Media Lose Their Minds Attacking Katie Britt-She Joins Us to Give the Inside Story behind the SOTU Response that Triggered them SO Badly
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Sen. Katie Britt (R-AL) is the youngest woman ever elected to the United States Senate, and she gave the Republican response to the State of the Union, and the media went nuts. They demonized her like crazy. Well, we re going to talk about that. And then we re also going to get into Joe Biden's fallout after the SOTU as he immediately backtracked. And, of course, the thing he wanted to correct is that he actually referred to the murder of Lakin Riley as an illegal crime.
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Welcome. It is Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you.
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Senator, we have a special guest at a show tonight
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that relates to the State of the Union and the Republican response.
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We have a guest, my friend and colleague, Alabama Senator Katie Britt,
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who gave the Republican response to the State of the Union.
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And she gave it, and the media proceeded to go nuts.
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They pilloried her. They demonized her like crazy.
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Well, we're going to talk with Katie about all about that.
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And then we're also going to get into Joe Biden's fallout after the State of the Union
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And, of course, the thing he wanted to correct is that he actually referred
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to the murder of Lakin Riley as an illegal, which he promptly apologized for Craven.
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And I obviously want you to introduce our guests, the audience, but the media's reaction
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and how nasty they were to the Republican response to the State of the Union.
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And so we're joined tonight on the podcast with Katie Britt.
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Katie Britt is Senator from the state of Alabama.
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She is the first woman ever to be elected to the Senate from Alabama.
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She is the youngest Republican woman ever elected to the United States Senate.
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She used to be the CEO of the Business Council of Alabama.
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She was also the chief of staff to Richard Shelby, who was truly a legend, an icon in the
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He was in the Senate, I think, like 403 years or something like that.
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And so she like ran Shelby's operations and then came in.
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She is young and energetic and vibrant and passionate.
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We see Joe Biden standing there in the State of the Union.
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He's an old, cranky, bitter man yelling and screaming, as we said on the pod immediately
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He was the grumpy old man saying, get off my lawn.
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And then the contrast, you go to a young, happy, beautiful mom sitting there talking about
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And I got to say, if you're a Democrat, if you're a partisan, this is a nightmare.
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And so what has happened is the media has had a conniption fit.
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And so just at lunch today, I pulled her aside and said, hey, you kicked ass last week.
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And for what it's worth, the fact that the media is losing its mind should encourage you through
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There's a reason they're attacking you, because they are terrified and threatened by you.
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I appreciated you pulling me to the side today and having that conversation.
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As you said, you know well what it's like to be right over the target.
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And so being able to talk through that with you and reflect on Joe Biden's really angry speech
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and no media attention to that, and then mine, and heaven forbid that you show a little bit of
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passion about the things that matter to American families, it was quite different.
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And by the way, you want the perfect encapsulation, Saturday Night Live.
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Now, I have to admit, the night of the State of the Union, I knew you were going to be on
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But this, you want to really sum up how corrupt the media is.
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The cold open of Saturday Night Live, they have Joe Biden for like two minutes, and they
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just kind of have him as sort of a happy doddery, like, yoo-hoo, he's happy.
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They don't have him screaming and bitter and angry.
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It was, I mean, the whole thing, angry, yelling, doesn't make sense, was speaking some type
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And so the cold open, 80% of it is Katie's response.
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And by the way, okay, the thing that was the coolest is you're played by Scarlett Johansson.
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Okay, Katie, look, be candid, Scarlett Johansson is hot.
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And, all right, I am genuinely jealous, because, look, SNL has come after me a bunch
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And, like, you know, that is a real compliment that you ought to be pretty psyched with.
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I thought, you know what, obviously, no, we're going to be the cold open.
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And you wonder, who in the world is going to play you, right?
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And I'll be honest with you, a bingo card of 2024 for Katie Britt, I did not have this
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And so certainly didn't have Scarlett Johansson playing me.
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And they were like, oh, my gosh, Mom, and da-da-da.
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I mean, Scarlett Johansson, here you have Black Widow.
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They bring in someone from Avengers to play me in the cold open.
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And by the way, in terms of Republican portrayals, like, they have had some vicious ones.
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Okay, let's start off with at least you were played by a woman.
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So when SNL has had me, I've also been played by a woman.
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You got to tell the story of when Saturday Night Live was messing with you and when they
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had a chick playing you, please, for people that missed that Saturday Night Live episode.
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So look, they cast Aidy Bryant as me, and she's really funny.
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And like, you know, coming off the whole Cancun thing, they had her in like cornrows and sipping
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And she looks pretty good in a beard, by the way.
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Both of us got treated better than Sean Spicer.
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There's an SNL episode where he's on the podium, and the podium is a mobile podium going down
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like Fifth Avenue in New York and calling himself Spicy Spice.
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So when that happened, she was on a Segway in New York City.
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I was in New York and saw that actually being filmed the first time they did it.
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And I was like, what is this person who looks like Sean Spicer on a Segway going down the road in New York City?
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Look, I'm just glad that Trump didn't choose that moment to test his theory that he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and not lose any support.
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When did you find out you were going to do the rebuttal, and how does that play out?
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Yeah, so I guess maybe a few weeks ago, I got a call, and the first call came from Leader McConnell.
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I was on the flight home, and I got a call, and then it said, you know, the text message, like, please call.
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You know, and you can kind of sort of hear it coming.
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If we get into this for a minute, I've got some really good ones.
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And to be clear, we don't even have a glass of wine.
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So I tried to call and, you know, got home, because I get home on Thursdays in time to, like, skid in to, like, pick up the kids from practice or go to a game or, like, right there in time if we get out of here on time.
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So then I sent a text back and just said, tried to call you, and I'll send you, I'm headed, you know, out with the kids, but I'll try it tomorrow.
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He, like, found out, like, I'm going to vote a certain way or, like, you know, what is this about?
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I'm like, you rarely hear, and I'm like, oh, that's what this is.
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And so I called back, and he just said, you know, Speaker Johnson and I have been talking, and we get to select somebody to give the rebuttal to the State of the Union.
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And he said, and, you know, and we want it to be you.
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First off, I kind of sort of thought I was being punked.
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Like, is this, it was like an out-of-body experience.
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And then I said, I am, and I really wanted to say the word shook, right?
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But I didn't think that shook would translate in the moment, you know?
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It's like not necessarily, I would think, something that, like, is in Mitch McConnell's everyday vocabulary.
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And so instead of the word shook, I was really proud of myself.
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And so I just told him how honored I was, how humbled I would be, you know, that, but ask him, you know, could I have some time to think about it?
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And he said, you know, absolutely, that that, that that was fine.
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And Speaker Johnson and I don't, have not had an opportunity to really get to know each other.
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And the funny thing is, he's like, now don't worry about, you know, people are going to tell you horror stories about all of these things that happened and, and people's, people's career being blown up over it.
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And he was, he was so kind, and just, and really welcoming.
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And, you know, I think it was a great conversation.
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But the irony that he's like, don't you worry, like that, that, that's not.
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But, and so talk to both of them, and obviously, then finally accepted doing it, but still kind of thought, is this even for real?
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I mean, I haven't even given a floor speech yet, you know, right, right at the Senate yet, but was excited.
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And particularly, as, as you mentioned earlier, being, you know, the only Republican female with school age kids, and kind of bringing that like next generation voice.
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I mean, you and I were just talking about our, our, you know, kind of what it's like to be parents and doing this and all of that.
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And so, bringing that voice, and particularly, you know, that of, of conservative women to the table, it was an honor to be chosen, but seriously, an out-of-body experience.
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So, and a couple of things Katie referenced to give some background.
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Like, number one, there's a tradition in the Senate that, that freshman senators wait a reasonable period of time before giving their first speech.
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And the first speech on the floor is called the maiden speech, and you wait for it.
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And it's, so, like, and it's just sort of, you know, it's an old institution, and it's kind of how it operates.
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But, also, like, the response to the State of the Union, it's chosen by the Republican leader in the Senate and the Republican leader in the House.
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And the two of them, they often alternate on it, but they get to pick who it is.
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And, you know, Katie, you and I were just talking a few minutes ago.
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I mean, there are maybe 30 people on planet Earth.
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Who've given a response to a State of the Union address.
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And so, you have the ability to share with verdict listeners.
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All right, so you get a call from Mitch McConnell.
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You've got, you said, a couple of weeks to prepare.
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Like, how was preparing and kind of what did you go through to say, okay, what am I going to say, and what do I want the message to do?
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And so, yeah, and on your point about the maiden speech, like, the irony is, is like, I have, you know, I'm kind of just trying to keep my head down.
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And now that maiden speech is going to seem like nothing, right?
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But, yeah, so you've got a little bit, a little bit of time to prepare, but you also don't know what to prepare for.
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And to be honest with you, I never thought in a million years he was going to come out there and give this type of, like, yelling and so just vindictive, particularly towards Trump.
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You know, it seemed like a full-fledged campaign speech.
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And I expected a little bit more of a statesman to be up there and to really kind of sort of methodically be going through.
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Now, I thought we would disagree of what his version of the State of the Union was, but I didn't think he would be, you know, I didn't anticipate the posture that he had.
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But so you're going through, you're kind of sort of saying, okay, I know I'm going to want to talk about the border.
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I know he's probably not going to talk about it.
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Irony there, like, it took him 40 minutes to get into the border.
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So you're kind of sort of getting those facts together and then seeing, like, how can you sensitize those in a way that the public can grab them?
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Well, and you told a story about a woman being sex trafficked, and the media has gone crazy, quote, fact-checking you.
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The interesting thing for me has been that none of the media has covered the fact that under Trump in 2018, that human trafficking was a $500 million business.
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It is now, under Joe Biden, a $13 billion business.
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Nobody, they want to silence a conservative woman for speaking out on this topic.
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They don't want to bring light and help the women who are actually being trafficked.
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The media wants to tell the story that the only Republicans on planet Earth are old, fat, bald white guys.
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Like, a young mom is going right at, they want voters to think, I'm sorry, if you're a woman, you have to be a liberal Democrat.
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And so it was, it was sadly predictable that they went after you.
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It was, and they didn't do their homework, too.
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I mean, you've had to deal with this for quite some time, but the liberal media isn't interested in the truth.
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They're interested in burying the truth about Joe Biden and his border crisis.
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But all they want to do is, they have an agenda.
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And if they really wanted to know those stories, they would have taken time to know the facts.
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And I think when all the facts come out, people will see the truth.
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But, you know, so here you are, like, preparing for this, you know, trying to figure out what is he going to say and how are you going to piece it together?
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And, you know, and how can you make things stick?
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Because you obviously have the speech on the front end, right?
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You know what your response in general is going to be on these core issues.
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But you're watching him give a speech that you weren't expecting.
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So, how much time do you have to make last minute edits before you went live?
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We actually thought, we had gotten word that his speech was going to be a lot shorter than usual.
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So, like, they had said, like, this is going to be 25 in and out.
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And it ended up being, obviously, a really long speech.
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Because we kind of sort of thought that he was wrapping up when he wasn't wrapping up.
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And I know that because Roger Marshall texted out to a bunch of us a series of bets to have on the speech.
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So, I was three minutes off winning on that one.
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So, you're trying to make those kind of in the last minute.
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And I do think, you know, there's also interesting things.
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Like, we were making edits, like, when he ended up saying, you know, Lakin Riley's name, but said Lincoln Riley.
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And, you know, you're kind of thinking, okay, well, let's not go there.
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But, like, let's make sure that we make him own that.
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Because particularly on that, you know, I wanted to get into parole issue because, you know, there's been a lot of talk.
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And I figured he was going to blame Republicans for, you know, failed this or failed that when it comes to the border.
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And I wanted to really bring light to the fact that he wouldn't give up the tools that he was using to abuse the entire, quote, you know, border policies that he had.
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Like, you know, the presidential parole that he's been using.
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So, you have Obama and Trump who paroled about 5,600 people on average a year using this presidential parole authority.
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He has these entire programs where he's paroling on average about a million people a year, y'all.
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And Lakin Riley's murderer was paroled into the nation under his presidential parole authority.
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I mean, it was a choice of his, which I also have found interesting because I actually, you know, really accented that word.
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Like, that he chose to let into the country, you know, to parole into the country.
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And they've taken no issue with that because they know that it's his policies that are causing these things.
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So, you're just trying to kind of sort of figure out how do we pack a punch in here in a short amount of time and respond to some of the things he said in a meaningful way.
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So, look, I will say historically, the media has had two attacks on Republicans.
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That a Republican is either stupid or evil.
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And by the way, history shows stupid is the much better attack.
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So, in the media's telling, Ronald Reagan was stupid.
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Between the two, it's clear stupid is better.
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They sort of took a variation on a theme with you and they went with crazy.
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I was watching it, and right when it went to your kitchen,
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I was watching it with people, and I said, watch this.
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They're going to say she just sent women back 50 years from doing this from her kitchen,
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And sure enough, Twitter instantly blew up our X and social media of, oh, look at Republicans.
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I'm like, she's literally a sitting U.S. senator with the youngest one in the Senate right now.
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And they're going to overlook that while she's giving the response.
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And sure enough, that's what they did to try to undermine you.
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Oh, I mean, yeah, I didn't see the chance from Go on that.
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And the interesting thing is, is like, again, it goes back to the liberal media, and they're biased.
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You've got Joe Biden, who actually mentions kitchen table, his dad's kitchen table,
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and the, quote, trickle-down effect of economics in his speech.
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And then I'm sitting at the kitchen table that he references.
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And let's not forget that Elizabeth Warren actually launched her presidential campaign from her kitchen.
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Although, to be clear, did you happen to see the footage of Elizabeth Warren, like, awkwardly pulling beer bottles out of her fridge?
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And it was, like, the weirdest—I'm sorry, this is not, like, a normal person who knows how to, like, drink a beer.
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And, of course, she also has a gas stove, which Democrats want to ban.
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So it's perfectly normal, but they had to—the fact that they went after you that hard is proof that it scared them,
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that they don't want to give permission for women and for moms to be Republican.
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And the contrast—you could not ask for a starker contrast between Methuselah Scrooge and Katie Britt.
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I mean, it's—that's what we were talking about is the—obviously, not only kitchen table issues, but that's the place where we gather.
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And I think that's threatening to them, that families gather.
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I mean, that's where we literally talk about our days.
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That's where we talk about the things we worry about.
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You know, Katie, they would have liked it if you did, like, a transgender Wicca ritual in your kitchen.
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If we had talked about this first, you could have given me that idea.
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When you got done with your speech, like, I know there's that sigh of relief, okay.
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And then there's the, how did it go, right, to your close team, your family that's in there watching this.
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Yeah, so we watched Biden's speech from the couch, like in the living room together as a family.
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And then, again, we thought that it was going to be shorter than it was.
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So they went ahead and headed, you know, out of the room because we were going to, it's the next room over.
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So we wanted it to be quiet and, like, you know, had to go kind of sort of sit in and get ready.
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And then they came back in right after I finished.
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I mean, he went out with the kids to, like, watch it from another place.
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And then he came back in, which actually was one of his favorite things about Saturday Night Live is that Scarlett Johansson was like, my husband, Wesley.
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So one of the coolest things, Katie's husband, Wesley, is completely badass.
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So he played football at University of Alabama.
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And then he played for the New England Patriots for, what, 10 years?
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And by the way, Ben, Wesley has also played hoops with me in my weekly hoops game.
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I will tell you I am grateful to the end of time that Wesley just showed mercy on us.
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Had he simply swung his elbows, he would have put me and every other person playing in
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And I am grateful for that restraint that he showed.
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Well, he could get in my way and he'd be just fine.
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I'm still in reserve right now because of our last game.
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Broke my, I was thinking about workers comp, you know, calling, you know, one of those
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And by the way, playing hoops, this is what, probably two years ago when I was playing hoop,
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I had a law clerk in my office who broke my thumb.
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And like, Tony's a hell of a ball player, but he's a muscular guy, gold chain.
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And he just like, he plays like he's in a street fight.
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And as I told, told my youngest daughter, Catherine, when that happened, daddy said a really bad
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And when you break your thumb, that's, that's, that's, that's part of it.
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And then, but I'm very proud to say that, that I finished the game.
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We won and I actually scored with a broken thumb.
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I tried and I literally yelped, but, but I did a finger roll and scored with a broken
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And then I went and got it in a brace and Ben, to his credit, we just played hoops a couple
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of weeks ago where he broke his finger and you finished the game with a broken finger.
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You know, go big or go home as they say, right?
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I wasn't going to, I was going to make sure that was my legacy.
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Cause I got to know what you, your thoughts were.
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You get done, you look at your family, you look at your team.
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And then when did you kind of figure out that this had gone off the rails and they were coming
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You know, um, so really fully the next morning, which I, which I'll tell you about, but that,
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you know, in that moment, um, obviously, you know, had a lot of passion, put a lot of heart
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and soul into it, but I think the American people are worth it, you know, and like you're
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fighting, you know, you're fighting for these families and these families that Ted, like you're
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traveling all over, obviously Texas right now, the country, the whole thing, me and Alabama,
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I mean, they're, they're, they're saying, why does nobody get this?
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I feel like I am beating my head up against the wall and they need somebody to fight for
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And so, you know, have a, have a little passion in there and, and get in there.
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And, but really thought that, um, you know, I, I tried to deliver it with, with heart and
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soul, um, because I do, I think the people of America are worth that.
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And so, uh, we finished and we were excited and, you know, my daughter, um, like her,
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one of the things that she said was that she really, the part about Lakin Riley really spoke
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That was the part she, she is, um, does plays volleyball and basketball and runs track.
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And so she actually goes out on runs, you know, and does, and does that.
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And, um, you just think at, you know, you, you just, all of those things, she was like,
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mom, that, that to me was, it was the best since we were just kind of sort of all talking
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And, you know, guys, it's strange because here you are preparing, you know, and I'd stayed
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home for a couple of days, like preparing for potential topics and how we were, you
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know, you've kind of got a draft speech, but then, you know, so that you can be nimble,
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um, with regards to if there's something that you're, you're not expecting or there, but
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to, to deliver a speech, uh, honestly, um, directly into a camera.
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And obviously if you, if you were to do it again, you do it, you know, you would, you
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would know and have kind of sort of that, um, the ability to like learn from, from doing
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that, but you give speeches as, you know, to groups and to, um, you know, conventions
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And so that's a very different thing to just be looking directly into the camera and people,
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Like you literally walk in the other room when he finishes, they give you a 15 minute
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I actually showed you the text I got from my dad that night when he texted me and said,
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He, he, he does not, not think that frequently.
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And listen, there's a long tradition, as you know, of the media savaging in particular Republican
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So Bobby Jindal, when he did it, they just brutalized him.
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And you remember Marco Rubio, poor Marco reached over and grabbed a bottle of water and they
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Now I will say to Marco's credit, his response was pretty good.
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His campaign website began selling bottles of water.
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That, well, we're going to have to figure out what I can sell.
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No, but one of my favorite things was, um, there was a meme that said, why is Alabama
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Can we print this out and frame it and put it on my desk?
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If that's your worst day in politics, you're winning.
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And I told someone, I was like, it felt like the slowest couple of days in politics forever.
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How many days can we go where I am literally the stories from the top to the bottom of each
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And you would have thought like, I would have been better off having like behaved like some
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of our colleagues that are like indicted for something or, or had like said something
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I mean, my crime was like putting too much passion, too much heart and soul behind the
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And so watching those things and getting that back, I kept thinking, can there not be another
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And then finally, Kate Middleton saved me again with her Photoshop.
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By the way, one of the biggest controversies coming out of the State of the Union was one
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you didn't even have a chance to get to respond to.
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Biden used the word illegal immigrant when he was referencing the person who's been accused
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Lincoln Riley's a football coach, USC, and he got it wrong.
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But now he's gone on essence an apology tour to the illegal immigrant who is accused of
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And you didn't, obviously, I don't think anyone thought that this was actually going to happen
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or be a controversy when you were doing your response.
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But the biggest controversy from his whole night is actually now this.
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I noticed the look of surprise on your face when you walked into the chamber and you saw
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But during your response to her heckling of you, you used the word illegal when talking
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about the man who allegedly killed Lakin Riley.
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And look, when I spoke about the difference between Trump and me, one of the things I talked
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about in the border was that his, the way he talks about vermin, the way he talks about
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I talked about what I'm not going to do, what I won't do.
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I'm not going to treat any, any, any of these people with disrespect.
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We have to control the border and more orderly flow.
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I'm sorry, basically, to the illegal immigrant for saying he's an illegal immigrant, not talking
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And that was something you didn't even get a chance to bring up because it hadn't in essence
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And I mean, I still can't wrap my head around this.
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You have him apologizing for, quote, mislabeling her murderer.
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But not only did he not take that opportunity to correct her name, but the reporter didn't
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They don't care about the things that they should.
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Number one, his little aside saying they built this country.
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No, Joe, illegal immigrants did not build the United States of America.
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But number two, think about the priorities.
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He comes off of, and I got to say, I think there are now two images that sum up the 2024
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Number one, there is the image of the illegal immigrants in New York City who beat up two
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New York cops, were arrested, were released without bail, and they came out with both hands
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And that image, flipping the bird, right and left hand, is what Joe Biden and the Democrats
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And image number two is the contrast, right after the State of the Union, of Donald Trump
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with Lake and Riley's family, hugging his mother.
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Which is actually what someone who's a president, who gives a damn about the American people,
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who is siding with our families, our moms, our kids, and simultaneously, Joe Biden is
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on MSNBC apologizing because he referred to this murderer as an illegal.
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He's an illegal and a murderer, and he never should have killed Lake and Riley.
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And the only reason he was free to do so is because Joe Biden chose to let him go.
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And not only that, Sanctuary City, New York City, let him go again.
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And that is why that beautiful 22-year-old woman is dead now.
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And too, when you hear him do that, and you can't help but be enraged that not only that
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this is what our president of the United States is choosing to focus on, but then the media
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But I think people should see we have a very clear choice in November.
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You have President Biden over here apologizing for mislabeling her murderer, and then you
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And I think that is all Americans need to know.
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And if you side with illegal alien murderers, well, you probably should vote for Joe Biden.
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If those are your peeps, if that's where your allegiance is.
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By the way, MSNBC, CNN, they're all voting for Joe Biden because their allegiance is actually
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And by the way, you know, not only did Joe Biden not properly say Lake and Riley's name,
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Jeremy Caceres, beautiful two-year-old boy, murdered in Prince George's County, Maryland,
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just a couple of weeks ago, again by another illegal alien Joe Biden released.
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He didn't mention any of the American, of the teenagers who have been violently raped
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He takes no responsibility for his own culpability.
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And it is, you really couldn't ask for a clear contrast.
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And then also you think about fentanyl poisonings and you think about the decisions that have
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He inherited the most secure border that our country has had.
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He chose to stop construction of the border wall.
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He, I mean, he chose to say, I'm going to give amnesty to millions.
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This is the thing that was so frustrating about the liberal media.
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It's like these policies and then the 94 executive orders in the first 100 days are acting as
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And he is putting every one of those men, women, and children in harm's way.
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You know, we've talked about some of the horrific things that are happening to them on their way
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It is a not only national security crisis, but a humanitarian crisis that no reporter
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You focused earlier, you said, you know, about about sex trafficking.
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They're not telling the story of human trafficking and what's happening under him.
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Well, and you and I have both looked in the eyes of women and children who have been brutally
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And when you see the pain, the agony, it sticks with you.
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And I got to say, you know, Katie, just listening to you talk about this, you're making far too
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And if you're making sense, you've got to be cuckoo with Cocoa Puffs.
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And I guess, you know, when you get in the arena, which the irony is in my remarks, you
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know, I wanted to leave people with hope, Ted, because I believe that I believe in the people
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of this nation and I believe in what we're built on and wanted to encourage everyone to
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get in the arena because that's what we need them to do because we are literally fighting
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We are fighting for the future for our children and we need everybody stepping up.
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Well, I found out real quick that I am in the arena.
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If you're fighting for what families need, you're being a voice for the voiceless.
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Then I'll take those arrows, Ted, all day long, because that is what we're going to have to
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do in order to get this country back on track and speak truth to power.
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And they want to silence anyone who doesn't think just like them.
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And to use a military analogy, if you're not taking flack, you're not over the target.
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So I would take, I was actually, I thought you did a terrific job, but I was actually
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even happier with the job you did by seeing the freak out of the media.
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Because to be honest, if you'd sucked, they wouldn't have said anything.
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If it were bad, they would have been like nothing to see here.
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And so that they squeal this loudly tells you a great deal.
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Well, and I do think you've got, here you have the president literally for an hour and
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seven minutes, I guess is what is what you said it was, yelling and giving a political
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speech in a space where he's supposed to be bringing our country together.
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And then, you know, even, you know, as I mentioned, tried to leave the country with hope, because
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And I said, our nation's history is written with the grit of men and women who got knocked
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down, but we know their stories because they did not stay down.
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And this is one of those moments where I'm just going to have to stand back up because
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And we have got, every voice has got to be lifted loud because there are people that are
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counting on us, whether it is what's happening at our border, whether it is families that literally
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I don't think, and I said this in my remarks as well, but I mean, I actually drove carpool
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the day that I gave the State of the Union response.
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Well, you know, actually, you and Biden have something in common because he was actually
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And so when I was in pickup line, actually, the head of the middle school was like, what
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She had the little, you know, the little walkie talkie.
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And she, you know, was and I said, I need, you know, I need Ridgeway.
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But you think about like, when's the last time he did something like that?
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When's the last time you went to the grocery store and saw that eggs are like off the charts
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and the price of meat and milk and all of the things.
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And when's the last time he went and filled up his car with gas?
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Because I promise you, it just gets more and more and more.
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And you think this man is trying to make us energy dependent.
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He went to the store and he brought, bought buttermilk and molasses from Corn Pop.
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Or maybe when he went to his beach retreat, he had someone run to the store for him.
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But, but seriously, you know, and you think about, and I, you know, when I go walking
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with my friends in the morning and I listen to the things they're concerned about, you know,
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And so if bringing a voice to that, if I get some flack for it and, you know, obviously,
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The people are worth it, worth fighting for, and I'm going to keep doing it.
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And I, and the, Hey, and the more they try to silence me, which by the way, they're doing
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It's a, I had to give a speech this morning, Ted, and I walk up there and you can tell everybody
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Because they're thinking she has just been plummeted for the last solid four days.
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And we've seen her and, uh, in a number of memes and this and that.
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And, um, I think, you know, the, the scary mom one was also a good one because I thought,
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That means they really are afraid because everybody knows when your mom goes into scary mom mode,
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like get out of the way because stuff's about to get done.
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I mean, just don't move over because we're about to take care of business, right?
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There are a lot of moms in America who are pissed off at everything that's happening.
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And it wasn't the, the angry, bitter way that Biden did it, but it was, if you're paying
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Like, like imagine number one, the grief and agony you feel, but imagine the fury you feel
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And, and, and it's a result of a political agenda that said, your family doesn't matter.
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And by the way, the next person murdered by an illegal alien that Joe Biden lets in,
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He stood up there and flippantly said that, said her name wrong.
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You know, it just, it, I thought you have got as a mom.
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And by the way, his response, he said, well, she was killed by an illegal, but how many
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So what you're saying is that your crime policy is terrible also, and there's lots of murders.
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Well, gosh, we're killing even more Americans that, that, that is, and of course, no scrutiny
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And, and he also, he's killing the American dream because he's continuing to put Americans
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And you, we, only thing we can ask for is an opportunity to achieve, opportunity to try
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And you look at him and he continues to put policies in place that, that limit anyone's
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ability to, to, to, to try and achieve because he's prioritizing a liberal agenda above, above
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I mean, it's everything from energy to the border to, to prices.
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I mean, that's one thing, Ted, like I'm on the banking committee and I cannot believe the
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I mean, all of the ESG and the D I mean, it just, it is tremendous.
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So I feel like at every turn we are having to fight to preserve what I know this nation
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was founded on and to try to preserve it for our kids.
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Like I said, this morning, when I got up to give that those remarks, everyone was on edge
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and I said, Hey guys, I haven't, haven't had access to Twitter.
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Is there anything going on that I need to know about?
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And the whole, the whole crowd, whole crowd started, started laughing, but have, have had
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Senator, thank you so much for coming on Burdick.
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It was really fun to hear this outside and different perspective from you and, and, and
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hear behind the scenes of how this happens and the response happens and keep up the good
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I love your inspiration for young girls and women who are conservative and proud moms.
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That is, I think the most important thing here is that, you know, I think the left has
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done a great job of claiming feminism and claiming women voters.
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And sometimes we don't do a good enough job, I think of reminding moms like, Hey, we're
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We're advocating for you and your kids and the laws that we can advocate for to protect
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So thank you for being a voice for that as well.
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There were so many moms that were watching.
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Um, like I, like I said, when I, when I spoke to them, when they asked, I mean, um, it is
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humbling to have the opportunity to speak on behalf of our party and on behalf of hard
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working parents and families, um, who, who want somebody to fight for them and fight for
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this country and fight for the issues that matter.
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And so, um, got in there and gave it all I got.
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Uh, Hey, I would recommend if you're ever giving a speech direct to camera, you know, figure
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And, um, and actually I have, um, it's an honor to take the arrows too, because that means
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Um, there you notice they're not, they are not plummeting me on the issues that, uh, that
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Um, they're, they're, uh, going after my passion and I'm going to keep that passion.
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I'm going to keep fighting, um, for what I know is right and what I believe in.
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And Ted, I'll say to you, it is an honor to fight alongside you.
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There is nobody, um, who is better at, at being fierce and calling the left down and
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speaking the truth, um, directly in the way that you do.
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And so enjoy serving with you, enjoy learning from you, and certainly enjoy the grace you
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showed me by allowing me to be on here tonight and, and talk about this, uh, super fun few
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And, and it's, it's a lot of fun to serve with you as well.
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And I look forward to being in many a foxhole for a long, long time fighting for our country
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and fighting with a smile and with joy and, and, and fighting back against the lunatics
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