Verdict with Ted Cruz - Biden Funding BOTH Sides Of Ukraine War, plus Schiff-less!

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00:00:04.420 Senator, nice to be with you here today.

00:00:06.420 You just got back in from Washington, D.C.,

00:00:08.720 and there is some serious news that's broken this week

00:00:11.900 that I think a lot of people don't realize is happening,

00:00:14.980 and that is the disastrous policies

00:00:17.340 of the Biden administration are really coming back to haunt us,

00:00:20.600 and it's now dealing with the national security issue.

00:00:22.940 It's not just the policies with Ukraine and Russia.

00:00:26.520 It's also now dealing with Iran,

00:00:28.680 and there were some questions that you asked,

00:00:30.980 and I want to play this for people

00:00:32.500 because I think it's so important.

00:00:34.080 You were talking about the massive disaster

00:00:36.600 that was, in fact, the Nord Stream pipeline

00:00:39.320 and not having sanctions early enough.

00:00:42.040 For everybody that's listening and if you're watching this,

00:00:45.380 this was a moment that I think is going to come back

00:00:47.860 to haunt this administration for a long time.

00:00:49.780 Let's take a look.

00:00:51.200 Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

00:00:52.960 Welcome to each of the witnesses.

00:00:55.560 Ms. Newland.

00:00:56.320 As you know, in January of last year,

00:01:00.780 the Senate voted on my legislation

00:01:02.520 to impose sanctions on the Nord Stream 2 pipeline,

00:01:06.220 and it did so before Russia had invaded Ukraine.

00:01:11.420 When the Senate voted on those sanctions,

00:01:13.780 President Zelensky publicly urged,

00:01:16.540 even begged, the United States Senate

00:01:18.700 to pass those sanctions.

00:01:19.740 And President Zelensky said passing those sanctions then

00:01:25.040 were the last chance to prevent Russia from invading Ukraine,

00:01:31.140 the last chance to prevent Russian tanks rolling into Ukraine.

00:01:37.940 Was President Zelensky wrong?

00:01:45.260 Senator Cruz, like you, I am,

00:01:49.600 and I think the administration is very gratified to know

00:01:52.140 that Nord Stream 2 is now, as you like to say,

00:01:54.580 a hunk of metal at the bottom of the sea.

00:01:56.680 I personally, having been involved,

00:01:59.480 along with my boss, Secretary Blinken,

00:02:01.340 in all of those negotiations with Russia

00:02:03.580 to try to prevent this war in December,

00:02:07.260 do not believe that had that Nord Stream 2

00:02:10.960 been cut off in January,

00:02:12.080 that would have been decisive for Putin.

00:02:14.380 It was important that the day the war began,

00:02:17.060 the Germans cut the pipeline,

00:02:18.400 as did the rest of the Europeans,

00:02:19.860 but he was bound and determined to go into Ukraine,

00:02:22.780 as you know.

00:02:23.220 So you believe Zelensky was wrong

00:02:25.060 when he said stopping Nord Stream 2

00:02:27.620 was the last and best way to stop this war?

00:02:31.360 I don't think it would have stopped Putin,

00:02:33.160 and, you know, I wish that.

00:02:35.260 And when the government of Poland similarly said,

00:02:38.540 begged the United States Senate to pass those sanctions

00:02:41.100 and said this is the last and best opportunity

00:02:43.840 to stop Russia from invading Ukraine,

00:02:46.320 you believe Poland was wrong too? 0.99

00:02:47.680 I do not believe we would have prevented this war 0.84

00:02:50.520 had the Europeans acted faster on Nord Stream 2.

00:02:53.140 I wish it were the case.

00:02:54.840 Wow.

00:02:55.800 Senator, go back through this timeline,

00:02:58.380 because this is now the chickens coming home to roost

00:03:01.880 for everybody that got it wrong.

00:03:04.740 Well, Joe Biden caused the war in Ukraine.

00:03:08.620 It is because of the foreign policy failures

00:03:12.200 of this president

00:03:13.840 that we're seeing the biggest land war in Europe

00:03:16.540 since World War II.

00:03:18.560 And in particular, what I was asking,

00:03:21.540 that was a hearing in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee

00:03:23.620 that happened yesterday.

00:03:24.600 And that is the Undersecretary of State,

00:03:27.520 Victoria Nuland, who was testifying.

00:03:30.000 And this administration now

00:03:32.960 has elevated President Zelensky

00:03:34.980 to the status of a modern-day saint.

00:03:37.220 He's been canonized already.

00:03:40.140 And the Democrats have taken

00:03:41.680 to singing his praises nonstop.

00:03:45.340 And the point I was making here is,

00:03:47.300 wait a second.

00:03:48.900 Zelensky was begging for your help

00:03:51.540 before the war started

00:03:53.460 in order to prevent it.

00:03:55.880 And you refused to help.

00:03:57.940 And what's the backstory?

00:03:59.140 Listen, Putin has wanted to invade Ukraine

00:04:01.320 for a long, long time.

00:04:03.540 He wanted to invade when Trump was president.

00:04:05.900 He knew not to do it.

00:04:07.140 Well, and one of the big reasons he didn't.

00:04:11.100 You look at, in 2014,

00:04:13.340 Putin invaded Ukraine.

00:04:14.620 He invaded Crimea, 0.96

00:04:15.520 the southern portion of Ukraine.

00:04:17.240 But he stopped short.

00:04:18.460 Why?

00:04:18.900 Because going into all of Ukraine

00:04:21.720 risks the natural gas pipelines

00:04:24.760 that run right through Ukraine.

00:04:27.060 And Russia gets a huge portion 0.91

00:04:30.500 of its revenue from selling

00:04:32.220 natural gas and oil.

00:04:33.940 And it needs to be able to get

00:04:35.100 that natural gas to Europe

00:04:36.460 through Ukraine.

00:04:37.860 The next year, in 2015,

00:04:39.940 Putin began what's called Nord Stream 2.

00:04:42.400 It's an undersea pipeline

00:04:43.700 that goes from Russia to Germany.

00:04:45.260 The entire purpose of it

00:04:46.980 is to circumvent Ukraine

00:04:48.860 so that he could invade Ukraine 0.99

00:04:50.480 and not have to worry

00:04:51.660 about getting gas to market.

00:04:53.820 In 2019,

00:04:55.140 I introduced and passed legislation

00:04:58.680 to sanction the Nord Stream 2 pipeline,

00:05:01.040 to shut it down before it was built.

00:05:03.940 That legislation passed.

00:05:05.700 I got Republicans to support it.

00:05:07.080 I got Democrats to support it.

00:05:08.980 Trump signed it into law.

00:05:10.160 Putin stopped building

00:05:12.640 the Nord Stream 2 pipeline

00:05:14.140 literally the day

00:05:16.560 Donald Trump signed

00:05:17.960 my sanctions legislation.

00:05:19.740 That day, the pipeline stopped.

00:05:22.620 It was dormant.

00:05:24.040 It was dead.

00:05:24.980 As Victoria Nuland noted,

00:05:27.100 as I've said many times,

00:05:28.400 it was a hunk of metal

00:05:29.400 at the bottom of the sea

00:05:30.600 for over a year.

00:05:32.240 In December of 2020,

00:05:35.700 I introduced and passed

00:05:37.140 a second set of sanctions legislation

00:05:39.520 to sanction Nord Stream

00:05:41.380 even further

00:05:42.060 to make sure Putin

00:05:43.120 didn't resume

00:05:44.140 building the pipeline.

00:05:46.040 And you knew this

00:05:46.740 was so important

00:05:48.400 because of the financial side

00:05:49.800 of this for Russia,

00:05:51.460 and you were thinking ahead

00:05:53.140 like anybody should

00:05:54.160 on an issue like this.

00:05:55.460 It was the way

00:05:56.100 to stop Putin

00:05:57.260 from invading Ukraine.

00:05:59.480 Joe Biden becomes president

00:06:01.060 January 20th, 2021.

00:06:04.540 Four days later,

00:06:06.560 January 24th, 2021,

00:06:10.340 Putin resumes

00:06:11.860 deep-sea construction

00:06:12.880 of Nord Stream 2.

00:06:13.820 It literally took four days

00:06:15.260 to reverse

00:06:17.100 what we had accomplished

00:06:18.580 under Donald Trump.

00:06:20.180 Putin returned

00:06:20.900 to building the pipeline.

00:06:22.080 Why?

00:06:22.520 Because Biden

00:06:23.220 foreshadowed weakness.

00:06:25.320 Then, later in 2021,

00:06:27.880 Biden formally waived

00:06:29.420 sanctions

00:06:30.060 on Nord Stream 2.

00:06:31.600 He basically gave

00:06:32.840 Vladimir Putin

00:06:34.020 a multi-billion dollar gift

00:06:36.360 and caused

00:06:37.580 the Ukraine war.

00:06:39.320 Well, the question

00:06:39.920 I just asked there,

00:06:41.800 in January

00:06:42.860 of last year,

00:06:45.400 of 2022,

00:06:46.820 I forced a vote

00:06:48.320 on the Senate floor

00:06:49.300 to reimpose

00:06:50.900 those sanctions

00:06:51.600 on Nord Stream 2,

00:06:52.680 the sanctions

00:06:53.160 that had worked.

00:06:54.020 every Senate Democrat

00:06:57.940 had voted with me

00:06:58.840 not just once

00:06:59.520 but twice

00:07:00.120 in 2019

00:07:00.900 and 2020

00:07:01.860 in favor

00:07:02.400 of those sanctions.

00:07:04.760 The day of the vote,

00:07:06.120 Joe Biden

00:07:06.640 came to Capitol Hill

00:07:07.780 and he personally

00:07:10.000 lobbied the Senate Democrats.

00:07:11.740 The only time I know

00:07:12.480 of that he's done so

00:07:13.300 since he's been president.

00:07:15.120 Asking them,

00:07:16.080 please vote

00:07:17.460 against Cruz's sanctions.

00:07:20.060 Vote in favor

00:07:20.980 of Russia.

00:07:21.760 Vote in favor

00:07:22.440 of Putin.

00:07:24.820 When that happened,

00:07:27.340 President Zelensky

00:07:28.400 publicly pleaded

00:07:29.920 with the United States Senate,

00:07:32.580 please pass

00:07:33.640 Cruz's legislation.

00:07:35.440 It's the only way

00:07:36.200 to stop Russia 0.89

00:07:36.940 from invading Ukraine.

00:07:38.880 Poland,

00:07:39.520 the government of Poland,

00:07:40.860 formally put out

00:07:41.740 a statement

00:07:42.260 asking the Senate

00:07:43.660 to pass my legislation.

00:07:45.520 They said it was

00:07:46.200 the way to stop

00:07:47.340 Russia from invading Ukraine.

00:07:49.360 They said,

00:07:49.680 if you don't pass it,

00:07:51.120 Russia will invade Ukraine. 0.79

00:07:53.440 Forty-four Democrats

00:07:54.920 decided to put

00:07:55.740 partisan loyalty

00:07:56.740 above national security.

00:07:58.500 They voted for Putin.

00:07:59.820 They voted for Russia.

00:08:01.980 They voted against sanctions.

00:08:04.160 And just a few weeks later,

00:08:06.200 Russian tanks

00:08:06.980 rolled into Ukraine.

00:08:08.200 And so that's what

00:08:08.980 I was asking her,

00:08:10.260 is Zelensky,

00:08:11.740 who you have said

00:08:12.600 is a modern-day saint,

00:08:13.780 was he wrong

00:08:15.780 when he told you

00:08:17.240 we could avoid 0.99

00:08:18.000 this whole damn war 0.99

00:08:19.680 if you just impose 0.99

00:08:21.660 the sanctions

00:08:22.380 and she was forced

00:08:25.040 to say yes,

00:08:25.640 I think he was wrong

00:08:26.440 because the alternative

00:08:27.700 is to admit

00:08:28.820 Joe Biden

00:08:30.100 screwed this whole thing up

00:08:31.420 and caused this war

00:08:32.720 to begin with.

00:08:33.640 You mentioned weakness,

00:08:35.080 right?

00:08:35.500 That they were

00:08:36.180 the foreshadowing

00:08:37.100 and they understood,

00:08:37.880 okay,

00:08:38.060 Joe Biden's weak

00:08:38.940 and Vladimir Putin said,

00:08:40.380 I'm going to start this

00:08:41.060 four days after

00:08:41.720 he becomes president again.

00:08:43.180 You're saying

00:08:43.900 we got to do

00:08:44.320 the sanctions here.

00:08:45.460 But the question

00:08:46.460 I know everybody

00:08:47.180 wants to ask is,

00:08:48.340 what was in this

00:08:49.660 for the president?

00:08:50.640 Why was it

00:08:51.340 so important to him?

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00:09:35.540 Now, Senator,

00:09:36.140 I go back to what

00:09:37.400 I was saying a second ago.

00:09:38.600 What was in it for him?

00:09:40.180 Why would he be saying,

00:09:41.840 I want to get this deal done?

00:09:42.940 Because this is what

00:09:44.100 a foreign lobbyist

00:09:44.880 for Russia would be

00:09:45.800 advocating for.

00:09:47.360 And yet the president's

00:09:48.280 the one who goes

00:09:49.360 to the Hill,

00:09:49.880 as you mentioned it,

00:09:50.760 to put it in perspective.

00:09:52.160 And this was something

00:09:53.500 so important to him.

00:09:54.380 He needed to meet personally

00:09:55.500 with all these senators

00:09:56.080 to give the best deal

00:09:58.120 you could give

00:09:58.580 to the Russians.

00:09:59.780 Look, I don't know

00:10:01.160 why he wanted to.

00:10:04.340 I think there are

00:10:05.280 a couple of theories.

00:10:06.460 One, Biden came in

00:10:08.320 on foreign policy

00:10:09.500 with the assumption

00:10:10.420 everything Trump did

00:10:12.060 was wrong.

00:10:12.760 If he did one thing,

00:10:13.780 let's reverse it.

00:10:14.880 And listen,

00:10:15.840 that's not unique to Biden.

00:10:17.140 Most presidents come in

00:10:18.460 and if the opposing party

00:10:19.440 did something,

00:10:20.100 they often want to reverse it.

00:10:21.260 So I get that instinct.

00:10:23.420 But here,

00:10:25.700 this had been a massive

00:10:28.240 bipartisan victory

00:10:29.760 that Joe Biden threw away.

00:10:32.000 By the way,

00:10:32.420 you know who agrees

00:10:32.980 with that?

00:10:33.740 Victoria Nuland.

00:10:35.200 She argued passionately

00:10:37.500 for Biden to impose

00:10:38.560 those sanctions.

00:10:39.760 She got overruled.

00:10:40.840 Tony Blinken,

00:10:41.500 the Secretary of State,

00:10:42.840 argued passionately

00:10:43.840 for Biden to impose

00:10:44.820 those sanctions.

00:10:45.720 He got overruled

00:10:46.540 by the White House.

00:10:47.320 And, you know,

00:10:48.700 the other reason

00:10:49.580 I would give,

00:10:52.400 the Biden White House

00:10:53.720 on foreign policy,

00:10:54.720 they've been spectacularly wrong

00:10:56.260 on almost every single aspect

00:10:58.140 of foreign policy.

00:10:59.200 And not just little blunders,

00:11:00.480 massive blunders.

00:11:01.320 I think we need to remind people,

00:11:03.200 you have Afghanistan.

00:11:04.720 You have this war.

00:11:06.920 On the biggest moments

00:11:08.860 on the stage,

00:11:09.700 and he,

00:11:10.160 remember,

00:11:10.620 he said,

00:11:11.020 I'm the guy.

00:11:11.900 I've been around.

00:11:13.040 I was on the foreign relations.

00:11:15.220 I've done all this

00:11:15.960 as the vice president.

00:11:16.880 That was what he ran on.

00:11:19.040 It reminds me of something

00:11:20.720 Reagan said about liberals,

00:11:22.120 which is,

00:11:22.560 it's not what they know.

00:11:25.060 It's that so much

00:11:26.260 of what they know

00:11:28.340 just isn't so.

00:11:33.020 The Biden foreign policy team

00:11:35.420 came in as smug,

00:11:37.780 enlightened,

00:11:38.500 they said,

00:11:39.040 the adults are in charge now.

00:11:41.480 And part of their view

00:11:43.360 is Germany

00:11:45.380 Germany can do no wrong.

00:11:47.260 My national security advisor

00:11:49.080 jokes that the Biden

00:11:50.240 foreign policy team

00:11:51.400 slept with votive candles

00:11:53.460 of Angela Merkel

00:11:54.300 under their beds.

00:11:55.860 Like they just,

00:11:56.920 and Germany

00:11:57.620 wanted this pipeline

00:11:58.840 because they just

00:11:59.700 wanted the money.

00:12:00.440 They didn't care

00:12:01.080 about anything else.

00:12:01.960 Give us the money.

00:12:03.140 Screw Ukraine. 0.98

00:12:04.640 Germany was terrible 1.00

00:12:06.020 on this.

00:12:07.340 And the Biden White House

00:12:08.560 decided,

00:12:09.200 well,

00:12:09.400 let's pal around

00:12:10.120 with Germany

00:12:10.640 and never mind

00:12:11.320 that it's giving

00:12:12.960 a huge multi-billion dollar

00:12:15.020 gift to Putin.

00:12:16.560 And they didn't understand.

00:12:18.320 They fundamentally

00:12:19.080 don't understand

00:12:20.060 weakness is provocative.

00:12:21.900 They think if they're

00:12:22.740 really weak

00:12:23.360 and really nice to Putin,

00:12:25.100 he'll just smile

00:12:25.940 and go away. 0.96

00:12:27.400 And so they thought,

00:12:28.260 well,

00:12:28.360 if we give him

00:12:28.960 this multi-billion dollar gift,

00:12:30.740 why would he invade Ukraine?

00:12:32.060 We've given him

00:12:32.500 everything he wants.

00:12:33.380 And they don't understand

00:12:34.580 that the way you deal

00:12:36.140 with bullies

00:12:36.740 is strength

00:12:37.540 rather than weakness.

00:12:38.860 But it's even worse

00:12:39.780 than that.

00:12:41.200 We're now a year

00:12:42.260 into this war.

00:12:45.060 And the Joe Biden

00:12:46.160 administration

00:12:46.980 is in many ways

00:12:50.200 playing both sides

00:12:51.620 of the war.

00:12:53.340 And I want to turn

00:12:54.780 to an additional

00:12:57.580 set of questions

00:12:58.400 from the hearing

00:12:59.300 yesterday

00:12:59.880 because the Biden

00:13:01.600 administration

00:13:02.420 desperately wants

00:13:03.920 to cut a new

00:13:04.840 nuclear deal

00:13:05.640 with Iran.

00:13:06.480 And it's willing

00:13:07.620 to have billions

00:13:09.960 of dollars

00:13:10.760 flow into Iran,

00:13:12.060 which has happened

00:13:12.740 under Joe Biden,

00:13:13.900 and to have

00:13:15.140 that money be used

00:13:16.760 in support of Putin

00:13:19.260 and Russia

00:13:19.900 in the war in Ukraine

00:13:21.220 because they're

00:13:22.420 so obsessed

00:13:23.200 with Iran.

00:13:23.960 So here,

00:13:24.340 play the questions.

00:13:25.900 Let's talk about

00:13:26.920 Iran's supply

00:13:27.760 of drones to Russia.

00:13:28.820 The Biden administration

00:13:29.820 made an immediate

00:13:30.760 decision to go

00:13:31.480 to the United Nations

00:13:32.360 and drop the general

00:13:34.000 UN arms embargo

00:13:34.980 on Iran

00:13:35.440 because they say

00:13:36.280 it was required

00:13:37.340 by the original

00:13:38.160 JCPOA nuclear deal.

00:13:40.960 Biden officials say

00:13:42.240 part of the embargo

00:13:43.540 dealing with drones

00:13:44.280 is still in place,

00:13:45.180 but even that measure

00:13:46.120 will expire this fall

00:13:47.400 pursuant to the JCPPA.

00:13:50.280 I believe the Biden

00:13:51.560 administration

00:13:52.140 should immediately

00:13:53.300 go to the UN,

00:13:54.460 invoke our snapback

00:13:55.600 authority,

00:13:56.280 and keep the embargo

00:13:57.400 in place.

00:13:57.960 Do you agree?

00:13:59.260 Or do you believe

00:14:00.320 we should allow

00:14:01.060 the UN arms embargo

00:14:02.400 on Iran

00:14:03.080 to expire

00:14:03.980 and allow

00:14:05.800 Iranian drones

00:14:06.900 to continue

00:14:08.000 to go to Russia

00:14:08.920 and be used

00:14:10.280 against the people 0.98

00:14:11.280 of Ukraine?

00:14:12.420 Time of the senator

00:14:13.140 has expired,

00:14:13.740 but please answer

00:14:14.540 his question.

00:14:16.320 Thank you.

00:14:17.720 Senator Cruz,

00:14:18.720 you are absolutely

00:14:19.680 right that Iranian 1.00

00:14:20.600 drones are fueling

00:14:21.780 this war,

00:14:22.560 and that is why

00:14:23.340 we have taken

00:14:24.240 many, many

00:14:26.400 increased sanctions

00:14:27.480 measures against Iran

00:14:28.900 over the last

00:14:29.900 couple of months,

00:14:31.080 including against

00:14:32.020 the IRGC

00:14:33.140 Guard Corps

00:14:34.220 Aerospace Force,

00:14:35.300 the Quds Force 0.92

00:14:35.980 Aviation Industry,

00:14:37.240 the Shahid Aviation

00:14:38.300 Industry,

00:14:38.940 Russian Aerospace Forces.

00:14:40.700 Have you stopped

00:14:41.440 the drones?

00:14:42.420 We have not

00:14:43.820 stopped the drones,

00:14:45.120 and this is part

00:14:45.800 of the problem.

00:14:46.880 We've not stopped

00:14:47.880 the drones.

00:14:48.600 This is part

00:14:49.060 of the problem.

00:14:50.160 So people understand,

00:14:51.620 as it was just said there,

00:14:53.020 the drones are fueling

00:14:54.440 this war in Ukraine.

00:14:56.320 In other words,

00:14:57.400 there's a lot of weapons

00:14:58.500 that Ukraine's gotten 0.81

00:14:59.220 from the international

00:14:59.820 community to fight back.

00:15:01.520 Russia's using these 0.95

00:15:02.540 drones coming in 0.98

00:15:03.840 from Iran to kill 1.00

00:15:05.180 innocent people, 1.00

00:15:06.060 women, children,

00:15:07.020 anybody they want

00:15:07.660 to target from the air,

00:15:08.840 and this is basically

00:15:10.560 one of their best

00:15:11.440 weapons they have

00:15:12.260 in this entire

00:15:12.880 last year of the

00:15:13.420 conflict,

00:15:13.960 and it's coming

00:15:14.680 from Iran.

00:15:15.620 So the Biden

00:15:16.400 administration is

00:15:17.460 effectively funding

00:15:19.140 both sides of this war.

00:15:20.960 Let's say that again,

00:15:22.100 because that's

00:15:22.580 serious news.

00:15:24.400 The Biden

00:15:24.880 administration is

00:15:26.260 effectively funding

00:15:28.320 both sides

00:15:29.200 of this war.

00:15:30.020 Why?

00:15:30.780 Well, they flooded

00:15:32.100 billions of dollars

00:15:33.180 into Ukraine

00:15:34.060 and President Zelensky.

00:15:35.300 Some of it has gone

00:15:36.040 to weapons being used

00:15:37.060 to fight the war.

00:15:38.300 Much of it has gone

00:15:39.200 into the government,

00:15:40.200 including in places

00:15:41.200 in the government

00:15:41.800 where corruption

00:15:42.500 is endemic

00:15:43.320 and a serious problem.

00:15:45.120 But at the same time,

00:15:46.960 they've also lifted

00:15:48.480 sanctions on Iran

00:15:49.940 and have flowed

00:15:51.540 billions of dollars

00:15:52.820 into Iran.

00:15:54.120 Iran is turned 1.00

00:15:56.240 around and it's

00:15:57.080 sending drones

00:15:58.220 to Russia

00:15:59.040 to use 1.00

00:16:00.980 to kill Ukrainians. 1.00

00:16:03.400 So, and by the way, 1.00

00:16:04.700 one component

00:16:05.320 of what Joe Biden

00:16:06.600 has done with Iran,

00:16:08.240 we had in place

00:16:09.600 under Trump

00:16:10.840 sanctions

00:16:11.960 on their oil sales.

00:16:13.280 I pressed the

00:16:14.000 Trump administration

00:16:14.740 to impose

00:16:16.040 those sanctions.

00:16:16.960 Those sanctions

00:16:17.720 had effectively

00:16:18.800 shut down

00:16:19.820 oil sales

00:16:20.500 for Iran.

00:16:21.480 Joe Biden

00:16:22.920 has essentially

00:16:24.760 refused to enforce

00:16:26.080 those sanctions.

00:16:27.260 So today,

00:16:29.000 the Ayatollah

00:16:29.920 is selling

00:16:30.900 over a million

00:16:32.180 barrels a day

00:16:33.740 of oil

00:16:34.640 because Joe Biden

00:16:35.580 is letting him.

00:16:37.100 And the money...

00:16:38.640 Even are there sanctions?

00:16:39.900 Yes,

00:16:40.300 because Biden

00:16:40.920 won't enforce

00:16:41.420 the sanctions.

00:16:43.160 So in other words,

00:16:44.340 you get to say,

00:16:44.980 we have sanctions.

00:16:46.040 The Biden foreign policy

00:16:47.160 is simple.

00:16:47.920 Screw our friends

00:16:48.900 and show weakness 0.90

00:16:50.140 to our enemies.

00:16:51.480 That's what they do.

00:16:52.600 So literally,

00:16:54.620 the drones

00:16:55.680 that are killing

00:16:56.840 Ukrainian soldiers 0.94

00:16:58.100 are from Iran

00:17:00.100 and are essentially

00:17:02.940 paid for

00:17:04.000 by the Biden administration

00:17:06.480 lifting sanctions

00:17:07.460 on Iran. 0.99

00:17:08.480 It is asinine. 0.99

00:17:10.640 And it's because 0.99

00:17:11.960 they're not serious

00:17:13.000 about this.

00:17:13.900 When they engage

00:17:14.740 in foreign policy,

00:17:15.820 it's virtue signaling.

00:17:16.960 It's not focused

00:17:17.920 on American

00:17:19.600 national security.

00:17:20.580 It's not focused

00:17:21.260 on our interests.

00:17:22.480 It's focused

00:17:23.400 on whatever

00:17:24.340 will make

00:17:24.980 the Biden foreign

00:17:25.840 policy team

00:17:26.860 popular in the

00:17:28.280 faculty lounge

00:17:29.200 at whatever university

00:17:30.280 they want to go back to.

00:17:32.200 And I got to say,

00:17:34.420 it's just nuts

00:17:35.460 to be funding

00:17:37.080 both sides of a war.

00:17:39.080 Last question on this.

00:17:40.140 People hear

00:17:40.920 that there are sanctions

00:17:41.740 and they say,

00:17:43.540 as you just mentioned,

00:17:44.320 they're not being enforced.

00:17:45.200 Is there any mechanism

00:17:47.180 for Congress

00:17:48.100 to be able to like say,

00:17:49.360 hey guys,

00:17:50.580 you're not enforcing

00:17:51.740 these sanctions.

00:17:52.920 We obviously probably know

00:17:53.900 who's buying this oil.

00:17:54.960 That wouldn't be hard

00:17:55.600 to figure that out.

00:17:56.880 There's bad actors

00:17:58.100 involved here.

00:17:59.080 Or is this basically,

00:18:00.580 I'm the president,

00:18:01.640 yes, there's sanctions.

00:18:02.760 If I don't want to enforce them,

00:18:03.920 I don't have to.

00:18:05.340 So yes,

00:18:05.900 Congress could definitely

00:18:06.800 do that.

00:18:07.360 I've introduced

00:18:08.100 legislation

00:18:08.800 to do exactly that.

00:18:10.440 The problem is

00:18:11.360 the Senate Democrats

00:18:12.180 all support Joe Biden.

00:18:13.760 No matter how bad

00:18:14.620 the foreign policy is,

00:18:16.420 they vote in favor of Biden.

00:18:18.320 Look,

00:18:19.140 when Trump was president,

00:18:21.480 I brought together

00:18:24.180 Republicans and Democrats

00:18:26.120 to overwhelmingly

00:18:28.260 pass sanctions

00:18:29.420 on Nord Stream 2.

00:18:31.780 All those same Democrats

00:18:33.220 that voted for sanctions,

00:18:34.440 not once but twice,

00:18:35.340 they voted for it in 2019,

00:18:36.540 they voted again

00:18:37.080 for it in 2020.

00:18:38.860 In 2022,

00:18:40.700 when they voted

00:18:41.400 against sanctions,

00:18:43.100 the only thing

00:18:44.060 that had changed

00:18:44.920 was the letter

00:18:46.440 behind the president's name.

00:18:47.760 Instead of an R,

00:18:48.700 it was a D.

00:18:50.220 And they were more than happy

00:18:51.600 to vote for sanctions

00:18:52.480 when Trump was president.

00:18:53.740 But once Biden was president

00:18:55.180 and he had decided

00:18:56.000 he wanted to give in to Putin,

00:18:58.960 the Democrats weren't willing

00:19:00.200 to stand up

00:19:00.720 and do the right thing.

00:19:02.040 There's going to be

00:19:02.500 a lot of Americans

00:19:03.340 that are frustrated

00:19:03.940 over this one

00:19:04.440 because we're sending

00:19:05.300 so much money,

00:19:06.560 so much aid,

00:19:07.880 and like you said,

00:19:08.820 we're basically funding

00:19:09.640 both sides of this war 1.00

00:19:10.680 all because they're too dumb 1.00

00:19:12.000 to realize that 1.00

00:19:12.920 they're doing this.

00:19:13.700 And I'm not even sure

00:19:14.420 he understands exactly 0.96

00:19:15.780 how ridiculous it is. 0.97

00:19:17.000 Ideology trumps everything. 0.99

00:19:18.200 And their ideology,

00:19:20.300 their objective ideologically,

00:19:22.640 is, by the way,

00:19:24.420 this White House

00:19:25.740 is fundamentally okay

00:19:26.940 with Iran getting 0.97

00:19:27.760 a nuclear weapon.

00:19:30.460 They believe America 0.63

00:19:31.700 has no right

00:19:32.480 to determine

00:19:33.020 who has nuclear weapons.

00:19:34.020 By the way,

00:19:34.500 that's nonsense.

00:19:35.420 When the Ayatollah chants 0.97

00:19:36.680 death to America 0.80

00:19:37.500 and death to Israel, 0.99

00:19:39.420 we had to do 0.52

00:19:39.840 everything necessary

00:19:40.680 to make sure 0.99

00:19:41.260 that lunatic 0.99

00:19:41.940 never gets a nuclear weapon 0.99

00:19:43.680 because I don't want

00:19:44.760 to risk his using it

00:19:46.080 to murder millions 0.99

00:19:47.360 of Americans.

00:19:48.400 But that's actually

00:19:49.860 an America-first 0.82

00:19:51.420 foreign policy

00:19:52.420 that's focused on

00:19:53.640 defending America.

00:19:55.820 When it comes to Biden,

00:19:57.680 it is essentially

00:19:59.280 an America-last 0.64

00:20:00.380 foreign policy.

00:20:02.080 And they don't mind

00:20:03.420 them having a nuclear weapon.

00:20:04.640 That's why they're obsessed

00:20:05.400 with this deal so much.

00:20:06.560 Yeah.

00:20:07.440 Again,

00:20:08.220 it's a faculty lounge

00:20:09.980 foreign policy.

00:20:11.020 It's whatever is popular

00:20:12.240 with left-wing professors

00:20:14.200 who, you know,

00:20:16.100 believe that if you just

00:20:17.200 put daisies

00:20:18.040 in the barrels

00:20:19.220 of machine guns

00:20:20.100 and make love,

00:20:21.300 not war,

00:20:21.860 and give peace a chance,

00:20:23.560 that that's the solution.

00:20:25.060 And what they do not understand

00:20:26.920 is weakness is provocative.

00:20:30.320 I believe in peace

00:20:31.260 through strength.

00:20:31.880 there's a reason

00:20:34.820 nobody goes and gets

00:20:36.720 a degree from the

00:20:37.600 Neville Chamberlain

00:20:38.400 School of Foreign Affairs

00:20:39.500 because appeasement

00:20:41.820 doesn't work.

00:20:43.040 Doesn't work.

00:20:44.020 These guys fundamentally

00:20:45.300 don't understand that.

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00:20:48.640 More out of themselves,

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00:21:16.900 While you're dealing

00:21:17.840 with this real issue,

00:21:19.020 there's another issue

00:21:20.080 that the media

00:21:20.740 has been freaking out over.

00:21:22.780 That is Democrats

00:21:23.840 being thrown off committees,

00:21:26.020 not getting committee seats

00:21:27.080 they want.

00:21:27.620 This is supposed to be

00:21:28.620 what America's supposed

00:21:30.040 to care about right now.

00:21:31.420 You actually predicted this

00:21:33.260 last year.

00:21:35.180 And we have that tweet

00:21:36.540 of you predicting

00:21:37.320 that Democrats

00:21:38.100 were going to freak out.

00:21:39.860 Nancy Pelosi's furious 1.00

00:21:41.300 over this as well.

00:21:42.580 And I want to play

00:21:43.500 for Bill Pelosi first

00:21:44.760 so that they can see

00:21:45.680 what she said.

00:21:46.900 And you actually predicted

00:21:48.020 when you start scrolling

00:21:49.180 with Republicans

00:21:49.780 this way on committees,

00:21:50.920 the Republicans are going

00:21:52.060 to give it right back to you

00:21:53.020 if we get back in charge.

00:21:54.420 Here's Pelosi.

00:21:55.060 Didn't you open

00:21:56.660 the door to this?

00:21:57.600 No.

00:21:58.020 We set a precedent

00:21:59.220 which I hope

00:21:59.840 they will follow.

00:22:00.840 If they have members

00:22:02.040 as they did

00:22:03.420 who threatened

00:22:04.960 the security

00:22:05.780 of our members

00:22:06.780 on the committee

00:22:07.600 were a danger

00:22:08.900 to our members

00:22:10.040 threatening them

00:22:11.400 then they would

00:22:12.600 go off the committee.

00:22:13.520 So if they have

00:22:14.220 that accusation

00:22:15.460 about any of our members

00:22:16.720 let's hear what

00:22:17.740 they have to say.

00:22:18.560 It was clear

00:22:19.640 that their members

00:22:20.920 were a threat

00:22:21.800 to our members.

00:22:22.720 So this is about

00:22:23.720 maintaining safety

00:22:25.540 for our members.

00:22:27.100 The fact that they want

00:22:28.040 to take these people

00:22:29.340 off the committee

00:22:30.100 is more philosophical.

00:22:31.720 It's philosophical.

00:22:33.280 So there she is.

00:22:35.460 Look, that is

00:22:36.440 utter gobbledygook.

00:22:38.600 The Republicans

00:22:39.380 were a threat.

00:22:40.420 We were scared.

00:22:41.400 Now mind you

00:22:42.000 these are the same

00:22:43.420 nincompoops

00:22:44.100 that set up

00:22:44.700 metal detectors

00:22:45.480 to walk under

00:22:46.160 the floor of the House

00:22:47.160 because they were afraid

00:22:48.180 the Republicans

00:22:48.780 were going to shoot them.

00:22:50.980 These are the same 1.00

00:22:52.280 ninnies

00:22:53.040 that erected

00:22:54.900 fences around

00:22:55.920 the Capitol

00:22:56.560 with razor wire

00:22:58.480 for months

00:22:59.260 after months

00:22:59.940 after months

00:23:00.720 because they wanted

00:23:01.760 to convey

00:23:02.180 to the American people

00:23:03.400 that all Republican

00:23:04.620 voters are wild-eyed 1.00

00:23:05.960 terrorists 0.99

00:23:06.420 who are going to

00:23:06.980 march on the Capitol 1.00

00:23:07.900 and kill us all. 1.00

00:23:09.660 What utter crap. 1.00

00:23:12.500 Oh, we were afraid. 1.00

00:23:15.360 We were afraid.

00:23:16.620 You know,

00:23:17.240 Marjorie Taylor Greene

00:23:18.600 was going to go

00:23:19.580 beat up Adam Schiff.

00:23:21.120 Yeah.

00:23:21.580 Like,

00:23:22.440 give me a break.

00:23:24.160 But,

00:23:24.900 all of the

00:23:26.800 caterwauling,

00:23:27.720 all of the tears

00:23:28.740 we're seeing now,

00:23:30.100 I think

00:23:31.040 is hysterical

00:23:33.220 because as you noted,

00:23:34.320 here's what I tweeted

00:23:35.360 at the time.

00:23:35.520 Let's go back.

00:23:36.420 You predicted this

00:23:37.280 last year.

00:23:38.300 Your tweet

00:23:39.000 is one that made me laugh

00:23:40.680 because if you actually

00:23:41.640 watch the tweet itself,

00:23:43.100 you have the gif on there

00:23:44.080 of the people

00:23:45.000 jumping in the hole.

00:23:47.560 And so,

00:23:48.000 you can see that.

00:23:48.680 But look at the date

00:23:49.420 down there.

00:23:49.860 November 30th,

00:23:50.980 2021.

00:23:52.360 You say,

00:23:52.720 House Democrats,

00:23:53.680 you know,

00:23:54.020 are basically

00:23:54.460 irrationally partisan

00:23:55.700 and excitedly trying

00:23:57.100 to throw Republicans

00:23:57.880 off committees.

00:23:59.120 The chance that the GOP

00:24:00.180 retakes the House

00:24:00.960 in 2022

00:24:02.260 are over 90%.

00:24:04.260 Prediction.

00:24:05.360 Come 2023,

00:24:06.380 Swalwell,

00:24:06.980 Omar,

00:24:07.800 Tlaib,

00:24:08.100 and others

00:24:08.560 are getting ready

00:24:09.580 to have a lot more

00:24:10.440 time on their hands.

00:24:11.120 Meaning,

00:24:11.520 they're going to be

00:24:12.180 thrown off the committees.

00:24:13.860 You said it was going

00:24:14.760 to happen.

00:24:15.340 What Pelosi did in 2021

00:24:17.020 had never happened before.

00:24:19.140 Which is for the majority

00:24:20.460 party,

00:24:21.000 the Speaker of the House,

00:24:22.080 to say to the minority

00:24:22.960 party,

00:24:24.020 I don't like your members, 0.79

00:24:25.360 we're throwing you

00:24:26.020 off the committees.

00:24:27.500 That had never happened.

00:24:29.320 It was an incredible

00:24:30.480 abuse of power.

00:24:31.840 She did that

00:24:32.720 and then she did it again 0.97

00:24:33.640 with the so-called

00:24:34.380 select committee

00:24:35.100 on January 6th

00:24:36.040 when she said,

00:24:36.780 no,

00:24:37.000 we don't want Jim Jordan,

00:24:37.920 we don't want your members

00:24:38.680 on the committee.

00:24:39.200 And when they did that,

00:24:41.520 I remember looking at it

00:24:42.860 and thinking,

00:24:44.680 you know the old

00:24:45.840 sociology experiment

00:24:48.480 with little kids

00:24:50.120 where you have

00:24:52.060 one and two marshmallows

00:24:54.360 and you make clear

00:24:56.040 if they eat one marshmallow

00:24:57.220 they get it now,

00:24:58.160 but if they can wait,

00:24:59.180 if they can defer gratification

00:25:00.620 they get two marshmallows.

00:25:03.540 The Democrats in Congress

00:25:05.500 are all one marshmallow people.

00:25:07.200 They could not delay

00:25:08.340 gratification.

00:25:09.380 They hated the Republicans

00:25:10.440 so much they're like,

00:25:11.320 throw them off committees

00:25:12.100 and I'm like,

00:25:13.420 what I said in the tweet,

00:25:14.980 you guys are lemmings. 0.96

00:25:16.060 You're literally 0.92

00:25:16.680 jumping off a cliff

00:25:17.880 because you know

00:25:19.360 you're going to lose.

00:25:20.940 Yeah.

00:25:21.480 November of 2021,

00:25:23.080 every one of the Democrats

00:25:24.220 believed they were going

00:25:25.340 to lose the House,

00:25:26.240 which they did.

00:25:28.460 You know you're going

00:25:29.540 to lose.

00:25:30.760 If you do this

00:25:31.680 to Republicans,

00:25:32.360 the chances are

00:25:33.260 100%

00:25:34.580 they're going

00:25:36.200 to do it to you.

00:25:37.360 And I named

00:25:38.380 Swalwell and Omar

00:25:40.300 and Schiff

00:25:42.020 are the three

00:25:42.580 that have lost committees

00:25:43.520 and it was obvious.

00:25:45.040 Which brings me

00:25:46.040 to Adam Schiff. 0.97

00:25:46.760 Now he is a crybaby. 0.80

00:25:48.680 He's out there 0.90

00:25:49.620 on TikTok,

00:25:50.820 which is even funnier,

00:25:52.180 begging people for money

00:25:53.340 on this app

00:25:54.300 that literally

00:25:54.960 government agencies

00:25:55.940 are saying

00:25:56.440 do not have

00:25:57.140 on your phone.

00:25:57.860 States are saying

00:25:58.640 on state phones

00:25:59.300 don't have it.

00:26:00.040 He goes to Chinese 1.00

00:26:01.360 Communist TikTok

00:26:02.120 to say,

00:26:03.080 help me,

00:26:03.700 I'm poor

00:26:04.320 and help me,

00:26:05.160 I've been kicked

00:26:05.620 off committees.

00:26:06.300 Take a look.

00:26:07.280 Hello, I'm Congressman

00:26:08.380 Adam Schiff

00:26:09.120 with some troubling news.

00:26:11.020 Today, Kevin McCarthy

00:26:11.840 removed me

00:26:12.480 from the House

00:26:13.020 Intelligence Committee

00:26:14.000 all for doing my job,

00:26:15.860 for holding Trump

00:26:16.560 accountable

00:26:17.100 and standing up

00:26:18.520 to the extreme

00:26:19.200 MAGA Republicans.

00:26:20.760 We knew it would be bad

00:26:22.160 when the Republicans

00:26:22.680 took over,

00:26:23.560 but it's far worse

00:26:24.360 than we expected.

00:26:25.760 But I can promise you this,

00:26:27.320 this is not the end

00:26:28.420 of my fight

00:26:29.140 for our democracy.

00:26:30.920 This is just the beginning.

00:26:32.520 Please join us

00:26:33.740 and contribute today.

00:26:35.500 Thank you.

00:26:36.700 I don't even know

00:26:37.820 how to assess that,

00:26:39.020 Senator.

00:26:39.560 Oh, look,

00:26:40.300 that God has a sense

00:26:41.860 of humor

00:26:42.360 and that is irony

00:26:43.680 stacked upon irony.

00:26:45.480 So,

00:26:46.360 he was previously

00:26:47.340 the chairman

00:26:47.920 of the House

00:26:48.440 Intelligence Committee.

00:26:50.140 He demonstrated

00:26:51.380 an incredibly cavalier

00:26:53.100 approach

00:26:54.380 to classified documents,

00:26:55.820 an incredibly dishonest

00:26:57.300 approach

00:26:57.840 to that committee.

00:26:59.140 and so he was

00:27:01.520 removed from it.

00:27:02.640 He was removed from it

00:27:03.620 because Kevin McCarthy

00:27:04.660 laid out

00:27:05.260 that he believed

00:27:06.060 that his lying

00:27:08.160 using classified documents

00:27:10.120 posed a national security threat.

00:27:13.560 It is amazing

00:27:14.520 that the very first thing

00:27:16.240 he does

00:27:16.640 is he goes

00:27:17.140 and gets an account

00:27:17.940 on TikTok

00:27:18.440 that is owned

00:27:19.660 and controlled

00:27:20.120 by the Chinese government,

00:27:21.240 that is an espionage tool

00:27:22.700 for the Chinese government,

00:27:24.320 and he puts out a video

00:27:25.420 on an espionage tool

00:27:27.760 for the Chinese government

00:27:28.800 to say,

00:27:30.300 it's terrible

00:27:31.040 that I was thrown off

00:27:32.920 the Intelligence Committee.

00:27:34.600 He does it

00:27:35.560 to raise money

00:27:36.340 for his campaign.

00:27:38.080 And I'll also note

00:27:39.140 he uses the phrase

00:27:40.340 extreme MAGA Republicans,

00:27:42.300 which...

00:27:42.380 Yes.

00:27:42.900 That's all of us now.

00:27:43.820 Every Democrat

00:27:44.700 does that now.

00:27:45.820 You know,

00:27:46.180 Mitt Romney

00:27:46.680 is an extreme MAGA Republican.

00:27:48.360 I mean,

00:27:48.520 it just has become...

00:27:49.800 He might be offended by that.

00:27:51.200 But there is...

00:27:52.820 There's a message

00:27:54.580 discipline to the Democrats.

00:27:56.020 They all use those words.

00:27:58.100 That's the new label,

00:27:59.380 extreme MAGA Republican.

00:28:03.200 It's striking.

00:28:06.540 Schiff showed precisely why,

00:28:08.920 and it's very hard

00:28:10.300 when you're doing

00:28:10.780 a recorded thing

00:28:11.540 to say Schiff's name

00:28:12.700 and not get bleeped

00:28:14.520 by the censors.

00:28:15.280 Yes.

00:28:15.300 You have to enunciate carefully.

00:28:17.420 Yes.

00:28:19.220 But I think he illustrated

00:28:22.400 in his TikTok video

00:28:23.980 quite nicely

00:28:24.960 why removing him

00:28:27.460 from the Intelligence Committee

00:28:28.480 was the right thing to do.

00:28:29.620 But you know what?

00:28:30.720 Don't take my word for it.

00:28:32.020 Listen to Kevin McCarthy.

00:28:33.460 Because what happens

00:28:34.300 in the Intel Committee,

00:28:35.340 you don't know.

00:28:36.000 What happens

00:28:36.660 in the Intel Committee

00:28:37.620 of the secrets

00:28:38.600 that are going on in the world?

00:28:40.600 Other members of Congress

00:28:41.620 don't know.

00:28:42.380 What did Adam Schiff do

00:28:43.640 as the chairman

00:28:44.280 of the Intel Committee?

00:28:45.460 What Adam Schiff did,

00:28:46.680 use his power

00:28:47.500 as a chairman

00:28:48.300 and lie to the American public.

00:28:50.060 Even the inspector general

00:28:51.160 said it.

00:28:51.820 When Devin Nunes

00:28:52.660 put out a memo,

00:28:53.640 he said it was false.

00:28:54.900 When we had a laptop,

00:28:56.480 he used it before an election

00:28:57.560 to read politics

00:28:58.520 and say that it was false

00:28:59.940 and said it was the Russians.

00:29:01.280 When he knew different,

00:29:02.740 when he knew the intel,

00:29:03.920 if you talk to John Radcliffe,

00:29:06.920 D.N.I.,

00:29:08.200 he came out ahead of time

00:29:09.420 and says there's no intel

00:29:10.700 to prove that

00:29:11.300 and he used his position

00:29:13.000 as chairman,

00:29:14.220 knowing he has information

00:29:15.380 the rest of America does not

00:29:16.740 and lied to the American public.

00:29:18.380 When a whistleblower

00:29:19.180 came forward,

00:29:20.020 he said he did not

00:29:21.180 know the individual

00:29:21.940 even though his staff

00:29:22.920 had met with him

00:29:23.540 and set it up.

00:29:24.640 So no,

00:29:25.140 he does not have a right

00:29:26.360 to sit on that.

00:29:27.140 But I will not be like Democrats

00:29:28.740 and play politics with these

00:29:30.080 where they removed Republicans

00:29:31.940 from committees

00:29:33.240 and all committees.

00:29:34.040 So yes,

00:29:35.020 he can serve on a committee,

00:29:36.280 but he will not serve on intel

00:29:37.740 because it goes to

00:29:38.900 the national security

00:29:39.860 of America.

00:29:40.780 It's a pretty bold statement

00:29:42.060 and you go back to Radcliffe,

00:29:43.460 it was unprecedented

00:29:44.540 for the director

00:29:45.180 of national intelligence

00:29:45.980 to come out 0.88

00:29:46.700 and basically slap 0.97

00:29:48.560 a Democrat

00:29:49.220 who's in charge

00:29:50.100 of this committee

00:29:50.820 down saying

00:29:51.980 what he just told you

00:29:53.000 is not true

00:29:53.840 and is a lie

00:29:54.440 and he had to do that

00:29:55.500 at the time.

00:29:56.480 That's how partisan

00:29:57.440 they had turned this into

00:29:58.920 in his leadership,

00:29:59.880 Adam Schiff.

00:30:00.640 And to say he's a threat

00:30:01.500 to national security,

00:30:03.120 is there some politics

00:30:04.480 in that

00:30:04.960 or do you think

00:30:05.640 that there is some truth

00:30:06.580 to that as well?

00:30:07.480 So one of the things

00:30:08.480 to keep in mind

00:30:09.160 about how Congress works,

00:30:11.700 so every member

00:30:13.080 of Congress

00:30:13.660 has access

00:30:14.560 to classified information

00:30:16.140 in one form

00:30:16.960 or another

00:30:17.300 depending on what committees

00:30:18.180 you are.

00:30:19.240 All of us

00:30:20.060 review classified information

00:30:22.260 regularly.

00:30:23.760 That being said,

00:30:25.640 the Intelligence Committee

00:30:27.120 in both the House

00:30:27.960 and Senate

00:30:28.500 reviews much,

00:30:30.880 much more sensitive

00:30:31.960 material

00:30:32.640 than most other

00:30:34.440 House members

00:30:35.200 or senators.

00:30:36.100 At a higher level

00:30:36.800 of classification.

00:30:37.600 At a much higher level

00:30:38.640 of classification,

00:30:39.640 they're reviewing materials.

00:30:41.100 So high that you can

00:30:41.860 store it next to your Corvette

00:30:42.940 in your garage.

00:30:43.480 Exactly.

00:30:44.120 That's,

00:30:45.060 look,

00:30:46.640 Intel is regularly

00:30:48.080 reviewing materials

00:30:49.360 that implicate sources

00:30:50.700 and methods

00:30:51.420 that if revealed

00:30:53.020 could endanger

00:30:53.820 the lives

00:30:54.540 of U.S. operatives

00:30:55.720 that are covert.

00:30:56.820 Schiff as chairman

00:31:00.520 of that committee,

00:31:01.360 he had access

00:31:02.040 to the most sensitive

00:31:03.100 secrets we have

00:31:04.420 that most members

00:31:05.720 of Congress

00:31:06.120 don't get.

00:31:07.660 And

00:31:08.020 it is

00:31:10.300 stunning

00:31:11.100 how he behaved

00:31:12.200 with them

00:31:12.640 because he took

00:31:13.500 that classified

00:31:15.060 information he had

00:31:16.080 and he abused

00:31:16.840 that position of trust

00:31:17.900 because he went

00:31:18.340 in front of the

00:31:18.780 American people

00:31:19.540 and repeatedly

00:31:20.780 lied about it

00:31:21.820 over and over again.

00:31:23.120 Hunter Biden's laptop,

00:31:24.160 he said,

00:31:24.420 it's not true.

00:31:25.280 It's Russian disinformation.

00:31:26.360 That was a lie.

00:31:27.720 And he knew it was.

00:31:28.420 And he knew it was.

00:31:29.820 He also,

00:31:31.020 nobody pushed

00:31:32.260 the Russia hoax

00:31:33.180 more than Adam Schiff

00:31:35.360 and he knew

00:31:35.980 the intelligence

00:31:36.640 didn't back it up.

00:31:37.920 Not only that,

00:31:38.780 we now know

00:31:39.400 through the Twitter files

00:31:40.520 that Schiff

00:31:41.740 was actively

00:31:42.740 urging Twitter

00:31:43.820 to pull down

00:31:47.000 anyone who disagreed

00:31:48.600 with the disinformation

00:31:49.380 he was pushing.

00:31:50.320 he was urging

00:31:52.060 Twitter to call

00:31:53.020 anyone challenging

00:31:54.320 the Devin Nunes

00:31:55.060 memo

00:31:55.880 to call them

00:31:57.020 a Russian bot.

00:31:58.260 Twitter was telling him,

00:31:59.620 well wait,

00:32:00.020 they're not Russian bots.

00:32:01.100 That's not in fact

00:32:01.900 accurate.

00:32:02.840 But Schiff

00:32:03.480 didn't care.

00:32:04.260 He used

00:32:05.060 that position,

00:32:06.820 that access

00:32:07.500 to classified

00:32:08.200 information

00:32:08.900 and he abused it.

00:32:10.480 It's hard to refute

00:32:11.300 somebody because

00:32:12.040 so few see

00:32:12.720 this information.

00:32:13.620 I think he

00:32:14.140 understood that,

00:32:15.360 right?

00:32:15.560 For people to understand

00:32:16.220 the game he was playing,

00:32:17.100 it was like,

00:32:17.780 who can refute me

00:32:18.780 because there's so few

00:32:19.580 that get to see this stuff.

00:32:20.700 Look,

00:32:21.400 the only thing

00:32:23.400 worse Schiff

00:32:24.560 could have done

00:32:25.380 with his access

00:32:27.460 to important secrets,

00:32:29.780 about the only thing

00:32:30.840 worse you could imagine

00:32:31.820 him doing

00:32:32.400 is banging 0.90

00:32:33.440 a Chinese spy.

00:32:35.200 That would be

00:32:35.760 Eric Swalwell

00:32:36.300 that likes to do that. 1.00

00:32:37.640 Well,

00:32:38.140 but Schiff

00:32:38.960 had a pretty powerful

00:32:39.960 defense of Eric Swalwell

00:32:41.160 as well.

00:32:41.380 He did.

00:32:41.680 He came out,

00:32:42.320 this was amazing,

00:32:43.340 take a look.

00:32:44.540 I do want to mention

00:32:45.380 with respect

00:32:46.480 to Mr. Swalwell

00:32:47.320 also that I

00:32:48.300 as he indicated,

00:32:49.540 I sat in

00:32:50.080 on that briefing

00:32:50.820 and when Kevin McCarthy

00:32:53.360 misrepresents it

00:32:54.840 and does that

00:32:58.980 disservice

00:33:00.680 to the American people,

00:33:01.620 it's shameful.

00:33:03.860 Mr. Swalwell

00:33:04.560 has served honorably

00:33:05.480 on our committee,

00:33:06.140 has never been accused

00:33:06.740 of any kind of wrongdoing.

00:33:08.800 This is a patently

00:33:10.060 unfair smear

00:33:11.240 by Mr. McCarthy,

00:33:12.700 but that's

00:33:13.220 what he traffics in

00:33:14.840 and that's

00:33:15.400 what we're seeing.

00:33:16.840 Never been accused

00:33:18.020 of any wrongdoing

00:33:18.760 except for sleeping

00:33:19.780 with an actual

00:33:20.800 Chinese spy.

00:33:22.080 And we're not

00:33:22.820 talking theoretical.

00:33:24.040 Her name was Fang Fang

00:33:24.940 and my understanding,

00:33:27.640 though I have not

00:33:28.300 actually seen

00:33:29.080 the classified

00:33:30.980 briefing on this,

00:33:32.060 but my understanding

00:33:32.800 from the press coverage

00:33:33.780 is she was

00:33:35.100 an actual spy

00:33:36.020 working for the

00:33:36.860 Chinese communist

00:33:37.600 government

00:33:38.240 assigned to spy

00:33:40.280 on Eric Swalwell

00:33:41.220 and mind you,

00:33:42.800 what are the Democrats

00:33:43.480 saying?

00:33:43.860 Oh,

00:33:44.040 he should be

00:33:44.800 on the intel committee.

00:33:45.660 He was on the

00:33:46.200 intelligence committee.

00:33:47.080 He should have

00:33:47.880 access to the

00:33:48.700 most secure secrets

00:33:50.160 even though,

00:33:52.300 and listen,

00:33:53.960 we've talked about

00:33:55.120 on this podcast

00:33:57.120 how structurally

00:34:00.360 the Democrat party

00:34:01.780 today is pro-China.

00:34:04.260 Their major

00:34:04.880 constituencies,

00:34:06.280 their major stakeholders,

00:34:08.100 big business,

00:34:09.040 big tech,

00:34:10.060 big entertainment,

00:34:11.000 big universities,

00:34:13.560 that they are all

00:34:15.020 in bed with China.

00:34:17.260 And we've said

00:34:17.820 the Democrat party

00:34:18.820 today is in bed

00:34:19.860 with China.

00:34:20.900 Eric Swalwell

00:34:21.600 just took that

00:34:22.340 a little too literally.

00:34:26.360 I got it.

00:34:27.280 There's been a lot

00:34:28.200 about classified documents.

00:34:30.600 And just so people

00:34:32.220 understand the abuse here

00:34:33.360 and how much

00:34:34.720 he was abusing

00:34:35.580 his position of power,

00:34:36.400 and I'm referring to

00:34:37.020 Adam Schiff here,

00:34:38.200 obviously,

00:34:38.880 and what he was doing.

00:34:39.820 If you go in

00:34:41.360 and you get to see stuff

00:34:42.220 because you're on

00:34:42.700 the Intel Committee

00:34:43.160 in the House,

00:34:43.620 the Senate side,

00:34:44.620 are you allowed

00:34:45.540 to walk out legally

00:34:47.740 and talk to your colleagues

00:34:49.440 who do not directly

00:34:50.680 have access

00:34:51.340 to that information?

00:34:52.720 How does top secret

00:34:53.880 information work?

00:34:55.560 Because what he was doing

00:34:56.840 was basically looking at it,

00:34:58.580 making up things

00:34:59.480 that didn't exist,

00:35:00.500 and then telling

00:35:01.280 the entire country

00:35:02.160 about it.

00:35:02.900 He'd go on

00:35:03.660 national television

00:35:04.600 and he would say things

00:35:06.220 that were 180 degrees

00:35:08.220 opposite what he knew

00:35:09.660 to be the case.

00:35:11.300 And so he wasn't

00:35:13.180 abusing it

00:35:13.960 in the sense of

00:35:15.400 what Joe Biden

00:35:17.120 was doing,

00:35:17.800 which is leaving

00:35:18.400 classified documents

00:35:19.500 next to his Corvette.

00:35:20.800 That's a different

00:35:21.580 kind of violation.

00:35:23.280 But what he was doing

00:35:24.620 was abusing his power.

00:35:26.120 Because he had access

00:35:27.680 to that information,

00:35:29.180 he had a level

00:35:29.960 of credibility

00:35:30.600 that when he went

00:35:31.500 on a Sunday show

00:35:32.660 and he said,

00:35:33.440 here's what the intelligence

00:35:34.800 tells us,

00:35:35.540 people are like,

00:35:36.260 oh, okay,

00:35:36.740 well,

00:35:37.020 he's in a position

00:35:37.760 to know.

00:35:39.180 And his willingness

00:35:41.460 to just flat out lie,

00:35:44.140 it reminds me

00:35:44.720 of the old

00:35:45.360 backhanded compliment

00:35:47.260 of Bill Clinton,

00:35:48.020 he's an unusually 1.00

00:35:48.960 good liar. 0.99

00:35:49.960 Yeah. 0.95

00:35:50.540 Well,

00:35:51.220 and by the way,

00:35:52.380 it speaks volumes now

00:35:53.880 that in the wake

00:35:55.480 of being thrown off

00:35:56.540 the intelligence committee,

00:35:58.380 what is Adam Schiff doing?

00:36:00.200 Running for Senate

00:36:01.240 in the state of California.

00:36:02.940 Get a promotion, right?

00:36:04.420 He wants to come

00:36:07.020 to the other side.

00:36:09.140 He's running

00:36:09.540 for Dianne Feinstein's seat.

00:36:11.560 So we'll see what happens

00:36:12.780 and who knows,

00:36:13.420 maybe with California

00:36:14.420 Democrat primary voters

00:36:16.020 being a dishonest, 0.95

00:36:18.100 hardcore left-wing partisan, 0.94

00:36:20.320 that might be

00:36:21.480 a very attractive credential,

00:36:24.700 sadly,

00:36:25.600 with that radicalized

00:36:26.960 primary voter.

00:36:27.900 Lastly,

00:36:28.440 there's two quick things

00:36:29.400 I want to get your take on.

00:36:31.640 One of them

00:36:32.280 was pretty shocking.

00:36:33.080 It deals with religion.

00:36:34.820 There was this new poll

00:36:36.200 put out,

00:36:36.820 and it's very different

00:36:37.880 to see how Republicans,

00:36:40.580 conservatives look at faith

00:36:41.700 and how Democrats

00:36:43.160 look at faith.

00:36:44.480 And I want to throw this

00:36:45.260 up there for people

00:36:45.960 so they can see this

00:36:46.820 because Democrats

00:36:48.340 literally have,

00:36:49.500 and this is, again,

00:36:50.440 coming from David Bernstein

00:36:52.160 after looking at this poll,

00:36:53.840 Democrats literally have

00:36:54.980 a more favorable view

00:36:56.540 of Wicca and witches 0.96

00:36:58.560 than of Orthodox Judaism 0.62

00:37:00.980 and Jews.

00:37:01.880 You look at Republicans

00:37:03.880 at the top line there.

00:37:05.500 Do you have a favorable

00:37:06.340 or unfavorable opinion

00:37:07.240 of the following groups?

00:37:08.340 Christianity,

00:37:09.280 Democrats plus 29,

00:37:11.100 Republicans totally different

00:37:13.000 plus 54.

00:37:14.740 Now, this to me

00:37:16.040 is shocking.

00:37:16.740 Catholicism,

00:37:17.660 6% plus for Democrats,

00:37:20.340 29 for Republicans.

00:37:22.920 These are numbers

00:37:24.380 that terrify me

00:37:25.920 about the state

00:37:26.480 of this country

00:37:26.980 and where we're heading

00:37:27.560 when it comes to

00:37:28.080 lack of faith.

00:37:28.600 Yeah, look,

00:37:29.340 the Democrat Party today

00:37:30.900 is a party

00:37:32.120 where hostility

00:37:33.300 to faith

00:37:33.920 is normalized.

00:37:35.540 And so this question,

00:37:36.680 this was a national poll

00:37:37.740 done on YouGov,

00:37:38.700 and it was just asked,

00:37:39.900 do you have a favorable

00:37:40.720 or unfavorable view

00:37:42.480 of the following faiths?

00:37:45.040 And so...

00:37:46.000 Not controversial,

00:37:46.760 by the way.

00:37:47.060 That's a pretty simple question.

00:37:48.760 So when you ask Democrats

00:37:51.320 do they have a favorable

00:37:52.180 or unfavorable view

00:37:53.320 of Protestantism?

00:37:57.220 Plus 12.

00:37:59.600 When you ask Catholicism,

00:38:02.040 plus 6,

00:38:03.120 which means

00:38:04.080 almost as many Democrats

00:38:06.200 have a negative view

00:38:07.480 of Catholicism

00:38:08.400 as have a positive view.

00:38:09.800 By the way,

00:38:11.060 contrast that to Buddhism,

00:38:14.300 where Democrats

00:38:15.300 have a plus 29.

00:38:17.900 So Democrats

00:38:18.780 are much, much more hostile

00:38:20.700 to Catholics

00:38:22.180 than they are

00:38:24.020 to Buddhism.

00:38:25.000 Or agnostics, 0.95

00:38:26.320 let's take a look

00:38:26.900 at agnostics,

00:38:27.560 plus 24.

00:38:28.480 They love them

00:38:29.240 some agnostics.

00:38:30.620 Yet, you look at Amish, 1.00

00:38:31.920 for example.

00:38:32.560 Look at the difference

00:38:33.180 between Republicans

00:38:34.020 and Democrats there.

00:38:35.560 Negative 1

00:38:36.280 for Democrats

00:38:37.000 plus 24

00:38:37.860 for Republicans.

00:38:41.240 Atheists,

00:38:41.920 Democrats plus 13.

00:38:44.720 But then,

00:38:45.600 it's interesting,

00:38:47.400 Southern Baptists,

00:38:48.160 you and I

00:38:48.520 are both Southern Baptists,

00:38:49.660 minus 17.

00:38:52.580 Democrats hate them

00:38:53.800 some Southern Baptists.

00:38:55.560 And it really is striking.

00:38:58.440 So if you look at

00:39:00.600 Orthodox Judaism,

00:39:03.800 Democrats have a negative

00:39:05.600 three view

00:39:06.880 of Orthodox Judaism,

00:39:08.600 which means more Democrats

00:39:10.020 have a negative view

00:39:11.280 of Orthodox Jews

00:39:12.180 than positive view.

00:39:13.960 What is their view of Wicca?

00:39:15.480 Wicca, by the way,

00:39:16.200 is witchcraft. 0.70

00:39:17.040 Yes.

00:39:17.540 And that would be plus two.

00:39:18.860 So it is true.

00:39:20.800 They literally have

00:39:22.160 a more favorable view

00:39:23.580 of witchcraft 0.96

00:39:24.820 than Orthodox Judaism.

00:39:27.680 And I got to say,

00:39:28.720 this is,

00:39:30.180 by the way,

00:39:30.780 Democrats also

00:39:31.740 for Mormons

00:39:34.300 have a negative 27. 0.97

00:39:37.580 So they hate Mormons. 0.91

00:39:39.000 They hate Southern Baptists. 0.95

00:39:40.660 But they love Buddhists.

00:39:42.100 But they love Buddhists.

00:39:42.260 They love atheists.

00:39:43.500 They love agnostics. 0.92

00:39:44.800 And they even love witches

00:39:46.060 more than Orthodox Jews. 0.77

00:39:49.220 This is frightening.

00:39:50.380 This is frightening.

00:39:52.460 It explains some of the divide

00:39:54.500 in our country

00:39:55.080 because the numbers

00:39:55.940 are very,

00:39:56.700 very different.

00:39:57.960 Party affiliation

00:39:58.900 is a good predictor

00:40:00.120 for what you think

00:40:02.200 about faith.

00:40:02.960 But I got to say,

00:40:05.060 I sincerely wish

00:40:08.160 both parties

00:40:10.480 respected people of faith

00:40:13.480 and were willing

00:40:14.120 to defend

00:40:14.940 your right

00:40:16.760 to live according

00:40:17.480 to your faith

00:40:18.040 and your conscience.

00:40:19.020 And the hostility

00:40:20.160 Democrats have

00:40:21.040 towards faith,

00:40:22.340 this is some of why.

00:40:23.560 It's traditional values.

00:40:24.740 It's traditional families.

00:40:27.000 It's traditional

00:40:28.560 what makes,

00:40:29.880 I think,

00:40:30.120 America great.

00:40:31.300 That's what the Democratic Party

00:40:32.620 is saying.

00:40:33.060 We are openly

00:40:33.720 and adamantly against it.

00:40:35.660 And that should be something

00:40:36.640 I think people should be looking at

00:40:37.740 in elections moving forward.

00:40:39.340 There's one other video

00:40:40.800 I have to show everybody

00:40:42.800 because it's just

00:40:43.940 too good not to.

00:40:45.640 You've got,

00:40:46.760 and you and I were laughing

00:40:47.800 about this before the show,

00:40:49.540 because if you want to know

00:40:50.980 how easy it is

00:40:52.240 to get a job,

00:40:53.480 to get nominated

00:40:54.360 for a good job

00:40:55.260 in the Biden administration,

00:40:57.380 just look at this video

00:40:59.780 of some simple questions

00:41:01.380 being asked

00:41:01.960 to some nominees

00:41:02.640 and a senator.

00:41:04.280 And this is this week.

00:41:05.580 This is a hearing

00:41:06.260 in the Senate Judiciary Committee

00:41:07.600 this week

00:41:08.980 for a Biden nominee

00:41:10.520 to be a federal judge.

00:41:12.300 So presumably,

00:41:13.400 you're nominated

00:41:13.940 to be a federal judge.

00:41:15.860 You ought to know something.

00:41:17.040 Yeah, kind of a big deal.

00:41:18.000 Let's see how it went.

00:41:19.400 Thank you, Mr. Chairman,

00:41:20.500 and congratulations

00:41:21.460 to all of you.

00:41:25.260 judge

00:41:28.080 on the far end.

00:41:31.820 Tell me what Article 5

00:41:33.920 of the Constitution does.

00:41:40.240 Article 5

00:41:41.400 is not coming to mind

00:41:42.580 at the moment.

00:41:43.780 Okay.

00:41:44.200 How about Article 2?

00:41:48.980 Neither is Article 2.

00:41:51.500 Okay.

00:41:52.060 Okay.

00:41:55.260 Do you know what

00:41:57.720 purposivism is?

00:42:03.200 In my 12 years

00:42:05.680 as an Assistant Attorney General

00:42:07.180 and my nine years

00:42:08.720 serving as a judge,

00:42:10.800 I was not faced

00:42:12.280 with that precise question.

00:42:14.240 We are the highest trial court

00:42:16.200 in Washington State,

00:42:17.320 so I'm frequently faced

00:42:18.920 with issues

00:42:20.640 that I'm not familiar with,

00:42:22.000 and I thoroughly review

00:42:23.460 the law,

00:42:24.440 our research,

00:42:25.680 and apply the law

00:42:26.780 to the facts

00:42:27.300 presented to me.

00:42:28.180 Well, you're going

00:42:28.860 to be faced with it

00:42:29.820 if you're confirmed.

00:42:32.160 I can assure you of that.

00:42:34.040 Look, I got to say,

00:42:35.460 this woman

00:42:36.860 is wildly unqualified

00:42:40.480 to be a judge.

00:42:42.040 And let's talk about,

00:42:43.020 so the Constitution

00:42:44.680 has seven articles.

00:42:50.580 John Kennedy

00:42:51.340 is a dear friend.

00:42:52.500 He's a brilliant

00:42:53.140 legal scholar, actually.

00:42:54.440 He has, you know,

00:42:55.780 a bit of an accent

00:42:56.560 and kind of does

00:42:57.240 a Matlock, you know,

00:42:58.560 good old boy,

00:42:59.480 but he's wicked smart.

00:43:02.380 And his question,

00:43:03.440 he begins with Article 5.

00:43:05.080 Look, Article 5

00:43:06.020 is the article

00:43:06.660 in the Constitution

00:43:07.320 that lays out

00:43:08.060 how you amend

00:43:08.900 the Constitution.

00:43:09.540 and it's the process

00:43:11.760 whereby

00:43:12.840 we amend

00:43:14.260 the Constitution.

00:43:15.580 She apparently

00:43:16.220 didn't know that.

00:43:18.160 That's not very good.

00:43:19.000 If you're an attorney,

00:43:19.320 that's somewhat

00:43:20.200 of a big deal.

00:43:20.940 Can we agree on that?

00:43:22.480 As big a deal

00:43:23.540 as it is,

00:43:24.620 her next question

00:43:26.300 is an even bigger deal.

00:43:28.440 So,

00:43:29.660 the first three articles

00:43:31.040 of the Constitution,

00:43:32.000 Article 1,

00:43:32.920 establishes

00:43:33.540 the legislative branch.

00:43:34.860 All legislative power

00:43:36.520 is vested

00:43:37.160 in the Congress.

00:43:38.500 That's what

00:43:38.800 Article 1 does.

00:43:40.780 Article 2

00:43:41.680 is the executive branch

00:43:43.100 of our federal government.

00:43:44.180 It is the President

00:43:44.880 of the United States.

00:43:46.140 It is all

00:43:46.720 of the executive branch.

00:43:47.800 And Article 3,

00:43:48.620 by the way,

00:43:50.180 is the judiciary.

00:43:51.460 She has been nominated

00:43:52.680 to be what's called

00:43:54.400 an Article 3 judge.

00:43:56.700 That's a very particular

00:43:57.980 kind of judge.

00:43:58.900 That's a federal judge

00:44:00.040 with life tenure.

00:44:01.300 She's been nominated

00:44:02.140 to be an Article 3 judge,

00:44:03.980 although I'm quite certain

00:44:05.920 she has no idea

00:44:06.640 what that means.

00:44:07.340 And it shows

00:44:10.500 this administration's nominees.

00:44:13.800 They have consistently

00:44:15.020 been, number one,

00:44:16.320 very much affirmative action picks.

00:44:18.000 They care intensely

00:44:19.640 about the race

00:44:21.180 and gender

00:44:23.220 and sexual orientation,

00:44:24.560 much more than anything

00:44:26.560 resembling qualifications

00:44:27.880 or judicial temperament

00:44:29.400 or skill.

00:44:30.320 but they also care

00:44:32.380 even more than

00:44:33.700 bean counting.

00:44:34.980 They want radicals

00:44:36.740 and they have nominated.

00:44:38.000 I've never seen

00:44:38.920 judicial nominees

00:44:39.800 this radical.

00:44:41.280 You know,

00:44:41.480 when Obama was president,

00:44:42.520 I was not a fan

00:44:43.380 of his judicial nominees.

00:44:45.200 Biden has made

00:44:46.340 the Obama nominees

00:44:47.680 look middle of the road.

00:44:49.780 Yeah.

00:44:49.920 for her not to know

00:44:53.040 what Article 2

00:44:54.020 of the Constitution is.

00:44:57.900 I don't even,

00:44:59.480 the idea that a federal...

00:45:00.520 This isn't an a-hole question.

00:45:03.200 This is not an

00:45:03.900 I got you question.

00:45:05.400 This isn't like

00:45:06.160 saying to somebody,

00:45:07.080 name the random leader

00:45:08.080 of a certain country

00:45:08.960 here just to make you

00:45:09.700 look bad or embarrass you.

00:45:10.820 Asking someone

00:45:13.040 what Article 2

00:45:14.060 of the Constitution is,

00:45:15.300 if you're a lawyer,

00:45:16.320 you should know that.

00:45:18.080 Especially if you want

00:45:19.580 to be a federal judge.

00:45:20.940 This is not...

00:45:22.140 Look,

00:45:22.420 there are questions

00:45:23.500 you could ask

00:45:24.420 that are subtle

00:45:25.080 gotcha questions.

00:45:27.780 What's Article 2

00:45:28.880 of the Constitution?

00:45:29.880 Ain't one of them.

00:45:32.980 It's stunning.

00:45:34.480 And by the way,

00:45:35.160 my prediction is

00:45:36.000 every Democrat

00:45:36.600 will vote to confirm her.

00:45:38.540 Because in two years,

00:45:39.840 do you know

00:45:41.020 how many Democrats

00:45:42.040 have voted

00:45:42.560 against a Biden

00:45:43.860 judicial nominee?

00:45:44.960 I'm guessing

00:45:45.500 one or zero.

00:45:46.540 Zero.

00:45:47.680 So it's just

00:45:48.560 they walk in the door,

00:45:49.640 doesn't matter

00:45:50.020 what they say,

00:45:51.060 what they do

00:45:51.800 or don't know.

00:45:52.420 Because the press

00:45:52.880 won't cover it.

00:45:54.000 This isn't on the news.

00:45:55.820 By the way,

00:45:56.660 John Kennedy did this

00:45:58.180 to a Trump nominee,

00:46:00.100 a Trump nominee

00:46:00.800 where he asked

00:46:01.780 a question

00:46:02.440 about trial practice.

00:46:05.300 And the Trump nominee

00:46:06.440 didn't know the answer.

00:46:07.640 And it was...

00:46:09.300 Boom.

00:46:09.840 Okay,

00:46:10.480 number one,

00:46:11.220 watching it,

00:46:11.900 it was like

00:46:12.360 watching a train wreck

00:46:14.340 in slow motion.

00:46:17.120 Trump White House

00:46:18.080 withdrew the nomination.

00:46:19.740 That's actually...

00:46:20.920 If we had

00:46:21.760 a functioning executive,

00:46:23.660 if the Article 2 branch

00:46:25.260 was actually working...

00:46:26.500 Yeah.

00:46:27.420 They would know.

00:46:28.380 Okay,

00:46:28.760 I'm sorry.

00:46:29.420 She can't be a judge.

00:46:31.420 But they don't care.

00:46:33.420 My prediction is

00:46:34.560 every Democrat

00:46:35.160 will stick with her.

00:46:36.260 Oh,

00:46:36.660 she doesn't need 0.98

00:46:37.320 to know a damn thing 0.82

00:46:38.060 about the Constitution. 0.99

00:46:39.040 Her job is to let 1.00

00:46:39.880 criminals go.

00:46:40.920 She can do that

00:46:41.540 without knowing

00:46:42.000 anything about the Constitution.

00:46:43.180 Must be nice.

00:46:44.120 Easiest way to get a job.

00:46:45.340 That's for sure.

00:46:46.100 Senator,

00:46:46.540 always a pleasure

00:46:47.200 to spend some time with you.

00:46:48.680 We'll see all of you guys

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