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We 0:04:59.279 --> 0:05:02.760 have a lot of great questions over on Verdict Plus today. 0:05:02.880 --> 0:05:04.760 As always, if you want to submit a question for 0:05:05.160 --> 0:05:07.080 the mail bag portion of our show, you can do 0:05:07.120 --> 0:05:10.200 so on Verdict Plus. Just go to Verdict with Ted 0:05:10.240 --> 0:05:13.760 Cruz dot com slash plus and submit your question. Subscribers 0:05:13.760 --> 0:05:16.359 over there get exclusive access to be the ones to 0:05:16.480 --> 0:05:19.440 ask Michael and the Senator and me any question that 0:05:19.520 --> 0:05:20.960 you want. As I said, we have a lot of 0:05:20.960 --> 0:05:23.159 great questions. You can always continue to submit them, but 0:05:23.240 --> 0:05:26.680 let's get to the first one. The first one, Senator 0:05:26.720 --> 0:05:29.640 Cruz is for you. It is from Jersey. Jersey asks 0:05:30.040 --> 0:05:32.800 can the federal government, after a person has been tried 0:05:32.839 --> 0:05:35.520 and judged by his and her peers retry a case 0:05:36.080 --> 0:05:38.279 by what authority or law do they even have that 0:05:38.320 --> 0:05:41.440 authority in power to intervene in a state's judicial system. 0:05:41.680 --> 0:05:44.080 What in the constitution or bill of rights gives or 0:05:44.240 --> 0:05:47.479 retrains the federal government from the power to intervene in 0:05:47.480 --> 0:05:50.560 a concluded and tried in a court case. Well, that's 0:05:50.560 --> 0:05:54.839 a good question. So the constitution protect you from what's 0:05:54.839 --> 0:05:58.360 called double jeopardy, which is you cannot be tried twice 0:05:58.440 --> 0:06:03.559 for the same crime. If you're charged with murder and 0:06:03.800 --> 0:06:08.600 there is a murder trial and you are acquitted, they 0:06:08.640 --> 0:06:10.760 can't come back and say, oh, we don't like that result, 0:06:10.800 --> 0:06:15.160 so let's go bring another murder charge against you. There is, however, 0:06:15.560 --> 0:06:17.760 an exception to double jeopardy, which is you can be 0:06:17.920 --> 0:06:21.080 tried for a different crime, and so there's a legal 0:06:21.080 --> 0:06:25.640 analysis of whether. So for example, let's say you, to 0:06:26.040 --> 0:06:29.280 use an easy example, you're tried and acquitted to murder, 0:06:29.839 --> 0:06:32.560 but you also were speeding on the way to the murder. 0:06:32.560 --> 0:06:35.080 You can certainly be tried and convicted or acquitted of 0:06:35.120 --> 0:06:39.080 the speeding because those are separate and distinct crimes. When 0:06:39.120 --> 0:06:43.839 it comes to a federal crime, if it is a 0:06:43.960 --> 0:06:46.520 separate and distinct crime, you can be charged with it, 0:06:46.560 --> 0:06:50.200 but there's a legal analysis in terms of whether you're 0:06:50.279 --> 0:06:54.440 simply re trying for the acquitted conduct and the acquitted crime. 0:06:54.560 --> 0:06:59.240 So no one a murder charge for example, but yes 0:06:59.320 --> 0:07:02.560 if they are different indistinct crimes. All right, Michael, let 0:07:02.560 --> 0:07:04.480 me pivot over to you, because this is a question 0:07:04.480 --> 0:07:09.479 that came in specifically requesting clarification from Knolls. JJ forty 0:07:09.520 --> 0:07:13.480 eight eighty four says, I know you often criticize libertarians 0:07:13.520 --> 0:07:16.120 for being too licentious and crazy when it comes to 0:07:16.120 --> 0:07:19.520 certain moral issues. Are there certain people of certain occupations 0:07:19.600 --> 0:07:23.720 or fields of interest that cannot be traditionally conservative i e. 0:07:23.880 --> 0:07:27.480 Tech issues? Are there ways you could steal man libertarianism 0:07:27.480 --> 0:07:30.560 and any prominent libertarians you could stand alongside. That's a 0:07:30.560 --> 0:07:33.840 great question. Well, you know, I'm glad to hear you 0:07:33.840 --> 0:07:36.520 brought up big tech because at first, when you said 0:07:37.120 --> 0:07:40.840 that you wanted to know of certain professions just naturally 0:07:40.880 --> 0:07:44.640 can't lend themselves to virtue and naturally lend themselves to licentiousness. 0:07:44.680 --> 0:07:49.080 I assumed you were talking about, say, prostitution, but working 0:07:49.120 --> 0:07:52.320 for big tech is far far more disreputable than being 0:07:52.320 --> 0:07:54.520 a prostitute or a drug dealer or something like that. 0:07:54.600 --> 0:07:57.200 So I think that's a pretty good example to bring 0:07:57.280 --> 0:08:02.000 up big tech here. Yeah, there are certain fields that 0:08:03.480 --> 0:08:06.560 naturally are just not going to be all that conservative, 0:08:06.720 --> 0:08:08.440 and I do think it has been a mistake of 0:08:08.440 --> 0:08:10.960 the conservative movement to try to be all things to 0:08:11.040 --> 0:08:13.720 all people and to say that you can do whatever 0:08:13.800 --> 0:08:16.040 you want as long as it doesn't hurt me or 0:08:16.080 --> 0:08:18.280 scare the horses in the street. I mean, this is 0:08:18.320 --> 0:08:20.440 why we still have drug laws in this countries. We're 0:08:20.440 --> 0:08:23.640 saying there are some things that you can do with 0:08:23.680 --> 0:08:25.480 your body that we don't think that you should be 0:08:25.520 --> 0:08:28.640 allowed to do, or actually, for that matter, laws against prostitution. 0:08:28.800 --> 0:08:31.120 And so now, as we have discussed on this show 0:08:31.160 --> 0:08:33.400 a number of times, one of the debates on the 0:08:33.520 --> 0:08:38.480 right is over the influence that libertarianism should have versus traditionalism, 0:08:38.600 --> 0:08:41.640 versus all. You know, conservatives love all their isms. A 0:08:41.679 --> 0:08:44.800 friend of mine once told me that the obscure political 0:08:44.840 --> 0:08:47.880 monikers are the right wing version of gender pronouns. So 0:08:48.080 --> 0:08:52.280 everyone's got one and some people have multiple. And after 0:08:52.320 --> 0:08:55.800 the Second World War there was what's called fusionism. This 0:08:55.960 --> 0:08:58.560 was the postwar conservative movement put together by guys like 0:08:58.840 --> 0:09:01.800 Bill Buckley and Frank Meyer. You might call it the 0:09:01.800 --> 0:09:06.560 Reagan coalition of libertarians and traditional conservatives and warhawk Democrats. 0:09:07.240 --> 0:09:09.679 They all had a common enemy in the Soviet Union. 0:09:10.520 --> 0:09:13.040 They might have hated Communism for different reasons, but they 0:09:13.080 --> 0:09:15.920 partnered together and won the Cold War. And since that time, 0:09:16.200 --> 0:09:19.800 probably the libertarian side or the neo conservative side has 0:09:19.880 --> 0:09:23.560 led that coalition. Traditional conservatives and some of the other 0:09:23.600 --> 0:09:27.920 groups have fallen out of favor, lost some of their power. 0:09:28.000 --> 0:09:31.520 In twenty sixteen, then you saw the more traditional conservative 0:09:31.559 --> 0:09:33.880 types kind of or the more populous types try to 0:09:33.440 --> 0:09:36.600 take ground, and so these debates are inevitable. But in 0:09:36.640 --> 0:09:39.600 answer to your question, would you stand alongside libertarians as I, 0:09:39.640 --> 0:09:42.520 of course I would. The fact is politics is the 0:09:42.600 --> 0:09:45.520 art of inclusion, and the only way you're ever going 0:09:45.559 --> 0:09:48.160 to do anything is if you can win elections. And 0:09:48.200 --> 0:09:50.960 in order to win elections, you need to win fifty 0:09:51.000 --> 0:09:53.440 percent of the vote plus one. And there simply are 0:09:53.520 --> 0:09:57.199 not enough traditional conservatives, or enough Libertarians for that matter, 0:09:57.280 --> 0:10:01.520 or enough whoever to win on their own, so you've 0:10:01.600 --> 0:10:06.200 got to form coalitions. I just think that in some 0:10:06.240 --> 0:10:10.080 cases the libertarians have had a little too much leeway 0:10:10.120 --> 0:10:13.600 and Frankly, I don't I even use this term libertarianism 0:10:15.200 --> 0:10:20.400 reluctantly because I don't think that legalizing all drugs and 0:10:21.000 --> 0:10:24.160 saying that we have to totally redefine marriage and legalizing 0:10:24.200 --> 0:10:28.200 all manner of vice and licentiousness is exactly in the 0:10:28.240 --> 0:10:31.680 tradition of John Locke or Thomas Jefferson, or even the 0:10:31.679 --> 0:10:35.000 twentieth century libertarians, certainly not the classical liberals. So I 0:10:35.040 --> 0:10:37.760 just think we need to be a little more substantive 0:10:37.800 --> 0:10:41.040 about our views, not merely the right to freedom of 0:10:41.080 --> 0:10:43.199 religion or the right to freedom of speech, but actually 0:10:43.240 --> 0:10:45.920 have something to say and actually something more clearly that 0:10:45.960 --> 0:10:48.160 we can believe. And I think part of that is 0:10:48.200 --> 0:10:53.720 just intrinsic to the conservative movement in America. But whatever 0:10:53.760 --> 0:10:56.040 we've been doing for the past twenty years or so, 0:10:56.240 --> 0:10:58.280 it it doesn't seem to have worked that well. We 0:10:58.320 --> 0:11:00.880 seem to have lost on every may your cultural issue, 0:11:00.920 --> 0:11:02.960 and so I think we need the courage to say, now, 0:11:03.400 --> 0:11:05.320 this is this is good, this is bad, this is true, 0:11:05.320 --> 0:11:09.280 this is false, and stand by those convictions even if 0:11:09.320 --> 0:11:11.840 they're unpopular. Well, and Michael, let me chime in on 0:11:11.880 --> 0:11:14.640 that real briefly, which is I think I'm a little 0:11:14.640 --> 0:11:16.920 bit more libertarian than you are. But but but I'll 0:11:16.920 --> 0:11:19.160 go even further right now, Senator, I think a Tell 0:11:19.200 --> 0:11:20.920 of the Hunt is a little more libertarian than I am. 0:11:20.920 --> 0:11:24.240 So it's absolutely fair. But I'm going to go even 0:11:24.280 --> 0:11:29.160 further and and praise a libertine which whiches and by 0:11:29.280 --> 0:11:33.679 name Bill Maher. H Bill Maher. His politics are very 0:11:33.679 --> 0:11:36.959 different from yours. They're very different from mine. Um, he 0:11:37.400 --> 0:11:40.200 may be an old school liberal, but Bill Maher is 0:11:40.240 --> 0:11:43.360 someone who I think might well admit he's a libertine. 0:11:43.400 --> 0:11:47.480 And he defends licensuousness as with with gusto and pride. 0:11:49.120 --> 0:11:52.120 And it's an amazing statement of where we are today 0:11:52.160 --> 0:11:55.720 that that that Bill Maher as as an unabashed libertine, 0:11:55.800 --> 0:12:01.200 as is finding himself relatively conservative because and maybe the 0:12:01.280 --> 0:12:05.720 new impetus for the new Fusionism will be the woke 0:12:05.840 --> 0:12:10.240 anti americanism of the hard left. Because when Bill Maher 0:12:10.400 --> 0:12:14.240 speaks out against cancel culture, when he speaks out against 0:12:14.600 --> 0:12:17.280 Democrats who have lost common sense, when he speaks out 0:12:17.280 --> 0:12:21.640 against the idiocy of of you know, canceling people and 0:12:21.720 --> 0:12:25.600 correcting your pronouns, and or when he speaks out against 0:12:25.920 --> 0:12:33.080 radical Jahad and today's angry Left condemns him. Even though 0:12:33.160 --> 0:12:36.319 Bill Maher and I disagree on a lot of issues, 0:12:37.440 --> 0:12:39.920 I'm grateful that he has the courage to speak out 0:12:41.040 --> 0:12:44.319 against the petty tyrants that would silence all of us. 0:12:44.640 --> 0:12:47.200 The next question is from Elizabeth P. And I promise 0:12:47.280 --> 0:12:49.600 I did not pick this question solely based on the 0:12:49.600 --> 0:12:51.600 fact that we share a name. I picked it because 0:12:51.800 --> 0:12:53.800 it's a good question as well, but there might have 0:12:53.800 --> 0:12:56.320 been a little element of It's not nepotism, but you know, 0:12:56.400 --> 0:12:59.400 some sort of similarity of name. Elizabeth P. Says, please 0:12:59.440 --> 0:13:02.640 ask the Senator to block all efforts by the DOJ 0:13:02.880 --> 0:13:06.920 to retrial Kyle or to retry Kyle and attach parents 0:13:07.280 --> 0:13:12.160 attack parents speaking out at school boards. Senator, Yeah, look, 0:13:12.640 --> 0:13:14.920 it is a great point. I very much hope we 0:13:15.000 --> 0:13:18.680 do not see the Biden Justice Department try to attack 0:13:18.800 --> 0:13:22.400 Kyle Rittenhouse. We had a trial, the jury rendered its verdict. 0:13:22.400 --> 0:13:27.280 They need to accept that verdict. Now I'm concerned. I 0:13:27.760 --> 0:13:32.160 think this Justice Department has been wildly political. I think 0:13:32.200 --> 0:13:35.640 it's in the first year been in many ways more 0:13:35.679 --> 0:13:38.360 political than the Obama Justice Department, which is hard to 0:13:38.400 --> 0:13:42.480 believe because the Obama Justice Department was deeply politicized. You know, 0:13:42.520 --> 0:13:46.200 the second half of that question focused on going after parents, 0:13:46.200 --> 0:13:49.439 and it's one of the worst examples of the politicized 0:13:49.480 --> 0:13:54.400 Biden Justice Department, where the National Association of School Boards 0:13:54.480 --> 0:13:56.640 wrote a letter to the Biden White House saying, will 0:13:56.679 --> 0:14:00.000 you please go after parents, treat them as domestic terrorists, 0:14:00.400 --> 0:14:03.120 use the Patriot Act and silence them, because gosh, we 0:14:03.200 --> 0:14:06.200 really don't like parents getting mad at us for teaching 0:14:06.240 --> 0:14:08.880 critical race theory. We don't like parents getting mad at 0:14:08.960 --> 0:14:14.239 us for covering up sexual assaults of girls in bathrooms 0:14:14.240 --> 0:14:18.280 at school. And so if would the Department of Justice 0:14:18.320 --> 0:14:21.960 go after these terrorists? And just five days later, the 0:14:22.000 --> 0:14:25.800 Attorney General directed the DOJ and the FBI to target 0:14:26.880 --> 0:14:29.000 parents and to use tools to go after them. I 0:14:29.000 --> 0:14:31.920 think it was an absolute grotesque abuse of power. It 0:14:32.000 --> 0:14:35.080 wasn't law, it was politics. And I got to say, 0:14:35.080 --> 0:14:38.400 if we see the Biden DJ ago after Kyle Rittenhouse, 0:14:38.760 --> 0:14:41.920 it won't be law, it'll be politics. And so the 0:14:42.040 --> 0:14:47.160 question asked, will you please stop them? I will say, sadly, 0:14:47.240 --> 0:14:50.360 I don't have a magic stop button in my Senate office. 0:14:50.400 --> 0:14:52.520 I wish I did. I would I would much like 0:14:52.600 --> 0:14:55.880 Bill Bill Buckley perhaps stand athwart history and yell halt 0:14:55.960 --> 0:14:59.280 or yell stop. But I do at least have a 0:15:00.080 --> 0:15:04.120 spotlight and the ability to draw attention and call them out. 0:15:04.280 --> 0:15:09.760 But under our constitution, it's the executive branch that executes, 0:15:09.840 --> 0:15:14.440 and so right now, the Biden administration is the only 0:15:14.720 --> 0:15:17.720 federal branch of the federal government that can bring an indictment. 0:15:17.720 --> 0:15:19.800 It is the only branch of the federal government that 0:15:20.200 --> 0:15:22.840 can execute the laws. So I can do all I 0:15:22.880 --> 0:15:25.080 can to shine a light on them and denounce them. 0:15:25.600 --> 0:15:28.760 But at the end of the day, until the voters 0:15:28.840 --> 0:15:31.520 come in and give us a new Congress and a 0:15:31.560 --> 0:15:35.240 new executive, we're going to continue to see more and 0:15:35.280 --> 0:15:38.840 more abusive power. I sadly from the Biden DOJ and Senator. 0:15:38.920 --> 0:15:41.400 This next question is a very good question as it 0:15:41.440 --> 0:15:45.320 pertains to I guess the legal authority of the chief 0:15:45.320 --> 0:15:48.040 executive hit here. This question is from verdict Hawk, who 0:15:48.080 --> 0:15:52.120 asks if a court suspends or rules against an action 0:15:52.240 --> 0:15:55.760 taken by the administration, ie the vaccine mandate, but the 0:15:55.800 --> 0:16:00.760 administration persists, what remedies are available to the court. So 0:16:00.800 --> 0:16:03.240 that's a great question. There are a couple of different 0:16:03.280 --> 0:16:06.840 incidences of that occurring right now to come to mind. 0:16:08.280 --> 0:16:13.880 Number one is the order you just referenced, which is 0:16:13.920 --> 0:16:17.920 the Fifth Circuit Federal Court of Appeals has issued an 0:16:18.000 --> 0:16:23.720 order staying the effect of the Biden vaccine mandate insofar 0:16:23.840 --> 0:16:27.160 as it applies to private employers. So the Ocean mandate 0:16:27.600 --> 0:16:29.840 that applies to employers with a one hundred hundred and 0:16:29.840 --> 0:16:34.480 more employees, that's been stayed pending litigation. Initially, the Biden 0:16:34.600 --> 0:16:38.160 White House, the deputy Press Secretary went out and said, well, 0:16:38.240 --> 0:16:40.400 will you ought to just comply anyway, never mind the 0:16:40.440 --> 0:16:43.800 court order, just just obey anyway. And we've talked on 0:16:43.840 --> 0:16:47.160 the pod about how I think the Biden White House 0:16:47.320 --> 0:16:51.040 knows that this vaccine mandate is illegal and it's likely 0:16:51.080 --> 0:16:53.880 to lose in court, but I think they cynically are 0:16:53.960 --> 0:16:58.440 counting on most people obeying anyway while the litigation proceeds. 0:16:58.440 --> 0:17:01.120 And I think that order was an example, not the 0:17:01.200 --> 0:17:03.280 order of the comment from the Press secretary was an 0:17:03.280 --> 0:17:09.200 example of that lawlessness. I will say OSHA did formally 0:17:09.240 --> 0:17:12.560 suspend the order pending the resolution of that lawsuit. So 0:17:12.600 --> 0:17:18.040 you did see ultimately the administration forced to comply even 0:17:18.119 --> 0:17:21.520 while they're urging people to pretend like the order still 0:17:21.520 --> 0:17:25.800 has force of law. A second example of this concerns 0:17:25.880 --> 0:17:31.120 are open borders and the decision that Joe Biden may 0:17:31.240 --> 0:17:34.560 that caused the most havoc on our southern border was 0:17:34.640 --> 0:17:37.600 the decision to end the Remain in Mexico Agreement. Remain 0:17:37.640 --> 0:17:43.080 in Mexico was an agreement Trump negotiated with Mexico where 0:17:43.119 --> 0:17:47.040 people who came illegally into Mexico were applying to for 0:17:47.160 --> 0:17:50.120 US asylum. They'd stay in Mexico while the asylum case 0:17:50.200 --> 0:17:54.560 was proceeding. Remain in Mexico was unbelievably effective. Last year, 0:17:54.560 --> 0:17:56.800 we had the lowest rate of illegal immigration in forty 0:17:56.840 --> 0:18:00.200 five years. Biden came in on day one and did 0:18:00.200 --> 0:18:04.000 remain in Mexico, and the illegal immigrations skyrocketed to now 0:18:04.080 --> 0:18:11.000 the highest rate in sixty one years. Biden administration was 0:18:11.040 --> 0:18:15.200 sued for pulling out of Remain in Mexico by Texas 0:18:15.200 --> 0:18:18.920 and Missouri, and Biden had been lost. A district court 0:18:19.000 --> 0:18:23.080 in Texas ruled that the Biden administration had violated the 0:18:23.160 --> 0:18:25.640 law by pulling out of the Remain in Mexico agreement 0:18:25.640 --> 0:18:29.240 without going through the notice and process and the procedural 0:18:29.320 --> 0:18:32.760 steps required to do that. So they're under an order 0:18:33.480 --> 0:18:37.239 to re enter the remain in Mexico agreement. They are 0:18:37.320 --> 0:18:40.280 dragging their feet and they're basically defying that order. And 0:18:40.920 --> 0:18:45.320 I've talked to whistleblowers at Customs and Border Patrol who 0:18:45.440 --> 0:18:47.320 said that even though this court order has been in 0:18:47.359 --> 0:18:51.200 place for many, many weeks now, they're just slow rolling 0:18:51.240 --> 0:18:54.840 if they're moving unbelievably slowly. So they're telling the JUDGEO, 0:18:54.960 --> 0:18:58.320 we're going to comply. But in particular with this kind 0:18:58.320 --> 0:19:03.080 of order, it's easy z for a defined administration to 0:19:03.320 --> 0:19:07.119 resist it because it requires the cooperation of a sovereign nation. 0:19:07.640 --> 0:19:11.680 So all they have to do is surreptitiously tell Mexico 0:19:12.200 --> 0:19:15.120 wink wink, nudge, nudge, please tell us you don't want 0:19:15.160 --> 0:19:17.360 to do this. And then Mexico says, sorry, we don't 0:19:17.400 --> 0:19:19.120 want to do this, and they say, gosh, Judge, nothing 0:19:19.119 --> 0:19:22.359 we can do. Mexico doesn't want to do this. I 0:19:22.480 --> 0:19:27.240 have deep suspicions that's what they're doing. When Homeland Security 0:19:27.280 --> 0:19:30.880 Secretary Mayorcus testified before the Judiciary Committee, I asked him 0:19:30.920 --> 0:19:34.880 that question specifically, he denied they were doing it. But 0:19:35.040 --> 0:19:38.159 you know, you just ask a minute ago. What remedies 0:19:38.200 --> 0:19:40.160 are there. I'll tell you the judge has a remedy, 0:19:40.720 --> 0:19:43.400 which is you can hold the judge can hold specific 0:19:43.480 --> 0:19:47.760 members of the administration in contempt for violating the order, 0:19:47.760 --> 0:19:52.480 and can literally incarceerate them. You know, I asked Secretary Mayorcus, 0:19:52.520 --> 0:19:54.600 what would you say to the judge if the judge said, 0:19:54.640 --> 0:19:57.960 mister secretary, why should I not put you in jail 0:19:58.240 --> 0:20:02.240 right now for buying my order and slow walking my order? 0:20:02.800 --> 0:20:05.199 May Orc As his answer as well, we're trying to obey. 0:20:05.240 --> 0:20:08.840 We are complying what he didn't admit. As they're doing 0:20:08.880 --> 0:20:14.040 so unbelievably slowly and allowing the chaos to unfold. Ultimately, 0:20:14.119 --> 0:20:16.600 they risk I think there's a real possibility you see 0:20:16.600 --> 0:20:19.920 a judge enter a contempt hearing because they have, as 0:20:20.040 --> 0:20:24.359 a real and practical matter, a contempt for anything holding 0:20:24.359 --> 0:20:27.360 them to account. And what makes it even more confusing 0:20:27.440 --> 0:20:30.760 for especially for a layman like me, is we keep 0:20:30.800 --> 0:20:33.840 talking about this as a fight between the executive and 0:20:33.880 --> 0:20:36.679 the judiciary, and we're taught in school that there is 0:20:36.680 --> 0:20:39.840 the executive and the judiciary and the legislature. But there 0:20:39.880 --> 0:20:42.360 are a couple of other groups pop up as well. 0:20:42.440 --> 0:20:44.639 So we sometimes talk about the media as a fourth 0:20:44.640 --> 0:20:47.320 branch of government, But what about the administrative state. You know, 0:20:47.359 --> 0:20:51.200 in this case, the judiciary is saying, don't enforce the order. 0:20:51.320 --> 0:20:55.000 Joe Biden is tasking an administrative agency OSHA, to enforce 0:20:55.240 --> 0:20:59.640 his order. And so Biden says, employers keep following the order, OSHA. 0:20:59.680 --> 0:21:02.200 The ministrative agency says, okay, we're going to suspend the 0:21:02.280 --> 0:21:04.520 order until the court finally decides on this. And so 0:21:04.560 --> 0:21:06.359 you seem to have a little bit of dissent even 0:21:06.400 --> 0:21:09.520 within the executive branch, you know, the president and his 0:21:09.560 --> 0:21:12.359 administrative agencies, all of which says to me, without a 0:21:12.400 --> 0:21:15.520 law school education, never having argued before the Supreme Court, 0:21:16.359 --> 0:21:18.679 that our government might not work quite the way we 0:21:18.680 --> 0:21:21.480 were told it does. In Schoolhouse Rock, Michael, I was 0:21:21.560 --> 0:21:24.119 with you right until the moment that you cast dispersions 0:21:24.119 --> 0:21:29.320 on Schoolhouse Rock. That was going too far. And my god, man, 0:21:29.440 --> 0:21:34.000 have you no shame? Have you no decency? Sir? Yes? 0:21:34.200 --> 0:21:39.560 At long last, have you no decency? All right? Our 0:21:39.560 --> 0:21:41.800 next question, Michael, I'm going to toss this one to you. 0:21:41.920 --> 0:21:44.480 This is from well, the username of this individual, just 0:21:44.520 --> 0:21:47.480 to quote it exactly, is dead ass nemo. Take that 0:21:47.560 --> 0:21:49.359 or leave it. Here's the question, tho. It's a good question. 0:21:49.800 --> 0:21:54.959 What do Michael and Senator Cruz disagree on politically and culturally? Well, 0:21:54.720 --> 0:21:58.320 we touched on something earlier, which is a Senator said 0:21:58.320 --> 0:22:01.000 he's probably a little more libertarian than me. And because 0:22:01.520 --> 0:22:05.840 just about everyone, including Genghis Khan, is more libertarian than me, 0:22:05.880 --> 0:22:09.800 I guess that would be one area of distinction. And 0:22:09.840 --> 0:22:17.000 then we all were both Italian, we were both cigar smokers. 0:22:17.640 --> 0:22:20.879 In terms of legislation, we probably agree on almost every 0:22:20.960 --> 0:22:24.320 single thing. You know, Okay, I know, I know what 0:22:24.359 --> 0:22:26.560 we agree. I have a big point of disagreement here. 0:22:28.160 --> 0:22:30.480 Senator Cruises a money christal guy, and I'm a little 0:22:30.480 --> 0:22:33.040 bit more of a Coheba man myself. You know, I'm 0:22:33.040 --> 0:22:37.200 willing to split the difference and spoke both. See that's compromised. 0:22:38.119 --> 0:22:41.000 It's the art of the possible, all right. The last 0:22:41.080 --> 0:22:45.760 question is from Eileen. This one topically is it's not 0:22:45.840 --> 0:22:48.240 out there, but I thought it was very interesting because 0:22:48.280 --> 0:22:50.720 you don't often hear this question. Eileen asked, what are 0:22:50.720 --> 0:22:56.520 your ideas for an alternative option for our power grid? Senator, Well, 0:22:56.880 --> 0:22:59.040 there are lots of things we can do to enhance 0:22:59.160 --> 0:23:02.479 the resilience of the power grid. Some of it is 0:23:02.560 --> 0:23:05.399 having a diversity of sources of energy so that you 0:23:05.440 --> 0:23:08.000