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Media Lose Their Minds Attacking Katie Britt-She Joins Us to Give the Inside Story behind the SOTU Response that Triggered them SO Badly · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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Speaker 1: Welcome.
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Speaker 2: It is Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz Ben Ferguson with you. Senator,
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Speaker 2: we have a special guest and a show tonight that
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Speaker 2: relates to the State of the Union and.
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Speaker 1: The Republican response. I'll let you take it away from there.
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Speaker 3: Well, today on the podcast, I'm very excited. We have
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Speaker 3: a guest, my friend and colleague, Alabama Senator Katie Britt,
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Speaker 3: who gave the Republican response to the State of the Union.
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Speaker 3: She gave it and the media proceeded to go nuts.
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Speaker 3: They pilloried her, They've demonized her like crazy. Well, we're
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Speaker 3: gonna talk to Kate with Katie about all about that.
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Speaker 2: nasty they were to the Republican response to the State
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Speaker 2: of the Union.
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Speaker 3: Well, look that's exactly right, and so we're joined tonight
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Speaker 3: on the podcast with Katie Britt. Katie Britt is Senator
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Speaker 3: for the state of Alabama. She was elected in twenty
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Speaker 3: twenty two. She is the first woman ever to be
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Speaker 3: elected to the Senate from Alabama. She is the youngest
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Speaker 3: Republican woman ever elected to the United States Senate. She's
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Speaker 3: just forty two years old. She's a mom of two teenagers.
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Speaker 3: She has a terrific background. She used to be the
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Speaker 3: CEO of the Business Council of Alabama. She was also
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Speaker 3: the chief of staff to Richard Shelby, who was truly
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Speaker 3: a legend and icon in the Senate, someone I served
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Speaker 3: with for a long time. He was in the Senate
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Speaker 3: I think like four hundred and three years or something
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Speaker 3: like that, that's right. And so she like ran Shelby's
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Speaker 3: operations and then came in and I got to tell you,
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Speaker 3: Katie is a star. She is young and energetic and
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Speaker 3: vibrant and passionate. And she did the response. And look, everyone,
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Speaker 3: remember back to last week. We see Joe Biden standing
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Speaker 3: there to the State of the Union. He's an old, cranky,
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Speaker 3: bitter man, yelling and screaming. As we said on the
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Speaker 3: pod immediately after the State of the Union, he was
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Speaker 3: the grumpy old man saying, get off my li on.
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Speaker 3: And then the contrast, you go to a young, happy,
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Speaker 3: beautiful mom sitting there talking about the issues facing American families.
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Speaker 3: And I got to say, if you're a Democrat, if
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Speaker 3: you're a partisan, this is a nightmare. That contrast is terrifying.
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Speaker 3: And so what has happened is the media has had
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Speaker 3: a conniption fit. They have gone after her with both barrels.
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Speaker 3: They have gone nuts. And so just at lunch today
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Speaker 3: I pulled her aside and said, hey, you kicked ass
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Speaker 3: last week, and for what it's worth, the fact that
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Speaker 3: the media is losing its mind should encourage you through
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Speaker 3: and through. There's a reason they're attacking you because they
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Speaker 3: are terrified and threatened by you. And we started talking
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Speaker 3: and I said, you know what, come on the pod tonight.
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Speaker 3: Let's talk about it. She said, awesome. So Katie, welcome
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Speaker 3: to Verdict.
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Speaker 4: Thank you so much. I am excited to be on here.
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Speaker 4: I appreciated you pulling me to the side today and
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Speaker 4: having that converse. As you said, you know well what
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Speaker 4: it's like to be right over the target, and so
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Speaker 4: being able to talk through that with you and reflect
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Speaker 4: on Joe Biden's really angry speech and no media attention
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Speaker 4: to that, and then mine and heaven forbid that you
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Speaker 4: show a little bit of passion about the things that
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Speaker 4: mattered to American families. It was quite different.
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Speaker 3: And by the way, you want, we want the perfect encapsulation.
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Speaker 3: Saturday Night Live now I have to admit the night
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Speaker 3: of the State of the Union, I knew you were
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Speaker 3: going to be on SNL, absolutely, and I knew you
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Speaker 3: were going to be the cold open. But this, you
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Speaker 3: want to really sum up how corrupt the media is
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Speaker 3: the cold open of Saturday Night Live. They have Joe
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Speaker 3: Biden for like two minutes, and they just kind of
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Speaker 3: have him as sort of a happy dottery like you. Oh,
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Speaker 3: he's happy. They don't have him screaming in bitter and angry.
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Speaker 3: They don't have any of.
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Speaker 4: That, right, And he totally gave a campaign speech. Let's
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Speaker 4: be clear. I mean it was anti Trump, anti Trump,
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Speaker 4: it was, I mean, the whole thing angry. Yeah, doesn't
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Speaker 4: make sense. I was speaking some type of gibberish at
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Speaker 4: some point, yep. But no, Yeah.
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Speaker 3: And so the cold open, eighty percent of it is
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Speaker 3: Katie's response. And and by the way, okay, the thing
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Speaker 3: that was the coolest is you're played by Scarlett Johansson.
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Speaker 4: I mean, how awesome is that?
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Speaker 3: Okay, Katie? Look, Scarlett Johansson is hot. Yeah, And all right,
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Speaker 3: I am genuinely jealous because look, Estenel has come after
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Speaker 3: me a bunch of times, right, they don't ever have
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Speaker 3: Tom Cruise paying play me? How come you get a
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Speaker 3: gorgeous movie star and like, you know that is a
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Speaker 3: real compliment that you ought to be pretty psyched with.
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Speaker 4: Well, I actually was pretty pumped about that. I thought,
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Speaker 4: you know what, obviously, no, we're gonna be the cold open, Like,
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Speaker 4: how is this going to work out? And you wonder
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Speaker 4: who in the world is gonna play you? Right? And
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Speaker 4: I'll be honest with you, uh a bingo card of
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Speaker 4: twenty twenty four for Katie bred I did not have
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Speaker 4: this on it right, and so certainly didn't have Scarlett
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Speaker 4: Johannes and plagued me and I was trying. We were
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Speaker 4: talking to the kids about all of it, and they
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Speaker 4: were like, oh my gosh, mom, and da da da
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Speaker 4: and and we I said, you know, look, it could
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Speaker 4: be worse. I mean, Scarlett Johanson, here, you have Black Widow.
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Speaker 4: They bring in someone from Avengers to play me in
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Speaker 4: the cold Open. I'm here for it. I am I'm
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Speaker 4: here for it.
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Speaker 1: So that's a.
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Speaker 4: Pretty pretty fun moment.
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Speaker 3: By the way, in terms of Republican portrayals, like they
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Speaker 3: have had some vicious one. Okay, let's start off with
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Speaker 3: at least you were played by a woman.
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Speaker 4: That's fair.
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Speaker 3: So when SNEL has had me, I've also been played
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Speaker 3: by a woman.
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Speaker 1: Stopping And by the way, you really all right, Santa,
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Speaker 1: hold on?
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Speaker 2: You got to tell the story of when Saturday Night
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Speaker 2: Live was messing with you and when they had a
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Speaker 2: chick playing you, please for people that missed that Saturday
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Speaker 2: Night Live episode.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, so look, they cast eighty Bryant as me, and
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Speaker 3: she's really funny and like you know, coming off the
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Speaker 3: whole CanCon thing. They had her in life corn rows
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Speaker 3: and sipping a margarita and it was hysterical. I liked great.
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Speaker 3: I thought it was awesome. And she looks pretty good
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Speaker 3: in the beard. By the way, it's a good look.
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Speaker 3: It works for But but you know what, both of
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Speaker 3: us got treated better than Sean Spicer. Remember Trump's first
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Speaker 3: press section last week?
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Speaker 4: Remind me, I don't remember what happened.
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Speaker 3: They had Melissa McCarthy play him, and.
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Speaker 1: She just it was it was funny.
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Speaker 3: It's amazing that there's an SNL episode where he's on
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Speaker 3: the podium and the podium is a mobile podium, going
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Speaker 3: down like Fifth Avenue in New York and calling himself
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Speaker 3: Spicy Spice. I mean it's hysterical.
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Speaker 2: So that happened. When that happened, she was on a
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Speaker 2: segway in New York City. I was in New York
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Speaker 2: and saw that actually being filmed the first time they
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Speaker 2: did it, and I was like, what is this person
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Speaker 2: who looks like Sean Spicer on his seg going down
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Speaker 2: the road in New York City and they were taping
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Speaker 2: it was amazing.
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Speaker 3: Look, I'm just glad that that Trump didn't choose that
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Speaker 3: moment to test his theory that he could shoot someone
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Speaker 3: on Fifth Avenue and and and and not lose any support.
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Speaker 1: Fair and get away with it.
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Speaker 2: All right, I gotta I gotta ask you a question, Center,
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Speaker 2: and this is let's go backwards a little bit. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: when did you find out you were going to do
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Speaker 2: the rebuttal?
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Speaker 1: And how does that play out?
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Speaker 5: Yeah?
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Speaker 4: So I guess maybe a few weeks ago. I got
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Speaker 4: a call and the first call came from Leader McConnell,
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Speaker 4: and I was on the flight. I was on the
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Speaker 4: flight home and I got a call and then it
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Speaker 4: said you know that the text message like please call
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Speaker 4: you know, and you can kind of sort of hear
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Speaker 4: it coming, and I thought, oh, shoot, you.
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Speaker 3: Know what I did pretty good, Mitch impression can do
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Speaker 3: a little more. You have a Kentucky roll I have.
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Speaker 4: If we get into this for a minute, I've got
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Speaker 4: some really good ones.
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Speaker 3: I think that's that that that's very welcome. And to
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Speaker 3: be clear, we don't even have a glass of wine.
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Speaker 3: This is this is we do not.
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Speaker 4: That's exactly right. So so I thought, oh, shoot, you
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Speaker 4: know what. So I tried to call and you know,
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Speaker 4: got home because I get home on Thursdays in time
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Speaker 4: to like get in to like pick up the kids
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Speaker 4: from practice or go to a game or like right
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Speaker 4: there in time if if we get out of here
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Speaker 4: on time. And so tried to tried to call, didn't answer.
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Speaker 4: So then I sent a text back and just said,
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Speaker 4: tried to call you, and I'll send you headed you know,
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Speaker 4: out with the kids, but I'll try tomorrow. And he
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Speaker 4: wrote back it's important, And I thought, oh darn, he
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Speaker 4: like found out like I'm in a vote certain way
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Speaker 4: or like, you know what, what is what is this about?
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Speaker 1: You know?
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Speaker 4: Right? Don't you you see what I'm saying.
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Speaker 1: You're going to get reprimanded right here.
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Speaker 4: Right, I'm like, you rarely hear And I'm like, oh,
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Speaker 4: that's what this is. And so I called back and
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Speaker 4: he just said, you know, Speaker Johnson and I have
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Speaker 4: been talking and we get to select somebody to give
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Speaker 4: the rebuttal to the State of the Union and uh
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Speaker 4: and he said, and you know, and and we want
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Speaker 4: it to be you and you'll I really did not
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Speaker 4: know what to say. First off, I kind of thought
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Speaker 4: I was being punked, you know what I mean, like
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Speaker 4: is this It was like an out of body experience.
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Speaker 4: And then I said I am. And I really wanted
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Speaker 4: to say the word shook, right, but I didn't think
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Speaker 4: that shook would translate in the moment. You know, It's
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Speaker 4: like not necessarily I would think something that like is
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Speaker 4: in uh, Mitch McConnell's every day vocabulary. And so I said,
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Speaker 4: I am, So.
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Speaker 3: Mitch is literally double Katie's age.
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Speaker 4: There's that, And so I just said, yeah, So I
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Speaker 4: just said I am. And so instead of the word shook.
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Speaker 4: I was really proud of myself. I had a little
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Speaker 4: bit of a moment of refinement, and I said, I
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Speaker 4: am without words, and so I just told him how
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Speaker 4: honored I was, how humbled I would be, you know that.
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Speaker 4: But ask him, you know, could I have some time
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Speaker 4: to think about it, and he said, you know absolutely
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Speaker 4: that that that was fine. And then I got a
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Speaker 4: call from Speaker Johnson. And Speaker Johnson and I don't
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Speaker 4: have not had an opportunity to really get to know
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Speaker 4: each other, but I had met him previously and met
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Speaker 4: his wife, and so he asked the same thing. And
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Speaker 4: the funny thing is he's like, no, don't worry about
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Speaker 4: you know, people are going to tell you horror stories
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Speaker 4: about all of these things that happened and people's people's
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Speaker 4: career being blown up over it. And he's like, it'll
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Speaker 4: be fine, It'll be fine. And he was. He was
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Speaker 4: so kind and just and and really welcoming, and you know,
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Speaker 4: I think it was a great conversation. But the irony
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Speaker 4: that he's like, don't you worry like that, that's not
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Speaker 4: And so talked to both of them and obviously then
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Speaker 4: finally accepted doing it, but still kind of thought, is
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Speaker 4: this even for real? I mean I haven't even given
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Speaker 4: a floor speech yet, you know, right at the Senate yet.
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Speaker 4: But was excited and particularly as as you mentioned earlier,
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Speaker 4: being you know, the only Republican female with school age
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Speaker 4: kids and kind of bringing that like next generation voice.
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Speaker 4: I mean, you and I were just talking about our
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Speaker 4: our you know, kind of what it's like to be
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Speaker 4: parents in doing this, and all both teenagers, we both
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Speaker 4: have teenagers, and so bring in that voice and particularly
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Speaker 4: you know that of conservative women to the table. It
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Speaker 4: was an honor to be chosen, but seriously and out
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Speaker 4: of body experience.
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Speaker 3: So in a couple of things Katie referenced to give
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Speaker 3: some background, Like number one, there's a tradition in the
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Speaker 3: Senate that that freshman senators wait a reasonable period of
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Speaker 3: time before giving their first speech, and the first speech
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Speaker 3: on the floor is called the maiden speech, and you
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Speaker 3: wait for it, and it's so like and it's just
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Speaker 3: sort of you know, it's an old institution and it's
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Speaker 3: kind of how it operates. But also like the response
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Speaker 3: to the State of the Union, it's chosen by the
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Speaker 3: Republican leader in the Senate and the Republican leader in
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Speaker 3: the House, and the two of them they often alternate
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Speaker 3: on it, but they get to pick who it is.
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Speaker 3: And you know, Katie, you and I were just talking
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Speaker 3: a few minutes ago. I mean, there are maybe thirty
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Speaker 3: people on planet Earth who've given a response to a
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Speaker 3: State of the Union address. Yeah, like it's I've never
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Speaker 3: done that. I don't know what that experience is like.
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Speaker 3: And so you have the ability to share with Verdict listeners. Right,
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Speaker 3: So you get a call from Mitch McConnell, they say, hey,
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Speaker 3: will you do the response you've got You said a
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Speaker 3: couple of weeks to prepare, Like how was preparing? Kind
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Speaker 3: of what did you go through to say, Okay, what
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Speaker 3: am I going to say? And what do I want
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Speaker 3: the message?
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Speaker 4: And so yeah, and on your point about the maiden speech,
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Speaker 4: like the irony is is like you know, kind of
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Speaker 4: just trying to keep my head down so and learn
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Speaker 4: and listen. And now that maiden speech is going to
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Speaker 4: seem like nothing right. But yeah, so you've got a
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Speaker 4: little bit a little bit of time to prepare, but
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Speaker 4: you also don't know what to prepare for. And to
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Speaker 4: be honest with you, I never thought in a million
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Speaker 4: years he was going to come out there and give
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Speaker 4: this type of like yelling and so just vindictive, particularly
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Speaker 4: towards Trump. You know, it seemed like a full fledged
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Speaker 4: campaign speech. Yes, full fledged, And I expected a little
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Speaker 4: bit more of a statesman to be up there and
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Speaker 4: to really kind of sort of methodically be going through now,
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Speaker 4: I thought we would disagree of what his version of
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Speaker 4: the state of the Union was, but I didn't think
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Speaker 4: he would be you know, I didn't anticipate the posture
15:20
Speaker 4: that he had. But so you're going through You're kind
15:22
Speaker 4: of sort of saying, Okay, I know I'm going to
15:24
Speaker 4: want to talk about the border. I know he's probably
15:26
Speaker 4: not going to talk about it. Irony there, like it
15:29
Speaker 4: took him forty minutes to get into the border. I
15:31
Speaker 4: wanted to start with that. So you're kind of sort
15:33
Speaker 4: of getting those facts together and then seeing like, how
15:35
Speaker 4: can you how can you synthesize those in a way
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Speaker 4: that the public can can grab them, because there's so
15:42
Speaker 4: much to say, right well, and.
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Speaker 3: You told a story about a woman being sex trafficked,
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Speaker 3: and the media has gone crazy quote fact checking. The
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Speaker 3: Washington Post gave you four pinocchios, unbelievable.
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Speaker 4: The interesting thing for me has been that none of
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Speaker 4: the media has covered the fact that that under Trump
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Speaker 4: in twenty eighteen, that human trafficking was a five hundred
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Speaker 4: million dollar business. It is now under Joe Biden, a
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Speaker 4: thirteen billion billion dollar business. Nobody they want to silence
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Speaker 4: a conservative woman for speaking out on this topic. They
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Speaker 4: don't want to bring light and help the women who
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Speaker 4: are actually being trafficked.
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Speaker 3: Well, and look, there is a reason they view you
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Speaker 3: as an enormous threat. The media wants to tell the
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Speaker 3: story that the only Republicans on planet Earth are old, fat, bald,
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Speaker 3: white guys, and you don't fit their narrative. I don't
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Speaker 3: like a young mom is going right at they want
16:41
Speaker 3: voters to think. I'm sorry, if you're a woman, you
16:43
Speaker 3: have to be a liberal Democrat. That's the only thing allowed, right,
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Speaker 3: And so it was it was sadly predictable that they
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Speaker 3: went after you.
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Speaker 4: It was, and they didn't do their homework too. I mean,
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Speaker 4: you've had to deal with this for quite some time.
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Speaker 4: But the liberal media isn't interested in the truth. They're
17:00
Speaker 4: interested in burying the truth about Joe Biden and his
17:04
Speaker 4: border crisis. But all they want to do is they
17:08
Speaker 4: have an agenda. And if they really wanted to know
17:10
Speaker 4: those stories, they would have taken time to know the facts.
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Speaker 4: And I think when all the facts come out that
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Speaker 4: people people will see the truth. But you know, so
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Speaker 4: here you are like preparing for this, you know, trying
17:21
Speaker 4: to figure out what is he going to say and
17:23
Speaker 4: how are you going to piece it together and you know,
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Speaker 4: and how can you make things stick? And how can you.
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Speaker 2: You know, this is on the edits, like how much
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Speaker 2: time do you have because you obviously have the speech
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Speaker 2: on the front end right that you've kind of formed,
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Speaker 2: you know, what your response in general is going to
17:38
Speaker 2: be on these core issues, but you're watching him, yeah,
17:40
Speaker 2: give a speech that you weren't expecting. So how much
17:45
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17:47
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17:49
Speaker 1: You know?
17:49
Speaker 4: It is not very much. We actually thought we had
17:52
Speaker 4: gotten word that his speech was going to be a
17:54
Speaker 4: lot shorter than usual. Yeah, so like they had said,
17:57
Speaker 4: like this is going to be twenty five in and out,
17:59
Speaker 4: like we're going to be done, And it ended up
18:02
Speaker 4: being obviously a really long speech. So so that was
18:07
Speaker 4: an interesting because we kind of sort of thought that
18:09
Speaker 4: he was wrapping up when he wasn't wrapping up, and
18:11
Speaker 4: so his.
18:12
Speaker 3: Speech was an hour and seven minutes. And I know
18:14
Speaker 3: that because Roger Marshall texted out to a bunch of
18:17
Speaker 3: us a series of bets to have on the speech,
18:19
Speaker 3: one of which was an over under and it was
18:21
Speaker 3: seventy minutes, and I took the over and of course
18:24
Speaker 3: he was sixty seven minutes, so I was three minutes
18:25
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18:26
Speaker 4: Oh see ted so close, so oh well, so close.
18:31
Speaker 4: So you're trying to make those kind of in the
18:33
Speaker 4: in the last minute, and I do think, you know,
18:37
Speaker 4: there's also interesting things like we were making edits, like
18:39
Speaker 4: when he ended up saying, you know Lake and Riley's
18:44
Speaker 4: name but said Lincoln Riley, And you know you're kind
18:47
Speaker 4: of thinking, Okay, well, let's not go there, but but like,
18:50
Speaker 4: let's make sure that we make him own that because
18:53
Speaker 4: particularly on that, you know, I wanted to get into
18:57
Speaker 4: parole issue because you know, there's been a lot of
18:59
Speaker 4: talk and I figured he was going to blame Republicans
19:01
Speaker 4: for you know, failed this or failed that when it
19:04
Speaker 4: comes to the border, and I wanted to really bring
19:07
Speaker 4: light to the fact that he wouldn't give up the
19:08
Speaker 4: tools that he was using to abuse the entire quote,
19:15
Speaker 4: you know, border policies that he had, like he you know,
19:19
Speaker 4: the presidential parole that he's been using. So you have
19:22
Speaker 4: Obama and Trump who paroled about five thy six hundred
19:25
Speaker 4: people on average a year using this presidential parole authority.
19:29
Speaker 4: He has these entire programs where he's parolling on average
19:33
Speaker 4: about a million people a year ual and and Lake
19:36
Speaker 4: and Riley's murderer was paroled into the nation under his
19:41
Speaker 4: presidential parole authority. I mean it was a choice of his,
19:43
Speaker 4: which I also have found interesting because I actually, you know,
19:47
Speaker 4: really accented that word like that he chose to let
19:51
Speaker 4: into the country. You know that he to parole into
19:53
Speaker 4: the country, And they've taken no issue with that because
19:56
Speaker 4: they know that it's his policies that are causing these things.
19:59
Speaker 4: So you're just trying to kind sort of figure out
20:00
Speaker 4: how do we pack a punch in here in a
20:03
Speaker 4: short amount of time and respond to some of the
20:06
Speaker 4: things he said in a meaningful way.
20:08
Speaker 3: So look, I will say historically, the media has had
20:11
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20:16
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20:20
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20:23
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20:26
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20:31
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20:34
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20:38
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20:42
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20:46
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20:49
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20:52
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20:54
Speaker 3: didn't go with evil, They just said crazy, lady.
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Speaker 2: I was watching it and right when it went to
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Speaker 2: your kitchen, I was watching it with people and the
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23:06
Speaker 2: her kitchen, trying to put women back in the kitchen.
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23:15
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23:18
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23:20
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Speaker 1: And sure enough, that's they did to try to undermine you.
23:24
Speaker 4: Y Oh, I mean yeah, I didn't see the chance
23:27
Speaker 4: from go on that. And the interesting thing is is,
23:31
Speaker 4: like again it goes back to the liberal media and
23:33
Speaker 4: they're biased. You've got Joe Biden who actually mentions kitchen table,
23:38
Speaker 4: his dad's kitchen table and the quote trickle down effect
23:42
Speaker 4: of economics in his speech, and then I'm sitting at
23:45
Speaker 4: the kitchen table that he references. And let's not forget
23:48
Speaker 4: that Elizabeth Warren actually launched her presidential campaign from her kitchen.
23:54
Speaker 3: Although to be clear, did you happen to see the
23:56
Speaker 3: footage of Elizabeth Warren like awkwardly put it, pulling beer
24:00
Speaker 3: bottles out of her fridge and it was like the
24:03
Speaker 3: weirdest I'm sorry, this is not like a normal person
24:06
Speaker 3: who knows how to like drink a beer, and of
24:08
Speaker 3: course she also has a guest stove, which which democrats
24:11
Speaker 3: want to ban. And listen, there's a long tradition. I've
24:14
Speaker 3: filmed TV commercials in my kitchen. Look that that's where
24:18
Speaker 3: families talk to each other exactly, So it's perfectly normal.
24:23
Speaker 3: But they had to the fact that they went after
24:29
Speaker 3: you that that hard is proof that it scared them,
24:34
Speaker 3: that they don't want to give permission for women and
24:39
Speaker 3: for moms right to be Republican. And the contrast, you
24:44
Speaker 3: could not ask for a starker contrast between Methuselah Scrooge
24:51
Speaker 3: and Katie Britt. Like, that's a hell of a difference.
24:55
Speaker 4: Thank you. I appreciate it. I do, and I can't
24:58
Speaker 4: agree with you more. I mean, it's that's what we
25:00
Speaker 4: were talking about, is the obviously not only kitchen table issues,
25:04
Speaker 4: but that's the place where we gather. And I think
25:06
Speaker 4: that's threatening to them that families gather. That's where, that's
25:09
Speaker 4: where we have conversations, that's where we pray for God's guidance.
25:13
Speaker 4: I mean, that's where we literally talk about our days.
25:15
Speaker 4: That's where we talk about the things we worry about.
25:17
Speaker 3: And O Katie, they would they would have liked it
25:19
Speaker 3: if you did, like a transgender wicka ritual in your kitchen.
25:22
Speaker 4: That would should have added that in. You know, if
25:25
Speaker 4: we had talked about this first, you could have given
25:27
Speaker 4: me that idea.
25:28
Speaker 3: There's a lot of that, elebent Right, I love it.
25:31
Speaker 4: I love it.
25:32
Speaker 2: When you got done with your speech, like I know,
25:36
Speaker 2: there's that sigh of relief, okay, and then there's the
25:39
Speaker 2: how'd it go? Right to your close team, your family
25:41
Speaker 2: that's in there watching this?
25:43
Speaker 1: When did you start?
25:44
Speaker 3: By the way, were your kids watching? Where were your kids?
25:47
Speaker 4: Yeah, so we watched the We watched Biden's speech from
25:51
Speaker 4: the couch, like in the living room together as a family.
25:54
Speaker 4: And then again we thought that it was going to
25:56
Speaker 4: be shorter than it was. So they went ahead and headed,
25:59
Speaker 4: you know, out of the room because we were gonna
26:01
Speaker 4: it's the next room overs. We wanted it to be
26:03
Speaker 4: quiet and like you know, had to go kind of
26:05
Speaker 4: sort of sit in and get ready. So we watched
26:08
Speaker 4: it there together and then we did I did this,
26:12
Speaker 4: and then they.
26:12
Speaker 3: Came back in the whole thing.
26:15
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, I mean he went out with the kids
26:16
Speaker 4: to like watch it from another place and then he
26:18
Speaker 4: came he came back in, which actually was one of
26:21
Speaker 4: his favorite things about Saturday Night Live is that Scarlett
26:24
Speaker 4: Johansson was like my husband Wesley. My husband Wesley loved it.
26:28
Speaker 3: So one of the coolest things. Katie's husband Wesley is
26:33
Speaker 3: completely badass. So so he played played football at University Alabama,
26:40
Speaker 3: offensive line or defensive line.
26:41
Speaker 4: Yeah, offensive line.
26:42
Speaker 3: I mean, he's a mountain of a man. He's enormous.
26:45
Speaker 3: And then he played for the New England Patriots for
26:47
Speaker 3: what ten years?
26:48
Speaker 4: That's great. He put what he prayed for about four
26:50
Speaker 4: or five.
26:50
Speaker 3: Yeah, so he's absolutely what six six eight six eight
26:56
Speaker 3: three twenty.
26:57
Speaker 4: We cannot miss hi, Joel. He takes up a door
26:59
Speaker 4: for him.
26:59
Speaker 3: And by the way, Ben Wesley has also played hoops
27:02
Speaker 3: with me and my weekly hoops game. Ben has played also.
27:04
Speaker 3: I played this afternoon. I will tell you, I am
27:07
Speaker 3: grateful to the end of time that Wesley just showed
27:11
Speaker 3: mercy on us. Had he simply swung his elbows, he
27:15
Speaker 3: would have put me and every other person playing in
27:18
Speaker 3: the hospital. And he was a gentle giant, and I
27:21
Speaker 3: am grateful for that restraint.
27:22
Speaker 4: He with you, He said you're scrappy, he said, Man,
27:25
Speaker 4: don't get in his way.
27:27
Speaker 2: It was he could get in my way and he'd
27:28
Speaker 2: be just reserve right now because of our last game,
27:31
Speaker 2: So played hoops?
27:33
Speaker 4: Did you really ben? Yes?
27:36
Speaker 2: Yes, I was thinking about workers comp you know, calling
27:39
Speaker 2: you know, one of those lawyers, but that apparently wasn't
27:41
Speaker 2: worth it.
27:42
Speaker 3: So and by the way, playing hoops, this is what
27:44
Speaker 3: probably two years ago, when I was playing Hoop, I
27:47
Speaker 3: had a law clerk in my office who broke my thumb.
27:51
Speaker 4: Oh my gosh.
27:52
Speaker 3: And like I went up for a rebound, he came
27:54
Speaker 3: down and he was Tony from Brooklyn. I like, Tony's
27:57
Speaker 3: a hell of ball player, but he's a muscular guy,
27:59
Speaker 3: gold chain and he just like he plays like he's
28:02
Speaker 3: at a street fight.
28:02
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's OK.
28:04
Speaker 3: And so he broke my thumb. And as I told
28:08
Speaker 3: told my youngest daughter Catherine, when that happened, Daddy said,
28:11
Speaker 3: a really bad word. And when you break your thumb.
28:14
Speaker 4: That's that's that's.
28:16
Speaker 1: Part of it, it's part of it.
28:17
Speaker 3: And then but I am very proud to say that
28:19
Speaker 3: that I finished the game. We won, and I actually
28:23
Speaker 3: scored with a broken thumb. Now, now I couldn't do
28:26
Speaker 3: a jump shot. I tried, and I literally yelped, but
28:29
Speaker 3: but I did a finger roll and scored with a
28:31
Speaker 3: broken thumb. And then I went and got it in
28:33
Speaker 3: a brace and Ben, to his credit, we just played
28:35
Speaker 3: hoops a couple of weeks ago where he broke his
28:37
Speaker 3: finger and you finished the game with a broken finger.
28:39
Speaker 3: It was a strong move.
28:40
Speaker 1: Ben, you know, go big or go home, as they say, right.
28:44
Speaker 4: That's right, that's right. Don't show weakness, like keep going.
28:46
Speaker 2: Don't show weakness. I wasn't gonna. I was gonna make
28:48
Speaker 2: sure that was my legacy right back to I gotta,
28:51
Speaker 2: I gotta get back, because I got to know what
28:53
Speaker 2: your thoughts were. You get done, you look at your family,
28:56
Speaker 2: you look at your team, and then when did you
29:00
Speaker 2: kind of figure out that this had gone off the
29:03
Speaker 2: rails and they were coming after you with everything they have?
29:06
Speaker 4: You know, so really fully the next morning, which I'll
29:11
Speaker 4: tell you about, but that you know, in that moment,
29:14
Speaker 4: obviously you know I had a lot of passion, put
29:18
Speaker 4: a lot of heart and soul into it. But I
29:19
Speaker 4: think the American people are worth it, you know, and
29:21
Speaker 4: like you're fighting, you know, you're fighting for these families
29:25
Speaker 4: and these families that ted like you're traveling all over
29:28
Speaker 4: obviously Texas right now, the country, the whole thing me
29:32
Speaker 4: and Alabama. These people want a voice. I mean there
29:35
Speaker 4: they're saying, why does nobody get this? I feel like
29:38
Speaker 4: I am beating my head up against the wall. And
29:40
Speaker 4: they need somebody to fight for them. And so you know,
29:44
Speaker 4: have a little passion in there and and get in there.
29:48
Speaker 4: And but really thought that, you know, I tried to
29:51
Speaker 4: deliver it with with heart and soul because I do
29:54
Speaker 4: I think the people of America are worth that. And
29:58
Speaker 4: so we finished and we were excited, and you know,
30:02
Speaker 4: my daughter, like her. One of the things that she
30:05
Speaker 4: said was that she really the part about Lake and
30:08
Speaker 4: Riley really spoke to her. That was the part she
30:11
Speaker 4: she is does plays volleyball and basketball and runs track
30:14
Speaker 4: and so she actually goes out on runs, you know,
30:17
Speaker 4: and does and does that and you just think, you know,
30:20
Speaker 4: you just all of those things. She was like, mom,
30:23
Speaker 4: that that to me was was the best. And we
30:25
Speaker 4: were just kind of sort of all talking about it,
30:27
Speaker 4: and we were excited. And you know, guys, it's strange
30:30
Speaker 4: because here you are preparing, you know, and I'd stayed
30:33
Speaker 4: home for a couple of days like preparing for potential
30:35
Speaker 4: topics and how we were you know, you've kind of
30:37
Speaker 4: got a draft speech, but then you know, so that
30:39
Speaker 4: you can be nimble with regards to if there's something
30:43
Speaker 4: that you're you're not expecting or there. But to deliver
30:46
Speaker 4: a speech honestly directly into a camera. I've never done that,
30:52
Speaker 4: And obviously if you if you were to do it again,
30:55
Speaker 4: you'd do it. You know you would. You would know
30:57
Speaker 4: and have kind of sort of that the ability to
31:01
Speaker 4: learn from doing that. But you give speeches, as you know,
31:05
Speaker 4: to groups and to you know, conventions, into all of
31:10
Speaker 4: those kinds of things, and so that's a very different
31:12
Speaker 4: thing to just be looking directly into the camera. And
31:14
Speaker 4: people a lot of people thought that it was taped.
31:17
Speaker 4: It's like, no, it's live. Like you literally walk in
31:19
Speaker 4: the other room when he finishes, they give you a
31:21
Speaker 4: fifteen minute countdown and then it's live.
31:24
Speaker 3: Look, I thought you were real. I thought you were passionate.
31:27
Speaker 3: I actually showed you the text I got from my
31:30
Speaker 3: dad that night. He texted me and said, Wow, Katie
31:33
Speaker 3: Brich just did an awesome job. By the way, my
31:35
Speaker 3: dad is a tough judge. He does not think that
31:38
Speaker 3: frequentlyious And listen, there's a long tradition, as you know,
31:43
Speaker 3: of the media savaging and particular Republican responses. So Bobby
31:47
Speaker 3: Gendal when he did it, they just brutalized. Yeah, and
31:50
Speaker 3: you remember Marco Rubio. Poor Marco reached over and grabbed
31:53
Speaker 3: a bottle of water, and they went not, oh my god,
31:56
Speaker 3: he drinks water. Now, I will say, to Marco's credit,
32:00
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32:03
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32:06
Speaker 4: That is a selling waterline that well, we're gonna have
32:09
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32:10
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32:11
Speaker 4: No, But one of my favorite things was there was
32:15
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32:20
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32:23
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32:25
Speaker 3: And Scarlett Johansson like, that's a good night.
32:30
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32:33
Speaker 4: Hey, listen, Ben, And I told someone I was like,
32:36
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32:39
Speaker 4: I mean, I thought, can nothing else happen? How many
32:43
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32:46
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32:49
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32:51
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32:54
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32:58
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33:02
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33:05
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33:09
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33:14
Speaker 4: and getting that back, I kept thinking, can there not
33:17
Speaker 4: be another news story? And then finally Kate Middleton saved
33:21
Speaker 4: me again with her photoshops. So, I mean I or
33:24
Speaker 4: twice this weekend.
33:26
Speaker 3: Well, well we may have to have to call you,
33:28
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33:29
Speaker 4: There you go, here you go.
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Speaker 2: Biden used the word illegal immigrant when he was referencing
35:36
Speaker 2: the person who's been accused of killing Lakenriley.
35:39
Speaker 1: The name, by the way, that he got wrong.
35:41
Speaker 2: You mentioned that earlier Lincoln Riley's a football coach USC
35:45
Speaker 2: and he got it wrong. But now he's gone on
35:49
Speaker 2: essence an apology tour to the illegal immigrant who was
35:53
Speaker 2: accused of killing her. And this is what he had
35:56
Speaker 2: to say on MSNBC, And you didn't obviously, I don't
35:59
Speaker 2: think anyone thought that this was actually going to happen
36:03
Speaker 2: or be a controversy when you were doing your response.
36:05
Speaker 2: But the biggest controversy from his whole night is actually
36:08
Speaker 2: now this Take a listen.
36:09
Speaker 5: Noticed the look of surprise on your face when you
36:11
Speaker 5: walked into the chamber and you saw Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Green.
36:16
Speaker 5: It was priceless. You feigned shop at seeing her. But
36:19
Speaker 5: during your response to her heckling of you, you use
36:23
Speaker 5: the word illegal when talking about the man who allegedly
36:26
Speaker 5: killed Riley.
36:28
Speaker 6: An undocumented person. And I shouldn't have used the legal
36:32
Speaker 6: as undocumented. And look, when I spoke about the difference
36:35
Speaker 6: between Trump and me, one of the things I talked
36:37
Speaker 6: about on the border was that his the way he
36:40
Speaker 6: talks about vermin, the way he talks about these people
36:42
Speaker 6: polluting the blood. I talked about what I'm not going
36:45
Speaker 6: to do, what I won't do. I'm not going to
36:47
Speaker 6: treat any of these people with disrespect. Look, they've built
36:51
Speaker 6: the country, the reason our economy is growing. We have
36:54
Speaker 6: to control the border and more orderly slow. But I
36:58
Speaker 6: don't share to you at all.
37:00
Speaker 5: So you regret using that word.
37:01
Speaker 1: Yes, I regret using that word.
37:04
Speaker 2: I'm sorry basically to the illegal immigrant for saying he's
37:07
Speaker 2: a legal immigrant, not talking about Blake and Riley. No
37:10
Speaker 2: one could have seen that coming and that was something
37:13
Speaker 2: you didn't even get a chance to bring up because
37:15
Speaker 2: it hadn't in essence happened.
37:16
Speaker 4: Yet that's exactly right, And I mean, I still can't
37:21
Speaker 4: rep my head around this. You have him apologizing for
37:27
Speaker 4: quote mislabeling her murderer, but not only did he not
37:34
Speaker 4: take that opportunity to correct her name, but the reporter
37:38
Speaker 4: didn't even ask him. I mean, think about that, Ted,
37:41
Speaker 4: This shows they have an agenda. They don't care about
37:46
Speaker 4: the things that they should.
37:48
Speaker 3: Yeah. So that interview is Jonathan k Part It's on
37:51
Speaker 3: an MSNBC, and that exchange, it makes my blood boil.
37:56
Speaker 3: Number one, his little aside saying they built this country.
38:00
Speaker 3: You know, Joe, illegal immigrants did not build the United
38:02
Speaker 3: States of America. That is utter and complete garbage. But
38:07
Speaker 3: number two, think about the priorities he comes off of.
38:12
Speaker 3: And I gotta say, I think there are now two
38:14
Speaker 3: images that sum up the twenty twenty four election. Number one,
38:20
Speaker 3: there is the image of the illegal immigrants in New
38:22
Speaker 3: York City who beat up two New York cops, were arrested,
38:25
Speaker 3: were released without bail, and they came out with both
38:28
Speaker 3: hands flipping the bird at everyone. And that image flipping
38:33
Speaker 3: the bird right and left hand is what Joe Biden
38:37
Speaker 3: and the Democrats are saying to the American people. That's
38:39
Speaker 3: image number one. And image number two is the contrast
38:42
Speaker 3: right after the State of the Union of Donald Trump
38:46
Speaker 3: with Lake and Riley's family hugging his mother binga, which
38:49
Speaker 3: is actually what someone who's a president who gives a
38:52
Speaker 3: damn about the American people who like is siding with
38:57
Speaker 3: our families, our moms, our kids. And simultaneously, Joe Biden
39:02
Speaker 3: is on MSNBC apologizing because he referred to this murderer
39:08
Speaker 3: as an illegal. Well, you know what, he is an illegal.
39:11
Speaker 3: He's an illegal and a murderer. And he never should
39:14
Speaker 3: have killed Lake and Riley. Look at me now, I'm
39:16
Speaker 3: using Joe Biden's phrase. He never should have killed Lake
39:19
Speaker 3: and Riley. And the only reason he was free to
39:22
Speaker 3: do so is because Joe Biden chose to let him go.
39:25
Speaker 3: And not only that, Sanctuary City, New York City let
39:28
Speaker 3: him go again. And that is why that beautiful twenty
39:31
Speaker 3: two year old woman is dead.
39:32
Speaker 4: Now, that's it. And tierwake when you hear him do that,
39:36
Speaker 4: and you can't help but be enraged that not only
39:41
Speaker 4: that this is what our President of the United States
39:43
Speaker 4: is choosing to focus on. But then the media doesn't
39:45
Speaker 4: hold him accountable. But I think people should see we
39:48
Speaker 4: have a very clear choice in November. And this says
39:52
Speaker 4: it all. You said it Ted. You have President Biden
39:57
Speaker 4: over here apologizing for mislabeling her murder, and then you
40:01
Speaker 4: have President Trump embracing her family, And I think that
40:05
Speaker 4: is all Americans need to know.
40:07
Speaker 3: The choices clear, and that's your choice. And if you
40:12
Speaker 3: side with illegal alien murderers, well you probably should vote
40:16
Speaker 3: for Joe Biden if those are your peeps, if that's
40:18
Speaker 3: where your allegiance is. By the way, MSNBC, CNN, they're
40:22
Speaker 3: all voting for Joe Biden because their allegiance is actually
40:24
Speaker 3: with illegal alien murderers. And by the way, you know,
40:28
Speaker 3: not only did Joe Biden not properly say lake In
40:32
Speaker 3: Riley's name, he didn't say Jeremy Cassarras's name either. Jeremy Cassarras,
40:35
Speaker 3: beautiful two year old boy murdered in Prince George's County, Maryland,
40:39
Speaker 3: just a couple of weeks ago, again by another illegal alien.
40:43
Speaker 3: Joe Biden released he didn't mention any of the of
40:46
Speaker 3: the American of the teenagers who have been violently raped
40:49
Speaker 3: by illegal immigrants. He takes no responsibility for his own culpability.
40:54
Speaker 3: And it is you really couldn't ask for a clear contrast.
40:58
Speaker 4: No, you couldn't. And then also you think about a
41:00
Speaker 4: poisonings and you think about the decisions that have been made,
41:02
Speaker 4: they are all his. He inherited the most secure border
41:05
Speaker 4: that our country has had, and then he chose to
41:08
Speaker 4: halt deportations, he chose to stop construction of the border wall.
41:13
Speaker 4: He I mean, he chose to say I'm going to
41:15
Speaker 4: give amnesty to millions. This is the thing that was
41:18
Speaker 4: so frustrating about the liberal media. It's like, these policies
41:21
Speaker 4: and then the ninety four executive orders in the first
41:23
Speaker 4: one hundred days are acting as magnets ted. He is saying,
41:27
Speaker 4: come on, and he is putting every one of those men,
41:30
Speaker 4: women and children in harm's way. Their cartels are using
41:34
Speaker 4: them in multiple ways. You know, we've talked about some
41:37
Speaker 4: of the horrific things that are happening to them on
41:39
Speaker 4: their way here. When they get here, it is mind boggling.
41:43
Speaker 4: It is a not only national security crisis, but a
41:46
Speaker 4: humanitarian crisis that no reporter is telling you know, and
41:50
Speaker 4: they're choosing you focused. Earlier, you said you know about
41:53
Speaker 4: about sex trafficking. They're not telling the story of human
41:57
Speaker 4: trafficking and what's happening under him.
41:59
Speaker 3: Well and I have both looked in the eyes of
42:02
Speaker 3: women and children who have been brutally sexually assaulted by
42:07
Speaker 3: these human traffickers. And when you when you see the pain,
42:11
Speaker 3: the agony, it sticks with you. It haunts you absolutely.
42:16
Speaker 3: And this is happening day after day after day. And
42:18
Speaker 3: I got to say, you know, Katie, just listening to
42:20
Speaker 3: your talk about this, you're making far too much sense.
42:24
Speaker 3: What you said is incredibly reasonable, so that means necessarily
42:27
Speaker 3: you're crazy. I'm sorry, but those are the rules, right hey,
42:30
Speaker 3: And if you're making sense, I guess you gotta be.
42:33
Speaker 3: Cuckoos focus, you gotta be.
42:35
Speaker 4: And I guess you know when you get in the arena,
42:37
Speaker 4: which the irony is. In my remarks, you know, I
42:41
Speaker 4: wanted to leave people with hope ted because I believe
42:45
Speaker 4: that I believe in the people of this nation, and
42:49
Speaker 4: I believe in what we're built on, and wanted to
42:54
Speaker 4: encourage everyone to get in the arena because that's what
42:56
Speaker 4: we need them to do because we are literally fighting
42:59
Speaker 4: for the heart and soulivar nation. We are fighting for
43:02
Speaker 4: the future for our children, and we need everybody stepping up.
43:05
Speaker 4: So I said, you know, get in the arena. Well,
43:07
Speaker 4: I found out real quick that I am in the arena.
43:10
Speaker 4: And when you're in the arena, you get arrows. But
43:13
Speaker 4: it's worth it. If you're fighting for what families need,
43:16
Speaker 4: you're being a voice for the voiceless. Amen, then I'll
43:20
Speaker 4: take those arrows head all day long, because that is
43:25
Speaker 4: what we're going to have to do in order to
43:27
Speaker 4: get this country back on track and speak truth to power.
43:31
Speaker 4: And we found out where the power is. It's in
43:33
Speaker 4: the media, and they want to silence anyone who doesn't
43:35
Speaker 4: think just like them.
43:37
Speaker 3: And to use a military analogy, if you're not taking flak,
43:41
Speaker 3: you're not over the target.
43:42
Speaker 4: There you go.
43:43
Speaker 3: There is a reason they're coming after you, and they
43:46
Speaker 3: tell you who they're afraid of. So I would take
43:49
Speaker 3: I was actually I thought you did a terrific job,
43:52
Speaker 3: But I was actually even happier with the job you
43:55
Speaker 3: did by seeing the freak out of the media, because
43:59
Speaker 3: to be honest, if you'd sucked, they wouldn't said anything.
44:02
Speaker 3: If it were bad, they would have been like nothing
44:04
Speaker 3: to see here, And so that they squeal this loudly
44:08
Speaker 3: tells you a great deal.
44:09
Speaker 4: Well, and I do think you've got here. You have
44:12
Speaker 4: the president literally for an hour and seven minutes, I
44:15
Speaker 4: guess is what you said. It was yelling and giving
44:19
Speaker 4: a political speech in a space where he's supposed to
44:21
Speaker 4: be bringing our country together. And then you know, even
44:27
Speaker 4: you know, as I mentioned, tried to leave the country
44:29
Speaker 4: with hope because I believe in our nation, and I said,
44:33
Speaker 4: our nation's history is written with the gritten, the grit
44:37
Speaker 4: of men and women who got knocked down. But we
44:39
Speaker 4: know their stories because they did not stay down. We
44:42
Speaker 4: are here because they stood back up. And this is
44:47
Speaker 4: one of those moments where I'm just gonna have to
44:49
Speaker 4: stand back up because this fight is worth fighting, and
44:53
Speaker 4: we have got Every voice has got to be lifted
44:55
Speaker 4: loud because there are people that are counting on us,
44:58
Speaker 4: whether it is what's happening at our border, whether it
45:01
Speaker 4: is families that literally cannot make ends meet. I don't
45:04
Speaker 4: think and I said this in my remarks as well,
45:06
Speaker 4: but I mean I actually drove carpool the day that
45:10
Speaker 4: I gave the state of the union response. So I
45:13
Speaker 4: was in that.
45:15
Speaker 3: Is so awesome. Right, Well, you know, actually you and
45:18
Speaker 3: Biden have something in common because he was actually hanging
45:21
Speaker 3: outside of a junior high.
45:22
Speaker 1: That day too. Oh I need it.
45:25
Speaker 3: I'm going to get in trouble with that comment that
45:27
Speaker 3: that one man am I allowed to say that.
45:31
Speaker 1: I don't know. We'll find out. That's that's your headline, right.
45:36
Speaker 3: So you really drove carpool that day.
45:37
Speaker 4: That that is actually very literally drove carpool.
45:40
Speaker 3: You are from school or both?
45:41
Speaker 4: Both?
45:42
Speaker 3: Both?
45:42
Speaker 4: I did both. And so when I was in pickup line,
45:45
Speaker 4: actually the head of the middle school was like, what
45:48
Speaker 4: are you doing? She had the little you know, the
45:51
Speaker 4: little walkie talkie and she you know, was and I said,
45:54
Speaker 4: I need you know, I need bridgeway, and she was like,
45:56
Speaker 4: what are you doing. I was like, I'm running carpool.
46:00
Speaker 4: So ran carpool, did all the things. But you think about, like,
46:03
Speaker 4: when's the last time he did something like that. When's
46:05
Speaker 4: the last time he went to the grocery store and
46:07
Speaker 4: saw that eggs are like off the charts and the
46:10
Speaker 4: price of meat and milk and all of the things,
46:12
Speaker 4: And when's the last time he went and filled up
46:14
Speaker 4: his car with gas, because I promise you, it just
46:17
Speaker 4: gets more and more and more, and you think this
46:19
Speaker 4: man is trying to make us energy.
46:22
Speaker 3: That's not fair. He went to the store and he
46:25
Speaker 3: brought bought buttermilk and molasses from corn Pop.
46:28
Speaker 4: Oh you know what.
46:30
Speaker 3: And so so he understands.
46:32
Speaker 4: I think you maybe went to something or maybe when
46:35
Speaker 4: he went to his beach retreat, he had someone run
46:37
Speaker 4: to the store for him. But seriously, you know, and
46:40
Speaker 4: you think about and I you know, when I go
46:42
Speaker 4: walking with my friends in the morning and I listened
46:45
Speaker 4: to the things they're concerned about. You know, this is
46:48
Speaker 4: what people want a voice to. And so if bringing
46:51
Speaker 4: a voice to that, if I get some flak for it,
46:54
Speaker 4: and you know, obviously you know, gave passionate remarks. I
47:01
Speaker 4: think that there was.
47:01
Speaker 1: Never apologize for being passionate. That's for sure.
47:04
Speaker 4: That's right. It's like it's worth it, you know, it's
47:07
Speaker 4: worth it. The people are worth it, worth fighting for
47:09
Speaker 4: and I'm gonna keep doing it. And the hey and
47:11
Speaker 4: the more they try to silence me, which by the way,
47:13
Speaker 4: they're doing quite a bit right now. It's I had
47:16
Speaker 4: to give a speech this morning, Ted, and I walk
47:18
Speaker 4: up there, and you can tell everybody is just kind
47:20
Speaker 4: of like on edge, right because they're thinking, she has
47:23
Speaker 4: just been plummeted for the last solid four days and
47:28
Speaker 4: we've seen her in a number of memes and this
47:31
Speaker 4: and that, and I think, you know, the scary mom
47:35
Speaker 4: one was also a good one because I thought, you
47:37
Speaker 4: know what that means. They really are afraid, because everybody
47:40
Speaker 4: knows when your mom goes into scary mom mode, like
47:43
Speaker 4: get out of the way, yeah, because stuff's about to
47:45
Speaker 4: get done.
47:47
Speaker 3: Do you know it? I know exactly.
47:49
Speaker 4: I mean, just don't move over because we're about to
47:52
Speaker 4: take care of business. Right.
47:54
Speaker 3: Look, and you know what, there are a lot of
47:56
Speaker 3: moms in America who are pissed off at everything that's happened.
48:00
Speaker 3: And you gave voice to that. And it wasn't the angry,
48:05
Speaker 3: bitter way that Biden did it, but it was if
48:08
Speaker 3: you're paying attention, you ought to be upset. Listen, if
48:12
Speaker 3: you were Lake and Riley's mom exactly, Like, imagine number one,
48:17
Speaker 3: the grief and agony you feel, but imagine the fury
48:20
Speaker 3: you feel that this was unnecessary and it's a result
48:24
Speaker 3: of a political agenda that said your family doesn't matter
48:29
Speaker 3: and by the way, the next person murdered by an
48:32
Speaker 3: illegal alien that Joe Biden lets in, they're gonna feel
48:35
Speaker 3: the same way. So they keep they keep doing this.
48:38
Speaker 4: And that's not who he's apologizing to. And it made
48:40
Speaker 4: me so mad. He stood up there and flippantly said,
48:43
Speaker 4: that set her name wrong, you know it, just it.
48:46
Speaker 4: I thought you have got as a mom.
48:49
Speaker 3: And by the way, his response, he said, well, she
48:51
Speaker 3: was killed by an illegal, but how many are killed
48:54
Speaker 3: by legals? Now what does that mean? And of course
48:57
Speaker 3: MSNBC didn't ask about that. Oh, how many are killed
49:00
Speaker 3: by legals? So what you're saying is that your crime
49:02
Speaker 3: policy is terrible. Also, and there's lots of murders. Yeah,
49:05
Speaker 3: I agree with that, also that but that's not much
49:08
Speaker 3: of a defense. Well, gosh, we're killing even more Americans
49:11
Speaker 3: that that is, And of course no scrutiny from the
49:15
Speaker 3: corporate media on anything.
49:16
Speaker 4: And he also he's killing the American dream because he's
49:20
Speaker 4: continuing to put Americans last. And we only thing we
49:24
Speaker 4: can ask for is an opportunity to achieve, opportunity to
49:28
Speaker 4: try and fail. And you look at him and he
49:31
Speaker 4: continues to put policies in place that limit anyone's ability
49:36
Speaker 4: to try and achieve because he's prioritizing a liberal agenda
49:43
Speaker 4: above above that. I mean it's everything from energy to
49:47
Speaker 4: the border to prices. I mean that's one thing. Ted Like,
49:50
Speaker 4: I'm on the Banking Committee and I cannot believe the
49:55
Speaker 4: agenda in the financial sector, I mean all of the
49:59
Speaker 4: es and the I mean it just it is tremendous.
50:02
Speaker 4: So I feel like at every turn we are having
50:05
Speaker 4: to fight to preserve what I know this nation was
50:08
Speaker 4: founded on and to try to preserve it for our kids,
50:11
Speaker 4: and it's worth it. So so I had a little
50:14
Speaker 4: fun with it. Like I said, this morning, when I
50:15
Speaker 4: got up to give those remarks, everyone was on edge
50:18
Speaker 4: and I said, hey, guys, I haven't haven't had access
50:23
Speaker 4: to Twitter. Is there anything going on that I need
50:26
Speaker 4: to know about? And the whole the whole crowd, whole
50:29
Speaker 4: crowd started started laughing. But have had a little bit
50:32
Speaker 4: of fun with that.
50:32
Speaker 3: But after it gets you through everything, it does.
50:34
Speaker 4: It does, it absolutely does.
50:36
Speaker 1: So Senator, thank you so much for coming on verdict it.
50:39
Speaker 2: We're really fun to hear this outside in different perspective
50:42
Speaker 2: from you and and and here behind the scenes of
50:45
Speaker 2: how this happens, and the response happens, and keep up
50:48
Speaker 2: the good fight. I love your passion, I love your
50:51
Speaker 2: inspiration for young girls and women who are conservative and
50:56
Speaker 2: proud moms. That is I think the most important thing
50:58
Speaker 2: here is that you know. I think the left has
51:00
Speaker 2: done a great job of claiming feminism and claiming women voters,
51:04
Speaker 2: and sometimes we don't do a good enough job. I
51:07
Speaker 2: think of reminding moms like, hey, we're here for you,
51:09
Speaker 2: We're supporting you, We're advocating for you and your kids
51:14
Speaker 2: and the laws that we can advocate for to protect
51:16
Speaker 2: your kids. So thank you for being a voice for
51:19
Speaker 2: that as well. There were so many moms that were watching.
51:21
Speaker 2: I know that we're very, very proud of you.
51:23
Speaker 4: Thank you. It was certainly an honor, Like I like
51:28
Speaker 4: I said when I spoke to them, when they ask,
51:30
Speaker 4: I mean, it is humbling to have the opportunity to
51:34
Speaker 4: speak on behalf of our party and on behalf of
51:37
Speaker 4: hard working parents and families who want somebody to fight
51:43
Speaker 4: for them and fight for this country and fight for
51:45
Speaker 4: the issues that matter. And so we got in there
51:49
Speaker 4: and gave it all. I got. Hey, I would recommend
51:51
Speaker 4: if you're ever giving a speech, direct to camera. You know,
51:54
Speaker 4: figure out how that works live. It's a lot, but
51:59
Speaker 4: loved it and and actually I have it's an honor
52:04
Speaker 4: to take the arrows too, because that means that we
52:06
Speaker 4: are right on the issues. There. You notice they're not
52:11
Speaker 4: they are not plummeting me on the issues that that
52:15
Speaker 4: I talked about. They're they're going after my passion. And
52:20
Speaker 4: I'm going to keep that passion. I'm going to keep
52:22
Speaker 4: fighting for what I know is right and what I
52:25
Speaker 4: believe in. And Ted, I'll say to you, it is
52:28
Speaker 4: an honor to fight alongside you. There is nobody who
52:33
Speaker 4: is better at at being fierce and calling the left
52:36
Speaker 4: down and speaking the truth directly in the way that
52:40
Speaker 4: you do. And so enjoy serving with you, enjoy learning
52:43
Speaker 4: from you, and certainly enjoyed the grace you showed me
52:47
Speaker 4: by allowing me to be on here tonight and talk
52:49
Speaker 4: about this is super fun few days I've had.
52:53
Speaker 3: Well, this has been a blast. Thank you for joining us,
52:55
Speaker 3: and it's it's a lot of fun to serve with
52:57
Speaker 3: you as well. And I look forward to being in
52:59
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53:02
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53:07
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53:09
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