Verdict with Ted Cruz - Biden Woke Easter-No Jesus Allowed, plus CA $20 Minimum Wage Causes 1000s to Lose Their Jobs & NBC Loses Their Minds that Republicans Exist

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00:00:06.080 It is Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz.

00:00:08.020 Ben Ferguson with you, Senator.

00:00:10.020 It is the day after Easter,

00:00:12.540 but the White House wouldn't want you to know

00:00:14.560 that Easter even happened on Sunday.

00:00:16.740 They were too obsessed with making sure

00:00:18.620 that everybody knew about the

00:00:19.780 See Everybody That's Transgender Day. 1.00

00:00:22.520 Well, listen, I hope everyone had a wonderful

00:00:24.700 and blessed Easter yesterday.

00:00:26.620 I hope you had a weekend with your family

00:00:28.320 where you gave thanks to God for God's blessings.

00:00:31.240 And I got to say, right in the middle of it,

00:00:33.460 seeing the Biden White House say essentially

00:00:36.480 Easter doesn't happen in this White House,

00:00:39.020 that their woke priorities,

00:00:41.340 Trump and any recognition of Christianity

00:00:44.380 or even acknowledgement of Christianity is really sad.

00:00:48.140 We're also going to talk in this episode today

00:00:51.020 about California's new $20 minimum wage law,

00:00:54.660 which sadly is having exactly the predicted effect

00:00:58.340 of causing thousands upon thousands

00:01:00.220 of workers to lose their jobs.

00:01:02.160 Fast food restaurants all across California

00:01:03.940 are laying off workers

00:01:04.960 because woke politicians do not understand

00:01:07.660 basic supply and demand.

00:01:09.520 And third, we're going to revisit

00:01:10.860 what happened with Ronna McDaniel.

00:01:12.800 NBC News saying essentially,

00:01:14.380 Republicans need not apply.

00:01:16.160 We are a Democrat-only network.

00:01:18.200 And actually, for a brief moment,

00:01:21.140 the network bigwigs tried to hire a Republican 0.66

00:01:23.980 and their on-air talent.

00:01:26.080 All left-wing Democrats lost their minds,

00:01:28.240 lit their hair on fire,

00:01:29.260 and immediately the network execs meekly said,

00:01:32.460 okay.

00:01:33.840 Yeah.

00:01:34.300 We got it wrong.

00:01:35.480 Never mind.

00:01:35.780 We'll fire her. 1.00

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00:03:15.240 Senator, it was Easter.

00:03:16.800 It's a day that I love

00:03:18.180 on Sunday

00:03:18.920 because the world stops

00:03:21.260 and that doesn't happen

00:03:22.460 very often

00:03:23.080 and Christians

00:03:24.760 all over the world

00:03:26.080 come together

00:03:26.720 to celebrate

00:03:27.860 the resurrection

00:03:30.020 of Jesus Christ.

00:03:31.480 It is a day

00:03:32.420 when you see people

00:03:33.440 come to church

00:03:34.280 at staggering numbers

00:03:35.520 and come together

00:03:37.000 as families.

00:03:38.240 But you look at

00:03:38.820 the White House

00:03:39.460 and you go to

00:03:39.960 WhiteHouse.gov

00:03:40.940 they had a very

00:03:42.440 different message

00:03:43.760 for Americans.

00:03:44.760 In fact,

00:03:45.680 they tried to hijack

00:03:46.800 I would argue

00:03:47.720 Easter altogether

00:03:48.400 for another woke moment.

00:03:51.200 Well, that's exactly right.

00:03:52.820 The White House

00:03:53.280 put out an announcement

00:03:54.420 on Friday

00:03:55.020 on Good Friday

00:03:56.100 that read

00:03:57.900 quote

00:03:58.400 Now therefore I

00:04:00.080 Joseph R. Biden Jr.

00:04:01.420 President of the United States

00:04:02.560 by virtue of the authority

00:04:03.740 vested in me

00:04:04.600 by the Constitution

00:04:05.640 and the laws

00:04:06.200 of the United States

00:04:07.020 do hereby proclaim

00:04:08.080 March 31st, 2024

00:04:10.080 as Transgender Day of Visibility. 0.54

00:04:14.300 Sunday was Easter Sunday.

00:04:16.820 Yeah.

00:04:17.080 Look, listen,

00:04:18.820 as a Christian

00:04:19.400 there is

00:04:21.280 no more important day

00:04:23.460 in the calendar.

00:04:24.280 Listen,

00:04:24.540 Christmas is a wonderful

00:04:25.620 celebration of Jesus' birth

00:04:27.260 but at the end of the day

00:04:28.880 the entirety of Christianity

00:04:30.660 is about Jesus' crucifixion

00:04:33.000 on Good Friday

00:04:33.740 and His resurrection

00:04:34.660 on Easter.

00:04:35.640 Obviously not on those

00:04:36.560 exact days

00:04:37.160 but those are the days

00:04:37.900 we celebrate

00:04:38.820 His dying for our sins

00:04:40.660 and I gotta say

00:04:42.040 for the White House

00:04:43.660 to decide,

00:04:44.520 you know,

00:04:45.460 Easter's not really important.

00:04:47.380 The only thing

00:04:48.380 that matters to us

00:04:49.480 is our politics

00:04:50.480 and nothing matters more

00:04:52.520 than Transgender Day of Visibility.

00:04:55.640 Like,

00:04:56.140 that's truly stunning.

00:04:57.560 Not only is it stunning

00:05:00.280 but it's also

00:05:01.360 one of those moments

00:05:02.680 and people

00:05:03.300 that have not been

00:05:04.540 around the White House

00:05:05.480 this is not by accident

00:05:07.880 and there were even

00:05:08.920 some people going

00:05:09.400 look,

00:05:09.740 you guys are reacting

00:05:10.820 aka Christians 0.99

00:05:11.740 they're just acknowledging

00:05:13.680 they didn't create

00:05:14.620 this day,

00:05:15.520 right?

00:05:15.820 The President

00:05:16.160 is just acknowledging

00:05:17.040 this Transgender Visibility Day

00:05:18.920 and this could have been

00:05:20.560 just, you know,

00:05:21.280 doing two things at once

00:05:22.800 and they're not really

00:05:23.640 overlooking Easter.

00:05:26.340 I don't believe that

00:05:27.260 for a moment

00:05:27.860 this is me personally

00:05:28.760 saying that

00:05:29.360 I think this was

00:05:30.620 a deliberate move

00:05:31.520 by this White House 0.96

00:05:32.580 to spit in the face 0.99

00:05:34.240 of Christians 1.00

00:05:34.780 and to say to younger voters

00:05:36.300 that maybe don't believe

00:05:37.140 in God

00:05:37.680 and the extremists

00:05:38.940 on the Democratic side

00:05:40.320 hey,

00:05:41.100 we are your party

00:05:42.260 I think this was

00:05:43.460 deliberate for November

00:05:44.460 because they're trying

00:05:45.320 to sure up younger voters

00:05:46.440 are saying they may

00:05:47.160 stay home

00:05:47.580 and not vote for Joe Biden.

00:05:49.680 Yeah,

00:05:50.260 see I guess

00:05:50.900 I disagree with you

00:05:51.600 on that Ben.

00:05:52.640 I don't really think

00:05:54.320 this was like

00:05:55.280 an overt political decision

00:05:58.000 I think the senior officials

00:05:59.940 at the White House

00:06:00.820 most of them

00:06:01.680 have no idea

00:06:02.280 it's Easter.

00:06:02.880 I think they are

00:06:03.540 so secular

00:06:04.440 I think faith

00:06:05.600 is so distant

00:06:06.620 from their lives

00:06:07.640 that it doesn't

00:06:08.580 even occur to them.

00:06:09.360 I don't think

00:06:10.100 they had a warning sign

00:06:11.040 you know

00:06:11.300 it reminds me of

00:06:12.520 you remember

00:06:13.400 a couple of years ago

00:06:14.320 when Jill Biden

00:06:15.340 was down in San Antonio

00:06:16.540 Texas

00:06:16.960 and she was speaking

00:06:17.980 at a Latinx conference

00:06:19.520 and in her remark

00:06:22.280 she said

00:06:23.040 that Hispanics 0.98

00:06:25.580 are as diverse

00:06:26.960 as breakfast tacos

00:06:28.640 which was so

00:06:30.520 utterly offensive

00:06:31.660 my response

00:06:32.740 immediately was

00:06:33.680 well I'm a chorizo

00:06:35.160 egg and cheese

00:06:35.820 so thank you Jill

00:06:36.820 and it truly is

00:06:39.680 but what was

00:06:40.800 interesting about that

00:06:42.080 what was revealing

00:06:42.840 about that

00:06:43.540 it was not a gaffe

00:06:45.520 it was not an

00:06:46.480 off the cuff comment

00:06:47.840 that's the sort of thing

00:06:48.680 Joe Biden might say

00:06:49.800 off the cuff

00:06:50.360 it was written

00:06:51.880 in her remarks

00:06:52.960 which means

00:06:53.480 the political office

00:06:54.680 at the White House

00:06:55.820 signed off on it

00:06:56.840 and they are so

00:06:58.100 woke

00:06:59.340 that to them

00:07:01.360 being condescending

00:07:02.800 to Latinos

00:07:04.120 who they want to call

00:07:05.180 Latinx

00:07:05.740 and by the way

00:07:06.420 anyone who uses

00:07:07.380 the word Latinx

00:07:08.320 I promise you

00:07:09.060 is not a Latino 1.00

00:07:09.780 and not a Latina 0.60

00:07:10.620 they are a rich

00:07:11.920 white liberal

00:07:12.700 and to them

00:07:14.260 it sounds perfectly

00:07:15.380 perfectly normal

00:07:16.520 to say

00:07:17.060 you cute little

00:07:18.360 Latinx's

00:07:19.200 are as diverse

00:07:19.920 as tacos

00:07:20.540 I think it's

00:07:22.440 the same sort

00:07:23.020 of thing here

00:07:23.620 they put this out

00:07:25.460 and all of them

00:07:26.700 I actually think

00:07:28.120 they're home

00:07:28.640 celebrating

00:07:29.320 Transgender Day 0.63

00:07:30.160 of Visibility

00:07:30.740 they're not

00:07:31.480 not really aware

00:07:32.740 it's Easter

00:07:33.280 I guess they know

00:07:33.900 that there

00:07:34.280 there are a lot

00:07:35.480 of bunny rabbits

00:07:36.260 around for some reason

00:07:37.340 but I don't know

00:07:37.860 that they could

00:07:38.220 tell you why

00:07:38.920 all right

00:07:39.600 so let me ask you

00:07:40.500 this

00:07:40.740 let's go with

00:07:41.500 your theory

00:07:41.900 for a second

00:07:42.520 because I

00:07:43.900 there's a

00:07:44.740 there's definitely

00:07:45.800 a chance

00:07:46.280 that you're

00:07:46.740 correct on

00:07:47.300 this

00:07:47.620 but the

00:07:48.500 White House

00:07:48.960 spokesman

00:07:49.420 the truth

00:07:49.760 is probably

00:07:50.260 the truth

00:07:50.960 is probably

00:07:51.420 some of

00:07:51.860 both

00:07:52.180 is

00:07:53.440 but

00:07:54.160 but

00:07:54.540 the question

00:07:55.460 is

00:07:55.740 which is

00:07:56.200 the

00:07:56.400 predominant

00:07:57.100 one

00:07:57.380 and I

00:07:57.700 lean to

00:07:58.440 there

00:07:58.640 just

00:07:58.920 being

00:07:59.240 that

00:07:59.580 oblivious

00:08:00.340 that they

00:08:01.120 don't even

00:08:01.800 realize

00:08:02.400 they don't

00:08:02.800 know

00:08:03.280 any person

00:08:03.900 of faith

00:08:04.380 who actually

00:08:05.260 celebrates

00:08:05.800 Easter

00:08:06.100 so it

00:08:06.840 doesn't

00:08:07.120 occur

00:08:07.400 to them

00:08:07.820 that there's

00:08:08.500 anything

00:08:08.800 offensive

00:08:09.180 about what

00:08:09.600 they're

00:08:09.760 saying

00:08:10.060 all right

00:08:10.620 so let's

00:08:10.940 talk about

00:08:11.220 the double

00:08:11.560 down

00:08:11.760 because

00:08:11.940 the White House

00:08:12.360 spokesman

00:08:12.780 Jean-Pierre

00:08:13.400 doubled down

00:08:14.200 after President

00:08:14.860 Joe Biden

00:08:15.240 declared

00:08:15.540 Easter Sunday

00:08:16.120 Transgender

00:08:16.760 Day of

00:08:17.620 Visibility

00:08:18.240 she put a

00:08:19.500 statement out

00:08:19.980 on act

00:08:20.320 Saturday

00:08:20.680 following the

00:08:21.520 backlash

00:08:21.940 to Biden's

00:08:23.160 animated

00:08:23.920 affirmation

00:08:24.720 of the

00:08:24.980 controversial

00:08:25.540 quote

00:08:25.960 holiday

00:08:26.620 that is

00:08:27.800 happens to be

00:08:28.660 on the same

00:08:29.040 day as the

00:08:29.440 holiest Christian 1.00

00:08:30.140 holiday that

00:08:30.860 we have on

00:08:31.260 the calendar

00:08:31.740 quote

00:08:32.720 on

00:08:33.480 on

00:08:33.940 Transgender

00:08:34.780 Day of

00:08:35.140 Visibility

00:08:35.580 the Biden

00:08:36.240 Harris

00:08:36.500 administration

00:08:37.020 honors the

00:08:37.700 extraordinary

00:08:38.080 courage and

00:08:38.920 contributions

00:08:39.540 of transgender

00:08:40.880 Americans

00:08:41.400 reaffirms our

00:08:42.340 nation's

00:08:42.840 commitment to

00:08:43.420 forming a

00:08:43.880 more perfect

00:08:44.840 union where

00:08:45.780 all people are

00:08:46.560 treated equally

00:08:47.220 that is what

00:08:47.840 she put on

00:08:49.160 X on

00:08:50.460 Saturday

00:08:51.060 do you think

00:08:52.440 they just

00:08:52.800 doubled down

00:08:53.300 because they

00:08:53.600 had no choice

00:08:54.460 it was like

00:08:55.020 all right we

00:08:55.540 look like 1.00

00:08:56.000 idiots we've 1.00

00:08:57.020 just offended a 1.00

00:08:57.780 ton of

00:08:58.200 Christians and

00:08:59.380 people of faith

00:09:00.120 this country

00:09:00.620 basically just

00:09:01.220 spit in their 0.81

00:09:01.780 face so this 1.00

00:09:02.940 will be our

00:09:03.320 way of saying

00:09:03.840 hey we're

00:09:04.300 kind of doing

00:09:04.680 two things at

00:09:05.240 once calm

00:09:05.740 down so I

00:09:06.680 don't think

00:09:07.020 they know

00:09:07.560 anyone they

00:09:08.240 offended I

00:09:08.860 think they view

00:09:09.580 anyone who would

00:09:10.140 be offended as a

00:09:10.980 deplorable so

00:09:12.220 it's I

00:09:13.840 genuinely believe

00:09:15.000 there was not a

00:09:15.600 person in this

00:09:16.240 White House who

00:09:16.740 was offended and

00:09:17.920 most of them

00:09:19.160 would tell you I

00:09:21.460 think they don't

00:09:22.440 know anyone that

00:09:23.100 if they have a

00:09:24.060 family member they

00:09:25.220 think they're an 0.99

00:09:26.000 ignorant family 1.00

00:09:26.560 member they don't 1.00

00:09:27.380 talk to anymore

00:09:28.140 and listen I'll

00:09:30.340 tell you what I

00:09:30.900 was actually more

00:09:32.060 okay two things on

00:09:34.140 this number one I

00:09:35.900 put out a statement

00:09:36.680 as I did a lot of

00:09:37.500 people pointing out 0.84

00:09:38.140 how ridiculous this 0.82

00:09:38.980 was and I put it 0.52

00:09:40.480 out on X and it

00:09:41.240 was interesting all

00:09:42.080 the all the

00:09:43.220 lefties who

00:09:43.820 responded to me

00:09:44.500 there were a

00:09:44.800 bunch of them

00:09:45.220 that said one

00:09:45.620 or no it just

00:09:46.920 transgender day

00:09:47.740 visibility happened

00:09:48.780 to occur this

00:09:50.440 Sunday it's not

00:09:51.380 our fault that

00:09:52.140 Easter coincided

00:09:53.400 with with what

00:09:54.060 is clearly this

00:09:55.440 day is transgender

00:09:56.440 day and it was

00:09:58.040 kind of like okay

00:09:58.820 I'm not sure about

00:10:00.200 this holiday you're

00:10:01.000 talking about but

00:10:02.840 Easter's been around

00:10:03.720 a couple thousand

00:10:04.400 years it's like they

00:10:06.600 treat Easter like

00:10:07.860 who is this

00:10:08.640 interloper that

00:10:09.680 dare land in the

00:10:11.460 midst of our

00:10:12.100 celebration but

00:10:14.260 but let me say

00:10:14.940 something else Ben

00:10:15.640 that that actually I

00:10:16.880 found even more

00:10:18.780 offensive which is

00:10:20.420 every year the

00:10:21.340 White House has an

00:10:22.300 Easter egg roll

00:10:23.040 Easter egg roll is a

00:10:24.000 fun event and you

00:10:25.340 know you have a lot

00:10:26.000 of people who take

00:10:26.540 their kids there and

00:10:27.640 they have Easter

00:10:28.200 eggs and that

00:10:28.820 they're wooden and

00:10:29.560 they're painted

00:10:29.980 they're really neat

00:10:30.640 and and there's a

00:10:31.640 contest for kids

00:10:32.680 well the Biden

00:10:34.360 White House has a

00:10:35.280 contest for kids to

00:10:36.220 paint Easter eggs

00:10:37.000 and and and they

00:10:38.780 had a flyer describing

00:10:39.980 what the kids must

00:10:41.060 do and here's what

00:10:41.680 the flyer for the

00:10:42.340 content said an

00:10:43.880 Easter egg design

00:10:45.120 submission quote

00:10:46.160 must not include

00:10:48.420 any questionable

00:10:50.120 content religious

00:10:52.060 symbols overtly

00:10:54.440 religious themes or

00:10:56.120 partisan political

00:10:57.920 statements so

00:10:59.700 understand and by

00:11:00.780 the way this is on

00:11:01.500 behalf of first lady

00:11:02.540 Jill Biden surprised

00:11:03.900 she didn't call it

00:11:04.640 the Latinx Easter 0.58

00:11:05.440 Easter egg roll

00:11:05.860 they invite people

00:11:08.200 there and understand

00:11:08.940 they want you to

00:11:10.620 paint Easter eggs

00:11:11.740 that according to

00:11:13.900 their dictate have

00:11:15.420 nothing to do with

00:11:17.340 Easter they literally

00:11:20.180 prohibit they say

00:11:21.300 any religious themes

00:11:22.840 symbols or content

00:11:24.700 on a celebration of

00:11:26.320 Easter cross right

00:11:27.220 like yeah cross would

00:11:28.740 be overly religious 0.85

00:11:30.160 the words all right

00:11:32.060 what what are the

00:11:33.160 most common three

00:11:34.400 words that any

00:11:35.200 Christian says on 0.98

00:11:36.040 Easter he is risen

00:11:37.700 he is risen and

00:11:38.880 what does everyone

00:11:39.400 respond he is risen

00:11:40.480 indeed I sat down I

00:11:42.580 texted a whole bunch

00:11:43.660 of my friends today

00:11:44.580 and and and and

00:11:45.900 texted them scriptures

00:11:47.120 but he is risen so

00:11:49.160 according to the

00:11:49.760 Biden rules you're not

00:11:50.980 allowed to put he is

00:11:51.780 risen you are allowed

00:11:53.040 to put an Easter

00:11:53.820 bunny you are allowed

00:11:55.680 to put something

00:11:56.480 utterly secular and

00:11:58.500 and and look what I

00:11:59.300 find grotesquely

00:12:00.380 offensive is I 0.54

00:12:02.820 listen this White 0.59

00:12:03.800 House puts out

00:12:05.400 celebrations of

00:12:06.580 Rosh Hashanah and

00:12:07.360 Yom Kippur as they 0.98

00:12:08.320 should on the Jewish 0.98

00:12:09.080 holidays do they have

00:12:10.320 a rule no Jewish 1.00

00:12:11.280 symbols on on the

00:12:13.120 Jewish high holidays

00:12:13.900 they celebrate

00:12:14.580 Ramadan what are the

00:12:16.700 odds you think on

00:12:17.720 Ramadan they say

00:12:18.600 nope you cannot say

00:12:20.080 anything Muslim on

00:12:21.280 Ramadan like Easter is 0.98

00:12:23.280 a Christian holiday and 1.00

00:12:25.020 these bastards I mean 1.00

00:12:26.260 this it it it really 1.00

00:12:28.320 does they're telling

00:12:30.980 children when you

00:12:32.940 celebrate Easter at

00:12:34.180 the White House it

00:12:35.160 cannot actually be

00:12:36.720 Easter yeah I rarely

00:12:39.080 and I'm going to ask

00:12:40.220 your permission I know

00:12:41.120 what the answer is

00:12:41.600 going to be but I

00:12:42.440 don't share our text

00:12:43.600 but I'd like to read

00:12:44.840 part of your text today

00:12:45.880 that you mentioned is

00:12:46.680 that is that okay yeah

00:12:47.900 sure so one of the

00:12:49.680 scriptures that you

00:12:50.660 sent and in in a text

00:12:53.320 that I got from you it

00:12:54.360 says he he is not

00:12:56.580 there he is risen

00:12:57.980 remember how he told

00:13:00.220 you while he was still

00:13:01.720 with you in Galilee the

00:13:03.900 son of man must be

00:13:04.740 delivered over to the 0.94

00:13:06.600 hands of sinners be 0.92

00:13:07.960 crucified and on the

00:13:09.160 third day be raised

00:13:11.380 again Luke 24 6 through

00:13:14.040 7 now I I love that

00:13:15.760 verse and you sent it

00:13:17.440 to me this morning

00:13:18.560 thank you for that by

00:13:19.440 the way and it was one

00:13:21.460 that I was thinking

00:13:22.520 about that kids learn

00:13:23.880 in fact my kids in

00:13:25.300 school learn Luke 24 6

00:13:27.660 and 7 this week it

00:13:29.140 was their memory verse

00:13:30.480 what if a kid wanted

00:13:31.780 to put that on an egg

00:13:32.740 my kid would have

00:13:33.740 thought of that right

00:13:34.760 because it's part of

00:13:35.880 the holiday and they

00:13:37.380 would have been I

00:13:37.960 guess disqualified or

00:13:39.180 not even be allowed in

00:13:40.380 the Easter egg art

00:13:41.380 contest of the White 0.96

00:13:42.240 House because that

00:13:43.120 would be religious text

00:13:44.980 which would be I

00:13:45.620 guess extremism in the

00:13:46.660 eyes of the White 0.94

00:13:47.180 House so so let me

00:13:48.740 read more of the

00:13:49.580 White House's official

00:13:50.460 guidance quote selected

00:13:52.380 designs representing

00:13:53.460 the unique experiences

00:13:54.480 and stories of

00:13:55.340 National Guard

00:13:55.860 children will be

00:13:57.460 brought to life on

00:13:58.520 real hen eggs by

00:14:00.460 talented egg artists

00:14:02.080 from across the

00:14:02.960 country and displayed

00:14:04.340 at the White House

00:14:05.060 this Easter and

00:14:05.900 Passover season

00:14:06.820 children can't 0.86

00:14:08.500 promote material that

00:14:09.620 promotes quote

00:14:10.640 bigotry racism

00:14:12.780 hatred or harm against

00:14:14.080 any group or

00:14:14.700 individual okay I'm

00:14:16.240 good with all that

00:14:17.040 you shouldn't be

00:14:18.220 promoting that or

00:14:19.200 promotes discrimination

00:14:20.560 based on race

00:14:21.860 gender religion

00:14:22.740 nationality disability

00:14:24.000 sexual orientation or

00:14:25.060 age so under their

00:14:26.280 definition anything

00:14:28.100 that acknowledges

00:14:29.100 Christianity presumably 0.56

00:14:30.220 is promoting

00:14:30.640 discrimination based on

00:14:32.280 religion if you quote

00:14:33.320 Jesus is saying I'm

00:14:34.500 the way the truth of

00:14:35.440 the life no man comes 1.00

00:14:36.260 unto the father but by

00:14:37.120 me that according to

00:14:38.360 the White House rules

00:14:39.100 nope you're not allowed

00:14:40.040 to acknowledge it on

00:14:41.080 Easter Easter is the

00:14:43.440 celebration why are we

00:14:44.920 having a holiday do we

00:14:46.440 just somehow think

00:14:48.340 bunny rabbits lay eggs

00:14:49.580 like what is the

00:14:51.780 purpose of this event

00:14:53.480 and and and that level

00:14:56.200 there is a it's vitriol

00:14:58.980 can we call it that

00:14:59.840 towards Christians 0.99

00:15:00.640 because that's what it 0.94

00:15:01.360 is it is abiding hate

00:15:03.680 for for people of faith

00:15:06.760 generally but especially

00:15:08.280 for Christians and

00:15:09.380 that's true for

00:15:10.340 Catholics that's true for 1.00

00:15:11.500 evangelicals it's true 0.67

00:15:12.800 look if you celebrated

00:15:14.620 Easter I mean I want to

00:15:16.700 ask you if you were

00:15:17.680 asked hey do you want

00:15:18.660 to paint an egg for the

00:15:20.880 White House and would

00:15:22.320 it occur to you if it

00:15:23.200 was an Easter egg to say

00:15:25.000 something about what

00:15:26.200 the holiday is about

00:15:27.380 well that is prohibited

00:15:29.100 under the rules from

00:15:31.120 this White House I got to

00:15:32.100 say that really pisses me

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00:16:03.960 this also makes me go

00:16:07.460 back to when people said

00:16:09.060 that conservatives like

00:16:10.000 myself I don't know if

00:16:11.840 you've ever tweeted

00:16:12.360 something like this so I'll

00:16:13.600 ask you you know when

00:16:15.140 several years ago when

00:16:16.800 we talk about I say

00:16:18.300 Christmas the real

00:16:19.700 meaning of Christmas

00:16:20.240 under attack and people

00:16:21.920 are trying to take

00:16:22.820 Christ out of Christmas

00:16:24.040 and then the left is 0.98

00:16:25.460 like you guys are crazy 0.96

00:16:26.720 you're paranoid you're 1.00

00:16:28.740 radical extremist 0.97

00:16:29.700 Christians no one's 1.00

00:16:31.880 trying to take Christ

00:16:32.760 out of Christmas and

00:16:34.660 the slippery slope and

00:16:35.820 then you fast forward to

00:16:36.940 this Easter the White 0.99

00:16:38.380 House is saying nothing

00:16:39.280 religious on the Easter

00:16:40.260 eggs we're making you

00:16:41.800 know Easter the same as 0.99

00:16:42.900 this transgender you 0.55

00:16:44.060 know visibility day and

00:16:45.780 I'm sitting there going

00:16:46.480 see I'm not crazy I know

00:16:48.540 what you're doing and I'm

00:16:49.740 watching it and I'm

00:16:50.640 calling you out on it and

00:16:51.920 you guys don't understand

00:16:53.500 that we understand when we

00:16:55.320 should be offended by what

00:16:56.820 you're trying to do which

00:16:57.740 is have Christmas without

00:16:58.820 Christ have Easter without 1.00

00:17:00.580 the resurrection so I'll

00:17:02.640 tell you in the Senate I

00:17:03.880 mean there's a consistent

00:17:04.960 divide Democrats won't say

00:17:07.780 Merry Christmas it is only

00:17:10.440 Republicans and actually when

00:17:11.920 you say Merry Christmas you 0.72

00:17:13.260 almost feel like a crazy

00:17:14.380 rebel I mean I mean it is a

00:17:16.120 bizarre you know it's happy

00:17:18.420 holidays but you're kind of

00:17:19.620 like gee what what is the

00:17:20.800 holiday you're you're

00:17:21.680 celebrating and by the way

00:17:22.980 look for my Jewish friends

00:17:25.060 when they're celebrating

00:17:25.760 Jewish holidays I am happy

00:17:28.260 to wish them the best

00:17:29.760 celebrating holidays that

00:17:31.160 that are important to their

00:17:32.680 faith but but but as a

00:17:34.140 Christian I celebrate

00:17:35.820 Christmas I celebrate

00:17:36.800 Easter and and and for

00:17:38.740 the left look that they're

00:17:41.500 antagonistic to faith across

00:17:42.960 the board but there is a

00:17:44.140 particular vitriol hatred

00:17:47.140 antagonism resentment all of

00:17:49.500 those are there to

00:17:50.760 Christianity in particular

00:17:52.060 which is why they literally

00:17:53.220 want to erase Christ from

00:17:54.500 Christmas it's apparently 0.59

00:17:55.500 about a fat guy in a sleigh and 0.64

00:17:57.800 they want to erase Christ from

00:17:59.760 Easter it's apparently about

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00:20:02.640 pivot to another shocking story

00:20:04.420 I say shocking tongue-in-cheek

00:20:08.000 there are tons of warnings and

00:20:10.940 data points and history that

00:20:14.160 back up that when you mandate

00:20:16.380 ridiculous wages it ends up

00:20:19.060 hurting the people that you claim 0.94

00:20:20.620 you're helping the most

00:20:21.900 specifically on big increases in

00:20:25.760 minimum wage now the federal

00:20:27.800 government has a minimum wage but

00:20:30.340 states have gone to another level

00:20:32.760 mandating higher wages fast

00:20:35.520 forward to California they have

00:20:37.760 the highest unemployment rate of

00:20:39.760 any state in America right now and

00:20:41.900 they've just gone and pushed their

00:20:43.880 $20 minimum wage when it comes to

00:20:46.940 fast food workers they did this and

00:20:50.100 guess what happened over 800 for

00:20:52.680 example pizza delivery drivers got

00:20:54.720 noticed that they were being laid

00:20:56.240 off and they deliver for Pizza Hut

00:20:58.820 because it is unsustainable to pay

00:21:01.580 $20 an hour to deliver pizzas and

00:21:05.380 yet Democrats are still cheering on

00:21:07.740 this insanity well it's a lot more

00:21:10.180 than that so so this new law goes

00:21:12.020 into effect today Monday and it is

00:21:14.560 $20 an hour for fast food workers at

00:21:18.680 chains with more than 60 locations in

00:21:20.920 the United States not in California in

00:21:24.060 the United States in the United States

00:21:25.640 and and by the way that that is a 25%

00:21:28.740 increase from from what from the old

00:21:31.380 minimum wage of $16 an hour in

00:21:33.280 California and the layoffs have been

00:21:37.100 massive and far-reaching so Pizza Hut

00:21:42.100 laid off more than 1,200 delivery

00:21:45.500 workers that that that was in Pizza Hut

00:21:49.360 round table pizza chain of about 400

00:21:51.960 locations said it will lay off 1,280

00:21:55.640 delivery workers Excalibur pizza one of

00:21:58.740 his franchisees has plans to cut 73

00:22:01.160 drivers workers 20% of its workforce and

00:22:04.420 by the way McDonald's Chipotle Jack in

00:22:06.620 the Box and other chains say what they're

00:22:08.640 going to do is raise the menu prices to

00:22:10.380 offset the costs by the way they're doing

00:22:14.220 more so California based El Pollo y

00:22:16.900 Loco has told investors it is automating

00:22:20.360 some of its salsa making to mitigate

00:22:22.880 minimum wage rises Jack in the Box is

00:22:26.480 testing fryer robots and automatic drink

00:22:29.200 dispensers and and understand none of

00:22:32.740 this is is surprising this this is to be to

00:22:37.300 be predicted in in California there are

00:22:40.820 roughly 557,000 fast food workers and

00:22:43.680 there are about 30,000 restaurants in

00:22:45.880 California this minimum wage increase is

00:22:48.760 going to drive some of those restaurants

00:22:50.080 out of business some of them will go

00:22:51.440 broke when they go broke all of their

00:22:54.200 employees will lose their jobs both the

00:22:56.160 minimum wage employees and the higher

00:22:57.700 ones the managers everyone will lose

00:22:59.120 their job when the restaurants go broke

00:23:01.160 the ones that don't go broke we are

00:23:03.460 seeing literally thousands upon thousands

00:23:05.900 of people being fired and by the way the

00:23:07.920 the pizza places what they're saying

00:23:10.000 they're going to do is they're going to

00:23:11.180 use DoorDash and Uber Eats they're just

00:23:14.040 going to use third-party apps and they're

00:23:15.460 they're firing all the drivers so and and

00:23:18.340 and it's interesting that there was a

00:23:20.500 quote there's an article in the Daily

00:23:21.680 Mail that quotes quotes one guy Michael

00:23:24.680 Ojeda 29 who's a Pizza Hut driver in

00:23:27.520 Ontario California and and and he said he

00:23:29.920 received a notice from his Pizza Hunt

00:23:33.260 franchisee in December informing him that

00:23:35.840 his last day would be in February and

00:23:37.920 here's his quote Pizza Hut was my

00:23:39.580 career for nearly a decade and with

00:23:42.540 little to no notice it was taken away

00:23:45.060 well there are consequences when you

00:23:48.240 elect radical Democrats and California

00:23:50.320 has done it across the board they have

00:23:52.180 every statewide elected officials a

00:23:53.640 Democrat they have super majorities in

00:23:55.180 both houses of the legislature and

00:23:57.420 understand over and over and over again

00:24:01.040 when you jack up the minimum wage this is

00:24:02.880 what happens and and and one of the

00:24:04.420 things I like to do when people say

00:24:05.660 well we want a $20 minimum wage that

00:24:07.540 helps people okay well if it helps

00:24:09.620 people why would you stop at 20 why

00:24:11.840 not $50 an hour why not a hundred why

00:24:13.760 not a thousand dollars an hour let's

00:24:15.920 pass a law that everyone must be paid

00:24:19.720 at least a thousand dollars an hour

00:24:21.260 wouldn't that magically mean that

00:24:22.700 money would rain into the hands of

00:24:24.020 everyone isn't that how it works Ben

00:24:25.840 apparently if you if you've never been

00:24:28.520 to school and you don't know how how

00:24:30.340 the economy our economy would work and

00:24:32.360 how inflation works and yet you have

00:24:35.740 warnings we've seen this time and time

00:24:37.620 again there are professors that will

00:24:39.180 come out and say when you increase

00:24:41.120 the minimum wage you think you're

00:24:42.760 helping people but in reality the cost

00:24:44.820 of basic food and milk and bread and

00:24:47.520 all these things go up so it actually

00:24:48.760 takes more money out of their pocket and

00:24:50.560 yet they still keep doing it and this on

00:24:52.760 top of the fact that they already had

00:24:55.560 the highest unemployment rate of any

00:24:58.740 state in America right now this is only

00:25:01.720 going to make it not just a little bit

00:25:03.240 worse a lot worse so let me tell you

00:25:05.460 Ben I spend a lot of time actually

00:25:07.640 talking to small business owners and

00:25:09.700 restauranteurs in particular I love

00:25:11.780 restauranteurs and and and I tell

00:25:14.480 whether it's Burger King franchises or

00:25:16.940 Mexican restaurants are also I meet up

00:25:19.160 with all sorts of restaurant owners both in

00:25:20.840 Texas and when they come to Washington

00:25:22.580 and one of the things explain it when

00:25:24.220 you say restaurant tour because I don't

00:25:25.880 think people understand exactly what

00:25:27.420 that means it's someone who owns a

00:25:28.820 restaurant someone who who owns a

00:25:31.320 restaurant and and sometimes they have

00:25:32.920 one restaurant sometimes they'll have a

00:25:35.480 dozen Jack in the boxes or a dozen

00:25:36.920 Burger Kings or or but but when I meet

00:25:40.620 with restaurant owners one of the things

00:25:43.040 I tell them all the time is I say

00:25:44.560 listen you may think you're in the food

00:25:48.120 business but I actually don't think

00:25:50.700 you're in the food business you're in

00:25:53.080 the opportunity business because for

00:25:57.200 millions and millions of Americans

00:25:59.280 their first job is in a restaurant and

00:26:03.020 one of the things I do all the time Ben

00:26:04.320 when I'm at a town hall I've got you

00:26:06.160 know three four hundred people in a room

00:26:07.680 I'll ask them how many people in this

00:26:09.840 room have ever worked at a restaurant

00:26:11.160 inevitably about half the hands in the

00:26:14.120 room go up now the argument lefties say

00:26:17.480 is well you know if you're making ten

00:26:20.600 bucks an hour flipping burgers you can't

00:26:23.560 feed a family of four on ten bucks an 0.96

00:26:25.640 hour and you know what they're right

00:26:26.500 it's actually very hard to feed a family

00:26:28.520 of four on ten bucks an hour here's the

00:26:30.940 problem most people are not feeding a

00:26:33.900 family of four flipping burgers what

00:26:36.600 happens and what restaurants are all

00:26:38.540 about is they're often the entry-level

00:26:41.520 jobs so you get a lot of teenagers you

00:26:43.320 get a lot of 16 17 18 19 year olds it's

00:26:46.720 their first job and and they learn skills

00:26:50.560 they learn to show up they learn to show

00:26:53.100 up on time that they learn to interact

00:26:55.800 with customers they learn to make change

00:26:57.740 they learn to work hard they learn to be

00:26:59.480 disciplined all of the skills that enable

00:27:03.180 them to get promoted so very few people

00:27:06.580 spend their entire career flipping burgers

00:27:10.640 at ten bucks an hour that's an entry-level

00:27:12.260 job and by the way if you do it and do a

00:27:14.400 good job you almost inevitably get promoted

00:27:16.320 so let me give a personal story from

00:27:19.000 from my family background when my dad

00:27:22.200 came from Cuba it was 1957 and and he

00:27:25.580 came to Texas he was 18 he had nothing

00:27:27.440 he was broke and he couldn't speak

00:27:30.900 English so the very first job he got was

00:27:34.120 washing dishes at a restaurant and he

00:27:36.600 made 50 cents an hour now why did he get

00:27:38.580 that job because he couldn't speak English

00:27:39.980 and a lot of jobs most jobs in Texas at the

00:27:43.580 time in 1957 you had to speak English you

00:27:46.200 didn't have to speak English to wash a

00:27:47.480 dish so that's what he could do with the

00:27:50.140 skill set he had at that time now I will

00:27:53.000 point out that by the time that that he

00:27:55.540 and my mom had me he wasn't making 50

00:27:57.440 cents an hour anymore but his first job

00:28:00.220 let him get started and by the way he was

00:28:01.640 a freshman at UT that money at the time he

00:28:05.020 paid his way through school but what

00:28:07.120 happened is very quickly thereafter he

00:28:10.740 started learning English and when he

00:28:13.000 learned English he got promoted his

00:28:15.800 second job was at the same restaurant

00:28:17.560 and it was as a cook and in the second

00:28:21.100 job he made 80 cents an hour now he

00:28:23.980 thought a cook was a much better job than 0.99

00:28:26.180 a dishwasher and it was and 80 cents an

00:28:28.180 hour was a lot better than 50 cents an

00:28:29.720 hour his next job after that was as a

00:28:33.640 teaching assistant at University of Texas

00:28:35.600 teaching undergrads math and his next

00:28:38.740 job after that was as a computer

00:28:40.440 programmer at IBM but he doesn't get

00:28:43.600 those subsequent jobs without that first

00:28:45.800 job washing dishes and and the left

00:28:49.200 doesn't get that when you do this the

00:28:51.460 people who are being laid off by the way

00:28:53.200 are predominantly low-skilled low-income

00:28:56.580 and very young the majority of people who

00:28:59.120 California just laid off the statistics

00:29:01.620 tell us are very likely to be Hispanic or

00:29:03.880 African-American to be teenagers with

00:29:06.320 with limited skills and this was their

00:29:08.540 first job where they were getting skills

00:29:10.500 and Democrats are pulling up the ladder

00:29:13.120 and saying you don't get to get skills

00:29:15.620 instead you should be unemployed but

00:29:17.640 guess what we got a welfare check for

00:29:19.540 you and you can just stop working right

00:29:21.100 now because we'll pay you as long as you

00:29:22.960 vote Democrat here's my question and it

00:29:26.080 comes back to California really full

00:29:28.480 circle you have all these people that

00:29:30.440 are laid off I wonder how many of them

00:29:33.080 will not vote for Democrats next time a

00:29:36.880 number one or two they just say okay it

00:29:40.720 is what it is and I'll get some free

00:29:42.560 cash for a little bit and then I'll find

00:29:44.080 another job or is there gonna be a

00:29:46.740 turning point do you think center where

00:29:48.880 it gets so bad with the absurdity of

00:29:52.240 $20 an hour 25 an hour whatever it is and

00:29:55.820 the incident sustainability of it that

00:29:58.480 there's no other way but for people's

00:30:00.360 eyes to be open I just don't have a lot

00:30:02.400 of confidence yeah look I don't know

00:30:04.500 and I suspect it will be some of both

00:30:06.380 so one of the things again that that a

00:30:10.460 lot of Democrats don't understand is

00:30:12.100 that in any business you have a trade-off

00:30:14.760 between labor and capital and so you

00:30:16.720 have a choice which one which one to

00:30:18.300 invest in so the example I use when my

00:30:20.840 dad was washing dishes making 50 cents

00:30:23.040 an hour thank God some well-meaning

00:30:25.840 liberal didn't come along and pass a two

00:30:28.880 dollar minimum wage law now they might

00:30:31.220 have said I want to help those poor

00:30:34.180 people making 50 cents an hour so I'm

00:30:36.360 gonna mandate you cannot pay anyone

00:30:38.040 less than two dollars an hour you know

00:30:39.500 what they would have done they would

00:30:41.280 have fired my father yeah and they

00:30:43.160 would have bought a dishwasher that that 0.98

00:30:45.420 you have a trade-off do you use labor or

00:30:48.640 do you use capital notice when I was

00:30:50.220 going through in California that they're

00:30:52.220 discussing stores that are that they're

00:30:54.400 looking at automated salsa makers that

00:30:56.680 are looking at robotic french fry fryers

00:30:59.120 that are looking at automated soft drink

00:31:01.540 dispensers have you ever been to a

00:31:03.360 restaurant and ordered an iPad or in a

00:31:05.060 kiosk yes and it's becoming more

00:31:07.560 regular now and you know what that is

00:31:09.620 this is this is actually ancient history

00:31:12.060 but I used to describe iPads and kiosks as

00:31:15.020 a $15 waitress which is what happened is 0.99

00:31:18.240 some well-meaning Democrats said you got

00:31:20.040 to pay people $15 an hour and you know

00:31:21.880 what the restaurant owner said I can't

00:31:24.200 stay in business the math doesn't work so

00:31:26.220 I'm gonna fire the waitress I'm gonna 0.99

00:31:27.580 fire the waiter and I'm gonna put a piece 0.99

00:31:29.780 of metal and you know what I have to pay 0.85

00:31:30.980 the piece of metal $0 an hour now I've

00:31:33.940 got some upfront capital but once I put

00:31:36.260 the iPad or the kiosk I don't have to

00:31:37.860 pay him an hourly wage and when you jack

00:31:40.500 up the cost of labor inevitably the result

00:31:45.360 is people lose their jobs and the people

00:31:48.300 who lose it understand who Democrats hurt

00:31:51.520 they hurt the most vulnerable by the way

00:31:54.660 the same thing is true when Democrats did

00:31:57.200 shutdowns during COVID when they shut

00:32:01.060 schools down the people who got hurt the

00:32:03.620 most were low-income kids they were

00:32:05.280 African-American kids they were Hispanic

00:32:06.960 kids the data show we have the biggest

00:32:09.500 learning gap since we have been recording

00:32:12.620 learning results and by the way the racial

00:32:15.920 gap grew more during the COVID lockdowns

00:32:18.520 than in any period in recorded history so

00:32:21.660 understand this is what Democrats do and

00:32:24.480 by the way if your parents were rich

00:32:26.100 guess what the school shutdowns they were

00:32:29.220 inconvenient but you could hire a tutor

00:32:31.040 you had resources your kids rich kids

00:32:34.320 didn't fall behind all that much during

00:32:37.380 the lockdowns low-income kids if they had

00:32:40.680 a single mom with three four kids for 1.00

00:32:43.620 millions of them they essentially didn't

00:32:47.700 go to school for months and months and

00:32:49.600 months on end and again this is what

00:32:52.840 Democrat policies systematically do they

00:32:56.260 hurt the most vulnerable while at the

00:32:58.680 same time they're sermonizing about how

00:33:01.220 they want to help the most vulnerable

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00:34:28.980 center I want to ask you about something

00:34:30.400 that happened this last week and and it

00:34:32.960 was a story that was I was even shocked

00:34:36.380 by it the former RNC chairwoman was hired 0.96

00:34:42.800 by NBC News to become a commentator slash

00:34:46.340 NBC News she was hired it came out and

00:34:51.080 what ended up happening was virtually

00:34:53.740 every name that was a host of a show a

00:34:57.960 big talent at NBC including meet the press

00:35:00.880 said we're not going to work with her she's 0.99

00:35:04.480 a radical Trump extremist January sixer

00:35:08.780 we're not going to work with her and they 1.00

00:35:11.160 they they literally ripped her on air in a 0.98

00:35:14.640 way that I didn't even think they would do

00:35:16.760 but they did it and here's a montage of

00:35:19.040 just how bad it was

00:35:20.260 be joined by former RNC chair Rhonda

00:35:22.740 McDaniel in her first interview since

00:35:24.740 stepping down as party chair in full

00:35:27.260 disclosure to our viewers this interview

00:35:29.460 was scheduled weeks before it was

00:35:31.100 announced that McDaniel had become a paid

00:35:33.060 NBC News contributor this will be a news

00:35:36.260 interview and I was not involved in her

00:35:38.880 hiring I think our bosses owe you an

00:35:40.900 apology for putting you in this situation

00:35:43.040 and look there's a reason why there's a

00:35:44.600 lot of journalists at NBC News

00:35:45.880 uncomfortable with this because many of

00:35:48.360 our professional dealings with the RNC

00:35:49.840 over the last six years have been met

00:35:51.800 with gaslighting have been met with

00:35:53.580 character assassination we weren't asked

00:35:55.440 our opinion of the hiring but if we were

00:35:57.200 we would have strongly objected to it

00:35:58.980 NBC News either wittingly or unwittingly is

00:36:01.580 teaching election deniers that what they

00:36:04.720 can do stretches well beyond appearing on

00:36:07.480 our air and interviews to peddle lies about

00:36:09.860 the sanctity and integrity of our elections

00:36:12.460 but that they can do that as one of us as

00:36:15.160 badge carrying employees of NBC News there

00:36:18.660 there is an easy way to avoid the controversy NBC News has stumbled into

00:36:27.160 don't hire anyone close to the crimes she literally backed an illegal scheme to steal an election in the state of Michigan that is the type of experience that Ronna McDaniel brings to the table and that experience does not get us to a deeper understanding of anything in the public debate I want to associate myself with all my colleagues both at MSNBC and at NBC News who have voiced loud and principled objections to our company putting on

00:36:57.160 payroll someone who has a payroll to our payroll someone who hasn't just attacked us as journalists but someone who is part of an ongoing project to get rid of our system of government

00:37:05.660 Senator that was clearly orchestrated by the talent they were not going to work with her and they were going to ruin her career before it even started

00:37:14.660 well look NBC News sadly is a joke MSNBC News it would be a joke if anyone watched it but it's just sort of a left wing

00:37:24.660 primal scream and and and and the utter hypocrisy

00:37:31.660 of everyone so so so much of this was started by Chuck Todd and Chuck Todd had this whole screed

00:37:38.840 this self-righteous holier-than-thou screed that he did on meet the press

00:37:42.700 now here's an interesting bit you may not not know do you know how Chuck Todd got his start

00:37:48.500 how was that as a staffer in 1992 for the presidential campaign of Senator Tom Harkin a

00:37:55.100 Democrat so Chuck Todd was a Democrat staffer on a presidential campaign mind you're not just in

00:38:01.460 passing but let's go back to Chuck Todd's predecessor Tim Russert Tim Russert the gold standard of meet the

00:38:09.320 press the gold standard of NBC News did you know what Tim Russert did before he went to NBC I'm going to

00:38:15.480 go out on a limb and say a Democratic staffer he worked for U.S. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan a

00:38:20.840 Democrat from New York he served as special counsel to Daniel Patrick Moynihan he served as chief of

00:38:27.060 staff to Daniel Patrick Moynihan and then in 1983 he became a top aide to New York Governor Mario Cuomo

00:38:34.080 also a Democrat so he he was a senior Democrat staffer over and over again for multiple Democrats

00:38:41.300 and then he went to NBC News let's fast forward George Stephanopoulos where did George Stephanopoulos

00:38:47.360 make his name as a senior press hack for the Clinton White House he was a political staffer his entire

00:38:53.580 life by the way he's the premier political commentator at ABC now and and and let's not forget Jen Psaki

00:39:00.660 happily ensconced at MSNBC she was of course Joe Biden's White House press secretary she stood up there

00:39:08.440 and spin baby spin baby spin and she got hired basically straight from the White House where she

00:39:13.840 continues to do the same job she is still as far as I'm concerned the White House press secretary she's

00:39:18.920 actually a much better press secretary than Corrine Jean-Pierre why because Corrine Jean-Pierre

00:39:24.580 is not very good at her job all she does is lie to Psaki's credit she actually rarely directly lied

00:39:31.700 she just pivoted she circled back she spun but she rarely made flat out demonstrably provable

00:39:39.080 falsehoods whereas Corrine Jean-Pierre seems to do so on an almost daily basis but the entirety of

00:39:46.220 that understand the position of NBC is essentially we cannot tolerate an actual Republican who works for

00:39:57.880 us and by the way there were a few folks who got online and they said no no that's not true that's

00:40:03.280 not true that's not true because Nicole Wallace is on MSNBC and she was a Republican staffer and Joe

00:40:08.940 Scarborough he was a Republican congressman well that's true they were in a prior life Republicans

00:40:16.940 but both Nicole Wallace and Joe Scarborough voted for Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden so the position of NBC

00:40:26.720 news is we cannot actually hire anybody who voted for Donald Trump as long as you vote for Democrats

00:40:32.900 you can have been a Republican long in your distant life but you must have abandoned half of the country

00:40:38.840 and decided their evil deplorables those are the only people we are willing to hire welcome to MSNBC 1.00

00:40:45.520 and NBC news as you described it and and again I I'm not a big person advocating or supporting like oh

00:40:51.760 sue somebody but I hope she gets a big payday the way they treat her and apparently she found out she 0.60

00:40:58.460 was fired through media reports not even from a phone call from NBC news I I hope that she gets a huge

00:41:05.840 payout from this she deserves every dime after watching her colleagues run her name through the 1.00

00:41:10.920 mud the way they did and treat her the way they did so and let me make an important point on this so

00:41:15.900 MSNBC has a niche as a hard left network that's why they have so few viewers but they're hard left 0.64

00:41:23.100 now let me ask you something why does NBC I mean and what NBC pretends to actually be a real

00:41:30.860 journalistic outfit why do they have a subsidiary that is just a hard left uh platform by the way they

00:41:39.000 all decry Fox News but MSNBC is hard left unapologetically so and by the way you know

00:41:46.060 what the MS stands for Microsoft what why exactly is Microsoft funding hard left propaganda why is NBC

00:41:54.040 why are they okay with a network that has an explicit ideological agenda and one of the points to

00:42:01.540 understand it was NBC news that that hired Ronna McDaniel and and and I'm going to make the case

00:42:10.120 to you there is no difference between MSNBC and NBC they are one in the same NBC no longer pretends

00:42:18.560 to be journalists they are advocates they are in MSNBC they are the left wing of the Democrat party

00:42:24.700 there's a reason by the way in in the last presidential cycle they were thrown out of moderating because

00:42:29.500 they're so hardcore and partisan now I guess somebody in their corporate leadership decided

00:42:35.920 they wanted to at least have a nod of have somebody on the staff who had voted with half of the country

00:42:43.800 but but let me ask you Ben so so you actually have been a a paid conservative at a left-wing network at

00:42:51.960 CNN you were paid for a number of years what was that like then and and give us your perspectives from

00:42:57.540 having been in Ronna's shoes although at a different time it's funny that you asked this because I was

00:43:03.740 doing outnumbered hosting outnumbered on I think it was Wednesday when this story broke and they came to

00:43:08.660 me like look you've got an interesting perspective I said yeah I was hired the the for or my my contract

00:43:15.320 was extended when I was at CNN I was there a total of seven years but the last year was just and this is

00:43:22.700 how much it even changed at CNN they used to want when they when when Jeff Zucker took over a grand

00:43:28.400 debate they wanted conservatives to have people that would they thought were well representing them

00:43:32.800 so that conservatives wouldn't you know basically immediately skip over the channel once Donald Trump

00:43:38.560 won in 16 the wheels came off at CNN they hated him they hated and they yelled and screamed and try to 0.96

00:43:46.400 turn you into bigot racist homophobe xenophobe everything they could uh and try to ruin your career 0.92

00:43:51.400 when you were on because they couldn't yell at Trump but they could yell at you and you were 0.98

00:43:54.260 supporting Trump or defending Trump but in the last year that I was there they hired me just to have

00:44:00.540 my name on a piece of paper as they get out of free jail card when someone said you guys have no

00:44:05.080 conservatives and they would say no no no no no look over here we have Ben Ferguson in my last year

00:44:10.500 I did two appearances on CNN now that's absurd from a financial standpoint if you were a financial person

00:44:19.080 why would you hire a guy give him a salary and only have him come to work two days out of 365 days in a year

00:44:23.900 one of those two appearances was after the Hollywood reporter did a story about me being benched

00:44:31.680 and then they put me on the next day on a Saturday for four minutes just to say no see he's not benched

00:44:38.420 we just used him today and then never used me again and and with Rana McDowell I have to say with her

00:44:45.120 I I think that's part of what they wanted they wanted to go into this election cycle saying no no

00:44:50.840 we've got a token concern this lady just ran the the RNC we see we're not biased we've got her on 0.96

00:44:57.860 the air by the way and I'll tell you Jen Psaki so as verdict listeners know my latest book Unwoke How to

00:45:06.360 Defeat Cultural Marxism in America when it came out I did a ton of radio interviews we actually called an

00:45:11.680 offer to go on Jen Psaki's show she said no no we don't want you we we don't that they're and by

00:45:17.720 the way the view also turned me down so the last two books I did previously I went on the view for

00:45:22.260 both of them and and uh look I and by the way the ratings were huge when the ratings were massive and

00:45:29.440 and and I don't think it is an overstatement to say it did not go well for the host because they

00:45:35.360 didn't know what they were talking about and I pointed out they didn't know what they were talking

00:45:38.480 about um look with with Whoopi Goldberg when I went on um for my book Justice Corrupted how the

00:45:47.960 how the left has weaponized the legal system I went on and and all the hosts of the view begin screaming

00:45:52.980 at me and they're like you know you Republicans are all election deniers election deniers and and

00:45:59.540 they're used to everyone who agrees with them so they think that that's just like a kill shot

00:46:03.120 and I said oh you you you mean like when when Hillary Clinton insisted that she won and that

00:46:08.720 Donald Trump's election was illegitimate she said she didn't say that so I had the quote and I read

00:46:12.760 it out loud or I said do you mean when when Al Gore said that George W Bush was illegitimately elected

00:46:18.960 and the election was stolen from him or do you mean like when Stacey Abrams said that she was the

00:46:24.240 governor of Georgia and that it was illegitimate or do you mean like when Joe Biden said George W Bush

00:46:30.680 was illegitimate elected I just read quote after quote after quote they'd never heard any of them

00:46:34.540 by the way a week later they had Chelsea Clinton on to say my mother never said that quote that she's

00:46:39.180 on tv saying um and that I read verbatim but then the next exchange with Whoopi was really interesting

00:46:45.280 because after saying election denier which is their sort of first response then she said and you guys

00:46:50.940 are all a bunch of angry rioting criminals and to which I laughed and said oh really you you mean

00:46:59.560 what about the entire year of Black Lives Matter and Antifa riots that burned American cities across 0.91

00:47:07.200 this country for a year and Whoopi looks at me completely confused and she says I don't know

00:47:14.940 what an Antifa riot is I have no idea what that is and and and it was they're in such an echo chamber

00:47:21.960 they will only talk to people who agree to them and sadly there are a couple of million mostly women 0.99

00:47:29.080 watching The View who are just listening to partisan propaganda and in their world there are no Antifa

00:47:36.500 riots that doesn't exist and and by the way for the last book Unwoke The View said nope we don't want

00:47:42.760 you on that didn't go well for us at all and Jen Psaki who I've never been on her show you would think 0.99

00:47:48.060 she might be interested and by the way I'm perfectly happy to her to come attack me and scream and be a 0.97

00:47:52.440 crazy nut if she wanted to I mean I was not expecting a love fest but their view was sorry no we don't

00:47:58.980 want you on it all we have one view and we will never ever ever have anything to the contrary that

00:48:04.800 is MSNBC and apparently that's NBC too yeah great point don't forget we do this show Monday Wednesday

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