Verdict with Ted Cruz - March 30, 2023


How Can We STOP School Shootings - and, Maddeningly, Why Democrats Keep Blocking Real School Safety Legislation


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Sen. Ted Cruz speaks on the Nashville school shooting and the need for more armed guards in our schools, and why the media should not repeat the names of those who commit mass shootings and why they deserve to be forgotten.

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00:00:00.000 This is an iHeart Podcast.
00:00:02.580 Guaranteed human.
00:00:05.600 Welcome. It is Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz.
00:00:08.360 Ben Ferguson with you as always.
00:00:10.400 And if you're a regular, you know we put out our podcasts
00:00:13.380 Monday, Wednesday, and Fridays.
00:00:16.120 This is Thursday.
00:00:17.480 And why are we going a day early?
00:00:19.240 Because there's some legislation that's going to be introduced
00:00:22.000 by the senator that's extremely important.
00:00:23.980 And it deals with school safety and the shooting issue
00:00:27.780 that just happened in Nashville.
00:00:29.340 Senator, this is something that is heartbreaking for me,
00:00:34.440 and I know for you, because what you're working on
00:00:37.520 in the legislation is exactly the same thing
00:00:40.400 that could have been done in September of 2022.
00:00:44.560 Here we are again after another school shooting
00:00:46.640 where there are not guards there to protect these kids.
00:00:49.860 It was a gun-free zone without a resource officer,
00:00:52.780 and we had the same outcome, unfortunately.
00:00:55.780 And now you're going to continue to fight
00:00:58.860 to protect our kids in their schools with resource officers
00:01:02.960 and with everything that you could possibly need
00:01:05.620 to do everything you can to keep kids safe.
00:01:08.240 Well, let me say, first of all,
00:01:10.120 what happened at Covenant School in Nashville.
00:01:12.760 It's just terrific.
00:01:14.340 It is every parent's nightmare.
00:01:16.600 a deranged lunatic murdered three nine-year-old children,
00:01:23.020 murdered three adults.
00:01:26.440 I've got to say, I cannot imagine
00:01:28.720 the quantity of evil that leads someone to murder children.
00:01:35.700 I think it is the worst crime there is.
00:01:38.800 There is a level of lunacy.
00:01:43.740 And by the way, when I say someone,
00:01:45.760 one thing to be clear,
00:01:47.280 I will not say the someone's name.
00:01:50.220 And this is actually a policy
00:01:52.400 that I strictly enforce on myself.
00:01:54.800 I don't repeat the names of these mass murderers.
00:01:58.500 They want to be remembered.
00:02:00.240 They want to go down in history in infamy.
00:02:02.780 I think they deserve to be forgotten 1.00
00:02:05.120 as the deranged lunatics they are. 0.98
00:02:08.720 And I wish everyone in politics, 0.95
00:02:10.460 I wish everyone in the media
00:02:11.640 would follow the same rule.
00:02:14.060 And I'll refer to the shooter.
00:02:16.440 I'm happy to repeat a victim's name.
00:02:20.700 But these monsters do not deserve
00:02:23.560 to have their names repeated.
00:02:25.700 What happened at that school
00:02:27.740 is grotesquely evil.
00:02:30.320 I think of the pastor of that Christian school
00:02:33.480 whose little girl was murdered that day.
00:02:38.600 The agony of the parents,
00:02:40.680 the agony of the children.
00:02:42.980 It is horrific.
00:02:45.000 And, you know, we've seen with this
00:02:47.920 terrible crime,
00:02:50.900 we've seen all the pathologies
00:02:53.540 of our political system.
00:02:56.220 We've seen the instant the news broke,
00:02:58.740 the Democrats leaping
00:03:01.780 immediately to their political objective
00:03:04.720 of gun control.
00:03:05.720 They seem never as filled with joy
00:03:09.500 as in the wake of a horrific mass murder
00:03:12.620 because it lets them
00:03:13.680 advance their political position.
00:03:16.120 We saw the media
00:03:17.020 eagerly participating at that at the outset.
00:03:20.680 And then we saw
00:03:21.500 a remarkable about face
00:03:23.480 because when the news came
00:03:24.920 that the shooter
00:03:25.620 was an individual
00:03:27.280 who's transgender
00:03:28.180 who appears
00:03:30.240 to have been targeting the school
00:03:32.440 because it's a Christian school,
00:03:34.160 suddenly the media
00:03:34.920 didn't know what to do
00:03:35.820 because that was not
00:03:37.260 their preferred narrative.
00:03:39.160 And so the media
00:03:40.220 has been in a bit of crisis.
00:03:41.700 They haven't been sure
00:03:42.560 whether to just ignore it altogether
00:03:44.740 or try to spin it.
00:03:47.640 Some of the most absurd spins
00:03:49.380 that the media has tried
00:03:50.500 is this mass murder
00:03:52.740 is your fault. 0.59
00:03:55.300 If you believe
00:03:56.900 that five-year-olds
00:03:59.100 shouldn't go to explicit drag shows, 0.99
00:04:01.300 if you believe
00:04:02.180 that children shouldn't be mutilated
00:04:05.580 to try to change
00:04:07.140 their biological gender
00:04:08.540 because they lack the maturity
00:04:10.520 to make that decision,
00:04:11.520 then it's your fault 1.00
00:04:12.540 this lunatic murdered those children. 1.00
00:04:15.140 All of that 1.00
00:04:16.100 is infuriating.
00:04:19.720 But I got to tell you, Ben,
00:04:20.960 there's something more infuriating
00:04:22.140 than that,
00:04:23.100 which is I believe
00:04:24.360 this could have been prevented.
00:04:26.400 Look, I've been
00:04:27.760 the U.S. Senator from Texas
00:04:29.540 for 11 years now.
00:04:30.980 One of the worst
00:04:32.020 and hardest aspects
00:04:32.920 of this job
00:04:33.980 is that I've been
00:04:35.020 on the ground
00:04:36.880 at mass shooting
00:04:38.700 after mass shooting
00:04:39.540 after mass shooting.
00:04:41.360 I was there
00:04:42.540 at Santa Fe High School.
00:04:44.780 Santa Fe High School,
00:04:46.260 it's about 45 minutes
00:04:47.840 from my house.
00:04:48.480 I was home that morning
00:04:49.520 when the shooting happened.
00:04:51.100 I got the call
00:04:52.140 within minutes of the shooting.
00:04:53.380 I jumped in a truck
00:04:54.480 and headed down there.
00:04:55.320 I was there
00:04:55.920 a little more than an hour
00:04:57.580 after the shooting occurred.
00:04:58.680 I was there
00:04:59.200 with the students,
00:04:59.980 with the families.
00:05:00.740 I saw the horrors 0.99
00:05:02.560 of that lunatic 1.00
00:05:03.420 that murdered those children. 1.00
00:05:04.980 I was there
00:05:07.780 in Sutherland Springs,
00:05:09.220 the site of the worst
00:05:11.380 church shooting
00:05:12.600 in the history
00:05:13.960 of our country, 1.00
00:05:14.680 a deranged lunatic 1.00
00:05:15.820 who came in 1.00
00:05:16.560 and murdered
00:05:17.420 innocent people,
00:05:18.200 including shooting
00:05:19.720 point blank
00:05:20.540 an 18-month-old infant.
00:05:23.120 I stood
00:05:24.220 in that sanctuary
00:05:26.720 the day after the shooting.
00:05:28.620 When I was there,
00:05:30.460 there was still blood
00:05:31.640 everywhere across
00:05:32.720 the sanctuary.
00:05:33.560 There was shattered glass.
00:05:34.620 There were pews
00:05:35.740 that had been
00:05:36.720 strewn about
00:05:38.100 as people terrified
00:05:39.460 tried to flee
00:05:40.080 for their lives.
00:05:40.820 I remember seeing
00:05:41.500 a shattered cell phone
00:05:43.240 covered with blood.
00:05:45.060 That mass shooting
00:05:46.020 was stopped
00:05:46.700 only because
00:05:47.820 a heroic neighbor,
00:05:50.140 a plumber
00:05:50.600 named Stephen Williford,
00:05:52.240 heard the shooting,
00:05:53.300 went and grabbed
00:05:53.920 his AR-15,
00:05:55.020 ran down,
00:05:55.980 and engaged
00:05:56.600 with the shooter,
00:05:57.220 shot the shooter,
00:05:57.920 and took him out.
00:05:59.260 I was there
00:06:00.180 on the ground
00:06:00.700 in El Paso
00:06:01.540 after that mass shooting.
00:06:03.440 I was in Midland-Odessa
00:06:04.680 after that mass shooting.
00:06:06.180 I was in Dallas, Texas
00:06:07.480 after a crazed
00:06:09.720 Black Lives Matter 0.60
00:06:10.700 radical
00:06:11.320 murdered five police officers.
00:06:13.880 I've been to 0.95
00:06:14.660 too damn many of these.
00:06:16.260 And let me start 0.98
00:06:17.640 by saying,
00:06:18.240 Ben,
00:06:18.480 when you and I
00:06:19.280 were kids,
00:06:20.440 this wasn't a thing.
00:06:22.460 Yeah,
00:06:22.640 it didn't happen.
00:06:24.320 Like,
00:06:24.720 look,
00:06:25.400 when you went to school,
00:06:26.720 maybe you worried
00:06:27.500 about getting in a fight
00:06:28.900 in the playground.
00:06:29.780 Maybe you might get
00:06:30.340 a bloody nose.
00:06:31.980 But I don't remember
00:06:33.820 once in school
00:06:35.700 worrying that
00:06:36.560 some psychopath
00:06:37.440 was going to come 1.00
00:06:39.020 shoot us. 0.77
00:06:40.000 Yeah, 0.99
00:06:40.200 I asked my dad,
00:06:41.700 I said,
00:06:42.080 Dad,
00:06:42.260 did you ever worry
00:06:43.120 about us in school
00:06:44.120 and even in church?
00:06:45.000 And he said,
00:06:45.480 he was in law enforcement.
00:06:46.440 He said,
00:06:46.780 no,
00:06:47.320 never.
00:06:48.340 Never once
00:06:49.160 did I ever think
00:06:49.940 I need to teach you
00:06:50.680 how to hide under a desk
00:06:51.740 or hide from a shooter
00:06:53.280 or what to do
00:06:53.960 if you hear gunshots
00:06:55.020 in the hallway
00:06:55.540 of a school.
00:06:56.660 This is a new thing.
00:06:58.820 Look,
00:06:59.260 you're a parent,
00:07:00.220 Ben.
00:07:01.140 It scares the hell
00:07:02.180 out of you.
00:07:03.040 Yeah.
00:07:04.120 Well,
00:07:04.580 my wife and I
00:07:05.180 had the conversation.
00:07:06.240 What do we say
00:07:06.840 to our kids now
00:07:07.880 and how do we talk
00:07:10.800 to them,
00:07:11.260 my oldest is six,
00:07:12.480 about if this happens,
00:07:14.200 what is he to do?
00:07:15.820 Do we have
00:07:16.700 that conversation?
00:07:18.040 How do you have
00:07:19.000 that conversation?
00:07:20.120 This is something
00:07:21.180 that no parent
00:07:22.000 wants to even have
00:07:22.740 to talk about
00:07:23.380 with their kids,
00:07:23.880 but the reality is
00:07:24.640 now we are forced to.
00:07:26.360 We are forced to.
00:07:28.520 Every parent
00:07:29.200 is scared for their kids
00:07:30.460 and every rational person
00:07:34.500 wants to prevent this
00:07:36.800 and listen,
00:07:38.620 I've spent 11 years
00:07:39.560 in the Senate,
00:07:40.160 number one,
00:07:41.780 fighting to stop
00:07:42.960 the Democrats'
00:07:44.200 efforts at gun control,
00:07:45.520 which are unconstitutional
00:07:47.260 and they don't work.
00:07:48.660 They don't stop
00:07:49.860 mass murders
00:07:51.260 and the Democrats,
00:07:52.980 that's not their priority,
00:07:54.900 but I've also been fighting
00:07:56.260 to stop these crimes.
00:07:58.560 I don't want to see
00:07:59.440 another parent
00:08:00.080 who's lost their kids.
00:08:01.380 I've seen too many of them
00:08:03.000 and if you want to
00:08:05.280 stop violent crimes,
00:08:06.420 there's a way to do it,
00:08:07.460 which is you target
00:08:09.100 the bad guys,
00:08:09.840 you target the felons,
00:08:12.120 the fugitives,
00:08:12.980 those with serious
00:08:13.600 mental illness, 0.99
00:08:14.640 you go after them,
00:08:15.820 you prosecute them,
00:08:17.120 you put them in jail
00:08:18.320 when they try
00:08:18.860 to illegally buy guns,
00:08:20.180 you lock them up,
00:08:21.860 you protect people,
00:08:23.300 you also secure
00:08:24.700 our schools.
00:08:25.680 If you look at
00:08:26.720 ever since Columbine, 0.74
00:08:28.900 these deranged people
00:08:30.320 think, 0.75
00:08:30.800 okay,
00:08:31.300 I can be famous
00:08:32.720 and they go target
00:08:34.980 children and so
00:08:35.980 if you want to
00:08:37.600 protect our kids,
00:08:38.620 the steps that are
00:08:39.560 most important
00:08:40.500 are making our schools
00:08:42.840 safer,
00:08:43.680 enhancing physical security
00:08:45.000 and the single biggest
00:08:46.480 step that matters
00:08:47.840 is having armed
00:08:49.860 police officers
00:08:50.900 officers on campus
00:08:52.360 at the front door
00:08:54.100 so they can stop 0.98
00:08:55.860 a lunatic 0.88
00:08:56.660 before he or she 0.99
00:08:58.520 gets into the campus 0.99
00:08:59.860 and is able to kill kids.
00:09:02.140 That's how you stop 0.65
00:09:03.240 a bad guy
00:09:03.920 and so,
00:09:05.880 look,
00:09:06.560 in the wake of Uvalde
00:09:07.800 and I was there
00:09:08.760 at Uvalde
00:09:10.680 right after the tragedy,
00:09:12.180 it was horrific,
00:09:13.000 it happened in Texas,
00:09:14.560 the evil is indescribable.
00:09:18.200 After Uvalde,
00:09:19.160 I filed legislation
00:09:20.460 that would provide
00:09:23.080 very substantial funds
00:09:24.760 to enhance
00:09:26.320 the physical security
00:09:27.500 of schools
00:09:28.180 that would double 0.60
00:09:30.420 the number
00:09:31.440 of police officers
00:09:32.600 in schools
00:09:34.180 and by the way,
00:09:35.380 public schools,
00:09:36.320 private schools,
00:09:37.100 parochial schools,
00:09:38.160 it would give the funds
00:09:40.500 $15 billion
00:09:42.400 to put armed police officers
00:09:45.000 on campus
00:09:45.720 so if any lunatic
00:09:47.060 comes after your kids, 0.92
00:09:49.660 there'd be an officer there
00:09:51.160 or multiple officers there
00:09:53.180 to stop them
00:09:54.340 before they got in
00:09:55.640 and it also provided
00:09:56.840 $10 billion
00:09:58.400 in funding
00:09:59.480 for mental health counselors.
00:10:01.920 So many of these crimes
00:10:03.080 are committed
00:10:04.080 by deeply disturbed
00:10:06.360 young people
00:10:07.260 and having the counseling
00:10:09.480 there to stop
00:10:10.440 these troubled teenagers
00:10:13.840 before they commit
00:10:15.000 a horrific crime
00:10:15.720 of violence
00:10:16.180 is incredibly important
00:10:17.720 and here's the thing
00:10:18.480 that's so frustrating.
00:10:19.980 I tried to pass
00:10:21.140 this legislation
00:10:21.880 and the Democrats
00:10:23.700 blocked it.
00:10:24.400 I forced a vote on it.
00:10:25.960 The bill was called
00:10:26.900 Cruz Barrasso
00:10:27.900 so I wrote it
00:10:29.140 along with John Barrasso
00:10:30.420 from Wyoming.
00:10:32.680 Every single Democrat
00:10:35.020 voted no.
00:10:36.860 They wanted to pass
00:10:37.760 a gun control bill instead
00:10:39.100 so protecting the schools
00:10:40.840 was not their priority.
00:10:41.720 They wanted to take away
00:10:43.200 the firearms
00:10:44.520 of law-abiding citizens.
00:10:46.500 After that,
00:10:47.780 after every Democrat
00:10:48.820 had voted no,
00:10:49.460 I went to the Senate floor
00:10:50.600 and I tried to pass
00:10:52.380 the bill by unanimous consent.
00:10:53.900 Now the way
00:10:54.260 unanimous consent works
00:10:55.220 is you stand up,
00:10:56.700 you ask to pass it
00:10:59.280 by unanimous consent
00:11:00.220 and if one senator
00:11:01.240 stands up and objects, 0.93
00:11:02.560 it gets killed.
00:11:04.220 In this instance,
00:11:06.060 the person who objected
00:11:08.060 was Chris Murphy
00:11:09.880 who was the Democrat
00:11:10.720 from Connecticut
00:11:11.480 he's the leading advocate
00:11:13.240 of gun control
00:11:14.180 in the Senate
00:11:15.220 and he stood up
00:11:16.560 and with no justification
00:11:18.620 whatsoever
00:11:19.380 objected and killed
00:11:21.940 the legislation
00:11:23.260 that could have prevented
00:11:26.460 this murder
00:11:27.360 at the Covenant School,
00:11:28.640 that could have funded 0.58
00:11:30.160 having a police officer
00:11:31.500 at the front door 1.00
00:11:33.100 to shoot this lunatic 1.00
00:11:35.020 before the shooter 1.00
00:11:37.160 killed even a single child.
00:11:38.940 I cannot tell you
00:11:41.100 how angry I am
00:11:41.920 about that,
00:11:42.640 that we could have
00:11:44.000 stopped this,
00:11:45.240 but the Senate Democrats
00:11:47.120 weren't willing to do
00:11:49.060 what it takes
00:11:49.540 to stop this.
00:11:50.400 And you mentioned it,
00:11:51.480 it was because
00:11:52.320 they didn't want
00:11:53.980 to arm
00:11:54.920 and protect the kids.
00:11:56.220 They wanted
00:11:57.220 the solution
00:11:58.020 to the problem
00:11:59.240 to only be one option,
00:12:01.400 which was to take away
00:12:02.840 our Second Amendment rights.
00:12:04.120 You could even see this
00:12:05.780 after the shooting
00:12:06.320 that happened
00:12:06.980 in Nashville.
00:12:09.320 Immediately they said
00:12:10.540 that it was the gun's fault,
00:12:12.120 it was an AR-15.
00:12:13.120 We found out it was an AR-15
00:12:14.460 that she was using
00:12:15.080 in the videos.
00:12:15.680 It was a carbine
00:12:16.460 that uses
00:12:17.460 the same ammunition
00:12:19.400 that handguns use.
00:12:20.880 It was not an AR-15.
00:12:22.780 And then,
00:12:23.400 in fact,
00:12:24.020 if you really want
00:12:24.700 to get into it,
00:12:25.880 the only AR-15
00:12:26.940 that was used
00:12:28.240 in that confrontation
00:12:29.400 between the shooter
00:12:31.300 and the police
00:12:31.960 was the police officer
00:12:33.780 who used an AR-15
00:12:35.180 to take her down. 0.95
00:12:37.980 And the media
00:12:38.780 lied about all of it.
00:12:40.300 Yep.
00:12:40.780 And I will say,
00:12:42.020 Ben,
00:12:42.200 I know you've watched
00:12:43.140 as I have
00:12:43.880 the body cam footage
00:12:45.520 of those officers.
00:12:46.980 Let me commend
00:12:47.680 those officers,
00:12:49.420 those Nashville police officers
00:12:50.780 who went in
00:12:51.460 right after the shooting
00:12:52.700 had began
00:12:53.220 and the body cam footage,
00:12:54.400 look,
00:12:54.580 they're coming onto the campus,
00:12:55.720 they don't know
00:12:56.080 where the shooter is,
00:12:57.120 they don't know
00:12:57.560 what's happening.
00:12:58.240 They're scared,
00:12:58.900 anyone would be scared
00:12:59.720 in that instance,
00:13:00.420 but they're searching
00:13:01.140 they're trying
00:13:01.920 to save the kids,
00:13:02.960 they're running up the stairs,
00:13:04.400 they hear the gunshots
00:13:06.340 and they don't run away,
00:13:08.120 they don't hide,
00:13:08.780 they run towards
00:13:09.540 the gunshots.
00:13:10.420 They run towards
00:13:11.300 the gunshots,
00:13:12.100 they engage with the shooter
00:13:13.220 and they take
00:13:14.000 the shooter down.
00:13:14.860 And I gotta say,
00:13:15.540 watching that body cam footage,
00:13:17.600 those officers are heroes.
00:13:20.920 And the fact that they engaged
00:13:22.320 and took that shooter out
00:13:23.420 saved many lives that day.
00:13:25.880 That shooter
00:13:26.440 would have kept 0.97
00:13:27.320 killing children, 1.00
00:13:28.220 would have kept 1.00
00:13:28.620 killing adults 0.96
00:13:29.440 and the only thing
00:13:31.040 that stopped the shooter
00:13:32.100 was the officer's heroism.
00:13:34.180 Now imagine the same thing
00:13:35.720 with one detail changed.
00:13:38.720 Instead of the officers
00:13:39.960 coming in 15 minutes
00:13:41.400 after the shooting began,
00:13:43.100 because that's when
00:13:43.860 they got to the school,
00:13:45.800 imagine the officers
00:13:46.980 are there at the front door
00:13:48.160 to begin with.
00:13:49.300 The shooter came in
00:13:50.500 and shot through the front door,
00:13:52.100 shot through the glass
00:13:53.160 and entered through the glass.
00:13:54.980 If the shooter had tried that
00:13:56.500 and there had been an officer
00:13:57.400 or multiple officers there,
00:13:59.040 they would have shot
00:14:00.040 the shooter dead 0.89
00:14:00.940 on the steps
00:14:02.160 and those precious children
00:14:04.400 would be alive.
00:14:05.560 That's why it matters
00:14:06.940 to have police officers
00:14:09.380 there to protect our kids.
00:14:11.240 It's why it's so infuriating
00:14:13.760 that Democrats
00:14:15.680 are adamantly opposed
00:14:18.340 to doing what would actually work
00:14:20.400 to stop these kind of horrific crimes.
00:14:23.860 Yeah, every time we see
00:14:24.860 one of these school shootings
00:14:25.820 or like you mentioned,
00:14:26.780 the church shooting,
00:14:27.920 it always takes a good guy
00:14:29.500 with a gun to come and stop
00:14:30.740 a bad guy with a gun.
00:14:33.180 I want to go back
00:14:34.400 to what you said
00:14:35.740 in September,
00:14:36.960 September the 14th of 2022,
00:14:39.380 when you originally talked
00:14:41.980 about this legislation,
00:14:43.320 because it's important
00:14:45.620 that we look at
00:14:46.600 what we could have done
00:14:47.720 and learn from these mistakes.
00:14:49.600 And it seems, unfortunately,
00:14:51.460 like Democrats are still
00:14:52.720 dug in now saying,
00:14:53.820 OK, even though this has happened,
00:14:55.920 even though we could
00:14:56.820 have had security,
00:14:57.760 even though this bill
00:14:58.840 was put out there,
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00:16:24.480 Senator, I want to play
00:16:25.280 for everybody
00:16:26.500 this clip of you.
00:16:27.920 It's a longer clip.
00:16:28.760 It's an important clip.
00:16:30.160 It's a clip from September 2022
00:16:32.460 where you were advocating
00:16:34.400 then for exactly
00:16:35.960 what you're saying
00:16:36.640 we need now.
00:16:37.320 and after Nashville
00:16:38.580 there's just more proof
00:16:39.560 this is what needs to happen.
00:16:41.460 In legislative session,
00:16:43.740 I ask unanimous consent
00:16:45.060 that the Senate proceed
00:16:46.120 to the immediate consideration
00:16:47.280 of S-4845,
00:16:50.520 which is at the desk.
00:16:52.920 Further, that the bill
00:16:54.140 be considered read
00:16:55.280 a third time and passed
00:16:56.740 and that the motion
00:16:58.100 to reconsider
00:16:58.740 be considered made
00:16:59.920 and laid upon the table.
00:17:02.080 Is there objection?
00:17:03.740 Madam President.
00:17:05.000 Senator from Connecticut.
00:17:06.500 Madam President, I object.
00:17:08.700 Objection is heard.
00:17:10.600 Madam President,
00:17:11.740 what we just saw
00:17:13.460 on this floor was stunning.
00:17:16.360 I am genuinely
00:17:18.120 at a loss for words.
00:17:19.960 This bill is common sense.
00:17:22.520 There is not a constituent
00:17:24.040 in Texas
00:17:25.740 or Nevada
00:17:27.440 or Connecticut.
00:17:29.220 If you asked
00:17:30.060 would it be a good thing
00:17:31.260 to have more police officers
00:17:33.660 keeping our kids safe
00:17:34.780 wouldn't say
00:17:35.180 of course it would.
00:17:37.000 There is not a constituent
00:17:38.440 of ours
00:17:38.980 who if you asked
00:17:40.020 would it be a good thing
00:17:40.980 to have more mental health
00:17:42.040 counselors on campus
00:17:43.400 to stop people
00:17:44.420 from committing crimes
00:17:45.260 would say of course it would.
00:17:47.560 I was informed
00:17:48.560 a few days ago
00:17:49.480 that when I was going
00:17:50.160 to seek unanimous consent
00:17:51.480 the Senator from Connecticut
00:17:52.520 was going to object.
00:17:55.920 Now the Senator
00:17:56.760 from Connecticut
00:17:57.420 styles himself
00:17:58.400 the leading advocate
00:17:59.600 of gun control
00:18:00.400 in the U.S. Senate.
00:18:01.140 I was asked
00:18:03.320 I was asked by reporters
00:18:03.980 why are the Democrats
00:18:05.180 objecting to this
00:18:06.160 and I'll tell you
00:18:06.860 what I told reporters
00:18:07.740 I have no idea
00:18:09.540 they haven't said
00:18:11.240 they haven't told me
00:18:12.940 why they object to it
00:18:14.000 and so I was genuinely
00:18:16.940 looking forward
00:18:17.960 to seeing
00:18:18.860 the Senator
00:18:20.000 from Connecticut's remarks
00:18:21.120 I was sitting here
00:18:21.960 waiting to see
00:18:22.720 why do you oppose
00:18:24.120 more police officers
00:18:25.100 to keep our kids safe?
00:18:26.100 why do you oppose
00:18:28.260 mental health counselors
00:18:29.720 in schools?
00:18:32.940 I've been in the Senate
00:18:34.000 10 years
00:18:34.580 the Senator from Connecticut
00:18:35.400 and I were elected
00:18:36.220 at the same time
00:18:37.080 I've engaged in many debates
00:18:39.740 on this floor
00:18:40.360 including with the Senator
00:18:41.320 from Connecticut
00:18:41.880 the fact
00:18:44.600 that he chose
00:18:46.060 not to say
00:18:47.240 a word
00:18:48.400 about why he objects
00:18:53.200 is stunning
00:18:54.440 I find myself
00:18:55.680 genuinely flabbergasted
00:18:58.180 I will say
00:19:00.640 one of the reasons
00:19:01.280 I think the Senator
00:19:01.940 from Connecticut
00:19:02.540 feels content
00:19:03.480 not only not to argue
00:19:05.080 but now to walk off
00:19:06.040 the floor
00:19:06.480 and not even listen
00:19:07.300 to the debate
00:19:07.880 he's ostensibly
00:19:08.600 participating in
00:19:09.540 one of the reasons
00:19:12.360 he feels free
00:19:13.120 to do so
00:19:13.860 is if you look up
00:19:14.820 to the Senate gallery
00:19:15.760 I can count them
00:19:16.820 there are precisely
00:19:17.700 zero reporters
00:19:19.120 in this gallery
00:19:19.800 not a single one
00:19:23.700 of the corporate media
00:19:24.760 will report on this
00:19:26.620 and I think the Senator
00:19:27.260 from Connecticut
00:19:27.760 feels absolutely certain
00:19:29.280 when he walks out
00:19:31.680 he will have reporters
00:19:32.980 that will say
00:19:33.900 tell me how terrible 0.97
00:19:35.100 Donald Trump is 0.93
00:19:35.920 and he'll lean in
00:19:36.900 and say
00:19:37.120 oh Donald Trump 0.95
00:19:38.020 is really terrible
00:19:38.780 but not one of the reporters
00:19:41.700 will ask
00:19:42.240 hey wait a second
00:19:43.160 why don't you want
00:19:43.980 police officers
00:19:44.680 keeping our kids safe
00:19:45.600 none of them will
00:19:47.260 the Democrats
00:19:48.160 are protected
00:19:49.220 by a dishonest
00:19:51.860 army
00:19:53.720 of propagandists
00:19:55.540 in the corporate media
00:19:56.520 CNN will not have
00:19:58.260 a panel
00:19:58.680 sitting around
00:19:59.640 discussing
00:20:00.240 why is it
00:20:01.460 that the Democrats
00:20:03.300 simply
00:20:04.560 do not care
00:20:06.220 to defend
00:20:08.080 their positions
00:20:08.820 let me tell you
00:20:09.520 when there's
00:20:10.620 a mass murdering 0.89
00:20:11.600 and the Democrats
00:20:13.380 stand up
00:20:14.040 and give speeches
00:20:14.760 and they point
00:20:15.460 at Republicans
00:20:16.100 and say blood
00:20:17.280 is on your hands
00:20:18.460 it's great
00:20:19.220 political rhetoric
00:20:20.060 it's dishonest
00:20:22.100 but boy
00:20:24.580 it gins up
00:20:25.380 their donors
00:20:25.980 it gets people
00:20:27.960 to go
00:20:28.380 and write checks
00:20:29.180 to Democrats
00:20:29.740 and fund their campaigns
00:20:31.080 what we just saw
00:20:33.280 reveals
00:20:33.920 that Democrats
00:20:36.480 have one objective
00:20:37.700 when a mass murder
00:20:38.500 happens
00:20:38.920 and that is
00:20:39.640 to take away
00:20:40.780 the second amendment
00:20:41.560 rights of law
00:20:42.220 abiding citizens
00:20:42.900 that is always
00:20:44.020 always
00:20:44.500 always their solution
00:20:45.540 never mind
00:20:47.620 that it doesn't
00:20:48.020 work
00:20:48.280 never mind
00:20:48.800 that it doesn't
00:20:49.320 stop violent crime
00:20:50.300 never mind
00:20:51.220 that if you look
00:20:52.160 at the jurisdictions
00:20:53.080 across the country
00:20:54.300 with the strictest
00:20:55.340 gun control laws
00:20:56.300 almost every single
00:20:59.680 one of them
00:21:00.600 consistently has
00:21:03.780 among the highest
00:21:05.640 crime rates
00:21:06.520 and murder rates
00:21:07.800 earlier this year
00:21:10.360 the senator
00:21:10.860 from Connecticut
00:21:11.600 authored his
00:21:12.740 big gun control package
00:21:14.420 rammed it through
00:21:15.660 this body
00:21:16.300 a package
00:21:18.420 which will do
00:21:19.120 nothing
00:21:19.840 zero
00:21:20.700 to stop mass murders
00:21:22.540 we will see
00:21:23.440 another mass murder
00:21:24.380 I pray that we don't
00:21:27.700 but evil exists
00:21:30.200 in the world
00:21:30.920 and if another lunatic 0.94
00:21:32.180 attacks the school
00:21:33.220 and there's not
00:21:35.220 a police officer
00:21:36.160 at the front door
00:21:37.080 to stop him
00:21:37.960 remember right now
00:21:40.420 remember this moment
00:21:43.340 when the Democrats
00:21:44.120 said no
00:21:45.220 we will not
00:21:46.660 protect our kids
00:21:47.940 there are lots
00:21:49.520 of arguments
00:21:50.120 the senator
00:21:51.360 from Connecticut
00:21:51.940 could have made
00:21:52.500 he chose to make
00:21:54.180 none of them
00:21:54.780 senator
00:21:55.960 it's amazing
00:21:56.880 he chose to make
00:21:58.060 none of them
00:21:58.700 and what you're
00:22:00.280 talking about
00:22:01.000 there clearly
00:22:01.820 shows the agenda
00:22:02.900 of the Democratic
00:22:04.200 Party
00:22:04.620 which is not
00:22:05.140 to protect kids
00:22:05.920 even when
00:22:06.600 there are clear
00:22:07.640 vulnerabilities
00:22:08.220 that we keep
00:22:09.200 witnessing every time
00:22:10.640 there's one of these
00:22:11.180 mass shootings
00:22:11.740 and there's no one
00:22:12.880 there to be a
00:22:13.580 first responder
00:22:14.280 and we have to
00:22:15.420 wait on police
00:22:16.000 and even when
00:22:16.780 it's done perfectly
00:22:17.580 like it was done
00:22:18.420 in Nashville
00:22:19.000 it was still
00:22:20.260 what 14 minutes
00:22:21.260 in
00:22:21.540 yeah
00:22:22.440 look I will say
00:22:24.940 listening to that
00:22:25.880 again
00:22:26.300 it infuriates me
00:22:27.700 once again
00:22:28.260 because
00:22:29.940 we could do
00:22:32.220 much much more
00:22:33.440 to keep our kids
00:22:34.260 safe
00:22:34.600 and the Democrats
00:22:37.280 who claim to care
00:22:39.020 so desperately
00:22:40.060 much
00:22:40.600 they're the ones
00:22:42.620 who block it
00:22:43.420 now I will say
00:22:45.360 one of the
00:22:46.220 standard
00:22:48.220 Democrat
00:22:49.440 talking points
00:22:50.240 now
00:22:50.540 is following
00:22:52.760 Uvalde
00:22:53.440 anytime you say
00:22:55.500 if you want to
00:22:56.000 protect our kids
00:22:56.720 we need more
00:22:57.180 police officers
00:22:57.980 they point out
00:22:59.260 the police officers
00:23:00.360 didn't do what
00:23:01.840 they needed to do
00:23:02.460 in Uvalde
00:23:02.960 and I gotta say
00:23:03.960 that's right
00:23:05.720 the officers in
00:23:07.700 Uvalde
00:23:08.160 screwed up badly
00:23:09.280 they sat there
00:23:11.000 forever
00:23:12.180 while the shooting
00:23:13.260 was ongoing
00:23:14.000 the timeline
00:23:14.760 now shows
00:23:15.660 that it was
00:23:16.380 an hour
00:23:16.980 and 14 minutes
00:23:18.420 from when
00:23:19.280 the first police
00:23:20.160 officer arrived
00:23:21.140 on campus
00:23:21.820 to when
00:23:22.780 the officers
00:23:23.440 stormed into
00:23:24.100 the classroom
00:23:24.840 and killed
00:23:25.760 the shooter
00:23:26.240 during that hour
00:23:26.940 and 14 minutes
00:23:27.940 gunshots
00:23:29.260 were going off
00:23:30.140 one after the
00:23:31.340 other
00:23:31.620 after the other
00:23:32.500 during that hour
00:23:33.160 and 14 minutes
00:23:34.120 children were
00:23:35.240 calling into
00:23:35.920 9-1-1
00:23:36.720 in panicked
00:23:37.760 terror
00:23:38.620 and tragically
00:23:40.640 because the officers
00:23:41.700 didn't go in
00:23:42.780 earlier
00:23:43.800 we ended up
00:23:45.140 having 19
00:23:46.180 fourth graders
00:23:46.980 and two teachers
00:23:47.900 murdered that day
00:23:49.400 and that makes
00:23:51.080 me angry too
00:23:52.200 I was there
00:23:53.120 right after
00:23:53.760 that shooting
00:23:54.840 I met with
00:23:55.940 the leadership
00:23:57.420 of the police
00:23:59.160 officers who
00:23:59.860 lied to us
00:24:00.600 who lied to me
00:24:01.460 who lied to
00:24:02.500 John Corden
00:24:03.100 the other senator
00:24:03.780 who lied to
00:24:04.320 Greg Abbott
00:24:04.760 the governor
00:24:05.220 and almost
00:24:06.700 everything they
00:24:07.380 described about
00:24:08.020 what had happened
00:24:09.180 in Uvalde
00:24:09.800 was wrong
00:24:10.620 as we found out
00:24:12.160 the several days
00:24:12.820 that followed
00:24:13.320 but the lesson
00:24:15.740 that Democrat
00:24:16.580 and lefty
00:24:17.500 activists
00:24:18.080 have taken
00:24:19.420 from that
00:24:20.160 is because
00:24:21.820 the police
00:24:22.600 officers there
00:24:23.720 did not act
00:24:24.660 swiftly
00:24:25.160 to take out
00:24:26.260 the shooter
00:24:26.720 therefore
00:24:28.580 they've concluded
00:24:29.560 police officers
00:24:30.880 can never
00:24:31.600 stop a shooter
00:24:32.360 and that
00:24:33.260 is wrong
00:24:34.340 look I wish
00:24:35.520 those officers
00:24:36.940 had gone in
00:24:37.660 in Uvalde
00:24:38.300 within minutes
00:24:39.100 of getting there
00:24:39.840 and had taken
00:24:40.620 out that shooter
00:24:41.380 and there would
00:24:41.940 be a lot
00:24:43.040 more children
00:24:44.260 alive today
00:24:45.120 if they'd done
00:24:45.720 that
00:24:45.980 they didn't
00:24:48.080 and and that
00:24:49.540 that is a
00:24:50.660 absolute tragedy
00:24:52.340 but I gotta say
00:24:53.200 one of the things
00:24:55.520 that that Nashville
00:24:56.400 shows
00:24:56.940 is their talking
00:24:58.860 points that
00:24:59.460 cops don't stop 0.98
00:25:00.460 mass shootings
00:25:01.400 is a total lie
00:25:03.180 in in Nashville
00:25:04.260 the officers did
00:25:05.880 what should have
00:25:06.560 been done
00:25:06.920 in Uvalde
00:25:07.500 which is the
00:25:08.880 instant they
00:25:09.420 found out about
00:25:10.080 it they went
00:25:10.600 in
00:25:10.900 they had
00:25:11.440 bulletproof vests
00:25:12.260 they went in
00:25:12.820 and they shot
00:25:13.420 the shooter
00:25:13.880 and they took
00:25:14.340 him out
00:25:14.700 that's what
00:25:16.180 they should
00:25:16.660 have done
00:25:17.240 but I gotta
00:25:18.640 say it's also
00:25:19.640 what is so
00:25:20.680 frustrating
00:25:21.300 the only thing
00:25:23.960 Democrats want 0.51
00:25:25.000 to do is they
00:25:25.540 say you know
00:25:26.020 if we take
00:25:26.520 Ben Ferguson's
00:25:27.260 guns
00:25:27.540 that'll be
00:25:29.180 great
00:25:29.460 you know
00:25:29.720 Ben
00:25:29.920 you're not
00:25:31.080 gonna be a
00:25:31.560 mass murderer 0.98
00:25:32.100 I have zero
00:25:33.080 concerns about
00:25:33.860 that
00:25:34.180 the Democrats
00:25:35.940 to be honest
00:25:36.780 the Democrats
00:25:37.280 don't have
00:25:37.720 concerns either
00:25:38.420 they don't
00:25:39.060 think law
00:25:39.560 abiding citizens
00:25:40.240 are gonna
00:25:40.680 become
00:25:41.120 commit crimes
00:25:42.640 but
00:25:44.360 ideologically
00:25:45.780 they have
00:25:47.600 set their
00:25:48.140 priorities
00:25:48.740 we want
00:25:49.400 the guns
00:25:49.820 we want
00:25:50.400 the guns
00:25:51.060 from law
00:25:52.120 abiding
00:25:52.420 citizens
00:25:52.820 we want
00:25:53.200 to take
00:25:53.500 away
00:25:53.760 your right
00:25:54.460 to protect
00:25:55.120 your home
00:25:55.620 and your
00:25:55.880 family
00:25:56.340 and look
00:25:57.980 I have
00:25:59.280 led the
00:25:59.760 fight against
00:26:00.520 their
00:26:01.260 unconstitutional
00:26:02.680 gun control
00:26:03.280 proposals
00:26:03.780 from day
00:26:04.900 one in the
00:26:05.460 Senate
00:26:05.700 but what
00:26:07.400 I genuinely
00:26:08.120 don't
00:26:08.520 understand
00:26:08.920 is why
00:26:09.480 they pair
00:26:10.120 it
00:26:10.380 with an
00:26:11.540 absolute
00:26:12.160 refusal
00:26:12.940 to go
00:26:14.920 after gun
00:26:15.640 criminals
00:26:16.080 what is
00:26:16.580 weird
00:26:17.200 is if
00:26:19.040 you're a
00:26:19.320 law abiding
00:26:19.800 citizen
00:26:20.280 who poses
00:26:20.880 no threat
00:26:21.460 they want
00:26:21.860 to disarm
00:26:22.340 you
00:26:22.640 if you're
00:26:23.740 a gang
00:26:24.220 banger
00:26:24.620 who's
00:26:25.220 shooting
00:26:25.480 people 1.00
00:26:25.900 they want
00:26:26.220 to let
00:26:26.460 you
00:26:26.580 free
00:26:27.400 from
00:26:27.660 jail
00:26:28.080 they don't
00:26:29.120 want to
00:26:29.480 lock up
00:26:29.880 the criminals
00:26:30.540 who commit
00:26:30.960 crimes
00:26:31.380 with guns
00:26:31.940 they just
00:26:32.700 want the 0.55
00:26:33.120 people who
00:26:33.620 don't commit
00:26:34.320 crimes
00:26:34.860 to lose
00:26:35.680 their guns
00:26:36.220 Canadian 0.59
00:26:37.440 women are 1.00
00:26:37.940 looking for
00:26:38.440 more
00:26:38.820 more out of
00:26:39.460 themselves
00:26:39.900 their businesses
00:26:40.740 their elected
00:26:41.500 leaders
00:26:41.860 and the world
00:26:42.620 around them
00:26:43.080 and that's why
00:26:43.720 we're thrilled
00:26:44.240 to introduce
00:26:44.880 the honest
00:26:45.600 talk podcast
00:26:46.580 I'm Jennifer
00:26:47.520 Stewart
00:26:47.920 and I'm
00:26:48.500 Catherine Clark
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00:27:06.220 I was having
00:27:08.760 this debate
00:27:09.400 earlier today
00:27:09.900 you and I
00:27:10.180 were talking
00:27:10.420 about this
00:27:10.720 before where
00:27:11.300 I was debating
00:27:11.920 the issue
00:27:12.720 of guns
00:27:13.300 with
00:27:13.640 Geraldo Rivera
00:27:15.540 and Piers
00:27:16.040 Morgan
00:27:16.440 and I
00:27:17.080 went back
00:27:17.820 and I
00:27:18.020 tried to
00:27:18.440 simplify it
00:27:19.060 boy what a
00:27:19.620 crew there Ben
00:27:20.280 I know right
00:27:21.240 that's when
00:27:21.900 you're
00:27:22.080 yeah
00:27:22.560 but I look
00:27:24.220 at them
00:27:24.500 and they're
00:27:25.000 the mouthpiece
00:27:25.980 of being
00:27:26.320 anti-gun
00:27:26.920 they're the
00:27:27.180 mouthpiece
00:27:27.600 of obsession
00:27:28.100 of taking
00:27:28.460 away guns
00:27:29.000 and I
00:27:30.120 ask them
00:27:30.520 the question
00:27:30.960 because I
00:27:31.220 try to
00:27:31.600 bring it
00:27:31.920 down to
00:27:32.320 a basic
00:27:32.740 level when
00:27:33.200 I'm trying
00:27:33.520 to change
00:27:33.920 someone's
00:27:34.280 mind
00:27:34.500 I'm like
00:27:34.900 this is
00:27:35.680 what I
00:27:35.940 don't
00:27:36.120 understand
00:27:36.640 why is it
00:27:38.740 that we
00:27:39.000 protect our
00:27:39.660 money in
00:27:40.040 our banks
00:27:40.540 with more
00:27:41.100 security than
00:27:41.700 we protect
00:27:42.140 our children
00:27:42.740 in our
00:27:43.120 schools
00:27:43.480 why is it
00:27:45.180 that we
00:27:45.400 defend and
00:27:45.900 protect our
00:27:46.340 president
00:27:46.660 with guns
00:27:47.280 but we
00:27:48.060 won't protect
00:27:48.540 our kids
00:27:48.980 in our
00:27:49.260 schools
00:27:49.580 with guns
00:27:50.280 why is it
00:27:51.180 that we
00:27:51.420 defend and
00:27:52.020 protect our
00:27:52.560 celebrities
00:27:53.080 with guns
00:27:53.840 but we
00:27:54.240 don't do it
00:27:54.760 with our
00:27:55.020 children
00:27:55.400 we do it
00:27:56.740 at our
00:27:57.000 courts
00:27:57.500 we do it
00:27:58.160 with our
00:27:58.460 valuables
00:27:59.160 we do it
00:27:59.760 at places
00:28:00.380 like jewelry
00:28:01.040 stores
00:28:01.460 we do it
00:28:02.420 even at
00:28:02.880 sporting
00:28:03.460 events
00:28:04.200 we want to
00:28:04.920 protect people
00:28:05.660 at sporting
00:28:06.120 events
00:28:06.400 but we don't
00:28:06.880 want to
00:28:07.100 protect our
00:28:07.600 kids in
00:28:08.000 our schools
00:28:08.600 we do this
00:28:09.820 at any
00:28:10.280 major event
00:28:11.100 music festival
00:28:12.080 the list
00:28:12.440 goes on
00:28:12.940 and on
00:28:13.320 and the
00:28:13.980 only thing
00:28:14.440 that we
00:28:14.680 seem to
00:28:15.080 keep having
00:28:15.920 to quote
00:28:16.860 protect our
00:28:17.440 kids is
00:28:17.980 this is a
00:28:18.880 gun free
00:28:19.340 zone
00:28:19.760 and this
00:28:21.800 is a place
00:28:22.320 where you're
00:28:22.520 not allowed
00:28:22.760 to bring
00:28:23.520 a gun
00:28:23.760 well every
00:28:24.200 single time
00:28:24.720 someone tests
00:28:25.440 that right
00:28:26.120 and says
00:28:26.540 okay I'm
00:28:26.880 not going
00:28:27.120 to abide by
00:28:27.460 that rule
00:28:27.800 what happens
00:28:28.440 we usually
00:28:29.320 have massive
00:28:29.820 loss and
00:28:30.460 carnage
00:28:31.080 and I think
00:28:32.700 it's very
00:28:33.300 clear now
00:28:34.100 that we
00:28:34.420 should protect
00:28:34.980 our children
00:28:35.720 with more
00:28:37.740 ferocious
00:28:40.600 passion
00:28:42.000 and defense
00:28:43.360 than we do
00:28:44.640 money in
00:28:45.240 our banks
00:28:45.880 we shouldn't
00:28:46.800 value our
00:28:47.420 dollars more
00:28:48.120 than our
00:28:48.460 children
00:28:48.880 but we do
00:28:49.640 every bank
00:28:50.280 I've ever
00:28:50.580 been to
00:28:51.000 has an
00:28:51.380 armed guard
00:28:51.920 and they
00:28:52.580 have really
00:28:53.180 good doors
00:28:53.860 to protect
00:28:54.540 the valuables
00:28:55.680 we're going
00:28:56.440 to learn a lot
00:28:56.980 from Nashville
00:28:57.700 Senator
00:28:58.460 you and I
00:28:59.120 both know
00:28:59.500 that we're
00:28:59.880 going to
00:29:00.060 we saw
00:29:00.460 the video
00:29:00.860 of our
00:29:01.160 shooting
00:29:01.460 through those
00:29:01.920 glass doors
00:29:02.540 there are
00:29:03.320 going to
00:29:03.540 have to be
00:29:04.020 things that
00:29:04.440 change
00:29:04.780 there are
00:29:05.100 already
00:29:05.360 it was the
00:29:05.760 first question
00:29:06.300 I asked
00:29:06.620 my kids
00:29:07.060 school
00:29:07.380 hey we've
00:29:08.340 got some
00:29:08.740 of those
00:29:08.980 glass doors
00:29:09.580 now knowing
00:29:10.240 that even
00:29:10.500 when they're
00:29:10.740 locked
00:29:11.040 it's how
00:29:11.340 easy you
00:29:11.620 can get
00:29:11.840 through them
00:29:12.320 and they
00:29:12.900 already said
00:29:13.300 we're on
00:29:13.760 it
00:29:13.960 that's what
00:29:14.640 I was told
00:29:14.980 immediately
00:29:15.240 we're on
00:29:15.740 that
00:29:15.880 we're looking
00:29:16.420 at this
00:29:16.740 we're going
00:29:16.980 to learn
00:29:17.340 from this
00:29:17.860 but when I
00:29:18.740 went and
00:29:19.080 enrolled my
00:29:19.500 kid my
00:29:19.840 wife and I
00:29:20.320 had very
00:29:20.800 different
00:29:21.080 conversations
00:29:21.760 we were
00:29:22.140 looking at
00:29:22.480 schools for
00:29:22.960 my youngest
00:29:23.420 and she
00:29:24.580 was talking
00:29:25.080 about academics
00:29:25.720 she was
00:29:26.180 talking about
00:29:26.920 faith
00:29:28.800 she was talking
00:29:29.960 about you know
00:29:30.720 religious teaching
00:29:31.600 at the school
00:29:32.200 these things
00:29:32.900 matter
00:29:33.260 the number
00:29:34.040 one thing
00:29:34.480 I asked
00:29:34.880 about was I
00:29:35.520 want to know
00:29:35.840 about safety
00:29:36.440 here
00:29:36.780 I want to
00:29:38.220 know that there
00:29:38.720 are men and
00:29:39.320 women or I 0.99
00:29:40.040 don't care who
00:29:40.440 they are that
00:29:41.020 are able to
00:29:41.620 protect my
00:29:42.100 child if there
00:29:42.860 is some sort
00:29:43.720 of circumstance
00:29:44.320 that was my
00:29:45.300 number one
00:29:45.640 priority
00:29:45.900 granted I
00:29:47.040 have a
00:29:47.280 different
00:29:47.420 perspective
00:29:47.980 I used a
00:29:49.260 gun to
00:29:49.500 protect my
00:29:50.000 life to
00:29:50.560 save my
00:29:50.980 life I
00:29:51.320 didn't have
00:29:51.620 a gun
00:29:51.880 with me I
00:29:52.300 wouldn't be
00:29:52.700 here doing
00:29:53.060 the show
00:29:53.380 with you
00:29:53.640 today so
00:29:54.720 I call it
00:29:55.580 PTSD from
00:29:56.460 that moment
00:29:56.900 in my life
00:29:57.320 where I had
00:29:57.580 to pull the
00:29:58.020 trigger to
00:29:58.380 save my
00:29:58.720 life but I
00:29:59.700 realize that
00:30:00.860 if you don't
00:30:01.540 have a good
00:30:02.080 guy there with
00:30:02.540 a gun you
00:30:02.980 are waiting
00:30:03.560 on the good
00:30:04.080 guy to get
00:30:04.480 there whether
00:30:05.280 it's three
00:30:05.820 minutes five
00:30:06.520 minutes eight
00:30:07.080 minutes or
00:30:07.480 ten minutes or
00:30:08.080 fourteen
00:30:08.440 minutes even if
00:30:09.180 you get it
00:30:09.520 perfect like
00:30:10.020 they did in
00:30:10.380 Nashville this
00:30:12.340 is very
00:30:14.320 moment it
00:30:15.060 when I
00:30:15.420 needed a
00:30:15.800 gun if I
00:30:16.460 didn't have
00:30:16.920 it at that
00:30:17.400 moment to
00:30:18.480 respond at
00:30:18.960 that moment I
00:30:19.580 was a dead
00:30:20.840 person I was
00:30:22.360 a dead man
00:30:23.320 and if we
00:30:24.720 care about all
00:30:25.420 these other
00:30:25.760 things so much
00:30:26.500 senator that
00:30:27.360 does it worry
00:30:29.320 you that the
00:30:30.280 Democrats are
00:30:31.100 this obsessed
00:30:31.820 with gun
00:30:32.140 control they
00:30:32.520 can't understand
00:30:33.300 that we are
00:30:34.120 valuing all
00:30:34.900 these other
00:30:35.220 things above
00:30:35.780 the lives of
00:30:36.440 children that's
00:30:37.180 what I just
00:30:37.840 can't understand
00:30:38.980 well look it
00:30:41.100 is very much
00:30:42.200 like yesterday's
00:30:43.460 podcast we
00:30:44.240 talked about
00:30:45.080 Alejandro
00:30:46.080 Mayorkas the 0.98
00:30:46.820 secretary of
00:30:47.380 homeland security
00:30:48.160 and his
00:30:49.060 testimony before
00:30:50.600 the senate
00:30:51.000 judiciary committee
00:30:51.840 and the
00:30:52.360 cross-examination
00:30:53.480 that I gave
00:30:56.160 to him you
00:30:57.420 know in
00:30:58.520 respect to
00:30:59.520 our southern
00:30:59.920 border the
00:31:01.580 Democrats have
00:31:02.500 a political
00:31:03.040 objective maximize
00:31:04.060 the number of
00:31:04.760 illegal aliens
00:31:05.380 because they
00:31:05.880 think they will
00:31:06.380 vote Democrat
00:31:07.060 and keep them
00:31:07.560 in power and
00:31:09.140 they're willing to
00:31:10.040 ignore suffering
00:31:12.320 they're willing to
00:31:13.060 ignore children
00:31:14.100 being physically
00:31:14.820 abused sexually
00:31:15.720 abused they're
00:31:16.740 willing to ignore
00:31:17.660 dead bodies
00:31:18.580 piling up the
00:31:19.460 Biden body bags
00:31:20.500 piling up they're
00:31:21.320 willing to ignore
00:31:22.180 a hundred thousand
00:31:23.280 overdoses last year
00:31:24.520 the highest in
00:31:25.220 history because all
00:31:27.000 they care about is
00:31:27.780 their political
00:31:28.220 objective the exact
00:31:30.580 same thing is true 0.90
00:31:31.720 when it comes to
00:31:32.340 guns they have a
00:31:34.100 political objective
00:31:34.940 disarm law-abiding
00:31:36.020 citizens and it
00:31:37.020 excites all of their
00:31:38.740 activists who give
00:31:39.560 monies and fund
00:31:40.420 their campaigns
00:31:41.080 they're willing to
00:31:43.520 oppose the
00:31:45.680 common sense
00:31:46.420 steps that would
00:31:47.220 actually stop
00:31:48.560 these crimes
00:31:49.340 because the only
00:31:51.080 thing that matters
00:31:51.720 to them is their
00:31:52.280 political objective
00:31:52.980 and let me be
00:31:53.440 clear you were
00:31:54.260 talking about the
00:31:54.980 importance of of
00:31:56.360 the right to keep
00:31:57.040 and bear arms
00:31:57.580 which as you know
00:31:58.220 I believe in
00:31:58.800 passionately and
00:32:00.780 the right to protect
00:32:01.680 yourself and your
00:32:02.460 family and look in
00:32:03.420 schools there are
00:32:05.380 vigorous debates
00:32:06.700 about for example
00:32:07.720 should teachers
00:32:08.540 allow to be armed
00:32:09.420 I think the answer
00:32:10.120 should be yes
00:32:10.820 absolutely
00:32:11.520 I pointed out in
00:32:13.100 schools there are a
00:32:13.900 lot of teachers
00:32:14.600 you know sometimes
00:32:16.020 gym teachers or
00:32:16.820 others who are
00:32:17.660 former law
00:32:18.440 enforcement who are
00:32:19.200 former military who
00:32:20.260 are trained to know
00:32:21.080 how to handle a
00:32:21.720 firearm I think a
00:32:22.940 school would be
00:32:23.460 safer if teachers
00:32:24.960 were allowed to be
00:32:25.700 armed now the left
00:32:26.820 comes back with
00:32:27.680 these sort of crazy
00:32:28.440 hypotheticals of
00:32:29.940 imagining this 90
00:32:31.380 year old librarian
00:32:32.340 that you're suddenly
00:32:33.060 thrusting a 44 magnum
00:32:34.420 in her hands as
00:32:35.440 she's teetering on
00:32:36.360 her walker and
00:32:38.040 nobody is talking
00:32:39.320 about forcing
00:32:40.320 teachers to be
00:32:41.100 armed to be
00:32:41.880 clear it is about
00:32:43.680 allowing teachers
00:32:44.820 who have the
00:32:46.220 training and
00:32:46.820 experience and
00:32:47.580 know how to use
00:32:48.180 a firearm to be
00:32:48.900 in a position to
00:32:49.520 use it but here's
00:32:50.760 my point on this
00:32:51.580 you and I both
00:32:53.140 agree that makes
00:32:53.960 sense but but
00:32:54.840 let's say someone
00:32:55.700 doesn't I think
00:32:56.760 that's actually an
00:32:57.460 issue on which
00:32:58.260 reasonable minds
00:32:59.180 can disagree here's
00:33:01.280 my point what I
00:33:02.060 was proposing wasn't
00:33:03.240 allowing teachers to
00:33:04.800 be armed it was
00:33:06.880 having police
00:33:08.080 officers present
00:33:09.900 on campus and
00:33:11.300 to be clear 0.98
00:33:12.000 every damn 0.99
00:33:13.540 democrat politician 0.99
00:33:14.680 who voted against
00:33:15.500 it which would be
00:33:16.280 every single
00:33:16.900 democrat senator in
00:33:17.960 the senate all of
00:33:20.240 them are protected
00:33:21.140 by the capitol police
00:33:22.360 every single day
00:33:24.000 I don't understand
00:33:26.020 it's it's why by
00:33:27.560 the way the reason
00:33:28.200 I said in in in
00:33:29.740 that floor speech
00:33:30.660 I said you couldn't
00:33:32.120 find a constituent in
00:33:33.140 texas or
00:33:34.420 connecticut or
00:33:35.080 nevada the
00:33:36.260 presiding officer
00:33:37.240 that day was
00:33:37.900 jackie rosen from
00:33:38.780 nevada and the
00:33:41.460 democrat a democrat
00:33:43.220 and and the
00:33:43.940 democrat who
00:33:44.420 objected was
00:33:45.000 connecticut I
00:33:46.200 could go to
00:33:46.940 connecticut and I
00:33:47.820 don't think you
00:33:48.260 could find a parent
00:33:49.260 who would say gosh
00:33:51.200 I I I wouldn't
00:33:52.720 like to have a
00:33:53.320 police officer
00:33:53.980 present at my
00:33:54.680 school and yet
00:33:56.540 all of the
00:33:57.960 democrats voted
00:33:58.680 against it and
00:33:59.560 and they objected
00:34:01.300 and blocked it
00:34:02.360 and and it's
00:34:04.080 worth underscoring
00:34:05.700 what I said that
00:34:06.520 day I said
00:34:07.260 look tragically
00:34:09.420 there's going to 0.99
00:34:10.240 be another lunatic 0.99
00:34:11.120 who comes to a 1.00
00:34:12.780 school to murder 0.99
00:34:13.300 kids I wish there 0.99
00:34:14.120 wasn't but there
00:34:15.260 is evil in this
00:34:16.180 world and if
00:34:18.400 there is not a
00:34:19.480 police officer at
00:34:20.420 the front door
00:34:21.100 remember this day
00:34:23.320 well you know
00:34:23.740 what that happened
00:34:24.540 in Nashville
00:34:25.140 Tennessee at the
00:34:26.400 covenant school 1.00
00:34:27.120 another lunatic 0.99
00:34:28.140 came to a school 0.97
00:34:29.160 and there wasn't
00:34:30.120 a police officer
00:34:30.900 there and if the
00:34:32.220 democrats hadn't
00:34:33.200 shut this down
00:34:34.280 the legislation I
00:34:36.640 proposed could
00:34:37.860 have put a police
00:34:39.000 officer there and
00:34:39.920 could have saved
00:34:40.520 the lives of
00:34:41.640 everyone murdered 0.86
00:34:42.420 that day I want
00:34:43.780 to talk about
00:34:44.260 funding because one
00:34:45.240 of the things that
00:34:45.920 democrats say is
00:34:47.000 we can't afford
00:34:47.920 this and they're
00:34:49.220 going to say back
00:34:49.980 in September when
00:34:50.920 you did this in
00:34:51.760 2022 well this was
00:34:53.260 a pie-in-the-sky
00:34:53.920 idea that we
00:34:54.520 couldn't afford
00:34:55.260 let's talk about
00:34:56.580 the financial side
00:34:57.420 of this it's got to
00:34:58.020 be paid for
00:34:58.760 before we do
00:34:59.540 that I want to
00:34:59.960 tell you about
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00:36:17.200 slash verdict senator I
00:36:19.340 want to talk about the
00:36:20.180 funding side of this
00:36:20.840 because there are
00:36:21.780 going to be so many
00:36:22.360 different people that
00:36:22.960 say well we just can't
00:36:24.380 afford this all right
00:36:25.580 the the question is can
00:36:28.560 we and you had a plan
00:36:30.220 for that last year there
00:36:31.720 was money sitting there
00:36:32.700 that could have been
00:36:33.160 used for this I want to
00:36:34.700 play that from your
00:36:35.580 four speech then I'm now
00:36:38.240 going to propound a
00:36:39.120 second unanimous consent
00:36:40.220 bill there are right now
00:36:43.200 135 billion dollars in
00:36:47.040 unspent COVID relief funds
00:36:50.660 to schools under the
00:36:52.560 rules the Democrats have
00:36:53.680 put in place those funds
00:36:54.840 cannot be spent on school
00:36:57.520 school school security the
00:37:00.120 second bill that I'm going
00:37:01.040 to ask this body to pass is
00:37:03.580 a bill that is very simple
00:37:04.800 it's one page it says
00:37:07.140 schools can spend some of
00:37:10.380 that 135 billion on school
00:37:13.480 security they can decide
00:37:15.340 what to spend it on but if
00:37:18.060 they decide they want to
00:37:19.160 hire an additional police
00:37:20.160 officer they can spend the
00:37:21.080 money on that if they decide
00:37:23.580 they want to enhance the
00:37:24.600 physical security of their
00:37:25.800 campus to make their
00:37:26.620 students safer they can
00:37:27.460 spend it on that they can
00:37:30.320 invest in school security
00:37:31.940 right now the Democrats have
00:37:33.180 blocked them from doing this
00:37:34.320 these are funds Congress has
00:37:36.540 already appropriated that
00:37:38.020 haven't been spent and this
00:37:41.140 bill is unbelievably simple it
00:37:42.820 says the schools can choose
00:37:44.640 to invest in school security
00:37:47.940 therefore madam president as if
00:37:51.040 in legislative session I ask
00:37:53.460 unanimous consent that the
00:37:54.540 committee on health education
00:37:55.980 labor and pensions be
00:37:57.880 discharged from further
00:37:59.060 consideration of s 4586 and
00:38:03.140 that the senate proceed to its
00:38:04.400 immediate consideration further
00:38:06.800 that the bill be considered read a
00:38:08.640 third time and passed and that the
00:38:10.920 motion to reconsider be considered
00:38:13.460 made and laid upon the table
00:38:14.900 pretty straightforward right you
00:38:17.540 would think that they would say oh
00:38:18.900 we have funds let's do this let's
00:38:21.000 give it a shot and yet they still
00:38:22.820 said no
00:38:23.440 Chris Murphy had a very eloquent speech
00:38:26.500 in response he said quote I
00:38:30.460 object
00:38:31.660 the Democrats 0.97
00:38:33.820 they literally don't give a damn
00:38:36.820 now mind you
00:38:38.320 you know you said a moment ago said
00:38:40.460 well
00:38:40.820 some people will say how can we
00:38:43.380 afford this to be honest no
00:38:44.520 Democrat would say this they
00:38:45.520 don't care how you can afford
00:38:46.500 afford something they will spend
00:38:47.860 trillions
00:38:48.860 that we don't have
00:38:50.360 they spend like drunken sailors and
00:38:53.160 that's not fair to the sailors
00:38:54.280 because the sailors are spending
00:38:55.400 their own money
00:38:56.020 so no Democrat in fact asked the
00:38:59.260 question how do we pay for this
00:39:00.540 because that could not conceivably
00:39:03.260 matter to them
00:39:03.880 they simply objected and I want
00:39:07.080 you to to look what I said on the
00:39:09.820 Senate floor there was 135
00:39:11.260 billion dollars Congress had
00:39:12.960 already appropriated for schools
00:39:15.440 that had not been spent
00:39:17.920 and all I was saying is look if a
00:39:20.780 school wants to it's got all this
00:39:22.460 cash raining down from Washington
00:39:24.360 it ought to be able to use some of
00:39:26.400 it to make the school safer
00:39:27.780 I I genuinely look I I think I'm a
00:39:32.780 fairly bright guy I don't know how
00:39:36.320 to articulate the argument against
00:39:37.940 it like if if you test me I don't
00:39:40.500 I don't know maybe the the chat GPS
00:39:42.520 the AI program is better than I did
00:39:44.780 if you test that you could come up
00:39:46.920 with give a speech against allowing
00:39:49.560 schools to spend some of the COVID
00:39:51.240 relief money on school security maybe
00:39:53.600 it could come up with a speech I don't
00:39:55.200 know what I would say I was a college
00:39:57.840 debater I'm pretty good at debating a
00:40:00.380 lot of propositions I genuinely been
00:40:03.620 do not know what arguments you would
00:40:05.140 give and you know what neither do the
00:40:06.980 Democrats because they know the media
00:40:10.460 is utterly corrupt look this week as
00:40:12.520 I've had reporters stop me and ask
00:40:14.880 about the shooting and all they say is
00:40:16.340 well is it time to pass gun control
00:40:18.180 and I say no it's time to pass the bill
00:40:20.700 I introduced over a year ago that could
00:40:24.660 have stopped this mass murder by
00:40:26.300 putting police officers on the ground
00:40:27.920 by allowing schools to invest in school
00:40:30.380 safety that the Democrats block and I
00:40:32.800 I've asked probably a dozen reporters
00:40:34.480 this week I've said has any one of you
00:40:37.820 asked even a single Democrat why did you
00:40:41.760 vote against increasing the number of
00:40:44.640 cops in schools why did you vote against
00:40:47.460 allowing schools to invest in school
00:40:51.280 safety to the best of my knowledge no
00:40:54.200 reporter has asked any of those
00:40:55.880 Democrats certainly no reporter has
00:40:57.780 asked Joe Biden he doesn't get
00:40:59.620 questions like that now he rarely answers
00:41:02.560 questions harder than what what's your
00:41:04.140 favorite flavor of ice cream but the two
00:41:08.480 exchanges you played in this podcast I
00:41:11.720 will wager a thousand dollars that
00:41:14.820 nobody listening to this podcast has
00:41:16.800 heard those exchanges before unless you
00:41:19.800 sit there watching c-span and it's kind
00:41:23.340 of like 12 little old ladies that watch 1.00
00:41:25.800 c-span all day long and the rest of
00:41:27.540 America is busy living their lives you 0.70
00:41:31.980 haven't heard that and as I mentioned in
00:41:34.740 in the first floor speech the Senate
00:41:36.920 gallery was empty the reporters refused
00:41:39.300 to cover it and then they come back and
00:41:42.200 say well the Republicans have no answer
00:41:45.020 so one of the classic back and forths
00:41:47.080 when when this horrific crime happened I
00:41:51.400 sent out a tweet and I said Heidi and I
00:41:53.620 are praying for the families who lost
00:41:56.140 their loved ones we're playing praying
00:41:57.820 for the community at Covenant School you
00:42:00.580 know may God's peace and grace be upon
00:42:02.800 them and listen I'm a Christian as a
00:42:05.420 believer when people are hurting when
00:42:07.680 people are suffering I will lift them up
00:42:09.960 in prayer I believe in the power of
00:42:11.400 prayer I don't know that there's
00:42:13.780 anything that triggers the left more
00:42:15.460 than that and they start screaming
00:42:16.740 thoughts and prayers thoughts and
00:42:18.300 prayers and they hate thoughts and
00:42:20.160 prayers and and one of the things that
00:42:23.460 I've said this week is is so their
00:42:25.760 standard talking point is thoughts and
00:42:27.600 prayers aren't enough now here's the
00:42:29.680 amazing thing I think prayer is
00:42:31.180 incredible and powerful and important
00:42:32.940 but I actually agree with the statement
00:42:34.860 thoughts and prayers aren't enough we
00:42:37.480 ought to have thoughts and prayers we
00:42:38.840 all also ought to have armed police
00:42:41.060 officers on campus to stop the next
00:42:43.700 lunatic because I don't want another
00:42:46.420 little kid killed and yet the Democrat
00:42:50.820 and media lie is well the only solution
00:42:54.400 to this is gun control Republicans have
00:42:57.440 no answer to these crimes other than
00:43:00.080 thoughts and prayers well I have a very
00:43:01.820 detailed answer and it is the Democrats
00:43:04.500 who are blocking it from happening how
00:43:07.360 will this go down I know you're going
00:43:08.740 to look at this legislation that's why
00:43:10.440 we're doing this show a day early
00:43:11.780 instead of putting it out on Friday
00:43:13.020 we're doing on Thursday what can people
00:43:15.060 be watching for and how will this work
00:43:17.040 and and who do they need to be calling
00:43:19.000 because I think a lot of people say tell
00:43:20.540 me what to do give me guidance is it
00:43:23.280 call your senators tomorrow and say hey
00:43:25.400 support this well the plan is this
00:43:28.480 afternoon I'm going to go back to the
00:43:30.140 Senate floor and I'm going to try to
00:43:31.420 pass these again by unanimous consent so
00:43:33.420 it's going to be the same proceeding
00:43:34.680 you just played I'm going to do it
00:43:36.400 again this afternoon as I sit here right
00:43:39.240 now I don't know for a fact that the
00:43:42.240 Democrats will object but I'll be
00:43:43.820 astonished if they don't I don't know
00:43:45.860 if it'll be Chris Murphy or objects or
00:43:47.480 if they send someone else to do it but
00:43:49.560 my plan is to go to try to pass this
00:43:51.660 tomorrow and my assumption and we'll
00:43:54.960 talk about this in the next podcast on
00:43:56.900 Monday but my assumption is the
00:43:59.380 Democrats will object and I think they
00:44:01.080 will do the exact same thing they will
00:44:03.220 refuse to engage in a substantive
00:44:04.880 debate they won't defend their
00:44:06.240 positions they'll just send someone up
00:44:08.520 there to say I object and then run off
00:44:10.440 the floor by the way I talked about
00:44:11.820 while I'm giving the floor speech Chris
00:44:14.140 Murphy literally walked off the floor he
00:44:15.940 did not care what I had to say he
00:44:18.600 doesn't care about the substance of how
00:44:20.680 to stop these crimes he's got a political
00:44:23.040 agenda and so my assumption is the
00:44:25.680 Democrats will do it again later this
00:44:27.400 afternoon and and we'll know for sure so
00:44:30.120 you can watch it on C-SPAN and you
00:44:31.920 ought to you ought to highlight join the
00:44:35.360 10 people the 10 little old ladies 1.00
00:44:37.460 watching C-SPAN this afternoon and
00:44:39.140 watch the exchange see what happens
00:44:40.640 watch the exchange and also you can you
00:44:43.260 can watch how the media doesn't cover
00:44:45.320 this for a second time in another year
00:44:48.420 this is such an important moment in our
00:44:52.820 history and that's where we do have to
00:44:55.240 make sure that we stay active we focus
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00:45:59.200 always a pleasure to chat with you about
00:46:01.180 this good luck on the floor of the
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