Verdict with Ted Cruz - January 20, 2023


Border Madness & Gun Ignorance


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Misogynist Sentences

6

Hate Speech Sentences

12


Summary


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00:00:04.900 Welcome to Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz.
00:00:07.060 Ben Ferguson with you.
00:00:08.180 Senator, nice to be with you today,
00:00:10.100 except we're in different places on this episode
00:00:12.700 for people that are like, wait,
00:00:14.120 why aren't they in the same room?
00:00:15.480 I had to fly back to my hometown of Memphis
00:00:17.280 to check out my dad who was in the hospital.
00:00:19.920 He is doing okay, but that's why we're remote today.
00:00:22.780 And Senator, it's good to be with you as always.
00:00:25.320 Ben, great to be with you.
00:00:26.660 A lot going on in the world
00:00:27.780 and hope your dad continues to do better.
00:00:29.740 He is doing well, thank goodness.
00:00:31.640 Let's start in on this big issue,
00:00:33.740 and that is we have a game plan now
00:00:36.120 from the president of the United States of America
00:00:38.280 to fix the problems at the border.
00:00:41.660 And he's decided that if we just use woke terminology,
00:00:46.420 all the issues at the border are gonna go away.
00:00:49.240 Let's just let you get your initial reaction
00:00:51.660 to some of these terminologies the president's decided to use
00:00:54.800 while visiting apparently the president in Mexico.
00:00:57.280 This is what their master plan is.
00:00:59.180 Yeah, look, it's even worse than that.
00:01:01.660 So in the last few days, Joe Biden,
00:01:04.240 there's good news and bad news.
00:01:05.840 Joe Biden has done more in the last few days
00:01:08.220 on our southern border
00:01:09.160 than he has the entirety of his presidency.
00:01:10.920 That's the good news.
00:01:12.440 The bad news is everything he's done is bad.
00:01:15.020 He flew down to the southern border.
00:01:17.060 He went to El Paso, not the Rio Grande Valley,
00:01:19.640 which is the epicenter of the disaster.
00:01:21.420 Before he arrived in El Paso,
00:01:22.820 there had been illegal immigrants sleeping on the streets.
00:01:25.460 The mayor had declared it an emergency.
00:01:27.700 So what did they do?
00:01:28.400 They cleaned all the illegal immigrants off the street
00:01:30.140 before Joe Biden arrived
00:01:31.300 because they wanted to set it up like a TV set
00:01:33.980 and clear everyone out.
00:01:35.940 When he got there, this is an amazing thing,
00:01:38.280 Corrine Jean-Pierre said from the White House podium.
00:01:42.840 She said Biden did not meet or speak to or see
00:01:46.020 a single illegal immigrant when he was there.
00:01:49.600 Now, Ben, that is frigging hard.
00:01:51.420 I have been to the border many, many times.
00:01:55.160 We've had 5.3 million people cross illegally
00:01:58.500 under Joe Biden's presidency.
00:02:00.140 For him to go to the border
00:02:01.580 and not see a single illegal immigrant,
00:02:04.320 I guarantee you that was political staffers
00:02:07.280 working overtime saying,
00:02:09.560 make sure you don't show some little girl
00:02:12.320 who was sexually assaulted by the traffickers.
00:02:14.740 Make sure you don't show some impoverished person
00:02:18.320 who went through a horrific journey to get here.
00:02:20.180 Definitely make sure you don't show an MS-13 gang member
00:02:24.460 who just came into this country
00:02:26.040 and is now carrying out crimes in this country.
00:02:28.500 Instead, he went down there for a photo op,
00:02:30.800 but then he wasn't done.
00:02:32.740 Then he got on a plane and he headed to Mexico
00:02:34.980 and he met with AMLO, the president of Mexico.
00:02:39.080 And he announced the Biden border plan
00:02:42.100 and it is truly stunning.
00:02:44.400 So here's what Joe Biden has said,
00:02:46.400 and I want to quote him.
00:02:47.920 He has said, quote,
00:02:48.960 quote, we are trying to make it easier
00:02:51.780 for people to get here.
00:02:54.380 In other words,
00:02:55.960 the 5.3 million that have crossed illegally,
00:02:58.680 that's not a bug, that's a feature.
00:03:00.840 They want more of it.
00:03:02.720 He doesn't intend to fix this.
00:03:04.120 He doesn't want to fix this.
00:03:06.740 Instead, he wants full on open borders.
00:03:11.820 He's not hiding it.
00:03:13.240 And by the way, AMLO, the president of Mexico,
00:03:15.140 he gets it.
00:03:16.700 Have a listen to what AMLO said
00:03:18.520 with Joe Biden standing next to him
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00:04:26.360 Senator, let's play that video real quick
00:04:28.100 of the president in Mexico
00:04:29.320 talking about how proud he is
00:04:31.100 that America's given the ultimate thing,
00:04:33.240 the ultimate gift, that open border.
00:04:34.780 Usted es el primer presidente de Estados Unidos
00:04:39.880 en mucho tiempo
00:04:41.280 que no ha construido ni un metro de muro.
00:04:49.080 Y eso se lo agradecemos.
00:04:52.460 And Ben, if your Spanish is not up to snuff,
00:04:57.560 what AMLO just said is that you're the first president
00:05:01.120 of the United States in a long time
00:05:03.220 who hasn't built even a single meter of border wall.
00:05:09.200 And that, he said, we appreciate.
00:05:12.560 So explicitly, by the way,
00:05:14.300 AMLO is a leftist Marxist president of Mexico
00:05:18.740 who has been embracing the cartels,
00:05:21.260 who's been turning a blind eye to the cartels,
00:05:24.240 murdering police officers, murdering journalists.
00:05:26.860 And he's standing there with Biden beaming,
00:05:30.040 praising him because you're the first president
00:05:32.060 in a long time.
00:05:32.680 By the way, he's including Barack Obama in that.
00:05:36.060 He's including George W. Bush.
00:05:37.500 He's including Barack Obama.
00:05:38.780 He's including Bill Clinton.
00:05:39.780 He's including, of course, Donald Trump.
00:05:42.520 Joe Biden is the worst of all of them
00:05:45.060 on open borders.
00:05:46.980 AMLO is praising him.
00:05:49.260 And then the White House rolled out
00:05:51.920 this rather amazing document
00:05:54.240 on January 10th.
00:05:56.120 It's called the Declaration of North America, DNA.
00:05:59.500 So this is their leftist DNA.
00:06:01.300 I don't think that acronym is accidental.
00:06:06.840 So we are right now facing the worst crisis
00:06:10.360 of illegal immigration in the history of our country.
00:06:12.640 It has never been this bad.
00:06:14.580 5.3 million people have crossed illegal under Joe Biden.
00:06:18.780 The Biden White House lays out six principles.
00:06:23.280 You know what principle number one is?
00:06:25.440 All woke liberal ideology.
00:06:27.480 That's what they're going to do with the entire list.
00:06:29.440 Principle number one,
00:06:32.300 diversity, equity, and inclusion.
00:06:36.220 That's the very first thing.
00:06:37.880 Not border security, not saving lives,
00:06:40.160 not preventing women from being raped,
00:06:42.220 not preventing children from being assaulted,
00:06:44.020 not stopping fentanyl from flooding across the border.
00:06:47.600 Diversity, equity, and inclusion.
00:06:50.080 What do you think number two is?
00:06:51.780 I'm going to go with woke ideology yet again.
00:06:54.280 Like an academic decided to write this
00:06:56.120 for the White House at some woke school, right?
00:07:00.360 Climate change and environment.
00:07:03.760 That's number two.
00:07:04.860 That's what he's down there talking to Mexico about.
00:07:06.980 Hey, that made Al Gore happy.
00:07:08.500 I'm sure it did.
00:07:09.720 Yeah, that made Al Gore happy.
00:07:10.660 Number three,
00:07:12.060 surely illegal immigration comes up number three.
00:07:14.300 Nope.
00:07:15.360 Competitiveness.
00:07:15.880 We need to outsource more to Mexico.
00:07:19.720 What's number four?
00:07:21.640 Number four.
00:07:22.540 All right.
00:07:23.360 Finally, immigration comes up.
00:07:25.920 It's entitled migration and development.
00:07:29.420 And what do they say they want to do about it?
00:07:32.380 Work together to advance labor mobility in North America.
00:07:38.160 And in particular, it says,
00:07:39.840 since June, Mexico, the United States, and Canada
00:07:41.760 have collectively welcomed record numbers
00:07:44.160 of migrants and refugees from the Western Hemisphere
00:07:46.780 under new and expanded humanitarian programs.
00:07:50.800 They don't want to end it.
00:07:52.560 They're not trying to end it.
00:07:54.260 They're not asking for Mexico's help in ending it.
00:07:57.060 They want more.
00:07:59.260 Number five on this list is health.
00:08:01.240 Number six is regional security.
00:08:07.920 Do you know what word does not appear
00:08:09.500 in this entire White House list?
00:08:12.620 Cartel.
00:08:13.260 I didn't hear anything about actual border security
00:08:15.820 or the cartels or the drugs or the fentanyl,
00:08:18.680 for that matter.
00:08:20.240 Fentanyl.
00:08:20.860 Look, last year we had over 100,000 Americans
00:08:24.480 die of drug overdoses.
00:08:26.360 Most of those opioids, many of them fentanyl.
00:08:29.220 It is a deadly poison that is murdering Americans.
00:08:35.060 Joe Biden and the Democrats don't care.
00:08:37.200 They don't want to stop it.
00:08:38.200 They're not purporting to stop it.
00:08:40.380 And this meeting with AMLO,
00:08:43.460 listen, even though AMLO is a leftist,
00:08:47.280 he was afraid of Donald Trump.
00:08:50.440 He was afraid of Donald Trump.
00:08:52.860 I'm going to tell you an interesting story.
00:08:54.840 So we've talked before about how
00:08:57.620 the Remain in Mexico agreement,
00:08:59.600 how effective it was.
00:09:01.780 Let me tell you how it came to pass.
00:09:03.840 So it came to pass.
00:09:04.940 Donald Trump was president.
00:09:07.280 And he issued a threat to Mexico.
00:09:10.060 He said he was going to impose
00:09:11.820 a 25% tariff
00:09:14.260 on goods coming in from Mexico.
00:09:17.080 Now, I've got to say,
00:09:18.820 you and I are both Texans.
00:09:20.040 And a 25% tariff on goods coming from Mexico
00:09:22.940 would be devastating
00:09:25.240 to Texas farmers,
00:09:27.180 to Texas ranchers,
00:09:28.480 to Texas manufacturers and businesses.
00:09:30.820 And so...
00:09:31.340 Catastrophic.
00:09:32.700 I was vocal criticizing.
00:09:34.660 And I said, look,
00:09:36.020 I'm all for securing the border
00:09:37.640 and doing everything necessary,
00:09:39.140 but punishing the people of Texas
00:09:41.200 and the businesses of Texas
00:09:42.360 and jobs in Texas
00:09:43.820 is a mistake.
00:09:45.140 And what I said at the time,
00:09:46.180 I said, look,
00:09:47.460 Trump is playing a game of chicken
00:09:49.220 where he's driving a truck
00:09:51.500 really fast
00:09:52.340 at another guy
00:09:53.000 at a country road.
00:09:54.520 And sometimes you win
00:09:55.880 a game of chicken.
00:09:56.520 Sometimes the other guy swerves.
00:09:58.320 And I said at the time
00:09:59.580 when he issued that demand,
00:10:01.020 I said,
00:10:01.440 if Trump wins this game of chicken,
00:10:03.260 if AMLO swerves,
00:10:04.200 then it'll be great
00:10:05.060 and we'll make real steps
00:10:06.960 towards solving the problem.
00:10:08.020 But if he doesn't,
00:10:09.980 if AMLO crashes
00:10:11.080 his truck into Trump's,
00:10:12.440 the result is going to be
00:10:14.060 a ton of lost jobs
00:10:16.460 and harm in the state of Texas.
00:10:18.920 Well, it turned out
00:10:20.240 Trump won the game of chicken.
00:10:21.400 AMLO blinked.
00:10:22.780 He gave in.
00:10:23.780 Yeah.
00:10:24.460 And he signed
00:10:25.900 the Remain in Mexico agreement.
00:10:27.920 Now, the night he signed it,
00:10:30.740 I was at a retreat
00:10:32.920 with a bunch of other
00:10:33.800 Republican senators.
00:10:34.720 I was there with my wife
00:10:35.800 and I was with Roy Blunt
00:10:39.140 and his wife
00:10:39.840 and I was with Corey Gardner
00:10:40.840 and his wife.
00:10:41.380 Roy Blunt was a senator
00:10:42.180 from Missouri.
00:10:42.940 Corey Gardner was a senator
00:10:43.700 from Colorado.
00:10:44.900 So the six of us
00:10:45.880 were sitting down
00:10:48.120 having a glass of wine together
00:10:49.320 and Trump calls my cell phone
00:10:51.540 right after the news broke.
00:10:54.420 And I answer it
00:10:55.780 and he goes,
00:10:57.880 Ted, I was right.
00:11:00.600 You were wrong.
00:11:02.640 I said, hi, Mr. President.
00:11:04.720 And he was exultant.
00:11:07.660 He was on cloud nine.
00:11:09.120 And I decided, all right,
00:11:11.640 if he's going to give me grief
00:11:12.840 about it,
00:11:13.340 I'm going to do the natural step,
00:11:15.000 which is bring in other people.
00:11:16.460 So I said, Mr. President,
00:11:17.660 I'm here with Roy and Corey.
00:11:19.340 Why don't I put it on speakerphone?
00:11:21.760 And so we put it on speakerphone
00:11:23.800 and Trump was exultant.
00:11:25.400 He was really, really happy.
00:11:27.460 And he said,
00:11:27.920 you want to hear the details
00:11:28.820 of the deal?
00:11:29.340 We said, sure.
00:11:30.580 And the deal involved,
00:11:31.920 among other things,
00:11:32.640 if I remember right,
00:11:33.420 Mexico agreed to put 6,000 soldiers
00:11:35.960 on their southern border.
00:11:37.340 You know, the southern border
00:11:38.080 of Mexico next to Guatemala
00:11:40.420 is much, much smaller
00:11:41.800 than our southern border.
00:11:42.840 It's much easier
00:11:43.660 to secure the border
00:11:44.980 south of Mexico
00:11:45.840 than it is on our southern border.
00:11:48.160 And he agreed to remain in Mexico.
00:11:49.880 He agreed to the agreement
00:11:50.780 that people who crossed
00:11:51.800 illegally into Mexico
00:11:52.700 would remain in Mexico
00:11:53.820 while their U.S. asylum case
00:11:55.880 was proceeding.
00:11:56.460 And he walks through it
00:11:57.600 and he asked, you know,
00:11:59.980 so it turns out
00:12:01.060 all you guys were wrong
00:12:02.520 about this.
00:12:03.120 And Roy Blunt
00:12:04.180 had the line of the night.
00:12:06.000 He said, Mr. President,
00:12:07.960 now that you got a deal,
00:12:09.680 we were with you
00:12:10.840 the entire way.
00:12:13.420 And Trump howled laughing.
00:12:14.760 Welcome to politics,
00:12:15.700 by the way.
00:12:16.100 Brilliant.
00:12:16.680 Yeah, look.
00:12:17.320 Trump howled laughing.
00:12:18.580 It was a good line,
00:12:19.520 but it was,
00:12:20.980 AMLO was scared of Trump.
00:12:22.960 The amazing thing is
00:12:24.140 he was scared enough,
00:12:25.240 look, he thought Trump
00:12:26.120 was crazy enough
00:12:27.020 to put the tariffs on Mexico,
00:12:29.480 which would have hurt
00:12:30.260 the United States,
00:12:31.760 but it would have hurt
00:12:32.460 Mexico too.
00:12:34.120 And because Trump
00:12:35.380 had a credible threat,
00:12:36.540 I have to say,
00:12:37.360 look, his judgment
00:12:39.140 that AMLO was going to blink
00:12:40.260 was the right judgment.
00:12:42.120 And that agreement
00:12:43.480 was such a massive,
00:12:46.120 massive success
00:12:47.320 that it produced
00:12:49.580 the lowest illegal immigration
00:12:51.540 in 45 years.
00:12:54.340 It's remarkable.
00:12:55.480 And it's because
00:12:56.460 even though this leftist
00:12:58.460 who ran on anti-American rhetoric
00:13:00.620 didn't want to secure the border,
00:13:03.460 he was scared
00:13:05.400 of the American president,
00:13:06.680 and so he helped do so,
00:13:08.400 and we got enormous results.
00:13:09.940 When Biden came in,
00:13:11.300 not only is AMLO
00:13:12.640 not remotely scared of Biden,
00:13:14.500 Biden comes in there
00:13:15.480 as the most beta male,
00:13:17.440 weak American president,
00:13:18.960 that AMLO is glowing,
00:13:21.960 saying,
00:13:22.400 well, you know,
00:13:23.020 it's great that unlike Obama,
00:13:25.040 unlike all the other presidents,
00:13:26.360 you haven't built
00:13:27.020 any border wall at all.
00:13:28.600 And what does Biden say?
00:13:30.980 Well, diversity, equity,
00:13:32.240 and inclusion,
00:13:32.820 climate change,
00:13:34.140 and we want
00:13:35.340 even more open borders.
00:13:36.980 It is a travesty,
00:13:39.200 and it's even more
00:13:40.220 of a travesty
00:13:40.980 because in the face
00:13:41.760 of this crisis,
00:13:43.000 we should have a president
00:13:44.900 who actually stands up
00:13:47.000 for America
00:13:47.600 when dealing with Mexico,
00:13:49.060 and that's not what Biden did.
00:13:50.180 I want to ask you
00:13:50.660 about the politics.
00:13:51.980 There's a lot
00:13:52.700 that you can, I think,
00:13:54.040 read into the fact
00:13:55.940 that he said this publicly,
00:13:57.300 referring to the president in Mexico,
00:13:59.080 about the American president.
00:14:00.720 Even if,
00:14:01.920 and this is just politics,
00:14:03.840 most American presidents
00:14:05.300 would not want to be praised
00:14:07.720 publicly
00:14:08.840 by another country
00:14:10.580 for having an open border.
00:14:12.500 It's just,
00:14:13.080 you would assume
00:14:13.700 bad optics,
00:14:14.700 bad for your country,
00:14:16.160 even if that is your plan.
00:14:17.900 And I think it's also
00:14:19.080 just a point
00:14:20.360 where this president
00:14:21.200 felt so comfortable
00:14:22.300 because Biden's so weak
00:14:24.120 that even Biden
00:14:24.860 wouldn't look at him
00:14:25.500 and say,
00:14:25.740 hey man,
00:14:26.100 don't say that in public.
00:14:27.680 You're just undermining
00:14:28.900 what I'm helping you with here.
00:14:30.100 You're undermining
00:14:30.880 the border,
00:14:31.900 the open border policy
00:14:33.080 that I have here.
00:14:34.280 Don't say it out loud
00:14:35.420 in front of the media.
00:14:36.400 Don't praise me for it.
00:14:37.940 Just enjoy it
00:14:39.000 and be quiet about it.
00:14:40.600 And yet it's like
00:14:41.420 Joe Biden
00:14:42.060 is so incompetent
00:14:43.240 that he didn't even understand
00:14:44.620 how strong
00:14:45.940 this made Mexico look
00:14:47.400 while mocking
00:14:48.560 the lack
00:14:49.200 of American security.
00:14:50.480 Well, look,
00:14:52.080 the problem,
00:14:53.500 and people ask me
00:14:54.260 all the time,
00:14:54.940 why would
00:14:55.920 the Biden administration
00:14:57.160 do this?
00:14:57.860 Why would they have
00:14:58.520 open borders?
00:14:59.760 And the challenge
00:15:01.020 with today's Democrat party
00:15:02.760 in Washington,
00:15:04.060 they've given their agenda
00:15:06.060 on every issue
00:15:07.060 over to the radicals.
00:15:08.480 So on immigration,
00:15:09.760 they've given it over
00:15:10.380 to the open border radicals.
00:15:12.020 On gun control,
00:15:14.220 they've given it over
00:15:14.960 to the gun control radicals.
00:15:16.340 On crime and law enforcement,
00:15:18.080 they've given it over
00:15:18.640 to the abolish the police radicals.
00:15:20.480 On issues of sexuality,
00:15:22.820 they've given it over
00:15:23.600 to the transgender radicals
00:15:25.460 who want boys competing
00:15:27.280 against girls in sports
00:15:28.540 and are fighting
00:15:31.360 for the chemical castration
00:15:34.760 of little boys
00:15:35.700 and sterilization
00:15:37.180 of little girls
00:15:38.040 in pursuit of woke ideology.
00:15:40.700 Look, all of those
00:15:41.940 are fringe positions.
00:15:43.860 They're fringe positions nationally.
00:15:45.340 Every one of those,
00:15:46.620 70, 80% of Americans oppose.
00:15:48.600 I mean, they're not,
00:15:50.800 you know, you think back
00:15:51.880 to like the Bill Clinton presidency
00:15:53.440 and I was not a fan
00:15:54.260 of Bill Clinton.
00:15:55.340 Yeah.
00:15:55.940 But Bill Clinton
00:15:56.800 consciously tried to triangulate,
00:15:58.660 tried to go to the middle
00:15:59.540 and it was successful.
00:16:01.360 It got him elected twice,
00:16:02.660 even despite his personal scandals.
00:16:06.880 Going to the middle
00:16:07.880 was a successful strategy
00:16:09.200 for the Democrats.
00:16:09.900 What Biden has employed
00:16:12.240 is very different,
00:16:13.220 which is today's Democrat Party
00:16:15.200 is essentially an assembly
00:16:17.940 of radical groups
00:16:19.440 and each radical group
00:16:20.700 gets their issue area.
00:16:23.100 And they're not calculating.
00:16:25.680 The Democrats are not hiding
00:16:28.280 that they are open borders.
00:16:31.000 They're not pretending
00:16:32.460 they're going to solve
00:16:33.680 this situation.
00:16:34.540 And part of the reason is
00:16:35.900 the corporate media
00:16:37.380 is so utterly corrupt
00:16:38.640 that they're counting on them
00:16:40.660 not to tell the stories,
00:16:42.460 not to tell the truth.
00:16:44.560 Yeah.
00:16:44.740 There's a reason Biden
00:16:45.940 didn't see a single
00:16:47.120 illegal immigrant.
00:16:48.340 Because when you see
00:16:49.520 a little boy or little girl
00:16:50.720 who's been sexually assaulted
00:16:51.940 and abused,
00:16:52.800 you can't just spin it off
00:16:54.880 as look how compassionate I am.
00:16:56.820 So instead they try to hide it
00:16:58.440 and count on the media
00:16:59.200 to hide it with them.
00:17:00.600 And that's the question
00:17:02.040 I was going to ask you
00:17:03.020 as we wrap this part up
00:17:04.660 is there's one big story here
00:17:06.940 that was so clearly underreported
00:17:09.100 and it was an omission of guilt
00:17:10.480 I think by this administration.
00:17:12.740 There were a lot of videos
00:17:13.840 that came out in El Paso
00:17:15.560 of what the Biden administration
00:17:17.440 was doing, Senator,
00:17:18.580 to get ready for his visit.
00:17:20.360 And they showed the picture
00:17:21.600 the day before
00:17:22.400 and the day he arrived.
00:17:24.320 They came in
00:17:25.340 and you can't say
00:17:26.920 this administration
00:17:27.600 doesn't know what's going on.
00:17:29.480 Because not only do they know
00:17:30.580 what's going on,
00:17:31.380 they went into El Paso
00:17:32.680 and they literally
00:17:33.660 in the most inhumane way
00:17:35.440 I would argue possible
00:17:36.700 just cleaned out
00:17:39.220 every illegal immigrant,
00:17:41.440 every illegal immigrant
00:17:42.460 that was homeless,
00:17:43.500 all of the stuff
00:17:44.620 that could look bad
00:17:45.560 for the TV cameras
00:17:46.680 of the route
00:17:47.780 that the president
00:17:48.440 was going to take.
00:17:49.380 So they know
00:17:50.020 the chaos was there.
00:17:51.500 They know how many illegals
00:17:52.740 are sleeping on the street.
00:17:53.980 They know how dirty
00:17:55.180 the streets have become
00:17:56.200 and how they've lost control
00:17:57.840 in El Paso
00:17:58.520 because of the massive number
00:17:59.820 of illegal immigrants
00:18:00.400 coming across the border.
00:18:01.380 But they made sure
00:18:02.240 for a 24-hour period
00:18:03.760 that they just cleaned it out.
00:18:05.980 They arrested people.
00:18:07.220 This was caught on video.
00:18:08.240 They put them
00:18:08.700 in the paddy wagons.
00:18:10.060 They did exactly
00:18:11.120 what they should be doing
00:18:12.400 to secure the border
00:18:13.300 just for a 24-hour period
00:18:15.400 solely so the cameras
00:18:17.020 with the president
00:18:17.640 wouldn't see it.
00:18:19.020 And for the video version
00:18:20.300 of this pod,
00:18:21.500 we'll put up right now
00:18:23.060 the before and after picture.
00:18:24.420 So if you're watching
00:18:25.140 the video on YouTube,
00:18:26.700 you can see it.
00:18:27.520 You can see the before and after.
00:18:29.380 They cleaned it up.
00:18:30.440 By the way,
00:18:31.260 if you're watching
00:18:31.720 the video on YouTube,
00:18:32.620 that's great.
00:18:33.100 Make sure you subscribe
00:18:33.860 on YouTube,
00:18:34.640 but also make sure
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00:18:35.900 on the audio version
00:18:37.420 because we put out
00:18:38.420 two a week in just audio
00:18:39.800 and then we put out
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00:18:41.960 and video.
00:18:42.680 So make sure you're
00:18:43.540 subscribed to both.
00:18:44.460 But if you're watching
00:18:45.040 the video,
00:18:45.540 you can see the before
00:18:46.360 and after.
00:18:47.420 And in the before and after,
00:18:48.880 look, what becomes clear,
00:18:50.960 this is a Hollywood movie.
00:18:52.100 This is a TV production.
00:18:53.720 The people in charge of it
00:18:54.900 are Hollywood producers.
00:18:56.880 And if we actually
00:18:58.720 had a functioning press corps,
00:19:01.200 you couldn't do this.
00:19:02.560 If you had journalists
00:19:04.680 who were actual journalists
00:19:06.520 who were not PR flacks
00:19:09.040 for the White House,
00:19:10.200 they would cover it.
00:19:12.100 But they don't cover it
00:19:13.440 because they support
00:19:16.020 the agenda of open borders.
00:19:17.880 They support the agenda
00:19:19.040 of this White House.
00:19:20.140 And they no longer view
00:19:21.300 their job as actually
00:19:22.400 reporting on
00:19:23.200 the children being murdered
00:19:26.300 don't matter to these journalists.
00:19:29.320 and they don't matter
00:19:30.640 to the Democrats.
00:19:31.340 And the Democrats know
00:19:32.440 the journalists won't
00:19:33.220 report on it.
00:19:33.960 And it's why you have
00:19:35.340 Biden not only not
00:19:37.300 trying to fix this crisis,
00:19:39.040 but promising
00:19:40.720 to continue this crisis.
00:19:43.200 He is promising
00:19:44.120 next year
00:19:45.320 more people will cross
00:19:47.040 illegally,
00:19:47.620 more children will be
00:19:48.500 assaulted,
00:19:49.380 more women will be raped,
00:19:51.060 more elderly people
00:19:52.060 will be abandoned
00:19:52.800 to die in the desert,
00:19:54.080 more drugs will come in,
00:19:55.140 more fentanyl,
00:19:56.120 more gang crimes,
00:19:57.800 more teenagers trapped
00:19:59.200 working for the cartels.
00:20:00.920 And by the way,
00:20:01.580 the cartels,
00:20:02.340 the word that doesn't appear
00:20:03.240 in this White House document,
00:20:04.940 have made billions
00:20:06.500 and billions of dollars
00:20:08.640 because of Joe Biden.
00:20:11.280 Joe Biden becoming president
00:20:12.760 was hands down
00:20:13.720 the single best thing
00:20:15.060 that has ever happened
00:20:16.420 for the human traffickers
00:20:17.580 and drug traffickers
00:20:18.680 in Mexico
00:20:19.660 and across the world.
00:20:21.220 Record profits.
00:20:22.460 It was,
00:20:22.920 I saw a report
00:20:23.880 the other day
00:20:24.580 that said they believe
00:20:26.180 now the amount of money
00:20:27.480 being made off fentanyl
00:20:28.600 will far outpace
00:20:29.620 the cocaine
00:20:30.340 and marijuana drugs
00:20:32.000 that they were running
00:20:32.880 for decades
00:20:34.120 into this country.
00:20:35.360 They said it's
00:20:35.840 the most profitable period
00:20:37.100 they believe
00:20:37.600 for the cartels
00:20:38.560 in the history
00:20:39.280 in Mexico
00:20:40.400 and the president
00:20:41.480 is allowing it to happen.
00:20:43.160 Well, and Ben,
00:20:43.840 one thing about the cartels,
00:20:45.400 they make about
00:20:46.260 the same amount of money
00:20:47.420 from human trafficking
00:20:48.900 and from drug trafficking.
00:20:50.220 Both of those
00:20:50.900 are approximately
00:20:52.180 50% of their revenue
00:20:53.840 which tells you
00:20:54.620 what a big business
00:20:56.100 it is
00:20:56.800 treating human beings
00:20:58.440 as cattle.
00:20:59.740 This is modern day slavery.
00:21:02.820 Joe Biden is responsible
00:21:04.400 for modern day slavery
00:21:05.880 and it is every bit
00:21:07.060 as evil
00:21:08.080 and grotesque
00:21:09.060 and cruel
00:21:09.720 and inhumane
00:21:10.820 as it was
00:21:11.700 in the 1700s
00:21:12.800 and 1800s.
00:21:14.240 Under Joe Biden,
00:21:15.640 he's responsible
00:21:16.580 for funding
00:21:17.520 the slave traders
00:21:18.560 and for their murder
00:21:19.820 and torture
00:21:20.480 and suffering.
00:21:21.960 That is all
00:21:22.800 deliberately caused
00:21:24.240 by this White House.
00:21:25.720 If you hear
00:21:26.640 any Democrats,
00:21:27.560 by the way,
00:21:28.080 say that there is
00:21:29.140 a secure border,
00:21:30.600 they're lying to you
00:21:31.600 because we know
00:21:32.360 for a fact
00:21:32.900 that last year,
00:21:33.820 Senator,
00:21:34.580 and as a senator
00:21:35.740 from Texas,
00:21:36.540 you see this
00:21:37.300 more than anybody,
00:21:38.560 more people
00:21:39.380 crossed the border
00:21:40.260 into Texas illegally
00:21:41.120 last year
00:21:41.640 than any other
00:21:42.620 year on record
00:21:44.120 that we've had
00:21:45.400 since the government
00:21:46.200 has been keeping
00:21:46.960 these stats
00:21:47.640 and that's just
00:21:48.780 of the people
00:21:49.280 that we caught.
00:21:50.580 We don't know
00:21:51.480 how many people
00:21:52.400 got across the border
00:21:53.200 that we didn't catch
00:21:54.740 which they clearly
00:21:55.840 believe is another
00:21:56.820 record year
00:21:57.780 that we've never
00:21:58.680 seen before.
00:22:00.000 No,
00:22:00.160 that's exactly right
00:22:01.120 and it is
00:22:02.380 deliberate,
00:22:03.760 it's not an accident
00:22:04.660 and they don't
00:22:05.340 intend to stop,
00:22:06.620 they intend to
00:22:07.380 continue making
00:22:08.380 the problem worse
00:22:09.400 and worse
00:22:09.900 and worse
00:22:10.560 and turning a blind eye
00:22:12.220 to the human suffering
00:22:13.020 that results.
00:22:14.160 I want to switch gears
00:22:15.160 to what we're seeing
00:22:16.140 with the playbook
00:22:16.900 from Democrats
00:22:17.580 on issues
00:22:18.900 that they go back
00:22:19.920 to, Senator,
00:22:21.120 when they lose.
00:22:22.960 We're seeing,
00:22:23.880 and we're going to do
00:22:24.540 another show on this
00:22:25.700 but I'm just going
00:22:26.400 to use as an example,
00:22:27.860 San Francisco
00:22:28.560 is now saying
00:22:29.460 they want to pay
00:22:30.000 reparations to people
00:22:31.340 of $5 million
00:22:32.160 and give them
00:22:33.040 200 years,
00:22:34.400 I'm sorry,
00:22:34.740 150 years of salary.
00:22:37.040 You see Sheila Jackson Lee
00:22:38.780 that's talking
00:22:39.360 about reparations
00:22:40.400 and saying that she
00:22:41.040 wants to imprison
00:22:41.660 people that say
00:22:42.360 anything that's negative
00:22:43.180 towards a minority
00:22:44.040 and we'll deal
00:22:45.040 with that another day.
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00:22:48.940 more out of themselves,
00:22:50.020 their businesses,
00:22:50.960 their elected leaders
00:22:51.720 and the world around them.
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00:23:17.140 They're going back
00:23:18.260 to their playbook
00:23:19.060 which is
00:23:19.720 we go after guns,
00:23:21.540 we try to start
00:23:22.400 a race war
00:23:23.120 and divide the country
00:23:24.700 to solidify our base
00:23:26.500 and now we are seeing
00:23:28.380 the President
00:23:29.600 and Democrats
00:23:30.620 calling for banning
00:23:31.920 of AR-15s again.
00:23:33.980 The President
00:23:34.600 talked about this
00:23:36.020 on Martin Luther King Day
00:23:37.920 in a very blunt way
00:23:39.520 and then we saw
00:23:41.140 the governor
00:23:42.220 in Illinois
00:23:43.080 come out
00:23:44.020 banning all
00:23:44.840 semi-automatic weapons.
00:23:46.860 That's part two
00:23:47.660 of this
00:23:48.000 so they're actually
00:23:48.620 implementing,
00:23:49.280 they're not just
00:23:49.680 talking about,
00:23:50.380 they're actually
00:23:50.840 doing this state
00:23:51.820 by state
00:23:52.380 where they can
00:23:53.080 and then you have
00:23:54.240 people,
00:23:54.640 and it may have been
00:23:55.180 the most amazing clip,
00:23:57.140 it was Geraldo
00:23:58.080 on Fox
00:23:58.960 where he said
00:24:00.260 this about AR-15s.
00:24:02.220 It makes macho
00:24:04.460 the people
00:24:05.380 who possess it,
00:24:06.400 oh look at me,
00:24:07.160 I'm a big deal.
00:24:07.860 It's a rifle.
00:24:08.700 It's not a rifle, Greg.
00:24:10.000 Yes, it's a rifle.
00:24:11.020 It is a machine.
00:24:11.980 What does AR stand for?
00:24:13.140 It is, it is,
00:24:14.420 it's a machine.
00:24:16.020 No, no,
00:24:17.640 that's not what it is.
00:24:21.160 I mean,
00:24:22.040 if you're going to say
00:24:23.300 you want to ban something,
00:24:24.700 at least Google it
00:24:25.800 and find out
00:24:26.420 what the hell it means,
00:24:27.460 right?
00:24:27.840 And this is the reason
00:24:29.000 why I will never trust
00:24:30.180 liberals, Senator,
00:24:31.280 with my guns
00:24:32.240 because they don't
00:24:33.180 even know what
00:24:33.920 they're talking about
00:24:34.620 when it comes to
00:24:35.240 the name of a gun.
00:24:36.620 Yeah, look,
00:24:37.100 that embodies
00:24:38.540 the ignorance
00:24:40.500 and apathy
00:24:41.860 and ideology
00:24:42.840 of the left-wing media.
00:24:45.420 So,
00:24:46.220 Geraldo has no idea
00:24:47.100 what an AR-15 is.
00:24:48.700 All right,
00:24:49.000 that's fine.
00:24:49.440 There's some people
00:24:49.940 that don't.
00:24:50.940 But,
00:24:51.320 Geraldo's job
00:24:52.300 is to go on TV
00:24:53.280 and talk about issues
00:24:55.640 like gun control
00:24:56.380 and Geraldo's decided
00:24:57.300 to be a left-winger
00:24:58.100 and advocate gun control.
00:25:00.040 So,
00:25:00.240 he's advocating
00:25:01.160 banning AR-15s.
00:25:04.440 Here's the problem.
00:25:05.360 He doesn't know
00:25:06.460 what an AR-15 is.
00:25:08.040 Now,
00:25:09.320 Gutfeld comes back
00:25:10.280 with,
00:25:10.880 you know,
00:25:11.340 what does the AR stand for?
00:25:13.660 And Geraldo responds,
00:25:15.660 automatic rifle.
00:25:16.580 Now,
00:25:16.760 you and I both know
00:25:17.500 that is wrong.
00:25:18.600 That is not
00:25:19.300 what the AR stands for.
00:25:20.860 The AR stands for
00:25:22.180 Armalite rifle.
00:25:23.760 Armalite was the company
00:25:24.840 in the 1950s
00:25:25.800 that developed it.
00:25:27.000 And an AR-15
00:25:28.120 is a semi-automatic rifle.
00:25:29.780 It's not automatic.
00:25:30.900 It's semi-automatic.
00:25:32.360 The difference,
00:25:33.200 and look,
00:25:33.780 listeners of this pod
00:25:35.120 are educated and savvy
00:25:37.040 and so y'all know
00:25:37.840 the difference,
00:25:38.520 but Geraldo has no idea.
00:25:40.520 An automatic rifle,
00:25:42.100 a machine gun,
00:25:43.440 is a weapon
00:25:44.960 that when you hold
00:25:45.920 the trigger down,
00:25:46.900 multiple bullets come out.
00:25:48.240 You think Rambo
00:25:49.020 going,
00:25:49.360 that's a machine gun.
00:25:51.680 A semi-automatic weapon
00:25:53.600 is a weapon
00:25:54.140 when you pull the trigger once,
00:25:56.020 one bullet comes out.
00:25:57.320 And then you pull the trigger
00:25:58.380 a second time,
00:25:59.200 and a second bullet comes out.
00:26:00.560 It's a fundamental difference.
00:26:02.800 Machine guns,
00:26:04.020 automatic rifles,
00:26:05.360 have been functionally illegal
00:26:07.420 in the United States
00:26:08.300 for over 80 years,
00:26:09.500 other than in very limited circumstances
00:26:12.120 with very strict licenses.
00:26:13.940 As a practical matter,
00:26:15.280 an ordinary citizen
00:26:16.100 cannot own a machine gun.
00:26:18.120 So Geraldo there,
00:26:20.060 when he says,
00:26:20.620 oh, AR stands for automatic rifle,
00:26:23.060 it's not just a gotcha question.
00:26:25.820 He's fundamentally ignorant
00:26:27.160 about what the thing is
00:26:28.320 that he wants to ban.
00:26:29.500 And he says actually
00:26:30.200 earlier in that clip,
00:26:31.580 he calls it a machine gun.
00:26:32.840 He thinks it is a machine gun,
00:26:35.500 and he doesn't really care.
00:26:37.960 It is an example
00:26:40.800 when why can the Democrats
00:26:43.720 be so left-wing?
00:26:45.700 Because the media is that bad.
00:26:47.300 They don't know
00:26:48.340 what an AR-15 is.
00:26:51.660 They don't care
00:26:52.560 what an AR-15 is.
00:26:54.520 They don't know what they're talking about
00:26:57.740 at all with weapons.
00:26:58.680 And another example of this,
00:27:00.500 Senators,
00:27:00.820 this last week,
00:27:01.740 there was a man
00:27:02.580 who had created
00:27:03.340 apparently one gun
00:27:04.960 that was a single-shot .22
00:27:07.320 little mini gun,
00:27:08.900 they called it,
00:27:09.400 with a spring
00:27:10.040 that he had to pull back
00:27:11.080 and it shot.
00:27:11.600 And he found out
00:27:13.700 through someone
00:27:15.020 that was looking at the bill
00:27:16.040 in Illinois
00:27:16.800 where they're banning
00:27:17.800 all of these guns
00:27:18.880 that his prototype
00:27:20.580 that never went into production,
00:27:22.400 that was one little bullet,
00:27:24.300 a .22,
00:27:25.280 a spring-loaded
00:27:26.060 that never went into production,
00:27:27.560 somehow his gun
00:27:28.740 got on the list
00:27:29.540 of the evil, scary, terrible guns
00:27:31.440 that should be banned in America,
00:27:33.240 they're saying,
00:27:33.860 at least in Illinois.
00:27:35.420 And they found this guy
00:27:36.480 and they're like,
00:27:36.920 you never even produced this gun.
00:27:38.980 This is not something
00:27:40.000 you can even buy on the market.
00:27:41.780 It doesn't really exist.
00:27:43.640 How did you end up on this list?
00:27:45.100 And he says,
00:27:45.660 I genuinely have no idea.
00:27:48.040 This is a gun
00:27:49.020 that I got a patent on.
00:27:50.320 This is a gun
00:27:50.840 that I did once.
00:27:52.080 And yet Democrats,
00:27:53.080 and again,
00:27:53.400 it shows the example
00:27:54.180 that you're mentioning,
00:27:54.960 they don't even know
00:27:55.820 what they're banning.
00:27:57.100 And the governor in Illinois
00:27:58.600 has come out,
00:27:59.400 and this is serious,
00:28:00.560 and I would say
00:28:01.180 to conservatives,
00:28:02.120 listen,
00:28:03.060 the governor in Illinois,
00:28:04.400 Senator,
00:28:04.960 has passed
00:28:05.660 a significant law.
00:28:07.440 It's going to be challenged,
00:28:09.180 yes,
00:28:09.420 but it bans
00:28:09.940 all semi-automatic guns.
00:28:12.240 And the majority
00:28:12.840 of firearms bought
00:28:13.680 in America today,
00:28:14.300 the majority of guns
00:28:15.180 are used to protect
00:28:16.100 people's lives.
00:28:17.540 The number one gun
00:28:18.640 that people have
00:28:19.680 to protect themselves
00:28:20.920 with personal carry
00:28:21.980 are semi-automatic weapons.
00:28:24.160 They've now banned them all,
00:28:25.640 which is really going back
00:28:26.720 to gun confiscation.
00:28:28.460 Just take a look at this.
00:28:29.800 You know,
00:28:30.120 I think it's a lot
00:28:30.760 of grandstanding, frankly,
00:28:32.220 and I know there are
00:28:32.840 some of them
00:28:33.400 that are opposed to the law.
00:28:34.740 But the fact is,
00:28:36.400 they've signed
00:28:36.960 an oath of office
00:28:38.360 to uphold
00:28:39.620 and enforce
00:28:40.560 the laws of the state
00:28:41.640 of Illinois,
00:28:42.180 and I expect them
00:28:42.740 to do so.
00:28:43.880 What penalty
00:28:45.120 would state residents
00:28:47.180 pay if they don't
00:28:48.200 abide by that
00:28:49.060 and within the next year
00:28:50.280 come forward
00:28:51.300 and register their weapons
00:28:52.360 in this category?
00:28:54.860 Well,
00:28:55.460 it begins with a fine
00:28:56.740 if they don't,
00:28:59.460 you know,
00:28:59.640 if they're caught
00:29:00.220 under this law.
00:29:01.020 It begins with a fine,
00:29:01.880 but a second instance,
00:29:03.920 it is a class four felony.
00:29:06.660 I mean,
00:29:07.480 this is gun confiscation
00:29:08.960 and the first part there,
00:29:10.880 and this is,
00:29:11.700 I think,
00:29:11.960 pretty cool.
00:29:12.900 I'm going to give you
00:29:13.340 the numbers.
00:29:14.380 Sheriffs in 80
00:29:15.380 Illinois counties,
00:29:16.720 Senator,
00:29:17.280 are making clear
00:29:18.260 they will,
00:29:19.060 not enforce
00:29:19.880 the assault weapons ban
00:29:21.220 that the Democratic governor
00:29:22.420 signed into law
00:29:23.200 on Tuesday,
00:29:24.280 saying they will not do this
00:29:25.880 because they believe
00:29:26.600 it's unconstitutional,
00:29:28.600 which I think is amazing
00:29:29.600 that law enforcement
00:29:30.240 is standing up.
00:29:30.780 But this is about
00:29:32.020 taking away your guns
00:29:32.920 in a gun registry,
00:29:33.860 saying if you don't
00:29:34.560 register them,
00:29:35.420 then you'll be a felon
00:29:36.320 because you didn't
00:29:36.820 register them by default,
00:29:37.820 which when you're a felon,
00:29:39.360 at that point,
00:29:40.480 you're not allowed
00:29:41.020 to own any firearms.
00:29:42.760 Well,
00:29:43.220 look,
00:29:43.440 that clip,
00:29:44.060 I think,
00:29:44.440 really embodies
00:29:45.240 just how extreme
00:29:46.220 today's Democrat party
00:29:47.420 is on the question
00:29:48.600 of guns
00:29:49.060 and how hypocritical
00:29:50.120 it is.
00:29:51.240 Number one,
00:29:52.140 Pritzker is a billionaire.
00:29:53.960 He lives with
00:29:54.680 vast wealth.
00:29:55.860 He is surrounded,
00:29:57.320 as governor,
00:29:58.000 he's surrounded
00:29:58.800 by an armed police detail.
00:30:00.780 previously he was
00:30:02.960 surrounded,
00:30:04.060 no doubt,
00:30:04.740 I don't know this for sure,
00:30:06.020 but I would wager
00:30:06.780 a whole lot of money
00:30:07.860 that he had
00:30:08.960 armed security
00:30:09.740 with him
00:30:10.500 just as a really rich guy.
00:30:12.240 He lives
00:30:12.680 in a really rich neighborhood
00:30:14.060 with armed security
00:30:15.160 and is kept
00:30:15.760 very,
00:30:16.240 very safe.
00:30:17.280 What does he want to do?
00:30:18.560 He wants to disarm
00:30:20.000 the ordinary citizens
00:30:21.580 of Illinois.
00:30:22.300 And by the way,
00:30:23.920 Illinois,
00:30:24.660 Chicago already has
00:30:26.080 some of the strictest
00:30:27.560 gun control laws
00:30:28.480 in the country
00:30:29.280 and it year after year
00:30:31.360 after year
00:30:32.060 has among the highest
00:30:32.960 crime rates
00:30:33.580 and murder rates.
00:30:34.500 Why?
00:30:35.260 Not because they don't
00:30:36.400 have tough enough gun control.
00:30:37.760 In fact,
00:30:38.840 in Chicago,
00:30:39.720 the gun control laws
00:30:40.760 have succeeded
00:30:41.400 in disarming
00:30:42.240 the law-abiding citizens
00:30:43.760 because by definition,
00:30:44.920 if you're law-abiding,
00:30:46.080 you abide the law.
00:30:47.840 But the criminals
00:30:48.940 are not law-abiding.
00:30:50.280 The gangbangers
00:30:50.980 are not law-abiding
00:30:52.020 and they have
00:30:52.720 all the guns they need
00:30:53.780 and so they're shooting
00:30:54.780 each other
00:30:55.920 and they're shooting
00:30:57.280 innocent citizens.
00:30:58.440 They're shooting
00:30:58.880 many of the people
00:30:59.840 murdered in Chicago
00:31:01.420 under these gun control laws.
00:31:02.820 Many of them
00:31:03.280 are African-American.
00:31:04.540 Many of them
00:31:05.000 are Hispanic.
00:31:05.800 The vast majority
00:31:06.520 of them are low-income.
00:31:07.860 And the Democrats
00:31:08.500 don't care.
00:31:09.340 Those black lives
00:31:10.200 don't matter to them.
00:31:11.580 The kids that are shot
00:31:12.680 in drive-by shootings,
00:31:13.800 those don't matter
00:31:14.440 and their solution
00:31:15.220 is to say,
00:31:16.540 you can't defend
00:31:17.040 your home.
00:31:18.400 Every year,
00:31:19.200 this is according
00:31:19.740 to the Obama White House,
00:31:20.980 firearms are used
00:31:22.360 defensively
00:31:23.460 to stop a crime
00:31:25.280 between 500,000
00:31:27.340 and a million times
00:31:28.560 each year.
00:31:29.620 According to the Democrats,
00:31:30.920 they take the guns away
00:31:31.880 from all of them
00:31:32.620 and just let the criminals
00:31:33.740 be armed
00:31:34.300 and you can see
00:31:35.940 the suffering,
00:31:37.940 the chaos,
00:31:39.020 the tragedy
00:31:39.840 that plays out
00:31:41.640 in Chicago
00:31:42.440 every day
00:31:43.340 and every week
00:31:44.160 and every month
00:31:44.800 and every year
00:31:45.540 because of those
00:31:46.860 misguided policies.
00:31:48.120 I'll also note,
00:31:49.900 you know,
00:31:50.140 Pritzker says,
00:31:50.860 well,
00:31:51.780 the sheriff,
00:31:52.980 the sheriffs took an oath.
00:31:55.020 Yes, they did.
00:31:56.240 But they didn't take
00:31:57.160 an oath
00:31:57.580 to obey
00:31:58.480 the Democratic kingpin.
00:32:01.720 Boss Hogg
00:32:02.620 who sits there
00:32:03.460 and decrees,
00:32:04.800 you shall obey
00:32:05.640 my orders.
00:32:06.460 They took an oath
00:32:07.360 to defend
00:32:07.860 and protect
00:32:08.240 the Constitution.
00:32:09.640 And I believe
00:32:10.960 these Illinois laws
00:32:11.840 are going to be
00:32:12.160 struck down.
00:32:13.540 The courts
00:32:14.180 are not going
00:32:14.540 to let him stand.
00:32:15.680 But the Democrats
00:32:16.580 don't care.
00:32:17.500 And by the way,
00:32:19.160 one of the strategies
00:32:21.520 of gun confiscation,
00:32:23.080 law-abiding people,
00:32:24.340 as I said,
00:32:25.080 abide by the law.
00:32:26.580 They want to confiscate
00:32:27.640 as many firearms
00:32:28.440 as they can.
00:32:29.340 By the way,
00:32:29.940 they also want
00:32:30.700 to turn into felons
00:32:32.540 as many gun owners
00:32:33.640 as they can
00:32:34.260 because that's one way
00:32:35.360 of confiscating them
00:32:36.780 and taking away
00:32:37.420 their rights.
00:32:38.820 You know,
00:32:39.240 when the courts
00:32:40.320 began striking down
00:32:41.660 Joe Biden's
00:32:42.480 illegal COVID vaccine
00:32:43.940 mandates,
00:32:44.420 when he was trying
00:32:45.100 to force employers,
00:32:47.160 large employers
00:32:47.920 to fire their employees
00:32:49.120 who didn't get
00:32:49.720 a COVID vaccine,
00:32:50.620 the courts struck it down.
00:32:51.880 And the White House
00:32:52.940 said,
00:32:53.240 well,
00:32:53.360 you should comply
00:32:54.200 with it anyway,
00:32:54.960 even though it's
00:32:55.540 been enjoined,
00:32:56.440 even though it's
00:32:57.000 not in force,
00:32:58.060 you should comply
00:32:59.440 anyway.
00:33:00.460 That's their view
00:33:01.280 on guns anyway.
00:33:02.340 We will use power.
00:33:04.100 You must obey.
00:33:05.840 And listen,
00:33:08.080 the Democrat view
00:33:09.440 of politics
00:33:10.280 is they use
00:33:12.140 government power
00:33:13.080 to punish their enemies
00:33:15.400 and reward their friends.
00:33:17.340 So they want to go
00:33:18.280 after their enemies
00:33:19.100 if you believe
00:33:20.000 in free speech,
00:33:20.800 if you believe
00:33:21.280 in religious liberty,
00:33:22.240 if you believe
00:33:22.940 in the Second Amendment,
00:33:23.980 if you believe
00:33:24.520 in free enterprise,
00:33:25.600 they consider you
00:33:26.920 an enemy.
00:33:27.560 They want to punish you.
00:33:28.800 They want to make
00:33:29.420 your life difficult.
00:33:30.380 They want to crush you
00:33:31.320 into submission.
00:33:32.300 On the other hand,
00:33:34.060 if you're a Democrat
00:33:34.980 lobbyist,
00:33:35.640 if you make money
00:33:36.780 on all of these
00:33:38.880 different scams
00:33:39.700 dealing with the
00:33:40.240 federal government,
00:33:40.840 they want to make you rich.
00:33:42.020 They want to shovel cash
00:33:43.400 into your pocket.
00:33:45.080 And that fundamentally
00:33:46.720 is the corruption
00:33:48.680 that's at the heart
00:33:50.120 of today's Democrat party.
00:33:51.320 I want to ask you
00:33:52.400 a practical question
00:33:53.400 from a legislative
00:33:54.320 standpoint, Senator,
00:33:55.400 because there are
00:33:56.040 a lot of Second Amendment
00:33:57.460 advocates, gun owners,
00:33:59.280 that are concerned
00:34:00.200 about two aspects of this.
00:34:02.260 And yes,
00:34:02.860 we have the court system
00:34:03.720 that I believe
00:34:04.180 is going to strike this
00:34:04.920 down in Illinois,
00:34:05.740 but Democrats clearly
00:34:06.760 are trying to figure
00:34:07.540 around workarounds
00:34:08.620 to take away our rights.
00:34:10.500 There are two things
00:34:11.380 that concern many gun owners,
00:34:12.660 and I know you've heard
00:34:13.480 about this a lot.
00:34:14.600 One is this gun registry
00:34:17.100 aspect of that,
00:34:18.480 and that's what they're
00:34:19.380 obviously trying to do
00:34:20.560 in Illinois.
00:34:21.600 The second is
00:34:22.740 government monitoring.
00:34:24.200 We talked about this,
00:34:25.260 I think,
00:34:25.700 on this podcast
00:34:26.240 a couple months ago
00:34:27.040 when banks
00:34:28.600 were recording transactions,
00:34:31.260 and the White House
00:34:31.840 was warning this,
00:34:32.440 for gun stores
00:34:33.880 and places
00:34:34.500 to kind of monitor
00:34:35.480 and then see
00:34:36.620 if you were buying
00:34:37.360 what they believed
00:34:38.220 was too much ammo
00:34:39.280 or too many guns
00:34:40.260 or too many transactions.
00:34:42.140 Look,
00:34:42.440 I own a gun store,
00:34:44.000 and we've had banks
00:34:45.140 and credit card processing
00:34:46.720 companies
00:34:47.220 that have actually
00:34:48.240 just said,
00:34:48.780 we're not working with you
00:34:49.820 even though you're selling
00:34:50.880 the most regulated industry
00:34:52.940 by the government.
00:34:54.040 We have multiple layers
00:34:55.260 of regulations
00:34:56.160 on this industry.
00:34:57.420 And they've also said,
00:34:58.980 you know,
00:34:59.580 not only are we not
00:35:00.280 going to do it,
00:35:00.820 we're going to try
00:35:01.440 to basically use that
00:35:02.260 to put you out of business.
00:35:03.760 And people are terrified
00:35:05.000 of the government
00:35:05.580 monitoring their transactions.
00:35:07.920 So number one,
00:35:09.080 is there anything
00:35:09.860 that you guys can do
00:35:11.180 to make that illegal?
00:35:13.480 And second of all,
00:35:14.960 is there any type
00:35:15.940 of legislation
00:35:16.480 that could come about
00:35:17.420 that says you cannot
00:35:18.280 have gun registries
00:35:19.440 in this country?
00:35:21.260 So yes,
00:35:22.440 there is.
00:35:23.200 And in the Senate,
00:35:24.340 I've been leading
00:35:24.980 the fight
00:35:25.560 against a gun registry
00:35:27.200 and in defense
00:35:27.900 of the Second Amendment
00:35:28.860 for the entire time
00:35:30.000 I've been there.
00:35:30.700 And listen,
00:35:31.300 the Second Amendment,
00:35:33.020 I believe passionately
00:35:34.120 in the Constitution.
00:35:36.660 As you know,
00:35:37.960 my second book
00:35:39.220 that I wrote
00:35:40.000 was One Vote Away,
00:35:41.240 How a Single Supreme Court
00:35:42.320 Seat Can Change History.
00:35:43.840 And there's an entire chapter
00:35:45.280 in One Vote Away
00:35:46.160 that talks about
00:35:47.300 the Heller case
00:35:48.160 where the Supreme Court
00:35:49.460 upheld and first clarified
00:35:52.260 the individual right
00:35:53.180 to keep and bear arms
00:35:54.140 in the Second Amendment.
00:35:55.840 And I led the states.
00:35:58.380 I was Solicitor General
00:35:59.340 of Texas
00:35:59.820 and I led the states
00:36:01.100 in defense of the
00:36:02.340 Second Amendment
00:36:02.900 in Heller,
00:36:04.260 which is why
00:36:05.540 the NRA
00:36:06.580 named me
00:36:08.080 as a champion
00:36:08.980 defending the Second Amendment
00:36:10.160 because that victory,
00:36:11.760 that victory
00:36:13.120 and the subsequent case
00:36:14.500 of McDonald
00:36:15.040 is a big part
00:36:15.880 of why this Illinois law
00:36:17.180 is likely to be struck down.
00:36:21.620 Protecting those rights
00:36:22.700 when I first got
00:36:23.500 to the Senate,
00:36:24.020 one of the very first
00:36:27.360 things that happened,
00:36:28.220 I was elected in 2012,
00:36:29.580 I arrived in 2013.
00:36:31.160 Tragically,
00:36:31.780 we saw the shooting
00:36:32.860 in Newtown, Connecticut
00:36:33.820 where that monster,
00:36:35.020 that animal,
00:36:35.680 murdered little children.
00:36:37.260 You and I are both parents
00:36:38.360 and I think there is
00:36:39.020 nothing more evil
00:36:40.140 on planet Earth
00:36:41.460 than a monster
00:36:42.060 who hurts little kids.
00:36:43.860 And the Democrats
00:36:44.940 were exultant.
00:36:46.940 Obama had just been re-elected.
00:36:48.460 They were convinced
00:36:49.100 they were going to pass
00:36:50.000 gun control.
00:36:51.120 And I was a brand new
00:36:52.420 baby freshman senator.
00:36:53.960 I was still in my basement office.
00:36:55.660 I didn't know
00:36:55.960 where the men's room was.
00:36:57.520 But I said,
00:36:58.240 I'll be damned
00:36:58.940 if I let this Congress
00:37:00.380 pass anything
00:37:01.180 that takes away
00:37:02.220 the Second Amendment rights
00:37:03.280 of Texans and Americans.
00:37:05.000 And I led the fight
00:37:06.240 just fresh into the Senate.
00:37:08.600 And we defeated those bills
00:37:10.180 on the floor of the Senate.
00:37:11.200 I authored the lead alternative
00:37:12.660 to those bills
00:37:13.800 that was a law enforcement alternative
00:37:15.380 that focused on criminals
00:37:16.660 and fugitives
00:37:17.760 and those with serious
00:37:18.860 mental illness
00:37:19.560 and putting them in jail
00:37:20.600 and taking their firearms away
00:37:22.500 and securing schools.
00:37:24.920 All of those.
00:37:25.800 There's a lot we can do
00:37:26.960 to make people safer.
00:37:28.500 The Democrats don't want that.
00:37:30.080 They want to disarm you,
00:37:32.580 the law-abiding citizen.
00:37:33.860 And one of the most central elements
00:37:35.660 you rightly focused on
00:37:36.880 is a gun registry.
00:37:38.520 And listen,
00:37:39.100 for people who don't follow
00:37:40.880 these issues,
00:37:42.640 a registry can sound innocuous.
00:37:45.760 One of the arguments
00:37:46.700 they like to give is,
00:37:47.720 look, you need a license
00:37:49.360 to drive a car.
00:37:50.560 You ought to have a license
00:37:51.480 to own a firearm.
00:37:52.640 And just, you know,
00:37:53.960 you ought to register a car,
00:37:55.280 you should register a firearm.
00:37:57.260 Well, the difference is
00:37:59.760 there are not yet
00:38:02.100 a group of political ideologues
00:38:04.840 and zealots
00:38:05.400 that want to confiscate
00:38:06.540 our automobiles.
00:38:07.440 By the way,
00:38:07.940 that may be coming.
00:38:08.780 They want to confiscate
00:38:09.560 our gas stoves.
00:38:10.760 Automobile confiscation
00:38:12.040 may be coming.
00:38:13.340 But we're not there yet.
00:38:14.540 But with firearms,
00:38:18.860 Pritzker wants to take them.
00:38:21.240 Joe Biden wants to take them.
00:38:22.940 Dianne Feinstein wants to take them.
00:38:24.760 Gavin Newsom wants to take them.
00:38:26.720 They want to come in
00:38:27.560 and forcibly remove your firearms.
00:38:30.380 And so the entire purpose
00:38:31.440 of a registry
00:38:32.120 is create a list.
00:38:33.880 Okay, Ben Ferguson
00:38:35.000 has the following firearms.
00:38:36.640 Okay.
00:38:38.400 The local law enforcement
00:38:41.240 shows up and says,
00:38:42.120 Mr. Ferguson,
00:38:42.660 hand over every gun on this list.
00:38:44.220 And if you don't hand it up,
00:38:45.180 we're putting you in handcuffs
00:38:45.980 and taking you away.
00:38:47.160 That's why they want a registry.
00:38:50.080 And so there are already elements
00:38:52.880 of current federal law
00:38:54.220 that prohibit,
00:38:54.900 for example, the ATF.
00:38:56.600 When you go and buy a gun
00:38:58.780 at a firearms dealer,
00:38:59.880 you own a gun store.
00:39:00.740 So you're a firearms dealer.
00:39:02.300 You got to fill out
00:39:03.080 a background check.
00:39:04.200 And as you know,
00:39:05.360 federal law requires you
00:39:06.500 to run that background check.
00:39:08.220 But after it comes back clean,
00:39:10.040 you're required
00:39:10.800 to destroy those records.
00:39:12.660 And the reason
00:39:13.380 federal law requires that
00:39:14.880 is because they don't want
00:39:16.460 a registry
00:39:17.820 that becomes a list
00:39:19.180 for the gun grabbers
00:39:20.620 to disarm America.
00:39:22.140 That is their objective.
00:39:24.240 And it is,
00:39:25.580 fortunately,
00:39:26.180 it's unconstitutional.
00:39:27.660 But as the Democrat Party
00:39:29.340 has gotten more
00:39:29.980 and more extreme,
00:39:32.000 they're not even bothering
00:39:33.480 to hide their objective
00:39:35.000 that they want
00:39:35.980 to disarm you.
00:39:37.320 And mind you,
00:39:39.000 at the same time,
00:39:40.100 they want to let out of jail
00:39:41.340 the violent criminals
00:39:42.400 who are committing
00:39:43.060 these acts.
00:39:44.100 I mean,
00:39:44.520 think of the combination.
00:39:47.220 Prevent your ability
00:39:48.580 to defend your home
00:39:49.500 and your kids,
00:39:50.240 but at the same time,
00:39:51.200 these are the people
00:39:51.920 that want to abolish
00:39:53.280 the police
00:39:53.820 and that are supporting
00:39:54.660 George Soros DAs
00:39:56.100 that let violent criminals
00:39:57.400 out of prison
00:39:57.960 who turn around
00:39:58.840 and commit more crimes.
00:39:59.820 You and I live
00:40:00.400 in Houston, Texas.
00:40:01.340 In Houston,
00:40:02.480 we've got cashless bail policies
00:40:04.700 that are releasing
00:40:05.680 murderers
00:40:06.740 who turn around
00:40:07.360 and murder more people.
00:40:09.380 I don't understand.
00:40:12.480 I really do struggle
00:40:14.620 with the reason
00:40:17.620 and logic
00:40:18.320 that says,
00:40:20.480 disarm someone
00:40:21.660 who's never committed
00:40:22.520 a crime,
00:40:23.280 who wants a firearm
00:40:24.480 to protect their children,
00:40:25.920 but at the same time,
00:40:27.620 release someone
00:40:28.540 who's already murdered somebody
00:40:30.540 and is likely
00:40:31.300 to murder somebody else.
00:40:32.560 That's not logic.
00:40:36.220 That's emotion.
00:40:37.660 That's rage.
00:40:38.780 That's ideology
00:40:40.020 disconnected from real life.
00:40:43.060 And it is a tiny sliver
00:40:44.700 of America.
00:40:45.920 But what's bizarre
00:40:47.420 is the Democrat Party
00:40:48.820 has handed their policy
00:40:50.160 on these issues
00:40:51.020 over to that tiny sliver
00:40:52.640 of America.
00:40:53.620 And embraced
00:40:54.700 every bit of it.
00:40:55.460 I say to people
00:40:56.180 all the time,
00:40:56.720 if you think
00:40:57.340 these types of things
00:40:58.380 cannot happen in America
00:40:59.480 or you think
00:41:00.580 that it'll never happen,
00:41:01.680 call anybody
00:41:03.020 you know in Canada
00:41:03.800 right now
00:41:04.320 and ask them
00:41:04.840 what rights
00:41:05.280 they have with guns
00:41:06.140 because Trudeau
00:41:07.100 just took them
00:41:07.720 all away
00:41:08.220 because of truck drivers
00:41:09.640 that stood up
00:41:10.880 to the vaccine mandate.
00:41:12.700 It scared the elitists
00:41:14.160 enough in Canada.
00:41:15.500 Those truck drivers
00:41:16.520 banding together,
00:41:17.540 they then said,
00:41:18.500 here's our response
00:41:19.640 to this.
00:41:20.380 Let's get rid of the guns.
00:41:21.700 And they did it
00:41:22.380 successfully there.
00:41:23.520 And that is a reminder
00:41:24.680 of how quickly
00:41:25.420 it can happen
00:41:26.020 if you're not
00:41:26.500 paying attention.
00:41:27.580 Senator,
00:41:27.840 I want to end
00:41:28.400 on a positive note
00:41:29.740 and I think
00:41:30.300 we should do this
00:41:31.640 more often
00:41:32.400 when we have victories
00:41:33.760 in the conservative movement.
00:41:35.720 You and I
00:41:36.160 just had dinner
00:41:36.860 recently in D.C.
00:41:38.400 with some of those
00:41:39.660 that were fighting
00:41:40.700 for a lot of the deals
00:41:43.060 that were done
00:41:43.820 to basically have
00:41:45.620 strong, staunch conservatives
00:41:47.400 sit on certain committees.
00:41:49.580 Your former chief of staff,
00:41:51.200 congressman from Texas,
00:41:52.900 Chip Roy,
00:41:53.440 was instrumental
00:41:54.380 in working this deal.
00:41:56.080 We now are seeing
00:41:57.100 the fruits of that fight
00:41:58.560 over the speakership
00:41:59.980 with Kevin McCarthy
00:42:00.720 and the payoff
00:42:02.140 is massive.
00:42:04.260 Tell people about
00:42:04.980 how good this is.
00:42:06.280 Well, we're starting
00:42:07.260 to get the announcement
00:42:08.160 of who is on
00:42:09.000 various committees
00:42:09.760 and one of the things
00:42:10.500 we talked about
00:42:11.160 at great length
00:42:11.880 when the media
00:42:12.420 was freaking out,
00:42:13.960 when Democrats
00:42:14.880 were freaking out
00:42:15.660 and even some Republicans,
00:42:17.140 particularly those
00:42:17.820 kind of at home
00:42:18.520 that weren't following
00:42:19.180 it closely
00:42:19.680 were freaking out,
00:42:21.180 that the speaker fight
00:42:22.960 was a disaster,
00:42:24.460 it was a disgrace,
00:42:25.400 that it was a catastrophe.
00:42:27.260 Look,
00:42:27.540 it was the democratic process.
00:42:29.360 We spent four days
00:42:30.500 with the House of Representatives
00:42:31.740 debating who its leader
00:42:32.780 should be
00:42:33.240 and debating,
00:42:34.540 more importantly,
00:42:35.340 how it should lead.
00:42:37.220 And the consequence,
00:42:39.040 those that stood up
00:42:40.260 and led that fight
00:42:41.220 extracted major concessions
00:42:43.400 and those concessions
00:42:45.040 are going to change
00:42:46.040 how the House majority
00:42:47.820 is able to govern
00:42:49.220 and able to fight
00:42:50.380 bad policies
00:42:52.060 from Biden
00:42:52.780 and the Democrats
00:42:53.380 over the next two years.
00:42:54.560 And it was a massive victory.
00:42:55.980 If you care about
00:42:57.600 having Republicans
00:42:58.420 actually stand up
00:42:59.920 and fight
00:43:00.320 for what they say
00:43:01.260 they believe,
00:43:02.420 that fight over
00:43:03.300 the speakership
00:43:04.060 was massively important.
00:43:06.000 Now,
00:43:06.180 in the middle of the fight,
00:43:07.040 one of the things
00:43:07.720 that shifted the battle,
00:43:09.000 you know,
00:43:09.200 early on,
00:43:10.200 there were a handful
00:43:11.280 of rebels
00:43:11.780 and it wasn't clear
00:43:12.540 how many were going
00:43:13.280 to vote against
00:43:14.600 Kevin McCarthy
00:43:15.280 as speaker.
00:43:16.420 And they had a meeting
00:43:17.620 of the House
00:43:18.100 Republican Conference
00:43:19.020 and one of McCarthy's
00:43:20.680 lieutenants
00:43:21.160 stood up
00:43:21.740 and threatened
00:43:22.820 the rebels.
00:43:23.480 If you dare
00:43:25.620 vote against him,
00:43:27.120 you'll be stripped
00:43:27.780 of your committees.
00:43:28.880 Now,
00:43:29.120 that's the kind
00:43:29.800 of high-handed,
00:43:31.580 haughty authoritarianism
00:43:33.020 that you expect
00:43:33.780 of Nancy Pelosi.
00:43:35.400 But it's not
00:43:36.520 what you should expect
00:43:37.540 of Republican leadership.
00:43:39.000 And I'll tell you,
00:43:39.580 that pissed
00:43:40.380 a lot of members off.
00:43:42.220 And I think
00:43:42.660 it played a big part.
00:43:43.820 We could easily
00:43:44.720 have seen
00:43:45.500 on the first vote
00:43:47.260 maybe 10 or 12
00:43:48.320 no votes.
00:43:48.960 Instead,
00:43:49.320 we saw 19
00:43:50.060 on the first vote.
00:43:51.360 And I think
00:43:51.940 that threat
00:43:52.760 may well
00:43:53.960 have doubled
00:43:55.000 or nearly doubled
00:43:56.060 the number
00:43:56.420 of no votes.
00:43:57.180 Well,
00:43:57.980 turned out
00:43:58.420 that threat
00:43:58.920 wasn't carried
00:43:59.580 through.
00:44:00.820 And we're starting
00:44:02.060 to get who's going
00:44:02.820 to be on the various
00:44:03.520 committees.
00:44:04.180 And one in particular
00:44:05.460 that is quite notable
00:44:08.140 is the House
00:44:10.660 Oversight Committee.
00:44:12.420 And the members
00:44:13.540 of that committee
00:44:14.300 will be Kelly Armstrong
00:44:15.580 from North Dakota,
00:44:16.680 Lauren Boebert
00:44:17.300 from Colorado,
00:44:18.860 Tim Burkett
00:44:19.620 from Tennessee,
00:44:20.380 Eric Burleson
00:44:22.100 from Missouri,
00:44:23.500 Byron Donalds
00:44:24.420 from Florida,
00:44:25.140 Chuck Edwards
00:44:25.700 from North Carolina,
00:44:26.860 Russell Frye
00:44:27.480 from South Carolina,
00:44:28.920 Marjorie Taylor Greene
00:44:29.880 from Georgia,
00:44:30.700 Paul Gosar
00:44:31.440 from Arizona,
00:44:32.320 Nick Langworthy
00:44:33.040 from New York,
00:44:34.420 Jake Leterner
00:44:35.540 from Kansas,
00:44:36.440 Gary Palmer
00:44:36.920 from Alabama,
00:44:38.180 Anna Polina Luna
00:44:38.960 from Florida,
00:44:39.660 Scott Perry
00:44:40.220 from Pennsylvania,
00:44:41.200 Lisa McClain
00:44:41.960 from Michigan,
00:44:42.760 Pete Sessions
00:44:43.280 from Texas,
00:44:44.540 and William Tibbins
00:44:45.300 from South Carolina.
00:44:46.260 Now,
00:44:46.400 what's striking
00:44:47.040 is that a whole
00:44:48.720 bunch of those
00:44:49.720 are rock-ribbed
00:44:51.700 conservatives
00:44:52.200 who were among
00:44:53.840 the rebels,
00:44:54.480 who were among
00:44:55.040 the people
00:44:55.500 that were told
00:44:56.340 you will be
00:44:57.340 in Siberia,
00:44:58.300 you will get
00:44:58.780 no committees,
00:44:59.520 and they've been
00:45:00.020 put now
00:45:00.640 on the Oversight
00:45:02.060 Committee
00:45:02.480 with the ability
00:45:03.700 to go after
00:45:04.520 the abuse of power
00:45:05.760 from Joe Biden
00:45:06.980 and this administration.
00:45:08.320 That's what we need
00:45:09.480 as principled fighters.
00:45:10.700 I think this is
00:45:11.180 a great,
00:45:12.360 great development.
00:45:13.820 I think we will
00:45:14.340 see more.
00:45:15.040 we will see
00:45:15.960 strong conservatives
00:45:17.740 in significantly
00:45:18.920 greater positions
00:45:20.220 able to leverage
00:45:22.040 their position
00:45:23.220 to fight
00:45:24.480 conservative battles
00:45:25.560 and hopefully
00:45:26.040 win conservative
00:45:27.200 victories
00:45:27.740 for the American people.
00:45:29.620 And I think
00:45:30.480 standing and fighting
00:45:31.600 for issues
00:45:33.180 and principles
00:45:33.920 that matter
00:45:34.800 is also how
00:45:36.440 we win in 24.
00:45:37.840 It's how we win
00:45:38.520 the Senate back.
00:45:40.380 It's how we hold
00:45:40.940 this House
00:45:41.360 and grow our House
00:45:42.140 majority.
00:45:42.860 It's how we win
00:45:43.600 the White House back.
00:45:44.480 And so
00:45:44.900 this is a good
00:45:45.920 illustration
00:45:46.600 when people said
00:45:49.120 gosh
00:45:49.620 why have this fight?
00:45:52.600 And look
00:45:52.960 when you and I
00:45:53.400 were having dinner
00:45:53.920 in D.C.
00:45:54.440 I pulled out my phone
00:45:55.480 and I read to you
00:45:56.280 texts
00:45:56.820 from Republican donors
00:45:59.040 some of whom
00:45:59.560 are friends of mine
00:46:00.260 who were irate.
00:46:02.100 Why is this fight
00:46:03.140 happening?
00:46:03.700 And listen
00:46:04.060 I understand
00:46:04.820 if you're a business guy
00:46:06.880 and you're at home
00:46:07.820 and you turn on
00:46:09.140 the news
00:46:09.680 and they just say
00:46:10.640 chaos
00:46:11.260 chaos
00:46:11.480 and madness
00:46:14.380 with the House
00:46:15.600 Republicans
00:46:16.140 you're kind of
00:46:17.840 annoyed
00:46:18.200 and you're kind
00:46:19.040 of embarrassed
00:46:19.520 if you don't
00:46:20.280 understand
00:46:21.060 why that fight
00:46:23.440 is happening
00:46:24.040 and I think
00:46:24.460 we're seeing
00:46:25.360 the very real
00:46:27.020 and tangible
00:46:27.760 results
00:46:28.560 of standing
00:46:29.420 and fighting
00:46:30.060 if you want
00:46:31.260 conservative leadership
00:46:32.460 you've got to
00:46:33.940 stand up
00:46:34.460 and have a
00:46:35.100 conservative conference
00:46:36.140 that demands it
00:46:36.980 and this is a big
00:46:37.540 step forward.
00:46:38.080 Look I just have to say
00:46:40.020 sitting at the dinner
00:46:40.700 that night
00:46:41.180 and this was me
00:46:42.340 looking from the outside
00:46:43.400 it was fun
00:46:45.140 to see you
00:46:46.420 and I think
00:46:47.000 how proud you were
00:46:48.280 of someone
00:46:49.380 that you know well
00:46:50.120 Chip Roy
00:46:50.740 and the way
00:46:51.400 that he was able
00:46:52.040 to orchestrate
00:46:52.780 that deal
00:46:53.260 and communicate
00:46:54.020 with the speaker
00:46:54.820 and to make sure
00:46:56.840 that these principals
00:46:57.840 had another day
00:46:59.700 to fight
00:47:00.320 and live
00:47:00.880 and have people
00:47:01.700 on these committees
00:47:02.400 it was just cool
00:47:03.840 to see
00:47:04.400 as I put it
00:47:05.500 the good guys
00:47:06.360 win here
00:47:07.080 and when we have
00:47:08.200 these moments
00:47:08.840 we should celebrate
00:47:09.740 them
00:47:10.160 and remind people
00:47:11.120 that this is why
00:47:12.280 we fight so hard
00:47:13.700 this is why
00:47:14.280 you fight so hard
00:47:15.240 this is why
00:47:15.860 you do the bus tour
00:47:17.300 in a year
00:47:17.920 when you're not up
00:47:18.920 for re-election
00:47:19.640 and you try to get
00:47:21.300 principal conservatives
00:47:22.520 into Congress
00:47:23.300 and these are those
00:47:25.060 moments that we should
00:47:25.940 enjoy
00:47:26.380 and take a moment
00:47:27.700 and say
00:47:28.020 it was worth it
00:47:29.080 and to the donors
00:47:30.720 it's worth it
00:47:31.960 and to finding
00:47:33.060 tough
00:47:33.640 strong
00:47:34.180 principal conservatives
00:47:35.140 and running them
00:47:36.380 and backing them
00:47:37.260 it's worth it
00:47:38.520 and it paid off big
00:47:39.780 and I just think
00:47:40.480 it's a big moment
00:47:41.160 that we should all enjoy
00:47:42.160 fully agree
00:47:43.980 senator
00:47:44.980 I appreciate it
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