Merrick Garland "will not stand" for attacks on the integrity of Biden’s DOJ and FBI! But just one question—what the heck happened to the rule of law? As the Attorney General turns the FBI into his personal political tool and raids Trump’s Mar-a-Lago, Senator Ted Cruz joins Michael Knowles to break down the consequences of this completely unprecedented move, including what it means for 2024, and expose the utter double-standard the Left is operating under. And speaking of weaponizing the federal government, Dems vote to double (yes, DOUBLE) the size of the IRS… to process our tax returns faster? Certainly not. The Biden Administration is out for blood, and this is simply their next move.
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merit garland? The attorney general will not stand for it.
on the integrity of Joe Biden, d, o J and f b. I think that's
be the title of my next blank book.
The integrity of Joe Biden D, o J, a com,
Hence, if guide and speed
king of books. Senator no one has made this observation yet, but I I
To call you out, because, right before
Your last book came out. One vote away was about how one
Can change supreme court rulings ruth better Ginsburg?
I think that was about one week before now, just weeks before your next book is coming out, Jim,
discover opted.
Turning general six, the feds on donald trump home at more alive. Oh senator, I want a straight answer
Are you behind all of this? No, no, I'm not, but but but I promise you right now. I've had several friends say: please, please, please don't write your next book on global thermonuclear war because I will say it does seem to me to keep
happening and and and happening right right as the but next books about come out the back
courtesy of Michael knolls by ted crews- I don't want to see it. That would be a very honourable thing. This.
this really.
The timing is, is bizarre, I'm sure it's great for the publicity of the book. It's really really bad for the country that bed tat your tears was hauser have come true here,
This to me seems unprecedented. You ve got Donald
right now who is
predecessor of Joe Biden, a potential political rival of Joe Biden if he runs and twenty twenty four and you ve got the
the d o j now the aged, admitting that he's the one who called for this raid,
for something like
better all records, act or some vaguely described classified documents or or what
What is this about?.
Yet look at it, it is utterly unprecedented
and and the world,
precedent has as a meaning. There is no precedent and our nations history for federal,
enforcement officers raiding the home of a four,
president, has never happened, going all the way back to george Washington,
This has never happened in signal
in part, because where a country that has a tradition of the peace,
full transfer of power in part of the peaceful transfer of power is
successor regime does
then use government to go target their predecessor. We you see banana republics, do that
If you go down to ten part dictatorships, that's it
common feature when one guys out in the next guys in the next
goes after the former guy, by the way, that's the abbreviation lefties like to use for donald trump, the former guy. Well, that is.
there is an element of respect of rule of law and respect for the office of the presidency- that, sir,
as you don't turn
the federal government into a political tool to target your enemies on
Fortunately,
Ok obama trampled on that tradition and politicized that apartment
clusters in the fbi and and now
Joe Biden, has made it markedly. Worse.
this is our come
lead abuse of power. It is
lay corrupt and you know it was rather striking merit. Garland said I
stand by wine it. While anyone calls into question the good men and women of the fbi, let's be real, clear, get Merrick, we're
call it into question the line officers were calling into question your integrity or colony
in question the top political operatives at deo J and the f b. I that that have no respect for the rule of law and that instead are perfectly content to be the Biden white house's policy
nickel henchmen the bucks.
Jobs here. You approved it and you shouldn't have, and you should be embarrassed by
sending the fbi and
in this situation and doing enormous damage to the
Credibility to the respect of the fbi, thee
partisans our birth.
owing to the ground.
centuries of credibility built by
the federal government and law enforcement and
and it really is it it. It's an outrage. Watch well,
was the most shocking part to me of his statement. When he invoked the
tag ready of the deal Janni F b, I knew I think, rightly, are pointing to the political.
Acts who run those groups. I thought what integrity? Is it the integrity that led the d o J and the f b, I under Barack obama to spy on Donald trump's campaign that led the deo jane the f b, I, under a during the trump administration, to undermine his his presidency by using a completely fabricated, cooked up nonsense about russia,
collusion that, by the way the deal Janey fbi cooked up with the Hillary Clinton campaign, vat integrity. Is that what you're talking about?
I dont really see that and guess what
the lives right now are bringing up and
Your hearing top Democrats bring up, and even some moderate republicans is well.
Hey, let's just let this play out, let let's
hold on here, because maybe Donald trump was violating some law and it raised
to me this point that one
you can indict a ham sandwich first of all, but yeah too,
haven't seen this before because of
you're, bringing up our tradition of the peaceful transfer of power. So
as I'm am concerned. Unless there are seven heads in a freezer at mura, logger, I don't really understand what kind of violation donald trump could have committed. That would just
fi. I forty agent raid on his private residence. Yet you know you
talk in a minute ago about my book. Actually, the book that is coming out just a few weeks is
actually on this topic. So so the title of the book is, as viewers are the pod. No is justice corrupted how
left his weapon eyes the legal system, and it goes through that what rich
nixon tried to do in the first chapter, the book talked about Nixon and watergate and Nixon
I do use the legal system to go after his enemies.
By and large
the system resisted so Nixon. I try to get the irs too,
his enemies, the irish refused
in significant parts. The system worked and, I think, Nixon
was utterly corrupt,
what Nixon attempted to do
Och obama succeeded in doing
and Joe Biden has taken it to the next level- an end if
look at that apart.
Of justice and the fbi. You look at the irs targeting
political enemies under Barack obama, you look at the department of justice, Mary
garland, sending the fbi after parents who speak up at school board meetings. You look at crossfire her. This is while trump
president, but under obama, heart
core leftist partisans, barodians senior career positions at the fbi- that
and of justice, and they weapon eyes. Law enforcement and the intelligence community go after donald trump as a whole. Chapter injustice corrupted
crossfire hurricane explaining how
got so far that an assistant general council of the fbi-
He did a counterfeit document,
and submitted that counterfeit document to a federal court, which is a felony that's how corrupt
god, because they hated donald
and they cooked up the entire
garbage of russian collusion, which was always a crock that,
same pattern is continuing today and look one of the problems which go back to the beginning: crossfire hurricane,
the department of justice should a d o j be able
to investigate a sea
president at or a former president. Yes, if that
is, has violated the law
that being said, the threshold for what
the department of justice investigate someone in particular investigates the opposing parties,
you're, a republican administration and your car
and plating in investigating
a leading democratic. If you're, a Democrat, investigate administration, your contemplating invite
to getting a leading republican, the
threshold
for doing so, should be very, very high because there is such a danger of this
being used simply
as far as a college to beat your opponents senseless, underbrush
obama
fbi was wiretapping down trumps campaign headquarters when he was
republican publican nominated me president. They were sending people in wearing wiretaps, try and do
tramp. Tramp
in a violation of the law that
was utterly insane like in any department of justice
threshold. For you know,
some loon such told someone at a bar. Well, I heard you know:
You know he went to russia once like that is not enough
to go wiretap the opposed.
campaign here the predicate for
is so utterly flimsy as to make
this whole thing ludicrous and you asked ok. Why is this is this? Is us
and simply under the presidential records act. Now, let me say a couple
things about at number: one
ordinarily. The way a matter of dispute like this would be solved is the department of just
would negotiate with the lawyers for the former president say: hey we
you have some documents: you're not supposed to have we'd like to get them
care you negotiate back and forth. You produce that happens all the time and by the way they ve done that so trumpet
operate at ease produced, I think fifteen boxes voluntarily through negotiations back and forth.
The way this would ordinarily operate if
person was being resisted. The next.
apis to issue a subpoena subpoena is a legal compulsion. You must turn over the following day,
to do that, they skipped over the subpoena. They skipped over, apparently the
compromise and and and reaching a solution through a negotiated settlement and in
stared, they do a surprise raid with forty agents.
That is such overkill as to be obvious and political and partisan,
and let us be clear- the biggest losers here- are the departed
justice, the fbi and the rule of law, because their actions.
Worse, so political
it was obvious to everyone, and I give an example. So
the site,
famed right winger.
And noted republican partisan former
your governor, Andrew cuomo, who tweeted quote
The J must immediately explain the reason for a raid and it might
to be more than a search for
and consequential archives
or it will be viewed as a political tactic,
and undermine any future credible investigation and legitimacy of january six investigations. So this is
when cuomo, who are they
sleep such a partisan dammit. It burst out of his pours
who say and guys if they
is all about ass. He put it a search
inconsequential archives you got.
screwed, because
it's gonna be obvious, you're, just gone after him cause you know like him in is on the other team, so
What does this mean for twenty twenty four assuming that
they really were just going after these inconsequential archives merit garland, who just gave the statement and took responsibility for four
the rising the rate. He didn't actually explain what the raid was about. He just sort of often puffed and
how dare you besmirch my glorious d, o j and then and then said. I'm not gonna give you any other information, so
is there another shoe potentially that could drop and to what is the price
legal effect. You said it looks like a disaster for the d o j and the fbi and
the rule of law. What does it mean for the republican presidential nomination? Is this going to galvanise support around donald trump? For the republicans? Are they gonna led the guy out in handcuffs at a certain point, or they preparing an indictment whip
What's it mean for the next step at mar, a lago
so so look. They may well be trying to prepare an indictment and, as you noted, the typical rule is a prosecutor could indeed a ham sandwich, so they might try to indict him.
I will say this. If they do, I think it will backfire even more than this raid is backfire.
part of the problem with d o J and the fbi and the left like the media, they hate trumps so much that that that they just they
at the mouth and they view everything from the lands
they assume every one else on earth hates him as much
and so they don't have any actual.
Awareness of reality, Mary.
garland and and the f b I have just boosted donald trump's, twenty twenty four prospects,
so much so that I actually
If I were a campaign financed lawyer for trump, I might well report
the federal elections commission, at this rate, as an in kind contribution to the trump political campaign, because it is so enormously helpful to trump and it was
betty was idiotic. Now look we'll see what plays out, but but let let, let's take
let's take the alleged crime.
Which is the presidential records act, which is the law that says essentially every piece paper? The white house belongs
The federal government and the federal government has control of it. Well, that's true on paper, but
What is it man in practice? And if you look at every single president, all of them have taken a crap on stuff with him
I am, and let's go to some specific says. The specifics, or rather stunning
x and library
release, the final batch of his secret tapes until twenty thirteen.
which was thirty nine years after nixon left off. So for thirty nine years, a pair.
lay the g man should come,
thing down Nixon's doors for thirty nine years, because he had these tapes and you want to talk about press
and records tapes and the oval office are pretty
drew c and spicy stuff. Thirty nine years are right
x in bad guy. You might say: aren't how about l b J
Hero of the left well
the linen, be johnson library delayed. Releasing the final batch of his secret tapes oppressed,
and conversations until twenty sixteen which, if your county
was forty seven years after he left office so apparent.
For forty, seven years, the fbi,
I should raided l, b, J or then raided his estate
aren't how about more recently how bout the page.
Insane of the left, Barack Hussein obama.
at the end of his presidency, obama took thirty
million pages limit.
That again thirty
million page
of the administration records to chicago any promise.
The digitize them eventually put them online.
more than five years after obama's presidency ended.
Zero pages have been digitized undisclosed, so it took him.
didn't follow through on his commitment era,
The president has done this and so the
idea that are worth sending forty fbi agents to raid, the former president for doing what every former president has done. It doesn't pass the smell test and then
Layer on top of that,
as Sherlock holmes wrote the dog who didn't market, who
they send the fbi to raid
well. They didn't send the fbi to raid Hillary Clinton and, if they claim to care care about classified doc,
events like the classified documents that Hilary took widen the f B- I read her or how about hunter Biden, our last podcast when we talked about
guy literally videos himself with crack naked with prostitutes and a gun like
like multiple felonies, where the fbi agents, by the way hunters not hard to find with
hours of the fbi agents rating mar a hunter was.
Air force one with dad. I dont know if he brought the cracking and end the gun and and and and and his lady friends, but the
vs double standard
lost on nobody. It seems
may even worse than a double standard when it comes to Hillary Clinton, because with tat
What we're talking about is physical
documents that are at this point
What two years old, at least, maybe maybe more than I ever be six years old when we're talking?
Hillary Clinton we're talking about digital documents?
talking about information that is easily hackle. The only way to
The documents in moral ago is if a spy comes in with an axe and knocked down the door and takes the documents when we're talking
Hilarious, unsecured server, we're talking about foreign governments that certainly easily could have access to those documents
almost certainly did and we're talking about documents that were contemporary were taught
My documents that were the case
I'd information that was relevant at the very moment that it was accessible to other people that it was on this home server there.
Incomparable in the sense that what hillary did was much much worse and by the way Hillary was not president, she was merely a secretary of state, would
presumably have even less of a right to have
kinds of documents and insulin we're talking about whether
not the rate is justified. I think all of this is really relevant, because you might point to some provision of the law and say well.
Didn't, have the right to have those papers in his
in his home. First of all, all these other president's did it to, and you ve never seen any kind of raid, certainly not against Hillary Clinton. So how do you conclude anything other than this was apart.
An attack on a political approach
of Joe Biden its unquestionably that and at an hour
out there that there too ostensible hooks
for the raid, one is the print presidential records act which, as I said,
has never been enforced in this way against any other president's. Apparently, the law applies uniquely donald trump because they hate him.
To you somehow, sometimes see people intoning about classified documents, and yet I am reminded
in ninety ninety seven, there is a federal commission, headed by democratic, senator, Daniel Patrick Monaghan,
who described quote. He said secrets and the federal government are what
for anyone with a stamp decides to stamp,
secret and there's a lot of truth to that, I've been doing
classified briefings
and there are things that are classified, that there is no reason whatsoever for them to be classified.
Other than someone put a stamp on him and sometimes because a white house doesn't want public
So one of the favourite moves particular the Biden white house is poor,
Cleaned embarrassing information that is classified stuff like anything like any
explanation of why afghanistan was an absolute cluster was
train wreck was an absent
disaster, all that's classified because oh gosh, that would embarrass democrats
but there is a legal complication and actually a big difference between trump and Hillary Clinton.
It is under the law. It is incredibly differ.
gold bordering on impossible,
charge a precedent with disk
using classified information. Why? Because, under the law, the president is the arbiter of what's classified and what's not a precedent conduct
ass if by any damn document, once by the way, a secretary of state can't
Larry Clinton didn't have the ability to be classified documents, but donald trump did
and so the idea that he was in charge. He can literally, he can read a classified darkening go out on tv and radio on tv and that's under the law. The president has the authority to make a determination, even though its cause
survived I'm de classifying it. So the idea that
we're gonna send in the dream and prosecuted did raise him and to set up a prosecution on that.
legally that that there's no there there now
people have suggested that if you violate this presidential records act that you can be barred from
You improperly handle classified materials that you can be barred from iran
for office again, and then that this is a way for the demo
rats to prevent trump from running in twenty twenty four. Is there any substance to that kind of suggestion.
Oh it's utterly early absurd. It is true
the statute, says that says so, so they do have a statutory hook. That
there is language it says, if you're convicted, you can be barred
constitution sets out the qualifications to be president. I think that statute, if it was
lie to the president would be deemed unconstitutional. The court has repeatedly indecisions decisions like the. U s turn limits. Decisions made clear: you can't
Additional qualifications to run for federal office beyond
the constitutional qualifications. Therein
a constitutional mechanism debar someone from running for subsequent office and that is in peace.
many conviction and an upon conviction.
That is a potential punishment, but the Democrats tried that and failed,
and white, or twice yes,
and so if they went down this ludicrous path and try to prosecute him, I think they would fail.
Prosecution, but they got a conviction.
Tried to argue. He was barred from running for president
They would lose in court. The court would throw that out. They would see
the court would say. The constitution sets the good the qualifications to run for president and that
Fight again,
Raid was an incline contribution. I am
call the Biden, white house, the trump super back at that point because, like if they went down there
Insane rabbit hole you might as well start start
tickets for the inauguration ball, because that that they would,
think even in their derange trump deranged,
Syndrome, their likely to go down that far. That's the sort of thing
MSNBC producers say to each other when their spooning in the back closet and trying to try.
And ten late, but but but it is not a reality that I think exists anywhere on planet earth. Thank you for
image, senator that's really sort of burned into my mind. Now the spooning at MSNBC, speaking of the g man abusing their authority at this time,
directly into one of the spooky as news stories to come out of your place of employment. To come out of the? U s: capital in the: u S, Senate the Senate
It's just voted to give the irs r an additional, I think, what eighty billion dollars and to authorize. Eighty seven thousand edition
I always agents for why too
to authorize all of our tax returns more quickly. No, I think, probably to audit ordinary americans and, if passed, is precedent,
to go after the political opponents of this admin
strain
How worried should we be about that.
We should be very worried
This is about abuse of power.
One of the elements of of the terrible build back broke bill that the democratic just ran through. Ah,
is eighty, seven thousand new iris agents, more than doubling the size of the irs
positions were filled, the irs would have more
more agents,
then the state department, the border patrol the fbi and the pentagon combined.
It is utterly disconnected from what people want. Listen. I campaign all over taxes. All over the country have never heard one person come up to me and say what we really need is tens of thousands of Maura iris agents like that, like there is zero demand
we'll get. You know it's kind of like someone saying we need more gonorrhea in the world or or you know, maybe the bad and white ass. We need more monkey box, I mean it's it's there.
Is not what the people, what.
And you are right, it is designed to go after ordinary americans. It's not designed to go after billionaires is not designed to go after giant corporations by the way this
Bill also has massive subsidies for giant corporations, so the Democrats are perfectly happy to take
or their friends and corporate amerika. This is designed to go after small this businesses. This is designed to go after families. This is designed to sandy a a.
war of a virus agents like locus to descend on america, but even worse,.
overlay at with the pattern of how the by bite administration uses law enforcement. I think they want this too.
We used to harass conservatives to harass republic.
and we saw under Barack Obama the irs targeting conservative groups, tea party groups, pro constitution groups, pro Israel grew
targeting and weaponizing the irs. They want. Eighty,
seven thousand new agents to do this even more an end.
To give you a sense of what they envision, so the irish-
most a job postings. Already they got very excited about this, and and here the job postings they post
It says major duties.
here too, the highest standards of conduct, especially in maintaining honesty and integrity. Ok, that's good,
work a minimum of fifty hours per week, which may include irregular hours and be on call twenty four seven, including holidays and weekends okay. So this is going to be a lot of I r s agents here
the time all right. Ok, what about what? Next
contain a level of fitness necessary to effective.
Respond to life, threatening situations,
on the job care.
A firearm
and be willing to use deadly
force if necessary,
and here is the final bullet point
be willing and able to participate in arrests. Execute
in a search warrant, especially on moral logo,
and other dangerous assignments
other than the morrow logger bed. Every word that
verbatim
in the irish posting it so bad. They pulled down light like
people suddenly noticed, wait. You're advertising for jack booted thugs like that's that's what the
sting says.
Give us leftist with guns to go after conservatives and americans. That's what they want
And the image I have of a typical IRA employee is a sort of
bookish looking fellow with maybe a pocket protect
you're in a green visor on in oak cliff
on his aren't. You look in the mirror. My rob I
there was a softball that I just sent up to you. You know what I usually don't picture, though I usually don't picture rambo, kicking down people's doors,
Conservatives often speak of these government agencies, as being so over the top and aggressive against ordinary americans. Now it seems that the the is admitting it
What they want? Well, it is, and you
is that the sort of lefties on twitter say: oh well, it's just tax cheats and, if you're not doing anything wrong, don't worry about it. We'll apparently they've never been subjected to an I r s audit, because when you have the government come after you number one, it can cost you thousands or tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of dollars to defend yourself and and
and especially in a context where an administration is willing to target their enemies on that inflicting that kind of cost and pain
one of the things I talk about an injustice corrupted I talk.
True the vote. I talk about catherine angle, Brac, using a grass roots activists. She found a group called king straight patriots in here
no catherine. While she found her group called true. The vote
under obama they sent
the dogs to come after everyone went after her, so
so she got audited. She and her husband's business got audited. Oh show went and did did safety inspections. Eighteen,
when, after her husband for having sold years earlier, gun for like two hundred dollars like em,
ray federal agency. They said this.
is
persona non grata, as
MR burns would say really
the hounds? That's what they did. How did it
How did this bill gets through? You were obviously there you were. You were staying up all night. Well, I've been up with my crying newborn child. You are up for it.
Sixteen hours straight and voter rama to terrain,
through this bill. I was really hoping that
The cinema maybe mansion the the moderate dams who have resisted the the most outrageous predictions of the binding administration. I was hoping they wouldn't cave, and yet they
If so, what were they age given ferrari's or something how what what'd Biden due to win their votes?
Unfortunately, there both Democrats
and, and so they had previously stood up and said no, but at the end of the day they gave in this is a terrible bill.
So this bill spends hundreds of billions of dollars in corporate welfare in boondoggles, it's going to be we're going to see a whole lot of solyndra we're going to see a whole lot of quote green energy
companies headed
former democrat staffers with lobbyists that support democrats, who are suddenly getting millions or billions of dollars from the federal government, and that my
he's gonna be allocated, not based on what they can do, but based on who their friends are based on their political influence and they're going to
those millions and billions of dollars and turn around and hold fun razors for Joe Biden and calmly harrison chuck, humor and nancy Pelosi. It's pure police,
go graft, paying off there.
these that's one component, but there's an
a component of it so
even in the Democrats. Keep telling us that they want number one
stop inflation. They ve called this. The inflation reduction act it
truly as an orwellian name. It's like calling a can of gasoline the fire reduction tool like
This will increase inflation. It is literally
hundreds of billions of dollars of yet more spending even Bernie sanders. It admits right, senator Bernie sanders came Annie. He referred to it as the sea
It's called inflation reduction act because even he, a socialist is willing to admit that spending a bunch of money on all this nonsense is is not going to do anything about inflation while and he's understating it because it'll make inflation worse. This will exacerbate inflation. It is, we have,
inflation, because the federal government has spanned hundreds of billions of dollars. It didn't have the damage
solution was, let spend hundreds of billions more that will produce more inflation but
but they actually made it even worse:
because it also includes billions of dollars of new taxes now
Joe Biden every Democrat say they want to lower the price of gas at the pump now they're lying. They don't mean this
lots of reasons. We know they're lying there, lots of things Biden could do to lower prices at the pump. Like stop us
taking oil and gas production in the EU s right with regulations, but on the face,
if this bill imposes billions and new taxes on oil and gas production. If you want prices,
of something to go down. You don't vote
or billions and new taxes. On the thing you're saying we want prices to go down.
and we had once called voter rama. So how does that operate the
all that the Democrats used to pass this. Is the budget act? Nineteen, seventy four and it's what's called reconciliation. We talked about this before the most
important thing about it is it's it's.
A significant exception to the filibuster passing
something on a reconciliation takes only fifty votes, not sixty seven.
limitations. You can't do everything under reconciliation, but you can do a lot. You can do taxes on a reconciliation in do a lot of spending under reconciliation.
so they used budget reconciliation, but one of the consequences of an under the statute. There,
unlimited amendments
and normally the majority, can stop the minority from having amendments, but under
conciliation. It's the one big exception. They can't do that. So we have the ability of the abilities in individual senator to off
as many amendments as I was
and so we were there all night.
and well into the next day offering amendments
we had an amendment on stripping out the gas taxes for all that
I regret to say that I want gas taxes. They don't get one gas prices to go up every single day.
Had voted. No all of them are unrest
voting in
favor of new taxes on oil and gas, which means when you're gasp
so go up. You know who's to blame
Michael, I had four amendments that I forced. I think it was the most of of many of the republicans. All four, I think were important,
one of the amendments. I forced was a simple amendment that that day
did the hiring of eighty seven thousand new iris agents just delete
that from the bill said no we're not doubling the funny the irs we're not hiring
seven thousand new irs agents.
We voted on it. It was fifty fifty every Republican voted. Yes for my amendment, every Democrat voted no that me.
Every single Democrat was the deciding vote.
democrats in georgia, in arizona, nevada, new hampshire. All of them were the deciding vote in favour.
Of eighty seven thousand new iris agents. I had another amendment that
prohibit the federal government from selling oil from our strategic petroleum reserve to communist china, which is
ouch Joe Biden sold over two million barrels of oil communist china from the strategic petroleum reserve.
We voted on it every democrat, but for voted against it. So,
for this particular amendment was sixty vote threshold
so they had some votes to give away
Normally amendments are at a fifty vote threshold, but in this case we had a ruling from the parliamentarian that set it at sixty. So for democrats
the two from georgia.
one from nevada and one from new Hampshire voted with me.
But every other Democrats voted against it so marked kelly in arizona voted for Joe Biden to sell oil paid for by the taxpayers to communist china,
by the way Joe mansion voted for selling oil to communist china. John
still not on the ballot this time, but will be on the ballot in two years. In montana, vote
Four Biden to be able to sell oil, the communist china- these are dumb, dumb votes.
Democrats voted down. Let me time I
two amendments because they're gonna blow you away.
the d c public schools,
implemented a vaccine mandate that they require.
all students in order to go to school, have a covert vaccine and that's kicking in
next week or two in school, starts here. The stats in d
of the students. In d c, roughly eighty five percent of the students have been vaccinated. That means
Fifteen percent of the students have not
so the d c schools have decided to throw fifteen percent
The students out of school,
gets even worse. When you look at the demographics am
African american students and their enormous percentage of the students in DC schools or african american sixty
percent of african american students in the dc public schools are vaccinated. That means forty percent are not. I forced a vote.
To eliminate the d c vaccine mandate for covert every single dammit,
had voted. No every one of them voted literally to throw
Eighty percent of the black kids out of school by and by the way forever to literally europe,
Fourteen year old, african american kid in DC, guess what europe
school drop out now, because every Democrat voted unless
if you comply to their demand, to get this vaccine you're done with schools sucks to be you. It was a stunning,
and every single one of them voted through
those kids at a school I mean
My final amendment
He talked a lot about merit, garland and the fbi.
targeting parents as domestic
arrest under the patriot act and by the way, even though garland tried to backtrack in front
At judiciary committee last,
week we had the head of the fbi in front of us agitation committee. I asked him about it: the fbi,
interviewed has interrogated dozens of parents, because
they spoke up at school board their implementing this. They are doing wes
I guess I remember that they called them. These parents demand
dick terrorists- and you thought yes well, that's just this is insane, but I
least believes there is no way that they are actually going to act on this they're doing it all over the country while while,
that they are doing it all over the country they are bringing in moms and dad's their interrogating them and so on
a simple amendment that said, the fbi,
should not target parents as domestic terrorists. For speaking
but school board, every single Democrat, voted
oh failed by one vote.
That means every Democrat on the ballot november. Is the deciding vote in favour of the fbi targeting you targeting mom and dad as a domestic terrorist, that,
air was an amazingly stupid vote, actually think if they had any sense like if, if shimmer were not
such a wild eyed partisan. He would have told all those guys vote for that. Let's all get on record and say don't target parents as domestic terrorist. That would have been
a rational democrat
responding to that vote. The fact that he said every one of you go go walk the plank, listen this issue single handedly, elected glenn young in virginia and now every Democrat is on record saying why
with the g man going after mom and dad. I it was stunning and radical and extreme
surprising because I
understand the democratic vote on the covered vaccine. The consequences are horrific, but I get it there saying we
or so body and on vaccine mandates. It so important to us were willing to take them.
little heed for this vote, but I think it calling
Parents, domestic terrorists- that's really so important to you
that you're gonna risk what happened to young in Virginia what you, what were seen play out in florida, this
occasion, issue so important right now to voters you're really going to risk that just so that you can keep sticking the federal government and concerned parents and they're saying yes, the Democrats are saying that is important enough to us to risk it
What do you know why they do it Michael they do it because
as they know, the corporate media is corrupt. They know they won't get called out about on it. So you and I are
how about it. But let me ask you,
You seen any tv station talking about that vote.
I see- and I mean only drivers and cnn
we do that we are better ratings and their shows, but you do you're not seeing this anywhere in the liberal press.
It's why Democrats are so radical and so extreme, because there
and again I talk about it in in injustice corrupted which, by the way, everyone gone, amazon and pre order, justice corrupted, you can go. Do it right now about amazon click pre order, but I talk about the corrupt corporate media.
has played a major role in producing this corruption because it tee
As democrats, I can abuse my power and I will
get called out on it.
That there will be no consequences, and so it
if you're a democrat and Europe,
Should I vote on whether or not the f b? I should target parents as domestic terrorist. Well I'll
vote party line because no report and will ask me about it? No headline back home now?
coverage. What nothing will address this issue, so I'm safe and immune. If we have
some campaigns in november that don't suck pienaar actually
but it and capable on the republican side.
Every one of these votes. Auto appeal
your and campaign adds, but before the ads
you, ought to have real journalists asking about it, but the number of read real journalists left in the in the world is is vanishingly small. Before we go senator. Ah speaking of accountability, I want to get to
Just one question from the verdict plus
subscribers, and so this question comes from Eileen
who says
kind of feel like this raid on moral logo could also be a smokescreen for something
else that they want to distract us from they do it all the time does anything come to mind november can't come fast enough, p s I love to but
with you, but I can't find a jack Daniels original recipe any
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Even casey masterpiece is gone. So we're really seeing too,
think disuse brought up in this question I'll. Let you take
in either order. You prefer,
alright so I'll start with with with just a confession that I like to eat barbecue, but I am not much of a barbecue or myself, I have a a big green egg in the backyard that that I'll grill up a burger or a steak on but to beyond.
for good barbecue. I just go to of a texas barbecue, join in and Edith there, so I
I have nothing, nothing a value due to an park in terms of the best way to prepare it. I find them,
way to prepare it, just ordering it
right. The best way to make it make. It has major reservations, fair enough. There are not too good of now think good manly answer.
call it as it is, but you know look. I can grill up a burger or steak that that that that much I can do but, but but my my cooking repertoire
is pretty limited. Look
In terms of a distraction I mean its right to be sceptical.
they're doing a tonne. That is bad.
I don't think this was deliberately a distraction. I think this was tone deaf
Think this was what we
tibet it earlier in the pod the party
Since it d o j, they drunk the kool aid
Every one they know hates donald trump, he is
devil. They believe
and so everyone they know has been like eagerly like you know you, you saw Stephen Colbert who had you know practically an apple.
but exceed seizure. He was so excited.
The fbi raid. I think It'S-
it's it's the bias of reinforcement that they're just tone, deaf and eager
charging, and do I
I think it is a carefully calibrated plan to distract from something specific and otherwise. No is it part of this,
lacking from the disaster of inflation and gas prices and crime and open borders. Yes, so
all of january. Six is a
medical circus, designed to distract from the failures, the Biden agenda. So in
context. This is also a distraction from that, but I dont think its specific
thickly hiding one per day,
killer, pernicious thing in part, because I think they're doing a hundred per day,
his things all at once,
right, never ascribed to for de chess that which is equally
explained by a blunder and incompetence very good,
Now there is much more to discuss, but not with me,
though the rest to discuss, will be for the verdict plus subscribers with our friend
is wheeler on cloakroom lives? What will you be talking about
hi, like all high center. I gotta say after sitting here and watching and listening to this episode for the past hour. This feels very indifferent to me. There have been a lot of federal agencies who of abuse their power and targeted the american people a lot of different times, and I think this time the american p,
I feel that a line has been crossed. I've never seen the emotion
the passion, the fury,
as I've seen this week. I just feels difference on the
Broom senator- and I am addressing this to you because you don't know what we're in talk about. Until I tell you on air we're gonna talk about Alex Jones, I know
interesting topic. There is actually a very interesting legal questions as it pertains to the defamation trial that Alex Jones just underwent about slander and libel and the different types of damages, whether their compensatory, whether their punitive and
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good to hear about it, and I I do want to hear more about the gay frogs. It's amazing that the man was right on the gay frogs. We have to leave it there, I'm Michael Knowles. This is verdict with ted cruz
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