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The Redefinition of Marriage · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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Speaker 1: temerity to express the view on marriage that was held
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Speaker 1: the content that we put out here. Not only did
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Speaker 1: your comment drive the news cycle, Senator, it also led
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Speaker 1: to a vote in the House of Representatives to codify
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Speaker 1: the Obergefell decision. Actually go a little further as a podcast.
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Speaker 1: Ever driven a vote the next week in the US
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Speaker 1: House of Representatives. I'm not aware of that threshold ever
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Speaker 1: being crossed. So the House Deems bring this up, and
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Speaker 1: it was obviously a ridiculous vote. There is absolutely no
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Speaker 1: risk of the Supreme Court over ruling Oberghafell. The Court majority,
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Speaker 1: and Dobbs said as much. Clarence Thomas and his concurrence suggested,
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Speaker 1: perhaps we should revisit that in some other cases. He
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Speaker 1: couldn't get a single other justice, including any of the Conservatives,
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Speaker 1: to sign on to that. So there's really nope. As
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Speaker 1: a political matter, there's no risk of this whatsoever. And
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Speaker 1: then the Democrats bring this bill out of their sheer
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Speaker 1: shock and anger that you haven't changed your view on
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Speaker 1: marriage from the view that's been held for all of
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Speaker 1: human history and your view of the Constitution. Even more importantly,
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Speaker 1: the boy the Constitution should be interpreted and understood. And
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Speaker 1: the vote comes up in the House and forty seven
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Speaker 1: House Republicans vote to enshrine a new definition of marriage. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: so let's take those water to time. Let's let's start
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Speaker 1: with what actually I said on the cloak room. So
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Speaker 1: the eighteen second snippet that they seized upon is where
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Speaker 1: I said that a Burgha Fell was clearly wrong, it
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Speaker 1: was wrongly decided, which is exactly what I said the
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Speaker 1: day it came down. It's what I believed then and
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Speaker 1: every day since then, and it's what virtually every conservative
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Speaker 1: in the planet believe then and still believes now, even
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Speaker 1: if there's some Republicans scared to say it now. In
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Speaker 1: a Burgher Fell, the Supreme Court struck down the marriage
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Speaker 1: laws of states across the country, invented a brand new right.
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Speaker 1: The proper way, I believe under the Constitution to decide
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Speaker 1: the question of marriage and whether marriage should extend the
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Speaker 1: same sex couples is through the democratic process. And actually
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Speaker 1: the democratic process was moving in that direction. The advocates
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Speaker 1: of gay marriage were winning in multiple states. They were
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Speaker 1: persuading the voters, and the democratic process was operating. Those
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Speaker 1: who disagreed were making their case, and there was a
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Speaker 1: full fledged democratic debate until the Supreme Court said no, sorry,
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Speaker 1: silly people, there's only one right answer. You must adopt
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Speaker 1: what we decree. What they left out is you and
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Speaker 1: I had actually it was Liz Wheeler and I had
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Speaker 1: an extended discussion where she asked me. The entire cloak
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Speaker 1: Room focused on Clarence Thomas's concurrence in the Dab's decision,
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Speaker 1: where he called into question the subset of due process jurisprudence,
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Speaker 1: and he mentioned a number of other cases dealing with contraception,
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Speaker 1: dealing with sodomy, and dealing with gay marriage, and he
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Speaker 1: suggested that those opinions should be revisited. And what I
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Speaker 1: articulated at great length in the full Cloakroom podcast is
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Speaker 1: that the Supreme Court said, repeatedly, explicitly, unambiguously, no, we
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Speaker 1: are not revisiting these precedents. Nothing in this decision calls
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Speaker 1: him into question. We're not going to do it. At
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Speaker 1: one point, the majority opinion says, we don't know how
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Speaker 1: we can say this any clearer. No, no, no, As
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Speaker 1: you noted Justice Thomas, yes, he raised the issue. He
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Speaker 1: was not joined by a single justice, so eight justices
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Speaker 1: declined to join that opinion. I said that at great length,
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Speaker 1: all of the lefty Twitter activists, all of the corrupt
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Speaker 1: corporate media, ignored that entire discussion. We actually put out
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Speaker 1: the entire six minute segment we put it out on
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Speaker 1: social media to say, look, if you want to know
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Speaker 1: what the discussion was, here's a radical and crazy idea.
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Speaker 1: Maybe you could actually listen to what it was. I said.
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Speaker 1: Almost no one in the media could be bothered to
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Speaker 1: do that. And there's a reason they seized upon this
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Speaker 1: is there's a broader political point and when we've talked
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Speaker 1: about this sum on the podcast, but it's worth underscoring.
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Speaker 1: Democrats know that abortion is a political loser for them.
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Speaker 1: So they're a handful of left wing activists in DC
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Speaker 1: who are thinking, Okay, maybe the decision on row is
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Speaker 1: going to be the hail Mary that saves the mid
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Speaker 1: terms from the disaster it's going to be for Democrats otherwise.
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Speaker 1: But real and serious Democrats don't actually think that. Elected
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Speaker 1: democrats don't think that. And how do we know that
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Speaker 1: because their immediate reaction is not to focus on the
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Speaker 1: fact that their policy preference of unlimited abortion on demand
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Speaker 1: in all circumstances with no limits is now no longer
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Speaker 1: mandated by the federal courts, because that's a really unpopular
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Speaker 1: position in America, But it's rather to suggest, you know
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Speaker 1: what this means, they're going to take away birth control.
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Speaker 1: They're gonna take away the right to consensual sodomy, They're
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Speaker 1: going to take away gay marriage laws. Now, those are
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Speaker 1: all issues that pull much better than the Democrats radical
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Speaker 1: view on abortion, and when they immediately shift to those issues,
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Speaker 1: they're giving you a tell. They're telling it just like
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Speaker 1: in poker when someone is bluffing and they whether they
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Speaker 1: twist their ring or they sweat or they fidget, they
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Speaker 1: you know, people have tells that let you know what
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Speaker 1: they really think and believe. That's what the Democrats are
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Speaker 1: doing and the reason they hyper ventilated in every media outlet.
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Speaker 1: I got to say, CNN, I sort of feel like
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Speaker 1: you and I deserve a credit on CNN shows because
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Speaker 1: they filled their shows this week just with us. That
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Speaker 1: was all of their content, apparably there was nothing else
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Speaker 1: happening in the world, because it let them tell the
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Speaker 1: story that a burgher Fella is going to be reversed,
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Speaker 1: even though the Supreme Court said emphatically it's not going
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Speaker 1: to be reversed. Right, and then, as you noted, it
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Speaker 1: predicated the vote in the House of Representatives to say,
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Speaker 1: if bilbergha Fell is reversed, we're voting to enshrine gay
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Speaker 1: marriage and federal law, and to repeal the Defensive Marriage Act,
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Speaker 1: which had passed overwhelmingly in Congress and which that crazed
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Speaker 1: right wing radical Bill Clinton signed into law. So you
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Speaker 1: get this vote in the House. I'm no expert here, Senator.
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Speaker 1: You know, I don't work at the Capitol, but I
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Speaker 1: think that means it's going to your place. I think
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Speaker 1: that means it's going to the Senate for a vote.
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Speaker 1: If you had asked me three days ago, I would
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Speaker 1: have said, this doesn't stand a chance of going anywhere
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Speaker 1: the Senate. Republicans are going to stand firm. This is
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Speaker 1: an obvious this is an obvious issue. And yet after
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Speaker 1: that vote in the House, I have to wonder, is
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Speaker 1: this thing actually going to make it out of the Senate. Well,
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Speaker 1: it's not clear if it's going to get floor time.
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Speaker 1: And we've got just a couple of weeks left before
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Speaker 1: the August recess when Democrats want to get home in campaign,
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Speaker 1: they've got a bunch of Democrats on the ballot, and
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Speaker 1: there's a lot of other bad things Democrats are trying
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Speaker 1: to do. So they've got a lot of legislation they're
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Speaker 1: trying to ram through, including their last gasp at build
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Speaker 1: back broke, and so there's a limited number of days
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Speaker 1: of floor time. That being said, Schumer said this week
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Speaker 1: he intends to take this up for a vote, which
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Speaker 1: will burn several days of floor time. That was the
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Speaker 1: speech where he also described me as unhinged for cloak room.
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Speaker 1: And if it comes up to move to proceed to
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Speaker 1: the bill, we'll take sixty votes. That's the standard rule
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Speaker 1: in the Senate. It presumably will get all fifty Democrats.
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Speaker 1: So the question is does it get ten Republicans. It
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Speaker 1: got what was at forty five Republicans in the House
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Speaker 1: forty seven? I think forty seven. At least one of
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Speaker 1: my colleagues is old reporters publicly intends to vote yes.
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Speaker 1: That's Tom tell Us from North Carolina who's told reporters
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Speaker 1: he's going to be a yes. I could tell you
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Speaker 1: we had a discussion today in the Senate Republican conference
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Speaker 1: at lunch where there were multiple Republicans who, if they
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Speaker 1: didn't say yes, they sure we're showing a lot of
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Speaker 1: leg to use a euphemism, I don't know that this
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Speaker 1: ought to be This ought to be a really easy
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Speaker 1: vote Number one, because it's pure empty political messaging. Supreme
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Speaker 1: courts said they're not going to overturn a Burger fell.
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Speaker 1: So the entire reason Democrats are having this vote is
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Speaker 1: for political messaging and really to distract from every other
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Speaker 1: aspect of their agenda that's a train wreck, which is
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Speaker 1: inflation and crime and immigration and everything else. But secondly,
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Speaker 1: look my views on the substance. I believe marriage is
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Speaker 1: the union one man and one woman. And that's what
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Speaker 1: I have always believed. It's what I believe now. There
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Speaker 1: are people who disagree with me, and the people who
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Speaker 1: disagree with me are entitled to their views, and they're
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Speaker 1: entitled to participate in the democratic process, and they're entitled
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Speaker 1: to prevail in the democratic process if their arguments carry
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Speaker 1: a majority vote. It is interesting. I hope it's not
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Speaker 1: the case that a bunch of Republicans who used to
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Speaker 1: say that quite emphatically no longer believe that. But to
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Speaker 1: be honest, I don't know, Michael, of course, I mean
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Speaker 1: this is I'm with you. I hold the view of
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Speaker 1: marriage that has existed forever. I sometimes say I hold
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Speaker 1: the view of marriage that Obama and Hillary and Biden
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Speaker 1: and all the prominent Democrats of today held until very
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Speaker 1: very recently, and by the way, that the voters of
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Speaker 1: California in two thousand and eight, bright blue left wing
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Speaker 1: California voted for in two thousand and eight. So I
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Speaker 1: don't know that there has been a public policy issue
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Speaker 1: on which views have changed more dramatic than the issue
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Speaker 1: of gay marriage. And it's on the question of life.
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Speaker 1: Views of the American voters have been moving in the
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Speaker 1: direction of life, but on the question of marriage, they
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Speaker 1: clearly are moving in the other direction. And that's indisputable.
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Speaker 1: And it's really quite quite a remarkable journey from where
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Speaker 1: even a decade the debate was, of course, but I
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Speaker 1: just think even for people who disagree, even for Republicans
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Speaker 1: who for whatever reason, have changed their views over the
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Speaker 1: last five or seven years, this is such a nakedly
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Speaker 1: obvious political trap being pointlessly as in terms of the
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Speaker 1: substance of the policy being pointlessly laid out by the Democrats.
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Speaker 1: The only reason is to trap Republicans. Why on earth
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Speaker 1: would any of these these Republican senators take it. Those
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Speaker 1: forty seven in the House took at hook line and Sinker.
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Speaker 1: I hope, senator, I hope your colleagues are wiser than that.
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Speaker 1: You know, you know who I know is wiser the
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Speaker 1: subscribers to this podcast, so I do want to get
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Speaker 1: to some of their questions for enough of CNN, Enough
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Speaker 1: of Nancy Pelosi. A first question up from Jeff. This
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Speaker 1: actually does have to do with another piece of legislation
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Speaker 1: that's making its way around the Capitol. Jeff says, I've
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Speaker 1: been reading about a proposed reform to the Electoral Count Act.
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Speaker 1: All I really know about it is that it's being
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Speaker 1: pushed by Democrats and Rhinos. So I instinctively don't like it,
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Speaker 1: but I want to keep an open mind. What is
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Speaker 1: the act and should we support it? So, Jeff, a
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Speaker 1: great question, and that's frankly a good instinct is if
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Speaker 1: the people pushing it are not reliable conservatives that ought
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Speaker 1: to give you a really big hint the direction it's going,
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Speaker 1: what is the act? To be honest, I'm not sure. Look,
16:52
Speaker 1: Democrats and a lot of wabbly Republicans who are really
16:57
Speaker 1: unhappy about January sixth and the fact that I stood
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Speaker 1: up and objected. I objected under the Electoral Count Act,
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Speaker 1: an act that has been on the laws for one
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Speaker 1: hundred and fifty years, and I objected on the grounds
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Speaker 1: that the Electoral votes were not made consistent with law.
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Speaker 1: That's what the statute sets out that you can make
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Speaker 1: an objection on. And you'll recall I based my objection
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Speaker 1: on calling for the appointment of an election commission to
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Speaker 1: consider the evidence of voter fraud on the merits on
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Speaker 1: the substance to an emergency ten day audit, and determined
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Speaker 1: the extent to which fraud occurred in the extent to
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Speaker 1: which it impacted the outcome of the election. That was
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Speaker 1: modeled after what Congress did in eighteen seventy six, the
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Speaker 1: election between Rutherford B. Hayes and Samuel Tilden. In that election,
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Speaker 1: as in twenty twenty, there were serious allegations of voter
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Speaker 1: fraud in eighteen seventy six, Congress didn't throw up its
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Speaker 1: hands and say we're powerless, we can't do anything about it. No,
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Speaker 1: they appointed an election commission. It consisted of five Senators,
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Speaker 1: five House members, five Supreme Court justices, and they did
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Speaker 1: exactly what I recommended. All the Democrats and some of
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Speaker 1: the Republicans don't like that idea, and so this is
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Speaker 1: a proposal to change that. I don't know the details
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Speaker 1: of how they're going to change it, because they literally
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Speaker 1: have just announced it today and so I haven't seen
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Speaker 1: what they've announced. I will say, as I was walking
18:20
Speaker 1: in to film this podcast, some left wing not on Twitter,
18:25
Speaker 1: and I really do spend too much time reading what
18:27
Speaker 1: left wing not say on Twitter. We all do. But oh,
18:29
Speaker 1: actually it was a lefty reporter for the Washington Post.
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Speaker 1: He tweeted out, So the only question in this bill
18:37
Speaker 1: is do you want the decision about presidential electors made
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Speaker 1: by the federal courts or made by Speaker of the
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Speaker 1: House Jim Jordan and Senate Majority Leader Ted Cruz. And
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Speaker 1: I promptly retweeted him, and I said, sounds good to me. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: So I'm sure that's their nightmare scenario. I was okay
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Speaker 1: with it. That sounds that sounds just just fine to me.
19:01
Speaker 1: Next question from Wanda, why are January sixth speaking of
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Speaker 1: January sixth? Why are January sixth defendants being held in
19:09
Speaker 1: terrible conditions on ridiculous charges when Stephen Colbert's staffers get
19:15
Speaker 1: off the hook for doing basically the same thing. That's
19:18
Speaker 1: referring to Stephen Colbert's staffers who broke into parts of
19:22
Speaker 1: the capital that they weren't supposed to be in in
19:24
Speaker 1: order to embarrass Republican politicians because the Biden Department of
19:28
Speaker 1: Justice is fundamentally corrupt and political. It is politicized, it
19:32
Speaker 1: is weaponized. As you know. I've got a book coming
19:34
Speaker 1: out in September, the title of which is Justice Corrupted.
19:38
Speaker 1: How the Left has weaponized our legal system. It goes
19:41
Speaker 1: into this in great detail, sadly Merrick Garland. Merrick Garland
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Speaker 1: was someone who spent over two decades on the Federal
19:47
Speaker 1: Court of Appeals. He built a reputation as a fairly
19:52
Speaker 1: a political, reasonable judge. I don't know that I've ever
19:57
Speaker 1: seen anyone trash their reputation faster than Merritt Garland has
20:03
Speaker 1: done in the year and a half he's had his
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Speaker 1: Attorney general. It's reminiscent of what the NFL did when
20:08
Speaker 1: they declared war on their fans and like just lit
20:10
Speaker 1: themselves on fire. Like The degree to which Garland is
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Speaker 1: willing to allow DOJ to be the frontline soldiers for
20:20
Speaker 1: the Partisans in the White House is unprecedented and it's dangerous.
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Speaker 1: And I'll tell you when it comes to people who
20:27
Speaker 1: are wrongfully in prison. For January sixth, I have been
20:30
Speaker 1: pressing on it repeatedly. I've been pressing DJ for answers.
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Speaker 1: Who is imprisoned, What are their charges? How many of
20:37
Speaker 1: them are violent? If they committed acts of violence, they
20:39
Speaker 1: should be prosecuted. And that's my view, regardless of whether
20:42
Speaker 1: I agree or disagree with their politics. If you commit
20:45
Speaker 1: an act of violence, if you assault a police officer,
20:47
Speaker 1: you ought to go to jail. But if they didn't
20:50
Speaker 1: commit acts of violence, then peaceful protest is fully protected
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Speaker 1: by the Constitution. And this Department of Justice is being
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Speaker 1: used as a political weapon to persecute those who exercise
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Speaker 1: their First Amendment rights in peaceful protests without committing acts
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Speaker 1: of violence because the Biden White House disagrees with them.
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Speaker 1: And it is shameful. It is disgraceful. And I'll tell
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Speaker 1: you every time I press the Department of Justice for
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Speaker 1: answers on the January six protesters comparing them, say to
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Speaker 1: how DJ handled the violent rioters in the Antifa and
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Speaker 1: Black Lives Matter riots, This Department of Justice essentially says,
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Speaker 1: go jump in a lake. We won't tell you. It's
21:32
Speaker 1: none of your business. We're not going to answer it.
21:34
Speaker 1: It is And our corrupt corporate media has zero, zero,
21:38
Speaker 1: zero interest in reporting on any of this no. Of course, Now,
21:42
Speaker 1: assuming Republicans do retake the House, maybe the Senate in
21:46
Speaker 1: the midterms. Will that give conservatives enough leverage to make
21:51
Speaker 1: some progress on this issue of the two tracks of justice,
21:55
Speaker 1: whether we're talking about the January six people in Colbert
21:57
Speaker 1: or even more broadly than that. So I hope so,
22:00
Speaker 1: and I have some modest level of optimism. I think
22:05
Speaker 1: the chances of Republicans taking the House are overwhelming. They're
22:08
Speaker 1: well north at ninety percent, and I think a Republican House,
22:12
Speaker 1: the odds are very high that we will have oversight
22:15
Speaker 1: hearings on many of these topics. I expect House Republicans,
22:19
Speaker 1: particularly conservatives, to be aggressive in oversight of the Biden administration.
22:25
Speaker 1: The Senate is less certain. I put the odds about
22:27
Speaker 1: sixty five thirty five that we take the Senate. If
22:29
Speaker 1: we take the Senate, I hope the Senate engages in
22:32
Speaker 1: oversight as well. You know, there's a difference in style
22:36
Speaker 1: and temperament between House oversight and Senate oversight. House oversight
22:42
Speaker 1: it's typically more partisan, it's typically more aggressive. It's it's
22:46
Speaker 1: they have bigger flamethrowers in the House. They you know,
22:50
Speaker 1: they torch each other many house members D's and ours
22:53
Speaker 1: hate each other, insult each other. The Senate is a
22:58
Speaker 1: much more genteel place. When I arrived, it scared the
23:02
Speaker 1: hell out of them. Um you know, it reminded me
23:07
Speaker 1: of one of my favorite comedy riffs, Michael, have you
23:10
Speaker 1: ever seen Robin Williams do his riff on golf? I
23:13
Speaker 1: think I have. Okay, it is one of the funniest
23:16
Speaker 1: comedy riffs ever done. I love it. Language warning, it
23:19
Speaker 1: is profane, but it's Robert Williams. He's funny as all hell.
23:23
Speaker 1: And he's talking about golf and how golf is made up.
23:25
Speaker 1: But I listened to it regularly because it just doubled
23:27
Speaker 1: me over laughing. But at one point he's talking about
23:32
Speaker 1: Tiger Woods and the reaction of sort of uptight country
23:36
Speaker 1: clubbers when Tiger Woods started showing up and dominating golf,
23:40
Speaker 1: and and and he does a a you know voice
23:43
Speaker 1: of you know, oh my, now we're gonna let him
23:46
Speaker 1: into our clubs, And it was just, you know, you
23:49
Speaker 1: can picture you know, almost invariably rich liberals sort of
23:54
Speaker 1: horrified when Tiger Woods showed up. I have to admit
23:59
Speaker 1: that was a little bit the reaction when I showed
24:01
Speaker 1: up at the Senate. Some of the same folks were like,
24:03
Speaker 1: you know, oh goodness, what is this uh rabble rouser
24:07
Speaker 1: doing here? This whacko bird, this maniac. So, for those
24:12
Speaker 1: of y'all who may remember, whacko bird was the term
24:15
Speaker 1: John McCain used for me. He uh. And I was
24:18
Speaker 1: particularly gratified when some grassroots activists made a baseball cap
24:23
Speaker 1: with a picture of Daffy Duck on it and the
24:26
Speaker 1: word whacco bird. I keep it in my office, and
24:28
Speaker 1: it was sort of I happily embraced the title. Look.
24:33
Speaker 1: The Senate with a Republican majority will engage in oversight.
24:36
Speaker 1: It will almost surely be more restrained and genteel than
24:40
Speaker 1: the House. But the Senate also carries with it typically
24:45
Speaker 1: a greater gravitas, a greater A Senate hearing can have
24:50
Speaker 1: a real impact. And so I hope we see vigorous
24:54
Speaker 1: oversight in both the House and Senate, and and that
24:57
Speaker 1: could help. I also expect the Biden administration to do
25:01
Speaker 1: with the Obama administration did when we had Republican majorities,
25:05
Speaker 1: which is stiff arm ignore, defy. It is one of
25:10
Speaker 1: the interesting things watching the Dems setting all sorts of precedents,
25:15
Speaker 1: including trying to prosecute Steve Bannon for defying congressional Subpoenas
25:20
Speaker 1: you know, in a few months, the other party is
25:22
Speaker 1: going to have the power to issue of subpoenas. And
25:24
Speaker 1: these are some interesting precedents they're setting. And I'm almost
25:29
Speaker 1: certain the bidendj will refuse to prosecute anyone for contempt
25:33
Speaker 1: of Congress for defying a Republican subpoena because this Department
25:37
Speaker 1: of Justice is not actually focused on enforcing the law.
25:41
Speaker 1: They're willing to become essentially the enforcement arm of the DNC.
25:46
Speaker 1: But real oversight, I believe is coming. But these prosecutions
25:51
Speaker 1: that the orange jumpsuit that is good for the goose
25:54
Speaker 1: is good for the gander, they make those sorts of
25:56
Speaker 1: things and multiple sizes. So I agree, I think the
25:58
Speaker 1: Democrats should be cautious. A question from Aaron is Cookie
26:03
Speaker 1: Monster racist? Give me the reasoning on that. So I
26:09
Speaker 1: picked fights with lots of muppets. I've picked fights with
26:13
Speaker 1: Big Bird, I picked fights with Elmo, I picked fights
26:15
Speaker 1: with Mickey and Pluto or not muppets, but in the
26:17
Speaker 1: sort of vague genre. But but the Cookie Monster thing,
26:21
Speaker 1: he's blue and he likes cookies. I'm not sure, Michael.
26:24
Speaker 1: Can you help me out on this? I can. I
26:27
Speaker 1: know so you have been the news for I don't know,
26:31
Speaker 1: ninety five percent of CNN airtime this week. But the
26:34
Speaker 1: other news story is that Cookie Monster is apparently racist.
26:39
Speaker 1: At some theme park or parade or whatever, a Cookie
26:42
Speaker 1: Monster figure a person like he ignored some African American children.
26:47
Speaker 1: Is that was that Cookie Monster did or did not?
26:50
Speaker 1: It's not even really clear. He's wearing this big suit
26:52
Speaker 1: and he's high fiving people as he walks, and then
26:55
Speaker 1: there were these two little black girls and they wanted
26:57
Speaker 1: a high five, and he didn't high five them, and
26:59
Speaker 1: then he kept walking. And the interpretation of this when
27:03
Speaker 1: it was posted on Instagram was that it's basically David
27:07
Speaker 1: Duke wearing a furry blue suit and dressed up like
27:10
Speaker 1: a puppet. Now, maybe Cookie Monster is racist, but to
27:14
Speaker 1: jump to that conclusion to me seems a little premature.
27:18
Speaker 1: So I haven't seen the video, so I can provide
27:21
Speaker 1: no direct knowledge on it. I'm sorry, I'm behind in
27:24
Speaker 1: my Cookie Monster theme park video watching the stories, but
27:29
Speaker 1: I will say this, I believe all children deserve a
27:32
Speaker 1: high five. I'm pro child and bold stance. And you know,
27:38
Speaker 1: if if, if, if these young children didn't get high fives,
27:42
Speaker 1: I think that was terrible and they deserve high fives.
27:45
Speaker 1: I'm against it. I'm against those people not getting the
27:49
Speaker 1: high five that they deserve. If you elect me, high
27:52
Speaker 1: fives for everybody. Yep. And by the way, since since
27:55
Speaker 1: big Berg, Big Big Bird and Elmo have come out
27:58
Speaker 1: as Democrats and the Democrats for two hundred years have
28:02
Speaker 1: been racist, you can answer your own question. You know,
28:07
Speaker 1: if A, then B, if B then C, you can
28:09
Speaker 1: connect the dots using the Transiti property. That is true.
28:13
Speaker 1: That's true. We're getting a little math, and he really
28:15
Speaker 1: does feel like Sesame Street. Next question from Caligula, I
28:20
Speaker 1: hope not the real one. If Biden is not the
28:23
Speaker 1: Democrat nominee in twenty twenty four, who will be good question.
28:29
Speaker 1: So I believe Biden will not be the nominee. He's
28:31
Speaker 1: not going to run. He is too old, he is
28:34
Speaker 1: beyond the capacity, he is severely diminished. Everyone knows this.
28:38
Speaker 1: All the Republicans know this, all the Democrats know this. Look,
28:42
Speaker 1: Biden is pretending he's going to run because of course
28:44
Speaker 1: he doesn't want to be a lamed Dock. I get
28:46
Speaker 1: that that's actually the right thing for Biden to do.
28:48
Speaker 1: Any president in his position would pretend he's going to run.
28:51
Speaker 1: I don't think anyone believes it when Biden doesn't run,
28:56
Speaker 1: and he's going to delay announcing that as long as
28:58
Speaker 1: possible because he doesn't want to be a lame doc.
29:01
Speaker 1: I think we're going to see a free for all,
29:04
Speaker 1: bloody war in the Democratic Party. I think right now
29:10
Speaker 1: Kamala Harris and Pete buddhag Edge are firing bazukas at
29:15
Speaker 1: each other every day. I think they are stabbing knives
29:18
Speaker 1: in each other's back. I think they are planning stories.
29:21
Speaker 1: I think it is open war. I think Elizabeth Warren
29:27
Speaker 1: is only a hair behind them. I think Elizabeth will
29:30
Speaker 1: run as well. She's clearly ambitious as all get out.
29:34
Speaker 1: She thinks she'll ride the Row decision all the way
29:38
Speaker 1: to the Democratic primary nomination. And then Gavin Newsom is
29:42
Speaker 1: making a play from California. He's he no longer has
29:46
Speaker 1: Michael Knowles to torment, he no longer has the Daily
29:48
Speaker 1: Wire to torment, so now he wants to torment all
29:50
Speaker 1: of America. I do think it's funny that Gavin has
29:53
Speaker 1: gone all the way to Florida to run ads just
29:55
Speaker 1: so Ben Shapiro can see them because he wants to
29:58
Speaker 1: chase him from the Pacific to the Atlantic. That's obviously
30:03
Speaker 1: a presidential play by Gavin. And look, I'm not remotely
30:08
Speaker 1: an expert on Democratic presidential primaries, but right now I
30:14
Speaker 1: see those four as likely the top tier tier. I
30:19
Speaker 1: don't think at look, you will get other people Amy Kloba,
30:22
Speaker 1: Charle Ron. I like Amy, She's she's actually sometimes less
30:27
Speaker 1: crazy than some of the other members of her party. Yea,
30:30
Speaker 1: this is these are slight gradations, which means to me
30:36
Speaker 1: the Democratic primary base won't want her. I think they
30:40
Speaker 1: haven't learned their lesson yet. They're still in crazytown. They're
30:43
Speaker 1: doubling down on crazytown. I think if Bernie were five
30:46
Speaker 1: years younger, he would run again, and he could easily
30:49
Speaker 1: win the nomination. Bernie is probably just old enough that
30:55
Speaker 1: he suggested he's gonna run. I think that's probably a
30:58
Speaker 1: head fake that that that at this age he decides, Okay,
31:02
Speaker 1: my time has passed. So my guess is those four
31:05
Speaker 1: the top tier. If only we could get another another
31:08
Speaker 1: Bernie run, if only for the memes. But I think
31:10
Speaker 1: you're probably right, he's probably passed his prime. From Anna
31:15
Speaker 1: cultural question, Brad Pitt has set a new male fashion
31:19
Speaker 1: trend by wearing a skirt to the red carpet of
31:23
Speaker 1: his new movie Premiere. That happened months after Harry Styles
31:27
Speaker 1: posed an address for a magazine, Senator Cruz. Senator Cruz,
31:34
Speaker 1: do you plan to embrace this new open minded style
31:37
Speaker 1: or are you a patriarchal, heteronormative oppressor? Option B, Option B.
31:45
Speaker 1: Obviously that was clear a mile away. I got no
31:49
Speaker 1: interest in wearing a skirt. The only possible exception might
31:55
Speaker 1: be if I'm in Glasgow at a party and they
31:58
Speaker 1: convinced me to wear a kilt. The real Scotsman were
32:01
Speaker 1: nothing under their kilts. I'm not a real Scotsman, so
32:05
Speaker 1: that does not seem at all tempting to me. It
32:07
Speaker 1: actually sounds kind of cold, because Scotland is really kind
32:10
Speaker 1: of cold a lot at the time of the year,
32:11
Speaker 1: and like, I'm not interested in a breeze like that,
32:15
Speaker 1: Like sounds thoroughly unpleasant. All right, I will tell a
32:19
Speaker 1: story from college debating days, so I'm terrified to know
32:25
Speaker 1: how this is going to connect. Senator Okay, so it
32:28
Speaker 1: involves my alma mater, and you're alma mater. Now I'm
32:33
Speaker 1: really terrified to know how this connects. When I was
32:36
Speaker 1: at a freshman at at Princeton at the Yale Debate tournament,
32:41
Speaker 1: in the final round, there was a team from Princeton
32:44
Speaker 1: who were sophomores. I was a freshman, so I was
32:47
Speaker 1: watching it. In the final round team from Princeton, really
32:50
Speaker 1: talented debaters, and a team from Scotland, Glasgow A. And
32:56
Speaker 1: the lead speaker there was a fellow named Auson Lalley.
33:00
Speaker 1: I don't know what he's maybe in politics or something.
33:02
Speaker 1: It was incredibly talented speaker. He was the lead speaker
33:04
Speaker 1: for Glasgow A. And the tradition in college debate was
33:10
Speaker 1: that final rounds were typically humorous because the two teams
33:13
Speaker 1: that broke to the final round qualified for nationals, and
33:17
Speaker 1: so everyone watching the debate had lost, so they were
33:20
Speaker 1: all pissed off, and so you kind of you tried
33:22
Speaker 1: to do a funny round to entertain the people who
33:24
Speaker 1: had lost. And so the Princeton team of sophomores they
33:29
Speaker 1: got up in the case they proposed, is America is
33:34
Speaker 1: better than England? They got they got up, and they
33:38
Speaker 1: had all of these funny reasons why America is better
33:41
Speaker 1: than England. And the lead speaker for the opposition, this
33:46
Speaker 1: fellow Austin Liley from Glasgow. He got up and he's
33:49
Speaker 1: in a full kilt. So this is how it knnects,
33:50
Speaker 1: because he's dressed in a full kilt and he goes,
33:55
Speaker 1: mister speaker, sir, there are few things you can do.
34:02
Speaker 1: And a Scotsman when he's in his kilt, has a
34:04
Speaker 1: sock that goes all the two socks that go all
34:06
Speaker 1: the weapon. He has a ceremonial dagger in his sock.
34:10
Speaker 1: So he pulls out the dagger and goes, there are
34:13
Speaker 1: few things you can do to kiss wolf A Scooch
34:18
Speaker 1: more then to confuse him with an Englishman. And he
34:25
Speaker 1: sticks the dagger into the podium and it's just like
34:28
Speaker 1: it's stuck into the podium at Yale. The entire room
34:33
Speaker 1: erupts in laughter. I mean, it just brings the house down.
34:37
Speaker 1: He spends the remainder of his speech just mercilessly battering
34:43
Speaker 1: my teammates. I mean it was back and forth. The
34:46
Speaker 1: round was over at that point. Yeah, fast forward to
34:49
Speaker 1: the very end of the round. He's clearly won the round.
34:52
Speaker 1: The very end his last speech. As Rebuttally's up there
34:55
Speaker 1: and he's about to close, he goes, all right, I
34:59
Speaker 1: know you've been waiting for it, so i'll give it
35:02
Speaker 1: to you. I can't give it anymore. Kept in, I'm
35:06
Speaker 1: giving it all. She's good, And with that again, the
35:12
Speaker 1: entire room lost it, and he returned to his seat
35:17
Speaker 1: in triumphant victory. In that circumstance, wearing a skirt which
35:22
Speaker 1: was a kilt was a strong and manly thing to do. Yes,
35:26
Speaker 1: Hollywood actors or singers doing it. Let me just be
35:31
Speaker 1: mild and say, not my thing. Not so much, I agree.
35:35
Speaker 1: I also, by the way, Senator, do know what became
35:38
Speaker 1: of mister Lally. He actually became He became the groundskeeper
35:41
Speaker 1: on the Simpsons, which is which is unfortunate. You know,
35:45
Speaker 1: I know everyone thought maybe he could have become a
35:48
Speaker 1: big political fac is funny, That is funny. All right,
35:53
Speaker 1: I think we have time for at least right, And
35:55
Speaker 1: I promise you when the libel suit gets filed against you,
35:58
Speaker 1: I will recommend a lawyer who's really expensive to represent you.
36:01
Speaker 1: Thank you so much. I appreciate that. I know you're
36:04
Speaker 1: very busy, but if you could get me a pricey lawyer.
36:06
Speaker 1: That'd be great. From cautiously optimistic, this actually relates to school.
36:11
Speaker 1: Dear senator, I'm a T fourteen law student who will
36:15
Speaker 1: be I don't even know what that means, a T
36:17
Speaker 1: fourteen law student who will be working at a big
36:19
Speaker 1: law firm after I graduate. I'm very passionate about litigation.
36:22
Speaker 1: How valuable is it to clerk for a federal judge?
36:27
Speaker 1: Great question, massively valuable if you want to be a litigator.
36:31
Speaker 1: It's the single most important thing you can do. I
36:34
Speaker 1: clerk for two judges. I clerked for Mike Ludig, who
36:36
Speaker 1: was a judge in the Federal Court of Appeals, and
36:38
Speaker 1: then I clerked for Chief Justice William Rnquist on the
36:41
Speaker 1: Supreme Court. I learned more each year of my clerkship
36:45
Speaker 1: than I did all of law school. It is the
36:47
Speaker 1: single biggest thing you can do to learn to be
36:50
Speaker 1: a litigator. One of the problems in law school is
36:54
Speaker 1: you understand legal cases as these sort of abstract academic things.
37:00
Speaker 1: You don't understand that judges are people. You don't understand
37:03
Speaker 1: how judges actually make decisions. The interaction, particularly in an
37:07
Speaker 1: appellate court, between multiple judges, the back and forth and
37:10
Speaker 1: clerking gives you an inside view to it that that
37:15
Speaker 1: is just you know, I remember Chief Justice Ranquist. It
37:18
Speaker 1: was amazing. So I clerked for him nineteen ninety six
37:21
Speaker 1: to ninety seven. That was his twenty fifth anniversary as
37:25
Speaker 1: a justice. It was his tenth anniversary as Chief Justice.
37:30
Speaker 1: And for him when we'd have a case coming up
37:35
Speaker 1: and it was a case that you'd studied in law
37:39
Speaker 1: school and you thought of it as Smith versus Jones,
37:41
Speaker 1: you know, it was sort of an abstract that stands
37:43
Speaker 1: for this proposition of law. What was amazing about the
37:46
Speaker 1: Chief is for him it was a memory, and it
37:50
Speaker 1: was a memory of sitting at conference with the other
37:53
Speaker 1: eight justices discussing and debating the case, and the Chief
37:57
Speaker 1: would be like, oh, yes, that was the case when
38:01
Speaker 1: thorough Good wanted to do such and such, but we
38:06
Speaker 1: didn't agree with that, And it just it gives you
38:10
Speaker 1: an insight into how courts actually reach decisions. If you
38:16
Speaker 1: want to do trial work, clerking at the district court
38:19
Speaker 1: is incredibly helpful. If you want to do a pellet work,
38:21
Speaker 1: clerking at at a pellet court is incredibly helpful. But
38:24
Speaker 1: I enthusiastically recommend judicial clerkships. Well, next question from Godzilla rules,
38:32
Speaker 1: do you think the Antichrist in the Bible is alive today?
38:39
Speaker 1: I don't know. You know, the Bible says Jesus is coming,
38:46
Speaker 1: but no man knows the hour. And look, I grew
38:50
Speaker 1: up in the evangelical world, Southern Baptist world, where they
38:53
Speaker 1: are all sorts of things saying the Antichrist is this
38:56
Speaker 1: or that or the other this is you know, whether
38:58
Speaker 1: the Antichrist is brock Bomb or the ni christis Donald Trump.
39:01
Speaker 1: I've like, whoever it is, I've heard a thousand people
39:04
Speaker 1: of the Antichrist. I guess I have a degree of
39:07
Speaker 1: humility in that if I see someone stand up and
39:11
Speaker 1: mandate that we must all get six six six tattooed
39:13
Speaker 1: on our forehead in the back of our hand, I'll
39:15
Speaker 1: be like, Okay, now you're telling that somewhere. But short
39:20
Speaker 1: of that, I'm going to express Look, the world could
39:26
Speaker 1: end tomorrow, it could end a thousand years from now,
39:29
Speaker 1: it could end ten thousand years from now, and if
39:33
Speaker 1: you look at biblical prophecy, there are all sorts of
39:35
Speaker 1: ways to interpret it that I'll just say I ain't
39:38
Speaker 1: smart enough to say I know the answer, and so
39:45
Speaker 1: I think we should live as if we've got a
39:48
Speaker 1: whole lifetime ahead of us, and we're going to have
39:50
Speaker 1: the biggest impact on our community and our neighbors in
39:54
Speaker 1: our world. And if the Savior chooses to come earlier,
40:00
Speaker 1: we will welcome and celebrate that that happy moment. But
40:03
Speaker 1: in the meantime, we have work to do right ready
40:07
Speaker 1: to die tomorrow, but planning to live for a very
40:09
Speaker 1: long time and get a lot of things done. And
40:11
Speaker 1: to your point, Senator, I think anyone who tells you
40:13
Speaker 1: that they understand with crystal clarity the Book of the Apocalypse,
40:18
Speaker 1: revelation or so, that is how you know with certainty
40:21
Speaker 1: that person is completely insane. They certainly don't know what
40:23
Speaker 1: you're talking about. But I do love the point. Sometimes
40:26
Speaker 1: people will ask, do you think we're living in the
40:28
Speaker 1: end times? And I always think, well, somebody's going to
40:33
Speaker 1: be living in the end times. I don't think we are.
40:35
Speaker 1: I wouldn't bet on it exactly, but I guess somebody's
40:39
Speaker 1: going to so I will say so. Growing up in Houston,
40:43
Speaker 1: I was a little kid. For a period of time
40:45
Speaker 1: we went to First Baptist Church, and the pastor there,
40:47
Speaker 1: John Beside, you did a year long sermon series in
40:50
Speaker 1: the Book of Revelation, and I think I was, like,
40:52
Speaker 1: I don't know, nine or ten years old at the time,
40:54
Speaker 1: and I thought it was fascinating. I mean, it really
40:57
Speaker 1: was interesting. And today Heidi and I were members at
41:00
Speaker 1: First Baptist, the same church, and our pastor today is
41:03
Speaker 1: the successor to John Bisignia's Gunam Greg Mott is a
41:06
Speaker 1: wonderful pastor, incredible man of God, very scholarly, but very humble,
41:12
Speaker 1: very down to earth, which is unusual for a pastor
41:16
Speaker 1: to big church. But he did an extended sermon series
41:19
Speaker 1: on the Book of Revelation that was just fascinating, and
41:23
Speaker 1: having as a kid listened to one, I didn't remember
41:26
Speaker 1: what the pastor said forty years ago, but it was
41:30
Speaker 1: it was. The Book of Revelation is challenging, it's fascinating,
41:39
Speaker 1: and there's so much imagery that that you know, things
41:43
Speaker 1: could have all kinds of meanings, and I certainly don't
41:47
Speaker 1: purport to know which interpretation is right as to what
41:53
Speaker 1: all is going to happen in the end times and
41:56
Speaker 1: when it's going to start. Before we go, one last
41:58
Speaker 1: question this is from our very un cactus masks are
42:03
Speaker 1: coming back to our school. We've been told it's because
42:07
Speaker 1: is getting bad again, But to me it seems like
42:10
Speaker 1: just a way to gin up anxiety for the midterms
42:12
Speaker 1: and distract from Biden's bad policy. What are y'all's thoughts?
42:16
Speaker 1: Is manipulating COVID fear the only way for the Dems
42:18
Speaker 1: to stave off the red wave? Oh? Look, I think
42:23
Speaker 1: it's one hundred percent. They're going to try something. Whether
42:25
Speaker 1: it is COVID, whether it is monkey pox, I don't
42:28
Speaker 1: know what it is. But the issue set they don't
42:32
Speaker 1: want the election to be about is inflation, gas prices,
42:37
Speaker 1: crime and illegal immigration. If that's what the election is about.
42:41
Speaker 1: Republicans are winning fifty to seventy seats in the House,
42:44
Speaker 1: We're taking the Senate with a big majority, and it
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Speaker 1: is a absolute Democrat bloodbat and so they're desperate to
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Speaker 1: change the topic to anything. COVID has been a good,
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Speaker 1: reliable one, So we'll see if if they have any
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Speaker 1: hook to do it, they'll try. But and I think
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Speaker 1: masks are part of it. I also think most Americans
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Speaker 1: are just done with masks. I'm like, I'm certainly there.
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Speaker 1: But although I will say it was thoroughly amusing so
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Speaker 1: let Last week, several Democrats, including Chuck Schumer, were out
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Speaker 1: because they tested positive for COVID. I don't know if
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Speaker 1: they were symptomatic or not, but I do think that
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Speaker 1: Democrats are testing much more frequently when they're asymptomatic than
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Speaker 1: Republicans are. And I've joked I want to introduce a
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Speaker 1: resolution mandating that Democratic senators must take COVID tests every day,
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Speaker 1: because I, for one, don't feel safe. And even if
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Speaker 1: they have no symptoms whatsoever, if they test positive, they're out.
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Speaker 1: They can't vote on the Senate floor, and they can't
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Speaker 1: pass socialism, the Green New Deal and build back broken, destroying,
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Speaker 1: bankrupt the country, and strip our constitutional rights and destroy
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Speaker 1: the republic. And that seems only responsible. I think effect
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Speaker 1: twice a day'd be even better. And an ancillary to
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Speaker 1: that is I think Democrats should be required to wear
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Speaker 1: masks forever. The only problem is their masks aren't tight
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Speaker 1: enough because we can still hear them talking. That's right,
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Speaker 1: you make a great point. Maybe double mask, triple mask,
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Speaker 1: twenty or thirty masks. We will find out what the
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Speaker 1: next crazy issue that the Democrats want to distract with,
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