Blue City Crime Chaos, it's a Schumer Shutdown & Leftist Judicial Bias at its Best Week In Review
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Ted Cruz and Ben Fergus take on the problem of crime in Democratic-run cities, a new report shows that out of the top 20 most crime-ridden cities, 18 of them are controlled by liberal Democrats. Also, the government shutdown continues, and Justice Brett Kavanaugh was given a light sentence by a radical judge.
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It is Verdict with Ted Cruz, The Weekend Review, and Ben Ferguson with you.
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And here are some of the big stories that you may have missed that we talked about this week.
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First up, fighting the crime epidemic in liberal blue cities.
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Donald Trump taking it on and having massive success.
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So why are Democrats still fighting against him, even when the data shows it's working?
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And finally, Justice Kavanaugh attempted murder suspect, given an incredibly light sentence due to a radical judge.
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It's The Weekend Review, and it starts right now.
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All right, I want to move to something else that's really important.
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The Senate Judiciary is having a big hearing, and it deals with blue city chaos, Democratic-run cities.
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Out of the top 20 most crime-ridden cities, 18 of them are controlled by left-wing, hardcore Democrats.
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Well, this week, the Judiciary Committee held a hearing on out-of-control crime in Democrat cities, and it really is horrific, the policies.
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It turns out, when you let violent criminals go, when you undermine the police, when you put in place prosecutors who won't prosecute crime, you get more crime.
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Now, this summer, the Senate Judiciary Committee, Chuck Grassley is the chairman, put out a report that showed that the Biden Department of Justice sent taxpayer-funded grants to Soros-backed, soft-on-crime NGOs.
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And in particular, here's what the report said.
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Under the Biden-Harris administration, the Vera Institute was awarded millions of taxpayer dollars to prop up left-wing district attorneys, who would then partner with the Vera Institute to implement Soros-backed progressive policies.
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These policies included prioritizing violent criminals over victims and declining to fully prosecute felony charges, including assault, kidnapping, rape, and murder.
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And here's some of the key findings from the report.
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In New York, New York County DA Alvin Bragg partnered with the Vera Institute and declined to prosecute certain misdemeanor felonies, actively working to downgrade felony charges to misdemeanors, and refused to detain criminals before their trials.
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Meanwhile, Bragg attempted to prosecute President Donald Trump for federal campaign finance violations.
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In the year 2025, there were over 48,000 individuals arrested for misdemeanors in New York County.
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In Georgia, Athens DA Deborah Gonzalez partnered with the Vera Institute and pledged to protect illegal immigrant defendants and release criminals on bonds that did not require the posting of money.
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In Wisconsin, Milwaukee DA John Chisholm partnered with the Vera Institute to implement progressive soft-on-crime policies and reportedly told the Milwaukee Sentinel Journey,
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Quote, Is there going to be an individual I divert, or who I put into a treatment program, who's going to go out and kill somebody?
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That is the Soros DA bragging he's going to release criminals who murder people.
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And in 2020, the Milwaukee DA's office released a criminal twice before he ultimately drove an SUV through a Christmas parade, killing six and injuring 62 others.
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This pattern is happening over and over and over again.
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What is amazing is the Democrats are not learning.
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They're not saying, gosh, maybe we should stop siding with the criminals.
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And there was one dad that went before Congress to testify about his daughter.
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And just how many times the man that killed his daughter, that took his daughter's life, had been arrested and released.
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And if you didn't hear that, people should go listen to it, because I think it's really important.
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But we're seeing this happen where criminals are being caught and released dozens of times, like dozens of times, Senator.
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Like, OK, maybe we should, I guess, lock that guy up.
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Well, and here was a portion of the hearing this week.
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Innocent victims die right here in Washington, D.C.
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These are the real world consequences of Democrat crime policies that let murderers go.
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And the policy, to be clear, Senator, is a simple one.
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DAs were instructed when they took money, basically, from Soros.
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And what they were instructed to do was to have prison reform and bail reform.
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They didn't want people to be held in prison because of bail.
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And so that is part of what they're advocating for here.
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It's a left-wing agenda that wants to, number one, abolish the police, wants to defund the police.
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And by the way, that's not just empty rhetoric.
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If you look at jurisdictions across the country, in Minneapolis, they slashed funding for the police department.
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In New York City, the NYPD, they cut over a billion dollars from the NYPD's budget.
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In Austin, Texas, our home state, $150 million cut from the police department.
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So that's one way they do it, is they attack the police directly to wanting to either abolish or defund the police.
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And George Soros has spent tens of millions of dollars funding DA campaigns for radicals who've gotten elected in many major cities across the country.
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And when they get in, they refuse to prosecute violent criminals.
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They catch a violent criminal, they let them go.
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You know, it's clear from this hearing the Democrat talking points have come out.
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Both Senator Padilla and Senator Booker spent a great deal of time talking about, quote, red states.
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There's a reason they were talking about red states because, unfortunately, most red states have blue cities.
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If you want to look at, in 2023, the large cities with the most homicides per 100,000 people, number one was New Orleans, Louisiana.
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Soros DAs who let murderers out of jail kill people.
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So when you look at this being exposed, the way that you guys are doing it, what is going to be the mechanism that can obviously help stop this from happening?
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One is what President Trump has done, which is he sent the National Guard to Washington, D.C.
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And the result of that is the crime rates have plummeted.
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Now, you would think rational people, if Democrats were rational people, they'd be celebrating, wow, the murder rate has plummeted.
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That means people are alive because the National Guard is there stopping murders.
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And I'll tell you, in the wake of George Floyd dying, the D.C.
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City Council passed a soft-on-crime package of legislation that lessened the penalty for violent crime across the board,
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that tied the police hands and made it much, much harder to prosecute crime.
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Carjacking and violent crime rose dramatically.
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I've introduced legislation in the Senate called the Clean D.C. Act.
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It reinstates tougher penalties on violent crimes, and it allows the police to actually go after the violent criminals.
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At the hearing, the head of the D.C. Police Union testified,
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and he explicitly asked the Senate to pass my legislation, pass the Clean D.C. Act.
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Give a listen to the head of the D.C. Police Officers Union.
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That is why we also support the Clean D.C. Act.
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It begins the process of undoing harmful legislation, restoring balance, and rebuilding MPD's strength.
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Other cities that embrace the same policies are now facing the same consequences.
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When leaders attack police, communities suffer.
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When lawmakers strip away tools and protections, criminals thrive.
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If this is not corrected, the crisis will deepen here and nationwide.
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I urge Congress to act, support the Clean D.C. Act, roll back failed legislation, and work with law enforcement instead of against us.
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Officers want nothing more than to protect their communities, but they cannot do it alone.
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Again, I thank you for the opportunity to testify, and I welcome any questions the committee may have.
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One of the things, Senator, I like about where you guys are going with this is that this is not going to be a short-term thing.
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This is actual reform you are advocating for to make sure that these cities don't go back to these liberal policies where innocent people are dying every single day.
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No, that's exactly right, and the first obligation, the first obligation the president, the commander-in-chief has, is to protect this nation, to keep us safe.
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The first obligation really every elected official should put front and center is protecting the health and safety of the men and women you're elected to represent.
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And, you know, it is striking, just like we talked about a minute ago with the shutdown, where the Democrats are engaged in gaslighting.
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You heard in the segment I was talking about what both Cory Booker and Alex Padilla said in that hearing, where they both had talking points almost exactly the same, where they said,
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well, you know, there are bad crime stats in a bunch of red states, and they went through a bunch of red states, and they're right.
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There are red states where the crime stats are problematic.
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My response, which they have no refutation to, is that is entirely driven by the blue cities in those red states that are governed by left-wing Democrat mayors and left-wing Democrat DAs who refuse to prosecute violent crime.
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And so, yes, look, Memphis, Tennessee was number two on the list.
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Now, Tennessee is a red state, but, you know, God help you if you live in Memphis when you have local officials who will not prosecute the bad guys.
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And that's true in Baltimore, that's true in New Orleans, that's true in Washington, D.C.
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And rather than address it and admit it and fix it, the Democrats are trying to distract people by engaging in dishonest rhetoric.
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Is this going to be a really long-term shutdown or is this going to be something that's going to get resolved pretty quickly?
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So, let's talk about you in Washington last week.
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There were votes and movement, but it did not move enough to make the government go back to actually working for the American people.
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And you said now Democrats, you feel like, are actually freaking out.
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Yeah, look, I and every other Republican has voted repeatedly to open up the government.
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The House of Representatives has passed a clean CR, a clean continuing resolution that keeps the government open.
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And it's the Democrats who keep voting it down.
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We'll be in Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, maybe Friday.
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Right now, if the Democrats don't change, every day the Democrats will vote to keep the government shut down.
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And the challenge is they don't have an off ramp.
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They're trying to make up all sorts of things to say we're going to shut the government down because of X, because of Y.
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They're claiming it's all about that they really, really, really want to give health care to illegal aliens.
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Actually, ironically, they're not claiming that.
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That's in the language of the bill they keep voting for.
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So every Democrat keeps voting for a bill that would provide government provided health care for illegals.
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So there's a level of incoherence in terms of what their ask is.
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What they have is a political problem for Chuck Schumer.
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When he last kept the government open, he came very close to losing his job.
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Every single Democrat Senate candidate in the country who has been asked, do you support Chuck Schumer to remain the Democrat leader in the Senate?
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Not one, not a single incumbent, not a single challenger has said, yep, he's our leader.
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Now, at some point, he'll stop beating his chest and the government will reopen.
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And I got to say, the Democrats' numbers are near an all-time low.
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The Democrats' favorability rating is at 34 percent, 66 percent unfavorable.
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CBS asked, what words describe the Democrat Party?
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I'm going to guess it wasn't like inspirational, like hope and change back in the day when Obama was around.
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Weak was 64 percent of Americans bold said the Democrat Party is weak.
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What percent do you think say the Democrat Party is strong?
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So even lower than I thought, because 35 was not like a good number, by the way.
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What percent do you think say the Democrat Party is effective?
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I'm going to say, based on what you just said a moment ago, 25 percent?
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You are running the Democrat Party Senate campaign, the Democrat Party House campaign.
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Your message right now, two-thirds of Americans think we're weak.
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We've got a full quarter of Americans who think we're strong and effective.
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So we're telling you quarter of Americans, we are strong and effective.
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Everyone else, you know, we're full of crap.
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That is the definition of a political crisis.
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You want to know why my colleagues are nervous?
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So you may have seen, in fact, I know you've seen, Ben, President Trump sent out a meme
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of Hakeem Jeffries wearing a sombrero with a big handlebar mustache.
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By the way, so good and hilarious and just funny, and people need to calm down.
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But, of course, Democrats start screaming racism right away.
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So it had Chuck Schumer saying, all right, nobody's voting for Democrats because they
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So we're not going to play the curse words here.
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Nobody thinks that Schumer actually said, we, the Democrats, are full of crap.
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But what people have gone nuts about is Hakeem Jeffries is there.
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So we've decided to go all in on free health care, free illegals, because maybe the illegals,
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So maybe they'll support us at least for a while till they discover how horrible we are.
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That's a paraphrase of what Schumer says in the video.
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And you have Hakeem Jeffries and a sombrero and a big mustachio next to him.
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There are 44 Democrats who keep voting to shut the government down.
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So we took pictures of all 44 of those Democrat senators.
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And we stuck sombreros and big old mustaches on them.
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But I want to play the tune that we put it out to, because it's very neutral and nonpolitical.
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And mind you, while you're listening to this song, you have a cascade of 44 Democrat senators
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I got to say, you know that Donald Trump loves this kind of stuff.
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I cannot wait to see what he says to you when you guys hang out next.
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And you got to envision, if you haven't watched it online, while the song is playing, we've
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So we have Chris Van Hollen sitting down with the MS-13 member having a daiquiri with a giant
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So as you know, my communications director is named Macarena Martinez.
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But I was talking to like several of the young staffers in my office.
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And I said, you know, there's only one member of our staff who has been the title of a number
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And like the 22-year-olds in my office had no idea what I was talking about.
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I will say, if you've never seen it, there's an image you don't want to see of Hillary Clinton
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Listen, it will make you feel like the gif of Homer Simpson wanting to pour bleach in
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Trust me, do not Google Hillary Clinton dancing the Macarena.
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Yeah, I don't remember which year it was, but it was at one of them.
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Now, I will tell you, when I sent out this video of all the Democrats, Tim Kaine, Democrat
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from Virginia, who Tim and I are friends, but he like popped me back on Twitter.
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He's like, hey, did you buy those sombreros in Cancun?
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And by the way, Tim, instead of making dumb jokes about Cancun, how about we reopen the
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government since half of your friggin' state, Virginia, works for the government and you've
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So I will say, on the Senate floor, I was giving Tim a little bit of grief for that.
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And he was kind of, he was like, do you like my Cancun joke?
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And I'm like, yeah, but I'd like it better if you open the government.
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Based on what it was, what D.C. was like and the mood when you left, going back in there
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on Monday, do you think that we will get the government reopened this week?
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Or do you think that Schumer's going to still dig in?
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He's giving a speech for one of the multiple times the Democrats are voting to shut the
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And so Schumer got up and in his line, he said, well, OK, there are polls that Republicans
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are talking about, but those are biased Republican polls.
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And he says, well, it's the New York Times, but it's biased.
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And I got to say, I was standing 10 feet away from Schumer and I and every other Republican
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just cracked up laughing because he's like claiming the New York Times is a biased right
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He's like, well, I mean, it was look, who knew Schumer could be so funny?
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I want you to play the video is better, but I want you to play the audio of Schumer saying
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this and the spontaneous reaction appeals of laughter on the Senate floor.
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Now, I know the leader is going to show a poll that says that Democrats will be blamed
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There are many more polls that show Republicans are blamed.
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The question in that poll is biased, biased in the New York Times, but it's biased.
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It's amazing, by the way, like you hear him there.
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It's kind of like he realized he stepped in it.
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And even as he was thrown off, he really was like I'm steady.
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And all of us, we like, OK, the microphone on the Senate floor when you're speaking, you
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That gives you a sense of how loud the laughter was, that that's all coming through Schumer's
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The New York Times is a right wing bias publication.
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Maybe that's not like this is why my prediction is the shutdown will end this week, because
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I think the Democrats, as much as Schumer feels he's in trouble with the left wing, I think
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One, an awful lot of Americans, the government is shut down and they don't care.
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That is the nightmare for any big government Democrat is if the government shuts down and
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And look, during government shutdown, 83 percent of the government keeps functioning.
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So the military functions, law enforcement functions, the FBI functions, the Border Patrol
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functions, ICE functions, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, all of that function.
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If your entire political career is built on telling the American people the most important
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If the government shuts down and everyone yawns and goes about their life, that's a disaster.
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But a second disaster is to the extent people are focused.
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So listen, if you're going to D.C. this week and you wanted to go to the Smithsonian and go
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see the Air and Space Museum, you can't because the Democrats shut down the Smithsonian.
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They shut down Yellowstone National Park and all the national parks.
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And so people are going to get pissed off gradually over time.
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But I think the vast majority of people are blaming the Democrats, saying, why are they
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As before, if you want to hear the rest of this conversation on this topic, you can go
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back and download the podcast from early this week to hear the entire thing.
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I want to get back to the big story number three of the week you may have missed.
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I want to move to another topic that we mentioned earlier, and that is there is a lot of quiet
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outrage for people that have been paying attention to the Brett Kavanaugh assassination scandal.
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You have a, quote, transgender man who planned to assassinate Brett Kavanaugh, only receiving
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There are a lot of people that are upset and angry about it.
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And somehow, I guess, being transgender now has allows for you to have less accountability
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Yeah, I have to admit, this story makes me incredibly angry.
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When I saw it, I read the news story this week.
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I was literally yelling out loud as I was reading my phone.
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Heidi and I and our daughter Caroline, we were in New York this weekend.
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I was with a half dozen NYPD cops, and I got to admit, I vented to the cops who were all
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So the man who planned to kill Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh on 2022, he flew from
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He had with him, he had a knife, he had a gun, he had duct tape, he had zip ties, and
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he had planned to murder not just Brett Kavanaugh, but a total of three Supreme Court justices.
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And he was caught on the street right outside Justice Kavanaugh's home.
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And by the way, he was also threatening Justice Kavanaugh's wife and their two daughters.
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Well, this guy was prosecuted, quite rightly, and the Department of Justice asked for 30
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years, which is a pretty reasonable sentence for someone trying to kill a Supreme Court
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Well, this left-wing judge, her name is Deborah Boardman.
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She's a Joe Biden appointee to the Maryland Federal Court.
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So instead of 30 years, she sentenced him to eight years.
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And her reasoning was essentially, instead of 30 years, you get eight.
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Here's what Judge Boardman said, quote, under the law, I must consider the sentencing guidelines.
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The guidelines in this case are 360 months to life.
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It's important to understand the Supreme Court's stance on guidelines.
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They used to be mandatory, but in a case called Booker, the Supreme Court held they were advisory.
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The judge acknowledged that, quote, this case did involve domestic terrorism, but she undid
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most of the terrorism enhancement created by the sentencing commission and said, quote,
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I have not seen evidence that the sentencing commission relied on evidence that it would
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The sentencing took more than seven hours, and she discussed at length her justification
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Ms. Roski, of course, she calls the man a woman because she's a leftist.
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Ms. Roski came out to herself, to herself, like this is a private, like just in the quiet
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Ms. Roski came out to herself as transgender in 2020, but kept it a secret.
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Ms. Roski's sister came out as gay two years prior, but Ms. Roski saw their parents struggle
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to recognize her sexuality with their religious beliefs.
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By the way, it is not subtle or implied the judge thinks religious beliefs on this are horrible
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and terrible, and you are bad if you have religious beliefs concerning sexuality.
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So, you have someone attempting to murder a sitting Supreme Court justice, and the federal
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district judge who's sentencing the attempted murderer says, I'm heartened.
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The great thing about this is, the parents are now accepting of their psychopathic murderous
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The mother of the murderer told the judge on Friday that, quote,
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I have attended PFLAG meetings and learned about the LGBTQ plus community.
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I am committed to going on this journey with Sophie, by which she means her son, Nicholas.
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She was frustrated with what was going on in the world, and we weren't a safe place to process
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And by the way, the Daily Wire in their story, the next sentence says,
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As his mother wept, Nicholas Roski also choked up, his Adam's apple bobbing up and down.
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Now, here's what the judge continues saying, quote,
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The length doesn't need to be particularly long.
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Unduly harsh conditions make a difference, too.
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She will be imprisoned in a male facility, even though she is a transgender prisoner pursuant
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Before the executive order, that wasn't the case.
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In other words, this judge really wanted to send this dude to a woman's prison,
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where after attempting to murder a sitting Supreme Court justice,
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he could assault women who were incarcerated.
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This is, I want to be clear, this is lunacy.
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I have to admit, I literally yelled and cursed out loud.
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Listen, number one, Brett Kavanaugh is a friend.
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I've literally known Brett Kavanaugh for 30 years.
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Heidi and I were with Ashley on the 2000 George W. Bush campaign.
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They have two daughters who went through an utter nightmare going through his confirmation hearing.
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Night after night after night, the Kavanaugh House, along with the House of every Supreme Court justice,
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had angry, violent left-wing protesters out front screaming, violating federal law.
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It is a crime to protest at the home of a justice seeking to change the decision of an opinion.
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And yet, the Biden Justice Department refused to enforce that law.
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And the heated rhetoric, look, this is very much like what we're seeing with ICE,
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where Democrat rhetoric gets the lunatics in their party energized to go commit crimes of violence.
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So I'm not advocating violence against any Democrat.
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I'm not advocating violence against any left-wing judges or justices.
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And by the way, when it comes to politically motivated violence,
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it is almost exclusively a left-wing phenomenon.
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Look, when George Floyd died, we saw riots in American cities on fire being burned to the ground.
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When Charlie Kirk was murdered, we saw prayer vigils across the country as people went out and lit candles
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And we did see violence, but not from the people supporting Charlie Kirk.
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Instead, from the same left-wing violent activists who were attacking the people in prayer vigils.
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And I have to say, this judge, this judge has demonstrated she is utterly unfit to be a federal judge.
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I think the House of Representatives should seriously contemplate impeaching this judge.
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And by the way, how hard is that and how often does that happen for what you're describing right now?
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Because everybody listening is going to be like, hold on a second.
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There have been multiple federal judges who have been impeached and removed from office.
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Typically, they are impeached after committing a crime, something like committing, accepting bribes.
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So Alcee Hastings, for example, was a federal judge who was convicted of accepting bribes as a judge.
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And then he turned around and ran for Congress as a Democrat and got elected as a congressman.
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So he was a Democrat congressman who had been impeached and removed from office for being a federal judge taking bribes.
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So that I'm going to let you draw all the inferences you want.
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Although under the Constitution, to impeach a judge, it takes a majority vote in the House of Representatives.
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And I actually think in this instance, a judge who thinks someone trying to murder a Supreme Court justice
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because he disagrees with a decision the Supreme Court justice is rendering,
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that is a fundamental assault on our judicial system, on the rule of law, on the basic protection of rights all of us have.
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And if you are such a zealot, such a partisan ideologue, that you will not follow the sentencing guidelines,
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you will not acknowledge this is terrorism, and instead you say,
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you know what, this person's transgender, and my ideology is such that I love transgenders,
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and so instead of 30 years, I'm going to give this person eight years.
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And by the way, I really think this man should be in a woman's prison, but that mean, mean president won't let me do that.
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I believe, and I don't know this woman at all, I don't know this judge,
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but just how she conducted herself in this proceeding, to me, demonstrates she is completely unfit to be a federal judge.
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I would urge the House of Representatives to take up impeachment, and I would love to have a trial in the Senate.
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Do we want judges who refuse to enforce the criminal law for psychopathic murderers who are trying to murder Supreme Court justices?
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Let me say, it's also on brand with the American people.
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I can tell you this, no Democrat wants to defend the other side.
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As always, thank you for listening to Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you.
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