1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:00,600 Speaker 1: Well come. 2 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:04,200 Speaker 2: It is Verdict with Ted Cruz Weekend Review, Ben Ferguson 3 00:00:04,240 --> 00:00:05,960 Speaker 2: with you, and here are the big stories that we 4 00:00:06,040 --> 00:00:09,000 Speaker 2: talked about this week that you may have missed. First up, 5 00:00:09,080 --> 00:00:12,600 Speaker 2: Donald Trump says no longer will America be the piggy 6 00:00:12,600 --> 00:00:15,920 Speaker 2: bank for the United Nations, and now they're freaking out 7 00:00:15,920 --> 00:00:19,400 Speaker 2: over funding. We'll explain exactly what's changed and how much 8 00:00:19,440 --> 00:00:20,479 Speaker 2: money it could save you. 9 00:00:21,239 --> 00:00:23,640 Speaker 1: Also, a major media. 10 00:00:23,320 --> 00:00:27,520 Speaker 2: Merger involving Netflix, and it could also mean foreign money 11 00:00:27,520 --> 00:00:31,640 Speaker 2: coming in from overseas from the Middle East if Netflix 12 00:00:31,720 --> 00:00:34,400 Speaker 2: doesn't get the deal, So what does it mean for 13 00:00:34,520 --> 00:00:37,360 Speaker 2: you as a consumer. We'll have that for you as well. 14 00:00:37,800 --> 00:00:41,760 Speaker 2: And finally, the Save America Voting Act. It's a very 15 00:00:41,800 --> 00:00:44,960 Speaker 2: big deal to secure our elections, and every Democrat in 16 00:00:45,000 --> 00:00:48,720 Speaker 2: Congress seems to be against it. Why we'll break it down. 17 00:00:49,120 --> 00:00:52,560 Speaker 2: It's the weekend Review and it starts right now. There 18 00:00:52,640 --> 00:00:55,520 Speaker 2: is a big scandal that is taking place in the 19 00:00:55,600 --> 00:00:58,279 Speaker 2: United Nations. But it's a type of scandal that you 20 00:00:58,640 --> 00:01:03,360 Speaker 2: and I should love and celebrate, and that is the 21 00:01:03,480 --> 00:01:07,440 Speaker 2: UN is angry right now that there's not enough money 22 00:01:07,600 --> 00:01:10,520 Speaker 2: for them to do all their their woke crap all 23 00:01:10,520 --> 00:01:12,800 Speaker 2: over the world the simplest way I can describe it. 24 00:01:13,200 --> 00:01:15,360 Speaker 2: And they're really upset because the number one fund of 25 00:01:15,360 --> 00:01:18,759 Speaker 2: the UN has been the United States of America. Donald 26 00:01:18,800 --> 00:01:22,120 Speaker 2: Trump has said no more, We're not gonna just give 27 00:01:22,120 --> 00:01:25,000 Speaker 2: you this blank check and be and fund all this stuff. 28 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:28,840 Speaker 2: And now the UN Segregary General is freaking out and 29 00:01:28,920 --> 00:01:31,640 Speaker 2: saying we need desperate money. Now our things are going 30 00:01:31,720 --> 00:01:34,200 Speaker 2: to have to be shut down. This on top of 31 00:01:34,240 --> 00:01:37,399 Speaker 2: the fact that Trump has also taken the US out 32 00:01:37,400 --> 00:01:42,080 Speaker 2: of sixty six globalist organizations and treaties as well, saving 33 00:01:42,080 --> 00:01:44,240 Speaker 2: American taxpayer dollars are being wasted. 34 00:01:44,840 --> 00:01:47,440 Speaker 3: So you talked about cutting off funding for as you said, 35 00:01:47,520 --> 00:01:50,520 Speaker 3: quote woke crap all over the world. I think that's 36 00:01:50,560 --> 00:01:54,200 Speaker 3: the new motto of the United Nations. The United Nations 37 00:01:54,240 --> 00:01:57,400 Speaker 3: work woke crap all over the world. Let me read 38 00:01:57,440 --> 00:02:01,320 Speaker 3: from our article in Breitbart. Quote the United Nations is 39 00:02:01,360 --> 00:02:04,520 Speaker 3: going broke and needs member nations to stump up cash, 40 00:02:05,160 --> 00:02:07,840 Speaker 3: lots of it. That is the plea from Secretary of 41 00:02:07,840 --> 00:02:11,600 Speaker 3: General Antonio Gutierres, who fears the globalist body is at 42 00:02:11,680 --> 00:02:15,880 Speaker 3: risk of quote imminent financial collapse due to their member 43 00:02:15,919 --> 00:02:18,960 Speaker 3: states not paying their dues. The former leader of the 44 00:02:18,960 --> 00:02:22,360 Speaker 3: Portuguese Socialist Party said Friday, the UN faces a financial 45 00:02:22,400 --> 00:02:27,280 Speaker 3: crisis which was quote deepening, threatening program delivery, and money 46 00:02:27,280 --> 00:02:30,440 Speaker 3: could run out as soon as July, leaving the unaccountable 47 00:02:30,440 --> 00:02:35,080 Speaker 3: globalist cabal destitute. Such is the financial drama unfolding at 48 00:02:35,200 --> 00:02:38,680 Speaker 3: UN headquarters in Geneva. Signs of a warning situation have 49 00:02:38,760 --> 00:02:42,640 Speaker 3: reportedly been put up everywhere in an almost desperate attempt 50 00:02:42,680 --> 00:02:47,360 Speaker 3: to save cash. The escalators are regularly turned off and 51 00:02:47,400 --> 00:02:49,839 Speaker 3: the heating turned down. The BBC reports, by the way, 52 00:02:50,560 --> 00:02:53,040 Speaker 3: how much money do you save turning the escalators off? 53 00:02:53,120 --> 00:02:56,640 Speaker 3: Like like that's rightly exactly, that's a little amazing. So 54 00:02:56,680 --> 00:02:58,959 Speaker 3: Gutieras sent a missive out to all one hundred and 55 00:02:59,000 --> 00:03:02,200 Speaker 3: ninety three members state outlining his spheares and pleading that 56 00:03:02,240 --> 00:03:05,600 Speaker 3: they had to honor to their mandatory payments or overhaul 57 00:03:05,720 --> 00:03:09,560 Speaker 3: the organization's financial rules to avoid collapse. It comes after 58 00:03:09,600 --> 00:03:12,799 Speaker 3: the UN's largest contributor to the United States, refused to 59 00:03:12,840 --> 00:03:15,880 Speaker 3: contribute to its regular and peacekeeping budgets and withdrew from 60 00:03:15,919 --> 00:03:19,320 Speaker 3: several agencies it called a quote waste of tax pay dollars. 61 00:03:19,919 --> 00:03:22,880 Speaker 3: These include the UN's Population Agency and the UN Treaty 62 00:03:22,919 --> 00:03:27,000 Speaker 3: that establishes international climate negotiations. And I got to say, 63 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:30,280 Speaker 3: reading this, it reminds me of I actually think one 64 00:03:30,280 --> 00:03:34,360 Speaker 3: of the funniest movies ever made was Team America World Police. 65 00:03:34,360 --> 00:03:37,400 Speaker 3: You ever see Team America? Oh yeah, yeah, Okay, it's 66 00:03:37,520 --> 00:03:40,240 Speaker 3: absolutely hysterical. By the way, I'm going to confess a 67 00:03:40,320 --> 00:03:43,720 Speaker 3: really stupid thing I did so several years ago. I 68 00:03:43,800 --> 00:03:46,040 Speaker 3: was vacationing with Heidi and with the girls and with 69 00:03:46,080 --> 00:03:49,560 Speaker 3: my in laws, Heidie's parents, and they have a house 70 00:03:49,600 --> 00:03:52,280 Speaker 3: boat on Lake Powell. Lake Powell is an amazing Have 71 00:03:52,680 --> 00:03:54,200 Speaker 3: you ever been Lake Powell? I have not. 72 00:03:54,760 --> 00:03:56,920 Speaker 1: You've told me about it. It's on my bucket list. 73 00:03:56,720 --> 00:03:59,960 Speaker 3: Now, like Holy Cow. So Lake Powell is the southern 74 00:04:00,200 --> 00:04:03,000 Speaker 3: part of the Grand Canyon and basically envision the Grand 75 00:04:03,040 --> 00:04:06,360 Speaker 3: Canyon dammed up and filled halfway with water. That is 76 00:04:06,400 --> 00:04:10,200 Speaker 3: Lake Powell. And so my in laws for thirty years 77 00:04:10,240 --> 00:04:11,840 Speaker 3: have had a houseboat there. And you go out on 78 00:04:11,840 --> 00:04:15,640 Speaker 3: the houseboat and that they tow, you tow a ski boat, 79 00:04:15,680 --> 00:04:18,200 Speaker 3: you tow typically one or two jet skis. You go 80 00:04:18,240 --> 00:04:21,479 Speaker 3: out into the water and it's amazing. So my in 81 00:04:21,600 --> 00:04:25,680 Speaker 3: laws are are not fancy, so their houseboat does not 82 00:04:25,760 --> 00:04:28,280 Speaker 3: have a working air conditioner. So you go out, typically 83 00:04:28,320 --> 00:04:29,680 Speaker 3: in the middle of the summer, which's you know, on 84 00:04:30,160 --> 00:04:33,880 Speaker 3: hundred and ten degrees no ac You sleep on the 85 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:36,400 Speaker 3: roof of the houseboat under the stars. By the way, 86 00:04:36,480 --> 00:04:40,120 Speaker 3: your your cell phone doesn't work at all, you have 87 00:04:40,160 --> 00:04:42,760 Speaker 3: no internet, and you know, you get up and jump 88 00:04:42,800 --> 00:04:45,400 Speaker 3: in the water. You bathe in the lake, you go 89 00:04:45,440 --> 00:04:47,560 Speaker 3: out water skiing. You get on a jet ski and 90 00:04:47,560 --> 00:04:50,200 Speaker 3: you can go down these finger canyons. Ben I got 91 00:04:50,200 --> 00:04:52,480 Speaker 3: to say, you go down a finger canyon is breathtaking. 92 00:04:52,520 --> 00:04:55,760 Speaker 3: You can go down it where on each side you 93 00:04:55,800 --> 00:04:58,599 Speaker 3: can put your hand out and touch the side of 94 00:04:58,640 --> 00:04:59,960 Speaker 3: the cliff. 95 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:00,839 Speaker 1: It's on the bucket list. 96 00:05:01,120 --> 00:05:05,440 Speaker 3: It goes a couple hundred feet of just red sandstone 97 00:05:05,920 --> 00:05:07,840 Speaker 3: and you're in this slivery. You can go in far 98 00:05:07,920 --> 00:05:09,440 Speaker 3: enough that you've got to jump off the jet ski, 99 00:05:09,560 --> 00:05:12,000 Speaker 3: swim around and turn the jet ski around because you 100 00:05:12,000 --> 00:05:13,960 Speaker 3: don't have a room to turn her around. So it's 101 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:18,240 Speaker 3: an awesome thing to do. So one time a decade ago, 102 00:05:18,760 --> 00:05:20,400 Speaker 3: Heidi and I are going out with their parents and 103 00:05:20,760 --> 00:05:23,040 Speaker 3: we decided so they do have a little TV on 104 00:05:23,080 --> 00:05:27,520 Speaker 3: the houseboat with a DVR player, and we decided to bring. 105 00:05:27,960 --> 00:05:30,680 Speaker 1: I know where this is going. All right, I'm with you. 106 00:05:30,760 --> 00:05:35,440 Speaker 3: Now, keep going a DVD of Team America. Because Heidi 107 00:05:35,520 --> 00:05:37,760 Speaker 3: doesn't like movies very much. I love movies, like I 108 00:05:37,800 --> 00:05:40,040 Speaker 3: grew up. My parents both love movies, so like I 109 00:05:40,040 --> 00:05:41,440 Speaker 3: would go out with my mom and dad and we'd 110 00:05:41,440 --> 00:05:44,360 Speaker 3: go see movies every week, and we'd love movies. Heidi 111 00:05:44,440 --> 00:05:46,880 Speaker 3: grew up she never went to the movies, but I 112 00:05:46,960 --> 00:05:49,359 Speaker 3: took her to see Team America and she laughed so 113 00:05:49,560 --> 00:05:52,000 Speaker 3: hard she couldn't breathe. So they're like, all right, let's 114 00:05:52,000 --> 00:05:55,080 Speaker 3: bring it. And this was I got to say an 115 00:05:55,080 --> 00:05:59,800 Speaker 3: incredibly stupid thing to do, Ben, because I forgot that 116 00:06:00,040 --> 00:06:04,799 Speaker 3: Team America. It's okay, so it's puppets and it's done 117 00:06:04,920 --> 00:06:09,560 Speaker 3: by the South Park guys, but every third or fourth 118 00:06:09,600 --> 00:06:12,880 Speaker 3: word is a curse word. I mean it's it is 119 00:06:13,000 --> 00:06:17,799 Speaker 3: a relentless and I'm sitting there playing this. We turned 120 00:06:17,800 --> 00:06:20,799 Speaker 3: it on with my in laws and they're just looking 121 00:06:20,880 --> 00:06:24,719 Speaker 3: in utter horror as it's just curse, curse, curse, curse, curse. 122 00:06:25,160 --> 00:06:27,159 Speaker 3: We didn't watch ten minutes of it before we turned 123 00:06:27,200 --> 00:06:28,920 Speaker 3: it off and said, oh, sorry about that. I really 124 00:06:28,960 --> 00:06:30,640 Speaker 3: got to apologize like that. 125 00:06:31,279 --> 00:06:33,880 Speaker 1: Now here's my question though, did your wife do it? 126 00:06:33,960 --> 00:06:36,159 Speaker 2: My wife would do that scenario, act like she's shocked 127 00:06:36,160 --> 00:06:37,680 Speaker 2: that you brought this movie and showed it. Or did 128 00:06:37,720 --> 00:06:39,320 Speaker 2: she laugh as hard as she laughed when y'all were 129 00:06:39,360 --> 00:06:41,040 Speaker 2: at the movie together. That's the real question. 130 00:06:41,440 --> 00:06:44,640 Speaker 3: She sort of laughed, But we remembered how funny the 131 00:06:44,680 --> 00:06:49,719 Speaker 3: movie was, but we hadn't internalized. There's just if you 132 00:06:49,920 --> 00:06:54,320 Speaker 3: deleted every profanity in the movie, the movie shorter look 133 00:06:54,400 --> 00:06:56,960 Speaker 3: like it. It just and And part of what I 134 00:06:57,000 --> 00:07:00,120 Speaker 3: like about Team America is it mocks both sides. So 135 00:07:00,160 --> 00:07:02,640 Speaker 3: it's not a conservative movie. It's not a liberal movie. 136 00:07:02,640 --> 00:07:05,280 Speaker 3: Like it makes fun of both sides in a way 137 00:07:05,320 --> 00:07:10,200 Speaker 3: that is really funny. But I don't advise, particularly if 138 00:07:10,400 --> 00:07:12,320 Speaker 3: you know my in laws. I mean, I mean they 139 00:07:12,360 --> 00:07:17,320 Speaker 3: were Christian missionaries. They're wonderful people, but they don't curse, 140 00:07:17,960 --> 00:07:21,520 Speaker 3: and they may have seen more curse words in those 141 00:07:21,520 --> 00:07:23,680 Speaker 3: ten minutes we played than they had in the past 142 00:07:23,880 --> 00:07:27,360 Speaker 3: ten years before that. So my whole point of this 143 00:07:27,520 --> 00:07:32,560 Speaker 3: is there's a scene in Team America where you have 144 00:07:32,840 --> 00:07:35,560 Speaker 3: part of the theory is that Kim Jong un is 145 00:07:35,600 --> 00:07:38,560 Speaker 3: the dictator of North Korea, which is of course true, 146 00:07:38,560 --> 00:07:41,960 Speaker 3: but he's a puppet in Team America, and he is 147 00:07:43,280 --> 00:07:47,160 Speaker 3: seeking to attack the world, and it's all Team America. 148 00:07:47,200 --> 00:07:51,440 Speaker 3: World police is trying to fight Kim Jong un. But anyway, 149 00:07:51,800 --> 00:07:57,480 Speaker 3: the United Nations sends Hans Blicks, who Hans Blicks. Most 150 00:07:57,480 --> 00:07:59,720 Speaker 3: of our listeners are too young to remember, but Hans 151 00:07:59,720 --> 00:08:04,960 Speaker 3: Blick was a weapons inspector for the United Nations. And 152 00:08:05,160 --> 00:08:08,560 Speaker 3: the UN sends Hans Blicks to Kim Jong Un to 153 00:08:08,680 --> 00:08:12,040 Speaker 3: go tell him to stop developing weapons of mass destruction, 154 00:08:12,160 --> 00:08:16,200 Speaker 3: and Kim Jong Un ends up feeding the puppet Hans 155 00:08:16,240 --> 00:08:19,680 Speaker 3: Blicks to sharks who eat him and and and at 156 00:08:19,720 --> 00:08:22,280 Speaker 3: one point, right before he gets fed to sharks, Hans 157 00:08:22,320 --> 00:08:25,080 Speaker 3: Blick says, you must stop what you're doing. And if 158 00:08:25,080 --> 00:08:27,880 Speaker 3: you do not stop what you're doing, the United Nations 159 00:08:27,920 --> 00:08:30,800 Speaker 3: is going to send you a really stern letter. 160 00:08:31,200 --> 00:08:33,920 Speaker 1: YEA saccurate. 161 00:08:34,080 --> 00:08:39,240 Speaker 3: As I'm reading the cries from the Secretary General, I 162 00:08:39,360 --> 00:08:44,080 Speaker 3: keep envisioning Hans Blicks in Team America saying give us money, 163 00:08:44,360 --> 00:08:47,240 Speaker 3: or we will send you a really stern letter saying 164 00:08:47,240 --> 00:08:47,920 Speaker 3: give us money. 165 00:08:48,400 --> 00:08:51,440 Speaker 1: It's it's it's entirely accurate, exactly where we are. 166 00:08:51,520 --> 00:08:54,000 Speaker 2: And that's why the part about this is so funny 167 00:08:54,120 --> 00:08:55,320 Speaker 2: is the President said he was going to do it. 168 00:08:55,360 --> 00:08:57,240 Speaker 1: You elect me. I'm gonna get rid of all this stuff. 169 00:08:57,760 --> 00:09:00,720 Speaker 1: I'm gonna get rid of the wasting of your your hours. 170 00:09:01,080 --> 00:09:03,000 Speaker 1: And it's not just the un it's freaking out. 171 00:09:03,040 --> 00:09:07,400 Speaker 2: Now you've got this list of sixty six globalist organizations 172 00:09:07,800 --> 00:09:09,640 Speaker 2: and treaties that he's also know. 173 00:09:09,720 --> 00:09:11,440 Speaker 1: By the way, we're not giving you money there either. 174 00:09:12,200 --> 00:09:14,440 Speaker 3: Yeah, so the list of sixty six. By the way, 175 00:09:14,600 --> 00:09:16,280 Speaker 3: So as Ben and I were prepping for this show, 176 00:09:16,280 --> 00:09:18,000 Speaker 3: we're talking about the list of sixty six and I 177 00:09:18,040 --> 00:09:20,840 Speaker 3: asked him, I said, Hey, what are the sixty six 178 00:09:20,880 --> 00:09:23,240 Speaker 3: And he's like, I don't know, And you sent me 179 00:09:23,280 --> 00:09:25,120 Speaker 3: this whole document. I'm not going to read them all, 180 00:09:25,200 --> 00:09:27,040 Speaker 3: but I'm just going to read some of the topics. 181 00:09:27,440 --> 00:09:29,480 Speaker 3: So number one is the twenty four to seven Carbon 182 00:09:29,520 --> 00:09:32,800 Speaker 3: Free Energy Compact. We withdrew from that. The Colombo Plan Council, 183 00:09:32,880 --> 00:09:37,200 Speaker 3: the Commission on Environmental Cooperation, Education Cannot Wait, the European 184 00:09:37,240 --> 00:09:41,160 Speaker 3: Center of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats, the Forum of 185 00:09:41,200 --> 00:09:45,840 Speaker 3: European National Highway Research Laboratories, the Freedom Online Coalition, the 186 00:09:45,880 --> 00:09:49,560 Speaker 3: Global Community Engagement Resilience Fund, the Global counter Terrorism Forum, 187 00:09:49,600 --> 00:09:53,040 Speaker 3: the Global Forum on cyber expertise. That's the first ten. 188 00:09:53,080 --> 00:09:54,480 Speaker 3: They're another fifty six that come. 189 00:09:55,000 --> 00:09:57,880 Speaker 2: I mean, now you know why he said we're gonna 190 00:09:57,880 --> 00:09:59,240 Speaker 2: get rid of all of them, right, like, we're just 191 00:09:59,280 --> 00:10:00,360 Speaker 2: not going to fund this stuff. 192 00:10:00,760 --> 00:10:02,160 Speaker 1: Many of them, by the way, are like people. They 193 00:10:02,160 --> 00:10:03,319 Speaker 1: hate America on top of that. 194 00:10:04,000 --> 00:10:06,520 Speaker 3: That's right, all right, let me read the last ten, 195 00:10:06,640 --> 00:10:10,120 Speaker 3: So numbers fifty six through sixty six. We withdrew from 196 00:10:10,160 --> 00:10:13,319 Speaker 3: the UN Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women. 197 00:10:13,920 --> 00:10:16,880 Speaker 3: We withdrew from the UNA Framework Convention on Climate Change, 198 00:10:16,920 --> 00:10:20,240 Speaker 3: the UN Human Settlements Program, the UN Institute for Training 199 00:10:20,240 --> 00:10:24,280 Speaker 3: and Research, UN Oceans, UN Population Fund, UN Register of 200 00:10:24,480 --> 00:10:27,920 Speaker 3: Conventional Arms, the UN System Chief Executives Board for Coordination, 201 00:10:28,000 --> 00:10:30,760 Speaker 3: the UN System Staff College, the UN Water and the 202 00:10:30,880 --> 00:10:34,800 Speaker 3: UN University, all of that. Look, you and I and 203 00:10:34,880 --> 00:10:37,040 Speaker 3: most people on planet Earth have no idea what any. 204 00:10:36,880 --> 00:10:37,280 Speaker 4: Of these do. 205 00:10:37,920 --> 00:10:40,679 Speaker 3: But we were sending millions of dollars to this garbage. 206 00:10:41,320 --> 00:10:45,800 Speaker 3: And there is a reason why Hans Blicks is floating 207 00:10:45,840 --> 00:10:48,200 Speaker 3: in the water having been eaten by sharks from Kim 208 00:10:48,280 --> 00:10:53,080 Speaker 3: Jong Un because stern letters from the United Nations don't 209 00:10:53,080 --> 00:10:53,840 Speaker 3: do a whole lot. 210 00:10:54,040 --> 00:10:56,479 Speaker 1: Now, if you want to hear the rest of this conversation. 211 00:10:56,679 --> 00:10:59,040 Speaker 2: You can go back and listen to the full podcast 212 00:10:59,120 --> 00:11:00,320 Speaker 2: from earlier this WEE week. 213 00:11:01,400 --> 00:11:03,079 Speaker 1: Now onto story number two. 214 00:11:03,520 --> 00:11:09,000 Speaker 2: A very interesting media merger and antitrust conversation that took 215 00:11:09,040 --> 00:11:13,480 Speaker 2: place in Washington, DC. You came in and asked questions 216 00:11:13,600 --> 00:11:16,360 Speaker 2: on this. Of the two companies that were there talking 217 00:11:16,400 --> 00:11:19,120 Speaker 2: about this, I actually and I rarely do this, and 218 00:11:19,120 --> 00:11:21,280 Speaker 2: I don't even think I told you this. I wrote 219 00:11:21,320 --> 00:11:24,600 Speaker 2: an op ed about this for Foxnews dot com. 220 00:11:24,640 --> 00:11:25,679 Speaker 1: You can go and read it there. 221 00:11:25,720 --> 00:11:27,920 Speaker 2: But what I was talking about was from a national 222 00:11:27,920 --> 00:11:31,280 Speaker 2: security standpoint. In my headline was Reagan would tell Americans 223 00:11:31,320 --> 00:11:35,400 Speaker 2: to watch this Netflix merger hearing closely, and I said, 224 00:11:35,559 --> 00:11:39,840 Speaker 2: here's why I went through. My biggest concern with this 225 00:11:40,000 --> 00:11:43,040 Speaker 2: merger is one of safety and security, because I want 226 00:11:43,080 --> 00:11:45,079 Speaker 2: to know that the majority of things are being made 227 00:11:45,200 --> 00:11:47,559 Speaker 2: or being made in America, that China doesn't get influence 228 00:11:47,640 --> 00:11:51,199 Speaker 2: over us. And that's what the questions I asked. What 229 00:11:51,400 --> 00:11:54,520 Speaker 2: really worried me about this merger was how much foreign 230 00:11:54,640 --> 00:11:57,760 Speaker 2: money they're saying, and it's in the billions that could 231 00:11:57,800 --> 00:12:01,040 Speaker 2: be coming into this deal from the Middle East. That 232 00:12:01,280 --> 00:12:04,600 Speaker 2: concerned me as well. You asked a lot of questions 233 00:12:04,640 --> 00:12:07,040 Speaker 2: about this, and there's also a lot of conservatives like 234 00:12:07,080 --> 00:12:08,880 Speaker 2: you and I that are frustrated with some of the 235 00:12:08,880 --> 00:12:11,720 Speaker 2: programming that Netflix have. But at least I'm like, they're 236 00:12:11,720 --> 00:12:15,080 Speaker 2: wanting to keep this production in America and they're wanting 237 00:12:15,120 --> 00:12:17,440 Speaker 2: to expand it in America, Whereas on the other side 238 00:12:17,440 --> 00:12:20,280 Speaker 2: of it, my concerns to Paramount is they're taking foreign 239 00:12:20,280 --> 00:12:22,720 Speaker 2: money from the Middle East. I don't like that influence, 240 00:12:22,760 --> 00:12:24,719 Speaker 2: and I certainly don't want it in China to take 241 00:12:24,800 --> 00:12:25,640 Speaker 2: influence as well. 242 00:12:26,280 --> 00:12:29,480 Speaker 3: Yeah, this is a massive merger. It's eighty three billion 243 00:12:29,520 --> 00:12:33,640 Speaker 3: dollars and I'm deeply concerned about it. And so we 244 00:12:33,720 --> 00:12:36,320 Speaker 3: had a hearing this week in the Senate Juiciary Committee 245 00:12:36,320 --> 00:12:38,880 Speaker 3: with the CEO of Netflix and a senior executive from 246 00:12:38,880 --> 00:12:41,880 Speaker 3: Warner Brothers. Give a listen to the questioning that I 247 00:12:41,920 --> 00:12:45,480 Speaker 3: asked them. I and many others on this committee have 248 00:12:45,520 --> 00:12:48,240 Speaker 3: been concerned for a long time about censorship, censorship in 249 00:12:48,280 --> 00:12:55,920 Speaker 3: the media, and censorship in Hollywood. They're already seems to 250 00:12:55,960 --> 00:12:59,760 Speaker 3: be only one acceptable political Do you actually want to 251 00:12:59,800 --> 00:13:02,040 Speaker 3: ask either? We all watch the Grammys this week. 252 00:13:03,440 --> 00:13:05,040 Speaker 5: I did not just the tail end of it. 253 00:13:05,840 --> 00:13:09,000 Speaker 3: One simple question, are we right now on stolen land? 254 00:13:12,480 --> 00:13:14,040 Speaker 6: I have no idea the history of this land of 255 00:13:14,280 --> 00:13:16,800 Speaker 6: other where we're sitting today, nor do I send. 256 00:13:16,520 --> 00:13:19,760 Speaker 3: Her so that speaks volumes that neither of you are 257 00:13:19,760 --> 00:13:22,120 Speaker 3: willing to say, hell, no, we're not on stolen land. 258 00:13:22,120 --> 00:13:24,040 Speaker 3: And I will say it's a Grammys when you see 259 00:13:24,040 --> 00:13:27,920 Speaker 3: an entertainer say nobody is illegal while we're on stolen land, 260 00:13:27,960 --> 00:13:30,360 Speaker 3: and then you see entertainers leap to their feet clapping 261 00:13:30,440 --> 00:13:34,839 Speaker 3: so excitedly at the notion that America is fundamentally illegitimate. 262 00:13:36,120 --> 00:13:41,280 Speaker 3: It starts to convey that the entertainment world is deeply corrupt. 263 00:13:41,320 --> 00:13:43,440 Speaker 3: And I will point out that same singer who says 264 00:13:43,440 --> 00:13:46,120 Speaker 3: no one is illegal on stolen land promptly went back 265 00:13:46,160 --> 00:13:49,880 Speaker 3: to her fourteen million dollar mansion and somehow that stolen 266 00:13:49,960 --> 00:13:54,120 Speaker 3: land she wasn't concerned about just the United States of America. Look, 267 00:13:54,200 --> 00:14:01,040 Speaker 3: Netflix has long been a left wing company. Your founder, 268 00:14:01,080 --> 00:14:03,600 Speaker 3: Read Hastings, is one of the biggest Democrat donors in 269 00:14:03,640 --> 00:14:08,679 Speaker 3: the country, including giving millions recently to the massive gerrymander 270 00:14:08,679 --> 00:14:11,240 Speaker 3: in California, making it one of the most gerrymandered states 271 00:14:11,280 --> 00:14:14,800 Speaker 3: in the Union. Because your founder desperately wants a Democrat 272 00:14:14,840 --> 00:14:18,960 Speaker 3: House of Representatives. Susan Rice from the Obama White House 273 00:14:19,040 --> 00:14:21,880 Speaker 3: is on your board of directors. You guys gave fifty 274 00:14:21,880 --> 00:14:24,400 Speaker 3: million dollars to the Obamas, as far as I can tell, 275 00:14:24,520 --> 00:14:28,840 Speaker 3: to produce no discernible content whatsoever. How would you tell 276 00:14:28,880 --> 00:14:32,120 Speaker 3: a Texan sitting at home to feel comfortable. CNN is 277 00:14:32,160 --> 00:14:36,960 Speaker 3: already a dumpster fire. There's nothing resembling objectivity, there's nothing 278 00:14:37,680 --> 00:14:43,320 Speaker 3: resembling journalism anymore. How are people at home, how should 279 00:14:43,320 --> 00:14:46,960 Speaker 3: they feel even remotely confident that if this merger happens, 280 00:14:47,360 --> 00:14:51,560 Speaker 3: the combined entity would not simply be a propaganda outlet 281 00:14:51,640 --> 00:14:56,000 Speaker 3: pushing one particular political view with much greater market power 282 00:14:56,000 --> 00:14:56,440 Speaker 3: than you have. 283 00:14:56,440 --> 00:14:59,200 Speaker 1: Now, Well, so we would fail. 284 00:14:59,480 --> 00:15:02,280 Speaker 6: We would fail up pushing a political view or propaganda. 285 00:15:02,720 --> 00:15:07,480 Speaker 6: We deliver entertainment to consumers. Our consumers see our business 286 00:15:07,760 --> 00:15:10,400 Speaker 6: pretty much the way they see the America. About forty 287 00:15:10,440 --> 00:15:13,680 Speaker 6: percent conservative, about forty percent liberal, about twenty percent don't know. 288 00:15:14,200 --> 00:15:16,120 Speaker 6: And they but when we turn on when they turn 289 00:15:16,160 --> 00:15:18,680 Speaker 6: on TV, they're tuned in to be entertained. And if 290 00:15:18,680 --> 00:15:22,000 Speaker 6: we fail to entertain them by trying to promote propaganda 291 00:15:22,080 --> 00:15:24,480 Speaker 6: or something or something anything other than entertainment. 292 00:15:24,760 --> 00:15:25,520 Speaker 1: We fail. 293 00:15:25,800 --> 00:15:27,120 Speaker 3: Mister Campbell's same question to you. 294 00:15:28,760 --> 00:15:31,880 Speaker 7: We have a very broad range of content across not 295 00:15:31,920 --> 00:15:35,000 Speaker 7: only HBO Max, but all of our platforms, and that 296 00:15:35,400 --> 00:15:39,000 Speaker 7: we need to appeal to all audiences. Our content range 297 00:15:39,040 --> 00:15:41,920 Speaker 7: is from hard knocks from the NFL to shows like 298 00:15:42,040 --> 00:15:46,840 Speaker 7: Deadliest Catch and gold Rush. It's a very broad collection 299 00:15:46,920 --> 00:15:49,760 Speaker 7: of programming that represents broad interests across America. 300 00:15:49,880 --> 00:15:52,200 Speaker 3: You have a wide range of programming on HBO. Name 301 00:15:52,240 --> 00:15:54,680 Speaker 3: one program that is designed to appeal to conservatives. 302 00:15:55,680 --> 00:15:57,960 Speaker 5: We don't design our programming to appeal to I can. 303 00:15:57,840 --> 00:15:59,440 Speaker 3: Think of a lot that are designed to go to liberals. 304 00:15:59,520 --> 00:16:00,840 Speaker 3: Name one. 305 00:16:01,720 --> 00:16:02,840 Speaker 5: None of us show they don't. 306 00:16:02,800 --> 00:16:06,200 Speaker 7: Designed to go to any political group there is designed 307 00:16:06,240 --> 00:16:06,840 Speaker 7: to appeal to. 308 00:16:07,200 --> 00:16:09,160 Speaker 3: Really, John Oliver, is not designed to appeal to a 309 00:16:09,160 --> 00:16:09,760 Speaker 3: certain group. 310 00:16:11,560 --> 00:16:14,440 Speaker 5: It's a program that for which there's. 311 00:16:14,400 --> 00:16:17,000 Speaker 3: Just said, none of your program is it. Let me 312 00:16:17,000 --> 00:16:19,000 Speaker 3: ask you, do you think CNN is fair and balanced? 313 00:16:19,920 --> 00:16:21,720 Speaker 5: I do believe CNN is a fair. 314 00:16:21,600 --> 00:16:24,640 Speaker 3: So when CNN showed riots and fires behind them and 315 00:16:24,680 --> 00:16:29,960 Speaker 3: you put a chiron mostly peaceful but fiery protests, was 316 00:16:29,960 --> 00:16:31,200 Speaker 3: that journalism? 317 00:16:31,520 --> 00:16:31,720 Speaker 5: Sir? 318 00:16:31,880 --> 00:16:34,480 Speaker 7: I'm not involved with CNN, and in fact they're not 319 00:16:34,640 --> 00:16:35,840 Speaker 7: part of this transaction. 320 00:16:36,040 --> 00:16:37,400 Speaker 5: But they have an. 321 00:16:37,080 --> 00:16:40,960 Speaker 7: Independent editorial board, they have independent news gathering. 322 00:16:41,000 --> 00:16:43,640 Speaker 3: We don't direct, they're only and they have no independence 323 00:16:43,680 --> 00:16:46,360 Speaker 3: other than hating Donald Trump, which is why their viewership 324 00:16:46,480 --> 00:16:50,360 Speaker 3: numbers have plummeted, because they don't actually report news. They 325 00:16:50,440 --> 00:16:53,840 Speaker 3: instead engage in very biased propaganda. And I will say 326 00:16:53,880 --> 00:16:56,600 Speaker 3: the truest words you said a minute ago is when 327 00:16:56,600 --> 00:16:59,880 Speaker 3: you said, with respect to mister sarrandos well, he and 328 00:16:59,880 --> 00:17:01,960 Speaker 3: I I see the world in very much the same way. 329 00:17:02,520 --> 00:17:05,760 Speaker 3: That is exactly the problem that in the world of 330 00:17:05,840 --> 00:17:10,560 Speaker 3: journalism it should not be propaganda. In the world of entertainment, 331 00:17:10,760 --> 00:17:15,280 Speaker 3: there is a reason why entertainers who are even slightly 332 00:17:15,359 --> 00:17:18,280 Speaker 3: right of center get black bald in Hollywood. Writers get 333 00:17:18,280 --> 00:17:22,080 Speaker 3: black bald in Hollywood. Actors get blackbald in Hollywood. And 334 00:17:22,680 --> 00:17:25,199 Speaker 3: I've heard nothing today to give me any confidence that 335 00:17:25,240 --> 00:17:28,520 Speaker 3: this merger would do anything other than make that problem 336 00:17:28,680 --> 00:17:29,600 Speaker 3: much much worse. 337 00:17:29,840 --> 00:17:31,360 Speaker 1: Sinta, this is one of those subjects. 338 00:17:31,359 --> 00:17:33,359 Speaker 2: It's the reason why I decide to write an op ed, 339 00:17:33,520 --> 00:17:36,480 Speaker 2: because it does matter when companies get big and they 340 00:17:36,480 --> 00:17:40,080 Speaker 2: have as much influence as Paramount does or as Netflix does. 341 00:17:40,400 --> 00:17:43,920 Speaker 2: It is concerning that the propaganda as you describe, that 342 00:17:44,000 --> 00:17:47,000 Speaker 2: can be put out that can fundamentally shape this country. 343 00:17:47,280 --> 00:17:49,359 Speaker 2: It's why you invoke Ronald Reagan in the output that 344 00:17:49,400 --> 00:17:52,000 Speaker 2: I wrote at Foxnews dot com. And there's also the 345 00:17:52,080 --> 00:17:56,040 Speaker 2: concern of foreign influence coming in. I don't want American 346 00:17:56,080 --> 00:17:59,960 Speaker 2: movies being paid for twenty four billion in Middle East funding. 347 00:18:00,080 --> 00:18:01,600 Speaker 2: Scares the hell out of me because what are they 348 00:18:01,640 --> 00:18:03,639 Speaker 2: going to say you can and can't do. I go 349 00:18:03,720 --> 00:18:06,760 Speaker 2: back to top Gun Matheric. There was a simple patch, 350 00:18:06,840 --> 00:18:10,399 Speaker 2: a Taiwan patch on his jacket, and they banned that 351 00:18:10,480 --> 00:18:13,960 Speaker 2: movie from China, period, full stop. Well, if that money's 352 00:18:14,040 --> 00:18:17,320 Speaker 2: coming in, what else could not be made because of that? 353 00:18:17,320 --> 00:18:18,440 Speaker 1: That worries me as well. 354 00:18:19,320 --> 00:18:22,280 Speaker 3: Yeah, look, I'm very worried about Woe Hollywood. It has 355 00:18:22,320 --> 00:18:26,160 Speaker 3: gone so leftists, It is engaged in so much in doctrination. 356 00:18:26,800 --> 00:18:29,560 Speaker 3: It is trying to silence views that are pro America, 357 00:18:29,960 --> 00:18:33,200 Speaker 3: Silence views that are conservative, silence views that are pro freedom. 358 00:18:33,840 --> 00:18:38,320 Speaker 3: And listen, this merger, it's not going to go through 359 00:18:39,200 --> 00:18:41,720 Speaker 3: unless the Department of Justice signs off on it, and 360 00:18:41,760 --> 00:18:44,000 Speaker 3: the Apartment of Justice has to approve the merger and 361 00:18:44,080 --> 00:18:46,880 Speaker 3: say that it does not create a monopoly. It does 362 00:18:46,920 --> 00:18:52,399 Speaker 3: not increase monopoly power. I think there are very real concerns. 363 00:18:52,440 --> 00:18:55,639 Speaker 3: This hearing was the beginning of the scrutiny for it. 364 00:18:55,680 --> 00:18:59,920 Speaker 3: I expect to see more scrutiny, more questions asked about 365 00:18:59,920 --> 00:19:03,720 Speaker 3: this massive merger. But I don't want to see even 366 00:19:03,920 --> 00:19:08,280 Speaker 3: bigger market power pushing a pro Democrat, pro leftist, anti 367 00:19:08,320 --> 00:19:12,600 Speaker 3: American agenda, and I'm very concerned that's what's happening right now. 368 00:19:13,560 --> 00:19:17,960 Speaker 2: Final question on this, when do the consumers find out 369 00:19:17,960 --> 00:19:18,800 Speaker 2: what happens here? 370 00:19:18,960 --> 00:19:21,760 Speaker 1: How long until we get an answer of who gets 371 00:19:21,800 --> 00:19:22,240 Speaker 1: to buy what? 372 00:19:23,440 --> 00:19:27,159 Speaker 3: Yeah, Typically this process takes months to years, and so 373 00:19:27,800 --> 00:19:30,399 Speaker 3: the Department of Justice has to assess whether this is 374 00:19:30,520 --> 00:19:35,440 Speaker 3: allowed to go forward. The FCC may well engage as 375 00:19:35,480 --> 00:19:38,200 Speaker 3: well in signing off on this. I'm the chairman of 376 00:19:38,200 --> 00:19:41,320 Speaker 3: the Senate Commerce Committee. I expect to be quite engaged 377 00:19:41,359 --> 00:19:43,520 Speaker 3: in this process. So it will take some time. At 378 00:19:43,520 --> 00:19:46,399 Speaker 3: a minimum it's several months, it could be upwards of 379 00:19:46,440 --> 00:19:50,480 Speaker 3: a year. And the consequence if this merger happens, it 380 00:19:50,560 --> 00:19:55,359 Speaker 3: is really significant for news, and it's really significant for entertainment. 381 00:19:55,359 --> 00:19:58,200 Speaker 3: And by the way, I think entertainment in many ways 382 00:19:58,280 --> 00:20:01,239 Speaker 3: is more important than news. Get so much of what 383 00:20:01,280 --> 00:20:04,359 Speaker 3: we understand about the world from entertainment. They got this 384 00:20:04,520 --> 00:20:10,399 Speaker 3: allowing a massive left wing monopoly. Listen, I asked these guys, 385 00:20:10,760 --> 00:20:14,560 Speaker 3: are we on stolen land? Neither one of them could 386 00:20:14,640 --> 00:20:19,879 Speaker 3: say no. They're not willing to say America is legitimate. No, 387 00:20:20,160 --> 00:20:24,360 Speaker 3: this is not stolen land. That's how woke and lefty 388 00:20:24,480 --> 00:20:27,840 Speaker 3: and disconnected these people are. And they want to have 389 00:20:28,040 --> 00:20:32,280 Speaker 3: even more power over the entertainment that you're allowed to 390 00:20:32,320 --> 00:20:34,040 Speaker 3: consume your home as before. 391 00:20:34,240 --> 00:20:36,120 Speaker 2: If you want to hear the rest of this conversation 392 00:20:36,400 --> 00:20:38,720 Speaker 2: on this topic, you can go back and dow the 393 00:20:38,920 --> 00:20:41,480 Speaker 2: podcast from earlier this week to hear the entire thing. 394 00:20:42,760 --> 00:20:45,119 Speaker 2: I want to get back to the big story number 395 00:20:45,119 --> 00:20:45,680 Speaker 2: three of the week. 396 00:20:45,760 --> 00:20:46,880 Speaker 1: You may have missed, all. 397 00:20:46,840 --> 00:20:49,960 Speaker 2: Right, Senator, So let's talk about the Save Act. It 398 00:20:50,080 --> 00:20:52,119 Speaker 2: was brought up and it was a part of the 399 00:20:52,160 --> 00:20:55,480 Speaker 2: discussion of the debate even with the partial government shut down. 400 00:20:56,000 --> 00:20:58,199 Speaker 2: There are a lot of conservatives that I've talked to 401 00:20:58,320 --> 00:21:01,440 Speaker 2: this past week. They don't understand why this hasn't happened already. 402 00:21:01,920 --> 00:21:05,199 Speaker 2: It's already come out of the House before, and the 403 00:21:05,240 --> 00:21:07,720 Speaker 2: big question is why can't we just pass it right now? 404 00:21:08,040 --> 00:21:10,479 Speaker 2: I think there's a lot of misinformation on this and 405 00:21:10,760 --> 00:21:13,520 Speaker 2: it's not a fifty plus one vote to get this done. 406 00:21:14,119 --> 00:21:16,720 Speaker 2: It is sixty votes. You need to get this done. 407 00:21:16,960 --> 00:21:18,720 Speaker 2: And if you want to know who to blame, look 408 00:21:18,720 --> 00:21:21,800 Speaker 2: at the Democratic Party. They have dug in. Chuck Schumer's 409 00:21:21,840 --> 00:21:24,280 Speaker 2: made it very clear, and there isn't a single Democrat 410 00:21:24,280 --> 00:21:26,400 Speaker 2: that had his blessing to vote in favor of this thing. 411 00:21:26,600 --> 00:21:28,680 Speaker 2: He's calling it Jim Crow two point zero. 412 00:21:29,920 --> 00:21:32,720 Speaker 3: Well, the Save Act, which was initially introduced in the 413 00:21:32,720 --> 00:21:36,120 Speaker 3: House of Representatives by Chip Roy, my former chief of staff. 414 00:21:37,160 --> 00:21:41,520 Speaker 3: The Save Act requires proof of American citizenship to register 415 00:21:41,600 --> 00:21:45,440 Speaker 3: to vote. Its common sense legislation, and then actually President 416 00:21:45,480 --> 00:21:48,960 Speaker 3: Trump has changed it. And President Trump did two changes. 417 00:21:49,040 --> 00:21:51,359 Speaker 3: Number one, he wanted to change the name from the 418 00:21:51,400 --> 00:21:54,280 Speaker 3: Save Act to the Save America Act, so now the 419 00:21:54,280 --> 00:21:57,280 Speaker 3: President is calling it the Save America Act. Number two, 420 00:21:57,480 --> 00:21:59,600 Speaker 3: he wanted to add to it not just proof of 421 00:21:59,600 --> 00:22:03,119 Speaker 3: citizen ship to register to vote, but also a requirement 422 00:22:03,160 --> 00:22:07,119 Speaker 3: of photo ID to vote. We've done that. I am 423 00:22:07,160 --> 00:22:09,679 Speaker 3: a sponsor of the Save America Act. I think it 424 00:22:09,840 --> 00:22:14,199 Speaker 3: makes absolute sense. But the challenge is is that the 425 00:22:14,280 --> 00:22:18,800 Speaker 3: Democrats are dug in and are rapidly opposing it. And 426 00:22:18,920 --> 00:22:23,359 Speaker 3: under the Senate rules, it takes sixty votes to move forward, 427 00:22:23,400 --> 00:22:28,320 Speaker 3: and right now we can anticipate every Senate Democrat voting no. 428 00:22:28,320 --> 00:22:31,840 Speaker 3: Now we're going to break down where public opinion is 429 00:22:31,880 --> 00:22:33,480 Speaker 3: on this, and then I'm going to tell you the 430 00:22:33,520 --> 00:22:37,760 Speaker 3: strategy that I'm urging John Thune and Republican leadership to 431 00:22:37,840 --> 00:22:40,720 Speaker 3: do to get this done in the Senate. But first 432 00:22:40,760 --> 00:22:43,720 Speaker 3: of all, let's just cover where the polling is. I 433 00:22:43,800 --> 00:22:46,840 Speaker 3: want you to give a listen to actually something pretty remarkable. 434 00:22:46,880 --> 00:22:51,199 Speaker 3: I want you to listen to Chuck Schumer actually on 435 00:22:51,560 --> 00:22:58,399 Speaker 3: Morning Joe So on MSNBC, being questioned about just how 436 00:22:58,480 --> 00:23:00,640 Speaker 3: much support there is for the Save America Act. 437 00:23:00,880 --> 00:23:04,080 Speaker 8: So, Leader Schumer, this talk about election security has revived 438 00:23:04,359 --> 00:23:08,280 Speaker 8: discussions of the Save Act, which you have said you oppose. 439 00:23:09,080 --> 00:23:11,560 Speaker 8: Proponents of it say that it's you know, to have 440 00:23:11,640 --> 00:23:12,800 Speaker 8: ida to prove US. 441 00:23:12,680 --> 00:23:14,200 Speaker 1: Citizenship to be able to vote. 442 00:23:14,320 --> 00:23:16,080 Speaker 8: If some of the claims they make, to be clear 443 00:23:16,480 --> 00:23:20,439 Speaker 8: are overstated. We know there's not widespread election fraud, but 444 00:23:20,680 --> 00:23:23,760 Speaker 8: polling does suggest there's a new Pew Research poll that 445 00:23:24,040 --> 00:23:27,359 Speaker 8: ninety five percent of Republicans but also seventy one percent 446 00:23:27,359 --> 00:23:29,640 Speaker 8: of Democrats like this idea. 447 00:23:29,800 --> 00:23:33,560 Speaker 4: So why do you not it's Jim Crow two point 448 00:23:33,680 --> 00:23:36,439 Speaker 4: zero And I called it Jim Crow two point zero, 449 00:23:36,520 --> 00:23:39,440 Speaker 4: and the right wing went nuts all over the internet. 450 00:23:39,600 --> 00:23:41,960 Speaker 4: That's because they know it's true. What they're trying to 451 00:23:42,000 --> 00:23:44,480 Speaker 4: do here is the same thing that was done in 452 00:23:44,520 --> 00:23:47,760 Speaker 4: the South for decades to prevent people of color from voting. 453 00:23:48,600 --> 00:23:51,639 Speaker 4: For instance, if you can't if you change you're a 454 00:23:51,640 --> 00:23:54,080 Speaker 4: woman who got married and changed your last name, you 455 00:23:54,119 --> 00:23:57,040 Speaker 4: won't be able to show ID and you'll be discriminated against. 456 00:23:57,200 --> 00:24:01,240 Speaker 4: If you can't find a birth certificate or proper you'll 457 00:24:01,240 --> 00:24:04,399 Speaker 4: be discriminated against. This is vicious and nasty. And I 458 00:24:04,480 --> 00:24:07,600 Speaker 4: said to our Republican colleagues, it will not pass the Senate. 459 00:24:07,840 --> 00:24:10,439 Speaker 4: You will not get a single Democratic vote in the Senate. 460 00:24:10,520 --> 00:24:13,800 Speaker 4: We're not reviving Jim Crow all over the country. 461 00:24:14,240 --> 00:24:16,680 Speaker 2: Now, Senator, Look, I actually believe him. I think it's 462 00:24:16,800 --> 00:24:20,560 Speaker 2: very clear he's shot multiple shots, big ones, across the 463 00:24:20,600 --> 00:24:22,679 Speaker 2: bow of every Democrat in the Senate. You are not 464 00:24:22,880 --> 00:24:26,760 Speaker 2: going to give the Republicans as victory. The part though 465 00:24:26,760 --> 00:24:28,800 Speaker 2: there that he talks about being Jim Crow. He's not 466 00:24:28,960 --> 00:24:32,440 Speaker 2: listening to African Americans this country because more than seventy 467 00:24:32,520 --> 00:24:35,560 Speaker 2: percent in a poll that was put out by CNN 468 00:24:35,640 --> 00:24:37,560 Speaker 2: that they were talking and they were mentioning that same 469 00:24:37,600 --> 00:24:39,879 Speaker 2: pole there and I want to play it. This was 470 00:24:39,920 --> 00:24:44,919 Speaker 2: CNN's own words breaking down the support for voter ID 471 00:24:45,200 --> 00:24:46,439 Speaker 2: based on race. 472 00:24:46,560 --> 00:24:49,680 Speaker 1: Take a listen to this. Take a look here, favorite 473 00:24:49,680 --> 00:24:50,639 Speaker 1: photo ID to folks. 474 00:24:50,840 --> 00:24:53,680 Speaker 9: Eighty five percent of white people favorite, eighty two percent 475 00:24:53,680 --> 00:24:57,280 Speaker 9: of Latino, seventy six percent of Black Americans favorite. So 476 00:24:57,320 --> 00:25:01,200 Speaker 9: the bottom line is this, voter ID is not controversial 477 00:25:01,280 --> 00:25:03,560 Speaker 9: in this country. A photo ID to vote is not 478 00:25:03,680 --> 00:25:06,879 Speaker 9: controversial in this country. It is not controversial by party, 479 00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:08,760 Speaker 9: and it is not controversial by race. 480 00:25:08,960 --> 00:25:11,520 Speaker 1: The vast majority of Americans agree with Nicki. 481 00:25:11,359 --> 00:25:13,920 Speaker 9: Minaj that, in fact, you should have a photo ID 482 00:25:14,080 --> 00:25:15,160 Speaker 9: to be able to vote. 483 00:25:15,160 --> 00:25:18,000 Speaker 2: So you listen to him and again go back to 484 00:25:18,080 --> 00:25:22,160 Speaker 2: this seventy eight I'm sorry, she's seventy six percent of Blacks, 485 00:25:22,480 --> 00:25:25,040 Speaker 2: eighty two percent of Antino, eighty five percent of white 486 00:25:25,080 --> 00:25:26,439 Speaker 2: and that's coming from CNN. 487 00:25:26,520 --> 00:25:30,920 Speaker 3: Senator, Look, the American people overwhelmingly support photo ID to 488 00:25:31,000 --> 00:25:33,480 Speaker 3: vote because it's a common sense step. You have to 489 00:25:33,520 --> 00:25:35,560 Speaker 3: have a photo ID to drive a car, you have 490 00:25:35,600 --> 00:25:37,400 Speaker 3: to have a photo ID to get her an airplane. 491 00:25:37,400 --> 00:25:39,720 Speaker 3: You have to have a photo ID to buy a 492 00:25:39,760 --> 00:25:41,640 Speaker 3: beer at a bar, you have to have a photo ID. 493 00:25:42,720 --> 00:25:48,200 Speaker 3: To the demosion, you have to look. They know it. 494 00:25:48,200 --> 00:25:50,359 Speaker 3: It is popular. And by the way, I will say, 495 00:25:50,560 --> 00:25:53,480 Speaker 3: look Schumer using the rhetoric about Jim Crow, there is 496 00:25:53,520 --> 00:25:55,679 Speaker 3: an irony and that it was his party. It was 497 00:25:55,720 --> 00:25:59,280 Speaker 3: the Democrats who enacted the Jim Crow laws. It was 498 00:25:59,320 --> 00:26:02,879 Speaker 3: his party, the Democrats who created the KKK. It was 499 00:26:03,000 --> 00:26:07,480 Speaker 3: his party, the Democrats that kept the system of segregation 500 00:26:07,680 --> 00:26:13,680 Speaker 3: in for decades. He uses this rhetoric because the Democrats 501 00:26:13,720 --> 00:26:17,480 Speaker 3: do not care that Democrats overwhelmingly supported voters. They don't 502 00:26:17,520 --> 00:26:20,399 Speaker 3: care that African Americans and Hispanic support it. They have 503 00:26:20,480 --> 00:26:23,320 Speaker 3: a partisan position. They are for voter fraud. 504 00:26:23,680 --> 00:26:26,440 Speaker 2: The other question I want to ask you is why 505 00:26:26,480 --> 00:26:30,800 Speaker 2: are Democrats so opposed to it if it's not about cheating, 506 00:26:31,119 --> 00:26:33,639 Speaker 2: Because if white air at eighty five, Latinos eighty two, 507 00:26:33,720 --> 00:26:36,399 Speaker 2: and blacks ad seventy six, I'm not sure there's that 508 00:26:36,440 --> 00:26:38,879 Speaker 2: many subjects in America you could get this type of 509 00:26:38,920 --> 00:26:43,760 Speaker 2: consensus on, including Republicans and Democrats who identify as Republicans 510 00:26:43,800 --> 00:26:46,720 Speaker 2: and Democrats also overwhelmingly agree this is a good thing. 511 00:26:47,440 --> 00:26:51,240 Speaker 3: Yeah, Look, the American people overwhelmingly support photo ID to vote. 512 00:26:52,400 --> 00:26:55,359 Speaker 3: The Democrats are not opposing this because their base is 513 00:26:55,400 --> 00:26:58,159 Speaker 3: telling them to oppose it. As we talked about, seventy 514 00:26:58,160 --> 00:27:01,400 Speaker 3: one percent of Democrats voters think photo ID to vote 515 00:27:01,440 --> 00:27:05,240 Speaker 3: is a good idea. They're opposing it for two reasons. 516 00:27:05,560 --> 00:27:09,879 Speaker 3: Number one, they're opposing it, I believe because voter fraud 517 00:27:09,960 --> 00:27:12,159 Speaker 3: is a real and persistent problem, and they count on 518 00:27:12,280 --> 00:27:14,280 Speaker 3: voter fraud to help them win elections, and so they 519 00:27:14,320 --> 00:27:18,199 Speaker 3: don't want photo ID because they want cheating. If you 520 00:27:18,240 --> 00:27:21,440 Speaker 3: look at the Democrats when they have control over elections, 521 00:27:21,520 --> 00:27:26,560 Speaker 3: they put in place policies that expand voter fraud. And 522 00:27:27,200 --> 00:27:30,080 Speaker 3: by the way, look look, if you're not inclined to 523 00:27:30,119 --> 00:27:33,000 Speaker 3: believe me, you might say, Okay, Cruz is being a Republican. 524 00:27:33,119 --> 00:27:35,959 Speaker 3: Although if you're not inclined to believe me, I am 525 00:27:36,000 --> 00:27:38,000 Speaker 3: wondering why you're listening to verdict with Ted Cruz. But 526 00:27:38,280 --> 00:27:41,520 Speaker 3: set that aside. If you're not inclined to believe me, 527 00:27:41,880 --> 00:27:47,200 Speaker 3: maybe you would believe Democrat President Jimmy Carter. Because Democrat 528 00:27:47,240 --> 00:27:52,720 Speaker 3: President Jimmy Carter joined with former Republican Secretary of State 529 00:27:52,840 --> 00:27:55,520 Speaker 3: James Baker. They chaired what was called the Carter Baker 530 00:27:55,560 --> 00:27:59,120 Speaker 3: Commission studying voter fraud. They concluded, voter fraud is real, 531 00:27:59,200 --> 00:28:01,800 Speaker 3: it is a problem has changed the outcome of elections, 532 00:28:02,119 --> 00:28:05,840 Speaker 3: and they recommended a series of steps to prevent voter fraud. 533 00:28:05,880 --> 00:28:09,520 Speaker 3: They recommended number one limiting the use of mail in 534 00:28:09,560 --> 00:28:12,159 Speaker 3: ballots because mail in ballots make it easier to cheat. 535 00:28:12,800 --> 00:28:16,840 Speaker 3: They recommended number two requiring photo ID to vote because 536 00:28:16,840 --> 00:28:19,919 Speaker 3: that makes it harder to cheat. They recommended number three 537 00:28:19,920 --> 00:28:24,480 Speaker 3: prohibiting ballot harvesting, prohibiting paid political operatives being able to 538 00:28:24,520 --> 00:28:29,680 Speaker 3: collect the ballots of others because that invites voter fraud. Well, Ben, 539 00:28:29,720 --> 00:28:31,600 Speaker 3: do you know what the position is now of Chuck 540 00:28:31,640 --> 00:28:33,680 Speaker 3: Schumer and every congressional Democrat. 541 00:28:34,640 --> 00:28:37,840 Speaker 2: It is to oppose any type of voter ID. 542 00:28:38,680 --> 00:28:42,160 Speaker 3: It's worse than that. They literally went down the recommendations 543 00:28:42,200 --> 00:28:44,880 Speaker 3: of the Carter Baker Commission on how to stop voter fraud, 544 00:28:44,920 --> 00:28:48,120 Speaker 3: and they were reversed them all. So the Carter Baker 545 00:28:48,120 --> 00:28:50,840 Speaker 3: Commission said, if you want to stop voter fraud, limit 546 00:28:50,880 --> 00:28:53,440 Speaker 3: mail in ballots. The Democrat want mail in ballots in 547 00:28:53,480 --> 00:28:58,160 Speaker 3: every election. The Carter Baker Commission said, require photo ID. 548 00:28:58,560 --> 00:29:01,760 Speaker 3: The Democrats are adamantly a host to photo id and 549 00:29:02,040 --> 00:29:07,240 Speaker 3: the most pernicious ballot harvesting. The Carter Baker Commission said 550 00:29:07,240 --> 00:29:11,880 Speaker 3: on equivocally ballot harvesting invites, it encourages voter fraud. What 551 00:29:12,040 --> 00:29:15,400 Speaker 3: is the position of Democrats? They want ballot harvesting. They 552 00:29:15,440 --> 00:29:18,080 Speaker 3: have made a political decision, by the way. 553 00:29:18,200 --> 00:29:21,720 Speaker 2: They want to explain ballot harvesting to people that don't 554 00:29:21,800 --> 00:29:23,600 Speaker 2: understand that that terminology. 555 00:29:23,640 --> 00:29:25,320 Speaker 1: It's been used a lot, But what does it mean. 556 00:29:25,960 --> 00:29:28,920 Speaker 3: So let's take a state like California. Ballot harvesting is 557 00:29:28,960 --> 00:29:31,200 Speaker 3: legal in California. What it means is you could have 558 00:29:31,240 --> 00:29:34,080 Speaker 3: a paid political operative. Some new works for the Democrats. 559 00:29:34,520 --> 00:29:37,440 Speaker 3: Go to a nursing home. Go to a nursing home 560 00:29:37,640 --> 00:29:41,080 Speaker 3: and fill out the ballots with the elderly people with them, 561 00:29:41,080 --> 00:29:44,000 Speaker 3: and take their ballots. So, okay, mister Jones, who are 562 00:29:44,040 --> 00:29:45,320 Speaker 3: you going to vote for? Who you're going to vote for? 563 00:29:45,440 --> 00:29:47,280 Speaker 3: Let's do it together. They take the ballots and you 564 00:29:47,280 --> 00:29:51,320 Speaker 3: can have one operative collecting hundreds of ballots. Why does 565 00:29:51,360 --> 00:29:54,520 Speaker 3: that invite fraud? Well, let's say you're sitting there and 566 00:29:55,160 --> 00:29:59,680 Speaker 3: mister Jones votes for Donald Trump. If you're an unscrupulous operative. 567 00:29:59,680 --> 00:30:01,200 Speaker 3: You know what you do. You take that ballot and 568 00:30:01,200 --> 00:30:04,320 Speaker 3: throw in the trash like nobody checks to see if 569 00:30:04,360 --> 00:30:05,280 Speaker 3: you center in in. 570 00:30:05,760 --> 00:30:05,960 Speaker 6: Yeah. 571 00:30:06,160 --> 00:30:08,800 Speaker 3: And by the way, if you have, say in nursing homes, 572 00:30:08,800 --> 00:30:11,760 Speaker 3: people with dementia, people that are not there, if you're 573 00:30:11,880 --> 00:30:14,360 Speaker 3: sitting there filling out their ballot with them, you can 574 00:30:14,520 --> 00:30:18,280 Speaker 3: just vote for the Democrat. And so it sets up 575 00:30:18,680 --> 00:30:22,760 Speaker 3: a way for paid operatives to cheat, and it makes 576 00:30:22,800 --> 00:30:26,680 Speaker 3: it very easy to cheat. The Democrats have made a 577 00:30:26,720 --> 00:30:34,160 Speaker 3: political decision. They are for election fraud. Secondly though, Secondly, 578 00:30:34,200 --> 00:30:38,080 Speaker 3: though Chuck Schumer when he says it's Jim Crow two 579 00:30:38,120 --> 00:30:40,960 Speaker 3: point zero, I think they view this issue as a 580 00:30:41,000 --> 00:30:44,360 Speaker 3: way to gin up the extremes in their base and 581 00:30:44,400 --> 00:30:46,840 Speaker 3: to scare people. Look, Jim Crow two point zero would 582 00:30:46,880 --> 00:30:48,920 Speaker 3: be bad. I don't want to see a bunch of 583 00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:51,920 Speaker 3: racist Democrats putting laws in place that hurt minorities like 584 00:30:51,920 --> 00:30:57,080 Speaker 3: they did before. And it's all about scary rhetoric. So 585 00:30:57,080 --> 00:31:01,520 Speaker 3: it's a combination of encouraging fraud and using scary rhetoric. 586 00:31:02,080 --> 00:31:04,880 Speaker 3: Now here's the question, Ben, how do we get this done? 587 00:31:05,480 --> 00:31:08,240 Speaker 3: If the Democrats are adamantly going to oppose it, I'll 588 00:31:08,240 --> 00:31:11,440 Speaker 3: tell you what I am urging the other Republican senators. 589 00:31:11,440 --> 00:31:15,520 Speaker 3: What I'm urging our leadership is we should nuke what's 590 00:31:15,600 --> 00:31:19,200 Speaker 3: called the zombie filibuster. What does that mean? So under 591 00:31:19,200 --> 00:31:22,240 Speaker 3: the Senate rules, it takes sixty votes to end debate, 592 00:31:22,280 --> 00:31:24,120 Speaker 3: and it used to be for most of the history 593 00:31:24,160 --> 00:31:27,120 Speaker 3: of the Senate to do a filibuster you had to 594 00:31:27,160 --> 00:31:29,800 Speaker 3: stand up and talk and talk and talk. You remember 595 00:31:29,840 --> 00:31:33,120 Speaker 3: back in twenty thirteen against Obamacare, I did a twenty 596 00:31:33,160 --> 00:31:36,120 Speaker 3: one hour filibuster and talked for twenty one hours straight. 597 00:31:36,960 --> 00:31:39,280 Speaker 3: That used to be how you had to do it. Now, 598 00:31:40,400 --> 00:31:42,560 Speaker 3: we don't make the Democrats talk and talk and talk 599 00:31:42,560 --> 00:31:45,880 Speaker 3: and fill the airspace. We just let them vote no, no, 600 00:31:46,480 --> 00:31:49,200 Speaker 3: I'm voting to filibuster. And once I say I'm filibustering, 601 00:31:49,200 --> 00:31:53,760 Speaker 3: we're done. We can force them one after the other 602 00:31:53,880 --> 00:31:56,000 Speaker 3: to stand up, to stand up, to keep talking, to 603 00:31:56,080 --> 00:32:00,440 Speaker 3: keep talking and keep talking and make the filibuster really painful. 604 00:32:00,520 --> 00:32:05,720 Speaker 3: Now there's another side of it, though. The Democrats can 605 00:32:05,880 --> 00:32:09,520 Speaker 3: keep challenging whether we have a quorum on the Senate floor. 606 00:32:10,080 --> 00:32:13,080 Speaker 3: What that means is that we've got to be able 607 00:32:13,120 --> 00:32:15,440 Speaker 3: to produce fifty bodies. We've got to have at least 608 00:32:15,480 --> 00:32:18,280 Speaker 3: fifty Republican Senators who could show up on the Senate 609 00:32:18,280 --> 00:32:21,360 Speaker 3: floor and demonstrate a quorum. So it is painful for 610 00:32:21,480 --> 00:32:26,800 Speaker 3: both the majority and the minority. And right now it's 611 00:32:26,880 --> 00:32:30,040 Speaker 3: not clear that we have fifty Republicans who support doing this. 612 00:32:30,160 --> 00:32:32,240 Speaker 3: I am making the case this week. I made the 613 00:32:32,280 --> 00:32:36,440 Speaker 3: case vigorously to my Republican colleagues. Mike Lee is making 614 00:32:36,520 --> 00:32:39,920 Speaker 3: the case vigorously to our Republican colleagues. Rick Scott is 615 00:32:39,960 --> 00:32:44,000 Speaker 3: making the case vigorously to our Republican colleagues. But it's 616 00:32:44,040 --> 00:32:46,240 Speaker 3: not clear if we have fifty or not. If we 617 00:32:46,280 --> 00:32:50,280 Speaker 3: don't have fifty, we can't do it. And so I 618 00:32:50,360 --> 00:32:53,720 Speaker 3: think we ought to make it incredibly painful for Democrats 619 00:32:53,760 --> 00:32:57,320 Speaker 3: and do everything we can to try to push them 620 00:32:57,320 --> 00:32:59,800 Speaker 3: to the point of exhaustion, and if they get to 621 00:32:59,840 --> 00:33:02,720 Speaker 3: that point, then we can pass the Save America Act. 622 00:33:03,040 --> 00:33:05,280 Speaker 2: Yeah, by the way, I've been saying this on TV. 623 00:33:05,560 --> 00:33:08,800 Speaker 2: I think it's really important that Republicans explain that we're 624 00:33:08,840 --> 00:33:10,800 Speaker 2: in favor of this. But we have to have ten 625 00:33:11,040 --> 00:33:15,400 Speaker 2: Democrats to get this thing seven seven, sorry, excuse seven, 626 00:33:15,440 --> 00:33:17,520 Speaker 2: I should say seven Democrats to get this thing done. 627 00:33:17,680 --> 00:33:20,520 Speaker 2: And without getting those seven to get us to the 628 00:33:20,560 --> 00:33:22,120 Speaker 2: perfect number of sixty. 629 00:33:22,280 --> 00:33:24,960 Speaker 3: And understand we will get zero. We're not going to 630 00:33:25,040 --> 00:33:28,280 Speaker 3: get seven. We're not going to get one. 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