Verdict with Ted Cruz - Race In America： Wesley Hunt joins us, plus Biden docs, Balloons & Immigration

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00:00:02.540 Guaranteed human.

00:00:04.540 A big victory, and it involves the University of Delaware

00:00:08.280 that we called for an investigation right here on this podcast.

00:00:12.440 Plus, we're going to get you the latest update on the Chinese balloons

00:00:15.720 and the president finally talking about it weeks later.

00:00:18.900 Plus, we've got a very special guest with us.

00:00:22.060 It's Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz.

00:00:24.460 Senator, good to be with you today.

00:00:26.040 For everyone watching this podcast,

00:00:28.020 there's a reason why your comfortable chair is missing.

00:00:31.860 We have a guest coming up.

00:00:33.760 Wesley Hunt's going to join us to have a very cool conversation.

00:00:37.240 You don't want to miss that, but for everybody,

00:00:39.640 before they start freaking out, commenting, where are the chairs?

00:00:42.660 They're coming back.

00:00:43.920 I want to make that very clear.

00:00:45.080 If you told me I had to give up the comfy chair,

00:00:47.040 I'm not sure we would have invited Wesley.

00:00:49.040 That's very true.

00:00:50.420 How were those connected?

00:00:51.300 I know.

00:00:51.760 It was a conflict of where does the third chair go.

00:00:56.040 We will figure that out,

00:00:57.400 but I just wanted everyone to just don't worry.

00:00:59.420 The cactus isn't going anywhere.

00:01:00.780 Neither are the comfy chairs.

00:01:02.180 They're coming back.

00:01:03.560 There was a very big victory,

00:01:05.280 and it's a serious victory,

00:01:07.280 and I think it should be treated that way.

00:01:09.300 You, several weeks ago,

00:01:11.060 called, and we made news

00:01:13.020 to the point where it was asked,

00:01:14.600 the White House press briefing,

00:01:16.220 that Senator Ted Cruz was calling for

00:01:18.680 the documents at the University of Delaware

00:01:21.640 to be looked at by the FBI.

00:01:23.960 We now know that at least on two occasions,

00:01:26.920 the FBI has actually gone to the University of Delaware

00:01:29.380 to look at these documents.

00:01:31.220 Let's remind people of why you were calling for that,

00:01:34.220 and also how many documents are actually

00:01:36.720 at the University of Delaware.

00:01:37.680 This may take a long time to go through them all.

00:01:40.920 Well, the University of Delaware

00:01:41.880 has Biden's Senate documents,

00:01:44.220 and after they began discovering classified documents,

00:01:48.880 it seems, just about everywhere Biden went,

00:01:51.140 from his Wilmington house to by his Corvette

00:01:54.360 to in the room next to the garage

00:01:56.100 to in the Penn Center,

00:01:57.720 at some point,

00:02:00.240 it started getting ridiculous.

00:02:02.260 Like, where doesn't this guy keep classified documents?

00:02:05.360 And the biggest trove of Biden documents

00:02:08.700 is at the University of Delaware,

00:02:10.080 and it consists of over 1,850 boxes of documents.

00:02:17.840 So it's a massive amount of documents.

00:02:20.100 And listen, this podcast has always tried,

00:02:22.600 number one, to make news,

00:02:23.580 and number two, to drive news.

00:02:25.280 And in this instance, it was both of us

00:02:26.960 because several weeks ago,

00:02:29.520 we called in this podcast and said,

00:02:31.900 the FBI needs to go to the University of Delaware

00:02:34.180 and investigate those documents,

00:02:36.600 go through them.

00:02:37.360 Given that he's leaving them everywhere else,

00:02:38.820 they need to go through them there.

00:02:40.680 And, well, CNN, you can see the CNN story.

00:02:45.140 First on CNN,

00:02:46.220 FBI searched the University of Delaware

00:02:47.820 for Biden documents, source said.

00:02:49.440 So that broke this week,

00:02:51.320 and apparently they've searched it twice.

00:02:53.720 Now, what's not clear from the story,

00:02:55.580 it said they searched them twice.

00:02:56.800 It's not clear how thorough a search.

00:02:59.820 Look, I got to tell you,

00:03:00.640 to go through 1,850 boxes of documents

00:03:03.620 takes some serious time.

00:03:05.460 So I don't know that they went through all the boxes.

00:03:07.680 I don't know if they went through one box

00:03:09.360 or 100 or 1,850.

00:03:12.900 They need to do a thorough review

00:03:14.720 of all the documents,

00:03:15.980 and it's not clear from this story

00:03:17.460 whether they have or not,

00:03:18.540 but it's at least a step in the right direction

00:03:20.720 that they're examining this massive cache of documents,

00:03:24.540 and that's what we called for.

00:03:26.140 There was a shocking admission by the president

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00:04:48.520 Senator, there was a shocking admission

00:04:51.100 in an interview.

00:04:52.740 It was clearly something that I think

00:04:54.580 the White House wishes Joe Biden wouldn't have said.

00:04:57.940 Well, that's never happened.

00:04:58.800 Yeah, never happened before, right?

00:04:59.980 You put him in front of a microphone.

00:05:01.400 Well, you know, he is the best communicator

00:05:02.820 in the White House.

00:05:03.580 Ever.

00:05:04.500 Ever.

00:05:04.920 The sad thing is,

00:05:06.360 given Corrine Jean-Pierre and the rest,

00:05:09.320 he just might be.

00:05:10.320 He actually might be.

00:05:11.140 You've got Corrine Jean-Pierre,

00:05:12.620 you have Kamala Harris.

00:05:14.240 You know, Biden, you know,

00:05:16.360 when he says,

00:05:17.400 well, foot-a-ba-ba,

00:05:18.880 that might be the most articulate thing

00:05:21.420 coming out of the White House that day.

00:05:22.640 Well, he may have been actually

00:05:23.780 too articulate this week

00:05:25.320 because he was asked about classified documents

00:05:27.520 in this interview,

00:05:28.380 and he put a timeline

00:05:30.160 on his own classified documents

00:05:32.220 he may have

00:05:32.820 and referred back to his first year

00:05:36.000 in Congress

00:05:36.860 saying that some documents

00:05:39.540 might date back,

00:05:40.760 his word was some pages

00:05:42.400 of classified documents

00:05:44.680 may date back to his first years in office.

00:05:48.380 That's now,

00:05:49.120 we're talking about a 50-year window here.

00:05:51.720 Look, that's just bizarre.

00:05:55.660 I had another classified briefing this week

00:05:59.780 that makes the third classified briefing

00:06:01.580 in two weeks all on China.

00:06:04.300 As I walked out of the classified briefing

00:06:06.600 this week,

00:06:07.200 they asked,

00:06:07.740 as they usually do,

00:06:08.640 do you have any classified documents with you?

00:06:10.120 We had a whole bunch

00:06:10.820 of classified documents

00:06:11.900 that we were going through

00:06:13.280 concerning China,

00:06:14.760 and I laughed and said,

00:06:16.020 nope,

00:06:16.300 I always leave them here.

00:06:17.500 I'd never taken them out.

00:06:19.140 I don't have to worry

00:06:19.960 if I have classified documents at home

00:06:21.560 because I've read them

00:06:22.260 in one place

00:06:22.880 and one place only,

00:06:23.780 and that is in a secure skiff

00:06:25.120 in the Capitol.

00:06:26.520 So if I'm not in the skiff,

00:06:28.600 I don't have a classified document.

00:06:30.440 I don't understand

00:06:31.440 what Biden was doing.

00:06:32.700 If he was taking classified documents

00:06:35.060 out of the Senate 40, 50 years ago,

00:06:37.520 I don't know.

00:06:37.880 Maybe they didn't have skiffs

00:06:39.000 back in the days of horses and buggies,

00:06:41.120 but I don't get

00:06:43.320 how he could have documents

00:06:45.980 from his time in Senate.

00:06:47.240 Lastly on this,

00:06:48.180 there has been a lot of speculation,

00:06:50.340 and you can see this narrative

00:06:53.040 coming out from Democrats specifically

00:06:55.020 saying, well,

00:06:56.240 there was different times in D.C.

00:06:58.280 earlier on,

00:06:59.560 and I've even heard people say,

00:07:00.920 after 9-11,

00:07:02.080 we got more serious

00:07:03.200 about classified documents.

00:07:05.640 Do you buy that as an excuse

00:07:07.460 for why he would have documents

00:07:08.880 for 50 years ago

00:07:09.760 or 40 or 30?

00:07:10.860 Because it seems like

00:07:12.240 he never stopped.

00:07:12.920 You know, the last I checked,

00:07:14.640 his vice presidency

00:07:15.640 was after 9-11.

00:07:16.640 Yeah.

00:07:17.740 Most of the documents,

00:07:19.020 at least according to

00:07:19.700 the public reports that he has,

00:07:21.400 because the intel community

00:07:22.560 won't tell us what he has,

00:07:24.480 but most of the documents,

00:07:25.980 according to the press reports,

00:07:27.060 were from his time as VP.

00:07:28.100 That was well after 9-11.

00:07:31.720 And it was clear

00:07:33.080 that he doesn't take it

00:07:34.300 all that seriously.

00:07:37.060 It's weird to see

00:07:38.420 this White House now

00:07:39.580 continue to find documents.

00:07:41.780 University of Delaware,

00:07:42.760 I think,

00:07:43.300 may be a huge explosion

00:07:44.680 with the story here,

00:07:45.880 and it connects a lot of dots.

00:07:47.500 I also want to ask you

00:07:48.640 about China

00:07:49.260 and the Chinese balloon.

00:07:50.960 There was another classified briefing

00:07:52.360 you guys have gotten.

00:07:53.820 There's been more information

00:07:55.120 coming out.

00:07:55.640 It seems like apparently,

00:07:56.440 and the president actually

00:07:57.400 had a press conference on this.

00:07:58.940 We're shooting down

00:07:59.680 random stuff here.

00:08:01.340 That's shocking as well

00:08:02.660 that maybe we're overreacting.

00:08:04.860 So we've had

00:08:05.560 the last two weeks

00:08:06.700 three

00:08:07.700 all-senators

00:08:09.280 classified briefings.

00:08:10.520 That is unusual.

00:08:11.860 I've been in the Senate

00:08:12.440 10 years.

00:08:13.520 I can't remember

00:08:14.620 a period of time

00:08:15.960 where we've had

00:08:17.100 three all-senators

00:08:18.620 classified briefings.

00:08:20.340 You know,

00:08:20.600 I'm on the Senate

00:08:21.100 Foreign Relations Committee,

00:08:22.220 so we'll sometimes

00:08:22.960 have committee-specific briefings,

00:08:24.780 but to have

00:08:25.600 all 100 senators there

00:08:27.060 is very unusual.

00:08:29.160 To have three

00:08:30.280 in about eight days

00:08:31.840 is,

00:08:32.380 and they were all on China,

00:08:34.140 is striking.

00:08:34.960 And look,

00:08:35.260 the last podcast

00:08:36.040 we were talking about

00:08:37.120 the classified briefing

00:08:38.420 that I'd just come from,

00:08:40.580 and I said it was

00:08:41.960 thoroughly unhelpful

00:08:43.040 and unsatisfactory.

00:08:44.100 Well,

00:08:44.220 what's happened since then?

00:08:45.240 Since then,

00:08:45.640 the White House

00:08:46.060 said their press conference

00:08:47.080 where they stood up

00:08:48.300 and said,

00:08:48.840 we don't know

00:08:49.580 what the hell

00:08:49.960 we shot down.

00:08:51.520 We don't know.

00:08:52.440 Three things

00:08:52.960 we shot in the sky.

00:08:54.000 Damned if we know

00:08:54.720 what they are,

00:08:55.760 but,

00:08:56.320 the White House said,

00:08:57.920 we're pretty sure

00:08:58.780 they weren't Chinese.

00:09:01.040 And this is where...

00:09:02.740 That's not comforting,

00:09:03.420 by the way.

00:09:03.840 They should understand

00:09:04.580 that from a PR perspective.

00:09:05.840 It's not comforting

00:09:06.740 when we're supposed

00:09:07.600 to have the greatest

00:09:08.060 military in the world

00:09:08.880 and you literally

00:09:09.580 don't know

00:09:10.060 what you're shooting down

00:09:10.820 and then you say,

00:09:11.440 but you think

00:09:11.940 it's not Chinese.

00:09:13.040 Okay,

00:09:13.360 but it's even worse

00:09:15.140 than this.

00:09:16.360 So,

00:09:16.680 take a look

00:09:18.080 at this.

00:09:20.160 This is a tweet

00:09:20.880 from Aviation Week.

00:09:22.080 a small globe-trotting

00:09:24.720 balloon declared

00:09:25.800 missing in action

00:09:27.000 by an Illinois-based

00:09:29.020 hobbyist club

00:09:30.100 has emerged

00:09:30.740 as a candidate

00:09:31.400 to explain

00:09:32.460 one of the three

00:09:33.280 mystery objects

00:09:34.080 shot down

00:09:34.820 by four

00:09:35.540 heat-seeking missiles

00:09:37.340 launched by

00:09:38.380 U.S. Air Force fighters.

00:09:40.100 And so,

00:09:40.440 this particular

00:09:41.080 hobbyist group,

00:09:41.980 it is called

00:09:42.680 the Northern Illinois

00:09:44.920 Bottle Cap

00:09:46.400 Balloon Brigade.

00:09:48.520 We should sign up

00:09:49.360 and become members

00:09:50.040 of that.

00:09:50.400 I think that's

00:09:51.040 something that we

00:09:51.600 should do

00:09:51.920 with our

00:09:52.160 free time.

00:09:52.820 So,

00:09:53.180 Ben,

00:09:53.340 I want you

00:09:53.700 to stop

00:09:54.100 for a second.

00:09:55.980 We're sitting

00:09:56.840 here tonight

00:09:57.740 and we don't

00:09:59.620 know,

00:10:00.980 but the Air Force

00:10:01.980 might have shot

00:10:02.740 down a frigging

00:10:04.060 balloon

00:10:04.920 launched by

00:10:05.940 a high school

00:10:06.500 science club.

00:10:08.700 That is bizarre

00:10:09.940 and why they're

00:10:10.920 firing heat-seeking

00:10:12.020 missiles from

00:10:12.740 fighter jets

00:10:13.540 at a high school

00:10:15.740 science project.

00:10:19.520 The White House's

00:10:20.540 explanation was

00:10:21.160 weird on this.

00:10:22.320 Let's go there

00:10:22.840 for a second.

00:10:23.400 They actually

00:10:23.980 said,

00:10:25.040 well,

00:10:25.180 we changed

00:10:25.900 our radar

00:10:26.640 and the way

00:10:27.660 that we are

00:10:28.140 looking for

00:10:28.680 things.

00:10:29.100 We basically

00:10:29.460 slowed it

00:10:30.220 down and

00:10:31.940 looked for

00:10:32.420 objects that

00:10:33.060 were moving

00:10:33.460 slower,

00:10:34.100 so we're

00:10:34.980 picking up

00:10:35.580 a lot more

00:10:36.020 stuff,

00:10:36.320 which could

00:10:36.640 explain why

00:10:37.100 we picked

00:10:37.500 up this

00:10:37.900 balloon,

00:10:38.720 and therefore

00:10:39.520 we're justified

00:10:40.320 in shooting

00:10:40.980 it down.

00:10:41.940 So,

00:10:42.080 look,

00:10:42.500 this is

00:10:42.820 something we

00:10:43.580 talked about

00:10:44.020 in the last

00:10:44.520 pod,

00:10:45.200 and it's

00:10:45.380 important to

00:10:45.880 Joe Biden

00:10:48.480 and this

00:10:48.840 administration,

00:10:49.560 they are

00:10:50.200 fundamentally

00:10:50.800 weak on

00:10:51.420 China.

00:10:52.940 They're

00:10:53.500 weak on

00:10:54.020 China because

00:10:54.640 they're in

00:10:55.020 bed with

00:10:55.420 China,

00:10:55.760 because they

00:10:56.100 depend on

00:10:56.620 China to

00:10:57.440 build the

00:10:58.100 Green New

00:10:58.520 Deal.

00:10:58.900 It's why

00:10:59.380 they are

00:11:00.200 importing

00:11:00.820 electric vehicles

00:11:01.900 and batteries

00:11:02.520 built with

00:11:03.060 slave labor

00:11:03.680 in concentration

00:11:04.920 camps in

00:11:05.720 China.

00:11:06.400 Their donors,

00:11:07.520 their funders,

00:11:08.340 are all in

00:11:08.980 bed with

00:11:09.340 China.

00:11:10.540 Why did

00:11:11.200 the Biden

00:11:11.580 administration

00:11:12.200 do nothing

00:11:12.860 while a

00:11:13.440 Chinese

00:11:13.900 spice balloon

00:11:15.380 was over

00:11:15.840 U.S.

00:11:16.260 airspace for

00:11:17.160 over a

00:11:17.640 week conducting

00:11:18.320 espionage?

00:11:19.100 Because they're

00:11:19.680 weak on

00:11:20.080 China.

00:11:21.220 Then it

00:11:21.860 became a

00:11:23.680 press matter,

00:11:24.620 and they

00:11:25.560 realized,

00:11:26.120 oh,

00:11:26.240 crap,

00:11:26.520 people realize

00:11:27.140 we're weak

00:11:27.460 on China,

00:11:28.200 so what did

00:11:28.740 they do?

00:11:29.080 They waited

00:11:29.400 until the

00:11:29.680 mission was

00:11:30.080 over and

00:11:30.440 shot it

00:11:30.740 down over

00:11:31.080 the Atlantic

00:11:31.520 once it

00:11:31.940 had completed

00:11:32.380 its

00:11:32.620 espionage.

00:11:34.040 How do

00:11:34.560 you explain

00:11:35.060 the rest

00:11:35.460 of this?

00:11:35.820 The rest

00:11:36.260 of this

00:11:36.680 has nothing

00:11:37.660 to do with

00:11:38.120 national security,

00:11:38.940 has nothing

00:11:39.280 to do with

00:11:39.600 defending the

00:11:40.160 nation.

00:11:41.040 This is a

00:11:41.960 press operation.

00:11:43.840 You know,

00:11:44.240 for all I

00:11:44.700 know,

00:11:44.880 it's Corrine

00:11:45.320 Jean-Pierre

00:11:45.900 sitting there

00:11:46.320 in the

00:11:46.480 situation

00:11:46.880 room going,

00:11:47.560 okay,

00:11:47.900 shoot that

00:11:48.300 one down.

00:11:49.080 Look,

00:11:49.420 it doesn't

00:11:50.200 comfort me

00:11:51.120 that the

00:11:52.480 commander-in-chief

00:11:53.380 is setting up

00:11:54.120 the Air Force

00:11:54.700 to shoot

00:11:55.120 something down,

00:11:55.940 and they

00:11:56.280 don't know

00:11:56.520 what the

00:11:56.820 hell it

00:11:57.100 is.

00:11:57.680 Just to

00:11:58.160 say we

00:11:58.500 got another

00:11:59.060 one,

00:11:59.460 and look,

00:11:59.800 see,

00:12:00.000 we're taking

00:12:00.280 this serious.

00:12:00.720 We saw

00:12:00.920 something and

00:12:01.500 just figured

00:12:01.960 fire a

00:12:02.480 missile at

00:12:02.900 it.

00:12:03.040 Like,

00:12:03.260 that's not

00:12:03.900 a comforting,

00:12:05.380 if their

00:12:06.140 answer is,

00:12:08.220 we don't

00:12:08.560 know what

00:12:08.840 we shot

00:12:09.240 down.

00:12:09.600 Why are

00:12:09.840 you shooting

00:12:10.180 things down?

00:12:10.740 You know

00:12:10.900 what they

00:12:11.200 are.

00:12:11.780 And if

00:12:12.160 they might

00:12:12.780 be a

00:12:13.580 high school

00:12:14.040 science

00:12:14.600 club's

00:12:15.500 balloon,

00:12:16.720 if

00:12:19.060 Saturday

00:12:19.460 Night Live

00:12:20.040 came up

00:12:20.500 with that,

00:12:21.400 it would

00:12:22.280 be dismissed

00:12:22.980 as ridiculous.

00:12:24.000 I think

00:12:24.300 Joe Biden...

00:12:24.800 It would be

00:12:25.080 a great

00:12:25.380 skit.

00:12:25.900 It really

00:12:26.480 would.

00:12:26.780 It would

00:12:26.940 be a

00:12:27.220 hysterical

00:12:27.740 skit,

00:12:28.080 except this

00:12:28.420 is real

00:12:28.760 life.

00:12:29.080 This is

00:12:29.420 real

00:12:29.660 life.

00:12:30.160 Well,

00:12:30.300 they were

00:12:30.500 even

00:12:30.680 saying on

00:12:30.980 MSNBC,

00:12:31.520 I don't

00:12:31.860 know if

00:12:32.060 you saw

00:12:32.380 this,

00:12:32.640 but the

00:12:32.840 other

00:12:32.980 morning,

00:12:33.200 they were

00:12:33.420 saying,

00:12:33.880 we're

00:12:34.460 getting

00:12:34.740 reports

00:12:35.280 that we

00:12:35.640 could have

00:12:36.100 shot down

00:12:37.160 space

00:12:38.500 trash.

00:12:40.340 How do

00:12:40.940 you not

00:12:41.300 look at

00:12:41.880 it and

00:12:42.100 go,

00:12:42.820 that's

00:12:43.320 space

00:12:43.680 trash,

00:12:44.280 we don't

00:12:44.620 need to

00:12:44.900 blow it

00:12:45.320 up?

00:12:45.660 You know,

00:12:45.900 Elon Musk's

00:12:46.780 car is

00:12:48.160 in low

00:12:48.460 Earth orbit.

00:12:49.680 He launched

00:12:50.560 his car into

00:12:51.200 space.

00:12:51.540 I don't know

00:12:51.680 if he does

00:12:51.920 this.

00:12:52.060 He has

00:12:53.040 video of

00:12:53.600 his car

00:12:54.040 orbiting the

00:12:54.700 Earth,

00:12:55.040 which is

00:12:55.240 a little

00:12:55.440 bizarre.

00:12:56.340 I hope

00:12:56.940 they didn't

00:12:57.420 shoot Elon's

00:12:58.100 car down.

00:12:59.380 I think

00:12:59.800 it's a little

00:13:00.180 bit higher

00:13:00.640 than these

00:13:01.080 were,

00:13:01.460 but...

00:13:01.820 Next time

00:13:02.260 you talk

00:13:02.620 to him,

00:13:02.800 you should

00:13:03.020 ask him

00:13:03.420 about that.

00:13:03.840 Does he

00:13:04.060 know where

00:13:04.360 it is?

00:13:04.680 Because he

00:13:04.900 might want

00:13:05.200 to let

00:13:05.400 him know,

00:13:05.800 because they

00:13:06.020 may shoot

00:13:06.340 that down

00:13:06.700 next.

00:13:08.100 Like,

00:13:08.540 it is...

00:13:11.060 They're

00:13:11.700 giving the

00:13:12.460 go order

00:13:13.140 because this

00:13:14.260 is a press

00:13:14.780 operation.

00:13:15.520 They're

00:13:15.680 saying,

00:13:16.580 look how

00:13:16.920 tough we

00:13:17.360 are,

00:13:17.620 we can

00:13:17.920 fire

00:13:18.180 missiles.

00:13:19.180 Yeah.

00:13:21.080 I'm not

00:13:21.820 comforted,

00:13:22.500 to put it

00:13:22.860 mildly,

00:13:23.660 by them

00:13:24.200 allowing the

00:13:24.900 Chinese to

00:13:25.560 surveil us

00:13:26.160 for eight

00:13:26.480 straight days,

00:13:27.600 but I'm

00:13:28.280 also not

00:13:28.840 comforted by

00:13:29.520 them saying,

00:13:30.380 shoot everything

00:13:30.880 down we see,

00:13:31.740 and we

00:13:31.940 don't know

00:13:32.140 what it

00:13:32.400 is.

00:13:32.940 Like,

00:13:33.960 there is

00:13:35.400 actually a

00:13:37.040 reasonable

00:13:37.500 ground,

00:13:38.080 which is,

00:13:38.900 if something

00:13:39.600 is hostile

00:13:40.540 and from

00:13:41.020 an enemy,

00:13:42.500 and it

00:13:42.940 poses a

00:13:43.800 danger of

00:13:44.420 some sort,

00:13:45.020 including

00:13:45.360 espionage,

00:13:46.560 then you

00:13:46.980 shoot it

00:13:47.320 down.

00:13:48.000 If it's a

00:13:48.740 kid's science

00:13:49.340 project,

00:13:50.020 don't shoot

00:13:50.760 down the

00:13:51.200 kid's science

00:13:51.780 project.

00:13:52.280 Yeah,

00:13:52.420 the bottleneck

00:13:52.860 clogs

00:13:53.240 shouldn't be

00:13:53.660 on the

00:13:53.980 list.

00:13:54.740 The president

00:13:57.300 owes the

00:13:57.820 American people

00:13:58.580 candor on

00:13:59.320 this.

00:13:59.740 They need

00:14:00.220 to just

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00:14:01.140 More than

00:14:01.540 propaganda.

00:14:02.260 Yes.

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00:14:03.340 There was

00:14:03.600 also something

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00:15:33.660 Washington, there was a

00:15:34.920 unique conversation that

00:15:36.300 you had that people need

00:15:38.460 to hear, and it was

00:15:39.780 about drugs.

00:15:41.300 It was about the DEA.

00:15:43.140 They're involved in

00:15:44.140 drugs.

00:15:44.600 Yep.

00:15:45.080 That's their job.

00:15:46.220 And then refusing to

00:15:47.320 answer some very basic

00:15:48.580 questions about drugs and

00:15:50.420 the drug cartels, the

00:15:51.860 money they're making,

00:15:53.280 fentanyl and everything

00:15:54.220 else going on, and it

00:15:55.840 was a question that you

00:15:57.140 asked that they should

00:15:58.120 have been able to answer

00:15:58.920 easily, and they

00:15:59.640 basically were doing

00:16:00.420 everything they could to

00:16:01.000 refuse to answer.

00:16:01.840 It was shocking.

00:16:02.460 Yeah, so this was a

00:16:03.420 hearing in the Senate

00:16:04.220 Foreign Relations

00:16:04.960 Committee this week, and

00:16:06.740 one of the witnesses was

00:16:08.040 the administrator of the

00:16:09.160 DEA.

00:16:09.660 So the head honcho of the

00:16:10.940 DEA was testifying about

00:16:13.220 fentanyl and other drugs

00:16:14.420 coming across the border,

00:16:15.620 and, well, here's a

00:16:16.480 portion of her testimony.

00:16:18.040 Senator, I'm going to

00:16:18.760 defer questions on the

00:16:20.120 border and the ports of

00:16:21.020 entry to the Department

00:16:21.920 of Homeland Security.

00:16:22.540 So the DEA has no view

00:16:23.900 on whether drug dealers

00:16:25.260 crossing the border carry

00:16:26.620 drugs?

00:16:27.320 Senator, as I said from

00:16:28.740 our investigations, what

00:16:30.400 we see is that the

00:16:31.520 majority of fentanyl

00:16:32.440 coming into the United

00:16:33.560 states?

00:16:33.880 I said drug dealers and

00:16:35.220 gotaways are carrying

00:16:36.200 drugs, many of them.

00:16:37.340 Senator, what we see is

00:16:38.740 mostly tractor trailers and

00:16:43.560 personal vehicles.

00:16:44.500 All right, so you're

00:16:45.080 sticking to the talking

00:16:45.940 points closely, and

00:16:46.980 congratulations, it's the

00:16:48.060 Democrat talking points,

00:16:49.120 that the open borders don't

00:16:50.220 matter, that 328,000 or

00:16:53.180 1.2 million gotaways don't

00:16:55.940 matter.

00:16:57.560 We had 100,000 people die

00:16:59.440 last year of drug overdoses.

00:17:03.220 My sister died of a drug

00:17:04.400 overdose just over a decade

00:17:06.100 ago.

00:17:07.320 This is a crisis, but it is a

00:17:08.860 man-made crisis.

00:17:10.840 This administration made a

00:17:12.120 conscious political decision to

00:17:14.260 open the borders, and one of

00:17:18.680 the results is they have turned

00:17:21.200 Mexican drug cartels into

00:17:22.660 multi-billionaires.

00:17:23.840 In 2018, the amount of money

00:17:26.120 cartels made from human

00:17:27.240 trafficking, according to the

00:17:28.160 New York Times, was $500

00:17:29.340 million.

00:17:31.120 Now, just from human

00:17:32.740 trafficking, the cartels are

00:17:34.700 making $13 billion a year,

00:17:38.120 again, according to the New

00:17:38.960 York Times.

00:17:39.500 That's a 2,600 percent

00:17:41.540 increase.

00:17:43.960 Administrator Milgram, the

00:17:46.620 single best thing that

00:17:47.920 happened to Mexican drug

00:17:49.060 cartels in history was Joe

00:17:51.440 Biden becoming president,

00:17:52.800 opening the border, and

00:17:54.100 making tens of billions of

00:17:56.000 dollars for these vicious

00:17:56.980 criminals.

00:17:57.760 In your judgment, is it a good

00:17:59.600 thing that these cartels now

00:18:01.540 have tens of billions of

00:18:03.420 dollars from human trafficking

00:18:04.660 and drug trafficking?

00:18:05.900 Senator Cruz, I really

00:18:07.620 appreciate the opportunity to

00:18:08.900 answer your question.

00:18:10.420 And as I have said clearly and

00:18:11.960 will continue to say, there are

00:18:14.000 two cartels in Mexico, the

00:18:16.040 Sinaloa and Jalisco cartel,

00:18:18.260 that are responsible for the

00:18:19.940 devastation that we are seeing on

00:18:21.660 the streets of our country.

00:18:23.260 It is our top operational priority

00:18:24.980 to defeat those two cartels and

00:18:28.400 to stop the fentanyl and

00:18:29.480 methamphetamine that is flooding

00:18:30.760 into our communities.

00:18:31.320 Would you answer the question I

00:18:31.480 asked?

00:18:31.840 Is it a good thing for them to

00:18:33.020 have tens of billions of dollars

00:18:34.420 now that they didn't have?

00:18:35.620 Senator, we are doing everything

00:18:37.540 we can.

00:18:38.140 You're refusing to answer the

00:18:39.240 question.

00:18:39.660 It shouldn't be a hard question.

00:18:41.040 Every amount of money, if I

00:18:42.820 please, if I could finish, I very

00:18:49.520 much understand your point.

00:18:51.080 We believe that the cartels are

00:18:52.820 making billions of dollars on

00:18:55.620 illicit fentanyl.

00:18:57.100 It is a terrible thing.

00:18:58.660 Thank you.

00:18:59.620 It took a long time to get to it's

00:19:01.360 a terrible thing.

00:19:02.660 And you would think the DEA would

00:19:04.360 absolutely want to answer that

00:19:06.520 question on the front end, saying

00:19:08.680 we're on your side on this one.

00:19:10.220 And we agree with you, billions

00:19:12.540 going to the cartels is never a

00:19:14.960 good thing.

00:19:15.840 It is giving them every tool they

00:19:17.820 need to come after our DEA agents,

00:19:20.540 to come after our resources, to

00:19:23.240 come after the people that we have

00:19:24.600 over there.

00:19:24.920 They're trying to help us.

00:19:26.860 So, look, there are a couple of

00:19:27.600 things that were going on there.

00:19:28.720 Number one, and we saw this

00:19:30.660 throughout the hearing as

00:19:31.520 Democrat senators would get up and

00:19:33.220 ask questions.

00:19:34.280 The talking point from the Biden

00:19:36.400 administration and every Democrat

00:19:37.820 senator is that the

00:19:40.200 the flood of illegal drugs across

00:19:42.560 our southern border has

00:19:44.740 nothing to do with Joe Biden's

00:19:46.560 open borders.

00:19:48.080 That, yes, last year we had over

00:19:50.180 100,000 overdoses, the highest

00:19:51.940 overdoses in the history of our

00:19:53.620 country.

00:19:54.820 And that is apparently completely

00:19:56.780 unrelated to the fact that last

00:19:58.440 year and over the last two years

00:19:59.900 we've had 5.5 million people cross

00:20:02.260 the border illegally, the worst

00:20:04.080 illegal immigration in the history

00:20:05.440 of our country.

00:20:06.080 So their talking point, which all

00:20:08.380 of them, they made it over and

00:20:09.420 over and over again as the two are

00:20:10.480 completely unrelated.

00:20:12.420 It's bizarre.

00:20:13.340 It's idiotic.

00:20:15.560 What was interesting there.

00:20:16.920 So the questions I was asking the

00:20:18.480 head of the DEA shouldn't be hard.

00:20:21.120 Yeah.

00:20:24.520 The Customs and Border Patrol agents

00:20:26.500 help you stop drug dealers.

00:20:28.000 Yes.

00:20:29.880 Is it a good thing that Joe Biden has

00:20:32.960 made tens of billions of dollars for

00:20:34.860 Mexican drug cartels?

00:20:36.380 Hell no.

00:20:37.600 That should have been easy.

00:20:39.100 What's interesting about this

00:20:40.260 administrator, and when she was

00:20:41.220 nominated, I sat down and met with

00:20:43.780 her in my office.

00:20:46.060 And I actually think she's a pretty

00:20:47.940 law and order player.

00:20:49.540 Like she's she rose up through law

00:20:52.800 enforcement.

00:20:53.260 But I do think she takes seriously

00:20:54.880 trying to put drug dealers in jail.

00:20:58.440 And part of the reason that was so

00:21:00.520 painful to watch is, listen, she's

00:21:03.840 now in a political job where she was

00:21:05.940 appointed by Joe Biden.

00:21:07.860 And she's trying to follow political

00:21:10.260 talking points.

00:21:11.780 And frankly, she's just bad at it.

00:21:14.040 Yeah.

00:21:14.320 Like she knows.

00:21:15.140 You could tell by the end she was

00:21:16.320 like, OK, I admit you're right.

00:21:18.220 Like she knows going in.

00:21:20.360 OK, the political marching orders, as

00:21:22.860 I'm supposed to say, the drugs are

00:21:25.320 coming through the ports of entry, not

00:21:26.980 across the border.

00:21:28.940 And that's my boss's talking point at

00:21:31.660 the White House.

00:21:33.100 And.

00:21:35.600 Ironically, if she were more

00:21:37.000 political, she would have been better

00:21:39.160 at giving that answer.

00:21:40.600 But because I think she's basically a

00:21:42.940 cop and she's

00:21:44.180 being forced to read political

00:21:46.900 talking points, it became ludicrous at

00:21:49.560 the end of the day, putting

00:21:51.100 and so she finally gets there.

00:21:52.740 Is it good that they have tens of

00:21:54.420 billions of dollars?

00:21:55.080 She's like, no, it's terrible.

00:21:56.840 Thank you.

00:21:57.340 Thank you.

00:21:57.840 And that's all you're asking for.

00:21:59.400 I.

00:22:00.680 It is.

00:22:02.340 You cannot defend

00:22:03.860 this administration's policies

00:22:06.400 on illegal immigration.

00:22:08.120 The only way you can defend them is to

00:22:10.240 ignore them and pretend they don't

00:22:12.120 exist, which is what

00:22:13.200 they are hoping the media does.

00:22:15.420 We get to have a guess.

00:22:16.740 This is not something that we do that

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00:24:04.400 I'm just, you know,

00:24:05.120 but this is a lot

00:24:06.080 happening here.

00:24:06.480 Wesley, what he's not

00:24:07.300 telling you

00:24:08.020 is when we started

00:24:09.300 doing the podcast,

00:24:10.520 he shows up

00:24:11.240 in a suit and tie

00:24:12.300 with his tie

00:24:12.980 all the way up.

00:24:13.960 I did.

00:24:14.460 I'm like, dude, relax.

00:24:15.640 Yeah.

00:24:16.060 He looked at me,

00:24:16.540 he's like...

00:24:16.940 He literally just looks

00:24:19.000 up at me like...

00:24:21.440 He goes,

00:24:21.780 we don't wear ties here.

00:24:23.320 What are you doing?

00:24:24.080 I was like, okay.

00:24:25.120 What are you doing?

00:24:25.440 I had to get a whole

00:24:25.900 new wardrobe for this.

00:24:27.600 It costs a lot of money.

00:24:28.860 I went in the hole

00:24:29.720 getting into this new job.

00:24:32.020 Yeah, getting the new job.

00:24:33.300 All right.

00:24:33.500 So, Wesley,

00:24:34.320 his story,

00:24:35.020 he's a brand new member

00:24:36.060 of Congress,

00:24:36.840 has been there

00:24:37.880 all of two months.

00:24:39.040 Yes, sir.

00:24:39.980 He is my congressman,

00:24:41.480 represents Houston.

00:24:43.440 He is a West Point graduate.

00:24:45.660 Have you hazed him yet?

00:24:46.640 Like, with problems?

00:24:47.540 He's been hazing me

00:24:48.700 for four years.

00:24:49.480 Okay, good.

00:24:50.260 Good.

00:24:50.440 We just made fun

00:24:51.240 of his pocket square.

00:24:52.660 That counts for something.

00:24:53.420 As day one,

00:24:54.340 you've been doing this.

00:24:55.160 As him being your congressman,

00:24:55.920 I feel like you should

00:24:56.760 really use that.

00:24:56.940 By the way,

00:24:57.340 in the presidential campaign,

00:24:58.540 we had a guy

00:24:59.320 in charge of what we call

00:25:00.700 the pocket square coalition.

00:25:02.360 Okay.

00:25:02.660 Which is basically

00:25:04.100 all the D.C. lobbyists.

00:25:05.540 So, that was

00:25:06.520 So, what are you trying to say?

00:25:07.200 That was officially

00:25:08.040 labeled the pocket square coalition.

00:25:12.480 So, Wesley went to West Point,

00:25:15.200 played football at West Point.

00:25:16.580 Yes, sir.

00:25:18.800 Went to St. John's High School

00:25:20.720 here in Houston,

00:25:21.480 played football

00:25:22.100 at St. John's

00:25:23.040 here in Houston.

00:25:23.440 Was he good?

00:25:24.080 Because he did fall down

00:25:25.100 a step the other day.

00:25:26.080 We can see the boot here.

00:25:27.760 I just make it,

00:25:28.820 was he good?

00:25:29.660 There's a lot of people

00:25:30.220 claiming to be

00:25:30.760 former athletes here.

00:25:31.740 I'm with a college

00:25:33.980 tennis player,

00:25:35.760 a college football player,

00:25:37.320 and I'm a friggin' debater.

00:25:40.600 But at least you won.

00:25:41.900 You did win debate

00:25:42.700 at some level,

00:25:43.380 I have no doubt in my mind.

00:25:44.460 You know,

00:25:45.180 and that really was

00:25:46.720 very effective

00:25:47.780 for attracting

00:25:48.880 college girls.

00:25:51.800 Yeah, yeah.

00:25:53.980 You pull out your briefcase

00:25:55.560 and they would swoon.

00:25:56.600 It was really amazing.

00:25:57.460 They would swoon you, right?

00:25:58.100 They were like,

00:25:58.720 that's a man going places

00:26:00.160 because he has that briefcase.

00:26:02.440 So you're new to Congress.

00:26:04.380 Yes, I am.

00:26:05.100 You enjoying it so far?

00:26:06.540 Because it's been a little spicy

00:26:07.760 since you got there.

00:26:08.800 We had quite the first week,

00:26:11.440 to be honest with you,

00:26:12.440 but it was an amazing experience

00:26:15.060 to see just how our democracy works.

00:26:17.840 We are not run by kings

00:26:20.100 and by queens and by monarchs.

00:26:21.680 We are run by we, the people.

00:26:24.500 And so what you saw

00:26:25.220 in that first week,

00:26:26.040 although it seemed a bit arduous,

00:26:28.640 it was an example

00:26:30.280 of how we operate as a people.

00:26:32.380 And I loved being a part

00:26:34.700 of that first week,

00:26:35.760 to be honest with you.

00:26:36.920 I think it was good for the country.

00:26:38.200 You and I talked about this.

00:26:39.080 Well, look,

00:26:39.480 I think the fight resulted

00:26:41.280 in major concessions

00:26:43.940 that resulted in

00:26:46.380 dramatically increasing

00:26:47.580 the chances

00:26:48.640 that our conservative,

00:26:50.180 that our Republican majority

00:26:51.640 in the House

00:26:52.720 will actually be

00:26:53.460 a conservative majority

00:26:54.620 and stand and fight.

00:26:55.680 That is correct.

00:26:56.680 And for the last few weeks,

00:26:58.060 we saw that on full display.

00:26:59.880 We've had some very good votes.

00:27:01.620 In fact,

00:27:01.900 the first vote that I took

00:27:03.180 as a congressman

00:27:04.020 was to repeal 87,000 IRS agents.

00:27:07.920 That's the first vote I took.

00:27:09.220 I'm very proud of that.

00:27:10.380 And that was actually

00:27:10.980 a part of that negotiation

00:27:12.000 that first week.

00:27:12.640 Well, and I'll tell you,

00:27:13.420 Wesley,

00:27:13.740 when he was brand new

00:27:14.940 right in the middle

00:27:15.560 of that battle,

00:27:18.600 his wife gave birth

00:27:19.960 to a beautiful baby boy

00:27:21.380 that he flew back

00:27:22.500 because he was

00:27:23.760 a little bit premature.

00:27:24.700 Everybody right now

00:27:25.440 is saying,

00:27:25.780 you're the one

00:27:26.440 that left and came back.

00:27:27.480 No, no, he left

00:27:28.080 and was there.

00:27:28.900 You're the one.

00:27:29.800 But for his newborn son,

00:27:31.400 and then he turned around

00:27:32.900 and his son was doing all right.

00:27:34.060 He had a couple

00:27:34.400 of health issues

00:27:34.900 and then he was doing all right.

00:27:35.760 And then Wesley jumped

00:27:36.620 on a plane and flew back.

00:27:37.540 What's his name?

00:27:38.120 I got to ask him.

00:27:38.940 I'm a dad of three.

00:27:39.780 He is named after my father

00:27:41.540 is Willie Parrish Hunt II.

00:27:43.720 That's so cool.

00:27:44.500 That's his name.

00:27:45.260 How's he doing?

00:27:46.000 He's doing fantastic.

00:27:47.300 In fact,

00:27:47.560 he's doing way better than me.

00:27:48.860 There you go.

00:27:49.440 At this point.

00:27:50.040 But that kid

00:27:50.640 was the most prayed over kid

00:27:53.760 and I attribute

00:27:55.000 the way he's doing right now

00:27:56.780 to the level of care.

00:27:57.720 No, it was a story.

00:27:59.540 It was huge.

00:28:00.000 Everybody's like,

00:28:00.580 well, they got to get this guy back.

00:28:01.980 He had a baby.

00:28:03.260 And that one vote mattered.

00:28:03.880 Yeah, and that one vote mattered.

00:28:05.140 Yeah.

00:28:05.620 And you know,

00:28:06.060 the amazing thing is

00:28:07.060 you can actually match diapers

00:28:08.920 to a pocket square.

00:28:10.100 Yes.

00:28:10.740 There we go.

00:28:11.520 I cannot.

00:28:12.640 Be honest.

00:28:13.420 Based on the formula.

00:28:14.660 Yeah.

00:28:15.020 Be honest.

00:28:15.900 Does he have baby Air Jordans yet?

00:28:18.280 Of course he does.

00:28:19.080 See, I knew it.

00:28:19.900 There we go.

00:28:20.360 Of course he has baby Air Jordans.

00:28:21.900 Yeah, your kid has $100 shoes.

00:28:23.760 He's living a good life.

00:28:25.500 He's living a good life.

00:28:26.680 His best life.

00:28:27.520 All right.

00:28:28.080 So Wesley,

00:28:28.940 just a few weeks into Congress,

00:28:31.840 is already at hearings

00:28:33.220 causing a bit of a stir.

00:28:35.040 You've got T.C.

00:28:35.980 still of approval.

00:28:36.760 I know this

00:28:37.260 because we talked about this.

00:28:38.600 And so we've got a clip

00:28:39.920 from one of the...

00:28:40.660 He's been there two months.

00:28:41.640 This is a clip

00:28:42.220 from one of the hearings

00:28:43.060 in the House

00:28:43.620 that's worth taking a look at.

00:28:45.940 My colleague,

00:28:46.760 Mr. Gooden,

00:28:47.560 talked about race

00:28:48.900 and using the word

00:28:49.680 racism and racist.

00:28:50.960 And I've been black

00:28:51.960 for a long time, sir.

00:28:52.980 So I get it.

00:28:54.380 And I've been a minority

00:28:56.180 in this country

00:28:56.780 for a very long time.

00:28:59.480 But this is actually

00:29:00.540 not about race.

00:29:01.700 This is actually

00:29:02.540 an issue of public safety.

00:29:05.300 And if I call this,

00:29:07.120 if I call this an invasion,

00:29:09.920 sir, I'm not racist.

00:29:11.700 I can assure you

00:29:12.700 I'm not racist.

00:29:13.400 What I can assure you

00:29:15.260 is that I want to make sure

00:29:17.280 that fentanyl

00:29:18.120 doesn't indiscriminately kill

00:29:20.000 any race, religion,

00:29:22.360 color, or creed

00:29:23.140 because fentanyl

00:29:24.220 doesn't care

00:29:25.140 where you're from.

00:29:26.560 Fentanyl doesn't care

00:29:27.280 about race.

00:29:28.740 Fentanyl kills indiscriminately.

00:29:31.600 This gentleman right here

00:29:32.780 works his tail off

00:29:33.540 every single day

00:29:34.400 to stop that from happening.

00:29:36.840 Now, there's been

00:29:37.380 a break in the dam

00:29:38.100 and that's pretty obvious

00:29:39.100 because a couple of years ago,

00:29:40.740 of course,

00:29:41.180 we had some problems,

00:29:42.040 but it wasn't amplified

00:29:43.000 to the level

00:29:43.540 that we are seeing

00:29:44.420 every single day.

00:29:45.840 And the reason why

00:29:46.400 we have to be careful

00:29:47.200 with what we call

00:29:48.340 and what we deem racist

00:29:49.640 moving forward in the future

00:29:50.580 is because

00:29:51.300 we start to lose focus

00:29:54.460 on what the actual problem is.

00:29:57.800 This administration,

00:29:58.900 the Democrat Party,

00:29:59.800 unfortunately,

00:30:01.160 uses race

00:30:01.860 as a scapegoat

00:30:03.040 for everything.

00:30:05.600 And as somebody

00:30:06.480 that wants to make sure

00:30:07.500 that we do attack

00:30:08.300 racist issues

00:30:09.220 when they do occur,

00:30:10.420 we can't be the boy

00:30:12.020 who cried wolf

00:30:13.040 and blamed racism

00:30:14.400 all the time.

00:30:15.980 So, look,

00:30:16.720 that was very well said.

00:30:18.500 Thank you, sir.

00:30:19.880 But it's also really important

00:30:21.700 to be said.

00:30:23.340 And Wesley,

00:30:24.940 you're not supposed to exist.

00:30:27.300 According to the media...

00:30:28.300 And neither are you.

00:30:30.660 According to the media,

00:30:32.620 the only people

00:30:33.560 who are allowed

00:30:34.160 to be Republicans

00:30:35.020 are old, fat, white guys.

00:30:38.000 And you certainly

00:30:41.500 are not allowed

00:30:42.380 to be a black man

00:30:43.180 and be Republican.

00:30:44.280 That, you know...

00:30:46.500 Actually, what was it?

00:30:47.680 Joe Biden

00:30:48.220 in the presidential campaign

00:30:49.520 said if you're not voting for him...

00:30:51.020 You ain't black.

00:30:52.220 I mean...

00:30:53.380 And they believe it.

00:30:54.800 Yes.

00:30:55.900 And you're right.

00:30:57.040 Look, I'm an Hispanic man.

00:30:58.640 I'm not supposed to be

00:30:59.740 Republican.

00:31:01.320 And even worse,

00:31:01.960 I'm not supposed

00:31:02.420 to be a conservative.

00:31:03.080 Like, to be a conservative Republican...

00:31:05.420 You're spot of saving.

00:31:06.480 Like, to actually want

00:31:07.320 to secure the border?

00:31:08.680 Yes.

00:31:09.500 Jorge Ramjos,

00:31:11.220 on air,

00:31:11.840 called me a traitor

00:31:12.560 to my race.

00:31:13.020 Unbelievable.

00:31:15.020 And I actually asked him,

00:31:16.200 I said,

00:31:16.420 Jorge,

00:31:17.140 if I crossed illegally

00:31:19.320 into Mexico,

00:31:21.440 what would they do?

00:31:22.320 And he said,

00:31:22.680 oh, they'd deport you.

00:31:24.280 Like, wait.

00:31:26.140 Why can they enforce

00:31:27.420 their laws

00:31:27.960 and we can't enforce ours?

00:31:29.140 You're correct.

00:31:30.340 But,

00:31:31.860 look,

00:31:32.100 I think it's important

00:31:33.120 and it's interesting.

00:31:35.800 You are not

00:31:36.820 the only

00:31:37.960 black

00:31:39.720 freshman

00:31:41.080 Republican

00:31:42.860 West Point graduate

00:31:45.240 in this Congress.

00:31:47.060 Yes, sir.

00:31:47.820 So tell us about that.

00:31:48.640 That's going to be

00:31:48.740 a really cool moment,

00:31:49.500 by the way.

00:31:49.720 It's even better.

00:31:51.060 It's two of us.

00:31:52.180 It's me and John James.

00:31:54.060 And for the record,

00:31:55.180 I will let you know

00:31:56.120 that of all the academies

00:31:58.600 in this country,

00:31:59.280 and I consider them

00:32:00.060 to be the leadership

00:32:02.140 institutions of the

00:32:03.260 entire world.

00:32:04.260 And I'm going to name

00:32:04.820 them in order of merit,

00:32:05.840 of course.

00:32:08.180 West Point.

00:32:09.200 Of course.

00:32:10.000 Naval Academy,

00:32:10.800 Air Force Academy,

00:32:11.600 Coast Guard Academy,

00:32:12.400 Merchant Marine Academy.

00:32:13.740 We've never seen

00:32:15.480 a black congressman,

00:32:17.500 senator,

00:32:17.920 or president

00:32:18.600 ever from any

00:32:20.040 one of our academies.

00:32:22.000 Eisenhower

00:32:22.520 was a Republican,

00:32:24.280 and Grant

00:32:24.780 was a Republican,

00:32:25.620 and of course,

00:32:27.100 Jimmy Carter,

00:32:28.280 Naval Academy,

00:32:29.340 Democrat.

00:32:29.640 Democrat, yeah.

00:32:30.420 I'll let you decide

00:32:31.280 how that worked out

00:32:32.340 for everybody.

00:32:33.540 But I will tell you

00:32:34.460 that we've never had

00:32:35.480 a black person,

00:32:36.820 a person of color,

00:32:37.760 actually ascend

00:32:38.800 to these ranks,

00:32:40.080 and we've had two

00:32:41.300 in the exact same class,

00:32:43.020 the 118th Congress,

00:32:44.700 and we're from the same class

00:32:45.960 at West Point,

00:32:46.700 and we're both black.

00:32:48.180 They were classmates

00:32:49.020 at West Point.

00:32:49.980 And there's three of us.

00:32:52.440 There's one Democrat,

00:32:53.360 and he's white,

00:32:55.060 Pat Ryan.

00:32:56.260 Serious question.

00:32:57.280 Same class.

00:32:57.840 How many articles

00:32:58.740 are written about

00:32:59.440 the two of you,

00:33:00.480 and this is certainly

00:33:01.280 breaking history,

00:33:02.520 and I know your answer,

00:33:04.520 but I'm asking this

00:33:05.420 to show the bias

00:33:06.420 of the media.

00:33:07.400 This is a historic moment.

00:33:09.260 Yes, it is.

00:33:09.820 It's an incredible moment.

00:33:11.220 The fact that there's

00:33:12.000 not what but two of you,

00:33:13.040 and you were classmates.

00:33:14.520 That's a Time magazine,

00:33:15.980 that's a Newsweek type article.

00:33:17.400 We'd be on The View.

00:33:18.740 You would be on The View,

00:33:19.660 right?

00:33:19.920 There'd be an HBO special.

00:33:20.720 There would be a standing ovation

00:33:22.100 everywhere you go.

00:33:23.220 Yes.

00:33:23.760 Rolling it out,

00:33:24.780 it should be that story.

00:33:26.060 So how many times

00:33:27.020 have you guys been called

00:33:28.080 for a human interest piece

00:33:29.660 on that story alone?

00:33:31.160 Forget politics.

00:33:32.140 Us alone?

00:33:32.860 It hasn't happened.

00:33:33.720 There you go.

00:33:34.960 That's how you know

00:33:35.760 how bias the media is.

00:33:36.620 And therein lies my point, too.

00:33:37.580 So I'm a big fan

00:33:38.460 of talking about

00:33:39.120 black excellence

00:33:39.780 in terms of

00:33:40.500 regardless of what party

00:33:41.740 you're affiliated with.

00:33:43.160 Black excellence

00:33:43.680 is black excellence,

00:33:44.700 even if you are a Republican.

00:33:46.200 Clarence Thomas,

00:33:47.060 that is black excellence.

00:33:48.660 And for whatever reason,

00:33:49.700 it only matters

00:33:50.420 when you're a Democrat.

00:33:51.160 And this is the fight

00:33:52.940 that we have in our hands.

00:33:54.700 Clarence Thomas is not black.

00:33:56.160 Yeah, he's not.

00:33:57.040 And you're not either.

00:33:58.220 Which is the most ridiculous thing.

00:33:59.440 It is, they are vicious

00:34:03.600 if you dare disagree

00:34:06.880 with their demanded orthodoxy.

00:34:10.720 Look, this week,

00:34:11.820 Don Lemon went on CNN

00:34:14.300 and explained that

00:34:16.740 Nikki Haley

00:34:17.560 is past her prime

00:34:20.140 because he says

00:34:22.560 women are in their prime

00:34:24.140 in their 20s or 30s

00:34:26.620 and if you disagree

00:34:27.300 or maybe 40s.

00:34:28.800 So he concedes.

00:34:30.040 Unbelievable.

00:34:30.540 Hold on.

00:34:31.020 But if you disagree,

00:34:31.940 what was the response

00:34:32.740 that's the best part

00:34:33.280 of the whole line?

00:34:34.040 Just Google it.

00:34:34.820 Just Google it.

00:34:35.840 It's up there.

00:34:36.360 Yeah, it's Google it.

00:34:37.340 And it was, look,

00:34:38.580 it was blatantly misogynist.

00:34:41.000 Yes.

00:34:41.760 But it was leftist misogyny

00:34:43.560 because

00:34:44.360 Nikki Haley

00:34:46.060 is a Republican.

00:34:47.180 She's not a woman.

00:34:48.340 Can you imagine saying that

00:34:49.300 about Hillary Clinton

00:34:49.980 being past her prime?

00:34:50.900 Just plug it in.

00:34:51.560 You would lose your job.

00:34:52.660 You would have lost your job.

00:34:53.600 You'd be canceled.

00:34:54.320 Right.

00:34:54.620 You would have lost your job.

00:34:55.680 Immediately canceled.

00:34:56.960 And as you know,

00:34:58.080 there were two women

00:34:59.400 sitting next to him

00:35:00.480 on CNN

00:35:01.700 who were just flabbergasted.

00:35:04.600 Yeah.

00:35:05.300 That he said it.

00:35:06.460 And they're just,

00:35:07.500 you know,

00:35:07.920 Poppy comes and says,

00:35:08.920 you mean prime for childbirth?

00:35:11.860 Yeah.

00:35:12.680 Like it,

00:35:13.560 it was,

00:35:15.800 but it's the same

00:35:17.380 contempt.

00:35:19.180 Yes.

00:35:20.060 She's not a woman.

00:35:21.960 You're not black.

00:35:23.180 You're only,

00:35:25.760 they have,

00:35:27.360 look,

00:35:27.640 if you look at the Supreme Court,

00:35:29.060 the left never liked

00:35:29.960 Antonin Scalia,

00:35:31.320 but they could live with him.

00:35:33.040 He was allowed

00:35:33.600 to be a conservative.

00:35:34.780 Sure.

00:35:35.000 You can respect that.

00:35:35.640 They were respected.

00:35:36.420 They respected that.

00:35:37.580 They loathe Clarence Thomas.

00:35:39.620 Yes.

00:35:41.540 Um,

00:35:41.900 and you know,

00:35:43.960 listen,

00:35:44.940 Wesley and I have been friends

00:35:45.800 a long time.

00:35:46.720 He's run.

00:35:47.260 When did y'all first meet?

00:35:48.120 How did,

00:35:48.600 talk about that for a second.

00:35:50.280 Well,

00:35:50.800 we met when,

00:35:52.220 uh,

00:35:52.520 when he was running for Congress.

00:35:54.880 A couple years ago.

00:35:55.500 A couple years ago.

00:35:56.340 And I supported him

00:35:57.420 in his first bid for Congress.

00:35:58.640 He didn't win the first time.

00:35:59.940 Yeah.

00:36:00.540 And I actually was talking to you

00:36:01.580 right after the election,

00:36:02.720 walking,

00:36:03.620 walking the neighborhood,

00:36:04.680 walking by dog.

00:36:05.460 You said you saw my sign up.

00:36:06.860 You called me.

00:36:08.060 And I,

00:36:08.360 I called him.

00:36:09.040 I'm walking the dog.

00:36:09.800 And I said,

00:36:10.100 I saw your sign up.

00:36:10.820 It was right after he hadn't won

00:36:11.880 two years ago.

00:36:12.700 Yep.

00:36:13.160 And I said,

00:36:13.740 Wesley,

00:36:14.100 you did a hell of a job.

00:36:15.060 You impressed a lot of people

00:36:16.180 and mark my word,

00:36:17.080 you're going to win.

00:36:17.880 Yes.

00:36:18.540 You don't always win your first race,

00:36:19.940 but you're going to win.

00:36:20.860 Ronald Reagan would attest to that.

00:36:22.460 Yes.

00:36:23.220 Um,

00:36:24.320 but look,

00:36:25.600 part of the reason

00:36:27.980 the Democrats in the media

00:36:30.840 try to erase you

00:36:31.940 is because you're very inconvenient

00:36:33.180 for their narrative.

00:36:34.160 Yes.

00:36:35.060 Um,

00:36:36.140 they believe

00:36:37.800 that

00:36:39.200 any Republican position,

00:36:43.200 any conservative position

00:36:44.240 is racist.

00:36:44.840 And that,

00:36:45.340 and that is their go-to.

00:36:46.700 It's what you just went in that clip.

00:36:48.080 No matter what it is,

00:36:49.020 it's racist.

00:36:49.580 Canadian women are looking for more.

00:36:53.180 More out of themselves,

00:36:54.540 their businesses,

00:36:55.480 their elected leaders,

00:36:56.420 and the world around them.

00:36:57.660 And that's why we're thrilled

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00:37:22.820 So,

00:37:23.340 I mean,

00:37:23.440 let me ask you,

00:37:24.300 as a black man,

00:37:25.280 why are you a Republican?

00:37:26.660 And I imagine

00:37:27.500 you get that question

00:37:28.640 sometimes from people

00:37:30.340 that are confused.

00:37:31.500 I'm a Republican

00:37:32.440 because I don't prescribe

00:37:33.860 to the soft bigotry

00:37:35.460 of low expectations.

00:37:37.840 My parents

00:37:38.960 are people

00:37:39.700 that raised us

00:37:40.540 in this country

00:37:41.180 and they said to us

00:37:42.560 at a very early age,

00:37:43.660 if you can't make it here,

00:37:44.920 then you can't make it anywhere.

00:37:47.620 End of discussion.

00:37:48.800 Hence the reason why

00:37:49.780 my sister went to West Point,

00:37:51.420 I went to West Point,

00:37:52.600 and my brother went to West Point.

00:37:54.480 Now,

00:37:54.740 my brother went to

00:37:55.260 Harvard Business School

00:37:56.200 and so I had to go to Cornell

00:37:57.580 and get three master's degrees

00:37:58.760 in four years

00:37:59.540 to match his Harvard degree

00:38:00.740 because we're competitive like that.

00:38:03.720 Yeah.

00:38:03.940 And my sister

00:38:04.820 was a instructor

00:38:06.860 at West Point

00:38:07.520 where my brother and I

00:38:08.540 were cadets.

00:38:09.600 No way.

00:38:10.000 And that's because

00:38:10.620 my parents had high

00:38:12.360 expectations for us.

00:38:13.980 And when I look

00:38:15.080 at Democrats right now

00:38:16.120 that tell us

00:38:16.920 that people of color

00:38:18.360 and black and brown people

00:38:19.660 can't ascertain

00:38:21.860 an ID

00:38:22.780 to go vote,

00:38:24.680 I think to myself,

00:38:26.000 wow,

00:38:26.600 you think so little

00:38:27.980 of a group of people

00:38:29.280 that they can't do

00:38:30.700 the menial task

00:38:31.920 of attaining

00:38:32.600 a government-issued ID

00:38:34.500 just to go vote.

00:38:35.800 And I reject that holistically

00:38:37.480 and that's what makes me

00:38:38.980 a conservative.

00:38:39.880 I've said this

00:38:40.520 for a long time

00:38:41.240 and I never backed down

00:38:42.380 when I was at CNN.

00:38:43.140 We were talking

00:38:44.360 about voter ID

00:38:44.960 and it became

00:38:45.380 such a big issue

00:38:46.140 and I kept saying

00:38:47.000 it's incredibly racist

00:38:48.000 and I would always say

00:38:48.700 this to whoever

00:38:49.020 the minority was.

00:38:49.720 It's horribly racist.

00:38:50.340 Yeah,

00:38:50.500 and I said to Don Lemon,

00:38:51.360 we were just talking

00:38:51.820 about Don Lemon,

00:38:52.300 I said it's incredibly racist

00:38:53.620 to imply

00:38:54.320 that an African-American

00:38:56.840 man or woman

00:38:57.720 cannot get an ID

00:38:59.860 at the same levels

00:39:00.980 of any other person.

00:39:02.000 Do you understand

00:39:02.680 how condescending,

00:39:04.780 how racist

00:39:05.480 that statement is

00:39:06.780 that you're implying

00:39:08.100 that they're so behind

00:39:09.280 the times

00:39:09.700 solely based on

00:39:10.580 the color of their skin

00:39:11.280 that they can't be expected

00:39:12.860 to have an ID

00:39:13.940 at the same level

00:39:15.240 as anyone else.

00:39:16.320 They tell me as a Latino

00:39:17.400 I'm too stupid

00:39:18.060 to get a driver's license.

00:39:18.720 Exactly.

00:39:20.020 And by the way,

00:39:21.140 if you actually talk

00:39:22.120 to real people,

00:39:22.840 there's a reason

00:39:23.560 that roughly 70%

00:39:25.620 of African-Americans

00:39:26.440 in this country

00:39:27.020 support photo ID.

00:39:28.220 Yeah.

00:39:28.500 Of course.

00:39:29.100 To vote.

00:39:29.680 Yeah.

00:39:29.920 It is.

00:39:33.240 But the Democrat

00:39:34.520 political model

00:39:35.800 is based on

00:39:38.020 stoking racial fear.

00:39:40.880 And part of it is

00:39:42.620 they try to convince people

00:39:44.360 that their party

00:39:46.980 is historically

00:39:48.520 the champion

00:39:49.100 for civil rights

00:39:49.960 and the Republicans

00:39:50.960 are historically

00:39:51.860 the bad guys.

00:39:53.000 And I got to say

00:39:54.140 as a matter of history,

00:39:55.540 that's exactly backwards.

00:39:58.180 Look,

00:39:58.500 the Democrat Party's

00:39:59.980 record on race

00:40:01.880 is disgraceful.

00:40:03.780 People don't know

00:40:04.300 the history of it.

00:40:05.280 And that's part

00:40:05.840 of where we've lost.

00:40:06.340 Joe Biden's

00:40:07.100 is disgraceful.

00:40:08.100 Yes.

00:40:08.740 So the Democrat Party

00:40:09.940 founded the Ku Klux Klan.

00:40:13.440 The Ku Klux Klan.

00:40:14.260 Let's just be careful

00:40:15.280 and say that's a fact

00:40:16.600 and if you don't believe us,

00:40:17.620 take Don Lemon's advice,

00:40:18.600 Google it.

00:40:19.240 So Google it

00:40:20.000 and in fact,

00:40:20.640 here's someone

00:40:21.440 you can Google.

00:40:22.220 That's right.

00:40:22.920 Google an individual

00:40:24.060 named Nathan Bedford Forrest.

00:40:26.180 Nathan Bedford Forrest

00:40:27.360 who's the founder

00:40:28.040 of the KKK.

00:40:28.960 He was a Confederate general.

00:40:31.280 Buried in my hometown

00:40:32.520 of Memphis.

00:40:34.440 He was a national delegate

00:40:36.220 to the Democrat

00:40:38.360 National Convention

00:40:39.240 in 1860.

00:40:40.180 That's correct.

00:40:40.920 If you look at virtually

00:40:42.720 every leader

00:40:43.640 of the Klan,

00:40:45.600 they were all Democrats.

00:40:47.080 That's right.

00:40:47.740 Now, Democrats may say,

00:40:49.240 okay, fine, fine.

00:40:50.160 So that's the 1860s.

00:40:51.940 But fast forward,

00:40:53.480 the Democrats

00:40:54.000 got enlightened later.

00:40:55.500 Okay, let's move

00:40:57.260 to the 1940s

00:40:58.220 and 50s and 60s.

00:40:59.280 Civil rights here.

00:41:00.960 Let's move

00:41:01.540 to the Jim Crow laws.

00:41:02.660 Yes.

00:41:03.340 Jim Crow laws.

00:41:04.580 Who wrote them?

00:41:06.520 Democrats.

00:41:07.460 Democrats in the South.

00:41:09.260 Jim Crow laws

00:41:10.240 were written

00:41:10.920 by white Democrats

00:41:13.620 to stop black voters

00:41:16.580 from voting white Democrats

00:41:18.940 out of office

00:41:19.640 and to stop them

00:41:21.360 from electing Republicans.

00:41:22.520 They were literally written

00:41:23.800 for that sole purpose.

00:41:25.260 To protect Democrats

00:41:26.900 in office.

00:41:27.860 That is correct.

00:41:29.240 Now.

00:41:30.260 You can Google it,

00:41:31.000 by the way.

00:41:31.340 Google it.

00:41:32.300 Don Lemon's.

00:41:33.380 Google it.

00:41:34.540 You probably can't Google it

00:41:36.740 because big tech's so bad

00:41:38.540 they might suppress all of this.

00:41:39.560 That's true.

00:41:40.380 It'll be on the second

00:41:41.020 or third page.

00:41:42.040 You'll have to search

00:41:43.160 on page three or four.

00:41:45.100 Yeah, there you go.

00:41:45.920 You'll get there eventually.

00:41:46.740 You'll get there.

00:41:47.300 And by the way,

00:41:48.040 the Republican Party

00:41:49.160 was literally founded

00:41:52.520 to abolish slavery.

00:41:55.260 The party of Lincoln.

00:41:56.580 The first Republican president

00:41:58.360 was Abraham Lincoln.

00:41:59.560 Yes, sir.

00:41:59.980 The reason our party exists

00:42:02.160 is because slavery

00:42:03.200 was an evil abomination.

00:42:05.060 You're thinking Google it

00:42:05.900 if you don't believe me.

00:42:06.340 If you don't believe me.

00:42:07.260 I need you.

00:42:08.160 Google that too.

00:42:09.200 I think we're good.

00:42:09.880 Yeah, Google that too.

00:42:11.620 The history of it.

00:42:14.280 And so, okay,

00:42:15.080 here's how the leftist

00:42:16.000 tries to get around all this.

00:42:17.020 They say, well, okay,

00:42:17.760 maybe all that's true,

00:42:18.940 although they actually deny it.

00:42:20.880 But then in the civil rights era,

00:42:24.000 Democrats got enlightened.

00:42:25.720 Really?

00:42:27.080 Civil Rights Act of 1964.

00:42:30.200 A much higher percentage

00:42:32.080 of Republicans in Congress

00:42:34.160 voted for it than Democrats.

00:42:35.120 That's why it passed,

00:42:35.920 because Republicans.

00:42:36.560 It passed because Republicans

00:42:38.080 fought for it.

00:42:38.920 That's correct.

00:42:39.400 Not Democrats.

00:42:40.300 Who was it that were opposing it?

00:42:43.000 It was Democrats

00:42:44.120 who filibustered it.

00:42:45.660 That's right.

00:42:47.020 Fast forward even further.

00:42:50.880 They say, well,

00:42:51.860 that's ancient history.

00:42:53.260 Okay.

00:42:55.180 Let's go a year ago.

00:42:58.560 A year ago,

00:43:00.040 the governor of Virginia

00:43:02.040 was a guy named Ralph Northam.

00:43:03.240 That's correct.

00:43:03.840 Ralph Northam, a Democrat.

00:43:04.960 Now, you may recall

00:43:05.800 the scandal.

00:43:08.120 There's some photos out there.

00:43:09.600 You can also Google that.

00:43:10.280 It's still out there.

00:43:10.960 But it's actually

00:43:12.760 a very revealing incident.

00:43:14.240 So, in his medical school yearbook,

00:43:16.420 he selected a photograph

00:43:17.480 of two people,

00:43:18.520 one dressed as a Klansman,

00:43:20.280 one dressed in blackface.

00:43:22.680 And the media,

00:43:23.780 of course,

00:43:24.000 no one discovered this

00:43:24.700 when he was running for office.

00:43:25.960 A little bit of...

00:43:26.540 Only after.

00:43:27.060 It was only after.

00:43:27.920 Only after it happens that way.

00:43:29.700 It wasn't news

00:43:30.640 while a Republican could win.

00:43:32.900 Yeah.

00:43:33.300 It was only news afterwards.

00:43:35.480 And the media, oddly enough,

00:43:38.260 called that the blackface scandal.

00:43:40.980 Now, I gotta say,

00:43:41.880 I find it an odd...

00:43:44.140 There's a little bit

00:43:44.980 of an obsession

00:43:45.640 with blackface that...

00:43:46.920 Look, I get how it could be

00:43:49.100 seen as offensive,

00:43:50.720 although it is amazing.

00:43:51.540 It seems apparently

00:43:52.340 every Democrat politician

00:43:53.780 in the state of Virginia

00:43:55.180 has dressed in blackface.

00:43:56.240 Or Canada.

00:43:56.360 They all...

00:43:57.160 Yeah.

00:43:57.480 One after the other.

00:43:58.760 Justin Trudeau

00:43:59.640 or Jimmy Kimmel

00:44:01.240 every late night comic.

00:44:02.780 Or Joy Behar.

00:44:04.060 Yeah.

00:44:05.200 So...

00:44:06.000 But what I found bizarre

00:44:08.780 is why they focused

00:44:11.100 on the blackface

00:44:12.480 when...

00:44:12.900 Here's what Ralph Northam said

00:44:14.260 when the day the story broke.

00:44:15.580 He said,

00:44:16.220 yeah, I could have been

00:44:16.960 one of those two people

00:44:17.920 in the picture.

00:44:18.480 I don't know.

00:44:19.560 And I don't know which one.

00:44:21.540 Which means...

00:44:22.480 How convenient.

00:44:23.080 Could have been.

00:44:24.100 He's saying...

00:44:24.800 I have to Google it.

00:44:25.180 He could have been the guy

00:44:26.800 dressed as a Klansman.

00:44:30.120 Now, pause and think for a second.

00:44:31.940 I'm going to postulate

00:44:32.940 a really crazy standard.

00:44:35.700 If you cannot say categorically,

00:44:38.280 with no wiggle words,

00:44:40.360 I have never in my life

00:44:42.480 dressed as a Klansman.

00:44:44.340 Or in blackface.

00:44:45.700 Or in blackface.

00:44:46.180 Either one.

00:44:46.880 It's the lesser of two evils

00:44:48.020 right now, right?

00:44:48.540 No, I'm just going to take Klansman.

00:44:49.940 Just give me a categorical.

00:44:51.540 If you cannot say,

00:44:54.020 I have never dressed as a Klansman,

00:44:56.200 maybe you shouldn't be

00:44:57.140 in public office.

00:44:58.000 There you go.

00:44:58.540 Like a governor.

00:44:59.800 Like a governor

00:45:01.340 pontificating sanctimoniously

00:45:03.880 on race.

00:45:04.640 Yeah.

00:45:05.140 And by the way,

00:45:06.460 okay, you say,

00:45:07.080 all right, a year ago,

00:45:07.620 that's ancient history.

00:45:08.820 Okay, so let's go today.

00:45:11.040 You talked about

00:45:11.980 Joe Biden's record on race.

00:45:14.780 94 crime bill.

00:45:16.760 Well, there is that.

00:45:18.300 There is also Robert Byrd.

00:45:20.680 I would say there's

00:45:21.800 a very famous funeral.

00:45:24.400 So Robert Byrd

00:45:25.280 eulogized him.

00:45:26.740 Yeah.

00:45:27.380 Was an exalted Cyclops

00:45:29.860 of the KKK.

00:45:31.020 What is it with these

00:45:31.980 bigoted idiots

00:45:33.340 coming up with

00:45:34.100 ridiculous titles,

00:45:35.060 but they like things

00:45:35.860 like exalted Cyclops.

00:45:37.320 Yeah.

00:45:38.380 And he was a Democrat.

00:45:39.860 His official title,

00:45:40.340 by the way.

00:45:40.840 That was his official title.

00:45:41.880 Yeah.

00:45:42.560 Because he recruited people

00:45:43.700 to the Klan.

00:45:44.160 So he wasn't just in the Klan.

00:45:45.700 The exalted Cyclops

00:45:46.960 got other racists

00:45:48.640 to join the Klan.

00:45:49.520 That's what Robert Byrd did.

00:45:51.120 And he was a Democrat

00:45:52.300 senator from West Virginia.

00:45:53.660 Now, he wasn't just

00:45:54.220 a Democrat senator

00:45:54.960 from West Virginia.

00:45:56.520 He was the Democrat

00:45:58.120 Senate majority leader.

00:46:02.780 An exalted Cyclops

00:46:04.580 of the Ku Klux Klan.

00:46:05.640 Now, he died,

00:46:06.720 I think his funeral

00:46:07.500 was in 2011,

00:46:09.760 I believe.

00:46:11.580 Do you know who spoke

00:46:12.600 at Robert Byrd's funeral?

00:46:14.120 The president

00:46:14.920 of the United States

00:46:15.780 of America right now.

00:46:17.020 Joseph Robinette

00:46:17.800 Biden Jr.

00:46:19.540 Gave a eulogy,

00:46:21.720 exalted.

00:46:23.640 And said if he would

00:46:24.500 have become president,

00:46:25.280 America would have been

00:46:26.100 a better place,

00:46:26.840 implied it.

00:46:27.660 Disgusting.

00:46:28.420 Yeah.

00:46:28.640 Said his good friend,

00:46:30.280 Robert Byrd.

00:46:30.920 Now, I got another

00:46:31.460 crazy proposition.

00:46:32.680 If you can't say

00:46:36.340 I have never eulogized

00:46:38.180 and praised

00:46:40.220 an exalted Cyclops

00:46:42.300 of the Ku Klux Klan,

00:46:44.120 maybe you ought to

00:46:47.720 slow down a little bit

00:46:48.840 when pontificating

00:46:49.740 based on race.

00:46:50.560 Yeah.

00:46:50.720 Yes.

00:46:51.980 But how many people

00:46:52.920 know any of this history?

00:46:54.540 Because the left

00:46:55.500 and the media

00:46:55.980 won't tell it.

00:46:57.360 The schools don't teach it.

00:46:58.140 I was going to say

00:46:58.580 not taught in the schools.

00:46:59.820 They won't tell it.

00:47:00.400 They don't go anywhere

00:47:01.300 near any of this

00:47:02.460 in the public schools today.

00:47:04.440 And this is where

00:47:05.220 I love the beauty

00:47:05.720 of this conversation.

00:47:06.920 And that is,

00:47:07.820 sir, you are my senator

00:47:09.500 and I have the honor

00:47:10.680 of being your congressman.

00:47:11.900 And you are a Cuban-American

00:47:13.440 and I am a black man.

00:47:15.240 And what's really funny

00:47:16.500 about this is

00:47:17.180 while the left

00:47:18.200 would absolutely pontificate

00:47:20.620 about how we cannot exist,

00:47:22.640 here we are sitting here

00:47:24.000 in unison

00:47:24.460 with the same conservative values

00:47:26.860 from different backgrounds,

00:47:28.480 from different parts

00:47:29.440 of the earth.

00:47:30.420 My great-great-grandfather

00:47:31.840 was a slave.

00:47:33.380 Really?

00:47:34.160 My great-great-grandfather

00:47:35.660 was a slave.

00:47:36.220 What part?

00:47:36.800 Rose Down Plantation

00:47:38.340 in about 33 miles north

00:47:40.620 of Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

00:47:41.900 No way.

00:47:42.560 Wow.

00:47:42.880 Yes.

00:47:43.340 And Rose Down Plantation

00:47:44.360 is still there today.

00:47:46.200 Wow.

00:47:46.660 And here we are

00:47:47.400 having this conversation

00:47:48.280 about conservative values

00:47:49.920 in Texas

00:47:51.100 and nobody cares

00:47:52.600 about what we look like.

00:47:54.220 Yeah.

00:47:54.640 This is the argument

00:47:55.640 that the left

00:47:56.240 cannot deal with

00:47:57.780 because it does not

00:47:58.840 fit their narrative.

00:47:59.620 Well, and let me make it

00:48:00.500 that's absolutely right.

00:48:02.320 And let me make also

00:48:03.220 a substantive point

00:48:04.680 connected to that.

00:48:06.420 You know, a minute ago

00:48:07.040 we were talking about

00:48:07.620 the history of the parties.

00:48:08.660 And the reason

00:48:09.200 the history matters

00:48:10.000 is because it's

00:48:10.640 what the media

00:48:11.140 and the Democrats

00:48:11.640 use to scare

00:48:13.460 minority voters.

00:48:14.460 Exactly.

00:48:15.780 But the substance

00:48:16.820 matters too.

00:48:18.500 The Democrat

00:48:19.340 policy agenda

00:48:20.800 is absolutely horrific.

00:48:24.180 If you sat down

00:48:25.680 and said,

00:48:26.340 let's design

00:48:27.500 a policy agenda

00:48:28.760 to devastate

00:48:30.300 the African-American

00:48:31.160 community

00:48:31.640 and the Hispanic community,

00:48:32.680 you could not come up

00:48:34.880 with anything

00:48:35.540 more effective

00:48:36.420 than the Democrat agenda.

00:48:38.760 You are correct.

00:48:39.480 You look at,

00:48:41.400 number one,

00:48:43.360 the war on police,

00:48:45.560 abolish the police.

00:48:48.260 You know,

00:48:48.580 every time you see

00:48:49.900 Democrats demonizing cops,

00:48:51.580 what inevitably happens,

00:48:52.620 the cops pull back,

00:48:53.680 they stop enforcing

00:48:54.620 the laws vigorously,

00:48:56.100 and crime rates

00:48:56.700 and murder rates

00:48:57.260 go up.

00:48:58.040 And if you think

00:48:58.500 black lives matter,

00:48:59.460 apparently the lives

00:49:00.980 that you don't think matter

00:49:02.180 are the African-Americans

00:49:03.500 who were murdered

00:49:04.240 in much greater number

00:49:05.420 when the police

00:49:06.380 are not out

00:49:07.040 locking up the murderers

00:49:08.760 and the gangbangers.

00:49:11.100 Bail reform,

00:49:11.860 prison reform,

00:49:12.660 all adds to drive

00:49:13.500 the cops crazy.

00:49:14.360 Correct.

00:49:14.880 They go and arrest people.

00:49:16.120 They immediately

00:49:16.560 let them out.

00:49:17.280 We're now doing

00:49:17.840 this bail reform

00:49:18.700 based on what

00:49:19.820 your means are

00:49:20.580 so you can get no bail

00:49:21.820 even if you commit

00:49:22.980 heinous crimes

00:49:23.680 based on your means

00:49:25.120 because they say

00:49:25.560 it's racist

00:49:26.360 to have a real tough

00:49:28.580 bail on someone

00:49:29.400 if they say

00:49:29.880 they don't have

00:49:30.340 the means to get out.

00:49:31.300 And that's just,

00:49:32.640 again,

00:49:32.940 it's costing people

00:49:33.920 their lives

00:49:34.360 specifically in the

00:49:35.020 African-American community.

00:49:36.000 And it's not just crime.

00:49:39.180 You look at

00:49:40.100 the left-wing assault

00:49:42.100 on the family.

00:49:43.420 Oh.

00:49:44.180 Go back to the black family

00:49:45.420 in the 1950s

00:49:46.440 and the 1960s

00:49:47.580 where you had

00:49:48.540 strong

00:49:50.500 two-parent households.

00:49:52.920 You talked about

00:49:53.400 your parents.

00:49:53.980 You talked about

00:49:54.300 your daughter.

00:49:54.700 You talked about

00:49:55.140 your upbringing here.

00:49:56.940 Yes,

00:49:57.560 it was either

00:49:57.900 last year or the year

00:49:58.380 before,

00:49:58.700 74% of all

00:49:59.880 African-American children

00:50:00.640 in America

00:50:01.120 were born

00:50:01.620 in a single-parent household.

00:50:02.720 And it was the inverse

00:50:03.600 in the 50s.

00:50:04.300 Yes.

00:50:05.440 It was the inverse

00:50:06.420 in the 50s.

00:50:06.860 That's exactly right

00:50:08.080 and people don't know it.

00:50:09.660 Look,

00:50:09.840 the great society,

00:50:11.100 the left-wing policies

00:50:12.720 that said

00:50:13.900 we're going to give you

00:50:14.560 welfare payments,

00:50:15.560 we're going to

00:50:15.900 disincentivize marriage.

00:50:17.640 And divide the home.

00:50:18.400 And divide the home.

00:50:19.800 The government

00:50:20.220 became the father.

00:50:21.120 That's right.

00:50:21.500 There was no shame

00:50:22.220 in a father leaving.

00:50:23.380 There was no shame

00:50:24.000 in a father abandoning

00:50:25.040 their children.

00:50:25.540 And they trapped

00:50:27.180 generations

00:50:28.420 of low-income

00:50:30.720 Hispanics

00:50:31.780 and African-Americans

00:50:32.680 in dependency.

00:50:34.780 So I've said

00:50:35.780 a thousand times

00:50:37.720 when my dad

00:50:38.840 was washing dishes

00:50:40.580 in Austin, Texas

00:50:41.560 in 1957,

00:50:42.800 he was making

00:50:43.200 50 cents an hour

00:50:44.100 and he couldn't speak

00:50:44.840 English.

00:50:44.940 Wow.

00:50:46.500 Thank God

00:50:47.440 some well-meaning

00:50:49.280 liberal didn't come

00:50:50.060 put his arm around him

00:50:51.000 and say,

00:50:51.240 Rafael,

00:50:51.520 let me take care of you.

00:50:52.320 Yeah.

00:50:53.500 Let me give you

00:50:55.300 a check.

00:50:56.360 Let me make you

00:50:57.000 dependent.

00:50:57.760 Yes.

00:50:58.120 You don't need to work.

00:50:59.180 You don't need to work hard.

00:51:00.280 That's hard work

00:51:01.260 washing your dishes.

00:51:02.140 Your hands are red

00:51:03.020 and they hurt.

00:51:03.740 Yeah.

00:51:04.600 Just sit at home

00:51:05.460 on your ass

00:51:06.060 and I'll send you a check.

00:51:07.720 It would have been

00:51:08.500 to be honest,

00:51:09.680 it would have been

00:51:10.040 less destructive

00:51:10.880 if someone came by

00:51:11.760 with a bat

00:51:12.420 and beat him with it.

00:51:13.940 Yes.

00:51:14.340 Because that you heal from.

00:51:16.980 And

00:51:17.420 the Democrat agenda

00:51:20.200 has

00:51:20.740 trapped

00:51:21.940 generations

00:51:23.220 in poverty

00:51:24.800 and dependency

00:51:25.860 where you have

00:51:26.800 one,

00:51:27.720 two,

00:51:28.100 three,

00:51:28.520 four generations

00:51:29.660 on welfare

00:51:31.200 and unable

00:51:32.160 to get off of it,

00:51:33.260 unable to get

00:51:34.160 the dignity

00:51:35.160 of a job.

00:51:37.420 And then throw

00:51:38.160 on top of that

00:51:38.920 failed schools.

00:51:40.520 And no way

00:51:41.360 to get out.

00:51:41.960 And against

00:51:42.440 you getting a voucher

00:51:44.380 to get a kid

00:51:45.020 out of a failing school.

00:51:45.920 It's to create victims.

00:51:47.960 So imagine

00:51:48.740 if my parents

00:51:50.300 raised me

00:51:50.980 and they told me,

00:51:52.340 you know what?

00:51:53.400 This world

00:51:54.020 is so much

00:51:54.600 against you

00:51:55.060 and America

00:51:55.480 is so bad

00:51:56.240 that you can't

00:51:57.340 even get an ID.

00:51:59.040 Rely on me

00:51:59.820 and I will give you

00:52:00.580 a check.

00:52:01.080 Imagine if my parents

00:52:02.380 told me that

00:52:02.960 every single day.

00:52:04.320 I certainly

00:52:05.040 wouldn't be

00:52:05.520 a United States

00:52:05.900 congressman.

00:52:07.280 And that's what I mean

00:52:08.500 by the soft bigotry

00:52:09.560 of low expectations.

00:52:11.100 And that's how

00:52:11.820 they keep people

00:52:12.820 voting for them

00:52:13.580 by promising

00:52:14.520 the very bare minimum.

00:52:16.780 And as somebody

00:52:17.300 that has spent

00:52:17.780 a lot of time

00:52:18.420 in the United States

00:52:19.160 government

00:52:19.620 working in the army,

00:52:21.320 I can tell you

00:52:22.180 if the government

00:52:23.040 is giving you something,

00:52:24.420 I can assure you,

00:52:25.620 you can do better

00:52:26.400 on your own.

00:52:27.420 You know,

00:52:27.960 I'll tell you

00:52:28.400 what my dad

00:52:28.980 told me

00:52:29.360 when I was a kid

00:52:29.980 about racism.

00:52:31.940 And he said,

00:52:32.780 look,

00:52:33.300 when I came out

00:52:34.300 of school,

00:52:34.680 he came out

00:52:35.060 of University of Texas

00:52:35.860 class of 61.

00:52:37.920 He said,

00:52:38.500 when I was applying

00:52:39.040 for a job,

00:52:40.800 he said,

00:52:41.500 I had a very heavy

00:52:43.560 Spanish accent.

00:52:44.580 I'm obviously

00:52:45.300 a foreigner.

00:52:46.080 Yeah.

00:52:47.100 And he said,

00:52:47.520 if I'm applying

00:52:48.140 for a job

00:52:48.820 and there's

00:52:49.180 an American

00:52:49.620 applying for the job

00:52:50.580 and we're

00:52:52.160 equally qualified,

00:52:54.820 he said,

00:52:55.240 they'd hire

00:52:55.560 the American.

00:52:56.800 And he wasn't

00:52:57.480 actually that upset

00:52:58.200 about it.

00:52:58.620 He said,

00:52:58.880 you know what,

00:52:59.440 he said,

00:52:59.800 you know what,

00:53:00.120 in Cuba,

00:53:00.500 they'd hire me.

00:53:01.760 That makes sense

00:53:03.140 to him.

00:53:03.680 He's just like,

00:53:04.540 look,

00:53:04.880 in Cuba,

00:53:05.280 they'd hire me.

00:53:06.040 Here,

00:53:07.420 if I'm the immigrant,

00:53:08.820 they're going to hire

00:53:09.400 the American.

00:53:10.960 And he said,

00:53:11.960 his answer to that

00:53:12.980 is he said,

00:53:13.460 look,

00:53:13.640 I just resolved,

00:53:14.580 he said,

00:53:14.860 I'm going to be

00:53:15.400 three times as good

00:53:16.860 as the other guy.

00:53:17.880 He said,

00:53:18.320 I'm going to make it

00:53:19.100 so you had to be

00:53:20.180 an idiot

00:53:21.040 not to hire you

00:53:22.060 to hire the other guy.

00:53:23.680 And that principle,

00:53:26.080 it's part of what's

00:53:27.500 so destructive

00:53:28.160 about the Democrat

00:53:28.960 message in

00:53:30.660 minority communities

00:53:32.740 is they teach

00:53:34.900 children their victims.

00:53:36.740 Yes.

00:53:37.100 which means

00:53:38.780 they discourage

00:53:42.560 them from doing

00:53:43.380 the hard damn

00:53:44.320 work

00:53:44.880 to,

00:53:46.120 as my dad said,

00:53:47.020 be two or three

00:53:47.720 times as good

00:53:48.440 as the other guy

00:53:49.320 and to climb

00:53:50.820 that ladder.

00:53:51.580 And then later on

00:53:52.340 in life,

00:53:52.760 he's better for it.

00:53:53.880 Yes.

00:53:54.360 So instead of

00:53:54.900 sitting back

00:53:56.160 on your heels

00:53:56.800 and saying that,

00:53:57.840 well,

00:53:57.900 somebody had it

00:53:58.600 easier than me

00:53:59.400 or they were given

00:54:00.180 more or they had

00:54:01.040 more inheritance,

00:54:02.100 you had to work

00:54:03.060 in those formative

00:54:03.920 years three,

00:54:05.160 four,

00:54:05.360 five times as hard

00:54:06.680 as.

00:54:07.360 And then 20 years

00:54:08.220 later,

00:54:09.020 then you become

00:54:09.980 a better person.

00:54:11.700 You work harder

00:54:12.660 and you persevere.

00:54:14.220 And that is called

00:54:15.500 growth

00:54:16.220 and that is called

00:54:17.080 the American dream.

00:54:18.680 And so what the left

00:54:19.600 tries to do

00:54:20.580 is try to create

00:54:21.600 equal outcomes.

00:54:23.040 You cannot create

00:54:24.020 equal outcomes.

00:54:25.240 This country is

00:54:25.880 a meritocracy.

00:54:27.060 It's about effort.

00:54:28.300 I get it.

00:54:29.340 Some people have it

00:54:30.140 easier or harder

00:54:30.900 than others,

00:54:31.560 but those that work

00:54:32.780 hard can find

00:54:34.100 and make a way

00:54:35.260 and you can

00:54:35.940 outwork yourself

00:54:37.200 out of somebody

00:54:38.200 that's been

00:54:38.600 given everything.

00:54:40.300 And I'll tell you

00:54:41.360 something, Ben,

00:54:42.120 that Wesley will get,

00:54:44.200 but if you're

00:54:45.840 black or Hispanic,

00:54:46.720 I guarantee

00:54:47.460 you've had people

00:54:48.260 say to you

00:54:48.720 and I've had people

00:54:49.340 say to me,

00:54:50.240 oh, you just got

00:54:51.040 where you are

00:54:51.540 in affirmative action.

00:54:52.480 Oh.

00:54:53.460 It's the only way

00:54:54.040 you got into school

00:54:54.940 is affirmative action

00:54:56.620 and they just...

00:54:58.900 Oh, that burns me up.

00:55:00.320 Like, how many times

00:55:01.360 have you heard that?

00:55:02.000 Seriously.

00:55:02.440 Multiple times.

00:55:03.660 Multiple times.

00:55:04.380 Let's just go back

00:55:05.300 with it's my flair.

00:55:06.220 It's my, it's my,

00:55:06.880 it's my, it's my flair.

00:55:07.940 It's my pocket square.

00:55:09.000 Yeah, it's my pocket square.

00:55:10.400 You just need a good one.

00:55:11.380 It's one of the reasons

00:55:12.300 actually we were joking

00:55:13.300 before about sports

00:55:15.220 or debate.

00:55:15.920 It's one of the reasons

00:55:16.460 I like debate.

00:55:18.160 Because you go into debate,

00:55:19.800 two teams walk into a room.

00:55:21.960 There's no affirmative action involved.

00:55:23.380 And one wins

00:55:23.920 and one loses.

00:55:25.940 And it was,

00:55:27.440 it's why I spent

00:55:28.860 all four years of college

00:55:29.880 almost every weekend

00:55:31.180 on the debate circuit

00:55:32.900 because you'd go in

00:55:33.840 and there was a winner

00:55:34.560 and loser

00:55:35.140 and you won it

00:55:36.100 based on your own skill

00:55:37.760 and your own merit.

00:55:38.760 That's right.

00:55:38.900 And it was a way

00:55:40.020 of responding

00:55:41.020 and it was inevitably

00:55:43.380 supercilious liberals.

00:55:49.200 All right,

00:55:49.740 I'll tell you a story

00:55:50.520 you'll like.

00:55:51.020 I cannot wait.

00:55:52.040 I love it.

00:55:52.880 So I'm in law school

00:55:53.720 and Harvard Law Review.

00:55:59.140 Every year they select

00:56:00.520 40 editors,

00:56:01.920 class of about 560 people,

00:56:03.920 40 editors.

00:56:05.180 So there are a total of 80.

00:56:06.480 There are 40 second year

00:56:07.880 law students,

00:56:08.480 40 third year law students

00:56:09.460 that are on the Law Review.

00:56:10.240 And the Law Review,

00:56:11.320 it's kind of a weird thing.

00:56:12.380 Law schools,

00:56:13.040 it's sort of,

00:56:13.480 it's a legal journal,

00:56:14.560 but it's also this like

00:56:16.160 super prestigious thing

00:56:17.720 that opens up clerkships,

00:56:19.580 opens up jobs.

00:56:20.860 It's,

00:56:20.980 it's historically,

00:56:22.360 it's the best students

00:56:23.420 at the law school.

00:56:24.080 So the Law Review

00:56:24.660 is treated as a big deal.

00:56:27.700 When I was there,

00:56:28.820 the way they selected it

00:56:30.020 is they had 32 of the slots.

00:56:33.740 Half of them were based

00:56:35.900 on a writing competition

00:56:37.020 that was a week long,

00:56:38.540 incredibly grueling

00:56:39.420 writing competition.

00:56:40.860 The other half were based

00:56:42.340 on grades

00:56:43.080 and the writing competition.

00:56:44.420 So that's 32 of the 40 slots.

00:56:46.780 And then they had up to

00:56:47.880 eight of the slots

00:56:48.660 reserved for affirmative action.

00:56:50.280 So that was a policy,

00:56:51.460 explicitly affirmative action.

00:56:52.240 Wow.

00:56:53.240 So my second year on the law,

00:56:55.300 or my first year

00:56:55.940 on the Law Review,

00:56:56.760 second year of law school,

00:56:57.740 there were several of us

00:56:59.440 who were conservatives

00:57:00.080 who were editors.

00:57:01.980 And some of my buddies

00:57:03.520 decided they wanted

00:57:04.440 to force a vote

00:57:05.240 to end affirmative action

00:57:06.580 on the Law Review.

00:57:08.200 Now I have to admit,

00:57:08.980 I thought affirmative action

00:57:10.080 was wrong,

00:57:10.800 but I also could count votes

00:57:12.260 and I said,

00:57:12.800 we're not going to win.

00:57:13.980 Like,

00:57:14.380 why are you wasting your time?

00:57:15.840 It's math.

00:57:16.020 It's math.

00:57:16.460 Yeah.

00:57:16.880 But they wanted to,

00:57:17.920 I said, great.

00:57:18.460 So we went and we met

00:57:19.540 in a classroom

00:57:20.200 and so there were all

00:57:20.780 80 of us in a classroom

00:57:21.640 were debating

00:57:22.260 whether or not

00:57:23.100 to end affirmative action.

00:57:26.580 And I remember

00:57:27.440 this one

00:57:28.320 particularly arrogant liberal

00:57:30.760 stood up and said,

00:57:32.800 if we end affirmative action,

00:57:37.080 the Law Review

00:57:38.220 will be nothing

00:57:39.060 but white men.

00:57:42.620 And I was sitting in the back.

00:57:44.400 I actually wasn't really engaged

00:57:46.000 in the argument.

00:57:46.580 So that's racist.

00:57:47.560 Yeah.

00:57:48.460 Right.

00:57:49.280 Just for the record,

00:57:50.420 you don't even have to Google it.

00:57:51.540 So that's racist.

00:57:52.620 That's racist, yes.

00:57:53.520 And it pissed me off.

00:57:55.160 Good for you.

00:57:55.460 I can't imagine.

00:57:56.260 Good for you.

00:57:57.040 I can't imagine you got that mad.

00:57:58.560 And I stood up in the back

00:58:00.400 and I said,

00:58:00.980 all right,

00:58:01.300 you want to understand

00:58:02.440 why affirmative action is evil?

00:58:04.160 You just heard it.

00:58:06.460 Because this sack of...

00:58:09.180 Yeah.

00:58:09.900 ...just said

00:58:10.600 that he believes

00:58:11.740 on merit,

00:58:13.700 if it's objective merit,

00:58:15.380 the only people

00:58:16.380 who will rise to the top

00:58:17.860 are white men.

00:58:20.560 Now, number one,

00:58:22.700 I'm an Hispanic

00:58:23.700 and you want to throw

00:58:24.400 your damn transcript

00:58:25.260 on the table,

00:58:25.960 I'll put mine next to it

00:58:26.980 and let's see

00:58:27.740 who's performing better

00:58:28.660 at law school,

00:58:29.760 you miserable,

00:58:30.660 arrogant little jerk.

00:58:31.860 Yeah.

00:58:33.340 But I said,

00:58:33.920 number two,

00:58:34.420 you want to understand

00:58:35.140 just how invidious this is?

00:58:37.660 At the time,

00:58:38.560 I don't know about now,

00:58:39.340 but at the time,

00:58:40.160 there was only

00:58:40.640 racial affirmative action.

00:58:41.840 Right.

00:58:42.740 There was not

00:58:43.280 gender affirmative action.

00:58:44.300 There was not

00:58:44.820 affirmative action for women.

00:58:46.900 I said to every woman here,

00:58:48.080 what he just said

00:58:48.880 is he thinks based on merit,

00:58:50.340 no women could possibly get here.

00:58:52.960 By the way,

00:58:53.840 periodically,

00:58:54.400 there would be a debate

00:58:55.200 on adding women

00:58:55.740 to affirmative action.

00:58:56.480 It was all the women editors

00:58:57.340 who voted against it

00:58:58.340 because they understood

00:58:59.700 that doing so

00:59:00.540 cheapened their credential.

00:59:01.940 Sure.

00:59:02.360 But the assumptions,

00:59:03.800 what utter crap.

00:59:07.380 But the left

00:59:08.560 embraces those views

00:59:10.520 and part of their views,

00:59:11.940 it actually explains

00:59:13.020 their arrogance,

00:59:14.280 is so if you get anything,

00:59:17.760 you ought to be damn grateful

00:59:19.220 they gave this to you

00:59:20.680 and in response,

00:59:22.160 you ought to shut up

00:59:22.800 and obey them.

00:59:23.800 That's the Democratic Party.

00:59:25.000 That's literally

00:59:27.200 the Democratic Party.

00:59:28.180 Now, I do want to tell you,

00:59:29.300 I don't think you know this,

00:59:30.320 but I do want to mention

00:59:31.760 a bill

00:59:32.500 that I introduced

00:59:35.420 that we just got passed

00:59:36.840 the month before

00:59:37.560 you arrived in Congress

00:59:38.660 that actually you'll care about

00:59:40.520 because it impacts

00:59:42.060 West Point very directly.

00:59:44.740 And it is,

00:59:45.800 so all of the service academies

00:59:47.620 and thank you for doing this,

00:59:48.660 but go ahead, yes.

00:59:49.860 Have had in place

00:59:51.320 a rule.

00:59:52.240 When I was there.

00:59:52.940 And it's a horrific rule.

00:59:54.440 It is a rule that says

00:59:55.700 cadets cannot get pregnant.

00:59:58.220 And if a cadet gets pregnant,

00:59:59.860 Yes.

01:00:00.660 the cadet had three choices.

01:00:03.100 Number one,

01:00:03.960 you could have an abortion.

01:00:06.080 Wow.

01:00:06.580 Number two,

01:00:08.780 you can voluntarily

01:00:10.640 give your child up

01:00:11.820 to adoption

01:00:12.500 and surrender

01:00:14.260 your parental rights.

01:00:15.560 Yep.

01:00:15.720 Permanently and legally

01:00:17.000 surrender your parental rights.

01:00:19.100 Or number three,

01:00:20.320 you can withdraw

01:00:20.940 from the service academy.

01:00:23.180 Those were the choices

01:00:24.420 they gave cadets.

01:00:25.320 That's correct.

01:00:26.060 Now,

01:00:26.240 I would assume

01:00:26.960 that cadets

01:00:27.440 sometimes got impregnated

01:00:29.460 by people

01:00:29.880 they actually worked with

01:00:31.300 who were also

01:00:32.220 serving the military.

01:00:33.380 Yes.

01:00:34.320 So,

01:00:34.820 and ostensibly

01:00:36.300 the policy applied

01:00:37.500 to women and men,

01:00:39.280 but it was very differential

01:00:40.740 in how it was applied

01:00:41.640 because men could

01:00:42.980 get a woman pregnant

01:00:44.500 and escape

01:00:45.600 the consequences

01:00:46.420 of the policy,

01:00:47.360 whereas if you're a woman

01:00:48.160 and you're pregnant,

01:00:49.320 there ain't no hiding it.

01:00:50.500 You're facing it.

01:00:51.940 So I looked at this

01:00:53.200 and thought it was

01:00:53.780 completely indefensible.

01:00:55.740 It was.

01:00:56.580 And so I ended up

01:00:57.900 teaming up

01:00:58.640 with a Democrat,

01:01:00.640 Kirsten Gillibrand,

01:01:01.640 Democrat from New York

01:01:03.080 who's a good friend

01:01:04.100 and she and I

01:01:05.480 have worked together

01:01:06.140 quite a bit,

01:01:07.320 but she and I

01:01:08.560 introduced a bill

01:01:09.360 that was called

01:01:10.140 the Cadet Act.

01:01:11.580 Yes.

01:01:12.200 And it was

01:01:12.940 Cruz Gillibrand

01:01:13.860 and it instructed

01:01:16.240 the service academies

01:01:17.480 to end these policies

01:01:19.060 and to adopt policies

01:01:21.040 that if a cadet

01:01:22.820 gets pregnant

01:01:23.700 that allows her

01:01:24.760 to give birth

01:01:25.460 to her child

01:01:26.240 and continue

01:01:27.680 to have parental rights.

01:01:30.560 In December,

01:01:31.740 the Cadet Act

01:01:32.260 passed into law.

01:01:33.280 Thank you.

01:01:34.020 And just last week,

01:01:37.860 DOD promulgated

01:01:39.360 the rules

01:01:40.180 to the service academies

01:01:42.400 to implement it.

01:01:43.200 You can see,

01:01:44.540 and so they

01:01:47.120 no longer

01:01:48.160 kick out,

01:01:51.360 you can see there,

01:01:52.280 a picture of a

01:01:52.920 U.S. Air Force Academy

01:01:54.100 graduate in 2011.

01:01:55.280 And by the way,

01:01:56.460 and so my team

01:01:58.120 spoke to a number

01:01:59.480 of cadets

01:02:01.660 faced with this choice.

01:02:04.200 Some were pressured

01:02:05.120 into having an abortion

01:02:06.140 and regretted it.

01:02:07.640 Others

01:02:08.100 terminated their parental rights,

01:02:11.680 Yes.

01:02:12.680 graduated,

01:02:13.680 and then would go back

01:02:15.360 and adopt their own child.

01:02:17.380 I had a classmate

01:02:18.500 that did that.

01:02:19.300 Really?

01:02:20.360 Yes.

01:02:21.000 I had a classmate

01:02:21.500 that did that exact thing.

01:02:22.900 I had another classmate

01:02:24.740 that got pregnant

01:02:26.620 and then took

01:02:27.960 a leave of absence.

01:02:28.720 So then she

01:02:30.040 resigned from West Point

01:02:31.820 and then had the baby

01:02:33.660 and then had to turn over

01:02:35.320 her parental rights

01:02:36.320 to her mother

01:02:37.580 and then she re-enrolled

01:02:39.540 and then West Point

01:02:40.440 accepted her

01:02:41.340 and then she graduated

01:02:42.360 the following year

01:02:43.480 and then after she graduated,

01:02:45.220 then she then took

01:02:46.220 on their parental rights

01:02:47.300 away from her mother.

01:02:49.960 That's ludicrous.

01:02:51.420 Yeah.

01:02:52.240 So thank you, sir,

01:02:53.140 for this.

01:02:53.700 Well, and it was...

01:02:54.400 It takes us long

01:02:54.940 to get it done

01:02:55.560 and this was there

01:02:56.680 for so long.

01:02:57.220 And by the way,

01:02:57.600 I graduated in 2004.

01:02:59.280 So, I mean,

01:02:59.800 this is now

01:03:00.560 been 20 years in the making.

01:03:01.900 Who knows

01:03:02.560 who has suffered

01:03:03.560 under those draconian rules

01:03:04.880 before?

01:03:05.660 So this is...

01:03:06.500 I'm very grateful for this.

01:03:07.920 And it was an interesting

01:03:08.940 example also.

01:03:10.420 So I was talking

01:03:11.480 with a reporter

01:03:12.060 this past week

01:03:12.880 who was asking,

01:03:13.620 said,

01:03:13.820 well, look,

01:03:14.160 Gillibrand is a liberal Democrat.

01:03:16.360 How did you two

01:03:17.040 work on this?

01:03:18.760 And, you know,

01:03:19.620 this obviously concerns

01:03:20.980 abortion front and center.

01:03:22.320 And listen,

01:03:22.700 I am strongly pro-life.

01:03:24.720 She is very much pro-choice.

01:03:26.020 We disagree

01:03:26.540 on the question of abortion.

01:03:28.300 But you know

01:03:28.880 what we both agree on?

01:03:30.660 That forced abortion

01:03:32.000 is terrible.

01:03:32.900 Yeah.

01:03:33.820 That forcing a woman

01:03:35.900 to do it

01:03:37.300 if a mother

01:03:39.060 wants to keep her child...

01:03:40.740 Then you should not

01:03:41.320 be kicked out of West Point

01:03:42.260 for that,

01:03:42.680 for those purposes.

01:03:43.240 You shouldn't be kicked

01:03:44.100 out of West Point

01:03:44.820 for it.

01:03:45.400 It made no sense.

01:03:46.760 It was an idiotic policy.

01:03:48.340 But I was really glad

01:03:49.200 to see that we could get

01:03:50.340 Democrats and Republicans

01:03:51.980 to come together.

01:03:52.900 And that changed

01:03:53.540 just this week.

01:03:54.280 Thank you for that.

01:03:55.360 Well done.

01:03:56.180 What a great thing

01:03:57.000 to end on.

01:03:57.620 That's a big victory.

01:03:59.060 Great to have you with us.

01:04:00.020 This is fun.

01:04:00.980 Thank you for having me.

01:04:02.120 Hey.

01:04:02.340 Thoroughly enjoyed it.

01:04:03.160 We really enjoyed it.

01:04:04.240 And I have a feeling

01:04:05.280 we'll probably end up

01:04:05.820 doing this again

01:04:06.400 sometime down the road.

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