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But before I 86 00:04:35,680 --> 00:04:38,400 Speaker 1: get to any of that, did I see you on 87 00:04:38,560 --> 00:04:42,400 Speaker 1: TV playing poker with some of the best poker players 88 00:04:42,400 --> 00:04:45,040 Speaker 1: in the world. EU did, and it was one of 89 00:04:45,080 --> 00:04:49,360 Speaker 1: the coolest things ever. I played in Poker after Dark, 90 00:04:49,520 --> 00:04:52,679 Speaker 1: so I will say I was like Doyle and Phil 91 00:04:52,920 --> 00:04:56,240 Speaker 1: I was giddy about. I was like, this was a 92 00:04:56,320 --> 00:05:00,799 Speaker 1: bucket list thing. I told my daughters we were fourteen 93 00:05:00,839 --> 00:05:03,080 Speaker 1: and eleven, and they're like, yeah, yeah, whatever, okay, some 94 00:05:03,080 --> 00:05:06,920 Speaker 1: poker players, What's what's the big deal? I told them 95 00:05:06,920 --> 00:05:09,600 Speaker 1: mister Beast is going to be there, and my girls 96 00:05:09,640 --> 00:05:13,920 Speaker 1: lost their minds, like mister be Like, so both girls 97 00:05:14,279 --> 00:05:18,320 Speaker 1: flew to Vegas to meet mister Beast. I mean, I mean, 98 00:05:18,480 --> 00:05:22,120 Speaker 1: it was. Look being in the Senate, it's hard to 99 00:05:22,160 --> 00:05:26,160 Speaker 1: do anything that seems remotely cool to a fourteen year 100 00:05:26,200 --> 00:05:29,000 Speaker 1: old or an eleven year old, especially a fourteen year old, 101 00:05:29,800 --> 00:05:32,719 Speaker 1: but for them to meet mister Beast, they thought it 102 00:05:32,760 --> 00:05:35,120 Speaker 1: was the coolest thing ever. And so I played poker. 103 00:05:35,600 --> 00:05:37,960 Speaker 1: They put out the first episode, so the game we 104 00:05:38,080 --> 00:05:41,760 Speaker 1: played for a couple hours. They chopped it into three episodes, 105 00:05:41,800 --> 00:05:44,440 Speaker 1: so part one has come out already, but there'll be 106 00:05:44,440 --> 00:05:47,440 Speaker 1: two more parts. And it was it was pretty awesome. Well, 107 00:05:47,480 --> 00:05:49,440 Speaker 1: I am glad that you could be a cool guy 108 00:05:49,520 --> 00:05:51,599 Speaker 1: now for your daughters. That's always it's always something you 109 00:05:51,640 --> 00:05:53,440 Speaker 1: strive for as a parent. You want to seem like 110 00:05:53,480 --> 00:05:56,240 Speaker 1: a cool guy. I do have this question on poker, though, 111 00:05:56,480 --> 00:06:00,560 Speaker 1: which is I know you love poker. There have been 112 00:06:00,600 --> 00:06:04,479 Speaker 1: another a number of other politicians and statesmen who have 113 00:06:04,640 --> 00:06:09,839 Speaker 1: famously loved poker. Is there something is there something about 114 00:06:10,000 --> 00:06:13,679 Speaker 1: poker that just speaks to a political kind of spirit? 115 00:06:13,800 --> 00:06:15,520 Speaker 1: What is it about poker that draws you to it? 116 00:06:15,520 --> 00:06:18,040 Speaker 1: Because you're not You're not the first guy I've I've 117 00:06:18,080 --> 00:06:21,480 Speaker 1: known who who is so into it. So poker is 118 00:06:21,520 --> 00:06:27,200 Speaker 1: people um, and it's it's it's interesting you know you 119 00:06:27,360 --> 00:06:31,719 Speaker 1: look at so you play poker, Poker is math. It's 120 00:06:32,040 --> 00:06:34,520 Speaker 1: knowing what the odds are. It's knowing what cards you 121 00:06:34,640 --> 00:06:36,479 Speaker 1: have and what are the odds and how many outs 122 00:06:36,520 --> 00:06:39,040 Speaker 1: you have, And the math is important. But what I 123 00:06:39,160 --> 00:06:42,799 Speaker 1: like about poker is it's reading people and it's trying 124 00:06:42,880 --> 00:06:45,720 Speaker 1: to understand the person sitting across the table from you. 125 00:06:45,760 --> 00:06:48,560 Speaker 1: What do they have? Are they telling you the truth 126 00:06:48,680 --> 00:06:53,120 Speaker 1: or lying? Are they bluffing? Um? And it's so I've 127 00:06:53,160 --> 00:06:56,440 Speaker 1: got a number of really close friends who enjoy playing poker, 128 00:06:56,440 --> 00:06:58,320 Speaker 1: and we played poker for years, and and one of 129 00:06:58,360 --> 00:07:00,160 Speaker 1: my closest friends, the guy who was a grown him 130 00:07:00,279 --> 00:07:03,320 Speaker 1: my wedding, is a semi professional poker player and he's 131 00:07:03,320 --> 00:07:06,240 Speaker 1: played multiple times in the World Series. He's actually made 132 00:07:06,839 --> 00:07:09,159 Speaker 1: a final table at the World Series, not in the 133 00:07:09,160 --> 00:07:11,400 Speaker 1: main event, but I think the two thousand Texas hold 134 00:07:11,440 --> 00:07:15,440 Speaker 1: him event. And he and I have played a gazillion times, 135 00:07:15,600 --> 00:07:18,120 Speaker 1: and we both He's beaten me a bunch of times, 136 00:07:18,160 --> 00:07:21,120 Speaker 1: I've beaten him a bunch of times. We've spent a 137 00:07:21,160 --> 00:07:24,600 Speaker 1: lot of hours around the poker table. What's interesting is 138 00:07:25,000 --> 00:07:29,960 Speaker 1: that he is, in terms of the math, clearly a 139 00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:32,640 Speaker 1: better poker player. Than I am. I can do the math, 140 00:07:32,720 --> 00:07:35,000 Speaker 1: but I don't study it to the level of know 141 00:07:35,120 --> 00:07:38,840 Speaker 1: it to the precision that he does. I spend much 142 00:07:38,880 --> 00:07:42,240 Speaker 1: more time reading the players, and so we'll have hands 143 00:07:43,160 --> 00:07:45,160 Speaker 1: where I'll beat him and it'll be like, what the 144 00:07:45,200 --> 00:07:47,880 Speaker 1: hell were you doing? That made no sense? Why would 145 00:07:47,880 --> 00:07:50,720 Speaker 1: you call me there? And I answer it because you 146 00:07:50,720 --> 00:07:55,960 Speaker 1: didn't want me to. It may not have it may 147 00:07:56,000 --> 00:07:58,040 Speaker 1: not have made sense. If you'd had the cards, it 148 00:07:58,040 --> 00:08:01,040 Speaker 1: would have been a terrible call. But I knew you 149 00:08:01,040 --> 00:08:03,440 Speaker 1: didn't want me to. You wanted me to lay down 150 00:08:03,480 --> 00:08:05,800 Speaker 1: my cards, which is why I called you, which is 151 00:08:05,840 --> 00:08:07,560 Speaker 1: why I took your damn money. So hand me your 152 00:08:07,640 --> 00:08:12,760 Speaker 1: chips and look. Sometimes you get the read wrong, sometimes 153 00:08:12,800 --> 00:08:15,040 Speaker 1: you don't. You know, you think you know what's and 154 00:08:15,280 --> 00:08:19,680 Speaker 1: obviously that's part of what makes poker fun, is projecting weakness, 155 00:08:19,800 --> 00:08:26,680 Speaker 1: projecting you know you're trying to fool the other players. 156 00:08:27,440 --> 00:08:31,200 Speaker 1: But it's I grew up, Actually I learned to play 157 00:08:31,240 --> 00:08:38,960 Speaker 1: poker's a little kid. My grandmother, my mother's mother, Irish 158 00:08:39,000 --> 00:08:44,000 Speaker 1: Italian grandmother, great card player. She played bridge every week 159 00:08:44,080 --> 00:08:49,200 Speaker 1: for probably seventy years. But she would would baby sit 160 00:08:49,320 --> 00:08:51,160 Speaker 1: me when I was a little kid. When I was 161 00:08:51,600 --> 00:08:54,360 Speaker 1: eight ten years old, my parents would drop me off 162 00:08:54,400 --> 00:08:57,000 Speaker 1: at my grandparents for them to babysit me. And my 163 00:08:57,040 --> 00:08:59,240 Speaker 1: grandmother would sit down and taught me to play poker. 164 00:09:00,080 --> 00:09:03,080 Speaker 1: And she had a medal ten of buttons, and we 165 00:09:03,120 --> 00:09:06,960 Speaker 1: would play with buttons as chips, and some of the 166 00:09:07,040 --> 00:09:09,640 Speaker 1: buttons were costume jewelry and it was like fake diamonds. 167 00:09:09,640 --> 00:09:11,600 Speaker 1: So I'd like take the fake diamond and say one 168 00:09:11,679 --> 00:09:13,720 Speaker 1: million dollars, and I just you know, make up whatever 169 00:09:13,760 --> 00:09:17,000 Speaker 1: it was, you know, if they looked fancy and we're glittery, 170 00:09:17,679 --> 00:09:20,800 Speaker 1: and I always would win. As a little kid, I 171 00:09:20,800 --> 00:09:22,880 Speaker 1: would win and I would win and I would win, 172 00:09:22,920 --> 00:09:25,679 Speaker 1: and I felt pretty good about myself. And when I 173 00:09:25,760 --> 00:09:27,800 Speaker 1: was I don't know, about ten years old, I came 174 00:09:27,840 --> 00:09:31,360 Speaker 1: and said, hey, granny, let's play for real money. And 175 00:09:31,400 --> 00:09:35,920 Speaker 1: she said, okay, sure, And I had five dollars, which 176 00:09:35,960 --> 00:09:38,600 Speaker 1: five dollars at the time, my allowance was fifty cents 177 00:09:38,600 --> 00:09:41,640 Speaker 1: a week, so that was ten weeks allowance that I had. 178 00:09:42,640 --> 00:09:44,400 Speaker 1: And I sat down and played with her, and she 179 00:09:45,240 --> 00:09:48,760 Speaker 1: took every penny from me. She wiped me out. My 180 00:09:48,840 --> 00:09:51,120 Speaker 1: mom came to pick me up, and I was crying. 181 00:09:51,160 --> 00:09:53,320 Speaker 1: As a ten year old. I was in tears, and 182 00:09:53,520 --> 00:09:57,480 Speaker 1: my grandmother's just cracking up laughing. You know what Irish 183 00:09:57,480 --> 00:10:00,960 Speaker 1: Italian grandmother said, gone home, Sonny, Well, welcome to the 184 00:10:00,960 --> 00:10:04,520 Speaker 1: big leagues. Two and a half months pay that that's 185 00:10:04,559 --> 00:10:11,560 Speaker 1: pretty tought. It got your attention that well, Okay, that 186 00:10:11,600 --> 00:10:13,760 Speaker 1: actually makes sense to me because I have heard people 187 00:10:14,120 --> 00:10:17,400 Speaker 1: describe this to me that poker it's not really about 188 00:10:17,400 --> 00:10:19,360 Speaker 1: the cards. It's not really as you say, about the numbers. 189 00:10:19,640 --> 00:10:21,880 Speaker 1: It's it can be about money, can be about how 190 00:10:21,880 --> 00:10:24,439 Speaker 1: people relate to money and risk and threat, and it's 191 00:10:24,480 --> 00:10:28,079 Speaker 1: really it's really about people. It's about people reading other people. 192 00:10:28,160 --> 00:10:31,720 Speaker 1: So this actually leads us perfectly into what I really 193 00:10:31,760 --> 00:10:35,800 Speaker 1: want to talk about today, which is the Democrats who 194 00:10:35,880 --> 00:10:41,120 Speaker 1: are in power seem to be completely misreading the situation. 195 00:10:41,440 --> 00:10:44,600 Speaker 1: You've got three huge they've You've got a lot of blunders, 196 00:10:44,600 --> 00:10:47,360 Speaker 1: but as I can see it, three really really big, 197 00:10:47,400 --> 00:10:50,400 Speaker 1: prominent blunders they're making right now on the economic front. 198 00:10:51,080 --> 00:10:54,480 Speaker 1: Not only have they made a lot of poor economic 199 00:10:54,520 --> 00:10:57,560 Speaker 1: decisions that have hurt the country and certainly their political position, 200 00:10:57,720 --> 00:11:00,000 Speaker 1: but they're not backing away from them. They're they're doubling down. 201 00:11:00,040 --> 00:11:02,120 Speaker 1: When it comes to energy, they're doubling down when it 202 00:11:02,200 --> 00:11:05,200 Speaker 1: comes to so many aspects of the economy. On the 203 00:11:05,280 --> 00:11:09,920 Speaker 1: cultural social issues, they're defending drag queens, jiggling for kids, 204 00:11:10,280 --> 00:11:14,560 Speaker 1: actual little tiny children in bars twenty one plus bars 205 00:11:14,640 --> 00:11:18,240 Speaker 1: in Texas of all places, they're defending it. And then 206 00:11:18,520 --> 00:11:23,760 Speaker 1: they're they're coming on crime. They're they're still so weak 207 00:11:23,840 --> 00:11:27,280 Speaker 1: on crime. The das the mayors that you're seeing real 208 00:11:27,360 --> 00:11:30,520 Speaker 1: significant challenges from the right in San Francisco. You've got 209 00:11:30,520 --> 00:11:33,720 Speaker 1: a recall of the district attorney. In Los Angeles, now 210 00:11:33,760 --> 00:11:35,680 Speaker 1: you've got a big fight for the mayor and a 211 00:11:35,760 --> 00:11:38,640 Speaker 1: sort of kind of Republican is posing a big challenge. 212 00:11:39,240 --> 00:11:43,320 Speaker 1: What the hell are the Democrats thinking? You know, Michael, 213 00:11:43,320 --> 00:11:45,199 Speaker 1: it reminds me of do you remember those videos that 214 00:11:45,240 --> 00:11:48,040 Speaker 1: would come out every Spring break, Girls Gone Wild, and 215 00:11:48,040 --> 00:11:51,719 Speaker 1: it would have lots of college women in bikinis or 216 00:11:52,559 --> 00:11:57,160 Speaker 1: not bikinis. It reminds me of much the same thing. 217 00:11:57,200 --> 00:12:00,720 Speaker 1: This is liberals gone wild, This is the craze left 218 00:12:01,320 --> 00:12:04,560 Speaker 1: that this is AOC and Elizabeth Warren, thank god, not 219 00:12:04,640 --> 00:12:13,120 Speaker 1: in bikinis, but embracing their socialist nuttiness. I mean, it's 220 00:12:13,160 --> 00:12:16,280 Speaker 1: literally like someone sat down at a bar and said, 221 00:12:16,280 --> 00:12:20,000 Speaker 1: how much crazy crap can we do? Like, how far 222 00:12:20,760 --> 00:12:24,760 Speaker 1: can we go to drive away not just the conservatives 223 00:12:24,760 --> 00:12:27,560 Speaker 1: that's a given, not even just the moderate, it's not 224 00:12:27,640 --> 00:12:31,080 Speaker 1: even just the independence, but what can we do to 225 00:12:31,240 --> 00:12:35,720 Speaker 1: drive away good old fashioned liberals who are not nuts? 226 00:12:36,480 --> 00:12:38,600 Speaker 1: I do want to clarify Senator just on the girls 227 00:12:38,600 --> 00:12:41,360 Speaker 1: going wild point, I only ever watched that for the articles. 228 00:12:41,480 --> 00:12:45,920 Speaker 1: You know, I was just stalling, obviously, but I totally see. 229 00:12:46,040 --> 00:12:48,480 Speaker 1: I think the analogy is very good that they've gone 230 00:12:48,480 --> 00:12:54,440 Speaker 1: to extremes and followed their own wildest impulses. So what 231 00:12:54,440 --> 00:12:56,920 Speaker 1: what is going to happen to them in these these 232 00:12:56,920 --> 00:12:59,360 Speaker 1: elections that are really coming up right before us? Now 233 00:12:59,440 --> 00:13:01,840 Speaker 1: you're looking Los Angeles, you're looking at the recall in 234 00:13:01,880 --> 00:13:05,520 Speaker 1: San Francisco. It's not Republicans recalling these guys. It's not 235 00:13:05,559 --> 00:13:08,559 Speaker 1: Republicans who are who are going to be voting primarily 236 00:13:08,559 --> 00:13:12,040 Speaker 1: in the LA elections. So what are the elected Democrats 237 00:13:12,080 --> 00:13:13,880 Speaker 1: gonna do? Are they gonna moderate or they're gonna get 238 00:13:13,880 --> 00:13:18,040 Speaker 1: wiped out? So I don't know what they're gonna do 239 00:13:18,120 --> 00:13:20,199 Speaker 1: this week, but I know what they're going to do 240 00:13:20,280 --> 00:13:23,640 Speaker 1: in November. They're gonna get obliterated. November. It is going 241 00:13:23,760 --> 00:13:30,000 Speaker 1: to be an historic election. It's every issue is so extreme. Look, 242 00:13:30,000 --> 00:13:32,880 Speaker 1: there are people Bill Maher. Bill Maher is an old 243 00:13:32,920 --> 00:13:37,600 Speaker 1: school liberal who they are driving away Elon Musk. Elon 244 00:13:37,679 --> 00:13:39,520 Speaker 1: Musk has been a Democrat his whole life. They are 245 00:13:39,720 --> 00:13:43,080 Speaker 1: driving him away where he said, Okay, I'm voting Republican now. 246 00:13:43,080 --> 00:13:46,319 Speaker 1: Because these guys are nuts, and you think about it, 247 00:13:46,320 --> 00:13:49,960 Speaker 1: all right, let's take the drag queen thing. Like, listen, 248 00:13:50,040 --> 00:13:55,280 Speaker 1: this is not about homosexuality. It's not even about transgenderism. 249 00:13:56,440 --> 00:14:00,520 Speaker 1: If you want to if consenting a doll want to 250 00:14:00,520 --> 00:14:03,559 Speaker 1: do it, consenting adults want to do fine, knock yourself out, 251 00:14:04,840 --> 00:14:07,480 Speaker 1: but leave the kids alone. I mean, this is not 252 00:14:07,920 --> 00:14:14,080 Speaker 1: rocket science. Listen. If if you had straight women who 253 00:14:14,160 --> 00:14:18,760 Speaker 1: were strippers and you had five year olds tucking dollars 254 00:14:18,760 --> 00:14:21,040 Speaker 1: in their g strings, you and I would be appalled 255 00:14:21,880 --> 00:14:28,280 Speaker 1: because kids have no business being sexualized. And it's where Look, 256 00:14:28,480 --> 00:14:31,960 Speaker 1: this is the radical extreme left that they want to 257 00:14:32,040 --> 00:14:38,160 Speaker 1: sexualize little kids. So they're in this gay bar. They've 258 00:14:38,240 --> 00:14:42,960 Speaker 1: got transgender drag queens where they're tucking dollars in their 259 00:14:43,040 --> 00:14:47,200 Speaker 1: g strings and these are little kids, like what it's 260 00:14:47,280 --> 00:14:51,120 Speaker 1: it's the whole you know the misname don't say gay 261 00:14:51,160 --> 00:14:54,960 Speaker 1: law in Florida? What is it with the radical left 262 00:14:55,000 --> 00:14:58,360 Speaker 1: wanting to teach kindergarteners about sex? Gay sex, straight sex? 263 00:14:58,400 --> 00:15:01,120 Speaker 1: How about just no se x for five year olds? 264 00:15:01,160 --> 00:15:05,920 Speaker 1: That ought to be a really simple rule that only 265 00:15:05,960 --> 00:15:08,520 Speaker 1: the crazy left doesn't get. Well. You make a really 266 00:15:08,560 --> 00:15:13,560 Speaker 1: interesting point here too on strip clubs. If if instead 267 00:15:13,560 --> 00:15:17,200 Speaker 1: of the gay bar with the drag queens wearing skimpy 268 00:15:17,200 --> 00:15:21,800 Speaker 1: clothing and have kids putting dollars in their various uh, 269 00:15:21,960 --> 00:15:26,480 Speaker 1: scantily attire, you know, scanty attire, if instead of that 270 00:15:27,000 --> 00:15:30,600 Speaker 1: you had kids walking into a plain, old, regular strip 271 00:15:30,640 --> 00:15:33,920 Speaker 1: club with real women there jiggling around, you would have 272 00:15:33,960 --> 00:15:36,760 Speaker 1: people calling child protective services in the blink of an 273 00:15:36,760 --> 00:15:39,160 Speaker 1: eye as well they should, so, I guess in a 274 00:15:39,320 --> 00:15:42,400 Speaker 1: in a certain way, it does have a tie in 275 00:15:42,480 --> 00:15:47,680 Speaker 1: with the LGBT movement inasmuch as there's a complete double 276 00:15:47,760 --> 00:15:50,800 Speaker 1: standard here, and when it's drag queens doing it, it's 277 00:15:50,800 --> 00:15:54,640 Speaker 1: celebrated in the parents are taking the kids themselves. I 278 00:15:54,760 --> 00:15:57,560 Speaker 1: think how crazy this is that this is parents taking 279 00:15:57,600 --> 00:16:03,240 Speaker 1: their kids to this look like look, we've discussed how 280 00:16:03,280 --> 00:16:10,040 Speaker 1: our culture has just become twisted like protecting the innocence 281 00:16:10,080 --> 00:16:14,080 Speaker 1: of kids ought to be something everyone can agree with, 282 00:16:14,160 --> 00:16:17,840 Speaker 1: and it's it's where you're saying, or you know, I mean, 283 00:16:17,880 --> 00:16:21,320 Speaker 1: let's look at the fact that the DA in San 284 00:16:21,360 --> 00:16:25,080 Speaker 1: Francisco is facing a recall chessa bodine or chisard. I'm 285 00:16:25,080 --> 00:16:26,640 Speaker 1: not sure how you pronounce it, never know how to 286 00:16:26,640 --> 00:16:31,600 Speaker 1: pronounce it. Yeah, but he's the son of two radical 287 00:16:31,760 --> 00:16:37,040 Speaker 1: weather underground terrorists who were convicted of terrorist bombing, like 288 00:16:37,040 --> 00:16:44,080 Speaker 1: like literally the DA was raised by convicted terrorists, and 289 00:16:44,360 --> 00:16:47,560 Speaker 1: he's one of the many George Soros das that got 290 00:16:47,600 --> 00:16:51,080 Speaker 1: elected and decided I've got a great idea, let's not 291 00:16:51,240 --> 00:16:54,200 Speaker 1: prosecute criminals. Let's let violent criminals go. Isn't this a 292 00:16:54,280 --> 00:16:57,400 Speaker 1: wonderful idea? If we let violent criminals go, will be 293 00:16:57,560 --> 00:17:01,680 Speaker 1: so enlightened. And even the people of San Francisco are saying, 294 00:17:01,760 --> 00:17:06,280 Speaker 1: what the hell are you doing? Like we're liberals, we're 295 00:17:06,280 --> 00:17:09,080 Speaker 1: all four ninety percent tax rates or whatever it is 296 00:17:09,119 --> 00:17:12,679 Speaker 1: that they're for, but could you not let murderers like 297 00:17:12,920 --> 00:17:16,520 Speaker 1: wander the streets? Well, Democrats see that there's that issue, right, 298 00:17:16,520 --> 00:17:18,200 Speaker 1: So it's not you know, it's not just the Republicans. 299 00:17:18,280 --> 00:17:21,160 Speaker 1: It's not just the moderates Democrats are waking up to this. 300 00:17:21,440 --> 00:17:24,880 Speaker 1: But I do wonder if it's if it's not just 301 00:17:25,160 --> 00:17:28,240 Speaker 1: that the liberals have gone totally crazy. I mean, maybe 302 00:17:28,240 --> 00:17:31,760 Speaker 1: they already work crazy. But you saw many decades ago 303 00:17:31,920 --> 00:17:36,919 Speaker 1: you would see liberal leftist radical theorists writing about all 304 00:17:36,960 --> 00:17:40,400 Speaker 1: these things, how in order to have true revolutionary change 305 00:17:40,400 --> 00:17:42,720 Speaker 1: in America, we need to abolish the police, we need 306 00:17:42,720 --> 00:17:45,359 Speaker 1: to radically redesign the prison systems. They would talk about 307 00:17:45,400 --> 00:17:47,920 Speaker 1: how we need to sexualize children in order to get 308 00:17:48,000 --> 00:17:51,520 Speaker 1: rid of all of their old, stodgy traditional prejudices about sex. 309 00:17:52,119 --> 00:17:55,000 Speaker 1: For goodness sakes, Bernie Sanders wrote essays about this in 310 00:17:55,040 --> 00:17:59,000 Speaker 1: the nineteen sixties. Even on the economy, you've had not 311 00:17:59,040 --> 00:18:02,600 Speaker 1: just the radical theory, but Barack Obama, even members of 312 00:18:02,600 --> 00:18:06,600 Speaker 1: the Obama administration saying, we need to increase prices for 313 00:18:06,640 --> 00:18:10,720 Speaker 1: fossil fuels. We need to create actually some economic hardship, 314 00:18:10,760 --> 00:18:12,720 Speaker 1: because that's the only thing that's going to motivate people 315 00:18:12,880 --> 00:18:16,080 Speaker 1: to go in and finally revolutionize the economy. You've seen 316 00:18:16,119 --> 00:18:19,240 Speaker 1: them talking about this stuff in a way that shows 317 00:18:19,280 --> 00:18:23,200 Speaker 1: their long term political goals, which is, to quote Barack 318 00:18:23,200 --> 00:18:27,000 Speaker 1: Obama to fundamentally transform America. And I guess I wonder 319 00:18:27,040 --> 00:18:29,640 Speaker 1: if what you're seeing right now is that those long 320 00:18:29,800 --> 00:18:32,400 Speaker 1: term goals are just Democrats getting out a little ahead 321 00:18:32,400 --> 00:18:35,480 Speaker 1: of their skis here, and there's so much short term 322 00:18:35,560 --> 00:18:39,679 Speaker 1: pain and confusion that maybe that their own constituents are 323 00:18:39,720 --> 00:18:43,000 Speaker 1: going to say no. So, Michael, I'm sorry. I'm still 324 00:18:43,119 --> 00:18:46,080 Speaker 1: traumatized because about halfway through what you said there, you 325 00:18:46,160 --> 00:18:50,199 Speaker 1: invoked Bernie Sanders and sex. And that's just an image 326 00:18:50,240 --> 00:18:52,000 Speaker 1: I don't need to see. I've got to walk off 327 00:18:52,000 --> 00:18:54,040 Speaker 1: the Senate floor and see him with his white hair 328 00:18:54,119 --> 00:18:56,280 Speaker 1: sticking straight up in the air, and I just don't 329 00:18:56,320 --> 00:19:03,359 Speaker 1: need to That's an image I could have avoid. Look, 330 00:19:03,520 --> 00:19:07,639 Speaker 1: it is all right, let's take gas prices. It is 331 00:19:07,720 --> 00:19:13,040 Speaker 1: truly amazing watching the corporate press try to bend over 332 00:19:13,160 --> 00:19:16,080 Speaker 1: backwards to say, none of this is Biden's fault, It's 333 00:19:16,080 --> 00:19:18,520 Speaker 1: Putin's fault, it's global markets. Is this it is that? 334 00:19:18,600 --> 00:19:22,159 Speaker 1: It's the other Biden literally campaign saying I'm going to 335 00:19:22,200 --> 00:19:24,160 Speaker 1: shut down oil and gas drilling in the United States. 336 00:19:24,160 --> 00:19:26,040 Speaker 1: I'm gonna shut it down on federal lands, I'm gonna 337 00:19:26,040 --> 00:19:28,640 Speaker 1: shut it down, I'm shore the Green New Deal, I'm 338 00:19:28,640 --> 00:19:35,200 Speaker 1: going to embrace. Biden has implemented literally dozens of policies 339 00:19:35,320 --> 00:19:41,159 Speaker 1: designed to attack, to hurt, to shut down domestic energy 340 00:19:41,200 --> 00:19:43,240 Speaker 1: production in the United States. He's done it over and 341 00:19:43,320 --> 00:19:46,520 Speaker 1: over and over and over again. So he promised he 342 00:19:46,560 --> 00:19:50,240 Speaker 1: would do it. He's followed through on that promise, and 343 00:19:50,280 --> 00:19:54,840 Speaker 1: the predicted effect of that is prices have doubled. And 344 00:19:54,880 --> 00:19:58,960 Speaker 1: by the way, the socialists want prices to double, because 345 00:19:58,960 --> 00:20:03,920 Speaker 1: what they're saying is, you, Joe sixpack, make the decision. 346 00:20:04,080 --> 00:20:07,280 Speaker 1: We don't like you drive a pickup truck. Mom. Maybe 347 00:20:07,280 --> 00:20:09,560 Speaker 1: you drive a suburban, maybe you drive a minivan. And 348 00:20:09,600 --> 00:20:12,200 Speaker 1: here's what we're gonna do. We're gonna make your life 349 00:20:12,320 --> 00:20:14,680 Speaker 1: so miserable that you have to spend one hundred bucks 350 00:20:14,760 --> 00:20:16,320 Speaker 1: or one hundred and fifty bucks to fill up your 351 00:20:16,320 --> 00:20:18,399 Speaker 1: car a truck that you're going to get rid of 352 00:20:18,440 --> 00:20:21,359 Speaker 1: it and buy a Prius, which is what we want 353 00:20:21,400 --> 00:20:24,720 Speaker 1: you to do. And so we're going to keep hurting 354 00:20:24,800 --> 00:20:29,240 Speaker 1: you until you make the enlightened decision that we your 355 00:20:29,320 --> 00:20:32,080 Speaker 1: betters do. By the way, this past week, I don't 356 00:20:32,080 --> 00:20:36,840 Speaker 1: know if you saw, the EU is putting taxes on fuel, 357 00:20:37,600 --> 00:20:42,600 Speaker 1: on jet fuel, but they exempted private jets because of 358 00:20:42,640 --> 00:20:46,159 Speaker 1: course they did. This is called the John Kerry exception. 359 00:20:46,560 --> 00:20:51,040 Speaker 1: These guys are mister Burns. They are wealthy, out of touch, 360 00:20:51,359 --> 00:20:59,080 Speaker 1: living in opulent riches. But then when they do what 361 00:20:59,200 --> 00:21:04,720 Speaker 1: they promised they would do, implement policies to hurt domestic 362 00:21:04,800 --> 00:21:08,760 Speaker 1: energy production, to drive gas prices up, suddenly they discover 363 00:21:08,880 --> 00:21:11,880 Speaker 1: weight people don't like spending one hundred and fifty bucks 364 00:21:11,920 --> 00:21:15,120 Speaker 1: to fill up their truck, right, And then they just 365 00:21:15,240 --> 00:21:18,400 Speaker 1: try to blatant lead light to you. I'm really hoping 366 00:21:18,640 --> 00:21:22,679 Speaker 1: that you know now the people are kind of people 367 00:21:23,119 --> 00:21:25,560 Speaker 1: of all parties actually are pulling the radicals back from 368 00:21:25,560 --> 00:21:29,600 Speaker 1: the brink. But I wonder if the radicals and the 369 00:21:29,600 --> 00:21:32,920 Speaker 1: people who have been in charge have secured those kind 370 00:21:32,960 --> 00:21:36,280 Speaker 1: of longer term victories. I look this past week at 371 00:21:36,359 --> 00:21:39,679 Speaker 1: Joe Biden invoking the Defense Production Act because there is 372 00:21:39,680 --> 00:21:43,040 Speaker 1: this energy crisis. Energy costs have gone through the roof. 373 00:21:43,240 --> 00:21:46,159 Speaker 1: Gas has doubled since the man's been president. And so 374 00:21:46,240 --> 00:21:49,639 Speaker 1: what does he do. Does he invoke that provision of 375 00:21:49,680 --> 00:21:53,000 Speaker 1: the law or some other provision to open up oil drilling, No, 376 00:21:53,280 --> 00:21:56,439 Speaker 1: to I don't know, create a new nuclear powers. No, 377 00:21:56,880 --> 00:21:59,760 Speaker 1: what is he doing? It's it's to produce solar panels. 378 00:21:59,760 --> 00:22:02,159 Speaker 1: It's to give the left what they've wanted for a 379 00:22:02,200 --> 00:22:05,119 Speaker 1: long time that I don't see any way will actually 380 00:22:05,160 --> 00:22:08,520 Speaker 1: bring down an energy costs, certainly not anytime soon. One, 381 00:22:08,640 --> 00:22:10,639 Speaker 1: how does he do that? The White House hasn't explained 382 00:22:10,720 --> 00:22:15,520 Speaker 1: what emergency he's responding to that requires solar panels. But two, 383 00:22:16,080 --> 00:22:18,320 Speaker 1: are they getting what they want? Are they? Are they 384 00:22:18,600 --> 00:22:23,440 Speaker 1: as we've heard from from which I forget the name 385 00:22:23,480 --> 00:22:26,040 Speaker 1: of the Emmanuel brother there's Ari, and there's Zeke, and 386 00:22:26,119 --> 00:22:31,320 Speaker 1: there's the one that I'm talking about. Gosh, I can't 387 00:22:31,320 --> 00:22:32,919 Speaker 1: believe his name escapes me. But you know, one of 388 00:22:32,920 --> 00:22:36,000 Speaker 1: the one of the worst Democrats you know in modern politics. 389 00:22:36,600 --> 00:22:40,280 Speaker 1: You know, never to let a crisis go to a 390 00:22:41,119 --> 00:22:43,000 Speaker 1: rom There we go. I can't believe I forgot the 391 00:22:43,000 --> 00:22:45,600 Speaker 1: most famous of the Emmanuel brothers names. I remember the 392 00:22:45,640 --> 00:22:48,720 Speaker 1: Hollywood one and the doctor one, but not rom saying 393 00:22:48,760 --> 00:22:52,120 Speaker 1: never let a crisis go to waste? Are they even 394 00:22:52,160 --> 00:22:54,680 Speaker 1: as they're losing support even among their own guys right now? 395 00:22:54,720 --> 00:22:57,720 Speaker 1: Are they? Are they scoring those long term political wins? 396 00:22:58,560 --> 00:23:02,680 Speaker 1: So I actually think there are some voices among Democrats, 397 00:23:02,720 --> 00:23:05,080 Speaker 1: and it wouldn't surprise me if Emmanuel is one of 398 00:23:05,119 --> 00:23:07,639 Speaker 1: them that is wondering, what in the hell are you 399 00:23:07,680 --> 00:23:11,280 Speaker 1: people doing? They're people like James Carville, who listen. James 400 00:23:11,320 --> 00:23:13,840 Speaker 1: Carville is smart as all get out. He's one of 401 00:23:13,880 --> 00:23:17,959 Speaker 1: the most effective Democrats. You know Mary Madelin, his wife, 402 00:23:18,400 --> 00:23:20,400 Speaker 1: Mary as a friend. She's been a supporter of mine. 403 00:23:20,400 --> 00:23:22,919 Speaker 1: So I've been to Mary and James's home, and he's 404 00:23:23,880 --> 00:23:26,439 Speaker 1: he is an effective adversary. He's a Democrat, but he 405 00:23:26,480 --> 00:23:31,080 Speaker 1: actually gets he's not nuts, and he's looking at his 406 00:23:31,080 --> 00:23:33,880 Speaker 1: own party and it's like, Okay, you people are are 407 00:23:34,000 --> 00:23:37,560 Speaker 1: you trying to lose every congressional race in America? I mean, 408 00:23:37,600 --> 00:23:41,159 Speaker 1: that's not a quote, but but there are definitely Listen. 409 00:23:41,240 --> 00:23:43,920 Speaker 1: Bill Maher is an interesting example, and we've talked about 410 00:23:44,680 --> 00:23:47,200 Speaker 1: at some point. I hope we have Bill on this show. 411 00:23:47,240 --> 00:23:50,440 Speaker 1: I've never met Bill Maher, but more and more I'm 412 00:23:50,440 --> 00:23:57,760 Speaker 1: watching his diatribes and I'm retweeting them. Not because he 413 00:23:57,840 --> 00:24:00,159 Speaker 1: and I agree. He is an old school liberal, but 414 00:24:00,240 --> 00:24:03,679 Speaker 1: he does believe in free speech, which the left is abandoned. 415 00:24:04,200 --> 00:24:06,280 Speaker 1: You know, he recently had a monologue where he was 416 00:24:06,320 --> 00:24:11,040 Speaker 1: talking about like sexuality and the explosion of people that 417 00:24:11,080 --> 00:24:14,520 Speaker 1: are identifying as other genders, and identifying as gay. And 418 00:24:14,520 --> 00:24:16,680 Speaker 1: he went, you know, through like like in history, this 419 00:24:16,760 --> 00:24:20,440 Speaker 1: was not the case, and we've suddenly had this dramatic 420 00:24:20,560 --> 00:24:23,720 Speaker 1: shift which we're not even supposed to talk about it. 421 00:24:23,800 --> 00:24:29,920 Speaker 1: He raised an interesting point. He said, well, they're big 422 00:24:30,040 --> 00:24:35,400 Speaker 1: regional differences in say, California, the number of people who 423 00:24:35,400 --> 00:24:40,639 Speaker 1: identify as forty seven genders versus in Youngstown, Ohio. Yeah, 424 00:24:40,680 --> 00:24:43,360 Speaker 1: and he said, either there's a lot of peer pressure 425 00:24:43,359 --> 00:24:46,520 Speaker 1: and social pressure in California or there's a lot of 426 00:24:46,520 --> 00:24:49,199 Speaker 1: suppression in Ohio. But we had to talk about that. 427 00:24:49,280 --> 00:24:53,160 Speaker 1: There's apparently a fundamental transformational shift of humanity that we're 428 00:24:53,160 --> 00:24:56,280 Speaker 1: not talking about. And I got to say that, frankly, 429 00:24:57,240 --> 00:25:00,920 Speaker 1: sounded like something Michael Knowles would say. Yeah, you gotta 430 00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:07,720 Speaker 1: wonder is there anyone left in the Democratic Party who 431 00:25:07,720 --> 00:25:12,480 Speaker 1: can actually talk to a steel worker. Yeah. Look like 432 00:25:12,640 --> 00:25:20,240 Speaker 1: they have become this angry fringe, wealthy urban radical elite 433 00:25:20,880 --> 00:25:23,560 Speaker 1: that is appealing to a smaller and smaller It's like 434 00:25:23,600 --> 00:25:30,520 Speaker 1: the Yale faculty, Yeah, is their constituency. And I gotta say, thankfully, 435 00:25:30,560 --> 00:25:33,960 Speaker 1: the country is not the Yale faculty. And it seems 436 00:25:34,080 --> 00:25:38,000 Speaker 1: that today's Democrats don't get that, you know, This is 437 00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:41,480 Speaker 1: actually making me feel a bit better, because we tend 438 00:25:41,520 --> 00:25:45,040 Speaker 1: to spend a lot of time online. And it is 439 00:25:45,119 --> 00:25:50,040 Speaker 1: true that the boundaries of what is acceptable in society 440 00:25:50,240 --> 00:25:53,760 Speaker 1: have been basically blown to smithereens. I mean, even five 441 00:25:53,880 --> 00:25:56,439 Speaker 1: years ago, the thought of a little kid going into 442 00:25:56,800 --> 00:25:58,720 Speaker 1: a drag bar and putting a dollar, I mean that 443 00:25:58,840 --> 00:26:01,280 Speaker 1: that would be unthinkable. So because we've seen the limits 444 00:26:01,320 --> 00:26:03,840 Speaker 1: get blown to smith reens, it's very easy to fall 445 00:26:03,880 --> 00:26:06,760 Speaker 1: down this pit of despair and say, oh gosh, the 446 00:26:06,800 --> 00:26:09,640 Speaker 1: country is gone. We might as well give up the fight. 447 00:26:09,960 --> 00:26:13,280 Speaker 1: But to your point, Senator, they may not be doing 448 00:26:13,320 --> 00:26:16,399 Speaker 1: this kind of stuff out of confidence, out of the 449 00:26:16,480 --> 00:26:19,480 Speaker 1: feeling that they've got the wind at their sales. Actually, 450 00:26:19,680 --> 00:26:21,840 Speaker 1: you might be seeing the kind of defiance you're getting 451 00:26:21,840 --> 00:26:24,800 Speaker 1: from the administration on the economy, the radicalism on sex 452 00:26:24,840 --> 00:26:28,560 Speaker 1: and the drag shows, even the defiance on crime and 453 00:26:28,560 --> 00:26:31,199 Speaker 1: criminal justice. You might be seeing that more out of 454 00:26:31,240 --> 00:26:34,840 Speaker 1: desperation from Democrats now who know that perhaps their time 455 00:26:35,200 --> 00:26:37,679 Speaker 1: in office is going to be dwindling, because there's a 456 00:26:37,800 --> 00:26:40,920 Speaker 1: very large movement not just of Republicans but of moderates 457 00:26:40,920 --> 00:26:44,480 Speaker 1: and some Democrats too, who are ready to throw them 458 00:26:44,480 --> 00:26:46,960 Speaker 1: out and ready to shift that pendulum back. But I 459 00:26:46,960 --> 00:26:49,240 Speaker 1: guess we won't. There's a little optimism to leave on. 460 00:26:49,280 --> 00:26:51,040 Speaker 1: There's a little hope to leave on. But I suppose 461 00:26:51,080 --> 00:26:53,840 Speaker 1: we won't know until those elections take place. By the 462 00:26:53,880 --> 00:26:56,160 Speaker 1: time this pod comes out, the world will know whether 463 00:26:56,359 --> 00:26:59,560 Speaker 1: Chessabudin's been recalled or not. I don't know whether it 464 00:26:59,600 --> 00:27:03,959 Speaker 1: will be or not. It's it's but in some ways, 465 00:27:04,920 --> 00:27:07,480 Speaker 1: whether he is or not, the point is the same, 466 00:27:07,680 --> 00:27:10,000 Speaker 1: because the fact that it is real and close and 467 00:27:10,080 --> 00:27:14,600 Speaker 1: significant is powerful, even if he ekes out surviving or 468 00:27:14,640 --> 00:27:18,680 Speaker 1: I hope is recalled. You know, Los Angeles there's a 469 00:27:19,440 --> 00:27:23,399 Speaker 1: vigorous primary for mayor. A few months ago it was 470 00:27:23,440 --> 00:27:29,440 Speaker 1: assumed that Karen Bass, the extremely liberal Democrat congresswoman, was 471 00:27:29,520 --> 00:27:33,040 Speaker 1: a shoe in. And you know now there is at 472 00:27:33,080 --> 00:27:39,040 Speaker 1: least a vigorously contested primary with a billionaire developer who 473 00:27:39,119 --> 00:27:41,320 Speaker 1: has been a Republican much of his life. He's running 474 00:27:41,320 --> 00:27:47,120 Speaker 1: in a Democrat primary. Just to tip the hat to it. Yeah, 475 00:27:47,160 --> 00:27:49,320 Speaker 1: but I gotta say, if you're in LA, look you 476 00:27:49,440 --> 00:27:52,440 Speaker 1: fled LA. I mean the crime issue. I remember a 477 00:27:52,480 --> 00:27:56,240 Speaker 1: couple of years ago, I was visiting with a cop 478 00:27:56,280 --> 00:27:59,040 Speaker 1: in California. Used to be an LA cop, and he 479 00:27:59,119 --> 00:28:01,879 Speaker 1: showed me on his own a picture of a tree 480 00:28:01,920 --> 00:28:05,840 Speaker 1: in downtown LA that was just covered with hypodermic needles, 481 00:28:06,480 --> 00:28:09,760 Speaker 1: thousands of needles, where the junkies just threw the needles 482 00:28:09,760 --> 00:28:13,480 Speaker 1: in the trees. And at some point people say, wait, 483 00:28:13,600 --> 00:28:16,520 Speaker 1: this is nuts. You look at the beaches where you've 484 00:28:16,560 --> 00:28:20,520 Speaker 1: got homeless people just allowed to take them over engage 485 00:28:20,520 --> 00:28:24,560 Speaker 1: in violence. Listen, you you fled La, So yeah, why 486 00:28:24,600 --> 00:28:26,760 Speaker 1: did you? Why am I telling you about the place 487 00:28:26,800 --> 00:28:30,280 Speaker 1: you fled? Why did you flee? Well, for all of 488 00:28:30,280 --> 00:28:33,480 Speaker 1: those reasons, obviously, Plus there were the economic reasons, you know, 489 00:28:33,520 --> 00:28:38,440 Speaker 1: the owner's regulation, all of the constant you know, tax hikes, 490 00:28:38,480 --> 00:28:42,040 Speaker 1: and I think the California Franchise Tax Board is basically 491 00:28:42,440 --> 00:28:45,120 Speaker 1: worse than the mafia at this point. But then there 492 00:28:45,160 --> 00:28:47,040 Speaker 1: is this basic safety issue. And I will tell you 493 00:28:47,240 --> 00:28:50,000 Speaker 1: friends of mine who have fled lay. Not all of 494 00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:52,280 Speaker 1: my friends in LA were conservative. I mean, if if 495 00:28:52,320 --> 00:28:53,840 Speaker 1: that were the case, I'd have very few friends in 496 00:28:53,960 --> 00:28:56,239 Speaker 1: LA because there just aren't that many conservatives. And there 497 00:28:56,240 --> 00:28:58,360 Speaker 1: were a lot of liberal friends who were making the 498 00:28:58,440 --> 00:29:02,000 Speaker 1: same comments about crime, and so people really are getting 499 00:29:02,040 --> 00:29:04,680 Speaker 1: sick of that stuff. You can see blue places turn 500 00:29:05,040 --> 00:29:07,120 Speaker 1: on these kinds of issues. You saw it happen in 501 00:29:07,200 --> 00:29:09,479 Speaker 1: New York and the nineties, you might be seeing that 502 00:29:09,680 --> 00:29:12,520 Speaker 1: in Los Angeles right now. The very fact that these 503 00:29:12,720 --> 00:29:16,560 Speaker 1: keep cropping up, these hotly contested elections with lots of 504 00:29:16,600 --> 00:29:20,880 Speaker 1: momentum behind the center or center right candidate, that shows 505 00:29:20,880 --> 00:29:23,320 Speaker 1: you that something is in the air right now. And 506 00:29:23,400 --> 00:29:27,080 Speaker 1: so I'm not surprised that the Democrats are throwing everything 507 00:29:27,080 --> 00:29:29,320 Speaker 1: they've got. They're throwing the kitchen sink right now. And 508 00:29:29,600 --> 00:29:32,840 Speaker 1: I know one way they're trying to distract is they're 509 00:29:32,840 --> 00:29:37,360 Speaker 1: trying to distract with the January sixth Partisan Committee in 510 00:29:37,400 --> 00:29:40,120 Speaker 1: the House. And I also know that our friend Liz 511 00:29:40,160 --> 00:29:43,280 Speaker 1: Wheeler will be discussing this with you, and specifically the 512 00:29:43,360 --> 00:29:47,040 Speaker 1: arrest of former Trump aid Peter Navarro on the cloak room. 513 00:29:47,080 --> 00:29:49,600 Speaker 1: Isn't that right, Liz, Hi Michael Eyes Hunter. First of all, 514 00:29:49,640 --> 00:29:51,920 Speaker 1: before we even get into that topic, I want to 515 00:29:51,960 --> 00:29:55,360 Speaker 1: thank you both for that disturbing image of Bernie Sanders 516 00:29:55,400 --> 00:29:58,920 Speaker 1: has now burned into my mind for all eternity. I 517 00:29:59,360 --> 00:30:01,320 Speaker 1: listen to this, I'd lose to this whole episode sit 518 00:30:01,400 --> 00:30:02,840 Speaker 1: to write with you, and this is what I get 519 00:30:02,880 --> 00:30:05,400 Speaker 1: in return is this image of Bernie Sanders. Just for 520 00:30:05,440 --> 00:30:07,920 Speaker 1: the record, Liz, that was Michael. That was not me. 521 00:30:08,120 --> 00:30:11,840 Speaker 1: I was a victim in that imagery as well. You're welcome, 522 00:30:12,000 --> 00:30:13,960 Speaker 1: all right. So we are going to talk about Peter 523 00:30:14,040 --> 00:30:17,520 Speaker 1: Navarro on Cloakroom. This is a very interesting conversation because 524 00:30:17,560 --> 00:30:21,160 Speaker 1: it's not just about the January sixth Committee. That's obviously partisan. 525 00:30:21,200 --> 00:30:24,280 Speaker 1: It's obviously a showboat trial if you will. I mean 526 00:30:24,320 --> 00:30:27,640 Speaker 1: they hired an ABC News executive to produce it, to 527 00:30:27,680 --> 00:30:30,360 Speaker 1: make it a primetime a primetime event here. But the 528 00:30:30,440 --> 00:30:34,800 Speaker 1: arrest of Peter Navarro itself is a constitutional question because 529 00:30:34,840 --> 00:30:37,880 Speaker 1: what he claimed was executive privilege that he couldn't testify 530 00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:41,040 Speaker 1: because this was not his information to give that. It 531 00:30:41,080 --> 00:30:44,920 Speaker 1: was actually President Trump's information to either divulge or claim 532 00:30:44,960 --> 00:30:48,720 Speaker 1: executive privilege. And there's a very interesting constitutional question about 533 00:30:48,720 --> 00:30:52,360 Speaker 1: whether it's even legal for Congress to have indicted him 534 00:30:52,680 --> 00:30:55,280 Speaker 1: without the court intervening. And we are going to dive 535 00:30:55,320 --> 00:30:57,400 Speaker 1: into the details of that today. You can join us. 536 00:30:57,400 --> 00:30:59,320 Speaker 1: Of course, we invite you too. We hope you will 537 00:30:59,600 --> 00:31:03,440 Speaker 1: over on Verdict with Ted Cruz dot com slash plus 538 00:31:03,480 --> 00:31:05,920 Speaker 1: that is the Verdict plus community. If you use my 539 00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:09,240 Speaker 1: promo code, which is Cloakroom. Intuitively, it makes sense. 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