Verdict with Ted Cruz - LIVE from Miami at YAF’s Freedom Conference

00:00:00.000 This is an iHeart Podcast.

00:00:02.660 Guaranteed human.

00:00:10.420 So I'm very confused.

00:00:11.980 Is this not a Joe Biden press conference?

00:00:14.020 This is not a Joe Biden press conference.

00:00:16.760 You know, something occurs to me sitting here

00:00:18.940 seeing all these people.

00:00:20.500 Well, it's not six reporters in little circles

00:00:22.500 spread out and alone.

00:00:23.340 No, no, it's the opposite of that, actually.

00:00:25.480 It's hundreds of people here.

00:00:26.820 We have been told for a year

00:00:29.980 you can't go outside,

00:00:32.800 you can't talk to anybody,

00:00:34.300 you can't see anybody,

00:00:35.360 you can't have any holidays,

00:00:36.700 you can't go on social media

00:00:38.580 because if you go on social media,

00:00:40.320 you're obviously going to be kicked off.

00:00:41.900 You can't start your own social media platforms

00:00:44.900 because that's a very, very bad thing.

00:00:46.680 You're going to be kicked off the Internet.

00:00:48.480 But you know what?

00:00:49.120 Tonight, live in Miami,

00:00:51.420 we are here with everyone.

00:00:52.900 We're going to be taking your questions.

00:00:54.640 This is Verdict with Ted Cruz.

00:00:56.820 Thank you very much.

00:01:05.360 Thank you to all the wonderful people in this room.

00:01:09.080 Also, thank you to everyone

00:01:10.600 who's watching live right now on YouTube.

00:01:13.140 We were going to be taking questions,

00:01:14.640 obviously, from the people here

00:01:16.120 at the Young America's Foundation Freedom Conference.

00:01:18.800 We're also going to be taking questions from YouTube.

00:01:20.820 If you want to ask a question,

00:01:22.480 you've got to go to YouTube.com

00:01:24.360 You have to subscribe,

00:01:27.700 submit your questions,

00:01:29.100 make sure they're really, really good questions,

00:01:31.180 and then we will be answering them

00:01:32.880 a little bit later.

00:01:33.840 I want to thank, as always,

00:01:35.120 the Logan family

00:01:36.060 for sponsoring this event

00:01:38.320 and many other events for YAF.

00:01:40.000 And I want to thank all of you

00:01:41.300 for being here.

00:01:41.980 Senator, you must be so happy

00:01:43.320 to be in Miami right now.

00:01:45.600 You have just left a place

00:01:47.380 that there's chaos in the House.

00:01:51.180 There's chaos at the Capitol more broadly.

00:01:54.040 The whole city looks like Baghdad at this point. 0.68

00:01:57.940 Somehow, Washington, D.C.

00:01:59.880 seems even crazier and less pleasant

00:02:02.400 than it usually does.

00:02:04.040 And now we get to be in Miami.

00:02:05.200 The lunatics are running the asylum.

00:02:10.740 It is absolutely crazy.

00:02:14.300 I mean, we have fences everywhere.

00:02:16.360 We have soldiers wherever you look.

00:02:18.480 The entire place is locked down.

00:02:21.300 And AOC is spending every day saying,

00:02:23.680 I'm being martyred!

00:02:27.740 I don't know if we're going to break news.

00:02:30.260 Did you do it?

00:02:31.380 Or are you an attempted murderer?

00:02:32.460 I am innocent of that particular charge.

00:02:37.360 Good.

00:02:37.740 There have been rumors for years

00:02:39.220 and years about you.

00:02:40.120 Although I will decline to give answers

00:02:42.240 about Northern California

00:02:43.440 than I appreciate.

00:02:44.740 That's for your own protection.

00:02:46.340 That's for your own protection.

00:02:49.060 There is, you know,

00:02:50.860 I do feel in a way like this is deja vu

00:02:54.080 all over again.

00:02:55.100 One year ago...

00:02:56.060 I feel like I've heard you say that before.

00:02:59.520 One year ago, we started this podcast

00:03:01.280 because we were at the last impeachment trial.

00:03:04.520 Now, it just seems to happen every single year.

00:03:07.060 We've got another impeachment trial.

00:03:08.700 We've got all of these Joe Biden nominees coming up.

00:03:11.400 You've got absolute madness

00:03:12.960 going on in the House of Representatives.

00:03:15.000 What is the insider view right now from Washington?

00:03:17.160 Look, it's crazy on every front.

00:03:22.520 The House of Representatives,

00:03:23.760 what did they do in the House of Representatives this week?

00:03:26.000 You've got Nancy Pelosi driving it,

00:03:28.960 but it really is AOC and it's the squad.

00:03:31.480 It's their craziness that is driving the agenda.

00:03:34.480 So we spent much of this week

00:03:37.360 with the House of Representatives

00:03:38.580 talking about some tweets

00:03:40.340 that Marjorie Taylor Greene had sent in years past.

00:03:43.580 Right.

00:03:44.260 Because that is the pressing objective.

00:03:46.380 Next week in the Senate,

00:03:47.980 we're going to spend the entire week

00:03:49.520 impeaching a president

00:03:50.640 who's already left the White House

00:03:52.180 and is a private citizen.

00:03:53.300 Right.

00:03:53.880 It's bonkers.

00:03:55.580 Right, because I'm actually glad

00:03:57.300 you brought up the Marjorie Taylor Greene of it all

00:03:59.580 because if I didn't see clips on CNN,

00:04:03.440 I would have no idea who this person is.

00:04:05.780 But it would seem that the Democrats

00:04:07.360 are trying to contrive some kind of controversy

00:04:10.560 out of old social media posts.

00:04:12.820 They're now voting to strip her 1.00

00:04:14.960 of her committee assignments.

00:04:16.600 And I just sort of think,

00:04:17.800 even beyond any question about her,

00:04:20.400 why am I supposed to care?

00:04:21.800 This is the people's business?

00:04:23.060 Aren't they supposed to be passing laws

00:04:25.340 and actually working for the good of the American people?

00:04:27.700 Well, look, I have not met her yet.

00:04:29.460 I imagine I will at some point.

00:04:31.000 She's a newly elected member of Congress.

00:04:32.520 She's been in office all of a month.

00:04:36.120 Right.

00:04:36.140 But as I understand it,

00:04:39.420 she said some pretty crazy things.

00:04:41.120 And look, some of the things she said,

00:04:42.980 I certainly don't agree with.

00:04:44.040 I don't think you should run around

00:04:45.160 saying someone should shoot Nancy Pelosi in the head.

00:04:47.900 I think threatening violence is not a good thing.

00:04:50.140 But this entire circus was put forward

00:04:52.520 because the Democrats in the media,

00:04:54.600 they like to find somebody

00:04:56.460 on the Republican side of things

00:04:58.000 who said something really outlandish

00:05:00.320 and then put together this entire kangaroo court.

00:05:04.500 And I will say what they did this week,

00:05:05.940 so yesterday the House voted

00:05:07.480 and they stripped her of her committee assignments.

00:05:09.740 That's actually a really chilling precedent.

00:05:13.480 It is, to the best of my knowledge,

00:05:15.100 the first time in history

00:05:16.300 that any political party has stripped

00:05:18.860 a member of the opposing party

00:05:20.900 of their committee assignments,

00:05:22.780 and this will not be the last.

00:05:24.580 You want to talk about

00:05:25.480 a dangerous threshold to cross.

00:05:28.680 I'm reminded of being on the Senate floor in 2013

00:05:32.280 when Harry Reid and the Democrats

00:05:34.340 used the nuclear option

00:05:36.240 to lower the threshold for confirming judges.

00:05:39.580 And more than a few of us told the Democrats,

00:05:42.020 you're going to regret this.

00:05:43.440 Yeah.

00:05:43.740 And you're going to regret this sooner.

00:05:46.500 I remember telling Amy Klobuchar

00:05:48.080 on the Senate floor that night,

00:05:49.540 I said, because you've done this,

00:05:51.320 we will end up with more Antonin Scalia's

00:05:53.960 and Clarence Thomas's on the Supreme Court

00:05:55.900 because of this step you've taken right now.

00:05:58.080 And we saw that play forward.

00:06:00.320 Listen, once this threshold has been crossed,

00:06:03.140 it's not hard to imagine maybe in two years

00:06:06.300 suddenly Democrats say some freshman Democrats

00:06:11.040 who say some crazy outlandish things.

00:06:13.560 I know it'd be really hard to find any.

00:06:14.980 I can't imagine.

00:06:16.380 No.

00:06:18.420 It's a level of escalation.

00:06:20.260 And let me make another point.

00:06:21.340 Now, have you noticed that Democrats

00:06:24.940 in the media right now,

00:06:26.380 they're in high dungeon

00:06:28.280 about how much they love democracy?

00:06:31.120 Yes.

00:06:32.040 They love democracy.

00:06:33.740 Mind you, if there's one thing objectively

00:06:36.700 that Democrats do not love, it is democracy.

00:06:39.640 They despise democracy on every front.

00:06:42.340 How do we know this?

00:06:43.440 Because they don't actually want to let the people decide.

00:06:46.820 So why do Democrats want judicial activists on the courts? 0.96

00:06:51.040 Because on contested public policy issues,

00:06:54.320 they don't actually want the voters to decide.

00:06:56.500 Right.

00:06:57.100 You know, on a question of abortion,

00:06:58.440 they don't want voters in the state

00:07:00.760 to debate about what should the laws be on abortion.

00:07:03.280 And they don't want to see all 50 states

00:07:05.540 having different standards.

00:07:06.540 They don't want to see drug laws decided by the states. 0.95

00:07:08.960 They don't want to see marriage laws decided by the states. 1.00

00:07:11.340 They want to decree one rule for everyone.

00:07:14.880 And you look at this Marjorie Taylor Greene thing.

00:07:17.060 And one of the things that's striking

00:07:19.420 is what they stripped her of her committee assignments for,

00:07:22.120 as I understand it,

00:07:22.940 are all things she said before she was elected.

00:07:26.400 Right.

00:07:27.140 So the voters had those in front of them.

00:07:28.940 They decided to elect her.

00:07:30.340 Look, if someone thinks she's nutty, 1.00

00:07:32.700 there is a remedy in our system for that,

00:07:34.840 which is the voters can decide,

00:07:36.580 okay, we want someone else.

00:07:37.760 And it is amazing that as the Democrats

00:07:41.360 are acting to stifle democracy,

00:07:44.920 they are at the same time piously intoning,

00:07:47.720 I sure do love democracy.

00:07:48.900 You know, this is such an important point.

00:07:50.660 And I actually haven't heard other people mention this

00:07:52.960 about the whole circus that's going on

00:07:55.360 in the House of Representatives right now.

00:07:57.200 There is this irony that they're talking about

00:07:59.140 how much they love democracy,

00:08:00.560 but then, of course,

00:08:01.080 they want to stifle the will of voters.

00:08:02.860 But then there's this other aspect,

00:08:04.420 which is, you know,

00:08:06.140 the Democrats never go after their own members,

00:08:08.960 as you alluded to.

00:08:10.360 They might have one or two sort of kooky members,

00:08:13.360 maybe more than one or two,

00:08:14.600 and maybe a little bit more than kooky,

00:08:16.360 but they don't go after them.

00:08:17.820 And this is something that I think

00:08:19.220 a lot of us are seeing this week.

00:08:20.680 Democrats have unified government.

00:08:22.700 They already have the bureaucracy.

00:08:23.980 They already have big tech.

00:08:24.940 They already have the universities,

00:08:26.120 on and on and on.

00:08:27.460 Democrats in this country

00:08:28.640 seem much more talented

00:08:31.100 at wielding political power,

00:08:33.480 at actually getting things done

00:08:35.880 than Republicans

00:08:37.020 who are sort of busy infighting

00:08:39.880 or losing the opportunities

00:08:43.160 that have been given to them.

00:08:44.440 Well, there's a reason for that,

00:08:46.220 which is today's Democratic Party

00:08:48.200 is a command and control party.

00:08:50.440 It is a party of authoritarians.

00:08:52.380 It is a party of statists.

00:08:54.500 Now, that means they follow orders.

00:08:56.200 They are collectivists.

00:08:57.840 They are willing to subject themselves to authority.

00:09:01.360 Listen, on the right,

00:09:02.200 what unites people on the right,

00:09:03.800 in a room like this,

00:09:04.700 you'll have some people

00:09:05.600 who are conservatives,

00:09:06.880 some people who are libertarians,

00:09:08.840 some people who are just lonely

00:09:10.220 and looking to make friends.

00:09:11.480 I mean, you'll have a wide array.

00:09:14.880 And by the way,

00:09:15.540 those are not mutually exclusive.

00:09:16.880 You can have some of all of those.

00:09:17.940 But if there's one thing

00:09:21.020 that unifies the center right,

00:09:24.260 it is a respect for the individual.

00:09:26.760 It is an understanding

00:09:28.640 that you can decide what you believe.

00:09:30.740 You can decide how you worship.

00:09:33.040 You can decide what you do with your life.

00:09:35.080 You can decide what you say.

00:09:37.080 All of that individual freedom,

00:09:39.040 it's great,

00:09:40.700 but then our problem is

00:09:41.840 we can never get everyone on the same page

00:09:44.140 because we're, you know,

00:09:44.920 herding cats

00:09:45.740 is unfair to the cats.

00:09:48.320 Now, do you think

00:09:49.400 that the Democrats

00:09:50.100 have given conservatives an opening?

00:09:52.160 Because this has always been

00:09:53.140 a problem on the right.

00:09:54.240 It's one of our strengths,

00:09:55.120 but it's one of our problems

00:09:56.000 is, you know,

00:09:56.940 you put a hundred conservatives

00:09:58.160 into a room together,

00:09:59.540 they will find the one issue

00:10:01.200 that each of them disagrees

00:10:02.340 at the other end.

00:10:03.500 And so it's very hard.

00:10:04.520 No, they won't.

00:10:05.740 How dare you say they won't?

00:10:07.760 But do you think

00:10:08.760 the Democrats have given us

00:10:09.920 sort of an opening here?

00:10:10.800 Because until the past couple of years,

00:10:14.860 something like the American flag,

00:10:16.840 that was a symbol

00:10:18.360 we could all agree on, right?

00:10:19.740 You know, no person

00:10:21.140 in their right mind,

00:10:21.800 even if they're on the left,

00:10:22.780 is going to campaign

00:10:23.440 against the American flag

00:10:24.560 until they start to do that,

00:10:27.040 until they start to kneel

00:10:28.160 in front of the flag

00:10:29.000 or disrespect the flag

00:10:30.180 or not stand for it.

00:10:32.320 Do you think now

00:10:33.620 conservatives have this opportunity

00:10:36.020 to say,

00:10:36.460 well, one thing that unites us

00:10:37.720 is we want to conserve the place.

00:10:40.160 You know, we like this place.

00:10:41.440 We like our rituals.

00:10:42.660 We like our local communities.

00:10:44.520 Has the left gone radical enough

00:10:46.240 to give us that opening?

00:10:47.780 It's probably what

00:10:48.660 I'm most optimistic about

00:10:49.900 is the crazies are setting the agenda

00:10:52.980 and their ideas don't work.

00:10:56.420 The next two years,

00:10:57.600 listen, they're going to be

00:10:58.040 a tough two years for our country

00:10:59.300 because we're going to see

00:11:01.500 right now there's an anger,

00:11:03.880 there's a zealotry on the left.

00:11:05.580 I mean, there is a spirit

00:11:07.260 where they're trying

00:11:08.900 to destroy their enemies.

00:11:10.820 Yeah.

00:11:11.060 I mean, it's like Robespierre

00:11:12.240 setting up guillotines

00:11:13.300 in the street.

00:11:14.120 I mean, their objective,

00:11:15.680 you look at impeachment next week.

00:11:18.400 Impeachment next week

00:11:19.460 is because they hate Donald J. Trump

00:11:20.920 and they want to destroy him.

00:11:22.600 They want to salt the earth.

00:11:23.960 By the way,

00:11:25.040 remember we were talking

00:11:25.700 a minute ago

00:11:26.120 about how Democrats

00:11:26.840 love democracy?

00:11:28.720 What is their stated reason

00:11:29.840 for impeachment?

00:11:30.860 Well, if they don't impeach him

00:11:32.320 and prohibit him

00:11:32.900 from running again,

00:11:33.840 he might run again.

00:11:34.840 And you know what?

00:11:35.520 Those idiot voters

00:11:36.500 might vote for him.

00:11:39.060 Now, you could be upset at that.

00:11:40.500 I get that.

00:11:41.240 Yeah.

00:11:42.100 But you don't get to claim

00:11:43.840 you're defending democracy

00:11:45.500 when the evil you're trying

00:11:48.180 to prevent is the people 0.88

00:11:49.340 might vote in a way

00:11:50.140 you don't like.

00:11:50.780 Well, and this is

00:11:51.560 something ironic,

00:11:52.580 also ironic with the Democrats.

00:11:54.220 They accuse the right

00:11:55.480 of upending precedent,

00:11:57.360 constitutional norms.

00:11:59.080 The country is going

00:11:59.900 to hell in a handbasket. 0.89

00:12:01.220 They are the ones

00:12:02.140 who are again and again

00:12:05.120 destroying precedent.

00:12:06.280 As you mentioned,

00:12:07.460 taking a Republican congressman

00:12:08.980 off of her committees,

00:12:10.660 impeaching a former president.

00:12:12.420 To my knowledge,

00:12:13.120 that has never been done.

00:12:14.980 I would like,

00:12:16.000 if you wouldn't mind,

00:12:16.520 a little insider baseball here

00:12:17.880 because, you know,

00:12:18.620 Senator,

00:12:19.300 you're looking pretty good.

00:12:20.400 You're looking pretty sprightly.

00:12:21.840 Thank you.

00:12:22.420 You are.

00:12:23.000 But I know,

00:12:24.340 somehow, you know,

00:12:25.160 I'm the one who just had a kid

00:12:26.540 and you are getting

00:12:28.000 less sleep than I am.

00:12:29.880 You...

00:12:30.280 So actually,

00:12:31.380 in terms of delivering the kid,

00:12:33.040 that one wasn't you.

00:12:33.880 That was not me.

00:12:34.580 I felt...

00:12:35.780 Everyone kept making

00:12:36.540 about my wife.

00:12:37.420 I don't know.

00:12:37.780 I felt like I was doing

00:12:38.400 a lot of work in that room.

00:12:40.200 But you somehow

00:12:41.320 are getting less sleep than I am.

00:12:42.640 You basically pulled

00:12:43.620 an all-nighter last night

00:12:44.900 in D.C.

00:12:46.460 You're then preparing

00:12:47.500 for the impeachment

00:12:48.460 next week.

00:12:51.380 What is happening?

00:12:52.280 I mean, there is a lot going on

00:12:54.120 that seems so opaque

00:12:55.460 to a lot of us.

00:12:56.400 So last night,

00:12:57.300 we were on the Senate floor.

00:12:58.600 We were doing

00:12:59.400 what's called Votorama.

00:13:00.900 And that went until

00:13:02.160 525 in the morning.

00:13:03.860 So we were there all night.

00:13:06.060 Got home.

00:13:06.820 I went to sleep at six.

00:13:07.760 Got up at nine.

00:13:08.480 So I had three hours sleep

00:13:09.500 and flew to Miami.

00:13:11.020 So if I nod off,

00:13:12.780 just kind of nudge me

00:13:13.760 midway through.

00:13:15.520 So what is Votorama?

00:13:16.900 Look, the Senate

00:13:18.860 for the past 20 years or so

00:13:20.920 has been pretty rigidly controlled

00:13:24.000 by whoever the majority leader is.

00:13:26.320 And as a general matter,

00:13:27.500 they stop really both sides

00:13:29.540 from offering amendments.

00:13:30.780 And we have really a rule

00:13:33.460 by majority leaders

00:13:34.480 on both sides,

00:13:35.280 either Chuck Schumer

00:13:36.020 or Mitch McConnell

00:13:36.780 are super senators

00:13:38.280 because they shut down amendments.

00:13:41.040 The Democrats want to do

00:13:42.720 lots of bad stuff.

00:13:44.480 The principal procedural impediment

00:13:46.660 they face in the Senate

00:13:47.780 is the filibuster,

00:13:48.660 the requirement of 60 votes

00:13:50.200 to move forward on legislation.

00:13:52.860 The biggest exception

00:13:54.680 to the filibuster

00:13:55.740 is something called

00:13:57.160 budget reconciliation.

00:13:59.240 Now that's a process.

00:14:00.500 It comes from a statute

00:14:01.800 called the Budget Act of 1975.

00:14:03.940 And it sets out a process

00:14:05.040 for passing a budget.

00:14:07.200 The budget is really the sideshow.

00:14:08.780 What is important

00:14:10.360 is by statute

00:14:11.280 it only takes 50 votes

00:14:12.500 to pass and not 60.

00:14:14.220 So it's this big glaring exception

00:14:16.380 to what otherwise

00:14:18.340 is legislation

00:14:19.520 that's got to clear a filibuster. 0.93

00:14:21.580 So the Democrats

00:14:22.380 just took up

00:14:23.220 their first budget reconciliation.

00:14:24.940 We could see

00:14:25.520 three budget reconciliations

00:14:27.160 this year

00:14:28.100 all as vehicles

00:14:29.140 to just pass bad laws

00:14:30.740 they want to pass.

00:14:32.120 This was the first one.

00:14:33.960 Under that statute, though,

00:14:36.760 senators can offer

00:14:37.720 unlimited amendments.

00:14:39.780 And so the way

00:14:40.940 the majority leader

00:14:41.760 stops a senator

00:14:42.580 from offering an amendment

00:14:43.520 is a procedural mechanism

00:14:44.880 called filling the tree

00:14:46.280 where basically

00:14:46.840 they offer all

00:14:47.620 the available amendments

00:14:48.440 so no one else

00:14:49.120 can offer one.

00:14:50.340 On reconciliation

00:14:51.260 you can't stop it.

00:14:52.420 And so we had

00:14:53.220 yesterday, I don't know,

00:14:54.420 we voted on 40

00:14:55.160 or 50 amendments.

00:14:56.680 And we just stood there.

00:14:57.880 Now what happened

00:14:58.540 during most of the day

00:14:59.620 is the Democrats

00:15:01.100 were slow walking

00:15:02.100 the votes.

00:15:04.200 And so they were

00:15:05.080 dragging it out.

00:15:06.100 It was theoretically

00:15:06.820 10 minute votes

00:15:07.820 but they'd take 30,

00:15:08.900 they'd take 45.

00:15:10.480 Then towards the end of it

00:15:11.640 we're all seated

00:15:12.900 at our desks

00:15:13.740 and we're doing

00:15:14.560 faster votes.

00:15:16.140 And each side gets up

00:15:17.560 and gets to speak

00:15:18.440 for a minute.

00:15:19.900 And so look

00:15:21.560 if you're in the minority

00:15:22.780 which we are

00:15:23.360 it's a 50-50 Senate

00:15:24.360 it is the most

00:15:26.460 narrow majority possible

00:15:28.440 50-50 with a vice president

00:15:30.400 breaking the tie.

00:15:31.900 What you try to think of

00:15:33.500 when you're in the minority

00:15:34.420 is what are votes

00:15:35.680 that would really suck

00:15:37.340 to vote on

00:15:37.860 if you're on the other side.

00:15:38.840 Because you don't really

00:15:39.800 have a chance

00:15:40.580 of putting forth

00:15:41.800 this kind of

00:15:43.040 groundbreaking

00:15:43.720 substantive legislation

00:15:45.000 for your own side.

00:15:45.740 There's no way

00:15:46.280 that's going to get through.

00:15:47.100 It is forcing

00:15:48.480 the majority hates it

00:15:49.500 they don't want

00:15:49.860 any of these votes.

00:15:51.060 But it is forcing them

00:15:52.320 to take votes

00:15:53.020 they don't like.

00:15:53.720 So a bunch of us

00:15:55.060 filed a ton of amendments

00:15:56.580 and we voted on them

00:15:57.440 and voted on them

00:15:58.040 and a number of

00:15:58.900 the amendments passed.

00:16:00.340 Now here's a level

00:16:01.440 of the kind of

00:16:02.080 ridiculousness

00:16:03.280 of the game.

00:16:04.960 So let me tell you

00:16:05.660 three amendments

00:16:06.260 that passed

00:16:06.820 and I actually

00:16:07.420 wrote down

00:16:08.720 the details.

00:16:10.320 So three passed.

00:16:11.320 Okay.

00:16:11.500 One supports

00:16:13.780 the Keystone Pipeline.

00:16:15.060 Said Joe Biden

00:16:15.700 made a mistake

00:16:16.300 shutting down

00:16:16.860 the Keystone Pipeline

00:16:17.800 killing 8,000 jobs.

00:16:19.280 That passed

00:16:20.060 on the floor

00:16:20.520 of the Senate

00:16:20.980 by a vote

00:16:21.460 of 52 to 48.

00:16:23.440 Every Republican

00:16:24.140 voted for it.

00:16:25.720 Joe Manchin

00:16:26.320 voted for it.

00:16:27.080 Democrat from West Virginia.

00:16:28.320 John Tester

00:16:28.860 voted for it.

00:16:29.500 Democrat from Montana.

00:16:30.700 A second amendment

00:16:31.460 said that

00:16:32.900 any stimulus checks

00:16:34.440 that go out

00:16:35.140 should not go

00:16:36.760 to illegal immigrants.

00:16:37.780 So that amendment

00:16:39.940 passed 58 to 42.

00:16:42.980 I have to pause

00:16:44.300 you there, Senator.

00:16:45.520 42 elected senators

00:16:48.600 think that we should

00:16:49.880 send our tax money

00:16:50.980 to illegal aliens

00:16:52.400 in the country.

00:16:53.000 Look, 40 of them

00:16:53.800 might think we should

00:16:54.400 send them only

00:16:55.060 to illegal aliens.

00:16:57.160 So this Democratic

00:16:59.620 Party is nuts.

00:17:02.860 But Hassan,

00:17:04.000 Hickenlooper,

00:17:04.680 Kelly,

00:17:05.920 Manchin,

00:17:07.160 Peters,

00:17:07.780 Sinema,

00:17:08.500 Stabino,

00:17:09.240 and Tester.

00:17:10.740 All voted for

00:17:12.140 don't send them

00:17:12.880 to illegal aliens.

00:17:13.500 And the third one

00:17:14.260 was a vote

00:17:15.720 in support of fracking.

00:17:17.460 That we're not

00:17:18.240 going to shut down

00:17:18.900 fracking.

00:17:19.400 So all of these

00:17:20.240 Republicans offered

00:17:21.100 fracking is a good thing.

00:17:22.280 That passed

00:17:22.860 57-43.

00:17:24.980 So Bennett,

00:17:26.040 Colorado,

00:17:27.340 Casey,

00:17:27.940 Pennsylvania,

00:17:30.260 Heinrich,

00:17:31.200 New Mexico,

00:17:32.120 Hickenlooper,

00:17:32.880 Colorado,

00:17:34.280 Lujan,

00:17:34.840 New Mexico,

00:17:35.640 Manchin,

00:17:36.080 West Virginia,

00:17:37.200 Tester,

00:17:38.220 Montana.

00:17:38.760 So you might say,

00:17:39.360 hey, that's great.

00:17:40.060 Those are three victories.

00:17:42.460 Yeah.

00:17:43.440 I'm sensing a but.

00:17:45.520 You know what the last

00:17:46.240 thing we voted on is?

00:17:47.220 It's what's called

00:17:50.020 colloquially

00:17:50.820 a wraparound amendment.

00:17:53.280 Which is Chuck Schumer

00:17:54.400 stands up as the

00:17:55.400 very last amendment

00:17:56.240 and offers an amendment

00:17:57.200 to strip out

00:17:58.640 all of the amendments

00:17:59.320 that were adopted

00:18:00.060 during the course

00:18:00.660 of the night.

00:18:02.380 It is literally

00:18:03.220 erase everything

00:18:04.480 we just did

00:18:05.400 for the last 15 hours.

00:18:08.940 Do you know

00:18:09.560 what the vote was

00:18:10.340 on the wraparound amendment?

00:18:11.360 50 to 50.

00:18:17.320 And we saw

00:18:18.640 on that amendment

00:18:19.840 the very first vote

00:18:21.160 ever cast

00:18:21.900 by Vice President

00:18:22.800 Kamala Harris

00:18:23.700 to break the tie

00:18:25.400 and strip out

00:18:27.020 those policies.

00:18:27.680 So by the way,

00:18:28.860 and look,

00:18:29.340 this is one of many

00:18:31.580 reasons people

00:18:32.280 despise politicians.

00:18:35.040 Why do these

00:18:35.900 Democrats vote this way?

00:18:37.760 Because when

00:18:38.520 Joe Manchin

00:18:39.320 and John Tester

00:18:40.080 go home,

00:18:40.540 when John Tester

00:18:41.140 goes home to Montana,

00:18:42.140 he says,

00:18:42.560 I voted for

00:18:43.600 the Keystone Pipeline.

00:18:45.660 Sure, Bob,

00:18:46.940 but then you

00:18:47.500 voted against it.

00:18:48.480 About five hours later

00:18:51.020 or 10 hours later.

00:18:52.200 It seems to me

00:18:52.880 John Kerry

00:18:53.440 built a whole

00:18:54.120 presidential campaign

00:18:55.060 on exactly that.

00:18:56.620 I voted for it

00:18:57.560 before I voted against it.

00:18:58.320 Before I was against it.

00:18:59.380 But it's the ridiculous game

00:19:02.200 where all of these votes

00:19:04.120 were show votes

00:19:05.220 because on the vote

00:19:07.280 they cared about,

00:19:08.320 the party discipline vote,

00:19:10.060 every single one of them

00:19:11.400 lines up and says,

00:19:13.060 erase the amendments

00:19:14.020 and go back

00:19:15.200 to the Bernie Sanders

00:19:16.640 spendapalooza.

00:19:17.720 Right.

00:19:17.860 Well, you know,

00:19:18.700 the fracking vote

00:19:19.760 is interesting to me

00:19:20.700 because you'll recall

00:19:22.180 so long ago,

00:19:24.200 a few months ago

00:19:25.020 on the campaign trail,

00:19:26.440 Joe Biden said,

00:19:27.220 come on, man,

00:19:27.940 I'm not going to ban fracking.

00:19:29.240 Come on, man.

00:19:30.520 That really doesn't

00:19:31.420 sound like Joe.

00:19:32.260 No, not at all.

00:19:33.920 Kamala Harris,

00:19:34.680 same thing.

00:19:36.300 Not going to ban fracking.

00:19:37.480 And then, of course,

00:19:38.440 they're going to ban fracking.

00:19:39.320 They're going to ban

00:19:39.580 all these sorts of things.

00:19:41.660 The amazing thing is

00:19:43.060 PolitiFact would say

00:19:44.120 you were lying

00:19:44.900 when you said

00:19:46.140 they were going to ban fracking.

00:19:47.340 Yeah.

00:19:48.140 During the campaign.

00:19:49.180 And now they'll say

00:19:49.880 you're lying

00:19:50.460 when you say

00:19:51.220 they said they weren't

00:19:51.980 going to ban fracking.

00:19:53.080 I know.

00:19:53.660 They're going to say

00:19:54.580 I'm lying when I just

00:19:55.380 read the PolitiFact

00:19:56.300 from three months ago.

00:19:57.180 They're going to fact check me

00:19:58.840 on that as well.

00:20:00.720 But do you know

00:20:02.260 my favorite PolitiFact?

00:20:04.180 So 2018,

00:20:05.180 I'm running for re-election

00:20:06.340 for Senate.

00:20:06.860 and a fellow ran against me,

00:20:11.320 a guy named Beto.

00:20:15.140 He's that skateboarder?

00:20:16.720 I think I saw him

00:20:17.620 somewhere on the internet.

00:20:18.400 Is he a...

00:20:18.940 He jumps on tables.

00:20:20.600 Okay.

00:20:23.160 So when he entered the race,

00:20:24.800 we decided,

00:20:25.520 all right,

00:20:25.700 we want to welcome him

00:20:26.940 to the race

00:20:27.700 with a kind,

00:20:29.700 loving,

00:20:30.540 gentle embrace.

00:20:31.260 So we put out

00:20:34.960 a parody song.

00:20:37.260 And the song was based on

00:20:39.200 if you're going to play

00:20:39.840 in Texas,

00:20:40.540 you've got to have

00:20:40.840 a fiddle in the band.

00:20:42.300 Except the one we put out,

00:20:44.160 we said,

00:20:44.620 if you're going to run

00:20:45.320 in Texas,

00:20:45.840 you can't be a liberal man.

00:20:55.780 And so we hired musicians

00:20:57.920 who were really quite good

00:20:59.200 and had the whole thing.

00:21:00.520 And it begins by saying,

00:21:04.760 Beto wants those open borders

00:21:06.680 and he wants to take our guns.

00:21:10.300 We put this ad out.

00:21:13.500 PolitiFact fact-checks it.

00:21:15.660 You fact-checked your song.

00:21:16.860 My parody song.

00:21:21.280 Do you know Puff the Magic Dragon

00:21:22.760 actually didn't live

00:21:23.860 in a land called Honolulu?

00:21:25.000 No.

00:21:26.320 It's an amazing thing.

00:21:27.780 Wow.

00:21:28.440 Pants on fire.

00:21:29.040 But they fact-check it

00:21:32.120 and they say it is literally

00:21:34.600 pants on fire false

00:21:36.320 that Beto wants to take our guns. 0.98

00:21:39.780 So fast forward to Senate race.

00:21:43.540 We win.

00:21:44.220 He loses.

00:21:44.620 It's a minor detail.

00:21:51.960 He goes to New Mexico

00:21:53.940 and eats dirt.

00:21:57.040 Don't ask me.

00:21:58.360 That's what he did.

00:22:00.900 And then he runs for president

00:22:02.340 as a Democrat.

00:22:02.900 And the poor guy

00:22:05.380 was so startled

00:22:06.440 because his base,

00:22:09.040 by which I mean the reporters.

00:22:12.060 CNN.

00:22:13.340 Who, look,

00:22:15.220 when he was running against me,

00:22:17.100 they were like groupies

00:22:18.180 at a Rolling Stone concert

00:22:19.520 throwing their underwear at him.

00:22:22.220 Literally, right?

00:22:22.940 I mean, this is, you know.

00:22:24.560 If they wore underwear, yes.

00:22:29.160 Too edgy?

00:22:30.860 It's a podcast.

00:22:32.120 You can say whatever you want.

00:22:34.460 The instant he was running

00:22:36.100 against Bernie and Kamala

00:22:37.820 and the heroes of the left,

00:22:39.540 the press turned on him

00:22:41.260 and the poor guy was,

00:22:42.760 what the hell just happened?

00:22:44.540 It's utterly startled.

00:22:45.860 But you remember

00:22:46.660 at one of the Democratic debates,

00:22:50.040 he said,

00:22:51.340 damn right,

00:22:52.780 I'm going to take

00:22:53.960 your AR-15.

00:22:57.740 And then his campaign website

00:22:59.840 began selling T-shirts

00:23:01.780 that said on the front of them,

00:23:04.500 damn right,

00:23:05.440 I'm going to take

00:23:06.340 your AR-15.

00:23:08.540 At which point,

00:23:09.580 I couldn't resist

00:23:10.320 jumping on Twitter

00:23:11.240 and saying,

00:23:12.000 hey, PolitiFact,

00:23:13.920 when you fact-checked

00:23:15.640 my statement

00:23:16.200 that Beto wants 0.99

00:23:16.880 to take our guns

00:23:17.600 and you said

00:23:18.500 that was false,

00:23:20.140 are you going to buy

00:23:21.160 one of his T-shirts?

00:23:22.060 Yeah, do you,

00:23:22.720 can I send you a link

00:23:23.420 to his Shopify account?

00:23:25.100 Because, you know,

00:23:25.740 they did this to us

00:23:26.520 today, actually.

00:23:27.820 PolitiFact,

00:23:28.200 no, I'm sorry,

00:23:28.600 it was Snopes.

00:23:29.680 Daily Wire

00:23:30.340 and my show

00:23:31.600 at the Daily Wire,

00:23:32.400 we ran this headline

00:23:33.280 that said,

00:23:34.080 there's a report out

00:23:35.360 that AOC

00:23:36.220 was not in

00:23:37.380 the Capitol building

00:23:38.360 during the riot

00:23:40.080 on January 6th.

00:23:41.240 And that was

00:23:41.900 the whole headline.

00:23:43.460 And we got a fact check,

00:23:45.640 mostly false.

00:23:47.600 Mostly false.

00:23:48.040 Okay, so when it's

00:23:48.620 mostly false,

00:23:49.440 they say what's true

00:23:50.660 and they say what's false.

00:23:52.540 So I said,

00:23:52.800 well, let's just see

00:23:54.420 what's true about this.

00:23:56.880 Headline was,

00:23:58.420 report AOC was not

00:23:59.520 in the Capitol building

00:24:00.180 during the riot.

00:24:01.200 What's true?

00:24:01.860 AOC was not in the Capitol

00:24:05.240 building during the riot.

00:24:07.140 But what's false is,

00:24:08.660 she was in another building

00:24:09.740 that was down the street

00:24:10.760 and, you know,

00:24:11.640 that's in D.C.

00:24:12.660 and you guys are mean,

00:24:14.280 so therefore,

00:24:15.320 mostly false.

00:24:16.520 You know, Michael,

00:24:17.520 I just don't know

00:24:19.260 why you will not

00:24:20.540 honor her individual truth.

00:24:22.760 Look, I recognize

00:24:26.100 she was in her office

00:24:28.480 when a police officer

00:24:30.480 knocked on the door

00:24:31.480 and asked her to evacuate.

00:24:33.340 But if she lived

00:24:35.940 that experience

00:24:37.140 as a band of marauders 0.57

00:24:39.300 sent by me,

00:24:41.000 came with murderous intentions,

00:24:45.700 that is her truth.

00:24:47.480 And by the way,

00:24:48.100 you know what she said,

00:24:48.980 what you and I just did,

00:24:50.040 she said anyone

00:24:50.760 that doubts her shared truth

00:24:52.860 is guilty of sexual assault.

00:24:55.040 Yes, she did.

00:24:55.640 She did say that.

00:24:56.980 She did.

00:24:57.820 She said it's being

00:24:58.480 like an abuser

00:24:59.440 if you were to question that.

00:25:00.940 You know, this actually raises

00:25:02.160 one of the central questions

00:25:03.780 we're talking about

00:25:04.700 here at YAF,

00:25:05.320 which is for a long time,

00:25:06.840 I think every conservative

00:25:07.840 of every generation

00:25:09.320 in this room

00:25:09.860 has known about the threats

00:25:10.980 from big government.

00:25:12.660 But there are other threats

00:25:14.040 to our freedom

00:25:14.800 from other big sorts of entities.

00:25:18.300 Big tech,

00:25:19.680 which would be PolitiFact.

00:25:21.120 Big corporations,

00:25:22.800 which are signing up

00:25:23.980 with all of these radical

00:25:25.220 left-wing groups

00:25:26.120 and advancing them.

00:25:28.340 Big, big, big, big, big

00:25:30.660 is big bureaucracy.

00:25:32.160 All of these sorts of things.

00:25:34.500 Looking forward,

00:25:35.540 I mean, the conservative movement

00:25:36.620 has come so far.

00:25:37.680 Just think about YAF.

00:25:38.560 Think about the growth

00:25:39.280 of the Young America Foundation.

00:25:41.100 I mean, it's just unbelievable.

00:25:42.160 Think about all the people

00:25:42.840 in this room,

00:25:44.080 all the campuses

00:25:45.020 that YAF is on,

00:25:46.600 the growth

00:25:47.320 of so many conservative organizations.

00:25:49.100 But now moving forward,

00:25:50.540 it seems like the challenges

00:25:51.740 are different.

00:25:52.660 We're going to have to start

00:25:53.340 changing maybe

00:25:54.380 some of our language,

00:25:55.260 looking at these other threats.

00:25:57.120 Where do we go from here?

00:25:58.320 I know so many people,

00:25:59.580 we're all pretty happy

00:26:00.460 to be together tonight,

00:26:01.440 but we're a little bit down

00:26:02.580 after the election,

00:26:03.700 after the inauguration.

00:26:05.740 What,

00:26:06.720 where do we go from here?

00:26:10.320 We go towards truth

00:26:11.900 and light

00:26:13.100 and freedom.

00:26:15.780 Look,

00:26:16.300 the great thing

00:26:16.820 about eternal truths,

00:26:18.480 they're always true.

00:26:19.460 our ideas work.

00:26:23.580 Freedom works.

00:26:25.400 Free markets work.

00:26:27.580 The Constitution

00:26:28.440 and Bill of Rights,

00:26:29.320 free speech,

00:26:29.920 religious liberty,

00:26:31.060 the fundamental liberties

00:26:32.360 of humanity,

00:26:33.620 it is right

00:26:34.220 and true

00:26:34.840 and just.

00:26:35.720 The next two years,

00:26:36.900 we're going to see

00:26:37.760 wild-eyed socialists

00:26:39.160 trying to do

00:26:40.680 enormous damage

00:26:41.620 to this country.

00:26:43.400 Their policies

00:26:44.520 aren't going to work.

00:26:46.640 They don't work.

00:26:48.400 That is going to become evident.

00:26:50.060 You know,

00:26:50.300 I'll make a reference.

00:26:52.600 This reminds me

00:26:54.240 an awful lot

00:26:56.360 of the late 70s.

00:26:58.920 You know,

00:26:59.420 Scott Walker and I

00:27:00.240 are both

00:27:00.540 almost exactly

00:27:01.400 the same age.

00:27:03.140 We were both kids

00:27:04.560 in the late 70s.

00:27:08.540 When Ronald Reagan

00:27:09.560 was elected,

00:27:10.220 I was 10.

00:27:12.160 When Reagan left

00:27:13.120 the White House,

00:27:13.720 I was 18.

00:27:14.260 It took Jimmy Carter

00:27:16.080 to give us Reagan.

00:27:19.840 It took

00:27:20.620 the absolute catastrophe,

00:27:23.240 the disaster

00:27:24.100 of the Carter years.

00:27:26.340 It took Jimmy Carter

00:27:27.960 giving away

00:27:28.780 the Panama Canal.

00:27:30.180 Yeah.

00:27:30.860 It's funny.

00:27:31.420 You know,

00:27:31.620 that's an issue

00:27:32.340 that people don't even

00:27:33.340 really think about anymore.

00:27:34.680 But what,

00:27:35.500 I mean,

00:27:36.080 so much was happening

00:27:37.100 during those years

00:27:38.040 to set up

00:27:38.880 the conservative movement.

00:27:39.700 It took stagflation,

00:27:41.900 enormous economic harm,

00:27:43.620 misery,

00:27:44.780 gas lines.

00:27:47.000 It took the military

00:27:48.320 being downgraded

00:27:49.420 to a level

00:27:49.980 that our hostages

00:27:50.880 in Iran

00:27:51.380 get taken in captivity

00:27:53.500 for 444 days,

00:27:55.700 and Carter sends out

00:27:56.900 a military team

00:27:57.800 to try to rescue them,

00:27:59.040 and it crashes

00:28:00.020 in the desert

00:28:00.820 with no opposing fire.

00:28:03.460 The absolute calamity.

00:28:05.200 It took Jimmy Carter

00:28:06.360 putting on a sweater

00:28:08.480 and saying,

00:28:11.500 you know,

00:28:11.960 we live in a world

00:28:12.900 of scarcity.

00:28:14.720 We don't have the money

00:28:15.860 to heat your homes anymore,

00:28:17.120 so just put on a sweater

00:28:18.340 and just accept malaise.

00:28:22.320 Malaise,

00:28:22.780 the new normal,

00:28:23.440 you might say.

00:28:25.540 And all of that train wreck

00:28:27.920 is what prepared people

00:28:30.880 for a sunny,

00:28:32.940 optimistic governor

00:28:34.120 from California

00:28:35.180 who understood

00:28:37.500 the power of freedom.

00:28:40.400 We're in a moment

00:28:41.360 just like that.

00:28:43.860 We're in a moment

00:28:44.940 where we will go through

00:28:46.180 some darkness,

00:28:47.560 but the answer

00:28:48.620 to darkness

00:28:49.320 is always light.

00:28:50.440 Amen.

00:28:51.040 Amen.

00:28:51.400 Amen.

00:28:51.700 Amen.

00:28:51.940 Amen.

00:28:52.140 Amen.

00:28:52.520 Amen.

00:28:52.640 Amen.

00:28:52.980 Amen.

00:28:53.140 Amen.

00:28:53.180 Amen.

00:28:53.640 Amen.

00:28:54.140 Amen.

00:28:54.180 Amen.

00:28:54.220 Amen.

00:28:54.580 Amen.

00:28:57.920 And right on cue

00:29:02.260 they turn on the lights.

00:29:03.240 The light is here.

00:29:04.560 When I asked you

00:29:05.360 where do we go from here

00:29:06.120 and you said,

00:29:06.620 well, Michael,

00:29:07.000 it's kind of like the 70s.

00:29:08.040 I was feeling a little depressed.

00:29:09.760 That did not sound great,

00:29:10.820 but you're right.

00:29:11.640 You get the 70s,

00:29:12.280 then you get the 80s.

00:29:13.380 I really hope

00:29:14.260 bell bottoms don't come back. 0.98

00:29:18.160 Although to be honest,

00:29:19.280 the 80s,

00:29:19.960 and depressingly enough,

00:29:21.300 Michael,

00:29:21.620 you're young enough

00:29:22.960 not to remember the 80s either.

00:29:24.080 I was a glint

00:29:24.560 in my father's eye.

00:29:25.320 I owned parachute pants.

00:29:30.000 No, it really was horrible.

00:29:32.040 It was these like plasticky,

00:29:33.980 Scott, did you have parachute pants?

00:29:35.660 Okay.

00:29:36.800 These plasticky pants

00:29:38.320 with zippers all over them.

00:29:41.060 And I do not know why.

00:29:43.420 And my father,

00:29:44.420 who you know,

00:29:46.120 Cuban-American pastor,

00:29:47.400 I would be leaving in high school

00:29:48.740 and he'd be like,

00:29:49.260 do you want to look like a bum?

00:29:51.900 I'd be like, yeah.

00:29:53.580 Because I was a teenager

00:29:54.800 and that's what you say

00:29:55.500 to your dad

00:29:55.980 and thankfully we grow out of that.

00:29:57.600 You know, Senator,

00:29:58.120 sometimes conservatives,

00:29:59.220 I think we go into nostalgia,

00:30:01.840 you know,

00:30:02.020 history after a few drinks

00:30:03.360 when we think about

00:30:04.160 how great the 80s were.

00:30:05.240 You've reminded me,

00:30:06.160 it wasn't all great.

00:30:07.140 You know,

00:30:07.300 there were some issues

00:30:07.900 there as well.

00:30:08.820 I do also want to remind everyone

00:30:10.180 who is watching right now

00:30:11.340 on YouTube,

00:30:12.440 head on over to

00:30:12.960 YouTube.com

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00:30:15.160 We will answer your questions,

00:30:16.560 but only if they're good questions.

00:30:17.880 If they're bad questions,

00:30:18.920 we're absolutely

00:30:19.660 going to ignore them.

00:30:21.100 Subscribe,

00:30:21.760 send them in,

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00:30:23.920 I also,

00:30:24.940 you know,

00:30:25.140 we flew down here

00:30:26.200 not just to talk

00:30:27.660 amongst ourselves

00:30:28.420 as we often do.

00:30:29.680 We want to talk

00:30:30.360 to everyone

00:30:30.700 who is out here

00:30:31.380 at YAF Freedom Conference.

00:30:33.200 So let's do it.

00:30:35.540 Let's take some questions.

00:30:40.420 Our first question

00:30:42.040 for the live

00:30:43.320 verdict program tonight

00:30:44.900 comes from

00:30:45.500 YAF TV

00:30:46.200 YouTube subscriber

00:30:47.460 Real Truth Cactus

00:30:49.120 who asks,

00:30:51.140 the fact that

00:30:51.880 any private person

00:30:52.980 can have their lives

00:30:53.960 destroyed

00:30:54.520 because of their

00:30:55.240 social media lives

00:30:56.240 is terrifying.

00:30:57.640 What can private citizens

00:30:58.900 do to protect themselves?

00:31:00.920 You can take that one.

00:31:01.980 All right.

00:31:02.340 As the private citizen

00:31:03.800 in this duo here,

00:31:06.140 it's very tricky.

00:31:08.260 It reminds me

00:31:09.280 of a question I get.

00:31:10.400 Maybe we'll get it tonight

00:31:11.220 and I'm happy

00:31:11.600 to get back into it.

00:31:12.740 But I often get this

00:31:13.900 sort of a question

00:31:14.520 from students,

00:31:15.020 which is,

00:31:16.220 hey, Michael,

00:31:16.760 how can I totally embrace

00:31:18.820 my political views

00:31:19.940 and be very honest

00:31:20.940 about what I think

00:31:22.140 and not kowtow

00:31:23.200 to the liberal mob

00:31:24.240 and tell my professor

00:31:25.300 exactly what I think

00:31:26.220 about his absolutely

00:31:27.220 ridiculous anti-American lessons

00:31:29.360 and still get an A?

00:31:31.600 And I say,

00:31:32.320 ah, you are asking

00:31:33.600 for something

00:31:34.160 that was never possible

00:31:35.520 and never will be possible,

00:31:36.900 my friend.

00:31:37.500 You want to have it all

00:31:39.000 and everything,

00:31:40.000 everything in life

00:31:41.120 has consequences.

00:31:42.460 It's why we remember

00:31:43.260 that we have to be

00:31:44.180 wise as soon as

00:31:45.000 serpents

00:31:45.520 and innocent as doves,

00:31:47.340 right?

00:31:47.540 This is a very tricky

00:31:49.840 situation that we're living in

00:31:51.460 and I can't just give you

00:31:52.880 some kind of platitude

00:31:53.780 and say,

00:31:54.440 you know,

00:31:54.860 speak your mind

00:31:55.700 and be true to yourself

00:31:57.380 and you will face

00:31:58.620 no consequences whatsoever.

00:32:00.200 The one thing I can say,

00:32:01.500 though,

00:32:01.980 having never learned

00:32:03.600 the lesson

00:32:04.000 to keep my mouth shut

00:32:05.040 is, you know,

00:32:06.520 I certainly have spoken

00:32:08.440 my mind

00:32:09.200 and I've gotten

00:32:10.240 some lower grades

00:32:11.120 because of it

00:32:11.900 and don't get invited

00:32:12.960 to some fun parties

00:32:13.940 because of it

00:32:14.640 too,

00:32:15.160 but I will say

00:32:16.700 from the times

00:32:17.600 I have been honest

00:32:19.340 about my beliefs,

00:32:20.860 you don't need

00:32:21.440 to be flamboyant

00:32:22.100 about them,

00:32:22.560 you don't need

00:32:22.820 to be parading

00:32:23.340 them around

00:32:23.640 all the time,

00:32:24.040 but when you're asked,

00:32:24.700 you give an honest answer.

00:32:25.960 I sleep like a baby.

00:32:28.100 It is not worth

00:32:29.480 your integrity

00:32:30.200 to keep your mouth shut.

00:32:31.620 because he defecates the bed.

00:32:32.960 I do.

00:32:33.460 I do.

00:32:34.320 I scream.

00:32:35.020 I scream.

00:32:35.300 Sleep like a baby

00:32:36.240 is a very odd phrase.

00:32:37.460 You're the father

00:32:38.020 of a newborn.

00:32:39.920 Is sleep like a baby

00:32:41.300 a peaceful image?

00:32:42.420 Oh, it's wonderful.

00:32:42.980 My wife feeds me

00:32:43.860 multiple times

00:32:44.580 in the middle of the night.

00:32:45.540 Pizza.

00:32:46.280 It's great.

00:32:46.660 It's absolutely fabulous.

00:32:48.400 And that's really

00:32:49.760 why my answer

00:32:50.340 is just get married

00:32:51.140 and you'll have

00:32:51.520 a much better life.

00:32:52.800 But it really,

00:32:53.620 I do think

00:32:54.140 it really is important

00:32:55.420 in this way

00:32:56.000 to have the integrity,

00:32:58.940 you will take a hit

00:33:00.620 and you just have

00:33:01.520 to deal with that

00:33:02.280 and being a conservative

00:33:03.720 requires that you

00:33:05.000 recognize reality

00:33:06.420 and accept the permanent

00:33:08.140 things about life.

00:33:09.660 But it is worth it

00:33:11.340 because in the end

00:33:12.180 all the cheap little thrills

00:33:13.400 that you'll get

00:33:13.960 by lying to yourself

00:33:15.480 and to others

00:33:16.260 I just don't think

00:33:17.580 are worth it.

00:33:18.680 Well, and let me

00:33:19.840 add something to that

00:33:21.120 on a different

00:33:21.580 because I think

00:33:22.100 you're right in school

00:33:23.080 and it is a challenge

00:33:24.000 in school.

00:33:24.780 You have liberal professors

00:33:25.980 how you handle that.

00:33:28.020 Both Michael and I

00:33:29.080 experienced getting

00:33:29.980 your grades clipped

00:33:30.880 substantially

00:33:31.600 with professors

00:33:33.260 from the left

00:33:33.840 that didn't like

00:33:34.360 what we were saying

00:33:34.920 and that's a hard

00:33:36.140 challenge to deal with.

00:33:37.660 But let me give

00:33:38.460 a different aspect

00:33:39.400 of that question though

00:33:40.380 which is the social

00:33:41.280 media component of it.

00:33:43.220 You know,

00:33:43.560 we're at a different

00:33:44.480 environment

00:33:45.160 where everyone here

00:33:48.520 is online.

00:33:50.240 Everyone here

00:33:50.960 is connected

00:33:51.760 and what you say

00:33:53.120 is recorded

00:33:56.140 for all perpetuity.

00:33:57.960 Once it's on the internet

00:33:59.020 it's forever.

00:33:59.940 It never goes away

00:34:01.320 and I gotta say

00:34:02.500 look,

00:34:03.720 our daughters

00:34:04.220 are 10 and 12.

00:34:06.400 It scares

00:34:07.300 the living daylights

00:34:08.540 out of me

00:34:09.060 that as they start

00:34:10.720 to get an engagement

00:34:11.820 I think

00:34:12.700 of the dumbass

00:34:14.400 things that I

00:34:15.300 thought

00:34:15.880 and said

00:34:17.000 when I was 15

00:34:18.140 and 17

00:34:19.160 and 19

00:34:20.280 and I am

00:34:21.420 so glad

00:34:22.280 that they are

00:34:22.780 not preserved

00:34:23.520 for all eternity.

00:34:24.620 They faded

00:34:25.200 they were dumb

00:34:26.400 and they were

00:34:26.740 forgotten.

00:34:27.760 Y'all are living

00:34:28.580 in an environment

00:34:29.440 where you don't

00:34:31.440 get a second

00:34:32.480 chance on that

00:34:33.300 and so I'd say

00:34:33.780 be careful on that

00:34:34.680 because it is

00:34:36.440 a smart aleck

00:34:38.600 tweet

00:34:39.140 a smart aleck

00:34:40.980 post

00:34:41.680 in five years

00:34:44.440 at a job interview

00:34:45.300 you could find

00:34:45.920 them pulling it out

00:34:46.620 and reading it to you.

00:34:47.420 And I try to explain

00:34:49.780 that to

00:34:50.180 you know

00:34:50.840 you want to make

00:34:51.400 a joke

00:34:51.780 just humor

00:34:52.800 be fun

00:34:55.260 and have a sense

00:34:56.080 of humor

00:34:56.600 but ask yourself

00:34:59.080 do I want to see

00:35:00.240 this five years

00:35:00.900 from now?

00:35:01.580 Right.

00:35:02.080 And if you don't

00:35:03.040 maybe don't send it

00:35:03.960 out into the world

00:35:04.920 to be there forever.

00:35:05.960 Because this is the

00:35:06.800 other side of the

00:35:07.480 integrity aspect

00:35:08.380 which is you don't

00:35:09.340 want to hide your

00:35:10.040 views and pretend

00:35:10.760 to be somebody

00:35:11.320 who you are not

00:35:12.140 but you also

00:35:12.980 don't want to do

00:35:13.900 something that you

00:35:14.460 will be embarrassed

00:35:15.280 about.

00:35:16.060 You don't want to

00:35:16.440 be doing something

00:35:17.220 that you'll be

00:35:17.560 ashamed of

00:35:18.260 five or ten years

00:35:19.400 later when you

00:35:20.020 look back on it

00:35:20.760 and when your

00:35:21.520 prospective employers

00:35:22.580 look back on it too.

00:35:24.000 Hi my name is

00:35:24.600 Tripp Gravy

00:35:25.040 I'm a sophomore

00:35:25.700 at the University

00:35:26.440 of Wisconsin-Madison.

00:35:27.920 First of all

00:35:28.360 thank you both

00:35:28.960 for being here.

00:35:30.560 My question is

00:35:31.600 as you alluded

00:35:32.160 to earlier

00:35:32.660 the GOP seems

00:35:34.020 to be more divided

00:35:34.780 than it's ever

00:35:35.300 been before

00:35:35.820 and it seems

00:35:37.040 as though

00:35:37.360 since the election

00:35:38.100 and since

00:35:38.780 the riots

00:35:39.440 at the Capitol

00:35:40.000 there's been

00:35:40.520 a certain effort

00:35:41.900 to purge

00:35:42.680 Trump's skeptical

00:35:43.520 Republicans

00:35:44.100 from the party.

00:35:45.380 Ben Sasse

00:35:45.860 is expecting

00:35:46.440 a censure

00:35:47.000 from the Nebraska

00:35:47.880 GOP.

00:35:49.180 Cindy McCain,

00:35:50.060 Jeff Flake,

00:35:50.700 Doug Ducey

00:35:51.200 were censored

00:35:51.720 by the Arizona

00:35:52.500 GOP.

00:35:54.260 And Liz Cheney

00:35:55.000 was almost ousted

00:35:55.780 from House

00:35:56.820 leadership recently.

00:35:58.340 So my question

00:35:59.180 to you is

00:35:59.840 do you think

00:36:01.040 that there's

00:36:02.680 a path forward

00:36:03.460 for Trump's

00:36:04.140 skeptic conservatives?

00:36:05.040 of course there is.

00:36:07.360 I think there's

00:36:08.660 a path forward

00:36:09.680 for everyone

00:36:13.360 who agrees

00:36:14.240 on a shared

00:36:14.880 set of principles

00:36:15.800 and values.

00:36:16.580 You know Reagan

00:36:17.020 said what do you

00:36:18.820 call someone

00:36:19.380 who agrees with you

00:36:20.300 80% of the time?

00:36:21.780 A friend.

00:36:23.740 So look

00:36:24.460 we're

00:36:25.320 at a weird

00:36:26.940 divided time.

00:36:28.260 Donald J.

00:36:32.180 Trump

00:36:32.400 is a unique

00:36:33.000 individual

00:36:33.440 and he

00:36:36.400 inspires

00:36:37.020 unique

00:36:37.680 sentiments

00:36:38.360 from virtually

00:36:39.420 everybody.

00:36:41.080 I do think

00:36:42.120 some people

00:36:42.940 have lost

00:36:44.360 their minds

00:36:45.180 over how much

00:36:46.300 they dislike him.

00:36:48.420 He says

00:36:49.120 and does

00:36:49.460 things I disagree

00:36:50.300 with

00:36:50.620 but he also

00:36:52.000 has done

00:36:52.400 a lot of things

00:36:52.960 I agree with

00:36:53.580 that I think

00:36:53.960 were good

00:36:54.200 for the country

00:36:54.720 and I try

00:36:55.840 to approach

00:36:57.060 it as a

00:36:57.520 reasonable person

00:36:58.440 to say

00:36:58.820 okay

00:36:59.240 when he's

00:37:00.360 working for

00:37:01.020 good policy

00:37:01.740 that's good

00:37:02.080 for the country

00:37:02.620 I'll work

00:37:03.020 with him

00:37:03.400 when he's

00:37:03.780 saying things

00:37:04.520 that are not

00:37:05.480 good

00:37:05.800 I'm not going

00:37:06.640 to support

00:37:07.020 that.

00:37:07.740 There are

00:37:08.320 efforts of

00:37:08.880 purging on

00:37:09.400 both sides

00:37:10.000 and we're

00:37:11.000 seeing it

00:37:11.500 right now

00:37:11.880 and look

00:37:12.140 anytime you

00:37:12.800 lose an

00:37:13.160 election

00:37:13.500 there's a

00:37:14.140 period of

00:37:14.660 chaos

00:37:15.240 there's a

00:37:16.040 period of

00:37:16.520 reckoning

00:37:16.940 that's

00:37:17.240 fairly

00:37:17.480 natural

00:37:17.920 and so

00:37:19.460 you're right

00:37:19.880 there are

00:37:20.660 those

00:37:21.340 who are

00:37:22.640 very strong

00:37:23.660 Trump

00:37:24.080 supporters

00:37:24.600 that are

00:37:24.980 saying

00:37:25.340 get rid

00:37:25.740 of anyone

00:37:26.020 who isn't

00:37:26.500 there are

00:37:27.260 also those

00:37:28.140 who were

00:37:28.680 not fans

00:37:29.260 of Trump

00:37:29.620 that are

00:37:29.880 trying to

00:37:30.200 say get

00:37:30.500 rid of

00:37:30.740 everyone

00:37:31.000 who was

00:37:31.540 I mean

00:37:31.800 we're

00:37:32.000 seeing

00:37:32.480 the purging

00:37:33.620 on both

00:37:34.140 ends

00:37:34.640 you know

00:37:36.340 I have

00:37:36.880 this crazy

00:37:37.580 view

00:37:38.100 that I'd

00:37:40.280 like us

00:37:40.600 to win

00:37:40.920 elections

00:37:41.480 and you

00:37:43.900 win elections

00:37:44.560 by getting

00:37:45.120 50 plus

00:37:45.660 one

00:37:45.940 so I'm

00:37:47.620 not really

00:37:48.100 interested in

00:37:48.820 taking any

00:37:49.360 significant chunk

00:37:50.220 of the party

00:37:50.660 and purging

00:37:51.120 it

00:37:51.340 I am

00:37:52.860 interested in

00:37:53.520 finding shared

00:37:54.220 values that

00:37:54.840 bring us

00:37:55.180 together

00:37:55.520 and right

00:37:56.240 now

00:37:56.680 these emotions

00:37:58.340 are raw

00:37:58.880 these emotions

00:38:00.940 are

00:38:01.460 people are

00:38:03.100 worked up

00:38:03.640 and they're

00:38:03.900 passionate

00:38:04.380 and

00:38:05.100 that'll

00:38:09.280 fade

00:38:09.600 as time

00:38:11.440 goes on

00:38:12.200 those

00:38:14.160 divisions

00:38:14.760 there have

00:38:15.060 always been

00:38:15.580 divisions in

00:38:16.180 the party

00:38:16.520 there have

00:38:18.200 always been

00:38:19.400 you know

00:38:22.520 it's interesting

00:38:23.060 I wrote a

00:38:25.220 book last

00:38:25.720 year called

00:38:26.200 One Vote

00:38:26.620 Away about

00:38:27.040 the U.S.

00:38:27.480 Supreme Court

00:38:28.000 and one of the

00:38:29.820 chapters in the

00:38:30.420 book traces the

00:38:31.160 history of the

00:38:31.660 court and it

00:38:32.080 goes back to

00:38:32.900 nominees that

00:38:33.940 were put on

00:38:34.360 the court

00:38:34.700 and it goes

00:38:35.880 back to the

00:38:37.740 1952

00:38:40.200 GOP

00:38:41.860 convention

00:38:42.400 and the

00:38:44.960 1948 GOP

00:38:46.520 convention

00:38:47.000 and the

00:38:48.540 battles

00:38:49.260 that were in

00:38:51.840 the party

00:38:52.340 actually in

00:38:52.860 1948 the

00:38:53.960 battles that

00:38:54.520 were in the

00:38:54.940 party where

00:38:55.820 you had

00:38:56.640 you had

00:38:57.520 Dwight D.

00:38:58.240 Eisenhower

00:38:58.600 who was the

00:39:00.420 choice of the

00:39:01.120 New England

00:39:01.600 moderates

00:39:02.280 and you had

00:39:03.780 Robert Taft

00:39:04.540 that was the

00:39:05.120 choice of the

00:39:05.580 conservatives

00:39:06.040 and they were

00:39:07.460 at each other's

00:39:08.300 throats and

00:39:08.780 you read it

00:39:09.440 and you just

00:39:10.100 stop and laugh

00:39:11.060 I look most

00:39:12.360 of us weren't

00:39:12.860 alive then

00:39:13.540 and the same

00:39:15.080 battles that we

00:39:15.860 see playing out

00:39:16.820 somewhere okay

00:39:17.520 I got I got a

00:39:18.260 few mean looks

00:39:18.900 but the same

00:39:21.900 battles and

00:39:22.700 tensions that

00:39:23.560 were playing out

00:39:24.540 now were playing

00:39:26.280 out then and

00:39:26.980 they're going to

00:39:27.300 be disagreements

00:39:28.280 and you know

00:39:30.740 some of it comes

00:39:31.420 down to the

00:39:31.840 difference between

00:39:32.280 a parliamentary

00:39:32.720 system and a

00:39:33.520 two-party

00:39:33.880 presidential system

00:39:34.800 parliamentary system

00:39:35.860 we could have a

00:39:38.160 dozen different

00:39:38.800 parties and

00:39:39.320 everyone could

00:39:39.720 pick a party

00:39:40.280 of just people

00:39:41.180 exactly like

00:39:42.480 them who are

00:39:44.900 left-handed and

00:39:45.620 ride unicorns

00:39:46.400 unicycles and

00:39:47.420 you can all be

00:39:48.020 hopefully not

00:39:48.580 unicorns but

00:39:49.060 unicycles in a

00:39:52.420 presidential system

00:39:53.320 for two parties

00:39:54.180 you've got to

00:39:54.840 stitch together a

00:39:55.940 coalition that's

00:39:57.980 sometimes uneasy

00:39:59.100 that's sometimes

00:40:00.020 difficult so yes

00:40:01.340 these tensions are

00:40:02.720 real and I think

00:40:04.660 having debates

00:40:05.400 about who we are

00:40:06.160 and what we stand

00:40:06.800 for should be good

00:40:07.660 but I also don't

00:40:08.800 think we win

00:40:09.840 elections by purging

00:40:11.120 major parts of our

00:40:11.960 party I think we win

00:40:13.060 elections by growing

00:40:14.100 our party and

00:40:15.080 convincing the

00:40:15.640 American people that

00:40:16.400 our ideas are right

00:40:17.200 I love that point

00:40:18.640 senator it's a really

00:40:19.920 really great point

00:40:20.780 because this is an

00:40:23.480 issue that has come

00:40:24.360 up in the last couple

00:40:25.260 of weeks should there

00:40:25.800 be a third party for

00:40:27.200 people who are I

00:40:28.140 don't know one type of

00:40:29.240 conservative over the

00:40:30.160 other and of course if

00:40:31.260 there were a different

00:40:31.980 party that would

00:40:33.200 immediately give

00:40:33.980 Democrats every

00:40:35.300 single office in the

00:40:36.040 land more or less

00:40:36.900 we saw this happen

00:40:37.920 with Teddy Roosevelt

00:40:39.280 gave us Woodrow

00:40:40.220 Wilson and more or

00:40:41.560 less destroyed the

00:40:42.100 country so you don't

00:40:42.980 want that sort of

00:40:43.540 thing to happen

00:40:44.020 when Bill Buckley

00:40:45.400 in conjunction with

00:40:47.820 this very organization

00:40:49.220 sort of cobbled

00:40:50.500 together the post-war

00:40:51.640 conservative movement

00:40:52.400 he brought together

00:40:53.520 libertarians

00:40:54.240 traditionalists and the

00:40:56.220 religious right and

00:40:57.580 war hawk Democrats

00:40:58.580 and those three groups

00:41:00.920 did not have a ton in

00:41:03.100 common they all hated

00:41:04.260 the Soviet Union

00:41:05.160 libertarians because of

00:41:06.380 the collectivism the

00:41:07.540 traditionalists because

00:41:08.580 of the atheism and the

00:41:10.100 war hawks because of the

00:41:10.960 imperial ambitions and

00:41:12.560 they they worked

00:41:13.400 together and had an

00:41:14.400 incredibly successful

00:41:15.240 governing coalition and

00:41:16.520 now we're going to be

00:41:17.280 debating a lot of these

00:41:18.200 questions where do we

00:41:19.800 stand on migration what

00:41:22.080 do we think that means in

00:41:23.120 our national history where

00:41:24.620 do we stand on corporate

00:41:26.320 America where we stand all

00:41:27.160 these sorts of issues I

00:41:28.580 think it's easier to

00:41:29.460 debate those things when

00:41:30.820 it's not just a

00:41:31.620 personality contest and a

00:41:33.080 contest of who was right

00:41:34.060 five years ago when

00:41:35.440 you're actually talking

00:41:36.100 about those issues and

00:41:37.060 there's another issue on

00:41:38.000 top of that which is do

00:41:40.000 we have the courage to

00:41:41.240 do the things that the

00:41:42.840 people give us power to

00:41:43.860 do will we actually do

00:41:45.300 it or are we just going

00:41:46.020 to promise something on

00:41:46.820 the campaign trail and

00:41:48.020 then do something else

00:41:48.800 behind closed doors

00:41:49.560 those debates as you say

00:41:50.780 senator those are all

00:41:51.520 happening right now that

00:41:52.660 is perfectly normal and

00:41:54.240 you want to make sure you

00:41:55.040 keep enough people

00:41:55.780 together that you can

00:41:57.080 still win elections

00:41:57.820 our next live verdict

00:41:59.780 mailbag question comes

00:42:01.340 from YAF TV YouTube

00:42:02.720 subscriber Derek Schumacher

00:42:04.700 who asks should Texas

00:42:07.120 secede

00:42:08.000 you know it's interesting

00:42:13.080 that question is getting

00:42:14.240 asked more and more it is

00:42:16.720 literally being debated in

00:42:18.200 the Texas legislature I have

00:42:21.060 a friend of mine from New

00:42:23.220 England who actually flew

00:42:25.000 down to Texas right before

00:42:27.180 the 2016 election he was

00:42:28.800 convinced Hillary was going 1.00

00:42:29.960 to win and the world was

00:42:32.360 going to hell in a hand 0.99

00:42:33.200 basket and he said Texas

00:42:35.080 needs to secede it's the

00:42:36.340 only hope to save the

00:42:37.720 union and he was dead deadly

00:42:39.080 serious and I'll tell you

00:42:41.420 what I told him then and

00:42:42.320 it's the same thing I'd say

00:42:43.180 in the answer to that my

00:42:44.320 answer is no I don't believe

00:42:46.680 Texas should secede because

00:42:48.820 I think we have a

00:42:49.360 responsibility to the country

00:42:50.620 because I love America and

00:42:52.140 I'm not willing to give up on

00:42:53.160 America

00:42:53.620 I understand the sentiments

00:43:03.800 behind it I understand the

00:43:06.300 frustrations as you look at

00:43:09.480 at lunatics running our

00:43:14.380 national parties running our

00:43:16.920 institutions of government it's

00:43:18.340 frightening and I will say look

00:43:20.320 we're in a strange time in our

00:43:22.540 country because our country is

00:43:23.740 coming apart we're living in two

00:43:26.920 universes the left and right and

00:43:30.040 this is where technology I think

00:43:31.540 has had a really significant

00:43:32.580 impact because with social media

00:43:35.080 with the internet the left

00:43:37.640 listens to left-wing news the

00:43:40.140 right listens to right-wing news

00:43:41.800 if someone disagrees you unfriend

00:43:44.480 them and and we don't have shared

00:43:47.920 facts we don't have the homogenizing

00:43:51.760 institutions you know it used to

00:43:53.040 be that that you know you would go

00:43:55.380 you'd be a Democrat or Republican but

00:43:58.340 you'd go to church with your

00:43:59.720 neighbors and there'd be some of

00:44:01.160 both you'd go to the Rotary Club and

00:44:03.400 you would know people who were

00:44:05.360 Democrats you'd know people who were

00:44:06.920 Republicans and you discover that

00:44:08.360 they didn't have horns and and and 0.75

00:44:10.700 and they weren't monsters I worry

00:44:14.000 about our country that the reality of

00:44:17.460 someone in Texas is very different

00:44:22.700 maybe than the reality of someone in

00:44:24.740 Seattle where everything they're

00:44:27.260 hearing all of the reinforcements all

00:44:30.080 of the facts are skewed to one side I

00:44:33.860 think the answer it's incumbent on us

00:44:35.660 listen the media has given up on its

00:44:37.260 task you know Walter Cronkite played a

00:44:42.020 role of of bringing people together and

00:44:44.720 he leaned left but he wasn't a naked

00:44:47.960 partisan the way today's journalists are

00:44:50.180 to be honest if we're gonna wait for

00:44:54.200 CNN or MSNBC or the New York Times to

00:44:57.200 fix itself the country will be lost the

00:45:01.640 only way to fix it is to do what we're

00:45:03.260 doing right now it's one of the reasons

00:45:05.540 I love podcast is because we can sit

00:45:07.400 down and do a podcast any damn time we 0.69

00:45:09.880 want and put it out there and

00:45:12.320 communicate directly and by the way

00:45:13.780 every one of you can too you know it's

00:45:17.120 easy when you're young to think well

00:45:18.720 gosh you know when I'm older when I'm

00:45:20.260 30 when I'm 40 when I'm established

00:45:22.180 then I'll have a voice then I'll be

00:45:24.000 able to do something every one of you

00:45:26.920 has a voice right now and not only that

00:45:30.700 you're you're conservatives on college

00:45:32.860 campuses I mean you are thick-headed and

00:45:37.200 stubborn as hell that's great

00:45:40.600 you got them to applaud by calling them

00:45:48.440 thick-headed and stubborn as hell that's 0.75

00:45:50.220 very impressive you know on this

00:45:53.020 question of Texas I will defer to the

00:45:55.460 senator from Texas if you want to ask me

00:45:57.660 about tennis exit or something which

00:45:59.540 sounds very very tawdry but if you want

00:46:01.700 to ask me about that I'm happy to answer

00:46:02.920 but but I agree that's a good point howdy

00:46:07.420 gentlemen my name is Reed Olson I am a

00:46:10.200 senior at Texas A&M University as a

00:46:15.660 lifelong Texan I too am a survivor of the

00:46:18.100 2018 hellscape known as Beto mania so my

00:46:22.040 question to you is seeing as this is a

00:46:23.620 current trend with you know AOC becoming

00:46:26.500 of basically a new celebrity how do you

00:46:29.540 fight the power of celebrity in future

00:46:31.300 elections it's a huge problem it is a

00:46:37.100 problem that stems back I think you can go

00:46:41.120 back really to the 1960s the left

00:46:44.680 systematically took over the organs of

00:46:49.820 the transmission of ideas they

00:46:52.860 systematically took over education K

00:46:54.760 through 12 education is almost uniformly

00:46:57.320 left they took over colleges and

00:47:00.180 universities they took over journalism

00:47:02.960 and they took over entertainment they

00:47:06.500 took over Hollywood by the way of all of

00:47:09.560 them if I could get one back I'd get

00:47:11.520 entertainment back if you look at the

00:47:15.220 influence of movies and TVs and by the

00:47:18.640 way sports and and video games all of

00:47:22.140 them are dominated by the left and so what

00:47:26.360 they do is is they make their folks

00:47:30.440 celebrities and they treat them AOC and

00:47:33.680 Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian are all

00:47:40.640 the same thing and and the press and big

00:47:45.740 tech oh be still my heart she played a

00:47:50.660 video game well hot diggity damn you know 0.72

00:47:56.120 I was in the airport in DC get ready to

00:48:02.440 fly down to Miami today and I stopped to

00:48:04.700 get a I wanted to die Dr. Pepper but

00:48:06.840 they didn't have one so I got a Diet Coke

00:48:08.000 and I just looking at all the magazine

00:48:12.420 covers and every magazine cover had Joe

00:48:18.160 Biden smiling ear to ear had him happy Jill

00:48:21.880 Biden there well except for the Kamala

00:48:23.220 ones mm-hmm where I actually think she

00:48:25.680 was glowing I think they actually require

00:48:27.600 like choir music to be played yeah

00:48:29.540 there's a loom on it it's radio active

00:48:31.380 it you know you know the Renaissance

00:48:34.560 paintings where they put halos around I

00:48:36.420 mean it is it's it's a geography yeah and

00:48:39.940 it is designed to be and you know you get

00:48:43.320 questions what's your favorite ice cream

00:48:45.540 flavor Scott did anyone ever ask you your

00:48:49.640 favorite ice cream it is and the

00:48:55.680 entertainment world all right so this week I

00:49:00.320 got in a Twitter beef with Carrie Elwes

00:49:06.040 who's the dread pirate Roberts and the

00:49:09.840 Princess Bride which is my favorite

00:49:11.300 movie and mind you okay so this it was

00:49:14.520 actually caused by verdict so I didn't

00:49:16.340 pick this one I picked a lot of them but I

00:49:18.120 did not pick this one I was innocently

00:49:21.220 minding my own business last verdict we

00:49:24.100 did I talked about I went on a digression

00:49:26.380 and I said you ever notice how many movie

00:49:28.100 villains are rabid environmentalists and I

00:49:32.500 talked about Thanos and Avengers Endgame

00:49:35.360 who says there are too many people

00:49:37.220 they're consuming the resources so I'm

00:49:38.800 going to snap my finger and half the

00:49:40.540 people are going to disappear and I've

00:49:44.240 said that point several times before but

00:49:47.400 for whatever reason some lefty saw it

00:49:51.380 and lost his mind and tweeted it out the

00:49:54.460 thing went viral like crazy and I

00:49:56.040 actually took media matters the lefty

00:49:57.580 group and I retweeted them I said like

00:49:59.020 yep that's what I'm saying listen to what

00:50:01.420 the guy's saying he's an environmentalist

00:50:03.360 so he wants to kill half of every person

00:50:05.360 that lives so Kerry always got mad at 0.86

00:50:09.420 that oh there is a very cute thing on

00:50:13.040 Twitter someone pointed out apparently I

00:50:14.660 pronounce his name wrong because I say

00:50:16.060 Thanos and I how is it pronounced it's

00:50:18.780 Thanos and they actually did a clip of

00:50:22.300 like 20 characters from the movie going

00:50:24.060 Thanos Thanos Thanos Thanos okay guy with

00:50:27.420 really fat fingers who can kill half the 0.89

00:50:29.280 people on the universe so Kerry I was out

00:50:34.260 of nowhere blasts me and says I don't

00:50:37.640 know puts that clip and says you're a

00:50:39.480 moron and by the way everyone who made

00:50:41.140 the princess bride we all hate you hate

00:50:42.900 you we all hate you yeah now this is my 0.87

00:50:47.500 favorite movie I've seen this a lot of

00:50:50.500 times and as it so happens in my Senate

00:50:54.400 office is a framed picture of Carrie

00:50:57.500 Elwes dressed as the dread pirate 0.76

00:51:00.060 Roberts signed by Carrie Elwes to 0.60

00:51:05.340 Senator Cruz best wishes all my best

00:51:08.520 wishes and so I'm sitting there I'm like

00:51:11.280 really dude like really yes you're a

00:51:14.500 lefty actor you're all lefty actors

00:51:16.760 yeah and by the way just because you're

00:51:19.600 all lefty actors doesn't mean we don't

00:51:21.140 get to enjoy movies you know if we only

00:51:23.500 listen to conservatives okay no movies

00:51:26.980 no sports no TV no like to hell with

00:51:30.000 you you don't own your art I love your

00:51:31.680 movie even if you're a numbskull but I

00:51:35.420 did take a picture of the signed signed

00:51:38.880 picture that he had signed to me and

00:51:40.900 apparently forgot about and I just sent

00:51:43.780 the picture back and said does this mean

00:51:46.020 you want your picture back and so he

00:51:50.080 blocked me he does not surprise me never

00:51:52.740 go against Ted Cruz when tweets are on

00:51:54.940 the line and never do it

00:51:56.540 our final question comes from the live

00:52:07.220 verdict mailbag Blake who is a

00:52:10.360 subscriber on YAF TV asks Biden said he

00:52:14.080 was going to follow the science but what

00:52:16.340 about his refusal to follow the science

00:52:18.700 that says open the schools are he and

00:52:21.440 Cuomo just on a rampage to hold on to

00:52:23.500 the power they gained under kovid yes 0.91

00:52:27.040 thanks everybody the left is really good

00:52:38.500 at weaponizing language they do it really

00:52:43.540 well by the way we're not nearly as good

00:52:46.000 at it science is one of their favorite

00:52:51.400 words by the way what they mean for by

00:52:54.060 science are the socialist policies they

00:52:57.180 want to implement the actual substance of

00:53:00.000 the science doesn't matter it's actually

00:53:01.480 worth pointing out too they have been

00:53:03.840 using science in this way for over a

00:53:06.200 hundred years they actually you know

00:53:07.640 radical left-wing activists following in

00:53:10.060 the Marxist tradition actually were would

00:53:12.460 refer to the science of history the

00:53:14.860 science of politics that that is why

00:53:16.960 actually when Bill Buckley started

00:53:18.460 National Review he said we stand a

00:53:20.320 thwart history yelling stop because they

00:53:22.820 knew that they knew the science of

00:53:23.920 history they knew where it was going to

00:53:25.900 their terrible socialist utopia so

00:53:28.360 they've been they've been doing this for a

00:53:29.300 long time but they also don't care about

00:53:32.120 science exactly science is a club to beat

00:53:38.800 the masses into submission and obedience 0.75

00:53:41.440 so and let me be clear I am the son of

00:53:49.360 two mathematicians and scientists I

00:53:51.040 believe in science science actually

00:53:52.960 matters now how many of you all remember

00:53:55.900 the scientific method where you start

00:53:58.660 with a hypothesis you then test it with

00:54:02.500 evidence and you seek to disprove it so

00:54:05.620 one of the things are let's take a couple of

00:54:08.740 issues on science climate change the the

00:54:11.380 holy holy grail now of government

00:54:13.700 control of every aspect of your life a

00:54:16.700 little bit of history 1960s 1970s left-wing

00:54:21.400 politicians were saying we are entering a

00:54:24.160 massive period of global cooling a new

00:54:27.280 ice age the only solution is for the 0.92

00:54:31.180 government to control the economy the

00:54:32.920 energy sector in every aspect of your life

00:54:34.480 it follows naturally then there was a

00:54:37.540 problem the earth wasn't in fact cooling

00:54:41.320 like it was an interesting theory but it

00:54:43.540 just was wrong so then fast forward another

00:54:48.580 ten twenty years and you have scientists

00:54:51.280 many of them the same scientists who come up

00:54:53.440 with global warming that sounds different

00:54:57.340 sounds kind of like the opposite of the first one

00:54:59.220 but interesting and by the way you get the

00:55:02.060 next wave of politicians and global warming

00:55:04.180 the solution is total government control of the

00:55:08.680 economy the energy sector in every aspect of your life

00:55:10.980 and hold on here

00:55:11.980 but then they had another problem

00:55:14.860 which is that the earth isn't warming i mean these guys can't win for losing

00:55:20.180 they just keep blowing it so so we have satellites that are orbiting the earth

00:55:25.060 that are measuring the temperature and for 18 years they have measured zero

00:55:31.540 statistically significant warming so they have a problem they have these

00:55:35.860 computer models that show it should be warming like crazy and the satellites

00:55:39.500 actually measuring the temperature say well it's not warming like crazy they

00:55:43.300 actually call this the pause if you want to enjoy a bit of humor you can google

00:55:53.900 me and sierra club the head of the sierra club was testifying in the senate and i

00:56:00.220 asked him about the pause and i said do you know what the pause is he said yes

00:56:05.500 i asked him what it was and he refused to say he simply refused to say he refused to

00:56:10.780 answer and it's because and then did you notice think about it for a second no one uses the term

00:56:16.460 global warming anymore it magically changed and if you care about science i want you to pause and

00:56:22.940 think about climate change it is the perfect pseudo scientific theory why let's go back to the

00:56:31.660 scientific method this is a theory that can never ever ever be disproven if you're mapping out the

00:56:40.940 sets in which it is true it is true in 100 of the circumstances if the climate gets hotter the theory

00:56:47.180 is correct if the climate gets cooler the theory is correct if the climate gets wetter the theory is

00:56:51.580 correct if the climate gets drier the theory is correct there are no data there is no evidence

00:56:56.700 can that can ever disprove a theory that stops changing because well yeah the climate's been

00:57:04.220 changing since the dawn of time

00:57:12.940 if something is not susceptible to the scientific method if it's not testable by data and evidence

00:57:20.380 its purpose is not science and by the way the solution to fix it hold on i am going to try to

00:57:26.700 guess give me a second tell me total government control of the economy the energy sector in every

00:57:31.580 aspect of your lives okay john carey flies on private jets to get environmental awards because

00:57:43.820 he believes in this nonsense no he doesn't he believes in government power and it has nothing to

00:57:50.620 do with science by the way you'll also be told the polar ice caps are melting here's a problem there's

00:57:56.780 more ice in the polar ice caps today than there were 10 was 10 years ago group of lefty scientists

00:58:02.540 went down with a ship to antarctica to measure the ice they were told they needed ice breakers they said

00:58:07.580 no no it's all melting they got stuck in the ice when you bring this up the supposed avatars of science

00:58:18.620 scream denier let me tell you right now denier is not the language of science

00:58:26.220 if you actually care about science you don't speak that's the language of religion heretic 1.00

00:58:35.020 the witch

00:58:37.980 throw him in the water if he floats he's a witch that's for science it's science 1.00

00:58:43.820 by the way for any of your lefty classmates if they want to pontificate on science here's one

00:58:50.940 question you can ask them just just very innocuously tell me what is a y chromosome

00:59:00.060 how dare you there's no hate speech on this podcast senator you cannot ask that

00:59:05.820 you believe in science just tell me what what is that thing i i learned i you know we've we've had a

00:59:12.620 year of good podcasts and now you're going to get us a de-platformed because you're bringing up hate

00:59:16.700 speech like our chromosomes you know you can even you even see it in the white house press briefings

00:59:21.340 we heard this just over the past few days actually getting back to the specifics of that question

00:59:28.220 if you will if you will indulge me i would like to circle back

00:59:31.420 we have been told biden administration in what 42 executive orders since he's been inaugurated

00:59:46.140 three of them explicitly mention how important science is and we need to follow the science

00:59:51.020 biden campaigned on this so he's going to more or less outsources his policies to these technocrats

00:59:57.340 these lab coat exalted dictators who know how to run our lives better than we all do right 0.74

01:00:03.740 unless it's politically inconvenient because just just a couple days ago the cdc director said no

01:00:10.140 reason to keep the schools closed we've got a lot of great data coming out shows that the virus is not

01:00:14.860 spreading in any particular way in schools you don't need to wait for teachers to get vaccinated

01:00:19.820 send those kids back educate them now did you see the correction no was there a correction

01:00:27.100 there was a correction what was there was a fact check well no it's worse than that the white 0.92

01:00:31.420 house said she was speaking in her personal capacity in her so apparently she wasn't a scientist i guess

01:00:41.980 this now she's standing at the frigging white house with a podium that says the frigging white house on

01:00:49.340 it and she's discussing a global pandemic and what the science says but here's the problem

01:00:59.420 she doesn't lead a union that spends hundreds of millions of dollars to elect democrats that is 1.00

01:01:04.700 very interesting and so suddenly what she said became an inconvenient truth it's a good book title by

01:01:13.980 the way someone should make a movie out of that because of course these bureaucrats these technocrats

01:01:19.580 yeah they might be in the constituency here that the democrats want to appeal to but they want to

01:01:25.260 appeal to those teacher unions more and the teacher unions say science be damned we're not going back

01:01:30.060 to work and that's going to be the line from the white house it look science is a wonderful thing and by the

01:01:37.100 way we should embrace science as a wonderful tool for human learning but part of science is looking to

01:01:42.700 facts and data and evidence and what works and what doesn't their policies don't work they don't want

01:01:48.300 to talk about whether their policies work they instead want to behave it has become religion

01:01:55.980 climate change is their justification for a total government control but it's about socialism it's about

01:02:01.740 the state having control of your lives and they are statists in their core and and i think we should

01:02:10.700 respond as happy warriors you don't think we should just be furious and rip our hair out because that's

01:02:16.460 sort of what i'm tempted to do is that uh no no we've got a we've got to take a better attitude than that

01:02:21.980 and things can change very quickly um you know one of my favorite clips is a great clip um

01:02:38.540 of reagan at the white house and he's doing a white house uh press briefing

01:02:44.460 and sam donelson who was an abc news reporter was pretty obnoxious

01:02:47.900 yeah and and and he was pounding reagan and he said mr president you blamed the speaker of the

01:02:58.780 house you blamed congress you blamed democrats you blamed everybody else mr president we have a lot

01:03:06.540 of problems in this country don't you bear any of the responsibility for the problems we have in this

01:03:11.740 in this country and reagan leans forward with a twinkle in his eye and he says well sam yes yes i do

01:03:26.620 i bear considerable responsibility because for many years i was a democrat

01:03:41.740 and if you google the clip it ends with sam donelson cracking up laughing yeah a little humor goes a

01:03:50.620 long way even in an empire of lies to borrow our friend andrew flavin's phrase even living in this

01:03:56.140 empire of lies big government big tech big business big everything colluding against us a conservative

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Verdict with Ted Cruz - February 11, 2021

LIVE from Miami at YAF’s Freedom Conference

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