Verdict with Ted Cruz - Hunter Biden has Demands for Congress, Woke Ideology Impacts Disney, plus Ted Cruz makes His Silver Screen Debut the Week In Review

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00:00:04.300 Welcome. It is Verdict with Ted Cruz.

00:00:06.580 Weekend Review. Ben Ferguson with you.

00:00:08.880 And these are the stories that you may have missed that we talked about this week.

00:00:12.940 Number one, Hunter Biden agrees to appear,

00:00:15.880 but only if they in Congress agree to his demands.

00:00:20.840 So will it actually happen?

00:00:23.080 We'll explain the politics behind this.

00:00:25.660 Plus, Disney now having to face the consequences for their liberal ideology.

00:00:32.220 And it may surprise you what Disney's plan is moving forward.

00:00:36.160 And finally, Senator Ted Cruz makes his silver screen debut.

00:00:41.480 It's a funny new movie out called Lady Ballers.

00:00:44.600 And the media, they're not happy about it at all.

00:00:47.580 It's the Weekend Review, and it starts right now.

00:00:51.120 Hunter Biden agrees to appear before the House Oversight Committee,

00:00:54.980 but I have to get your initial reaction to his demands after being subpoenaed

00:01:00.260 that he will do it, but only in public.

00:01:03.740 That is what his lawyer has now said.

00:01:06.820 Yes, he's willing to testify before the House Oversight Committee only in public,

00:01:10.960 according to the letter from his attorney that he wrote to the Republican lawmakers.

00:01:14.780 I get trying to punch back and look like you're on offense,

00:01:20.060 but to be clear, it is not crazy to have a subpoena behind closed doors.

00:01:25.580 We saw this happen when they were trying to impeach, not once but twice, Donald J. Trump.

00:01:30.680 They had people come in behind closed doors, and they do these sit-downs and answer questions under oath.

00:01:38.040 They give their testimony, in essence, and then we saw the media go berserk

00:01:43.360 over who was walking in to give their testimony.

00:01:46.060 Why does Hunter Biden want it differently, and what's the political play here that we may not understand?

00:01:50.680 Well, you're right that it's quite common for people to be subpoenaed to testify behind closed doors

00:01:56.200 in a closed deposition.

00:01:57.780 That happens regularly.

00:02:00.180 Congressional committees that are investigating something, they like to do that.

00:02:03.540 You can often spend more time asking questions.

00:02:06.320 You can essentially prepare and build the foundations for an open and public hearing.

00:02:12.300 It's the due diligence you do before a hearing,

00:02:15.280 and not everyone that you bring in for a closed deposition merits a hearing.

00:02:20.580 So I understand why the committee initially subpoenaed him to come in for a deposition.

00:02:28.100 I also understand why Hunter Biden came back and said he would do it,

00:02:31.660 but only if it's a public hearing.

00:02:33.540 His lawyer is a guy named Abby Lowell.

00:02:35.620 I don't know Abby personally, but he has a reputation as one of the most experienced

00:02:40.860 and most talented lawyers in Washington for fighting congressional investigations.

00:02:46.280 And so he does, when an individual is in a whole lot of trouble with a criminal investigation

00:02:52.640 or congressional investigation, this lawyer is one of the top Washington power brokers for fighting back. 0.87

00:02:58.740 And the stated reason that Hunter Biden and his lawyer gave is they said,

00:03:04.060 well, the Republicans in the House, when they've done closed door depositions,

00:03:08.520 they, quote, selectively leak portions of the depositions in ways that make the witnesses look bad.

00:03:15.460 So we don't want that to happen.

00:03:17.100 We want the public to see exactly what Hunter says.

00:03:20.380 Now, look, that's a gamble.

00:03:22.240 You know, if you're the lawyer, there is a real advantage for Hunter in keeping it closed door

00:03:29.460 and not having a video, not having it on the news.

00:03:33.440 Will portions of it get leaked?

00:03:35.300 Of course.

00:03:35.900 That's what people in politics do on both sides all the time.

00:03:40.180 The January 6th committee did it day after day after day after day.

00:03:43.820 Both sides do that.

00:03:45.260 But I will say by demanding that it be public,

00:03:49.080 there's some degree of protection for Hunter Biden in having it be public

00:03:53.200 and that it can't be selectively leaked.

00:03:55.220 You get to hear everything he said.

00:03:56.780 But it's also a risky play.

00:03:58.600 Having it be public, even as corrupt as the corporate media is,

00:04:03.040 when Hunter Biden testifies before the House,

00:04:06.340 the corporate media cannot avoid covering it.

00:04:09.100 So it will drive a crap ton of news.

00:04:12.640 And I say crap ton as a technical legal term, but it will.

00:04:18.500 It will be. 0.67

00:04:20.240 And, you know, look, I don't know Hunter Biden.

00:04:23.260 I've never met Hunter Biden.

00:04:24.440 I don't know how he is at answering questions.

00:04:27.180 But I have no reason to expect that he's a particularly nimble or effective witness.

00:04:32.000 And so you're going to have some very vigorous questioning.

00:04:35.220 And I will say, listen, James Comer, we've had James Comer on this podcast for a two-part interview.

00:04:42.220 If you didn't listen to that, by the way, you ought to go back and listen to our two-part interview with James Comer.

00:04:47.760 You ought to go back and listen to our two-part interview with Jim Jordan.

00:04:50.900 Both of them, we did a deep dive in terms of those House investigations and what they've revealed to date.

00:04:57.180 My counsel to House Republicans when Hunter Biden testifies in an open hearing is, remember, the reason this is an issue of public concern is not about Hunter.

00:05:10.480 It is not because he's some poor sad sack with a substance abuse problem.

00:05:14.960 The reason this is a matter of public concern is Joe Biden.

00:05:18.780 The reason this is a matter of public concern is the evidence indicates that Hunter Biden's business was selling favors from daddy, from Joe Biden, to corrupt oligarchs in Ukraine and Russia and communist China.

00:05:31.780 And so the focus needs to be on Joe Biden, on the corruption of the president of the United States, on the evidence that the president of the United States sold favors, on the evidence that the president of the United States solicited and received bribes.

00:05:46.280 And so I hope that House Republicans can keep that front and center.

00:05:53.220 But there's no doubt when Hunter testifies, it is going to drive a whole lot of news.

00:05:58.700 Senator, is there any hope that we will ever get to see real justice coming out of the House that could possibly move somewhere when it comes to the Biden crime family?

00:06:10.820 Do you feel like we are getting closer by the way that Comer and Jordan are doing this methodically?

00:06:17.300 There have been a lot of, I say, Monday morning quarterbacking and armchair quarterbacking from a lot of people on social media are saying,

00:06:25.200 we've screwed this up, we've gotten nowhere, they promised to do something, they haven't done it yet.

00:06:30.960 Is that a fair assessment?

00:06:33.040 Because I think what they've been doing is really making sure they do this right so it sticks.

00:06:38.760 Yeah, listen, I think both Jim Jordan and James Comer are doing an excellent job.

00:06:43.040 I think they're approaching their job very seriously.

00:06:45.900 I think they're laying out the evidence in a systematic matter.

00:06:49.040 I think that's important.

00:06:50.000 I think laying out the evidence for the public matters enormously.

00:06:52.880 I believe the House should already have impeached Alejandro Mayorkas.

00:06:57.480 I believe the House should already have impeached Merrick Garland.

00:07:01.740 And, you know, when it comes to impeachment of Biden, I think they're getting very, very close to having the evidence to impeach Joe Biden as well.

00:07:10.940 The question on all three of those is will they have the votes in the House?

00:07:14.620 So the House Republicans have an exceptionally narrow majority.

00:07:18.720 They have a four-vote majority.

00:07:20.680 It's not clear that they have the votes to impeach any of them.

00:07:25.400 And so that's a fundamental challenge that they face.

00:07:28.940 The new Speaker, Mike Johnson, I know Mike very well.

00:07:31.740 He's a conservative.

00:07:32.700 I'm confident that Mike would be perfectly willing to impeach these officials if he had the votes.

00:07:42.440 But if there are five Republicans who say no, there's no magic wand that can change that.

00:07:51.100 And so I think given that very real dynamic, that it is a tiny majority with a number of wobbly votes,

00:08:00.760 the best course of action the House can do is keep developing the evidence and making the case stronger and stronger and stronger

00:08:09.640 and developing it in front of the American people who ultimately are going to be the arbiter.

00:08:14.020 Because, look, even if they impeached all three of them, none would be removed by the Senate.

00:08:18.760 It takes two-thirds of the Senate to remove an individual in impeachment.

00:08:23.100 And the chances that Senate Democrats would vote to do so are 0.000%.

00:08:29.080 Now, if you want to hear the rest of this conversation,

00:08:31.760 you can go back and listen to the full podcast from earlier this week.

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00:09:07.240 Now on to story number two.

00:09:09.640 Senator, you were talking, obviously, about what's happening with these two different organizations within our government.

00:09:15.540 But there's also something that happened at Disney.

00:09:18.340 Well, that's right.

00:09:20.080 And this is the third of our woke triumvirate in terms of facing the consequences for their ideology,

00:09:25.580 which is that Disney recently filed its annual SEC report, a report that every public company is required to file.

00:09:33.360 And here's what they were forced to publicly disclose.

00:09:36.240 Quote, we face risks relating to misalignment with public and consumer tastes and preferences for entertainment, travel, and consumer products.

00:09:48.160 And it goes on to note, quote, the success of our businesses depends on our ability to consistently create compelling content.

00:09:58.340 Quote, generally, our revenues and profitability are adversely impacted when our entertainment offerings and products,

00:10:07.260 as well as our methods to make our offerings and products available to consumers, do not achieve sufficient consumer acceptance.

00:10:14.260 Further, consumers' perceptions of our positions on matters of public interest, including our efforts to achieve certain of our environmental and social goals,

00:10:24.620 often differ widely and present risks to our reputation and brands.

00:10:32.240 Now, that is one of the most stunning corporate disclosures I've ever read.

00:10:38.660 Because what that means is, number one, Disney has lost billions of dollars.

00:10:43.900 The phrase, go woke, go broke, Disney has sadly embodied that phrase.

00:10:48.580 I am sure Walt Disney is spinning in his grave at horrors at what has happened to his namesake.

00:10:54.800 But the fact that they put this in their SEC disclosures means, number one, the money they're losing is so significant.

00:11:03.200 Number two, their projections for future money that they're going to lose are so significant that their lawyers said,

00:11:11.040 damn it, you have to acknowledge this in the disclosure or else you will be sued for misleading investors.

00:11:19.880 In other words, we must write these words so that when investors sue us and say, 0.98

00:11:26.720 your executives are putting your woke politics ahead of profitability, ahead of producing entertainment that consumers want,

00:11:34.840 ahead of actually producing family-friendly entertainment that kids are interested in and parents want their kids to see,

00:11:41.020 that your politics matters more to you than making the business successful,

00:11:46.620 they want to be able to point to this disclosure and say,

00:11:49.880 no, no, sorry, you invested and we told you up front.

00:11:52.820 We don't care about making a buck.

00:11:54.900 Our politics is all we care about.

00:11:57.220 And even if it flushes the corporate profits down the commode.

00:12:03.460 You know, we've had this debate at my house, three boys, and we've talked about Disney.

00:12:08.260 And I said to my wife, we had a grand debate over it.

00:12:13.400 I'm not giving my money to Disney.

00:12:15.500 I'm not going to Disney.

00:12:17.180 I'm not going to take them to Disney because I believe them when they tell me what their agenda is.

00:12:23.500 And now it's in their financial disclosures.

00:12:26.040 This is their agenda.

00:12:27.460 And I say this over and over again when having this debate over things like Disney and woke companies.

00:12:34.000 Believe them when they put it in writing.

00:12:35.900 Believe them when they publish it.

00:12:38.900 Believe them when they produce it.

00:12:40.780 Believe them when they promote it.

00:12:43.440 This is Disney saying all along, yes, this is exactly what we're trying to do with your kids' minds.

00:12:50.080 Yes, we are trying to use what used to be just innocent entertainment that you could trust your kid in front of Disney Channel or Disney movies.

00:12:59.900 You no longer should have that trust with them.

00:13:02.060 And they put it in writing.

00:13:03.640 Well, that's right.

00:13:04.780 But look, there's reason to draw optimism from this third example, which is that for many woke corporations, I think they are feeling the heat and they're trying to change direction.

00:13:18.860 You look at the CEO of Disney, Bob Iger.

00:13:21.680 They brought him back because Disney was in such a world of hurt.

00:13:25.900 They had screwed it up so badly that Bob Iger came back and he is seeking, in his own words, to, quote, quiet things down after putting politics front and center.

00:13:36.680 Now, Iger presumably signed off on this corporate disclosure, and that may be a consequence of trying to pivot Disney back.

00:13:44.020 Now, they're not doing a great job of it because the problem is that they have built a culture where their executives are invested in this woke ideology.

00:13:54.980 And this is something I discuss at great length in the book on woke.

00:13:57.900 I talk about Disney at great length.

00:13:59.520 I talk about Bud Light.

00:14:00.500 I talk about Target.

00:14:01.580 But I talk about how all three of them, Disney, Bud Light, and Target, lost billions and billions of dollars.

00:14:09.480 And number one, it's had an impact on all three.

00:14:11.960 But number two, and this is where you should be encouraged, it is, I hope and believe, a powerful deterrent for other CEOs and other corporations that are sitting there saying, I don't want to be Bud Light.

00:14:25.060 I don't want to be Target.

00:14:26.340 I don't want to be Disney.

00:14:27.660 And now Disney, according to its own corporate disclosure, Disney is saying, I don't want to be Disney.

00:14:32.740 That may be promising and optimistic for the future.

00:14:35.640 Finally, Senator, I wanted to, there was a story this week and it kind of made me laugh.

00:14:42.460 And it sums up, I think, the Bidenomics economy that we're in right now.

00:14:47.960 There is a $16 fast food meal.

00:14:52.920 Now, that may not shock some people because you think, all right, at the higher end, maybe that's something that is palatable.

00:15:00.240 But it's a $16 McDonald's meal that may explain voter anger more than any other poll at Joe Biden.

00:15:10.000 Like, if this isn't just a full circle of where we are now, that McDonald's has a meal that costs $16.10 to be precise.

00:15:20.460 It's gone viral as a man posted the receipt on social media.

00:15:25.500 And I laughed when I saw this because it's like, yeah, welcome to Bidenomics.

00:15:30.280 Well, it's interesting.

00:15:31.400 The language you used was word for word, the headline from, of all places, the Washington Post.

00:15:37.700 So the Washington Post headline was, quote, the viral $16 McDonald's meal that may explain voter anger at Biden.

00:15:46.860 So this is the Washington Post saying, you want to know why voters are pissed at Joe Biden?

00:15:52.320 Here's why.

00:15:53.460 And it goes on to describe that on December 20th, 2022, a fellow by the name of Topher Olive went to McDonald's in the town of Post Falls, Idaho.

00:16:04.660 And he ordered a limited edition, smoky, double quarter pounder BLT with fries and a Sprite.

00:16:12.640 And the cost of the meal was $16.10.

00:16:16.860 And he posted that, the receipt on TikTok.

00:16:21.240 And the receipt ended up getting millions of views, initially a couple of hundred thousand.

00:16:28.200 But then when it was reposted, it ended up getting over 2 million views.

00:16:33.460 And it goes right to the heart.

00:16:38.140 I mean, look, I've been going to McDonald's for as long as I can remember.

00:16:42.100 And you used to be able to get a burger and fries and a Coke for five, six bucks.

00:16:48.520 You know, when prices got more expensive, maybe it was seven or eight dollars.

00:16:53.960 But $16, there's a reason voters are pissed.

00:16:58.700 And this goes right to the heart of it.

00:17:00.320 Then when you have Joe Biden and Kamala Harris and Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi spending trillions and trillions of dollars that we don't have, borrowing trillions and trillions of dollars and running the printing presses days and nights.

00:17:12.500 Because we see inflation taking off and the result is it's 16 bucks to go to McDonald's.

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00:19:32.440 I want to get back to the big story number three of the week you may have missed.

00:19:37.300 Finally, let's talk about something that was really fun.

00:19:41.060 I think, and I googled this, but I got inconclusive data here, Senator.

00:19:47.920 I think that you had your silver screen debut with a new movie that has come out,

00:19:55.340 Lady Ballers. 0.80

00:19:57.040 It is a Daily Wire movie, Lady Ballers.

00:19:59.580 And it's making everybody freak out, which makes even more fun in the media.

00:20:03.380 And they're saying you're now starring in a transgender film,

00:20:07.360 which really made me laugh when I saw that headline.

00:20:10.100 So talk about this debut of yours.

00:20:13.220 Congratulations, movie star.

00:20:14.540 I guess we can put that on the resume, right?

00:20:17.220 This is pretty cool.

00:20:19.220 Well, it was very cool.

00:20:20.580 So last night I went to the world premiere of the movie, and it was in Nashville.

00:20:24.100 The name of the movie is Lady Ballers, and it was put out by the Daily Wire.

00:20:28.540 And it's a comedy.

00:20:29.500 It's a really funny comedy.

00:20:32.300 It reads.

00:20:34.040 It's an awful lot like dodgeball.

00:20:36.160 It's kind of the same sort of slapstick.

00:20:38.600 But the script is really well written.

00:20:41.420 It's got a terrific cast.

00:20:43.640 And the premise is that you have five guys who won the Tennessee State High School Basketball Championship.

00:20:54.280 And 20 years later, they're all kind of down on their luck,

00:20:57.720 and they decide they're going to compete as women's basketball players and dominate women's basketball. 0.99

00:21:04.180 And because of today's woke ideology, if they say they're women, they get praised as beautiful and brave.

00:21:15.500 And it, I got to tell you, the script is, it's just really damn funny.

00:21:20.860 So I went.

00:21:21.740 I was in a big theater in Nashville.

00:21:23.600 The theater was packed.

00:21:25.060 Everyone was cracking up laughing.

00:21:27.120 There are a whole bunch of cameos in the movie.

00:21:29.560 Now, I have a tiny cameo, so I'm in the movie.

00:21:32.780 I have two lines.

00:21:34.800 But it was fun.

00:21:36.120 I flew to Nashville while they were filming.

00:21:37.900 Hold on, hold on.

00:21:38.560 How many takes did it take you to get it right?

00:21:40.380 That's the real question if you've gone pro here in the movie world.

00:21:44.400 Well, they probably had me do about 20 takes of it.

00:21:49.080 That's awesome.

00:21:50.200 I don't know that I screwed it up 19 times, but they kept telling me, okay, do it again, do it again, do it again.

00:21:55.980 So I did a whole bunch of takes of it, and it was a ton of fun.

00:22:00.880 I flew in for one afternoon and shot the scene and left, but it was a blast, and it was really cool.

00:22:07.860 And I will say, the movie, look, this is something we've talked about.

00:22:13.400 This is something I talk about at a lot of length in my new book, Unwoke, the chapter on entertainment.

00:22:20.000 Entertainment is enormously consequential.

00:22:21.980 And I talk about in the book on Woke how the radical left has killed comedy.

00:22:30.820 Late-night TV shows are unwatchable.

00:22:33.400 And in fact, ironically, so Jimmy Kimmel I blast in the book, and I talk about how, you know, instead of, like, actually having real humor, 0.98

00:22:44.720 we now just have angry leftists standing there screaming, I hate Donald Trump, Donald Trump is the devil. 0.99

00:22:50.500 So, yeah. 0.99

00:22:52.000 Ironically, Jimmy Kimmel took that excerpt from my book, and he read it in his monologue.

00:22:56.640 And it was actually even funnier.

00:23:01.060 Kimmel then followed it up by having a drag queen read excerpts of my book to little kids, which was, as much as I said it was unfunny,

00:23:09.920 that was actually kind of funny that he did that.

00:23:11.560 I got to laugh at that.

00:23:13.620 But, look, entertainment is powerful.

00:23:19.140 Culture is powerful.

00:23:20.580 And comedy is powerful.

00:23:22.660 And what I was happy about this movie is that it's really funny.

00:23:26.300 I mean, it is.

00:23:28.440 I mean, as you know, I'm a huge movie buff.

00:23:31.200 I love movies.

00:23:32.240 I love comedies.

00:23:33.320 I love, you know, laughing and cutting up and having fun.

00:23:37.140 And this, the movie, I would recommend it to everyone.

00:23:43.280 It's, and I'm glad to see, look, the Daily Wire is investing a lot of money in trying to compete against Hollywood producing good content.

00:23:53.440 And that's one of the critical tools we have to do if we're going to take the institutions back.

00:23:58.760 Yeah, it's so important.

00:24:00.560 And you look at just, it's not just that when these come out that we support them.

00:24:04.840 And I think that's the point you're making is, look, go watch this movie and support it.

00:24:10.160 Because if we do, then we get to make more of them.

00:24:13.640 And others will be inspired.

00:24:15.820 When you see people that are trying to fight back in spaces that are really hard, like Hollywood,

00:24:21.260 and they put something out that's on Netflix, that's something that is made for our audience and conservatives,

00:24:27.300 make sure you support it.

00:24:28.780 Because if you don't, the left will continue to beat the living crap out of us in the entertainment industry.

00:24:35.020 And they do change hearts and minds.

00:24:37.360 I mean, there was a, there, I mean, you, when you ran for president, I'm sure you saw the data,

00:24:41.580 likability, and if Hollywood's behind you, and if you have famous stars behind you,

00:24:45.700 I mean, the Democratic National Convention is not about the politicians.

00:24:49.580 It's about the movie stars and the music groups that show up to entertain the people watching on TV.

00:24:56.780 And they beat us at that game.

00:24:58.700 And that's why it's so important to get behind movies like this.

00:25:02.500 Look, I think that's exactly right.

00:25:04.360 The movie also has a bunch of different cameos in it.

00:25:06.960 So Ben Shapiro is in it.

00:25:09.240 Jeremy Boring is actually one of the stars of it.

00:25:12.360 Matt Walsh is in it.

00:25:13.620 Clay Travis is in it.

00:25:15.680 Riley Gaines is in it.

00:25:17.340 Jordan Peterson is in it.

00:25:19.620 So there are lots of cameos that are really fun and well done.

00:25:28.160 And, like, Matt Walsh plays basically this, like, hippie-dippie character who's really funny.

00:25:35.240 And Shapiro has just a quick little snippet, but it's hysterical what Ben does in it.

00:25:43.280 And that, it was one of the fun things.

00:25:46.060 And, actually, for Verdict listeners, you're and my dear friend Michael Knowles, my original co-host on Verdict.

00:25:56.480 Michael actually has a pretty sizable role in the movie.

00:26:00.580 He plays a TV actor.

00:26:03.140 And he's got, you know, in the movie, he's got, like, a little mustache that he wears.

00:26:10.080 And so I saw Michael, I saw everyone at the premiere last night, and I was giving Michael enormous grief, saying, you know, you really need to keep that stache, Michael.

00:26:18.560 I mean, it really does kind of, it has sort of a B-level porn star actor look.

00:26:25.720 Like, you know, I said, Michael, you're rocking the Ron Jeremy look.

00:26:28.880 And I think it really, it's worth continuing.

00:26:32.720 Thankfully, he had the good judgment not to follow my advice on that front.

00:26:35.800 As always, thank you for listening to Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you.

00:26:41.560 Don't forget to download my podcast, and you can listen to my podcast every other day if you're not listening to Verdict, or each day when you listen to Verdict afterwards.

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00:26:52.320 And we will see you back here on Monday morning.

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Verdict with Ted Cruz - December 02, 2023

Hunter Biden has Demands for Congress, Woke Ideology Impacts Disney, plus Ted Cruz makes His Silver Screen Debut the Week In Review

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