0:00

Mister President. In eighteen eighty seven, Lord

0:03

Acton wrote a series of letters to

0:05

Bishop Creighton, letters

0:09

that would echo down

0:11

across the centuries. Lord

0:14

Acton wrote, I cannot

0:16

accept your canon that

0:18

we are to judge Pope and King

0:21

unlike other men, with

0:23

a favorable presumption that

0:26

they did no wrong. If

0:29

there is any presumption, it is the other way

0:32

against holders of power increasing

0:37

As the power increases, historic

0:40

responsibility has to make up

0:44

for the want of legal responsibility.

0:48

Power tends to corrupt.

0:52

An absolute power corrupts

0:54

absolutely. Great

0:57

men are almost exclusively

1:00

ad men, even

1:03

where they exercise influence

1:06

and not authority. Still

1:09

more, when you super add

1:11

the tendency or the certainty of corruption

1:15

by authority as

1:18

president, those words were true in eighteen eighty seven,

1:22

and they're true today. If

1:25

you want to understand how power corrupts,

1:27

an absolute power corrupts absolutely,

1:31

look no further than the other chamber.

1:33

In the United States Capital Speaker

1:37

Nancy Pelosi is

1:40

drunk on power. The

1:43

orders that Speaker Pelosi

1:47

is issuing are

1:50

abusive and

1:53

unprecedented. Speaker

1:56

Pelosi has decreed the members of the

1:58

House of Representatives elected

2:00

by the people that if

2:02

you dare walk onto the floor of the House

2:04

of Representatives without a mask. I,

2:08

Speaker Pelosi shall find you.

2:13

Who the hell is she to

2:15

be finding members of the House. But

2:18

you know what, she's not done with that. She's

2:21

not done with disrespecting our constitution,

2:24

disrespecting our democratic system that

2:26

elects leaders. She goes further to

2:29

the good men and women who work here

2:32

in the United States Capital. We are surrounded

2:34

by men and women who have chosen to come and

2:36

work for the public good. And

2:39

here's what Speaker Pelosi has decreed.

2:41

If you dare walk

2:45

in the hallway without

2:48

a mask, I, Speaker

2:50

Pelosi will arrest you. I

2:54

will put you in jail. I will find

2:56

you. That

3:00

is an absolute and complete abuse of power.

3:05

She has no authority to disrespect

3:07

the men and women who work here, to threaten

3:10

you with physical harm, to threaten

3:12

you with imprisonment. And

3:16

why does she do so. She does so for

3:18

one reason, political theater. Welcome

3:27

to hurdict with Ted Cruz. I'm Michael

3:29

Knowles, Senator. I have to compliment

3:31

you. You have now very famously read

3:34

and quoted Doctor Seuss and

3:37

Lord Acton on the floor of the Senate. That is

3:39

a very broad spectrum

3:42

of reading, and I think the Lord Acton quote was

3:44

absolutely apt. We have now passed

3:47

the five hundredth day of fifteen

3:49

days to slow the spread, and we

3:51

are seeing the reinstitution of

3:53

mask mandates, even for the vaccinated.

3:56

We are seeing the threat of lockdowns

3:58

around the country. Is

4:01

it just deja vu all over again? Is

4:03

there any way to break out of this cycle? Well?

4:05

I do not like green eggs and ham, but I

4:08

do not like absolute

4:10

power being abused even

4:12

less. This

4:14

has been a bad week for

4:17

liberty. This has

4:19

been a bad week for science.

4:21

It's been a bad week for common sense. And

4:23

it is frightening because we're seeing,

4:27

you know, two decisions i'd

4:29

highlight, both of which came this week. Number

4:33

one, as you know, the CDC revised

4:35

its guidance. So a

4:37

couple of months ago, the CDC acknowledged

4:40

what people knew already,

4:42

which is vaccines work, that actually

4:45

science operates. If you're vaccinated,

4:48

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

5:02

as of this week, the CDC magically

5:04

changed its guidance and now said

5:07

even if you're vaccinated, you need

5:09

to wear a mask. That

5:12

wasn't science, that was politics, and

5:15

it was cynical politics at that And

5:18

I think people are frustrated with

5:20

the hypocrisy from the CDC, and

5:23

they're frustrated with how

5:25

Democrats are behaving. We're seeing now

5:28

democratic jurisdictions imposing new

5:30

mandates and posing new mask mandates. The

5:33

CDC decreed that when

5:36

school starts this fall, that every

5:38

person in a school must wear a mask,

5:41

regardless of whether you're vaccinated or not. That's

5:44

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

5:50

basically acting like it's it's part of

5:52

the DNCS. It is

5:56

a political arm in the Biden administration.

5:58

And then also this week, Nancy

6:01

Pelosi issued

6:03

a decree that

6:06

anyone in the House must wear a mask, even

6:08

if you're vaccinated. She said that if you're

6:11

a member of the House and you

6:13

walk onto the floor without a mask, that she will

6:15

find you. And even worse, she said, if you're

6:17

a hill staffer and

6:20

you are caught without a mask, that you

6:23

will be arrested, that you will be potentially

6:26

put in jails, sentenced to jail

6:28

and find if you dare not wear

6:30

a mask. And I gotta say that's

6:33

just nuts. I mean, that is an

6:35

abusive power that has no

6:38

link to anything resembling medical

6:40

science. You know, even a CNN

6:43

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

6:49

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

6:58

wonderful and they work very very well to stop

7:00

infection and transmission. Now we're being told, well

7:03

maybe they don't, so the vaccinated need to wear the mask

7:05

anyway we were We've been told so much

7:07

conflicting information. There is no question. I

7:10

think the right and the left, if they can agree on anything,

7:12

it's that the CDC has some

7:14

issues. But the question is what is

7:16

the political end game here? I suspect

7:19

that you're right that this is not about science and it

7:22

is about politics, But what's the politics?

7:24

You know, it's hard to understand

7:27

the politics other than that Democrats,

7:29

particularly now, they like power,

7:32

They like arbitrary power, they like controlling

7:34

your life. You know, listen when it comes

7:36

to masks. I've never been one

7:39

that's a zealot on either side. I've never

7:41

really understood some

7:44

of the folks who say, never wear a mask, no matter

7:46

what. I certainly didn't fall into that can't.

7:48

Particularly in the height of the pandemic, I wore a

7:50

mask. I thought we should do reasonable steps

7:53

to slow the spread of a disease. It's a dangerous

7:55

disease. But I also never understood

7:57

the purist who would

8:00

ostentatiously where a mask is a

8:02

symbol of their nobility and purity

8:05

and virtue. Yet, you

8:07

know, let me take folks inside

8:10

the Senate for a minute to understand the dynamic

8:13

in real time. So

8:16

early this year January, they made vaccines

8:19

available to members of

8:21

Congress. Number of members of Congress got the vaccines

8:24

in early January. I

8:26

didn't get the vaccine then. And the

8:28

reason I didn't get it then is

8:31

at that point it was not widely available. Most

8:33

Americans hadn't gotten it, and I'm

8:35

a relatively young and healthy person.

8:37

I didn't think it was right that just because

8:40

I was elected to represent Texas in the Senate,

8:42

that I should cut in line, that I should get

8:44

a vaccine before seniors

8:47

did, before people with serious immuno

8:50

compromised issues did, before

8:52

frontline responders did.

8:54

And so I didn't get the vaccine

8:57

in January. I

8:59

waited a couple of months, and then after tens

9:01

of millions of vaccines had been distributed in

9:03

the people with the highest need had gotten it, then

9:06

I got the vaccine. I said, Okay, enough time has

9:08

passed that I think it is

9:10

fair and reasonable. I'd like to get the vaccine.

9:12

I'd like to be protected against

9:14

the disease. So I did get the vaccine, and

9:16

I waited a couple of weeks so till the vaccines

9:19

fully effective. So I had both. I got the

9:21

Fizer shot, and I got both of them, and I gave

9:23

the requisite time that

9:25

they said you had to wait before it's effective.

9:27

And then I decided to stop wearing my mask

9:30

on the Senate floor because vaccines

9:32

work like that's the whole science of it. The whole

9:34

point of getting the damn shot is

9:37

to give you protection against catching the disease,

9:41

and so on. The Senate. It was kind of interesting.

9:44

The first person not to wear a mask was Rand

9:46

Paul and Ran never wore a mask, and look,

9:49

I love Rand, but he just said,

9:51

to hell with it, I'm not wearing a mask. And Ran had

9:53

COVID and he'd never

9:55

wore a mask, and so okay, that was his choice. For

9:58

a long time, it was just Ran with no mask, skin

10:00

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,

10:07

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

10:15

Kansas, is also a medical doctor. He

10:18

made the same decision. So Roger and I both

10:20

right about the same time stop wearing wearing

10:22

our mask. We were numbers two and three

10:24

in the Senate, and for several weeks the

10:27

three of us were the only ones not wearing a mask. And I

10:29

gotta tell you, the peer pressure

10:31

is interesting. Like when you stood on

10:34

the Senate floor and everyone's wearing

10:36

a mask, I mean, you felt like

10:39

you were like a rebel

10:42

on the fringe and

10:44

it was interesting. Then the fourth person

10:46

to stop wearing a mask was Jim Rish from Idaho,

10:49

and he said, all right, I'm

10:51

joining the no mask caucus because he'd been

10:54

vaccinated. Now, what was Bizarres.

10:56

We'd gone a couple of months with everybody

11:00

wearing masks, even though they

11:02

all are virtually all were vaccinated. If

11:04

you remember Joe Biden's pseudo

11:06

State of the Union address where everyone

11:09

was wearing a mask and almost every person in that chamber

11:11

was already vaccinated, it was it was political

11:13

theater then. But then what happened

11:16

is the CDC issued it's it's ruling

11:18

and said if you have a if you're vaccinated,

11:20

you don't need to wear a mask. And it was the funniest thing.

11:23

Within about two days, everybody

11:26

took their mask off. One hundred percent of the senators. Chuck

11:28

Schumer took his mask off, Bernie Sanders took

11:30

his mask off, Mazie Herono took

11:32

it to her mask off. Look, I joked

11:34

for some of the Democrats, I'd be much happier if they kept

11:36

their masks on. And and you know, really

11:39

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

11:49

that everybody took off their mask indicates

11:53

what we all knew, which is, if you're vaccinating,

11:55

wearing a mask is stupid. Everyone

11:58

knew that. All the Democrats immediately knew. Now,

12:00

when that was happening in the Senate, Nancy Pelosi

12:03

was still finding

12:06

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

12:13

apiece even though they

12:15

were vaccinated because they didn't wear a mask,

12:19

literally on the very same day

12:21

that Chuck Schumer and Bernie Sanders and every

12:23

Democrat has no mask on. So

12:27

people understood the

12:29

difference between reality

12:31

and performance theater. All right, let's fast

12:33

forward to this week. This

12:36

week Monday, we started out this week one

12:39

hundred percent of Senators had no mask on. Every

12:42

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

12:54

we decree it to be so? And it was

12:56

a very funny thing. They issue the order

12:58

and the Democratic Party,

13:01

I don't know, they're like docile sheep

13:03

that they want to

13:06

follow the orders of whoever the dictator

13:08

is and they want to demonstrate

13:10

self righteously how

13:12

pious they are. And so a day

13:14

after the CDC acted, you

13:18

had oh, I don't know, maybe a third of the Democrats

13:20

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.

13:29

But still at least half the Democrats

13:31

weren't wearying. This was a day or two after the CDC,

13:35

but the

13:37

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

13:50

what's funny is even those Democrats

13:52

wearing them, they know

13:54

it's a croc look. Yesterday,

13:57

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

14:11

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.

14:19

The guy's vaccinated that the mask does nothing.

14:23

But he had to put it on because he had to

14:25

show I am obedient

14:27

to the government decree. And it's really stupid

14:30

and it I think

14:32

it diminishes Number

14:35

One, the CDC is letting itself be politicized.

14:38

It's behaving like a political institution.

14:40

I mean, Michael, let me ask you. Has there been an

14:42

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

15:31

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

16:01

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

16:36

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

16:50

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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48:59

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49:02

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49:05

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49:07

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49:11

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49:14

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49:16

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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

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50:32

we were told if you go outside

50:34

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50:37

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50:39

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