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You have just come from Capitol 83 00:04:18,839 --> 00:04:23,680 Speaker 1: Hill just voting on this big gun control legislation. There 84 00:04:23,680 --> 00:04:27,320 Speaker 1: seems to be a compromise between a bunch of Republicans 85 00:04:27,640 --> 00:04:31,080 Speaker 1: and the Democrats. What happened, Well, I just voted about 86 00:04:31,120 --> 00:04:34,440 Speaker 1: an hour ago on the initial vote, the motion to 87 00:04:34,560 --> 00:04:38,840 Speaker 1: proceed to take up the legislation. Now, the statutory tax 88 00:04:39,120 --> 00:04:41,320 Speaker 1: texts they rolled out just a couple of hours ago, 89 00:04:41,360 --> 00:04:43,960 Speaker 1: so we're still in the process of studying the details 90 00:04:44,040 --> 00:04:47,640 Speaker 1: of what they laid out. But all the Democrats voted 91 00:04:47,720 --> 00:04:50,640 Speaker 1: for it, and fourteen Republicans voted for it. So the 92 00:04:50,720 --> 00:04:53,520 Speaker 1: vote was sixty four to thirty four. They needed sixty 93 00:04:53,560 --> 00:04:56,920 Speaker 1: to proceed, so they get They got there with fourteen 94 00:04:56,960 --> 00:05:01,719 Speaker 1: Republicans and that's going to consume this week the debate 95 00:05:01,800 --> 00:05:04,080 Speaker 1: on that bill. I think it is safe to say 96 00:05:04,120 --> 00:05:07,000 Speaker 1: you are not one of the fourteen Republicans who voted 97 00:05:07,000 --> 00:05:10,440 Speaker 1: to proceed with this legislation. That is safe, And actually 98 00:05:10,480 --> 00:05:13,720 Speaker 1: I printed out the fourteen who are So if you 99 00:05:13,760 --> 00:05:19,400 Speaker 1: want to know the fourteen who are it is Blunt, Burr, Capita, Cassidy, Collins, Cornin, 100 00:05:19,600 --> 00:05:25,400 Speaker 1: Ernst Graham, McConnell, Murkowski, Portman, Romney, Tillis, and Young. Those 101 00:05:25,440 --> 00:05:28,200 Speaker 1: were the fourteen Republicans who voted. Yes, wish I could 102 00:05:28,240 --> 00:05:32,599 Speaker 1: say that I were surprised, Senator, but I'm not. You 103 00:05:32,640 --> 00:05:35,440 Speaker 1: know that obviously you've named a lot of the moderates 104 00:05:35,480 --> 00:05:37,800 Speaker 1: and the people who often do go over with the 105 00:05:37,839 --> 00:05:40,400 Speaker 1: Democrats here. But that's a big not fourteen is a 106 00:05:40,440 --> 00:05:45,640 Speaker 1: big number. Well, it's a combination of the moderate to 107 00:05:45,640 --> 00:05:50,280 Speaker 1: liberal Republicans combined with Republican leadership, combined with the Republicans 108 00:05:50,320 --> 00:05:53,280 Speaker 1: who are retiring, and that's sort of the ace and 109 00:05:53,360 --> 00:05:55,640 Speaker 1: the whole for leadership. As the folks who are retiring, 110 00:05:55,680 --> 00:05:57,840 Speaker 1: you're never going to face the voters again, that they're 111 00:05:57,920 --> 00:06:01,640 Speaker 1: likely going to go be lobbyists in town. And so 112 00:06:01,960 --> 00:06:05,320 Speaker 1: suddenly they have all sorts of votes that the people 113 00:06:05,320 --> 00:06:08,760 Speaker 1: who elected them would prefer they wouldn't take. But since 114 00:06:08,760 --> 00:06:12,120 Speaker 1: they're not on the ballot anymore, they vote differently than 115 00:06:12,120 --> 00:06:16,040 Speaker 1: they would otherwise. You know, it's it's actually it's a 116 00:06:16,080 --> 00:06:19,040 Speaker 1: similar manifestation in the Senate. You've got six year terms 117 00:06:19,040 --> 00:06:22,200 Speaker 1: and it's a common phenomenon. We're two out of every 118 00:06:22,240 --> 00:06:26,479 Speaker 1: six years people grow a backbone or a conservative and 119 00:06:26,560 --> 00:06:28,600 Speaker 1: those happen to me the two years they're on the ballot, 120 00:06:29,360 --> 00:06:31,560 Speaker 1: and then the other four years they're not on the ballot, 121 00:06:31,600 --> 00:06:37,479 Speaker 1: they transmogrify into very very different senators until the last 122 00:06:37,520 --> 00:06:39,680 Speaker 1: two years when they're back on the ballot, when suddenly 123 00:06:39,920 --> 00:06:42,720 Speaker 1: they become conservative again. And unfortunately, it's kind of a 124 00:06:43,760 --> 00:06:46,520 Speaker 1: merry go round of of who are the chunk of 125 00:06:46,560 --> 00:06:52,200 Speaker 1: Republicans on the ballot that will stand steady. The retiring 126 00:06:52,240 --> 00:06:55,200 Speaker 1: Republicans it's an even worse problem because then they feel 127 00:06:55,960 --> 00:06:58,640 Speaker 1: little to no accountability to the voters who sent them there. 128 00:06:59,560 --> 00:07:03,120 Speaker 1: So this is still being worked out right now, just 129 00:07:03,279 --> 00:07:07,480 Speaker 1: in broad strokes. How bad is it? You know, I 130 00:07:07,520 --> 00:07:09,640 Speaker 1: don't know the full details, As I said, they just 131 00:07:09,760 --> 00:07:12,680 Speaker 1: rolled out the statutory text right before we voted on it, 132 00:07:12,680 --> 00:07:15,960 Speaker 1: which is a typical Capitol Hill strategy. So I'll study 133 00:07:15,960 --> 00:07:18,640 Speaker 1: the details more and know it. There's some elements that 134 00:07:18,720 --> 00:07:21,680 Speaker 1: are fairly unobjectionable in terms of funding for things like 135 00:07:21,720 --> 00:07:27,560 Speaker 1: school safety that everyone agrees with. The most problematic elements 136 00:07:27,600 --> 00:07:30,920 Speaker 1: I think concern red flag laws. Red flag laws that 137 00:07:31,240 --> 00:07:35,480 Speaker 1: there's funding to incentivize states to pass red flag laws, 138 00:07:35,480 --> 00:07:39,240 Speaker 1: red flag laws or proceedings whereby you can strip guns 139 00:07:39,280 --> 00:07:42,160 Speaker 1: from law abiding citizens. And in a number of states, 140 00:07:42,200 --> 00:07:46,680 Speaker 1: particularly Blue Democrats states, they're very very low thresholds for 141 00:07:46,720 --> 00:07:50,880 Speaker 1: doing so. There's very little protection of due process. And 142 00:07:51,680 --> 00:07:54,800 Speaker 1: you know, it poses a real problem if somebody is 143 00:07:54,920 --> 00:07:59,040 Speaker 1: unhappy with you, Michael, if you have a you know, 144 00:07:59,160 --> 00:08:04,800 Speaker 1: someone who's mad at you, a disgruntled coworker, a jilted 145 00:08:04,840 --> 00:08:10,400 Speaker 1: ex girlfriend, what have you. Red flag laws, particularly without 146 00:08:11,000 --> 00:08:14,600 Speaker 1: serious due process protections, can provide an avenue for that 147 00:08:14,680 --> 00:08:17,760 Speaker 1: person unhappy with you to go behind your back and 148 00:08:17,840 --> 00:08:20,760 Speaker 1: take away your Second Amendment rights to protect yourself. Because 149 00:08:20,760 --> 00:08:23,880 Speaker 1: in that case, the red flag is not you know, 150 00:08:24,000 --> 00:08:27,200 Speaker 1: some raving lunatic who's making direct threats, who says I'm 151 00:08:27,200 --> 00:08:29,520 Speaker 1: gonna kill you. I'm gonna kill you. The red flag 152 00:08:29,640 --> 00:08:34,199 Speaker 1: simply could be you are a conservative, you are a Republican, 153 00:08:34,360 --> 00:08:36,400 Speaker 1: you voted for someone that I don't, You've said something 154 00:08:36,559 --> 00:08:39,280 Speaker 1: that I disagree with. The red flag could be you, 155 00:08:39,800 --> 00:08:42,960 Speaker 1: And in that case, to deprive someone of a constitutional 156 00:08:42,960 --> 00:08:46,200 Speaker 1: civil right would seem to be a huge overreach. Well, 157 00:08:46,200 --> 00:08:48,439 Speaker 1: and I will say this, look that they were negotiating 158 00:08:48,480 --> 00:08:50,880 Speaker 1: back and forth between the Republicans and Democrats on the 159 00:08:50,880 --> 00:08:53,920 Speaker 1: exact language. And so I haven't read the statutory language yet. 160 00:08:53,920 --> 00:08:55,760 Speaker 1: I will read it this week before we vote on 161 00:08:55,800 --> 00:08:58,400 Speaker 1: the final bill. This was the initial vote just to 162 00:08:58,400 --> 00:09:02,240 Speaker 1: take it up. So I'll study the details. But there's 163 00:09:02,280 --> 00:09:06,640 Speaker 1: a lot of there's a lot of variants in the details. 164 00:09:06,640 --> 00:09:08,439 Speaker 1: The devil is in the detail on this. And so 165 00:09:08,520 --> 00:09:12,360 Speaker 1: for example, some of the formulations they were talking about 166 00:09:12,480 --> 00:09:15,680 Speaker 1: keyed off of whether someone was a quote mental defective. 167 00:09:15,760 --> 00:09:19,680 Speaker 1: That's some language that actually is in federal law right now. 168 00:09:19,720 --> 00:09:22,160 Speaker 1: It's sort of an different era. We don't don't tend 169 00:09:22,200 --> 00:09:25,160 Speaker 1: to speak much in terms of things like mental defective. 170 00:09:26,280 --> 00:09:30,600 Speaker 1: But if the threshold is low, I look, there are 171 00:09:30,760 --> 00:09:34,679 Speaker 1: estimates that something like twenty percent of Americans have some 172 00:09:34,720 --> 00:09:38,560 Speaker 1: form of mental illness. You know, I joked at lunch 173 00:09:38,679 --> 00:09:40,520 Speaker 1: last week that it seems to me serving in the 174 00:09:40,600 --> 00:09:43,760 Speaker 1: United States Congress should be prima facia evidence of mental illness. 175 00:09:45,280 --> 00:09:48,360 Speaker 1: You know, you think about schools, how many kids are 176 00:09:49,320 --> 00:09:53,880 Speaker 1: diagnosed with ADHD, how many kids are medicated on prozac 177 00:09:54,000 --> 00:09:57,600 Speaker 1: or riddle in or something else. And if the threshold 178 00:09:57,720 --> 00:10:00,360 Speaker 1: is low, that there's a hyperactive fifteen year old who 179 00:10:00,400 --> 00:10:03,760 Speaker 1: gets a diagnosis and gets medicated and you have a 180 00:10:03,840 --> 00:10:06,480 Speaker 1: gun grabbing Blue Stith that says, Okay, well, guess what, 181 00:10:06,600 --> 00:10:08,720 Speaker 1: You've just lost your right to keeping bare arms for 182 00:10:08,720 --> 00:10:14,280 Speaker 1: the rest of your life. I think that's obviously unconstitutional 183 00:10:14,320 --> 00:10:17,000 Speaker 1: and would be striking struck down by any court following 184 00:10:17,040 --> 00:10:19,920 Speaker 1: the law. But in the meantime, it's a real problem. 185 00:10:19,960 --> 00:10:26,440 Speaker 1: And so my view on guns and crime generally is 186 00:10:26,440 --> 00:10:28,680 Speaker 1: there's a right approach and a wrong approach. You know, 187 00:10:28,720 --> 00:10:31,959 Speaker 1: there's an interesting story. Are you for here with Project Exile? No, 188 00:10:32,040 --> 00:10:36,040 Speaker 1: I'm not okay. So Project Exile was something that was 189 00:10:36,120 --> 00:10:40,080 Speaker 1: created during the Bill Clinton Justice Department, and it was 190 00:10:40,240 --> 00:10:45,720 Speaker 1: created in Richmond, Virginia, in the Eastern District of Virginia, 191 00:10:45,800 --> 00:10:48,880 Speaker 1: and it was the US attorney there laid out and said, 192 00:10:49,000 --> 00:10:51,760 Speaker 1: we are going to prosecute anyone who commits a violent 193 00:10:51,760 --> 00:10:54,520 Speaker 1: crime with a gun. We're gonna go after them under 194 00:10:54,520 --> 00:10:56,360 Speaker 1: federal law. We're gonna lock them up in jail with 195 00:10:56,360 --> 00:10:59,160 Speaker 1: a mandatory minimum sentence, and we're going to let people know. 196 00:11:00,000 --> 00:11:02,720 Speaker 1: We're gonna let people know if you knock over a 197 00:11:02,800 --> 00:11:06,280 Speaker 1: liquor store and you're a felon. If you're a felon 198 00:11:06,320 --> 00:11:09,080 Speaker 1: in possession of a firearm, that carries a mandatory minimum 199 00:11:09,080 --> 00:11:12,360 Speaker 1: settence under federal law, but typically the Feds don't prosecute it. 200 00:11:12,880 --> 00:11:15,599 Speaker 1: Project Exile says you commit a crime with a firearm, 201 00:11:16,280 --> 00:11:18,280 Speaker 1: you're going to jail, you're doing hard time, and they 202 00:11:18,280 --> 00:11:21,319 Speaker 1: advertise it. They put up billboards in Richmond in Virginia, 203 00:11:21,600 --> 00:11:25,080 Speaker 1: carry a gun, do hard time. And Richmond had one 204 00:11:25,120 --> 00:11:26,880 Speaker 1: of the highest murder rates in the country, and the 205 00:11:26,920 --> 00:11:30,000 Speaker 1: Feds started anytime you brought a gun to a crime boom, 206 00:11:30,040 --> 00:11:33,400 Speaker 1: you got prosecuted, and the murder rates plummeted, and you 207 00:11:33,480 --> 00:11:37,560 Speaker 1: started seeing criminals that would literally go knock over a 208 00:11:37,600 --> 00:11:40,120 Speaker 1: liquor store, go do a home invasion, and they leave 209 00:11:40,160 --> 00:11:42,440 Speaker 1: their gun at home because they'd say, if I take 210 00:11:42,440 --> 00:11:46,120 Speaker 1: a gun, I'm doing serious federal time. If you want 211 00:11:46,160 --> 00:11:49,240 Speaker 1: to stop crimes, that's the sort of program that works. 212 00:11:49,080 --> 00:11:54,160 Speaker 1: That's a great point. Obviously, we all agree that we 213 00:11:54,200 --> 00:11:57,840 Speaker 1: should take guns away from criminals and people who have, 214 00:11:58,160 --> 00:12:01,400 Speaker 1: in some objective way been seemed to be too dangerous 215 00:12:01,640 --> 00:12:05,439 Speaker 1: to have a gun. We shouldn't just go along with 216 00:12:05,480 --> 00:12:09,319 Speaker 1: some program to exploit a shooting or a tragedy as 217 00:12:09,360 --> 00:12:13,240 Speaker 1: a way to advance generally unrelated gun control measures that 218 00:12:13,360 --> 00:12:15,680 Speaker 1: Democrats have been pushing for a while. Not too late 219 00:12:16,520 --> 00:12:18,760 Speaker 1: to stop this kind of thing. Let's hope that the 220 00:12:18,800 --> 00:12:22,600 Speaker 1: squishes toughen up a little bit here and back off 221 00:12:22,600 --> 00:12:26,080 Speaker 1: of this and listen to this podcast. That's the bad 222 00:12:26,080 --> 00:12:28,600 Speaker 1: news that the squishes are going along with the Dems here. 223 00:12:28,800 --> 00:12:31,160 Speaker 1: There is quite a lot of good news in the culture, though. 224 00:12:31,520 --> 00:12:33,560 Speaker 1: I really want to get to the Supreme Court case, 225 00:12:33,960 --> 00:12:37,160 Speaker 1: which the Left has lost their mind over. They've now 226 00:12:37,200 --> 00:12:39,680 Speaker 1: said that this is a nearly fatal blow to the 227 00:12:39,679 --> 00:12:43,040 Speaker 1: separation of church and state. Before that, though, I do 228 00:12:43,120 --> 00:12:45,160 Speaker 1: have to do a little bit of gloating on the 229 00:12:45,200 --> 00:12:47,959 Speaker 1: culture front. There was a big cultural win here. We 230 00:12:48,360 --> 00:12:51,240 Speaker 1: sort of predicted it on this show. It's the get woke, 231 00:12:51,720 --> 00:12:56,960 Speaker 1: go broke prediction. We talked last time about how people 232 00:12:57,000 --> 00:13:00,839 Speaker 1: don't want to see toys and cartoon characters engaging in 233 00:13:00,880 --> 00:13:04,120 Speaker 1: all sorts of eccentric sexual activities and kissing and pushing 234 00:13:04,160 --> 00:13:08,920 Speaker 1: the woke sexual revolutionary agenda. And then over the weekend 235 00:13:09,320 --> 00:13:12,160 Speaker 1: light Year, which made a big show of having a 236 00:13:12,240 --> 00:13:15,040 Speaker 1: lesbian toy kiss in it. Light Year bombed at the 237 00:13:15,080 --> 00:13:18,120 Speaker 1: box office. They were expecting a global box office of 238 00:13:18,160 --> 00:13:22,160 Speaker 1: one hundred thirty five million dollars. What did it come to? 239 00:13:22,280 --> 00:13:25,840 Speaker 1: I think it was eighty something million. And then the 240 00:13:25,880 --> 00:13:29,360 Speaker 1: domestic box office was way below predictions at fifty one 241 00:13:29,400 --> 00:13:32,920 Speaker 1: million dollars. Did you, senator, did you take the air 242 00:13:32,920 --> 00:13:36,360 Speaker 1: out of the gay toys? That's a question I've never 243 00:13:36,400 --> 00:13:41,000 Speaker 1: gotten before. Listen. I will say this. I do think 244 00:13:41,040 --> 00:13:44,479 Speaker 1: it's amazing how the Verdict podcast seems to be driving Hollywood. 245 00:13:45,480 --> 00:13:49,280 Speaker 1: At our campus live tour in Alabama, we talked about 246 00:13:49,360 --> 00:13:52,000 Speaker 1: how Disney wanted Mickey and Pluto to go at it, 247 00:13:52,040 --> 00:13:56,800 Speaker 1: and liberals brains exploded, and apparently the showrunners for Light 248 00:13:56,880 --> 00:14:00,400 Speaker 1: Years said, hey, what a great idea. Let's have lesbian 249 00:14:00,480 --> 00:14:02,319 Speaker 1: toys get it on. And you know they got a 250 00:14:02,360 --> 00:14:05,000 Speaker 1: little Berry White and with his deep boys, let's get 251 00:14:05,000 --> 00:14:09,960 Speaker 1: it on. And then last week on Verdict, we said 252 00:14:09,960 --> 00:14:12,760 Speaker 1: this is terrible. Leave the kids alone. You said, we 253 00:14:12,800 --> 00:14:18,320 Speaker 1: don't want to see uh eccentric sex with with with 254 00:14:19,240 --> 00:14:21,920 Speaker 1: kids or toys. Let me take out the word eccentric. 255 00:14:22,160 --> 00:14:25,360 Speaker 1: How about no sex like kids and toys. And by 256 00:14:25,400 --> 00:14:28,560 Speaker 1: the way, I will say leftists really lost their minds 257 00:14:28,600 --> 00:14:31,320 Speaker 1: because last week we talked about do we really need 258 00:14:31,440 --> 00:14:35,720 Speaker 1: lesbian toys and cartoons? And leftist like the phrase lesbian 259 00:14:35,760 --> 00:14:38,440 Speaker 1: toys that I really think they're tiny, little walnut sized 260 00:14:38,520 --> 00:14:45,160 Speaker 1: brains broke that that apparently they're supposed to go on 261 00:14:45,240 --> 00:14:50,760 Speaker 1: these these cultural rampages and we're not supposed to notice. Ye, 262 00:14:51,240 --> 00:14:54,680 Speaker 1: and not only that, we're all supposed to quietly shut 263 00:14:54,760 --> 00:14:57,720 Speaker 1: up and take our kids. Well, you know what, there 264 00:14:57,720 --> 00:15:00,040 Speaker 1: were very few kids movies at the box office this 265 00:15:00,320 --> 00:15:02,600 Speaker 1: past weekend. It was Father's Day. You want to talk 266 00:15:02,640 --> 00:15:04,880 Speaker 1: about a good time to take your kids to the movies. 267 00:15:05,600 --> 00:15:07,640 Speaker 1: And I think there were a whole bunch of Americans 268 00:15:07,640 --> 00:15:10,200 Speaker 1: that said, you know what, I can think of something 269 00:15:10,320 --> 00:15:13,600 Speaker 1: better to do than listen to Hollywood lecture my six 270 00:15:13,720 --> 00:15:17,560 Speaker 1: year old on their views of sexuality. How about just 271 00:15:17,640 --> 00:15:21,200 Speaker 1: to have a fun like the Toy Story films are awesome. Yeah, 272 00:15:21,600 --> 00:15:26,920 Speaker 1: but it speaks volumes that while light Year was getting 273 00:15:26,920 --> 00:15:32,320 Speaker 1: his ass kicked, the kicker was Tom Cruise and Maverick 274 00:15:32,360 --> 00:15:37,400 Speaker 1: in Top Gune, a straight up patriotic conservative. We love 275 00:15:37,440 --> 00:15:43,040 Speaker 1: Americans beat the bad guys like the contrast is night 276 00:15:43,080 --> 00:15:48,400 Speaker 1: and day, and Hollywood is so knuckleheaded that they seem 277 00:15:48,480 --> 00:15:51,000 Speaker 1: unable to get the message. Maybe they will, because look, 278 00:15:51,080 --> 00:15:55,120 Speaker 1: there's tens, if not hundreds of millions of dollars delta 279 00:15:55,240 --> 00:15:59,400 Speaker 1: between those two. Maverick's been out for several weeks and 280 00:15:59,480 --> 00:16:03,760 Speaker 1: it's still obliterated light Year. Somebody depositing the checks ought 281 00:16:03,760 --> 00:16:06,720 Speaker 1: to notice that they certainly should. That this is what 282 00:16:07,240 --> 00:16:11,080 Speaker 1: the left does to so many institutions. Is as you say, 283 00:16:11,120 --> 00:16:12,680 Speaker 1: Toy Story is a great movie. It's a great friend. 284 00:16:12,720 --> 00:16:15,360 Speaker 1: I love Toy Story one. I liked Toy Story two. 285 00:16:15,360 --> 00:16:17,640 Speaker 1: I don't really remember Toy Story three or if there 286 00:16:17,720 --> 00:16:19,880 Speaker 1: was a four, but they were good movies. And by 287 00:16:19,880 --> 00:16:22,600 Speaker 1: the way, Tim Allen was fantastic. Tim Allen was fantastic. 288 00:16:22,680 --> 00:16:24,800 Speaker 1: Then they yanked him out of this movie. And so 289 00:16:24,880 --> 00:16:26,480 Speaker 1: people look at it and they say, well, we like 290 00:16:26,640 --> 00:16:29,960 Speaker 1: these movies. And then the radicals go in and they say, oh, look, 291 00:16:29,960 --> 00:16:33,720 Speaker 1: we've got these really popular movies and institutions. Let's go 292 00:16:33,840 --> 00:16:37,080 Speaker 1: in and in a really heavy handed way, in a 293 00:16:37,200 --> 00:16:42,000 Speaker 1: very didactic and obvious way, let's go in and use 294 00:16:42,040 --> 00:16:45,280 Speaker 1: the things that people love to push our radical political agenda, 295 00:16:45,440 --> 00:16:50,520 Speaker 1: which is completely superfluous and irrelevant to the story. And 296 00:16:50,640 --> 00:16:55,280 Speaker 1: I'm really pleased to see that the American parents and 297 00:16:55,560 --> 00:16:59,040 Speaker 1: moviegoers said, oh, no, thank you. Yeah, we like toy story. 298 00:16:59,280 --> 00:17:01,360 Speaker 1: We don't like you using the things that we love 299 00:17:01,520 --> 00:17:04,920 Speaker 1: to push your radical agendas. So no thanks. And let 300 00:17:04,920 --> 00:17:07,719 Speaker 1: me make a point also, Michael, this is also not 301 00:17:07,800 --> 00:17:10,280 Speaker 1: about so the left like saying things like the Florida 302 00:17:10,320 --> 00:17:12,720 Speaker 1: law was don't say gay. You're right, it's actually not 303 00:17:12,800 --> 00:17:17,200 Speaker 1: about that. And I'll give an example on the counter. So, 304 00:17:18,400 --> 00:17:21,879 Speaker 1: Hollywood usually is so willing to chase the dollar that 305 00:17:21,920 --> 00:17:24,800 Speaker 1: they're craven when it comes to China, and they're willing 306 00:17:24,880 --> 00:17:28,040 Speaker 1: to censor movies because China wants them too. And one 307 00:17:28,080 --> 00:17:32,359 Speaker 1: great example of that is Bohemian Rhapsody. Bohemian Rhapsody, I 308 00:17:32,359 --> 00:17:35,040 Speaker 1: think was a fantastic movie. I really enjoyed that. It 309 00:17:35,119 --> 00:17:39,240 Speaker 1: was very well done. China insisted that they edit Bohemian 310 00:17:39,320 --> 00:17:43,280 Speaker 1: Rhapsody to cut out the scene showing Freddie Mercury was gay, which, 311 00:17:43,320 --> 00:17:45,399 Speaker 1: by the way, is insane. How do you tell Freddie 312 00:17:45,400 --> 00:17:47,480 Speaker 1: Mercury's life story and leave out that he's gay. It 313 00:17:47,520 --> 00:17:51,040 Speaker 1: was a big damn part of his life. And Bohemian 314 00:17:51,119 --> 00:17:55,720 Speaker 1: Rhapsody is not being marketed to six year olds. It 315 00:17:55,880 --> 00:17:58,880 Speaker 1: Bohemian Rhapsody was an R rated movie. It was four adults. 316 00:17:58,880 --> 00:18:03,119 Speaker 1: It was the story of an credible artists that was 317 00:18:03,440 --> 00:18:06,760 Speaker 1: entirely appropriate. You know, Rocketman about Elton John. You wouldn't 318 00:18:06,760 --> 00:18:09,320 Speaker 1: tell Elton John's life story and leave out that he's gay. 319 00:18:09,320 --> 00:18:12,280 Speaker 1: It's it's it's an integral part of who he is. 320 00:18:12,840 --> 00:18:17,159 Speaker 1: What made the light Year Antics so dismaying. It was 321 00:18:17,440 --> 00:18:21,720 Speaker 1: entirely gratuitous. It was meant it was targeted at kids, 322 00:18:22,320 --> 00:18:24,960 Speaker 1: and it was meant to say, this is what we 323 00:18:25,040 --> 00:18:28,520 Speaker 1: want to convey to you, little children. And I think 324 00:18:28,560 --> 00:18:30,880 Speaker 1: a lot of the parents are saying, leave our kids alone, 325 00:18:31,600 --> 00:18:35,520 Speaker 1: and and and let us discuss sex and sexuality with 326 00:18:35,560 --> 00:18:39,080 Speaker 1: our kids at a time and age that is appropriate, 327 00:18:39,840 --> 00:18:41,919 Speaker 1: not what you If we can't even take him to 328 00:18:42,000 --> 00:18:46,520 Speaker 1: Disney movies, what can we take him to? Right? Stop 329 00:18:47,160 --> 00:18:50,200 Speaker 1: stop forcing this. I love that point it was. It 330 00:18:50,280 --> 00:18:55,480 Speaker 1: was so gratuitous, superfluous, irrelevant to the plot of Toy Story, 331 00:18:55,560 --> 00:18:58,320 Speaker 1: was so heavy handed and on the nose. And I 332 00:18:58,440 --> 00:19:01,639 Speaker 1: like that that the the gamble from the left didn't 333 00:19:01,640 --> 00:19:06,840 Speaker 1: pay off, that the moviegoers are not so infatuated with 334 00:19:06,920 --> 00:19:09,479 Speaker 1: Toy Story that they were willing to go to the 335 00:19:09,480 --> 00:19:14,200 Speaker 1: movies and just allow the left to go in and 336 00:19:14,480 --> 00:19:18,400 Speaker 1: hollow out their stories to push their own radical agenda. 337 00:19:18,440 --> 00:19:20,000 Speaker 1: So there was a big one at the box office. 338 00:19:20,080 --> 00:19:23,280 Speaker 1: There was also apparently a big win for conservatives at 339 00:19:23,280 --> 00:19:27,080 Speaker 1: the Supreme Court. This isn't the case that Carson versus Making. 340 00:19:27,200 --> 00:19:32,160 Speaker 1: This is a case up in Maine on religious liberty. 341 00:19:32,280 --> 00:19:35,120 Speaker 1: That would seem to be what's the case about. So 342 00:19:35,160 --> 00:19:38,439 Speaker 1: it's a terrific, terrific victory for religious liberty. So the 343 00:19:38,520 --> 00:19:41,440 Speaker 1: state of Maine has a tuition assistance program, and then 344 00:19:41,440 --> 00:19:44,280 Speaker 1: there's some parts of Maine that are very rural where 345 00:19:44,320 --> 00:19:48,000 Speaker 1: they don't actually have public schools up and running, and 346 00:19:48,119 --> 00:19:51,400 Speaker 1: so the state provides tutition assistance for you to send 347 00:19:51,440 --> 00:19:53,680 Speaker 1: your kids to whatever schools are there, to whatever private 348 00:19:53,720 --> 00:19:57,160 Speaker 1: schools are there, particularly in smaller communities where you don't 349 00:19:57,200 --> 00:20:00,760 Speaker 1: have the resources of a big public school. But Maine 350 00:20:00,880 --> 00:20:04,040 Speaker 1: excluded religious schools. Said you can send your kids somewhere, 351 00:20:04,640 --> 00:20:06,760 Speaker 1: but if it's a religious school, or as they called it, 352 00:20:06,800 --> 00:20:10,000 Speaker 1: a sectarian school, which means they actually believe in faith, 353 00:20:10,240 --> 00:20:13,960 Speaker 1: believe in God, and teach something about God, then you're 354 00:20:14,000 --> 00:20:17,200 Speaker 1: not eligible. And so the plaintiffs in this case challenge 355 00:20:17,280 --> 00:20:20,520 Speaker 1: that and said, look, you're discriminating against my free exercise 356 00:20:20,920 --> 00:20:23,639 Speaker 1: of religion. And I want to choose to send my 357 00:20:23,760 --> 00:20:27,840 Speaker 1: kid to a religious school, and you're discriminating against faith 358 00:20:27,880 --> 00:20:30,640 Speaker 1: and religion. And the Supreme Court six three So Chief 359 00:20:30,680 --> 00:20:33,840 Speaker 1: Justice Roberts wrote the opinion and concluded that it violated 360 00:20:33,840 --> 00:20:38,280 Speaker 1: the Constitution to discriminate against religious schools when otherwise they 361 00:20:38,280 --> 00:20:41,880 Speaker 1: would qualify, they met all the other criteria. If they 362 00:20:41,960 --> 00:20:46,360 Speaker 1: just stopped as pesky references to God, they would get 363 00:20:46,359 --> 00:20:49,240 Speaker 1: the state money. But if they insist you say God, Nope, 364 00:20:49,240 --> 00:20:52,879 Speaker 1: no money. And the Supreme Court said, sorry, you can't. 365 00:20:53,520 --> 00:20:57,200 Speaker 1: If it's an equally applicable program that everyone else can get, 366 00:20:57,280 --> 00:21:00,240 Speaker 1: you can't discriminate against people of faith and school rules 367 00:21:00,280 --> 00:21:04,560 Speaker 1: of faith just because they're exercising their First Amendment rights 368 00:21:04,560 --> 00:21:06,359 Speaker 1: and their religious liberty rights. I think it is a 369 00:21:06,600 --> 00:21:10,480 Speaker 1: great victory for religious liberty for everyone. But it's also 370 00:21:10,520 --> 00:21:13,600 Speaker 1: a great victory for school choice, and both of those 371 00:21:14,160 --> 00:21:17,360 Speaker 1: I think are incredibly important. Now, what are conservatives supposed 372 00:21:17,359 --> 00:21:20,679 Speaker 1: to say when they hear the liberal justices on the 373 00:21:20,680 --> 00:21:25,040 Speaker 1: Court and a lot of people in the liberal media 374 00:21:25,359 --> 00:21:30,560 Speaker 1: complaining that this is an outrageous attack on the American 375 00:21:30,640 --> 00:21:34,719 Speaker 1: tradition of the separation between church and state. Well, there 376 00:21:34,720 --> 00:21:36,640 Speaker 1: are a lot of things they should say. First of all, 377 00:21:36,680 --> 00:21:40,280 Speaker 1: the words separation of church and state are found nowhere 378 00:21:40,280 --> 00:21:43,040 Speaker 1: in the Constitution. They're not in the Constitution, they're not 379 00:21:43,080 --> 00:21:44,760 Speaker 1: in the Bill of Rights, they're not in the Declaration 380 00:21:44,800 --> 00:21:48,840 Speaker 1: of Independence. That's not there. The phrase a wall of 381 00:21:48,880 --> 00:21:52,840 Speaker 1: separation between church and state comes from a letter that 382 00:21:52,880 --> 00:21:56,880 Speaker 1: Thomas Jefferson wrote to the Danbury Baptist So it's a 383 00:21:56,960 --> 00:22:01,040 Speaker 1: private correspondence is where that phrase is taken from. But 384 00:22:01,080 --> 00:22:05,480 Speaker 1: it's not actually the law. And what is the law 385 00:22:05,560 --> 00:22:08,280 Speaker 1: is the First Amendment. And the First Amendment has two 386 00:22:09,200 --> 00:22:13,560 Speaker 1: religious liberty clauses. It has the establishment clause that prevents 387 00:22:13,640 --> 00:22:17,600 Speaker 1: Congress from establishing a religion, and it has the free 388 00:22:17,600 --> 00:22:21,680 Speaker 1: exercise clause that prevents Congress and prevents government from restricting 389 00:22:22,119 --> 00:22:25,840 Speaker 1: the free exercise of religion. And there are two different 390 00:22:25,840 --> 00:22:31,240 Speaker 1: interpretations of what the establishment clause mean. Liberals interpret it 391 00:22:31,359 --> 00:22:35,880 Speaker 1: as saying that essentially government must be hostile to religion, 392 00:22:35,920 --> 00:22:38,720 Speaker 1: that government must treat religion as something bad. That's where 393 00:22:38,760 --> 00:22:41,119 Speaker 1: you get the phrase wall of separation of church and 394 00:22:41,200 --> 00:22:46,240 Speaker 1: state is church bad. I think that's a complete misreading 395 00:22:46,240 --> 00:22:49,879 Speaker 1: of what the establishment clause is about. The establishment clause 396 00:22:50,840 --> 00:22:55,760 Speaker 1: was about preventing government from controlling churches, preventing government from 397 00:22:55,840 --> 00:22:59,439 Speaker 1: controlling faith. Both the establishment Clause and free exercise clause 398 00:23:00,040 --> 00:23:02,640 Speaker 1: work hand in hand. Well, this actually leads into one 399 00:23:02,640 --> 00:23:04,920 Speaker 1: of the mail bag questions that we got. We've been 400 00:23:05,000 --> 00:23:07,520 Speaker 1: extremely derelict on taking mail bag questions, so I do 401 00:23:07,560 --> 00:23:09,800 Speaker 1: want to get through a few of them before we go. 402 00:23:10,040 --> 00:23:12,800 Speaker 1: And this was on this case and on the question 403 00:23:12,800 --> 00:23:17,080 Speaker 1: of religious liberty. This is from Zachary who says, if 404 00:23:17,119 --> 00:23:21,680 Speaker 1: the Satanic Temple starts private schools that your tax dollars 405 00:23:21,680 --> 00:23:27,000 Speaker 1: will pay for, will you? Conservatives regret the Supreme Court decision, 406 00:23:27,440 --> 00:23:30,280 Speaker 1: so we're happy about it now. I think this is 407 00:23:30,280 --> 00:23:33,359 Speaker 1: a great ruling. And obviously I don't think that the 408 00:23:33,440 --> 00:23:36,280 Speaker 1: Christian school should be discriminated against, and I'm very in 409 00:23:36,280 --> 00:23:41,000 Speaker 1: favor of school choice. But what happens if the Satanic Temple, 410 00:23:41,280 --> 00:23:44,560 Speaker 1: which is as it's a little different than the outright 411 00:23:45,080 --> 00:23:48,760 Speaker 1: the Satanists down on their knees, they're kind of ironic Satanists. 412 00:23:49,240 --> 00:23:53,000 Speaker 1: And we could debate further whether one can be an 413 00:23:53,000 --> 00:23:56,520 Speaker 1: ironic Satanist or if you end up kind of being 414 00:23:56,520 --> 00:23:58,600 Speaker 1: a sincere one either way. But what if they started 415 00:23:58,640 --> 00:24:01,080 Speaker 1: school and they say, Okay, we've got the Satan's school, 416 00:24:01,119 --> 00:24:03,880 Speaker 1: and your tax dollars are going to go for that is? One, 417 00:24:04,119 --> 00:24:07,000 Speaker 1: would that follow from the support case? And two should 418 00:24:07,000 --> 00:24:11,080 Speaker 1: we support it? So yes, it would follow, and should 419 00:24:11,080 --> 00:24:13,240 Speaker 1: we support it? Well, let me answer it by making 420 00:24:13,240 --> 00:24:19,719 Speaker 1: an observation. I don't maintain today that federal student loans, 421 00:24:19,800 --> 00:24:25,359 Speaker 1: federal pell grants should be disallowed from going to Yale University. 422 00:24:25,440 --> 00:24:27,359 Speaker 1: So why should I say they shouldn't go to the 423 00:24:27,359 --> 00:24:30,960 Speaker 1: Satanic temple they're teaching? Is much garbage at Yale, right, 424 00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:33,639 Speaker 1: and for that matter, of my alma maters, Princeton at Harvard. 425 00:24:33,680 --> 00:24:36,560 Speaker 1: So I don't don't particularly mean to single out Yale. 426 00:24:36,720 --> 00:24:39,600 Speaker 1: It's a really good point on I'm sorry to say, 427 00:24:39,600 --> 00:24:43,879 Speaker 1: on my alma mater, and yours too, and probably most 428 00:24:43,920 --> 00:24:46,399 Speaker 1: schools at this point in the country. Is if you 429 00:24:46,480 --> 00:24:51,840 Speaker 1: had a school that was teaching the tenets of Satanism 430 00:24:51,880 --> 00:24:54,720 Speaker 1: and then you had any old run of the mill 431 00:24:54,880 --> 00:24:59,639 Speaker 1: public or otherwise nambr nambrand school, what would the difference be. 432 00:25:00,040 --> 00:25:02,320 Speaker 1: I'm not sure that if it were a blind test, 433 00:25:02,400 --> 00:25:04,520 Speaker 1: I'm not sure you could identify them. So Michael, let 434 00:25:04,560 --> 00:25:07,040 Speaker 1: me give you an example. A tenured professor at Princeton 435 00:25:07,119 --> 00:25:09,200 Speaker 1: is a guy named Peter Singer. Peter Singer is a 436 00:25:09,320 --> 00:25:12,240 Speaker 1: very left wing ethicist who, among other things, has argued 437 00:25:12,320 --> 00:25:14,440 Speaker 1: not only is easy in favor of abortion on demand, 438 00:25:14,440 --> 00:25:16,840 Speaker 1: which a lot of people in the left are, he's 439 00:25:16,960 --> 00:25:20,639 Speaker 1: argued in favor of infanticide up until age six. Right, 440 00:25:20,920 --> 00:25:23,880 Speaker 1: it's a fair bet that Professor Singer could could make 441 00:25:23,920 --> 00:25:26,760 Speaker 1: some of the some of the more moderate Satanists blush. 442 00:25:27,440 --> 00:25:29,439 Speaker 1: That's a very important point. And there's a phrase you 443 00:25:29,560 --> 00:25:34,640 Speaker 1: rarely hear more moderate Satanists. So this question. I got 444 00:25:34,680 --> 00:25:38,560 Speaker 1: a lot of questions this week with lots of salty language, 445 00:25:38,560 --> 00:25:39,840 Speaker 1: but this is a family show, so I'm going to 446 00:25:39,880 --> 00:25:41,159 Speaker 1: clean it up a little bit. This was one of 447 00:25:41,200 --> 00:25:43,520 Speaker 1: the more eloquently written ones, gets back to what we 448 00:25:43,520 --> 00:25:46,679 Speaker 1: were talking about at the top of the show. This 449 00:25:46,760 --> 00:25:52,359 Speaker 1: is from Josh. Why are there so many worthless Rhino Republicans? Currently? 450 00:25:52,600 --> 00:25:56,000 Speaker 1: And it's not obviously this guy and other people are 451 00:25:56,040 --> 00:26:02,720 Speaker 1: complaining about this, but it is a real tactical Republican question, 452 00:26:02,800 --> 00:26:06,440 Speaker 1: which is why are there so many Rhinos? Why are 453 00:26:06,440 --> 00:26:08,479 Speaker 1: there so many people when it seems that there is 454 00:26:08,720 --> 00:26:12,360 Speaker 1: so much wind at the backs of the Conservatives because 455 00:26:12,480 --> 00:26:14,880 Speaker 1: we don't do a good enough job in primaries on 456 00:26:15,160 --> 00:26:19,800 Speaker 1: insisting on and finding strong conservatives with proven records. Listen, 457 00:26:19,840 --> 00:26:22,520 Speaker 1: I'm on the road NonStop between now and election day. 458 00:26:22,560 --> 00:26:25,399 Speaker 1: I'll probably be on the road thirty forty days between 459 00:26:25,440 --> 00:26:29,959 Speaker 1: now in the November election, campaigning for candidates for the Senate, 460 00:26:29,960 --> 00:26:32,240 Speaker 1: campaigning for candidates for the House. Look, I'll give you 461 00:26:32,280 --> 00:26:40,000 Speaker 1: an example. So we had primary elections tonight, in multiple races. Yesterday, 462 00:26:40,040 --> 00:26:44,600 Speaker 1: I campaigned for a candidate in Northern Virginia, Yes Lee Vega. Yes, 463 00:26:44,680 --> 00:26:47,840 Speaker 1: Lee Vega is, and she won tonight. So I did 464 00:26:47,840 --> 00:26:51,480 Speaker 1: two rallies for yesterday. She won tonight. So Yes, Le Vegas, 465 00:26:51,520 --> 00:26:54,480 Speaker 1: I think a fantastic candidate. She's running in a Democrat district. 466 00:26:54,640 --> 00:27:00,160 Speaker 1: You have Abigail Spanberg, who's the incumbent. Yes. Lee is 467 00:27:00,200 --> 00:27:06,800 Speaker 1: the daughter of immigrants from El Salvador. Her brother was 468 00:27:06,920 --> 00:27:10,240 Speaker 1: nearly killed by MS thirteen. He was badly wounded by 469 00:27:10,320 --> 00:27:14,560 Speaker 1: MS thirteen. She knows firsthand the perils of illegal immigration. 470 00:27:16,440 --> 00:27:18,640 Speaker 1: She's a cop. In fact, she's a three time cop. 471 00:27:18,720 --> 00:27:20,920 Speaker 1: She's been a member of two police forces, and she's 472 00:27:20,960 --> 00:27:25,199 Speaker 1: now a deputy sheriff. She is the wife of an 473 00:27:25,280 --> 00:27:29,719 Speaker 1: army soldier. She is the daughter of a pastor. Her 474 00:27:30,320 --> 00:27:34,359 Speaker 1: dad is a pastor right now in Maryland. She is 475 00:27:34,359 --> 00:27:37,000 Speaker 1: the mom of two teenage kids. And she is a 476 00:27:37,080 --> 00:27:40,280 Speaker 1: fantastic candidate. Now, when she jumped in this race, no 477 00:27:40,280 --> 00:27:42,199 Speaker 1: one thought she had a prayer. All the money was 478 00:27:42,240 --> 00:27:45,560 Speaker 1: on the other side. I sat down, I met with her. 479 00:27:45,600 --> 00:27:50,199 Speaker 1: I said, you're a star. Endorsed her, campaigned for she 480 00:27:50,320 --> 00:27:55,840 Speaker 1: was trailing yesterday. She just won today. That's encouraging. We 481 00:27:55,960 --> 00:28:01,760 Speaker 1: don't do that enough. And there's a structural problem. Listen, 482 00:28:02,040 --> 00:28:07,000 Speaker 1: Republican leadership in both the Senate and House, they want members. 483 00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:10,800 Speaker 1: Their number one criterion is a member who will be obedient, 484 00:28:10,840 --> 00:28:14,600 Speaker 1: who will just do what leadership says. And the dirty 485 00:28:14,600 --> 00:28:17,920 Speaker 1: little secret is if you have someone who's going to 486 00:28:18,040 --> 00:28:21,000 Speaker 1: rock the boat, who's going to be a rebel, leadership 487 00:28:21,040 --> 00:28:25,280 Speaker 1: would rather a Democrat get elected than a pain in 488 00:28:25,359 --> 00:28:30,919 Speaker 1: the neck conservative who will buck leadership. If you're a 489 00:28:31,320 --> 00:28:34,679 Speaker 1: middle of the road, squishy mod they'll flood you with 490 00:28:34,800 --> 00:28:37,560 Speaker 1: cash because you'll be obedient, you'll do what leadership wants. 491 00:28:38,040 --> 00:28:41,920 Speaker 1: If you're a pain in the neck conservative, they'll do 492 00:28:41,960 --> 00:28:46,320 Speaker 1: everything they can to kill you. And so listen, if 493 00:28:46,360 --> 00:28:49,120 Speaker 1: you want stronger conservatives, then you've got to get involved 494 00:28:49,120 --> 00:28:52,120 Speaker 1: in the primary process and get behind people who will 495 00:28:52,160 --> 00:28:55,800 Speaker 1: follow through on what they say. Not only are you 496 00:28:56,200 --> 00:28:58,560 Speaker 1: hanging around trying to gum things up on Capitol Hill 497 00:28:58,600 --> 00:29:01,600 Speaker 1: while the squishes are to give away our Second Amendment rights. 498 00:29:01,760 --> 00:29:05,000 Speaker 1: Not only are you going around the country raising lots 499 00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:07,720 Speaker 1: of money for the good conservative candidates, but not only 500 00:29:07,720 --> 00:29:10,040 Speaker 1: are you doing this show, coming straight and doing this. 501 00:29:10,280 --> 00:29:13,560 Speaker 1: But Senator, we can't let you go because you are 502 00:29:13,600 --> 00:29:17,480 Speaker 1: sticking around for the verdict plus community to discuss even 503 00:29:17,520 --> 00:29:19,760 Speaker 1: more on the cloak room with Liz Wheel or Liz 504 00:29:19,880 --> 00:29:22,240 Speaker 1: what are you going to talk about him? Michael High, Senator, 505 00:29:22,560 --> 00:29:24,920 Speaker 1: we are going to get into some really nitty gritty 506 00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:27,960 Speaker 1: legal stuff. So we're all waiting with bated breath for 507 00:29:28,440 --> 00:29:31,080 Speaker 1: the dab's decision. Right, is roeb Wade going to be overturned? 508 00:29:31,160 --> 00:29:34,480 Speaker 1: Did Chief Justice John Roberts convince somebody else to join 509 00:29:34,600 --> 00:29:37,280 Speaker 1: him in not overturning roev Wade. We're waiting for this. 510 00:29:37,320 --> 00:29:38,880 Speaker 1: It seems like it's going to be at the last minute. 511 00:29:38,960 --> 00:29:43,200 Speaker 1: But the Democrats meanwhile are preparing their arsenal of what 512 00:29:43,280 --> 00:29:45,800 Speaker 1: they're going to do in response to Roe v. Wade 513 00:29:45,840 --> 00:29:48,400 Speaker 1: being overturned, what tactics they're going to use, and so 514 00:29:48,400 --> 00:29:50,760 Speaker 1: we're going to dive into some of the legalities of 515 00:29:50,800 --> 00:29:53,200 Speaker 1: some of their ideas because a couple of their suggestions, 516 00:29:53,200 --> 00:29:55,560 Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure are against the law. So if you'd 517 00:29:55,560 --> 00:29:57,240 Speaker 1: like to join us for this conversation, it's going to 518 00:29:57,280 --> 00:29:59,960 Speaker 1: be great. Head on over to Verdict Plus. It's Verdict 519 00:30:00,160 --> 00:30:03,320 Speaker 1: with Tedcruise dot com slash Plus. If you use my 520 00:30:03,360 --> 00:30:05,800 Speaker 1: promo code Cloakroom, then you can watch for free for 521 00:30:05,880 --> 00:30:09,040 Speaker 1: one month on your annual subscription. It's Verdict with tedcrewis 522 00:30:09,200 --> 00:30:12,480 Speaker 1: dot com slash Plus and the promo code is Cloakroom. 523 00:30:12,480 --> 00:30:14,040 Speaker 1: It's really going to be a great discussion. I'm very 524 00:30:14,040 --> 00:30:16,560 Speaker 1: excited about it. And Michael, let me jump in for 525 00:30:16,600 --> 00:30:21,080 Speaker 1: a second and take people behind the behind the curtain 526 00:30:21,240 --> 00:30:23,280 Speaker 1: and get in a little bit of the sausage making 527 00:30:23,320 --> 00:30:26,920 Speaker 1: of how we do Cloakroom. So before we do the podcast, 528 00:30:26,960 --> 00:30:30,000 Speaker 1: every week, Michael, you and I get on a conversation 529 00:30:30,080 --> 00:30:32,160 Speaker 1: with our producer and we talk about what topics we 530 00:30:32,200 --> 00:30:35,680 Speaker 1: want to have and sort of roughly lay out Okay, tonight, 531 00:30:35,720 --> 00:30:38,239 Speaker 1: we're going to talk about the gun stuff, and we're 532 00:30:38,280 --> 00:30:39,760 Speaker 1: going to talk about light Year, and we're going to 533 00:30:39,800 --> 00:30:41,760 Speaker 1: talk about the Spring Court case. This just happens on 534 00:30:41,800 --> 00:30:45,120 Speaker 1: Capitol Hill. On this we gotta hit this right. So 535 00:30:45,160 --> 00:30:47,600 Speaker 1: we do a prep call and it's a loose prep call. 536 00:30:47,640 --> 00:30:49,640 Speaker 1: We kind of just roughly have topics and then then 537 00:30:49,640 --> 00:30:53,760 Speaker 1: get into it. But it's interesting Cloakroom the way we've done, 538 00:30:53,760 --> 00:30:57,840 Speaker 1: and it just sort of arisen organically every episode when 539 00:30:57,840 --> 00:31:00,040 Speaker 1: you turn to Liz and say, Liz, what are we 540 00:31:00,120 --> 00:31:01,920 Speaker 1: get a discussed on cloak Room? If you cut to 541 00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:05,600 Speaker 1: me and asked me, I have utterly no idea. So 542 00:31:05,640 --> 00:31:09,200 Speaker 1: when Liz comes on, she's coming up with these topics 543 00:31:09,240 --> 00:31:13,720 Speaker 1: and she sort of has a mandate of fine, interesting, esoteric, 544 00:31:13,920 --> 00:31:16,720 Speaker 1: deep dive legal topics. And I gotta say she's phenomenal 545 00:31:16,720 --> 00:31:18,680 Speaker 1: at coming up. She's come up with some really good topics. 546 00:31:19,240 --> 00:31:22,120 Speaker 1: But I'm sitting here every week, I don't know, let's 547 00:31:22,200 --> 00:31:26,120 Speaker 1: hear And sometimes if it's really esoteric, Liz and I 548 00:31:26,120 --> 00:31:29,040 Speaker 1: will have a brief like she'll forward me some if 549 00:31:29,040 --> 00:31:31,160 Speaker 1: she wants to talk about a particular case that I 550 00:31:31,160 --> 00:31:33,000 Speaker 1: haven't read recently, she'll forward it to me and I'll 551 00:31:33,040 --> 00:31:36,640 Speaker 1: reread it quickly. But it is an interesting process because 552 00:31:36,640 --> 00:31:39,800 Speaker 1: we've had some really good deep dives on cloak Room 553 00:31:40,400 --> 00:31:45,480 Speaker 1: of ideas that Liz has that she springs on me 554 00:31:45,520 --> 00:31:48,800 Speaker 1: out of nowhere and we jump into him. This week 555 00:31:48,800 --> 00:31:51,080 Speaker 1: on cloak Room will be discussing the airspeed velocity of 556 00:31:51,120 --> 00:31:54,880 Speaker 1: an unladen swallow. Well, I can't wait. I can't wait 557 00:31:54,920 --> 00:31:57,840 Speaker 1: to hear the topic and so I don't have to 558 00:31:57,880 --> 00:32:00,000 Speaker 1: do any preparation at all. It's you're in the hot seat, 559 00:32:00,080 --> 00:32:02,760 Speaker 1: Senator Liz. You've got all the prep. We will see 560 00:32:02,760 --> 00:32:13,600 Speaker 1: you next time. This is Verdict with Ted Cruz. This 561 00:32:13,640 --> 00:32:16,480 Speaker 1: episode of Verdict with Ted Cruz is being brought to 562 00:32:16,520 --> 00:32:19,959 Speaker 1: you by Jobs, Freedom and Security Pack, a political action 563 00:32:20,000 --> 00:32:25,000 Speaker 1: committee dedicated to supporting conservative causes, organizations, and candidates across 564 00:32:25,080 --> 00:32:28,440 Speaker 1: the country. 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