1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:04,120 Speaker 1: It's far easier to slander one's political adversaries and to 2 00:00:04,200 --> 00:00:09,800 Speaker 1: demand that responsible citizens forfeit their constitutional rights that it 3 00:00:09,960 --> 00:00:15,440 Speaker 1: is to examine the cultural sickness giving birth to unspeakable 4 00:00:15,480 --> 00:00:19,520 Speaker 1: acts of evil. It's far less comfortable to ask why 5 00:00:19,720 --> 00:00:25,960 Speaker 1: despair and isolation and violent hatred is so prevalent in America. 6 00:00:27,440 --> 00:00:33,120 Speaker 1: It requires a sick soul to drive a truck into 7 00:00:33,159 --> 00:00:37,640 Speaker 1: a crowded sidewalk, to plan a bomb at a marathon, 8 00:00:38,560 --> 00:00:43,479 Speaker 1: or to fly a plane into a building. It requires 9 00:00:43,479 --> 00:00:47,360 Speaker 1: a sick soul to open fire in a movie theater, 10 00:00:48,080 --> 00:00:53,400 Speaker 1: or in a church or in a school. A speeding 11 00:00:53,479 --> 00:00:59,040 Speaker 1: automobile in the hands of a madman is deadly, as 12 00:00:59,160 --> 00:01:03,360 Speaker 1: is a jet airplane. Tragedies like the events of this 13 00:01:03,480 --> 00:01:08,759 Speaker 1: week are a mirror forcing us to ask hard questions, 14 00:01:08,840 --> 00:01:16,520 Speaker 1: demanding that we see where our culture is failing, looking 15 00:01:16,560 --> 00:01:23,759 Speaker 1: at broken families, absent fathers, declining church attendant social media bullying, 16 00:01:24,880 --> 00:01:30,480 Speaker 1: violent online content, desensitizing the act of murder in video games, 17 00:01:31,160 --> 00:01:42,040 Speaker 1: chronic isolation, prescription drug and opioid abuse, and their collective 18 00:01:42,080 --> 00:01:53,160 Speaker 1: effects on the psyche of young Americans. 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Again, the phone 90 00:05:27,240 --> 00:05:29,720 Speaker 1: number is eight five five seven six eight one eight 91 00:05:29,880 --> 00:05:32,560 Speaker 1: eight three, or text the word cactus to six five 92 00:05:32,600 --> 00:05:35,599 Speaker 1: five three two. Welcome to Verdict with Ted Cruz. I'm 93 00:05:35,880 --> 00:05:41,400 Speaker 1: Michael Knowles. We've just had the NRA convention. This was 94 00:05:41,760 --> 00:05:47,160 Speaker 1: obviously very controversial, major calls from the left to regulate 95 00:05:47,240 --> 00:05:50,200 Speaker 1: guns and ban all sorts of guns. This after the 96 00:05:50,200 --> 00:05:53,599 Speaker 1: shooting in Uvaldi. I have to point out a lot 97 00:05:53,640 --> 00:05:58,040 Speaker 1: of people dropped out of the NRA convention. Governor Abbott, 98 00:05:58,120 --> 00:06:01,800 Speaker 1: dropped out Senator Corn and dropped out Congressman Dan Crenshaw 99 00:06:01,960 --> 00:06:04,760 Speaker 1: dropped out, Dan Patrick, I think dropped out the Lieutenant 100 00:06:04,800 --> 00:06:08,080 Speaker 1: governor of Texas. A lot of people dropped out. Senator, 101 00:06:08,120 --> 00:06:11,880 Speaker 1: you did not. You showed up. You gave a robust 102 00:06:12,320 --> 00:06:14,680 Speaker 1: defense of the Second Amendment. I'm not saying it to 103 00:06:14,680 --> 00:06:17,400 Speaker 1: flatter you, and you know that I hate to compliment you. 104 00:06:17,400 --> 00:06:20,120 Speaker 1: You gave what I thought was a really, really powerful 105 00:06:20,120 --> 00:06:23,039 Speaker 1: and important speech. I thought it was important to be there. 106 00:06:23,680 --> 00:06:26,640 Speaker 1: I was disappointed to see so many others make the 107 00:06:26,680 --> 00:06:32,599 Speaker 1: decision not to be there, in part because the media 108 00:06:32,760 --> 00:06:37,839 Speaker 1: narrative that comes out of horrific crimes, horrific mass murders 109 00:06:39,120 --> 00:06:43,000 Speaker 1: within seconds, the media immediately wants to politicize them and 110 00:06:43,240 --> 00:06:46,719 Speaker 1: use them to advance their long standing political agenda that 111 00:06:46,760 --> 00:06:52,000 Speaker 1: they had moments before the murder occurred. And in this instance, 112 00:06:52,080 --> 00:06:55,080 Speaker 1: the media and the Democrats, they want to label anyone 113 00:06:55,240 --> 00:06:58,359 Speaker 1: who believes in the Second Amendment, anyone who defends the 114 00:06:58,360 --> 00:07:03,479 Speaker 1: Second Amendment as responsible for this horrific crime, and the 115 00:07:03,600 --> 00:07:07,919 Speaker 1: NRA in particular is probably their favorite boogeyman. Donald Trump 116 00:07:07,960 --> 00:07:09,840 Speaker 1: spoke as well. He and I spoke back to back, 117 00:07:10,800 --> 00:07:14,200 Speaker 1: and I chatted with Trump right before he went on 118 00:07:14,280 --> 00:07:17,280 Speaker 1: stage and thanked him for coming, and you know, I said, look, 119 00:07:18,120 --> 00:07:20,840 Speaker 1: it was important that you came, It was important that 120 00:07:20,880 --> 00:07:23,280 Speaker 1: you didn't back out. Thank you for being here, and 121 00:07:24,440 --> 00:07:27,600 Speaker 1: he of course agreed, and he had Let me just 122 00:07:27,640 --> 00:07:31,040 Speaker 1: say some choice words for some of the folks who 123 00:07:31,120 --> 00:07:34,000 Speaker 1: chose not to be there. Um, you know that they 124 00:07:34,040 --> 00:07:39,880 Speaker 1: were with classic Trump understatement, he expressed his views on 125 00:07:39,880 --> 00:07:42,320 Speaker 1: that topic. Well, there's an irony here, which is why 126 00:07:42,320 --> 00:07:46,200 Speaker 1: I really appreciated your speech. I've got to cut it 127 00:07:46,200 --> 00:07:47,800 Speaker 1: out with the compliments for you. You know, this is 128 00:07:47,800 --> 00:07:50,240 Speaker 1: the last episode that we'll get back to criticism next time. 129 00:07:50,320 --> 00:07:55,600 Speaker 1: But I really appreciated it because when whenever anyone brings 130 00:07:55,680 --> 00:07:59,760 Speaker 1: up cultural factors, something other than guns in any of 131 00:07:59,760 --> 00:08:03,480 Speaker 1: these tragedies, what the left says is, well, you're just 132 00:08:03,600 --> 00:08:06,120 Speaker 1: evading the question. You're just trying to distract from the 133 00:08:06,120 --> 00:08:08,280 Speaker 1: real issue, which is guns. We've gone through all of 134 00:08:08,280 --> 00:08:10,960 Speaker 1: these statistics. I don't see any reason to rehash them now. 135 00:08:12,120 --> 00:08:15,400 Speaker 1: So all right, we've addressed the gun part. Why are 136 00:08:15,440 --> 00:08:18,760 Speaker 1: you not allowing us to address the fatherlessness part? Why 137 00:08:18,760 --> 00:08:21,560 Speaker 1: are you not allowing us to address the social isolation? 138 00:08:21,720 --> 00:08:24,160 Speaker 1: Why are you not allowing us to address the decline 139 00:08:24,160 --> 00:08:27,320 Speaker 1: in religion and faith in going to church are Why 140 00:08:27,440 --> 00:08:29,480 Speaker 1: is that the part that we're not allowed to address. 141 00:08:29,720 --> 00:08:32,000 Speaker 1: It seems to me that that's far more the common 142 00:08:32,080 --> 00:08:35,040 Speaker 1: thread here even than the guns. You know. I will 143 00:08:35,040 --> 00:08:38,240 Speaker 1: say the speech that I gave was very different from 144 00:08:38,240 --> 00:08:41,120 Speaker 1: the speech I'd planned to give. I've spoken a lot 145 00:08:41,160 --> 00:08:44,760 Speaker 1: of n A conventions. I know how to give a 146 00:08:45,400 --> 00:08:48,560 Speaker 1: you know, barn burner of a speech, and so I 147 00:08:48,679 --> 00:08:53,720 Speaker 1: decided instead to give what I hope was was a thoughtful, 148 00:08:54,920 --> 00:09:00,679 Speaker 1: serious speech on the nature of evil. That that was 149 00:09:00,720 --> 00:09:03,640 Speaker 1: the entire topic of my speech, both the nature of evil. 150 00:09:03,679 --> 00:09:07,280 Speaker 1: Why it is that we have mass murderers, We have 151 00:09:07,480 --> 00:09:10,800 Speaker 1: people who commit horrific crimes, whether it's shooting a school, 152 00:09:10,920 --> 00:09:13,880 Speaker 1: or shooting a church, or shooting a movie theater, or 153 00:09:14,040 --> 00:09:18,280 Speaker 1: or you have people that you know commit crimes driving 154 00:09:18,320 --> 00:09:22,719 Speaker 1: a truck into a Christmas parade, murdering six people, or 155 00:09:23,160 --> 00:09:26,200 Speaker 1: or setting off a bomb at the Boston Marathon. I mean, 156 00:09:26,240 --> 00:09:32,280 Speaker 1: we are seeing sick, homicidal people. Many of the times 157 00:09:32,360 --> 00:09:38,200 Speaker 1: they are young, disaffected men who are alienated, who are isolated, 158 00:09:38,240 --> 00:09:42,400 Speaker 1: who who are angry. The per capita rate of gun 159 00:09:42,400 --> 00:09:49,520 Speaker 1: ownership in nineteen seventy two was forty three percent in America, 160 00:09:49,640 --> 00:09:52,760 Speaker 1: the per capita rate of gun ownership in twenty twenty one, 161 00:09:52,880 --> 00:09:58,800 Speaker 1: forty nine years later is forty two percent. It's identical. 162 00:09:59,559 --> 00:10:04,040 Speaker 1: The same percentage of Americans owned firearms today as did 163 00:10:04,040 --> 00:10:07,719 Speaker 1: fifty years ago. So that hasn't changed. It's not like 164 00:10:07,800 --> 00:10:10,880 Speaker 1: in nineteen seventy people didn't have firearms. You had the 165 00:10:10,920 --> 00:10:15,680 Speaker 1: exact same percentage of Americans owning firearms. What's changed is 166 00:10:15,720 --> 00:10:21,720 Speaker 1: the culture, the loss of faith, a loss of family. 167 00:10:22,200 --> 00:10:23,920 Speaker 1: And by the way, the left, you know, when I 168 00:10:23,960 --> 00:10:26,559 Speaker 1: talked about, you know, homes without fathers in them, and 169 00:10:27,000 --> 00:10:30,240 Speaker 1: so many of these mass murders are raised with absent fathers, 170 00:10:30,280 --> 00:10:34,640 Speaker 1: often criminal fathers or abusive fathers, but absent fathers virtually 171 00:10:34,679 --> 00:10:37,000 Speaker 1: all of them. Virtually every single one of these shootings 172 00:10:37,040 --> 00:10:39,120 Speaker 1: involves a father outside the home. You know, it was 173 00:10:39,240 --> 00:10:41,520 Speaker 1: interesting seeing some of the reactions to the left because 174 00:10:41,520 --> 00:10:44,280 Speaker 1: it's almost pathological where they come back and attack me 175 00:10:44,320 --> 00:10:47,560 Speaker 1: and said, well, Cruz is attacking single moms. No I'm not. 176 00:10:48,840 --> 00:10:51,839 Speaker 1: I'm saying that kids do better with dads. Look, I've 177 00:10:51,840 --> 00:10:53,720 Speaker 1: got a family that has a lot of single moms 178 00:10:53,720 --> 00:10:58,400 Speaker 1: in them. Single moms are heroic and extraordinary people. I 179 00:10:58,480 --> 00:11:01,400 Speaker 1: just wish there didn't have to be so many single moms. 180 00:11:01,640 --> 00:11:05,640 Speaker 1: I wish moms had the help of a father who 181 00:11:05,720 --> 00:11:11,800 Speaker 1: was a husband and a loving helpmate in raising children 182 00:11:11,960 --> 00:11:18,400 Speaker 1: that are loved and appreciated and valued and not psychopathic monsters. 183 00:11:18,760 --> 00:11:22,360 Speaker 1: I always thought the gun control arguments were incoherent from 184 00:11:22,400 --> 00:11:24,280 Speaker 1: the same people who tell us that the cops are 185 00:11:24,360 --> 00:11:27,560 Speaker 1: racist and they go around plucking off people, innocent people 186 00:11:27,559 --> 00:11:29,640 Speaker 1: because of their skin color. The cops are racist, the 187 00:11:29,679 --> 00:11:31,560 Speaker 1: cops are terrible, that's why they should have all the guns. 188 00:11:31,600 --> 00:11:33,440 Speaker 1: That never made a lot of sense. But now, in 189 00:11:33,480 --> 00:11:36,559 Speaker 1: the wake of the shooting in Texas, you're hearing many 190 00:11:36,600 --> 00:11:39,360 Speaker 1: people say that the police response was incompetent, that the 191 00:11:39,400 --> 00:11:42,079 Speaker 1: police response was cowardly. Again, I'm sure there will be 192 00:11:42,080 --> 00:11:44,800 Speaker 1: an investigation to go through what actually happened there. But 193 00:11:44,840 --> 00:11:48,200 Speaker 1: if that is the case, you're telling me that we 194 00:11:48,280 --> 00:11:50,880 Speaker 1: can't rely on the cops to protect ourselves. So isn't 195 00:11:50,960 --> 00:11:55,600 Speaker 1: that an even more robust defense of self defense of 196 00:11:55,600 --> 00:11:57,719 Speaker 1: the Second Amendment of our right to keep and bear 197 00:11:57,840 --> 00:12:00,360 Speaker 1: arms in America? The whole I'm just really glad that 198 00:12:00,400 --> 00:12:02,360 Speaker 1: you stood up and you didn't let them bully you, 199 00:12:02,440 --> 00:12:04,640 Speaker 1: and you didn't. You didn't cancel the speech because I 200 00:12:04,679 --> 00:12:07,320 Speaker 1: think it's it's a message that people really needed to hear. Michael. 201 00:12:07,360 --> 00:12:10,880 Speaker 1: The point you're making there also is an important one, 202 00:12:11,160 --> 00:12:13,840 Speaker 1: which is if you look in the last couple of years, 203 00:12:13,920 --> 00:12:17,320 Speaker 1: we've seen gone ownership going up, and one of the 204 00:12:17,360 --> 00:12:20,400 Speaker 1: major causes of that was in twenty twenty the Antifa 205 00:12:20,440 --> 00:12:24,480 Speaker 1: and Black Lives Matter riots all across the country, where 206 00:12:24,520 --> 00:12:27,800 Speaker 1: you had democratic politicians that refused to enforce the law, 207 00:12:27,840 --> 00:12:30,600 Speaker 1: that ordered the police to stand down, that wouldn't protect 208 00:12:30,679 --> 00:12:34,960 Speaker 1: people's homes, that wouldn't protect people's businesses, that wouldn't stop looters, 209 00:12:34,960 --> 00:12:38,880 Speaker 1: that wouldn't stop fire bombs from being thrown, that allowed 210 00:12:39,760 --> 00:12:45,880 Speaker 1: lawless rioters to declare so called autonomous zones, the Chads 211 00:12:45,920 --> 00:12:52,600 Speaker 1: and the chad for weeks on end. When you have 212 00:12:52,840 --> 00:12:57,040 Speaker 1: Democrat politicians who say we won't let the police protect you, 213 00:12:58,600 --> 00:13:01,360 Speaker 1: it's not surprising that people will make the decision, well, heck, 214 00:13:01,400 --> 00:13:04,720 Speaker 1: I'm going to protect myself if there's gonna be a 215 00:13:04,880 --> 00:13:11,400 Speaker 1: mob in the street with violence as they're objective, especially 216 00:13:11,400 --> 00:13:14,600 Speaker 1: if the cops aren't there to protect me, That's that's 217 00:13:14,640 --> 00:13:18,000 Speaker 1: when I definitely need to keep my family safe. And 218 00:13:18,400 --> 00:13:24,400 Speaker 1: all the more irony that these same politicians who were 219 00:13:24,520 --> 00:13:29,400 Speaker 1: singing the praises of violent rioters and people committing assaults 220 00:13:29,400 --> 00:13:34,360 Speaker 1: and fire bombings and even murders. You know, these Democrat 221 00:13:34,440 --> 00:13:38,800 Speaker 1: politicians Kamala Harris raised money to bail these violent rioters 222 00:13:38,800 --> 00:13:42,319 Speaker 1: out of jail, and now they're suddenly saying how morally 223 00:13:42,400 --> 00:13:45,959 Speaker 1: righteous they are because they're opposed to crime. Well, you 224 00:13:46,320 --> 00:13:48,280 Speaker 1: don't get to have it both ways. You don't get 225 00:13:48,280 --> 00:13:50,880 Speaker 1: to celebrate violent criminals and then say, oh, by the way, 226 00:13:52,000 --> 00:13:55,120 Speaker 1: you guys can't defend yourself when those violent criminals commit 227 00:13:55,240 --> 00:14:02,720 Speaker 1: horrific acts that unfortunately they're relentless anti police rhetoric helped 228 00:14:02,880 --> 00:14:07,240 Speaker 1: fuel and cause. Speaking of corruption in the criminal justice system, 229 00:14:07,440 --> 00:14:09,120 Speaker 1: I do have to get your take on something on 230 00:14:09,160 --> 00:14:12,520 Speaker 1: a completely separate topic that just came out today though, 231 00:14:12,559 --> 00:14:16,320 Speaker 1: which is the case of Michael Sussman. Yeah, this Clinton 232 00:14:16,480 --> 00:14:20,840 Speaker 1: lawyer who lied to the FBI, who planted the whole 233 00:14:20,920 --> 00:14:24,400 Speaker 1: Russia hoax, apparently at the direction of Hillary Clinton. We 234 00:14:24,480 --> 00:14:29,600 Speaker 1: saw the evidence, we saw the correspondence, and yet today 235 00:14:29,640 --> 00:14:32,120 Speaker 1: the judge let the guy off the hook. I should 236 00:14:32,160 --> 00:14:34,320 Speaker 1: clarify too, it wasn't just the judge that led him 237 00:14:34,320 --> 00:14:36,560 Speaker 1: off the hook. It was it was the jury apparently down. 238 00:14:36,680 --> 00:14:40,000 Speaker 1: So that's not all the judge's fault. Well, and it's 239 00:14:40,160 --> 00:14:43,320 Speaker 1: you know the facts of it. This lawyer worked for 240 00:14:43,400 --> 00:14:46,680 Speaker 1: Hillary Clinton's campaign's law firm, and he reached out to 241 00:14:46,720 --> 00:14:51,160 Speaker 1: the FBI and said, hey, I've got information that that 242 00:14:51,360 --> 00:14:54,480 Speaker 1: Trump is involved with the Alpha Bank in Russia and 243 00:14:54,480 --> 00:14:59,720 Speaker 1: the Trump campaign is colluding with Russia. And he goes 244 00:14:59,720 --> 00:15:01,560 Speaker 1: out his way to say, I'm not doing this on 245 00:15:01,640 --> 00:15:05,400 Speaker 1: behalf of any client. I'm not working for anyone. I'm 246 00:15:05,440 --> 00:15:07,920 Speaker 1: just being a good citizen. I'm just a good Samaritan. 247 00:15:08,000 --> 00:15:12,000 Speaker 1: I love America. Rah rah rah. So he reaches out 248 00:15:12,040 --> 00:15:14,640 Speaker 1: to the top brass at the FBI under Obama and 249 00:15:15,040 --> 00:15:18,880 Speaker 1: meets with them and affirmatively represents him. Now, what he 250 00:15:18,920 --> 00:15:21,160 Speaker 1: told them was nonsense, and it was the beginning of 251 00:15:21,200 --> 00:15:25,200 Speaker 1: the whole Russia hoax and all of that nonsense. But 252 00:15:25,400 --> 00:15:27,920 Speaker 1: his statement, I'm not doing it on behalf of any 253 00:15:28,000 --> 00:15:32,080 Speaker 1: client was a flat outlie. He was doing it on 254 00:15:32,080 --> 00:15:35,160 Speaker 1: behalf of the Hillary Clinton campaign in the DNC, and 255 00:15:35,280 --> 00:15:40,160 Speaker 1: of course, being a lawyer, he built for it. So 256 00:15:40,200 --> 00:15:44,920 Speaker 1: he literally sent the Hillary Clinton campaign a bill charging 257 00:15:45,000 --> 00:15:49,240 Speaker 1: his time for the time meeting with the FBI to 258 00:15:49,440 --> 00:15:52,120 Speaker 1: tell them about the Russia hoax. When he told the FBI, 259 00:15:52,240 --> 00:15:54,240 Speaker 1: he wasn't doing it on behalf of a client. Somehow, 260 00:15:54,280 --> 00:15:55,920 Speaker 1: the client he was certainly was going to get paid 261 00:15:55,920 --> 00:15:58,120 Speaker 1: for it, because he is a lawyer. After all, If 262 00:15:58,320 --> 00:16:01,200 Speaker 1: you're going to be implicated in a crime, don't you 263 00:16:01,280 --> 00:16:04,160 Speaker 1: think it's worth taking that, You know, eighteen minutes on 264 00:16:04,200 --> 00:16:06,040 Speaker 1: the arm. Do you really need to charge in the 265 00:16:06,080 --> 00:16:08,840 Speaker 1: six minute increments for when you're committing a crime? So 266 00:16:08,920 --> 00:16:11,600 Speaker 1: I will confess, Michael. When I was practicing law, and 267 00:16:11,960 --> 00:16:14,800 Speaker 1: one of the things I do not miss about private 268 00:16:14,800 --> 00:16:16,960 Speaker 1: practice is having to think of my day in six 269 00:16:17,000 --> 00:16:21,600 Speaker 1: minute increments. I would literally take a legal brief or 270 00:16:21,600 --> 00:16:24,600 Speaker 1: a case with me when I went to the restroom, 271 00:16:24,640 --> 00:16:26,920 Speaker 1: because I'd stand at the urinal and be reading because 272 00:16:26,920 --> 00:16:29,760 Speaker 1: I wanted a bill for the time and it is 273 00:16:29,920 --> 00:16:34,640 Speaker 1: I understand that sentiment. And by the way, there'd be 274 00:16:34,680 --> 00:16:37,760 Speaker 1: three other lawyers standing they're holding a brief reading at 275 00:16:37,760 --> 00:16:40,400 Speaker 1: the urinal too, because none of us wanted to miss 276 00:16:40,440 --> 00:16:43,880 Speaker 1: billing the time. Two things on the suspend case. Number one, 277 00:16:44,120 --> 00:16:49,160 Speaker 1: the judge severely limited what the prosecutors could introduce into evidence, 278 00:16:50,080 --> 00:16:54,080 Speaker 1: So they severely limited the broader context of what the 279 00:16:54,120 --> 00:16:57,760 Speaker 1: Clinton campaign was doing, pushing the Russia hoax and everything 280 00:16:57,800 --> 00:16:59,720 Speaker 1: they were doing in the press, that this was part 281 00:16:59,760 --> 00:17:04,200 Speaker 1: of a long concerted scheme. The judge kept almost all 282 00:17:04,200 --> 00:17:07,840 Speaker 1: of that out, and it was a very circumscribed, narrow 283 00:17:08,000 --> 00:17:12,399 Speaker 1: factual You said X was X true. Is how the 284 00:17:12,440 --> 00:17:17,160 Speaker 1: prosecutor had to present it to the jury. I think 285 00:17:17,200 --> 00:17:19,840 Speaker 1: there are real questions that should be asked why the 286 00:17:19,920 --> 00:17:22,359 Speaker 1: judge was keeping all that context out. What it did 287 00:17:23,200 --> 00:17:25,760 Speaker 1: is it protected Hillary Clinton like crazy, Like all of 288 00:17:25,760 --> 00:17:30,239 Speaker 1: the judge's orders basically kept the Hillary campaign directly from 289 00:17:30,320 --> 00:17:33,680 Speaker 1: being implicated and just had one rogue lawyer, well you're 290 00:17:33,680 --> 00:17:36,880 Speaker 1: going to be in trouble. But then the jury, Look, 291 00:17:36,920 --> 00:17:39,119 Speaker 1: the jury is from the District of Columbia. District of 292 00:17:39,359 --> 00:17:46,000 Speaker 1: Columbia votes you know, ninety plus Democrat. I have not 293 00:17:46,200 --> 00:17:50,480 Speaker 1: studied all of the factual evidence introduced in trial, but 294 00:17:50,560 --> 00:17:55,560 Speaker 1: it certainly raises an eyebrow that this is a jury 295 00:17:55,640 --> 00:18:01,160 Speaker 1: that in all likelihood voted for Hillary Clinton and hates 296 00:18:01,200 --> 00:18:04,360 Speaker 1: Donald Trump. And we have seen in cases that are 297 00:18:04,359 --> 00:18:07,840 Speaker 1: brought in DC, we've seen them be political the other 298 00:18:07,880 --> 00:18:10,480 Speaker 1: way that they're quite happy to throw the book at 299 00:18:10,520 --> 00:18:12,679 Speaker 1: someone if they disagree with the politics of it. It 300 00:18:12,800 --> 00:18:17,320 Speaker 1: certainly raises a real question in this case whether at 301 00:18:17,400 --> 00:18:19,480 Speaker 1: least some members of the jury didn't happen to just 302 00:18:20,920 --> 00:18:24,440 Speaker 1: like the politics of the guy who was violating the law. 303 00:18:25,160 --> 00:18:29,240 Speaker 1: It just makes people think that there are two separate 304 00:18:29,280 --> 00:18:32,800 Speaker 1: justice systems. You know that we hear ad nauseum about 305 00:18:32,840 --> 00:18:35,639 Speaker 1: a guy who cracks a corpse light in the Capitol rotunda. 306 00:18:35,800 --> 00:18:38,760 Speaker 1: He's the worst terrorist insurrectionist in the history of our country. 307 00:18:38,960 --> 00:18:42,640 Speaker 1: Throw him in isolated, an isolated sell and throw away 308 00:18:42,680 --> 00:18:45,919 Speaker 1: the key. Meanwhile, you've got a guy who, at the 309 00:18:46,040 --> 00:18:50,000 Speaker 1: direction of the Democrat presidential nominee, is lying to the 310 00:18:50,080 --> 00:18:53,760 Speaker 1: FBI about a matter of what could potentially be national 311 00:18:53,840 --> 00:18:57,360 Speaker 1: security and then undermining trying to rig a presidential election, 312 00:18:57,600 --> 00:19:00,600 Speaker 1: undermining the actual presidency. And the guy gets off the hook, 313 00:19:00,600 --> 00:19:02,520 Speaker 1: and the campaign gets off the hook, and you think, 314 00:19:02,520 --> 00:19:05,280 Speaker 1: where's the justice. Well, and I'll tell you what is 315 00:19:05,440 --> 00:19:09,520 Speaker 1: really worrisome is I'm concerned that that Merrick Garland, the 316 00:19:09,560 --> 00:19:12,840 Speaker 1: Attorney General, is going to use this verdict as an 317 00:19:12,840 --> 00:19:15,959 Speaker 1: excuse to fire John Durham, like they want to end 318 00:19:16,000 --> 00:19:20,360 Speaker 1: this investigation it's the one sort of lingering that they 319 00:19:20,400 --> 00:19:24,800 Speaker 1: want to sweep under the rug. What is coming, you know, 320 00:19:24,880 --> 00:19:27,600 Speaker 1: My next book that's coming out in Septeptember is called 321 00:19:27,720 --> 00:19:33,600 Speaker 1: Justice Corrupted, How the Left politicized our Legal System, and 322 00:19:33,760 --> 00:19:37,880 Speaker 1: it talks at great length about how Barack Obama now 323 00:19:37,960 --> 00:19:40,560 Speaker 1: Joe Biden are using the legal system to target their 324 00:19:40,560 --> 00:19:43,119 Speaker 1: political enemies. It talks about what you just said, the 325 00:19:43,240 --> 00:19:48,679 Speaker 1: differential treatment used to January sixth defendants compared to the 326 00:19:48,800 --> 00:19:53,000 Speaker 1: violent rioters and Antifa and Black Lives Matter riots. And 327 00:19:53,400 --> 00:19:56,760 Speaker 1: I've been pressing this Justice Department for over a year 328 00:19:56,800 --> 00:19:59,440 Speaker 1: on that and they just stonewall. They refuse to answer questions, 329 00:19:59,440 --> 00:20:05,119 Speaker 1: They refuse even the barest oversight. And you're right, it 330 00:20:05,160 --> 00:20:12,280 Speaker 1: does suggest that there is a disparate, partisan, uneven enforcement 331 00:20:12,320 --> 00:20:16,520 Speaker 1: of justice. Number one, But number two, I'm very concerned 332 00:20:16,840 --> 00:20:21,760 Speaker 1: that Garland will use this as an excuse to say, Okay, 333 00:20:21,840 --> 00:20:25,320 Speaker 1: Durham's done. And that would be terrible if that happens. 334 00:20:25,359 --> 00:20:30,000 Speaker 1: But I think that is a very real possibility, because 335 00:20:30,040 --> 00:20:33,119 Speaker 1: there is no doubt the Biden White House wants the 336 00:20:33,200 --> 00:20:38,600 Speaker 1: Durham investigation over yesterday. I suppose my fear then, though, is, 337 00:20:38,960 --> 00:20:42,800 Speaker 1: let's say Durham gets to keep pursuing the investigation, do 338 00:20:42,880 --> 00:20:45,440 Speaker 1: we have any hope for justice? I mean, we thought 339 00:20:45,560 --> 00:20:49,120 Speaker 1: Durham had this guy. We thought Durham had the Clinton campaign, 340 00:20:49,119 --> 00:20:52,159 Speaker 1: and so if he couldn't get suessman, is there is 341 00:20:52,200 --> 00:20:54,200 Speaker 1: there any hope that we're ever going to see any 342 00:20:54,280 --> 00:20:57,520 Speaker 1: justice even if Durham does get to keep his job. Well, 343 00:20:57,600 --> 00:21:02,879 Speaker 1: I don't know. I think there is power to sunlight 344 00:21:02,960 --> 00:21:07,480 Speaker 1: and transparency and exposing the crimes. You know, if you 345 00:21:07,640 --> 00:21:12,639 Speaker 1: think about Crossfire, Hurricane and the absolutely legal abuses of 346 00:21:12,680 --> 00:21:16,640 Speaker 1: power carried out by the Obama Justice Department. They never 347 00:21:16,680 --> 00:21:19,800 Speaker 1: thought they'd get caught. They thought Hillary would win, in 348 00:21:19,840 --> 00:21:22,160 Speaker 1: which case it would all be buried, nothing would come 349 00:21:22,720 --> 00:21:26,960 Speaker 1: come to light. It's only the accident from their perspective 350 00:21:27,040 --> 00:21:29,560 Speaker 1: that their candidate, who they were trying to do everything 351 00:21:29,600 --> 00:21:34,040 Speaker 1: they could to ensure she won, lost that you suddenly 352 00:21:34,160 --> 00:21:38,200 Speaker 1: had the mechanism in place to provide at least some 353 00:21:38,320 --> 00:21:42,399 Speaker 1: modicum of sunlight. Well, there, shockingly is a little bit 354 00:21:42,400 --> 00:21:45,480 Speaker 1: of justice coming out of a liberal institution in America. 355 00:21:45,520 --> 00:21:47,480 Speaker 1: I wanted to get your thoughts on it. Have you 356 00:21:47,560 --> 00:21:50,240 Speaker 1: seen top Gun yet? I have? I saw it yesterday. 357 00:21:50,320 --> 00:21:54,240 Speaker 1: It is awesome, It is spectacular. Did you see the 358 00:21:54,280 --> 00:21:57,200 Speaker 1: back of the jacket. They put Taiwan back, They put 359 00:21:57,240 --> 00:21:59,520 Speaker 1: Taiwan back, they put Japan back, and then this is 360 00:21:59,560 --> 00:22:02,480 Speaker 1: fantastic astic, all right. So, folks who don't know the 361 00:22:02,520 --> 00:22:07,520 Speaker 1: backstory of this, the Top Gun sequel was being made, 362 00:22:08,200 --> 00:22:10,960 Speaker 1: they edited the back of mavericks jacket and the back 363 00:22:10,960 --> 00:22:14,480 Speaker 1: of Maverick's jacket had the Taiwanese flag in the Japanese flag, 364 00:22:14,520 --> 00:22:16,919 Speaker 1: and they erased it. They took them out, and so 365 00:22:17,040 --> 00:22:18,879 Speaker 1: in the trailer that came out or I don't know, 366 00:22:18,920 --> 00:22:22,080 Speaker 1: a year ago, the two flags were gone. And it 367 00:22:22,119 --> 00:22:24,680 Speaker 1: was obvious why they did so, which is that they 368 00:22:24,720 --> 00:22:27,680 Speaker 1: were worried about the Chinese censors, and the Chinese censors 369 00:22:27,720 --> 00:22:32,920 Speaker 1: don't refuse to acknowledge that Taiwan exists, and so Hollywood 370 00:22:33,040 --> 00:22:35,159 Speaker 1: was trying to sell the movie in China. It's a 371 00:22:35,160 --> 00:22:42,600 Speaker 1: big movie market. I actually introduced legislation to address Chinese 372 00:22:42,640 --> 00:22:45,720 Speaker 1: censorship of American movies, and it's legislation that's called the 373 00:22:45,760 --> 00:22:51,480 Speaker 1: Script Act. And what the Script Act says is that 374 00:22:52,600 --> 00:22:54,840 Speaker 1: so a lot of movies and Top Guns a great example, 375 00:22:54,880 --> 00:22:58,960 Speaker 1: a lot of movies use US government assets. So Top Gun, 376 00:22:59,280 --> 00:23:02,800 Speaker 1: used FA teens, it used aircraft carriers, It used you know, 377 00:23:03,040 --> 00:23:07,080 Speaker 1: billions of dollars of federal government assets to make the movie. 378 00:23:07,600 --> 00:23:10,600 Speaker 1: And that happens a lot anytime you're using military equipment, 379 00:23:10,640 --> 00:23:12,560 Speaker 1: anytime you're at the border patrol. There are lots of 380 00:23:12,600 --> 00:23:16,000 Speaker 1: times where you're using government assets to make a movie. 381 00:23:16,520 --> 00:23:19,320 Speaker 1: And what the Script Act says is that no MovieMaker 382 00:23:19,359 --> 00:23:23,920 Speaker 1: could use federal government assets if they allow the Chinese 383 00:23:23,920 --> 00:23:27,840 Speaker 1: Communist government to censor their movie. So it doesn't try 384 00:23:27,840 --> 00:23:30,200 Speaker 1: to prevent If you want to let the Chinese censor you, 385 00:23:30,200 --> 00:23:33,080 Speaker 1: you can, but the federal government is not going to 386 00:23:33,119 --> 00:23:40,000 Speaker 1: subsidize your efforts to produce Chinese censored movies by allowing 387 00:23:40,000 --> 00:23:44,320 Speaker 1: you access to federal government assets. I stood on the 388 00:23:44,359 --> 00:23:48,159 Speaker 1: Senate floor and I lit into Hollywood over exactly this issue, 389 00:23:48,240 --> 00:23:54,080 Speaker 1: top Gun censoring, the jacket on the back of Mavericks jacket. 390 00:23:54,119 --> 00:23:57,280 Speaker 1: I said, look, you know, now, Maverick is afraid of 391 00:23:57,320 --> 00:23:59,560 Speaker 1: the Chinese Communists. What the hell have we come to? 392 00:24:00,960 --> 00:24:04,240 Speaker 1: And I gotta say, it was beautiful yesterday watching the movie. 393 00:24:04,280 --> 00:24:06,399 Speaker 1: He pulls on the jacket and there they were the 394 00:24:06,440 --> 00:24:10,359 Speaker 1: Taiwanese flag and the Japanese flag. I don't ever say this, 395 00:24:10,480 --> 00:24:14,800 Speaker 1: but but Paramount Pictures did the right thing. I don't 396 00:24:14,800 --> 00:24:19,960 Speaker 1: ever praise Hollywood, but they grew a backbone and they 397 00:24:20,040 --> 00:24:24,520 Speaker 1: stood up to the Chinese Communist and Amen, hallelujah. Top 398 00:24:24,560 --> 00:24:28,080 Speaker 1: Gun Kill the Bad Guys. Awesome movie. Well, it might 399 00:24:28,119 --> 00:24:30,240 Speaker 1: have been a little little bit of stick as well 400 00:24:30,280 --> 00:24:31,960 Speaker 1: as a little bit of carrot. You know, if you're 401 00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:35,159 Speaker 1: proposing legislation that says we're gonna make it much harder 402 00:24:35,160 --> 00:24:37,360 Speaker 1: for you to make these movies, if you throw us 403 00:24:37,359 --> 00:24:39,720 Speaker 1: in our allies under the bus. I don't want to 404 00:24:39,760 --> 00:24:43,199 Speaker 1: sound cynical here or jaded. Maybe that had something to 405 00:24:43,240 --> 00:24:45,040 Speaker 1: do with the decision. By the way, do you know 406 00:24:45,080 --> 00:24:47,520 Speaker 1: how they do the aerial scenes and Top Gun? So 407 00:24:47,600 --> 00:24:49,600 Speaker 1: I watched a couple of days ago a thing on 408 00:24:49,640 --> 00:24:51,840 Speaker 1: YouTube where they were describing it. So they're in actual 409 00:24:51,920 --> 00:24:56,120 Speaker 1: f eighteens, and essentially when they're in the aerial seats, 410 00:24:56,359 --> 00:24:59,160 Speaker 1: the actors are in the second seat, so the front 411 00:24:59,200 --> 00:25:01,200 Speaker 1: you know, they're two seats in an eighteen. The front 412 00:25:01,240 --> 00:25:04,600 Speaker 1: seat is the pilot. It is the actual presumably navy 413 00:25:04,640 --> 00:25:08,280 Speaker 1: pilot who's flying the jet and doing all the maneuvers, 414 00:25:08,280 --> 00:25:10,520 Speaker 1: and in the second seat is the actor who's meant 415 00:25:10,560 --> 00:25:13,080 Speaker 1: to be the pilot. But all of the like face 416 00:25:13,200 --> 00:25:15,680 Speaker 1: being smushed back, those are real g forces. I mean 417 00:25:15,720 --> 00:25:21,159 Speaker 1: they're like they're going through all of that. And what's 418 00:25:21,200 --> 00:25:23,200 Speaker 1: fake is when they're moving the stick up and down 419 00:25:23,200 --> 00:25:26,360 Speaker 1: and the controls, they don't actually have the controls. It's 420 00:25:26,400 --> 00:25:28,600 Speaker 1: the real pilot doing it. But it is real that 421 00:25:28,640 --> 00:25:32,080 Speaker 1: they're in the F eighteen and the footage is actual 422 00:25:32,359 --> 00:25:35,359 Speaker 1: fighter jets flying through the air, and it's really cool. 423 00:25:35,920 --> 00:25:38,720 Speaker 1: I don't doubt anything that Tom Cruise does in movies. 424 00:25:38,760 --> 00:25:41,440 Speaker 1: I'm expecting him to walk on Mars in the next 425 00:25:41,480 --> 00:25:44,040 Speaker 1: Top Gun, so that'll be something to look forward to. Senator. 426 00:25:44,280 --> 00:25:46,360 Speaker 1: Before I let you go, I do have to get 427 00:25:46,400 --> 00:25:50,040 Speaker 1: to speaking of Hollywood, some criticism that has come out 428 00:25:50,080 --> 00:25:53,960 Speaker 1: from you. Verdict has been in the news everywhere I 429 00:25:53,960 --> 00:25:56,840 Speaker 1: get alerts for this show. The alerts have been blowing up. 430 00:25:57,040 --> 00:26:01,360 Speaker 1: You got in big, big trouble, sir, because you made 431 00:26:01,400 --> 00:26:06,800 Speaker 1: the audacious claim that you like hot women. You made 432 00:26:06,800 --> 00:26:09,520 Speaker 1: the claims some women are beautiful. You didn't understand how 433 00:26:09,560 --> 00:26:12,080 Speaker 1: the guy from SNL could pick up the hot chicks. 434 00:26:12,160 --> 00:26:15,760 Speaker 1: So amid all of the barrage of criticism from the 435 00:26:15,760 --> 00:26:19,280 Speaker 1: liberal media here. Do you still stand by that outrageous 436 00:26:19,280 --> 00:26:24,800 Speaker 1: statement beautiful women are awesome? I will say I was 437 00:26:24,880 --> 00:26:29,280 Speaker 1: amused to see verdict became uh the subject of the view. 438 00:26:29,480 --> 00:26:33,360 Speaker 1: They sat there and and and and you know, we're 439 00:26:33,440 --> 00:26:37,639 Speaker 1: blasting us for the for that segment, and in particular 440 00:26:38,160 --> 00:26:40,280 Speaker 1: so I, you know, I talked about, how did Pete 441 00:26:40,359 --> 00:26:44,800 Speaker 1: Davidson get get uh, Kate Beckasdale? I get. I guess 442 00:26:44,800 --> 00:26:47,080 Speaker 1: it's Beca's sale. There's no d in it, So I 443 00:26:47,160 --> 00:26:51,159 Speaker 1: mispronounced her name. Um. And they went on and and 444 00:26:51,160 --> 00:26:54,600 Speaker 1: and uh. You know, the women on the view were 445 00:26:54,640 --> 00:26:57,639 Speaker 1: attacking me. I think they said I was creepy and 446 00:26:57,720 --> 00:26:59,480 Speaker 1: gross or I don't know. It was some sort of 447 00:27:00,040 --> 00:27:03,480 Speaker 1: some sort of insults, which which I couldn't help but respond. Well, 448 00:27:03,600 --> 00:27:07,680 Speaker 1: you know, from from such noted experts on sex appeal 449 00:27:07,920 --> 00:27:11,680 Speaker 1: as as as who Whoopee Goldberg and Anna Navarro, I'm 450 00:27:11,680 --> 00:27:15,400 Speaker 1: really glad to get their views. Um. All right, So 451 00:27:15,480 --> 00:27:19,720 Speaker 1: this weekend, UM, we had my family in town because 452 00:27:19,720 --> 00:27:24,400 Speaker 1: we were celebrating Caroline, my eighth grader, graduated eighth grade, 453 00:27:24,400 --> 00:27:27,240 Speaker 1: going into ninth grade, and so we were celebrating that. 454 00:27:27,359 --> 00:27:30,239 Speaker 1: But my dad was very unhappy about that segment, so 455 00:27:30,320 --> 00:27:32,080 Speaker 1: he wasn't. My dad was in town this weekend. He 456 00:27:32,119 --> 00:27:35,160 Speaker 1: was very unhappy and he was like, you really shouldn't 457 00:27:35,200 --> 00:27:38,080 Speaker 1: be talking about those things. You were talking about hot 458 00:27:38,160 --> 00:27:42,240 Speaker 1: vampire women. I don't think my dad's seen Underworld and 459 00:27:42,240 --> 00:27:44,480 Speaker 1: and and he was like, why are you talking about 460 00:27:44,520 --> 00:27:47,040 Speaker 1: hot vampire women? And you know, my father and a 461 00:27:47,119 --> 00:27:50,200 Speaker 1: Cuban accent, and he's a preacher, but he was he 462 00:27:50,280 --> 00:27:53,800 Speaker 1: was dismayed. And I'm like, have you not watched Underworld? 463 00:27:53,800 --> 00:27:59,720 Speaker 1: Because like, that's objective truth is a defense. I actually 464 00:27:59,760 --> 00:28:03,000 Speaker 1: don't even really get the views criticism because you know, 465 00:28:03,080 --> 00:28:05,040 Speaker 1: of course, if you had, if you had said that 466 00:28:05,040 --> 00:28:07,919 Speaker 1: the women were not beautiful, they'd call you a misogynist 467 00:28:07,960 --> 00:28:09,600 Speaker 1: and a terrible they'd find some way to hit you. 468 00:28:09,720 --> 00:28:11,320 Speaker 1: Kind of damned if you do, and damned if you don't. 469 00:28:11,400 --> 00:28:13,920 Speaker 1: But are we at the point of society right now 470 00:28:14,080 --> 00:28:18,720 Speaker 1: where we're not even allowed to embrace objective standards? We're 471 00:28:18,720 --> 00:28:20,960 Speaker 1: not even allowed to say that beautiful women are beautiful? 472 00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:24,080 Speaker 1: What what have we succumbed to? And by the way, 473 00:28:24,160 --> 00:28:27,320 Speaker 1: my point was just there's a mismatch that Pete Davidson 474 00:28:27,760 --> 00:28:30,440 Speaker 1: seems to be batting out of his league. Look if 475 00:28:30,480 --> 00:28:33,199 Speaker 1: Tom Cruise, Tom Cruise dates hot women, of course, I 476 00:28:33,200 --> 00:28:36,000 Speaker 1: mean the guy's Tom free and cruise like that. You know, 477 00:28:36,119 --> 00:28:39,920 Speaker 1: Brad Pitt, you know you understand, Michael, I will tell 478 00:28:40,000 --> 00:28:50,200 Speaker 1: you my favorite toast God bless near sighted women. That's 479 00:28:50,360 --> 00:28:55,000 Speaker 1: maybe that explains it. That might actually maybe Kim Kardashian 480 00:28:55,040 --> 00:28:56,840 Speaker 1: and all the rest of them, maybe they just need classes. 481 00:28:57,320 --> 00:28:58,800 Speaker 1: Before we go, I also have to get to some 482 00:28:58,880 --> 00:29:02,200 Speaker 1: mailbag center because we've got very very good questions, as 483 00:29:02,200 --> 00:29:04,520 Speaker 1: we always do from our Verdict listeners. If you haven't 484 00:29:04,560 --> 00:29:07,920 Speaker 1: subscribed yet, subscribe what are you waiting for? Go head 485 00:29:07,960 --> 00:29:10,760 Speaker 1: on over to Apple podcast, Spotify, Stitcher. We will play YouTube. 486 00:29:10,880 --> 00:29:13,640 Speaker 1: You can enjoy the Verdict Plus community. Just click subscribe. 487 00:29:13,720 --> 00:29:17,640 Speaker 1: Leave a seventy five star review. This question does relate 488 00:29:17,640 --> 00:29:20,000 Speaker 1: to gun control. This is from long Ethernet. Will the 489 00:29:20,040 --> 00:29:24,720 Speaker 1: Supreme Court strike down standard capacity firearm magazine bands so 490 00:29:24,880 --> 00:29:30,640 Speaker 1: greater than ten rounds? Say? From California and Washington. I 491 00:29:30,680 --> 00:29:35,520 Speaker 1: think there's certainly a possibility. There's ongoing litigation on that. 492 00:29:35,720 --> 00:29:39,240 Speaker 1: The tests that comes from the Heller case, which was 493 00:29:39,280 --> 00:29:44,320 Speaker 1: the case Heller versus District of Columbia that first clearly 494 00:29:44,440 --> 00:29:46,840 Speaker 1: established and upheld the Second Amendment right to keep it 495 00:29:46,880 --> 00:29:50,680 Speaker 1: bare arms laid out a test about whether a weapon 496 00:29:50,720 --> 00:29:54,440 Speaker 1: in the same would apply to ammunition is in common 497 00:29:54,680 --> 00:30:01,320 Speaker 1: usage for self defense by American citizens. In that instance, 498 00:30:01,400 --> 00:30:04,200 Speaker 1: what the Court struck down in DC was a ban 499 00:30:04,560 --> 00:30:12,840 Speaker 1: on handguns and on functioning long guns on rifles and shotguns, 500 00:30:12,880 --> 00:30:14,960 Speaker 1: both of which were required to be disassembled or have 501 00:30:15,000 --> 00:30:19,040 Speaker 1: trigger locks on them at all times. The argument with 502 00:30:19,160 --> 00:30:21,720 Speaker 1: regard to ammunition would be the same thing, that it 503 00:30:21,800 --> 00:30:26,800 Speaker 1: is in common usage by individuals to defend their homes 504 00:30:26,800 --> 00:30:33,440 Speaker 1: and defend their families that's being litigated. My recollection is 505 00:30:33,520 --> 00:30:36,600 Speaker 1: I think the California ban had been struck down in 506 00:30:36,680 --> 00:30:39,880 Speaker 1: federal court, although I'm not following the litigation closely, so 507 00:30:39,960 --> 00:30:43,400 Speaker 1: that's a fuzzy recollection that may or may not be 508 00:30:43,520 --> 00:30:51,360 Speaker 1: right whether the Court takes it. Typically, the court will 509 00:30:51,440 --> 00:30:54,400 Speaker 1: wait for what's called a circuit split to take a case. 510 00:30:55,160 --> 00:30:59,880 Speaker 1: So the Supreme Court's general view on its docket is 511 00:31:00,080 --> 00:31:02,760 Speaker 1: that it doesn't engage an error correction. So even if 512 00:31:02,800 --> 00:31:05,160 Speaker 1: there's a decision of the Court below that it thinks 513 00:31:05,240 --> 00:31:09,480 Speaker 1: is wrong, its job is not to correct wrong decisions. 514 00:31:11,560 --> 00:31:15,760 Speaker 1: Its job instead is to ensure uniformity of federal law, 515 00:31:16,160 --> 00:31:18,840 Speaker 1: that the answer to a question of law a federal 516 00:31:18,920 --> 00:31:21,560 Speaker 1: law be the same in one part of the country 517 00:31:21,600 --> 00:31:24,240 Speaker 1: as it is elsewhere, that there not be a patchwork 518 00:31:24,360 --> 00:31:28,200 Speaker 1: quilt of different legal standards. So for the court to 519 00:31:28,240 --> 00:31:31,000 Speaker 1: grant a case, there's got to be in almost all 520 00:31:31,040 --> 00:31:35,600 Speaker 1: circumstances what they call a circuit split, which is multiple 521 00:31:35,640 --> 00:31:39,680 Speaker 1: courts of appeals addressing the same legal question and coming 522 00:31:39,680 --> 00:31:42,960 Speaker 1: to different outcomes. And if there's a circuit split, if 523 00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:46,480 Speaker 1: it's significant and consequential, and if the case provides a 524 00:31:46,520 --> 00:31:49,800 Speaker 1: good vehicle to address it, then in those instances, the 525 00:31:49,880 --> 00:31:53,040 Speaker 1: court is likely to take it. Right now, there's a 526 00:31:53,120 --> 00:31:55,960 Speaker 1: pending Second Amendment case before the Supreme Court out of 527 00:31:56,000 --> 00:32:01,360 Speaker 1: New York dealing with New York's restrictions on carrying guns, 528 00:32:01,440 --> 00:32:03,600 Speaker 1: and it's an argument about the right to keep in 529 00:32:03,680 --> 00:32:07,080 Speaker 1: bear arms, and in particular the right to bear arms 530 00:32:07,080 --> 00:32:09,120 Speaker 1: not just to have them in your home, but actually 531 00:32:09,160 --> 00:32:12,360 Speaker 1: to carry them for self defense. That's going to be 532 00:32:12,840 --> 00:32:15,800 Speaker 1: expected to be one of the big blockbuster decisions in 533 00:32:15,840 --> 00:32:20,960 Speaker 1: the next month on the extended magazine size. I don't 534 00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:23,240 Speaker 1: know if there's a circuit split right now. If there 535 00:32:23,360 --> 00:32:25,960 Speaker 1: isn't my guess is the court would wait until a 536 00:32:25,960 --> 00:32:30,200 Speaker 1: circuit split developed. That makes sense. You had mentioned earlier 537 00:32:30,400 --> 00:32:34,080 Speaker 1: in the conversation about why these shootings appear to be 538 00:32:34,120 --> 00:32:37,040 Speaker 1: more prominent now more prevalent. There's issues beyond the guns, 539 00:32:37,240 --> 00:32:39,480 Speaker 1: one of which is family breakdown. So we have a 540 00:32:39,560 --> 00:32:43,360 Speaker 1: question from Ben who asks would you support a Hungary 541 00:32:43,520 --> 00:32:49,800 Speaker 1: style family incentive program? So throughout the West, the birthrates 542 00:32:49,800 --> 00:32:53,160 Speaker 1: have plummeted. We're blow replacement now, families are falling apart, 543 00:32:53,760 --> 00:32:58,160 Speaker 1: and Hungary has implemented programs to incentivize people to get married, 544 00:32:58,160 --> 00:33:01,400 Speaker 1: to have families, to create kids, or tax incentives, furious 545 00:33:01,440 --> 00:33:05,400 Speaker 1: government subsidies, and it appears to have worked at least modestly, 546 00:33:05,760 --> 00:33:07,800 Speaker 1: although I know a lot of conservatives recoil at the 547 00:33:07,880 --> 00:33:11,400 Speaker 1: idea of government basically paying you to have kids. What's 548 00:33:11,440 --> 00:33:15,600 Speaker 1: your take, Look, I think the objective is a good objective. 549 00:33:15,880 --> 00:33:19,800 Speaker 1: I would be skeptical of that particular means for implementing it. 550 00:33:21,400 --> 00:33:24,720 Speaker 1: I think when it comes to federal policy, we should 551 00:33:24,800 --> 00:33:29,040 Speaker 1: work to limit the harmful consequences. So there have long 552 00:33:29,160 --> 00:33:33,680 Speaker 1: been disincentives for marriages, what's called the marriage penalty, and 553 00:33:33,720 --> 00:33:39,680 Speaker 1: I think our tax laws should not disincentivize marriage. There 554 00:33:39,720 --> 00:33:42,840 Speaker 1: are also work disincentives, so you look at how some 555 00:33:42,880 --> 00:33:46,760 Speaker 1: of the welfare programs work, where people at certain income thresholds, 556 00:33:46,760 --> 00:33:49,960 Speaker 1: if they go get a job, they end up functionally 557 00:33:50,040 --> 00:33:52,640 Speaker 1: paying over one hundred percent in taxes because they lose 558 00:33:52,680 --> 00:33:56,680 Speaker 1: more government benefits than they earn in their job. Those 559 00:33:56,800 --> 00:34:01,520 Speaker 1: negative tax implications are really really problematic. So I think 560 00:34:02,240 --> 00:34:10,000 Speaker 1: we should not be disincentivizing strong family units. UM. Look, 561 00:34:10,000 --> 00:34:12,400 Speaker 1: at some level, we do things like we have child 562 00:34:12,400 --> 00:34:16,520 Speaker 1: tax credits, which are designed to make it easier for 563 00:34:16,600 --> 00:34:19,680 Speaker 1: families to raise kids. I think those make sense and 564 00:34:19,719 --> 00:34:24,880 Speaker 1: an important part of the tax code. UM. You know. 565 00:34:25,040 --> 00:34:31,200 Speaker 1: I have also seen different proposals for things like a 566 00:34:31,320 --> 00:34:36,600 Speaker 1: universal savings account for each newborn child, that that that 567 00:34:36,920 --> 00:34:39,960 Speaker 1: potentially the government would populate. You have a baby, and 568 00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:43,600 Speaker 1: there's a savings account that is populated with a couple 569 00:34:43,640 --> 00:34:48,239 Speaker 1: thousand dollars that grows and gains in value during the 570 00:34:48,320 --> 00:34:51,480 Speaker 1: child's life. Some of those ideas I think are interesting. 571 00:34:51,520 --> 00:34:54,200 Speaker 1: I don't know that they're fully baked yet, but I 572 00:34:54,239 --> 00:35:00,200 Speaker 1: think they're interesting ideas to to think about. UM. I 573 00:35:00,239 --> 00:35:03,080 Speaker 1: think I would be hesitant to engage in the sort 574 00:35:03,120 --> 00:35:07,560 Speaker 1: of micro social engineering. I don't know a lot of 575 00:35:07,600 --> 00:35:10,600 Speaker 1: details about the Hungary in a program, but just as 576 00:35:10,600 --> 00:35:15,200 Speaker 1: you described it, I think there'd be a danger of 577 00:35:15,280 --> 00:35:17,560 Speaker 1: screwing things up. I think we ought to be doing 578 00:35:17,840 --> 00:35:22,239 Speaker 1: more to encourage strong families in churches and communities in 579 00:35:22,239 --> 00:35:26,560 Speaker 1: the private sector. I don't know that we should be 580 00:35:26,560 --> 00:35:29,759 Speaker 1: in trusting Joe Biden and Kamala Harris with that, right, 581 00:35:30,239 --> 00:35:33,680 Speaker 1: there is also a middle ground where one could trust 582 00:35:33,760 --> 00:35:36,680 Speaker 1: the laboratories of democracy. And you see, yeah, if some 583 00:35:36,760 --> 00:35:38,960 Speaker 1: sort of program like this works in a state, if 584 00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:41,520 Speaker 1: it does, great, you consider it at the federal level. 585 00:35:41,680 --> 00:35:43,799 Speaker 1: And if it doesn't, well, you know, too bad for 586 00:35:43,840 --> 00:35:47,239 Speaker 1: you Colorado or whatever state. Probably not Colorado would ride out, 587 00:35:47,320 --> 00:35:49,920 Speaker 1: but that yeah, it's a very it's a very measured 588 00:35:50,080 --> 00:35:54,880 Speaker 1: take on things. Finally, Senator, very important question from Chris, 589 00:35:54,920 --> 00:35:57,560 Speaker 1: what is the air speed velocity of an unladen swallow 590 00:35:57,840 --> 00:36:01,200 Speaker 1: blue or black? There's no way the I can really 591 00:36:01,280 --> 00:36:03,880 Speaker 1: even clarify this question without falling into all sorts of 592 00:36:03,920 --> 00:36:07,160 Speaker 1: political incorrectness from Monty Python. So I suppose we should 593 00:36:07,160 --> 00:36:11,279 Speaker 1: probably just leave it there. There is of course more 594 00:36:11,400 --> 00:36:14,160 Speaker 1: to discuss for the verdict listeners, and that is on 595 00:36:14,520 --> 00:36:17,239 Speaker 1: the cloak Room with Liz Wheeler. Liz, what will you 596 00:36:17,239 --> 00:36:20,000 Speaker 1: be talking about? Hi, Michael High, Senator. We're going to 597 00:36:20,080 --> 00:36:23,080 Speaker 1: build this week on last week's episode of Cloak Room, 598 00:36:23,120 --> 00:36:25,480 Speaker 1: where we talked about the police response or lack thereof, 599 00:36:26,160 --> 00:36:29,480 Speaker 1: in Uvaldi at the shooting at the elementary school. This week, 600 00:36:29,480 --> 00:36:32,960 Speaker 1: we're going to talk about a legal principle underpinning the 601 00:36:33,080 --> 00:36:36,359 Speaker 1: law enforcement response. It's called public duty doctrine, and it's 602 00:36:36,360 --> 00:36:38,680 Speaker 1: been held by the Supreme Court that police officers, law 603 00:36:38,760 --> 00:36:43,880 Speaker 1: enforcement officers actually have no legal duty to respond or 604 00:36:43,880 --> 00:36:48,400 Speaker 1: to be dispatched or to aid in any situation, any circumstance, 605 00:36:48,480 --> 00:36:50,440 Speaker 1: that they can't be held liable for that. And we're 606 00:36:50,440 --> 00:36:52,160 Speaker 1: going to talk a little bit about this legal principle 607 00:36:52,200 --> 00:36:55,319 Speaker 1: because it's kind of shocking, right It sounds very It 608 00:36:55,320 --> 00:36:58,480 Speaker 1: sounds very shocking that police who we count on to 609 00:36:58,719 --> 00:37:01,879 Speaker 1: respond in emergencies actually have no duty to respond. We're 610 00:37:01,920 --> 00:37:04,759 Speaker 1: going to talk about how that applies here and how 611 00:37:04,760 --> 00:37:07,719 Speaker 1: that can be addressed legally to prevent anything like this 612 00:37:07,880 --> 00:37:10,239 Speaker 1: from happening again in the future. You can join us 613 00:37:10,840 --> 00:37:12,920 Speaker 1: for the Cloakroom on Verdict Plus. 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