Verdict with Ted Cruz - Bernie & Ted Fist Bump Keeps The Rails Moving And Dems Try To Silence Truth On Biden⧸Ukraine Corruption

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00:00:04.320 Welcome. It is Verdict with Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you.

00:00:07.760 And we've got a lot to talk about on the show today,

00:00:09.740 including some breaking news on Hunter Biden.

00:00:12.440 Also, this big rail vote, but even more shocking than that,

00:00:16.720 is the fact that Senator Cruz apparently,

00:00:20.120 and we're going to confirm this, fist bumped with Bernie Sanders.

00:00:24.340 Now, before I deal with Hunter Biden, Senator, I just need to know,

00:00:27.120 this really happened. This wasn't fake news on the Internet.

00:00:30.580 It is true and accurate.

00:00:32.200 Bernie and I fist bumped on the floor of the Senate today.

00:00:35.140 And if it wraps your alert, if you're not right with the Lord,

00:00:38.360 get right with the Lord, because when things like this happen,

00:00:40.680 you never know what could happen next.

00:00:43.620 We're going to deal with that vote in a moment,

00:00:45.380 but Senator, there's some fireworks that happened this week,

00:00:48.500 and it has been spreading, and that is you asking questions,

00:00:54.140 some pretty tough questions, in a Senate confirmation hearing

00:00:58.620 that dealt with the issue of Hunter Biden.

00:01:01.960 Now, before I play this clip of this questioning,

00:01:05.180 set the stage for everybody to understand what this was about

00:01:09.020 and this confirmation and why it mattered

00:01:12.420 and was relevant to bring up Hunter Biden.

00:01:14.580 Well, this was in a hearing for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee

00:01:19.180 this week, and in particular, I was questioning an individual

00:01:22.280 named George Kent, who is a State Department employee,

00:01:26.280 and he was a senior State Department official

00:01:28.580 that handled things concerning Ukraine.

00:01:31.960 He's been now nominated by Joe Biden to be the ambassador to Estonia,

00:01:35.740 so he was having his confirmation hearing.

00:01:38.160 And you may remember George Kent, he wears a bow tie,

00:01:41.500 and he was one of the Democrats' star witnesses

00:01:44.240 in the impeachment of Donald Trump,

00:01:46.380 and he had all sorts of bad things to say about Trump,

00:01:49.840 but he also said in front of the House in sworn testimony

00:01:53.140 that he had raised with the Biden and the Obama White House

00:01:57.840 concerns about Hunter Biden's being on the board of Burisma,

00:02:01.940 and that the office of the vice president had blown him off

00:02:05.100 and said, we don't have time to deal with this.

00:02:07.340 And so I questioned him.

00:02:09.860 I had a poster board behind me with a picture of his sworn testimony

00:02:13.300 saying that he had told the White House

00:02:15.740 that it raised the appearance of conflict of interest.

00:02:19.300 And so I questioned and began under oath on that,

00:02:21.900 and one of the things he was saying was,

00:02:24.480 well, Biden didn't do anything to benefit the corrupt oligarch

00:02:30.340 who was paying Hunter Biden a million bucks a year,

00:02:35.640 and that's just not true.

00:02:37.980 And so I questioned him about that.

00:02:40.300 I want to play this,

00:02:41.300 and one of the things that you're going to play

00:02:43.060 is one of my favorite pieces of audio

00:02:45.460 that just shows not just the corruption of the Biden crime family,

00:02:48.920 but the arrogance of the vice president at the time

00:02:52.320 where he was basically saying to the Ukraine,

00:02:55.080 unless you get rid of the prosecutor that's investigating

00:02:57.200 the company that my son's on,

00:02:58.720 you're not getting any money from the United States of America.

00:03:01.940 You read that quote when Biden had left the vice presidency

00:03:07.200 and was literally bragging about how much power he had to get this done.

00:03:12.460 Here is that back and forth.

00:03:14.060 And then the Democrats shutting you down.

00:03:17.080 It's interesting.

00:03:18.080 Someone who disagrees with you, Mr. Kent, is Joe Biden.

00:03:21.100 And I want to read from what he said on January 23rd, 2018

00:03:25.280 at the Council of Foreign Relations.

00:03:26.840 Quote, this is Joe Biden speaking.

00:03:29.040 And I went over, I guess, the 12th, 13th time to Kiev.

00:03:32.740 And I was supposed to announce that there was another billion-dollar loan guarantee.

00:03:37.040 And I'd gotten a commitment from Poroshenko and Yatsenyuk

00:03:40.940 that they would take action against the state prosecutor,

00:03:43.940 the prosecutor that was investigating Burisma.

00:03:46.420 And they didn't.

00:03:48.360 So Biden continues.

00:03:49.940 I said, no, I'm not going to.

00:03:51.720 We're not going to give you the billion dollars.

00:03:53.560 They said, you have no authority.

00:03:54.980 You're not the president.

00:03:55.960 The president said, I said, call him.

00:03:58.580 I said, I'm telling you, you're not getting the billion dollars.

00:04:01.200 I said, you're not getting the billion dollars.

00:04:02.800 I'm going to be leaving here.

00:04:03.880 And I think it was about six hours.

00:04:05.320 I looked at them and said, I'm leaving here in six hours.

00:04:08.200 If the prosecutor is not fired, you're not getting the money. 1.00

00:04:13.100 Well, son of a bitch, he got fired. 1.00

00:04:16.540 Let me ask you something. 1.00

00:04:17.620 Do you think Joe Biden holding a billion dollars hostage

00:04:20.940 to force the Ukrainian government to fire the prosecutor

00:04:24.240 that is investigating the corrupt oligarch

00:04:27.320 who's paying his son a million dollars a year,

00:04:30.780 did getting that prosecutor fired benefit that oligarch?

00:04:34.640 Thank you, Senator Cruz, Senator Van Hollen.

00:04:36.620 Are you going to allow him to answer the question, Madam Chairman?

00:04:38.680 I am not going to allow him to answer the question.

00:04:40.720 Why are you covering for the vice president?

00:04:42.280 Do you not want to answer that question?

00:04:44.720 He said that the vice president has done nothing to benefit.

00:04:47.500 I think it's unfortunate for you, Senator Cruz,

00:04:50.020 to put in position that are uncomfortable

00:04:53.000 the nominees to be our ambassadors.

00:04:55.360 Okay, this is his sworn testimony.

00:04:57.520 This is his sworn testimony.

00:04:59.060 I understand that you want to cover for the vice president.

00:05:01.440 And he already answered that he is going to raise those concerns

00:05:03.720 any time he has responsibility.

00:05:04.440 Was his testimony true or false that Biden did nothing to benefit the oligarch?

00:05:08.460 I don't know what his testimony was.

00:05:08.800 Let him answer the question.

00:05:10.020 Why are you afraid of him answering the question?

00:05:12.120 I'm not.

00:05:12.580 I just want to move on because the votes have started.

00:05:13.940 But you won't let him answer it.

00:05:14.720 I asked a yes-no question.

00:05:16.480 Will you allow him to answer the yes-no question?

00:05:18.940 Yes.

00:05:19.260 You can answer yes or no.

00:05:20.440 Thank you.

00:05:22.320 The prosecutor who was fired by the Ukrainian parliament

00:05:24.980 did nothing to investigate Slicevsky.

00:05:27.540 And everything that Vice President Biden,

00:05:29.540 the State Department, and the U.S. Embassy did

00:05:31.540 acted in good faith to reduce corruption

00:05:34.620 and help the Ukrainians.

00:05:35.460 So firing him did not benefit the oligarch?

00:05:37.160 Thank you, Senator Cruz.

00:05:38.660 Senator Van Hollen.

00:05:39.580 I was shocked by how fast they decided to go past you on that one.

00:05:44.360 Has that happened to you very often?

00:05:46.180 I mean, how does these rules work for people that don't understand the rules?

00:05:49.720 Okay, so the person chairing the hearing was Jean Shaheen, 0.67

00:05:53.040 who's a Democrat senator from New Hampshire.

00:05:55.260 And she realized that the question I asked was a real problem

00:05:58.680 because it showed real corruption on the part of Joe Biden.

00:06:02.520 So she didn't want him to answer.

00:06:03.720 But this is where the Democrats, frankly,

00:06:05.900 they're just not very good at this.

00:06:07.440 They're not very good at being chairman

00:06:08.860 because they're so obviously scared of it

00:06:10.860 that it is very unusual.

00:06:14.420 It pretty much never happens that if you ask a witness a question,

00:06:17.620 a chairman in the Senate won't let the witness answer.

00:06:20.820 But she didn't want the answer.

00:06:22.800 And I guess she thinks that I'm just going to roll over

00:06:25.440 and meekly go, okay, I don't want an answer to my question.

00:06:28.300 But it's like, no, you are transparently covering up for Joe Biden.

00:06:33.100 And it's obvious to anyone watching.

00:06:35.780 And, you know, the kind of way she stammers,

00:06:38.260 well, you're making the witness feel uncomfortable.

00:06:41.640 Well, you know what?

00:06:42.500 That's actually what you're supposed to do

00:06:44.620 when you're questioning someone for a confirmation hearing.

00:06:48.060 And when she finally gave in and realized

00:06:51.600 how obvious it was that she was trying to cover up for Joe Biden,

00:06:54.960 she said, all right, you can answer.

00:06:56.880 He gives the smarmiest, most dishonest answer.

00:06:59.960 He makes perfectly clear that he is nothing but a partisan hack.

00:07:03.920 When he's like, oh, the prosecutor that was investigating the oligarch

00:07:06.900 wasn't actually investigating the oligarch.

00:07:08.780 That's not true.

00:07:09.860 And Joe Biden only wanted good government.

00:07:12.920 Really?

00:07:13.340 Then why did his son get a million bucks a year

00:07:15.980 when he didn't know a damn thing about oil and gas 0.77

00:07:18.080 and he couldn't speak Ukrainian? 0.61

00:07:19.220 He was there for one reason,

00:07:20.800 which was to get Joe Biden to get the prosecutor fired.

00:07:23.400 And it was a good investment.

00:07:25.060 That oligarch is glad he paid Hunter Biden that money.

00:07:27.740 And Gene Shaheen, they don't want the American people to know about it.

00:07:32.100 I also think it's important that people understand

00:07:34.540 this ambassadorship right now is probably more important

00:07:38.780 than it's been in a long time

00:07:40.080 because it's right there in Estonia,

00:07:42.120 dealing with what's going on in Ukraine,

00:07:43.900 dealing with what's going on in Russia.

00:07:45.520 This matters right now.

00:07:46.800 That's one of the other reasons

00:07:47.700 why this question you asked was so important.

00:07:49.660 Well, and I will say his answer,

00:07:52.140 look, Kent is someone who,

00:07:53.800 there are a whole bunch of State Department bureaucrats

00:07:56.200 who like to hold themselves out as nonpartisan

00:07:59.760 and just principled public servants.

00:08:02.900 Well, his answer, and by the way,

00:08:05.000 he did actually demonstrate some courage

00:08:07.240 when Obama was president

00:08:08.440 and that he raised the issue with the White House

00:08:10.700 and said, hey, I'm worried about this.

00:08:13.780 But now he's decided he hates Donald Trump.

00:08:16.480 And so everything Joe Biden did was honorable.

00:08:19.580 Never mind what he said in sworn testimony

00:08:21.880 before the House of Representatives.

00:08:23.720 Now he just speaks like he's Corrine Jean-Pierre

00:08:26.440 giving the Democratic talking points.

00:08:28.320 And I think it illustrates that he's a partisan

00:08:31.120 and he's not bothering to hide it anymore.

00:08:33.380 One of the perks of her doing what she did

00:08:35.320 was now everyone's talking about this story.

00:08:37.660 It's gone viral on social media.

00:08:39.940 It would not have gone viral

00:08:41.260 if there would have just been a normal exchange

00:08:43.080 between you and the nominee.

00:08:45.560 And that may be one of the blessings in disguise here

00:08:48.160 is now people are really focused on this.

00:08:50.420 I want to move to the rail vote, obviously.

00:08:52.980 We talked about the fist bump with Bernie Sanders.

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00:09:57.080 Senator, you had this vote

00:09:58.720 and we did our last podcast

00:10:01.160 talking about this rail vote

00:10:02.980 and things changed in this vote.

00:10:06.600 The Senate voted to impose this rail contract.

00:10:11.100 It rejected the measures

00:10:12.180 granting workers seven paid sick days,

00:10:15.440 for example.

00:10:16.240 This was a contentious vote

00:10:17.940 that passed this resolution

00:10:20.000 imposing a contract

00:10:21.040 on the freight rail workers.

00:10:23.500 This was a big lie

00:10:24.660 from the beginning

00:10:25.320 from this administration.

00:10:26.380 They said,

00:10:26.940 we were never going to get to this point.

00:10:28.360 Everything was figured out

00:10:29.140 before the election.

00:10:30.220 Then after the midterms,

00:10:31.560 they're like, just kidding.

00:10:32.420 We may have a major strike,

00:10:33.640 which would be catastrophic

00:10:34.740 to our economy and to shipping

00:10:37.740 and everything else

00:10:38.560 that we deal with

00:10:39.300 on the rail system here.

00:10:41.020 Now this vote happened.

00:10:42.660 Explain your vote

00:10:43.760 and how it's possible

00:10:44.900 that you and Bernie Sanders

00:10:46.020 were in essence

00:10:47.420 on the same side of this.

00:10:49.520 Yeah.

00:10:49.840 So we had today

00:10:51.440 three different votes

00:10:52.900 on the rail issue.

00:10:54.600 And we talked about this

00:10:55.620 in the last podcast.

00:10:57.380 But what happened

00:10:58.760 is the freight rail companies

00:11:00.800 have been in negotiations

00:11:02.380 with their unions

00:11:03.680 for many months.

00:11:07.340 And they reached an impasse

00:11:09.280 and it went to

00:11:10.020 a presidential advisory board,

00:11:11.860 which is allowed under statute.

00:11:14.560 And the presidential advisory board

00:11:15.920 made a recommendation.

00:11:17.340 And then that recommendation

00:11:19.420 was sent before the unions.

00:11:22.420 And of the 12 different unions,

00:11:25.420 four of them voted it down.

00:11:28.580 But those four actually represent

00:11:30.380 more than half the rail workers

00:11:32.700 in America.

00:11:33.520 So it's a majority

00:11:34.980 of the rail workers voted no.

00:11:37.340 And they didn't want it.

00:11:38.580 And their principal area

00:11:39.900 of disagreement,

00:11:40.920 so the deal had some things

00:11:43.120 they like.

00:11:43.640 So it had a 24% pay increase

00:11:47.680 over five years.

00:11:48.920 Now I would note

00:11:49.720 that sounds great

00:11:51.240 until you remember

00:11:51.960 that we're having 8% inflation

00:11:53.960 each year under Joe Biden.

00:11:55.320 And that means over five years

00:11:57.020 compounded,

00:11:58.100 you're looking at about

00:11:58.920 40 to 50% inflation,

00:12:01.720 a 24% wage increase

00:12:03.460 that's about half

00:12:04.240 of the inflation under Biden

00:12:05.580 doesn't sound nearly that good

00:12:07.420 when you realize

00:12:08.280 what Biden's done

00:12:09.100 to the economy generally.

00:12:10.500 But what the workers

00:12:12.440 in particular were upset about

00:12:14.180 was sick leave,

00:12:15.880 that they did not have

00:12:17.880 any policy in place

00:12:19.900 where they could get sick leave

00:12:21.280 if they got sick.

00:12:22.260 And in particular,

00:12:22.940 if you wanted sick leave,

00:12:24.540 you have to put in

00:12:25.580 several days in advance.

00:12:26.920 And the problem is

00:12:28.080 you often don't know

00:12:29.860 if you're going to be sick

00:12:30.700 several days in advance.

00:12:31.880 You know,

00:12:32.060 it's kind of strange to say,

00:12:33.640 hey, I'm planning on having the flu

00:12:35.200 a week from Wednesday.

00:12:37.000 Like, that's not how people

00:12:38.300 Yeah, that's not how it works, right?

00:12:40.380 So now look,

00:12:41.680 the railroads say,

00:12:42.600 well, we've got to run a railroad.

00:12:44.040 We've got to know

00:12:44.420 what's going on.

00:12:45.120 And so it's easier for us

00:12:46.160 logistically if even if you're sick,

00:12:48.160 you got to come in.

00:12:49.500 And the workers

00:12:50.480 understandably don't like that.

00:12:51.980 Um, so

00:12:53.880 more than half of the workers

00:12:57.320 voted down the deal.

00:12:59.240 What happened?

00:13:00.680 Well, Joe Biden,

00:13:02.060 before the election,

00:13:03.200 and you pointed this out

00:13:04.440 just a second ago,

00:13:05.580 had told the American people

00:13:07.420 this issue is resolved.

00:13:08.780 Everyone's agreed.

00:13:09.680 We fixed it.

00:13:10.840 We now know that was a lie.

00:13:12.720 What he did was kick it down,

00:13:14.320 down the road a couple of weeks

00:13:16.080 to get it past election day.

00:13:17.740 And then we were headed to

00:13:19.420 in days a nationwide rail strike,

00:13:22.300 which would have

00:13:22.780 a catastrophic impact

00:13:24.160 on the economy.

00:13:25.340 The cost of the economy

00:13:26.460 is over $2 billion a day

00:13:27.980 from a rail strike.

00:13:28.880 It's actually $2.8 billion,

00:13:30.420 close to $3 billion a day.

00:13:32.820 And so what the Biden White House

00:13:34.920 decided to do

00:13:36.040 was essentially tell

00:13:38.160 the union workers,

00:13:39.300 go pound sand.

00:13:40.160 We don't care that you want this.

00:13:43.080 Biden asked Congress

00:13:45.020 to pass legislation

00:13:47.560 ratifying the tentative agreement

00:13:51.280 that had been put

00:13:52.020 before the workers

00:13:53.200 that the workers had voted down.

00:13:55.300 And the Democrats,

00:13:56.900 because they are more concerned

00:13:58.660 about being partisan

00:13:59.660 than actually about

00:14:00.620 standing up for the workers,

00:14:02.960 decided to support Biden

00:14:04.780 in that effort.

00:14:07.760 Now, we had three votes today on this.

00:14:09.520 The first one was a vote

00:14:11.900 to delay everything for 60 days

00:14:14.060 and to extend what's called

00:14:15.320 the cooling off period

00:14:16.280 for 60 days.

00:14:17.280 And I don't think Congress

00:14:18.980 ought to be deciding this.

00:14:20.220 I think negotiations

00:14:21.880 between labor and management

00:14:23.200 ought to be between labor

00:14:24.120 and management,

00:14:24.620 and they should work it out.

00:14:26.040 And if they've reached an impasse,

00:14:27.360 they should go back

00:14:28.060 to the bargaining table

00:14:28.960 and try to work it out.

00:14:29.940 And so I thought

00:14:30.660 a 60-day cooling off period

00:14:32.860 for them to continue

00:14:33.640 to negotiate

00:14:34.200 made an awful lot of sense.

00:14:35.840 Let them figure out

00:14:36.860 the right answer to that.

00:14:38.780 Unfortunately,

00:14:39.700 the White House whipped against it

00:14:41.340 and that failed.

00:14:42.040 So the Senate decided

00:14:44.540 we're not going to have

00:14:46.040 a 60-day cooling off period.

00:14:47.680 We're going to vote right now.

00:14:49.340 What was the reasoning

00:14:50.020 behind that at the White House?

00:14:51.300 I mean, you would think

00:14:52.140 they would have wanted to make,

00:14:53.640 in theory,

00:14:54.380 union workers happy.

00:14:56.180 That would have made,

00:14:56.940 I would assume,

00:14:57.580 some union workers happy

00:14:58.880 that 60-day period.

00:15:01.000 What was the reason

00:15:02.200 behind the White House

00:15:03.140 saying,

00:15:03.600 nah, screw the worker on this

00:15:04.720 and we're going to stick

00:15:05.420 with the big guys

00:15:06.200 and the big companies?

00:15:07.800 You know,

00:15:08.240 I don't really know.

00:15:09.780 They didn't articulate themselves.

00:15:11.260 They didn't explain themselves.

00:15:12.960 I think

00:15:13.920 it was just a question of power,

00:15:16.460 which is when

00:15:17.100 Democrats address union workers,

00:15:20.400 they tend to think

00:15:21.600 almost exclusively

00:15:22.700 in terms of union bosses.

00:15:24.860 And the union bosses

00:15:26.080 are typically

00:15:27.160 hardcore Democrat partisans

00:15:30.020 who are writing

00:15:31.020 all the checks

00:15:31.740 to the Democrats.

00:15:32.700 And so Biden

00:15:33.960 and the White House

00:15:34.700 think if the union boss

00:15:35.840 is happy,

00:15:36.740 I'm happy.

00:15:37.600 In this instance,

00:15:38.800 what happened,

00:15:39.380 when the union bosses

00:15:40.320 had negotiated this deal,

00:15:42.460 it was the members

00:15:43.340 who were unhappy.

00:15:44.280 It was the members

00:15:44.940 when they put the deal

00:15:45.660 before the members,

00:15:46.780 the members voted it down.

00:15:48.180 And remember,

00:15:48.660 today's Democrats

00:15:49.520 routinely put policies

00:15:51.800 in place

00:15:52.520 that hurt union members.

00:15:54.380 When Joe Biden

00:15:55.540 the first day in office

00:15:57.120 canceled the Keystone Pipeline,

00:15:59.220 he eliminated

00:15:59.980 11,000 high-paying jobs,

00:16:01.840 including 8,000 union jobs,

00:16:04.160 with a stroke of a pen.

00:16:05.340 The Democrats 0.96

00:16:05.780 don't really give a damn

00:16:07.100 about the union workers.

00:16:08.580 As long as the union bosses

00:16:10.180 are on board,

00:16:11.440 I think they believe

00:16:12.800 in just power

00:16:14.180 rather than actually caring

00:16:16.380 about the lives

00:16:17.140 of the workers.

00:16:18.260 Well,

00:16:19.000 what you and I

00:16:20.220 talked about beforehand

00:16:21.420 is

00:16:21.920 I didn't think Congress

00:16:24.440 should be in this business.

00:16:25.500 And actually,

00:16:25.900 when we talked about it

00:16:26.660 beforehand,

00:16:26.980 you said,

00:16:27.520 well,

00:16:27.620 do you intend to vote

00:16:28.500 for Bernie Sanders

00:16:29.480 had a provision

00:16:30.200 to give the workers

00:16:32.080 seven-day sick leave?

00:16:34.500 And last podcast,

00:16:35.820 I said,

00:16:36.540 no,

00:16:36.800 I wasn't planning

00:16:37.460 to vote for that.

00:16:38.560 And the reason was

00:16:39.600 if you just put that up

00:16:40.740 alone on the floor,

00:16:41.980 I'd vote against it

00:16:42.900 because I don't think

00:16:43.860 Congress ought to be

00:16:44.620 deciding this.

00:16:45.380 I think we ought to

00:16:46.420 have labor and management

00:16:47.540 negotiate it

00:16:48.260 and reach an agreement

00:16:48.940 between the two of them.

00:16:50.560 Well,

00:16:51.200 once the Senate

00:16:52.220 voted down

00:16:53.400 my amendment

00:16:55.020 with Dan Sullivan

00:16:55.880 to delay everything

00:16:56.780 60 days,

00:16:57.540 it became abundantly clear

00:16:59.380 that the Senate

00:17:00.820 was going to vote

00:17:01.920 for the White House

00:17:02.800 and management deal.

00:17:03.920 They were just going to say,

00:17:05.080 to hell with the workers, 0.77

00:17:06.520 we're throwing out

00:17:07.300 what the workers want

00:17:08.420 and we're going to

00:17:09.220 force this deal on them.

00:17:10.320 They were just going to

00:17:11.140 screw the union members. 0.57

00:17:12.780 Once it was clear 0.96

00:17:13.760 we were going to do that,

00:17:15.500 then when we were voting

00:17:16.580 on the sick leave,

00:17:17.460 listen,

00:17:17.760 I think the request

00:17:18.540 to have seven-day sick leave

00:17:19.920 over the course of a year

00:17:21.520 is a very reasonable request.

00:17:24.340 I didn't think the unions

00:17:25.520 were being unreasonable

00:17:26.480 and given a choice

00:17:27.860 between the Senate

00:17:29.360 cramming down a deal

00:17:30.640 that benefited one side

00:17:32.820 or being more fair

00:17:34.140 and reflecting

00:17:35.280 the union workers'

00:17:36.920 reasonable request,

00:17:38.460 I voted for the sick leave.

00:17:41.940 That was Bernie Sanders' amendment,

00:17:43.860 so I supported Bernie in that.

00:17:45.920 And there were a total

00:17:47.280 of six Republicans

00:17:48.320 who voted that way,

00:17:49.160 so most Republicans

00:17:50.380 voted on the other side.

00:17:51.960 But I was proud

00:17:53.920 to stand with the union workers.

00:17:56.460 What precedent does this set

00:17:58.280 moving forward,

00:17:59.320 knowing now,

00:18:00.260 and I'm talking about

00:18:00.820 from a union perspective

00:18:01.760 because this could be,

00:18:03.320 in my opinion,

00:18:04.020 a civil war brewing

00:18:05.080 that they didn't see coming

00:18:06.400 if the Democratic Party

00:18:09.060 is the party of unions, right?

00:18:11.100 And that's what they always say.

00:18:12.080 I mean, we saw this

00:18:12.620 as a big issue in Michigan

00:18:13.660 and the governor's race there.

00:18:15.060 We saw this in Virginia.

00:18:16.840 We've seen this

00:18:17.480 in other places like that.

00:18:18.760 But this was a big,

00:18:20.260 quote, union moment,

00:18:21.600 and the White House said

00:18:22.980 to the unions, 0.99

00:18:24.600 screw you guys. 1.00

00:18:26.560 We're going to go 1.00

00:18:27.720 with your employer,

00:18:29.660 not with you.

00:18:30.820 I think this could be

00:18:32.200 catastrophic for them

00:18:33.600 moving forward.

00:18:35.220 Look, I certainly think

00:18:36.600 if you're a rail worker,

00:18:39.320 you're paying attention to this.

00:18:41.800 And by the way,

00:18:42.420 the state with the most

00:18:43.960 rail workers

00:18:45.200 is the state of Texas.

00:18:46.280 There are about 17,000

00:18:47.620 freight rail workers

00:18:48.700 in the state of Texas.

00:18:50.560 And, you know,

00:18:51.980 I was proud to stand with them.

00:18:53.480 And I think what this reveals,

00:18:54.960 and it's something

00:18:55.520 the Democrats reveal

00:18:56.700 day in and day out,

00:18:58.520 is that they,

00:19:00.560 their view of unions

00:19:01.920 is as long as the union bosses

00:19:03.400 are in their back pocket,

00:19:04.580 they're happy

00:19:05.060 and they're willing

00:19:05.760 to just screw the workers

00:19:07.300 all day long

00:19:08.360 if they think the bosses

00:19:10.700 will be okay with it.

00:19:12.300 Does this strengthen

00:19:13.940 or weaken

00:19:14.880 the union bosses,

00:19:16.460 the fact that they

00:19:17.520 couldn't get this deal

00:19:18.660 done on behalf

00:19:19.320 of their workers?

00:19:20.460 Does this make the workers

00:19:21.920 basically say,

00:19:22.820 all right,

00:19:23.240 well,

00:19:23.560 you guys don't do

00:19:24.560 anything for us.

00:19:25.240 We know who you

00:19:26.000 take your orders from.

00:19:28.640 You know,

00:19:29.260 I don't know.

00:19:30.360 You would certainly think

00:19:31.420 there are going to be

00:19:32.020 some workers

00:19:32.580 who are pissed off. 0.58

00:19:33.940 And I would understand

00:19:35.920 why they're pissed off.

00:19:37.820 I think wanting to have

00:19:39.700 the ability

00:19:41.020 to take a sick day

00:19:42.080 if you're actually sick

00:19:43.260 is not a particularly

00:19:44.660 crazy request

00:19:46.780 for a worker.

00:19:48.420 And it was really

00:19:50.820 quite striking

00:19:51.580 that the Biden White House

00:19:52.900 got virtually every Democrat

00:19:54.440 to march off a cliff.

00:19:57.040 It was interesting.

00:19:57.620 Right after I cast the vote

00:19:59.260 on the sick leave,

00:20:00.660 I walked over to Bernie.

00:20:02.540 You mentioned the fist bump.

00:20:04.120 I walked over to Bernie

00:20:05.880 and he stuck his fist out

00:20:07.560 and gave me a fist bump.

00:20:08.940 He was actually the one

00:20:09.700 who initiated it.

00:20:11.380 And I said,

00:20:12.460 Bernie,

00:20:12.740 I just voted with you.

00:20:14.200 And I said,

00:20:15.000 I don't know

00:20:15.340 if that hurts me more

00:20:16.340 or if it hurts you more.

00:20:17.640 Well,

00:20:18.140 and they were even

00:20:18.820 all in on Chris Hayes

00:20:20.880 on MSNBC.

00:20:21.640 Chris Hayes was talking

00:20:23.340 to Bernie Sanders

00:20:23.920 about this vote

00:20:24.840 and there was a

00:20:25.420 pretty darn funny moment.

00:20:27.340 Take a listen

00:20:27.840 for everybody

00:20:28.360 that probably missed it

00:20:29.300 because you weren't

00:20:29.840 watching MSNBC.

00:20:31.160 So there's a dear colleague

00:20:32.560 letter out from

00:20:33.560 Speaker Pelosi

00:20:34.820 about the votes tomorrow

00:20:36.460 and they're saying

00:20:37.020 there will be two votes.

00:20:38.560 A vote on the deal,

00:20:39.840 a vote on seven days

00:20:41.140 paid sick leave.

00:20:42.200 So then I guess

00:20:42.740 the question becomes,

00:20:43.740 it comes to the Senate,

00:20:44.920 I assume Majority Leader

00:20:46.800 Chuck Schumer

00:20:47.280 will probably have two votes.

00:20:49.380 Can you get

00:20:50.760 ten Republicans?

00:20:52.400 You got Ted Cruz

00:20:53.000 and Marco Rubio

00:20:53.900 basically all but

00:20:56.220 singing the Internationale

00:20:57.440 tongue-in-cheek

00:20:58.240 because they're doing it

00:21:00.740 in a kind of

00:21:01.240 trolling fashion.

00:21:02.040 I thought you would

00:21:02.460 appreciate that, Senator.

00:21:03.780 I love Bernie there

00:21:04.980 because he's laughing

00:21:05.900 and this is when

00:21:07.080 politics just gets weird

00:21:09.000 and it makes me happy

00:21:10.520 at the same time.

00:21:11.560 It's not every day

00:21:12.480 that you and I

00:21:13.160 would ever imagine

00:21:14.620 we're sitting here

00:21:15.280 talking about you

00:21:15.920 fist-bumping Bernie Sanders

00:21:17.480 and this type of

00:21:19.340 almost like

00:21:19.900 Saturday Night Live humor

00:21:20.920 on a real news channel

00:21:22.740 for that moment.

00:21:24.520 Well, when I went over

00:21:25.460 and Bernie fist-bumped me,

00:21:26.820 he said,

00:21:27.260 you know,

00:21:28.280 I always knew

00:21:28.800 you were a socialist.

00:21:30.080 But listen,

00:21:30.900 it is not being a socialist

00:21:32.520 to stand with

00:21:33.680 working men and women.

00:21:34.860 I believe passionately

00:21:37.020 that I think Republicans,

00:21:38.880 we should be

00:21:39.260 the party of jobs,

00:21:40.380 we should be

00:21:40.880 a blue-collar party.

00:21:41.960 That's who we should stand

00:21:43.180 and fight for.

00:21:44.360 And so, you know,

00:21:46.760 I will say

00:21:47.820 there are times

00:21:49.740 when Bernie and I overlap.

00:21:51.380 Like, I can recall

00:21:52.120 one other time

00:21:52.980 where he and I

00:21:53.560 voted together

00:21:54.240 and that was

00:21:54.660 a couple of years ago.

00:21:56.360 We both voted

00:21:57.820 in favor

00:21:58.700 of allowing

00:21:59.580 the re-importation

00:22:01.460 of drugs,

00:22:02.160 pharmaceutical drugs,

00:22:03.620 that U.S. pharma companies

00:22:05.220 sell, say, to Canada

00:22:06.300 and they sell them

00:22:07.880 really cheap in Canada

00:22:08.880 and really expensive

00:22:09.660 in the United States.

00:22:10.700 And I voted

00:22:11.500 and said,

00:22:12.320 you ought to be able

00:22:12.840 to import it back

00:22:13.500 to Canada

00:22:13.940 at the cheap levels

00:22:14.800 because what's happening

00:22:15.880 is essentially

00:22:17.400 the big pharma companies

00:22:19.180 are using U.S. consumers

00:22:21.420 to get their profit

00:22:22.920 and they're subsidizing

00:22:24.100 foreign overseas sales

00:22:25.460 and I don't see any reason

00:22:26.460 why the federal government

00:22:27.500 should protect

00:22:29.120 their price fixing.

00:22:30.140 And so I happily

00:22:31.140 voted for that.

00:22:32.040 Bernie did too.

00:22:32.820 It failed.

00:22:34.020 A bunch of Republicans

00:22:35.060 and a bunch of Democrats

00:22:36.020 voted against it.

00:22:37.100 And where I would say

00:22:39.260 sometimes you see

00:22:40.940 the far left

00:22:42.680 and far right

00:22:43.460 coming together

00:22:44.320 is skepticism

00:22:46.500 of massive corporate power.

00:22:48.660 And in both

00:22:49.400 of those instances

00:22:50.320 you can get

00:22:51.840 some overlaps

00:22:52.740 of what would

00:22:53.440 otherwise be

00:22:54.220 strange bedfellows.

00:22:55.320 Canadian women

00:22:56.600 are looking for more

00:22:57.660 more out of themselves

00:22:58.760 their businesses

00:22:59.600 their elected leaders

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00:23:26.300 There was a very

00:23:27.620 interesting moment

00:23:28.760 that happened

00:23:29.540 and it was a

00:23:30.600 compare and contrast

00:23:31.860 between the White House's

00:23:33.720 opinion

00:23:34.120 on Twitter

00:23:35.740 and how they're

00:23:37.060 monitoring Twitter

00:23:38.160 like they're

00:23:38.880 the communist China

00:23:40.180 and watching closely

00:23:42.480 what is happening

00:23:43.960 with Elon Musk

00:23:44.820 pushing for more

00:23:46.040 free speech

00:23:46.840 on the platform

00:23:47.580 and then comparing it

00:23:49.820 to what Apple

00:23:51.420 is doing

00:23:52.140 and how the White House

00:23:53.060 is happy to look

00:23:53.960 the other way

00:23:54.700 with Apple

00:23:56.020 I mean

00:23:57.240 doing things

00:23:58.480 to help the Chinese

00:23:59.600 communist government

00:24:00.880 crack down

00:24:02.100 on their people

00:24:02.780 silence their people 1.00

00:24:04.140 and there was a very

00:24:05.420 interesting back and forth

00:24:06.940 between Martha McConnell

00:24:08.420 I'm a big fan of hers

00:24:09.280 at Fox

00:24:09.760 and John Kirby

00:24:11.220 in front of the White House

00:24:12.220 I want to play part of this

00:24:13.240 because it tells you

00:24:14.600 everything you need to know

00:24:15.340 about this White House 0.96

00:24:16.440 and the hypocrisy

00:24:17.440 with these two big companies

00:24:19.480 and how they're treating

00:24:20.300 them so differently

00:24:21.320 General and we've been clear

00:24:23.080 about this all around the world

00:24:24.260 we want the individual citizens

00:24:27.320 no matter what government

00:24:28.440 they live under

00:24:28.960 to be able to communicate

00:24:29.860 freely and openly

00:24:30.860 transparently and reliably

00:24:32.560 and we've made that clear

00:24:34.780 with respect to Iran

00:24:35.680 and we certainly continue

00:24:36.800 to make that clear here

00:24:37.800 with respect to China

00:24:38.840 but have you made that clear

00:24:39.260 to Apple?

00:24:40.180 Apple's a private company

00:24:41.980 Martha

00:24:42.300 they have to make decisions

00:24:43.760 and they have to speak

00:24:44.940 for those decisions

00:24:45.660 but here at the White House

00:24:47.160 here in the administration

00:24:47.960 we want to see

00:24:49.360 that individual citizens

00:24:50.780 whether they're protesting

00:24:51.700 or not

00:24:52.220 but in this case

00:24:53.220 I know that's the context

00:24:54.080 we're talking about

00:24:54.760 are able to communicate

00:24:56.000 freely and openly

00:24:56.900 but why not say something

00:24:58.120 to Apple

00:24:58.740 because we were just told

00:24:59.720 the other day

00:25:00.440 that the White House

00:25:01.460 is keeping an eye

00:25:02.580 on Elon Musk

00:25:03.620 and Twitter

00:25:04.060 so why would you say that

00:25:05.740 from the podium

00:25:06.340 you didn't say it

00:25:07.200 but Kareem Jean-Pierre

00:25:07.920 said it

00:25:08.320 and not call Apple out

00:25:10.000 for helping the Chinese government

00:25:11.600 to suppress their own

00:25:13.440 people's ability

00:25:14.080 to communicate

00:25:14.640 again I think we've been

00:25:16.400 very clear and consistent

00:25:17.360 on this

00:25:17.860 certainly publicly

00:25:18.980 we've been very open

00:25:20.000 about our desires

00:25:21.220 to be able to see

00:25:21.820 citizens communicate

00:25:22.760 and then you know

00:25:24.160 Apple

00:25:24.460 if this is a decision

00:25:25.600 that they're making

00:25:26.200 then they should have

00:25:27.260 to speak to that

00:25:27.880 but we you know

00:25:28.880 we're not

00:25:29.200 we can't

00:25:30.180 and we aren't

00:25:30.860 in the business

00:25:31.400 of telling private companies

00:25:32.900 how to to execute

00:25:34.080 their their initiative

00:25:35.540 but Twitter's a private company too

00:25:37.000 so why is Twitter

00:25:37.840 getting one treatment

00:25:38.600 and Apple's getting another

00:25:39.480 is my question

00:25:40.160 well those are

00:25:41.320 completely two different

00:25:42.460 circumstances

00:25:43.100 you're talking about

00:25:43.900 the potential

00:25:44.500 well you're talking

00:25:45.360 about the potential

00:25:46.980 for perhaps

00:25:48.120 foreign investment

00:25:49.460 and involvement

00:25:50.160 in the management

00:25:51.380 of Twitter

00:25:52.060 that's a different issue

00:25:53.260 than what we're talking

00:25:55.080 about here

00:25:55.520 which is a business decision

00:25:57.020 by Apple

00:25:57.600 with respect to how

00:25:58.480 one of their applications

00:25:59.960 is being utilized

00:26:00.620 certainly they're getting

00:26:01.360 influenced by the

00:26:02.160 foreign government

00:26:03.100 and that government

00:26:04.120 is China

00:26:04.760 I mean Senator

00:26:06.140 I want to hit pause here

00:26:07.440 because I want to get

00:26:08.000 your initial take on this

00:26:09.380 the White House

00:26:10.560 is trying to claim

00:26:11.420 that these two companies

00:26:12.420 are totally different

00:26:13.360 and the scenarios

00:26:13.920 are different

00:26:14.200 they're not

00:26:14.840 you're basically

00:26:16.240 telling one company

00:26:17.420 we're really going

00:26:18.020 to look at you

00:26:18.520 and may crack down

00:26:19.240 and the other company

00:26:20.060 is actually doing

00:26:21.320 the bidding of the

00:26:21.820 Chinese communist government

00:26:22.920 and silencing people

00:26:24.440 and the White House

00:26:25.880 is completely looking

00:26:26.800 the other direction

00:26:27.640 well first of all

00:26:29.640 good on Martha McCallum

00:26:32.160 for holding him to account

00:26:33.560 that was really

00:26:34.760 effective questioning

00:26:35.760 and it

00:26:36.440 John Kirby realized

00:26:37.920 he was in real trouble

00:26:38.880 because what he was saying

00:26:39.720 was utterly incoherent

00:26:41.460 why has the White House

00:26:44.460 not said anything

00:26:45.500 to Apple

00:26:46.080 about their

00:26:46.940 willingly

00:26:47.640 participating

00:26:49.200 in the Chinese

00:26:50.320 communist government

00:26:51.420 oppressing

00:26:52.100 and silencing

00:26:52.820 the protesters

00:26:53.540 because

00:26:55.020 the Democrats

00:26:56.260 are in bed

00:26:57.320 with China

00:26:57.980 because they support

00:26:59.460 the policy

00:27:00.220 look Apple

00:27:01.320 disabled airdrop

00:27:03.260 they are literally

00:27:04.660 the instrumentality

00:27:06.040 of silencing

00:27:07.560 the protesters

00:27:08.480 and they're

00:27:09.000 they're acting

00:27:09.720 effectively

00:27:10.260 on behalf

00:27:11.240 of the Chinese

00:27:12.640 communist party

00:27:13.420 in doing so

00:27:14.000 I think what they're

00:27:14.580 doing is disgraceful

00:27:15.600 and shameful

00:27:16.160 the person who won't

00:27:17.740 say that is Joe Biden

00:27:18.780 well and you had

00:27:19.480 the Apple CEO

00:27:20.220 walking the halls

00:27:21.720 of Congress

00:27:22.540 luckily there was

00:27:24.740 a Fox reporter

00:27:25.720 that tried to ask

00:27:26.800 the question

00:27:27.380 of the Apple CEO

00:27:28.100 here's how that

00:27:29.360 went down

00:27:29.780 and he said nothing

00:27:30.780 and tried to walk

00:27:31.520 away from her

00:27:32.120 multiple different

00:27:32.780 directions

00:27:33.520 do you support

00:27:35.860 the Chinese people's

00:27:36.820 right to protest

00:27:37.820 he's right there

00:27:41.600 do you have any

00:27:42.880 reaction to the

00:27:43.720 factory workers

00:27:44.380 that were beaten

00:27:45.000 and detained

00:27:45.600 for protesting

00:27:46.380 COVID lockdowns

00:27:47.600 he's right there

00:27:49.620 not saying a word

00:27:50.800 do you regret

00:27:51.420 restricting

00:27:52.560 airdrop access

00:27:53.420 that protesters

00:27:54.160 used to evade

00:27:56.060 surveillance

00:27:56.660 from the Chinese

00:27:57.380 government

00:27:57.860 do you think

00:28:02.660 it's problematic

00:28:03.220 to do business

00:28:04.400 with the communist

00:28:05.960 Chinese party

00:28:07.000 when they suppress

00:28:07.920 human rights

00:28:08.660 and there he does

00:28:12.580 he walks into

00:28:13.260 some other

00:28:13.820 I'm assuming

00:28:14.740 democrats office

00:28:15.960 the Apple CEO

00:28:17.280 there senator

00:28:17.900 I mean just

00:28:18.340 wouldn't say a word

00:28:19.680 I mean he's right

00:28:20.540 there he's right

00:28:21.180 next to the microphone

00:28:21.880 he could have said

00:28:23.040 anything

00:28:23.420 he said not a

00:28:24.160 single word

00:28:24.920 well because they

00:28:26.180 can't defend what

00:28:26.920 they're doing

00:28:27.300 because they are

00:28:28.040 in bed with 0.99

00:28:28.600 the Chinese 0.91

00:28:29.000 communists

00:28:29.540 you know even

00:28:30.840 the simple

00:28:31.940 statement I stand

00:28:33.020 with the protesters

00:28:33.820 he can't say

00:28:35.180 why

00:28:35.700 because he's

00:28:36.780 manufacturing a lot

00:28:37.820 of his products

00:28:38.420 in China

00:28:39.160 and because he

00:28:40.940 desperately wants

00:28:41.820 continued access

00:28:42.560 to the Chinese

00:28:43.260 market

00:28:43.580 he looks at

00:28:44.120 China and he 0.98

00:28:44.780 sees dollar bills

00:28:45.900 as far as the

00:28:46.840 eye can see

00:28:47.520 and this is a

00:28:48.360 problem with a lot

00:28:49.040 of corporate America

00:28:49.760 a lot of the

00:28:50.440 fortune 500

00:28:51.620 is eagerly

00:28:53.780 complicit

00:28:54.440 with Chinese

00:28:56.180 atrocities

00:28:57.080 even with

00:28:58.000 murder and

00:28:58.920 torture and

00:28:59.560 concentration camps

00:29:00.680 because they

00:29:02.300 think they can

00:29:03.300 make a buck

00:29:04.100 off of it

00:29:04.500 we see the same

00:29:05.120 thing with the

00:29:05.640 NBA

00:29:06.000 who's terrified

00:29:07.600 to criticize

00:29:09.100 the Chinese

00:29:11.260 Communist Party

00:29:12.000 in any way

00:29:12.540 shape or form

00:29:13.260 for the same

00:29:14.360 reason

00:29:14.680 it's all about

00:29:15.300 money

00:29:15.600 but what I

00:29:16.780 liked about

00:29:17.380 the questioning

00:29:18.360 with Martha

00:29:19.100 McCollum

00:29:19.600 is that

00:29:21.860 the utter

00:29:24.400 hypocrisy

00:29:25.200 when it

00:29:25.480 concerns

00:29:25.860 Twitter

00:29:26.220 where Twitter

00:29:27.300 you know

00:29:29.020 Corrine Jean-Pierre

00:29:29.940 said we're

00:29:30.620 keeping an eye

00:29:31.300 on them

00:29:31.680 and by the

00:29:32.320 way John

00:29:32.760 Kirby's

00:29:33.340 answer

00:29:33.860 well we're

00:29:35.060 concerned about

00:29:36.140 foreign ownership

00:29:37.220 of Twitter

00:29:37.800 no no that is

00:29:39.160 not what

00:29:39.660 Corrine Jean-Pierre

00:29:40.380 said the

00:29:41.280 question that

00:29:42.040 was asked by

00:29:42.700 this lefty

00:29:43.340 reporter

00:29:43.800 is

00:29:44.840 Twitter is

00:29:47.540 allowing free

00:29:48.340 speech and

00:29:49.000 millions more

00:29:50.180 new people

00:29:50.920 are signing

00:29:51.760 up for it

00:29:52.340 aren't you

00:29:52.840 worried that

00:29:53.480 all of these

00:29:54.140 people are

00:29:55.660 hearing free

00:29:56.540 speech and

00:29:57.040 they might

00:29:57.440 hear quote

00:29:58.040 misinformation

00:29:58.600 which is

00:29:59.500 the left's

00:30:01.120 code word

00:30:02.200 for anything

00:30:02.760 they disagree

00:30:03.460 with

00:30:03.880 and that's

00:30:05.640 what Corrine

00:30:06.260 Jean-Pierre

00:30:06.920 responded to

00:30:08.640 with we're

00:30:09.460 keeping an eye

00:30:10.160 on it

00:30:10.440 it wasn't

00:30:10.840 foreign

00:30:11.260 ownership

00:30:11.800 it was

00:30:13.400 the two are

00:30:14.400 identical actually

00:30:15.340 listen the

00:30:15.940 White House

00:30:16.560 the Biden

00:30:17.620 Harris

00:30:18.080 White House

00:30:18.780 when a

00:30:20.060 company is

00:30:20.840 doing what

00:30:21.500 they want

00:30:22.160 they're happy

00:30:23.700 with them

00:30:24.160 and when a

00:30:25.860 company is not

00:30:26.740 doing what

00:30:27.300 they want

00:30:27.880 they abuse

00:30:30.920 them

00:30:31.240 the reason

00:30:32.900 they don't

00:30:33.620 like Twitter

00:30:34.240 is that

00:30:35.800 under Elon

00:30:36.880 Musk 0.77

00:30:37.280 Twitter has

00:30:38.180 stopped

00:30:38.740 censoring

00:30:39.680 conservatives

00:30:40.700 and the

00:30:42.220 Biden White

00:30:42.920 House wants

00:30:43.440 their opponents

00:30:44.000 censored

00:30:44.480 the reason

00:30:45.700 they're happy

00:30:46.500 with Apple

00:30:47.500 is the

00:30:48.660 Biden White

00:30:49.300 House is

00:30:49.760 perfectly

00:30:50.260 happy with

00:30:51.460 the Chinese

00:30:52.100 communist

00:30:52.600 government

00:30:53.220 censoring and

00:30:54.760 silencing the

00:30:55.580 protesters there

00:30:56.500 in both instances

00:30:57.520 it's Democrats

00:30:58.320 supporting

00:30:59.060 censorship and

00:31:00.520 using power

00:31:01.440 to silence

00:31:02.480 dissenting

00:31:02.900 voices

00:31:03.400 how concerned

00:31:04.900 do you think

00:31:05.500 Democrats are

00:31:06.660 in Congress

00:31:08.020 and the

00:31:08.480 White House

00:31:09.020 that they

00:31:09.500 not only can

00:31:10.640 they not

00:31:11.160 control Twitter

00:31:12.020 any longer

00:31:12.620 but Twitter

00:31:13.860 is going to

00:31:14.400 quite possibly

00:31:15.060 expose

00:31:15.720 what they

00:31:16.900 were doing

00:31:17.760 behind the

00:31:19.180 scenes

00:31:19.680 with Twitter

00:31:20.840 I think

00:31:21.720 that's one of

00:31:22.380 their biggest

00:31:23.000 fears

00:31:23.420 is that Elon

00:31:24.740 Musk is going

00:31:25.420 to put all

00:31:26.180 this out there

00:31:26.980 and it's going

00:31:28.140 to show a

00:31:28.980 level of

00:31:29.660 collusion

00:31:30.260 that would

00:31:31.760 only be

00:31:32.520 described

00:31:33.100 before you

00:31:34.020 see it

00:31:34.400 in real life

00:31:34.860 as the

00:31:35.300 most extreme

00:31:36.000 quote alt

00:31:36.860 right conspiracy

00:31:38.080 theories

00:31:38.860 that show

00:31:40.260 that the

00:31:41.000 Democratic Party

00:31:42.020 was working

00:31:42.540 hand in hand

00:31:43.240 the media

00:31:43.820 was working

00:31:44.280 hand in hand

00:31:44.860 with Twitter

00:31:46.200 and that would

00:31:47.140 also mean

00:31:47.660 big tech

00:31:48.160 obviously Facebook

00:31:49.080 and others

00:31:49.780 and that we're

00:31:50.800 going to find

00:31:51.340 out that they

00:31:51.960 were 100%

00:31:53.320 influencing

00:31:54.380 elections

00:31:55.200 including maybe

00:31:56.580 even on the

00:31:57.200 local state

00:31:57.980 level where

00:31:59.220 they were

00:31:59.580 silencing

00:32:00.380 candidates

00:32:01.100 and possibly

00:32:02.520 again from

00:32:03.280 what we've

00:32:03.680 seen from

00:32:04.000 Elon Musk

00:32:04.680 that the

00:32:05.600 throttling

00:32:06.360 of candidates

00:32:07.380 and the

00:32:08.300 not allowing

00:32:09.100 for the

00:32:09.780 people that

00:32:10.280 follow you

00:32:10.660 to see

00:32:10.980 things

00:32:11.280 I mean

00:32:11.500 if you're

00:32:12.220 doing that

00:32:12.720 nationwide

00:32:13.300 and you

00:32:14.380 really think

00:32:14.800 about this

00:32:15.260 and you're

00:32:15.780 tweeting as

00:32:16.420 a conservative

00:32:17.160 right let's

00:32:17.840 use a perfect

00:32:18.760 example in

00:32:19.240 Georgia right 0.96

00:32:19.620 now if

00:32:20.520 Hershel

00:32:20.980 Walker

00:32:21.320 tweets and

00:32:21.920 no one

00:32:22.220 sees it

00:32:22.740 but Raphael

00:32:23.700 Warnock

00:32:24.220 tweets and

00:32:25.020 everybody sees

00:32:25.920 especially in

00:32:26.980 a geographical

00:32:27.620 area that's

00:32:28.340 important to

00:32:28.800 him a

00:32:29.200 K Georgia 0.82

00:32:30.060 because that's

00:32:31.260 where people

00:32:31.520 can vote and

00:32:32.620 this is what

00:32:33.260 Elon Musk in

00:32:34.040 the last 24

00:32:34.620 hours seems to

00:32:35.340 be tipping his

00:32:35.920 hat to a little

00:32:36.500 bit that this

00:32:37.460 was far beyond

00:32:38.300 just censoring

00:32:38.940 or silencing

00:32:39.400 information the

00:32:40.640 whole entire

00:32:41.340 system center

00:32:42.240 may have been

00:32:42.660 rigged yeah

00:32:44.260 listen I think

00:32:45.500 when this

00:32:47.700 information is

00:32:48.540 revealed I

00:32:50.020 think it is

00:32:50.900 going to exceed

00:32:51.980 the most

00:32:52.760 fevered paranoid

00:32:54.220 fantasies I

00:32:55.900 think it was so 0.74

00:32:56.840 thoroughly corrupt

00:32:58.100 it was so

00:32:59.100 blatant I

00:33:00.040 think big tech

00:33:00.860 oligarchs believe 1.00

00:33:01.800 they're utterly

00:33:02.500 unaccountable and

00:33:04.540 and I am

00:33:05.400 thrilled I think

00:33:06.120 it's one of the

00:33:06.940 most important

00:33:07.780 things it's one of

00:33:08.500 the things I've

00:33:08.980 urged Elon to

00:33:09.960 do which is

00:33:10.780 make it public

00:33:12.020 make it

00:33:12.560 transparent just

00:33:13.680 shine the

00:33:14.960 light and I

00:33:15.580 think you're

00:33:15.940 going to see

00:33:16.640 lots and lots

00:33:18.120 and lots of

00:33:18.760 communications from

00:33:19.860 Democrats saying

00:33:21.640 silence this person

00:33:22.740 because I don't

00:33:23.320 like what they're

00:33:23.860 saying we know

00:33:25.320 that Dr.

00:33:26.440 Fauci communicated

00:33:27.420 in writing

00:33:27.980 repeatedly with

00:33:28.960 Mark Zuckerberg

00:33:29.720 at Facebook

00:33:30.260 and he couldn't

00:33:31.240 have been the

00:33:31.520 first one right

00:33:32.200 I mean let's

00:33:32.920 let's connect

00:33:33.800 those dots for

00:33:34.620 people quickly

00:33:35.320 center if if a

00:33:38.060 guy that really

00:33:38.840 no one knew

00:33:39.380 about right I

00:33:40.260 mean Fauci and

00:33:41.040 then he becomes

00:33:41.520 massively famous

00:33:43.320 and then he

00:33:44.400 starts using these

00:33:45.200 back channels to

00:33:46.280 silence and censor

00:33:47.480 people in certain

00:33:48.340 things and certain

00:33:49.180 ideas and certain

00:33:50.060 theories he didn't

00:33:52.600 just think that

00:33:54.020 was possible out

00:33:54.820 of thin air

00:33:55.360 somebody had to

00:33:56.980 explain to him

00:33:58.280 how the system

00:33:58.880 worked hey man we

00:33:59.960 do this all the

00:34:00.560 time hey this is

00:34:01.520 how you do it hey

00:34:02.080 here's the contact

00:34:02.860 this is how we roll

00:34:03.760 this out well to

00:34:05.320 be fair at that

00:34:06.240 time Fauci was

00:34:07.100 pretty famous

00:34:07.660 because it was

00:34:08.160 during COVID so

00:34:09.260 he was already

00:34:09.860 front and center

00:34:10.640 he was the face

00:34:11.660 of of the

00:34:12.800 response of

00:34:13.680 medicine in the

00:34:14.400 government but

00:34:15.880 Fauci so like

00:34:17.020 one of the things

00:34:17.800 in writing that he

00:34:18.880 asked Zuckerberg to

00:34:20.020 do is silence

00:34:22.100 suppress anyone

00:34:23.800 saying that the

00:34:24.740 origins of COVID

00:34:25.840 were the Wuhan

00:34:27.280 Institute for

00:34:27.960 Virology the

00:34:28.840 Chinese government

00:34:29.540 lab now we now

00:34:31.300 know that the

00:34:31.980 overwhelming weight

00:34:33.080 of the evidence

00:34:33.580 suggests that is in

00:34:34.580 fact the origins

00:34:35.680 of COVID so

00:34:36.560 Fauci was literally

00:34:38.360 asking him to

00:34:39.280 suppress true

00:34:40.120 information because

00:34:41.160 it didn't fit his

00:34:42.020 political narrative

00:34:42.860 we also know that

00:34:45.120 the FBI asked

00:34:47.680 Facebook to and I

00:34:50.320 believe Twitter

00:34:51.020 also yeah and

00:34:51.900 Twitter as well

00:34:52.600 to censor stories

00:34:55.180 about Hunter

00:34:55.780 Biden's laptop

00:34:56.620 because they said

00:34:57.680 it had all the

00:34:58.700 hallmarks of

00:34:59.380 Russian misinformation

00:35:00.180 we now know

00:35:01.260 that's false that

00:35:02.640 the Hunter Biden

00:35:03.380 laptop story was

00:35:04.940 true and yet big

00:35:06.720 tech was more than

00:35:07.620 happy to operate on

00:35:08.720 behalf of the deep

00:35:09.440 state at the FBI

00:35:10.300 and silence it I

00:35:12.140 think Elon's making

00:35:14.500 this public it's one

00:35:15.500 of the reasons why

00:35:16.480 Democrats are

00:35:17.280 freaking out you

00:35:18.040 know Jim Carrey is

00:35:19.120 leaving Twitter oh

00:35:20.400 the world will be so

00:35:21.380 empty without his

00:35:22.580 ostentatious leftism

00:35:24.080 you know Hillary 1.00

00:35:26.360 Clinton is freaking

00:35:27.260 out it's one of the

00:35:28.620 reasons by the way

00:35:29.500 you know the the

00:35:30.340 the corporate America

00:35:32.040 behemoth that is

00:35:34.160 fighting Twitter the

00:35:35.180 hardest that that

00:35:37.060 would be Apple Apple

00:35:38.620 was the single

00:35:39.740 largest advertiser on

00:35:41.040 Twitter they've

00:35:41.920 halted all their

00:35:42.580 advertising which is a

00:35:43.920 huge blow to Twitter

00:35:45.440 why because even

00:35:48.140 though Apple is

00:35:49.340 happy to silence

00:35:51.460 and suppress Chinese 1.00

00:35:52.900 protesters it is mad

00:35:55.480 at Twitter that it's

00:35:57.400 not willing to silence

00:35:58.700 and suppress American 0.52

00:36:00.520 protesters and and

00:36:02.340 and this is all the

00:36:03.520 same thing Apple and

00:36:05.480 the Democrat Party and

00:36:06.800 Jim Carrey and

00:36:07.720 Hollywood and the

00:36:08.720 deep state at the FBI

00:36:10.360 it is all part of the

00:36:13.360 left-wing behemoth the

00:36:16.060 multi-tentacled

00:36:17.300 Hydra and and I got

00:36:19.880 to say I think they're

00:36:20.740 terrified at at what

00:36:22.300 releasing those emails

00:36:24.000 and texts and the

00:36:25.020 records are going to

00:36:25.620 reveal because my

00:36:27.040 prediction is as bad as

00:36:28.800 you think it is it is

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Verdict with Ted Cruz - December 02, 2022

Bernie & Ted Fist Bump Keeps The Rails Moving And Dems Try To Silence Truth On Biden⧸Ukraine Corruption

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