenty.
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Speaker 5: Do you know what's in the air?
Speaker 4: Whoopy?
Speaker 5: What's sump is we lost the election? When at it
Speaker 5: we lost the election. We're miserable. Half of this country
Speaker 5: is miserable. And let's just tell the truth. We hate
Speaker 5: that he won.
Speaker 4: We hate.
Speaker 2: I mean, I know we're all like Nazis, and I
Speaker 2: know that we're all de plorables, and I know that
Speaker 2: we're all floating garbage. But you would think they would
Speaker 2: have learned from losing an election, and clearly they're not.
Speaker 3: Look, I got to say, if Joy Behar is crying
Speaker 3: on TV and is miserable and is unhappy, that's a
Speaker 3: good day for America because her radical and extreme ideas
Speaker 3: that that.
Speaker 4: They're hurting the country.
Speaker 3: And you know, that may be the most honest thing
Speaker 3: she's ever said on the View, because she is a
Speaker 3: hard leftist and and and notice she's learned nothing, She's
Speaker 3: listened to nothing. There's no part nobody on that show
Speaker 3: has stopped to say, wait, why did the American people
Speaker 3: overwhelmingly reject our disastrous policy agenda. They're not asking that,
Speaker 3: They're just mad at at at what they views as
Speaker 3: the idiot voters. And listen, that's an arrogance that we
Speaker 3: see in elected democrats. It's an arrogance we see throughout
Speaker 3: the corporate media. Uh And and I think it's going
Speaker 3: to it's going to fuel their their doubling down and getting,
Speaker 3: if anything, even more extreme.
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