Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, weighs in on the Senate’s upcoming vote to confirm Judge Amy Coney Barrett on ‘Fox & Friends.’
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Live at the capitol
live at the capitol.
The Senate is expected to
confirm. Judge Amy, Coney Barrett
after Democrats failed to stop
the confirmation process,
Texas, republican Senator TED
Cruz on the Senate, Judiciary
Committee and author of great
best seller, one vote away how
a single Supreme court seat can
change history.
He joins us now from DC good
morning to you, Sir
Steve Good Morning, good to
be with you,
Steve sounds like history will
be changed today, isnt it
it is Judge Amy, Coney
Barrett will become justice, Amy
Coney Barrett, and this is a
historic victory.
This may be the most important
decision. President Trump has
made in four years in office and
its a culmination of promises
made to the american people and
promises to nominate strong,
constitutionalists justices, who
will defend the constitution and
defend the bill of rights,
defend our fundamental liberties,
and I have to say during
confirmation hearing, I think,
Judge Barrett did a phenomenal
job.
America was blown away watching
her watching her sit. Her sit
without a single note and
watching her take incoming fire
and respond with a smile and
respond with substance and
respond with failfullness and
thats what we want and expect
from Supreme Court Justices
Steve, usually historically
over the last fifty years, or
something like that
when Ruth Bader Ginsburg was
confirmed. Ninety seven to ninety eight to nothing
amazing because its bipartisan,
its the court and its supposed
to be nonpolitical. But tonight
not a single one of your
democratic colleagues is
expected to vote for her
yeah. No, its really sad and
youre right, justice, Ginsburg
was confirmed overwhelmingly and
so was Justice Scalia for whom
judge, Barrett, clerked
justice Scalia in one thousand nine hundred and eighty six, he
sailed through confirmation
hearing, first italian american
justice to serve on the court
and its really great. If you
look at the video, he sits there
smoking a pipe during his
hearing sitting there at the
witness table. He has a pipe
going,
my advice to judge Barrett
Judge. You will do great, but
dont follow your own boss
example and probably dont smoke
a pipe, and she listen today that
advice and blew it out of the
water
Democrats right now. They dont
care about the substance.
Every one of them will agree:
shes qualified, shes,
impressive and shes serious, but
but this is a shirts and skin
exercise.
This is a partisan battle, and
part of the problem is that for
the left, theyve decided. The
court is the key to their
radical agenda. So when it comes
to really just liberty, they
want to strip away your right to
practice your faith.
They want the government to be
able to control it.
The key to do that is getting
justices on the courts.
When it comes to guns, they want
to strip away. They want to
takeaway your second amendment
right to keep and bear arms
the key to doing that is the
court
each of these rights. Their view is this is about power and its
is. This is about power and its
why they are so incredibly
upset.
They didnt talk about taking
away free speech rights.
They want unelected justices to
force through policies that
people dont want.
I think its unfortunate that
one of our two parties, the
Democratic Party, has radicalized
view of confirmations,
its turned them into the slug
fests circuses that we see so
regularly
Steve what the Democrats did.
They got big blow up images of
people that would be impacted if
the affordable care ACT went
away.
That may be true,
they would be greatly impact, but
there is no. You look at her
record.
The part of the affordable care
act that the Supreme Court will
look at shortly. She probably
wouldnt go along with that.
Anyway.
What the Democrats didnt
want to do on health care
Obamacare is discuss. What a
disaster Obamacare has been,
how many millions of people have
lost under Obamacare? How many
have seen health care skyrocket
under Obamacare
Joe Biden looked at the american
people and lied? Nobody lost
their health care under
Obamacare.
If you remember, when Barack
Obama said, if you want your
health care, you can keep your
health care the lie of the year
while Joe Biden just reuped the
lie of the year, but the
critical thing Steve on this.
If you want to have a policy
debate on health care and im
eager to have policy debate on
how to protect preexisting
conditions and lower premiums
and have more competition and
more options, the right place to
do that is the Senate right
place to do is the elected
legislature,
its not the courts, and it
speaks volumes
as you, and I have talked about
my new book, one vote away
third week in the row in New
York Times best seller drives
them crazy to keep putting it up
there and I have to say Steve
by the way youre in my book
was released in the same time
and we have been at the top of
the charts for several weeks
ago. Congratulations on that.
Thank you.
Im willing to bet that there
are Fox amp friends viewers who
are watching it and buying the
doozy Cruz Bundle, cookbook and
Supreme Court together and
learning about bill of rights
and having a fabulous meal. At
the same time,
Steve you made it sound like
im, youre, running mate.
People are buying the book
because they have run out of
things to cook. You know that
Senator TED Cruz from Texas.
Transcript generated on 2020-10-26.