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00:04:09.780 Senator, this is all happening in real time right now.

00:04:14.440 Takes me back to our earliest days on this show during impeachment.

00:04:18.440 You've just come from the Capitol.

00:04:20.020 You've just voted to shoot down this Democrats abortion rights bill.

00:04:23.940 The way this is being reported right now in the Associated Press and MSNBC is that a GOP-led filibuster stopped the abortion bill.

00:04:34.440 Last I checked, the vote was 49 in favor, 51 against.

00:04:40.400 Am I crazy?

00:04:41.660 Is this just my legal ignorance or is that not a filibuster? 0.90

00:04:45.220 Yes.

00:04:45.720 Stop trying to bring math into it.

00:04:48.020 The fact is a majority of the Senate voted against this radical bill.

00:04:51.900 But the press doesn't like that news that the real headline should be bipartisan majority of the Senate rejects radical pro-abortion bill.

00:04:59.860 That would, in fact, be the accurate headline.

00:05:02.140 But, you know, it's interesting.

00:05:04.460 The other part of the headline, it's not just the filibuster part that is inaccurate, is the part that says codifies Roe.

00:05:11.720 This bill does nothing of the sort.

00:05:13.580 It doesn't – when you read codifies Roe, you think, oh, it goes back to the way things were before the Supreme Court decides the Dobbs case.

00:05:22.600 Well, no, that's not what this bill does.

00:05:24.720 If this bill passed, it would be a radical bill.

00:05:28.720 It would strike down just about every reasonable common-sense restriction on abortion that has been enacted the last 49 years.

00:05:36.600 Under Roe, it's been deemed permissible, even already, for states to limit late-term abortions, for states to restrict taxpayer funding of abortions, for states to require parental consent or parental notification.

00:05:49.040 This Democrat bill strikes all those laws down.

00:05:52.620 This Democrat bill is the unlimited abortion-for-all bill.

00:05:56.840 Think about it for a minute that 49 Democrats were happy to vote for that.

00:06:01.240 The only one who voted with the Republicans was Joe Manchin.

00:06:04.540 The bill couldn't codify Roe because parts of Roe v. Wade have already been overruled.

00:06:10.380 They were overruled by Planned Parenthood v. Casey, which changed some of the reasoning and some of the processes for abortion.

00:06:17.420 And so, you know, this has been an ongoing debate for a long time.

00:06:21.460 Your colleague, Senator Elizabeth Warren, yesterday said that the Dobbs decision could represent an extremist right-wing Supreme Court imposing its views on the American people because if Roe v. Wade is overruled, then you'll have a situation where the majority of states will impose severe restrictions on abortion immediately.

00:06:41.840 If the majority of states are going to impose new restrictions, how is the Supreme Court imposing its views on the people?

00:06:47.700 Yeah, this is literally an example where for Democrats in the press, up is down, right is left, everything is backwards and upside down.

00:06:55.980 You have Democrats screaming that overturning Roe is an assault on democracy.

00:07:01.600 In fact, if the court does overturn Roe, it is a victory for democracy.

00:07:05.740 Roe was an assault on democracy. 0.99

00:07:08.260 Roe v. Wade was seven unelected lawyers in black robes saying, you stupid voters don't know how to resolve these issues' rights. 1.00

00:07:16.400 We're not going to let you do this. 0.99

00:07:18.120 Now, for 185 years, literally from the beginning of our country until 1973, questions of abortion were decided by the voters and by the state legislatures that were elected by the voters.

00:07:29.760 Roe said no more.

00:07:30.840 They said, we don't believe in democracy.

00:07:32.500 And the reason Democrats are freaking out right now is, you know, in poker, a tell is when they do something that gives away what their hand is and they're trying to represent something other than what their hand is.

00:07:45.580 Here, the Democrats have a tell.

00:07:47.720 Number one, the fact that they're freaking out is a tell that they know their views on abortion are radical and out of touch with the American people.

00:07:58.140 Well, 49 of the Democrats today voted for a law that allows abortion up until the moment of birth, literally until the child is being born, this Democrat bill would allow abortion.

00:08:10.440 Do you know the latest polling?

00:08:11.700 Do you know what percent of Americans agree with abortion up until the very instant of birth?

00:08:16.020 Six percent.

00:08:16.860 Wow.

00:08:17.100 Six percent of Americans agree with the position of 49 out of 50 Democrats and Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.

00:08:24.220 Elizabeth Warren, when she's screaming and ranting and raving, it's because the voters are going to be allowed to do what they think is right and not be subject to her radical decrees. 0.99

00:08:36.000 Now, the Democrats have another tale, which is you notice that when they're talking about the Dobbs decision, they very, very quickly say, if this decision goes into effect, it will strike down the availability of contraceptives.

00:08:51.040 Right.

00:08:51.260 It will strike down gay marriage and interracial marriage.

00:08:57.600 The New York Times went so far.

00:09:01.060 The editorial board, the New York Times suggested that there are multiple states in the union that if they were allowed to would ban interracial marriage. 0.99

00:09:10.400 What utter garbage? 1.00

00:09:12.720 You bigoted, moronic, Manhattan, leftist, elite, lying sacks of crap. 1.00

00:09:19.160 But how do you really feel? 1.00

00:09:19.900 Yeah, it kind of pisses me off.

00:09:22.400 And I would note, by the way, that these racist leftists of the New York Times, there may be no one on planet Earth whom they despise more than Justice Clarence Thomas. 0.81

00:09:32.600 Right. 0.97

00:09:33.220 Who is married to a white woman.

00:09:34.600 He is in an interracial marriage.

00:09:35.980 I suspect Clarence Thomas would be quite surprised if he were doing something to strike down interracial marriage.

00:09:42.680 But the only people who imagine interracial marriage is going to be struck down is radical leftists because they've never actually met a conservative voter.

00:09:50.640 So they think we're all bigoted Klansmen.

00:09:53.700 But here's the tell on this.

00:09:56.940 When the Democrats and the press are not defending their positions on abortion, it's because they know their positions on abortion are wildly out of the mainstream.

00:10:09.180 So anytime you hear them talking about contraception or marriage, it's because they're trying to change the subject.

00:10:15.620 Well, so this raises a question to me that I do not have an answer to, which is why would the Democrats bring up this bill? 0.99

00:10:22.900 It makes them look extremely foolish. 0.97

00:10:24.900 It gives away the whole game. 0.98

00:10:26.360 It shows that actually the overruling of Roe is not an assault on democracy, that actually most people don't want this kind of crazy, extreme abortion agenda.

00:10:35.820 Elizabeth Warren admitted it herself in this column in Marie Claire magazine.

00:10:40.220 Wait, you're reading Marie Claire magazine?

00:10:42.140 Oh, constantly.

00:10:42.800 Michael, why are you reading Marie Claire magazine?

00:10:45.120 And what is Marie Claire magazine?

00:10:46.800 I am so sure.

00:10:47.600 I cannot believe how uncultured you are, Senator.

00:10:49.820 Next, you're going to tell me you don't read Glamour either.

00:10:52.160 I only read Cosmo for teens.

00:10:54.480 That's fair enough.

00:10:56.100 So why are they doing this?

00:10:57.540 They've got egg on their face. 1.00

00:10:59.260 It looks pathetic. 1.00

00:11:00.280 Is it just to appease the base? 0.99

00:11:03.420 You've got to understand today's Democrats are captured by the radical activists on every issue.

00:11:09.660 They're captured by the open border radicals on on issues of gender.

00:11:19.540 They're they're captured by the transgender radicals and on issues of abortion. 0.74

00:11:26.480 They actually don't care about the swing voter.

00:11:29.820 They don't care about the American people.

00:11:31.500 They don't care about the soccer mom. 0.88

00:11:33.520 They care about the radicals who control the money and control the foot soldiers in the Democratic Party.

00:11:40.380 And here's proof of it.

00:11:42.520 Chuck Schumer could have had a vote today that he would have won a bipartisan majority on.

00:11:47.300 So it's a 50-50 Senate, 50 Democrats, 50 Republicans.

00:11:52.600 Two of the Republicans, Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski, have explicitly stated.

00:11:57.680 In fact, they've introduced legislation that would do something like codify row.

00:12:02.300 It would it would take some elements of abortion off the table. 1.00

00:12:06.360 It would leave some of the restrictions like partial birth and taxpayer funding and parental consent,

00:12:11.340 a parental notification in place.

00:12:12.640 But it would it would be more accurately described as codifying row than this current radical bill.

00:12:19.880 If Schumer had brought that up, he would have won today.

00:12:22.600 Fifty three to forty seven.

00:12:23.800 He would have gotten the forty nine Democrats who voted for this.

00:12:27.320 He would have gotten Joe Manchin, who he lost.

00:12:29.500 He would have gotten two Republicans. 0.60

00:12:30.800 Now, it still wouldn't have passed because it would take 60 to go up.

00:12:35.400 But we would have had a vote that was fifty set, fifty three, forty seven.

00:12:38.820 And the Democrats could accurately say bipartisan majority of the Senate votes to rebuke the court.

00:12:44.640 They don't care.

00:12:45.780 Their radicals don't actually want anything like a middle ground.

00:12:51.220 They are appeasing the crazies.

00:12:54.120 Well, speaking of the crazy, Senator, I mean, you you you're kind of seeing this right now in Washington, D.C. and Virginia,

00:13:00.060 which is that the White House is refusing to condemn the protesters who are showing up not even just to the Supreme Court,

00:13:08.580 which is a questionable practice in and of itself.

00:13:10.720 And we can get to it.

00:13:11.520 They're showing up to the homes of judges where their children sleep protesting, screaming in residential neighborhoods.

00:13:18.420 The White House is asked about that.

00:13:19.660 What do they do?

00:13:20.080 They shrug their shoulders.

00:13:20.880 The last pod, we talked about how this leak of the Supreme Court decision is an attempt to destroy the Supreme Court.

00:13:27.500 It's an attempt to tear down the rule of law.

00:13:29.980 And it's an attempt to use political pressure to bully the justices into changing their votes.

00:13:34.960 And it really goes right to the heart of the integrity of the institution.

00:13:38.580 This is the next step of that, which is the radicals showing up at the private homes of the justices,

00:13:44.660 trying to intimidate them, trying to frighten them, trying to threaten them.

00:13:48.380 And by the way, it's not just at the homes of the justices.

00:13:53.080 These guys are also showing up at pro-life advocacy groups, at pro-life pregnancy centers.

00:13:59.000 There was one in Wisconsin that they threw a Molotov cocktail on, that they burned, that they spray painted and vandalized.

00:14:06.520 There was another one in Denton, Texas, that they spray painted and vandalized.

00:14:10.200 There were people showing up at Catholic churches across the country and harassing people going to mass on Sunday. 0.96

00:14:16.480 I mean, it's just, number one, these are vile, evil, bigoted people. 0.96

00:14:20.680 I'm sorry, if you go to anyone's church and harass them at church, there is a circle of hell just for you. 0.96

00:14:27.180 That is contemptuous.

00:14:29.320 Even if you disagree with them, leave them alone at church and leave them alone at home.

00:14:34.760 And I got to say, the intimidation at the homes of the justices to see Jen Psaki repeatedly refuse to condemn it.

00:14:42.300 It's just peaceful.

00:14:43.760 You know, several hundred angry people outside your house while your children are inside, screaming and yelling and cursing.

00:14:49.220 That's just peaceful.

00:14:51.040 It's repulsive.

00:14:52.240 Well, it's also against the law.

00:14:54.000 I mean, you know, you reference the acts of violence at the pro-life centers, the pro-life pregnancy centers.

00:14:59.580 But obviously, that's against the law.

00:15:01.700 It's also against the law to show up to a judge's home.

00:15:05.340 It's right there in the U.S. Code.

00:15:07.200 You know it better than I do.

00:15:09.360 Where are the prosecutions?

00:15:10.920 Where are the handcuffs?

00:15:11.860 So let's talk about that.

00:15:13.520 The particular federal provision you're talking about is 18 U.S.C. Section 1507.

00:15:18.240 And it says, whoever, with the intent of interfering with, obstructing, or impeding the administration of justice, or with the intent of influencing any judge, juror, witness, or court officer in the discharge of his duty, pickets or parades in or near a building housing a court of the United States or in or near a building or residence occupied or used by such judge, juror, witness, or court officer,

00:15:43.200 shall be fined under this title or in prison not more than one year or both.

00:15:50.760 So they're clearly doing that.

00:15:52.220 They're picketing at the home of a judge with an intent of influencing the judge's decision.

00:15:55.900 It's a straight-out federal crime, and Merrick Garland and the corrupt Biden Department of Justice is nowhere to be found.

00:16:02.240 They're not enforcing the law.

00:16:04.120 And this is – it is a form of obstruction of justice.

00:16:06.840 It is trying to get the judge to change their mind, to change their vote, to change their decision.

00:16:14.320 And I'll point out it's not just federal law.

00:16:16.440 Well, actually, Virginia law likewise has a provision, and it is Section 18.2-418 and Section 18.2-419 of the Code of Virginia that makes it a crime to picket the residence of an individual.

00:16:36.560 And so Virginia likewise, for those justices who live in Virginia, you've got both a federal crime and a crime in Virginia, and this is – going to someone's home, I'm going to suggest, is inherently threatening and intimidating.

00:16:51.400 It's one thing to go to the office.

00:16:52.640 Look, there have been protests on the steps of the Supreme Court, or actually right below the steps of the Supreme Court, from the beginning of our country, from when the Supreme Court building was built and before that in the Capitol.

00:17:03.080 So that's perfectly fine.

00:17:05.660 You want to protest on the mall, that's perfectly fine.

00:17:08.080 You want to protest on the public square, that's perfectly fine.

00:17:11.660 There's a reason you go to someone's home.

00:17:13.980 You go to someone's home because that's where they sleep.

00:17:17.180 That's where their children are.

00:17:18.920 That's where their physical safety is.

00:17:20.600 What do you make of Chuck Schumer saying that, look, this is the business we've chosen, to quote Hyman Roth in The Godfather.

00:17:27.920 There – and Chuck Schumer said that he has protesters at his house three, four times a week sometimes, and if the judges didn't want that, well, they're in the wrong line of work.

00:17:38.400 Well, they are in a different line of work.

00:17:39.980 This is not the business they have chosen.

00:17:43.360 Politics is one thing.

00:17:44.580 And listen, when I ran for office, when Schumer ran for office, part of the job is to be responsive to the people, and that means protests are a perfectly legitimate part of the political process because each of us elected to the Senate, elected to the Congress, are required or have the responsibility of representing our constituents.

00:18:04.140 The justices are not elected representatives.

00:18:06.940 Their responsibility is to the Constitution and to the law.

00:18:10.320 Now, the Democrats think this is the business the justices have chosen, and when Chuck Schumer stood on the steps of the Supreme Court and threatened the justices by name and said, if you decide this decision wrong, you will have unleashed the whirlwind, he was threatening them.

00:18:29.580 And so the job of a politician, the job of a justice is very different.

00:18:33.120 There's a reason it is a federal criminal offense to do this to a judge, and it's not a federal criminal offense to do this to an elected official because the jobs are different, and you shouldn't be using threats and intimidation to try to change your judicial decision.

00:18:49.000 Now, that being said, I actually think what's happening to elected officials, whether Chuck Schumer or anyone else, has gone too far.

00:18:56.700 Look, public service means a lot, but it shouldn't have to entail threats to the safety and lives of your kids.

00:19:06.260 I think it should be treated as a criminal offense, protesting a residential neighborhood, that there are time, place, and manner restrictions.

00:19:14.680 If a protest is designed to threaten and harass an individual, you can do it at the office, you can do it in the public square, but you shouldn't be allowed to go and harass people at their homes.

00:19:25.300 I totally agree. There is nothing in the text or spirit of the First Amendment that says you have a right to go to a residential neighborhood and scare a bunch of kids.

00:19:34.880 Schumer is not my favorite person in the world, but I think he ought to be able to sleep at night without people standing outside screaming.

00:19:40.560 And by the way, he didn't tell you who it is protesting him.

00:19:43.960 It's not conservatives. It's crazy leftists for whom Schumer is not crazy enough. 0.96

00:19:49.200 That's the interesting thing. There's another senator who I will not name who protesters threw a rock through their window that shattered and cut one of their children quite severely from the shattering glass. 0.73

00:20:02.560 We are going to see violence.

00:20:04.780 I am very concerned that we may see violence directed at the Supreme Court at these justices.

00:20:10.940 This is the kind of extreme hatred and violence that the Democrats embrace if it favors their partisan ends.

00:20:22.960 There is some good news. I mean, one, I think the reason they're doing this is because they're losing in the political arena and so they're getting desperate.

00:20:28.820 But two, you also, I felt, introduced a great bill on a completely different topic, but, well, not a completely different topic, actually, because the bill you introduced was about my body, my choice.

00:20:41.520 Namely, it was to give American service members to protect them from being punished for refusing to take the experimental COVID vaccines.

00:20:50.040 Well, that's right. So the bill I introduced this week is a bill. It's called the Allowing Military Exemptions Recognizing Individual Concerns About New Shots Act or the Americans Act.

00:21:03.520 Oh, you guys with your acronyms, that is the best acronym I've heard in a long time in legislation.

00:21:10.980 Well, I'd like to claim credit. I can't. It was the great, great guys on my team that came up with it.

00:21:16.300 But I laughed out loud and said, let's go with it. And the bill, 13 other senators joined me in introducing it.

00:21:23.380 And the bill is very simple. The bill would stop the military from firing soldiers and sailors and airmen and Marines if they declined to take the COVID vaccine.

00:21:33.420 We're seeing thousands of soldiers and sailors and airmen and Marines and Coast Guardsmen and Guardians threatened with being fired.

00:21:42.060 We're seeing cadets at our service academies threatened with being thrown out.

00:21:47.420 We're seeing people in the reserves being thrown out. It is grotesque. It is wrong. It is an abuse of power.

00:21:54.000 This bill says you can't throw anyone out because they declined to get a vaccine.

00:21:58.420 It also says if someone has been thrown out, they can come back in if they want, that it's their choice.

00:22:04.820 If they want to come back in, they can do it. And if they choose not to come back in, if you have discharged them, it's something less than honorable discharge that will adjust their discharge status to reflect their actual service.

00:22:17.800 In other words, we shouldn't be weakening our ability to defend this nation, to keep this nation safe because of a political agenda from the left.

00:22:27.660 But it's your body, your choice. You ought to be able to decide whether or not to take the COVID vaccine.

00:22:33.340 And this should be a simple common sense bill, which means, of course, the Democrats are likely to oppose at party line.

00:22:40.880 Of course, you'll notice there will just be a one hour period where they stop chanting my body, my choice.

00:22:46.680 That is while your bill is up for debate. Then after they'll they'll, of course, go right back to it.

00:22:50.760 Before we go, as usual, running late, I do want to get to a few mailbag questions from our wonderful Verdict listeners.

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00:23:12.960 So, Senator, rapid fire round. First up from Stephen. Very important question.

00:23:17.620 Ted, Michael, how do you take your coffee? Cream, no sugar. Lots of cream, though.

00:23:22.980 I like my coffee like I know I'm not going to quote that line from Airplanes, but I do take my coffee black.

00:23:29.020 Great movie. One of the greatest movies of all time from Rod.

00:23:33.540 Senator, why is the GOP still so focused on the fiscal side of things when voters care about the social side?

00:23:40.620 I don't know. Do you even agree with that premise, Senator?

00:23:42.680 It depends who in the GOP. I think there is a generational difference.

00:23:47.460 I think there are particularly Republicans who have been in Congress a long time who are your kind of traditional.

00:23:55.440 You could call them business Republicans or if you want to be more pejorative, you could call them country club Republicans who tend to want to tax a little bit less, spend a little bit more and run away from the social issues.

00:24:07.060 I actually think those numbers are shrinking.

00:24:08.900 I think more and more people recognize there is a culture war going on and we didn't start it.

00:24:16.560 The left has decided to try to destroy our culture.

00:24:20.140 Look, we have an incoming Supreme Court justice who can't tell you what a woman is. 1.00

00:24:24.240 Right.

00:24:24.320 We have Disney that has promised that they will have a gay or transgender character in every movie they put out.

00:24:31.660 By the way, I will note again when Verdict was on the road that the one quip I said of, you know, parents would like to be able to trust their movies and not have to worry about turning on some movie and seeing Mickey going at it with Pluto.

00:24:47.260 Oh, my goodness, the left lost their mind that I'm sorry.

00:24:52.320 All the in-depth constitutional analysis that we may have had in the podcast got dwarfed by the image of one little mouse and one little dog doing unspeakable things.

00:25:02.340 The libs were titillated.

00:25:03.400 There's no question about it.

00:25:04.660 I look, culture is where the battle is because they recognize that they destroy our culture.

00:25:12.100 They destroy our country.

00:25:13.400 There's some overlap, too.

00:25:14.620 I think it was Patrick Deneen who made this point.

00:25:16.440 He said, when you think about the debt, what does that tell you about our culture?

00:25:20.020 What does it tell you that our culture is leaving as an inheritance to the next generation?

00:25:24.600 A bunch of debt, you know, that the economic part, the fiscal part has a cultural aspect as well.

00:25:30.260 So I will tell you, Michael, one of the crueler things that my daughters say to me, my daughters are 11 and 14.

00:25:36.640 And when they think I'm when they're irritated with me, which is not infrequently, they'll say, OK, boomer. 0.97

00:25:44.080 And it's like, damn it, I am not a boomer. 0.94

00:25:46.920 I am firmly Gen X. 0.98

00:25:49.460 Now, you know, you're you're a millennial.

00:25:53.080 Stop insulting me, please.

00:25:54.440 Look, the boomer generation. 0.94

00:26:00.920 The credit card bill they have racked up is the greatest in the history of humanity.

00:26:07.880 One generation, the me generation. 0.99

00:26:11.160 And and their kids and grandkids are going to be paying for it forever and ever.

00:26:16.320 But I got to say to my 14 year old, Michael, I'm sorry to tell you, you're a boomer, too.

00:26:20.760 She thinks all of us.

00:26:22.520 Boomer is synonymous with way too old.

00:26:24.920 And she puts all of us in that camp.

00:26:26.800 We're all boomers now.

00:26:28.500 Final question, Senator, before I let you go.

00:26:31.260 This is from Michael, not me, I promise.

00:26:33.000 He says, will the overturning of Roe v. Wade be the issue that causes people to self-segregate

00:26:38.940 red states and blue states to the point where a peaceful national divorce would be all that

00:26:45.060 prevents a civil war?

00:26:46.260 We've seen a lot of civil unrest, as they call it around as this.

00:26:50.020 Are we headed towards civil war on this issue?

00:26:52.420 Supreme Court Justice Lewis Brandeis referred to federalism, the system of 50 states as laboratories

00:26:58.260 of democracy.

00:26:58.860 We've talked a lot on this podcast about laboratories of democracy.

00:27:01.560 I think it's perfectly healthy if different states have different policies that reflect

00:27:08.500 the values of their residents.

00:27:10.600 A friend of mine is a tech guy, very successful, moved from Northern California to Miami.

00:27:17.800 And I was having brunch with him in Miami.

00:27:20.180 And he described how when his friends from Palo Alto would come visit him in Miami, he'd go

00:27:26.420 out, take him out to dinner, and he'd drive a fancy sports car because he did very well

00:27:30.260 in tech.

00:27:31.560 And he'd park the car on the street.

00:27:34.440 And he said his friends from Northern California would freak out.

00:27:37.320 What are you doing parking it on the street?

00:27:38.900 Because what he said is, if you park your car on the street in Northern California, it will

00:27:42.980 get broken into.

00:27:43.920 It will get keyed.

00:27:45.680 And I remember thinking, that's really bizarre that the simple act of being able to park your

00:27:51.420 car on the street is this flex of like, holy cow, this is what happens when you have a functioning

00:27:59.100 police force and your rights are protected.

00:28:02.120 We will see some self-segregation. 0.99

00:28:04.480 But idiotic policies like abolishing the police will see the chaos that follows from that also. 0.98

00:28:10.240 In some ways, it reminds me of the Cold War and the countries in Eastern Europe behind the Iron 1.00

00:28:20.000 Curtain.

00:28:20.420 And, you know, when I was a little kid in the 1970s, my dad owned a seismic data processing

00:28:30.380 company, a small business, and my father and my mother ran together.

00:28:32.860 And he got hired in the late 1970s to install a computer system for the government of Albania.

00:28:41.480 Now, Albania was a communist government at the time.

00:28:44.320 And my father at the time was a Canadian citizen.

00:28:46.660 He wasn't an American citizen.

00:28:47.740 They wouldn't hire an American. 1.00

00:28:48.860 But because my dad was a Canadian citizen, they would hire him.

00:28:52.320 And so he went over, he went over there.

00:28:54.800 And you want to talk about like frozen in time, poverty, misery, the oppression of the

00:29:01.780 Albanian government.

00:29:02.800 But it was very interesting.

00:29:03.620 When my father went there the first time, the Albanian people were told Albania is the

00:29:11.080 only completely electrified country in the world, that no other country on earth has

00:29:17.880 electricity except Albania.

00:29:19.560 We are the only ones with electricity.

00:29:21.360 The second time my father went over there, he met them initially in Munich and then went

00:29:27.200 to Albania.

00:29:27.780 And like two Albanians met him in Munich.

00:29:29.380 They told the Albanians as they left, guess what?

00:29:33.120 There are now two fully electrified countries in the world, Albania and Germany.

00:29:39.540 And it reminds me a little bit of like these deep blue state prisoners who believe that everything 0.81

00:29:48.180 being shut down, their schools being shut down, their words being censored, being afraid that

00:29:53.500 their neighbors will get mad at them if they say the wrong thing, the, you know, kind of

00:29:59.040 not knowing what a woman is. 0.69

00:30:02.380 I'm not sure people in blue states are aware it's different anywhere else.

00:30:07.280 I was talking to my relatives in New York.

00:30:09.520 So is my wife, sweet little Elisa.

00:30:11.500 And they said, oh, I can't wait until this COVID is over finally.

00:30:15.440 And my wife says, it's been over for us for a while.

00:30:19.980 You're seeing this right now.

00:30:20.820 You're seeing two different visions for the country.

00:30:23.540 Frankly, just look at the abortion protests outside the court.

00:30:26.640 On the one hand, screaming, yelling, nasty people.

00:30:28.800 On the other hand, people praying, serene, well-behaved.

00:30:33.100 What kind of country do you want to live in?

00:30:34.560 Those are, these are options that we're seeing throughout the culture.

00:30:37.280 We've got to leave it there, Senator.

00:30:39.080 In the meantime, I'm Michael Knowles.

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