Verdict with Ted Cruz - Super Tuesday BLOWOUT! plus UNANIMOUS Supreme Court Victory for Trump & Unanimous Reversal of 100+ J6 Sentences

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00:00:05.300 Welcome. It is Vertiquist Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson, with you on the Super Tuesday Evening Center.

00:00:12.260 It's a fun night for American democracy.

00:00:14.700 Well, that's exactly right. A lot is going on.

00:00:16.480 We just had Super Tuesday. We had elections all over the country.

00:00:19.820 Dominating night for Donald Trump. Dominating night for Joe Biden.

00:00:23.560 Pretty disappointing night for every other candidate out there.

00:00:26.000 I think this race is cooked, but we will analyze it in depth, as we always do. 1.00

00:00:32.280 Beyond that, we've got this week the blockbuster decision from the Supreme Court, 9-0, unanimous, ruling that Donald Trump will remain on the ballot, will remain on the ballot in Colorado.

00:00:43.540 That also means he'll remain on the ballot in Maine. That also means he'll remain on the ballot in Illinois.

00:00:47.980 That is precisely what you and I predicted on verdict two months ago.

00:00:52.600 We'll break that down and analyze that decision as well.

00:00:55.380 And finally, a big decision out of the D.C. Circuit Federal Court of Appeals.

00:01:00.620 That court ruled unanimously that a number of federal district courts in D.C. were improperly enhancing the sentences of January 6th defendants.

00:01:10.820 That the Biden Department of Justice wrongly sought an enhancement of their sentence, a sentence that the law didn't require.

00:01:17.620 And so they have effectively lowered the sentences of some 100 defendants.

00:01:22.340 It's a big, big story about how the Biden Justice Department continues to abuse its power and how the courts, even judges appointed by Democrats, are being forced to rein in their abuse of power.

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00:03:18.100 Senator, let's start with Super Tuesday.

00:03:20.040 I got to say, I had a really fun day today because I got to take my son out of school.

00:03:24.460 He's in first grade.

00:03:26.100 He went to vote for it with me today.

00:03:28.900 Congratulations.

00:03:29.380 Congratulations.

00:03:29.980 Talk about a smackdown.

00:03:31.500 You got over 89% of the vote, which is awesome.

00:03:34.420 But if you look at the raw numbers, that's the part that was the most exciting.

00:03:38.420 1.28 million votes for you, Senator.

00:03:43.940 And then if you look on the Democratic side over there,

00:03:47.360 Allred got only 357,000, as we're recording this right now, number of votes.

00:03:54.660 That's a huge difference.

00:03:56.020 That's got to feel good.

00:03:57.180 Well, it was a great night.

00:03:58.100 It was very gratifying.

00:03:59.020 I'm glad you brought him in, and thank you.

00:04:02.020 It was so much fun.

00:04:03.360 Let's talk about the overall Super Tuesday results that happened.

00:04:08.000 Nothing really that surprising, except for the fact it was overwhelming victory for Donald Trump nationwide.

00:04:15.660 This is, I think, clearly connected to the Supreme Court decision.

00:04:19.200 There's a lot of really mad Republicans in this country right now.

00:04:22.040 Well, look, I think saying it's overwhelming is a bit of an overstatement.

00:04:26.060 And yes, it's true that Trump won Iowa.

00:04:28.040 Yes, it's true he won New Hampshire.

00:04:29.440 Yes, it's true that he won South Carolina.

00:04:31.960 Yes, it's true that he won Nevada.

00:04:33.600 Yes, it's true that he won on Super Tuesday.

00:04:35.840 He won Idaho.

00:04:36.620 He won Nevada.

00:04:37.320 He won Colorado.

00:04:38.120 He won Texas.

00:04:38.820 He won Oklahoma.

00:04:39.660 He won North Dakota.

00:04:40.560 He won Minnesota.

00:04:41.260 He won Iowa.

00:04:42.060 He won Missouri.

00:04:42.820 He won Arkansas.

00:04:43.420 He won Alabama.

00:04:45.120 He won Tennessee.

00:04:45.940 He won Michigan.

00:04:46.720 He won South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia.

00:04:49.540 He won Vermont.

00:04:51.480 He won Massachusetts.

00:04:52.500 And he won Maine.

00:04:53.380 But it's not fair to say it's overwhelming, Dan, because Nikki Haley won the District of Columbia.

00:05:00.200 That's true.

00:05:01.100 The swamp.

00:05:01.760 She won the swamp. 0.55

00:05:02.760 That's a valid point.

00:05:03.800 I apologize for insulting Nikki Haley's tough campaign work in the District of Columbia with all the swampsters there. 1.00

00:05:10.720 But so to quote the classic movie, Dumb and Dumber, you're saying I got a chance.

00:05:16.620 That's right.

00:05:17.200 That's right.

00:05:17.680 So I got to ask at this point, if you're Nikki Haley and you're on her campaign and you're the never and you're the never Trumpers and you've been feeding her cash, what's going through your head tonight?

00:05:29.480 And at this point, does it even matter what she does anymore?

00:05:33.280 Well, listen, understand the dynamic of presidential campaigns.

00:05:36.020 Virtually every candidate who drops out of a presidential campaign does so for the identical reason.

00:05:42.240 They go broke.

00:05:43.340 They run out of money.

00:05:44.420 When candidates run out of money, they drop out.

00:05:47.420 Now, in Nikki's case, she has up until now had donors willing to write her checks.

00:05:53.100 And as long as they keep writing her checks, she's likely to continue in the race. 0.99

00:05:56.240 At some point, the donors say, why are we writing checks for a candidate who can't win?

00:06:01.460 And when that happens, she'll drop out.

00:06:03.780 Now, listen, I don't feel the particular need to jump on the bandwagon and say you must get out.

00:06:08.420 You must get out.

00:06:09.080 I will say this.

00:06:10.120 I think it is not productive to have Nikki or other Republican candidates just amplifying the attacks on Donald Trump that Democrats are using.

00:06:19.880 And the reason is, at this point, Donald Trump is going to be our nominee.

00:06:24.580 That is clear.

00:06:25.440 I think that is indisputable.

00:06:27.120 Given that, I don't think it is helpful to have Republicans being the point of the spear on attacking our nominee.

00:06:34.080 Look, I've endorsed Donald Trump.

00:06:35.580 I want Donald Trump to win in November.

00:06:38.260 I am absolutely convinced that the Biden agenda has been a disaster for this country.

00:06:44.020 And so Nikki Haley will decide to do what she wants to do, and she'll do it on her own time frame.

00:06:48.720 But I think just being a battering ram, making the case that Donald Trump is the devil, is only playing into the hands of Democrats, 0.94

00:06:57.980 whose only argument in November is going to be Donald Trump is the devil. 0.61

00:07:02.760 And they'd love to use Republican mouthpieces to say that if they can.

00:07:07.580 Let's talk about the Supreme Court, and I want to talk about the politics of it just for a second.

00:07:11.700 The nine-on ruling that came down this week, predicted on this show literally months ago,

00:07:17.740 you look at that, how much of an impact do you think that had on voters today wanting to show up and send a clear message

00:07:24.760 that we're standing behind Donald Trump and other candidates like him?

00:07:29.000 Well, I don't think the Supreme Court decision keeping Trump on the ballot impacted the results tonight.

00:07:35.760 Look, I think Trump was going to win.

00:07:37.640 As you'll recall, I endorsed Trump right after Iowa, right after he had a dominating night,

00:07:42.760 in which he won 98 of the 99 counties.

00:07:45.140 He won by 20 points.

00:07:47.120 It was clear then that he was going to be the nominee.

00:07:49.480 Now, I do think the Supreme Court decision, we ought to pause and talk about it,

00:07:54.720 because as soon as the Colorado Supreme Court made its decision, a divided 4-3 decision,

00:08:02.140 where four partisan Democrat justices ordered Trump thrown off the ballot,

00:08:08.240 you and I went on this podcast immediately thereafter, and we said that day,

00:08:13.940 we said, this is not going to stand, this decision will be reversed, and indeed I said,

00:08:19.900 the chances of it being reversed, I believe, are 100%.

00:08:23.740 Now, look, that's always dangerous to make a prediction where you're predicting 100%.

00:08:27.780 Sure.

00:08:28.540 But we went further, because I said, not only is it 100% that it'll be reversed,

00:08:33.160 I said at the time, literally the day after the decision, I said,

00:08:36.660 I think there's a very good chance the decision is unanimous.

00:08:40.260 Now, at the time, there were not many people saying that.

00:08:43.000 There were lots of commentators on TV saying, well, they may reverse it,

00:08:46.360 it'll be partisan, it'll be divided among party lines.

00:08:49.460 Well, that was not the case.

00:08:52.100 What is most significant about Monday's decision is that it was 9-0.

00:08:56.580 It was 9-0, and it was interesting, it was not a signed opinion, it was a per curiam.

00:08:59.640 Per curiam opinions are done, it does not have any particular justice who has authorship of the opinion.

00:09:08.180 My strong suspicion is the opinion was authored by Chief Justice Roberts, but he didn't put his name on it.

00:09:14.100 He made it a per curiam, and per curiam can be a tool to emphasize that this is the opinion of the entire court.

00:09:22.380 And it is critically important.

00:09:24.240 Look, we have some very liberal justices.

00:09:27.020 We have Elena Kagan, we have Sonia Sotomayor, we have Ketanji Brown-Jackson.

00:09:31.300 And all of them agreed with the outcome that the Colorado Supreme Court decision was wrong,

00:09:38.940 and that Donald Trump should stay on the ballot.

00:09:41.680 That is a big, big deal, and I am so grateful.

00:09:44.660 As I sit here tonight, I am grateful it was 9-0.

00:09:48.780 If we had woken up, if we had turned on the TV or picked up our phones and looked and saw that it was a 6-3 decision,

00:09:56.260 it was just straight party lines, and the three Democrat appointees were like,

00:10:00.020 no, no, no, you must throw Trump off the ballot, he's an insurrectionist.

00:10:04.480 The result would have been the same, Trump would have stayed on the ballot.

00:10:07.440 But I think that would have been a terrible outcome for the country,

00:10:11.560 and I think it would have been a terrible outcome for the court.

00:10:13.620 Look, just about every major institution in our country, its credibility has been undermined in recent years.

00:10:19.140 People have less faith in the institutions of our country, and I understand why.

00:10:22.920 We've seen a lot of our institutions really corrupted, and you and I talk about that a lot on this podcast.

00:10:29.240 But for the court, I think it's important for the long-term rule of law in our nation.

00:10:34.800 I think it's important for the protection of our constitutional liberties,

00:10:37.780 for the court to have some modicum of credibility.

00:10:40.240 And so I am grateful for the Democrat appointees for doing the right thing,

00:10:45.860 the right thing under the law, but it was important for the court,

00:10:49.120 and I think it is important for the country.

00:10:50.900 I think the statement that the unanimity makes...

00:10:55.580 Look, there have been big decisions.

00:10:57.240 If you look back to 1954,

00:10:59.440 1954 was when the Supreme Court decided Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas.

00:11:04.660 That is the decision that desegregated our public schools.

00:11:08.040 Prior to Brown, the rule of law had been the rule that was articulated in a case called Plessy v. Ferguson.

00:11:14.860 Plessy v. Ferguson laid out a doctrine that was called separate but equal.

00:11:18.900 And Plessy upheld the notion that it was okay for public schools to be segregated by law,

00:11:24.740 to explicitly have classrooms that were white only and have classrooms that were black only,

00:11:29.640 and they claimed the law allowed that that they were,

00:11:32.680 and the phrase they used was separate but equal,

00:11:35.180 and they claimed that was consistent with the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment of the Constitution.

00:11:40.420 In Brown v. Board of Education, the Supreme Court reversed Plessy

00:11:44.060 and ordered that our schools be desegregated.

00:11:47.020 The law could not treat the races differently based on race.

00:11:50.960 That was unequivocally the right decision.

00:11:53.360 Brown v. Board of Education is one of the most important,

00:11:55.940 if not the most important decision the Supreme Court has ever issued,

00:11:59.360 and Brown critically was unanimous as well.

00:12:02.840 The justices understood that ordering schools to desegregate,

00:12:07.420 schools that had been segregated for a long, long time,

00:12:10.440 schools that had a long history of racial animus,

00:12:13.200 that that was going to be a controversial decision,

00:12:15.120 and the court wanted to speak with one unanimous voice.

00:12:17.960 I am grateful that here the court likewise spoke with one unanimous voice,

00:12:23.680 and this decision, in my view, says democracy is paramount,

00:12:27.580 that it is the voters who decide,

00:12:29.360 that it is not partisans,

00:12:31.500 whether that be partisan judges as we had in Colorado,

00:12:35.120 or partisan officials as we had in Maine or Illinois.

00:12:38.500 It is not partisans of either party

00:12:40.240 that should be in the business of saying,

00:12:42.940 I don't want the voters to vote for their choice.

00:12:46.200 I want to throw my opponent off the ballot.

00:12:48.600 Why?

00:12:49.360 Not because they did something wrong,

00:12:51.500 and by the way, there are lots of ballot litigation

00:12:54.720 where, say, you've got to have 50,000 signatures,

00:12:57.840 and someone fails to get 50,000 signatures,

00:12:59.680 and then they get thrown off the ballot,

00:13:00.840 because that's pursuant to the requirements of law

00:13:03.560 that you've got to do whatever it takes to qualify for the ballot.

00:13:06.320 But that's not what was going on in these decisions.

00:13:09.380 In these decisions, it was not any objective requirement of the law.

00:13:15.080 It was simply these partisans hated Donald Trump,

00:13:17.960 and fundamentally, I think they were afraid the voters,

00:13:21.260 if given the chance, would vote for him.

00:13:23.060 I think that's right,

00:13:23.920 and I'm glad the Supreme Court said,

00:13:26.380 you know what, the voters are going to decide.

00:13:27.960 It's not going to be partisans.

00:13:29.300 You know, one of the most, I think, encouraging moments,

00:13:32.440 and it was a moment, I want to be clear about that,

00:13:34.920 was how the media covered the decision instantly when it came down.

00:13:40.740 ABC, NBC, CBS,

00:13:44.100 they actually covered it in a way that was, I think,

00:13:47.080 genuine and authentic for that moment,

00:13:49.500 before the partisan hackery that, of course,

00:13:51.660 they got into pretty quickly after this decision.

00:13:54.400 But take a listen to ABC News.

00:13:56.480 This is just one example of how they covered this

00:13:58.540 right in front of the Supreme Court.

00:14:00.140 A rare moment of unanimity on a usually divided court.

00:14:03.660 All nine justices of the Supreme Court agree

00:14:06.440 that states cannot kick candidates off the ballot

00:14:10.120 under the 14th Amendment,

00:14:11.660 that clause which you mentioned,

00:14:13.220 which passed after the Civil War,

00:14:15.300 held that people who had sworn an oath

00:14:17.420 to uphold the Constitution

00:14:18.740 and then engaged in insurrection

00:14:21.160 are banned from holding federal office further.

00:14:24.920 And what the Supreme Court said

00:14:26.240 is that states can't enforce that,

00:14:28.840 that it requires Congress

00:14:30.220 to pass a law to outline

00:14:32.860 how that clause should be enforced,

00:14:35.360 concluding very simply

00:14:36.600 that responsibility for enforcing

00:14:39.860 that part of the Constitution

00:14:41.060 rests with Congress

00:14:42.480 and not with the states.

00:14:44.100 The Supreme Court expressing real concern

00:14:45.980 that states could go different ways.

00:14:48.060 Some states would perhaps ban one candidate,

00:14:50.500 some states perhaps ban another candidate.

00:14:52.600 Other states keep them both on the ballot

00:14:54.220 and they express concern

00:14:56.120 about the disruption that that would.

00:14:58.560 I mean, Senator,

00:14:59.060 that was a moment of real journalism.

00:15:01.140 It was impressive.

00:15:02.320 Well, it accurately covered what happened.

00:15:04.580 And I'll point out,

00:15:05.800 when you and I analyzed this decision,

00:15:08.300 we laid out the basis.

00:15:09.980 And in fact, as you know,

00:15:10.940 I filed an amicus brief

00:15:12.260 on behalf of 179 members of Congress

00:15:14.560 in which I argued for the exact ground

00:15:17.460 upon which the court decided,

00:15:19.100 which is that I argued and said

00:15:21.040 it is not for the states to determine

00:15:23.700 who violates the 14th Amendment, Section 3,

00:15:26.960 and who does not.

00:15:27.680 Rather, it is for Congress

00:15:28.800 that the 14th Amendment

00:15:29.880 explicitly gives that power to Congress

00:15:32.420 and Congress can determine

00:15:33.520 whether or not to seat a candidate,

00:15:35.260 but it is not.

00:15:36.400 And Congress has not created

00:15:37.900 a mechanism to adjudicate this

00:15:40.460 that has been followed here.

00:15:42.140 And that was the ground

00:15:43.680 that earned a unanimous approval

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00:17:45.160 Now, Senator,

00:17:45.840 I said a moment ago

00:17:46.760 that, you know,

00:17:47.340 this is a great moment

00:17:48.200 of journalism

00:17:48.900 and it happened.

00:17:50.120 And then,

00:17:51.360 they decided,

00:17:52.260 all right,

00:17:52.600 we're done with that.

00:17:53.600 Let's go back

00:17:54.280 to the partisan hackery.

00:17:55.920 Take a listen

00:17:56.460 to this montage

00:17:57.220 of the media

00:17:57.920 losing their minds

00:17:58.860 over a 9-0 decision

00:17:59.840 from the Supreme Court.

00:18:00.780 We've learned

00:18:01.500 that it was

00:18:01.940 a 9-0 decision

00:18:03.620 ruling that

00:18:04.340 Donald Trump

00:18:04.900 can be on the ballot

00:18:05.960 in Colorado

00:18:06.460 and other states.

00:18:08.220 I'm not confident

00:18:09.260 that that will produce

00:18:10.940 a result that's good

00:18:12.700 for American democracy.

00:18:14.180 This is actually

00:18:14.840 what I had been

00:18:15.700 concerned about.

00:18:16.460 I had been concerned

00:18:17.180 that should it go

00:18:17.980 to the Supreme Court,

00:18:19.360 they would rule

00:18:20.040 this way.

00:18:20.840 I'd laugh

00:18:21.540 if it weren't so sad.

00:18:22.940 My next guest

00:18:23.640 says Donald Trump

00:18:24.400 is still an

00:18:25.240 oath-breaking insurrectionist.

00:18:26.620 Do you have confidence

00:18:27.180 in the Supreme Court?

00:18:28.140 Do you think

00:18:28.420 this court is partisan?

00:18:29.460 The court itself

00:18:30.460 may have overstepped.

00:18:32.000 The court went

00:18:32.820 way further

00:18:34.080 than it needed to go.

00:18:35.360 Our colleague

00:18:35.840 Melissa Murray

00:18:36.540 has called

00:18:37.120 this Supreme Court

00:18:38.160 the YOLO court.

00:18:39.400 The criticism

00:18:39.800 of the court

00:18:40.380 is that they're

00:18:40.860 playing interference.

00:18:42.260 Not since Bush v. Gore

00:18:43.520 have we seen

00:18:44.160 a court

00:18:44.640 that's had

00:18:45.300 this many opportunities

00:18:46.480 to interfere

00:18:47.560 in the election.

00:18:48.840 The headline here

00:18:49.480 is that this

00:18:50.460 is a unanimous ruling,

00:18:51.960 but if you

00:18:52.360 scratch the surface

00:18:53.640 just a little...

00:18:54.500 This is a 5-4 ruling.

00:18:56.060 I'm part of it.

00:18:56.860 This is actually

00:18:57.640 a 5-4 decision.

00:19:00.100 It's 5-4.

00:19:01.340 Trump will take this,

00:19:02.820 spin it,

00:19:03.800 spread the misinformation,

00:19:05.000 disinformation on it,

00:19:05.880 so it's a win for them.

00:19:07.100 He's on the ballot

00:19:08.060 and voters will vote

00:19:09.160 and he looks like

00:19:10.440 he's headed

00:19:10.800 to become

00:19:11.780 the Republican

00:19:12.440 nominee for president.

00:19:13.980 You can't save

00:19:14.720 the people

00:19:15.120 from themselves.

00:19:16.600 If they're determined

00:19:17.400 to re-elect him

00:19:18.860 after he organized

00:19:20.440 that insurrection,

00:19:21.780 then there's nothing

00:19:22.680 to stop the people

00:19:23.640 from doing that.

00:19:25.060 Wow.

00:19:25.660 That is your media

00:19:27.500 right after this

00:19:28.800 saying it's somehow

00:19:29.580 a 5-4 decision

00:19:30.820 and this is just

00:19:32.460 laying the groundwork

00:19:33.300 for what they want to do.

00:19:34.240 If the Supreme Court

00:19:34.900 doesn't do it

00:19:35.420 with the left once,

00:19:36.080 they just want to

00:19:36.620 pack the quarter,

00:19:37.360 say it's an illegitimate quarter,

00:19:38.820 get rid of it altogether.

00:19:40.220 Well, look,

00:19:41.040 those are partisan hacks

00:19:42.560 in the media

00:19:43.040 who are losing their minds

00:19:44.160 and, you know,

00:19:44.580 my favorite comment

00:19:45.380 in that montage was,

00:19:46.880 are the Supreme Court

00:19:47.780 just partisans?

00:19:48.680 And understand

00:19:49.100 what they're saying.

00:19:50.260 They're saying

00:19:51.060 Elena Kagan,

00:19:52.600 appointed to the Supreme Court

00:19:53.560 by a Democrat president,

00:19:54.880 is a partisan Republican.

00:19:56.440 They're saying

00:19:56.880 Sonia Sotomayor,

00:19:58.540 appointed to the Supreme Court

00:19:59.980 by a Democrat president,

00:20:01.500 is a Republican partisan.

00:20:03.120 And my favorite

00:20:03.700 is they're saying

00:20:04.340 Ketanji Brown-Jackson,

00:20:05.920 appointed to the Supreme Court

00:20:06.960 by Joe Biden,

00:20:08.340 is a partisan

00:20:09.540 in the tank

00:20:10.580 for Donald Trump.

00:20:11.500 That's what they just said

00:20:12.520 and it's truly absurd.

00:20:14.100 Look,

00:20:14.740 was there a disagreement

00:20:15.960 over some of the grounds

00:20:17.220 of the decision?

00:20:18.040 Yes.

00:20:18.360 But I actually want to read

00:20:19.520 from a portion of,

00:20:21.800 Amy Coney Barrett

00:20:22.580 wrote a very short concurrence

00:20:24.680 and I want to read

00:20:26.120 from her final paragraph.

00:20:27.740 The majority's choice 0.56

00:20:28.760 of a different path

00:20:29.680 leaves the remaining justices

00:20:31.600 with a choice

00:20:32.440 of how to respond.

00:20:34.140 In my judgment,

00:20:35.020 this is not the time

00:20:35.900 to amplify disagreements

00:20:37.380 with stridency.

00:20:38.880 The court has settled

00:20:40.180 a politically charged issue

00:20:41.860 in the volatile season

00:20:43.660 of a presidential election,

00:20:45.580 particularly in this circumstance.

00:20:48.380 Writings on the court

00:20:49.420 should turn the national

00:20:51.400 temperature down,

00:20:53.380 not up.

00:20:54.580 For present purposes,

00:20:56.280 our differences

00:20:57.300 are far less important

00:20:59.280 than our unanimity.

00:21:01.580 All nine justices

00:21:04.060 agree on the outcome

00:21:06.120 of this case.

00:21:07.900 That is the message

00:21:09.480 Americans should take home. 1.00

00:21:11.620 I think Amy Coney Barrett

00:21:12.780 was exactly right.

00:21:14.160 The fact that it was unanimous

00:21:16.020 is an important victory

00:21:17.340 for the Supreme Court,

00:21:18.420 it's an important victory

00:21:19.240 for the rule of law,

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00:21:56.240 You know,

00:21:56.860 I've said this for a while

00:21:57.800 and I keep saying

00:21:58.420 I think the Democratic Party

00:21:59.580 for all intents and purposes

00:22:00.760 is dead.

00:22:01.540 I think they're masquerading

00:22:02.600 as Democrats

00:22:03.260 and they're really communists.

00:22:05.020 And Democratic Representative

00:22:06.220 Jamie Raskin

00:22:07.080 immediately went on CNN Center

00:22:08.920 and said this

00:22:09.960 and I want to get

00:22:10.680 your reaction to it.

00:22:12.180 I am working with

00:22:13.100 a number of my colleagues

00:22:14.400 including

00:22:14.860 Debbie Wasserman Schultz

00:22:16.680 and Eric Swalwell

00:22:17.600 to revive legislation

00:22:19.640 that we had

00:22:20.320 to set up a process

00:22:22.040 by which we could determine

00:22:23.700 that someone

00:22:24.740 who committed insurrection

00:22:26.600 is disqualified

00:22:27.680 by Section 3

00:22:28.480 of the 14th Amendment.

00:22:29.600 And the House of Representatives

00:22:30.600 already impeached

00:22:31.820 Donald Trump

00:22:32.760 for participating

00:22:33.600 in insurrection

00:22:34.320 by inciting it.

00:22:36.180 So the House

00:22:37.100 has already pronounced

00:22:37.920 upon that.

00:22:38.700 I mean,

00:22:39.400 you hear him there. 0.99

00:22:40.200 These people are psycho. 1.00

00:22:41.560 They're obsessed 1.00

00:22:42.140 with taking away

00:22:43.200 the rights

00:22:44.480 of the American people

00:22:45.740 to decide

00:22:46.220 who they want

00:22:46.720 to be president

00:22:47.300 of the United States

00:22:48.040 of America

00:22:48.540 and even after

00:22:49.920 the liberals

00:22:50.400 smacked them down

00:22:51.220 in a nine-to-nothing decision

00:22:53.300 protecting democracy,

00:22:54.740 they immediately are like,

00:22:56.000 nope,

00:22:56.240 we're going to go

00:22:56.660 right back to the House.

00:22:57.720 We're going to do

00:22:58.140 what we can

00:22:58.720 to make sure

00:22:59.200 you can't vote

00:22:59.880 for Donald Trump.

00:23:01.120 Well,

00:23:01.260 and I'll give you

00:23:01.680 a couple of additional facts.

00:23:02.900 Number one,

00:23:03.340 Jamie Raskin

00:23:04.060 was a constitutional law professor.

00:23:06.140 So he's actually

00:23:06.920 a very smart,

00:23:08.020 very well-respected

00:23:08.960 law professor and lawyer.

00:23:10.640 But yet,

00:23:11.200 his partisan extremism

00:23:12.900 is overwhelming.

00:23:14.180 Number two,

00:23:14.640 here's an amazing thing.

00:23:16.260 So Jamie Raskin

00:23:17.100 was elected

00:23:17.700 and you know,

00:23:18.180 one of the very first things

00:23:19.160 he did when he was elected

00:23:19.980 to the House?

00:23:21.180 What was that?

00:23:22.080 He showed up

00:23:22.900 on the floor of the House

00:23:23.880 on January 6th,

00:23:26.300 2017,

00:23:26.880 and he stood up

00:23:28.360 and objected

00:23:29.200 to the election

00:23:30.400 and certification

00:23:31.020 of the election

00:23:31.820 of Donald J. Trump.

00:23:33.360 So what he calls

00:23:35.140 an insurrection

00:23:35.960 is actually

00:23:37.980 one of the very first acts

00:23:39.480 Jamie Raskin

00:23:40.280 ever did

00:23:41.280 in Congress.

00:23:42.980 And yet,

00:23:44.180 look,

00:23:44.740 today's Democrat Party,

00:23:46.520 they're so consumed

00:23:47.860 by hate

00:23:48.660 that they really

00:23:50.120 have convinced themselves 0.98

00:23:51.440 that Trump is the devil, 1.00

00:23:52.800 that Trump is Hitler, 1.00

00:23:53.660 that Trump is so horrible 1.00

00:23:55.540 that anything, 0.99

00:23:56.680 anything,

00:23:57.200 anything is justifiable.

00:23:58.900 And the irony is

00:24:00.300 every one of those Democrats

00:24:02.240 still puffs out their chest

00:24:03.560 and says,

00:24:04.060 we must defend democracy.

00:24:06.180 And in their telling,

00:24:08.000 we must defend democracy

00:24:09.260 by stopping 1.00

00:24:10.180 the damn voters 1.00

00:24:11.520 from voting 1.00

00:24:12.720 for someone

00:24:13.300 we don't want

00:24:14.720 them to vote for.

00:24:15.920 Yeah,

00:24:16.440 there's no accepting

00:24:18.560 that they may be wrong

00:24:19.780 or that they lose,

00:24:21.500 whether it be an election

00:24:22.380 or a ruling.

00:24:23.800 I mean,

00:24:23.940 you look at Keith Olbermann.

00:24:25.260 He called for the court

00:24:26.440 to be dissolved

00:24:27.400 in response to the ruling,

00:24:29.620 and it's not,

00:24:30.300 like,

00:24:30.460 I know he's crazy,

00:24:31.960 but the number of people 0.55

00:24:33.040 that retweeted him

00:24:34.340 and advocated for this

00:24:35.920 in the Democratic world

00:24:37.100 after he said it,

00:24:38.420 they're like,

00:24:38.820 all right,

00:24:38.980 we didn't get our way,

00:24:39.720 all right,

00:24:39.980 well,

00:24:40.240 then just get rid

00:24:42.100 of the Supreme Court

00:24:42.820 altogether.

00:24:43.480 That's not normal.

00:24:45.180 No,

00:24:45.400 it's extremism,

00:24:46.280 and it is one

00:24:47.220 of the saddest things.

00:24:48.920 Listen,

00:24:49.200 when I first arrived

00:24:50.080 in the Senate

00:24:50.500 12 years ago,

00:24:51.980 there were moderate Democrats.

00:24:53.900 There are none left.

00:24:55.520 In the U.S. Senate,

00:24:57.480 there are only two

00:24:59.220 even arguable

00:25:00.540 moderate Democrats,

00:25:01.940 and they are

00:25:02.500 Joe Manchin

00:25:03.140 and Kyrsten Sinema.

00:25:04.100 And as of this week,

00:25:06.140 we now know

00:25:06.900 that the chances

00:25:07.800 of either of them

00:25:09.480 being in the Senate

00:25:10.160 next year

00:25:10.820 are zero percent.

00:25:12.280 Joe Manchin has announced

00:25:13.200 he's not running again,

00:25:14.300 and then just today,

00:25:15.360 Kyrsten Sinema announced

00:25:16.300 she's not running again.

00:25:18.200 So we know

00:25:19.020 to an absolute certainty

00:25:20.180 that come next year,

00:25:21.620 there will be

00:25:22.620 zero

00:25:23.560 moderate Democrats

00:25:25.040 left.

00:25:25.520 They will all

00:25:26.180 be extreme partisans.

00:25:28.000 They have all

00:25:28.940 become Bernie Sanders.

00:25:30.420 They have all

00:25:30.820 become Elizabeth Warren.

00:25:32.140 They have all

00:25:32.560 become AOC.

00:25:34.440 And look,

00:25:35.000 much of that

00:25:35.480 is a reaction

00:25:36.080 to Donald Trump.

00:25:36.920 I've said many times,

00:25:37.880 I think he broke

00:25:38.900 the Democrat Party.

00:25:39.920 He got in their head

00:25:40.840 and he shattered 0.99

00:25:41.460 their brains.

00:25:42.860 But I gotta tell you, 0.88

00:25:43.620 Ben,

00:25:43.740 I think it's really bad

00:25:44.820 for the country.

00:25:45.580 I don't like seeing

00:25:46.900 the Democrat Party

00:25:47.980 this extreme.

00:25:49.880 Listen,

00:25:50.900 it is healthy

00:25:51.700 for democracy

00:25:52.460 to have two

00:25:53.400 normal parties,

00:25:54.460 to have two

00:25:55.200 somewhat mainstream

00:25:56.580 parties who have

00:25:57.400 disagreements

00:25:58.220 but are not

00:25:59.360 deranged.

00:26:00.260 and what

00:26:01.180 Trump has done

00:26:01.880 and look,

00:26:03.380 Trump bears

00:26:04.200 some responsibility.

00:26:05.580 He takes great joy

00:26:06.640 in jabbing his thumb

00:26:08.000 in the eyes

00:26:08.620 of the Democrats

00:26:09.220 but the effect

00:26:10.560 of it is

00:26:11.060 their brains

00:26:11.720 have exploded 1.00

00:26:12.260 out their ears.

00:26:13.400 Yeah,

00:26:13.960 it's a great point

00:26:14.760 and you go back

00:26:15.920 to you move

00:26:17.020 from just the

00:26:17.680 Supreme Court ruling

00:26:18.660 to what we also

00:26:19.960 found out this week

00:26:21.060 and it goes back

00:26:21.800 to corruption.

00:26:22.540 You know,

00:26:22.720 we have a judicial

00:26:24.020 system that's trying

00:26:24.880 to lock up Donald

00:26:25.640 Trump everywhere they can

00:26:26.840 going after him

00:26:27.800 trying to bankrupt

00:26:28.560 him,

00:26:28.820 bankrupt his family

00:26:29.800 basically sending

00:26:31.040 warning shots

00:26:31.720 across about any

00:26:32.520 other conservative

00:26:33.160 that's thinking

00:26:33.520 about running

00:26:33.980 for office.

00:26:35.220 But then we also

00:26:36.060 have learned a lot

00:26:36.940 more about what

00:26:37.800 happened on January

00:26:39.280 6th to those

00:26:40.740 that were there

00:26:42.140 on January 6th

00:26:42.940 that were sentenced

00:26:43.700 to jail.

00:26:45.640 There was major

00:26:46.360 corruption

00:26:47.020 within the Biden

00:26:49.460 Department of Justice

00:26:51.040 and I think it's

00:26:52.220 really,

00:26:52.720 this has been

00:26:53.200 underreported

00:26:54.240 and I think it's

00:26:54.780 an extremely

00:26:55.300 important story

00:26:56.060 that I would

00:26:56.480 challenge everyone

00:26:57.480 listening right now

00:26:58.300 take this part

00:26:59.920 of the podcast

00:27:00.500 and put it

00:27:01.520 on social media

00:27:02.520 because what

00:27:03.620 we're about

00:27:04.040 to explain

00:27:04.600 to you

00:27:05.060 it tells you

00:27:05.980 just how corrupt

00:27:07.180 the Biden

00:27:08.160 Department of Justice

00:27:09.040 is when they

00:27:09.420 come against

00:27:10.100 conservatives.

00:27:12.020 Well,

00:27:12.080 unfortunately

00:27:12.540 that's exactly

00:27:13.220 right.

00:27:13.660 In the past few

00:27:14.200 days there was

00:27:14.800 a decision

00:27:15.380 from the D.C.

00:27:16.520 Circuit Court

00:27:17.020 of Appeals.

00:27:17.560 Now the D.C.

00:27:18.100 Circuit Court

00:27:18.560 of Appeals

00:27:19.020 is the Federal

00:27:19.500 Court of Appeals

00:27:20.240 in D.C.

00:27:21.580 It is considered

00:27:22.800 the second highest

00:27:24.080 court in the land

00:27:24.800 second only to

00:27:25.500 the U.S.

00:27:25.980 Supreme Court.

00:27:26.680 There are a total

00:27:27.020 of 13 different

00:27:27.780 courts of appeals

00:27:28.520 but the D.C. 0.86

00:27:29.220 Circuit is the

00:27:29.720 most prestigious.

00:27:31.380 Judges from the

00:27:32.040 D.C.

00:27:32.420 Circuit regularly

00:27:33.380 become Supreme

00:27:34.140 Court justices

00:27:34.860 afterwards

00:27:35.320 and this was

00:27:36.880 a unanimous

00:27:37.620 decision from

00:27:38.320 a panel

00:27:38.780 and it's a panel

00:27:39.580 that the full

00:27:41.260 D.C.

00:27:41.660 Circuit is one

00:27:42.240 of the most

00:27:42.620 liberal circuits

00:27:43.920 in the country

00:27:44.480 but this panel

00:27:45.280 was three judges

00:27:47.280 appointed by

00:27:47.860 Democrats.

00:27:49.040 The opinion

00:27:49.620 was authored

00:27:50.540 by Patty Millett

00:27:51.400 who was an

00:27:52.260 appointee

00:27:52.820 of Barack

00:27:53.360 Obama.

00:27:54.040 It was joined

00:27:54.940 by Cornelia

00:27:55.780 Pillard

00:27:56.300 who was an

00:27:56.900 appointee

00:27:57.440 of Barack

00:27:57.920 Obama

00:27:58.300 and it was

00:27:59.440 joined by

00:27:59.940 Judith Rogers

00:28:00.620 who was an

00:28:01.100 appointee

00:28:01.520 of Bill

00:28:01.820 Clinton.

00:28:02.320 So you have

00:28:02.940 three Democrat

00:28:04.880 appointees

00:28:05.620 and they

00:28:06.660 concluded

00:28:07.560 that the

00:28:08.540 Department of

00:28:09.320 Justice

00:28:09.640 was wrong

00:28:10.620 when they

00:28:11.960 enhanced

00:28:12.840 the sentences

00:28:13.640 of individuals

00:28:15.220 convicted

00:28:16.840 of rioting

00:28:17.740 or storming

00:28:18.220 the Capitol

00:28:18.680 on January 6th

00:28:19.840 and they

00:28:20.280 used an

00:28:20.940 enhancement

00:28:21.460 called the

00:28:22.620 administration

00:28:23.180 of justice

00:28:24.060 enhancement

00:28:24.600 and here's

00:28:25.740 what Judge

00:28:27.200 Millett

00:28:27.540 wrote for

00:28:28.180 the unanimous

00:28:28.940 opinion

00:28:29.280 quote

00:28:29.680 the phrase

00:28:30.720 administration

00:28:31.220 of justice

00:28:31.920 does not

00:28:32.460 encompass

00:28:32.940 Congress's

00:28:33.640 role in

00:28:34.820 the electoral

00:28:35.460 certification

00:28:36.020 process

00:28:36.920 quote

00:28:37.640 text

00:28:38.540 context

00:28:39.700 and commentary

00:28:40.840 show that

00:28:41.960 the administration

00:28:42.580 of justice

00:28:43.360 refers to

00:28:44.020 judicial

00:28:44.580 quasi-judicial

00:28:46.100 proceedings

00:28:48.980 but does

00:28:50.180 not extend

00:28:50.940 to the

00:28:51.280 unique

00:28:51.640 congressional

00:28:52.300 function

00:28:52.840 of certifying

00:28:53.760 electoral

00:28:54.400 college

00:28:55.000 votes

00:28:56.060 quote

00:28:57.060 administration

00:28:58.320 of justice

00:28:59.160 enhancements

00:28:59.920 are typically

00:29:00.900 reserved for

00:29:01.540 defendants

00:29:02.000 who disrupt

00:29:02.680 judicial

00:29:03.360 proceedings

00:29:04.000 such as a

00:29:04.600 courtroom trial

00:29:05.540 or a

00:29:06.280 grand jury

00:29:06.880 investigation

00:29:07.700 more than

00:29:09.060 100

00:29:10.120 of the

00:29:11.540 defendants

00:29:12.180 have had

00:29:13.360 administration

00:29:14.040 of justice

00:29:14.920 enhancements

00:29:15.840 applied to

00:29:16.760 their sentences

00:29:17.420 wow

00:29:18.620 and and

00:29:20.240 every one

00:29:21.480 of them

00:29:21.740 now is

00:29:22.220 going to

00:29:22.560 go and

00:29:23.040 seek and

00:29:23.840 presumably

00:29:24.300 receive a

00:29:25.360 lower sentence

00:29:26.180 and potentially

00:29:26.840 a significantly

00:29:28.040 lower sentence

00:29:29.140 and and what

00:29:30.620 is striking

00:29:31.220 is the

00:29:33.300 Biden Justice

00:29:34.000 Department

00:29:34.580 sought this

00:29:35.380 enhancement

00:29:35.880 contrary to

00:29:36.580 the law

00:29:36.960 over and

00:29:38.440 over and

00:29:39.180 over again

00:29:39.840 because they

00:29:40.560 are engaged

00:29:41.560 in a

00:29:41.980 jihad

00:29:42.540 they are

00:29:43.560 like Javert

00:29:44.260 going after

00:29:45.300 Jean Valjean

00:29:46.700 it is their

00:29:47.580 quest look

00:29:48.400 Merrick Garland

00:29:49.120 has absurdly

00:29:49.960 said the

00:29:50.840 Department of

00:29:51.420 Justice has

00:29:52.020 devoted more

00:29:52.800 resources to

00:29:53.640 going after

00:29:54.280 the January

00:29:55.000 6th protests

00:29:56.180 than any

00:29:57.700 other event

00:29:59.060 in our nation's

00:30:00.000 history and by

00:30:00.500 the way that

00:30:00.820 includes September

00:30:01.780 11th what an

00:30:02.560 absurd statement

00:30:03.820 and and to

00:30:05.640 be clear

00:30:06.200 individuals who

00:30:07.680 engaged in

00:30:08.480 violence on

00:30:09.240 January 6th

00:30:10.120 and there

00:30:10.320 were certainly

00:30:10.740 individuals who

00:30:11.500 engaged in

00:30:12.080 violence who

00:30:12.600 assaulted police

00:30:13.420 officers if you

00:30:14.300 engage in

00:30:14.840 violence you

00:30:15.440 should be

00:30:15.780 prosecuted and

00:30:16.980 go to jail but

00:30:18.200 what the Biden

00:30:18.800 Justice Department

00:30:19.660 has done is

00:30:20.460 use the excuse

00:30:21.680 of the violence

00:30:22.780 of a limited

00:30:24.060 number of

00:30:24.700 individuals to

00:30:26.400 persecute hundreds

00:30:28.500 and even

00:30:29.140 thousands of

00:30:30.140 individuals who

00:30:30.920 engaged in

00:30:31.680 peaceful protest

00:30:32.560 who spoke who

00:30:33.920 expressed their

00:30:34.640 passionate First

00:30:35.520 Amendment views but

00:30:36.820 did not engage in

00:30:38.020 violence and this

00:30:38.780 enhancement was an

00:30:40.440 effort that they

00:30:41.100 wanted to go after

00:30:41.900 you even if you

00:30:42.580 engage in no

00:30:43.300 violence they wanted

00:30:44.000 to lock you up they 0.91

00:30:44.800 wanted to lock you

00:30:45.420 up a long time for

00:30:47.000 the crime of being a

00:30:48.160 Donald Trump supporter

00:30:49.160 and it is striking to

00:30:51.020 have a unanimous

00:30:52.040 decision from three

00:30:54.180 judges all three

00:30:55.640 appointed by

00:30:56.320 Democrat presidents

00:30:57.360 saying no this is

00:30:59.160 not the law and of

00:31:01.020 course sadly the

00:31:02.680 corporate media has

00:31:03.780 not covered this

00:31:04.720 virtually at all.

00:31:05.580 They haven't and it's

00:31:06.820 not just that it's

00:31:07.760 also journalists that

00:31:08.860 are involved and

00:31:09.860 there's still harassment

00:31:11.200 that's going on from

00:31:12.480 January 6th which I

00:31:13.960 mean this was January

00:31:15.000 6th was you know

00:31:16.200 several years ago now

00:31:17.720 blaze news investigative

00:31:20.780 writer Steve Baker

00:31:21.980 who had been reporting

00:31:23.800 on January 6th was

00:31:25.280 charged he was by the

00:31:27.000 FBI handcuffed by the

00:31:28.860 FBI and this is

00:31:30.120 another example of the

00:31:31.160 abuse of power here I

00:31:33.500 think this is a writer

00:31:35.240 a guy who's been

00:31:36.040 reporting on January

00:31:37.180 the 6th and it's like

00:31:38.660 they went after him

00:31:39.500 because they don't like

00:31:40.400 what he was actually

00:31:41.360 reporting on and he

00:31:44.140 said this after he was

00:31:45.780 arrested by the FBI this

00:31:47.960 is what he said I

00:31:48.980 probably don't have a

00:31:50.320 lot to say right now I

00:31:51.960 need to process for a

00:31:53.200 little while I I'm

00:31:55.160 actually still shaking a

00:31:56.740 little bit I I don't

00:31:58.240 like what I just went

00:31:59.200 through I don't like the

00:32:00.600 deliberate humiliation

00:32:01.740 that they put me

00:32:02.460 through there was no

00:32:03.280 reason to do that there

00:32:04.320 was no reason to march

00:32:05.220 me into a courtroom in

00:32:07.020 the leg chains today

00:32:08.160 there was somebody

00:32:10.480 there answering for a

00:32:12.160 felony and they

00:32:13.640 weren't in chains my

00:32:15.780 charges are misdemeanors

00:32:17.080 it's just it's it's

00:32:19.420 mind-boggling but that

00:32:21.540 is unfortunately the

00:32:24.440 type of selective

00:32:26.240 persecution that January

00:32:28.500 6th defendants are

00:32:29.720 facing and ultimately

00:32:31.800 what we are looking at

00:32:33.740 here and probably the

00:32:35.040 only reason that many

00:32:37.020 of the January 6th

00:32:38.580 defendants have had to

00:32:39.480 go through what they've

00:32:40.200 had to go through is

00:32:41.520 because of what I've

00:32:42.240 talked about so many

00:32:43.100 times and what I've

00:32:43.880 written about so many

00:32:44.680 times it's called scary

00:32:46.300 words it doesn't matter

00:32:47.820 if it's Stuart Rhodes it

00:32:50.120 doesn't matter if it's

00:32:51.360 the grandmother who

00:32:52.320 chanted USA USA in the

00:32:54.620 Capitol it's the scary

00:32:56.940 words that were said if

00:32:58.780 you don't say the right

00:32:59.660 thing at the right time

00:33:00.780 and comport to the right

00:33:03.440 narrative that's what

00:33:04.820 they're going to do is

00:33:05.640 they're going to come

00:33:06.140 after us and and that's

00:33:07.560 exactly what's happened

00:33:08.440 it's not this these

00:33:10.180 charges have nothing to

00:33:11.080 do with my behavior at

00:33:12.460 the Capitol these charges

00:33:13.820 are reflective of what I

00:33:14.980 said before and after my

00:33:17.880 speech what I thought

00:33:19.740 about things what I joked

00:33:21.900 about that's what this is

00:33:24.020 reflective of and so that's

00:33:26.380 what we're up against

00:33:26.920 right now I mean you

00:33:28.440 hear him and and it's

00:33:29.800 not what he did on

00:33:30.660 January 6th what he said

00:33:31.700 before and after he

00:33:33.280 talked about that

00:33:34.020 grandmother that was

00:33:34.740 charged when she chanted 0.94

00:33:35.800 USA USA USA I mean they

00:33:38.100 went after anyone that

00:33:39.400 was in around January 6th

00:33:40.960 even if you were not

00:33:41.960 violent and if you

00:33:43.240 reported on it and they

00:33:44.180 don't like your narrative

00:33:44.940 they came after you and

00:33:45.980 they put this guy in leg

00:33:46.980 change just to prove a

00:33:48.240 point we are bigger than

00:33:49.540 you well it is selective

00:33:51.420 persecution and it's not

00:33:52.880 prosecution it is

00:33:53.920 persecution it is

00:33:54.980 targeting the enemies of

00:33:57.100 the regime and and I

00:33:58.440 have to say it is sad you

00:34:00.260 know Merrick Garland used

00:34:01.440 to be a judge actually a

00:34:02.520 judge on the DC circuit

00:34:03.800 it was his old colleagues

00:34:05.780 who slapped him down

00:34:06.700 understand there's a

00:34:07.520 personal element to this

00:34:08.560 they all served with

00:34:09.500 Merrick Garland for years

00:34:10.820 he was very well respected

00:34:12.500 when he was on the DC

00:34:13.400 circuit and yet three of

00:34:15.220 his Democrat appointed

00:34:16.140 colleagues just

00:34:17.120 unanimously reversed what

00:34:18.860 his department is doing

00:34:20.260 because it was contrary to

00:34:22.480 the law and it's sad to

00:34:24.820 see Merrick Garland turning

00:34:26.280 the Department of Justice

00:34:27.400 into just a a partisan

00:34:29.480 enforcement arm it's doing

00:34:31.640 enormous damage to the rule

00:34:33.360 of law and two unanimous

00:34:35.440 decision with within days of

00:34:37.440 the of each other doesn't

00:34:39.400 seem to have caused them

00:34:40.680 even a moment of pause a

00:34:42.500 moment of hesitation to say

00:34:44.080 hey maybe we should change

00:34:45.920 our course and and I will say

00:34:47.800 also more broadly we're going

00:34:49.040 to discuss in a later pod the

00:34:51.760 persecution of the media that

00:34:54.500 the Biden Justice Department

00:34:55.740 is engaged in and you just

00:34:56.880 gave a good example but this

00:34:58.320 is all about not the fair and

00:35:00.920 even-handed administration of

00:35:02.380 justice this is about abusing

00:35:04.260 power to go after the 0.58

00:35:06.900 political enemies of the

00:35:08.280 White House and and today the

00:35:10.480 DC circuit decision that just

00:35:12.100 just came down a few days ago is

00:35:14.180 a big victory for the rule of 0.81

00:35:15.960 law against the political abuse

00:35:17.980 of power by the Biden Justice

00:35:19.340 Department no doubt about it we

00:35:21.060 will talk about the media like

00:35:22.180 you said in in future episodes

00:35:24.040 there was one headline just to

00:35:25.820 put a exclamation point on the

00:35:27.840 absurdity of of what's happening

00:35:29.540 to journalists it says breaking

00:35:30.900 January 6th journalist Steve

00:35:33.340 Baker arrested for reporting on

00:35:35.580 January the 6th there's a

00:35:37.360 headline for you let that sink in

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