WEBVTT - Biden in His Own Words 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:02.440 We spend a lot of time on this show talking 0:00:02.520 --> 0:00:07.360 about Joe Biden, but today, at the risk of descending 0:00:07.880 --> 0:00:13.040 into incoherent babbling and sheer pandemonium, we will present the 0:00:13.119 --> 0:00:16.840 President in his own words. This is Verdict with Ted Cruz. 0:00:23.520 --> 0:00:26.160 This episode A Verdict with Ted Cruz is sponsored by 0:00:26.200 --> 0:00:29.440 American Hartford Gold. If you're anything like me, you're pretty 0:00:29.440 --> 0:00:32.360 concerned about the future of our country. Inflation is at 0:00:32.360 --> 0:00:35.480 the highest level we've seen in forty years, interest rates 0:00:35.479 --> 0:00:39.040 are skyrocketing, and market experts like Jamie Diamond, who's the 0:00:39.080 --> 0:00:41.800 CEO of JP Morgan, not only predicted the recession that 0:00:41.840 --> 0:00:45.400 we're in, but are now using terms like unprecedented and 0:00:45.560 --> 0:00:48.640 economic hurricane. If you want to protect your future, do 0:00:48.680 --> 0:00:51.400 what I did. Call the only precious metal dealers that 0:00:51.479 --> 0:00:54.520 I trust, American Hartford Gold. They can show you how 0:00:54.520 --> 0:00:57.800 to protect your savings and your retirement accounts by diversifying 0:00:57.840 --> 0:01:01.400 your portfolio with physical gold and silver. All it takes 0:01:01.400 --> 0:01:03.680 to get started is a short phone call and they'll 0:01:03.680 --> 0:01:06.360 have physical gold and silver scent directly to your door 0:01:06.720 --> 0:01:09.120 or inside your I array or four oh one K 0:01:09.360 --> 0:01:11.319 and they make it easy. They're the highest rated firm 0:01:11.319 --> 0:01:13.399 in the business with an A plus rating from the 0:01:13.440 --> 0:01:16.800 Better Business Bureau and thousands of satisfied clients. And as 0:01:16.840 --> 0:01:20.279 an exclusive offer to you fans a Verdict with Ted Cruz. 0:01:20.520 --> 0:01:22.480 If you call them right now, they will give you 0:01:22.600 --> 0:01:25.679 up to fifteen hundred dollars of free silver and a 0:01:25.760 --> 0:01:29.160 free safe on qualifying orders. All you have to do 0:01:29.160 --> 0:01:32.120 don't wait, call them now. Call eight five five seven 0:01:32.240 --> 0:01:35.720 six eight one eight eight three. That's eight five five 0:01:36.120 --> 0:01:38.959 seven six eight one eight eight three. Or if you 0:01:39.000 --> 0:01:41.560 prefer text messaging, you can text the word cactus to 0:01:41.720 --> 0:01:44.720 six five five three two. The phone number is eight 0:01:44.840 --> 0:01:49.400 five five seven six eight one eight eight three. Or 0:01:49.440 --> 0:01:51.960 you can text the word cactus to six five five 0:01:52.080 --> 0:01:55.320 three two. Welcome back to Verdicts with Ted Cruz. I'm 0:01:55.560 --> 0:01:58.640 Michael Knowles, Senator. There is a lot that I want 0:01:58.680 --> 0:02:01.960 to get to. To get to Martha's vineyard, I want 0:02:01.960 --> 0:02:07.120 to get to the Iranian President. But first I do 0:02:07.200 --> 0:02:10.720 not want us to be accused of creating a straw 0:02:10.800 --> 0:02:13.240 man out of Joe Biden. Joe Biden just sat down 0:02:13.280 --> 0:02:16.920 with sixty minutes for an interview covering pretty much every 0:02:16.919 --> 0:02:19.519 topic under the sun, and I would like to get 0:02:19.560 --> 0:02:22.919 your reaction to Biden in his own words, since, as 0:02:22.919 --> 0:02:26.160 far as I can tell, the media will never push 0:02:26.200 --> 0:02:29.320 the man in any way and push back on his 0:02:29.639 --> 0:02:34.280 talking points. Well, unfortunately, his mental acuity is so diminished 0:02:34.320 --> 0:02:36.760 that that sixty minutes took one hundred and twenty minutes. 0:02:36.880 --> 0:02:41.520 It's that it was a soft bare Yeah, I mean, 0:02:41.560 --> 0:02:44.240 how can you not did not go for that one? 0:02:45.760 --> 0:02:51.120 Look the press that they're not even the praetorian Guard, 0:02:51.320 --> 0:02:56.160 that they are his loyal propagandists, and they allow him 0:02:56.280 --> 0:03:02.400 to spin without challenge. But but but let's get to specifics. Okay, 0:03:02.560 --> 0:03:06.280 So first up, he takes on the issue of inflation. 0:03:06.760 --> 0:03:08.919 We know we've got forty year record high inflation. The 0:03:09.240 --> 0:03:11.840 inflation has kept up. Here is the spin that the 0:03:11.840 --> 0:03:14.040 White House is putting on it the president. As you know, 0:03:14.200 --> 0:03:18.239 last Tuesday, the annual inflation rate came in at eight 0:03:18.320 --> 0:03:23.239 point three percent. The stock market nose dived, people are 0:03:23.440 --> 0:03:27.680 shocked by their grocery bills. What can you do better 0:03:28.080 --> 0:03:30.760 and faster? Well, first of all, let's put this in perspective. 0:03:31.480 --> 0:03:36.000 Inflation rate month to month was just an inch, hardly 0:03:36.040 --> 0:03:38.280 at all. You're not arguing that eight point three is 0:03:38.280 --> 0:03:40.280 good news. No, I'm not saying it is good news. 0:03:40.360 --> 0:03:42.760 But it was eight point two or eight point two before. 0:03:42.880 --> 0:03:44.440 I mean, it's not. You may I can make it 0:03:44.560 --> 0:03:46.520 sound like all of a sudden, my god, it went 0:03:46.560 --> 0:03:49.880 to eight point two percent. It's the highest inflation rate, 0:03:49.920 --> 0:03:53.360 mister President in forty years. I got that. But guess 0:03:53.480 --> 0:03:55.960 what we are. We're in a position where for the 0:03:56.040 --> 0:03:59.360 last several months it hasn't spiked, it has just barely 0:03:59.440 --> 0:04:03.400 has been basically even Look, this is a process. This 0:04:03.480 --> 0:04:06.640 is a process. Is the economy going to get worse 0:04:06.800 --> 0:04:11.000 before it gets better? No? I don't think so. Okay, 0:04:11.080 --> 0:04:14.000 so you saw actually more pushback than I've ever seen 0:04:14.080 --> 0:04:15.880 from the media there. It wasn't very much at all, 0:04:16.040 --> 0:04:18.040 But at least he saying, come on, man, you know, 0:04:18.400 --> 0:04:21.000 like me, throw me a bone here. It's obviously extremely 0:04:21.080 --> 0:04:24.400 high inflation. Biden says, no, the month over month has 0:04:24.480 --> 0:04:27.720 barely ticked up. What say you? So you're right, I'll 0:04:27.720 --> 0:04:30.080 give Scott Pelley some some credit. He did at least 0:04:30.080 --> 0:04:33.320 pushback some, which is more than than than the White 0:04:33.320 --> 0:04:37.239 House press briefing typically does. But you know, Biden's argument 0:04:37.360 --> 0:04:39.760 is bizarre. He says, well, it's eight point three but 0:04:39.800 --> 0:04:43.200 it didn't get any worse. Yeah, I mean it's you know, 0:04:43.240 --> 0:04:46.080 I'm reminded of an analogy like like you're you're badly 0:04:46.120 --> 0:04:49.320 wounded and you're bleeding out a pint an hour, And 0:04:49.480 --> 0:04:52.480 his defense is, well, it didn't increase, it didn't go 0:04:52.600 --> 0:04:55.880 up to two pints an hour, like you're still bleeding 0:04:55.920 --> 0:05:00.960 to death. Like eight point three percent annualized inflation means 0:05:00.960 --> 0:05:04.240 that families across this country are badly hurting, and it 0:05:05.080 --> 0:05:08.640 is continuing to be It's the highest inflation rate in 0:05:08.760 --> 0:05:12.560 forty years. And Biden has no solution for it. But 0:05:12.680 --> 0:05:15.640 it's worse than having no solution for it. He doesn't 0:05:15.680 --> 0:05:19.080 understand what caused it. There's only one thing that causes inflation. 0:05:19.360 --> 0:05:22.080 That's government spending too much money, spending money it doesn't have, 0:05:22.240 --> 0:05:24.359 borrowing money it doesn't have, and printing money it doesn't have. 0:05:25.080 --> 0:05:28.520 Biden's solution is, spend more money they don't have, borrow 0:05:28.560 --> 0:05:31.120 more money they don't have, and print more money they 0:05:31.160 --> 0:05:35.800 don't have it that will produce more inflation. And Biden's 0:05:35.800 --> 0:05:38.039 answer as well, think how much worse it could be? 0:05:38.360 --> 0:05:40.560 Think how much worse it could be month over month? 0:05:40.600 --> 0:05:45.240 And I think I don't measure inflation month over month. 0:05:45.360 --> 0:05:48.039 Nobody measures inflation month over month. We measure it, measure 0:05:48.080 --> 0:05:50.679 it year over year. And the fact is that goods 0:05:50.760 --> 0:05:54.479 cost eight and a half percent more in September of 0:05:54.520 --> 0:05:57.000 this year than they did in September of last year. 0:05:57.360 --> 0:05:59.960 And so even that shift of well, let's look at 0:06:00.040 --> 0:06:02.839 the month to month metric, I think, who cares about 0:06:02.880 --> 0:06:05.240 that metric. If it's jumped to this much in a year, 0:06:05.520 --> 0:06:08.719 that's really really bad. Well, and look, even that figure 0:06:08.960 --> 0:06:11.920 understates it in terms of what Americans are actually feeling. 0:06:12.000 --> 0:06:15.200 You take gasoline, gasoline is still double what it was 0:06:15.240 --> 0:06:18.520 when Biden was elected. That ain't eight percent. That's double. 0:06:18.640 --> 0:06:21.520 That is hurting people. One hundred dollars gas bill is 0:06:21.520 --> 0:06:24.279 now not unusual to fill up your truck. You know, 0:06:24.320 --> 0:06:26.479 people are seeing one hundred and fifty dollars gas bills, 0:06:26.480 --> 0:06:29.320 particularly if you're you're unfortunate enough to live on the 0:06:29.320 --> 0:06:33.359 West coast. You know, you look at food bills that 0:06:33.400 --> 0:06:38.800 have skyrocketed. You look at you know, you look at electricity. 0:06:38.839 --> 0:06:41.640 I mean my electricity bill. It's a lot more than 0:06:41.720 --> 0:06:44.520 eight percent what it was last year. I think a 0:06:44.600 --> 0:06:48.200 lot of the bills consumers are paying. Haven't just gone 0:06:48.240 --> 0:06:50.960 up a little bit, They've gone up a ton and 0:06:51.360 --> 0:06:54.159 people are hurting. So there's good news that Joe Biden 0:06:54.160 --> 0:06:57.120 gave him this interview. I'mid all the terrible economic news. 0:06:57.160 --> 0:06:59.320 He said, No, there's there's a glimmer of light here 0:06:59.640 --> 0:07:03.040 because the pandemic, you know, the pandemic from two and 0:07:03.080 --> 0:07:04.880 a half years ago that was supposed to end in 0:07:04.920 --> 0:07:08.400 fifteen days. The pandemic, he says, is over. The president 0:07:08.520 --> 0:07:12.800 first Detroit Auto show in three years. Yeah, is the 0:07:12.840 --> 0:07:17.400 pandemic over. The pandemic is over. We still have a 0:07:17.440 --> 0:07:19.800 problem with COVID. We're still doing a lot of work 0:07:19.800 --> 0:07:23.320 on it. It's what the pandemic is over. If you 0:07:23.400 --> 0:07:25.800 notice no one's wearing masks. Everybody seems to be in 0:07:25.840 --> 0:07:28.760 pretty good shape. And so I think it's changing, and 0:07:28.800 --> 0:07:32.120 I think this is a perfect example of it. Okay, 0:07:32.160 --> 0:07:34.880 one do you agree? And two, if you do agree, 0:07:35.000 --> 0:07:37.160 that's good news. Right, that's something Biden can hang his 0:07:37.200 --> 0:07:40.200 hat on. Well, listen, he's right, the pandemic is over. 0:07:40.280 --> 0:07:43.280 I'll tell you who doesn't agree. The Biden White House. 0:07:44.200 --> 0:07:47.480 Within hours of this interview airing, the White House was 0:07:47.480 --> 0:07:49.840 immediately walking back no, no, no, no, no, we didn't 0:07:49.840 --> 0:07:53.040 mean the pandemic is over. Never mind what he actually 0:07:53.040 --> 0:07:56.560 said to the camera. Look, man, we have an administration. 0:07:56.680 --> 0:07:59.840 They still have vaccine mandates in place that they're still 0:08:00.040 --> 0:08:02.400 trying to throw people out of the Army and the Navy, 0:08:02.400 --> 0:08:05.440 and the Air Force and the Marines because they haven't 0:08:05.440 --> 0:08:08.280 gotten vaccinated. They're trying to throw people out of the 0:08:08.320 --> 0:08:11.480 federal government. They're trying to throw FBI agents out there, 0:08:11.520 --> 0:08:13.840 trying to throw Border patrol agents out there, trying to 0:08:13.960 --> 0:08:18.400 throw professionals up and down the federal government out look. 0:08:18.480 --> 0:08:25.120 The DC Public Schools have announced they're going to impose 0:08:25.280 --> 0:08:29.080 a vaccine mandate on the DC public schools that if 0:08:29.120 --> 0:08:32.440 a kid hasn't been vaccinated, that kid can't come to school. 0:08:33.400 --> 0:08:36.800 In the District of Columbia, only eighty percent of the 0:08:36.880 --> 0:08:39.960 kids have COVID vaccines, but only sixty percent of the 0:08:40.000 --> 0:08:43.360 African American kids, So the Democrats are literally trying to 0:08:43.400 --> 0:08:47.440 throw forty percent of the African American kids out of school. Now, 0:08:47.440 --> 0:08:50.160 they delayed that rule because there was so much pushback 0:08:50.480 --> 0:08:52.520 from the parents that they're like, gosh, maybe it isn't 0:08:52.520 --> 0:08:54.320 a good idea to throw forty percent of the black 0:08:54.360 --> 0:08:57.080 kids out of the DC public schools. Maybe really bad 0:08:57.120 --> 0:09:02.040 things will happen from that. But these idiots, they're trying 0:09:02.040 --> 0:09:05.720 to impose these mandates. We saw just this week New 0:09:05.840 --> 0:09:11.280 York is firing teachers who haven't gotten the COVID vaccine. 0:09:11.360 --> 0:09:14.280 We've seen nurses and doctors fired who haven't gotten the 0:09:14.280 --> 0:09:20.200 COVID vaccine. Yes, the pandemic is over, but these petty totalitarians. 0:09:21.240 --> 0:09:25.199 Let me ask you something, the US open, Why is 0:09:25.240 --> 0:09:28.880 it that we're putting a vaccine mandate to play tennis 0:09:28.960 --> 0:09:36.600 outside with world class athletes? Because these are petty totalitarian despots, 0:09:37.520 --> 0:09:42.640 And that answer illustrates We've all known that the pandemic 0:09:42.760 --> 0:09:45.080 was over for a long time, and yet you know what, 0:09:45.960 --> 0:09:51.360 Biden's administration is still appealing to impose the mask mandate 0:09:51.400 --> 0:09:56.160 on airplanes. His doj is litigating it right now. It's 0:09:56.200 --> 0:09:59.200 only because a courageous federal judge says enough is enough, 0:09:59.480 --> 0:10:01.280 get rid of of the mask. And you know what, 0:10:01.320 --> 0:10:04.200 You've still got numbskulls on planes, not many, but a 0:10:04.280 --> 0:10:07.920 few that they're virtuous, so strong they will mask up 0:10:08.120 --> 0:10:11.000 till the end of time. So the disconnect I get 0:10:11.080 --> 0:10:13.840 because there have been many times when the Biden White 0:10:13.880 --> 0:10:16.959 House undercuts Joe Biden himself, which raises a lot of 0:10:17.000 --> 0:10:19.000 questions about who is running the White House. I get 0:10:19.080 --> 0:10:22.400 the disconnect. But the question that I have is why 0:10:22.400 --> 0:10:25.560 why are they still pushing COVID? Is it ignorance? Is 0:10:25.559 --> 0:10:29.760 it neurosis? Are they really afraid of the Wuhan virus? 0:10:30.160 --> 0:10:33.280 Or is it a little more cynical and political than that. 0:10:33.480 --> 0:10:36.440 Do they see midterm elections coming up, specially elections that 0:10:36.480 --> 0:10:39.280 they don't seem very well situated for, and are they 0:10:39.440 --> 0:10:43.760 hoping to reinstitute some of the extraordinary quote unquote public 0:10:43.800 --> 0:10:46.680 health measures that seem to give them an electoral advantage 0:10:46.679 --> 0:10:50.080 in twenty twenty. So I don't think it's the latter. Now, 0:10:50.080 --> 0:10:52.760 to be clear, you're going to see Democrats pushing mail 0:10:52.840 --> 0:10:55.000 in balloting because they think it elects Democrats, and it 0:10:55.000 --> 0:10:58.240 does elect Democrats. The more policies they put in place 0:10:58.400 --> 0:11:01.720 that increase the likely to fraud, the more likely Democrats 0:11:01.720 --> 0:11:03.880 are to win. So it's it doesn't have anything to 0:11:03.960 --> 0:11:05.480 do with COVID. It has to do with the fact 0:11:05.520 --> 0:11:10.240 they want to hold onto power. You know, it's interesting, 0:11:10.320 --> 0:11:13.080 it's getting in the mind of a leftist is not easy. 0:11:14.880 --> 0:11:17.520 I think there's several things going on. I do think 0:11:17.559 --> 0:11:20.160 there are definitely some on the left that have sort 0:11:20.200 --> 0:11:25.760 of bought the fear porn, the like we're all gonna die. 0:11:25.920 --> 0:11:29.320 We must be masked, we must be quadruple vaxed, we 0:11:29.400 --> 0:11:32.200 must like like some of them that has been so 0:11:32.840 --> 0:11:35.440 beaten into them that it's hard for them. It's like 0:11:35.440 --> 0:11:39.840 they have Stockholm syndrome or something. Yeah, you know, it's 0:11:39.840 --> 0:11:43.640 like you see the self righteous lefty driving down the 0:11:43.679 --> 0:11:45.960 road in the car alone wearing a mask. You know, 0:11:46.080 --> 0:11:49.800 you see people out in DC. I saw this was 0:11:49.840 --> 0:11:53.400 several months ago, but I saw like two older ladies 0:11:53.400 --> 0:11:57.960 with gray hairs who who They weren't wearing birkenstocks, but 0:11:58.040 --> 0:12:02.560 everything about them conveyed that they were people of the left. 0:12:02.600 --> 0:12:05.600 They had some in the closet, so they were. They 0:12:05.600 --> 0:12:08.800 were walking down the street no mask. They saw me 0:12:09.600 --> 0:12:12.000 and reached in their purses and put on their mask 0:12:12.240 --> 0:12:17.480 because their virtue had to be demonstrated in while I 0:12:17.559 --> 0:12:22.160 was on the sidewalk anywhere near them. It that is 0:12:22.200 --> 0:12:24.840 a true thing for lefties. I think with lefty politicians 0:12:24.840 --> 0:12:29.920 it's a different thing. They like power that they like, 0:12:30.480 --> 0:12:33.240 having the authority to say you shut your business, you 0:12:33.280 --> 0:12:37.040 shut your school, you get a vaccine, like the vaccine mandate. 0:12:37.520 --> 0:12:41.400 It is an exercise of power. I will make you comply. 0:12:42.240 --> 0:12:45.560 You know, Joe Biden told Chicago fire half your police 0:12:45.600 --> 0:12:49.959 officers if they don't get the vaccine. It is it's 0:12:50.640 --> 0:12:54.280 it is the petty authoritarianism. But the pettiness is the point. 0:12:54.400 --> 0:12:58.720 It's I have the power to control you. Now, on 0:12:58.760 --> 0:13:02.400 the flip side, I think the inflation component of it. 0:13:02.480 --> 0:13:05.079 Part of the reason that Biden says the pandemic is 0:13:05.120 --> 0:13:08.520 over is I think they're starting to get scared about November, 0:13:08.520 --> 0:13:10.599 and so he's trying to have some good news and 0:13:10.880 --> 0:13:13.679 saying the pandemic is over is him saying, look, see 0:13:13.679 --> 0:13:15.959 we solved COVID. By the way, you're fired if you 0:13:16.000 --> 0:13:18.080 don't get a vaccine. But see we solved COVID. Now. 0:13:18.240 --> 0:13:22.240 I alluded earlier to the war in Ukraine, obviously a 0:13:22.320 --> 0:13:27.040 huge challenge for Biden because, in the words of Vladimir Zelenski, 0:13:27.080 --> 0:13:30.480 president of Ukraine, Biden largely was the cause of that 0:13:30.880 --> 0:13:34.160 of that war by dropping sanctions on Putin and by 0:13:35.000 --> 0:13:37.520 actually sort of inviting him to invade eastern Ukraine and 0:13:37.559 --> 0:13:40.240 saying there wouldn't really be consequences. So here's what Biden 0:13:40.320 --> 0:13:43.400 said in response to the breakout of the first major 0:13:43.440 --> 0:13:46.679 war in Europe in seventy years. It has been barbaric 0:13:46.760 --> 0:13:51.560 when he's donned his attacks on civilian everything from civilian 0:13:51.679 --> 0:13:56.839 hospitals to two, you know, people's old age homes to 0:13:57.600 --> 0:14:02.599 neighborhoods for ordinary people, live, schools, schools. It's just outrageous. 0:14:02.679 --> 0:14:10.480 And so the price Ukrainian people are paying for this 0:14:10.520 --> 0:14:12.960 war is extremely high. But we're going to stay with 0:14:13.040 --> 0:14:15.640 them as long as they need our help. You're already 0:14:15.720 --> 0:14:18.640 north of fifteen billion dollars in terms of those commitments. 0:14:18.640 --> 0:14:20.920 How far do you go as long as it takes 0:14:22.040 --> 0:14:28.800 ironclad commitment. Yes, as Ukraine succeeds on the battlefield, Vladimir 0:14:28.840 --> 0:14:33.600 Putin is becoming embarrassed and pushed into a corner. And 0:14:33.840 --> 0:14:36.760 I wonder, mister President, what you would say to him 0:14:36.800 --> 0:14:42.160 if he is considering using chemical or tactical nuclear weapons. Don't, 0:14:44.160 --> 0:14:50.240 don't don't. It will change the face of war unlike 0:14:50.240 --> 0:14:53.920 anything since World War Two, And the consequences of that 0:14:53.960 --> 0:14:57.960 would be what what would the US response be? You 0:14:58.040 --> 0:15:00.040 think I would tell you if I knew exactly it 0:15:00.160 --> 0:15:01.880 would be. Of course, I'm not going to tell you. 0:15:02.400 --> 0:15:04.440 So there's a little bit of a slip he has 0:15:04.480 --> 0:15:06.200 at the end, which is he admits he doesn't know 0:15:06.240 --> 0:15:08.000 what the response of me, And he said, do you 0:15:08.080 --> 0:15:09.560 think I would tell you even if I did know? 0:15:09.680 --> 0:15:12.080 And certainly he's not going to be the one formulating 0:15:12.080 --> 0:15:15.280 those strategies. But putting aside the blame game, which which 0:15:15.320 --> 0:15:19.040 we know you Zelenski blames Biden for the war, But 0:15:19.080 --> 0:15:21.520 putting aside the blame game for a second, what do 0:15:21.600 --> 0:15:25.520 you make of his answer, Yes, we will stick with Ukraine, Yes, 0:15:25.560 --> 0:15:27.640 there's no end to the support that we will give, 0:15:28.000 --> 0:15:32.160 and his deterrent speech a slight, slight bit of rhetoric 0:15:32.200 --> 0:15:37.480 against Putin. Look, he asked, what do you do? What 0:15:37.560 --> 0:15:39.880 do you say if Putin is going to drop a 0:15:40.160 --> 0:15:44.720 nuclear bomb in Europe? It's kind of a big question. 0:15:47.520 --> 0:15:59.600 Biden's answer is dot dot d Okay, It's uncanny. It's 0:15:59.600 --> 0:16:02.280 like I've got Biden right in front of me. Okay, 0:16:02.320 --> 0:16:06.880 just just listening to that. Is there anyone on planet 0:16:06.960 --> 0:16:12.600 or Earth who that would deter from doing anything? Literally anything? 0:16:12.920 --> 0:16:15.560 A third grader who's beating up another third grader who 0:16:15.600 --> 0:16:21.120 heard someone going dude, dude, that third grader is getting 0:16:21.120 --> 0:16:26.840 punched in the nose like look. One of the responsibilities 0:16:26.840 --> 0:16:31.120 of the commander in chief is to deter our enemies. 0:16:34.120 --> 0:16:38.000 Why did Putin invade Ukraine. One of the reasons was 0:16:38.520 --> 0:16:43.160 Biden's weakness waiving sanctions, But another week reason was Biden 0:16:43.360 --> 0:16:48.440 is so incredibly weak that every bad actor looks at 0:16:48.480 --> 0:16:50.640 the commander in chief and says, this guy ain't gonna 0:16:50.680 --> 0:16:54.920 stop nothing. And so you know, as you noted, he said, well, 0:16:55.080 --> 0:16:56.640 even if I knew what I was gonna do, I 0:16:56.680 --> 0:17:03.080 wouldn't do anything. Look. I pray Putin does not use 0:17:03.160 --> 0:17:08.240 nuclear weapons, but that statement right there increase the likelihood 0:17:08.280 --> 0:17:10.639 that he will. And we need a commander in chief. 0:17:10.680 --> 0:17:13.680 I agree, you don't say exactly what the consequences are, 0:17:13.880 --> 0:17:16.320 but a commander in chief looks in the TV camera 0:17:16.359 --> 0:17:20.360 and says, using nuclear weapons in Europe would be an 0:17:20.400 --> 0:17:28.240 extraordinary escalation and the consequences would be devastating. It would 0:17:28.320 --> 0:17:33.840 be devastating to Putin to Russia, to the regime. Under 0:17:33.920 --> 0:17:38.840 no circumstances will the world sit by and watch a 0:17:39.000 --> 0:17:42.920 Russian dictator use a nuclear weapon. That's what a commander 0:17:42.920 --> 0:17:47.080 in chief says, not some you know what. It reminds 0:17:47.080 --> 0:17:50.720 me of who's the little old guy in the Simpsons 0:17:50.760 --> 0:17:54.840 who's always getting killed? Like the little bald guy. I 0:17:54.880 --> 0:17:57.080 can't remember the name of that character that I forget 0:17:57.119 --> 0:18:00.399 his name too, but that's who Biden seemed like. Yet 0:18:01.680 --> 0:18:05.119 we need strength of the Oval office, that ain't it now? 0:18:05.640 --> 0:18:10.440 I remember, after Biden's completely botched withdrawal from Afghanistan, you 0:18:10.480 --> 0:18:13.600 said on this show that the way in which America 0:18:13.600 --> 0:18:16.719 pulled out of Afghanistan makes an invasion of Ukraine by 0:18:16.800 --> 0:18:20.480 Russia much more likely, and an invasion of Taiwan by 0:18:20.600 --> 0:18:24.840 China much more likely. That's the next question that Joe 0:18:24.840 --> 0:18:27.800 Biden gets asked. Here's what he says about a potential 0:18:27.960 --> 0:18:34.480 Chinese further takeover of Taiwan. What should Chinese President She 0:18:35.160 --> 0:18:38.840 know about your commitment to Taiwan. We agree with what 0:18:38.880 --> 0:18:42.680 we signed on to a long time ago, and there's 0:18:42.800 --> 0:18:45.960 one China policy, and Taiwan makes their own judgments about 0:18:45.960 --> 0:18:49.840 their independence. We are not moving. We're not encouraging them 0:18:49.920 --> 0:18:53.880 being independent. We're not that's their decision. But would US 0:18:53.960 --> 0:18:56.920 forces defend the island yes, if in fact there was 0:18:56.960 --> 0:19:01.400 an unprecedented attack. After our interview, white House official told 0:19:01.480 --> 0:19:06.400 US US policy has not changed. Officially, the US will 0:19:06.520 --> 0:19:11.560 not say whether American forces would defend Taiwan, but the 0:19:11.600 --> 0:19:14.760 Commander in chief had a view of his own, so 0:19:14.920 --> 0:19:19.520 unlike Ukraine, to be clear, Sir, US forces, US men 0:19:19.560 --> 0:19:22.520 and women would defend Taiwan in the event of a 0:19:22.600 --> 0:19:27.680 Chinese invasion. Yes, So it's amazing in that interview, how 0:19:27.800 --> 0:19:31.240 as Biden is sort of babbling his answer, the voiceover 0:19:31.359 --> 0:19:33.000 just takes there and says, yeah, okay, never mind what 0:19:33.040 --> 0:19:35.680 he says. The White House actually he contradicts him. And 0:19:35.840 --> 0:19:39.240 so now you've got this disagreement yet again between Joe 0:19:39.280 --> 0:19:43.720 Biden and the White House. Whatever that means. You've got 0:19:43.760 --> 0:19:47.840 this question about what exactly America's policy view visa VI 0:19:47.960 --> 0:19:51.600 Taiwan is. There is this question of the one China 0:19:51.800 --> 0:19:55.359 policy again, whatever that is. That phrase has been taken 0:19:55.400 --> 0:19:58.320 to mean different things at different times over the decades. 0:19:58.640 --> 0:20:01.920 So two parts, One, what is Joe Biden slash the 0:20:01.960 --> 0:20:04.880 White House actually saying here? And two do you think 0:20:04.960 --> 0:20:08.760 that their approach is the right policy to Taiwan? So look, 0:20:08.800 --> 0:20:12.200 nobody knows what the hell he's saying. I get to say, 0:20:12.240 --> 0:20:17.240 when Biden talks about foreign policy, I've never seen a 0:20:17.280 --> 0:20:21.240 president like this in my lifetime, where he screws it 0:20:21.320 --> 0:20:26.440 up every day. But like he just says things. This 0:20:26.520 --> 0:20:28.439 is a guy you wouldn't let handle the remote control 0:20:28.440 --> 0:20:32.200 of your television set. He doesn't understand what he's saying. 0:20:32.200 --> 0:20:36.240 He doesn't know what he's saying. Look, that voiceover is weird. 0:20:37.080 --> 0:20:40.480 Think about it. Have you ever seen a president of 0:20:40.480 --> 0:20:45.120 the United States interviewed and his White House staff had 0:20:45.160 --> 0:20:49.720 to correct and retract what he said mid interview, not 0:20:49.840 --> 0:20:53.720 even afterwards, because they're like, oh crap. He just like 0:20:54.600 --> 0:20:58.240 fundamentally changed US policy towards China and Taiwan, and he 0:20:58.280 --> 0:21:01.760 doesn't know it. He is no aware of it. It's 0:21:01.840 --> 0:21:06.200 one thing. Look, a commander in chief has the prerogative 0:21:06.240 --> 0:21:08.840 to change US foreign policy. That's part of what a 0:21:08.880 --> 0:21:13.159 president has an ability to do, at least in significant respect, 0:21:13.200 --> 0:21:17.679 although Congress plays a major role in that also. But 0:21:17.920 --> 0:21:22.879 watching that interview, listen, it's genuinely frightening because he doesn't 0:21:22.880 --> 0:21:30.120 appreciate any of that nuance. We have an obligation by 0:21:30.240 --> 0:21:34.119 statute to support Taiwan and to support Taiwan in the 0:21:34.200 --> 0:21:39.200 face of Chinese aggression. The word support has a lot 0:21:39.200 --> 0:21:43.200 of flexibility. We have never passed legislation, We've never signed 0:21:43.200 --> 0:21:46.520 a treaty committing to send US servicemen and women to 0:21:46.600 --> 0:21:52.440 fight Chinese soldiers to defend Taiwan. We've committed to support them. 0:21:53.240 --> 0:22:00.119 But what constitutes support The statute deliberately doesn't define. And 0:22:01.600 --> 0:22:04.960 Biden is just cavalier and saying, yep, I'd send US 0:22:05.040 --> 0:22:07.400 soldiers to go fighting. You know, it's not like they're 0:22:07.400 --> 0:22:10.480 talking about fighting Grenada to fight the Chinese Red Army. 0:22:10.560 --> 0:22:13.560 That's kind of a big deal. Let's go to war. 0:22:15.119 --> 0:22:18.640 And he does it with no appreciation of it. When 0:22:18.680 --> 0:22:23.720 the White House walks it back, it makes clear that 0:22:24.600 --> 0:22:28.679 the administration is incoherent on it. And this actually there 0:22:28.720 --> 0:22:31.080 are a lot of similarities to this discussion and the 0:22:31.160 --> 0:22:37.560 Ukraine Nordstream to discussion. This President and the Democrats don't 0:22:37.640 --> 0:22:41.200 understand the difference between deterrance and acting after the fact. 0:22:45.440 --> 0:22:49.959 The best way to protect Taiwan is prevent China from 0:22:50.000 --> 0:22:53.120 going in in the first place, and to do that 0:22:53.320 --> 0:22:58.520 means you want deterrence. In terms of number one, massive 0:22:58.680 --> 0:23:03.080 and cataclysmics sanctions on China such that the penalty the 0:23:03.160 --> 0:23:08.359 Chinese would pay makes them think again, using levers of 0:23:08.440 --> 0:23:12.000 power we have that are not sending our sons and 0:23:12.080 --> 0:23:20.440 daughters to die, but secondly preparing and equipping the Taiwanese 0:23:20.480 --> 0:23:22.920 to defend themselves. You know, there's a phrase that is 0:23:23.000 --> 0:23:26.359 used by the military planners of that Taiwan should be 0:23:26.400 --> 0:23:30.120 a porcupine. In other words, that like, if the Chinese 0:23:30.160 --> 0:23:32.040 try to invade, there should be a lot of spines 0:23:32.040 --> 0:23:35.320 that they should be really eager to put their tushy 0:23:35.359 --> 0:23:42.359 little dairy air on top of that means expediting armed 0:23:42.400 --> 0:23:45.280 sails to Taiwan. Now, and look, Taiwan is a wealthy country. 0:23:45.320 --> 0:23:49.639 They have the money to pay for F sixteens, to 0:23:49.680 --> 0:23:53.640 pay for advanced weapons systems, to pay for equipment, so 0:23:53.840 --> 0:23:58.560 that if the Chinese military planners are assessing costs and 0:23:58.640 --> 0:24:05.000 benefit of invasion, the Taiwanese are really robustly available, prepared 0:24:05.520 --> 0:24:09.360 to repel an invasion. That's actually being smart and proactive 0:24:09.400 --> 0:24:13.360 on the front end. Biden's not doing nearly enough of that. 0:24:15.560 --> 0:24:17.960 And in fact, let me give you a very specific example. 0:24:19.320 --> 0:24:26.080 So the people of Taiwan under Barack Obama the Chinese 0:24:26.119 --> 0:24:31.639 government got mad because the people of Taiwan were allowing 0:24:32.160 --> 0:24:36.080 the or the US government was allowing Taiwanese government officials 0:24:36.080 --> 0:24:39.159 to have a Taiwanese flag and allowing Taiwanese soldiers to 0:24:39.200 --> 0:24:44.399 wear Taiwanese military insignia. So the Obama administration passed a 0:24:44.440 --> 0:24:48.880 new regulation prohibiting taiwan from displaying their flag on US 0:24:49.000 --> 0:24:52.440 government property or from any Taiwanese soldier wearing a uniform. 0:24:52.760 --> 0:24:55.879 It's bizarre. It's the only nation on earth that we 0:24:55.880 --> 0:24:59.639 don't let them wear their own military uniforms. That was 0:25:00.760 --> 0:25:08.720 inexplicit capitulation to the government of China when Trump became president. 0:25:09.840 --> 0:25:11.520 For the first three and a half years of the 0:25:11.520 --> 0:25:14.879 Trump presidency, unfortunately, the State Department kept that rule in place, 0:25:15.960 --> 0:25:18.800 and I spent three and a half years basically taking 0:25:18.840 --> 0:25:21.680 a two by four to the Trump State Department, to 0:25:21.800 --> 0:25:25.160 Rex Tillerson and then Mike Pompeo saying this is stupid. 0:25:26.320 --> 0:25:29.399 We should allow our Taiwanese friends and allies to display 0:25:29.440 --> 0:25:33.160 their flag and their soldiers to wear their uniforms. Three 0:25:33.200 --> 0:25:34.680 and a half years, I beat them up. I beat 0:25:34.720 --> 0:25:37.880 Tillerson up on it, and then I beat Mike Pompeo 0:25:37.960 --> 0:25:42.080 up on it. Finally, in the latter half of the 0:25:42.160 --> 0:25:46.200 last year the Trump presidency, the State Department reversed its rules. 0:25:46.240 --> 0:25:52.200 Pat Pompeo agreed with me, reversed the policy and said, okay, 0:25:52.359 --> 0:25:57.520 Taiwan now can display their flags and wear their uniforms 0:25:57.560 --> 0:26:01.399 on US government property. Biden came in when Tony blink In, 0:26:01.440 --> 0:26:03.760 the new Secretary of State, was coming in. I questioned 0:26:03.920 --> 0:26:07.840 him about this at his hearing, and he said that 0:26:07.920 --> 0:26:10.680 they would maintain the current policy, in other words, allow 0:26:10.760 --> 0:26:14.359 Taiwan to display their symbols of sovereignty. What happens b 0:26:14.359 --> 0:26:17.639 Lincoln gets confirmed. They flipped the policy. So now the 0:26:17.680 --> 0:26:21.240 Biden administration refuses to allow any symbols of sovereignty. Now. 0:26:21.280 --> 0:26:27.199 I have passed into law now twice, my legislation, the 0:26:27.200 --> 0:26:31.359 Taiwan Symbols of Sovereignty legislation that would allow Taiwan to 0:26:31.400 --> 0:26:34.240 display their flag and display and the soldiers to wear 0:26:34.280 --> 0:26:38.200 their uniforms. The Biden administration stripped it out at the 0:26:38.280 --> 0:26:41.520 last minute of the legislation that that just passed. And 0:26:41.640 --> 0:26:45.080 there's another bill that's moving that Joe Biden is actively 0:26:46.200 --> 0:26:49.840 lobbying removing it. I've been able to get both Republicans 0:26:49.880 --> 0:26:52.480 and Democrats in the Senate to agree with this legislation, 0:26:52.880 --> 0:26:56.359 and yet Biden is so committed to appeasing China that 0:26:56.440 --> 0:27:00.840 he's trying to pull it out. And so it's dangerous 0:27:01.480 --> 0:27:06.480 when there's this incoherence on policy on a matter as 0:27:06.600 --> 0:27:12.639 important and consequential as stopping and standing up to communist 0:27:12.720 --> 0:27:17.560 China and deferring Chinese aggression. And I think this Biden 0:27:17.560 --> 0:27:20.760 interview just makes it worse. Will rather than answer any 0:27:21.480 --> 0:27:26.040 questions in sensible detail on his own foreign policy, Biden 0:27:26.119 --> 0:27:32.080 then turned the interview away from his own administration's views 0:27:32.480 --> 0:27:36.920 toward Donald Trump, suggesting that Donald Trump imperiled national security 0:27:37.240 --> 0:27:41.719 by keeping classified documents at Mara Lago, for which Biden 0:27:41.760 --> 0:27:43.879 then sent the FBI to go go knock down the 0:27:43.920 --> 0:27:48.159 doors of the presidents and now main political rival to 0:27:48.240 --> 0:27:51.560 Joe Biden of his residence. Here's what Biden had to say, 0:27:51.720 --> 0:27:56.320 When you saw the photograph of the top secret documents 0:27:56.400 --> 0:27:58.880 laid out on the floor of Mara Lago, what did 0:27:58.880 --> 0:28:03.679 you think to yourself looking at that image, how that 0:28:03.800 --> 0:28:09.639 could possibly happen, How anyone could be that irresponsible? And 0:28:09.760 --> 0:28:12.800 I thought, what data was in there that may compromise 0:28:12.920 --> 0:28:16.440 sources and methods. By that, I mean names of people 0:28:16.480 --> 0:28:22.520 who helped, etc. And it's just totally irresponsible, And you 0:28:22.600 --> 0:28:25.960 don't know what was in those documents. I have not 0:28:26.200 --> 0:28:29.440 asked for the specifics of those documents because I don't 0:28:29.480 --> 0:28:31.359 want to get myself in the middle of whether or 0:28:31.440 --> 0:28:34.600 not the Just Department should move or not move on 0:28:34.760 --> 0:28:38.160 certain actions they can take. I agreed, I would not 0:28:38.240 --> 0:28:41.200 tell them what to do, and not in fact engage 0:28:41.240 --> 0:28:45.400 in telling them how to prosecute or not. So one, 0:28:46.160 --> 0:28:48.920 was it really so shocking? I asked that somewhat sincerely, 0:28:49.000 --> 0:28:51.600 was it really so shocking the photograph that the FBI released? 0:28:52.400 --> 0:28:54.920 I have my suspicions about it, but I'd like to 0:28:54.960 --> 0:28:57.720 know your answer. And then too, what do you make 0:28:57.720 --> 0:28:59.640 of Joe Biden saying, Look, I don't want to get 0:28:59.640 --> 0:29:02.520 involved here. I don't I don't want this investigation of 0:29:02.560 --> 0:29:06.200 Trump to look political. Look, every part of that answer 0:29:06.320 --> 0:29:09.440 was an absolute crock. Number one is it's shocking to 0:29:09.520 --> 0:29:12.560 see empty minilla folders. No, I've seen more frightening things 0:29:12.560 --> 0:29:15.520 in my life than that. You might get a papercut 0:29:15.560 --> 0:29:17.800 from it. I guess that's shocking. It is a little terrifying, 0:29:19.160 --> 0:29:21.640 you know, it's a little rich saying Biden go on 0:29:21.720 --> 0:29:27.400 about how horribly irresponsible it was without any acknowledgement. There 0:29:27.480 --> 0:29:30.080 was a certain person named Hillary Clinton who had tens 0:29:30.120 --> 0:29:33.800 of thousands of documents on a private email server that 0:29:33.880 --> 0:29:39.200 was subject to hacking, including potentially classified documents, in violation 0:29:39.320 --> 0:29:43.360 of law, and Biden was vice president in the administration 0:29:43.480 --> 0:29:46.480 that refused to prosecute her, that that gave her a 0:29:46.480 --> 0:29:48.600 hall pass and said never mind, and by you, by 0:29:48.600 --> 0:29:50.920 the way, this is a Hillary Clinton who also in 0:29:51.000 --> 0:29:55.680 obstructing the investigation. They use hammers to shatter cell phones 0:29:55.720 --> 0:29:59.800 and destroy evidence. They they they use equipment to wipe 0:30:00.120 --> 0:30:04.440 drives cleaned to obstruct from the investigation. And so the 0:30:04.520 --> 0:30:07.280 blazing hypocrisy. And by the way, we've also talked about 0:30:07.320 --> 0:30:12.680 on this podcast, how every president after the presidency retains 0:30:12.760 --> 0:30:14.960 documents and there's a back and forth with getting the 0:30:15.000 --> 0:30:18.240 documents back in the archives, and it takes it takes months, 0:30:18.280 --> 0:30:20.800 and it takes years. And Obama I had thousands of 0:30:20.840 --> 0:30:23.960 documents that still haven't been submitted back. And so that 0:30:24.160 --> 0:30:29.720 the weaponization and politicization over a document production question is 0:30:30.280 --> 0:30:35.160 I think quite absurd. But for me, the most priceless 0:30:35.160 --> 0:30:41.320 part of that exchange was the self righteous I would 0:30:41.400 --> 0:30:46.240 never put myself in whether my Department of Justice should 0:30:46.280 --> 0:30:50.360 go after him. What an utter cruck go to point 0:30:50.360 --> 0:30:55.240 out two facts. Number One, when Joe Biden was Vice 0:30:55.320 --> 0:30:59.400 president on January fifth, he participated this is twenty seventeen, 0:31:00.480 --> 0:31:04.400 in an Oval office meeting with Barack Obama, where he 0:31:04.600 --> 0:31:08.440 suggested to the Department of Justice that they go after 0:31:08.600 --> 0:31:12.600 Michael Flynn, then Donald Trump's incoming national security advisor, under 0:31:12.640 --> 0:31:17.960 the Logan Act, because Michael Flynn, the incoming National Security Advisor, 0:31:18.120 --> 0:31:20.520 had had a conversation with a foreign leader. Mind you, 0:31:20.600 --> 0:31:22.959 every national security advisor in the history of the country 0:31:23.080 --> 0:31:25.520 has had lots of conversations with foreign leaders, because that's 0:31:25.520 --> 0:31:29.160 their frigging job to have conversations with foreign leaders. But 0:31:29.280 --> 0:31:33.320 it was Biden who suggested go prosecute them, and who 0:31:33.360 --> 0:31:35.720 also signed off on and by the way, keep this 0:31:36.040 --> 0:31:41.360 entire prosecution and persecution secret from the incoming president. So 0:31:41.480 --> 0:31:44.520 that is in writing Sally Yates, the Deputy Attorney General, 0:31:44.760 --> 0:31:47.640 her notes show it was Biden's idea to do this. 0:31:47.680 --> 0:31:50.960 So you want to talk about someone who's personally directed 0:31:51.000 --> 0:31:55.200 the weaponization of DJ against the Trump administration. Joe Biden's 0:31:55.240 --> 0:31:58.360 right at the top of that list, and secondly at president. 0:31:58.920 --> 0:32:02.840 As president, he has repeatedly called on you know, I 0:32:02.880 --> 0:32:04.920 think the Department of Justice needs to be tougher going 0:32:04.960 --> 0:32:09.360 after Trump. He's calling for them publicly. You know, it's 0:32:09.400 --> 0:32:11.360 like the classic you know, who will rid me of 0:32:11.360 --> 0:32:15.240 this troublesome cleric. He's just calling out loud. And if 0:32:15.520 --> 0:32:18.360 only there's a Department of Justice or an FBI that 0:32:18.480 --> 0:32:21.200 might listen and send, say, fifty agents to raid the 0:32:21.240 --> 0:32:23.959 guy's house. But I don't know about it. I just 0:32:24.040 --> 0:32:26.640 publicly mused, wouldn't it be nice if they did it? 0:32:27.240 --> 0:32:31.960 What a crock Yeah, of course, of course. And to 0:32:32.480 --> 0:32:36.760 say this is not political is you know, Strand's credulity. 0:32:36.760 --> 0:32:40.640 It's beyond the point of absurdity. And yet, and yet, 0:32:40.640 --> 0:32:42.720 there is a question about whether or not Biden will 0:32:42.800 --> 0:32:45.760 run in twenty twenty four. Biden thus far has said yes, 0:32:45.960 --> 0:32:49.160 I am running. Biden has filed the paperwork to run. 0:32:49.560 --> 0:32:53.160 You have said on this podcast, Biden's not going to run. 0:32:53.440 --> 0:32:56.960 He can't run. Biden for the first time, I think, 0:32:57.000 --> 0:33:00.960 when asked this question starts to open the door to 0:33:01.080 --> 0:33:04.040 not running in twenty twenty four. Were you committed to 0:33:04.120 --> 0:33:07.800 running again or are there certain conditions that have to 0:33:07.800 --> 0:33:10.440 be right. Look, if I were to say to you, 0:33:10.520 --> 0:33:12.600 I'm running again, all of a sudden, the whole range 0:33:12.600 --> 0:33:15.120 of things come into play that I have requirements I 0:33:15.160 --> 0:33:17.680 have to change and move and do in terms of election, 0:33:17.720 --> 0:33:20.760 in terms of election loss. And it's much too early 0:33:20.800 --> 0:33:23.840 to make that kind of decision. I'm a great respecter 0:33:23.960 --> 0:33:26.680 of fate, and so what I'm doing is I'm doing 0:33:26.680 --> 0:33:28.640 my job. I'm going to do that job and within 0:33:28.680 --> 0:33:32.200 the time frame that makes sense. After this next election 0:33:32.320 --> 0:33:34.880 cycle here, going into next year, make a judgment of 0:33:35.000 --> 0:33:38.800 what to do. You say that it's much too early 0:33:38.880 --> 0:33:41.520 to make that decision. I take it the decision has 0:33:41.560 --> 0:33:45.200 not been made in your own head. Look, my intentions, 0:33:45.200 --> 0:33:48.400 I said to begin with, is that I would run again. 0:33:48.480 --> 0:33:50.720 But it's just an intention. But is it a firm 0:33:50.800 --> 0:33:54.040 decision that I've run again? That remains to be seen. 0:33:54.480 --> 0:33:58.520 How would you say your mental focus is? Well, it's focused, 0:34:00.280 --> 0:34:03.920 I says, I think it's I haven't. Look, I have 0:34:04.120 --> 0:34:07.920 trouble even mentioning, even saying to myself my own head, 0:34:08.000 --> 0:34:10.560 the number of years. I no more think of myself 0:34:10.600 --> 0:34:13.600 as being as old as I am than fly. I mean, 0:34:13.600 --> 0:34:18.799 it's just not I haven't observed anything in terms of 0:34:19.320 --> 0:34:22.040 there's not things I don't do now that I did before, 0:34:22.560 --> 0:34:25.920 whether it's physical or mental or anything else. Mister President, 0:34:27.120 --> 0:34:31.080 you are the oldest president ever. Pretty good shape, uh, 0:34:31.120 --> 0:34:34.320 which leads to my next question. You are more aware 0:34:34.360 --> 0:34:38.520 of this than anyone. Some people ask whether you are 0:34:38.600 --> 0:34:42.400 fit for the job. And when you hear that, I 0:34:42.520 --> 0:34:49.120 wonder what you think. Watch me not great advice, I 0:34:49.160 --> 0:34:51.799 think if Joe Biden's trying to garner su board. But 0:34:52.040 --> 0:34:55.320 your take on that, senator reading between the lines, is 0:34:55.320 --> 0:34:59.120 the guy running in twenty twenty four? No, no way, 0:34:59.160 --> 0:35:01.520 All right, There of different elements of that, so let's 0:35:01.600 --> 0:35:07.759 unpack that. So, first of all, he starts out with 0:35:08.640 --> 0:35:12.440 latently false legal advice. And I recognize Joe Biden was 0:35:12.480 --> 0:35:15.359 never a very good lawyer, but he really showed that there. 0:35:15.760 --> 0:35:19.719 So he says, well, they're legal consequences if I say 0:35:19.760 --> 0:35:24.160 I'm running. Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior is the incumbent President 0:35:24.200 --> 0:35:26.440 of the United States. He has filed paperwork with the 0:35:26.520 --> 0:35:29.880 fec as a candidate for president of the United States 0:35:30.239 --> 0:35:33.640 in the next election. He is, legally speaking, a candidate 0:35:33.680 --> 0:35:35.960 for president of the United States in the next election. 0:35:36.000 --> 0:35:39.000 He is raising money to run in the next election. 0:35:39.160 --> 0:35:42.160 Everything about that is triggered because he is an active 0:35:42.239 --> 0:35:46.560 candidate raising money for that election cycle. For the twenty 0:35:46.600 --> 0:35:51.279 twenty four election. Nothing changes if he says yes or no. 0:35:51.280 --> 0:35:56.439 Now what Biden is mimicking. So Trump has said if 0:35:56.480 --> 0:35:58.600 I say I'm running, that triggers things. That's true, it 0:35:58.640 --> 0:36:01.200 does for Trump. Why because Trump is not the sitting 0:36:01.239 --> 0:36:03.239 president of the United States, and he is not a 0:36:03.280 --> 0:36:06.640 filed candidate. When you file for a candidate, that does 0:36:06.719 --> 0:36:11.200 trigger limitations. That does trigger a whole set of legal restrictions, 0:36:11.200 --> 0:36:13.480 all of which apply to Biden one way or the other. 0:36:13.560 --> 0:36:19.399 So Biden's opening answer is just gobbledegook. But secondly, and 0:36:19.440 --> 0:36:23.600 here's where I'll be oddly defending Biden in this respect, 0:36:26.920 --> 0:36:29.959 I understand why he doesn't want to say no, I'm 0:36:29.960 --> 0:36:32.440 not running. I think the chances that he's running a zero. 0:36:33.520 --> 0:36:36.520 He's too old. He knows he's too old. The party 0:36:36.560 --> 0:36:39.200 would lose its mind if he ran. He's not up 0:36:39.200 --> 0:36:41.160 to doing the job now. The idea that he would 0:36:41.239 --> 0:36:43.840 run again when he's one hundred and forty two, it 0:36:44.000 --> 0:36:48.040 just it ain't gonna happen. But I understand why a 0:36:48.120 --> 0:36:51.000 sitting president doesn't want to announce that. If you announce 0:36:51.080 --> 0:36:53.520 I'm not running, you turn yourself into a lame duck 0:36:54.120 --> 0:36:58.240 a year and a half into his term. That makes 0:36:58.280 --> 0:37:01.759 sense for him. It is reasonable and rational for him 0:37:01.800 --> 0:37:07.880 not to telegraph I ain't run it again. So I 0:37:07.880 --> 0:37:12.080 think that's what he's doing. But you know, one of 0:37:12.080 --> 0:37:14.239 the things that makes perfectly obvious that he is that 0:37:14.640 --> 0:37:17.600 he's not running again is the Democrats are all openly campaigning. 0:37:17.640 --> 0:37:20.239 They're at least four the top tier of the Democrats 0:37:20.560 --> 0:37:25.160 are Kamala Harris, Pete Buddha Gedge, Elizabeth Warren, and Gavin Newson. 0:37:25.280 --> 0:37:27.480 All four of them are running right now. They're stabbing 0:37:27.520 --> 0:37:30.719 each other in the back, They're they're running around preening 0:37:30.760 --> 0:37:34.080 for the cameras that the primary is happening right now 0:37:35.600 --> 0:37:39.359 and they all know it. Um do you think any 0:37:39.360 --> 0:37:43.520 of them are doing particularly well or better than any 0:37:43.560 --> 0:37:48.560 of the others. I think Kamala is doing lousy. I 0:37:48.560 --> 0:37:52.320 think she's had a spectacularly bad tenure as vice president. 0:37:52.400 --> 0:37:56.759 She came in as the prohibitive favorite. Like a year 0:37:56.800 --> 0:38:00.440 and a half ago, there was an argument that she 0:38:00.480 --> 0:38:03.359 would even clear the field potentially as the sitting vice 0:38:03.400 --> 0:38:07.600 president for the Democratic president who's African American, whose female. 0:38:07.719 --> 0:38:11.480 I mean that the Democrats are such bean counters and 0:38:12.040 --> 0:38:16.360 so ind identity politics that that on paper, you're like, wow, 0:38:16.400 --> 0:38:20.920 can how could anyone even run against her? She's screwed 0:38:20.960 --> 0:38:24.279 things up so badly for so long that they're all 0:38:24.320 --> 0:38:26.719 sharpening their knives and they've decided to forget about it. 0:38:26.760 --> 0:38:30.120 Buddha Gedge was the earliest, so early on you had 0:38:30.120 --> 0:38:33.440 the Harris Buddha Jedge jabbing back and forth. The most 0:38:33.520 --> 0:38:38.239 recent entrant to the field is Newsome, whose ambition is 0:38:38.440 --> 0:38:42.640 just bursting off. He's you know, I think the most 0:38:42.760 --> 0:38:46.000 dangerous place in California right now might be between Gavin 0:38:46.040 --> 0:38:51.120 Newsom and a TV camera and then Warren. So Warren 0:38:51.160 --> 0:38:55.040 doesn't get talked about that much, but to my mind, 0:38:55.160 --> 0:38:59.839 Warren is a dark horse in this field because she's 0:39:00.040 --> 0:39:06.400 still represents the id of the hardcore progressive socialist Marxist left, 0:39:07.719 --> 0:39:13.080 and that can be potent in a Democrat primary. So 0:39:13.160 --> 0:39:15.000 I think they're they're leaning in more and more. I 0:39:15.000 --> 0:39:17.800 will say the tail end of Biden, are you two old? 0:39:17.800 --> 0:39:21.760 And he says, just watch me like we have been dude, 0:39:21.920 --> 0:39:27.160 Like like, yeah, you shake hair, hands with the empty air, 0:39:27.239 --> 0:39:30.480 you talk to the easter bunny. You get confused, like 0:39:30.640 --> 0:39:35.160 tying your shoes. That that that that's the problem. You 0:39:35.239 --> 0:39:39.320 screw up. You commit to to invading China, defend Taiwan 0:39:39.480 --> 0:39:41.520 just as a slip of the tongue that your own 0:39:41.600 --> 0:39:45.680 staff has to correct mid interview. That let me just 0:39:45.800 --> 0:39:52.600 engage an understatement does not suggest the maximum level of competence. Hmm. 0:39:52.800 --> 0:39:57.960 Very diplomatic speaking of Bidens who have made a mess 0:39:58.000 --> 0:40:02.600 of things overseas. U he did address his son. The 0:40:02.719 --> 0:40:05.720 Hunter Biden issue has gotten worse and worse and worse. 0:40:06.239 --> 0:40:08.879 Something like twelve to seventeen percent of people who voted 0:40:08.880 --> 0:40:13.640 for Joe Biden twenty twenty later told polsters that had 0:40:13.680 --> 0:40:16.839 they known about Hunter Biden's crimes, had the Hunter Biden 0:40:16.920 --> 0:40:20.319 lapstop story not been suppressed by the entire big tech establishment, 0:40:20.400 --> 0:40:22.640 they would not have voted for Joe Biden. This is 0:40:22.640 --> 0:40:26.000 clearly a big liability for him if the story can 0:40:26.040 --> 0:40:29.000 get out, not just about the hookers and the drugs, 0:40:29.040 --> 0:40:32.520 but also the business dealings, the trading of US influence. 0:40:32.800 --> 0:40:36.320 And so Biden was asked about Hunter. Here here's his answer, 0:40:36.840 --> 0:40:41.480 the President, if you run again, Republicans are most likely 0:40:42.239 --> 0:40:47.000 to go after your son Hunter once again. And I 0:40:47.040 --> 0:40:50.600 wonder what you would like to say about your son 0:40:51.600 --> 0:40:56.879 and whether any of his troubles have caused conflicts for 0:40:56.920 --> 0:41:01.480 you or for the United States. I love my son. 0:41:01.920 --> 0:41:07.520 Number one, he fought an addiction problem, he overcame it, 0:41:07.640 --> 0:41:11.440 he wrote about it. And no, there's not a single 0:41:11.480 --> 0:41:15.160 thing that I've observed at all from that it would 0:41:15.160 --> 0:41:18.280 affect me or the United States relative to my son Hunter. 0:41:19.160 --> 0:41:24.560 Fair answer, Senator. Oh look, I understand why Biden gave 0:41:24.640 --> 0:41:27.640 that answer. That's an answer probably a lot of fathers 0:41:27.640 --> 0:41:34.360 would give. The real indictment is CBS that they took 0:41:34.360 --> 0:41:38.640 that answer. They just says, well, gosh, meaneasers are saying 0:41:38.719 --> 0:41:42.160 mean things about your son. Anything you want to say, 0:41:42.239 --> 0:41:44.600 I love my son. Oh, okay, thank you, thank you. 0:41:44.680 --> 0:41:48.759 I appreciate that's hard hitting news. Okay, Like, look, the 0:41:48.840 --> 0:41:53.120 guy has videoed himself committing multiple felonies. When you have 0:41:53.239 --> 0:41:56.280 crack cocaine and you're with prostitutes waving a gun around 0:41:56.320 --> 0:42:00.360 that like violates so many laws it's difficult to to 0:42:01.400 --> 0:42:05.839 catalog this. Biden Department of Justice doesn't enforce the laws 0:42:05.880 --> 0:42:08.200 with respect to him, and that doesn't even begin to 0:42:08.200 --> 0:42:13.040 touch the corruption the deals with Ukraine. Look, verdict started 0:42:13.040 --> 0:42:17.239 out talking about brisman impeachment. All of that now is 0:42:17.280 --> 0:42:21.000 ancient history. Getting paid eighty three thousand dollars a month 0:42:21.360 --> 0:42:24.560 by a Ukrainian natural gas company when you don't when 0:42:24.600 --> 0:42:28.080 you don't know anything about Ukraine or natural gas, that's 0:42:28.440 --> 0:42:32.440 reeks of corruption. I think this is really the point here, Senator, 0:42:32.480 --> 0:42:35.520 because you know, if Biden just gave the answer and said, look, 0:42:35.560 --> 0:42:37.960 I love my son, he's a drug addict, degenerate, but 0:42:38.000 --> 0:42:40.239 hopefully he's cleaning up his life. I think people would 0:42:40.239 --> 0:42:43.360 move on if that last part wasn't and nothing whatsoever 0:42:43.440 --> 0:42:47.120 affects the United States or my presidency or administration. And 0:42:47.200 --> 0:42:49.600 you think, well, putting you know, the drugs and the 0:42:49.600 --> 0:42:52.520 women and wine women in song aside, when you're when 0:42:52.520 --> 0:42:54.880 you're being paid off, when your son is getting a 0:42:54.960 --> 0:42:59.239 major payoff from a corrupt government, when you are you 0:42:59.760 --> 0:43:02.479 then the vice president or the point person on US 0:43:02.560 --> 0:43:06.440 relations with that government, to say nothing of Hunter Biden's 0:43:06.480 --> 0:43:09.520 business dealings in China and elsewhere around the world. That 0:43:09.640 --> 0:43:12.080 actually does affect the United States, and that does affect 0:43:12.160 --> 0:43:15.000 your presidency. It very much does. And you look at 0:43:15.120 --> 0:43:19.560 China and Hunters investments, where you know, Joe Biden is 0:43:19.600 --> 0:43:24.560 now selling oil from our strategic petroleum reserve to China, 0:43:24.719 --> 0:43:28.719 including Chinese state owned companies that Hunter's firm was a 0:43:28.800 --> 0:43:33.800 major investor and shareholder in. That's a big damn deal. 0:43:33.960 --> 0:43:36.640 You know. The what it says in the laptop ten 0:43:36.680 --> 0:43:39.600 percent for the big guy, meaning Joe Biden. On its face, 0:43:40.120 --> 0:43:46.239 that screams corruption. Merrick Garland and this politicized DJ won't 0:43:46.280 --> 0:43:50.080 investigate it. They won't, and what should have happened. They 0:43:50.120 --> 0:43:53.040 need to appoint a special counsel because there's no credibility 0:43:53.040 --> 0:43:58.120 of a fair and impartial investigation. And again I'm not 0:43:58.160 --> 0:44:01.719 going to fault Joe for trying to defend his son 0:44:01.800 --> 0:44:05.719 and trying to dismiss it. That's what any parent would do. 0:44:06.880 --> 0:44:10.239 But there is a responsibility for a journalist actually to 0:44:10.320 --> 0:44:14.799 have facts, like the question isn't so supposed to be 0:44:16.080 --> 0:44:19.200 why are there so many Republican meanings. And that's basically 0:44:19.239 --> 0:44:22.799 what CBS's question was. I thought that was they ought 0:44:22.880 --> 0:44:26.920 to teach that question in journalism schools. Here's how to 0:44:27.040 --> 0:44:30.239 flunk the job of a journalist. Now, before we get 0:44:30.239 --> 0:44:33.040 to the mailbag, Senator, I do want a little bit 0:44:33.040 --> 0:44:35.120 of a palate cleanser here. We have been dealing with 0:44:35.160 --> 0:44:37.600 the leader of the free world, at least nominally our 0:44:37.680 --> 0:44:40.600 own leader. I'd like to turn our attention to another 0:44:40.680 --> 0:44:45.399 American network TV interview with another world leader. That would 0:44:45.440 --> 0:44:48.960 be the Iranian president who was asked about his views 0:44:49.480 --> 0:44:54.080 on the Holocaust. Do you believe the Holocaust happened, that 0:44:54.239 --> 0:45:02.560 six million Jews were slaughtered massdia tarichi ye. Look, historical 0:45:02.600 --> 0:45:09.680 events should be investigated by researchers and historians. There are 0:45:09.719 --> 0:45:12.560 some signs that had happened. If so, they should allow 0:45:12.600 --> 0:45:15.600 it to be investigated and researched. So you're not sure, 0:45:16.200 --> 0:45:19.879 I'm getting that. You're not sure. What about Israel's right 0:45:19.960 --> 0:45:25.120 to exist philistine? You see the people of Palestine or 0:45:25.160 --> 0:45:27.960 the reality This is the right of the people of 0:45:28.080 --> 0:45:32.080 Palestine who are forced to leave their houses in motherland. 0:45:32.239 --> 0:45:35.520 The Americans are supporting this false regime there to take 0:45:35.640 --> 0:45:38.840 root and be established. There not a ton of pushback 0:45:39.000 --> 0:45:42.239 from Leslie Stall there. What do you make of the 0:45:42.239 --> 0:45:47.840 Iranian president's remarks? So, I think that is utterly disgraceful 0:45:48.280 --> 0:45:57.120 on multiple levels. Let's start off, Raissi is a mass 0:45:57.200 --> 0:46:03.160 murderer and a terrorist. He is directly responsible for enormous 0:46:03.680 --> 0:46:07.680 number of murders of tortures. He has been one of 0:46:07.680 --> 0:46:11.280 the most repressive figures in this horrific regime for years. 0:46:11.280 --> 0:46:15.120 He was appointed by the Ayatola to that position despite 0:46:15.200 --> 0:46:21.279 a horrific record of human rights abuses. Number Two, he 0:46:21.360 --> 0:46:23.680 was allowed by the Biden administration to come to the 0:46:23.800 --> 0:46:25.960 United States, come to New York, to the United Nations. 0:46:25.960 --> 0:46:29.040 He should not have been. I've introduced legislation to block 0:46:29.160 --> 0:46:31.640 him from coming. We should not be allowing terrorists and 0:46:31.760 --> 0:46:35.520 mass murders into the United States. But the Biden administration, 0:46:35.960 --> 0:46:39.120 every enemy of a world, every enemy of America, they 0:46:39.160 --> 0:46:42.320 treat with weakness and appeasement. And this is yet another example. 0:46:43.360 --> 0:46:49.480 Number three. It's particularly horrifying this interview right now. In 0:46:49.640 --> 0:46:54.600 recent days, the world was stunned with the news that 0:46:54.719 --> 0:47:00.360 a twenty two year old Iranian woman was captured the 0:47:00.400 --> 0:47:06.000 religious police in Iran and was beaten to death for 0:47:06.160 --> 0:47:10.200 the crime of not wearing a headscarf. She dared to 0:47:10.239 --> 0:47:13.480 go outside and she wasn't covering her face the way 0:47:13.560 --> 0:47:18.080 the Islamic radicals insist, and the religious police arrested her 0:47:18.160 --> 0:47:24.920 and beat her to death. Within hours of that happening, 0:47:25.719 --> 0:47:31.360 an American journalist on CBS Leslie Stall is sitting there compliantly, 0:47:31.600 --> 0:47:39.279 bleeding like a sheep, wearing a headscarf. That's disgusting. Did 0:47:39.360 --> 0:47:44.800 she ask about what happened? No? And then the final 0:47:44.880 --> 0:47:54.560 bit to end with Ras engaging in Holocaust denial. Well, 0:47:54.800 --> 0:47:58.200 historians should debate and examine to see if there's evidence 0:47:58.480 --> 0:48:02.000 the Holocaust is one of, if not the most terrific 0:48:02.040 --> 0:48:06.680 event in all of human history. The systematic extermination of 0:48:06.800 --> 0:48:11.080 six million Jews an attempted genocide. You don't think there's evidence, 0:48:11.160 --> 0:48:15.480 go to Auschwitz, go to the concentration camp, read the 0:48:15.480 --> 0:48:20.799 diary of Anne Frank, examine the horror, and to c CBS, 0:48:21.120 --> 0:48:25.239 oh okay, well that's that's of you. Yeah, oh okay, 0:48:25.480 --> 0:48:31.279 And and dece to sit there while this monster spews 0:48:31.560 --> 0:48:42.040 anti Semitic filth on CBS. There are not words to 0:48:42.120 --> 0:48:49.680 describe the abdication of responsibility. Leslie Stall should be ashamed, 0:48:49.760 --> 0:48:54.200 and CBS should be ashamed that they're willing to kiss 0:48:54.320 --> 0:48:57.920 up to a monster and a tyrant. Not so much 0:48:57.920 --> 0:48:59.920 for a palett cleanser, you know, I guess the President 0:49:00.000 --> 0:49:02.600 of Iran generally is not not much of a palate cleanser. 0:49:02.719 --> 0:49:04.360 Before we go, I know it's a long episode, but 0:49:04.520 --> 0:49:06.480 I do want to get to some of our wonderful 0:49:06.520 --> 0:49:10.200 listeners in the mail bag question from Andrew were the 0:49:10.280 --> 0:49:15.600 Martha's Vineyard planes a good one time stunt or should 0:49:15.640 --> 0:49:19.960 GOP governors keep up the migrant buses and flights to 0:49:20.200 --> 0:49:24.400 left wing cities as a long term strategy? Keep it 0:49:24.480 --> 0:49:27.319 up over and over and over again. As you know, 0:49:27.440 --> 0:49:30.000 I introduced legislation to do this a year ago. I've 0:49:30.040 --> 0:49:33.560 been calling on on Republicans to do this a year ago. 0:49:33.719 --> 0:49:38.520 I'm very glad Greg Abbott and Ron De Santis took 0:49:38.560 --> 0:49:40.560 my advice and carried it out. It was the right 0:49:40.600 --> 0:49:45.279 thing to do. It's totally transformed the debate. But rich 0:49:45.440 --> 0:49:50.080 leftist socialists lost their minds when fifty illegal immigrants showed 0:49:50.120 --> 0:49:52.400 up at Martha's Vineyard tomorrow. We had to send one 0:49:52.440 --> 0:49:54.120 hundred the next day we had to send two hundred 0:49:54.200 --> 0:49:58.960 and five hundred and a thousand. The volume is so massive, 0:49:59.640 --> 0:50:02.000 and and listen the reason to do it. I mean, 0:50:02.040 --> 0:50:04.839 it has been amazing watching the media and all these 0:50:04.880 --> 0:50:08.120 blue check mark activists losing their minds and they're saying, oh, 0:50:08.200 --> 0:50:11.520 do Satis and Abbots are engaged in human trafficking. No, 0:50:11.880 --> 0:50:15.839 it's a humanitarian crisis. It is not human trafficking. To 0:50:15.880 --> 0:50:19.360 ask somebody, would you like to go to Martha's Vineyard, 0:50:19.400 --> 0:50:22.680 I will fly you for free there. That's not called 0:50:22.840 --> 0:50:27.160 human trafficking, despite all the idiots saying it is also 0:50:27.360 --> 0:50:33.439 not cruel and inhumane to take someone to a billionaire's playground. 0:50:33.560 --> 0:50:36.279 Martha's Vineyard is. I've actually never been, so I don't 0:50:36.320 --> 0:50:38.879 really know what Martha's Vineyard is, but from everything I see, 0:50:38.920 --> 0:50:41.040 it's a really fancy place that I know. The Obamas 0:50:41.040 --> 0:50:42.680 have a twelve million dollar home there, so it's a 0:50:42.680 --> 0:50:45.479 bunch of rich people and it's presumably really during nice. 0:50:47.120 --> 0:50:51.319 The reason to send them there is it's about the 0:50:51.360 --> 0:50:55.160 only thing that forces the corrupt corporate media to actually 0:50:55.200 --> 0:51:00.640 cover what's happening, and it also shows the utter hypocrisy 0:51:00.680 --> 0:51:03.240 we talked in the last podcast about how the county 0:51:03.280 --> 0:51:07.040 executive in Martha's Vineyard when I proposed this legislation, said 0:51:07.040 --> 0:51:09.200 they would welcome the illegal immigrants there. They wanted to 0:51:09.200 --> 0:51:11.120 be a haven for them. And I didn't know what 0:51:11.160 --> 0:51:13.000 I was talking about. There was no border crisis. As 0:51:13.000 --> 0:51:15.400 soon as they showed up, Oh crap, they declared a crisis. 0:51:16.640 --> 0:51:22.120 But additionally, it forces the Democrats and the media to 0:51:22.239 --> 0:51:26.080 defend their incoherence. What did they do in Martha's Vineyard 0:51:26.400 --> 0:51:28.320 within twenty four hours? They put them on buses and 0:51:28.320 --> 0:51:30.800 shipped them away. Shipped them away to a military base. 0:51:31.239 --> 0:51:35.920 You know. AOC tweeted out said, shout out to the 0:51:35.920 --> 0:51:40.160 people of Massachusetts and the people of Martha's Vineyard for 0:51:40.320 --> 0:51:45.000 demonstrating the very best of American values. And I did 0:51:45.040 --> 0:51:50.080 something I don't do often. I retweeted AOC, I said, look, well, 0:51:50.080 --> 0:51:52.960 what did Martha's Vineyard do? They deported them within twenty 0:51:52.960 --> 0:51:56.960 four hours. I agree, let's emulate Martha's Vineyard. But the 0:51:57.120 --> 0:52:00.800 very best of American values. I assumed that means Texas 0:52:00.800 --> 0:52:02.440 can do the same thing, and we put them on 0:52:02.480 --> 0:52:04.759 a bus and ship them back to where they came from. 0:52:04.760 --> 0:52:07.200 Within twenty four hours. Can we get them out? Look, 0:52:08.840 --> 0:52:14.759 the volume is crushing, and all of these self righteous 0:52:15.000 --> 0:52:20.920 virtue signals are ignoring what is happening. This is human slavery. 0:52:21.280 --> 0:52:23.680 To see lefties saying it was crueling in humane to 0:52:23.680 --> 0:52:25.720 send them to Martha's vineyard. Now, you know what's crueling 0:52:25.800 --> 0:52:30.960 in humane. Hundreds of thousands of children being abused and 0:52:31.080 --> 0:52:34.480 sexually assaulted by human traffickers under Joe Biden. You know 0:52:34.520 --> 0:52:38.600 what's crueling in humane. Thousands upon thousands of women being 0:52:38.680 --> 0:52:42.040 raped by human traffickers under Joe Biden. You know what's 0:52:42.040 --> 0:52:46.440 crueling in humane. Hundreds of immigrants abandoned to die in 0:52:46.480 --> 0:52:50.239 the desert. Pregnant ladies, old people, children dead in the 0:52:50.280 --> 0:52:52.760 desert week after week. You know what's crueling in humane. 0:52:53.280 --> 0:52:57.080 Fifty three illegal immigrants dead and attractor trailer of heat 0:52:57.360 --> 0:52:59.600 because of the human traffickers under Joe Biden. You know 0:52:59.600 --> 0:53:03.200 what's cruel in humane. Over one hundred thousand people dying 0:53:03.440 --> 0:53:07.520 of fentanol overdoses because of the chaos of Joe Biden's 0:53:07.520 --> 0:53:12.080 open borders. You know what's crueling in humane. Thousands of 0:53:12.120 --> 0:53:16.280 teenage boys working for the cartels in every city in America. 0:53:16.320 --> 0:53:18.759 Because they owe thousands of dollars to the cartel. You 0:53:18.800 --> 0:53:22.040 know what's crueling in humane? Thousands of teenage girls in 0:53:22.160 --> 0:53:25.840 forced prostitution because they owe thousands of dollars to the cartel. 0:53:26.000 --> 0:53:29.160 And you know what's crueling in humane. A corrupt media 0:53:29.200 --> 0:53:32.880 that won't report on any of that, but they suddenly 0:53:32.920 --> 0:53:36.560 notice when Buffy's tea time is disturbed at Martha's Vineyard. 0:53:36.719 --> 0:53:39.239 We ought to keep doing that every damn day till 0:53:39.280 --> 0:53:45.399 they've forced to cover the human slavery disaster that Joe 0:53:45.440 --> 0:53:50.840 Biden is responsible. Here here one hundred percent agree with 0:53:50.880 --> 0:53:54.480 the sentiment, I hope. I'm so glad that the governors, 0:53:54.520 --> 0:53:57.200 some of the Republican governors, have taken the advice we 0:53:57.239 --> 0:53:59.000 need a lot more of it. I totally agree we 0:53:59.040 --> 0:54:01.240 need a lot more of this show, by the way, 0:54:01.320 --> 0:54:04.319 but I unfortunately cannot stay. We've got to turn to 0:54:04.320 --> 0:54:07.040 our friend Liz Wheeler on the cloak room. Liz, what 0:54:07.120 --> 0:54:09.719 will you be talking about? Hi, Michael High, Senator. I 0:54:09.719 --> 0:54:12.400 don't know about you, guys, but I feel super confident 0:54:12.560 --> 0:54:16.319 after hearing those videos in Biden's mental capacity, in his 0:54:16.400 --> 0:54:19.360 mental acuity, very confident in the fact that he's not 0:54:19.480 --> 0:54:25.240 actively harming the American people with his impractical and unwise policies. Yikes. 0:54:25.840 --> 0:54:27.719 Over on the cloak Room, we're going to talk about 0:54:27.719 --> 0:54:30.600 something kind of exciting that happened just a couple days ago. 0:54:30.920 --> 0:54:34.359 The Fifth Circuit Court issued a ruling on Big Tech 0:54:34.440 --> 0:54:37.440 that might lead to a showdown at the Supreme Court. 0:54:37.760 --> 0:54:41.120 Big Tech, of course, famous for banning conservatives based on 0:54:41.160 --> 0:54:45.880 our viewpoints. The Fifth Circuit issued a ruling saying that 0:54:46.000 --> 0:54:51.520 corporations do not have a free wheeling right to censor speech. 0:54:51.600 --> 0:54:54.160 So we are going to discuss what exactly this means. 0:54:54.520 --> 0:54:56.400 Is it going to reach the Supreme Court, how is 0:54:56.400 --> 0:54:58.839 the Supreme Court going to rule, and what is the 0:54:58.880 --> 0:55:01.360 implication of this across the country, not just in the 0:55:01.400 --> 0:55:05.239 state of Texas where the original law emanated from. So 0:55:05.280 --> 0:55:07.720 you can join us on the Cloakroom on Verdict Plus 0:55:07.760 --> 0:55:11.759 at Verdict with Ted Cruise dot Com slash plus. If 0:55:11.800 --> 0:55:14.000 you use my promo code, which is Cloakroom, then you 0:55:14.000 --> 0:55:15.920 can watch for free for the first month of your 0:55:15.920 --> 0:55:19.440 annual subscription that is Verdict with Ted Cruise dot Com 0:55:19.480 --> 0:55:23.120 slash Plus. I am going to self censor right now 0:55:23.160 --> 0:55:25.239 and take myself off of this show. So that you 0:55:25.280 --> 0:55:28.320 can get to that very interesting conversation. Make sure everyone 0:55:28.360 --> 0:55:32.680 out there that you like subscribe on YouTube, on Apple, podcasts, 0:55:32.680 --> 0:55:37.040 on Spotify, on locals, wherever you get your podcasts. For now, 0:55:37.080 --> 0:55:48.640 I'm Michael Knowles. This is Verdict with Ted Cruz. This 0:55:48.680 --> 0:55:51.480 episode of Verdict with Ted Cruz is being brought to 0:55:51.560 --> 0:55:55.000 you by Jobs, Freedom and Security Pack, a political action 0:55:55.040 --> 0:55:59.880 committee dedicated to supporting conservative causes, organizations, and candidates as 0:56:00.239 --> 0:56:03.480 the country in twenty twenty two, Job's Freedom and Security 0:56:03.520 --> 0:56:07.040 Pack plans to donate to conservative candidates running for Congress 0:56:07.160 --> 0:56:09.880 and help the Republican Party across the nation.