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00:01:31.000We have Senator Ted Cruz on the show, and send in exclusively your chat.
00:01:35.000If you're watching at the blaze, loudestcracker.com slash mugclub, that's how you join up, and we'll try and ask him some specific questions, because there's been a general conversation regarding election fraud right now, and I don't know if you know, no dead people have ever voted, of course.
00:02:22.000They put threes up when they hit a three running down the court and I was like I didn't realize so many NBA players were black or white supremacists.
00:02:32.000It's funny, because every time I go for a layup, that's what, when I go, I just kind of go off the map, where I say, okay, I am going for the layup!
00:04:11.000A lot of people don't know what they saw.
00:04:13.000The best part, actually, was a reverse shot of the reporters.
00:04:17.000So, yeah, for people who don't know what they were watching, let me explain it to you here.
00:04:21.000The reporters were watching it, and yeah, but let me stop.
00:04:25.000I don't know if any of you here are necessarily policy wonks, but when they first thought that Mike Pompeo was going to concede, we see that this is where they were mostly carrying their chi.
00:04:38.000And then when he says, there you go, that's what happened in the second Trump administration, and down there is a nice little bit of CNN.
00:04:54.000Also, I should let you know, before we go into CNN, the RNC Chair, Ronna McDaniel, has now stated that 11,000 people have come forward with claims of voter fraud so far.
00:05:04.000And then just in Allegheny County, their Board of Elections voted to count over 2,000 undated ballots.
00:06:23.000Yeah, you can just be President-Elect for a while and be happy with that.
00:06:28.000Here's one thing that I hope you guys understand.
00:06:30.000When we have people like Senator Ted Cruz and Rand Paul and you have Mike Pompeo, these people all going in pretty hard, that's a really good sign.
00:06:42.000I know the left will try to make you think that anyone who's a Republican is unreasonable while they throw Molotov cocktails into a Walgreens.
00:06:48.000I think that the fact that these people, one is a doctor, Rand Paul, who's actually treated patients, and then one is an actual lawyer who worked as a lawyer, Ted Cruz.
00:07:03.000So this is something that, again, I'm not just saying this so you guys feel good about where we are.
00:07:09.000There's a 50-50 shot right now how this ends up.
00:08:17.000So what do you think Donald Trump's best path to victory is here?
00:08:24.000I will say this, a state needs to flip soon because the media is lying so much.
00:08:28.000The media is spinning this so much and Americans who aren't engaged need to see that this is actually something that is verified, that is something that has gone through the legal, you know, the courts.
00:08:39.000So there needs to be one state where All hands on deck, and I don't know which state that is.
00:08:44.000We'll talk with Senator Ted Cruz about that.
00:08:47.000I think that's the strongest legal argument that I've heard.
00:08:49.000I'm not a legal scholar, obviously, but the strongest argument that I've heard is that they violated their own state laws in counting votes, and I think that's the easiest.
00:08:55.000Go for voter fraud, fine, but that's harder to prove.
00:09:16.000We'll talk with Senator Ted Cruz about it.
00:09:18.000Yeah, so you think if Georgia flips and it might make people go, ah, we should look into this?
00:09:22.000If one state right now, they pull back and go, actually, we can't call this because we just had to discount however many, 230,000 ballots, it will make Americans go, oh!
00:10:42.000He just said Facebook has taken some steps.
00:10:44.000He didn't say Facebook has taken some steps to remove flagrantly false disinformation, because they cannot claim that.
00:10:51.000He said, Mr. Takashi, whatever, on CNN, Kuzushi, whatever it is, he said Facebook has taken some steps to remove accounts associated with Steve Bannon making views seem more popular than they are.
00:11:39.000When the mask is off, it's not about truth.
00:11:41.000It's about, can we snuff out views that may, if it hasn't crossed that threshold of critical mass, if it's not popular enough, can we silence it?
00:11:50.000Just like saying, no evidence at all of voter fraud.
00:11:55.000But what you try and do is say, well, it's not really false because most of the people who are posting about it aren't as popular as me at CNN, and we have a relationship with Facebook.
00:12:05.000So just to give you an idea, Americans right now are looking at Hong Kong, you brought them up, and saying, I can't believe what's going on there.
00:12:10.000Four people just resigned because China gave the person who's in charge of Hong Kong the power, if somebody is not loyal enough, if they're a dissident, to silence their views and basically get rid of them out of government for no recourse whatsoever.
00:12:22.000You can't go to courts or anything like that.
00:14:33.000There have been many unpopular viewpoints that have been correct.
00:14:36.000And by the way, almost every great breakthrough comes from an unpopular opinion.
00:14:39.000I don't know all of these by heart, but if you look at probably the polio vaccine, if you look at the way people, at some point when someone said the earth is a globe, now it's been that way for a long time.
00:14:47.000The whole idea of flat earth is actually blown out of proportion.
00:16:20.000So his name is Ezekiel Emanuel, and before I go through some information on him, let's set this up so you find out who he is.
00:16:27.000I know that he's a very bright, capable guy, and I think that's a great choice to have, uh, represent, uh, doctors in general and addressing this epidemic.
00:16:34.000Philadelphia Health Commissioner Dr. Thomas Farley, this morning on Eyewitness News, he praised President-elect Joe Biden's transition... This runs out like Bray Mysterio.
00:16:42.000...to join his coronavirus task force.
00:16:45.000He is the chair of the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy at the University of Pennsylvania.
00:16:50.000Okay, so they didn't mention everything there.
00:16:52.000Ezekiel Emanuel also served as the Obamacare director.
00:16:58.000And by the way, he's one of the architects, and now he's like, yeah, we screwed up, we really need to bring down costs.
00:17:03.000And then he says, he recently said this, but this is a bipartisan issue.
00:17:06.000Well yeah, bringing down costs is a bipartisan issue, but before you guys created it we said it's gotta bring up costs!
00:17:13.000Yeah, if you were a literal architect we'd be in some serious trouble too.
00:17:51.000People get so mad at Donald Trump saying that some people profited off it.
00:17:54.000It doesn't mean that people created COVID in a lab to try and make money, but it does mean that you get more money off of patients who have COVID in hospitals.
00:18:01.000This is the same thing with grants for environmental research.
00:18:03.000If you say, I want to study, I don't know, the worm-gathering patterns of the North American Blue Jay, We're going to give you about five bucks if you want to study the North American blue jay worm gathering pattern in relation to climate change.
00:19:11.000It's not just that COVID came out, he advocated for lockdowns, and then he made money off of, I don't know, some kind of a treatment or therapeutic.
00:21:45.000Now, this term globalist is often thrown around.
00:21:46.000Sometimes I avoid it because people just use it to... they attribute it to anything they don't like.
00:21:51.000But this is actually, so what do I actually mean when we talk about this?
00:21:54.000Well, there is a nationalist view, now this has nothing to do with race, but a nationalist view, for example, with a vaccine.
00:22:00.000If we get a COVID vaccine, Pfizer, right, 90% effective vaccine, we create the vaccine, we develop the vaccine, that a nationalist view is we take care of Americans first.
00:22:09.000We make sure that Americans are taken care of so that they don't get COVID, and we cut down on our deaths, and then we benefit the rest of the world.
00:22:16.000A globalist viewpoint puts all of us on even footing.
00:22:23.000Here in the United- We develop the drugs!
00:22:25.000We create the drugs, we spend money on the drugs, you bitch about how we have a for-profit healthcare system, then you subsidize your healthcare systems off of us, and then we're supposed to give the drugs to everyone else first?
00:22:56.000So this is the point of view from, because this man, Emanuel, Ezekiel Emanuel, uses the language national, nationalist versus a global approach in his write-up.
00:23:07.000I think we have a link to it somewhere on the description here, where he talks about how We are not going to prioritize Americans getting the vaccine.
00:23:15.000We will only give enough Americans the vaccine to reach herd immunity, to minimize deaths, and then distribute it globally before we distribute the maximum amount to the United States.
00:23:27.000This is the plan for the rollout, because he believes it's fair.
00:23:42.000Do you guys remember Donald Trump was talking about herd immunity and everyone else said it was... I don't know if you remember, herd immunity is not science, it's racist.
00:23:51.000I feel deep pain and shame, frankly, that 67 million Americans voted for herd immunity and the person who ran an explicitly racist campaign.
00:24:06.000I know that some of the advisors have said that they're not doing this, but are they talking about herd immunity and the risks, though, that are associated with that kind of rhetoric about herd immunity?
00:24:18.000You kind of have the herd protection as an umbrella.
00:24:58.000This guy, Ezekiel Emanuel, and people of his ilk said, no, no, no, no, lock everything down while simultaneously making money, obviously, during the lockdown by advising businesses on how to avoid the lockdown.
00:25:08.000And now they come out and say, when we get the vaccine developed and created, and obviously Americans here, you're going to benefit last because of herd immunity, which we don't know yet.
00:26:24.000These people who live a vigorous life to 70, 80... This could also just read, these pricks who live a vigorous life to 70, 80, 90 years of age, when I look at what these people do, almost all of it is what I classify as play.
00:32:10.000So let's say you hate Donald Trump and let's say we go through these and we toss out some votes and you want to make sure that your vote counts.
00:32:15.000Well, how do you know that your vote counts?
00:32:51.000There's a reason it's actually tallied as a vote.
00:32:54.000If it was illegally cast, it is not a vote.
00:32:58.000So you cannot benefit from a system that ensures that there's some integrity, at least to your vote, and not abide by that system that ensures that the totality of votes are just as legitimate as yours.
00:33:09.000Somewhere down the line, a court determines What a vote is, meaning what is allowed, what is permissible.
00:33:17.000Now you may want that to be 11 million illegal immigrants, fine, but that's not the law.
00:33:22.000You may want people to be able to vote after 8 p.m.
00:34:11.000Otherwise, I can just stuff it with a bunch of ballots and your vote will never be seen.
00:34:14.000The only reason the American public voted for Joe Biden, who may feel that an election is stolen if it's actually properly observed, is because of the media.
00:34:24.000Right now, how confused do you think CNN viewers are in Georgia?
00:34:46.000I hate to toot my own horn, but one thing I will say when you look at the election coverage and how many of you tuned in and we appreciate how many of you have joined up at Mug Club, which will allow us to go for another four years.
00:34:56.000When you have on this show, when you have a broadcast where CNN is broadcasting on our show The message that there is absolutely no voting irregularities that have taken place.
00:35:10.000As we provide you with concrete evidence of voting irregularities, that's a special time in history.
00:35:16.000This is something that has never happened before.
00:35:18.000CNN used to be able to say without consequence, no voting irregularities whatsoever.
00:35:31.000This is what they're used to doing, and they don't expect someone like us to be going, hold on a second, that's actually not true.
00:35:36.000That didn't happen before, and that is why the war, the ideological war that is coming, is truly coming in the form of information.
00:35:44.000Big tech is what worries me most regardless of the outcome of this election because we just heard CNN effectively tipping their hand saying, well you know it's a good thing that Facebook is going to start censoring unpopular opinions.
00:35:58.000We are in a very unique time in history.
00:36:00.000I would say right now what is changing with media, it's about the change to the media landscape.
00:36:07.000The change to the way that Americans consume information is just as significant as the Industrial Revolution was to the way that Americans consumed goods and services.
00:36:18.000It's that big of a shift, and they know it.
00:36:21.000Yeah, and this could be one of those inflection points in history where you see a pivot.
00:36:25.000You see people go, wait a minute, they said that these were baseless claims, and it went through a court that is not dominated by Republicans, and that court said, wait a minute, these claims are legit.
00:36:33.000This could be one of those moments in history where the curtain does get pulled back just a little bit on a national scale.
00:36:50.000They're running footage of a non-president elect talking about what he may or may not do, but they're not running an actual Secretary of State right now talking about potential voting irregularities and ensuring that they're corrected or at the very least they're examined in the state of Georgia.
00:37:18.000Yeah, it's an insane worldview and they can't allow it to seem legitimate even if, again, it's not media versus media now, it's legitimate court decisions, it's secretaries of specific states.
00:37:30.000You know what else was an unpopular view while we're talking about those?
00:37:33.000That there should be a recount in Florida, which went on for 37 days.
00:37:43.000Well, I think, you know, when we talk about this, everybody was saying before the election that we should be patient and that nobody should claim victory, right?
00:37:50.000Until their guy looked like he could claim victory.
00:37:54.000I have no idea how they live in a world where they can have hour after hour after hour of video where they're saying this and then doing the exact opposite.
00:38:00.000And by the way, while we're talking about media, this is my favorite clip from It Just Happened Yesterday, an anchor at MSN.
00:39:03.000Yeah, it actually and I know we like to have a laugh, but it actually makes more sense.
00:39:08.000We have exclusive when you understand the context because that was something that a lot of people didn't cover.
00:39:14.000How the Trump administration is handling the transition with the incoming Biden team or Not handling it, we should say, to a certain extent.
00:40:13.000That MSNBC reporter, I understand why he was so... The context makes it more understandable.
00:40:20.000How the Trump administration is handling the transition with the incoming Biden team, or not handling it, we should say, to a certain extent.
00:40:29.000This time, it involves our intelligence community.
00:41:06.000Oh look right now, hold on, on CNN, state election officials, no evidence of widespread voter fraud.
00:41:12.000Again, for people who missed it, does Rhonda McDaniel, Rhonda McDaniel, sorry I've never heard that name before, said 11,000 people have come forward with claims.
00:41:23.000We have thousands of people who voted who are out-of-state residents or potentially dead.
00:41:28.000We have many, many thousands of votes in question.
00:41:34.000Is the Secretary of State of Georgia not considered an election official?
00:41:37.000Because we just ran that video they didn't show you.
00:41:40.000And widespread is not the issue, it's whether it's targeted.
00:41:43.000Whether it's strategic and aimed at the places where it can make a difference.
00:41:47.000They're trying to try out this widespread thing to be like, oh there's no widespread and you have to agree with that.
00:41:51.000Let me give you some context because I talked about how mail-in ballots were accepted at a rate of about 30 times.
00:41:57.000And I'm not very good at math, so yesterday I said, like, OK, it's like if 100,000 votes come in, and 1,000 were accepted before, and now 30,000 are coming.
00:42:04.000And people are like, whoa, I told you it wasn't the right ratio.
00:42:07.000The rejection for Maryland ballots previously was about 1%, OK?
00:43:05.000Those are fighting numbers, to be really clear.
00:43:07.000When you're talking about states that are separated by only 20,000 votes, We're talking about states that are only separated by... At that point, even 100,000 is not outside the realm of possibility.
00:43:18.000It matters why these ballots were accepted as opposed to rejected, and it matters where this occurred, and what really matters is the oversight.
00:43:25.000What kind of accountability has there been?
00:43:28.000And as far as we know, there hasn't been any accountability, because who's going to hold them accountable?
00:43:34.000Well, we can't have the media, because they're just saying nothing has happened.
00:43:37.000And apparently the media says that no election officials are chiming in on this.
00:43:42.000So the RNC chair, the Secretary of State in Georgia, these are merely images of the past.
00:43:49.000Well, when they do, Fox News cuts them off and says that we can't air this in good conscience because they're about to give you specific examples in a minute and we don't want to see that.
00:43:58.000There's probably not going to be any evidence presented.
00:44:00.000Listen, we don't know what Kayleigh McEnany is going to say, but you know what?
00:44:05.000Let's just fill in the blanks. Nothing. Yeah, exactly. Blah blah blah. Blah blah blah blah. Look, I have a crucifix on
00:44:15.000my head. And instead she's like, 4,500 here, 6,200 there.
00:44:21.000Look, blah blah blah. Yeah. Well look, there are 72 million Americans who voted for Donald Trump, roughly, right now,
00:44:28.000that want an answer to this question And so people are thinking, oh, we're going to disenfranchise half the country.
00:44:31.000Okay, by your own example, you'll just disenfranchise the other half into thinking that the election was stolen.
00:44:36.000So one way or another, this is going to happen.
00:44:58.000But these are from people on Mug Club, The Blaze.
00:45:01.000What would they like me to ask Ted Cruz?
00:45:02.000So Jesse says a question for Ted Cruz.
00:45:05.000With social media fact-checking everything, YouTube hiding content, and news channels leaning far left, should conservatives move to apps like Parler, Blaze, and The Daily Wire, or stay in the trenches and try to change some minds?
00:45:21.000We're actually, I think, looking, because there are some other people who've run Parler accounts that aren't us, by the way, and we would like to get those accounts, but we just haven't been able to start any account on Parler, but we do have accounts on other social media platforms.
00:45:32.000That's why we're on Facebook, we're on YouTube, we're on Instagram.
00:45:35.000Obviously, the most important thing is Mug Club because it's what allows us to continue, but that is a good question, and as far as I know right now, can you guys, do we have, Senator?
00:46:47.000I'm sure the CNN story was amplifying the New York Times headline today.
00:46:52.000Banner headline that no voter fraud anywhere in America.
00:46:57.000And the basis for this is they called all the election officials, which in these blue states, many of them are hard partisan Democrats, and said, hey, did you guys steal the election?
00:47:08.000And they responded, no, no, we didn't steal the election.
00:48:12.000So they say no, because we were always very clear there were up to 2.7 million ballots that we said could be compromised.
00:48:17.000Could be compromised, and we said there's a difference between ineptitude, the post office not being effective enough to get these votes in in time, as well as voter rolls that weren't accurate, as well as people who maybe received double registrations.
00:48:29.000We were very clear in saying that The media just keeps saying no hard evidence of voter fraud.
00:49:18.000Well, Stephen, I'll tell you what evidence matters, and that is the evidence presented by the legal teams in court in the formal challenge.
00:49:31.000After the election, there have been multiple lawsuits filed across the country in multiple states challenging the results.
00:49:39.000Either calling for recounts, mandatory recounts, or contest litigation, other cases challenging the results.
00:49:47.000It's now incumbent on the Trump legal team to go and present their evidence, not on Twitter, not on YouTube or on TV, but to present it in a court of law.
00:49:59.000That means coming in with expert witnesses, coming in with statistical analysis, coming in with direct witnesses who can testify as to specific fraud and to quantify the case.
00:50:09.000And the way our legal system works, look, I got to say, it is hard and frustrating just as an informed citizen To know really what's going on.
00:50:18.000You watch Twitter, you see allegations all over the place.
00:50:21.000It's not clear, you know, is it zombies rising from the dead all voting what's going on.
00:50:29.000What matters is what they can prove in court.
00:50:32.000And the process we have to determine what the evidence is, is the legal adjudicatory function.
00:50:38.000And so there'll be cases in state court and federal court.
00:50:40.000where the fact finders, either the jury or the judge, will listen to the evidence
00:50:44.000and conclude what the facts demonstrate. And then from there, if the Trump campaign is able
00:50:50.000to demonstrate that a sufficient number of votes were illegally cast, such that they should not be
00:50:55.000included, they may be able to flip some or all of the vote totals. But that's what it will take
00:51:00.000to change the result from where the tallies are right now.
00:51:03.000Well, let me ask you, because that's the legal battle, but what do you believe the strongest
00:51:11.000Because obviously, you don't want to be on the hook making a claim that hasn't been verified in court yet, and I understand that.
00:51:16.000But for Americans out there, what are the strongest claims, arguments, or evidence that you would point them to if they are talking with people regarding voting irregularities or potential fraud?
00:51:27.000Because like you said, some people out there are sharing stories that aren't true, but there is a lot of information out there that is true, that is concerning.
00:51:34.000Where would you say Americans should look?
00:52:32.000As they counted the votes, George W. Bush had more votes in Florida than Al Gore.
00:52:38.000Now, they ended up retracting their call because they realized it was catastrophically wrong, and by the way, every network was catastrophically wrong.
00:52:46.000And one thing, too, to be clear about that, a lot of Americans, because, you know, because Kevin Costner made a movie on HBO, they don't know that recounts, there were recounts that went on, and then it just eventually had to halt.
00:53:16.000There's an entire chapter on One Vote Away on Bush versus Gore.
00:53:20.000So if you want to understand really what happens in a recount, what are the legal issues, how does this happen, if you want to understand what's going on right now.
00:54:02.000Nowhere near the kind of widespread irregularities, and I'm using my words carefully here, I would say there's some indications of outright misleading voting practices that you could see in some precincts, but voting irregularities, there wasn't this in Florida.
00:54:17.000So now that we're looking at a multi-pronged approach, what should the rollout plan be?
00:54:22.000Does there need to be a priority on one specific state?
00:54:24.000Is maybe Georgia the right place to try and put all hands on deck since the Secretary of State is starting now?
00:54:29.000He started the process with a manual recount.
00:54:32.000Look, Georgia is a hugely important fight, not just for the presidential, but we've got two Senate seats, a runoff on January 5th, that is going to decide control of the Senate.
00:54:41.000And so those Senate elections It is hard to think of such an epically important election as this January 5th election because the difference between a Chuck Schumer Senate that will unleash the crazies on the far left versus a Republican Senate that will shut down the most damaging ideas of the far left, it's dramatic.
00:55:20.000He says you want the good news first or the bad news first, then he tells me about my cholesterol and how I have a fat ass, and that's the good news.
00:55:26.000Alright, you can speak first and then I'll amputate.
00:55:35.000If you look at, in this COVID strange election cycle, The ballots cast in person on Election Day, Trump won the significant majority of those ballots.
00:55:46.000The early ballots cast by mail, Biden won the significant majority of those.
00:55:53.000If you look historically at election recounts or election contests, In-person ballots tend to be pretty reliable.
00:56:00.000There's less opportunity for mischief with in-person voting, so typically the votes count on election day stand.
00:56:08.000Where you see in recounts and contests votes being discarded as being illegal as contrary to law are usually early votes and mail-in votes, which means there's some reason to expect as these Right.
00:56:20.000ballots are examined more closely that some meaningful percentage of the early mail-in
00:56:25.000votes will be discarded as contrary to law, which means more Biden votes are likely to
00:56:58.000Because to prevail, you've got to demonstrate in the court that that many ballots are illegally cast, and you can't just make generalities.
00:57:22.000They've got to win in multiple states.
00:57:24.000And so that becomes harder Because Biden has a lead in several of these states from Georgia to Arizona to Michigan to Pennsylvania to Nevada.
00:57:35.000And to get to 270 electoral votes, Trump has to win not just once, and winning once is not easy, but he's got to win multiple times.
00:57:45.000And so my advice to everyone is just calm down and relax and let the process play out.
00:57:50.000That doesn't mean pop the champagne and celebrate that Trump's gonna win.
00:57:54.000We need to let the process play out and see what happens.
00:57:57.000But don't also accept what the media is saying, which is, don't even bother with the litigation.
00:58:03.000We say it's over, so you must think it's over.
00:58:06.000Well, yeah, and I understand what you're saying.
00:58:08.000Obviously the margins are pretty big in some states, but not in all states.
00:58:12.000And for example, as far as hard evidence, you know, there have been 3,000 instances of ballots, we've talked about just Nevada, where they appear to have been cast improperly.
00:58:19.000Those have actually been referred to, you know, AG Bart.
00:58:22.000No, I'm not saying that those are all confirmed, but these are hills people are willing to die on where they are willing to provide sworn testimony.
00:58:29.000We also have another 10,000 that's estimated right in Nevada, may have been people who aren't necessarily Nevada residents, and I know sometimes that's hard to identify.
00:58:37.000We have how many affidavits now of people who said that votes were delivered from out of state, or poll watchers were not allowed in, right?
00:58:46.000This is a concern, too, is how can you tell?
00:58:48.000That's something that's hard to prove, for example, if a ballot was tampered with because no poll watchers were allowed in.
00:58:55.000We do know that there were scenarios where poll watchers were not allowed in, for example, in Wayne County, where ballots were being handled 45 feet away from him.
01:01:00.000So I spoke yesterday with Catherine Engelbrecht, who is a friend, she's the founder of True the Vote, based here in Houston, that fights voter fraud all across the country.
01:01:08.000They just filed a lawsuit in Pennsylvania, I believe, yesterday.
01:01:13.000With exactly the theory you put forth on behalf of some Pennsylvania voters who say their legal vote was diluted by election officials allowing illegal votes to come in.
01:01:23.000And that's what they're trying to present.
01:02:10.000And by the way, when I say went to, I mean wrote merits briefs, 50-page merits briefs on both sides, did the oral argument, and got a Supreme Court decision.
01:02:47.000We already have more evidence in Michigan of, again, irregularities or errors.
01:02:51.000We have a 6,000 vote flip, and then we have a local official who basically conceded that he lost, and then he won by 1,000 votes.
01:02:58.000That's already more than Florida, just in Michigan, and these are just mistakes where people said, whoops.
01:03:04.000These aren't the byproducts of investigations.
01:03:07.000So I know that you've given us some good news and bad news, but wouldn't you also say it's fair for Americans to think that there's substantially more smoke here than just Florida?
01:03:18.000It's clear there were some hard partisans.
01:03:20.000You know, you mentioned the 6,000 vote flip in Michigan.
01:03:22.000That's a good example where you had a county in Michigan that had vote counting software that they had what they describe as a quote, glitch.
01:04:09.000But it sure seems to me there needs to be some very careful examination and I hope the Trump lawyers on the ground are doing that right now and pushing for, okay, we know this glitch can happen.
01:06:31.000Of course, they're not fact-checking anything other than the only truth they are willing to contemplate is that Joe Biden will be the next president, because stopping Trump is their only objective.
01:06:43.000And if possible, big tech is even worse.
01:06:46.000I mean, you've had experiences with YouTube demonetizing you, downscaling your viewership.
01:06:54.000We've seen... Right now, Big Tech is silencing the President's tweets.
01:07:01.000They're putting election warnings on anyone raising a question about the election.
01:07:05.000They put warnings and try to silence them and prevent people from seeing it.
01:07:08.000There's a warning on this right now, Senator Cruz.
01:07:30.000I can't afford to replace the bird feeders.
01:07:34.000That guy, I don't know, he showed up looking like he lost his Wilson.
01:07:37.000And I don't know if it was something that he staged, but you know, I will say this, it does get frustrating a little bit as someone who has, you know, a lot of information, a lot of contact, where it seems like we have these hearings and they come forward and they say like, well, you know what, we don't really have control over it.
01:07:57.000And this is a very special moment in time because on this show, there's a CNN broadcast, and it's fair use because it's transformative, where they are literally saying there is no evidence of any election irregularities as we simultaneously present them to the audience.
01:08:13.000This has never happened before in human history, this ability to actually accurately fact-check information. There was someone on CNN,
01:08:19.000an Asian reporter, who said, he said, well, it looks like Facebook have taken some steps
01:08:24.000to remove some pages that may be associated with Steve Bannon because those views may appear
01:08:30.000more popular than they are. It wasn't.
01:08:32.000These are untrue. They said on air, isn't it good that Facebook is removing views
01:08:38.000because they're not popular? That to me is terrifying. What can be done?
01:08:45.000Look, and as you know, big tech banned the New York Post.
01:08:49.000Twitter took down their page for two weeks and wouldn't let them post.
01:08:55.000New York Post has the fourth highest circulation of any newspaper in America.
01:08:59.000Big Tech asserts the power to edit and determine what stories you're allowed to publish, and it is completely unhinged.
01:09:07.000You look at the media, you talk about CNN.
01:09:09.000You know, one moment that captures this, the era of time we're in, is the CNN chyron with the reporter there of peaceful but fiery protest.
01:09:21.000And it's like, At this point, I guess they don't write The Far Side anymore, but I wish The Far Side were still coming.
01:09:30.000But I don't even know how you would... That's beyond a Far Side cartoon.
01:09:35.000There's nothing left to make fun of because they're self-parodying.
01:09:38.000Your question is, what can we do about it?
01:09:41.000Alright, there are different players in government that can do different things.
01:09:46.000In the Senate, what I can do is support legislation, which I have, but the problem with legislation is the Democrats are all prostitutes defending big tech.
01:09:56.000So they have the ability to stop any legislation.
01:10:00.000The other thing I can do is shine a light.
01:10:02.000I can convene hearings, which I've convened multiple hearings, I can try to educate, I can try to make the public case, and I've done everything within my ability to do that.
01:10:12.000The other part of government under a constitutional system is the executive branch.
01:10:16.000The executive branch has the ability to convene a grand jury.
01:10:19.000The executive branch has the ability to bring an indictment.
01:10:21.000The executive branch has the ability to bring an enforcement action.
01:10:25.000I can tell you in four years, on the topic of going after big tech, I have met with personally for hours and hours and hours, The President, the Vice President, the White House Chief of Staff, the White House Counsel, the Attorney General, the Deputy Attorney General, the Assistant Attorney General for the Antitrust Division, the Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, the General Counsel of the Federal Trade Commission.
01:10:48.000These are all of the executive branch officials with authority to bring actions.
01:11:10.000If Joe Biden is elected, the executive branch will do zero.
01:11:14.000Big Tech will run the Biden administration if Joe Biden becomes president.
01:11:19.000And so that means we've got to wait four years for a president with the guts My final question to this is, I know you just mentioned different paths.
01:11:31.000What if there happened to be clear, irrefutable evidence, let's say, of one of these people acting as a publisher directly?
01:11:41.000In other words, actually trying to work directly with, let's say, a content creator or someone to try and manipulate or to try and actually publish content, not in a hands-off way, but in no uncertain terms.
01:11:52.000Is that something that could circumvent just the state, the legislature, and actually be fought in the courts if it's a criminal action?
01:12:04.000Recently, Justice Clarence Thomas wrote an opinion at the Supreme Court.
01:12:08.000Justice Thomas's opinion is a big deal.
01:12:09.000that the interpretation most of the courts of appeals have put out of section 230 of the
01:12:14.000Communications Decency Act, which has immunized big tech from legal scrutiny, that that interpretation
01:12:21.000is wrong. Justice Thomas's opinion is a big deal. He wrote it out there. I do think,
01:12:27.000especially if there's a Biden administration, But regardless, there needs to be litigation with smart, creative lawyers bringing the arguments that courts have misinterpreted Section 230.
01:13:33.000I'll also note, since you're in your pajamas, so I'm here in my suit, but I'm at home, and so I will show you the fuzzy slippers I'm wearing.
01:13:41.000See, that's much more acceptable than pulling a tube in.
01:13:54.000You know what, I will say this about Senator Cruz.
01:13:56.000I like this Senator Cruz now more than... I feel as though he's a little more fluid, he's loose in the shoulders, he can sit on his punches.
01:14:05.000As long as he keeps it this way, you know, it'd be interesting to see him take another crack at a presidential run.
01:14:15.000But I do, I don't know if you folks out there hear, I hear a little bit in his voice of concern that maybe there aren't enough people on it in the Trump circles.
01:14:59.000But we need some kind of a ruling or we need something official that's happening with a state legislature so that Americans have to take notice and go, okay, the media, all it takes is one state.
01:15:10.000All it takes is one county, by the way, where the media has to—if they have to acknowledge, well, some things just changed and now Georgia is going to go to Donald Trump, or, well, some things changed in Arizona and the military ballots came in—if they have to acknowledge that, they lose credibility with their own viewers.
01:15:29.000That's the big difference now is CNN, of course, has lost credibility with the vast majority of the American public because none of you watch CNN unless you're stuck in an airport.
01:15:41.000But this is a tipping point where they could lose credibility with all of their own viewers because their own viewers will feel as though the wool have been pulled over their eyes if all of a sudden there's even one substantial example because they haven't given themselves an out.
01:15:55.000And if you're on the ground, I'm sure that there are audience members on the ground who have seen some of this voter fraud and have some anecdotes at least or maybe some evidence that people haven't seen yet.
01:16:04.000And it might be hard to step forward right now because you're at some level staking some of your reputation on this, but I think it's worth it.
01:16:12.000If you see something that is illegal, if you see something that's questionable, it's at least worth bringing to these people who are Yes.