Biden DOJ Executes Search Warrant to Compile an ENEMIES LIST of Everyone Who Has Ever LIKED a Trump Tweet, plus Fireworks on Senate Judiciary Committee
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Summary
Ted Cruz and Ben Fergusons discuss the Biden DOJ spying on the President of the United States, a warrant demanding all Americans who interacted with Donald Trump on social media between October 2020 and January 2021, including those who liked or retweeted a tweet from Trump.
Transcript
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Welcome. It is Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you.
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And we've got quite a few issues to talk about,
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including some fireworks that happened in the Judiciary Committee
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over some nominees and some people that just flat out aren't qualified.
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We're going to take you behind the scenes to what happened there,
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why this is so important for this country coming up in just a moment.
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Also, the Senator makes, I think, what may be his debut in Hollywood
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We'll tell you about that coming up in just a moment.
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But before we get to that, Senator, I want to get your reaction to some news that broke.
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Special Counsel Jack Smith seems to be putting together an enemies list,
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and quite a few listeners of this podcast may be on that list.
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He has demanded that X, formerly known as Twitter,
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is to give all information on all Americans who interacted with Donald J. Trump
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while he was the President of the United States of America,
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One, this would include people that did something as simple as liking a tweet
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of the President of the United States of America,
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your reaction to this heavily redacted search warrant requesting everyone's intel
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The Biden Justice Department wants information about you.
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They have literally served on Twitter a search warrant that demands every single person
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who liked a tweet from Trump or who retweeted a tweet from Trump
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I am quite certain I liked or retweeted multiple tweets.
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I'm quite certain you liked or retweeted multiple tweets.
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And so is anybody else that they're basically trying to compile a list of the social media
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It's just if you had something positive to say about the president.
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And so understand that they're asking for the physical location
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of every person who said something positive about Donald Trump on Twitter
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It is not related to anything remotely within the scope of of the indictment
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and what they're trying to prosecute Trump for.
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And the prosecution itself, as we've discussed at great length, is bogus.
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They want to know every American, every American citizen,
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every American voter who dares say something positive about Trump.
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This is something that you see in other countries like China, for example,
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and Russia, for example, and other nations where you have dictators and tyrants,
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where they will they will 100 percent constantly be tracking, following and looking at every word
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And what we also know is that Twitter initially delayed complying with this request,
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per The New York Post, resulting in a three hundred and fifty thousand dollar fine
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What's also shocking about this warrant who comes in and I do think we need to remind people
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of exactly how radical and who this special counsel Jack Smith is,
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because the Warrant Center also requests, quote, all IP addresses associated with the president.
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His account, as well as a list of all devices used to log into it.
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This means that any staffer, any aide who logged into the account would have the information
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This is spying on the president and his staff while he was the president of the United States of America.
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Well, look, and this is very much consistent with the abuse of power we've seen from the Biden DOJ
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and from Democrats, the four indictments against Donald Trump are all about weaponizing the Department of Justice,
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weaponizing local Democrat DAs to go after and attack the leading candidate for president on the Republican side right now.
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And, you know, this is very much also in the spirit of the abusive Fulton County indictment where the prosecutor there alleges that
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they've indicted a number of people on RICO counts.
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And the basis for that or one of the significant bases they rely upon it are individual tweets that Trump sent.
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And the theory is that the president of the United States sending a tweet was somehow racketeering,
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I mean, saying that the president of the United States by sending a tweet is committing a felony
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is utterly bizarre, and it demonstrates a contempt for free speech.
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Look, the president of the United States has a free speech right to send tweets.
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You don't have to read his tweets if you don't like them.
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But Democrats have, number one, when it comes to Trump, just their brains are broken.
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They hate him so much that they now believe, apparently, that his sending a tweet is a criminal act.
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And they also want to know, if you sent a tweet, and by the way, on the same theory,
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I don't know if maybe retweeting Trump in their twisted world is a criminal act,
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and a complete contempt for free speech and the First Amendment.
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There's also another aspect of this, and that is, look, you've done this, I've done this.
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I've retweeted people that I disagree with to bring light to something that they've said
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that I think is egregious or just incompetent or maybe even just laughable.
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I shouldn't be dragged into a special counsel's obsession over that individual
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just because I, on a public forum, retweeted someone that I disagree with.
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I've retweeted AOC and Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama and Joe Biden countless times
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with things that they've said and other liberals in the media that I've retweeted before.
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That shouldn't give them the right to then come look at what I've been doing
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because somehow it's connected to that individual.
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Well, you're not wrong, but this is, it's an enemy's list.
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and he is going to try to plunge a harpoon into Donald Trump,
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And, by the way, that's why Merrick Garland appointed Jack Smith to that position,
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because they want, they want to frustrate democracy.
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And this is where, you know, Ben, it's actually amazing.
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The radical left has an almost Freudian projection.
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Whatever they accuse you of doing is, in fact, what they are doing.
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So the standard Democrat talking point nowadays is they're defending democracy.
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The reason for these indictments are because the Democrats are terrified of democracy.
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The reason for these indictments is the Democrats are terrified that the voters,
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come November, will go in and vote for Donald Trump.
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And so they're trying to use the justice system to destroy the leading Republican candidate.
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Because they want to interfere with the election.
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There's also an invasion of privacy aspect of this.
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Senator, there was also something else in this warrant as we were getting some of this information that was coming in
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that was very alarming to me, and it's a free speech, but also an invasion of privacy aspect,
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especially when you're talking about them wanting to get this information on who was the then-sitting President of the United States of America,
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All information, and this is what the warrant had in it, on Trump's, quote,
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connect and notification tabs within the Twitter app was requested, as well as his entire search history,
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all of the people that he blocked on Twitter, anyone that he didn't block but you can mute so you don't see their tweets,
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and the most shocking part was this, even drafted tweets that he never sent out.
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How can they justify that type of invasion of his privacy?
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Well, they're engaged in a phishing expedition.
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I will say, given that there is an active indictment against Trump,
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that electronic information, they can probably get.
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And that's, you know, if you've been indicted and have a criminal prosecution against you
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and you have electronic records that are arguably relevant to the case,
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And where the warrant goes wildly overboard is extending not just to Trump,
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who is now a criminal defendant and has to defend himself,
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It's extending to every American who'd hit retweet or like for a period of three months on any Trump tweet.
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I will note also that the warrant instructed Twitter not to notify Trump of the search order.
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Is that a normal way of a warrant reading, or is that also egregious in the way that they describe it?
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So Twitter went and argued and tried to fight this,
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There is reason to believe notification to the former president,
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a sophisticated actor with an expansive platform,
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The nondisclosure order was granted based on facts showing that notifying the former president
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would result in destruction of or tampering with evidence,
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or other serious jeopardy to an investigation or delaying of trial.
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Look, if you're seeking someone's electronic records,
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it's not that unusual that they would not notify you of it.
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What is unusual is going after every other person
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who is not involved in the case in any way at all
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and getting the record of every time Ben Ferguson liked Donald Trump.
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I have to say, I want to give some credit here to X slash Twitter.
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Not only did they initially delay complying with this request,
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but they also went to court trying to stop this abuse of power,
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and I think that's something that should not be overlooked in this story,
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and they realized, I think, how egregious this was,
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and they deserve to, I think, give a lot of us,
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a lot of us should appreciate the fact that Elon Musk didn't just say,
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come on in, here's the books, grab whatever you want,
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and said, no, no, no, we're going to fight you.
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And I think Twitter or X, they handled it exactly right.
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But this Biden DOJ, this is a political department of justice,
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and it's doing enormous and ongoing damage to the integrity of DOJ
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Politicized prosecutions and weaponizing criminal prosecutions,
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and it is not really hit outside of what happened
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in the Senate Judiciary Committee this morning.
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We're taping this late, obviously, on Thursday evening.
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But explain what was going on in the Senate Judiciary Committee
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Senate GOP stage his hearing walkout to protest Supreme Court-related subpoenas.
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John Cornyn blasting Democrat Senator Dick Durbin.
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You were blasting and defending your colleague, Senator John Kennedy,
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for consistently serving a rubber stamp, as you described it.
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So tell us how this all happened, and kind of out of nowhere.
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Well, we began the day with a markup in the Senate Judiciary.
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And it began by the Senate Judiciary Committee voting on two judges
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that actually Democrats had voted out of committee before,
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but one of the Democrats was not physically present in the room,
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And then there were also other judges that were up for being voted on.
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And on top of that, the Democrats were seeking to issue subpoenas
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to go after Leonard Leo, who was a long time with the Federalist Society,
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very active in judicial matters and judicial selection,
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and to go after Harlan Crowe, a very successful Texas businessman
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who is very close friends with Clarence Thomas.
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where you get strong partisan warriors on both sides of the aisle.
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That being said, what happened today was really extraordinary.
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So we started off that Dick Durbin, the chairman of the committee,
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wanted to vote on the two nominees that he screwed up last time
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And a number of Republican senators wanted to speak.
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And Durbin just plowed right over them, just said,
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John Cornyn, who usually does not get all that excited or worked up,
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You just destroyed one of the most important committees
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Congratulations on destroying the United States Senate Judiciary Committee.
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We also saw Senate Democrats once again just rubber stamp nominees.
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And, you know, I was unloading in particular on a nominee out of Connecticut
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to release as many prisoners as possible from jail.
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And, by the way, with no distinction to whether they're violent,
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this nominee was saying, well, we should just let you go.
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If you're arrested for rape or child molesting, all of them.
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And so I unloaded on the Democrats for being so extreme, so out of step.
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And, in fact, I suggested to them, I said, look,
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just because you're Democrats doesn't mean that you have to just roll over
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and rubber stamp whatever it is the Biden White House wants.
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And I pointed out, as Republicans, we didn't do that to Donald Trump.
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And in particular, you know, I invoked the well-known bracelets
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that some people wear, WWJD, what would Jesus do?
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And I said, look, in the Senate Judiciary Committee,
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which is y'all ought to wear a bracelet that says WWJKD,
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And the reason I use that analogy is that John Kennedy,
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those cross-examinations resulted in those nominees being defeated.
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You don't just have to be puppets of the White House,
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Let's play a few of these clips because they're important,
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and I want people to be able to hear what was happening
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because this is a room filled with a lot of tense moments,
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Constitution gives this body the power of advice and consent.
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But it only works if people have the backbone to use it.
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If you view your job as I'm a rubber stamp for the Biden White House,
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look, the Democrats on this committee have already signed off
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who describes himself in his own words as a, quote,
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wild-eyed liberal, says he wakes up every morning
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God help you, if you're a conservative and you're in his court,
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have held their own to a higher standard as well.
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John Kennedy torpedoed Trump judge after Trump judge.
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