Verdict with Ted Cruz - May 13, 2026


Chinese Communist Spies in the Democrat party, plus Virginia Redistricting Decision Causes Dem Meltdown

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Chinese Communist infiltration in U.S. politics
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Ted Cruz
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Chris Chan Alejandra Harry Styles Eric Swalwell Robert Hassan Breach Movie Christian Cooper Eileen Wang Steve Cohen Mark Elias Tim Scott Wang Winyai Wong Yao Ning Mike Sun Charlotte Bergman Dianne Feinstein Wimbledon Hell Glenn Youngkin Guzhan Zhuang Robert Hansen John Ashcroft and 12 more
BONUS POD： Beijing in America's Backyard： a SoCal Mayor & an Operative Targeting a U.S. Lawmaker’s Aide BONUS POD： CA Fraud Explosion 'Shooting Fish w Dynamite' plus 'Fauci Shaped COVID Narrative' Whistleblower Claims

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A sitting Democratic mayor in California was just indicted and pleaded guilty to being a communist spy for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). And Virginia is freaking out about a Supreme Court decision striking down their rabidly partisan redistricting plan.

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00:00:05 Welcome, it is Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson.
00:00:08 With you, Senator, we've got a lot to discuss.
00:00:10 Everything from New York to Virginia, Supreme Court,
00:00:14 and even some other crazy stuff that's happening in the world in today's show.
00:00:18 Look, today's episode is all about blue states gone wild.
00:00:22 It starts with California and the fact that we have a sitting Democrat mayor in California
00:00:27 who was just indicted and pleaded guilty to being a communist spy for china that's hard to believe
00:00:36 but that is reality it's a problem the democrat party has writ large we're also going to talk
00:00:41 about virginia the virginia supreme court decision striking down their rabidly partisan redistricting
00:00:48 democrats in washington are freaking out they they are willing they are talking about blowing
00:00:54 up the entire government of Virginia because all they care about is power. We're going to break down
00:01:00 what that Virginia Supreme Court decision was about and what the reaction of the Democrats is
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00:02:40 All right, Senator, let's start by going back in history. 0.94
00:02:45 We have seen a lot of really significant infiltration into our government going through elected officials with China.
00:02:54 China spends an incredible amount of money spying in the United States of America.
00:02:58 But we've never heard about an elected official actually working for the CCP until what we've seen in L.A.
00:03:06 But I do think we need to set the stage so people understand what we've witnessed in this mayor, technically outside of L.A., in a very plush area of California, is not only shocking, but it tells you just how much the CCP is willing and wanting to get involved in our politics in this country.
00:03:26 And there was even bribery that came up in Washington, D.C. this past week, offering 10 grand to someone that's on a committee to one of the staffers that actually supposed to be investigating China, trying to have influence in the United States of America.
00:03:41 Look, there is a systematic effort by the Chinese communist government to undermine the United States of America, to undermine United States government.
00:03:49 And in particular, they've targeted the Democrat Party because the Democrat Party is apparently open for business.
00:03:55 Now, if you look at the latest facts, I'm going to read from the press release from the U.S. Department of Justice.
00:04:01 Los Angeles, the mayor of Arcadia has been charged in federal court with acting as an illegal agent of the People's Republic of China, the PRC, the Justice Department announced today.
00:04:14 Eileen Wang, 58, of Arcadia is charged via information with one count of acting in the United States as an illegal agent of a foreign government.
00:04:25 Now, you could hear the Democrat partisans, you could hear the media say, oh, this is a partisan attack by the Trump Department of Justice.
00:04:34 They're just going after Democrats.
00:04:35 There is no chance this elected Democrat mayor is an agent working for the Chinese Communist government.
00:04:44 Well, let me read you the next paragraph.
00:04:47 In a related filing, Wang has agreed to plead guilty to the felony count.
00:04:53 In other words, she's admitting it, which comes with a statutory maximum sentence of 10 years in federal prison.
00:05:01 Wang was elected in November 2022 to the Arcadia City Council, a five-person governing body from which the mayor is selected on a rotating basis.
00:05:10 Quote, individuals in our country who covertly do the bidding of foreign governments undermine our democracy, said First Assistant United States Attorney Bill Asylee. 0.60
00:05:20 The plea agreement is the latest success in our determination to defend our homeland against China's effort to corrupt our government. 0.58
00:05:29 By her own admission, Eileen Wang secretly served the interests of the Chinese government. 0.65
00:05:35 Let this serve as a clear warning. Individuals who act on behalf of foreign governments to influence our democracy will be identified, investigated and brought to justice.
00:05:48 According to the plea agreement from late 2020 through 2022, Wang and Yao Ning Mike Sun, 65, at Chino Hills, worked at the direction and control of the PRC government officials and coordinated with U.S.-based individuals to promote the PRC's interests by, among other things, promoting pro-PRC propaganda in the United States.
00:06:15 Sun is already serving a four-year federal prison sentence after he pleaded guilty in October 2025 to acting as an illegal agent of a foreign government.
00:06:26 Wang and Sun worked together to operate U.S. News Center, a website that purported to be a news source for the local Chinese-American community.
00:06:36 Wang and Sun received and executed directives from the PRC government officials to post pro-PRC content on the website.
00:06:45 For example, in June of 2021, a PRC official contacted Wang and other individuals via the WeChat encrypted messaging application with pre-written news articles.
00:06:59 In other words, the Chinese Communist Party wrote the news articles, including a PRC official written essay in the Los Angeles Times that stated Chinese stance on the Jin Yang issue.
00:07:12 There is no genocide in Jin Yang.
00:07:14 There is no such thing as forced labor in any production activity, including cotton production.
00:07:19 spreading such rumor to do defame China, destroy Xinjiang's stability and stability,
00:07:26 weaken local economy, suppress China's development. Minutes later, Wang posted the
00:07:33 article on her own website and responded to the PRC official with a link to the article on her
00:07:38 website. The others in the group chat did the same. The PRC official responded so fast. Thank
00:07:46 you everyone now this pattern and by the way it goes on and on uh with repeated instances of this
00:07:54 this is not a unique problem so let me say two things number one ben have you heard a single
00:08:03 democrat denounce the fact that an elected democrat mayor in california yeah was a now
00:08:13 admitted and soon to be convicted agent of the Chinese Communist Party.
00:08:19 Have you heard a single Democrat say a negative word about that?
00:08:22 No, and I think you even go a step further than that, and you say the reason why is because
00:08:27 it seems like the Chinese Communist Party and the Democratic Party are almost one and
00:08:31 the same in so many of these instances.
00:08:33 They've gotten a free pass for years.
00:08:35 Yeah, look, I don't want to go that far.
00:08:37 I think that's an overstatement.
00:08:39 But let's take some of the facts.
00:08:42 So Senator Dianne Feinstein, long time.
00:08:45 I was going to say, exhibit A of how I would fight back.
00:08:47 So make it for me.
00:08:48 Look, long time Democrat senator from California. 1.00
00:08:51 She had a Chinese spy working in her office as her driver, like taking her everywhere. 1.00
00:08:57 She's a Chinese spy.
00:08:58 Eric Swalwell, who just resigned from Congress in disgrace.
00:09:03 He dated a Chinese spy, Fang Fang, a top aide for New York Governor Kathy Hochul.
00:09:11 Yep.
00:09:12 was a secret Chinese agent. 0.78
00:09:15 Now, this is a pattern.
00:09:17 You've got California.
00:09:18 You've got New York.
00:09:19 You've got a clear effort.
00:09:22 Listen, all right, when I was elected 14 years ago,
00:09:25 I arrived in D.C., and I began saying then,
00:09:29 I think the single greatest long-term geopolitical threat to the United States 0.71
00:09:35 is communist China. 0.83
00:09:38 Yeah.
00:09:39 Now, Ben, when I started saying that,
00:09:41 That was a lonely view in Washington.
00:09:44 Yeah.
00:09:45 Every single Democrat disagreed with me.
00:09:48 And most of the Republicans disagreed with me.
00:09:50 Most of them, they looked at China.
00:09:53 They saw nothing but dollar signs as far as the eye could see.
00:09:55 They just saw money to be made.
00:09:57 Yeah, economic growth.
00:09:59 It was all about the money.
00:10:00 It was all about the cash.
00:10:01 It was all about cheap goods.
00:10:02 It was all about expansion.
00:10:03 Now, I will say over these 14 years, I think my view has been vindicated powerfully.
00:10:08 more and more people most republicans have opened their eyes to this and you are seeing some 0.52
00:10:13 democrats but what does it say that the chinese government is able to infiltrate to put chinese 0.59
00:10:20 spies on the staff of sitting democrat senators is able to send chinese spies to have sexual
00:10:29 relations with prominent democrats and here are on top committees that's one thing i think people
00:10:37 don't understand they target people that have access to significant u.s information they're
00:10:43 not wasting their time with some low-level person and and and to elect a chinese spy as a mayor
00:10:51 in a u.s town i'm not aware of any instance of that happening in our history yeah and by the way
00:10:57 you know it's interesting about this case and i don't i don't know if if you if you heard this but
00:11:01 i was briefed about this earlier today i was doing a tv hit and they were like i they were
00:11:05 Like, we want to get into just how good China is.
00:11:09 They literally altered and changed the way she looked for the campaign posters and billboards 0.98
00:11:16 and the stuff that was up about her. 1.00
00:11:19 Like, China went all in, apparently, to make sure she got elected. 0.85
00:11:24 And they even changed how she looked to make her look better than she was 1.00
00:11:27 to hopefully give her a better chance to win.
00:11:30 Like, this is not some low-level, you know, group of people in China.
00:11:34 They're all in to try to win elections in America when they're involved in it.
00:11:38 Wait, Ben, you're saying that's wrong?
00:11:42 I'm saying...
00:11:43 So my re-elect campaign that showed me a 6'5 and blonde and ripped like a star of Baywatch,
00:11:50 was there a problem with that?
00:11:52 In fact, that was my idea, if I remember correctly.
00:11:55 I was the one who said, we've got to make Ted Cruz look better.
00:11:57 To be clear, you were the body model for that.
00:12:00 Yes, of course.
00:12:01 AI is really quite incredible.
00:12:03 AI is brilliant. 1.00
00:12:04 It was made in China, really, right? 0.95
00:12:07 All right. 0.96
00:12:08 So you might ask, all right, mayor of Arcadia, Chinese spy. 0.97
00:12:13 Did they get anything for that? 0.97
00:12:14 Like, what was the benefit?
00:12:15 Okay, posted some Chinese websites.
00:12:18 Let me read to you a story from NBC Los Angeles last year.
00:12:24 21 children some birthed by surrogate mothers found in arcadia home in child abuse investigation
00:12:33 a couple was arrested in connection with a child abuse investigation that led authorities to their
00:12:38 arcadia california home that would be the same town that this chinese spy was the mayor of
00:12:43 where they found more than 20 young children some of whom were birthed by surrogate mothers
00:12:50 according to police. Police say they're investigating whether the children found in
00:12:55 the home of the San Gabriel Valley east of Los Angeles were part of a surrogacy scam.
00:13:02 The home's residents, Sylvia Zhang, 38, and Guzhan Zhuang, 65, were released from custody pending
00:13:10 further investigation. It's not clear how many children at the home were born to surrogate
00:13:15 mothers but one of the mothers was found in texas by a bioethics watchdog group the woman said she
00:13:23 was misled into thinking the child was the only child who would be taken in at the arcadia residence
00:13:28 um this is a serious threat and and i think we ought to ask why is the democrat party so open
00:13:38 to this why are they so susceptible what it is about about their policies and i think the reason
00:13:43 is if you look at the major interest groups that support the democrat party you have big business
00:13:52 you have big tech you have big hollywood and you have big universities yeah all four of those
00:14:00 are in bed with communist china in a major way and so when their supporters say hey 0.86
00:14:07 this Chinese communist is a great person, 0.75
00:14:11 it is there are far too many officials in the Democrat Party
00:14:15 that are open to that argument.
00:14:16 I want to talk something else about deterrence here,
00:14:19 and that is something that was glaring to me.
00:14:23 I always look at cause and effect,
00:14:25 and when you're reading that first article,
00:14:27 there's two people involved.
00:14:28 One got apparently five years.
00:14:31 The other gets 10.
00:14:32 Now, if you serve 65%, 70%,
00:14:35 depending on the sentencing guidelines for federal crimes, 0.84
00:14:37 then she'll get out in probably six and a half, seven years.
00:14:41 He'll get out in two and a half, three.
00:14:44 And that's like, if you think about what they were doing,
00:14:48 the risks they're taking,
00:14:50 and even if they get busted and get the maximum Senate, Senator,
00:14:54 they still have a life ahead of them.
00:14:56 Like, this is not like, you know, going to jail for 30 years or 40 years
00:15:02 or even 20 years.
00:15:04 I mean, five years down to two and a half, three, ten down to six and a half, maybe house arrest, good behavior.
00:15:10 Like, I got to ask the question, what the hell are we doing as a country with our sentencing guidelines?
00:15:16 If you're an American citizen, you're spying for an adversary of the United States of America. 0.66
00:15:21 I don't care if it's Iran. I don't care if it's Russia. I don't care if it's China.
00:15:25 And you are committing espionage. By the way, it used to be a big deal.
00:15:29 So how are we not bulking up these sentencing guidelines to where there might actually be a moment where you think maybe this isn't worth it to go work for the Chinese Communist Party or the Russians or the Iranians because I don't want to go to jail for the rest of my life if I get caught? 0.67
00:15:44 Look, fully agree. The idea that you would have an elected mayor in the United States serving as a spy for our enemy, for the Chinese communists, the maximum she can face under current law is 10 years in jail.
00:15:59 she may well get substantially less than that.
00:16:02 That is not much of a deterrent. 0.75
00:16:04 I think we ought to ratchet up that punishment.
00:16:07 And here's another example of how widespread this is.
00:16:10 This is an article from the New York Times.
00:16:12 He offered a lawmaker's aid, quick cash.
00:16:15 Was he spying for China?
00:16:17 When a man identifying himself as Chris Chen reached out this winter
00:16:21 to an aide on a House committee focused on threats from China,
00:16:24 he came armed with a lucrative offer.
00:16:27 The staff member, Mr. Chen proposed, could earn $10,000 or more by barely lifting a finger.
00:16:35 All he would need to do is agree to phone calls every other week to share information about the committee's work and U.S. foreign policy about China.
00:16:44 Insights into U.S. trade or national security issues, including the Trump administration's plans for Venezuela in the aftermath of the January military operation there, would be especially valuable, Mr. Chen said.
00:16:55 To sweeten the pot, Mr. Chen repeatedly promised to send the aide $2,000 up front.
00:17:03 The offer seemed too good to be true.
00:17:06 Instead of quietly accepting the deal, the aide, whose identity the New York Times agreed to withhold
00:17:11 because he works on sensitive policy issues related to China,
00:17:15 reported it to his bosses on the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party.
00:17:20 The panel quickly concluded that Mr. Chen was not the Singapore-based business consultant he claimed to be,
00:17:28 but instead was likely a Chinese intelligence officer or contractor seeking a new recruit.
00:17:36 Rather than cut off contact, the committee's Republican majority staff agreed to keep talking to Mr. Chen.
00:17:42 They recorded a series of calls this winter to learn more about Mr. Chen's tactics and interests.
00:17:48 Transcripts of those calls, which the committee shared with the Times alongside some of the recorded audio, depict a determined, at times impatient, individual, eager to earn the trust of his mark and get down to business.
00:18:03 Mr. Chen mixes holiday greetings with elaborate questions about manufacturing in Vietnam and Mexico and the future of Venezuela's oil industry.
00:18:12 This is a pattern, whether it is trying to recruit spies who are staffers on Capitol Hill or whether it is placing spies as staffers to Democrat senators or whether it is sending honeypots to sleep with Democrat elected officials like Eric Swalwell or whether it is in this instance.
00:18:35 And this is the most brazen, electing a Chinese communist spy as a mayor, a Democrat mayor.
00:18:42 This is a concerted effort, and we need to be serious fighting this.
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00:20:11 so quiet on this why are they not condemning this why are they not openly talking about it
00:20:16 why is the media not discovering talking about this it's part of the reason why we love doing
00:20:20 this show i want to move to virginia and by the way ben i i do want to say you know when you
00:20:26 pitched to me last week that we should say
00:20:29 verdict is sponsored by China
00:20:30 prison camps. 1.00
00:20:32 I thought it was a persuasive argument.
00:20:35 And you did
00:20:36 say that someone offered you a bucket of
00:20:38 cash. But
00:20:40 I, for one, am glad. It takes more than two
00:20:42 grand, my friend. More than two grand.
00:20:45 Now, look, if
00:20:46 they offered to let you go on
00:20:48 the pro-tennis circuit...
00:20:50 Yes, yes. I love you, man, but you'd
00:20:52 sell yourself out to Communist China to go on
00:20:54 the pro-tennis circuit. No, no, never.
00:20:56 If anyone ever came to me
00:20:59 And offered me money to be a spy 1.00
00:21:01 They might be the dumbest person 1.00
00:21:02 How about if you got to win Wimbledon 1.00
00:21:06 Hell no
00:21:06 I've never been on this show before
00:21:09 If you're not watching right now
00:21:10 I just gave the number one salute
00:21:12 I bleed America so much
00:21:15 I'm proud of you brother
00:21:16 You can offer me a billion dollars
00:21:17 And I would say it in a foreign language to you
00:21:20 You know what yourself
00:21:21 I just said to ask you
00:21:24 Because I'm like
00:21:24 You know when they say everybody has a price?
00:21:29 Like, no.
00:21:29 Like, on being pro-American, like, no.
00:21:31 I would risk my life for this country, but I wouldn't.
00:21:34 The idea, I remember, it's so funny you talk about spies.
00:21:39 Movie Breach.
00:21:40 You ever watch the movie Breach about the worst spies in American history
00:21:44 who was giving out information?
00:21:46 He finally got caught.
00:21:48 It's a phenomenal true story movie.
00:21:50 Is this Robert Hassan?
00:21:51 Is that who it is?
00:21:53 No, it's Robert Hassan.
00:21:54 What's the guy's name?
00:21:55 Oh, now you're going to make me Google the spy's name.
00:21:58 But go watch Breach Movie.
00:21:59 I don't know the movie, so I'm...
00:22:00 Okay, it's a phenomenal movie.
00:22:03 See, now you're going to make me go...
00:22:04 Here, we're doing this live.
00:22:06 Breach Movie.
00:22:08 It came out in 07.
00:22:11 It was...
00:22:12 Ryan Felipe and Chris Cooper were in the movie.
00:22:15 Chris Cooper plays Robert Hansen.
00:22:17 Hey!
00:22:18 Excuse me, did I pull that name out of the ether?
00:22:22 I am impressed.
00:22:23 I give you a golf clap for that.
00:22:25 I give you a golf clap. 0.99
00:22:27 I haven't even seen the damn movie. 0.99
00:22:29 Oh, I can't believe you haven't seen the movie. 0.99
00:22:31 Like, I'm disappointed in you for not seeing the movie.
00:22:33 That's almost like un-American. 0.77
00:22:35 I'm a little worried now.
00:22:36 But go watch the movie.
00:22:37 But when that happened, my mentor, who, by the way, just turned 84.
00:22:42 So that's a big deal, John Ashcroft.
00:22:44 His first day on the job in 2000, they go, oh, and by the way,
00:22:49 We're about to take down one of the worst spies in American history
00:22:54 and had to get read in on this.
00:22:56 And then the movie came out, and of course I asked him a million questions about it.
00:23:00 But when you see a guy like that do that, it still blows my mind.
00:23:03 You can be an American.
00:23:04 You can work in the FBI.
00:23:06 You can be just selling these secrets just because either you're disgruntled 0.99
00:23:10 and you're a little bit crazy.
00:23:11 It blows my mind that people sell out their country. 0.99
00:23:14 It really does this day.
00:23:14 But go watch the movie, and I can't believe I've actually watched
00:23:17 a true story, Senator, that you haven't watched yet.
00:23:19 But I feel like I've straight-up one-upped you on this one.
00:23:23 I feel good about it right now.
00:23:24 All right.
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00:24:01 Let's move on to Virginia real quick.
00:24:03 And this one is also a very interesting story. 0.91
00:24:06 Democrats, when they tell you they're crazy and they hate this country and they hate our laws and our rules, like believe them.
00:24:13 Democrats now are threatening to boot the entire Virginia Supreme Court 0.86
00:24:18 And let's explain how we got to this point, Senator
00:24:22 Because this is a warning of us coming with our U.S. Supreme Court
00:24:26 They want to get rid of it
00:24:27 They want to pack it every time they get a ruling they don't like
00:24:29 It doesn't matter
00:24:31 There is no law and order anymore in the Democratic Party
00:24:33 They don't get their way
00:24:34 We just dismantle the Supreme Court
00:24:37 Dismantle the Constitution
00:24:38 Get rid of everybody in our way
00:24:40 well look the virginia state legislature sadly is democrat the the governor abigail spanberger
00:24:48 ran as a moderate she actually ran saying gerrymandering is wrong we should oppose
00:24:52 gerrymandering yeah she got elected and by the way abigail spanberger is a object lesson
00:24:59 for elections across the country the democrats who run as moderates are lying to you every word 0.94
00:25:07 she said on the campaign trail was a lie she got in as this hard left zealot she immediately
00:25:13 stopped cooperating with federal law enforcement started releasing illegal immigrants violent
00:25:19 criminals into virginia she began proposing new taxes on just about everything you can imagine
00:25:25 and when it came to redistricting the current map in virginia there are 11
00:25:30 house members in virginia six of them are democrats five of them are republicans that's
00:25:35 about right uh virginia is a purple state glenn youngkin a republican was the previous governor
00:25:43 uh in the 2024 election kamala harris won virginia but but by just a few points so six
00:25:49 five was about right in terms of where the state was divided but the democrats for them power is 0.99
00:25:56 the number one objective and so they rammed through an emergency redistricting plan that
00:26:02 took the map from 6-5 Democrat to 10-1 Democrat and they told the roughly 45 percent of Virginians
00:26:12 who vote Republican you no longer get representation we're going to disenfranchise you because all we
00:26:18 care about is power and basically they drew these horrible maps where much of Virginia the rural
00:26:26 parts are bright red and you've got northern Virginia which are basically D.C. suburbs which
00:26:31 a bunch of government employees, many of whom were very liberal. And so they drew these maps
00:26:36 where most of the districts reached into Northern Virginia, grabbed a bunch of government bureaucrats
00:26:40 and used them as left-wing voters to turn the rest of the district blue.
00:26:45 Well, the problem is they got challenged in court. And initially a trial judge ruled
00:26:52 that the redistricting was illegal under the Virginia state constitution.
00:26:57 That got appealed to the Virginia Supreme Court.
00:27:01 Now, the Virginia Supreme Court, the justices are Democrats.
00:27:04 They were put on there by Democrats.
00:27:06 They were confirmed by Democrat legislatures.
00:27:08 The Virginia Supreme Court last week, shockingly, most observers were astonished,
00:27:14 looked at the Virginia state constitution and said,
00:27:16 hey, what the legislature did here was illegal, and they struck it down.
00:27:20 By the way, the previous attorney general of Virginia, Republican Jason Meares,
00:27:25 had written an opinion saying under the Virginia Constitution, you can't do this.
00:27:30 This is contrary to law.
00:27:31 Now, when that happened, Democrats in Washington, their heads exploded
00:27:37 because this was critical to their seizing power.
00:27:43 Since then, they have called for, number one,
00:27:48 they've called for putting a mandatory retirement age in Virginia on the Supreme Court
00:27:53 of 54. Their entire purpose is to throw every justice on the Supreme Court off so they could
00:28:01 pack them with left-wing activists who will uphold the redistricting. They have also
00:28:09 talked about just fundamentally overturning. So Mark Elias, who is the hardcore left-wing Democrat
00:28:19 lawyer who brings all of these incredibly partisan decisions. Anytime a Republican is
00:28:26 elected in close election, Mark Elias files a lawsuit seeking to overturn the voter's will.
00:28:31 He is one of the most rabid partisans in the country. He tweeted out a quote from the Virginia
00:28:37 Constitution. Quote, whenever any government shall be found inadequate or contrary to these purposes,
00:28:44 A majority of the community hath an indubitable, inalienable, and indefeasible right to reform, alter, or abolish it in such a manner as shall be judged most conducive to the public will.
00:28:59 And to be clear, what he is saying is I don't like what the Virginia Supreme Court concluded, even though they're Democrats.
00:29:07 So abolish the government of the state of Virginia.
00:29:11 That's how radical these zealots are. And by the way, you combine that with the recent decision of the U.S. Supreme Court that concluded that racial gerrymandering is unconstitutional, that drawing lines, drawing congressional lines, discriminating, saying we're going to put people of one race in the district, take people of another race out of the district, that that's unconstitutional.
00:29:35 It had been an open question whether complying with the Voting Rights Act was essentially an exception to the constitutional prohibition on racial gerrymandering.
00:29:46 And the Supreme Court concluded 6-3, no it is not, that the Constitution, the 14th Amendment, the 15th Amendment, prohibit discrimination based on race, prohibit voting discrimination based on race.
00:29:59 I think that is the right reading of the Constitution.
00:30:01 And the Democrats have lost their ever loving mind because understand, look, all right, all of New England, you take the states in New England and the Northeast, which vote anywhere from 60, 40 Democrat to 65, 35 Democrat, depending on the state.
00:30:21 How many Republicans do you think are elected in all of New England?
00:30:24 I'm going to go with zero.
00:30:26 Zero would be right.
00:30:27 In state after state, Massachusetts, zero.
00:30:30 Maine, zero. Vermont, zero. New Hampshire, zero. Rhode Island, zero. Connecticut, zero.
00:30:38 That is, they just gerrymandered the heck out of it, and they have 100% of the representation Democrat.
00:30:44 In the South, Democrats have used the Voting Rights Act to insist, if you can draw a district that elects an African-American Democrat, you must elect that Democrat.
00:30:58 Now, the bizarre thing is we've seen Democrats who also insist, and one of the more absurd things, they've said, well, in light of the Supreme Court decision that discriminating based on race is unconstitutional, you've seen Democrats saying South Carolina will never, ever elect an African-American to Congress.
00:31:20 Now, I have to admit, when that happened, I pulled out Twitter.
00:31:24 I like when you get your little snarky tweets out there.
00:31:27 I knew as soon as I'd said I was waiting for a countdown clock until you did what you did.
00:31:32 I could have predicted that tweet in a moment's notice.
00:31:36 As soon as I saw, I was like, I can't wait.
00:31:38 And then you did it.
00:31:38 So keep going.
00:31:39 Yeah.
00:31:40 I said, hey, Grock, who is Tim Scott?
00:31:43 Yeah.
00:31:43 And why did Democrats believe he's not black?
00:31:47 Because he's a Republican.
00:31:48 Yeah.
00:31:48 Tim Scott is my colleague in the Senate.
00:31:51 He's African-American.
00:31:53 He was elected to Congress to a House district in South Carolina.
00:31:57 Then he became a senator.
00:31:58 He's been reelected over and over and over again in South Carolina.
00:32:02 And yet, to the Democrats, he does not count as black. 0.68
00:32:07 Because if you're a Republican, suddenly you're white. 0.73
00:32:09 It doesn't matter. 0.60
00:32:10 And mind you and their view.
00:32:12 And by the way, Tennessee, your home state.
00:32:14 Oh, dude, this is the best one.
00:32:16 Steve Cohen, who's like the whitest guy you'll ever see.
00:32:19 He doesn't like me, by the way.
00:32:20 He was my congressman for many years.
00:32:23 They were losing on TV the other day, and I got to smack some of them around
00:32:26 because they were saying, you're taking away this seat 0.84
00:32:28 that African-Americans are being disfringed.
00:32:30 I'm like, hold on a second. 0.99
00:32:31 Steve Cohen is like the whitest old cranky white guy you've ever met. 0.99
00:32:35 But he's a liberal Democrat, so he's a black guy. 0.99
00:32:37 He's a Democrat.
00:32:38 But here's what's interesting. 0.98
00:32:39 Charlotte Bergman, who is an African-American single mother, 1.00
00:32:42 is probably going to win the seat now. 1.00
00:32:45 So wait a second.
00:32:46 You're saying as a result of the Supreme Court decision, 0.82
00:32:50 a white guy, a Democrat's going to lose, likely to a black woman.
00:32:55 To a black single mother who lost a family member to violent crime in Memphis. 0.71
00:33:01 And the Democrats' position is defeating a white Democrat guy 0.99
00:33:06 to elect a black Republican woman is racist against black people. 0.99
00:33:11 Yes, it is. 1.00
00:33:12 How do you say, no, no, no, this white liberal is blacker than this actual African American woman? 1.00
00:33:19 That is their view. 0.97
00:33:20 and understand all of their hysterics come down to power.
00:33:26 Like if you're saying abolish the Virginia Supreme Court
00:33:29 because I don't like what they rule.
00:33:31 And by the way, we appointed them, but we still don't like how they rule.
00:33:34 So if you don't rule in a way that keeps us in power,
00:33:38 we will burn down the foundations of our government.
00:33:42 That is, that's just sad.
00:33:46 It is.
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