Verdict with Ted Cruz - Nancy Pelosi, Chief Mask Officer

00:00:00.000 This is an iHeart Podcast.

00:00:02.420 Guaranteed Human.

00:00:04.420 Mr. President, in 1887,

00:00:07.860 Lord Acton wrote a series of letters to Bishop Creighton.

00:00:12.680 Letters that would echo down across the centuries.

00:00:18.140 Lord Acton wrote,

00:00:19.960 I cannot accept your canon

00:00:21.740 that we are to judge Pope and King

00:00:25.020 unlike other men.

00:00:26.980 With a favorable presumption that they did no wrong.

00:00:32.940 If there is any presumption, it is the other way.

00:00:36.940 Against holders of power.

00:00:40.080 Increasing as the power increases.

00:00:44.620 Historic responsibility has to make up

00:00:47.400 for the want of legal responsibility.

00:00:52.800 Power tends to corrupt

00:00:55.140 and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

00:01:00.980 Great men are almost exclusively bad men.

00:01:05.780 Even where they exercise influence

00:01:10.040 and not authority.

00:01:13.100 Still more when you super add the tendency

00:01:16.560 or the certainty of corruption

00:01:18.460 by authority.

00:01:20.400 Mr. President, those words were true in 1887

00:01:25.080 and they're true today.

00:01:29.160 If you want to understand how power corrupts

00:01:31.700 and absolute power corrupts absolutely,

00:01:34.820 look no further than the other chamber

00:01:37.840 in the United States Capitol.

00:01:39.100 Speaker Nancy Pelosi

00:01:42.520 is drunk on power.

00:01:46.700 The orders

00:01:48.060 that Speaker Pelosi

00:01:50.160 is issuing

00:01:52.480 are abusive

00:01:54.980 and unprecedented.

00:01:59.940 Speaker Pelosi has decreed

00:02:02.140 to members of the House of Representatives

00:02:03.760 elected by the people

00:02:05.920 that if you dare walk

00:02:08.100 onto the floor

00:02:08.760 of the House of Representatives

00:02:09.960 without a mask,

00:02:12.580 I, Speaker Pelosi,

00:02:14.180 shall fine you.

00:02:17.120 Who the hell is she 1.00

00:02:18.780 to be fining members of the House?

00:02:22.580 But you know what?

00:02:23.520 She's not done with that.

00:02:24.580 She's not done with disrespecting 0.91

00:02:27.260 our Constitution,

00:02:28.500 disrespecting our democratic system

00:02:30.200 that elects leaders.

00:02:31.740 She goes further

00:02:32.580 to the good men and women

00:02:34.960 who work

00:02:35.600 here in the United States Capitol.

00:02:37.680 We are surrounded by men and women

00:02:39.140 who have chosen to come

00:02:40.260 and work for the public good.

00:02:43.600 And here's what Speaker Pelosi

00:02:45.220 has decreed.

00:02:46.060 If you dare

00:02:47.600 walk in the hallway

00:02:50.500 without a mask,

00:02:53.020 I, Speaker Pelosi,

00:02:55.440 will arrest you.

00:02:57.860 I will put you in jail.

00:03:00.060 I will fine you.

00:03:04.140 That is an absolute

00:03:05.660 and complete abuse of power.

00:03:09.100 She has no authority

00:03:10.960 to disrespect

00:03:11.920 the men and women

00:03:12.840 who work here

00:03:13.880 to threaten you

00:03:14.940 with physical harm,

00:03:16.320 to threaten you

00:03:17.240 with imprisonment.

00:03:20.160 And why does she do so? 1.00

00:03:21.900 She does so for one reason,

00:03:23.700 political theater.

00:03:30.960 Welcome to Verdict

00:03:32.140 with Ted Cruz.

00:03:33.060 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:03:34.460 Senator,

00:03:34.920 I have to compliment you.

00:03:36.820 You have now

00:03:37.280 very famously read

00:03:38.580 and quoted

00:03:39.400 Dr. Seuss

00:03:40.820 and Lord Acton

00:03:42.520 on the floor of the Senate.

00:03:43.680 That is a very broad

00:03:45.240 spectrum of reading.

00:03:47.220 And I think

00:03:47.560 the Lord Acton quote

00:03:48.460 was absolutely apt.

00:03:50.180 We have now passed

00:03:51.360 the 500th day

00:03:52.620 of 15 days

00:03:53.680 to slow the spread

00:03:54.540 and we are seeing

00:03:56.080 the reinstitution

00:03:57.180 of mask mandates

00:03:58.840 even for the vaccinated.

00:04:00.660 We are seeing

00:04:01.060 the threat

00:04:01.580 of lockdowns

00:04:03.040 around the country.

00:04:04.920 Is it just

00:04:05.940 deja vu

00:04:06.640 all over again?

00:04:07.380 Is there any way

00:04:08.100 to break out

00:04:08.560 of this cycle?

00:04:09.700 Well,

00:04:09.900 I do not like

00:04:10.520 green eggs and ham,

00:04:11.820 but I do not like

00:04:13.340 absolute power

00:04:14.900 being abused

00:04:16.200 even less.

00:04:17.040 this has been

00:04:19.660 a bad week

00:04:21.060 for liberty.

00:04:23.340 This has been

00:04:24.160 a bad week

00:04:25.040 for science.

00:04:26.160 It's been a bad week

00:04:26.860 for common sense.

00:04:28.200 And it is frightening

00:04:29.500 because we're seeing,

00:04:31.000 you know,

00:04:32.380 two decisions

00:04:33.720 I'd highlight,

00:04:34.560 both of which

00:04:35.060 came this week.

00:04:36.760 Number one,

00:04:37.760 as you know,

00:04:38.120 the CDC revised

00:04:39.420 its guidance.

00:04:41.080 So,

00:04:42.080 a couple of months ago,

00:04:43.060 the CDC acknowledged

00:04:44.640 what people knew

00:04:46.580 already,

00:04:47.020 which is vaccines work,

00:04:48.520 that actually

00:04:49.440 science operates

00:04:50.480 if you're vaccinated.

00:04:52.120 The vaccine

00:04:53.100 has a very high

00:04:54.020 likelihood

00:04:54.380 of being successful.

00:04:55.440 And so,

00:04:55.920 the CDC,

00:04:57.620 acknowledging that reality,

00:04:59.000 said people

00:04:59.400 who are vaccinated

00:05:00.120 don't need to wear masks.

00:05:01.520 That was right then.

00:05:03.320 It's right now.

00:05:05.680 But,

00:05:06.280 as of this week,

00:05:07.560 the CDC magically

00:05:08.700 changed its guidance

00:05:09.900 and now said,

00:05:11.880 even if you're

00:05:12.360 vaccinated,

00:05:13.060 you need to wear

00:05:14.220 a mask.

00:05:15.880 That wasn't science.

00:05:17.480 That was politics.

00:05:19.040 And it was

00:05:19.700 cynical politics

00:05:20.940 at that.

00:05:22.080 And I think

00:05:22.680 people are frustrated

00:05:23.720 with the hypocrisy

00:05:25.400 from the CDC.

00:05:27.400 And they're frustrated

00:05:28.860 with how Democrats

00:05:30.460 are behaving.

00:05:31.400 We're seeing now

00:05:32.460 Democratic jurisdictions

00:05:34.300 imposing new mandates,

00:05:35.740 imposing new mask mandates.

00:05:37.600 The CDC

00:05:38.520 decreed

00:05:39.840 that when school

00:05:40.660 starts this fall,

00:05:41.540 that every person

00:05:43.620 in a school

00:05:44.280 must wear a mask

00:05:45.480 regardless of whether

00:05:46.200 you're vaccinated or not,

00:05:48.180 that's not remotely

00:05:49.140 based on science.

00:05:50.000 That's based on the politics

00:05:51.220 of the fact that

00:05:51.980 the teachers unions

00:05:52.860 demanded that.

00:05:54.140 And the CDC

00:05:54.800 is basically acting

00:05:56.200 like it's part

00:05:57.180 of the DNC.

00:05:58.280 It is

00:05:59.500 a political arm

00:06:01.740 in the Biden administration.

00:06:02.840 And then also this week,

00:06:05.000 Nancy Pelosi

00:06:05.940 issued a decree

00:06:08.160 that

00:06:09.700 anyone in the House

00:06:12.040 must wear a mask

00:06:13.000 even if you're vaccinated.

00:06:14.260 She said that

00:06:14.900 if you're

00:06:15.380 a member of the House

00:06:17.060 and you walk

00:06:18.360 onto the floor

00:06:18.880 without a mask,

00:06:19.640 that she will fine you.

00:06:20.820 And even worse,

00:06:21.640 she said,

00:06:22.020 if you're a Hill staffer

00:06:23.000 and you're caught

00:06:25.660 without a mask,

00:06:26.960 that you will be arrested,

00:06:28.840 that you will be

00:06:29.860 potentially put in jail,

00:06:31.520 sentenced to jail

00:06:32.700 and fined

00:06:33.880 if you dare not

00:06:34.660 wear a mask.

00:06:35.480 And I got to say,

00:06:36.400 that's just nuts.

00:06:38.180 I mean,

00:06:38.440 that is an abuse of power

00:06:40.520 that has no

00:06:41.720 link to anything

00:06:44.000 resembling medical science.

00:06:46.100 Well, you know,

00:06:46.360 even a CNN anchor

00:06:47.760 pointed out the other day

00:06:49.220 that the CDC

00:06:49.840 has a big credibility problem.

00:06:51.380 And there's no question

00:06:52.540 we've covered it on this show

00:06:53.780 that the public health officials

00:06:55.360 have flip-flopped

00:06:56.100 on everything.

00:06:56.900 Dr. Fauci told us

00:06:57.740 the masks don't work.

00:06:58.780 Then he told us

00:06:59.500 we all need to wear the masks.

00:07:00.720 We were told

00:07:01.140 the vaccines

00:07:01.900 are absolutely wonderful

00:07:03.500 and they work very,

00:07:04.280 very well

00:07:04.680 to stop infection

00:07:05.700 and transmission.

00:07:06.480 Now we're being told,

00:07:07.400 well, maybe they don't,

00:07:08.180 so the vaccinated

00:07:08.680 need to wear the mask.

00:07:09.940 Anyway,

00:07:10.300 we've been told

00:07:11.340 so much conflicting information.

00:07:12.860 There is no question.

00:07:14.320 I think the right and the left,

00:07:15.640 if they can agree on anything,

00:07:16.740 it's that the CDC

00:07:17.520 has some issues.

00:07:19.280 But the question is,

00:07:20.240 what is the political

00:07:21.880 endgame here?

00:07:22.920 I suspect that you're right

00:07:24.840 that this is not about science

00:07:26.140 and it is about politics.

00:07:27.700 But what's the politics?

00:07:28.500 You know,

00:07:29.580 it's hard to understand

00:07:31.580 the politics

00:07:32.360 other than that Democrats,

00:07:34.240 particularly now,

00:07:35.180 they like power.

00:07:36.540 They like arbitrary power.

00:07:38.160 They like controlling your life.

00:07:40.380 You know, listen,

00:07:40.840 when it comes to masks,

00:07:42.140 I've never been one

00:07:43.720 that's a zealot

00:07:44.940 on either side.

00:07:45.720 I've never really understood

00:07:46.840 some of the folks

00:07:49.260 who say,

00:07:49.920 never wear a mask

00:07:50.520 no matter what.

00:07:51.340 I certainly didn't fall

00:07:52.520 into that camp,

00:07:53.260 particularly in the height

00:07:53.840 of the pandemic.

00:07:54.440 I wore a mask.

00:07:55.640 I thought we should do

00:07:56.620 reasonable steps

00:07:57.540 to slow the spread of a disease.

00:07:58.960 It's a dangerous disease.

00:08:00.280 But I also never understood

00:08:01.800 the purist

00:08:03.840 who would ostentatiously

00:08:05.200 wear a mask

00:08:06.100 as a symbol

00:08:06.760 of their nobility

00:08:07.860 and purity and virtue.

00:08:11.340 You know,

00:08:11.920 let me take folks

00:08:13.540 inside the Senate

00:08:15.140 for a minute

00:08:15.660 to understand the dynamic

00:08:17.180 in real time.

00:08:19.420 So,

00:08:20.900 early this year,

00:08:21.980 January,

00:08:22.440 they made vaccines available

00:08:24.260 to members of Congress.

00:08:26.420 A number of members of Congress

00:08:27.360 got the vaccines

00:08:28.240 in early January.

00:08:30.380 I didn't get the vaccine then.

00:08:32.320 And the reason

00:08:33.060 I didn't get it then

00:08:34.260 is at that point,

00:08:36.020 it was not widely available.

00:08:37.360 Most Americans

00:08:37.960 hadn't gotten it.

00:08:38.860 And I'm a relatively young

00:08:41.200 and healthy person.

00:08:42.240 I didn't think it was right

00:08:43.260 that just because

00:08:44.300 I was elected

00:08:44.920 to represent Texas

00:08:45.820 in the Senate,

00:08:46.940 that I should cut in line,

00:08:48.180 that I should get a vaccine

00:08:49.780 before seniors did,

00:08:51.920 before people

00:08:52.520 with serious

00:08:53.340 immunocompromised issues

00:08:56.020 did,

00:08:56.560 before frontline

00:08:57.840 responders did.

00:08:59.280 And so,

00:09:00.040 I didn't get the vaccine

00:09:01.300 in January.

00:09:03.480 I waited a couple of months

00:09:04.740 and then after

00:09:05.780 tens of millions

00:09:06.600 of vaccines

00:09:07.240 had been distributed

00:09:08.040 and the people

00:09:08.500 with the highest need

00:09:09.380 had gotten it,

00:09:10.520 then I got the vaccine.

00:09:11.540 I said,

00:09:11.840 okay,

00:09:12.080 enough time has passed

00:09:13.060 that I think

00:09:13.540 it is fair and reasonable.

00:09:15.680 I'd like to get the vaccine.

00:09:16.980 I'd like to be protected

00:09:18.560 against the disease.

00:09:19.280 So I did get the vaccine

00:09:20.400 and I waited a couple of weeks

00:09:22.380 till the vaccine's

00:09:23.600 fully effective.

00:09:24.320 So I had both,

00:09:25.140 I got the Pfizer shot

00:09:26.300 and I got both of them

00:09:27.160 and I gave the requisite time

00:09:28.940 that they said

00:09:30.360 you had to wait

00:09:31.060 before it's effective.

00:09:32.300 And then I decided

00:09:33.260 to stop wearing my mask

00:09:34.480 on the Senate floor

00:09:35.220 because vaccines work.

00:09:37.380 Like,

00:09:37.480 that's the whole science of it.

00:09:38.720 The whole point

00:09:39.140 of getting the damn shot

00:09:40.200 is to give you protection

00:09:42.980 against catching the disease.

00:09:45.460 And so on the Senate,

00:09:47.640 it was kind of interesting.

00:09:49.160 First person not to wear a mask

00:09:50.780 was Rand Paul

00:09:51.400 and Rand never wore a mask.

00:09:52.820 And look,

00:09:53.380 I love Rand,

00:09:54.020 but he just said,

00:09:55.660 to hell with it, 0.98

00:09:56.060 I'm not wearing a mask.

00:09:56.920 And Rand had COVID

00:09:58.320 and he never wore a mask.

00:10:00.680 And so,

00:10:01.040 okay,

00:10:01.180 that was his choice.

00:10:02.240 For a long time,

00:10:03.180 it was just Rand with no mask

00:10:04.460 and 99 senators with masks.

00:10:07.160 The second senator

00:10:08.120 not to wear a mask was me.

00:10:09.560 And after I'd gotten the vaccine,

00:10:10.980 after a couple of weeks

00:10:11.600 had passed,

00:10:12.080 I said,

00:10:12.360 all right,

00:10:12.480 I'm going to stop

00:10:12.940 wearing the mask.

00:10:13.560 The same time I did that,

00:10:17.140 Roger Marshall,

00:10:18.200 who's a Republican senator

00:10:19.340 from Kansas,

00:10:20.060 also a medical doctor,

00:10:21.920 he made the same decision.

00:10:23.380 So Roger and I both

00:10:24.480 right about the same time

00:10:25.600 stopped wearing our mask.

00:10:27.600 We were numbers two

00:10:28.760 and three in the Senate.

00:10:29.720 And for several weeks,

00:10:30.840 the three of us

00:10:32.460 were the only ones

00:10:33.140 not wearing a mask.

00:10:33.820 And I got to tell you,

00:10:34.760 the peer pressure is interesting.

00:10:36.820 Like when you stood

00:10:37.720 on the Senate floor

00:10:39.600 and everyone's wearing a mask.

00:10:41.620 I mean,

00:10:41.820 you felt

00:10:42.440 like you were

00:10:44.840 like a rebel

00:10:46.380 on the fringe.

00:10:48.520 And it was interesting.

00:10:49.620 Then the fourth person

00:10:51.180 to stop wearing a mask

00:10:52.140 was Jim Risch from Idaho.

00:10:53.280 And he said,

00:10:54.800 all right,

00:10:55.580 I'm joining the No Mask Caucus 1.00

00:10:57.720 because he'd been vaccinated.

00:10:59.760 Now,

00:11:00.400 what was bizarre

00:11:01.160 is we'd gone a couple of months

00:11:02.560 with everybody wearing masks,

00:11:05.460 even though they all

00:11:07.020 or virtually all were vaccinated.

00:11:08.560 If you remember Joe Biden's

00:11:10.320 pseudo State of the Union address,

00:11:11.920 where everyone

00:11:13.200 was wearing a mask

00:11:14.100 and almost every person

00:11:14.980 in that chamber

00:11:15.660 was already vaccinated.

00:11:16.860 It was political theater then.

00:11:19.320 But then what happened

00:11:20.300 is the CDC issued

00:11:21.500 its ruling

00:11:22.540 and said,

00:11:23.100 if you're vaccinated,

00:11:25.060 you don't need to wear a mask.

00:11:26.140 And it was the funniest thing.

00:11:27.980 Within about two days,

00:11:30.120 everybody took their masks off.

00:11:31.540 100% of the senators.

00:11:32.660 Chuck Schumer

00:11:33.100 took his mask off.

00:11:34.020 Bernie Sanders

00:11:34.540 took his mask off.

00:11:35.880 Maisie Hirono

00:11:36.620 took her mask off.

00:11:38.060 Look,

00:11:38.200 I joked for some

00:11:39.480 of the Democrats,

00:11:40.120 I'd be much happier

00:11:40.800 if they kept their masks on.

00:11:42.360 And, you know,

00:11:43.100 really my criticism

00:11:43.900 was their masks

00:11:44.660 needed to be tighter.

00:11:47.180 You know,

00:11:47.660 we could still hear them talk.

00:11:48.980 So clearly their masks

00:11:49.900 were not attached

00:11:50.940 sufficiently firmly.

00:11:52.460 But listen,

00:11:53.540 the fact that everybody

00:11:54.540 took off their mask

00:11:55.720 indicates what we all knew,

00:11:58.520 which is if you're vaccinating,

00:11:59.960 wearing a mask is stupid.

00:12:02.100 Everyone knew that.

00:12:02.940 All the Democrats

00:12:03.660 immediately knew that.

00:12:04.460 Now,

00:12:05.100 when that was happening

00:12:06.020 in the Senate,

00:12:06.720 Nancy Pelosi was still

00:12:08.720 fining House members

00:12:11.920 who didn't wear a mask

00:12:13.040 on the House floor.

00:12:14.160 And so I know a number

00:12:14.940 of House Republicans

00:12:16.360 who were fined

00:12:17.100 500 bucks a piece,

00:12:19.100 even though they were vaccinated

00:12:20.880 because they didn't wear a mask,

00:12:23.380 literally on the very same day

00:12:25.840 that Chuck Schumer

00:12:26.600 and Bernie Sanders

00:12:27.320 and every Democrat

00:12:28.300 has no mask on.

00:12:30.020 So,

00:12:30.560 people understood

00:12:32.560 the difference

00:12:34.600 between reality

00:12:36.060 and performance theater.

00:12:37.520 All right,

00:12:37.720 let's fast forward

00:12:38.640 to this week.

00:12:40.120 This week,

00:12:40.920 Monday,

00:12:41.280 we started out this week.

00:12:43.720 100% of senators

00:12:45.120 had no mask on.

00:12:46.700 Every Republican

00:12:47.320 had no mask.

00:12:48.040 Every Democrat

00:12:48.460 had no mask.

00:12:50.000 Then the CDC

00:12:51.120 issues their magical

00:12:52.620 new ruling.

00:12:53.480 Suddenly,

00:12:53.900 vaccines don't work.

00:12:55.040 Suddenly,

00:12:55.420 if you're vaccinated,

00:12:56.140 it doesn't matter.

00:12:56.580 You've got to put a mask on.

00:12:57.980 Why?

00:12:58.360 Because we decree it to be so.

00:13:00.300 And it was a very funny thing.

00:13:01.780 They issue the order

00:13:02.900 and the Democratic Party,

00:13:05.340 I don't know,

00:13:06.120 they're like docile sheep.

00:13:08.220 They want to follow the orders

00:13:11.420 of whoever the dictator is

00:13:13.000 and they want to demonstrate

00:13:14.920 self-righteously

00:13:16.060 how pious they are.

00:13:18.300 And so,

00:13:18.900 a day after the CDC acted,

00:13:22.160 you had,

00:13:22.700 oh,

00:13:22.840 I don't know,

00:13:23.200 maybe a third

00:13:24.040 of the Democrats

00:13:24.820 wearing masks.

00:13:26.320 You had people like

00:13:27.860 Brian Schatz from Hawaii

00:13:29.880 who was wearing masks.

00:13:30.880 You had people like

00:13:31.560 Cory Booker

00:13:32.280 wearing masks.

00:13:34.000 But still,

00:13:34.780 at least half the Democrats

00:13:36.140 weren't wearing them.

00:13:36.860 This was a day or two

00:13:37.680 after the CDC.

00:13:39.380 But the

00:13:40.380 sort of peer pressure

00:13:42.840 of elected Democrats

00:13:44.660 kicked in.

00:13:45.940 And by today,

00:13:47.800 virtually every Democrat

00:13:49.180 is wearing a mask.

00:13:50.240 Kyrsten Sinema

00:13:50.820 wasn't wearing a mask.

00:13:51.680 She may have been 0.51

00:13:52.440 the only Democrat

00:13:53.220 not wearing a mask.

00:13:54.760 But what's funny is

00:13:55.780 even those Democrats

00:13:57.020 wearing them,

00:13:58.740 they know it's a crock.

00:14:00.140 Look,

00:14:00.700 yesterday or the day before,

00:14:02.640 I was in an elevator

00:14:03.680 in the Russell

00:14:04.880 Senate office building.

00:14:06.380 I walked onto the elevator.

00:14:08.020 There was a senator.

00:14:08.900 He was there

00:14:09.440 with two of his staff.

00:14:10.440 Two of his staff

00:14:10.980 had masks on.

00:14:12.500 The senator

00:14:12.980 didn't have his mask on,

00:14:14.080 so he's standing

00:14:14.640 in an elevator

00:14:15.200 with no mask.

00:14:16.620 He sees me

00:14:17.640 and like,

00:14:18.120 ooh,

00:14:18.400 reaches in his pocket

00:14:19.160 and quickly puts on the mask.

00:14:21.400 It's not like

00:14:22.320 he suddenly became contagious.

00:14:24.260 The guy's vaccinated.

00:14:25.380 The mask does nothing.

00:14:27.440 But he had to put it on

00:14:28.740 because he had to show

00:14:30.080 I am obedient

00:14:32.120 to the government decree.

00:14:33.440 And it's really stupid

00:14:34.580 and it,

00:14:35.600 I think it diminishes.

00:14:39.680 Number one,

00:14:40.500 the CDC is letting

00:14:41.280 itself be politicized.

00:14:42.860 It's behaving

00:14:43.620 like a political institution.

00:14:45.200 I mean,

00:14:45.360 Michael,

00:14:45.620 let me ask you,

00:14:46.160 has there been

00:14:46.900 an institution

00:14:47.680 that has done

00:14:48.380 more to damage

00:14:49.400 their credibility

00:14:50.160 in the last year and a half

00:14:51.280 than the CDC has?

00:14:52.460 A year and a half ago,

00:14:53.380 they were one of the most

00:14:54.000 respected medical

00:14:55.420 and scientific organizations

00:14:56.800 on the face of the planet.

00:14:58.360 And now we've seen

00:14:59.940 Fauci do 19 backflips,

00:15:01.900 be on every side

00:15:02.580 of every issue.

00:15:03.680 And we understand

00:15:04.820 he's a political player.

00:15:05.860 He's not a scientist

00:15:06.800 in terms of what he says.

00:15:09.940 He says what's politically

00:15:11.140 convenient at the moment.

00:15:12.840 And the damage

00:15:14.200 to the credibility

00:15:15.100 of the CDC

00:15:16.980 and to the scientific pontificators,

00:15:20.360 I think,

00:15:20.680 has been really enormous.

00:15:22.760 The CDC's credibility,

00:15:23.720 I think,

00:15:24.000 is in tatters.

00:15:25.420 Well, as you see,

00:15:26.480 just even on this issue

00:15:27.320 of the vaccines,

00:15:28.360 either way,

00:15:29.500 either the vaccines do work

00:15:32.160 and the decision is political

00:15:33.220 and the CDC loses credibility

00:15:34.500 or the vaccines don't work.

00:15:36.620 What we've been told

00:15:37.240 is not true.

00:15:38.160 And so everyone

00:15:38.600 needs to wear the masks again

00:15:39.540 and the CDC

00:15:39.960 loses credibility.

00:15:41.160 But it seems that

00:15:41.840 as the credibility collapses,

00:15:44.120 the liberal establishment,

00:15:46.760 you know,

00:15:47.040 and that includes

00:15:47.680 not just the elected people,

00:15:48.960 but the bureaucrats

00:15:50.100 and the technocrats

00:15:50.840 and the other institutions,

00:15:52.300 they seem to be

00:15:53.100 getting more aggressive.

00:15:54.120 And I think this is what

00:15:54.760 a lot of people

00:15:55.520 are worried about.

00:15:56.180 Speaking of peer pressure

00:15:57.520 is you've got the White House

00:15:59.280 now saying

00:15:59.940 that they may move

00:16:01.140 into another lockdown.

00:16:02.760 They're looking at potential

00:16:03.920 federal vaccine mandates,

00:16:05.840 for goodness sakes,

00:16:06.520 even as we're being told

00:16:07.780 that the vaccines

00:16:08.440 allegedly are not working

00:16:09.940 as well as we were told

00:16:10.780 they were.

00:16:11.300 So anyway,

00:16:11.820 there's obviously

00:16:12.280 a lot of confusion here.

00:16:14.040 But if Nancy Pelosi

00:16:15.500 is going to throw

00:16:16.060 staffers in jail,

00:16:17.420 they seem to mean

00:16:18.340 the threats that they're making.

00:16:19.380 Yeah, I mean,

00:16:20.020 you think about that.

00:16:21.120 Nancy Pelosi is saying

00:16:22.460 to someone

00:16:23.060 who's a 20-something,

00:16:24.400 30-something Hill staffer

00:16:25.920 is working on Capitol Hill

00:16:29.100 that if you dare not wear a mask,

00:16:31.600 even if you're vaccinated,

00:16:32.920 she's going to put you in jail. 1.00

00:16:34.640 I mean,

00:16:34.840 that is a level

00:16:36.840 of dictatorial,

00:16:40.020 I don't give a damn,

00:16:42.900 that's really frightening.

00:16:44.460 And you're right,

00:16:44.900 you combine it with Joe Biden

00:16:46.200 who's saying he wants

00:16:47.160 to mandate federal employees

00:16:48.940 all get vaccines,

00:16:50.640 he wants to mandate

00:16:51.800 the military all get vaccines.

00:16:54.720 Listen, my view,

00:16:56.720 number one,

00:16:57.380 I think vaccines are good.

00:16:58.380 I am a supporter of vaccines,

00:16:59.620 I'm a supporter of science,

00:17:00.800 I've been vaccinated,

00:17:01.940 Heidi's been vaccinated,

00:17:03.120 my parents have been vaccinated,

00:17:04.580 Heidi's parents

00:17:05.160 have been vaccinated.

00:17:06.440 I was quite glad

00:17:07.280 to get vaccinated.

00:17:08.060 I want to get the damn mask off.

00:17:09.600 I wanted to be able to go out

00:17:12.260 in crowds of people

00:17:13.660 and interact again

00:17:14.540 without being concerned

00:17:15.800 about catching or spreading

00:17:16.920 a dangerous disease.

00:17:19.100 But I also believe

00:17:20.820 in individual liberty,

00:17:21.760 I believe in individual choice.

00:17:23.000 The fact that I chose

00:17:23.900 to get a vaccine

00:17:24.580 doesn't mean you need

00:17:25.340 to make that choice.

00:17:26.720 You're an adult,

00:17:27.980 you can make your own choice,

00:17:29.900 you should talk to your doctor,

00:17:31.420 you should educate yourself,

00:17:32.540 you should think about

00:17:33.260 the pros and cons,

00:17:35.020 and I believe

00:17:36.500 in that individual responsibility

00:17:38.060 and it's amazing,

00:17:39.260 the Democrats,

00:17:40.460 they don't want to give you

00:17:41.940 that choice.

00:17:42.720 They don't want you

00:17:43.640 to be able to make

00:17:44.460 your own choices

00:17:45.340 about medical treatment

00:17:46.560 that you're receiving.

00:17:48.780 They want the government...

00:17:50.280 But, you know, Senator,

00:17:51.020 the argument that they're making,

00:17:52.400 the argument that they're making

00:17:53.460 is that when it comes

00:17:54.720 to a pandemic,

00:17:55.760 and I guess, you know,

00:17:57.040 the term is being redefined

00:17:59.060 and is a little bit loose

00:18:00.320 right now,

00:18:01.000 but when it comes

00:18:01.720 to a pandemic,

00:18:03.260 you lose your individual rights

00:18:05.060 because your decision,

00:18:06.800 I mean, not your decision,

00:18:07.500 but someone else's decision

00:18:08.440 not to be vaccinated

00:18:09.800 is a direct threat to me

00:18:11.580 because you could spread

00:18:12.420 the virus to whomever.

00:18:14.720 And so what is

00:18:15.280 the conservative answer to that?

00:18:16.380 There's a logical flaw

00:18:17.840 in that argument

00:18:18.500 and it's really important

00:18:19.540 to break it down

00:18:20.180 because you're right,

00:18:20.860 the left is making it.

00:18:21.840 And by the way,

00:18:22.440 the press is making

00:18:23.360 this argument like crazy.

00:18:24.640 It's very funny on Capitol Hill.

00:18:26.240 The press reporters,

00:18:28.100 almost all of them

00:18:29.180 have dutifully put their masks on.

00:18:31.580 There was one poor guy

00:18:32.820 running around with two masks

00:18:34.040 because, hey,

00:18:34.560 if you've got virtue,

00:18:36.300 I can have twice as much virtue

00:18:37.660 and have two masks on.

00:18:40.040 And it just,

00:18:41.240 there were only a couple

00:18:43.140 of reporters

00:18:43.760 who dared take their mask off.

00:18:45.340 And again,

00:18:45.720 they were almost like,

00:18:46.820 you know,

00:18:47.140 Mel Gibson and Braveheart

00:18:48.240 or something.

00:18:48.900 But let's go to this argument

00:18:50.240 about the unvaccinated

00:18:52.640 or endangering others.

00:18:53.960 And this week,

00:18:56.120 I think the person

00:18:57.200 who said it most offensively

00:18:58.820 was Geraldo.

00:19:00.400 So Geraldo was on Fox

00:19:02.540 and Geraldo went on this rant

00:19:06.140 on the five

00:19:06.840 where he said,

00:19:07.980 he said,

00:19:08.380 if you're unvaccinated,

00:19:09.420 I'm going to paraphrase,

00:19:10.280 but this is basically right.

00:19:11.420 He said,

00:19:11.980 if you're unvaccinated,

00:19:13.240 then you're arrogant

00:19:14.360 and you're rude 0.63

00:19:15.080 and you're inconsiderate 0.81

00:19:16.120 and you're jeopardizing everybody.

00:19:17.480 And he was quite bombastic.

00:19:19.920 I know that's hard to believe

00:19:20.980 Geraldo being bombastic,

00:19:22.420 but just go with me on this.

00:19:24.420 Here's the logical flaw.

00:19:27.160 Geraldo presumably is vaccinated.

00:19:29.940 If not,

00:19:30.880 he's a remarkable hypocrite.

00:19:32.600 So I assume he's vaccinated.

00:19:34.740 If he's vaccinated,

00:19:36.500 the risk to him

00:19:38.180 of getting COVID

00:19:39.500 is extremely small,

00:19:41.580 depending on which vaccine you got.

00:19:43.320 If you got Pfizer or Moderna,

00:19:45.240 the risks are somewhere

00:19:47.040 in the neighborhood of 3%

00:19:48.200 or maybe 5%,

00:19:49.420 but they're very small.

00:19:50.880 And if you do catch COVID,

00:19:52.240 there's some percentage,

00:19:53.200 some small percentage

00:19:53.940 of people who are vaccinated

00:19:54.900 can catch COVID.

00:19:55.880 If you do catch COVID,

00:19:57.360 the risks of it being serious

00:19:59.160 of you being hospitalized

00:20:00.120 or dying are very,

00:20:02.200 very small.

00:20:03.260 That's why people get the vaccine.

00:20:04.920 They want to dramatically

00:20:05.600 reduce the risk

00:20:06.380 of getting the disease

00:20:08.100 and even more so

00:20:09.100 reduce the risk

00:20:09.860 of getting it seriously.

00:20:11.160 That means for anyone

00:20:12.920 who's vaccinated,

00:20:13.960 the risk of people

00:20:15.040 who are unvaccinated

00:20:15.920 is negligible.

00:20:16.920 It's very small.

00:20:18.400 Now, is there some possibility

00:20:20.300 that someone who's unvaccinated

00:20:21.780 will pass the disease on

00:20:23.660 to someone else

00:20:24.220 who's unvaccinated?

00:20:25.140 Yes.

00:20:26.320 But you know what?

00:20:26.960 That someone else

00:20:27.600 who's unvaccinated,

00:20:28.720 they made their damn choice.

00:20:30.940 Like, you're assuming that risk.

00:20:32.880 If you say,

00:20:33.820 I'm not going to get the vaccine.

00:20:35.460 Okay, you're a big boy.

00:20:36.600 You can adult.

00:20:37.480 You're an adult.

00:20:38.080 You can make that risk.

00:20:39.560 But at the same time,

00:20:42.340 the left jumps up and down

00:20:44.740 and says,

00:20:45.240 those evil,

00:20:46.360 unvaccinated people

00:20:47.280 are jeopardizing me.

00:20:48.380 No, if you're vaccinated,

00:20:49.520 they're not.

00:20:50.100 They're jeopardizing

00:20:51.060 each other potentially.

00:20:52.740 And you know what?

00:20:53.640 The same thing is true of smokers.

00:20:55.580 If you smoke,

00:20:57.040 you may die of lung cancer.

00:20:59.740 Look, you and I

00:21:00.480 are both cigar smokers.

00:21:01.700 You know what might happen?

00:21:03.080 Our lips and tongues

00:21:03.940 might fall off.

00:21:05.500 That would suck.

00:21:06.560 I really don't want

00:21:07.460 my lips and tongue

00:21:08.180 to fall off.

00:21:09.920 But I believe adults

00:21:11.760 have the ability

00:21:12.800 to make choices

00:21:13.820 and bear the consequences

00:21:15.480 of your choices.

00:21:17.500 And the left

00:21:18.360 doesn't agree

00:21:19.460 with any of that.

00:21:20.280 They want you to be subjects 0.99

00:21:22.640 and obey their decrees.

00:21:25.660 Yes.

00:21:25.960 I mean, we can certainly

00:21:26.880 assess risk,

00:21:28.420 make prudential judgments.

00:21:29.780 We as conservatives

00:21:30.400 think that the left

00:21:31.380 seems less inclined

00:21:32.700 in that direction.

00:21:33.520 But this gets back

00:21:34.400 to that absolute power point.

00:21:36.300 Yep.

00:21:36.600 The point that we opened up

00:21:38.180 with in the Lord Acton quote,

00:21:39.660 which is,

00:21:40.560 just as a practical matter here,

00:21:43.800 we're past day 500 of this.

00:21:46.040 This should have been over by now.

00:21:47.780 We were all told

00:21:48.840 it was going to be over by now.

00:21:50.040 They've moved the goalposts

00:21:51.620 every single time

00:21:53.140 that we hit one of them.

00:21:54.460 It was slow the spread.

00:21:55.900 Then it flattened the curve.

00:21:56.920 Then it was find a cure.

00:21:58.640 Then it was,

00:21:59.400 and it just keeps moving.

00:22:01.020 So how does this end?

00:22:03.400 I mean, how do we make sure

00:22:04.940 that we don't go from

00:22:05.680 500 days to slow the spread

00:22:07.180 to 1,000 days,

00:22:08.240 that we're not here again

00:22:09.540 in another year and a half?

00:22:10.500 Look, if it's up to the Democrats,

00:22:12.740 I don't know that this ever does end

00:22:14.300 because it's an excuse for power.

00:22:16.600 It's an excuse for trillions

00:22:18.760 of dollars of new spending.

00:22:19.980 It's an excuse for trillions

00:22:21.260 of dollars of new taxes.

00:22:23.700 It's an excuse for everything

00:22:24.960 they want to do anyway.

00:22:26.340 They want power.

00:22:27.960 You know, you look at these

00:22:28.860 Democratic politicians,

00:22:30.200 for example,

00:22:30.800 who shut down churches,

00:22:31.900 who declared it was illegal

00:22:33.060 to go to church

00:22:33.800 during the pandemic.

00:22:35.020 They are just statists

00:22:38.800 and authoritarians.

00:22:39.960 They don't like people

00:22:40.980 who go to church.

00:22:41.700 They were quite happy

00:22:42.680 to strip your religious liberty.

00:22:45.660 And by the way,

00:22:47.480 anyone with a triple-digit IQ

00:22:51.860 or even a double-digit IQ

00:22:53.520 could see the rank hypocrisy

00:22:58.800 that you would have the media,

00:23:01.420 you'd have Democratic politicians,

00:23:02.740 you would have these

00:23:03.920 self-declared scientific experts

00:23:06.740 who would opine

00:23:08.620 that thousands of people

00:23:10.860 crammed into the public streets

00:23:12.700 protesting Black Lives Matter,

00:23:15.300 zero risk of COVID transmission.

00:23:17.280 That, there's no chance of it.

00:23:19.700 But if you go to church

00:23:20.800 and sing hallelujah,

00:23:22.380 everyone's going to die.

00:23:23.760 And look, that was on its face absurd.

00:23:26.320 Everyone knew this is crap.

00:23:28.700 You have a political preference

00:23:30.240 and you're claiming

00:23:31.880 that the virus and the infection

00:23:33.460 just happens to perfectly match

00:23:35.080 your political preference.

00:23:37.220 Let me make a couple of other points.

00:23:39.200 Many people,

00:23:40.080 certainly the CDC,

00:23:42.020 certainly Democrats,

00:23:43.180 certainly the press,

00:23:43.980 but a lot of people,

00:23:45.160 a lot of Republicans too,

00:23:46.680 rightly say we should be encouraging

00:23:48.400 people to get vaccinated.

00:23:49.500 I agree with that.

00:23:50.200 I'm encouraging people

00:23:51.240 to get vaccinated.

00:23:54.220 Ironically enough,

00:23:54.940 what the CDC did this week

00:23:56.520 may be the single biggest

00:23:59.420 disincentive to get vaccinated

00:24:01.020 we have seen

00:24:01.880 since the vaccine was introduced.

00:24:03.420 So when the CDC initially issued

00:24:05.980 its common sense ruling

00:24:07.100 that once you're vaccinated

00:24:08.120 and it's effective,

00:24:08.800 you can take your mask off,

00:24:09.740 that was a really good incentive

00:24:12.800 to get vaccinated.

00:24:14.900 It encouraged people

00:24:16.160 to get vaccinated

00:24:16.940 because they wanted the freedoms.

00:24:17.980 And by the way,

00:24:19.020 this is not hypothetical

00:24:20.540 in my family.

00:24:21.520 So Heidi and I

00:24:22.880 were both eager

00:24:23.780 to get the vaccine.

00:24:24.800 My mom got it.

00:24:25.480 Her parents got it.

00:24:26.160 But my dad

00:24:26.940 didn't want to get the vaccine.

00:24:29.100 I mean, you know my father.

00:24:30.380 He's 82 years old.

00:24:33.120 He's a pastor.

00:24:33.860 He is stubborn

00:24:35.240 as all get out.

00:24:36.960 And I spent probably a month

00:24:38.580 arguing with my dad

00:24:39.800 about getting the vaccine.

00:24:40.900 He's like,

00:24:41.140 I don't trust it.

00:24:41.900 It was developed too quickly.

00:24:43.220 There might be side effects.

00:24:44.660 And you know what?

00:24:45.420 There may be risk.

00:24:46.440 It was developed very quickly.

00:24:47.980 And often with medical innovation,

00:24:50.200 you don't anticipate

00:24:51.260 all of the effects of it.

00:24:53.200 And I went round and round

00:24:54.160 with my dad.

00:24:54.760 I really wanted him to get it.

00:24:56.360 And it probably took me

00:24:57.440 about a month.

00:24:58.000 And eventually he agreed

00:24:59.540 to get it.

00:25:01.140 And what was really

00:25:02.120 compelling for him,

00:25:03.140 so he's a pastor.

00:25:04.160 He had been holed up at home

00:25:06.420 for a lot of this pandemic.

00:25:07.800 It was really hard on him

00:25:08.660 to be alone.

00:25:10.120 And I said, listen,

00:25:11.060 you want to get out.

00:25:11.900 You want to be preaching again.

00:25:13.100 You want to be in crowds.

00:25:14.160 You want to be talking to people.

00:25:15.960 And at 82,

00:25:16.940 you want to do so safely

00:25:18.120 where, you know,

00:25:19.020 we've seen with this virus

00:25:20.580 that for people

00:25:21.340 who are your age,

00:25:23.320 the risks are pretty significant.

00:25:25.680 And I actually take you

00:25:27.140 inside an argument

00:25:27.800 with my dad.

00:25:29.440 He said, well,

00:25:30.080 I don't trust the vaccine.

00:25:31.660 It might be bad.

00:25:32.840 And I said, well, look,

00:25:34.160 here's the vaccine

00:25:34.860 everyone in Congress is taking.

00:25:36.040 Why don't you take that vaccine?

00:25:37.040 He's like, no, no, no, no.

00:25:37.740 I don't trust Pelosi

00:25:39.400 and Schumer.

00:25:40.580 I said, look,

00:25:40.940 I don't trust Pelosi

00:25:41.580 and Schumer either.

00:25:42.320 But do you think

00:25:43.600 they're like trying

00:25:44.560 to poison themselves?

00:25:45.500 Like it is what they're taking.

00:25:49.520 He finally did it,

00:25:51.100 but it was his choice.

00:25:52.300 No one had to make him.

00:25:54.000 He finally did it

00:25:54.900 because he wanted

00:25:55.300 to get out again.

00:25:56.000 And now my dad

00:25:56.720 is back preaching

00:25:57.480 in churches.

00:25:58.020 He's back giving speeches.

00:25:59.760 He's traveling.

00:26:00.620 He's very happy

00:26:01.500 because getting the vaccine

00:26:03.500 gave him freedom

00:26:04.320 that he cared about.

00:26:05.760 When the CDC

00:26:06.700 gave that guidance,

00:26:08.180 you get the vaccine,

00:26:09.400 no mask.

00:26:10.020 It incentivized people.

00:26:11.560 Hey, I want,

00:26:12.260 I want that freedom.

00:26:13.780 What the CDC did

00:26:14.660 this weekend

00:26:15.380 is implicitly said

00:26:17.840 vaccines don't work.

00:26:19.340 Said even if you get

00:26:20.080 the vaccine,

00:26:20.700 doesn't matter.

00:26:21.480 Do everything.

00:26:22.420 Have all of your liberties

00:26:23.580 curtailed just like you did

00:26:25.500 before you got the vaccine.

00:26:28.220 That's terrible.

00:26:29.220 It's stupid.

00:26:30.180 And by the way,

00:26:31.060 they relied on no science

00:26:33.440 or no data to base it.

00:26:34.640 What they said,

00:26:35.220 it was really quite ironic.

00:26:36.560 They said,

00:26:36.840 well,

00:26:37.100 we have scientific studies

00:26:38.820 that back this up.

00:26:40.040 We're just not going to tell you

00:26:41.240 what they are.

00:26:41.960 We have data,

00:26:42.740 but it's double super secret

00:26:44.880 and no one actually

00:26:45.640 gets to see the data.

00:26:46.660 But trust us

00:26:47.720 because we've shown

00:26:49.240 we're such a political,

00:26:50.840 credible scientist

00:26:51.680 that we just say

00:26:52.680 whatever is politically convenient

00:26:54.580 and then change it tomorrow.

00:26:56.880 And it's,

00:26:58.020 listen,

00:26:58.300 here's what I think,

00:26:59.020 Michael.

00:27:00.240 I think we should have

00:27:01.420 no government mandates

00:27:02.780 on COVID,

00:27:04.880 period.

00:27:05.840 That means no vaccine mandates.

00:27:07.920 That means no mask mandates.

00:27:09.920 That means no vaccine passports.

00:27:11.600 That means no shutdowns.

00:27:13.520 That means schools being open.

00:27:16.160 What does the left think?

00:27:17.800 What do the Democrats think?

00:27:18.820 They want to see

00:27:19.380 all those things mandated.

00:27:20.640 And what people,

00:27:21.540 I think,

00:27:21.680 are most concerned about

00:27:22.840 is they're going to drive us

00:27:24.280 off the cliff again

00:27:25.180 of shutdowns

00:27:25.980 and shutting schools.

00:27:27.020 And that did

00:27:27.820 massive damage.

00:27:30.580 I think it is now

00:27:31.620 abundantly clear

00:27:32.640 that the politicians

00:27:33.520 who ordered shutdowns

00:27:35.520 committed a catastrophic mistake,

00:27:38.600 a mistake that I hope

00:27:39.960 people study for decades

00:27:41.520 never to make again

00:27:43.960 because they destroyed lives,

00:27:45.520 they destroyed businesses,

00:27:46.460 they hurt children profoundly.

00:27:49.320 And the problem is

00:27:50.360 Joe Biden and the Democrats

00:27:51.340 are eager to do it again.

00:27:52.360 I mean,

00:27:52.960 just even the economic effects

00:27:55.000 were so catastrophic,

00:27:56.920 which does bring to another

00:27:58.440 issue here,

00:28:00.000 which is

00:28:00.420 while Nancy Pelosi

00:28:02.500 is busy throwing staffers

00:28:04.160 into jail,

00:28:04.940 the other topic

00:28:06.100 that the legislators

00:28:07.360 are taking up on Capitol Hill

00:28:08.800 is this infrastructure bill

00:28:11.000 that, you know,

00:28:12.000 it's not quite as sexy

00:28:13.740 as the coronavirus lockdowns

00:28:16.340 and the mandates

00:28:16.920 and it's not pulling

00:28:18.120 at people's interest

00:28:19.120 quite as much.

00:28:20.240 But this is a major

00:28:22.140 piece of legislation.

00:28:23.240 Yep.

00:28:23.680 And it's very unclear,

00:28:24.860 at least from my read

00:28:25.720 on the reporting,

00:28:26.460 how this is being built

00:28:28.120 and where it's going to go.

00:28:28.900 So this gets complicated,

00:28:31.840 but let me let me try

00:28:32.940 to explain some

00:28:34.100 of what's going on.

00:28:35.600 So Joe Biden

00:28:36.840 and Pelosi and Schumer

00:28:37.880 want to spend

00:28:39.520 a crap ton of money.

00:28:41.760 That, by the way,

00:28:42.460 is a technical term.

00:28:44.540 They're looking to spend

00:28:45.720 somewhere six,

00:28:46.620 seven trillion dollars,

00:28:48.240 which even in federal

00:28:49.100 government terms

00:28:49.840 is is a staggering,

00:28:52.180 terrifying sum.

00:28:54.560 They've already spent

00:28:55.540 one point nine trillion

00:28:56.600 in their first bill

00:28:57.460 that they called

00:28:58.080 the COVID relief bill,

00:28:59.280 of which you'll recall

00:29:00.640 only nine percent of that

00:29:01.860 was health care spending

00:29:02.680 on COVID.

00:29:04.100 And that was a long

00:29:05.440 left wing special interest

00:29:06.640 spending list.

00:29:08.700 So the next bill

00:29:10.020 they're trying to take up

00:29:11.600 is what they call

00:29:12.440 an infrastructure bill.

00:29:14.260 And the Democrats

00:29:15.340 have proposed

00:29:16.000 three and a half trillion dollars.

00:29:18.420 Now, the COVID relief bill,

00:29:20.940 only nine percent of it

00:29:21.820 was health care spending

00:29:22.540 on COVID.

00:29:23.120 They decided, OK,

00:29:24.000 that was too much.

00:29:24.900 So their three point five

00:29:28.200 trillion dollar

00:29:28.900 infrastructure bill,

00:29:30.100 only five percent of it

00:29:31.580 is roads and bridges.

00:29:34.040 Like the reason

00:29:35.500 they call it infrastructure

00:29:36.320 is because infrastructure

00:29:36.960 is popular.

00:29:37.620 People like roads and bridges.

00:29:38.960 People think we ought

00:29:39.780 to spend some money

00:29:40.500 to have highways

00:29:41.320 that don't have potholes

00:29:42.620 in them that have bridges

00:29:43.640 that don't fall down.

00:29:44.800 We ought to have

00:29:45.680 airports that work.

00:29:46.840 We ought to have ports 0.65

00:29:47.600 that we can have commerce.

00:29:48.840 So infrastructure spending

00:29:50.720 is popular.

00:29:51.340 It's popular with Democrats,

00:29:52.360 popular with Republicans.

00:29:53.160 But what you're saying

00:29:54.440 is the infrastructure bill

00:29:55.640 is not an infrastructure bill.

00:29:57.840 Correct.

00:29:58.480 It is purely a label

00:30:00.180 because it pulls well.

00:30:02.260 And it's a whole series

00:30:03.900 of things of child care subsidies,

00:30:06.720 of senior care subsidies,

00:30:09.080 of expanding Medicaid.

00:30:11.160 Now, listen,

00:30:11.920 expanding Medicaid,

00:30:13.100 you might think

00:30:13.980 that's a good policy.

00:30:15.100 We can debate about

00:30:15.860 whether that's a good policy

00:30:16.920 or not.

00:30:17.740 But the one thing

00:30:18.740 you ought to agree,

00:30:19.360 it ain't infrastructure.

00:30:20.920 Like it's not

00:30:21.520 a friggin road.

00:30:22.240 Well, but Senator,

00:30:22.920 this brings up

00:30:24.960 what one of the

00:30:26.560 most prominent

00:30:27.180 talking points right now

00:30:28.180 among the Democratic Party,

00:30:29.280 which is that

00:30:30.080 everything is infrastructure.

00:30:31.500 And they've actually said this.

00:30:32.720 I don't think

00:30:33.100 I'm misrepresenting them.

00:30:33.920 They'll say

00:30:34.160 health care is infrastructure.

00:30:36.580 You know,

00:30:36.880 weightlifting is infrastructure.

00:30:38.660 That might be

00:30:39.220 a little hyperbolic.

00:30:39.940 But they said

00:30:40.360 basically anything

00:30:41.360 that they want,

00:30:42.420 they now reclassify

00:30:43.580 as infrastructure.

00:30:44.680 Because infrastructure

00:30:46.120 polls well

00:30:46.840 and they know

00:30:47.380 the media

00:30:47.880 will not drill

00:30:48.660 into anything they say

00:30:49.760 and will just repeat

00:30:50.540 their talking points.

00:30:52.140 And so the media

00:30:52.940 are their propagandists.

00:30:54.960 So they're,

00:30:55.880 and by the way,

00:30:56.400 this $3.5 trillion

00:30:57.520 infrastructure bill

00:30:58.680 is paid for

00:31:00.900 by trillions

00:31:01.540 in new taxes.

00:31:02.420 They want to have

00:31:03.000 massive new taxes.

00:31:05.020 So it's a terrible bill.

00:31:07.400 If and when

00:31:08.300 it's taken up

00:31:08.940 and voted on,

00:31:09.700 it'll get zero

00:31:10.400 Republican votes.

00:31:11.260 No Republicans,

00:31:12.040 even the squishiest

00:31:13.300 Republican

00:31:13.680 is not going to vote

00:31:14.520 for trillions

00:31:15.320 in new taxes

00:31:16.060 and just out-of-control

00:31:17.140 spending.

00:31:17.880 So what did we do

00:31:18.980 this week?

00:31:19.520 Well, unfortunately,

00:31:21.020 there was a group

00:31:22.000 of 10 or 12 Republicans

00:31:24.300 who really,

00:31:26.700 really,

00:31:27.180 really want to cut a deal,

00:31:28.720 like desperately

00:31:29.520 want to cut a deal.

00:31:30.840 And so they've been

00:31:31.620 negotiating with Democrats

00:31:33.400 what they're calling

00:31:34.620 the bipartisan

00:31:35.560 infrastructure bill.

00:31:37.280 And listen,

00:31:38.020 on the face of it,

00:31:38.940 the bill that they're

00:31:39.740 negotiating,

00:31:40.500 it's not a terrible bill

00:31:41.860 on the face of it.

00:31:42.980 It's about $1.2 trillion.

00:31:44.720 So it's a lot of money.

00:31:46.660 But it is directed,

00:31:48.260 much of it is directed

00:31:49.700 at real infrastructure.

00:31:51.300 Much of it is directed

00:31:52.260 at things like roads

00:31:53.340 and bridges

00:31:53.880 and airports and ports.

00:31:56.040 Not all of it.

00:31:56.680 There's some garbage in it.

00:31:57.820 But it is,

00:31:58.680 there's a much higher

00:31:59.620 percentage of the bill

00:32:00.640 that is actually

00:32:02.300 infrastructure.

00:32:04.100 And it doesn't have

00:32:05.420 the massive tax increases

00:32:06.920 that the Democrat

00:32:07.640 proposal did.

00:32:09.160 And so these Republicans,

00:32:10.360 they met on and on

00:32:11.860 and on and on

00:32:12.540 and were dancing

00:32:13.480 the hokey pokey

00:32:14.080 with the Democrats.

00:32:15.580 And we've spent

00:32:16.980 the last several weeks,

00:32:19.540 if not the last month,

00:32:20.920 in our Republican lunches

00:32:22.600 with these self-declared

00:32:24.820 bipartisan negotiators

00:32:26.220 reporting to us

00:32:27.160 on a regular basis

00:32:28.600 about what's happening.

00:32:30.280 Now, my view on it is

00:32:32.320 if they could actually

00:32:34.000 negotiate a bipartisan deal,

00:32:36.320 which was let's do

00:32:38.180 the $1.2 trillion

00:32:40.580 bipartisan deal

00:32:43.480 instead of the $3.5 trillion

00:32:45.580 monstrosity,

00:32:47.300 that might be a good deal.

00:32:49.300 Like if they did the one

00:32:50.560 instead of the other,

00:32:52.160 I think it would get

00:32:53.320 a lot of Republicans.

00:32:54.160 I might even support it.

00:32:55.280 We actually haven't seen

00:32:56.200 the details of the

00:32:57.240 so-called bipartisan bill,

00:32:58.860 so I would want to actually

00:32:59.680 see the details

00:33:00.400 before I decided

00:33:01.860 if I would support it.

00:33:02.800 But if it were

00:33:03.440 that instead of

00:33:06.260 the other one,

00:33:07.220 that could make some sense.

00:33:10.320 What are the Democrats doing?

00:33:11.660 They're saying,

00:33:12.200 hey, let's pass

00:33:12.820 this $1.2 trillion

00:33:13.840 and then we're going

00:33:15.480 to do the $3.5 trillion

00:33:16.720 on top of it.

00:33:17.680 So it's $4.7 trillion

00:33:19.520 minimum

00:33:20.140 and we're just going

00:33:22.140 to do

00:33:22.960 everything we want,

00:33:25.080 massively blow out

00:33:26.400 the budget,

00:33:27.080 massively increase taxes

00:33:28.520 and we'll get

00:33:30.460 a whole bunch

00:33:30.940 of Republicans

00:33:31.480 to get their fingerprints

00:33:32.420 on at least part of this

00:33:34.240 so Joe Biden

00:33:35.520 can go around the country

00:33:36.540 and say,

00:33:36.900 hey, look,

00:33:37.340 this was bipartisan.

00:33:38.400 These Republicans

00:33:38.980 are part of it

00:33:39.480 and by the way,

00:33:41.280 among other things,

00:33:42.240 we're seeing inflation

00:33:43.340 going up

00:33:44.120 in a very troubling way.

00:33:46.540 We're seeing the price

00:33:47.180 of gas going up.

00:33:48.240 We're seeing the price

00:33:49.120 of food going up.

00:33:50.200 We're seeing the price

00:33:50.820 of lumber going up a lot.

00:33:52.340 We're seeing the price

00:33:53.220 of homes going up a lot

00:33:54.660 and that inflation 0.75

00:33:56.180 is being fueled

00:33:56.920 in very significant part

00:33:58.120 by this massive spending

00:33:59.820 and debt spree

00:34:00.680 that the Democrats

00:34:02.280 are doing.

00:34:02.920 Right now,

00:34:03.400 it's 100% the Democrats.

00:34:04.660 It's all Biden

00:34:05.800 and Schumer

00:34:06.240 and Pelosi.

00:34:06.800 They've done 100% of it.

00:34:08.000 Not a single Republican

00:34:08.800 supported it.

00:34:10.400 With this bipartisan bill,

00:34:13.160 suddenly Republicans

00:34:14.700 have their fingerprints

00:34:15.540 on this inflation bomb

00:34:17.320 that is exploding.

00:34:19.420 And so I got to tell you,

00:34:20.220 Michael,

00:34:20.440 at our lunches,

00:34:21.280 we have had,

00:34:23.880 you know,

00:34:25.220 the term of art

00:34:26.000 in Washington

00:34:26.620 is candid discussions.

00:34:29.260 The sort of

00:34:30.380 less BS way

00:34:32.220 of putting it

00:34:32.940 is we've been yelling

00:34:33.600 at each other.

00:34:34.940 And there have been

00:34:35.800 Republican senators

00:34:36.780 yelling at these

00:34:38.040 bipartisan negotiators.

00:34:40.840 Why are you giving

00:34:41.660 the Democrats

00:34:42.300 everything they want?

00:34:44.060 Like, what do we get

00:34:45.460 in this deal

00:34:46.200 if you sign on

00:34:48.320 to part of their package

00:34:49.300 and they get

00:34:49.780 every other terrible

00:34:50.720 part of the package

00:34:51.520 and tax increases

00:34:52.480 and trillions in debt?

00:34:53.860 Like, what are we

00:34:54.860 getting out of this?

00:34:56.460 Unfortunately,

00:34:57.400 we have

00:34:58.140 anywhere from

00:34:59.540 a third

00:35:00.320 or more

00:35:02.240 of the Republican conference

00:35:03.400 that's so eager

00:35:04.260 to cut a deal

00:35:05.100 that they're willing

00:35:06.480 to embrace

00:35:07.340 at least part

00:35:08.680 of the Democrat

00:35:09.180 spending agenda.

00:35:09.960 I think that's

00:35:10.780 really unfortunate

00:35:11.760 and a bad mistake.

00:35:13.680 Well, I think

00:35:14.040 this is a very

00:35:15.120 important tie-in

00:35:16.020 that has not

00:35:16.820 really been publicized,

00:35:17.980 I think,

00:35:18.560 which is,

00:35:19.400 yes,

00:35:20.040 Democrats are going

00:35:21.000 to spend a ton of money.

00:35:22.180 Yes, Republicans

00:35:22.840 don't have very much

00:35:23.720 power right now.

00:35:24.780 Yes, some moderate

00:35:26.260 to liberal Republicans

00:35:27.240 are going to want

00:35:28.220 to cut a deal

00:35:28.760 on anything.

00:35:30.060 But it's not just

00:35:31.000 pie in the sky.

00:35:31.780 This is not just,

00:35:32.800 oh, well,

00:35:33.000 we're spending money,

00:35:33.840 but so what?

00:35:34.760 The debt's a little

00:35:35.220 higher now.

00:35:36.480 This is directly

00:35:37.660 tied to inflation,

00:35:39.060 which is a major threat.

00:35:40.860 It's not just a threat.

00:35:41.520 It's actually happening

00:35:42.220 right now.

00:35:42.780 And it is affecting

00:35:43.620 people's bottom lines

00:35:44.740 on gas,

00:35:45.560 on food,

00:35:46.180 and it's about to affect

00:35:47.140 us on a lot of

00:35:47.620 other things, too.

00:35:48.620 That's right.

00:35:49.260 And inflation

00:35:50.160 is a

00:35:51.860 automatic tax

00:35:54.160 that hurts.

00:35:55.440 It hurts working families.

00:35:57.640 It hurts seniors,

00:35:58.900 you know,

00:35:59.160 seniors who have saved

00:36:00.360 their whole lives

00:36:01.000 for retirement,

00:36:02.100 but maybe on a fixed

00:36:03.080 income.

00:36:03.660 And when inflation

00:36:04.440 kicks in and prices

00:36:05.560 go up,

00:36:06.760 it really hurts

00:36:08.460 low-income

00:36:10.220 and moderate-income

00:36:11.220 people and seniors

00:36:12.520 on fixed incomes.

00:36:13.880 And look,

00:36:14.400 this is where,

00:36:15.060 Michael,

00:36:15.400 you're in my

00:36:15.880 age differential

00:36:17.900 kicks in a little bit.

00:36:19.940 You don't remember

00:36:21.060 Jimmy Carter.

00:36:22.340 I do.

00:36:24.220 So I was born

00:36:25.120 in 1970.

00:36:26.380 My first political

00:36:27.380 memory

00:36:27.820 was the election

00:36:29.600 in 1976.

00:36:32.120 And in particular,

00:36:33.560 it was the fight

00:36:34.600 that my parents had

00:36:35.600 because my mother

00:36:37.520 voted for Jimmy Carter.

00:36:39.280 No,

00:36:39.840 you're,

00:36:40.200 oh my gosh,

00:36:41.160 I would never have guessed.

00:36:42.420 Well,

00:36:42.800 she just thought

00:36:43.740 Ford was an idiot.

00:36:44.840 She's like,

00:36:45.360 the guy is a bumbling 0.99

00:36:46.240 moron,

00:36:46.840 I don't like him,

00:36:47.800 and Jimmy Carter

00:36:48.380 seems like such a nice guy.

00:36:50.260 And my dad,

00:36:51.540 my dad at the time

00:36:52.500 wasn't a U.S. citizen.

00:36:53.520 He was a Canadian citizen

00:36:54.280 at the time.

00:36:54.820 And so he didn't

00:36:56.680 have a vote.

00:36:57.820 And so my father

00:36:59.160 viewed my mom's vote

00:37:00.560 as like the family vote.

00:37:02.080 And I remember

00:37:03.200 my dad just apoplectic.

00:37:05.720 How could you vote

00:37:06.800 for Jimmy Carter?

00:37:08.100 And when I tell this story

00:37:09.400 now,

00:37:09.660 my mom gets upset.

00:37:10.660 She's like,

00:37:10.940 I'm sorry,

00:37:11.560 I was wrong.

00:37:12.420 Like,

00:37:12.620 like she is not

00:37:14.000 a Jimmy Carter fan.

00:37:14.980 But look,

00:37:17.100 with Jimmy Carter,

00:37:18.440 we saw

00:37:20.240 the same

00:37:22.980 failed policies

00:37:25.160 we're seeing right now.

00:37:26.380 And we saw something

00:37:27.060 called stagflation.

00:37:28.220 What is stagflation?

00:37:29.860 Stagflation is when

00:37:30.720 the economy is stagnant,

00:37:32.220 so there's not growth.

00:37:33.880 Plus,

00:37:34.440 you have super high inflation.

00:37:36.480 And it's a vicious,

00:37:37.900 like it was ugly

00:37:39.320 under Jimmy Carter.

00:37:40.660 And inflation

00:37:41.540 got so high,

00:37:43.280 I mean,

00:37:43.600 you were seeing

00:37:44.560 home mortgages

00:37:45.580 that were going up

00:37:46.680 14,

00:37:47.300 15,

00:37:47.840 16,

00:37:48.500 17,

00:37:49.000 18,

00:37:49.640 19%

00:37:50.780 on home mortgages.

00:37:52.760 You know,

00:37:52.940 we just refinanced

00:37:54.120 our home mortgage.

00:37:54.820 I think we pay

00:37:55.320 2.65%.

00:37:57.540 People have gotten

00:37:58.660 used to

00:38:00.200 insanely low

00:38:02.040 interest rates.

00:38:03.700 Imagine your home mortgage

00:38:05.160 at,

00:38:05.760 let's not even say

00:38:06.520 18,

00:38:06.880 19%.

00:38:07.440 Imagine your home mortgage

00:38:08.440 at 10%.

00:38:09.460 You know what it means?

00:38:12.000 It means you can buy

00:38:13.380 basically

00:38:14.080 a third as big

00:38:15.800 a house

00:38:16.140 as you can

00:38:16.600 right now.

00:38:17.040 It triples

00:38:17.540 the cost

00:38:18.060 of your mortgage

00:38:18.640 just going

00:38:19.360 from 3%

00:38:20.040 to 10%.

00:38:20.780 That is a

00:38:22.200 massive cost

00:38:23.680 and for seniors

00:38:25.240 it destroys

00:38:25.960 their savings.

00:38:27.140 I think

00:38:27.600 Biden and Schumer

00:38:28.820 and Pelosi,

00:38:29.580 they're repeating

00:38:30.260 those same mistakes

00:38:31.240 and it's really

00:38:31.800 hard to get out of

00:38:32.560 when you've got

00:38:33.080 inflation roaring.

00:38:34.660 And by the way,

00:38:35.200 one of the big problems

00:38:35.980 with inflation also,

00:38:37.520 a huge part

00:38:38.720 of our federal budget

00:38:39.540 is interest

00:38:40.020 on the debt.

00:38:40.540 Now we are living

00:38:42.340 in sort of

00:38:42.940 the magical time

00:38:44.000 the land

00:38:44.940 that time forgot

00:38:45.660 because interest

00:38:46.440 is so low

00:38:47.320 that the cost

00:38:48.580 of interest

00:38:49.020 on the debt

00:38:49.540 it is still

00:38:50.280 massive

00:38:50.860 in the hundreds

00:38:52.120 of billions

00:38:52.680 of dollars

00:38:53.300 but if interest

00:38:54.700 rates go up

00:38:55.320 a lot,

00:38:56.580 interest on the debt

00:38:57.360 will become

00:38:57.800 the single biggest

00:38:58.460 element on the

00:38:59.060 federal budget.

00:38:59.700 And so it becomes

00:39:00.600 this

00:39:01.240 spiral

00:39:04.220 where it keeps

00:39:04.880 getting worse

00:39:05.600 and worse

00:39:06.140 and worse

00:39:06.820 and I think

00:39:08.360 it's crazy

00:39:08.920 that Republicans

00:39:09.620 are complicit

00:39:10.320 in any way

00:39:11.380 and that's

00:39:12.220 certainly what

00:39:12.660 I'm arguing

00:39:13.160 to my colleagues

00:39:13.900 and most

00:39:15.780 of my colleagues

00:39:16.460 agree

00:39:16.840 but a significant

00:39:18.160 chunk of them

00:39:18.700 do not.

00:39:19.520 Well this is

00:39:20.180 an important point

00:39:21.200 because even

00:39:21.960 forgetting the

00:39:22.680 merits of the bill

00:39:23.740 or the infrastructure

00:39:24.360 spending or what

00:39:25.500 have you,

00:39:26.160 just the political

00:39:26.860 ramifications here

00:39:27.900 it seems that

00:39:28.420 a number of

00:39:29.460 centrist Republicans

00:39:30.540 think that they're

00:39:31.520 going to get

00:39:31.820 political pats

00:39:32.520 on the back

00:39:33.120 for looking

00:39:33.680 as though they're

00:39:34.580 compromising

00:39:35.700 and conciliatory

00:39:37.040 but this could

00:39:38.520 be a huge

00:39:39.980 liability

00:39:40.560 forget that it's

00:39:41.260 a bad idea

00:39:41.800 in the first place

00:39:42.380 this could be

00:39:42.960 a huge

00:39:43.560 huge political

00:39:44.640 liability

00:39:45.100 before we go

00:39:45.800 Senator

00:39:46.060 I do have to

00:39:46.860 get to the

00:39:47.560 mailbag

00:39:47.980 there are some

00:39:49.160 great mailbag

00:39:49.800 questions here

00:39:50.200 first one is

00:39:50.800 very simple

00:39:51.360 from Michael

00:39:52.100 not me

00:39:52.680 do you intend

00:39:53.740 to wear a mask

00:39:54.420 in the Capitol?

00:39:56.080 Hell no.

00:39:58.500 I had a feeling

00:39:59.480 I knew the answer

00:40:00.200 to that question

00:40:00.700 simple question

00:40:01.680 simple answer

00:40:02.440 and absolutely

00:40:03.240 a correct one

00:40:04.460 Matthew asks

00:40:06.020 a tougher

00:40:06.640 question

00:40:06.980 but it does

00:40:07.620 get to

00:40:08.120 what we're

00:40:08.580 talking about

00:40:09.140 and by the way

00:40:10.060 let me throw

00:40:10.440 a caveat

00:40:10.840 on that

00:40:11.360 so I do

00:40:13.060 still wear

00:40:13.640 masks on

00:40:14.280 airplanes

00:40:14.720 because they

00:40:16.660 make you

00:40:17.040 they'll throw

00:40:17.420 you off

00:40:17.680 the plane

00:40:18.020 if you

00:40:18.300 don't

00:40:18.620 and I

00:40:19.500 filed

00:40:20.520 legislation

00:40:21.260 to end

00:40:21.840 that stupid

00:40:22.420 policy

00:40:22.880 it makes

00:40:23.600 no sense

00:40:24.060 to require

00:40:24.480 masks

00:40:24.840 on airplanes

00:40:25.380 and it

00:40:26.560 is

00:40:26.840 it is

00:40:28.100 the Biden

00:40:28.580 administration

00:40:29.100 being unreasonable

00:40:30.260 that is

00:40:30.680 putting that

00:40:31.140 requirement

00:40:31.620 in

00:40:32.100 and by the way

00:40:33.520 all right

00:40:34.000 so just a couple

00:40:34.720 of weeks ago

00:40:35.200 in the Commerce

00:40:35.680 Committee

00:40:36.000 we had

00:40:37.960 a vote

00:40:38.780 on an amendment

00:40:39.940 to end

00:40:40.640 the requirement

00:40:41.380 that you wear

00:40:41.820 masks on

00:40:42.480 airplanes

00:40:43.000 and there was

00:40:44.120 an argument

00:40:44.440 back and forth

00:40:45.100 between Republicans

00:40:45.740 and Democrats

00:40:46.280 and every Democrat

00:40:47.580 on the Commerce

00:40:48.120 Committee

00:40:48.360 voted no

00:40:48.900 now at the time

00:40:50.740 one of those

00:40:51.280 Democrats

00:40:51.760 Brian Schatz

00:40:52.500 who's a Democrat

00:40:53.140 from Hawaii

00:40:54.500 he's a nice guy

00:40:55.320 he and I get

00:40:55.760 along well

00:40:56.280 we played hoops

00:40:57.800 together

00:40:58.180 I mean

00:40:58.520 he's a nice

00:40:59.560 enough fellow

00:41:00.020 he said

00:41:02.840 at the hearing

00:41:03.420 he said

00:41:03.800 you know

00:41:04.120 if it didn't

00:41:04.880 mandate

00:41:05.620 that they

00:41:06.100 change the

00:41:06.640 policy

00:41:07.180 but if the

00:41:08.800 bill was

00:41:09.500 simply a

00:41:10.260 sense of

00:41:10.980 the Senate

00:41:11.420 that

00:41:13.240 the FAA

00:41:14.540 should change

00:41:15.200 the policy

00:41:15.780 and not

00:41:16.160 require masks

00:41:16.780 on airplanes

00:41:17.340 he said

00:41:17.760 then I would

00:41:18.600 support it

00:41:19.160 and I stopped

00:41:19.720 and said

00:41:19.920 okay

00:41:20.160 if we did

00:41:21.180 a sense

00:41:21.560 of the Senate

00:41:22.020 it has less

00:41:22.560 teeth

00:41:22.840 but you'd

00:41:23.300 support

00:41:23.580 I'd be like

00:41:23.840 look

00:41:23.980 if we can

00:41:24.280 actually get

00:41:24.640 this done

00:41:25.220 and get rid

00:41:25.940 of the

00:41:26.120 ridiculous mask

00:41:26.820 requirement

00:41:27.220 on planes

00:41:27.640 that'd be

00:41:27.900 a good

00:41:28.120 thing

00:41:28.460 he said

00:41:30.160 yes

00:41:30.740 and unfortunately

00:41:31.900 so it was

00:41:32.600 Rick Scott's

00:41:33.340 amendment

00:41:33.680 and I asked

00:41:35.040 Rick at the

00:41:35.560 hearing

00:41:35.900 I said

00:41:36.260 would you

00:41:36.620 be willing

00:41:36.940 to change

00:41:37.420 your amendment

00:41:37.880 to do

00:41:38.320 what Schatz

00:41:38.820 wants to do

00:41:39.400 because that

00:41:40.060 would get

00:41:40.360 Democrats

00:41:40.860 and it

00:41:41.140 would pass

00:41:41.700 Rick said

00:41:42.800 no

00:41:42.980 he didn't

00:41:43.260 want to

00:41:43.520 do that

00:41:43.740 he wanted

00:41:44.060 to vote

00:41:44.420 on the

00:41:44.660 one with

00:41:45.020 full force

00:41:46.000 I said

00:41:46.840 okay

00:41:47.100 so we

00:41:47.420 voted

00:41:47.620 on it

00:41:47.920 and it

00:41:48.120 failed

00:41:48.420 afterwards

00:41:50.060 Schatz

00:41:50.580 approached

00:41:51.020 me

00:41:51.220 and said

00:41:51.480 hey

00:41:51.640 let's

00:41:52.000 do a

00:41:52.360 bill

00:41:52.640 that is

00:41:53.640 the

00:41:53.820 sense

00:41:54.060 of the

00:41:54.320 Senate

00:41:54.560 that

00:41:55.880 that we

00:41:57.320 should end

00:41:57.840 masks

00:41:58.320 on

00:41:58.640 airplanes

00:41:59.480 I said

00:41:59.840 great

00:42:00.100 so I said

00:42:00.580 I'll have

00:42:00.860 my staff

00:42:01.260 drafted

00:42:01.700 we'll get

00:42:02.380 it to

00:42:02.620 you tomorrow

00:42:03.080 let's do

00:42:03.700 it

00:42:03.820 this could

00:42:04.140 be a big

00:42:04.600 deal

00:42:04.860 you and

00:42:05.180 me

00:42:05.300 together

00:42:05.780 bipartisan

00:42:07.100 let's end

00:42:08.420 this ridiculous

00:42:08.980 requirement

00:42:09.420 and by the

00:42:09.800 way the

00:42:10.100 poor guy

00:42:10.600 had just

00:42:11.360 gotten off

00:42:11.840 an airplane

00:42:12.220 from Hawaii

00:42:13.020 which he

00:42:13.820 would fly

00:42:14.240 every week

00:42:14.800 and that's

00:42:15.240 a long

00:42:15.680 way to

00:42:16.140 fly

00:42:16.480 with a

00:42:16.820 mask

00:42:17.100 when you've

00:42:17.380 already

00:42:17.520 been

00:42:17.640 vaccinated

00:42:18.080 so we

00:42:19.380 drafted

00:42:19.820 it

00:42:20.020 I showed

00:42:20.420 it to

00:42:20.740 him

00:42:20.880 long and

00:42:21.240 short

00:42:21.420 of it

00:42:21.660 is

00:42:21.940 he

00:42:23.480 declined

00:42:23.860 to sign

00:42:24.260 on

00:42:24.500 because when

00:42:25.060 he talked

00:42:25.580 to Democratic

00:42:26.480 leadership

00:42:27.020 basically

00:42:28.020 they cracked

00:42:28.740 the whip

00:42:29.280 and said

00:42:30.720 you must

00:42:31.360 obey

00:42:31.860 and we

00:42:32.680 don't want

00:42:33.100 you to

00:42:33.300 do this

00:42:33.640 so he

00:42:33.940 bailed

00:42:34.480 I filed

00:42:35.720 it anyway

00:42:36.180 but I

00:42:36.580 filed it

00:42:37.320 with just

00:42:37.940 Republicans

00:42:38.420 now by the

00:42:38.940 way I

00:42:39.280 had even

00:42:39.800 like Susan

00:42:40.480 Collins as

00:42:41.100 a co-sponsor

00:42:41.800 there are not

00:42:42.180 a lot of

00:42:42.620 things

00:42:43.040 that had

00:42:44.520 me and

00:42:45.000 Susan

00:42:45.280 Collins

00:42:45.700 together

00:42:46.120 but it

00:42:48.080 was supposed

00:42:48.480 to have

00:42:48.820 Democrats

00:42:49.320 and none

00:42:49.600 of the

00:42:49.780 Democrats

00:42:50.100 would do

00:42:50.640 it

00:42:50.840 so fast

00:42:51.520 forward

00:42:51.800 to this

00:42:52.180 week

00:42:52.500 one of

00:42:53.380 the very

00:42:53.720 first

00:42:54.080 Democrats

00:42:54.620 to be

00:42:55.260 to be

00:42:56.180 docilely

00:42:56.840 wearing

00:42:57.140 his mask

00:42:57.700 was

00:42:57.980 Brian

00:42:58.380 Schatz

00:42:58.660 and I

00:42:59.820 just

00:43:00.100 kind of

00:43:00.600 had to

00:43:01.760 laugh at

00:43:02.380 wait

00:43:02.620 two weeks

00:43:03.100 ago

00:43:03.340 you knew

00:43:03.700 this

00:43:03.900 was

00:43:04.080 ridiculous

00:43:04.560 you still

00:43:05.820 know

00:43:06.020 it's

00:43:06.220 ridiculous

00:43:06.640 but now

00:43:08.420 the Democratic

00:43:09.380 Party

00:43:09.760 is such

00:43:10.260 that you

00:43:10.780 must

00:43:11.220 obey

00:43:11.760 and so

00:43:12.240 you

00:43:12.560 uniquely

00:43:13.300 do so

00:43:13.840 you got

00:43:14.700 to get

00:43:14.900 in line

00:43:15.200 well

00:43:15.380 so

00:43:15.940 these

00:43:16.860 tactical

00:43:17.500 issues

00:43:18.140 I think

00:43:18.660 motivate

00:43:19.140 this next

00:43:19.740 question

00:43:20.260 from

00:43:20.880 Matthew

00:43:21.320 trying to

00:43:22.420 talk facts

00:43:23.080 and logic

00:43:23.520 with the

00:43:23.860 left

00:43:24.080 doesn't

00:43:24.560 seem

00:43:24.740 to be

00:43:25.000 working

00:43:25.380 and being

00:43:26.020 a jerk

00:43:26.500 doesn't

00:43:26.920 help

00:43:27.200 either

00:43:27.580 what's

00:43:28.380 another

00:43:28.660 approach

00:43:29.180 we can

00:43:29.600 use

00:43:29.820 to get

00:43:30.120 along

00:43:30.380 and have

00:43:30.640 useful

00:43:30.980 discourse

00:43:31.400 or

00:43:32.260 is the

00:43:32.780 era

00:43:33.080 of

00:43:33.320 bipartisanship

00:43:34.100 and common

00:43:34.680 ground

00:43:35.260 deader

00:43:36.220 than

00:43:36.520 disco

00:43:36.880 the only

00:43:38.000 way

00:43:38.420 to move

00:43:39.240 forward

00:43:39.580 is to

00:43:39.920 beat

00:43:40.120 them

00:43:40.320 is to

00:43:41.400 beat

00:43:41.580 them

00:43:41.740 at the

00:43:41.920 ballot

00:43:42.160 box

00:43:42.600 and

00:43:44.400 you know

00:43:44.880 let me

00:43:45.100 answer

00:43:45.400 that

00:43:45.680 by making

00:43:46.420 a

00:43:48.040 reference

00:43:48.600 to a

00:43:49.380 series of

00:43:49.840 books

00:43:50.040 that I

00:43:50.320 read

00:43:50.440 as a

00:43:50.680 kid

00:43:50.880 so when I

00:43:51.360 was a

00:43:51.560 kid

00:43:51.740 I was

00:43:51.940 a big

00:43:52.200 fan

00:43:52.560 of

00:43:52.780 it's a

00:43:53.180 seven

00:43:53.400 book

00:43:53.640 series

00:43:54.020 that's

00:43:54.880 called

00:43:55.060 the

00:43:55.180 great

00:43:55.420 brain

00:43:55.780 did you

00:43:56.180 ever read

00:43:56.460 the

00:43:56.560 great

00:43:56.720 brain

00:43:57.020 no

00:43:57.700 no

00:43:57.880 I

00:43:58.000 didn't

00:43:58.340 okay

00:43:58.620 so it's

00:43:59.140 so it's

00:43:59.580 it's

00:44:00.040 by

00:44:00.460 a guy

00:44:01.600 named

00:44:01.980 John

00:44:03.520 D

00:44:03.700 John

00:44:04.320 D

00:44:04.460 Fitzgerald

00:44:05.000 and

00:44:06.340 and

00:44:06.360 and

00:44:06.380 it's

00:44:07.140 about

00:44:07.920 a

00:44:08.440 family

00:44:09.040 in

00:44:09.380 Utah

00:44:09.820 on

00:44:11.320 the

00:44:11.460 late

00:44:11.620 1800s

00:44:12.360 so at

00:44:12.540 the turn

00:44:12.800 of the

00:44:13.000 century

00:44:13.320 and

00:44:15.060 there

00:44:15.700 are

00:44:15.800 three

00:44:16.040 brothers

00:44:16.520 John

00:44:17.480 D

00:44:17.660 Fitzgerald

00:44:18.220 who's

00:44:18.400 the

00:44:18.520 youngest

00:44:18.760 brother

00:44:19.180 Tom

00:44:20.260 D

00:44:20.480 Fitzgerald

00:44:21.040 who's

00:44:21.260 the

00:44:21.380 middle

00:44:21.560 brother

00:44:21.980 and

00:44:22.320 Swen

00:44:22.680 D

00:44:22.820 Fitzgerald

00:44:23.340 who's

00:44:23.520 the

00:44:23.620 oldest

00:44:23.840 brother

00:44:24.160 and

00:44:25.000 the

00:44:25.120 middle

00:44:25.340 brother

00:44:25.680 Tom

00:44:26.040 D

00:44:26.300 is

00:44:26.780 the

00:44:26.920 great

00:44:27.180 brain

00:44:27.520 and

00:44:27.660 he's

00:44:27.800 a

00:44:27.900 little

00:44:28.040 con

00:44:28.360 man

00:44:28.580 he's

00:44:28.860 basically

00:44:29.220 a

00:44:29.460 swindler

00:44:30.020 and

00:44:30.880 you know

00:44:31.200 it's

00:44:31.360 sort of

00:44:31.600 like

00:44:31.780 Tom

00:44:32.080 Sawyer

00:44:32.660 but

00:44:33.000 it's

00:44:33.260 it's

00:44:33.540 sort

00:44:33.700 of

00:44:33.820 clever

00:44:34.280 cons

00:44:34.960 and

00:44:36.020 I

00:44:36.200 read

00:44:36.520 these

00:44:36.860 when

00:44:37.080 I

00:44:37.260 was

00:44:37.540 I

00:44:37.760 think

00:44:37.880 in

00:44:38.040 junior

00:44:38.280 high

00:44:38.560 I

00:44:38.720 read

00:44:38.920 them

00:44:39.100 they're

00:44:39.260 great

00:44:39.800 kids

00:44:40.200 books

00:44:40.560 I

00:44:40.780 have

00:44:40.940 unfortunately

00:44:41.680 haven't

00:44:41.880 been able

00:44:42.100 to get

00:44:42.280 either

00:44:42.580 of my

00:44:42.840 daughters

00:44:43.100 to

00:44:43.320 read

00:44:43.480 them

00:44:43.620 but

00:44:43.800 they're

00:44:44.020 great

00:44:44.360 kids

00:44:44.680 books

00:44:45.000 but

00:44:45.580 the

00:44:45.820 opening

00:44:46.320 chapter

00:44:46.940 to

00:44:48.200 the

00:44:48.360 first

00:44:48.640 book

00:44:49.020 is

00:44:50.800 John

00:44:51.620 D

00:44:51.800 the

00:44:51.960 little

00:44:52.140 brother

00:44:52.420 is

00:44:52.580 the

00:44:52.700 author

00:44:53.000 of

00:44:53.200 all

00:44:53.360 of

00:45:00.020 he

00:45:00.180 said

00:45:00.400 you

00:45:00.520 know

00:45:00.600 we're

00:45:00.760 growing

00:45:01.020 up

00:45:01.240 in

00:45:01.540 Utah

00:45:02.200 in

00:45:02.620 the

00:45:02.700 late

00:45:02.860 1800s

00:45:03.780 and

00:45:03.880 he

00:45:04.020 said

00:45:04.320 virtually

00:45:05.620 everyone

00:45:06.360 in the

00:45:07.100 town

00:45:07.340 where we

00:45:07.620 live

00:45:07.840 is

00:45:07.980 Mormon

00:45:08.260 and

00:45:09.000 he

00:45:09.120 said

00:45:09.300 we're

00:45:09.500 not

00:45:09.740 Mormon

00:45:10.120 and

00:45:12.360 he

00:45:12.820 said

00:45:13.260 but

00:45:13.640 they're

00:45:14.320 very

00:45:14.560 tolerant

00:45:15.060 and

00:45:15.420 it's

00:45:16.380 okay

00:45:16.800 and

00:45:17.000 he

00:45:17.120 said

00:45:17.300 it

00:45:17.400 was

00:45:17.540 simply

00:45:17.900 a

00:45:18.100 matter

00:45:18.360 of

00:45:19.720 me

00:45:19.960 learning

00:45:20.280 to

00:45:20.480 whip

00:45:20.660 every

00:45:20.920 boy

00:45:21.120 my

00:45:21.420 age

00:45:21.820 and

00:45:22.400 Tom

00:45:22.740 D

00:45:22.920 learning

00:45:23.200 to

00:45:23.380 whip

00:45:23.540 every

00:45:23.780 boy

00:45:24.000 his

00:45:24.260 age

00:45:24.660 and

00:45:25.260 Swen

00:45:25.660 D

00:45:25.820 learning

00:45:26.140 to

00:45:26.300 whip

00:45:26.460 every

00:45:26.700 boy

00:45:26.940 his

00:45:27.280 age

00:45:27.720 and

00:45:29.260 he

00:45:29.400 said

00:45:29.680 they're

00:45:30.380 very

00:45:30.640 tolerant

00:45:31.080 of

00:45:31.300 us

00:45:31.480 now

00:45:31.800 it's

00:45:32.620 amazing

00:45:33.180 how

00:45:33.480 tolerant

00:45:34.000 someone

00:45:34.380 can

00:45:34.620 be

00:45:34.820 when

00:45:35.020 you

00:45:35.140 can

00:45:35.280 whip

00:45:35.480 them

00:45:35.700 and

00:45:37.100 that

00:45:37.800 statement

00:45:38.500 there's

00:45:40.220 enormous

00:45:40.620 wisdom

00:45:41.100 in it

00:45:41.440 it's

00:45:41.840 always

00:45:42.220 I've

00:45:42.600 always

00:45:42.820 thought

00:45:43.140 of

00:45:43.260 that

00:45:43.460 statement

00:45:43.760 when I

00:45:44.100 think

00:45:44.300 about

00:45:44.500 Israel's 0.75

00:45:44.980 foreign

00:45:45.220 policy

00:45:45.660 it's

00:45:45.920 amazing

00:45:46.280 how

00:45:46.520 tolerant

00:45:46.960 Israel's 0.75

00:45:47.760 neighbors

00:45:47.980 are

00:45:48.280 when

00:45:48.440 the

00:45:48.560 fact

00:45:48.820 is

00:45:49.040 Israel

00:45:49.420 can

00:45:49.620 beat

00:45:49.840 them

00:45:50.000 militarily

00:45:50.620 in

00:45:51.300 terms

00:45:51.620 of

00:45:51.780 dealing

00:45:52.020 with

00:45:52.200 the

00:45:52.320 Democrats

00:45:52.800 we're

00:45:53.080 not

00:45:53.260 going

00:45:53.360 to

00:45:53.500 persuade

00:45:53.880 Nancy

00:45:54.240 Pelosi

00:45:54.640 what

00:45:57.320 we

00:45:57.520 will

00:45:57.800 do

00:45:58.100 and

00:45:58.280 I

00:45:58.420 believe

00:45:58.920 we

00:45:59.100 will

00:45:59.300 do

00:45:59.480 it

00:45:59.580 in

00:45:59.660 2022

00:46:00.200 is

00:46:01.680 we

00:46:01.820 can

00:46:01.960 persuade

00:46:02.340 the

00:46:02.540 American

00:46:02.880 people

00:46:03.300 and

00:46:03.460 we

00:46:03.580 can

00:46:03.700 beat

00:46:03.900 them

00:46:04.020 at

00:46:04.100 the

00:46:04.200 ballot

00:46:04.460 box

00:46:04.900 and

00:46:05.380 retire

00:46:06.000 Nancy

00:46:06.400 Pelosi

00:46:06.760 by

00:46:07.000 taking

00:46:07.220 the

00:46:07.380 House

00:46:07.580 back

00:46:07.940 and

00:46:08.880 we

00:46:09.140 can

00:46:09.380 retire

00:46:10.360 Chuck

00:46:10.680 Schumer

00:46:10.960 as

00:46:11.120 majority

00:46:11.460 leader

00:46:11.740 by

00:46:11.900 taking

00:46:12.120 the

00:46:12.300 Senate

00:46:12.480 back

00:46:12.860 and

00:46:13.540 we

00:46:13.720 can

00:46:13.980 retire

00:46:14.540 Joe

00:46:14.900 Biden

00:46:15.240 by

00:46:15.360 winning

00:46:17.560 in

00:46:17.720 24

00:46:18.140 but

00:46:19.880 the

00:46:20.360 only

00:46:20.900 way

00:46:21.460 they

00:46:22.160 will

00:46:22.500 not

00:46:22.840 stop

00:46:23.320 the

00:46:23.500 angry

00:46:24.200 socialist

00:46:24.880 crazy

00:46:25.420 left

00:46:25.780 will

00:46:25.960 not

00:46:26.200 stop

00:46:26.660 until

00:46:27.560 they

00:46:27.760 get

00:46:27.940 trounced

00:46:28.540 at

00:46:28.740 the

00:46:28.860 ballot

00:46:29.100 box

00:46:29.460 and

00:46:29.620 if

00:46:29.860 and

00:46:30.000 when

00:46:30.280 they

00:46:30.840 get

00:46:31.060 trounced

00:46:31.580 then

00:46:32.840 I

00:46:32.980 think

00:46:33.160 there's

00:46:33.440 some

00:46:33.860 realistic

00:46:34.940 prospect

00:46:35.520 that

00:46:36.000 at least

00:46:36.640 some

00:46:37.240 reasonable

00:46:37.740 Democrats

00:46:38.380 will

00:46:38.580 say

00:46:38.860 well

00:46:39.080 gosh

00:46:39.740 maybe

00:46:40.020 we

00:46:40.260 shouldn't

00:46:40.700 have

00:46:40.840 gone

00:46:41.140 so

00:46:41.420 crazy

00:46:41.820 far

00:46:42.140 left

00:46:42.560 maybe

00:46:43.380 we

00:46:43.660 should

00:46:43.880 recalibrate

00:46:44.640 but

00:46:44.920 that

00:46:45.340 takes

00:46:45.720 some

00:46:45.940 time

00:46:46.260 to

00:46:46.440 have

00:46:46.640 happen

00:46:46.980 and

00:46:47.600 they

00:46:47.800 ain't

00:46:48.020 gonna

00:46:48.220 do

00:46:48.500 it

00:46:50.900 the

00:46:51.560 chances

00:46:51.980 of

00:46:52.320 them

00:46:52.600 shifting

00:46:53.400 away

00:46:54.400 from

00:46:54.680 this

00:46:54.900 radical

00:46:55.280 agenda

00:46:55.720 I

00:46:55.960 think

00:46:56.420 are

00:46:56.580 zero

00:46:56.840 the

00:46:57.060 only

00:46:57.400 way

00:46:57.640 they

00:46:57.860 shift

00:46:58.300 is

00:46:59.220 after

00:46:59.960 they

00:47:00.240 lose

00:47:00.700 and

00:47:00.900 hopefully

00:47:01.520 lose

00:47:01.840 resoundingly

00:47:02.400 right

00:47:03.160 and it's

00:47:03.500 not just

00:47:03.840 because

00:47:04.180 they're

00:47:04.360 no good

00:47:04.780 awful

00:47:05.060 rotten

00:47:05.420 terrible

00:47:06.000 Democrats

00:47:06.600 I mean

00:47:06.780 we could

00:47:07.060 talk about

00:47:07.460 that

00:47:07.640 at great

00:47:08.000 length

00:47:08.220 but it's

00:47:08.600 it's

00:47:09.000 because

00:47:09.440 they've

00:47:10.420 got

00:47:10.680 all the

00:47:11.260 power

00:47:11.560 they've

00:47:11.860 got

00:47:11.980 all the

00:47:12.220 power

00:47:12.440 and so

00:47:12.660 it

00:47:12.880 actually

00:47:13.200 doesn't

00:47:13.420 even

00:47:13.540 make

00:47:13.700 sense

00:47:14.000 for

00:47:14.180 them

00:47:14.400 to

00:47:14.780 try

00:47:15.000 to

00:47:15.140 give

00:47:15.320 in

00:47:15.460 on

00:47:15.600 these

00:47:15.800 things

00:47:16.000 didn't

00:47:16.240 Lord

00:47:16.440 Acton

00:47:16.760 say

00:47:16.960 something

00:47:17.220 like

00:47:17.440 that

00:47:17.700 you

00:47:18.760 know

00:47:19.040 there's

00:47:19.560 this

00:47:19.760 strange

00:47:20.220 coincidence

00:47:20.660 here

00:47:20.920 reminds

00:47:21.380 me

00:47:21.560 of

00:47:21.660 a

00:47:21.780 quote

00:47:21.980 from

00:47:22.360 Lord

00:47:22.600 Acton

00:47:22.920 and

00:47:23.040 absolutely

00:47:23.680 I

00:47:24.060 am

00:47:24.380 with

00:47:24.540 you

00:47:24.680 Senator

00:47:24.920 the

00:47:25.440 only

00:47:25.920 way

00:47:26.400 that

00:47:26.820 we

00:47:27.020 are

00:47:27.160 going

00:47:27.400 to

00:47:27.600 reconcile

00:47:28.260 and

00:47:28.640 come

00:47:28.780 back

00:47:28.980 together

00:47:29.380 is

00:47:29.840 if

00:47:30.000 we

00:47:30.200 pull

00:47:30.540 some

00:47:30.800 of

00:47:30.920 that

00:47:31.080 power

00:47:31.440 back

00:47:31.880 from

00:47:32.260 the

00:47:32.400 people

00:47:32.640 who

00:47:32.780 have

00:47:32.880 taken

00:47:33.120 all

00:47:33.440 of

00:47:33.560 it

00:47:33.620 we've

00:47:33.780 got

00:47:33.880 to

00:47:34.160 end

00:47:34.380 it

00:47:34.480 there

00:47:34.780 I'm

00:47:35.360 Michael

00:47:45.320 We are

00:47:47.160 going to

00:47:47.300 be

00:47:47.420 taking

00:47:47.680 verdict

00:47:47.980 on

00:47:48.180 the

00:47:48.280 road

00:47:48.460 we

00:47:48.780 are

00:47:48.920 partnering

00:47:49.300 with

00:47:49.560 the

00:47:49.660 young

00:47:49.800 americas

00:47:50.220 foundation

00:47:50.700 we're

00:47:51.180 going

00:47:51.500 to

00:47:52.040 multiple

00:47:52.700 schools

00:47:52.960 I think

00:47:53.200 we're

00:47:53.320 going

00:47:53.440 to

00:47:53.560 six

00:47:53.940 schools

00:47:54.660 and

00:47:54.840 universities

00:47:55.400 with

00:47:56.680 YAF

00:47:57.360 you can

00:47:57.720 go to

00:47:57.920 yaf.org

00:47:59.400 slash

00:47:59.960 verdict

00:48:00.480 right now

00:48:01.660 to request

00:48:02.680 that we

00:48:03.260 come to

00:48:03.960 your school

00:48:04.680 the deadline

00:48:05.280 is August

00:48:05.860 18th

00:48:07.020 Senator

00:48:07.260 should we

00:48:07.840 go to

00:48:09.040 the really

00:48:09.460 nice

00:48:09.800 wonderful

00:48:10.320 conservative

00:48:10.900 schools

00:48:11.420 with

00:48:12.200 the young

00:48:12.540 americas

00:48:12.840 foundation

00:48:13.220 or should

00:48:13.640 we go

00:48:13.860 to the

00:48:14.080 crazy

00:48:14.480 leftist

00:48:15.300 insane

00:48:16.020 schools

00:48:16.500 that are

00:48:16.920 going to

00:48:17.100 run us

00:48:17.360 out of

00:48:17.540 town

00:48:17.680 on the

00:48:17.900 rail

00:48:18.060 well

00:48:18.500 it

00:48:18.620 seems

00:48:18.820 to me

00:48:19.080 that

00:48:19.280 should

00:48:19.440 be

00:48:19.580 up

00:48:19.740 to

00:48:19.900 the

00:48:20.160 listeners

00:48:20.700 a

00:48:20.900 verdict

00:48:21.100 to

00:48:21.300 decide

00:48:21.760 and

00:48:21.960 so

00:48:22.120 you

00:48:22.560 tell

00:48:22.880 us

00:48:23.060 if

00:48:23.220 you're

00:48:23.360 a

00:48:23.500 student

00:48:23.760 right

00:48:24.080 now

00:48:24.440 you

00:48:25.260 might

00:48:25.540 be

00:48:25.740 at

00:48:25.900 one

00:48:26.060 of

00:48:26.200 the

00:48:26.340 few

00:48:26.820 havens

00:48:27.960 of

00:48:28.100 sanity

00:48:28.480 and

00:48:28.760 you

00:48:28.920 say

00:48:29.120 hey

00:48:29.340 come

00:48:29.880 come

00:48:30.540 cheer

00:48:30.900 us

00:48:31.140 on

00:48:31.480 and

00:48:31.660 reach

00:48:34.100 out

00:48:34.360 to

00:48:34.580 us

00:48:34.760 on

00:48:34.860 the

00:48:34.960 other

00:48:35.140 hand

00:48:35.420 you

00:48:35.600 might

00:48:35.880 be

00:48:36.140 behind

00:48:36.580 enemy

00:48:36.940 lines

00:48:37.380 surrounded

00:48:37.860 by

00:48:38.100 Bolsheviks 0.94

00:48:38.720 and

00:48:38.900 Mensheviks 0.90

00:48:39.500 and

00:48:40.140 looking

00:48:41.160 for

00:48:41.800 a

00:48:42.200 Berlin

00:48:42.680 airlift

00:48:43.380 you

00:48:44.120 know

00:48:44.300 my

00:48:44.920 guess

00:48:45.280 is

00:48:45.480 we're

00:48:45.840 open

00:48:46.060 to

00:48:46.200 do

00:48:46.320 it

00:48:46.400 a

00:48:46.500 little

00:48:46.620 of

00:48:46.780 both

00:48:47.080 but

00:48:47.340 it's

00:48:47.820 really

00:48:48.100 the

00:48:48.340 incredible

00:48:48.860 listeners

00:48:49.420 of

00:48:50.520 verdict

00:48:50.780 who

00:48:51.000 are

00:48:51.100 going

00:48:51.420 to

00:48:51.480 make

00:48:51.640 that

00:48:51.800 decision

00:48:52.200 we

00:48:52.720 want

00:48:52.940 to

00:48:53.080 free

00:48:53.460 the

00:48:53.780 students

00:48:54.060 on

00:48:54.260 campus

00:48:54.560 we

00:48:54.740 want

00:48:54.880 to

00:48:55.020 free

00:48:55.280 all

00:48:55.580 of

00:48:55.700 us

00:48:55.860 here

00:48:56.080 in

00:48:56.200 this

00:48:56.380 country

00:48:56.740 so

00:48:57.180 make

00:48:57.380 sure

00:48:57.520 you

00:48:57.620 get

00:48:57.740 those

00:48:57.940 names

00:48:58.260 in

00:48:58.440 yaf.org

00:48:59.240 slash

00:49:00.020 verdict

00:49:00.560 August

00:49:07.860 AOC

00:49:16.040 says

00:49:16.460 I'm

00:49:17.060 happy

00:49:17.240 to

00:49:17.380 work

00:49:17.520 with

00:49:17.660 Republicans

00:49:18.140 just

00:49:18.620 not

00:49:18.960 Ted

00:49:19.380 Cruz

00:49:19.740 and

00:49:20.180 then

00:49:20.320 she

00:49:20.440 called

00:49:20.640 you

00:49:20.720 a

00:49:20.820 murderer

00:49:21.040 apparently

00:49:21.740 I

00:49:22.040 will

00:49:22.180 continue

00:49:22.640 my

00:49:23.040 murderous

00:49:23.580 rampage

00:49:24.160 down

00:49:24.460 in

00:49:24.640 Miami

00:49:25.060 can

00:49:25.880 you

00:49:25.980 just

00:49:26.120 take

00:49:26.300 us

00:49:26.420 through

00:49:26.540 this

00:49:26.720 process

00:49:27.120 a

00:49:27.300 little

00:49:27.400 bit

00:49:27.600 those

00:49:27.940 rules

00:49:28.300 are

00:49:28.460 designed

00:49:28.880 so

00:49:29.080 you

00:49:29.220 don't

00:49:29.360 have

00:49:29.520 senators

00:49:29.860 screaming 0.51

00:49:30.260 at

00:49:30.420 each

00:49:30.640 other

00:49:30.840 the

00:49:31.020 house

00:49:31.340 has

00:49:31.600 a

00:49:31.720 lot

00:49:31.860 of

00:49:31.960 that

00:49:32.140 I

00:49:32.360 still

00:49:32.760 remember

00:49:33.120 when

00:49:33.300 they

00:49:33.460 pulled

00:49:33.740 up

00:49:33.920 porn

00:49:34.140 on

00:49:34.260 the

00:49:34.380 screen

00:49:34.660 Justice

00:49:34.980 O'Connor

00:49:35.380 just

00:49:35.620 went

00:49:35.880 oh

00:49:36.380 my

00:49:36.940 you're

00:49:39.040 saying

00:49:39.460 Ukraine

00:49:40.040 and not

00:49:40.660 Russia

00:49:41.020 that

00:49:41.600 logical

00:49:42.140 construct

00:49:42.800 X

00:49:43.220 and not

00:49:43.620 Y

00:49:44.080 they're

00:49:44.420 engaging

00:49:44.960 in

00:49:45.220 lawyerly

00:49:45.660 sleight

00:49:45.900 of

00:49:46.000 hand

00:49:46.220 the

00:49:46.620 fact

00:49:46.940 checkers

00:49:47.360 declared

00:49:47.860 it

00:49:48.060 a

00:49:48.220 lie

00:49:48.560 if

00:49:48.980 you

00:49:49.160 said

00:49:49.420 Biden

00:49:49.760 was

00:49:50.000 in

00:49:50.120 fact

00:49:50.360 going

00:49:50.460 to

00:49:50.520 ban

00:49:50.720 fracking

00:49:51.060 boom

00:49:52.200 what

00:49:52.480 happens

00:49:52.780 he

00:49:52.940 gets

00:49:53.160 elected

00:49:53.580 and

00:49:54.020 now

00:49:54.280 the

00:49:54.460 fact

00:49:54.720 checkers

00:49:55.120 are

00:49:55.240 saying

00:49:55.640 it's

00:49:55.880 a

00:49:56.000 lie

00:49:56.380 that

00:49:56.800 he

00:49:56.920 ever

00:49:57.120 said

00:49:57.400 he

00:49:57.500 wasn't

00:49:57.760 going

00:49:57.900 to

00:49:57.980 ban

00:49:58.160 fracking

00:49:58.520 the

00:49:59.020 US

00:49:59.580 government

00:50:00.300 was

00:50:01.040 funding

00:50:01.760 the

00:50:02.480 Chinese

00:50:02.900 research

00:50:03.640 at the

00:50:04.340 Wuhan

00:50:04.600 Institute

00:50:05.060 of

00:50:05.260 Virology

00:50:05.760 the

00:50:06.120 Senate

00:50:06.480 acquitted

00:50:07.120 President

00:50:07.660 Trump

00:50:08.120 about

00:50:08.700 430

00:50:09.560 in the

00:50:10.000 afternoon

00:50:10.520 that's

00:50:10.980 right

00:50:11.160 they're

00:50:11.500 not

00:50:11.700 done

00:50:12.100 this

00:50:12.380 is

00:50:12.560 release

00:50:12.900 the

00:50:13.080 hound

00:50:13.420 what

00:50:13.820 in

00:50:14.120 the

00:50:14.320 hell

00:50:14.560 are

00:50:14.740 you

00:50:14.900 freaking

00:50:15.120 nuts

00:50:15.460 this

00:50:15.720 is

00:50:15.900 a

00:50:16.000 casino

00:50:16.360 Joe

00:50:16.760 Biden

00:50:17.040 was

00:50:17.240 saying

00:50:17.540 I'm

00:50:17.860 not

00:50:18.080 against

00:50:18.380 fracking

00:50:18.860 I'm

00:50:19.080 not

00:50:19.240 against

00:50:19.520 coal

00:50:19.940 literally

00:50:20.380 what

00:50:20.620 Biden

00:50:20.960 is

00:50:21.160 doing

00:50:21.380 and

00:50:21.500 what

00:50:21.640 Kerry

00:50:21.920 is

00:50:22.080 doing

00:50:22.320 is

00:50:22.760 screwing

00:50:23.380 the

00:50:23.520 environment

00:50:23.960 you

00:50:24.540 guys

00:50:24.880 are

00:50:25.040 not

00:50:25.300 freaking

00:50:25.720 overlords

00:50:26.520 get

00:50:26.740 off

00:50:26.980 your

00:50:27.140 power

00:50:27.540 trip

00:50:27.960 it

00:50:28.560 still

00:50:28.840 doesn't

00:50:29.160 matter

00:50:29.360 if

00:50:29.500 there

00:50:29.580 was

00:50:29.680 a

00:50:29.780 quid

00:50:29.940 pro

00:50:30.160 quo

00:50:30.460 you

00:50:30.940 showed

00:50:31.380 off

00:50:31.620 your

00:50:31.760 latin

00:50:32.100 in the

00:50:32.300 early

00:50:32.540 episodes

00:50:32.980 there's

00:50:33.580 been a

00:50:33.860 real

00:50:34.060 cynicism

00:50:34.540 in this

00:50:34.880 whole

00:50:35.120 issue

00:50:35.320 of the

00:50:35.540 protests

00:50:35.980 just a

00:50:36.740 week

00:50:36.920 ago

00:50:37.160 we

00:50:37.360 were

00:50:37.540 told

00:50:37.840 if

00:50:38.260 you

00:50:38.480 go

00:50:38.700 outside

00:50:39.200 to

00:50:39.400 do

00:50:39.600 anything

00:50:40.060 you're

00:50:40.360 killing

00:50:40.700 grandma

00:50:41.100 you're

00:50:41.340 endangering

00:50:41.820 people

00:50:42.200 because

00:50:42.720 of the

00:50:43.100 coronavirus

00:50:43.520 and

00:50:44.180 then

00:50:44.320 this

00:50:44.540 week

00:50:44.740 we're

00:50:44.900 told

00:50:45.260 everybody

00:50:45.780 should

00:50:46.060 go

00:50:46.260 out

00:50:46.540 to

00:50:46.960 protest

00:50:47.540 the

00:50:49.180 world's

00:50:49.500 number

00:50:49.640 one

00:50:49.840 podcast

00:50:50.440 and

00:50:50.800 number

00:50:51.180 one

00:50:51.520 in

00:50:51.780 news

00:50:52.180 we

00:50:52.520 passed

00:50:52.860 Joe

00:50:53.140 Rogan

00:50:53.480 we

00:50:53.680 rose

00:50:54.000 to

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Verdict with Ted Cruz - August 05, 2021

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