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The occupational safety and Health Administration was demanding that eighty four million Americans take the FAO out. She, as some of us call it the covert vaccine. Employers were enforcing it. Some people brought a lawsuit one of one of the roof was the daily are we bring a lawsuit and the Supreme Court strikes effectively strikes down the mandate, yet no, it was a huge victory for the rule of law is a very simple the case when the ocean mandate came out. We talked about a lot on the spot gas

employer, the daily wire filed a loss. It was a party in the suit, so so were actually sitting here. Both of us already are our parties in Supreme Court cases this that this past week the ocean case was huge, an end when it came out, we had a pot cast at the time we walked through the legal standards for OSHA promulgating, a rule like that. You and your recalled waste we set on the pod. We said number one. We said the spring courts can strike it down and in fact, when you and I talked about it, but what, when the case was being argued, I said I think the decision will be six three. There will be six votes to strike it down. as beyond OSHA statutory authority. Beyond that, the authority, the federal government- and we also talked about RON claim who was the white asked- is the White Ass Chief of staff, whose stupidly sent a tweet right. When that, though, she mandate issued where he read, we did that this was a work around to get around the law. An end

You recall, I talked about I tweeted at the time and said this was really dumb and I promise number one. This edict is gonna, be challenged. Number two, I believe it's gonna be struck down in court and number three, this idiotic. Wheat from RON claim is gonna, be exhibit a in the lawsuit and the Supreme Court's decision. Six three star you down. What did they cite, among other things, run claims to the seams be a workaround and that's not legit. So the I read the opinion of the court. I read the concurring opinion of the court's conservatives. Yadda three Thomas Alito endorse it and I read the liberal- and this is obviously all great news, but it was a little confusing. I am not a lawyer, I have no it so they weren't, they stayed the mandate and then they sent the mandate back to the lab. But ok, so was I'm so what they did is they upheld the injunction, so the mandate is enjoyed. An injunction is an order from a court.

either to do something or not to do something. So the injunction means the mandate has no no legal force, but they re managed its load lit lower court. Just to have a trial to consider the claims challenging the man. But the reason why this is really good one of the grounds for upholding the injunction is likelihood of success on the merits. So six justices of sad, the plaintiffs are likely succeed they haven't conclusively said their claims are valid, but they said there likely to succeed on the merits that that the mandate, for all intents and purposes, is dead

Fortunately, there is a second decision that came out the same day and that second decision was five for upholding a different vaccine mandate. The vaccine mandate that the binding ministration put on healthcare workers and it put on health care workers in facilities that are receiving federal funds, either through Medicare medicate, and that was five for it. It consisted of the three liberals, plus chief Justice Roberts spread Kavanaugh, where the five and you know we talked about before the Supreme Court's decision coming out of New York with Healthcare workers were they. refuse to stay the decision out of New York. I think that mistake. I think this was a mistake, but look the three lives. They, like all these mandates, apparently the I can mandated to do whatever we want to do on one leg and a pink to to

while saying Yankee, Doodle build Andy the lives more or less say that in the descent they say, there's sickly, no limit to what the government can do in this regard. Objects Cavanaugh on health care workers, their pretty comfortable with the federal women or the state government in your case, was a state government issue. Here. It's the federal government but they're pretty comfortable with the federal government forcing state workers, state healthcare workers are bored, just healthcare workers, Jen we who are receiving government money to have to have to get vaccinate. I think that was a serious steak. I think they're undervaluing the liberty interest of these these healthcare workers, because I have this question when I saw Cavanaugh squish inflicting the other side, I thought do do healthcare workers not have the same rights as every other employ so you ever. We talked about that. There are four different mandates that came out: there's a mandate for military service, men and women. There's a mandate for civilian employers, Bandy prophetic com,

actors is a mandate for private employers with a hundred more employees under OSHA, and I said, they're all in descending likelihood of surviving, so the oh sure, order was always the most vulnerable legally, because the ocean statute doesn't allow this that this is really a far stretch from what Congress intended on in ocean, which is why RON Plain called it workers to be fair. The healthcare workers There's a stronger statutory argument there, the statutory language is different, and so there is a stronger argument. I still think that mandate should have been struck down as well by but there is a meaningful difference in terms of.

with OSHA they had zero legs to stand on with healthcare workers at aims have a leg, but maybe they had a toe fair enough, fair enough and still still basically a win it, even if it was an unfortunate that the court wouldn't go all the way on this second case, still a major when eighty four million Americans don't need to be vaccinated against their will well- and I gotta say I'd, I take their pride, because not only did we predict at every stay of really would have it in this case on the pod gets. But the lawyer argued the case was my former chief counts ass it. So it's a felony, Scott Kellers, great guy, Scott was actually a student mind. So I met Scott when I teaching invested taxes, Texas LAW School, and he was a law student. There. I taught a seminar on U S spring cord litigation and he took the class. He was excellent. Le Class did extraordinary, gave an ape and then I didn't, give very many places

he graduated number one in his class Inverse Texas LAW School, he went and clerk on the court of appeals. He clerk for Justice Kennedy on the Supreme Court night. I recommended him for that and then what? Several years later, when I was elected to the Senate, I hired Scott is my first chief counts. So when I showed up a decade ago, the Senate Scott. We were down in the basement. I just got in here when you first get here, you don't have real office, your sort of temporary space and you're just trying to figure out everything. So Scott spent a couple years with me as my chief council and then actually came and quit and here's why quit because he'd been appointed to be solicitor General of Texas, not a bad you. It's my job is a job I loved. I did five and a half years and and with Scott

it is not, as I was really sad like I didn't want to lose. Em cause. He's really tell a lawyer, but but I couldn't complain because S g of Texas is an amazing job and you get to argue case. You get to argue cases. So Scottish now argue cases than I did, I argued nine cases he when he argues tenth case. I called in that morning said our screw. You I just I just say that its border bars. I had like throw that market down and now I have to ask you obviously you're not gonna, be arguing the case before the Supreme Court right now, but our bringing this case before this chamber just to be your old general council. Well, no, but but but there was a separate so we're sitting here we're recording this on Wednesday. This morning the Supreme Court Hurt or oral argument. The very first case was federal Election Commission,

TED crews and- and I am the plaintiff, I have sued the Federal Election commission seeking to strike down a provision of Mccain, fine gold, the big campaign, finance legislations, terrible piece of legislation as all sorts of problems, but at the heart of it Mccain. Fine gold was all about incumbent politicians wanting to make it harder for anyone to run against them and challenge them. It was a the one thing Republicans and Democrats could agree on is nobody should beat us in an election mission in fine gold is throwing, barriers in the way of challenge. This doesn't make sense that, because I was reading a lot of left wing new sources today, it was telling me they were all telling me about the case and they say the TED crews is ringing the lawsuit before the Supreme Court to make it easier to bribe the corrupt politicians and to make this swamp land even swamp. Here. Are you telling, that the left wing media got it wrong. You're right, that's every headline as crews once more bribery

and am even for the media. That's a little dishonest. So so there were two provisions of Mccain: fine gold ever called the millionaires amendment. So income at politicians hate anyone that can challenge. They particularly hate people who have money so you get a really rich person that runs against you, that's really problematic. As then they can run ads and communicating. You got a problem so the millionaires amendment half of it said that is one cell finances- puts a whole bunch of money and into his own campaign that The federal limits for the other guy are tripled, so twenty nine hundred of person, it's it's nearly nine grand purse and that's it. early designed to benefit incumbents and discourage rich people for running against. While the Supreme Court a few years ago struck that half of the millionaires amendment down said look if someone decides to run for office if they want to invest their own resources,

You have a right to speak, and then that means spending your own money to spake. If you, if you want to put a billboard on the freeway, if you want to run a radio at or TB add all of that is political speech, so that was her. the millionaires amendment was struck down several years ago. The half of the millionaires amendments? What this case is all about, and it's a provision that limits the ability of a candidate who's running for office to loan money to his own campaign. So the way it works, let's say Michael Knolls wakes up and says: I'm gonna run for Congress. Unless I get this man to a psychiatrist has lost his mind at but you're incurable You say: I'm gonna run. I've taken on on YO, see a move, New York, mild district, where we're going and I'm gonna win now, if you're starting now you, but you may not have a lot of supporters, not encumber pilot. If you don't have lobbyist, probably supporting a you, don't have the infrastructure that income and if so, what a lot of people do they launch a campaign is. Is they loan themselves some money,

so they have some money, some savings and they put some money and start the campaign. What Mccain Feingold said is, if you lonelier, if you loan your own money to your your campaign after the election, you can only pay yourself back up to two hundred fifty thousand of it. Ok, anything above to earn fifty thousand with money that has raised after the campaign. You can't pay back and you're just stock and by the way when, when you talk especially about competitive districts, these campaigns can cost millions and millions of dollars. So two hundred fifty thousand is is not as much as it sounds like so, and what this is designed to do is it's designed, Disincentive challenge challenger salt. Look if you're gazillion earned by the way we're seeing more more billionaires running for off as a few billion ere, you don't care. You put five

and twenty million dollars in your campaign, you no matter you're, so wretched, doesn't make it every never need it backs. So this is not a distant disincentive to the Super rich and were actually seeing more and more billionaires we're running for office because they have the massive money. What this is an incentive to, as is the small businesses when this is an incentive to as the doktor This is that the somewhat wretch? It's not the supervisors, the some who has enough money that you could invest a substantial amount of money. You can invest five hundred thousand invest a million dollars. You ve saved you, you put your money in the bank, you say and you can invest the money, rational race. If you could put five hundred thousand million. That gives you a real shot at communicating. This is designed punish that guy and say: will you know what? Let's? Let's say you worked hard you're a physician, and you got a million dollars in the bag. You loans to the I'm paying you spent every penny of it on the campaign, even pay back tutored, fifty thousand and seven hundred fifty thousand of it too, like Michael you ever given it to the United

states of Amerika. You don't get it back, and so that's what the existing lawyers and so what I didn't. Twenty eighteen, is. I loaned my campaign two hundred and sixty thousand dollars. Now that's a very special, number senator. It is its ten thousand more than the limit. So I love my campaign to uttered sixty thousand right before the election, and then twenty days after the election, a little bit later than that, I repaid myself, two hundred fifty thousand, which what you're allowed to do so ten thousand, that under the law is illegal for me to pay myself back, and I did that in order to file this loss. It now is that, as I was just reading at, obviously you can tell it better cause you were there. The lawyer for the government is saying that this case should be dismissed. It should be thrown out because you obviously or doing something that you knew

against that. You were just trying to trigger this court case, yet that that was an argument that the Biden Justice Department made that that's a really weak arguments. So, if you look at there are lots of cases that are test cases, that if there is any legal or unconstitutional law you're allowed to challenge and you're allowed to two euro violate that law to challenge it, you're allowed to to create the facts to it, and there are literally hundreds of test cases where people. Yet you know if if the government makes legal for Michael Knolls to defend the right to life. remarks, and will you chose to say it? You try to violate it. You could adjust obey. Why didn't you do so dismiss the case right rats out here and so that argument going to go anywhere. I'll say the argument, I think what well, I hope, so

The lawyer argued it is again him Chuck Cooper who is a very close friend of mine is my first boss. When I came out my collection and so I clerk for chief Justice way, am rank west on the Supreme Court. My came out of the clerk ship and ninety ninety seven and I join shock at what was then a tiny little law firm that was called Cooper and carbon and it was Chuck Coopers. My carbon law firm at six lawyers- and it was all of nine months old and and chalk, had been also a clerk for renquist. So he was a former renquist. Color is one of the top bring court litigators in the country and he was my first boss, and so I went to work for him to to learn how to be a lawyer. He really taught me how to be a lawyer,

and so he's representing in this case in any he's a dear dear friend. He did a terrific job and at and I will say, look it's it's. It's never absolutely clear how cases gonna come out. I think, on the merits. There are clearly a majority of justices who agree that this this provisions, Station yoga, the Department of Justice is trying to raise lots of procedural issues that basically are saying don't get to the merits. Don't die, whether the laws, constitutional and and and their throw in a lot of luck in the air trying to say avoid the actual question the lawsuit. I hope the court doesn't do that. I hope they actually answer the question, because this provision. really is designed and by the way, if you look at the proponents of it, if you look at Harry, read you look accurate K, Bailey Hutchison, my predecessor in the Senate. They got up and said this is to make it harder for people to challenge us. This is all about protecting incumbents and protect,

the super wealthy, the billion and it's about hurting the small business owner, the doktor, the entrepreneur or the person who wants to run for Congress because they want to be Mr Smith, go into Washington. They want to challenge the swamp. So what's the swamp want to do make it a lot harder to challenge this. Now speaking of incumbents, senators were desperately trying to hold on to power. There has been a major her push from the Vine Administration and the Democrats, senators and chuck shimmer to get rid of the filibuster before they lose their elections, which increasingly it looks like he's, gonna happen in November. They are trying to get through any legislation, and I can't do that right now, because they that they don't have enough votes to get through the sixty about threshold, and I think you know it more closely than I do. I think that the attempt to kill the feel of us,

Is just as dead as the ocean mandate at my right? Hopefully, yes, I think you are so so you and I were recorded in this Wednesday late afternoon as soon as we finish, recording I'm going to get up literally and a half hour. I'm gonna be the Senate floor and we're having to filibuster fight tonight, so have not yet had that battle, but it about if our we well. What is going to happen is, is the chuck humor is going to file closure. On their federal election, take over legislation closer takes sixty votes, it's going to fail. He will probably get all the Democrats and probably be fifty fifty, but it will fail cost. Fifty is not sixty they then I think, we'll Yarborough, while because they want to make us listen to them, you Amber

and then what are you going to do likely as file a motion to reconsider and he will challenge them here? He will enquire of the chair whether it takes fifty or sixty votes to proceed to close the chair will reject his claim was I'd. Take sixty assuming the chair follows the law. right, in which case shimmer will move to appeal. He will appeal the ruling of the chair. That's what's called the nuclear option so The rules of the Senate, their written down, book. We all have that book in our desks of any of the rules of the scent of the roles of the Senate, say closer. Take sixty votes. That's literally in black and white typed in type that rules are even changed. The rules of the centre right to change the rules of the Senate take sixty seven senator. So it's a higher threshold. Sixty seven senators can agree to change the rules of the Senate.

They don't have sixty seven says there is one other way to do it, and it's what's called the nuclear option. So shimmer will appeal the ruling of the chair. Any ruling of the chair can be appeal to overturn the ruling of the chair. Just takes fifty votes takes a majority, it doesn't take sixty and then the Senate is weird if the ruling of the chair is overturned, that becomes a precedent and that you keep a book of all the precedence of the Senate and that precedent has the same force as the rules written on paper. So, in other words, if humor succeeds, he will break rules of the Senate in order to change the rules in the set so so now you'll have these two roles down on paper and the new one beats. The old right in the new one is just a precedent. Is just a majority. The Senate voted that this is now the rules, so the old ones written on the paper domain earning right now the good

who's is, I think the odds are extremely likely, hopefully certain that that shimmers going to fail- and the reason for that is that there two senators to Democrats have been explicit, saying: they're not going to participate in in nuking the filibuster showmance gears and set him, I guess- and cinema last we gave a speech on the Senate floor. I was sitting on the floor. I heard her speak where she he drew a line and said I will not do this. This will destroy the Senate. It will destroy by partisanship, mind you wanted. The illustrations of Just how nasty and partisan ending the filibuster would make the Senate that same week, Joe Biden was down in Georgia, giving this right racist nasty, divisive speech, partisan speech, he called half

country, bull, Connor racist. He called every republic in America, a bull Conor race as too little middle merrily. By the way he literally said you are like Bowl Connor, you are like George. While it was hate, for now set aside the irony. The bull Connor George Wallace were democratic set aside the irony, the Joe Biden literally gave a eulogy at Robert Birds, funeral and Annette exalt. Cyclops than a coup klux gland. If anyone has no standing to be honest, high horse on racial grounds is Joseph Binding, but that kind of speech is just Not only do they not want any republican Susan Collins is too conservative for the Mitt Romney is too conservative or the they don't want democratic mansion and cinema. Today you ve got Bernie Sanders talking about he's, gonna support primary challengers to mention, and

Emma and truck tumor said he did know if he would support his own caucus is ugly. Assuming Cinema Mansion don't blank, and I dont think they will at this point if it was just one of them. The rest, I would be more nervous right with to them I hope I'm hoping each box the other up and just as a matter of practical politics person to person politics, the Democrats seem to be doing everything they can to irritate mansion. cinema ship chasing them into bathrooms and filming them were hunted aside with mantra. You know come on in the waters. Warm idea, as I told Joe several weeks ago in one of the two parties- actually likes you right right now you want to sell, but the odds, are very very high that tonight shimmer will fail to be honest. This is performance theatre for shimmers primary in New York that he does want to see the primary so he's trying

to appease the radical left by failing to night so he's setting it up to fail the night a b testing to see if commonly Harris's in the seat and the presiding officer. My better, she will be. because you know if you're going to have a big failure, you do need to preside over and that's literally spitting it it's the way. They think that it is all about appease the crazy left. This is going to fail the night, but you want to hear something really ironic. Okay, so we were supposed to be on recess this week. Schumer's, a terrible majority leader doesn't actually know how to run the Senate, and so he had to like cancel the recess and come back to do this performance theater and fail I actually on my flight out here today at Rand. Paul was who is on the flight because he was gone back and a devoted we're all here. Every republican ass to be here, you know, with They could not one of us off. They could win this filibuster. Fights aware, like you know, you know we ve got

look I know you're right it's for two weeks they ve given speeches about how the filibuster is. Jim Crow, relic from racist times the filibusters evil. Do you know what the very last thing the Democrats did was for today know why I have no idea senator. Let me the last thing the Democrats did last week was filibuster my bill, sanctioning Russia sanctioning Nord Stream tuna. We talked a lot about Nord stream to it. You know. If they didn't have double standards, they would have no standards at all literally as they're giving speeches the filibusters races, let's filibuster this, like Sir,

Montana asleep and say it was amazing. So this vote, the boat we had last week was a big big deal unrestricted. So this is about this pipeline and it's really about the future of Ukraine. These of Eu Russia Visa be the West, yet so the history of it we ve talked a lot about Ukraine. On on this, shall we start it off two years ago with impeachment in Ukraine and Barrese man we talked about. Ukraine must be part of the Soviet Union and when the Soviet Union collapsed, Ukraine became an independent nation. Ukrainians, don't like the Russians, the Russians

to control and dominate Ukraine and many of their neighbors most of their neighbours and Potan LE potent as a cagey bethink. He has said one of the most candid thinks he's ever said is he said that he thinks the greatest geopolitical disaster of the twentieth century was the dissolution of the Soviet Union and so potent longs to reassemble. The Soviets have Russia. He wants soviet greatness again and if you re assembling the Soviet

in there's, nothing you want more than Ukraine. Ukraine is is, is the bread basket now Putin has invaded Ukraine before he didn't twenty four fourteen member Crimea as part of Ukraine. Putin marched in and invaded it and took it over and kept and kept it, but he stopped. He didn't continue invading Ukraine. He stopped short. Why did he stopped short? While the reason is that, right now, Russia's major export is natural gas and oil. That's that's. Putin is basically a petrol tyrant and they get his natural gas to, Europe was the major consumer of it. It goes through pipelines that go right through Ukraine, so potent said in their going well, if I marching to Ukraine they could damage or destroy those pipelines and if they damage or destroy those pipelines. Suddenly Russia can't get the gas to Europe and we're screwed

So potent man is he's like I want to invade them, but they got a stranglehold on our ability to get gas to Europe, so suddenly I can invade them. So what did you do? The next year Putin launched a project called Nord stream to, and it was let's build an undersea pipeline that skips Ukraine altogether goes under the ocean and go straight from Russia to join. And that pipeline, once its complete, would have to worry about Ukraine in the energy infrastructure. We can margin and take it over because we can get our gas to Europe. Well years ago, I introduced by partisan legislation to stop it passed it through Congress trumped cited the lawn we stop. The pipeline we won. The pipeline was dead, buried, stopped Caput. For over a year, then Joe Biden came in and Biden Surrender. It capitulated to President Putin began rebuilding the pipeline literally on January twenty. Fourth, twenty. What I'm glad he took an eye?

long weekend. You know a few days and then starts up again for days after he swore by the sworn it. So the pipeline right now is completed. Subpoenas finished it because Biden formerly wave the sanctions, but it still awaiting certification in Europe, so they can't turn it on till the regulatory agencies certified and so I introduce legislation to reimpose the sanctions to overturn, widens surrender to boot

twice. I've introduce legislation like this before and twice its past. Essentially unanimous, every democratic, supported at twice wait a big battle. In December I was holding dozens of State department nominees were there to one in the morning, I'm negotiating with Chuck Sumer, I said, aren't I went to lift thirty two holes. Let these nominees go through in exchange for scheduling, devote on Nord stream. To that we had just last week shimmer gave in scheduled about. They did not want that. They were the Biden. White ass was lobbying against it like crazy, because even if the Democrats win the vote, then the role on the record of saying Ukraine see later that's exactly right at and they for true years had been set. Bedbug squarely against Nord stream to this is a vote when Trump was president. Every Democrat

was for these sanctions. The only thing that there are two things that are different number one, instead of Republican with an hour behind his name that president, with our behind his name as a president of the divide, is nay now that it's a Democrat. Suddenly the Democrats support Russia and number two there over a hundred thousand troops on the border of Ukraine any day now we could see the ukrainian invasion by Russia and they have do it and about the next month or so, because, as we get into the sprang, the land starts to thaw and the russian tanks get stuck in the mud, so they're window to invade is narrow, but we voted on it. amazing wandered up. So I won the vote. One, a substantial by partisan majority, the Senate. The vote was fifty five to forty four So every Republican voted yes, except ran Paul and ran Paul. Pretty much opposes all sanctions, sorry,

all Republicans, but ran, and on the democratic side, six Democrats voted with. So it was fifty five to forty four big by partisan, mature, not living in a particularly by partisan era, so that that's impressive. Now fifty five is not sixty, and so the Democrats filibustered that you're have sixty. You don't get past now. Here's another interesting thing, their number Democrats, who were invulnerable elections or the ballot November. Every single democrat in a vulnerable election. The November voted with me so marked Kelly in Arizona voted for my sanctions on Russia, Catherine Cortez Master, Nevada, voted for by sanctions in the vat on Russia, Maggie Hassen in

voted voted for my sanctions against Russia, even Raphael, one of unless liberal sanders in the Senate voted for my sanctions against Russia because he didn't want to tell the voters of Georgia November yeah to support Putin because I'm a democrat right. We get six Democrats, you know who we didn't get Mansour Cinema her with their doing enough. So what was amazing? The day of the vote Biden came to the castle. He had lunch with all the democratic centres. The day of the vote and Joe Biden was personally lobbying the democratic senators to vote against cruises sanctions on Russia while- and so I it's actually having you set it tongue in cheek, but it's actually true. I just think Mansion Cinema felt they couldn't stand up,

white house at anything else. There are getting so pounded on everything out. We ve killed your legislative agenda. So will let you and look I didn't like that they voted no, but about I give them a mulligan right because are saving the republic on other side, but the Democrats are litter literally, this is not high. Personally, they are literally acquiescing in Russia, wiping Ukraine off them, so there you might say they are something there now. At Ukraine, which raises what I know we have to. Let you get to the Senate to go vote, but it does raise one very important story that involves a victory and a loss. You wanna bet skipper game. You lost the use of your thumb true enough had by the way? That's that's. Quite the segment Let me just say: ah if president of Yale ever sees that said way. They will revoke here did agree that where they been driver you, I will that's true that that that up

they would review degree for many other cases. Before then says- oh, that's probably the least least of your sends on that front. So, yes, I broke my thumb. I'm gonna, asked on so I don't I've gotta splint bidding. Take it off. Ok, I'm so sorry I was playing fried up. I play basketball twice a week and so Friday consumer does not around the Senate. We were still around and size plan for Friday morning and I play lot of times. Are the senators play but, but I play every week with my staff, we had some good good ballplayers. You get a couple of guys play college basketball couple guys laid college football, so we're playing at you. You actually haven't invited me to this game. I did make sure I was busy that day so that I did not humiliate myself on the court. So I have joked that that our game is is more violence than skilful at an end, and it is, I mean we play no blood. No foul there are regularly. Fao is also. There is regularly blood

and so in this instance, I was grown up for a rebound and and and the culprit. is a guy was a law clerk at our office. You appreciate this is a new Yorkers name is Tony he's from New York. I imagine- He is a great guy. Hard working Conservative law student but buddies from Brooklyn any played, ball in Brooklyn, any Tony from Brooklyn. in every respect, not I went up for a rebound and he came down like a ton of bricks on my thumb and broke it right across now. Go ahead. X ray today and they're, like I said yesterday, had an x ray there like yep, that's that's a fracture, so you, you lost a little bit of the use of your thumb, but you did win the game. I did and we actually spin The gay terrifyingly enough. With the broken song I tried to shoot. I couldn't I mean it

it really heard this is not quite at the level of Teddy Roosevelt getting shot now finishing his speech, but but the prince. But I will say this: I did score, lay up with a broken thumb, because I could use my forefingers. I just stuck my thumb after the side and did I did a little scoop, lay upside sayin even scored, scored a bucket with a broken thousand vesicle lesson, its political lesson, no pain. No, Gay, and sometimes you have to make some sacrifices for the winds. I hope you get a win tonight before we go. You might remember on the one hundredth episode of verdict that we announced a contest. Actually, a series of contests free merge for people who commented and opportunity may be to come out and see ass, some some other wonderful prizes as well will now, because this is the two year, misery, a verdict with tat groups. We have the winners, because we all want to celebrate here to introduce those winners are very on those wheeler.

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