1 00:00:01,160 --> 00:00:01,560 Speaker 1: Welcome. 2 00:00:01,600 --> 00:00:04,440 Speaker 2: It is Vertical Center, Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you, 3 00:00:04,440 --> 00:00:05,960 Speaker 2: and it's so nice to have you with us around 4 00:00:05,960 --> 00:00:09,400 Speaker 2: the country wherever you are listening on radio stations all 5 00:00:09,480 --> 00:00:11,440 Speaker 2: over And we have got a lot to talk about 6 00:00:11,480 --> 00:00:15,319 Speaker 2: in today's show, including the fact that Center it wasn't 7 00:00:15,360 --> 00:00:17,520 Speaker 2: just enough that they wanted to spy on your cell 8 00:00:17,560 --> 00:00:21,079 Speaker 2: phone records. They decided, screw it, we'll just tap like 9 00:00:21,239 --> 00:00:22,840 Speaker 2: federal lines in your office. 10 00:00:23,360 --> 00:00:27,800 Speaker 3: The Biden administration has been caught spying on now nine 11 00:00:28,240 --> 00:00:31,600 Speaker 3: US senators, twenty percent of the Republicans in the Senate, 12 00:00:32,159 --> 00:00:36,480 Speaker 3: Jack Smith, issued subpoenas to spy on and to get 13 00:00:36,560 --> 00:00:37,919 Speaker 3: our cell phone records. 14 00:00:37,920 --> 00:00:39,000 Speaker 4: I was one of the nine. 15 00:00:39,440 --> 00:00:43,479 Speaker 3: We now know also that Judge Boseburg, who is this 16 00:00:43,680 --> 00:00:47,760 Speaker 3: left wing radical judge who keeps issuing national injunctions against 17 00:00:47,760 --> 00:00:51,800 Speaker 3: President Trump, signed at least an order to me concerning me, 18 00:00:52,800 --> 00:00:56,680 Speaker 3: ordering at and t not to tell me that that 19 00:00:57,040 --> 00:01:01,040 Speaker 3: DOJ was trying to get my phone wrecked. Because the 20 00:01:01,160 --> 00:01:04,640 Speaker 3: judge concluded with zero basis that I was likely to 21 00:01:04,720 --> 00:01:09,400 Speaker 3: destroy evidence and to tamper with witnesses. It is an 22 00:01:09,520 --> 00:01:12,240 Speaker 3: absolute disgrace. We're gonna break it down. We're gonna talk 23 00:01:12,280 --> 00:01:16,240 Speaker 3: about the accountability that needs to flow from this. We're 24 00:01:16,280 --> 00:01:19,760 Speaker 3: also gonna talk about the shutdown that keeps on going 25 00:01:19,880 --> 00:01:23,640 Speaker 3: and going and going. Day thirty one in the Schumer 26 00:01:23,760 --> 00:01:26,559 Speaker 3: shutdown with no end in sight. We're gonna talk about 27 00:01:26,600 --> 00:01:30,920 Speaker 3: where the shutdown stands. And finally, an extraordinary story, Bill 28 00:01:31,000 --> 00:01:34,800 Speaker 3: Gates reverses his position on climate change. 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So the 79 00:04:23,560 --> 00:04:27,640 Speaker 3: Senators who had subpoenas issued against them were Marsha Blackburn, 80 00:04:28,040 --> 00:04:33,840 Speaker 3: Lindsey Graham, Bill Haggerty, Josh Hawley, Ron Johnson, Cynthia Lummis, 81 00:04:34,240 --> 00:04:39,520 Speaker 3: Dan Sullivan, and Tommy Tubberville and then yours truly. For 82 00:04:39,680 --> 00:04:43,799 Speaker 3: the first eight their cell phones were all with Verizon, 83 00:04:44,040 --> 00:04:47,320 Speaker 3: and Jack Smith sent the subpoena to Verizon, and Verizon 84 00:04:47,360 --> 00:04:50,680 Speaker 3: complied and gave their cell phone records to the Department 85 00:04:50,720 --> 00:04:53,640 Speaker 3: of Justice. My cell phone was with AT and T. 86 00:04:54,000 --> 00:04:57,120 Speaker 3: AT and T got a subpoena for my cell phone records, 87 00:04:57,520 --> 00:04:59,360 Speaker 3: and AT and T did not comply. 88 00:04:59,440 --> 00:05:01,080 Speaker 4: Their legal council concluded that. 89 00:05:01,040 --> 00:05:05,520 Speaker 3: The speech and debate clause of the Constitution protected my communications, 90 00:05:05,520 --> 00:05:06,680 Speaker 3: and they did not comply. 91 00:05:06,839 --> 00:05:08,479 Speaker 4: And that we now know. 92 00:05:09,320 --> 00:05:12,680 Speaker 3: And just this week I did a press conference with 93 00:05:13,040 --> 00:05:16,320 Speaker 3: the other Republican senators talking about this issue. I want 94 00:05:16,400 --> 00:05:19,280 Speaker 3: you to listen to. This is me describing just the 95 00:05:19,279 --> 00:05:23,400 Speaker 3: scope of how serious and grave this is. Arctic Frost 96 00:05:24,240 --> 00:05:28,520 Speaker 3: is Joe Biden's Watergate. Merrick Garland was a fundamentally corrupt 97 00:05:29,040 --> 00:05:33,880 Speaker 3: Attorney General. Jack Smith was a fundamentally corrupt prosecutor. This 98 00:05:34,080 --> 00:05:38,720 Speaker 3: was a political enemies list from the beginning, one hundred 99 00:05:38,800 --> 00:05:43,920 Speaker 3: and ninety seven subpoenas for four hundred and thirty Republican 100 00:05:44,160 --> 00:05:49,719 Speaker 3: entities and individuals. That is an absolute and egregious abuse 101 00:05:49,839 --> 00:05:50,360 Speaker 3: of power. 102 00:05:51,160 --> 00:05:55,480 Speaker 2: Is there any scenario there, Senator, where you look at 103 00:05:55,480 --> 00:05:58,600 Speaker 2: this and you hear them and you think they could 104 00:05:58,640 --> 00:06:01,200 Speaker 2: have even for a moment, thought they were doing legitimate work. 105 00:06:01,240 --> 00:06:03,400 Speaker 2: I mean, when you think about the scope of this, 106 00:06:03,520 --> 00:06:06,400 Speaker 2: for people that are listening, this just seems like they said, 107 00:06:06,760 --> 00:06:10,080 Speaker 2: rules be damned, laws be damned, We're gonna spy on 108 00:06:10,120 --> 00:06:14,440 Speaker 2: twenty percent of the Republican senators. That is bigger than Watergate. 109 00:06:14,839 --> 00:06:16,960 Speaker 2: And then all these other organizations that we think are 110 00:06:17,040 --> 00:06:19,520 Speaker 2: helping conservative movements, we'll just spy on them too, Like 111 00:06:19,600 --> 00:06:21,000 Speaker 2: what were they even looking for? 112 00:06:21,440 --> 00:06:24,000 Speaker 3: Look, I think Jack Smith is a partisan zealot. I 113 00:06:24,000 --> 00:06:26,720 Speaker 3: think Merrick Garland is a partisan zealot. I think they 114 00:06:26,880 --> 00:06:31,400 Speaker 3: eagerly weaponized the Department of Justice. Jack Smith was appointed 115 00:06:32,200 --> 00:06:36,719 Speaker 3: as the special prosecutor to go after President Trump three 116 00:06:37,160 --> 00:06:41,040 Speaker 3: days after President Trump announced his twenty twenty four campaign. 117 00:06:41,640 --> 00:06:46,159 Speaker 3: So this all happened two years after January sixth. Yeah, 118 00:06:46,480 --> 00:06:48,880 Speaker 3: I don't think it would have happened if Donald Trump 119 00:06:48,960 --> 00:06:51,760 Speaker 3: had decided I'm not running in twenty twenty four. I 120 00:06:51,760 --> 00:06:53,840 Speaker 3: don't think Jack Smith is ever appointed. I don't think 121 00:06:53,880 --> 00:06:59,240 Speaker 3: these prosecutions happened. The reason they happen is Donald Trump 122 00:06:59,320 --> 00:07:03,120 Speaker 3: announced he was running in twenty four and immediately with 123 00:07:03,360 --> 00:07:06,640 Speaker 3: three days later, Jack Smith was appointed. And this was 124 00:07:06,680 --> 00:07:11,320 Speaker 3: about target our political enemies, Let's go after them. I 125 00:07:11,320 --> 00:07:15,680 Speaker 3: think Merrick Garland presided over the most partisan Department of 126 00:07:15,840 --> 00:07:17,280 Speaker 3: Justice this country has ever seen. 127 00:07:17,600 --> 00:07:20,760 Speaker 4: And I think Merrick Garland is still seething with rage. 128 00:07:20,760 --> 00:07:21,840 Speaker 4: Remember Merrick Garland. 129 00:07:22,240 --> 00:07:25,640 Speaker 3: Barack Obama nominated Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court to 130 00:07:25,680 --> 00:07:30,040 Speaker 3: fill the seat when when antonin Scalia passed away and 131 00:07:30,080 --> 00:07:34,640 Speaker 3: in twenty sixteen, Yeah, in twenty sixteen. It was the 132 00:07:34,680 --> 00:07:38,920 Speaker 3: spring of twenty sixteen, and we decided we're gonna keep 133 00:07:38,960 --> 00:07:42,320 Speaker 3: the seat vacant and let the voters decide in November 134 00:07:42,320 --> 00:07:45,320 Speaker 3: of twenty sixteen who's gonna fill it. And of course 135 00:07:45,360 --> 00:07:47,640 Speaker 3: that ended up being filled by Neil Gorsich instead of 136 00:07:47,680 --> 00:07:48,360 Speaker 3: Merrick Garland. 137 00:07:48,680 --> 00:07:49,600 Speaker 4: I think Merrick. 138 00:07:49,400 --> 00:07:54,720 Speaker 3: Garland seethes with resentment, and he used that resentment to 139 00:07:54,800 --> 00:07:58,240 Speaker 3: fuel let's go after the Republicans. Let's target them, let's 140 00:07:58,280 --> 00:08:01,400 Speaker 3: target Donald Trump. Let's turn earned the Department of Justice 141 00:08:01,440 --> 00:08:04,680 Speaker 3: into an arm of the DNC. And I think Hamala 142 00:08:04,720 --> 00:08:07,520 Speaker 3: Harris and the Democrats were all eagerly on board with that. 143 00:08:08,000 --> 00:08:11,880 Speaker 2: There was a strategy here. And if they didn't trust 144 00:08:11,920 --> 00:08:13,640 Speaker 2: you to know that you were being subpoena in your 145 00:08:13,680 --> 00:08:16,120 Speaker 2: records are being subpoena and other concernis were not going 146 00:08:16,120 --> 00:08:16,920 Speaker 2: to be told as well. 147 00:08:16,960 --> 00:08:18,960 Speaker 1: You mentioned that earlier. They said, no, no, we can't trust 148 00:08:19,040 --> 00:08:19,680 Speaker 1: Center Cruz. 149 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:22,280 Speaker 2: And I'm assuming that was just a blanket across the 150 00:08:22,320 --> 00:08:25,480 Speaker 2: board thing because everyone knew how corrupt this was and 151 00:08:25,520 --> 00:08:26,960 Speaker 2: they would fight back instantly. 152 00:08:27,000 --> 00:08:27,520 Speaker 1: I'm sure. 153 00:08:27,920 --> 00:08:30,600 Speaker 2: But was this a spy to see who's working with who, 154 00:08:31,120 --> 00:08:33,079 Speaker 2: because if you didn't know what was happening, it may 155 00:08:33,120 --> 00:08:36,319 Speaker 2: not be as much about intimidation as it was connecting dots. 156 00:08:36,360 --> 00:08:37,960 Speaker 2: Or was it to try to find something they could 157 00:08:38,040 --> 00:08:42,400 Speaker 2: charge them with criminally explain the logic here behind Jacksmith. 158 00:08:42,760 --> 00:08:46,880 Speaker 3: Yeah, this was a fishing expedition. They were sweeping broadly. 159 00:08:46,920 --> 00:08:49,480 Speaker 3: They were just trying to find evidence of wrongdoing and 160 00:08:49,520 --> 00:08:52,480 Speaker 3: going as broadly as they could. And I got to say, 161 00:08:52,480 --> 00:08:54,520 Speaker 3: I used to work at the Department of Justice. I 162 00:08:54,559 --> 00:08:58,000 Speaker 3: was an Associate Deputy Attorney General back in two thousand 163 00:08:58,000 --> 00:09:02,400 Speaker 3: and one under George which was president. The idea that 164 00:09:02,440 --> 00:09:06,200 Speaker 3: you would authorize subpoenas for nine US senators for twenty 165 00:09:06,280 --> 00:09:09,080 Speaker 3: percent of the Republicans and the senator, or for that matter, 166 00:09:09,200 --> 00:09:11,040 Speaker 3: for twenty percent of the Democrats, that you would do 167 00:09:11,200 --> 00:09:14,800 Speaker 3: the opposing party. There has never been a Department of 168 00:09:14,960 --> 00:09:20,080 Speaker 3: Justice that wouldn't like that, would be willing to do that. 169 00:09:19,800 --> 00:09:23,600 Speaker 3: That is an extraordinary step, and it's a sign of 170 00:09:23,720 --> 00:09:26,920 Speaker 3: just how corrupt these folks got. But it's not just 171 00:09:26,960 --> 00:09:30,600 Speaker 3: the prosecutors, it's not just Jack Smith. They had I 172 00:09:30,679 --> 00:09:35,000 Speaker 3: think an extreme partisan judge, Judge Boseburg, who has been 173 00:09:35,520 --> 00:09:37,920 Speaker 3: one of the worst actors when it comes to issuing 174 00:09:37,920 --> 00:09:41,679 Speaker 3: these nationwide injunctions. We've talked about him before, and the 175 00:09:41,800 --> 00:09:45,400 Speaker 3: order he signed concerning the subpoena directed of my phone 176 00:09:45,440 --> 00:09:49,760 Speaker 3: records I believe was an absolute corruption of his judicial oath. 177 00:09:49,800 --> 00:09:53,040 Speaker 3: And here's what I called for. I called for him 178 00:09:53,040 --> 00:09:53,920 Speaker 3: to be impeached. 179 00:09:54,679 --> 00:09:56,800 Speaker 2: Yeah, there was a great clip, and you're gonna hear 180 00:09:57,200 --> 00:09:59,440 Speaker 2: Senator Grassley talking to the press conference and then your 181 00:09:59,480 --> 00:10:01,960 Speaker 2: comments all so you made on Newsmax about it. 182 00:10:02,000 --> 00:10:02,559 Speaker 1: Take a listen. 183 00:10:03,320 --> 00:10:08,880 Speaker 5: That includes a hard line for Senator Cruz's office and 184 00:10:08,960 --> 00:10:13,400 Speaker 5: a staffer sell phone for former Senator Leffler. 185 00:10:14,280 --> 00:10:16,959 Speaker 6: So they tried to subpoena Arise and attack the off 186 00:10:17,160 --> 00:10:18,280 Speaker 6: the office phone in your. 187 00:10:18,240 --> 00:10:21,959 Speaker 3: In your office well to get the phone records. And 188 00:10:22,040 --> 00:10:24,360 Speaker 3: they also subpoena at AT and T to get my 189 00:10:24,520 --> 00:10:26,800 Speaker 3: cell phone records. And I'll tell you AT and T 190 00:10:26,960 --> 00:10:29,520 Speaker 3: did the right thing. They refused to comply with the subpoena. 191 00:10:29,600 --> 00:10:33,160 Speaker 3: Their legal counsel concluded that it was protected by the 192 00:10:33,240 --> 00:10:34,640 Speaker 3: speech and debate clause. 193 00:10:34,360 --> 00:10:37,080 Speaker 4: Of the Constitution. But you know, one of the things 194 00:10:37,120 --> 00:10:37,920 Speaker 4: that is amazing. 195 00:10:38,040 --> 00:10:40,319 Speaker 3: Along with that subpoena they sent to AT and T, 196 00:10:41,040 --> 00:10:44,520 Speaker 3: they also included an order from Judge Bosburg, who's one 197 00:10:44,600 --> 00:10:48,480 Speaker 3: of these left wing radical judges who's issuing nationwide injunctions. 198 00:10:48,840 --> 00:10:52,640 Speaker 3: Judge Bosberg's ordered AT and T do not tell crews 199 00:10:53,080 --> 00:10:56,200 Speaker 3: we are subpoenaing his cell phone records. 200 00:10:56,440 --> 00:10:57,920 Speaker 4: Why And he makes a. 201 00:10:57,960 --> 00:11:02,720 Speaker 3: Conclusion, He says, because I can if he's informed, Cruz 202 00:11:03,120 --> 00:11:08,079 Speaker 3: will destroy or tamper with evidence and intimidate witnesses. That 203 00:11:08,360 --> 00:11:11,680 Speaker 3: is utterly without factual basis. It is a complete abuse 204 00:11:11,720 --> 00:11:14,640 Speaker 3: of judicial power. And I've called on the House of 205 00:11:14,720 --> 00:11:20,440 Speaker 3: Representatives to impeach Judge Bosburg the Constitution. When Judge Bosburg 206 00:11:20,559 --> 00:11:23,719 Speaker 3: decided to become a partisan warrior and be part of 207 00:11:24,480 --> 00:11:28,120 Speaker 3: the most egregious abuse of power. This is Richard, this 208 00:11:28,360 --> 00:11:31,839 Speaker 3: is Joe Biden's Watergate, and I believe the House should 209 00:11:31,840 --> 00:11:34,800 Speaker 3: impeach Judge Boseburg. And I also think we are going 210 00:11:34,880 --> 00:11:38,000 Speaker 3: to get to the bottom of every partisan who signed 211 00:11:38,080 --> 00:11:42,679 Speaker 3: off on surveilling and spying on twenty percent of the 212 00:11:42,800 --> 00:11:44,400 Speaker 3: Republicans in the Senate. 213 00:11:44,559 --> 00:11:46,680 Speaker 4: That's what Joe Biden and their DOJ did. 214 00:11:47,640 --> 00:11:50,600 Speaker 2: You just put that number into perspective, Senator, I mean, 215 00:11:50,760 --> 00:11:53,040 Speaker 2: twenty percent is unbelievable. 216 00:11:53,640 --> 00:11:55,640 Speaker 1: And you talked about the House taking this up. Is 217 00:11:55,679 --> 00:11:57,280 Speaker 1: there a real chance that they're going to do this. 218 00:11:58,160 --> 00:12:00,520 Speaker 3: I think there is, and it's going to be a 219 00:12:00,600 --> 00:12:03,360 Speaker 3: decision for the Speaker, for Mike Johnson, and for Jim Jordan, 220 00:12:03,440 --> 00:12:04,800 Speaker 3: the chairman of the Judiciary Committee. 221 00:12:04,800 --> 00:12:05,600 Speaker 4: But I think they will. 222 00:12:06,080 --> 00:12:09,199 Speaker 3: And let me actually read from the order that Judge 223 00:12:09,240 --> 00:12:12,720 Speaker 3: Boseburg signed. He signed an order where he says, quote, 224 00:12:13,320 --> 00:12:18,920 Speaker 3: the court finds reasonable grounds to believe that such disclosure, 225 00:12:18,960 --> 00:12:21,760 Speaker 3: in other words, if AT and T told me that 226 00:12:22,240 --> 00:12:26,600 Speaker 3: they were subpoening my phone records, that such disclosure will 227 00:12:27,040 --> 00:12:32,079 Speaker 3: result in destruction of or tampering with evidence, intimidation of 228 00:12:32,160 --> 00:12:39,199 Speaker 3: potential witnesses, and serious jeopardy to the investigation. Now that statement, 229 00:12:39,240 --> 00:12:40,920 Speaker 3: and by the way, I have no reason to think 230 00:12:40,960 --> 00:12:43,559 Speaker 3: that that was unique to me. My assumption, although we 231 00:12:43,640 --> 00:12:46,160 Speaker 3: have not seen the subpoenas for the other eight senators, 232 00:12:46,720 --> 00:12:49,240 Speaker 3: my assumption is that Judge Boseburg signed it for all 233 00:12:49,360 --> 00:12:52,079 Speaker 3: nine of us that he was printing them out like 234 00:12:52,280 --> 00:12:56,400 Speaker 3: placemats at Denny. If you're a Republican senator, that's all 235 00:12:56,559 --> 00:12:58,600 Speaker 3: he needs to know to conclude. And let me read 236 00:12:58,640 --> 00:13:03,360 Speaker 3: again what he signed. The court finds reasonable grounds to 237 00:13:03,520 --> 00:13:07,719 Speaker 3: believe that such disclosure will result in destruction of or 238 00:13:07,840 --> 00:13:12,560 Speaker 3: tampering with evidence, intimidation of potential witnesses, and serious jeopardy 239 00:13:12,600 --> 00:13:15,760 Speaker 3: to the investigation. And let me say, if DOJ came 240 00:13:15,800 --> 00:13:19,280 Speaker 3: and represented that to the judge, that is sanctionable. There's 241 00:13:19,360 --> 00:13:22,400 Speaker 3: no factual basis. That's the sort of order you put 242 00:13:22,440 --> 00:13:26,199 Speaker 3: in if you're issuing a sabina for the mafia, for 243 00:13:26,280 --> 00:13:29,679 Speaker 3: the mob, for a drug cartel, right, not simply the 244 00:13:29,760 --> 00:13:32,040 Speaker 3: fact that, well, it's a senator of the opposing party, 245 00:13:32,120 --> 00:13:35,200 Speaker 3: so we're going to represent to you that they're going 246 00:13:35,280 --> 00:13:40,240 Speaker 3: to destroy evidence. I believe it that the judge had 247 00:13:40,360 --> 00:13:43,679 Speaker 3: absolutely zero basis to conclude that there was no evidence 248 00:13:43,760 --> 00:13:46,720 Speaker 3: of that. I don't know if DOJ made that representation 249 00:13:46,920 --> 00:13:48,800 Speaker 3: or not, but the judge there was no hearing on it. 250 00:13:48,920 --> 00:13:50,679 Speaker 4: There was, we certainly didn't know about it. 251 00:13:51,160 --> 00:13:54,640 Speaker 3: It is utterly absurd to say that nine senators are 252 00:13:54,720 --> 00:13:58,160 Speaker 3: going to go destroy evidence and tamper with witnesses. He 253 00:13:58,400 --> 00:14:00,199 Speaker 3: signed that, and when he signed that, he was no 254 00:14:00,280 --> 00:14:03,240 Speaker 3: longer being a judge, he was being a partisan. It 255 00:14:03,360 --> 00:14:06,920 Speaker 3: is clear this man hates Republicans and is willing to 256 00:14:07,080 --> 00:14:09,599 Speaker 3: act on his partisan animus, and I think that is 257 00:14:09,720 --> 00:14:12,800 Speaker 3: why the House should impeach him, then the Senate should 258 00:14:12,840 --> 00:14:13,320 Speaker 3: convict him. 259 00:14:13,480 --> 00:14:16,080 Speaker 2: Two questions quickly. One, do you think that there are 260 00:14:16,160 --> 00:14:18,439 Speaker 2: may be other centers out there that we don't know about? 261 00:14:18,480 --> 00:14:20,920 Speaker 2: In two, a lot of this information we've been getting 262 00:14:21,000 --> 00:14:23,000 Speaker 2: is because of people that are coming forward, whistleblowers. 263 00:14:23,080 --> 00:14:25,120 Speaker 1: How important are they going to be moving forward? Because 264 00:14:25,400 --> 00:14:26,320 Speaker 1: if this is what they. 265 00:14:26,240 --> 00:14:29,040 Speaker 2: Were doing in this scenario, I can't imagine what else 266 00:14:29,160 --> 00:14:31,240 Speaker 2: was going on that we don't know about. There could 267 00:14:31,240 --> 00:14:33,880 Speaker 2: be other spying expeditions that were taking place on House 268 00:14:33,960 --> 00:14:35,880 Speaker 2: members on a completely different set of issues. 269 00:14:36,360 --> 00:14:41,320 Speaker 3: Well, look, we know four hundred and thirty Republicans were 270 00:14:41,400 --> 00:14:42,960 Speaker 3: the targets of these subpoenas. 271 00:14:43,000 --> 00:14:43,720 Speaker 4: There may be more. 272 00:14:43,800 --> 00:14:46,120 Speaker 3: You're right, it's whistleblowers who have come forward with this. 273 00:14:46,600 --> 00:14:49,040 Speaker 3: We wouldn't know without the whistleblowers. And I'll tell you 274 00:14:49,240 --> 00:14:53,880 Speaker 3: interesting little factoid. Sean Davis of the federalist reported, he 275 00:14:54,040 --> 00:14:58,520 Speaker 3: said Arctic Frost. The code name used for this operation 276 00:14:59,040 --> 00:15:02,240 Speaker 3: was not a randomly generated code name, which is how 277 00:15:02,320 --> 00:15:04,440 Speaker 3: these operations generally get their name. 278 00:15:05,040 --> 00:15:06,000 Speaker 1: Yeah, that's important. 279 00:15:06,440 --> 00:15:11,920 Speaker 3: Arctic Frost is a cultivar of orange that thrives in 280 00:15:12,040 --> 00:15:15,640 Speaker 3: Florida but can also withstand cold weather. 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Is it is disgusting to see how 327 00:17:40,480 --> 00:17:43,399 Speaker 2: much they're trying to hurt Americans, trying to withhold food stamps, 328 00:17:43,480 --> 00:17:46,360 Speaker 2: trying to withhold military pay, government pay, the list goes 329 00:17:46,400 --> 00:17:49,120 Speaker 2: on on. They they want this to hurt because they 330 00:17:49,240 --> 00:17:52,120 Speaker 2: assume that the American people are so ignorant that they're 331 00:17:52,160 --> 00:17:54,400 Speaker 2: just going to blame the top of the food chain 332 00:17:54,560 --> 00:17:56,200 Speaker 2: aka President Donald Trump. 333 00:17:56,680 --> 00:17:59,919 Speaker 1: But the data is showing that that is a disase. 334 00:18:00,040 --> 00:18:02,160 Speaker 2: Asked her for them right now, and in fact, Donald 335 00:18:02,200 --> 00:18:06,000 Speaker 2: Trump's proverating has gone up, not down during the government shutdown. 336 00:18:06,080 --> 00:18:07,040 Speaker 1: Your reaction to that. 337 00:18:07,840 --> 00:18:08,919 Speaker 4: Well, that's exactly right. 338 00:18:09,040 --> 00:18:12,200 Speaker 3: This is backfiring badly on the Democrats. But before we 339 00:18:12,280 --> 00:18:14,240 Speaker 3: dive into that, I want to tell you a fun 340 00:18:14,359 --> 00:18:17,520 Speaker 3: story that you'll like. So my press secretary was down 341 00:18:17,600 --> 00:18:21,280 Speaker 3: in New Orleans and she took an uber to go 342 00:18:21,440 --> 00:18:22,120 Speaker 3: to her hotel. 343 00:18:22,760 --> 00:18:24,800 Speaker 4: And the uber uber driver was a guy. 344 00:18:24,920 --> 00:18:27,359 Speaker 3: A fellow named Dax and and and they struck up 345 00:18:27,400 --> 00:18:29,960 Speaker 3: a conversation and she mentioned that she worked for me, 346 00:18:30,560 --> 00:18:32,680 Speaker 3: and he said, I listened to Verdict every week. 347 00:18:32,760 --> 00:18:34,000 Speaker 4: I listened to it on the. 348 00:18:34,119 --> 00:18:36,600 Speaker 3: Radio here in New Orleans. And he told her, well, 349 00:18:36,640 --> 00:18:38,840 Speaker 3: like what time, what time it aired, and and he 350 00:18:39,000 --> 00:18:40,080 Speaker 3: was a regular listener. 351 00:18:40,320 --> 00:18:41,400 Speaker 4: That was very cool. 352 00:18:41,480 --> 00:18:44,000 Speaker 3: And so everyone who's listening on the radio, everyone who's 353 00:18:44,000 --> 00:18:46,080 Speaker 3: listened to the podcast, I just wanted to say, thank you. 354 00:18:46,200 --> 00:18:48,640 Speaker 3: We're doing this to give you information you can't get 355 00:18:48,640 --> 00:18:51,800 Speaker 3: anywhere else. And to Dax, if you're listening, thank you 356 00:18:52,000 --> 00:18:52,840 Speaker 3: especially for listening. 357 00:18:52,840 --> 00:18:55,240 Speaker 4: We're glad to have you and appreciate you. 358 00:18:55,640 --> 00:18:56,000 Speaker 7: It is. 359 00:18:56,760 --> 00:18:57,320 Speaker 4: Isn't that cool? 360 00:18:57,640 --> 00:18:59,479 Speaker 1: It's awesome. That's the best. Like when you have an 361 00:18:59,520 --> 00:19:01,040 Speaker 1: uber a live drivers like, oh yeah, listen. 362 00:19:01,840 --> 00:19:04,240 Speaker 2: That is what I envisioned as we do the show, 363 00:19:04,320 --> 00:19:07,600 Speaker 2: is people like that working hard, providing for their families, 364 00:19:07,840 --> 00:19:09,600 Speaker 2: and they just want to know someone's fighting for them. 365 00:19:10,440 --> 00:19:14,800 Speaker 3: Absolutely. Look, today is Halloween. It's thirty one days into 366 00:19:14,880 --> 00:19:17,960 Speaker 3: the shutdown, and the Democrats have not budged an inch. 367 00:19:18,520 --> 00:19:19,679 Speaker 4: Yeah, thirty one days. 368 00:19:19,840 --> 00:19:23,879 Speaker 3: The federal government is closed, the non essential functions are 369 00:19:23,920 --> 00:19:28,240 Speaker 3: shut down. We're seeing thousands upon thousands of federal workers 370 00:19:28,280 --> 00:19:32,840 Speaker 3: who are not getting paychecks. Let's take airports, airports right now, 371 00:19:32,920 --> 00:19:35,600 Speaker 3: they're fifty thousand TSA agents who are going into work 372 00:19:36,000 --> 00:19:38,320 Speaker 3: and they're not getting the paycheck. They've missed their last paycheck. 373 00:19:38,920 --> 00:19:41,960 Speaker 3: There are fourteen thousand air traffic controllers. They're going into work, 374 00:19:42,280 --> 00:19:45,160 Speaker 3: they're not getting a paycheck. And you know what we're seeing. 375 00:19:45,240 --> 00:19:47,840 Speaker 3: We're seeing as a result of that, more and more delays, 376 00:19:48,040 --> 00:19:51,800 Speaker 3: more and more ground stops, ground stops and Houston, ground 377 00:19:51,840 --> 00:19:53,760 Speaker 3: stops in LA, groundstops in DC. 378 00:19:54,640 --> 00:19:55,920 Speaker 4: They want that, you know. 379 00:19:56,080 --> 00:20:00,320 Speaker 3: One senior Democrat aide told Politico that the sh humor 380 00:20:00,320 --> 00:20:04,679 Speaker 3: shutdown will keep going. He said, quote until planes start 381 00:20:04,840 --> 00:20:09,240 Speaker 3: falling from the sky. That's what they're looking for. Tomorrow, Saturday, 382 00:20:09,359 --> 00:20:13,000 Speaker 3: November first, forty one million people are not going to 383 00:20:13,040 --> 00:20:15,239 Speaker 3: get the food stamps they would have otherwise gotten. Now 384 00:20:16,359 --> 00:20:19,879 Speaker 3: now forty it's actually forty two million now. Set aside 385 00:20:19,960 --> 00:20:21,840 Speaker 3: the fact that the number of people on food stamps 386 00:20:21,880 --> 00:20:24,280 Speaker 3: has doubled in the last five years. That is a 387 00:20:24,480 --> 00:20:27,680 Speaker 3: major problem, and it is a failure of the policies 388 00:20:27,720 --> 00:20:30,800 Speaker 3: of the Biden administration. But they're forty two million people 389 00:20:30,800 --> 00:20:34,879 Speaker 3: who were expecting Saturday morning to get their food stamps, 390 00:20:34,920 --> 00:20:36,440 Speaker 3: and they're not going to get it. And they're not 391 00:20:36,520 --> 00:20:38,680 Speaker 3: going to get it because the Democrats are voting. You 392 00:20:38,760 --> 00:20:42,360 Speaker 3: don't get food stamps. Air traffic controllers, you don't get 393 00:20:42,440 --> 00:20:45,639 Speaker 3: paid TSA agents, you don't get paid FBI agents, you 394 00:20:45,720 --> 00:20:48,760 Speaker 3: don't get paid customs and Border patrol, you don't get 395 00:20:48,840 --> 00:20:53,520 Speaker 3: paid ice, you don't get paid general federal worker. You 396 00:20:53,720 --> 00:20:58,200 Speaker 3: don't get paid And by the way, the Democrat congressmen 397 00:20:58,240 --> 00:21:01,040 Speaker 3: and senators, almost all of them are taking their own paychecks. 398 00:21:01,080 --> 00:21:02,040 Speaker 4: The members of Congress. 399 00:21:02,160 --> 00:21:04,879 Speaker 3: I'm not I said I wouldn't take my paycheck as 400 00:21:04,920 --> 00:21:06,639 Speaker 3: long as the government shut down, But most of the 401 00:21:06,720 --> 00:21:09,000 Speaker 3: Democrats are happily depositing their own money. 402 00:21:09,640 --> 00:21:11,160 Speaker 1: Let's be very clear to people listening. 403 00:21:11,280 --> 00:21:15,520 Speaker 2: Just like Dax's down there in New Orleans, there have 404 00:21:15,920 --> 00:21:20,240 Speaker 2: been moments where Republicans have said, hey, let's at least take, 405 00:21:20,359 --> 00:21:22,760 Speaker 2: for example, not be giving you all their food stamps 406 00:21:22,880 --> 00:21:26,720 Speaker 2: off the table. And Democrats have still said, no, we 407 00:21:26,920 --> 00:21:30,280 Speaker 2: won't do that. By Parson, peace with you, We've said 408 00:21:30,280 --> 00:21:33,320 Speaker 2: the same thing FANFA and military there. 409 00:21:33,720 --> 00:21:35,840 Speaker 1: They want this people to suffer. 410 00:21:36,160 --> 00:21:38,240 Speaker 2: They've had the opportunity to have in essence of carve 411 00:21:38,280 --> 00:21:40,800 Speaker 2: out and they've chosen know every time because they want 412 00:21:40,920 --> 00:21:41,720 Speaker 2: people to suffer. 413 00:21:41,920 --> 00:21:42,280 Speaker 1: Period. 414 00:21:42,600 --> 00:21:45,120 Speaker 3: Now that's right, And I'll tell you the media knows 415 00:21:45,200 --> 00:21:47,600 Speaker 3: that this is a partisan shutdown. Here, give a listen 416 00:21:47,680 --> 00:21:50,760 Speaker 3: to Jake Tapper. Now, Jake Tapper is hardly a conservative, 417 00:21:51,200 --> 00:21:55,520 Speaker 3: but even he on CNN is calling bs to the 418 00:21:55,600 --> 00:21:56,760 Speaker 3: Democrats talking points. 419 00:21:56,800 --> 00:21:59,680 Speaker 6: Give a listen, Should the Democratic senators from New Mexico 420 00:21:59,720 --> 00:22:02,080 Speaker 6: you're own state vote to open the government so that 421 00:22:02,200 --> 00:22:05,120 Speaker 6: these snap funds are not at risk? 422 00:22:05,920 --> 00:22:11,159 Speaker 7: Let me be clear, the administration is choosing to start 423 00:22:11,840 --> 00:22:19,359 Speaker 7: American children with money that they already have appropriate the 424 00:22:20,400 --> 00:22:24,000 Speaker 7: White House. This is a choice the White House. 425 00:22:24,080 --> 00:22:27,439 Speaker 6: This is also this is also a choice by Senate 426 00:22:27,480 --> 00:22:31,040 Speaker 6: Democrats to not vote to open the government. Yes, I 427 00:22:31,160 --> 00:22:33,439 Speaker 6: understand why they're doing it. They're doing it because they 428 00:22:33,480 --> 00:22:36,480 Speaker 6: want Medicaid funds restored. They're doing it because they want 429 00:22:36,560 --> 00:22:40,280 Speaker 6: Obamacare premiums to be extended past the end of the year. 430 00:22:40,359 --> 00:22:41,600 Speaker 6: I understand the reason. 431 00:22:41,800 --> 00:22:45,440 Speaker 7: I let me just be clear. The money for contingency 432 00:22:45,520 --> 00:22:48,040 Speaker 7: plans is sitting there. That is why the states are 433 00:22:48,080 --> 00:22:52,359 Speaker 7: suing the White Houses with holding funds worth of SNAP funds. 434 00:22:52,960 --> 00:22:53,960 Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, well you. 435 00:22:54,119 --> 00:22:55,680 Speaker 7: May not be a big deal to you, but let's 436 00:22:55,920 --> 00:22:58,760 Speaker 7: is a big deal to me. The grandparents, for GRIM 437 00:22:59,040 --> 00:23:04,240 Speaker 7: is a big deal feeding their children those accounts. 438 00:23:04,680 --> 00:23:05,600 Speaker 4: It's a short term sure. 439 00:23:05,840 --> 00:23:07,800 Speaker 7: At the end of the day, people need to be 440 00:23:07,880 --> 00:23:11,200 Speaker 7: able to feed their families, and Saturday is when those funds. 441 00:23:10,960 --> 00:23:16,040 Speaker 6: Are congress Woman, why not asking the Senate Democrats from 442 00:23:16,119 --> 00:23:19,320 Speaker 6: New Mexico to vote to open the government so that 443 00:23:19,440 --> 00:23:20,240 Speaker 6: the SNAP funds. 444 00:23:20,800 --> 00:23:23,280 Speaker 7: I am here in the House of Representatives. It is 445 00:23:23,320 --> 00:23:25,840 Speaker 7: shut down. I am fighting to get the government reopened. 446 00:23:25,920 --> 00:23:28,840 Speaker 7: I am fighting to get funding put back into SNAP 447 00:23:28,880 --> 00:23:31,119 Speaker 7: that is already existent. And I am fighting for the 448 00:23:31,160 --> 00:23:33,800 Speaker 7: American people. I am here, But show me a single 449 00:23:33,920 --> 00:23:36,760 Speaker 7: Republican that is here. Not a single one is here 450 00:23:37,119 --> 00:23:39,440 Speaker 7: to make sure that Americans are fed on Saturday. That 451 00:23:39,640 --> 00:23:40,400 Speaker 7: is why I am here. 452 00:23:41,440 --> 00:23:44,080 Speaker 1: I love how right there and it just made me laugh. 453 00:23:44,200 --> 00:23:47,160 Speaker 2: How even Jake Taveri's like, you're totally full of crap, 454 00:23:47,359 --> 00:23:49,480 Speaker 2: Like you can say this all you want to, but 455 00:23:49,640 --> 00:23:52,240 Speaker 2: they put it together. You guys keep saying no, And 456 00:23:52,400 --> 00:23:54,400 Speaker 2: she's like, I'm here, they're all gone. By the way, 457 00:23:54,400 --> 00:23:57,520 Speaker 2: I'm sure there was a Republican congress person there. 458 00:23:57,760 --> 00:23:58,399 Speaker 4: Of course there were. 459 00:23:58,520 --> 00:24:01,480 Speaker 3: But yeah, look as he put it, he says, this 460 00:24:01,680 --> 00:24:04,359 Speaker 3: is a choice by Senate Democrats to not vote to 461 00:24:04,440 --> 00:24:06,240 Speaker 3: open the government. And she says, no, it is not, 462 00:24:06,359 --> 00:24:09,000 Speaker 3: and he says, yes, it is. And we've done this 463 00:24:09,240 --> 00:24:12,080 Speaker 3: thirteen times. I voted repeatedly this week to open the 464 00:24:12,160 --> 00:24:14,200 Speaker 3: government if you want the food stamps to go out. 465 00:24:14,600 --> 00:24:16,440 Speaker 3: The Democrats had it in their power to do that. 466 00:24:16,600 --> 00:24:19,160 Speaker 3: All they had to do was vote yes to fund 467 00:24:19,240 --> 00:24:21,920 Speaker 3: the government. And they had multiple opportunities, and the Democrats 468 00:24:22,119 --> 00:24:25,159 Speaker 3: all voted no. Are all but three, I think voted no. 469 00:24:25,800 --> 00:24:28,280 Speaker 3: The reason the Democrats have been able to force the 470 00:24:28,359 --> 00:24:31,280 Speaker 3: shutdown is in order to move a funding bill in 471 00:24:31,359 --> 00:24:34,439 Speaker 3: the Senate, it takes sixty votes. There are only fifty 472 00:24:34,520 --> 00:24:38,159 Speaker 3: three Republicans. Republicans, we are voting to open the government. 473 00:24:38,200 --> 00:24:41,640 Speaker 3: We're voting over and over and over again, and thirteen 474 00:24:41,800 --> 00:24:44,600 Speaker 3: times the Democrats have voted shut it down, shut it down, 475 00:24:44,640 --> 00:24:49,040 Speaker 3: shut it down. And this is the stupidest shut down 476 00:24:49,160 --> 00:24:52,359 Speaker 3: we have ever seen, because the Democrats really are just 477 00:24:52,560 --> 00:24:55,359 Speaker 3: trying to show off to their partisan base that they 478 00:24:55,520 --> 00:24:59,000 Speaker 3: hate Donald Trump. The reason you're having a shutdown, the 479 00:24:59,119 --> 00:25:01,639 Speaker 3: reason people are not being paid, the reason your flights 480 00:25:01,680 --> 00:25:04,840 Speaker 3: are being delayed, the reason food stamps are not going 481 00:25:04,880 --> 00:25:09,120 Speaker 3: out tomorrow, is because the Democrats are trying to chuck 482 00:25:09,160 --> 00:25:12,800 Speaker 3: Schumer in particulars trying to prove to the activist marching 483 00:25:12,840 --> 00:25:15,760 Speaker 3: of the No Kings radical in the No King's rallies 484 00:25:15,800 --> 00:25:19,560 Speaker 3: that he really, really really hates Donald Trump. They're gonna 485 00:25:19,640 --> 00:25:22,159 Speaker 3: end up caving, but I'll tell you what my prediction is, 486 00:25:22,240 --> 00:25:25,520 Speaker 3: they won't cave before next Tuesday because Tuesday's election day 487 00:25:26,000 --> 00:25:29,240 Speaker 3: in Virginia and New Jersey. And bizarrely enough, they think 488 00:25:29,520 --> 00:25:32,840 Speaker 3: their base is energized by the Democrats shutting down the government. 489 00:25:34,200 --> 00:25:36,680 Speaker 2: All right, So this one is just one of those 490 00:25:36,720 --> 00:25:40,920 Speaker 2: segments that I'm just gonna enjoy Bill Gates as a 491 00:25:41,000 --> 00:25:43,280 Speaker 2: guy that was like the world's gonna end center and 492 00:25:43,400 --> 00:25:46,600 Speaker 2: we're all gonna, you know, die of heat and global 493 00:25:46,640 --> 00:25:49,960 Speaker 2: warming is real, and I'm investing in all these projects 494 00:25:50,040 --> 00:25:52,640 Speaker 2: and things, and the government should be doing the same. 495 00:25:52,800 --> 00:25:55,080 Speaker 2: And now he's like, all right, screwed, it's not gonna happen. 496 00:25:55,520 --> 00:25:57,840 Speaker 2: It reminds me I think it was Newsweek back in 497 00:25:57,920 --> 00:26:00,240 Speaker 2: the eighties where they said we're all gonna free to 498 00:26:00,320 --> 00:26:03,159 Speaker 2: death from like arctic freezing of the entire globe. 499 00:26:03,840 --> 00:26:06,040 Speaker 1: That went away too, So they got it wrong in 500 00:26:06,080 --> 00:26:06,560 Speaker 1: the eighties. 501 00:26:06,960 --> 00:26:09,280 Speaker 2: And now Bill Gates is admitting and Al Gore, remember 502 00:26:09,280 --> 00:26:10,960 Speaker 2: we were supposed to be dead like after ten years. 503 00:26:11,040 --> 00:26:12,480 Speaker 2: That was like ten years ago when he made his 504 00:26:12,560 --> 00:26:15,360 Speaker 2: prediction that we're all gonna die of global warming. None 505 00:26:15,400 --> 00:26:17,520 Speaker 2: of it's actually happened. And so now Bill Gates like, 506 00:26:18,080 --> 00:26:20,040 Speaker 2: I'd screw it. I was wrong, I guess. 507 00:26:20,720 --> 00:26:23,120 Speaker 4: So it wasn't ten years, it was twelve years. 508 00:26:23,160 --> 00:26:26,560 Speaker 3: And for some reason for the apocalyptic left, the world 509 00:26:26,680 --> 00:26:28,920 Speaker 3: is always ending in twelve years, and that's been true 510 00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:31,840 Speaker 3: for about two decades now. They'd been saying twelve years 511 00:26:31,880 --> 00:26:33,600 Speaker 3: from now, we're all gonna die. Twelve years from now, 512 00:26:33,800 --> 00:26:35,960 Speaker 3: we're all gonna die. And I got to say Bill 513 00:26:36,000 --> 00:26:40,399 Speaker 3: Gates was willing to be as hysterical as Greta, the 514 00:26:40,880 --> 00:26:45,080 Speaker 3: European teenager who shut down the German economy because they 515 00:26:45,160 --> 00:26:47,840 Speaker 3: listened to a teenager and said, hey, why don't we 516 00:26:47,880 --> 00:26:50,479 Speaker 3: shut down all of our nuclear power plants? And then 517 00:26:50,520 --> 00:26:54,040 Speaker 3: they suddenly realized they couldn't power their country, and ironically enough, 518 00:26:54,160 --> 00:26:56,760 Speaker 3: instead they're now opening coal plants and polluting a lot 519 00:26:56,880 --> 00:27:01,680 Speaker 3: more so the apoca the world is ending because of 520 00:27:01,720 --> 00:27:04,720 Speaker 3: climate change. Well, look, all right, don't necessarily believe me. 521 00:27:05,160 --> 00:27:08,080 Speaker 3: Let me just read what Bill Gates has done. So 522 00:27:08,240 --> 00:27:11,160 Speaker 3: this is from Daily Wire. Microsoft co founder Bill Gates 523 00:27:11,200 --> 00:27:14,360 Speaker 3: has done in about face on climate change alarmism recently, 524 00:27:14,480 --> 00:27:17,040 Speaker 3: saying that there are more pressing matters people should be 525 00:27:17,040 --> 00:27:20,399 Speaker 3: worrying about instead. The seventy year old tech billionaire, who 526 00:27:20,440 --> 00:27:24,199 Speaker 3: has been an outspoken environmental activist for years, said as 527 00:27:24,280 --> 00:27:28,760 Speaker 3: much in a memo published Tuesday titled Three Tough Truths 528 00:27:28,880 --> 00:27:32,200 Speaker 3: about Climate Here's what he wrote. Climate change, disease, and 529 00:27:32,240 --> 00:27:35,680 Speaker 3: poverty are all major problems. We should deal with them 530 00:27:35,800 --> 00:27:40,200 Speaker 3: in proportion to the suffering they cause. The businessman admitted 531 00:27:40,640 --> 00:27:43,840 Speaker 3: that the Earth's temperature is not the most important factor 532 00:27:43,920 --> 00:27:47,119 Speaker 3: for improving life on the planet, and said the quote 533 00:27:47,400 --> 00:27:51,560 Speaker 3: doomsday view of climate change is wrong. Let me read 534 00:27:51,600 --> 00:27:55,240 Speaker 3: that again. Bill Gates said the doomsday view of climate 535 00:27:55,359 --> 00:27:59,119 Speaker 3: change is wrong. Here's what he wrote. Quote, although climate 536 00:27:59,200 --> 00:28:02,320 Speaker 3: change will have serio consequences, particularly for people in the 537 00:28:02,359 --> 00:28:07,000 Speaker 3: poorest countries, it will not lead to humanity's demise. 538 00:28:08,080 --> 00:28:11,119 Speaker 4: Shocking that Bill Gates said that, and and and here 539 00:28:11,200 --> 00:28:12,720 Speaker 4: he goes on to say, quote. 540 00:28:12,520 --> 00:28:13,840 Speaker 1: What what does that mean? 541 00:28:13,880 --> 00:28:15,960 Speaker 2: He can find his private jets now and like take 542 00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:18,119 Speaker 2: a nap, not be like having to buy carbon credits 543 00:28:18,200 --> 00:28:18,880 Speaker 2: or get on his yot. 544 00:28:18,920 --> 00:28:21,040 Speaker 1: I'm just confused. I want to be here. What does 545 00:28:21,080 --> 00:28:21,879 Speaker 1: this free him up to do? 546 00:28:22,200 --> 00:28:24,520 Speaker 3: Oh no, no, the carbon credits scam is is definitely 547 00:28:24,600 --> 00:28:26,600 Speaker 3: still on. But but but he's gonna keep lying on 548 00:28:26,720 --> 00:28:29,480 Speaker 3: his jets. And remember, by the way, John Kerry the 549 00:28:29,600 --> 00:28:31,960 Speaker 3: Zealot when he discussed his private play and he said, 550 00:28:32,280 --> 00:28:34,840 Speaker 3: you know he flies private because he says, really, for 551 00:28:34,960 --> 00:28:38,160 Speaker 3: someone like me, it's the only reasonable way to travel. Yes, 552 00:28:38,240 --> 00:28:42,440 Speaker 3: but like the utter hypocrisy. But but here's what Gates wrote. 553 00:28:42,720 --> 00:28:45,040 Speaker 3: This is a chance to refocus on the metrics that 554 00:28:45,200 --> 00:28:48,960 Speaker 3: should count even more than emissions and temperature change in 555 00:28:49,240 --> 00:28:53,080 Speaker 3: proving lives. Our chief goal should be to prevent suffering, 556 00:28:53,200 --> 00:28:56,280 Speaker 3: particularly for those in the toughest conditions who live in 557 00:28:56,360 --> 00:29:00,800 Speaker 3: the world's poorest countries, and he added quote, although climate 558 00:29:00,960 --> 00:29:03,240 Speaker 3: change will hurt poor people more than anyone else, for 559 00:29:03,320 --> 00:29:05,840 Speaker 3: the vast majority of them, it will not be the 560 00:29:05,960 --> 00:29:09,440 Speaker 3: only or even the biggest threat to their welfare. And 561 00:29:09,520 --> 00:29:12,960 Speaker 3: he wrote this seventeen page analysis ahead of next months 562 00:29:13,120 --> 00:29:18,040 Speaker 3: United Nations Climate Change Conference in Brazil, hoping to shift 563 00:29:18,080 --> 00:29:21,440 Speaker 3: funding away from climate initiatives towards other endeavors that he 564 00:29:21,520 --> 00:29:23,560 Speaker 3: now believes are more important. 565 00:29:24,280 --> 00:29:26,880 Speaker 4: Look. I don't know about you, but I'm not tired 566 00:29:26,880 --> 00:29:30,720 Speaker 4: of winning. I mean this is climate change was an 567 00:29:30,760 --> 00:29:31,320 Speaker 4: ex so. 568 00:29:31,360 --> 00:29:32,840 Speaker 2: Has scam to make a bunch of money. Is that 569 00:29:32,880 --> 00:29:34,320 Speaker 2: what we can kind of get to here? It was 570 00:29:34,400 --> 00:29:35,760 Speaker 2: just about all of the money. 571 00:29:36,000 --> 00:29:38,200 Speaker 4: Money and power. There's a lot of money, a lot 572 00:29:38,200 --> 00:29:38,840 Speaker 4: of money about it. 573 00:29:39,160 --> 00:29:39,480 Speaker 1: Power. 574 00:29:39,640 --> 00:29:42,600 Speaker 3: Look, look for Democrats. If you are a socialist, if 575 00:29:42,640 --> 00:29:47,040 Speaker 3: you are a communist, if you are a comrade Mamdani, 576 00:29:47,920 --> 00:29:50,920 Speaker 3: I assume he's a climate change not I don't actually 577 00:29:51,120 --> 00:29:53,000 Speaker 3: know that, but I know he's a communist. 578 00:29:53,360 --> 00:29:57,080 Speaker 4: And climate change was the excuse. 579 00:29:57,280 --> 00:30:00,040 Speaker 3: For communists to seize control of our government, and and 580 00:30:00,280 --> 00:30:03,600 Speaker 3: that today's Democrat party. It was a great we're all 581 00:30:03,680 --> 00:30:08,360 Speaker 3: gonna die unless you let me. The Democrat politician control 582 00:30:08,600 --> 00:30:12,840 Speaker 3: the energy and business and your life, and regulate every 583 00:30:12,880 --> 00:30:15,680 Speaker 3: aspect of your life. The fact that Bill Gates is 584 00:30:15,720 --> 00:30:19,800 Speaker 3: making this change, it really shows the momentum is moving 585 00:30:19,920 --> 00:30:23,600 Speaker 3: and people are engaged in just just common sens is 586 00:30:23,680 --> 00:30:24,400 Speaker 3: coming back. 587 00:30:24,640 --> 00:30:26,760 Speaker 2: Well, and not only common sense, but like you look 588 00:30:26,760 --> 00:30:29,560 Speaker 2: at a lot of these solar farms, they're like being 589 00:30:29,720 --> 00:30:32,280 Speaker 2: dormited right now, Like they're just shutting them down because 590 00:30:32,440 --> 00:30:35,560 Speaker 2: they just can't work. They're not working in the pollution 591 00:30:35,720 --> 00:30:38,640 Speaker 2: that comes actually from the turbines and all the other 592 00:30:38,680 --> 00:30:40,280 Speaker 2: things they are actually saying, it's like having a real 593 00:30:40,360 --> 00:30:41,720 Speaker 2: negative effect on the environment. 594 00:30:41,880 --> 00:30:42,560 Speaker 1: Shocker there. 595 00:30:43,200 --> 00:30:45,080 Speaker 2: And then we also found out that like a pension 596 00:30:45,160 --> 00:30:48,320 Speaker 2: fund in California lost like seventy plus percent of the 597 00:30:48,400 --> 00:30:51,200 Speaker 2: investment that they went in green alternative energy that just 598 00:30:51,280 --> 00:30:55,440 Speaker 2: came out. So like they've screwed countless hardworking even liberals 599 00:30:55,520 --> 00:30:57,200 Speaker 2: in California with this crap. 600 00:30:57,840 --> 00:31:02,040 Speaker 3: And a point to understand, the climate change radicals have 601 00:31:02,280 --> 00:31:04,520 Speaker 3: consistently hurt the environment. 602 00:31:04,680 --> 00:31:06,600 Speaker 4: They are bad on the environment. 603 00:31:06,840 --> 00:31:09,160 Speaker 3: If the only thing you care about, if you wake 604 00:31:09,240 --> 00:31:13,000 Speaker 3: up every morning praying to Mother Earth, if if that's 605 00:31:13,080 --> 00:31:16,600 Speaker 3: your only voting issue, you should vote against Democrats. Why 606 00:31:16,800 --> 00:31:20,440 Speaker 3: let's let let's take for example, Germany. The Greens forced 607 00:31:20,600 --> 00:31:23,880 Speaker 3: nuclear power plants to be closed. The result is today 608 00:31:23,960 --> 00:31:26,760 Speaker 3: Germany is relying more on coal, which is much much 609 00:31:26,840 --> 00:31:32,640 Speaker 3: worse for the environment. And what country is leads the 610 00:31:32,720 --> 00:31:35,320 Speaker 3: world every year in the reduction of carbon emissions? 611 00:31:35,640 --> 00:31:36,120 Speaker 1: Which one? 612 00:31:36,840 --> 00:31:38,680 Speaker 4: That would be the United States of America? Do you 613 00:31:38,760 --> 00:31:39,080 Speaker 4: know why? 614 00:31:39,720 --> 00:31:40,160 Speaker 1: Why is that? 615 00:31:41,400 --> 00:31:43,880 Speaker 4: Look? This is a question actually I pose. 616 00:31:43,640 --> 00:31:45,440 Speaker 3: When I'm when I'm in a college campus, when I'm 617 00:31:45,480 --> 00:31:48,320 Speaker 3: talking to college kids and they're Bernie Sanders supporters and 618 00:31:48,360 --> 00:31:51,280 Speaker 3: they're they're freaked out about the climate, I'll ask them 619 00:31:51,320 --> 00:31:55,200 Speaker 3: a question. I'll say, tell me what human being has 620 00:31:55,320 --> 00:31:58,160 Speaker 3: done the most to reduce climate in our lifetimes? And 621 00:31:58,320 --> 00:32:01,920 Speaker 3: inevitably they have no idea. There is an objectively right answer. 622 00:32:01,960 --> 00:32:04,640 Speaker 3: The right answer to this is George Mitchell. Now, who 623 00:32:04,720 --> 00:32:08,040 Speaker 3: is George Mitchell. George Mitchell was a Texas oil man. 624 00:32:08,120 --> 00:32:11,800 Speaker 3: He was the son of a Greek goat herder. And 625 00:32:11,960 --> 00:32:17,480 Speaker 3: George Mitchell is the man most responsible for pioneering fracking, 626 00:32:17,560 --> 00:32:20,000 Speaker 3: and he did it in the Barnett shale under Fort 627 00:32:20,040 --> 00:32:25,480 Speaker 3: Worth and Dallas. Fracking unlocked the shale revolution, which resulted 628 00:32:25,560 --> 00:32:29,479 Speaker 3: in massive production of natural gas much of it in Texas, 629 00:32:29,520 --> 00:32:32,680 Speaker 3: although also in Pennsylvania and Ohio and other states across 630 00:32:32,720 --> 00:32:36,120 Speaker 3: the country. 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