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Mister President. In eighteen eighty seven, Lord
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Acton wrote a series of letters to
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Bishop Creighton, letters
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that would echo down
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across the centuries. Lord
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Acton wrote, I cannot
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accept your canon that
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we are to judge Pope and King
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unlike other men, with
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a favorable presumption that
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they did no wrong. If
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there is any presumption, it is the other way
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against holders of power increasing
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As the power increases, historic
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responsibility has to make up
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for the want of legal responsibility.
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Power tends to corrupt.
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An absolute power corrupts
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absolutely. Great
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men are almost exclusively
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ad men, even
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where they exercise influence
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and not authority. Still
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more, when you super add
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the tendency or the certainty of corruption
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by authority as
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president, those words were true in eighteen eighty seven,
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and they're true today. If
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you want to understand how power corrupts,
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an absolute power corrupts absolutely,
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look no further than the other chamber.
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In the United States Capital Speaker
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Nancy Pelosi is
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drunk on power. The
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orders that Speaker Pelosi
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is issuing are
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abusive and
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unprecedented. Speaker
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Pelosi has decreed the members of the
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House of Representatives elected
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by the people that if
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you dare walk onto the floor of the House
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of Representatives without a mask. I,
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Speaker Pelosi shall find you.
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Who the hell is she to
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be finding members of the House. But
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you know what, she's not done with that. She's
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not done with disrespecting our constitution,
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disrespecting our democratic system that
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elects leaders. She goes further to
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the good men and women who work here
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in the United States Capital. We are surrounded
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by men and women who have chosen to come and
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work for the public good. And
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here's what Speaker Pelosi has decreed.
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If you dare walk
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in the hallway without
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a mask, I, Speaker
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Pelosi will arrest you. I
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will put you in jail. I will find
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you. That
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is an absolute and complete abuse of power.
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She has no authority to disrespect
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the men and women who work here, to threaten
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you with physical harm, to threaten
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you with imprisonment. And
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why does she do so. She does so for
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one reason, political theater. Welcome
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to hurdict with Ted Cruz. I'm Michael
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Knowles, Senator. I have to compliment
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you. You have now very famously read
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and quoted Doctor Seuss and
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Lord Acton on the floor of the Senate. That is
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a very broad spectrum
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of reading, and I think the Lord Acton quote was
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absolutely apt. We have now passed
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the five hundredth day of fifteen
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days to slow the spread, and we
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are seeing the reinstitution of
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mask mandates, even for the vaccinated.
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We are seeing the threat of lockdowns
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around the country. Is
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it just deja vu all over again? Is
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there any way to break out of this cycle? Well?
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I do not like green eggs and ham, but I
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do not like absolute
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power being abused even
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less. This
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has been a bad week for
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liberty. This has
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been a bad week for science.
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It's been a bad week for common sense. And
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it is frightening because we're seeing,
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you know, two decisions i'd
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highlight, both of which came this week. Number
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one, as you know, the CDC revised
4:35
its guidance. So a
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couple of months ago, the CDC acknowledged
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what people knew already,
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which is vaccines work, that actually
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science operates. If you're vaccinated,
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the vaccine has a very high likelihood
4:50
of being successful. And so the CDC acknowledging
4:53
that reality, said people who are vaccinated
4:55
don't need to wear masks. That was right
4:57
then, it's right now. But
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as of this week, the CDC magically
5:04
changed its guidance and now said
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even if you're vaccinated, you need
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to wear a mask. That
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wasn't science, that was politics, and
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it was cynical politics at that And
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I think people are frustrated with
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the hypocrisy from the CDC, and
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they're frustrated with how
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Democrats are behaving. We're seeing now
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democratic jurisdictions imposing new
5:30
mandates and posing new mask mandates. The
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CDC decreed that when
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school starts this fall, that every
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person in a school must wear a mask,
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regardless of whether you're vaccinated or not. That's
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not remotely based on science. That's based on
5:46
the politics of the fact that the teachers' unions
5:48
demanded that, and the CDC is
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basically acting like it's it's part of
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the DNCS. It is
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a political arm in the Biden administration.
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And then also this week, Nancy
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Pelosi issued
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a decree that
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anyone in the House must wear a mask, even
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if you're vaccinated. She said that if you're
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a member of the House and you
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walk onto the floor without a mask, that she will
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find you. And even worse, she said, if you're
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a hill staffer and
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you are caught without a mask, that you
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will be arrested, that you will be potentially
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put in jails, sentenced to jail
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and find if you dare not wear
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a mask. And I gotta say that's
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just nuts. I mean, that is an
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abusive power that has no
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link to anything resembling medical
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science. You know, even a CNN
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anchor pointed out the other day that the
6:45
CDC has a big credibility problem, and
6:47
there's no question we've covered it on this show
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that the public health officials have flip flopped
6:51
on everything. Doctor Fauci told us the masks
6:53
don't work, then he told us we all need to wear the
6:55
masks. We were told the vaccines are absolutely
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wonderful and they work very very well to stop
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infection and transmission. Now we're being told, well
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maybe they don't, so the vaccinated need to wear the mask
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anyway we were We've been told so much
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conflicting information. There is no question. I
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think the right and the left, if they can agree on anything,
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it's that the CDC has some
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issues. But the question is what is
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the political end game here? I suspect
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that you're right that this is not about science and it
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is about politics, But what's the politics?
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You know, it's hard to understand
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the politics other than that Democrats,
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particularly now, they like power,
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They like arbitrary power, they like controlling
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your life. You know, listen when it comes
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to masks. I've never been one
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that's a zealot on either side. I've never
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really understood some
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of the folks who say, never wear a mask, no matter
7:46
what. I certainly didn't fall into that can't.
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Particularly in the height of the pandemic, I wore a
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mask. I thought we should do reasonable steps
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to slow the spread of a disease. It's a dangerous
7:55
disease. But I also never understood
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the purist who would
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ostentatiously where a mask is a
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symbol of their nobility and purity
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and virtue. Yet, you
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know, let me take folks inside
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the Senate for a minute to understand the dynamic
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in real time. So
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early this year January, they made vaccines
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available to members of
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Congress. Number of members of Congress got the vaccines
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in early January. I
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didn't get the vaccine then. And the
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reason I didn't get it then is
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at that point it was not widely available. Most
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Americans hadn't gotten it, and I'm
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a relatively young and healthy person.
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I didn't think it was right that just because
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I was elected to represent Texas in the Senate,
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that I should cut in line, that I should get
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a vaccine before seniors
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did, before people with serious immuno
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compromised issues did, before
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frontline responders did.
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And so I didn't get the vaccine
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in January. I
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waited a couple of months, and then after tens
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of millions of vaccines had been distributed in
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the people with the highest need had gotten it, then
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I got the vaccine. I said, Okay, enough time has
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passed that I think it is
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fair and reasonable. I'd like to get the vaccine.
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I'd like to be protected against
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the disease. So I did get the vaccine, and
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I waited a couple of weeks so till the vaccines
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fully effective. So I had both. I got the
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Fizer shot, and I got both of them, and I gave
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the requisite time that
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they said you had to wait before it's effective.
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And then I decided to stop wearing my mask
9:30
on the Senate floor because vaccines
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work like that's the whole science of it. The whole
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point of getting the damn shot is
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to give you protection against catching the disease,
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and so on. The Senate. It was kind of interesting.
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The first person not to wear a mask was Rand
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Paul and Ran never wore a mask, and look,
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I love Rand, but he just said,
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to hell with it, I'm not wearing a mask. And Ran had
9:53
COVID and he'd never
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wore a mask, and so okay, that was his choice. For
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a long time, it was just Ran with no mask, skin
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ninety nine senators with masks. The
10:03
second Senator not to wear a mask was me, And
10:05
after I'd gotten the vaccine, after a couple of weeks had passed,
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I said, all right, I'm gonna stop wearing the mask. The
10:10
same time I did that, Roger
10:13
Marshall, who's a Republican senator from
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Kansas, is also a medical doctor. He
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made the same decision. So Roger and I both
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right about the same time stop wearing wearing
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our mask. We were numbers two and three
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in the Senate, and for several weeks the
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three of us were the only ones not wearing a mask. And I
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gotta tell you, the peer pressure
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is interesting. Like when you stood on
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the Senate floor and everyone's wearing
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a mask, I mean, you felt like
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you were like a rebel
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on the fringe and
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it was interesting. Then the fourth person
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to stop wearing a mask was Jim Rish from Idaho,
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and he said, all right, I'm
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joining the no mask caucus because he'd been
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vaccinated. Now, what was Bizarres.
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We'd gone a couple of months with everybody
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wearing masks, even though they
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all are virtually all were vaccinated. If
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you remember Joe Biden's pseudo
11:06
State of the Union address where everyone
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was wearing a mask and almost every person in that chamber
11:11
was already vaccinated, it was it was political
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theater then. But then what happened
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is the CDC issued it's it's ruling
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and said if you have a if you're vaccinated,
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you don't need to wear a mask. And it was the funniest thing.
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Within about two days, everybody
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took their mask off. One hundred percent of the senators. Chuck
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Schumer took his mask off, Bernie Sanders took
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his mask off, Mazie Herono took
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it to her mask off. Look, I joked
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for some of the Democrats, I'd be much happier if they kept
11:36
their masks on. And and you know, really
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my criticism was their mask needed to be tighter.
11:43
You know, we could still hear them talk so clearly
11:45
their masks were not attached sufficiently
11:47
firmly. But listen, the fact
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that everybody took off their mask indicates
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what we all knew, which is, if you're vaccinating,
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wearing a mask is stupid. Everyone
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knew that. All the Democrats immediately knew. Now,
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when that was happening in the Senate, Nancy Pelosi
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was still finding
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House members who didn't wear a mask on the
12:09
House floor. And so I know a number of House
12:11
Republicans who were fined five bucks
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apiece even though they
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were vaccinated because they didn't wear a mask,
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literally on the very same day
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that Chuck Schumer and Bernie Sanders and every
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Democrat has no mask on. So
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people understood the
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difference between reality
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and performance theater. All right, let's fast
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forward to this week. This
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week Monday, we started out this week one
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hundred percent of Senators had no mask on. Every
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Republican had no mask, every Democrat had no mask.
12:45
Then the CDC issues their
12:47
magical new rulings. Suddenly vaccines
12:50
don't work. Suddenly if you're vaccinated doesn't matter.
12:52
You got to put a mask on? Why? Because
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we decree it to be so? And it was
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a very funny thing. They issue the order
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and the Democratic Party,
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I don't know, they're like docile sheep
13:03
that they want to
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follow the orders of whoever the dictator
13:08
is and they want to demonstrate
13:10
self righteously how
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pious they are. And so a day
13:14
after the CDC acted, you
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had oh, I don't know, maybe a third of the Democrats
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wearing masks. You had people
13:23
like Brian Shots from
13:25
Hawaii who was wearing a mask. You had people like
13:27
Corey Booker wearing masks.
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But still at least half the Democrats
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weren't wearying. This was a day or two after the CDC,
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but the
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sort of peer pressure of elected
13:39
Democrats kicked in, and by
13:42
today, virtually
13:44
every Democrat is wearing a mask. Kirsten
13:46
Cinema wasn't wearing a mask. She may have been the only
13:48
Democrat not wearing a mask. But
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what's funny is even those Democrats
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wearing them, they know
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it's a croc look. Yesterday,
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the day before, I was in an elevator in the
14:00
Russell Senate office building. I
14:02
walked under the elevator. There was a senator.
14:04
He was there with two of his staff. Two of his staff
14:06
had masks on the senator
14:08
didn't have his mask on, so he's standing in an elevator
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with no mask. He sees me
14:13
and like who reaches in his pocket and quickly puts
14:15
on the mask. It's not
14:17
like he suddenly became contagious.
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The guy's vaccinated that the mask does nothing.
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But he had to put it on because he had to
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show I am obedient
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to the government decree. And it's really stupid
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and it I think
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it diminishes Number
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One, the CDC is letting itself be politicized.
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It's behaving like a political institution.
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I mean, Michael, let me ask you. Has there been an
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institution that has done more to damage
14:45
their credibility in the last year and a half than
14:47
the CDC has a year and a half ago, they were one
14:49
of the most respected medical and scientific
14:51
organizations on the face of the planet. And
14:54
now we've seen Fauci do nineteen
14:56
backflips beyond every side of every issue.
15:00
We understand he's a political player. He's not a scientist
15:03
in terms of what
15:05
he says. He says what's politically convenient
15:07
at the moment, and the damage
15:09
to the credibility of the
15:12
CDC and to the
15:14
scientific pontificators, I think has
15:16
been really enormous to the CDC's
15:18
credibility I think is in tatters well,
15:21
as you see, just even on this issue of the vaccines.
15:24
Either way, either the vaccines
15:27
do work and the decision is political and the CDC
15:29
loses credibility, or the vaccines don't
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work and what we've been told is not true and so
15:33
everyone needs to wear the masks again and the CDC loses
15:36
credibility. But it seems that as the credibility
15:38
collapses the liberal
15:41
establishment, you know, and that includes not
15:43
just the elected people, but the bureaucrats
15:45
and the technocrats and the other institutions,
15:48
they seem to be getting more aggressive. And I think this
15:50
is what a lot of people are worried about, speaking of
15:52
pure pressure, is You've got the White
15:54
House now saying that they may move
15:56
into another lockdown. They're looking at
15:59
potential teral vaccine mandates
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for goodness sake, Yes, even as we're being told
16:03
that the vaccines allegedly are not working
16:05
as well as we were told they were. So anyway, there's
16:07
obviously a lot of confusion here. But
16:09
but if Nancy Pelosi is going to throw staffers
16:12
in jail, they seem to mean the threats
16:14
that they're making. Yeah, I mean, you think about that.
16:16
Nancy Pelosi is saying to someone who's
16:19
a twenty something, thirty something Hill staffer
16:21
is working on Capitol
16:24
Hill that if you dare not wear
16:26
a mask, even if you're vaccinated, she's
16:28
going to put you in jail. I mean, that is
16:31
a level of dictatorial
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I don't give a damn that.
16:38
That's really frightening. And you're right. You combine
16:41
it with Joe Biden who's saying he wants to mandate
16:43
federal employees all get vaccines.
16:46
He wants to mandate the military
16:48
all get vaccines. Listen
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my view number one,
16:53
I think vaccines are good. I'm a supporter of vaccines.
16:55
I'm a supporter of science. I've been vaccinated.
16:57
Heid He's been vaccinated, My parents have been
16:59
vaccinated. At Heidi's parents have been vaccinated.
17:02
I was quite glad to get vaccinated. I want to get the damn
17:04
mask off. I wanted to be
17:06
able to go out in crowds of
17:09
people and interact again without being concerned
17:11
about catching or spreading a dangerous disease.
17:14
But I also believe in individual
17:17
liberty. I believe in individual choice. The fact that
17:19
I chose to get a vaccine doesn't mean you need to
17:21
make that choice. You're an adult.
17:23
You can make your own choice. You
17:25
should talk to your doctor, you should educate
17:27
yourself, you should think about the pros and cons.
17:31
And I believe in that individual
17:33
responsibility. And it's amazing the Democrats.
17:36
They don't want to give you that choice. They don't
17:38
want you to be able to make your own choices
17:41
about medical treatment that you're receiving.
17:44
They want the government. But you know, Senator,
17:46
the argument that they're making, the argument that they're
17:48
making is that when it comes to a pandemic,
17:51
and I guess you know the term is
17:53
being redefined. It is a little
17:55
bit loose right now, but when it comes to a
17:57
pandemic, you lose your
17:59
individual rights because your decision,
18:02
I mean not your decision, but someone else's decision not
18:04
to be vaccinated is a direct
18:06
threat to me because you could spread the virus
18:09
to whomever. And so what is the conservative
18:11
answer to that? There's a logical flaw
18:13
in that argument, and it's really important to break
18:15
it down because you're right, the left is making it by
18:17
the way, the press is making this argument
18:19
like crazy it's very funny. On Capitol Hill, the
18:22
press reporters, almost
18:24
all of them have dutifully put
18:26
their masks on. There was one one poor guy
18:28
running around with two masks because that, hey, if
18:31
you've got virtue, I can have twice as much virtue
18:33
and have two masks on. Yeah, and
18:35
it just there were only
18:38
a couple of reporters who dared take
18:40
their mask off. And again they were almost like,
18:42
you know, Mel Gibson and Braveheart or something. But
18:44
let's go to this argument about the
18:47
unvaccinated or endangering others.
18:49
And this week I
18:52
think the person who said it most offensively
18:54
was Haraldo. So Haraldo was
18:57
on on Fox and
19:00
Erldo went on this this rant on the
19:02
five where he said, he said, if you're
19:04
unvaccinated, I'm going to paraphrase, but this is basically
19:06
right. He said, if you're unvaccinated,
19:09
then you're arrogant, you're rude, and you're inconsiderate,
19:11
and you're jeopardizing everybody. And he was quite
19:14
bombastic. I know that's hard to believe Eraldo
19:17
being bombastic, but you just can't go imagine on
19:19
this. Here's the logical flaw. Eraldo
19:23
presumably is vaccinated if
19:26
not, he's a remarkable hypocrite.
19:28
So I assume he's vaccinated. If
19:30
he's vaccinated, the risk
19:33
to him of getting COVID is
19:36
extremely small. Depending on which vaccine
19:38
you got, if you got Fiser or MODERNA,
19:41
the risks are somewhere in the neighborhood of three
19:43
percent or maybe five percent. But if they're
19:45
very small, and if you do catch COVID,
19:47
there's some percentage, some small percentage of people
19:49
who are vaccinated can catch COVID. If you do catch
19:52
COVID, the risks of it being
19:54
serious, of you being hospitalized or dying
19:57
are very very small. That's
19:59
why people get the vaccine. They want to dramatically
20:01
reduce the risk of getting getting the
20:03
disease, and even more so, reduce the risk
20:05
of getting it seriously. That means
20:07
for anyone who's vaccinated, the risk
20:10
of people who are unvaccinated is negligible.
20:12
It's very small. Now,
20:14
is there some possibility that someone who's unvaccinated
20:18
will pass the disease onto someone else who's
20:20
unvaccinated. Yes, but you
20:22
know what that someone else who's unvaccinated,
20:25
they made their damn choice like that, you're
20:27
assuming that risk. If you say I'm
20:29
not going to get the vaccine. Okay, you're a big
20:32
boy, you can adult. You're an adult, you can make
20:34
that risk. But at the same
20:36
time, the
20:39
left jumps up and down and says, those
20:41
evil unvaccinated people are jeopardizing
20:43
me. No, if you're vaccinated, they're not. They're
20:46
jeopardizing each other potentially. And
20:48
you know what, the same thing is true
20:50
of smokers. If you smoke, you
20:53
may die of lung cancer. Look,
20:55
you and I are both cigar smokers. You know what
20:57
might happen. Our lips and tongues might all
21:00
off. That would suck. I really
21:02
don't want my lips and tongue to fall off. But
21:06
I believe adults have the ability
21:08
to make choices and bear the consequences
21:12
of your choices. And the left
21:14
doesn't agree with any of that. They want you
21:16
to be subjects
21:19
and obey their decrees. Yes,
21:21
so I mean we can certainly assess
21:23
risk, make prudential judgments. We as
21:25
conservatives think that the left seems
21:27
less inclined in that direction. But this gets
21:29
back to that absolute power point. Ye,
21:32
the point that we opened up with in the Lord Acton
21:34
quote, which is just
21:37
as a practical matter, here we're
21:39
past day five hundred of this. This
21:42
should have been over by now. We were all
21:44
told it was going to be over by now. They've moved
21:46
the goalposts. Every single
21:48
time that we hit one of them. It was slow
21:50
the spread, then it flattened the curve, then it was find
21:53
a cure, then it was and it just
21:55
keeps moving. So how
21:57
does this end? I mean, how do
22:00
we make sure that we don't go from five hundred days
22:02
to slow the spread two thousand days, that we're not
22:04
that we're not here again in another year and a half. Look,
22:06
if it's up to the Democrats, I
22:08
don't know that this ever does end, because
22:11
it's an excuse for power. It's an excuse
22:13
for trillions of dollars a new
22:15
spending, it's excuse for trillions of dollars
22:18
of new taxes. It's an excuse for everything
22:20
they want to do anyway they want power.
22:23
You know, you look at these Democratic politicians,
22:25
for example, who shut down churches, who declared
22:28
it was illegal to go to church during the pandemic.
22:30
They are just statists
22:34
and authoritarians. They don't like people
22:36
who go to church. They were quite happy
22:39
to strip your religious liberty.
22:41
And by the way, anyone
22:44
with a
22:46
triple digit IQ or even a double
22:48
digit IQ could
22:50
see the
22:53
rank hypocrisy that
22:55
that you would have the media, you'd
22:57
have democratic politicians, you would have these
22:59
these self declared scientific
23:01
experts who would opine
23:04
that thousands of people
23:06
crammed into the public streets protesting
23:09
black lives matter, zero risk
23:11
of COVID transmission, that there's
23:13
no chance of it. But if you go
23:16
to church and sing hallelujah, everyone's
23:18
going to die. And look, that was
23:20
on its face absurd. Everyone knew this
23:23
is crap. You have a political
23:25
preference, and you're claiming
23:27
that the virus and the infection just happens
23:29
to perfectly match your political
23:31
preference. We make a couple of other points.
23:34
Many people, certainly the CDC,
23:37
certainly Democrats, certainly the press, but
23:40
a lot of people out of Republicans too rightly
23:42
say we should be encouraging people to get vaccinated.
23:45
I agree with that. I'm encouraging people to get vaccinated.
23:49
Ironically enough, with the CDC did this
23:51
week maybe
23:54
the single biggest disincentive to
23:56
get vaccinated we have seen since the vaccine
23:58
was introduced. So when the CDC
24:00
initially issued its common sense ruling
24:02
that once you're vaccinated and it's effective, you can take
24:04
your mask off. That
24:07
was a really good incentive to get vaccinated.
24:10
It encouraged people to get vaccinated because
24:12
they wanted the freedom. Said, by the way, this
24:15
is not hypothetical in my family. So Heidi
24:18
and I were both eager to get the vaccine.
24:20
My mom got or her parents got up. But my dad
24:23
didn't want to get the vaccine. I mean, you
24:25
know my father, he's
24:27
eighty two years old, he's a pastor.
24:29
He is stubborn as all get out.
24:32
And I spent probably a month arguing
24:34
with my dad about getting the vaccine. He's like, I
24:36
don't trust it. It was developed too quickly. There
24:39
might be side effects, and you know what, there
24:41
may be risk. It was developed very quickly,
24:43
and often with medical innovation
24:46
you don't anticipate all of the
24:48
effects of it. And I went round around with my
24:50
dad. I really wanted him to get it, and it
24:52
probably took me about a month and eventually he agreed
24:55
to get it. And what was
24:57
really compelling for him, so he's a pastor,
24:59
he been hold up at
25:01
home for a lot of this pandemic. It's really hard
25:04
on him to be alone. And I
25:06
said, listen, you want to get out. You want to be preaching
25:08
again. You want to be in crowd. Do you want to be talking
25:10
to people? And at eighty two
25:12
you want to do so safely where where you know
25:14
we've seen with this virus that for people
25:17
who are your age, the
25:19
risks are pretty significant. And
25:21
I'll actually take you inside and argument
25:23
with my dad. He said, well,
25:25
I don't trust trust the vaccine. It might it
25:27
might be bad. And I said, well, look here's
25:30
the vaccine everyone in Congress is taking. Why don't you
25:32
take that vaccine. He's like, no, no, no no, no, I don't trust
25:34
Pelosi and Red and Schumer. I said, look, I
25:36
don't trust Pelosie and Schumer either, but do
25:38
you think they're like trying to poison themselves?
25:41
Like like it is what they're taking. He
25:45
finally did it, but it was his choice.
25:47
No one had to make him. He finally
25:50
did it because he wanted to get out again. And now my dad
25:52
is back preaching in churches, he's back giving
25:55
speeches, he's traveling. He's very happy
25:57
because getting the vaccine gave
25:59
him freedom that he cared about. When
26:01
the CDC gave that guidance, you
26:04
get the vaccine, no mask. It incentivized
26:06
people, Hey, I want that freedom.
26:09
What the CDC did this weekend is
26:12
implicitly said vaccines don't work.
26:14
Said even if you get the vaccine doesn't matter.
26:17
Do everything. Have all of your liberties
26:19
curtailed, just like you did before
26:21
you got the vaccine. That's
26:24
terrible, it's stupid. And by the way,
26:27
they relied on no science or no data
26:29
to basis what they said. It was really quite ironic.
26:32
They said, well, we have scientific studies
26:34
that back this up. We're just not going to
26:36
tell you what they are. We have data,
26:39
but it's double supersecret and no one actually
26:41
gets to see the data. But trust us because
26:44
we've shown we're such a political
26:46
credible scientist that we just say whatever
26:49
is politically convenient and then change
26:51
it tomorrow. And it's listen,
26:53
here's what I think, Michael. I
26:56
think we should have no government mandates
26:59
on COVID period. That
27:01
means no vaccine mandates, That means
27:04
no mask mandates, that means no vaccine
27:06
passports, that means no shutdowns,
27:09
that means schools being open. What
27:12
does the left think? What do the Democrats think they want
27:14
to see all those things mandated? And what people
27:17
I think are most concerned about is they're
27:19
going to drive us off the cliff again of shutdowns
27:21
and shutting schools, and that did massive
27:25
damage. I think it is now
27:27
abundantly clear that the politicians
27:29
who ordered shutdowns committed
27:31
a catastrophic mistake, a
27:34
mistake that I hope people study for decades
27:38
never to make again, because they destroyed
27:40
lives, they destroyed businesses, they hurt
27:43
children profoundly. And the
27:45
problem is Joe Biden the Democrats are eager
27:47
to do it again. I mean, just even the economic
27:50
effects were so catastrophic,
27:52
which does bring to another another
27:55
issue here, which is while
27:57
Nancy Pelosi is busy throwing staffers
27:59
into jail, the other topic
28:02
that the legislators are taking up on Capitol
28:04
Hill is this infrastructure
28:06
bill that you know, it's not quite
28:08
as sexy as the coronavirus
28:11
lockdowns and the mandates, and it's it's not
28:13
pulling at people's interest quite as much.
28:15
But this is a major
28:17
piece of legislation, yea. And it's very
28:20
unclear, at least from my read on the reporting,
28:22
how this is being built and where it's going to go.
28:25
So this get gets complicated.
28:27
But let me let me try to explain some of
28:29
what's going on. So Joe
28:32
Biden and Pelosi and Schumer want
28:34
to spend a crap ton of money
28:37
that that, by the way, is a technical term.
28:40
That they're looking to spend somewhere six seven
28:42
trillion dollars, which even in federal
28:44
government terms is is a staggering,
28:47
terrifying sum.
28:50
They've already spent one point nine trillion in
28:52
their first bill that they called the COVID Relief
28:54
Bill, of which you'll recall, only nine
28:56
percent of that was healthcare spending on COVID
29:00
and that was a long left wing special interest
29:02
spending list. So
29:04
the next bill they're trying to take
29:07
up is what they call an infrastructure
29:09
bill, and the Democrats have proposed
29:11
three and a half trillion dollars. Now
29:15
the COVID Relief bill, only nine percent of it
29:17
was healthcare spending on COVID. They decided, okay,
29:19
that was too much, so
29:22
they're three point five trillion dollars
29:24
infrastructure bill. Only five percent
29:26
of it is roads and bridges.
29:29
Like the reason they call it infrastructure
29:32
because infrastructure is popular. People like roads
29:34
and bridges. People think we ought to spend some money
29:36
to have highways that don't have potholes
29:38
in them, that have bridges that don't fall down. We
29:40
ought to have airports that work. We ought to
29:42
have ports that we can have commerce. So infrastructure
29:46
spending is popular. It is popular with Democrats, popular
29:48
with Republicans. But what you're saying is the infrastructure
29:51
bill is not an infrastructure
29:53
bill. Correct. It is purely
29:55
a label because it pulls
29:57
well, and it's a whole series
29:59
of things, of childcare subsidies,
30:02
of senior care subsidies,
30:04
of expanding medicaid.
30:06
Now, listen, expanding medicaid.
30:08
You might think that's a good policy. We can
30:10
debate about whether that's a good policy or not.
30:13
But the one thing you ought agree it ain't infrastructure,
30:16
Like it's not a frigging road. But Senator, this
30:20
brings up what one of the
30:22
most prominent talking points right now among the Democratic
30:24
Party, which is that everything is infrastructure.
30:27
And they've actually said this. I don't think I'm misrepresenting
30:29
them. They'll say healthcare is infrastructure.
30:32
You know, weightlifting is infrastructure.
30:34
That might be a little hyperbolic, but they say basically,
30:36
anything that they want they now reclassify
30:39
as infrastructure because infrastructure
30:41
polls well, and they know the media will not
30:44
drill into anything they say and will just repeat
30:46
their talking points, and so the media
30:48
are their propagandists. So there,
30:51
and by the way, this three point five trillion dollar infrastructure
30:54
bill is paid
30:56
for by trillions and new taxes. They want
30:58
to have massive new tax So
31:01
it's a terrible bill if
31:03
and when it's taken up and voted on, it'll
31:05
get zero Republican votes. No Republicans,
31:07
even the squishiest Republican is not going
31:09
to vote for trillions and new taxes
31:11
and just out of control spending. So what
31:14
did we do this week? Well, unfortunately,
31:16
there was a group of ten
31:18
or twelve Republicans who
31:21
really, really really want to
31:23
cut a deal, like desperately want to cut
31:25
a deal. And so they've been negotiating
31:28
with Democrats. What's what they're calling
31:30
the Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill.
31:33
And listen, on the face of it, the bill that
31:35
they're negotiating, it's it's not a terrible
31:37
bill. On the face of it. It's about one point
31:39
two trillion dollars, so it's a lot of money, but
31:42
it is directed much of it
31:44
is directed at at real infrastructure.
31:46
Much of it is directed at things like roads
31:49
and bridges and airports
31:51
and ports, not all of it. There's some garbage in
31:53
it, but it is there's a much higher
31:55
percentage of the bill that is
31:57
actually infrastructure, and
32:00
it doesn't have the massive tax increases
32:02
that the Democrat proposal did. And
32:04
so these Republicans they met on
32:07
and on and on and on, and we're dancing
32:09
the hokey pokey with the Democrats. And
32:11
we've spent the last
32:14
several weeks, if not the last month, in
32:17
our Republican lunches with these these
32:19
self declared bipartisan negotiators
32:21
reporting to us on a regular basis
32:24
about what's happening now.
32:26
My view on it is, if they
32:28
could actually negotiate a bipartisan
32:31
deal, which was let's
32:33
do the one point two
32:35
trillion dollar bipartisan
32:38
deal instead of the three point five trillion
32:41
dollar monstrosity, that
32:43
might be a good deal. Look like, if they
32:45
did the one instead of the other, I
32:48
think it would get a lot of Republicans. I might even
32:50
support it. We actually haven't seen the details
32:52
of the so called bipartisan bill, so I
32:54
would want to actually see the details before I
32:57
decided if I would support it. But if it were that
33:01
instead of the other one that
33:03
could make some sense. What
33:06
are the Democrats doing. They're saying, hey, let's pass
33:08
this one point two trillion, and
33:10
then we're going to do the three point five trillion on top
33:12
of it, so it's four point seven trillion
33:15
minimum, and we're just
33:17
going to do everything
33:20
we want, massively blow out
33:22
the budget, massively increased taxes,
33:25
and we'll get a whole bunch of Republicans to get
33:27
their fingerprints on at least part of
33:29
this, so Joe Biden can go around
33:31
the country and say, hey, look, this was bipartist
33:33
and these Republicans are part of it. And by the way, among
33:37
other things, we're seeing inflation going
33:39
up in a very troubling
33:41
way. We're seeing the price of gas going up, We're
33:43
seeing the price of food going up. We're seeing
33:46
the price of lumber going up a lot, We're
33:48
seeing the price of homes going up a lot.
33:50
And that inflation is being fueled in very
33:52
significant part by this massive
33:55
spending in debt spree that
33:57
the Democrats are doing right now. It's one hundred
33:59
percent the Democrats. It's all Biden
34:01
and Schumer and Pelosi. They've done one hundred percent of
34:03
it. Not a single Republican supported it with
34:06
this bipartisan bill. Suddenly
34:09
Republicans have their fingerprints on this inflation
34:12
bomb that is exploding. And
34:15
so I got to tell you, Michael, at our lunches we have
34:17
had, you
34:20
know, the term of art in Washington is candid
34:23
discussions. The sort
34:25
of way
34:27
of putting it is, we've been yelling at each other, and
34:31
there have been Republican senators yelling
34:33
at these these the bipartisan
34:35
negotiators. Why are you giving the Democrats
34:38
everything they want? Like, like, what
34:40
do we get in this deal if
34:43
you sign on to part of their package and they get
34:45
every other terrible part of the package and tax
34:47
increases and trillions in debt, Like, what
34:50
are we getting out of this? Unfortunately,
34:53
we have anywhere from
34:55
a third or
34:57
more of the Republican conference that's so eager
35:00
to cut a deal that they're willing
35:02
to embrace at least part
35:04
of the Democrats spending agenda. I think, I think that's
35:06
really unfortunate and a bad mistake.
35:09
Well, I think this is a very important
35:11
tie ind that has not really been publicized
35:13
I think, which is, yes, Democrats
35:16
are going to spend a ton of money. Yes, Republicans
35:18
don't have very much power right now. Yes,
35:20
some moderate to liberal Republicans
35:23
are going to want to cut a deal on anything.
35:25
But it's not just pie in the sky. This is not
35:28
just a well, we're spending money, but so
35:30
what the debts a little higher now. This
35:32
is directly tied to inflation, which
35:35
is a major threat. It's not just a threat,
35:37
it's actually happening right now, and it is affecting
35:39
people's bottom lines on gas, on
35:41
food, and it's about to affect us on a lot of other
35:43
things too, that's right. And an inflation
35:46
is a
35:48
automatic tax that hurts.
35:51
It hurts working families, it
35:53
hurts seniors, you know, seniors who have saved
35:56
their whole lives for retirement, but maybe
35:58
on a fixed income. And when inflation kicks
36:00
in and prices go up, it
36:03
really hurts low
36:05
income and moderate income people
36:07
and seniors on fixed incomes. And look
36:10
this is where Michael, you're and my age
36:13
differential kicks in a little bit. You
36:16
don't remember, Jimmy Carter, I
36:18
do so. I was
36:20
born in nineteen seventy My first
36:22
political memory was the
36:24
election in nineteen seventy six, and
36:28
in particular, it was the fight that my
36:30
parents had because my
36:32
mother voted for Jimmy Carter. No,
36:35
you're oh my gosh, I would never have guessed.
36:38
Well, she just thought Ford was an idiot.
36:40
She's like the guy as a bumbling moron. I
36:42
don't like him. And Jimmy Carter seems like
36:44
such a nice guy. And my dad,
36:47
my dad at the time wasn't a US citizen. He
36:49
was a Canadian citizen at the time, and so
36:51
he didn't have a vote, and so
36:54
my father viewed my mom's vote
36:56
as like the family vote. And I
36:58
remember my dad just apoplectic.
37:01
How could you vote for Jimmy Carter. And
37:04
when I tell this story now, my mom gets upset
37:06
and she's like, I'm sorry I was wrong, like
37:08
like she is not a Jimmy Carter
37:10
family. Yeah, but look,
37:12
with Jimmy Carter, we
37:15
saw the
37:18
same failed
37:20
policies we're seeing right now, and we saw
37:22
something called stagflation. What a stagflation.
37:25
Stagflation is when the economy is stagnant,
37:27
so there's not growth, plus
37:30
you have super high inflation and
37:32
it's a vicious like it was ugly
37:35
under Jimmy Carter and inflation
37:37
got so high. I mean, you
37:39
were seeing home mortgages that were
37:41
going up fourteen, fifteen, sixteen,
37:44
seventeen, eighteen nineteen percent
37:47
on home mortgages. You know, we just refinanced
37:49
our home mortgage. I think we pay two
37:51
point six five percent. People have
37:54
gotten used to insanely
37:57
low interest rates. Imagine
37:59
your home mortgage at let's not even
38:01
say eighteen nineteen percent. Imagine your home mortgage
38:04
at ten percent. You
38:06
know what it means. It means you can buy
38:09
basically a third as
38:11
big a house as you can right now. It triples
38:13
the cost of your mortgage just going from three
38:15
percent to ten percent. That is
38:17
a massive cost. And for
38:20
seniors, it destroys their savings. I
38:23
think Biden and Schumer and Pelosi
38:25
they're repeating those same mistakes. And it's
38:27
really hard to get out of when you've got inflation
38:29
roaring. And by the way, one of the big problems with inflation
38:32
also a huge part
38:34
of our federal budget is interest on the debt. Now
38:37
we are living in sort of the magical time
38:39
that the land that time forgot because
38:41
interest is so low that the cost
38:44
of interest on the debt it is still massive
38:47
in the hundreds of billions of dollars. But
38:49
if interest rates go up a lot. Interest
38:52
on the debt will become the single biggest element on
38:54
the federal budget, and so it becomes this
38:59
spiral where it keeps getting worse and
39:01
worse and worse. And
39:03
I think it's crazy that Republicans are complicit
39:06
in any way. And that's certainly
39:08
what I'm arguing to my colleagues, and most
39:11
of my colleagues agree, but a significant
39:13
chunk of them do not. Well. This is
39:15
an important point because even forgetting
39:18
the merits of the bill or the infrastructure
39:20
spending or what have you, just the political
39:22
ramifications here. It seems that a number
39:24
of centrist Republicans think that they're
39:27
going to get political pats on the back for looking
39:29
as though they're compromising
39:31
and conciliatory. But this
39:33
could be a huge liability.
39:36
Forget that it's a bad idea in the first place, this could
39:38
be a huge, huge political liability.
39:40
Before we go, Senator, I do have to get to
39:43
the mail bag. There are some great
39:45
mail back questions. Her first one is very simple
39:47
from Michael, not me. Do you intend
39:49
to wear a mask in the capital? Hell?
39:51
No, I
39:54
had a feeling I knew the answer to that question. Simple
39:56
questions, simple answer, and absolutely
39:59
a correct one. Matthew asks
40:01
a tougher question, but it does get to what
40:04
we're talking about. And by the way, let me throw
40:06
a caveat on that. So I
40:08
do still wear masks on airplanes
40:11
because they make you. They'll throw you off the plane if
40:13
you don't. And and I filed
40:16
legislation to end that stupid policy.
40:18
It's it makes no sense to require mask on
40:20
air planes. And and it is it
40:23
is the Biden administration being unreasonable
40:26
that is putting that requirement in. And
40:28
by the way, all right, so, just a couple of
40:30
weeks ago, in the Commerce Committee, we
40:33
had a vote on an
40:35
amendment to end the requirement that you
40:37
wear masks on airplanes. And
40:39
there was an argument back and forth tween Republicans
40:41
and Democrats, and every Democrat on the Commerce
40:43
Committee voted no. Now at
40:45
the time, one of those Democrats, Brian Shots,
40:48
is a Democrat from from Hawaii. It's
40:50
a nice guy. He and I get along well. Um,
40:52
we played hoops together. I mean, he's nice
40:55
enough fellow. Um he
40:58
said at the hearing, he said, you know, if it didn't
41:00
mandate that they changed the policy,
41:03
but if the bill was simply a
41:06
sense of the Senate that
41:09
the FAA should change the policy and not
41:11
require masks on airplanes. He said, then
41:13
I would support it, and I stopped and said, okay,
41:16
if we did a sense of the Senate, it has less teeth,
41:18
but you'd support it. I'd be like, look, if we can actually get this
41:20
done and get rid of the ridiculous mask requirement
41:22
on planes, that'd be a good thing. He
41:25
said yes, and unfortunately
41:27
so it was Rick Scott's amendment. And
41:30
I asked Rick at the hearing, I said, would you
41:32
be willing to change your amendment to do what Shots
41:34
wants to do, because that would get Democrats
41:36
and it would pass. Rick said no,
41:38
he didn't want to do that. He wanted to vote on the one with full
41:41
force. I said okay. So we voted
41:43
on it and it failed. Afterwards,
41:45
Shots approached me and said, hey, let's do a
41:47
bill that is the sense of the Senate
41:51
that we should end
41:53
masks on airplanes. I said great,
41:55
So I said, I'll have my staff draft it, we'll
41:57
get it to you tomorrow. Let's do it. This could be
41:59
a big deal, you and me together, bipartisan.
42:03
Let's end this ridiculous requirement. And by the way.
42:05
The poor guy had just gotten off an airplane
42:08
from Hawaii, which he would fly every
42:10
week, and that's a long way to fly with
42:12
a mask when you've already been vaccinated. So
42:14
we drafted it. I showed it to him. Long and
42:16
short of it is, he
42:19
declined to sign on because when he talked
42:21
to Democratic leadership, basically
42:23
they cracked the whip and
42:26
said you must obey, and
42:28
we don't want you to do this. So he bailed. I
42:31
filed it anyway, but I filed it with
42:33
just Republicans. Now, by the way, I had even
42:35
like Susan Collins as a co sponsor. There are
42:37
not a lot of things that had
42:40
me and Susan Collins together, but
42:43
it was supposed to have Democrats, and none of the Democrats
42:45
would do it. So fast forward to this week.
42:48
One of the very first Democrats to be docily
42:52
wearing his mask was Brian Shots and
42:55
I just kind of had the laugh
42:57
at weight. Two weeks ago, you knew this was ridicus.
43:01
You still know it's ridiculous, But
43:03
now the Democratic Party is such
43:05
that you must obey, and so you
43:08
you uniquely do so and gotta
43:10
get in line. Well, so these
43:12
tactical issues I think motivate
43:14
this next question from Matthew.
43:17
Trying to talk facts and logic with the left
43:19
doesn't seem to be working, and being a jerk
43:22
doesn't help either. What's another
43:24
approach we can use to get along and have useful
43:26
discourse? Or is the era of
43:28
bipartisanship and common ground deader
43:31
than disco? The only way
43:34
to move forward is to beat them, is
43:36
to beat them of the ballot box. And
43:40
and you know, let me answer that by making a
43:43
reference to a series of books that
43:45
I read as a kid. So, when I was a kid, I was a big
43:47
fan of It's a seven book series that's
43:50
called The Great Brain. Or did you ever read The Great Brain?
43:53
No? No, I didn't, Okay, So it's so it's
43:55
it's by a guy named
43:58
John John D. Fitzgerald, and
44:02
it is about a family
44:04
in Utah on the
44:07
late eighteen hundreds, so at the turn of the century.
44:10
And they're three brothers, John
44:13
D. Fitzgerald, who's the youngest brother, Tom
44:15
D. Fitzgerald, who's the middle of brother, and swend
44:18
Fitzgerald, who is the oldest brother. And
44:20
the middle brother, Tom D is the Great
44:22
Brain, and he's a little con man he's basically
44:24
a swindler, and you know, it's sort
44:27
of like Tom Sawyer, but it's it's sort
44:29
of clever cons And
44:31
I read these when I was I think in junior
44:34
high. I read them. They're great kids books
44:36
I have. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to get either of
44:38
my daughters to read them. But they're great kids books.
44:41
But the opening chapter to
44:43
the first book is
44:46
John d the little brother, is the author of all of
44:49
them, and he's telling the stories about his conman
44:53
middle brother, Tom d And he said, he
44:55
said, you know, we're growing up in Utah
44:58
the late eighteen hundreds, and he said, virtually
45:01
everyone in the town where we live
45:03
as Mormon. And he said, we're not Mormon.
45:08
And he said, but but they're very
45:10
tolerant and it's okay.
45:12
And he said, it was simply a matter of
45:15
me learning to whip every boy my age,
45:17
and Tom Dee learning to whip every boy his
45:19
age, and Swende learning to whip
45:22
every boy his age. And
45:24
he said, they're very tolerant of
45:27
us. Now, it's amazing how
45:29
tolerant someone can be when you can whip them.
45:32
And and that statement there's
45:35
enormous wisdom in it. It's it's always I've
45:38
always thought of that statement when I think about Israel's
45:40
foreign policy. It's amazing how tolerant
45:42
Israel's neighbors are when the fact is Israel
45:45
can beat them militarily. In terms
45:47
of dealing with the Democrats, we're not going to persuade
45:49
Nancy Pelosi. What
45:53
we will do, and I believe we will do
45:55
it in twenty twenty two, is
45:57
we can persuade the American people and we can beat
45:59
them at the bottot box and retire
46:01
Nancy Pelosi by taking the House back. And
46:04
we can retire Chuck Schumer's
46:06
majority leader by taking the Senate back. And
46:09
we can retire Joe Biden, although not
46:11
sure he would know it by winning in twenty
46:13
four. But the
46:16
only way they will
46:18
not stop. The angry socialist,
46:20
crazy left will not stop until
46:23
they get trounced at the ballot box. And if
46:25
and when they get trounced, then
46:28
I think there's some realistic
46:30
prospect that at least some
46:32
reasonable Democrats will say, well, gosh,
46:35
maybe we shouldn't have gone so crazy
46:37
far left, maybe we should recalibrate.
46:40
But that takes some time to have happened,
46:43
and they ain't gonna do it until they lose.
46:45
If they haven't lost, the chances
46:47
of them shifting away
46:50
from this radical agenda I think or
46:52
zero. The only way they shift is
46:55
after they lose, and hopefully lose
46:57
resoundingly. Right. And it's not just because
46:59
they're no good, awful, rotten, terrible democrats.
47:02
I mean, we could talk about that at great length, but it's
47:04
it's because they've got
47:06
all the power. They've got all the power, and so it actually
47:08
doesn't even make sense for them to try to give
47:10
in on these thing. Didn't Lord Acton say something
47:13
like that? You know, there's
47:15
this strange coincidence here reminds me of
47:17
a quote from Lord Acton. And absolutely,
47:19
I am with your senator. The only
47:21
way that we are going to reconcile
47:24
and come back together is if we pull
47:26
some of that power back from the people
47:28
who have taken all of it. We've got to end it there.
47:30
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47:32
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47:42
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48:59
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49:02
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49:05
Ted Cruz was a nightly podcast
49:07
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49:11
says I'm happy to work with Republicans,
49:14
just not Ted Cruz, and then she called
49:16
your murderer. Apparently I will continue
49:18
my murderous rampage down in Miami.
49:21
Can you just take us through this process a little bit. Those
49:23
rules are designed so you don't have senators screaming
49:25
at each other. The house has a lot of that. I
49:28
still remember when they pulled up porn on the screen.
49:30
Justice O'Connor just went, oh my, you're
49:34
saying Ukraine and not Russia
49:37
that logical construct x and not
49:39
why they're engaging in lawyerly sleight
49:41
of hand. The fact checkers declared
49:43
it a lot if you said Biden was
49:45
in fact that a band fractic. Right boom,
49:47
what happens? He gets elected and now the
49:50
fact checkers are saying it's a lot that
49:52
he ever said he wasn't good a band fractic. The
49:54
US government was funding
49:57
the Chinese research at the hun
50:00
Institute of Rologe. The Senate acquitted
50:02
President Trump about four thirty
50:05
in the afternoon. That's right, they're not done.
50:07
This is released the hound that what can the
50:09
hell are you frigging nuts on? As the casino,
50:12
Joe Biden was saying, I'm not against fracking,
50:14
I'm not against cole. Literally, what Biden
50:16
is doing and what Kerry is doing is screwing
50:19
the environment. You guys are not frigging
50:21
overlord, get off your power trip.
50:24
It still doesn't matter if there is a quid pro quo.
50:26
Okay, you showed off your Latin into the episodes.
50:28
There's been a real cynicism in this whole
50:30
issue of the protests. Just a week ago
50:32
we were told if you go outside
50:34
to do anything, you're killing grandma. You're
50:37
endangering people because of the coronavirus,
50:39
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50:41
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