WEBVTT - Hollywood Has a Predilection for Minors and Communists 0:00:01.760 --> 0:00:05.360 Just when you think Hollywood can't sink any lower, one 0:00:05.400 --> 0:00:09.320 of the biggest studios in town pushes pedophilia, and another 0:00:09.440 --> 0:00:12.680 huge Hollywood studio sucks up to one of the worst 0:00:12.680 --> 0:00:21.400 regimes on Earth. This is Verdict with Ted Cruz. Welcome 0:00:21.400 --> 0:00:24.040 back to Verdict with Ted Cruz. I'm Michael Knowles, joined 0:00:24.079 --> 0:00:27.000 as ever by the Senator. I do want to get 0:00:27.120 --> 0:00:30.319 to Cutie's. I do want to get to Mulan, But 0:00:30.520 --> 0:00:33.520 first there is some breaking legal news, and I guess 0:00:33.520 --> 0:00:35.800 we're gonna be talking about the legality of everything. Actually, 0:00:35.800 --> 0:00:38.159 two bits of news that involve you, Senator. One is 0:00:38.880 --> 0:00:43.080 your new book, your upcoming book, One Vote Away, How 0:00:43.120 --> 0:00:46.920 a single Supreme Court Seat can Change History, that is 0:00:46.920 --> 0:00:49.760 coming out in about three weeks. And then related to that, 0:00:50.360 --> 0:00:53.000 you have been added to the shortlist to the President's 0:00:53.040 --> 0:00:55.520 shortlist for the Supreme Court. So I have to ask you, 0:00:56.040 --> 0:00:59.280 will you be that one seat that can change history? No, 0:00:59.600 --> 0:01:02.080 I'm not gonna be. I'm very happy where I am. 0:01:02.080 --> 0:01:06.240 Come on, you're not gonna do it, but it matters immensely. 0:01:06.280 --> 0:01:08.640 I don't want the job, but but but I do 0:01:08.800 --> 0:01:11.920 care a great deal about who gets it. And and 0:01:12.160 --> 0:01:15.759 that book that's a book I've been working on really 0:01:15.800 --> 0:01:18.200 since this spring. I spent the spring and summer during 0:01:18.280 --> 0:01:22.640 Lockdown writing it. And actually the copy you're holding is 0:01:22.640 --> 0:01:25.600 the first hard copy I've actually seen that it is 0:01:25.640 --> 0:01:28.440 like a physical, real book. We literally just got that 0:01:28.480 --> 0:01:31.560 a few minutes ago. October sixth is when it's going 0:01:31.640 --> 0:01:35.120 to be released, although it's on Amazon now for pre order. 0:01:35.200 --> 0:01:38.560 It's also if you go to one votaway dot com 0:01:38.680 --> 0:01:41.080 that'll connect you to Amazon, you can pre order it there. 0:01:41.480 --> 0:01:44.400 And what the book does is it really goes through 0:01:45.720 --> 0:01:49.160 all of the fundamental constitutional liberties that are hanging in 0:01:49.200 --> 0:01:51.760 the balance at the court. And each chapter in the 0:01:51.760 --> 0:01:55.600 book is a different constitutional liberty. So there's a chapter 0:01:55.640 --> 0:01:58.000 on free speech, there's a chapter on religious liberty. There's 0:01:58.000 --> 0:02:00.840 a chapter on the Second Amendment. There's a chapter on 0:02:01.000 --> 0:02:05.360 US sovereignty. There's a chapter on politics and elections that 0:02:05.480 --> 0:02:09.400 talks in depth about Bush versus Gore, something that could 0:02:09.480 --> 0:02:13.720 well be highly relevant in another two months as we 0:02:13.800 --> 0:02:18.480 see Democrats in all likelihood litigating the results of this election. 0:02:18.960 --> 0:02:21.040 Could you could have Bush versus score at times fifty 0:02:21.440 --> 0:02:24.079 all over the place and multiple jurisdictions, And what the 0:02:24.080 --> 0:02:28.760 book tries to do is just It tells the inside 0:02:28.800 --> 0:02:33.560 stories of the major landmark cases, many of which I 0:02:34.560 --> 0:02:36.160 helped litigate it. So I was I was in the 0:02:36.200 --> 0:02:38.520 middle of a lot of these cases, and so Bush 0:02:38.600 --> 0:02:40.640 versus Gore. I was a young lawyer as part of 0:02:40.680 --> 0:02:44.120 George W. Bush's legal team. So I tell the inside stories. 0:02:44.160 --> 0:02:49.120 And you know, it's designed to be interesting, to be accessible. 0:02:49.160 --> 0:02:50.680 You don't have to be a lawyer to read it. 0:02:50.480 --> 0:02:53.160 It's designed to really tell you, all right, what's what's 0:02:53.200 --> 0:02:55.440 going on in these cases, what's going on at the court. 0:02:56.120 --> 0:03:01.440 Why do I as an American care about Supreme Court nominations? 0:03:01.480 --> 0:03:05.000 And what stunning and most people don't realize is just 0:03:05.120 --> 0:03:08.280 how many of our fundamental liberties are hanging by a 0:03:08.320 --> 0:03:12.680 single vote, either positive or negative. In some cases, one 0:03:12.800 --> 0:03:17.320 additional conservative vote would make a really positive difference. In 0:03:17.400 --> 0:03:20.520 a whole lot of other instances, one additional liberal vote. 0:03:20.560 --> 0:03:24.760 We have four radical leftist justices on the Court. One more, 0:03:25.919 --> 0:03:28.040 I think would be devastating, And I don't think it's 0:03:28.040 --> 0:03:31.320 too much of an overstatement to say that that may 0:03:31.360 --> 0:03:34.639 well be the single most important issue in this twenty 0:03:34.680 --> 0:03:37.480 twenty election. This is the problem, and it's why I 0:03:37.680 --> 0:03:40.760 like the idea of you senator on the Supreme Court, 0:03:40.840 --> 0:03:42.520 because you know, we've had a lot of conservatives go 0:03:42.600 --> 0:03:45.280 squishy once they get onto the Court. But of course 0:03:46.200 --> 0:03:47.600 we also need you in the Senate. We all should 0:03:47.680 --> 0:03:49.800 need you in the political fights. I like being in 0:03:49.840 --> 0:03:53.920 the political fight. Yeah, I like being and the court's 0:03:53.920 --> 0:03:56.440 the wrong place to do that. If I were a justice, 0:03:56.920 --> 0:03:58.880 i'd stay out of political fights. I'd stay out of 0:03:58.920 --> 0:04:02.720 policy fights. A principal judge doesn't engage in that. You 0:04:02.760 --> 0:04:04.720 simply follow the law. That's what I do if I 0:04:04.760 --> 0:04:07.200 were a justice, I don't want to do that. Yeah, 0:04:07.240 --> 0:04:09.440 I want to be right in the middle of the fight. 0:04:09.720 --> 0:04:11.440 And I gotta tell you, I look at the Senate, 0:04:11.480 --> 0:04:14.280 I look at the political scene. We need fighters right now. 0:04:15.600 --> 0:04:19.080 I think what we're doing on this podcast, I hope 0:04:19.120 --> 0:04:23.600 makes a difference, engaging on issues that matter. And so 0:04:23.680 --> 0:04:28.039 I hope to be part of nominating and confirming two, three, four, 0:04:28.279 --> 0:04:33.960 five great principled constitutionalist justices. But I don't want to 0:04:34.000 --> 0:04:35.440 be one of them myself, all right, So I will 0:04:35.440 --> 0:04:39.039 stop for now pressuring you to accept a potential Supreme 0:04:39.040 --> 0:04:40.839 Court nomination. I do want to get to one of 0:04:40.839 --> 0:04:44.080 those fights that you're involved in now, which is this 0:04:44.120 --> 0:04:48.120 issue of Cuties. Cuties is this French movie that sexualizes 0:04:48.160 --> 0:04:51.880 eleven year old girls and it's now on Netflix. Netflix 0:04:52.000 --> 0:04:55.880 is promoting this thing like crazy. The poster is nauseating, 0:04:55.880 --> 0:04:58.840 the movie is nauseating. You came out very strongly and 0:04:58.880 --> 0:05:02.560 called for a Justice Apartment investigation into whether this is 0:05:02.680 --> 0:05:05.960 what child pornography or exploitation. Can you can you lay 0:05:05.960 --> 0:05:08.680 down the legal aspect of this? So last week I 0:05:08.720 --> 0:05:11.640 wrote a letter to Attorney General Barr into the Department 0:05:11.640 --> 0:05:15.839 of Justice, asking the Department of Justice to investigate whether 0:05:15.960 --> 0:05:19.760 Netflix has violated any of the criminal laws prohibiting the 0:05:19.800 --> 0:05:23.560 distribution of child pornography. And you know, it's an interesting thing. 0:05:23.640 --> 0:05:26.480 So this movie is all about eleven year old girls 0:05:26.520 --> 0:05:29.240 and the actresses, as I understand it, are eleven year 0:05:29.279 --> 0:05:36.520 old girls who are dancing suggestively, dancing like strippers, engaged 0:05:36.560 --> 0:05:43.880 in sexually explicit conduct on screen, and Netflix, a US company, 0:05:44.000 --> 0:05:50.039 is promoting it and pushing it. And that's not okay. 0:05:50.200 --> 0:05:54.479 Sexually exploiting. Look, I'm the dad of two little girls. 0:05:55.120 --> 0:06:00.320 Abusing kids is not okay. And just because net Flix 0:06:00.480 --> 0:06:03.680 is now one of the Hollywood elite. Everyone treats it 0:06:03.720 --> 0:06:06.960 as perfectly fine to take out to produce a movie 0:06:06.960 --> 0:06:10.799 and distribute a movie where kids are being sexually exploited, 0:06:10.839 --> 0:06:15.960 and that is a federal crime to sexually exploit children. Well, 0:06:15.960 --> 0:06:19.880 here's what Netflix is saying. Netflix says this is completely misunderstood. 0:06:19.920 --> 0:06:21.760 A lot of prominent left wingers are saying this too. 0:06:21.800 --> 0:06:24.680 That's completely being misunderstood by right wingers who haven't seen 0:06:24.720 --> 0:06:29.080 the movie. And this puts conservatives in a terrible box 0:06:29.120 --> 0:06:31.599 because from everything we know about the movie, we don't 0:06:31.640 --> 0:06:34.640 want to watch it, right, But then you're told that, well, 0:06:34.640 --> 0:06:36.040 if you haven't watched it, and you can't have an 0:06:36.040 --> 0:06:38.680 opinion on it. I had no intention of watching this movie, 0:06:38.920 --> 0:06:40.680 but you know, I work for a news outlet. I 0:06:40.720 --> 0:06:43.359 was told by my editor that I had to watch 0:06:43.400 --> 0:06:45.560 the movie. I had said, I don't want to watch 0:06:45.560 --> 0:06:47.240 this as disgusting. I don't want to. They said, no, 0:06:47.320 --> 0:06:49.320 you have to watch it to give a review of it. 0:06:49.720 --> 0:06:51.680 So I was on vacation for a week. I was 0:06:51.720 --> 0:06:54.520 there with my wife and two of our friends. So 0:06:54.560 --> 0:06:57.480 we say, okay, put the movie on. It is as 0:06:57.520 --> 0:07:00.640 bad as they say. It is true that one of 0:07:00.680 --> 0:07:03.120 the messages of the movie, perhaps is that it's bad 0:07:03.160 --> 0:07:07.599 to sexually exploit kids. The problem is in conveying possibly 0:07:07.600 --> 0:07:11.360 that message the movie sexually exploits kids. I mean, there 0:07:11.360 --> 0:07:14.000 are moments you have to look away. My friends fiance 0:07:14.080 --> 0:07:16.440 when we were watching this, stormed out of the room 0:07:16.520 --> 0:07:21.480 in tears. It was that nauseating. How do we fight that? So, look, 0:07:21.480 --> 0:07:23.960 I haven't watched the movie. I'm not I don't bring 0:07:24.120 --> 0:07:28.760 much the movie, and I get and it's an odd 0:07:28.800 --> 0:07:31.239 thing that the sort of twitter world of the blue 0:07:31.280 --> 0:07:34.960 check bark journalists that are all defending kitty porn. Yea, 0:07:36.200 --> 0:07:39.040 you know, the law matters, and there actually is. So 0:07:39.640 --> 0:07:44.000 my letter to Attorney General bar explicitly cites the federal statue. 0:07:44.000 --> 0:07:45.640 And let me tell you what the federal statute provides. 0:07:46.120 --> 0:07:50.240 So it's eighteen USC. Section twenty two fifty two, and 0:07:50.360 --> 0:07:54.520 it says that any person who knowingly transports or ships 0:07:54.640 --> 0:07:57.760 using any means or facility of interstate or foreign commerce, 0:07:58.720 --> 0:08:04.120 any visual piction, if the producing of such visual depiction 0:08:04.800 --> 0:08:10.000 involves the use of a minor engaging in sexually explicit content. 0:08:10.240 --> 0:08:12.640 So this is the question, because when I watch it, 0:08:12.680 --> 0:08:15.280 I mean, the one good thing I can say about 0:08:15.320 --> 0:08:18.840 the movie is they're not nude, right, but it is 0:08:19.120 --> 0:08:22.480 licentious if there is no question, it is exploitative. So, 0:08:22.520 --> 0:08:24.920 and the statute doesn't require that they may nude. It 0:08:26.080 --> 0:08:31.800 prohibits distributing materials that have children engaging in sexually explicit content. 0:08:32.200 --> 0:08:35.520 Is the language of the statute, and the punishment under 0:08:35.520 --> 0:08:39.280 the statute for violating it is that you'll be fine 0:08:39.360 --> 0:08:42.120 under this titled and imprisoned not less than five years 0:08:42.120 --> 0:08:45.160 and not more than twenty years. But here's something interesting, Michael. 0:08:45.679 --> 0:08:49.200 There's actually an aggravator in the statute that says if 0:08:49.240 --> 0:08:54.240 the child or children in question have not attained twelve 0:08:54.360 --> 0:08:59.200 years of age, that the punishment is actually increased to 0:08:59.280 --> 0:09:02.319 a minimum of ten years in a maximum of twenty years. 0:09:02.880 --> 0:09:05.000 So in this case, we know there are eleven year 0:09:05.040 --> 0:09:07.920 old children. There's no dispute about that. I haven't seen 0:09:07.960 --> 0:09:11.520 the movie. I don't know if the depictions satisfy the 0:09:11.600 --> 0:09:15.640 requirements of the statute for sexually explicit conduct. But you 0:09:15.679 --> 0:09:19.320 know what, it's not my job as a US senator 0:09:19.360 --> 0:09:21.880 to investigate that. It is the Department of Justice's job. 0:09:21.960 --> 0:09:23.720 So I asked them, look, I don't know if this 0:09:23.800 --> 0:09:27.120 violates the law or not, there's certainly a prima facial case. 0:09:27.640 --> 0:09:31.920 We know their children. The ads they're putting out are 0:09:32.200 --> 0:09:37.680 explicitly sexual on the face of it. And you know, 0:09:37.720 --> 0:09:40.800 there was one one professor who tweeted back at me 0:09:40.840 --> 0:09:43.400 and said, well, you know, Cruz doesn't understand this is 0:09:43.400 --> 0:09:48.680 a French film. And definitely, well it was kind of 0:09:48.720 --> 0:09:51.840 interesting a because my letter explicitly references that it's a 0:09:51.840 --> 0:09:54.800 French film. So the professor, and this says something about 0:09:54.840 --> 0:09:56.719 the state of our academy hadn't bothered to read my 0:09:56.800 --> 0:09:58.920 letter but instead was happy to criticize it. Of course. 0:09:59.679 --> 0:10:04.120 But number two, it actually the child pornography laws in 0:10:04.160 --> 0:10:07.680 the US don't give you a blank pass if it 0:10:07.720 --> 0:10:11.400 happens to be produced overseas. It doesn't matter where child 0:10:11.440 --> 0:10:15.360 porn is produced. If you're distributing it, it is a felony. 0:10:15.400 --> 0:10:19.240 And by the way, Netflix is a multi billion dollar corporation. 0:10:19.320 --> 0:10:21.720 These guys are getting rich. This is a major for 0:10:21.880 --> 0:10:25.080 profit endeavor. And you know, one of the people who 0:10:25.160 --> 0:10:30.120 has been completely silenced on this is Barack Obama, and 0:10:30.320 --> 0:10:33.600 who has a deal with Netflix, and not a small deal, 0:10:33.640 --> 0:10:35.840 I mean, according to the public reporting, he's been paid 0:10:35.840 --> 0:10:40.280 what fifty million dollars from Netflix, So he is literally 0:10:40.360 --> 0:10:45.800 making tens of millions of dollars and is completely silent 0:10:45.960 --> 0:10:49.600 on is he okay with a company that is distributing 0:10:50.880 --> 0:10:54.439 at a minimum sexual exploitation of children. That's kind of 0:10:54.480 --> 0:10:58.640 the bare minimum. And there are a couple of reasons. Look, 0:10:58.640 --> 0:11:01.960 it is a reasonable question to say, all right, what 0:11:02.280 --> 0:11:05.720 is permissible? What is art? What is free speech? What 0:11:05.840 --> 0:11:10.040 is pornography? That those can be complicated questions, but and 0:11:10.400 --> 0:11:15.160 listen on the question of free speech and sexual conduct. 0:11:16.040 --> 0:11:21.200 What consenting adults do is their business. You know, consenting 0:11:21.240 --> 0:11:23.800 adults want to do something, knock yourself out. You got 0:11:23.800 --> 0:11:25.960 a right to do whatever you want. Well, on this 0:11:26.000 --> 0:11:28.760 issue of consenting adults. Actually, this ties in with another 0:11:28.920 --> 0:11:31.240 very very creepy thing that's going on now being pushed 0:11:31.240 --> 0:11:35.920 by Democrats in California. It's called Spey five. We have 0:11:35.920 --> 0:11:39.280 an newsom just signed it into law. This basically says 0:11:39.400 --> 0:11:41.800 that if a twenty four year old man has sex 0:11:41.840 --> 0:11:45.040 with a fourteen year old boy, he does not have 0:11:45.120 --> 0:11:49.280 to register as a sex offender. What is going on, 0:11:49.280 --> 0:11:51.720 I mean, what is that about? And how is that legal? 0:11:51.760 --> 0:11:53.680 I guess because obviously the fourteen year old is not 0:11:53.679 --> 0:11:57.640 a consenting adult. Well, today's Democratic Party, and this was 0:11:57.679 --> 0:12:00.839 pushed by the Democratic supermajorities and the californ on your legislature. 0:12:00.840 --> 0:12:03.680 It was signed by the Democratic governor of California. To 0:12:03.760 --> 0:12:06.320 the best of my knowledge, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris 0:12:06.360 --> 0:12:08.520 have been utterly silent on it. If they said anything 0:12:08.520 --> 0:12:11.160 on it, I certainly haven't seen it. But but it 0:12:11.160 --> 0:12:16.520 it is normalizing child abuse. And what it's saying. Listen, 0:12:16.920 --> 0:12:19.600 a twenty four year old having sex with a fourteen 0:12:19.679 --> 0:12:24.959 year old is not okay. And under the law, fourteen 0:12:25.040 --> 0:12:29.079 year olds young children are not permissibly allowed to consent. 0:12:29.240 --> 0:12:32.040 You have two adults, they can consent to whatever they want, 0:12:32.080 --> 0:12:36.600 but children don't by definition, don't have the legal ability 0:12:36.600 --> 0:12:41.559 to consent. And the problem is the Left that they're normalizing. 0:12:41.559 --> 0:12:44.000 It's why you see the media. They don't want to 0:12:44.040 --> 0:12:47.640 be critical of this Netflix movie because it suggests there 0:12:47.640 --> 0:12:50.760 are any standards or lines that can't be crossed. But 0:12:51.360 --> 0:12:54.079 when you produce a movie like like this Cuties movie 0:12:55.160 --> 0:13:01.680 number one, it okay, you gotta think repedophile in America, Yes, 0:13:01.840 --> 0:13:05.120 he is going to watch this movie, that this is titilation, 0:13:05.840 --> 0:13:09.520 that that will encourage and drive more pedophilia. But it 0:13:09.640 --> 0:13:15.360 also we know of at least some children who were 0:13:15.400 --> 0:13:19.080 directly harmed by this movie. And those are the child actresses, 0:13:19.920 --> 0:13:23.320 the eleven year olds who are being asked by their producer, 0:13:23.400 --> 0:13:27.040 asked by the director to engage in sexually explicit conduct. 0:13:27.080 --> 0:13:31.880 And and under the law there is no First Amendment 0:13:31.960 --> 0:13:35.440 right to film kitty porn, to distribute kitty porn. That 0:13:35.480 --> 0:13:40.800 when you're abusing a child, the usual responses is that 0:13:40.840 --> 0:13:43.560 you're prosecuted and locked up in jail, and that's designed 0:13:43.559 --> 0:13:46.959 to protect kids. But here's what they say, right, They'll say, well, 0:13:47.000 --> 0:13:50.199 it's not pornography. It might be sexually explicit, it might 0:13:50.240 --> 0:13:53.719 be exploitative, but it's not. It doesn't rise to the 0:13:53.800 --> 0:13:56.520 level of pornography. And the federal statute is not a 0:13:56.559 --> 0:14:00.040 pornography statute. So so so in actually this is not 0:14:00.200 --> 0:14:02.360 something I talk about in the book One Vote Away. 0:14:02.400 --> 0:14:06.400 But look, the Supreme Court for years engaged in the 0:14:06.400 --> 0:14:09.400 world of what is pornography, what is obscene, and what 0:14:09.600 --> 0:14:11.200 is not. I can't define it, but I know it 0:14:11.240 --> 0:14:13.920 when I see it. That was Potter Stewart's famous test 0:14:14.000 --> 0:14:15.920 for it, which which is I can't define it, but 0:14:16.000 --> 0:14:19.000 I know it when I see it, um, and uh, 0:14:19.480 --> 0:14:21.880 you know, they're they're great stories. I think Bob Woodward 0:14:21.920 --> 0:14:23.760 talks about it in The Brethren, where where they used 0:14:23.760 --> 0:14:26.480 to have in the seventies they would have airings of 0:14:26.480 --> 0:14:29.600 of porn movies that had been challenged on whether they 0:14:29.600 --> 0:14:31.360 were obscene or not, and the court would have to 0:14:31.400 --> 0:14:33.360 watch it to figure out and it would be I 0:14:33.440 --> 0:14:36.320 think in a basement, um they would they would air them. 0:14:36.640 --> 0:14:39.840 But but the I think it's Woodward tells the story 0:14:39.880 --> 0:14:41.880 of like the clerks would be sitting in the back 0:14:41.960 --> 0:14:44.840 going I see it. Yep, that's it, I say, I 0:14:45.000 --> 0:14:48.280 know it, I know it, and that's definitely it. As 0:14:48.280 --> 0:14:50.880 I recalled, I don't I hope I'm not telling tales 0:14:50.880 --> 0:14:53.320 at a school here. Did did you watch a porn 0:14:53.400 --> 0:14:56.560 movie once with Sandra day O'Connor. I did. It's It's 0:14:56.600 --> 0:14:58.200 one of the things I talk about it in the 0:14:58.200 --> 0:15:01.800 book the book as well, and it says awkward. You know, look, 0:15:01.800 --> 0:15:04.120 you're twenty six years old and you're with a woman 0:15:04.120 --> 0:15:07.040 in her seventies watching like graphic depicting. You're like, wow, okay, 0:15:07.120 --> 0:15:09.280 this is really awkward, but you know it was even 0:15:09.640 --> 0:15:14.160 I'm sure weirder and more awkward. William Renquest and Sandra 0:15:14.240 --> 0:15:17.080 Day O'Connor dated, that's right, in law school. They were 0:15:17.240 --> 0:15:19.960 They were classmates at Stanford. He was number one in 0:15:20.000 --> 0:15:22.400 the class, she was number three. I've always said, you know, 0:15:22.440 --> 0:15:24.520 I wonder what happened to the poor, poor Schelove who 0:15:24.560 --> 0:15:26.680 was number two. He's got to feel like a total loser, 0:15:26.680 --> 0:15:30.200 gotten by history. But not only did they date, so 0:15:30.320 --> 0:15:35.200 Renquist actually proposed marriage to O'Connor in law school. Now 0:15:35.240 --> 0:15:37.760 she turned him down. She married, She was Sandra Day. 0:15:37.880 --> 0:15:42.400 She married John O'Connor, and it ended up for fifty years. 0:15:42.960 --> 0:15:45.520 Justice O'Connor and her husband and the Chief and his 0:15:45.600 --> 0:15:50.280 wife were good friends. They socialized together. But imagine for 0:15:50.320 --> 0:15:52.920 a second you're in your seventies and your eighties and 0:15:52.920 --> 0:15:54.920 you're standing in a room with a woman you dated 0:15:54.960 --> 0:15:59.280 fifty years earlier, and there's porn on the screen. That 0:15:59.440 --> 0:16:01.720 was a weird and awkward moment, and you know it 0:16:01.760 --> 0:16:03.240 when you see it, And I think this is this 0:16:03.320 --> 0:16:06.960 is the key here because regardless, and by the way, 0:16:07.000 --> 0:16:09.920 I'm glad the Supreme Court is out of the business 0:16:09.960 --> 0:16:12.760 of assessing whether a particular film is or is an 0:16:12.760 --> 0:16:18.760 obscene that that that sort of amorphous judgment, Uh, didn't 0:16:18.760 --> 0:16:20.320 make any sense for the court to be in And 0:16:20.400 --> 0:16:24.680 I think this the First Amendment protects a lot of speech, 0:16:24.720 --> 0:16:27.960 but what it doesn't protect is abusing kids. That that 0:16:27.960 --> 0:16:31.360 that kids are aligned, that that is just qualitatively different 0:16:31.560 --> 0:16:35.280 from adults. Right, and and even even if even if 0:16:35.320 --> 0:16:37.720 the Netflix argument is right, that this doesn't rise to 0:16:37.720 --> 0:16:39.960 the level of pornography. Actually, frankly, I mean, who know 0:16:40.200 --> 0:16:42.120 the parts that I shut my eyes to. Who knows? 0:16:42.160 --> 0:16:46.640 But it doesn't seem that it does. It's it's degenerate filth. 0:16:46.720 --> 0:16:49.480 It is exploitative, and I think it meets the criteria 0:16:49.520 --> 0:16:52.200 that the test of the statute is whether it's a 0:16:52.320 --> 0:16:57.120 visual depiction that involves the use of a minor engaging 0:16:57.120 --> 0:17:00.920 and sexually explicit conduct. Yeah. So, look, they could do 0:17:00.960 --> 0:17:04.440 a documentary on child abuse, on child trafficking that would 0:17:04.440 --> 0:17:06.720 actually be quite valuable a lot of kids. You know, 0:17:06.760 --> 0:17:09.840 one of the many problems with child porn is many 0:17:09.840 --> 0:17:12.520 of the kids are trafficked. They they're kept against their wishes. 0:17:12.520 --> 0:17:15.600 Not only can they not consent, but but in far 0:17:15.640 --> 0:17:19.320 too many instances, These are kids who are kidnapped and 0:17:19.560 --> 0:17:25.520 trafficked and forced to engage in these acts. And I 0:17:25.560 --> 0:17:28.520 think the Department of Justice should investigate whether this violates 0:17:28.520 --> 0:17:31.200 the law. But I think it speaks volumes that Hollywood 0:17:31.240 --> 0:17:33.360 thinks it's it's immune from the law, that that that 0:17:33.359 --> 0:17:37.720 that the standards that applied everyone else Hollywood is exempt from. 0:17:37.800 --> 0:17:40.119 There is something going on here, you know, there is 0:17:40.119 --> 0:17:43.200 something in common with the promotion of this movie Cuties 0:17:43.440 --> 0:17:47.560 with SP one forty five. I remember when when and 0:17:47.640 --> 0:17:50.200 let me stop for a second on SPE one forty five. Yeah. 0:17:50.240 --> 0:17:53.960 So the argument that the California Democrats give in the legislature, 0:17:53.960 --> 0:17:56.240 as they say, this is a gay rights issue, and 0:17:56.720 --> 0:17:59.920 because it's already the case that if it's a heterosexual 0:18:00.080 --> 0:18:03.840 relationship twenty four to fourteen, then the offender doesn't need 0:18:03.880 --> 0:18:07.680 to register. It's whether someone registers as a sex offender. 0:18:07.720 --> 0:18:11.680 And as I understand at California law, if it's heterosexual 0:18:11.760 --> 0:18:14.840 says they don't have when this law said if it 0:18:14.960 --> 0:18:17.520 is homosexual, they don't have to. My view is, okay, 0:18:17.520 --> 0:18:19.840 the first law is a little bit crazy. Well, if 0:18:19.880 --> 0:18:23.119 you want to address that and have have parody, Okay, 0:18:23.119 --> 0:18:27.400 how about if you abuse a child, you register. Yeah, 0:18:27.440 --> 0:18:31.000 this did remind me of an issue that hit Bernie Sanders, 0:18:31.000 --> 0:18:33.919 your colleague in the Senate, back in twenty sixteen and 0:18:33.960 --> 0:18:37.199 twenty twenty, which is he wrote some very odd essays 0:18:37.240 --> 0:18:39.760 in the late nineteen sixties early nineteen seventies. In nineteen 0:18:39.800 --> 0:18:42.520 sixty nine, he wrote an essay called the Revolution is 0:18:42.600 --> 0:18:45.760 Life Versus Death something to that effect, in which he 0:18:46.280 --> 0:18:50.320 implies that we should normalize child sexual behavior. And it 0:18:50.440 --> 0:18:53.480 wasn't just Bernie who said this. This goes all the 0:18:53.480 --> 0:18:56.480 way back to a strange figure named Wilhelm Reich on 0:18:57.040 --> 0:19:00.679 the left who in the nineteen thirties he developed this 0:19:00.760 --> 0:19:03.560 theory of the universe that the whole life force is 0:19:03.560 --> 0:19:09.040 something called an orgon and war cancer disease, it's all caused. 0:19:09.160 --> 0:19:11.960 I feel embarrassing in saying this in front of us senator, 0:19:12.680 --> 0:19:15.320 It's caused by people not having enough orgasms. Seriously, this 0:19:15.359 --> 0:19:18.520 is what he said, and basically you needed something called 0:19:18.520 --> 0:19:22.240 an organ accumulator. Woody Allen later parodied this as the orgasmatron. 0:19:22.880 --> 0:19:26.119 Very prominent leftists owned these weird boxes that Norman Mailer 0:19:26.119 --> 0:19:30.160 had one, JD. Salinger had one, and this very kookie 0:19:30.160 --> 0:19:34.239 theory pervaded some leftist thought, radical thought all the way 0:19:34.320 --> 0:19:36.320 up through the nineteen seventies, and that's what Bernie Sanders 0:19:36.400 --> 0:19:38.520 was writing about. And frankly, I think it's what we're 0:19:38.520 --> 0:19:41.080 seeing today. Can I ask you a question, Michael here, 0:19:41.800 --> 0:19:44.239 what the hell do you guys study at Yale? But like, 0:19:44.359 --> 0:19:47.320 I'm sorry, I don't know this mandatory curriculum. Who this 0:19:48.359 --> 0:19:51.719 schmuck Schmidt whatever his name is. I'm not familiar with 0:19:51.760 --> 0:19:57.800 his writing professor. Yeah, well, okay, whatever it? Uh, yeah, okay, 0:19:57.840 --> 0:20:01.160 that's weird stuff, yam. In the remaining couple of minutes 0:20:01.200 --> 0:20:04.520 we have, we we've touched on Hollywood and the left 0:20:04.640 --> 0:20:07.399 broadly in all this kind of creepy sex issue. But 0:20:07.480 --> 0:20:10.240 let's not forget about the creepy a totalitarian issue. Because 0:20:10.240 --> 0:20:13.720 while you've got Netflix, you know, not just hosting this 0:20:13.720 --> 0:20:17.720 this creepy movie, but but promoting it, you've simultaneously got 0:20:17.760 --> 0:20:22.199 Disney coming out and thanking the Chinese government, groveling to 0:20:22.200 --> 0:20:25.200 the Chinese government even as they say that they might 0:20:25.240 --> 0:20:28.200 not be able to work in Georgia because Georgia passes 0:20:28.200 --> 0:20:30.880 a pro life law. Yeah. So this is the movie Mulan, 0:20:31.040 --> 0:20:34.960 which which Disney filmed and did a live action version 0:20:35.000 --> 0:20:38.520 of the animated film, and they filmed it in the 0:20:38.600 --> 0:20:42.800 region in China where the Wagers are are held in 0:20:42.880 --> 0:20:46.800 concentration camps, where they're being tortured, where where they're being murdered, 0:20:47.240 --> 0:20:52.120 and we're talking most estimates are more than a million weekers. 0:20:52.200 --> 0:20:55.320 Wagers are are an ethnic and religious minority in China. 0:20:55.720 --> 0:21:00.720 They're Muslims, and the Chinese government viciously persecutes the um. 0:21:01.840 --> 0:21:06.040 So Disney goes in films presumably right next to the 0:21:06.040 --> 0:21:11.439 concentration camps and the police agency the and when I 0:21:11.440 --> 0:21:15.600 say police agency, I mean the Communist Party stormtroopers, police 0:21:15.600 --> 0:21:21.160 state who are abusing and torturing the weakers. Disney thanks them. 0:21:21.800 --> 0:21:24.600 I mean it truly is so. I just joined a 0:21:24.640 --> 0:21:28.960 group of I think it's twenty other senators, bipartisan group, 0:21:29.880 --> 0:21:34.360 in writing a letter to the CEO of Disney asking 0:21:34.400 --> 0:21:38.560 a whole series of questions about why they were filming 0:21:39.600 --> 0:21:43.320 in China, what concessions they had to make to make 0:21:43.400 --> 0:21:46.480 to the Chinese government, what they knew about about the 0:21:46.520 --> 0:21:49.080 torture and murder of the Wagers, and why they are 0:21:49.200 --> 0:21:54.240 thanking the Titalitarian government engaged in that torture and murder, 0:21:54.560 --> 0:21:57.560 and we also asked for what communications they had about them. 0:21:57.560 --> 0:22:02.880 And look, we'll see how does he responds. But it's 0:22:02.920 --> 0:22:06.760 not complicated. The answer is because of money. I mean, look, 0:22:06.800 --> 0:22:09.720 we saw a similar story with the NBA that had 0:22:09.720 --> 0:22:12.439 a basketball camp in this same region and they actually 0:22:12.480 --> 0:22:17.000 had weager teenagers, fourteen and fifteen year old boys being 0:22:17.160 --> 0:22:21.680 physically abused. NBA coaches knew about it, the NBA knew 0:22:21.720 --> 0:22:24.680 about it, and they were just fine. And whether it's 0:22:24.800 --> 0:22:27.480 Disney or the NBA, you've got a lot of American 0:22:27.520 --> 0:22:32.440 companies that, in pursuit of the almighty dollar, are more 0:22:32.480 --> 0:22:36.600 than happy to kiss up to jack booted thugs in 0:22:36.920 --> 0:22:38.880 the Communist Party in China. Well, then, just to play 0:22:38.920 --> 0:22:41.680 Devil's advocate one more time in the last minute or 0:22:41.720 --> 0:22:44.800 so that we have left, what the left is doing 0:22:44.920 --> 0:22:47.639 right now is saying, on the issue of cuties and 0:22:47.720 --> 0:22:51.000 on the issue of Mulan, that conservatives or hypocrites, because 0:22:51.040 --> 0:22:53.960 conservatives we talk a good game on free speech, but 0:22:54.080 --> 0:22:56.720 then you know, we don't like the sexually explicit movie, 0:22:56.720 --> 0:22:59.479 and we don't like Disney, a private company, doing what 0:22:59.520 --> 0:23:01.119 it wants to do in the pursuit of the dollar. 0:23:01.760 --> 0:23:05.160 So are we hypocrites or not? Well, no, the laws 0:23:05.200 --> 0:23:07.680 should apply and the standards should apply fairly and even 0:23:07.760 --> 0:23:11.199 lead everyone. So in the world of child exploitation and 0:23:11.280 --> 0:23:15.280