Verdict with Ted Cruz - Three HUGE Victories： Dems Run Away from Trump Indictment, Newsmax BACK ON AIR, & Unqualified FAA Nominee Likely to be Withdrawn

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00:00:05.720 Welcome.

00:00:06.500 It is The Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz.

00:00:08.580 Ben Ferguson with you.

00:00:09.960 Senator, we're sitting here Wednesday midday

00:00:12.400 and we were waiting to see what was going to happen

00:00:14.940 with the big news on Donald Trump.

00:00:17.340 As he said, he was going to get arrested on Tuesday.

00:00:19.960 That time frame has now changed

00:00:21.760 and it looks like Democrats may be getting cold feet.

00:00:25.260 Fox News announced it this way.

00:00:26.940 We begin America reports with a developing story.

00:00:32.000 Grand jury proceedings in the hush money case

00:00:34.340 against former President Trump canceled for today.

00:00:37.560 This is we await news on a possible indictment.

00:00:41.440 Now, Senator, this obviously was a shock moment

00:00:45.120 for many that were expecting an indictment.

00:00:47.380 But if you listen to the news,

00:00:50.680 and I'm talking about the liberals out there,

00:00:52.540 they were campaigning for this.

00:00:54.500 Van Jones actually went on TV, on CNN, last night

00:00:59.780 and was pretty much making a public plea

00:01:02.800 to this activist DA,

00:01:04.900 do not do this.

00:01:06.380 This is a bad move.

00:01:07.640 It will actually hurt Democrats more than anybody else.

00:01:10.900 Here's how he put it on CNN.

00:01:12.560 Oh, if anybody is a Republican

00:01:14.580 and they have been afraid that there's some conspiracy,

00:01:18.020 some well-organized conspiracy among progressives,

00:01:20.380 they can relax now because you would not start with this charge.

00:01:25.680 You would start with the charge in Georgia

00:01:27.360 where he was interfering with elections.

00:01:29.380 You would start with the charge that he was helping the insurrectionists in a coup.

00:01:32.500 You wouldn't start with an eight-year-old porn star payoff.

00:01:36.280 So, again, this is proof, if nothing else,

00:01:40.500 that the progressives are not very well organized.

00:01:42.760 This is not the one you would start with.

00:01:44.540 That said, I hear my conservative friends saying,

00:01:47.300 they're being overcharged.

00:01:48.940 It's so aggressive.

00:01:50.220 It's so terrible.

00:01:51.380 Welcome to my world, folks.

00:01:55.000 Prosecutors overcharging, being overaggressive, 0.55

00:01:57.700 being ridiculous with minor stuff and turning it into major stuff

00:02:00.580 happens every single day in America, 0.93

00:02:03.120 every courthouse in America.

00:02:04.820 I think you want to be consistent now.

00:02:06.480 If you're concerned that this particular person named Donald Trump

00:02:09.460 is being overcharged and mistreated by a prosecutor,

00:02:11.920 join the rest of us who are trying to stop that from happening to ordinary people.

00:02:15.220 But my view about this is,

00:02:17.300 I think that the heat is on this DA.

00:02:21.160 I think he's going to make a very sober decision,

00:02:23.760 and I would not be surprised if he doesn't step back from the brink.

00:02:26.900 Doesn't step back from the brink.

00:02:28.320 Senator, I've never seen a Democratic operative go on national TV

00:02:31.940 speaking directly to a DA saying,

00:02:34.900 don't do this in this way.

00:02:36.720 Well, you're right, and I think this is a big deal. 0.99

00:02:39.260 Number one, this potential indictment is garbage. 0.96

00:02:43.340 It is legally frivolous. 1.00

00:02:44.480 It is baseless.

00:02:45.900 It is pure partisan hatred.

00:02:48.580 It is the weaponization of our legal system, of our justice system.

00:02:52.740 I would encourage everyone,

00:02:54.400 if you didn't listen to Monday's podcast,

00:02:56.780 you should go back and listen to it.

00:02:58.940 The entire podcast on Monday,

00:03:01.420 we went through chapter and verse,

00:03:04.080 the detailed reasons why this prosecution is utterly baseless.

00:03:08.740 We walked through the statutes under which the New York DA is looking at Donald Trump

00:03:14.000 and the reasons why neither the facts nor law remotely support it.

00:03:17.980 It's important to understand what's happening here.

00:03:20.320 You won't get it from watching the news.

00:03:22.480 Monday's podcast will walk you through and give you that information.

00:03:25.300 What is striking, though,

00:03:28.080 is ever since it became public

00:03:30.020 that an arrest and indictment of Trump was imminent,

00:03:34.160 we've seen Democrats freaking out.

00:03:36.940 And I got to say,

00:03:38.560 the attitude of many Democrats right now is remarkable.

00:03:44.240 It frankly, it reminds me of Monty Python.

00:03:47.600 And here's the Democrats' response today.

00:03:58.380 I mean, Senator, I love that part of the movie.

00:04:01.580 And it's so accurate to the Democrats.

00:04:03.500 They're literally screaming at this DA,

00:04:06.420 do not do this, 0.98

00:04:07.780 do not give this gift of a ridiculous indictment to Donald Trump 0.98

00:04:12.000 and turn him into a martyr, 0.99

00:04:13.560 literally run away.

00:04:15.220 Yeah, look, that is certainly the reaction of a lot of Democrats.

00:04:20.500 You and I observed on Monday's podcast

00:04:23.040 that if they go ahead with this arrest and this indictment,

00:04:26.600 when the case is blown out of the water in court,

00:04:29.980 which it will be,

00:04:31.240 that the effect, ironically,

00:04:33.100 will be a massive backfire

00:04:34.960 where this left-wing George Soros-funded DA

00:04:37.700 may well have played a pivotal role

00:04:41.020 in re-electing Donald Trump

00:04:42.820 as president of the United States.

00:04:44.100 And I think a whole lot of Democrats

00:04:45.360 are realizing this and going, 0.99

00:04:47.540 holy crap, we hate the guy, 1.00

00:04:49.520 but this is really dumb. 1.00

00:04:51.300 And we'll see if Bragg actually runs away. 0.92

00:04:55.800 So the reason we don't have news today,

00:04:58.360 look, we had anticipated,

00:05:00.160 based on what was publicly said,

00:05:01.740 that there would be an indictment this morning.

00:05:05.620 And what happened instead is Alvin Bragg

00:05:08.680 told the grand jury, stay home.

00:05:10.900 Don't come in today.

00:05:12.380 I got to get you to put your lawyer hat on, Senator, here.

00:05:14.620 For people that don't understand

00:05:16.680 or maybe have never been in a court

00:05:18.760 with a grand jury or dealt with this,

00:05:21.060 how abnormal is this?

00:05:23.520 What is happening behind the scenes?

00:05:25.580 How does this work when you tell a grand jury to stay home?

00:05:27.940 And why does that usually happen?

00:05:29.900 Yeah, look, there are two types of juries

00:05:31.920 in our criminal justice system.

00:05:33.260 There's a grand jury and a pettit jury.

00:05:35.700 A grand jury occurs before the trial.

00:05:38.420 And a grand jury consists of citizens from the community

00:05:43.000 who are impaneled for an extended period of time.

00:05:46.740 And the prosecutor will go and present evidence

00:05:49.540 to the grand jury seeking an indictment.

00:05:51.980 And the prosecutor does that

00:05:53.520 without the defense attorney present.

00:05:55.680 So it's a one-sided presentation.

00:05:57.320 And it's the prosecutor presenting evidence to say,

00:06:01.200 is this enough to charge the defendant

00:06:03.780 with whatever crime they're trying to indict him on?

00:06:06.560 The prosecutor has enormous leeway with the grand jury.

00:06:10.820 There's an old line that is repeated a gazillion times,

00:06:14.040 which is a prosecutor can indict a ham sandwich.

00:06:16.480 And part of the reason is the ham sandwich doesn't get a lawyer.

00:06:19.140 So it's the prosecutor is alone with the grand jury.

00:06:23.160 In this instance, the reason that the Manhattan DA

00:06:26.320 would have told the grand jury, stay home, don't come in today,

00:06:29.580 is that Alvin Bragg made the decision.

00:06:32.980 He didn't want to indict Donald Trump today.

00:06:35.500 Now, at least according to public reporting,

00:06:38.380 they are coming in tomorrow on Thursday.

00:06:40.360 So we may have a podcast coming up

00:06:43.340 where we have different news to report.

00:06:45.920 The fact that he hit pause

00:06:47.520 does not necessarily mean that Bragg is hitting stop.

00:06:51.460 And you have to assume that Bragg,

00:06:53.800 like every other Democrat, has Trump derangement syndrome.

00:06:56.440 They hate him so much, he may not be able to stop.

00:06:59.860 But I will say, look,

00:07:02.180 I think the American people generally

00:07:04.780 are not terribly interested in obsessing

00:07:10.560 on the personal misconduct

00:07:13.600 and the sex lives of politicians. 0.87

00:07:16.660 We famously had Bill Clinton and his impeachment.

00:07:20.380 And I think one of the reasons

00:07:21.520 why Bill Clinton survived all of that

00:07:23.620 is the American people,

00:07:24.920 they certainly didn't admire Bill Clinton's conduct,

00:07:27.920 but at the end of the day,

00:07:29.160 they were much more interested

00:07:30.660 and focused on official corruption

00:07:32.520 rather than the personal failings

00:07:35.420 that Bill Clinton may have had.

00:07:37.440 We've sadly seen politicians from both parties

00:07:40.480 have serious moral failings

00:07:43.660 and sexual improprieties.

00:07:46.100 But I do think a lot of Democrats

00:07:47.920 are pretty dismayed

00:07:50.960 that their opening salvo

00:07:53.020 of the criminal justice system

00:07:54.660 is focused on an alleged affair with a porn star.

00:07:59.460 I think a lot of the voters,

00:08:01.760 they knew about this already.

00:08:03.820 They knew about this at the time

00:08:06.040 and they made their decisions

00:08:07.260 on whom to vote for

00:08:09.600 based on what policies would impact

00:08:12.060 their lives and their families.

00:08:14.140 And so I hope Bragg actually listens

00:08:17.420 to the Democrats who are freaking out.

00:08:20.160 And by the way,

00:08:20.780 I hope the other prosecutors,

00:08:22.180 I hope Merrick Garland,

00:08:23.980 who the Department of Justice prosecution

00:08:26.040 is potentially far more dangerous.

00:08:28.260 We've talked at length

00:08:29.340 about how I believe Merrick Garland

00:08:30.900 for the same reason Alvin Bragg

00:08:32.980 wants to indict and prosecute Trump.

00:08:35.400 Merrick Garland does too.

00:08:37.060 I hope all of these prosecutors

00:08:39.060 engaged in partisan justice

00:08:41.400 stop and just do their jobs.

00:08:44.680 The threshold for indicting a president

00:08:47.020 has never happened

00:08:47.740 in the history of our country.

00:08:49.200 The threshold should be high.

00:08:52.800 It should be meaningful.

00:08:54.140 It should not be some ticky-tack.

00:08:56.480 Explain why, because some people

00:08:58.440 may not understand the reason

00:08:59.500 why we've had such a threshold.

00:09:00.900 I mean, you go back to even Nixon

00:09:02.120 when he left the presidency.

00:09:04.540 The reason why is the man

00:09:07.240 who came into that position of power

00:09:09.000 to become the president

00:09:10.080 basically pardoned him completely

00:09:13.000 was he said,

00:09:13.980 it's not good for the country.

00:09:15.960 We don't want to be going after 0.93

00:09:18.660 political leaders,

00:09:19.680 especially a former president,

00:09:20.900 and turn us into a third world country 0.98

00:09:23.700 where you send people into exile

00:09:25.660 and you arrest former leaders

00:09:27.140 when other people win elections,

00:09:28.540 and so be it if it hurts me,

00:09:30.880 but it's for the good of the country.

00:09:32.880 Well, that's exactly right,

00:09:34.740 and Stalin famously said,

00:09:36.700 show me the man

00:09:37.300 and I'll show you the crime.

00:09:40.240 Prosecutors have a lot of discretion.

00:09:41.940 Prosecutors have a lot of authority.

00:09:44.100 If you unleash a team of prosecutors

00:09:46.800 on anybody,

00:09:48.660 I had a bunch of reporters yesterday

00:09:50.240 asking me about that.

00:09:51.380 You know, well, don't you think it's good

00:09:53.140 we're investigating

00:09:53.860 if Trump's committed a crime?

00:09:55.480 I said, look,

00:09:55.980 if we investigated

00:09:56.880 descended prosecutors on you,

00:09:59.040 I'm certain we'd find

00:10:00.080 you've committed a crime.

00:10:01.420 You may have this morning

00:10:02.880 driving to work.

00:10:03.900 You probably sped.

00:10:05.640 Like, at some level,

00:10:08.660 the criminal justice system

00:10:10.200 is meant to work for serious crimes

00:10:12.860 where there's real injury,

00:10:14.460 where there's real victims.

00:10:16.020 Now, that's true

00:10:16.760 whether it's a violent crime

00:10:18.220 or whether it's a crime of corruption.

00:10:19.840 Look, the evidence

00:10:21.960 about the Biden family corruption

00:10:24.000 making millions of dollars

00:10:26.320 selling access

00:10:27.800 and selling government policies,

00:10:30.680 whether it is to Burisma,

00:10:32.360 the Ukrainian natural gas company,

00:10:34.100 or whether it is

00:10:34.940 to the Chinese Communist Party,

00:10:37.440 those are serious

00:10:38.540 and real questions

00:10:39.620 of public policy and corruption.

00:10:42.820 But, you know,

00:10:44.260 you talked about

00:10:44.920 third world countries.

00:10:45.940 Listen, sadly,

00:10:46.580 a lot of countries in the world

00:10:47.780 have a history of

00:10:49.340 one administration,

00:10:51.140 one party will be in power,

00:10:52.520 then the next party

00:10:53.500 gets in power,

00:10:54.260 and one of the first things

00:10:55.120 they do is lock up

00:10:56.460 their predecessors,

00:10:57.240 go after their predecessors

00:10:58.420 and say,

00:10:59.300 okay, now you're going to jail.

00:11:00.940 And ultimately,

00:11:02.380 that is incredibly harmful

00:11:04.640 for the rule of law.

00:11:05.680 It's incredibly harmful

00:11:06.720 for democracy,

00:11:08.040 and because prosecutors

00:11:09.580 have so much power,

00:11:11.520 we don't want Republicans,

00:11:13.740 when they come in office,

00:11:14.820 unleashing all of that force

00:11:16.700 trying to just incarcerate

00:11:18.760 their opponents.

00:11:19.480 We don't want Democrats

00:11:20.560 in power unleashing

00:11:21.900 all their force

00:11:22.760 trying to incarcerate

00:11:24.120 their opponents.

00:11:24.740 You know,

00:11:24.900 I talk about this

00:11:25.840 at length

00:11:26.920 in my latest book,

00:11:28.720 Justice Corrupted,

00:11:29.580 about the way

00:11:30.180 it's supposed to work,

00:11:31.800 and in this instance,

00:11:34.660 particularly with respect

00:11:36.140 to a former president,

00:11:37.780 and especially

00:11:38.400 a former president

00:11:39.860 of the opposing party,

00:11:41.420 we shouldn't see

00:11:44.000 the kind of

00:11:44.640 ticky-tack indictments.

00:11:46.840 Look, this New York statute

00:11:48.060 is a bookkeeping statute.

00:11:50.060 It's a misdemeanor

00:11:51.040 on its face.

00:11:52.180 It's the sort of thing

00:11:53.360 that on the terms of it,

00:11:55.100 if Trump is committed

00:11:56.200 to a violation,

00:11:57.180 Hillary Clinton has too.

00:11:58.420 And we talked about that

00:11:59.460 at length

00:11:59.940 on Monday's podcast.

00:12:02.880 And so if it's...

00:12:03.420 Yeah, go back.

00:12:03.980 You said earlier,

00:12:04.880 and I'll say it again.

00:12:05.560 Go back and listen to...

00:12:07.680 If you missed

00:12:08.340 the last podcast,

00:12:09.320 go back and get it,

00:12:10.220 because it will lay out

00:12:12.060 so much of what

00:12:13.040 we're referencing right now.

00:12:14.500 If you missed it,

00:12:15.100 it's worth going back

00:12:16.040 and listening to.

00:12:17.240 Senator, I also want

00:12:18.260 to ask you about

00:12:18.780 just a basic

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00:12:21.100 about this.

00:12:23.080 There's some in the media

00:12:24.020 that have been saying

00:12:24.600 Donald Trump is terrified.

00:12:26.360 MSNBC said he's shaking

00:12:27.420 in his boots

00:12:27.960 of being indicted.

00:12:29.540 I completely disagree

00:12:30.940 with that.

00:12:31.560 I think this would

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00:13:41.460 All right.

00:13:42.040 Politically,

00:13:42.660 Senator,

00:13:43.560 I've seen this on TV

00:13:45.620 where they're obsessing

00:13:46.760 over Donald Trump

00:13:47.820 being afraid

00:13:48.460 of being indicted

00:13:49.340 and this will be

00:13:50.720 the end of his

00:13:51.280 political career.

00:13:52.140 I don't think

00:13:52.780 he's afraid of this.

00:13:53.640 If I was Donald Trump,

00:13:54.940 the only thing

00:13:56.320 I would be arguing over

00:13:57.280 is what to wear

00:13:58.120 and how big I should grin

00:13:59.540 if they make me come in

00:14:00.840 and do a mugshot.

00:14:02.000 Well,

00:14:04.900 I'm confident

00:14:05.460 the answer to that

00:14:06.440 will be

00:14:06.860 if there's a mugshot,

00:14:08.080 Trump will be smiling

00:14:09.180 ear to ear.

00:14:11.400 And I think you're right.

00:14:13.080 I think he is

00:14:14.300 perfectly happy

00:14:15.320 to have 0.99

00:14:16.040 this ridiculous 0.91

00:14:17.420 prosecution 0.98

00:14:18.220 targeted at him.

00:14:19.200 I think it benefits

00:14:20.040 him politically.

00:14:22.320 And that's precisely

00:14:24.260 why Democrats

00:14:25.340 are running away.

00:14:26.140 I will say,

00:14:26.780 by the way,

00:14:27.560 just a minute ago,

00:14:28.460 I had that sort of

00:14:29.540 nagging voice

00:14:30.220 in the back of my mind.

00:14:31.180 I said that Stalin

00:14:32.800 was the one who said,

00:14:33.740 show me the man,

00:14:34.260 I'll show you the crime.

00:14:35.220 And part of me was saying,

00:14:36.040 well, I don't think

00:14:36.640 that's right,

00:14:37.120 so I just Googled it.

00:14:38.440 Turned out I was

00:14:39.220 sort of right,

00:14:39.920 but sort of wrong.

00:14:40.900 It wasn't actually Stalin

00:14:41.780 who said that.

00:14:42.520 It was Lavrentia Beria,

00:14:45.660 who was the longest

00:14:46.860 serving secret police chief

00:14:48.620 working for Joseph Stalin.

00:14:50.640 There you go.

00:14:51.460 And what he said,

00:14:52.400 his quote was,

00:14:53.200 show me the man

00:14:53.740 and I'll show you the crime.

00:14:54.700 And he served

00:14:55.960 as deputy premier

00:14:56.820 from 1941

00:14:58.320 until Stalin's death

00:14:59.600 in 1953.

00:15:00.940 And he was in charge

00:15:02.000 of the gulags.

00:15:02.880 And he understood,

00:15:04.500 whoever it is,

00:15:05.340 Ben Ferguson,

00:15:06.580 he may well have

00:15:07.360 committed a felony

00:15:08.100 while recording this podcast,

00:15:09.920 for all we know.

00:15:11.160 But if we unleash

00:15:12.640 the secret police on him,

00:15:13.940 we're going to find something.

00:15:15.640 Yeah.

00:15:15.900 And that's what

00:15:16.780 this seems to be about.

00:15:17.920 There is one audio clip

00:15:20.340 I've got to just play for you.

00:15:21.560 And I do think

00:15:22.360 this tells you a lot

00:15:23.640 about the mindset

00:15:24.460 of the left right now.

00:15:26.040 They are obsessed

00:15:27.060 and have been

00:15:27.760 since 2016

00:15:29.000 with putting

00:15:30.000 Donald Trump in jail.

00:15:31.720 The View,

00:15:32.760 put it this way,

00:15:33.880 this morning.

00:15:35.020 I want to start this

00:15:35.980 with this update.

00:15:38.040 You know who

00:15:39.120 is still at large.

00:15:41.660 He is.

00:15:43.220 Yes, he is.

00:15:43.980 He is.

00:15:44.580 He hasn't been arrested.

00:15:46.020 No.

00:15:46.520 Like he predicted.

00:15:47.600 Well, you know,

00:15:49.340 you kind of have to weigh it

00:15:50.680 with all the other stuff

00:15:51.660 he said.

00:15:52.740 And you figure,

00:15:53.620 well, you know,

00:15:54.920 you said you won

00:15:55.840 the election.

00:15:56.360 You didn't win.

00:15:57.060 Good point.

00:15:57.740 You said they're

00:15:58.020 coming to arrest you.

00:15:59.600 They didn't arrest you.

00:16:00.120 I said that to Joy.

00:16:01.020 Why don't we start

00:16:01.900 believing him now?

00:16:03.180 Yeah, I mean,

00:16:03.780 it's kind of crazy.

00:16:05.000 He manipulated everybody.

00:16:06.520 We all rose to the occasion.

00:16:08.140 The papers,

00:16:08.780 everybody just went there.

00:16:10.180 So many people

00:16:10.820 were excited. 1.00

00:16:11.660 Liar. 0.99

00:16:12.260 Yeah. 0.98

00:16:15.000 I mean,

00:16:16.080 this is their obsession.

00:16:17.220 And that's where

00:16:18.160 I think Bragg

00:16:18.800 probably said

00:16:19.480 the people want me

00:16:20.520 to do this.

00:16:21.020 The media wants me

00:16:21.820 to do this.

00:16:22.500 They're all pushing

00:16:23.360 for this.

00:16:24.080 I'll be the guy

00:16:24.800 to do it.

00:16:25.260 And really,

00:16:25.720 it may help him

00:16:26.640 politically

00:16:27.140 because there's

00:16:28.160 a very good chance

00:16:28.840 he wants to run

00:16:29.640 for governor

00:16:30.240 of New York.

00:16:32.260 Well,

00:16:32.700 I think it's amusing

00:16:33.660 that the views

00:16:34.460 take on it is,

00:16:35.540 oh, no, no, no,

00:16:35.900 he wasn't going

00:16:36.540 to be arrested.

00:16:37.920 Look,

00:16:38.400 it's clear Bragg

00:16:39.480 was planning to arrest him

00:16:40.680 and planning to arrest him

00:16:41.940 this week.

00:16:43.180 That's why there's been

00:16:44.600 this Democrat freak out

00:16:45.940 because I think

00:16:46.800 Democrats realized

00:16:47.920 it was an enormous stumble.

00:16:51.040 The case is legally frivolous.

00:16:53.620 Anyone who looks at it,

00:16:54.840 you can't with a straight face

00:16:56.440 argue that you should go

00:16:59.440 after Trump

00:17:00.560 based on this New York

00:17:02.080 bookkeeping violation

00:17:03.840 that has no application

00:17:07.880 to this.

00:17:08.560 It's a statute

00:17:09.600 that says you can't

00:17:11.060 have a false

00:17:11.860 bookkeeping business record.

00:17:14.340 And in this instance,

00:17:15.600 he's trying to,

00:17:16.500 the statute of limitations

00:17:17.880 has run.

00:17:18.740 In other words,

00:17:19.200 he can't charge

00:17:20.280 the misdemeanor offense.

00:17:22.320 So he's got to try

00:17:23.180 to bootstrap it

00:17:24.260 into a federal election

00:17:25.920 law offense,

00:17:26.600 which the Federal Election

00:17:27.580 Commission declined

00:17:28.500 to prosecute.

00:17:29.400 The Department of Justice

00:17:30.560 declined to prosecute.

00:17:31.880 The Southern District

00:17:32.760 of New York

00:17:33.240 declined to prosecute.

00:17:34.740 And the Mueller investigation

00:17:36.460 declined to prosecute.

00:17:37.480 So everyone who's

00:17:38.100 looked at this

00:17:38.800 says there's no

00:17:40.280 there there.

00:17:41.360 And yet,

00:17:41.860 if you wake up

00:17:43.780 every morning

00:17:44.680 growling and hating 0.99

00:17:46.380 Donald Trump 0.92

00:17:47.220 like Whoopi Goldberg

00:17:48.220 does,

00:17:48.660 like Alvin Bragg does,

00:17:50.420 then you don't care

00:17:52.300 about the facts

00:17:53.000 of the law.

00:17:53.560 You just want

00:17:54.100 to get the guy.

00:17:55.600 And I think

00:17:56.220 what has happened

00:17:56.840 this week so far

00:17:57.940 is it may be

00:18:00.020 that Bragg's

00:18:00.660 getting cold feet

00:18:01.560 because Democrats

00:18:02.360 are so terrified

00:18:03.700 of the consequences

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00:18:38.680 Yeah,

00:18:39.140 no doubt about it.

00:18:39.760 I want to talk about

00:18:40.520 a couple different victories

00:18:41.600 real quick,

00:18:42.240 Senator.

00:18:42.640 One of those deals,

00:18:44.880 and we talked about this

00:18:46.020 on a prior pod,

00:18:47.300 with the idea

00:18:48.980 of Phil Washington

00:18:50.420 heading the FAA.

00:18:53.420 You've got some news

00:18:54.600 to break on that,

00:18:55.700 but before we get to it,

00:18:56.840 I want people to hear

00:18:57.920 what you had to say

00:18:59.220 from the floor

00:18:59.700 of the Senate

00:19:00.120 last night.

00:19:00.820 Let me suggest

00:19:02.340 to the members

00:19:02.940 of the Senate,

00:19:03.900 if God forbid

00:19:06.240 that were to happen

00:19:08.760 in the next two years,

00:19:09.740 and I pray

00:19:10.340 that it does not,

00:19:12.220 I can tell you

00:19:13.640 I certainly wouldn't

00:19:14.680 want to be a senator

00:19:15.460 who voted to confirm

00:19:18.060 an administrator

00:19:18.720 of the FAA

00:19:19.560 who's never flown a plane,

00:19:21.120 who doesn't know anything

00:19:21.900 about aviation safety,

00:19:23.040 and has no idea

00:19:24.240 why the plane crashed.

00:19:25.440 I don't know

00:19:27.520 how I'd go home

00:19:28.520 and explain

00:19:29.540 to 30 million Texans

00:19:31.040 that, well,

00:19:34.120 you know,

00:19:35.200 my political party

00:19:36.180 nominated him,

00:19:37.300 and so I just,

00:19:38.440 I went with party loyalty

00:19:39.520 and voted to confirm

00:19:40.460 the guy,

00:19:41.220 even though

00:19:41.940 he didn't have the experience

00:19:43.240 to do the job.

00:19:45.280 I don't believe

00:19:46.300 Mr. Washington's

00:19:47.560 going to be confirmed.

00:19:48.760 I personally,

00:19:49.960 I respect

00:19:50.540 his military service

00:19:52.580 when he testified

00:19:55.020 before the committee,

00:19:56.100 he seemed

00:19:56.720 like a decent

00:19:59.340 and capable man,

00:20:00.900 but he's also a man

00:20:04.120 who doesn't know

00:20:05.240 anything about airplanes,

00:20:06.960 and if there's any job

00:20:10.000 in the entire

00:20:10.640 federal government

00:20:11.480 where you need to know

00:20:12.500 not just something

00:20:13.380 about airplanes,

00:20:14.480 a lot about airplanes,

00:20:17.500 it is to be

00:20:18.540 the administrator

00:20:19.220 of the FAA.

00:20:20.140 We need a Senate-confirmed

00:20:21.440 leader in this job

00:20:22.520 quickly,

00:20:23.360 and I would urge

00:20:25.320 the president

00:20:25.900 withdraw this nomination

00:20:27.640 and nominate

00:20:30.460 either acting

00:20:31.620 Administrator Nolan

00:20:32.600 or if not him,

00:20:34.260 somebody like him

00:20:35.520 with decades

00:20:37.460 of real experience

00:20:38.820 so that we can have

00:20:40.000 a Senate-confirmed leader

00:20:41.400 with the knowledge

00:20:43.000 and judgment

00:20:43.920 and expertise

00:20:44.660 to do everything

00:20:45.800 humanly possible

00:20:46.880 to keep your family safe

00:20:48.980 and my family safe

00:20:50.200 and to keep the

00:20:50.840 flying public safe.

00:20:52.000 We have a responsibility.

00:20:54.460 We have a responsibility

00:20:55.600 to do this right.

00:20:58.040 I yield the floor.

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00:22:12.960 Senator,

00:22:13.400 you've talked about this.

00:22:14.780 You've been leading

00:22:15.340 on Phil Washington

00:22:16.280 saying he's just

00:22:17.160 not qualified

00:22:17.940 and now you've got news

00:22:19.560 to break on this nomination.

00:22:21.800 Well, I think we're

00:22:22.380 on the verge

00:22:22.940 of a major victory here

00:22:24.040 which is that speech

00:22:25.740 I gave on the Senate floor

00:22:26.820 last night.

00:22:28.060 This morning

00:22:28.800 we had the markup

00:22:29.900 where Phil Washington

00:22:30.900 was scheduled

00:22:31.460 to be voted on

00:22:32.180 in the Commerce Committee.

00:22:33.380 That began at 10 a.m.

00:22:34.920 and at 10 a.m.

00:22:35.740 I had every reason

00:22:36.640 to believe

00:22:37.140 that we were going

00:22:38.200 to vote on Phil Washington.

00:22:39.940 A few minutes later,

00:22:41.040 Maria Cantwell,

00:22:41.840 the Democrat chair,

00:22:42.860 announced that

00:22:43.780 that the committee

00:22:45.160 was delaying

00:22:46.040 the vote

00:22:46.400 on Phil Washington,

00:22:47.260 that we were not

00:22:47.900 voting on Phil Washington

00:22:49.000 today.

00:22:50.500 I think the reason

00:22:51.400 is simple.

00:22:51.920 They don't have the votes.

00:22:53.160 And listen,

00:22:54.620 Washington is

00:22:55.820 wildly unqualified

00:22:57.460 to do this job.

00:22:59.200 The job

00:22:59.800 is administrator

00:23:00.500 of the FAA.

00:23:02.580 Millions of Americans

00:23:03.640 fly on planes

00:23:04.680 every year.

00:23:06.280 Mr. Washington

00:23:07.000 doesn't know

00:23:07.700 anything about planes.

00:23:09.120 He's not a pilot.

00:23:10.480 He's never been

00:23:11.240 a military pilot.

00:23:12.200 He's never been

00:23:12.700 a commercial

00:23:13.080 airline pilot.

00:23:14.260 He's never worked

00:23:15.180 for an airline.

00:23:16.120 He's never worked

00:23:16.960 at the FAA.

00:23:18.220 He's never worked

00:23:19.360 in airplane manufacture.

00:23:22.180 He's never worked

00:23:22.860 in airplane repair.

00:23:24.620 He's never worked

00:23:25.260 as an air traffic controller.

00:23:27.040 His career

00:23:27.920 has been dealing

00:23:28.680 with buses and trains.

00:23:29.940 Buses and trains

00:23:30.600 are great,

00:23:31.180 but they don't fly

00:23:32.060 in the air.

00:23:33.420 And his nomination

00:23:36.280 on its face

00:23:37.540 is he is wildly

00:23:41.360 unqualified

00:23:42.000 for this job.

00:23:42.960 I believe all

00:23:43.640 of the Republicans

00:23:44.280 agree with that.

00:23:45.420 But there have been

00:23:45.940 a number of Democrats

00:23:46.860 who have expressed

00:23:47.760 publicly concerns.

00:23:50.040 And listen,

00:23:51.460 something like the FAA

00:23:52.540 I don't think

00:23:53.720 should be a partisan position.

00:23:55.240 I don't particularly

00:23:55.820 want a Republican

00:23:56.660 FAA administrator

00:23:57.520 or a Democrat

00:23:58.340 FAA administrator.

00:23:59.520 I want a guy

00:24:00.400 who knows how

00:24:00.820 to keep planes

00:24:01.380 in the air.

00:24:02.580 And I'll point out

00:24:04.500 there is right now

00:24:07.200 somebody,

00:24:08.620 Billy Nolan,

00:24:09.420 who is the acting

00:24:10.400 administrator

00:24:11.020 to the FAA.

00:24:12.580 Joe Biden selected him,

00:24:14.500 named him

00:24:15.000 the acting administrator.

00:24:16.180 Unlike Phil Washington,

00:24:17.780 he has decades

00:24:18.480 of experience

00:24:19.340 in aviation.

00:24:20.140 He has decades

00:24:21.040 of experience

00:24:21.660 in aviation safety.

00:24:23.160 He's a pilot.

00:24:23.920 He's been a commercial

00:24:24.460 airline pilot.

00:24:25.560 He has multiple

00:24:26.760 certifications

00:24:27.620 in aviation safety.

00:24:30.260 He's been a senior

00:24:30.900 official at the FAA.

00:24:33.400 There's an obvious

00:24:34.500 solution.

00:24:35.220 And I'll tell you,

00:24:35.840 I just suggested this

00:24:37.140 at a hearing

00:24:37.960 a couple of weeks ago.

00:24:38.960 And to kind of take you

00:24:40.720 behind the scenes,

00:24:43.340 when I sat down

00:24:44.180 at the hearing,

00:24:44.780 it was a hearing

00:24:45.360 where Billy Nolan

00:24:46.020 was testifying.

00:24:46.920 I had not planned

00:24:47.620 to say this

00:24:48.320 and my staff

00:24:49.160 hadn't written out

00:24:50.360 remarks on it.

00:24:51.140 But just as I was

00:24:51.760 listening to him

00:24:52.340 testify,

00:24:53.760 the contrast

00:24:54.680 between his knowledge

00:24:56.000 of aviation

00:24:56.860 and Washington's

00:24:58.260 lack of knowledge

00:24:59.060 was really striking.

00:25:00.740 So I turned

00:25:01.220 to my staffers

00:25:01.820 in the back

00:25:02.260 and I said,

00:25:02.700 look,

00:25:02.900 what do you think

00:25:03.560 of my just suggesting

00:25:04.680 how about this guy?

00:25:05.580 And my team

00:25:07.200 thought that made sense.

00:25:08.340 And so I just leaned

00:25:09.140 forward to the microphone

00:25:10.220 and said,

00:25:11.400 listen,

00:25:11.860 if the Biden White House

00:25:12.860 wants a successful nomination,

00:25:14.920 withdraw Washington,

00:25:16.760 name Billy Nolan

00:25:17.660 and he will get confirmed

00:25:18.920 with a big bipartisan vote.

00:25:20.760 And we need to have

00:25:22.380 a qualified Senate

00:25:24.240 confirmed leader

00:25:25.020 of the FAA.

00:25:26.100 Listen,

00:25:26.380 we've seen over

00:25:27.380 and over again

00:25:28.080 airlines almost colliding.

00:25:30.240 God forbid

00:25:31.200 we have some horrific

00:25:32.560 mass casualty event

00:25:34.400 when the Biden

00:25:35.820 administration

00:25:36.560 doesn't have

00:25:37.760 a Senate confirmed

00:25:39.240 leader of the FAA.

00:25:40.620 They need to fix this now

00:25:42.180 and today's announcement

00:25:44.260 that they are

00:25:45.360 quote postponing

00:25:46.460 the vote,

00:25:48.800 it may be like

00:25:49.820 Alvin Bragg's announcement

00:25:51.000 that he's postponing

00:25:52.260 the grand jury coming in.

00:25:53.560 It may be postponed

00:25:54.680 permanently.

00:25:56.980 I hope both of them are,

00:25:58.900 but if the administration

00:26:00.440 withdraws

00:26:01.520 Phil Washington,

00:26:03.100 it would be another

00:26:03.840 big victory.

00:26:04.940 As you know,

00:26:05.900 we already defeated

00:26:06.860 Gigi Soane,

00:26:07.900 who Biden had nominated

00:26:09.040 to the FCC,

00:26:10.640 the Federal Communications

00:26:11.500 Commission,

00:26:12.160 because she was radical

00:26:13.260 and had an extreme record.

00:26:16.540 I think there's

00:26:17.320 a very good chance

00:26:18.260 the Phil Washington

00:26:19.040 nomination is going

00:26:19.840 to go down as well

00:26:20.700 and we will get instead

00:26:21.700 someone qualified

00:26:22.940 and with the knowledge

00:26:24.520 to keep your family safe

00:26:25.800 and my family safe

00:26:26.720 when we go up

00:26:27.220 on an airplane.

00:26:28.080 Yeah,

00:26:28.240 and there should be

00:26:28.700 a non-political position.

00:26:30.460 It should be one

00:26:31.980 that should be bipartisan

00:26:33.040 when you're approving someone

00:26:34.580 and it looks like

00:26:35.940 they don't have the votes

00:26:37.100 because they can count easily,

00:26:38.400 right?

00:26:38.820 I mean,

00:26:39.040 they know where they stood

00:26:40.120 this morning at 10 a.m.

00:26:41.980 Well,

00:26:42.580 look,

00:26:43.000 I think the vote

00:26:43.960 was scheduled this morning

00:26:45.360 because the White House

00:26:46.500 wanted to put political pressure

00:26:48.360 on to Democrats

00:26:50.120 to force them

00:26:51.220 to support him

00:26:52.220 even though he's not qualified

00:26:53.620 and I'm sure

00:26:54.440 there was massive arm twisting

00:26:56.740 probably going on

00:26:57.940 until late last night

00:26:59.800 or even early this morning

00:27:01.040 but the fact

00:27:02.240 that they delayed the votes

00:27:03.340 it tells me

00:27:04.020 that their arm twisting

00:27:04.920 didn't work

00:27:05.720 and I think it's likely

00:27:07.980 we're going to see

00:27:08.520 this nomination withdrawn

00:27:09.700 and that's what should happen.

00:27:11.740 I can tell you

00:27:12.600 I heard from inside

00:27:13.540 the Biden White House

00:27:14.500 that when I suggested

00:27:15.620 Billy Nolan

00:27:16.300 that that reverberated

00:27:19.160 throughout the halls

00:27:20.300 of the White House

00:27:21.360 they're like,

00:27:21.980 what? 0.90

00:27:22.460 Holy crap, 0.99

00:27:23.280 you mean there's a way 0.93

00:27:23.820 we can get a guy through

00:27:25.740 and get a guy through fast?

00:27:27.000 And let's be clear,

00:27:27.940 I don't know Billy Nolan

00:27:29.000 I'm not suggesting him

00:27:30.100 because he's a Republican

00:27:30.940 I'm not suggesting him

00:27:31.960 because he's my guy

00:27:32.820 he's the person

00:27:34.380 the Biden administration

00:27:35.920 named as their acting administrator

00:27:38.040 I'm just looking at qualifications

00:27:39.980 and knowledge

00:27:40.920 and when I ask Billy Nolan

00:27:42.160 questions about the FAA

00:27:43.540 and keeping airline travel safe

00:27:45.820 he can answer those questions

00:27:47.580 when I ask Phil Washington

00:27:49.780 I asked Phil Washington

00:27:50.820 for example

00:27:51.560 a couple of years ago

00:27:53.160 we had the horrific crashes

00:27:54.600 of the 737 Maxes

00:27:56.240 two different crashes

00:27:57.240 346 lives were lost

00:28:00.360 in those two crashes

00:28:01.300 I asked him

00:28:02.660 why did the planes crash?

00:28:04.340 He said

00:28:04.580 I don't know

00:28:05.080 you know

00:28:06.360 that's kind of a pretty

00:28:07.680 big friggin problem

00:28:08.800 I told him 0.97

00:28:09.380 I said

00:28:09.640 Mr. Washington

00:28:10.300 I believe you

00:28:11.660 I believe that you don't know

00:28:13.480 and that's why

00:28:15.940 you're not qualified

00:28:16.960 to lead this agency

00:28:18.580 because the head of the FAA

00:28:20.100 should know exactly

00:28:21.680 why they crashed

00:28:22.600 and in particular

00:28:23.420 should know

00:28:24.200 what we need to do

00:28:25.560 to prevent it

00:28:26.220 from happening

00:28:26.840 in another flight

00:28:28.800 Yeah

00:28:29.360 you wish that this administration

00:28:30.920 would start taking

00:28:31.660 these positions seriously

00:28:32.820 it is

00:28:33.940 thank goodness

00:28:34.800 you were able to

00:28:35.900 really ask these questions

00:28:37.480 a lot of that went viral

00:28:39.700 by just showing people

00:28:41.880 how inadequate

00:28:42.540 this nominee is

00:28:43.640 for this specific job

00:28:45.420 and that is where

00:28:46.720 it clearly made an impact

00:28:48.200 even on Democrats

00:28:49.080 which is a great news

00:28:50.600 for all of us

00:28:52.100 when it comes to safety

00:28:52.980 this is a non-political appointee

00:28:55.260 and it should never be

00:28:56.900 a political person

00:28:58.760 and I'm glad

00:28:59.820 that there's some success

00:29:01.060 it looks like here

00:29:01.920 that has happened with this

00:29:03.280 finally I want to ask you

00:29:04.580 about another

00:29:05.260 and this for me

00:29:06.080 is a huge deal

00:29:07.640 as a broadcaster

00:29:09.340 as someone that does

00:29:10.200 radio and TV

00:29:11.300 for a living

00:29:12.620 when you see people

00:29:14.820 be deplatformed

00:29:16.000 whether it's individuals

00:29:17.200 on social media

00:29:18.120 or from TV networks

00:29:20.720 it is a scary moment

00:29:22.460 we're now being told

00:29:23.840 that there has been

00:29:24.580 a deal that's been done

00:29:25.880 to get Newsmax

00:29:27.380 back on the air

00:29:29.140 this is something

00:29:30.460 that you went all in for

00:29:32.160 from a freedom of speech

00:29:33.820 perspective

00:29:34.620 and not silencing

00:29:36.300 conservative networks

00:29:37.580 and now it looks like

00:29:38.500 a deal is together

00:29:39.720 to bring back Newsmax

00:29:41.860 to a carrier

00:29:42.960 that dropped them

00:29:43.720 well that's exactly right

00:29:46.080 and this is news

00:29:46.900 that broke today

00:29:47.800 just a couple of hours ago

00:29:49.240 but it is a huge

00:29:50.760 huge victory

00:29:51.560 as regular listeners

00:29:53.320 of the podcast

00:29:53.960 will recall

00:29:54.940 DirecTV

00:29:56.660 deplatformed Newsmax

00:29:58.760 and about a year ago

00:29:59.860 Democrat members

00:30:00.700 of Congress

00:30:01.180 wrote to DirecTV

00:30:02.220 and said

00:30:03.440 there are three

00:30:04.120 conservative cable news outlets

00:30:05.740 Fox News

00:30:06.460 DirecTV

00:30:07.120 and One America News

00:30:08.360 please deplatform

00:30:09.740 all three of them

00:30:10.440 we don't like

00:30:11.260 what they're saying

00:30:12.000 we don't like

00:30:12.600 that customers

00:30:13.140 can hear what they're saying

00:30:14.160 so please throw them

00:30:14.980 off the air

00:30:15.520 unfortunately

00:30:16.980 DirecTV

00:30:17.780 deplatformed

00:30:19.380 One America News

00:30:20.300 I think that was wrong

00:30:21.380 it was a mistake

00:30:22.040 I think it was silencing

00:30:23.320 conservative voices

00:30:24.320 and then

00:30:25.540 in the last couple of months

00:30:26.840 DirecTV

00:30:27.900 deplatformed

00:30:29.300 Newsmax

00:30:30.040 and so they had thrown

00:30:31.200 two of the three

00:30:32.320 right of center

00:30:33.580 cable news stations

00:30:34.720 off of the air

00:30:36.220 I was deeply concerned

00:30:39.120 when they threw

00:30:39.720 Newsmax off the air

00:30:40.940 I had just started

00:30:42.820 as the ranking member

00:30:44.080 on the Senate

00:30:44.540 Commerce Committee

00:30:45.240 and so I immediately

00:30:46.260 launched an investigation

00:30:47.740 from the Senate

00:30:49.440 Commerce Committee

00:30:50.160 I brought together

00:30:51.240 three other senators

00:30:52.620 I brought together

00:30:53.740 Mike Lee

00:30:55.180 and Tom Cotton

00:30:56.340 and also Lindsey Graham

00:30:57.700 who's the ranking member

00:30:58.740 of the Judiciary Committee

00:30:59.720 so you had Lindsey

00:31:00.580 on Judiciary

00:31:01.280 obviously I'm on Judiciary

00:31:02.780 as well

00:31:03.320 you had me

00:31:04.220 as the ranker

00:31:04.860 on Commerce

00:31:05.520 all of us together

00:31:07.880 had a whole series

00:31:09.520 of very specific questions

00:31:10.960 examining

00:31:11.640 what DirecTV

00:31:13.640 had done

00:31:14.240 and also examining

00:31:15.360 AT&T and Texas Pacific Group

00:31:17.280 who are the parent companies

00:31:19.100 of DirecTV

00:31:20.120 I can tell you

00:31:21.900 that they did not like

00:31:23.560 that congressional scrutiny

00:31:24.740 they were very displeased

00:31:26.100 and what I conveyed to them

00:31:28.780 was simple and unequivocal

00:31:30.120 if you want the investigation

00:31:32.200 to stop

00:31:32.960 if you want the scrutiny

00:31:34.080 to stop

00:31:34.760 put Newsmax

00:31:36.700 back on air

00:31:38.040 that needs to be the outcome

00:31:39.760 put them back on air

00:31:40.840 look you don't have to watch them

00:31:42.280 you don't have to listen to them

00:31:43.620 I happen to think

00:31:44.400 Newsmax is awesome

00:31:46.020 I watch them regularly

00:31:47.540 I go on Newsmax regularly

00:31:48.980 but if you don't like Newsmax

00:31:50.640 change the channel

00:31:51.580 there are lots of lefty channels

00:31:53.040 that you can watch

00:31:54.320 but the resolution of this

00:31:57.280 I drew a line in the sand

00:31:59.680 and said

00:32:00.640 the resolution of this

00:32:02.720 needs to be

00:32:03.580 Newsmax back on air

00:32:05.140 and as of 10am this morning

00:32:07.220 they've announced

00:32:07.900 Newsmax is going back on air

00:32:09.640 so it was an unequivocal victory

00:32:11.420 a victory for free speech

00:32:13.340 a victory

00:32:14.000 for consumers

00:32:15.480 a victory for 30 million Texans

00:32:17.260 who want to be able

00:32:18.420 to turn on their TV

00:32:19.440 and watch

00:32:20.240 a variety of views

00:32:21.960 and get news

00:32:22.700 from across the spectrum

00:32:23.800 so it's a big big win today

00:32:25.460 yeah it's huge

00:32:26.420 and it's something

00:32:27.040 that if you guys

00:32:27.760 wouldn't have fought for this

00:32:28.620 so hard in the Senate

00:32:29.420 I think it would have

00:32:30.400 never have happened

00:32:31.120 so congratulations

00:32:31.900 obviously on that

00:32:33.640 for as you said

00:32:34.860 free speech

00:32:35.540 and we don't want to cancel

00:32:36.940 either side of free speech

00:32:38.300 that's what people seem

00:32:39.840 to not understand

00:32:40.520 about conservatism

00:32:41.520 we want all free speech

00:32:43.440 to stay there

00:32:44.120 as you mentioned

00:32:45.140 both sides

00:32:46.140 it would be terrible

00:32:47.180 if you were canceling

00:32:48.060 everything on the left

00:32:48.960 and only keeping on the right

00:32:50.640 because again

00:32:51.560 there's precedent

00:32:52.400 that's not what free speech is

00:32:54.280 and this is going to be

00:32:55.320 a very big victory

00:32:56.320 and precedent

00:32:57.060 I think for the future

00:32:57.760 and Ben that's important

00:32:59.300 look you and I aren't saying

00:33:00.740 take MSNBC off the air

00:33:02.320 we're not saying

00:33:03.060 take CNN off the air

00:33:04.280 never would

00:33:04.800 now I will say

00:33:05.680 that the viewers are saying

00:33:07.020 that they have minuscule viewers

00:33:08.640 this podcast

00:33:09.720 Verdict with Ted Cruz

00:33:10.800 we get more viewers

00:33:12.320 than MSNBC or CNN

00:33:14.020 so the people are voting

00:33:15.820 with their feet

00:33:16.960 with their eyeballs

00:33:17.880 with their ears

00:33:18.820 but look

00:33:20.220 I think having

00:33:21.300 the unhinged 0.85

00:33:23.360 leftist radicals 0.61

00:33:24.580 on MSNBC

00:33:25.460 and CNN talking

00:33:26.500 I think that's actually

00:33:27.360 good for us

00:33:28.020 I think it shows 0.96

00:33:29.600 how ridiculous 1.00

00:33:30.340 their views are 0.99

00:33:31.300 I don't want them silenced

00:33:32.460 I just want

00:33:33.700 to be able

00:33:35.000 to counter

00:33:35.740 their misinformation

00:33:36.660 with the facts

00:33:38.400 and the truth

00:33:39.220 and having Newsmax

00:33:40.920 now back on air

00:33:41.920 provides one other outlet

00:33:43.360 through which

00:33:44.440 you can do that

00:33:44.980 yeah I totally agree

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00:35:08.740 last question for you

00:35:10.560 Senator

00:35:10.880 as we move forward

00:35:12.740 this week

00:35:13.400 with Donald Trump

00:35:15.440 and you see

00:35:17.500 this changing

00:35:19.200 very very quickly

00:35:20.220 if Donald Trump

00:35:21.740 does in fact

00:35:22.760 not get indicted

00:35:23.600 is that good

00:35:24.620 for the entire country

00:35:26.100 and precedent

00:35:27.440 to kind of pull back

00:35:28.620 on these activists

00:35:29.520 is that going to be

00:35:30.500 the big outcome

00:35:31.380 of this that you see

00:35:32.220 overall moving forward?

00:35:34.180 Look I hope and believe

00:35:35.620 this week that we have seen

00:35:37.020 three huge victories

00:35:38.400 the one that is

00:35:39.680 unequivocal

00:35:40.220 is Newsmax

00:35:40.880 and Newsmax being on air

00:35:42.220 is a complete victory

00:35:43.320 the other two

00:35:45.160 may be big victories

00:35:46.840 and they are Trump

00:35:47.840 and the FAA administrator

00:35:49.240 if the FAA administrator

00:35:51.180 gets pulled

00:35:51.940 because he's unqualified

00:35:53.020 that will be a second

00:35:54.000 huge victory

00:35:54.760 the fact that they

00:35:55.480 canceled his vote today

00:35:56.580 is a very positive sign

00:35:58.340 if Trump

00:35:59.600 if Alvin Bragg

00:36:00.640 backs off

00:36:01.340 and says

00:36:01.740 I'm not going to bring

00:36:02.720 this frivolous

00:36:03.540 baseless

00:36:04.120 partisan prosecution

00:36:05.160 that is a huge victory

00:36:06.800 it's a victory

00:36:07.300 for the rule of law

00:36:08.300 we know that he at least

00:36:09.860 paused

00:36:10.440 just like Phil Washington's

00:36:11.900 confirmation

00:36:12.320 and he told the grand jury

00:36:14.220 stay home today

00:36:15.040 now that pause

00:36:16.400 could be short-lived

00:36:17.180 he could bring the grand jury

00:36:18.220 back tomorrow

00:36:18.900 and they could indict him tomorrow

00:36:20.020 and we'll see what happens

00:36:23.020 by the way

00:36:23.460 I will note

00:36:24.100 you know

00:36:24.840 one of the questions

00:36:25.800 we talked about

00:36:26.460 in the last podcast

00:36:27.220 you said

00:36:27.760 well what will it be like

00:36:29.060 when he's arrested

00:36:29.880 and I don't know for sure

00:36:33.100 if and when they do that

00:36:34.300 but at least

00:36:35.320 the local prosecutor

00:36:36.580 in Palm Beach County

00:36:37.760 has said

00:36:39.060 that he will not be handcuffed

00:36:41.040 because the Secret Service

00:36:42.860 won't let law enforcement

00:36:44.340 lay hands on him

00:36:45.160 and so you have

00:36:45.640 an interesting dynamic

00:36:46.540 when the Secret Service

00:36:47.420 is protecting the president

00:36:49.120 that apparently

00:36:50.160 at least according

00:36:50.900 to the local prosecutor

00:36:52.040 they won't let them

00:36:54.220 handcuff the former president

00:36:55.560 but

00:36:55.960 if Alvin Bragg

00:36:58.360 goes forward

00:36:59.360 they may well do

00:37:00.140 a perp walk

00:37:00.820 they will presumably

00:37:01.820 fingerprint him

00:37:02.600 they'll presumably

00:37:03.120 do a mug shot

00:37:04.580 if that stops 0.99

00:37:07.180 if the Democrats

00:37:08.800 getting cold feet

00:37:10.180 stops Alvin Bragg

00:37:11.960 that is a huge victory

00:37:13.640 for the rule of law

00:37:14.760 that would be a very good thing

00:37:16.300 for America

00:37:16.780 yeah

00:37:17.440 alright

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Verdict with Ted Cruz - March 22, 2023

Three HUGE Victories： Dems Run Away from Trump Indictment, Newsmax BACK ON AIR, & Unqualified FAA Nominee Likely to be Withdrawn

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