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Welcome its verdict with Ted Cruz Week

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in Review, Ben Ferguson with

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you, and these are the stories that you may have

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missed that we talked about this past week.

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First up, Republicans move for

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accountability on the border crisis,

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specifically with my Orcis.

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Also, the White House has one terrible

0:20

message for Israel and

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they have continued to allow them to hang

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out to drive. We'll have the latest on

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that. And finally, how

0:29

do the Democrats actually stop

0:31

the impeachment inquiry into

0:34

my Orcus in the Senate? Senator

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Cruz explains all of that. It's

0:39

the Week in Review and it starts right

0:41

now. There's also

0:43

the fact that I think a lot of people believe, and I

0:46

think you would agree with this, that

0:48

there has been zero accountability for

0:51

Secretary my orchis just flat

0:53

out lying to Congress. This

0:56

is something that he said, and I want

0:58

to get your take.

1:00

Adhere to the oath to

1:02

which I have sworn,

1:05

and I have abided by

1:07

the law each and every step of the way.

1:10

That's not true, is it.

1:11

That's a lie. It's an absolute lie.

1:13

And actually there's a whole provision of these articles

1:15

of impeachment that lay out how

1:18

may Orcus has repeatedly lied to

1:20

Congress. Now, now, it's interesting.

1:22

One of the things that the articles of impeachment also

1:24

lay out is that, Okay, so

1:27

the Democrats are going to take the position, this

1:29

is a policy difference that that

1:32

that Okay, the Biden administration just

1:35

they won't quite say it, but believes it open borders.

1:37

So they're going to let people go. But it's not impeachable.

1:41

It's it's it's it's not an offense. What

1:43

is interesting is that was

1:46

not the position of the Biden Justice Department.

1:48

So you had litigation in front

1:50

of the court where Texas sued the

1:53

Biden administration trying to get the court

1:56

to say, the Biden administration is refusing

1:59

to refusing

2:01

to follow immigration law. And I'm going

2:03

to read from the Articles of impeachment the

2:07

dissenting justice in that case noted quote.

2:09

The court holds that Texas lacks standing

2:12

to challenge a federal policy that

2:14

inflicts substantial harm on the state and

2:16

its residents by releasing illegalaliens

2:19

with criminal convictions for serious crimes. In

2:22

order to reach that conclusion, the court holds

2:24

that the only limit on the power of the

2:26

president to disobey a law like the

2:28

important provisions, at issue

2:30

is Congress's power to employ

2:33

the weapons of inner branch warfare.

2:36

As the descending justice explained, quote,

2:39

Congress may wield what the Solicitor General

2:41

described as political tools,

2:44

which presumably mean such things as

2:46

impeachment and removal.

2:49

Indeed, during oral arguments, the justice,

2:52

who authored a majority opinion stated to the

2:54

Solicitor General, quote, I

2:56

think your position is instead

2:58

of judicial review, Congress

3:00

has to resort to shutting down the government or

3:02

impeachment or dramatic steps. That

3:07

is what the Biden Justice Department

3:09

argued, is that impeachment is the remedy when

3:14

a president a cabinet member refuses

3:16

to follow the law, defies the law. The Biden

3:18

Justice Department argued that in front of the US Supreme

3:20

Court. And yet you know what today,

3:23

the Democrats are going to say, no, impeachment's

3:25

not the remedy. If you have an

3:27

executive who defies the law, it doesn't

3:29

matter. We're going to rubber stamp it and we're not even

3:32

going to hold a trial. And by the way, every Democrat

3:34

will tell the reporters there was

3:36

no evidence of a high crime

3:38

and misdemeanor. Now, of course they'll say there was no evidence

3:41

because they're about to vote to block

3:43

all the evidence, so they don't hear any evidence,

3:45

so then they can say we didn't hear any evidence.

3:48

And the reason they didn't hear any evidence is because they're going

3:50

to refuse to hear any evidence. And why are they going to

3:52

refuse to hear any evidence, Because they don't

3:54

want the American people to hear the evidence.

3:56

And part of what they don't want them to hear is

3:58

the reality of what it's like up there on the streets.

4:00

Bill Malusian did some great reporting yesterday

4:03

on Fox News Channel about Elite Ice

4:06

unit is tracking down migrant criminals,

4:08

specifically child rapists.

4:11

This is while Mayorkas stared

4:13

at Congress and said the border is secure,

4:15

the border is secure. He said that to

4:18

Congress he was lying. Take a list of this from Fox.

4:20

A short time later, I took down their

4:22

final target, a Brazilian gang

4:25

member also charged with child

4:27

rape. Just this morning today, four

4:29

accused child rapists and one MS

4:32

thirteen gang member. Those are the kind of people you're

4:34

going after, that's every day up here in

4:36

Boston. If those are the public safety threats that we really want

4:38

to get off the street. It was a great day for the teams.

4:40

That's five public safety threats that are

4:42

on in the community, gonna go ahead.

4:44

And victimize anyone else.

4:48

And I says, all of those arrests you just

4:50

saw happen because local authorities

4:52

ignored their detainer request to keep

4:54

these guys in custody due to sanctuary

4:57

policies. I says, all of those suspects

4:59

will remain in federal custody until their local

5:01

charges are resolved. Then Ice

5:04

will seek into port every single one of

5:06

them.

5:08

Four alleged child rapists

5:10

arrested in the morning, and they said

5:12

they're doing this every day, and

5:14

local law enforcement is not working

5:17

with them because local municipalities have

5:19

said we're sanctuary cities. So

5:21

these child rapists are that should have

5:23

been held by local authorities or

5:26

not. And yet this administration says,

5:28

no, no, no, we're following the law. Everything's fine.

5:31

Every single week, the Biden administration

5:33

is releasing thousands upon thousands of illegal

5:36

aliens. That includes murderers, that includes

5:38

rapists, that includes child molesters. Every

5:41

single week we are seeing another horrific

5:43

crime committed by an illegal

5:45

alien released by Joe Biden and the Democrats.

5:48

Week after week after week, Whether it was Laken

5:50

Riley and Georgia and the horrific murder

5:52

that occurred from an illegal alien that

5:54

Joe Biden the Democrats released, Whether

5:57

it was Jeremy Cassaris, a beautiful two year

5:59

old boy and Prince George's County, Maryland,

6:01

just a few miles from where I am right now

6:03

in DC, murdered by Neeli

6:06

galalien that Joe Biden released,

6:08

Or whether it was a fifteen

6:10

year old girl in Boston, Massachusetts,

6:13

severely disabled who

6:16

was raped by an illigal

6:18

alien that not only did Biden released,

6:21

he flew from Haiti to America.

6:24

So we've covered on this podcast how three hundred

6:27

and twenty thousand illegal immigrants were flown

6:29

into America by the Biden administration.

6:31

He literally imported in

6:34

a child rapist who's now been arrested

6:36

for raping the severely disabled fifteen

6:38

year old teenager. This

6:40

is happening week after week after week.

6:43

This is why the Democrats don't argue on the other side.

6:45

What's the counter argument of,

6:48

No, it's good a two year old boy is murdered. No, it's

6:50

good that we have teenage girls being raped.

6:52

That there is no counter argument.

6:55

So their counter argument is see

6:59

no evil. Their counter argument is John

7:01

Tester running from the Senate floor and hiding in the

7:03

cloak room because he doesn't want to listen to what's

7:05

happening. Why because

7:07

he intends to vote today to say no

7:09

trial, no evidence. I don't

7:12

want to know. I do not care about

7:14

the people dying. I'm

7:16

a Democrat. I want Democrats to be

7:19

in power. Ten point four million illegal

7:21

immigrants meets more Democrat voters. So

7:23

if people have to die for me to

7:25

stay in power as a Democrat,

7:28

I'm okay with that. I got to say, Look,

7:30

it is difficult for me not to get really

7:33

angry about this because as a Texan,

7:35

I see I've looked in the eyes

7:37

when you get down to the border, as I have over and over again,

7:39

and you look in the eyes of these little children have been

7:41

brutalized. It makes you angry

7:44

that these people. Tomorrow, more

7:47

children will be brutalized, Tomorrow, more

7:49

women will be raped, and not a one of

7:51

these Democrats cares, not a one

7:53

of them will do anything to change it. And they'll tell

7:55

you, oh I care, but if

7:57

you cared, you would change it. And not a

7:59

one one of that is willing to do that.

8:01

I want to go back in time and this

8:03

is my orcus in front of the White House, and

8:06

then I'm going to compare it to what Schumer said last

8:09

week.

8:09

Do you believe that right now there is a crisis

8:12

at the border?

8:13

I think that the answer

8:15

is no. I think there is

8:17

a challenge at the border that we are managing,

8:19

and we have our resources dedicated

8:22

to managing it.

8:23

That was Mark's first twenty twenty one Secretary

8:26

of my ork Is insisting there's no crisis

8:28

of the border, despite that millions of illegal

8:30

immigrants coming across and literally

8:32

thousands of illegal crossings per day.

8:35

Then you go to last week, Chuck

8:37

Schumer making it clear this

8:41

is a policy now of the Democratic

8:43

Party to have an open border collage.

8:45

Say you're going to offer.

8:46

A motion to dismiss the impeachment charges

8:48

on Thursday. Are you at all concerned that

8:50

if some Democrats and tough Races both

8:52

for that you can come back to Falston Campaigndro.

8:55

Look, we're going to try and resolve this issue

8:57

as quickly as possible. Impeachment

9:00

did never be used to settle

9:02

policy disagreements.

9:04

Leadership never be used to settle

9:06

policy disagreements. This is the policy

9:08

of the Democratic Party. And my archistslied

9:10

to your face in March of twenty twenty

9:13

one saying that there's no crisis

9:15

the border, and in their mind from a policy

9:17

viewpoint center, I think it's abundantly

9:19

clear. Now they're on the record saying a

9:21

wide open southern border and millions

9:23

of illegals coming across is not

9:25

a is not a crisis, it's

9:28

just a policy disagreement, and it's.

9:30

The policy they support. And Schumer

9:32

repeated those those two lines at the press

9:34

conference about four more times that

9:37

said, we're going to try to get rid of us as quickly as possible,

9:39

and impeachment should never be used for policy dispute.

9:41

What's interesting, he didn't have a third line. He was reading

9:44

those talking points. He was being very precise.

9:46

He's not defending, he's not saying, hey, this

9:48

is a good policy. I agree with the policy the Biden

9:50

administration. I think it's great we have an open border.

9:53

I think it's terrific that we're releasing murderers. I

9:55

think it's terrific that we're releasing rapists. I think it's terrific

9:57

we're releasing child molesters. We're releasing drunk

9:59

drive. I think it's terrific that one hundred

10:01

thousand people have died of drug overdose every

10:04

year and we keep allowing more and more. I

10:06

think it's terrific that in twenty

10:08

eighteen, the Mexican drug cartels

10:10

made five hundred million dollars from human trafficking.

10:12

In twenty twenty two they made thirteen

10:15

billion dollars. I think it's fabulous that

10:17

we, the Democrats, have produced a

10:19

two six hundred percent increase

10:22

in the revenue for the Mexican drug cartels.

10:24

The biggest friends the

10:27

human traffickers have ever had in the

10:29

history of humanity have been Joe

10:31

Biden and Alejandro Majorcis. That

10:34

is the simple reality, and none of that does

10:37

Chuck Schumer say. Instead

10:40

says, hey, this is just a policy dispute.

10:42

You know.

10:43

They the other side believes in securing

10:45

the border, and we want this country invaded.

10:47

It is the policy of the Democratic Party. And it's

10:49

sad, but we're witnessing the demise

10:51

of this country, our borders and our laws

10:54

at the hands of these people, and it is their America

10:57

will come back.

10:57

Though America will come back, are

11:00

not witnessing the demise. We're witnessing

11:02

the attempted demise, and I believe

11:04

in this country. I think we will come back. I

11:06

think millions of Americans are looking this and

11:08

saying, Holy crap, this is

11:11

horrific, this is inhuman, this

11:13

is wrong. That's why this trial

11:16

is so important is there are a

11:18

lot of people that still don't know what's

11:20

happening. They don't understand. If

11:22

you watch CNN every day, God help

11:24

you, but you have no

11:26

idea because the media or propagandists.

11:29

That's why this trial is important.

11:31

But I think people's eyes are opening

11:33

up now.

11:34

If you want to hear the rest of this conversation,

11:37

you can go back and listen to the full podcast

11:39

from earlier this week. Now

11:42

onto story number two. So

11:44

you look at all of that, and then you see

11:46

this that just came out from

11:48

the National Security Council statement

11:51

on Iranian attacks on Israel, and I'm quoting

11:53

it says President Biden has been clear.

11:56

Our support for Israel's security

11:59

is iron The US

12:01

will stand with the people of Israel and support

12:03

their defense against these threats

12:05

from Iran. Okay, senter, If

12:07

that's true, then they

12:10

have to give them what they need this week.

12:12

Am I wrong?

12:14

Well, if there was anything like coherence

12:16

and logic, then yes. And

12:19

Number one I'm going to predict right now, Chuck Schumer

12:21

is going to do everything he can to block a

12:24

vote on emergency military aid to Israel.

12:26

I've called on it, I forced her already once.

12:29

My guess is that he will

12:31

put in place parliamentary tools to prevent

12:33

us from using the same technique again. And

12:37

I think the House, we've seen the Speaker of

12:39

the House and the Majority Leader both say

12:41

that they're going to vote out an emergency

12:44

military aid bill this week, so we'll get another

12:46

one that comes over to us. And my

12:49

prediction is the Democrats won't back it. They

12:51

don't want to send military

12:54

aid to Israel. And part of the problem is they've

12:56

got a crisis in their caucus. And their

12:58

crisis is that the radicals,

13:01

the teleibs and omars, they

13:03

more and more represent the mainstream of

13:05

the Democrat Party. And so Schumer is terrified

13:08

of Michigan, Biden is terrified of Michigan.

13:10

They're terrified of the radicals, and

13:13

so they may put out statements,

13:16

but remember this is

13:18

the same Chuck Schumer that not long ago stood

13:21

on the Senate floor and demanded that Israel's

13:23

elected Prime minister be thrown out

13:25

of office. He decided that Israel, alone,

13:27

among all our allies, was not allowed to elect

13:30

their leaders every other country. You know,

13:32

Schumer hasn't called for the leader of Iran

13:35

to step down. He hasn't called for the leader of Hamas

13:38

or China, or Rushier of Venezuela or North Korea.

13:40

If you're an enemy of America, nope, Chuck Schumer

13:42

and the Democrats, they're giving you money. But

13:45

if you're our ally, what will Schumer

13:47

say? How dare you be in office? We

13:49

need an appeaser.

13:52

Just like us.

13:53

You just mentioned I was going to go there that

13:56

the Senate majority of leader said he should step down.

13:58

There's been a lot of people in the media have been really attacking

14:01

him, saying that he is a warmonger, that

14:03

he's that he's a killer, that

14:05

he should not be the president, he should not be

14:07

in charge. I don't believe

14:09

we're going to see any of that stop. But

14:12

at least in the Middle East right now

14:14

and specifically in Israel, how

14:17

important is his leadership.

14:19

It's extraordinarily important. I will

14:22

say. I'm blessed to know Prime Minister Netanyah,

14:24

who very well. I

14:26

think he is a remarkable man. When

14:30

he came and addressed a joint session

14:32

of Congress, and that

14:34

this was during the Obama administration, it was

14:36

on the verge of Obama pushing through

14:38

the Iran nuclear deal at

14:40

the time, and this was a decade ago.

14:44

Multiple Democrats boycotted the speech.

14:46

They refused to listen to him speak.

14:49

The Democrats hatred for

14:51

Benjamin Netanyah, who is nothing new, and

14:55

understand that when he was re elected

14:57

Prime Minister Joe Biden

14:59

made clear he was not welcome in the White House,

15:02

that he would not be invited in the White House. He could not come

15:04

to the White House. This is long before October

15:06

seventh, This is long before the war in Gaza.

15:09

They hate Natan Yaho, but understand

15:12

they undermine every Israeli government.

15:14

They have done so from the very first

15:16

days of this administration. But net

15:19

Yahoo, they have a particular loathing

15:21

too, because he actually

15:23

understands the gravity of the threat

15:26

he is facing. He understands that when

15:28

the Ayahtola says death to Israel,

15:31

he's not playing around. He actually means it.

15:33

When he says death to America. He's

15:35

not playing around, he actually means

15:37

it. And listen,

15:40

I've been blessed. In twelve years in the Senate,

15:42

I've met many world leaders. That's one

15:44

of the most incredible parts of the jobs.

15:47

You get to sit down with people that are

15:49

leading our friends, leading other

15:51

countries, leading our competitors. There

15:54

is no world leader who is impressed

15:56

me more. There's no world leader who

15:58

frankly is taking

16:01

my breath away more than Benjamin Netanyaho

16:03

because he has a seriousness of purpose.

16:06

He is the only world leader for

16:09

whom I have used the adjective Churchillian.

16:12

In my office in DC, I have three busts.

16:15

I have a bust of Ronald Reagan, I

16:18

have a bust of Churchill, and I

16:20

have a bust of doctor Martin Luther King Jr.

16:23

And I have those three busts because they

16:25

are all men who had extraordinary vision.

16:28

They faced remarkable challenges.

16:30

They saw a world that was better than

16:32

the world they were living in, and their vision helped

16:35

bring the world to a better place

16:37

with extraordinary courage and

16:40

clarity. And I have

16:42

to tell you, I think net and Yah who has

16:44

that same courage and clarity. Now

16:48

it is not my role to

16:50

tell the people of Israel who their prime

16:52

minister should be. So when

16:55

net Yaho was prime minister, when

16:57

I started in the Senate, I dealt with him because

17:00

he was the leader, the elected

17:02

leader of Israel. When the people of Israel elected

17:05

Enough Tolly Bettett, I dealt with him.

17:07

Whomever the people of Israel elect, I

17:09

will deal with the elected leader.

17:12

But the people of Israel re elected Benjamin

17:15

Netanyah who and I respect the choice

17:17

of the people of Israel. There is an arrogance

17:20

in Democrat foreign policy, but also

17:23

in some Republican foreign policy,

17:25

that they think they can meddle in the internal politics

17:28

of foreign nations and especially our friends and

17:30

allies, that they can do what Chuck

17:32

Schumer did, which is tell the people of Israel

17:35

Tis Tisk, you have no business

17:37

electing net Yah who throw him out now? And

17:40

they treat them like the

17:43

voters, the people of Israel like the red haired step

17:45

children. It is ridiculous.

17:49

It's much like. Look, there

17:51

have been long debates in Washington

17:53

about a two state solution, and that they're

17:56

Every Democrat says we must have a two

17:58

state solution. Many Republicans

18:00

say we must have a two state solution. My view

18:02

on that is

18:05

that's a decision for the people of Israel to

18:07

make. They care acutely

18:09

about their security. If the people of Israel just

18:11

decide that a two state solution

18:13

is workable, I respect that decision.

18:16

If they decide it's not because

18:19

the terrorists with whom

18:21

they are dealing, the Hamas and Hesbela,

18:23

will not accept Israel's right to exist

18:25

and will wage war on them, I respect that decision

18:27

as well, and so I

18:30

will say when it comes to Prime Minister net

18:32

and Yahoo, it's the choice of the people of Israel

18:34

that he should be their leader. I respect their choice.

18:37

But at the same time, I think he is a leader

18:39

who understands the seriousness of these

18:42

threats and is not cowed

18:45

by the aggression of Hamas or Hesbela,

18:48

or Iran or anyone else. He

18:50

is bound and determined to protect the people

18:52

of Israel.

18:54

As before, if you want to hear the rest of this

18:56

conversation on this topic, you can

18:58

go back and dow the podcast from earlier

19:00

this week to hear the entire thing. I

19:03

want to get back to the big story number

19:05

three of the week you may have missed. Finally,

19:08

Senator, What exactly did

19:10

Democrats do yesterday

19:12

on impeachment? Just so people understand

19:15

how they pulled this off.

19:17

Well, at one pm yesterday we

19:20

convened on the Senate floor. This is pursuant

19:22

to the Senate rules. When we enter impeachment. We

19:24

were all sworn in, and

19:26

then we all signed the oath book, one

19:29

at a time. We signed the oath Book. And

19:32

what is supposed to happen next is that

19:34

we adopt a resolution laying out a trial

19:37

schedule of how the House managers are

19:39

going to present their

19:42

case. But instead what happened

19:45

is Chuck Schumer rose on a

19:47

constitutional point of order, and

19:50

a constitutional point of order as you stand

19:52

and say,

19:55

what is on the floor violates the constitution.

19:57

And he raised a constitutional point of order and he said

20:00

at Article one, the first article sent

20:02

over by the House does

20:05

not allege a high crime or

20:07

misdemeanor. And

20:09

so what happened next is we voted

20:12

on whether Article one alleged

20:14

a high crime or misdemeanor. High crime and misdemeanor is

20:16

what you need to be able to impeach someone. Now,

20:19

Article one focused

20:21

on Alejandro Majorcus's

20:24

defiance of federal law that

20:26

that that that he he was refusing

20:29

to follow explicit and clear

20:31

federal law, federal law

20:33

that that says

20:36

that that illegal immigrants shall

20:38

be detained, that that illegal immigrants

20:41

with criminal conviction shall be detained and

20:43

shall be deported, over and over again.

20:45

Immigration law is mandatory. It says

20:47

shall shall, shall shall, and he's

20:49

defying it at a level it's never happened

20:51

before. It's not that he's

20:54

bad at his job. It's that

20:56

he is utterly flouting

20:59

and defiedying federal law. And that that's the

21:01

first article of impeachment.

21:04

And they argued, well, actually they didn't argue.

21:06

They just made a motion that it's not a high

21:08

crime or misdemeanor. They presented no argument, They

21:12

did not give a legal argument, they

21:14

did not write a brief, they did not present an argument.

21:17

And I was the person who

21:19

raised the lead objection to

21:21

that. Now, under the impeachment

21:24

rules, you can't

21:26

debate on the Senate floor. You're

21:28

supposed to be silent because you're jurors.

21:31

I'm just saying, why is that? But that makes sense because

21:33

you're juror not a

21:35

lawyer. I guess presenting right.

21:37

Right, And so I

21:39

made a motion for us

21:41

to move into executive session.

21:43

If we move into executive session, we throw the

21:46

reporters out. We turned the TV cameras

21:48

off. But then we can debate it. And I said, look,

21:50

you're you're making a major legal

21:52

point. You presented no argument, and

21:55

what you're saying is quality is

21:58

fundamentally wrong. And I'll tell you

22:00

the amazing thing is the

22:03

idea that refusing to

22:05

follow the law, defying the law

22:08

is not a high crime and misdemeanor is not impeachable.

22:11

It is contrary to

22:13

the original understanding the Constitution.

22:15

Joseph Story, who was a Supreme Court

22:18

justice, one of the leading constitutional scholars

22:21

right at the very beginning of our country, and his commentaries

22:23

in the Constitution are widely

22:26

cited for understanding

22:29

what the founding generation believed the

22:31

Constitution to mean. And he talked about,

22:33

he wrote at length about high crimes and misdemeanors,

22:35

and he gave lots of examples, including

22:39

the Lord Admiral refusing

22:41

to protect the high seas, and he said,

22:43

that is a high crime or misdemeanor, and

22:46

that is virtually

22:49

analogous, very closely analogous

22:51

to the head of Homeland Security

22:53

refusing to secure the border. It's the same principle

22:56

of allowing lawless piracy to

22:59

threat and an invade America. So

23:02

Joseph's story and the founding generation

23:04

understood this to be a high crime and misdemeanor.

23:07

And amazingly enough, Ben the

23:09

Biden Justice Department argued

23:12

in front of the US Supreme Court that

23:15

impeachment was the remedy

23:18

for the Biden administration refusing

23:20

to follow the law. So in Texas

23:22

versus the United States, Texas sued the Biden

23:25

administration for refusing to secure

23:27

the border, and the Supreme Court

23:29

ended up agreeing with the Biden administration

23:31

and saying, well, Texas can't sue

23:34

and the Biden doj The

23:37

Solicitor General for Biden argued, look,

23:39

if you have a cabinet

23:42

member who's refusing to follow the law,

23:45

Congress has remedies, including

23:47

impeachment, and so I stood

23:49

up and said listen. The Biden Department

23:51

of Justice argued last year this

23:54

was impeachable. It didn't matter. Every

23:57

single Democrat, all of them. And by the way, Eve

24:00

in the so called moderates, Joe Manchin and Cirsten

24:02

Cinema, they voted also Nope, not

24:04

a high crimer misdemeanor. And as

24:06

a result, because

24:09

they had to have a majority,

24:11

the point of order carried. They got fifty

24:13

one votes for it, and so the first article

24:16

was thrown out, and then they did it again on the second

24:18

one. And I'll tell you the second

24:20

one is even more astonishing. So

24:23

as a result of the first vote, it

24:25

is now the position of Democrats that any cabinet

24:27

member can refuse to follow the law and

24:29

defy the law and utterly ignore the law,

24:32

and you can't impeach him for it. I mean, that's

24:34

an astonishing and dangerous proposition

24:37

in Democrat looney land. But

24:40

the second article of impeachment was

24:44

for breach of trust, and it focused

24:46

on majorcas repeatedly lying

24:49

to Congress under oath about what was happening

24:51

at the border. And again Chuck

24:53

Schumer rose on a point of order and said, this

24:56

is not a high crime or misdemeanor. Now,

24:58

mind you there saying

25:00

lying under oath to Congress is not impeachable.

25:02

It is a felony. It is a felony

25:05

that you can serve jail time for. And

25:08

it's worth remembering Bill

25:10

Clinton was impeached

25:12

for perjury. The House impeached

25:14

him and what did the Senate do? They didn't throw it out,

25:17

they didn't dismiss it. The House managers

25:19

presented the case, the conducted a trial,

25:21

and ultimately the Senate acquitted him. But

25:24

they did their duty to hold a trial.

25:26

And actually before that, there's

25:29

someone I'm sure you've never heard of, a guy named

25:31

Walter Nixon. You know who Walter Nixon was?

25:34

Who is that?

25:35

Walter Nixon was a federal judge.

25:37

He was a federal judge actually from Mississippi. You're

25:40

an all miss grad. He was a federal judge from Mississippi.

25:43

But he was not a good guy, and he

25:45

was convicted of perjury before

25:48

a grand jury. And you know

25:50

what happened. The Congress impeached

25:52

him, the House impeached him, the

25:54

Senate convicted him, and he

25:56

was removed as a federal judge

25:59

for perjury. So even

26:01

though it was clear, there was clear precedent

26:03

that yes, perjury, lying under oath

26:06

is a high crime or misdemeanor, it is impeachable,

26:10

every single Senate

26:12

Democrat voted

26:16

that it's not a high crime or misdemeanor.

26:18

So now apparently, again in

26:20

Democrat Wonderland, lying to Congress

26:22

is AOK, and understand this

26:25

was not about the

26:27

Constitution. They didn't care. They

26:30

had no arguments as to why the Constitution said

26:32

this. This was about power,

26:35

and this was about protecting their

26:37

political backsides because they're

26:39

terrified of the American people

26:43

hearing what is happening at the border, the

26:45

fentanyl, the deaths, the rapes, the

26:47

children being abused. They do not want

26:49

that evidence before the American people. And

26:51

I'll say this is a final point to wrap up. Do

26:54

you want to see proof of

26:56

why this is all political and why the Democrats

26:58

did what they did? Yes, you know

27:00

what, you know what, you know what ms you

27:03

know what, MSNBC and CNN covered

27:05

all day yesterday Trump

27:08

twenty four seven, the Trump trial,

27:10

Storey Daniels ooh smut

27:12

lying processly like apparently

27:15

there was no impeachment proceeding in the Senate.

27:18

Nothing happened, there's no border

27:20

crisis. The only thing they

27:22

would cover is is the attack

27:24

on Trump.

27:25

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27:43

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