Louder with Crowder - FIGHT! Ted Cruz Lays Out New Election Battle Plan! | Good Morning #MugClub

00:00:00.000 yet.

00:00:00.000 Oh, well, you know, hey, blaze, you know what, you're gonna act like you didn't see any of this.

00:00:05.000 Yeah, we're going to stop this and restart and restart.

00:00:09.000 We are live on Facebook. 1.00

00:00:11.000 Oh, fuck yourself. 1.00

00:00:12.000 Because we have like 2000 people. 1.00

00:00:13.000 That's what happens as well.

00:00:14.000 Yeah.

00:00:16.000 We'll have like 200,000 people on YouTube and then two on Facebook because they want to label us misinformation.

00:00:22.000 Alright, let's hit pause on this stream.

00:00:22.000 We don't like the people.

00:00:24.000 We're gonna restart from the top and then start streaming to YouTube. 0.98

00:00:27.000 Facebook, you can go screw yourself.

00:00:28.000 Everyone on Blaze, please stand by. 0.71

00:00:30.000 Bye, it'll be about a minute.

00:00:32.000 Oh, there we go!

00:00:56.000 I thought I lost it, and then I got it again.

00:00:58.000 And that's because I want to make this a fantastic show, a grand old show, because Senator Ted Cruz is going to be on the show.

00:01:05.000 And folks in the control room, please do let Senator Ted Cruz know to blast it out on social.

00:01:09.000 We are broadcasting in the studio for five minutes.

00:01:13.000 But the stream wasn't going to you.

00:01:15.000 We had the little wheel, though!

00:01:16.000 It already started, I had no idea!

00:01:19.000 We just ruined everything, so I apologize that we're late.

00:01:22.000 It wasn't that we were late, we were doing the show!

00:01:24.000 We were!

00:01:25.000 We were here performing, where were you?

00:01:27.000 But if a hack screams in a forest with no one there to hear it...

00:01:31.000 So we do.

00:01:31.000 We have Senator Ted Cruz on the show, and send in exclusively your chat.

00:01:35.000 If 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.

00:01:48.000 Oh yeah, they fact-checked that.

00:01:49.000 CNN, thank you for letting us know that.

00:01:52.000 Also, poll watchers, they were all allowed into the election centers, despite video evidence of several not.

00:01:58.000 So that was also a false claim.

00:02:00.000 CNN, just give yourself some room. 0.97

00:02:02.000 Exactly.

00:02:02.000 Don't say all of them are false.

00:02:04.000 Never!

00:02:05.000 What?

00:02:06.000 You don't think that we can find a little election fraud?

00:02:10.000 Just a little bit?

00:02:12.000 That looks really close to white supremacy.

00:02:13.000 It's the NBA three-point thing.

00:02:21.000 That's what they all do.

00:02:22.000 They 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.

00:02:28.000 I didn't know.

00:02:29.000 Every time I hit a three I just do this.

00:02:31.000 Do you?

00:02:32.000 It'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!

00:02:41.000 Oh, wow.

00:02:42.000 Mark Pompeo.

00:02:46.000 You throw it to what?

00:02:48.000 I don't know.

00:02:51.000 This whole thing is a nightmare.

00:02:52.000 So, we are going to be talking.

00:02:55.000 It's okay, Tim from HR.

00:02:56.000 Quarterback Garrett is home with potentially COVID.

00:02:58.000 Well, our TriCaster doesn't like Nazi symbolism, so, you know.

00:03:03.000 Is that what's actually happening?

00:03:04.000 As an aversion.

00:03:06.000 So we have a bunch to get to.

00:03:09.000 We will be talking about Joe Biden, if he's a president, his COVID czar.

00:03:13.000 We're back in the era of czars. 0.98

00:03:15.000 I hate czars. 0.98

00:03:16.000 They're just very Russian. 0.99

00:03:18.000 Most of the show will be Senator Ted Cruz.

00:03:20.000 But before any of that, in case you missed it, it was a highlight of my day, Mike Pompeo yesterday.

00:03:29.000 Hi.

00:03:31.000 Is the State Department currently preparing to engage with the Biden transition team?

00:03:35.000 And if not, at what point does a delay hamper a smooth transition or pose a risk to national security?

00:03:42.000 There will be a smooth transition to a second Trump administration.

00:03:48.000 I think it's called a gat.

00:03:50.000 Heater?

00:03:50.000 Oh, this and pull out my heater. I think it's called a gap.

00:03:56.000 No, it's not heater. You guys are idiot. 1.00

00:03:59.000 I don't know the slang! 1.00

00:04:00.000 Heater, Gap, Peace.

00:04:03.000 Thug Life is not heaters.

00:04:04.000 You know about NBA symbols, but you don't know about gun culture.

00:04:07.000 What is that, like a 1950s reference to guns?

00:04:10.000 Here's the thing, anyway.

00:04:11.000 A lot of people don't know what they saw.

00:04:13.000 The best part, actually, was a reverse shot of the reporters.

00:04:17.000 So, yeah, for people who don't know what they were watching, let me explain it to you here.

00:04:21.000 The reporters were watching it, and yeah, but let me stop.

00:04:25.000 I 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.

00:04:38.000 And 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.

00:04:45.000 That was a smooth transition.

00:04:46.000 Yeah, I know, it gets a little nerdy, a little wonkish, a little micro-politic.

00:04:51.000 But I feel like I need to inform you.

00:04:54.000 Also, 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.

00:05:04.000 And then just in Allegheny County, their Board of Elections voted to count over 2,000 undated ballots.

00:05:11.000 Undated?

00:05:12.000 So here's the thing, like maybe it's 1,940.

00:05:13.000 Right.

00:05:13.000 That's 1,940.

00:05:17.000 But CNN said zero.

00:05:19.000 They said entirely false.

00:05:21.000 They said absolutely nothing.

00:05:23.000 There is nothing here.

00:05:24.000 It's not like look behind the curtain.

00:05:26.000 They don't even have a curtain.

00:05:30.000 They're just sunbathing nude on the roof and asking you not to look.

00:05:34.000 Yeah, at some point they gotta get sued again, right?

00:05:36.000 Like Sandman, don't they?

00:05:37.000 I don't know.

00:05:39.000 I just hope I'm never subpoenaed.

00:05:41.000 So again, we have Ted Cruz on the show.

00:05:43.000 But one other thing, if you don't have the dough, the free cash from Mug Club, you can always support by buying some sick It's so sick! 0.89

00:05:51.000 Sick merch! 1.00

00:05:52.000 Look at that sick merch! 1.00

00:05:52.000 CNN vote counting continues in close battleground states, but I thought you called them! 1.00

00:05:55.000 Yeah, why do you care anymore?

00:05:57.000 heaters.

00:05:58.000 So let me ask you this before we go to Ted Cruz and before we... what are they talking

00:06:03.000 about on CNN?

00:06:04.000 Hold on a second.

00:06:05.000 CNN vote counting continues in close battleground states, but I thought you called them.

00:06:09.000 Yeah, why do you care anymore?

00:06:10.000 You declared Joe Biden the president.

00:06:13.000 And don't you love in every press conference Joe Biden does now it says behind him, office

00:06:16.000 of the president-elect.

00:06:18.000 Right.

00:06:18.000 There is no office of the President-Elect.

00:06:20.000 There is no office, nor President-Elect.

00:06:20.000 No, there is not.

00:06:23.000 Yeah, you can just be President-Elect for a while and be happy with that.

00:06:28.000 Here's one thing that I hope you guys understand.

00:06:30.000 When 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.

00:06:40.000 These aren't totally unreasonable people.

00:06:42.000 I 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.

00:06:48.000 I 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.

00:07:03.000 So this is something that, again, I'm not just saying this so you guys feel good about where we are.

00:07:09.000 There's a 50-50 shot right now how this ends up.

00:07:13.000 But it's not over.

00:07:14.000 It's not over.

00:07:15.000 If Joe Biden wins this thing honestly, then he will be our president.

00:07:19.000 But I don't see that... Honestly?

00:07:21.000 That's the hitch word.

00:07:23.000 Do you think he'll go by President-Elect?

00:07:25.000 Will he keep that title even if he loses?

00:07:27.000 Oh, I thought you meant even if he's President.

00:07:30.000 No, no, no.

00:07:30.000 You know what?

00:07:31.000 Listen.

00:07:32.000 You don't have to... I get it.

00:07:33.000 You don't have to call me Dad.

00:07:37.000 I just want to be your elect!

00:07:39.000 Is Kamala going to be in a bar 20 years from now? 0.99

00:07:41.000 I was the first woman of color as the vice president!

00:07:45.000 That didn't happen.

00:07:46.000 You're not my real president.

00:07:49.000 And I had all the slaves in the world.

00:07:55.000 It was Jamaica!

00:07:56.000 We had slaves! 0.97

00:08:01.000 Miss Harris, you should leave. 0.91

00:08:03.000 You know what?

00:08:06.000 If I would have my slaves make you leave, I would say, hey, make him leave, and they would go watch. 0.92

00:08:15.000 Amistad.

00:08:17.000 So what do you think Donald Trump's best path to victory is here?

00:08:24.000 I will say this, a state needs to flip soon because the media is lying so much.

00:08:28.000 The 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.

00:08:39.000 So there needs to be one state where All hands on deck, and I don't know which state that is.

00:08:44.000 We'll talk with Senator Ted Cruz about that.

00:08:46.000 I think it's Pennsylvania.

00:08:47.000 I think that's the strongest legal argument that I've heard.

00:08:49.000 I'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.

00:08:55.000 Go for voter fraud, fine, but that's harder to prove.

00:08:58.000 This is easy.

00:08:59.000 I think you're wrong.

00:09:00.000 Which one?

00:09:00.000 I think it's Georgia, because it's so close.

00:09:03.000 Well, I know it's close, but what are they going to use as the argument?

00:09:05.000 Well, they still have the same thing about outstanding ballots and the acceptance rates.

00:09:09.000 So I actually think Arizona and Georgia are easier because the margins are so close.

00:09:16.000 But I don't know.

00:09:16.000 We'll talk with Senator Ted Cruz about it.

00:09:18.000 Yeah, so you think if Georgia flips and it might make people go, ah, we should look into this?

00:09:22.000 If 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!

00:09:30.000 That is illegal.

00:09:31.000 Maybe this is real.

00:09:33.000 Wait, that is illegal.

00:09:34.000 Hey, while I have your attention, what about rioting?

00:09:39.000 No, no, no.

00:09:40.000 I'm a little murky on the rule book. 1.00

00:09:42.000 I used to believe that burning down people's shit was illegal. 0.99

00:09:46.000 No, mm-mm. 1.00

00:09:47.000 Now I'm unclear.

00:09:48.000 Your thoughts?

00:09:49.000 New rules.

00:09:50.000 So, uh, before we get to that... Oh, hold on a second.

00:09:53.000 Right here.

00:09:54.000 This is fact-checking disinformation and claims of fraud post-election from CNN.

00:09:58.000 They're talking about this show right here because we're fact-checking them.

00:10:02.000 But it's us fact-checking their misinformation.

00:10:04.000 It's almost like the opposite day.

00:10:05.000 Yeah, they're saying what they're doing.

00:10:07.000 Right.

00:10:08.000 Let's see what this guy has to talk about.

00:10:09.000 I think his name is Takashi.

00:10:11.000 Oh, let's check him out.

00:10:12.000 That's not Takashi.

00:10:33.000 Hold on a second, hold on a second, hold on a second. 1.00

00:10:36.000 Did you just hear that on CNN?

00:10:38.000 Everyone there, rewind this if you're watching this.

00:10:40.000 I think you can rewind it on YouTube.

00:10:42.000 He just said Facebook has taken some steps.

00:10:44.000 He didn't say Facebook has taken some steps to remove flagrantly false disinformation, because they cannot claim that.

00:10:51.000 He 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.

00:11:05.000 Well, hold on a second.

00:11:06.000 Truth is not governed by consensus or popularity.

00:11:09.000 It doesn't make any difference.

00:11:11.000 That is totalitarianism.

00:11:13.000 That is saying the information that is dictated that you can hear The only voices in the town square must be the popular voices.

00:11:22.000 That is just like Hong Kong, folks.

00:11:26.000 That is unreal to me that we just caught that on CNN.

00:11:30.000 Views that are more popular. 0.99

00:11:32.000 I don't give a shit if it's more popular or not. 0.98

00:11:35.000 For crying out loud! 0.99

00:11:38.000 This is the standard they use.

00:11:39.000 When the mask is off, it's not about truth.

00:11:41.000 It'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?

00:11:50.000 Just like saying, no evidence at all of voter fraud.

00:11:52.000 No evidence of voting irregularity.

00:11:54.000 Well, that's false.

00:11:55.000 But 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.

00:12:04.000 Yeah, exactly.

00:12:05.000 So 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.

00:12:10.000 Four 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.

00:12:22.000 You can't go to courts or anything like that.

00:12:23.000 And everybody's up in arms.

00:12:25.000 Susan Wojcicki's on CNN.

00:12:26.000 Sorry, we have a whole bunch to get to today, but this is just like, I hit the jackpot. 1.00

00:12:30.000 I hit the bullshit jackpot. 0.97

00:12:33.000 We don't have the results of the election. 1.00

00:12:35.000 You just said so.

00:12:36.000 If they're fraud, we don't have the results of the election.

00:12:39.000 You just said so.

00:12:40.000 Right.

00:12:41.000 And they or their campaign or someone posts that video on YouTube, will it stay on YouTube

00:12:46.000 or will you take it down?

00:12:47.000 Right now, this is us.

00:12:48.000 You know, it's really hard to talk about hypotheticals because we would have to actually look at

00:12:53.000 the video.

00:12:54.000 Look at our video right now, sweetheart.

00:12:56.000 There are more people watching this than CNN.

00:12:59.000 This is October 8th.

00:13:00.000 Oh, it's from October 8th.

00:13:03.000 Okay, it's not live.

00:13:04.000 Well, no, no, no, but it's relevant because she's saying these videos wouldn't be allowed if Joe Biden prematurely claims victory.

00:13:10.000 So I think they're tying themselves in knots again and they don't mean to?

00:13:14.000 For crying out loud.

00:13:16.000 It is remarkable to me they said that Facebook has taken steps to remove views that aren't as popular as they may seem.

00:13:22.000 Well you know why they may not be as popular?

00:13:24.000 Because you stop them.

00:13:26.000 You silence them.

00:13:27.000 Who cares if it's popular?

00:13:29.000 No, that's not the standard that we use, by the way.

00:13:32.000 You have to let this process play out, and you can't claim to be the unbiased source and then do stuff like that.

00:13:36.000 We're like, yeah, let's just silence views.

00:13:39.000 Let's let everybody be in the marketplace on this technology stuff, and then CNN's going to come along and say, fact check.

00:13:43.000 Let's go through a bunch of unpopular opinions that perhaps may have been correct.

00:13:48.000 Hitler, not always correct up to B.

00:13:53.000 At the time, he was man of the year, right?

00:13:54.000 Stalin probably won't be able to do the farming as well as he thinks.

00:14:01.000 Che Guevara, maybe he's not going to be the revolutionary that you think so.

00:14:05.000 They might actually find him in Bolivia with a loaded rifle that's never been fired, so he's not even a warlord.

00:14:10.000 Let me think, what else?

00:14:13.000 That ricin was okay to ingest, I'm sure at some point. 0.89

00:14:17.000 Cocaine helped even out the mood.

00:14:18.000 Cocaine helped even out the mood and it was in Coca-Cola.

00:14:21.000 Right.

00:14:22.000 Heroin was good for people.

00:14:24.000 Heroin was a painkiller.

00:14:24.000 Opium was good.

00:14:25.000 These were popular viewpoints.

00:14:27.000 CNN is news.

00:14:30.000 See a pattern?

00:14:33.000 There have been many unpopular viewpoints that have been correct.

00:14:36.000 And by the way, almost every great breakthrough comes from an unpopular opinion.

00:14:39.000 I 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.

00:14:47.000 The whole idea of flat earth is actually blown out of proportion.

00:14:50.000 That wasn't always accepted.

00:14:52.000 Unilaterally.

00:14:53.000 However, at some point, someone said, oh, look, maybe those stars are not angels, but they're burning balls of gas millions of miles away.

00:15:00.000 And they burned them at the stake.

00:15:01.000 And then a few generations later, someone came in and confirmed it.

00:15:04.000 And they said, ooh, our bad.

00:15:05.000 But CNN, Facebook, Twitter, they want popular opinion to dictate what you are allowed to watch, what you are allowed to hear.

00:15:13.000 And that's also why they want to make sure that programs like this don't get popular.

00:15:17.000 Well, it's too late. 1.00

00:15:19.000 That genie's already out of the fuck you bottle. 1.00

00:15:21.000 And it's all under the guise of fact-checking. 0.99

00:15:24.000 It's not any longer fact-check true or fact-check false, it's fact-check not popular.

00:15:30.000 Fact-check not popular.

00:15:32.000 Do we just fact-check all of CNN's primetime lineup?

00:15:35.000 Pretty much.

00:15:36.000 Somebody needs to be fact-checking them.

00:15:38.000 Is anybody else offended that they brought the Asian guy on to talk about technology? 0.99

00:15:42.000 I'm not offended, but it's a good point and I'll allow it.

00:15:47.000 So let's go into new news here.

00:15:49.000 Biden is now appointing a new COVID czar if he's actually president.

00:15:52.000 We're back to the era of czars. 0.96

00:15:55.000 That was a really big thing.

00:15:56.000 More czars. 0.78

00:15:57.000 Do we really need more czars?

00:15:58.000 Depends on the spelling.

00:15:58.000 Do we really need more czars?

00:16:00.000 Need you ask such an absurd question?

00:16:02.000 More czars for everything!

00:16:04.000 Oh boy.

00:16:05.000 So the guy's name is Ezekiel Emanuel.

00:16:08.000 Also was, that name was an archetype in one of Mel Gibson's rejected spec scripts.

00:16:14.000 Oh really?

00:16:16.000 Which side was that character on?

00:16:20.000 So 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.

00:16:27.000 I 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.

00:16:34.000 Philadelphia 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.

00:16:45.000 He is the chair of the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy at the University of Pennsylvania.

00:16:50.000 Okay, so they didn't mention everything there.

00:16:52.000 Ezekiel Emanuel also served as the Obamacare director.

00:16:58.000 And 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.

00:17:03.000 And then he says, he recently said this, but this is a bipartisan issue.

00:17:06.000 Well yeah, bringing down costs is a bipartisan issue, but before you guys created it we said it's gotta bring up costs!

00:17:13.000 Yeah, if you were a literal architect we'd be in some serious trouble too.

00:17:17.000 Right!

00:17:17.000 Can you imagine if you built a freeway loop and it's just cars going into other cars?

00:17:24.000 We need to cut down on accidents, right?

00:17:27.000 This is a bipartisan issue.

00:17:28.000 This is a bipartisan issue.

00:17:29.000 We need to stop people from dying on that loop.

00:17:31.000 But before you created the loop, every single Republican voted against the loop.

00:17:35.000 Oh, if you want to play politics with us.

00:17:40.000 You're right, I do.

00:17:41.000 Unpopular opinion.

00:17:44.000 When COVID hit, Emanuel did push for lockdowns, and then he found a way to make money off of it.

00:17:44.000 So here's another thing.

00:17:51.000 Here's the thing.

00:17:51.000 People get so mad at Donald Trump saying that some people profited off it.

00:17:54.000 It 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.

00:18:01.000 This is the same thing with grants for environmental research.

00:18:03.000 If 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.

00:18:16.000 Fifty million dollars.

00:18:17.000 There you go.

00:18:18.000 Magic words.

00:18:18.000 That's a good trick.

00:18:20.000 We're just going to take it from where we were going to give it to Elon Musk.

00:18:25.000 But you, sir, I like the cut of your chip.

00:18:28.000 Here's what he did.

00:18:28.000 He worked for COVID-19 Recovery Consulting.

00:18:32.000 It was a company that charges... So this is a guy who advocates for lockdowns.

00:18:36.000 This is why this is so sinister.

00:18:38.000 He advocated for lockdowns.

00:18:39.000 the company that he worked for profited off of COVID specifically

00:18:43.000 by providing advice for businesses on how to reopen.

00:18:48.000 Sounds about right.

00:18:56.000 Also, by the way, hit the notification bell if you are subscribed on YouTube, because subscriptions don't mean a whole lot.

00:19:02.000 And of course, every weekday morning right now at 10 a.m.

00:19:05.000 Eastern, there's a lot that's been developing, and it's been crazy.

00:19:09.000 I'm very tired.

00:19:10.000 But think about this.

00:19:10.000 A little bit.

00:19:11.000 It'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.

00:19:17.000 He advocated lockdowns.

00:19:19.000 Yeah.

00:19:20.000 And the company that he worked for made money by coaching people on how to avoid lockdowns.

00:19:26.000 Hmm.

00:19:28.000 It seems weird.

00:19:29.000 I'm not making the connection. 1.00

00:19:30.000 This guy's more swampy than my ass after a pickup game. 1.00

00:19:34.000 And I don't do that very often. 1.00

00:19:35.000 No.

00:19:36.000 So that's why it's so bad.

00:19:36.000 Thankfully.

00:19:37.000 I'm not conditioned.

00:19:39.000 Hey, by the way, just to let you know, Ted Cruz is running about 10 minutes behind, so we have a little bit more time.

00:19:44.000 A little bit more time here.

00:19:46.000 Speaking of sports, by the way, we will be playing Stephen Knows Sports later on in the show.

00:19:50.000 Do you?

00:19:51.000 Exclusively from Mug Club.

00:19:52.000 No, I know nothing about sports.

00:19:53.000 I was about to say.

00:19:53.000 I know precisely zero about sports.

00:19:56.000 I spelled Drew Brees like the actual breeze.

00:19:59.000 Did you really?

00:20:00.000 I actually did.

00:20:00.000 Did you seriously?

00:20:01.000 I seriously did.

00:20:02.000 When?

00:20:02.000 I didn't even know he was a quarterback.

00:20:04.000 So we're going to play this later.

00:20:06.000 Uh, and you guys can play along with me before Senator, uh, Ted Cruz.

00:20:09.000 Apparently the Senator doesn't know that it's a live show.

00:20:11.000 This is a pro- They're all so used to, like, podcasts, where it's like, we can just record whatever.

00:20:15.000 Or Dan Crenshaw editing out the joke.

00:20:17.000 Okay, before Ted Cruz- Wait, did he edit out a joke?

00:20:19.000 Yeah, remind me.

00:20:20.000 I'll tell you the joke with Dan Crenshaw.

00:20:21.000 Just, he is the bane of my existence.

00:20:24.000 Oh, come on! 0.99

00:20:24.000 But you love him! 0.99

00:20:28.000 Mr. Crenshaw.

00:20:29.000 A little disgruntled there?

00:20:30.000 Comes in, plays tough guy, then every time I challenge him he runs behind that patch.

00:20:34.000 Wow.

00:20:34.000 Obviously I love Dan Crenshaw.

00:20:36.000 I know you do, yeah.

00:20:37.000 Obviously I can take or leave Dan Crenshaw.

00:20:39.000 We love Dan Crenshaw!

00:20:40.000 We love Dan Crenshaw!

00:20:41.000 C'mon! 0.99

00:20:42.000 Crenshaw Boulevard!

00:20:43.000 So! 0.81

00:20:45.000 This guy, too, Ezekiel Emanuel.

00:20:47.000 Emanuel Ezekiel?

00:20:48.000 Ezekiel Emanuel?

00:20:49.000 One way or the other.

00:20:49.000 Doesn't matter.

00:20:50.000 Double E. Ezekiel Emanuel.

00:20:50.000 Yeah.

00:20:52.000 Just pick the most Jewish name you possibly can. 0.94

00:20:56.000 And I don't say that.

00:20:57.000 Sure.

00:20:57.000 Because, but, like, even Ben Shapiro is looking at his name going, like, well, that's a little severe.

00:21:02.000 It's... Yeah.

00:21:03.000 Brother of Rahm.

00:21:05.000 Yeah, he is.

00:21:05.000 He really is.

00:21:07.000 Exactly.

00:21:07.000 I know.

00:21:08.000 Brother of Rahm Emanuel, whose greatest accomplishment is poking people in the chest in the shower to intimidate them in Chicago.

00:21:16.000 Yeah, while naked, I think, is fun, obviously.

00:21:18.000 Well, he's definitely doing the never let a crisis go to waste thing.

00:21:21.000 Never let a crisis go to waste.

00:21:22.000 Don't.

00:21:22.000 Make money off the crisis.

00:21:23.000 So here's another fast fact for you on Mr. Emanuel, Rahm Emanuel's brother.

00:21:29.000 He's actually right now, right, he's going to be one of the czars for Biden, assuming that he's president.

00:21:33.000 And he's actually the person who's laying out kind of the plan on what we do to get over COVID.

00:21:38.000 This is the guy who advocated for lockdowns and then profited off of telling businesses how they could avoid lockdowns.

00:21:42.000 He wants the vaccine to be available.

00:21:45.000 Now, this term globalist is often thrown around.

00:21:46.000 Sometimes I avoid it because people just use it to... they attribute it to anything they don't like.

00:21:51.000 But this is actually, so what do I actually mean when we talk about this?

00:21:54.000 Well, there is a nationalist view, now this has nothing to do with race, but a nationalist view, for example, with a vaccine.

00:22:00.000 If 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.

00:22:09.000 We 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.

00:22:16.000 A globalist viewpoint puts all of us on even footing.

00:22:21.000 Which, you know, Pfizer!

00:22:23.000 Here in the United- We develop the drugs! 0.87

00:22:25.000 We 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?

00:22:32.000 No! 0.52

00:22:33.000 Get your own drugs!

00:22:35.000 We partnered with a German company, so maybe they'll get a few.

00:22:37.000 Yeah, that's right.

00:22:38.000 Just a few.

00:22:38.000 But that's okay, just Germany.

00:22:40.000 Well, is Pfizer actually based in Germany?

00:22:43.000 No, it was BioNTech or something like that that they partnered with that I think is based in Germany.

00:22:47.000 Well, you know what, Germany, that's one for you. 0.99

00:22:49.000 Even though we're keeping an eye on you, BioNTech.

00:22:52.000 Every half a century or so.

00:22:54.000 You guys really screw things up.

00:22:56.000 So 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.

00:23:06.000 So you can go and read his paper.

00:23:07.000 I 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.

00:23:15.000 We 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.

00:23:27.000 This is the plan for the rollout, because he believes it's fair.

00:23:32.000 You can read his own language.

00:23:33.000 It's about fair global distribution.

00:23:35.000 So here's something else that was very interesting to me when I read this proposal from him.

00:23:41.000 Herd immunity.

00:23:42.000 Do 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.

00:23:51.000 I feel deep pain and shame, frankly, that 67 million Americans voted for herd immunity and the person who ran an explicitly racist campaign.

00:24:04.000 Are they still at the White House?

00:24:06.000 I 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?

00:24:18.000 You kind of have the herd protection as an umbrella.

00:24:21.000 We're not there yet.

00:24:22.000 that's not a fundamental strategy that we're using.

00:24:26.000 Yeah, and he also read the right act to Rand Paul for even discussing it. Remember in that

00:24:29.000 hearing, you don't know anything about herd immunity. Well, what percentage is needed?

00:24:33.000 Ah, words. So here's the thing. They're talking about this is what's so dangerous.

00:24:38.000 They excoriated the idea of herd immunity is racist, which most Americans were saying. Think

00:24:42.000 about let's go through the sequence. Most Americans were saying, well, hold on a second.

00:24:44.000 Instead of doing a total lockdown, how about we protect the vulnerable, the elderly and the sick,

00:24:49.000 we quarantine the sick so that those who aren't super vulnerable can actually reach some kind of

00:24:53.000 a herd immunity. And that remains to be seen. There have been some different figures that

00:24:56.000 were thrown around and instead.

00:24:58.000 This 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.

00:25:08.000 And 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.

00:25:17.000 And we said was racist.

00:25:21.000 What cosmic bunny hole did I fall into?

00:25:23.000 I mean, these satin pajamas, they're slippery!

00:25:26.000 CNN just fact-checked you as lying.

00:25:28.000 As lying?

00:25:28.000 Yes.

00:25:29.000 I'm a racist liar. 0.99

00:25:30.000 Just everything you say, not just this specific story. 0.99

00:25:32.000 Keep bringing on... I am A-OK with your fact-check, CNN.

00:25:37.000 And, you know, this is just... take it as a... it is a dog whistle.

00:25:40.000 I think Home Alone 2 is better than the original.

00:25:43.000 Wow!

00:25:43.000 Oh, wow, that's an unpopular opinion.

00:25:45.000 It's the Godfather 2 of the series.

00:25:46.000 It's the Godfather 2 of Home Alone.

00:25:49.000 Home Alone 3 with French Stewart, I just don't think it didn't exist.

00:25:52.000 It doesn't exist.

00:25:54.000 French Stewart from 3rd Rock's Missing Persons.

00:25:58.000 Oh boy, can I rob your houses?

00:26:02.000 No.

00:26:03.000 You can't.

00:26:04.000 No.

00:26:04.000 Not at all.

00:26:06.000 Stop it.

00:26:07.000 Here's something else that's interesting about Ezekiel Emanuel.

00:26:10.000 So he's argued obviously that we should benefit last from the vaccine.

00:26:13.000 Yeah, makes perfect sense.

00:26:14.000 He's also argued that life isn't worth living After the age of 75.

00:26:18.000 I know you think I'm making it up.

00:26:20.000 Before you fact-check me again, good thing we have the source.

00:26:23.000 Here's a quote.

00:26:24.000 These 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.

00:26:40.000 It's not meaningful work.

00:26:42.000 They're riding motorcycles.

00:26:43.000 They're... How many 90-year-olds do you see riding motorcycles?

00:26:46.000 Yeah, no kidding.

00:26:47.000 like he has you need to remove your own personal biases.

00:26:50.000 Yeah, no kidding.

00:26:51.000 He just happens to live next door to the only 90 plus motorcycle club in the country.

00:26:56.000 They always go for rides at 4am so they don't you are not getting a vaccine.

00:27:04.000 What?

00:27:04.000 I can't hear you!

00:27:06.000 Oh, you can hear me, Errol!

00:27:09.000 He's sitting there typing this paper, like, Errol.

00:27:11.000 These people who have a vigorous life to 70, 80, 90 years of age.

00:27:14.000 It's from Ezekiel Emanuel.

00:27:15.000 When I look at what most of these people do, it's almost all of what I would classify as play.

00:27:15.000 He's writing this.

00:27:19.000 It's not meaningful work.

00:27:21.000 They're riding motorcycles.

00:27:22.000 They're hiking.

00:27:23.000 Which can all have value, don't get me wrong.

00:27:26.000 But if it's the main thing in your life, that's probably not a meaningful life.

00:27:30.000 This can also just be communist language.

00:27:32.000 It's decadent.

00:27:33.000 It is decadence of the West and unnecessary.

00:27:36.000 It was in answer to the question, what's wrong with enjoying life?

00:27:42.000 What's wrong with enjoying an extended life?

00:27:46.000 That's what we call a softball question. 1.00

00:27:50.000 Oh, nothing's wrong with that.

00:27:51.000 Let me screw this up for you really quickly.

00:27:53.000 How badly can I answer this?

00:27:55.000 Have you seen a 90 year old motorcycling?

00:27:58.000 Does it not make you as well furious? 0.97

00:28:01.000 What the hell are you talking about?

00:28:03.000 By the way, keep in mind, Joe Biden's 77.

00:28:05.000 So let's just keep this up.

00:28:05.000 Yeah.

00:28:08.000 Joe Biden is going to appoint, if he's president, a COVID czar who doesn't even think he has the right to exist.

00:28:15.000 Yeah.

00:28:15.000 Someone wants a President Harris.

00:28:17.000 What do you think he's going to move that line back once he gets to 75?

00:28:20.000 I don't know.

00:28:21.000 Look, 80.

00:28:21.000 You know what?

00:28:22.000 Let's go to 80 now.

00:28:23.000 I think he'll get in the pass if he uses a moped.

00:28:27.000 He has to wear the really terrible helmet.

00:28:28.000 I cannot believe this.

00:28:29.000 This is the guy who's going to be the COVID czar.

00:28:32.000 This could be straight out of the Communist Manifesto.

00:28:35.000 These old people, they're no longer of value. 1.00

00:28:37.000 They aren't laborers.

00:28:39.000 That's the view of the collective.

00:28:41.000 And I understand this too, by the way.

00:28:43.000 This is why when people always say, are you going to pull back your mischaracterization of Nazis as socialists?

00:28:47.000 No, I absolutely won't.

00:28:48.000 They were the National Socialist Workers Party.

00:28:51.000 What does that mean?

00:28:52.000 You see it with neo-Nazis here in the United States.

00:28:54.000 They're socialists who just had racism.

00:28:56.000 Here's what they believe. 0.98

00:28:57.000 They believe that if you remove brown and black people from the United States, that you could make all the social safety networks. 0.90

00:29:02.000 So a lot of the neo-Nazis here in the United States actually believe in socialized health care. 0.96

00:29:06.000 They actually believe in a welfare state, but only for white people.

00:29:08.000 That's also what you saw with Nazi Germany.

00:29:10.000 They believed that they could have productive contributors if they removed certain sectors of society.

00:29:15.000 And you read this right here, same thing with communism, 70, 80, 90-year-olds riding motorcycles.

00:29:22.000 Yeah.

00:29:23.000 Alright, I see you.

00:29:24.000 I believe we have an update from Reg, a quick breaking story.

00:29:26.000 Oh, we have an update, breaking news.

00:29:28.000 Alright, Reg the Bandit, we have breaking news here.

00:29:31.000 What's going on?

00:29:33.000 Yeah, so I think you're going to want to watch this.

00:29:35.000 Georgia has just held a press conference, and the Georgia Secretary of State made a pretty big announcement regarding a presidential race.

00:29:44.000 I think we can cue it up here.

00:29:46.000 Okay, let me know.

00:29:47.000 Do we guys have it?

00:29:47.000 Are we ready?

00:29:48.000 Can we cue it?

00:29:48.000 This is the Georgia, this is the governor you just said, Reg?

00:29:50.000 Secretary of State.

00:29:51.000 The Secretary of State.

00:29:52.000 Secretary of State, but it's a man, right?

00:29:54.000 It's a male secretary? 0.90

00:29:55.000 Yes.

00:29:56.000 Correct.

00:29:57.000 starting off week, but let's watch.

00:29:59.000 Subject of the RLA.

00:30:01.000 At that time, I will designate that the ROA will be the presidential race.

00:30:06.000 With the margin being so close, it will require a full by-hand recount in each county.

00:30:14.000 This will help build confidence.

00:30:16.000 It will be an audit, a recount, and a re-canvas all at once.

00:30:20.000 It will be a heavy lift, but we will work with the counties to get this done in time for our state certification.

00:30:28.000 Many of these workers, we work in plenty of overtime.

00:30:32.000 We have all worked hard to bring fair and accurate counts to a subject of the RL.

00:30:36.000 Wow.

00:30:38.000 Wow.

00:30:38.000 That is remarkable.

00:30:39.000 We talked about this early on in the show.

00:30:42.000 You said Pennsylvania.

00:30:43.000 I said, I think Georgia, because there are enough issues in Georgia, and it's a really close margin.

00:30:50.000 And I think it's an uphill battle with Pennsylvania and the corruption.

00:30:53.000 I think Reg the Bandit.

00:30:53.000 Is there something else that we need to know, Reg the Bandit?

00:30:56.000 No, I mean, I just think that's pretty huge that they're going to conduct a hand recount of the presidential race.

00:31:02.000 And so I think that, you know, that's what I was thinking.

00:31:05.000 You know, you said at the beginning of the show that something needs to flip soon.

00:31:10.000 You know, probably Georgia.

00:31:11.000 It looks like that may happen.

00:31:14.000 Yeah.

00:31:15.000 Thank you, Reg the Bandit.

00:31:16.000 We'll check in with you later.

00:31:19.000 My problem with the recount is that it doesn't do anything about potential voter fraud.

00:31:22.000 No, it does.

00:31:23.000 The whole point is that with the recount, you can see ballots that, for example, now they might not have been postdated properly.

00:31:28.000 Or signature checks and things like that.

00:31:30.000 that. But that's also where circumstantial evidence would come into play. And we can also

00:31:33.000 look at a certain number of ballots if they came in, for example, in an unrealistic period of time.

00:31:40.000 If there's a disproportional number of ballots that are just Joe Biden and nothing else down

00:31:45.000 the ticket. So this gives us more detail. We can check and see if these people are actually

00:31:48.000 residents of the state. We can check and see at least with some of them if they arrived in time

00:31:54.000 on election night. And this is something too, a lot of people are saying, oh, this is dangerous.

00:31:56.000 If Donald Trump does this, you know, the American people will feel as though the election is still

00:32:00.000 on. Hold on a second. Hold on a second. Where did he do?

00:32:03.000 Let's go through this.

00:32:04.000 What are you mad about?

00:32:05.000 Well, maybe that my vote wouldn't count.

00:32:07.000 Okay, so you think your vote should count?

00:32:09.000 Yes!

00:32:09.000 I understand it.

00:32:10.000 So 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.

00:32:15.000 Well, how do you know that your vote counts?

00:32:17.000 What is a vote?

00:32:18.000 It's what I cast for an election.

00:32:20.000 For a president?

00:32:21.000 Okay.

00:32:22.000 What determines that vote?

00:32:24.000 What do you mean?

00:32:24.000 What determines whether that vote is legal or not?

00:32:26.000 Why did you mail it in?

00:32:28.000 Why did you go early to a specific precinct?

00:32:31.000 Why did you go same day?

00:32:33.000 Why did you have to present an ID?

00:32:34.000 Or why did you have to list an address?

00:32:37.000 Because there are legal parameters that we've always had for voting.

00:32:41.000 And now, to make sure your vote counts, we're going to enforce those legal parameters.

00:32:44.000 That's the message that the GOP needs to be clear about.

00:32:46.000 It's not stealing votes away.

00:32:47.000 It's, hey listen, you voted.

00:32:49.000 There's a system.

00:32:51.000 There's a reason it's actually tallied as a vote.

00:32:54.000 If it was illegally cast, it is not a vote.

00:32:58.000 So 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.

00:33:09.000 Somewhere down the line, a court determines What a vote is, meaning what is allowed, what is permissible.

00:33:17.000 Now you may want that to be 11 million illegal immigrants, fine, but that's not the law.

00:33:22.000 You may want people to be able to vote after 8 p.m.

00:33:25.000 on election.

00:33:25.000 You may want them to be able to vote 2, 3, 4 days later.

00:33:28.000 You may want them to be able to vote in any state that they feel they'd like to vote in, but guess what?

00:33:34.000 That's not the law.

00:33:35.000 And the law is the same law that protects you and ensures that you have a vote and there's any tally whatsoever to begin with. It just

00:33:42.000 comes down to degrees. So if we want to argue that in the future, well, you know what, people should be

00:33:46.000 able to vote two, three days after election day, fine. You can argue that. But that wasn't the

00:33:49.000 law on election day this go around.

00:33:51.000 Yeah. Every single American right now should be willing to lose to make sure that we have the

00:33:56.000 right count. You should be willing to lose the person that you wanted to go into whatever office

00:33:59.000 you're talking about, Senate, whatever, President.

00:34:03.000 Yes.

00:34:03.000 You should be willing to walk away from that right now to make sure that we have the accurate count by law.

00:34:08.000 Because like you said, the laws are there to make sure that your vote does count.

00:34:11.000 Right.

00:34:11.000 Otherwise, I can just stuff it with a bunch of ballots and your vote will never be seen.

00:34:14.000 The 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.

00:34:24.000 Right now, how confused do you think CNN viewers are in Georgia?

00:34:30.000 What are you talking about?

00:34:30.000 What?

00:34:32.000 I've never heard of this.

00:34:33.000 Why would they have to do a hand recount when I have only seen fact checking with no facts?

00:34:45.000 Let me tell you one thing.

00:34:46.000 I 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.

00:34:56.000 When 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.

00:35:10.000 As we provide you with concrete evidence of voting irregularities, that's a special time in history.

00:35:16.000 This is something that has never happened before.

00:35:18.000 CNN used to be able to say without consequence, no voting irregularities whatsoever.

00:35:23.000 None of this.

00:35:24.000 Right now we go to President-elect Joe Biden and Ezekiel Emanuel to talk about how you're not going to get a vaccine.

00:35:30.000 Your thoughts, Scott?

00:35:31.000 This 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.

00:35:36.000 That didn't happen before, and that is why the war, the ideological war that is coming, is truly coming in the form of information.

00:35:44.000 Big 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.

00:35:57.000 That is correct.

00:35:58.000 We are in a very unique time in history.

00:36:00.000 I would say right now what is changing with media, it's about the change to the media landscape.

00:36:07.000 The 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.

00:36:17.000 Yeah.

00:36:18.000 Yeah, absolutely.

00:36:18.000 It's that big of a shift, and they know it.

00:36:21.000 Yeah, and this could be one of those inflection points in history where you see a pivot.

00:36:25.000 You 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.

00:36:33.000 This could be one of those moments in history where the curtain does get pulled back just a little bit on a national scale.

00:36:33.000 Right.

00:36:40.000 I don't know.

00:36:40.000 Do we know, did CNN run that at all?

00:36:42.000 The Secretary of State from Georgia?

00:36:43.000 No, I didn't see that at all.

00:36:44.000 I haven't seen it on there.

00:36:45.000 They haven't run it at all?

00:36:46.000 I've been watching all morning.

00:36:47.000 I didn't see that.

00:36:48.000 It's kind of a big deal.

00:36:49.000 It's kind of a big deal.

00:36:50.000 They'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.

00:37:05.000 They're not even covering it.

00:37:08.000 Again, you tell me.

00:37:10.000 Is it newsworthy? 0.85

00:37:11.000 I don't know, maybe I'm nuts.

00:37:12.000 And yeah, the next step is probably going to be like, recounts are voter suppression or something.

00:37:17.000 Yeah, you'll see that, right?

00:37:18.000 Yeah, 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.

00:37:30.000 You know what else was an unpopular view while we're talking about those?

00:37:33.000 That there should be a recount in Florida, which went on for 37 days.

00:37:36.000 I'm glad that we did it both ways.

00:37:37.000 Ted Cruz actually worked on that legal team.

00:37:39.000 We'll be talking with him in a little bit.

00:37:41.000 Oh, I didn't know that.

00:37:41.000 Yeah, on the Florida case.

00:37:42.000 You were about to say something interesting.

00:37:42.000 Yeah.

00:37:43.000 Well, 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?

00:37:50.000 Until their guy looked like he could claim victory.

00:37:53.000 Right.

00:37:54.000 I 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.

00:38:00.000 And by the way, while we're talking about media, this is my favorite clip from It Just Happened Yesterday, an anchor at MSN.

00:38:06.000 Have you seen this?

00:38:07.000 I don't know why it's not more viral than this correspondent on MSNBC.

00:38:13.000 having a really bad day.

00:38:14.000 Reinian has some new reporting on something that we talked about at the top of the hour,

00:38:19.000 how the Trump administration is handling the transition with the incoming Biden team or

00:38:25.000 not handling it, we should say, to a certain extent. This time,

00:38:29.000 it involves our intelligence community. Ken, what have you learned, sir?

00:38:33.000 Oh, ****. ****. 0.91

00:38:41.000 Okay I think we lost Ken for a second.

00:38:46.000 What I love is the escalation of the cuss words.

00:38:50.000 Because everyone knows when you've been in a situation where you're like, I don't know, you're like, I got the biopsy results back. 0.99

00:38:55.000 Like, oh shit. 0.96

00:38:56.000 And then it's like, It's positive. 1.00

00:38:58.000 Oh, that's the thing.

00:38:59.000 There's an escalation that it got worse.

00:39:02.000 But here's the thing.

00:39:03.000 Yeah, it actually and I know we like to have a laugh, but it actually makes more sense.

00:39:08.000 We have exclusive when you understand the context because that was something that a lot of people didn't cover.

00:39:14.000 How the Trump administration is handling the transition with the incoming Biden team or Not handling it, we should say, to a certain extent.

00:39:34.000 It involves our intelligence community.

00:39:37.000 Is it not working?

00:39:38.000 Today is an absolute disaster.

00:39:40.000 What happened?

00:39:40.000 Really?

00:39:41.000 Well, Quarterback Garrett, he got the COVID.

00:39:43.000 Did he put COVID in the TriCaster?

00:39:45.000 I think the TriCaster has the coronavirus.

00:39:46.000 The TriCaster has the coronavirus.

00:39:47.000 You can no longer smell or taste.

00:39:48.000 You know what might have been the mistake?

00:39:49.000 After he left, we sprayed down the TriCaster to try and sanitize it.

00:39:53.000 Well, I thought you said dip the TriCaster.

00:39:55.000 You told me to spray?

00:39:56.000 Yeah, no.

00:39:58.000 Stop trying to act like you're a janitor.

00:40:01.000 ...show for 45 minutes and then say, can I leave early?

00:40:04.000 Ted Cruz?

00:40:04.000 30 minutes?

00:40:07.000 Alright, so we do have the context now.

00:40:10.000 And hopefully it still matters.

00:40:13.000 That MSNBC reporter, I understand why he was so... The context makes it more understandable.

00:40:20.000 How the Trump administration is handling the transition with the incoming Biden team, or not handling it, we should say, to a certain extent.

00:40:29.000 This time, it involves our intelligence community.

00:40:33.000 Ken, what have you learned, sir? 0.99

00:40:34.000 Oh, sh**. 0.96

00:40:36.000 there will be a smooth transition to a second Trump administration. 0.98

00:40:39.000 Okay.

00:40:50.000 I think it was worth it.

00:40:50.000 You know what?

00:40:51.000 It was.

00:40:52.000 It definitely was worth it.

00:40:54.000 I apologize for the technical difficulties.

00:40:54.000 That's awesome.

00:40:56.000 I will say we far out-punted our coverage with you, the viewer-ship, than our technical capabilities sometimes.

00:41:03.000 We'll fix that.

00:41:05.000 But we're glad you're here.

00:41:06.000 Oh look right now, hold on, on CNN, state election officials, no evidence of widespread voter fraud.

00:41:12.000 Again, 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.

00:41:23.000 We have thousands of people who voted who are out-of-state residents or potentially dead.

00:41:28.000 We have many, many thousands of votes in question.

00:41:31.000 By the way, From election officials.

00:41:33.000 I don't know.

00:41:34.000 Is the Secretary of State of Georgia not considered an election official?

00:41:37.000 Because we just ran that video they didn't show you.

00:41:40.000 And widespread is not the issue, it's whether it's targeted.

00:41:43.000 Whether it's strategic and aimed at the places where it can make a difference.

00:41:47.000 They're trying to try out this widespread thing to be like, oh there's no widespread and you have to agree with that.

00:41:51.000 Let me give you some context because I talked about how mail-in ballots were accepted at a rate of about 30 times.

00:41:57.000 And 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.

00:42:04.000 And people are like, whoa, I told you it wasn't the right ratio.

00:42:07.000 The rejection for Maryland ballots previously was about 1%, OK?

00:42:12.000 And now it's about 0.03%.

00:42:14.000 So people say, well, maybe it's not widespread.

00:42:16.000 Sure, if you just, okay, that doesn't sound widespread, the rejection of .03%.

00:42:19.000 But let's say that what happened, let's use, this is closer to the actual ratio.

00:42:24.000 100,000 votes.

00:42:26.000 100,000 votes in 2016, and you also see this in other primaries in California, 100,000 ballots alone in a primary they were rejected.

00:42:26.000 Okay?

00:42:34.000 100,000 votes used to be 1,000 of them would be rejected.

00:42:37.000 Okay?

00:42:39.000 Now it's...

00:42:40.000 337-ish.

00:42:41.000 Yeah.

00:42:43.000 How many people vote in a state like Georgia?

00:42:46.000 So you add up a hundred, so at the end of a million votes, now that differential... Bigger number.

00:42:52.000 Is what? 10,000.

00:42:54.000 Potentially.

00:42:55.000 Now we go to a state that maybe has, I don't know, 4 million votes?

00:42:59.000 6 million votes?

00:43:01.000 9 million votes?

00:43:02.000 Those aren't technical numbers.

00:43:05.000 Those are fighting numbers, to be really clear.

00:43:07.000 When 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.

00:43:18.000 It matters why these ballots were accepted as opposed to rejected, and it matters where this occurred, and what really matters is the oversight.

00:43:25.000 What kind of accountability has there been?

00:43:28.000 And as far as we know, there hasn't been any accountability, because who's going to hold them accountable?

00:43:31.000 Well, we can't have poll watchers.

00:43:33.000 They're not allowed in.

00:43:34.000 Well, we can't have the media, because they're just saying nothing has happened.

00:43:37.000 And apparently the media says that no election officials are chiming in on this.

00:43:42.000 So the RNC chair, the Secretary of State in Georgia, these are merely images of the past.

00:43:49.000 Well, 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.

00:43:58.000 There's probably not going to be any evidence presented.

00:44:00.000 Listen, we don't know what Kayleigh McEnany is going to say, but you know what?

00:44:05.000 Let's just fill in the blanks. Nothing. Yeah, exactly. Blah blah blah. Blah blah blah blah. Look, I have a crucifix on

00:44:15.000 my head. And instead she's like, 4,500 here, 6,200 there.

00:44:21.000 Look, blah blah blah. Yeah. Well look, there are 72 million Americans who voted for Donald Trump, roughly, right now,

00:44:28.000 that want an answer to this question And so people are thinking, oh, we're going to disenfranchise half the country.

00:44:31.000 Okay, by your own example, you'll just disenfranchise the other half into thinking that the election was stolen.

00:44:36.000 So one way or another, this is going to happen.

00:44:39.000 I just want to know the real results.

00:44:41.000 If we feel like it was stolen and we have the best results possible, fine, we'll deal with that.

00:44:45.000 But I cannot think that we don't have actual legitimate elections anymore.

00:44:49.000 And we are waiting on Senator Ted Cruz to come in.

00:44:51.000 Do we have the chats of questions that people would like to see?

00:44:54.000 So these are some of your chats.

00:44:55.000 We don't do it on YouTube because screw them.

00:44:55.000 Exclusive again.

00:44:58.000 But these are from people on Mug Club, The Blaze.

00:45:01.000 What would they like me to ask Ted Cruz?

00:45:02.000 So Jesse says a question for Ted Cruz.

00:45:05.000 With 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?

00:45:16.000 Both.

00:45:17.000 Both.

00:45:17.000 Think of it as a hedge fund.

00:45:18.000 Diversify your portfolio.

00:45:19.000 You should be doing both.

00:45:20.000 That's what we do.

00:45:21.000 We'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.

00:45:32.000 That's why we're on Facebook, we're on YouTube, we're on Instagram.

00:45:35.000 Obviously, 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? 0.69

00:45:43.000 We do have Senator Ted Cruz.

00:45:45.000 Senator Ted Cruz is his podcast, I should say, in case you guys need some other information on him.

00:45:49.000 People are like, who?

00:45:50.000 If I say his podcast is Verdict, where you can, you know, download whatever podcast, people go, oh, Senator Ted Cruz!

00:45:56.000 Of course!

00:45:57.000 No, they already know.

00:45:58.000 It's Senator Ted Cruz.

00:45:59.000 The Cruz-a-reen.

00:46:00.000 The Wolver-Cruz.

00:46:01.000 This guy, I will say, has absolutely been on this like a dog on a bone, and I highly recommend that you do pay attention to his podcast.

00:46:08.000 Senator Ted Cruz, can you hear me, sir?

00:46:11.000 Stephen, good to be with you.

00:46:11.000 I can.

00:46:13.000 I am glad to have you on the show as well.

00:46:15.000 You know, something just remarkable just happened live while we were broadcasting.

00:46:18.000 CNN was saying there's no evidence whatsoever of any kind of voter fraud or irregularities.

00:46:25.000 I think the two have been conflated.

00:46:26.000 And of course, the Georgia Secretary of State just said they're going to do a manual recount.

00:46:31.000 That was not aired on CNN at any point.

00:46:34.000 This is really concerning to us.

00:46:36.000 We've obviously been covering it.

00:46:37.000 What is the path here?

00:46:39.000 What is the strategy with specific Senator Ted Cruz?

00:46:41.000 Because something needs to happen quickly for Americans to not lose faith.

00:46:46.000 Yeah, look, you're exactly right.

00:46:47.000 I'm sure the CNN story was amplifying the New York Times headline today.

00:46:52.000 Banner headline that no voter fraud anywhere in America.

00:46:57.000 And 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?

00:47:08.000 And they responded, no, no, we didn't steal the election.

00:47:13.000 This is a legal process.

00:47:14.000 Don't get too wonky for us, Senator Cruz.

00:47:18.000 It's a little bizarre.

00:47:19.000 It's like, you know, we called all the bank robbers and they promised us there are no bank robberies in America.

00:47:24.000 Right.

00:47:26.000 If there is fraud, and you're asking the people who are running it, they're going to tell you there's not.

00:47:33.000 This is not subtle reporting.

00:47:35.000 But you know what?

00:47:36.000 The New York Times knows that.

00:47:37.000 They want to write that headline.

00:47:39.000 Well, let me ask you this, because they keep saying there's no evidence of fraud.

00:47:41.000 And I think we understand there's a difference between fraud and irregularity.

00:47:44.000 So coming up to the election, we document this.

00:47:47.000 We had a tallying.

00:47:48.000 We had kind of a total tally.

00:47:49.000 The latter brand will fix.

00:47:51.000 Right.

00:47:52.000 Yes.

00:47:52.000 What was that?

00:47:53.000 I didn't hear what you said.

00:47:54.000 Who will fix?

00:47:55.000 The latter, irregularities, regular brand will fix.

00:48:00.000 Oh, and I stepped on your joke and it was a poop joke, which is wonderful. 1.00

00:48:06.000 I know my host.

00:48:07.000 Yes, absolutely. 0.95

00:48:08.000 It's a crappy show.

00:48:10.000 But we love having you on.

00:48:12.000 So they say no, because we were always very clear there were up to 2.7 million ballots that we said could be compromised.

00:48:17.000 Could 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.

00:48:29.000 We were very clear in saying that The media just keeps saying no hard evidence of voter fraud.

00:48:34.000 So let me ask you this.

00:48:36.000 Specifically, what evidence is there either of irregularities?

00:48:39.000 We've covered quite a few here, right?

00:48:40.000 How many ballots could have been accepted beyond the actual election date?

00:48:45.000 Something that's really suspicious, of course, is that mail-in ballots have been accepted.

00:48:49.000 At a rate of 30 times what they were accepted in 2016.

00:48:54.000 Allegheny County, you know, their Board of Elections, they just said they had to count over 2,000 undated ballots.

00:48:59.000 We personally, on this show, went through voter rolls in Michigan, Senator Cruz, and we found obituaries of the people who voted.

00:49:06.000 Now, I can't say that there are many thousands because I don't have the research crew, but we confirmed dozens.

00:49:11.000 What hard evidence is there of either irregularities or voter fraud?

00:49:16.000 What do you plan to take into battle?

00:49:18.000 Well, Stephen, I'll tell you what evidence matters, and that is the evidence presented by the legal teams in court in the formal challenge.

00:49:26.000 And here's how this operates.

00:49:28.000 We had the election eight days ago.

00:49:31.000 After the election, there have been multiple lawsuits filed across the country in multiple states challenging the results.

00:49:39.000 Either calling for recounts, mandatory recounts, or contest litigation, other cases challenging the results.

00:49:47.000 It'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.

00:49:59.000 That 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.

00:50:09.000 And 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.

00:50:18.000 You watch Twitter, you see allegations all over the place.

00:50:21.000 It's not clear, you know, is it zombies rising from the dead all voting what's going on.

00:50:29.000 What matters is what they can prove in court.

00:50:32.000 And the process we have to determine what the evidence is, is the legal adjudicatory function.

00:50:38.000 And so there'll be cases in state court and federal court.

00:50:40.000 where the fact finders, either the jury or the judge, will listen to the evidence

00:50:44.000 and conclude what the facts demonstrate. And then from there, if the Trump campaign is able

00:50:50.000 to demonstrate that a sufficient number of votes were illegally cast, such that they should not be

00:50:55.000 included, they may be able to flip some or all of the vote totals. But that's what it will take

00:51:00.000 to change the result from where the tallies are right now.

00:51:03.000 Well, let me ask you, because that's the legal battle, but what do you believe the strongest

00:51:08.000 arguments are for Americans?

00:51:10.000 What should they know here?

00:51:11.000 Because 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.

00:51:16.000 But 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?

00:51:27.000 Because 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.

00:51:34.000 Where would you say Americans should look?

00:51:36.000 What's the strongest point?

00:51:38.000 So Stephen, the strongest point I would say is start at the beginning, which is wait and let the process play out.

00:51:44.000 The legal process, these results are still being contested in court.

00:51:49.000 And I'll give you an example.

00:51:50.000 So the media has now called it for Joe Biden.

00:51:52.000 They want everyone to shut up and they say if you dare disagree with their call, that you're somehow undermining democracy.

00:51:59.000 Well, that's not actually the way our Constitution works.

00:52:02.000 It's not the media that picks the president.

00:52:03.000 It's the American people.

00:52:04.000 It's the voters.

00:52:06.000 And let me point to a very specific example.

00:52:08.000 Okay.

00:52:08.000 Which is in the year 2000.

00:52:10.000 Bush versus Gore.

00:52:12.000 The media on election night called the election for Al Gore.

00:52:16.000 I was working on the George W. Bush campaign.

00:52:18.000 That's where I met Heidi, my wife.

00:52:19.000 Right.

00:52:20.000 I remember that night.

00:52:21.000 They said, Gore has won Florida.

00:52:23.000 Al Gore is the next president of the United States.

00:52:26.000 All sorts of red, white, and blue.

00:52:27.000 Ta-da! 1.00

00:52:28.000 The media makes the call.

00:52:29.000 Right.

00:52:29.000 They just had one problem.

00:52:31.000 The votes weren't there.

00:52:32.000 As they counted the votes, George W. Bush had more votes in Florida than Al Gore.

00:52:38.000 Now, they ended up retracting their call because they realized it was catastrophically wrong, and by the way, every network was catastrophically wrong.

00:52:46.000 And 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.

00:52:56.000 Was it 37 days?

00:52:58.000 So it was 36 days, and there were a total of four recounts that happened in Florida.

00:53:03.000 So the Al Gore team came in.

00:53:04.000 Every time the votes were counted, George W. Bush won.

00:53:08.000 Won every single recount.

00:53:10.000 I was part of the legal team and you and I have talked before on your show about my new book, One Vote Away.

00:53:16.000 Yes, One Vote Away.

00:53:16.000 There's an entire chapter on One Vote Away on Bush versus Gore.

00:53:20.000 So 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.

00:53:29.000 Go to Amazon and buy one vote away.

00:53:31.000 It's actually been five weeks in the New York Times bestseller list, which, as you know, drives them back.

00:53:36.000 Yeah, they really don't want you to be in the New York Times bestseller list.

00:53:39.000 Like, Chelsea Handler, can you write another book about drinking and sleeping with a lot of people, please? 1.00

00:53:44.000 Whatever it takes to bump him off.

00:53:46.000 Hardcover, softcover, non-fiction, digital.

00:53:49.000 Give me something!

00:53:50.000 Let me ask you this.

00:53:51.000 Because the difference between Florida and this, obviously, there's one state, Florida.

00:53:55.000 Now there are many.

00:53:56.000 And really, Florida comes down to too close to call, right?

00:54:00.000 That's what it was.

00:54:00.000 That's why we needed the recount.

00:54:02.000 Nowhere 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.

00:54:17.000 So now that we're looking at a multi-pronged approach, what should the rollout plan be?

00:54:22.000 Does there need to be a priority on one specific state?

00:54:24.000 Is maybe Georgia the right place to try and put all hands on deck since the Secretary of State is starting now?

00:54:29.000 He started the process with a manual recount.

00:54:32.000 Look, 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.

00:54:41.000 And 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.

00:55:02.000 Yeah.

00:55:04.000 But set aside Georgia for a second.

00:55:06.000 Let me take your broader question.

00:55:08.000 Where we are right now, let me give you good news and bad news.

00:55:12.000 The good news is, one reason to have some degree- Wait, hold on a second, hold on a second.

00:55:16.000 You didn't ask me if I want the good news first or the bad news first.

00:55:19.000 My doctor usually does that. 0.99

00:55:20.000 He 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. 0.99

00:55:26.000 Alright, you can speak first and then I'll amputate. 1.00

00:55:28.000 Okay, alright. 0.94

00:55:29.000 Good.

00:55:33.000 The good news.

00:55:34.000 Okay.

00:55:35.000 If 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.

00:55:46.000 The early ballots cast by mail, Biden won the significant majority of those.

00:55:53.000 If you look historically at election recounts or election contests, In-person ballots tend to be pretty reliable.

00:56:00.000 There's less opportunity for mischief with in-person voting, so typically the votes count on election day stand.

00:56:08.000 Where 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.

00:56:20.000 ballots are examined more closely that some meaningful percentage of the early mail-in

00:56:25.000 votes will be discarded as contrary to law, which means more Biden votes are likely to

00:56:30.000 go away than Trump votes.

00:56:31.000 So that's good news that we could see these totals shrinking.

00:56:35.000 The bad news you referred to is twofold.

00:56:39.000 Number one, some of these margins are pretty big.

00:56:43.000 In Pennsylvania, it's 45,000 votes.

00:56:45.000 Look, Bush versus Gore in Florida, we had a couple thousand votes.

00:56:49.000 45,000 is a lot of votes.

00:56:51.000 In Michigan, it's 130,000 votes is Biden's lead.

00:56:56.000 Those are big vote totals.

00:56:58.000 Because to prevail, you've got to demonstrate in the court that that many ballots are illegally cast, and you can't just make generalities.

00:57:07.000 It has to be specifically proven up.

00:57:10.000 Here's also what makes it challenging.

00:57:13.000 To win, to flip the outcome, the Trump legal team has to run the table.

00:57:18.000 They can't just win in one state.

00:57:19.000 They can't just win in Pennsylvania.

00:57:21.000 They can't just win in Georgia.

00:57:22.000 They've got to win in multiple states.

00:57:24.000 And so that becomes harder Because Biden has a lead in several of these states from Georgia to Arizona to Michigan to Pennsylvania to Nevada.

00:57:35.000 And 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.

00:57:45.000 And so my advice to everyone is just calm down and relax and let the process play out.

00:57:50.000 That doesn't mean pop the champagne and celebrate that Trump's gonna win.

00:57:54.000 We need to let the process play out and see what happens.

00:57:57.000 But don't also accept what the media is saying, which is, don't even bother with the litigation.

00:58:03.000 We say it's over, so you must think it's over.

00:58:06.000 Right.

00:58:06.000 Well, yeah, and I understand what you're saying.

00:58:08.000 Obviously the margins are pretty big in some states, but not in all states.

00:58:12.000 And 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.

00:58:19.000 Those have actually been referred to, you know, AG Bart.

00:58:22.000 No, 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.

00:58:29.000 We 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.

00:58:37.000 We 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?

00:58:46.000 This is a concern, too, is how can you tell?

00:58:48.000 That's something that's hard to prove, for example, if a ballot was tampered with because no poll watchers were allowed in.

00:58:55.000 We 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.

00:59:02.000 But how is that?

00:59:05.000 How do you walk through that in a court of law?

00:59:07.000 I think that's the concern of a lot of Americans.

00:59:08.000 And if it were honest, we could be within those margins, but some of it is tough to prove.

00:59:13.000 Well, it is difficult.

00:59:15.000 If you look at excluding poll watchers, we know that happened.

00:59:18.000 We know that happened in Philadelphia.

00:59:19.000 We know it happened in Detroit.

00:59:20.000 In Detroit, they covered up the ballot counting room with poster board so you couldn't look in.

00:59:27.000 In Pennsylvania, initially what they were insisting is that the Republican ballot watchers be 20 feet away or 25 feet away.

00:59:34.000 Well, if you ever tried to watch a ballot 25 feet away, you can't actually observe it.

00:59:38.000 You can't see anything.

00:59:39.000 You're not Functionally an observer if you're 25 feet away on the other side of the room.

00:59:44.000 The Trump campaign went to state court in Pennsylvania, got an order that they had to be within six feet.

00:59:50.000 Even six feet is tough, but six feet is a lot better than 25 feet to be able to see what's going on.

00:59:56.000 What is challenging in that instance is the remedy.

01:00:01.000 And as a legal matter, what you do about the violation, it is not Crystal clear what you do about it.

01:00:07.000 You may, to the extent you can, segregate the votes that were counted without observers.

01:00:13.000 One remedy may be a recount focused on those votes to go examine them again.

01:00:16.000 I will say most courts, and this is true of state courts or federal courts, are very reluctant to exclude votes. It's a high threshold

01:00:26.000 to get votes thrown out.

01:00:28.000 Right. So the remedy for excluding the ballot watchers legally is a minefield.

01:00:34.000 And I think the problem is not such a high threshold for votes to be thrown in. It's just

01:00:38.000 aah, toss them in on a red wagon with the rest of them. And, you know, I think people don't understand.

01:00:42.000 You're voicing what a lot of Americans are trying to voice right now and don't have your platform.

01:00:47.000 Their vote is diluted.

01:00:49.000 Their vote is diluted when other people are not following the same process and we don't know.

01:00:54.000 But like you're saying, courts are reluctant because they don't want to dilute votes.

01:00:58.000 But that's precisely what's already happened.

01:01:00.000 So 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.

01:01:08.000 They just filed a lawsuit in Pennsylvania, I believe, yesterday.

01:01:13.000 With 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.

01:01:23.000 And that's what they're trying to present.

01:01:25.000 And I talked with Catherine.

01:01:27.000 I've talked with President Trump and with Jared Kushner and with the White House.

01:01:32.000 What I've told them is they need serious lawyers to present evidence at this point.

01:01:36.000 It can't be One or lost in the world of social media.

01:01:44.000 It's got to be facts and evidence in court.

01:01:48.000 And by the way, you can do it.

01:01:49.000 You know, I talked about Bush versus Gore, as I describe in the chapter in One Vote Away.

01:01:56.000 We did that whole thing.

01:01:57.000 There were, I think, seven different cases in Florida, all challenging the results of the election.

01:02:03.000 We had a full trial in state court.

01:02:05.000 We went to the Florida Supreme Court twice.

01:02:08.000 We went to the U.S.

01:02:09.000 Supreme Court twice.

01:02:10.000 And 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.

01:02:19.000 And we did all of that in 36 days.

01:02:21.000 The courts can move quickly.

01:02:25.000 Uh, when there is urgency, but we need serious legal teams to present that case and to create the basis for the courts to act.

01:02:33.000 And that's tough to do in Florida, because their Supreme Court is just an alligator in a judge's wake.

01:02:38.000 So, um, no, but I do, and I know that you're busy, but I really do have to ask you just a couple of questions.

01:02:42.000 Let's do an apples to apples comparison, because Florida, right, we'll take that, that's a state.

01:02:46.000 Michigan.

01:02:47.000 We already have more evidence in Michigan of, again, irregularities or errors.

01:02:51.000 We 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.

01:02:58.000 That's already more than Florida, just in Michigan, and these are just mistakes where people said, whoops.

01:03:04.000 These aren't the byproducts of investigations.

01:03:07.000 So 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?

01:03:17.000 There is.

01:03:18.000 It's clear there were some hard partisans.

01:03:20.000 You know, you mentioned the 6,000 vote flip in Michigan.

01:03:22.000 That'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.

01:03:31.000 Right.

01:03:32.000 That switched 6,000 votes from Donald Trump to Joe Biden.

01:03:36.000 Right.

01:03:38.000 The good news is the system caught it.

01:03:40.000 They saw the results and the results were out of kilter with what they were expecting.

01:03:44.000 They went back and did a hand recount and they discovered the glitch.

01:03:47.000 And so they fixed it.

01:03:48.000 That gives some comfort that they fixed it in that one county.

01:03:52.000 But that same software just in Michigan is used in a total of 47 counties.

01:03:57.000 In 30 states.

01:03:57.000 Now, the local officials there are arguing this glitch was idiosyncratic just to this county and it was based on human error.

01:04:08.000 Maybe.

01:04:09.000 But 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.

01:04:22.000 Yeah.

01:04:22.000 Let's examine each of the other 46 Right.

01:04:27.000 No, we don't know if it did, but what we do know is it happened there and we had an honest poll worker.

01:04:34.000 And we do know that we had other poll workers who were boarding up the precinct with Bristol boards and not allowing people in.

01:04:39.000 So in other words, if that same scenario occurs with someone else who is not and there have been no investigations, that can be a

01:04:46.000 magnitude of which we've never seen.

01:04:48.000 Here's one thing that I do, and I know I will let you go because I know how busy you are.

01:04:51.000 You're a senator. I'm a guy who hosts a show in pajamas packing heat.

01:04:54.000 But there was this private interaction with Washington Post.

01:04:57.000 I don't know if you've had experience with him.

01:04:59.000 Steven, I've got to ask, by the way, those pajamas, were those actually – did you get them from Hef's estate sale?

01:05:04.000 No, I did not. I got them from – This is actually from the Planet Hollywood.

01:05:10.000 When you get to the worst towns, like in Schenectady, it's just Tim Allen's pajamas from the Santa Claus.

01:05:15.000 They don't get the Judge Dredd uniform or the Terminator glasses.

01:05:19.000 This is a Scott Calvin pajamas!

01:05:22.000 But remember that glitch that happened?

01:05:24.000 It ended up being a typo of 128,000 votes that just went to Biden.

01:05:28.000 All of them went to Biden, right?

01:05:29.000 Overnight.

01:05:30.000 I believe this was in Michigan, I believe.

01:05:32.000 I believe it was Michigan, Wisconsin.

01:05:33.000 I can't remember the state.

01:05:34.000 But there was private interaction.

01:05:35.000 I'm bringing up this image here.

01:05:37.000 You can't see it, but for the public.

01:05:39.000 This was sent to Philip Bump of Washington Post before we knew it was a typo.

01:05:42.000 Senator Cruz and he said we have the counted votes in a mostly pro-biden area. That's not complicated

01:05:47.000 So in other words at this moment in time, he said the Washington Post their national correspondent

01:05:52.000 Yeah, 128,000 votes at 4 30 morning all for Biden nothing to investigate here

01:05:56.000 Which to me says we found out it was a typo, but there is no voter fraud or irregularities

01:06:02.000 There there There is no voter fraud that would actually warrant investigation from the media.

01:06:07.000 And that's what concerns me most with big tech.

01:06:09.000 And we know that we're having these hearings.

01:06:11.000 Please, please, please don't call me to the floor.

01:06:14.000 How do you see this playing out with the fact-checking right now when they have no interest in the truth?

01:06:21.000 Well, listen, as you know, the media Trump broke the media.

01:06:28.000 They're not even trying.

01:06:29.000 They hate him so much.

01:06:31.000 Of 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.

01:06:43.000 And if possible, big tech is even worse.

01:06:46.000 I mean, you've had experiences with YouTube demonetizing you, downscaling your viewership.

01:06:54.000 We've seen... Right now, Big Tech is silencing the President's tweets.

01:07:01.000 They're putting election warnings on anyone raising a question about the election.

01:07:05.000 They put warnings and try to silence them and prevent people from seeing it.

01:07:08.000 There's a warning on this right now, Senator Cruz.

01:07:10.000 Right now, below this here.

01:07:13.000 I am sure there is.

01:07:16.000 By the way, let me say, even as you are, like, Edgy comedian.

01:07:21.000 Please, please, please don't grow the bizarre Rasputin beard that Jack Dorsey has.

01:07:27.000 I'm just saying.

01:07:28.000 No, I'll do my best.

01:07:30.000 I can't afford to replace the bird feeders.

01:07:34.000 That guy, I don't know, he showed up looking like he lost his Wilson.

01:07:37.000 And 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.

01:07:51.000 When is something going to get done?

01:07:53.000 Done.

01:07:53.000 We just watched on CNN, Senator Cruz.

01:07:56.000 It happened live.

01:07:57.000 And 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.

01:08:13.000 This has never happened before in human history, this ability to actually accurately fact-check information. There was someone on CNN,

01:08:19.000 an Asian reporter, who said, he said, well, it looks like Facebook have taken some steps

01:08:24.000 to remove some pages that may be associated with Steve Bannon because those views may appear

01:08:30.000 more popular than they are. It wasn't.

01:08:32.000 These are untrue. They said on air, isn't it good that Facebook is removing views

01:08:38.000 because they're not popular? That to me is terrifying. What can be done?

01:08:45.000 Look, and as you know, big tech banned the New York Post.

01:08:49.000 Twitter took down their page for two weeks and wouldn't let them post.

01:08:55.000 New York Post has the fourth highest circulation of any newspaper in America.

01:08:59.000 Right.

01:08:59.000 Big Tech asserts the power to edit and determine what stories you're allowed to publish, and it is completely unhinged.

01:09:07.000 You look at the media, you talk about CNN.

01:09:09.000 You 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.

01:09:19.000 The building on fire behind him.

01:09:21.000 And 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.

01:09:30.000 But I don't even know how you would... That's beyond a Far Side cartoon.

01:09:35.000 There's nothing left to make fun of because they're self-parodying.

01:09:38.000 Your question is, what can we do about it?

01:09:41.000 Alright, there are different players in government that can do different things. 0.91

01:09:46.000 In 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.

01:09:56.000 So they have the ability to stop any legislation.

01:10:00.000 The other thing I can do is shine a light.

01:10:02.000 I 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.

01:10:12.000 The other part of government under a constitutional system is the executive branch.

01:10:16.000 The executive branch has the ability to convene a grand jury.

01:10:19.000 The executive branch has the ability to bring an indictment.

01:10:21.000 The executive branch has the ability to bring an enforcement action.

01:10:25.000 I 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.

01:10:48.000 These are all of the executive branch officials with authority to bring actions.

01:10:52.000 Right.

01:10:52.000 The Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission.

01:10:55.000 The Trump administration has done some of it.

01:10:58.000 I think the president is frustrated.

01:11:00.000 He wants them to do more, but his team has not executed nearly as effectively as they need to.

01:11:08.000 Here's the discouraging piece.

01:11:10.000 If Joe Biden is elected, the executive branch will do zero.

01:11:14.000 Big Tech will run the Biden administration if Joe Biden becomes president.

01:11:19.000 And 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.

01:11:31.000 What if there happened to be clear, irrefutable evidence, let's say, of one of these people acting as a publisher directly?

01:11:41.000 In 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.

01:11:52.000 Is that something that could circumvent just the state, the legislature, and actually be fought in the courts if it's a criminal action?

01:12:00.000 So, very possibly.

01:12:04.000 Recently, Justice Clarence Thomas wrote an opinion at the Supreme Court.

01:12:08.000 Justice Thomas's opinion is a big deal.

01:12:09.000 that the interpretation most of the courts of appeals have put out of section 230 of the

01:12:14.000 Communications Decency Act, which has immunized big tech from legal scrutiny, that that interpretation

01:12:21.000 is wrong. Justice Thomas's opinion is a big deal. He wrote it out there. I do think,

01:12:27.000 especially 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.

01:12:40.000 And that needs to be litigated.

01:12:42.000 That is a multi-year process.

01:12:44.000 That won't be done in 36 days.

01:12:46.000 That will be done over a course of 2, 3, 4, 5 years.

01:12:49.000 But we need smart, serious lawyers doing that. 0.56

01:12:52.000 And there is some hope for that.

01:12:56.000 There is...

01:12:58.000 Growing Agreement, Section 230.

01:13:02.000 was designed for a different world and needs to be changed.

01:13:05.000 How it needs to be changed is going to be a big legislative argument for a long time.

01:13:05.000 Right.

01:13:10.000 Yeah, absolutely.

01:13:11.000 And we'll talk about it more.

01:13:12.000 I know when you have more time, you're busy.

01:13:14.000 This is an election.

01:13:14.000 There's a lot going on.

01:13:15.000 The state of our constitutional republic just so happened to hang in the balance.

01:13:21.000 But Senator Ted Cruz, the podcast is Verdict, and the book is One Vote Away.

01:13:26.000 That is available on Amazon Everywhere books are sold, correct?

01:13:29.000 It is.

01:13:30.000 Amazon.

01:13:31.000 Anywhere books are sold.

01:13:33.000 I'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.

01:13:41.000 See, that's much more acceptable than pulling a tube in.

01:13:41.000 Very nice.

01:13:45.000 Just some slippers.

01:13:46.000 Good.

01:13:46.000 Family-friendly.

01:13:47.000 We appreciate it, Senator Chris.

01:13:49.000 Thank you so much.

01:13:50.000 Thanks for taking the time, Senator.

01:13:50.000 I know you have work to get to.

01:13:51.000 Alright.

01:13:52.000 Take care.

01:13:52.000 Thanks, David.

01:13:53.000 Thank you.

01:13:54.000 You know what, I will say this about Senator Cruz.

01:13:56.000 I 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.

01:14:05.000 As long as he keeps it this way, you know, it'd be interesting to see him take another crack at a presidential run.

01:14:11.000 Absolutely.

01:14:11.000 And doesn't it make you feel better that Ted Cruz is on it?

01:14:14.000 Yeah, that he's on it.

01:14:15.000 But 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.

01:14:26.000 You know what he's saying?

01:14:27.000 That he needs good lawyers to bring forward these cases and do it quickly, not on Twitter.

01:14:31.000 And listen, I understand what he's saying.

01:14:33.000 That's why we are on YouTube.

01:14:34.000 That's why we are on Twitter.

01:14:35.000 That's why we are on social media.

01:14:37.000 We can do that.

01:14:37.000 We can provide you with the information and third party sources so that you can do your own research.

01:14:41.000 But it is a different job for the president And it's legal counsel.

01:14:46.000 And I think it's time for them to get moving and have some results to show for it.

01:14:51.000 Otherwise, big tech and media, they win.

01:14:54.000 Because right now it's a battle of he said, she said.

01:14:56.000 The fact is, that's not where we are.

01:14:57.000 There is evidence.

01:14:58.000 They're wrong.

01:14:59.000 They're lying.

01:14:59.000 But 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.

01:15:10.000 All 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.

01:15:29.000 That'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.

01:15:41.000 But 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.

01:15:55.000 And 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.

01:16:04.000 And 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.

01:16:12.000 If 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.

01:16:19.000 I have something to do about it.

01:16:20.000 Let's have a Me Too poll workers edition.

01:16:22.000 Hey, I like it.

01:16:23.000 All right, well listen, thank you very much everyone who's watching on YouTube.

01:16:26.000 Of course, send in your comments or questions because we always can have Senator Ted Cruz back.

01:16:30.000 But right now we are going to go exclusively to those on the blaze and take your chats because YouTube likely already demonetized.

01:16:38.000 In fact, check this video.

01:16:39.000 So YouTube, you can piss off.

Louder with Crowder - November 11, 2020

FIGHT! Ted Cruz Lays Out New Election Battle Plan! | Good Morning #MugClub

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