Verdict with Ted Cruz - The Inside Story： ANOTHER Biden Nom Defeated, plus Biden LOVES China & Kerry LOVES Private Jets

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00:00:05.580 Senator, nice to be back with you in studio today.

00:00:08.720 And there is exciting news about a Biden nominee.

00:00:12.140 You and I were talking about this behind the scenes,

00:00:13.760 and I want to bring people into this part of the discussion.

00:00:17.140 There was a guy that was nominated for the FAA position to lead it

00:00:20.000 that was just not qualified for the position.

00:00:23.000 You actually liked him as an individual,

00:00:24.960 but it was the wrong person for this job.

00:00:28.160 Now the Biden administration has withdrawn him.

00:00:30.780 Talk a little bit about the dynamics here,

00:00:32.460 because to be honest, it's the second time they've had a nominee that's not made it through.

00:00:36.840 And without your leadership, I'm going to say this because it was obvious,

00:00:41.140 this would not have happened if you weren't in the position that you're in.

00:00:45.080 And Americans should feel safer now because of this.

00:00:48.440 Well, it's a big deal.

00:00:50.340 Big news broke this weekend, Saturday night,

00:00:52.760 sort of quietly late at night trying to avoid the news.

00:00:55.960 The Biden administration announced they were withdrawing Phil Washington,

00:00:59.840 their nominee for FAA.

00:01:01.760 This is now the second major nominee the White House has withdrawn.

00:01:05.580 Earlier, they withdrew Gigi Sohn,

00:01:07.880 who they had nominated the Federal Communications Commission.

00:01:10.820 Both of those nominees go through the Commerce Committee.

00:01:14.500 And I am, as of this year, the new ranking member on the Commerce Committee.

00:01:19.580 In other words, I'm the lead Republican on the Senate Commerce Committee.

00:01:23.480 It's the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.

00:01:26.480 It's got jurisdiction over about half the U.S. economy, including both of these appointees.

00:01:32.340 Both of them now, we've taken them down.

00:01:34.740 And it was not by accident.

00:01:36.360 Look, it is a good thing.

00:01:37.600 We talked last week on the pod about Phil Washington and why he was not qualified to run the FAA,

00:01:44.680 why this is an incredibly important safety and security job,

00:01:48.340 and he didn't have the background in aviation or aviation safety.

00:01:51.680 Gigi Sohn, we've talked about a lot on the podcast as well.

00:01:54.860 She's a left-wing radical, an activist, someone who hates Fox News,

00:01:59.340 who's described Fox News as a threat to democracy,

00:02:02.740 who has advocated using government power to silence voices she doesn't like.

00:02:08.460 She would have been very dangerous as a government regulator.

00:02:10.980 I do think that there are valuable lessons to be taken in terms of how on the Commerce Committee

00:02:21.120 we were able to take these two nominees down because there were bad nominees.

00:02:25.060 But if you look at most of the bad nominees Biden puts forward, make it through.

00:02:30.160 We did a couple of things different that led to two big victories in a matter of two months.

00:02:35.040 Number one, with Gigi Sohn, I tried to systematically empower every Republican on the committee

00:02:43.620 and in terms of providing them information on her record,

00:02:48.280 providing her information on all of the different things she had said and done that were extreme.

00:02:54.500 And that led to different members of the committee being empowered, being able to run with,

00:02:58.900 OK, what issue do you want to take?

00:03:00.940 And so, for example, she had sent tweets praising people who were calling for abolishing the police.

00:03:09.680 And so one of the Republican senators went with those and pointed out that a number of police groups,

00:03:14.680 the sheriff's groups, had opposed her nomination because they didn't want someone at the FCC

00:03:19.020 who actively undermines cops.

00:03:21.540 There were a whole series of issues.

00:03:23.780 You'll recall we empowered everyone.

00:03:27.300 And then at the hearing, and we had a total of three markups on her,

00:03:31.020 but at the hearing I walked through some of her extreme record,

00:03:34.160 and in particular that she kept supporting this left-wing group

00:03:39.740 that attacked incumbent Democrat senators

00:03:43.820 and that put up billboards saying that incumbent Democrat senators were corrupt.

00:03:48.960 So she had put up a billboard saying,

00:03:51.300 or the group, rather, had put up a billboard saying Joe Manchin is corrupt.

00:03:54.520 I asked Gigi Sohn, do you think Joe Manchin's corrupt?

00:03:58.020 She said no.

00:03:59.500 The group had put up a billboard saying John Tester is corrupt.

00:04:03.140 By the way, John Tester is on the Commerce Committee.

00:04:05.640 Not an awkward moment at all when you're trying to get someone to vote for you, right?

00:04:08.400 So I asked, do you think John Tester's corrupt?

00:04:11.040 She says no.

00:04:12.360 They put up a billboard saying Kyrsten Sinema's corrupt.

00:04:16.720 At this point you knew where it was going.

00:04:18.340 I asked her if she thought Kyrsten Sinema was corrupt.

00:04:21.060 She said no.

00:04:21.780 So at this point Maria Cantwell, who's the chair of the committee,

00:04:26.140 says, what, are you going to have them coming after me next?

00:04:30.200 Which, as it so happened, I had to laugh and say, well, actually, yes.

00:04:34.480 So this group sent a letter to Chuck Schumer in December of 22,

00:04:39.420 so just a couple of months ago,

00:04:41.180 demanding that Schumer fire Maria Cantwell

00:04:44.400 as the chairman of the Commerce Committee

00:04:47.200 because we hadn't yet confirmed Gigi Sohn.

00:04:50.660 And I put up the press release, the story behind me,

00:04:53.760 and if you watch the video, Maria Cantwell is, like, cracking up laughing.

00:04:58.000 And I just said, I said, you know,

00:04:59.840 I have to say in my entire time in the Senate,

00:05:02.420 I've never seen a nominee who supports a group.

00:05:05.640 And by the way, she'd attacked a bunch of the Republicans, too.

00:05:07.800 But I was like, who attacks half the senators on the committee

00:05:12.080 that's asked to confirm her?

00:05:13.700 This is a new one.

00:05:15.500 I also asked her, I said, okay,

00:05:18.560 after they sent these, put these billboards up,

00:05:22.100 you sent fundraising tweets,

00:05:23.600 you raised money for the group afterwards.

00:05:25.420 I said, did you know about it?

00:05:27.140 Now, look, any lawyer is told,

00:05:28.880 never ask a question, you don't know the answer.

00:05:30.860 I didn't actually know the answer,

00:05:32.000 but I figured it was reasonable to ask.

00:05:33.560 And she said, well, I didn't know about the others,

00:05:37.720 but she said, I did know about their billboard

00:05:40.520 saying Kyrsten Sinema's corrupt.

00:05:41.980 Like, oh, you did know about that?

00:05:43.320 She said, yes.

00:05:44.280 And I said, and you raised money for them

00:05:45.740 after they'd accused Sinema of being corrupt, correct?

00:05:48.360 She goes, oh, yes.

00:05:49.980 Like, quite proudly, quite brazenly.

00:05:54.120 That had, I think, a real effect.

00:05:58.400 It had an effect in terms of

00:06:00.580 lots of wobbly votes on the committee.

00:06:02.820 It had an effect in terms of other Democrats.

00:06:05.820 But we also, my team was organizing

00:06:10.240 different constituent groups

00:06:11.900 who were reaching out to their senators saying,

00:06:14.100 hey, we don't want a left-wing partisan

00:06:15.960 who will censor us abusing power at the FCC.

00:06:19.820 And what ended up happening,

00:06:21.280 and I will tell you,

00:06:21.880 I did a lot of personal diplomacy

00:06:23.880 going to Democrats on the committee,

00:06:26.280 going to Democrats off the committee,

00:06:28.900 and just walking through

00:06:30.220 some of the things she said.

00:06:31.520 And by the way, as an aside,

00:06:34.340 you may recall,

00:06:34.940 and we talked about this once on the pod,

00:06:36.320 but it's worth revisiting.

00:06:38.700 I did complain at the hearing.

00:06:40.360 I said, look, I actually feel

00:06:41.940 a little bit offended.

00:06:43.580 You've attacked half the senators

00:06:45.000 on this committee,

00:06:45.860 but this group has never attacked me.

00:06:48.020 I mean, what do I have to do?

00:06:49.680 And a lot of people attack you,

00:06:50.940 so there you go.

00:06:51.660 But, like, I'm really feeling, like, inadequate.

00:06:56.420 Apparently, I'm not doing a good enough job

00:06:58.720 of irritating this left-wing group.

00:07:01.360 And so they saw that,

00:07:03.020 and I guess I feel some vindication.

00:07:05.980 When I complained that they hadn't attacked me,

00:07:08.460 they promptly began crowdsourcing

00:07:11.120 for a billboard attacking me,

00:07:12.560 so I wasn't left out.

00:07:13.340 I felt good.

00:07:14.420 And the billboard had a picture of me

00:07:16.920 with the website,

00:07:19.420 Ted Cruz hates free speech.

00:07:22.160 And the funny thing is,

00:07:23.280 these guys are not very good

00:07:24.360 because they hadn't secured the website.

00:07:30.460 So I promptly bought it.

00:07:32.120 Well, yeah.

00:07:32.620 I own the website now.

00:07:33.360 That's the best $7.99 you've ever spent.

00:07:35.040 Ted Cruz hates free speech.

00:07:37.040 And so I tweeted out their crowdsourcing.

00:07:39.300 I said, please go to the website,

00:07:40.600 and it goes to a campaign fundraiser for me

00:07:43.240 where you can contribute to my campaign.

00:07:44.860 And it just, look, it was trolling and having fun.

00:07:47.080 But that's a good day for trolling.

00:07:48.880 When you search to see if the website is available,

00:07:51.980 and it says yes,

00:07:53.120 and immediately you're like,

00:07:54.220 let me buy this as fast as I possibly can.

00:07:56.340 It was, I got a lot of laughter out of it.

00:07:59.180 But look, the organized, comprehensive effort

00:08:03.160 of bringing together the material,

00:08:06.360 having it be substantive,

00:08:07.700 none of the attacks on her were personal.

00:08:09.920 I actually like Gigi Stone.

00:08:11.140 She's smart.

00:08:12.120 She's a true believer.

00:08:12.880 She is a leftist.

00:08:14.640 Hardcore.

00:08:15.100 She is a hardcore leftist.

00:08:16.360 Look, I'm a hardcore conservative.

00:08:18.020 I respect people who believe something.

00:08:20.440 Who don't flinch.

00:08:21.440 And so I understand where she's coming from.

00:08:23.620 I just think she is ill-suited

00:08:25.920 to be on a regulatory agency

00:08:29.680 with massive power over communication

00:08:32.160 and broadcast and telecom.

00:08:34.860 That's just dangerous.

00:08:36.100 That wants to take down different sectors,

00:08:39.820 conservative media, in that job.

00:08:41.880 It's not supposed to be a political position.

00:08:44.100 So my point in terms of there are lots of Biden nominees

00:08:47.920 that are radical and extreme,

00:08:49.140 and almost none of them are taken down.

00:08:51.380 There is a specific approach to doing it.

00:08:53.760 Some of it is doing the homework.

00:08:55.060 And I'll tell you,

00:08:56.340 my team,

00:08:57.440 the top two staffers on the Commerce Committee,

00:09:00.000 I hired both of them.

00:09:01.440 They're incredibly talented.

00:09:02.440 They were both the top two staffers

00:09:05.100 on the Senate Banking Committee last Congress.

00:09:08.360 So they worked for Pat Toomey,

00:09:09.620 the Republican who retired.

00:09:10.660 Pat's a good friend.

00:09:11.960 And banking took down a couple of extreme nominees

00:09:15.140 from Biden in the last two years.

00:09:17.420 So I deliberately went out and hired these guys

00:09:19.420 and said,

00:09:19.780 look,

00:09:20.580 y'all did a great job last time.

00:09:22.240 You remember,

00:09:23.360 what was it?

00:09:24.200 The Russian woman

00:09:25.760 who was nominated to be a banking regulator

00:09:28.080 who had like literally was a Marxist.

00:09:31.380 In fact,

00:09:31.880 if you remember,

00:09:32.260 John Kennedy had the great questioning

00:09:33.780 where he said,

00:09:34.620 so should I call you comrade?

00:09:38.060 But it's the same approach

00:09:40.880 where you do your homework,

00:09:45.180 you assemble all the materials,

00:09:46.860 you assemble the substance,

00:09:48.440 you marshal it out to key members of the committee,

00:09:51.200 you present it in a way that is clear,

00:09:53.480 that is understandable,

00:09:54.940 that is,

00:09:55.480 and it's substantive.

00:09:56.540 It's not a personal attack.

00:09:57.920 It's not going,

00:09:58.620 it is going,

00:10:00.080 your record is not suitable for this job.

00:10:03.040 Now let's fast forward to Phil Washington.

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00:11:41.000 Senator, you look at this FAA

00:11:42.640 and Washington right away.

00:11:45.100 It was very clear

00:11:45.980 and you brought this up immediately.

00:11:48.220 We talked about it a little bit on this pod

00:11:49.860 that he was just not qualified

00:11:51.400 to lead the FAA.

00:11:53.520 That's what it was about.

00:11:54.520 And you liked him as a person.

00:11:56.080 I did.

00:11:56.900 You know, he's someone

00:11:58.620 who spent 24 years in the military

00:12:00.220 as a smart guy,

00:12:01.640 served his nation honorably,

00:12:03.360 senior enlisted in the military.

00:12:08.340 But he's someone

00:12:09.400 who was wildly unqualified

00:12:11.160 for this position.

00:12:12.660 And, you know, I have to admit

00:12:14.780 for me with Phil Washington,

00:12:16.460 it was never ideological.

00:12:18.800 I was offended

00:12:20.100 that they would nominate someone

00:12:21.660 who couldn't remotely succeed,

00:12:24.080 didn't have the background.

00:12:25.200 And so back in January,

00:12:27.380 right when I started

00:12:28.060 as the ranking member,

00:12:28.920 I said publicly,

00:12:29.800 I said, Gigi Sohn and Phil Washington,

00:12:32.060 neither of these nominations

00:12:33.200 will be confirmed.

00:12:34.000 I don't know why the White House

00:12:35.000 is wasting their time on them.

00:12:36.360 They're going to fail on them both.

00:12:37.960 And so I predicted this at the outset.

00:12:41.400 Phil Washington,

00:12:42.500 we did several things.

00:12:43.480 Number one, again,

00:12:44.280 it was going through

00:12:45.400 and doing the research.

00:12:46.300 So there are a whole host of issues.

00:12:49.480 There was one issue,

00:12:50.780 which is under the statute,

00:12:53.200 creating the FAA

00:12:54.180 and defining the administrator.

00:12:55.820 It says that the administrator

00:12:57.040 must be a civilian.

00:13:00.220 In other words,

00:13:00.800 cannot be military.

00:13:02.880 And Congress has consistently

00:13:05.680 interpreted civilian

00:13:06.800 to mean not active duty military,

00:13:11.420 but also not retired military.

00:13:14.100 And so this has happened

00:13:15.020 a number of times

00:13:15.680 where you get someone

00:13:16.360 who served 20 plus years

00:13:17.380 in the military,

00:13:18.020 they retire,

00:13:18.560 they're receiving a retirement

00:13:20.820 every month.

00:13:22.560 And Congress six times

00:13:24.580 has required of FAA nominees

00:13:27.500 that either Congress grant them

00:13:30.140 a waiver,

00:13:30.620 which takes both houses

00:13:31.560 of Congress,

00:13:32.360 or, and this has happened twice,

00:13:35.200 the retired military officer

00:13:37.900 give up his or her retirement,

00:13:39.580 like legally give it away.

00:13:41.620 I mean,

00:13:41.800 you're really committed

00:13:42.500 to this new job

00:13:43.280 if you do that.

00:13:44.400 So that's been

00:13:45.340 the consistent pattern.

00:13:46.860 One of the very first things

00:13:47.800 we did is I went and met with,

00:13:49.860 I met with the entire

00:13:51.020 House committee

00:13:51.740 in charge of transportation.

00:13:53.520 I met with the chairman,

00:13:54.860 Sam Graves,

00:13:55.520 is a good friend,

00:13:56.340 House member from Missouri.

00:13:58.160 And we together

00:13:59.600 penned a letter together

00:14:00.620 saying under this statute

00:14:02.020 it requires a waiver

00:14:03.600 where both houses

00:14:04.840 of Congress have to pass it.

00:14:06.280 And we said,

00:14:06.900 the House is not going

00:14:07.620 to pass this.

00:14:08.840 Normally on confirmations,

00:14:10.580 look, it's the Senate

00:14:11.280 that's in the personnel business.

00:14:13.640 Most nominations,

00:14:15.280 the president nominates,

00:14:16.540 the Senate confirms,

00:14:17.400 the House doesn't play a role.

00:14:19.400 Here, the House does play a role

00:14:21.600 because you had to have

00:14:22.180 a waiver from both houses.

00:14:23.500 So we started with that argument,

00:14:25.960 putting it out there,

00:14:26.840 laying out the legal basis.

00:14:28.960 Did that take

00:14:29.720 Washington's nomination down?

00:14:31.200 No.

00:14:32.240 But it was an argument

00:14:33.780 that was a real concern

00:14:35.640 and we had history

00:14:36.700 and law and practice

00:14:37.880 on our side.

00:14:39.280 So there was a second

00:14:40.380 set of issues,

00:14:41.600 which is that Washington

00:14:43.600 has an ongoing

00:14:46.280 public corruption investigation

00:14:47.900 going on for him right now.

00:14:49.740 So he was previously

00:14:51.540 the head of LA Metro.

00:14:53.220 So did trains, buses,

00:14:55.380 Los Angeles.

00:14:56.620 And there's an investigation

00:14:58.120 concerning a whistleblower

00:15:00.440 that he allegedly

00:15:01.820 retaliated against

00:15:03.120 and a non-profit

00:15:04.840 that got what's alleged

00:15:06.600 to be a sweetheart deal

00:15:08.060 in order to ingratiate

00:15:09.680 Washington

00:15:11.580 with a really powerful

00:15:13.360 Metro board member.

00:15:15.340 Now, this investigation,

00:15:17.480 the Democrats

00:15:17.920 didn't want to address at all.

00:15:19.200 So here's what my team did

00:15:20.260 that was really important.

00:15:22.440 Number one,

00:15:23.900 the LA County Sheriff,

00:15:25.040 who's a Democrat,

00:15:26.220 had executed

00:15:27.040 a search warrant

00:15:27.920 describing all the things

00:15:29.940 that the sheriff

00:15:30.420 was looking for

00:15:31.340 from Phil Washington

00:15:32.780 about this public corruption.

00:15:35.080 So in the hearing,

00:15:36.200 I walked through

00:15:36.760 the search warrant

00:15:37.480 and quoted it,

00:15:39.160 had it blown up behind me

00:15:40.200 and walked through

00:15:41.020 the terms of the search warrant

00:15:42.820 from the LA County Sheriff.

00:15:44.880 But secondly,

00:15:46.140 so the California Attorney General

00:15:48.520 has taken over

00:15:49.180 the public corruption investigation.

00:15:51.740 My team did something

00:15:52.980 no one else had done,

00:15:54.520 which is they picked up the phone

00:15:55.900 and they called

00:15:56.400 the California Attorney General's office.

00:15:59.060 And they said,

00:15:59.960 hey,

00:16:00.740 what's the status

00:16:01.740 of this investigation?

00:16:02.780 And

00:16:04.860 the California Attorney General's office

00:16:07.740 said,

00:16:08.080 well,

00:16:08.220 it's active and ongoing.

00:16:10.740 And

00:16:11.100 they said,

00:16:13.000 well,

00:16:13.120 what's Phil Washington's connection?

00:16:14.600 And they said,

00:16:14.980 well,

00:16:15.200 Phil Washington is

00:16:16.220 materially connected

00:16:18.240 to this investigation.

00:16:19.160 He's right in the middle

00:16:20.200 of this investigation.

00:16:22.240 And they said one other thing.

00:16:23.560 They said nobody else

00:16:24.840 had called them.

00:16:25.800 So I want you to think about this.

00:16:26.920 This is the week

00:16:27.400 before the hearing.

00:16:28.780 They said the Biden White House

00:16:30.300 had not called them.

00:16:31.800 They said the FBI

00:16:32.840 had not called them.

00:16:34.660 They said the Senate Democrats

00:16:36.340 had not called them.

00:16:37.760 So my staff

00:16:38.640 were the first people

00:16:39.520 to call

00:16:40.080 the California AG's office

00:16:41.780 and say,

00:16:42.180 what's the status

00:16:42.740 of the investigation?

00:16:44.020 And they told my guys.

00:16:45.660 So all of that

00:16:46.740 I laid out

00:16:47.360 at the hearing

00:16:48.160 and I said,

00:16:48.740 look,

00:16:49.080 I can't think of another time

00:16:51.080 that I've been in the Senate

00:16:52.160 where the president

00:16:53.680 has nominated someone

00:16:54.840 for a position

00:16:55.680 who's right in the middle

00:16:57.640 of an active

00:16:58.460 public corruption investigation.

00:17:00.600 And to be clear,

00:17:02.420 this is not

00:17:03.120 some partisan witch hunt.

00:17:05.200 The L.A. County Sheriff

00:17:06.380 is a Democrat

00:17:07.100 and the California Attorney General

00:17:08.680 is a Democrat.

00:17:09.900 Hardcore Democrats.

00:17:10.740 Hardcore,

00:17:11.260 like left-wing Democrats.

00:17:13.240 They're actively

00:17:14.100 investigating this right now.

00:17:16.140 That argument likewise,

00:17:17.780 look,

00:17:18.140 do I think that this,

00:17:19.780 that argument

00:17:20.360 defeated Washington?

00:17:21.620 No.

00:17:23.320 Which is also kind of scary

00:17:24.720 if you think about it.

00:17:25.360 Yes, it is.

00:17:25.760 I mean,

00:17:26.020 if you have

00:17:26.660 an active investigation,

00:17:27.700 you would think

00:17:28.060 that the Biden administration

00:17:28.920 would say,

00:17:29.520 hey,

00:17:29.840 we've got to table this guy

00:17:31.120 until we figure this out,

00:17:32.340 maybe for another position,

00:17:33.460 but certainly not right now.

00:17:34.900 This is not

00:17:35.680 who we're going to go with.

00:17:36.880 In the world of sanity,

00:17:38.480 it would.

00:17:39.960 Here,

00:17:40.780 if those were

00:17:41.500 the only two issues,

00:17:42.620 my guess is

00:17:43.200 Phil Washington

00:17:43.800 would be confirmed.

00:17:44.740 The Democrats

00:17:45.240 would be willing

00:17:46.040 to look the other way,

00:17:47.580 say,

00:17:48.260 never mind the statute.

00:17:49.380 By the way,

00:17:50.160 with the statute

00:17:50.900 that requires a waiver,

00:17:52.080 one of the things

00:17:52.660 it meant is

00:17:53.260 if Washington

00:17:53.840 had been confirmed

00:17:54.580 as FAA,

00:17:55.760 every decision he made

00:17:57.780 would have had

00:17:59.060 a legal cloud

00:17:59.880 and could have been

00:18:00.420 challenged in court

00:18:01.280 by saying

00:18:01.940 you have an illegally

00:18:02.700 serving administrator.

00:18:03.940 So it actually hurts

00:18:05.100 the agency.

00:18:06.340 Wow.

00:18:06.660 There would have been

00:18:07.360 litigation

00:18:07.980 from some plane manufacturer,

00:18:09.640 from something,

00:18:10.680 you know,

00:18:10.980 anybody that wasn't

00:18:11.920 getting their way

00:18:12.380 could just sue.

00:18:13.220 Could sue and say

00:18:14.560 the administrator

00:18:15.540 is illegal

00:18:16.200 because the statute

00:18:16.900 requires a waiver

00:18:18.140 for someone

00:18:18.780 who's a retired

00:18:19.560 military

00:18:22.180 individual

00:18:23.720 to serve.

00:18:27.060 The Democrats

00:18:28.160 would have happily

00:18:29.240 ignored that

00:18:32.860 and ignored

00:18:33.240 the public corruption.

00:18:34.180 What took Washington

00:18:35.060 down

00:18:35.520 was his utter

00:18:37.520 and complete

00:18:38.200 lack of qualifications.

00:18:39.380 And at his hearing,

00:18:41.960 and we played this

00:18:42.880 on the podcast,

00:18:43.660 I asked him systematically,

00:18:44.940 did he have

00:18:46.760 any aviation experience?

00:18:47.860 I said,

00:18:48.520 have you ever flown a plane?

00:18:49.660 No.

00:18:50.460 You ever been

00:18:50.840 a military pilot?

00:18:51.820 No.

00:18:52.720 You ever been

00:18:53.140 a commercial airline pilot?

00:18:54.420 No.

00:18:55.240 You ever worked

00:18:55.780 for an airline?

00:18:56.620 No.

00:18:57.540 You ever worked

00:18:58.300 as an air traffic controller?

00:18:59.780 No.

00:19:00.580 You ever worked

00:19:01.100 for a company

00:19:01.520 that manufactures airplanes?

00:19:03.180 No.

00:19:04.100 You ever worked

00:19:04.740 for a company

00:19:05.540 that repairs airplanes?

00:19:07.160 No.

00:19:08.400 I walked through this.

00:19:09.580 Now,

00:19:09.640 to his credit,

00:19:10.300 he didn't try

00:19:11.080 to filibuster.

00:19:11.900 He wasn't overly political.

00:19:12.960 And you weren't

00:19:13.900 trying to be a jerk.

00:19:14.860 It was one of the most

00:19:16.560 just shocking moments

00:19:17.620 because it's like,

00:19:18.380 I'm asking you

00:19:19.140 every position

00:19:19.880 you could have had

00:19:20.940 that would then give you

00:19:22.500 credibility

00:19:23.140 to have this position

00:19:24.540 of being in charge of the FAA.

00:19:25.740 You don't check

00:19:26.800 any of the boxes, sir.

00:19:28.920 It's almost like,

00:19:29.760 why are you here?

00:19:30.660 Why would you think

00:19:31.520 this would be good for you

00:19:32.480 in that scenario?

00:19:33.640 You know nothing

00:19:34.620 about what we need

00:19:35.420 to keep people safe

00:19:36.280 who are conservative

00:19:37.540 or liberal,

00:19:38.480 black, white,

00:19:39.280 every religion on planes.

00:19:40.700 It doesn't matter

00:19:41.580 in that scenario.

00:19:42.220 I just want to be safe.

00:19:43.600 So we laid out those facts

00:19:45.340 and as I said,

00:19:46.060 listen,

00:19:46.320 I was offended.

00:19:47.060 This is a technical job.

00:19:48.760 It's like,

00:19:49.480 if you're nominating someone

00:19:50.560 to be in charge

00:19:51.180 of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission

00:19:52.700 and they don't know anything

00:19:54.800 about nuclear energy,

00:19:55.900 like,

00:19:56.380 holy crap,

00:19:57.020 that's a problem.

00:19:57.840 I would like someone

00:19:59.100 to know enough

00:20:00.160 not to have nuclear meltdowns

00:20:01.840 and have us all

00:20:02.540 grow a third eye

00:20:03.820 and like,

00:20:04.760 you know,

00:20:06.160 there are safety jobs

00:20:08.280 and to be clear,

00:20:09.720 you and I are unqualified

00:20:10.660 for both of these.

00:20:12.320 You're more qualified.

00:20:13.360 You know more about a plane

00:20:14.200 than I do,

00:20:14.740 but I wouldn't put you

00:20:15.360 in charge of the FAA either.

00:20:16.540 Sorry about that.

00:20:17.220 I'm okay with that.

00:20:18.160 I feel good about that

00:20:19.020 and losing that opportunity.

00:20:21.060 But look,

00:20:21.620 these are,

00:20:22.400 it's not like

00:20:23.200 you want a right-winger

00:20:24.580 or a left-winger

00:20:25.160 in these jobs.

00:20:26.000 For these kind of safety jobs,

00:20:27.160 you just want someone

00:20:28.000 competent and up to the task.

00:20:30.200 But laying out those facts,

00:20:32.020 so we also did the same thing

00:20:33.560 we coordinated

00:20:34.160 with all the different members

00:20:35.340 of the committee

00:20:35.860 so that they had a ground

00:20:37.580 for questioning.

00:20:38.160 So for example,

00:20:39.020 Ted Budd,

00:20:40.120 new senator from North Carolina,

00:20:42.500 Ted Budd is a pilot.

00:20:44.100 So Ted Budd had a really

00:20:45.820 effective series of questions

00:20:47.320 where he asked him

00:20:48.400 different things

00:20:50.280 that any pilot should know.

00:20:51.600 He asked him,

00:20:52.320 for example,

00:20:53.000 how close can two

00:20:54.100 commercial airplanes

00:20:55.960 come on a runway?

00:20:57.680 And Washington was like,

00:20:58.720 I don't know.

00:21:00.160 And like he walked through

00:21:01.360 a whole bunch

00:21:01.980 of technical questions

00:21:02.940 that frankly,

00:21:03.760 I don't know the answer to.

00:21:04.720 Like it's why Ted

00:21:05.440 did such an effective job

00:21:06.760 with it because he was asking.

00:21:08.260 But the FAA administrator

00:21:09.120 should absolutely know

00:21:10.520 how to answer that question.

00:21:11.400 It's like two plus two is four.

00:21:12.780 If you're going for a math job,

00:21:14.060 you should always know

00:21:15.120 that answer.

00:21:15.600 Like the FAA is in charge,

00:21:17.080 among other things,

00:21:17.640 of regulating how close

00:21:18.600 the planes can come

00:21:19.220 to each other.

00:21:19.740 If he doesn't know

00:21:20.340 how close they can come.

00:21:21.760 Or the reasons why.

00:21:23.180 That's just a huge problem.

00:21:26.500 So we had all

00:21:27.740 of the different players

00:21:28.800 on the committee

00:21:30.240 empowered with the information

00:21:32.200 that they could raise it.

00:21:33.860 And then we had to do

00:21:34.580 several things.

00:21:35.180 Number one, look,

00:21:37.000 there are some Republicans

00:21:37.880 on the committee,

00:21:38.700 particularly from rural states

00:21:39.840 who care a lot

00:21:40.460 about the FAA,

00:21:42.020 who were a little nervous

00:21:43.300 about, oh,

00:21:43.880 I don't want an administrator

00:21:44.720 who's mad at me

00:21:45.760 who will take it out

00:21:46.500 of my state.

00:21:48.120 So explain the politics

00:21:49.400 quickly that the reason

00:21:50.360 why rural states

00:21:51.600 and rural people

00:21:52.780 that represent rural areas,

00:21:54.220 they need their smaller airports.

00:21:56.100 They need their regional airports.

00:21:58.160 They need the money

00:21:59.940 that comes because

00:22:00.880 the cash made

00:22:01.920 on the ground there

00:22:02.580 will never cover

00:22:03.580 what it costs

00:22:04.120 to operate in an airport.

00:22:05.220 Airports are very expensive

00:22:06.340 to run,

00:22:06.760 but you want to have

00:22:07.420 access to your state.

00:22:08.480 You want people

00:22:09.060 to be able to fly

00:22:09.700 into your state

00:22:10.340 and you want to hopefully

00:22:11.000 grow that,

00:22:11.580 but you have to have

00:22:12.380 FAA money come in.

00:22:14.720 Otherwise,

00:22:15.180 you could never open up

00:22:16.280 a lot of these

00:22:16.620 smaller airports.

00:22:17.480 And if you have

00:22:18.300 a politically vindictive

00:22:19.760 FAA administrator,

00:22:20.940 they could punish

00:22:21.960 a small rural state.

00:22:23.940 And so there were

00:22:24.400 some Republicans

00:22:25.020 that were concerned

00:22:25.900 that we had to

00:22:26.860 calm their concerns.

00:22:28.860 It wasn't personal.

00:22:29.940 It wasn't,

00:22:30.340 it was substantive.

00:22:31.320 Look,

00:22:31.740 we want someone

00:22:32.580 who keeps people safe

00:22:34.620 and protects us

00:22:35.560 from plane crashes

00:22:36.260 where lots of people die.

00:22:38.820 That was a piece of it.

00:22:40.040 We had to work

00:22:40.760 on Democrats.

00:22:44.160 So I worked

00:22:45.020 on committee Democrats.

00:22:45.980 I'd go and make

00:22:46.880 the case to them.

00:22:47.680 Now,

00:22:47.800 one of the pieces

00:22:48.380 that was very helpful,

00:22:49.980 we had a hearing

00:22:50.600 on the FAA.

00:22:51.520 The acting administrators,

00:22:52.860 a guy named Billy Nolan,

00:22:54.220 I don't know Billy Nolan,

00:22:55.580 but he's the person

00:22:56.660 Biden has nominated

00:22:57.740 to be acting administrator.

00:22:58.820 He was a commercial

00:23:00.460 airline pilot.

00:23:01.660 He's worked in the FAA

00:23:02.960 in senior positions.

00:23:04.260 He was,

00:23:05.220 he has multiple certifications

00:23:07.080 in aviation safety.

00:23:08.200 Like we would ask him

00:23:09.400 substantive questions

00:23:10.380 about aviation safety.

00:23:12.180 He knew it.

00:23:12.560 And he'd give answers.

00:23:13.600 And,

00:23:14.140 and look,

00:23:14.660 by the way,

00:23:15.640 the Biden administration

00:23:16.800 is very Dean County.

00:23:19.840 And,

00:23:20.460 you know,

00:23:20.700 it,

00:23:21.340 Phil Washington happens

00:23:23.040 to be African-American.

00:23:24.720 Billy Nolan also happens

00:23:26.040 to be African-American.

00:23:26.840 So if their view is

00:23:27.900 they just wanted to nominate

00:23:29.140 an African-American

00:23:30.160 administrator,

00:23:31.600 okay,

00:23:32.100 fine,

00:23:32.620 but could you have someone

00:23:33.980 who knows a damn thing

00:23:34.700 about airplanes?

00:23:35.640 So we're at the,

00:23:36.640 at the hearing

00:23:37.460 with Billy Nolan.

00:23:38.260 I actually turned back

00:23:38.980 to my staff

00:23:39.600 and I said,

00:23:40.240 hey,

00:23:40.400 what do you think

00:23:41.080 about Nolan?

00:23:42.500 They're like,

00:23:42.940 he's pretty capable.

00:23:44.500 And I said,

00:23:45.180 would it be crazy

00:23:45.860 for me to suggest

00:23:46.680 right now

00:23:47.340 that they should

00:23:48.840 withdraw Washington

00:23:49.640 and nominate Nolan?

00:23:50.540 And my guys are like,

00:23:51.400 uh,

00:23:51.860 no,

00:23:52.340 no,

00:23:52.480 that's fine.

00:23:52.980 And so I just,

00:23:53.900 it was an audible.

00:23:54.800 I,

00:23:54.920 this was not planned.

00:23:56.300 I leaned forward

00:23:56.880 and I said,

00:23:57.380 let me say something

00:23:58.540 right now.

00:23:59.120 As I see Mr. Nolan,

00:24:00.740 acting administrator,

00:24:01.440 Nolan answering

00:24:02.400 these questions,

00:24:03.600 they're substantive,

00:24:04.980 they're real.

00:24:07.100 I think if the White House

00:24:08.600 withdrew

00:24:09.200 Phil Washington

00:24:10.280 and nominated

00:24:10.880 Mr. Nolan,

00:24:11.800 he would in all likelihood

00:24:14.060 be approved

00:24:14.860 with a large

00:24:15.920 bipartisan majority.

00:24:17.660 Because he's capable

00:24:18.680 of the job

00:24:19.240 of dealing with safety

00:24:20.180 in the FAA.

00:24:20.980 You know,

00:24:21.400 absent some big smoking gun

00:24:23.060 we don't know about,

00:24:23.740 you know,

00:24:24.320 I mean,

00:24:25.360 something terrible

00:24:26.080 in his background

00:24:26.700 that nobody knows,

00:24:27.920 absent that,

00:24:29.340 he would be

00:24:29.820 an easy confirmation.

00:24:31.680 And so I suggested

00:24:32.860 at the hearing,

00:24:33.980 and you saw a lot

00:24:34.560 of heads turn.

00:24:35.860 I actually heard

00:24:37.020 from a former senior

00:24:37.960 official in the Biden

00:24:38.820 White House

00:24:39.360 who said the White House,

00:24:40.800 like their heads jerked

00:24:42.740 when I said

00:24:44.120 if you nominate this guy,

00:24:45.420 he could get confirmed

00:24:46.280 and confirmed quickly.

00:24:48.100 That was an important part

00:24:49.520 to beating Phil Washington

00:24:50.780 because what it enabled me

00:24:52.660 to do,

00:24:53.060 so this past week

00:24:53.900 I was on the Senate floor,

00:24:55.780 I had an entire pocket

00:24:57.000 full of pocket cards.

00:24:58.720 So my team prepares them,

00:25:00.260 they're a note card

00:25:00.880 that I carry in the inside pocket,

00:25:02.440 and I had individual senators

00:25:04.200 they were prepared for

00:25:05.200 for each one,

00:25:05.840 Democrats,

00:25:06.820 that I'd go to

00:25:08.000 and I'd pull a senator aside

00:25:09.200 and say,

00:25:09.420 hey, let me talk to you

00:25:09.960 about Phil Washington,

00:25:10.900 particularly people

00:25:11.440 who are not on the committee.

00:25:12.840 So people who were,

00:25:13.620 say, pilots,

00:25:14.140 people who were more modern.

00:25:15.000 I said,

00:25:15.880 look,

00:25:16.280 here's his background,

00:25:17.160 he doesn't know this,

00:25:17.920 he doesn't know that.

00:25:18.980 I'd give him the pocket card

00:25:20.220 and I'd say,

00:25:20.720 and by the way,

00:25:22.560 the acting administrator,

00:25:23.960 Biden put him in place.

00:25:26.500 This is not partisan.

00:25:28.240 This is,

00:25:28.760 I'd like to have someone qualified.

00:25:32.620 One of the things

00:25:33.360 my team did also

00:25:34.280 is we worked with stakeholders,

00:25:35.800 so lots of different groups

00:25:37.880 came out against Washington

00:25:39.120 and said he's not qualified.

00:25:40.880 Lots of pilot groups

00:25:42.640 in individual states.

00:25:44.580 So for example,

00:25:45.520 the Montana Pilots Association,

00:25:47.660 said no,

00:25:48.240 said he's manifestly unqualified.

00:25:50.720 Well,

00:25:50.940 John Tester is on

00:25:51.720 the Commerce Committee.

00:25:53.240 John Tester's running

00:25:54.000 for re-election in 2024.

00:25:55.580 Do you really want to be

00:25:56.680 the Democrat

00:25:57.200 who votes to confirm

00:25:58.260 someone the Montana

00:25:59.540 Pilots Association says

00:26:01.020 is unquestionably unqualified?

00:26:03.480 The Arizona Pilots Association

00:26:04.900 said the same thing.

00:26:06.260 So we worked,

00:26:08.100 I gave a floor speech,

00:26:10.320 which actually we played

00:26:11.260 in a previous podcast,

00:26:13.060 about Phil Washington.

00:26:14.140 Here's a piece

00:26:14.600 I didn't tell you about.

00:26:16.380 So when I'm giving

00:26:17.440 the floor speech,

00:26:18.280 the person presiding,

00:26:19.300 the way it works

00:26:19.840 on the Senate presiding,

00:26:21.680 anytime she wishes to,

00:26:23.980 the vice president

00:26:24.580 can preside.

00:26:26.360 Generally speaking,

00:26:27.520 the vice president

00:26:28.140 does not preside.

00:26:29.380 Only on really critical votes

00:26:32.340 where a tie-breaking vote

00:26:33.740 is required.

00:26:34.940 So the way it normally works

00:26:36.580 is a senator

00:26:37.300 from the majority party

00:26:38.540 presides,

00:26:39.160 and it's usually

00:26:39.800 the more junior senators.

00:26:40.960 So it's on seniority.

00:26:42.200 The more senior ones

00:26:43.540 are kind of out

00:26:44.240 of that responsibility.

00:26:46.040 So when we had

00:26:46.640 a Republican majority,

00:26:47.520 I liked presiding.

00:26:48.420 You'd preside every week,

00:26:49.540 typically an hour each week.

00:26:51.620 And it was interesting.

00:26:52.740 You'd sit there,

00:26:53.440 you could do some work,

00:26:54.360 you'd listen to speeches,

00:26:55.260 but it's the more junior members

00:26:57.660 of the majority party

00:26:58.400 that are presiding.

00:26:59.040 Well, when I gave

00:27:00.040 my speech on Phil Washington,

00:27:02.560 it so happened

00:27:03.680 that Peter Welch

00:27:04.620 was presiding.

00:27:06.240 So Peter is

00:27:07.060 one of the newest senators.

00:27:08.180 He's a Democrat

00:27:08.720 from Vermont,

00:27:09.500 was just elected,

00:27:11.040 replaced Pat Leahy,

00:27:12.580 was in the House

00:27:13.180 for a long time,

00:27:13.900 but is new to the Senate.

00:27:15.620 And I like Peter.

00:27:16.540 I'm just getting to know him.

00:27:17.380 He's on commerce with me

00:27:18.460 and he's on judiciary with me,

00:27:19.680 so I'm on two committees

00:27:20.400 with him.

00:27:21.560 But it was interesting,

00:27:22.340 Peter's listening to me

00:27:23.580 give the speech,

00:27:24.220 and I'm walking through

00:27:25.340 Washington's record,

00:27:26.780 I'm walking through

00:27:27.280 the substance,

00:27:27.980 I'm walking through

00:27:28.480 the corruption case,

00:27:29.540 I'm walking through...

00:27:29.940 And you can tell

00:27:30.560 he's paying attention to you

00:27:31.940 because there's not a lot

00:27:33.040 of people in the Senate chamber.

00:27:34.660 There's virtually nobody.

00:27:35.360 I watched you

00:27:35.940 when we were in D.C. recently.

00:27:37.440 There's virtually no one in there.

00:27:38.580 There's the pages

00:27:39.180 sitting on the left

00:27:39.800 and the right side

00:27:40.420 on the little steps.

00:27:41.860 There might be another member

00:27:43.360 that walks in

00:27:44.040 getting ready

00:27:44.360 for their next speech.

00:27:46.020 And there's,

00:27:46.580 like you said,

00:27:47.020 it's almost like

00:27:47.600 you have an audience of one

00:27:48.580 in that moment.

00:27:49.780 And I will say,

00:27:50.680 by the way,

00:27:51.580 different presiding officers

00:27:53.200 do it differently.

00:27:54.100 So there are a number

00:27:54.920 of people.

00:27:55.840 Elizabeth Warren,

00:27:56.460 when she presides,

00:27:57.300 she won't look at you.

00:27:58.840 She's just reading a paper

00:27:59.900 and just ignores you

00:28:00.660 the whole time,

00:28:02.000 which I never liked.

00:28:02.920 When I presided,

00:28:04.220 I tried to look

00:28:05.080 at every senator

00:28:05.740 to listen to their speech,

00:28:06.680 even if there's

00:28:07.260 some left winger,

00:28:07.900 and I didn't like

00:28:09.220 what they were saying,

00:28:10.840 I tried to give them

00:28:12.080 the courtesy of

00:28:13.460 listening to them

00:28:15.000 and hearing them out.

00:28:16.080 So Peter,

00:28:16.580 number one,

00:28:16.900 he looked at me

00:28:17.580 and was engaging,

00:28:18.340 but it was interesting.

00:28:19.020 He's nodding quite a bit.

00:28:23.200 And at the end

00:28:24.020 of the speech,

00:28:24.700 he literally gives me

00:28:25.600 a thumbs up.

00:28:26.760 Wow.

00:28:27.300 Now this is on C-SPAN.

00:28:29.640 Don't you wish

00:28:30.320 we had more of this,

00:28:31.000 by the way,

00:28:31.380 in the Senate?

00:28:31.840 I mean,

00:28:32.640 wouldn't it be better

00:28:33.420 for the country

00:28:34.040 if you could have

00:28:34.780 moments,

00:28:35.360 more moments like that?

00:28:36.520 And so I went up

00:28:37.660 to the dais

00:28:38.560 and I stood there

00:28:39.380 with Peter

00:28:40.020 for like 10 minutes

00:28:40.800 just talking to him

00:28:41.660 and saying,

00:28:42.020 look,

00:28:43.040 these concerns are real.

00:28:44.860 Yeah.

00:28:45.720 And he had not

00:28:47.620 heard a lot of them.

00:28:49.200 He's on the committee,

00:28:49.900 but he wasn't there

00:28:50.460 for all the discussion.

00:28:51.400 And so listening

00:28:52.600 to them all together

00:28:53.660 and I was saying,

00:28:54.860 so here's what I urged

00:28:55.880 several Democrats.

00:28:56.600 And I said,

00:28:57.660 look,

00:28:58.320 Peter's a new senator.

00:28:59.480 It's hard for him

00:29:00.080 to come out

00:29:00.700 against a Biden nominee.

00:29:02.500 And I said,

00:29:02.800 I'm not asking you

00:29:03.600 to do that publicly.

00:29:05.640 But what I would say

00:29:06.980 is if you've got

00:29:08.020 a concern,

00:29:09.400 quietly pick up

00:29:11.000 the phone,

00:29:12.260 call the White House

00:29:12.900 or call Maria Cantwell,

00:29:15.200 the chair,

00:29:15.900 and say,

00:29:16.200 look,

00:29:16.400 I've got a concern.

00:29:17.620 If you force a vote,

00:29:18.700 I'll be a no.

00:29:19.800 And I pointed out to him,

00:29:20.900 I said,

00:29:21.160 listen,

00:29:21.380 during the Trump administration,

00:29:22.280 I did this multiple times.

00:29:23.900 Now I didn't do so publicly.

00:29:25.480 Sure.

00:29:25.600 I didn't throw a fit publicly,

00:29:27.400 but there were several nominees.

00:29:29.380 You just said,

00:29:30.020 this ain't going to fly with me.

00:29:31.000 That I picked up the phone

00:29:32.180 and said,

00:29:32.720 you don't have my vote.

00:29:33.740 This nominee is a problem.

00:29:34.900 And every single time I did it,

00:29:36.020 they pulled the nominee.

00:29:37.680 Now,

00:29:37.920 you don't,

00:29:38.160 you don't,

00:29:38.800 you know,

00:29:39.840 you don't piss on them publicly

00:29:41.480 unnecessarily,

00:29:43.080 but there is a responsibility

00:29:45.400 as a senator,

00:29:47.100 even for your own party.

00:29:49.120 And the case I made,

00:29:50.940 apparently the Biden White House

00:29:52.660 was freaked out

00:29:53.360 because I'm having this conversation

00:29:54.980 with Peter on C-SPAN.

00:29:56.100 I mean,

00:29:56.200 it was not hidden

00:29:56.840 because it just happened

00:29:57.820 the camera was there.

00:29:58.540 Yeah,

00:29:58.620 you can watch.

00:29:59.600 And so they're all,

00:30:00.640 the White House was nervous

00:30:02.600 as all get out.

00:30:04.080 But I had this conversation

00:30:05.360 with multiple Democrat senators

00:30:06.860 where I said,

00:30:07.520 look,

00:30:09.160 if,

00:30:10.420 God forbid,

00:30:11.660 there's another plane crash,

00:30:13.100 and at some point

00:30:13.780 there's going to be

00:30:14.400 a plane crash,

00:30:15.280 I mean,

00:30:15.960 it's an inherently dangerous activity.

00:30:18.120 We know,

00:30:19.200 we hope that there's never

00:30:20.280 another plane crash,

00:30:21.160 but we also know

00:30:21.960 with reality

00:30:22.540 something will go wrong,

00:30:23.840 pilot error,

00:30:24.620 there will be

00:30:24.900 a mechanical breakdown,

00:30:26.040 something will happen.

00:30:28.560 If,

00:30:29.120 God forbid,

00:30:29.660 there's another plane crash

00:30:30.720 in the next two years,

00:30:32.400 do you really want to be

00:30:34.400 the senator

00:30:34.900 who was the deciding vote

00:30:36.320 in confirming

00:30:38.120 the head of the FAA

00:30:39.400 who's manifestly unqualified

00:30:40.960 and didn't know

00:30:41.600 how to prevent it?

00:30:43.200 Like,

00:30:43.660 that,

00:30:44.180 frankly,

00:30:44.520 and I said this

00:30:45.040 to several senators,

00:30:45.840 I said,

00:30:46.100 let's be honest,

00:30:46.660 this is the kind of issue

00:30:47.720 senators lose elections on.

00:30:49.900 Yeah.

00:30:50.900 Like,

00:30:51.220 it's not hard.

00:30:52.620 This is an easy one

00:30:53.500 to get right,

00:30:54.160 and if you get it wrong,

00:30:55.300 it could go really bad.

00:30:56.820 It could,

00:30:58.400 you could literally

00:30:59.360 be looking at

00:31:00.220 hundreds of dead bodies,

00:31:03.120 women,

00:31:05.360 children,

00:31:06.120 dead,

00:31:07.280 because you put someone

00:31:08.440 in a position

00:31:09.020 they weren't qualified for

00:31:10.520 and they screwed up.

00:31:11.480 Solely based on politics.

00:31:13.180 Yeah.

00:31:13.680 Yeah,

00:31:13.960 and it was a,

00:31:15.700 and I had several Democrats

00:31:17.000 say,

00:31:17.280 why are they nominating

00:31:18.540 this guy?

00:31:19.900 I said,

00:31:20.380 look,

00:31:20.560 frankly,

00:31:20.900 I don't know.

00:31:21.520 At that point,

00:31:22.220 you're like,

00:31:22.440 I'm not on your team.

00:31:23.460 Like,

00:31:23.680 I have no idea

00:31:24.320 why they would do this.

00:31:25.060 Well,

00:31:25.380 but what I said,

00:31:26.580 look,

00:31:26.760 I don't know,

00:31:27.500 but I assume

00:31:28.560 it's a political favor

00:31:29.760 either for California Democrats

00:31:32.700 or for Colorado Democrats

00:31:34.740 because he had worked

00:31:36.440 in both California

00:31:37.400 and Colorado

00:31:37.900 and I assume

00:31:38.700 he was east tight

00:31:39.620 with the Democrats there,

00:31:40.880 but this was cronyism

00:31:42.100 and there are jobs

00:31:44.180 in government

00:31:44.740 you can put someone

00:31:45.700 for cronyism

00:31:46.440 that they're just

00:31:47.080 a buddy of yours

00:31:47.840 and so you get this job.

00:31:48.920 You wanted to make him

00:31:49.720 ambassador to some small country,

00:31:52.040 knock yourself out.

00:31:54.000 Fine by me.

00:31:54.800 He'll be fine.

00:31:56.200 I pointed out,

00:31:57.200 look,

00:31:57.380 he had quite a bit

00:31:58.360 of experience

00:31:58.900 with trains and buses.

00:32:00.400 He was originally considered

00:32:01.780 for the Amtrak

00:32:02.540 Board of Directors.

00:32:04.260 I said,

00:32:04.500 you know what,

00:32:04.740 that would have been

00:32:05.180 a perfectly reasonable position.

00:32:08.460 Number one,

00:32:08.980 you're part of a board,

00:32:09.900 but he has train experience

00:32:11.700 so that,

00:32:12.320 you know,

00:32:12.560 as the old phrase goes,

00:32:15.120 that's good enough

00:32:15.560 for government work.

00:32:17.740 But the FAA

00:32:18.820 is something different.

00:32:20.440 Yeah.

00:32:21.140 So I would say,

00:32:22.960 listen,

00:32:23.300 I'm really proud.

00:32:24.440 I want to commend

00:32:25.840 my team

00:32:26.900 because the guys

00:32:28.720 on my team

00:32:29.540 worked their tails off.

00:32:33.480 But did it right?

00:32:34.880 Did it based on substance?

00:32:36.560 Did it based on

00:32:37.800 real,

00:32:39.200 legitimate concerns?

00:32:40.300 And we presented

00:32:42.220 with Phil Washington,

00:32:43.940 we presented an alternative

00:32:44.880 and I'll draw a distinction.

00:32:46.780 Look,

00:32:47.100 the FCC,

00:32:48.320 if I were a left-wing Democrat,

00:32:50.500 I'd actually be pissed

00:32:51.600 at the Biden White House

00:32:52.600 because through their

00:32:55.100 trying to ram Gigi Soane through,

00:32:57.020 and this thing's been pending

00:32:57.880 for over a year,

00:32:58.760 they had three markups,

00:32:59.700 it was clear

00:33:00.120 she was never going to go anywhere.

00:33:01.880 They kept a vacancy

00:33:03.240 on the FCC.

00:33:04.200 So the FCC

00:33:04.780 has two Republicans,

00:33:05.980 two Democrats.

00:33:06.840 They haven't had

00:33:07.760 a Democrat majority

00:33:08.760 on the FCC.

00:33:10.300 And with a Democrat majority,

00:33:11.960 they would ram through

00:33:12.920 some terrible policies.

00:33:15.280 But they overreached.

00:33:16.740 They went for someone

00:33:17.700 who was so far left

00:33:19.120 that they couldn't

00:33:20.480 hold their own party.

00:33:21.440 They couldn't hold

00:33:21.920 the Democrats.

00:33:22.840 If I were a partisan Democrat,

00:33:24.340 I'd be irritated

00:33:25.280 at the Biden White House.

00:33:26.520 Why didn't you just find

00:33:27.760 an ordinary left-winger

00:33:29.420 and get some done

00:33:30.460 for two years?

00:33:32.020 And so from my perspective,

00:33:33.620 I actually had mixed sentiments

00:33:35.000 when they withdrew Gigi Soane.

00:33:37.420 I don't know that

00:33:38.120 I would have minded

00:33:38.860 them continue this fight

00:33:40.360 for another year

00:33:41.040 and then fail in a year

00:33:42.080 because it stops them

00:33:43.700 from a bad

00:33:45.720 three-commissioner majority

00:33:46.940 on the FCC

00:33:47.660 doing real harm

00:33:49.200 to jobs in America,

00:33:51.180 to free speech in America,

00:33:52.500 to communication in America.

00:33:56.020 The FAA,

00:33:57.040 I feel very different.

00:33:58.500 We haven't had

00:33:59.200 a Senate-confirmed

00:34:00.180 administrator at the FAA

00:34:01.360 for a year now.

00:34:02.980 That's bad.

00:34:03.900 And I've told,

00:34:05.120 look, I told Maria Cantwell,

00:34:06.660 get the White House

00:34:07.580 to nominate someone

00:34:08.780 like Billy Nolan.

00:34:10.840 We'll confirm him quickly

00:34:12.500 because I want someone

00:34:13.780 in that job tomorrow.

00:34:15.360 Yeah.

00:34:15.660 Like, I don't like

00:34:16.660 the delay there

00:34:17.740 because tomorrow morning

00:34:19.920 when I go get on an airplane

00:34:21.180 and fly to Washington,

00:34:22.800 I'd really like

00:34:23.780 an FAA administrator

00:34:24.800 who knows something

00:34:25.480 about not having

00:34:26.140 that plane crash.

00:34:27.340 Yeah.

00:34:27.900 So,

00:34:28.500 it does vary job by job,

00:34:31.620 but I do think

00:34:32.380 there is also,

00:34:35.080 hopefully it was

00:34:35.920 worthwhile for listeners

00:34:37.700 of the pod

00:34:38.340 to kind of go

00:34:39.680 behind the scenes.

00:34:41.360 No doubt.

00:34:41.940 On the mechanics

00:34:42.940 of building support.

00:34:45.700 By the way,

00:34:46.980 I'll say one other thing,

00:34:48.160 which is,

00:34:49.120 with the FAA,

00:34:51.380 the Biden Department

00:34:52.100 of Transportation

00:34:52.740 was leaning on everyone.

00:34:55.000 They were leaning on airlines.

00:34:56.000 They were leaning on unions.

00:34:57.260 They were pounding

00:34:58.240 the hell out of them,

00:34:59.100 support Phil Washington.

00:35:00.000 And they were exerting

00:35:02.320 political pressure.

00:35:04.860 We mostly kept people

00:35:06.520 on the sidelines.

00:35:07.740 There were a few,

00:35:08.400 like Frontier Airlines

00:35:09.180 came out in support

00:35:10.040 of Phil Washington,

00:35:11.100 which frankly pissed me off.

00:35:14.060 And so,

00:35:14.480 last week,

00:35:15.120 we had a hearing

00:35:15.860 on bad customer service

00:35:19.420 on airlines.

00:35:20.540 Frontier Airlines

00:35:21.680 is routinely ranked last.

00:35:23.040 Like, at the bottom.

00:35:23.940 Yeah, they're one of the worst.

00:35:24.680 Very last.

00:35:26.020 So,

00:35:27.400 I invited Frontier Airlines

00:35:29.900 to come testify.

00:35:31.240 All right,

00:35:31.720 you're going to

00:35:32.280 give lousy service

00:35:33.800 and be enlisted

00:35:35.640 to be political henchmen

00:35:37.100 for the Biden White House

00:35:38.520 in confirming

00:35:39.640 a manifestly unqualified

00:35:41.140 FAA administrator.

00:35:42.340 Why don't you come on in?

00:35:43.480 They refused to come.

00:35:45.320 So,

00:35:46.240 Frontier was a bad actor

00:35:47.740 in this,

00:35:48.980 although I'm sure

00:35:49.760 the political pressure

00:35:50.560 put on them was a lot.

00:35:52.100 Yeah.

00:35:52.340 But I will say

00:35:53.340 on our end,

00:35:54.000 we did a pretty good job

00:35:55.540 with almost everyone

00:35:57.060 of keeping them

00:35:57.740 on the sidelines.

00:35:59.360 And my team

00:36:00.100 was on the phone

00:36:00.640 to all of them.

00:36:01.480 And they're like,

00:36:02.380 these guys are beating

00:36:03.280 the heck out of us.

00:36:04.460 And we said,

00:36:04.860 fine.

00:36:05.720 He's not going

00:36:06.420 to be confirmed.

00:36:07.940 Just,

00:36:08.460 we're not saying

00:36:09.180 come out against him.

00:36:10.720 We were asking

00:36:11.380 other people to do that.

00:36:12.740 But look,

00:36:13.220 if you're a big

00:36:13.900 regulated entity,

00:36:15.580 it's frankly dangerous

00:36:16.940 to come out

00:36:17.680 against someone

00:36:18.340 who may be

00:36:18.820 your regulated.

00:36:19.460 Like, that's...

00:36:20.240 Yeah, that's a big gamble.

00:36:22.340 That's asking too much.

00:36:24.100 But it wasn't asking

00:36:25.140 too much to say,

00:36:26.460 just sit this one out

00:36:28.840 and let the Senate

00:36:30.960 work its will.

00:36:33.840 And...

00:36:34.340 It's a remarkable story.

00:36:37.180 It's a remarkable story

00:36:38.380 of how we got

00:36:39.540 to where we are now.

00:36:40.760 And I also think

00:36:42.080 it's got to make

00:36:42.980 the White House realize

00:36:44.080 they actually have to bring

00:36:45.100 better candidates

00:36:46.040 before your committee

00:36:48.080 because they're going

00:36:49.140 to have a rough two years

00:36:50.220 if they don't.

00:36:50.940 Well, we're going

00:36:52.460 to make sure

00:36:54.620 people know

00:36:55.260 what their record is.

00:36:56.180 And if their record

00:36:56.860 is reasonable

00:36:57.760 and they're qualified

00:36:58.620 and they're not

00:36:59.580 extreme partisan nominees,

00:37:02.100 they're likely

00:37:03.200 to get confirmed.

00:37:04.340 But if their record,

00:37:05.900 if they're unqualified

00:37:06.780 and they are

00:37:07.440 extreme partisan nominees,

00:37:09.060 they're going to face

00:37:09.980 a much rockier time.

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00:37:43.160 Senator,

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00:37:47.100 having meetings,

00:37:48.220 the president's hanging out

00:37:49.400 in the Oval Office

00:37:50.300 with his wife

00:37:51.080 and a TV group of stars

00:37:55.120 at the same time

00:37:57.240 and totally doesn't seem

00:37:58.680 to be looking at

00:37:59.160 what's going on

00:37:59.700 with international security issues

00:38:01.520 with China and Russia meeting.

00:38:03.160 Kind of a big deal.

00:38:04.060 Ted Lasso apparently

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00:38:55.360 Senator,

00:38:55.860 there was a shocking moment

00:38:57.340 and it was just like,

00:38:59.080 is this real life?

00:39:00.700 The cast of Ted Lasso,

00:39:02.040 I don't know

00:39:02.280 if you've ever seen

00:39:02.780 the show.

00:39:03.280 Oh yeah,

00:39:03.480 it's a great show.

00:39:04.480 Love it.

00:39:05.220 Watch it on airplanes

00:39:06.120 all the time.

00:39:06.920 The victory dance

00:39:07.660 in the locker room

00:39:08.300 is still awesome.

00:39:09.000 Still amazing.

00:39:10.880 They're asked

00:39:11.940 to come to the White House

00:39:12.780 on the exact same day

00:39:14.120 that Vladimir Putin

00:39:16.200 and the leader of China

00:39:18.100 are meeting.

00:39:18.760 Now,

00:39:19.060 they're not meeting in China,

00:39:20.120 which I also think

00:39:20.920 you could read a lot into.

00:39:22.080 They're in Russia meeting

00:39:23.320 and they're meeting

00:39:24.840 and there's been

00:39:25.460 a lot of conversations

00:39:26.560 about weaponry

00:39:27.740 coming from China

00:39:28.720 and technology

00:39:29.560 to kill innocent people

00:39:30.860 in Ukraine.

00:39:31.920 Russia desperately needs that.

00:39:33.240 China also desperately

00:39:34.000 needs energy.

00:39:35.120 This is a perfect alliance

00:39:36.520 and the White House thinks,

00:39:38.240 and I'm just talking about

00:39:39.000 from an optics standpoint,

00:39:40.740 why the hell

00:39:41.240 would you not cancel

00:39:42.060 or delay that meeting?

00:39:43.500 Now,

00:39:43.720 the president also mocked

00:39:45.620 a lot of the reporting.

00:39:47.080 I want to play this video

00:39:48.080 basically saying,

00:39:49.180 you guys have all been saying

00:39:50.400 that they're going to give

00:39:51.060 weaponry to Russia.

00:39:52.320 It hadn't happened yet.

00:39:53.500 And then he goes,

00:39:54.040 I mean,

00:39:54.300 it may happen,

00:39:55.020 but it was also

00:39:56.080 one of those moments

00:39:56.900 like,

00:39:57.340 what are you doing?

00:39:58.160 Take a look.

00:39:59.240 Look,

00:39:59.740 look,

00:40:00.280 I don't take China lightly.

00:40:02.000 I don't take Russia lightly,

00:40:04.240 but I think

00:40:05.780 we vastly exaggerate.

00:40:08.120 I've been hearing now

00:40:09.440 for the past three months

00:40:11.260 about China

00:40:12.320 is going to provide

00:40:13.120 significant weapons

00:40:14.260 to Russia

00:40:15.380 and they're going to,

00:40:16.240 they've all been

00:40:16.840 talking about that.

00:40:18.540 They haven't yet.

00:40:20.300 Doesn't mean they won't,

00:40:21.880 but they haven't yet.

00:40:23.160 Doesn't mean they won't,

00:40:24.460 they haven't yet.

00:40:25.280 Senator,

00:40:25.720 this is embarrassing

00:40:27.220 and the scary part

00:40:28.120 is our adversaries,

00:40:29.640 Russia and China

00:40:30.140 are watching this.

00:40:31.860 They are.

00:40:32.600 And listen,

00:40:34.560 the Biden foreign policy

00:40:36.100 has been a disaster

00:40:37.240 from day one.

00:40:39.340 You know,

00:40:39.780 Gates,

00:40:40.300 the former defense secretary,

00:40:41.720 famously said,

00:40:42.620 Joe Biden's been wrong

00:40:43.600 in every foreign policy issue

00:40:44.860 the last 40 years.

00:40:46.560 That just is.

00:40:47.340 Biden.

00:40:48.640 And he's talking about

00:40:49.300 going back to his Senate time

00:40:50.420 and he has been wrong

00:40:51.400 and he has a long record

00:40:52.500 consistent

00:40:53.220 when he was a senator

00:40:53.960 being wrong

00:40:54.520 over and over

00:40:55.820 and over again.

00:40:56.580 The Biden White House,

00:40:58.060 what they have done

00:40:58.940 systematically,

00:41:00.260 they've alienated

00:41:01.620 our friends and allies.

00:41:02.620 They've driven

00:41:03.060 our friends and allies away

00:41:04.360 and they've shown

00:41:06.980 weakness and appeasement

00:41:08.220 to our enemies.

00:41:09.160 All of our enemies

00:41:10.000 are stronger

00:41:10.900 than they were

00:41:12.060 two and a half years ago.

00:41:13.700 Russia,

00:41:14.600 China,

00:41:15.320 Iran,

00:41:16.040 North Korea,

00:41:16.920 Venezuela,

00:41:18.020 Cuba,

00:41:18.560 all of them.

00:41:19.580 If you're an enemy

00:41:20.540 of America,

00:41:22.040 they bend over backwards

00:41:23.140 to you.

00:41:23.560 They wave sanctions

00:41:24.320 on you.

00:41:24.820 By the way,

00:41:25.520 what does Biden do

00:41:26.440 consistently?

00:41:27.240 Russia,

00:41:27.580 he wave sanctions

00:41:28.180 on Nord Stream 2,

00:41:29.080 gives billions of dollars

00:41:30.160 to Putin,

00:41:31.000 causes the war

00:41:32.380 in Ukraine.

00:41:34.180 Venezuela,

00:41:35.260 he's declining

00:41:36.020 to enforce sanctions

00:41:37.040 so now Maduro

00:41:37.880 is stronger

00:41:38.500 and making more money

00:41:39.360 because Joe Biden

00:41:40.140 is there.

00:41:41.220 Iran,

00:41:42.360 he's refusing

00:41:44.020 to enforce sanctions

00:41:44.940 against Iran.

00:41:45.780 The Ayatollah

00:41:46.400 is selling a million

00:41:47.420 barrels a day

00:41:48.260 of oil

00:41:48.780 because Joe Biden's

00:41:50.220 weakness.

00:41:50.620 And what does he say

00:41:51.300 right there?

00:41:51.840 He's like,

00:41:52.420 oh,

00:41:52.780 they're not so bad.

00:41:53.660 Remember,

00:41:53.820 this is the same

00:41:54.540 Joe Biden

00:41:55.080 who a few years

00:41:55.820 back said,

00:41:56.700 come on,

00:41:57.180 man.

00:41:57.840 Yeah.

00:41:58.220 China's not our enemy.

00:41:59.260 They're our friends.

00:42:00.000 Come on,

00:42:00.520 man.

00:42:01.280 So he had respect

00:42:01.980 for China

00:42:02.480 by competing

00:42:03.580 with China.

00:42:05.120 This is someone

00:42:06.480 our enemies

00:42:08.080 don't respect.

00:42:10.300 They're not afraid

00:42:11.420 of.

00:42:12.900 Why

00:42:13.380 did Putin

00:42:14.900 invade Ukraine?

00:42:15.960 Number one,

00:42:16.640 because Biden

00:42:18.240 let him complete

00:42:18.960 Nord Stream 2,

00:42:19.800 but number two,

00:42:20.540 because Biden's

00:42:21.220 so weak

00:42:21.820 that they're

00:42:22.720 not concerned

00:42:23.360 about him.

00:42:24.220 Why is Taiwan

00:42:25.420 in existential

00:42:26.440 danger right now

00:42:27.780 from China?

00:42:28.600 Because she

00:42:29.640 doesn't respect

00:42:31.580 Biden.

00:42:34.020 And when he says,

00:42:35.940 look,

00:42:37.460 play the beginning

00:42:37.960 of that clip again.

00:42:39.000 Yeah.

00:42:39.480 But play just

00:42:40.120 the beginning

00:42:40.740 of the clip

00:42:41.360 where he says

00:42:42.100 they're exaggerated

00:42:42.780 because I want you

00:42:43.620 to listen to it.

00:42:44.660 Look,

00:42:45.160 look,

00:42:45.720 I don't take

00:42:46.780 China lightly.

00:42:47.940 I don't take

00:42:48.860 Russia lightly.

00:42:49.680 but I think

00:42:51.220 we vastly

00:42:51.920 exaggerate.

00:42:52.980 OK,

00:42:53.500 stop right there.

00:42:55.120 I think

00:42:55.960 we vastly

00:42:56.900 exaggerate.

00:42:57.980 Now,

00:42:58.280 if we had

00:42:59.100 a functioning

00:42:59.600 press corps,

00:43:01.000 there would

00:43:02.140 be follow-ups

00:43:02.760 to that.

00:43:03.840 Mr.

00:43:04.180 President,

00:43:05.480 you said,

00:43:06.160 quote,

00:43:06.480 we vastly

00:43:07.120 exaggerate

00:43:07.880 when it comes

00:43:08.400 to China.

00:43:09.060 You said,

00:43:09.640 quote,

00:43:09.900 we vastly

00:43:10.440 exaggerate

00:43:11.060 when it comes

00:43:11.520 to Russia.

00:43:12.560 Mr.

00:43:12.900 President,

00:43:13.180 it is an

00:43:13.500 exaggeration

00:43:14.320 to say

00:43:15.280 that China

00:43:15.740 maintains

00:43:16.240 concentration camps

00:43:17.280 with over

00:43:17.640 one million

00:43:18.180 Uyghurs

00:43:18.540 in it

00:43:18.860 today.

00:43:19.680 Mr.

00:43:20.340 President,

00:43:20.680 it is an

00:43:20.900 exaggeration

00:43:21.600 to say

00:43:21.980 that China

00:43:22.520 uses murder

00:43:24.080 as an

00:43:25.860 official

00:43:26.160 government

00:43:26.580 policy.

00:43:27.520 Mr.

00:43:27.900 President,

00:43:28.260 it is an

00:43:28.480 exaggeration

00:43:29.160 to say

00:43:29.500 China uses

00:43:30.220 torture

00:43:30.840 as an

00:43:31.680 official

00:43:31.960 government

00:43:32.340 policy.

00:43:32.920 Mr.

00:43:33.120 President,

00:43:33.440 it is an

00:43:33.660 exaggeration

00:43:34.340 to say

00:43:34.720 China has

00:43:35.560 come in

00:43:35.940 and crushed

00:43:36.600 democracy

00:43:37.400 in Hong

00:43:37.960 Kong.

00:43:39.500 Mr.

00:43:40.060 President,

00:43:40.620 it is an

00:43:40.980 exaggeration

00:43:41.960 to say

00:43:42.640 that China

00:43:43.880 is responsible

00:43:45.700 for the

00:43:46.500 release of

00:43:47.100 the COVID

00:43:47.520 virus,

00:43:48.160 that the

00:43:48.880 virus was

00:43:49.460 likely

00:43:49.820 developed

00:43:50.240 in a

00:43:50.540 Chinese

00:43:50.880 government

00:43:51.300 lab,

00:43:52.180 that the

00:43:53.260 virus may

00:43:53.960 well have

00:43:54.340 been

00:43:54.500 manufactured

00:43:55.320 by Chinese

00:43:56.540 scientists

00:43:57.140 in that

00:43:57.940 government

00:43:58.320 lab to

00:43:59.100 make it

00:43:59.400 more

00:43:59.620 transmissible

00:44:00.220 and more

00:44:01.020 lethal,

00:44:01.600 and that

00:44:02.380 the Chinese

00:44:03.140 government

00:44:03.620 actively and

00:44:04.800 aggressively

00:44:05.480 covered up

00:44:06.740 the leak

00:44:07.880 from the

00:44:08.540 lab and

00:44:09.420 allowed COVID

00:44:10.500 to become

00:44:11.080 a national

00:44:11.680 pandemic.

00:44:12.760 Mr.

00:44:13.180 President,

00:44:13.680 it is an

00:44:13.900 exaggeration

00:44:14.800 to say

00:44:15.200 that the

00:44:15.500 Chinese

00:44:15.820 communist

00:44:16.220 government

00:44:16.720 engages

00:44:17.540 in espionage,

00:44:19.120 steals our

00:44:20.760 national security

00:44:21.640 secrets,

00:44:22.340 steals our

00:44:23.620 commercial secrets,

00:44:24.720 steals intellectual

00:44:25.540 property.

00:44:26.160 Mr.

00:44:26.380 President,

00:44:26.720 it is an

00:44:26.960 exaggeration

00:44:27.660 to say

00:44:28.040 the Chinese

00:44:28.800 communist

00:44:29.220 government

00:44:29.720 takes our

00:44:30.540 weaponry

00:44:31.100 and is

00:44:31.520 assembling

00:44:32.200 a military

00:44:33.320 designed to

00:44:34.040 defeat us.

00:44:35.060 That's what

00:44:35.780 a functioning

00:44:36.460 press corps

00:44:37.100 would say.

00:44:38.100 Now,

00:44:38.400 I have no

00:44:38.920 idea how

00:44:39.320 Biden answers

00:44:39.880 to that.

00:44:40.240 He just,

00:44:40.500 oh,

00:44:40.720 it's all

00:44:41.100 exaggerated.

00:44:41.560 Weakness,

00:44:44.740 that kind

00:44:45.700 of weakness

00:44:46.220 means our

00:44:47.100 enemies are

00:44:47.660 laughing at

00:44:48.220 us,

00:44:48.380 but you

00:44:48.580 know what's

00:44:48.900 even worse?

00:44:50.480 Not just

00:44:50.960 our enemies,

00:44:51.520 our friends

00:44:51.860 are laughing

00:44:52.300 at us.

00:44:52.660 Here,

00:44:52.800 play this

00:44:53.060 next clip.

00:44:53.860 So today,

00:44:54.960 I applaud

00:44:55.560 China for

00:44:56.140 stepping up,

00:44:56.780 excuse me,

00:44:57.160 I applaud

00:44:57.620 Canada.

00:45:00.660 You can

00:45:01.300 tell what

00:45:01.660 I'm thinking.

00:45:02.800 So,

00:45:03.540 that's

00:45:04.260 addressing

00:45:04.740 the Canadian

00:45:05.260 Parliament.

00:45:06.020 Yeah.

00:45:06.740 And listen,

00:45:07.640 fine,

00:45:07.960 so he had

00:45:08.800 a slip of

00:45:09.220 the tongue,

00:45:10.460 everyone does

00:45:11.180 that,

00:45:11.580 Biden does

00:45:12.000 it a lot.

00:45:13.660 But I just

00:45:14.100 want to point

00:45:14.640 out that's

00:45:15.160 the entire

00:45:15.860 Parliament of

00:45:16.640 Canada laughing

00:45:17.560 at the

00:45:17.960 President of

00:45:18.380 the United

00:45:18.660 States.

00:45:19.620 Now,

00:45:19.940 Canadians are

00:45:20.760 many things,

00:45:21.580 but fundamentally

00:45:22.340 they're polite.

00:45:23.340 They are very

00:45:24.260 polite.

00:45:25.820 Just how bad

00:45:26.560 do you have to

00:45:27.020 screw up to

00:45:27.640 have a room

00:45:28.320 full of

00:45:28.600 Canadians

00:45:28.980 laughing at you?

00:45:30.060 And he's

00:45:30.360 saying,

00:45:30.680 you can tell

00:45:31.200 what I'm

00:45:31.480 thinking,

00:45:31.980 which is

00:45:32.260 what they're

00:45:32.580 laughing at,

00:45:33.020 the cognitive

00:45:33.560 part.

00:45:34.120 It is,

00:45:35.580 I wish

00:45:37.300 the verbal

00:45:39.360 slip was

00:45:40.140 not actually

00:45:40.840 indicative of

00:45:41.660 what this

00:45:42.100 White House

00:45:42.520 is doing.

00:45:43.600 Unfortunately,

00:45:44.200 it is.

00:45:44.620 Yeah,

00:45:44.780 it is.

00:45:45.180 There was

00:45:45.620 another big

00:45:46.200 oops this

00:45:46.680 week that

00:45:47.020 dealt with

00:45:47.360 John Kerry.

00:45:48.100 John Kerry

00:45:48.540 actually having

00:45:49.000 to answer

00:45:49.400 some questions,

00:45:50.720 and this

00:45:51.720 was a

00:45:52.400 moment for

00:45:53.200 Kerry that

00:45:53.780 I'm sure

00:45:54.180 he was

00:45:54.580 hoping didn't

00:45:55.320 happen.

00:45:55.740 He usually

00:45:56.020 gets a

00:45:56.460 free pass

00:45:57.500 to the

00:45:57.740 press.

00:45:58.100 I want to

00:45:58.320 play that

00:45:58.700 for you

00:45:59.000 before I

00:45:59.380 do that.

00:45:59.740 I want to

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00:47:01.100 Senator,

00:47:01.380 this last

00:47:01.840 video,

00:47:02.600 it just

00:47:03.220 makes me

00:47:03.680 laugh.

00:47:04.500 John

00:47:04.780 Kerry gets

00:47:05.400 to walk

00:47:05.780 around,

00:47:06.280 do a

00:47:06.640 bunch

00:47:07.000 of easy

00:47:07.680 interviews.

00:47:08.240 He's been

00:47:08.480 doing it

00:47:08.940 for years

00:47:09.300 when he

00:47:09.540 makes up

00:47:09.880 these new

00:47:10.200 positions in

00:47:10.720 the government

00:47:11.040 that he

00:47:11.280 has.

00:47:11.940 But he

00:47:12.260 had a

00:47:12.620 reporter that

00:47:13.140 actually wanted

00:47:13.600 to ask him

00:47:14.220 something

00:47:14.420 legitimate.

00:47:15.060 Take a

00:47:15.320 look.

00:47:16.640 Private

00:47:17.040 aviation is

00:47:17.940 an example

00:47:18.560 of something

00:47:19.020 where people

00:47:20.100 are starting

00:47:20.400 to pay more

00:47:20.780 attention.

00:47:22.780 But when

00:47:23.620 people who go

00:47:25.360 to Davos to

00:47:26.040 talk about

00:47:26.360 climate change

00:47:26.960 fly private,

00:47:28.180 it seems like

00:47:28.700 they don't want

00:47:29.160 to make...

00:47:29.840 Well,

00:47:30.040 they actually,

00:47:30.700 I've talked

00:47:31.140 to them about

00:47:31.620 it.

00:47:31.840 They offset.

00:47:33.220 They buy

00:47:33.840 offsets,

00:47:34.640 they offset,

00:47:35.460 and they are

00:47:35.840 working harder

00:47:36.520 than most people

00:47:37.380 I know to be

00:47:38.520 able to try

00:47:39.060 to affect this

00:47:39.740 transition.

00:47:40.220 So you can

00:47:41.780 beat your

00:47:42.180 wife as

00:47:42.880 long as

00:47:43.200 you give

00:47:43.460 money to

00:47:44.100 a battered

00:47:45.140 women's

00:47:45.540 shelter and

00:47:46.100 it offsets

00:47:46.820 the crime.

00:47:47.620 Look,

00:47:48.180 I gotta say,

00:47:49.160 John Kerry

00:47:49.920 embodies

00:47:51.660 the rich,

00:47:53.220 out-of-touch

00:47:54.120 contempt that

00:47:56.380 today's left

00:47:57.360 has for

00:47:58.140 working men

00:47:58.680 and women.

00:48:00.020 His claim,

00:48:00.980 well,

00:48:01.160 yes,

00:48:01.560 this,

00:48:01.980 yes,

00:48:02.280 all my

00:48:02.680 gazillionaire

00:48:03.200 friends fly

00:48:03.720 private everywhere,

00:48:04.740 but they have

00:48:05.780 offsets.

00:48:06.440 Look,

00:48:06.600 it's like in

00:48:07.120 the dark

00:48:07.500 ages where

00:48:07.980 you could buy

00:48:08.620 indulgences from

00:48:09.680 the Catholic

00:48:10.100 Church,

00:48:11.200 that like,

00:48:12.440 you know,

00:48:12.840 it's just like,

00:48:13.400 well,

00:48:13.560 they write a

00:48:14.180 check,

00:48:14.580 so if

00:48:15.340 John Kerry

00:48:15.920 believes what

00:48:16.560 he's saying,

00:48:17.240 it means when

00:48:17.760 John Kerry

00:48:18.540 puts his

00:48:19.900 privileged

00:48:20.700 derriere on

00:48:21.600 a private

00:48:22.060 jet,

00:48:22.600 he is

00:48:23.120 destroying

00:48:23.800 planet Earth

00:48:24.740 and simply

00:48:26.340 buying an

00:48:27.000 indulgence of,

00:48:27.980 well,

00:48:28.080 I sent a

00:48:29.080 check to

00:48:29.480 somebody else,

00:48:31.080 so it's

00:48:31.560 okay.

00:48:31.800 It fixes

00:48:32.840 it,

00:48:33.420 and his

00:48:34.100 comment,

00:48:35.600 these

00:48:36.780 gazillionaires

00:48:37.620 are doing

00:48:38.040 more than

00:48:38.680 most people

00:48:39.540 I know.

00:48:40.620 And I've

00:48:41.240 talked to

00:48:41.660 them.

00:48:42.540 I've said,

00:48:44.000 really,

00:48:44.740 you need

00:48:45.380 to know.

00:48:47.260 It's such

00:48:48.320 dripping content,

00:48:49.140 and by the

00:48:49.480 way,

00:48:49.740 most people,

00:48:50.800 he means

00:48:51.540 like the

00:48:52.600 dirty masses,

00:48:54.180 you truck

00:48:55.180 drivers and

00:48:56.040 taxi cab

00:48:56.800 drivers,

00:48:57.580 just fly

00:48:58.200 private.

00:48:58.680 Why would

00:48:59.000 you possibly

00:48:59.800 be with,

00:49:01.140 like,

00:49:02.680 I will

00:49:03.300 say,

00:49:03.880 you know,

00:49:04.040 at one

00:49:05.360 point,

00:49:06.500 John

00:49:07.140 Kerry has

00:49:07.700 defended

00:49:08.040 his own

00:49:08.440 private jet

00:49:08.960 flying by

00:49:10.040 saying,

00:49:10.500 really,

00:49:10.980 for people

00:49:12.620 in positions

00:49:13.140 like me,

00:49:13.740 it's the

00:49:14.220 only reasonable

00:49:14.960 way to

00:49:15.360 travel.

00:49:15.880 Yeah.

00:49:16.720 You shouldn't

00:49:17.440 expect me to

00:49:18.160 sit on a

00:49:18.780 commercial airliner

00:49:19.500 ever because of

00:49:20.700 the stature that

00:49:21.380 I've gotten to

00:49:22.180 in this world.

00:49:22.960 And I was

00:49:24.200 on a,

00:49:24.820 I think,

00:49:25.180 on Fox

00:49:25.640 News doing

00:49:26.080 an interview,

00:49:26.680 and I

00:49:26.940 compared him

00:49:27.660 to Thurston

00:49:28.200 Howell.

00:49:30.220 And I

00:49:30.740 went back

00:49:31.260 to my

00:49:32.000 Senate office

00:49:33.380 and someone

00:49:34.460 in my office

00:49:35.360 pointed out

00:49:35.920 that he

00:49:36.200 didn't know

00:49:36.520 who Thurston

00:49:36.940 Howell was.

00:49:38.260 And I

00:49:38.620 asked,

00:49:39.120 now,

00:49:39.340 look,

00:49:40.340 you know

00:49:40.640 Capitol Hill.

00:49:41.240 Capitol Hill

00:49:41.780 is a young

00:49:42.200 person's game.

00:49:43.020 Most of the

00:49:43.880 people there

00:49:44.440 are 20-something

00:49:45.300 or maybe

00:49:45.740 30-something.

00:49:46.700 So I,

00:49:47.260 you know,

00:49:47.580 grabbed about

00:49:47.980 20 of my

00:49:48.500 staffers and

00:49:49.040 I said,

00:49:49.300 all right,

00:49:51.120 do any of

00:49:52.140 y'all know

00:49:52.640 who Thurston

00:49:53.240 Howell is?

00:49:54.500 No one.

00:49:55.660 Not a

00:49:56.420 single person

00:49:57.600 knew.

00:49:58.200 By the way,

00:49:59.020 since many

00:49:59.740 of our

00:49:59.960 podcast listeners

00:50:00.660 are young,

00:50:01.560 Thurston

00:50:01.860 Howell was

00:50:02.460 the millionaire

00:50:03.000 on Gilligan's

00:50:04.160 Island.

00:50:04.560 He was the

00:50:05.020 rich,

00:50:05.340 out-of-touch

00:50:05.840 millionaire.

00:50:06.560 For the

00:50:06.860 record,

00:50:07.160 I didn't

00:50:07.400 know who

00:50:07.660 that was

00:50:08.020 either,

00:50:08.400 so that

00:50:09.120 means that's

00:50:09.580 how much

00:50:09.820 younger I

00:50:10.240 am than

00:50:10.480 you.

00:50:11.060 Yeah,

00:50:11.200 I just

00:50:11.400 wanted to

00:50:11.660 feel young

00:50:11.980 today.

00:50:12.140 Thank you

00:50:12.560 for giving

00:50:13.380 me that

00:50:13.760 gift.

00:50:14.180 All right,

00:50:14.700 20-somethings

00:50:15.660 and 30-somethings,

00:50:16.640 but Skippy,

00:50:17.280 you didn't know

00:50:19.020 99 Luff Balloons,

00:50:20.540 and you don't

00:50:21.160 know Gilligan's

00:50:21.820 Island?

00:50:22.220 I know

00:50:22.700 Gilligan's

00:50:23.200 Island,

00:50:28.200 that was

00:50:30.220 Thurston

00:50:30.800 Howell III.

00:50:31.900 So,

00:50:32.880 here's an

00:50:33.660 amazing story

00:50:34.380 though.

00:50:35.620 This happens

00:50:36.280 with my

00:50:38.380 staff.

00:50:38.920 I go to

00:50:39.480 the Senate

00:50:39.780 Republican

00:50:40.220 Lunch.

00:50:40.680 Now,

00:50:40.840 we have

00:50:41.140 lunch together

00:50:41.820 every Tuesday,

00:50:43.200 Wednesday,

00:50:43.540 and Thursday,

00:50:44.060 and for some

00:50:44.480 reason I was

00:50:44.920 thinking about

00:50:45.420 it,

00:50:45.520 I decided to

00:50:46.020 tell my

00:50:46.360 colleagues that

00:50:46.880 story,

00:50:47.940 which got

00:50:49.240 a good

00:50:50.120 laugh,

00:50:50.620 because my

00:50:51.860 colleagues,

00:50:52.340 the median

00:50:52.620 age is 142,

00:50:53.840 so they all

00:50:54.440 know who

00:50:55.060 Thurston

00:50:55.400 Howell is.

00:50:56.660 And then

00:50:57.580 Mitt Romney

00:50:58.360 says,

00:50:59.960 you know,

00:51:00.180 I actually

00:51:00.800 discovered the

00:51:01.480 same thing

00:51:01.860 when I was

00:51:02.160 running for

00:51:02.540 president,

00:51:03.200 and I found

00:51:04.360 if you want

00:51:05.000 to use an

00:51:06.420 analogy,

00:51:07.640 a much better

00:51:08.480 one to use

00:51:09.100 is Mr.

00:51:09.620 Burns,

00:51:10.440 that young

00:51:11.260 people get

00:51:11.920 Mr. Burns,

00:51:13.340 and I'm

00:51:13.840 like,

00:51:14.360 oh dear

00:51:15.660 God,

00:51:16.120 I'm getting

00:51:17.800 advice on

00:51:18.620 how to be

00:51:19.200 in touch

00:51:20.080 with a man

00:51:20.540 of the people

00:51:21.500 from Mitt

00:51:21.920 Romney.

00:51:22.140 From Mitt

00:51:22.440 Romney.

00:51:23.660 It's a new

00:51:24.220 low.

00:51:24.660 It's actually

00:51:25.080 good advice.

00:51:25.740 Mr. Burns,

00:51:26.320 you know who

00:51:26.680 Mr. Burns is.

00:51:27.180 So,

00:51:28.120 excellent.

00:51:29.000 Yes.

00:51:29.880 So,

00:51:30.560 but let me

00:51:31.840 tell you

00:51:32.180 something amazing

00:51:33.060 about John

00:51:35.100 Kerry.

00:51:35.560 So,

00:51:36.260 since he

00:51:37.140 began serving

00:51:37.860 in the Biden

00:51:38.280 administration,

00:51:38.960 let me tell you

00:51:39.300 something about

00:51:39.640 his personal

00:51:40.620 emissions,

00:51:41.360 I mean his

00:51:41.940 plane.

00:51:44.100 In 2021,

00:51:45.860 he took

00:51:47.080 48 trips

00:51:48.280 lasting more

00:51:49.740 than 60

00:51:50.240 hours in

00:51:50.740 total.

00:51:51.380 It's a lot

00:51:51.800 of time

00:51:52.140 in private

00:51:52.520 planes.

00:51:52.900 He has a

00:51:53.300 big private

00:51:53.960 plane.

00:51:54.300 his plane

00:51:56.260 emitted

00:51:56.680 an estimated

00:51:57.940 715,886

00:52:01.480 pounds

00:52:02.060 of carbon

00:52:04.080 or 325

00:52:05.840 metric

00:52:06.800 tons.

00:52:08.020 This is

00:52:08.540 John Kerry

00:52:09.100 single-handedly

00:52:09.900 since he

00:52:10.940 first took

00:52:11.540 his position

00:52:12.100 in the

00:52:12.360 Biden

00:52:12.560 administration.

00:52:13.300 Now,

00:52:13.860 I was

00:52:14.880 trying to

00:52:15.340 think of

00:52:15.720 how do

00:52:16.100 you

00:52:16.260 characterize

00:52:16.820 what is

00:52:17.520 325

00:52:18.400 tons

00:52:19.120 to put

00:52:20.880 it in

00:52:21.400 kind of

00:52:22.120 relative

00:52:22.700 comparison.

00:52:25.240 So,

00:52:25.500 I did a

00:52:25.820 little bit

00:52:26.080 of searching

00:52:26.460 online.

00:52:27.140 Actually,

00:52:27.420 right before

00:52:27.820 we did

00:52:28.040 the podcast,

00:52:28.580 I wouldn't

00:52:28.800 let you

00:52:29.060 start because

00:52:29.400 I was on

00:52:29.700 my phone

00:52:30.140 Googling.

00:52:30.600 Here's

00:52:30.780 what I

00:52:31.000 found.

00:52:32.740 The

00:52:33.180 country

00:52:33.740 of

00:52:34.720 Greenland

00:52:35.720 emits

00:52:37.980 in a

00:52:38.280 given

00:52:38.500 year

00:52:39.100 1,530

00:52:42.140 tons

00:52:43.180 of carbon.

00:52:45.060 In

00:52:45.340 other

00:52:45.560 words,

00:52:46.720 John

00:52:47.060 Kerry

00:52:47.520 individually,

00:52:48.540 one

00:52:48.740 person,

00:52:50.720 emits

00:52:51.260 roughly

00:52:51.960 a

00:52:52.340 fifth,

00:52:53.360 20%

00:52:54.240 of what

00:52:55.080 the

00:52:55.300 entire

00:52:55.920 nation

00:52:56.980 of

00:52:57.280 Greenland

00:52:57.980 emits.

00:52:58.780 And

00:52:58.860 Greenland,

00:52:59.480 by the

00:53:00.360 way,

00:53:00.800 is a

00:53:01.080 little

00:53:01.200 over

00:53:01.440 836,000

00:53:03.160 square

00:53:03.640 miles.

00:53:05.020 Greenland

00:53:05.380 has over

00:53:05.920 56,000

00:53:07.040 people who

00:53:07.680 live in

00:53:08.520 Greenland.

00:53:09.080 So,

00:53:09.400 one

00:53:09.600 guy,

00:53:10.820 John

00:53:11.080 Kerry

00:53:11.440 and his

00:53:11.760 entourage

00:53:12.560 that care

00:53:13.760 for his

00:53:14.160 gray

00:53:14.400 poupon,

00:53:15.340 and that

00:53:16.080 polished

00:53:16.460 the

00:53:16.640 tassels

00:53:17.340 on his

00:53:17.660 loafers,

00:53:19.380 he emits

00:53:20.220 one-fifth

00:53:22.160 of what

00:53:22.620 56,000

00:53:24.140 people in

00:53:25.080 the entire

00:53:25.660 nation of

00:53:26.260 Greenland

00:53:26.760 emits.

00:53:28.560 And he

00:53:28.780 has...

00:53:29.140 He's kind

00:53:29.300 of a big

00:53:29.680 deal,

00:53:30.040 Senator.

00:53:30.340 You should

00:53:30.700 know that.

00:53:31.140 He's kind

00:53:31.580 of a big

00:53:31.960 deal.

00:53:32.240 He deserves

00:53:32.720 that private

00:53:33.360 jet.

00:53:33.740 And you

00:53:34.020 know what

00:53:34.340 he's willing

00:53:34.720 to tell

00:53:35.120 you?

00:53:35.520 You need

00:53:36.220 to give

00:53:36.460 up your

00:53:36.740 automobile.

00:53:37.300 You need

00:53:38.000 to give

00:53:38.240 up your

00:53:38.500 gas stove.

00:53:39.280 You need

00:53:39.580 to give

00:53:39.820 up your

00:53:40.100 lawnmower.

00:53:40.900 You need

00:53:41.340 to give

00:53:41.600 up your

00:53:41.940 washing

00:53:42.300 machine.

00:53:42.780 You need

00:53:45.340 that's

00:53:45.740 his

00:53:45.760 offset,

00:53:46.260 I guess,

00:53:46.560 right?

00:53:46.780 That's

00:53:47.040 exactly

00:53:47.400 right.

00:53:47.800 If he

00:53:48.080 takes away

00:53:49.720 your cars

00:53:50.400 and the

00:53:50.700 cars of

00:53:51.120 the other

00:53:51.380 56,000

00:53:52.520 people in

00:53:53.040 Greenland,

00:53:53.680 it will

00:53:54.540 make up

00:53:54.980 for his

00:53:55.340 private jet

00:53:56.080 and he's

00:53:56.560 saving the

00:53:57.020 world.

00:53:57.760 The absolute

00:53:58.700 hypocrisy

00:53:59.500 of the

00:53:59.720 left,

00:54:00.760 it is

00:54:01.440 difficult to

00:54:02.200 find it

00:54:02.640 better

00:54:03.300 personified

00:54:04.020 than his

00:54:04.520 comment,

00:54:05.540 the gazillionaires

00:54:06.340 in Davos

00:54:06.980 do more,

00:54:08.060 much more

00:54:09.060 than you

00:54:09.940 little people.

00:54:10.720 Great googling,

00:54:11.380 by the way,

00:54:11.700 right before the

00:54:12.220 show.

00:54:12.520 That was worth

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Verdict with Ted Cruz - March 27, 2023

The Inside Story： ANOTHER Biden Nom Defeated, plus Biden LOVES China & Kerry LOVES Private Jets

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