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Speaker 1: Welcome it as Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz Ben Ferguson

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Speaker 1: with you. Let's start with a victory, Senator, the Texas

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Speaker 1: Bar Application has actually added a couple of questions that

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Speaker 1: deal with free speech and incivility. This and wake of

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Speaker 1: what happened at Stanford Law School, and this is because

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Speaker 1: of a letter that you wrote. This is something that

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Speaker 1: I would argue every state in America should be modeling

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Speaker 1: after what the Texas Bar Application is doing with adding

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Speaker 1: these basic questions.

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Speaker 2: Well, Ben, you're right, We've had a big victory in

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Speaker 2: the last week for free speech. Everyone who listens to

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Speaker 2: Verdict was appalled, and we discussed at length what happened

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Speaker 2: at Stanford Law School where Fifth Circuit Federal Court of

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Speaker 2: Appeals Judge Kyle Duncan went to give a speech on

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Speaker 2: campus at Stanford Law School and a group of law

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Speaker 2: students screamed him down, cursing, cursing, profanities, yelled were just

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Speaker 2: they shouted him down and prevented him from speaking, and

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Speaker 2: some of the explicit profanities they yelled at at him.

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Speaker 2: I've never in my life seen a federal judge treated

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Speaker 2: the way these Stanford law students that did then, of course,

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Speaker 2: the Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion came in,

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Speaker 2: and the judge understandably appealed to the dean to the

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Speaker 2: administration for help enforcing Stanford's free speech policy, and the

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Speaker 2: dean proceeded to side with the mob, decide with the

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Speaker 2: people screaming down the judge, and she read from a

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Speaker 2: seven minute prepared lecture attacking the judge. In the wake

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Speaker 2: of that, across the country, people were rightly horrified.

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Speaker 3: I did two things.

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Speaker 2: Number one, I wrote to the President of Stanford and

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Speaker 2: the Dean of the Stanford Law School, calling on Stanford

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Speaker 2: to fire the de and to discipline the students. And

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Speaker 2: we ended up getting a meaningful victory in that regard.

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Speaker 2: That dean is on leave. We don't know if she's

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Speaker 2: ultimately gonna be fired, but astonishingly enough, Stanford stepped forward,

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Speaker 2: condemned what the dean did, said it violated their policy,

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Speaker 2: and put her on leave. That's a big deal. That

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Speaker 2: is a victory. But then a second victory that I

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Speaker 2: think is even more significant. A month ago I sent

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Speaker 2: a letter to the Texas State Bar and in particular

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Speaker 2: to Chief Justice Nathan hect of the Texas Supreme Court.

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Speaker 2: I know Chief Justice HEC very well. I've argued in

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Speaker 2: front of the Texas Supreme Court and in front of

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Speaker 2: Chief Justice HECT many many times. The letter I sent

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Speaker 2: to the Texas Bar, I urged the bar to do

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Speaker 2: something about it. Anyone who's a member of the bar,

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Speaker 2: you have to take a bar exam in Texas. It's

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Speaker 2: three days long and it's extensive. It deals with knowledge

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Speaker 2: of the law. Knowledge of the law generally knowledge of

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Speaker 2: Texas law, in particular if you're going to be an

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Speaker 2: attorney in the state of Texas. So, for example, there

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Speaker 2: are questions on the Texas Bar about oil and gas law,

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Speaker 2: which I suspect if you take the New York Bar

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Speaker 2: you don't get questions about oil and gas law because

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Speaker 2: they don't actually let you drill for oil and gas. Well,

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Speaker 2: in Texas you have to know at least something about

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Speaker 2: it if you're going to be a member of the

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Speaker 2: Texas Bar. But there is also you take an ethics exam,

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Speaker 2: and there is also an element of every bar exam

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Speaker 2: which is character and fitness to practice law. And the

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Speaker 2: notion is if you're going to be an attorney, if

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Speaker 2: you're going to represent clients, if you're going to be

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Speaker 2: to have sound character, you have to be fit to

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Speaker 2: practice law. And so what I asked a month ago,

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Speaker 2: if Chief Justice Hect, I'll read a paragraph from the

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Speaker 2: letter I sent him, I would ask that the Texas

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Speaker 2: Board of Bar Examiners, in discharging their duties of assessing

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Speaker 2: the character and fitness of prospective bar applicants, take particular

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Speaker 2: care with students who have graduate sduated from Stanford Law

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Speaker 2: in class years twenty twenty three, twenty twenty four, or

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty five. Specifically, I suggest that students graduating from

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Speaker 2: those years be made to answer in writing whether they

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Speaker 2: participated in the shameful harassment of Judge Duncan on March ninth,

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty three. And then I went on to say,

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Speaker 2: as to what the proper remedy should be for any

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Speaker 2: got a letter back from Chief Justice Hect, and it

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Speaker 2: is a terrific letter. Is a terrific response. Let me

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Speaker 2: tell you what Chief Justice hec said, and I'm going

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Speaker 2: to read it to you. Dear Senator Cruz, thank you

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Speaker 2: for your letter of March sixteenth, twenty twenty three. I am,

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Speaker 2: of course, very familiar with the disruption of Judge Kyle

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Speaker 2: on to say the Board has historically relied on law

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Speaker 2: Texas Bar School. Reactions to recent violations of free speech

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Speaker 2: policies suggests that reliance is not justified. The Board is

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Speaker 2: planning to add questions to the Bar Application to inquire

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Speaker 2: of applicants directly concerning in civility and violations of school policies.

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Speaker 2: Texas lawyers are expected to adhere to the Texas Lawyer's Creed,

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Speaker 2: promising to treat Council, opposing parties, the court, and members

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Speaker 2: of court staff with courtesy and civility. The admissions process

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Speaker 2: should examine whether applicants could be expected to fulfill this problem.

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Speaker 3: Promise.

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Speaker 2: I gotta say, Ben, that's a big damn deal. If

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Speaker 2: there are Stanford students in that room who were screaming

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Speaker 2: as an Antifa rioter, and at the same time be

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Speaker 2: admitted as a member of the bar, this has got

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Speaker 2: to make them think twice. And I hope that other

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Speaker 2: bars follow suit. The behavior of those students was utterly

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Speaker 2: unacceptable for anyone who wants to be a lawyer. And

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Speaker 2: so I congratulate Chief Justice hect He did exactly the

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Speaker 2: right thing, and this is meaningful in terms of a

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Speaker 2: victory for free speech.

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Speaker 1: How many other states do you think could actually look

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Speaker 1: at this and go, oh wow, we should do the

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Speaker 1: exact same thing. There are a lot of states that

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Speaker 1: have different universities, a lot of states that dealt with

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Speaker 1: protests on college campuses. We see almost weekly now where

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Speaker 1: witnessed this happen, and there's got to be a higher standard.

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Speaker 1: As you said, for those practicing law that are going

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Speaker 1: to be in our courts and not treating people this way.

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Speaker 1: Do you believe that other states will look at this

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Speaker 1: and say, what Texas just did? This was such a

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Speaker 1: big victory for not just free speech, but free speech

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Speaker 1: matter who's doing it. How quickly do you think others

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Speaker 2: You know, I think it's likely that you will see

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Speaker 2: Florida is a big deal. Look, Texas has thirty million people.

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Speaker 2: in that room harassing and screaming at Judge Duncan. There

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Speaker 2: most significant would be the California State Bar the New

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Speaker 2: I don't know if they would follow suit. I'm skeptical

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Speaker 2: But I will note Stanford Law School, to the astonishment

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Speaker 2: Yale Law School did. Stanford Law School, in particular, suspended

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Speaker 2: the dean unequivocally condemned the behavior of the students and

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Speaker 2: made clear that it violated their free speech policy. And

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Speaker 2: let me be clear, just to engage with some of

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Speaker 2: that's anti free speech. No, no, it's not. You have

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Speaker 2: to be making their views known. What you don't have

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Speaker 2: a right to do is silence the speech of another

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Speaker 2: That's what the Supreme Court is called a heckler's veto.

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Speaker 2: You don't have the right to shout down and silence

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Speaker 2: only the free speech rights of the speaker, you're violating

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Speaker 2: to listen to that speaker, and so. Had the Stanford

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Speaker 2: But their objective was to use force to shout down

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Speaker 2: and make the judge's speech impossible. That is directly antithetical

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Speaker 2: to free speech. I would note it is even worse

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Speaker 2: at Yale Law School, they did that to Kirsten Wagoner,

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Speaker 2: appellate judge. I'll tell you this, I've been a member

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Speaker 2: You don't get to speak to a judge that way,

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Speaker 2: some modicum of civility, and sadly, those Stanford law students

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Speaker 2: opposite with the encouragement of the Deidan. But kudos to

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Speaker 2: Florida should be the next bar to act because Florida.

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Speaker 2: A lot of those students want to go to Florida too,

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Speaker 2: and doing this will be a real deterrence to the

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Speaker 2: next time this is happening. If you're a law student,

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Speaker 2: you're a lefty, you're a Marxist, you're gonna think twice

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Speaker 2: about Well, wait a second, I'd like to be able

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a big victory centator, like you said, and

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Speaker 1: one that hopefully will go viral all over the country.

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Speaker 1: I want to also ask you about another issue and.

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Speaker 2: Been part of the reason for emphasizing Florida. If I'm correct,

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Speaker 2: there's an election happening next year with two candidates out

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Speaker 2: of the state of Florida. You are correct, sir, So

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Speaker 2: I just think it's a good opportunity. Texas is leading

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Speaker 2: right now, Florida out alite as well.

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Speaker 4: I love it.

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Speaker 1: Great, great point there, and we'll see and keep everybody

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Speaker 1: updated on as. Hopefully this is something that goes viral

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Speaker 1: and is good for the entire country when there is rules,

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Speaker 1: and also when you cannot intimidate federal judges this way,

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Speaker 1: it holds lawyers to a high standard which they should

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Speaker 4: I want to move to another issue center.

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Speaker 1: Everybody's saying about taxes, whether you paid them, whether you're

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Speaker 1: waiting on the refund. Tax Day is tomorrow, and that

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Speaker 1: Center let's deal with the irs for a second. There

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Speaker 4: Explain this for everybody.

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Speaker 2: Well, now, unfortunately, this is the first installment of the

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Speaker 2: what does that mean, Well, let's go through a lot

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Speaker 2: you know the IRS is big on deadlines. Well, the

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Speaker 2: in fact forty eight days late. If you or I

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Speaker 2: as usual. What are they doing with this money? Well,

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Speaker 2: the Democrats talking point is that this is for taxpayer services.

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Speaker 2: It's to make the IRS nicer. I don't know, when

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Speaker 2: let's have some top lines. For every one dollar that

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Speaker 1: You look at the IRS and just some of the

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Speaker 1: You can go back to Lois Lerner harassing Conservatives, Christians

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Speaker 2: Look, the good news is they're not very good at this.

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Speaker 1: But he made a flawed mistake right, he actually did

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Speaker 2: He has told the truth that in particular he is

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Speaker 2: But the IRS steps in under Biden and shamelessly they

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Speaker 2: all right, let me ask you a question, a fairly

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Speaker 1: The scary part is, I'm going to go with like

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Speaker 2: Well, I'll say this, you may be even slightly more

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Speaker 2: that means forty seven percent did set foot in an office.

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Speaker 2: It's not clear they were there a day or two

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Speaker 2: the IRS needs to do a public accounting of how

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Speaker 2: We voted on it. It was a straight party line vote.

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Speaker 2: The Democrats all said, nope, no, we don't expect government

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Speaker 3: Not a problem. They don't have to come.

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Speaker 1: It's incredible because the job is you're supposed to have

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Speaker 3: Look, that's exactly right. And so you know.

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Speaker 2: And by the way, this the eighty seven thousand new

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Speaker 2: IRS employees, which is doubling the size of the agency.

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Speaker 2: It's designed, among other things, to put cash directly in

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Speaker 2: the pockets of Democrats in Congress. In the past decade,

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Speaker 2: the IRS union has given six hundred and one thousand,

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Speaker 2: seven hundred and fifty nine dollars in pack funding to

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Speaker 4: I would say seventy five plus percent.

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Speaker 3: Easy, one hundred percent.

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Speaker 1: Really, they're not even trying to hide how biased they are.

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Speaker 1: They're not even trying to act like, oh, we'll give

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Speaker 2: One hundred percent. They couldn't find one wobbly Republican. They

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Speaker 2: In the twenty twenty two cycle, one hundred percent of

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Speaker 2: upon magic, hundreds of thousands of that dollars, if not

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Speaker 2: millions of those dollars come right back in campaign checks,

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Speaker 2: which may explain why Democrats senators don't care at all

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Speaker 2: The only good thing is if they're not at work,

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Speaker 2: maybe they'll be less effective in harassing citizens and small businesses.

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Speaker 2: But be clear, their objective is to harass and target

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Speaker 1: To really two of their lawyers, one of them that

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Speaker 1: had actual criminal past issues, and yet the Southern Poverty

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Speaker 1: Law Center has done nothing to ram in their own

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Speaker 1: out of control individuals within their organization.

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Speaker 2: So the Southern Poverty Law Center is a radical left

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Speaker 2: wing organization. It is virulent, hateful, and it is hard,

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Speaker 2: hard left. Now you might say, oh, come on, those

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Speaker 2: adjectives are strong. What are they like Antifa terrorists or something. Well,

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Speaker 2: as it so happens, a lawyer who works at the

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Speaker 2: Southern Poverty Law Center, his name is Thomas Webb Jurgens,

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Speaker 2: was recently charged for being an Antifa terrorists and for

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Speaker 2: his direct involvement in a violent riot against the police

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Speaker 2: in Atlanta, Georgia. Now, all right, you're ostensibly a legal organization.

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Speaker 2: One of your lawyers gets charged with being a terrorist.

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Speaker 2: You would think at a minimum you'd back away and say, well, well, okay,

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Speaker 2: we're not actually a terrorist organization.

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Speaker 3: Nope.

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Speaker 2: SPLC said, great, we stand by our lawyer, and I'm

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Speaker 2: going to commend them for one thing, truth and advertising.

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Speaker 2: They're admitting what it is is they believe. And in fact,

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Speaker 2: within hours of jurgens arrest, the SPLC released a statement,

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Speaker 2: and it didn't condemn the violence against the police officers

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Speaker 2: that took place. Instead, it denounced Jurgens's arrest as quote

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Speaker 2: and I'm quoting him here, part of ongoing state repression

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Speaker 2: and violence and urged not that the violence against police

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Speaker 2: officers end, but instead a de escalation of violence against black, brown,

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Speaker 2: and Indigenous communities. That's who they are now, who have

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Speaker 2: they been in the past. In the past, so they

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Speaker 2: put out every year a hate list where they identify

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Speaker 2: hate groups. And by hate groups they mean you, they

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Speaker 2: mean Conservatives, they mean Christians, that they mean any people

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Speaker 2: of faith that take their faith seriously. So among others

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Speaker 2: that they listed the Family Research Council as a hate group.

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Speaker 2: And by the way, an angry, violent leftist took the

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Speaker 2: Southern Poverty Legal Center's list of hate groups and went

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Speaker 2: as a gunman an open fire trying to murder people

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Speaker 2: at the Family Research Council, and heroically a security guard

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Speaker 2: risked his life and stopped that violent attack. That's who

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Speaker 2: the SPLC is now. Let me tell you the most

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Speaker 2: amazing thing, you know who.

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Speaker 3: They also are.

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Speaker 2: A source for the Biden administration for federal appellate judges,

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Speaker 2: and in particular, Joe Biden has nominated Nancy Abudu, who

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Speaker 2: is the director for Strategic Litigation for the SPLC, to

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Speaker 2: be a Federal Court of Appeals judge for the US

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Speaker 2: Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. Now, I got

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Speaker 2: to say, this is amazing when they are selecting as

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Speaker 2: their nominees to be federal pellet judges senior leaders from radical, racist,

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Speaker 2: hateful groups that embrace Antifa terrorism. And and I can

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Speaker 2: tell you in the Senate Judiciary Committee, when Abudu was

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Speaker 2: before our committee, I questioned her about this, she refused

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Speaker 2: to disclaim, to denounce, to distance herself in any way

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Speaker 2: whatsoever with the shameful and disgraceful record. The Senate is

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Speaker 2: expected fairly soon to vote on on Nancy Abudhu's confirmation.

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Speaker 2: And I very much hope that we don't put left

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Speaker 2: wing partisan radicals on the Federal Court of Appeals.

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Speaker 4: What are your your your gut instincts on this?

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Speaker 1: Are there enough Democrats that you serve with that maybe

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Speaker 1: are moderate or just see this as not the right

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Speaker 1: job to put a radical activist on the on the

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Speaker 1: on the these you know, real not just positions, but

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Speaker 1: they have real consequences.

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Speaker 4: These positions.

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Speaker 1: They're putting them in for everyday Americans who may have

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Speaker 1: to see themselves or a case that involves in go

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Speaker 1: before one of these judges.

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Speaker 2: Well if passed his prologue. The answer to that is no.

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Speaker 2: Joe Biden has been president over two years now, almost

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Speaker 2: two and a half years. In that time, do you

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Speaker 2: want to know how many Democrats have voted against any

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Speaker 2: Biden judge.

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Speaker 4: I'm going to go with one to zero.

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Speaker 2: One was high. Wow, the number is zero. Not a

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Speaker 2: single Democrat has voted against a single Biden judge. And

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Speaker 2: the Senate Judiciary Committee they rubber stamp every left wing radical,

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Speaker 2: one after the other after the other.

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Speaker 1: Is that we're getting more radical by the way that

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Speaker 1: they're just saying at this point they feel like they

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Speaker 1: can they no longer have to have have a solid

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Speaker 1: resume with understanding of the law and the Constitution. It's

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Speaker 1: just put a fundamentalist on there. We don't care if

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Speaker 1: they're socialists. In fact, we want them to be extreme.

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Speaker 3: Yes.

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Speaker 2: Now, look, we've talked in this podcast about how in

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Speaker 2: the Senate Commerce Committee in the past two months, I

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Speaker 2: led the effort and successfully defeated two Biden nominees, number

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Speaker 2: one Gigi Sohn to the Federal Communications Commission and number

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Speaker 2: two Phil Washington to the FAA. Both of those we

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Speaker 2: were able to pick Democrats off. Now, the Commerce Committee

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Speaker 2: is a very different committee. The Judiciary Committee, sadly is

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Speaker 2: very partisan, and the Democrats there have rubber stamped. Look,

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Speaker 2: we had a judge who hadn't yet been voted out

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Speaker 2: of committee who didn't know what Article two of the

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Speaker 2: Constitution is art Article two is literally what establishes the

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Speaker 2: President of the United States and the executive branch. And

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Speaker 2: this judicial nominee said, I don't know the answer to that.

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Speaker 2: That is someone who is patently unqualified to be a judge.

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Speaker 2: We have another judicial nominee who Chuck Schumer put forward

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Speaker 2: to be a district judge in New York, who wrote

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Speaker 2: how he is motivated every day by hatred for conservatives.

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Speaker 2: He wakes up in the morning motivated by hatred for conservatives.

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Speaker 2: This is not someone who should be a federal judge.

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Speaker 2: And so I'm leading the fight against these nominees. But

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Speaker 2: I got to tell you. I talk privately with my

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Speaker 2: Democrat colleagues and I asked them, I say, look, why

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Speaker 2: is it so hard to stand up and say no,

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Speaker 2: to say you know what? Judges ought to know what

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Speaker 2: Article two of the Constitution is a first year law student,

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Speaker 2: if you didn't know that, you would flunk constitutional law.

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Speaker 2: Maybe a federal judge should know enough to pass con law.

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Speaker 2: Or a radical from the SPLC, an organization that has

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Speaker 2: been extreme that has is right now embracing Antifa terrorism.

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Speaker 2: When I asked Democrat, I said, look, under the Constitution,

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Speaker 2: the Senate has a role of advising and consent. That

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Speaker 2: means you can say no. And to be clear, when

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Speaker 2: Donald Trump was president, we confirmed a lot of fantastic judges,

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Speaker 2: and I led the fight to confirm many of them.

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Speaker 2: But there were some nominees that were not great nominees

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Speaker 2: that had problems. And I can tell you that I

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Speaker 2: and others on Judiciary pressed back against the Trump White House. Now,

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Speaker 2: we usually didn't do so publicly, and I've told Democrats,

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Speaker 2: I get you don't necessarily want to have a public

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Speaker 2: fight with the White House about this, But I'll tell

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Speaker 2: you when Trump was president, I'd pick up the phone,

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Speaker 2: Mike Lee would pick up the phone. We'd call the

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Speaker 2: Trump White House and we'd say, look, this nominee is

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Speaker 2: not up to stuff, and almost without exception, the White

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Speaker 2: House would pull the nominee. That's the way to do it.

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Speaker 2: And at least so far, no Democrats have had the

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Speaker 2: chutzpah to stand up and do that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it is sad to see, but all so, it's

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Speaker 1: like they just say, we don't even care. Just give

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Speaker 1: me an activist on there. That's now what our job is.

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Speaker 1: It's no longer about what they know or what they

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Speaker 1: don't know. They'll figure that part out later. As long

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Speaker 1: I do want to get your reaction to something else

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Speaker 1: that's been interesting, and that is we've seen oil and

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Speaker 1: gas prices going up. We've seen OPEC quietly announced they're

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Speaker 1: going to really reduce their daily production of oil. We

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Speaker 1: higher the oil go, it benefits Biden's green agenda. You

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Speaker 1: and this was very quiet. Take a listen this week.

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Speaker 5: That's why today I'm pleased to announce that EPA is

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Speaker 5: proposing the strongest ever federal pollution technology standards for both

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Speaker 5: cars and trucks. Together, today's actions will accelerate our ongoing

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Speaker 5: transition to a clean vehicle's future, tackle the climate crisis

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Speaker 5: head on, and improve air quality for communities all across

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Speaker 5: the country.

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Speaker 1: Now, center that sounds great, finding Danny, But if you

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Speaker 1: really want to put a real headline to this, what

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Speaker 1: the EPA administrator is announcing is he's forcing dealers and

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Speaker 1: shoppers to mostly either drive or to sell electric vehicles

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Speaker 1: with technology, by the way that source from China helping

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Speaker 1: them become even more powerful. This is going to skyrocket

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Speaker 1: the cost of electric vehicles for the average American as well.

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Speaker 3: Well. It is a radical position.

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Speaker 2: It is following the position Gavin Newsom has taken in California,

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Speaker 2: and Gavin Newsom really foreshadows all of the extreme radical

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Speaker 2: policies coming from the Biden administration. This hurts consumers, This

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Speaker 2: will drive up costs, This will drive up inflation, This

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Speaker 2: will hurt jobs in the auto industry in particular, This

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Speaker 2: will increase child labor and misery globally, and this will

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Speaker 2: benefit many hostile countries, including in particular China. Now let

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Speaker 2: me back through each of those and walk through it. So,

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Speaker 2: California has announced a mandate that by twenty thirty five,

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Speaker 2: all new cars sold in the state must be electric,

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Speaker 2: that no internal combustion engines and new cars can be

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Speaker 2: sold starting in twenty thirty five. Now what does that mean, Well,

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Speaker 2: among other things, it means new cars sold in California

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Speaker 2: must have at least two and a half times as

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Speaker 2: much copper in them as conventional cars. Now, what is

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Speaker 2: having two and a half times as much copper mean? Well,

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Speaker 2: copper is something where in order to meet the demands

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Speaker 2: of the Green New Deal for quote net zero globally,

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Speaker 2: we're going to need to double the need for copper

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Speaker 2: by the mid twenty thirty So copper consumption doubling. Now,

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Speaker 2: where do you find copper? If you look at crude oil,

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Speaker 2: forty percent of world crude oil supplies are found in

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Speaker 2: three countries, the United States, Saudi Arabia, and Russia. Now

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Speaker 2: that's a good thing because we're one of the three,

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Speaker 2: and under Trump, we became the number one producer worldwide

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Speaker 2: of both oil and natural gas. Well, how about copper, Well,

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Speaker 2: just two countries mine about forty percent of the world's

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Speaker 2: copper supplies Peru, where the government right now is in

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Speaker 2: utter disarray and the president was just impeached and arrested,

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Speaker 2: and Chile, whose government likewise is being pulled powerfully left.

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Speaker 2: Now that dynamic is problematic. But let's put on top

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Speaker 2: of that the reality that other rare earth minerals are

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Speaker 2: also critical in electric cars. Cobalt, which is an essential

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Speaker 2: Seventy percent of the co vault produced on planet Earth

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Speaker 2: comes from one place, the Democratic Republic of Congo, where

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Speaker 2: massive mining operations exist along with small hand dug mines

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Speaker 2: literally dug by hand, where they have both adults and

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Speaker 2: children working side by side. Now, how about the China

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Speaker 2: peace Well, about sixty percent of the world's lithium, also

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Speaker 2: critical to electric batteries, is processed in China. About forty

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Speaker 2: seven percent of the copper worldwide is smelted in China.

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Speaker 2: How much copper do you think the US processes worldwide?

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Speaker 1: I would bet it's under five percent, only just because

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Speaker 1: we've done everything we can to shut down manufacturing in America.

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Speaker 2: Well, you're exactly right. This time it's four percent. We

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Speaker 2: used to have more than a dozen copper smelters, now

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Speaker 2: we have two. And so the impact of this is

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Speaker 2: enriching China, is benefiting child labor, is driving up costs.

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Speaker 2: And what the Biden administration now has done is it

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Speaker 2: has announced a mandate that two thirds of all new

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Speaker 2: vehicles and a quarter of heavy trucks sold in the

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Speaker 2: US have to be electric by twenty thirty two. This

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Speaker 2: is going to drive up your costs. And by the way,

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Speaker 2: if you're skeptical, you know, if you believe the Democrat

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Speaker 2: and media talking point that these green new deal jobs

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Speaker 2: are going to be great for car companies. Let me

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Speaker 2: read you from an analyst note on GM, and I'm

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Speaker 2: just going to read it. This is an analyst that

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Speaker 2: is analyzing GM General Motors for people investing. We are

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Speaker 2: initiating on General Motors a neutral rating because the above

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Speaker 2: position GM well for the next decade of EV's but

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Speaker 2: a transition from a profitable ninety eight percent internal combustion

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Speaker 2: engine portfolio to an EV portfolio negative fifteen to thirty

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Speaker 2: percent gross margin could poses significant challenges. And I'm just

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Speaker 2: going to read you a tweet from Brian Sullivan on CNBC.

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna just read you the tweet analyst note on

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Speaker 2: GM going from ninety eight percent profitable car sales to

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Speaker 2: negative margins on evs. Does that sound sustainable? Hello, one

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Speaker 2: hundred thousand dollars pickups. This is the Joe Biden Green

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Speaker 2: New Deal. Drive up your costs and make it un

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Speaker 2: affordable for you to provide for your family.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's also want This next election coming up is

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Speaker 1: going to be so important because this is their game

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Speaker 1: plan and they don't care how much it hurts you,

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Speaker 1: how much it hurts your family, how much it hurts

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Speaker 1: the future this country, how much it enriches, as you

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Speaker 1: mentioned over and over again, China and weekends America because

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Speaker 1: with a week America and my words, not yours. These

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Speaker 1: democrats that are really I think communists, they know that

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Speaker 1: they gain more power through doing things like this. Don't

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