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Verdict with Ted Cruz
- March 31, 2022
Mr. Magoo Goes to Poland
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Misogynist Sentences
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Welcome back to Verdict with Ted Cruz.
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I'm Michael Knowles.
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Senator,
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there are flubs
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and there are flubs.
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There are bad tours around the world
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and there are really,
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really bad tours around the world
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amid a war in Europe.
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President Biden during this disaster
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committed America
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to using chemical weapons,
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called for regime change in Russia
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and said that American troops
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are going to be going to Ukraine.
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Apparently the White House
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has walked this back.
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The White House coming out
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against the President
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of the United States
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is astounding in and of itself.
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What happened
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and what does it mean
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for America's involvement in this war?
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Well, it's the most spectacularly
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disastrous foreign trip
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for a president
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that I can remember.
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And it actually beats out
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George Herbert Walker Bush
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when he went to Japan
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and threw up
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on the Prime Minister of Japan.
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And that, by the way,
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is not a great look
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for a president
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to be vomiting
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on a head of state.
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But in this instance,
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we would have been better off
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if Biden had simply thrown up.
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You know, as I counted, Michael,
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there were five separate screw-ups
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on one trip.
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The first that's gotten
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the most attention
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is when he came out
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in favor of regime change
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and said, you know,
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how can this man stay in power?
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Dear God,
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how can this man stay in power?
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And by the way,
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it is a potentially reasonable position
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to be in favor of regime change.
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Except he didn't know
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he was in favor of regime change.
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He made the policy.
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And then the White House
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immediately walked it back
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and retracted it
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and said, oh, no, no, no, no.
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He didn't mean anything by it.
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Look, we've talked about
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in this podcast
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how I actually think
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through taking away
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Russia's oil and gas customers,
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through taking away
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the billions they make
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selling energy,
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that we could put real pressure
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on the oligarchs
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and the KGB holdovers
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to get rid of Putin.
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And that would be,
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the world would be better
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with Putin out of power.
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But Biden was not actually
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making an intelligent position
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as commander-in-chief
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calling for pressure
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to change the corrupt dictator
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in Russia.
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He was just sort of musing out loud.
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Well, and you can tell
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it wasn't intentional
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because he reversed his position
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when the staff members
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at the White House told him to.
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So this was a major flub
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in the middle of a war
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that's already quite tense.
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Yeah, and it's a big damn deal.
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Um, number two,
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he told the 82nd Airborne
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they were going to Ukraine.
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He's talking to the 82nd Airborne
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and said,
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when you're in Ukraine,
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this is what you'll see.
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You'll see Ukrainian women
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in front of tanks.
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And the soldiers there are going,
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what do you mean
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when we're in Ukraine?
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Like, we're not sending
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our guys to Ukraine.
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And so that was,
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that was gaffe number two.
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They had to walk that back.
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It said, no, no, no, no,
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the 82nd Airborne
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is not going to Ukraine.
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The, the, when you're in Ukraine,
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it's just a figure of speech.
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You know, you know,
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like, like everyone uses it
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when you're in Ukraine.
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It's just, just how you
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start a conversation.
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Well, you say when in Rome.
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And just like you say that,
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you say when in Ukraine.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Uh, number three
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was chemical weapons.
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And you, you referenced it
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in the opening where he said,
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look, if Russia uses chemical weapons,
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we will respond in kind.
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Like, holy crap.
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What?
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Like the president just said,
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we're going to use
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chemical weapons on Russia.
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That, that's kind of bad.
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Yeah.
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Um, you know,
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we do have treaty obligations
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against using chemical weapons.
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He, of course, didn't mean it.
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They immediately walked it back
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and said, no, no, no, no.
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We will respond somehow.
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Yeah.
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But not actually in kind
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using chemical weapons.
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So that's, that's gaffe number three.
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Uh, gaffe number four
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is a little technical,
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but, but is consequential,
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which is he said,
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sanctions like sanctions
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on Nord Stream 2
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don't deter conduct
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and they're not meant
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to deter conduct.
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Now, mind you,
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for months,
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the Biden administration's
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entire talking points
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for why they didn't impose
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sanctions on Nord Stream 2,
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why they waived the sanctions
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was that the threat of sanctions
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was a deterrent
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that would prevent Putin
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from invading Ukraine.
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So it's literally what they said
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day after day,
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week after week,
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month after month.
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They stood up and said,
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oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
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The sanctions are not
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about deterring anything.
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Right.
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They've walked that back.
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And then the fifth gaffe,
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it is one that has been
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less noticed,
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but it, but in many ways,
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it's, it's one of the most shocking.
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So when he was doing
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a press conference,
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explaining away
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his other four gaffes,
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um, where he famously
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had a note card
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where he was instructed
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what to read.
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I didn't mean regime change.
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I was just expressing
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moral outrage.
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Um,
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his explanation was,
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I was just talking
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about the Ukrainian troops
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that we are training
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in Poland right now.
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and everyone said
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the, the, the, the,
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the what we're what
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and where come again.
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Yeah.
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And, and if we are doing that,
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I don't know about it.
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So I, I'm not in a position
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to reveal any classified
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information because I don't
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have any on this topic,
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but if what Biden said
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is right,
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then he almost surely
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revealed classified
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information on national
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and globally televised,
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uh, TV.
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And then the White House
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immediately walked that back
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and said, no, no, no, no,
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we're not saying we're
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training Ukrainian troops
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in Poland,
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which is what the president
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just said.
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Now, interestingly enough,
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and it's kind of like
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the first point.
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So one in five
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have some similarities.
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Regime change and America
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trading Ukrainian troops
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in, in Poland.
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The president actually
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has the authority
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to release classified
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information.
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So if the commander
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in chief makes a
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determination that it
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is in the national
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interest for the public
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to know this,
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the president can tell
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people classified
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information, but Biden
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had no clue he was
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doing that.
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No one can argue
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with a straight face
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that he was exercising
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his presidential authority
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to release classified
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information.
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He was just presumably
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repeating whatever
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some briefer had told
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him a few minutes
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earlier.
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And I got to say,
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listen, I have been
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watching foreign policy
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for 30, 40 years
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and engaged in foreign
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policy for a decade.
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I literally cannot think
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of another example
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where a president
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has screwed this many
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things up of this
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great a consequence
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in less than 48 hours.
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Well, you compared
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the president to Mr.
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Magoo the other day
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and I laughed and I
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laughed because it's
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true.
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So it raises this
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question and I'm,
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I'm hesitant even to
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bring it up because
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every time any president
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is in office, the
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opposition says he's
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crazy.
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He's a madman.
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We need to invoke the
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25th amendment.
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We need to remove him
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for, he's unfit for
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office.
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This, they did it to
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Trump.
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They did it to Obama,
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I suppose, to some
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degree.
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They certainly did
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it to Bush.
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They always do it
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and it wasn't true.
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None of those people
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were senile.
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None of them had a
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mental impairment that
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stopped them from
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doing their job.
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And beyond the
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ordinary trappings
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that go with office.
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In this case, it
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seems to me it's
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different, not in
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degree, but in
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kind.
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It seems clear, I
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think even to honest
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liberals, that Joe
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Biden has some age
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related impairment.
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He's not, he's not
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the man he was five
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or ten years ago and
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he was never all
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that sharp to
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begin with.
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So it does raise
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the question, should
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we be talking about
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invoking the 25th
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amendment now that
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this is a national
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security risk?
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You know, there's
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no doubt he is
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diminished and
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diminished significantly
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due to age.
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I think the
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threshold for the
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25th amendment is
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really damn high.
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and it's
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particularly damn
00:12:42.920
high when the
00:12:44.300
voters were on
00:12:45.220
notice of the
00:12:47.180
impairment and
00:12:48.760
elected him anyway.
00:12:50.420
And I got to say,
00:12:52.300
you know, look, it
00:12:53.020
was not a secret a
00:12:55.680
year and a half ago
00:12:56.520
that Joe Biden had,
00:12:57.980
you know, lost about
00:12:59.760
65 miles on his
00:13:01.400
fastball.
00:13:01.980
Right.
00:13:03.480
You know, his
00:13:04.880
fastball is a
00:13:05.660
wiffle ball.
00:13:06.160
And that was
00:13:08.580
blazingly obvious.
00:13:12.200
So I would be
00:13:13.260
hesitant to go down
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the road of the
00:13:14.660
25th amendment.
00:13:15.320
I think it's
00:13:15.740
dangerous as hell.
00:13:17.460
I think having a
00:13:18.700
president in
00:13:20.420
office who is
00:13:22.860
less than fully
00:13:24.620
aware of what's
00:13:25.380
going on, who
00:13:27.220
our enemies
00:13:28.200
believe is less
00:13:29.800
than fully aware
00:13:30.520
of what's going
00:13:31.160
on, who our
00:13:32.240
friends believe is
00:13:33.440
less than fully
00:13:34.040
aware of what's
00:13:34.660
going on, who
00:13:35.240
everybody believes
00:13:36.620
is to a
00:13:38.860
significant degree
00:13:39.700
out of it, that
00:13:40.480
that's a real
00:13:41.280
problem.
00:13:44.200
It's one of the
00:13:45.160
reasons I think
00:13:46.500
Putin invaded
00:13:47.180
Ukraine, because
00:13:48.080
Biden is so
00:13:49.840
weak and
00:13:50.360
ineffective that
00:13:51.160
he didn't
00:13:51.680
believe there'd
00:13:52.760
be meaningful
00:13:53.180
pushback.
00:13:54.140
Now, I
00:13:55.180
agree with you,
00:13:56.280
actually.
00:13:56.700
I don't think
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that it should
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be a sort of
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flippant decision
00:14:00.540
to remove a
00:14:01.480
president using
00:14:02.080
the 25th
00:14:02.580
amendment.
00:14:02.880
I think you
00:14:03.160
make a good
00:14:03.520
argument here.
00:14:04.080
The voters knew
00:14:04.600
about it.
00:14:05.240
Biden wasn't
00:14:06.700
exactly hiding
00:14:07.420
it.
00:14:07.860
So we've got
00:14:08.440
a president who
00:14:09.460
is not just
00:14:10.240
making some stupid
00:14:11.500
comments over an
00:14:12.260
ice cream cone, but
00:14:13.180
is actually saying
00:14:14.520
things that could
00:14:15.420
lead the United
00:14:16.060
States into a war.
00:14:17.360
There's nothing
00:14:17.820
we're going to do
00:14:18.460
about that in
00:14:19.020
terms of removing
00:14:19.660
him.
00:14:20.440
You're a United
00:14:21.020
States senator.
00:14:21.860
Can the Senate
00:14:22.900
come in and put
00:14:24.620
some guardrails
00:14:25.360
around what
00:14:26.200
President Biden
00:14:27.060
can do in terms
00:14:27.820
of foreign
00:14:28.140
policy?
00:14:29.260
Well, yes,
00:14:30.160
although we're
00:14:30.560
not going to do
00:14:31.180
so with Chuck
00:14:31.940
Schumer and Nancy
00:14:32.980
Pelosi controlling
00:14:33.920
the Congress.
00:14:34.760
And so I think
00:14:35.480
we need to get
00:14:36.000
to November.
00:14:36.820
I think we're
00:14:37.440
very likely to
00:14:38.180
win the House.
00:14:38.840
I think the odds
00:14:39.360
are quite good
00:14:39.960
we'll win the
00:14:40.440
Senate too.
00:14:41.580
And that will
00:14:42.260
provide some
00:14:43.260
meaningful checks,
00:14:44.380
but particularly
00:14:44.800
on foreign
00:14:45.260
policy.
00:14:45.760
The commander
00:14:46.280
in chief under
00:14:46.860
the Constitution
00:14:47.480
has wide
00:14:49.440
leeway.
00:14:50.540
And so there
00:14:51.540
are real risks
00:14:54.720
to having a
00:14:55.420
commander in chief
00:14:56.280
who's not up to
00:14:57.040
the task.
00:14:57.500
And I got to
00:14:58.180
tell you,
00:14:58.540
look, in 14
00:14:59.700
months, 15
00:15:00.640
months, Biden's
00:15:01.320
been in office.
00:15:02.860
I haven't spoken
00:15:03.900
to him once,
00:15:04.920
which is really
00:15:07.360
weird.
00:15:08.480
Like it is strange.
00:15:09.680
And by the way,
00:15:10.140
you might say,
00:15:10.660
all right, Cruz,
00:15:11.240
he's this right
00:15:11.980
winger.
00:15:12.340
So Biden's not
00:15:12.960
talking to Cruz.
00:15:14.840
That's true of
00:15:15.700
virtually every
00:15:16.320
Republican senator.
00:15:18.740
Lindsey Graham,
00:15:19.720
Lindsey and Joe
00:15:20.740
Biden have traveled
00:15:22.100
all over the world
00:15:23.000
together.
00:15:23.380
They've been buddies
00:15:24.060
for 20 years.
00:15:25.020
Lindsey told me a
00:15:25.660
couple of months
00:15:26.060
ago he hadn't
00:15:26.520
spoken to Biden
00:15:27.200
since Biden
00:15:27.960
became president.
00:15:28.920
Wow, that's
00:15:29.520
very strange.
00:15:30.580
Like, almost
00:15:32.120
without exception,
00:15:33.560
very few, if
00:15:34.500
any, Republican
00:15:35.160
senators are
00:15:35.800
speaking to him.
00:15:36.300
I think the
00:15:36.600
Democrats, he
00:15:37.560
speaks to the
00:15:38.160
Democrats a
00:15:38.820
little more, but
00:15:40.360
presumably they
00:15:41.180
think he's safe
00:15:42.360
speaking to the
00:15:43.100
Democrats, that
00:15:43.800
they're not going
00:15:44.320
to reveal what's
00:15:45.640
going on.
00:15:46.280
I can tell you,
00:15:48.300
one senator
00:15:49.600
described to me
00:15:50.580
how he'd spoken
00:15:51.180
to Biden, one
00:15:51.800
Republican said
00:15:52.400
he'd spoken to
00:15:52.840
Biden once in
00:15:53.640
the past year and
00:15:54.460
a half.
00:15:55.220
And he said he
00:15:55.880
went over to
00:15:56.300
the White
00:15:56.600
House for a
00:15:57.100
bill signing
00:15:57.620
and they
00:16:00.840
were, he
00:16:01.280
said it was
00:16:01.560
fairly, it
00:16:02.160
was not a
00:16:02.600
major bill, but
00:16:03.360
it was, you
00:16:03.780
know, they
00:16:03.920
were trying to
00:16:04.300
do a
00:16:04.520
bipartisan bill
00:16:05.220
signing.
00:16:05.640
He said he
00:16:05.840
struck up a
00:16:06.320
conversation with
00:16:07.000
Joe and Biden
00:16:08.820
said, hey, have
00:16:10.200
you been to the
00:16:10.840
cabinet room?
00:16:11.600
And the
00:16:11.960
senator said,
00:16:12.720
well, I
00:16:13.100
lied and said
00:16:13.660
no.
00:16:14.760
And so Biden
00:16:15.440
took him to the
00:16:15.980
cabinet room.
00:16:17.460
And Biden
00:16:18.880
begins telling
00:16:19.920
war stories from
00:16:21.700
like 30, 40
00:16:22.800
years ago and
00:16:23.560
just reminiscing and
00:16:24.660
telling stories.
00:16:25.900
And apparently the
00:16:26.980
White House staff is
00:16:27.740
freaking out and
00:16:28.920
they're coming in,
00:16:29.440
Mr. President, Mr.
00:16:30.220
President, you need
00:16:30.740
to leave, you need
00:16:31.220
to leave.
00:16:31.640
And Biden yells at
00:16:32.540
him and says, I'm
00:16:32.940
telling stories,
00:16:33.900
damn it.
00:16:35.160
And he spends like
00:16:36.180
45 minutes
00:16:37.460
reminiscing.
00:16:39.080
And it's like, you
00:16:39.660
know, your
00:16:39.940
grandfather's sitting
00:16:40.980
there reliving, you
00:16:42.840
know, the 1950s.
00:16:44.820
He, you know,
00:16:46.840
corn pop, I don't
00:16:47.720
know if corn pop
00:16:48.540
featured in those
00:16:50.120
stories or not.
00:16:50.980
But I got to
00:16:53.480
say, I don't
00:16:54.380
have any
00:16:55.060
firsthand
00:16:55.580
knowledge of
00:16:58.500
just how
00:16:59.320
diminished he
00:17:00.000
is.
00:17:00.460
I will say it's
00:17:01.440
particularly
00:17:02.160
strange that
00:17:03.960
Biden is not
00:17:04.860
talking with
00:17:05.460
Republican
00:17:05.900
senators, given
00:17:07.420
that we all
00:17:07.840
know him.
00:17:08.420
Look, it was
00:17:08.800
Joe Biden that
00:17:09.480
swore me into
00:17:10.320
office 10
00:17:11.220
years ago when
00:17:11.900
I became a
00:17:12.360
senator.
00:17:12.740
All of us, I
00:17:13.280
mean, he is a
00:17:14.420
creature of the
00:17:15.400
United States
00:17:15.980
Senate.
00:17:16.200
Most of us
00:17:18.360
have known him
00:17:18.840
a pretty long
00:17:19.360
time.
00:17:20.560
It is an odd
00:17:22.020
dynamic and it's
00:17:23.360
clear the White
00:17:24.340
House staff is
00:17:26.100
protecting him.
00:17:27.180
They're isolating
00:17:28.000
him.
00:17:29.080
They are afraid of
00:17:30.380
what he will say
00:17:31.420
and that's a
00:17:32.100
dangerous situation.
00:17:33.680
That is.
00:17:34.020
And that inside
00:17:34.880
peak is all the
00:17:36.360
more disturbing
00:17:36.960
because Joe Biden
00:17:38.080
has a reputation
00:17:38.920
as a back
00:17:39.860
slapper, as a
00:17:40.560
glad hander.
00:17:41.300
He's the guy who
00:17:42.280
pals around with
00:17:43.040
everybody.
00:17:44.040
So it does seem
00:17:44.940
to underscore what
00:17:45.960
we're seeing from
00:17:46.460
this trip.
00:17:47.260
Namely, you've
00:17:48.300
got the White
00:17:48.960
House apparatus
00:17:49.960
and then you've
00:17:50.560
got Joe who
00:17:51.260
occasionally will
00:17:52.340
just speak out of
00:17:53.080
turn and it
00:17:53.580
doesn't really seem
00:17:54.260
to matter.
00:17:54.980
So then right
00:17:55.860
now we've got
00:17:56.440
two major issues
00:17:57.480
in the United
00:17:58.600
States, both
00:17:59.300
involving treaties.
00:18:00.660
There's the Iran
00:18:01.480
deal that Obama
00:18:03.260
struck up, Trump
00:18:04.300
shot down, now
00:18:05.020
they're trying to
00:18:05.500
bring back, and
00:18:06.700
you've got NATO,
00:18:07.680
the North Atlantic
00:18:08.560
Treaty Organization.
00:18:10.700
We know that the
00:18:12.460
Senate has an
00:18:13.320
important role in
00:18:14.460
treaties, entering
00:18:15.540
into treaties,
00:18:16.280
potentially withdrawing
00:18:17.220
from treaties.
00:18:18.140
We know that the
00:18:19.560
executive has an
00:18:20.380
important role here
00:18:21.020
and sometimes the
00:18:21.800
executive ignores the
00:18:22.680
Senate.
00:18:23.140
So where does that
00:18:24.040
stand since both of
00:18:25.320
these things are right
00:18:27.140
at the forefront now,
00:18:28.200
especially amid the
00:18:29.220
war in Ukraine?
00:18:30.420
Well, this week we had,
00:18:32.100
I think, a very
00:18:32.980
interesting constitutional
00:18:34.280
debate in the Senate
00:18:35.420
Foreign Relations
00:18:36.100
Committee.
00:18:36.920
And this week the
00:18:38.040
Senate Foreign
00:18:38.540
Relations Committee
00:18:39.360
took up a bill from
00:18:42.320
Senator Tim Kaine,
00:18:43.280
Democrat from
00:18:44.000
Virginia, was
00:18:44.780
Hillary Clinton's
00:18:45.700
running mate.
00:18:47.020
And the bill from
00:18:48.860
Tim Kaine provides
00:18:50.620
that the United
00:18:51.660
States, that the
00:18:52.520
president cannot
00:18:53.620
withdraw from NATO
00:18:55.720
without an
00:18:57.760
affirmative two-thirds
00:18:58.840
vote from the U.S.
00:18:59.880
Senate.
00:19:01.100
And the issue is
00:19:02.700
actually, I think, a
00:19:03.440
very interesting
00:19:04.340
constitutional issue
00:19:05.360
because there is
00:19:07.040
real ambiguity in
00:19:09.160
the Constitution over
00:19:10.840
whether or not
00:19:12.120
withdrawing from a
00:19:13.940
treaty takes Senate
00:19:15.220
approval.
00:19:15.680
To enter into a
00:19:16.440
treaty, the
00:19:18.400
president has to sign
00:19:19.440
it and two-thirds of
00:19:20.240
the Senate has to
00:19:20.920
ratify it.
00:19:21.860
But over the 200-plus
00:19:23.460
years of our country's
00:19:24.480
history, multiple
00:19:25.480
presidents have
00:19:26.820
asserted the authority
00:19:27.840
to withdraw from
00:19:28.720
treaties and have
00:19:30.140
done so.
00:19:31.880
And it's interesting,
00:19:33.000
actually, when Jimmy
00:19:34.740
Carter was president,
00:19:35.880
he withdrew from a
00:19:38.360
treaty concerning
00:19:39.240
Taiwan and committing
00:19:41.860
us to the defense of
00:19:42.860
Taiwan.
00:19:43.420
He withdrew from that
00:19:44.260
treaty.
00:19:45.580
And Barry Goldwater
00:19:47.100
sued him.
00:19:49.000
He was in the Senate
00:19:49.920
from Arizona and he
00:19:51.040
sued him and the case
00:19:51.920
was Goldwater versus
00:19:52.880
Carter.
00:19:54.580
And Goldwater, it
00:19:56.720
went to the D.C.
00:19:57.680
Circuit, then it went
00:19:58.320
to the U.S.
00:19:58.900
Supreme Court.
00:19:59.480
And the U.S.
00:20:00.020
Supreme Court
00:20:00.740
concluded that it was
00:20:02.320
a political question.
00:20:03.380
In other words, the
00:20:03.880
Supreme Court said,
00:20:04.860
we're not going to
00:20:06.460
answer whether
00:20:09.500
pulling out of a
00:20:11.300
treaty takes Senate
00:20:12.340
approval or not.
00:20:13.420
That it is
00:20:14.300
non-justiciable, which
00:20:16.120
is a legal term.
00:20:17.960
Something that is
00:20:18.460
non-justiciable means
00:20:19.740
it's not susceptible
00:20:20.940
to being resolved by
00:20:22.400
the courts.
00:20:23.420
If you have a
00:20:23.900
conflict between two
00:20:25.100
branches of government,
00:20:26.500
particularly if it's the
00:20:27.540
executive and the
00:20:28.280
legislature, who but
00:20:30.000
the judiciary is going
00:20:31.200
to decide that
00:20:33.140
question?
00:20:33.440
Well, what the
00:20:34.320
court said is it's
00:20:35.360
what's called a
00:20:35.900
political question.
00:20:36.900
It's non-justiciable.
00:20:38.080
It's not susceptible
00:20:38.960
to the courts
00:20:40.440
resolving it, but
00:20:42.160
rather it should be
00:20:43.720
resolved by the
00:20:45.760
political back and
00:20:46.700
forth between Congress
00:20:47.760
and the president.
00:20:49.120
What the court said in
00:20:49.900
that decision is,
00:20:50.760
listen, if Congress
00:20:51.400
disagrees with the
00:20:53.180
president's decision,
00:20:54.120
they can pass
00:20:54.880
legislation expressing
00:20:56.020
their disagreement.
00:20:56.860
They can fight back.
00:20:57.820
There's a check and
00:20:58.480
balance.
00:20:59.860
And so in foreign
00:21:00.720
relations, it's
00:21:01.460
interesting.
00:21:02.220
So I, Tim Kaine
00:21:03.220
proposed this a
00:21:05.000
while back.
00:21:06.260
And as I looked
00:21:07.280
at it, I agreed
00:21:08.900
with it.
00:21:09.320
So I co-sponsored
00:21:10.440
Tim Kaine's proposal
00:21:12.680
and I co-sponsored
00:21:14.460
it because I support
00:21:15.480
NATO.
00:21:15.840
I think NATO is
00:21:16.940
the most successful
00:21:18.940
military alliance
00:21:20.080
post-World War II
00:21:21.100
that the world has
00:21:22.260
seen.
00:21:22.660
And I think
00:21:23.160
supporting NATO
00:21:24.700
is important.
00:21:25.420
The debate we had
00:21:28.920
in the Senate Foreign
00:21:29.560
Relations Committee,
00:21:30.620
Rand Paul argued
00:21:32.600
vociferously against
00:21:35.140
Tim Kaine's
00:21:36.300
legislation.
00:21:37.780
So Rand Paul was
00:21:38.740
arguing that the
00:21:40.060
president does have
00:21:41.120
the right unilaterally
00:21:42.460
to withdraw from
00:21:43.120
treaties.
00:21:43.820
Yes.
00:21:44.880
And Rand made
00:21:46.120
constitutional arguments.
00:21:47.340
He said, look,
00:21:48.660
number one, what Tim
00:21:49.920
is proposing is
00:21:50.800
legislation that
00:21:51.700
would be passed by
00:21:52.400
the Senate, passed
00:21:53.160
by the House, signed
00:21:54.000
by the president.
00:21:55.200
How can the House
00:21:56.180
have a role in
00:21:57.040
treaties under the
00:21:57.820
Constitution?
00:21:58.440
It's just the Senate
00:21:59.200
and this is the House
00:22:00.860
inserting itself into
00:22:02.100
the treaty power.
00:22:03.780
That's a real argument.
00:22:05.100
That's a serious and
00:22:06.260
substantive argument.
00:22:08.160
And he laid out
00:22:09.360
also the history
00:22:10.240
that going back to
00:22:11.300
our earliest
00:22:11.780
presidents,
00:22:13.100
including Washington,
00:22:14.340
they've asserted the
00:22:15.260
authority to withdraw
00:22:16.260
from treaties.
00:22:18.200
Trump withdrew from
00:22:19.440
a number of
00:22:19.920
treaties and did
00:22:21.320
so without
00:22:22.220
Senate approval.
00:22:24.000
Rand also argued
00:22:25.720
under the terms
00:22:26.640
of NATO,
00:22:28.220
it provides
00:22:29.180
that America
00:22:29.840
can withdraw,
00:22:30.920
which has largely
00:22:31.480
been understood
00:22:31.980
to be the president
00:22:32.700
can withdraw.
00:22:35.220
I thought it was
00:22:36.280
a good and
00:22:37.000
robust debate
00:22:37.980
and I'll tell you
00:22:38.740
what I said,
00:22:39.420
Michael.
00:22:39.740
I said, listen,
00:22:40.840
I think the
00:22:42.080
Constitution is
00:22:42.840
ambiguous on this
00:22:43.700
question.
00:22:44.660
I think there are
00:22:45.740
decent arguments
00:22:46.900
on both sides
00:22:47.880
and I agree with
00:22:48.600
the Supreme Court
00:22:49.340
that this is
00:22:49.920
naturally resolved
00:22:51.060
in the give and
00:22:52.400
take in the
00:22:52.960
political arm
00:22:53.840
wrestling
00:22:54.260
between Congress
00:22:56.080
and the White
00:22:56.800
House.
00:22:57.180
In this instance,
00:22:58.520
I'm voting for
00:22:59.820
the bill
00:23:00.160
because I
00:23:02.960
agree with
00:23:03.660
this substantive
00:23:04.460
area that we
00:23:05.140
should stay in
00:23:05.840
NATO and I want
00:23:06.460
to put a check
00:23:07.060
and balance
00:23:07.600
against pulling
00:23:08.780
out on NATO
00:23:09.440
and this is
00:23:10.460
Congress
00:23:11.820
pressing back
00:23:13.020
to underscore
00:23:16.020
the importance
00:23:16.800
of this
00:23:17.180
commitment.
00:23:17.680
But what's
00:23:17.980
interesting,
00:23:19.100
there were
00:23:19.920
several Democrats
00:23:20.680
on the committee
00:23:21.360
who suggested
00:23:22.060
why don't we
00:23:22.660
do it more
00:23:23.120
broadly and
00:23:24.720
pass a bill
00:23:25.720
that says a
00:23:26.360
president may
00:23:27.200
not pull out
00:23:27.820
of any treaty
00:23:28.620
without the
00:23:29.960
Senate approving
00:23:30.680
by two-thirds
00:23:31.440
and what I said
00:23:32.560
in committees,
00:23:33.380
I said, look,
00:23:33.800
I would oppose
00:23:34.420
that.
00:23:35.900
I'm not interested
00:23:36.980
in across the
00:23:39.100
board asserting
00:23:40.680
this congressional
00:23:41.540
authority.
00:23:42.340
There may well
00:23:43.180
be treaties
00:23:43.880
that this
00:23:46.700
president or a
00:23:47.560
subsequent president
00:23:48.460
may want to
00:23:49.300
withdraw from
00:23:50.000
and if
00:23:50.320
Congress
00:23:50.680
disagrees,
00:23:51.700
we can pass
00:23:52.500
something then
00:23:53.100
to press back
00:23:53.860
and in this
00:23:54.720
instance, I think
00:23:55.360
NATO is worthy
00:23:56.180
of it and it
00:23:57.480
ended up the
00:23:58.120
vote was
00:23:58.600
overwhelming.
00:23:59.680
It was all
00:24:00.160
the Democrats
00:24:00.860
and every
00:24:01.340
Republican voted
00:24:02.140
yes except for
00:24:03.140
Rand who voted
00:24:03.840
no.
00:24:04.180
So that was the
00:24:04.780
result of the
00:24:05.340
debate.
00:24:06.100
But I remember
00:24:07.360
I turned to
00:24:07.980
Mike Rounds,
00:24:08.760
the Republican
00:24:10.080
who sits next
00:24:10.660
to me.
00:24:10.900
I'm like that
00:24:11.360
was the best
00:24:12.520
constitutional debate
00:24:13.420
I think I've
00:24:13.840
ever heard in
00:24:15.040
the Senate Foreign
00:24:15.580
Relations Committee.
00:24:16.440
Well, this is
00:24:16.900
what I'm actually
00:24:17.780
so surprised
00:24:18.720
at, happily
00:24:19.760
surprised at
00:24:20.500
to hear is
00:24:21.460
the Senate
00:24:22.140
supposed to be
00:24:22.580
the greatest
00:24:22.940
deliberative body
00:24:23.700
in the world.
00:24:24.520
Usually there
00:24:25.340
is no
00:24:25.980
deliberation
00:24:26.640
whatsoever and
00:24:27.400
you see a
00:24:27.760
bunch of
00:24:28.080
party line
00:24:28.760
votes and
00:24:29.240
a lot of
00:24:29.580
talking points
00:24:30.280
and sometimes
00:24:30.880
people don't
00:24:31.400
even show up
00:24:32.020
and what
00:24:32.520
you've described
00:24:33.180
is actual
00:24:34.200
statecraft and
00:24:35.700
actual sort of
00:24:36.640
first principles
00:24:37.660
and constitutional
00:24:38.500
argument that
00:24:39.540
may have
00:24:40.160
persuaded people
00:24:40.940
at least to
00:24:41.380
some degree.
00:24:42.240
And I'll tell
00:24:42.600
you the
00:24:42.820
maddening thing,
00:24:44.540
it's not on
00:24:45.200
C-SPAN for
00:24:45.800
you to watch
00:24:46.360
because the
00:24:48.400
Senate Foreign
00:24:48.960
Relations Committee
00:24:49.860
– so most
00:24:51.140
committees meet
00:24:52.140
in hearing rooms
00:24:53.220
that are in
00:24:53.840
one of the
00:24:54.400
Senate office
00:24:54.920
buildings,
00:24:55.400
either in
00:24:55.840
Russell or
00:24:57.080
Dirksen or
00:24:57.600
Hart.
00:24:59.100
And the
00:24:59.780
Senate Foreign
00:25:00.220
Relations
00:25:00.640
Committee for
00:25:01.140
public hearings,
00:25:01.940
we do that
00:25:02.560
as well.
00:25:02.940
but for
00:25:05.240
business meetings
00:25:06.520
where we are
00:25:07.080
passing legislation
00:25:08.380
or sometimes
00:25:09.820
voting on –
00:25:10.660
when we're
00:25:10.960
voting on
00:25:11.340
nominations,
00:25:12.260
we meet in
00:25:13.500
the United
00:25:13.900
States Capitol
00:25:14.680
in an old
00:25:16.000
historic
00:25:17.480
meeting room
00:25:19.580
with, you
00:25:20.360
know,
00:25:21.000
pictures of,
00:25:21.880
you know,
00:25:23.380
famous secretaries
00:25:24.240
of state and,
00:25:25.200
you know,
00:25:25.980
gold adorning
00:25:26.820
the ceiling and
00:25:27.600
it's on the
00:25:27.940
first floor of
00:25:28.380
the Capitol.
00:25:28.900
It's kind of –
00:25:30.200
it's one floor
00:25:31.520
below the Senate
00:25:32.280
floor and
00:25:33.420
kind of off
00:25:33.900
to the side
00:25:34.580
and there
00:25:35.480
aren't TV
00:25:35.900
cameras in
00:25:36.400
that room.
00:25:37.400
So we conduct
00:25:38.540
business there
00:25:39.360
but unfortunately
00:25:40.180
this entire
00:25:40.880
debate was not
00:25:42.200
captured on TV
00:25:43.120
which I remember
00:25:43.820
thinking at the
00:25:44.380
end was really
00:25:45.020
a shame because
00:25:45.840
it was a
00:25:46.720
substantive
00:25:47.960
and consequential
00:25:49.300
debate.
00:25:49.880
That is a shame
00:25:50.360
though.
00:25:50.900
Perhaps that's
00:25:51.500
why.
00:25:52.000
Perhaps the
00:25:52.560
absence of TV
00:25:53.420
cameras actually
00:25:54.440
may have
00:25:54.820
encouraged more.
00:25:56.740
Well,
00:25:57.360
since we're
00:25:57.980
talking about
00:25:58.700
this sort of
00:25:59.540
minor issue
00:26:00.640
of the nature
00:26:01.540
of the
00:26:01.780
Constitution
00:26:02.360
and the
00:26:02.860
treaty power
00:26:03.400
of the
00:26:03.700
Senate,
00:26:04.160
I want to
00:26:04.680
get to a
00:26:05.240
much more
00:26:05.580
important issue
00:26:06.520
and global
00:26:07.660
conflict.
00:26:08.620
That would be
00:26:09.060
the slap heard
00:26:09.800
around the world
00:26:10.480
between Will
00:26:11.200
Smith and
00:26:12.000
Chris Rock.
00:26:12.720
I think this
00:26:13.100
is what the
00:26:13.480
people are
00:26:13.920
dying to hear
00:26:14.780
your opinion
00:26:15.280
about.
00:26:15.920
The internet
00:26:16.420
is divided.
00:26:17.580
I think
00:26:17.860
generally people
00:26:18.780
are on
00:26:19.120
Chris Rock's
00:26:19.800
side,
00:26:20.160
though there
00:26:20.520
are a handful
00:26:21.020
of people
00:26:21.780
who say
00:26:22.180
chivalry is
00:26:22.800
not dead.
00:26:23.640
Good on
00:26:24.040
Will Smith
00:26:24.520
for defending
00:26:25.160
his wife's
00:26:25.800
honor.
00:26:26.380
Senator,
00:26:27.400
what say
00:26:27.820
you?
00:26:28.520
Well,
00:26:28.700
look,
00:26:28.900
I generally
00:26:30.260
try to stay
00:26:30.960
out of fights
00:26:31.500
between Hollywood
00:26:32.520
celebrities,
00:26:33.600
and I will
00:26:34.220
confess I was
00:26:35.000
not watching
00:26:35.520
the Oscars.
00:26:36.300
I was one
00:26:36.840
of the
00:26:37.440
seven and a
00:26:38.820
half billion
00:26:39.360
people on
00:26:40.020
planet Earth
00:26:40.640
that were
00:26:41.020
not watching
00:26:41.700
the Oscars.
00:26:43.520
So afterwards,
00:26:44.680
when I started
00:26:45.560
seeing the
00:26:46.140
headlines,
00:26:46.700
I'm like,
00:26:47.160
what?
00:26:47.920
Like,
00:26:48.340
what's this
00:26:49.040
Will Smith
00:26:49.600
saying?
00:26:50.020
So I went
00:26:50.480
and did
00:26:50.900
what most
00:26:51.620
other people
00:26:52.080
did,
00:26:52.380
which is I
00:26:52.740
went and
00:26:53.280
Googled it
00:26:53.940
and watched
00:26:54.360
the video,
00:26:54.820
and that
00:26:55.960
damn thing
00:26:56.380
was surreal.
00:26:57.900
It was,
00:26:58.980
it looks
00:27:00.280
faked,
00:27:01.560
and I mean,
00:27:01.820
the way Will
00:27:02.340
Smith walks
00:27:03.020
up,
00:27:03.300
it looks
00:27:03.760
like it's
00:27:04.260
a staged
00:27:04.980
gig.
00:27:06.740
And then
00:27:07.420
apparently it's
00:27:08.060
not.
00:27:08.560
Apparently he
00:27:09.180
was just
00:27:09.660
really,
00:27:10.560
really pissed.
00:27:11.740
And I'm
00:27:12.220
reminded of
00:27:13.080
that there's
00:27:13.900
a guy I
00:27:14.600
know in
00:27:15.320
Washington who
00:27:16.000
was part of
00:27:16.560
Jeb Bush's
00:27:17.140
campaign for
00:27:18.660
president in
00:27:19.180
2016.
00:27:20.440
He was a
00:27:20.840
senior guy on
00:27:21.380
the campaign,
00:27:21.840
and we were
00:27:22.420
at a friend's
00:27:23.100
wedding,
00:27:23.360
and he said,
00:27:23.960
you know,
00:27:24.820
there's a
00:27:25.960
way Jeb
00:27:26.560
Bush could
00:27:27.040
have won.
00:27:28.380
And I
00:27:28.940
said,
00:27:30.140
look,
00:27:30.620
with all
00:27:31.180
respect,
00:27:31.720
I'm not
00:27:32.240
convinced that's
00:27:32.880
right.
00:27:33.240
This was
00:27:33.880
not a cycle
00:27:34.700
in which
00:27:35.500
anyone named
00:27:36.960
Bush was
00:27:37.420
going to
00:27:37.640
win.
00:27:37.860
He said,
00:27:38.140
no,
00:27:38.300
I've got
00:27:38.580
a theory.
00:27:39.020
I said,
00:27:39.220
okay,
00:27:39.400
let me
00:27:39.620
hear it.
00:27:41.020
And he
00:27:41.340
said,
00:27:41.580
my theory
00:27:42.200
was if
00:27:42.960
at the
00:27:43.440
debate
00:27:43.900
where
00:27:44.940
Donald
00:27:45.380
Trump
00:27:45.880
insulted
00:27:46.560
Columba,
00:27:47.280
Jeb's
00:27:47.540
wife,
00:27:48.460
if Jeb
00:27:49.400
had just
00:27:49.860
turned around
00:27:50.740
and punched
00:27:51.600
him in
00:27:52.200
the face
00:27:52.860
and decked
00:27:54.080
him,
00:27:54.240
he might
00:27:55.700
have won.
00:27:56.100
And I
00:27:56.320
was like,
00:27:57.280
holy crap,
00:27:57.960
I don't
00:27:58.420
know.
00:27:58.800
That would
00:27:59.160
have been
00:27:59.620
a unique
00:28:01.760
moment on
00:28:02.340
a presidential
00:28:02.900
debate to
00:28:03.700
see one
00:28:04.620
candidate deck
00:28:05.360
the other.
00:28:06.020
And I don't
00:28:06.500
know what
00:28:06.840
would have
00:28:07.060
happened then.
00:28:08.380
You know,
00:28:08.840
look,
00:28:09.600
everyone can
00:28:10.140
understand Will
00:28:10.880
Smith when
00:28:11.580
someone's
00:28:12.600
making fun of
00:28:13.720
your wife,
00:28:14.720
getting pissed
00:28:15.340
and defending her.
00:28:16.100
That being said,
00:28:17.200
you don't got a
00:28:17.680
right to punch
00:28:18.200
a comedian.
00:28:18.600
like comedians
00:28:19.860
are,
00:28:20.400
you know,
00:28:21.880
paid to be
00:28:22.460
jerks.
00:28:22.760
And if you
00:28:24.200
are showing
00:28:25.160
up where
00:28:25.720
a comedian's
00:28:26.300
performing,
00:28:27.760
you shouldn't
00:28:28.740
be surprised
00:28:29.360
if they tell
00:28:29.860
some jokes
00:28:30.300
at your
00:28:30.560
expense.
00:28:31.460
Well,
00:28:31.600
especially,
00:28:32.140
it's not as
00:28:32.540
though Will
00:28:32.900
Smith's wife
00:28:33.560
is,
00:28:33.900
you know,
00:28:34.380
Donna Reed
00:28:34.940
keeping by
00:28:35.480
the house.
00:28:36.340
She is a
00:28:36.740
public figure
00:28:37.260
herself.
00:28:37.720
She's an
00:28:37.980
actress.
00:28:38.360
She's a
00:28:38.640
performer.
00:28:39.440
But the
00:28:40.280
only reason
00:28:40.980
I really
00:28:42.400
was even
00:28:42.800
thinking about
00:28:43.420
this stupid
00:28:44.140
incident that
00:28:44.660
we're still
00:28:45.060
talking about
00:28:45.600
now,
00:28:46.000
four or
00:28:46.400
five days
00:28:46.840
later,
00:28:47.420
is it does
00:28:48.120
raise some
00:28:48.760
questions about
00:28:50.020
speech.
00:28:50.620
You know,
00:28:50.860
there are
00:28:51.640
certain categories
00:28:52.320
of speech
00:28:52.760
that are not
00:28:53.300
protected.
00:28:53.960
I'm thinking
00:28:54.260
of obscenity.
00:28:55.420
I'm thinking
00:28:55.720
of fraud,
00:28:56.540
direct threats,
00:28:57.660
and fighting
00:28:58.820
words.
00:28:59.600
Fighting words.
00:29:00.240
And so,
00:29:00.940
but then on the
00:29:02.120
other hand,
00:29:02.780
certain lots
00:29:04.220
of speech is
00:29:04.900
very protected
00:29:05.760
in the United
00:29:06.200
States.
00:29:06.640
And it would
00:29:07.080
seem that
00:29:07.460
comedians in
00:29:08.480
particular at
00:29:09.640
public events
00:29:10.480
that have a
00:29:11.020
kind of roast
00:29:12.020
vibe to them,
00:29:13.280
if they're not
00:29:14.060
protected,
00:29:14.880
then no
00:29:15.480
speech is
00:29:15.960
protected in
00:29:16.500
America.
00:29:16.780
So I
00:29:16.960
wondered if
00:29:17.420
there was
00:29:17.620
any kind
00:29:17.860
of legal
00:29:18.360
argument there.
00:29:19.420
Yeah.
00:29:19.840
So,
00:29:20.720
under the
00:29:21.340
law,
00:29:22.580
Will Smith
00:29:25.960
could likely
00:29:27.060
be prosecuted
00:29:28.100
for battery,
00:29:30.040
and Chris
00:29:31.820
Rock would
00:29:32.420
likely have a
00:29:33.220
cause of action
00:29:33.980
against Will
00:29:34.620
Smith for the
00:29:35.220
same.
00:29:36.360
I don't know
00:29:37.060
California law
00:29:37.960
in particular,
00:29:38.720
but generally
00:29:39.280
speaking under
00:29:39.980
tort law and
00:29:40.880
criminal law,
00:29:41.480
that would be
00:29:41.820
the case under
00:29:42.460
typical application.
00:29:44.060
But there
00:29:46.180
is a caveat,
00:29:47.420
which is to
00:29:48.300
convict someone
00:29:49.340
or to win a
00:29:50.740
judgment,
00:29:52.100
you have to
00:29:53.500
convince a jury.
00:29:54.880
And it's not
00:29:55.920
clear to me in
00:29:56.680
this case you
00:29:57.360
could convince a
00:29:58.120
jury that there
00:29:59.620
are some jurors
00:30:00.740
who would be
00:30:01.040
like, you know,
00:30:01.740
damn straight.
00:30:02.640
Go get him.
00:30:03.180
You know, you
00:30:03.580
make fun of his
00:30:04.280
wife, go get
00:30:05.360
him.
00:30:06.080
And look, in a
00:30:07.580
civil case at
00:30:08.440
least, you'd have
00:30:09.140
to demonstrate
00:30:09.680
some damages.
00:30:11.140
I did think it
00:30:11.880
was interesting
00:30:12.380
that Will
00:30:12.800
Smith, I
00:30:13.200
actually like
00:30:13.620
both Will
00:30:14.140
Smith and
00:30:14.480
Chris Rock,
00:30:15.400
but I thought
00:30:15.720
it was
00:30:15.860
interesting Will
00:30:16.460
Smith, who
00:30:17.180
played Muhammad
00:30:17.820
Ali, gets
00:30:19.400
up and slaps
00:30:20.120
him, which
00:30:20.540
is sort of a
00:30:21.200
weird, like,
00:30:22.100
you know, it'd
00:30:22.680
be one thing if
00:30:23.240
he punched him,
00:30:23.860
the slap was
00:30:24.520
weird.
00:30:25.200
It was like,
00:30:26.040
wow, I don't
00:30:26.460
think I've ever
00:30:26.900
seen Muhammad
00:30:27.460
Ali slap
00:30:28.120
someone.
00:30:28.280
No, he
00:30:28.580
floated like a
00:30:29.180
butterfly.
00:30:30.340
In actual
00:30:31.520
litigation, it
00:30:33.060
would be
00:30:33.840
potentially
00:30:34.880
difficult to
00:30:36.500
prove damages.
00:30:38.000
It's not
00:30:38.600
clear to me a
00:30:39.220
jury would
00:30:39.740
convict or
00:30:40.400
a jury
00:30:40.800
would enter
00:30:41.560
a judgment.
00:30:43.040
And it
00:30:43.600
reminds me of
00:30:44.440
the old
00:30:45.180
joke of
00:30:46.280
the Texas
00:30:48.980
gravestone
00:30:50.040
that says
00:30:51.720
he died
00:30:52.840
at age
00:30:53.940
101,
00:30:55.960
shot by
00:30:57.320
a jealous
00:30:57.780
husband.
00:31:01.760
You know,
00:31:02.800
there,
00:31:03.400
my guess is,
00:31:05.100
look, from
00:31:05.400
all the public
00:31:05.920
reporting,
00:31:06.480
Chris Rock is
00:31:07.180
not going to
00:31:07.820
seek to
00:31:08.420
press charges
00:31:09.080
and so
00:31:09.620
nothing's
00:31:09.980
going to
00:31:10.180
happen legally
00:31:10.900
as a
00:31:11.280
consequence
00:31:11.660
of it.
00:31:14.380
You know,
00:31:15.140
I, by
00:31:15.600
the way,
00:31:15.980
I will
00:31:16.280
say, in
00:31:18.120
response to
00:31:18.980
this, every
00:31:20.780
lefty troll on
00:31:22.020
earth has
00:31:22.640
taken great joy
00:31:24.140
in coming after
00:31:25.080
me on this
00:31:25.820
and saying,
00:31:26.300
well, Will
00:31:27.420
Smith did
00:31:28.000
what Cruz
00:31:28.560
never would,
00:31:29.440
which is defend
00:31:30.400
his wife,
00:31:30.960
Heidi.
00:31:31.240
Now, look,
00:31:31.660
to be clear,
00:31:32.240
when Trump
00:31:32.600
insulted Heidi,
00:31:34.700
I went after
00:31:35.660
Trump with
00:31:36.500
both barrels,
00:31:38.640
which the
00:31:39.800
lefties
00:31:40.200
conveniently
00:31:40.740
forget,
00:31:42.120
they just
00:31:43.400
thought that
00:31:43.940
once he was
00:31:44.420
elected president,
00:31:45.240
I should
00:31:46.120
take my
00:31:46.980
marbles and
00:31:47.480
go home and
00:31:47.960
refuse to do
00:31:48.620
the job I
00:31:49.140
was elected
00:31:49.560
to, and
00:31:50.160
at the end
00:31:51.400
of the day,
00:31:52.480
I got a job.
00:31:53.380
I suspect
00:31:53.880
that's what the
00:31:54.980
American left
00:31:55.580
would have
00:31:56.040
liked you to
00:31:56.580
do.
00:31:57.060
Indeed.
00:31:57.640
Okay, good,
00:31:58.260
now, let's
00:31:58.880
get rid of that
00:31:59.720
Cruz character,
00:32:00.680
get him out of
00:32:01.400
here.
00:32:02.120
No, of
00:32:02.780
course, and
00:32:03.420
this is
00:32:04.180
something that
00:32:04.900
you notice
00:32:05.420
in politics
00:32:06.420
that everyone
00:32:06.900
notices is
00:32:07.540
when you're
00:32:08.900
getting a
00:32:09.660
deluge of
00:32:10.300
attacks,
00:32:11.320
usually it
00:32:12.000
means that
00:32:12.360
your opponents
00:32:12.840
are afraid
00:32:14.180
of you,
00:32:14.760
and this
00:32:15.440
actually ties
00:32:15.960
in pretty
00:32:16.320
well, this
00:32:17.020
and the
00:32:17.280
question of
00:32:17.760
free speech
00:32:18.360
ties in
00:32:18.960
pretty well
00:32:19.340
to the
00:32:19.820
craziest,
00:32:22.040
most important
00:32:22.860
non-traversy
00:32:23.940
going on
00:32:24.400
today,
00:32:24.720
namely,
00:32:25.460
that according
00:32:25.980
to the
00:32:26.340
left,
00:32:26.640
you are not
00:32:27.160
allowed to
00:32:27.660
say the
00:32:28.040
word gay
00:32:28.720
in the
00:32:29.480
state of
00:32:30.040
Florida
00:32:30.480
because of
00:32:31.520
a bill
00:32:31.800
called the
00:32:32.140
Parental Rights
00:32:32.800
and Education
00:32:33.320
Bill.
00:32:33.800
There's
00:32:34.020
similar
00:32:34.440
legislation
00:32:35.720
pending in
00:32:36.280
other states,
00:32:36.820
obviously it's
00:32:37.180
a big
00:32:37.420
political
00:32:37.780
winner,
00:32:38.640
but this
00:32:39.140
has been
00:32:39.580
the major
00:32:40.500
news story
00:32:41.360
based,
00:32:42.600
as far as I
00:32:43.000
can tell,
00:32:43.280
on a
00:32:43.460
complete
00:32:43.700
fabrication.
00:32:44.920
Yeah,
00:32:45.520
it really
00:32:46.840
is bizarre,
00:32:48.000
so Florida
00:32:48.720
passed this
00:32:49.420
bill saying
00:32:51.260
you cannot
00:32:52.400
discuss
00:32:53.100
sexuality
00:32:53.880
in schools
00:32:55.760
with children
00:32:57.240
between
00:32:58.540
kindergarten
00:32:59.400
and third
00:33:00.520
grade.
00:33:01.980
And frankly,
00:33:02.960
I would
00:33:03.460
call it the
00:33:04.060
don't say
00:33:04.480
gay law,
00:33:05.400
I'd call it
00:33:05.840
the don't
00:33:06.200
say sex
00:33:06.860
law,
00:33:07.260
and you
00:33:07.500
know what,
00:33:07.840
with five-year-olds,
00:33:09.400
I'm really
00:33:09.980
okay with their
00:33:11.000
teachers not
00:33:11.660
talking about
00:33:12.300
sex.
00:33:12.940
I'd like them
00:33:13.700
not to say
00:33:14.160
gay,
00:33:14.520
I'd like them
00:33:14.900
not to say
00:33:15.380
straight,
00:33:16.080
I'd like them
00:33:16.700
not to say
00:33:17.360
anything involving
00:33:18.500
sex,
00:33:19.000
play with
00:33:19.320
blocks with
00:33:20.240
the damn
00:33:20.600
kids,
00:33:21.200
and teach
00:33:21.940
them arithmetic,
00:33:22.840
like,
00:33:22.980
like,
00:33:23.560
ABCs,
00:33:24.500
right?
00:33:25.080
Like,
00:33:26.240
you know,
00:33:27.900
it is,
00:33:29.060
I actually
00:33:30.480
think it's
00:33:31.000
revealing,
00:33:31.440
and by the
00:33:31.820
way,
00:33:31.980
the Florida
00:33:32.360
law,
00:33:33.320
in fourth
00:33:34.000
grade,
00:33:35.220
apparently it's
00:33:36.120
Katie bar the
00:33:36.820
door,
00:33:37.200
you can whip
00:33:37.760
out,
00:33:38.120
you know,
00:33:38.920
S&M,
00:33:39.920
and like,
00:33:40.460
all sorts of
00:33:41.260
crazy,
00:33:41.900
like,
00:33:42.180
all the kink
00:33:42.920
you want,
00:33:43.300
all the obscenity,
00:33:43.940
fourth grade is
00:33:44.620
fine,
00:33:45.820
but like,
00:33:47.260
and to see
00:33:48.640
the modern
00:33:49.860
left losing
00:33:51.200
their mind on
00:33:51.980
this is
00:33:53.380
bizarre,
00:33:54.420
like,
00:33:54.960
Disney is
00:33:55.640
having paroxysms
00:33:57.100
of fits,
00:33:58.460
because,
00:33:59.120
you know what,
00:33:59.700
I don't really
00:34:00.720
want Snow White,
00:34:03.400
like,
00:34:03.900
like,
00:34:04.860
discussing sex
00:34:06.180
either,
00:34:06.800
like,
00:34:07.060
like,
00:34:07.240
when you take
00:34:07.860
your little
00:34:08.200
kid to a
00:34:09.400
Disney film,
00:34:10.100
and,
00:34:10.340
and what's
00:34:11.200
fascinating,
00:34:12.560
I actually think
00:34:14.300
the self-described
00:34:15.300
leftist intelligentsia
00:34:16.720
may be
00:34:18.540
really out of
00:34:20.220
step with
00:34:21.380
their own base,
00:34:22.360
particularly the
00:34:22.900
African-American
00:34:23.520
community,
00:34:24.100
is not very
00:34:25.900
keen on
00:34:27.240
their kids
00:34:27.800
being taught
00:34:28.440
about sex
00:34:29.040
when they're
00:34:29.360
five,
00:34:30.300
and there's
00:34:30.940
at least
00:34:31.260
one poll
00:34:31.980
that was
00:34:32.340
done in
00:34:32.920
Florida
00:34:33.220
of Democrats
00:34:34.920
that showed
00:34:37.360
a significant
00:34:38.220
majority of
00:34:39.180
Democrats in
00:34:40.120
Florida
00:34:40.440
support the
00:34:41.380
law.
00:34:41.620
The numbers
00:34:42.020
that I saw
00:34:42.680
were 52%
00:34:44.260
to 36%
00:34:45.820
of Florida
00:34:46.900
Democrats
00:34:47.980
support the
00:34:48.940
law,
00:34:49.420
and so all
00:34:50.080
of the
00:34:50.480
Disney woke
00:34:51.640
activists
00:34:52.560
are not
00:34:54.300
just out of
00:34:54.940
step with
00:34:55.540
Republicans
00:34:56.200
and independents,
00:34:57.760
but according
00:34:58.300
to this poll,
00:34:59.080
more than half
00:34:59.660
the Democrats
00:35:00.200
in Florida
00:35:00.820
are like,
00:35:01.800
could you
00:35:02.180
send my
00:35:02.820
little kid
00:35:03.340
to school
00:35:03.940
and just
00:35:04.500
avoid the
00:35:05.060
whole sex
00:35:05.500
topic?
00:35:06.000
Like,
00:35:06.200
just,
00:35:06.820
there are
00:35:07.080
plenty of
00:35:07.460
things in
00:35:07.840
life to
00:35:08.200
talk about.
00:35:09.080
I don't
00:35:09.400
need the
00:35:10.360
kindergarten
00:35:10.760
teacher getting
00:35:11.380
into this
00:35:11.800
stuff.
00:35:12.340
Right,
00:35:12.480
well,
00:35:12.620
I think
00:35:12.880
this is why
00:35:13.620
you're going
00:35:14.220
to see a
00:35:14.620
lot more
00:35:14.880
of these
00:35:15.140
bills around
00:35:15.640
the country.
00:35:16.160
You really
00:35:16.500
saw it
00:35:16.880
beginning
00:35:17.200
with Glenn
00:35:18.120
Youngkin
00:35:18.520
running on
00:35:18.960
this issue
00:35:19.260
of education,
00:35:20.280
keeping radical
00:35:21.000
racial and
00:35:21.600
sexual ideologies
00:35:22.340
out of the
00:35:22.700
classroom.
00:35:23.360
Now you're
00:35:23.660
seeing it
00:35:23.960
in Florida.
00:35:24.940
So it's a
00:35:25.540
total political
00:35:26.220
winner for
00:35:27.140
the people
00:35:27.500
who don't
00:35:27.960
want sex
00:35:28.500
being taught
00:35:29.040
in kindergarten.
00:35:30.020
But then you
00:35:30.520
have the
00:35:31.260
high-minded
00:35:32.220
political
00:35:32.680
philosophy
00:35:33.320
of Hollywood
00:35:34.220
elites.
00:35:34.660
I'm thinking
00:35:35.080
of Ron
00:35:35.960
Perlman,
00:35:37.040
who played
00:35:37.840
Hellboy,
00:35:38.660
among other
00:35:39.160
movies.
00:35:39.780
I seem to
00:35:40.240
recall you
00:35:40.600
got into
00:35:40.920
some interaction
00:35:41.620
with him
00:35:42.160
some years
00:35:43.460
ago.
00:35:44.240
Your old
00:35:44.780
enemy,
00:35:45.160
Hellboy,
00:35:46.060
he said
00:35:47.180
this is a
00:35:47.620
First Amendment
00:35:48.220
issue.
00:35:48.720
In a
00:35:49.340
mostly
00:35:49.740
incoherent
00:35:50.620
Twitter rant,
00:35:51.780
he said
00:35:52.340
that the
00:35:53.240
bill was
00:35:53.680
a violation
00:35:54.360
of the
00:35:54.760
First Amendment
00:35:55.460
because of
00:35:57.500
the words
00:35:57.900
don't say,
00:35:58.660
which are
00:35:58.840
not in the
00:35:59.180
bill,
00:35:59.420
by the way.
00:35:59.960
So do you
00:36:00.560
have any
00:36:00.920
First Amendment
00:36:01.700
take on
00:36:02.860
his argument?
00:36:04.060
Yeah,
00:36:04.240
Hellboy has
00:36:05.940
been particularly
00:36:06.840
active lately.
00:36:07.740
He also,
00:36:08.240
this last week,
00:36:09.020
recorded a
00:36:09.640
different Twitter
00:36:10.800
rant
00:36:11.320
screaming,
00:36:13.020
F you at
00:36:13.600
me.
00:36:13.880
So he was
00:36:14.860
particularly
00:36:15.300
upset that
00:36:15.980
I was
00:36:16.540
questioning
00:36:17.320
Judge
00:36:17.880
Ketanji
00:36:18.340
Brown
00:36:18.620
Jackson,
00:36:19.660
and so he
00:36:20.300
just screamed
00:36:21.040
expletives at
00:36:21.780
me.
00:36:22.060
As one does.
00:36:22.720
Which is sort
00:36:23.320
of an odd
00:36:23.760
thing.
00:36:24.180
I was
00:36:24.720
disappointed
00:36:25.500
that he
00:36:25.820
didn't have
00:36:26.120
the red
00:36:26.400
face paint
00:36:26.960
and the
00:36:27.240
horns
00:36:27.520
because it
00:36:27.880
would have
00:36:28.060
been more
00:36:28.360
fun,
00:36:28.720
like actually
00:36:29.400
having
00:36:29.800
Hellboy
00:36:30.200
curse me
00:36:30.680
out.
00:36:32.820
Look,
00:36:34.440
the people
00:36:35.360
virtue signaling,
00:36:36.660
and I guess,
00:36:37.220
as I said,
00:36:37.940
I didn't watch
00:36:38.380
the Oscars,
00:36:39.020
but as I
00:36:39.440
understand it,
00:36:40.060
there was
00:36:40.320
some point
00:36:40.880
where the
00:36:42.060
hosts or
00:36:42.680
everyone there
00:36:43.280
began chanting
00:36:44.420
gay,
00:36:45.140
gay,
00:36:45.540
gay to
00:36:46.600
show that
00:36:47.120
they were
00:36:47.500
apparently
00:36:47.860
not in
00:36:48.280
kindergarten
00:36:48.700
in Florida,
00:36:49.420
which is
00:36:50.820
a little
00:36:51.740
odd,
00:36:52.300
okay,
00:36:52.800
like it.
00:36:53.300
They could
00:36:53.420
have had
00:36:53.680
me fooled.
00:36:54.300
Yeah.
00:36:57.380
There is
00:36:58.100
no First
00:36:58.660
Amendment
00:36:58.980
right
00:36:59.480
implicated
00:37:02.100
here because
00:37:02.840
if you
00:37:03.400
are a
00:37:03.700
teacher at
00:37:04.180
a school,
00:37:04.880
you are
00:37:05.300
required to
00:37:06.080
teach the
00:37:06.640
curriculum
00:37:07.220
in a public
00:37:08.680
school that
00:37:09.140
the state
00:37:09.540
has decided
00:37:10.140
upon.
00:37:10.740
And if
00:37:11.520
you want to
00:37:12.120
teach something
00:37:12.780
else,
00:37:13.280
you're welcome
00:37:15.000
to go stand
00:37:16.160
at a mall
00:37:16.580
and talk
00:37:17.300
about it.
00:37:17.540
You're welcome
00:37:17.840
to teach
00:37:18.160
your own
00:37:18.460
kids that.
00:37:19.260
You're welcome
00:37:19.760
to go to
00:37:20.120
church and
00:37:20.620
teach people
00:37:21.100
there that.
00:37:21.740
You can go
00:37:22.000
anywhere else
00:37:22.460
you want,
00:37:23.060
but if your
00:37:23.460
job involves
00:37:25.420
teaching a
00:37:26.100
curriculum set
00:37:26.820
by the state,
00:37:27.480
then the state
00:37:27.900
has a right
00:37:28.400
to set a
00:37:28.900
curriculum.
00:37:30.120
And it is
00:37:30.720
the essence
00:37:32.300
of reasonableness,
00:37:33.480
I think,
00:37:33.880
to say that
00:37:35.120
with little,
00:37:36.000
little kids,
00:37:37.140
they shouldn't
00:37:38.260
be getting
00:37:38.640
into questions
00:37:39.340
of sexuality,
00:37:40.140
that five-year-olds
00:37:41.380
don't need
00:37:42.900
their school
00:37:45.220
teachers
00:37:45.940
proselytizing
00:37:48.160
their views
00:37:50.180
on sex.
00:37:51.020
That's not
00:37:51.540
the job
00:37:52.100
of a teacher.
00:37:52.700
I think
00:37:54.940
most Americans
00:37:55.760
find that a
00:37:56.400
very common
00:37:56.960
sense position.
00:37:57.800
As I said,
00:37:58.360
this law
00:37:58.840
says fourth
00:37:59.460
grade is
00:38:00.640
fine.
00:38:01.300
So,
00:38:01.520
I mean,
00:38:01.680
it's not
00:38:02.040
like,
00:38:03.000
you know,
00:38:03.580
I actually
00:38:04.180
would prefer
00:38:04.900
you not
00:38:05.320
teach your
00:38:05.780
fourth graders
00:38:06.320
about it
00:38:06.740
either,
00:38:07.180
but kindergartners,
00:38:09.580
this ought to
00:38:10.140
be a pretty
00:38:10.560
easy proposition.
00:38:12.000
Of course.
00:38:12.560
You see it
00:38:13.480
when we're
00:38:14.060
talking about
00:38:14.360
the First
00:38:14.620
Amendment,
00:38:15.220
and I've
00:38:15.660
even heard
00:38:16.060
some people
00:38:16.480
bring up
00:38:16.840
the question
00:38:17.300
of academic
00:38:18.060
freedom,
00:38:18.520
as though a
00:38:19.420
second-grade
00:38:19.940
classroom
00:38:20.560
were some
00:38:21.580
free marketplace
00:38:22.640
of ideas
00:38:23.440
where new
00:38:24.120
scholarly and
00:38:25.160
scientific discoveries
00:38:26.180
are occurring.
00:38:26.820
No,
00:38:27.040
of course not.
00:38:27.540
As you say,
00:38:28.740
if you are a
00:38:29.720
teacher,
00:38:30.020
you have to
00:38:30.520
follow the
00:38:31.020
curriculum.
00:38:31.480
The curriculum
00:38:31.860
is set by
00:38:32.920
the state.
00:38:33.720
The parents
00:38:34.360
have some
00:38:34.960
rights in
00:38:35.440
their kids'
00:38:35.900
education.
00:38:36.560
They certainly
00:38:36.940
have rights
00:38:37.380
as citizens,
00:38:37.980
and they can
00:38:38.340
vote.
00:38:39.280
And by the
00:38:40.340
way,
00:38:40.660
look,
00:38:41.660
nobody would
00:38:42.680
think it was
00:38:43.280
appropriate to
00:38:44.340
say,
00:38:44.800
for example,
00:38:45.820
in colleges
00:38:46.620
and universities,
00:38:47.740
you may not
00:38:48.260
discuss sex.
00:38:49.780
Like,
00:38:50.060
that would be
00:38:50.840
bizarre.
00:38:53.100
You know,
00:38:53.380
I will tell you
00:38:54.200
when I was at
00:38:54.700
Princeton,
00:38:55.080
there was a
00:38:55.420
popular
00:38:55.780
t-shirt that
00:38:57.780
said,
00:38:58.760
sex kills.
00:39:00.060
And on the
00:39:00.560
back it said,
00:39:01.360
come to
00:39:02.220
Princeton,
00:39:02.680
live forever.
00:39:05.620
Look,
00:39:06.140
that would not
00:39:06.900
be reasonable.
00:39:08.080
Obviously,
00:39:08.680
human sexuality
00:39:09.460
is part of
00:39:10.640
life,
00:39:11.080
it's part of
00:39:11.520
literature,
00:39:12.000
it's part of
00:39:12.380
history.
00:39:14.180
No one would
00:39:15.000
say it's
00:39:15.400
reasonable for
00:39:16.180
colleges to
00:39:17.480
limit the
00:39:18.360
discussions of
00:39:18.960
that because
00:39:19.460
presumably,
00:39:20.840
the students
00:39:21.720
are mature
00:39:22.300
enough to
00:39:22.800
engage in
00:39:23.380
that.
00:39:24.980
This may
00:39:25.700
seem like a
00:39:26.280
radical proposition,
00:39:27.060
but there's a
00:39:27.780
difference between
00:39:28.260
college kids
00:39:29.100
and five-year-olds.
00:39:30.880
There's even a
00:39:31.460
difference between
00:39:31.880
high school kids.
00:39:33.620
I think most
00:39:34.100
people would say
00:39:34.820
even in high
00:39:35.420
school,
00:39:35.960
you wouldn't
00:39:36.660
want to have
00:39:37.180
that kind of
00:39:37.720
restriction,
00:39:38.160
that by high
00:39:38.960
school,
00:39:39.760
you know,
00:39:39.940
anyone who's
00:39:40.320
watched Fast
00:39:40.900
Times at
00:39:41.320
Ridgemont High
00:39:41.940
knows there's
00:39:42.520
very little
00:39:42.900
else that
00:39:43.340
teenage boys
00:39:43.860
are thinking
00:39:44.260
about.
00:39:46.100
Now,
00:39:46.700
I don't know
00:39:47.220
that we need
00:39:47.700
our schools
00:39:48.220
necessarily
00:39:48.860
proselytizing
00:39:49.840
on those
00:39:50.260
topics even
00:39:50.920
at that
00:39:51.260
age,
00:39:51.720
but the
00:39:53.820
judgment of
00:39:54.500
the Florida
00:39:54.820
legislature here
00:39:55.880
that there's
00:39:57.200
some things
00:39:57.760
that are
00:39:58.020
inappropriate for
00:39:58.880
little kids
00:39:59.440
to discuss,
00:40:00.600
I think is a
00:40:01.880
judgment that
00:40:02.620
all of us,
00:40:04.600
look,
00:40:04.920
at home with
00:40:05.720
our girls,
00:40:06.820
I try very,
00:40:08.280
very hard not
00:40:08.900
to curse.
00:40:09.360
when I'm
00:40:12.520
out with
00:40:12.940
adults,
00:40:13.360
when you
00:40:13.780
and I
00:40:14.020
are having
00:40:14.300
a scotch
00:40:14.820
and a
00:40:15.060
cigar,
00:40:15.780
you may
00:40:16.800
have heard
00:40:17.220
me use
00:40:19.120
some ripe
00:40:20.180
language.
00:40:20.920
Three times
00:40:21.480
at once.
00:40:21.780
There is
00:40:22.180
a difference.
00:40:23.380
Right,
00:40:23.600
of course.
00:40:24.000
No,
00:40:24.140
of course
00:40:24.380
that's the
00:40:24.700
case.
00:40:24.920
You don't
00:40:25.120
want to
00:40:25.320
talk like
00:40:25.680
a sailor
00:40:26.180
around
00:40:26.560
kindergartners.
00:40:27.580
The context
00:40:28.640
matters here.
00:40:29.680
And the
00:40:30.120
American left
00:40:30.800
is trying
00:40:31.400
to completely
00:40:32.580
take away
00:40:33.120
the context
00:40:33.800
and make
00:40:34.240
what to
00:40:34.920
me are
00:40:35.200
just outright
00:40:36.360
dishonest
00:40:37.140
arguments,
00:40:37.700
saying that
00:40:38.120
the bill
00:40:38.340
does things
00:40:38.880
that it's
00:40:39.260
not doing.
00:40:40.060
And probably
00:40:40.540
it's because
00:40:40.880
they know
00:40:41.280
that they're
00:40:41.860
losing on
00:40:42.340
this issue.
00:40:42.960
Now,
00:40:43.120
on the
00:40:43.480
question of
00:40:43.940
education,
00:40:44.800
Senator,
00:40:45.140
we do have
00:40:45.740
a pretty
00:40:46.060
big announcement
00:40:47.160
from Verdict
00:40:49.180
for all of
00:40:49.960
our wonderful
00:40:50.340
listeners and
00:40:50.940
for the
00:40:51.240
bright young
00:40:51.840
minds in
00:40:52.240
America.
00:40:52.640
For that,
00:40:53.260
I want to
00:40:53.540
bring on
00:40:53.920
our friend
00:40:54.540
Liz Wheeler
00:40:55.540
because,
00:40:56.500
Liz,
00:40:56.780
this involves
00:40:57.320
you too.
00:40:58.560
We are
00:40:59.100
going to
00:41:00.780
my alma mater
00:41:01.440
of Yale
00:41:01.900
University
00:41:02.420
coming up
00:41:02.900
in what,
00:41:03.160
just two
00:41:03.480
weeks?
00:41:04.500
We certainly
00:41:04.980
are.
00:41:05.440
And this
00:41:05.680
is perhaps,
00:41:06.580
it may be
00:41:07.140
the most
00:41:07.480
exciting episode
00:41:08.540
of Verdict
00:41:08.980
on the road
00:41:09.520
because Yale
00:41:10.920
is not only
00:41:12.220
your alma mater,
00:41:12.880
but they are
00:41:13.200
a very
00:41:13.520
ideologically
00:41:14.220
compromised,
00:41:15.160
elite institution
00:41:16.700
of higher
00:41:17.180
learning.
00:41:18.220
And I mean,
00:41:19.020
I think we're
00:41:19.400
going to have
00:41:19.560
a great time.
00:41:20.320
I expect a
00:41:21.000
big crowd,
00:41:22.100
a crowd that
00:41:22.680
doesn't just
00:41:23.520
agree with what
00:41:24.120
we're talking
00:41:24.460
about,
00:41:24.720
but a crowd
00:41:25.120
who wants to
00:41:25.520
come and
00:41:25.720
respectfully
00:41:26.100
disagree.
00:41:26.660
I think it's
00:41:26.920
going to be
00:41:27.100
great.
00:41:27.340
And Michael,
00:41:28.660
I got to
00:41:29.120
ask you,
00:41:29.540
how excited
00:41:30.080
are you to
00:41:30.580
be headed
00:41:30.900
back to
00:41:31.380
your old
00:41:31.760
stomping grounds?
00:41:32.820
I cannot
00:41:33.260
wait.
00:41:33.780
I'm not
00:41:34.260
sure who
00:41:35.700
is going
00:41:36.080
to get
00:41:36.380
more rotten
00:41:36.900
tomatoes
00:41:37.360
thrown at
00:41:37.960
him.
00:41:38.460
You know,
00:41:38.880
it's not a
00:41:39.320
very conservative
00:41:40.000
campus,
00:41:40.520
so I'm not
00:41:41.220
sure you're
00:41:41.520
the most
00:41:41.780
popular guy
00:41:42.440
there.
00:41:43.020
But for
00:41:43.320
me,
00:41:43.780
a prophet
00:41:44.580
has honor
00:41:45.260
everywhere but
00:41:46.040
in his
00:41:46.380
hometown.
00:41:47.280
Of course,
00:41:47.660
we had to
00:41:48.140
go because
00:41:48.740
one of my
00:41:49.180
favorite cigar
00:41:49.840
bars in
00:41:50.280
America is
00:41:50.940
there.
00:41:51.360
So I am
00:41:51.880
excited.
00:41:52.260
There is a
00:41:53.380
small but
00:41:54.520
mighty
00:41:54.880
conservative
00:41:55.580
underbelly
00:41:56.560
at Yale.
00:41:57.640
A lot of
00:41:58.000
people go
00:41:58.380
there and
00:41:58.680
become more
00:41:59.140
liberal.
00:41:59.580
That's most
00:41:59.900
of the time.
00:42:00.740
Some end
00:42:01.180
up to the
00:42:01.580
right of
00:42:01.960
Genghis Khan.
00:42:02.720
That's what
00:42:03.000
happened to
00:42:03.420
me.
00:42:03.760
So we're
00:42:04.020
very excited.
00:42:04.680
That's going
00:42:05.020
to take
00:42:05.260
place on
00:42:06.140
April 11th.
00:42:07.220
And then
00:42:07.820
we will be
00:42:08.400
going to
00:42:08.940
the University
00:42:09.380
of Alabama
00:42:09.960
on April
00:42:10.880
18th.
00:42:11.540
And we
00:42:11.880
should point
00:42:12.320
out, it's
00:42:12.940
not just
00:42:13.300
going to be
00:42:13.600
you,
00:42:13.900
Senator.
00:42:14.260
It's not
00:42:14.680
just going
00:42:14.980
to be me.
00:42:15.560
It's not
00:42:16.000
just going
00:42:16.300
to be our
00:42:16.660
trusty
00:42:17.060
cactus.
00:42:17.420
But it's
00:42:22.260
I hope
00:42:22.540
you're
00:42:22.740
going to
00:42:22.920
wear a
00:42:23.700
Princeton
00:42:24.020
and Harvard
00:42:24.500
gear on
00:42:25.460
stage at
00:42:26.320
Yale, right?
00:42:27.580
You know,
00:42:28.240
I'm assuming
00:42:28.880
Yale requires
00:42:30.160
that we be
00:42:31.020
in like a
00:42:31.580
smoking jacket
00:42:32.540
with maybe
00:42:33.500
a Sherlock
00:42:34.040
Holmes pipe
00:42:35.220
and some
00:42:36.400
Madeira.
00:42:39.000
Or I don't
00:42:39.720
know, has it
00:42:40.180
gone more
00:42:40.620
hippie than
00:42:41.080
that?
00:42:41.400
Do we have
00:42:41.880
to be like
00:42:42.720
nude and
00:42:44.380
taking peyote
00:42:45.880
or something?
00:42:46.560
I think it's
00:42:47.040
a little bit
00:42:47.400
of both,
00:42:47.960
Senator.
00:42:48.380
It's sort
00:42:48.640
of, Yale
00:42:49.180
has become
00:42:49.660
a bit of
00:42:50.080
a mullet
00:42:50.480
these days.
00:42:51.340
You know,
00:42:51.500
tweed on
00:42:52.420
the front,
00:42:53.300
but that's
00:42:53.740
it.
00:42:54.100
You know,
00:42:54.300
you wear
00:42:54.740
your bow tie
00:42:55.380
and nothing
00:42:56.080
else.
00:42:56.700
So we'll
00:42:56.980
be doing
00:42:57.260
that.
00:42:57.580
One of
00:42:57.840
the more
00:42:58.140
surprising
00:42:58.620
things,
00:42:59.060
though,
00:42:59.280
is that
00:42:59.880
actually,
00:43:00.560
we're very
00:43:01.080
excited to
00:43:01.720
have been
00:43:02.220
invited by
00:43:03.140
Yale,
00:43:03.620
even with
00:43:04.160
its liberal
00:43:04.520
reputation,
00:43:05.340
but it was
00:43:05.680
the University
00:43:06.280
of Alabama,
00:43:07.140
the student
00:43:07.520
paper there,
00:43:08.600
that actually
00:43:09.240
called the
00:43:09.940
Young
00:43:10.280
America's
00:43:10.740
Foundation
00:43:11.240
an institution
00:43:12.900
of bigotry
00:43:14.140
and extremism
00:43:15.540
that is
00:43:16.300
consistently
00:43:16.980
linked to
00:43:17.980
racism,
00:43:18.900
Islamophobia,
00:43:19.760
transphobia,
00:43:20.440
and other
00:43:21.280
harmful ideologies.
00:43:22.560
It is not
00:43:23.040
an organization
00:43:23.680
of freedom
00:43:24.640
or tradition.
00:43:25.940
Even down
00:43:26.480
south,
00:43:27.760
it seems
00:43:28.320
that liberalism
00:43:29.500
and leftism
00:43:30.300
reign.
00:43:31.360
Well,
00:43:31.600
I got to say
00:43:32.500
that particular
00:43:33.360
op-ed you're
00:43:34.120
reading from
00:43:34.720
is from the
00:43:35.520
Alabama College
00:43:36.500
newspaper,
00:43:38.020
and it reads
00:43:39.420
like a parody,
00:43:40.720
like if the
00:43:42.340
Babylon Bee
00:43:43.280
made up an
00:43:45.100
angry leftist
00:43:46.360
newspaper,
00:43:46.900
so they
00:43:47.280
apparently,
00:43:48.560
there's a
00:43:49.060
woman who's
00:43:49.460
running for
00:43:49.820
student body
00:43:50.320
president who
00:43:51.080
they had
00:43:51.760
endorsed,
00:43:53.240
and after
00:43:54.040
the student
00:43:54.580
newspaper
00:43:55.100
endorsed
00:43:55.740
them,
00:43:56.760
someone found
00:43:57.940
a picture
00:43:58.620
of her at
00:44:00.020
a YAF
00:44:00.880
conference in
00:44:01.920
D.C.,
00:44:02.500
and these
00:44:02.880
leftists threw
00:44:03.960
a tizzy fit.
00:44:04.780
They stamped
00:44:05.380
their feet,
00:44:06.280
oh goodness,
00:44:07.020
this person
00:44:07.640
we endorsed
00:44:08.460
has like
00:44:10.160
encountered a
00:44:11.460
conservative
00:44:12.020
idea in her
00:44:13.160
life.
00:44:13.840
What can
00:44:14.460
we do?
00:44:15.680
And so
00:44:16.340
they have
00:44:16.720
all these
00:44:17.380
ad hominem
00:44:18.040
insults at
00:44:19.020
YAF,
00:44:19.860
and you know,
00:44:20.320
they believe
00:44:20.760
in things
00:44:21.380
like free
00:44:22.520
enterprise,
00:44:23.440
the Constitution,
00:44:24.700
free speech,
00:44:25.640
religious liberty,
00:44:26.780
my God,
00:44:27.220
they might even
00:44:27.700
believe in the
00:44:28.240
Second Amendment,
00:44:29.560
but then the
00:44:31.560
editorial ends
00:44:32.560
with the funniest
00:44:33.160
portion of all
00:44:34.080
their says,
00:44:35.060
well, so we
00:44:36.460
don't think this
00:44:37.020
candidate is all
00:44:37.760
that great,
00:44:38.700
but her opponent
00:44:39.220
is worse,
00:44:40.140
so don't vote
00:44:41.320
at all,
00:44:41.880
but if you do
00:44:42.400
vote, vote for
00:44:43.560
her, but
00:44:44.440
God, we
00:44:44.900
can't stand
00:44:45.360
conservatives,
00:44:46.020
and it's like,
00:44:46.920
really?
00:44:47.740
Like, it's
00:44:50.000
truly a sight
00:44:50.680
to behold.
00:44:51.400
Oh, the whole
00:44:51.880
thing absolutely
00:44:52.500
slayed me.
00:44:53.120
I laughed out
00:44:53.660
loud reading
00:44:54.060
this because I
00:44:54.800
thought to
00:44:55.100
myself, listen,
00:44:55.840
according to
00:44:56.920
radical leftist
00:44:57.560
ideology, the
00:44:58.700
governor, or
00:44:59.540
now the former
00:45:00.120
governor of
00:45:00.760
Virginia, can
00:45:01.480
show up in
00:45:02.560
blackface in a
00:45:04.300
photograph, but
00:45:04.940
God forbid that
00:45:05.700
this young woman
00:45:06.240
running for
00:45:06.860
student government
00:45:07.520
show up in a
00:45:08.440
picture from the
00:45:08.980
Young America's
00:45:09.580
Foundation conference.
00:45:11.040
This is the
00:45:11.760
standards that the
00:45:12.480
left has set and
00:45:13.980
how they apply to
00:45:14.620
conservatives.
00:45:15.060
This is going to
00:45:15.420
be a great event.
00:45:16.140
I hope the
00:45:16.660
authors of this
00:45:17.420
editorial come to
00:45:18.260
our event.
00:45:19.120
Absolutely.
00:45:19.800
They are welcome.
00:45:20.740
They will be
00:45:21.160
treated respectfully,
00:45:22.160
and they're welcome
00:45:23.540
to come up with
00:45:24.460
whatever crazy-ass
00:45:26.040
question they want.
00:45:27.060
We will give them
00:45:27.840
a place of honor.
00:45:29.320
And we'll try not to
00:45:30.140
take their picture at a
00:45:31.380
YAF event.
00:45:33.820
For their future
00:45:34.720
candidacy.
00:45:35.960
Yeah, then they'll
00:45:36.480
unendorse themselves.
00:45:37.440
Oh, crap, we were
00:45:38.520
photographed at
00:45:39.220
Verdict.
00:45:39.640
We officially
00:45:41.320
deplatform ourselves.
00:45:43.860
It totally underscores
00:45:45.260
the reason why these
00:45:46.340
events are so
00:45:46.940
important, why we've
00:45:47.900
got to go straight
00:45:48.900
to the college
00:45:49.740
campuses where
00:45:50.520
these battles are
00:45:51.280
being fought.
00:45:51.800
We're so excited to
00:45:52.780
do it with Young
00:45:53.840
America's Foundation.
00:45:54.980
You can find out
00:45:55.960
more about these
00:45:57.020
events.
00:45:57.700
That's April 11th
00:45:58.800
at Yale and
00:45:59.760
April 18th at
00:46:00.860
the University of
00:46:01.420
Alabama.
00:46:01.880
Go to
00:46:02.240
Y-A-F dot
00:46:03.960
org slash
00:46:05.340
Verdict Live.
00:46:06.680
That is
00:46:06.880
Y-A-F dot
00:46:08.220
org slash
00:46:09.040
Verdict Live.
00:46:10.280
If you're around
00:46:11.100
New Haven, if you're
00:46:11.840
around the University
00:46:12.700
of Alabama, we will
00:46:14.200
see you there.
00:46:15.520
Now, Michael, you
00:46:16.220
can sign up to go
00:46:17.260
in person, but you
00:46:18.800
can also go there and
00:46:19.840
sign up to watch it
00:46:21.060
live on YouTube.
00:46:22.840
So if you can't make
00:46:24.020
it to New Haven, if
00:46:25.620
you can't make it to
00:46:26.600
Alabama, you can stay
00:46:28.600
in the comfort of your
00:46:29.880
own home wearing
00:46:30.940
pajamas and bunny
00:46:32.120
slippers and watch
00:46:33.940
actually you would
00:46:34.520
fit in well at Yale
00:46:35.440
in pajamas and
00:46:36.260
bunny slippers and
00:46:37.480
watch it live on
00:46:38.840
YouTube, the same
00:46:39.860
link, right?
00:46:40.660
Absolutely.
00:46:41.240
So make sure you
00:46:42.320
head on over.
00:46:42.940
We're so happy as
00:46:43.760
always to partner
00:46:44.800
with Young
00:46:45.240
America's Foundation.
00:46:46.440
It's going to be a
00:46:47.220
great deal of fun to
00:46:48.760
introduce a whole new
00:46:50.620
generation of young
00:46:51.960
American college
00:46:53.100
conservatives to the
00:46:55.020
right wing, which
00:46:55.740
they probably haven't
00:46:56.620
heard a whole lot
00:46:57.100
about it in their
00:46:57.700
classrooms.
00:46:58.320
We're looking forward
00:46:59.000
to seeing you.
00:46:59.720
And if we can't see
00:47:00.440
you, at least you'll
00:47:01.280
see us.
00:47:01.800
That is yaf.org
00:47:04.200
slash verdict live.
00:47:06.300
Before that, though,
00:47:06.960
Liz, you're going to be
00:47:07.880
speaking with the
00:47:08.560
senator on the cloak
00:47:09.880
room.
00:47:10.080
What are you talking
00:47:10.540
about?
00:47:11.020
Yes, we have a great
00:47:12.340
topic.
00:47:12.600
This is a topic we're
00:47:13.340
asked, senator, to talk
00:47:14.600
about a lot, especially
00:47:15.920
from the verdict plus
00:47:16.800
community.
00:47:17.780
We're going to be
00:47:18.280
talking a little bit
00:47:18.860
about the great reset.
00:47:20.080
We're going to be
00:47:20.400
talking about the world
00:47:21.080
economic forum and
00:47:22.060
Klaus Schwab and this
00:47:23.220
idea of globalism and
00:47:24.900
not not only those
00:47:26.400
topics in and of
00:47:27.040
themselves, but what we
00:47:28.060
can do in our legal
00:47:29.780
system here in the
00:47:30.500
United States to
00:47:31.120
actually prevent
00:47:31.980
globalists from having
00:47:33.080
control over our
00:47:33.780
country.
00:47:34.040
So it's very nerdy,
00:47:35.100
very interesting, a
00:47:35.940
highly requested
00:47:36.560
topic.
00:47:37.640
Anybody who wants to
00:47:38.960
join us on the
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cloakroom, join us on
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Cruz dot com slash
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That sounds fabulous.
00:47:53.460
In the meantime, we
00:47:54.240
will be having a
00:47:55.500
reset ourselves.
00:47:56.380
Not a great reset, a
00:47:57.520
minor reset before we
00:47:58.840
head on over to
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cloakroom.
00:47:59.880
In the meantime, I'm
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Michael Knowles.
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