It's Black History Month, which means it's time to celebrate all things Black History. This week, we celebrate the first Black woman elected to Congress, Tulsi Gabbard, with a special guest. We also discuss the first day of the impeachment hearings, Ted Cruz's response to questions about the hearings, and the first African-American to be fired from a radio station.
00:01:45.000And there have been no data breaches like other VPNs out there who advertise on a lot of podcasts, which is funny because it almost defeats the purpose of a VPN.
00:01:54.000Kind of like someone who was a member of the press being a press secretary defeats the purpose of an open and fair
00:03:52.000It's like, why do you gotta bring race into it?
00:03:55.000When he just leaned back, he was like, whoa.
00:03:58.000Although, the Bavarian purity law for brewing methods could be misconstrued as white supremacy.
00:04:04.000But we're gonna be talking about a lot of it, but first, hey, you know, we of course appreciate our African American, it's Black History Month!
00:05:27.000We have some interns right now in Vegas doing the trip that we could not afford to do right now with my knee, so we'll have some more verification there.
00:05:33.000The thing is, I can't make claims that I can't personally verify, and so we can personally verify dozens of the thousands that we've found, and I will swear to that under penalty of perjury.
00:05:43.000So we have a lot of work going on here behind the scenes.
00:07:34.000They're doing this with Gina Carano, so Lucasfilm, Disney, they fired Gina Carano from the Disney, the Mandalorian is that show, over posts that they called abhorrent.
00:07:45.000Here are the posts that they called abhorrent, we have them right here.
00:07:47.000Yeah, people were saying she's transphobic, people were saying that she's anti-mask, and people were saying that she's showing Holocaust material.
00:07:55.000Can you read that for me there, Tokunawa, and read what she wrote?
00:07:57.000She wrote, listen, and I don't think that you should compare a whole lot to the Holocaust, generally speaking.
00:08:01.000But this was a valid, she wasn't saying all liberals were Nazis.
00:08:05.000It's the famous quote, first they came for the Jews.
00:08:07.000She was talking about, what we've talked about, the dehumanizing of voices of opposition.
00:08:46.000And by the way, the hating of the Jews was married with their political views a lot of the time.
00:08:51.000They tried to marry it with the Bolsheviks.
00:08:52.000And listen, let's not get into all of the Nazism because some people will still tell me that I'm crazy because I think the National Socialist Party is socialist!
00:09:23.000Everybody can use that comparison, unless you're a conservative, apparently.
00:09:27.000And she actually, she also tweeted out something about the election, right?
00:09:29.000About election fraud, saying, basically, all we want is to make sure, and it was a longer tweet, but just want to make sure we have free and fair elections.
00:09:36.000Let's just investigate and make sure everything's good.
00:09:38.000So that you don't wake up questioning.
00:09:40.000And this is the theme of the day, by the way.
00:09:42.000Disney, mass market in China, we'll get to Mark Cuban refusing to play the national anthem, appeasing communist China, and then of course the impeachment.
00:09:49.000I mean, you have Eric Swalwell, whose forte is banging Chinese spies!
00:09:55.000I think he may be the one person she didn't sleep with.
00:09:57.000Go to a dirty Asian masseuse massage parlor and they have his picture on the wall like a dry cleaner as a celebrity regular client.
00:10:04.000He's talking about foreign interference?
00:10:06.000Eric Swalwell, you bang Chinese spies.
00:12:36.000If you want to have a good time, go watch her weigh-in, where she was two pounds over and they had to cover her with towels, and so she had to strip down.
00:14:38.000Alright, so now we have, before we get to the impeachment, every single thing that they've presented in the impeachment is either verifiably false, or comes from some anonymous source, or comes from some anonymous source who was briefed on a conversation from an anonymous source.
00:15:44.000Oh, that's just where you want to market the jerseys.
00:15:46.000So, people noticed it was weird, and then the NBA responded by saying, no, we're going to play the National Anthem, and Mark Cuban, you know, took it on the chin like a bitch.
00:15:54.000So, then Jen Psaki was asked about it at a press conference from Joe Biden and answered with words spaghetti.
00:16:04.000What does President Biden think about the Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban deciding to indefinitely stop playing the National Anthem?
00:16:11.000Well, I haven't spoken with the President about the decision by Mark Cuban on the Dallas Mavericks, or I should say the National Anthem.
00:16:19.000But I know he's incredibly proud to be an American and has great respect for the anthem and all that it represents, especially for our men and women serving in uniform around the world.
00:16:28.000He'd also say that, of course, that part of pride in our country means recognizing moments where we as a country haven't lived up to our highest ideals, which is often and at times what people are speaking to.
00:16:42.000when they take action at sporting events.
00:16:44.000And it means respecting the right of people, granted to them in the Constitution,
00:17:49.000Here's the reason, and this is what really, he says, we loudly, this was the, from Mark Cuban, the Dallas Mavericks, we also loudly hear the voices of those who feel that the anthem does not represent them.
00:17:58.000We feel that their voices need to be respected and heard because they have not been.
00:18:39.000But if you say, I don't feel that the National Anthem, I don't feel our National Anthem represents me, so I don't want to hear it at the game, you should probably find a country, I think in this case it's perfectly appropriate, to suggest you find a country that has a National Anthem you will support and go play there.
00:19:00.000The governor came out, and I think the lieutenant governor came out, and they actually are putting forward legislation saying, look, if you're getting state funding and it's a major sporting event, you are playing the national anthem.
00:19:10.000It's going to be made into a law, potentially.
00:19:12.000And the Dallas Stars tweeted out right after that, like, we're playing the national anthem before every single one of our games.
00:20:21.000It really is one of those... And how does that help black Americans by just shutting... What you do is you create a wider divide, which is of course what they did prior to the impeachment, and then they want to blame people for reacting to this wider divide.
00:20:30.000America is flawed, but certainly not as flawed as China.
00:22:31.000I don't know if permanently, but Twitter has locked down the accounts of James O'Keefe and Project Veritas for reporting on Facebook of VP Guy Rosen and his statements that Facebook freezes comments in places that algorithms think there may be hate speech.
00:23:25.000And it was expected that if people were doing something untoward, or if people were committing a crime, and they were caught on camera, that the public deserved to know about it.
00:23:34.000By the way, these are the same people, and I'm not saying you come down on either side of this, but let's say Edward Snowden should be fried, right?
00:23:40.000These same people are saying, oh, free him and make sure Assange is pardoned and everything else, but by God, we cannot have Project Veritas going into an abortion clinic and actually recording what they say.
00:23:49.000And why would, why would, why do they support Assange being free?
00:24:18.000And I think that there are fewer and fewer Republicans now who are going to vote for it because the arguments have been paper-thin, but you may not know.
00:24:24.000And you tell me, this is the question of the day, why do you think that this impeachment is going on?
00:24:28.000I was making the case that I think it's to make an example of Donald Trump so that anyone outside the beltway doesn't run.
00:26:42.000Impeachment manager David Cicilline, I hope I'm getting that right, he presented evidence of a phone call, cold hard facts, between Trump and Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville.
00:26:50.000Also, interestingly enough, Brian Stelter's nickname in high school.
00:27:02.000Tommy Tuberville, and they were alleging that Trump pressured Tuberville to make additional objections to electoral votes, and then they said that Mike Lee was a witness to the phone call.
00:27:13.000They presented this, by the way, keep in mind, as evidence if this happens in an actual criminal court, which is a theme we're gonna continue with here, you actually have a problem.
00:27:31.000And Senator Lee says, this isn't Tommy.
00:27:34.000And he hands the phone to Senator Tuberville.
00:27:38.000Senator Lee then confirmed that he stood by as Senator Tuberville and President Trump spoke on the phone.
00:27:45.000And on that call, Donald Trump reportedly asked Senator Tuberville to make additional objections to the certification process.
00:27:54.000Okay, so this is why they use a lot of anonymous sources, because when they say something that can be fact-checked right away, Mike Lee, like, stopped clipping his nails.
00:28:11.000And this is the problem with Twitter, by the way, who also bans James O'Keefe, as we just saw, which is the majority of the sources are Twitter or Washington Post op-eds.
00:30:49.000Up is down, down is up when Eric Swalwell still holds office.
00:30:53.000And this is him presenting his evidence.
00:30:54.000He cited a tweet from a Twitter user, Jennifer Lynn Lawrence, to prove that Trump's base was rebelling and committing an insurrection in his name.
00:31:02.000The Banger of Chinese Spice here, he's talking.
00:31:03.000It has been an honor to stand up and fight for you and our nation.
00:31:06.000We will be standing strong on January 6th in D.C.
00:32:23.000That is a doctored picture confirmed by the woman whose account was doctored herself.
00:32:28.000I think they should be bringing this kind of stuff up too, right?
00:32:31.000I don't know if the guys who are representing Trump are going to bring that kind of stuff up, but going back to what he said, he's saying, look, literally they're going to bring the cavalry, right?
00:33:00.000I had someone try to do that to me once who will remain nameless of the big tech companies where in one of the videos I said, fill your hands you son of a bitch.
00:35:07.000So, he said, Ted Lieu said that Trump told Mike Pence he would go down, forgive my language, Ted Lieu's just, he's a Bulgarian, he said that Donald Trump told Pence he'd go down in history as a pussy, okay?
00:35:20.000This is what Ted Lieu presented, I think you have the overlay right there, overlay C, Tocanowan, good, alright.
00:35:27.000The quote was taken from a Washington Post article that sourced it from, and I quote, two people briefed on the conversation.
00:35:35.000It wasn't the two people who had the conversation.
00:35:38.000It wasn't even two people who were in the room when they had the conversation.
00:35:43.000It was two people who were briefed on a conversation, which means they probably read one of Ted Lieu's tweets and considered it a briefing.
00:36:39.000Owen said, quote, if Hitler just wanted to make Germany great and have things run well, okay, fine.
00:36:45.000The problem is that he wanted, he had dreams outside of Germany.
00:36:49.000So when people try to legitimize Adolf Hitler, does that feed into white nationalist ideology?
00:36:54.000What I responded to was that I do not believe that we should be characterizing Hitler as a nationalist.
00:37:00.000He was a homicidal, psychopathic maniac that killed his own people.
00:37:04.000A nationalist would not kill their own people.
00:37:07.000That is exactly what I was referring to in the clip and he purposely wanted to give you a cut-up similar to what they do to Donald Trump to create a different narrative.
00:37:25.000Look, I don't think it was prudent for Candace Owens to... Generally speaking, if you bring up Hitler as a comparison or example, use it in the back column.
00:37:33.000He was clearly misleading people on what she said.
00:38:30.000Protesting's never gone bad in these communities around the country that feel like their voice isn't being heard because we said their voice isn't being heard.
00:38:37.000I was talking about Midget, Notorious Midget Triad Leader!
00:40:13.000Yeah, by the way, when you get called up, not just CNN, but the CNN B-Team morning crew that I have to watch before this show... Is that an adult thing to do?
00:40:51.000We will riot, but when Donald Trump says, fight like hell, it's violence.
00:40:55.000Hit the notification bell if you're watching right now and you're subscribed, because subscriptions don't necessarily mean a whole lot, and we broadcast Monday through Thursday, 10 a.m.
00:41:23.000Plaskett claimed, this is what she was claiming and this is what they're building as a narrative, that Donald Trump knew about the storming and she said that that is according to an article about an ex-White House insider.
00:41:35.000An ex-White House and campaign insider, as you'll read, who has known both Scavino and
00:41:40.000the president for years, said there was no way that Scavino and the Trump social media
00:41:45.000operation would not have been aware of the plan circulating online to storm the Capitol.
00:41:52.000Because and I quote, the Trump operation closely monitored the web's darkest corners, ranging
00:41:59.000from mainstream sites such as Twitter, Facebook, and Reddit, to fringe message boards like
00:42:06.0004chan and Xchan, now called X-kun, to the Donald.win, an offshoot of a banned Reddit
00:42:15.000community dedicated to rapidly supporting all things Trump.
00:42:20.000Now, if you don't know what you're watching, she goes, and I quote.
00:44:03.000But to be fair, to your point, I need to include all of her contacts, because she went on to cite a Donald.Win post with 12 comments as an example of the underground scheme.
00:44:18.000This is an example of a post that was captured from one of the sites dedicated to Donald Trump, that we just talked about, shortly before the site was taken down.
00:44:45.000So I think they think that Donald Trump is clairvoyant, like Kamala Harris, you know, where she can travel back in time and listen to Tupac before he was a thing.
00:45:30.000So I didn't know that John Sullivan was the same person as Jaden X. And so this is one of the videos they presented from Jaden X. You can clearly see on CNN, this is what they presented as evidence.
00:45:41.000You can see his watermark in the video.
00:47:56.000By the way, when you're doing a speech like that and you're threatening violence, don't wear a rash guard that shows you look like a famine victim.
00:48:03.000There's nowhere to surf, you're in Utah.
00:48:54.000To be fair, Mr. X doesn't know where the delete button is.
00:49:00.000Look, I'm not saying that that proves that there was antifa, that this was staged, but here's the thing.
00:49:04.000Look, a guy going in there who said, pull that man out of office, which, let's be clear, if he's willing to actually commit a felony, a violent act, a treasonous, violent act against the President of the United States, why would he be uncomfortable lying about him?
00:49:16.000Of course they're going to bring him forward to lie, just like the women who lied about Brett Kavanaugh, and then they rescind it, but no one covers that story anymore, so right now they present Jaden X, and then when it comes out that he's a lying piece of crap, and he's actually committed acts of violence, they'll rescind it, and they just won't have any accountability at that point.
00:49:48.000And you're not being honest about it because I think you know that if people saw that video and they understood the video that you were showing was of a guy goading them on and a guy who had previously called for violence, why would the guy who said, hey, pull the motherfuckers out, let's burn this down, What would stop him from committing violence on that day when he's talking about how great it is?
00:50:06.000Or inciting it more than Donald Trump did, right?
00:50:08.000If you think Donald Trump incited it, we don't think he did, but you don't think he was egging them on as they were heading that way so that he could get, man, the best footage I've ever gotten in my life, right?
00:50:17.000And be incredibly excited in that moment to be like, I'm gonna make money off of this.
00:51:35.000And by the way, of course, we do support people in law enforcement who are doing their job well, and I do think that there are tragedies, and I do think that people who committed unwarranted violence, of course, deserve to be prosecuted.
00:51:47.000Because it also matters that the House Impeachment Managers, and it confused me, and I follow this for a living, presented a video that claimed at least seven, and I was like, what happened to five?
00:52:41.000Someone who was trampled to death in what was reported as a medical emergency.
00:52:45.000We don't have all the information on that.
00:52:47.000Two of the other five died of a heart attack and a stroke, and the times of death cannot be confirmed.
00:52:53.000Now, the one that they focus on, as far as the officers, Officer Sicknick, he was originally reported to be bludgeoned to death with fire extinguishers.
00:52:59.000And as everyone here, I'm sure we were all horrified to hear that.
00:53:02.000And if that did happen, we are in fact horrified to hear it.
00:53:04.000And if someone bludgeoned him to death with a fire extinguisher, I want to see them fry.
00:54:03.000Doesn't mean it didn't happen, but again, you said seven deaths and two were suicides days later, and other ones are unconfirmed and a heart attack and a stroke.
00:54:11.000Listen, you are standing on the graves of people and politicizing it.
00:56:20.000And they're saying, we need to be heard.
00:56:22.000Could you imagine, could you imagine any Democrat politicians saying anything other than their voices need to be heard and we need to not be violent, but still we need to listen to them?
00:56:30.000They wouldn't have spoken as strongly and condemned Black Lives Matter as strongly as Donald Trump did before there was a single life lost.
00:56:38.000Because you've had months and you haven't done it.
00:56:42.000And a number of people even just thought they were peaceful protests in the first place and defended the rioting even though they could see the cars burning right behind the CNN reporters saying that it was mostly peaceful protests.
00:56:51.000One quick question, and I don't want to step in anything here, but where are all the people that were saying that police brutality and police shooting people in situations maybe where they didn't need to with Ashley?
00:57:03.000And a lot of people have brought this up like, was that a justified shooting?
00:57:11.000When she was shot, I think it was through glass and protesters was obviously at that point turning into rioters and trying to come through.
00:57:17.000So I can understand fearing for your life, but if the guy in the Wendy's parking lot that fought two police officers, tossed them like ragdolls, grabbed the taser, ran off and started to shoot a cop, can't be shot, can Ashley?
00:57:34.000No, it really is a remarkable double standard, and it's not even close.
00:57:37.000If you're to weigh the scales of the violence and the carnage and the condemnation, the response from Democrats, it's never been as strong.
00:57:44.000Listen, it has been over the course of the entire... Summer of Love is a Seattle movie, I believe, referred to it.
00:57:49.000It's been going on all summer and into the fall for crying out loud.
00:57:52.000They had to change their merch to seasonal wear.
00:58:02.000And at this point there were no deaths.
00:58:03.000And he immediately said, we support law enforcement, you need to go home, you need to be peaceful.
00:58:06.000He can't say, we love you, but you gotta go home?
00:58:08.000Do you understand what a hostage negotiation is at that point?
00:58:10.000At this point there are no lives lost, so let's not make it any worse.
00:58:13.000We love you guys, we understand why you're upset, but you need to go home.
00:58:16.000As opposed to the left who says, we love you guys, we understand, and I think that there's a jimboree down the block that you can burn down.
00:58:33.000People who repeated, who committed murders, people who committed theft, people who committed rapes who are being bailed out, thanks Kamala Harris, our VP, helping with that bail fund.
00:59:16.000We have tens of millions of people out of work.
00:59:18.000I think they need to put their partisan hatred aside and focus on actually working for the American people, getting America back to work, helping small businesses.
00:59:28.000This is going to be just venting the id of the Democrats.
00:59:34.000And then it's going to end with failure.
00:59:36.000In order for the president to be convicted, it takes 67 votes in the U.S.
00:59:42.000Rather than focus on getting kids back in school and getting tens of millions of Americans back to work, the Democrats want a week of just political theater raging at Donald Trump.
00:59:55.000And there you have it, of course, that is a clip of our next guest.
00:59:57.000Political theater, that's the word he used, which is almost an insult to theater.
01:00:04.000Somewhere Ethel Merman is rolling over in her grave, singing clang clang clang went the trolley.
01:00:10.000Our next guest, you can follow him on Twitter for as long as they allow him, at Ted Cruz or at send Ted Cruz.
01:00:15.000His podcast is Verdict with Ted Cruz and his book is One Vote Away, which he hasn't sent us a hard copy yet.
01:00:43.000Let's go the private route, just to be sure.
01:00:46.000Okay, so, Senator Cruz, we have a lot to get to, and some tough questions, because I promised my audience that we'd be asking Republicans some tough questions here, and you've got some explaining to do, but not a lot.
01:00:56.000First, let's go to... I haven't been Ricky Ricardo in a long time.
01:02:22.000This week, the trial is going to be lots of screaming, lots of pounding on the table, lots of emotional, you know, grasping their ties and, like, looking with big puppy eyes.
01:02:33.000And there's going to be lots of videos, really heart-wrenching videos.
01:02:38.000But at the end of the day, it's doomed to failure.
01:02:51.000There's gonna be somewhere around 55 votes to convict, plus or minus one or two, and then it'll be over.
01:02:59.000And they're going through this not because they actually want to accomplish what they say they're trying to do, but because they just hate the guy.
01:03:07.000And there's no reasonable argument, I believe, that this meets the standard For impeachment, the standard is high crimes and misdemeanors.
01:03:18.000Their argument is that Trump incited the violence.
01:03:32.000Every one of those violent criminals should be fully prosecuted.
01:03:36.000But if you look at what Trump said, and listen, I've been among the first to say that Trump's rhetoric was overheated, that it went too far.
01:03:44.000I wish he hadn't gone as far as he did.
01:03:46.000But the Democrats' argument is, using language like fight and win and take back our country, that that is somehow Incitement to violence.
01:03:56.000You know, if that is true, you better be prepared to line up and indict every single political candidate for office who's ever given a stump speech.
01:04:04.000The local candidate for dog catcher is right now saying we need to fight and win and take back our country from the dogs.
01:04:17.000They know it, but their anger and rage towards Trump is what's driving it.
01:04:23.000Now that being said, I know you're making light of it, but it's no laughing matter when large swaths of Detroit are controlled by packs of roaming wild dogs.
01:04:32.000It's a serious elected position, and I don't appreciate your tone there.
01:04:36.000You know, I'll just point out that the great state of Texas, where you and I both reside, the legislature changed the law to legalize hog hunting from helicopters.
01:04:48.000Which may be the coolest... I love Texas.
01:04:51.000Like, now look, hogs are a pestilence and they destroy crops and they do all sorts of damage, but it is still thoroughly badass, and I'm going to admit to you right now, Stephen, that I I feel completely
01:05:11.000Incomplete as a person, until I actually get up in a helicopter and hunt hogs.
01:05:16.000I'm trying to make that happen very, very soon, and I'll let you know when I do.
01:05:22.000And so, you know, the wolves that have taken over, those can be dealt with too.
01:05:26.000Yeah, well they're not wolves, they're just actually wild dogs.
01:05:28.000That's a perfect example, actually, in Detroit, you know, Michigan, where I spend quite a bit of my time, they had a vote for a wolf hunt in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.
01:05:36.000I don't know how familiar you are, but that's that's separate by a large body of water.
01:06:29.000Oh, look, I, by the way, that this is not a new sentiment.
01:06:33.000I think Trump's rhetoric often goes too far.
01:06:36.000I wish what he said and what he tweets was just ratcheted down a ton or two.
01:06:40.000I actually think he would have been more effective without all the drama, that there were some unforced errors.
01:06:46.000And so, listen, with regard to the last election, I think the president's saying over and over again, That the election was stolen.
01:06:54.000It's overwhelming and completely clear.
01:06:57.000I actually don't think the evidence backs that up.
01:06:59.000I think there is serious evidence of voter fraud that needs to be investigated.
01:07:04.000It's why I stood up on the floor of the Senate and brought together 11 senators calling for an election commission to review the evidence.
01:07:12.000But I think determinations like that ought to be actually based on evidence and facts and not just stating the outcome you want, which is it was stolen because I say so.
01:07:23.000I think it's much better to have it actually derived from and connected to the facts.
01:07:38.000And not just President Trump, but the 70 million Americans who voted for him were saying, well, hold on, there's no due process here.
01:07:44.000We've shown irregularities and we might be banned from social media if we show these irregularities.
01:07:49.000How do we say it's not based on evidence when, I know the standard, we're talking about evidence proven in court, but they haven't heard the evidence.
01:07:56.000Let me ask you this, have you seen, do you believe that you've seen enough evidence to say there have been some serious irregularities and large levels of fraud in the last election?
01:08:05.000I think there unquestionably have been serious irregularities, and what we know that the Democrats have done in state by state, what they certainly did was change the rules to benefit them.
01:08:15.000So the move, for example, to universal mail-in balloting.
01:08:17.000Let's take a state of Pennsylvania, where they moved to universal mail-in balloting.
01:08:22.000It's contrary to the Pennsylvania state constitution.
01:08:24.000They ignored the law, and they did it because they understand that for a long time, Mail-in balloting has been the greatest source of voter fraud, that it is susceptible to ballot harvesting, it's susceptible to things like you take a nursing home.
01:08:43.000When you have universal mail-in balloting, political operatives can go into a nursing home to a bunch of folks who may not be competent anymore to make determinations, and fill out the ballots for them, and mail them in.
01:08:55.000And by the way, if one of the nursing home residents is stubborn and votes the wrong way from the political operative's view, they can just throw their ballot out.
01:09:03.000And that's a problem, you know, just a couple of months ago in Texas, A woman was indicted for voter fraud for doing exactly that.
01:09:10.000Over a hundred ballots she went to nursing home residents to fill out.
01:09:14.000Many of them were not competent, were not capable to understand what they were doing, and she was trying to steal votes.
01:09:20.000And so mail-in balloting is particularly susceptible.
01:09:23.000And it's not just me that says that, by the way.
01:09:25.000There was a bipartisan commission a number of years back.
01:09:28.000It was chaired by Jimmy Carter and James Baker.
01:09:31.000It's called the Carter-Baker Commission.
01:09:33.000Jimmy Carter is hardly some right-wing kook.
01:09:36.000Well, you also have the letter written from Elizabeth Warren and Amy Klobuchar to, I believe it was the parent company of Dominion, not saying that it was the ghost of Hugo Chavez who came back and stole the election, but saying, hey, these machines are not secure in the standards that we require for national elections.
01:09:50.000Signed, Elizabeth Warren, Amy Klobuchar.
01:09:52.000So it was okay to say that and post it on social media until recently.
01:10:13.000They didn't get to the underlying evidence because of procedural barriers.
01:10:16.000It's why, on January 6th, I stood up and led the objection and raised the objection because I said, listen, there's enough evidence, prima facie evidence, on the front to raise a serious concern.
01:10:28.000We need to appoint an impartial election commission that can consider the evidence on the merits and make a conclusive determination.
01:10:36.000I still think that would have been the right path to take if we had done that and reviewed it on the merits.
01:10:41.000You know, you've got nearly half the country that believes the election was rigged.
01:10:47.000That's not good for the stability, for confidence in our democracy.
01:10:51.000I think having a process to conduct a fair audit would have been much better.
01:10:55.000Unfortunately, the Senate didn't agree.
01:10:57.000Well, I would argue worse for democracy and the trust of our constituency is potentially elections being rigged or unsecure according to
01:11:20.000What do you think the future of the Republican Party is?
01:11:22.000Because I think you have a lot of people who are mad saying, you do need to fight like hell and people are willing to move on and take this on the chin.
01:11:28.000And I tell you what, for me, because, you know, we cross-reference.
01:11:31.000We have an intern with pictures of today's newspaper in Nevada.
01:11:42.000I would say it under court and a penalty of perjury because we I've seen this myself.
01:11:47.000I can't say that I've seen everything else.
01:11:48.000This is what I can claim in court and no court would admit it as evidence.
01:11:52.000What's the future of the Republican Party?
01:11:54.000Do we think there's a place for the Liz Cheney's of the world and the Trump voters of the world?
01:12:01.000So listen, I think there should be a place for everyone who's willing to vote to save our country.
01:12:06.000And I do think efforts actually on either side within the Republican Party to purge, either purge Trump supporters or purge those who are skeptical of the President, I think both of those are mistakes.
01:12:19.000I want to actually have policies that make sense for our country, that defend our liberties, that protect our free speech and our religious liberty and our Second Amendment.
01:13:21.000Voter fraud is a real problem and we need to fight against it.
01:13:27.000That being said, I do think you sometimes see Republican politicians who say, who use voter fraud as an excuse.
01:13:37.000I can tell you my approach, what I've been on the ballot, is yes, voter fraud's a problem, we need to fight it and combat it, but for the election coming up right now, here's the simplest answer.
01:13:46.000Win by a big enough margin that they can't steal it from.
01:13:50.000And I do think, from the approach of get the job done, that is important.
01:13:55.000And I'll give you an example where we didn't get the job done.
01:13:58.000Which is the Georgia Senate runoffs on January 5th.
01:14:40.000Well, it's because a lot of them felt like their vote didn't matter.
01:14:43.000You know, like you just said, win by a large enough margin, you have a lot of people in this country who think that did happen and they could still steal it.
01:14:51.000We haven't seen the evidence, but I'm just saying I understand how those people feel.
01:14:54.000I still think they should go out and vote, but it does in some ways for many Americans right now feel like a hopeless endeavor and they just don't feel like Republicans are fighting for them enough.
01:15:03.000Look, are Republicans fighting enough?
01:15:13.000You look at even this election, where we won most of the close Senate seats, and we gained a bunch of seats in the House of Representatives.
01:15:23.000You know, it reminds me of, you know, John Madden, when he was, you know, you play those video games or watch him announcing football, you know, saying things like, well, you know, if you score more points than the other team, you're going to win the game.
01:15:38.000That's true in politics too, which is if their voters show up and yours stay home, You're going to lose the election.
01:15:49.000But it's not true if it's like a boxing match and the guy keeps punching you in the nuts and the ref doesn't call it and then you keep trying to keep it above the belt.
01:15:56.000I think that's what a lot of people feel that right now, even outside of voter fraud, even that Democrats play dirty.
01:16:01.000I mean, for crying out loud, Senator Ted Cruz, AOC said you tried to have her murdered.
01:16:06.000I mean, that is the most absurd thing I've ever heard.
01:16:11.000I know you're going to be nice about it, but let's have something that needs to be commensurate with the accusation.
01:16:16.000She said that you tried to have her murdered.
01:16:18.000I can't think of something that could inspire one to violence more than a statement like that.
01:16:23.000Because if I believed you were actually a murderer, you know, Timothy Olyphant, shaved head hitman, I'd probably, I'd probably get physical with you if I believed it.
01:17:20.000You're intelligent, you're too reasonable, and there are a lot of people in the country who aren't, but more importantly, the media doesn't care.
01:17:27.000After the AOC, you know, it came out that she wasn't there when she was in the, was it the Cannon Building?
01:17:33.000We covered this in depth, and the pipe bombs weren't planted anywhere near her, and she kept changing her story.
01:17:38.000After all this occurred, two days later, I was listening to, I have an ABC News update, and it's kind of set to my podcast stuff, just because I want to hear what they're saying.
01:17:46.000On Friday, they said AOC described her harrowing experience at the state capitol, and I thought, oh, they're going to address the controversy now, as though it didn't even happen.
01:17:55.000So I know that you think it's, and I think she's crazy, we know she's certifiable, but the media doesn't treat it that way, and then it's a drip, drip, drip with enough Americans who absorb it, and they think, oh, well, Ted Cruz is an attempted murderer.
01:18:06.000Yeah, look, there's no doubt about it, and the media is utterly complicit.
01:18:11.000One of the consequences of the last four years is the media's broken.
01:18:14.000There is not anything... You look at something like CNN, which is... I tell you, four years ago, you could see them trying to be journalists.
01:18:34.000Passionate, vicious partisans and some of the AOC thing, of course, and by the way, AOC, the fact that she's unhinged doesn't mean she isn't dangerous.
01:18:42.000Her idea, she's an unmitigated socialist, her idea is, look, this is a woman who celebrated driving Amazon out of New York and killing 25,000 jobs.
01:19:58.000I just don't follow nerd lore, but I understand the reference.
01:20:02.000But here's the thing, Senator Cruz... And by the way, I don't entirely believe you.
01:20:06.000I think you probably have the Watchmen graphic novel hidden underneath your desk.
01:20:11.000You're a recovering nerd pretending to be cool?
01:20:14.000No, I've talked about this on the show.
01:20:15.000I viewed the Watchmen on a flight, and I walked out.
01:20:20.000That's how much I dislike the Watchmen.
01:20:24.000I said, can you get that small child, the toddler, to start kicking the TV tray in the back of my chair so it just ruins my train of thought here, distracts me?
01:20:32.000But here's the thing, now they control three branches of government, the left.
01:20:36.000Republicans, and I remember when you were here, you know, a few months ago, I said, four years, the biggest issue of our time is big tech, 230.
01:20:42.000A lot of people don't, Republicans, they didn't do anything.
01:21:41.000The rest of his administration couldn't actually effectively execute to do something about it.
01:21:46.000I can tell you in the last four years on this topic, I have sat down and met repeatedly.
01:21:53.000With President Trump, Vice President Pence, the White House Chief of Staff, 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, every one of them laying out, here are the steps we need to take.
01:22:08.000And they did bring a lawsuit against Google, that was good.
01:22:32.000And he'd say, gosh, I wish this would happen.
01:22:34.000But nobody in his administration was able to be focused and effective and competent and get it done.
01:22:41.000That's the only way we're going to get it done is with an executive that is ready to act and knows how to act.
01:22:46.000Because you're saying there are too many Republicans in the Senate who wouldn't take part?
01:22:50.000Well then how about you and your guys co-write up some legislation and put it on the table and let's find out who those 50 Republicans are and vote them out.
01:23:47.000So the only answer, frankly, Is win the White House and have an executive who understands the danger and is capable and competent and knows how to use the tools of law enforcement to stop the censorship and silence and abuse of power.
01:24:25.000I'm going to hold you to that, and if you don't, you run for president, and if I vote for you and you win, I'm going to accuse you of attempted murder, only it's going to be way more in-depth, and I'm going to have receipts, and there's going to be some very large man named Lyle who works for you.
01:24:39.000So really quickly... I will say, if you say murder, you have to... I don't know if you saw the Babylon Bee article that had AOC laying on the ground screaming, So it does seem to me there need to be a few more W's in murder if you're going to say that.