WEBVTT - The Nature of Evil 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:04.120 It's far easier to slander one's political adversaries and to 0:00:04.200 --> 0:00:09.800 demand that responsible citizens forfeit their constitutional rights that it 0:00:09.960 --> 0:00:15.440 is to examine the cultural sickness giving birth to unspeakable 0:00:15.480 --> 0:00:19.520 acts of evil. It's far less comfortable to ask why 0:00:19.720 --> 0:00:25.960 despair and isolation and violent hatred is so prevalent in America. 0:00:27.440 --> 0:00:33.120 It requires a sick soul to drive a truck into 0:00:33.159 --> 0:00:37.640 a crowded sidewalk, to plan a bomb at a marathon, 0:00:38.560 --> 0:00:43.479 or to fly a plane into a building. It requires 0:00:43.479 --> 0:00:47.360 a sick soul to open fire in a movie theater, 0:00:48.080 --> 0:00:53.400 or in a church or in a school. A speeding 0:00:53.479 --> 0:00:59.040 automobile in the hands of a madman is deadly, as 0:00:59.160 --> 0:01:03.360 is a jet airplane. Tragedies like the events of this 0:01:03.480 --> 0:01:08.759 week are a mirror forcing us to ask hard questions, 0:01:08.840 --> 0:01:16.520 demanding that we see where our culture is failing, looking 0:01:16.560 --> 0:01:23.759 at broken families, absent fathers, declining church attendant social media bullying, 0:01:24.880 --> 0:01:30.480 violent online content, desensitizing the act of murder in video games, 0:01:31.160 --> 0:01:42.040 chronic isolation, prescription drug and opioid abuse, and their collective 0:01:42.080 --> 0:01:53.160 effects on the psyche of young Americans. 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Governor Abbott, 0:05:58.120 --> 0:06:01.800 dropped out Senator Corn and dropped out Congressman Dan Crenshaw 0:06:01.960 --> 0:06:04.760 dropped out, Dan Patrick, I think dropped out the Lieutenant 0:06:04.800 --> 0:06:08.080 governor of Texas. A lot of people dropped out. Senator, 0:06:08.120 --> 0:06:11.880 you did not. You showed up. You gave a robust 0:06:12.320 --> 0:06:14.680 defense of the Second Amendment. I'm not saying it to 0:06:14.680 --> 0:06:17.400 flatter you, and you know that I hate to compliment you. 0:06:17.400 --> 0:06:20.120 You gave what I thought was a really, really powerful 0:06:20.120 --> 0:06:23.039 and important speech. I thought it was important to be there. 0:06:23.680 --> 0:06:26.640 I was disappointed to see so many others make the 0:06:26.680 --> 0:06:32.599 decision not to be there, in part because the media 0:06:32.760 --> 0:06:37.839 narrative that comes out of horrific crimes, horrific mass murders 0:06:39.120 --> 0:06:43.000 within seconds, the media immediately wants to politicize them and 0:06:43.240 --> 0:06:46.719 use them to advance their long standing political agenda that 0:06:46.760 --> 0:06:52.000 they had moments before the murder occurred. And in this instance, 0:06:52.080 --> 0:06:55.080 the media and the Democrats, they want to label anyone 0:06:55.240 --> 0:06:58.359 who believes in the Second Amendment, anyone who defends the 0:06:58.360 --> 0:07:03.479 Second Amendment as responsible for this horrific crime, and the 0:07:03.600 --> 0:07:07.919 NRA in particular is probably their favorite boogeyman. Donald Trump 0:07:07.960 --> 0:07:09.840 spoke as well. He and I spoke back to back, 0:07:10.800 --> 0:07:14.200 and I chatted with Trump right before he went on 0:07:14.280 --> 0:07:17.280 stage and thanked him for coming, and you know, I said, look, 0:07:18.120 --> 0:07:20.840 it was important that you came, It was important that 0:07:20.880 --> 0:07:23.280 you didn't back out. Thank you for being here, and 0:07:24.440 --> 0:07:27.600 he of course agreed, and he had Let me just 0:07:27.640 --> 0:07:31.040 say some choice words for some of the folks who 0:07:31.120 --> 0:07:34.000 chose not to be there. Um, you know that they 0:07:34.040 --> 0:07:39.880 were with classic Trump understatement, he expressed his views on 0:07:39.880 --> 0:07:42.320 that topic. Well, there's an irony here, which is why 0:07:42.320 --> 0:07:46.200 I really appreciated your speech. I've got to cut it 0:07:46.200 --> 0:07:47.800 out with the compliments for you. You know, this is 0:07:47.800 --> 0:07:50.240 the last episode that we'll get back to criticism next time. 0:07:50.320 --> 0:07:55.600 But I really appreciated it because when whenever anyone brings 0:07:55.680 --> 0:07:59.760 up cultural factors, something other than guns in any of 0:07:59.760 --> 0:08:03.480 these tragedies, what the left says is, well, you're just 0:08:03.600 --> 0:08:06.120 evading the question. You're just trying to distract from the 0:08:06.120 --> 0:08:08.280 real issue, which is guns. We've gone through all of 0:08:08.280 --> 0:08:10.960 these statistics. I don't see any reason to rehash them now. 0:08:12.120 --> 0:08:15.400 So all right, we've addressed the gun part. Why are 0:08:15.440 --> 0:08:18.760 you not allowing us to address the fatherlessness part? Why 0:08:18.760 --> 0:08:21.560 are you not allowing us to address the social isolation? 0:08:21.720 --> 0:08:24.160 Why are you not allowing us to address the decline 0:08:24.160 --> 0:08:27.320 in religion and faith in going to church are Why 0:08:27.440 --> 0:08:29.480 is that the part that we're not allowed to address. 0:08:29.720 --> 0:08:32.000 It seems to me that that's far more the common 0:08:32.080 --> 0:08:35.040 thread here even than the guns. You know. I will 0:08:35.040 --> 0:08:38.240 say the speech that I gave was very different from 0:08:38.240 --> 0:08:41.120 the speech I'd planned to give. I've spoken a lot 0:08:41.160 --> 0:08:44.760 of n A conventions. I know how to give a 0:08:45.400 --> 0:08:48.560 you know, barn burner of a speech, and so I 0:08:48.679 --> 0:08:53.720 decided instead to give what I hope was was a thoughtful, 0:08:54.920 --> 0:09:00.679 serious speech on the nature of evil. That that was 0:09:00.720 --> 0:09:03.640 the entire topic of my speech, both the nature of evil. 0:09:03.679 --> 0:09:07.280 Why it is that we have mass murderers, We have 0:09:07.480 --> 0:09:10.800 people who commit horrific crimes, whether it's shooting a school, 0:09:10.920 --> 0:09:13.880 or shooting a church, or shooting a movie theater, or 0:09:14.040 --> 0:09:18.280 or you have people that you know commit crimes driving 0:09:18.320 --> 0:09:22.719 a truck into a Christmas parade, murdering six people, or 0:09:23.160 --> 0:09:26.200 or setting off a bomb at the Boston Marathon. I mean, 0:09:26.240 --> 0:09:32.280 we are seeing sick, homicidal people. Many of the times 0:09:32.360 --> 0:09:38.200 they are young, disaffected men who are alienated, who are isolated, 0:09:38.240 --> 0:09:42.400 who who are angry. The per capita rate of gun 0:09:42.400 --> 0:09:49.520 ownership in nineteen seventy two was forty three percent in America, 0:09:49.640 --> 0:09:52.760 the per capita rate of gun ownership in twenty twenty one, 0:09:52.880 --> 0:09:58.800 forty nine years later is forty two percent. It's identical. 0:09:59.559 --> 0:10:04.040 The same percentage of Americans owned firearms today as did 0:10:04.040 --> 0:10:07.719 fifty years ago. So that hasn't changed. It's not like 0:10:07.800 --> 0:10:10.880 in nineteen seventy people didn't have firearms. You had the 0:10:10.920 --> 0:10:15.680 exact same percentage of Americans owning firearms. What's changed is 0:10:15.720 --> 0:10:21.720 the culture, the loss of faith, a loss of family. 0:10:22.200 --> 0:10:23.920 And by the way, the left, you know, when I 0:10:23.960 --> 0:10:26.559 talked about, you know, homes without fathers in them, and 0:10:27.000 --> 0:10:30.240 so many of these mass murders are raised with absent fathers, 0:10:30.280 --> 0:10:34.640 often criminal fathers or abusive fathers, but absent fathers virtually 0:10:34.679 --> 0:10:37.000 all of them. Virtually every single one of these shootings 0:10:37.040 --> 0:10:39.120 involves a father outside the home. You know, it was 0:10:39.240 --> 0:10:41.520 interesting seeing some of the reactions to the left because 0:10:41.520 --> 0:10:44.280 it's almost pathological where they come back and attack me 0:10:44.320 --> 0:10:47.560 and said, well, Cruz is attacking single moms. No I'm not. 0:10:48.840 --> 0:10:51.839 I'm saying that kids do better with dads. Look, I've 0:10:51.840 --> 0:10:53.720 got a family that has a lot of single moms 0:10:53.720 --> 0:10:58.400 in them. Single moms are heroic and extraordinary people. I 0:10:58.480 --> 0:11:01.400 just wish there didn't have to be so many single moms. 0:11:01.640 --> 0:11:05.640 I wish moms had the help of a father who 0:11:05.720 --> 0:11:11.800 was a husband and a loving helpmate in raising children 0:11:11.960 --> 0:11:18.400 that are loved and appreciated and valued and not psychopathic monsters. 0:11:18.760 --> 0:11:22.360 I always thought the gun control arguments were incoherent from 0:11:22.400 --> 0:11:24.280 the same people who tell us that the cops are 0:11:24.360 --> 0:11:27.560 racist and they go around plucking off people, innocent people 0:11:27.559 --> 0:11:29.640 because of their skin color. The cops are racist, the 0:11:29.679 --> 0:11:31.560 cops are terrible, that's why they should have all the guns. 0:11:31.600 --> 0:11:33.440 That never made a lot of sense. But now, in 0:11:33.480 --> 0:11:36.559 the wake of the shooting in Texas, you're hearing many 0:11:36.600 --> 0:11:39.360 people say that the police response was incompetent, that the 0:11:39.400 --> 0:11:42.079 police response was cowardly. Again, I'm sure there will be 0:11:42.080 --> 0:11:44.800 an investigation to go through what actually happened there. But 0:11:44.840 --> 0:11:48.200 if that is the case, you're telling me that we 0:11:48.280 --> 0:11:50.880 can't rely on the cops to protect ourselves. So isn't 0:11:50.960 --> 0:11:55.600 that an even more robust defense of self defense of 0:11:55.600 --> 0:11:57.719 the Second Amendment of our right to keep and bear 0:11:57.840 --> 0:12:00.360 arms in America? The whole I'm just really glad that 0:12:00.400 --> 0:12:02.360 you stood up and you didn't let them bully you, 0:12:02.440 --> 0:12:04.640 and you didn't. You didn't cancel the speech because I 0:12:04.679 --> 0:12:07.320 think it's it's a message that people really needed to hear. Michael. 0:12:07.360 --> 0:12:10.880 The point you're making there also is an important one, 0:12:11.160 --> 0:12:13.840 which is if you look in the last couple of years, 0:12:13.920 --> 0:12:17.320 we've seen gone ownership going up, and one of the 0:12:17.360 --> 0:12:20.400 major causes of that was in twenty twenty the Antifa 0:12:20.440 --> 0:12:24.480 and Black Lives Matter riots all across the country, where 0:12:24.520 --> 0:12:27.800 you had democratic politicians that refused to enforce the law, 0:12:27.840 --> 0:12:30.600 that ordered the police to stand down, that wouldn't protect 0:12:30.679 --> 0:12:34.960 people's homes, that wouldn't protect people's businesses, that wouldn't stop looters, 0:12:34.960 --> 0:12:38.880 that wouldn't stop fire bombs from being thrown, that allowed 0:12:39.760 --> 0:12:45.880 lawless rioters to declare so called autonomous zones, the Chads 0:12:45.920 --> 0:12:52.600 and the chad for weeks on end. When you have 0:12:52.840 --> 0:12:57.040 Democrat politicians who say we won't let the police protect you, 0:12:58.600 --> 0:13:01.360 it's not surprising that people will make the decision, well, heck, 0:13:01.400 --> 0:13:04.720 I'm going to protect myself if there's gonna be a 0:13:04.880 --> 0:13:11.400 mob in the street with violence as they're objective, especially 0:13:11.400 --> 0:13:14.600 if the cops aren't there to protect me, That's that's 0:13:14.640 --> 0:13:18.000 when I definitely need to keep my family safe. And 0:13:18.400 --> 0:13:24.400 all the more irony that these same politicians who were 0:13:24.520 --> 0:13:29.400 singing the praises of violent rioters and people committing assaults 0:13:29.400 --> 0:13:34.360 and fire bombings and even murders. You know, these Democrat 0:13:34.440 --> 0:13:38.800 politicians Kamala Harris raised money to bail these violent rioters 0:13:38.800 --> 0:13:42.319 out of jail, and now they're suddenly saying how morally 0:13:42.400 --> 0:13:45.959 righteous they are because they're opposed to crime. Well, you 0:13:46.320 --> 0:13:48.280 don't get to have it both ways. You don't get 0:13:48.280 --> 0:13:50.880 to celebrate violent criminals and then say, oh, by the way, 0:13:52.000 --> 0:13:55.120 you guys can't defend yourself when those violent criminals commit 0:13:55.240 --> 0:14:02.720 horrific acts that unfortunately they're relentless anti police rhetoric helped 0:14:02.880 --> 0:14:07.240 fuel and cause. Speaking of corruption in the criminal justice system, 0:14:07.440 --> 0:14:09.120 I do have to get your take on something on 0:14:09.160 --> 0:14:12.520 a completely separate topic that just came out today though, 0:14:12.559 --> 0:14:16.320 which is the case of Michael Sussman. Yeah, this Clinton 0:14:16.480 --> 0:14:20.840 lawyer who lied to the FBI, who planted the whole 0:14:20.920 --> 0:14:24.400 Russia hoax, apparently at the direction of Hillary Clinton. We 0:14:24.480 --> 0:14:29.600 saw the evidence, we saw the correspondence, and yet today 0:14:29.640 --> 0:14:32.120 the judge let the guy off the hook. I should 0:14:32.160 --> 0:14:34.320 clarify too, it wasn't just the judge that led him 0:14:34.320 --> 0:14:36.560 off the hook. It was it was the jury apparently down. 0:14:36.680 --> 0:14:40.000 So that's not all the judge's fault. Well, and it's 0:14:40.160 --> 0:14:43.320 you know the facts of it. This lawyer worked for 0:14:43.400 --> 0:14:46.680 Hillary Clinton's campaign's law firm, and he reached out to 0:14:46.720 --> 0:14:51.160 the FBI and said, hey, I've got information that that 0:14:51.360 --> 0:14:54.480 Trump is involved with the Alpha Bank in Russia and 0:14:54.480 --> 0:14:59.720 the Trump campaign is colluding with Russia. And he goes 0:14:59.720 --> 0:15:01.560 out his way to say, I'm not doing this on 0:15:01.640 --> 0:15:05.400 behalf of any client. I'm not working for anyone. I'm 0:15:05.440 --> 0:15:07.920 just being a good citizen. I'm just a good Samaritan. 0:15:08.000 --> 0:15:12.000 I love America. Rah rah rah. So he reaches out 0:15:12.040 --> 0:15:14.640 to the top brass at the FBI under Obama and 0:15:15.040 --> 0:15:18.880 meets with them and affirmatively represents him. Now, what he 0:15:18.920 --> 0:15:21.160 told them was nonsense, and it was the beginning of 0:15:21.200 --> 0:15:25.200 the whole Russia hoax and all of that nonsense. But 0:15:25.400 --> 0:15:27.920 his statement, I'm not doing it on behalf of any 0:15:28.000 --> 0:15:32.080 client was a flat outlie. He was doing it on 0:15:32.080 --> 0:15:35.160 behalf of the Hillary Clinton campaign in the DNC, and 0:15:35.280 --> 0:15:40.160 of course, being a lawyer, he built for it. So 0:15:40.200 --> 0:15:44.920 he literally sent the Hillary Clinton campaign a bill charging 0:15:45.000 --> 0:15:49.240 his time for the time meeting with the FBI to 0:15:49.440 --> 0:15:52.120 tell them about the Russia hoax. When he told the FBI, 0:15:52.240 --> 0:15:54.240 he wasn't doing it on behalf of a client. Somehow, 0:15:54.280 --> 0:15:55.920 the client he was certainly was going to get paid 0:15:55.920 --> 0:15:58.120 for it, because he is a lawyer. After all, If 0:15:58.320 --> 0:16:01.200 you're going to be implicated in a crime, don't you 0:16:01.280 --> 0:16:04.160 think it's worth taking that, You know, eighteen minutes on 0:16:04.200 --> 0:16:06.040 the arm. Do you really need to charge in the 0:16:06.080 --> 0:16:08.840 six minute increments for when you're committing a crime? So 0:16:08.920 --> 0:16:11.600 I will confess, Michael. When I was practicing law, and 0:16:11.960 --> 0:16:14.800 one of the things I do not miss about private 0:16:14.800 --> 0:16:16.960 practice is having to think of my day in six 0:16:17.000 --> 0:16:21.600 minute increments. I would literally take a legal brief or 0:16:21.600 --> 0:16:24.600 a case with me when I went to the restroom, 0:16:24.640 --> 0:16:26.920 because I'd stand at the urinal and be reading because 0:16:26.920 --> 0:16:29.760 I wanted a bill for the time and it is 0:16:29.920 --> 0:16:34.640 I understand that sentiment. And by the way, there'd be 0:16:34.680 --> 0:16:37.760 three other lawyers standing they're holding a brief reading at 0:16:37.760 --> 0:16:40.400 the urinal too, because none of us wanted to miss 0:16:40.440 --> 0:16:43.880 billing the time. Two things on the suspend case. Number one, 0:16:44.120 --> 0:16:49.160 the judge severely limited what the prosecutors could introduce into evidence, 0:16:50.080 --> 0:16:54.080 So they severely limited the broader context of what the 0:16:54.120 --> 0:16:57.760 Clinton campaign was doing, pushing the Russia hoax and everything 0:16:57.800 --> 0:16:59.720 they were doing in the press, that this was part 0:16:59.760 --> 0:17:04.200 of a long concerted scheme. The judge kept almost all 0:17:04.200 --> 0:17:07.840 of that out, and it was a very circumscribed, narrow 0:17:08.000 --> 0:17:12.399 factual You said X was X true. Is how the 0:17:12.440 --> 0:17:17.160 prosecutor had to present it to the jury. I think 0:17:17.200 --> 0:17:19.840 there are real questions that should be asked why the 0:17:19.920 --> 0:17:22.359 judge was keeping all that context out. What it did 0:17:23.200 --> 0:17:25.760 is it protected Hillary Clinton like crazy, Like all of 0:17:25.760 --> 0:17:30.239 the judge's orders basically kept the Hillary campaign directly from 0:17:30.320 --> 0:17:33.680 being implicated and just had one rogue lawyer, well you're 0:17:33.680 --> 0:17:36.880 going to be in trouble. But then the jury, Look, 0:17:36.920 --> 0:17:39.119 the jury is from the District of Columbia. District of 0:17:39.359 --> 0:17:46.000 Columbia votes you know, ninety plus Democrat. I have not 0:17:46.200 --> 0:17:50.480 studied all of the factual evidence introduced in trial, but 0:17:50.560 --> 0:17:55.560 it certainly raises an eyebrow that this is a jury 0:17:55.640 --> 0:18:01.160 that in all likelihood voted for Hillary Clinton and hates 0:18:01.200 --> 0:18:04.360 Donald Trump. And we have seen in cases that are 0:18:04.359 --> 0:18:07.840 brought in DC, we've seen them be political the other 0:18:07.880 --> 0:18:10.480 way that they're quite happy to throw the book at 0:18:10.520 --> 0:18:12.679 someone if they disagree with the politics of it. It 0:18:12.800 --> 0:18:17.320 certainly raises a real question in this case whether at 0:18:17.400 --> 0:18:19.480 least some members of the jury didn't happen to just 0:18:20.920 --> 0:18:24.440 like the politics of the guy who was violating the law. 0:18:25.160 --> 0:18:29.240 It just makes people think that there are two separate 0:18:29.280 --> 0:18:32.800 justice systems. You know that we hear ad nauseum about 0:18:32.840 --> 0:18:35.639 a guy who cracks a corpse light in the Capitol rotunda. 0:18:35.800 --> 0:18:38.760 He's the worst terrorist insurrectionist in the history of our country. 0:18:38.960 --> 0:18:42.640 Throw him in isolated, an isolated sell and throw away 0:18:42.680 --> 0:18:45.919 the key. Meanwhile, you've got a guy who, at the 0:18:46.040 --> 0:18:50.000 direction of the Democrat presidential nominee, is lying to the 0:18:50.080 --> 0:18:53.760 FBI about a matter of what could potentially be national 0:18:53.840 --> 0:18:57.360 security and then undermining trying to rig a presidential election, 0:18:57.600 --> 0:19:00.600 undermining the actual presidency. And the guy gets off the hook, 0:19:00.600 --> 0:19:02.520 and the campaign gets off the hook, and you think, 0:19:02.520 --> 0:19:05.280 where's the justice. Well, and I'll tell you what is 0:19:05.440 --> 0:19:09.520 really worrisome is I'm concerned that that Merrick Garland, the 0:19:09.560 --> 0:19:12.840 Attorney General, is going to use this verdict as an 0:19:12.840 --> 0:19:15.959 excuse to fire John Durham, like they want to end 0:19:16.000 --> 0:19:20.360 this investigation it's the one sort of lingering that they 0:19:20.400 --> 0:19:24.800 want to sweep under the rug. What is coming, you know, 0:19:24.880 --> 0:19:27.600 My next book that's coming out in Septeptember is called 0:19:27.720 --> 0:19:33.600 Justice Corrupted, How the Left politicized our Legal System, and 0:19:33.760 --> 0:19:37.880 it talks at great length about how Barack Obama now 0:19:37.960 --> 0:19:40.560 Joe Biden are using the legal system to target their 0:19:40.560 --> 0:19:43.119 political enemies. It talks about what you just said, the 0:19:43.240 --> 0:19:48.679 differential treatment used to January sixth defendants compared to the 0:19:48.800 --> 0:19:53.000 violent rioters and Antifa and Black Lives Matter riots. And 0:19:53.400 --> 0:19:56.760 I've been pressing this Justice Department for over a year 0:19:56.800 --> 0:19:59.440 on that and they just stonewall. They refuse to answer questions, 0:19:59.440 --> 0:20:05.119 They refuse even the barest oversight. And you're right, it 0:20:05.160 --> 0:20:12.280 does suggest that there is a disparate, partisan, uneven enforcement 0:20:12.320 --> 0:20:16.520 of justice. Number one, But number two, I'm very concerned 0:20:16.840 --> 0:20:21.760 that Garland will use this as an excuse to say, Okay, 0:20:21.840 --> 0:20:25.320 Durham's done. And that would be terrible if that happens. 0:20:25.359 --> 0:20:30.000 But I think that is a very real possibility, because 0:20:30.040 --> 0:20:33.119 there is no doubt the Biden White House wants the 0:20:33.200 --> 0:20:38.600 Durham investigation over yesterday. I suppose my fear then, though, is, 0:20:38.960 --> 0:20:42.800 let's say Durham gets to keep pursuing the investigation, do 0:20:42.880 --> 0:20:45.440 we have any hope for justice? I mean, we thought 0:20:45.560 --> 0:20:49.120 Durham had this guy. We thought Durham had the Clinton campaign, 0:20:49.119 --> 0:20:52.159 and so if he couldn't get suessman, is there is 0:20:52.200 --> 0:20:54.200 there any hope that we're ever going to see any 0:20:54.280 --> 0:20:57.520 justice even if Durham does get to keep his job. Well, 0:20:57.600 --> 0:21:02.879 I don't know. I think there is power to sunlight 0:21:02.960 --> 0:21:07.480 and transparency and exposing the crimes. You know, if you 0:21:07.640 --> 0:21:12.639 think about Crossfire, Hurricane and the absolutely legal abuses of 0:21:12.680 --> 0:21:16.640 power carried out by the Obama Justice Department. They never 0:21:16.680 --> 0:21:19.800 thought they'd get caught. They thought Hillary would win, in 0:21:19.840 --> 0:21:22.160 which case it would all be buried, nothing would come 0:21:22.720 --> 0:21:26.960 come to light. It's only the accident from their perspective 0:21:27.040 --> 0:21:29.560 that their candidate, who they were trying to do everything 0:21:29.600 --> 0:21:34.040 they could to ensure she won, lost that you suddenly 0:21:34.160 --> 0:21:38.200 had the mechanism in place to provide at least some 0:21:38.320 --> 0:21:42.399 modicum of sunlight. Well, there, shockingly is a little bit 0:21:42.400 --> 0:21:45.480 of justice coming out of a liberal institution in America. 0:21:45.520 --> 0:21:47.480 I wanted to get your thoughts on it. Have you 0:21:47.560 --> 0:21:50.240 seen top Gun yet? I have? I saw it yesterday. 0:21:50.320 --> 0:21:54.240 It is awesome, It is spectacular. Did you see the 0:21:54.280 --> 0:21:57.200 back of the jacket. They put Taiwan back, They put 0:21:57.240 --> 0:21:59.520 Taiwan back, they put Japan back, and then this is 0:21:59.560 --> 0:22:02.480 fantastic astic, all right. So, folks who don't know the 0:22:02.520 --> 0:22:07.520 backstory of this, the Top Gun sequel was being made, 0:22:08.200 --> 0:22:10.960 they edited the back of mavericks jacket and the back 0:22:10.960 --> 0:22:14.480 of Maverick's jacket had the Taiwanese flag in the Japanese flag, 0:22:14.520 --> 0:22:16.919 and they erased it. They took them out, and so 0:22:17.040 --> 0:22:18.879 in the trailer that came out or I don't know, 0:22:18.920 --> 0:22:22.080 a year ago, the two flags were gone. And it 0:22:22.119 --> 0:22:24.680 was obvious why they did so, which is that they 0:22:24.720 --> 0:22:27.680 were worried about the Chinese censors, and the Chinese censors 0:22:27.720 --> 0:22:32.920 don't refuse to acknowledge that Taiwan exists, and so Hollywood 0:22:33.040 --> 0:22:35.159 was trying to sell the movie in China. It's a 0:22:35.160 --> 0:22:42.600 big movie market. I actually introduced legislation to address Chinese 0:22:42.640 --> 0:22:45.720 censorship of American movies, and it's legislation that's called the 0:22:45.760 --> 0:22:51.480 Script Act. And what the Script Act says is that 0:22:52.600 --> 0:22:54.840 so a lot of movies and Top Guns a great example, 0:22:54.880 --> 0:22:58.960 a lot of movies use US government assets. So Top Gun, 0:22:59.280 --> 0:23:02.800 used FA teens, it used aircraft carriers, It used you know, 0:23:03.040 --> 0:23:07.080 billions of dollars of federal government assets to make the movie. 0:23:07.600 --> 0:23:10.600 And that happens a lot anytime you're using military equipment, 0:23:10.640 --> 0:23:12.560 anytime you're at the border patrol. There are lots of 0:23:12.600 --> 0:23:16.000 times where you're using government assets to make a movie. 0:23:16.520 --> 0:23:19.320 And what the Script Act says is that no MovieMaker 0:23:19.359 --> 0:23:23.920 could use federal government assets if they allow the Chinese 0:23:23.920 --> 0:23:27.840 Communist government to censor their movie. So it doesn't try 0:23:27.840 --> 0:23:30.200 to prevent If you want to let the Chinese censor you, 0:23:30.200 --> 0:23:33.080 you can, but the federal government is not going to 0:23:33.119 --> 0:23:40.000 subsidize your efforts to produce Chinese censored movies by allowing 0:23:40.000 --> 0:23:44.320 you access to federal government assets. I stood on the 0:23:44.359 --> 0:23:48.159 Senate floor and I lit into Hollywood over exactly this issue, 0:23:48.240 --> 0:23:54.080 top Gun censoring, the jacket on the back of Mavericks jacket. 0:23:54.119 --> 0:23:57.280 I said, look, you know, now, Maverick is afraid of 0:23:57.320 --> 0:23:59.560 the Chinese Communists. What the hell have we come to? 0:24:00.960 --> 0:24:04.240 And I gotta say, it was beautiful yesterday watching the movie. 0:24:04.280 --> 0:24:06.399 He pulls on the jacket and there they were the 0:24:06.440 --> 0:24:10.359 Taiwanese flag and the Japanese flag. I don't ever say this, 0:24:10.480 --> 0:24:14.800 but but Paramount Pictures did the right thing. I don't 0:24:14.800 --> 0:24:19.960 ever praise Hollywood, but they grew a backbone and they 0:24:20.040 --> 0:24:24.520 stood up to the Chinese Communist and Amen, hallelujah. Top 0:24:24.560 --> 0:24:28.080 Gun Kill the Bad Guys. Awesome movie. Well, it might 0:24:28.119 --> 0:24:30.240 have been a little little bit of stick as well 0:24:30.280 --> 0:24:31.960 as a little bit of carrot. You know, if you're 0:24:32.000 --> 0:24:35.159