1 00:00:01,360 --> 00:00:01,760 Speaker 1: Welcome. 2 00:00:01,800 --> 00:00:04,760 Speaker 2: It is Verdict with Ted Cruz, the Week in Review, 3 00:00:04,880 --> 00:00:06,800 Speaker 2: Ben Ferguson with you, and these are some of the 4 00:00:06,800 --> 00:00:08,879 Speaker 2: big stories that you might have missed that we talked 5 00:00:08,880 --> 00:00:12,840 Speaker 2: about this week. First up, it's not a surprise, but 6 00:00:13,039 --> 00:00:16,200 Speaker 2: it is a little shocking. The Democrats are now going 7 00:00:16,320 --> 00:00:19,800 Speaker 2: all in saying it is time to make sure they 8 00:00:19,880 --> 00:00:22,919 Speaker 2: keep Donald Trump out of the White House. How do 9 00:00:22,960 --> 00:00:26,159 Speaker 2: they want to do it by having Congress say no, 10 00:00:26,480 --> 00:00:29,480 Speaker 2: you cannot be president. This coming from the same party 11 00:00:29,480 --> 00:00:33,479 Speaker 2: that said that Donald Trump was a quote threat to democracy, 12 00:00:33,760 --> 00:00:36,400 Speaker 2: that he would be a dictator and a tyrant, and 13 00:00:36,440 --> 00:00:39,519 Speaker 2: he wouldn't respect the outcome of the election, and if 14 00:00:39,560 --> 00:00:42,600 Speaker 2: he got into office, he would never leave office. Well, 15 00:00:42,640 --> 00:00:46,640 Speaker 2: now the Democrats they're doing exactly what they said Donald 16 00:00:46,680 --> 00:00:49,920 Speaker 2: Trump was going to do. Also, there was a very 17 00:00:49,920 --> 00:00:53,480 Speaker 2: interesting moment that happened at the Turning Point USA conference 18 00:00:53,680 --> 00:00:56,760 Speaker 2: out in Arizona and an involved sater, Ted Cruz and 19 00:00:56,880 --> 00:01:01,720 Speaker 2: Donald Trump sharing the stage plus his speech at that event. Well, 20 00:01:01,840 --> 00:01:05,280 Speaker 2: it was an very very interesting one, especially about the 21 00:01:05,280 --> 00:01:07,920 Speaker 2: future of this country. We're going to have that for 22 00:01:07,959 --> 00:01:11,920 Speaker 2: you as well. And finally, the COVID cover up, we're 23 00:01:11,959 --> 00:01:14,520 Speaker 2: now finding out a lot more about just how far 24 00:01:14,720 --> 00:01:18,200 Speaker 2: they went to cover up the lab leak theory, and 25 00:01:18,280 --> 00:01:21,479 Speaker 2: now what we know about what the government did under 26 00:01:21,560 --> 00:01:23,520 Speaker 2: Fauci to cover. 27 00:01:23,400 --> 00:01:26,280 Speaker 1: Up all of it. It's the Weekend Review and it 28 00:01:26,440 --> 00:01:27,600 Speaker 1: starts right now. 29 00:01:28,959 --> 00:01:33,720 Speaker 2: The way that you're talking about accountability maybe explains why 30 00:01:33,800 --> 00:01:39,000 Speaker 2: we are now seeing Democrats write articles saying that it's 31 00:01:39,040 --> 00:01:41,839 Speaker 2: time to steal the election from Donald Trump. In the Hill, 32 00:01:41,959 --> 00:01:45,800 Speaker 2: for example, Congress has the power to block trumpet from 33 00:01:45,840 --> 00:01:50,600 Speaker 2: taking office, but lawmakers must quote act now. This was 34 00:01:50,640 --> 00:01:54,919 Speaker 2: an opinion, a piece written by two different individuals demanding 35 00:01:54,960 --> 00:01:58,760 Speaker 2: that the Democrats refuse to accept the outcome of the election. 36 00:01:58,960 --> 00:02:01,880 Speaker 1: So much for the party. It's obsessed with democracy, right. 37 00:02:02,160 --> 00:02:04,760 Speaker 3: Yeah, I gotta say. This is an article that was 38 00:02:04,800 --> 00:02:07,080 Speaker 3: in the Hill that it came out again on December twenty, 39 00:02:07,080 --> 00:02:10,560 Speaker 3: sixth day after Christmas. It is entitled Congress has the 40 00:02:10,560 --> 00:02:13,320 Speaker 3: power to block Trump from taking office, but lawmakers must 41 00:02:13,320 --> 00:02:18,040 Speaker 3: act now. And it is by Evan Davis and David Shulty, 42 00:02:19,480 --> 00:02:21,799 Speaker 3: who I don't know either one of these individuals. I 43 00:02:21,800 --> 00:02:26,080 Speaker 3: don't know anything about them. Their bio says Evan Davis 44 00:02:26,120 --> 00:02:27,919 Speaker 3: was editor in chief of the Columbia Law Review and 45 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:30,440 Speaker 3: David Shulty was editor in chief of the Yale Law Journal, 46 00:02:30,960 --> 00:02:34,120 Speaker 3: both clerk for Justice Potter Stewart. Davis is a New 47 00:02:34,200 --> 00:02:36,280 Speaker 3: York lawyer served as president of the New York City Bar, 48 00:02:36,320 --> 00:02:38,800 Speaker 3: and Shulty is a Chicago investment banker. I don't know 49 00:02:38,840 --> 00:02:42,000 Speaker 3: these guys, but it's been a long time since Potter 50 00:02:42,040 --> 00:02:44,760 Speaker 3: Stewart served on the Court, which means these are not 51 00:02:44,800 --> 00:02:48,600 Speaker 3: spring chickens. They were law clerks a long time ago. 52 00:02:49,040 --> 00:02:52,079 Speaker 3: I mean, I clerked for Chief Justice Rehnquist in nineteen 53 00:02:52,200 --> 00:02:55,120 Speaker 3: ninety six, and by the time I was there, Potter 54 00:02:55,160 --> 00:02:57,960 Speaker 3: Stewart had been long long god, and I got to 55 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:00,120 Speaker 3: say that. The most screamingly funny part of it it 56 00:03:00,200 --> 00:03:02,240 Speaker 3: is they begin their bios with they were editor in 57 00:03:02,280 --> 00:03:05,040 Speaker 3: chief of the Columbia Law Review and the dal Law Journal. Like, 58 00:03:05,200 --> 00:03:08,360 Speaker 3: I'm sorry, these are presumably accomplished lawyers who were grown 59 00:03:08,400 --> 00:03:11,840 Speaker 3: ass adults and they're quoting the law review they were 60 00:03:11,840 --> 00:03:15,600 Speaker 3: on when they were twenty four years old. That's just ridiculous. 61 00:03:15,639 --> 00:03:20,959 Speaker 3: And it actually it makes the rest of the article 62 00:03:21,040 --> 00:03:25,160 Speaker 3: makes sense, because listen, part of the reason our academy 63 00:03:25,440 --> 00:03:29,799 Speaker 3: is so messed up is you have people who are 64 00:03:29,800 --> 00:03:34,000 Speaker 3: disconnected from reality. Who are hardcore leftists. Far too many 65 00:03:34,040 --> 00:03:38,840 Speaker 3: people in our universities are openly Marxist. When I was 66 00:03:38,880 --> 00:03:41,600 Speaker 3: at Harvard Law School, there were more professors on the 67 00:03:41,640 --> 00:03:46,080 Speaker 3: faculty who were explicitly Marxist than there were who were Republican. 68 00:03:46,120 --> 00:03:47,600 Speaker 3: And it wasn't even close. There were there were more 69 00:03:47,640 --> 00:03:52,360 Speaker 3: than a dozen by their own self description Marxist professors there. 70 00:03:52,520 --> 00:03:55,200 Speaker 3: There was only one open Republican on the faculty when 71 00:03:55,240 --> 00:03:58,800 Speaker 3: I was there. But what these two numb skulls are 72 00:03:58,880 --> 00:04:03,040 Speaker 3: arguing is that Congress, when we come together on January sixth, 73 00:04:03,080 --> 00:04:07,160 Speaker 3: should block Trump from becoming president, and we should do so. 74 00:04:07,280 --> 00:04:10,480 Speaker 3: They argue under the fourteenth Amendment, Section three of the 75 00:04:10,520 --> 00:04:13,960 Speaker 3: Constitution that says, no person shall hold any office of 76 00:04:14,160 --> 00:04:17,400 Speaker 3: or military who, having previously taken an oath supports Constitution, 77 00:04:17,680 --> 00:04:21,880 Speaker 3: shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same. Now, 78 00:04:22,240 --> 00:04:27,080 Speaker 3: they argue, this has been disqualification. The evidence of Trump's 79 00:04:27,160 --> 00:04:31,080 Speaker 3: engagement and insurrection is overwhelming. It has been decided in 80 00:04:31,200 --> 00:04:34,159 Speaker 3: three separate forums, they write, two of which are fully contested, 81 00:04:34,160 --> 00:04:37,599 Speaker 3: with the active participation in Trump's council. The first was 82 00:04:37,640 --> 00:04:42,960 Speaker 3: Trump's second impeachment trial. The second contested proceeding was Colorado's 83 00:04:43,000 --> 00:04:47,840 Speaker 3: five day judicial judicial d process hearing where they found 84 00:04:48,080 --> 00:04:50,599 Speaker 3: that trumpeld engage in insurrection and barred in from the ballot. 85 00:04:51,080 --> 00:04:53,800 Speaker 3: And finally there is the bipartisan inquiry of the House 86 00:04:53,800 --> 00:04:59,120 Speaker 3: Select Committee to investigate January sixth. Now, the stupidity of 87 00:04:59,160 --> 00:05:02,320 Speaker 3: this argument literally leaps off of every syllable of every 88 00:05:02,320 --> 00:05:05,760 Speaker 3: word that they have written. Let's take the first. Okay, 89 00:05:05,800 --> 00:05:09,680 Speaker 3: a bunch of partisan Democrats in peach Trump because they 90 00:05:09,680 --> 00:05:11,480 Speaker 3: hate him. And by the way, to be clear, verdict 91 00:05:11,600 --> 00:05:14,400 Speaker 3: was launched in response not to the second impeachment and 92 00:05:14,480 --> 00:05:16,839 Speaker 3: been an response to the first impeachment trial, because we 93 00:05:16,880 --> 00:05:21,520 Speaker 3: have seen law fair against Donald Trump. Trump derangement syndrome 94 00:05:21,680 --> 00:05:24,679 Speaker 3: is real. It is a serious mental illness. These people 95 00:05:24,720 --> 00:05:28,360 Speaker 3: are friggin nuts. They hate his guts. They've lost their minds. 96 00:05:28,360 --> 00:05:32,440 Speaker 3: And at this point understand, these two numskulls and every 97 00:05:32,520 --> 00:05:38,039 Speaker 3: other Democrat who engage is in fantasy about this is 98 00:05:38,080 --> 00:05:41,960 Speaker 3: an election denier and an insurrectionist. They are trying to say, 99 00:05:42,120 --> 00:05:44,200 Speaker 3: we don't care that the voters voted, we don't care 100 00:05:44,240 --> 00:05:46,720 Speaker 3: that the result was overwhelming, we don't care that of 101 00:05:46,839 --> 00:05:50,839 Speaker 3: the seven contested battleground states Donald Trump one, not two, 102 00:05:50,880 --> 00:05:53,239 Speaker 3: not three, not four, not five, nine, six, but seven 103 00:05:53,400 --> 00:05:57,440 Speaker 3: all seven. We don't care. We are angry leftists, and 104 00:05:57,560 --> 00:06:01,599 Speaker 3: their argument is we should block it. Now. To be clear, 105 00:06:02,400 --> 00:06:05,400 Speaker 3: they said there were three different proceedings that had determined 106 00:06:05,440 --> 00:06:07,839 Speaker 3: he was an insurrectionists. The first was the impeachment trial. 107 00:06:08,160 --> 00:06:11,520 Speaker 3: Of course, the impeachment trial is two parts. One is 108 00:06:11,520 --> 00:06:14,160 Speaker 3: the impeachment in the House of Representatives, and partisan Democrats 109 00:06:14,160 --> 00:06:15,680 Speaker 3: did impeach him. But then it went to the Senate 110 00:06:15,720 --> 00:06:17,640 Speaker 3: and there was a trial, and at the end of 111 00:06:17,680 --> 00:06:20,719 Speaker 3: the trial, Donald Trump was acquitted. They ignore that fact 112 00:06:20,760 --> 00:06:23,600 Speaker 3: that literally is not mentioned in the roped. The second 113 00:06:24,360 --> 00:06:27,800 Speaker 3: is the Colorado the radical partisan decision of the Colorado 114 00:06:27,839 --> 00:06:31,159 Speaker 3: Supreme Court, except for the fact that the US Supreme 115 00:06:31,200 --> 00:06:36,119 Speaker 3: Court unanimously reversed that decision. By the way, that's another 116 00:06:36,160 --> 00:06:39,520 Speaker 3: prediction I made on this podcast when the Colorado Supreme 117 00:06:39,520 --> 00:06:42,080 Speaker 3: Court came back down, I said, this will be reversed, 118 00:06:42,080 --> 00:06:45,040 Speaker 3: and it will be reversed unanimously. That's what the court did. 119 00:06:46,200 --> 00:06:49,440 Speaker 3: They barely acknowledged the Supreme Court reversed it, but they 120 00:06:49,560 --> 00:06:51,320 Speaker 3: just kind of ignore it and say, well, that's another 121 00:06:51,320 --> 00:06:53,360 Speaker 3: way it was determined in a decision that has been 122 00:06:53,400 --> 00:06:57,120 Speaker 3: reversed unanimously by the Supreme Court. And the third I 123 00:06:57,160 --> 00:07:00,840 Speaker 3: really laugh is the quote bipartisaning of the House Select 124 00:07:00,880 --> 00:07:05,080 Speaker 3: Committee to investigate January sixth. Now, it's bipartisan because Liz 125 00:07:05,160 --> 00:07:07,880 Speaker 3: Cheney and Adam Kinzing are two people fully afflicted by 126 00:07:07,920 --> 00:07:11,160 Speaker 3: Trump arrangements center more included. Of course, Nancy Pelosi allowed 127 00:07:11,200 --> 00:07:12,120 Speaker 3: no Republicans on. 128 00:07:12,400 --> 00:07:15,480 Speaker 2: Rather they voted for Kamwa Harris and Joe Biden. Yeah, 129 00:07:15,520 --> 00:07:17,720 Speaker 2: so let's not forget that. But they're like, oh, they 130 00:07:17,840 --> 00:07:19,120 Speaker 2: act like they were Republicans. 131 00:07:19,160 --> 00:07:19,600 Speaker 1: No, they're not. 132 00:07:20,280 --> 00:07:22,040 Speaker 3: I'd look to be clear. And by the way, both 133 00:07:22,080 --> 00:07:24,280 Speaker 3: of them also campaigned against me. I was really grateful 134 00:07:24,280 --> 00:07:25,960 Speaker 3: for it. I think that was quite helpful, probably drove 135 00:07:26,040 --> 00:07:31,320 Speaker 3: votes my way. But to call that inquiry bipartisan when 136 00:07:32,280 --> 00:07:35,800 Speaker 3: the way committees are put together on Capitol Hill is 137 00:07:36,240 --> 00:07:40,680 Speaker 3: that both sides pick. The Republicans pick the Republicans on 138 00:07:40,720 --> 00:07:43,400 Speaker 3: the committee, the Democrats pick the Democrats on the committee. Well, 139 00:07:43,400 --> 00:07:46,080 Speaker 3: for the January sixth committee, Nancy Pelosi said no, no, no, 140 00:07:46,520 --> 00:07:49,800 Speaker 3: I'm picking the Republicans. And the only Republicans I will 141 00:07:49,840 --> 00:07:52,400 Speaker 3: allow on are people who hate Donald Trump, who are 142 00:07:52,440 --> 00:07:54,440 Speaker 3: foaming at the mouth that will do everything they can 143 00:07:54,480 --> 00:07:56,880 Speaker 3: to destroy Donald Trump. They're the only ones I will 144 00:07:56,880 --> 00:08:01,040 Speaker 3: allow on. And so you know, when you had other 145 00:08:01,120 --> 00:08:03,840 Speaker 3: Republicans that Kevin McCarthy was trying to put on, Nancy 146 00:08:03,880 --> 00:08:07,320 Speaker 3: Pelos said, Nope, they are not welcome. We only take 147 00:08:08,280 --> 00:08:11,200 Speaker 3: Republicans who agree with the Democrats on everything that ain't 148 00:08:11,200 --> 00:08:13,600 Speaker 3: a bipartisan inquiry. And by the way, we're getting more 149 00:08:13,600 --> 00:08:16,600 Speaker 3: and more evidence of just how skew that was. The 150 00:08:16,680 --> 00:08:19,200 Speaker 3: point is, at the end of the day, it doesn't 151 00:08:19,240 --> 00:08:23,240 Speaker 3: really matter what this op ed was other than it 152 00:08:23,320 --> 00:08:27,720 Speaker 3: is a window into the eyes of what the hard 153 00:08:27,920 --> 00:08:32,840 Speaker 3: left is. They hate Trump so much. Sigmund Freud talked 154 00:08:32,840 --> 00:08:36,960 Speaker 3: about projection, and the left engages in projection all the time. 155 00:08:37,679 --> 00:08:40,959 Speaker 3: Everything they accuse their enemies of doing is what they 156 00:08:40,960 --> 00:08:45,160 Speaker 3: are doing. They claim to be defending democracy. This may 157 00:08:45,280 --> 00:08:49,360 Speaker 3: be the most anti democratic article I have ever read, 158 00:08:50,040 --> 00:08:53,280 Speaker 3: which is saying that Congress should say, I don't care 159 00:08:53,360 --> 00:08:55,520 Speaker 3: that the voters elected Trump. And by the way, they 160 00:08:55,520 --> 00:08:58,880 Speaker 3: don't dispute that the voters elect Trump. They fully accept Yes, 161 00:08:59,000 --> 00:09:02,040 Speaker 3: the American people came to vote and want Donald Trump, 162 00:09:02,440 --> 00:09:06,000 Speaker 3: but we know better than they do, and so take 163 00:09:06,040 --> 00:09:10,000 Speaker 3: a stand and take a stand to block what the 164 00:09:10,080 --> 00:09:14,240 Speaker 3: voters want. Why because we are democrats and we hate democracy. 165 00:09:14,400 --> 00:09:17,000 Speaker 3: They don't say that, but that's clearly what they conclude. 166 00:09:17,280 --> 00:09:19,679 Speaker 2: Now, if you want to hear the rest of this conversation, 167 00:09:19,920 --> 00:09:22,280 Speaker 2: you can go back and listen to the full podcast 168 00:09:22,360 --> 00:09:23,520 Speaker 2: from earlier this week. 169 00:09:24,600 --> 00:09:26,040 Speaker 1: Now onto story number two. 170 00:09:26,520 --> 00:09:29,680 Speaker 2: All right, so let's paint the stage here for everybody 171 00:09:29,679 --> 00:09:33,199 Speaker 2: that may not have seen your comments at turning point, 172 00:09:33,280 --> 00:09:36,280 Speaker 2: because when Donald Trump went up on stage, there was 173 00:09:36,320 --> 00:09:38,720 Speaker 2: a really funny moment you mentioned in the intro there, 174 00:09:39,400 --> 00:09:42,440 Speaker 2: and that was you being backstage. And then what was 175 00:09:42,480 --> 00:09:45,160 Speaker 2: funny was is people start putting on social media as 176 00:09:45,200 --> 00:09:47,800 Speaker 2: Center Cruz sneaking up on Trump on stage, which made 177 00:09:47,840 --> 00:09:50,719 Speaker 2: me laugh because he was looking for you. And I'm 178 00:09:50,720 --> 00:09:53,040 Speaker 2: glad that's the secret Service and you know, I tackle 179 00:09:53,080 --> 00:09:56,199 Speaker 2: you or anything. But this is what Donald Trump had 180 00:09:56,240 --> 00:09:58,160 Speaker 2: to say when he was looking for you. 181 00:09:58,200 --> 00:09:59,080 Speaker 1: It was hilarious. 182 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:01,600 Speaker 4: He used to be joined by a man who just 183 00:10:01,720 --> 00:10:05,720 Speaker 4: also we really did well in Texas. Then I heard 184 00:10:05,720 --> 00:10:08,839 Speaker 4: Ted's speech, and he can come up and speak more 185 00:10:08,840 --> 00:10:11,360 Speaker 4: of you once or he can just you know, Ted's 186 00:10:11,360 --> 00:10:13,720 Speaker 4: gonna be going to a big event. And a little while, 187 00:10:13,720 --> 00:10:18,920 Speaker 4: where's Ted Cruise? Is he here? He's here someplace Ted Dad? 188 00:10:20,360 --> 00:10:24,800 Speaker 3: Oh oh, oh, he's in trouble. 189 00:10:26,760 --> 00:10:30,440 Speaker 1: Oh he's in trouble. 190 00:10:32,559 --> 00:10:34,880 Speaker 3: By the way, the cheering right there is I'm walking. 191 00:10:34,600 --> 00:10:44,880 Speaker 1: Up my eyes. Oh oh good, he's not in trouble. 192 00:10:50,040 --> 00:10:57,120 Speaker 4: Keep Texas, Texas, Amen. And I've got to say this 193 00:10:57,240 --> 00:11:02,480 Speaker 4: election has given President Donald J. Trump, a Republican Senate 194 00:11:02,520 --> 00:11:07,079 Speaker 4: in a Republican House, a clear mandate to deliver on 195 00:11:07,160 --> 00:11:18,520 Speaker 4: our promises. One month from today, President Trump will secure 196 00:11:18,920 --> 00:11:24,760 Speaker 4: the border. We are going to bring back jobs. We 197 00:11:24,800 --> 00:11:27,760 Speaker 4: are going to lower prices. We are going to protect 198 00:11:27,800 --> 00:11:31,200 Speaker 4: American families. We're going to put criminals in jail. We 199 00:11:31,240 --> 00:11:37,520 Speaker 4: are going to keep our kids safe. We are going 200 00:11:37,600 --> 00:11:44,480 Speaker 4: to end foreign wars with victory. And I'll tell you, 201 00:11:44,520 --> 00:11:48,520 Speaker 4: mister President, the results of this election. Seven battleground states. 202 00:11:48,559 --> 00:11:54,440 Speaker 4: You won all seven. The people elected a Republican Senate 203 00:11:54,480 --> 00:11:58,360 Speaker 4: in a Republican House to have your back, and we 204 00:11:58,559 --> 00:12:07,640 Speaker 4: are going to deliver results. And if I can speak 205 00:12:07,679 --> 00:12:11,400 Speaker 4: parochially for a minute, one of the most consequential things 206 00:12:11,440 --> 00:12:16,599 Speaker 4: that happened in this race in Texas. You won profoundly 207 00:12:16,679 --> 00:12:20,600 Speaker 4: in Texas and both you and I won a majority 208 00:12:20,640 --> 00:12:29,480 Speaker 4: of Hispanic votes in the great state of Texas. That 209 00:12:29,760 --> 00:12:35,680 Speaker 4: is unprecedented. That is generational change, and it demonstrates that 210 00:12:35,760 --> 00:12:38,240 Speaker 4: we are going to protect our nation, we are going 211 00:12:38,320 --> 00:12:41,160 Speaker 4: to bring our country back, and we are going to 212 00:12:41,280 --> 00:12:43,280 Speaker 4: make America great again. 213 00:12:54,720 --> 00:12:56,680 Speaker 1: He's a great He's actually a great guy. 214 00:12:56,960 --> 00:12:59,560 Speaker 4: Was was really out there working. 215 00:13:00,000 --> 00:13:00,920 Speaker 1: I'm so glad he was here. 216 00:13:00,960 --> 00:13:08,000 Speaker 4: Oh that was an amazing moment. 217 00:13:10,520 --> 00:13:13,320 Speaker 2: I gotta tell you, I love just the end there 218 00:13:13,720 --> 00:13:19,080 Speaker 2: he's smiling, he's grinning. The demeanor and the interaction is 219 00:13:19,240 --> 00:13:21,840 Speaker 2: just seems to be very different this time than it 220 00:13:21,920 --> 00:13:24,920 Speaker 2: compared to twenty sixteen. It's like, you guys are on 221 00:13:24,960 --> 00:13:27,800 Speaker 2: the same football team going into the playoffs as a 222 00:13:27,840 --> 00:13:30,720 Speaker 2: team and let's whoop some ass. 223 00:13:31,360 --> 00:13:33,319 Speaker 3: Well, I think that's exactly right. And I got to 224 00:13:33,360 --> 00:13:39,040 Speaker 3: say at the entire America Fest, Trump was happy, he 225 00:13:39,120 --> 00:13:42,839 Speaker 3: was relaxed, he was feeling good. You could see it 226 00:13:43,360 --> 00:13:46,720 Speaker 3: in a way that just he was loose at having fun. 227 00:13:46,760 --> 00:13:50,680 Speaker 3: And listen, we're we're coming in with an incredible mandate. 228 00:13:50,840 --> 00:13:54,360 Speaker 3: We're gonna we're going to transform I believe the country, 229 00:13:55,080 --> 00:13:57,000 Speaker 3: and I think he's ready to get to work. And 230 00:13:57,320 --> 00:13:59,199 Speaker 3: I know I am, and I think all of us are. 231 00:14:00,520 --> 00:14:03,960 Speaker 2: So let's talk about his agenda for a second. One 232 00:14:03,960 --> 00:14:06,240 Speaker 2: of the things you talked about was the border. That 233 00:14:06,360 --> 00:14:08,520 Speaker 2: seems to be a very central point of what he 234 00:14:08,600 --> 00:14:12,200 Speaker 2: keeps talking about over and over again. And and is 235 00:14:12,240 --> 00:14:15,920 Speaker 2: that something that you and him have talked about very clearly, like, Hey, 236 00:14:16,040 --> 00:14:18,160 Speaker 2: this is square, this is step one. 237 00:14:18,400 --> 00:14:21,280 Speaker 1: Let's go. We're going to knock this out day one. 238 00:14:22,520 --> 00:14:26,240 Speaker 3: Absolutely, And the clearest single mandate of this election is 239 00:14:26,280 --> 00:14:30,280 Speaker 3: to secure the border. People are fed up with Joe Biden, 240 00:14:30,320 --> 00:14:33,160 Speaker 3: the Democrats open borders. They want it to end. They 241 00:14:33,200 --> 00:14:35,240 Speaker 3: want the border secured, and we're going to get that done. 242 00:14:35,360 --> 00:14:39,200 Speaker 3: And and Trump understands that. I think Republicans and the 243 00:14:39,240 --> 00:14:42,280 Speaker 3: Senate understand that. Republicans in the House understand that. And 244 00:14:42,760 --> 00:14:46,040 Speaker 3: we're going to get it done, which is exactly what 245 00:14:46,080 --> 00:14:47,440 Speaker 3: the voter sent us there to do. 246 00:14:47,920 --> 00:14:51,200 Speaker 2: I want to get back to the turning point event 247 00:14:51,240 --> 00:14:55,320 Speaker 2: that you just left. Obviously, Donald Trump was there, you 248 00:14:55,360 --> 00:14:58,320 Speaker 2: were asked to speak, and I want you to give 249 00:14:58,400 --> 00:15:01,720 Speaker 2: us a quick preview before we your speech, because this 250 00:15:01,800 --> 00:15:04,640 Speaker 2: is one of those speeches that I think is really 251 00:15:04,680 --> 00:15:08,480 Speaker 2: about setting the tone for what's coming in January. When 252 00:15:08,520 --> 00:15:11,400 Speaker 2: you guys have control of the Senate and the House 253 00:15:11,800 --> 00:15:12,680 Speaker 2: and the White House. 254 00:15:13,760 --> 00:15:16,240 Speaker 3: Well, I started this morning speaking, and this is about 255 00:15:16,280 --> 00:15:18,440 Speaker 3: an hour before the exchange that you heard at the 256 00:15:18,480 --> 00:15:21,800 Speaker 3: beginning of the podcast with President Trump and me. I addressed, 257 00:15:21,840 --> 00:15:25,080 Speaker 3: as I said, over three thousand young people activists at 258 00:15:25,120 --> 00:15:27,240 Speaker 3: Turning Point. It was incredible, and I really wanted to 259 00:15:27,360 --> 00:15:30,320 Speaker 3: encourage them. I wanted to encourage them that they had 260 00:15:30,360 --> 00:15:33,400 Speaker 3: had a profound impact on this election on this country. 261 00:15:33,920 --> 00:15:36,240 Speaker 3: And I also wanted to focus on now that we've won, 262 00:15:36,960 --> 00:15:38,480 Speaker 3: we've got a job to do. And so what I 263 00:15:38,520 --> 00:15:41,560 Speaker 3: intempted to do in these remarks is lay out here 264 00:15:41,600 --> 00:15:45,160 Speaker 3: are the deliverables that we need to accomplish in the 265 00:15:45,160 --> 00:15:48,760 Speaker 3: next two years to have a clear vision for what 266 00:15:48,840 --> 00:15:52,680 Speaker 3: to expect. I'm really excited. I'm excited about President Trump 267 00:15:52,760 --> 00:15:55,440 Speaker 3: being reelected and coming back into office. I'm excited about 268 00:15:55,440 --> 00:15:58,400 Speaker 3: a Republican Senate and a Republican House. But I also 269 00:15:59,000 --> 00:16:02,520 Speaker 3: have in front of me the absolute seriousness we need 270 00:16:02,520 --> 00:16:05,240 Speaker 3: to deliver on our promises. And so that's what I 271 00:16:05,240 --> 00:16:06,720 Speaker 3: had to say to Turning Point this morning. 272 00:16:07,080 --> 00:16:09,280 Speaker 1: Take a listen as we play this right now. 273 00:16:09,720 --> 00:16:19,320 Speaker 4: God bless Turning Point. We are looking at America. We 274 00:16:19,440 --> 00:16:23,880 Speaker 4: are gathered here at truly a momentous time. If you 275 00:16:23,920 --> 00:16:28,200 Speaker 4: were young and passionate and it was seventeen seventy six, 276 00:16:29,960 --> 00:16:33,960 Speaker 4: you would have been part of transforming and creating the 277 00:16:34,080 --> 00:16:38,320 Speaker 4: United States of America. If you were young and passionate 278 00:16:38,320 --> 00:16:41,120 Speaker 4: in the year was nineteen eighty and the Reagan Revolution 279 00:16:41,400 --> 00:16:45,880 Speaker 4: was happening, you would have been part of transforming the 280 00:16:45,960 --> 00:16:51,000 Speaker 4: United States of America. And today, in twenty twenty four, 281 00:16:51,360 --> 00:16:54,320 Speaker 4: you are young and passionate, and every one of you 282 00:16:54,480 --> 00:17:05,280 Speaker 4: is integral to transforming the United States of America. The 283 00:17:05,520 --> 00:17:12,560 Speaker 4: Washington Swamp is terrified of you. Chuck Schumer and Nancy 284 00:17:12,640 --> 00:17:20,000 Speaker 4: Pelosi and Kamala Harris are terrified of you. Joe Biden, well, no, 285 00:17:20,119 --> 00:17:22,239 Speaker 4: he's actually not terrified. He don't know where he is, 286 00:17:24,480 --> 00:17:26,560 Speaker 4: but he is wondering what time the People's Court is 287 00:17:26,600 --> 00:17:30,040 Speaker 4: on TV. If you look at what happened in November, 288 00:17:30,080 --> 00:17:36,679 Speaker 4: the results of the election were clear and unequivocal. Seven 289 00:17:36,760 --> 00:17:49,640 Speaker 4: battleground states across America. We won all seven. And I've 290 00:17:49,680 --> 00:17:53,919 Speaker 4: got to say, Donald J. Trump is truly an extraordinary leader. 291 00:17:54,920 --> 00:17:58,639 Speaker 4: Has there ever been anyone in American history who, after 292 00:17:58,800 --> 00:18:09,720 Speaker 4: being shot in the head, stands up and responds, fight fight, Fight. 293 00:18:12,920 --> 00:18:16,120 Speaker 4: The American people have given us the White House, They've 294 00:18:16,119 --> 00:18:20,360 Speaker 4: given us the House, they've given us the Senate. 295 00:18:21,720 --> 00:18:24,800 Speaker 3: Now it's time for us to deliver. 296 00:18:26,200 --> 00:18:30,240 Speaker 4: We have work to do to deliver on our promises. 297 00:18:30,320 --> 00:18:33,120 Speaker 4: So a year from now, two years from now, four 298 00:18:33,200 --> 00:18:36,840 Speaker 4: years from now, the American people can say they did 299 00:18:37,240 --> 00:18:41,480 Speaker 4: exactly what they said they would do. Number One, starting 300 00:18:41,560 --> 00:18:53,720 Speaker 4: on January twentieth, we will secure the border. Catch and 301 00:18:53,800 --> 00:19:04,240 Speaker 4: release ends on January twentieth. If you are an illegal alien, 302 00:19:04,960 --> 00:19:08,280 Speaker 4: if you're a murderer, if you're a rapist, if you're 303 00:19:08,280 --> 00:19:12,160 Speaker 4: a child molester, if you're a Venezuelan gang member, pack 304 00:19:12,320 --> 00:19:22,840 Speaker 4: your bags because you're getting the hell out. And I'm 305 00:19:22,840 --> 00:19:25,040 Speaker 4: here to tell you that's not gonna take a year. 306 00:19:25,080 --> 00:19:27,879 Speaker 4: It's not gonna take six months. We are going to 307 00:19:27,920 --> 00:19:31,640 Speaker 4: see the numbers of illegal immigration plummet, and they are 308 00:19:31,640 --> 00:19:35,600 Speaker 4: going to plummet in January and February of this year. 309 00:19:42,359 --> 00:19:50,080 Speaker 4: Number two, we are going to unleash American energy. America 310 00:19:50,200 --> 00:19:54,000 Speaker 4: is the world's energy superpower, the number one producer of 311 00:19:54,000 --> 00:19:56,960 Speaker 4: oil in the world, the number one producer of natural 312 00:19:57,040 --> 00:20:01,760 Speaker 4: gas in the world, and America will be energy dominance. 313 00:20:02,720 --> 00:20:05,920 Speaker 4: If you're fed up with high prices, high prices at 314 00:20:05,920 --> 00:20:09,040 Speaker 4: the gas pump, high prices at the grocery store, high 315 00:20:09,040 --> 00:20:12,920 Speaker 4: prices when you pay your bills, energy feeds into every 316 00:20:12,960 --> 00:20:16,160 Speaker 4: one of them. The American people in this election said 317 00:20:16,280 --> 00:20:19,280 Speaker 4: enough is enough is enough, and we are going to 318 00:20:19,400 --> 00:20:24,280 Speaker 4: lower energy costs and make life more affordable for everyone. 319 00:20:29,720 --> 00:20:36,359 Speaker 4: Number three, we are gonna unleash small business. The regulators 320 00:20:36,400 --> 00:20:41,040 Speaker 4: descending from Washington. We are going to repeal the rules 321 00:20:41,080 --> 00:20:44,480 Speaker 4: they're using to kill small businesses. And I'll tell you what. 322 00:20:44,880 --> 00:20:49,840 Speaker 4: We are also going to unleash crypto. I'm proud to 323 00:20:49,920 --> 00:20:53,199 Speaker 4: stand with crypto. I'm proud to stand with bitcoin, and 324 00:20:53,240 --> 00:20:55,600 Speaker 4: I am the only member of the United States Senate 325 00:20:55,760 --> 00:21:00,359 Speaker 4: who is in fact a bitcoin minor. I've got three 326 00:21:00,440 --> 00:21:04,840 Speaker 4: minors hashing in West Texas right now and it is beautiful. 327 00:21:05,520 --> 00:21:07,800 Speaker 4: And let me say to all of crypto at all 328 00:21:07,840 --> 00:21:13,399 Speaker 4: of bitcoin, come to Texas. Texas is the oasis for bitcoin. 329 00:21:18,400 --> 00:21:23,280 Speaker 4: Number four, we will restore integrity to the Department of 330 00:21:23,480 --> 00:21:27,240 Speaker 4: Justice and the FBI. If you are a wild eyed 331 00:21:27,280 --> 00:21:31,160 Speaker 4: partisan who has abused your power and targeted your political 332 00:21:31,280 --> 00:21:35,359 Speaker 4: enemies at DOJ or the FBI will pack your bags 333 00:21:35,400 --> 00:21:38,720 Speaker 4: because your job is done. And that means number five, 334 00:21:38,840 --> 00:21:50,720 Speaker 4: we will enforce the law, especially against universities across this country. 335 00:21:51,400 --> 00:21:55,720 Speaker 4: The anti Semitic protests we've seen at universities. 336 00:21:55,760 --> 00:21:57,639 Speaker 3: Will end next year. 337 00:22:02,080 --> 00:22:07,480 Speaker 4: If you violently protest, if you threaten your fellow students, 338 00:22:07,760 --> 00:22:11,160 Speaker 4: you will be arrested. You will be expelled, and if 339 00:22:11,200 --> 00:22:23,359 Speaker 4: you're a foreigner, you will be deported. And we're going 340 00:22:23,400 --> 00:22:26,280 Speaker 4: to see the Department of Justice and the FBI follow 341 00:22:26,359 --> 00:22:29,080 Speaker 4: the money, go after the money, cut off the money. 342 00:22:29,280 --> 00:22:33,760 Speaker 4: We're going to see universities that tolerate anti Semitism having 343 00:22:33,800 --> 00:22:43,440 Speaker 4: their federal funds cut off. And when your fellow students 344 00:22:43,440 --> 00:22:47,520 Speaker 4: look around and say, hey, why didn't this happen before, 345 00:22:47,680 --> 00:22:50,360 Speaker 4: Why did everyone look the other way at the violence 346 00:22:50,400 --> 00:22:53,800 Speaker 4: and the threats and the hatred and the bigotry, You're 347 00:22:53,840 --> 00:22:56,080 Speaker 4: going to be in a position to tell them. And 348 00:22:56,200 --> 00:23:02,199 Speaker 4: we will end the wars with victory. The war in 349 00:23:02,480 --> 00:23:06,959 Speaker 4: Ukraine will end this next year, and Vladimir Putin will lose, 350 00:23:08,600 --> 00:23:11,120 Speaker 4: and the war in Israel will come to an end, 351 00:23:11,200 --> 00:23:16,120 Speaker 4: and Hamas will lose, Hezbollah will lose, Iran will lose. 352 00:23:19,880 --> 00:23:22,000 Speaker 4: Every one of you stand up and speak, and I 353 00:23:22,040 --> 00:23:25,000 Speaker 4: want to encourage you inform your friends. When I ask 354 00:23:25,040 --> 00:23:28,280 Speaker 4: you pull out your cell phone. Pull out your cell 355 00:23:28,320 --> 00:23:32,960 Speaker 4: phone and send the word text the word verdict to 356 00:23:33,040 --> 00:23:38,280 Speaker 4: the number two four zero zero five. That number again, 357 00:23:38,440 --> 00:23:42,720 Speaker 4: two four zero zero five. Text the word verdict. You 358 00:23:42,800 --> 00:23:45,840 Speaker 4: will get in back a link to subscribe to my 359 00:23:46,000 --> 00:23:53,119 Speaker 4: podcast that is designed to help inform you to be 360 00:23:53,720 --> 00:23:56,640 Speaker 4: You are the ones who won this election. You are 361 00:23:56,720 --> 00:23:59,800 Speaker 4: the ones who are persuading your colleagues. You are the 362 00:23:59,800 --> 00:24:03,960 Speaker 4: one on to our inform and educated and engaged, and 363 00:24:04,200 --> 00:24:06,360 Speaker 4: just as if we were in nineteen eighty, just as 364 00:24:06,400 --> 00:24:10,640 Speaker 4: if we were in seventeen seventy six, I stand here 365 00:24:10,680 --> 00:24:14,199 Speaker 4: today amazed and inspired to be in the company of 366 00:24:14,280 --> 00:24:20,520 Speaker 4: patriots who love America, who together we are making America 367 00:24:20,680 --> 00:24:25,560 Speaker 4: great again. God bless you, and God bless the United 368 00:24:25,600 --> 00:24:27,120 Speaker 4: States of America. 369 00:24:29,280 --> 00:24:31,200 Speaker 2: As before, if you want to hear the rest of 370 00:24:31,240 --> 00:24:34,119 Speaker 2: this conversation on this topic, you can go back and 371 00:24:34,200 --> 00:24:36,639 Speaker 2: down the podcast from earlier this week to hear the 372 00:24:36,800 --> 00:24:40,200 Speaker 2: entire thing. I want to get back to the big 373 00:24:40,359 --> 00:24:42,399 Speaker 2: story number three of the week. You may have missed, 374 00:24:43,240 --> 00:24:48,399 Speaker 2: so Joe Biden's administration has got some cover ups going 375 00:24:48,440 --> 00:24:51,080 Speaker 2: on that the Wall Street Journal Center is reporting on. 376 00:24:51,720 --> 00:24:53,160 Speaker 1: Behind the Closed Doors. 377 00:24:53,440 --> 00:24:55,760 Speaker 2: We found out that the lab we cover up was 378 00:24:55,800 --> 00:24:59,040 Speaker 2: a legit cover up, and now since he's lost, it's like, oh, 379 00:24:59,080 --> 00:25:00,320 Speaker 2: we can report on this now. 380 00:25:01,440 --> 00:25:03,639 Speaker 3: Well. This was a story that came out in the 381 00:25:03,680 --> 00:25:05,919 Speaker 3: Wall Street Journal December twenty sixth, and it really is 382 00:25:05,920 --> 00:25:10,960 Speaker 3: a bombshell story and it describes how the federal government 383 00:25:11,040 --> 00:25:13,879 Speaker 3: essentially the deep state under Joe Biden. But this is 384 00:25:13,920 --> 00:25:16,720 Speaker 3: also true under Trump. They didn't The Journal article doesn't 385 00:25:16,720 --> 00:25:19,159 Speaker 3: talk about Trump, but I'm very interested to what was 386 00:25:19,160 --> 00:25:21,919 Speaker 3: happening under the Trump administration as well, but how the 387 00:25:21,960 --> 00:25:25,920 Speaker 3: deep state covered up the evidence and covered up the 388 00:25:25,960 --> 00:25:31,200 Speaker 3: scientists that were arguing that the COVID virus escaped from 389 00:25:31,200 --> 00:25:36,680 Speaker 3: the Wuhan lab in China, and it focuses on in particular, 390 00:25:36,720 --> 00:25:39,639 Speaker 3: it starts with Jason Bannon. So here I'm just going 391 00:25:39,720 --> 00:25:41,240 Speaker 3: to read you at the beginning of the article because 392 00:25:41,280 --> 00:25:43,760 Speaker 3: it lays it out. A car and driver had been 393 00:25:43,840 --> 00:25:46,920 Speaker 3: ready to whisk Jason Bannon from FBI headquarters early one 394 00:25:46,960 --> 00:25:49,800 Speaker 3: morning in August twenty twenty one to brief the White 395 00:25:49,800 --> 00:25:51,960 Speaker 3: House on a novel virus that was killing hundreds of 396 00:25:51,960 --> 00:25:54,680 Speaker 3: thousands of Americans that had stopped the world in its tracks. 397 00:25:55,480 --> 00:25:57,600 Speaker 3: Bannon had been told by his superiors to be on 398 00:25:57,680 --> 00:26:01,159 Speaker 3: hand in case the Federal Bureau of Investigation was asked 399 00:26:01,200 --> 00:26:04,200 Speaker 3: to join at top intelligence community briefing for the President, 400 00:26:04,960 --> 00:26:08,560 Speaker 3: but the White House summons never came. Bannon, at PhD 401 00:26:08,600 --> 00:26:12,000 Speaker 3: in microbiology, had joined the Bureau after the September eleventh 402 00:26:12,040 --> 00:26:15,000 Speaker 3: terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, when the agency 403 00:26:15,040 --> 00:26:17,199 Speaker 3: bulked up its expertise to deal with the threat of 404 00:26:17,240 --> 00:26:20,800 Speaker 3: germ weapons, toxins, and other weapons of mass destruction. But 405 00:26:20,920 --> 00:26:22,600 Speaker 3: for more than a year he had spent most of 406 00:26:22,600 --> 00:26:25,080 Speaker 3: his waking hours on the COVID nineteen virus that had 407 00:26:25,119 --> 00:26:29,840 Speaker 3: seeped out of China in twenty nineteen. Frustrated by China stonewalling, 408 00:26:29,880 --> 00:26:32,840 Speaker 3: President Biden had ordered an urgent assessment by the U 409 00:26:32,840 --> 00:26:36,280 Speaker 3: S intelligence agencies and national laboratories on whether the virus 410 00:26:36,320 --> 00:26:39,040 Speaker 3: had leaped from an animal to a human or it 411 00:26:39,200 --> 00:26:41,560 Speaker 3: escaped from a Chinese lab that had been doing extensive 412 00:26:41,600 --> 00:26:45,800 Speaker 3: work on coronaviruses. The dominant view within the intelligence community 413 00:26:45,960 --> 00:26:48,919 Speaker 3: was clear when Averill Haines, the Director of National Intelligence, 414 00:26:49,280 --> 00:26:51,679 Speaker 3: and a couple of our senior analysts brief Bidens and 415 00:26:51,720 --> 00:26:55,919 Speaker 3: its top aides. On August twenty fourth, the National Intelligence Council, 416 00:26:55,920 --> 00:26:58,639 Speaker 3: a body of senior intelligence officers who reported to Haines 417 00:26:59,040 --> 00:27:03,280 Speaker 3: and that organized the intelligence review, had concluded with quote 418 00:27:03,440 --> 00:27:07,040 Speaker 3: low confidence that COVID nineteen had emerged when the virus 419 00:27:07,119 --> 00:27:10,160 Speaker 3: leapt from an animal to a human. So did four 420 00:27:10,280 --> 00:27:15,040 Speaker 3: intelligence agencies at the time. The FBI was the only 421 00:27:15,080 --> 00:27:18,359 Speaker 3: agency that had concluded that a lab leak was likely, 422 00:27:18,680 --> 00:27:22,440 Speaker 3: a judgment that it had rendered with quote moderate confidence, 423 00:27:23,160 --> 00:27:28,000 Speaker 3: but neither Bannon nor any other FBI officials were at 424 00:27:28,040 --> 00:27:31,159 Speaker 3: the briefing to make the case first hand to the 425 00:27:31,200 --> 00:27:35,520 Speaker 3: president quote. Being the only agency that assessed a laboratory 426 00:27:35,680 --> 00:27:38,760 Speaker 3: origin was more likely and the agency that expressed the 427 00:27:38,840 --> 00:27:41,440 Speaker 3: highest level confidence in its analysis of the source of 428 00:27:41,480 --> 00:27:44,879 Speaker 3: the pandemic, we anticipated the FBI would be asked to 429 00:27:44,920 --> 00:27:47,560 Speaker 3: attend the briefing, Bannon recalled in his first on the 430 00:27:47,560 --> 00:27:51,679 Speaker 3: record interview on the subject. I find it surprising that 431 00:27:51,720 --> 00:27:53,680 Speaker 3: the White House didn't ask. In this article on the 432 00:27:53,680 --> 00:27:57,639 Speaker 3: Wall Street Journal, it goes on and on discussing Bannon, 433 00:27:57,720 --> 00:28:01,639 Speaker 3: this FBI scientist, but also scientists throughout the federal government 434 00:28:01,640 --> 00:28:04,440 Speaker 3: who had laid out evidence early on that COVID came 435 00:28:04,480 --> 00:28:08,880 Speaker 3: from a Chinese lab, and that evidence was systematically shut down, 436 00:28:08,960 --> 00:28:12,840 Speaker 3: It was systematically de emphasized, and it appears that it 437 00:28:12,920 --> 00:28:16,000 Speaker 3: was systematically blocked from going to the White House under 438 00:28:16,040 --> 00:28:18,280 Speaker 3: Joe Biden. And as I said, I'm very interested. The 439 00:28:18,280 --> 00:28:21,320 Speaker 3: Wall Street Journal doesn't report this, but my suspicion is 440 00:28:21,359 --> 00:28:23,639 Speaker 3: they were doing the exact same thing when Donald Trump 441 00:28:23,680 --> 00:28:24,119 Speaker 3: was president. 442 00:28:25,080 --> 00:28:28,600 Speaker 2: So here's my question, and this is a political one. 443 00:28:28,960 --> 00:28:32,440 Speaker 2: There are people that are really frustrated with so much 444 00:28:32,520 --> 00:28:35,480 Speaker 2: that happened around COVID and the answers we didn't get 445 00:28:35,520 --> 00:28:39,479 Speaker 2: in Fauci line to Congress. The list goes on and on, 446 00:28:39,840 --> 00:28:41,880 Speaker 2: and there's people that are frustrated in all right, now 447 00:28:41,880 --> 00:28:44,240 Speaker 2: that Republicans are in charge, what are they going to 448 00:28:44,320 --> 00:28:47,000 Speaker 2: do about it? Are they going to investigate? Are they 449 00:28:47,000 --> 00:28:49,479 Speaker 2: going to hold people accountable if they were lying to us, 450 00:28:49,520 --> 00:28:52,400 Speaker 2: whether it's on the origins with GEG of function research, 451 00:28:52,760 --> 00:28:57,280 Speaker 2: there's a long list. Should Republicans go down that rabbit 452 00:28:57,320 --> 00:29:00,160 Speaker 2: hole and do that? Or is that going to be 453 00:29:00,280 --> 00:29:02,920 Speaker 2: looked at by many Americans like, move on already, We've 454 00:29:02,960 --> 00:29:03,720 Speaker 2: done this already. 455 00:29:03,720 --> 00:29:04,880 Speaker 1: What are you doing already? 456 00:29:05,120 --> 00:29:08,520 Speaker 2: There's a real political price that you could pay from 457 00:29:08,600 --> 00:29:10,480 Speaker 2: being out of touch with what the American people want. 458 00:29:10,520 --> 00:29:12,600 Speaker 2: I know there's people that are angry and are frustrated, 459 00:29:12,960 --> 00:29:15,560 Speaker 2: But what should the strategy become January twentieth. 460 00:29:16,480 --> 00:29:20,440 Speaker 3: I think the strategy should be serious transparency, and it 461 00:29:20,440 --> 00:29:24,040 Speaker 3: should be accountability. It should be no, you are in 462 00:29:24,120 --> 00:29:30,120 Speaker 3: favor of accountabilitys coms okay, so let me let me 463 00:29:30,160 --> 00:29:33,640 Speaker 3: start with transparency. And this is a conversation I have 464 00:29:33,720 --> 00:29:36,120 Speaker 3: had the last couple of weeks with Pam Bondi, who's 465 00:29:36,120 --> 00:29:39,080 Speaker 3: been nominated to be the Attorney General, and with Cash Betel, 466 00:29:39,120 --> 00:29:41,200 Speaker 3: who's been nominated to be the director of the FBI, 467 00:29:41,320 --> 00:29:44,520 Speaker 3: and also with the nominee for the deputy director, deputy 468 00:29:44,520 --> 00:29:48,120 Speaker 3: Attorney General, and with other senior law enforcement nominees. I've said, 469 00:29:48,200 --> 00:29:52,680 Speaker 3: very simply, make the information public. Make it public on 470 00:29:52,800 --> 00:29:57,040 Speaker 3: January sixth, the confidential informants that were there, don't give 471 00:29:57,080 --> 00:29:59,960 Speaker 3: the names, don't out obviously people who are under cover. 472 00:30:00,640 --> 00:30:04,600 Speaker 3: But make the information public. It is a public interest 473 00:30:05,280 --> 00:30:08,200 Speaker 3: and on COVID nineteen, put the evidence out there and 474 00:30:08,200 --> 00:30:11,760 Speaker 3: make it public. I believe China was directly culpable, and 475 00:30:12,120 --> 00:30:14,240 Speaker 3: by the way, I will say, this is a prediction 476 00:30:15,720 --> 00:30:20,240 Speaker 3: that Verdict laid out almost before anybody out else. We 477 00:30:20,320 --> 00:30:24,720 Speaker 3: had two different podcasts I believe, in March and April 478 00:30:24,760 --> 00:30:28,640 Speaker 3: of twenty twenty one, right at the very beginning of COVID, 479 00:30:29,200 --> 00:30:33,040 Speaker 3: where we laid out the evidence that the COVID virus 480 00:30:33,120 --> 00:30:37,120 Speaker 3: came from a Chinese lab, and that evidence we're going 481 00:30:37,200 --> 00:30:39,000 Speaker 3: to do for New Year's We're going to do an 482 00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:41,640 Speaker 3: episode going through all of the predictions that Verdict has 483 00:30:41,760 --> 00:30:44,600 Speaker 3: laid out that have come true, because look, we have 484 00:30:44,680 --> 00:30:49,280 Speaker 3: not been shy on taking a risk, on making a prediction, 485 00:30:49,480 --> 00:30:54,800 Speaker 3: making a counter intuitive Look, when I said COVID came 486 00:30:54,800 --> 00:30:57,440 Speaker 3: from a Chinese virus at the time, that was almost 487 00:30:57,520 --> 00:31:00,080 Speaker 3: universally labeled misinformation. 488 00:31:00,800 --> 00:31:03,080 Speaker 2: Oh it well on social media, you couldn't post that. 489 00:31:03,120 --> 00:31:04,000 Speaker 2: They'd shut you down. 490 00:31:04,600 --> 00:31:06,680 Speaker 3: It remains remarkable to this day. I don't know why 491 00:31:06,720 --> 00:31:09,560 Speaker 3: they didn't block Verdict when we said it, because others 492 00:31:09,600 --> 00:31:13,480 Speaker 3: were getting blocked. Somehow we got through and it is 493 00:31:15,160 --> 00:31:20,120 Speaker 3: And by the way, I will say, it wasn't just 494 00:31:20,240 --> 00:31:22,440 Speaker 3: this scientist at the FBI. Let me go back to 495 00:31:22,440 --> 00:31:26,360 Speaker 3: the Wall Street Journal article. Here's a couple more paragraphs. 496 00:31:26,440 --> 00:31:30,480 Speaker 3: Quote three scientists at the National Center for Medical Intelligence, 497 00:31:31,080 --> 00:31:34,720 Speaker 3: part of the Pentagon's Defense Intelligence Agency, conducted a scientific 498 00:31:34,760 --> 00:31:38,400 Speaker 3: study that concluded that COVID nineteen was manipulated in a 499 00:31:38,480 --> 00:31:43,480 Speaker 3: laboratory in a risky research effort, but that analysis was 500 00:31:43,520 --> 00:31:46,040 Speaker 3: at odds with the assessment of their parent agency, the 501 00:31:46,040 --> 00:31:50,600 Speaker 3: Defense Intelligence Agency, and wasn't incorporated in the report presented 502 00:31:50,600 --> 00:31:54,200 Speaker 3: to Biden that if the DIA Inspector General's Office opened 503 00:31:54,240 --> 00:31:57,280 Speaker 3: an inquiry in the spring into whether the scientist's assessment 504 00:31:57,960 --> 00:32:03,600 Speaker 3: was mishandled or suppressed, familiar with the matter said and look, 505 00:32:03,680 --> 00:32:07,520 Speaker 3: I think this is important number one, because we need 506 00:32:07,560 --> 00:32:11,320 Speaker 3: truth and accountability. I think the Chinese government bears enormous 507 00:32:11,360 --> 00:32:16,400 Speaker 3: responsibility for the people who died, for the millions who died. 508 00:32:16,520 --> 00:32:22,200 Speaker 3: One point two million Americans are counted as having been 509 00:32:22,320 --> 00:32:26,640 Speaker 3: killed with the coronavirus, seven million people worldwide. It was 510 00:32:26,680 --> 00:32:31,680 Speaker 3: a massive consequence and the economy shut down globally, trillions 511 00:32:31,720 --> 00:32:36,680 Speaker 3: of dollars was destroyed, millions of lives, trillions of dollars. 512 00:32:36,720 --> 00:32:40,880 Speaker 3: And I believe the Chinese Communist government has direct culpability 513 00:32:40,920 --> 00:32:45,960 Speaker 3: for that. And I think the Trump administration would be 514 00:32:45,960 --> 00:32:48,200 Speaker 3: doing America in the world of service for making that 515 00:32:48,280 --> 00:32:51,400 Speaker 3: evidence public. But I also think it's important. Listen, there's 516 00:32:51,440 --> 00:32:55,880 Speaker 3: going to be another crisis. We don't want career bureaucrats 517 00:32:55,920 --> 00:33:00,160 Speaker 3: within the government suppressing evidence that they don't like. We 518 00:33:00,200 --> 00:33:05,040 Speaker 3: don't want career bureaucrats the deep state pushing their preferred narrative. 519 00:33:05,760 --> 00:33:07,840 Speaker 3: You got to ask why they were leaning in so 520 00:33:08,000 --> 00:33:12,360 Speaker 3: hard to protect China. Why was that the dominant narrative, 521 00:33:12,640 --> 00:33:18,240 Speaker 3: and why was everything else shut down? Because the next 522 00:33:18,280 --> 00:33:21,480 Speaker 3: crisis we face, Let's go back to the Wall Street 523 00:33:21,520 --> 00:33:25,360 Speaker 3: Journal article, because we also saw the scientific community lean 524 00:33:25,400 --> 00:33:29,440 Speaker 3: in like crazy. Here's another two paragraphs talking about two theories, 525 00:33:29,440 --> 00:33:31,840 Speaker 3: one that it came from an animal naturally in the 526 00:33:31,880 --> 00:33:35,240 Speaker 3: other that it came from a lab leak quote. Those 527 00:33:35,240 --> 00:33:38,440 Speaker 3: two theories have also divided the scientific community. In February 528 00:33:38,440 --> 00:33:41,760 Speaker 3: twenty twenty, more than two dozen scientists publish a statement 529 00:33:41,760 --> 00:33:45,520 Speaker 3: in the medical journal Landset calling the lab leek hypothesis 530 00:33:45,560 --> 00:33:49,920 Speaker 3: a conspiracy theory that would jeopardize global cooperation and the 531 00:33:49,960 --> 00:33:53,440 Speaker 3: struggle against the virus. One of the authors was Peter 532 00:33:53,560 --> 00:33:58,040 Speaker 3: Dazik of EcoHealth Alliance, a nonprofit that has worked extensively 533 00:33:58,080 --> 00:34:03,920 Speaker 3: on coronavirus research with the Wuhan Institute. That statement was 534 00:34:03,920 --> 00:34:06,160 Speaker 3: followed a month later by a March twenty twenty paper 535 00:34:06,200 --> 00:34:09,840 Speaker 3: on the proximal Origins of COVID nineteen, in which Kristin 536 00:34:09,880 --> 00:34:12,799 Speaker 3: Anderson of the Script's Research Institute and four other scientists 537 00:34:12,960 --> 00:34:17,520 Speaker 3: argued that the virus wasn't purposely manipulated in the laboratory 538 00:34:17,520 --> 00:34:21,080 Speaker 3: and almost certainly had natural origins. Now my view right now, 539 00:34:21,160 --> 00:34:23,759 Speaker 3: based on the evidence that is public, I think it 540 00:34:23,800 --> 00:34:29,000 Speaker 3: is overwhelmingly likely that the COVID virus escaped from a 541 00:34:29,080 --> 00:34:32,480 Speaker 3: Chinese government lab. And I think it is likely. I 542 00:34:32,520 --> 00:34:34,680 Speaker 3: wouldn't use the word overwhelmingly, but I think it is 543 00:34:34,760 --> 00:34:39,000 Speaker 3: greater than fifty percent that the COVID virus was manipulated 544 00:34:39,040 --> 00:34:42,440 Speaker 3: by those Chinese scientists through gain of function research to 545 00:34:42,560 --> 00:34:47,719 Speaker 3: make it either more deadly, more transmissible, or more in 546 00:34:47,840 --> 00:34:53,960 Speaker 3: particular able to impact humans. That has not been as 547 00:34:54,000 --> 00:34:57,799 Speaker 3: conclusively proven as has been proven in my judgment that 548 00:34:57,880 --> 00:35:00,239 Speaker 3: it escaped from a government lab. It's possible was a 549 00:35:00,320 --> 00:35:04,360 Speaker 3: natural virus and they screwed up and it escaped. It 550 00:35:04,440 --> 00:35:07,160 Speaker 3: is indisputable that China covered it up and did everything 551 00:35:07,160 --> 00:35:09,560 Speaker 3: they could to suppress it after the fact, but I 552 00:35:09,600 --> 00:35:11,560 Speaker 3: think it is more likely than not that not only 553 00:35:11,560 --> 00:35:13,560 Speaker 3: did it escape from a Chinese government lab, but they 554 00:35:13,880 --> 00:35:17,040 Speaker 3: created it through gain it to function research. We need 555 00:35:17,080 --> 00:35:19,320 Speaker 3: to know that. And I got to say the paragraph 556 00:35:19,400 --> 00:35:23,520 Speaker 3: I read, Peter Dazik got a whole lot of money 557 00:35:23,560 --> 00:35:27,280 Speaker 3: at the EcoHealth Alliance for doing research on coronavirus research 558 00:35:27,320 --> 00:35:30,600 Speaker 3: at the Wuhana Institute. There's every reason to expect he 559 00:35:30,719 --> 00:35:34,400 Speaker 3: was deeply invested in not having anyone know that. And 560 00:35:34,440 --> 00:35:37,520 Speaker 3: by the way, so was Anthony Fauci, and Anthony Fauci's 561 00:35:37,560 --> 00:35:41,480 Speaker 3: culpability Dazik's culpability. I hope we have congressional hearings on this. 562 00:35:41,880 --> 00:35:44,080 Speaker 3: I hope we get to the bottom of what actually happened, 563 00:35:44,080 --> 00:35:48,520 Speaker 3: because I think there is virtue to transparency and clarity, 564 00:35:49,200 --> 00:35:53,480 Speaker 3: both for accountability and responsibility for the Chinese Communist government, 565 00:35:53,520 --> 00:35:57,719 Speaker 3: but also to prevent manipulating the science for the next crisis. 566 00:35:58,120 --> 00:36:00,839 Speaker 2: So final question on this, and that's going to come 567 00:36:00,840 --> 00:36:01,719 Speaker 2: back to Fauci. 568 00:36:01,960 --> 00:36:04,640 Speaker 1: What does accountability look like for a guy like that? 569 00:36:05,120 --> 00:36:08,960 Speaker 3: Look, I don't know. I think it is likely that 570 00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:12,319 Speaker 3: Fauci lied to Congress under oath. Lying to Congress under 571 00:36:12,320 --> 00:36:15,600 Speaker 3: oath is a felony. I've called repeatedly. I've asked Merrick 572 00:36:15,680 --> 00:36:19,120 Speaker 3: Garland if he's opened an investigation, if he's willing to 573 00:36:19,160 --> 00:36:22,360 Speaker 3: prosecute Fauci. Merrick Garland had no interest in prosecuting Fauci. 574 00:36:22,719 --> 00:36:25,200 Speaker 3: As I'm sitting here right now, I don't remember the dates. 575 00:36:25,200 --> 00:36:27,640 Speaker 3: I think it is likely the statute of limitations has 576 00:36:27,680 --> 00:36:32,399 Speaker 3: expired on prosecuting him, So it may be I'm not 577 00:36:32,440 --> 00:36:34,080 Speaker 3: remembering the dates as you and I are doing this 578 00:36:34,200 --> 00:36:36,040 Speaker 3: right now, But I think there's a good chance that 579 00:36:36,080 --> 00:36:41,239 Speaker 3: Trump cannot prosecute Fauci for line to Congress. But I 580 00:36:41,280 --> 00:36:43,879 Speaker 3: think laying out that accountability is important, and I think 581 00:36:43,880 --> 00:36:46,440 Speaker 3: the reason the Biden DOJ didn't want to do so 582 00:36:46,600 --> 00:36:49,680 Speaker 3: is because this has been the most politicized Department of 583 00:36:49,800 --> 00:36:53,800 Speaker 3: Justice in history. Fauci went before Congress and insisted that 584 00:36:54,200 --> 00:36:57,680 Speaker 3: the US government had not paid for had not funded 585 00:36:57,680 --> 00:37:01,160 Speaker 3: gain A function research, and actually the NIH came back 586 00:37:01,200 --> 00:37:03,239 Speaker 3: and had to correct that after the fact and make 587 00:37:03,320 --> 00:37:05,440 Speaker 3: clear that what he said was false. 588 00:37:06,120 --> 00:37:09,440 Speaker 2: As always, thank you for listening to Verdict with Sentner, 589 00:37:09,480 --> 00:37:11,920 Speaker 2: Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you don't forget to deal 590 00:37:12,000 --> 00:37:14,200 Speaker 2: with my podcast and you can listen to my podcast 591 00:37:14,280 --> 00:37:16,239 Speaker 2: every other day you're not listening to Verdict, or each 592 00:37:16,320 --> 00:37:18,759 Speaker 2: day when you listen to Verdict afterwards, I'd love to 593 00:37:18,800 --> 00:37:21,880 Speaker 2: have you as a listener to again the Ben Ferguson Podcasts, 594 00:37:21,880 --> 00:37:24,400 Speaker 2: and we will see you back here on Monday morning.