00:14:47.740Because of the outrage of so many listeners of this show and others and that story going viral, it looks like they're not going to get away with it.
00:14:57.520And I want to take a minute to thank the listeners of Verdict, because I actually think you guys made a real difference in something that matters enormously in this country,
00:15:08.240which is, as we discussed on this podcast, the Biden administration sent out letters to the families of the victims who were murdered on September 11th and said,
00:15:20.760Hey, we're contemplating a plea deal where Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other conspirators behind the mass murder on September 11th would be spared the death penalty.
00:16:13.780And we ended up deciding, you know what?
00:16:15.720The entire podcast is going to focus on this issue on September 11th, on the horrific terrorist attack that came after America, on what it meant, and on the outrage.
00:16:27.400Listen, the Biden administration, and we talked about in that podcast.
00:16:30.940And by the way, you ought to go back and listen to that podcast.
00:16:32.740You can go back and find we did a full podcast on this September 11th effort of the Biden administration to spare the mastermind of September 11th.
00:16:42.200But I believe this is part and parcel of the Biden administration's effort to essentially abolish the federal death penalty.
00:16:49.580And before Joe Biden leaves the White House, I think he is going to pardon or commute the sentences of every single federal death penalty prisoner, including the racist lunatic who murdered nine African Americans at the Mother Emanuel Church in Charleston, South Carolina, including multiple vicious terrorists and murderers.
00:17:15.820But as a result of this podcast, we focused the entire 30 minutes of the pod on the facts behind it.
00:17:24.960And we asked you, we said, if you're outraged, pick up the phone, call your House member, call your senator, call the White House and say, do not spare the September 11th mastermind.
00:17:37.060Well, we were about the only people shining a light on this and it ended up people got worked up, which is good.
00:17:43.380They should have been worked up. We were worked up. It was wrong. It was outrageous. It was astonishing what they're doing.
00:17:48.920Well, I got to say on on Wednesday, the administration came out and announced that it was not going to accept the plea deal.
00:17:57.080And here's what prosecutors said in the filing, quote, the administration declined to declines to accept the terms of the proposed joint policy principles offered by the accused in the military commission's case, United States versus Mohammed et al.
00:18:11.560And so I think that is a real victory verdict listeners ought to ought to feel proud of.
00:18:19.040Now, to be clear, the Biden administration gave gave themselves some wiggle room so they may go back and take the deal, but they at least filed a court pleading saying they're rejecting the deal.
00:18:30.760That's a major victory was only the political pressure that came and that political pressure was generated in very significant respect by the listeners of this podcast.
00:18:41.560But my view is the bastards that attacked America, that murdered nearly 3000 Americans, they ought to be prosecuted.
00:18:49.440They ought to be sentenced to death and they ought to be executed because I think it's a matter of justice that people that committed horrific terrorist attacks on America, they should face the ultimate punishment.
00:19:01.180But the only way we'll be sure that happens is if the American people hold this administration to account and if they're too embarrassed and ashamed to let these guys off.
00:19:13.080My next question for you is this is this just a pause and delay strategy, Senator, and do we have to keep monitoring them or does this put this to bed, especially for the victims and the families that were affected by 9-11?
00:19:29.640They got these these, you know, I would say horrific letters from the Department of Defense saying that they may spare these guys lives after these men trained and did all that they did to kill their family members.
00:19:42.500Well, we don't know entirely what we know is that the prisoners not only wanted to be spared the death penalty, but they wanted the Department of Defense to accept a guarantee that they would not serve their sentences in solitary confinement.
00:19:57.900And that would allow them to eat and pray with other prisoners in Guantanamo Bay.
00:20:03.680They also wanted a civilian run program to treat brain disorders, to treat sleep disorders and to treat gastrointestinal damage that they say the CIA caused during investigations.
00:20:16.580That's the demand the Biden administration turned down.
00:20:20.360There is a tiny bit of wiggle room that they could come back and say, OK, we're not going to give you those concessions, but we are going to take the death penalty off the table.
00:20:33.320And and one of the key reasons, I think I think there are two things going on in the Biden administration.
00:20:38.560One, these left wing radicals are ideologically opposed to the death penalty.
00:20:47.260They want to essentially repeal the federal death penalty.
00:20:49.560Now, they don't want to go through the constitutional process of supporting legislation in Congress, trying to get the votes and repealing it as a matter of law.
00:20:58.280They just want to say we, the executive branch, are going to refuse to enforce the death penalty and in fact are going to commute or pardon anyone convicted of the most egregious offenses in the country.
00:21:10.400I think a second objective, and again, we talked about this at length on the prior pod on this topic, is they want to close Guantanamo.
00:21:20.380And listen, when it comes to foreign policy, the Biden administration is a press release administration.
00:21:26.680In other words, they don't follow coherent foreign policy objectives.
00:21:31.340They don't have a strategic vision for defending this nation.
00:21:35.440Instead, they want a simple press release that lets them trumpet their moral virtue.
00:21:40.900So, in Afghanistan, you know, you ask yourself, why was the surrender to the Taliban, the withdrawal from Afghanistan, so utterly incompetent in such a disaster?
00:21:52.220A big part of the reason is the Biden White House viewed it as, hey, we want to be out of there by September 11th, because then we can show how virtuous we are that we withdrew from the war by September 11th.
00:22:05.280The problem is, when the military said, okay, if we leave that early, we need sufficient troops to maintain Bagram Air Force Base and also maintain Kabul Airport.
00:22:15.580And the Biden White House said, nope, nope, we don't care.
00:22:34.320I think in the case of Gitmo, their objective is the same.
00:22:38.140They want a press release saying we are closing Gitmo.
00:22:40.840In order to do that, they've got to remove the most dangerous terrorists from Gitmo.
00:22:45.040In order to do that, they have to send them to prisons in the continental United States.
00:22:50.560And in order to do that, they either have to get a conviction or get a plea deal.
00:22:54.060And so I think part of the reason they want the plea deal is to shut Gitmo because they get a good press release from it.
00:23:00.160But I think the listeners of verdicts and millions of Americans stood up and said no and hell no.
00:23:07.600Yeah, it's especially this close to 9-11.
00:23:10.780It's so vitally important that we have this victory and especially for those family members that are victims all over again when they got this letter.
00:23:18.420And like you said, thank you to all you that listen for picking up that phone and standing up and saying no and calling your elected official.
00:23:25.620Because without you, I don't think this would have happened.
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00:39:30.600But he represents, in many ways, just how radical the Democrat Party has been.
00:39:37.640Because, to Bill Maher's credit, he's remained a consistent doctrinaire liberal.
00:39:43.440So he actually believes in principles like free speech.
00:39:46.900He believes in principles like religious liberty.
00:39:49.960He's willing to speak out against the asinine radicalization of the Democrat Party.
00:40:00.160So he's spoken out against the extreme transgender ideology.
00:40:05.920He's pointed out that saying that suddenly massive percentages of our children are transgender
00:40:13.480and should be sterilized and have medical operations to try to change their physical appearance of sexuality,
00:40:25.340that that is an extreme and dramatic shift in our society.
00:40:28.540And what he's saying here, listen, you and I disagree with his assessment of the relative merits of Trump's conduct versus Biden's conduct.
00:40:38.700But I'm going to give him credit for acknowledging Biden's conduct because MSNBC doesn't do that.
00:40:53.020And, you know, I will credit him for saying, listen, the evidence now, if you're a regular verdict listener, you know, the evidence,
00:41:03.940you know, the evidence that Joe Biden personally solicited and received millions of dollars of bribes from foreign oligarchs and enemies of America.
00:41:46.600But I respect that as an old school liberal, he's actually holding the line of an old school liberal and looking around at the Democrat Party going,
00:41:55.940you people are crazy and looking around at the media going, when you don't cover serious evidence of corruption by the president of the United States,
00:42:04.220that undermines the integrity of what you claim to be, which is journalism.
00:42:10.640And that's it's yet another indication of just how radicalized the Democrats have become.
00:42:16.940Yeah, it was a nice break there, certainly from the reality of what you see every day on MSNBC.
00:42:20.820And the shock on the face of the MSNBC host when he was saying this was maybe the best part of all,
00:42:27.160because it was like, I cannot believe he's saying this.