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00:00:05.420 Senator, nice to be with you.

00:00:06.900 Happy Fourth of July for everyone that's watching a day afterwards.

00:00:11.020 And there were some really big victories in the Supreme Court.

00:00:14.360 I think we should take a moment to celebrate it.

00:00:17.020 Also to tell people what is in these victories and what it means for precedents moving forward.

00:00:22.020 And then there's politics dealing with this as well.

00:00:24.300 We'll deal with that in a moment with Democrats really trying to undermine the court. 0.84

00:00:27.120 But I go back to a saying that is said so many times by conservatives when they're running for office.

00:00:33.420 Elections have consequences.

00:00:35.880 And we have had some elections that have made a solid conservative Supreme Court.

00:00:40.100 And now we're reaping the benefits of that.

00:00:43.200 Well, let me say happy birthday to the United States of America.

00:00:46.120 July 4th, we celebrated our incredible nation.

00:00:49.900 We celebrated our freedom.

00:00:52.940 We celebrated the founding of this nation.

00:00:55.480 We celebrated the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

00:00:59.440 We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal.

00:01:03.640 That they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights.

00:01:06.760 That among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

00:01:09.640 Those were extraordinary words.

00:01:11.440 And I got to say those words were vindicated.

00:01:14.040 Last week we had some blockbuster Supreme Court decisions.

00:01:17.780 We discussed several of them in an earlier pod last week.

00:01:21.620 We're going to discuss two more today.

00:01:23.640 Two big, big decisions.

00:01:25.620 The student loan decisions and the free speech, religious liberty decision coming out of Colorado.

00:01:32.160 Let's start with student loans.

00:01:33.900 In Biden versus Nebraska, the Supreme Court, by a vote of 6-3, struck down Joe Biden's blatantly illegal attempt to forgive student loans.

00:01:45.760 It was an attempt right before the last election to buy a whole lot of votes.

00:01:50.480 Joe Biden knew that it was lawless.

00:01:52.660 He knew that he had no legal authority to do it.

00:01:55.180 He knew that his lawyers almost certainly advised him this is contrary to federal statute.

00:02:02.160 And he made the decision, screw it.

00:02:04.280 I'm going to do it anyway.

00:02:05.780 Buying votes.

00:02:06.520 Because we got an election coming up and we're going to buy votes.

00:02:09.580 I'm going to tell people they're going to get their loans forgiven, even though, and I would wager dollar to donuts.

00:02:15.600 His lawyers told him we're going to get sued.

00:02:17.620 We're going to go to court.

00:02:18.700 We're going to lose.

00:02:20.020 And I do want to point out as we talk about this, when Biden issued this illegal student loan forgiveness plan, the next podcast we did,

00:02:29.980 we did a deep analysis on the law and why it was illegal then that walks through the law and makes clear then what the Supreme Court has now ruled now,

00:02:42.980 which is that we are a nation of laws and the president cannot act contrary to federal law.

00:02:49.180 Now, the amazing thing is, you know who used to know that?

00:02:53.560 A lot of liberals.

00:02:54.820 One of them that I know that you don't usually agree with, Nancy Pelosi.

00:02:58.620 You know, I don't know that we've ever teed up Nancy Pelosi in a positive sense, but here is Nancy Pelosi doing something you've never seen or heard before, speaking the truth.

00:03:09.780 People think that the president of the United States has the power for debt forgiveness.

00:03:15.880 He does not.

00:03:17.000 He can postpone.

00:03:18.440 He can delay.

00:03:20.340 But he does not have that power.

00:03:22.200 That has to be an act of Congress.

00:03:25.480 And I don't even like to call it forgiveness because that implies a transgression.

00:03:34.380 It's not to be forgiven.

00:03:35.720 It's just freeing people from those obligations.

00:03:39.920 So the question of who gets forgiven, to use the term of art that is out there, is a debate.

00:03:51.200 Do we use whatever money there is for the broadest base of support of those with more people with even less debt or fewer people with more debt?

00:04:03.660 That's a policy discussion.

00:04:06.480 But the difference between the president doing – the president can't do it.

00:04:10.260 So that's not even a discussion.

00:04:12.400 Not everybody realizes that.

00:04:14.960 But the president can only postpone, delay, but not forgive.

00:04:18.840 I've never enjoyed listening to Nancy Pelosi more in my entire life than that clip right there.

00:04:23.780 It truly is shocking.

00:04:25.220 Every word she said was true.

00:04:26.600 Yeah.

00:04:26.740 And she said that beforehand.

00:04:28.340 It was obvious.

00:04:29.020 Look, everyone knew this, that you couldn't just – that the president's not a king, that he doesn't get to wave a scepter and forgive massive amounts of student loans.

00:04:39.520 And look, there are policy issues and there are legal issues.

00:04:44.380 On the policy issues, what Joe Biden and the Democrats did is they purported to forgive $10,000 or in some cases $20,000 of student loans from individuals making $125,000 or less or from couples making $250,000 or less.

00:05:00.620 They did it because they thought, OK, a bunch of young people, we can buy their votes.

00:05:03.960 We can get them to go vote Democrat.

00:05:05.160 And this was designed to be a massive wealth transfer.

00:05:11.240 And so who were they hurting?

00:05:13.120 They were hurting every person in this country that didn't get a college degree.

00:05:16.260 Yeah.

00:05:16.480 They were hurting truck drivers.

00:05:18.140 They were hurting steel workers.

00:05:20.040 They were hurting blue-collar workers.

00:05:21.780 They were hurting union members.

00:05:24.100 They were hurting also everyone who did get a college degree who actually saved up and paid for their college degree.

00:05:33.420 They were hurting everyone who did what I did, took loans.

00:05:37.520 Look, look, when I went to college.

00:05:38.740 I did too.

00:05:39.000 A lot of them.

00:05:39.760 When I went to college, when I went to grad school, my parents had just declared bankruptcy.

00:05:45.480 They were in the oil and gas business.

00:05:46.980 They had a small business.

00:05:48.040 It was the mid-'80s.

00:05:49.340 Oil cratered.

00:05:50.240 And we lost everything.

00:05:51.420 We lost our business.

00:05:52.480 We lost our home.

00:05:53.780 They were in bankruptcy.

00:05:54.840 So I showed up in college, and they had no money at all.

00:05:58.820 I was 17 and was on my own financially.

00:06:02.160 And so I took a ton of student loans in college and in law school.

00:06:08.220 I came out of grad school with about $100,000 in student loans.

00:06:12.160 And this was back, I mean, in today's dollars, that's a lot more.

00:06:15.260 That's a lot.

00:06:15.760 This is 20-plus years ago.

00:06:18.240 A significant amount of cash.

00:06:19.480 It was 1995.

00:06:21.300 I owed over $100,000, so that almost 30 years ago.

00:06:24.860 And, you know, I joke that I had a mortgage.

00:06:26.740 I just didn't have a house.

00:06:27.780 Yeah.

00:06:28.220 And I paid off those student loans for almost two decades.

00:06:33.800 I paid them all off eventually, but I made payments every month, every month.

00:06:36.880 And when I had a job, I sent a check, and I sent a check, and I sent a check.

00:06:40.120 And that's the way you're doing it.

00:06:41.260 Well, you know what the Democrats said? 0.99

00:06:43.320 You know, you and I are chumps. 1.00

00:06:44.660 If you paid off your student loan, you're a fool. 1.00

00:06:46.740 The responsible ones, nope. 0.98

00:06:48.060 What they want to do, and it's a reverse Robin Hood, they're literally taking it from

00:06:54.980 guys out digging ditches.

00:06:56.700 They're taking their money, and they're giving it to young lawyers and young doctors and young

00:07:01.860 university professors.

00:07:03.520 And really, that's who the Democrat Party is, which is the party of the wealthy intelligentsia.

00:07:09.780 And today, the Republican Party is a blue-collar party.

00:07:13.880 It's the party of working men and women.

00:07:15.960 It's also a party of responsibility.

00:07:18.060 Like, you know, there's a funny meme online, which is, you know, solving the student debt

00:07:22.100 crisis.

00:07:23.640 You borrowed it.

00:07:24.820 You took a loan.

00:07:26.620 Solution.

00:07:27.740 Pay it back.

00:07:28.860 Yeah.

00:07:29.440 That was my solution.

00:07:30.740 Yeah.

00:07:31.100 And it, look, it wasn't fun to spend almost 20 years paying it back, but I took the loan.

00:07:36.660 I owed the money.

00:07:37.960 And by the way, I also took the loan to get a degree.

00:07:42.560 So you can make money.

00:07:43.460 That enabled me to get a good job, to make the money, to pay it back.

00:07:48.780 This is an issue where, on politics, the Democrats have a confluence of, number one, sort of young,

00:07:56.860 unemployed, slacker-smoking bongs. 0.97

00:08:01.080 That's who they're appealing to.

00:08:02.840 These are the same people who, during COVID, they wanted to pay not to work.

00:08:06.740 Well, you know, if you're not working, it's hard to pay your student loans.

00:08:09.580 And suddenly, Democrats have told a bunch of 23-year-olds, you don't got to work, man.

00:08:14.060 That'd be mean to make you work. 0.67

00:08:16.120 Yeah.

00:08:16.360 Or you don't have to pay off your loans for years now.

00:08:18.500 Right.

00:08:18.600 Like, that, but there's a second group, which is the constituencies, which is the universities.

00:08:24.200 And the universities have become entrenched pits of Marxism.

00:08:29.620 But ironically, they're Marxists who like to make the money, which is actually not that ironic.

00:08:34.060 If you look at whether it's Putin, whether it's Fidel Castro, whether it's Xi.

00:08:38.640 They like to live big.

00:08:39.600 Marxists live like billionaires.

00:08:41.100 They're actually very good at using power for them to live well.

00:08:44.540 So the universities are printing money, but they're-

00:08:49.780 With huge endowments that people don't talk about either.

00:08:51.640 Multi, multi-billion dollar endowments.

00:08:53.980 The professors live like kings.

00:08:56.540 And they can't get fired.

00:08:57.880 They have life tenure.

00:08:59.060 And they convince young people, hey, take $100,000 or $200,000 in student loans to get a major in underwater basket weaving.

00:09:08.380 Or in, you know, transgender literature analysis.

00:09:15.860 And then they find, wait, I got a degree that no one wants to hire?

00:09:20.940 Yeah.

00:09:21.560 Like, there is, it used to be when you went to school and you're taking loans and you said, okay, I got to pay these loans back.

00:09:27.680 You stopped and said, okay, at the end of this, I'd like to be able to get a job.

00:09:31.800 And so the Democrats are taking care of two constituencies, young people who they've convinced it's a good idea not to work and they don't have to pay their debts.

00:09:40.460 And universities who are scamming young people, not teaching them life skills to get good jobs, but instead indoctrinating them with woke nonsense, which happens not to pay the bills at the end of the day.

00:09:53.540 And here's what they're gambling.

00:09:56.920 They're gambling that the truck drivers and steel workers will never know the difference, that the union workers won't understand they're getting sold a bill of goods.

00:10:07.300 I'll tell you, there's one fellow understood, a fellow who came up and talked to Elizabeth Warren.

00:10:12.600 So watch this exchange in 2020 on the campaign trail when she was offering the same sort of giveaway that Joe Biden tried to do.

00:10:21.460 I just want to ask one question.

00:10:23.540 My daughter's getting out of school, I've saved all my money, she doesn't have any student loans.

00:10:27.040 Am I going to get my money back?

00:10:29.300 Of course not. 0.66

00:10:30.180 So you're going to pay for people who didn't save any money, and those of us that did the right thing get screwed.

00:10:36.260 No, it's not even.

00:10:37.600 Of course we did.

00:10:38.580 My buddy had fun, bought a car, went on vacations, I saved my money.

00:10:42.480 He made more than I did.

00:10:44.040 But I worked a double shift, worked extra, my daughter works, she was 10.

00:10:48.060 So you're laughing.

00:10:49.640 Yeah, that's exactly what you're doing. 0.93

00:10:51.260 We did the right thing and we get screwed. 0.74

00:10:53.120 I appreciate it. 0.79

00:10:54.000 That's all right.

00:10:56.120 There's a lot of people that feel like him.

00:10:58.260 I remember the first check I ever got, I wrote a book right out of college.

00:11:03.260 And I got that advance check and I paid off a large chunk of my student loans.

00:11:08.000 I didn't want to.

00:11:09.000 I wanted to go buy something fun like he was talking about his buddy, a new car.

00:11:12.020 And I said, no, I'm going to be responsible.

00:11:13.860 I don't want to have debt.

00:11:15.160 There are people that work two jobs and three jobs out of school to pay off those student loans.

00:11:20.540 And he's right, what he was saying here.

00:11:22.440 But by the way, notice her response.

00:11:24.680 Her first response, she laughs at him.

00:11:26.960 Yeah.

00:11:27.100 And then she's like, thank you, and just walks off.

00:11:30.360 She doesn't answer his question. 0.98

00:11:32.060 He says, I got screwed. 0.70

00:11:33.440 My buddy, he went out, bought a new car, lived it out. 0.98

00:11:35.940 He partied.

00:11:36.060 And she has no substantive response.

00:11:40.140 That is the modern Democrat response. 0.93

00:11:41.760 They don't give a damn. 0.91

00:11:42.540 They don't actually engage in debate with you. 0.94

00:11:44.780 They don't actually have a discussion.

00:11:46.520 They're like, you don't matter.

00:11:49.400 I don't care about you because they're gambling that other people like him won't realize they're 0.97

00:11:56.740 getting screwed. 0.81

00:11:57.760 And, you know, the magnitude of it. 0.95

00:11:58.860 So, look, the legal argument that Joe Biden put forward to how he claimed he had the authority

00:12:04.380 to do that is something called the HEROES Act.

00:12:07.480 So, the HEROES Act was a bill that Congress passed following 9-11.

00:12:12.860 So, September 11th, the global war on terror begins.

00:12:17.820 Planes fly into the World Trade Center, fly into the Pentagon.

00:12:20.920 Congress passed the HEROES Act, which gives the Secretary of Education the authority to,

00:12:24.920 quote, waiver modify any statutory regulatory provision applicable to the student financial

00:12:29.860 assistance programs under Title IV of the Education Act as the Secretary deems necessary

00:12:36.280 in connection with a war or other military operation or national emergency.

00:12:45.540 In other words, the HEROES Act was designed to, there are a bunch of soldiers and sailors

00:12:49.440 and airmen and Marines that were off in Afghanistan, off fighting to defend America.

00:12:54.060 And it was to say, we can give some debt relief to those young fighting men and women that

00:12:58.620 are keeping us safe.

00:13:00.620 And what Joe Biden said is, well, now everybody, we're all soldiers now.

00:13:04.400 Yeah.

00:13:04.880 And they hinged it all on national emergency.

00:13:07.320 They said, well, OK, COVID is a national emergency.

00:13:09.860 So, therefore, we'll stop all the payments.

00:13:12.200 And then we'll just forgive it.

00:13:13.640 And by the way, the magnitude of how much we're talking about, the initial estimates were

00:13:19.380 $500 billion.

00:13:20.400 There were later estimates that this was over a trillion dollars.

00:13:23.780 You could never get a firm estimate on how much it cost.

00:13:27.700 And the argument of the Democrats was with a stroke of the pen, Joe Biden could give away

00:13:33.200 a trillion dollars because he wants to.

00:13:36.300 Or to buy votes in translation.

00:13:37.900 And one of the fundamental protections of the Constitution is that Congress has the power

00:13:45.420 of the purse.

00:13:45.980 In other words, if you're going to spend money, the elected representatives in Congress have

00:13:52.240 to sign off on it.

00:13:53.660 This was an assault fundamentally on the limitations of the power of the president and the requirement

00:14:00.660 that it be Congress that appropriates money.

00:14:03.360 And yet here's Joe Biden reacting with disdain at anyone who would hold him to account.

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00:15:29.660 Senator, let's take a look at, this is Joe Biden, in his own words, getting very upset

00:15:34.300 that people are questioning his motive or was he just straight up lying to the American

00:15:38.360 people?

00:15:39.500 Mr. President, why did you give millions of borrowers false hope?

00:15:42.760 You've dated, doubted your own authority here in the past.

00:15:45.700 I didn't give any false hope.

00:15:47.220 The question was whether or not I would do even more than was requested.

00:15:52.860 What I did, I thought, was appropriate and was able to be done and would get done.

00:15:57.400 I didn't give borrowers false hope, but the Republicans snatched away the hope that they

00:16:02.720 were given, and it's real.

00:16:04.300 There was no hope ever from Republicans this would ever pass, number one.

00:16:09.200 And two, I really could say this, one hell of a question from a reporter finally about

00:16:14.520 him lying to the American people on purpose.

00:16:16.480 Yeah, look, he knew he was lying.

00:16:19.000 His team knew he was lying.

00:16:20.740 The media knew he was lying.

00:16:22.620 Everyone knew that giving away a trillion dollars to every student borrower in America

00:16:28.620 was not falling under the HEROES Act for times of war, taking care of soldiers and sailors.

00:16:35.100 Like, it was a ludicrous interpretation.

00:16:39.300 His own Department of Justice had told him that, and then he had them flip their decision

00:16:43.280 and wrote a very creative opinion to justify the lawlessness.

00:16:46.840 And you know what?

00:16:47.380 It was great political lawyering.

00:16:49.280 In other words, it was putting politics ahead of law.

00:16:52.420 It was obvious.

00:16:53.940 On this podcast, more than a year ago, I said this will be struck down, and it will be struck

00:16:59.760 down 6-3.

00:17:00.540 And the only challenge, I said, was standing.

00:17:03.100 In other words, they were gambling that it was going to be hard to find a plaintiff who

00:17:08.820 could challenge it.

00:17:09.700 That was their one hope, is the court couldn't get to the merits.

00:17:12.940 I said, if it gets to the merits, it's a 6-3, easy decision.

00:17:16.900 As it so happened, there were two lawsuits.

00:17:19.080 One of them, the Supreme Court threw out and said, you didn't have standing.

00:17:21.880 But the other one, the Nebraska case, they concluded they did have standing.

00:17:26.320 And on the merits, it was exactly what I said.

00:17:30.320 Actually, Chief Justice Roberts, who wrote the majority opinion, quoted Nancy Pelosi with

00:17:34.260 what we just played and said, look, everyone knew you couldn't do this.

00:17:38.560 And this was a political decision to ignore the law.

00:17:44.380 And, you know, it's interesting.

00:17:47.080 Biden gets so angry when he's challenged.

00:17:50.120 Because it rarely happens.

00:17:51.540 It so rarely happens.

00:17:53.880 But his anger is just palpable at it.

00:17:59.220 And it's, and by the way, we forced a vote in Congress to rescind this legislatively.

00:18:07.240 And the Democrats in a party line vote, they've decided blue collar voters don't matter to them. 0.98

00:18:13.360 They think, the Democrats think blue collar voters are too dumb 0.99

00:18:16.940 to know they're getting screwed here. 0.99

00:18:19.500 That this is, this is the Democrat Party selling out steel workers 0.98

00:18:26.860 in order to buy favor with gender studies majors. 1.00

00:18:33.200 We've seen big victories in the Supreme Court recently, like we've never seen before,

00:18:37.080 at least in my lifetime.

00:18:38.220 And consistently, there's, there's something that's happening here that I think is encouraging

00:18:42.580 because we're seeing the rule of law being applied, and they're not getting away with

00:18:47.360 these radical ideas.

00:18:48.720 There's also, though, something that's happening that concerns me, and I think many people that

00:18:53.540 listen to this podcast and watch, and that is the delegitimizing and the undermining of

00:18:58.600 the Supreme Court.

00:18:59.780 And what Democrats are trying to do, and it's happened, we saw this with Roe v. Wade, we've

00:19:03.660 gone into great detail on that, the threats and the pressure, the leaking of that opinion,

00:19:08.280 and doxing the Supreme Court justice where they live, putting their lives in danger.

00:19:13.340 In other words, Democrats saying, if you don't give us what we want, we're going to burn the

00:19:17.420 whole place down, we're going to, we're going to pack the court, we're going to redo it the

00:19:21.060 way we want it.

00:19:21.980 Hell, we even say term limits.

00:19:23.720 In fact, you can see the media, when they all got together in this montage, doing exactly

00:19:29.140 that, when they didn't get their way on one issue.

00:19:31.480 Not ever!

00:19:32.520 Not ever!

00:19:33.920 Never!

00:19:34.360 And honestly, at this point, I think we're all right to question the legitimacy of the

00:19:38.340 court.

00:19:38.620 It read like an anti-abortion activist wrote it, not a Supreme Court justice.

00:19:42.860 These justices are acting like this is somehow something that they have the right to change.

00:19:49.120 They do not have the right to change this.

00:19:51.620 And this Supreme Court has said, they don't care.

00:19:54.440 They don't care about those women. 1.00

00:19:55.680 What they care about is imposing their extremist view on the rest of the country.

00:20:00.020 The Supreme Court is poised to inflict the greatest restriction of rights in the past

00:20:05.340 50 years.

00:20:06.240 The decision would be an abomination.

00:20:09.500 An abomination.

00:20:10.620 That's just on Roe v. Wade.

00:20:13.060 But they are now pushing this every time they don't get their way, hey, we're going to

00:20:17.080 delegitimize this court.

00:20:18.860 We're going to say that they're wrong.

00:20:20.400 We saw Joe Biden say this court's not a normal court or something to that effect when he

00:20:24.840 was walking out.

00:20:25.440 He took that last question.

00:20:26.480 He was walking out of the room at the White House.

00:20:27.500 And that concerns me.

00:20:29.380 And the Supreme Court does at least seem to be fighting back a little bit.

00:20:33.620 The radical left has corrupted every major institution of government.

00:20:37.600 We've seen under Joe Biden, we've seen the hard left, the cultural Marxists take over.

00:20:45.400 We've seen them politicize and weaponize the Department of Justice, politicize and weaponize

00:20:50.380 the FBI, politicize and weaponize the IRS, politicize and weaponize the intelligence community.

00:20:57.500 As you know, my last book, Justice Corrupted, the entire book is on the left, seizing law

00:21:03.140 enforcement and turning it into a political weapon to attack their opponents.

00:21:08.700 We've also seen them do that in Congress.

00:21:11.120 The absolute abuse of power we've seen from congressional Democrats in the Senate and in

00:21:16.920 the House last year.

00:21:18.000 The radical agenda they rammed through, the strict party line vote.

00:21:21.940 There used to be such a thing as moderate Democrats in the Senate and the House.

00:21:26.440 They don't exist anymore.

00:21:27.540 They have been driven out because the Democrats hate Trump so much that they've embraced.

00:21:33.080 Look, Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders and AOC.

00:21:37.080 Yeah.

00:21:37.320 That is the heart of today's Democrat Party.

00:21:40.360 They're all socialists.

00:21:42.140 Now, the one institution the Democrats have not managed to corrupt is the Supreme Court.

00:21:47.800 So they've corrupted from within the executive branch, both the presidency, but also the cabinet

00:21:54.960 members, but also the career bureaucrats up and down the agencies.

00:21:59.540 They've corrupted Congress, the Senate and the House.

00:22:03.020 They've corrupted the media.

00:22:05.840 They've corrupted big tech.

00:22:07.820 And the one outlier is the third branch of government, the judiciary, that, thank God,

00:22:13.300 there are justices there who are actually following the law.

00:22:16.260 And the fury they have.

00:22:18.460 Look, this student loan decision, a few years ago, Nancy Pelosi said it was obvious.

00:22:24.660 Any lawyer who tells you, like, is actually speaking the truth, who isn't a wild partisan,

00:22:29.620 would say this should have been 9-0.

00:22:30.940 This is obvious, that you can't give away a trillion dollars under a statute meant to

00:22:35.800 help soldiers at a time of war.

00:22:38.740 You don't get to call everyone a soldier and just give away a trillion dollars.

00:22:42.200 That if you want to do that, if you think it's a good policy to give away a trillion dollars,

00:22:46.420 you actually have to pass legislation through the House, through the Senate, and get it signed

00:22:51.860 by the president.

00:22:53.400 That's how you pass legislation.

00:22:55.140 Everyone knows that.

00:22:55.940 But today's left-wing Democrats, they want the result and the hell with what the law is.

00:23:04.680 And so their intention, they are systematically trying to delegitimize the court, trying to

00:23:10.520 attack the court.

00:23:11.880 Well, look, listen to this one left-wing congressman talk about his plans for the court.

00:23:16.340 A lot of lawmakers are calling for an expansion of the Supreme Court.

00:23:20.420 Do you think the president should do that?

00:23:23.800 Yes.

00:23:24.660 Expand the Supreme Court.

00:23:26.400 We need Supreme Court ethics reform.

00:23:28.640 And we need term limits. 0.88

00:23:30.120 That's a completely different setup of the Supreme Court.

00:23:34.480 So we don't get our way.

00:23:35.540 We want term limits. 0.96

00:23:36.800 I'm not sure why he's saying they want ethics reform.

00:23:39.460 Is that so they can blackmail them?

00:23:40.620 No, no, no.

00:23:41.180 Ethics reform.

00:23:42.320 Look, we've seen the entire assault directed at Clarence Thomas from ProPublica, funded

00:23:47.900 by dark money left-wing outfits.

00:23:50.120 And we did a show on that.

00:23:51.300 Raising bogus ethics complaints.

00:23:53.520 We did a whole show on that, pointing out that the rules they're applying to Clarence Thomas,

00:23:57.860 he followed the rules.

00:23:59.500 His conduct is the same as the left-wing justices, is the same as Steve Breyer, as Ruth Bader Ginsburg,

00:24:05.520 as Sonia Sotomayor, as Elena Kagan, but the Democrats in the media are applying a completely

00:24:12.440 double standard.

00:24:13.240 They're faulting him for following the rules, and they're not looking at all on the conduct

00:24:18.720 of the justices on the left.

00:24:20.880 That's the, quote, ethics reform is part of the Democrats' assault on the court to delegitimize it.

00:24:27.080 Term limits and packing the court.

00:24:29.120 Look, FDR, when he was trying to ram through the New Deal, wanted to pack the court, wanted

00:24:34.520 to grow, and packing the court has a meaning.

00:24:38.660 Yeah.

00:24:39.260 It means expanding the number of justices in the court so you can ram additional justices

00:24:43.440 on there to control the outcome.

00:24:45.440 In this case, what the Democrats want to do is grow the Supreme Court from nine justices

00:24:50.440 to 13 justices so they can immediately appoint four left-wing justices to undermine the Constitution

00:24:59.640 across the board.

00:25:00.480 It is profoundly dangerous.

00:25:01.780 By the way, leftists, as is their want, abuse the language.

00:25:06.520 They accuse Republicans of packing the court.

00:25:10.120 And here's a pro tip.

00:25:11.860 Everything the left is doing, they accuse the other side of doing.

00:25:15.400 It's almost whatever the accusation is, you can be like, oh, that's what you're doing.

00:25:19.120 Yeah.

00:25:19.180 So, it is not packing the court to fill a vacancy with justices.

00:25:27.520 It is true that Republican presidents have been elected, Republican senators have been

00:25:33.360 elected, those Republican presidents have nominated constitutionalist justices, and those Republican

00:25:39.680 senators have confirmed constitutionalist justices.

00:25:42.320 That is not, quote, packing the court.

00:25:44.460 That's winning elections.

00:25:45.540 That's the ordinary operation of our constitutional system for nominating and confirming justices.

00:25:51.320 What is packing the court is altering the number of justices in order to just ram your partisans

00:25:57.660 on board.

00:25:58.160 That's what the Democrats want to do, and it's profoundly dangerous.

00:26:01.220 We're going to keep watching this because it's going to be very important, but at least we're

00:26:03.920 getting these victories.

00:26:04.560 And I also think there's one other encouraging aspect of this.

00:26:07.980 The Supreme Court justices seem to be becoming much more outspoken on this and not taking

00:26:13.460 as much crap from the media and Democrats.

00:26:15.340 Well, they're not playing politics. 0.99

00:26:16.640 They're just following the law.

00:26:18.420 But that's good because they've been attacked and the undermining of the court, I think they

00:26:22.420 understood how much damage was done with the Roe v. Wade undermining and the releasing

00:26:25.500 of that document beforehand and the doxing of them.

00:26:29.000 I think now they're saying, uh-uh, we're going to stick to the rules, but I'm glad to see

00:26:32.640 them say it publicly.

00:26:33.640 So there's a reason the framers of the Constitution gave justices life tenure.

00:26:38.820 They're supposed to be immune or at least resistant to political pressure.

00:26:44.660 And you may be right.

00:26:45.840 You may see this majority now saying, fine, if you're going to just assault this institution,

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00:27:28.380 Look, you look at this other decision from last week, 303 Creative versus L&S.

00:27:36.460 This is a very important decision.

00:27:40.020 It's a religious liberty decision.

00:27:41.360 It's a free speech decision.

00:27:42.540 It was 6-3 as well.

00:27:44.400 Justice Gorsuch wrote the opinion.

00:27:47.420 And what happened here is a woman named Lori Smith. 0.99

00:27:49.860 Lori Smith is an artist.

00:27:51.600 She's a website designer. 0.99

00:27:52.640 So she designs websites. 0.86

00:27:53.920 That's what she does. 1.00

00:27:54.600 She's creative.

00:27:55.420 She makes websites.

00:27:56.960 And she does – she wanted to do wedding websites. 1.00

00:28:00.360 She thought it would be fun to do, you know, Ben and Anna are getting married.

00:28:03.960 Let's do a website.

00:28:05.000 Let's celebrate their lives.

00:28:06.220 Let's design something that tells their story.

00:28:09.060 She's a storyteller.

00:28:09.860 Well, the facts alleged in the case is that two gay men wanted to hire her to create a website celebrating a gay marriage, a same-sex marriage.

00:28:24.540 She is a believing Christian, and she did not want to tell that story. 0.99

00:28:28.880 She did not want to say that she agreed with that because she doesn't agree with it.

00:28:34.200 And Colorado has a very, very strict law.

00:28:38.600 They call it a non-discrimination law, but it's designed to really force and punish anyone who wants to exercise their own religious liberty.

00:28:48.260 Now, she wasn't trying to stop their wedding.

00:28:50.340 She wasn't speaking out against their wedding.

00:28:51.900 She was saying, I don't want to use my voice to say something that my faith teaches me is wrong.

00:28:58.980 Well, the Supreme Court 6-3 ruled for her, and, you know, what's striking – so there are several things that are striking, and I should point out I led an amicus brief in this case along with Senator Mike Lee.

00:29:10.980 We had a number of House members and senators who joined us urging precisely this outcome.

00:29:14.860 So this was – I filed a brief in this case, and the Supreme Court agreed with our brief and upheld her religious liberty rights.

00:29:20.560 But let me start with this point, which is the corrupt corporate media deliberately and Democrats deliberately are wildly mischaracterizing this case.

00:29:33.440 So I want to give an example of Axios, which is this fairly well-respected media outlet who put out a tweet and a headline that was just objectively false.

00:29:44.680 And so I responded on Twitter.

00:29:46.140 So here is the tweet they put out.

00:29:48.660 The tweet they put out is, Supreme Court rules businesses can refuse service to LGBTQ plus customers.

00:29:58.540 Now, if you look at that, that headline is objectively false, and you see what they wrote in their tweet breaking.

00:30:06.680 Businesses can refuse to serve same-sex couples if doing so would violate the owner's religious beliefs.

00:30:11.800 The Supreme Court ruled on Friday.

00:30:14.420 And so here's what I tweeted.

00:30:15.820 I had a three-part tweet thread.

00:30:17.040 I said, first of all, if Axios were a first-year law student, this answer would earn an F.

00:30:25.360 It is either ignorance, they don't know, or dishonesty, they know, and they're lying.

00:30:31.060 I suspect the latter.

00:30:33.020 I think they know, and they're lying.

00:30:34.900 But if it's the former, if it's an honest mistake, then a real journalistic outlet with integrity would issue a correction. 0.95

00:30:42.020 Now, why is it that they are wrong and they're either ignorant or lying? 0.87

00:30:47.740 Well, let's look at the second tweet thread. 0.88

00:30:50.700 Assuming that whoever wrote the headline didn't actually bother to read the opinion, which I think is a pretty good assumption.

00:30:57.640 What the court did hold is that the First Amendment prohibits the state of Colorado from compelling a website designer to create expressive designs, speaking messages with which she disagrees.

00:31:18.700 This is a free speech case.

00:31:19.940 This is about her right to speak and not be forced by the government to say things she disagrees with.

00:31:26.220 Third tweet, the tweet thread. 1.00

00:31:28.520 So, for example, the government could not force Axios to tweet, all journalists are morons. 0.99

00:31:36.160 Or Donald Trump is awesome. 1.00

00:31:39.320 Two sentiments with which presumably Axios disagrees.

00:31:44.400 Like, you can't force, they can't go force Ben Ferguson to go...

00:31:51.100 Say something I don't believe in. 0.99

00:31:52.720 ...online and say Memphis sucks. 0.99

00:31:55.300 Yeah. 0.99

00:31:55.680 You're just not going to say that.

00:31:56.960 Not going to say it, yeah.

00:31:57.660 You, like, bleed Memphis. 0.59

00:32:01.160 Hometown, that's just the way it is.

00:32:02.840 But, no, you're right.

00:32:03.760 I should never be put in that situation.

00:32:05.380 And if you have a venue hall where you rent it out to people and someone says, I'm going to come have a satanic ritual there, and you say, I don't want that in my private venue, you shouldn't be, you know, sued or lose a court case over that for religious beliefs.

00:32:19.340 So, look, that's actually a different case.

00:32:21.760 My point is this case is very different.

00:32:24.080 This is about free speech.

00:32:25.720 This is about expressive design.

00:32:27.640 A website designer is writing.

00:32:29.900 You are writing your own message.

00:32:31.820 Yeah.

00:32:32.000 The point about this case, this really is the heart of it.

00:32:35.840 Should the government force you to speak?

00:32:39.460 So, look, hosting a venue, that's a different issue, and there's been litigation over that.

00:32:44.820 But First Amendment speech, this would be about you're a radio host.

00:32:50.300 Can the government force you to say things you disagree with?

00:32:53.520 Now, I will tell you just how dishonest the media is.

00:32:57.320 Well, I'm not going to tell you how dishonest the media is.

00:33:00.100 I want to show you.

00:33:01.040 So, watch David Brooks from The New York Times.

00:33:05.420 I'm not qualified to give it a legal opinion.

00:33:08.000 I'm not a lawyer.

00:33:09.060 So, I look at it, is it good or bad for society?

00:33:11.660 And so, in this case, you had the right for artistic expression against non-discrimination.

00:33:16.620 And it was a contest between those two.

00:33:18.320 And the court chose free expression.

00:33:20.780 That strikes me just as someone who lives in American society as doing great harm to American society.

00:33:25.660 It seems to me the idea that we do not discriminate in our businesses is just – that's a much more serious thing to break that than to restrict someone who's really running a business, not just painting a painting, but is running a business.

00:33:39.460 And if that person who's running a business is allowed to discriminate, it seems to me it's just a poison in our society.

00:33:45.780 So, I got to say, David Brooks, who I don't know very well.

00:33:49.660 I've met him, but I don't really know him.

00:33:51.940 He's paid by The New York Times to be their fake conservative.

00:33:55.060 So, he claims to be a sort of conservative who just happens to agree with the left on everything.

00:33:58.940 Yeah.

00:33:59.140 And his whole job is to say, I'm a conservative, and I hate conservatives.

00:34:05.220 I hate all the people who believe what I say I'm believing.

00:34:08.840 And at some level, you've got to wonder, what self-respect does someone have?

00:34:13.720 Because he literally – he's surrounded by people who loathe conservatives.

00:34:17.620 He pretends to be one.

00:34:18.720 He's obviously not.

00:34:20.220 But his whole point is to be the whipping boy.

00:34:23.160 You know, in the old –

00:34:25.240 You get paid to lose.

00:34:26.680 Well, you know, in old monarchies where you'd have the king and the prince, and the prince would misbehave.

00:34:32.660 Like, the phrase whipping boy came from they didn't want to spank the prince because he had a royal behind. 0.89

00:34:38.520 Yeah. 0.53

00:34:38.980 So, the whipping boy, when the prince misbehaved, they'd grab the whipping boy and whip the whipping boy. 0.97

00:34:43.380 And the whole purpose of it was the royal derriere cannot be touched. 0.96

00:34:48.080 Someone needs to be spanked because of the prince's malfeasance, so let's whip the whipping boy. 1.00

00:34:52.720 It's the person whose job it is to take the blows. 0.94

00:34:55.540 Because, well, that's what David Brooks there says.

00:34:57.480 So, number one, he starts by saying, I'm not qualified to say anything about this because I'm not a lawyer.

00:35:01.940 He's right.

00:35:02.300 He's not qualified because he's not only not a lawyer, he hasn't read the opinion, he doesn't know what it's about, and he's not talking about the opinion.

00:35:08.480 So, it's not just that he doesn't have a law degree.

00:35:10.700 It's that he hasn't done even the barest modicum of homework to know what the case is about, but he knows what he's supposed to say.

00:35:16.500 Yeah.

00:35:17.220 He's supposed to say the left is right and the right is wrong because that's what he says every time, usually in a very self-righteous, moralistic way.

00:35:26.960 In this instance, he says this is a battle between discrimination and artistic expression.

00:35:32.500 No, no, no.

00:35:32.960 No, it's speech.

00:35:36.500 It is literally, can you force – let me ask you, can you force a Jewish rabbi to perform a Muslim wedding ceremony? 0.99

00:35:45.420 Yeah.

00:35:45.760 The answer should be no.

00:35:46.720 Because you can't force someone to speak – all right, David Brooks said that, you know, clearly preventing discrimination is more important than free speech.

00:36:04.240 Mind you, number one, the guy works for the New York Times, so the New York Times is on record saying free speech is less important.

00:36:12.280 He's the fake conservative, so he especially believes free speech is less important.

00:36:15.940 All right, I'll tell you what. 0.98

00:36:17.080 I want to pass a law that every time David Brooks speaks, he must publicly say, I'm a dishonest, lying imbecile that works for the propaganda outlet called the New York Times. 0.96

00:36:30.600 And he should be okay with that because it's just his free speech and he's perfectly – his free speech doesn't matter, he told us that. 0.97

00:36:37.660 So the government can force him to say, I'm assuming – well, maybe he does believe that he's a lying propagandist.

00:36:48.220 But I mean given the benefit of the doubt and assume that he doesn't believe that, should the government be able to force him to say that?

00:36:55.320 And the point – listen, it is altogether different.

00:36:59.900 If you take, for example, look, there was a prior case, the Colorado Baker case.

00:37:05.340 It was the same Colorado state law where, again, the press mischaracterized it and they said this is a baker that didn't want to serve people who were gay.

00:37:14.260 Well, the baker there said that's not the case at all, that he served people who were gay every day, that when people came in, they wanted to buy a cake.

00:37:20.840 He'd sell them a cake.

00:37:21.660 He didn't care if they were gay, transgender, whatever. 0.99

00:37:23.460 Like he'd sell a cake. 0.83

00:37:24.400 He was in the cake buying business, cake selling business.

00:37:28.760 This was not a case about refusing to do business, refusing service to someone because of their sexual identity.

00:37:37.740 Rather, what the Colorado Baker said is you had a gay couple that wanted to come in and have him design a wedding cake celebrating their same-sex wedding.

00:37:47.980 He was an evangelical Christian and he said, look, my faith teaches me that's wrong.

00:37:53.180 You can go get married, but I don't wish to speak.

00:37:56.280 And he said baking a cake was expressive.

00:37:58.640 And I got to admit, I'm not much of a cook or baker.

00:38:01.100 I didn't really think of baking as all that expressive.

00:38:03.140 But he said for him, when he designed a cake, he was speaking.

00:38:07.740 And you could get, look, if you were a baker and let's say you're a Jewish baker and someone comes in and says, well, you bake a Nazi cake with a swastika on it, that you ought to be able to say, no, I'm not going to. 0.68

00:38:20.600 I don't wish to convey that message.

00:38:23.900 Or a Klansman cake or anything that goes against your beliefs.

00:38:27.400 But the point is, the Colorado Baker didn't refuse service to people on the basis of their sexuality.

00:38:35.900 People could come in and are gay and buy any cake they wanted.

00:38:38.160 He was not going to speak and offer his voice. 0.91

00:38:41.620 In this instance, this website creator, there's no indication she'd ever turn down her services to someone who was gay.

00:38:50.240 If you had a gay couple who said, hey, we want to design a website about, you know, the Colorado mountains and the prettiest mountains and we want to do a website. 0.97

00:39:00.620 Sure.

00:39:01.100 She presumably would have said, sure, happy to do that.

00:39:03.260 Like, OK, you're hiring me to design a website.

00:39:05.140 Let's do this mountain's this high, this mountain's this high.

00:39:07.580 Let's put up pictures. 0.92

00:39:08.740 It wasn't that she was refusing to do business with people who were gay. 0.74

00:39:12.940 She's more than happy to do business.

00:39:14.320 They were asking her, we want you to use your voice to speak a message that you disagree with and that your faith teaches you is wrong.

00:39:27.620 Yeah.

00:39:28.500 Your religious beliefs.

00:39:29.660 Going against your religious beliefs.

00:39:31.220 That's the core.

00:39:31.820 That is fundamental that government cannot force you to speak, which is why I use the example and to see the fake conservative at the New York Times happily say free speech doesn't matter because all my left wing buddies tell me it doesn't matter.

00:39:50.480 Yeah.

00:39:51.360 It really is sad.

00:39:52.880 It's an interesting point.

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00:41:32.960 There's something I want to bring up, and you and I were talking about this before the show, Senator.

00:41:37.620 Biden has nominated a radical CDC director.

00:41:41.100 You're trying to change how this nomination process works.

00:41:44.280 Explain why.

00:41:45.020 Well, look, we all learned during COVID that the head of CDC can have a massive impact on everyone's life in America, that it is an enormously important position.

00:41:55.300 We saw CDC pushing for shutdowns and lockdowns all across the country, school shutdowns, mask mandates, vaccine mandates, impacting life and liberty and health of every American.

00:42:07.320 And it is a massively important position, that there is a basic proposition in our Constitution that positions that are very important, that impact the American people very significantly, should be subject to Senate confirmation.

00:42:22.780 Historically, the CDC director has not been subject to Senate confirmation.

00:42:27.200 So it's just someone that the president can appoint, that the secretary of HHS can appoint, and CDC did not require Senate confirmation.

00:42:35.040 After COVID, I think everyone recognizes, okay, this is big enough, it requires it.

00:42:39.820 And in fact, Congress has passed a law that going forward, the CDC director will require Senate confirmation starting in January of 2025.

00:42:51.760 Why do they wait so long out of curiosity?

00:42:54.820 People don't understand this in laws.

00:42:56.560 I mean, it's annoying.

00:42:57.620 Why not do it in 2024?

00:42:59.080 Whoever wrote it in just wrote it.

00:43:01.160 I assume wait till after Biden's presidency.

00:43:04.000 Got it.

00:43:04.400 But what it means, so Biden has named a woman named Mandy Cohen to be head of the CDC.

00:43:09.540 She presumably will be the last head of the CDC, if nothing changes.

00:43:13.460 Whoever takes that position without Senate confirmation, the next one, after January of 2025, will require Senate confirmation.

00:43:22.020 I have introduced legislation.

00:43:23.600 It's very simple.

00:43:24.760 It makes Senate confirmation the requirement immediate.

00:43:27.880 It just moves the date forward from January 2025 to now, and it would make Mandy Cohen subject to Senate confirmation. 0.99

00:43:36.640 Why is that?

00:43:38.040 Because her record is terrible.

00:43:39.960 So she was the head of the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, and she was one of the leading advocates of shutdowns, of lockdowns.

00:43:49.740 She was an advocate of shutting down small businesses.

00:43:52.860 She was an advocate of shutting down schools.

00:43:54.880 She was an advocate of mask mandates.

00:43:58.660 She was a total acolyte of Dr. Fauci.

00:44:01.300 She went so far as wearing a mask with Dr. Fauci's face on it.

00:44:06.240 I mean, she's a fangirl for Anthony Fauci, quite literally.

00:44:10.960 She's also a Democrat partisan.

00:44:12.660 She's been a Democrat partisan her entire life.

00:44:16.600 She's been very active.

00:44:18.460 For example, in 2009, she was the national outreach director for Doctors for Obama.

00:44:27.440 So this is a partisan Democrat.

00:44:29.820 She also participated in the, quote, white coat rally supporting Obamacare at the White House.

00:44:35.860 I remember that, yeah.

00:44:36.740 So she is a partisan Democrat.

00:44:39.320 You know, the CDC historically has been a relatively apolitical position.

00:44:44.720 It should be.

00:44:45.340 You put a respected scientist.

00:44:48.100 This woman is a partisan Democrat who, she shut down churches in North Carolina with much 1.00

00:44:56.680 stricter rules than other places.

00:44:58.620 So she had the hostility of Democrats towards churches because she didn't like churches and

00:45:04.120 religious belief, and she put much tougher rules than for any other organization. 0.99

00:45:10.320 And, you know, I got to say, the degree to which she just abused her power, 1.00

00:45:19.380 well, look, I'm actually going to let you watch her tell you.

00:45:24.380 I'm laughing because you sent this to me earlier this week, and it's brilliant.

00:45:30.420 So go ahead.

00:45:31.440 So I want you to watch this interview with Mandy Cohen where she describes just how cavalierly

00:45:38.260 she approaches her abuse of power. 0.97

00:45:41.040 So I would call, probably the person I called most was the Secretary of Health and Human Services

00:45:45.440 in Massachusetts.

00:45:46.960 She worked for a Republican governor just to, but, you know, when she was like, are you,

00:45:51.820 are you going to let them have professional football?

00:45:55.480 And I was like, nope.

00:45:56.680 And she's like, okay, neither are we, neither are we.

00:46:00.460 So, you know, it was like conversations like that.

00:46:04.060 So, or I'd be like, so when are you going to think about lightening up a mess?

00:46:09.040 They were like, so you're like, next Monday.

00:46:10.220 I'm like, okay, next Monday.

00:46:11.860 So look, she's telling you that she would call the head of HHS in Massachusetts.

00:46:16.860 By the way, North Carolina, I'm sure the people are thrilled to know North Carolina.

00:46:21.820 Is taking their cues from Massachusetts, one of the most liberal states in the country.

00:46:26.100 Yeah.

00:46:26.760 And listen to what she just said.

00:46:28.980 So are you going to allow them to play professional football?

00:46:34.120 Which is insane that a non-elected official can even decide that.

00:46:37.280 No, neither am I.

00:46:39.140 Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.

00:46:40.520 She just laughs.

00:46:41.860 I mean, it, she doesn't care at all the imperiousness with which I am going to ban football.

00:46:49.660 Oh, you are too.

00:46:50.700 Isn't it fun?

00:46:51.600 Ha, ha, ha.

00:46:52.380 And she says also, when are you going to lessen your mask mandates?

00:46:57.140 On Monday?

00:46:57.780 Okay, I'll do it on Monday too.

00:46:59.860 It is an absolute.

00:47:01.720 I showed you how arbitrary, by the way, the mask mandate was.

00:47:03.860 Just made up.

00:47:04.520 Right.

00:47:04.740 It was totally made up.

00:47:05.440 It was like, all right, well, I'll release it when you release it.

00:47:07.500 Let's synchronize it.

00:47:08.780 Totally different parts of the country.

00:47:10.320 Totally different stats and data at that point.

00:47:12.460 I'm sure totally different hospitalization numbers at that moment.

00:47:15.580 Different ICU numbers.

00:47:16.940 But this was politics.

00:47:17.860 So it wasn't based on science.

00:47:18.740 It's politics.

00:47:19.560 It's not science.

00:47:20.740 It's purely politics.

00:47:22.080 And you look at that and you see the contempt she holds the American people in.

00:47:27.240 She believes she's an unaccountable philosopher king.

00:47:31.200 She'll dictate.

00:47:32.520 Look, when was the last time you saw someone say, are you going to allow professional football?

00:47:39.480 Yeah.

00:47:39.660 And laugh about it, by the way.

00:47:41.540 And it's why I say she needs to be subject to Senate confirmation. 1.00

00:47:45.360 Let's make senators vote on her. 1.00

00:47:47.000 Do you want that woman to have the power to ban football, which she's already done once? 1.00

00:47:53.700 And she laughs about it.

00:47:55.200 And if you do, you know what, Joe Manchin, why don't you cast a vote and tell us you want

00:48:00.080 to put her in charge of the next lockdown?

00:48:02.620 You want to put her in charge of the next shutdown in schools that hurt school kids across 1.00

00:48:07.040 the country, you want to put her in charge of illegal vaccine mandates, let's put every 1.00

00:48:11.880 senator on record.

00:48:13.280 Great point.

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00:49:29.700 Lastly, Senator, this one is hilarious.

00:49:32.280 I'll let you tee it up because you sent it to me and I was like, this is pretty brilliant

00:49:36.540 and people I think are going to like it.

00:49:38.140 All right.

00:49:38.460 So this is a video I had my team put together and I talked about just how radical and extreme

00:49:43.140 Mandy Cohen's record is.

00:49:44.760 The corporate media doesn't want to cover it.

00:49:46.400 They want to hide it.

00:49:47.180 They want to bury it.

00:49:47.980 It's also why they don't want to see her subject to Senate confirmation because they want to 1.00

00:49:51.660 put her in a position to be able to ban football and shut down schools and shut down your businesses 1.00

00:49:55.640 once again.

00:49:56.820 I don't want that to happen.

00:49:57.960 And so here is a lighthearted video that actually lays out what a real record is.

00:50:03.180 Wear a mask and she will try to lock us down all of our lives. 1.00

00:50:21.040 Ooh, see that girl. 1.00

00:50:23.820 Don't make us seem.

00:50:25.700 She is the masking queen. 0.94

00:50:30.980 Lockdowns had our spirits low.

00:50:35.300 Didn't have a place to go.

00:50:39.780 Kids get down to school.

00:50:42.280 Didn't learn a thing.

00:50:44.020 And found she was her king.

00:50:48.860 Mandy Cohen stood by her guy.

00:50:51.940 Drunk on power and feeling high.

00:50:57.220 With another press conference, just follow the signs.

00:51:02.100 She's got a cause to advance. 1.00

00:51:05.800 And when she got the chance, she was the masking queen. 0.61

00:51:13.100 First one on clouding on the screen.

00:51:20.700 Masking queen. 1.00

00:51:22.700 Feel the pain of her mandating.

00:51:26.940 Oh yeah.

00:51:29.660 Wear a mask.

00:51:31.740 And she will try to lock us down all of our lives. 0.98

00:51:37.680 Ooh, see that girl. 1.00

00:51:40.140 I can't see her.

00:51:41.080 She's wearing a mask.

00:51:42.360 She is the masking queen. 0.94

00:51:46.420 Dare I say I want more of these, Senator, from the team.

00:51:49.740 It is the perfect way of exposing who these people are, what they're all about, and using a little bit of humor to do it.

00:51:57.440 Because this is what people will send around and go, okay, I don't want this woman to be the CDC director, especially when she's crazy like this.

00:52:04.480 That's her actual record. 0.70

00:52:06.260 That's her with Fauci on the mask.

00:52:08.820 She really is a fangirl to Dr. Fauci.

00:52:12.200 You saw the video of her coming out to the press conference.

00:52:14.600 She's not wearing her mask. 0.95

00:52:15.840 And then suddenly, like all good hypocritical Democrats, TV camera, got to put a mask on for the TV cameras. 0.95

00:52:22.520 Nothing to do with science. 0.92

00:52:23.500 Nothing to do with medicine.

00:52:24.380 Nothing to do with the virus.

00:52:25.440 Has everything to do with virtue signaling.

00:52:27.880 And as she just laughs and shows you, let's ban football because ha ha ha, I can.

00:52:34.620 Every senator ought to vote.

00:52:36.060 My vote is hell no.

00:52:37.520 But there are a bunch of Democrat senators who are running in red states.

00:52:40.780 I'd like to know what John Tester thinks in Montana.

00:52:43.760 Does he want her to be able to shut down schools and ban football in Montana?

00:52:48.400 I'd like to know what Joe Manchin thinks.

00:52:50.540 I'd like to know what Sherrod Brown thinks.

00:52:52.420 He always votes left wing anyway.

00:52:54.000 Yeah.

00:52:54.180 But the people of Ohio happen to like some football.

00:52:56.740 So let's have a vote on this.

00:52:59.440 This ought to be easy.

00:53:01.440 But let's see if Democrats actually support putting a radical in charge of shutdowns and lockdowns and shutting down our kids' schools. 0.99

00:53:10.820 Call your senators.

00:53:11.540 Call your senators.

00:53:12.240 Call your senators.

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Verdict with Ted Cruz - July 05, 2023

Blockbuster SCOTUS Cases plus Radical CDC Nominee-The Masking Queen

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