1 00:00:00,280 --> 00:00:02,360 Speaker 1: Center. Nice to be with you here today. You just 2 00:00:02,440 --> 00:00:05,200 Speaker 1: got back in from Washington, d C. And there is 3 00:00:05,240 --> 00:00:08,360 Speaker 1: some serious news that's broken this week that I think 4 00:00:08,400 --> 00:00:10,840 Speaker 1: a lot of people don't realize it's happening, and that 5 00:00:11,000 --> 00:00:14,800 Speaker 1: is the disastrous policies of the Biden administration are really 6 00:00:14,840 --> 00:00:17,079 Speaker 1: coming back to haness and it's now dealing with the 7 00:00:17,200 --> 00:00:21,280 Speaker 1: national security issue. It's not just the policies with Ukraine 8 00:00:21,280 --> 00:00:24,680 Speaker 1: and Russia, it's also now dealing with Iran. And there 9 00:00:24,720 --> 00:00:27,319 Speaker 1: were some questions that you asked, and I want to 10 00:00:27,320 --> 00:00:29,480 Speaker 1: play this for people because I think it's so important. 11 00:00:29,800 --> 00:00:33,519 Speaker 1: You were talking about the massive disaster that was, in 12 00:00:33,560 --> 00:00:37,520 Speaker 1: fact the nord Stream pipeline and not having sanctions early enough. 13 00:00:37,880 --> 00:00:41,360 Speaker 1: For everybody that's listening, and if you're watching this, this 14 00:00:41,479 --> 00:00:43,200 Speaker 1: was a moment that I think it's going to come 15 00:00:43,240 --> 00:00:45,560 Speaker 1: back to haunt this administration for a long time. Let's 16 00:00:45,560 --> 00:00:49,519 Speaker 1: take a look. Thank you, missus, Chairman, welcome teach of 17 00:00:49,520 --> 00:00:55,520 Speaker 1: the witnesses, Miss Newland. As you know, in January of 18 00:00:55,640 --> 00:00:59,640 Speaker 1: last year, the Senate voted on my legislation to impost 19 00:00:59,640 --> 00:01:03,040 Speaker 1: sanction on the Nordstream two pipeline, and it did so 20 00:01:03,920 --> 00:01:08,399 Speaker 1: before Russia had invaded Ukraine. When the Senate voted on 21 00:01:08,440 --> 00:01:13,800 Speaker 1: those sanctions, President Zelenski publicly urged, even begged, the United 22 00:01:13,800 --> 00:01:18,120 Speaker 1: States Senate to pass those sanctions, and President Zelensky said 23 00:01:18,880 --> 00:01:24,399 Speaker 1: passing those sanctions then were the last chance to prevent 24 00:01:24,560 --> 00:01:29,920 Speaker 1: Russia from invading Ukraine, the last chance to prevent Russian 25 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:41,920 Speaker 1: tanks rolling into Ukraine. Was President Zolenski wrong, Senator Cruz, 26 00:01:42,920 --> 00:01:46,520 Speaker 1: like you, I am, and I think the administration is 27 00:01:46,640 --> 00:01:49,360 Speaker 1: very gratified to know that Nordstream two is now, as 28 00:01:49,400 --> 00:01:51,120 Speaker 1: you like to say, a hunk of metal at the 29 00:01:51,160 --> 00:01:55,400 Speaker 1: bottom of the sea. I personally, having been involved, along 30 00:01:55,440 --> 00:01:58,680 Speaker 1: with my boss, Secretary Lincoln, in all of those negotiations 31 00:01:58,680 --> 00:02:02,960 Speaker 1: with Russia to to prevent this war in December, do 32 00:02:03,120 --> 00:02:07,200 Speaker 1: not believe that had that Nordstream two been cut off 33 00:02:07,240 --> 00:02:10,399 Speaker 1: in January, that would have been decisive for Putin. It 34 00:02:10,480 --> 00:02:13,160 Speaker 1: was important that the day the war began the Germans 35 00:02:13,160 --> 00:02:15,400 Speaker 1: cut the pipeline, as did the rest of the Europeans. 36 00:02:15,680 --> 00:02:18,360 Speaker 1: But he was bound and determined to go into Ukraine 37 00:02:18,400 --> 00:02:21,040 Speaker 1: as yourself, So you believe Zelenski was wrong when he 38 00:02:21,080 --> 00:02:26,079 Speaker 1: said stopping Nordstream two was the last and best way 39 00:02:26,120 --> 00:02:28,000 Speaker 1: to stop this war. I don't think it would have 40 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:31,000 Speaker 1: stopped Putin. And you know, and when the government when 41 00:02:31,040 --> 00:02:35,359 Speaker 1: the government of Poland similarly said begged the United States 42 00:02:35,400 --> 00:02:38,080 Speaker 1: Senate to pass those sanctions and said this is the 43 00:02:38,160 --> 00:02:41,880 Speaker 1: last and best opportunity to stop Russia from invading Ukraine. 44 00:02:41,919 --> 00:02:44,519 Speaker 1: You believe Poland was wrong too. I do not believe 45 00:02:44,600 --> 00:02:47,400 Speaker 1: we would have prevented this war had the Europeans acted 46 00:02:47,440 --> 00:02:51,960 Speaker 1: faster on Nordstream two. I wish it were the case. Wow, Senator, 47 00:02:52,480 --> 00:02:56,040 Speaker 1: go back through this timeline, because this is now the 48 00:02:56,120 --> 00:03:00,520 Speaker 1: chickens coming home to Ruce for everybody that got it wrong. Well, 49 00:03:01,200 --> 00:03:05,639 Speaker 1: Joe Biden caused the war in Ukraine. It is because 50 00:03:05,800 --> 00:03:10,440 Speaker 1: of the foreign policy failures of this president that we're 51 00:03:10,480 --> 00:03:13,240 Speaker 1: seeing the biggest land war in Europe since World War Two. 52 00:03:13,919 --> 00:03:17,480 Speaker 1: And in particular, what I was asking that was a 53 00:03:17,560 --> 00:03:20,359 Speaker 1: hearing in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that happened yesterday, 54 00:03:20,960 --> 00:03:23,920 Speaker 1: and that is the Under Secretary of State, Victoria Newland, 55 00:03:23,919 --> 00:03:30,000 Speaker 1: who was testifying. And this administration now has elevated President 56 00:03:30,080 --> 00:03:33,560 Speaker 1: Zelenski to the status of a modern day saints. He's 57 00:03:33,600 --> 00:03:38,920 Speaker 1: been canonized already and the Democrats have taken to singing 58 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:42,720 Speaker 1: his praises NonStop. And the point I was making here 59 00:03:42,800 --> 00:03:47,120 Speaker 1: is wait a second. Zelenski was begging for your help 60 00:03:47,680 --> 00:03:51,640 Speaker 1: before the war started in order to prevent it, and 61 00:03:51,760 --> 00:03:55,760 Speaker 1: you refuse to help. And what's the backstory? Listen, Putin 62 00:03:55,800 --> 00:03:59,080 Speaker 1: has wanted to invade Ukraine for a long long time. 63 00:03:59,120 --> 00:04:01,800 Speaker 1: He wanted to invade when Trump was president, and you're 64 00:04:01,840 --> 00:04:04,520 Speaker 1: not to do it well. And one of the big 65 00:04:04,720 --> 00:04:09,240 Speaker 1: reasons he didn't you look at. In twenty fourteen, Putin 66 00:04:09,320 --> 00:04:13,080 Speaker 1: invaded Ukraine, invaded Crimea, the southern portion of Ukraine, but 67 00:04:13,120 --> 00:04:17,440 Speaker 1: he stopped short. Why because going into all of Ukraine 68 00:04:17,560 --> 00:04:22,240 Speaker 1: risks the natural gas pipelines that run right through Ukraine, 69 00:04:22,520 --> 00:04:27,320 Speaker 1: and Russia gets a huge portion of its revenue from 70 00:04:27,360 --> 00:04:30,320 Speaker 1: selling natural gas and oil, and it needs to be 71 00:04:30,360 --> 00:04:33,400 Speaker 1: able to get that natural gas to Europe through Ukraine. 72 00:04:33,960 --> 00:04:36,839 Speaker 1: The next year, in twenty fifteen, Putin began what's called 73 00:04:36,880 --> 00:04:40,400 Speaker 1: Nordstream two. It's an undersea pipeline that goes from Russia 74 00:04:40,440 --> 00:04:44,040 Speaker 1: to Germany. The entire purpose of it is to circumvent 75 00:04:44,200 --> 00:04:46,880 Speaker 1: Ukraine so that he could invade Ukraine and not have 76 00:04:46,960 --> 00:04:50,640 Speaker 1: to worry about getting gas to market. In twenty nineteen, 77 00:04:50,839 --> 00:04:56,000 Speaker 1: I introduced and passed legislation to sanction the Nordstream to 78 00:04:56,160 --> 00:05:00,159 Speaker 1: pipeline to shut it down before it was built. That 79 00:05:00,279 --> 00:05:02,960 Speaker 1: legislation passed, I got Republicans to support it, I got 80 00:05:02,960 --> 00:05:07,160 Speaker 1: Democrats to support it. Trump signed it. The law. Putin 81 00:05:07,360 --> 00:05:12,719 Speaker 1: stopped building the Nordstream to pipeline literally the day Donald 82 00:05:12,760 --> 00:05:17,440 Speaker 1: Trump signed my sanctions legislation. That day the pipeline stopped. 83 00:05:18,600 --> 00:05:22,679 Speaker 1: It was dormant. It was dead, as Victoria Nowland noted, 84 00:05:22,720 --> 00:05:24,760 Speaker 1: as I've said many times, it was a hunk of 85 00:05:24,800 --> 00:05:27,839 Speaker 1: metal at the bottom of the sea for over a year. 86 00:05:29,040 --> 00:05:32,960 Speaker 1: In December of twenty twenty, I introduced and passed a 87 00:05:33,120 --> 00:05:37,719 Speaker 1: second set of sanctions legislations to sanction Nordstream even further 88 00:05:37,800 --> 00:05:41,599 Speaker 1: to make sure Putin didn't resume building the pipeline. And 89 00:05:41,720 --> 00:05:45,200 Speaker 1: you knew this was so important because of the financial 90 00:05:45,240 --> 00:05:48,800 Speaker 1: side of this for Russia, and you were thinking ahead 91 00:05:48,920 --> 00:05:51,400 Speaker 1: like anybody should on an issue like it was the 92 00:05:51,440 --> 00:05:56,239 Speaker 1: way to stop Putin from invading Ukraine. Joe Biden becomes 93 00:05:56,279 --> 00:06:02,640 Speaker 1: president January twentieth, twenty twenty one. Four days later, January 94 00:06:02,760 --> 00:06:08,560 Speaker 1: twenty fourth, twenty twenty one, Putin resumes deep sea construction 95 00:06:08,600 --> 00:06:12,839 Speaker 1: of Nordstream two. It literally took four days to reverse 96 00:06:13,240 --> 00:06:16,640 Speaker 1: what we had accomplished under Donald Trump. Putin returned to 97 00:06:16,680 --> 00:06:22,320 Speaker 1: building the pipeline. Why because Biden foreshadowed weakness. Then later 98 00:06:22,320 --> 00:06:26,520 Speaker 1: in twenty twenty one, Biden formally waived sanctions on nord 99 00:06:26,560 --> 00:06:31,080 Speaker 1: Stream two. He basically gave Vladimir Putin a multi billion 100 00:06:31,160 --> 00:06:35,600 Speaker 1: dollars gift and caused the Ukraine War. Well, the question 101 00:06:35,640 --> 00:06:41,080 Speaker 1: I just asked there. In January of last year of 102 00:06:41,120 --> 00:06:44,560 Speaker 1: twenty twenty two, I forced to vote on the Senate 103 00:06:44,600 --> 00:06:48,360 Speaker 1: floor to reimpose those sanctions on nord Stream two, the 104 00:06:48,440 --> 00:06:54,360 Speaker 1: sanctions that had worked. Every Senate Democrat had voted with 105 00:06:54,400 --> 00:06:56,880 Speaker 1: me not just once, but twice in twenty nineteen and 106 00:06:57,000 --> 00:07:01,200 Speaker 1: twenty twenty in favor of those sanctions. The day of 107 00:07:01,200 --> 00:07:04,719 Speaker 1: the vote, Joe Biden came to Capitol Hill and he 108 00:07:05,040 --> 00:07:07,960 Speaker 1: personally lobbied the Senate Democrats. It's the only time I 109 00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:09,920 Speaker 1: know of that he's done so since he's been president, 110 00:07:10,720 --> 00:07:16,640 Speaker 1: asking them, please vote against Cruz's sanctions, vote in favor 111 00:07:16,680 --> 00:07:21,720 Speaker 1: of Russia, vote in favor of Putin. When that happened, 112 00:07:22,920 --> 00:07:28,640 Speaker 1: President Zelenski publicly pleaded with the United States Senate please 113 00:07:28,880 --> 00:07:32,600 Speaker 1: pass cruzes legislation. It's the only way to stop Russia 114 00:07:32,640 --> 00:07:37,200 Speaker 1: from invading Ukraine. Poland, the government of Poland formally put 115 00:07:37,200 --> 00:07:40,760 Speaker 1: out a statement asking the Senate to pass my legislation. 116 00:07:41,080 --> 00:07:44,080 Speaker 1: They said it was the way to stop Russia from 117 00:07:44,120 --> 00:07:47,040 Speaker 1: invading Ukraine. They said, if you don't pass it, Russia 118 00:07:47,080 --> 00:07:51,920 Speaker 1: will invade Ukraine. Forty four Democrats decided to put partisan 119 00:07:52,000 --> 00:07:56,120 Speaker 1: loyalty above national security. They voted for Putin, they voted 120 00:07:56,200 --> 00:08:00,840 Speaker 1: for Russia, they voted against sanctions, and just a few 121 00:08:00,880 --> 00:08:04,400 Speaker 1: weeks later, Russian tanks rolled into Ukraine. And so that's 122 00:08:04,440 --> 00:08:07,760 Speaker 1: what I was asking her. Is Zelenski, who you have 123 00:08:07,920 --> 00:08:12,200 Speaker 1: said is a modern day saint. Was he wrong when 124 00:08:12,200 --> 00:08:15,120 Speaker 1: he told you we could avoid this whole damn war 125 00:08:16,120 --> 00:08:20,680 Speaker 1: if you just imposed the sanctions, and she was forced 126 00:08:20,720 --> 00:08:22,800 Speaker 1: to say yes, I think he was wrong, because the 127 00:08:22,840 --> 00:08:26,800 Speaker 1: alternative is to admit Joe Biden screwed this whole thing 128 00:08:26,880 --> 00:08:31,000 Speaker 1: up and caused this war to begin with. You mentioned weakness, right, 129 00:08:31,080 --> 00:08:33,880 Speaker 1: that they were the foreshadowing, and they understood. Okay, Joe 130 00:08:33,880 --> 00:08:36,560 Speaker 1: Biden's week and Vladimir Putin said I'm going to start 131 00:08:36,559 --> 00:08:39,520 Speaker 1: this four days after he becomes president. Again, You're saying 132 00:08:39,520 --> 00:08:42,120 Speaker 1: we got to do the sanctions here. But the question 133 00:08:42,160 --> 00:08:45,080 Speaker 1: I know everybody wants to ask is what was in 134 00:08:45,120 --> 00:08:48,679 Speaker 1: this for the president? Why was it so important to him? 135 00:08:48,760 --> 00:08:50,880 Speaker 1: And before you answer that question, I want to remind 136 00:08:50,880 --> 00:08:54,840 Speaker 1: people about Patriot Mobile. Patriot Mobile is an incredible company, 137 00:08:54,880 --> 00:08:59,280 Speaker 1: a conservative Christian phone company. If you have a cell 138 00:08:59,320 --> 00:09:02,680 Speaker 1: phone with a big tech you can switch it to 139 00:09:02,720 --> 00:09:05,480 Speaker 1: Patriot Mobile. 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What 149 00:09:34,720 --> 00:09:37,280 Speaker 1: was in it for him? Why would he be saying 150 00:09:37,400 --> 00:09:39,560 Speaker 1: I want to get this deal done, because this is 151 00:09:39,559 --> 00:09:42,280 Speaker 1: what a foreign lobbyist for Russia would be advocating for. 152 00:09:42,840 --> 00:09:45,440 Speaker 1: And yet the presence one who goes to the hill, 153 00:09:45,480 --> 00:09:48,079 Speaker 1: as you mentioned, it to put it in perspective, and 154 00:09:48,240 --> 00:09:50,439 Speaker 1: this was something so important to him. He needed to 155 00:09:50,480 --> 00:09:53,480 Speaker 1: meet personally with all these senators to give the best 156 00:09:53,520 --> 00:09:56,480 Speaker 1: deal you could give to the Russians. Look, I don't 157 00:09:56,520 --> 00:10:00,960 Speaker 1: know why he wanted to. I think there are a 158 00:10:00,960 --> 00:10:05,360 Speaker 1: couple of theories. Biden came in on foreign policy with 159 00:10:05,440 --> 00:10:08,880 Speaker 1: the assumption everything Trump did was wrong. If he did 160 00:10:08,920 --> 00:10:12,200 Speaker 1: one thing, let's reverse it and listen. That's not unique 161 00:10:12,200 --> 00:10:14,800 Speaker 1: to Biden. Most presidents come in and if the opposing 162 00:10:14,840 --> 00:10:17,000 Speaker 1: party did something, they often want to reverse it. So 163 00:10:17,040 --> 00:10:23,280 Speaker 1: I get that instinct. But here this had been a 164 00:10:23,400 --> 00:10:28,000 Speaker 1: massive bipartisan victory that Joe Biden threw away. By the way, 165 00:10:28,000 --> 00:10:32,360 Speaker 1: you know who agrees with that, Victoria Newland. She argued 166 00:10:32,480 --> 00:10:36,400 Speaker 1: passionately for Biden to impose those sanctions. She got over ruled. 167 00:10:36,440 --> 00:10:39,600 Speaker 1: Tony blink In, the Secretary of State, argued passionately for 168 00:10:39,679 --> 00:10:42,440 Speaker 1: Biden to impose those sanctions. He got overruled by the 169 00:10:42,440 --> 00:10:45,560 Speaker 1: White House. And you know the other reason I would 170 00:10:45,600 --> 00:10:50,679 Speaker 1: give the Biden White House on foreign policy. They've been 171 00:10:50,679 --> 00:10:54,760 Speaker 1: spectacularly wrong on almost every single aspect of foreign policy, 172 00:10:54,800 --> 00:10:57,240 Speaker 1: and not just little blunders, massive blunders. I think we 173 00:10:57,320 --> 00:11:01,400 Speaker 1: need to remind people you have Afghanistan, you have this 174 00:11:01,400 --> 00:11:05,439 Speaker 1: this war on the biggest moments on the stage and 175 00:11:05,480 --> 00:11:08,320 Speaker 1: he remember, he said, I'm the guy I've been around, 176 00:11:08,360 --> 00:11:11,240 Speaker 1: I was, I was on the Foreign relations, I've done 177 00:11:11,240 --> 00:11:13,640 Speaker 1: all this as the vice president. That was what he 178 00:11:13,760 --> 00:11:17,720 Speaker 1: ran on. It reminds me of something Reagan said about liberals, 179 00:11:17,720 --> 00:11:22,000 Speaker 1: which is, it's not what they know, it's that so 180 00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:29,160 Speaker 1: so much of what they know just isn't so. The 181 00:11:29,240 --> 00:11:34,480 Speaker 1: Biden foreign policy team came in as smug enlightened. They said, 182 00:11:34,640 --> 00:11:38,400 Speaker 1: the adults are in charge. Yeah, and and part of 183 00:11:38,440 --> 00:11:43,480 Speaker 1: their view is is Germany can do no wrong. My 184 00:11:43,600 --> 00:11:47,240 Speaker 1: national security advisor jokes that the Biden foreign policy team 185 00:11:47,480 --> 00:11:50,760 Speaker 1: slept with votive candles of Angela Merkel under their beds, 186 00:11:51,320 --> 00:11:54,880 Speaker 1: like like they just and Germany wanted this pipeline because 187 00:11:54,920 --> 00:11:57,520 Speaker 1: they just wanted the money. They didn't care about anything else. 188 00:11:57,559 --> 00:12:02,200 Speaker 1: Give us the money. Screw Ukraine. Germany was terrible on this, 189 00:12:03,040 --> 00:12:05,760 Speaker 1: and the Biden White House decided, well, let's pile around 190 00:12:05,800 --> 00:12:09,400 Speaker 1: with Germany and never mind that it's giving a huge 191 00:12:09,520 --> 00:12:13,840 Speaker 1: multi billion dollar gift to putin. And they didn't understand, 192 00:12:13,880 --> 00:12:18,120 Speaker 1: They fundamentally don't understand weakness is provocative. They think if 193 00:12:18,160 --> 00:12:21,120 Speaker 1: they're really weak and really nice to Putin, he'll just 194 00:12:21,240 --> 00:12:24,120 Speaker 1: smile and go away. And so they thought, well, if 195 00:12:24,120 --> 00:12:26,840 Speaker 1: we give him this multi billion dollar gift, why would 196 00:12:26,840 --> 00:12:29,040 Speaker 1: he invade Ukraine. We've given him everything he wants, And 197 00:12:29,120 --> 00:12:32,400 Speaker 1: they don't understand that the way you deal with bullies 198 00:12:32,480 --> 00:12:35,800 Speaker 1: is strength rather than weakness. But it's even worse than that. 199 00:12:37,080 --> 00:12:41,480 Speaker 1: We're now a year into this war and the Joe 200 00:12:41,480 --> 00:12:47,360 Speaker 1: Biden administration is in many ways playing both sides of 201 00:12:47,400 --> 00:12:53,319 Speaker 1: the war. And I want to turn to an additional 202 00:12:53,320 --> 00:12:57,240 Speaker 1: set of questions from the hearing yesterday, because the Biden 203 00:12:57,280 --> 00:13:01,840 Speaker 1: administration desperately wants to cut a new nuclear deal with Iran, 204 00:13:02,360 --> 00:13:07,560 Speaker 1: and it's willing to have billions of dollars flow into Iran, 205 00:13:07,640 --> 00:13:11,000 Speaker 1: which has happened under Joe Biden, and to have that 206 00:13:11,080 --> 00:13:15,800 Speaker 1: money be used in support of Putin and Russia in 207 00:13:15,840 --> 00:13:19,400 Speaker 1: the war in Ukraine, because they're so obsessed with Iran. 208 00:13:19,520 --> 00:13:23,360 Speaker 1: So here play the questions. Let's talk about Iran's supply 209 00:13:23,400 --> 00:13:26,480 Speaker 1: of drones to Russia. The Biden administration made an immediate 210 00:13:26,480 --> 00:13:29,240 Speaker 1: decision to go to the United Nations and drop the 211 00:13:29,320 --> 00:13:32,280 Speaker 1: General UN arms embargo on Iran because they say it 212 00:13:32,360 --> 00:13:37,559 Speaker 1: was required by the original JCPOA nuclear deal. Biden officials 213 00:13:37,600 --> 00:13:40,320 Speaker 1: say part of the embargo dealing with drones is still 214 00:13:40,360 --> 00:13:43,080 Speaker 1: in place, but even that measure will expire this fall 215 00:13:43,120 --> 00:13:48,320 Speaker 1: pursuant to the JCPPA. I believe the Biden administration should 216 00:13:48,400 --> 00:13:52,160 Speaker 1: immediately go to the UN invoke our snapback authority and 217 00:13:52,280 --> 00:13:55,520 Speaker 1: keep the embargo in place. Do you agree or do 218 00:13:55,559 --> 00:13:58,280 Speaker 1: you believe we should allow the UN arms embargo on 219 00:13:58,320 --> 00:14:03,840 Speaker 1: Iran to expire and allow Iranian drones to continue to 220 00:14:03,920 --> 00:14:07,560 Speaker 1: go to Russia and be used against the people of Ukraine. 221 00:14:08,080 --> 00:14:10,600 Speaker 1: Time of the senator is exparba. Please answer his question. 222 00:14:12,280 --> 00:14:16,320 Speaker 1: Thank you, Senator Cruz. You are absolutely right that Iranian 223 00:14:16,400 --> 00:14:19,160 Speaker 1: drones are fueling this war, and that is why we 224 00:14:19,240 --> 00:14:24,880 Speaker 1: have taken many, many increased sanctions measures against Iran over 225 00:14:24,960 --> 00:14:29,880 Speaker 1: the last couple of months, including against the IRGC GUARDCOREPS 226 00:14:29,920 --> 00:14:34,440 Speaker 1: Aerospace Force, the Kuds Force, aviation industry, the Shahid aviation industry, 227 00:14:34,520 --> 00:14:38,760 Speaker 1: Russian aerospace forces. Have you stopped the drones? We have 228 00:14:39,160 --> 00:14:42,200 Speaker 1: not stopped the drones, and this is part of the problem. 229 00:14:42,560 --> 00:14:45,280 Speaker 1: We've not stopped the drones. This is part of the problem. 230 00:14:45,800 --> 00:14:48,760 Speaker 1: So people understand, as it was just said there, the 231 00:14:48,880 --> 00:14:52,680 Speaker 1: drones are fueling this war in Ukraine. In other words, 232 00:14:53,200 --> 00:14:55,080 Speaker 1: there's a lot of weapons that Ukraine's gotten from the 233 00:14:55,080 --> 00:14:59,280 Speaker 1: international community to fight back. Russia's using these drones coming 234 00:14:59,280 --> 00:15:03,000 Speaker 1: in from Iran to kill innocent people, women, children, anybody 235 00:15:03,040 --> 00:15:05,640 Speaker 1: they want to target from the air. And this is 236 00:15:05,680 --> 00:15:08,120 Speaker 1: basically one of their best weapons they have in this 237 00:15:08,280 --> 00:15:10,920 Speaker 1: entire last year the conflict, and it's coming from Iran. 238 00:15:11,360 --> 00:15:15,560 Speaker 1: So the Biden administration is effectively funding both sides of 239 00:15:15,600 --> 00:15:19,440 Speaker 1: this war. Let's say that again, because that's serious news. 240 00:15:19,960 --> 00:15:25,400 Speaker 1: The Biden administration is effectively funding both sides of this war. 241 00:15:25,600 --> 00:15:29,800 Speaker 1: Why well, they flooded billions of dollars into Ukraine and 242 00:15:29,880 --> 00:15:32,480 Speaker 1: President Zelenski. Some of it has gone to weapons being 243 00:15:32,560 --> 00:15:34,880 Speaker 1: used to fight the war, much of it has gone 244 00:15:34,920 --> 00:15:37,720 Speaker 1: into the government, including in places in the government where 245 00:15:37,720 --> 00:15:41,480 Speaker 1: corruption is endemic and a serious problem. But at the 246 00:15:41,560 --> 00:15:46,320 Speaker 1: same time they've also lifted sanctions on Iran and have 247 00:15:46,560 --> 00:15:51,920 Speaker 1: flowed billions of dollars into Iran. And Iran is turned 248 00:15:51,920 --> 00:15:56,720 Speaker 1: around and it's sending drones to Russia to use to 249 00:15:56,840 --> 00:16:01,600 Speaker 1: kill Ukrainians. And by the way, one component of what 250 00:16:01,720 --> 00:16:05,200 Speaker 1: Joe Biden has done with Iran. We had in place 251 00:16:05,720 --> 00:16:09,560 Speaker 1: under Trump sanctions on their oil sales. I pressed the 252 00:16:09,560 --> 00:16:14,560 Speaker 1: Trump administration to impose those sanctions. Those sanctions had effectively 253 00:16:14,680 --> 00:16:20,600 Speaker 1: shut down oil sales for Iran. Joe Biden has essentially 254 00:16:20,640 --> 00:16:25,800 Speaker 1: refused to enforce those sanctions. So today the Ayatollah is 255 00:16:26,160 --> 00:16:30,640 Speaker 1: selling over a million barrels a day of oil because 256 00:16:30,720 --> 00:16:34,640 Speaker 1: Joe Biden is letting him and the money even though 257 00:16:34,640 --> 00:16:41,440 Speaker 1: they're sanctions. Yes, because Biden won't enforce the sanctions, the sanctions. 258 00:16:41,640 --> 00:16:45,040 Speaker 1: The Biden foreign policy is simple, screw our friends and 259 00:16:45,160 --> 00:16:49,680 Speaker 1: show weakness to our enemies. That's what they do. So literally, 260 00:16:50,400 --> 00:16:55,640 Speaker 1: the drones that are killing Ukrainian soldiers are from Iran 261 00:16:57,080 --> 00:17:02,680 Speaker 1: and are essentially paid for by the Biden administration lifting 262 00:17:02,680 --> 00:17:07,840 Speaker 1: sanctions on Iran. It is assinine and it's because they're 263 00:17:07,880 --> 00:17:11,400 Speaker 1: not serious about this. When they engage in foreign policy, 264 00:17:11,400 --> 00:17:16,240 Speaker 1: it's virtue signaling. It's not focused on American national security, 265 00:17:16,280 --> 00:17:20,000 Speaker 1: it's not focused on our interest, It's focused on whatever 266 00:17:20,119 --> 00:17:23,840 Speaker 1: will make the Biden foreign policy team popular in the 267 00:17:23,880 --> 00:17:27,000 Speaker 1: faculty lounge at whatever university they want to go back to. 268 00:17:27,720 --> 00:17:32,800 Speaker 1: And I gotta say, it's just nuts. To be funding 269 00:17:32,800 --> 00:17:36,240 Speaker 1: both sides of a war. Last question on this. People 270 00:17:36,359 --> 00:17:39,920 Speaker 1: hear that they're sanctions and they say, as you just mentioned, 271 00:17:39,960 --> 00:17:43,800 Speaker 1: they're not being enforced. Is there any mechanism for Congress 272 00:17:43,840 --> 00:17:47,400 Speaker 1: to be able to say, hey, guys, you're not enforcing 273 00:17:47,400 --> 00:17:50,520 Speaker 1: these sanctions. We obviously probably know who's buying this oil. 274 00:17:50,560 --> 00:17:53,320 Speaker 1: That wouldn't be hard to figure that out. There's bad 275 00:17:53,320 --> 00:17:57,480 Speaker 1: actors involved here? Or is this basically I'm the president. Yes, 276 00:17:57,560 --> 00:17:59,639 Speaker 1: they're sanctions. If I don't want to enforce them, I 277 00:17:59,640 --> 00:18:02,879 Speaker 1: don't have to. So yes, Congress could definitely do that. 278 00:18:02,960 --> 00:18:06,960 Speaker 1: I've introduced legislation to do exactly that. The problem is 279 00:18:07,000 --> 00:18:10,040 Speaker 1: the Senate Democrats all support Joe Biden. No matter how 280 00:18:10,040 --> 00:18:14,280 Speaker 1: bad the foreign policy is, they vote in favor of Biden. Look, 281 00:18:14,960 --> 00:18:21,800 Speaker 1: when Trump was president, I brought together Republicans and Democrats 282 00:18:22,359 --> 00:18:28,400 Speaker 1: to overwhelmingly pass sanctions on Nordstream two. All those same 283 00:18:28,440 --> 00:18:30,919 Speaker 1: Democrats that voted for sanctions not once but twice. They 284 00:18:31,040 --> 00:18:32,840 Speaker 1: voted for it in twenty nineteen, they voted again for 285 00:18:32,880 --> 00:18:36,640 Speaker 1: it in twenty twenty. In twenty twenty two when they 286 00:18:36,720 --> 00:18:41,560 Speaker 1: voted against sanctions, the only thing that had changed was 287 00:18:41,640 --> 00:18:44,159 Speaker 1: the letter behind the president's name instead of an R, 288 00:18:44,320 --> 00:18:47,240 Speaker 1: it was a D. And they were more than happy 289 00:18:47,280 --> 00:18:49,880 Speaker 1: to vote for sanctions when Trump was president. But once 290 00:18:49,920 --> 00:18:52,240 Speaker 1: Biden was president and he had decided he wanted to 291 00:18:52,520 --> 00:18:56,359 Speaker 1: give in the putin, the Democrats weren't willing to stand up, 292 00:18:56,440 --> 00:18:58,119 Speaker 1: stand up, and do the right thing. There's gonna be 293 00:18:58,160 --> 00:19:00,640 Speaker 1: a lot of Americans are frustrated over this because we're 294 00:19:00,640 --> 00:19:04,359 Speaker 1: sending so much money, so much aid, and like you said, 295 00:19:04,400 --> 00:19:07,000 Speaker 1: we're basically funding both sides of this war, all because 296 00:19:07,040 --> 00:19:09,359 Speaker 1: they're too dumb to realize that they're doing this. And 297 00:19:09,400 --> 00:19:12,720 Speaker 1: I'm not even sure he understands exactly how ridiculous ideology 298 00:19:12,760 --> 00:19:18,960 Speaker 1: trumps everything, and their ideology their objective ideologically is By 299 00:19:19,000 --> 00:19:23,080 Speaker 1: the way, this White House is fundamentally okay with Iran 300 00:19:23,160 --> 00:19:28,080 Speaker 1: getting a nuclear weapon. They believe America has no right 301 00:19:28,119 --> 00:19:31,000 Speaker 1: to determine who has nuclear weapons. By the way, that's nonsense. 302 00:19:31,000 --> 00:19:34,160 Speaker 1: When the Ayatola chance death to America and death to Israel. 303 00:19:35,000 --> 00:19:37,640 Speaker 1: We're to do everything necessary to make sure that lunatic 304 00:19:38,000 --> 00:19:40,440 Speaker 1: never gets a nuclear weapon, because I don't want to 305 00:19:40,520 --> 00:19:44,159 Speaker 1: risk his using it to murder millions of Americans. But 306 00:19:44,520 --> 00:19:49,160 Speaker 1: that's actually an America first, foreign policy that's focused on 307 00:19:49,560 --> 00:19:54,919 Speaker 1: defending America. When it comes to Biden, it is essentially 308 00:19:54,960 --> 00:19:59,200 Speaker 1: an America Last foreign policy. And they don't mind them 309 00:19:59,240 --> 00:20:01,280 Speaker 1: having a nuclear and that's why they're obsessed with this 310 00:20:01,400 --> 00:20:06,520 Speaker 1: deal so much. Yeah. Again, it's a faculty lounge foreign policy. 311 00:20:06,560 --> 00:20:11,239 Speaker 1: It's whatever is popular with left wing professors who you 312 00:20:11,840 --> 00:20:14,920 Speaker 1: believe that if you just put daisies in the barrels 313 00:20:14,920 --> 00:20:17,760 Speaker 1: of machine guns and make love not war and give 314 00:20:17,760 --> 00:20:21,160 Speaker 1: piece a chance, that that's the solution. And what they 315 00:20:21,240 --> 00:20:26,639 Speaker 1: do not understand is weakness is provocative. I believe in 316 00:20:26,640 --> 00:20:32,359 Speaker 1: peace through strength. There's a reason nobody goes and gets 317 00:20:32,359 --> 00:20:35,200 Speaker 1: a degree from the Neville Chamberlain School of Foreign Affairs 318 00:20:36,160 --> 00:20:42,080 Speaker 1: because appeasement work doesn't work. These guys fundamentally don't understand that. Well, 319 00:20:42,119 --> 00:20:44,960 Speaker 1: you're dealing with this real issue. There's another issue that 320 00:20:45,000 --> 00:20:49,119 Speaker 1: the media has been freaking out over. That is Democrats 321 00:20:49,160 --> 00:20:52,320 Speaker 1: being thrown off committees, not getting committee seats. Say want 322 00:20:52,359 --> 00:20:55,000 Speaker 1: this is supposed to be what America is supposed to 323 00:20:55,000 --> 00:20:59,320 Speaker 1: care about. Right now? You actually predicted this last year, 324 00:21:00,200 --> 00:21:03,000 Speaker 1: and we have that tweet of you predicting that Democrats 325 00:21:03,040 --> 00:21:06,560 Speaker 1: were going to freak out. Nancy Pelosi's furious over this 326 00:21:06,680 --> 00:21:09,120 Speaker 1: as well. And I want to play for deal Pelosi 327 00:21:09,200 --> 00:21:11,760 Speaker 1: first so that they can see what she said. And 328 00:21:11,840 --> 00:21:14,920 Speaker 1: you actually predicted when you start schooling Republicans this way 329 00:21:14,920 --> 00:21:17,320 Speaker 1: and committees, the Republicans are going to give it right 330 00:21:17,359 --> 00:21:19,879 Speaker 1: back to you if we get back in charge. Here's Pelosi, 331 00:21:20,400 --> 00:21:23,440 Speaker 1: didn't you open the door to this? No, we said 332 00:21:23,440 --> 00:21:26,000 Speaker 1: a precedent which I hope they will follow. If they 333 00:21:26,040 --> 00:21:30,880 Speaker 1: have members as they did, we threatened the security of 334 00:21:30,920 --> 00:21:34,240 Speaker 1: our members on the committee, or a danger to our 335 00:21:34,280 --> 00:21:38,240 Speaker 1: members threatening them, then that would go off the committee. 336 00:21:38,280 --> 00:21:41,520 Speaker 1: So if they have that accusation about any of our members, 337 00:21:41,880 --> 00:21:44,399 Speaker 1: let's hear what they have to say. It was clear 338 00:21:44,800 --> 00:21:47,560 Speaker 1: that their members were a threat to our members. So 339 00:21:47,720 --> 00:21:52,240 Speaker 1: this is about maintaining safety for our members. The fact 340 00:21:52,240 --> 00:21:54,439 Speaker 1: that they want to set take these people off the 341 00:21:54,480 --> 00:21:59,159 Speaker 1: committee is more philosophic. It is philosophical. So there she is. 342 00:22:00,480 --> 00:22:05,040 Speaker 1: Look that is utter gobbedally gook. The Republicans were a threat. 343 00:22:05,119 --> 00:22:08,080 Speaker 1: We were scared. Now, mind you, these are the same 344 00:22:08,160 --> 00:22:10,960 Speaker 1: nincome poops that set up metal detectors to walk under 345 00:22:10,960 --> 00:22:13,040 Speaker 1: the floor of the House because they were afraid the 346 00:22:13,080 --> 00:22:16,879 Speaker 1: Republicans were going to shoot them. These are the same 347 00:22:17,280 --> 00:22:23,199 Speaker 1: ninnies that erected fences around the Capitol with razor wire 348 00:22:23,359 --> 00:22:26,600 Speaker 1: for months after months after months because they wanted to 349 00:22:26,640 --> 00:22:30,080 Speaker 1: convey to the American people that all Republican voters are 350 00:22:30,119 --> 00:22:32,199 Speaker 1: wild eyed terrorists who are going to march on the 351 00:22:32,280 --> 00:22:38,639 Speaker 1: Capitol and kill us all what utter crap. Oh, we 352 00:22:38,640 --> 00:22:43,280 Speaker 1: were afraid. We were afraid, you know, Marjorie Taylor Greene 353 00:22:43,520 --> 00:22:47,679 Speaker 1: was gonna go beat up Adam Schiff, like, give me 354 00:22:47,760 --> 00:22:53,000 Speaker 1: a break. But all of the catterwalling, all of the 355 00:22:53,080 --> 00:22:58,480 Speaker 1: tears were seeing. Now, I think is hysterical because, as 356 00:22:58,480 --> 00:23:01,800 Speaker 1: you noted, here's what I let's go back. You predicted 357 00:23:01,840 --> 00:23:05,040 Speaker 1: this last year. Your tweet is one that made me 358 00:23:05,119 --> 00:23:07,919 Speaker 1: laugh because if you actually watch the tweet itself, you 359 00:23:08,000 --> 00:23:10,720 Speaker 1: have the Jeff on there of the people jumping in 360 00:23:10,840 --> 00:23:13,680 Speaker 1: the hole, and so you can see that. But look 361 00:23:13,680 --> 00:23:16,640 Speaker 1: at the date down there, November thirtieth, twenty twenty one. 362 00:23:17,040 --> 00:23:20,520 Speaker 1: You say, House Democrats, you know, are basically irrationally partisan 363 00:23:20,840 --> 00:23:24,280 Speaker 1: and excitedly trying to throw Republicans off committees the chance 364 00:23:24,320 --> 00:23:27,000 Speaker 1: of the GOP retakes the House in twenty two, twenty 365 00:23:27,000 --> 00:23:31,000 Speaker 1: twenty two, are over ninety percent prediction come twenty twenty three, 366 00:23:31,080 --> 00:23:34,439 Speaker 1: swallowell omar un till even others are getting ready to 367 00:23:34,480 --> 00:23:36,440 Speaker 1: have a lot more time on their hands, meaning they're 368 00:23:36,480 --> 00:23:39,199 Speaker 1: gonna be thrown off the committees. So you said it 369 00:23:39,240 --> 00:23:41,919 Speaker 1: was gonna happen. What Pelosi did in twenty twenty one 370 00:23:41,960 --> 00:23:45,679 Speaker 1: had never happened before, which is for the majority party, 371 00:23:45,720 --> 00:23:48,200 Speaker 1: the speaker of the House, to say to the minority party, 372 00:23:48,760 --> 00:23:51,480 Speaker 1: I don't like your members, We're throwing you off the committees. 373 00:23:52,359 --> 00:23:56,040 Speaker 1: That had never happened. It was an incredible abusive power 374 00:23:56,080 --> 00:23:58,320 Speaker 1: by she did that, and then she did it again 375 00:23:58,400 --> 00:24:00,920 Speaker 1: with a so called select committee on January sixth, which 376 00:24:00,960 --> 00:24:02,920 Speaker 1: he said, no, we don't want Jim Jordan, we don't 377 00:24:02,920 --> 00:24:06,119 Speaker 1: want your members on the committee. And when they did that, 378 00:24:06,200 --> 00:24:10,119 Speaker 1: I remember looking at it and thinking, you know the 379 00:24:10,160 --> 00:24:17,560 Speaker 1: old sociology experiment with little kids where you have one 380 00:24:17,680 --> 00:24:21,240 Speaker 1: and two marshmallows and you make clear if they eat 381 00:24:21,280 --> 00:24:23,760 Speaker 1: one marshmallow they get it now, but if they can wait, 382 00:24:23,840 --> 00:24:28,679 Speaker 1: if they can defer gratification, they get two marshmallows. The 383 00:24:28,760 --> 00:24:32,480 Speaker 1: Democrats in Congress are all one marshmallow people. They could 384 00:24:32,520 --> 00:24:35,960 Speaker 1: not delay gratification. They hated the Republicans so much they're like, 385 00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:39,000 Speaker 1: throw them off committees. And I'm like what I said 386 00:24:39,000 --> 00:24:41,960 Speaker 1: in the tweet, you guys are lemmings. You're literally jumping 387 00:24:41,960 --> 00:24:45,800 Speaker 1: off a cliff because you know you're going to lose. Yeah, 388 00:24:46,240 --> 00:24:49,080 Speaker 1: November of twenty twenty one, every one of the Democrats 389 00:24:49,119 --> 00:24:51,520 Speaker 1: believed they were going to lose the House, which they did. 390 00:24:53,480 --> 00:24:56,360 Speaker 1: You know you're going to lose if you do this 391 00:24:56,400 --> 00:25:00,879 Speaker 1: to Republicans, the chances are one hundred percent they're going 392 00:25:00,920 --> 00:25:03,719 Speaker 1: to do it to you. And I named, you know, 393 00:25:03,800 --> 00:25:07,320 Speaker 1: Swallwell and Omar and you know Shift are the three 394 00:25:07,320 --> 00:25:10,159 Speaker 1: that have lost committees. And it was obvious Well and 395 00:25:10,160 --> 00:25:12,159 Speaker 1: which brings you to Adam Schiff. Now he is a 396 00:25:12,200 --> 00:25:16,720 Speaker 1: cry baby. He's out there on TikTok, which is even funnier, 397 00:25:16,880 --> 00:25:20,280 Speaker 1: begging people for money on this app that literally government 398 00:25:20,280 --> 00:25:23,000 Speaker 1: agencies are saying do not have on your phone, States 399 00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:25,520 Speaker 1: are saying on state phones, don't have it. He goes 400 00:25:25,560 --> 00:25:28,960 Speaker 1: to Chinese communist TikTok to say help me. I'm poor, 401 00:25:29,119 --> 00:25:32,400 Speaker 1: and help me. I've been kicked off committees. Take a look. Hell, 402 00:25:32,440 --> 00:25:36,160 Speaker 1: I'm Congressman Adam Schiff. With some troubling news today, Ken 403 00:25:36,200 --> 00:25:39,520 Speaker 1: McCarthy removed me from the House Intelligence Committee all for 404 00:25:39,600 --> 00:25:43,239 Speaker 1: doing my job, for holding Trump accountable and standing up 405 00:25:43,280 --> 00:25:46,800 Speaker 1: to the extreme Magarepublicans. We knew it would be bad 406 00:25:46,840 --> 00:25:49,360 Speaker 1: when the Republicans took over, but it's far worse than 407 00:25:49,400 --> 00:25:52,439 Speaker 1: we expected. But I can promise you this, this is 408 00:25:52,480 --> 00:25:55,800 Speaker 1: not the end of my fight for our democracy. This 409 00:25:55,880 --> 00:25:59,840 Speaker 1: is just the beginning. Please join us and contribute today. 410 00:26:00,280 --> 00:26:04,080 Speaker 1: Thank you. I don't even know how to assess that. Senator. 411 00:26:04,280 --> 00:26:07,359 Speaker 1: Oh look, that God has a sense of humor, and 412 00:26:07,480 --> 00:26:12,159 Speaker 1: that is irony stacked upon irony. So he was previously 413 00:26:12,200 --> 00:26:16,360 Speaker 1: the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee. He demonstrated an 414 00:26:16,359 --> 00:26:22,560 Speaker 1: incredibly cavalier approach to classified documents, an incredibly dishonest approach 415 00:26:22,640 --> 00:26:27,320 Speaker 1: to that committee, and so he was removed from it. 416 00:26:27,359 --> 00:26:30,000 Speaker 1: He was removed from it because Kevin McCarthy laid out 417 00:26:30,040 --> 00:26:36,920 Speaker 1: that he believed that his lying using classified documents posed 418 00:26:36,960 --> 00:26:40,440 Speaker 1: a national security threat. It is amazing that the very 419 00:26:40,480 --> 00:26:42,359 Speaker 1: first thing he does is he goes and gets an 420 00:26:42,359 --> 00:26:45,119 Speaker 1: account on TikTok that is owned and controlled by the 421 00:26:45,200 --> 00:26:49,120 Speaker 1: Chinese government, that is an espionage tool for the Chinese government, 422 00:26:49,119 --> 00:26:52,520 Speaker 1: and he puts out a video on an espionage tool 423 00:26:52,560 --> 00:26:56,959 Speaker 1: for the Chinese government to say it's terrible that I 424 00:26:57,080 --> 00:27:00,439 Speaker 1: was thrown off the Intelligence Committee. He does it to 425 00:27:00,520 --> 00:27:04,080 Speaker 1: raise money for his campaign. And I'll also note he 426 00:27:04,200 --> 00:27:09,960 Speaker 1: uses the phrase extreme maga Republicans, which every Democrat does that. 427 00:27:10,040 --> 00:27:13,000 Speaker 1: Now you know Mitt Romney is an extreme maga Republican. 428 00:27:13,040 --> 00:27:16,320 Speaker 1: I mean, I mean it just has become but but 429 00:27:16,320 --> 00:27:20,720 Speaker 1: but there is there's a message discipline to the Democrats. 430 00:27:20,760 --> 00:27:24,480 Speaker 1: They all use those words. That's the new label extreme 431 00:27:24,480 --> 00:27:34,520 Speaker 1: magar republican. It's striking. Shifts showed precisely why. And it's 432 00:27:34,600 --> 00:27:36,640 Speaker 1: very hard when you're doing a recorded thing to say 433 00:27:36,680 --> 00:27:39,960 Speaker 1: Shift's name and and not get bleeped by the censors. 434 00:27:39,960 --> 00:27:46,280 Speaker 1: You have to enunciate carefully. Yes, um, but I think 435 00:27:46,280 --> 00:27:52,000 Speaker 1: he illustrated in his TikTok video quite nicely why removing 436 00:27:52,040 --> 00:27:54,280 Speaker 1: him from the Intelligence Committee was the right thing to do. 437 00:27:54,320 --> 00:27:56,679 Speaker 1: But you know what, don't take my word for it. 438 00:27:56,680 --> 00:28:00,000 Speaker 1: Listen to Kevin McCarthy, because what happens in the Intel Committee. 439 00:28:00,160 --> 00:28:02,840 Speaker 1: You don't know what happens in the Intel Committee. Although 440 00:28:02,880 --> 00:28:05,879 Speaker 1: the secrets are going on in the world. Other members 441 00:28:05,880 --> 00:28:08,520 Speaker 1: of Congress don't know what did Adam Schiff do as 442 00:28:08,520 --> 00:28:11,240 Speaker 1: the chairman of the Intel Committee. What Adam Schiff did 443 00:28:11,480 --> 00:28:13,879 Speaker 1: use his power as a chairman and lie to the 444 00:28:13,920 --> 00:28:17,040 Speaker 1: American public. Even the Inspector General said it. When Devin 445 00:28:17,119 --> 00:28:19,400 Speaker 1: Nowoneth put out a memo, he said it was false. 446 00:28:19,640 --> 00:28:22,000 Speaker 1: When we had a laptop, he used it before an 447 00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:24,639 Speaker 1: election to be politics and say that it was false 448 00:28:24,680 --> 00:28:27,119 Speaker 1: and said it was the Russians when he knew different 449 00:28:27,440 --> 00:28:31,760 Speaker 1: when he knew the Intel. If you talked to John Radcliffe, 450 00:28:32,000 --> 00:28:34,240 Speaker 1: D and I, he came out ahead of time and 451 00:28:34,280 --> 00:28:37,080 Speaker 1: says there's no intel to prove that. And he used 452 00:28:37,119 --> 00:28:40,480 Speaker 1: his position as chairman, knowing he has information the rest 453 00:28:40,520 --> 00:28:42,960 Speaker 1: of America does not, and lie to the American public. 454 00:28:43,040 --> 00:28:45,840 Speaker 1: When a whistleblower came forward, he said he did not 455 00:28:45,960 --> 00:28:48,120 Speaker 1: know the individual, even though his staff had met with 456 00:28:48,160 --> 00:28:50,480 Speaker 1: him and set it up. So, no, he does not 457 00:28:50,600 --> 00:28:52,440 Speaker 1: have a right to sit on that. But I will 458 00:28:52,480 --> 00:28:55,160 Speaker 1: not be like Democrats and played politics with thiefs where 459 00:28:55,200 --> 00:28:59,600 Speaker 1: they removed Republicans from committees and all committees. So yes, 460 00:28:59,720 --> 00:29:01,680 Speaker 1: he can serve on a committee, but he will not 461 00:29:01,760 --> 00:29:04,720 Speaker 1: serve on Intel because it goes to the national security 462 00:29:04,720 --> 00:29:07,440 Speaker 1: of America. It's pretty bold statement, and you go back 463 00:29:07,480 --> 00:29:10,280 Speaker 1: to Ratcliffe, it was unprecedent for the Director of National 464 00:29:10,320 --> 00:29:14,320 Speaker 1: Intelligence to come out and basically slap a Democrat who's 465 00:29:14,360 --> 00:29:17,239 Speaker 1: in charge of this committee down saying what he just 466 00:29:17,280 --> 00:29:19,360 Speaker 1: told you is not true, in is a lie. And 467 00:29:19,400 --> 00:29:21,640 Speaker 1: he had to do that at the time. That's how 468 00:29:21,760 --> 00:29:24,800 Speaker 1: partisan they had turned this into in his leadership, Adam 469 00:29:24,840 --> 00:29:27,240 Speaker 1: Shift and to say as a threat to national security? 470 00:29:28,080 --> 00:29:30,360 Speaker 1: Is this some politics in that or do you think 471 00:29:30,360 --> 00:29:32,160 Speaker 1: that there is some truth to that as well? So 472 00:29:32,600 --> 00:29:34,640 Speaker 1: one of the things to keep in mind about how 473 00:29:34,800 --> 00:29:39,600 Speaker 1: Congress works, so every member of Congress has access to 474 00:29:39,640 --> 00:29:42,560 Speaker 1: classified information in one form or another, depending on what 475 00:29:42,600 --> 00:29:47,720 Speaker 1: committees you are. All of us reviewed review classified information regularly. 476 00:29:48,680 --> 00:29:52,720 Speaker 1: That being said, the Intelligence Committee in both the House 477 00:29:52,720 --> 00:29:58,719 Speaker 1: and Senate reviews much much more sensitive material than most 478 00:29:58,840 --> 00:30:02,280 Speaker 1: other House members source senators at a higher level of classification, 479 00:30:02,320 --> 00:30:06,640 Speaker 1: at a much higher level of classification. They're reviewing materials 480 00:30:06,720 --> 00:30:09,400 Speaker 1: store next to your corvette, and you're going, exactly, that's 481 00:30:09,160 --> 00:30:14,360 Speaker 1: that's uh. Look, the Intel is regularly reviewing materials that 482 00:30:14,480 --> 00:30:18,800 Speaker 1: implicate sources and methods that, if revealed, could endanger the 483 00:30:18,840 --> 00:30:25,320 Speaker 1: lives of US operatives that are covert. Schiff, as chairman 484 00:30:25,360 --> 00:30:27,920 Speaker 1: of that committee. He had access to the most sensitive 485 00:30:27,960 --> 00:30:31,360 Speaker 1: secrets we have that most members of Congress don't get. 486 00:30:32,320 --> 00:30:37,720 Speaker 1: And it is stunning how he behaved with them because 487 00:30:37,720 --> 00:30:41,600 Speaker 1: he took that classified information he had, and he abused 488 00:30:41,640 --> 00:30:43,400 Speaker 1: that position of trust, because he went in front of 489 00:30:43,400 --> 00:30:47,360 Speaker 1: the American people and repeatedly lied about it over and 490 00:30:47,400 --> 00:30:49,760 Speaker 1: over again. Hunter Biden's laptop, he said, it's not true, 491 00:30:49,840 --> 00:30:52,680 Speaker 1: it's Russian disinformation. That was a lie, and he knew 492 00:30:52,720 --> 00:30:55,760 Speaker 1: it was, and he knew it was. He also he 493 00:30:56,040 --> 00:31:00,320 Speaker 1: nobody pushed the Russia hoax more than Adams ship, and 494 00:31:00,400 --> 00:31:03,400 Speaker 1: he knew the intelligence didn't back it up. Not only that, 495 00:31:03,480 --> 00:31:06,720 Speaker 1: we now know through the Twitter files that Shift was 496 00:31:06,880 --> 00:31:13,440 Speaker 1: actively urging Twitter to pull down anyone who disagreed with 497 00:31:13,480 --> 00:31:17,400 Speaker 1: the disinformation he was pushing. He was urging Twitter to 498 00:31:17,440 --> 00:31:21,840 Speaker 1: call anyone challenging the Devinnunis memo to call them a 499 00:31:21,920 --> 00:31:25,000 Speaker 1: Russian bot. Twitter was telling him, but wait, they're not 500 00:31:25,120 --> 00:31:28,840 Speaker 1: Russian bots. That's not, in fact accurate. But Shift didn't care. 501 00:31:28,960 --> 00:31:33,840 Speaker 1: He used that position, that access to classified information, and 502 00:31:33,880 --> 00:31:36,920 Speaker 1: he abused it. It's hard to refute somebody because so 503 00:31:37,040 --> 00:31:40,160 Speaker 1: few see this information. I think he understood that right 504 00:31:40,200 --> 00:31:41,880 Speaker 1: for people to understand the game he was playing. It 505 00:31:41,960 --> 00:31:44,320 Speaker 1: was like, who can refute me? Because there's so few 506 00:31:44,320 --> 00:31:48,040 Speaker 1: to get to see this stuff. Look, the only thing 507 00:31:48,320 --> 00:31:54,320 Speaker 1: worse Shift could have done with his access to important secrets. 508 00:31:54,360 --> 00:31:57,160 Speaker 1: About the only thing worse you could imagine him doing 509 00:31:57,680 --> 00:32:01,080 Speaker 1: is banging a Chinese spy. That would be Eric Swalwell. 510 00:32:01,120 --> 00:32:03,720 Speaker 1: I'd like to do that well, but but but Schiff 511 00:32:03,760 --> 00:32:06,479 Speaker 1: had a pretty powerful defense of it. He did. He 512 00:32:06,520 --> 00:32:09,480 Speaker 1: came out, this was amazing. Take a look. I do 513 00:32:09,560 --> 00:32:12,880 Speaker 1: want to mention, with respect to mister Swawell also that I, 514 00:32:13,480 --> 00:32:16,560 Speaker 1: as he indicated, I sat in on that briefing um 515 00:32:16,840 --> 00:32:22,560 Speaker 1: and when Kevin McCarthy misrepresents it, um and uh and 516 00:32:23,080 --> 00:32:29,400 Speaker 1: does that disservice the American people, it's shameful. Mister Swawell 517 00:32:29,440 --> 00:32:31,520 Speaker 1: has served honorably on our committee, has never been accused 518 00:32:31,560 --> 00:32:35,480 Speaker 1: of any kind of wrongdoing. This is a patently unfair 519 00:32:35,480 --> 00:32:39,560 Speaker 1: smear by miss McCarthy. But that's that's what he trafficks in, 520 00:32:39,640 --> 00:32:42,760 Speaker 1: and that's that's what we're seeing. Never never been accused 521 00:32:42,760 --> 00:32:46,560 Speaker 1: of any wrongdoing except for sleeping with an actual Chinese spy. 522 00:32:47,080 --> 00:32:49,800 Speaker 1: And we're not talking theoretical. Her name was Fang Fang 523 00:32:50,840 --> 00:32:54,200 Speaker 1: And my understanding, though I have not actually seen the 524 00:32:55,240 --> 00:32:58,080 Speaker 1: classified briefing on this, but my understanding from the press 525 00:32:58,160 --> 00:33:01,480 Speaker 1: coverage is she was an actual spy working for the 526 00:33:01,560 --> 00:33:06,720 Speaker 1: Chinese Communist government, assigned to spy on Eric Swalwell. And 527 00:33:06,920 --> 00:33:09,120 Speaker 1: mind you, what are the Democrats saying, oh, let he 528 00:33:09,160 --> 00:33:10,880 Speaker 1: should be on the Intel committee. He was on the 529 00:33:10,880 --> 00:33:14,880 Speaker 1: Intelligence committee. He should have access to the most secure secrets. 530 00:33:16,080 --> 00:33:22,120 Speaker 1: Even though and listen, we've talked about on this podcast 531 00:33:22,200 --> 00:33:29,120 Speaker 1: how structurally the Democrat Party today is pro China. Their 532 00:33:29,240 --> 00:33:35,840 Speaker 1: major constituencies, they're major stakeholders, big business, big tech, big entertainment, 533 00:33:35,960 --> 00:33:41,320 Speaker 1: big big university, TikTok that they are all in bed 534 00:33:41,360 --> 00:33:44,120 Speaker 1: with China. And we've said the Democrat Party today is 535 00:33:44,160 --> 00:33:47,120 Speaker 1: in bed with China. Eric Swalwell just took that a 536 00:33:47,120 --> 00:33:52,960 Speaker 1: little too literally. I got it. There's been a lot 537 00:33:53,080 --> 00:33:57,840 Speaker 1: about classified documents, and just so people understand the abuse 538 00:33:57,880 --> 00:34:01,080 Speaker 1: here and how much he was abusing his position of power, 539 00:34:01,080 --> 00:34:03,959 Speaker 1: and I'm referring to Adam Shift here obviously, and what 540 00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:06,440 Speaker 1: he was doing. If you go in and you get 541 00:34:06,440 --> 00:34:08,080 Speaker 1: to see stuff because you're in the intel command the 542 00:34:08,160 --> 00:34:11,200 Speaker 1: house this sent side, are you allowed to walk out 543 00:34:12,160 --> 00:34:15,480 Speaker 1: legally and talk to your colleagues who do not directly 544 00:34:15,520 --> 00:34:19,960 Speaker 1: have access to that information. How does top secret information work? 545 00:34:20,360 --> 00:34:22,920 Speaker 1: Because what he was doing was basically looking at it, 546 00:34:23,320 --> 00:34:26,160 Speaker 1: making up things that didn't exist, and then telling the 547 00:34:26,280 --> 00:34:29,880 Speaker 1: entire country about it. He'd go on national television and 548 00:34:29,920 --> 00:34:32,600 Speaker 1: he would say things that were one hundred and eighty 549 00:34:32,640 --> 00:34:36,160 Speaker 1: degrees opposite what he knew to be the case. And 550 00:34:36,239 --> 00:34:41,160 Speaker 1: so he wasn't abusing it in the sense of what 551 00:34:41,320 --> 00:34:44,600 Speaker 1: Joe Biden was doing, which is leaving classified documents next 552 00:34:44,600 --> 00:34:48,360 Speaker 1: to his corvette. That's a different kind of violation. But 553 00:34:48,520 --> 00:34:51,719 Speaker 1: what he was doing was abusing his power because he 554 00:34:51,800 --> 00:34:54,799 Speaker 1: had access to that information. He had a level of 555 00:34:54,800 --> 00:34:57,480 Speaker 1: credibility that when he went on a Sunday show and 556 00:34:57,520 --> 00:35:01,719 Speaker 1: he said, here's what the intelligence tells us, people are like, oh, okay, well, 557 00:35:01,760 --> 00:35:06,680 Speaker 1: he's in a position to know. And his willingness to 558 00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:10,000 Speaker 1: just flat out lie. It reminds me of the old 559 00:35:10,920 --> 00:35:15,560 Speaker 1: backhanded compliment of Bill Clinton he's an unusually good liar. Yeah. Well, 560 00:35:15,960 --> 00:35:19,719 Speaker 1: and by the way, it speaks volumes now that in 561 00:35:19,760 --> 00:35:23,160 Speaker 1: the wake of being thrown off off the Intelligence Committee, 562 00:35:23,160 --> 00:35:26,200 Speaker 1: what is Adam Schiff doing running for Senate in the 563 00:35:26,200 --> 00:35:30,080 Speaker 1: state of California. Get it, get a promotion right, it's 564 00:35:30,120 --> 00:35:33,160 Speaker 1: he wants to he wants to come come to the 565 00:35:33,200 --> 00:35:36,719 Speaker 1: other side. He's running for Diane Feinstein's seat. So we'll 566 00:35:36,719 --> 00:35:39,720 Speaker 1: see what happens. And who knows, maybe with California Democrat 567 00:35:39,800 --> 00:35:45,440 Speaker 1: primary voters being a dishonest, hardcore left wing partisan, that 568 00:35:45,440 --> 00:35:50,560 Speaker 1: that might be a very attractive credential. Sadly with that 569 00:35:50,760 --> 00:35:54,520 Speaker 1: radicalized primary voter. Lastly, there's two quick things I want 570 00:35:54,520 --> 00:35:57,000 Speaker 1: to want to get your take on. One of them 571 00:35:57,040 --> 00:36:00,400 Speaker 1: was pretty shocking. It deals with religion. There was this 572 00:36:00,440 --> 00:36:03,400 Speaker 1: new poll put out and it's very different to see 573 00:36:03,640 --> 00:36:08,319 Speaker 1: how Republicans conservatives look at faith and how Democrats look 574 00:36:08,360 --> 00:36:10,319 Speaker 1: at faith. And I want to throw this up there 575 00:36:10,360 --> 00:36:13,640 Speaker 1: for people so they can see this because Democrats literally 576 00:36:13,680 --> 00:36:17,239 Speaker 1: have and this is again coming from David Bernstein after 577 00:36:17,320 --> 00:36:20,839 Speaker 1: looking at this poll, Democrats literally have a more favorable 578 00:36:20,920 --> 00:36:26,600 Speaker 1: view of Wicca and witches than of orthodox Judaism and Jews. 579 00:36:27,360 --> 00:36:30,400 Speaker 1: You look at Republicans the top line there, do you 580 00:36:30,440 --> 00:36:34,560 Speaker 1: have a favorable one in the following groups? Christianity, Democrats 581 00:36:34,600 --> 00:36:39,800 Speaker 1: plus twenty nine Republicans totally different plus fifty four. Now 582 00:36:40,120 --> 00:36:45,000 Speaker 1: this to me is shocking. Catholicism six percent plus for Democrats, 583 00:36:45,080 --> 00:36:50,560 Speaker 1: twenty nine for Republicans. These are numbers that terrify me 584 00:36:50,640 --> 00:36:52,319 Speaker 1: about to say, of this country and where we're heading 585 00:36:52,320 --> 00:36:54,279 Speaker 1: when it comes to lack of faith. Yeah, Look, the 586 00:36:54,400 --> 00:36:58,600 Speaker 1: Democrat party today is a party where hostility to faith 587 00:36:58,880 --> 00:37:02,200 Speaker 1: is normalized. And so this question, this was a national 588 00:37:02,239 --> 00:37:04,320 Speaker 1: poll done on you gov and it was just asked, 589 00:37:04,520 --> 00:37:07,480 Speaker 1: do you have a favorable or unfavorable view of the 590 00:37:07,520 --> 00:37:11,960 Speaker 1: following faiths? And so not controversial by the way, that's 591 00:37:11,960 --> 00:37:16,319 Speaker 1: a pretty simple question. So when you ask Democrats, they 592 00:37:16,320 --> 00:37:24,879 Speaker 1: have a favorable unfavorable view of Protestantism plus twelve. When 593 00:37:24,880 --> 00:37:29,839 Speaker 1: you ask Catholicism plus six, which means almost as many 594 00:37:30,440 --> 00:37:33,640 Speaker 1: Democrats have a negative view of Catholicism as have a 595 00:37:33,680 --> 00:37:39,200 Speaker 1: positive view. By the way, contrast that to Buddhism, Yeah, 596 00:37:39,200 --> 00:37:43,920 Speaker 1: where Democrats have a plus twenty nine. So Democrats are 597 00:37:44,080 --> 00:37:48,840 Speaker 1: much much more hostile to Catholics than they are to 598 00:37:48,880 --> 00:37:52,560 Speaker 1: Buddhism or Agnostics. Let's take a look at agnostics plus 599 00:37:52,600 --> 00:37:56,120 Speaker 1: twenty four. They love them some agnostics. Yet you look 600 00:37:56,120 --> 00:37:58,920 Speaker 1: at Amash for example, look at the difference between Republicans 601 00:37:58,920 --> 00:38:02,640 Speaker 1: and Democrats. There negative one for Democrats plus twenty four 602 00:38:03,120 --> 00:38:12,000 Speaker 1: for Republicans, Atheists Democrats plus thirteen. But then it's interesting 603 00:38:12,040 --> 00:38:16,959 Speaker 1: Southern Baptist. You and I are both Southern Baptists minus seventeen. 604 00:38:17,280 --> 00:38:22,280 Speaker 1: Democrats hate them, some Southern Baptists, And it really is striking. 605 00:38:23,080 --> 00:38:29,719 Speaker 1: So if you look at Orthodox Judaism, Democrats have a 606 00:38:29,960 --> 00:38:34,879 Speaker 1: negative three view of Orthodox Judaism, which means more Democrats 607 00:38:35,080 --> 00:38:38,239 Speaker 1: have a negative view of Orthodox Jews than positive view. 608 00:38:38,840 --> 00:38:42,080 Speaker 1: What is their view of Wickawicko, by the way, is witchcraft? Yes, 609 00:38:42,280 --> 00:38:44,359 Speaker 1: and that would be plus two, so it is it 610 00:38:44,440 --> 00:38:48,560 Speaker 1: is true. They literally have a more favorable view of 611 00:38:48,640 --> 00:38:53,759 Speaker 1: witchcraft than Orthodox Judaism. And I got to say this is, 612 00:38:54,960 --> 00:39:01,080 Speaker 1: by the way, Democrats also for Mormons, have a negative 613 00:39:01,200 --> 00:39:05,640 Speaker 1: twenty seven. So they hate Mormons, they hate Southern Baptists, 614 00:39:05,680 --> 00:39:09,440 Speaker 1: but they love Buddhists, they love Atheists, they love Agnostics, 615 00:39:09,480 --> 00:39:14,319 Speaker 1: and they even love witches more than Orthodox Jews. This 616 00:39:14,440 --> 00:39:18,880 Speaker 1: is frightening. This is frightening. It explains some of the 617 00:39:18,880 --> 00:39:22,040 Speaker 1: divide in our country because the numbers are very very different. 618 00:39:22,600 --> 00:39:26,839 Speaker 1: Party affiliation is a good predictor for what you think 619 00:39:26,920 --> 00:39:34,120 Speaker 1: about faith. But but I gotta say, I sincerely wish 620 00:39:34,320 --> 00:39:39,080 Speaker 1: both parties respected people of faith, and we're willing to 621 00:39:39,080 --> 00:39:42,880 Speaker 1: defend your right to live according to your faith and 622 00:39:42,920 --> 00:39:47,480 Speaker 1: your conscience. And the hostility Democrats have towards faith. This 623 00:39:47,560 --> 00:39:50,920 Speaker 1: is some of why its traditional values is traditional families. 624 00:39:51,760 --> 00:39:56,520 Speaker 1: It's traditional what makes I think America great. That's what 625 00:39:56,560 --> 00:40:00,160 Speaker 1: the Democratic Party is saying. We are openly and adamantly against, 626 00:40:00,360 --> 00:40:02,160 Speaker 1: and that should be saying I think people should be 627 00:40:02,160 --> 00:40:05,560 Speaker 1: looking at in elections moving forward. There's one other video 628 00:40:05,640 --> 00:40:08,439 Speaker 1: I have to I have to show everybody because it's 629 00:40:08,520 --> 00:40:12,040 Speaker 1: just too good not to. You've got and you and 630 00:40:12,080 --> 00:40:14,719 Speaker 1: I were laughing about this before the show, because if 631 00:40:14,760 --> 00:40:17,200 Speaker 1: you want to know how easy it is to get 632 00:40:17,239 --> 00:40:20,120 Speaker 1: a job, to get nominated for a good job and 633 00:40:20,239 --> 00:40:25,080 Speaker 1: the Biden administration, just look at this video of some 634 00:40:25,160 --> 00:40:28,920 Speaker 1: simple questions being asked to some nominees and a senator. 635 00:40:28,960 --> 00:40:31,040 Speaker 1: And this is this week. This is a hearing of 636 00:40:31,080 --> 00:40:35,440 Speaker 1: the Senate Judiciary Committee this week for a Biden nominee 637 00:40:35,480 --> 00:40:38,840 Speaker 1: to be a federal judge. So presumably your nominee to 638 00:40:38,880 --> 00:40:42,680 Speaker 1: be a federal judge something. Yeah, come on, a big deal. 639 00:40:42,760 --> 00:40:45,440 Speaker 1: Let's see how it went. Thank you, mister Chairman, and 640 00:40:45,600 --> 00:40:54,560 Speaker 1: congratulations to all of you. Judge on the far end, 641 00:40:57,120 --> 00:41:05,680 Speaker 1: tell me what article five of the Constitution does. Article 642 00:41:05,800 --> 00:41:08,800 Speaker 1: five is not coming to mind at the moment. Okay, 643 00:41:08,920 --> 00:41:21,759 Speaker 1: how about Article two? Neither is article two? Okay, do 644 00:41:21,880 --> 00:41:30,560 Speaker 1: you know what purposivism is? In my twelve years as 645 00:41:30,600 --> 00:41:34,319 Speaker 1: an assistant Attorney General and my nine years serving as 646 00:41:34,480 --> 00:41:38,280 Speaker 1: a judge, I was not faced with that precise question. 647 00:41:39,280 --> 00:41:42,120 Speaker 1: We are the highest trial court in Washington State, so 648 00:41:42,160 --> 00:41:46,680 Speaker 1: I'm frequently faced with issues that I'm not familiar with, 649 00:41:46,880 --> 00:41:51,120 Speaker 1: and I thoroughly review the law, our research, and apply 650 00:41:51,200 --> 00:41:53,440 Speaker 1: the law to the facts presented to me. Well, you're 651 00:41:53,440 --> 00:41:56,080 Speaker 1: going to be faced with it as if you're confirmed. 652 00:41:56,840 --> 00:42:01,239 Speaker 1: I can assure you that. Look, I gotta say, this 653 00:42:01,280 --> 00:42:07,200 Speaker 1: woman is wildly unqualified to be a judge. And let's 654 00:42:07,239 --> 00:42:16,120 Speaker 1: talk about So the Constitution has seven articles. John Kennedy, 655 00:42:16,120 --> 00:42:18,680 Speaker 1: who is a dear friend. He's a brilliant legal scholar. 656 00:42:18,719 --> 00:42:21,320 Speaker 1: Actually he has you know, a bit of an accent 657 00:42:21,360 --> 00:42:24,040 Speaker 1: and kind of does a Mattlocke, you know, good old boy. 658 00:42:24,160 --> 00:42:28,879 Speaker 1: But he's wicked smart. And his question he begins with 659 00:42:29,080 --> 00:42:31,640 Speaker 1: Article five. Look, Article five is the article in the 660 00:42:31,640 --> 00:42:35,440 Speaker 1: Constitution that lays out how you amend the Constitution, and 661 00:42:35,480 --> 00:42:40,480 Speaker 1: it's the process that whereby we amend the Constitution. She 662 00:42:40,560 --> 00:42:44,080 Speaker 1: apparently didn't know that. That's not if you're an attorney. 663 00:42:44,080 --> 00:42:46,120 Speaker 1: That's a somewhat of a big deal. Can we can 664 00:42:46,160 --> 00:42:48,880 Speaker 1: we agree on that? As big a deal as it is. 665 00:42:49,440 --> 00:42:54,640 Speaker 1: Her next question is an even bigger deal. So the 666 00:42:54,760 --> 00:42:58,360 Speaker 1: first three articles of the Constitution. Article one establishes the 667 00:42:58,440 --> 00:43:03,160 Speaker 1: legislative branch. All legislative power is vested in the Congress. 668 00:43:03,200 --> 00:43:07,480 Speaker 1: That's what Article one does. Article two is the executive 669 00:43:07,520 --> 00:43:09,680 Speaker 1: branch of our federal government. It is the President of 670 00:43:09,719 --> 00:43:12,479 Speaker 1: the United States. It is all of the executive branch. 671 00:43:12,480 --> 00:43:16,239 Speaker 1: An Article three, by the way, is the judiciary. She 672 00:43:16,440 --> 00:43:20,880 Speaker 1: has been nominated to be what's called an Article three judge. 673 00:43:21,640 --> 00:43:24,440 Speaker 1: That's a very particular kind of judge. That's a federal 674 00:43:24,520 --> 00:43:27,360 Speaker 1: judge with life tenure. She's been nominated to be an 675 00:43:27,440 --> 00:43:31,080 Speaker 1: Article three judge, although I'm quite certain she has no 676 00:43:31,160 --> 00:43:38,120 Speaker 1: idea what that means. And it shows this administration's nominees. 677 00:43:38,640 --> 00:43:42,680 Speaker 1: They have consistently been number one, very much affirmative action picks. 678 00:43:42,680 --> 00:43:48,600 Speaker 1: They care intensely about the race and gender and sexual 679 00:43:48,600 --> 00:43:54,080 Speaker 1: orientation much more than anything resembling qualifications or judicial temperament 680 00:43:54,520 --> 00:43:59,240 Speaker 1: or skill. But they also care even more than bean counting. 681 00:44:00,200 --> 00:44:03,600 Speaker 1: They want radicals, and they have nominated I've never seen 682 00:44:03,680 --> 00:44:07,320 Speaker 1: judicial nominees this radical. You know, when Obama was president, 683 00:44:07,360 --> 00:44:10,480 Speaker 1: I was not a fan of his judicial nominees. Biden 684 00:44:10,600 --> 00:44:15,920 Speaker 1: has made the Obama nominees look normal of the road. Yeah, 685 00:44:16,160 --> 00:44:19,000 Speaker 1: for her not to know what Article two of the 686 00:44:19,040 --> 00:44:26,520 Speaker 1: Constitution is, I don't even the idea. This isn't an 687 00:44:26,640 --> 00:44:29,760 Speaker 1: a whole question. This is not an I got you question. 688 00:44:30,160 --> 00:44:32,839 Speaker 1: This isn't like saying to somebody name the random leader 689 00:44:32,840 --> 00:44:34,600 Speaker 1: of a certain country, or just to make you look 690 00:44:34,640 --> 00:44:38,840 Speaker 1: bad or embarrass you asking someone what Article two of 691 00:44:38,920 --> 00:44:41,960 Speaker 1: the Constitution is. If you're a lawyer, you should know that, 692 00:44:42,760 --> 00:44:45,879 Speaker 1: especially if you want to be a federal judge. This 693 00:44:45,960 --> 00:44:49,279 Speaker 1: is not Look, there are questions you could ask that 694 00:44:49,320 --> 00:44:53,640 Speaker 1: are subtle got you questions. Yeah, what's Article two of 695 00:44:53,719 --> 00:44:59,520 Speaker 1: the Constitution ain't one of them. It's stunning. And by 696 00:44:59,520 --> 00:45:02,640 Speaker 1: the way, prediction is every Democrat will vote to confirm her, 697 00:45:03,400 --> 00:45:06,839 Speaker 1: because in two years, do you know how many Democrats 698 00:45:06,840 --> 00:45:10,720 Speaker 1: have voted against a Biden judicial nominee. I'm guessing Warner 699 00:45:10,840 --> 00:45:14,239 Speaker 1: zero zero. So it's just they walk in the door. 700 00:45:14,320 --> 00:45:16,920 Speaker 1: Didn't matter what they say, what they do or don't know, 701 00:45:17,000 --> 00:45:20,200 Speaker 1: because the press won't cover it. This isn't on the news. 702 00:45:20,760 --> 00:45:24,840 Speaker 1: By the way, John Kennedy did this to a Trump nominee, 703 00:45:24,840 --> 00:45:29,480 Speaker 1: a Trump nominee where he asked a question about trial 704 00:45:29,520 --> 00:45:32,319 Speaker 1: practice and the Trump nominee didn't know the answer and 705 00:45:32,480 --> 00:45:36,840 Speaker 1: it was boom okay number one. Watching it, it was 706 00:45:36,920 --> 00:45:42,839 Speaker 1: like watching a trainwreck in slow motion. Trump White House 707 00:45:42,840 --> 00:45:48,279 Speaker 1: withdrew the nomination. That's actually if we had a functioning executive, 708 00:45:48,440 --> 00:45:52,399 Speaker 1: if the article too branch was actually working, Yeah, they 709 00:45:52,440 --> 00:45:55,480 Speaker 1: would know. Okay, I'm sorry this. She can't be a judge, 710 00:45:56,480 --> 00:46:00,160 Speaker 1: but they don't care. My prediction is every Democrat I'll 711 00:46:00,160 --> 00:46:02,320 Speaker 1: stick with her. Oh she doesn't need to know a 712 00:46:02,400 --> 00:46:04,640 Speaker 1: damn thing about the Constitution. Her job is to let 713 00:46:04,640 --> 00:46:07,200 Speaker 1: criminals go. She can do that without knowing anything about 714 00:46:07,200 --> 00:46:09,520 Speaker 1: the Constitution. It must be nice, easiest way to get 715 00:46:09,560 --> 00:46:12,080 Speaker 1: a job, that's for sure, Senator. Always a pleasure to 716 00:46:12,160 --> 00:46:14,359 Speaker 1: spend some time with you. We'll see all of you 717 00:46:14,360 --> 00:46:16,680 Speaker 1: guys back here, as you know, if you're watching this, 718 00:46:17,080 --> 00:46:20,799 Speaker 1: we do two other podcasts that are audio only. Make 719 00:46:20,840 --> 00:46:24,360 Speaker 1: sure you subscribe, hit that download button. It's free, and 720 00:46:24,400 --> 00:46:28,160 Speaker 1: you'll get all of the shows audio version. Three times 721 00:46:28,160 --> 00:46:30,680 Speaker 1: a week. We published Monday, Wednesday, Friday. We do one 722 00:46:30,719 --> 00:46:32,960 Speaker 1: show week, which is video. 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