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"WHAT IS A WOMAN?" It was a simple question yet, Judge Jackson could not answer it. Senator's Hagerty and Blackburn join me to talk about it all. · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: So day one wasn't great for Judge Jackson. Day two
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  Speaker 1: got worse. Day three, Oh my gosh, what am I
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  Speaker 1: talking about? I'm talking about We now know the Judge
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  Speaker 1: Jackson has now admitted to doing pro bono work for
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  Speaker 1: terrorists in Guantanamo Bay. You've done pro bono work for
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  Speaker 1: on behalf of detainees at guantanamobey, have you ever done
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  Speaker 1: pro bono work for the victims of terrorism? Senator, I'm
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  Speaker 1: not aware of any such cases in my law firm.
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  Speaker 1: I was in a group of lawyers that was often
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  Speaker 1: approached to ask would you file a brief for some group?
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  Speaker 1: And I'm not aware that any victims of terrorism asked
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  Speaker 1: joining me to talk about this. US Senator from Tennessee
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  Speaker 1: Bill Haggardy Sentator, this is maybe for me, the most
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  Speaker 1: shocking moment of all is the fact that we have
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  Speaker 1: a Supreme Court nominee they did pro bono work for
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  Speaker 1: terrorists being detained at Guantanamo Bay. When you heard that,
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  Speaker 1: what did you think? Then? I thought it was consistent
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  Speaker 1: with this entire administration's posture to be soft on crime.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, they're going to be much softer on criminals
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  Speaker 1: than they are on victims. As Senator Cotton just extracted,
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  Speaker 1: no work for victims, no concern for victims. For their
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  Speaker 1: concern is to go easy on crime. And what we've
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  Speaker 1: seen around the United States, particularly in Democrat run cities,
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  Speaker 1: is just a massive increase in crime here in America.
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  Speaker 1: This has been prompted by Democrat leadership, and I'm not
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  Speaker 1: surprised at all to see their nominee to the Supreme
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  Speaker 1: Court again being soft on crime and not being not
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  Speaker 1: being attentive to the needs of the victims of these crimes.
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  Speaker 1: There's another shocking part about Judge Jackson's history, as she
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  Speaker 1: has been working in the legal field, and I think
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  Speaker 1: the most shocking part is she consistently has gone easy
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  Speaker 1: when it comes to one crime and the person who's
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  Speaker 1: committed child pornography sentencing. She has documents court case after
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  Speaker 1: court case of her giving criminals convicted of child pornography
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  Speaker 1: charges lighter sentences than what is recommended by federal guidelines.
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  Speaker 1: When when you see that, it's not just it's not
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  Speaker 1: like a one off thing, it's it's consistent. I think
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  Speaker 1: it's very clear now that she doesn't believe that there
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  Speaker 1: should be tough sentencing for those that are involved in
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  Speaker 1: child pornography. She even defended the fact that she said, well, look,
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  Speaker 1: you can get yourself in trouble real quick with the Internet,
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  Speaker 1: and a few clicks can get you all of a
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  Speaker 1: sudden a bunch of child porn So we shouldn't put
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  Speaker 1: you in jail for a long time if you're on
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  Speaker 1: the internet looking, downloading, sending child pornography. But if you
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  Speaker 1: send it in the mail, then there's different guidelines for
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  Speaker 1: that because that shows a real intent. I couldn't believe
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  Speaker 1: the words coming out of her mouth when I heard this,
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  Speaker 1: But this is literally her defense, and you've got to
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  Speaker 1: have to vote on this. What did you think? It
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  Speaker 1: was very disturbing to hear this. Ben If you think
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  Speaker 1: about it this I was talking with Senator Cruz who
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  Speaker 1: attended law school with her. It seems this pattern goes
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  Speaker 1: all the way back, perhaps to her academic time, but
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  Speaker 1: looking at every one of her sentencing experiences when it
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  Speaker 1: had to do with this crime, she was at either
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  Speaker 1: the very low end of the required sentence or even below,
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  Speaker 1: even below with the prosecutor recommended. So, as you rightly mentioned,
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  Speaker 1: she's been consistently, consistently off on this, consistently in favor
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  Speaker 1: of those who perpetrate crimes of this terrific nature. And
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  Speaker 1: it's inexplicable to me. You look at the facts here,
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  Speaker 1: and for everyone that's listening, I hope that you'll understand
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  Speaker 1: just I would say, how clear it is her thought
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  Speaker 1: process on this. They found ten cases where she weighed
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  Speaker 1: in on child pornography. Eight of those ten cases she
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  Speaker 1: was below the minimum sentence, and this range anywhere from
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  Speaker 1: fourteen percent to eighty eight percent. So it's it's obvious
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  Speaker 1: that Jackson believes that child pornography, you know, convicts get
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  Speaker 1: lighter sentences, and that's a part of her legal mindset.
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  Speaker 1: Not only that, she also seems to like to defend
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  Speaker 1: terrorists people at guantanam obey and this is who we
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  Speaker 1: want to put on the Supreme Court. While she also
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  Speaker 1: has said that she won't say that packing the Supreme
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  Speaker 1: Court is a bad thing. You add all this up,
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  Speaker 1: How in the world have we gotten to this point
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  Speaker 1: now where this woman still still with all of this
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  Speaker 1: senator has a legitimate chance of being a very legitimate
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  Speaker 1: chance of actually sitting on the Supreme Court the United
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  Speaker 1: States of America. Well, it's shocking that someone that puts
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  Speaker 1: the rights of terrorists, if there should be any at all,
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  Speaker 1: puts the rights of horrific criminals. You know, ahead of
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  Speaker 1: those are the victims here. That's exactly what we've seen
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  Speaker 1: in her record. This question that was asked by Leader
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  Speaker 1: McConnell about her position on packing the court, she can't
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  Speaker 1: answer it. I mean, that's a political question, and what
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  Speaker 1: she's I think what's being uncovered through the course of
• 5:47
  Speaker 1: these days of interviews is the fact that we actually
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  Speaker 1: have a political activist that's posing as a jurist. What
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  Speaker 1: we need to have are people that interpret the Constitution
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  Speaker 1: is written. That's exactly what I intend to probe when
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  Speaker 1: I meet with her next week. Is she going to
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  Speaker 1: interpret the Constitution as it's written? Or is she going
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  Speaker 1: to be an activist that wants to view this as quote,
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  Speaker 1: a living document. She's not been able to answer that
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  Speaker 1: question either is a constitutional living document or is it
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  Speaker 1: to be interpreted as it was written by our founder.
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  Speaker 1: Certainly the latter is the correct answer. Let's see what
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  Speaker 1: she has to say. Well, you obviously have colleagues and
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  Speaker 1: her Democrats, and I'm not going to ask you to
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  Speaker 1: name names, but I do want to get your take
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  Speaker 1: on the feel of the Democratic Party. Do they feel
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  Speaker 1: like her nomination is now at risk at all? Or
• 6:30
  Speaker 1: is this just such an activist decision from the very
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  Speaker 1: beginning and a campaign payoff for a remind people that
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  Speaker 1: Joe Biden made it very clear that he was going
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  Speaker 1: to discriminate against all races and all sexes that were
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  Speaker 1: not women or African American with its first Supreme Court nominee.
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  Speaker 1: That means he basically segregated and disgradinated against about eighty
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  Speaker 1: five percent eighty four percent, if we want to be
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  Speaker 1: exact of the American popular no one was allowed to
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  Speaker 1: get this job unless you filled the quota of being
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  Speaker 1: a woman and being African American. And I worry that
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  Speaker 1: this is just so much about that quota that campaign
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  Speaker 1: promise that she can we can find out even and
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what's worse than you know, giving light
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  Speaker 1: sense as a child pornographer's child sex offenders and defending
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  Speaker 1: people at guantanam A Bay. And also, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: not even being able to define what a woman is
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  Speaker 1: when it is what got you the eligible for this job, right,
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  Speaker 1: you had to be defined as a woman to get
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  Speaker 1: this job. She couldn't even define what a woman was
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  Speaker 1: dealing obviously with the NCAA and what's happening with men
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  Speaker 1: playing with women. But are there Democrats are starting to
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  Speaker 1: think maybe this is not the right person. Are they
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  Speaker 1: just going to put their head down and vote yes? Well,
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  Speaker 1: I think I know the Democrats are talking about and
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  Speaker 1: I know that you're being not named names, but I
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  Speaker 1: will Senator Joe Manchin, who I think has stood up
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  Speaker 1: against the headwinds of his own party. He's taken decisions
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  Speaker 1: that were right for the people of West Virginia. Frankly,
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  Speaker 1: can't imagine if people of West Virginia want to see
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  Speaker 1: a judicial activist like this sitting on the bench. Somebody's
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  Speaker 1: going to try to reinterpret the Constitution and push us
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  Speaker 1: further to the left. But those are questions that the
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  Speaker 1: Senator from West Virginia will have to answer on his own.
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  Speaker 1: I will say this, though the left knows no bounds.
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  Speaker 1: We saw what happened in Justice Kavanaugh was hearing. We
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  Speaker 1: saw what happened when they tried to intimidate Senators Cinema
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  Speaker 1: and Senator Mansion. When they don't get their way, they
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  Speaker 1: know no bounds. So I think it could be extremely
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  Speaker 1: difficult on any Democrat that tries to buck this, that
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  Speaker 1: doesn't go along with you the preordained view that we're
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  Speaker 1: going to put an activist in place. It's going to
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  Speaker 1: be very hard for Democrat to vote know against this,
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  Speaker 1: And as you know, the way it works for a
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  Speaker 1: Supreme Court nominee, it takes fifty votes that Democrats have
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  Speaker 1: fifty plus the Vice President of the United States, which
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  Speaker 1: regret leave Kamal Harris sits in that position right now.
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  Speaker 1: So with fifty plus one they can do this. I'm
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  Speaker 1: sure there's a tremendous amount of pressure in their party
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  Speaker 1: to hold the line on what every nominee they put forward,
• 9:01
  Speaker 1: which means it's more and more incumbent on center and
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  Speaker 1: blackburning myself to point out the issues that are associated
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  Speaker 1: with the candidate like this. You I always look at
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  Speaker 1: the hard left media to see what they're feeling, and
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  Speaker 1: you could see it changing. Senator. Last night, joy Reid
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  Speaker 1: was on MSNBC and she said, quote I was getting
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  Speaker 1: texts all day and have been for the last three
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  Speaker 1: days from people who, similarly to what Joyce is saying,
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  Speaker 1: would normally not sit there and watch all day at
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  Speaker 1: confirmation hearing as I would because I'm a nerd. The
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  Speaker 1: outrageous real he went A lot of it is quote
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  Speaker 1: blatant disrespect. They're immediately going for the race card here.
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  Speaker 1: I tweeted that they were treating her like a black shopper,
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  Speaker 1: that they were following through the store. Just the ultimate
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  Speaker 1: disrespect for her as a human being, as a judge,
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  Speaker 1: the fact that her family was there all because, in
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  Speaker 1: Lindsey Graham's view, apparently this whole hearing was payback for Cavanaugh,
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  Speaker 1: who nobody told him to sexually violate his high school
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  Speaker 1: friends or those girls in college and get accused of
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  Speaker 1: it credibly. That is not the fault of Judge Jackson. Apparently,
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  Speaker 1: according to Lindsay Graham, she needs to pay for that.
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  Speaker 1: They're still accusing Brett Cavanaugh of having rape parties, which
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  Speaker 1: we all know is absurd and never happened and wasn't
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  Speaker 1: true and not credible, and yet they're going back this,
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  Speaker 1: which makes me think maybe they really are worried that
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  Speaker 1: her nomination is in real trouble. Well, they should be worried,
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  Speaker 1: because what's being revealed to the American public again is
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  Speaker 1: more far left policy again coming through now the judiciary branch.
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  Speaker 1: They can't get it done in the legislative field, they
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  Speaker 1: can't get it done at the ballot box, so they
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  Speaker 1: want to install judges and justices that will push for
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  Speaker 1: their far left policies. Again not accountable to the people.
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  Speaker 1: But this is another avenue away that the Democrats hope
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  Speaker 1: to end run the system and get their policies through.
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  Speaker 1: And when you see, you know, when you see media
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  Speaker 1: talking heads like this, you know, going into pivot and
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  Speaker 1: full spin mode, I think it does indicate that they
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  Speaker 1: see themselves in trouble. It's also just terrible to think
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  Speaker 1: back about what's been done, going back to Judge Bork,
• 11:07
  Speaker 1: Judge Thomas, the horrific process that they put kavan On through,
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  Speaker 1: and then to try to compare, you know, questioning on
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  Speaker 1: the judicial record of ah nominee, try to compare it
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  Speaker 1: to that. Again, they'll seek the lowest of lows and
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  Speaker 1: go there as quick as possible. Tender. I want to
• 11:23
  Speaker 1: pivot real quick to what's happening in Ukraine, and there
• 11:27
  Speaker 1: seems to be a lot of talk right now about
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  Speaker 1: maybe giving half of Ukraine to Vladimir Putin for some
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  Speaker 1: sort of ceasefire agreement. We're also hearing now that Biden
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  Speaker 1: is going to announce that the US will take a
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  Speaker 1: hundred thousand Ukrainian refugees. And there's now many that are
• 11:43
  Speaker 1: saying that the Biden administration's policy is they do not
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  Speaker 1: believe that Ukraine can stand up to Russia. So they're
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  Speaker 1: basically saying, all right, give up part of the country
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  Speaker 1: behind the scenes, and then maybe that'll stop all this insanity.
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  Speaker 1: If this is our foreign policy, it is a disaster.
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  Speaker 1: Or because a foreign policy is solely based on the
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  Speaker 1: actions of a tyrant, not based on protecting people that
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  Speaker 1: they live in free countries. I know that's a lot
• 12:08
  Speaker 1: to throw at you, but I know you got a
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  Speaker 1: lot to say about it. So let's deal with the
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  Speaker 1: first part, which is this real idea apparently that's being
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  Speaker 1: being floated or about at the White House about all right, well,
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  Speaker 1: maybe we say they take half the country and we'll
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  Speaker 1: get a ceasefire out of the deal. Your thoughts, Well,
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  Speaker 1: you use the word insanity then, and I think that's
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  Speaker 1: got to be, you know, centfral to the whole process
• 12:30
  Speaker 1: that the Biden administration is working through right now. First
• 12:33
  Speaker 1: they talk about options in public, they talk about what
• 12:36
  Speaker 1: we're not going to do. We should leave this in
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  Speaker 1: a position as ambiguous as possible at Vladimir Putin find
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  Speaker 1: out what we're going to do depending on his actions,
• 12:45
  Speaker 1: and that he's setting the policy. We're negotiating against ourselves,
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  Speaker 1: and we're doing it in public. I just find this,
• 12:51
  Speaker 1: you know, as a business person all my life, no
• 12:54
  Speaker 1: one handles things like this in business. I was a diplomat.
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  Speaker 1: I was the US ambassador's in Japan the time when
• 12:58
  Speaker 1: things were as hot as they could do with North Rhea.
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  Speaker 1: This is not how you negotiate. This is on how
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  Speaker 1: you look at the best interests of US national security
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  Speaker 1: or that of your allies. So what I see is
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  Speaker 1: a very naive approach. They're fumbling around in the media
• 13:10
  Speaker 1: trying to see how things, you know, various options may
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  Speaker 1: pull their flipping ideas so that other allies like Germany
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  Speaker 1: can begin to take the lead. They're really defaulting back
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  Speaker 1: to the old Obama Biden policy of leading from behind them,
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  Speaker 1: and what they're doing is jeopardizing, you know, at this point,
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  Speaker 1: the Ukrainians, but they're also emboldening other countries like China,
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  Speaker 1: who has its design set on Taiwan and other areas
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  Speaker 1: of the world I think are very hot right now.
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  Speaker 1: This is this is very, very dangerous what they're doing,
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  Speaker 1: and again making national security decisions by press release and
• 13:44
  Speaker 1: by media discussions not the right approach. You know, Putin
• 13:48
  Speaker 1: is a just attacked the petro dollar system is now
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  Speaker 1: demanding quote unfriendly nations purchase gas in rubles. This come
• 13:56
  Speaker 1: as Russia's ally Belarus. As granted, this is not a
• 13:59
  Speaker 1: joe because the real headline January the six protesters asylum
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  Speaker 1: citing political persecution in this country, trying to dig and
• 14:08
  Speaker 1: punch at anything they can to mess with America using
• 14:12
  Speaker 1: January six, which just makes at this point you just
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  Speaker 1: got to laugh when you see them demanding you move
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  Speaker 1: your nation's purchases of gas into roubles. And also there's
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  Speaker 1: still people now apparently saying that they believe that Vladimir
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  Speaker 1: Putin should actually be attending the G twenty summit that
• 14:29
  Speaker 1: is coming up absurd. The whole thing is absurd, but
• 14:35
  Speaker 1: it's obvious that they've got an information war going on,
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  Speaker 1: and we need to realize and recognize the fact that
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  Speaker 1: this is not just a kinetic war on the ground
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  Speaker 1: in Ukraine. There's a war of information and disinformation. There's
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  Speaker 1: something else we need to be prepared for, and that
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  Speaker 1: the cyber attacks. You know, Russia is completely capable of
• 14:52
  Speaker 1: doing this. We know that Russian hackers attacked the colonial
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  Speaker 1: backline just last year. Again, we need to be reflecting strength.
• 14:58
  Speaker 1: I reached out a secretary of the OCHRES who runs
• 15:01
  Speaker 1: some land security, to Secretary of Austin at the Department
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  Speaker 1: of Defense last week to ask them what we're doing
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  Speaker 1: to make all of our defenses available to private networks,
• 15:09
  Speaker 1: to state and local networks, to make certain that we're
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: defending ourselves against the possibility of other means of aggression,
• 15:17
  Speaker 1: in this case as a ciber attacks. So we need
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: to be very careful about that. To your point on
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: the G twenty, under the Trump administration, when the G
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  Speaker 1: twenty was helping Osaka Japan, I was the ambassadoran President
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: Frump actually asked me to take his seat at the
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  Speaker 1: G twenty. For one of the four rounds, I sat
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: next to Ladimir Putin. It's chilling to sit next to
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  Speaker 1: a killer like that, and I can't imagine that Putin
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  Speaker 1: could be welcome in that sort of environment moving forward,
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: the G twenty needs to take some at and to
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  Speaker 1: address that. But the notion that Vladimir Putin could actually
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: be entertained and a member of organization like that, given
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: what he's done, he's an international pariah. Again. We need
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: to be leaving from the front, not behind, and demanding
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: that Putin by the consequence at every level for the
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: activity and that he's undertake you right now. Lastly, I
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: want to ask you about the big controversy which I
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: don't believe should have been a controversy, and that was
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  Speaker 1: doing whatever we can to get the airplanes needed to
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: the Ukrainian military. It's we've been dragging our feet. I
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: think this administration has been very clear that that's been
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  Speaker 1: their Their idea is to drag their feet on Ukraine
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  Speaker 1: and just kind of see what happens when you see
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  Speaker 1: this being our foreign policy for people that are actually
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: trying to fight for themselves. I'm not in favor of
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: sending our men and women. I want to make that
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  Speaker 1: very clear to Ukraine. I don't want us to go
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  Speaker 1: and die over there, but the people that are living
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  Speaker 1: there are willing to fight and defend themselves. We should
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  Speaker 1: give them everything a need. And this administration every time
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: is like, well, I'm just concerned that not might provoke Russia.
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  Speaker 1: Should we have given them these planes and should we
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  Speaker 1: have stopped playing, you know, chess while they're playing checkers
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  Speaker 1: and just wipe in the board clean? Well, two points, ben,
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  Speaker 1: I was not one of the people that jumped on
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  Speaker 1: that letter to say that we should spend that we
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: should send the planes over that. I was not on
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  Speaker 1: that letter, and there's a good reason for that. I'm
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: trying to keep my own horizon. My first entrance is
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: not to be emotional. I think Zelenski has done a
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: great job of hitting the people of Ukraine to support him.
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  Speaker 1: I think he's done a great job of getting the
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: people of the world to support his cause. But we
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: need to be delivered in what we do. We need
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: to be focused on America's first. You know, again, Zilence's
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: doing a great job of making certain that Ukraine's interest
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  Speaker 1: to place first. I have to be responsible for putting
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: America's interst first, and keep my eye HUD in the
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: horizon with respect to China, It's designs on Taiwan, what's
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: happening in Iran, what's happening in North Korea? And I
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  Speaker 1: don't want to see us get so bogged down in
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: one situation that we can't address the others. The situation
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: with the MiGs is something that I've had the opportunity
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: now to have a classified briefing. I did not have
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: that benefit at the time this letter being circulated, and
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: I would not sign it at that point. Right now,
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: I'll just say this, we are and we have dedicated
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: in the United States sent a tremendous amount of restourse,
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: both lethal resources and humanitarian resources to Ukraine. My focus
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: right now is making certain that those resources get to
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: where they need to be. The Ukrainian people have demonstrated
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: their ability to stand up and fight. They're doing a
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: remarkable job. They need the material to do that. Our
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: job is to get that to them, rather than escalate
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: things to a point where we have our men and
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: women in a no fly zone, as Vladimir Vladimir Zelenski
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: is requested I mean that puts us right at the
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: doorstep of a direct encounter with Russia. I think we
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: need to be focused on enabling Ukraine but also making
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: certain that America has the capability to handle challenges that
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: are facing us on multiple dimensions. Let me just I'm
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: going to ask in a different way because I want
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: to make sure I'm very clear, because I think the
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: point you're making is interesting. You're afraid that if we
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: give them those planes, even to their pilots, that this
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: would then make our give Vladimir Putney in to escalate
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: things when it comes to chemical or even nuclear war,
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: and that is the concern. No, my concern is that
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  Speaker 1: we help Ukraine in the most effective way possible. I'm
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: not convinced that those planes are the most effective way possible.
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: ZELENSI requested everything that he possibly could. I would if
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: I were in this position too, I would request the
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: skies to be closed as he requested, in every bit
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: of equipment that he could get. What we're focused on
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: is the most effective equipment that we can deliver to him.
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: There are a lot of complications associated with me ex
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: go beyond that. But again, according to the class of
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: eye briefing, that I've been able to get. I'm confident
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: that we're focused in the right area right now in
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: terms of our support. We should have been doing this
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: a lot sooner. We should have imposed sanctions well before
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: Putin never invaded, so we would have had a deterrent effect.
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: We should have been arming Ukraine with what we're trying
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: to provide now, we could have provided ahead of time. Again,
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: as I look at Taiwan, I'm thinking in the same
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: direction there. But we've got to keep our eye on
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: the right and again making certain that we're looking at
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: for America's interest first, Senator, I appreciate your perspective. That's
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: why I want to ask you about it, and I
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: think a lot of people want to understand the logic
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: behind it, and I think you did a great job
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: explain that. Thank you as always for coming on, and
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: obviously we'll have you back again real soon. Senator Marsha
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: Blackburne joins me. Now, now, Senator, I want to go
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: back in history real quick, and please correct me if
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: I am wrong. Didn't the President of the United States
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: of America when he was a candidate running for office
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: to try to buy the votes of liberal women and
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: of minority African American women specifically say that he was
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: going to only nominate and discriminate against everyone else that
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: wasn't a woman, and b who anybody that wasn't an
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: African American woman was immediately disqualified from being on the
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: Supreme Court with his first pick. And that true? Is
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: that right? Or did I get that wrong? You know?
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: N he was very explicit and saying that he was
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: going to bring more diversity and that he was going
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: to elevate more women. And of course, we want to
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: see women earn their rightful place in society. And here
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: we have a federal judge who has been on the
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: bench for nearly a decade. She is highly skilled, highly educated,
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: has a very impressive resume, resume, has a wonderful family,
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: has great parents. They opened tremendous stores of opportunity to her,
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: and she has taken advantage of all this opportunity. It
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: is the embodiment of the American dream with all she
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: has accomplished. And she serves on the school board George
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: Sam Day School. They are teaching CRT to five year olds,
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: have a curriculum called Woke Kindergarten. Parents are very concerned
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: about this about CRT. They want. They're concerned about the
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: rights for their children. They've seen biological men competing against
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: biological women in sports. They are concerned about this. They
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: want a Supreme Court justice who is going to defend
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: their right as a parent to rear their children as
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: they see fit and as they know best. And it
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: has been of concern that she will not clarify her
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: position on CRT. Like last night, I finally said, well,
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: just define woman for me. She would not give me
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: that definition. People have been very frustrated with her approach
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: on crime and the way she's been soft and child abusers,
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: child predators, pedophiles in her sentencing during her time on
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: the federal bench, all of this has come into play.
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: I still think I think it's shocking, though, that you
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: have a president Night Tents of America who even understands
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: what the definition of woman is, because that's why he
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: picked her, because she is the definition of a woman.
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: And so after she has picked knowing that she's being
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: picked because she is of two qualifications Number one a woman,
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: number two African American, and he had to pay off
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: on that promise and discriminate against everyone else. She can't
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: even define what a woman is when the definition of
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: a woman is what got her in front of you yesterday. Anyway,
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: it just shows you with the progressive lift, how far
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: they're going to go to push their agenda. Now. The
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: other thing I brought up to her last night after
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: that exchange was Demand Justice, a far left progressive group
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: who is seeking to pack the court, which, of course,
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: going back to when Judge Jackson was before us to
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: go on to the Appellate Court a year ago, she
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: would not answer the question as to where she stood
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: on court packing. She has refused to do that during
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: this confirmation hearing, and I brought to her attention last
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: night that Demand Justice has put out a one million,
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: one million dollars ad by to support her confirmation to
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: the US Supreme Court. And you gotta believe if court
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: packing comes before the US Supreme Court, they're expecting Judge Jackson,
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: as Justice Jackson, to support them in court packing. Why
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: else would they be doing a one million dollar adby.
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: They are doing ratties in protest all over the country
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: in support of her, and they're pushing hard, pushing Democrats
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: senators very aggressively to get her confirmed to the court.
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: It is shocking to see just how I would say
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: an activist. She is one of the other things that
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: I think some people that maybe were at work yesterday
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: and I want you to explain this. She wouldn't say
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: if the US should strengthen child pornographer punishments. Now, there
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: have been accusations that she's been lenient on child predators
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: when she has seen cases that involve them. Explain that
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: a little bit more, because this, to me, I think
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: is one of the most dangerous parts of what she
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: has done as a judge, that we actually have a
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: record of her doing this. Yes, exactly right in as
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: you know, strengthening protection of children online is something that
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: I have put a tremendous amount of attention on and
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: actually have bipartisan legislation ready to go to the Senate
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: floor that would strengthen some of these provisions. Well, she
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: sat there in these hearings and said, well, you know,
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: Congress hasn't given us enough guidance on this, and we
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: pointed out to her, well, no, that's not exactly right.
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: Congress has given you guidance. But what you did, instead
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: of going within the range of sentences, recommended the minimum
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: to the maximum. Her habit was to repeatedly go about
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: five years below the minimum, below the minimum, so she
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: wasn't even meeting the minimum. And we brought forward several cases.
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: In the research that we as a committee did, we
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: found ten cases that she had weighed in on and
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: she would repeatedly go below the minimum in these cases.
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: And people can go back and look through the hearing.
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: Senator Cruz did a great job and put them all
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: on a poster board so she could see them and
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: so she would be able to respond, and she went
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: anywhere from fourteen percent to eighty eight percent below the
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: minimum and even further below what the government was recommending
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: in these cases. It is shocking that this is where
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: we are. Unfortunately, and as you just mentioned, Ted Cruz said,
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: if Judge Brown gets on the bench, he said, sexual
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: predators would be released if your law school views prevailed.
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: And this is all the reason why you have these
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: confirmation hearings. And that is the point that he kept
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: saying was Look. He brought up her nineteen Harvard Law
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: Review note during the second day of her confirmation hearing,
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: talking about this, reading aloud excerpts from her major academic
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: work entitled Prevention Versus pun Punishment towards a principal distinction
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: in the restraint of release. Restraint of release sex offenders
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: and crews argue that Jackson was advocating for the idea
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: that the regulator release of sexual offenders, which can require
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: them to register local law enforcement officials, notify community members
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: of their presence, undergo DNA testing, and submit to civil
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: commitment for an indefinite term. Quote, could be seen as
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: unconstitutional if the regulations are viewed as punishment rather than preventative.
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: This is her thought. She's standing up for not the
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: children of sexual abuse, She's standing up for the sex
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: offenders themselves. Yes, and we pointed this out to her
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: in that writing. In that note, one of the things
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: that I've pointed out to her was that she made
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: a point of saying she thought that federal judges had personal,
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: hidden agendas. So, you know, on the first day I
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: asked her about this, and of course the left goes
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: while the New York Times is beating up on me,
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: Washington Post, MSNBC, CNN saying I was taking things out
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: of context. No, what I did was read back to
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: Judge Jackson her on words about releasing hardened criminals, about
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: going soft on child predators, about CRT in the schools,
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: about praising progressive education, Well, you also mentioned you also
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: mentioned something else, and I just want to play this
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: about five year olds? Can they pick their own gender?
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: Here is what you said in your question, so people
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: don't take it out of context, and I want to
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: get your reactions. Tell you too. With Georgetown Day School,
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: I found it astounding that it teaches kindergarteners. I've year
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: old children and I've got grandchildren, and they teach them
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: that they can choose their gender. So is this what
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: you were praising when you applauded the and I'm quoting
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: you transformative power of Georgetown Day School's progressive education. Do
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: you agree that our schools should teach children that they
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: can choose their gender? Senator, I'm not remembering exactly what
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: quote you're referencing, but Georgetown Day School is it was
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: in a book and you gave the quote. Okay, I
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: mean it's it's you can't get more straightforward than this.
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: This isn't I got you question, which the media said,
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: oh you were. This was a grotesque line of questions.
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: She's on the school board, she gave the quote, and
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: then she acts like she can't remember it well. It
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: was in their magazine, their annual report magazine, where you
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: have board members and parents bragging about the school so
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: this I can get more students. And she knows that,
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: she knows she submitted that quote and she doesn't want
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: to own up to it because of the way it
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: appears now that parents from it doesn't matter if it's
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: Virginia or San Francisco. People are throwing over the school board.
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: And if you're on the school board, then don't you
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: think you know a little bit about the curriculum? I
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: asked her last night. I said, you know you had
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: Senator to show you all these books and I asked
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: you about teaching five year olds to choose their gender?
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: Has there never been a parent at Georgetown Day that
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: has called you as a board member and said I
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: have a concern And she said, no, unbelievable. There's more
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: question coming today. I know you got to go and
• 31:50
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• 31:53
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