1 00:00:00,280 --> 00:00:03,960 Speaker 1: Welcome. It's Verdict with Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you, Senator. 2 00:00:04,080 --> 00:00:06,320 Speaker 1: Nice to chat with you today. You're on the road. 3 00:00:06,360 --> 00:00:09,200 Speaker 1: You're now in Florida. We had maybe one of the 4 00:00:09,240 --> 00:00:11,880 Speaker 1: greatest dinners I think I've ever had last night with 5 00:00:11,920 --> 00:00:15,080 Speaker 1: some of the most brilliant minds around the table in 6 00:00:15,280 --> 00:00:19,120 Speaker 1: Nashville after the event in Franklin, and it was I 7 00:00:19,160 --> 00:00:21,919 Speaker 1: think you probably enjoyed that dinner as much as I did, 8 00:00:21,960 --> 00:00:26,720 Speaker 1: because you had Clay Travis, Michael Knows, Ben Shapiro. I 9 00:00:27,440 --> 00:00:29,639 Speaker 1: was an honor to be there. You were there and 10 00:00:29,720 --> 00:00:32,360 Speaker 1: many other brilliant minds talking about some of the most 11 00:00:32,560 --> 00:00:36,479 Speaker 1: fun topics and politics, and they were all revolving around 12 00:00:37,040 --> 00:00:39,960 Speaker 1: what we're all seeing change very quickly, and that is 13 00:00:40,520 --> 00:00:42,640 Speaker 1: there's a very good chance that not only are we 14 00:00:42,640 --> 00:00:45,080 Speaker 1: gonna grab the House, but we could grab the Senate 15 00:00:45,120 --> 00:00:48,560 Speaker 1: and have some really good numbers there as well. Yeah, 16 00:00:48,600 --> 00:00:51,760 Speaker 1: that's right. We had an amazing dinner that went until 17 00:00:51,840 --> 00:00:54,680 Speaker 1: late in the evening, and I would say the consensus 18 00:00:54,720 --> 00:00:57,200 Speaker 1: of pretty much everyone around the table is that the 19 00:00:57,280 --> 00:01:03,600 Speaker 1: momentum is moving significantly in the right direction, and I'm 20 00:01:03,640 --> 00:01:07,200 Speaker 1: more optimistic. I think more and more observers are getting 21 00:01:07,480 --> 00:01:11,840 Speaker 1: really optimistic that Republicans' chances for taking the Senate look 22 00:01:11,920 --> 00:01:15,399 Speaker 1: quite good, and we could easily end up with not 23 00:01:15,520 --> 00:01:18,160 Speaker 1: just a majority in the House, but a large majority 24 00:01:18,200 --> 00:01:23,440 Speaker 1: in the House, and that that's good news. One of 25 00:01:23,480 --> 00:01:25,640 Speaker 1: the reasons why I think this is happening, Center, is 26 00:01:25,840 --> 00:01:28,320 Speaker 1: that I think a lot of the American people, especially 27 00:01:28,360 --> 00:01:32,000 Speaker 1: while they're suffering, are tired of being lied to. The 28 00:01:32,040 --> 00:01:35,960 Speaker 1: President came out today with another ridiculous lie. Here's what 29 00:01:36,040 --> 00:01:39,480 Speaker 1: he said today. The most common price of gas in 30 00:01:39,520 --> 00:01:43,360 Speaker 1: America is three dollars and thirty nine cents, down from 31 00:01:43,400 --> 00:01:46,319 Speaker 1: over five dollars when I took office. We need to 32 00:01:46,400 --> 00:01:50,480 Speaker 1: keep making that progress by having energy companies bring down 33 00:01:50,480 --> 00:01:53,760 Speaker 1: the cost of a gallon of gas that reflects the 34 00:01:53,880 --> 00:01:57,080 Speaker 1: cost they're pain for a barrel of oil. Center, you 35 00:01:57,120 --> 00:01:59,240 Speaker 1: and I both know that when he became president United 36 00:01:59,240 --> 00:02:03,040 Speaker 1: States of America, the average price of gas was two 37 00:02:03,160 --> 00:02:06,000 Speaker 1: thirty nine, meaning fifty percent. We're playing less than that. 38 00:02:06,280 --> 00:02:09,240 Speaker 1: On the day that he became president, I paid under 39 00:02:09,280 --> 00:02:11,920 Speaker 1: two dollars a gallon where I was and because I 40 00:02:11,960 --> 00:02:13,880 Speaker 1: remember looking wanting to see how quick it was going 41 00:02:13,960 --> 00:02:16,320 Speaker 1: to go up. This is just a lie that every 42 00:02:16,320 --> 00:02:19,959 Speaker 1: American knows is not true. Yeah, no, that's exactly right. 43 00:02:20,560 --> 00:02:25,320 Speaker 1: It is a blatant lie. It's obvious, and it has 44 00:02:25,360 --> 00:02:29,600 Speaker 1: to be deliberate. Look, even in Joe Biden's severely diminished state, 45 00:02:30,680 --> 00:02:34,240 Speaker 1: he knows he's lying. Gas was not five dollars a 46 00:02:34,280 --> 00:02:37,160 Speaker 1: gallon when he became president. It was two dollars and 47 00:02:37,240 --> 00:02:40,600 Speaker 1: thirty nine cents a gallon. That this is also an 48 00:02:40,639 --> 00:02:45,600 Speaker 1: interesting test for every some single fake news corporate media 49 00:02:45,600 --> 00:02:49,240 Speaker 1: outlet it pretends to do fact checking, if all of 50 00:02:49,280 --> 00:02:52,440 Speaker 1: them do not immediately fact check this and call it 51 00:02:52,520 --> 00:02:55,079 Speaker 1: out as a It's not kind of a little bit 52 00:02:55,080 --> 00:02:58,200 Speaker 1: a lie. It's not slightly a lie. He suggested. He 53 00:02:58,560 --> 00:03:03,120 Speaker 1: didn't suggest. He said that gas was more than twice 54 00:03:03,160 --> 00:03:07,000 Speaker 1: as much as it was when he came in, and 55 00:03:07,120 --> 00:03:10,840 Speaker 1: he did that because he wants to erase the massive 56 00:03:10,919 --> 00:03:14,720 Speaker 1: increase in gas prices that has happened because of his policies. 57 00:03:14,919 --> 00:03:17,440 Speaker 1: And when I'm curious, you know, watch him give that speech. 58 00:03:19,200 --> 00:03:21,320 Speaker 1: You know, I really do stagger to think that that 59 00:03:21,440 --> 00:03:24,919 Speaker 1: was actually written into his remarks. But it might have been. 60 00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:28,919 Speaker 1: I think it's a very good chance it was. So 61 00:03:29,280 --> 00:03:31,680 Speaker 1: it was so concise and coherent. You gotta think it 62 00:03:31,720 --> 00:03:36,320 Speaker 1: was up on the teleprompter. He usually when he ad libs, 63 00:03:36,480 --> 00:03:41,720 Speaker 1: is is more incoherent than that? That was remarkable, remarkably coherent. 64 00:03:41,760 --> 00:03:45,720 Speaker 1: It was just a flat outlie. You talk about fact checking, 65 00:03:45,840 --> 00:03:49,440 Speaker 1: and I laughed because you just mentioned how does this 66 00:03:49,480 --> 00:03:52,680 Speaker 1: not get fact check? Something so blatant that he and 67 00:03:52,760 --> 00:03:56,040 Speaker 1: again his exact quotes, the most common price of gas 68 00:03:56,040 --> 00:03:59,720 Speaker 1: in America is three thirty nine, down from over five 69 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:02,360 Speaker 1: hours when I took off this. There's not a fact 70 00:04:02,440 --> 00:04:05,520 Speaker 1: checker in the world that cannot figure out that was wrong. 71 00:04:05,560 --> 00:04:07,640 Speaker 1: You just go back and look at the average gas 72 00:04:07,760 --> 00:04:10,680 Speaker 1: price in the day was inaugurated, and it's very clear 73 00:04:11,200 --> 00:04:14,800 Speaker 1: that it wasn't over five dollars a gallon. Yet, Senator 74 00:04:15,680 --> 00:04:19,960 Speaker 1: you went on the view and you challenged Whoopi Goldberg 75 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:23,159 Speaker 1: and others when they acted like Republicans are the ones 76 00:04:23,160 --> 00:04:26,120 Speaker 1: that are trying to destroy America and domestic terrorists and 77 00:04:26,240 --> 00:04:28,719 Speaker 1: everybody that is a conservative is the equivalent of a 78 00:04:28,800 --> 00:04:32,880 Speaker 1: domestic terrorists or al qaider isis With January six and 79 00:04:33,000 --> 00:04:36,840 Speaker 1: you you basically brought up the point that Antifa had 80 00:04:36,920 --> 00:04:40,640 Speaker 1: burnt US cities for a year and Newsweek has now 81 00:04:40,680 --> 00:04:45,080 Speaker 1: come out fact checking you saying that your claim that 82 00:04:45,160 --> 00:04:47,600 Speaker 1: Antifa burnt US cities for a year is a flat 83 00:04:47,600 --> 00:04:51,240 Speaker 1: out foss which again, if you live in America, you 84 00:04:51,400 --> 00:04:56,200 Speaker 1: know that Antifa was going around and attacking police officers 85 00:04:56,240 --> 00:05:01,240 Speaker 1: and burning down churches and buildings and businesses. Well, I 86 00:05:01,279 --> 00:05:04,400 Speaker 1: will say this, this quote unquote fact check is is 87 00:05:04,520 --> 00:05:08,600 Speaker 1: self parroting, and and Twitter and the Internet has roasted 88 00:05:08,640 --> 00:05:12,239 Speaker 1: Newsweek pretty mercilessly for it. Um look on the View, 89 00:05:12,440 --> 00:05:15,400 Speaker 1: which we talked about before, was amazing fund going on 90 00:05:15,560 --> 00:05:23,040 Speaker 1: with with hosts who every day spread partisan propaganda. Whoopee 91 00:05:23,080 --> 00:05:26,440 Speaker 1: claimed that that it's only your party that engages in violence. 92 00:05:26,520 --> 00:05:29,640 Speaker 1: Our party doesn't do that, and I had to laugh. 93 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:33,760 Speaker 1: I said, did you miss an entire year of Antifa 94 00:05:33,880 --> 00:05:36,880 Speaker 1: riots with with with cities burning all over the country. 95 00:05:37,240 --> 00:05:40,600 Speaker 1: So here was Newsweek's fact check. What they said as well, 96 00:05:40,680 --> 00:05:43,760 Speaker 1: Yes there were riots, and yes there were cities that burned, 97 00:05:44,839 --> 00:05:48,680 Speaker 1: but many of the riots didn't last the entire year, 98 00:05:48,800 --> 00:05:51,000 Speaker 1: although they then say, well many of them did, but 99 00:05:51,040 --> 00:05:53,040 Speaker 1: not all of them. Not all of the riots lasted 100 00:05:53,080 --> 00:05:56,479 Speaker 1: the entire year, and not all of the riots burned 101 00:05:56,560 --> 00:05:59,440 Speaker 1: the city. Sometimes they burned the city, sometimes they didn't 102 00:05:59,440 --> 00:06:02,880 Speaker 1: burn the city. And then they said, and by the way, 103 00:06:03,120 --> 00:06:06,280 Speaker 1: Antifa doesn't exist. That that's their end of their fact 104 00:06:06,360 --> 00:06:09,360 Speaker 1: check is they didn't all last more than a year, 105 00:06:09,440 --> 00:06:11,320 Speaker 1: not every one of them burn the cities, and there's 106 00:06:11,360 --> 00:06:14,960 Speaker 1: no such thing as Antifa. And every word of that 107 00:06:15,040 --> 00:06:17,560 Speaker 1: fact check is a lie. It is a deliberate lie. 108 00:06:18,080 --> 00:06:20,800 Speaker 1: Yes they did, and it was reminiscent. You know, you 109 00:06:20,839 --> 00:06:27,440 Speaker 1: and I both remember when when CNN had a reporter 110 00:06:27,640 --> 00:06:31,240 Speaker 1: standing in front of a building that is raging with 111 00:06:31,279 --> 00:06:37,120 Speaker 1: fire and the chiron underneath. The reporters says, fiery but 112 00:06:37,440 --> 00:06:41,000 Speaker 1: mostly peaceful protests. Yeah, you know, they come and burn, 113 00:06:41,200 --> 00:06:44,320 Speaker 1: burn everything down around you, but it's mostly peaceful while 114 00:06:44,320 --> 00:06:47,599 Speaker 1: you're while they're burning it down. Like That's what this 115 00:06:47,680 --> 00:06:51,800 Speaker 1: Newsweek fact check was about. And it's not complicated. Well, 116 00:06:51,839 --> 00:06:56,200 Speaker 1: and I think fact checker is a partisan warrior. Well 117 00:06:56,360 --> 00:06:58,760 Speaker 1: that's what they do. And I think they just went 118 00:06:58,839 --> 00:07:01,440 Speaker 1: the headline right. Oh well, no, no, Ted Cruz lied 119 00:07:01,520 --> 00:07:03,440 Speaker 1: on the view. I saw a fact check about that. 120 00:07:03,839 --> 00:07:06,080 Speaker 1: No one reads down, no one goes back and looks 121 00:07:06,080 --> 00:07:08,200 Speaker 1: at it. It's just a it's a way I think 122 00:07:08,200 --> 00:07:10,120 Speaker 1: for the lapt to say no, no, Ted Cruz lied. 123 00:07:10,440 --> 00:07:12,560 Speaker 1: I know he did because a fact checker told me 124 00:07:12,600 --> 00:07:14,800 Speaker 1: he didn't. I saw the headline where they claim and 125 00:07:14,920 --> 00:07:19,920 Speaker 1: he lied, So therefore he's a liar. That is exactly 126 00:07:19,960 --> 00:07:23,800 Speaker 1: the game. I think the quote unquote fact checkers are 127 00:07:23,840 --> 00:07:28,000 Speaker 1: today's version of yellow journalism. They deliberately lie, and they 128 00:07:28,040 --> 00:07:29,840 Speaker 1: have all sorts of tricks they play. One of the 129 00:07:29,840 --> 00:07:33,480 Speaker 1: tricks is is the editorial selection. What it is they 130 00:07:33,560 --> 00:07:35,840 Speaker 1: choose to fact check. It's it's it's why I said 131 00:07:36,200 --> 00:07:38,520 Speaker 1: this Joe Biden's statement. I don't know if they'll check 132 00:07:38,560 --> 00:07:40,480 Speaker 1: it or not, but every one of them should. It's 133 00:07:40,560 --> 00:07:45,120 Speaker 1: it's it is a direct falsehood by the President of 134 00:07:45,160 --> 00:07:48,120 Speaker 1: the United States on the number one issue in the 135 00:07:48,160 --> 00:07:52,120 Speaker 1: polls nationally for an election less than two weeks away. 136 00:07:52,680 --> 00:07:55,080 Speaker 1: We'll see if they actually choose to fact check it. 137 00:07:55,200 --> 00:07:57,440 Speaker 1: So what they choose to fact check is one of 138 00:07:57,480 --> 00:08:01,960 Speaker 1: the ways they skew it. But they leave that left 139 00:08:02,000 --> 00:08:05,680 Speaker 1: wing opinion as a fact. And the irony. Actually, we've 140 00:08:05,680 --> 00:08:09,480 Speaker 1: had some fun with them Online Newsweek has actually written 141 00:08:09,600 --> 00:08:12,880 Speaker 1: multiple stories in the past about Antifa. So their final 142 00:08:12,960 --> 00:08:15,600 Speaker 1: kind of killer reason why what I said wasn't true 143 00:08:16,040 --> 00:08:19,280 Speaker 1: is they say Antifa doesn't exist, and I responded with 144 00:08:19,440 --> 00:08:24,320 Speaker 1: multiple Newsweek stories about Antifa, Antifa seals plotting violence, meeting 145 00:08:24,320 --> 00:08:28,440 Speaker 1: and like like from their own pages. But truth doesn't 146 00:08:28,480 --> 00:08:32,040 Speaker 1: matter because they're not even editorialists. They are liars. It's 147 00:08:32,080 --> 00:08:36,520 Speaker 1: what they do, and they try to package it up 148 00:08:36,600 --> 00:08:40,920 Speaker 1: as claiming it's some sort of fact center. 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Like the President 182 00:10:36,760 --> 00:10:38,760 Speaker 1: of the United States of America at the time, Donald Trump, 183 00:10:38,880 --> 00:10:42,120 Speaker 1: many other conservatives, he has now come in and said 184 00:10:42,320 --> 00:10:45,360 Speaker 1: I'm done with you guys. You're all fired. He didn't 185 00:10:45,360 --> 00:10:49,680 Speaker 1: waste any time firing the coming's top executives. I think 186 00:10:49,679 --> 00:10:52,040 Speaker 1: this is a huge step for freedom of speech with 187 00:10:52,160 --> 00:10:57,760 Speaker 1: big tech, so Ben, without exaggeration, I think this is 188 00:10:57,840 --> 00:11:02,680 Speaker 1: the single most important element for free speech in decades. 189 00:11:03,679 --> 00:11:06,240 Speaker 1: As you know, as we've talked about for a long time, 190 00:11:06,280 --> 00:11:08,720 Speaker 1: I think big tech is the biggest threat to free speech. 191 00:11:09,360 --> 00:11:11,560 Speaker 1: Big tech is also the biggest threat to free and 192 00:11:11,559 --> 00:11:15,720 Speaker 1: fair elections. And big tech every year has been getting 193 00:11:15,760 --> 00:11:19,760 Speaker 1: more and more brazen, more and more open about using 194 00:11:19,840 --> 00:11:23,079 Speaker 1: their monopoly power to try to silence conservatives, to try 195 00:11:23,080 --> 00:11:26,000 Speaker 1: to silence views they don't like, to try to silence 196 00:11:26,040 --> 00:11:29,720 Speaker 1: even some modicum of sanity, to try to silence someone 197 00:11:29,880 --> 00:11:33,079 Speaker 1: saying there is such a thing as boys and girls. 198 00:11:33,120 --> 00:11:36,200 Speaker 1: That's a view that they have decided is is hateful 199 00:11:36,280 --> 00:11:38,800 Speaker 1: to their woke sensibilities, and so you're not allowed to 200 00:11:38,840 --> 00:11:41,800 Speaker 1: say it. And as you noted, they've gone so far 201 00:11:41,840 --> 00:11:44,480 Speaker 1: as to ban the President of the United States, Donald Trump, 202 00:11:45,679 --> 00:11:49,200 Speaker 1: from using their platform and speaking because they've determined they 203 00:11:49,200 --> 00:11:51,079 Speaker 1: don't like what he has to say. They also ban 204 00:11:51,720 --> 00:11:55,000 Speaker 1: all sorts of conservatives places like the Babylon Bee, which 205 00:11:55,040 --> 00:11:58,239 Speaker 1: I think does some of the best humor and satire. 206 00:11:58,440 --> 00:12:03,319 Speaker 1: And when Elon Musk walked into the headquarters, so the 207 00:12:03,440 --> 00:12:05,760 Speaker 1: video he put out, it's actually quite bizarre. He walks 208 00:12:05,760 --> 00:12:08,600 Speaker 1: in the front door of the Twitter headquarters carrying a 209 00:12:08,679 --> 00:12:13,520 Speaker 1: porcelain sink. And I'll say, number one, the way he's walking, 210 00:12:13,559 --> 00:12:17,160 Speaker 1: I don't know if you've seen the gift of of Connor, 211 00:12:18,240 --> 00:12:22,480 Speaker 1: like stutting down the hallway. I gotta say Elon had 212 00:12:22,520 --> 00:12:27,160 Speaker 1: a strut very much like that. But he's carrying a big, 213 00:12:27,240 --> 00:12:30,120 Speaker 1: heavy porcelain's sake. And I was like, you look at 214 00:12:30,120 --> 00:12:32,240 Speaker 1: the image. You're kind of scratching your head like he's 215 00:12:32,240 --> 00:12:34,880 Speaker 1: gonna throw the sink at him, Like what what is that? 216 00:12:35,520 --> 00:12:38,200 Speaker 1: And I guess what he tweeted out is you know 217 00:12:38,320 --> 00:12:40,520 Speaker 1: that he was there, he said, let that sink in. 218 00:12:40,640 --> 00:12:43,000 Speaker 1: So it was kind of a giant pun which was 219 00:12:43,040 --> 00:12:46,240 Speaker 1: a little odd. But then he shows up and fires 220 00:12:46,280 --> 00:12:49,000 Speaker 1: the CEO, and fires the CFO, and fires the Chief 221 00:12:49,080 --> 00:12:51,800 Speaker 1: Legal and Policy Officer, and fires the chief operating officer, 222 00:12:52,640 --> 00:12:57,040 Speaker 1: all within minutes of walking in the door. That is 223 00:12:57,280 --> 00:13:01,880 Speaker 1: so incredibly important, and listen, I am. Elon has stated 224 00:13:01,920 --> 00:13:07,200 Speaker 1: that he wants Twitter to be a town hall for 225 00:13:07,320 --> 00:13:11,560 Speaker 1: democracy where people can express their views, and if their 226 00:13:11,640 --> 00:13:13,760 Speaker 1: views are wrong, other people can disagree and you can 227 00:13:13,800 --> 00:13:17,800 Speaker 1: actually have free speech and the remedy for bad speeches 228 00:13:17,880 --> 00:13:21,280 Speaker 1: more speech, not censorship. I assume it is going to 229 00:13:21,360 --> 00:13:25,400 Speaker 1: take some time to turn the ship of Twitter, but 230 00:13:25,440 --> 00:13:28,440 Speaker 1: I got to say fire in the top executives certainly 231 00:13:28,480 --> 00:13:32,200 Speaker 1: gets the attention of every employee at that company, and 232 00:13:32,200 --> 00:13:35,640 Speaker 1: I hope sends a real signal that Twitter is out 233 00:13:35,679 --> 00:13:39,720 Speaker 1: of the business of censorship. He's obviously going to have 234 00:13:39,760 --> 00:13:43,120 Speaker 1: to bring in new people who are committed to making 235 00:13:43,200 --> 00:13:46,440 Speaker 1: Twitter an oasis of free speech and that I'm really 236 00:13:46,480 --> 00:13:50,199 Speaker 1: hopeful that happens. I'm glad that it happened before election day. 237 00:13:50,240 --> 00:13:54,280 Speaker 1: I think that we've seen big tech is particularly egregious 238 00:13:54,280 --> 00:13:58,280 Speaker 1: when elections are approaching. Both Twitter and Facebook were shameless 239 00:13:58,960 --> 00:14:02,160 Speaker 1: in censoring and silencing the Hunter Biden story, which was 240 00:14:02,200 --> 00:14:05,559 Speaker 1: true and unequivocal to Hunter Biden laptop. And yet they 241 00:14:05,600 --> 00:14:08,240 Speaker 1: shut down The New York Post for daring to report 242 00:14:08,800 --> 00:14:12,680 Speaker 1: on stories that are unfavorable to Joe Biden before at election. 243 00:14:13,800 --> 00:14:16,680 Speaker 1: This is a big deal. Let me let me pull 244 00:14:16,720 --> 00:14:18,600 Speaker 1: back the curtain a little bit. This is one of 245 00:14:18,800 --> 00:14:20,920 Speaker 1: the most fun things about being on the bus tour 246 00:14:21,000 --> 00:14:22,880 Speaker 1: with you and last night at dinner, and this is 247 00:14:22,920 --> 00:14:26,400 Speaker 1: one of those questions that we probably would have would 248 00:14:26,400 --> 00:14:28,960 Speaker 1: have been said to the table, And I'm going to 249 00:14:29,000 --> 00:14:31,080 Speaker 1: ask it to you because I think this is one 250 00:14:31,120 --> 00:14:33,800 Speaker 1: of those moments where if you were sitting with you 251 00:14:33,960 --> 00:14:37,760 Speaker 1: on Musk and he just fired these people. You've dealt 252 00:14:37,840 --> 00:14:41,840 Speaker 1: with Twitter from a from the standpoint of being in Congress, 253 00:14:41,920 --> 00:14:46,840 Speaker 1: You've you've seen how harmful the attacks on conservatives and 254 00:14:46,960 --> 00:14:50,760 Speaker 1: silencing of viewpoints has been on the country. What advice 255 00:14:50,840 --> 00:14:53,760 Speaker 1: would you give him? Would you say, hey, go into 256 00:14:53,800 --> 00:14:58,360 Speaker 1: your company and let people know about algorithm changes, in 257 00:14:58,400 --> 00:15:02,920 Speaker 1: shadow banning and the policies that they had internally towards conservatives. 258 00:15:02,920 --> 00:15:06,200 Speaker 1: Would you open the books and essence and say, show 259 00:15:06,240 --> 00:15:09,200 Speaker 1: everybody what you just inherited so they know how bad 260 00:15:09,240 --> 00:15:12,720 Speaker 1: it was. Absolutely. I think that's one of the most 261 00:15:12,760 --> 00:15:16,680 Speaker 1: important things he can do, is institute transparency. And so 262 00:15:16,760 --> 00:15:19,720 Speaker 1: I've been hammering big tech for years trying to get 263 00:15:19,720 --> 00:15:22,440 Speaker 1: them to answer simple questions like questions. I've asked Twitter, 264 00:15:22,480 --> 00:15:26,440 Speaker 1: I've asked Facebook, I've asked Google, I've asked YouTube. In 265 00:15:26,600 --> 00:15:32,960 Speaker 1: the twenty sixteen elections, how many posts from Republican candidates 266 00:15:32,960 --> 00:15:36,840 Speaker 1: for office? Did you suppress or throttle how many posts 267 00:15:36,880 --> 00:15:39,880 Speaker 1: from Democrat candidates for office? In twenty eighteen, same questions 268 00:15:39,880 --> 00:15:45,400 Speaker 1: in twenty twenty, same questions in twenty twenty two, same questions. Consistently, 269 00:15:45,520 --> 00:15:49,520 Speaker 1: Big Tech refuses to answer that question. They give answers 270 00:15:49,520 --> 00:15:51,800 Speaker 1: that are essentially go jump in a lake. During the 271 00:15:51,880 --> 00:15:54,360 Speaker 1: all four years of the Trump administration, I tried to 272 00:15:54,400 --> 00:15:59,600 Speaker 1: get DOJ to use subpoenas to get answers to those questions. Unfortunately, 273 00:16:00,280 --> 00:16:03,240 Speaker 1: the Department of Justice couldn't get that done that they 274 00:16:03,240 --> 00:16:06,760 Speaker 1: were not able to execute it effectively. They should have. 275 00:16:07,480 --> 00:16:10,800 Speaker 1: I think one of the first steps Elon should do 276 00:16:11,080 --> 00:16:16,880 Speaker 1: is hire someone credible to engage in a careful audit 277 00:16:16,960 --> 00:16:19,720 Speaker 1: and commit to make the results of that audit public. 278 00:16:20,480 --> 00:16:24,040 Speaker 1: And it's not just blocking, because blocking is one thing, 279 00:16:24,080 --> 00:16:29,760 Speaker 1: but but shadow banning is even more insidious because it's invisible. 280 00:16:30,280 --> 00:16:32,800 Speaker 1: So it's one thing. Ben. If if you put out 281 00:16:32,800 --> 00:16:34,920 Speaker 1: a post and they just say, okay, Ben, you're off Twitter. 282 00:16:34,960 --> 00:16:37,600 Speaker 1: We've decided we don't like what Ben Ferguson says. You're silenced, 283 00:16:38,320 --> 00:16:42,440 Speaker 1: that's a little clottish and obvious. The second level that 284 00:16:42,560 --> 00:16:47,240 Speaker 1: is more pernicious, is they just say, Okay, Ben your tweets, 285 00:16:48,080 --> 00:16:52,280 Speaker 1: we're going to allow one one thousandth of your followers 286 00:16:52,320 --> 00:16:55,760 Speaker 1: to see any given tweet and you have no idea 287 00:16:55,800 --> 00:16:57,640 Speaker 1: if that's the case. I have no idea if that's 288 00:16:57,680 --> 00:17:03,960 Speaker 1: the case. I think answering those questions providing thorough transparency 289 00:17:04,440 --> 00:17:07,760 Speaker 1: and look a good place for Elon to start is 290 00:17:08,920 --> 00:17:12,440 Speaker 1: I've submitted written questions. In fact, when Mark Zuckerberg testified 291 00:17:12,480 --> 00:17:14,919 Speaker 1: before the Senate, I submitted I think six hundred and 292 00:17:14,920 --> 00:17:19,000 Speaker 1: thirty six questions to Facebook for them to answer. Unfortunately, 293 00:17:19,920 --> 00:17:22,440 Speaker 1: they had lawyers right answers that were just go jump 294 00:17:22,440 --> 00:17:25,560 Speaker 1: in a lake, and we did not have the legal 295 00:17:25,640 --> 00:17:28,760 Speaker 1: force of a subpoena to hold them to account for 296 00:17:28,840 --> 00:17:33,280 Speaker 1: refusing to answer. Elon should answer those questions, and that 297 00:17:33,320 --> 00:17:36,080 Speaker 1: will have an impact not just on Twitter, but it 298 00:17:36,119 --> 00:17:38,719 Speaker 1: will have an impact on Facebook, an impact on Google, 299 00:17:38,720 --> 00:17:41,600 Speaker 1: an impact on YouTube. This is a big deal for 300 00:17:41,680 --> 00:17:45,840 Speaker 1: the whole world, a big tech, not just Twitter. Because 301 00:17:46,560 --> 00:17:50,120 Speaker 1: the more Elon provides transparency, the more pressure there will 302 00:17:50,160 --> 00:17:52,359 Speaker 1: be on the other players to do the same. I 303 00:17:52,400 --> 00:17:55,240 Speaker 1: want to also be clear because there's so many people 304 00:17:55,280 --> 00:17:58,399 Speaker 1: that are going to misconstrue when we say we want 305 00:17:58,600 --> 00:18:03,560 Speaker 1: there to be thickly transparency. We're not asking for Elon 306 00:18:03,720 --> 00:18:06,320 Speaker 1: or expecting for Elon Musk. I think you would agree 307 00:18:06,320 --> 00:18:09,640 Speaker 1: with me to come in and all of a sudden silence, liberals. 308 00:18:09,720 --> 00:18:13,280 Speaker 1: We're just asking for genuine, authentic free speech to happen 309 00:18:13,400 --> 00:18:18,240 Speaker 1: for everyone. Absolutely. Yes. You know. A couple of years 310 00:18:18,240 --> 00:18:20,800 Speaker 1: ago I met with the CEO of YouTube who came 311 00:18:20,840 --> 00:18:24,960 Speaker 1: by my office and at the time, YouTube was engaged 312 00:18:25,040 --> 00:18:27,680 Speaker 1: in battle with Stephen Crowder, a friend of yours, friend 313 00:18:27,680 --> 00:18:29,240 Speaker 1: of mine who has a great show. I've been on 314 00:18:29,240 --> 00:18:33,199 Speaker 1: his show a bunch of times. And Crowder had was 315 00:18:33,359 --> 00:18:35,919 Speaker 1: having a battle with a left wing journalist and they 316 00:18:35,960 --> 00:18:39,920 Speaker 1: were look crowd as a comedian. So he was tossing 317 00:18:39,960 --> 00:18:42,560 Speaker 1: some crass insults at the journalists and the journalist was 318 00:18:42,600 --> 00:18:44,600 Speaker 1: insulting him back, and they were having a Twitter fight. 319 00:18:46,080 --> 00:18:52,119 Speaker 1: Twitter made a determination to quote demonetize Stephen Crowder, and 320 00:18:52,119 --> 00:18:55,240 Speaker 1: I'm sorry not Twitter, YouTube and the and the YouTube 321 00:18:55,359 --> 00:18:57,639 Speaker 1: ceo was in my office and she explained to me. 322 00:18:57,720 --> 00:19:00,760 Speaker 1: She said, well, we determined that crowd or did not 323 00:19:00,880 --> 00:19:04,520 Speaker 1: do anything that violated our policies. Okay, that's a big deal. Okay, 324 00:19:04,520 --> 00:19:07,399 Speaker 1: no violation of policies, whatever those policies are, and however 325 00:19:07,480 --> 00:19:11,119 Speaker 1: arbitrary they are. But they said, she said, we decided 326 00:19:11,240 --> 00:19:15,760 Speaker 1: to demonetize him anyway. But she said, look, you should 327 00:19:15,760 --> 00:19:18,080 Speaker 1: be really happy because we didn't block him all together. 328 00:19:18,640 --> 00:19:20,520 Speaker 1: We allowed to put up his show. He's just not 329 00:19:20,600 --> 00:19:23,479 Speaker 1: allowed to earn any revenue on it. And I just 330 00:19:23,560 --> 00:19:26,639 Speaker 1: started laughing at her as she sat on the couch 331 00:19:26,640 --> 00:19:32,320 Speaker 1: in my office. I said, number one, you know, talk 332 00:19:32,400 --> 00:19:37,800 Speaker 1: about an Orwellian word. We just demonetized him. I said, 333 00:19:37,840 --> 00:19:41,439 Speaker 1: how would YouTube like it if someone just demonetized you. 334 00:19:41,440 --> 00:19:43,879 Speaker 1: You just can't earn any revenue. That's just a simple thing. 335 00:19:43,960 --> 00:19:46,520 Speaker 1: It's not like you actually need to earn revenue to 336 00:19:46,560 --> 00:19:48,680 Speaker 1: have a business and run a business and pay employees. 337 00:19:48,720 --> 00:19:51,760 Speaker 1: I mean, we're just magically disappear your money. And I said, 338 00:19:51,840 --> 00:19:54,880 Speaker 1: let me be clear about something, and she said, look, 339 00:19:55,640 --> 00:19:58,000 Speaker 1: people on the left were pushing us to block him 340 00:19:58,040 --> 00:20:00,359 Speaker 1: all together, and aren't you proud of us? We said no, 341 00:20:01,200 --> 00:20:05,320 Speaker 1: and I said, listen, the pressure to silence is only 342 00:20:05,400 --> 00:20:08,080 Speaker 1: coming from one direction. It's the Bernie Sanders, it's the 343 00:20:08,160 --> 00:20:12,520 Speaker 1: Joe Biden's, It's the aocs that are saying silence conservatives 344 00:20:12,600 --> 00:20:15,400 Speaker 1: because we don't want anyone to hear what they say. 345 00:20:16,119 --> 00:20:18,880 Speaker 1: I said, I'm not asking you to silence them. In fact, 346 00:20:18,920 --> 00:20:21,200 Speaker 1: to be honest, I want as many people as possible 347 00:20:21,480 --> 00:20:23,480 Speaker 1: to hear what they're saying because I think it makes 348 00:20:23,480 --> 00:20:25,800 Speaker 1: no sense. I think it's idiotic. And the more people 349 00:20:25,800 --> 00:20:29,520 Speaker 1: hear what they're saying, particularly if they can hear substance 350 00:20:29,560 --> 00:20:32,920 Speaker 1: and facts in response, the more people will realize this. 351 00:20:33,320 --> 00:20:36,480 Speaker 1: When it comes to censorship, it is a one way ratchet. 352 00:20:36,560 --> 00:20:39,800 Speaker 1: So absolutely I do not want and I don't believe 353 00:20:39,920 --> 00:20:44,520 Speaker 1: Elon will censor voices on the left. I think the 354 00:20:44,560 --> 00:20:48,840 Speaker 1: marketplace of ideas is how we should resolve who's right 355 00:20:48,920 --> 00:20:52,120 Speaker 1: and who's wrong. Yeah, it's it's going to be very interesting, 356 00:20:52,119 --> 00:20:56,159 Speaker 1: as you said, to see what happens with Twitter, how 357 00:20:56,280 --> 00:21:00,000 Speaker 1: much they expose how business practices were really being done 358 00:21:00,119 --> 00:21:03,360 Speaker 1: behind closed doors, and then that will clearly show us. 359 00:21:03,400 --> 00:21:06,400 Speaker 1: I think a lot about these other companies and how 360 00:21:06,440 --> 00:21:09,199 Speaker 1: they were doing the exact same thing. I want to 361 00:21:09,200 --> 00:21:11,760 Speaker 1: move to another issue that I think now is a 362 00:21:11,880 --> 00:21:15,760 Speaker 1: very important one. Senor your number. I want I want 363 00:21:15,800 --> 00:21:18,240 Speaker 1: everybody to know what do you see with the Senate 364 00:21:18,359 --> 00:21:24,919 Speaker 1: right now, especially after the Fetterman debate with doctor Oz 365 00:21:25,359 --> 00:21:28,399 Speaker 1: and you just left Georgia and you did at a 366 00:21:28,560 --> 00:21:32,360 Speaker 1: rally in Georgia for herschel Walker there. What do you 367 00:21:32,440 --> 00:21:35,040 Speaker 1: think the Senate could look like if Republicans show up 368 00:21:35,040 --> 00:21:38,800 Speaker 1: on election Day? Well, I think the delta, the range 369 00:21:38,840 --> 00:21:45,040 Speaker 1: for the Senate is anywhere between. In a horrible, cataclysmic outcome, 370 00:21:45,840 --> 00:21:49,320 Speaker 1: we could see as few as forty eight Republicans. In 371 00:21:49,440 --> 00:21:52,520 Speaker 1: an incredible outcome, we could see as many as maybe 372 00:21:52,560 --> 00:21:56,800 Speaker 1: fifty six or fifty seven Republicans. And personally, what I 373 00:21:56,880 --> 00:22:01,120 Speaker 1: believe is likely is fifty three fifty four. I think 374 00:22:01,160 --> 00:22:05,159 Speaker 1: that is the most likely outcome. I think the last 375 00:22:05,280 --> 00:22:09,080 Speaker 1: forty eight hours those numbers have gone up. Number one. 376 00:22:10,200 --> 00:22:14,800 Speaker 1: The Fetterman debate was the biggest train wreck of a 377 00:22:14,840 --> 00:22:21,600 Speaker 1: debate perhaps ever. All of us suspected that Fetterman still 378 00:22:21,640 --> 00:22:27,440 Speaker 1: had significant, meaningful impairment. I don't think anyone was prepared 379 00:22:28,280 --> 00:22:32,480 Speaker 1: for the level of impairment he demonstrated. Watching that was 380 00:22:32,520 --> 00:22:34,720 Speaker 1: affirmatively painful. I gotta say, I've seen a lot of 381 00:22:34,720 --> 00:22:37,639 Speaker 1: political debates. I've never seen anyone started debate by saying 382 00:22:38,359 --> 00:22:44,160 Speaker 1: good night like that just is random. The answer Fetterman 383 00:22:44,280 --> 00:22:49,560 Speaker 1: gave on fracking was you watch it and you actually 384 00:22:49,560 --> 00:22:51,560 Speaker 1: want to like take him to a hospital bed and 385 00:22:51,600 --> 00:22:55,920 Speaker 1: just have him lie down. And I think that debate 386 00:22:56,080 --> 00:23:01,280 Speaker 1: significantly changed the calculus in that race and made it 387 00:23:01,520 --> 00:23:07,080 Speaker 1: much more likely that doctor Oz wins in November. Across 388 00:23:07,160 --> 00:23:10,680 Speaker 1: the country today, I spent all day campaigning in Georgia 389 00:23:10,680 --> 00:23:13,280 Speaker 1: with Herschel Walker. We did we did rallies all over 390 00:23:13,320 --> 00:23:19,280 Speaker 1: the state, huge rallies, packed rallies. The energy is fantastic. Walker, 391 00:23:19,359 --> 00:23:21,720 Speaker 1: I think is surging. I think Herschel is likely to 392 00:23:21,760 --> 00:23:26,120 Speaker 1: win that race. And I think across the country, the 393 00:23:26,200 --> 00:23:30,239 Speaker 1: majority the momentum is with us, and so all of 394 00:23:30,280 --> 00:23:34,760 Speaker 1: these races are getting more favorable for Republicans and if 395 00:23:34,800 --> 00:23:39,000 Speaker 1: that continues, our likely outcome is looking better and better. 396 00:23:39,040 --> 00:23:42,600 Speaker 1: But that only happens if we make sure we show up. 397 00:23:42,640 --> 00:23:46,080 Speaker 1: And one of the things that's encouraging early vote numbers. 398 00:23:46,160 --> 00:23:49,359 Speaker 1: Right now, we're seeing Republicans show up in significant numbers. 399 00:23:49,400 --> 00:23:51,919 Speaker 1: We're seeing that in Georgia, we're seeing that in Texas, 400 00:23:51,960 --> 00:23:55,960 Speaker 1: we're seeing that elsewhere. That's a good sign. Democrats are demoralized, 401 00:23:55,960 --> 00:23:59,439 Speaker 1: a spirited, you know, they're guys have mucked it all up, 402 00:23:59,440 --> 00:24:01,879 Speaker 1: and so they're not excited about coming to vote, and 403 00:24:02,080 --> 00:24:06,000 Speaker 1: Republicans are really pissed and are showing up to vote. 404 00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:07,560 Speaker 1: We need to make sure we keep doing that. And 405 00:24:07,600 --> 00:24:10,359 Speaker 1: if that happens, I think we will end up with 406 00:24:10,400 --> 00:24:12,960 Speaker 1: a significant majority in both houses. You know. I think 407 00:24:13,000 --> 00:24:15,159 Speaker 1: Fetterman in that debate the other night is going to 408 00:24:15,280 --> 00:24:19,879 Speaker 1: actually have an impact possibly nationwide in other races. And 409 00:24:19,960 --> 00:24:21,880 Speaker 1: the reason why I say that is I think there's 410 00:24:21,920 --> 00:24:24,080 Speaker 1: so many people that witness that and they sit there 411 00:24:24,080 --> 00:24:28,120 Speaker 1: and they go if the Democratic Party will do this 412 00:24:28,240 --> 00:24:30,879 Speaker 1: to a guy like Fetterman and just kind of prop 413 00:24:30,960 --> 00:24:33,800 Speaker 1: them up because they're so desperate to keep a seat 414 00:24:33,800 --> 00:24:37,040 Speaker 1: instead of actually take care of someone and say, look, 415 00:24:37,119 --> 00:24:39,879 Speaker 1: you need you know, you need medical attention, you need 416 00:24:40,080 --> 00:24:42,320 Speaker 1: you know, there's so many things you can do with 417 00:24:42,400 --> 00:24:45,560 Speaker 1: rehab and help for you to have a better, you know, 418 00:24:45,760 --> 00:24:48,240 Speaker 1: life than what it is right now that we're witnessing 419 00:24:48,240 --> 00:24:50,439 Speaker 1: on TV. I think there's a lot of people to think, Wow, 420 00:24:50,880 --> 00:24:53,480 Speaker 1: this party in essence is so liss They will prop 421 00:24:53,600 --> 00:24:57,080 Speaker 1: up anybody. Forget Joe Biden walking around can't get off 422 00:24:57,080 --> 00:25:00,400 Speaker 1: a stage. It's almost a form of abuse what they're 423 00:25:00,440 --> 00:25:04,000 Speaker 1: doing to Fetterman in his campaign. I cannot believe did 424 00:25:04,119 --> 00:25:06,920 Speaker 1: somebody that doesn't step in on his behalf, that cares 425 00:25:06,960 --> 00:25:09,680 Speaker 1: about him and say, hey, stop taking advantage of him 426 00:25:09,680 --> 00:25:14,639 Speaker 1: just so you guys can win a seat. Well, and 427 00:25:15,119 --> 00:25:18,160 Speaker 1: as you noted, the connection with Joe Biden is significant 428 00:25:18,280 --> 00:25:21,679 Speaker 1: because it's reinforcing a message. People are seeing Joe Biden 429 00:25:21,720 --> 00:25:25,719 Speaker 1: every day with serious diminished metal capacity, and they know 430 00:25:25,840 --> 00:25:27,760 Speaker 1: that the Democrats are willing to lie about it, and 431 00:25:27,800 --> 00:25:30,040 Speaker 1: they know that the media is willing to lie about it. 432 00:25:30,080 --> 00:25:34,760 Speaker 1: And with Fetterman, remember he did an interview with an 433 00:25:34,880 --> 00:25:38,720 Speaker 1: NBC host who was a junior reporter, and she commented 434 00:25:38,760 --> 00:25:44,159 Speaker 1: afterwards how he really had trouble understanding their conversation, and 435 00:25:45,400 --> 00:25:49,440 Speaker 1: the big established names and mainstream journalism lost their mind 436 00:25:49,480 --> 00:25:53,800 Speaker 1: and were denouncing this this young reporter for daring to 437 00:25:53,960 --> 00:25:58,680 Speaker 1: report the actual facts of what she saw, that he 438 00:25:58,760 --> 00:26:03,800 Speaker 1: had trouble understand her questions and he had trouble articulating 439 00:26:03,840 --> 00:26:08,359 Speaker 1: an answer. Well, everyone who watched the debate, millions, tens 440 00:26:08,359 --> 00:26:11,680 Speaker 1: of millions of people saw that in the debate, and 441 00:26:12,600 --> 00:26:16,960 Speaker 1: I think there's a really powerful realization some people are 442 00:26:17,000 --> 00:26:19,200 Speaker 1: having that. Wait a second, all of these media folks 443 00:26:19,200 --> 00:26:23,240 Speaker 1: who told me he's just fine. They were lying to me, 444 00:26:24,040 --> 00:26:28,760 Speaker 1: And every day the media does more to damage their credibility. 445 00:26:28,800 --> 00:26:32,160 Speaker 1: Because when you are a liar day in and day out, 446 00:26:32,200 --> 00:26:35,680 Speaker 1: and the lies always benefit the party you want to win, 447 00:26:36,680 --> 00:26:39,200 Speaker 1: at some point even people not paying that close of 448 00:26:39,240 --> 00:26:42,439 Speaker 1: attention start to notice the pattern. Well and now and 449 00:26:42,560 --> 00:26:44,520 Speaker 1: now you see the same media that was saying he's 450 00:26:44,560 --> 00:26:49,399 Speaker 1: fine now attacking conservatives of GOP. Joe Behar in The 451 00:26:49,480 --> 00:26:52,120 Speaker 1: View said this today about basically, how dare you bring 452 00:26:52,200 --> 00:26:58,280 Speaker 1: up his impairment? Listen, a's about showing Federman stumbling on 453 00:26:58,359 --> 00:27:00,960 Speaker 1: things because of the stroke. Kind of a doctor is 454 00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:03,640 Speaker 1: behind that. Aren't you supposed to do no harm? It's 455 00:27:03,680 --> 00:27:07,080 Speaker 1: so unempathetic to the guy, you know. And I just 456 00:27:07,119 --> 00:27:10,679 Speaker 1: want to say that Oz is very slick. He's a 457 00:27:10,920 --> 00:27:14,480 Speaker 1: TV guy. Remember that there's another woman in Arizona, Carrie Lake, 458 00:27:14,600 --> 00:27:17,840 Speaker 1: also a TV woman, So they're very slick, you know. 459 00:27:17,920 --> 00:27:20,159 Speaker 1: And Fetterman's kind of like you know, with the stroke 460 00:27:20,200 --> 00:27:22,840 Speaker 1: and without the stroke, is not a slick, but he 461 00:27:22,880 --> 00:27:27,520 Speaker 1: has ideas and he has governed. I've never heard a 462 00:27:27,560 --> 00:27:30,880 Speaker 1: worst sales pitch senator from somebody. I mean, not only 463 00:27:30,960 --> 00:27:33,840 Speaker 1: is she criticizing people to do TV while she's on 464 00:27:33,880 --> 00:27:38,080 Speaker 1: TV doing what she does on TV. But she's literally 465 00:27:38,119 --> 00:27:42,360 Speaker 1: saying that you're unpatriotic and you're unempathetic if you question 466 00:27:42,400 --> 00:27:45,720 Speaker 1: a man's cognitive ability to do a job, which is 467 00:27:45,760 --> 00:27:48,879 Speaker 1: a very serious job that is more than just pushing 468 00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:51,359 Speaker 1: yes and no no in the Senate. You know how 469 00:27:51,359 --> 00:27:57,080 Speaker 1: complicated this job is. Well, it's not complicated what she's doing. 470 00:27:57,359 --> 00:28:00,520 Speaker 1: She is engaging as a partisan hack. She wants the 471 00:28:00,520 --> 00:28:03,680 Speaker 1: Democrat to win, no matter what. And and so it's 472 00:28:03,720 --> 00:28:06,800 Speaker 1: funny watching their talking points shift because their talking points 473 00:28:06,800 --> 00:28:11,040 Speaker 1: have now moved to to saying, well, you're not allowed 474 00:28:11,080 --> 00:28:16,960 Speaker 1: to point out that he is serious cognitively disabled. That 475 00:28:17,119 --> 00:28:20,720 Speaker 1: it's discrimination to say it's not able to do his job. 476 00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:24,000 Speaker 1: You know, Fetterman's wife is out there attacking you know 477 00:28:24,040 --> 00:28:26,359 Speaker 1: any anyone who says this is this is this is 478 00:28:26,440 --> 00:28:30,960 Speaker 1: able ism? Well, I would like are elected officials to 479 00:28:31,080 --> 00:28:36,560 Speaker 1: be able like like there are. It is actually a 480 00:28:36,680 --> 00:28:41,640 Speaker 1: job requirement to be able to understand the issues before you, 481 00:28:43,120 --> 00:28:47,800 Speaker 1: to hear evidence, to hear testimony, to read complicated bills, 482 00:28:48,400 --> 00:28:52,080 Speaker 1: to assess public policy, to assess national security, to assess 483 00:28:52,520 --> 00:28:57,600 Speaker 1: classified intel, to meet with constituents, to understand their concerns 484 00:28:57,600 --> 00:29:02,320 Speaker 1: to advocate on their behalf. And if you can't engage 485 00:29:02,360 --> 00:29:05,040 Speaker 1: in a simple conversation and know what the hell is 486 00:29:05,080 --> 00:29:08,080 Speaker 1: going on, you are not able to do the job. 487 00:29:09,080 --> 00:29:11,360 Speaker 1: You know, it's a little bit like saying someone who's 488 00:29:11,400 --> 00:29:14,720 Speaker 1: paralyzed from the neck down. It's discrimination to say that 489 00:29:14,760 --> 00:29:17,960 Speaker 1: we're that they're not going to play him in the NBA. Look, 490 00:29:18,400 --> 00:29:24,080 Speaker 1: I'm sorry if if, if someone has limitations, and and 491 00:29:24,440 --> 00:29:29,400 Speaker 1: but it is eminently relevant to the job. But I'll 492 00:29:29,400 --> 00:29:32,600 Speaker 1: say two other things you and I talked about before. 493 00:29:32,760 --> 00:29:36,480 Speaker 1: How I said that I thought it was a mistake 494 00:29:37,280 --> 00:29:39,920 Speaker 1: for the os campaign to focus as much as they 495 00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:44,160 Speaker 1: did on Fetterman's serious mental impairment. And the reason I 496 00:29:44,160 --> 00:29:48,280 Speaker 1: thought it was a mistake is it was potentially curable. 497 00:29:48,400 --> 00:29:52,120 Speaker 1: In the debate, if he stood up and said three 498 00:29:52,120 --> 00:29:56,240 Speaker 1: coherent sentences, it suddenly makes one of the major attacks disappear. 499 00:29:56,800 --> 00:29:59,959 Speaker 1: And and to some extent, that happened with Trump and Biden, 500 00:30:00,600 --> 00:30:03,680 Speaker 1: where in the twenty twenty campaign, the Trump campaign made 501 00:30:03,720 --> 00:30:07,800 Speaker 1: such an issue of Biden's diminished mental state that we 502 00:30:07,880 --> 00:30:10,440 Speaker 1: got to the debates and Biden did put out three 503 00:30:10,440 --> 00:30:12,560 Speaker 1: coherent sentences and a lot of people said, oh, okay, 504 00:30:12,600 --> 00:30:15,720 Speaker 1: he's fine. So I thought it was a strategic error 505 00:30:15,760 --> 00:30:20,959 Speaker 1: to focus on that. That being said, I had no 506 00:30:21,080 --> 00:30:27,600 Speaker 1: idea that putting out three coherent sentences was beyond something 507 00:30:28,160 --> 00:30:31,520 Speaker 1: he was capable of doing. And you know, it's an 508 00:30:31,520 --> 00:30:35,400 Speaker 1: interesting conversation the dinner we reference that we had with 509 00:30:36,960 --> 00:30:40,640 Speaker 1: some great minds and a number of senior members of 510 00:30:40,680 --> 00:30:46,280 Speaker 1: my political team. One of them made the following points said, 511 00:30:47,520 --> 00:30:52,200 Speaker 1: political consultants rarely win a campaign. The candidate has to 512 00:30:52,240 --> 00:30:56,880 Speaker 1: win a campaign, but a political consultant can lose a campaign. 513 00:30:57,400 --> 00:31:00,720 Speaker 1: And there is a very good possibility that Federns consultant, 514 00:31:00,720 --> 00:31:06,080 Speaker 1: whoever's running the campaign, lost that campaign by allowing him 515 00:31:06,800 --> 00:31:10,440 Speaker 1: to appear in that debate. It's it's remarkable. Presumably the 516 00:31:10,480 --> 00:31:14,040 Speaker 1: campaign knows, they know he has this impairment, that he's 517 00:31:14,080 --> 00:31:18,280 Speaker 1: not able to get out three coherent sentences. They put 518 00:31:18,320 --> 00:31:21,240 Speaker 1: them up there anyway, and I think that is was 519 00:31:21,280 --> 00:31:25,560 Speaker 1: a stunning mistake. I'm surprised they didn't announce the morning 520 00:31:25,600 --> 00:31:28,680 Speaker 1: of the debate, Oh sorry, Fetterman has COVID. He's going 521 00:31:28,720 --> 00:31:31,240 Speaker 1: to be conveniently quarantined for the next two weeks. But 522 00:31:31,320 --> 00:31:34,440 Speaker 1: you can see him the day after election day. And 523 00:31:34,880 --> 00:31:38,480 Speaker 1: we've talked previously on the pod about the Democrats strategy 524 00:31:39,480 --> 00:31:44,920 Speaker 1: of ducking debates. I think Fetterman's disastrous performance in this 525 00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:50,680 Speaker 1: debate will accelerate in the next cycle Democrat candidates saying 526 00:31:51,400 --> 00:31:54,240 Speaker 1: I'm not going to debate debate because there's risk that 527 00:31:54,320 --> 00:31:57,440 Speaker 1: it could be bad. And if I don't do any debates, 528 00:31:57,480 --> 00:32:01,680 Speaker 1: the media will protect me and they'll be my messenger center. 529 00:32:01,760 --> 00:32:04,120 Speaker 1: I think this is exactly why there's so many voters 530 00:32:04,160 --> 00:32:06,920 Speaker 1: out there right now that are looking at these mid 531 00:32:07,040 --> 00:32:10,040 Speaker 1: terms as an issue of just flat out trusts. They 532 00:32:10,080 --> 00:32:13,440 Speaker 1: don't trust the media, they don't trust the Democrats. They 533 00:32:13,480 --> 00:32:15,160 Speaker 1: look at you in the face and tell you that 534 00:32:15,160 --> 00:32:17,400 Speaker 1: there the economy is in great shape when it's not. 535 00:32:17,960 --> 00:32:21,000 Speaker 1: There's a montage of just some of the top lies 536 00:32:21,120 --> 00:32:25,160 Speaker 1: that we've heard from this administration, and I want people 537 00:32:25,160 --> 00:32:27,840 Speaker 1: to understand that if you go out there and you 538 00:32:27,920 --> 00:32:30,360 Speaker 1: talk to your family and you talk to your friends, 539 00:32:30,800 --> 00:32:34,240 Speaker 1: remind them that this Biden administration has been lying to 540 00:32:34,280 --> 00:32:36,600 Speaker 1: you since day one, and these are just a few 541 00:32:36,600 --> 00:32:39,520 Speaker 1: of the highlights of this administration. You're not going to 542 00:32:39,640 --> 00:32:43,520 Speaker 1: get COVID if you have these vaccinations. Vaccinated people do 543 00:32:43,600 --> 00:32:46,760 Speaker 1: not carry the virus, don't get sick. Getting those shots 544 00:32:46,760 --> 00:32:48,480 Speaker 1: out for five to eleven year olds is going to 545 00:32:48,560 --> 00:32:52,000 Speaker 1: provide a lot of comfort to American families. Horses very 546 00:32:52,240 --> 00:32:55,520 Speaker 1: running over people being strapped. The horrific video of the 547 00:32:55,600 --> 00:32:59,200 Speaker 1: CBP officers on horse on horses using brutal and inappropriate 548 00:32:59,200 --> 00:33:04,680 Speaker 1: measures against people. We have a secure border. The border 549 00:33:04,760 --> 00:33:08,240 Speaker 1: is in fact secure. The border is closed. The border 550 00:33:08,480 --> 00:33:12,880 Speaker 1: is secure, The border is secure, the border is closed. 551 00:33:13,160 --> 00:33:16,400 Speaker 1: We've been unequivocal in that on the issue of Afghanistan, 552 00:33:17,000 --> 00:33:21,520 Speaker 1: and to that end we have seen a successful drawdown 553 00:33:21,600 --> 00:33:24,160 Speaker 1: of the embassy. I think it's irresponsible to say Americans 554 00:33:24,160 --> 00:33:27,280 Speaker 1: are stranded. They're not. This is Jim Crow on steroids 555 00:33:27,400 --> 00:33:30,600 Speaker 1: what they're doing in Georgia. This is all about keeping 556 00:33:30,680 --> 00:33:33,320 Speaker 1: working folks and ordinary folks. So I grew up with 557 00:33:33,560 --> 00:33:36,120 Speaker 1: from being able to vote. The reconciliation package would cost 558 00:33:36,200 --> 00:33:38,520 Speaker 1: zero dollars. The cost of these bills in terms value 559 00:33:38,560 --> 00:33:42,160 Speaker 1: of the deficit is zero. Some have expressed publicly that 560 00:33:42,280 --> 00:33:46,080 Speaker 1: they're not comfortable with three point five even though zero 561 00:33:46,160 --> 00:33:51,680 Speaker 1: costs zero dollars, zero, zero, zero. This bill is fully 562 00:33:51,680 --> 00:33:55,440 Speaker 1: paid for, and we'll not raise taxes on anyone making 563 00:33:55,520 --> 00:33:57,880 Speaker 1: less than four hundred thousand dollars a year. Let me 564 00:33:57,920 --> 00:34:02,640 Speaker 1: say that again, be crystal clear, no one making less 565 00:34:02,640 --> 00:34:05,080 Speaker 1: than four hundred thousand dollars you will pay a single 566 00:34:05,120 --> 00:34:07,480 Speaker 1: additional penny and tax for all these things that are 567 00:34:07,480 --> 00:34:11,440 Speaker 1: in the and the Build back Better plan. You listen 568 00:34:11,440 --> 00:34:13,239 Speaker 1: to these and the scary part of the center. We 569 00:34:13,239 --> 00:34:15,880 Speaker 1: have another two minutes of these lies that we put together, 570 00:34:16,440 --> 00:34:19,800 Speaker 1: but those are just some of the big ones. This election, 571 00:34:19,960 --> 00:34:22,200 Speaker 1: I truly think comes down to the issue of who 572 00:34:22,239 --> 00:34:24,600 Speaker 1: do you trust more to not lie to you? Who 573 00:34:24,680 --> 00:34:27,080 Speaker 1: do you trust more to tell you the truth? You 574 00:34:27,200 --> 00:34:29,759 Speaker 1: listen to those lies. We have a secure border, you know, 575 00:34:29,880 --> 00:34:32,279 Speaker 1: that's a lie you've been talking about forever. That this 576 00:34:32,360 --> 00:34:34,239 Speaker 1: bill that you know, and we didn't even get to 577 00:34:34,280 --> 00:34:36,799 Speaker 1: the bill of the right, the we're going to make 578 00:34:36,840 --> 00:34:39,000 Speaker 1: sure the economy is all great. Right, we're gonna make 579 00:34:39,040 --> 00:34:41,560 Speaker 1: sure that there's no more inflation. Bill that they just passed. 580 00:34:41,880 --> 00:34:43,880 Speaker 1: And guess what it had nothing to do with It 581 00:34:43,920 --> 00:34:47,680 Speaker 1: had to do with all these green alternative energies, energy ideas. 582 00:34:48,080 --> 00:34:50,040 Speaker 1: These are the lies they tell you. And I think 583 00:34:50,080 --> 00:34:54,160 Speaker 1: people are actually at the point now where they say enough, yeah, 584 00:34:54,200 --> 00:34:57,920 Speaker 1: look it has been so brazen and and there are 585 00:34:58,000 --> 00:35:00,879 Speaker 1: more that can be included, including one of the most astonishing. 586 00:35:00,920 --> 00:35:03,600 Speaker 1: They're like it was Republicans that wanted to shut down 587 00:35:03,680 --> 00:35:06,440 Speaker 1: schools and it was Democrats that wanted to open up schools, 588 00:35:07,400 --> 00:35:09,239 Speaker 1: which is like, at some level you have to sit 589 00:35:09,360 --> 00:35:12,920 Speaker 1: back and be like, all right, holy crap, that that's 590 00:35:12,960 --> 00:35:16,120 Speaker 1: some chutzpah. Look like it just you know, you know, 591 00:35:16,160 --> 00:35:19,080 Speaker 1: it's like stranger things going into the upside down. I mean, 592 00:35:19,120 --> 00:35:22,120 Speaker 1: I mean they you know, Karine Jean Pierre standing at 593 00:35:22,120 --> 00:35:25,200 Speaker 1: the White House press podium and saying people are not 594 00:35:25,280 --> 00:35:29,600 Speaker 1: just walking across the border. It's not happening. There is 595 00:35:29,680 --> 00:35:33,520 Speaker 1: a level, you know, Yeah, you actually have to ask 596 00:35:33,680 --> 00:35:40,400 Speaker 1: why is it that this administration feels so comfortable lying 597 00:35:40,520 --> 00:35:43,600 Speaker 1: on a daily basis on things that are obviously lies, 598 00:35:43,680 --> 00:35:48,920 Speaker 1: that are laughably demonstrably lies. And it is directly connected 599 00:35:48,920 --> 00:35:52,279 Speaker 1: to the corruption of the media. The two are intertwined. 600 00:35:53,040 --> 00:35:56,359 Speaker 1: My new book This Week, Justice Corrupted, How the Left 601 00:35:56,440 --> 00:35:58,640 Speaker 1: is weaponized the legal system. A lot of what it 602 00:35:58,680 --> 00:36:02,719 Speaker 1: talks about, why is Obama and now Biden able to 603 00:36:02,719 --> 00:36:05,080 Speaker 1: turn the Department of Justice and the FBI and the 604 00:36:05,120 --> 00:36:08,440 Speaker 1: IRS and the CIA and the federal government into a 605 00:36:08,560 --> 00:36:11,160 Speaker 1: weapon to target their political enemies. One of the big, 606 00:36:11,200 --> 00:36:15,560 Speaker 1: big reasons is because they count on the corporate media 607 00:36:15,800 --> 00:36:20,080 Speaker 1: to be their praetorian guard, to not question them, to 608 00:36:20,200 --> 00:36:23,680 Speaker 1: not report on it, to not acknowledge that it exists, 609 00:36:23,719 --> 00:36:27,080 Speaker 1: to do what Newsweek did with their idiotic fact check 610 00:36:27,160 --> 00:36:32,040 Speaker 1: on Antifa, to do what CNN and MSNBC do every day, 611 00:36:32,160 --> 00:36:38,200 Speaker 1: which is ignore the lies and even worse, sometimes report 612 00:36:38,280 --> 00:36:41,640 Speaker 1: the lies as truth and be active participants in lying. 613 00:36:42,600 --> 00:36:45,480 Speaker 1: And the more that happens, the more people realize, Okay, 614 00:36:45,560 --> 00:36:48,760 Speaker 1: I get the game. You know, when when Donald Trump 615 00:36:49,280 --> 00:36:53,200 Speaker 1: first started referring to fake news to a lot of people, 616 00:36:53,239 --> 00:36:57,200 Speaker 1: it was jarring. What's interesting is it's not jarring anymore 617 00:36:57,840 --> 00:37:03,399 Speaker 1: that it has been so conclusively demonstrated that I think 618 00:37:03,440 --> 00:37:06,239 Speaker 1: millions of people are realizing these people are liars, and 619 00:37:06,280 --> 00:37:08,399 Speaker 1: they're in the business of aiding and abetting liars who 620 00:37:08,400 --> 00:37:10,560 Speaker 1: are lying to us. And that means you got to 621 00:37:10,600 --> 00:37:13,839 Speaker 1: find alternative ways to find the truth. And that's that's 622 00:37:13,880 --> 00:37:17,080 Speaker 1: one of the values of something like this podcast. It is. 623 00:37:17,360 --> 00:37:21,320 Speaker 1: Senator I appreciate you getting on the tour. You fighting 624 00:37:21,360 --> 00:37:23,799 Speaker 1: for so many conservatives. You're out there if people want 625 00:37:23,840 --> 00:37:26,440 Speaker 1: to see where you're going to be, Where you're going next. 626 00:37:26,480 --> 00:37:30,200 Speaker 1: Tcbus tour dot com, tcbustour dot com. You can come. 627 00:37:30,360 --> 00:37:34,000 Speaker 1: So many listeners, by the way of this podcast have 628 00:37:34,200 --> 00:37:36,120 Speaker 1: shown up on the road and I know that's meant 629 00:37:36,120 --> 00:37:37,719 Speaker 1: the world to you. So to all of you that 630 00:37:37,760 --> 00:37:40,440 Speaker 1: have showed up, thank you. Thank you for listening and 631 00:37:40,600 --> 00:37:44,000 Speaker 1: supporting the senator and all the candidates that he is supporting. Uh, 632 00:37:44,600 --> 00:37:46,920 Speaker 1: stay in the game. Make sure you keep talking to 633 00:37:46,960 --> 00:37:49,040 Speaker 1: your family and your friends. Where are you guys going 634 00:37:49,080 --> 00:37:53,240 Speaker 1: next on the tour. Well, we're in Orlando right now. 635 00:37:53,280 --> 00:37:57,799 Speaker 1: We've got a rally tomorrow and Orlando with two congressional candidates, 636 00:37:58,280 --> 00:38:02,239 Speaker 1: Corey Mills and Scott As Scotty More. And then we're 637 00:38:02,280 --> 00:38:06,200 Speaker 1: headed to Michigan. We're headed to Utah. We're headed to 638 00:38:06,560 --> 00:38:10,239 Speaker 1: Texas for the big blowout rally at the end of 639 00:38:10,239 --> 00:38:13,120 Speaker 1: the bus tour. And I got to say, we're seeing 640 00:38:13,239 --> 00:38:16,560 Speaker 1: packed houses. You know you were with us in Franklin, 641 00:38:16,600 --> 00:38:21,920 Speaker 1: Tennessee last night. We had thirteen fourteen hundred people come 642 00:38:21,960 --> 00:38:24,960 Speaker 1: out in a rally for Andy Ogules, who is a 643 00:38:25,520 --> 00:38:28,600 Speaker 1: conservative running is going to be elected. I believe to 644 00:38:28,640 --> 00:38:31,600 Speaker 1: the House and be a strong conservative leader. We're seeing 645 00:38:31,640 --> 00:38:35,320 Speaker 1: that kind of enthusiasm the rallies today for herschel Walker, 646 00:38:36,200 --> 00:38:40,120 Speaker 1: huge crowds, and there's an energy and enthusiasm that I 647 00:38:40,160 --> 00:38:42,960 Speaker 1: think is just growing every day. It is no doubt 648 00:38:42,960 --> 00:38:46,120 Speaker 1: about it grabbed the new book Justice Corrupted, How the 649 00:38:46,239 --> 00:38:48,719 Speaker 1: Left weaponizes our legal system. Don't forget we're doing this 650 00:38:48,760 --> 00:38:51,800 Speaker 1: podcast three days a week now, So hit that subscribe 651 00:38:51,880 --> 00:38:54,640 Speaker 1: auto download button and write a five star review for 652 00:38:54,680 --> 00:38:56,959 Speaker 1: the podcast. It helped us reach so many more people 653 00:38:57,000 --> 00:38:59,759 Speaker 1: on the charts. Senator, be safe on the road. I'll 654 00:38:59,760 --> 00:39:01,399 Speaker 1: see you in a few days, and then we'll see 655 00:39:01,400 --> 00:39:03,359 Speaker 1: the audience back here in a couple of days as well.