Verdict with Ted Cruz - August 05, 2021


Nancy Pelosi, Chief Mask Officer


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Ted Cruz decries the abuse of absolute power by the House of Representatives and the Department of Health and Human Services, and calls for an end to the use of political theater in order to get your point across. Ted Cruz explains why this is an abuse of power that needs to stop.

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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
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