Verdict with Ted Cruz - December 27, 2024


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Sen. Ted Cruz and his wife Heidi talk about their new puppy, Rudy, and how a dog named after a famous movie becomes a wolf. And how Google almost kills a puppy who wants to eat a ham bone.

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00:00:00.000 This is an iHeart Podcast.
00:00:02.620 Guaranteed human.
00:00:05.340 Welcome.
00:00:06.060 It is Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you.
00:00:09.440 Senator, let's just start with this.
00:00:11.700 I hope you had a fabulous Christmas and everyone else listening, I hope you had a fabulous
00:00:15.680 Christmas as well.
00:00:17.240 You got to give me some anecdote from Christmas Day.
00:00:19.740 Did you get anything cool?
00:00:20.900 Was there an exciting moment before we get into politics?
00:00:24.080 Well, I'll just say Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Happy New Year.
00:00:28.400 Actually, Christmas was awesome.
00:00:29.440 I was just at home with Heidi and both our girls.
00:00:33.260 My parents were here.
00:00:35.160 We relaxed.
00:00:36.460 We had Christmas dinner.
00:00:38.320 We had a big ham.
00:00:40.180 I will say we do have a new puppy.
00:00:42.500 The new puppy is Rudy.
00:00:44.820 Rudy is a golden doodle.
00:00:46.660 He looks like a giant teddy bear come to life.
00:00:49.600 He is Catherine's puppy.
00:00:51.480 He is 14 weeks old.
00:00:53.820 Rudy yaps a lot.
00:00:54.920 In fact, you may well get some podcasts with Rudy yapping in the background.
00:00:59.180 Because I do many of these at home.
00:01:02.400 And I've met Rudy.
00:01:03.520 He is cute, man.
00:01:04.580 Like, Rudy is next level cute.
00:01:06.540 He is majorly cute.
00:01:08.840 And I will say, all right, on Christmas Day, so we had a ham, which was great.
00:01:12.680 And at the end, I turned to Heidi and said, what do you think?
00:01:15.420 Should we give Rudy the ham bone?
00:01:16.620 She said, sure.
00:01:17.100 So I tossed Rudy the ham bone.
00:01:18.900 And I cannot believe this little puppy became a wolf.
00:01:24.880 Like, he began consuming.
00:01:27.000 And he's, you know, he's tiny.
00:01:28.800 He is the size of a teddy bear.
00:01:30.720 Yeah, he's little.
00:01:31.800 But he's, like, chowing into this ham bone.
00:01:34.580 And then he runs into her bushes.
00:01:36.540 And he's in his cave.
00:01:37.700 And he is a wolf.
00:01:38.640 And I'm sitting there.
00:01:39.600 I'm kind of feeling mildly concerned.
00:01:42.060 So I pull out my phone.
00:01:43.400 And I Google, should you give a puppy a ham bone?
00:01:46.120 I cannot wait to hear what Google said back to you on this one.
00:01:48.820 And it turns out that Google says, no, this is a very bad idea.
00:01:52.820 Ham bones can splinter. 0.93
00:01:54.200 And they can stick in their stomach and kill your puppy. 0.97
00:01:57.140 And I'm sitting here thinking, OK, Catherine is going to kill me. 1.00
00:02:00.220 If I kill her dog, I'm in trouble. 0.94
00:02:03.180 So I go try to get Rudy. 0.85
00:02:05.280 And he does not want to give up the ham bone.
00:02:07.200 And the problem is, is I'm approaching him everywhere I go.
00:02:10.700 He runs in the bushes and runs in the bushes.
00:02:13.060 So I have to drag Heidi out of the kitchen because we need a pincher movement to come 1.00
00:02:17.580 from both sides because Rudy is running.
00:02:19.560 And we finally got him and got the ham bone away from him.
00:02:21.680 Isn't it amazing how scary Google can be, though, in those moments?
00:02:24.620 It's like it tells you basically everything that is fun is no longer fun.
00:02:28.540 I'm convinced that's what Google's job is.
00:02:30.320 And he was such a happy puppy.
00:02:32.500 This is this is absolutely the greatest joy this this animal has had since he has been
00:02:40.000 on planet Earth was chowing into that ham bone until Heidi and I had to. 0.92
00:02:44.940 But he had he had actually he'd eaten all the ham.
00:02:46.800 So he was in the chewing into bone moment.
00:02:49.440 We're like, all right, fine.
00:02:50.220 That's probably enough.
00:02:51.460 That's enough.
00:02:52.160 All right.
00:02:52.420 So we got to ask, how did how did you get the name?
00:02:54.860 Who named him?
00:02:55.720 How did we come up with a name?
00:02:57.040 Rudy, where is it?
00:02:58.080 I mean, instantly your movie after our movie show.
00:03:00.680 So everyone's going to think, Rudy, we're going back to Notre Dame here and the famous
00:03:04.340 movie.
00:03:04.880 OK, except for the fact that I didn't name the dog.
00:03:08.200 Catherine named the dog.
00:03:10.160 So Caroline has three cats.
00:03:12.520 Yeah.
00:03:12.700 And this puppy was for Catherine.
00:03:14.200 So Catherine got to name the dog and Rudy.
00:03:16.120 It actually is connected.
00:03:17.180 So our last podcast, by the way, if you didn't watch your Christmas Day podcast or didn't
00:03:20.780 listen to it, and it is on YouTube so you can watch it, too.
00:03:23.520 I'd encourage you to go back.
00:03:24.580 It's a very different podcast from what we do normally, which is Ben and I talked about 25 of
00:03:29.580 my favorite movies, and we went through a bunch of movies, and I love movies, and we
00:03:33.060 go through a ton of them.
00:03:35.060 And by the way, I told you this story, Ben, as we're getting ready to record.
00:03:38.800 In the afternoon of Christmas Day, we went over to a friend's house a few blocks away
00:03:42.880 from her house who had a Christmas Day party, and it was very cool.
00:03:46.100 There were lots of people out walking their dogs and out on the street, and this one family
00:03:49.840 stopped me, and this very nice woman said, hey, I listened to the podcast this morning.
00:03:55.140 I loved it.
00:03:55.680 Great movie recommendations.
00:03:56.840 I'm going to go watch them now.
00:03:58.420 And so I thought that was very cool.
00:04:00.620 It made me happy.
00:04:02.800 But if you recall, at the very beginning of the movie podcast, you asked me what was the
00:04:07.980 most recent thing I was watching, and I told you it was The Outer Banks, and The Outer Banks
00:04:12.520 is this teeny bopper series on Netflix that Catherine is very into, and Catherine had asked me to
00:04:18.160 watch it so that we could talk about the plot development.
00:04:20.720 So I watched the whole thing.
00:04:22.520 Well, one of the stars of the show is J.J., and the actor who plays J.J. is Rudy.
00:04:28.960 I don't remember Rudy's last name.
00:04:30.280 Rudy something.
00:04:30.980 Catherine knows his last name.
00:04:33.140 But Rudy something plays J.J., who is the sort of kind of cute surfer boy, rebel, sort
00:04:40.180 of a lot of trouble.
00:04:41.160 But listen, I can get why if you're a 14-year-old girl, he would be sort of a cute, attractive
00:04:46.800 guy.
00:04:47.040 So our puppy is named after the actor who plays J.J. in Outer Banks.
00:04:51.660 But as a Houstonian, I'm treating Rudy, I call him Rudy T, because I treat him as Rudy
00:04:56.120 Tomjanovich, the coach of the Rockets when we won the NBA championship in 94 and 95.
00:05:02.300 So for Catherine, he's Rudy.
00:05:03.820 But for me, I think the T is silent.
00:05:05.800 I love it.
00:05:06.420 That is nice.
00:05:07.600 And by the way, on the movie list, so you'll laugh, we got a new TV, right?
00:05:11.760 That was one of those like Christmas things.
00:05:13.160 Have you seen these frame TVs where it puts up artwork on the TV?
00:05:17.660 Oh, yeah.
00:05:17.880 You're getting highfalutin.
00:05:19.260 I'm sorry.
00:05:20.060 I'm not sure I can hang around such a fancy pants guy.
00:05:24.160 So this has been on the Mrs. List.
00:05:26.600 And she's like, look, I just love it.
00:05:28.340 It doesn't look like a TV hanging on your wall in the living room.
00:05:31.060 It can have like art up there.
00:05:32.600 So Black Friday, I grabbed the TV.
00:05:35.140 So fast forward to today, my dad's in town, and he's helping me mount this new TV.
00:05:41.580 And my mother-in-law comes over, and she's like, hey, I've got the list of movies that
00:05:45.780 you guys talked about.
00:05:46.880 Why don't you guys hurry up and put that TV up there, and we'll watch one of Ted's favorite
00:05:52.700 movies.
00:05:53.220 And I'm like, okay, great.
00:05:54.540 The only problem was we ran into a mounting issue with this fancy new TV, because it doesn't
00:06:00.280 mount like the other normal TVs in the world.
00:06:02.680 And finally, she gave up.
00:06:04.140 She was like, I'll see you tomorrow or whenever, and we'll watch the movie then.
00:06:07.260 So I disappointed my mother-in-law, but she was excited about your list.
00:06:11.120 So there is that there.
00:06:12.100 At least there's a silver lining in the moment.
00:06:14.960 And I don't know which TV it was, but she had written down the list of movies that she
00:06:19.720 had never watched that you had on your list, and then it turned into a thing.
00:06:22.920 So now I have a feeling I'm going to be watching some movies with the mother-in-law.
00:06:27.320 She's a movie fan like you are.
00:06:28.640 And then she asked, she goes, does he go to the movie theater?
00:06:30.940 I said, yes, he loves to go to the movie theater.
00:06:32.780 Did you go to any movies over the holidays?
00:06:34.760 I did.
00:06:35.300 I saw Gladiator 2, which I enjoyed.
00:06:37.760 It wasn't as good as Gladiator 1, but Denzel's awesome, and so it was fun.
00:06:43.480 So Rotten Tomatoes has their rating system.
00:06:46.100 If we're going to have a TC rating system, what would you have rated the new one?
00:06:50.200 Oh, I don't know.
00:06:52.720 On 1 to 5, I'd give it a 3.7.
00:06:58.580 I enjoyed it.
00:07:00.560 But Gladiator 1 is like a 4.9.
00:07:04.000 I don't remember, was Gladiator 1 in my top 25?
00:07:08.280 If it wasn't, it could easily have been.
00:07:09.920 Gladiator 1 is an awesome movie.
00:07:11.840 Gladiator 2 is fine.
00:07:12.940 So hold on, on a 5 scale, 0 to 5, what is a perfect 5 movie, just so everybody has a
00:07:19.340 barometer here?
00:07:20.140 The Princess Bride is right at the top of that list.
00:07:22.500 There you go.
00:07:23.100 5.0 there.
00:07:24.000 I love it.
00:07:24.740 All right, so let's get back to the world of politics as well.
00:07:28.140 And as we said, I like it.
00:07:29.900 We get to talk a little movies here.
00:07:31.220 We got a 5.0 Princess Bride.
00:07:32.900 If you've never watched it, you better do it.
00:07:35.140 That's just part of, if you like this podcast, that's like a price of admission.
00:07:40.380 If you've not seen Princess Bride, because you've watched it, what, 50 times in your
00:07:43.660 life?
00:07:44.160 Probably more.
00:07:45.100 More than that, I did get from a friend for Christmas this year a leather-bound copy of
00:07:51.280 the book The Princess Bride.
00:07:52.380 The book The Princess Bride is wonderful, too, but the movie is exquisite.
00:07:56.160 And I do take sort of odd, I don't know, like reverse psychology joy.
00:08:02.840 The entire cast of The Princess Bride are all lefties, and they periodically get together
00:08:08.540 and they do events to support Democrats, and many of them have been critical of me.
00:08:12.840 And actually, oddly enough, Cary Elwes, who is the dread pirate Roberts, and also Wesley,
00:08:18.000 so is the male lead in the movie, is a big lefty who I've gotten in Twitter wars with,
00:08:24.340 and he finally blocked me.
00:08:25.800 Like, he was bashing me.
00:08:27.960 And these guys think I can't enjoy their movie because they're little communists,
00:08:31.140 and so they say, no, no, no, you have to be a communist to enjoy my movie. 0.99
00:08:33.380 I'm like, screw you. 0.99
00:08:33.980 You made your art. 0.99
00:08:35.060 It's for the world to enjoy.
00:08:36.460 You don't get to decide how I enjoy it.
00:08:38.820 And amusingly enough, so when I got in a Twitter war with Cary Elwes,
00:08:42.920 I have in my office, you've been to my office in D.C., hanging on the wall,
00:08:48.200 is a signed photograph of Cary Elwes as the dread pirate Roberts.
00:08:53.300 And it is inscribed, not just to Ted, but to Ted Cruz, and, oh, I don't remember what he wrote.
00:08:59.000 I should remember what he wrote, but I don't.
00:09:00.440 But it's signed by him, and it was my first year in the Senate,
00:09:04.000 and we had an intern in the office who went to, like, a Comic-Con convention,
00:09:09.160 and he was there signing autographs, and she got him to sign it to me by name.
00:09:14.500 And I think at the time he didn't know who I was because he probably would have refused to do it.
00:09:18.300 But when we were in the Twitter fight, I took a picture of the framed photo of him
00:09:23.660 inscribed to me on my wall and tweeted it out, and he got so mad he blocked me.
00:09:28.240 That is actually hilarious.
00:09:29.760 All right, so I have my Princess Bride story, and then I promise we'll get to the political world.
00:09:34.840 So in high school—
00:09:35.760 By the way, there's a lot going on in politics.
00:09:37.460 There is, there is.
00:09:38.380 But in high school, you can judge me for this.
00:09:42.160 We had to do a book report on the Princess Bride.
00:09:44.840 Had to read the book.
00:09:46.120 You will not be shocked to know that when I was focused solely on playing tennis
00:09:50.960 and trying to make decent grades, there is a chance I went and bought the Cliff Notes.
00:09:57.340 Oh.
00:09:58.420 Not even the movie.
00:09:59.620 Not even the movie.
00:10:00.400 The Cliff Notes.
00:10:01.120 I was like, I got it.
00:10:02.220 And then I overachieved, and I went and bought the Spark Notes as well.
00:10:04.760 By the way, let me ask you something.
00:10:05.740 I think, do our younger listeners know what Cliff Notes are?
00:10:09.680 Do those still exist?
00:10:10.860 They do.
00:10:11.560 Cliff Notes and Spark Notes still exist.
00:10:13.340 So that's still a—I mean, look, it's been a while since you and I were in high school
00:10:16.900 and college, so I haven't looked for Cliff Notes.
00:10:18.100 I think most of them do chat GBT or whatever now, right?
00:10:21.780 But if you look at them, it's that—so Cliff Notes is the one that had the yellow and black
00:10:26.860 light on the cover.
00:10:27.060 Yeah, no, I remember them well.
00:10:28.580 Yeah.
00:10:28.940 And so someone in the class said, hey, make sure you get the Spark Notes.
00:10:32.540 Well, the joke was on me.
00:10:33.580 I was a new student at Westminster Academy, and my teacher, I will never forget her best
00:10:37.080 teacher I've ever had in my life, Mrs. Perry.
00:10:39.380 She made sure that every single question on your test for your book report could not be
00:10:46.980 answered by reading the Cliff Notes or the Spark Notes, so I got an F.
00:10:52.220 I got an F.
00:10:52.900 It was the first time I ever bought Cliff Notes and the last time I ever bought Cliff Notes
00:10:57.000 in high school, because she made sure there was not a single question that could be answered
00:11:01.440 from Cliff Notes.
00:11:02.780 That is a good teacher.
00:11:04.620 Benjamin, you have fallen for the second oldest blunder in the world.
00:11:07.360 The first, of course, is never get involved in a land war in Asia, but the second, only
00:11:11.080 slightly less famous, is never go against a Sicilian when death is on the line.
00:11:15.920 Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
00:11:19.980 And he falls over dead.
00:11:21.660 Yeah, there you go.
00:11:23.280 So there's, yeah, there's a steady moment for you kids out there. 0.99
00:11:25.600 I can do the entire damn movie. 0.99
00:11:27.320 It really is. 1.00
00:11:28.000 It's a sick party trick.
00:11:30.660 And I got to tell you, as a teenager, it was not effective for getting girls.
00:11:38.440 It was not.
00:11:39.340 No, no, no.
00:11:40.240 I have no doubt imagined that.
00:11:41.480 I got to say, being a tennis star, I'm sure was more effective in that regard.
00:11:46.120 It definitely worked more than quoting Princess Bride.
00:11:49.300 That's a low bar.
00:11:51.040 I don't know what that's actually saying, but, you know, barely there.
00:11:56.240 But, you know, I could go to a Dungeons & Dragons convention and, like, hang out and be just fine.
00:12:01.260 Be honest.
00:12:01.980 Did you ever go to one?
00:12:03.080 Because I never did.
00:12:04.000 I didn't know they existed.
00:12:04.480 No, I did not go to a convention.
00:12:05.560 I did play Dungeons & Dragons as a kid, but I did not actually go to a convention.
00:12:09.220 It's sort of, it's kind of like Star Trek.
00:12:11.740 I'm sort of a Trekkie in that I've watched all the movies.
00:12:14.480 I've watched not 100% of the episodes, but most of them.
00:12:18.080 And I really like Star Trek.
00:12:19.500 But Trekkies are such, so intense about it that I don't actually dress as Mr. Spock,
00:12:27.700 so I don't feel like a full-on Trekkie.
00:12:29.480 I just really enjoy Star Trek.
00:12:31.780 So the first TV show you and I would have ever connected on then clearly would have been
00:12:35.460 The West Wing.
00:12:37.140 West Wing is fabulous.
00:12:39.980 That was, I've watched it, I don't know, six, seven times.
00:12:44.280 See, I only think I've watched it once.
00:12:45.720 I watched it when it aired live, and that was before streaming.
00:12:51.300 So I was, and Heidi and I were on the George W. Bush campaign at the time, so every night
00:12:56.740 it aired Wednesdays, I think at 9 p.m., and we had TVs at the end.
00:13:01.560 We all had cubicles.
00:13:02.460 We're all in little cubicles at 301 Congress Avenue in Austin, Texas, and at 9 p.m. Wednesday
00:13:07.400 at the end of every aisle of cubicles was a TV, and we would stop, and for an hour from
00:13:11.780 9 to 10 p.m., every campaign staffer would watch The West Wing, and I watched it live,
00:13:17.400 but I don't know that I've ever watched a rerun of The West Wing, so I loved every episode.
00:13:21.420 So every time I get sick, every time I'm like the flu or I've had a surgery, that's when
00:13:26.440 I will binge watch it, because I have the DVD set, and it's like comfort food.
00:13:30.880 It's like you're sick, and you can kind of doze off and take a nap and wake up, and you
00:13:34.780 know exactly where you are in the series, and that's when I watch it.
00:13:37.200 I never watch outside of when I'm sick, but if I am really sick, in bed, laid up, it
00:13:41.700 is West Wing for me the entire time.
00:13:44.320 All right, let's get...
00:13:45.280 By the way, what series are you watching now?
00:13:47.860 This is a complete digression.
00:13:49.240 Oh, 100%, I am all into Landman.
00:13:52.440 Landman is so good.
00:13:53.900 It's so good.
00:13:54.520 Landman is crack cocaine inserted in my veins.
00:13:58.200 Billy Bob Thornton, I love the man, and Taylor Sheridan can write like nobody's business.
00:14:05.120 Yeah, he's like the new Aaron Sorkin of my life, and Sorkin, for people that don't know,
00:14:09.680 he did West Wing and several other amazing shows.
00:14:11.840 The American President.
00:14:13.080 American President, the movie, yeah, Newsroom, the show on HBO.
00:14:15.900 Did you watch the Newsroom, by the way?
00:14:17.260 I did, it was well done.
00:14:18.620 Yeah, so it was one of those, and I actually knew a couple of the people that were, quote,
00:14:23.800 consultants on that, the same way that Sorkin had consultants like Dee Dee Myers and others
00:14:29.040 on the West Wing, and they wanted to make it extremely accurate in the newsroom.
00:14:33.040 At the time, I was a commentator at CNN when Newsroom came out, and I've been, like, every
00:14:37.660 time, I think it was every Sunday night, it came out at 9 on HBO, and I was just like,
00:14:41.920 watch it religiously.
00:14:43.420 Those guys, like you said, Sheridan can write, but yeah, Landman right now is amazing, and
00:14:48.340 then obviously they're wrapping up Yellowstone with this, like, last season.
00:14:51.920 And by the way, we are going to do a different episode that is not this episode, but we are
00:14:55.760 going to do an episode like the movie episode on streaming series to watch, because I've
00:15:01.060 got a, I'm on a lot of airplanes, and so I watch a lot of streaming series, but that
00:15:04.900 will not be this episode, it'll be later.
00:15:06.480 Last thing, what's the top one on your list right now?
00:15:08.460 What are you watching streaming, besides Landman?
00:15:10.900 So streaming, I'm watching The Gifted, which Caroline, my oldest daughter, asked me to
00:15:15.360 watch that.
00:15:15.960 It's sort of a mutant series that had two seasons, so I'm in the middle of the second
00:15:19.080 season of that.
00:15:20.460 And then I'm in season seven of The Walking Dead, which I never watched The Walking Dead
00:15:24.440 when it was on air, and so what I'm now, when I'm on airplanes...
00:15:27.060 Is it worth it, because I've never watched it?
00:15:28.780 Oh, look, it's a bunch of zombies eating your face, like, it's not, is it literature?
00:15:34.400 No.
00:15:35.440 But it's fun, I'm enjoying it, and it is, you know, I do get strange looks on an airplane
00:15:39.820 when I'm sitting there on a plane, and people walk by, and there's a zombie eating someone's
00:15:43.740 face, and there's, you know, people who don't like me are like, figures, yeah, he'd be rooting
00:15:48.600 for the zombies.
00:15:49.080 That's exactly what I expected, he'd be watching.
00:15:51.040 For the record, I'm not rooting for the zombies, but haters gonna hate.
00:15:54.960 Haters gonna hate, I love it.
00:15:56.140 All right, now, let's get back to the political world.
00:15:58.620 I enjoyed that, by the way, that was nice, after Christmas.
00:16:01.640 So, Joe Biden's administration has got some cover-ups going on that the Wall Street Journal
00:16:08.100 Center is reporting on.
00:16:10.000 Behind the closed doors, we found out that the Lably cover-up was a legit cover-up, and
00:16:15.740 now, since he's lost, it's like, oh, we can report on this now.
00:16:19.720 Well, this was a story that came out of the Wall Street Journal December 26, and it really
00:16:24.180 is a bombshell story, and it describes how the federal government, essentially the deep
00:16:30.160 state, under Joe Biden, but this is also true under Trump, they didn't, the journal article
00:16:34.800 doesn't talk about Trump, but I'm very interested to what was happening under the Trump administration
00:16:38.780 as well, but how the deep state covered up the evidence and covered up the scientists that
00:16:45.260 were arguing that the COVID virus escaped from the Wuhan lab in China.
00:16:51.820 And it focuses on, in particular, it starts with Jason Bannon.
00:16:57.400 So, here, I'm just going to read you the beginning of the article, because it lays it out.
00:17:01.120 A car and driver had been ready to whisk Jason Bannon from FBI headquarters early one morning
00:17:05.640 in August 2021 to brief the White House on a novel virus that was killing hundreds of thousands
00:17:10.640 of Americans that had stopped the world in its tracks. 0.99
00:17:14.000 Bannon had been told by his superiors to be on hand in case the Federal Bureau of Investigation
00:17:18.540 was asked to join a top intelligence community briefing for the president.
00:17:23.180 But the White House summons never came.
00:17:26.120 Bannon, a PhD in microbiology, had joined the Bureau after the September 11th terrorist attacks
00:17:31.140 in New York and Washington, when the agency bulked up its expertise to deal with the threat
00:17:35.500 of germ weapons, toxins, and other weapons of mass destruction.
00:17:38.860 But for more than a year, he had spent most of his waking hours on the COVID-19 virus that
00:17:43.380 had seeped out of China in 2019.
00:17:46.760 Frustrated by China's stonewalling, President Biden had ordered an urgent assessment by the
00:17:51.140 U.S. intelligence agencies and national laboratories on whether the virus had leapt from an animal
00:17:56.080 to a human or had escaped from a Chinese lab that had been doing extensive work on coronaviruses.
00:18:01.680 The dominant view within the intelligence community was clear when Avril Haines, the director of
00:18:06.400 national intelligence, and a couple of her senior analysts briefed Biden's and his top aides
00:18:10.900 on August 24th. The National Intelligence Council, a body of senior intelligence officers who reported
00:18:16.560 to Haines, and that organized the intelligence review, had concluded with, quote, low confidence
00:18:22.540 that COVID-19 had emerged when the virus leapt from an animal to a human. So did four intelligence
00:18:29.200 agencies. At the time, the FBI was the only agency that had concluded that a lab leak was likely,
00:18:36.740 a judgment that it had rendered with, quote, moderate confidence. But neither Bannon nor any other FBI
00:18:44.420 officials were at the briefing to make the case firsthand to the president. Quote, being the only
00:18:51.820 agency that assessed a laboratory origin was more likely, and the agency that expressed the highest
00:18:57.560 level confidence in its analysis of the source of the pandemic, we anticipated the FBI would be asked
00:19:03.220 to attend the briefing, Bannon recalled in his first on-the-record interview on the subject.
00:19:07.940 I find it surprising that the White House didn't ask. In this article in the Wall Street Journal,
00:19:13.180 it goes on and on discussing Bannon, this FBI scientist, but also scientists throughout the
00:19:19.440 federal government who had laid out evidence early on that COVID came from a Chinese lab,
00:19:24.200 and that evidence was systematically shut down. It was systematically de-emphasized,
00:19:30.020 it appears that it was systematically blocked from going to the White House under Joe Biden. And as
00:19:35.320 I said, I'm very interested. The Wall Street Journal doesn't report this, but my suspicion is they
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00:20:14.020 So here's my question, and this is a political one. There are people that are really frustrated
00:20:20.380 with so much that happened around COVID and the answers we didn't get and Fauci lying to Congress.
00:20:27.380 The list goes on and on. And there's people that are frustrated saying, all right, now that Republicans
00:20:31.840 are in charge, what are they going to do about it? Are they going to investigate? Are they going to hold
00:20:36.680 people accountable if they were lying to us, whether it's on the origins, whether it's like getting a
00:20:40.860 function research, there's a long list. Should Republicans go down that rabbit hole and do that? 0.77
00:20:47.980 Or is that going to be looked at by many Americans like, move on already? We've done this already.
00:20:53.000 What are you doing already? There's a real political price that you could pay from being
00:20:58.120 out of touch with what the American people want. I know there's people that are angry and are
00:21:01.320 frustrated. But what should the strategy be come January 20th? I think the strategy should be
00:21:07.280 serious transparency. And it should be accountability. It should be number one.
00:21:12.720 So you are in favor of accountability for people that lie to Congress. Okay.
00:21:17.680 So let me start with transparency. And this is a conversation I have had the last couple of
00:21:24.120 weeks with Pam Bondi, who's been nominated to be the attorney general, and with Cash Patel,
00:21:28.500 who's been nominated to be the director of the FBI, and also with the nominee for the deputy
00:21:32.740 attorney general, and with other senior law enforcement nominees. I've said very simply,
00:21:38.060 make the information public. Make it public on January 6th, the confidential informants that
00:21:45.720 were there. Don't give the names. Don't out, obviously, people who were undercover. But make
00:21:51.340 the information public. It is a public interest. And on COVID-19, put the evidence out there and make
00:21:57.720 it public. I believe China was directly culpable. And by the way, I will say this is a prediction 0.99
00:22:03.540 that verdict laid out almost before anybody else. We had two different podcasts, I believe, in March
00:22:12.700 and April of 2021, right at the very beginning of COVID, where we laid out the evidence that the
00:22:21.320 COVID virus came from a Chinese lab. And that evidence we're going to do for New Year's, we're 1.00
00:22:27.920 going to do an episode going through all of the predictions that verdict has laid out that have
00:22:32.240 come true. Because, look, we have not been shy on taking a risk, on making a prediction, making a
00:22:39.560 counterintuitive. Look, when I said COVID came from a Chinese virus at the time, that was almost
00:22:46.680 universally labeled misinformation. Oh, it was on social media. You couldn't post that. They'd shut
00:22:52.920 you down. It remains remarkable. To this day, I don't know why they didn't block verdict when we said it,
00:22:57.700 because others were getting blocked. Somehow we got through. And by the way, I will say it wasn't
00:23:09.180 just this scientist at the FBI. Let me go back to the Wall Street Journal article. Here's a couple
00:23:14.860 more paragraphs. Quote, three scientists at the National Center for Medical Intelligence,
00:23:20.200 part of the Pentagon's Defense Intelligence Agency, conducted a scientific study that concluded
00:23:25.460 that COVID-19 was manipulated in a laboratory in a risky research effort. But that analysis was at
00:23:32.980 odds with the assessment of their parent agency, the Defense Intelligence Agency, and wasn't incorporated
00:23:38.660 in the report presented to Biden. The DIA Inspector General's office opened an inquiry in the spring into
00:23:45.060 whether the scientist's assessment was mishandled or suppressed, people familiar with the matter said.
00:23:50.940 And look, I think this is important. Number one, because we need truth and accountability. I think the Chinese
00:23:58.560 government bears enormous responsibility for the people who died, for the millions who died. 1.2 million Americans
00:24:07.560 are counted as having been killed with the coronavirus. 7 million people worldwide. It was a massive consequence,
00:24:17.320 and the economy shut down globally. Trillions of dollars was destroyed. Millions of lives,
00:24:25.000 trillions of dollars, and I believe the Chinese communist government has direct culpability for that.
00:24:31.140 And I think the Trump administration would be doing America and the world of service for making that evidence public.
00:24:38.300 But I also think it's important. Listen, there's going to be another crisis. We don't want career bureaucrats within the government
00:24:46.060 suppressing evidence that they don't like. We don't want career bureaucrats, the deep state, pushing their preferred narrative.
00:24:54.820 You got to ask why they were leaning in so hard to protect China. Why was that the dominant narrative?
00:25:01.540 And why was everything else shut down? Because the next crisis we face, let's go back to the Wall Street Journal article,
00:25:11.340 because we also saw the scientific community lean in like crazy. Here's another two paragraphs.
00:25:17.480 Talking about two theories, one that it came from an animal naturally, and the other that it came from a lab leak.
00:25:23.280 Quote,
00:25:23.520 Those two theories have also divided the scientific community. In February 2020,
00:25:28.620 more than two dozen scientists published a statement in the medical journal Lancet
00:25:32.500 calling the lab leak hypothesis a conspiracy theory
00:25:36.280 that would jeopardize global cooperation and the struggle against the virus.
00:25:40.960 One of the authors was Peter Daszak of EcoHealth Alliance,
00:25:44.560 a nonprofit that has worked extensively on coronavirus research with the Wuhan Institute.
00:25:51.320 That statement was followed a month later by a March 2020 paper on the proximal origins of COVID-19,
00:25:57.980 in which Kristen Anderson of the Scripps Research Institute and four other scientists argued
00:26:02.580 that the virus wasn't purposely manipulated in the laboratory and almost certainly had natural origins.
00:26:09.420 Now, my view right now, based on the evidence that is public,
00:26:12.600 I think it is overwhelmingly likely
00:26:14.820 that the COVID virus escaped from a Chinese government lab.
00:26:19.520 And I think it is likely, I wouldn't use the word overwhelmingly,
00:26:23.420 but I think it is greater than 50 percent,
00:26:25.720 that the COVID virus was manipulated by those Chinese scientists 0.99
00:26:29.660 through gain-of-function research
00:26:31.200 to make it either more deadly,
00:26:34.640 more transmissible,
00:26:36.020 or more in particular
00:26:37.820 able to impact humans.
00:26:42.040 That has not been as conclusively proven
00:26:44.300 as has been proven in my judgment
00:26:46.720 that it escaped from a government lab.
00:26:48.620 It's possible it was a natural virus
00:26:50.420 and they screwed up 0.54
00:26:52.080 and it escaped.
00:26:53.340 It is indisputable
00:26:54.740 that China covered it up
00:26:55.960 and did everything they could
00:26:56.780 to suppress it after the fact.
00:26:58.320 But I think it is more likely than not
00:27:00.320 that not only did it escape
00:27:01.440 from a Chinese government lab,
00:27:02.660 but they created it
00:27:03.800 through gain-of-function research.
00:27:05.660 We need to know that.
00:27:07.240 And I got to say,
00:27:08.140 the paragraph I read,
00:27:09.900 Peter Daszak
00:27:10.660 got a whole lot of money
00:27:12.840 at the EcoHealth Alliance
00:27:14.060 for doing research
00:27:15.380 on coronavirus research
00:27:16.600 at the Wuhan Institute.
00:27:17.960 There's every reason to expect
00:27:19.660 he was deeply invested
00:27:21.440 in not having anyone know that.
00:27:23.660 And by the way,
00:27:24.340 so was Anthony Fauci.
00:27:25.620 And Anthony Fauci's culpability,
00:27:28.020 Daszak's culpability.
00:27:28.940 I hope we have congressional hearings on this.
00:27:31.260 I hope we get to the bottom
00:27:32.300 of what actually happened
00:27:33.400 because I think there is virtue
00:27:35.040 to transparency and clarity,
00:27:38.300 both for accountability
00:27:39.980 and responsibility
00:27:41.040 for the Chinese communist government,
00:27:42.680 but also to prevent
00:27:44.800 manipulating the science
00:27:46.080 for the next crisis.
00:27:47.600 So final question on this,
00:27:49.080 and that's going to come back to Fauci.
00:27:51.220 What does accountability look like
00:27:52.960 for a guy like that?
00:27:54.420 Look, I don't know.
00:27:55.520 I think it is likely
00:27:58.000 that Fauci lied to Congress under oath.
00:28:00.640 Lying to Congress under oath
00:28:01.840 is a felony.
00:28:03.100 I've called repeatedly.
00:28:04.000 I've asked Merrick Garland
00:28:05.320 if he's open an investigation,
00:28:07.200 if he's willing to prosecute Fauci.
00:28:09.340 Merrick Garland had no interest
00:28:10.480 in prosecuting Fauci.
00:28:12.000 As I'm sitting here right now,
00:28:13.400 I don't remember the dates.
00:28:14.560 I think it is likely
00:28:15.520 the statute of limitations
00:28:16.620 has expired on prosecuting him.
00:28:19.120 So it may be,
00:28:20.720 I'm not remembering the dates
00:28:22.600 as you and I are doing this right now,
00:28:23.820 but I think there's a good chance
00:28:25.160 that Trump cannot prosecute
00:28:27.060 Fauci for lying to Congress.
00:28:30.040 But I think laying out
00:28:31.380 that accountability is important.
00:28:32.860 And I think the reason
00:28:33.680 the Biden DOJ didn't want to do so
00:28:35.840 is because this has been
00:28:36.980 the most politicized
00:28:38.480 Department of Justice in history.
00:28:40.460 Fauci went before Congress
00:28:42.020 and insisted that
00:28:43.240 that the U.S. government
00:28:44.280 had not paid for,
00:28:46.200 had not funded
00:28:46.960 gain-of-function research.
00:28:48.200 And actually,
00:28:49.360 the NIH came back
00:28:50.540 and had to correct that
00:28:51.320 after the fact
00:28:52.020 and make clear
00:28:52.880 that what he said
00:28:53.580 was false.
00:28:55.160 Which this, by the way,
00:28:56.320 brings me to a perfect
00:28:58.120 segue to the second topic
00:29:00.960 I want to hit.
00:29:01.720 And the way 0.97
00:29:03.600 that you're talking
00:29:04.220 about accountability
00:29:05.020 maybe explains
00:29:07.120 why we are now seeing
00:29:08.860 Democrats
00:29:09.680 write articles
00:29:11.160 saying that it's time
00:29:13.540 to steal the election
00:29:14.400 from Donald Trump
00:29:15.380 in The Hill,
00:29:16.200 for example.
00:29:16.980 Congress has the power
00:29:18.280 to block Trump
00:29:19.180 from taking office,
00:29:21.060 but lawmakers must
00:29:22.260 quote,
00:29:22.940 act now.
00:29:24.400 This was an opinion
00:29:25.540 piece written
00:29:26.540 by two different individuals
00:29:27.900 demanding that the Democrats
00:29:30.020 refuse to accept
00:29:31.640 the outcome
00:29:32.280 of the election.
00:29:33.200 So much for the party
00:29:34.160 that's obsessed
00:29:34.720 with democracy, right?
00:29:36.280 Yeah, I gotta say
00:29:37.400 this is an article
00:29:38.600 that was in The Hill
00:29:39.540 that it came out again
00:29:40.520 on December 26th,
00:29:41.580 day after Christmas.
00:29:43.060 It is entitled,
00:29:44.220 Congress has the power
00:29:45.020 to block Trump
00:29:45.600 from taking office,
00:29:46.580 but lawmakers must
00:29:47.480 act now.
00:29:48.620 And it is by
00:29:49.360 Evan Davis
00:29:50.220 and David Schulte
00:29:52.380 who,
00:29:54.200 I don't know
00:29:54.800 either one of these
00:29:55.460 individuals,
00:29:56.020 I don't know anything
00:29:56.540 about them.
00:29:57.200 Their bio says,
00:29:59.720 Evan Davis was editor-in-chief
00:30:01.060 of the Columbia Law Review
00:30:02.020 and David Schulte
00:30:02.780 was editor-in-chief
00:30:03.640 of the Yale Law Journal.
00:30:05.220 Both clerked
00:30:05.840 for Justice Potter Stewart.
00:30:07.760 Davis is a New York lawyer
00:30:08.880 who served as president
00:30:09.660 of the New York City Bar
00:30:10.520 and Schulte is a Chicago
00:30:11.520 investment banker.
00:30:12.680 I don't know these guys,
00:30:14.200 but it's been a long time
00:30:15.540 since Potter Stewart
00:30:16.500 served on the court,
00:30:18.040 which means
00:30:18.540 these are not spring chickens.
00:30:20.020 They were law clerks
00:30:21.100 a long time ago.
00:30:23.340 I mean,
00:30:23.580 I clerked for Chief Justice
00:30:24.960 Rehnquist in 1996
00:30:26.940 and by the time
00:30:28.580 I was there,
00:30:29.180 Potter Stewart
00:30:29.660 had been long, long gone.
00:30:31.700 And I gotta say
00:30:32.400 the most screamingly
00:30:33.460 funny part of it is
00:30:34.540 they begin their bios
00:30:35.620 with they were editor-in-chief
00:30:36.680 of the Columbia Law Review
00:30:37.580 and the Yale Law Journal.
00:30:39.020 Like, I'm sorry,
00:30:40.060 these are presumably
00:30:41.000 accomplished lawyers
00:30:42.000 who are grown-ass adults
00:30:43.180 and they're quoting
00:30:44.460 the law review
00:30:45.620 they were on
00:30:46.340 when they were 24 years old. 0.97
00:30:48.440 That's just ridiculous. 0.95
00:30:50.020 And it actually, 0.98
00:30:52.720 it makes the rest
00:30:54.560 of the article make sense
00:30:55.880 because,
00:30:57.720 listen,
00:30:58.000 part of the reason
00:30:58.600 our academy
00:30:59.220 is so messed up
00:31:01.480 is you have people
00:31:03.660 who are disconnected
00:31:04.500 from reality
00:31:05.420 who are hardcore leftists.
00:31:07.600 Far too many people
00:31:08.580 in our universities
00:31:09.760 are openly Marxist.
00:31:12.740 When I was at Harvard Law School,
00:31:14.000 there were more professors
00:31:15.480 on the faculty
00:31:16.260 who were explicitly Marxist
00:31:18.260 than there were
00:31:19.500 who were Republican.
00:31:20.400 And it wasn't even close.
00:31:21.140 There were more than a dozen
00:31:22.480 by their own self-description
00:31:25.380 Marxist professors.
00:31:26.600 There was only one
00:31:27.680 open Republican
00:31:28.580 on the faculty
00:31:29.200 when I was there.
00:31:30.200 But what these two
00:31:32.120 numbskulls are arguing
00:31:33.360 is that Congress,
00:31:35.160 when we come together
00:31:36.060 on January 6th,
00:31:37.260 should block Trump
00:31:39.420 from becoming president
00:31:40.440 and we should do so,
00:31:41.560 they argue,
00:31:42.600 under the 14th Amendment
00:31:43.760 Section 3 of the Constitution
00:31:45.260 that says no person
00:31:46.760 shall hold any office,
00:31:48.180 civil or military,
00:31:49.180 who, having previously
00:31:49.980 taken an oath
00:31:50.620 to support the Constitution,
00:31:52.040 shall have engaged
00:31:52.720 in insurrection
00:31:53.320 or rebellion
00:31:54.360 against the same.
00:31:55.720 Now, they argue
00:31:57.120 this has been
00:31:58.180 disqualification.
00:32:00.420 The evidence of Trump's
00:32:01.340 engagement in insurrection
00:32:02.740 is overwhelming.
00:32:04.240 It has been decided
00:32:05.080 in three separate forums,
00:32:06.800 they write,
00:32:07.220 two of which
00:32:07.640 are fully contested
00:32:08.400 with the active participation
00:32:09.220 of Trump's counsel.
00:32:10.360 The first
00:32:11.220 was Trump's
00:32:12.280 second impeachment trial.
00:32:14.000 The second contested proceeding
00:32:16.200 was Colorado's
00:32:17.180 five-day
00:32:17.860 judicial due process
00:32:20.880 hearing
00:32:21.240 where they found
00:32:22.040 that Trump had engaged
00:32:23.160 in insurrection
00:32:23.720 and barred him
00:32:24.260 from the ballot.
00:32:25.220 And finally,
00:32:26.160 there is the bipartisan inquiry
00:32:27.560 of the House Select Committee
00:32:28.620 to investigate
00:32:29.300 January 6th.
00:32:30.960 Now, 1.00
00:32:32.020 the stupidity 1.00
00:32:33.140 of this argument 1.00
00:32:34.040 literally leaps off
00:32:35.260 of every syllable
00:32:36.040 of every word
00:32:36.800 that they have written.
00:32:37.960 Let's take the first.
00:32:39.640 Okay,
00:32:40.020 a bunch of partisan Democrats
00:32:41.600 impeach Trump
00:32:42.760 because they hate him.
00:32:44.300 And by the way,
00:32:44.760 to be clear,
00:32:45.360 verdict was launched
00:32:46.380 in response
00:32:47.440 not to the second impeachment
00:32:48.520 but in response
00:32:49.260 to the first impeachment trial
00:32:50.600 because we have seen
00:32:51.600 lawfare against Donald Trump.
00:32:54.040 Trump derangement syndrome
00:32:55.580 is real. 1.00
00:32:56.540 It is a serious mental illness. 1.00
00:32:58.500 These people are friggin' nuts. 1.00
00:33:00.140 They hate his guts. 1.00
00:33:01.320 They've lost their minds. 0.97
00:33:02.660 And at this point,
00:33:03.460 understand,
00:33:04.660 these two numbskulls 0.78
00:33:05.880 and every other Democrat 0.78
00:33:07.400 who engages in fantasy
00:33:10.500 about this
00:33:11.440 is an election denier
00:33:13.660 and an insurrectionist.
00:33:15.300 They are trying to say,
00:33:16.460 we don't care
00:33:16.880 that the voters voted.
00:33:17.840 We don't care
00:33:18.440 that the result
00:33:19.000 was overwhelming.
00:33:19.800 We don't care
00:33:20.500 that of the seven
00:33:21.580 contested battleground states,
00:33:23.380 Donald Trump won,
00:33:24.300 not one,
00:33:24.740 not two,
00:33:25.120 not three,
00:33:25.500 not four,
00:33:25.880 not five,
00:33:26.280 not six,
00:33:26.760 but seven,
00:33:27.600 all seven.
00:33:28.540 We don't care.
00:33:29.800 We are angry leftists
00:33:31.100 and their argument is
00:33:33.020 we should block it.
00:33:35.000 Now,
00:33:35.260 to be clear,
00:33:36.600 they said there were
00:33:37.240 three different proceedings
00:33:38.820 that had determined
00:33:39.560 he was an insurrectionist.
00:33:40.660 The first was
00:33:41.200 the impeachment trial.
00:33:41.980 Of course,
00:33:42.800 the impeachment trial
00:33:43.680 is two parts.
00:33:45.400 One is the impeachment
00:33:46.260 of the House of Representatives
00:33:47.340 and partisan Democrats
00:33:48.300 did impeach him,
00:33:49.000 but then it went to the Senate
00:33:49.900 and there was a trial.
00:33:51.280 And at the end of the trial,
00:33:52.380 Donald Trump was acquitted.
00:33:54.040 They ignore that fact.
00:33:55.020 It literally is not mentioned
00:33:56.020 in the Rop ad.
00:33:57.040 The second
00:33:57.740 is the Colorado,
00:33:59.700 the radical partisan decision
00:34:01.320 of the Colorado Supreme Court,
00:34:03.300 except for the fact
00:34:04.300 that the U.S. Supreme Court
00:34:05.720 unanimously
00:34:07.220 reversed that decision.
00:34:09.540 By the way,
00:34:09.860 that's another prediction
00:34:10.740 I made on this podcast.
00:34:12.560 When the Colorado Supreme Court
00:34:13.900 came back down,
00:34:14.940 I said this will be reversed
00:34:16.240 and it will be reversed
00:34:17.160 unanimously.
00:34:18.240 That's what the court did.
00:34:20.240 They barely acknowledged
00:34:22.220 the Supreme Court reversed it,
00:34:23.520 but they just kind of ignore it
00:34:24.520 and say,
00:34:24.720 well,
00:34:24.980 that's another way
00:34:25.720 it was determined
00:34:26.240 in a decision
00:34:27.120 that has been reversed
00:34:27.960 unanimously
00:34:28.740 by the Supreme Court.
00:34:30.360 And the third,
00:34:31.240 I really laugh,
00:34:32.180 is the, quote,
00:34:33.240 bipartisan inquiry
00:34:34.340 of the House Select Committee
00:34:35.380 to investigate January 6th.
00:34:37.240 Now, it's bipartisan
00:34:38.000 because Liz Cheney
00:34:39.640 and Adam Kinzinger,
00:34:40.600 two people fully afflicted
00:34:42.060 by Trump derangement syndrome,
00:34:43.180 were included.
00:34:43.960 Of course,
00:34:44.240 Nancy Pelosi allowed
00:34:45.320 no Republicans on it.
00:34:46.400 Who, by the way,
00:34:46.880 voted for Kamala Harris
00:34:48.460 and Joe Biden.
00:34:49.720 So let's not forget that.
00:34:51.040 But they're like,
00:34:51.520 oh,
00:34:51.780 they act like
00:34:52.420 they were Republicans.
00:34:53.380 No, they're not.
00:34:54.540 Look, to be clear,
00:34:55.520 and by the way,
00:34:56.060 both of them
00:34:56.560 also campaigned against me.
00:34:57.800 I was really grateful for it.
00:34:58.740 I think that was quite helpful.
00:34:59.740 Probably drove votes my way. 0.83
00:35:01.280 But to call
00:35:03.080 that inquiry bipartisan
00:35:04.960 when the way
00:35:07.120 committees are put together
00:35:08.980 on Capitol Hill
00:35:09.820 is that both sides pick,
00:35:13.340 the Republicans pick,
00:35:14.320 the Republicans on the committee,
00:35:15.400 the Democrats pick,
00:35:16.100 the Democrats on the committee.
00:35:17.440 Well, for the January 6th committee,
00:35:18.960 Nancy Pelosi said, 0.96
00:35:19.800 no, no, no.
00:35:20.720 I'm picking the Republicans.
00:35:22.480 And the only Republicans
00:35:23.520 I will allow on
00:35:24.660 are people who hate Donald Trump,
00:35:26.220 who are foaming at the mouth,
00:35:27.580 who will do everything they can
00:35:28.720 to destroy Donald Trump.
00:35:29.980 They're the only ones 0.58
00:35:30.860 I will allow on.
00:35:31.700 And so, you know,
00:35:34.100 when you had other Republicans
00:35:35.860 that Kevin McCarthy
00:35:36.720 was trying to put on,
00:35:37.980 Nancy Pelosi said, 0.96
00:35:38.600 nope, they are not welcome.
00:35:40.500 We only take Republicans
00:35:43.040 who agree with the Democrats
00:35:44.040 on everything.
00:35:44.900 That ain't a bipartisan inquiry.
00:35:46.660 And by the way,
00:35:47.340 we're getting more and more evidence
00:35:48.460 of just how skewed that was.
00:35:50.460 The point is,
00:35:51.960 at the end of the day,
00:35:53.020 it doesn't really matter
00:35:54.820 what this op-ed was
00:35:56.280 other than it is a window
00:35:58.180 into the eyes
00:35:59.440 of what the hard left is.
00:36:02.960 They hate Trump so much.
00:36:06.180 Sigmund Freud talked about projection
00:36:07.760 and the left engages
00:36:09.660 in projection all the time.
00:36:11.900 Everything they accuse
00:36:13.300 their enemies of doing
00:36:14.480 is what they are doing.
00:36:15.780 They claim to be 0.84
00:36:16.960 defending democracy.
00:36:18.900 This may be the most
00:36:20.140 anti-democratic article
00:36:22.540 I have ever read,
00:36:23.720 which is saying
00:36:25.200 that Congress should say,
00:36:26.540 I don't care
00:36:27.560 that the voters elected Trump.
00:36:29.020 And by the way,
00:36:29.700 they don't dispute
00:36:30.300 that the voters elect Trump.
00:36:31.400 They fully accept,
00:36:32.860 yes, the American people
00:36:34.280 came to vote
00:36:35.100 and want Donald Trump,
00:36:36.500 but we know better
00:36:37.760 than they do.
00:36:38.880 And so take a stand
00:36:41.040 and take a stand
00:36:43.060 to block
00:36:43.900 what the voters want.
00:36:45.160 Why?
00:36:45.620 Because we are Democrats
00:36:46.840 and we hate democracy.
00:36:48.620 They don't say that,
00:36:49.360 but that's clearly
00:36:49.880 what they can include.
00:36:51.300 Yeah, so much for the party of,
00:36:52.840 hey, we're all for
00:36:53.540 whatever the people want.
00:36:54.760 No, when it comes down to it,
00:36:56.100 this is what they do.
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