Verdict with Ted Cruz - Libs Gone Wild

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00:00:04.780 Inflation is at 40-year highs.

00:00:07.740 Gas has doubled since Joe Biden took office. 0.92

00:00:11.580 Drag queens are dancing for little kids at gay bars in Dallas. 1.00

00:00:16.660 Crime is through the roof in cities around the country.

00:00:20.940 People are pushing back against the Democrats who are running all of these things.

00:00:26.800 But what's worthy of note here is that it's not just us pushing back.

00:00:31.260 It's not just the conservatives and the Republicans on issue after issue, city after city, all the way up to the federal level.

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00:04:33.740 Welcome back to Verdict with Ted Cruz.

00:04:35.520 There is so much to get to, Senator, that I need your thoughts on.

00:04:39.360 But before I get to any of that, did I see you on TV playing poker with some of the best poker players in the world?

00:04:47.660 You did.

00:04:48.640 And it was one of the coolest things ever.

00:04:51.840 I played in Poker After Dark.

00:04:53.920 So I will say I was like Doyle and Phil, I was giddy about.

00:04:58.800 I was like, this was a bucket list thing.

00:05:02.300 I told my daughters who are 14 and 11 and they're like, yeah, yeah, whatever.

00:05:07.080 Okay, some poker players.

00:05:08.080 What's the big deal?

00:05:09.360 I told them, Mr. Beast is going to be there.

00:05:13.040 And my girls lost their minds.

00:05:14.900 They're like, Mr. Beast, like, so both girls flew to Vegas to meet Mr. Beast.

00:05:22.260 I mean, it was, look, being in the Senate, it's hard to do anything that seems remotely cool to a 14-year-old or an 11-year-old, especially a 14-year-old.

00:05:33.300 But for them to meet Mr. Beast, they thought it was the coolest thing ever.

00:05:38.220 And so I played poker.

00:05:39.420 They put out the game we played for a couple of hours.

00:05:43.800 They chopped it into three episodes.

00:05:46.060 So part one has come out already.

00:05:47.760 But there'll be two more parts, and it was pretty awesome.

00:05:51.300 Well, I am glad that you could be a cool guy now for your daughters.

00:05:54.980 It's always something you strive for as a parent.

00:05:57.220 You want to seem like a cool guy.

00:05:58.640 I do have this question on poker, though, which is I know you love poker.

00:06:03.600 There have been a number of other politicians and statesmen who have famously loved poker.

00:06:11.480 Is there something about poker that just speaks to a political kind of spirit?

00:06:18.160 What is it about poker that draws you to it?

00:06:19.980 Because you're not the first guy I've known who is so into it.

00:06:25.200 So poker is people.

00:06:26.140 And it's interesting, you know, you look at, so you play poker.

00:06:34.680 Poker is math.

00:06:36.000 It's knowing what the odds are.

00:06:37.820 It's knowing what cards you have and what are the odds and how many outs you have.

00:06:41.220 And the math is important.

00:06:42.700 But what I like about poker is it's reading people.

00:06:46.000 And it's trying to understand the person sitting across the table from you.

00:06:50.140 What do they have?

00:06:51.520 Are they telling you the truth or lying?

00:06:53.480 Are they bluffing?

00:06:54.140 Um, and it's, so I've got a number of really close friends who, who enjoy playing poker.

00:07:00.820 And we played poker for years.

00:07:02.000 And one of my closest friends, a guy who was a groomsman at my wedding, uh, is a semi-professional

00:07:06.820 poker player.

00:07:07.380 And he's played multiple times in the World Series.

00:07:09.600 He's actually made a final table at the World Series, not in the main event, but in I think

00:07:14.520 the 2000 Texas Hold'em event.

00:07:16.920 Um, and he and I have played a gazillion times and, and we both, he's beaten me a bunch of times.

00:07:22.600 I've beaten him a bunch of times.

00:07:23.740 We've spent a lot of hours around the poker table.

00:07:27.660 What's interesting is, is that he is in terms of the math, clearly a better poker player than

00:07:35.300 I am.

00:07:35.720 I can do the math, but I don't study it to the level of know it to the precision that

00:07:40.440 he does.

00:07:41.000 I spend much more time reading the players. 0.82

00:07:44.600 And, and so we'll have hands where I'll beat him and he'll be like, what the hell were you 0.51

00:07:50.120 doing?

00:07:50.440 That made no sense.

00:07:51.600 Why would you call me there?

00:07:54.000 And my answer is because you didn't want me to.

00:07:55.720 It may not have, it may not have made sense.

00:08:01.280 If you'd had the cards, it would have been a terrible call, but I knew you didn't want

00:08:05.800 me to.

00:08:06.280 You wanted me to lay down my cards, which is why I called you, which is why I took your 1.00

00:08:10.880 damn money. 1.00

00:08:11.400 So hand me your chips. 1.00

00:08:12.280 And, and look, sometimes you get the read wrong.

00:08:16.580 Sometimes you don't, you know, you think, you know what, and, and obviously that's part

00:08:20.600 of what makes poker fun is projecting weakness, projecting, um, you know, you're trying to fool

00:08:30.060 the other players, but it's, I, I grew up, actually, I learned to play poker as a little

00:08:36.220 kid, my grandmother, uh, my mother's mother, uh, Irish Italian grandmother, great card player.

00:08:45.840 She played bridge every week for probably 70 years.

00:08:51.120 Um, but she would, would babysit me, uh, when I was a little kid, when I was eight, 10 years

00:08:56.500 old, my parents would drop me off at my grandparents to, for them to babysit me.

00:09:00.940 And my grandmother would sit down and taught me to play poker.

00:09:03.480 And she had a metal tin of buttons and we would play with buttons as chips.

00:09:10.280 And, and some of the buttons were costume jewelry that was like fake diamonds.

00:09:14.080 So I'd like take the fake diamond and say $1 million.

00:09:16.760 And I just, you know, make up whatever it was, you know, if they looked fancy and were

00:09:20.180 glittery and I always would win as a little kid, I would win and I would win and I would

00:09:27.100 win.

00:09:27.320 And I felt pretty good about myself.

00:09:29.360 And when I was, I don't know, about 10 years old, I came and said, Hey, granny, let's

00:09:33.200 play for real money.

00:09:35.460 And she said, okay, sure.

00:09:37.400 And I had $5, which $5 at the time, my allowance was 50 cents a week.

00:09:43.320 So that was 10 weeks allowance that I had.

00:09:46.740 And I sat down and played with her and she took every penny from me.

00:09:51.100 She wiped me out.

00:09:53.000 My mom came to pick me up and I was crying as a 10 year old.

00:09:56.320 I was in tears and my grandmother's just cracking up laughing, you know, an Irish Italian 1.00

00:10:02.240 grandmother said, go on home, Sonny, you know, well, welcome to the big leagues.

00:10:06.720 Two and a half months pay.

00:10:08.240 That is, that's pretty tough.

00:10:10.060 It got, it got your attention.

00:10:11.560 That, well, okay.

00:10:15.840 That actually makes sense to me because I have heard people describe this to me that poker,

00:10:21.140 it's not really about the cards.

00:10:22.220 It's not really, as you say, about the numbers.

00:10:23.900 It's, it can be about money.

00:10:25.440 It can be about how people relate to money and risk and threat.

00:10:28.580 And it's really, it's really about people.

00:10:30.160 It's about people reading other people.

00:10:32.400 So this actually leads us perfectly into what I really want to talk about today, which is

00:10:37.760 the Democrats who are in power seem to be completely misreading the situation.

00:10:45.900 You've got three, you've got a lot of blunders, but as I can see it, three really, really big

00:10:51.760 prominent blunders they're making right now on the economic front.

00:10:55.200 Not only have they made a lot of poor economic decisions that have hurt the country and certainly

00:11:00.960 their political position, but they're not backing away from them.

00:11:03.560 They're, they're doubling down when it comes to energy. 0.79

00:11:05.320 They're doubling down when it comes, when it comes to so many aspects of the economy on

00:11:09.360 the cultural, social issues, they're defending drag queens, jiggling for kids, actual little 0.92

00:11:15.360 tiny children in, in bars, 21 plus bars in Texas of all places, they're defending it.

00:11:21.500 And, and then they're, they're coming on crime.

00:11:24.720 They're, they're still so weak on crime.

00:11:28.700 The DA is the mayors that you're seeing real significant challenges from the right in San

00:11:33.820 Francisco.

00:11:34.660 You've got a recall of the district attorney in Los Angeles.

00:11:37.820 Now you've got a big fight for the mayor and a sort of kind of Republican is posing a

00:11:42.260 big challenge.

00:11:43.380 What the hell are the Democrats thinking?

00:11:46.760 You know, Michael, it reminds me of, do you remember those videos that would come out every 0.94

00:11:50.480 spring break, girls gone wild.

00:11:52.220 And it was to have lots of college women in bikinis or not bikinis. 1.00

00:11:58.780 It reminds me of much the same thing.

00:12:01.600 This is liberals gone wild.

00:12:03.180 This is the crazy left that this is AOC and Elizabeth Warren. 0.61

00:12:08.180 Thank God, not in bikinis. 0.99

00:12:11.840 But embracing their socialist.

00:12:14.340 Just nuttiness. 0.99

00:12:17.100 I mean, it's literally like someone sat down at a bar and said, how much crazy crap can 0.99

00:12:21.860 we do? 0.97

00:12:22.960 Like how far can we go to drive away?

00:12:27.340 Not just the conservatives.

00:12:28.960 That's a given.

00:12:30.140 Not even just the moderates, not even just the independents.

00:12:33.900 But what can we do to drive away good old fashioned liberals who are not nuts?

00:12:39.840 I do want to clarify, Senator, just on the girls gone wild point.

00:12:43.820 I only ever watched that for the articles.

00:12:45.960 You know, I was just really interested, obviously.

00:12:48.900 But I totally see, I think the analogy is very good.

00:12:52.140 They've gone to extremes and followed their own wildest impulses.

00:12:57.320 So what is going to happen to them in these elections that are really coming up right before

00:13:03.300 us now?

00:13:03.840 You're looking at Los Angeles.

00:13:05.020 You're looking at the recall in San Francisco.

00:13:07.120 It's not Republicans recalling these guys.

00:13:09.580 It's not Republicans who are who are going to be voting primarily in the L.A.

00:13:13.560 election.

00:13:14.040 So what are the elected Democrats going to do?

00:13:16.860 Are they going to moderate or are they going to get wiped out?

00:13:20.460 So I don't know what they're going to do this week, but I know what they're going to

00:13:24.480 do in November.

00:13:25.260 They're going to get obliterated in November.

00:13:26.940 It is going to be an historic election.

00:13:31.020 It's every issue is so extreme.

00:13:34.200 Look, there are people, Bill Maher.

00:13:35.740 Bill Maher is an old school liberal who they are driving away.

00:13:41.040 Elon Musk.

00:13:41.780 Elon Musk has been a Democrat his whole life.

00:13:43.660 They are driving him away where he said, OK, I'm voting Republican now because these guys 0.99

00:13:48.100 are nuts. 0.99

00:13:49.700 And you think about it. 0.99

00:13:50.840 All right.

00:13:50.940 Let's take the drag queen thing. 1.00

00:13:53.500 Like, listen, this is not about homosexuality.

00:13:57.300 It's not even about transgenderism.

00:13:59.620 But if you want to if consenting adults want to do what consenting adults want to do, fine, 0.65

00:14:06.880 knock yourself out.

00:14:08.780 But leave the kids alone. 0.99

00:14:10.900 I mean, this is not rocket science.

00:14:13.800 Listen, if you had.

00:14:17.140 Straight women who were strippers. 1.00

00:14:19.260 And you had five year olds tucking dollars in their G strings, you and I would be appalled. 0.96

00:14:25.400 Yeah, because kids have no business being sexualized. 0.98

00:14:30.480 And it's where. 0.74

00:14:32.040 Look, this is the radical extreme left that they want to sexualize little kids. 0.99

00:14:38.860 So so they're in this gay bar there that they've got transgender drag queens where they're 1.00

00:14:46.000 tucking dollars in their G screens and these are little kids like what it's it's the whole, 0.76

00:14:53.020 you know, the the misnamed don't say gay law in Florida. 0.99

00:14:57.360 What is it with the radical left wanting to teach kindergartners about sex, gay sex, 0.98

00:15:02.200 straight sex? 0.99

00:15:02.800 How about just no sex for five year olds? 1.00

00:15:05.460 That ought to be a really simple rule that only the crazy left doesn't get. 0.98

00:15:11.420 Well, you make a really interesting point here, too, on on strip clubs. 0.98

00:15:16.560 If if instead of the gay bar with the drag queens wearing skimpy clothing and have kids 1.00

00:15:22.560 putting dollars in their various scantily attire, you know, scanty attire, if instead 0.68

00:15:30.420 of that you had kids walking into a plain old regular strip club with real women there jiggling 1.00

00:15:37.020 around, you would have people calling child protective services in the blink of an eye.

00:15:41.240 As well, they should.

00:15:42.780 So I guess in a in a certain way, it it does have a tie in with the LGBT movement in as

00:15:50.300 much as there's a complete double standard here.

00:15:53.140 And when it's drag queens doing it, it's celebrated and the parents are taking the kids themselves. 0.98

00:15:58.880 I think how crazy this is that this is parents taking their kids to this.

00:16:03.020 Like, look, look, we've discussed how our culture has just become twisted, like protecting the

00:16:13.900 innocence of kids ought to be something everyone can agree with.

00:16:18.580 And it's it's where you're saying or, you know, I mean, let's look at the fact that the

00:16:24.740 D.A. in San Francisco is facing a recall.

00:16:27.320 Chesa Boudin or Chesa, I'm not sure how you pronounce his name, I never know how to pronounce

00:16:31.280 it, but he's the son of two radical weather underground terrorists who were convicted of

00:16:40.080 terrorist bombing.

00:16:40.980 Like, like literally the D.A. was raised by convicted terrorists.

00:16:48.120 And he's one of the many George Soros D.A.s that got elected and decided, I've got a great

00:16:53.800 idea.

00:16:55.020 Let's not prosecute criminals.

00:16:56.620 Let's let violent criminals go. 0.55

00:16:58.120 Isn't this a wonderful idea?

00:16:59.540 If we let violent criminals go, we'll be so enlightened.

00:17:02.620 And even the people of San Francisco are saying, what the hell are you doing?

00:17:08.540 Like, we're liberals.

00:17:10.440 We're all for 90 percent tax rates or whatever it is that they're for.

00:17:14.920 But could you not let murderers like wander the streets?

00:17:18.820 Well, Democrats see that there's that issue.

00:17:20.760 Right.

00:17:20.920 So it's not you know, it's not just the Republicans.

00:17:22.600 It's not just the moderates.

00:17:24.040 Democrats are waking up to this. 0.79

00:17:25.580 But but I do wonder if it's if it's not just that the liberals have gone totally crazy. 0.97

00:17:31.820 I mean, maybe they already were crazy.

00:17:33.720 But you saw many decades ago, you would see liberal leftist radical theorists writing about

00:17:41.100 all these things, how in order to have true revolutionary change in America, we need to

00:17:45.860 abolish the police.

00:17:46.780 We need to radically redesign the prison systems. 0.91

00:17:48.840 They would talk about how we need to sexualize children in order to get rid of all of their old 0.93

00:17:53.280 stodgy traditional prejudices about sex.

00:17:56.500 For goodness sakes, Bernie Sanders wrote essays about this in the 1960s, even even on the economy.

00:18:02.460 You've had not just the radical theorists, but even Barack Obama, even members of the Obama

00:18:07.380 administration saying we need to increase prices for fossil fuels.

00:18:11.660 We need to create actually some economic hardship because that's the only thing that's going to

00:18:16.380 motivate people to go in and finally revolutionize the economy.

00:18:19.720 You've seen them talking about this stuff in a way that shows their long term political

00:18:25.220 goals, which is to quote Barack Obama, to fundamentally transform America.

00:18:30.240 And I guess I wonder if what you're seeing right now is that those long term goals are

00:18:34.940 just Democrats getting out a little ahead of their skis here.

00:18:37.760 And there's so much short term pain and confusion that maybe their own constituents are going to

00:18:44.220 say no.

00:18:44.700 So, Michael, I'm sorry, I'm still traumatized because about halfway through what you said

00:18:50.060 there, you invoked Bernie Sanders and sex. 0.94

00:18:52.880 And that's just an image I don't need to see.

00:18:55.600 I've got to walk on the Senate floor and see him with his white hair sticking straight up in

00:18:59.320 the air.

00:18:59.800 And I just don't need to.

00:19:02.880 That's an image I could have avoided.

00:19:05.200 Unpleasant.

00:19:06.100 Yeah.

00:19:06.200 Look, it is.

00:19:08.880 All right, let's take gas prices.

00:19:11.420 It is truly amazing watching the corporate press try to bend over backwards to say none of

00:19:19.400 this is Biden's fault.

00:19:20.360 It's Putin's fault.

00:19:21.160 It's global markets.

00:19:22.280 It's this.

00:19:22.700 It's that.

00:19:23.060 It's the other.

00:19:24.200 Biden literally campaigned saying, I'm going to shut down oil and gas drilling in the United

00:19:28.220 States.

00:19:28.560 I'm going to shut it down on federal lands.

00:19:30.100 I'm going to shut it down offshore.

00:19:31.260 The Green New Deal I'm going to embrace. 0.76

00:19:34.600 Biden has implemented literally dozens of policies designed to attack, to hurt, to shut

00:19:43.460 down domestic energy production in the United States.

00:19:46.640 He's done it over and over and over and over again.

00:19:49.580 So he promised he would do it.

00:19:52.260 He's followed through on that promise.

00:19:54.280 And the predicted effect of that is prices have doubled.

00:19:58.740 And by the way, the socialists want prices to double because what they're saying is you,

00:20:05.500 Joe Sixpack, make the decision we don't like.

00:20:09.260 You drive a pickup truck.

00:20:10.980 Mom, maybe you drive a Suburban.

00:20:12.700 Maybe you drive a minivan.

00:20:13.880 And here's what we're going to do.

00:20:15.320 We're going to make your life so miserable that you have to spend 100 bucks or 150 bucks

00:20:20.040 to fill up your car or truck that you're going to get rid of it and buy a Prius, which

00:20:24.880 is what we want you to do.

00:20:26.300 And so we're going to keep hurting you until you make the enlightened decision that we,

00:20:33.560 your betters do.

00:20:34.360 By the way, this past week, I don't know if you saw the EU is putting taxes on fuel, on

00:20:42.200 jet fuel, but they exempted private jets because of course they did.

00:20:48.320 This is called the John Kerry exception.

00:20:51.040 These guys are Mr. Burns.

00:20:53.280 They are wealthy, out of touch, living in opulent riches.

00:20:59.440 But then when they do what they promised they would do, implement policies to hurt domestic

00:21:09.060 energy production, to drive gas prices up, suddenly they discover, wait, people don't

00:21:14.660 like spending 150 bucks to fill up their truck.

00:21:17.420 Right.

00:21:18.060 And then they just try to blatantly lie to you.

00:21:21.720 I'm really hoping that, you know, now that the people are kind of people of all parties

00:21:28.120 actually are pulling the radicals back from the brink.

00:21:30.480 But I wonder if the the radicals and the people who have been in charge have secured those kind

00:21:37.320 of longer term victories.

00:21:38.380 I look this past week at Joe Biden invoking the Defense Production Act because there is

00:21:44.060 this energy crisis.

00:21:45.460 Energy costs have gone through the roof.

00:21:47.700 Gas has doubled since the man's been president.

00:21:50.320 And so what does he do?

00:21:51.480 Does he invoke that provision of the law or some other provision to open up oil drilling?

00:21:57.280 No.

00:21:57.720 To, I don't know, create a new nuclear power system?

00:22:00.580 No.

00:22:01.220 What is he doing?

00:22:01.980 It's it's to produce solar panels.

00:22:04.120 It's to give the left what they've wanted for a long time that that I don't see any way

00:22:08.920 will actually bring down energy costs, certainly not anytime soon.

00:22:12.520 One, how does he do that?

00:22:13.920 The White House hasn't explained what emergency he's responding to that requires solar panels.

00:22:19.140 But but two, are they getting what they want?

00:22:21.820 Are they are they as we've heard from from which I forget the name of the Emanuel brother.

00:22:28.860 There's Ari and there's Zeke and there's the one that I'm talking about.

00:22:35.060 Gosh, I can't believe his name escapes me.

00:22:36.680 But, you know, one of the one of the worst Democrats, you know, in modern politics, you

00:22:41.060 know, never to let a crisis go to Rome or Rome.

00:22:45.900 There we go.

00:22:46.300 I can't believe I forgot the most famous of the Emanuel brothers names.

00:22:49.580 I remember the Hollywood one and the doctor one, but not Rome saying never let a crisis

00:22:53.920 go to waste.

00:22:54.920 Are they even even as they're losing support, even among their own guys right now, are they

00:22:59.420 are they scoring those long term political wins?

00:23:03.080 So I actually think there are some voices among Democrats and it wouldn't surprise me if

00:23:08.200 Emanuel is one of them that is wondering, what in the hell are you people doing?

00:23:12.640 There are people like James Carville who listen, James Carville is smart as all get out.

00:23:17.820 He's one of the most effective Democrats.

00:23:20.280 I, you know, Mary Madeline is his wife.

00:23:22.840 Mary is a friend.

00:23:23.660 She's been a supporter of mine.

00:23:24.720 And so I've been to Mary and James's home and he's he is an effective adversary.

00:23:29.580 He's a Democrat, but he actually gets he's not nuts.

00:23:33.720 And he's looking at his own party and is like, OK, you people are are you trying to lose every

00:23:39.760 congressional race in America?

00:23:41.760 I mean, that's not a quote, but but there are definitely listen, Bill Maher is an interesting

00:23:46.780 example.

00:23:47.300 And we've talked about I at some point, I hope we have Bill on this show.

00:23:51.580 I'd never met Bill Maher.

00:23:53.360 But more and more, I'm watching his his.

00:23:56.100 diatribes and I'm retweeting them.

00:24:00.960 I'm not because he and I agree.

00:24:02.960 He is an old school liberal, but he does believe in free speech, which the left is abandoned.

00:24:08.680 You know, he recently had a monologue where he was talking about like sexuality and the

00:24:12.800 explosion of people that are identifying as other genders and identifying as gay.

00:24:18.820 And he went, you know, through like like in history, this was not the case.

00:24:21.880 And we've suddenly had this dramatic shift, which we're not even supposed to talk about

00:24:28.040 it.

00:24:28.180 He raised an interesting point.

00:24:29.460 He said, well.

00:24:33.280 They're big regional differences in, say, California, the number of people who identify

00:24:40.180 as 47 genders versus in Youngstown, Ohio.

00:24:44.620 Yeah.

00:24:45.060 And he said, either there's a lot of peer pressure and social pressure in California,

00:24:49.320 or there's a lot of suppression in Ohio.

00:24:51.940 But we had to talk about that.

00:24:53.660 There's apparently a fundamental transformational shift of humanity that we're not talking about.

00:24:58.460 And I got to say that, frankly, sounded like something Michael Knowles would say.

00:25:03.720 Yeah.

00:25:04.180 Right.

00:25:04.480 You got to wonder.

00:25:07.040 Is there anyone left in the Democratic Party?

00:25:11.600 Who can actually talk to a steelworker?

00:25:14.860 Yeah.

00:25:15.920 Like they have become this angry, fringe, wealthy, urban, radical elite that is appealing

00:25:26.040 to a smaller and smaller.

00:25:27.640 It's like the Yale faculty.

00:25:29.480 Yeah.

00:25:30.360 Is their constituency.

00:25:32.760 And I got to say, thankfully, the country is not the Yale faculty.

00:25:36.680 And it seems that today's Democrats don't get that.

00:25:41.060 You know, this is actually making me feel a bit better because we tend to spend a lot

00:25:46.660 of time online.

00:25:48.100 And it is true that the boundaries of what is acceptable in society have been basically

00:25:55.520 blown to smithereens.

00:25:56.760 I mean, even five years ago, the thought of a little kid going into a drag bar and putting

00:26:02.480 a dollar.

00:26:02.860 I mean, that would be unthinkable.

00:26:04.360 So because we've seen the limits get blown to smithereens, it's very easy to fall down

00:26:08.440 this pit of despair and say, oh, gosh, the country is gone.

00:26:12.000 And we might as well give up the fight.

00:26:14.400 But to your point, Senator, they may not be doing this kind of stuff out of confidence,

00:26:20.300 out of a feeling that they've got the wind at their sails.

00:26:23.440 Actually, you might be seeing the kind of defiance you're getting from the administration on the

00:26:27.180 economy, the radicalism on sex and the drag shows, even the defiance on crime and criminal

00:26:33.240 justice.

00:26:33.640 You might be seeing that more out of desperation from Democrats now who know that perhaps their

00:26:38.860 time in office is going to be dwindling because there's a very large movement, not just of

00:26:43.680 Republicans, but of moderates and some Democrats, too, who are who are ready to throw them out

00:26:49.020 and ready to shift that pendulum back.

00:26:51.160 But I guess we won't.

00:26:52.080 There's a little optimism to leave on.

00:26:53.720 There's a little hope to leave on.

00:26:54.980 But I suppose we won't know until those elections take place.

00:26:58.080 By the time this pod comes out, the world will know whether Chesa Boudin's been recalled

00:27:02.300 or not.

00:27:02.780 I don't know whether he will be or not.

00:27:05.040 It's it's but in some ways, whether he is or not, the point is the same, because the

00:27:12.560 fact that it is real and close and significant is powerful, even if he ekes out surviving or

00:27:18.960 I hope is recalled, you know, Los Angeles, there is a vigorous primary for mayor.

00:27:26.080 Few months ago, it was assumed that Karen Bass, the extremely liberal Democrat

00:27:32.380 congresswoman was a shoe in. 1.00

00:27:35.540 And, you know, now there is at least a vigorously contested primary with with a billionaire

00:27:42.160 developer who has been a Republican much of his life.

00:27:45.220 He's running in a in a Democrat primary just to tip the hat to it.

00:27:50.360 Yeah.

00:27:51.260 But I got to say, if you're in L.A., look, you fled L.A.

00:27:54.940 I mean, the crime issue.

00:27:56.400 I remember a couple of years ago I was visiting with a cop in California, used to be an L.A.

00:28:02.360 cop.

00:28:02.700 And he showed me on his phone a picture of a tree in downtown L.A.

00:28:08.260 that was just covered with hypodermic needles, thousands of needles where the junkies just

00:28:13.400 threw the needles in the trees.

00:28:15.460 And at some point, people say, wait, this is nuts.

00:28:19.440 You look at the beaches where you've got homeless people just allowed to take them over, engage

00:28:24.880 in violence.

00:28:25.620 Listen, you you fled L.A.

00:28:27.160 So, yeah, why did why am I telling you about the place you fled?

00:28:31.660 Why did you flee?

00:28:33.320 Well, for all of those reasons, obviously, plus there were the economic reasons, you know,

00:28:37.900 the onerous regulation, all of the constant, you know, tax hikes.

00:28:42.760 And I think the California Franchise Tax Board is basically worse than the mafia at this point.

00:28:49.000 But then there is this basic safety issue.

00:28:50.700 And I will tell you, friends of mine who have fled L.A., they not all of my friends in L.A.

00:28:55.080 were conservative.

00:28:55.720 I mean, if if that were the case, I'd have very few friends in L.A.

00:28:58.540 because there just aren't that many conservatives.

00:29:00.460 And there were a lot of liberal friends who were making the same comments about crime there.

00:29:04.520 And so people really are getting sick of that stuff.

00:29:07.440 You can see blue places turn on these kinds of issues.

00:29:10.400 You saw it happen in New York in the 90s.

00:29:12.940 You might be seeing that in Los Angeles right now.

00:29:15.320 The very fact that these keep cropping up, these these hotly contested elections with lots

00:29:20.840 of momentum behind the center or center right candidate that that that shows you that something

00:29:25.760 is in the air right now.

00:29:27.300 And so I'm not surprised that the Democrats are throwing everything they've got.

00:29:31.940 They're throwing the kitchen sink right now.

00:29:33.760 And I know one way they're trying to distract is they're trying to distract with the January

00:29:39.260 6th partisan committee in the House.

00:29:42.220 And I also know that our friend Liz Wheeler will be discussing this with you and specifically

00:29:47.380 the arrest of former Trump aide Peter Navarro on the cloakroom.

00:29:51.480 Isn't that right, Liz?

00:29:52.440 Hi, Michael.

00:29:53.080 Hi, Senator.

00:29:53.500 First of all, before we even get into that topic, I want to thank you both for that disturbing

00:29:58.120 image of Bernie Sanders that's now burned into my mind for all eternity.

00:30:03.080 I listen to this.

00:30:04.380 I listen to this whole episode sitting right with you.

00:30:06.420 And this is what I get in return is this image of Bernie Sanders.

00:30:09.300 Just for the record, Liz, that was Michael.

00:30:11.440 That was not me.

00:30:12.500 I was a victim in that imagery as well.

00:30:15.540 You're welcome.

00:30:16.420 All right.

00:30:16.880 So we are going to talk about Peter Navarro on cloakroom.

00:30:20.020 This is a very interesting conversation because it's not just about the January 6th committee.

00:30:24.320 That's obviously partisan.

00:30:25.580 It's obviously a showboat trial, if you will.

00:30:28.460 I mean, they hired an ABC News executive to produce it, to make it a primetime, a primetime

00:30:34.080 event here.

00:30:34.540 But the arrest of Peter Navarro itself is a constitutional question because what he claimed

00:30:39.740 was executive privilege that he couldn't testify because this was not his information to give,

00:30:45.240 that it was actually President Trump's information to either divulge or claim executive privilege.

00:30:50.360 And there's a very interesting constitutional question about whether it's even legal for Congress

00:30:55.220 to have indicted him without the court intervening.

00:30:58.540 And we are going to dive into the details of that today.

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