Verdict with Ted Cruz - Oil, Racism & CBS Discovers Hunter Biden's Laptop

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00:00:04.580 Welcome in his verdict with Senator Ted Cruz.

00:00:07.160 Ben Ferguson with you on this day after Thanksgiving.

00:00:10.060 Senator, a lot of people driving home today

00:00:12.480 seeing gas prices hit these numbers that they're not liking,

00:00:16.460 even though the administration wants you to believe

00:00:18.060 this is really low right now.

00:00:20.440 And then there's another question, and that is,

00:00:23.300 when do we start putting oil back

00:00:25.320 into our strategic petroleum reserves?

00:00:27.760 The Biden energy advisor was asked about this,

00:00:31.360 and his answer was pretty shocking.

00:00:34.020 Take a listen.

00:00:34.740 Well, okay, so a couple of things.

00:00:38.540 Number one, China lockdowns and the Fed raising rates

00:00:44.120 and trying to orchestrate maybe a slowdown at least,

00:00:48.620 whether it's a recession or not,

00:00:50.220 those aren't the greatest ways to lower the price of oil.

00:00:53.120 Plus, we've been tapping the SPR,

00:00:55.380 which a lot of people criticize,

00:00:57.640 especially if we're down below $80.

00:00:59.780 We're not today.

00:01:00.360 We're back up.

00:01:01.400 But definitely time to end that.

00:01:03.140 Would you start buying?

00:01:04.200 When would you start buying back the oil

00:01:06.360 to try to replenish that?

00:01:07.700 What kind of price would we be talking about, Amos?

00:01:10.360 Now, before the White House responds,

00:01:11.980 Senator, let's just set the stage here

00:01:13.720 on the strategic oil reserves

00:01:14.900 so people understand the abuse here.

00:01:16.960 The president decided he's got a problem.

00:01:19.920 Democrats were screaming about the problem.

00:01:22.040 If the price was too high on Election Day,

00:01:24.260 they thought they would lose, obviously,

00:01:25.620 the House and the Senate,

00:01:26.420 and it would be a red wave.

00:01:28.340 They decided to take the strategic oil reserves

00:01:30.200 and dump a million,

00:01:31.260 then two million barrels a day into the marketplace

00:01:33.500 to artificially lower the price.

00:01:36.740 You heard CNBC say,

00:01:38.080 a lot of people think this was not

00:01:39.500 how the strategic oil reserves must be used,

00:01:41.280 that this was a terrible decision,

00:01:42.800 that this was playing politics.

00:01:44.780 But not only that,

00:01:45.920 now to replenish that oil,

00:01:47.480 it's going to be a very high price.

00:01:51.320 Well, as you're driving home

00:01:53.420 from Thanksgiving today,

00:01:54.580 I will say there's good news and bad news.

00:02:01.400 The good news is that gas prices went down

00:02:06.620 a little bit over the last few months.

00:02:09.320 The bad news is gas prices are going way,

00:02:15.320 way up over the next two years.

00:02:18.320 In fact, it may be that the price you paid

00:02:21.320 to fill up your tank today,

00:02:22.640 it might end up being the lowest price you pay

00:02:24.800 for the next couple of years.

00:02:26.000 Why is that?

00:02:27.120 Because the policies of the Biden administration

00:02:29.540 have waged a relentless war

00:02:31.640 on U.S. oil and gas production.

00:02:34.760 They want gas prices to go up.

00:02:37.360 They want gas prices not just to be

00:02:40.080 $5, $6, $7 a gallon,

00:02:42.540 which is how high it got on the West Coast.

00:02:45.160 They want it to be $8, $9, $10 a gallon.

00:02:48.480 Because what they want to do

00:02:50.300 is they want to make it so painful

00:02:52.160 for you to fill your tank

00:02:53.480 that you sell your SUV,

00:02:56.480 you sell your minivan,

00:02:57.760 you sell your truck,

00:02:59.200 and you buy a little Prius

00:03:00.820 and zip along. 0.99

00:03:02.200 And their view is

00:03:04.080 the more burden they put on you,

00:03:06.160 they'll force you to comply.

00:03:07.920 Now, the Strategic Petroleum Reserve

00:03:11.340 was established

00:03:13.320 to protect our national security interests

00:03:15.920 so that if we're at a time of war

00:03:18.040 and our supply of oil gets cut off,

00:03:20.640 and it was also established at a time

00:03:22.080 when we were very energy dependent

00:03:24.020 and needed to import oil,

00:03:25.560 that our enemies couldn't cut off oil

00:03:27.580 and cripple our economy.

00:03:30.240 So it's there for national security

00:03:32.260 to protect us.

00:03:33.040 Now, the SPR, Strategic Petroleum Reserve,

00:03:36.780 in some way should be renamed

00:03:38.520 the Strategic Political Reserve

00:03:40.540 because Joe Biden has used it

00:03:43.260 simply as a political fund.

00:03:44.580 So moving into the election,

00:03:45.960 despite the fact that they want

00:03:47.300 higher gas prices,

00:03:48.680 there's one time that they don't want

00:03:50.020 higher gas prices,

00:03:51.160 and that is Election Day.

00:03:52.820 And so Biden has released

00:03:55.780 millions and millions of barrels of oil

00:03:58.520 from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve

00:04:00.120 in order to try to lower gasoline prices.

00:04:03.040 It was purely Election Day campaigning.

00:04:06.600 By the way, we know it's Election Day campaigning

00:04:08.540 because we know that when Biden

00:04:10.660 was talking to the Saudis

00:04:11.960 and asking them to delay

00:04:14.160 restricting output,

00:04:15.820 his request was,

00:04:17.740 could you just delay it

00:04:18.860 until after Election Day?

00:04:20.000 So we're past Election Day now.

00:04:22.460 He's perfectly fine

00:04:23.560 with gas prices going up.

00:04:25.460 And the degree to which

00:04:27.700 they politically manipulated this

00:04:30.680 is stunning.

00:04:33.100 Now, here's something

00:04:34.500 on top of all of this.

00:04:36.440 Biden is now talking about

00:04:38.360 refilling the SPR

00:04:41.100 when oil hits $75 a barrel.

00:04:45.980 Yeah, let's play that for people

00:04:47.500 so that they can hear

00:04:48.480 the White House's energy advisor

00:04:50.440 telling the world

00:04:51.860 what price he needs

00:04:52.940 to start buying oil again

00:04:54.320 to replenish

00:04:55.200 what we just put out in the market

00:04:56.800 to artificially

00:04:57.720 decrease the price

00:04:59.200 of a gallon of gas

00:04:59.880 to pump

00:05:00.280 so that they could get re-elected

00:05:01.520 on Election Day

00:05:02.160 in the midterms.

00:05:03.220 So we agree with you.

00:05:05.220 Look, we've been tapping the SPR

00:05:07.700 and I don't think

00:05:08.200 there's much criticism today

00:05:09.460 for what we've done.

00:05:10.620 That was a critical part.

00:05:12.980 The releases from the SPR

00:05:14.700 were a critical part

00:05:15.440 of bringing prices down

00:05:16.300 when we did them.

00:05:16.900 Just imagine if we had

00:05:18.540 not increased supply

00:05:20.340 by a million barrels a day.

00:05:21.680 But today,

00:05:22.360 we have to be really opportunistic

00:05:24.880 and look at the market

00:05:26.300 and where it is

00:05:27.120 to see if it makes sense

00:05:28.440 to do continued SPR releases.

00:05:30.820 The president would like

00:05:32.180 to replenish the SPR

00:05:33.840 in full

00:05:34.300 of what we released,

00:05:35.780 so an additional

00:05:36.440 180 to 200 million barrels.

00:05:38.540 And I think when prices

00:05:39.660 start reaching

00:05:40.260 towards that $70 mark,

00:05:42.080 that's when we're probably

00:05:43.300 going to be looking at

00:05:44.820 somewhere around that range

00:05:46.880 of 70, 72, 73,

00:05:48.940 or maybe a little bit

00:05:49.600 below that,

00:05:50.800 we'll look to immediately

00:05:52.980 begin to increase

00:05:54.120 and to repurchase oil

00:05:57.480 into the SPR.

00:05:58.780 And that's because

00:05:59.260 we need to have

00:06:00.300 an SPR that is full

00:06:02.440 than it is today

00:06:03.240 for national security

00:06:04.560 and economic emergencies

00:06:06.080 in the future.

00:06:07.240 We still have 400 million barrels.

00:06:08.900 That's a lot of barrels.

00:06:09.640 We still can manage

00:06:10.700 any emergency.

00:06:12.100 But looking into the future,

00:06:13.460 when prices come down

00:06:14.600 into that $70 range,

00:06:16.180 we're going to look

00:06:16.600 to be buyers in the market.

00:06:19.360 It's weird to tell people

00:06:20.700 your price, isn't it?

00:06:21.720 I mean, if this is about

00:06:22.500 national security,

00:06:23.360 as you just mentioned,

00:06:24.080 and not politics,

00:06:25.660 doesn't that seem odd

00:06:26.740 for the White House

00:06:27.380 to just throw this out there

00:06:28.740 of like, here's our price?

00:06:30.920 So it is weird,

00:06:32.120 but you need to understand

00:06:33.280 Democrats don't care 0.99

00:06:34.120 about national security.

00:06:35.340 It's not a priority for them.

00:06:37.020 This is purely politics.

00:06:38.640 I have to admit,

00:06:39.440 my favorite part of his answer

00:06:40.600 is he says,

00:06:41.400 well, no one's criticizing us now.

00:06:43.460 No, that's not accurate.

00:06:45.200 Everyone knows

00:06:45.860 you're obviously playing politics,

00:06:47.720 trying to engage

00:06:48.500 in electioneering

00:06:49.340 to lower gas prices,

00:06:50.920 not on an ongoing basis,

00:06:53.020 but for a brief moment in time,

00:06:55.540 right when people go to the polls.

00:06:57.520 You know, they're ready to stop now

00:06:58.960 because election day is over,

00:07:00.300 so let's get those gas prices up. 0.94

00:07:02.320 That's what Democrats want.

00:07:03.660 They want you to pay more.

00:07:05.400 And, you know, it's interesting.

00:07:06.520 So the price he gave was $70, $72, $73.

00:07:10.300 He's gone a little cheaper

00:07:11.840 than Biden was with the Saudis

00:07:14.040 when Biden was desperately negotiating

00:07:16.180 with the Saudis several months ago.

00:07:18.300 He told the Saudis,

00:07:20.320 if you don't announce

00:07:21.700 that you're restricting output,

00:07:24.180 I will promise to fill the SPR at $75.

00:07:27.980 That was the price he promised them

00:07:29.440 because they claimed,

00:07:30.920 well, we're going to do this

00:07:31.960 because we're concerned

00:07:32.760 that the price will fall too low.

00:07:34.580 And he said, well, I'll give you a price floor.

00:07:37.440 At $75, I promise to buy.

00:07:39.840 And the Saudis told him to go pound sand

00:07:41.900 because what Democrats have done

00:07:44.280 on foreign policy

00:07:45.300 is alienated all of our friends and allies

00:07:47.520 and empowered our enemies.

00:07:48.880 And so Saudi Arabia

00:07:50.480 is a very important ally to America,

00:07:52.560 but the Biden administration

00:07:54.480 hates the Saudis 1.00

00:07:55.620 because they're in bed with Iran. 1.00

00:07:57.780 Iran is led by a theocratic lunatic 1.00

00:08:00.560 who regularly chants 1.00

00:08:02.560 death to America and death to Israel. 0.99

00:08:04.340 And the Biden administration's response to that

00:08:06.720 is they want to send them

00:08:07.480 hundreds of billions of dollars

00:08:08.560 and facilitate the Ayatollah

00:08:10.180 getting nuclear weapons.

00:08:11.160 And the chief counterpoint

00:08:13.400 to Iran is Saudi Arabia.

00:08:15.480 And so the Biden administration

00:08:16.980 has undermined and insulted

00:08:18.340 the Saudis at every turn.

00:08:20.200 So when they asked them,

00:08:21.600 they said they'd set up a price floor.

00:08:24.000 The Saudis said pound sand.

00:08:25.160 Now, here's the interesting thing, Ben,

00:08:27.080 that shows that the Democrats

00:08:28.880 don't really care about national security

00:08:30.460 and they don't care about the taxpayers either.

00:08:33.240 So you just heard Biden's energy advisor

00:08:35.980 admit that the 200 million barrels of oil

00:08:39.240 that they've released

00:08:41.320 in order to try to buy gas prices down

00:08:43.360 right before Election Day,

00:08:44.400 that it makes us more vulnerable.

00:08:45.560 He said we need to fill it.

00:08:46.980 Under Biden, we're at the lowest level

00:08:49.080 in decades.

00:08:51.240 But here's the amazing thing

00:08:53.060 that Democrats almost never address.

00:08:56.700 In 2020, which was just two years ago,

00:08:58.920 oil was a lot cheaper.

00:09:03.320 It was $24 a barrel, $24 a barrel.

00:09:07.440 So Donald Trump issued an order

00:09:10.260 to fill the SPR to full capacity.

00:09:13.520 Now, that order made a lot of sense.

00:09:16.580 At $24 a barrel, that made a ton of sense.

00:09:19.780 And you know what happened?

00:09:21.500 Democrats in Congress blocked it.

00:09:24.080 They said, no, do not fill the SPR

00:09:27.920 at $24 a barrel.

00:09:29.740 So now Democrats are saying

00:09:32.000 fill it at $70 or $75 a barrel.

00:09:34.840 They don't care about the taxpayers.

00:09:37.000 It is all politics for the Democrats.

00:09:39.520 And it would have been three to one

00:09:40.820 just to put it in perspective.

00:09:42.060 I mean, literally the price

00:09:43.700 that they're saying is a good price now

00:09:45.360 to fill the strategic oil reserves

00:09:46.600 are saying what?

00:09:47.160 So let's just round it $75.

00:09:48.380 At $24 a barrel,

00:09:51.760 you could have bought three barrels of oil

00:09:53.240 for the same price as one

00:09:54.800 at their, quote, ideal price now.

00:09:56.580 And the only reason why they blocked

00:09:58.220 Donald Trump back then

00:09:59.260 is because of politics.

00:10:00.580 There was no other reason to block them

00:10:02.520 except they said Donald Trump wants it.

00:10:04.440 So we say no.

00:10:05.380 The White House press secretary

00:10:06.480 was asked about this.

00:10:08.080 Why replenishing the reserves

00:10:09.480 at that price is a good deal,

00:10:11.300 $75 a barrel now,

00:10:13.320 when buying it at $24 a barrel

00:10:15.460 was a bad deal just two years ago.

00:10:17.700 And she said, well, back in 2020,

00:10:19.480 when Congress was debating funding

00:10:21.520 for replenishing the SPR,

00:10:23.840 Democrats blocked it saying

00:10:25.100 it was a bailout for, quote, big oil.

00:10:28.640 Why is it good for taxpayers now?

00:10:30.140 She says, look, it was a different time.

00:10:32.520 It was not the same situation

00:10:34.100 that we're in currently.

00:10:35.700 The reserve was close

00:10:36.840 to full capacity at the time.

00:10:38.400 So there is no reason

00:10:40.020 to make that type of repurchase.

00:10:42.680 That's a response.

00:10:44.580 Ben, that's just stunning.

00:10:45.780 And look, she's right.

00:10:47.300 It was a different time.

00:10:48.400 It was a time when Democrats 0.77

00:10:49.580 were playing politics

00:10:50.560 to oppose Trump and Republicans.

00:10:52.200 Now Democrats are playing politics

00:10:54.240 to try to manipulate elections.

00:10:55.780 But, you know, I just did some quick math

00:10:58.460 on the calculator on my iPhone.

00:11:00.960 So the difference between $75

00:11:02.320 and $24 a barrel,

00:11:04.180 that's $51 a barrel.

00:11:07.240 $51 a barrel times 200 million barrels

00:11:12.000 is $1.2 billion.

00:11:17.160 What the Democrats did

00:11:18.700 is blocked filling the SPR

00:11:22.700 at a time when we could have had it

00:11:24.740 at record low prices.

00:11:26.280 And as a consequence now,

00:11:28.280 they want to spend

00:11:29.260 $10.2 billion taxpayer dollars

00:11:33.080 to fill it at three times

00:11:34.840 as high a price

00:11:35.740 because, A,

00:11:37.640 their horrible energy policies

00:11:39.600 have driven the price of oil

00:11:41.220 and the price of gas

00:11:42.200 to record highs,

00:11:43.460 but, B,

00:11:45.020 because they've also manipulated

00:11:47.220 the SPR for politics.

00:11:49.140 And it...

00:11:50.520 There have been

00:11:52.160 few more revealing moments

00:11:54.140 than when Biden asked the Saudis

00:11:57.020 delay your actions

00:11:58.780 until right after Election Day.

00:12:00.480 He didn't even say

00:12:01.120 the end of the year.

00:12:01.840 He said

00:12:03.660 right after Election Day.

00:12:06.060 So Joe Biden right now,

00:12:08.100 green light,

00:12:09.620 raise it sky high

00:12:11.200 because the Green New Deal radicals,

00:12:13.920 they want gasoline sky high.

00:12:16.360 That is their intended outcome.

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00:13:53.080 You mentioned the prices

00:13:56.100 and this administration

00:13:57.640 obviously saying

00:13:58.800 wait until right after

00:14:00.040 the election

00:14:00.560 to reduce your production.

00:14:03.200 There's also that

00:14:04.440 lingering question out there.

00:14:06.100 Yes, we don't have

00:14:07.020 control of the Senate.

00:14:08.620 Will there be any type

00:14:09.740 of investigation, though,

00:14:11.260 into our strategic

00:14:12.220 oil reserves,

00:14:12.960 filling that tanker,

00:14:14.400 going to this company

00:14:16.520 that Hunter Biden,

00:14:18.420 based on their,

00:14:19.220 at least on the company sheets,

00:14:21.220 show that he still

00:14:22.620 has ownership in?

00:14:24.020 But even if he doesn't

00:14:25.240 have ownership,

00:14:26.040 how is it that

00:14:26.780 when our strategic

00:14:27.460 oil reserves were released,

00:14:28.500 some of that oil

00:14:29.060 was going to a company

00:14:30.240 that the Biden family

00:14:32.340 had a vested interest in

00:14:34.480 when it was supposed

00:14:35.100 to be lowering the price

00:14:36.020 in this country?

00:14:36.820 Is that something

00:14:38.000 that Republicans

00:14:38.800 can still look into

00:14:39.980 when we have

00:14:40.760 this new Congress?

00:14:42.520 Well, it is,

00:14:43.480 and it's something

00:14:44.020 that I've got

00:14:44.560 a high level of confidence

00:14:45.620 the House will look into.

00:14:47.840 If you look at

00:14:48.760 what Comer said

00:14:49.560 in this press conference

00:14:50.420 and Jim Jordan,

00:14:51.760 they are appropriately

00:14:53.260 focusing on evidence

00:14:55.000 of corruption of Joe Biden.

00:14:56.980 They're not getting

00:14:57.860 distracted by DOJ

00:14:59.840 trying to focus

00:15:01.100 on Hunter Biden's

00:15:02.620 drug use.

00:15:03.320 They're instead focused

00:15:04.180 on was there corruption

00:15:06.120 at the highest level

00:15:06.980 of government?

00:15:07.640 And this is obviously

00:15:08.440 part of it,

00:15:09.120 that if you have

00:15:10.020 official decisions

00:15:11.340 selling millions

00:15:13.120 of barrels of oil

00:15:14.140 to a company

00:15:14.880 that directly profits

00:15:16.440 Biden's family,

00:15:17.360 that raises

00:15:18.800 very serious issues

00:15:20.240 of corruption.

00:15:20.860 I'm confident

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00:15:55.100 I want to move

00:15:55.960 to another issue,

00:15:57.000 and this is one of those

00:15:57.980 when I love doing verdict

00:15:59.000 because we get to go

00:16:00.080 really deep

00:16:01.480 into a story

00:16:02.600 that is,

00:16:03.160 I think,

00:16:03.960 very important,

00:16:05.340 and it comes

00:16:06.040 from the legal field.

00:16:07.620 You're obviously a lawyer.

00:16:09.180 I want to get your opinion

00:16:10.300 on this new piece

00:16:11.380 of news

00:16:11.860 that we just got this week

00:16:13.060 that the American Bar Association

00:16:14.800 has now voted

00:16:16.420 to end law school's

00:16:18.780 LSAT requirements

00:16:20.060 in the year 2025.

00:16:23.000 This doesn't just apply

00:16:24.040 to the LSAT,

00:16:24.940 but to all potential

00:16:26.240 admissions testing.

00:16:28.380 It wasn't long ago

00:16:29.680 when they tried to do this

00:16:30.600 in November 2021

00:16:31.500 that they started accepting

00:16:32.900 the GRE alongside the LSAT,

00:16:35.700 and now it looks like

00:16:36.640 they are eradicating

00:16:38.080 all entrance testing

00:16:39.760 altogether.

00:16:40.760 this is a rule change

00:16:43.480 that doesn't make

00:16:44.180 any sense to me.

00:16:46.400 Well,

00:16:47.100 it does make sense,

00:16:48.620 but not in a way

00:16:49.340 that will make you

00:16:50.220 remotely happy

00:16:51.080 or encouraged,

00:16:52.020 which is the modern left

00:16:53.860 are racists. 0.92

00:16:56.060 They are dedicated,

00:16:58.280 passionately dedicated,

00:16:59.640 to discriminating

00:17:01.340 based on race.

00:17:02.820 They believe

00:17:03.960 in racial discrimination.

00:17:05.520 my latest book,

00:17:08.340 Justice Corrupted,

00:17:09.300 How the Left

00:17:09.800 Has Weaponized

00:17:10.460 the Legal System.

00:17:11.260 There's an entire chapter

00:17:12.320 on critical race theory.

00:17:14.140 There's an entire chapter

00:17:15.180 on affirmative action.

00:17:16.900 It lays out the history

00:17:18.940 of how Democrats

00:17:20.500 believe there is virtue

00:17:22.260 in discriminating

00:17:24.640 against oppressors,

00:17:26.140 by which they mean

00:17:27.160 white people,

00:17:28.020 although they also,

00:17:29.240 oddly enough,

00:17:30.720 embrace discriminating

00:17:32.060 against Asian Americans 0.99

00:17:33.340 who are not

00:17:34.100 in their taxonomy

00:17:35.880 oppressors,

00:17:36.820 but they've done

00:17:38.200 too well,

00:17:38.960 and if you've done

00:17:39.640 too well,

00:17:41.340 you know,

00:17:41.560 it's like Harrison

00:17:42.260 Bergeron,

00:17:43.860 they're going to put

00:17:44.900 weights on you

00:17:46.660 and they're going

00:17:47.400 to discriminate

00:17:47.940 against you.

00:17:48.840 And so,

00:17:49.600 what is this about?

00:17:51.380 And I'll tell you

00:17:51.880 that the announcement

00:17:52.860 that the ABA committee

00:17:54.700 recommended eliminating

00:17:56.280 the requirement

00:17:57.040 of the LSAT

00:17:58.020 is connected

00:17:58.620 to another story

00:17:59.500 that broke

00:17:59.920 at the same time,

00:18:01.380 which is Yale Law School

00:18:02.780 announced that

00:18:04.340 it was going

00:18:05.000 to stop participating

00:18:06.220 in the U.S. News

00:18:07.240 and World Report

00:18:07.980 rankings of law schools.

00:18:09.580 Now,

00:18:09.980 that was an odd

00:18:10.900 announcement.

00:18:11.580 Why?

00:18:11.920 Because Yale Law School

00:18:12.760 has been number one

00:18:13.880 in the U.S. News

00:18:15.140 and World Reports

00:18:15.780 rankings for years.

00:18:17.300 It's consistently

00:18:18.060 number one

00:18:18.780 over and over

00:18:19.280 and over again.

00:18:21.120 Shortly thereafter,

00:18:23.060 Harvard Law School,

00:18:24.120 which is often

00:18:25.260 number two

00:18:25.920 in those rankings,

00:18:27.500 announced it was going

00:18:28.820 to stop participating

00:18:29.840 as well.

00:18:30.340 Now,

00:18:31.700 why are these

00:18:32.520 all connected?

00:18:34.000 Because all of these

00:18:35.560 flow from the Supreme Court's

00:18:37.620 case that is currently pending,

00:18:40.020 challenging affirmative action

00:18:41.680 in law schools.

00:18:42.540 And there's a case

00:18:43.340 against Harvard Law School

00:18:44.980 and there's a case

00:18:46.320 against University of North Carolina

00:18:48.220 Chapel Hill.

00:18:48.940 One is a private institution,

00:18:50.360 one is a government institution.

00:18:51.840 It's challenging

00:18:52.720 their explicit

00:18:54.300 racial discrimination.

00:18:55.420 And Harvard

00:18:57.240 and Yale

00:18:57.840 and lots of schools

00:18:58.960 actively discriminate

00:19:00.880 against Asian Americans 0.99

00:19:02.100 because Asian Americans

00:19:04.280 in their determination

00:19:05.200 are too successful.

00:19:06.420 They do too well

00:19:07.100 academically.

00:19:07.900 And so,

00:19:08.720 just like Harvard

00:19:09.660 in the 1950s

00:19:10.760 had Jewish quotas 0.65

00:19:11.760 because without the quotas

00:19:13.480 from their racist perspective, 0.92

00:19:14.900 you'd have too many Jews. 1.00

00:19:16.720 Well,

00:19:17.240 now,

00:19:17.780 from their left-wing

00:19:18.740 racist perspective,

00:19:19.860 without the racial quotas,

00:19:21.020 you'd have too many Asians. 1.00

00:19:22.140 So,

00:19:22.740 let's discriminate 1.00

00:19:23.340 against them.

00:19:24.040 Most observers,

00:19:26.520 myself included,

00:19:28.200 believe the Supreme Court

00:19:29.640 is going to rule

00:19:30.460 against the universities

00:19:31.600 and is going to rule

00:19:32.720 that it is illegal

00:19:34.040 to discriminate

00:19:35.400 based on race,

00:19:36.360 which is going to mean

00:19:37.200 their affirmative action policies

00:19:38.840 where they're eagerly

00:19:39.960 and aggressively discriminating

00:19:41.920 are going to be illegal.

00:19:44.000 This decision on the LSAT

00:19:45.620 is a direct response to that.

00:19:46.980 Why is that?

00:19:48.560 Because,

00:19:49.420 part of the reason

00:19:50.020 you can make this case

00:19:51.340 that they're discriminating

00:19:52.720 against Asian Americans 0.99

00:19:53.720 is you look at

00:19:55.440 the LSAT scores

00:19:56.900 and the GPAs

00:19:57.800 of Asian American applicants

00:19:58.960 and they are

00:19:59.820 substantially higher

00:20:01.660 than many of the individuals,

00:20:04.440 in particular,

00:20:05.220 Hispanics and African Americans

00:20:06.500 that they admit

00:20:07.240 who have lower LSATs

00:20:08.540 and lower GPAs,

00:20:09.520 but they admit them

00:20:10.200 based on affirmative action.

00:20:11.720 So,

00:20:11.960 here's what the law schools

00:20:12.720 are trying to do.

00:20:14.120 Get rid

00:20:14.980 of the LSAT

00:20:16.480 so you don't have

00:20:17.860 an objective score

00:20:18.780 because the entire reason

00:20:21.200 and what does

00:20:22.580 U.S. News and World Report

00:20:23.580 have to do with it?

00:20:24.880 Well,

00:20:26.200 in the rankings

00:20:26.940 on U.S. News and World Report,

00:20:29.580 they put significant weighting,

00:20:31.620 I think it's about 20%

00:20:32.800 if I remember correctly,

00:20:34.380 on the average LSAT score

00:20:36.420 of your students,

00:20:38.680 which means

00:20:40.100 if, let's say,

00:20:40.920 Yale suddenly started saying

00:20:42.480 we're not taking the LSAT

00:20:43.780 and the average LSAT score,

00:20:45.440 so they did badly on that,

00:20:46.640 Yale's ranking would drop.

00:20:48.700 And you've got to understand, 0.99

00:20:50.320 these racist leftists 0.97

00:20:51.480 are not actually willing 0.95

00:20:52.540 to diminish

00:20:54.460 their self-declared prestige.

00:20:57.200 So,

00:20:57.700 they're pulling out

00:20:58.380 of the rankings

00:20:59.060 so that they don't have

00:21:01.140 to pay a price

00:21:02.120 for then eliminating

00:21:03.460 the LSAT

00:21:04.240 and all of this

00:21:06.080 is designed

00:21:06.760 so they can say

00:21:07.520 our admissions process,

00:21:09.240 no, no, no, no,

00:21:09.780 we don't look

00:21:10.400 at objective numbers.

00:21:11.720 We just look

00:21:12.860 at a holistic assessment

00:21:14.620 of the total

00:21:16.620 student

00:21:17.080 and wonder of wonder

00:21:18.340 we end up rejecting

00:21:19.960 the same Asian Americans 0.91

00:21:21.160 because we don't want

00:21:21.800 too many of them,

00:21:22.520 that's their racist view,

00:21:24.440 and we end up admitting

00:21:25.780 the other students

00:21:27.400 who we want,

00:21:28.940 this is all about

00:21:30.240 affirmative action

00:21:31.080 and they're running away

00:21:32.220 from any objective

00:21:33.800 indicia

00:21:34.520 of merit

00:21:36.120 or academic success.

00:21:38.520 Who are the biggest losers

00:21:39.900 here

00:21:40.420 and the biggest winners

00:21:41.260 because you mentioned

00:21:42.220 obviously Asian Americans

00:21:43.520 and they're going

00:21:45.100 to basically

00:21:45.740 straight up

00:21:46.740 be racist 0.93

00:21:47.240 against them

00:21:47.920 but who else

00:21:48.800 does this hurt

00:21:49.880 in the admissions process

00:21:51.140 if they continue

00:21:52.520 to move down

00:21:53.060 this path?

00:21:54.280 Well,

00:21:54.820 it hurts people

00:21:55.680 based on merit.

00:21:56.560 So one of the things

00:21:57.280 interestingly enough

00:21:58.020 these schools

00:21:58.440 are not moving away

00:21:59.340 from is legacy preferences.

00:22:01.760 So you have a leg up

00:22:03.220 on getting into

00:22:03.780 these schools

00:22:04.360 if daddy went there,

00:22:06.260 if mom went there.

00:22:08.000 But if not,

00:22:09.160 listen,

00:22:10.260 I'm an Hispanic guy

00:22:11.520 who went to Princeton

00:22:12.900 and Harvard

00:22:13.420 and mommy and daddy

00:22:14.620 didn't go there.

00:22:15.820 I'm not a legacy.

00:22:17.240 I didn't come from money.

00:22:18.380 In fact,

00:22:18.740 when I went to college

00:22:20.320 my parents had just

00:22:21.680 gone bankrupt.

00:22:22.680 They were in the oil

00:22:23.280 and gas business.

00:22:24.000 We were talking oil and gas.

00:22:25.480 It was the 80s,

00:22:26.420 oil cratered

00:22:27.280 and we lost our home.

00:22:28.820 We lost everything.

00:22:30.560 And so I'm a 17-year-old kid,

00:22:32.880 the son of a Cuban immigrant,

00:22:34.280 doesn't know anybody,

00:22:35.360 has no connections.

00:22:37.280 But I got in,

00:22:38.480 I got into school

00:22:39.380 because I had really good grades

00:22:40.840 in high school

00:22:41.320 and I did really well

00:22:42.080 in the SAT.

00:22:43.400 Which, by the way,

00:22:44.200 is a terrible thing

00:22:45.180 to admit, Ben.

00:22:46.240 You're a much cooler guy

00:22:47.640 who played varsity tennis

00:22:49.560 at Ole Miss.

00:22:50.480 I can promise you,

00:22:52.220 you go to a bar

00:22:53.900 and as a college kid,

00:22:56.280 the worst pickup line

00:22:57.660 on planet Earth is,

00:22:59.200 hey, want to see

00:22:59.740 my SAT score?

00:23:01.040 Yeah, that's just not

00:23:02.560 going to work.

00:23:02.900 Even at Harvard and Yale,

00:23:03.940 I'm not sure

00:23:04.340 that gives you much.

00:23:05.280 It just does,

00:23:05.940 does not work.

00:23:07.000 But it meant

00:23:08.760 that a kid

00:23:10.240 with no connections,

00:23:11.480 with no wealth

00:23:13.540 could get in.

00:23:15.020 And the same thing's true 0.78

00:23:16.080 when I went to Harvard

00:23:17.280 that I,

00:23:20.200 that between my grades

00:23:21.600 and my LSAT got in.

00:23:24.460 They want to move away

00:23:25.920 from that

00:23:26.520 and they want to move away

00:23:27.680 from merit.

00:23:28.400 What they want to find also

00:23:29.980 are people who are leftists

00:23:32.440 and woke.

00:23:32.940 So if you go and organize,

00:23:35.320 you know,

00:23:36.300 a transgender protest 0.87

00:23:38.020 to shut down corporate America,

00:23:40.860 Yale Law School,

00:23:41.640 here you come, baby.

00:23:42.980 Like, you know,

00:23:43.880 go find,

00:23:44.840 actually,

00:23:45.180 we talked about this

00:23:46.220 a couple of pods ago

00:23:48.540 when we were talking

00:23:50.480 about Sam Bankman-Fried

00:23:51.620 and the direct message

00:23:52.960 he was saying about

00:23:53.940 we do these woke shibboleths

00:23:55.720 because people will like us.

00:23:57.520 Eliminating the LSAT

00:24:00.180 removes one

00:24:02.500 objective differentiator.

00:24:06.760 You know,

00:24:07.340 I remember at the time,

00:24:08.720 so when I was in law school,

00:24:10.720 my roommate

00:24:11.740 and best friend in the world

00:24:13.780 other than Heidi,

00:24:14.520 who is my best, best friend,

00:24:15.680 but my best friend

00:24:16.440 to whom I'm not married

00:24:17.520 is a guy named David Panton.

00:24:19.980 David was my roommate

00:24:21.060 in college,

00:24:22.540 my roommate in law school.

00:24:25.060 And in law school,

00:24:26.480 he was the president

00:24:29.000 of the Harvard Law Review.

00:24:31.480 Barack Obama,

00:24:32.440 you may recall,

00:24:33.160 was the first black president

00:24:34.540 of the Harvard Law Review.

00:24:36.380 David Panton

00:24:37.200 was the second black president

00:24:38.640 of the Harvard Law Review.

00:24:40.200 And David and I

00:24:41.060 were roommates,

00:24:41.680 we were debate partners,

00:24:42.580 and it was interesting

00:24:43.160 at the time.

00:24:43.700 At the time,

00:24:44.240 the LSAT was scored

00:24:45.760 on a 48-point scale,

00:24:48.440 so a perfect score

00:24:49.480 was a 48 at the time.

00:24:51.900 It's kind of a weird scoring,

00:24:53.220 but that's how they did it.

00:24:55.220 At the time,

00:24:56.280 I remember reading

00:24:57.240 a stat

00:24:57.920 that nationally

00:24:59.780 there were fewer

00:25:02.000 than 50 5-0

00:25:03.860 African Americans

00:25:05.420 who had scored

00:25:06.320 40 or above

00:25:07.460 on the LSAT,

00:25:09.000 which David had done.

00:25:11.120 And so I joked,

00:25:12.360 I'm like,

00:25:12.760 David,

00:25:13.100 dude,

00:25:13.860 I'm roommates

00:25:14.640 with 2%

00:25:16.020 of the African Americans

00:25:19.140 who scored above that line.

00:25:20.260 Now,

00:25:20.400 let me say,

00:25:21.040 let me be very clear.

00:25:21.920 I think the fact

00:25:23.920 that you don't have

00:25:24.820 more African American

00:25:25.880 and Hispanic kids

00:25:26.880 scoring much,

00:25:27.680 much higher

00:25:28.080 on those tests

00:25:28.860 is a compelling indictment

00:25:32.420 of our K-12 education system

00:25:34.980 in this country.

00:25:36.140 That there ought to be,

00:25:37.160 there are a lot of

00:25:38.180 really smart,

00:25:39.960 talented minority kids,

00:25:42.100 and many of them

00:25:43.020 are trapped

00:25:43.540 in failing schools.

00:25:44.500 It's one of the reasons

00:25:45.180 I'm so passionate

00:25:46.200 about school choice,

00:25:47.680 because I want to

00:25:48.380 give these kids

00:25:49.240 the chance

00:25:50.300 and opportunities

00:25:51.080 to exceed

00:25:52.060 so that you're seeing

00:25:53.820 hundreds and thousands

00:25:56.700 more African Americans

00:25:58.760 and Hispanics

00:25:59.400 scoring really well

00:26:00.180 on these tests.

00:26:01.140 But,

00:26:01.700 and that stat

00:26:03.260 is also 25 years old too,

00:26:06.160 so the current stats

00:26:07.280 have changed somewhat.

00:26:08.980 That's what

00:26:10.000 the law schools

00:26:11.000 are trying to move away from

00:26:12.380 because rather than address

00:26:13.760 the underlying issues,

00:26:15.360 they embrace discrimination.

00:26:19.000 They believe

00:26:19.740 it is morally virtuous

00:26:21.800 to discriminate,

00:26:23.260 and as you move away

00:26:24.700 from objective

00:26:25.660 indicators of merit,

00:26:28.800 something that people

00:26:29.680 can work hard to achieve,

00:26:31.700 you move instead

00:26:33.080 into subjective,

00:26:34.620 which means you move

00:26:36.000 into the political.

00:26:37.080 This enables also

00:26:38.620 Harvard and Yale

00:26:39.400 and the other schools

00:26:40.340 to go fill their schools

00:26:42.540 with an army of woke leftists

00:26:44.480 who then will go on

00:26:46.280 to all the law firms,

00:26:47.220 will go on

00:26:47.680 to all the investment banks,

00:26:48.940 will go on

00:26:49.420 to corporate America,

00:26:50.400 and will continue

00:26:51.660 to populate

00:26:52.760 the commanding heights

00:26:55.240 of our major institutions.

00:26:57.140 It's going to be interesting

00:26:58.340 to see, Senator,

00:26:59.780 what happens with this

00:27:01.120 because it is,

00:27:01.920 as you said,

00:27:02.620 it's going to have

00:27:03.200 a huge impact on people,

00:27:05.240 and it's going to have

00:27:06.220 a huge impact

00:27:06.920 on who gets

00:27:07.620 into these law schools,

00:27:08.440 and like you said,

00:27:09.100 it all comes down

00:27:09.920 to an issue

00:27:10.280 of basically racism

00:27:11.360 for them.

00:27:12.560 They always scream

00:27:13.540 everybody else to racist,

00:27:14.720 but look at what

00:27:15.340 they're doing right here,

00:27:16.200 and it's a very important

00:27:17.280 thing to keep an eye on.

00:27:18.640 I want to move

00:27:19.580 to one of the best

00:27:20.480 fails of the week,

00:27:22.180 and this deals

00:27:23.360 with CBS News.

00:27:25.320 CBS News Center

00:27:26.600 came out,

00:27:27.620 and they announced

00:27:29.120 that they were going

00:27:30.480 to pause their activity

00:27:31.920 on Twitter.

00:27:33.220 It was moral

00:27:34.360 and fair to them

00:27:35.180 for them to do this.

00:27:36.300 They were trying

00:27:36.960 to lead a train,

00:27:38.340 a bandwagon of people

00:27:39.620 that were going

00:27:40.640 to leave with them.

00:27:41.740 It was Virtue Signaling 101,

00:27:43.540 it was a fail.

00:27:45.140 They announced

00:27:46.040 that they were pausing

00:27:47.100 their activity

00:27:47.780 on Twitter.

00:27:48.880 How big of a screw-up

00:27:50.680 was this?

00:27:51.360 CBS returned to Twitter

00:27:52.880 after bravely leaving

00:27:54.580 for one day,

00:27:56.100 16 hours and 31 minutes,

00:27:58.600 and they came crawling back

00:28:00.060 as no one followed them.

00:28:01.700 Here was their big announcement.

00:28:03.400 And Musk has called

00:28:04.300 for an emergency meeting

00:28:05.300 for all remaining engineers.

00:28:07.580 In light of the uncertainty

00:28:08.500 around Twitter

00:28:09.160 and out of an abundance

00:28:10.180 of caution,

00:28:10.780 CBS News is pausing

00:28:12.820 its activity

00:28:13.500 on the social media site

00:28:14.540 as it continues

00:28:15.640 to monitor the platform,

00:28:17.060 Major.

00:28:17.760 Johnson Vigliotti.

00:28:19.140 I mean, I love this.

00:28:20.460 They're like,

00:28:20.940 we're going to,

00:28:21.840 in light of Elon Musk

00:28:24.120 running Twitter

00:28:24.940 like a company,

00:28:26.500 right,

00:28:26.820 instead of having

00:28:28.240 and actually trying

00:28:29.660 to figure out a way

00:28:30.360 to make money

00:28:30.920 off of a business

00:28:31.600 that's never made money,

00:28:33.140 we're going to pause

00:28:34.560 because we don't like

00:28:35.900 what they're doing,

00:28:36.940 and then they come

00:28:38.220 crawling back.

00:28:39.660 This on top of the fact

00:28:41.180 that CBS News

00:28:43.040 also came out

00:28:44.280 like they were

00:28:44.800 breaking news

00:28:46.000 more than two years

00:28:47.280 after the New York Post

00:28:48.440 broke the news

00:28:49.160 of the Hunter Biden laptop.

00:28:51.840 CBS News,

00:28:52.640 by the way,

00:28:52.960 reported that the laptop

00:28:53.940 now is authentic.

00:28:55.260 It took them more than

00:28:55.920 two years to do this.

00:28:57.560 Just days after

00:28:58.760 the second election,

00:28:59.940 they did,

00:29:00.320 you know,

00:29:01.120 the second election

00:29:01.880 they missed, right?

00:29:02.800 They missed the first one,

00:29:03.740 they missed the second one,

00:29:05.140 the midterms,

00:29:05.800 and now they're like,

00:29:06.460 all right,

00:29:06.720 well,

00:29:06.900 now that we've gotten

00:29:07.680 through the midterms,

00:29:08.580 now that we got

00:29:09.000 through the last presidential,

00:29:10.640 we're going to come out

00:29:12.020 and break news

00:29:13.500 that the Hunter Biden laptop

00:29:15.200 is officially authentic.

00:29:17.720 That's their line.

00:29:19.280 Well,

00:29:19.920 the corporate media

00:29:20.880 is fundamentally corrupt.

00:29:23.340 They are broken.

00:29:24.400 They are damaged

00:29:25.380 and destroyed.

00:29:26.400 So let's focus

00:29:27.780 on the substance

00:29:28.440 of what they said.

00:29:29.580 They said,

00:29:30.240 well,

00:29:30.860 in an abundance of caution,

00:29:32.560 we're going to go

00:29:33.240 off Twitter.

00:29:33.940 Now,

00:29:34.780 they're not being cautious

00:29:35.880 about there's some engineers

00:29:37.140 that are mad.

00:29:37.740 That's not a reason

00:29:38.300 to go off Twitter.

00:29:39.060 Like,

00:29:39.260 what do they care

00:29:39.800 if engineers are yelling

00:29:40.660 at each other

00:29:41.120 or getting fired?

00:29:42.020 They were not protesting

00:29:43.700 the internal management

00:29:45.260 policies at Twitter.

00:29:46.840 They were protesting

00:29:47.880 one thing

00:29:48.480 and one thing only,

00:29:49.900 which is that

00:29:50.440 Elon Musk has said

00:29:51.560 he's going to stop

00:29:52.660 political censorship.

00:29:53.820 And so,

00:29:54.400 for example,

00:29:55.100 he's allowed

00:29:55.700 Jordan Peterson

00:29:56.880 back on Twitter.

00:29:57.740 He's allowed

00:29:58.180 the Babylon Bee

00:29:58.920 back on Twitter.

00:29:59.880 He's allowed

00:30:00.500 Donald Trump

00:30:01.120 back on Twitter,

00:30:02.000 although as of now,

00:30:03.580 Trump hasn't gone

00:30:04.440 back on Twitter,

00:30:05.140 but he's allowed back.

00:30:07.500 And the corporate media,

00:30:09.200 they are so fundamentally

00:30:11.020 damaged

00:30:11.940 that their view is

00:30:14.380 if you do not censor

00:30:17.600 anyone who disagrees

00:30:19.880 with us,

00:30:20.680 we can't handle it.

00:30:22.800 We are fragile

00:30:23.680 little snowflakes

00:30:24.740 and we are going

00:30:25.960 to go hide

00:30:26.880 because not only

00:30:28.780 are we propagandists,

00:30:30.120 not only do we tell

00:30:31.460 a corporate story

00:30:33.060 decided by the corporate

00:30:34.280 head honchos

00:30:34.940 at our media offices,

00:30:36.560 but we're not even

00:30:38.960 prepared to defend

00:30:39.880 the lies we're telling.

00:30:41.140 And if anyone can point out

00:30:42.300 the lies we're telling,

00:30:43.520 we're going to curl up

00:30:44.480 at a ball

00:30:44.900 and hide in the corner. 0.71

00:30:47.340 It truly,

00:30:48.680 can you imagine

00:30:49.920 Walter Cronkite

00:30:51.060 saying such a thing?

00:30:53.020 Can you imagine

00:30:54.080 Ted Koppel

00:30:54.920 who hosted Nightline

00:30:56.380 for years?

00:30:56.740 Can you imagine

00:30:57.160 Tim Russert?

00:30:58.360 Like,

00:30:58.560 there used to be

00:31:00.140 journalists

00:31:01.240 and journalists

00:31:03.020 who were not terrified

00:31:04.460 of someone

00:31:05.960 who disagreed

00:31:06.760 with them

00:31:07.180 because they actually

00:31:08.120 knew some facts

00:31:09.000 and they could,

00:31:09.500 and I'm not saying,

00:31:11.180 by the way,

00:31:11.540 those journalists

00:31:12.120 were not biased.

00:31:13.200 There's been journalistic

00:31:14.240 bias for a long time,

00:31:15.520 but journalists

00:31:16.820 didn't used to be

00:31:17.940 complete and utter 0.65

00:31:19.080 wusses. 0.97

00:31:20.800 And I'm sorry, 0.76

00:31:21.760 the corporate media,

00:31:23.540 their reaction,

00:31:24.760 they're running away

00:31:25.940 from free speech.

00:31:27.200 How does anyone

00:31:27.940 that considers

00:31:28.800 themselves a journalist

00:31:30.140 run screaming away

00:31:32.160 from free speech?

00:31:32.980 Now,

00:31:33.200 you noted

00:31:33.620 their,

00:31:34.980 quote,

00:31:35.060 boycott

00:31:35.580 lasted just over a day

00:31:38.020 because no one

00:31:39.180 followed them.

00:31:39.820 And,

00:31:40.040 you know,

00:31:40.460 you're trying to lead

00:31:41.520 a parade

00:31:42.000 and you start marching

00:31:42.920 and swinging your arms

00:31:44.920 wildly

00:31:45.380 and you look behind you

00:31:46.340 and there ain't

00:31:46.600 no one there

00:31:47.160 and it's like,

00:31:47.620 uh-oh.

00:31:48.440 And I will say,

00:31:49.580 there was a tweet

00:31:50.220 I saw online

00:31:51.840 that I retweeted

00:31:52.920 that just made me laugh.

00:31:54.280 It said,

00:31:55.760 Pete Davidson

00:31:56.520 has had girlfriends

00:31:57.480 that lasted longer

00:31:58.720 than CBS News'

00:31:59.880 break from Twitter.

00:32:01.740 And I had a lot

00:32:03.680 of fun with that

00:32:04.340 because that's

00:32:04.900 indisputably true.

00:32:06.620 Our friend,

00:32:07.560 Jesse Waters,

00:32:08.420 over at Waters World,

00:32:09.380 had some fun

00:32:10.080 with CBS News.

00:32:11.460 Finally admitting

00:32:12.260 the Hunter Biden

00:32:12.860 laptop story is real.

00:32:14.000 I just want to play this

00:32:15.160 because the way

00:32:15.920 that he described it

00:32:16.900 for me was like,

00:32:18.160 yep,

00:32:18.460 spot on.

00:32:19.240 Guy is shorthand 0.95

00:32:20.240 for 10%

00:32:21.460 held by Hunter

00:32:22.420 for his father.

00:32:23.860 Wait,

00:32:24.520 CBS,

00:32:25.300 you're telling me

00:32:25.880 Hunter's laptop's

00:32:26.800 real now

00:32:27.420 and Joe Biden's

00:32:28.960 the big guy?

00:32:30.160 I thought this was

00:32:31.280 just one big

00:32:32.060 conspiracy theory.

00:32:34.260 Well,

00:32:34.440 Primetime reached out

00:32:35.300 to Leslie Stahl

00:32:36.000 at CBS

00:32:36.420 and asked her

00:32:37.480 if she'd be apologizing

00:32:38.700 to the former president

00:32:39.620 for insisting

00:32:40.620 the laptop

00:32:41.260 couldn't be verified.

00:32:42.240 And we haven't

00:32:44.320 heard back.

00:32:45.540 I'm starting

00:32:46.120 to realize

00:32:46.760 Democrat October

00:32:48.300 surprises are all

00:32:49.280 hoaxes

00:32:49.800 and Republican

00:32:50.420 October surprises

00:32:51.580 are all true.

00:32:52.520 You just have to wait

00:32:53.400 until after the election

00:32:54.660 to find out.

00:32:56.200 And to have a free

00:32:56.880 and fair election,

00:32:57.840 you kind of need

00:32:58.660 to know the truth

00:32:59.280 before the election.

00:33:00.980 That way voters 0.98

00:33:01.880 can make an honest

00:33:02.660 assessment

00:33:03.180 and not have any regrets.

00:33:05.120 But let's look

00:33:05.660 at the bright side.

00:33:06.880 If the media

00:33:07.440 didn't bury the laptop,

00:33:09.020 Joe Biden would have

00:33:09.800 never been able

00:33:10.420 to give his granddaughter

00:33:11.360 the wedding of her dreams.

00:33:13.160 That's true, right, Senator?

00:33:14.600 I mean, at least

00:33:14.980 they got to have

00:33:15.480 a great wedding

00:33:16.100 at the White House

00:33:16.820 this week.

00:33:17.760 I love how Waters

00:33:18.680 reminds people

00:33:19.760 that it was CBS News

00:33:22.300 that attacked Donald Trump

00:33:24.600 in the lead up

00:33:25.180 to the presidential election

00:33:26.360 when he brought up

00:33:27.700 the laptop

00:33:28.200 and they actually said,

00:33:30.080 oh, you can't verify

00:33:31.140 this laptop.

00:33:32.000 We can't verify this.

00:33:33.140 We can't verify.

00:33:33.660 You can't say that.

00:33:35.060 You know,

00:33:35.280 and he was like,

00:33:35.880 it is real.

00:33:36.480 And they're like,

00:33:36.700 no, it's not.

00:33:37.360 We're not going to allow

00:33:38.160 you to say that here.

00:33:39.120 Yeah, Leslie Stahl

00:33:40.940 repeatedly said

00:33:42.000 it can't be verified.

00:33:42.940 It can't be verified.

00:33:43.780 It can't be verified.

00:33:44.560 Why?

00:33:45.040 Because she didn't

00:33:45.400 want to verify it.

00:33:46.080 She didn't want it

00:33:46.620 to be true.

00:33:47.160 It was politically

00:33:47.780 inconvenient.

00:33:48.940 She was a propagandist

00:33:50.100 and it was contrary

00:33:50.780 to her propaganda.

00:33:51.620 By the way,

00:33:52.320 this is the same Leslie Stahl

00:33:54.280 that interviewed

00:33:56.140 the head of Iran

00:33:57.300 as he spouted

00:33:59.100 Holocaust denial

00:34:00.320 and she sat there

00:34:01.880 and didn't challenge him

00:34:02.960 because I guess

00:34:04.280 in their mind

00:34:05.620 that can't be verified either.

00:34:07.420 I mean,

00:34:07.660 they literally,

00:34:08.300 their propaganda

00:34:09.300 is such

00:34:09.920 that they're willing

00:34:10.460 to sit there

00:34:11.360 with blatantly

00:34:13.120 dishonest anti-Semitism

00:34:14.620 and broadcast it

00:34:15.780 because the Democrat Party

00:34:18.140 supports giving Iran 0.98

00:34:20.660 hundreds of billions

00:34:21.400 of dollars

00:34:21.840 and allowing them

00:34:22.420 to get nukes

00:34:23.040 and so therefore

00:34:23.720 the corrupt corporate media

00:34:25.440 does

00:34:25.920 and if you have to have 0.97

00:34:27.360 a racist murderer 0.99

00:34:28.500 torturer 1.00

00:34:29.160 anti-Semite 0.97

00:34:30.360 and give them

00:34:30.800 global coverage,

00:34:31.640 well,

00:34:31.820 that's just a cost

00:34:32.500 of doing business.

00:34:34.000 The Hunter Biden

00:34:34.780 laptop story

00:34:35.740 is a lot of things

00:34:36.960 but one of the things

00:34:38.060 it illustrates

00:34:38.740 is the confluence

00:34:41.180 between all

00:34:42.280 of the corrupt institutions

00:34:43.780 that are coming together

00:34:46.140 to deceive

00:34:46.960 the American people

00:34:49.180 and to steal elections.

00:34:52.200 So,

00:34:53.040 Hunter Biden's story

00:34:54.080 breaks.

00:34:54.760 Evidence,

00:34:55.440 clear evidence

00:34:56.200 of corruption

00:34:57.040 by Joe Biden

00:34:58.220 on behalf

00:34:59.320 of enemies

00:35:00.060 of America,

00:35:00.760 the Chinese communists,

00:35:01.920 on behalf

00:35:02.320 of Burisma,

00:35:03.140 the Ukrainian

00:35:03.960 Ukrainian natural gas company.

00:35:06.220 It's an incredibly

00:35:07.260 inconvenient story

00:35:08.180 because it breaks

00:35:08.940 right before the election.

00:35:10.000 So,

00:35:10.160 several things happen.

00:35:11.020 Number one,

00:35:12.160 the FBI

00:35:12.720 picks up the phone

00:35:13.820 and calls Facebook

00:35:15.840 and says,

00:35:17.460 please suppress

00:35:18.760 this story

00:35:19.680 because it's

00:35:20.940 Russian disinformation.

00:35:22.180 It has all the hallmarks

00:35:23.240 of Russian disinformation.

00:35:24.860 Now,

00:35:25.020 we now know

00:35:25.680 the FBI

00:35:26.720 was lying.

00:35:27.600 That was a lie.

00:35:28.540 So,

00:35:28.700 the FBI

00:35:29.220 corrupted from within.

00:35:30.880 The partisans there,

00:35:32.180 they didn't want

00:35:33.280 Joe Biden to lose

00:35:34.180 so they called

00:35:34.860 their buddies

00:35:35.260 at Big Tech.

00:35:35.940 What does Big Tech do?

00:35:37.400 Big Tech,

00:35:38.560 Facebook and Twitter

00:35:39.460 together acting

00:35:40.340 in concert,

00:35:41.500 say to the New York Post

00:35:42.800 that dared write

00:35:43.720 a story

00:35:44.380 about the Hunter Biden

00:35:45.900 laptop.

00:35:46.580 We are going

00:35:47.040 to de-platform

00:35:48.040 not just your story.

00:35:50.280 We're going to take

00:35:50.880 the entire New York Post

00:35:52.040 down.

00:35:52.400 You're no longer

00:35:53.080 allowed on social media.

00:35:54.560 You are de-platformed.

00:35:55.840 They involuntarily

00:35:56.940 did to the New York Post

00:35:58.600 what CBS

00:35:59.180 just did

00:35:59.820 in its little fit

00:36:00.480 for a day

00:36:01.020 and a few hours.

00:36:02.660 Yeah,

00:36:02.920 and I will remind people,

00:36:04.720 CBS News

00:36:05.460 still not apologize

00:36:06.460 for this moment

00:36:07.540 with Donald Trump.

00:36:08.400 I wish you would

00:36:08.840 interview Joe Biden

00:36:09.740 like you interview me.

00:36:11.500 It would be so good.

00:36:12.660 You know what?

00:36:13.320 You like this,

00:36:14.300 I thought.

00:36:14.860 I thought you liked

00:36:15.560 Spock.

00:36:15.860 I don't mind it.

00:36:16.360 But when I watch him

00:36:17.320 walk out of a store

00:36:18.780 and he's walking

00:36:19.980 with ice cream

00:36:21.260 and the question

00:36:22.760 the media asks him,

00:36:23.800 what kind of ice cream,

00:36:24.840 what flavor ice cream

00:36:25.700 do you have?

00:36:26.840 And he's in the midst

00:36:27.660 of a scandal.

00:36:28.640 He's not.

00:36:29.220 And he's taking,

00:36:30.400 of course he is,

00:36:31.560 Leslie.

00:36:32.220 Come on.

00:36:32.600 Of course he is.

00:36:33.780 There it is,

00:36:34.380 Senator.

00:36:34.660 He's not in the midst

00:36:35.620 of a scandal.

00:36:36.460 He's not.

00:36:37.060 He's not in a scandal.

00:36:38.360 Come on.

00:36:39.240 That was October the 26th

00:36:41.240 with the laptop story,

00:36:42.920 CBS News,

00:36:43.880 and it only took him

00:36:44.620 two plus years

00:36:45.440 to now finally admit

00:36:46.460 that the story is real

00:36:47.720 after she laughed

00:36:49.020 in the face

00:36:49.580 of Donald Trump,

00:36:50.300 the president

00:36:50.660 of the United States

00:36:51.080 of America

00:36:51.480 on 60 Minutes

00:36:52.600 and no comment

00:36:53.820 coming from 60 Minutes

00:36:54.940 and no comment

00:36:55.800 coming from Leslie Stahl.

00:36:57.260 That should tell you

00:36:58.240 everything you need

00:36:58.800 to know about

00:36:59.240 the woke corporate media.

00:37:01.100 So question,

00:37:01.700 what changed?

00:37:02.820 We had an election.

00:37:03.760 We had a midterm election,

00:37:04.860 right?

00:37:05.120 And I think,

00:37:05.920 this is my prediction,

00:37:07.140 Senator.

00:37:07.960 I think the media

00:37:08.960 is starting to turn

00:37:09.640 on Joe Biden 1.00

00:37:10.260 because they're useful idiots 1.00

00:37:11.440 no longer useful to them. 1.00

00:37:13.060 They realize they don't want

00:37:14.400 him to run for president

00:37:15.240 in 2024.

00:37:16.380 I think they needed

00:37:17.280 to get through the midterms.

00:37:18.520 This is only my opinion,

00:37:19.720 but I think now

00:37:20.860 you're watching CBS News

00:37:22.780 and others

00:37:23.400 are starting to realize

00:37:24.440 they got to take their hands

00:37:26.400 off protecting Joe Biden

00:37:27.660 a little bit here

00:37:28.380 and maybe let all this come out

00:37:30.380 so they can move on

00:37:31.180 to their next candidate.

00:37:32.040 That's my gut.

00:37:32.880 I could be wrong,

00:37:33.560 but that's my prediction.

00:37:34.440 So I think that's

00:37:35.860 a significant piece of it.

00:37:36.980 Number one,

00:37:38.080 CBS News didn't do this

00:37:39.380 until after the midterms elections.

00:37:41.340 So they didn't do it

00:37:41.860 two weeks ago.

00:37:43.200 They did it now.

00:37:44.640 Number two,

00:37:45.920 you're right,

00:37:46.460 they're done with Joe Biden.

00:37:47.540 He's not running in 2024

00:37:48.680 and if he even thinks he is,

00:37:49.880 they want to push him out

00:37:50.620 because he clearly can't run.

00:37:52.340 But number three,

00:37:53.520 you've got a House majority

00:37:54.600 that's getting ready

00:37:55.260 to have hearings

00:37:55.880 on these things

00:37:56.680 and the fact that

00:37:58.040 they've been 0.99

00:37:58.520 utter complicit liars 0.89

00:37:59.920 does kind of look bad for them. 0.94

00:38:02.760 So they want to get out

00:38:04.740 and report on all this stuff

00:38:05.920 so when the House has hearings,

00:38:07.080 they say,

00:38:07.400 oh, this isn't news.

00:38:08.040 This is old news.

00:38:08.740 We reported on this.

00:38:09.540 We reported on this

00:38:10.160 a long time ago,

00:38:10.880 like a whole week ago.

00:38:12.180 In fact,

00:38:12.820 we took out the trash

00:38:14.160 as we call it in politics.

00:38:15.800 We report on the story

00:38:17.040 the week of Thanksgiving

00:38:17.980 when a lot of people

00:38:18.900 have tuned out,

00:38:19.760 checked out,

00:38:20.180 and gone to see their family

00:38:21.160 and have kind of

00:38:21.900 walked away from politics

00:38:23.780 after the exhaustion

00:38:24.800 of covering it

00:38:25.600 all through the election.

00:38:26.980 That's why they're doing it

00:38:28.080 right now

00:38:28.560 during the week of Thanksgiving

00:38:29.640 because this is when

00:38:31.280 the fewest number

00:38:32.240 of people are watching them.

00:38:34.160 Well, and it's worth

00:38:35.020 explaining that phrase

00:38:36.180 taking out the trash

00:38:37.140 because people

00:38:37.680 who haven't worked

00:38:38.280 in politics

00:38:38.860 or haven't worked

00:38:39.540 in media

00:38:39.880 may not understand

00:38:40.640 what it means.

00:38:42.040 Often, if you have bad news,

00:38:44.760 what people in politics do

00:38:46.320 is they'll release it

00:38:47.520 on a Friday afternoon

00:38:49.260 and even better,

00:38:50.920 a Friday afternoon

00:38:51.740 when something else big

00:38:52.720 is going on.

00:38:53.480 So it's out there.

00:38:54.320 It's in the public.

00:38:55.060 It's just no one sees it

00:38:56.180 because it gets buried.

00:38:57.100 And that's the phrase

00:38:59.240 take it out the trash.

00:39:00.260 If you look at,

00:39:01.540 you know,

00:39:01.780 it would be a funny thing

00:39:03.160 for someone to go compile,

00:39:05.140 you know,

00:39:05.840 the top 50

00:39:07.520 Friday afternoon

00:39:09.440 press releases

00:39:10.340 because I guarantee you

00:39:12.160 there's some doozies

00:39:13.800 in there on both sides.

00:39:14.980 Both D's and R's do this.

00:39:16.120 This is not an exclusive

00:39:17.220 Democrat failing.

00:39:19.140 But when the media does it,

00:39:21.580 when they release it

00:39:22.660 at a time

00:39:23.120 no one's paying attention,

00:39:24.820 they're engaged in CYA.

00:39:26.460 They're trying to cover

00:39:27.460 their own rear ends

00:39:28.500 by saying,

00:39:29.920 oh, we've covered it.

00:39:30.860 And part of the reason

00:39:32.220 you do that

00:39:33.140 is so then

00:39:34.980 when the world

00:39:36.480 does focus on

00:39:37.380 whatever the bad news is,

00:39:38.480 whatever the scandal is,

00:39:39.900 you say,

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00:39:43.860 Nothing to talk about here.

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00:39:47.140 It's amazing.

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Verdict with Ted Cruz - November 25, 2022

Oil, Racism & CBS Discovers Hunter Biden's Laptop

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