← The 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson
The 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson
We OUT The Fake News Media On Sen. Cruz's Trip To A Yankees Game, Plus We Address The Out Of Control Audience Eruption On The View.
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A
Welcome it's verdict with Ted Cruz. Senator, you had one heck of a week in New York. I'm not sure that they have, have come down from the high of seeing you there at the Yankees game. So let's just start with that before we even get to the view and your book. You went to the game and the world freaked out.
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B
I had the most ridiculous fun over the last couple of days. So it starts off, I go to game four of the alcs, Astros, Yankees. I go with a great friend of mine. We get seats right behind home plate, directly behind home plate. Now I'm a die hard Astros guy. I grew up as a kid, my parents, we had, we had season tickets to the Astros when I was a kid.
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A
At the old stadium at the, at the Astrodome. No, no, no, we're going back old.
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B
School a long time ago. So I'm behind home plate and listen, if you're going, of course you dress you and you and I went to game two of the ALCS together.
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A
Oh yeah, thank you by the way for that invite. That was a blast.
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B
That was awesome. We won that. But then again, we won game one, we won game two, we won game three. So game four is the friggin elimination game. So I flew to New York, I'm sitting behind own plate, of course, I'm wearing bright orange, my Astro shirt.
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A
What do you do?
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B
Like you either go down and you, you like root for the home team and screw them. And so that's where I was. And, and listen, I, I got to admit going in, we're like, okay, Yankee Stadium. I never been to Yankee Stadium.
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A
You never have?
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B
No, never have.
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A
And, and for anyone, that's a baseball truist. Like Yankee Stadium is Yankee Stadium. In a discussion, it's, it's a bucket list.
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B
And the Yankees are a dangerous team. I'll confess actually going in, I was not super optimistic. I thought we were going to beat the Yankees, but I thought they're too good a team for us to sweep. I thought we'd beat them in five or six. I thought they'll pull out game four, which is okay, but went in and it was, it was so everybody in.
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A
The news acted like that. You walked in and you're Satan, right? Reincarnated, you show up. That's not actually true.
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B
Like it is the very definition of fake news. So I didn't know what the reaction is. I have to admit I sat down with my buddy and I'm like, okay, I'm going to Yankee Stadium. I'm celebrating what hopefully is A sweep?
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A
Yeah.
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B
They're going to be pissed. And so I'm like, all right, is some guy going to, like, throw a beer on me? Is some guy going to walk up and punch me in the face? Like, what's going to happen?
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A
You're prepared?
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B
Yeah. Like, I'm like, all right, I. I get it. But I have to say, I was blown away. I probably took 150 pictures with Yankees fans who came up and, like, the degree to which, like, you have these big New Yorkers who are hugging me and, like, we took selfies the whole time. Now, what happened? Sixth inning, I go to the men's room, I'm walking out, and there are three guys that flip the bird at me. And I would say, in the entire course of the game, nine innings, I probably had, I don't know, 30, 40 people suggest I do something that is anatomically impossible. And that's all right. You're at a baseball game. What are they gonna say?
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A
Yeah, exactly.
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B
You know, they're gonna yell. And there was one jackass, I don't even know who it was, who put this little TikTok video of him yelling and cursing at me about, blah, blah, blah, I'm a leftist, I hate America, blah, blah, blah. I didn't even know what he was saying. He was like, up further in the stands. Of course, that's what the media ran with.
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A
Well, yeah, if it bleeds, it leads. And if it's flicking off, you, it leads. And it got front page, which still, by the way, I would have lost a bet on that. If you would have said, ted Cruz going to the Yankees game will get front page of the next day of the newspapers in New York. I would be like, there's no way it'll be the game. Nope, you're there.
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B
And I got to tell you, look, I'm a happy warrior. I'm smiling, I'm laughing. But every time the Astros got a damn hit, I'm standing up, waving, cheering, I'm, like, surrounded by Yankees, okay? So in the seat behind me, there is this gorgeous woman in a halter top that everybody saw.
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A
It was trending on social media. So, I mean, it was. It was like I was laughing because I was watching the game at home. My phone's blowing up. They're like, are you at the game? Are you at the game? Like, no, I'm. I'm a commoner. I'm back at home. I'm watching this on tv. And then everybody's tweeting me or texting me, going, who is that? Sitting behind him. Because it was like, if you're you, you had to focus on the game and make sure no one took a picture, that they're like, oh, look, Ted Cruz.
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B
So I will say my buddy Jeff leaning next to me, he sort of leans over and tells me, okay, she's behind you. She's selling an nft. So she had some sign and she's selling it. And she has to use the Monty Python phrase, she has great tracks of land. So he tells me this, and I'm like, okay, all we need is one video of me turning around and my eyes shifting down like they're 24 frames in a second.
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A
Yep, that's all you need.
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B
1/24 of a second. I look down and that's an image they go with. Yeah. And I have to admit, the whole damn game, I'm like, I'm looking forward. Or if I turn around, my eyes are up. Damn it. You are not.
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A
You're looking in the upper deck.
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B
But like, I. It just so that. That was. And she was actually very nice. We actually, she and I took a selfie. We were one of the many people that took a selfie early on. It was before she was wearing a jacket or something because it was when she looked normal.
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A
There you go.
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B
She.
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A
She was just before she was trying.
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B
To sell sort of the fan behind me until she wasn't.
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A
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B
By the way, do you know who was sitting in front of me?
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A
Who? I saw the guy at the end of the game. He was messing with you a little bit on TV in front of you, and kind of. Y'all were laughing. It was pretty funny.
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B
So the guy next to us was a Yankees fan, and we were just giving each other crap the whole time. And he. But he was. He was not a jerk. And we bought each other drinks and we were laughing and having fun. But it was.
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A
It was good rivalry.
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B
It was a good time. But in front of me and two seats over was Lorne Michaels.
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A
Really?
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B
From snl?
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A
I was gonna say, so people that don't know Lorne Michaels, the. The God of snl.
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B
All right, so.
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A
So he asked you to. Did he ask you if you're gonna host? Like, because you should say yes.
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B
All right, so I leaned over and introduced myself, and I said, lauren, I gotta tell you, I grew up watching snl. Like, like, and. And he said to me. His response is. He said, so did I. I'm like, yeah, but I was six.
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A
Yeah.
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B
Like, Lauren's a lot older than I am. I'm like, dude. I said, I pro 500 SNLs in my life. Like, I literally. I love good comedy, and SNL is fantastic. And. And I did say, I. I leaned in and said, I. I gotta tell you, you guys were funnier before you became so political. Like, like, it was.
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A
What did he say?
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B
He just sort of frowned. He didn't engage. Later on, I asked him a question. I said, all right, of all the comedians you've ever had on the show, who was the funniest? Who? Did you sit back and, like, say, holy crap, that guy is a phenomenon? And I don't want to out him with his answer because I think that's probably not right. But I'll tell you what my answer was. So I told him what I thought, and I said, young Eddie Murphy. When he was 18, 19 years old in the 70s, Eddie Murphy was. Look, he's such a talent. And I'm an old fan of Delirious and Raw and the Standups, which every sentence of is politically incorrect. Anyone who knows those routines, Dexter St. Jock. I'm not going to do any more of that, because even in. In today's mild world, I'd probably be canceled for acknowledging that. But young Eddie Murphy was. Was one of the greatest comedic talents of modern day.
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A
So you're there at the game. A lot of people don't realize you were at the game. Honestly, dumb luck, because you were on the View scheduled the next morning. You got to fly up the night before Jeff suckers you into this terrible deal of good seats sitting there on tv, everyone that's a liberal hating on you, Republicans loving on you. And I, and I just played part of Whoopi there, so by accident. But. But you went on the View the next day. And I'm going to play that in a moment for people that are listening. But you go up there and this is just like the perk of the trip. It turns into the story, and then the media comes after you, and then you get to the View and, And basically Anavara immediately steps in and is like, well, we, we at least clap when we introduced you today on this book tour event, you know, at the View. And we're nicer in our audience than they were to you last night. Which goes back to the fake news, because you were taking selfies with everybody.
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B
Yeah, no, it literally, it's the front page of the new New York Daily News. It's the, like, they, the press hammered me. The Houston Chronicle back home said, you know, Bronx year. And it's true, a few people flipped me off. I will tell you, when you and I were at the Astros game in Houston, there were some Yankees fans there. You remember what I told them? I said, listen, we're going to be polite to you, we're going to be nice to you, we're going to be kind to you, and then we're going to kick your ass. Yeah, but we'll do it with a smile. And they actually laughed. And that's. I mean, I was at game six when we beat, beat the Yankees, the ALCS a couple of years ago, we did the same thing where we're nice to the Yankees fans, but winning is better. All right, so the View.
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A
Winning is better.
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B
Always the View. That's why I went to New York, was to do the View. And listen, it's not a stretch to say the View is, is. Is not one of us, doesn't agree with us. So we go to the View. We know that the host, the ladies there are not our friends. They don't agree with us. Yes, but, but I'm going to go into the belly of the beast. I'm going to go speak the truth. And, and by the way, look, I've talked a lot of times about, I think as conservatives, we spend too much time preaching to the choir. We spend too much time Talking to the 2.6 million people on Fox News. God love the choir. They need the love. But we gotta talk to young people, we gotta talk to Hispanics, we gotta talk to African Americans. We need to talk to suburban moms. There are millions of people every day who listen to the View, who are just listening to left wing propaganda. So I went on there to try to give them a moment of truth, because they're getting hammered by the crazy policies from Washington, and they're certainly not hearing about it on the View. And so I went on. They're expecting some fireworks, but as much fireworks as I was expecting, I underestimated it.
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A
You and I had a conversation before the View. Let's pull back the curtain on this about what to expect. And we had people that gave us advice that have dealt with the View, and everything that we said we thought would happen literally happened. The. The audience was clearly purposely stacked, I think, against you.
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B
Well, but beyond that. So what happened? We get just a couple of minutes into it, and a couple of audience members stand up and begin screaming. And. And I think you got.
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A
We have that audio. This is. There's 15 seconds of screaming, by the way, for everybody before I'm gonna play this, because otherwise you just. And you're trying to stay focused.
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B
Yeah.
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A
You're trying to. And you're live on.
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B
Answer the question. We're on live tv.
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A
Yeah. And you did exactly what you're supposed to do. Keep going. Powering through. But I love how the View lost control of their own show and their own audience to the point where they had to reprimand their own audience. And this is how it sounded.
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B
Money in history we've ever taken in. The problem is we spent nearly $7 trillion, and that's what we do.
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A
Cover climate here, guys. We do cover climate.
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B
Ladies, ladies, excuse us. Let us do our job. Let us do our job. We hear what you have to say, but you gotta go.
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A
But you got to go. So did they kick them out? Because we didn't get to see this. They didn't go to the audience, obviously.
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B
So they kicked him out. It was a. It was two climate protesters. They weren't even protesting me. It was actually kind of funny. They were protesting climate in general. And they were. And the quip, which. Which I said at the time, which they did air. I said, it's a good thing you guys don't have a Van Gogh, you.
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A
Know, because now they're just trashing art all over the world.
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B
You know, these jackasses would throw a can of soup on it. And so they were standing there screaming about client Climate. The thing that was interesting is the hosts were freaking out. And what they told me, they said, this has never happened in the history of our show. We've never had anyone do this. And I actually think it freaked them out. So it took a while. They're standing there screaming, we're doing the show. The show security was not on the ball because they let them stand there and scream. There was actually a second interruption later in the show, a couple of minutes later.
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A
And that was towards you. That was the F bombs. Right?
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Well, so it was someone standing up. It was some lady standing up who had this, this flag and it had a circle with an hourglass sign in it. And I don't know, apparently it's some leftist organization. It wasn't even anarchist. I don't know what the damn thing means. But she just began screaming fu fu F you like at the top of her lungs. And so they just bleeped it out and it went to break and they just. It was supposed to be initially about an eight minute segment and they ended up closing it at about 4 because they're like, okay, we've got an audience member screaming the F bomb on national television. This is probably a problem.
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A
So when they, who did they walk on their own accord or they have to like get security to literally like lift them and drag them out?
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B
They didn't lift them and drag them out, but security escorted them out and. And in the commercial break, the host gave a big lecture to the audience. Don't do this. We don't have. Then they said, we don't have a mic on the audience. We won't air what you're saying, so don't do this. And nobody else did.
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A
I loved it because I thought it was just so all encompassing of the hatred and the bigotry towards the grand debate of ideas. And the view claims they're about the views of Americans, right? The views of everybody. And that they're supposed to be this place. We have a grand debate. They're not anymore. And even their audience members, I think prove that point well.
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B
And look, it was striking that there were a couple of times in particular that we really got into substance. One time was was talking about election denial. And listen, as leftists, they sort of talk the, you know, so they asked the question, you know, will you admit right now Joe Biden was legitimately elected and his election was hunky dory and fantastic and will you salute and kiss Biden's derriere?
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Yeah.
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And I'm like, no, he, he is the president and that was the best.
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Response that you could have had.
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B
And I also pointed out, I said, listen, you guys repeatedly insist that Republicans take this pledge. Everything was legitimate. And I said, you're totally hypocrites because Democrats come on all the time on your damn show and attack the legitimacy of Republicans being elected. And you not only don't disagree with them, you agree with them and embrace them. And I think you got another clue.
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A
I was gonna say, you go back to the history here. There was a part with Hillary Clinton, and you clearly were ready. You did your homework, and you brought up that, hey, it was Hillary Clinton who went on the views and delegitimized. And by the way, I don't know if you saw the state because you've been traveling, but Hillary Clinton actually came out today already saying that the Republicans are going to steal the midterm elections.
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B
She is.
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A
And came out and said, get ready for it, because if they do win the House in the Senate, it's illegitimate. No one's freaking out, by the way, and calling her out for that either. Like, they're not doing it.
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B
Well, I lit her up today on.
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Radio, but, well, good, I'm glad. Listen to Anna Navarro getting triggered when you started listing all the Democrats denying election results. And then she tells you, and I love this because I know her, I know her well. She says she calls you by your first name, Ted. Right? That's her, like, power play, which is classic. And on Navarro would not exist if it wasn't for yelling. She got hired as being an angry woman on cnn. Like, that's what her whole shtick was. And then she tries to tell you, like, you should be quiet when there's, like, how many people coming after you at the same point.
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B
Listen, Hillary Clinton didn't say whatever she didn't say, I'm saying to you, listen. And she said, we're sitting here. And you were fine with her saying it was illegitimate for Republicans to win. She called Donald Trump the next morning, and she conceded the election. Ted. Okay, all right. She sat there while, while Donald Trump is an illegitimate president, Hillary Clinton.
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Now, you pulled this. If people miss this, you pulled out the exact quotes on a piece of paper. You were ready for this.
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B
Headlines. I had copies of the headline press stories. So I'm reading press stories.
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And you probably didn't see this from the view that, that I did, no pun intended. But watching all of their faces go to, oh, blank moment because they realize they stepped in it and they couldn't get out of it. So the only option was for Annavar to say, well, we need to calm down at the table.
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B
Election is stolen from you. Hillary Clinton in 2002, George W. Bush was selected not elected. Joe Biden. Al Gore was elected president. So Joe Biden, Yeah.
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I love it. We don't scream at each other.
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B
Right?
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We don't scream each other. They knew they were busted. You own them on the fact that they allowed their show to have Hillary Clinton say over and over again that the election was illegitimate.
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B
So the wild hypocrisy. Hillary Clinton went on the View and said Donald Trump's election was illegitimate. They all agreed with it. Stacey Abrams went on their show and said that Kemp's beating her in Georgia for governor was illegitimate. They all agreed with it. Not only that, though, I pointed out the ridiculousness of Benny Thompson, the chairman of the kangaroo court, that is the January 6th committee objected to the certification of a Republican president. Jamie Raskin, the lead impeachment manager for the Democrats, going after Donald Trump. One of his very first act in Congress was to object to, to the certification of a Republican president. Democrats have been doing this for over 20 years. Actually longer than that. But not only that, it wasn't just Donald Trump, you might say, okay, Donald Trump broke their minds. And so they all lost their minds. They did this to George W. Bush. Joe Biden claimed in 2000, Al Gore was elected president. He said the election was illegitimate. And so the utter hypocrisy. And you know what Whoopi said and Anna said and all them, they said, oh, no, it's completely true. When it's Republicans. When it's Republicans, it's illegitimate. If a Democrat wins, you cannot say it's illegitimate. I mean, they demonstrated the rank hypocrisy. And it.
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A
Well, and they were obsessed with January 6th. They were trying to tie you, obviously, to January 6th. You brought up, let's be clear about violence, and that includes antifa. And then Whoopi actually said she doesn't know what an antifa riot was. Had no clue what that even means.
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B
No. You know, here's the thing. We may not like when Republicans win, but we don't go and we don't storm. We don't try to change. But did I miss an entire year of antifa riots where cities across this country were burning, Police cars are being fired. Your position is the left doesn't engage in violence. Really?
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A
The left made a career over the last year and a half, two years of. They set up their own countries. Well, remember the city of Chaz that turned to the city of what was it?
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B
Chop. It became Chop Chaz.
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A
And then something else after that, like the police abandoned it and said, we can't handle it.
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B
So the entire reason I went on the View is that yesterday my new book came out. The book is justice how the Left Has Weaponized the Legal System. By the way, it shot to the top of the of the Amazon bestseller list. People are pre ordering it and buying it. But I went on the View to talk about it and one of the things I talk about as great length is the violence of the antifa and Black Lives Matter riots. Riots all over the country that burned cities, that firebombed police cars that murdered people. And by the way, the Democrats didn't just turn to blind eye, they celebrated it. Kamala Harris raised bail money to bail out of jail violent rioters destroying cities. And you know, it really does strike to the heart of the corrupt corporate media that Whoopi's reaction is, I don't know what an antifa riot is. I mean, I want you to think of all the moms at home who are listening to the View, who, what they hear is this sanitized problem every day. If what they're hearing is there is no such thing as an antifa riot. It is a stunning. There's value to going into the belly of the beast, whether it's Yankee Stadium or the View. There's value to standing up as a happy warrior. So I'm smiling throughout all of this. They're losing their minds. Their hair is on fire, which is.
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A
When you know you're winning.
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B
It's truth is powerful. And you can say truth with joy and it is powerful. But look, also in the book Justice Corrupted, I talk about, I tell the inside story of January 6th. It's actually the first book that has been written from anyone that tells the real inside story of what happens on January 6th. I was standing on the Senate floor objecting, leading the Senate objections, when January six unfolded. And so I walked, walked through in the book what happened there. Donald Trump called me and asked me to personally argue the U.S. supreme Court case if the court had taken the case. And so the book, I tell that story, I bring people inside. And I think it's valuable to go on the View and to go in hostile environments and try to speak truth in an environment where truth is usually absent.
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A
There's something interesting you just mentioned. I want people to grab the book, obviously, preorder it, grab it wherever you want to.
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B
It's not even preordered. It's now on Amazon, by the way, it's in bookstores. It is widely in bookstores. I'm in the middle of the national bus tour. We've had several people come in, they went to the bookstore, bought the book, and I'm signing the book on the bus tour because they went and bought it and brought it to the tour today.
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A
I was at the airport flying here to Nashville, where we are right now as we record this for the bus tour. And it was in the airport today, which was, which was nice to see it there. But for people that don't understand, you were there January 6th? Yes, and I think there's some people that don't understand that. What is, you think the biggest lie of that day? Because you experienced it, you were there, you could see it on the View. There's an obsession, yes, I would say an unhealthy obsession with January6. Democrats feel like it's the only thing they have right now that's powerful going into the midterms.
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B
And by the way, in my experience, nobody outside of the Washington Beltway or the, or the New York media elite gives a flip about January 6th. It's the most bizarre thing. When you talk to reporters in Washington, it's all they ask about. When you talked about people like the View, it's all they care about. When you get back in Texas or look, I'm in the middle of a 17 state bus tour. I was in North Carolina earlier today. I'm in Tennessee today. I was in Ohio before that. Virginia, Maryland, wherever you go, nobody in real America gives a damn about this. It is an obsession of leftists. I would say there are two lies at the heart of the media twisting of January 6th. One is their lie that voter fraud doesn't exist. And anyone who says voter fraud exists is a crazy tinfoil hat wearing conspiracy theorists. And the reality is voter fraud has been an aspect of elections from literally the very first time anyone had an election. When the cavemen got together and voted on the Grand Poobah, somebody stuffed the damn ballot box. That is human nature. That's what people do and listen. I've spent more than 20 years fighting for election integrity, fighting against voter fraud. I led a coalition of states in front of the U.S. supreme Court defending photo ID laws for election because it's a powerful tool to stop voter fraud. And we won six. Three. In an opinion that Justice John Paul Stevens, one of the noted liberals of the court, wrote saying photo ID for elections protects the integrity of elections and prevents people from having their votes stolen. What is weird about the world Post January 6th is the media and Democrats treat it as if anyone saying voter fraud exists is a nutcase and they're.
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Domestic terrorists in their minds.
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It is utterly ahistorical. And by the way, cnn, you take someone like Jake Tapper who refers to anyone worried about voter fraud as an insurrectionist. Yeah, it is bizarre. So that's one lie is the notion that voter fraud doesn't exist. There was real and substantial evidence of voter fraud in the 2020 election. Very disturbing. Democrats took advantage of the COVID pandemic to loosen restrictions to set up drop boxes that you could drop things off in the middle of the night. States like Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania state constitution prohibits mail in ballots except in very limited circumstances. Pennsylvania, they allowed universal mail in ballots. By the way, mail in ballots have long been acknowledged as a source of voter fraud. It makes it easier to engage in voter fraud. Pennsylvania did so directly contrary to the Pennsylvania state Constitution. In the book Justice Corrupted, I walk through these various facts and by the way, one of the talking points leftists use as well, there were 60 some odd cases against them and they all lost. There's some truth to that, but what I point out in the book is the vast majority of those cases were not decided on the merits. In other words, the court never determined was there voter fraud or not. The court threw them out on procedural grounds, the court threw them out on standing, the court threw them out on timing of when the case was brought. So nobody looked to the underlying facts. So I walked through that in great length. But the other big lie. So listen, on January 6, there were some people who engaged in acts of violence. There are some people who assaulted police officers. My view is real simple. If you engage in an act of violence, you should be prosecuted. If you assault a police officer, you should go to jail a long time. And, and that's true whether I agree with your politics or disagree. If you're right wing or left wing or wherever your views are, you hurt a cop, you're going to jail and you're going to live in a 6 by 8 concrete cell for a long time. That is rule of law and justice. But what the Democrats and the media and the Biden DOJ have done is they've taken the violent actions of a limited number of people on that day and they've used it to try to slander and paint the tens of thousands of peaceful protesters. The day after January 6, obviously January 7, I was in the BWI Airport and there were dozens of little old ladies who were there and they came up to me and they were hugging me and they were crying and they said, listen, I was on the Mall, I was waving flags, American flags, singing God Bless America.
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They weren't going to the Capitol to invade.
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And now the press is calling me a terrorist. And they were literally hugging me and crying. Why is this happening? And what the press and the Democrats and the Biden DOJ have done is number one, attack everyone engaged in a peaceful protest. And you've got a First Amendment right to engage in peaceful protest. And there were thousands of patriots who came to Washington on January 6th to speak out in support of our nation. But they tried more broadly to paint every person who voted for Donald Trump. I voted for Donald Trump as a terrorist.
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If you vote for Trump, if you like Trump, you're a terrorist. That's what they were trying to paint that picture on. The View as well.
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And by the way, the ridiculous kabuki theater. For four, four or five months after January 6th, Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer erected fences with razor wire around the United States Capitol. They stationed National Guardsmen who were holding machine guns with no magazines. They had no bullets. So they were literally scary props. And I would go talk to them and actually the red state governors brought their guardsmen home pretty quickly. It was clear that this was pure political theater. This was not actually responding to a real threat. So the only guardsmen that were there were from blue states like New York, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Connecticut. And I go talk to the guardsmen all the time. And I gotta tell you, almost to a person, they were pissed because they got that they were being used as props in political theater. And by the way, these are guardsmen who have jobs, who have families who got called up, and they're standing there in camos holding scary looking machine guns with no bullets in them. Barney Fife in order for. What Pelosi and Schumer wanted to say is every Republican in America is a dangerous terrorist and you should be scared of them. And I gotta say, those guardsmen were understandably. Why am I away from my kids to stand here as a prop?
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There's, there's another issue that I want to bring up before and again, grab the book. It's out. Make sure you get it. But there's another political issue that I want to bring up real quick and I'm sure you saw this today. I think this is a massive victory. The New York Supreme Court has reinstated all employees fired for being unvaccinated and, and they are ordering back pay. The state Supreme Court found that Being vaccinated does not stop the spread of COVID 19. Let me say that again. The state Supreme Court found that being vaccinated does not stop the spread of COVID 19. If you don't believe me, CDC Director just got Covid again and she's double boosted, double vax. I think I.
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B
She said six boosters.
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A
Is it six now?
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I believe that's right.
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I mean, she's got to have the most of anybody because that's her job to, you know, pimp it. And it was just a month ago she got her last booster of the vaccine. But when the New York Supreme Court reinstated all of these employees who were fired for not being vaccinated, ordered the back pay, saying their rights had been violated, I think there was a moment for so many American senator that just said hallelujah. Finally, because New York City fired roughly 1,400 employees for being unvaccinated earlier this year after the city adopted a vaccine mandate under the former mayor, Bill de Blasio. Now, the que. The reason why I ask you about this is there's some of you saying, okay, well, what does this mean for all of the people in the military who were put, basically their careers stopped, they're not allowable to be deployed. They're not getting the jobs that they're supposed to be having. Is this going to then tie into that in the future?
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So I hope so. There's litigation going on all across the country. These vaccine mandates are ridiculous. They're illegal, they're abusive, they're wrong. I've been leading the fight in the Senate against them from day one. My view on the vaccine is simple. If you choose to get the vaccine, that's your right. You ought to be able to choose to do that. And if you choose not to, that's your right. And you ought to be able to choose to do that. And there should be no government mandate. There should be no school forcing you to do it. There should be no employer forcing you to do it. You shouldn't lose your job. You know, Joe Biden issued four different vaccine mandates as president. One applied to active duty military. Another applied to federal civilian employees. Another applied to federal contractors, people who do business with the federal government. And the fourth one applied to, to large employers, anyone that had 100 or more employees. All of them, I believe, were an absolute abuse of power and were illegal. All of them have been challenged in court. The one that applied to private employers, a hundred more employees, has been struck, struck down. It went all the way up to the Supreme Court. It was struck down, it was illegal. It was contrary to federal law. So that one is not in effect. Although even after the court of appeals had stayed that order, the White House press secretary stood up and said, everyone should follow it anyway. So a court has ordered that this is illegal, but never mind what the courts say. Followed anyway. And I think the White House was very cynically engaged in a game where they said, we know what we're doing is illegal, but a bunch of people will obey our order not knowing that it's illegal, and then it'll be too late. They'll already obeyed us. The other mandates are at various stages of litigation. And I gotta tell you, I've engaged in that litigation. I've led amicus brief. So amicus. So an amicus curiae brief is. Is. Is Latin for friend of the court. And those are briefs that are written by people that are not parties to the litigation, but they come in and have views. And I've led amicus briefs in multiple cases against vaccine mandates. Defending Navy SEALs, defending servicemen and women. Look, I've talked to Navy SEALs who spent 10, 15 years training, defending the nation, going to some of the roughest combat situations you could imagine. And these idiots in this White House are trying to fire these Navy seals because they've made the decision that they don't want to get a COVID vaccine. It's wrong, it's immoral. Those cases are ongoing, but the New York decision is a big victory. It's exactly right. And it.
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If you can win in New York, I think there's now feeling that you can win anywhere with this.
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Look, and on the merits of it, we had a senior executive at Pfizer testifying in Europe who said, we never tested whether the vaccine prevents the transmission of COVID Now, mind you, these abusive bureaucrats, and top of that list is Anthony Fauci, who I think is the most dangerous and the most harmful bureaucrat in the history of our country, which is quite a. Quite a distinction. They repeatedly told us, take the vaccine. It stops vaccination, it stops transmission. Yeah, well, that's an interesting theory. You could understand how it could be true, but it would seem kind of relevant that the maker of one of the top most predominant vaccines said, we never even tested. We never even looked to assess whether the vaccine stops the transmission of the virus. That is a profound indication that when Foushee and the other despots were demanding, everyone must get the vaccine, regardless of what you think, because we're telling you it stops transmission, they had zero scientific Basis zero data backing it up. It was politics. It wasn't science. It wasn't medicine.
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It's going to be very interesting to see how people move forward with this. I think you, like you said, that New York Supreme Court ruling, saying what they said, that they were. It was an outright violation of these people's rights is huge. And saying being vaccinated is something they should have never. They should have never been fired. And ordering back pay is a victory for everybody's right to decide what's best for them.
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And by the way, I'll tell you. So I've spent for the last several years, I've either been the chairman or the ranking member of the Aviation Subcommittee in the Senate Commerce Committee. So I've had jurisdiction over all of aviation. We had a hearing with the CEOs of the big airlines. The airlines varied in terms of how they handled this. They were all federal contractors. So they were facing the Biden White House trying to really pressure them into enforcing a vaccine mandate. Some of the airlines did an admirable job. Southwest Airlines, Gary Kelly stood up and said, we are not going to force anyone to get a vaccine. They were fighting the White House. It was hard. But Southwest did the right thing. Delta, by and large, did, did. Did the same thing. American did the same thing. The one that was terrible of the major airlines was United. And the United CEO is a big supporter of the Biden White House. He was trying to curry favor with the Biden White House. And so they said, we are going to mandate that our employees get the COVID vaccine. And if you don't get the COVID vaccine, you're fired. And There were over 2000 United pilots, United flight attendants, ticket agent, baggage handlers that they fired. You're not getting the vaccine. Your job is done. And so we had a hearing in the Senate where the United CEO, I ripped him a new one. And I read through letters that I've gotten from United employees. And look, Houston is a big hub for United, so there are tens of thousands of United employees who live in Houston, my hometown. Your adopted hometown.
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Yeah.
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And I read through letters of people who spent decades with United who these jackasses fired because they didn't comply with the mandate. And even if, by the way, they had a medical reason, they didn't get the mandate. Sometimes people had other medical conditions and their doctors advised them, don't get the vaccine. Didn't matter. If they had a religious objection, didn't matter. United just came down with a club, and I unloaded on it and I will tell you that public pressure, I played a part in it, others played a part in it, caused United to change their policy and to bring those employees back. And I fly United all the time. And it has been literally dozens, if not hundreds of times I've had United employees come up to me, flight attendants, pilots who just say thank you. Nobody was fighting for us. Thank you for standing up and fighting for us. So it makes a difference when you.
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Go out and fight?
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Yes.
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Whether it's in New York, in the stands, whether it's at the View, or whether it's with United. Last question for you. Are we going to see you on tv? Is your buddy Jeff going to get the good tickets to be on TV again for the World Series? That really is what we should end on today.
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So, look, I'm agonizing about.
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It needs to be the first three rows, just so you know. I'm not trying to put pressure, but it needs to be the first three rows.
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I am agonizing over that because I'm in the middle of a 17 state bus tour. So I am right now scheduled to be all over the country trying to retake the Senate and retake the House. But the Astros, listen, we're in the six. We've been in the six alcs in a row. We're in the fourth World Series out of six. It is insane. And one thing you know, but. But folks at home may not know, the baseball playoffs have become a really important thing to me in my family, with my girls. So 2017, the World Series. I had tickets to game three, four and five of the World Series. Game three. I took my dad. Really cool. To go with your dad to the World Series.
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Lifetime memory.
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Yeah. As a kid, I went with my dad. We had season tickets. So it was awesome. Game four, I took Heidi. That actually was a mistake. Heidi doesn't give a damn about sports. She doesn't care about baseball. She was bored out of her mind. It was like, bad, bad mistake. And by the way, game four, all right, So I was sitting actually in seats pretty comparable to where I was at the Yankee Stadium. It was behind home, home plate. I think it was third row. Very good friend of mine, his seats. I arrived slightly late to the game. I arrived in the second inning because I had a speech that I had to give north of Houston. So I get there in the second inning and my buddy hands me a red wine. And I'm sitting there and my phone lights up within minutes, including my buddy Jeff, who's texting me, dude, what the hell Is wrong with you?
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Yeah, you're in America's baseball game.
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And I turned to my friend who had invited me to sit there, and I'm like, all right, are you actually trying to run the oppo attack ads against me? I know how to go to a baseball game. Give me a damn Bud Light and a hot dog. Like, I'm not a communist.
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Hashtag America.
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So by the third inning, I had a Bud Light and a hot dog. But there was one inning that was really painful. And I asked my friend. I'm like, should I put my pinky up while I'm drinking the red wine? It was terrible.
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Yeah, I don't care if it comes out of a box or can. If it's red wine in a baseball game, don't drink it.
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B
Wrong. Wrong. Okay. So game five. Game five, I brought my youngest daughter, Catherine. Now, game five was on October 28th, and I remember it because it was the day after Catherine's eighth birthday, and she went with me, and it's an interesting testament to the times. So when you and I went to the baseball, right now I have a security detail that protects me. Unfortunately, we're just living an angry time where people are not threats, making threats, and they make threats.
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A
That's the way it is.
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So in 2017, I didn't have a detail. It was literally just Catherine and me. It was daddy and daughter, the two of us. I had no staff. I had no detail. It was just the two of us. And we sat there, and if you remember game five of the 2017 World Series, that's the one that went till about 1:30 in the morning. And it was on. It was up and down, and it was dramatic. And Catherine and I are hugging and dancing and crying and celebrating, and we won game five. And I told her afterwards, I said, sweetheart, you don't appreciate this now, but you will. You will tell your grandkids you were here tonight, and you have just witnessed the greatest baseball game in the history of Houston Astros. Like, there's never been another one like it. There never will be since then. So it became a thing that for y'all that Catherine and I do together. So it's my eldest daughter, Caroline. She's not really into baseball. She doesn't really want to go. But Catherine. Catherine's a softball player. She's a very good softball player.
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And Catherine's held.
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Now, Catherine is 11. She turns 12 on October 27th. So. So in. In.
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I was just say, I'm thinking a World Series ticket would be a good gift.
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So we have gone for the last five years. I take Catherine to the playoffs and it's just become a daddy daughter thing that we go together. And she's such a good softball player. That will be like, I'll try to explain. Okay. What's going on? All right. There's a drop, third strike. She's like, dad. Yeah, I know what that is. Come on. That's like, everyone knows that. And it has become, I think, one of my favorite things in life to go with my little kooky bear, my little Katherine and the two of us going to baseball. I don't know if we're going to get to this World Series because the one game I could go to is Saturday, but Catherine is having 10 little girls, 10, 10, 11 and 12 year old girls spend the night at her house.
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You're going to lose that battle.
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Yeah. So I'm. We may not make it to a World Series because I may be on the bus tour campaigning retake America. I hope we do. I don't have a great answer to that. But I'll tell you this.
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We'll keep you posted of my friends out there. We'll keep you posted. And if it goes to the other, you know, there's a couple games on the road. You could always just, you know, make it up there for those.
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B
You know what I'm, I'm making. Do you know the Phillies?
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A
I've never been. I've never been to Philly.
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B
I don't think that's a promise you can deliver.
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A
Really? Is it that nasty? I know the Eagles fans, but that's a little different.
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B
City of brotherly love.
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Yeah.
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B
Okay. It's the only stadium I know where they throw batteries at the opposing players.
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Valid point. Valid point.
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So we'll see. I'm not holding my breath on going to a game in Philadelphia. I hope we win. I'm going to be cheering them on and, and I will say one of the greatest joys in life has been going. And I've told Catherine, I'm like, this is. This will never happen again. That we have a period where this team is so good for so long that we get to.
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You don't take it for granted because it may not happen for 20 more years. Welcome to baseball.
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Yes.
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If you don't believe me, call the Cubs. They'll explain it all to you.
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B
That's or, you know, the curse of the Bambino, you know, I mean, how long did that last exactly?
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Boston. There's so many examples of this. Senator, this is really fun. I love that we Got to pull back the curtain a little bit on the View the book. Most importantly for people listening right now. You can grab it everywhere. It's out. Name of the book, one more time so people know where to get it.
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Justice Corrupted how the left Has Weaponized the Legal System. You can get it on Amazon, you can get it in Barnes and Nobles, you can get it in books a million. Wherever you get your books, you can get it at Sam's Club. But. But go buy the book and I think you'll enjoy it. It actually, it was fun writing it. I like writing books. I try to tell stories. What I try to do in the books is, what we try to do in the podcast is, which is I try to take readers behind the curtain. I try to take them behind the scenes to understand what's really going on. And I do think the topic of this book is really important right now. And so I think you'll enjoy it. I think you'll learn from it. I think you'll be equipped when you're talking with your friends and family to know more about what is happening with Biden using the DOJ and the FBI and the IRS and the federal government to target his enemies. And I think that's an incredible threat to the rule of law and to our liberty.
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