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Shutdown Precipice & Dems Holding Military Hostage-LIVE from the Texas Youth Summit · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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Speaker 1: Welcome. It is Verdict Live on.
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Speaker 2: The Road at the Texas Youth Summit. Ben Ferguson. With
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Speaker 2: you is Senator Ted Cruz. Senator. I feel like this
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Speaker 2: is a hostage video. You are in Washington, held hostage
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Speaker 2: right now because of a looming government shutdown. We know
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Speaker 2: that the President, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, one of
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Speaker 2: your best friends.
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Speaker 1: They're excited about this shutdown.
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Speaker 2: Explain to everybody what's gonna happen with a shutdown and
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Speaker 2: how it's playing out.
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Speaker 3: Well for this hostage video, I will try to refrain
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Speaker 3: from blinking sos with my eyelids, but I am indeed
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Speaker 3: trapped in a lunatic asylum.
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Speaker 4: I'm in Washington, DC.
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Speaker 3: My plan had been to be back there with you.
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Speaker 3: I've been to the Texas Youth Summit multiple years. It's
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Speaker 3: a fantastic gathering. Let me say to all the young men,
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Speaker 3: all the young women who are there, who are standing up,
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Speaker 3: who are speaking out, who are engaging and making a difference,
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Speaker 3: making a difference in your community, making a difference in Texas,
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Speaker 3: making a difference in the country. Thank you for your leadership.
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Speaker 3: It is a great event. That's why I always love coming.
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Speaker 3: But I'm right now stuck in DC because we are
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Speaker 3: hours away from yet another government shutdown. And so if
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Speaker 3: Congress doesn't act, and I think the chances of Congress
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Speaker 3: acting are very very low, I think it is extremely
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Speaker 3: likely that will have a shutdown. If Congress doesn't act
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Speaker 3: by midnight tonight, then at twelve oh one am, funding
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Speaker 3: for the federal government will end, and I think we're
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Speaker 3: likely to have an extended government shutdown.
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Speaker 4: I think it's gonna last while.
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Speaker 2: Let's talk about the politics of a shutdown. Each side
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Speaker 2: has to have a calculation. They have these conversations who wins,
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Speaker 2: who loses, and how this is going to be affecting
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Speaker 2: their party. What is a shutdown? You've been through a
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Speaker 2: couple of these, what are your concerns? And also there's
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Speaker 2: some civility that should be in these shutdowns, that certain
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Speaker 2: people get paid.
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Speaker 1: And yet there are good.
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Speaker 2: Men and women that protecting to find this country who
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Speaker 2: Democrats seem to be wanting to play politics for them
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Speaker 2: not getting a paycheck.
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Speaker 1: That really bothers me.
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Speaker 4: Well, there's a constrain of two things.
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Speaker 3: One a basic constitutional principle that the federal government cannot
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Speaker 3: spend money unless Congress has appropriated it. So what's causing
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Speaker 3: this shutdown is the fiscal year. The federal fiscal year
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Speaker 3: ends today September thirtieth, and that's where the appropriations run out,
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Speaker 3: which means you need new appropriations. They're typically three ways
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Speaker 3: that Congress will appropriate. One you can pass individual appropriation
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Speaker 3: bills for particular government programs or cabinet agencies. That's called
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Speaker 3: regular order. That's the way it used to happen routinely.
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Speaker 3: That happens very rarely now. A second way to do
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Speaker 3: it is you can pass what's called an omnibus, which
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Speaker 3: is basically taking a bunch of those appropriations bills, combining
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Speaker 3: them all together, and passing them as one gigantic, multi
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Speaker 3: trillion dollar spending bill. That happens with some regularity. The
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Speaker 3: third way is you can pass what's called a CR,
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Speaker 3: a continuing resolution, and a continuing resolution basically just kicks
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Speaker 3: the can down the road. It typically extends government spending
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Speaker 3: for a finite period of time.
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Speaker 4: So you could have.
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Speaker 3: A one week CR, a two week CR, a thirty
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Speaker 3: day CR, a ninety day CR. Just depends on what
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Speaker 3: the sides negotiate. If none of those get passed, and
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Speaker 3: I think none of those are the most likely outcome
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Speaker 3: today is none of them will get passed today. Then
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Speaker 3: what happens is federal government spending stops, but federal workers
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Speaker 3: who are deemed essential workers still have to go to work.
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Speaker 3: So for example, the military, if you're stationed in harm's way,
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Speaker 3: the military still has to go to work because they're
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Speaker 3: essential workers. Air traffic controllers. Everyone wants to get on
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Speaker 3: an airplane tomorrow. Don't worry, you're not going to get
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Speaker 3: on an airplane and discover the no air traffic controllers
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Speaker 3: and planes are just flying willy dilly. Air traffic controllers
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Speaker 3: are essential. They show up and go to work. And
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Speaker 3: so there are thousands upon thousands of federal workers that
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Speaker 3: are deemed essential who come in and go to work,
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Speaker 3: but they don't get paid.
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Speaker 4: They go to work, but they don't get.
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Speaker 3: A paycheck now in the past, and also there are
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Speaker 3: programs that are mandatory programs that are benefit programs. Those
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Speaker 3: programs continue, so for example, Social Security and medicare the
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Speaker 3: checks people are getting in the mail.
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Speaker 4: Those checks keep coming.
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Speaker 3: So that part, which is a big part of the
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Speaker 3: federal budget, that continues automatically. What stops is discretionary federal
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Speaker 3: spending that is non essential, and if Congress doesn't act today,
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Speaker 3: that will stop at twelve o one am tonight.
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Speaker 2: You are obviously a huge proponent of fiscal responsibility.
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Speaker 1: I just pulled up on my phone the national debt clock.
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Speaker 2: Right now, the national debts at thirty three trillion, one
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Speaker 2: hundred and twenty one billion, four hundred and ninety four million.
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Speaker 2: Debt per citizen highest we've ever seen a ninety eight
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Speaker 2: thousand and six sixty seven a person.
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Speaker 1: But not everybody pays taxes.
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Speaker 2: That means right now debt per US taxpayers two hundred
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Speaker 2: and fifty five thousand dollars three hundred and fifty three.
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Speaker 1: Dollars and counting.
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Speaker 2: You look at these government shutdowns, and the argument is
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Speaker 2: we're trying to fight for more physical responsibility. What are
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Speaker 2: Republicans need to do because this is a point where
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Speaker 2: we're bankrupting not just this country, but the future of
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Speaker 2: this country and the kids and the grandkids in this country.
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Speaker 4: Well, look, that's exactly right.
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Speaker 3: I think a shutdown is very very likely because the
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Speaker 3: incentives of all the players are such that it's just
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Speaker 3: inevitable that they're just crashing into each other. I think
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Speaker 3: Joe Biden and Chuck Schumer both really want a shutdown.
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Speaker 3: They have decided politically it's good for them to have
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Speaker 3: a shutdown. Now, why is that? The reason they think
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Speaker 3: it's politically good for Democrats to have a shutdown is
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Speaker 3: inevitably one hundred out of one hundred times, the media,
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Speaker 3: the official parents for the Democrat Party, blame every shutdown
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Speaker 3: on Republicans that happens like night follows day, every yapping
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Speaker 3: marionette in the media is going to do that. And
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Speaker 3: so the Democrats are saying, hey, you know, biden agenda's
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Speaker 3: going really badly.
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Speaker 4: The border is total.
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Speaker 3: Chaos, the economy is a mess. We don't want to
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Speaker 3: talk about any of that. Let's have a shutdown instead
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Speaker 3: and have all the media blaming those mean, terrible Republicans
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Speaker 3: for shutting down the government. That's why I think Biden
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Speaker 3: and Schumer want a shutdown. On the other hand, in
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Speaker 3: the House, and this is principally a battle between House
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Speaker 3: Republicans and the White House. In the House, Kevin McCarthy
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Speaker 3: is the Speaker of the House, but he has just
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Speaker 3: a four vote majority, incredibly narrow majority. What Biden and
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Speaker 3: Schumer are demanding of McCarthy is complete and total surrender.
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Speaker 3: Surrender altogether, fund every single one of our big government
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Speaker 3: left wing priorities, and if you don't, we'll shut down
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Speaker 3: the government.
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Speaker 4: Keaven can't give in.
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Speaker 3: It is impossible for Kevin to surrender the way Schumer
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Speaker 3: and Biden are demanding, because if Kevin surrenders, his.
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Speaker 4: Speakership will be over.
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Speaker 3: You will see a House Republican member file what's called
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Speaker 3: a motion to vacate the chair, and he'll be voted
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Speaker 3: out as speaker. And so Kevin cannot politically survive surrendering
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Speaker 3: to Biden and Schumer. Given those dynamics, I don't think
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Speaker 3: Schumer and Biden are going to budge and I don't
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Speaker 3: think Kevin can give them everything they want. I think
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Speaker 3: we go to a shutdown, and once a shutdown happens,
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Speaker 3: what happens next, Well, it ratchets up pressure. People start
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Speaker 3: discovering things they're not happy about. For example, if there's
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Speaker 3: a shutdown tomorrow, our national parks are closed. So maybe
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Speaker 3: some of y'all were planning to go to a national park,
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Speaker 3: go hiking in Yellowstone.
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Speaker 4: All of that's closed. When there's a government shutdown.
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Speaker 3: Maybe some families come into Washington d c and planning
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Speaker 3: to come to the Smithsonian if there's a shutdown tomorrow
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Speaker 3: the museums are all closed. Those tend to be some
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Speaker 3: of the things early on that really tick off people
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Speaker 3: interacting with the government. Now, the nightmare for Democrats is
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Speaker 3: you have a government shutdown and the people buy and
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Speaker 3: large don't notice.
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Speaker 4: And I'll have to say it, awful lot of people.
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Speaker 3: If you're not specifically using some federal asset or activity,
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Speaker 3: you may notice very little is different during a government shutdown,
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Speaker 3: and that's a dangerous lesson. Democrats don't want the American
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Speaker 3: people to learn that. That being said, that the breadth
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Speaker 3: of a shutdown varies because often Congress will have passed
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Speaker 3: some appropriations. So in past shutdowns, we've always paid our military.
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Speaker 4: That's what typically happens.
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Speaker 3: And this week I've gone to the Senate floor three
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Speaker 3: different times trying to pay our military. Now, and in particular,
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Speaker 3: I want to contrast Ben what happened this week to
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Speaker 3: what happened ten years ago. In twenty thirteen, we had
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Speaker 3: a big government shutdown. I was right in the middle
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Speaker 3: of that battle that was over obamac here. Government was
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Speaker 3: shut down for sixteen days, but we paid all of
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Speaker 3: our active duty military. That was actually a bill that
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Speaker 3: passed right at the beginning of the shutdown. It passed unanimously,
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Speaker 3: so it was a Harry Reid Senate. It was a
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Speaker 3: Democrat Senate one hundred to nothing, paying our military during
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Speaker 3: the shutdown, pass the House four hundred and thirty five
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Speaker 3: to nothing. It passed unanimously, and Barack Obama signed it
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Speaker 3: in the law. So ten years ago, everyone agreed, all right,
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Speaker 3: if there's a shutdown battle, let's not hold our active
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Speaker 3: duty military hostage. The most recent shutdown was twenty nineteen.
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Speaker 3: It was the Schumer shutdown. It lasted thirty five days.
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Speaker 3: During those thirty five days, Chuck Schumer had a showdown
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Speaker 3: with Donald Trump. Schumer did not want to fund a
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Speaker 3: border wall, did not want to fund additional resources to
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Speaker 3: secure the border. Schumer wants open borders. We had a
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Speaker 3: thirty five day shutdown. During that period, Congress had passed
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Speaker 3: the appropriations for DoD for the Department of Defense. So
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Speaker 3: that meant our soldiers, our sailors, our airmen, our marines,
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Speaker 3: and our Space Force members all got their paychecks, but
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Speaker 3: the Coast Guard did not. The Coast Guard is not
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Speaker 3: under DoD. The Coast Guard is under DHS, the Department
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Speaker 3: of Homeland Security, and so for thirty four days the
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Speaker 3: Coastguard went with no paychecks. And I went back then
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Speaker 3: in twenty nineteen to the Senate floor to try to
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Speaker 3: pass legislation to say, let's treat the Coastguard fairman, Let's
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Speaker 3: not discriminate against the coast Guard. Let's not treat them
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Speaker 3: like the red haired stepchild of our millet terry. They
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Speaker 3: deserve to be paid just like all of the other
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Speaker 3: branches of the military. And in twenty nineteen, Democrat leadership
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Speaker 3: stood up and blocked it, objected to that legislation, and
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Speaker 3: so coastguardsmen went for over a month with no paycheck.
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Speaker 3: Fast forward to today. This week, Dan Sullivan, Senator from Alaska,
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Speaker 3: a good friend of mine and he's in the Marine Reserves.
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Speaker 4: He's also a colonel in the Marines.
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Speaker 3: Dan and I went to the Senate floor to try
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Speaker 3: to pass a simple, straightforward bill. First of all, to
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Speaker 3: pass the bill I authored that says if you pay
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Speaker 3: the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines, you should pay
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Speaker 3: the Coastguard to so it was a parody bill. The
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Speaker 3: Democrats stood up and objected. Pat Murray whose chairman of
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Speaker 3: the Appropriation Committee, Patty Murray, she objected on behalf of
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Speaker 3: Shumer and what she said as well, I object because
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Speaker 3: this doesn't mandate that we pay everyone. It just says
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Speaker 3: you treat him equally and Sullivan and I said, okay, great.
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Speaker 3: So we came this week with Sullivan's bill, which is
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Speaker 3: pay all of our active duty military. Pay our soldiers, sailors, airmen, marines, coastguardsmen,
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Speaker 3: space force guardians, pay them all.
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Speaker 4: The Democrats objective.
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Speaker 3: They've objected twice, and so tomorrow, if our active duty
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Speaker 3: military loses their paycheck tomorrow, it is because Democrats said
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Speaker 3: two words yesterday on the Senate floor, and those two
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Speaker 3: words were I object That killed the bill.
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Speaker 1: What is your gut on democrats do?
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Speaker 2: Are they going to fill the pressure to do the
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Speaker 2: right thing, because you shouldn't hold these people hostage that
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Speaker 2: are protecting and serving. But my gut is they probably
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Speaker 2: say no, just because this makes too much sense and
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Speaker 2: they want this to hurt.
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Speaker 4: They wanted to hurt this week.
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Speaker 3: One of the arguments Patty Murray made, she said, well, gosh,
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Speaker 3: I want to pay the military, but I want to
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Speaker 3: pay everyone else to I want to pay all the
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Speaker 3: federal government, and so we need to fund the entire
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Speaker 3: federal government.
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Speaker 4: I make clear.
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Speaker 3: Look, there's a nineteen year old marine right now at
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Speaker 3: the DMZ that is facing North Korean machine guns, and
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Speaker 3: that's fundamentally different than an ordinary federal worker. And the
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Speaker 3: Democrats view is they care more about the IRS agent
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Speaker 3: coming to harass small businesses in Texans. They care more
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Speaker 3: about the regulators try to shut down oil and gas
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Speaker 3: in Texas? Did they care more about the bureaucrats at
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Speaker 3: the EPA trying to destroy jobs than they do?
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Speaker 4: Actually?
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Speaker 3: The brave young men and women who defend us, and
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Speaker 3: you know, Ben, it's worth reflecting what's changed? So listen,
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Speaker 3: ten years ago, everyone agreed on this. I pointed out
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Speaker 3: repeatedly on the Senate floor. Patty Murray voted for this
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Speaker 3: ten years ago. Chuck Schumer voted for this ten years ago.
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Speaker 3: Dick Durbin voted for this ten years ago. What's changed?
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Speaker 3: And I'll tell you what's changed. When we had this
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Speaker 3: debate on the Senate floor yesterday, I looked up in
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Speaker 3: the gallery. There were no reporters, completely empty. What has
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Speaker 3: changed is the corrupt corporate media has become so thoroughly corrupt,
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Speaker 3: that if you rely on CNN or MSNBC or ABC, CBS,
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Speaker 3: NBC for your news, you have no idea that the
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Speaker 3: reason our military is not going to get a paycheck
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Speaker 3: tomorrow is because the Democrats decided to block it to.
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Speaker 4: Hold them hostage.
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Speaker 3: And the reason the Democrats do this is they know
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Speaker 3: they'll never be questioned. I point out to reporters. Reporters
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Speaker 3: are all running up to me in the Capitol this
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Speaker 3: week and they're the they're and they're saying saying, do
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Speaker 3: you think it's right that those terrible Republicans are going
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Speaker 3: to shut down the government? And I laugh and I say, funny,
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Speaker 3: how come you're not asking if I think it's right
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Speaker 3: that that terrible Chuck Schumer and that terrible Joe Biden
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Speaker 3: are going to shut down the government because they want
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Speaker 3: to continue spending trillions of dollars we don't have. They
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Speaker 3: want to continue driving inflation up to hurt people all
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Speaker 3: across the country. And by the way, because they refuse
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Speaker 3: to do a damn thing to secure the southern border,
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Speaker 3: because they want these open borders, and they're willing to
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Speaker 3: shut the government down on it.
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Speaker 4: And I turn to reporters.
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Speaker 3: I say, did you write a story about the Democrats
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Speaker 3: blocking paychecks for our military?
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Speaker 4: They're all like no, But I'm like, shut up, why
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Speaker 4: are you talking to me.
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Speaker 3: You are a parrot, you are a hat, you are
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Speaker 3: a propagandist.
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Speaker 4: You lie for a living.
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Speaker 3: And if you want to prove me wrong, go sit
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Speaker 3: down at your little typewriter and type a damn story
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Speaker 3: about what I said and what the Democrats said, so
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Speaker 3: that the soldiers back in Washington State. No, they didn't
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Speaker 3: get a paycheck tomorrow because Patty Murray objected because she
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Speaker 3: thought it was politically advantageous to hold their paycheck's hostage.
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Speaker 3: You know the facts, and you're able to be a
19:39
Speaker 3: whole lot more effective.
19:41
Speaker 2: Final question center for you, and this is an important
19:44
Speaker 2: one before we get to do what we both love,
19:46
Speaker 2: and that's Q and A when we do live Verdict events,
19:49
Speaker 2: is there is one story that this government shutdown is
19:53
Speaker 2: going to cover up. That is the impeachment inquiry to
19:58
Speaker 2: the Biden crime family and the President Knights America, Joe Biden.
20:02
Speaker 2: And also some shocking news this week that there was
20:05
Speaker 2: money to payments more than a quarter million dollars in
20:10
Speaker 2: this summer of twoenty and nineteen. We talked about this
20:13
Speaker 2: on a previous Verdict and if you missed it, go
20:15
Speaker 2: back and listen to it. That went to the Biden
20:18
Speaker 2: family and the address US was the address of the
20:23
Speaker 2: sitting president United States of America, now his Delaware address.
20:26
Speaker 2: Now what's interesting is in Hunter Biden's own memoir he
20:30
Speaker 2: said during that time he lived in California. We also
20:33
Speaker 2: know that in the Sweetheart Plea deal that Hunter Biden got.
20:37
Speaker 2: In that plea agreement, it also stated that he was
20:41
Speaker 2: living in California at the time of that wire transfer.
20:44
Speaker 2: I know the media is hoping this story gets covered up.
20:46
Speaker 2: But you combine that with this impeachment inquiry that's happening,
20:50
Speaker 2: this is a very important time for truth and what's
20:54
Speaker 2: coming out against what the Bidens were doing.
20:57
Speaker 4: Look that that is exactly right.
20:59
Speaker 3: And we do in addition to the podcast Monday, Wednesday,
21:02
Speaker 3: and Friday, we do a Saturday issue that is a
21:05
Speaker 3: best of week in review, and actually today's Saturday podcast
21:09
Speaker 3: focuses on one of the stories it highlights is exactly
21:12
Speaker 3: this story that that Hunter Biden had wired to him
21:15
Speaker 3: two hundred and fifty thousand dollars a quarter million dollars
21:18
Speaker 3: from communist China and the home address on that wire
21:22
Speaker 3: was Joe Biden's own residence.
21:23
Speaker 4: It was Daddy's residence. Now, listen, that's not surprising.
21:27
Speaker 3: Hunter Biden has no skills, he has nothing marketable, He
21:30
Speaker 3: doesn't do anything. When's the last time you had a
21:33
Speaker 3: complex job and you said, what I really need is
21:36
Speaker 3: a crackhead. That is not what Hunter Biden is selling.
21:41
Speaker 3: What Hunter Biden sells is Daddy. Joe Biden is the
21:45
Speaker 3: product favors from Daddy is what Hunter got paid millions
21:50
Speaker 3: and millions of dollars and tens of millions of dollars
21:53
Speaker 3: is selling favors from Daddy. And by the way, at
21:57
Speaker 3: the same time that that two hundred and fifty thousand
21:59
Speaker 3: dollars wire from communist China was coming with the home
22:03
Speaker 3: address of Joe Biden, Joe Biden was telling national reporters
22:07
Speaker 3: Hunter's never gotten.
22:08
Speaker 4: Anything from China, just flat out line.
22:10
Speaker 3: And one of the things we try to do with
22:12
Speaker 3: the podcast is walk through the actual evidence of what's
22:16
Speaker 3: going on on biden impeachment. The podcast is walked through
22:20
Speaker 3: chapter and verse the specific evidence, taking on, for example,
22:24
Speaker 3: the lie from Democrats and their puppets in the press
22:30
Speaker 3: that there is no quote, direct evidence of Joe's involvement
22:34
Speaker 3: in corruption.
22:35
Speaker 4: That's a flat out lie. We explain why.
22:38
Speaker 3: One of the things we covered this week on the
22:40
Speaker 3: podcast is the evidence that broke that there were three
22:44
Speaker 3: Iranian operatives assets being managed by the Iranian government who
22:50
Speaker 3: were working in senior positions of influence with the Biden administration,
22:54
Speaker 3: helping set national security policy for.
22:57
Speaker 4: The Biden administration.
22:58
Speaker 3: You literally have people controlled by the Ayatola and the
23:03
Speaker 3: Malas in Iran in senior positions advising on or working
23:08
Speaker 3: on Biden's national security Right now, there's still one of
23:12
Speaker 3: them at the Department of Defense, still drawing a paycheck
23:15
Speaker 3: with a security clearance, even though that person is an
23:18
Speaker 3: Iranian asset.
23:21
Speaker 2: It's unbelievable. I want to get questions. This is something
23:23
Speaker 2: that you and I both love, and so you guys
23:26
Speaker 2: come up to these microphones you asked questions. I would
23:28
Speaker 2: ask you, since we are remote, keep them short and
23:31
Speaker 2: concise so that we can make sure that we get
23:34
Speaker 2: as many as possible in here.
23:35
Speaker 1: If you'll also.
23:36
Speaker 2: State your name and where you live and send it
23:39
Speaker 2: were a little bit of Q and A. We'll start
23:41
Speaker 2: over there.
23:41
Speaker 1: Go ahead.
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Speaker 5: Hello, my name is Chloe Castillo. I'm from San Antonio, Texas.
23:46
Speaker 5: Thank you so much for being here today, mister Kruz.
23:49
Speaker 5: So my question for you is kind of a cultural question.
23:52
Speaker 5: With your recent pushback on Uganda regarding homosexual crimes, what
23:56
Speaker 5: are your thoughts on how the Western popular music culture
24:00
Speaker 5: actively pushes the LGBTQ agenda on our youth.
24:04
Speaker 4: Look, Chloe, it's it's it's a great question.
24:06
Speaker 3: And there's no doubt that Hollywood and the entertainment media
24:10
Speaker 3: as a whole pushes a radical left wing agenda, and
24:14
Speaker 3: that includes LGBTQ Elemento p I can't keep up with.
24:18
Speaker 4: All the letters that are attached to it now. But
24:21
Speaker 4: but they push.
24:21
Speaker 3: All of that that they push the transgender agenda. That
24:26
Speaker 3: they're obsessive in pushing the transgender agenda and pushing it
24:29
Speaker 3: on kids, pushing it on kids as young as they
24:32
Speaker 3: can find it. I mean, look, we recently had Target
24:35
Speaker 3: who was exposed selling selling bathing suits, uh for for
24:41
Speaker 3: infants and for toddlers, for little boys to tuck to
24:46
Speaker 3: hide their genitals, to pretend to be girls. And this
24:48
Speaker 3: is this is being marketed to two and three year olds.
24:51
Speaker 3: There is a pervasive effort to brainwash it, in particular
24:56
Speaker 3: brainwash kids. I think it is incredibly dangerous. I've got
25:01
Speaker 3: a new book that is coming out next month in November.
25:04
Speaker 3: The name of the book is Unwoke, How to Defeat Cultural.
25:09
Speaker 4: Marxism in America.
25:10
Speaker 3: And what the book does, It talks through every major
25:14
Speaker 3: or many of the major organs of society that the
25:18
Speaker 3: radical left has see. So it starts with universities, it
25:21
Speaker 3: goes to K through twelve education, It goes to journalism,
25:24
Speaker 3: it goes to entertainment, music, sports, it goes to science,
25:29
Speaker 3: it goes to big tech.
25:30
Speaker 4: It goes to big business.
25:32
Speaker 3: I actually talk quite a bit about Target, Target and
25:35
Speaker 3: bud Light together. That's a big chunk of the chapter
25:38
Speaker 3: on big business because the reaction to that between bud
25:42
Speaker 3: Light and Target, that's the first time we've seen real
25:45
Speaker 3: consequences to corporate America undermining.
25:49
Speaker 4: Our basic values. And so, you know, you.
25:51
Speaker 3: Mentioned you've gotten to made it a criminal offense to
25:54
Speaker 3: engage in homosexual conduct. I don't support that. I'm actually
25:58
Speaker 3: quite libertarian in my leaning. I think what consenting adults
26:02
Speaker 3: want to do in their own bedroom is their own
26:04
Speaker 3: damn business, and so I don't think it should be
26:06
Speaker 3: a criminal offense whatever you choose to do in that regard.
26:09
Speaker 3: But there's a big difference between saying consenting adults can
26:13
Speaker 3: decide what to do in their own sex lives and
26:16
Speaker 3: saying that you want to see a radical agenda proselytized
26:22
Speaker 3: to children and normalized. Listen, I am. I'm a Christian.
26:28
Speaker 3: The Bible teaches that marriage is the union of one
26:30
Speaker 3: man and one woman. Those are my beliefs. That's that's
26:33
Speaker 3: certainly what I teach and what I believe, and I'm
26:37
Speaker 3: not interested in in having an agenda shoved out our throat,
26:42
Speaker 3: and I think we need to be in all of
26:44
Speaker 3: these topics.
26:45
Speaker 4: We need to be happy warriors. We need to be.
26:48
Speaker 3: Saying what we believe with a smile because the other side.
26:52
Speaker 4: Is so angry.
26:54
Speaker 1: Let's go over here, senter, You're gonna love this.
26:56
Speaker 2: The T shirts of the Texas Youth Summit are don't
27:00
Speaker 2: tread on Me, which is awesome. And our next question
27:03
Speaker 2: is coming from some of that has that T shirt
27:04
Speaker 2: and I love it.
27:05
Speaker 1: Well done.
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Speaker 6: Hello, Senator Cruz. My name is Jenna. I go to
27:09
Speaker 6: u of H here and I work at a tax
27:12
Speaker 6: room as a tax consultant, and the tax deadline is
27:15
Speaker 6: coming up October eighteenth, and I was wondering how the
27:18
Speaker 6: government shutdown is going to affect the IRS and the
27:21
Speaker 6: accounting industry regarding that deadline that's coming up, and if
27:25
Speaker 6: you could explain kind of what's going to have.
27:28
Speaker 4: Yeah, look, that's a very good question.
27:30
Speaker 3: And I expect that if the shutdown goes long, and
27:33
Speaker 3: it could easily go a month. The last one was
27:36
Speaker 3: thirty five days and twenty nineteen, the Schumer shutdown, it
27:39
Speaker 3: could easily go a month.
27:41
Speaker 4: What it would mean as.
27:42
Speaker 3: A practical matter, is that much of the manpower at
27:46
Speaker 3: the IRS that would be available to assist you, that
27:48
Speaker 3: would be available to process returns, that would be available
27:53
Speaker 3: to answer questions, much of that manpower is not going
27:56
Speaker 3: to be there. They will keep essential workers, and it's
27:58
Speaker 3: up to eat each agent see to decide.
28:01
Speaker 4: Who is essential.
28:03
Speaker 3: But things like customer service almost always get deemed non
28:07
Speaker 3: essential and you end up with a significantly reduced workforce.
28:11
Speaker 3: And so you're working at a private firm, that that's
28:15
Speaker 3: going to mean that your clients are going to need
28:17
Speaker 3: your advice more significantly because the IRS is going to
28:21
Speaker 3: be less available to be responsive, even less than they
28:25
Speaker 3: normally are.
28:27
Speaker 1: Let's take a question from over here.
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Speaker 7: Hi, Senator Cruz, my name is Helen and I'm from
28:31
Speaker 7: the Woodlands. My question to you is are you in
28:35
Speaker 7: favor of the age and term limits to be elected
28:38
Speaker 7: for Senate and Congress?
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Speaker 4: Thank you, Helen, Thank you for that question.
28:43
Speaker 3: So let me break them down one at a time.
28:45
Speaker 3: You asked about age limits and term limits. On age limits,
28:50
Speaker 3: the only age limit we have for the Senate is
28:52
Speaker 3: the Constitution.
28:53
Speaker 4: So the Constitution.
28:54
Speaker 3: Provides that you have to be twenty five years old
28:56
Speaker 3: to be elected to the House of representatives. You have
28:59
Speaker 3: to be thirty years old to be elected to the Senate,
29:02
Speaker 3: and you have to be thirty five years old to
29:04
Speaker 3: be elected president. Other than that, there are currently no
29:07
Speaker 3: limits when it comes to serving in federal elected office,
29:11
Speaker 3: and it's one of the reasons why you see so
29:13
Speaker 3: many people in the Senate who.
29:14
Speaker 4: Are one hundred and forty two years old.
29:17
Speaker 3: I have joked, if you ever want to feel young,
29:20
Speaker 3: come work in the US Senate, because the median age
29:24
Speaker 3: is such that I have colleagues reminiscing about Eisenhower. I mean,
29:27
Speaker 3: it's you know, I feel like a sprightly young lad
29:32
Speaker 3: in the body in which I serve. Term limits is
29:37
Speaker 3: something that I emphatically support, and so I have repeatedly
29:42
Speaker 3: introduced in the Senate a constitutional amendment to mandate term limits,
29:47
Speaker 3: to limit senators, each senator to two terms, to limit
29:50
Speaker 3: each House member to three terms.
29:53
Speaker 4: You know, it's interesting. Term limits was something.
29:55
Speaker 3: I supported before I got to the Senate, but having
29:59
Speaker 3: seen this place firsthand, now I support it a thousand
30:03
Speaker 3: times more because this place.
30:05
Speaker 4: Is the swamp.
30:06
Speaker 3: It is corrupt, and the people who are here a
30:08
Speaker 3: long time are the worst. You get drawn in and
30:12
Speaker 3: corrupted by the swamp, and it's both parties. Look, the
30:14
Speaker 3: Democrats are bad, but for much of this spending that
30:18
Speaker 3: is bankrupting the country, we have a uniparty. We have
30:22
Speaker 3: Republican career politicians who jump in bed with the Democrats
30:26
Speaker 3: and eagerly spend trillions of dollars. And so term limits
30:31
Speaker 3: would be a major step to reducing that power and
30:34
Speaker 3: reducing that corruption. And it's an amazing thing. If you
30:38
Speaker 3: look at term limits nationally, over seventy percent of American
30:42
Speaker 3: support term limits. That's true among Republicans, among Democrats.
30:46
Speaker 4: And among independents.
30:47
Speaker 3: You see massive majorities supporting term limits. The one group
30:51
Speaker 3: that doesn't is career politicians. In Washington, in the Senate,
30:56
Speaker 3: I have zero Democrats who support my term limits amendment.
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Speaker 4: One of the Democrats as opposed to it.
31:02
Speaker 3: And I've chaired I used to be chairman of the
31:06
Speaker 3: Constitution's sub committee, the Senate Judiciary Committee. I chaired a
31:09
Speaker 3: hearing on term limits, brought in witnesses to talk about
31:12
Speaker 3: term limits. And the reality is in the Senate, the
31:17
Speaker 3: young guys support my term limits amendments, and none of
31:20
Speaker 3: the long time career politicians do.
31:23
Speaker 4: And that's why neither.
31:24
Speaker 3: Chuck Schumer nor Mitch McConnell wants term limits to get
31:28
Speaker 3: a vote on the Senate floor.
31:29
Speaker 4: Because they oppose it that much.
31:31
Speaker 3: So I've been fighting, but I have not been able
31:34
Speaker 3: to get it on the floor because Schumer and McConnell
31:36
Speaker 3: control what gets on the floor.
31:39
Speaker 1: Let's get a question on this set over here.
31:41
Speaker 8: How do you My name is Chad i' mis sophomore
31:43
Speaker 8: in Houston, and I wanted to ask how Congress can
31:46
Speaker 8: get back some tenth moment rights to the Satan people
31:49
Speaker 8: after events like nine to eleven and COVID have taken
31:52
Speaker 8: it away and given it to the federal government.
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Speaker 3: Look, that is a fantastic question if you look at
31:59
Speaker 3: the Bill of Rights and you asked about the tenth Amendment.
32:02
Speaker 3: When I was in college, I wrote my senior thesis
32:05
Speaker 3: on the ninth and tenth amendments to the Constitution.
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Speaker 4: And I'll tell you.
32:08
Speaker 3: A little bit of the history of why they're written,
32:10
Speaker 3: and then I will get straight to your question. But
32:14
Speaker 3: originally the Constitution was written, there was no Bill of Rights,
32:17
Speaker 3: it was just the Constitution itself. And then there was
32:20
Speaker 3: a debate over whether to ratify the Constitution, and the
32:22
Speaker 3: two groups there were the federalists and the anti federalists,
32:26
Speaker 3: and the federalists were advocating, the Constitution's a good idea,
32:29
Speaker 3: we should ratify it, we should have it be the
32:31
Speaker 3: organic document forming our government. The anti federalists, we're arguing
32:35
Speaker 3: against it. And one of the big arguments the anti
32:38
Speaker 3: federalists had is they said, well, there's no bill of rights.
32:41
Speaker 3: This is a flawed document because there's no provision in
32:45
Speaker 3: it protecting our fundamental liberties. Now, the federalists came back
32:49
Speaker 3: and they said, no, no, no, we don't need a bill
32:50
Speaker 3: of rights. And the reason the federalists gave is they said,
32:54
Speaker 3: this is a government of enumerated powers. If you look
32:57
Speaker 3: at Article one, section eight of the Constitution, Article x
33:00
Speaker 3: one establishes the Congress the legislative function, an Article one,
33:05
Speaker 3: section eight specifies it enumerates eighteen specific powers that Congress has.
33:11
Speaker 3: And the argument the federalists said is, look, we don't
33:15
Speaker 3: need to say that the federal government cannot violate your
33:19
Speaker 3: free speech, cannot violate your religious liberty, cannot violate your
33:22
Speaker 3: right to keep in bear arms, because there's nothing in
33:25
Speaker 3: the enumerated powers that gives the federal government the power
33:29
Speaker 3: to violate those rights, and so we've already done that
33:32
Speaker 3: by limiting the federal government's authority initially. Now, the anti
33:37
Speaker 3: federalists came back and they had lots of arguments, one
33:40
Speaker 3: of which was, well, there's nothing to stop them from
33:43
Speaker 3: violating those rights within the enumerated power. So, for example,
33:48
Speaker 3: one of the enumerated powers is the power to create
33:51
Speaker 3: and maintain post offices. Under the original Constitution, without a
33:55
Speaker 3: Bell of Rights, a government could say, the Biden administration
33:59
Speaker 3: will say, we will only transport letters from Democrats all Republicans.
34:05
Speaker 3: We've decided we don't want Republicans speaking anymore, so we
34:09
Speaker 3: won't transfer there. We won't transport their letters. Now, if
34:13
Speaker 3: the government tried to do that today, that would obviously
34:15
Speaker 3: be an unconstitutional violation of free speech. Without a Bill
34:20
Speaker 3: of rights, it would be permissible. I think the anti
34:22
Speaker 3: federalist won that debate. So we now have a Bill
34:25
Speaker 3: of Rights. The first ten amendments to the Constitution are
34:28
Speaker 3: the Bill of Rights, and the first eight are protecting
34:33
Speaker 3: specific rights, and then Amendments nine to ten both say
34:42
Speaker 3: Amendment nine says the enumeration of certain rights in the
34:45
Speaker 3: Bill of Rights shall not be construed to deny or
34:48
Speaker 3: to disparage other rights.
34:50
Speaker 4: Retained by the people.
34:52
Speaker 3: The Tenth Amendment says the powers not given to the
34:55
Speaker 3: federal government are reserved to the states and to the people.
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Speaker 4: Basically, the ninth and tenth Amendments.
35:03
Speaker 3: Restate that the Constitution is a constitution of enumerated powers.
35:08
Speaker 3: In other words, they say, even though we just listed
35:11
Speaker 3: these eight Bill of Rights, we agree that the federal
35:13
Speaker 3: government probably couldn't have done any of this anyway, but
35:17
Speaker 3: we want Belton suspenders.
35:19
Speaker 4: And so the question.
35:20
Speaker 3: I think the Tenth Amendment solves an enormous number of
35:23
Speaker 3: problems in our country. I think federalism having states decide
35:29
Speaker 3: and I would actually advise you to take a look
35:31
Speaker 3: at a center at the Texas Public Policy Foundation. It's
35:35
Speaker 3: called the Center for Tenth Amendment Studies. I started it.
35:38
Speaker 3: I was the first director, the first leader of the
35:41
Speaker 3: Center for Tenth Amendment Studies at TPPF, and it's continued
35:46
Speaker 3: and is ongoing. I agree that a vast we should
35:50
Speaker 3: put as much decision making, as much authority as possible
35:54
Speaker 3: at the state level, or even better at the local level,
35:57
Speaker 3: because it's more likely to meet the knee of the
36:00
Speaker 3: people that are being affected, and it's also more accountable.
36:03
Speaker 3: You the citizen are much more able to express your
36:07
Speaker 3: views and hold accountable local officials and state officials than
36:12
Speaker 3: some bureaucrat in a windowless office in Washington, d C.
36:16
Speaker 1: Let's get a couple more questions in here on this side.
36:18
Speaker 9: Go ahead, Hello, Senator Cruz. My name is Mary Melvied.
36:22
Speaker 9: I am eighteen and from Magnolia, Texas. It appears that
36:30
Speaker 9: Democrats have control of the elections illegally through mules and
36:34
Speaker 9: in counting ballots. How is our vote even going to matter?
36:40
Speaker 9: Is there a plate a plan in place for actually
36:43
Speaker 9: having our vote to count?
36:46
Speaker 3: Well, Mary, thank you for that question. It's a hugely
36:48
Speaker 3: important question. You were right that voter fraud is a
36:52
Speaker 3: real problem, and it is a persistent problem. It's a
36:56
Speaker 3: problem that has been around since since the dawn of time,
36:59
Speaker 3: since the very first elections. I'm convinced that when the
37:02
Speaker 3: caveman sat got together to vote on who was going
37:05
Speaker 3: to be Grand Poobah, somebody.
37:08
Speaker 4: Stuffed the ballot box.
37:09
Speaker 3: That's just human nature that we have crooks, and crooks
37:13
Speaker 3: try to steal things. So we need to fight against
37:17
Speaker 3: voter fraud. We need to fight to preserve voter integrity. Now,
37:22
Speaker 3: the good news is we're in Texas, and Texas the
37:26
Speaker 3: Texas legislature has passed legislation strong legislation designed to prevent
37:31
Speaker 3: voter fraud. It's not perfect, it still exists, but we
37:35
Speaker 3: have tools in place to prevent voter fraud. There are
37:38
Speaker 3: things like requiring photo ID, which we do in Texas,
37:41
Speaker 3: that reduces fraud. There are things like prohibiting ballot harvesting,
37:46
Speaker 3: prohibiting paid political operatives from handling someone else's ballot that
37:51
Speaker 3: reduces voter fraud significantly. Ballot harvesting invites voter fraud, things
37:56
Speaker 3: like limiting mail in ballots. In Texas, we do so
38:00
Speaker 3: only unlimited circumstances, typically seniors or people with significant disabilities,
38:05
Speaker 3: but for the vast majority of Texans. The way you
38:07
Speaker 3: vote as you go vote in person. We have a
38:09
Speaker 3: two week period of early voting, so it's actually pretty
38:12
Speaker 3: easy to vote, but you vote in person. In person
38:15
Speaker 3: voting reduces the chances of voter fraud. I think we
38:18
Speaker 3: need to be vigilant fighting against voter fraud. I've spent
38:22
Speaker 3: twenty plus years fighting against fraud.
38:26
Speaker 4: At the same time, if you look nationally.
38:29
Speaker 3: They're blue states, they're purple states that they're not going
38:32
Speaker 3: to pass legislation to protect election integrity because the Democrats
38:36
Speaker 3: have decided they support voter fraud. It helps them, and
38:40
Speaker 3: it's the way the world's changed. Ten years ago, there
38:43
Speaker 3: were Democrats who would work with you on something like
38:46
Speaker 3: photo ID. There are none today because they've decided voter
38:50
Speaker 3: fraud is good for them. In blue states and purple states,
38:54
Speaker 3: they're not going to change their laws to stop voter fraud.
38:57
Speaker 4: Here's the good news.
38:59
Speaker 3: Historically, voter fraud typically only matters at the margins.
39:03
Speaker 4: It matters in a close election.
39:06
Speaker 3: So the answer is, in those blue states and purple states,
39:09
Speaker 3: we got to win by a big enough margin. They
39:11
Speaker 3: can't steal the race from us. Now that's not fair,
39:15
Speaker 3: it's frustrating, But the alternative is give up on our country.
39:19
Speaker 3: And I got to tell you there are a lot
39:20
Speaker 3: of Democrats that a lot of people of the corporate
39:22
Speaker 3: media that want all of us to give up on
39:26
Speaker 3: our country. They want conservatives to say, well, voter fraud
39:30
Speaker 3: is still there, so I'm not.
39:31
Speaker 4: Going to vote to hell with it. And I'll tell
39:33
Speaker 4: you what.
39:34
Speaker 3: If we do that, that becomes a self fulfilling prophecy.
39:37
Speaker 3: Then our country truly is lost. And I'll point as
39:43
Speaker 3: a moment of encouragement, look no further than the state
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Speaker 3: Virginia by ten points. One year later, in twenty twenty one,
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