Verdict with Ted Cruz - Migrant Madness

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00:00:04.360 Thanks, Trina.

00:00:05.220 I want to ask you about the question about migrants,

00:00:09.620 whether they have or haven't been walking across the southwest border.

00:00:14.000 Senator Ted Cruz has publicly invited, suggested,

00:00:18.240 that you come down to see that for yourself.

00:00:22.000 Senator Ted Cruz of Texas,

00:00:25.960 he's suggested that you come down and see for yourself

00:00:28.620 whether migrants are actually crossing the border by foot.

00:00:31.700 Is that something that you would take them up on?

00:00:33.880 So I've been to the border.

00:00:36.120 I went in 2018.

00:00:38.340 I stood outside facilities where the Trump administration was separating families,

00:00:44.260 tearing babies out of their mother's arms.

00:00:47.320 Some of those kids still haven't been reunited with their families.

00:00:52.600 And so one thing I will say is I certainly don't need lectures

00:00:56.680 or invitations from Republicans about the border or border policies.

00:01:03.340 And, you know, and I certainly won't take advice on border from anyone

00:01:08.060 who voted against securing record level of funding for the Department of Homeland Security.

00:01:15.820 And, you know, and while folks are sending invites,

00:01:19.600 I'll use this opportunity to invite him or anyone else next time

00:01:25.620 to vote for record funding for DHS as President Biden has requested.

00:01:31.520 So we'll move on.

00:01:32.220 Nope, we'll move on from that.

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00:03:08.440 Welcome back to Verdict with Ted Cruz,

00:03:11.320 the show that the White House just cannot stop talking about.

00:03:15.700 I am Michael Knowles.

00:03:17.040 And if you want to bring this show, by the way,

00:03:19.120 to a campus near you, time is running out to apply.

00:03:22.660 We will be going on tour with Young America's Foundation.

00:03:26.700 You can apply.

00:03:27.680 We've just got a week or so left at yaf.org slash verdict.

00:03:33.900 And maybe the White House press secretary will talk about you

00:03:36.760 and your fellow students,

00:03:38.500 because they sure seem to be tuning in here.

00:03:40.640 Senator, I think we're the first, second, third,

00:03:45.580 and now fourth podcast that the White House has referenced

00:03:48.900 from the press briefing.

00:03:49.840 You know, it really is quite striking.

00:03:52.380 And maybe when we're doing our college tour,

00:03:54.360 we ought to film Verdict down on the border

00:03:57.500 and invite Corrine to come down to Verdict

00:04:01.420 and be on the podcast.

00:04:02.340 And she can lie directly on the podcast

00:04:04.420 rather than doing it from the White House.

00:04:07.740 Look, I got to say, it is stunning.

00:04:10.400 Look, no one is surprised to see a press flack.

00:04:14.600 Flacking, that's what they do.

00:04:15.680 She's supposed to spin. 1.00

00:04:17.680 Whether you're a Democrat or Republican,

00:04:19.820 White House press secretary spins.

00:04:22.460 What is wild about this is she is brazenly,

00:04:27.400 openly, shamelessly lied.

00:04:31.640 And at this point, she knows she is.

00:04:34.320 And everyone in the room knows she is.

00:04:37.160 This all started when she said at a previous briefing

00:04:40.100 that people are not walking across the border.

00:04:43.860 It's just not happening.

00:04:44.780 That is not happening.

00:04:46.720 Now, that's not kind of sort of right.

00:04:49.400 That's not a little bit wrong.

00:04:51.280 It is precisely exactly opposite.

00:04:54.780 And the invitation that I issued to her

00:04:56.380 is I said, come down to the border

00:04:58.420 and spend one hour with me.

00:05:00.480 Go out on patrol with the Border Patrol Union.

00:05:03.340 60 minutes.

00:05:05.400 You pick the time.

00:05:06.980 Doesn't matter.

00:05:07.620 Pick any hour of the day.

00:05:09.320 We'll go out for 60 minutes.

00:05:12.380 And I guarantee you, we will encounter not one,

00:05:15.520 but multiple groups of illegal immigrants

00:05:17.300 because they are coming 24 hours a day.

00:05:20.180 Every time I've gone out there,

00:05:21.740 it doesn't take 60 minutes.

00:05:22.880 It takes about five minutes

00:05:24.220 before you encounter the first group.

00:05:26.040 And it is a steady stream of humanity.

00:05:28.760 And I suggested to her also, I said, okay,

00:05:31.940 you said, as we just played in that clip,

00:05:35.600 that you don't need to be lectured

00:05:36.840 by Republican senators.

00:05:39.060 I said, I'll tell you what,

00:05:40.220 bring the entire Washington press corps.

00:05:42.600 Bring them all down to the valley with us.

00:05:45.540 You and I can go out for an hour

00:05:46.900 and we'll hold a press conference.

00:05:48.260 And one of two things will happen.

00:05:49.600 If we don't encounter anyone,

00:05:51.260 I'll stand up and say I was wrong.

00:05:54.120 But when we encounter multiple groups,

00:05:57.060 women, children, one after the other,

00:05:58.880 after the other,

00:06:00.180 you'll stand up and you'll admit

00:06:01.700 you were lying and not just lying,

00:06:04.400 you were lying from the White House

00:06:05.820 deliberately and repeatedly.

00:06:09.860 And to be clear, it's not just her lying.

00:06:12.840 Joe Biden's responsible.

00:06:14.160 He's paying for her to lie.

00:06:16.500 And all of the corporate media

00:06:18.440 that sat there silently,

00:06:20.240 that haven't run fact checks,

00:06:21.420 we haven't seen pants on fire

00:06:22.780 because none of the corporate media,

00:06:25.280 this is an objective factual statement

00:06:27.500 and it is objectively and completely false.

00:06:29.660 All of the corporate media is complicit in the lies.

00:06:33.680 And actually, this week,

00:06:34.920 she escalated it even more

00:06:36.840 where she said absurdly,

00:06:40.000 Joe Biden has done more

00:06:42.000 to secure the border than Donald Trump.

00:06:44.720 Like, that is,

00:06:45.860 I actually wonder if the reporters

00:06:47.700 in the press briefing

00:06:48.880 move back a few feet

00:06:50.820 because they're afraid lightning

00:06:52.300 is going to strike her

00:06:53.360 as she stands there.

00:06:54.760 Like, I cannot think

00:06:58.760 of a White House press secretary

00:07:00.360 who repeatedly brazenly lied

00:07:03.580 to the American people

00:07:04.560 the way she is doing.

00:07:06.160 Even Jen Psaki,

00:07:08.260 who would spin like crazy,

00:07:11.980 but I can't think of

00:07:13.020 flat-out objective lies

00:07:14.720 of the kind that Karine is now making

00:07:17.260 a weekly, if not daily, occurrence.

00:07:20.100 So the lie is pretty shocking.

00:07:22.360 I don't think anybody buys it.

00:07:23.740 You just look at the numbers.

00:07:24.920 You're going to get

00:07:25.420 2 million-plus illegal aliens this year,

00:07:27.840 way more than you got under Trump,

00:07:29.420 way more than we've ever gotten.

00:07:31.200 But I guess what is confusing to me is,

00:07:34.780 one, does she really believe

00:07:36.640 that anybody in America,

00:07:38.320 Republican, Independent, or Democrat,

00:07:40.200 believes that Joe Biden

00:07:41.400 is tougher on illegal immigration

00:07:42.780 than Donald Trump?

00:07:43.720 No, not a single person believes that.

00:07:45.700 But furthermore,

00:07:47.240 Biden and the Democrats

00:07:48.380 ran on opening up the border.

00:07:51.240 They said Trump's restrictive

00:07:52.680 border policies are bad

00:07:54.260 and immoral and un-American 0.81

00:07:55.820 and diversity is our strength

00:07:57.580 and no person is illegal

00:07:58.800 and come across the border.

00:08:00.420 I mean, they explicitly said that.

00:08:02.980 So is this new line

00:08:05.560 coming out of the White House,

00:08:06.900 beyond it being dishonest,

00:08:08.700 is it a reflection that,

00:08:10.660 wait a second,

00:08:11.980 voters actually don't like

00:08:13.620 the policies that we ran

00:08:15.180 for president on,

00:08:16.340 and so now we're just going to

00:08:17.420 pretend that those were never

00:08:18.340 our policies in the first place?

00:08:20.480 So I think it is,

00:08:21.680 and it's a combination of,

00:08:23.420 number one,

00:08:24.140 speaking to the hard left partisans

00:08:26.360 who are with them no matter what,

00:08:28.160 and number two,

00:08:29.760 they're counting on the media

00:08:31.160 to assist in the cover-up.

00:08:34.680 Look, it's reminiscent,

00:08:36.100 she's also said in recent weeks

00:08:37.780 about school shutdowns

00:08:39.020 when the NAEP scores came back.

00:08:41.320 So we had NAEP

00:08:42.140 as the National Assessment

00:08:43.340 of Fourth Graders.

00:08:44.840 It's considered the gold standard

00:08:46.380 for testing educational progress,

00:08:48.420 and the national standards show

00:08:51.080 that fourth graders

00:08:52.340 have had a dramatic drop

00:08:54.260 in both math scores

00:08:56.120 and reading scores,

00:08:57.160 the biggest drop

00:08:58.340 since the NAEP test

00:08:59.900 has begun being implemented.

00:09:02.220 It is massive.

00:09:03.600 It is obvious

00:09:04.400 because of the school shutdowns,

00:09:06.340 and not only that,

00:09:09.080 the racial gap

00:09:10.100 has widened

00:09:11.880 to the widest level ever

00:09:13.160 because the people

00:09:13.900 who got hurt the most

00:09:14.720 by the school shutdowns

00:09:16.040 were low-income kids,

00:09:17.600 many of which are African-American

00:09:19.160 and Hispanic.

00:09:20.600 And so the racial gap

00:09:21.740 under Joe Biden,

00:09:22.720 congratulations,

00:09:23.580 dams,

00:09:23.820 has gotten much broader.

00:09:25.160 So what does Corrine do?

00:09:26.120 She stands up and says,

00:09:27.420 well, Joe Biden worked

00:09:28.580 to reopen schools,

00:09:30.000 and it was Republicans

00:09:31.420 who blocked us.

00:09:33.460 And it is a level of,

00:09:36.320 okay, that's not just spin.

00:09:38.540 It's inversion.

00:09:39.660 That is flat-out mendacity.

00:09:41.900 It was Republicans,

00:09:44.000 certainly on this podcast

00:09:45.520 and from the Senate floor,

00:09:46.840 I was screaming early, early on,

00:09:50.260 open up the schools,

00:09:51.380 send the kids back to schools,

00:09:52.820 let them go.

00:09:53.880 Republicans across the country

00:09:55.200 were, and by the way,

00:09:56.280 people like Greg Abbott

00:09:57.320 and Ron DeSantis

00:09:58.120 were opening up schools.

00:10:00.620 Amazingly enough,

00:10:01.580 in the Biden White House's world, 0.99

00:10:04.660 these dastardly Republicans

00:10:07.180 managed to shut down schools 0.87

00:10:09.020 only in bright blue jurisdictions

00:10:12.020 controlled by Democrats.

00:10:13.740 Now, that's some nefarious power.

00:10:16.680 I'm going to shut down

00:10:17.640 the schools in New York City,

00:10:19.360 but not in any place

00:10:21.480 where there's actually

00:10:22.180 Republican leadership. 1.00

00:10:23.120 It is asinine, 1.00

00:10:24.640 but she tells that lie 0.99

00:10:26.140 because the Washington Post

00:10:28.080 won't call her on it,

00:10:28.960 because CNN won't call her on it,

00:10:30.700 because the New York Times

00:10:31.680 won't call her on it.

00:10:32.640 And so, it's gaslighting

00:10:36.680 taken to just a,

00:10:40.480 the word Orwellian

00:10:41.680 is used too often,

00:10:43.020 but it is truly Orwellian,

00:10:45.260 two plus two is five.

00:10:46.920 But it's not even that,

00:10:48.220 it's two plus two is umbrella.

00:10:50.280 I mean, that's what

00:10:51.120 they're doing now.

00:10:53.000 Senator, I can't help but notice

00:10:54.300 you just mentioned

00:10:55.020 Governor DeSantis,

00:10:56.460 and while I'm very pleased

00:10:57.680 that people in the White House

00:10:58.900 are listening to this show,

00:11:00.320 I have to wonder

00:11:01.060 if some people down in Florida

00:11:02.460 are listening to this show as well,

00:11:04.280 because there's a great headline

00:11:05.760 that just came out

00:11:06.700 about something DeSantis

00:11:08.040 and the Florida Republicans

00:11:09.260 are doing.

00:11:10.620 They've just sent airplanes

00:11:12.840 full of illegal aliens 0.99

00:11:15.300 to Martha's Vineyard,

00:11:17.180 and I cheered when I saw the headline,

00:11:20.100 and then I had to think,

00:11:21.540 you know,

00:11:22.020 there's a certain podcast

00:11:23.980 hosted by a certain senator

00:11:25.520 from Texas

00:11:26.120 that has been calling

00:11:27.720 exactly for that

00:11:29.620 for many weeks now,

00:11:31.660 and I just can't help

00:11:33.580 but wonder

00:11:33.940 if that may have had

00:11:34.620 some effect

00:11:35.200 on this policy

00:11:36.080 going into effect.

00:11:37.420 I was thrilled

00:11:38.640 when the governor of Texas,

00:11:39.840 Greg Abbott,

00:11:40.540 took me up on the idea

00:11:41.680 and began sending

00:11:42.640 illegal immigrants

00:11:43.420 first to D.C.,

00:11:44.420 then to New York,

00:11:45.280 then to Chicago.

00:11:46.580 It's had a fantastic event

00:11:48.120 as these Democratic mayors

00:11:50.680 have lost their minds

00:11:51.960 and declared

00:11:52.460 national emergencies.

00:11:54.360 The mayor of D.C.

00:11:55.960 declared a national emergency

00:11:57.180 or a city emergency

00:11:58.380 because 6,000 illegal immigrants 0.56

00:12:00.520 were sent to D.C.

00:12:02.040 Of course,

00:12:03.080 we've had,

00:12:04.000 since Joe Biden

00:12:04.680 became president,

00:12:05.560 we have had 4.2 million

00:12:09.360 illegal immigrants

00:12:10.280 cross illegally

00:12:11.100 with Biden as president.

00:12:12.700 It is horrific.

00:12:13.600 That's a crazy number.

00:12:15.640 4.2 million.

00:12:16.900 That is a crazy number.

00:12:18.580 It is larger than many

00:12:20.120 of the states of our union.

00:12:22.160 I mean, 4.2 million

00:12:24.660 since Joe Biden

00:12:25.820 put his hand on the Bible

00:12:26.920 and took the oath of office.

00:12:28.860 That's what's coming.

00:12:29.940 It continues to get worse.

00:12:32.060 And what is amazing

00:12:33.420 about when

00:12:34.200 when

00:12:34.540 red state governors,

00:12:36.680 first Texas,

00:12:37.240 now Florida,

00:12:37.840 are shipping

00:12:38.300 to blue strongholds

00:12:40.700 is the Democrats

00:12:42.440 who talk a good game

00:12:43.500 immediately flip tail.

00:12:44.900 So I want to give you a quote

00:12:46.020 on the,

00:12:47.140 from Martha's Vineyard.

00:12:48.080 When I introduced

00:12:48.780 the legislation,

00:12:49.800 you had Democrats,

00:12:51.540 Democrats in the House

00:12:52.980 of Representatives

00:12:53.600 slam me. 1.00

00:12:54.360 But I want to read

00:12:57.260 from the county commissioner

00:12:58.640 of Martha's Vineyard,

00:13:00.820 Keith Chattanova.

00:13:02.340 And here's the quote

00:13:03.320 he said about my legislation.

00:13:06.680 I would love to see

00:13:08.400 Martha's Vineyard

00:13:09.260 become a haven

00:13:11.100 for new immigrants

00:13:12.240 in the country.

00:13:13.920 But Senator Cruz

00:13:15.100 has no idea

00:13:15.800 what he's talking about

00:13:16.760 regarding a border crisis.

00:13:19.100 He went on to say

00:13:20.400 immigrants make our country

00:13:21.600 stronger,

00:13:22.260 as evidenced by immigration

00:13:23.560 from Brazil

00:13:24.700 and other countries

00:13:25.360 to the Vineyard.

00:13:26.160 And he is trying

00:13:27.060 to whip up racial anxieties

00:13:29.040 for political gain,

00:13:30.580 which is essentially

00:13:31.400 the entire GOP platform

00:13:33.220 anyhow.

00:13:34.280 Now, that's before

00:13:34.980 they arrived.

00:13:35.820 I want to see

00:13:36.560 if after two,

00:13:38.000 three,

00:13:38.240 four,

00:13:38.500 five,

00:13:38.840 six,

00:13:39.160 ten,

00:13:40.180 a hundred

00:13:40.760 plane loads

00:13:41.540 or bus loads,

00:13:42.580 if the county commissioner

00:13:44.560 has the same view.

00:13:46.360 And I'm going to predict

00:13:47.580 he's going to do

00:13:48.440 exactly the same

00:13:49.460 as the mayor from D.C.

00:13:51.140 and the mayor from New York

00:13:52.180 and the mayor from Chicago,

00:13:53.300 which is run screaming, 0.99

00:13:55.080 oh, crap, 0.98

00:13:55.520 this is a real problem. 1.00

00:13:57.020 All those mayors,

00:13:57.720 by the way,

00:13:58.160 they're doing that

00:13:58.860 after 5,000,

00:14:00.920 maybe 10,

00:14:02.060 11,000 illegal aliens

00:14:03.700 arrive in their cities.

00:14:06.060 Not a drop in the bucket,

00:14:07.640 a fraction of an iota

00:14:09.380 of a drop in the bucket

00:14:10.460 when you're talking

00:14:11.040 about 4.2 million

00:14:12.500 foreign nationals

00:14:13.420 coming into the country.

00:14:14.480 I'm so pleased.

00:14:15.800 Big kudos

00:14:16.320 to Governor Abbott

00:14:17.980 for following up on this.

00:14:19.300 Big kudos

00:14:20.060 to Governor DeSantis

00:14:21.060 for following up on this.

00:14:22.960 And all I can say

00:14:24.760 is there are a lot

00:14:25.460 of other red state governors

00:14:26.560 and there is a major

00:14:27.620 illegal immigration problem 0.85

00:14:28.880 in this country

00:14:29.540 and there are a whole lot

00:14:30.640 of other liberal cities

00:14:32.360 that you mentioned there.

00:14:33.640 I want to see more airplanes.

00:14:35.140 I want to see more buses.

00:14:37.460 Dole out those tickets.

00:14:38.980 Give these blue state

00:14:40.220 and blue city mayors

00:14:41.940 some of a taste

00:14:43.320 of their own medicine

00:14:44.080 and put them on the record.

00:14:46.120 Look,

00:14:46.620 I think that's exactly right

00:14:48.040 and it makes it impossible

00:14:49.760 for the Biden White House

00:14:51.040 to defend their lies

00:14:52.500 when you have

00:14:54.180 blue Democrat mayors

00:14:57.640 suddenly realizing,

00:14:59.400 oh, wow,

00:14:59.860 this is an enormous burden

00:15:01.160 on us.

00:15:01.580 And to put it in perspective,

00:15:03.720 so D.C.

00:15:04.280 is a big city.

00:15:05.920 The mayor declared

00:15:07.020 an emergency

00:15:07.640 when 6,500 illegal immigrants

00:15:09.920 had been sent to D.C.

00:15:12.540 Let's take Del Rio, Texas.

00:15:14.320 Del Rio, Texas,

00:15:15.140 is a border city.

00:15:16.260 It's on the Rio Grande River.

00:15:18.600 Del Rio, Texas,

00:15:19.700 its population

00:15:20.480 is about 30,000 people.

00:15:22.880 I was down there

00:15:24.280 where when under the bridge

00:15:26.960 that crosses the Rio Grande,

00:15:28.240 that's right there in Del Rio,

00:15:29.580 there were at one time

00:15:31.400 15,000 illegal immigrants,

00:15:35.520 almost all of whom

00:15:36.280 were from Haiti.

00:15:37.300 And they were crossing in.

00:15:39.280 And you want to talk about

00:15:40.280 people freaking out.

00:15:41.740 This is one small town

00:15:43.200 that had 50%,

00:15:45.340 5-0% of the population

00:15:47.580 of the town

00:15:48.340 crossing in a single day.

00:15:51.320 That's what Texas is facing.

00:15:53.900 And so,

00:15:55.580 look,

00:15:56.620 sending them

00:15:57.800 to blue jurisdictions

00:15:58.900 has a purpose,

00:15:59.900 which is to 1.00

00:16:00.580 cause these hypocrites 1.00

00:16:02.600 to be forced 1.00

00:16:04.100 to acknowledge 0.97

00:16:04.960 their hypocrisy 0.76

00:16:06.080 and admit 0.98

00:16:07.000 that it's a crisis.

00:16:08.260 They're right

00:16:08.840 that it's a crisis,

00:16:09.680 but it's an even bigger crisis

00:16:11.520 for Texas

00:16:12.280 and for other states

00:16:14.140 along the border.

00:16:15.520 Now,

00:16:15.660 speaking of legislation

00:16:17.180 that you filed,

00:16:18.540 turning away from

00:16:19.640 this absolutely

00:16:20.720 marvelous new approach

00:16:22.280 on immigration,

00:16:23.400 which I,

00:16:24.480 again,

00:16:24.700 encourage other GOP governors

00:16:26.320 to follow.

00:16:27.880 Going back to the Senate,

00:16:29.620 there were some fireworks

00:16:30.740 that took place.

00:16:31.960 And all I'm getting is

00:16:32.820 we actually haven't really

00:16:33.760 talked about this yet,

00:16:34.680 so I'm really going to be hearing it

00:16:36.140 mostly for the first time

00:16:37.480 now on air.

00:16:38.700 But I've read the headlines.

00:16:40.740 There was a school safety bill

00:16:42.020 that you pushed

00:16:43.360 in the Senate

00:16:44.540 that looked like

00:16:45.680 it could pass

00:16:46.400 by unanimous consent.

00:16:48.200 And then one Democrat senator

00:16:49.720 shot the thing down.

00:16:51.660 And I saw the main points

00:16:53.060 of the bill.

00:16:53.780 They didn't seem particularly

00:16:55.100 right-wing

00:16:55.800 or extreme or Republican.

00:16:57.020 They seemed perfectly common sense.

00:16:58.960 What happened?

00:17:00.860 Well,

00:17:01.480 it's September.

00:17:02.920 School is starting.

00:17:04.180 And so school kids

00:17:04.900 across the country

00:17:05.580 are going back to school,

00:17:06.620 including kids in Uvalde,

00:17:07.900 where we had

00:17:09.000 just a few months ago

00:17:10.140 the worst school shooting

00:17:11.580 in Texas history.

00:17:12.360 It was horrific.

00:17:13.960 And I think we need

00:17:15.100 to do much, much more

00:17:16.320 to keep our kids safe.

00:17:17.880 And so I have legislation

00:17:19.300 when the Senate

00:17:19.800 took up its gun control bill.

00:17:21.940 I authored the lead alternative

00:17:23.760 to the Democrats'

00:17:24.800 gun control bill,

00:17:25.600 and it was legislation

00:17:26.380 that was called Cruz Barrasso.

00:17:27.780 And it had all sorts

00:17:28.620 of elements

00:17:29.160 to go after violent criminals,

00:17:31.200 to lock them up,

00:17:31.880 to get them off the streets,

00:17:32.940 to protect our kids.

00:17:34.220 The Democrats'

00:17:35.920 party line vote

00:17:36.780 voted against it.

00:17:38.340 So what I did today

00:17:40.220 is I took

00:17:41.600 just the school safety

00:17:42.960 components of Cruz Barrasso,

00:17:44.360 so not the whole thing,

00:17:46.080 but what was focused

00:17:47.540 directly at enhancing

00:17:48.620 school safety,

00:17:49.400 and in particular,

00:17:50.000 it was $30 billion,

00:17:51.860 and that's with a B

00:17:52.660 of funding,

00:17:53.880 $30 billion of funding

00:17:55.660 to enhance school safety,

00:17:56.880 and it has a number

00:17:57.800 of elements.

00:17:58.900 One element

00:17:59.540 is doubling

00:18:00.600 the number

00:18:01.180 of police officers

00:18:02.120 in schools

00:18:02.660 so that we have

00:18:04.100 twice as many

00:18:04.820 police officers

00:18:05.540 on campus

00:18:06.460 there physically

00:18:07.960 to protect our kids,

00:18:09.140 to stop

00:18:09.840 crazed madmen

00:18:11.380 from getting 0.99

00:18:12.200 into classrooms

00:18:13.100 and trying 1.00

00:18:14.540 to murder our children. 1.00

00:18:16.460 Number two, 0.98

00:18:18.220 it has $10 billion

00:18:20.020 to hire 15,000

00:18:22.440 new mental health

00:18:23.520 professionals

00:18:24.140 to help spot

00:18:27.120 these deranged

00:18:28.520 young men

00:18:29.080 before they commit

00:18:29.820 these kind of crimes,

00:18:30.680 to help intervene

00:18:31.620 early to stop

00:18:32.820 this before it happens,

00:18:34.600 and in addition

00:18:35.180 to that,

00:18:35.680 it has funding

00:18:36.600 for school safety

00:18:38.500 improvements

00:18:39.100 throughout the campus,

00:18:40.120 things to make

00:18:40.740 the campus

00:18:42.080 more physically secure.

00:18:44.240 So,

00:18:44.820 what I did today

00:18:45.620 is I stood up

00:18:46.280 on the Senate floor

00:18:46.960 and I asked

00:18:48.620 unanimous consent

00:18:49.660 for the Senate

00:18:51.260 to pass it.

00:18:51.940 Now,

00:18:52.080 the procedures

00:18:52.600 in the Senate,

00:18:53.260 if you ask,

00:18:53.880 it's called asking

00:18:54.500 for a UC,

00:18:55.320 unanimous consent.

00:18:57.740 The presiding officer

00:18:59.060 then says,

00:18:59.720 is there objection?

00:19:00.460 And if nobody

00:19:01.780 objects,

00:19:02.340 it passes.

00:19:02.980 It passes the Senate

00:19:04.520 and it is treated

00:19:05.740 as having passed

00:19:06.660 100 to nothing.

00:19:09.160 So,

00:19:09.800 there's a process

00:19:11.120 for a UC,

00:19:12.280 which is before

00:19:13.100 you seek a UC,

00:19:14.840 you tell the other

00:19:15.880 side you're going

00:19:16.440 to do it

00:19:16.920 so they can determine

00:19:18.260 if they're going

00:19:18.940 to object.

00:19:20.000 So,

00:19:20.380 I told the Democrats

00:19:21.920 last week

00:19:22.680 I was going to seek

00:19:23.420 UC to pass this

00:19:24.620 and we heard

00:19:26.140 from the Democrats

00:19:26.860 they're going

00:19:27.520 to object

00:19:28.080 and in particular

00:19:28.800 we heard

00:19:29.260 Chris Murphy

00:19:29.920 who is the Democrat

00:19:31.480 from Connecticut

00:19:32.380 was going

00:19:32.860 to object

00:19:33.380 and I did

00:19:34.880 a media interview

00:19:35.660 a few days ago

00:19:36.520 where a reporter

00:19:37.480 asked me,

00:19:38.060 said,

00:19:38.260 well,

00:19:38.760 what is his

00:19:39.540 objection going

00:19:40.200 to be?

00:19:41.100 And I told

00:19:41.820 the reporter,

00:19:42.280 I said,

00:19:42.600 actually,

00:19:42.980 I don't know.

00:19:43.640 I have no idea

00:19:44.760 because they haven't

00:19:45.620 articulated

00:19:46.300 any substantive

00:19:47.940 reasons why the bill

00:19:49.100 is a bad idea.

00:19:49.980 They haven't indicated

00:19:50.820 anything they oppose.

00:19:52.760 So,

00:19:53.180 I said,

00:19:53.420 I guess I'm looking

00:19:54.260 forward to hear

00:19:54.940 what he has to say.

00:19:56.540 So,

00:19:57.020 I stand up,

00:19:57.660 I give a speech

00:19:58.220 in favor of it

00:19:59.260 saying we need

00:19:59.880 to do more,

00:20:00.480 we need to keep

00:20:00.880 our kids safe,

00:20:01.980 this is a common

00:20:02.680 sense bill,

00:20:03.320 this ought to be

00:20:04.200 a bill that passes

00:20:05.140 100-0.

00:20:07.080 Presiding officer

00:20:07.920 turns and says,

00:20:08.920 is there any objection?

00:20:10.000 And Chris Murphy

00:20:10.600 stands up

00:20:11.300 and he says,

00:20:12.380 and I'm going to

00:20:12.940 read you the

00:20:13.640 entirety of his

00:20:14.460 speech.

00:20:16.460 Madam President,

00:20:18.280 I object.

00:20:21.640 Periclean,

00:20:22.380 wow,

00:20:23.000 soaring oratory.

00:20:23.800 And I have to

00:20:26.120 admit,

00:20:26.440 I stood up

00:20:27.000 at that point

00:20:27.740 and I was

00:20:31.780 flabbergasted.

00:20:33.080 I've been in the

00:20:33.720 Senate 10 years.

00:20:35.260 I've never seen

00:20:36.500 that happen

00:20:37.300 on a debate

00:20:40.140 on the Senate

00:20:41.460 floor.

00:20:41.980 He provided

00:20:43.020 not one word

00:20:44.480 of argument,

00:20:45.140 not one reason

00:20:46.000 why it was a bad

00:20:46.780 idea,

00:20:47.300 not one harm.

00:20:48.540 He has no basis

00:20:49.520 to object.

00:20:50.600 He simply says,

00:20:51.680 I object 1.00

00:20:52.560 and kills it. 1.00

00:20:54.280 And I said, 1.00

00:20:55.180 look,

00:20:55.560 at a time

00:20:57.000 when,

00:20:57.280 I mean,

00:20:57.400 our kids,

00:20:58.680 there is a real

00:21:00.000 problem of mass

00:21:01.460 murderers, 0.97

00:21:02.000 of lunatics 1.00

00:21:02.660 who are targeting 0.93

00:21:03.340 schools,

00:21:03.860 who are targeting

00:21:04.280 churches,

00:21:04.960 who are targeting

00:21:05.700 malls.

00:21:06.380 I mean,

00:21:06.520 it is,

00:21:07.140 crime is a

00:21:07.840 serious problem,

00:21:08.620 which has gotten

00:21:09.180 worse under

00:21:09.760 Democrats.

00:21:11.320 And this is,

00:21:12.720 this legislation

00:21:14.220 would be the

00:21:15.800 most comprehensive,

00:21:16.840 the most far

00:21:17.400 reaching,

00:21:17.820 the most serious

00:21:18.680 school safety

00:21:19.420 legislation

00:21:20.100 ever enacted

00:21:21.220 by the federal

00:21:21.820 government.

00:21:22.280 And the Democrats 0.98

00:21:22.940 are killing it.

00:21:23.980 Chris Murphy's 0.61

00:21:24.720 killing it

00:21:25.300 without even 0.99

00:21:26.920 bothering to

00:21:27.740 explain why.

00:21:28.420 And I further

00:21:28.860 said on the

00:21:29.320 Senate floor,

00:21:29.700 I said,

00:21:29.960 you know,

00:21:30.160 there's a reason

00:21:30.900 he feels he

00:21:32.640 can do that.

00:21:33.620 And I pointed

00:21:34.400 up to the

00:21:34.820 Senate gallery

00:21:35.420 where the

00:21:35.860 reporters normally

00:21:36.580 sit.

00:21:36.960 And I said,

00:21:37.300 if you look

00:21:37.860 at the gallery,

00:21:39.700 the number

00:21:41.260 of reporters

00:21:41.900 presently here

00:21:42.840 is 0.00.

00:21:46.260 Not a single

00:21:47.120 but reporter

00:21:47.800 bothered to show

00:21:48.920 up.

00:21:49.120 Why is it

00:21:49.880 that the

00:21:51.500 senator from

00:21:52.020 Connecticut

00:21:52.400 feels he

00:21:52.960 can just 1.00

00:21:53.420 kill this 0.98

00:21:54.080 bill and 0.97

00:21:54.960 provide zero

00:21:55.960 reasoning as

00:21:56.640 to why?

00:21:57.220 Because he

00:21:57.700 knows the

00:21:58.280 docile

00:21:58.940 corporate

00:21:59.880 media won't

00:22:02.120 report on

00:22:02.640 it, won't

00:22:04.000 tell anyone

00:22:04.460 it happened,

00:22:05.260 and will

00:22:05.780 never ask

00:22:06.380 him.

00:22:06.540 He knows

00:22:06.980 he will

00:22:07.300 not get

00:22:07.760 a question,

00:22:08.820 why did

00:22:09.440 you single

00:22:10.020 handedly

00:22:10.480 prevent us

00:22:11.800 from doubling

00:22:12.480 the number

00:22:12.860 of police

00:22:13.340 officers on

00:22:15.320 school campuses?

00:22:16.280 Why did

00:22:16.680 you kill

00:22:17.120 15,000 new

00:22:18.360 mental health

00:22:18.840 counselors on

00:22:19.980 school campuses

00:22:20.680 because the

00:22:21.240 media are

00:22:21.680 propagandists?

00:22:23.840 And by the

00:22:24.280 way, I

00:22:25.920 then asked

00:22:28.760 for a second

00:22:29.360 UC.

00:22:29.820 I said,

00:22:30.180 look, I

00:22:31.600 had assumed

00:22:32.120 he would

00:22:32.480 present some

00:22:33.380 argument as

00:22:34.080 to why he

00:22:34.600 thought this

00:22:34.940 was a bad

00:22:35.340 idea.

00:22:35.680 I don't

00:22:35.880 know what

00:22:36.160 it is because

00:22:36.560 he chose

00:22:37.080 not to.

00:22:38.060 So I

00:22:38.280 said, and

00:22:38.960 maybe he

00:22:39.500 disliked how

00:22:40.160 we were

00:22:40.460 spending it.

00:22:40.980 Maybe he

00:22:41.300 says we

00:22:41.580 should spend

00:22:42.160 more on

00:22:43.460 counselors than

00:22:44.120 on cops.

00:22:44.540 I don't

00:22:44.800 know.

00:22:45.260 I mean, he

00:22:46.120 didn't say

00:22:46.540 anything.

00:22:47.980 So my

00:22:48.280 second amendment

00:22:49.000 was there

00:22:49.640 are right

00:22:50.060 now there's

00:22:50.740 $130 billion

00:22:52.140 in unspent

00:22:55.040 COVID relief

00:22:56.020 funds designated

00:22:56.860 for schools.

00:22:57.940 So Congress

00:22:58.760 has appropriated

00:22:59.540 it.

00:22:59.780 It's sitting

00:23:00.240 there.

00:23:00.480 It hasn't

00:23:00.760 been spent.

00:23:01.600 The way my

00:23:02.620 bill was

00:23:03.040 paid for is

00:23:03.680 it was using

00:23:04.240 that unspent

00:23:04.900 COVID fund.

00:23:05.700 So it did

00:23:06.160 not cost any

00:23:06.880 additional money

00:23:07.620 because that's

00:23:08.240 money that has

00:23:09.080 already been

00:23:09.560 allocated to

00:23:10.220 schools.

00:23:10.540 But I

00:23:12.060 said, all

00:23:12.420 right, if he

00:23:12.840 doesn't like

00:23:13.400 how my

00:23:14.320 bill is

00:23:14.680 spending it,

00:23:15.800 I had a

00:23:16.120 very simple

00:23:16.660 one-page

00:23:17.180 bill that

00:23:18.960 simply says

00:23:19.820 schools, if

00:23:21.560 they wish

00:23:22.040 to, can

00:23:23.420 spend some

00:23:24.760 of that

00:23:25.460 COVID relief

00:23:26.340 money on

00:23:27.560 enhancing school

00:23:28.300 security.

00:23:28.740 So they can

00:23:29.300 spend some

00:23:29.780 of it on

00:23:30.580 hiring police

00:23:31.260 officers or

00:23:32.020 spend some

00:23:32.640 of it on

00:23:33.060 enhancing the

00:23:33.680 physical security

00:23:34.400 on campus.

00:23:35.520 Right now, the

00:23:36.260 Democrats have

00:23:36.820 put in place

00:23:37.300 rules that

00:23:37.780 stop them from

00:23:38.400 doing that.

00:23:39.340 So the very

00:23:39.740 simple rule,

00:23:40.540 let the

00:23:41.960 schools decide

00:23:42.680 if they want

00:23:43.140 to spend it

00:23:43.560 on school

00:23:43.900 safety.

00:23:45.520 What did

00:23:45.860 Murphy do?

00:23:46.460 Stood up

00:23:46.860 and objected

00:23:48.120 and gave a

00:23:49.020 very short

00:23:49.600 speech this

00:23:50.200 time, maybe

00:23:51.760 a minute or

00:23:52.300 two, where

00:23:54.340 he says, I'm

00:23:55.560 not arguing

00:23:56.200 because this

00:23:57.060 isn't real.

00:23:58.480 He says, this

00:23:59.140 is clickbait.

00:24:01.960 To which I

00:24:03.000 responded, okay,

00:24:04.100 it is very

00:24:05.540 real.

00:24:06.820 And in

00:24:07.580 order for

00:24:08.240 both of these

00:24:09.020 bills or

00:24:09.540 either of

00:24:10.140 these bills

00:24:10.600 to pass,

00:24:11.180 the senator

00:24:11.540 for Connecticut

00:24:12.160 had to do

00:24:12.620 one thing.

00:24:13.800 Just shut 1.00

00:24:14.760 up. 1.00

00:24:15.740 If he

00:24:16.380 simply had

00:24:17.580 closed his

00:24:18.640 mouth, these 0.99

00:24:20.840 bills would

00:24:21.340 have passed

00:24:22.000 unanimously, but

00:24:24.400 he's unwilling

00:24:25.240 to do it.

00:24:25.780 And it's

00:24:26.040 because the

00:24:26.520 Democrats, when

00:24:27.240 it comes to

00:24:27.800 crime and

00:24:28.640 mass shootings,

00:24:29.240 they have one

00:24:29.880 political objective,

00:24:30.760 and that's

00:24:31.540 taking away the

00:24:32.380 Second Amendment

00:24:32.880 rights of law

00:24:33.580 abiding citizens.

00:24:34.280 When it comes to

00:24:35.360 actually stopping

00:24:36.280 these crimes,

00:24:37.080 schools, not

00:24:38.280 only are they

00:24:38.820 not interested

00:24:39.460 in doing it,

00:24:40.200 they actively

00:24:41.160 and affirmatively

00:24:42.180 oppose serious

00:24:44.840 steps to

00:24:46.240 enhance the

00:24:46.900 security of

00:24:47.520 schools, and

00:24:48.160 we saw it

00:24:48.860 tragically today.

00:24:49.640 It's also just

00:24:50.780 such weak sauce

00:24:52.220 to say, I

00:24:53.140 object and I

00:24:54.360 want to

00:24:54.600 participate because

00:24:56.060 this politics

00:24:59.140 involves a

00:25:00.620 certain aspect of

00:25:01.620 rhetoric and

00:25:02.360 theater to it.

00:25:02.940 Yes, of course,

00:25:03.460 that's what

00:25:03.700 politics is.

00:25:04.480 It involves

00:25:05.100 talking and

00:25:05.760 making speeches

00:25:06.480 and persuading

00:25:07.520 your fellow

00:25:08.040 members.

00:25:08.780 Yeah, duh, of

00:25:09.700 course that's

00:25:10.220 politics.

00:25:11.160 And so that to

00:25:12.480 me is such a

00:25:12.980 weak sauce, but

00:25:13.660 it's also not

00:25:14.880 really a plausible

00:25:15.580 objection because

00:25:16.660 he's saying this

00:25:17.100 is clickbait,

00:25:17.600 this is clickbait,

00:25:18.440 but to your

00:25:18.980 point, the

00:25:20.000 media didn't

00:25:20.640 show up, the

00:25:21.340 press weren't

00:25:22.020 even there, and

00:25:22.840 this actually

00:25:23.220 brings me to

00:25:24.600 my mind an

00:25:26.520 even more

00:25:27.240 amazing moment,

00:25:28.540 which is, as

00:25:29.820 far as I can

00:25:30.460 tell, Senator, 0.66

00:25:31.140 and please fill

00:25:32.260 in the details

00:25:32.840 here, the

00:25:33.640 Democrats had

00:25:35.360 a pro-media

00:25:37.340 cartel bill that

00:25:38.780 they've been

00:25:39.220 working on for a

00:25:40.100 very long time to

00:25:41.520 give our

00:25:42.420 corporate left-wing

00:25:44.080 propagandist media

00:25:45.600 even more

00:25:46.620 power, and

00:25:47.960 specifically to

00:25:48.840 try to get

00:25:49.140 some more

00:25:49.380 money out of

00:25:49.900 big tech, but

00:25:50.940 maybe to wield

00:25:51.640 some more

00:25:52.060 power than

00:25:52.520 they already

00:25:52.860 do over all

00:25:53.560 the rest of

00:25:54.000 us and over

00:25:54.760 free speech in

00:25:55.440 the country, and

00:25:56.700 as far as I

00:25:58.020 can tell, you

00:25:58.680 single-handedly

00:25:59.900 derailed it

00:26:00.840 somehow, even

00:26:01.660 though the

00:26:01.920 Democrats still

00:26:02.880 run the

00:26:03.260 Senate.

00:26:03.600 How did that

00:26:04.200 happen?

00:26:05.020 So we had a

00:26:05.680 markup last

00:26:06.480 week in the

00:26:06.980 Senate Judiciary

00:26:07.640 Committee on a

00:26:09.000 bill that is

00:26:11.620 called the

00:26:13.140 Journalism

00:26:14.140 Competition

00:26:14.620 Protection Act.

00:26:15.600 And it

00:26:16.420 actually, I

00:26:16.940 would characterize

00:26:17.580 the bill

00:26:18.160 differently than

00:26:19.520 you did, in

00:26:21.620 that I think

00:26:22.140 there are some

00:26:23.000 good aspects of

00:26:24.000 the bill, and

00:26:25.580 I was genuinely

00:26:26.660 mixed on whether

00:26:27.660 the bill was a

00:26:28.260 good idea or

00:26:28.860 not.

00:26:29.540 What the bill

00:26:30.540 purports to do

00:26:31.520 is to help

00:26:33.260 smaller journalistic

00:26:35.440 outlets, and in

00:26:36.740 particular, local

00:26:37.660 media, so local

00:26:38.680 broadcasters, local

00:26:41.020 newspapers.

00:26:42.500 Right now, if

00:26:43.520 you're a local

00:26:44.100 newspaper and you

00:26:44.960 write a story,

00:26:46.640 big tech can

00:26:47.460 take your story

00:26:48.320 and put it

00:26:48.860 online and

00:26:49.660 run ads, like

00:26:51.080 get ad revenue

00:26:52.000 from putting

00:26:52.560 your story, your

00:26:53.420 content that you

00:26:54.180 produced online,

00:26:55.800 big tech can and

00:26:56.880 does, makes

00:26:57.460 billions of

00:26:58.320 dollars distributing

00:27:00.460 the content you

00:27:01.440 provided.

00:27:02.220 You know, look, if

00:27:02.820 you were a

00:27:03.300 musician, a radio

00:27:06.880 station wouldn't

00:27:07.600 have the ability to

00:27:08.440 take your music and

00:27:09.500 play it against

00:27:10.180 your wishes and

00:27:11.760 make money off of

00:27:12.700 it without paying

00:27:13.440 you.

00:27:14.380 So the argument

00:27:15.600 from local media

00:27:16.780 is, well, we

00:27:17.720 have either

00:27:18.700 written these

00:27:19.360 stories or put

00:27:20.220 together these

00:27:20.900 news stories in

00:27:21.720 the case of

00:27:22.220 broadcast TV, and

00:27:23.940 big tech just

00:27:24.840 monetizes it for

00:27:26.300 themselves and

00:27:26.960 doesn't pay us

00:27:27.480 anything.

00:27:28.380 So what this bill

00:27:29.800 does is it

00:27:30.800 allows smaller

00:27:32.660 journalistic outlets

00:27:34.160 and it defines

00:27:34.940 smaller journalistic

00:27:35.920 outlets as those

00:27:37.000 with 1,500

00:27:38.640 employers, employees,

00:27:40.300 or fewer.

00:27:41.260 So it excludes

00:27:42.840 the New York

00:27:44.480 Times and the

00:27:45.340 Wall Street Journal

00:27:45.960 and the Washington

00:27:46.480 Post, for example,

00:27:47.320 because they all

00:27:47.780 have more than

00:27:48.380 1,500 employees.

00:27:50.120 But smaller

00:27:50.980 outlets can

00:27:52.840 band together

00:27:53.780 and can form a

00:27:54.760 joint group to

00:27:56.920 negotiate with

00:27:58.060 big tech in

00:27:59.900 order to get

00:28:00.480 paid for their

00:28:01.140 content.

00:28:02.000 What you're

00:28:02.280 describing,

00:28:02.900 Senator, actually

00:28:04.000 seems fine.

00:28:06.020 And so then my

00:28:07.120 question would be,

00:28:08.440 why derail it?

00:28:09.900 Yeah.

00:28:10.660 So and it's

00:28:11.280 modeled after what

00:28:12.600 happened in

00:28:13.340 Australia, where

00:28:14.120 they did something

00:28:14.680 very similar to

00:28:15.600 it and Facebook

00:28:16.820 said, we're not

00:28:17.780 going to comply.

00:28:18.680 And then like two

00:28:19.220 days later, they 0.93

00:28:19.800 said, oh, crap, we 0.96

00:28:20.420 need all this 0.98

00:28:20.820 content.

00:28:21.280 So now they're

00:28:21.640 paying the local

00:28:22.340 media.

00:28:23.500 So it was in

00:28:25.500 significant respect

00:28:26.480 successful in

00:28:27.320 Australia.

00:28:27.840 That was the

00:28:28.240 model for this.

00:28:29.660 So this was a

00:28:30.680 bill that was

00:28:31.660 authored by Amy

00:28:32.820 Klobuchar, the

00:28:33.800 Democrat from

00:28:34.460 Minnesota, and

00:28:35.900 John Kennedy, the

00:28:36.820 Republican from

00:28:37.620 Louisiana, who's a 1.00

00:28:38.680 good friend of

00:28:39.240 mine and a really

00:28:40.000 good guy.

00:28:41.940 And I said at

00:28:43.060 the markup, so I

00:28:44.380 was being lobbied

00:28:45.140 by both sides on

00:28:46.100 this.

00:28:46.520 Big tech hates

00:28:47.180 this bill, so

00:28:47.860 that's a plus.

00:28:48.880 Anything big tech

00:28:49.700 hates, I have a

00:28:51.500 natural inclination

00:28:52.500 to like.

00:28:53.700 here's what I said at

00:28:57.140 the markup.

00:28:58.300 I said, when I

00:29:00.700 look at big tech

00:29:01.500 and journalism, the

00:29:02.480 single greatest

00:29:03.200 threat to free

00:29:04.720 speech we have

00:29:05.500 today is big

00:29:07.020 tech censorship.

00:29:08.720 And I don't want

00:29:10.040 anything we do to

00:29:13.800 increase big tech

00:29:14.760 censorship.

00:29:16.500 Moreover, I want

00:29:18.220 anything we do to

00:29:20.140 decrease big tech

00:29:21.280 censorship.

00:29:21.640 And what this

00:29:22.800 bill did was

00:29:24.400 create an

00:29:25.000 exemption from

00:29:25.860 the antitrust

00:29:26.500 laws.

00:29:26.800 So ordinarily, a

00:29:28.640 bunch of

00:29:29.080 competitors, you

00:29:29.760 can't get all the

00:29:30.460 newspapers in a

00:29:31.200 state to come

00:29:31.680 together and

00:29:32.200 negotiate as one,

00:29:33.200 that violates the

00:29:33.880 antitrust laws.

00:29:35.140 So this bill

00:29:35.940 creates an

00:29:36.520 exemption from the

00:29:38.140 antitrust laws to

00:29:39.100 let them come

00:29:39.760 together to negotiate

00:29:40.580 with big tech.

00:29:41.380 And so I

00:29:41.780 introduced an

00:29:42.280 amendment.

00:29:42.500 And I said, the

00:29:46.820 immunity from

00:29:47.580 antitrust under

00:29:48.400 this bill does

00:29:50.340 not apply to any

00:29:51.700 negotiations or

00:29:52.720 agreements concerning

00:29:53.800 content moderation,

00:29:55.120 concerning censorship.

00:29:56.980 In other words, you

00:29:57.700 can get together and

00:29:58.960 negotiate on price.

00:29:59.980 You can say, you've

00:30:00.600 got to pay me for

00:30:01.160 what we're producing.

00:30:03.240 But what you can't

00:30:04.360 get together is you

00:30:05.240 can't get a media

00:30:05.980 cartel together with a

00:30:07.160 big tech cartel and

00:30:08.200 say, hey, let's all

00:30:09.540 agree that we will

00:30:12.100 censor any story

00:30:13.580 about Donald J.

00:30:14.340 Trump.

00:30:16.040 And this bill would

00:30:17.260 give that immunity

00:30:18.120 from antitrust laws

00:30:19.120 for them to get

00:30:19.680 together as a cartel

00:30:20.720 and collude to

00:30:22.920 censor more

00:30:23.680 effectively.

00:30:25.480 And so it says, hey,

00:30:27.300 if this is about

00:30:27.940 price, let them

00:30:29.220 negotiate on price.

00:30:30.540 But censorship

00:30:31.960 should not be a

00:30:33.240 topic that is

00:30:33.940 covered by this

00:30:34.600 bill.

00:30:35.820 And so we vote

00:30:36.920 on it.

00:30:37.340 And all

00:30:40.760 the Republicans

00:30:41.380 vote for me,

00:30:42.120 including John

00:30:42.800 Kennedy and what

00:30:43.420 John Kennedy says

00:30:44.340 at the markup.

00:30:45.360 He says, listen, I

00:30:46.400 want to help the

00:30:47.580 local newspapers

00:30:48.280 and local stations,

00:30:49.180 but I'm not

00:30:49.860 interested in

00:30:50.380 censorship.

00:30:50.740 And what Cruz is

00:30:52.060 saying seems very

00:30:52.900 reasonable that when

00:30:54.280 they're bargaining,

00:30:54.940 they shouldn't be

00:30:55.480 bargaining about

00:30:56.020 censorship.

00:30:56.680 They should be

00:30:57.060 bargaining about

00:30:57.540 price.

00:30:59.540 So Amy Klobuchar

00:31:00.700 got very angry,

00:31:02.000 began screaming at

00:31:03.240 John Kennedy in the

00:31:04.140 markup.

00:31:05.020 She's like, we had a

00:31:05.860 deal and you're not

00:31:06.660 you're not following

00:31:07.760 our deal.

00:31:08.220 He's like, we

00:31:08.520 didn't have a deal

00:31:09.080 to allow censorship.

00:31:10.100 That wasn't our

00:31:10.620 deal.

00:31:11.480 So they're going

00:31:12.380 back and forth and

00:31:13.340 we have a committee

00:31:13.980 vote.

00:31:15.160 Now, here's what's

00:31:16.120 very interesting.

00:31:18.600 One of the

00:31:19.220 Democrats, John

00:31:19.980 Ossoff from

00:31:20.580 Georgia, was not 0.87

00:31:22.320 there.

00:31:23.320 He actually had

00:31:24.400 COVID and was in

00:31:26.400 India.

00:31:27.360 So he was out of

00:31:28.200 the country.

00:31:31.300 Normally, if you

00:31:32.260 are absent, if a

00:31:33.160 senator is absent

00:31:34.080 from a markup,

00:31:34.940 your staff can

00:31:36.580 have a proxy to

00:31:37.600 vote for you.

00:31:38.680 So even if you're

00:31:39.320 not physically

00:31:39.940 there, your

00:31:41.100 staff can cast a

00:31:42.480 proxy vote that

00:31:43.580 that counts.

00:31:45.700 Well, Ossoff was

00:31:46.540 not physically

00:31:47.120 there and he had

00:31:47.980 not given his

00:31:49.080 staff the proxy

00:31:50.020 to vote.

00:31:50.600 They didn't have

00:31:51.560 a vote from him

00:31:52.760 one way or the

00:31:53.260 other.

00:31:53.520 So we voted on

00:31:54.240 my amendment.

00:31:55.860 Judiciary

00:31:56.300 Committee has 11

00:31:57.240 Democrats and 11

00:31:58.280 Republicans.

00:31:59.220 We voted on it

00:32:00.280 and the vote was

00:32:00.980 11 to 10.

00:32:02.000 11 R's voting

00:32:03.160 yes and only

00:32:03.880 10 D's voting

00:32:04.820 no because

00:32:05.280 Ossoff wasn't

00:32:05.960 there.

00:32:07.500 Dick Durbin, the

00:32:08.280 chairman of the

00:32:08.780 committee, his

00:32:09.180 head exploded

00:32:09.940 like like there.

00:32:11.800 It is worth

00:32:12.860 watching how

00:32:13.920 these Dems are

00:32:14.820 just fulminating

00:32:15.880 and spewing and

00:32:17.480 they're losing

00:32:18.340 their minds.

00:32:19.820 And then,

00:32:20.060 Michael, what

00:32:20.460 happened next was

00:32:21.280 truly hysterical.

00:32:23.320 Amy Klobuchar

00:32:23.980 says, so my

00:32:24.700 amendment's been

00:32:25.160 adopted.

00:32:25.660 It's now part of

00:32:26.300 her bill.

00:32:27.360 And she says,

00:32:28.220 well, if this is

00:32:28.740 in the bill, I

00:32:30.220 can't support my

00:32:31.100 bill.

00:32:31.620 There you go.

00:32:32.100 I no longer

00:32:32.760 support my own

00:32:35.240 bill.

00:32:36.260 And she said,

00:32:37.320 and we're going

00:32:37.960 to pull it

00:32:38.520 down.

00:32:39.020 I made clear,

00:32:39.880 if you adopt

00:32:40.360 my amendment,

00:32:40.860 I'll vote for 0.97

00:32:41.320 your bill.

00:32:42.580 And once the

00:32:43.420 amendment was

00:32:43.900 adopted, I

00:32:44.560 would have

00:32:44.860 voted for it.

00:32:46.520 But it was

00:32:47.320 amazing because

00:32:48.720 the Democrats

00:32:49.880 made clear in

00:32:50.720 that markup

00:32:51.380 that they

00:32:53.240 value censorship

00:32:54.600 over anything

00:32:55.500 else.

00:32:56.020 It's total

00:32:56.860 vindication of

00:32:58.460 the Republican

00:32:59.000 skepticism,

00:32:59.740 right?

00:32:59.900 Because the

00:33:00.440 Democrats come 0.60

00:33:00.980 out and say,

00:33:01.320 this is just a

00:33:01.800 bill about

00:33:02.160 helping small

00:33:03.260 newspapers,

00:33:03.900 which I'm

00:33:04.340 totally for.

00:33:04.940 You're totally

00:33:05.340 for.

00:33:05.780 I think most

00:33:06.380 people are

00:33:06.680 totally for.

00:33:07.160 OK, great.

00:33:07.960 OK, and you're

00:33:08.520 not going to

00:33:08.860 censor, right?

00:33:09.320 No, no, we're

00:33:09.780 not going to

00:33:10.100 censor.

00:33:10.640 OK, great.

00:33:11.200 Well, I'm just

00:33:11.580 going to put in

00:33:12.000 this little

00:33:12.360 amendment that

00:33:13.340 says you can't

00:33:14.180 use this as a

00:33:15.000 way to censor

00:33:15.720 everybody.

00:33:16.680 Then the

00:33:17.200 amendment passes

00:33:17.860 and then they

00:33:18.440 say, yeah,

00:33:18.840 never mind.

00:33:19.460 It just tells

00:33:20.420 you what they

00:33:20.860 were after the

00:33:21.460 whole time.

00:33:22.500 It was truly

00:33:24.140 brazen.

00:33:24.920 And I think

00:33:29.360 it was

00:33:29.720 revealing.

00:33:30.460 It showed

00:33:31.420 censorship and

00:33:35.140 silencing of the

00:33:36.280 political opposition

00:33:37.300 has become a

00:33:38.260 core value of

00:33:39.160 today's Democrat

00:33:39.860 Party.

00:33:40.380 They support it

00:33:41.480 and apparently

00:33:43.280 they're now

00:33:43.820 willing to vote

00:33:44.660 against their

00:33:45.260 own bills.

00:33:46.000 if there's

00:33:47.920 anything in

00:33:49.280 them that

00:33:49.820 might actually

00:33:50.820 stop big tech

00:33:52.760 from censoring

00:33:53.660 Michael Knowles.

00:33:54.780 That's amazing.

00:33:55.460 That's amazing.

00:33:56.280 I love it.

00:33:57.560 I even I just

00:33:58.420 love the the

00:33:59.520 whole kind of

00:34:00.300 nitty gritty

00:34:01.320 technical way

00:34:02.520 because Ossoff

00:34:03.260 was out and you

00:34:03.820 saw your light

00:34:04.460 and I love the

00:34:05.620 whole thing.

00:34:06.060 Speaking of

00:34:06.820 close votes,

00:34:07.800 though, I've got

00:34:08.180 to ask you about

00:34:08.700 a vote that's

00:34:09.300 coming up that

00:34:10.720 is causing me

00:34:11.700 to lose my

00:34:12.280 hair.

00:34:12.780 You know, I

00:34:13.040 count on my

00:34:13.660 hair for like

00:34:14.500 count on it for

00:34:15.200 like three inches

00:34:15.760 of height and

00:34:16.320 it's causing me

00:34:17.180 to pull my

00:34:17.560 hair out.

00:34:18.340 There is going

00:34:19.100 to be this 0.59

00:34:19.840 gay marriage

00:34:21.620 vote.

00:34:22.100 Now the Supreme

00:34:22.500 Court in

00:34:22.900 Obergefell

00:34:23.420 redefines marriage

00:34:24.480 and that's

00:34:25.680 that I guess.

00:34:26.880 Now the

00:34:27.400 Democrats want 0.51

00:34:28.200 to enshrine 0.68

00:34:28.900 this in law.

00:34:30.120 So actually pass

00:34:30.660 a law and say

00:34:31.220 now this is the

00:34:31.840 definition of

00:34:32.420 marriage and

00:34:33.680 some Republicans

00:34:34.900 seem to be

00:34:35.800 wanting to go

00:34:37.120 along with

00:34:37.640 this.

00:34:38.100 Some possibly

00:34:39.520 some Republican

00:34:40.060 senators, some

00:34:40.960 Republican

00:34:41.520 candidates.

00:34:42.580 I don't see

00:34:43.280 any reason to

00:34:44.100 do this.

00:34:44.580 The Supreme

00:34:44.960 Court has

00:34:45.340 already

00:34:45.560 spoken.

00:34:46.380 It's just

00:34:46.700 I mean, this

00:34:48.320 is to the

00:34:48.680 left of

00:34:49.020 Barack Obama

00:34:49.740 circa 2011.

00:34:51.020 I just I

00:34:51.380 just none of

00:34:52.200 this is making

00:34:52.720 sense to me.

00:34:53.520 And I was

00:34:54.300 looking at the

00:34:54.780 numbers.

00:34:55.080 Is this thing

00:34:57.100 going to pass?

00:34:58.480 So I don't

00:34:59.280 know.

00:34:59.800 And it is even

00:35:01.080 worse than you

00:35:02.040 described.

00:35:03.120 So what we're

00:35:04.280 hearing is that

00:35:05.480 this is likely

00:35:06.200 to be what's

00:35:07.100 called the

00:35:07.500 comeback vote

00:35:08.420 next Monday.

00:35:09.640 So Monday,

00:35:10.860 typically when

00:35:11.500 everyone flies

00:35:12.080 back to D.C.

00:35:12.800 for session,

00:35:14.020 the first

00:35:14.480 vote of the

00:35:14.920 day is at

00:35:15.380 530 p.m.

00:35:16.240 on a Monday,

00:35:16.820 and that's

00:35:17.140 late enough

00:35:17.600 that even

00:35:17.920 from the

00:35:18.240 West Coast,

00:35:18.800 you can fly

00:35:19.320 in and get

00:35:19.840 there in time

00:35:20.320 to vote.

00:35:20.980 That's called

00:35:21.420 the comeback

00:35:21.840 vote, and

00:35:22.300 it's what

00:35:22.540 brings everyone

00:35:23.060 back to D.C.

00:35:24.420 We are hearing

00:35:25.560 this week that

00:35:26.520 the comeback

00:35:26.920 vote on Monday

00:35:27.820 is going to be

00:35:28.440 the vote on

00:35:29.180 this bill.

00:35:30.820 And there are

00:35:31.940 a couple of

00:35:32.420 components of

00:35:33.040 this bill.

00:35:33.560 Number one,

00:35:34.380 it is

00:35:37.040 responding to

00:35:38.640 a made-up

00:35:40.360 threat, because

00:35:41.320 and we've

00:35:41.720 talked about

00:35:42.200 this at

00:35:42.700 length, the

00:35:44.220 Supreme Court

00:35:44.940 majority in

00:35:46.060 Dobbs explicitly

00:35:49.120 said, not

00:35:50.020 once, not

00:35:50.580 twice, but

00:35:51.160 three times,

00:35:52.200 that the

00:35:53.100 court was

00:35:53.800 not going

00:35:54.680 to revisit

00:35:55.380 Obergefell.

00:35:56.100 It was not

00:35:56.720 going to

00:35:57.280 revisit its

00:35:57.960 decision on

00:35:58.520 gay marriage.

00:35:59.640 You have

00:35:59.860 Clarence Thomas

00:36:00.500 who wrote

00:36:01.000 one concurrence

00:36:01.900 suggesting that,

00:36:02.880 but the

00:36:04.220 other five

00:36:04.980 justices

00:36:05.780 explicitly

00:36:07.140 said, no,

00:36:08.740 we're not

00:36:09.420 going to.

00:36:09.960 The third

00:36:10.300 time Justice

00:36:10.900 Alito writing

00:36:11.580 for the

00:36:11.860 majority says,

00:36:12.740 I don't

00:36:13.660 know how

00:36:14.120 to say

00:36:14.600 this any

00:36:15.180 more clearly.

00:36:16.680 No, no,

00:36:18.180 no.

00:36:19.180 So as

00:36:20.580 much as the

00:36:21.160 Democrats and

00:36:22.340 the media want

00:36:23.440 to suggest that

00:36:24.200 the court is

00:36:24.840 suddenly on the

00:36:25.500 verge of

00:36:25.980 overturning that

00:36:26.660 decision, the

00:36:28.720 court's majority

00:36:29.560 said unequivocally

00:36:30.980 it was not.

00:36:32.880 So it's

00:36:34.460 not trying

00:36:35.240 to do

00:36:35.980 address an

00:36:38.060 affirmative

00:36:38.480 threat to

00:36:39.300 gay marriage,

00:36:40.020 which people

00:36:40.840 could be

00:36:41.600 concerned about.

00:36:42.700 It's engaged

00:36:43.620 in politics.

00:36:44.540 But, you know,

00:36:44.900 look, if it

00:36:45.240 were empty

00:36:45.620 politics, that

00:36:47.900 would be

00:36:48.320 problematic, but

00:36:49.300 not necessarily

00:36:49.900 the end of

00:36:50.360 the world.

00:36:51.540 But it's

00:36:52.220 worse than

00:36:52.700 that.

00:36:54.000 Because if

00:36:55.140 this bill

00:36:55.680 passes, it

00:36:56.640 repeals the

00:36:57.760 Federal Defense

00:36:58.300 of Marriage

00:36:58.700 Act, which

00:36:59.220 Bill Clinton

00:36:59.680 signed in

00:37:00.120 the law.

00:37:00.540 It used to

00:37:00.860 be Democrats

00:37:01.680 would agree

00:37:02.080 with defending

00:37:02.680 marriage, but

00:37:04.160 it also

00:37:05.060 amends federal

00:37:07.560 law defining

00:37:08.480 marriage to

00:37:10.840 encompass

00:37:11.600 whatever any

00:37:14.240 state says

00:37:15.160 marriage is.

00:37:16.020 That any

00:37:16.500 state that

00:37:17.160 makes anything

00:37:18.720 called a

00:37:19.260 marriage legal

00:37:19.920 is automatically

00:37:21.480 legal for

00:37:22.200 federal law.

00:37:22.740 And by the

00:37:23.060 way, that's

00:37:23.460 not even

00:37:23.820 limited to

00:37:24.320 two people.

00:37:24.880 That means

00:37:25.280 if a state

00:37:25.880 made polygamy 0.93

00:37:27.040 legal, federal

00:37:28.360 law would

00:37:28.800 immediately

00:37:29.140 recognize polygamy

00:37:30.300 as federal

00:37:30.700 law.

00:37:31.160 I mean, it

00:37:31.660 is broad

00:37:32.360 reaching.

00:37:35.220 It's even

00:37:36.220 worse than

00:37:37.360 that because

00:37:37.940 there was an

00:37:38.540 oral argument

00:37:39.180 that Don

00:37:39.700 Varelli, who

00:37:40.280 had been the

00:37:40.820 solicitor general

00:37:41.660 under Barack

00:37:42.280 Obama, was

00:37:42.900 presenting before

00:37:43.520 the Supreme

00:37:43.940 Court, where

00:37:45.760 Justice Alito

00:37:47.180 asked, well,

00:37:49.040 isn't the

00:37:51.040 next step

00:37:51.840 for the

00:37:53.400 IRS to go 1.00

00:37:54.480 after the

00:37:55.080 501c3

00:37:56.240 status of

00:37:57.680 any

00:37:58.200 institution

00:37:59.480 that does

00:38:00.860 not agree 0.99

00:38:01.320 with gay

00:38:01.700 marriage.

00:38:03.040 And Varelli

00:38:03.540 admits, oh,

00:38:04.140 yes, yes,

00:38:04.680 that is the

00:38:05.460 next step.

00:38:06.680 And if

00:38:07.320 this bill

00:38:08.040 passes,

00:38:09.380 the effect

00:38:11.020 will be,

00:38:11.580 and I'll

00:38:11.800 make a

00:38:12.120 prediction

00:38:12.440 right now,

00:38:13.180 if this

00:38:13.520 bill passes

00:38:14.120 and Joe

00:38:14.540 Biden signs

00:38:15.120 it into

00:38:15.360 law, the

00:38:16.500 Biden IRS

00:38:17.720 will use

00:38:18.740 this bill

00:38:19.360 to target

00:38:21.340 schools,

00:38:22.980 K-12

00:38:23.480 schools,

00:38:24.340 to target

00:38:25.340 universities,

00:38:26.240 to target

00:38:27.560 charities and

00:38:29.180 to target

00:38:29.700 churches that

00:38:32.000 maintain a

00:38:33.880 traditional

00:38:34.420 definition of

00:38:35.260 marriage, whether

00:38:35.780 that is a

00:38:36.320 biblical

00:38:36.560 definition of

00:38:37.360 marriage, or

00:38:38.540 whether that

00:38:39.080 is a Jewish

00:38:39.680 synagogue, or

00:38:41.240 a Muslim

00:38:42.380 mosque, or

00:38:43.540 any religion

00:38:44.320 that teaches

00:38:45.020 that marriage 0.65

00:38:46.000 is the union

00:38:46.680 of one man

00:38:47.260 and one

00:38:47.600 woman, the 1.00

00:38:49.440 Biden IRS,

00:38:50.660 if this bill

00:38:51.240 passes, will

00:38:52.020 be empowered

00:38:52.780 to go after

00:38:53.480 them, to 0.58

00:38:53.860 go to your

00:38:54.400 church and

00:38:55.740 say, unless

00:38:56.520 you accept

00:38:57.500 gay marriage,

00:38:58.520 we are 1.00

00:38:59.460 stripping you 0.97

00:39:00.240 of your

00:39:00.540 501c3

00:39:01.800 tax status,

00:39:04.180 which you

00:39:05.260 want to

00:39:05.540 talk about

00:39:06.220 opening up

00:39:07.560 a massive

00:39:08.780 new front

00:39:09.780 in the

00:39:10.120 assault on

00:39:10.780 religious

00:39:11.100 liberty.

00:39:12.080 This bill

00:39:12.700 is about

00:39:13.200 empowering the

00:39:14.140 Biden IRS

00:39:14.900 to target

00:39:16.080 every church

00:39:16.740 and school

00:39:17.200 and university

00:39:17.840 and charity

00:39:18.420 in America

00:39:19.000 that refuses

00:39:20.420 to knuckle

00:39:21.120 under to

00:39:22.300 their view

00:39:23.020 of gay

00:39:23.400 marriage.

00:39:23.860 I think

00:39:24.100 it's

00:39:24.260 incredibly

00:39:24.760 dangerous,

00:39:25.480 and yet,

00:39:25.800 Michael,

00:39:26.100 you asked

00:39:26.480 me, is

00:39:26.760 it going

00:39:27.020 to pass?

00:39:28.640 I don't

00:39:29.380 know.

00:39:30.100 Every

00:39:30.540 Democrat's

00:39:31.160 going to

00:39:31.360 vote for

00:39:31.780 it, and

00:39:32.900 there have

00:39:33.280 been multiple

00:39:34.000 Republican

00:39:34.500 senators who

00:39:35.180 have said

00:39:35.440 they will

00:39:35.820 too.

00:39:36.200 I don't

00:39:36.600 know if

00:39:36.920 they get

00:39:37.240 to 60

00:39:37.760 or not,

00:39:38.760 but given

00:39:41.220 the threat

00:39:41.880 to religious

00:39:42.420 liberty, I

00:39:43.300 think it

00:39:43.680 would be

00:39:44.040 profoundly

00:39:44.880 dangerous

00:39:45.480 if this

00:39:45.860 passed.

00:39:46.360 It's just

00:39:47.140 unconscionable

00:39:48.160 to me that

00:39:48.980 a Republican

00:39:49.580 senator would

00:39:50.280 even consider

00:39:50.880 voting for

00:39:51.360 this, because

00:39:51.940 to your

00:39:52.660 point, even

00:39:54.160 if you 0.72

00:39:54.480 support gay

00:39:55.240 marriage, even

00:39:55.800 if you

00:39:56.040 support Obergefell,

00:39:57.060 whatever, to

00:39:58.000 say that you

00:39:59.860 want to empower

00:40:00.580 the federal

00:40:01.420 government, Joe

00:40:02.320 Biden's IRS, we

00:40:03.460 know that Biden

00:40:04.140 is pretty loose

00:40:05.700 and capricious

00:40:06.400 when it comes

00:40:06.920 to wielding

00:40:08.000 the executive

00:40:08.820 agencies to

00:40:09.900 crush his

00:40:10.740 political

00:40:11.080 opponents, that

00:40:12.220 you would

00:40:12.460 empower them

00:40:13.140 to go after

00:40:13.720 schools and

00:40:14.640 churches and

00:40:15.280 charities and

00:40:15.740 all these

00:40:15.980 organizations because

00:40:17.080 they have the

00:40:17.700 temerity to

00:40:18.960 continue to

00:40:20.260 hold the view

00:40:20.860 of marriage

00:40:21.500 that everyone

00:40:22.580 throughout all

00:40:23.300 of history, all

00:40:23.900 around the

00:40:24.220 world held

00:40:24.660 until about

00:40:25.160 seven years

00:40:25.840 ago.

00:40:26.300 It's just, I

00:40:27.800 have such low

00:40:29.440 expectations for

00:40:30.720 people in the

00:40:31.660 political

00:40:32.000 establishment that

00:40:33.020 I thought nothing

00:40:33.640 could shock me

00:40:34.240 anymore, but

00:40:35.040 it's the most

00:40:36.440 outrageous thing

00:40:37.460 I've heard in

00:40:38.400 politics in

00:40:39.380 years, I

00:40:40.600 think.

00:40:41.720 Yeah, and

00:40:42.240 look, this is a

00:40:43.460 very real threat

00:40:44.460 to show this is

00:40:45.420 not hypothetical.

00:40:46.340 The city of

00:40:46.820 Philadelphia

00:40:47.320 Philadelphia

00:40:48.580 denied Catholic

00:40:50.120 charities

00:40:50.780 participation in

00:40:52.880 adoption services

00:40:53.960 because Catholic

00:40:55.160 charities did not

00:40:56.640 embrace gay

00:40:57.320 marriage as they

00:40:58.220 believed it was

00:40:59.560 contrary to their

00:41:00.240 faith.

00:41:00.840 And that case

00:41:02.060 went all the way

00:41:02.700 to the Supreme

00:41:03.180 Court, and the

00:41:03.660 Supreme Court

00:41:03.960 struck it down

00:41:04.580 and said you

00:41:04.960 can't exclude

00:41:05.640 them.

00:41:06.460 The difference

00:41:07.320 is once this

00:41:09.500 bill passes,

00:41:10.720 they'll go back

00:41:12.340 and they'll try

00:41:12.860 to exclude Catholic

00:41:13.760 charities.

00:41:14.180 They'll go back

00:41:14.840 and they'll

00:41:15.140 target any

00:41:16.200 charity, any

00:41:17.020 church, any

00:41:17.660 school, any

00:41:18.240 university that

00:41:19.500 dares disagree,

00:41:21.100 and it is a

00:41:22.340 green light for

00:41:24.340 religious persecution

00:41:25.380 from the zealots

00:41:26.560 in the Biden

00:41:27.060 IRS.

00:41:28.100 Well, we were

00:41:29.400 mentioning it's not

00:41:30.060 just the Republican

00:41:30.800 senators who were

00:41:31.500 talking about this.

00:41:32.280 A lot of candidates

00:41:32.860 are being asked

00:41:33.500 about this now,

00:41:34.520 and I know that

00:41:35.960 you've been hitting

00:41:36.500 the campaign trail

00:41:37.340 like crazy for some

00:41:38.420 of these Republican

00:41:38.980 candidates.

00:41:39.760 You were just up

00:41:40.280 in New Hampshire,

00:41:41.080 I believe, with

00:41:41.740 is it Caroline

00:41:43.060 Levitt, who

00:41:44.000 is, she was 0.81

00:41:44.720 behind, and

00:41:45.880 then she just,

00:41:47.300 and she was being

00:41:47.820 outspent, then she

00:41:48.620 jumps ahead.

00:41:49.520 So you're very much,

00:41:51.080 you know, you're going

00:41:51.940 to all of these

00:41:52.580 places, you see

00:41:53.600 what's happening.

00:41:54.420 One, I want to ask

00:41:55.100 you about that race,

00:41:55.760 but two, where do

00:41:57.520 we stand?

00:41:58.140 I'm getting such

00:41:58.820 conflicting information

00:41:59.900 right now from pretty

00:42:00.700 much every news

00:42:01.520 source.

00:42:02.280 Are we going to

00:42:02.940 take the House?

00:42:03.860 Do we have a shot

00:42:04.720 at the Senate?

00:42:05.660 What's the state

00:42:06.360 of the race?

00:42:07.620 All right, well, let

00:42:07.960 me start with your

00:42:08.700 first question.

00:42:09.560 So we had a great

00:42:10.080 victory this week.

00:42:11.520 There is New

00:42:12.680 Hampshire had their

00:42:13.380 primaries on

00:42:14.280 Tuesday, and for

00:42:18.780 one of the two

00:42:19.420 congressional seats in

00:42:20.520 New Hampshire, it's a

00:42:22.300 very close seat.

00:42:23.100 A Democrat holds it 0.66

00:42:23.960 now, but it's a seat

00:42:25.420 that could go either

00:42:26.180 way, could go Democrat

00:42:27.160 or Republican, and

00:42:27.920 there was a contested

00:42:28.820 primary.

00:42:30.180 The top two candidates

00:42:31.320 in the primary were,

00:42:33.600 number one, a woman who 1.00

00:42:34.620 I supported named

00:42:35.480 Caroline Levitt.

00:42:36.400 Caroline is 25 years

00:42:38.200 old.

00:42:39.700 She is young.

00:42:41.360 She is attractive,

00:42:43.020 articulate, dynamic.

00:42:44.540 She worked in the

00:42:45.200 Trump White House.

00:42:45.900 She worked on the

00:42:46.440 press team in the

00:42:48.440 Trump White House.

00:42:49.200 She is a New 1.00

00:42:49.780 Hampshire native, grew

00:42:50.720 up there, went to

00:42:51.440 college there, played

00:42:52.320 softball at St.

00:42:53.240 Anselm's College.

00:42:55.200 She is a really

00:42:57.220 dynamic candidate, and

00:42:58.740 she's a conservative.

00:43:00.720 If elected, she will be

00:43:03.020 the youngest woman ever

00:43:04.240 to serve in the House

00:43:04.980 Representatives.

00:43:07.120 She's, you know, Gen 1.00

00:43:08.660 Z.

00:43:09.140 She's not even, you 1.00

00:43:10.080 know, she's not Gen X 1.00

00:43:11.100 or even Y.

00:43:11.760 She's Gen Z. 0.90

00:43:14.680 Her principal opponent

00:43:16.280 was a much more

00:43:18.500 moderate candidate who

00:43:19.760 had been Chris Christie's

00:43:21.480 executive director in

00:43:22.880 New Hampshire.

00:43:23.400 So he was a New Jersey

00:43:24.600 Republican who moved

00:43:27.460 to New Hampshire to run

00:43:28.480 Chris Christie's

00:43:29.360 campaign and was not

00:43:33.160 remotely as conservative.

00:43:34.980 as Carolina.

00:43:36.860 However, the D.C. 0.66

00:43:39.620 party bosses, if given

00:43:41.960 a primary between a

00:43:43.120 conservative and a

00:43:43.960 moderate, reliably,

00:43:47.460 almost inevitably, back

00:43:49.020 the mod and put big

00:43:50.420 money behind the mod

00:43:51.480 because they want

00:43:52.480 conservatives to lose.

00:43:53.760 We've seen the D.C.

00:43:55.240 party bosses attacking

00:43:56.700 conservatives in

00:43:57.540 primaries all over the

00:43:58.860 country this year.

00:43:59.540 It's been really a

00:44:00.380 problem.

00:44:01.400 I've been fighting them

00:44:02.520 in many of those races.

00:44:03.720 Well, in this race, the 0.84

00:44:05.720 D.C.

00:44:06.120 party bosses and

00:44:07.040 lobbyists spent five

00:44:08.820 million dollars

00:44:10.780 attacking Caroline 0.97

00:44:13.140 Leavitt.

00:44:13.700 Five million dollars

00:44:14.660 flooded the airwaves with

00:44:17.400 attack ads.

00:44:18.080 And by the way, in New

00:44:18.660 Hampshire, five million

00:44:19.420 dollars buys a lot of

00:44:20.800 TV ads.

00:44:21.740 Right.

00:44:22.100 Right.

00:44:22.640 I mean, that's a lot of

00:44:23.440 money for any congressional

00:44:24.360 race, but especially.

00:44:25.860 Wow, that's crazy.

00:44:27.260 Well, and ironically,

00:44:28.280 that's five million

00:44:29.280 dollars that was given

00:44:30.340 by Republican donors to

00:44:31.740 retake the House, not to

00:44:33.960 try to defeat

00:44:34.740 conservatives in

00:44:35.840 primaries.

00:44:36.780 Wow.

00:44:36.960 But the party bosses

00:44:37.820 here, they want

00:44:40.420 House members who will

00:44:41.660 not rock the boat, who

00:44:42.700 will obey them, who will 0.75

00:44:43.940 just salute and take

00:44:45.080 orders.

00:44:46.480 Five million dollars.

00:44:47.620 I saw what was

00:44:48.420 happening.

00:44:48.940 I endorsed Caroline

00:44:49.760 early on.

00:44:50.720 I'm raising money for

00:44:52.200 her, raising hard money 0.99

00:44:53.320 for her.

00:44:53.860 And then last week,

00:44:55.320 last Thursday, I got on a

00:44:56.500 plane and I flew to New

00:44:57.380 Hampshire and did a big

00:44:59.520 rally for.

00:45:00.260 It was awesome.

00:45:00.700 It was at a VFW

00:45:02.440 VFW Hall that I hung

00:45:05.120 out and drank beer and

00:45:06.880 and there were hundreds

00:45:07.800 of people there.

00:45:08.700 There was energy and

00:45:09.700 there was a grassroots

00:45:10.720 enthusiasm and she was

00:45:12.500 losing.

00:45:12.900 She was behind in the

00:45:13.660 polls.

00:45:14.360 But the rally, the rally

00:45:15.980 dominated the news up

00:45:17.340 there.

00:45:17.760 We had a lot of

00:45:18.560 enthusiasm.

00:45:18.960 Actually, right after the

00:45:19.980 rally, she went on

00:45:21.040 Tucker Carlson, had a

00:45:22.060 fantastic interview with

00:45:24.180 Tucker that we watched

00:45:25.640 from the VFW Hall.

00:45:27.640 She was filming it

00:45:28.320 outside.

00:45:29.320 And so we're all sitting

00:45:30.240 there having a beer,

00:45:31.620 watching it and

00:45:32.340 everyone's cheering her.

00:45:33.460 And then she came in and 1.00

00:45:34.460 got a hearty round of

00:45:35.760 applause.

00:45:36.740 Well, the election

00:45:38.140 Tuesday night, she won

00:45:41.200 despite five million

00:45:42.500 dollars being spent by

00:45:44.300 D.C.

00:45:44.780 party bosses.

00:45:45.600 She won anyway.

00:45:46.480 And she's now the

00:45:47.260 candidate for the general

00:45:48.160 election.

00:45:49.080 And I think she's got a

00:45:49.880 very good chance of

00:45:51.120 winning, of defeating an

00:45:53.260 incumbent Democrat and

00:45:54.940 of being a really strong

00:45:57.320 leader in Washington.

00:45:58.820 Senator, there's so much

00:45:59.980 more to talk about, but

00:46:00.760 not with me.

00:46:02.060 What is left to talk

00:46:02.880 about is going to be on

00:46:03.940 the cloakroom with our

00:46:04.840 friend Liz Wheeler.

00:46:05.740 Liz, what will you be

00:46:06.940 discussing?

00:46:08.140 Hi, Michael.

00:46:08.840 Hi, Senator.

00:46:09.680 We're going to put on our

00:46:10.680 legal hats for the cloakroom

00:46:12.260 and discuss a very

00:46:13.420 controversial ruling from

00:46:14.720 the Supreme Court in

00:46:16.120 which the court is

00:46:17.380 essentially forcing a

00:46:18.720 Jewish university to

00:46:20.500 officially give

00:46:21.480 recognition to an

00:46:23.140 LGBTQ club, which is in

00:46:25.560 violation of that

00:46:26.200 university's orthodox

00:46:27.960 Jewish belief.

00:46:28.840 So we're going to

00:46:29.220 discuss the nitty gritty of

00:46:30.440 what this ruling is and

00:46:31.680 the sort of political

00:46:32.860 aspect of it, too, because

00:46:34.660 Roberts and Kavanaugh

00:46:36.360 sided with the leftist

00:46:38.180 justices.

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