Verdict with Ted Cruz - The FBI is Targeting Catholics, NBA Coaches Are Attacking The 2nd Amendment, & Bud Light is Going Woke

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00:00:05.540 Welcome. It is Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz.

00:00:08.000 Ben Ferguson with you.

00:00:09.160 Senator, nice to chat with you today.

00:00:11.500 And let's start with the big headline

00:00:13.280 that so many people,

00:00:16.020 especially in the Catholic faith,

00:00:17.740 are talking about.

00:00:19.240 And that is the fact that it looks like

00:00:21.680 the FBI was trying to infiltrate

00:00:25.900 Catholic groups

00:00:27.780 and using, trying to use people in the church

00:00:31.260 to basically become, you know, FBI informants.

00:00:35.180 There's also a lot of people

00:00:36.720 that are asking the question now,

00:00:38.260 did the FBI lie to Congress about this,

00:00:41.580 saying, I don't know, we didn't do this,

00:00:43.300 and now it's coming to light

00:00:44.160 that in fact this was actually happening?

00:00:45.880 Your initial reaction to that?

00:00:48.180 Well, I think these reports are very concerning.

00:00:51.180 We have seen that the Biden Justice Department

00:00:54.320 has a persistent animosity to religious faith

00:00:59.020 and that they are willing to weaponize

00:01:02.740 the Department of Justice and the FBI

00:01:04.620 to target people of faith.

00:01:06.780 We've seen that in a host of different contexts.

00:01:09.480 We've seen that, for example,

00:01:11.740 in their unwillingness to prosecute

00:01:15.020 the protesters who are committing federal crimes

00:01:18.880 by protesting outside the homes

00:01:20.680 of Supreme Court justices.

00:01:23.540 And because the Attorney General

00:01:28.140 disagrees with the Dobbs decision,

00:01:32.100 he refuses to prosecute

00:01:33.960 even a single one of them.

00:01:35.080 At the same time,

00:01:36.460 we've also seen the Attorney General

00:01:38.260 and the Department of Justice

00:01:39.240 and the FBI

00:01:40.120 bring very limited prosecutorial resources

00:01:45.020 to going after violent terrorists

00:01:48.980 who are attacking,

00:01:50.280 who are vandalizing,

00:01:51.680 who are firebombing

00:01:53.820 crisis pregnancy centers.

00:01:56.120 Again, because they're politics,

00:01:58.660 they don't prioritize

00:02:00.820 those acts of violence.

00:02:03.720 And now, the latest news,

00:02:06.200 we knew publicly,

00:02:07.980 because of a whistleblower

00:02:09.020 who had leaked it,

00:02:10.460 that one of the field offices,

00:02:12.340 the Richmond Field Office of the FBI,

00:02:13.940 had written a document

00:02:16.140 that was entitled

00:02:17.140 Interest of Racially or Ethnically Motivated

00:02:21.660 Violent Extremists

00:02:23.360 in Radical Traditionalist Catholic Ideology

00:02:27.260 Almost Certainly Presents

00:02:29.660 New Mitigation Opportunities.

00:02:31.620 And so this memo,

00:02:35.640 it was called a Domain Perspective,

00:02:38.140 was leaked by a whistleblower.

00:02:40.380 And when Chris Wray,

00:02:43.940 the head of the FBI,

00:02:45.200 was asked before the Senate Judiciary Committee

00:02:47.220 about it,

00:02:48.340 he denounced the document.

00:02:49.900 And he said the document was appalling

00:02:51.980 and that it had been withdrawn.

00:02:54.020 Well, what has now broken this week

00:02:56.560 is that Jim Jordan

00:02:57.920 and the House Committee

00:02:59.300 on the Weaponization of Law Enforcement

00:03:02.580 has made public

00:03:05.060 that the FBI,

00:03:07.020 and in particular,

00:03:07.580 the Richmond Field Office,

00:03:08.960 was using

00:03:10.780 undercover

00:03:11.920 agents,

00:03:14.940 and in particular,

00:03:17.000 at least one undercover employee,

00:03:19.180 to try to

00:03:20.780 penetrate

00:03:21.560 local Catholic churches.

00:03:24.720 And

00:03:25.120 so, for example,

00:03:27.220 this is a quote

00:03:28.320 from

00:03:28.960 the Opportunities,

00:03:31.800 part of the memo,

00:03:34.000 it says,

00:03:35.380 in addition to

00:03:36.760 redaction,

00:03:37.640 we don't know what's under the redaction,

00:03:39.900 engage in outreach

00:03:41.160 to the leadership

00:03:41.900 of other society

00:03:43.180 of St. Pius X chapels

00:03:45.080 in the FBI

00:03:46.320 Richmond area

00:03:47.360 of responsibility

00:03:48.260 to sensitize

00:03:50.160 these congregations

00:03:51.160 to the warning signs

00:03:52.140 of radicalization

00:03:53.020 and to enlist

00:03:53.840 their assistance

00:03:54.820 to serve

00:03:56.220 as suspicious activity

00:03:57.560 tripwires.

00:03:58.540 And so this piece,

00:04:00.620 Chris Wray

00:04:01.000 had not indicated

00:04:02.280 before that the FBI

00:04:03.700 was placing

00:04:05.220 undercover operatives.

00:04:07.220 I don't know

00:04:07.680 whether they were

00:04:08.200 trying to recruit

00:04:09.180 undercover sources

00:04:10.840 from within

00:04:11.520 the Catholic Church

00:04:12.460 or whether they were

00:04:13.400 trying to place

00:04:14.080 agents undercover.

00:04:15.220 Either way,

00:04:16.620 that is a major

00:04:18.080 escalation

00:04:18.840 from what was known

00:04:19.720 previously,

00:04:20.840 and it's very concerning.

00:04:22.840 It also has to

00:04:23.860 concern you,

00:04:24.400 the fact that we're

00:04:24.920 not getting straight answers

00:04:26.000 yet again from the DOJ

00:04:27.200 and the FBI.

00:04:28.520 And this isn't the first

00:04:29.700 time it's happened.

00:04:30.420 I mean,

00:04:30.560 we've had reports

00:04:31.400 even that have come out

00:04:32.120 recently about

00:04:32.680 the White House

00:04:33.680 may have actually

00:04:34.240 been involved

00:04:35.160 or at least read in

00:04:36.220 on the Donald Trump

00:04:37.020 Mar-a-Lago raid.

00:04:38.360 We know that they lied

00:04:39.400 about, you know,

00:04:40.700 having parents be labeled

00:04:41.940 as domestic terrorists

00:04:43.180 is another example there

00:04:45.440 that we're going

00:04:45.900 to school boards.

00:04:46.760 I mean,

00:04:46.960 there have been

00:04:47.480 quite a few instances

00:04:48.820 now where the documents

00:04:51.740 call into question

00:04:53.740 the FBI and the DOJ

00:04:55.280 on their explanations

00:04:56.520 when they come before

00:04:57.720 you and your fellow

00:04:59.340 members of Congress

00:05:00.220 where their stories

00:05:01.380 don't add up.

00:05:02.440 You can be old-fashioned

00:05:03.580 to say it seems like

00:05:05.060 they're lying to you guys

00:05:06.080 on a pretty regular basis.

00:05:07.940 Well, unfortunately,

00:05:09.460 neither the FBI

00:05:10.360 nor the Department

00:05:11.420 of Justice

00:05:11.980 have shown

00:05:13.700 any willingness

00:05:16.620 to be held accountable

00:05:19.900 by Congress

00:05:21.440 or the American people

00:05:22.700 in with both

00:05:24.100 the Attorney General

00:05:24.880 and the head

00:05:25.300 of the FBI.

00:05:25.920 they are highly

00:05:27.640 resistant to

00:05:28.680 answering questions.

00:05:29.700 They typically

00:05:30.400 will stonewall.

00:05:31.780 They'll refuse to answer

00:05:33.140 any specifics.

00:05:33.940 By the way,

00:05:34.860 they've done this

00:05:35.760 persistently concerning

00:05:36.980 January 6th.

00:05:37.920 When I've questioned

00:05:38.660 the Department of Justice,

00:05:39.720 when I've questioned

00:05:40.540 the FBI

00:05:41.980 about undercover agents

00:05:44.060 that were involved

00:05:44.880 in January 6th,

00:05:46.120 they refuse to answer.

00:05:47.460 When I've questioned

00:05:48.160 them about Ray Epps,

00:05:49.940 they refuse to answer.

00:05:51.460 They simply stonewall. 1.00

00:05:52.700 When I asked the FBI

00:05:53.880 if undercover agents

00:05:56.080 were involved

00:05:57.200 in inciting acts

00:05:58.740 of violence,

00:05:59.620 they refused to answer.

00:06:01.460 And I think that is

00:06:02.820 highly concerning.

00:06:04.580 There's an attitude

00:06:05.700 within the FBI

00:06:06.860 and the Department of Justice

00:06:08.020 that they get to decide

00:06:10.120 the rules.

00:06:11.300 They get to decide

00:06:11.980 what's acceptable

00:06:12.720 and that no one

00:06:14.100 can hold them to account.

00:06:18.580 And I think it's producing

00:06:19.680 an enormous lack of trust

00:06:22.480 in law enforcement.

00:06:24.120 It's the reason

00:06:24.840 I wrote the book

00:06:25.580 a few months ago,

00:06:26.980 Justice Corrupted,

00:06:28.020 How the Left

00:06:28.620 Has Weaponized

00:06:29.320 the Legal System,

00:06:30.180 because in that book

00:06:31.860 I outlined

00:06:32.760 how under Joe Biden

00:06:35.240 the Department of Justice

00:06:36.500 and the FBI

00:06:37.220 have deliberately

00:06:38.260 been turned into

00:06:39.620 weapons to target

00:06:41.700 the political opponents

00:06:42.800 of this administration.

00:06:45.040 And with regard

00:06:47.040 to the targeting

00:06:48.180 of the Catholic Church,

00:06:49.540 look, these documents

00:06:50.380 indicate that they see

00:06:52.580 as a quote

00:06:53.080 warning sign

00:06:54.140 people who attend

00:06:55.660 Latin masses.

00:06:56.900 Now that is

00:06:57.980 Latin masses

00:06:58.740 are something attended

00:06:59.540 by millions of people

00:07:00.840 across the world

00:07:01.880 and simply being

00:07:04.600 following traditional

00:07:06.620 Catholic beliefs

00:07:07.840 the idea that

00:07:09.460 that is indicative

00:07:10.680 of being a criminal

00:07:12.820 or being violent

00:07:13.800 or being a terrorist

00:07:14.860 is absurd

00:07:16.400 but it also

00:07:18.200 it demonstrates

00:07:19.560 a deep

00:07:21.000 animosity

00:07:22.720 and distrust

00:07:23.880 to

00:07:25.320 people of faith.

00:07:27.860 And this is

00:07:29.240 it's a pattern

00:07:31.260 that sadly

00:07:33.520 the FBI director

00:07:35.840 seems to have

00:07:36.460 little or no interest

00:07:37.460 in drilling down

00:07:39.820 and holding

00:07:40.720 the people accountable

00:07:42.320 who are demonstrating

00:07:43.320 this animosity.

00:07:44.120 Senator, on Tuesday

00:07:45.540 I was hosting

00:07:46.340 Outnumbered on Fox

00:07:47.260 I was in New York

00:07:47.980 and we were sitting there

00:07:48.880 talking about this

00:07:50.040 exact issue.

00:07:50.760 Now Ben, is that

00:07:51.740 known as a humble brag?

00:07:53.100 That's a humble brag

00:07:54.080 right there, right?

00:07:55.240 You know, the other day

00:07:56.200 when I was piling around

00:07:57.480 with my buddies

00:07:58.380 you know, Jay-Z

00:07:59.320 and Beyonce

00:08:00.000 and then, you know,

00:08:00.880 Frank Sinatra

00:08:01.520 wandered in

00:08:02.340 and, I'm sorry

00:08:04.140 go ahead Ben

00:08:04.560 I didn't mean to interrupt you.

00:08:06.140 No, but we were

00:08:06.840 sitting there on set

00:08:07.740 and they were talking

00:08:08.320 about this

00:08:08.920 and I said

00:08:09.520 the question that I now

00:08:11.440 want Congress to ask

00:08:12.740 forget the Catholic part

00:08:14.420 just for a moment

00:08:15.360 because I think

00:08:17.000 now the question

00:08:17.960 has to be

00:08:18.440 okay

00:08:18.800 if you're now

00:08:20.420 an extremist

00:08:21.260 in the eyes of the FBI

00:08:22.560 and the Biden administration

00:08:24.580 because you go to

00:08:26.360 a very traditional

00:08:28.520 Catholic mass

00:08:30.000 then who else

00:08:31.700 is on this list

00:08:32.580 and how many other religions

00:08:34.080 are they trying

00:08:34.600 to infiltrate right now?

00:08:35.620 Are they going after

00:08:36.820 Baptists? 0.87

00:08:37.660 Are they going after

00:08:38.360 Methodists?

00:08:38.960 Are they going after

00:08:39.480 Presbyterians?

00:08:40.480 My question now is

00:08:41.580 well if they're doing

00:08:42.840 this with Catholics 1.00

00:08:44.040 and those that are

00:08:46.480 traditional

00:08:47.180 their words

00:08:47.880 traditional Catholics

00:08:48.820 right now

00:08:49.220 but now you're an

00:08:49.840 extremist

00:08:50.420 traditionalist Catholic

00:08:51.520 right?

00:08:52.100 You used to just be

00:08:52.840 a traditionalist Catholic

00:08:53.880 now you're an extremist

00:08:55.260 if they're doing this

00:08:56.820 and labeling this

00:08:57.540 on Catholics

00:08:58.100 I just want to know

00:08:59.820 who else is on this list

00:09:01.380 and who else are they

00:09:02.240 sending these guidance

00:09:03.020 out on?

00:09:03.860 Are there other religions 0.85

00:09:04.960 or conservative groups

00:09:06.520 if you're on the Tea Party

00:09:07.880 if you used to be a member

00:09:09.440 of the Tea Party

00:09:10.160 if you've gone to

00:09:10.960 Republican convention

00:09:12.160 if you've gone to

00:09:13.440 a Ted Cruz event

00:09:14.520 or rally

00:09:15.020 are you now on a list

00:09:16.340 as well?

00:09:17.700 Well we know

00:09:19.280 that they define

00:09:20.560 extremist by politics

00:09:22.700 and their definition

00:09:24.160 of extremist

00:09:25.000 is anyone who disagrees

00:09:26.440 with their politics

00:09:27.500 with regard to

00:09:29.260 Tea Party groups

00:09:30.020 we know that the

00:09:31.020 Obama IRS

00:09:31.880 explicitly targeted

00:09:33.260 Tea Party groups

00:09:34.200 and went after them

00:09:36.860 we know that

00:09:38.880 they targeted groups

00:09:41.120 that defended

00:09:42.320 the Constitution

00:09:43.220 because they viewed

00:09:44.240 the Constitution

00:09:45.360 and Bill of Rights

00:09:46.320 as a threat

00:09:48.580 and all of that

00:09:50.940 is detailed

00:09:51.520 there's an entire chapter

00:09:52.720 in Justice Corrupted

00:09:53.900 called The IRS Comes Knocking

00:09:55.660 that walks through

00:09:56.680 chapter and verse

00:09:57.540 and it's worth remembering

00:09:58.520 when that story broke

00:10:00.360 that the Obama IRS

00:10:01.440 was targeting

00:10:02.320 Tea Party groups

00:10:03.060 and conservative groups

00:10:04.240 Barack Obama

00:10:06.100 publicly

00:10:07.040 gave a press conference

00:10:09.260 where he said

00:10:10.040 that he was angry

00:10:11.520 and he said

00:10:12.700 the American people

00:10:13.540 have a right to be angry

00:10:14.480 so he recognized

00:10:15.680 at least he pretended

00:10:16.940 to recognize

00:10:17.580 that it was appalling

00:10:19.140 that it was wrong

00:10:20.660 that it was an abuse of power

00:10:22.000 and then what happened

00:10:23.100 was the Obama

00:10:24.200 Department of Justice

00:10:25.100 stonewalled over

00:10:26.240 and over and over again

00:10:27.420 Lois Lerner

00:10:28.180 pleaded the fifth

00:10:29.380 refused to testify

00:10:31.020 and the Department of Justice

00:10:32.660 refused to prosecute her

00:10:33.920 so they stonewalled 1.00

00:10:35.500 across the board

00:10:36.360 if you look at this

00:10:37.960 recent FBI memo

00:10:39.380 they explicitly focus

00:10:41.600 on politics

00:10:42.580 so for example

00:10:43.420 this is a quote

00:10:44.020 from the memo

00:10:44.560 the ongoing convergence

00:10:46.640 of the far right

00:10:48.020 white nationalist movement

00:10:49.500 and RTCs

00:10:51.420 RTCs are their fancy 0.99

00:10:52.940 acronym for

00:10:54.440 quote

00:10:54.840 radical traditionalist Catholics

00:10:56.880 was further demonstrated

00:10:59.380 through the increase

00:11:01.380 in hostility

00:11:02.440 toward abortion rights 0.89

00:11:04.700 advocates

00:11:05.260 on social media

00:11:06.540 in the run-up

00:11:07.940 and aftermath

00:11:08.820 of the Supreme Court's

00:11:10.360 Dobbs leak

00:11:10.960 in other words

00:11:11.600 if you're pro-life

00:11:12.620 that is an indication

00:11:15.340 that you are 0.95

00:11:16.440 a dangerous radical

00:11:18.120 and the document

00:11:19.100 had four appendices

00:11:20.040 one of which

00:11:20.780 was a list

00:11:22.260 from the Southern

00:11:22.940 Poverty Law Center

00:11:24.120 which is

00:11:24.800 widely denounced

00:11:27.240 for smearing

00:11:28.300 conservative groups

00:11:29.480 as hate groups

00:11:30.380 and for being

00:11:31.900 a hard left

00:11:33.020 political advocacy

00:11:34.300 organization

00:11:35.340 and now you have

00:11:36.640 the FBI

00:11:37.840 relying on that

00:11:39.200 to target

00:11:40.000 people

00:11:41.700 they politically

00:11:42.620 disagree with

00:11:43.620 that is

00:11:44.600 highly highly concerning

00:11:46.080 well let's talk

00:11:47.620 about another aspect

00:11:48.580 of this

00:11:49.060 and I want to go back

00:11:49.940 to the FBI

00:11:51.040 I remember

00:11:52.580 you're a boot guy

00:11:53.840 you love cowboy boots

00:11:54.940 I love cowboy boots

00:11:56.160 by the way

00:11:56.600 I got a new pair

00:11:57.340 I'll show you on set

00:11:58.380 this week

00:11:58.780 I'm upping my game

00:12:00.060 you're going to be jealous

00:12:01.060 but you've got

00:12:02.160 some pretty nice boots

00:12:03.520 and you used

00:12:04.700 one of those

00:12:05.420 to make a point

00:12:07.060 of the absurdity

00:12:08.560 of FBI guidelines

00:12:09.820 on quote symbols

00:12:11.280 that they also

00:12:12.680 put a list together

00:12:13.480 that indicate

00:12:14.260 extremist groups

00:12:15.380 I guess now maybe

00:12:16.160 you know

00:12:16.600 if you have a Catholic symbol

00:12:17.620 that's going to get on there too

00:12:18.900 you got a rosary

00:12:20.000 that's going to get you

00:12:20.800 on the list

00:12:21.180 and I want to play that

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00:12:23.980 something new

00:12:24.580 this is a year ago

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00:13:45.900 when this happened

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00:13:53.320 questioning

00:13:54.800 Ray

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00:13:57.360 used your actual boot

00:13:59.300 put it on the table

00:14:00.640 because of a symbol

00:14:01.980 that is on your boot

00:14:03.580 and this is what

00:14:04.760 it sounded like

00:14:05.620 and this is a text

00:14:06.840 that I was particularly

00:14:07.600 struck

00:14:08.060 is the Gonzales

00:14:09.580 battle flag

00:14:10.380 come and take it

00:14:11.900 as indicative

00:14:13.760 of being a violent

00:14:14.860 extremist militia

00:14:15.820 well I will

00:14:16.260 self-report

00:14:17.200 right now

00:14:17.920 that every day

00:14:19.300 in the Senate

00:14:19.760 I wear my boots

00:14:20.680 that have the

00:14:22.220 Gonzales battle flag

00:14:23.280 on the back of them

00:14:24.220 Director Ray

00:14:25.920 what are y'all doing

00:14:28.640 this makes

00:14:30.680 no sense

00:14:31.780 do you agree

00:14:33.760 with this FBI

00:14:34.840 guidance

00:14:35.540 that the

00:14:36.820 Betsy Ross flag

00:14:37.960 and the

00:14:39.600 Gadsden flag

00:14:40.440 and the

00:14:40.660 Gonzales battle flag

00:14:41.840 are signs

00:14:42.620 of militia

00:14:44.180 violent extremism

00:14:45.420 well Senator

00:14:47.660 I'm not familiar

00:14:48.600 with the particular

00:14:49.320 document you have

00:14:50.500 behind you

00:14:51.140 and I'm not

00:14:52.240 in the practice

00:14:53.280 of trying to comment

00:14:54.300 on documents

00:14:54.800 that I haven't

00:14:56.000 recognized

00:14:56.700 but I will tell you

00:14:57.860 that when we put out

00:14:59.040 intelligence products

00:15:00.340 including ones

00:15:01.340 that reference

00:15:02.160 symbols

00:15:03.120 which we do

00:15:04.000 across a wide

00:15:05.360 variety of contexts

00:15:06.380 we usually

00:15:07.280 make great pains

00:15:10.640 take great pains

00:15:11.860 to put

00:15:12.800 caveats

00:15:14.520 and warnings

00:15:15.180 in the document

00:15:16.120 to make clear

00:15:17.060 that a symbol

00:15:18.260 alone

00:15:18.740 is not

00:15:19.260 considered

00:15:19.740 evidence

00:15:20.220 of violent

00:15:20.660 extremism

00:15:21.400 I mean

00:15:22.500 Senator

00:15:22.880 some of these

00:15:23.640 symbols

00:15:23.920 are on license

00:15:24.720 plates

00:15:25.040 in states

00:15:25.620 for goodness

00:15:26.100 sakes

00:15:26.520 including

00:15:28.080 the great

00:15:28.540 state of Texas

00:15:29.200 and look

00:15:30.480 that exchange

00:15:31.460 there

00:15:32.080 I had

00:15:33.940 behind me

00:15:34.720 a poster

00:15:35.460 board

00:15:35.820 showing this

00:15:36.620 document

00:15:37.160 from the FBI

00:15:38.500 that was

00:15:39.000 identifying

00:15:39.840 these symbols

00:15:40.900 as signs

00:15:42.440 of extremism

00:15:43.160 and there are

00:15:43.780 things like

00:15:44.280 literally

00:15:44.660 the Betsy Ross

00:15:45.680 flag

00:15:46.260 the Gonzales

00:15:47.760 battle flag

00:15:48.400 it's worth

00:15:49.240 for those

00:15:49.800 who are not

00:15:50.620 familiar with

00:15:51.200 Texas history

00:15:51.900 the history

00:15:52.920 of the Gonzales

00:15:53.500 battle flag

00:15:54.160 there is a town

00:15:56.340 in south Texas

00:15:57.240 the town of

00:15:58.660 Gonzales

00:15:59.180 and in the

00:16:02.320 1800s

00:16:03.360 Texas was

00:16:04.100 part of

00:16:04.760 Mexico

00:16:05.180 and the

00:16:07.660 dictator of

00:16:08.520 Mexico

00:16:08.920 was General

00:16:09.600 Santa Anna

00:16:10.200 and General

00:16:10.960 Santa Anna

00:16:11.600 issued an

00:16:12.300 order

00:16:12.620 to the

00:16:13.840 Texians

00:16:14.420 who lived

00:16:14.940 in Gonzales

00:16:15.560 and at the

00:16:15.960 time Texans

00:16:16.640 were called

00:16:17.040 Texians

00:16:17.620 and the

00:16:18.800 order

00:16:19.180 was for

00:16:20.200 the Texians

00:16:20.880 to hand

00:16:21.320 over their

00:16:21.680 guns

00:16:22.100 and also

00:16:23.720 to hand

00:16:24.480 over the

00:16:25.040 cannon

00:16:25.520 that guarded

00:16:26.800 the city

00:16:27.300 and in

00:16:28.580 response

00:16:29.200 what the

00:16:29.660 Texians

00:16:30.180 did

00:16:30.620 is they

00:16:31.760 erected

00:16:32.580 a battle

00:16:33.100 flag

00:16:33.460 and the

00:16:33.740 battle

00:16:34.020 flag

00:16:34.460 simply

00:16:35.460 has

00:16:35.980 a picture

00:16:37.620 of the

00:16:38.180 cannon

00:16:38.500 with a

00:16:38.880 star

00:16:39.200 and

00:16:40.140 underneath

00:16:40.580 it

00:16:40.900 the

00:16:41.040 legend

00:16:41.480 come

00:16:41.880 and

00:16:42.040 take

00:16:42.260 it

00:16:42.520 and

00:16:43.380 that

00:16:44.100 battle

00:16:44.560 flag

00:16:45.120 became

00:16:46.620 the

00:16:47.320 beginning

00:16:47.720 of the

00:16:48.200 Texas

00:16:48.480 war

00:16:48.820 for

00:16:49.040 independence

00:16:49.520 where

00:16:49.880 Texas

00:16:50.480 Sam

00:16:51.740 Houston

00:16:52.220 was

00:16:52.540 Texas's

00:16:53.660 George

00:16:54.080 Washington

00:16:54.640 he led

00:16:55.400 the army

00:16:56.680 of the

00:16:57.000 Texians

00:16:57.460 Santa Anna

00:16:58.120 came

00:16:58.680 and attacked

00:16:59.560 Gonzales

00:17:00.120 attacked

00:17:00.540 Goliad

00:17:01.560 attacked

00:17:02.000 the

00:17:02.240 Alamo

00:17:02.600 and

00:17:04.000 and

00:17:04.320 just

00:17:04.720 like

00:17:05.120 the

00:17:06.400 Continental

00:17:07.480 army

00:17:07.920 under

00:17:08.200 George

00:17:08.660 Washington

00:17:09.240 who

00:17:09.540 lost

00:17:10.000 nearly

00:17:10.980 every

00:17:11.400 battle

00:17:11.780 of the

00:17:12.060 American

00:17:12.400 Revolution

00:17:13.000 to the

00:17:13.840 Redcoats

00:17:14.320 to the

00:17:14.580 British

00:17:14.880 the Texians

00:17:15.580 likewise

00:17:16.000 lost

00:17:16.500 nearly

00:17:16.860 every

00:17:17.200 battle

00:17:17.540 to the

00:17:18.200 Mexican

00:17:18.520 army

00:17:18.880 which was

00:17:19.280 much

00:17:19.520 bigger

00:17:19.820 much

00:17:20.100 better

00:17:20.360 armed

00:17:20.820 right up

00:17:24.280 until

00:17:24.720 the

00:17:24.920 Battle

00:17:25.160 of

00:17:25.320 San

00:17:25.520 Jacinto

00:17:25.900 where

00:17:26.140 we

00:17:26.300 won

00:17:26.560 a

00:17:26.700 decisive

00:17:27.120 victory

00:17:27.640 and won

00:17:28.820 our

00:17:29.020 independence

00:17:29.500 and Texas

00:17:30.080 became

00:17:30.780 an

00:17:31.660 independent

00:17:32.100 nation

00:17:32.540 the

00:17:32.720 Republic

00:17:33.080 of

00:17:33.300 Texas

00:17:33.600 for

00:17:33.840 nine

00:17:34.180 years

00:17:34.540 Texas

00:17:34.900 was

00:17:35.200 its

00:17:35.360 own

00:17:35.560 nation

00:17:35.980 from

00:17:36.680 1836

00:17:37.480 to

00:17:37.720 1845

00:17:38.600 until

00:17:39.500 in

00:17:39.700 1845

00:17:40.480 Texas

00:17:41.100 joined

00:17:42.220 the

00:17:42.380 United

00:17:42.640 States

00:17:43.060 and

00:17:43.320 became

00:17:43.680 a

00:17:43.960 state

00:17:44.360 in

00:17:44.460 the

00:17:44.560 Union

00:17:44.820 that's

00:17:45.500 the

00:17:45.640 history

00:17:46.040 of

00:17:46.360 the

00:17:46.920 Gonzales

00:17:47.340 battle

00:17:47.640 flag

00:17:47.940 and the

00:17:48.180 reason

00:17:48.340 I

00:17:48.480 wear

00:17:48.640 it

00:17:48.720 on

00:17:48.800 my

00:17:48.960 boots

00:17:49.300 is

00:17:50.700 I

00:17:52.580 admire

00:17:53.280 that

00:17:53.760 rugged

00:17:54.860 independence

00:17:56.400 that

00:17:56.780 spirit

00:17:57.160 of

00:17:57.360 freedom

00:17:57.680 it's

00:17:58.640 been

00:17:58.900 really

00:17:59.340 an

00:18:00.580 unofficial

00:18:01.160 flag

00:18:01.700 of

00:18:01.880 when I

00:18:02.120 first

00:18:02.360 ran

00:18:02.620 for

00:18:02.780 the

00:18:02.940 Senate

00:18:03.180 that

00:18:03.520 standing

00:18:04.940 up

00:18:05.280 for

00:18:05.500 freedom

00:18:05.840 is

00:18:06.160 a

00:18:06.700 fundamentally

00:18:07.520 quintessentially

00:18:09.460 American

00:18:09.980 value

00:18:10.600 and for

00:18:12.260 the

00:18:12.400 FBI

00:18:12.800 to

00:18:13.060 identify

00:18:13.480 that

00:18:13.940 and say

00:18:14.280 well that

00:18:14.760 shows

00:18:15.320 that you're

00:18:16.380 an extremist

00:18:17.080 what that

00:18:17.460 really shows

00:18:18.200 is an

00:18:18.760 antipathy

00:18:19.440 to anything

00:18:20.280 other than

00:18:21.080 far left

00:18:21.700 Democrats

00:18:22.380 and

00:18:23.720 all of

00:18:25.100 the

00:18:25.200 Gadsden

00:18:25.680 flag

00:18:26.420 also

00:18:26.780 flag

00:18:27.400 from

00:18:27.600 the

00:18:27.700 American

00:18:27.980 revolution

00:18:28.560 it's

00:18:29.440 if

00:18:29.680 you're

00:18:29.940 a

00:18:30.120 patriot

00:18:30.580 if

00:18:31.720 you

00:18:31.900 believe

00:18:32.240 in

00:18:32.400 America

00:18:32.880 that

00:18:33.380 makes

00:18:33.820 you

00:18:34.120 suspicious

00:18:34.740 and

00:18:36.320 you know

00:18:37.300 I'll

00:18:37.640 say

00:18:37.820 this

00:18:38.080 so you

00:18:38.400 heard

00:18:38.700 Chris

00:18:39.000 Ray's

00:18:39.280 response

00:18:39.820 where

00:18:40.120 he

00:18:40.360 said

00:18:40.560 well

00:18:40.700 gosh

00:18:40.940 I

00:18:41.140 don't

00:18:41.440 know

00:18:41.540 what

00:18:41.680 that

00:18:41.820 memo

00:18:42.080 is

00:18:42.400 well

00:18:43.200 you

00:18:43.300 know

00:18:43.420 what

00:18:43.560 Chris

00:18:43.800 Ray

00:18:43.980 hasn't

00:18:44.340 done

00:18:44.540 to

00:18:44.660 the

00:18:44.780 best

00:18:44.960 of

00:18:45.060 my

00:18:45.200 knowledge

00:18:45.620 gone

00:18:46.760 and

00:18:46.940 figured

00:18:47.120 out

00:18:47.400 who

00:18:47.580 wrote

00:18:47.780 that

00:18:47.980 memo

00:18:48.260 gone

00:18:49.260 and

00:18:49.420 figured

00:18:49.640 out

00:18:49.920 why

00:18:50.280 they

00:18:50.480 were

00:18:50.680 targeting

00:18:51.300 symbols

00:18:52.340 of

00:18:52.560 American

00:18:52.980 patriotism

00:18:53.980 and

00:18:54.320 freedom

00:18:54.940 gone

00:18:56.720 and

00:18:56.960 figured

00:18:57.220 out

00:18:57.580 who

00:18:57.980 has

00:18:58.560 that

00:18:59.020 partisan

00:19:00.380 animosity

00:19:01.520 and bias

00:19:02.360 and

00:19:03.100 likewise

00:19:03.880 with

00:19:04.540 the

00:19:05.080 demonstrated

00:19:05.880 antipathy

00:19:06.620 to

00:19:08.160 traditional

00:19:08.860 Catholics

00:19:09.540 as best

00:19:10.980 as I

00:19:11.360 can tell

00:19:11.840 nobody's

00:19:12.380 been held

00:19:12.740 accountable

00:19:13.220 now

00:19:13.620 it is

00:19:15.060 possible

00:19:15.700 that

00:19:16.100 the

00:19:16.640 antipathy

00:19:17.340 to

00:19:18.620 Catholics

00:19:19.120 was

00:19:19.580 particularly

00:19:20.580 concentrated

00:19:21.220 in the

00:19:21.800 Richmond

00:19:22.080 field

00:19:22.460 office

00:19:22.780 that's

00:19:23.100 where

00:19:23.220 this

00:19:23.440 memo

00:19:23.720 originated

00:19:24.760 and

00:19:25.060 the

00:19:25.360 FBI

00:19:25.760 did

00:19:26.200 retract

00:19:26.840 the

00:19:27.100 memo

00:19:27.380 targeting

00:19:27.880 Catholics

00:19:28.400 the

00:19:29.060 piece

00:19:29.580 though

00:19:29.820 that's

00:19:30.140 new

00:19:30.480 that

00:19:30.920 just

00:19:31.280 came

00:19:31.600 out

00:19:32.000 is

00:19:32.880 that

00:19:33.200 in

00:19:33.600 addition

00:19:34.000 to

00:19:34.260 the

00:19:34.420 memo

00:19:34.780 that

00:19:35.480 the

00:19:35.660 FBI

00:19:36.040 had

00:19:36.360 relied

00:19:36.720 on

00:19:36.960 at

00:19:37.100 least

00:19:37.400 one

00:19:37.800 undercover

00:19:38.380 agent

00:19:38.960 to

00:19:39.280 spy

00:19:39.840 on

00:19:40.080 the

00:19:40.220 Catholic

00:19:40.560 Church

00:19:41.060 and

00:19:41.720 at

00:19:42.240 least

00:19:42.660 one

00:19:43.000 other

00:19:43.260 at

00:19:43.600 least

00:19:44.640 which

00:19:44.900 is

00:19:45.240 concerning

00:19:45.680 to

00:19:45.880 everybody

00:19:46.280 listening

00:19:46.800 it is

00:19:48.680 so

00:19:49.600 here's

00:19:50.380 how

00:19:50.720 Jim

00:19:51.640 Jordan

00:19:52.020 put it

00:19:52.700 based

00:19:54.580 on the

00:19:54.920 limited

00:19:55.160 information

00:19:55.840 produced

00:19:56.360 by the

00:19:56.780 FBI

00:19:57.160 to the

00:19:57.500 committee

00:19:57.780 we now

00:19:59.020 know

00:19:59.320 that the

00:19:59.660 FBI

00:20:00.080 relied

00:20:00.660 on at

00:20:01.120 least

00:20:01.580 one

00:20:02.180 undercover

00:20:02.800 agent

00:20:03.360 to

00:20:04.120 produce

00:20:04.600 its

00:20:04.860 analysis

00:20:05.400 and

00:20:06.900 and

00:20:07.000 that

00:20:07.640 the

00:20:07.820 FBI

00:20:08.320 proposed

00:20:09.220 that

00:20:09.540 its

00:20:09.760 agents

00:20:10.440 engage

00:20:11.800 in

00:20:12.200 outreach

00:20:12.900 to

00:20:13.120 Catholic

00:20:13.540 parishes

00:20:14.120 to develop

00:20:14.780 sources

00:20:15.500 among

00:20:16.520 the

00:20:16.900 clergy

00:20:17.380 and

00:20:17.720 church

00:20:18.060 leadership

00:20:18.780 to

00:20:19.920 inform

00:20:20.640 on

00:20:21.100 Americans

00:20:21.620 practicing

00:20:22.280 their

00:20:22.580 faith

00:20:22.860 so

00:20:23.060 they're

00:20:23.260 trying

00:20:23.680 to

00:20:23.920 enlist

00:20:24.420 priests

00:20:25.420 they're

00:20:25.680 trying

00:20:25.960 to

00:20:26.160 enlist

00:20:26.460 church

00:20:26.820 leadership

00:20:27.380 to be

00:20:28.700 FBI

00:20:29.240 informants

00:20:30.360 to spy

00:20:31.300 on their

00:20:31.520 own

00:20:31.660 congregations

00:20:32.500 and

00:20:33.520 that

00:20:34.200 you know

00:20:36.280 we've talked

00:20:37.080 before about

00:20:37.760 Chris Wray

00:20:38.260 I do not

00:20:39.440 believe

00:20:39.820 Chris Wray

00:20:40.480 is a

00:20:41.040 hardcore

00:20:41.820 leftist

00:20:42.500 he was

00:20:42.760 appointed

00:20:43.100 to that

00:20:43.440 position

00:20:43.840 by

00:20:44.120 Donald

00:20:44.420 Trump

00:20:44.760 the

00:20:47.120 problem

00:20:47.640 with

00:20:47.900 Chris

00:20:48.200 Wray

00:20:48.460 as

00:20:48.700 director

00:20:49.420 so

00:20:49.920 he's

00:20:50.220 not

00:20:50.460 nearly

00:20:50.920 as

00:20:51.180 bad

00:20:51.380 as

00:20:51.540 James

00:20:51.800 Comey 0.99

00:20:52.160 was

00:20:52.400 James

00:20:52.720 Comey 0.99

00:20:53.160 abused

00:20:54.320 the

00:20:54.520 power

00:20:54.840 of

00:20:55.020 the

00:20:55.180 FBI

00:20:55.620 and

00:20:55.940 effectively

00:20:56.400 waged

00:20:56.980 war

00:20:57.400 on

00:20:57.620 President

00:20:58.320 Trump

00:20:58.780 from

00:20:59.560 within

00:20:59.860 the

00:21:00.060 administration

00:21:00.360 Chris Wray

00:21:01.360 has not

00:21:01.820 been

00:21:02.060 nearly

00:21:02.460 as

00:21:02.720 abusive

00:21:03.120 as

00:21:03.380 Comey 0.99

00:21:03.840 but

00:21:04.820 I

00:21:04.980 think

00:21:05.160 Chris

00:21:05.500 Wray

00:21:05.720 is

00:21:05.940 fundamentally

00:21:06.460 a

00:21:06.700 company

00:21:07.020 man

00:21:07.340 I

00:21:07.500 think

00:21:07.740 he

00:21:07.920 views

00:21:08.340 his

00:21:08.560 job

00:21:09.040 as

00:21:10.100 defend

00:21:10.560 everyone

00:21:11.120 at

00:21:11.320 the

00:21:11.460 FBI

00:21:11.900 even

00:21:13.180 if

00:21:13.640 they

00:21:13.920 are

00:21:14.100 hardcore

00:21:14.600 partisans

00:21:15.380 who

00:21:15.560 burrowed

00:21:16.100 into

00:21:16.300 senior

00:21:16.640 career

00:21:17.000 positions

00:21:17.680 and

00:21:18.440 are

00:21:18.840 corrupting

00:21:20.520 the

00:21:20.820 machinery

00:21:21.500 of

00:21:21.880 justice

00:21:22.300 with

00:21:22.720 a

00:21:22.960 partisan

00:21:23.480 lens

00:21:24.140 or

00:21:24.800 a

00:21:25.080 lens

00:21:25.540 of

00:21:25.900 antipathy

00:21:26.640 to

00:21:26.940 people

00:21:27.260 of

00:21:27.440 faith

00:21:27.720 and

00:21:27.940 what

00:21:29.120 what

00:21:29.560 Director

00:21:30.660 Wray

00:21:30.880 is not

00:21:31.480 doing

00:21:31.880 is digging

00:21:32.500 down

00:21:32.980 and saying

00:21:33.440 okay

00:21:33.860 I may not

00:21:35.080 have known

00:21:35.420 about this

00:21:35.880 memo when it

00:21:36.420 issued but I

00:21:37.000 know about it

00:21:37.540 now and I

00:21:38.400 want to see who

00:21:38.960 wrote it I

00:21:39.360 want to see what

00:21:39.840 we've done I

00:21:40.380 want to go in

00:21:40.820 and stop it and

00:21:41.740 we don't see any

00:21:43.200 of that and

00:21:43.980 and and that's

00:21:45.020 if he's not

00:21:47.580 doing that he's

00:21:48.460 not doing his

00:21:49.320 job and he's

00:21:50.100 allowing the FBI

00:21:51.100 to continue

00:21:51.880 to be abused

00:21:53.440 politically

00:21:53.920 last question for

00:21:55.240 you if you're the

00:21:55.980 person that wrote

00:21:56.600 this memo at the

00:21:57.360 FBI should you

00:21:59.020 lose your job

00:21:59.720 over this

00:22:00.340 look

00:22:02.480 probably

00:22:03.440 we need to

00:22:06.440 see we

00:22:07.660 don't seem to

00:22:08.080 have any

00:22:08.360 accountability

00:22:08.820 anymore it's

00:22:09.700 like everybody

00:22:10.240 in government

00:22:10.660 can do whatever

00:22:11.160 the hell they

00:22:11.560 want and

00:22:12.340 then when they

00:22:12.680 get busted I 0.83

00:22:13.360 think this is

00:22:13.780 where Americans

00:22:14.380 are getting

00:22:14.680 really frustrated

00:22:15.380 center is that

00:22:16.020 they see this

00:22:16.700 happen we keep

00:22:18.100 seeing these

00:22:18.640 stories and no

00:22:19.560 one loses

00:22:20.140 their job

00:22:20.740 Lois Lerner

00:22:21.700 another example

00:22:22.620 that you

00:22:22.960 mentioned earlier

00:22:23.540 I mean over

00:22:24.260 and over when

00:22:25.520 they're when

00:22:25.960 they admit

00:22:26.520 something happens

00:22:27.800 and they're

00:22:28.720 like okay this

00:22:29.500 memo went out

00:22:30.100 and it shouldn't

00:22:30.520 have no one

00:22:31.200 seems to ever

00:22:32.020 get fired

00:22:32.900 well Lois Lerner

00:22:34.740 was allowed to

00:22:35.360 retire and she

00:22:36.120 kept her pension

00:22:36.760 yeah

00:22:37.340 look at the

00:22:40.320 Biden administration

00:22:41.100 can you name

00:22:41.980 one person

00:22:42.800 who's lost his

00:22:44.080 job

00:22:44.440 that's my point

00:22:45.620 look the last

00:22:46.680 podcast we did

00:22:47.580 we did a deep

00:22:48.200 dive on Afghanistan

00:22:49.200 where at the

00:22:50.420 time of our

00:22:51.880 disastrous surrender

00:22:53.660 to the Taliban

00:22:54.360 and the

00:22:55.280 catastrophe that

00:22:56.100 unfolded everyone

00:22:56.800 recognized that it

00:22:57.820 was a catastrophe

00:22:58.500 now you have the

00:22:59.400 Biden White House

00:23:00.220 trying to whitewash

00:23:01.420 the whole thing

00:23:01.980 and pretend it was

00:23:02.740 all terrific and

00:23:03.520 we should be proud

00:23:04.380 of the great

00:23:05.800 surrender Joe

00:23:06.740 Biden did there

00:23:07.700 not a single

00:23:11.060 person as far as

00:23:12.080 I know has lost

00:23:13.000 his or her job

00:23:13.960 because of that

00:23:15.060 screw up and 0.95

00:23:16.220 and so this is a

00:23:18.700 consistent pattern

00:23:19.840 which is the

00:23:21.620 people who are

00:23:22.700 weaponizing the

00:23:24.200 machinery of

00:23:24.920 justice not only

00:23:26.820 are not held

00:23:27.480 accountable they

00:23:29.480 don't have any fear

00:23:30.280 of being held

00:23:30.880 accountable because

00:23:31.760 the White House

00:23:33.480 is certainly not

00:23:36.000 willing to

00:23:37.340 actually demonstrate

00:23:38.660 that the buck

00:23:39.400 stops here or

00:23:40.460 anywhere else

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00:24:13.680 get to another big

00:24:14.860 issue and that is I

00:24:16.960 was really excited

00:24:17.820 Senator because I

00:24:18.560 thought that you

00:24:19.440 were going to get us

00:24:20.080 the hookup with

00:24:20.920 Spurs tickets at

00:24:21.820 some point when we

00:24:22.680 were doing this

00:24:23.120 podcast that we

00:24:23.900 definitely get to go

00:24:24.600 see the Spurs play

00:24:25.580 and we're going to

00:24:26.520 get great seats for

00:24:27.440 that apparently

00:24:28.220 that's not going to

00:24:29.240 happen now because

00:24:29.960 coach Greg had some

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00:24:31.900 going to play that

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00:26:07.920 you don't know about

00:26:08.960 the Spurs coach he

00:26:10.920 made me hate the

00:26:11.880 Spurs after I used to

00:26:13.020 love them because he's

00:26:14.740 become such a hardcore

00:26:16.840 woke activist and he

00:26:19.380 now is taking aim at

00:26:21.220 you senator I got to

00:26:22.340 play this for people

00:26:23.240 take a listen of you in

00:26:24.820 this room when we were

00:26:25.800 in school we worried if

00:26:27.700 Nancy would dance with

00:26:30.700 us on Friday after the

00:26:31.940 football game or

00:26:32.720 something that was that

00:26:34.980 was our anxiety but

00:26:38.240 they're gonna cloak all

00:26:39.280 this stuff you know the

00:26:40.080 second the myth of the

00:26:41.000 second amendment the

00:26:41.840 freedom you know it's

00:26:42.900 just it's a myth it's a

00:26:43.980 joke it's it's just a

00:26:45.600 game they play I mean

00:26:47.860 that's freedom is it

00:26:49.200 freedom for kids to go

00:26:50.280 to school and try to

00:26:51.900 socialize and try to

00:26:53.800 learn and be scared to

00:26:55.460 death that they might die

00:26:56.480 that day but Ted Cruz

00:26:59.540 will fix him because

00:27:00.140 he's gonna double the

00:27:00.940 number of cops in the 0.94

00:27:01.840 schools that's what he

00:27:02.960 wants to do well that'll

00:27:04.620 create a great

00:27:05.220 environment is that

00:27:05.980 freedom or is it

00:27:07.760 freedom to have a

00:27:08.480 congressman who can

00:27:09.780 make a postcard with

00:27:10.860 all his family holding

00:27:11.900 rifles including AR-15

00:27:13.880 or whatever is that

00:27:14.940 cool all right

00:27:16.200 senator he says the

00:27:18.020 second amendment is a

00:27:19.020 myth and this is a guy

00:27:22.120 that has the Alamo in

00:27:23.960 his in the town where

00:27:25.220 he lives and for the

00:27:26.820 team that he

00:27:27.620 represents you'd think

00:27:30.060 he'd learn a little bit

00:27:30.960 of history before he

00:27:31.840 starts saying stuff like

00:27:32.760 this well look we've

00:27:34.300 seen for a long time

00:27:35.620 that there are a lot

00:27:36.420 of institutions in

00:27:40.280 sports that that don't

00:27:42.840 really like their fans

00:27:43.800 very much don't really

00:27:44.960 like their customers

00:27:46.520 don't respect their

00:27:48.180 customers that look down

00:27:49.300 on them Popovich is

00:27:51.520 someone who who has

00:27:52.720 been a partisan for a

00:27:54.600 long time he's a

00:27:55.500 liberal Democrat he is

00:27:58.800 someone who listen the

00:28:00.300 Spurs are a terrific

00:28:01.300 team in 2014 I had the

00:28:04.120 great joy of taking my

00:28:05.600 dad on Father's Day to

00:28:07.840 see the Spurs win the

00:28:09.680 NBA finals and and I

00:28:11.120 happily cheered them

00:28:12.020 on they've had some

00:28:13.800 terrific players on the

00:28:15.140 teams over the years I

00:28:16.360 am first and foremost a

00:28:18.140 Rockets fan but but but

00:28:19.760 I happily cheer on every

00:28:21.360 Texas team but you know

00:28:23.980 I I do wish you know

00:28:26.000 the end you see this in

00:28:27.000 the NBA you see at the

00:28:28.140 NFL the these incredibly

00:28:30.500 rich athletes who 0.93

00:28:33.200 hypocritically disdain 0.91

00:28:35.880 their fans and 0.58

00:28:37.220 customers and who

00:28:38.980 lecture them almost

00:28:40.360 inevitably from a point

00:28:41.940 of ignorance so Greg

00:28:43.420 Popovich is telling you 0.66

00:28:45.060 that that that it's a

00:28:46.960 myth that the Second

00:28:48.620 Amendment protects your

00:28:49.540 rights it's a myth that

00:28:51.080 the Second Amendment

00:28:51.780 protects your freedoms I

00:28:53.020 mean I mean that's a

00:28:53.740 fairly astonishing

00:28:54.820 proposition and I would

00:28:56.820 note you've been to

00:28:58.720 NBA games I've been to

00:29:00.060 NBA games you know what

00:29:01.040 there are a lot of at

00:29:02.040 NBA games police a lot

00:29:03.880 of police a lot of

00:29:04.860 security armed police

00:29:06.540 officers with weapons

00:29:08.200 strapped in their

00:29:09.180 holsters you know 0.82

00:29:11.000 Popovich is surrounded by

00:29:13.320 armed security most of

00:29:15.820 the time and and and

00:29:16.780 this is true this is true

00:29:17.940 with so many Hollywood

00:29:18.780 liberals that have armed

00:29:20.920 bodyguards protecting

00:29:22.000 them and and they say you

00:29:24.300 little people you don't

00:29:26.720 have a right to defend

00:29:27.880 your family you don't

00:29:29.040 have a right to defend

00:29:30.020 your children but me

00:29:32.100 I'm going to be

00:29:33.000 surrounded in perfect

00:29:34.240 safety and and take

00:29:36.420 away your rights to

00:29:37.340 defend yourself I mean

00:29:38.440 that unfortunately that

00:29:41.720 that kind of

00:29:42.520 condescension is is all

00:29:44.920 too common but beyond

00:29:47.040 that he also you know

00:29:50.000 went after me by name

00:29:51.260 now listen this is not

00:29:52.280 new you know this is the

00:29:54.480 same guy who who

00:29:55.600 supported Beto O'Rourke

00:29:56.780 when he ran against me

00:29:57.880 and you know when when 0.99

00:29:59.840 Beto O'Rourke said damn 0.95

00:30:01.240 right we're gonna take 0.96

00:30:02.060 your guns I you know I

00:30:03.560 guess Popovich was

00:30:04.480 cheering because you know

00:30:05.540 he has his police

00:30:06.420 officers to protect him

00:30:07.580 so what does he care

00:30:09.020 about if you can defend

00:30:10.400 your family but but I

00:30:12.700 thought it was really

00:30:13.360 striking what what he

00:30:14.560 went after me at in this

00:30:15.740 this little rant he went

00:30:18.020 after me for proposing

00:30:19.340 that we double the number

00:30:21.040 of police officers in

00:30:22.260 schools he says do you

00:30:23.920 want that let me be

00:30:25.040 clear yes I want that

00:30:26.540 I look I don't get

00:30:29.180 this this recent conceit

00:30:31.220 of leftists that police

00:30:33.760 officers don't make us 0.78

00:30:35.580 more safe but like it is

00:30:37.880 a bizarre view listen it

00:30:41.400 is horrific the rise in

00:30:43.580 violent crime that we've

00:30:45.520 seen across this country

00:30:46.800 but leftists like Popovich

00:30:52.720 put none of the blame on

00:30:55.640 George Soros DAs that are

00:30:57.260 releasing murderers they

00:30:58.380 put none of the blame on

00:31:00.020 the leftists that they

00:31:01.040 support who are calling for

00:31:02.140 abolishing the police

00:31:03.320 instead they put the blame

00:31:05.460 on you for exercising your

00:31:08.240 right to keep and bear arms

00:31:09.340 to protect your family and

00:31:10.780 your children and and and it

00:31:13.020 is look if you look at the

00:31:16.580 number one factor that

00:31:18.280 stops a violent crime it

00:31:22.900 is an armed police officer

00:31:24.660 who stops that crime and I

00:31:28.020 look I gotta say it's a very

00:31:32.060 strange thing for the left

00:31:33.860 that they just that they have

00:31:35.880 decided cops are bad let me

00:31:40.100 tell you this right now I

00:31:42.720 guarantee you if someone

00:31:44.160 stood up and said we're

00:31:46.580 gonna pull all the police

00:31:48.100 officers from Greg Popovich's

00:31:50.020 neighborhood he'd be

00:31:51.540 horrified I'll tell you I'd

00:31:52.940 be horrified someone

00:31:54.080 announced they were pulling

00:31:55.000 the police officers from my

00:31:56.680 neighborhood I'd be like

00:31:57.320 that's a terrible idea I want

00:31:58.780 officers to keep my family

00:32:00.440 safe I want officers to keep

00:32:01.680 his family safe but there's a

00:32:04.800 political talking point now

00:32:06.440 that if you want to keep our

00:32:07.580 kids safe clearly police

00:32:09.700 officers are not going to do

00:32:10.800 anything to help that's just 1.00

00:32:12.560 weird and it's stupid and 0.99

00:32:14.260 it's counterfactual yeah I 1.00

00:32:15.800 got to tell you I texted

00:32:17.140 why you were talking there

00:32:18.240 to a buddy of mine that

00:32:19.380 played in the NBA actually

00:32:21.100 played for Popovich and I

00:32:23.760 asked him I said I gotta ask

00:32:25.180 you quickly I said I won't

00:32:26.520 use your name what was the

00:32:28.260 security like when you were

00:32:29.760 at the Spurs specifically

00:32:32.260 around you and the team and

00:32:34.020 he wrote back I'm reading

00:32:35.640 this exactly like this is I

00:32:37.060 just got this in real time he

00:32:38.300 said one all at all times on

00:32:41.460 the road we had a a security

00:32:43.780 detail with us when we were at

00:32:46.060 practice there were security

00:32:47.180 details with us as soon as you

00:32:48.820 got to the facility there was

00:32:50.460 security detail there there was

00:32:52.680 heavy security at every away and

00:32:55.460 or home game security in the

00:32:58.040 tunnel security outside the

00:32:59.900 locker room and security to our

00:33:03.060 cars that included the coaching

00:33:05.480 staff after games and of course

00:33:09.540 there is look I just criticize 0.98

00:33:11.640 that my point is your hypocrisy 0.93

00:33:13.320 that you're mentioning yep this 0.94

00:33:14.460 is a coach that has and again

00:33:16.000 it's the former player saying

00:33:17.060 this he had security around him

00:33:18.800 all the time when he traveled all

00:33:20.760 the time when he's on the bench

00:33:21.800 he also just said there was three

00:33:22.780 police officers around their

00:33:24.060 bench at all times at least

00:33:26.100 three he's he's still texting me

00:33:27.700 as we speak he said on the road

00:33:29.320 they had a head of security that

00:33:30.800 was that was with them at all

00:33:32.040 times who planned all of their

00:33:33.220 security with the hotels meals

00:33:35.380 and to and from the arenas on

00:33:37.680 the road he said in essence we

00:33:39.700 had 24 hour security around us

00:33:42.000 for all operations around the

00:33:43.940 team that included the coach so

00:33:46.360 he's got basically 24 hour

00:33:48.180 security for him but he mocks your

00:33:50.520 idea of having that for our

00:33:51.700 children yeah yeah for some reason

00:33:54.000 the protection that that is

00:33:55.960 suitable to ultra wealthy left-wing

00:34:00.220 athletes is not suitable for our

00:34:02.120 children they deserve less

00:34:03.260 protection uh beyond that this so

00:34:06.620 so i'll say two two stories one

00:34:09.080 you know i just went a week ago to

00:34:11.540 to a rockets game um where where

00:34:14.380 the rockets were playing and

00:34:15.620 actually my daughter catherine who's

00:34:16.880 12 uh was was one of the dancers at

00:34:19.660 halftime she's in a girls dance 1.00

00:34:21.280 troupe and they had a bunch of uh

00:34:22.780 that's awesome a bunch of kids

00:34:24.580 dancing at halftime she did awesome 0.98

00:34:26.220 it was i i was cheering her on and

00:34:28.200 had a blast and and she really that

00:34:30.420 they they did a fantastic job at

00:34:32.340 halftime but at the game which was

00:34:35.560 just in the last week i you know there

00:34:38.520 were i i must have talked with myself

00:34:42.100 30 police officers maybe more and and

00:34:46.500 that's great you want police officers

00:34:48.500 at something like a like a game because

00:34:50.380 you don't want anyone to commit an act

00:34:51.900 of violence that keeps us safe that's a

00:34:54.280 good thing i'll also tell you a few

00:34:57.400 months ago i was visiting a friend of

00:34:59.100 mine uh on the east coast and and he's

00:35:01.580 someone who who every week trains

00:35:04.720 doing jujitsu and somehow he talked me

00:35:07.160 into uh joining him uh doing jujitsu

00:35:11.480 which which i is not something i do as

00:35:13.960 a kid i took judo for several years i'm

00:35:15.980 trying not to laugh right now senator but

00:35:17.700 you know this is how you get real

00:35:20.860 injuries

00:35:21.500 well i i know and and like i'm sitting

00:35:24.200 there going okay i'm gonna get a tendon

00:35:26.540 hyper extended i'm gonna get something

00:35:28.640 but he brought me in to to train with

00:35:31.280 uh where he trains regularly and i said

00:35:34.040 it was actually it was really really fun

00:35:35.700 but the guy who who was who was doing

00:35:39.900 the training was a police officer who

00:35:43.200 traveled with an nba team doing security

00:35:47.020 for them and so he was uh uh you know a

00:35:49.840 very high level black belt in brazilian

00:35:52.400 jujitsu and a police officer and and he

00:35:55.360 helped lead the security for an nba team

00:35:58.120 that's a good thing but explain to me why

00:36:02.380 what's good for the rich guys is not good

00:36:06.500 for everybody else maybe you should have

00:36:08.180 just described as i want the same security

00:36:10.500 for our kids that coach popovich gets and

00:36:13.080 then it would then he wouldn't have said

00:36:14.500 anything maybe that's how we should move

00:36:16.440 forward saying i just want the same

00:36:17.960 protection that the nba gives to their

00:36:20.720 players and at the arenas for our children

00:36:23.280 you know unfortunately part of it is the

00:36:29.320 social pressure you notice that there are

00:36:31.460 not nba coaches look steve kerr is another

00:36:35.080 one who is a very loud and outspoken

00:36:37.280 leftist and he usually pops off um you know 0.99

00:36:42.200 pops off with with inane leftist hyper 0.82

00:36:46.440 partisan statements and and they are rarely

00:36:49.120 carefully reasoned um you know i i remember

00:36:53.660 some years back steve nash who was a great

00:36:56.940 player but when he was a coach had a quote and

00:37:00.020 i'm doing this from memory so i may get it

00:37:01.540 slightly wrong but my recollection is his

00:37:04.120 quote was something to the effect of uh all

00:37:07.300 wars are immoral um there have never been

00:37:11.400 any good wars and and i remember thinking at the

00:37:15.980 time he said it that that was a very odd

00:37:20.840 statement i look i am i don't like war i think we

00:37:24.360 should avoid war but but i really wish some

00:37:27.280 reporter had asked him excuse me coach

00:37:29.480 could you name five wars i mean i mean you've just

00:37:33.040 given us a statement about history and the history

00:37:35.040 of mankind just name five wars now what's

00:37:38.000 interesting is is is very quickly like if he had to name five wars i don't know if he

00:37:42.360 could but let's assume hypothetically he could

00:37:44.620 uh maybe he goes to the civil war maybe he goes to the american

00:37:52.260 revolutionary war maybe he goes to world war one or world war two

00:37:55.620 i'll bet you 20 bucks if you ask him to name five wars he can't do it

00:38:00.960 without naming world war ii yeah and he can't war one and he can't do it

00:38:07.400 without naming the civil war and i would challenge any leftist give me

00:38:11.480 your argument for why world war ii was an immoral

00:38:15.120 war why stopping adolf hitler and the nazis

00:38:18.260 why stopping the holocaust why stopping the face of evil 0.99

00:38:23.340 was an immoral war because i'll tell you when our boys

00:38:27.460 scaled the cliffs of normandy i think it was one of the greatest

00:38:31.300 acts of heroism the world has ever seen in the civil war

00:38:36.620 i'd be very interested to hear a leftist explain why it was immoral to

00:38:41.560 fight a war that resulted in ending the abomination of slavery in the united

00:38:46.740 states

00:38:47.220 like great great point and the problem is all of the political dynamics

00:38:54.980 in modern sports

00:38:57.560 tell players tell coaches you can get involved in politics if it goes to the

00:39:05.280 radical left if you're colin kaepernick and you're taking a knee during the flag

00:39:08.720 and just disrespecting our soldiers and sailors and veterans

00:39:12.000 that's fine if you're disrespecting our police officers that's great

00:39:16.720 but you certainly can't say anything pro-america

00:39:22.880 pro-police pro anything that is other than left of center

00:39:29.020 yeah and it's really sad but this is the nba now and this is what's happening

00:39:33.200 uh with with all these teams are trying to go woke and it's it's amazing

00:39:37.320 they continue to say things like this i gotta ask by the way

00:39:41.240 you look at ennis canter freedom canter who spoke out against genocide

00:39:47.800 and over a million uyghurs imprisoned in china in concentration camps and his 0.96

00:39:55.460 reward for doing that is he was fired and he's unemployable in the nba

00:39:59.840 his numbers were strong he was putting up double digit scoring average

00:40:04.100 double digit rebounding average his numbers

00:40:06.780 he was producing at an nba level but they decided

00:40:10.700 if he stays on our team china won't allow us to broadcast our games in china so

00:40:17.120 we care more about the money so that politics was not acceptable

00:40:20.580 but you could put black lives matter on the on the nba court and never mind

00:40:25.400 that it's a marxist group that is rabidly anti-american

00:40:28.940 that's perfectly okay yeah i got you you bring up talking about this something i

00:40:34.440 have to ask you about quickly and it's it may be a woke

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00:41:52.340 that it seems to be taking place i'm happy it's happening

00:41:55.800 uh budweiser decided to go really woke center

00:41:59.340 they decided to put a chick dress or a dude dressed like a chick 0.99

00:42:03.840 on a beer can and give them a deal to go woke

00:42:08.200 this is part of their new marketing campaign

00:42:11.060 uh are you gonna throw away your bud light and go to white claw now what

00:42:15.360 happens

00:42:16.040 well look it is an amazing phenomenon how woke corporations 1.00

00:42:22.640 have decided that their customers are idiots 1.00

00:42:27.400 that they look down on their customers 1.00

00:42:29.700 um we're seeing big business after big business

00:42:33.680 um embrace the radical left embrace

00:42:37.920 a a a left-wing agenda in this case and

00:42:41.620 embrace someone who's transgender put them forth

00:42:44.480 as the this is the spokesperson for bud light

00:42:47.920 i what what when i saw this whole thing my first thought was

00:42:51.640 have they ever met a typical bud light drinker 0.99

00:42:55.420 but like yeah if there's any dumb move and i'm just talking about just straight up dumb 0.99

00:42:59.860 beer drinkers especially dudes that drink beer 0.99

00:43:02.920 they do not want a can with a dude dressed like a chick 1.00

00:43:05.740 that's just nothing that's nothing you want

00:43:08.880 and listen if it were you know you know dark cherry flavored hard cider

00:43:17.020 maybe maybe that's a marketing play that makes sense

00:43:21.480 but this is bud light and and you know the idea that it's like

00:43:27.480 they're not interested in what their customers want

00:43:32.000 they want to be praised on twitter they want their ad executives boy

00:43:37.800 look part of the problem is madison avenue uh is

00:43:41.620 hardcore left wing you and you look at this across the board

00:43:46.740 over and over and over again um by the way we saw this with the nfl

00:43:51.180 the nfl likewise looks down on the typical fan who goes to an nfl game

00:44:00.220 um and and and i gotta say it's it's it's making people pissed off

00:44:05.340 what's interesting is the backlash in a lot of instances

00:44:09.740 it seems that that the right is not very good at boycotts

00:44:14.260 uh and so companies feel they can do this with with impunity

00:44:18.360 um this bud light issue is getting some some real traction it seems to me

00:44:25.900 and and the phrase go woke go broke listen i i i think this is this has gone

00:44:32.880 beyond just twitter to to people saying you know what there are other beers on

00:44:37.980 the market and i gotta tell you in my instance

00:44:40.360 so a company that pushed me over the edge was nike

00:44:43.900 um and and nike i didn't i i didn't like the colin kaepernick thing at all

00:44:49.880 it really pissed me off uh but even then it didn't it didn't push me away from nike

00:44:56.640 it wasn't until that they began actually to go back to the fbi story we started the podcast with

00:45:02.580 the fbi identified the betsy ross flag as a symbol of extremism 0.96

00:45:06.920 well you remember nike decided to pull the betsy ross ross flag off off one of their sneakers

00:45:12.800 um because people like colin kaepernick were unhappy with it and and that was the point where

00:45:19.320 i said all right enough is enough and and i gotta tell you look they don't care if i buy their

00:45:27.040 products but i was not only a nike consumer i was an incredibly loyal nike consumer like

00:45:32.980 every pair of tennis shoes i had owned from being a kid till my mid 40s was a nike that that's just

00:45:39.820 what i bought i bought nike's um every pair of athletic shorts and and t-shirts that i wore to

00:45:47.240 play basketball or sports or do whatever almost every single thing i owned were nike's and i just

00:45:53.120 finally said enough is enough i'm not going to support a company that has decided its business model

00:46:01.100 is mock and attack america um the problem is it you know it's not a nike stock has continued to do

00:46:11.480 fine they're continuing to make profits part of it is they also do this one of the reasons they

00:46:17.880 virtue signal is to cover up from their otherwise questionable practices so nike figures if they're

00:46:23.840 showing how leftist and woke they are maybe you won't ask about the child labor that's assembling

00:46:29.740 their tennis shoes um but what's interesting about this bud light issue is is it at least appears right

00:46:38.600 now you know you probably saw the video online of kid rock uh shooting up several cases of bud light

00:46:44.220 and and expressing his uh his his sentiments uh i would say clearly and unambiguously yeah that's a good

00:46:52.020 way of putting it um it seems to be getting some real traction and and i hope this serves as as as a 0.98

00:47:01.320 warning to other companies just stay out of politics just just sell your damn beer like like yeah you don't 0.98

00:47:08.520 have to have a view on on on transsexuals one way or the other like why does a beer company need to 0.99

00:47:17.160 engage in that look if you're a makeup company i can understand a makeup company saying we're going

00:47:23.120 to decide to advertise to people who are transsexual that that could be a marketing decision that

00:47:28.500 is not nuts but for bud light it is hard to imagine the ad exec who said this yeah this is really tapping

00:47:37.680 into our demographic yeah this is one of those moments where it's where for me when i as soon as i saw

00:47:42.620 the can and saw the promotion during march madness i was i was like yeah i'm done like i i have no doubt

00:47:49.060 i will never drink a bud light again in my life if you bring me one i will refuse it that's how far

00:47:55.260 that's how offended i was by it and i was like no screw it and then you watch where they nike doubles

00:48:00.320 down and brings the same dude dressed like a chicken to sell nike sports bras and i'm like yeah the

00:48:06.180 hell with you guys too it'll be interesting like you said how this plays out don't forget download the

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Verdict with Ted Cruz - April 12, 2023

The FBI is Targeting Catholics, NBA Coaches Are Attacking The 2nd Amendment, & Bud Light is Going Woke

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