Verdict with Ted Cruz - Cocaine in the White House, Massive Free Speech Victory, plus Barbie Pushing CCP Propaganda & Target Relents on Mark Levin's New Book

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00:00:05.300 Welcome.

00:00:05.980 It is Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz.

00:00:07.760 We've got one heck of a show for you today.

00:00:10.020 It deals with everything from China and the movie, the Barbie movie coming out.

00:00:14.460 Plus, we've got another victory we want to talk about that deals with censorship.

00:00:18.800 And then there's the big story.

00:00:20.880 And that is one that deals with cocaine at the White House. 0.98

00:00:24.700 Now, Senator, there's other big news that we're going to deal with,

00:00:29.040 including a huge court victory against government censorship.

00:00:32.740 But everyone is obsessed with the cocaine at the White House.

00:00:37.460 So let me get your initial take to that one.

00:00:40.000 You know, I don't think Saturday Night Live could satirize the Biden White House

00:00:44.980 worse than what has actually happened.

00:00:46.740 Now, of course, for Saturday Night Live to satirize them,

00:00:49.040 they'd have to be willing to actually make fun of Democrats.

00:00:52.020 But listen, Biden ran promising to bring back dignity to the White House.

00:00:57.480 In the last couple of weeks, we've had, number one,

00:01:00.820 a biological man who identifies as a transgender woman go topless 0.94

00:01:05.380 with his surgically constructed breasts bouncing around on the South Lawn. 0.94

00:01:11.140 That happened a couple of weeks ago.

00:01:13.160 We had a couple of days ago, Hunter Biden standing behind his parents

00:01:17.660 on the balcony of the White House,

00:01:19.240 by all appearances stoned out of his mind.

00:01:24.240 And then we now have had a bag of cocaine 0.98

00:01:29.060 literally found in the West Wing of the frigging White House. 0.97

00:01:33.380 The West Wing, by the way, is the working office of the White House.

00:01:36.760 It's where the Oval Office is.

00:01:38.340 It's where the Chief of Staff's office is.

00:01:40.620 It's where the National Security Advisor's office is.

00:01:43.200 It's where the senior White House staff works.

00:01:46.340 And there's just a bag of white powder.

00:01:49.020 Like, I don't know at this point, how do you even satirize it 0.85

00:01:54.820 with topless transgender people running around 1.00

00:01:59.240 and bags of cocaine in the White House? 0.99

00:02:02.360 This is Joe Biden's administration.

00:02:04.880 The part that's also extremely shocking to me

00:02:08.000 is the fact that the White House wouldn't comment on this at all.

00:02:11.900 They wouldn't say if they're going to drug test their staffers moving forward,

00:02:16.000 and they wouldn't even say that they would hold the person accountable

00:02:20.780 if they find out who brought in this cocaine.

00:02:24.280 Is the rule of law and order completely gone under this administration?

00:02:29.940 I mean, if someone brings cocaine into the White House

00:02:32.440 and you won't publicly come out and state immediately,

00:02:35.640 we are going to prosecute to the fullest extent of the law when we find,

00:02:39.060 not if, when we find, with that type of determination.

00:02:43.720 Oh, look, it's worse than that.

00:02:45.400 It's not only is there a double standard

00:02:47.340 and they won't prosecute people who are violating the law.

00:02:49.940 We know that.

00:02:51.040 I mean, Hunter Biden, we've got videos of him on crack cocaine,

00:02:54.840 and the DOJ won't prosecute it.

00:02:57.780 So we know that.

00:02:59.260 But it's worse than that because it's a DOJ cover-up.

00:03:02.740 It's a Biden-White House cover-up.

00:03:04.560 You know, we had the administration put out a statement.

00:03:08.360 We probably will never know whose cocaine it was.

00:03:12.580 Really?

00:03:13.580 Really? 0.84

00:03:14.180 Are you friggin' telling me someone can leave a bag of something 0.95

00:03:17.660 in the West Wing of the White House? 0.98

00:03:19.160 If it were a bag of anthrax, would they be like,

00:03:21.640 well, you know, we'll never know who left it.

00:03:23.300 Oh, well.

00:03:24.220 And by the way, where this was located,

00:03:28.100 so let me give you a little bit of the geography of the White House.

00:03:30.880 Where this was located was by the entrance to the White House

00:03:35.960 in the West Wing.

00:03:36.780 So when you come to the West Wing for a meeting,

00:03:39.060 you come in a door that is down on the ground level,

00:03:42.580 and where you come in, off on your right, there's a dining room.

00:03:46.440 Off on your right is the situation room,

00:03:49.980 and it apparently is right somewhere in that entrance foyer

00:03:53.480 is where this bag of cocaine was found,

00:03:56.680 and it was found in a normal security sweep.

00:04:00.900 Now, Corrine Jean-Pierre has said,

00:04:02.640 well, this is a heavily trafficked area of the White House.

00:04:05.900 I have to say it is screamingly funny

00:04:07.600 that she keeps using the word heavily trafficked, heavily trafficked.

00:04:11.940 Well, when you're trafficking in cocaine,

00:04:13.920 that she may be speaking more literally than typical.

00:04:18.220 There's an irony that Corrine Jean-Pierre

00:04:20.540 may have accidentally spoken the truth

00:04:22.560 from the podium of the White House.

00:04:24.980 But listen, that is the entrance that senators go through.

00:04:28.920 It's the entrance that cabinet members go through.

00:04:30.840 It's the entrance that if you're going to meet

00:04:34.620 someone senior in the White House,

00:04:37.460 typically if you're going to meet the president,

00:04:38.900 that's the entrance you go through.

00:04:40.480 I've gone through that entrance probably hundreds of times.

00:04:46.040 What is bizarre is they say we can't figure out who it is.

00:04:50.840 Now, I will say something odd,

00:04:52.640 which is there's lots of speculation on Twitter,

00:04:56.060 oh, a bag of cocaine in the White House,

00:04:58.140 it's got to be Hunter's.

00:04:59.780 You know, my guess is it probably isn't Hunter's.

00:05:02.960 I don't know that, obviously.

00:05:04.480 We know that Hunter has a drug problem.

00:05:06.440 We know that he has used cocaine

00:05:07.960 and used crack cocaine in the past.

00:05:10.140 But I doubt Hunter Biden

00:05:13.580 is going in the West Wing all that often

00:05:16.360 and going in that entrance all that often.

00:05:19.120 But I think it is in all likelihood

00:05:22.180 someone who works in the Biden administration,

00:05:24.480 some senior Biden official,

00:05:27.100 which makes the cover up all that the more astonishing.

00:05:31.880 You're telling me with the cameras they have there,

00:05:34.500 with the Secret Service they have there,

00:05:36.180 with the Marine detail they have there,

00:05:38.020 that nobody can figure out,

00:05:40.220 hey, who left the bag of cocaine

00:05:42.800 by the front door of the West Wing of the White House?

00:05:45.280 I mean, that is, or the side door, that's insane.

00:05:50.420 And the only reason they would put out a statement

00:05:53.360 saying we will never know who it was

00:05:55.200 is the same reason why the DOJ and the FBI

00:05:59.920 is engaged in a cover up of Hunter Biden's

00:06:02.840 acts of criminality, of Joe Biden's acts of criminality,

00:06:06.720 of the evidence of corruption.

00:06:08.680 Sadly, this administration

00:06:10.220 is more than willing to politicize.

00:06:13.060 Look, it would be embarrassing

00:06:14.440 if we discover that a senior White House aide

00:06:18.120 is bringing cocaine into the West Wing

00:06:20.840 to do Schedule I serious drugs in the White House.

00:06:25.920 And so their answer instead is,

00:06:27.640 of course, we're not going to prosecute it.

00:06:29.000 We're not going to investigate it.

00:06:30.080 And you know what?

00:06:30.600 We'll just never know who did it.

00:06:32.020 Whoops. Oh, well.

00:06:33.560 One of the other things,

00:06:34.700 the talking point, and you mentioned it,

00:06:36.760 was the fact they say this is a heavily trafficked area.

00:06:39.660 The White House is not Disney World.

00:06:41.380 It's not a Starbucks line at the airport, okay?

00:06:44.520 It's, this is, the idea that this is highly trafficked

00:06:47.680 makes it sound like there's thousands and thousands

00:06:50.660 of people walking through this area.

00:06:53.140 You've been there, like you said, hundreds of times.

00:06:55.400 I've had a blessed career to be able to go to the White House

00:06:58.380 a significant number of times as well.

00:07:00.640 I was there last time, the day of the State of the Union,

00:07:03.180 and I was in this exact area where the cubbies are,

00:07:05.900 where you put your phones before I went in the Oval Office

00:07:07.920 to meet with President Trump, and this area,

00:07:10.920 the idea that you can't find out who it is is a lie.

00:07:13.660 The same way I would argue, Senator,

00:07:15.840 that the idea that we still don't know who leaked,

00:07:17.860 for example, the Roe v. Wade being overturned is a lie.

00:07:21.840 They know, I have no doubt in my mind,

00:07:24.520 and this is my opinion,

00:07:25.920 that they know exactly who brought this cocaine in,

00:07:28.360 and I promise you,

00:07:29.440 if it would have been anthrax or something like that,

00:07:32.780 we would know who did it,

00:07:34.660 they would have found him.

00:07:35.560 There's no way you can tell me

00:07:37.180 they can't figure this crime out.

00:07:40.280 So I actually don't know if they know who it is.

00:07:44.040 I think they don't want to know.

00:07:46.100 I think they are being willfully blind.

00:07:48.940 I think they are putting their head in the sand

00:07:50.620 like an ostrich,

00:07:52.280 and just saying,

00:07:53.400 let's not figure it out.

00:07:54.740 Let's just say, gosh,

00:07:56.440 really difficult to figure out,

00:07:58.020 and this is the sort of question

00:07:59.700 we don't want an answer to.

00:08:01.120 I also think it is a different scenario

00:08:04.280 than the Supreme Court leak.

00:08:07.720 Look, I think Chief Justice Roberts

00:08:10.460 wants to know who leaked it.

00:08:12.520 We've seen Justice Alito has said

00:08:14.500 he thinks he knows who leaked it,

00:08:17.340 but what I suspect happened there,

00:08:19.920 and I don't know

00:08:20.640 because the court has not given definitive answers,

00:08:23.480 but what I suspect happened there

00:08:25.140 is that they didn't run a very good investigation.

00:08:28.020 I don't think it was because

00:08:29.260 they didn't want to know the answer.

00:08:31.120 I just think it's because

00:08:32.380 they allowed the Marshal's office

00:08:34.060 to lead that investigation,

00:08:35.300 and the Marshal's office

00:08:36.520 is not an investigative agency.

00:08:40.280 It's not an agency

00:08:41.540 that investigates crimes.

00:08:44.260 It's part of the Marshal's office.

00:08:47.120 You have the police officers of the court

00:08:48.880 that are protecting against

00:08:50.780 acts of violence,

00:08:52.720 but they're not typically

00:08:54.220 investigating crimes.

00:08:56.100 They're not typically engaged

00:08:58.560 in forensic analysis,

00:08:59.720 and what I called for at the time

00:09:01.560 is the Supreme Court, I believe,

00:09:04.180 should have called in the FBI.

00:09:05.620 The FBI has very extensive

00:09:07.320 forensic capability.

00:09:09.360 The reason the court didn't, I think,

00:09:11.920 was because of separation

00:09:13.640 of powers concerns,

00:09:14.720 and there's a view within the judiciary

00:09:18.060 that we're Article III,

00:09:20.000 we're a separate branch of government,

00:09:22.440 and asking Article II,

00:09:24.940 asking the executive branch

00:09:26.700 to assist is intruding

00:09:28.140 in our internal business.

00:09:29.640 I get that,

00:09:31.100 but I think the better decision

00:09:33.060 would have been

00:09:33.680 for the Chief Justice

00:09:34.580 to instruct the Marshal's office

00:09:36.160 to work with the FBI

00:09:38.100 and get their forensic capability

00:09:40.200 to find out who leaked,

00:09:42.020 and so I think the motivation

00:09:43.260 is different.

00:09:43.920 I think with the Supreme Court leak,

00:09:47.320 it wasn't an effort

00:09:48.460 to cover it up.

00:09:49.560 It was rather putting

00:09:51.640 institutional concerns

00:09:53.620 above what I think

00:09:55.140 was the incredibly important need

00:09:57.920 to expose and punish the leaker.

00:10:02.420 In the White House,

00:10:03.500 on the other hand,

00:10:04.220 I think it is a flat-out cover-up.

00:10:05.980 I think they do not want to know

00:10:08.020 because it is exceptionally likely,

00:10:10.880 it is, I think, close to 100%,

00:10:13.060 that it is someone

00:10:14.840 who works in the White House.

00:10:17.260 Look, I suppose,

00:10:18.180 is it possible

00:10:19.120 that some random visitor

00:10:21.880 to the White House

00:10:23.520 left a bag of cocaine?

00:10:25.280 I guess, theoretically,

00:10:26.420 so maybe it's not 100%,

00:10:27.760 but what are the odds

00:10:30.400 some guy who has a meeting

00:10:32.180 with, let's say,

00:10:33.180 the Chief of Staff

00:10:33.900 of the White House

00:10:34.540 just happens to bring

00:10:35.920 a bag of cocaine with them

00:10:37.340 and happens to leave it

00:10:38.220 in the foyer?

00:10:38.780 I mean, that just,

00:10:39.840 that strikes me

00:10:41.640 as very unlikely.

00:10:42.720 I think it is much more likely

00:10:44.280 this is someone

00:10:44.940 that comes in and out

00:10:45.900 of that building every day.

00:10:48.760 And in that instance,

00:10:50.540 whoever it is,

00:10:52.220 is going to be really embarrassing

00:10:54.000 for the Biden White House.

00:10:55.280 And so it's much easier

00:10:56.640 from a political damage

00:10:58.100 control perspective

00:10:59.000 to say,

00:10:59.540 oh, we can't figure it out.

00:11:01.000 Oh, well,

00:11:01.540 because, boy,

00:11:02.800 we really don't want

00:11:03.760 to know the answer to that.

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00:12:32.540 Senator,

00:12:33.200 one more question on this.

00:12:34.240 Do you think

00:12:35.340 that we're going

00:12:35.960 to find out

00:12:36.840 or is the White House

00:12:38.100 going to have to

00:12:38.600 come clean on this?

00:12:39.880 Is there anything

00:12:40.380 Congress will be able

00:12:41.260 to do?

00:12:42.060 I mean,

00:12:42.520 they're treating it

00:12:43.280 like a crime scene

00:12:44.280 right now at least,

00:12:45.440 acting like,

00:12:46.080 hey,

00:12:46.120 this is a real crime.

00:12:47.100 You've got a substance

00:12:48.460 that wasn't supposed

00:12:49.240 to be in the White House.

00:12:50.100 It is cocaine

00:12:50.880 and a legal substance

00:12:51.740 of that.

00:12:52.540 It's also a national

00:12:53.280 security issue

00:12:54.040 how this could get

00:12:54.760 into the White House,

00:12:56.300 a white substance

00:12:57.140 in general.

00:12:57.860 Thank goodness

00:12:58.280 it wasn't something

00:12:58.980 like anthrax.

00:13:00.240 But are we going

00:13:01.460 to get answers

00:13:01.940 or is this just

00:13:02.460 going to go away?

00:13:05.200 Well,

00:13:05.700 if it's up to

00:13:06.360 the Biden White House,

00:13:07.300 it will go away.

00:13:08.280 I expect

00:13:09.240 that the House

00:13:10.380 of Representatives

00:13:11.060 will try to do

00:13:11.940 some oversight

00:13:12.580 on this.

00:13:13.260 I also expect

00:13:14.120 that the Biden White House

00:13:15.360 will simply erect

00:13:17.720 a wall around

00:13:18.740 the White House

00:13:19.300 and will stonewall.

00:13:20.140 And we've seen

00:13:20.600 DOJ stonewall.

00:13:21.680 We've seen

00:13:21.980 the FBI stonewall.

00:13:23.160 I expect

00:13:24.100 that the Secret

00:13:24.660 Service will

00:13:25.240 stonewall on this.

00:13:26.920 And so the chances

00:13:29.260 that Senate Democrats

00:13:30.400 want to get to

00:13:31.040 the bottom of this

00:13:31.800 are zero.

00:13:33.080 Why?

00:13:33.700 Because they know

00:13:34.940 that it is very likely

00:13:36.340 a senior official

00:13:38.360 in the Biden White House.

00:13:40.220 It could conceivably

00:13:41.340 be Hunter Biden.

00:13:42.300 There is at least

00:13:43.040 one known cocaine user

00:13:45.760 who frequents

00:13:47.400 the White House.

00:13:48.040 But as I said,

00:13:48.760 generally,

00:13:49.620 you would assume

00:13:50.560 that Hunter Biden

00:13:51.380 is in the residence

00:13:52.120 of the White House

00:13:52.800 rather than entering

00:13:53.760 through the business

00:13:55.040 entrance of the West Wing.

00:13:57.060 But Senate Democrats

00:13:58.800 do not want

00:13:59.580 to know the answer

00:14:00.360 because I think

00:14:01.120 they are much more

00:14:02.000 interested in political

00:14:03.460 damage control

00:14:05.280 than actually

00:14:06.680 getting to the bottom.

00:14:08.160 You are right.

00:14:09.080 The West Wing

00:14:10.060 of the White House

00:14:10.980 is a crime scene

00:14:12.640 right now.

00:14:13.960 Anyplace else,

00:14:14.960 if police discover

00:14:16.140 a bag of cocaine,

00:14:18.040 the place they discover

00:14:19.320 it they call

00:14:20.000 a crime scene.

00:14:21.180 And they investigate

00:14:22.160 whose cocaine is this.

00:14:23.860 And you know what?

00:14:25.100 There are thousands

00:14:26.360 of people in jail

00:14:27.720 right now

00:14:28.500 for possessing

00:14:30.160 a bag of cocaine

00:14:31.360 just like the one

00:14:32.920 found in the West Wing

00:14:34.340 of the White House.

00:14:35.060 And so there's

00:14:36.120 a double standard

00:14:36.920 of justice.

00:14:37.920 We talked about this

00:14:39.140 with the Hunter Biden

00:14:39.840 investigation

00:14:40.420 that if you're

00:14:41.440 some poor schmo 1.00

00:14:42.820 who did crack cocaine,

00:14:44.160 you could serve hard time.

00:14:45.540 But if you're connected

00:14:46.860 to Joe Biden

00:14:47.800 and this White House,

00:14:49.480 you get special treatment,

00:14:50.680 you get a cover-up

00:14:51.800 from this administration.

00:14:53.900 Yeah, it's sad

00:14:55.580 to see the White House

00:14:56.360 turn into this

00:14:57.140 sideshow

00:14:58.360 as you described it

00:14:59.740 earlier with this,

00:15:00.660 what they've done

00:15:01.560 to this White House

00:15:02.280 is sad.

00:15:03.240 It's supposed to be

00:15:04.000 a place of honor

00:15:04.660 and respect.

00:15:05.140 It's supposed to be

00:15:05.720 a place of dignity

00:15:06.480 that we're supposed

00:15:07.420 to be proud of.

00:15:08.140 And certainly,

00:15:08.600 you can't say that

00:15:09.260 right now

00:15:09.680 with this administration

00:15:10.500 the way that

00:15:11.000 they're treating it.

00:15:12.060 I want to move

00:15:12.620 to also another

00:15:13.480 big victory.

00:15:14.100 I've got to say,

00:15:14.680 comparatively,

00:15:15.700 comparatively,

00:15:16.660 Bill Clinton

00:15:17.100 has got to be

00:15:17.640 looking at this

00:15:18.300 going, wow,

00:15:19.480 you guys said

00:15:20.160 I disrespected.

00:15:22.260 Yeah, I mean,

00:15:22.900 Bill Clinton's like,

00:15:24.140 boy, I got criticism

00:15:25.440 for what I did

00:15:26.760 in the West Wing

00:15:27.840 of the White House.

00:15:28.720 The Bidens are making

00:15:29.800 Bill Clinton

00:15:30.340 look like an amateur.

00:15:31.480 Yeah, it only takes 1.00

00:15:32.900 one more bigger idiot 1.00

00:15:33.780 to make you look good, 1.00

00:15:34.700 right?

00:15:35.060 That's all you can say

00:15:36.060 about that one.

00:15:37.100 I want to move

00:15:37.620 to another story.

00:15:38.820 And Senator,

00:15:39.280 this could have

00:15:40.120 massive implications

00:15:41.360 for the election.

00:15:42.040 By the way, Ben,

00:15:42.620 for the record,

00:15:43.680 let's not have that

00:15:45.080 be the slogan

00:15:45.700 of this podcast.

00:15:50.600 Although our critics

00:15:51.800 would suggest

00:15:52.600 that's already our slogan.

00:15:53.920 Yeah, there you go.

00:15:54.720 Fair enough.

00:15:55.440 Fair enough.

00:15:56.400 We've got a big story

00:15:57.560 that deals...

00:15:58.720 We've got a big story

00:16:01.000 that's going to deal

00:16:01.780 that could have

00:16:02.580 huge ramifications

00:16:03.720 for the election

00:16:05.720 coming up.

00:16:06.940 And it's a big

00:16:08.160 court victory.

00:16:09.360 This is something

00:16:10.160 that verdict listeners

00:16:11.480 are going to want

00:16:12.260 to know about

00:16:12.920 because it's not

00:16:13.600 being covered.

00:16:14.680 There was a huge

00:16:15.580 court victory

00:16:16.300 against government

00:16:17.760 censorship.

00:16:19.500 A federal judge

00:16:20.640 has blocked

00:16:21.380 the Biden administration

00:16:22.340 officials

00:16:22.920 from actually

00:16:24.160 communicating directly

00:16:25.820 with social media

00:16:26.660 companies

00:16:27.120 to silence

00:16:28.200 and censor

00:16:29.120 people,

00:16:30.440 ideas,

00:16:30.860 and stories.

00:16:32.500 This judge

00:16:33.100 has now ordered

00:16:33.860 Biden officials

00:16:35.060 to, quote,

00:16:35.860 limit their contact

00:16:37.060 with social media

00:16:38.180 companies.

00:16:38.700 Ruling says

00:16:39.940 that Biden

00:16:40.420 administration's

00:16:41.260 policing of social

00:16:42.460 media

00:16:42.780 is likely

00:16:44.200 a violation

00:16:45.420 of people's

00:16:46.540 First Amendment.

00:16:47.340 Now, so people

00:16:48.040 understand,

00:16:48.560 the Biden administration

00:16:49.240 has been in regular

00:16:50.180 contact,

00:16:50.820 sometimes daily,

00:16:52.140 multiple times a week,

00:16:53.360 and if you say

00:16:54.680 something they don't

00:16:55.300 like,

00:16:55.900 whether it was

00:16:56.420 during the time

00:16:57.060 of COVID

00:16:57.540 or other issues

00:16:58.880 they don't like,

00:16:59.600 they could just

00:17:00.400 connect with them

00:17:01.200 and say,

00:17:01.500 hey,

00:17:02.080 silence that person, 0.52

00:17:03.460 shut that person's 0.91

00:17:04.320 account down,

00:17:04.900 get that person

00:17:05.620 kicked off your 0.95

00:17:06.220 platform,

00:17:06.740 and this judge

00:17:07.900 has finally said,

00:17:08.700 you can't do that.

00:17:10.980 Well, that's

00:17:11.740 exactly right,

00:17:12.600 and, you know,

00:17:13.320 this is a topic

00:17:14.200 we're going to do

00:17:14.680 a deep dive into,

00:17:16.080 and this is one

00:17:17.320 of the reasons

00:17:17.880 I think people

00:17:19.040 listen to Verdict,

00:17:19.940 because we cover

00:17:20.840 topics that the

00:17:22.580 corporate media

00:17:23.140 won't cover,

00:17:23.780 and they won't

00:17:24.120 cover in any

00:17:24.660 substance.

00:17:25.180 This is a very

00:17:26.080 important decision,

00:17:27.900 this is a very

00:17:28.600 important victory

00:17:29.420 for free speech,

00:17:30.460 and the corporate

00:17:31.200 media doesn't want

00:17:31.960 you to know about it.

00:17:33.100 This is a ruling

00:17:33.860 that came down

00:17:34.620 on July 4th,

00:17:35.480 on Independence Day.

00:17:36.300 And it came down

00:17:38.020 from Chief Judge

00:17:39.260 Terry Doty

00:17:40.040 of the Western

00:17:40.860 District of Louisiana,

00:17:41.980 who's a federal

00:17:42.460 district judge,

00:17:44.040 and he issued

00:17:46.200 a preliminary injunction

00:17:47.540 that restricts

00:17:49.380 the Biden

00:17:49.780 administration

00:17:50.340 from communicating

00:17:51.460 with social media

00:17:52.900 platforms in order

00:17:54.740 to ask them to

00:17:55.820 remove or suppress

00:17:57.160 content containing

00:17:58.820 protected speech.

00:18:00.200 In other words,

00:18:00.800 to stop the

00:18:02.080 Biden administration

00:18:03.180 from collaborating

00:18:05.360 with big tech

00:18:06.360 to censor you.

00:18:08.100 Now, this opinion

00:18:08.940 is 155 pages long.

00:18:12.100 It is a serious,

00:18:13.780 scholarly opinion.

00:18:14.720 It is an incredibly

00:18:17.020 detailed opinion.

00:18:18.460 This is a case

00:18:19.540 that was brought

00:18:20.380 against the Biden

00:18:21.700 administration

00:18:22.240 by the state of

00:18:23.100 Missouri and the

00:18:23.720 state of Louisiana.

00:18:24.360 Indiana, and it

00:18:25.400 was also brought

00:18:26.320 by two epidemiologists,

00:18:28.780 Jay Bhattachira

00:18:30.940 and Martin

00:18:32.140 Kulldorff, and four

00:18:34.000 other social media

00:18:34.880 commentators who

00:18:36.320 allege that social

00:18:37.280 media firms

00:18:38.140 removed their

00:18:40.140 posts.

00:18:41.140 And this injunction

00:18:43.520 focuses on

00:18:45.060 repeatedly, it is at

00:18:47.680 the preliminary

00:18:48.140 injunction stage,

00:18:49.200 so what the court

00:18:50.240 concluded in order to

00:18:51.660 grant a preliminary

00:18:52.300 injunction, the

00:18:53.840 district court has

00:18:54.740 to find that the

00:18:55.520 plaintiffs are likely

00:18:57.040 to prevail on the

00:18:58.360 merits of their

00:18:58.960 claim.

00:18:59.640 So that's what the

00:19:00.380 district court

00:19:00.840 concluded, that they

00:19:01.620 are likely to win

00:19:03.260 to prove in court

00:19:05.360 that the Biden

00:19:06.520 administration violated

00:19:08.160 the First Amendment

00:19:09.060 and violated the free

00:19:10.260 speech rights of

00:19:11.000 Americans.

00:19:11.800 That's a big deal.

00:19:13.300 And they walked

00:19:14.300 through carefully

00:19:15.480 what was going on.

00:19:17.600 It documents

00:19:18.600 instances where

00:19:20.400 White House

00:19:20.980 officials explicitly

00:19:23.080 demanded censorship,

00:19:24.780 including in some

00:19:25.600 cases demanding

00:19:27.000 that social media

00:19:28.280 delete the accounts

00:19:29.560 of private

00:19:31.040 Americans, including

00:19:32.080 Tommy Lahren,

00:19:33.500 including Tucker

00:19:34.180 Carlson, including

00:19:35.780 Alex Berenson.

00:19:37.260 At one point, a

00:19:38.900 White House

00:19:39.360 official expressed

00:19:41.320 frustration with

00:19:42.420 Facebook's lack of

00:19:44.460 censorship of what

00:19:46.060 they called vaccine

00:19:47.280 disinformation,

00:19:48.280 writing in an email,

00:19:49.100 and I'm quoting,

00:19:49.620 Are you guys

00:19:51.540 effing serious?

00:19:52.880 And they did not

00:19:53.740 abbreviate effing.

00:19:55.300 I want an answer

00:19:56.580 on what happened

00:19:57.460 here, and I want

00:19:59.100 it today.

00:20:00.500 Now, let's be clear

00:20:01.700 that that is not an

00:20:02.760 email of someone

00:20:03.560 saying, gosh, would

00:20:04.560 you mind looking at

00:20:05.320 this?

00:20:05.600 Hey, this is a

00:20:06.220 concern.

00:20:07.020 That is the kind

00:20:09.020 of communication we

00:20:10.160 saw Hunter Biden

00:20:11.180 give to the Chinese

00:20:12.920 official, I want an

00:20:14.140 answer and I want it

00:20:14.920 by tonight.

00:20:15.540 It's the kind of

00:20:16.220 answer you give

00:20:16.980 someone who works

00:20:18.440 for you that you

00:20:19.760 have power over.

00:20:23.320 The opinion also

00:20:24.540 documents Facebook's

00:20:25.860 collusion with the

00:20:27.040 CDC to censor

00:20:29.540 COVID-related

00:20:30.500 claims.

00:20:32.100 This included a

00:20:33.420 scheme where

00:20:33.920 Facebook would

00:20:34.900 email an

00:20:36.600 official of the

00:20:37.320 CDC, quote,

00:20:38.500 to determine whether

00:20:39.880 statements made on

00:20:40.880 Facebook were true 1.00

00:20:41.720 or false.

00:20:42.240 And if the CDC

00:20:44.100 said this statement

00:20:45.060 is false, Facebook

00:20:47.060 would remove the,

00:20:48.500 quote, false

00:20:48.860 statement.

00:20:49.340 So, for example,

00:20:51.020 the CDC rated as

00:20:52.440 false the claim

00:20:54.820 that COVID-19

00:20:56.980 vaccines weaken

00:20:58.420 the immune system.

00:21:00.340 Now, I would say

00:21:01.980 as we sit here right

00:21:03.000 now in 2023, that

00:21:04.600 claim has not 100%

00:21:07.120 been proven true,

00:21:08.220 but there's a lot

00:21:08.820 of evidence to think

00:21:09.660 it's true.

00:21:10.120 And at a

00:21:11.220 minimum, it is

00:21:12.680 not objectively

00:21:13.880 false, proven to

00:21:15.080 be such, so that

00:21:16.400 the government can

00:21:17.360 silence you from

00:21:18.640 saying to the

00:21:19.220 contrary.

00:21:20.440 Likewise, the

00:21:22.220 opinion discusses

00:21:23.160 the FBI's efforts

00:21:24.240 through what it

00:21:24.840 called the Foreign

00:21:25.640 Influence Task

00:21:26.680 Force to, quote,

00:21:30.940 prime technology

00:21:32.260 companies about

00:21:33.560 possible hack and

00:21:35.700 dump operations led

00:21:37.340 by foreign state

00:21:38.100 actors.

00:21:39.680 And Yoel Roth,

00:21:41.020 who was a Twitter

00:21:41.880 executive, testified

00:21:43.660 that during the

00:21:44.840 joint industry FBI

00:21:45.940 meetings, he learned

00:21:47.940 that, quote, there

00:21:49.860 were rumors that a

00:21:51.600 hack and leak

00:21:52.160 operation would

00:21:53.120 involve Hunter

00:21:53.800 Biden.

00:21:55.180 And as we know,

00:21:57.380 social media right

00:21:58.420 before the 2020

00:21:59.300 election suppressed

00:22:00.560 the story that broke

00:22:01.720 about Hunter Biden's

00:22:02.560 laptop.

00:22:03.100 Now, here's the

00:22:03.540 critical thing.

00:22:04.080 The FBI at the

00:22:05.660 time knew that

00:22:07.240 Hunter Biden's

00:22:07.980 laptop was not

00:22:09.480 Russian disinformation

00:22:10.780 because the agency

00:22:12.900 was in possession of

00:22:14.240 the laptop as of

00:22:16.460 December of 2019,

00:22:18.040 so a year earlier.

00:22:21.080 In addition, another

00:22:23.340 office, what's called

00:22:24.300 the Global

00:22:24.860 Engagement Center,

00:22:26.580 it's part of the

00:22:27.320 State Department.

00:22:28.680 It was an

00:22:29.320 initiative that

00:22:30.100 emerged from

00:22:30.820 Executive Order

00:22:31.720 13584.

00:22:33.480 issued by

00:22:34.540 Obama, which

00:22:36.020 established the

00:22:37.000 State Department's

00:22:38.000 Center for Strategic

00:22:39.020 Counterterrorism

00:22:40.320 Communications.

00:22:42.260 Ultimately, another

00:22:44.120 executive order,

00:22:45.160 Executive Order

00:22:45.920 13721, again

00:22:47.840 issued by Obama,

00:22:49.580 transformed the

00:22:50.680 CSCC into the

00:22:53.040 Global Engagement

00:22:54.040 Center, and the

00:22:56.420 center is designed

00:22:57.660 to, quote,

00:22:58.820 direct, lead,

00:23:00.640 synchronize,

00:23:01.340 integrate, and

00:23:01.840 coordinate U.S.

00:23:02.660 efforts to

00:23:03.200 recognize,

00:23:03.840 understand,

00:23:04.340 expose, and

00:23:05.300 counter foreign 1.00

00:23:06.280 state and

00:23:07.220 non-state propaganda

00:23:08.520 and disinformation

00:23:09.400 aimed at

00:23:10.680 undermining the

00:23:11.900 policy, security,

00:23:12.980 or stability of the

00:23:13.820 United States.

00:23:15.040 But you know what

00:23:16.040 they didn't do?

00:23:16.640 They didn't focus on

00:23:17.700 foreign actors.

00:23:18.680 They focused on,

00:23:20.620 repeatedly,

00:23:22.220 Americans whose

00:23:23.940 speech they were

00:23:24.740 trying to silence.

00:23:25.720 And so what the

00:23:27.780 district court did

00:23:28.980 is it issued an

00:23:30.640 injunction against

00:23:31.540 multiple different

00:23:32.540 parts of the

00:23:35.060 Biden administration

00:23:35.940 to stop directing

00:23:38.760 social media to

00:23:40.020 censor free speech

00:23:41.580 postings from

00:23:44.320 American citizens.

00:23:45.680 And let me read

00:23:47.600 you a portion of

00:23:49.940 it.

00:23:50.100 defendants used

00:23:52.060 meetings and

00:23:52.580 communications with

00:23:53.380 social media

00:23:53.880 companies to

00:23:54.480 pressure these

00:23:55.000 companies to

00:23:55.560 take down,

00:23:56.140 reduce, and

00:23:56.560 suppress the

00:23:57.480 free speech of

00:23:58.160 American citizens.

00:23:59.480 They flagged

00:24:00.320 posts and

00:24:01.200 provided information

00:24:02.160 on the type of

00:24:02.820 posts they wanted

00:24:03.440 suppressed.

00:24:04.440 They also followed

00:24:05.500 up with directives

00:24:06.460 to the social media

00:24:07.240 companies to

00:24:07.900 provide them with

00:24:08.580 information as to

00:24:09.980 the action the

00:24:10.720 company had taken

00:24:11.560 with regard to the

00:24:12.420 flag post.

00:24:13.140 this seemingly

00:24:15.040 unrelented pressure

00:24:16.940 by defendants had

00:24:19.200 the intended result

00:24:20.400 of suppressing

00:24:21.340 millions of

00:24:23.600 protected free

00:24:24.600 speech postings by

00:24:25.760 American citizens.

00:24:27.380 If ever there were

00:24:28.920 a case where the

00:24:29.900 quote significant

00:24:30.980 encouragement theory

00:24:32.140 should apply,

00:24:33.140 this is it.

00:24:34.420 And that's a theory

00:24:35.220 that explains that

00:24:36.180 when the government

00:24:36.840 engages in

00:24:38.020 significant

00:24:38.580 encouragement to

00:24:39.400 private actors to

00:24:40.320 censor speech,

00:24:41.240 that the government

00:24:42.020 is liable for

00:24:43.120 violating the

00:24:44.160 First Amendment.

00:24:45.580 And here's what

00:24:46.420 the court wrote

00:24:47.000 in conclusion.

00:24:48.620 The evidence

00:24:49.680 produced thus far

00:24:50.900 depicts an

00:24:53.200 almost dystopian

00:24:54.600 scenario.

00:24:55.960 During the

00:24:56.760 COVID-19

00:24:57.500 pandemic, a

00:24:59.200 period best

00:25:00.320 categorized by

00:25:01.520 widespread doubt

00:25:02.960 and uncertainty,

00:25:04.940 the United States

00:25:06.240 government seemed

00:25:07.240 to have assumed

00:25:08.100 a role similar

00:25:09.720 to an Orwellian

00:25:11.820 ministry

00:25:12.900 history of truth.

00:25:14.600 Wow.

00:25:16.680 That's a federal

00:25:17.820 court in an order

00:25:19.460 against the Biden

00:25:20.500 administration.

00:25:21.200 The Biden

00:25:21.480 administration is

00:25:22.240 freaking out about

00:25:22.980 this.

00:25:24.840 You hear the

00:25:26.440 court put it that

00:25:27.420 way, and this is

00:25:28.560 where I smile

00:25:30.200 because this is

00:25:31.560 such a significant

00:25:32.660 win for freedom

00:25:34.240 of speech and

00:25:34.940 also not having a

00:25:36.240 government like you

00:25:37.420 see that influences

00:25:38.820 and runs media

00:25:40.200 in places like

00:25:41.720 Russia and

00:25:42.540 China and

00:25:43.560 Venezuela and

00:25:44.520 Cuba.

00:25:45.300 And the idea

00:25:46.340 that you can

00:25:46.880 silence your

00:25:48.120 political opposition,

00:25:49.220 which is exactly

00:25:50.320 what the government

00:25:51.080 has been doing,

00:25:52.680 clearly under the

00:25:53.980 Biden administration,

00:25:55.060 this important day.

00:25:56.040 Now, Senator,

00:25:56.400 this is also going to

00:25:57.320 have a big impact,

00:25:58.340 I think, on this

00:25:59.060 election cycle coming

00:26:00.220 up because this is

00:26:01.660 what they were able

00:26:02.220 to do in the last

00:26:02.900 election cycle, in the

00:26:04.420 presidential election

00:26:05.140 cycle, which was to

00:26:06.420 say, okay, we're

00:26:07.200 going to really start

00:26:08.140 ratcheting up and

00:26:09.100 silencing people and

00:26:10.660 shutting down their

00:26:11.560 reach, and Democrats

00:26:13.200 realized their secret

00:26:14.320 weapon was just pick

00:26:16.080 up the phone and say,

00:26:16.980 I am the government,

00:26:18.560 you're the private

00:26:19.600 sector, I need you to

00:26:21.520 shut down these people,

00:26:22.840 and even some of the

00:26:23.760 accounts they were

00:26:24.380 shutting down were

00:26:25.400 people that had 500,

00:26:26.640 800 followers, and

00:26:28.360 then they said

00:26:28.920 something that went

00:26:29.560 viral, and they're

00:26:30.180 like, yeah, we don't

00:26:30.680 like, we don't even

00:26:31.280 know who this person

00:26:31.920 is, we don't even

00:26:32.680 know what they're

00:26:33.080 saying, they had a

00:26:34.300 treat that went viral,

00:26:35.220 we don't like it,

00:26:36.000 therefore shut down

00:26:36.800 their account, and

00:26:37.460 they did it.

00:26:38.140 Well, and it's even

00:26:39.160 worse than that, so

00:26:40.480 these big tech

00:26:41.280 companies are staffed

00:26:42.780 in significant parts

00:26:43.980 by alums from the

00:26:46.720 federal government,

00:26:47.440 from the Obama

00:26:48.300 administration, from

00:26:49.360 the Biden

00:26:49.800 administration, you've

00:26:51.140 got Yoel Roth who

00:26:52.380 claimed that the

00:26:53.560 Trump administration

00:26:54.600 were, quote,

00:26:55.820 literal Nazis, so

00:26:58.200 these are hardcore 0.90

00:26:59.860 radical leftists,

00:27:01.380 they're already eager

00:27:02.460 to use their monopoly

00:27:04.520 power to silence

00:27:05.500 speech, but the

00:27:07.220 government is urging

00:27:10.000 them, any speech

00:27:11.560 they dislike, they 0.69

00:27:13.200 were urging them

00:27:14.320 to silence, and I

00:27:15.460 want to make an

00:27:16.320 important clarification,

00:27:17.840 because to the

00:27:19.000 extent you're seeing

00:27:20.200 discussion of this in

00:27:21.240 the corporate media, and

00:27:21.980 the discussion is quite

00:27:22.820 limited, but to the

00:27:24.000 extent you see it,

00:27:25.300 you're seeing

00:27:26.860 histrionic reaction

00:27:28.080 from Democrats and

00:27:29.280 corporate media

00:27:29.860 analysts saying, well,

00:27:31.300 how can this be that

00:27:32.700 the government is

00:27:33.400 prohibited from

00:27:34.100 communicating, this is

00:27:35.220 a danger to our

00:27:36.620 country, let's be

00:27:38.200 clear, the injunction

00:27:40.180 explicitly includes

00:27:41.700 carve-outs for

00:27:43.460 communication with

00:27:44.420 social media companies

00:27:45.540 that is permissible,

00:27:47.600 including notifying

00:27:48.960 companies about

00:27:49.700 criminal activities,

00:27:51.880 notifying social media

00:27:52.960 companies about

00:27:53.680 national security

00:27:54.480 threats, and

00:27:55.880 notifying them about

00:27:57.060 threats to public

00:27:58.000 safety, and also

00:27:58.940 speech that is not

00:28:00.520 protected by the

00:28:01.420 First Amendment is

00:28:02.280 expressly exempted from

00:28:03.840 the injunction, so

00:28:05.140 this injunction is

00:28:06.120 narrowed to, Biden

00:28:08.220 administration, you

00:28:09.480 cannot ask social

00:28:11.140 media companies to

00:28:12.740 censor political

00:28:14.000 speech because you

00:28:15.380 disagree with it and

00:28:16.920 dislike it, that is

00:28:18.120 not how the First

00:28:19.100 Amendment operates, and

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00:30:37.560 Senator, I want to

00:30:38.600 also ask you about

00:30:39.800 another big issue, and

00:30:41.720 this deals with

00:30:43.460 China.

00:30:45.300 This is not a

00:30:46.380 normal conversation

00:30:47.460 that you would think

00:30:48.380 you and I would be

00:30:49.000 having.

00:30:49.860 There's a movie that's

00:30:51.440 out, the Barbie

00:30:52.300 movie, Barbie and

00:30:53.300 Ken.

00:30:53.620 It is now making

00:30:56.160 waves for a map in

00:30:59.120 that movie, and it's

00:31:01.400 basically so Barbie and

00:31:03.380 the people that made

00:31:04.540 the movie could get it,

00:31:06.300 make a bunch of money

00:31:07.160 in China by making

00:31:08.460 them happy in Beijing.

00:31:10.600 Explain this insane

00:31:12.240 story.

00:31:13.540 Well, sure.

00:31:14.360 Barbie is an

00:31:15.900 upcoming summer

00:31:17.040 blockbuster targeting,

00:31:19.220 obviously, young girls,

00:31:21.280 teenage girls who are a 0.61

00:31:22.500 huge movie-going

00:31:23.520 audience, and

00:31:25.100 there's a scene in

00:31:26.360 the movie Barbie

00:31:27.040 where Barbie is in

00:31:30.060 front of a map of the

00:31:31.740 world, and it's a

00:31:32.580 cartoon map.

00:31:33.480 It's not a very

00:31:34.520 detailed map.

00:31:35.460 So, for example, it

00:31:37.040 has drawn out, one of

00:31:39.300 the places on the map

00:31:40.100 is Asia.

00:31:40.880 So it's a map of the

00:31:41.540 world and it has Asia.

00:31:43.060 But off to the east

00:31:45.320 of Asia, they have 0.79

00:31:47.960 lines drawn in the

00:31:50.900 South China Sea, and

00:31:52.780 it's called the Nine

00:31:54.000 Dash Line.

00:31:55.700 And the Nine Dash

00:31:56.700 Line is a line that

00:31:58.620 the Communist Party of

00:31:59.760 China is pushing out 0.99

00:32:02.440 because they are

00:32:04.120 claiming that China

00:32:05.320 has sovereignty over

00:32:07.900 virtually the entirety of

00:32:09.400 the South China Sea, and

00:32:10.500 that is contrary to

00:32:11.780 international law.

00:32:13.240 The South China Sea, the

00:32:14.440 claim is disputed by

00:32:16.540 Vietnam, by Malaysia, by

00:32:18.120 Indonesia, by Brunei, by

00:32:19.420 the Philippines, and

00:32:20.200 Taiwan.

00:32:21.500 And, in fact, an

00:32:22.540 international tribunal

00:32:23.680 at The Hague found the

00:32:26.140 Chinese Communist Party's

00:32:27.500 map is illegal.

00:32:28.840 In other words, that

00:32:29.720 their claims of

00:32:30.540 sovereignty, they're

00:32:31.300 trying to steal

00:32:32.540 control over

00:32:34.460 international waters

00:32:35.580 and waters that other

00:32:36.980 nations have

00:32:37.680 sovereignty, and it's a

00:32:39.060 power grab.

00:32:40.240 And what's bizarre, you

00:32:41.800 have this cartoon map

00:32:43.320 with no specificity.

00:32:46.320 Asia is one block on 0.99

00:32:47.980 it, and yet there in

00:32:49.900 the sea are the Nine

00:32:51.120 Dashes that are exactly

00:32:53.240 what the CCP wants to

00:32:54.940 claim the South China Sea

00:32:56.380 is theirs.

00:32:57.340 And in response to this,

00:32:58.880 the country of Vietnam

00:33:00.120 officially banned the

00:33:02.940 movie from Vietnam.

00:33:04.080 They said this is Chinese

00:33:05.340 communist propaganda.

00:33:07.200 And it is a sad pattern.

00:33:09.440 We've seen an ongoing

00:33:10.920 pattern of Hollywood

00:33:13.440 movies kowtowing to the

00:33:15.540 Chinese communists, and

00:33:16.740 at times censoring their

00:33:19.240 movies, but at times

00:33:21.440 doing what they're doing

00:33:22.540 here, which is just

00:33:23.500 happily repeating

00:33:25.780 CCP propaganda because

00:33:27.620 they want to sell the movie

00:33:28.680 in China.

00:33:29.480 And they recognize that

00:33:31.600 repeating what makes the

00:33:33.880 Chinese Communist Party

00:33:35.180 and the government happy

00:33:36.740 increases the chances that

00:33:39.060 the government will allow

00:33:40.100 the movie to be sold in

00:33:41.300 China.

00:33:41.920 But I've got to say it is

00:33:42.840 shameful to see Hollywood

00:33:45.180 acting as a mouthpiece

00:33:47.260 for the Chinese

00:33:49.480 communists.

00:33:50.280 You know, when I saw

00:33:51.200 this, I tweeted out, I

00:33:53.920 said, well, you know, I

00:33:56.040 guess Barbie is made in

00:33:58.080 China, and a vast number 0.84

00:33:59.340 of the Barbie dolls sold

00:34:00.400 in America are in fact

00:34:01.580 manufactured in China.

00:34:03.000 But it is sad to see a

00:34:04.980 movie aimed at young

00:34:06.240 girls is acting as the

00:34:09.420 mouthpiece for Chinese 0.95

00:34:11.220 communist propaganda.

00:34:12.900 It's not just that, too.

00:34:14.560 There's also problems here

00:34:15.820 in the U.S.

00:34:16.580 There's an amazing movie

00:34:18.120 that you just went to

00:34:19.400 that talks about human

00:34:21.100 trafficking and children

00:34:22.760 that are being sex 0.66

00:34:23.580 trafficked and what a

00:34:24.460 problem it is in the

00:34:25.280 world.

00:34:25.960 It actually was the

00:34:26.940 number one movie over the

00:34:28.080 July 4th weekend, beating

00:34:29.400 out Indiana Jones, which is

00:34:30.600 incredible.

00:34:31.480 And it was actually in half

00:34:32.480 the number of theaters,

00:34:33.420 apparently, as Indiana

00:34:34.180 Jones.

00:34:35.140 And this is what's

00:34:36.300 encouraging to me,

00:34:37.560 senators, the fact that it

00:34:38.480 seems like as much as

00:34:40.340 they're trying to force

00:34:41.900 this propaganda, whether

00:34:43.900 it be Barbie, whether it

00:34:45.000 be Target, whether it be

00:34:46.100 Disney.

00:34:46.620 I mean, they had massive

00:34:47.480 layoffs the other day

00:34:48.260 with talent at ESPN.

00:34:49.680 A lot of people believe

00:34:50.780 this is because of Disney

00:34:51.760 and ESPN.

00:34:52.260 People just had enough of

00:34:53.020 their woke propaganda and

00:34:54.640 their obsession with Black 0.99

00:34:55.840 Lives Matter propaganda

00:34:57.160 on ESPN day and night

00:34:59.980 for several years.

00:35:01.520 And people just said, I'm

00:35:02.580 done with you.

00:35:03.380 And now we're seeing that

00:35:05.080 conservatives are starting

00:35:06.340 to fight back with their

00:35:07.520 dollars, not spending them

00:35:08.900 places, but also this

00:35:10.280 movie that just came out

00:35:11.240 that is that is dealing

00:35:12.260 with a tough issue, an

00:35:14.280 important issue, goes to

00:35:15.700 number one with half of

00:35:17.320 the of the distribution in

00:35:18.980 theaters as the big

00:35:20.580 Hollywood movie, you know,

00:35:22.540 with Indiana Jones.

00:35:25.580 Yeah, that's exactly right.

00:35:27.040 And so this movie Sound of

00:35:28.400 Freedom, I actually on July

00:35:29.680 3rd, I took my mom to see

00:35:31.000 it and and my mom loves

00:35:33.020 movies.

00:35:33.440 So do I.

00:35:33.940 So the two of us went to

00:35:34.780 see it.

00:35:35.060 It's a fantastic movie.

00:35:37.080 Jim Caviezel, who played

00:35:38.660 Jesus in The Passion of

00:35:40.060 the Christ, is a incredibly

00:35:41.580 talented actor.

00:35:42.660 He plays the lead.

00:35:44.060 He plays Tim Ballard.

00:35:45.120 So this is a true story.

00:35:46.200 Tim Ballard was a DHS,

00:35:48.240 Department of Homeland

00:35:48.780 Security agent who was

00:35:51.080 working, fighting child

00:35:52.680 trafficking.

00:35:53.220 And and and he saw the

00:35:55.080 horrific evils of child

00:35:57.200 sex trafficking.

00:35:58.000 There is a massive

00:35:59.020 multi-billion dollar

00:36:00.500 business of kidnapping

00:36:02.480 and selling children for 0.82

00:36:04.900 sex trafficking. 0.93

00:36:05.700 And it is horrific. 0.97

00:36:07.920 It is evil.

00:36:09.220 And and the true story,

00:36:10.820 Tim Ballard ended up

00:36:11.800 actually leaving his job

00:36:14.140 and going down to

00:36:16.080 Latin America to rescue

00:36:17.780 over a hundred kids who

00:36:20.660 had been kidnapped by

00:36:22.200 child sex traffickers.

00:36:23.400 And and it's it's a true 0.97

00:36:25.060 story.

00:36:25.460 And I got to tell you, I

00:36:26.220 met Tim Ballard.

00:36:27.620 Jim Jim Caviezel came by my

00:36:29.240 office a couple of weeks

00:36:30.200 ago.

00:36:30.380 We talked about the movie

00:36:31.620 and let me encourage

00:36:33.180 everyone.

00:36:33.740 Go watch this movie.

00:36:35.200 It's inspiring.

00:36:36.620 I mean, it's an amazing

00:36:38.480 true story.

00:36:39.340 So much of what comes out 1.00

00:36:40.300 of Hollywood is garbage 1.00

00:36:41.180 today. 1.00

00:36:41.640 It's propaganda.

00:36:42.760 This is a true story

00:36:43.940 about fighting.

00:36:45.600 Look, you can disagree

00:36:46.700 about all sorts of

00:36:47.760 political issues, but the 0.99

00:36:50.160 sick predators who 0.98

00:36:52.600 engage in in sexual 1.00

00:36:54.880 assault of little kids 0.96

00:36:56.820 and sell little 0.99

00:36:58.700 children to pedophiles 0.77

00:37:00.120 that that I worked a

00:37:02.640 lot of years in law

00:37:03.420 enforcement.

00:37:04.040 I dealt with a lot of

00:37:05.060 horrible crimes.

00:37:06.380 I dealt with murders.

00:37:07.340 I dealt with all sorts

00:37:08.180 of crimes.

00:37:09.040 The ones that always got

00:37:10.920 me the most upset, the

00:37:12.280 most angry are the 1.00

00:37:14.080 bastards that hurt kids. 1.00

00:37:15.460 I think there is a a 1.00

00:37:17.460 special circle of hell

00:37:19.280 devoted to people who

00:37:21.080 hurt kids and the

00:37:23.220 corporate media and

00:37:24.460 most of Hollywood.

00:37:25.640 They didn't want this

00:37:26.240 movie made.

00:37:27.340 They don't want anyone

00:37:28.060 to know about it.

00:37:28.840 It gets no press.

00:37:30.280 In fact, when I met

00:37:31.000 with Jim Caviezel, the

00:37:32.420 Houston Chronicle wrote

00:37:33.540 a hit piece saying, oh,

00:37:35.340 Jim Caviezel is this 0.77

00:37:36.280 crazy conspiracy theorist 0.96

00:37:37.800 guy without talking

00:37:40.140 about the movie, without

00:37:41.280 talking about the

00:37:42.260 horrors of child sex

00:37:43.400 trafficking. 0.91

00:37:44.600 Instead, they just

00:37:45.680 wanted to paint it as a

00:37:46.760 tinfoil hat.

00:37:48.220 Crazy thing.

00:37:50.180 This is a true story.

00:37:52.480 And you are right.

00:37:53.920 On July 4th, Sound of

00:37:56.560 Freedom was the number

00:37:57.700 one box office movie in

00:38:00.480 the country.

00:38:00.960 It beat Indiana Jones.

00:38:03.200 Sound of Freedom was on

00:38:04.180 just over 2,000 screens.

00:38:06.520 Indiana Jones was on over

00:38:07.920 4,000 screens.

00:38:09.880 And nevertheless, Sound of

00:38:11.600 Freedom was number one.

00:38:12.520 I want to encourage

00:38:13.060 everyone to go watch it.

00:38:14.340 But it's a sign of just how

00:38:16.400 messed up Hollywood is that

00:38:17.940 they don't want you to

00:38:19.040 watch it.

00:38:20.500 Yeah.

00:38:20.980 And they don't want to

00:38:22.160 talk about it.

00:38:22.780 They're hoping that this

00:38:23.620 weekend it dies, which, as

00:38:25.740 you know, we've got a lot

00:38:27.120 of verdict listeners that

00:38:28.380 may not even know this

00:38:29.800 movie exists.

00:38:30.880 It's a movie you need to

00:38:32.080 go see, and you need to go

00:38:33.320 see it this weekend.

00:38:34.660 And the reason why is

00:38:35.600 because after last weekend,

00:38:37.620 there are some theaters

00:38:38.720 that will pick up this

00:38:39.460 movie.

00:38:39.860 And if more people go this

00:38:41.140 weekend, more theaters will

00:38:42.860 pick it up next week because

00:38:44.000 they think they're missing

00:38:44.760 out on profits.

00:38:46.100 That's why it's so

00:38:46.900 important.

00:38:47.380 Don't wait for it to come

00:38:48.340 out.

00:38:48.740 This is a movie that

00:38:50.420 conservatives and

00:38:52.160 Christians should support.

00:38:54.220 This is put your money

00:38:55.540 where your mouth is and go

00:38:57.140 out there because if we

00:38:58.220 succeed in these movies

00:39:00.460 being successful, Senator,

00:39:02.060 more of them are going to

00:39:03.180 be made, which is the best

00:39:04.380 part of all.

00:39:05.580 Well, and Ben, I'll tell

00:39:06.820 you, when we finished

00:39:07.620 watching the movie on the

00:39:08.680 afternoon of July 3rd, at

00:39:10.780 the end of the movie, the

00:39:12.600 entire theater burst out in

00:39:14.740 applause.

00:39:16.100 When's the last time you

00:39:16.940 were at a movie where that

00:39:17.700 happened?

00:39:18.340 Yeah.

00:39:18.940 I mean, it is uplifting.

00:39:20.800 It's horrifying.

00:39:21.620 I mean, the evil of it is

00:39:23.480 horrifying, but it also is a

00:39:25.400 demonstration that you can

00:39:26.660 go and you can fight

00:39:28.720 against this evil and you

00:39:30.820 can prevail.

00:39:31.540 And that's it's important

00:39:33.940 for people to understand.

00:39:35.140 People don't like to talk

00:39:36.500 about modern day slavery.

00:39:39.160 And sadly, under the Biden

00:39:40.680 administration, with their

00:39:41.740 open borders at the

00:39:42.740 southern border, human

00:39:44.220 trafficking has exploded.

00:39:46.100 The results of open

00:39:48.080 borders, I'll give you an

00:39:48.980 amazing statistic we've

00:39:50.180 talked about on verdict

00:39:51.020 before.

00:39:51.500 This statistic is from the

00:39:53.280 New York Times.

00:39:53.980 In 2018, the Mexican drug

00:39:56.120 cartels made in revenue from

00:39:58.200 human trafficking roughly

00:40:00.100 $500 million.

00:40:02.580 Last year, they made over

00:40:04.360 $13 billion from human

00:40:07.300 trafficking.

00:40:07.820 that is a 2,600% increase.

00:40:11.320 This is evil and it is

00:40:13.100 modern day slavery.

00:40:15.100 Now, that being said, as

00:40:17.560 bad as Hollywood is, as

00:40:19.740 much as they don't want you

00:40:21.040 to hear and watch movies that

00:40:23.160 expose things like this, as

00:40:25.620 much as they're willing to

00:40:26.880 kowtow to communist China, we

00:40:29.820 did have a significant victory

00:40:31.300 recently, which is the pattern of

00:40:34.820 Hollywood censoring for China 0.66

00:40:37.560 has been an ongoing pattern.

00:40:39.160 And I've been calling it out

00:40:41.000 for a long time.

00:40:41.900 So, for example, the movie

00:40:44.320 Top Gun Maverick.

00:40:46.180 You remember the first movie

00:40:47.660 Top Gun?

00:40:48.740 Yeah.

00:40:52.000 Maverick had on the back of

00:40:53.800 his jacket a series of patches

00:40:57.680 of different flags.

00:40:59.280 And two of the flags that were on

00:41:00.480 the back of his jacket were the

00:41:02.700 flag of Japan and the flag of

00:41:05.380 Taiwan.

00:41:06.460 Well, the Chinese communists 0.86

00:41:08.100 don't like Japan and they hate, 1.00

00:41:10.660 they loathe Taiwan.

00:41:12.260 And so the movie Top Gun Maverick,

00:41:14.740 the sequel, they edited those

00:41:16.940 patches out.

00:41:17.720 They just made them sort of

00:41:18.840 random patterns that didn't

00:41:20.380 correspond to any country

00:41:21.640 because they didn't want to

00:41:22.700 offend the Chinese Communist 0.83

00:41:24.400 Party by referring to Japan or

00:41:27.700 Taiwan.

00:41:28.240 And I called him out.

00:41:29.120 I said, really, are you serious?

00:41:30.720 Are you telling me that Maverick

00:41:32.880 is afraid of the Chinese 1.00

00:41:34.960 communists?

00:41:36.300 I mean, it was insane.

00:41:38.240 And a bit of good news.

00:41:39.440 Actually, the studio ended up

00:41:40.820 putting them back.

00:41:41.460 So when the movie was released,

00:41:42.480 they had the patches back and

00:41:44.240 there was enough criticism.

00:41:45.440 They got embarrassed.

00:41:46.180 Another example, Hollywood, the

00:41:48.440 movie Bohemian Rhapsody.

00:41:49.700 It's another great movie.

00:41:50.840 It's a biopic of Freddie

00:41:52.040 Mercury, the lead singer of Queen.

00:41:54.620 The studio that produced it

00:41:56.760 edited out scenes that showed

00:41:59.660 that Freddie Mercury was gay

00:42:01.000 because the Chinese communists

00:42:02.240 didn't want to acknowledge that

00:42:03.780 Freddie Mercury was gay. 0.98

00:42:05.220 Now, Ben, how the hell do you 0.84

00:42:06.760 tell Freddie Mercury's story

00:42:08.200 without acknowledging he was

00:42:09.200 gay? 0.86

00:42:09.500 It was a pretty damn important 0.86

00:42:10.560 part of his life.

00:42:12.080 And, you know, Hollywood is

00:42:13.780 always happy to virtue signal

00:42:15.520 about how woke they are,

00:42:16.740 unless they're trying to make

00:42:18.800 millions of dollars from China,

00:42:20.120 in which case they're like,

00:42:21.200 nope, edit it out.

00:42:22.620 Guess what?

00:42:23.100 Freddie Mercury no longer gay.

00:42:24.400 Let's just take it out. 0.77

00:42:26.060 It was embarrassing.

00:42:28.020 It was wrong.

00:42:29.520 And so I introduced legislation

00:42:31.260 called the Script Act.

00:42:33.820 And what the Script Act said

00:42:35.180 is that if a Chinese studio,

00:42:40.320 sorry, if an American studio

00:42:41.860 engages in censorship at the

00:42:45.500 behest of the Chinese government

00:42:46.960 or in order to please the

00:42:48.360 Chinese government,

00:42:49.140 then they are not eligible

00:42:51.780 to use U.S. government assets.

00:42:54.920 So there are lots of movies

00:42:56.220 where movie studios use

00:42:57.940 assets of the U.S. government.

00:42:59.800 Think something like Top Gun,

00:43:01.160 where they're using fighter jets

00:43:02.240 or they're using ships

00:43:03.160 or they're using tanks

00:43:04.180 or they're using Humvees

00:43:05.920 or think, you know,

00:43:07.500 a movie where you're down

00:43:08.640 on the border,

00:43:09.360 you're down fighting drugs

00:43:10.440 and you're up in

00:43:11.140 a Black Hawk helicopter.

00:43:12.960 There are all sorts of instances

00:43:14.440 where the U.S. government

00:43:15.540 allows Hollywood

00:43:17.300 to use their assets

00:43:19.160 to film great action movies.

00:43:21.340 The Script Act says,

00:43:23.560 okay, if you're going to let

00:43:25.560 the Chinese communist government

00:43:26.960 censor your films,

00:43:28.640 you can't use U.S. government

00:43:30.760 assets to do it.

00:43:32.300 And the Script Act,

00:43:33.500 I introduced it,

00:43:34.340 I fought for it,

00:43:35.040 I'll tell you,

00:43:35.440 the Democrats resisted it mightily,

00:43:39.580 that Hollywood supports

00:43:40.900 the Democrats significantly.

00:43:42.640 We had a huge battle

00:43:43.700 back and forth.

00:43:45.680 Ultimately,

00:43:46.700 the full Script Act didn't pass,

00:43:49.080 but major portions

00:43:50.360 of the Script Act

00:43:51.380 passed in the fiscal year

00:43:54.880 2023 National Defense

00:43:57.640 Authorization Bill

00:43:58.840 and in the past week,

00:44:01.080 the Pentagon issued

00:44:03.540 their guidance and guidelines

00:44:05.300 pursuant to the legislation

00:44:06.660 that I wrote,

00:44:08.220 making clear to studios,

00:44:10.040 if you let the Chinese government

00:44:13.840 censor your movies,

00:44:15.580 you're ineligible to use

00:44:17.280 U.S. government assets

00:44:18.480 and hopefully,

00:44:19.320 it will be a major incentive 0.98

00:44:22.040 to stop this garbage, 0.99

00:44:23.600 to stop Hollywood 1.00

00:44:24.660 from kowtowing

00:44:25.720 to the Chinese communists.

00:44:27.160 You mentioned victories

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00:46:25.000 It's a dear friend of mine

00:46:26.500 and a dear friend of yours.

00:46:28.600 Mark Levin

00:46:29.240 has his new book

00:46:31.120 that is coming out soon.

00:46:33.640 And it came out

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00:46:36.580 they would not sell

00:46:37.780 Mark Levin's new book

00:46:39.420 in stores.

00:46:40.460 They were apparently afraid

00:46:41.660 that they were going

00:46:42.680 to offend liberals

00:46:44.360 so they were not

00:46:45.260 going to carry it.

00:46:46.120 Now Mark Levin

00:46:47.140 pretty much everything

00:46:48.080 he touches in the book world

00:46:49.220 becomes a New York Times

00:46:50.160 bestseller.

00:46:51.440 This is another example

00:46:52.500 of why I'm not going to

00:46:53.320 give a damn dime 0.54

00:46:54.160 of my money to Target. 0.95

00:46:56.180 But there was so much

00:46:57.460 backlash so quickly

00:46:58.800 that Target realized

00:47:01.100 we don't want to step

00:47:02.140 in it again

00:47:03.180 right after

00:47:04.040 what they just did

00:47:04.880 with all of their

00:47:06.140 activist clothing

00:47:07.400 and everything

00:47:08.040 they were doing

00:47:08.660 binding and tucking

00:47:10.060 outfits with their

00:47:11.200 LGBTQ Gay Pride Month

00:47:13.820 that they now

00:47:14.980 have reversed course

00:47:16.060 and this is proof

00:47:17.420 that when we get together

00:47:18.840 and focus

00:47:19.440 we can win

00:47:20.380 some of these battles.

00:47:22.560 Well that's exactly right.

00:47:24.100 This is a big victory

00:47:25.140 again for free speech

00:47:26.480 against censorship

00:47:27.400 in this case

00:47:28.220 censorship

00:47:28.760 from big business.

00:47:30.960 Mark Levin

00:47:31.420 who is a dear friend of mine

00:47:32.760 a dear friend of yours

00:47:33.740 he is the great one

00:47:35.260 and that is a title

00:47:36.340 that is fully earned

00:47:37.640 it is not hyperbole

00:47:39.760 to say I wouldn't be

00:47:40.940 in the U.S. Senate

00:47:41.740 without Mark Levin

00:47:42.700 when I was at 2%

00:47:44.340 and was just getting started

00:47:45.680 Mark had me on my show

00:47:47.240 over and over

00:47:48.120 and over again

00:47:48.980 and helped me get

00:47:50.400 get my message out

00:47:52.260 to millions of Texans

00:47:53.820 helped me prevail

00:47:56.120 by the way

00:47:56.840 another guy named

00:47:57.520 Ben Ferguson

00:47:58.140 who also hosted

00:47:59.740 a major show

00:48:00.880 had me on repeatedly

00:48:02.480 and so I'm grateful

00:48:03.360 to the both of you

00:48:04.200 and I gotta say

00:48:05.500 Democrats are still

00:48:06.380 pissed at both of you

00:48:07.740 for the good

00:48:09.440 impact you did there.

00:48:11.820 Badge of honor.

00:48:12.580 But Mark you're right

00:48:14.640 every book he writes

00:48:15.900 sells a gazillion copies

00:48:17.560 his books are fantastic

00:48:18.820 his latest book

00:48:19.820 you know Mark

00:48:21.220 is someone who's

00:48:22.200 very subtle

00:48:22.820 he has difficulty

00:48:24.080 speaking clearly

00:48:25.180 he has difficulty

00:48:26.160 saying what he really

00:48:27.120 believes

00:48:27.620 so his title

00:48:29.200 with all of the

00:48:30.180 understatement

00:48:30.960 that has made

00:48:31.920 Mark famous

00:48:32.620 the title of the book

00:48:34.240 is The Democrat Party

00:48:36.080 Hates America

00:48:36.960 well

00:48:38.040 that

00:48:39.080 you know

00:48:40.140 I haven't read

00:48:40.940 Mark's book yet

00:48:41.900 it's coming out

00:48:43.580 shortly

00:48:44.000 but I suspect

00:48:44.860 he makes a

00:48:46.060 compelling case

00:48:47.020 for the title

00:48:48.280 but Mark

00:48:49.320 tweeted out

00:48:51.020 on July 5th

00:48:52.500 Target will not

00:48:53.460 carry

00:48:53.880 The Democrat Party

00:48:54.860 Hates America

00:48:55.620 because it might

00:48:57.120 offend

00:48:57.600 Democrats 1.00

00:48:58.740 pathetic 1.00

00:48:59.860 you can go to 1.00

00:49:01.120 Amazon.com

00:49:01.960 and order directly

00:49:02.700 without going

00:49:03.380 through Democrat

00:49:03.980 Party corporatists

00:49:05.120 and I want to

00:49:05.960 thank Barnes & Noble's

00:49:07.040 Walmart and Books

00:49:07.800 a Million

00:49:08.120 for carrying the book

00:49:08.940 now

00:49:09.820 a lot of

00:49:10.720 conservatives

00:49:11.160 spoke out

00:49:11.800 against this

00:49:12.900 I spoke out

00:49:13.940 I retweeted Mark

00:49:14.900 and here's what I said

00:49:15.820 I said

00:49:16.260 not to worry

00:49:17.080 Target has built up

00:49:19.340 so much goodwill

00:49:20.560 with conservatives

00:49:21.340 that I'm sure

00:49:22.660 they won't mind

00:49:23.460 and then I said

00:49:25.340 and buy his book

00:49:26.440 because I'm sure

00:49:27.220 it's a fantastic book

00:49:28.300 well here's the good news

00:49:30.060 if you feel like

00:49:31.780 all of corporate

00:49:33.120 America is a disaster

00:49:34.380 well Mark 0.97

00:49:35.760 tweeted out

00:49:36.460 on July 6th

00:49:37.460 a day later

00:49:38.060 Target just informed

00:49:39.800 my publisher

00:49:40.380 that it is reversed course

00:49:41.660 and will be taking

00:49:43.080 my new book

00:49:43.760 in its stores

00:49:44.340 upon its release

00:49:45.240 you folks are

00:49:47.020 an immense force

00:49:48.100 for free speech

00:49:50.160 and market capitalism

00:49:52.060 and conservative authors

00:49:53.280 and audiences everywhere

00:49:54.580 will benefit

00:49:55.280 from your patriotism

00:49:56.480 I could not be more

00:49:58.540 proud of you

00:49:59.140 not only for how

00:49:59.960 this specific case

00:50:00.960 turned out

00:50:01.600 as there will undoubtedly

00:50:03.000 be more of this

00:50:04.020 but because you've made it clear

00:50:06.320 that you've had enough

00:50:07.800 and will exercise

00:50:09.380 your enormous power

00:50:10.740 the silent majority

00:50:12.400 is silent no longer

00:50:13.700 I'll more fully discuss

00:50:15.560 this on radio

00:50:16.260 God bless

00:50:16.960 and I thank

00:50:17.580 and salute you all

00:50:18.600 that is awesome

00:50:20.340 and every conservative

00:50:22.700 everyone who believes

00:50:23.560 in free speech

00:50:24.280 everyone who doesn't want

00:50:25.240 to see corporate America

00:50:26.340 silence views

00:50:27.580 they disagree with

00:50:28.620 should celebrate

00:50:29.840 we started this pod

00:50:31.760 by talking about

00:50:32.920 a victory for free speech

00:50:34.160 in the courtroom

00:50:34.800 and we're ending the pod

00:50:36.640 by talking about

00:50:37.480 a victory for free speech

00:50:38.780 against big business

00:50:40.580 in both instances

00:50:42.140 there is a power to truth

00:50:43.660 there is a power

00:50:44.840 to highlighting

00:50:46.520 what is real

00:50:48.520 and what the facts are

00:50:49.760 and when we do so

00:50:50.920 that has enormous potency

00:50:53.080 Amen to that

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Verdict with Ted Cruz - July 07, 2023

Cocaine in the White House, Massive Free Speech Victory, plus Barbie Pushing CCP Propaganda & Target Relents on Mark Levin's New Book

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