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Cocaine in the White House, Massive Free Speech Victory, plus Barbie Pushing CCP Propaganda & Target Relents on Mark Levin's New Book · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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Speaker 1: Welcome. It is verdict with Senator Ted Cruz. We've got
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Speaker 1: one heck of a show for you today. It deals
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Speaker 1: with everything from China and the movie, the Barbie movie
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Speaker 1: coming out. Plus we've got another victory we want to
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Speaker 1: talk about that deals with censorship. And then there's the
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Speaker 1: big story, and that is one that deals with cocaine
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Speaker 1: at the White House. Now, Senator, there's other big news
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Speaker 1: that we're going to deal with, including a huge court
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Speaker 1: victory against government censorship. But everyone is obsessed with the
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Speaker 1: cocaine at the White House. So let me get your
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Speaker 1: initial take to that one.
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Speaker 2: You know, I don't think Saturday Night Live could satirize
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Speaker 2: the Biden White House worse than what has actually happened now.
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Speaker 2: Of course, for Saturday Night Live to satirize them, they'd
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Speaker 2: have to be willing to actually make fun of Democrats.
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Speaker 2: But listen, Biden ran promising to bring back dignity to
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Speaker 2: the White House when the last couple of weeks we've
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Speaker 2: had number one, a biological man who identifies as a
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Speaker 2: transgender woman and go topless with his surgically constructed breast
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Speaker 2: bouncing around on the South lawn. That happened a couple
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Speaker 2: of weeks ago, we had a couple of days ago,
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Speaker 2: Hunter Biden standing behind his parents on the balcony of
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Speaker 2: the White House, by all appearances, stoned out of his mind.
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Speaker 2: And then we now have had a bag of cocaine
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Speaker 2: literally found in the West Wing of the frigging White House.
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Speaker 2: The West Wing, by the way, is the working office
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Speaker 2: of the White House. It's where the Oval office is,
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Speaker 2: It's where the Chief of Staff's office is, It's where
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Speaker 2: the National Security Advisor's office is, It's where the senior
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Speaker 2: White House staff works. And there's just a bag of
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Speaker 2: white powder. Like, I don't know at this point, how
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Speaker 2: do you even satirize it? With topless transgender people running
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Speaker 2: around and bags of cocaine in the White House. This
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Speaker 2: is Joe Biden's administration.
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Speaker 1: The part that's also extremely shocking to me is the
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Speaker 1: fact that the White House wouldn't comment on this at all.
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Speaker 1: They wouldn't say if they're going to drug test their
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Speaker 1: staffers moving forward, and they wouldn't even say that they
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Speaker 1: would hold the person accountable if they find out who
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Speaker 1: brought in this cocaine? Is the rule of law and
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Speaker 1: order completely gone under this administration? I mean, if someone
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Speaker 1: brings cocaine into the White House and you won't publicly
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Speaker 1: come out and state immediately we are going to prosecute
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Speaker 1: the fullests in the law when we find not if
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Speaker 1: when we find with that type of determination.
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Speaker 2: Oh look, it's worse than that. It's not only is
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Speaker 2: they're a double standard and they won't prosecute people who
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Speaker 2: reviolating the law. We know that, I mean Hunter Biden.
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Speaker 2: We've got videos of him on crack cocaine and the
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Speaker 2: DOJ won't prosecute it. So we know that. But it's
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Speaker 2: worse than that because it's a DOJ cover up. It's
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Speaker 2: a Biden White House cover up. You know, we had
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Speaker 2: the administration put out a statement we probably will never
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Speaker 2: know whose cocaine it was. Really, really, are you frigging
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Speaker 2: telling me someone can leave a bag of something in
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Speaker 2: the West wing of the White House if it were
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Speaker 2: a bag of anthrax? Would they be like, well, you know,
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Speaker 2: we'll never know who left it. Oh well, and by
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Speaker 2: the way, where this was located, so so let me
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Speaker 2: give you a little bit of the geography of the
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Speaker 2: White House. Where this was located was by the entrance
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Speaker 2: to the White House in the west wing. So when
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Speaker 2: you come to the west wing for a meeting. You
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Speaker 2: come in a door that is down on the ground level,
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Speaker 2: and where you come in, off on your right there's
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Speaker 2: a dining room. Off on your right is the situation room,
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Speaker 2: and it apparently is right somewhere in that entrance foyer
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Speaker 2: is where this bag of cocaine was found. And it
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Speaker 2: was found in a normal security suite. Now, Kareeine John
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Speaker 2: Pierre has said, well, this is a heavily traffic area
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Speaker 2: of the White House. I have to say it is
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Speaker 2: screamingly funny that she keeps using the word heavily trafficked,
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Speaker 2: heavily traffic. Well, when you're trafficking in cocaine, that she
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Speaker 2: may be speaking more literally than typical. There's an irony
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Speaker 2: that Karine Jean Pierre may have accidentally spoken the truth
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Speaker 2: from the podium of the White House. But listen, that
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Speaker 2: is the entrance that senators go through. It's the entrance
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Speaker 2: that cabinet members go through. It's the entrance that if
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Speaker 2: you're going to meet someone senior in the White House,
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Speaker 2: typically if you're going to meet the President, that's the
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Speaker 2: entrance you go through. I've gone through that entrance probably
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Speaker 2: hundreds of times. What is bizarre is they say we
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Speaker 2: can't figure out who it is. Now, I will say
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Speaker 2: something odd, which is, there's lots of speculation on Twitter. Oh,
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Speaker 2: a bag of cocaine in the White House, It's got
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Speaker 2: to be Hunters, you know. My guess is it probably
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Speaker 2: isn't Hunters. I don't know that obvious. We know that
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Speaker 2: Hunter has a drug problem, We know that he has
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Speaker 2: used cocaine and used crack cocaine in the past. But
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Speaker 2: I doubt Hunter Biden is going in the West wing
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Speaker 2: all that often and going in that interest, all that
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Speaker 2: entrance all that often. I think it is in all
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Speaker 2: likelihood someone who works in the Biden administration, some senior
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Speaker 2: Biden official, which makes the cover up all that the
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Speaker 2: more astonishing. You're telling me, with the cameras they have there,
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Speaker 2: with the secret service they have there, with the marine
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Speaker 2: detail they have there, that nobody can figure out, Hey,
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Speaker 2: who left the bag of cocaine by the front door
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Speaker 2: of the West wing of the White House? I mean
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Speaker 2: that is or the side door. That's insane. And the
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Speaker 2: only reason they would put out a statement saying we
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Speaker 2: will never know who it was is the same reason
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Speaker 2: why the DOJ and the FBI is engaged in a
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Speaker 2: cover up of Hunter Biden's acts of criminality, of Joe
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Speaker 2: Biden's acts of criminality, of the evidence of corruption. Sadly,
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Speaker 2: this administration is more than willing to politicize. Look, it
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Speaker 2: would be embarrassing if we discover that a senior White
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Speaker 2: House aid is bringing cocaine into the West Wing to
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Speaker 2: do Schedule one serious drugs in the White House. And
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Speaker 2: so their answer instead is, of course, we're not going
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Speaker 2: to prosecute it. We're not going to investigate it, and
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Speaker 2: you know what, we'll just never know who did it. Whoops.
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Speaker 2: Oh well.
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Speaker 1: One of the other things the talking point you mentioned
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Speaker 1: it was the fact they say this is a heavily
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Speaker 1: trafficked area. The White House is not Disney World, It's
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Speaker 1: not a Starbucks line at the airport. Okay it this
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Speaker 1: is the idea of this is highly trafficked. Makes it
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Speaker 1: sound like there's thousands and thousands of people walking through
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Speaker 1: this area. You've been there, like you said, hundreds of times.
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Speaker 1: I've had a blessed career to be able to go
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Speaker 1: to the White House a significant number of times as well.
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Speaker 1: I was there last time the day of the State
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Speaker 1: of the Union, and I was in the It's the
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Speaker 1: exact area where the cobbies are where you put your
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Speaker 1: phones before I went in the Oval Office to meet
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Speaker 1: with President Trump, and this area. The idea that you
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Speaker 1: can't find out who it is is a lie. The
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Speaker 1: same way I would argue Senator that the idea that
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Speaker 1: we still don't know who leaked, for example, the Roe v.
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Speaker 1: Wade of being overturned, is a lie. They know. I
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Speaker 1: have no doubt in my mind, and this is my
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Speaker 1: opinion that they know exactly who brought this cocaine in.
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Speaker 1: And I promise you if it would have been anthrax
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Speaker 1: or something like that, we would know who did it.
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Speaker 1: They would have found them. There's no way you can
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Speaker 1: tell me they can't figure this crime out.
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Speaker 2: So I actually don't know if they know who it is.
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Speaker 2: I think they don't want to know. I think they
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Speaker 2: are being willfully blind. I think they're putting their head
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Speaker 2: in the sand like an Ostrich and just saying, let's
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Speaker 2: not figure it out. Let's just say, gosh, really difficult
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Speaker 2: to figure out, and this is the sort of question
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Speaker 2: we don't want an answer to. I also think it
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Speaker 2: is a different scenario than the Supreme Court leak. Look,
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Speaker 2: I think Chief Justice Roberts wants to know who leaked it.
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Speaker 2: We've seen Justice Alito has said he thinks he knows
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Speaker 2: who leaked it. But what I suspect happened there, and
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Speaker 2: I don't know because the Court has not given definitive answers.
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Speaker 2: But what I suspect happened there is that they didn't
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Speaker 2: run a very good investigation. I don't think it was
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Speaker 2: because they didn't want to know the answer. I just
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Speaker 2: think it's because they allowed the Marshal's Office to lead
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Speaker 2: that investigation. And the Marshal's Office is not an investigative agency.
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Speaker 2: It's not an agency that investigates crimes. It's a part
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Speaker 2: of the Marshal's office. You have the police officers of
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Speaker 2: the Court that are protecting against acts of violence, but
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Speaker 2: they're not typically investing investigating crimes. They're not typically engaged
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Speaker 2: in forensic analysis. And what I called for at the
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Speaker 2: time is the Supreme Court I believe should called in
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Speaker 2: the FBI. The FBI has very extensive forensic capability. The
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Speaker 2: reason the Court didn't, I think was because of separation
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Speaker 2: of powers concerns, and there's a view within the judiciary
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Speaker 2: that we're Article three, we're a separate branch of government
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Speaker 2: and asking Article two asking the executive branch to assist
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Speaker 2: is intruding in our internal business. I get that, but
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Speaker 2: I think the better decision would have been for the
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Speaker 2: Chief Justice to instruct the Marshall's Office to work with
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Speaker 2: the FBI and get their forensic capability to find out
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Speaker 2: who leaked. And so I think the motivation is different.
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Speaker 2: I think with the Supreme Court leak, it wasn't an
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Speaker 2: effort to cover it up. It was rather putting institutional
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Speaker 2: concerns above what I think was the incredibly important need
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Speaker 2: to expose and punish the leaker. In the White House,
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Speaker 2: on the other hand, I think it is a flat
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Speaker 2: out cover up. I think they do not want to
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Speaker 2: know because it is exceptionally likely it is I think
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Speaker 2: close to one hundred percent that it is someone who
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Speaker 2: works in the White House. Look, I suppose, is it
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Speaker 2: possible that some random visitor to the White House left
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Speaker 2: a bag of cocaine? I guess theoretically, so maybe it's
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Speaker 2: not one hundred percent, But what are the odds some
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Speaker 2: guy who has a meeting with let's say, the Chief
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Speaker 2: of Staff of the White House just happens to bring
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Speaker 2: a bag of cocaine with them and happens to leave
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Speaker 2: it in the foyer. I mean, just that strikes me
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Speaker 2: as very unlikely. I think it is much more likely
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Speaker 2: this is someone that comes in and out of that
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Speaker 2: building every day, and in that instance, whoever it is,
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Speaker 2: is going to be really embarrassing for the Biden White House.
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Speaker 2: And so it's much easier from a political damage control
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Speaker 2: perspective to say, oh, we can't figure it out. Oh well,
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Speaker 2: because boy, we really don't want to know the answer that.
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Speaker 1: think that we're going to find out or is the
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Speaker 1: White House going to have to come clean on this?
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Speaker 1: Is there anything Congress will be able to do? I mean,
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Speaker 1: they're treating it like a crime scene right now, at
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Speaker 1: least acting like, hey, this is a real crime. You've
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Speaker 1: got a substance that wasn't supposed to be in the
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Speaker 1: White House. It is cocaine and a legal substance of that.
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Speaker 1: It's also a national security issue how this could get
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Speaker 1: into the White House a white substance in general. Think, goodness,
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Speaker 1: it wasn't something like anthrax. But are we going to
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Speaker 1: get answers or is this just going to go away?
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Speaker 2: Well, if it's up to the Biden White House, it
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Speaker 2: will go away. I expect that the House of Representatives
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Speaker 2: will try to do some oversight on this. I also
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Speaker 2: expect that the Biden White House will will simply erect
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Speaker 2: a wall around the White House and will stonewall. And
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Speaker 2: we've seen DOJ stonewall, We've seen the FBI stonewall. I
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Speaker 2: expect that the Secret Service will stonewall on this. And
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Speaker 2: so the chances that Senate Democrats want to get to
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Speaker 2: the bottom of this are zero. Why because they know
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Speaker 2: that it is very likely a senior official in the
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Speaker 2: Biden White House. It could conceivably be Hunter Biden. There
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Speaker 2: is at least one known cocaine user who frequents the
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Speaker 2: White House, but as I said, generally you would assume
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Speaker 2: that Hunter Biden is in the residence of the White
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Speaker 2: House rather than entering through the business interests of the
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Speaker 2: West Wing. But Senate Democrats do not want to know
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Speaker 2: the answer because I think they are much more interested
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Speaker 2: in political daydamage control that then actually getting to the bottom.
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Speaker 2: You are right, the West wing of the White House
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Speaker 2: is a crime scene right now. Anyplace else, if police
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Speaker 2: discover a bag of cocaine, the place they discover it,
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Speaker 2: they call a crime scene and they investigate whose cocaine
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Speaker 2: is this? And you know what, there are thousands of
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Speaker 2: people in jail right now for possessing a bag of
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Speaker 2: cocaine just like the one found in the West Wing
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Speaker 2: of the White House. And so there's a double standard
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Speaker 2: of justice. We talked about this with a Hunter Biden investigation,
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Speaker 2: that if you're some poor schmoe who did crack cocaine,
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Speaker 2: you could serve hard time, But if you're connected to
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Speaker 2: Joe Biden and this White House, you get special treatment,
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Speaker 2: you get a cover up from this administration.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's sad to see the White House turn into
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Speaker 1: this side show, as you described it earlier, with this
14:56
Speaker 1: what they've done to this White House is sad. It's
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Speaker 1: supposed to be a place of honor and respect. It's
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Speaker 1: supposed to be a place of dignity that we're supposed
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Speaker 1: to be proud of, and certainly you can't say that
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Speaker 1: right now with this administration the way that they're treating it.
15:07
Speaker 1: I want to move to also another big.
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Speaker 2: I got to say, comparatively. Comparatively, Bill Clinton has got
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Speaker 2: to be looking at this going, wow, you guys disrespected? Yeah,
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Speaker 2: I mean Bill Clinton's like, boy, I got criticism for
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Speaker 2: what I did in the West wing of the White House.
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Speaker 2: The bidens are making Bill Clinton look like an amateur.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it only takes one more bigger idiot to make
15:29
Speaker 1: you look good. Right, That's all you can say about
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Speaker 1: that one. I want to move to another story and center.
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Speaker 1: This could have massive implications.
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Speaker 2: For the elect By the way, Ben, for the record,
15:39
Speaker 2: let's not have that be the slogan of this podcast,
15:46
Speaker 2: although our critics would suggest that's already our slogan.
15:49
Speaker 1: Yeah, there you go. Fair enough, fair enough. We've got
15:52
Speaker 1: a big story that deals. We've got a big story
15:56
Speaker 1: that's gonna deal that could have huge ravocations for the
16:00
Speaker 1: election coming up. And it's a big court victory. This
16:05
Speaker 1: is something that Verdict listeners are going to want to
16:08
Speaker 1: know about because it's not being covered. There was a
16:10
Speaker 1: huge court victory against government censorship. A federal judge has
16:16
Speaker 1: blocked the Biden administration officials from actually communicating directly with
16:21
Speaker 1: social media companies to silence and censor people, ideas and stories.
16:28
Speaker 1: This judge is not ordered Biden officials to quote limit
16:31
Speaker 1: their contact with social media companies. Ruling says that Biden
16:36
Speaker 1: administration's policing of social media is likely a violation of
16:41
Speaker 1: people's First Amendment. Now, so people understand, the Biden administration
16:45
Speaker 1: has been in regular contact, sometimes daily, multiple times a week,
16:49
Speaker 1: and if you say something they don't like, whether it
16:51
Speaker 1: was during the time of COVID or other issues they
16:54
Speaker 1: don't like, they could just connect with them and say, hey,
16:58
Speaker 1: silence that person, shut that person's count down, get that
17:00
Speaker 1: person kicked off your platform. And this judge has finally
17:04
Speaker 1: said you can't do that.
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Speaker 2: Well, that's exactly right. And you know, this is a
17:09
Speaker 2: topic we're going to do a deep dive into. And
17:12
Speaker 2: this is one of the reasons I think people listen
17:15
Speaker 2: to Verdict because we cover topics that the corporate media
17:18
Speaker 2: won't cover, and they won't cover in any substance. This
17:21
Speaker 2: is a very important decision. This is a very important
17:24
Speaker 2: victory for free speech, and the corporate media doesn't want
17:27
Speaker 2: you to know about it. This is a ruling that
17:29
Speaker 2: came down on July fourth, on Independence Day, and it
17:32
Speaker 2: came down from Chief Judge Terry Dodie of the Western
17:36
Speaker 2: District of Louisiana, who's a federal district judge, and he
17:41
Speaker 2: issued a preliminary injunction that restricts the Biden administration from
17:46
Speaker 2: communicating with social media platforms in order to ask them
17:51
Speaker 2: to remove or suppress content containing protected speech. In other words,
17:56
Speaker 2: to stop the Biden administration from collaborating with big tech
18:02
Speaker 2: to censor you. Now, this opinion is one hundred and
18:06
Speaker 2: fifty five pages long. It is a serious, scholarly opinion.
18:10
Speaker 2: It is an incredibly detailed opinion. This is a case
18:15
Speaker 2: that was brought against the Biden administration by the State
18:18
Speaker 2: of Missouri and the State of Louisiana. And it was
18:21
Speaker 2: also brought by two epidemmologists, Jay Badchaira and Martin Kouldorf,
18:29
Speaker 2: and four other social media commentators who allege that social
18:33
Speaker 2: media firms remove their posts and this injunction focuses on repeatedly.
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Speaker 2: It is at the preliminary junction stage. So what the
18:45
Speaker 2: court concluded. In order to grant a preliminary injunction, the
18:49
Speaker 2: district court has to find that the plaintiffs are likely
18:52
Speaker 2: to prevail on the merits of their claim. So that's
18:55
Speaker 2: what the district court concluded, that they are likely to
18:58
Speaker 2: win to prove in court that the Biden administration violated
19:03
Speaker 2: the First Amendment and violated the free speech rights of Americans.
19:07
Speaker 2: That's a big deal. And they walk through carefully what
19:12
Speaker 2: was going on. It documents instances where White House officials
19:17
Speaker 2: explicitly demanded censorship, including in some cases, demanding that social
19:23
Speaker 2: media delete the accounts of private Americans, including Tommy larn
19:29
Speaker 2: including Tucker Carlson, including Alex Berenson. At one point, a
19:34
Speaker 2: White House official expressed frustration with Facebook's lack of censorship
19:41
Speaker 2: of what they called vaccine disinformation, writing in an email
19:44
Speaker 2: and I'm quoting, are you guys efing serious? And they
19:49
Speaker 2: did not abbreviate efing. I want an answer on what
19:52
Speaker 2: happened here, and I want it today. Now let's be
19:57
Speaker 2: clear that that is not an email of someone saying, Gosh,
20:00
Speaker 2: would you mind looking at this, Hey, this is a concern.
20:02
Speaker 2: That is the kind of communication we saw Hunter Biden
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Speaker 2: give to the Chinese official. I want an answer, and
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Speaker 2: I want it by tonight. It's the kind of answer
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Speaker 2: you give someone who works for you that you have
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Speaker 2: power over. The opinion also documents Facebook's collusion with the
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Speaker 2: CDC to censor COVID related claims. This included a scheme
20:29
Speaker 2: where Facebook would email an official of the CDC quote
20:34
Speaker 2: to determine whether statements made on Facebook were true or false,
20:38
Speaker 2: and if the CDC said this statement is false, Facebook
20:42
Speaker 2: would remove the quote false statements. So, for example, the
20:46
Speaker 2: CDC rated as false the claim that COVID nineteen vaccines
20:53
Speaker 2: weaken the immune system. Now, I would say, as we
20:58
Speaker 2: sit here right now in twenty twenty three, that claim
21:00
Speaker 2: has not one hundred percent been proven true. But there's
21:04
Speaker 2: a lot of evidence to think it's true, and at
21:06
Speaker 2: a minimum, it is not objectively false, proven to be
21:11
Speaker 2: such so that the government can silence you from saying
21:14
Speaker 2: to the contrary. Likewise, the opinion discusses the FBI's efforts
21:20
Speaker 2: through what it called the Foreign Influenced Text Task Force
21:25
Speaker 2: to quote prime technology companies about possible hack and dump
21:31
Speaker 2: operations led by foreign state actors. And Joel Roth, who
21:36
Speaker 2: was a Twitter executive, testified that during the joint Industry
21:41
Speaker 2: FBI meetings, he learned that quote, there were rumors that
21:47
Speaker 2: a hack and leak operation would involve Hunter Biden, and
21:51
Speaker 2: as we know, social media right before the twenty twenty
21:55
Speaker 2: election suppressed the story that broke about Hunter Biden's laptop.
21:58
Speaker 2: Now here's the critical thing. The FBI at the time
22:02
Speaker 2: knew that Hunter Biden's laptop was not Russian disinformation because
22:07
Speaker 2: the agency was in possession of the laptop as of
22:12
Speaker 2: December of twenty nineteen, so a year earlier. In addition,
22:18
Speaker 2: another office what's called the Global Engagement Center. It's part
22:22
Speaker 2: of the State Department. It was an initiative that emerged
22:26
Speaker 2: from Executive Order three five eight four issued by Obama,
22:31
Speaker 2: which established the State Department's Center for Strategic counter Terrorism Communications. Ultimately,
22:39
Speaker 2: another executive order, Executive Order one three seven two one,
22:43
Speaker 2: again issued by Obama, transformed the cSCC into the Global
22:49
Speaker 2: Engagement Center, and the center is designed to quote, direct, lead, synchronize, integrate,
22:57
Speaker 2: and coordinate US efforts to recognize understanding and counter foreign
23:02
Speaker 2: state and non state propaganda and disinformation aimed at undermining
23:07
Speaker 2: the policy, security, or stability of the United States. But
23:11
Speaker 2: you know what they didn't do. They didn't focus on
23:13
Speaker 2: foreign actors. They focused on repeatedly Americans whose speech they
23:20
Speaker 2: were trying to silence. And so what the District court
23:24
Speaker 2: did is it issued an injunction against multiple different parts
23:29
Speaker 2: of the Biden administration to stop directing social media to
23:35
Speaker 2: censor free speech postings from American citizens. And and let
23:42
Speaker 2: me read you a portion of it. Defendants use meetings
23:48
Speaker 2: and communications with social media companies to pressure these companies
23:51
Speaker 2: to take down, reduce, and suppress the free speech of
23:53
Speaker 2: American citizens. They flagged posts and provided information on the
23:58
Speaker 2: type of posts they wanted suppressed. They also followed up
24:01
Speaker 2: with directives to the social media companies to provide them
24:04
Speaker 2: with information as to the action the company had taken
24:07
Speaker 2: with regard to the flag post. This seemingly unrelented pressure
24:13
Speaker 2: by defendants had the intended result of suppressing millions of
24:19
Speaker 2: protected free speech postings by American citizens. If ever, there
24:24
Speaker 2: were a case where the quote significant encouragement theory should apply,
24:29
Speaker 2: this is it. And that's a theory that explains that
24:31
Speaker 2: when the government engages in significant encouragement to private actors
24:35
Speaker 2: to censor speech, that the government is liable for violating
24:39
Speaker 2: the First Amendment. And here's what the court wrote in conclusion.
24:44
Speaker 2: The evidence produced thus far depicts an almost dystopian scenario
24:52
Speaker 2: during the COVID nineteen pandemic, a period best categorized by
24:57
Speaker 2: widespread doubt and uncertain the United States government seemed to
25:03
Speaker 2: have assumed a role similar to an Rwelian ministry of truth. Wow,
25:12
Speaker 2: that's a federal court in an order against the Biden administration.
25:16
Speaker 2: The Biden administration is freaking out about this.
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Speaker 1: You hear the court put it that way. And this
25:24
Speaker 1: is where I smile, because this is such a significant
25:28
Speaker 1: win for freedom of speech and also not having a
25:31
Speaker 1: government like you see that influences and runs media in
25:36
Speaker 1: places like Russia and China and Venezuela and Cuba, and
25:41
Speaker 1: the idea that you can silence your political opposition, which
25:45
Speaker 1: is exactly what the government has been doing clearly under
25:49
Speaker 1: the Biden administration. This important day now sooner. This is
25:52
Speaker 1: also going to have a big impact, I think on
25:54
Speaker 1: this election cycle coming up, because this is what they
25:57
Speaker 1: were able to do in the last election cycle, in
25:59
Speaker 1: the presidential election cycle, which was to say, Okay, we're
26:02
Speaker 1: gonna really start ratcheting up and silencing people and shutting
26:06
Speaker 1: down their reach. And Democrats realize their secret weapon was
26:11
Speaker 1: just pick up the phone and say I am the government, yes,
26:14
Speaker 1: you're the private sector. I need you to shut down
26:17
Speaker 1: these people. And even some of the accounts that were
26:20
Speaker 1: shutting down were people that had five hundred and eight
26:22
Speaker 1: hundred followers and then they said something that went viral,
26:25
Speaker 1: and they're like, yeah, we don't like we don't even
26:26
Speaker 1: know who this person is, we don't even know what
26:28
Speaker 1: they're saying. They had a treat to went viral, we
26:30
Speaker 1: don't like it. Therefore shut down their account, and they
26:33
Speaker 1: did it well.
26:34
Speaker 2: And it's even worse than that. So these big tech
26:37
Speaker 2: companies are staffed in significant parts by a lums from
26:42
Speaker 2: the federal government, from the Obama administration, from the Biden administration.
26:46
Speaker 2: You've got Joel Roth who claimed that the Trump administration
26:50
Speaker 2: were quote literal Nazis. So these are hardcore radical leftists.
26:57
Speaker 2: They're already eager to use they're mini coopoly power to
27:00
Speaker 2: silence speech, but the government is urging them any speech
27:07
Speaker 2: they dislike, they were urging them to silence. And I
27:11
Speaker 2: want to make an important clarification because to the extent
27:15
Speaker 2: you're seeing discussion of this in the corporate media, and
27:17
Speaker 2: the discussion is quite limited, but to the extent you
27:20
Speaker 2: see it, you're seeing histrionic reaction from democrats and corporate
27:25
Speaker 2: media analysts saying, well, how can this be that the
27:28
Speaker 2: government is prohibited from communicating this is a danger to
27:32
Speaker 2: our country. Let's be clear. The injunction explicitly includes carve
27:37
Speaker 2: outs for communication with social media companies that is permissible,
27:43
Speaker 2: including notifying companies about criminal activities, notifying social media companies
27:49
Speaker 2: about national security threats, and notifying them about threats to
27:53
Speaker 2: public safety. And also speech that is not protected by
27:56
Speaker 2: the First Amendment is expressly exempted from the injunct. So
28:00
Speaker 2: this injunction is narrowed too, Biden administration, you cannot ask
28:06
Speaker 2: social media companies to censor political speech because you disagree
28:11
Speaker 2: with it and dislike it. That is not how the
28:14
Speaker 2: First Amendment operates. And I guarantee you if you are
28:18
Speaker 2: watching a democrat or a corporate media analyst talk about this,
28:22
Speaker 2: they're going to suggest that the government can no longer
28:25
Speaker 2: longer talk to the social media companies at all. That
28:28
Speaker 2: is categorically false.
28:30
Speaker 1: Yeah, and look, you know some of them are going
28:32
Speaker 1: to try to still keep the back channels going and
28:34
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28:36
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28:40
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30:10
Speaker 1: not a normal conversation that you would think you and
30:13
Speaker 1: I would be having. There's a movie that's out, the
30:16
Speaker 1: Barbie movie, Barbie and Ken. It is now making waves
30:22
Speaker 1: for a map in that movie, and it's basically so
30:27
Speaker 1: Barbie and the people that made the movie, could it
30:31
Speaker 1: make a bunch of money in China by making them
30:33
Speaker 1: happy in Beijing? Explain this insane story.
30:38
Speaker 2: Well, sure, Barbie is an upcoming summer blockbuster targeting obviously
30:45
Speaker 2: young girls, teenage girls who are a huge movie going audience.
30:49
Speaker 2: And there's a scene in the movie Barbie where Barbie
30:53
Speaker 2: is in front of a map of the world, and
30:57
Speaker 2: it's a cartoon map. It's not a very detailed map.
31:00
Speaker 2: So for example, it has drawn out one of the
31:04
Speaker 2: places on the map is Asia, so it's a map
31:06
Speaker 2: of the world and has Asia, but off to the
31:09
Speaker 2: east of Asia that they have lines drawn in the
31:15
Speaker 2: South China Sea, and it's called the nine dash line.
31:20
Speaker 2: And the nine dash line is a line that the
31:23
Speaker 2: Communist Party of China is pushing out because they are
31:28
Speaker 2: claiming that China has sovereignty over virtually the entirety of
31:34
Speaker 2: the South China Sea, and that is contrary to international
31:37
Speaker 2: law the South China Sea. The claim is disputed by Vietnam,
31:42
Speaker 2: by Malaysia, by Indonesia, by Burnei, by the Philippines in Taiwan,
31:46
Speaker 2: and in fact, an international tribunal at the Hague found
31:50
Speaker 2: the Chinese Communist Party's map is illegal. In other words,
31:54
Speaker 2: that their claims of sovereignty, they're trying to steal control
31:58
Speaker 2: over international waters and waters that other nations have sovereignty.
32:03
Speaker 2: And it's a power grap And what's bizarre. You have
32:06
Speaker 2: this cartoon map with with no specificity. Asia is one
32:12
Speaker 2: block on it. And yet there in the sea are
32:15
Speaker 2: the nine dashes that are exactly what the CCP wants
32:19
Speaker 2: to claim. The South China Sea is theirs. And in
32:22
Speaker 2: response to this, the country of Vietnam officially banned the
32:27
Speaker 2: movie from Vietnam. They said, this is Chinese Communist propaganda,
32:32
Speaker 2: and it is a sad pattern. We've seen an ongoing
32:35
Speaker 2: pattern of Hollywood movies cow towing to the Chinese Communists
32:41
Speaker 2: and at times censoring their movies, but at times doing
32:46
Speaker 2: what they're doing here, which is just happily repeating CCP
32:51
Speaker 2: propaganda because they want to sell the movie in China,
32:54
Speaker 2: and they recognize that that repeating what makes the Chinese
32:59
Speaker 2: Communist Party and the government happy, increases the chances that
33:03
Speaker 2: the government will allow the movie to be sold in China.
33:06
Speaker 2: But I got to say, it is shameful to see
33:09
Speaker 2: Hollywood acting as a mouthpiece for the Chinese Communist You know,
33:15
Speaker 2: when I saw this, I tweeted out, I said, well,
33:20
Speaker 2: you know, I guess Barbie is made in China, and
33:23
Speaker 2: a vast number of the Barbie dolls sold in America
33:25
Speaker 2: are in fact manufactured in China. But it is sad
33:29
Speaker 2: to see a movie aimed at young girls is acting
33:33
Speaker 2: as the mouthpiece for Chinese communist propaganda.
33:37
Speaker 1: It's not just that too, there's also problems here in
33:40
Speaker 1: the US. There's an amazing movie that you just went
33:43
Speaker 1: to that talks about human trafficking and children that are
33:47
Speaker 1: being sex trafficked and what a problem it is in
33:49
Speaker 1: the world. It actually was the number one movie over
33:52
Speaker 1: the July fourth weekend, beating out Indiana Jones, which is incredible,
33:56
Speaker 1: and it was actually in half the number of theaters
33:58
Speaker 1: apparently as Indiana Jones. And this is what's encouraging to
34:02
Speaker 1: me center is the fact that it seems like as
34:04
Speaker 1: much as they're trying to force this propaganda, whether it
34:08
Speaker 1: be Barbie, whether it be Target, whether it be Disney.
34:11
Speaker 1: I mean, they had massive layoffs the other day with
34:13
Speaker 1: talent at ESPN. A lot of people believe this is
34:15
Speaker 1: because of Disney and ESPN. People just had enough of
34:17
Speaker 1: their woke propaganda and their obsession with Black Lives Matter
34:21
Speaker 1: propaganda on ESPN day and night for several years and
34:26
Speaker 1: people just said, I'm done with you. And now we're
34:29
Speaker 1: seeing that the conservatives are starting to fight back with
34:32
Speaker 1: their dollars not spending them places. But also this movie
34:35
Speaker 1: that just came out that that is dealing with a
34:37
Speaker 1: tough issue, an important issue, goes to number one with
34:41
Speaker 1: half of the of the distribution in theaters as the
34:45
Speaker 1: big Hollywood movie, you know, with Indiana Jones.
34:50
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's exactly right. And so this movie Sound of Freedom.
34:53
Speaker 2: I actually on July third, I took my mom to
34:55
Speaker 2: see it. And my mom loves movies, so do I.
34:58
Speaker 2: So the two of us went to see It's a
35:00
Speaker 2: fantastic movie. Jim Cavizl, who played Jesus in the Passion
35:04
Speaker 2: of the Christ, is an incredibly talented actor. He plays
35:08
Speaker 2: the lead. He plays Tim Ballard. So this is a
35:10
Speaker 2: true story. Tim Ballard was a DHS Department Homeland Security
35:14
Speaker 2: agent who was working fighting child trafficking and and and
35:19
Speaker 2: he saw the horrific evils of child sex trafficking. There
35:23
Speaker 2: is a massive, multi billion dollar business of kidnapping and
35:27
Speaker 2: selling children for sex trafficking, and it is horrific, it
35:32
Speaker 2: is evil, and and the true story, Tim Ballard ended
35:36
Speaker 2: up actually leaving his job and going down to Latin
35:41
Speaker 2: America to rescue over a hundred kids who had been
35:45
Speaker 2: kidnapped by child sex traffickers and and it's it's a
35:49
Speaker 2: true story. And I got to tell you I met
35:51
Speaker 2: Tim Ballard, Jim Jim Cavisel came by my office a
35:54
Speaker 2: couple of weeks ago. We talked about the movie and
35:57
Speaker 2: let me encourage everyone go watch this movie. It's inspiring.
36:01
Speaker 2: I mean, it's an amazing true story. So much of
36:04
Speaker 2: what comes out of Hollywood as garbage today, it's propaganda.
36:07
Speaker 2: This is a true story about fighting. Look, you can
36:11
Speaker 2: disagree about all sorts of political issues, but the sick
36:15
Speaker 2: predators who engage in in sexual assault of little kids
36:21
Speaker 2: and sell little children to pedophiles that I worked a
36:27
Speaker 2: lot of years in law enforcement. I dealt with a
36:29
Speaker 2: lot of horrible crimes. I dealt with murders, I dealt
36:32
Speaker 2: with all sorts of crimes. The ones that always got
36:35
Speaker 2: me the most upset, the most angry are the bastards
36:39
Speaker 2: that hurt kids. I think there is a special circle
36:43
Speaker 2: of hell devoted to people who hurt kids. And the
36:48
Speaker 2: corporate media and most of Hollywood they didn't want this
36:51
Speaker 2: movie made. They don't want anyone to know about it.
36:53
Speaker 2: It gets no press. In fact, when I met with
36:55
Speaker 2: Jim Caviezel, the Houston Chronicle wrote a hit piece saying, oh,
37:00
Speaker 2: Jim Caveazl is this crazy conspiracy theorist guy without talking
37:04
Speaker 2: about the movie, without talking about the horrors of child
37:07
Speaker 2: sex trafficking. Instead, they just wanted to paint it as
37:11
Speaker 2: a tenfoil hat crazy thing. This is a true story,
37:17
Speaker 2: and you are right. On July fourth, Sound of Freedom
37:21
Speaker 2: was the number one box office movie in the country.
37:25
Speaker 2: It beat Indiana Jones. Sound of Freedom was on just
37:29
Speaker 2: over two thousand screens. Indiana Jones was on over four
37:33
Speaker 2: thousand screens, and nevertheless, Sound of Freedom was number one.
37:37
Speaker 2: I want to encourage everyone to go watch it, but
37:39
Speaker 2: it's a sign of just how messed up Hollywood is
37:42
Speaker 2: that they don't want.
37:43
Speaker 1: You to watch it. Yeah, and they don't want to
37:46
Speaker 1: talk about They're hoping that this weekend it dies, which,
37:50
Speaker 1: as you know, we've got a lot of vertict listeners
37:52
Speaker 1: that want that may not even know this movie exists.
37:55
Speaker 1: It's a movie you need to go see, and you
37:57
Speaker 1: need to go see it this weekend. And the reason
37:59
Speaker 1: why is because after last weekend, there are some theaters
38:03
Speaker 1: that will pick up this movie, and if more people
38:05
Speaker 1: go this weekend, more theaters will pick it up next
38:08
Speaker 1: week because they think they're missing out on profits. That's
38:11
Speaker 1: why it's so important. Don't wait for it to come out.
38:13
Speaker 1: This is a movie that conservatives and Christians should support.
38:19
Speaker 1: This is put your money where your mouth is and
38:21
Speaker 1: go out there. Because if we succeed in these movies
38:25
Speaker 1: being successful, center more of them are going to be made,
38:28
Speaker 1: which is the best part of all.
38:30
Speaker 2: Well, and Ben, I'll tell you when we finished watching
38:32
Speaker 2: the movie on the afternoon of July third, at the
38:35
Speaker 2: end of the movie, the entire theater burst out an applause.
38:40
Speaker 2: When's the last time you read a movie where that happened. Yeah,
38:43
Speaker 2: I mean it is uplifting. It's horrifying. I mean, the
38:46
Speaker 2: evil of it is horrifying, but it also is a
38:50
Speaker 2: demonstration that you can go and you can fight against
38:54
Speaker 2: this evil and you can prevail. And it's important for
38:58
Speaker 2: people to understand peace. People don't like to talk about
39:02
Speaker 2: modern day slavery, and sadly, under the Biden administration with
39:06
Speaker 2: their open borders at the southern border, human trafficking has
39:10
Speaker 2: exploded the results of open borders. I'll give you an
39:13
Speaker 2: amazing statistic we've talked about on Verdict before this statistic
39:17
Speaker 2: is from the New York Times. In twenty eighteen, the
39:20
Speaker 2: Mexican drug cartels made in revenue from human trafficking roughly
39:25
Speaker 2: five hundred million dollars. Last year, they made over thirteen
39:30
Speaker 2: billion dollars from human trafficking. That is a two six
39:34
Speaker 2: hundred percent increase. This is evil and it is modern
39:38
Speaker 2: day slavery. Now that being said, as bad as Hollywood is,
39:44
Speaker 2: as much as they don't want you to hear and
39:46
Speaker 2: watch movies that expose things like this, as much as
39:50
Speaker 2: they're willing to cowtow to communist China, we did have
39:54
Speaker 2: a significant victory recently, which is the pattern of Hollywood
40:01
Speaker 2: censoring for China has been an ongoing pattern, and I've
40:04
Speaker 2: been calling it out for a long time. So, for example,
40:08
Speaker 2: the movie Top Gun Maverick. You remember the first movie
40:12
Speaker 2: Top Gun. Yeah, Maverick had on the back of his
40:19
Speaker 2: jacket a series of patches of different flags, and two
40:24
Speaker 2: of the flags that were on the back of his
40:25
Speaker 2: jacket were the flag of Japan and the flag of Taiwan. Well,
40:31
Speaker 2: the Chinese communists don't like Japan and they hate they
40:35
Speaker 2: loathe Taiwan, and so the movie Top Gun Maverick the sequel,
40:40
Speaker 2: they edited those patches out. They've just made them sort
40:43
Speaker 2: of random patterns that didn't correspond to any country because
40:46
Speaker 2: they didn't want to offend the Chinese Communist Party by
40:50
Speaker 2: referring to Japan or Taiwan. And I called him out,
40:53
Speaker 2: I said, really, are you serious? Are you telling me
40:56
Speaker 2: that Maverick is afraid of the Chinese Communists? I mean
41:01
Speaker 2: it was insane and a bit of good news. Actually,
41:04
Speaker 2: the studio ended up putting him back, so when the
41:06
Speaker 2: movie was released, they had the patches back, and there
41:09
Speaker 2: was enough criticism they got embarrassed. Another example Hollywood the
41:13
Speaker 2: movie Bohemian Rhapsody. It's another great movie. It's a biopic
41:16
Speaker 2: of Freddie Mercury, the lead singer of Queen. The studio
41:20
Speaker 2: that produced it edited out scenes that showed that Freddie
41:24
Speaker 2: Mercury was gay because the Chinese Communists didn't want to
41:27
Speaker 2: acknowledge that Freddy Mercury was gay. Now, Ben, how the
41:30
Speaker 2: hell do you tell Freddie Mercury's story without acknowledging he
41:33
Speaker 2: was gay. It was a pretty damn important part of
41:35
Speaker 2: his life. And you know, Hollywood is always happy to
41:39
Speaker 2: virtue signal about how woke they are. Unless they're trying
41:43
Speaker 2: to make millions of dollars from China, in which case
41:45
Speaker 2: they're like, nope, edited out. Guess what, Freddy Mercury no
41:48
Speaker 2: longer gay, Let's just take it out. It was embarrassing,
41:53
Speaker 2: it was wrong, and so I introduced legislation called the
41:57
Speaker 2: Script Act. And what the Script Act said is that
42:02
Speaker 2: if a Chinese studio, sorry, if an American studio engages
42:08
Speaker 2: in censorship at the behest of the Chinese government or
42:12
Speaker 2: in order to please the Chinese government, then they are
42:15
Speaker 2: not eligible to use US government assets. So there are
42:20
Speaker 2: lots of movies where movie studios use assets of the
42:23
Speaker 2: US government. Think something like Top Gun, where they're using
42:26
Speaker 2: fighter jets, or they're using ships, or they're using tanks,
42:29
Speaker 2: or they're using humvies. Or think you know a movie
42:32
Speaker 2: where you're down on the border, you're downfighting drugs, and
42:35
Speaker 2: you're up in a Blackhawk helicopter. They're all sorts of
42:38
Speaker 2: instances where the US government allows Hollywood to use their
42:43
Speaker 2: assets to film great action movies. The Script Act says, Okay,
42:49
Speaker 2: if you're going to let the Chinese communist government censor
42:52
Speaker 2: your films, you can't use US government assets to do
42:56
Speaker 2: it and the Script Act. I introduced it, I fought
42:59
Speaker 2: for it. I'll tell the Democrats resisted it mightily that
43:04
Speaker 2: Hollywood supports the Democrats significantly. We had a huge battle
43:08
Speaker 2: back and forth. Ultimately, the full Script Act didn't pass,
43:13
Speaker 2: but major portions of the Script Act passed in the
43:18
Speaker 2: Fiscal year twenty twenty three National Defense Authorization Bill. And
43:24
Speaker 2: in the past week, the Pentagon issued their guidance and
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Speaker 1: and a dear friend of yours. Mark Levin has his
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Speaker 1: new book that is coming out soon, and it came
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Speaker 1: out that Target had said they would not sell Mark
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Speaker 1: Times bestseller. This is another example of why I'm not
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Speaker 1: But there was so much backlash so quickly that Target realized,
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Speaker 1: And this is proof that when we get together and focus,
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Speaker 2: Well, that's exactly right. This is a big victory again
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Speaker 2: for free speech against censorship, in this case censorship from
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Speaker 2: big business. Mark Levin, who is a dear friend of mine,
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Speaker 2: a dear friend of yours. He is the great one.
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Speaker 2: And and that is a title that is fully earned. Uh,
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Speaker 2: it is not hyperbole to say I wouldn't be in
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Speaker 2: the US Senate without Mark Levin when when I was
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Speaker 2: at two percent and was just getting started, Mark had
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Speaker 2: me on my show over and over and over again,
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Speaker 2: and and and helped me get get my message out
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Speaker 2: to millions of Texans, help help me prevail. By the way,
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Speaker 2: another guy named Ben Ferguson, who was also hosted a major,
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Speaker 2: major show, had me on repeatedly. And so I'm grateful
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Speaker 2: to the both of you, and and and I got
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Speaker 2: to say, Democrats are still pissed at both of you.
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Speaker 2: Uh for impact you did there, badge of honor. But Mark,
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Speaker 2: you're right. Every book he writes sells a gazillion copies.
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Speaker 2: His books are fantastic. His latest book, Uh, you know,
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Speaker 2: you know, Mark is is someone who's very subtle. He
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Speaker 2: has difficulty speaking clearly. He has difficulties saying what he
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Speaker 2: really believes. So his title with all of the understatement
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Speaker 2: that that has made Mark famous. Uh, the title of
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Speaker 2: the book is the Democrat Party Hates America. Well that
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Speaker 2: you know. I haven't read Mark's book yet, it's coming
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Speaker 2: out shortly, but I suspect he makes a compelling case
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Speaker 2: for the title. But Mark tweeted out on July fifth,
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Speaker 2: Target will not carry the Democrat Party Hates America because
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Speaker 2: it might offend Democrats pathetic. You can go to Amazon
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Speaker 2: And I want to thank Barnes and Nobles Walmartin Books
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Speaker 2: a million for carrying the book. Now, a lot of
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Speaker 2: conservatives spoke out against this. I spoke out. I retweeted Mark,
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Speaker 2: and here's what I said. I said, not to worry.
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Speaker 2: Target has built up so much goodwill with conservatives that
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Speaker 2: I'm sure they won't mind. And then I said, and
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Speaker 2: bias book because I'm sure it's a fantastic book. Well,
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Speaker 2: here's the good news. If you feel like all of
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Speaker 2: corporate America as a disaster, well, Mark tweeted out on
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Speaker 2: July sixth. The day later, Target just informed my publisher
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Speaker 2: that is reversed course and will be taking my new
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Speaker 2: book in its stores upon its release. You folks are
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Speaker 2: an immense force for free speech and market capitalism, and
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Speaker 2: conservative authors and audiences everywhere will benefit from your patriotism.
49:22
Speaker 2: I could not be more proud of you, not only
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Speaker 2: for how this specific case turned out, as there will
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Speaker 2: undoubtedly be more of this, but because you've made it
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Speaker 2: clear that you've had enough and will exercise your enormous power.
49:36
Speaker 2: The silent majority is silent no longer. I'll more fully
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Speaker 2: discuss this on radio. God bless and I thank and
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Speaker 2: salute you all. That is awesome, and every conservative, everyone
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Speaker 2: who believes in free speech, everyone who doesn't want to
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Speaker 2: see corporate America silence views they disagree with, should celebrate.
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Speaker 2: We started this pod by talking about a victory for
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Speaker 2: free speech in the courtroom, and we're ending the pod
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Speaker 2: by talking about a victory for free speech against big business.
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Speaker 2: In both instance, there is a power to truth. There
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Speaker 2: is a power to highlighting what is real and what
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Speaker 2: the facts are, and when we do so, that has
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