Verdict with Ted Cruz - Afghanistan Withdrawal NOT Orderly & Peaceful, plus Crime In America & SCOTUS On Trans Athletes

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00:00:05.500 Senator, nice to be with you.

00:00:07.400 And the Biden administration is really excited.

00:00:10.520 They think they nailed it on Afghanistan.

00:00:12.540 They're very proud of what they did.

00:00:14.600 They came out with this paper that they said proves how good the withdrawal was from Afghanistan.

00:00:20.440 And that's apparently the history books, how it's going to be remembered if you listen to this administration.

00:00:26.180 Your reaction?

00:00:27.740 Look, I think it's really sad.

00:00:29.160 We've talked before in this podcast about how this White House treats national security and foreign policy as public relations.

00:00:38.120 It's all a communications effort.

00:00:40.040 So they put out this 12-page white paper that is just designed to say everything's perfect, everything's fine.

00:00:47.880 And they're hoping that the media will bleat like sheep and go along with that the disaster, the debacle of Biden's surrender to the Taliban and withdrawal from Afghanistan will be forgotten.

00:01:04.160 I think that's disrespectful to the 13 servicemen and women who were murdered there.

00:01:09.960 I think it's disrespectful to the Afghans we left behind who were tortured, whose lives who may well have been murdered as well.

00:01:17.840 I think it's disrespectful to all of those who shed blood, who lost limbs fighting in Afghanistan.

00:01:26.680 And that this administration cares so little about their sacrifice, they're not even bothering to worry about what went wrong.

00:01:38.060 You and I talked about this on a previous podcast not that long ago that one of the individuals on the ground there that was trying to save lives told his story finally that he believed he had the suicide bomber in his sights.

00:01:51.520 Yes.

00:01:51.740 There was no chain of command.

00:01:53.360 There was no orders allowed basically for them to take out this prospective suicide bomber.

00:01:58.560 And then all of a sudden he and he's blown up and survived it.

00:02:02.660 Many others did not that you just mentioned.

00:02:04.580 But for them to come out with a white paper, white paper is supposed to be nonpolitical serious documents.

00:02:09.560 This was political propaganda at its best.

00:02:11.980 So let me say that the podcast we did several weeks ago, if you didn't listen to it, let me encourage you to go back and listen to it because it really is.

00:02:20.680 It's a powerful – this young Marine testified before the House of Representatives and he told his story.

00:02:30.560 He told the story that the suicide bomber, they had intel about who he was and they spotted him and they had him in their sights and they could have taken him out.

00:02:39.480 They could have taken him out before he committed the suicide bombing.

00:02:42.960 And the political higher-ups in the Biden administration wouldn't allow them to do so.

00:02:47.360 And the result was 13 servicemen and women were murdered and this young Marine was horrendously injured.

00:02:56.460 He wasn't killed but he told his story.

00:02:58.640 And I got to say the reason I would encourage you to go back and listen to that podcast is because the media won't cover it.

00:03:06.720 They won't cover it at all.

00:03:08.200 They're facts that don't exist because if you listen – in that pod, we played almost the entirety of his congressional testimony because it was so powerful.

00:03:17.360 And it's a story that in any sane world should be the lead story on the 6 o'clock news.

00:03:24.420 And yet when we have journalists that refused to tell the truth, refused to cover news, refused to cover facts, that view their job as propagandists for the White House, it's terrible.

00:03:41.000 And look, here you've got John Kirby, the appointed spokesperson, just standing up and –

00:03:47.080 He was offended that the media even questioned him and this administration's response in Afghanistan.

00:03:53.700 He got animated.

00:03:54.800 Like not animated that Americans died and that he was frustrated about what happened with the Taliban.

00:04:00.200 Animated that how dare you think we didn't do this perfectly.

00:04:02.920 Take a look.

00:04:03.440 He's right they were taking off.

00:04:21.720 They were taking off with Americans and other people that were trying to clamor and some that lost their lives hanging on, trying to be stowaways on an airplane.

00:04:29.320 And let's be clear, hanging on to the wheels as the planes were taking off.

00:04:33.280 He said he didn't see it.

00:04:34.540 He didn't see the chaos.

00:04:35.960 Look, that's offensive.

00:04:37.060 I got to tell you, if it were my spouse, my brother, my sister who died in that suicide bombing, listening to that – I'm going to speak nicely – that individual saying, I didn't see any chaos.

00:04:55.500 Say that to the 13 coffins that came back with American flags on them.

00:05:00.660 He didn't see any chaos. 0.98

00:05:02.600 Say that to the Afghan interpreters who will risk their lives to help us, only to be abandoned by these clowns, to be tortured to death by the Taliban. 1.00

00:05:14.940 He didn't see any chaos. 0.70

00:05:16.620 Well, what about abandoning the Bagram Airfield, a secure military airfield that we spent billions building and abandoning it before the evacuation happened?

00:05:29.000 For him to say he didn't see any chaos, I believe him.

00:05:32.600 But that's because he's deliberately looking away.

00:05:34.920 They don't want – they're like the monkey, see no evil, hear no evil.

00:05:38.580 Let me tell you something.

00:05:39.420 That's evil.

00:05:40.580 Because their screw-up cost people lives.

00:05:43.580 And if he didn't see any chaos, it's only because he refused to look.

00:05:46.860 Historically, white papers have usually been serious documents, not propaganda like this.

00:05:51.860 And when they have tried to use these kind of big synopsis of historic events that have gone wrong for political reasons, usually the media will throw down on that.

00:06:02.420 They're not doing it this time.

00:06:04.260 Is that how far we've lost the media in your opinion?

00:06:07.060 I mean, anyone that sees this – and there are a few.

00:06:09.860 There were a few that did call them out on this.

00:06:11.660 But by not calling them out, aren't you basically going along with the narrative?

00:06:16.260 Because there's something that can say, OK, I'm not going to report on it.

00:06:18.500 I'll just be silent.

00:06:19.900 That will be my way of protesting it.

00:06:21.620 Look, there is a theme across the board of this administration and this White House.

00:06:25.940 They lie for a living.

00:06:26.860 Whether it's John Kirby lying about Afghanistan, whether it is Mayorkas lying in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee, whether it's Corrine Jean-Pierre standing up and lying over and over and over again.

00:06:39.240 People aren't just walking across the border, she says.

00:06:41.400 Well, that's a lie.

00:06:42.760 Yes, they are.

00:06:43.720 They are today.

00:06:45.820 The amazing thing about that lie of hers, it is a lie every day of the year, 365 days a year, because there has not been a day when Joe Biden was president when there were not people walking across the border.

00:06:56.860 And the brazenness of it, he can stand up and say, well, I didn't see any chaos because he knows that the number of journalists remaining in America is vanishingly small, that they might as well have pom-poms and miniskirts and be chanting, go Biden, because that's where they are.

00:07:21.360 Look at the next thing Kirby said.

00:07:23.900 Nobody's saying that everything was perfect, but there was a lot that went right.

00:07:28.080 And a lot of Afghans are now living better lives in this country and other countries around the world because of the sacrifices and the work of so many American government officials.

00:07:37.060 So, yeah, there's a lot to be proud of, Peter.

00:07:39.440 He's mad.

00:07:40.600 How dare you question us?

00:07:42.320 And he's proud.

00:07:43.640 There's a lot to be proud of.

00:07:45.480 Really, you want to tell those widows that? 1.00

00:07:48.420 How proud you are of the incompetence of this administration?

00:07:51.960 And by the way, at the time this happened, everybody knew it was incompetent.

00:07:58.220 Remember Afghanistan, when the disaster happened?

00:08:00.380 And this White House was caught flat-footed because up until that point, the press had just been cheering them on.

00:08:06.980 And it was the first criticism they got because it was so bad.

00:08:10.480 People turned on the TV and saw human beings clinging to the wheels of planes as they took off.

00:08:16.460 They saw people being –

00:08:18.000 Them falling from the planes.

00:08:18.900 That nobody could defend it at the time.

00:08:23.200 See, what's really shameless about this also is this is revisionist history.

00:08:26.840 This is trying to go back and say, don't believe your lying eyes when you saw it happen.

00:08:33.460 I'm telling you what the official government story is.

00:08:37.020 He's proud of the job they did.

00:08:39.580 You know what is shocking?

00:08:41.220 Nobody lost their job.

00:08:43.120 Secretary of Defense wasn't fired.

00:08:44.680 Chairman of the Joint Chiefs wasn't fired.

00:08:47.040 John Kirby wasn't fired.

00:08:48.900 John Kirby's like Baghdad Bob.

00:08:50.560 He stands up there and just spins.

00:08:52.700 No chaos.

00:08:53.480 Everything great.

00:08:54.180 You should be proud.

00:08:55.580 Nobody lost their job. 0.97

00:08:57.540 The commanding officer that refused to give the order, take out the suicide bomber before he murders those servicemen and women.

00:09:04.660 As far as we know, that commanding officer didn't lose his or her job.

00:09:08.780 Zero accountability.

00:09:11.240 And the Biden White House doesn't want any accountability.

00:09:14.320 This white paper is designed to cover up and to tell an alternate history.

00:09:22.200 Everything's fine.

00:09:24.460 You know, it's reminiscent of during the Antifa and Black Lives Matter riots.

00:09:29.200 It's a fiery but mostly peaceful protest.

00:09:34.440 That's there.

00:09:35.280 As buildings are burning behind reporters.

00:09:37.020 Yes.

00:09:37.440 Mostly peaceful out here as a building's burning behind them.

00:09:40.620 That is what John Kirby is doing. 1.00

00:09:42.540 And he thinks the American people are either stupid or lazy. 0.98

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00:10:52.620 Senator, I want to play just another example of Kirby because he wasn't backing down.

00:10:56.800 I got to respect the plan.

00:10:59.240 Go in there, defend at all costs, do not accept any type of defeat on anything.

00:11:03.280 Here's another example of the arrogance.

00:11:04.780 Once you turn it over, it's just like what we're doing in Ukraine.

00:11:09.120 We give Ukraine artillery ammunition, Stinger anti-air missiles, Javelin anti-tech.

00:11:15.300 It's their stuff at that point, not the Americans. 0.99

00:11:18.140 It's their stuff.

00:11:19.500 That stuff belonged to the Afghans.

00:11:21.340 And so this idea, this argument is just ludicrous that we left millions of dollars of stuff in Afghanistan.

00:11:27.980 We didn't.

00:11:28.580 We turned it over, as the previous administration would have done, too, because part of their thinking was they were going to have to turn this material over.

00:11:35.800 It was turned over appropriately and carefully and deliberately with the Afghan National Security Defense Forces.

00:11:41.860 It wasn't done carefully.

00:11:43.280 I think we can agree on that.

00:11:44.600 It wasn't done appropriately in an orderly fashion the way that he described it.

00:11:48.760 And it wasn't turned over to the Afghan forces the way he implied because we saw this stuff pop into the hands of actual terrorists instantly on social media.

00:11:58.560 Yeah.

00:11:58.880 So he left out kind of the most important context.

00:12:02.360 It's true that we gave the Afghan military weapons to kill the Taliban.

00:12:06.740 What the Biden administration screwed up and did is they let all those weapons fall in the hands of the Taliban. 0.92

00:12:13.400 So literally, we gave them these weapons to shoot the terrorists. 0.94

00:12:17.960 Now the terrorists have the weapons that were given to shoot the terrorists.

00:12:23.900 And by the way, among other things, what all has been lost?

00:12:26.520 So the Taliban are believed to control more than 2,000 armored vehicles, including U.S. Humvees, up to 40 aircrafts, potentially including Blackhawks and scout attack helicopters and ScanEagle military drones.

00:12:41.940 Between 2002 and 2017, the United States gave the Afghan military an estimated $28 billion in weapons, including guns, rockets, night vision goggles, and small drones for intelligence gathering.

00:13:00.420 Between 2003 and 2016, the United States provided Afghan forces with 208 aircraft.

00:13:07.900 And since 2003, the United States has provided Afghan forces with at least 600,000 infantry weapons, including M-16s, including 162,000 pieces of communication equipment, and including over 16,000 night vision goggles.

00:13:29.240 And the night vision goggles, when you talk to special forces, troops that have been deployed there, the night vision goggles actually concerned them maybe more than anything else because one of the great advantages our military had in dealing with the terrorists is that we had the ability to see at night and to wage warfare at night, and the terrorists couldn't see us.

00:13:49.660 Now, thanks to these guys' incompetence, the terrorists, the terrorists are equipped like a U.S. military battalion.

00:14:00.620 And for him to claim, well, gosh, it was theirs. 0.98

00:14:03.860 No, the weapons were given to kill them. 1.00

00:14:07.680 These are Taliban terrorists. 0.98

00:14:11.180 And the sad thing is we know Americans are going to lose their lives with those M-16s, with those weapons, with those night vision goggles.

00:14:23.140 We know that Americans will die. 0.99

00:14:25.800 And this administration will wipe their hands and say there was no chaos.

00:14:30.600 It was their equipment, and they're proud of handing billions of dollars of military weapons over to the Taliban. 0.73

00:14:41.120 Does Kirby remember September 11th?

00:14:43.740 Does he remember the planes flying into the World Trade Center?

00:14:46.960 Does he remember the plane flying into the Pentagon?

00:14:49.960 I doubt it. 0.99

00:14:50.260 These are the same bastards that now have billions of dollars of U.S. military equipment. 1.00

00:14:55.800 Those guys killed over 3,000 lives with a couple of box cutters. 0.99

00:15:00.200 Now they've got armored vehicles and M-16s and Blackhawk helicopters.

00:15:05.540 To say this is a catastrophic screw-up is an understatement.

00:15:11.240 Oh, he says it was organized, though.

00:15:13.400 I agree.

00:15:13.980 It was an organized screw-up.

00:15:14.960 It could not have been screwed up more if they tried.

00:15:20.600 And look, part of the reason I mentioned before Bagram Airfield.

00:15:24.620 Listen, at some point we were going to pull out of Afghanistan. 0.58

00:15:29.680 I think it made sense.

00:15:31.140 I'm not a believer in forever wars.

00:15:33.020 I'm not a believer in staying there forever.

00:15:34.600 But when you are doing a drawdown, it makes sense to have a serious, competent plan for drawing down, number one, to get all the Americans out. 0.97

00:15:45.340 Number two, to get your allies, the Afghans who risked their lives, out. 0.99

00:15:51.140 Number three, to vet the Afghans who are coming to make sure you're not bringing terrorists.

00:15:56.520 What was amazing about what Biden did is it was utter chaos on a couple of fronts.

00:16:01.900 Number one, the White House set an arbitrary political deadline.

00:16:04.580 They said, okay, troops must be drawn down to 2,500 or fewer.

00:16:10.420 And their goal was they wanted to be out on the anniversary of September 11th.

00:16:14.240 It was a political deadline.

00:16:15.240 It was set by the White House.

00:16:16.280 We want to trumpet this political objective.

00:16:19.300 Look, we got out of this war, so we're setting the date, 9-11, so we can have a big victory. 0.97

00:16:25.640 You know, mission accomplished.

00:16:26.920 This is George W. Bush landing on the aircraft carrier.

00:16:30.100 This is Joe Biden saying mission accomplished.

00:16:32.300 And listen, the military told the White House, we can't secure Bagram Airfield and also the embassy and the airport in Kabul.

00:16:47.520 And the White House essentially said, we don't care.

00:16:50.460 We've set a goal.

00:16:51.400 It's a political goal, never mind the military problems.

00:16:53.960 And so they forced the military to abandon Bagram Airfield.

00:16:59.040 Now, the problem is if you're going to do a withdrawal, you want to do it from a secure airfield where people can't come in with suicide bombers and kill people.

00:17:09.900 When they abandoned Bagram and handed it to the Taliban, they were forced to do their withdrawal from a crowded commercial airport in the middle of a dense urban environment that didn't have a secure perimeter.

00:17:23.140 They had a secure airport.

00:17:24.800 They gave it away.

00:17:25.460 And their withdrawal of Afghans was both over-inclusive and under-inclusive.

00:17:32.280 It was under-inclusive in that they left a great many people behind who had risked their lives to help the American military.

00:17:40.340 And it is grotesquely immoral that we know that at least some of those have been tortured and perhaps even murdered by the Taliban as a result of their helping America.

00:17:50.840 But it was also over-inclusive in that at the end, it seemed like they were just grabbing up anyone who showed up.

00:17:57.180 And so we don't know how many terrorists the Biden administration flew to America.

00:18:03.460 What we do know is that included among those that they evacuated were adult men with child brides because, look, you'd have a family that was desperate to get their little girl out of Afghanistan.

00:18:19.280 And so they'd take a little girl, a young 10, 11, 12-year-old girl, and hand that child over to a grown-ass man and say, have her as your wife. 0.75

00:18:31.900 And you asked Anthony Blinken about this.

00:18:34.540 Yes.

00:18:34.800 I want to play this because this is that moment where, again, this administration doesn't want to admit this happened.

00:18:40.200 Across the entire government, everyone involved in the evacuation effort, whether it's at a transit point in one of the countries that we negotiated with,

00:18:50.220 whether it's here in the United States at Dulles or Philadelphia or the military bases,

00:18:55.800 we have all of our officers at extreme vigilance to look for and to deal with any cases or concerns that arise.

00:19:07.200 Did you receive the urgent guidance and how many child brides have you seen?

00:19:10.620 I don't know the specific guidance you're referring to.

00:19:12.680 I'm happy to look to look at it.

00:19:14.740 So is there not urgency to discover if the governor are being abused?

00:19:17.700 Absolutely.

00:19:18.160 Time of the senator has expired.

00:19:20.360 We could detect and deal with any cases.

00:19:23.660 And there have been, to my knowledge, a limited number of cases where we have separated people

00:19:28.200 because we were concerned that they were.

00:19:31.400 How many?

00:19:32.400 The cases I'm aware of, a handful.

00:19:34.520 So look, you see the secretary of state, blithely unconcerned, a handful.

00:19:40.920 The guidance I was describing was guidance the Biden administration put out to personnel on the ground

00:19:47.460 because they were getting planes landing from Afghanistan with adult men and little girls.

00:19:52.620 The little girls, they were saying, were their wives. 0.99

00:19:54.980 And these little girls were being sexually assaulted and raped by grown men. 1.00

00:19:58.400 And the Biden administration was facilitating child sexual assault and child brides. 0.99

00:20:06.380 This guidance was within the Biden administration saying, wait a second, we got a problem.

00:20:10.680 We're putting people on planes and...

00:20:14.260 Not moms with daughters, dudes with little girls. 0.71

00:20:16.740 Yes.

00:20:17.120 That should be red flag number one.

00:20:18.700 Yes.

00:20:19.240 So at the hearing, he hadn't read the guidance.

00:20:21.220 I had the guidance in front of me.

00:20:22.320 I'd read it.

00:20:23.700 But beyond that, I even asked him how many, how many have you found?

00:20:28.080 Listen, if you're secretary of state and you just finished human trafficking little girls into the country 0.80

00:20:33.080 that are being sexually assaulted by grown men and you're responsible, 0.92

00:20:37.520 you know what a competent secretary of state would say?

00:20:40.180 Here's exactly how many we found.

00:20:44.480 Here's what's happened to them.

00:20:46.080 They're going to jail.

00:20:47.440 Here are the safeguards we're putting in place to protect against it.

00:20:50.840 But all of this is intertwined.

00:20:53.480 Look, people ask me, why is the Biden administration so bad at this stuff?

00:20:59.560 Why are they so incompetent?

00:21:01.640 Part of the reason they're so bad, part of the reason Afghanistan was such a mess 1.00

00:21:07.020 is because they live in an environment where they don't expect the press to ever ask a hard question.

00:21:14.340 So Tony Blankett doesn't think anyone's going to ask him about the child brides

00:21:17.920 that he's responsible for trafficking into America.

00:21:20.360 They don't have to worry about a 60-minute piece on it and the disaster of what has happened.

00:21:25.400 They know they've got them in their back pocket.

00:21:28.080 And it produces incredibly poor execution.

00:21:33.160 By the way, these are the same people who, you know, 0.56

00:21:36.760 were incredibly condescending and arrogant during the Trump administration.

00:21:40.100 And then when they came in, one of their favorite lines was,

00:21:43.640 the adults are back in charge.

00:21:46.300 Well, these adults don't know what the hell they're doing.

00:21:48.320 And as much as John Kirby tells you there is no chaos, he's proud of what happened.

00:21:53.660 Anyone who was awake during the disaster of the surrender to the Taliban

00:21:59.520 and the withdrawal in Afghanistan knows what an utter catastrophe it is.

00:22:03.560 And I've got to say, it's not just you and me.

00:22:05.920 We've been unloading on the press, but here's a little bit of a man bites dog.

00:22:10.600 Sometimes even the press can't stand it.

00:22:13.380 Watch this. 0.99

00:22:14.400 CBS News calling out John Kirby's garbage. 0.98

00:22:17.540 But this is, they called in, or National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said 0.91

00:22:21.840 they were going to do a hot wash, which is a fancy bureaucratic term for a deep dive

00:22:26.300 into what went wrong.

00:22:28.060 This 12-page document is a whitewash.

00:22:30.840 There is, it is narrative.

00:22:32.660 It is light on specifics.

00:22:34.980 It's devoid of citations.

00:22:36.960 And it is, in essence, their version of events.

00:22:40.240 I got to say, it's almost like he knows so much about what really happened.

00:22:44.340 That he's insulted personally, like, how dare you expect me to walk out here 0.87

00:22:49.460 and carry this pail of garbage with me to the American people? 0.90

00:22:54.260 I deserve more respect than that. 0.95

00:22:56.280 And I'm glad to see some journalists actually coming around to this.

00:22:59.560 Look, good for him for being angry, because that was genuine.

00:23:03.780 Yeah.

00:23:04.400 He was pissed at having read a document that was utterly divorced from reality.

00:23:08.880 That was crafted not by national security experts trying to examine how did we screw this up?

00:23:19.200 What did we do wrong?

00:23:20.320 Who's at fault?

00:23:21.520 Why didn't we give the order to take out the suicide bomber before he murdered 13 servicemen and women?

00:23:27.500 It's none of that.

00:23:28.900 That white paper is a PR document.

00:23:31.740 It is a political spin document.

00:23:33.880 It is talking points for the obedient mandarin's in the press to echo, we should be proud of the job Joe Biden did in Afghanistan.

00:23:46.060 It was, there was no chaos at all.

00:23:48.320 It was, it was perfect.

00:23:50.280 Yeah.

00:23:50.400 And, and at least on CBS News, and I'll say the, the, the anchor who's there when he says it was a whitewash, she laughs out loud.

00:23:58.400 Yeah.

00:23:59.060 Um, good on CBS News.

00:24:02.160 For a moment, journalism erupted.

00:24:05.600 I hope it's contagious and we actually have others willing to do their job.

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00:25:47.000 Senator, talking about crime in America, it's very interesting.

00:25:50.600 Lori Lightfoot, for example, lost in Chicago.

00:25:53.360 A lot of people thought that was kind of the end of the road for the insanity of not prosecuting

00:25:58.660 criminals, being weak on crimes, giving this, you know, bail reform and everything else

00:26:03.480 that's happened.

00:26:03.960 We're seeing some pushback in places like New York and Baltimore.

00:26:07.540 Then all of a sudden they elect an actual communist in Chicago, head scratcher there.

00:26:15.420 You look at San Francisco.

00:26:17.040 They've got major problems with crime.

00:26:19.120 And now you see this brutal stabbing that's so bad that we can't even show you the video

00:26:24.840 that's come out here.

00:26:26.140 I just don't think it's appropriate of a man who has said some things about San Francisco.

00:26:31.880 He doesn't feel safe there.

00:26:32.940 He'd actually moved.

00:26:34.320 He came back for a meeting.

00:26:35.780 He's in the street, gets stabbed there to death in San Francisco.

00:26:41.600 And yet Democrats are still standing by these initiatives of bail reform, prison reform,

00:26:49.180 and not actually getting tough on crime.

00:26:51.220 More than 500 police officers are missing in San Francisco right now.

00:26:54.640 And people there are leaving in droves and they're sick and tired of living in this insanity.

00:26:59.220 Yeah.

00:26:59.480 Look, what happened here, Bob Lee, who was the founder of Cash App, he was a tech gazillionaire,

00:27:08.400 very wealthy man, very successful man.

00:27:10.580 He had left San Francisco.

00:27:13.880 He had left San Francisco because of the out-of-control crime.

00:27:17.580 And he was back in San Francisco for a work meeting.

00:27:20.740 And on the street, he was stabbed.

00:27:24.020 He was stabbed multiple times in the chest on the street.

00:27:28.060 He was in San Francisco's Rincon Hill neighborhood, which is where Nancy Pelosi lives.

00:27:35.860 He was not in the hood.

00:27:37.060 Yeah.

00:27:37.280 He was not, this is where rich people gather.

00:27:41.920 And he's stabbed multiple times.

00:27:45.140 There's security video of it.

00:27:47.360 And you and I debated before the show, do we air the security video?

00:27:52.360 We both watched it.

00:27:54.240 We decided not to air it because it's really troubling.

00:27:58.640 It is footage of this man losing his life.

00:28:01.880 It is footage of him staggering after he's been stabbed.

00:28:07.880 The footage shows him trying to flag down passing cars.

00:28:13.840 Passing cars ignore him.

00:28:15.520 And probably because they're thinking about their own safety.

00:28:17.920 Yeah, they may be afraid for their own lives.

00:28:19.860 They see someone staggering towards them.

00:28:21.840 Crime is so bad, they may not want to be injured themselves.

00:28:24.920 But they drive off and he staggers to the window at the front of a building and he collapses.

00:28:32.460 And he had called 911 and the officers arrived.

00:28:35.180 But by the time they got there, it wasn't in time to save him.

00:28:39.420 And a kitchen knife with a four-inch blade was found in the parking lot across the street.

00:28:45.840 But they haven't caught anyone.

00:28:47.800 There haven't been any arrests.

00:28:48.940 So far this year, and we're not very far into this year, we're in April.

00:28:52.940 There have already been 39 murders in the city.

00:28:56.680 39 murders already.

00:28:57.960 And the San Francisco Police Department right now has a shortage of 541 officers.

00:29:06.060 Totally insane number when you think about the population, the size of San Francisco.

00:29:10.800 You're 500 plus officers down.

00:29:12.380 Look, it is the policies of the left attacking and demonizing police officers, trying to defund police officers, trying to abolish the police, combined with putting into place George Soros DAs like Alvin Bragg in New York who release violent criminals onto the street, who don't prosecute criminals on the front end.

00:29:36.520 And then when they do get in, they let them go.

00:29:39.420 That's what produces this chaos.

00:29:41.380 You know, I've got a friend of mine who used to live in Northern California, lived in Palo Alto.

00:29:46.480 He's been very successful.

00:29:47.480 He's in the tech business.

00:29:48.320 And he moved from Palo Alto down to Miami.

00:29:55.280 And he and I had breakfast a while back, and he was telling me that he said friends of his from Palo Alto will come down to Miami to visit him, and he'll take them out to dinner.

00:30:06.140 And, you know, he drives a very nice, very fancy sports car.

00:30:09.500 You'd like his car.

00:30:10.220 And he'll drive out to dinner and park it on the street.

00:30:15.520 And he said his friends from Northern California freak out.

00:30:18.160 They're like, what are you doing?

00:30:19.280 Yeah.

00:30:19.900 And what he said was in Northern California, if you park a car on the street, even in a nice, nice neighborhood, that car is going to get broken into.

00:30:31.360 It's going to get keyed.

00:30:32.400 It's going to get stolen.

00:30:33.440 It's going to get vandalized.

00:30:34.580 And what an amazing statement that just being able to park your car is considered a flex.

00:30:40.980 Like his friends would freak out.

00:30:43.380 How could you park your car?

00:30:44.820 And he's like, look, I live in America.

00:30:46.020 Like normal people can park their car and not have to worry.

00:30:51.380 It is tragic what is happening.

00:30:55.020 And I think a lot of the residents in these cities believe it can't get any better.

00:30:59.180 In New York, a lot of the residents there, just few, that's part of life.

00:31:06.460 Look, in D.C., this man, Bob Lee, was stabbed to death.

00:31:10.880 By the way, at least one of the stories, I think it was the AP story, said tech entrepreneur died in San Francisco.

00:31:17.500 Died.

00:31:17.980 Died.

00:31:18.380 Not murdered.

00:31:19.240 Not stabbed to death.

00:31:21.200 Died.

00:31:22.080 Because the press is not actually reporting the facts.

00:31:25.260 Because the facts would not be convenient for their political narrative.

00:31:29.180 Look, last week in D.C., a staffer for Rand Paul was stabbed on the street multiple times.

00:31:38.820 It was like 5 o'clock in the afternoon.

00:31:40.960 In a busy D.C. street, he gets stabbed.

00:31:43.880 When you have these left-wing mayors, district attorneys, police chiefs, when they undermine the cops and they let violent criminals go, the results are horrific.

00:31:56.260 And I'll tell you, this is occurring at the same time.

00:31:58.840 So the U.S. Sentencing Commission has just proposed to allow district judges broad discretion to grant what's called compassionate release for prisoners who haven't served their full sentences.

00:32:13.080 Under federal law, when you're convicted of a federal crime, you get a sentence, a sentence under what's called the sentencing guidelines that were passed, Congress passed them into law, to provide uniformity and predictability so that people who committed the same crimes would serve similar sentences.

00:32:32.600 That there wasn't – there had been massive disparities.

00:32:36.260 If you got lucky and got a soft-on-crime judge, they'd let you go.

00:32:40.940 If you got a really tough-on-crime judge, they'd lock you up.

00:32:43.380 So the sentencing guidelines were passed to give some consistency, uniformity, predictability.

00:32:50.380 Well, Joe Biden has managed to appoint new people to the Sentencing Commission, and they just proposed taking the compassionate release provision, which was designed to be really narrow.

00:33:01.400 Someone has –

00:33:02.180 I would say give an example of where that would have been used.

00:33:04.580 Compassionate release.

00:33:05.280 Someone has cancer and they're about to die and say, okay, all right, we'll let you go for the last couple of months of your life so you can be outside of prison.

00:33:13.440 With your family.

00:33:14.220 With your family.

00:33:14.880 You know, circumstances that are narrow and exigent, but under these revisions, it's opening the door.

00:33:23.880 Look, Joe Biden has been filling the courts with soft-on-crime left-wing activists, with criminal defense attorneys, with people who worked as George Soros district attorneys, with people who have been advocates of abolishing the police.

00:33:41.860 They're becoming federal judges, and with this change in the Sentencing Commission, you're going to see these Biden radicals teaming up with the Obama radicals that are already on the court, releasing more and more violent criminals.

00:33:56.920 And I've got to say, Ben, look, in the normal world of political back and forth, there are things conservatives and liberals can disagree on.

00:34:06.400 All right, high taxes, low taxes.

00:34:07.960 You and I both like low taxes.

00:34:09.600 I understand people that like higher taxes, like reasonable people can disagree on that.

00:34:14.660 You know, a question like abortion.

00:34:16.360 Abortion is a difficult issue.

00:34:17.980 I'm pro-life, you're pro-life, but there are many people who are genuinely and passionately pro-choice, and reasonable people can wrestle with that issue.

00:34:28.980 I genuinely don't understand these leftists that see a murderer and think the answer here is let the murderer go.

00:34:38.840 I don't get the reasoning.

00:34:41.780 I don't know how to articulate the argument how society is better, how anyone is better off letting violent criminals go out on the streets.

00:34:50.380 And yet that's what these radicals are doing, and it's what the Biden administration keeps leaning in further and further on.

00:34:58.100 Last question on this, and I think the shock for me seems to be how many cities are dealing with violent high crime numbers, and yet when their elections come up and they have a chance to change course, they don't do it.

00:35:10.660 I mentioned Chicago earlier, my hometown of Memphis, Tennessee, out-of-control violent crime right now, carjackings through the roof, rape through the roof, 45 cars are stolen every 24 hours right now in my hometown.

00:35:25.820 And this is because of an activist DA that came in and has said, we're going to let them all go all the time.

00:35:31.080 They have prison reform, bail reform.

00:35:33.340 They had a guy that was accused of murder the other day that got out on no bail because he was poor.

00:35:37.960 And you see this and you think, all right, well, surely at some point they're going to be voted out.

00:35:43.140 And then you see Chicago, they get rid of Lightfoot, and they put in someone that is even more radical.

00:35:47.900 Why is that happening, and are we going to just lose these cities forever?

00:35:51.700 Because people that have the means to get out, this is my theory, are getting out as fast as they can, regardless of they're Republican or Democrat.

00:35:58.680 If you're sane and you have the means, you run as fast as you can for safety, for you, your kids, your grandkids.

00:36:06.100 And then there are just activists left that get to decide how this is going to go for the rest of their lives with all this chaos.

00:36:12.060 Look, if you want to understand the pattern of the lawless left, if you want to understand the George Soros prosecutors.

00:36:19.620 And by the way, let me say something.

00:36:21.300 Folks online say when you refer to a George Soros prosecutor that you're anti-Semitic because George Soros is Jewish.

00:36:28.100 How dare you blame him?

00:36:30.000 Look, it has nothing to do with the fact that he's Jewish.

00:36:33.160 What it has to do with is he spends tens of millions of dollars electing district attorneys who come into office promising to let violent criminals go.

00:36:43.720 And part of the way the Marxists operate is when you point out what they're doing, they scream racist at you for daring to point out what he's doing.

00:36:54.420 I don't know.

00:36:55.240 If we had George Soros as a guest on this show, I don't know how he would defend that.

00:36:58.900 I legitimately do not understand what his reasoning is that he thinks the world would be better if we let murderers and rapists go to commit more murders and more rapes.

00:37:13.360 I don't – my mind doesn't comprehend that logic.

00:37:17.100 If you want to know more, though, you ought to buy my latest book, Justice Corrupted.

00:37:21.720 Justice Corrupted explains in length – there's an entire chapter on the George Soros DAs.

00:37:26.900 There's an entire chapter on the Antifa and Black Lives Matter riots and how this is deliberate, how it's systematic, and it lays out the facts.

00:37:35.420 It's not hyperbole.

00:37:37.760 It's not rhetoric.

00:37:38.660 It's not invective.

00:37:40.380 Justice Corrupted lays out the facts.

00:37:42.300 Alvin Bragg, before Alvin Bragg was a household name.

00:37:45.320 He was in your book.

00:37:46.220 He is in the book Justice Corrupted because that's who he is.

00:37:50.500 It's what he promised to do, to weaponize the legal system.

00:37:54.640 Going after Donald Trump is entirely consistent.

00:37:57.640 There's an entire chapter in Justice Corrupted about the deep state being weaponized to go after Donald Trump.

00:38:04.840 And so this is a consistent pattern.

00:38:08.000 And I got to say in Chicago, you're right.

00:38:10.440 Lori Lightfoot, number one, presided over out-of-control crime and shootings and horrific misery. 0.95

00:38:18.980 She was also, I think, incompetent at it. 0.99

00:38:21.820 And so the voters voted her out.

00:38:24.100 And for a moment, you thought, wow, maybe there'll be a moment in Chicago of people saying, gosh, I'd like to live in a safer city.

00:38:30.560 And then they elected someone who's a left-wing radical who has spent years advocating for defunding and abolishing the police.

00:38:39.520 And I don't know if he's more competent or not than Lori Lightfoot.

00:38:44.500 Time will tell.

00:38:45.600 But everything he said up to this point is that he is going to hurt the police more, weaken the police more, and empower the criminals more.

00:38:57.660 And when you elect radical Democrats like this, people die.

00:39:04.980 Good people flee the city, and then there's even more carnage.

00:39:10.100 The left is fond of the slogan Black Lives Matter.

00:39:13.900 They don't actually believe it because the consequence of electing left-wing radicals who undermine law enforcement is that more black lives are lost.

00:39:23.940 There will be African-American children, there will be women, there will be men murdered in Chicago because of the consistent assault of left-wing Democrats on police officers.

00:39:37.160 And I got to tell you, as I travel around, you've flown around the country with me quite a bit.

00:39:40.300 But inevitably, when I see police officers, I make a point of stopping, of shaking their hands, of saying thank you.

00:39:47.920 Thank you for what you're doing.

00:39:49.180 And I tell them, I say, look, a big part of my job is to have your back.

00:39:53.940 And I talk to cops all over the country.

00:39:56.480 I got to tell you, the most striking place to fly into is Chicago.

00:40:00.040 I land at Chicago O'Hare Airport.

00:40:02.600 I am, with some regularity, met by 10, 12, 15 uniformed police officers who come, they shake my hand, they give me patches.

00:40:14.680 I've got in my office patches of the Chicago PD that are displayed in my office because those cops are so under assault.

00:40:23.480 Joe Biden, with the COVID vaccine mandates, was saying fire half the police in Chicago if they won't get COVID vaccines.

00:40:34.580 The left's assault on cops and law enforcement is dangerous.

00:40:39.620 And you want to know why people are stabbed in the streets of San Francisco or Washington, D.C.?

00:40:45.540 It is because of these policies.

00:40:47.100 They have a very real and a tragic consequence.

00:40:49.980 I want to get to one other subject that's really kind of exploded in this country, and it's women's sports. 0.98

00:40:55.780 How do you protect them?

00:40:57.360 Men masquerading as women, also known as trans men in women's sports.

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00:42:16.580 Senator, lastly, we have seen a lot of arguing and fighting in this country over men and women's sports.

00:42:25.660 We saw in Australia last week outrage at a man who won a woman's golf tournament, made big bucks doing it.

00:42:34.240 We see colleges now with these grand debates over men being in women's sports.

00:42:39.220 And then there was a confusing, I say confusing because the headline doesn't really match the facts here,

00:42:44.560 ruling from the Supreme Court on this issue with women and men's sports and men playing as women.

00:42:51.240 Break this down, what the Supreme Court actually said this past week.

00:42:55.020 Well, let's start with the Supreme Court and then we'll talk about the broader issue.

00:42:58.440 So the Supreme Court had before it a case that came out of West Virginia.

00:43:02.640 West Virginia passed a law that protects girls' sports and women's sports and that says that biological males, 0.93

00:43:09.800 people who were born male, can't compete in girls' sports.

00:43:15.240 That's a law.

00:43:15.940 It's a similar law that's been passed in many states across the country to protect girls' athletics.

00:43:20.240 In this instance, there was the family of a 12-year-old child who was born biologically male,

00:43:29.180 but who now identifies as a girl and wants to compete in girls' sports. 1.00

00:43:33.080 That family filed a lawsuit arguing that the law West Virginia passed conflicts with either Title IX of federal law,

00:43:44.340 which establishes and protects girls' sports, or conflicts with the Equal Protection Clause of the U.S. Constitution.

00:43:52.520 Now, the case is in the fairly early stages.

00:43:56.960 The district court, a federal district court, initially enjoined the law's enforcement and did so in July of 2021.

00:44:03.920 So to enjoin the law's enforcement means the district court issued an order, this West Virginia law has no force in effect.

00:44:12.440 That injunction was in effect for almost 18 months, almost a year and a half.

00:44:17.920 The state didn't fight the injunction, so they let the law be enjoined.

00:44:23.020 They didn't fight it any further.

00:44:24.080 While the injunction was in effect, they were in the district court.

00:44:29.000 They were battling over the lawsuit.

00:44:31.440 The district court ultimately ruled for the state of West Virginia, so rejected the plaintiff's claim that the West Virginia law was unconstitutional or contrary to federal law.

00:44:41.540 And it's interesting.

00:44:43.000 The judge clearly didn't like ruling that way.

00:44:45.440 The judge wrote that even if you don't like this law, it's clear under federal law and the Constitution that you can separate boys' sports from girls' sports, and there's not a legal impediment to doing so.

00:44:58.020 So the district court rules for the state of West Virginia.

00:45:02.080 The plaintiff appeals and the Fourth Circuit, the Court of Appeals, entered a new injunction enjoining the law while the appeal was pending.

00:45:11.220 The court of appeals didn't issue an opinion, just entered an injunction while the appeal was pending.

00:45:17.500 This is the appeal of that emergency injunction.

00:45:21.740 So what happened is the state of West Virginia went up to the Supreme Court and said,

00:45:25.780 will you reverse the injunction that the Court of Appeals put in place?

00:45:32.200 The Supreme Court said no.

00:45:34.580 The full Supreme Court didn't issue an opinion, so there's no opinion at all.

00:45:37.820 They just denied the application.

00:45:41.220 Two justices, Justice Alito, joined by Justice Thomas, dissented.

00:45:47.360 Now, Justice Alito's dissent is very short.

00:45:49.900 It's two pages long.

00:45:50.720 I have it right here.

00:45:52.100 Justice Alito walks through the facts of what I just described, the procedural history of the case.

00:45:59.740 Justice Alito and Justice Thomas say,

00:46:02.220 I would grant the state's application.

00:46:04.360 But even Justice Alito and Justice Thomas acknowledge, and I'll read from this dissent, quote,

00:46:11.280 It is true that West Virginia allowed the district court's injunction to go unchallenged for nearly 18 months before seeking emergency relief from a second identical injunction.

00:46:24.000 And it is a wise rule in general that a litigant whose claim of urgency is belied by his own conduct should not expect discretionary emergency relief from a court.

00:46:38.940 In other words, a big part of the reason that the Supreme Court did not vacate this injunction is because West Virginia essentially acquiesced to it for a year and a half, did nothing for 18 months.

00:46:53.500 And emergency relief, either granting an injunction or vacating an injunction, is exceptional relief.

00:47:01.260 It's provided because it's an emergency.

00:47:03.540 And 18 months later, it's not an emergency anymore.

00:47:05.920 It is very hard to say it's an emergency when you didn't do anything for 18 months.

00:47:09.900 And so there have been lots of headlines saying, oh, the Supreme Court said that biological males can compete in girls' sports.

00:47:18.980 And that's not what they said.

00:47:19.820 They didn't address the merits.

00:47:21.420 They might at some point, and I hope that they rule in a way that protects girls' sports and follows the law. 0.99

00:47:31.340 But in this instance, I think this was a procedural ruling.

00:47:34.880 I wish they'd vacated the injunction.

00:47:38.440 Referencing it, it's just two pages long.

00:47:40.520 The opinion there tells you it was more of a procedural thing, not a policy.

00:47:44.340 And even Justice Toledo and Justice Thomas are acknowledging, hey, wait, there's a real problem here because they sat and acquiesced.

00:47:53.280 But they went on and said, well, even so, it's a state law and the Court of Appeals didn't write an opinion and we shouldn't enjoin it with no explanation whatsoever.

00:48:02.000 So, look, that has some force, but I wouldn't read this Supreme Court decision as foreshadowing that the Supreme Court 7-2 is going to rule that biological males have a right to compete in girls' sports.

00:48:18.500 I don't think they're going to, and I don't think that's what this case means.

00:48:22.100 One other thing that happened this week is there's a swimmer, Riley Gaines, who's become very famous and a lot of support from conservatives and Christians because she came out, was one of the very first in women's swimming to come out and say, it is unfair that you're asking me, who I'm one of the best swimmers in women's sports, if not the best, in certain aspects of women's swimming, to compete with biological men.

00:48:48.600 When she did this, the world, of course, erupted.

00:48:51.960 The left went after to attack her.

00:48:54.040 She's now doing events at campuses.

00:48:56.240 You and I talked about this before the show.

00:48:59.300 She was going to be doing an event in San Francisco to university there.

00:49:03.740 That event didn't get to happen because the left started to attack her physically.

00:49:09.020 A man hit her apparently twice.

00:49:11.860 Police had to barricade her in a room as they basically rushed her from the stage. 0.82

00:49:18.600 She was held in that room, barricaded with the cops for about an hour, and the student body that was coming after her said some of those horrific things to her as a woman.

00:49:29.880 And if we wanted to bleep it all out, you wouldn't hear anything but a big, long bleep.

00:49:35.340 We decided we're going to let you see this.

00:49:37.460 I wanted to warn, and you wanted to as well.

00:49:39.160 If you have kids listening, kids watching, they don't need to see this.

00:49:42.680 But I do think that parents and grandparents need to understand this has become what's normal on college campuses if you are a conservative speaker or even a conservative student or someone standing up for yourselves as an athlete saying,

00:49:58.120 I shouldn't have to compete with men when I'm a woman.

00:50:01.240 So, look, that's exactly right, and I'll say a couple of things.

00:50:03.780 Number one, Riley Gaines was a very successful female swimmer competing against, among others, Leah Thomas. 0.99

00:50:11.740 Leah Thomas, born a biological male.

00:50:15.480 Leah Thomas decided that he was a she, that he was a woman.

00:50:22.100 More than halfway through college, competing as a man, as a male swimmer.

00:50:25.280 And as a male swimmer, was thoroughly mediocre, was not winning meets regularly, and once Leah became Leah the woman, Leah Thomas won the NCAA national championship in swimming.

00:50:40.920 Now, there are biological differences between men and women. 0.90

00:50:44.940 There are biological differences in strength, in body mass.

00:50:48.560 There's a reason why these controversies only emerge one way.

00:50:54.420 You know what, if a biological woman wants to compete against men, nobody would care. 1.00

00:51:02.800 If someone from the WNBA wants to compete in the NBA, great, that'd be amazing to watch. 0.99

00:51:07.980 There's a reason we have a WNBA, because there is no woman on the face of the planet who can stop LeBron James. 1.00

00:51:14.580 There may not be a man on the planet, but there is a reason.

00:51:18.700 There are real and material differences between the genders.

00:51:22.520 And so Riley Gaines was on campus, and she's at San Francisco State University, and she's there to speak.

00:51:31.780 And there's a violent protest, and she says that she was physically hit twice by a biological man who now claims he's a woman.

00:51:42.080 So you have a man physically assaulting, beating a woman, because she dares to say it's unfair to girls, it's unfair to women, to force them to compete against people who are biological males.

00:51:56.320 And this video is right after she was assaulted.

00:51:58.440 This video is her being pulled out of the room by the police officers. 0.91

00:52:03.780 This video is her being chased by the activists.

00:52:06.620 And I want to underscore for our listeners, you know, Ben and I, we actually debated whether or not to air this.

00:52:12.500 The profanity in this is bad.

00:52:14.860 Every other word is an expletive.

00:52:17.360 And, look, we try to make this podcast a family podcast that is suitable for listeners of all ages.

00:52:25.220 If we tried to bleep out the profanities, it would be you couldn't hear anything that would be saying.

00:52:31.800 But I actually think it's important.

00:52:33.640 Look, if you have kids and it's not appropriate for the kids to hear, shut off the broadcast at this point.

00:52:39.060 But I think it's important for people to hear this one.

00:52:43.300 And actually, for this episode, if you're listening, this is a particularly good episode to go on YouTube.

00:52:50.180 This is one of the three we do each week that's on video.

00:52:53.740 You're going to hear it.

00:52:55.780 But you need to see the anger in the faces of the intolerant left.

00:53:00.360 And this is now normal on college campuses.

00:53:02.680 It is so much worse and so much more powerful to see it.

00:53:06.840 So I'd encourage you for this one, go on to YouTube while you're there.

00:53:10.260 Subscribe on YouTube.

00:53:11.460 But play this portion in particular because if you see it, this is where your kids are going to go to school or are going to school.

00:53:19.820 This is where your grandkids are going to go to school or are going to school.

00:53:23.460 And you want to understand the radical, angry, violent left.

00:53:30.300 What happened to Riley Gaines illustrates it perfectly.

00:53:33.720 Let's play it.

00:53:36.840 This way.

00:53:39.560 It's just me. 1.00

00:53:40.280 Yeah, you fucking trans. 1.00

00:53:41.460 I'm fucking serious. 1.00

00:53:43.500 It's just me. 0.96

00:53:44.680 I'm good.

00:53:45.320 I'm good.

00:53:46.140 I'm good.

00:53:47.060 I'm good.

00:53:47.480 I'm good.

00:53:52.020 I'm coming.

00:53:56.820 I'm good.

00:53:57.080 I'm good.

00:53:57.720 Trust me.

00:53:58.080 I'm good.

00:53:58.400 Go ahead.

00:53:59.020 Trans rights are human rights.

00:54:04.540 Trans rights are human rights.

00:54:09.740 You're crying. 1.00

00:54:11.620 You fucking crying, bitch. 1.00

00:54:13.080 Fuck you. 1.00

00:54:14.740 Fuck you. 1.00

00:54:16.740 I don't want to fuck you. 1.00

00:54:18.420 I don't want to fuck you. 1.00

00:54:23.340 Trans rights are human rights. 1.00

00:54:25.000 Trans rights are human rights. 0.99

00:54:26.900 Trans rights are human fucking rights. 1.00

00:54:29.380 My bitch. 1.00

00:54:30.780 My bitch. 1.00

00:54:31.860 You're dressed like a communist. 1.00

00:54:33.280 Fuck you. 1.00

00:54:34.820 Fuck you. 1.00

00:54:35.360 Fuck you. 1.00

00:54:36.320 God help us. 1.00

00:55:01.980 I don't know how the university can watch that and not hold some of those students accountable.

00:55:06.400 And I doubt they will.

00:55:08.300 Look, for all we know, there were administrators there.

00:55:11.720 I mean, this podcast talked about Stanford Law School and how you had an administrator

00:55:17.220 siding with the mob, screaming expletives at a sitting federal court of appeals judge.

00:55:22.740 And mind you, these are students studying to be lawyers who don't know actually how to

00:55:26.920 deal with a judge without screaming and cursing at them.

00:55:29.900 Look, those students, presumably either they or their parents, are paying the university

00:55:39.100 to teach their kids to get an education.

00:55:42.300 This is what they're being taught.

00:55:44.540 You know, when I watch that video, it's why I encourage people to watch the YouTube of

00:55:48.100 this.

00:55:48.420 When I watch the video, the hate in the eyes of those children, it's hate.

00:55:57.380 Yeah, it's indoctrinated.

00:55:58.260 It is rage.

00:56:00.860 One of the most disturbing moments is a young woman who screams at Riley Gaines, you crying.

00:56:08.720 Man, so she's just been physically assaulted.

00:56:11.560 I don't know if she was injured.

00:56:13.140 I hope she was not.

00:56:14.820 But the mob, the bloodlust.

00:56:18.940 Look, there's a reason in San Francisco the police officers take her out. 1.00

00:56:23.620 Those officers are moving with dispatch because they're concerned for her safety.

00:56:28.080 They're concerned that that mob, if they don't get her out, she didn't have a chance to speak.

00:56:32.760 But if they don't get her out, they're concerned that that mob will continue to physically assault

00:56:38.700 her and seriously injure her. 0.99

00:56:40.480 Now, it says something about the university that they don't protect the safety of a speaker,

00:56:45.900 that they don't stop the violent mob, that they don't discipline the students, that they

00:56:52.620 don't arrest people engaged in violence.

00:56:57.180 The university, in all likelihood, condones this activity.

00:57:01.320 You know, a week ago, Tucker Carlson had a monologue where he talked about, in the wake

00:57:09.560 of the horrific shooting in Nashville, he talked about the rage of many of the radical activists

00:57:17.600 in the transgender community, the rage that they have to Christians and people of faith. 0.98

00:57:24.600 And that part of the essence of faith and Christianity in particular is recognizing that man is a fallen

00:57:37.440 creature and that we need God's grace and that God is sovereign, not us.

00:57:44.020 It's not my will, but it's a higher will.

00:57:48.100 And one of the points Tucker made is the essence of the radical activists' proposition is whatever

00:57:59.980 I believe is the truth, that I am God.

00:58:05.840 I can decide.

00:58:07.140 And it is, you know, I just saw this week a movie premiere for the movie Nefarious.

00:58:17.400 Yeah.

00:58:17.800 Now, Nefarious is coming out, coming out next week.

00:58:21.760 Nefarious was written by my good friend Steve Dace.

00:58:24.520 Nefarious, and it's a terrific movie, and the premiere was in Dallas, and it's about a murderer

00:58:33.120 on death row who's getting ready to be executed, and a psychiatrist comes in to interview the

00:58:40.540 murderer to determine whether the murderer is sane, whether he is competent to be executed.

00:58:45.600 And the murderer believes that he is possessed by a demon.

00:58:50.960 And so the entire movie is back and forth between the psychiatrist and the murderer and the demon.

00:58:59.020 And it is a Christian movie, but it's not a Christian movie in the sense that it beats you over the head 0.53

00:59:06.860 with a sermon.

00:59:07.500 It's actually, it's a thriller.

00:59:09.340 It's a horror film.

00:59:11.640 And it's powerful.

00:59:13.920 It's very well done.

00:59:14.760 And unfortunately, some Christian movies are not very good.

00:59:18.600 This is a good movie.

00:59:20.360 And with an amazing performance, actually, both of the two lead actors are really, really good.

00:59:27.220 But one of the exchanges of the demon, where he says, look, what did Lucifer say?

00:59:34.300 Lucifer said, I am God.

00:59:36.860 Do what thou wilt.

00:59:38.460 I thought Tucker's monologue, I actually texted him that night.

00:59:51.020 And I said, listen, what you said tonight was really powerful.

00:59:55.620 And in today's environment was courageous because that kind of angry mob is becoming the norm.

01:00:06.280 Look, I'm an optimist.

01:00:07.520 I believe in our country.

01:00:08.500 But when I see things like that, I fear for our country.

01:00:11.820 We've got to rediscover sanity.

01:00:16.420 And we've got to learn to talk to each other.

01:00:19.560 We've got to do something about this rage.

01:00:23.780 This rage and hatred that divides this country apart.

01:00:28.700 This is what our kids are being taught on campuses.

01:00:31.460 This is what the Marxists who are professors, the Marxists who are administrators are teaching

01:00:36.060 our children.

01:00:37.300 And if we don't teach them a better path, we're in serious trouble.

01:00:43.360 Yeah.

01:00:44.180 Senator, always a pleasure to chat with you, my friend.

01:00:47.160 Don't forget, if you're getting to watch this on Facebook or on YouTube, make sure you download

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01:00:53.940 We do this show three days a week.

01:00:55.380 There are two others that are just audio only.

01:00:57.940 If you're just listening today, go back and watch that last segment on YouTube or on Facebook.

01:01:02.400 It'll be there.

01:01:03.180 You can see this interaction with Riley Gaines.

01:01:06.020 And we will see you guys back here in a couple of days.

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