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00:02:03.580 Welcome, it is Vertical Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you.

00:02:07.240 It's really nice to have you with us as we've got a lot to discuss on today's show,

00:02:11.220 including AI and the race with China.

00:02:15.220 Well, we're discussing how big money tries to manipulate you

00:02:18.280 and how it tries to manipulate your life.

00:02:20.740 We start with the question of AI.

00:02:22.500 We know there's quite a bit of foreign money that is devoted to propaganda, that is devoted

00:02:27.980 to espionage of Americans, and is devoted to trying to convince us to go down lines

00:02:33.960 that are harmful to America.

00:02:35.880 You look at the anti-Semitic protests on college campuses.

00:02:39.080 Those were funded, I believe, by Qatar, by Iran, and by China.

00:02:43.380 Well, a bombshell new report came out that links how a Chinese Marxist nonprofit headed

00:02:50.340 by a billionaire who hates America, is spending millions and millions of dollars trying to

00:02:56.220 convince Americans to hate AI, to be scared of AI, to stop developing AI. 0.64

00:03:02.460 Obviously, if America slows down AI here, the winner of that is communist China. 0.69

00:03:07.560 We're going to break that down in detail right now. 0.60

00:03:11.280 Yeah, it's a really amazing story, and we're going to have that for you in a moment.

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00:05:34.460 Americans United for Life. So Senator, let's talk about AI and explain AI in general and the

00:05:41.860 technology and the infrastructure needed for AI. AI has become and is just taking over in different

00:05:49.320 ways it's changing the way you study it's changing the way that schools are being run it's changing

00:05:54.360 the way business is being done it's changing the way law is being done almost everybody i know in

00:06:00.160 every sector is now depending on ai significantly as a tool and if you are a foreign government

00:06:07.380 this is a powerful tool to then get in the minds and the hearts of people not just in the u.s but

00:06:14.060 around the world with propaganda because if you ask ai a question and then it comes back a little

00:06:19.380 bit skewed anti x y or z whatever you want it to be against you can then change people's minds 0.97

00:06:26.160 through ai that is part of the reason why this this race with ai with china is so vitally important 0.95

00:06:32.260 well ai is changing how all of us live our lives it is making human beings much much more productive 0.92

00:06:39.680 in their jobs. It is enabling you to carry out tasks in a fraction of the time they would have

00:06:45.380 taken you previously. Now, there's a lot of understandable and quite reasonable fear about

00:06:51.340 AI, about the massive change that AI will produce. People have concerns about their jobs. Will their

00:06:57.440 jobs still be there? Will they still be needed? Or are they going to be replaced by an AI?

00:07:02.000 Right now, we've seen a lot of instances of AI making people more efficient and more productive.

00:07:07.360 In some instances, companies are hiring more workers because with AI, the productivity is so

00:07:13.040 great that they end up needing more people to handle that additional productivity. But it is

00:07:20.140 still rapidly changing. It is rapidly evolving, and it is unknown. And fear of the unknown is a

00:07:27.440 very natural, reasonable response. We are also facing, and we've talked about this on the pod

00:07:34.020 before. In my judgment, the single most important economic question facing the United States today

00:07:40.400 is who wins the race for AI? Does America win it or does China win it? Somebody's going to win it.

00:07:48.100 There is going to be an answer. In five, 10 years, we will know the answer to that.

00:07:53.200 Right now, America is ahead. We are ahead probably about six months. I ask tech leaders all the time.

00:08:00.920 the answer varies. It varies anywhere from three months ahead to as much as a year ahead. But I'd

00:08:07.180 say that the most typical answer I get from a tech leader is that we're about six months ahead,

00:08:12.340 but six months is meaningful. And by the way, what does that mean when you say we're ahead?

00:08:15.420 Explain, is that logistics? Is that building sites? Is that towns that are allowing for the

00:08:20.460 AI computers? What does that exactly mean? We are developing faster chips than the Chinese have.

00:08:25.700 We also have export controls in place so they don't get our fastest chips. 1.00

00:08:30.800 We're building data centers, and then we are also writing programs, the various AI programs that use those chips to reason.

00:08:38.680 We're building compute, and then they're doing inference.

00:08:42.200 They're doing reason and learning, and we're teaching these models.

00:08:45.600 All of those processes are iterative, and we are ahead of them, ahead of them with faster chips, with data centers, with compute, and with inference.

00:08:53.820 But it's not a huge lead.

00:08:55.700 Now, China is well aware that it matters enormously who wins. Whoever wins that race,

00:09:02.880 the result is going to be trillions and trillions of dollars of investment and millions of jobs.

00:09:09.000 And so we want those jobs in America. We don't want those jobs in China. We want to have them 0.66

00:09:13.080 here. But even more importantly, the result of that, whatever country wins, their values

00:09:20.380 will suffuse AI. If China wins, if the world adopts Chinese AI, it means that that AI will

00:09:28.060 embrace the Chinese values of surveillance, of espionage, of propaganda, of social control, 0.75

00:09:35.160 social scores, using AI to try to control your life. We would much rather have free market values 0.82

00:09:42.000 of America govern AI, things like free speech, individual choice. Now look, tech companies will

00:09:48.180 still be bad actors. Tech companies have been bad actors from almost the very beginning,

00:09:52.380 but I'd much rather be taking on the excesses of tech companies rather than a communist government

00:09:58.920 engaged in central control. And so I think when it comes to economic questions, there is none that

00:10:05.220 matters more than who wins the race to AI. By the way, there was an interesting example of this

00:10:09.920 from a tech executive that I talked to a couple months back. And we were sitting in the green

00:10:14.480 room together uh getting ready for tv and he was talking about ai and i said when you talk about

00:10:19.580 this race how would you describe it he described it in a very interesting way he said there was a

00:10:24.140 race um decades ago between vhs and beta exactly he said there was not going to be two that

00:10:31.180 coexisted one was going to win and one was going to lose all right ben ben i want to interrupt you 0.58

00:10:37.160 on this story this is where i need to remind you you're getting to be an old fart too we have a lot

00:10:43.120 of people who listen to our show who are teenagers or 20 somethings and you know what they have no

00:10:48.660 idea what a vhs or a beta is so yeah for the sake of our younger listeners could could you tell them

00:10:54.220 what a vhs and beta is and then please continue with your story this thing that you used to get

00:10:57.800 at blockbuster which also doesn't exist anymore and it was how you watched a movie before you

00:11:02.280 just ordered it on your tv and did it direct right remember like those dvds and blu-ray

00:11:07.200 it was the generation before DVDs, and it was VHS, which was kind of a longer tape.

00:11:13.700 There was a beta, which was kind of short and stubby.

00:11:16.220 And there was a fight over which one was going to control the marketplace.

00:11:19.920 And by the way, the reason one controls is it becomes the standard.

00:11:24.740 It becomes just what everyone uses.

00:11:27.660 Think of it like the shape of a plug.

00:11:30.600 Once something is set the standard, that becomes what everyone uses.

00:11:33.920 In this instance, you had people bought VHS recorders,

00:11:37.860 recorders that would play video cassettes and you could record your TV.

00:11:41.180 And this was a new thing in the 70s and 80s.

00:11:44.480 And the VHS tapes were bigger.

00:11:47.000 The Betamax tapes were smaller.

00:11:48.860 Betamax was Sony, was the one that came up with Betamax.

00:11:52.580 And most of the techies said Betamax was a better technology.

00:11:57.420 Yeah, in fact, TV channels, they did almost everything on beta.

00:12:00.700 They were like the lone user and movies like companies did everything and they recorded on beta because it was better, higher quality.

00:12:07.680 But VHS won the war. And that was the standard. You couldn't go and run a movie and beta and VHS at Blockbuster.

00:12:14.080 They were all VHS. They won. And he described he said he said, I am so worried about China, as he described it, being the VHS and America being beta, because once you are pushed out, you're not going to get back in.

00:12:26.700 And so we better, as he described it, win now, because then, as you mentioned, it's not just winning, it's then the control you have after you win, which is the most powerful thing for China and propaganda. 0.61

00:12:38.560 But by the way, we see this in a very real illustration and the difference between, let's say, Twitter or X and TikTok.

00:12:47.320 TikTok, when it was owned and controlled by the Chinese government, its output was markedly different.

00:12:52.820 TikTok was pushing propaganda. It was pushing anti-American propaganda. It was pushing communist propaganda. It was pushing anti-capitalist propaganda. It was pushing anti-Israel propaganda and pro-Palestinian propaganda. And you looked at the numbers. It was, I don't have the data right in front of me on this, but it was something like 100x more likely that you would get anti-Israel or anti-America propaganda on TikTok than you would on another social media platform.

00:13:21.280 That's the same sort of thing, except with an AI, it's someone using it to write a paper,

00:13:26.540 learn about a topic, and having China be able to control what we are learning and really what

00:13:32.940 reality is, what we understand as reality is profoundly dangerous. Yeah, it is. So when you 0.94

00:13:39.960 look at this moving forward, what is it that Americans need to understand and what do they

00:13:44.780 need to be advocating for? There's also infrastructure here, which has become a

00:13:49.440 really intense local issue as well, because with this technology, with this computing, there is

00:13:55.400 a strain on the grid. It needs to be built differently in these areas. We need to be

00:13:59.580 advocating for that and not be afraid of it as well. Well, look, one thing that folks ought to

00:14:05.500 be aware, and one of the great things, listeners of Verdict, you guys are informed and engaged

00:14:11.660 citizens. You take seriously learning issues. You don't listen to a show like Verdict unless you

00:14:17.100 want to know what's really going on. Now, I am going to guess that our listeners, probably 60 to

00:14:23.360 70 percent of you, have very serious concerns about AI. Why am I guessing that? Because almost

00:14:29.100 every single poll done in America shows that Americans, about 60 to 70 percent, have very

00:14:34.620 serious concerns about AI. Those concerns are not irrational, or many of them are not. I have

00:14:40.480 concerns about AI. That's perfectly rational. What you should be aware is that there is a

00:14:46.820 concerted effort to convince you to have those concerns, and the Chinese communists are putting

00:14:53.380 real money, their objective is for that 60 to 70 percent to become 80 to 90 percent, and for the

00:15:00.520 concerns to drive you to want to shut down AI. That's their objective. Let me talk about this

00:15:05.180 report that just was released. This is from the Free Beacon. Notorious China-based American mogul

00:15:11.600 is running shadowy influence campaign to undermine USAI efforts, give communist China an edge in 0.60

00:15:18.980 technology arms race. A Shanghai-based American expatriate who works hand in glove with the 0.78

00:15:24.680 Chinese Communist Party is using a network of American nonprofits to foment and amplify American

00:15:32.500 opposition to artificial intelligence and the data centers that power it in a bid to propel

00:15:38.340 China past the U.S. in the technological arms race. A report from the Bitcoin Policy Institute

00:15:45.620 reveals that for the past five years, non-profit organizations funded by the tech mogul Neville

00:15:52.700 Roy Singham are churning out papers opposing export controls on advanced semiconductors to

00:15:59.540 China, newsletters that quote CCP officials lambasting America's approach to the technological

00:16:05.900 arms race, and articles characterizing U.S. data centers as fronts in the quote new cold war on

00:16:14.120 China. Several lawmakers cited a report when calling on the administration to investigate,

00:16:20.120 including Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Tom Cotton, who sent a letter to acting Attorney

00:16:25.100 General Todd Blanche, asking for an investigation into, quote, foreign influence efforts targeting

00:16:31.940 the build-out of American AI infrastructure. Quote, Neville Singham has ties to the Chinese

00:16:40.220 Communist Party, so it's no surprise he's pushing anti-American policies through fake non-profits,

00:16:45.620 Cotton told the Free Beacon. The Department of Justice should launch a full investigation into

00:16:50.140 this attempt to undermine America's prosperity. I very much agree DOJ should investigate this and

00:16:57.320 fully do everything possible to stop this foreign influence operation. A sprawling 2023 New York

00:17:06.040 Times investigation identified Singham, who sold his technology consulting company ThoughtWorks in

00:17:13.580 2017 for $785 million as the source of, quote, a global web of Chinese propaganda. This Singham

00:17:27.080 is spending hundreds of millions of dollars using technology, trying to influence you,

00:17:34.740 trying to influence you to oppose AI, to oppose data centers. By the way, we're seeing the far

00:17:42.040 left. So both Bernie Sanders and AOC have introduced legislation that would ban new data centers in

00:17:49.440 America. That's where the far left is. And what was their logic behind that for people that maybe

00:17:53.340 weren't watching this? Because it is really shocking. I understand where they're getting

00:17:57.020 bought off from. It's China and Chinese influence. But what was the logic of why we should ban them 1.00

00:18:01.600 in the whole country? All right, let's talk data centers for a minute, which is different people

00:18:07.760 have different views on data centers. And the two main complaints that are raised about data centers

00:18:12.100 are power usage and water usage. And I hear those a lot. On the power side, I have advised almost

00:18:19.360 every single tech CEO, if you're building a data center, you need to operate from a rule of thumb

00:18:25.380 that you are net negative power usage. What do I mean by that? If you're going to build a data

00:18:30.540 center, build power production facilities so that you are generating more power than you are using.

00:18:38.240 What that means is when a data center goes into a community, the effect on the people's

00:18:42.980 electricity bills is not going to be that they go up. But instead, if the companies are doing this

00:18:49.460 right, their electricity bills should go down because the data center will be adding more power

00:18:55.320 to the grid rather than taking power from the grid. It's not 100% that the data centers are

00:19:00.200 doing this, but many, if not most of them, are doing this now. They're following through on it.

00:19:04.500 President Trump likewise signed an executive order, called for this in a State of the Union

00:19:09.260 address. That addresses one of the biggest concerns. The other big concern, Ben, that people

00:19:15.440 raise is water. Actually, just this week was at a political gathering, and a woman, a conservative,

00:19:21.940 came up to me, and she said, I'm really, really worried about all of the water usage from these

00:19:26.900 data centers this is hurting us and and i responded to her and i tried to respond gently but i said

00:19:32.240 i i said look i understand that concern and i'm certainly concerned about water water matters in

00:19:37.020 texas it's needed obviously for for farmers and ag and and cities and develop development oil and gas

00:19:42.860 we need water um i said you should know that virtually every data center that is being built

00:19:50.460 today is built using what's called closed loop cooling. And that means you have some water and

00:19:57.500 you just recirculate the same water over and over and over again, which means the data center uses

00:20:03.100 almost no water. I think in today's data center, I believe it is the case that they use more water

00:20:09.720 in their toilets for their employees just using the bathroom than they actually use for their

00:20:14.460 cooling system because it's all a closed loop system. It used to be. It's literally like my

00:20:18.660 computer. I have a fast, fast computer. They put in the water cooling system. I don't ever have to

00:20:24.040 have water to it. It just keeps cycling through over and over again. And by the way, the first

00:20:29.660 generation of data centers, this was right. The first generation, they used an open loop cooling

00:20:35.320 system where they were putting fresh water into it over and over. So the early data centers were

00:20:40.180 consuming a lot of water. That being said, part of the propaganda that China is pushing is going

00:20:46.880 into a community and trying to convince them, oh, if there's a data center, your power is going to

00:20:52.020 go through the roof and you're not going to have the water you need. And that is based on deliberate

00:20:56.960 false information. But the thing about Chinese communists, they lie. Yeah. By the way, do you 0.97

00:21:05.140 know who Singham's wife is? Who is that? Singham's wife is the head of Code Pink, the left-wing

00:21:13.900 protest organization and that's all you need to know the ones who wore the pink hats during

00:21:18.140 during yeah during the the me too movement and and went after anyone they didn't like politically

00:21:22.800 they are and they're they're on capitol hill all the time they they come uh attack his wife's name

00:21:31.060 is jody evans uh and and she's the head of code pink and and they push actively through these

00:21:39.020 american non-profits uh anti-america propaganda and anti-capitalist propaganda and they're also

00:21:46.720 putting hundreds of millions of dollars into trying to convince you to be afraid of ai here

00:21:53.900 i'm going to give you give you an interesting stat in 2023 69 percent of virginians supported

00:22:00.920 construction of new data centers then april of this year what do you think the number fell to

00:22:06.660 What was it?

00:22:08.300 35%.

00:22:08.780 And that's only because of a campaign that you can get that big of a switch.

00:22:12.780 I mean, that's a massive switch, which means massive propaganda coming into your mind

00:22:18.880 from people that say, we want to influence you.

00:22:21.460 By the way, I will say Texas, thankfully, has done better on this front.

00:22:26.480 We're having a lot of data centers built in Texas.

00:22:28.800 And I keep saying, bring them all. 1.00

00:22:30.500 If these idiots, if Bernie Sanders wants to shut down every data center in Vermont, 1.00

00:22:35.120 knock yourself out. 1.00

00:22:36.240 You people are crazy. AOC can chase them out of New York. Spanberger can chase them out of 1.00

00:22:41.060 Virginia. Every blue state that says we don't want data centers, Texas will take them all.

00:22:47.220 Hey, we got a ton of land. You're not going to fill up West Texas. You can keep building and

00:22:51.060 building. We've got land as far as the eye can see. Power is a challenge, but there's no state

00:22:57.180 in the country that understands power better than Texas. We keep building new power generation

00:23:01.680 capability. And with every data center coming in, we're building more power generation capability.

00:23:08.160 And Texans like, look, you come in, initially you get a bunch of construction jobs to come in

00:23:13.480 and build these data centers. You've been to these data centers. I've been to one. Let's

00:23:18.700 explain how big they are from a job perspective as well. Look, they're massive, huge, huge

00:23:25.000 warehouses that you're building that are then filled with racks and racks of computers,

00:23:28.920 computers that are running and they're being cooled typically with closed loop water keeping

00:23:33.900 them cool they consume a lot of power it's just kind of a lot racks and racks of computers

00:23:38.480 that are running compute and as you as you produce more you get more and more computing capability

00:23:44.380 that means you need number one on construction everyone you need to construct a big industrial

00:23:51.100 facility to pour concrete to put the walls up to put in air conditioning to put in power to put in

00:23:56.320 plumbing to put in to build the racks to put install the computer so you need construction

00:24:01.680 workers blue collar jobs those are those are typically high paying jobs good construction

00:24:06.420 jobs you then need more specialized electricians and and computer techies to install the computers

00:24:13.260 to build the racks to set them up to to connect all the cords make the doohickey connect to the

00:24:18.200 whatchamacallit like those techie you you can tell this is my expertise yeah um and then once

00:24:26.300 it's built, the data centers have ongoing jobs, not as many. There are more construction jobs

00:24:32.140 than ongoing jobs in the data center, but there are still a significant number of ongoing jobs

00:24:38.020 in the data center to maintain the computers, to keep the operation working. And you also have

00:24:44.280 things, you have janitors, you have security guards, you have all sorts of jobs that you need

00:24:48.900 just with any large endeavor. The point is every data center you're building, you are bringing good

00:24:55.980 high-quality jobs to Texas.

00:24:58.360 And so Texas is happy to have them.

00:25:00.740 I just hope that the blue state politicians

00:25:03.580 don't destroy their own states

00:25:05.300 by becoming effectively vessels for communist propaganda.

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00:28:11.480 I want to move on to another big issue.

00:28:13.880 We've got another activist DA that's been busted flat-out lying, Senator, this time in Philadelphia.

00:28:20.900 You can say thank you to the Democratic Party, to the George Soros' for allowing this to happen.

00:28:25.960 And this is a story that needs to be on your radar screen as well.

00:28:28.860 It is, and let's talk about who this is.

00:28:32.180 You know, we talked about Singman and a left-wing billionaire spending money to do real damage to America.

00:28:39.840 This is a story about another left-wing billionaire spending money to do enormous damage to America.

00:28:47.160 In this case, George Soros.

00:28:49.960 George Soros has spent billions of dollars.

00:28:52.700 He is the single most effective political giver, I think, in American history.

00:28:56.980 Now, effective is not a compliment.

00:28:59.660 He is effective in being unbelievably harmful.

00:29:03.200 There are, I believe, thousands of Americans who are dead because George Soros has spent the money so effectively.

00:29:09.580 So he's spent propaganda in support of open borders. And you look at all of the people who

00:29:15.060 have been raped and killed by illegal immigrant violent criminals, all the people that have been 1.00

00:29:19.540 subject to terror attacks from illegal immigrant violent criminals. But Soros also is creative in 0.99

00:29:27.180 his destruction. And he realized that our democratic society has vulnerabilities and

00:29:34.200 vulnerabilities that he can target. So he doesn't just target a presidential race. That's an easy,

00:29:38.860 big, sexy target. He really pioneered targeting district attorney races. Now, district attorney 0.95

00:29:46.020 races used to be sleepy little races. You'd have a Democrat and a Republican, but they both were

00:29:51.320 prosecutors. They both were going to lock up criminals. If you were a murderer, you'd lock

00:29:56.620 up the murderer, you'd prosecute them. There didn't used to be a massive difference between

00:30:02.200 the two sides on DAs. You'd have a little bit different priorities from the one to the other,

00:30:07.520 but everyone agreed violent criminals will lock him up and throw the book at him.

00:30:12.360 That changed when Soros began flooding millions into DA races. Now, these races didn't used to

00:30:19.360 have millions of dollars in them. So this money just appeared out of nowhere and he elected what

00:30:23.940 are called Soros DAs. And Soros DAs are the prosecution side of the Abolish the Police

00:30:31.280 campaign. Look, Soros funded the Abolish the Police campaign too. If you want to destroy a

00:30:36.880 society, I can think a few more effective ways to do it than eliminate law enforcement, because the

00:30:42.020 result is anarchy and chaos. It's more murders, more rapes, more children being abused. That is,

00:30:49.980 I don't like to ascribe ill intent to someone, but Ben, I will say quite seriously,

00:30:56.940 I do not know any other motivation for George Soros that makes any sense to me

00:31:01.720 other than that he wants to destroy america because his actions seem perfectly calculated

00:31:07.640 to destroy america yeah if you look at the and it's a it's very calculated it's prison reform

00:31:13.300 it's bail reform it's defund the police you do that trifecta which is saying well we're going

00:31:19.100 to let people out of jail because we just believe jail is somehow fundamentally wrong you then say

00:31:24.380 you want to defund the police so then you have no law enforcement and then you have bail reform

00:31:28.240 which says we're going to not put you in jail

00:31:30.240 while we hold you for trial

00:31:31.660 because you don't have a lot of money, 0.95

00:31:34.020 so then you're letting rapists and murderers

00:31:35.780 literally back on the street as fast as we catch them.

00:31:39.120 You combine those three,

00:31:41.300 this is a framework for total anarchy in society,

00:31:45.520 which is clearly what Soros wants.

00:31:48.080 Yeah, look, just ask yourself the simple basic question.

00:31:52.000 Is society better if there are more murderers on the street,

00:31:56.480 more murderers in your community, more murderers living in your neighborhood.

00:32:01.440 Any rational person would say, no, I don't want more murderers in my community.

00:32:07.400 Soros says yes. And he spends millions of dollars to elect DAs who agree with him. And so one of

00:32:13.400 those Soros DAs is a guy named Larry Krasner. He is the left-wing Soros DA in Philadelphia.

00:32:19.680 And instead of going in with a mission of, I'm going to go lock up the bad guys,

00:32:23.560 his mission is quite literally, I'm going to release as many bad guys as I can. Now,

00:32:28.820 now you may be saying, come on, that can't be true. That's so extreme. All right, let me just

00:32:33.940 give you the facts. So just this week, a 5-2 Democrat court. So I'm going to read you what

00:32:42.040 judges who are Democrats said about Larry Krasner. They found that he is so quick to falsely concede

00:32:49.460 error in murder cases to try to free convicted murderers that it has tasked the Pennsylvania

00:32:56.600 Attorney General with checking to make sure that the Soros DA is not lying. Now let me give you a

00:33:03.940 little context of this because legally this is astonishing. I've never seen anything remotely

00:33:07.700 like this. So a lawyer, particularly a government lawyer, has the ability to do what's called

00:33:14.080 confess error. And confessing error is you go to the court and you say, we screwed up. We made a

00:33:19.980 mistake. We made a legal mistake. We made a factual mistake. And we're confessing error. You should

00:33:24.900 take it from us. We were just wrong. And courts generally give enormous weight to that because

00:33:30.240 nobody, almost nobody ever confesses error falsely. Like confessing error is against your

00:33:36.420 interest. So if you're saying you screwed up your job, right? That's what you're saying.

00:33:41.280 So confessing error doesn't happen often, and you usually believe it because it's against the

00:33:45.920 interest of the litigant. I want to read from an appellate decision in one of these cases.

00:33:52.980 Here, in this case reviewed under a King's Bench jurisdiction,

00:33:58.140 the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office, on behalf of the Commonwealth, conceded that LeVar

00:34:04.360 Brown, a convicted murderer sentenced to death for a separate murder, was entitled to a new trial

00:34:11.240 based upon a facially untimely claim under the PCRA. Upon careful review, we conclude this

00:34:21.580 concession was not reliable. More specifically, we find the district attorney's office conceded

00:34:28.580 relief, although none was warranted based on the existing record, violated its duty

00:34:35.660 of candor to the PCRA court, withheld material evidence from the court, opposed efforts by

00:34:44.580 Amici to gain access to this evidence, submitted a false stipulation of fact, misstated facts

00:34:52.960 in its pleadings, failed to conduct a reasonable investigation, and opposed a required evidentiary

00:35:00.660 hearing. The predictable result was an erroneous grant of a new trial. These circumstances,

00:35:08.920 troubling as they are, would not warrant a remedy beyond reversal of the PCRA court's order

00:35:15.860 in this particular case if they were confined to one case. Unfortunately, they aren't.

00:35:25.320 Since 2018, the district attorney's office has conceded relief well over 100 times.

00:35:34.620 By the way, if that's your record, that would mean that you're basically the worst attorney

00:35:38.640 in the history of the world. It's worse than that, but let me get back to it. Let me finish

00:35:41.840 reading it, and then I'm, as conceded relief well over 100 times, mostly in murder cases like this

00:35:50.060 one. Incredible. There have been numerous instances of untrustworthy concessions, lack of candor,

00:35:58.860 misrepresentations of fact, lack of adequate investigation, and avoidance of hearings.

00:36:04.040 and the problems are poised to continue. There are apparently more than 1,000 cases yet to be

00:36:12.800 reviewed by the district attorney's office conviction integrity unit and the district

00:36:18.420 attorney's office vigorously defends its checkered concession program as a necessary corrective to

00:36:24.680 pass misdeeds by prior administrations. The district attorney's office active ongoing and

00:36:31.660 problematic concessions program requires broader remedial action to promote just outcomes.

00:36:39.020 Accordingly, in addition to reversing the PCRA court's grant of a new trial here,

00:36:44.900 we also hold that in any PCRA case in which the district attorney's office concedes relief,

00:36:51.740 the PCRA court shall grant the office of the attorney general notice and the right to intervene

00:36:59.420 in the case before ruling on the concession. Regardless of the attorney general's position

00:37:04.700 on the concession, if it chooses to intervene, it may well agree relief is warranted. Its

00:37:11.000 independent assessment and participation will enhance the reliability of the proceedings

00:37:15.880 and the PCRA court's ultimate decision. I've never seen that. And I've practiced law a long

00:37:22.900 time. So you said a hundred times that means they're terrible lawyers. It's actually worse

00:37:26.620 than that. This is not Larry Krasner saying, I, Larry Krasner, screwed up 100 times. What he's

00:37:33.520 doing is he's looking at murderers who are in jail right now that were put there by his predecessors,

00:37:38.140 by previous district attorneys. And he's going and finding murderers and saying, we should release

00:37:43.780 you. We should release you. We should release you. And then he's going in. He's not just conceding

00:37:48.780 error. He's conceding relief. Relief means what do you get? He's saying, nope, throw out your

00:37:54.320 conviction altogether over a hundred times almost all with murderers and he's lying look the only

00:38:03.320 reason you do that go back to the fundamental question that i asked at the beginning of this

00:38:08.220 segment do you think america is better off if there are more murderers walking the streets

00:38:14.340 or fewer murderers walking the streets do you want more murderers living in your neighborhood

00:38:19.260 with your family or do you want fewer murderers living in your neighborhood with your family

00:38:23.620 anyone who is rational anyone who loves america anyone who is not trying to destroy our nation

00:38:30.760 the obvious answer is of course we don't want more murderers and yet george soros and larry

00:38:36.680 krasner both do and by the way singham does too yeah yeah as well and this is again getting worse

00:38:44.000 before it gets better and that's why we have to expose it don't forget we do this show monday

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