The Michael Knowles Show - January 24, 2020


Introducing： Verdict with Ted Cruz


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Ted Cruz is joined by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) to discuss the latest developments in the Joe Biden impeachment trial, including the revelation that Joe Biden's son worked for a Ukrainian natural gas company that was on the board of a company run by Joe Biden s son.

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00:00:30.000 So I've got some exciting news to share with you.
00:00:32.820 Just a few days ago, we launched a new podcast called Verdict with Ted Cruz.
00:00:37.980 This week, the senator is coming straight from the Capitol after the impeachment trial to
00:00:43.300 a studio in Washington, D.C., and we will be giving you a behind-the-scenes look into what's
00:00:48.120 happening with impeachment.
00:00:49.680 So if you want to know the real story about what's going on, come check out the show.
00:00:53.660 You cannot get closer to the impeachment trial than that.
00:00:57.440 I'm about to play for you a quick teaser from our most recent episode last night.
00:01:01.540 Here you go.
00:01:03.200 Senator, let me get this straight.
00:01:05.680 House Democrats are impeaching the president for threatening to withhold money from Ukraine
00:01:10.740 if they didn't investigate Joe Biden for threatening to withhold money from Ukraine
00:01:16.680 if they didn't stop investigating his son for corruption.
00:01:21.340 Is that about right?
00:01:22.340 That's about right.
00:01:23.700 We'll get into it.
00:01:24.420 This is Verdict with Ted Cruz.
00:01:33.640 Welcome back to Verdict with Ted Cruz.
00:01:35.760 I'm Michael Knowles, joined by the man himself, straight from the Capitol and the impeachment
00:01:40.520 trial.
00:01:41.500 Senator, I want to get into Burisma, Ukraine, Hunter Biden, this really opaque story at the
00:01:49.700 heart of impeachment.
00:01:51.580 Before I do that, though, I want to brag and congratulate you on becoming a rising podcast
00:01:58.020 star because this podcast, Verdict with Ted Cruz, is now in the top 10 podcasts in the
00:02:03.740 world after just two episodes.
00:02:05.760 Congratulations.
00:02:07.040 Well, thank you.
00:02:08.700 And thank you to the great job you're doing.
00:02:10.880 And thank you to everyone who's subscribed and downloaded.
00:02:14.760 I will say driving from the Capitol over here, I was talking to my daughter, Caroline, who's
00:02:19.120 11, and I was kind of excited about it.
00:02:21.440 And I tried to brag to her about it.
00:02:23.820 She's like, Dad, I really don't care.
00:02:26.680 So it didn't.
00:02:27.900 I don't know that 11 year olds are our target audience.
00:02:30.580 You know, maybe 11 year olds are not our target audience.
00:02:32.940 I think the real thing we can brag about is not even just being in the top 10 in the world.
00:02:36.320 We're beating Ben Shapiro.
00:02:38.480 That's a big win.
00:02:39.840 Personally, I have to text him.
00:02:42.240 Anyway, that's talk about turning lemons into lemonade for this absolutely tedious impeachment
00:02:47.700 trial.
00:02:48.720 Really, maybe we can get something out of this because I think people's eyes are glazing
00:02:52.260 over when we talk about impeachment and Burisma and Hunter Biden and Ukraine.
00:02:57.520 And it's just so opaque.
00:02:59.660 So I want you to break that down first.
00:03:02.080 Did anything significant happen today?
00:03:04.700 So I actually think today was it was a very significant day in terms of this impeachment
00:03:09.280 trial, because today the House Democrats effectively threw Joe Biden under the bus.
00:03:16.220 I don't know if they did so deliberately, but that's the effect of what they did today.
00:03:19.700 How so?
00:03:20.500 Well, they doubled down on something they had started yesterday in Adam Schiff's opening
00:03:25.140 statement.
00:03:26.620 The House Democrats, the House managers, they built their entire case on the proposition
00:03:32.720 that that investigating Burisma, this this Ukrainian natural gas company, is completely unfounded,
00:03:40.300 completely without merit, is is a sham, is bogus.
00:03:44.040 There's no basis whatsoever.
00:03:45.780 And Burisma is the Ukrainian natural gas company that Joe Biden's son worked for that was on
00:03:51.940 the board of and that he was he was on the board of.
00:03:54.080 And we'll get into all that.
00:03:55.620 They're saying that any call to investigate this this well-known corrupt natural gas company
00:04:02.220 is baseless.
00:04:03.580 And it's just a way for President Trump to get a leg up on Joe Biden in the election.
00:04:08.600 So, yes, yes, yesterday, Adam Schiff began in his opening laying out that standard that
00:04:13.920 it was a fraud, that it was it was a sham.
00:04:16.320 It was bogus.
00:04:16.900 And today and Adam Schiff, I don't want to be too slow, he is the lead House manager
00:04:21.900 for the Democrats.
00:04:22.620 Yes.
00:04:22.840 You know, the reason I have to clarify who he is, there was just a question on Jeopardy
00:04:26.920 where they asked who this man was and it was a picture of Adam Schiff.
00:04:31.140 Nobody got it right.
00:04:32.560 So Adam Schiff is leading the impeachment charge in the Senate trial right now.
00:04:37.640 God, that is absolutely right.
00:04:40.040 So he laid this out yesterday.
00:04:42.140 Today, the House manager spent, I think, over an hour trying to make the case that there
00:04:49.140 was no reason to investigate Burisma, that the only possible reason to want to investigate
00:04:54.520 is for nefarious political purposes, because you want to smear your political opponent.
00:05:00.480 And I got to tell you, that is, number one, ridiculous.
00:05:03.560 It's just ridiculous on its face.
00:05:04.760 And actually, this show, we're going to talk a lot about the substance of it.
00:05:07.880 But number two, the consequence of that is the media's got to talk about Burisma as much
00:05:14.060 as they don't want to.
00:05:14.840 They've got to talk about the evidence of Joe Biden's corruption.
00:05:18.140 But it also means that when President Trump's lawyers get to present their case starting
00:05:22.440 on Saturday, that right at the heart of it is now going to be, this is the evidence of
00:05:29.580 Joe Biden and Burisma's corruption.
00:05:31.540 So the Democrats, by talking about why we don't need to talk about Burisma, have inadvertently
00:05:37.680 made us all talk about Burisma.
00:05:39.720 To listen to the rest, go check it out on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, or wherever you
00:05:45.760 listen.
00:05:46.500 If you like it, we'd love for you to review it and share it with your friends.
00:05:49.940 That's Verdict with Ted Cruz.
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