00:01:13.000His spirit, his love of this country, he's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
00:01:21.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:01:51.000Right now, it looks as if the Senate has taken a break.
00:01:54.000The Senate Judiciary Committee chaired by Senator Lindsey Graham in the potential nomination fight for judge soon to be Justice Amy Coney Barrett.
00:02:06.000The Democrats are having a very difficult time attacking ACB.
00:02:12.000Amy Coney Barrett, out of all of President Trump's Supreme Court nominees, has navigated the landscape of difficult questions, of backlash, of almost a venomous posture from the left better than anyone else.
00:02:30.000She has been direct, factual, and she has had no notes whatsoever.
00:02:41.000Amy Coney Barrett almost taking the senators to Constitutional 101 school, and she was asked about whether or not she was using notes or what notes she was using.
00:02:53.000I don't know if we have sound from this or not, but I want to show the picture up on the live stream.
00:03:15.000I think on that question, you know, I'm going to invoke Justice Kagan's description, which I think is perfectly put.
00:03:23.000When she was in her confirmation hearing, she said that she was not going to grade precedent or give it a thumbs up or a thumbs down.
00:03:29.000And I think in an area where precedent continues to be pressed and litigated, as is true of Casey, it would be particularly, it would actually be wrong and a violation of the canons for me to do that as a sitting judge.
00:03:43.000Invoking Justice Kagan, who of course was nominated by President Barack Obama when Joe Biden was vice president as well, and of course, just glided through the U.S. Senate with almost no issues whatsoever.
00:03:59.000Invoking Justice Kagan is a stroke of political genius by Judge Amy Coney Barrett.
00:04:06.000Now, mind you, they are trying to trap Amy Coney Barrett on this issue of Roe versus Wade.
00:04:10.000Now, Roe versus Wade was a decision that nationalized abortion.
00:04:15.000Now, prior to Roe versus Wade, there were several states across the country that had outlawed abortion.
00:04:23.000The problem with Roe versus Wade is not even the issue of abortion.
00:04:27.000Abortion does stop a beating heart, and abortion does terminate a human life.
00:04:32.000The Roe versus Wade overturned the state mandates.
00:06:06.000This is exactly the right answer she should give cut to.
00:06:10.000Senator, I completely understand why you are asking the question, but again, I can't pre-commit or say, yes, I'm going in with some agenda because I'm not.
00:06:24.000I have no agenda to try to overrule Casey.
00:06:27.000I have an agenda to stick to the rule of law and decide cases as they come.
00:06:33.000And when she's talking about Casey, by the way, she's talking about a specific decision of Planned Parenthood versus Casey.
00:06:40.000It was a 1992 Supreme Court decision that revised and modified its legal rulings in Roe versus Wade.
00:06:47.000In Casey, the court upheld that Roe's holding that the woman's right to choose to have an abortion is constitutionally protected, but it abandoned the trimester framework in favor of basically a fetal viability.
00:07:02.000So there is kind of some nuance there, but the activist abortionists, they are so focused on this issue of can we terminate innocent life.
00:07:12.000It's a, if you want to know the religion of the left, if you want to know the core dogma, you hear that, Diane Feinstein?
00:07:21.000Dogma, because the dogma lives loudly within you.
00:07:25.000Diane Feinstein, of course, attacked Amy Coney Barrett in her hearings to become a federal judge, saying the dogma lives loudly inside of you because Amy Coney Barrett is a practicing and devout Catholic.
00:07:38.000But the dogma lives strongly with Einstein, who believes firmly that abortion is not just a constitutionally protected right, but it should be the forefront of the questioning against a judge.
00:07:54.000Diane Feinstein, who of course had a Chinese driver for 25 years, never misses an opportunity to say something nice about the Chinese Communist Party or peddle their sort of talking points to turn our country against each other.
00:08:06.000Diane Feinstein is the ultimate kind of mob boss leader, similar to Nancy Pelosi.
00:08:14.000We unpacked that in our podcast last week.
00:08:16.000But Diane Feinstein just basically peddles whatever narrative is provided in front of her.
00:08:22.000Cut number six, then Diane Feinstein realizes she's losing on the Roe versus Wade abortion issue, and she immediately goes to racial discrimination in the workforce.
00:09:01.000I know that's a very big word for Diane Feinstein, but abhorrent means that she finds it evil, unacceptable, no tolerance for it at all whatsoever.
00:09:13.000And so Diane Feinstein is trying her best to trip up Amy Coney Barrett.
00:09:19.000And you can almost see a sense of defeat in the way that the Democrats have been handling this.
00:09:24.000They recognize and realize that if they mishandle this hearing, it could be a massive political boost for them.
00:09:35.000That it could be a huge political boost for the Republicans, I should say.
00:09:43.000It could be a massive political hurt or hit to them.
00:09:47.000And so Diane Feinstein tries the racial discrimination aspect of it.
00:09:54.000Segregation is finding its way back into our country.
00:09:57.000We have black-only dormitories on many university campuses across the country.
00:10:01.000They're pushing for black-only math classes.
00:10:04.000Diane Feinstein doesn't mention that in the state of California, they are, again, doing black-only learning centers.
00:10:12.000But Amy Coney Barrett's answer here was terrific.
00:10:14.000Despite what they're throwing at her, no matter what kind of attempts they are making to try to destroy her, Amy Coney Barrett is holding the line beautifully.
00:10:24.000The Democrats know that they're not going to be able to pack the court.
00:10:27.000And we unpacked that in our previous discussion yesterday, where we are talking about how the Democrats do not have the votes to be able to pack the court.
00:10:37.000And they know that this court in this certain sequence of politics is going to be a solidly conservative court.
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00:12:08.000Would you, to protect confidence in both you and the court, would you commit to recuse yourself from any dispute that arises out of the 2020 presidential election?
00:12:21.000I have had no conversation with the president or any of his staff on how I might rule in that case.
00:12:28.000It would be a gross violation of judicial independence for me to make any such commitment.
00:12:34.000So Senator Leahy is insinuating that Amy Coney Barrett is not in a position to rule on a potentially contested election because she was nominated by President Trump.
00:12:46.000He would also make the argument for Gorsuch and Kavanaugh.
00:12:48.000However, Senator Leahy, would you ask Justice Sotomayor or Justice Kagan to not rule on this election?
00:12:59.000Because it was Vice President Biden that actually was the one that was vice president when they were nominated and confirmed to the U.S. Supreme Court.
00:13:09.000And it was Vice President Biden who was the head of the Senate as the Vice President of the United States.
00:13:15.000Would you say that Breyer, that Justice Breyer shouldn't rule on this election, Senator Leahy?
00:13:22.000Because it was Justice Breyer who Joe Biden voted for when he was up in the U.S. Senate.
00:13:30.000Joe Biden voted for him as a member of the Senate.
00:13:37.000And in fact, we can get a fact check on this.
00:13:40.000I would venture a guess just based on the committees that Joe Biden sat on that Breyer very well might have been in the committee that Joe Biden was chairing or Joe Biden was a voting member of that committee.
00:13:53.000So Senator Leahy is trying to make a false connection here, a false insinuation that Amy Coney Barrett cannot be a federal Supreme Court justice and rule if she dare be nominated by a president who's involved in the election, even though the other person, the former Vice President Joe Biden, voted for, oversaw, knew, and has relationships with all of the Democrats who also sit on the U.S. Supreme Court.
00:14:22.000Amy Coney Barrett was asked about Donald Trump's ability to delay the general election.
00:14:36.000Well, Senator, if that question ever came before me, I would need to hear arguments from the litigants and read briefs and consult with my law clerks and talk to my colleagues and go through the opinion writing process.
00:14:50.000So, you know, if I give off-the-cuff answers, then I would be basically a legal pundit.
00:14:56.000And I don't think we want judges to be legal pundits.
00:14:59.000I think we want judges to approach cases thoughtfully and with an open mind.
00:15:45.000In fact, we are 20-something days away from the most important elections in 1860.
00:15:51.000And yet, they still think that Donald Trump's going to try to delay the election as if he has some sort of supreme power to do it, as if he would even do that or want to do that.
00:16:02.000And Amy Coney Barrett is taking all of America back to a constitutional course, the greatest political document ever written in the history of the world, one that protects natural rights, one that understands that government does not administer our rights, but God does.
00:16:17.000And for Democrats, this can be a very difficult thing to have to sit through because she is basically shredding and obliterating their entire worldview calmly, directly, and factually.
00:16:29.000Because everything she's talking about is having judges not act as if they're activists, that judges should not seek celebrity, that judges should not be legal pundits.
00:16:39.000See, Democrats look at all things as institutions to make the superstructure in their image.
00:16:45.000That's why they look at Congress that way.
00:16:47.000They want to pack the courts, judges that way, Hollywood, media, you name it.
00:16:52.000That's why they are so bothered by justices like Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh.
00:17:03.000And that's also why they're having a very difficult time tripping up Amy Coney Barrett because she will not indulge in conjecture.
00:17:11.000She will not entertain the hypothetical.
00:17:16.000Here's the thing about home security companies.
00:17:18.000Most trap you with high prices, tricky contracts, and lousy customer support.
00:18:09.000Senator Dick Durbin from my former home state of Illinois never made never misses an opportunity to make a fool of himself and insult the once great state of Illinois.
00:18:17.000Dick Durbin has been in set has been in the U.S. Senate for as long as I can remember, probably most of my lifetime, and he has done a poor job of representing our state, always racially demagoguing, attacking people of faith, going after businesses, taxpayers, and Illinois is a complete and total disaster because of that.
00:18:39.000And so Dick Durbin, in a very bizarre way, in the Amy Coney Barrett hearings, he blames Chicago's crime in Indiana.
00:18:48.000I'm going to debunk this, but let's just play cut 15 of Senator Dick Durbin, who just decides to bring up the Chicago crime tragedy, which Democrats don't like talking about.
00:19:35.000Where you live, you know how it works.
00:19:37.000There's a traffic between Chicago, northern Indiana, and Michigan going on constantly.
00:19:42.000Gun shows are held in Gary, Indiana, and other places.
00:19:45.000And when they're selling these firearms without background checks, unfortunately, these gangbangers and thugs fill up the trunks of their cars with firearms and head into the city of Chicago and kill everyone from infants to older people.
00:19:59.000This has been debunked many different times.
00:20:01.000If this was true, why is it that violent crime in Gary, Indiana, which is poorer than many neighborhoods in Chicago, which is lower income per capita than many neighborhoods in Chicago, have far less rates of violent crime despite having more gun ownership per capita than Chicago.
00:20:22.000So what Senator Dick Durbin is trying to make the argument is that in Chicago, despite the strictest gun laws in the entire country, it is basically illegal to own a firearm in the city of Chicago.
00:20:31.000There are zero gun stores in Chicago proper.
00:20:36.000They don't even have firearm repair shops.
00:20:38.000You have to go out into the suburbs of Cook County and anywhere in Cook County, the second largest county in the country, it is next to impossible to own a firearm.
00:20:51.000But in order for Senator Dick Durbin's argument to be correct, in order for that to actually have some sort of empirical backing, wouldn't the crime rates of Indiana also be out of control?
00:21:04.000If it's true that all of a sudden these gun shows were leading to widespread regional crime and violence, why is it that Indiana has stable crimes of, stable rates of violent crime, of gang violence?
00:21:19.000Now, they still have plenty of problems in Indianapolis.
00:21:20.000There's nowhere nearly as bad as Chicago.
00:21:22.000And the answer is very simple, is because in Indiana, you can legally own those firearms.
00:22:06.000There is one cartel that runs the city of Chicago.
00:22:09.000And that party has intentionally made sure that the population of Chicago is illiterate, that police are not welcome in certain neighborhoods, that black fathers are not in the home, and they took away anyone that wanted to defend themselves' capacity to legally own a firearm.
00:22:26.000So if you take away the freedom to legally own a firearm, who's still going to own a firearm?
00:22:34.000However, a bad guy is far less likely to engage in widespread public and blatant criminal activity if the citizenry is armed.
00:22:43.000You see this in states all across the country that are open carry states, such as Texas, Houston, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada.
00:22:50.000Yes, they still have plenty of issues at times with gang violence.
00:22:53.000However, it is not as widespread in Chicago.
00:22:55.000It is killing fields in Chicago that Senator Dick Durbin oversees.
00:22:59.000He's acting as if this is just a stated fact.
00:23:01.000They come here with these gunshell loopholes.
00:23:02.000And first of all, the gunshell loophole has been completely debunked.
00:23:06.000It's been debunked multiple times that according to federal law, it does take a processing background check of some sort that if you are a felon, if you have some form of a violent record, it should register in a national gun database.
00:23:22.000And it's up to the firearm dealer to go through that.
00:23:25.000What Senator Dick Durbin is really getting at, though, is that he wants the entire region of the Midwest to embrace the failed gun control policies of Chicago that result in hundreds of black people getting murdered every single year.
00:23:38.000I know this is a complex argument for the anti-freedom, pro-control Democrats, but actually when you allow people to protect themselves, violent crime goes down.
00:23:48.000When you allow police to go into neighborhoods and to do their job, then all of a sudden violent crime goes down.
00:23:53.000And here's a question I have for Senator Dick Durbin.
00:23:55.000Senator Dick Durbin is marching alongside BLM Incorporated.
00:23:59.000Senator Dick Durbin, alongside Lori Lightfoot and Senator Tammy Duckworth from Illinois, were very quick to say that we should challenge police officers.
00:24:07.000I don't know if they went as far to say that they should defund the police, but I'm sure that they were cozying up to those that wanted to defund the police and that they were allowing that to go unchallenged in the city of Chicago.
00:24:17.000They allowed BLM Incorporated to riot, to loot, to steal from 600 black-owned businesses.
00:24:23.000Here's my question for Senator Dick Durbin, and the Democrats cannot answer this question.
00:24:29.000So they don't want law-abiding citizens to be able to own firearms.
00:24:37.000And they also don't want the police to have firearms.
00:24:40.000Who on earth do you think should have firearms, Dick Durbin?
00:24:43.000Who's going to go take all these guns away from the bad guys if they're there, if there's no police?
00:24:48.000And at this moment, you kind of see the Democrats all of a sudden contradict themselves.
00:24:52.000It's we actually want to regulate the amount of firearms in society, but we also want to get rid of the police.
00:24:57.000I'll tell you who's going to fill that void.
00:25:00.000When there is a power vacuum, hierarchies will still exist, and really bad people will fill those vacuums.
00:25:08.000Mostly gang leaders, cartel leaders, and people that do not have society's best interests at heart.
00:25:15.000And so you also go down to the root causes of crime in Chicago.
00:25:20.000It was the destruction of black-owned businesses in South Chicago.
00:25:22.000It was the deindustrialization movement because Senator Dick Durbin and many other people alongside him were very happy to cozy up the Chinese Communist Party where good, strong manufacturing jobs that employed millions of black people across the country were shipped overseas to Wuhan.
00:25:38.000And instead, black people, I mean, anyone who worked in the manufacturing sector were given a little bit of severance and they were given government benefits in exchange.
00:25:51.000Senator Dick Durbin is acting as if Amy Coney Barrett should know this because she lives in Indiana.
00:25:56.000Indiana is abundantly more safe and peaceful, infinitely, not infinitely, but it is distinctly more safe than the city of Chicago.
00:26:10.000It's because they allow legal ownership of firearms.
00:26:12.000And also in Indiana, they've had much better governors and much better politics than Illinois.
00:26:18.000Illinois is $205 billion in structural debt.
00:26:23.000Illinois is now entertaining another tax hike.
00:26:28.000J.B. Pritzker, the spoiled brat that runs the state of Illinois, he was born on 30, thought he hit a triple.
00:26:33.000He's never done anything meaningful in his life.
00:26:34.000He inherited the Pritzker family fortune and now is destroying Illinois as his new hobby.
00:26:39.000Spent $111 million to become governor of Illinois so he could run it into the ground.
00:26:47.000He's doing quite well because of the lockdowns.
00:26:49.000His crowning achievement now is legalizing marijuana in the state of Illinois and allowing Chicago to become a scene of black-on-black crime, the likes of which our country has never seen before.
00:27:03.000And so Senator Dick Durbin opens up a topic that I don't think Democrats actually are prepared to interface on, which is urban violence.
00:27:13.000Democrats run all the cities in our country, absent one or two that have a very rare Republican mayor.
00:28:20.000It has been widely debunked repeatedly.
00:28:23.000In fact, I've written multiple essays on this.
00:28:26.000And the issue of guns hasn't exactly been on the forefront of the American zeitgeist in the last seven months.
00:28:31.000But I will tell you that American, that there have been over 1,900,000 new gun sales just since the Chinese coronavirus lockdown in our country.
00:28:40.000That's actually a very good sign for Donald Trump, by the way.
00:28:44.000I can't imagine that a lot of those people are going to go out of their way to go vote for Senator Kamala Harris.
00:28:52.000The Democrats are very afraid that there will be a revolt on their hands of black Americans, Hispanics, and middle-class Americans that actually might start to challenge the Democrat power complex.
00:29:07.000If you want to keep a citizenry down, if you want to keep a population controlled, keep them illiterate.
00:29:16.000If you look at where the Democrats have the most amount of power, it is the most illiterate, unsafe, and fatherless populations in the country.
00:29:25.000There has not been a Republican mayor of Atlanta since the 1800s.
00:29:32.000And so if you dive even deeper into what is driving these cities and why this is happening, it is because the Democrat power masters are unafraid to demagogue based on race, but they do nothing to actually solve the structural problems in the inner cities of our country.
00:31:55.000He's probably going to win the popular vote.
00:31:58.000So, Joe Biden can't remember if he's running for the Senate or the presidency, doesn't know what day Super Tuesday is on, calls it Super Thursday, confuses his wife with his sister, forgets what president he served with, yet Amy Coney Barrett just comes up with no notes.
00:32:40.000She's an admirer of the United States Constitution.
00:32:43.000She understands the proper role of Article III in the judiciary.
00:32:48.000And she's unafraid to stand for truth.
00:32:51.000And as I'm saying this, Sheldon Whitehouse is doing whatever Sheldon Whitehouse does, demagoguing and lying.
00:33:00.000I'm sure we'll have plenty of time to unpack that.
00:33:05.000And the Democrats here are in a very interesting political position.
00:33:10.000Senator Harris and Joe Biden have refused to really lay a glove on Amy Coney Barrett.
00:33:16.000It'll be very interesting when Senator Harris gets an opportunity to ask Amy Coney Barrett questions because Amy Coney Barrett is actually popular in the swing states.
00:33:25.000I call this the Republican trinity of Donald Trump, Mike Pence, Amy Coney Barrett.
00:33:30.000The more television time she can get, the more time that she can have in front of swing voters and voters of faith, the better politically.
00:33:44.000If I were to venture a guess, Senate Democrats are going to start very disciplined, and eventually they are going to try shenanigans and antics and tactics because the only recourse they have is to baselessly, baselessly say they are going to pack the courts.
00:34:06.000There will be a grassroots revolt against Democrat senators across the country if they dare pack the courts just because we don't like that Donald Trump got elected when Hillary Clinton was supposed to win.
00:34:17.000That's why all this is happening, by the way.
00:34:19.000And for anyone out there that says, I don't really like Donald Trump, if you like Amy Coney Barrett, Gorsuch Kavanaugh, and 200 circuit court judges, the only reason why Amy Coney Barrett is there right now and not some young Marxist revisionist activist, why is Amy Coney Barrett going through hearings right now?
00:34:41.000Why is Amy Coney Barrett the one that is answering questions and not Sotomayor?
00:34:47.000Why is ACB and not AOC being sworn in for the trying to get in the Supreme Court?
00:35:09.000That is the definition of not being thankful or understanding the incredible disruption and the gift we were given in the election of Donald Trump.
00:35:18.000Win or lose, Donald Trump will have reshaped the judiciary in a constitutional image.
00:35:24.000More so than any one of those other corporate Republicans ever would.
00:35:27.000His defeat of Hillary Clinton and being able to fill the Supreme Court With constitutionalists is only because he was able to win.
00:35:40.000And yet, some Republicans right now are going out of their way to distance themselves from Trump and trying to say, we don't need Trump.
00:35:47.000It's the only reason this is happening, only reason that you're able to actually have a Supreme Court that will be a check against tyranny.
00:35:54.000If Trump were to lose, God forbid, this right here, Amy Coney, Barrett, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, Leto, and Thomas Roberts is a write-off.
00:36:08.000That is your bulwark for liberty and freedom in the Constitution.
00:36:12.000And you love Trump, you hate Trump, you're indifferent to Trump.
00:36:14.000If you love the country, you should love the fact that Donald Trump beat Hillary Clinton and ACB, not AOC, is being sworn in for the U.S. Supreme Court.
00:36:24.000Not sworn in yet, but we'll be prayerful and be disciplined.
00:36:28.000But she's on the way to be confirmed to the U.S. Supreme Court.
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00:37:28.000I was watching Sheldon Whitehouse go all conspiracy.
00:37:34.000I think he should be hosting a radio program from 3 a.m. to 6 a.m.
00:37:38.000And his entire kind of mantra is trying to hit the alleged conservative dark money out there.
00:37:47.000Despite he never talks about the billions of dollars from labor unions, $370 million from Tom Steyer, the $18 billion from the Open Society Foundation, billion dollars from Bank of America, $400 million in PepsiCo, all going to left-wing causes, not to mention the dark money going to the Sierra Club, the dark money going to the ACLU, all that, multiple billions of dollars.
00:38:07.000But he's just concerned that conservative business people are actually contributing to have constitutionalists in the legal system.
00:38:15.000But for him, he's got whiteboards all over the place.
00:38:18.000Let's play tape, and then I'm actually going to show you the kind of let's level deeper of what he's actually doing.
00:38:24.000Do we have a tape here of Sheldon Whitehouse?
00:38:48.000The president has said that reversing Roe v. Wade will.
00:38:51.000I think he needs some more phone boards and whiteboards.
00:38:54.000Sheldon Whitehouse has always been the chief conspiracy theorist of the Democrat power structure.
00:38:59.000He has always been the one that has been the most vocal.
00:39:02.000He has always been the one that has been the most aggressive.
00:39:05.000And by the way, what George Soros has been doing with district attorney races across the country and pushing critical race theory in our schools through this New York Times, the 1619 project, is way more deserving of deep investigative journalism, allegedly, than trying to figure out whether or not that lawyers and business people and successful philanthropists have been worried that the courts have become instruments of judicial activism.
00:39:34.000And so, Sheldon Whitehouse, I think, is still talking and bloviating.
00:39:37.000At least he's talking, and Amy Coney Barrett doesn't have to say anything in response to it.
00:39:40.000He's got 922 different phone boards and throws them all over himself.
00:39:45.000Sheldon Whitehouse actually is funded by dark money himself.
00:39:50.000He has incredible hypocrisy when it comes to dark money.
00:39:55.000He's trying to portray himself as a warrior against this stuff.
00:39:58.000But since 2015, the League of Conservation Voters has been Senator Whitehouse's largest donor, contributing $187,000 of dark money.
00:40:09.000Since the 2006 election cycle, Sheldon Whitehouse has received at least $17,000 from Tom Styre, and he attended a fundraiser from the Democrat Senatorial Committee.
00:40:18.000Senator Whitehouse credited dark money as the reason he was able to raise so much money during his 2018 campaign.
00:40:25.000Senator Whitehouse has actively sought donations from dark money groups, such as Demand Justice, that took the lead against Judge Kavanaugh.
00:40:33.000And Senator Whitehouse even spoke out against dark money groups at an event hosted by groups, the Center for American Progress and the American Constitutional Society, all funded by dark money.
00:40:42.000If you guys understand the left and you understand Democrats, they are always projecting.
00:40:46.000They are the ones that always harbor the issues and they project them upon you.
00:40:51.000It is an exercise in psychological projection, the likes of which is very hard to ever see as clearly as the Democrat Party.
00:40:58.000Those are the ones that say that you're racist here.
00:41:00.000They're the ones that want to divide you based on skin color.
00:41:02.000They're the ones that pander to BLM Incorporated.
00:41:05.000They are the ones that time and time again and repeatedly double and triple down when it comes to dividing people based on skin color.
00:41:14.000And so Sheldon Whitehouse is still going on and he's drawn circles and charts.
00:41:18.000I just love how Sheldon Whitehouse needed 50-plus phone boards to make an incomplete point, but Amy Coney Barrett comes up with no notes whatsoever.
00:41:28.000It's really, Senator Ted Cruz just made a phenomenal point in the confirmation hearings of Amy Coney Barrett.
00:41:34.000Do you notice that all these Democrat senators are doing the talking and Amy Coney Barrett is not?
00:41:55.000I'll have to look at the briefings, look at the rulings, talk to my colleagues, and come to a decision.
00:42:00.000Now, mind you, if there was an activist sitting there, like a liberal judge, the questions would be completely different.
00:42:07.000The questions would be, since you do believe in a living constitution, what does that mean?
00:42:11.000Textualist and originalist confirmation hearings should be kind of easy and breezy.
00:42:16.000Whereas Kagan and Sodomayor, Breyer, and judges in that image, it's very important if they believe in a living constitution, where exactly do you draw those lines?
00:42:50.000It's not that difficult to kind of read into it, where Sotomayor and Kagan, they rule on what they want the world to look like, not what the text actually says.
00:43:03.000And some people, with good intentions, they say, well, why wouldn't you want the judges to make the world a better place?
00:43:09.000First of all, it completely invalidates the legislative branch.
00:44:21.000Senator, as you might imagine, given that I have two black children, that was very, very personal for my family.
00:44:31.000Jesse was with the boys on a camping trip out in South Dakota, so I was there, and my 17-year-old daughter, Vivian, who's adopted from Haiti.
00:44:46.000We wept together in my room, and then it was also difficult for my daughter, Juliet, who's 10.
00:44:52.000I had to try to explain some of this to them.
00:44:55.000I mean, my children, to this point in their lives, have had the benefit of growing up in a cocoon where they have not yet experienced hatred or violence.
00:45:05.000And for Vivian, you know, to understand that there would be a risk to her brother or the son she might have one day of that kind of brutality has been an ongoing conversation.
00:45:17.000It's a difficult one for us, like it is for Americans all over the country.
00:45:23.000I don't think Senator Dick Durbin necessarily expected an answer like that.
00:45:28.000And so the Democrats are now continuing a barrage of different attacks to see what sticks.
00:45:36.000And they're being very careful because Amy Coney Barrett is very popular in the eyes of the American people.
00:45:42.000Amy Coney Barrett has high popularity.
00:45:45.000Amy Coney Barrett is a woman of faith, adopted two children, and the mother of five.
00:45:50.000It's not a good look for Democrats to go out of the way here to attack her.
00:45:53.000Instead, they're going to attack the process.
00:45:55.000They're going to try to attack Trump and they're going to focus all on health care together.
00:46:18.000We are going to build out how and why Obamacare is unconstitutional.
00:46:23.000I got my political start fighting against Obamacare.
00:46:26.000I got my political start in 2011, even earlier, 2010, campaigning against the Affordable Care Act.
00:46:35.000Here's just some quick facts on Obamacare for those of you that just forget.
00:46:39.000Number one, there's over 27 new taxes in Obamacare, medical excise tax, the individual mandate was a tax, got repealed thanks to the Trump tax cut, which is really at the heart of the entire discussion here.
00:47:29.000Because they were able to say that Obamacare is deficit neutral, which, according to Senate rules, can pass bills that don't borrow with less than 60 votes in the U.S. Senate.
00:47:39.000Of course, it passed the House by Nancy Pelosi back then when she was Speaker of the House, and she said, We have to pass the bill to find out what's in it.
00:47:46.000And we found out there was a lot of garbage in Obamacare.
00:47:49.000In fact, it just nearly destroyed our entire American health care system.
00:47:54.000It was quickly challenged in the courts after it was signed into law by President Barack Obama and then Vice President Joe Biden, who then turned to Obama and said, This is a big FN deal.
00:48:04.000You might remember that clip went totally viral.
00:48:11.000The most famous court challenge was just referenced by Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, the National Federation of Independent Businesses versus Sebelius.
00:48:21.000Sebelius was, of course, Kathleen Sebelius.
00:48:23.000She was the Secretary of Health and Human Services.
00:48:26.000She's probably best known for screwing up the Obamacare website.
00:48:30.000That's what Kathleen Sebelius' lifelong legacy will be.
00:48:33.000In fact, I think she's originally from Kansas, if I'm not mistaken.
00:48:50.000It would change one-sixth of the American economy.
00:48:52.000It would disrupt the way that people would get patient-provided care.
00:48:56.000And when you look at healthcare, you have to divide it into a couple different buckets: there's price, delivery of care, and the actual quality of the care, and there's health insurance.
00:49:20.000Instead, it addressed directly health insurance, whether or not people would be able to have insurance or what insurance they could have to be able to pay for health care.
00:49:32.000What ended up as a somewhat nice-sounding argument by President Barack Obama got all muddied up throughout Congress as big pieces of legislation typically do.
00:49:44.000I am of the opinion that Obamacare was never designed to work.
00:49:49.000It is my opinion that Obamacare was designed to destroy the American health care system, to overwhelm the Medicaid roles.
00:49:56.000Medicaid is health insurance for the poor, Medicare as health insurance for the elderly.
00:50:03.000It is my belief that it was so unsustainably overwhelming that Obamacare was designed to break the American private and the private health care system so that eventually we can get single payer.
00:50:15.000Now, you're starting to see demands and calls for that because Obamacare was so overwhelming.
00:50:22.000Obamacare is an 800-plus-page bill signed into law, and it got challenged in every single direction by business people, small business people, little sisters of the poor, you name it.
00:50:32.000Every direction came after Obamacare and sued it to the highest courts.
00:50:37.000One in particular, as I mentioned, the National Federation of Independent Business versus Sebelius made it all the way up to the U.S. Supreme Court.
00:50:45.000I remember being a senior in high school watching this piece of legislation work its way up.
00:50:51.000And I also remember posting on Facebook.
00:50:54.000In fact, we could probably pull this up from my personal Facebook in a future episode of our program, where I predicted that Obamacare would be upheld.
00:51:05.000Because the day before the ruling, Barack Obama posted on his campaign website, We Are Proud of Obamacare.
00:51:13.000There was an 18-year-old at the time said, Why would Obama, the president, be posting a new website on his post on his website about how proud he is of Obamacare if the Supreme Court was about to knock it down?
00:51:25.000And then, which surprised everyone, but not me, John Roberts came out in a 5-4 decision saying that the Affordable Care Act or Obamacare was constitutional.
00:51:38.000Now, his reasoning in this, his justification was clumsy at best.
00:51:45.000He said that the individual mandate, which is the heart of Obamacare, the glue that kept Obamacare together was this idea that we are going to mandate people to buy health insurance, whether you like it or not.
00:51:58.000There's also some provisions that ended up being pretty popular, the pre-existing conditions clause, which could have been done with a couple sentences to fix the hip affordability issue in our healthcare system, and also allowing your children to stay on the health care plan until 26.
00:52:13.000I don't actually think that's been a good idea.
00:52:15.000I think it's actually prolonged the maturation process for young people in our country.
00:52:19.000However, that's a different topic for a different time.
00:52:22.000But the core of Obamacare was the individual mandate.
00:53:17.000I mean, he believed in the Jonathan Gruber, Ezekiel Manuel, Cass-Sunstein model of government that you can kind of run government better because we're the corporate types, right?
00:53:26.000Like we shipped a bunch of jobs overseas to China.
00:53:29.000Why shouldn't we be able to run health care?
00:53:31.000And Mitt Romney was always not trusted by the conservative base on the issue of health care, which is one of the reasons why Mitt Romney lost.
00:53:39.000And Barack Obama was decisively re-elected in 2012.
00:53:43.000President Trump wins surprisingly in 2016, passes the Trump tax cut.
00:53:49.000And one of the things that got snuck into the Trump tax cut in a good way was the repealing of the individual mandate.
00:53:55.000The repealing of the individual mandate, alongside a lot of other good things that were in that Trump tax cut, allowed people to say, if I do not want to take this certain level of insurance, I do not have to.
00:54:08.000Huge win for young people, huge win for healthy young people.
00:54:15.000So then once the individual mandate got removed, once the individual mandate got extracted from Obamacare, all of these other legal challenges are now made possible.
00:54:26.000And that's where we get this very wonky and nuanced challenge of California versus Texas.
00:54:32.000Now, without overly building it out, here's as simply and as plainly as I can say it.
00:54:38.000California versus Texas is a decision that it's about severability.
00:54:43.000And also now that the individual mandate has been pulled out, it's about the constitutionality of the rest of the law.
00:54:49.000Because now once the individual mandate got removed, the question will remain whether or not we should throw out the rest of the bill on other constitutional means.
00:54:57.000And so Amy Coney Barrett is being pressed by Democrat Senator, Democrat Senator on how she would rule on this.
00:55:16.000When I wrote, and this was as a law professor about those decisions, I did critique the statutory interpretation of the majority opinions.
00:55:26.000And as I've mentioned before, my description of them was consistent with the way that Chief Justice Roberts described the statutory question.
00:55:34.000But I think that your concern is that because I critiqued the statutory reasoning that I'm hostile to the ACA, and that because I'm hostile to the ACA, that I would decide a case a particular way.
00:56:03.000I don't know if hostile is the right term, but definitely opposed would be a good term.
00:56:08.000And so Democrats hear the only line of reasoning and questioning that they have in this whole hearing is trying to fearmonger to people that they will lose their health care if Judge Amy Coney Barrett gets put on the United States Supreme Court.
00:56:22.000And now, whether I can't comment on whether or not that will actually be true, I can tell you that we expanded our Medicaid roles way too dramatically under Obamacare.
00:56:32.000I actually think it would be a good thing to get people off of the Medicaid roles and back into the private insurance markets.
00:56:36.000That's why we need health insurance across state lines.
00:56:39.000We need transparency in pricing when you go to a hospital.
00:57:19.000The chief architect of Obamacare is the brother of Rahm Emmanuel, who is the former chief of staff to Barack Obama and the former mayor of Chicago.
00:57:28.000And Ezekiel Emmanuel said it very clearly that he believes the more people on government dependence, the more people on government health care, the better.
00:57:37.000Here's Barack Obama that was lying, bold-faced lying to the American people about Obamacare being a tax playtape.
00:57:45.000And under this mandate, the government is forcing people to spend money, fining you if you don't.
00:58:33.000Obamacare was the largest tax increase in American history.
00:58:38.000We would never have been able to dream of a time to restore to individual liberty and freedom like we do right now, thanks to Amy Coney Barrett.
00:58:46.000She's handling these hearings phenomenally well.
00:58:48.000The Democrats know that she's winning and they're losing.
00:58:51.000As always, email us your questions, freedom at charliekirk.com, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:58:56.000Amy Coney Barrett continues her phenomenal hearing, and Democrats are just continuing to run endless circles trying to chart together dark money.
00:59:08.000Amy Klobuchar is not in a blizzard currently, so that's good for her, trying to attack Amy Coney Barrett on some baseless point.
00:59:17.000Amy Coney Barrett is gliding through these hearings wonderfully.
00:59:21.000I don't expect anything else or less than that from her.
00:59:26.000She's been phenomenal, articulate, and I believe will be a phenomenal Supreme Court justice.
00:59:31.000Antonin Scalia in 2011 said he was not optimistic about the direction of the court.
00:59:36.000Nine years later, all of a sudden we have a constitutional majority, soon to be permanent and decisive constitutional majority.
00:59:47.000It happened because Republicans started to care about winning elections, not just corporate Republican types.
00:59:57.000But if Mitch McConnell would not have won in 2014 and Donald Trump would not have won in 16 and McConnell did not advance the majorities in 18, none of this would be happening.
01:00:06.000The Democrats hyper-politicized the courts well before the Republicans.
01:00:11.000They hyper-politicized the courts back in the Warren Court, back in the Burger Court.
01:00:15.000And while the country was more conservative than it was today, you had very, very liberal activists on the court.
01:00:21.000They saw that as their immediate entry point to make America into their left-wing image.
01:00:28.000We, as constitutionalists or conservatives, were kind of taken back by this.
01:00:32.000And it took us many decades to get smart about the type of judges that we need to appoint to the U.S. Supreme Court: Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito.
01:00:43.000And over time, I think there's been some course correction.
01:00:46.000But none of it would have been possible if President Donald Trump did not win the election.
01:00:52.000So President Donald Trump's in a very tough reelection fight right now.
01:00:56.000I get asked this question all the time: is he going to win?
01:01:21.000It is completely irrelevant to how hard you fight, whether he wins or loses.
01:01:26.000And better yet, what are you doing right now to make sure that he wins?
01:01:30.000What are you doing to knock on doors, make phone calls, chip in some money, bring friends to the polls, register voters to make sure that President Donald Trump wins re-election?
01:01:40.000There are certain demographics right now that the president is struggling with: 60-plus voters.
01:01:46.000He's actually doing very well with Hispanics.
01:01:49.000He's doing better with young mothers than anyone could have possibly imagined.
01:01:53.000Of course, he has a very strong rural base.
01:01:56.000He's going to do better with younger voters.
01:01:58.000The one demographic that President Donald Trump is struggling with is senior citizens, is older voters.
01:02:07.000There's many reasons for this, the virus being one of them.
01:02:10.000I think it would help if the CNN, the conspiracy news network, would actually air the recent revelations from the World Health Organization about how lockdowns do not work and the mistakes that were made.
01:02:24.000President Donald Trump needs your help right now.
01:02:38.000Well, we have early voting results that are coming in that should concern you, that should motivate you to do something.
01:02:45.000And if you just think that you could just scoff it off and do nothing, and all of a sudden President Donald Trump's going to win in November, you're wrong.
01:02:55.000It's going to take a massive amount of human action right now because President Donald Trump has to close very strong and very hard.
01:03:04.000And he's a great finisher when it comes to campaigns.
01:03:06.000I wouldn't want to run up against him.
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