Verdict with Ted Cruz - April 19, 2023


NINE Biden Family Members Got Millions Of Dollars from Communist China! Plus Dems Go Wild, Attacking Dianne Feinstein


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Sen. Ted Cruz reacts to a report that six additional members of the Biden family may have been profiting from prostitution rings and prostitution rings from communist China. Ted Cruz and Ben F. Ferguson discuss the implications of this revelation.

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00:00:05.200 Welcome. It is Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you.
00:00:09.100 Senator, it's a headline and I'm going to read it verbatim.
00:00:12.600 Prostitution rings and a lot of money.
00:00:16.360 That is what Representative Nancy Mace described the bank reports on the Biden family business dealings.
00:00:23.280 She got to see these reports, these suspicious activity reports.
00:00:26.600 She made it very clear how shocked she was when she left the Treasury.
00:00:30.400 And this is what she said.
00:00:32.920 Just left the Treasury to review over 100 suspicious activity reports on the Biden family.
00:00:40.020 And I have to tell you, there are more Bidens involved than we knew previously.
00:00:45.540 And every time you unturn, overturn or look under a stone, there's so much more you have to investigate
00:00:53.460 because it's wild the number of family members involved.
00:00:58.520 And it's even the amount of money that we're talking about in these suspicious activity reports is astronomical.
00:01:05.400 And the accusations there and the source of the funding, where the money's going, the shell companies,
00:01:11.080 prostitution rings, et cetera, it's insanity to me that it's not been investigated in the way that it should be.
00:01:21.220 Senator, you hear that and that's not even the full headline.
00:01:24.780 The other headline is six additional Biden family members may have been benefiting from Hunter Biden,
00:01:30.720 Joe Biden, James Biden's business dealings.
00:01:33.820 That's a lot.
00:01:34.940 Your reaction?
00:01:35.660 Look, I think this is astonishing.
00:01:41.940 Ask yourself at home.
00:01:44.340 In what universe would you say that six or more members of your family are profiting from communist China,
00:01:52.980 are making millions of dollars from communist China?
00:01:56.320 I want you to pause and think how unusual this is.
00:01:58.600 Maybe, look, you have one cousin who has, I don't know, a car repair business that's a little shady.
00:02:07.340 I'm just trying to hypothesize here.
00:02:10.740 But six family members on the take from the communist Chinese government to the tunes of millions of dollars.
00:02:22.160 Do you know anyone for whom that's the case?
00:02:24.860 I don't.
00:02:26.360 Look, I serve in the United States Senate.
00:02:27.820 I think it would be weird if any of my colleagues had six family members making millions of dollars from communist China.
00:02:35.020 There are 100 senators.
00:02:36.060 To the best of my knowledge, zero of them are in that business.
00:02:41.640 The fact that the Bidens, by all appearances, had a family business and the family business, everyone,
00:02:47.720 for six family members, I don't know, Uncle Fester.
00:02:50.400 I don't even know who the six are.
00:02:52.840 They haven't released the six.
00:02:54.700 But apparently the entire collective family business is, you know, put Aunt Bertha on the take.
00:03:00.940 You know, the Chinese will pay her $100,000. 0.85
00:03:03.360 Like, like it's at this point, it's getting ridiculous.
00:03:07.060 Listen, and I got to say, so Nancy Mace, congresswoman from South Carolina, that's who you just played a second ago. 1.00
00:03:15.960 She had just left the Treasury Department.
00:03:17.840 She was reading suspicious activity reports.
00:03:20.820 I got to say the words that are most remarkable that you just played.
00:03:24.680 She says, prostitution rings, et cetera. 1.00
00:03:29.920 What?
00:03:31.300 Yeah.
00:03:31.560 Like, like, like, okay.
00:03:33.880 Like the et cetera.
00:03:35.680 What's in the et cetera?
00:03:37.500 Like, I'm sorry.
00:03:39.720 Do you know anyone who is in the business of running prostitution rings or profiting from prostitution rings?
00:03:46.320 Like, I don't know what the evidence is, but holy crap, if she's saying that Joe Biden's family is personally profiting from prostitution rings, now to be clear, I have not seen this evidence.
00:03:59.800 So I am commenting on what Congresswoman Mace said publicly, but if there is evidence that the president's family is personally profiting from prostitution rings, and I don't know if those prostitution rings are connected to China or not, but you want to talk about bombshell.
00:04:20.720 And you know what's not happening tonight?
00:04:23.860 It's not going to be on the six o'clock news.
00:04:25.920 Because ABC, I'm going to, I'm going to wager you a hundred dollars right now, Ben.
00:04:30.900 ABC will not run this.
00:04:32.120 NBC will not run this.
00:04:33.140 CBS will not run that.
00:04:34.020 Will you take the bet?
00:04:34.660 A hundred bucks?
00:04:34.980 No, I'm not. 0.99
00:04:35.480 I don't take stupid bets because you and I both know there's no way that they would ever report on six additional Biden family members on the take. 0.96
00:04:43.260 And there is another part of this. 0.99
00:04:45.220 But wait a second. 0.99
00:04:45.840 ABC, NBC, and CBS all reported on the Steele dossier that was one drunk guy in Europe that claimed that prostitutes like to urinate on Donald Trump.
00:04:54.900 So that story, with no basis, no evidence, and now thoroughly discredited, every network reported on.
00:05:03.120 But here, if I'm understanding what Congresswoman Mace is saying correctly, there are reports in the U.S. Department of Treasury that indicate that the Biden family is directly profiting from prostitution rings, presumably connected to China in some way.
00:05:20.480 And no one will report on that?
00:05:23.260 Like, what?
00:05:26.200 This is the this is the media that we now have.
00:05:29.380 They deliberately are working, I would say, for the Democratic Communist Party.
00:05:33.860 And there's another question here, Senator, that I think you and I need to help people connect these dots.
00:05:40.480 Before we found out about these six additional Biden family members names, Hunter Biden and just his associates.
00:05:47.720 And we don't know the six.
00:05:48.680 We don't know the six.
00:05:49.960 We knew three.
00:05:51.800 So so James Comer, the chairman of the.
00:05:53.880 Well, this is nine now, right?
00:05:55.300 Total of nine.
00:05:56.040 I want to make sure we understand that for everybody listening.
00:05:58.020 This is nine official Biden family members that are now connected with suspicious activity reports of the Treasury Department.
00:06:05.200 So what James Comer said is the panel has identified six additional members of Joe Biden's family who may have benefited from the Biden family's businesses that we are investigating, bringing the total number of those involved or benefiting to nine.
00:06:19.460 Like nine, like is the dog fluffy on the take?
00:06:24.160 Like like how do you find nine family members and have them all cashing a check from Communist China?
00:06:31.580 That that's astonishing.
00:06:34.060 Well, and this goes back to the question that Hunter Biden and his direct associates, OK, visit the Obama White House.
00:06:42.720 And this isn't, you know, where the vice president lived.
00:06:45.740 This isn't in Delaware.
00:06:46.680 This is just the actual White House.
00:06:48.960 We know of 80 plus times.
00:06:50.980 And hold on.
00:06:51.700 This is not the White House when Joe Biden was president.
00:06:54.200 This is the White House when Joe Biden was vice president.
00:06:57.340 So he lived at the Naval Observatory, which is a different residence, about 20 minutes away from the White House.
00:07:02.760 And yet apparently all of Hunter's business partners were going in and out and in and out of the Obama White House meeting with senior officials.
00:07:12.820 And the Biden White House won't tell us who they met with.
00:07:15.940 They won't tell us how many times Joe Biden met with him personally.
00:07:19.560 They won't tell him how many times Joe Biden's staff met with him personally.
00:07:22.480 But listen, if it's all of Hunter's business partners, there's no reason to think they're just coming to visit the social secretary because they want to help arrange the flowers for the French state dinner.
00:07:36.660 They're there to do business.
00:07:38.100 When you get five, I'm sorry, not five, nine family members being paid by communist China, they're getting paid for something.
00:07:48.800 Yeah.
00:07:49.420 Well, and my question is, when you add these new names in, Senator, if 80 meetings were what were connected to Hunter Biden and the vice president at the White House meeting at the White House,
00:08:01.820 what does that number now go to if you have another six family members that apparently, from what we understand,
00:08:07.940 probably had the same exact access to bringing in their business associates into the White House?
00:08:13.700 All right.
00:08:14.240 I'm going to make an official call right now.
00:08:17.180 The U.S. Department of Treasury needs to release every single suspicious activity report on the Biden family.
00:08:24.740 Janet Yellen.
00:08:25.960 You have a choice.
00:08:27.100 You are either actively covering up potential evidence of corruption or release every one of them to the American people.
00:08:35.940 If of the nine Biden family members profiting off communist China, let the American people decide if this is benign.
00:08:43.480 Release the reports.
00:08:44.680 When we've got members of Congress seeing these reports who are horrified, who are appalled, they're going, holy cow, how is there so much money flowing from China?
00:08:54.560 Janet Yellen has a choice right now. 0.58
00:08:57.020 She is not innocent in this.
00:08:59.260 Now, there's no evidence that Janet Yellen was part and parcel of the Biden family business profiting off communist China.
00:09:05.860 But if she doesn't release those reports, she is complicit in the cover up.
00:09:12.180 So Secretary Yellen release every single suspicious activity report on the Biden family.
00:09:19.320 There's no national security reason to keep them private.
00:09:22.380 There's no reason whatsoever other than if you want to be part of a political cover up.
00:09:28.720 Yeah, it's a great point.
00:09:29.900 I want to ask you about the Treasury Department.
00:09:31.840 And is it is it supposed to be a nonpolitical?
00:09:34.720 Because it's clear, I think, to many of the American people it is acting politically right now.
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00:11:01.500 Senator, let's talk about Treasury for a second here because I think the history now of how this has played out is extremely important.
00:11:08.140 The Treasury Department used to allow any of you in Congress to see suspicious activity reports based on the reporting.
00:11:15.500 Then when Democrats had control of the House and Senate, the Treasury changed the rule and said, well, you've got to have a Democrat that wants to go with you to see them and then we'll release them.
00:11:26.560 That's how they protected the Biden crime family.
00:11:29.000 And now, only after Republicans were able to regain control of the House were we able to see these reports, which we should have been able to see two years ago or more.
00:11:38.900 Well, listen, there's a broader pattern of this, which is the Biden administration is trying to keep as much classified as possible, as much secret as possible, as much hidden as possible.
00:11:50.940 There's an irony.
00:11:52.100 Joe Biden campaigned promising to be the most transparent administration ever.
00:11:57.240 We're now two years and three months into it, and this is the least transparent administration ever.
00:12:04.700 Think about it for a second.
00:12:08.540 We know that classified documents were discovered at Donald Trump's home, at Joe Biden's home, multiple homes, at Mike Pence's home.
00:12:18.480 We know that Joe Biden was sticking its classified documents virtually everywhere, including in the garage next to his vintage Corvette.
00:12:26.540 You know what I don't know right now?
00:12:31.080 I have no idea what classified documents any of the three of them had.
00:12:37.320 I don't know what Trump had.
00:12:38.180 I don't know what Biden had.
00:12:39.100 I don't know what Pence had.
00:12:40.660 Now, there's a reason I don't know, which is the Biden administration won't tell members of Congress.
00:12:45.640 Initially, they stonewalled.
00:12:46.720 They said nobody can know.
00:12:48.200 We're not going to tell anybody.
00:12:49.420 And their ridiculous explanation was, well, we might be bringing Department of Justice prosecutions, so we don't want to tell anyone in Congress anything about anything because we might be bringing DOJ prosecutions.
00:13:04.220 Now, that's absurd.
00:13:05.860 Congress has a very legitimate and important role to ensure that classified materials are protected.
00:13:12.500 to understand what kind of classified materials were at Trump's home, Biden's home, Pence's home.
00:13:21.580 Were they – so, look, I've read a lot of classified materials in my 11 years in the Senate.
00:13:26.900 There are some classified materials I've read that are so banal, that have so little insight, you could read them in a thoroughly mediocre op-ed in the New York Times.
00:13:38.680 There are others that are really serious.
00:13:40.960 If you want an intelligence assessment on how many nuclear weapons we have in a particular location or the vulnerability of our troops to a particular kind of attack,
00:13:53.420 or if you have materials that are based on covert sources, someone close in the orbit of Xi in China or Putin in Russia,
00:14:04.780 and we have a spy that we flipped someone on their staff, and they've given us internal information,
00:14:12.060 that's the kind of classified information that's incredibly dangerous.
00:14:15.240 That's the kind of classified information that, if made public, can endanger or even cost the lives of people who have decided to help the U.S. intelligence agencies.
00:14:30.420 We don't know what category of classified materials were at Trump's, Pence's, and Biden's homes.
00:14:40.580 We ought to know.
00:14:42.480 Initially, the Biden administration said we will tell nobody.
00:14:45.400 Hell no.
00:14:46.020 Our answer is no.
00:14:48.340 Actually, this is one of the few areas where Senate Democrats were quite strong.
00:14:52.620 Mark Warner, who's the chairman of the Intelligence Committee, and Marco Rubio, who's the ranking member of the Intelligence Committee,
00:14:57.740 both of them said, this is ridiculous, we want to see the documents.
00:15:03.060 Where are we now?
00:15:04.300 The Biden administration said they will tell the gang of eight.
00:15:08.660 Now, the gang of eight is the majority leader and the minority leader of the Senate,
00:15:14.380 the speaker and the minority leader of the House,
00:15:18.140 the chairman and ranking member of the Senate Intelligence Committee,
00:15:21.460 and the chairman and ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee.
00:15:23.720 That's eight people.
00:15:24.480 They have made some of those documents available to that gang of eight.
00:15:30.020 Not all of them, but some of them.
00:15:33.000 They won't make them available to the rest of us.
00:15:37.540 Now, I have to tell you, I talked today with Marco Rubio,
00:15:41.000 the ranking member of the Intelligence Committee, who's one of the gang of eight.
00:15:43.780 He's seen them.
00:15:45.080 He said that the documents are overwhelmingly, if not entirely,
00:15:48.840 the kind of documents that every member of Congress has the security clearance to see.
00:15:55.180 If that's true, why are they hiding them?
00:15:57.960 They're hiding them for political reasons.
00:16:01.520 Why are they hiding the suspicious activity reports on the Biden family?
00:16:05.620 For political reasons.
00:16:07.120 This is not national security.
00:16:08.800 It's not anything else.
00:16:09.780 And, you know, you asked a minute ago, should the Treasury Department be nonpartisan?
00:16:15.260 Look, not entirely.
00:16:17.320 A president is entitled to a secretary of treasury who shares his or her partisan ideological views.
00:16:26.160 So if you're a big government Democrat, you're entitled to have a treasury secretary who wants
00:16:32.140 to tax the hell out of the American people and crush them under the boot of the IRS.
00:16:35.780 It's not good for America, but it is democracy, and you're entitled to have a treasury secretary
00:16:41.300 who reflects your policy views.
00:16:44.540 Likewise, if you're a Republican who believes in lower taxes, who believes in limited government,
00:16:49.400 you're entitled to have a treasury secretary who believes in, who advocates for lower taxes,
00:16:55.540 simplifying the tax code, lessening the regulations that are destroying jobs.
00:16:59.840 So all of those are legitimate.
00:17:01.920 There is an aspect of treasury secretary that is policy, that is political, that is legitimately
00:17:08.560 partisan.
00:17:09.940 What is not legitimately partisan is there is an aspect of the treasury secretary's authority
00:17:15.100 that is law enforcement.
00:17:17.080 And law enforcement, like the intelligence community, is designed to be nonpartisan.
00:17:22.440 It's designed to be apolitical.
00:17:24.680 Suspicious activity reports are not meant to be oppo research, that if your political opponent
00:17:30.400 generates one, okay, this is great, leak it to the press and let's go smear them.
00:17:36.720 If your political ally generates one, cover it up and hide it because the objective is
00:17:41.740 protect your political ally.
00:17:42.920 That is what's not appropriate, is the law enforcement component of treasury should be nonpolitical.
00:17:49.820 And given that we now have multiple house members who reviewed these suspicious activity reports,
00:17:55.520 who said they're damning, who said, holy crap, nine Biden family members making money ostensibly 0.89
00:18:03.460 from communist China, some, at least according to Congresswoman Mace, profiting off of prostitution 1.00
00:18:11.260 rings.
00:18:11.780 Like, I'm sorry, every American has a right to see those reports and assess.
00:18:18.180 And you know what's fascinating?
00:18:19.920 The fact that the press doesn't give a damn.
00:18:22.720 Maggie Hagerman, you're at the New York Times.
00:18:25.720 You claim to be a real journalist.
00:18:28.340 Go find these suspicious activity reports.
00:18:30.680 Write them on the front page of the New York Times.
00:18:33.000 You don't want to because the New York Times views its job as being the political protectors
00:18:39.420 for Joe Biden, not actually the paper of record reporting on news.
00:18:44.020 It is shocking to see how much they will just completely refuse to do their job, even when
00:18:49.980 this is maybe one of the biggest stories we've ever seen in political history to hit a White 0.99
00:18:55.500 House with six additional Biden family members that apparently were benefiting from nine business
00:19:01.140 dealings, nine total, benefiting from the business dealings of selling out basically access to
00:19:08.260 the United States government and favors that may be needed.
00:19:10.780 And now the question is, Senator, and this is my last question before we move on to some
00:19:14.560 other news.
00:19:16.040 How confident are you now in Joe Biden's ability to be the president when it comes to just being
00:19:23.580 compromised by money that came in from Russian oligarchs and from the Chinese and other
00:19:29.320 countries around the world?
00:19:30.260 I am terrified that he has compromised.
00:19:33.420 And I ask you that because it was it was a very different moment today that connects back
00:19:39.060 to this.
00:19:39.720 The former director of national intelligence, John Radcliffe, someone a friend of yours and
00:19:46.140 mine, says that there is overwhelming evidence that covid was created in the Wuhan lab.
00:19:52.120 And yet this president refuses to confront that issue with the Chinese.
00:19:56.500 And it may be because he and his family are so compromised by the by the Chinese. 1.00
00:20:02.840 Listen to John Radcliffe's thoughts today.
00:20:05.800 Every day that passes makes it less likely that there's anything that will ever tie this
00:20:11.460 to nature.
00:20:12.140 Whereas on the other side of the ledger, it's overwhelming when you look at China's actions
00:20:17.280 and the circumstances surrounding what was going on from a biosafety standpoint at Wuhan,
00:20:23.780 the massive number of coronaviruses, the massive numbers of bats carrying coronaviruses that were brought into Wuhan.
00:20:32.860 All of that weighs heavily into making assessments at some confidence level that a lab leak was the origin for this pandemic.
00:20:40.700 I mean, Senator, you hear that.
00:20:42.740 And it's pretty clear that Radcliffe is saying we have overwhelming evidence.
00:20:48.240 And there's one reason why we're not bringing this up.
00:20:51.580 And that's because of the Biden administration.
00:20:54.740 Well, listen, longtime listeners of Verdict will know that this podcast laid out the evidence
00:21:02.840 that the coronavirus came from a Chinese government lab leak. 0.52
00:21:07.460 We laid this out in March and in April of 2021.
00:21:12.420 Now, more than two years ago.
00:21:15.400 The evidence was overwhelming then.
00:21:17.440 Actually, frankly, everything John Radcliffe said.
00:21:19.620 And by the way, John Radcliffe was the head of DNI.
00:21:22.960 He was the director of national intelligence.
00:21:24.620 He was the head of all of the intelligence community under Donald Trump.
00:21:28.440 He was a U.S. attorney prior to that.
00:21:30.100 He was a congressman in between.
00:21:33.660 John Radcliffe is a serious guy.
00:21:35.360 Um, that evidence is overwhelming.
00:21:39.760 Let's review what this podcast told its listeners two years ago.
00:21:46.640 Number one, the Wuhan Institute for Virology was studying not just viruses, but coronaviruses.
00:21:56.160 Not just coronaviruses, but coronaviruses derived from bats.
00:22:01.120 The bats in question.
00:22:03.460 And remember early on when COVID broke, everyone said, oh, this came from bats at the wet market.
00:22:09.580 The bats in question are not found naturally anywhere around Wuhan.
00:22:15.100 So there aren't, the bats just don't occur.
00:22:17.900 What's the closest the bats naturally occur?
00:22:22.020 The answer is 900 miles away in China. 0.73
00:22:26.120 In caves in China, 900 miles away, you can find the bats.
00:22:28.760 What's the one exception to that?
00:22:30.860 Well, there's one place in all of Wuhan you can find the bats that are normally 900 miles away.
00:22:36.020 And those bats are in the Wuhan Institute for Virology.
00:22:39.460 Why?
00:22:40.100 Because they're studying coronaviruses derived from bats.
00:22:43.600 Now, where exactly is the Wuhan Institute for Virology located geographically?
00:22:48.600 It's not 10 miles away from where the outbreak occurred.
00:22:53.860 It's not 5 miles away.
00:22:55.560 It's not a mile away.
00:22:57.840 The Wuhan Institute for Virology is literally 400 yards away from the wet market where allegedly this outbreak began.
00:23:08.420 Not only that, we now know that three employees at the Wuhan Institute for Virology were medically treated and hospitalized in November of 2020 for serious flu-like symptoms that, in hindsight, sure look an awful lot like COVID-19.
00:23:27.280 We also know that in December of 2020, when Chinese doctors and whistleblowers began trying to shine the light on this virus, that the Chinese government disappeared them, hid them, silenced them, did everything they could to cover it up.
00:23:45.140 We also know that months earlier, the Chinese government was stockpiling protective medical equipment, things like masks and gloves, to limit the spread of a virus like COVID-19.
00:23:58.060 At this point, and frankly, two years ago, I think the overwhelming weight of the evidence, 80-90%, is that this virus escaped from a Chinese government lab.
00:24:12.180 Now, I'll go further than what John Radcliffe testified today.
00:24:16.940 I think the odds are significant.
00:24:19.940 I think that it is a preponderance of the evidence supports the hypothesis that COVID-19 didn't just escape from a Chinese government lab, but that it was genetically engineered and essentially created in a Chinese government lab.
00:24:36.220 They took a virus that occurs in nature with bats, and they modified it to make it more lethal and more transmissible.
00:24:47.420 And that particular proposition, I don't think, is proven to the same level of confidence that the proposition is that it escaped from a Chinese government lab.
00:24:58.280 But I think it's, oh, I don't know if I were to pick a number, 60, 65, maybe 75% likely.
00:25:05.780 I think it is more likely than not that it was genetically modified by the Chinese government to make it more lethal. 0.75
00:25:13.560 We know, and this is 100% fact, that the Chinese government covered it up, hid it, did everything they could to avoid accountability.
00:25:22.120 And we also know that the Biden administration and the Biden White House refuses to hold the Chinese government accountable.
00:25:30.040 Now, why, I don't know, is it that nine members of the Biden family were getting cash from the Chinese communist government or proxies thereof?
00:25:41.280 I don't know, but it sure seems to me the American people ought to be concerned.
00:25:45.460 And if we had a media that gave a damn about anything, they ought to be concerned.
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00:28:04.280 Senator, for three years, Dems have been trying to boot Dianne Feinstein off the Judiciary Committee. 1.00
00:28:10.160 Now Dems are redoubling their efforts because they want to confirm more radical nominees.
00:28:17.740 This is unprecedented, completely cynical, and deeply political is one of the ways that you could describe this entire fiasco.
00:28:26.760 So where are we now with this and what's going to take place when it comes to Dianne Feinstein basically being absent from work?
00:28:33.940 The Democrat Party is doing everything they can to drive Dianne Feinstein out of the United States Senate.
00:28:43.320 And to understand why, look, Dianne Feinstein has been in the Senate for decades.
00:28:46.940 Decades.
00:28:48.560 She is 89 years old.
00:28:52.260 She's much older than you are, much older than I am.
00:28:55.360 She's been in the Senate since you and I were in short shorts. 0.99
00:29:02.800 This really started in earnest three years ago with the Senate confirmation of Justice Amy Coney Barrett.
00:29:12.440 Now you recall that was at the end of the Trump administration.
00:29:15.520 And the Judiciary Committee took up the nomination quickly.
00:29:22.260 Justice Barrett was incredibly well qualified and she was confirmed.
00:29:26.680 The Democrats voted party line against her because that is their approach to judicial nominations at this point.
00:29:37.660 At the end of the hearing, when all was said and done, Dianne Feinstein was the ranking member.
00:29:42.800 She was the senior Democrat on the Judiciary Committee.
00:29:44.880 Lindsey Graham was the chairman.
00:29:46.940 At the end of the hearing, Dianne Feinstein very briefly hugged Lindsey Graham. 0.84
00:29:53.680 Now she did it because she and Lindsey have served on the committee for decades together. 0.85
00:29:57.920 And she was trying to be gracious.
00:29:59.580 But the radical left wing of the Democrat Party lost their mind.
00:30:07.380 They truly went into fits of rage that she would dare hug Lindsey Graham.
00:30:15.800 Now, Dianne Feinstein was slated to be the next chairman of the Judiciary Committee if the Democrats took the majority. 1.00
00:30:22.420 Because the radical left wing was so angry, within days, Chuck Schumer announced Feinstein is no longer in line to be chairman of the Judiciary Committee.
00:30:35.120 Basically, he took Feinstein to a back alley and effectively shot her.
00:30:40.600 And it was giving in to the most extreme left wing voices in the Democrat Party.
00:30:46.600 Instead, what he did is Dick Durbin was on the committee.
00:30:49.920 He was the next most senior member.
00:30:53.520 But Dick Durbin is also the number two person in the Democrat Party.
00:30:58.720 He is the majority whip.
00:31:00.960 Under Senate rules, typically, the majority leader, the minority leader, the majority whip, the minority whip, can't be a committee chairman also.
00:31:11.540 There's a basic principle that if you have one leadership position, you can't have another one.
00:31:15.280 Well, the Democrats decided, screw that.
00:31:18.620 We're going to make Dick Durbin both majority whip and chairman of the Judiciary Committee.
00:31:23.780 Why?
00:31:24.220 Because the radical left is so pissed at Dianne Feinstein.
00:31:27.600 All right, fast forward to now.
00:31:30.180 So Dianne, who's getting older, which all of us are, has shingles.
00:31:35.680 Shingles, by all accounts, is a horribly painful disease.
00:31:39.420 I'm grateful I haven't had it.
00:31:41.440 But everything I've heard about it, it sounds terrible.
00:31:43.360 Well, shingles is also curable.
00:31:47.200 It's not a permanent affliction, but it is very painful while you have it.
00:31:52.440 So Dianne has been out for a couple of months with shingles.
00:31:54.860 She's been at home recuperating.
00:31:57.780 The radical left is pissed because while Dianne is gone, the Democrats no longer have a majority on the Judiciary Committee.
00:32:08.420 Because they don't have a majority, it means they can't ram through their most radical and extreme judicial nominees.
00:32:17.820 Now, most of their judicial nominees they can pass.
00:32:21.080 Why?
00:32:21.500 Because on almost every Joe Biden nominee, Lindsey Graham votes for them.
00:32:26.800 He has a view that the opposing party should vote for the nominees of the other party, even if you disagree with their ideology.
00:32:36.360 Now, I don't agree with Lindsey's view, but that is his longstanding view.
00:32:40.340 He's voted to confirm numerous liberal Supreme Court justices.
00:32:44.260 He votes to confirm most Biden judicial nominees.
00:32:48.320 I vote against almost all Biden judicial nominees.
00:32:52.800 But given that Lindsey votes for practically all of them, the Democrats can move almost the entirety of Biden's judicial slate. 0.90
00:33:02.300 The ones they can't move are the most radical, are the most extreme, are the nominees that are so extreme they can't get even a single bipartisan vote.
00:33:13.580 And the reaction of the radical left wing, number one, their primary reaction is throw Dianne Feinstein out, force her to resign, shame her, throw her out of the Senate. 0.52
00:33:25.600 Her response to this has been to send a letter to Chuck Schumer saying, please temporarily remove me from the Judiciary Committee until I come back.
00:33:39.380 Now, as we sit here, I think the chances of that happening are exceptionally low.
00:33:47.420 There are two ways that could happen.
00:33:49.640 Number one, by unanimous consent.
00:33:51.100 So the way senators get on committees is at the beginning of a Congress, the Senate passes an organizing resolution.
00:33:59.580 The organizing resolution names the chairmen of every committee, names the ranking members of every committee, names the members of every committee.
00:34:06.380 And that usually takes several weeks.
00:34:09.840 It's negotiated between the majority leader and the minority leader.
00:34:13.360 Depending on the ratio of how many Republicans, how many Democrats, the balance of how many are on each committee is negotiated.
00:34:21.760 Once the two parties reach an agreement, that organizing resolution is typically passed by unanimous consent.
00:34:29.020 In other words, all 100 senators agree to it once the two sides have reached an agreement.
00:34:34.360 Now, if Schumer wants to change it, he has two ways to do it.
00:34:38.260 Number one, he could ask unanimous consent to remove Feinstein from Judiciary and plug some other Democrat in there.
00:34:44.640 That would take all 100 senators agreeing.
00:34:48.960 That will not happen.
00:34:51.340 Multiple Republican senators have said they would object.
00:34:53.920 I would object.
00:34:54.900 Like, there's no chance Schumer is going to get unanimous consent to do that because a bunch of us would object.
00:35:00.540 I don't see any reason why we should be complicit in helping the Democrats confirm their most radical and extreme nominees.
00:35:09.320 The second way he could do it is he could try to move it through regular order, which would take 60 votes, which would mean that he would need to get nine or 10 Republicans.
00:35:21.040 I don't think he'll do that.
00:35:23.640 Um, we've seen in the past few days, multiple Republicans come out and say, we're not going to help Schumer do this.
00:35:30.120 I think right now the chances that he gets enough Republicans to get 60 votes are really, really low.
00:35:37.920 Given that the Democrats are in a fix and what they're doing is they're just trying to put massive political pressure on Feinstein to get her to resign from the Senate.
00:35:49.920 If she resigns from the Senate, Gavin Newsom, the governor of California, look, there is a vigorous primary going on to replace Dianne Feinstein.
00:35:59.140 She's not running for re-election, so her seat will be up in 2024.
00:36:03.580 Uh, multiple Democrats are running.
00:36:05.480 Adam Schiff is running.
00:36:06.400 Katie Porter is running. 0.65
00:36:07.520 Barbara Lee is running.
00:36:09.300 Um, Gavin Newsom has promised if there's a vacancy, he will appoint an African-American woman and he will only appoint an African-American woman.
00:36:18.540 So if you're white, you need not apply. 0.78
00:36:21.160 If you're a man, you need not apply. 0.91
00:36:23.080 If you're Hispanic, you need not apply. 1.00
00:36:25.460 He is openly and explicitly racist and sexist in saying who he will appoint. 0.85
00:36:30.780 Now, if you look at the primary contenders, there's only one of those candidates who's an African-American woman. 1.00
00:36:35.720 That being said, I suppose Adam Schiff could announce tomorrow that he identifies as an African-American woman.
00:36:41.400 But absent his doing that, Barbara Lee is the only person who qualifies.
00:36:46.000 Um, the radical left would love for Feinstein to resign and Barbara Lee to be appointed to the race and give her a leg up over Schiff and Katie Porter. 0.99
00:36:56.440 I don't think that will happen, although the press and the Democrats are trying to shame her into it.
00:37:01.240 And I gotta say, Ben, I've been in the Senate 11 years. 0.86
00:37:04.260 Look, the Senate is a body with a crap ton of really old people. 1.00
00:37:08.940 Like the, the, the, there are a bunch of people in their seventies and eighties. 0.89
00:37:12.740 I've served with a bunch of colleagues who are way past their expiration date.
00:37:20.800 Um, it's striking to me that the only Senator I've ever seen that a party has tried to drive out because of health is Dianne Feinstein.
00:37:32.280 Listen, John McCain, who I served with for a long time, John McCain was hospitalized and was incapacitated for months.
00:37:39.640 He was the chairman of the armed services committee.
00:37:42.460 There was no effort to throw John McCain out of the Senate, nor should there have been.
00:37:46.540 I, I, I would not have supported that.
00:37:48.240 I didn't support that.
00:37:49.980 It's really striking. 0.82
00:37:51.820 By the way, right now, Joe Biden is profoundly mentally diminished.
00:37:58.000 None of these left-wing radicals calling for throwing Dianne Feinstein out or calling for throwing Joe Biden out.
00:38:04.100 And by the way, to be clear, John Fetterman, the Senator from Pennsylvania, has been medically unavailable and absent for most of this Congress.
00:38:13.980 He's been, been in the Senate only a few days since he was elected.
00:38:17.980 And none of these radicals who are calling to throw Dianne Feinstein out are calling to throw Fetterman out.
00:38:23.720 And so it raises an obvious question, why the double standard?
00:38:28.220 Why is she the target of their ire? 0.97
00:38:31.200 Yeah, it is shocking to see the way that they're treating her.
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00:40:18.040 Is there a chance, Senator, that this is going to backfire?
00:40:21.000 And I'm talking about just the human side of this.
00:40:23.560 That it seems so clear now what their goal is, how they're treating an older woman who has served,
00:40:29.360 clearly the people of California for decades on end,
00:40:32.260 trying to force her out while she's actually trying to heal from shingles.
00:40:35.440 Or is this just the Democratic Party in a nutshell?
00:40:38.820 And when they're done with you, they throw you away.
00:40:41.160 Well, look, I think it could backfire.
00:40:45.380 I'll be honest, I don't think the odds of that are terribly high.
00:40:49.500 Because I think the corporate media is so hypocritical, they won't hold Democrats to account.
00:40:55.240 I think their activists are so extreme, they won't care. 0.70
00:40:58.760 They're perfectly happy to throw Dianne Feinstein overboard.
00:41:01.640 And so I don't think there's actually a whole lot of downside now from the Democrats' perspective.
00:41:12.120 And I do want to say something.
00:41:13.720 Look, I like Dianne.
00:41:14.980 I've served with her 11 years.
00:41:16.260 She and I get along fairly well.
00:41:19.760 Um, it's worth noting there's some irony of my speaking out in defense of Dianne Feinstein,
00:41:27.260 while most Democrats are eagerly sticking a knife in her, 1.00
00:41:32.680 which is when I was a brand new baby senator, and I'd been in the Senate just a few months,
00:41:38.360 one of the very first things that happened was the horrific shooting in Newtown, Connecticut.
00:41:43.700 And the Democrats, the Democrats, Barack Obama had just been re-elected.
00:41:48.200 So I was elected in 2012.
00:41:49.800 So Obama was starting a second term.
00:41:52.720 And Chuck Schumer was on the Sunday shows just exultant, saying,
00:41:58.220 we're going to pass gun control.
00:41:59.940 We're in the sweet spot.
00:42:01.640 We want to take away everyone's guns.
00:42:04.400 And Dianne Feinstein was the point of the so-called assault weapons ban in the Senate. 1.00
00:42:09.680 She had advocated it for a long time.
00:42:12.080 And so we're in the Judiciary Committee, and I'm a brand new senator.
00:42:15.260 And we're at a hearing.
00:42:17.380 And I asked her, I said, um, in the Bill of Rights,
00:42:23.040 the Second Amendment uses the words,
00:42:27.980 the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
00:42:33.540 And I pointed out, I said, the right of the people,
00:42:35.920 when the framers wrote them into the Bill of Rights,
00:42:39.260 is a term of art.
00:42:40.420 And it's a term of art that they used repeatedly.
00:42:44.140 They used it in the First Amendment, the right of the people to peaceably assemble.
00:42:48.300 They used it in the Fourth Amendment,
00:42:50.980 the right of the people to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures.
00:42:54.700 Every time the framers used the phrase,
00:42:56.900 the right of the people, it referred to an individual right.
00:42:59.200 And I asked, her bill banning so-called assault weapons specified about 2,000 different weapons
00:43:07.920 that would be prohibited.
00:43:09.080 And it specified them by name.
00:43:10.700 And I said, given the Second Amendment uses the words,
00:43:14.500 the right of the people, as does the First Amendment, as does the Fourth Amendment,
00:43:17.800 would you be okay with legislation on another one of those amendments?
00:43:22.440 Let's say the First Amendment specifying 2,000 books that should be banned, that are no longer allowed.
00:43:29.100 What gives Congress the right to ignore the right of the people in the Bill of Rights?
00:43:36.880 Now, the response, Diane got very upset. 1.00
00:43:43.040 And she said, I am not a sixth grader.
00:43:48.720 She was really angry.
00:43:51.480 And she dressed me down.
00:43:53.740 And I have to admit, and this thing went viral.
00:43:55.720 It got a gazillion views online.
00:43:59.640 I have to admit, I was astonished.
00:44:01.320 I was brand new to the Senate.
00:44:02.480 And I was sitting there thinking, well, of course you're not a sixth grader.
00:44:05.220 I would never ask a sixth grader a substantive question about the United States Constitution
00:44:12.000 and the Bill of Rights.
00:44:12.860 You're a senator representing the largest state in the Union, California,
00:44:16.540 and a longtime senator serving on the Senate Judiciary Committee.
00:44:20.600 And you're proposing legislation that I think is contrary to the Constitution.
00:44:24.240 So I'm asking you a constitutional law question.
00:44:26.420 Like, it's obvious you're not a sixth grader.
00:44:29.060 And actually, given that hot exchange, so I can tell you in the months that followed it,
00:44:37.220 Diane and I repeatedly, we'd be in an elevator in the Capitol.
00:44:40.740 And she'd look at me and go, she'd look over me.
00:44:44.320 She'd kind of purse her lips and go, hello, tough guy. 0.95
00:44:48.200 And I would smile.
00:44:53.200 And I'd say, Diane, I'm sweetness and light.
00:44:57.900 I'm gentle as a kitty cat.
00:45:00.100 And she would say, is that what your wife tells you?
00:45:04.420 We had that conversation, I kid you not, three times, word for word in Senate elevators.
00:45:09.880 All of which is to say, there is some irony that I'm now defending Diane.
00:45:15.380 Yeah.
00:45:16.060 And actually, for the sake of our podcast listeners, let's go back through the way back machine.
00:45:23.160 This is in 2013.
00:45:24.840 I'm a brand new baby senator.
00:45:26.320 I'm 42 years old.
00:45:29.020 Let's play right now the back and forth between Diane Feinstein and me on guns. 0.96
00:45:34.040 And you can hear her explain to me that she's not a sixth grader.
00:45:37.620 It's to me that all of us should begin as our foundational document with the Constitution.
00:45:44.000 And the Second Amendment in the Bill of Rights provides that the right of the people to keep
00:45:47.720 and bear arms shall not be infringed.
00:45:50.280 The term, the right of the people, when the framers included it in the Bill of Rights,
00:45:55.440 they used it as a term of art.
00:45:56.940 That same phrase, the right of the people, is found in the First Amendment, the right of
00:46:00.780 the people to peaceably assemble and to petition their government for redress of grievances.
00:46:04.260 It's also found in the Fourth Amendment, the right of the people to be free
00:46:07.140 from unreasonable searches and seizures.
00:46:10.480 And the question that I would pose to the senior senator from California is,
00:46:14.860 would she deem it consistent with the Bill of Rights
00:46:17.200 for Congress to engage in the same endeavor that we are contemplating doing
00:46:22.800 with the Second Amendment in the context of the First or Fourth Amendment?
00:46:27.460 Namely, would she consider it constitutional for Congress to specify that the First Amendment 0.90
00:46:33.100 shall apply only to the following books and shall not apply to the books that Congress
00:46:37.880 has deemed outside the protection of the Bill of Rights?
00:46:40.940 Likewise, would she think that the Fourth Amendment's protection against searches and seizures
00:46:45.660 could properly apply only to the following specified individuals and not to the individuals
00:46:52.240 that Congress has deemed outside the protection of the Bill of Rights?
00:46:56.040 Would Senator yield for a question?
00:46:59.020 Let me just make a couple of points in response.
00:47:02.280 One, I'm not a sixth grader.
00:47:04.740 Senator, I've been on this committee for 20 years.
00:47:07.720 I was a mayor for nine years.
00:47:09.800 I walked in, I saw people shot.
00:47:12.020 I've looked at bodies that have been shot with these weapons.
00:47:14.960 I've seen the bullets that implode.
00:47:18.240 In Sandy Hook, youngsters were dismembered.
00:47:21.480 Look, there are other weapons.
00:47:24.020 I've been up, I'm not a lawyer, but after 20 years, I've been up close and personal to
00:47:29.720 the Constitution.
00:47:30.900 I have great respect for it.
00:47:33.380 This doesn't mean that weapons of war and the Heller decision clearly points out three
00:47:39.680 exceptions, two of which are pertinent here.
00:47:42.760 And so I, you know, I mean, it's fine you want to lecture me on the Constitution.
00:47:49.260 I appreciate it.
00:47:50.280 Just know I've been here for a long time.
00:47:52.980 I've passed on a number of bills.
00:47:55.080 I've studied the Constitution myself.
00:47:57.500 I am reasonably well educated.
00:48:00.060 And I thank you for the lecture.
00:48:01.960 Incidentally, this does not prohibit, you use the word prohibit, it exempts 2,271 weapons.
00:48:11.560 Isn't that enough for the people in the United States?
00:48:16.500 Do they need a bazooka?
00:48:18.900 Do they need other high-powered weapons that military people use to kill in close combat?
00:48:25.420 I don't think so.
00:48:27.220 So I come from a different place than you do.
00:48:30.540 I respect your views.
00:48:32.440 I ask you to respect my views.
00:48:34.340 Senator, I want to apologize to you.
00:48:37.780 You sort of got my dander up.
00:48:39.960 And that happens on occasion.
00:48:42.120 But first time ever, Mr. Chairman.
00:48:46.520 Senator, you can't make it up.
00:48:48.820 Your recollection is spot on on that one.
00:48:51.800 Well, and that was actually Pat Leahy who threw in the wry comment, first time ever.
00:48:56.760 So, look, the point is there's some irony that I'm now defending Dianne Feinstein, but it's because the radical left, she was more than eager to be the tip of the spear on gun control.
00:49:09.200 They loved her then.
00:49:10.500 But now their view is she has shingles, get the hell out, because we've got radical judges to confirm. 1.00
00:49:16.900 And again, it's worth noting that the judges, the vast majority of Biden judicial nominees can move forward.
00:49:28.500 It's only a handful of the nominees who are extreme.
00:49:32.660 And let me tell you some of the ones that they really want to move forward.
00:49:36.240 So there's a nominee named Michael Delaney.
00:49:38.400 Michael Delaney is nominated to the First Circuit Court of Appeals.
00:49:40.940 He was representing a very elite private school in litigation against a sexual assault victim, and he argued in court that the sexual assault victim should not be allowed to use a pseudonym, but rather should be publicly outed as a victim.
00:50:03.200 Now, that's a pretty extreme position.
00:50:05.540 It's a position that, frankly, none of the Democrats wanted to defend in this confirmation hearing.
00:50:12.220 And the only way they're going to report him to the floor is if Feinstein is back and they have a straight party line vote, because there are going to be no Republicans who vote for him.
00:50:20.200 Lindsey Graham has said he would vote no.
00:50:22.440 A second nominee is Sharnel Becklegren, who's nominated to the Eastern District of Washington.
00:50:29.860 Now, Becklegren, astonishingly enough, John Kennedy asked her, and we've played this on the podcast, asked her what Article 5 of the Constitution was.
00:50:39.220 She had no idea.
00:50:40.040 Article 5 is the provision that lays out how you amend the Constitution.
00:50:43.880 He then asked her, what is Article 2 of the Constitution?
00:50:48.300 Now, I've got to tell you, Ben, if you're not a lawyer, you might not know what Article 2 is.
00:50:52.480 But if you are a first-year law student and you're asked, what's Article 2, and your answer is, I don't know, you will flunk Con Law.
00:51:01.300 Article 2 is the provision of the Constitution that creates the president and the executive branch.
00:51:06.240 And the fact that she didn't know demonstrates she is manifestly unqualified to be a federal judge.
00:51:12.660 And by the way, Dick Durbin, the chairman of the committee, his defense was, well, gosh, there are a bunch of members of this committee who don't know what Article 2 is.
00:51:18.980 If there are any, they ought to get the hell off the Judiciary Committee.
00:51:23.120 You really ought to know what Article 2 is.
00:51:26.120 The Beckel-Grant is nominated to be what is called an Article 3 judge.
00:51:31.940 Article 3, which I suspect she has no idea what it is, is the provision that creates the judiciary.
00:51:38.080 The other two nominees are an individual named Cato Cruz, C-R-E-W-S, so not spelled like me,
00:51:45.940 a nominee to the District of Colorado, who failed to describe the holding of Brady v. Maryland,
00:51:52.480 a foundational criminal law case, and said, and it deals with the production of exculpatory evidence to defendants.
00:52:02.680 And instead, this nominee said, quote,
00:52:05.740 I believe the Brady case involves something regarding the Second Amendment.
00:52:09.300 I've not had occasion to address that.
00:52:11.980 That's a level of absolute unfamiliarity with criminal law that makes you unfit to be a judge.
00:52:19.760 And then the fourth nominee is someone named Marion Gaston, nominated in the Southern District of California,
00:52:26.480 who co-authored a position paper arguing that sex offender restrictions are too tough.
00:52:34.400 The paper argues, and this is a quote,
00:52:37.400 difficult as it might be, laws that regulate where sex offenders may not live should be repealed
00:52:43.860 or substantially modified in the interest of public safety.
00:52:47.900 The paper also noted, quote,
00:52:50.400 Children are not safer because registered sex offenders are prohibited from residing near schools,
00:52:57.940 parks, daycare centers, and other places where children tend to gather.
00:53:02.140 I got to say, Ben, for a radical leftist to argue, 0.99
00:53:06.520 we ought to be sending pedophiles to live next door to a school or a daycare is a holy crap moment. 0.98
00:53:13.340 And so those are the four nominees that this fight's all about, 0.99
00:53:18.060 because every other nominee, Lindsey Graham's going to vote for, 0.74
00:53:21.400 and they can move them to the floor.
00:53:22.860 This is about those four.
00:53:24.840 And the radical left is saying,
00:53:27.140 give us our most extreme nominees because that's who we want,
00:53:32.180 and we can't get that as long as Feinstein is home and ill.
00:53:36.780 Yeah, great point.
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