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Sen Ted Cruz - We almost got Father Thomas, not Justice Thomas · INSIGHT TODAY

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  Speaker 1: But first, joining us with more, the author of the
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  Speaker 1: brand new book, Going Further, the incomparable Clarence Thomas, our friend,
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  Speaker 1: Senator Ted Cruz. First, I got to ask you, what's
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  Speaker 1: your reaction to Lindsay's sister? I mean, pretty amazing. And
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  Speaker 1: incredible that Lindsay raised this girl after their parents died
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  Speaker 1: at 13. She grew up very poor in a bar.
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  Speaker 1: And Lindsay was amazing in what he did. And then
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  Speaker 1: this next part is, The day after her brother dies,
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  Speaker 1: she doesn't have time to mourn, Lindsay. She gets a
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  Speaker 1: call from the president, a call from Henry McMaster, the governor.
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  Speaker 1: Please serve out the rest of your brother's term. She
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  Speaker 1: didn't have time to mourn, but she was asked to serve.
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  Speaker 1: And she said yes and stepped up. I really come
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  Speaker 1: to love and admire her. I miss her brother a lot.
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  Speaker 2: I think we all do. But pretty amazing story here. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, look, you and I were both dear friends with Lindsay.
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  Speaker 3: It still doesn't feel real that he's not with us anymore.
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  Speaker 3: And Darlene, he loved Darlene and she loved him. And
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  Speaker 3: she answered the call and stepped forward to serve. I'm
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  Speaker 3: grateful that she did. I'm glad to be serving with her.
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  Speaker 3: And I think we are We are serving in consequential times,
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  Speaker 3: and Lindsay understood the stakes, and I believe Darlene does
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  Speaker 3: as well. And so we've got to fight alongside President
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  Speaker 3: Trump to fight back from the radicals and the Marxists
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  Speaker 3: and the Islamists who've taken over the Democrat Party. And
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  Speaker 3: if we let our country go off the edge of
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  Speaker 3: that cliff, I don't think there's any coming back.
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  Speaker 1: You know, the president played a very big role here
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  Speaker 1: in a lot of different ways. And I have nothing
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  Speaker 1: but nice things to say about Ralph Norman. I just— when
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  Speaker 1: he went for Nikki Haley over Donald Trump— Yep. That
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  Speaker 1: made me question, in my mind, whether or not she's
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  Speaker 1: going to be a wishy-washy, you know, Republican.
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  Speaker 2: I'll tell you what.
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  Speaker 1: I would argue that Darlene is more conservative than her brother,
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  Speaker 1: having gotten to know her.
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  Speaker 2: And she's really aligned.
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  Speaker 1: On focus on— and her focus will be on South Carolina
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  Speaker 1: issues like Tim Scott's are.
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  Speaker 3: Well, and look, the voters of South Carolina made their determination.
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  Speaker 3: I respect the voters. And so I'm proud to be
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  Speaker 3: serving with Darlene now. And I look forward to her
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  Speaker 3: winning in November and continuing to fight alongside the president
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  Speaker 3: for common sense conservative victories. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: You know, when I read and interviewed Clarence Thomas, my
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  Speaker 1: grandfather's son, one of the best books.
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  Speaker 2: I've ever I've ever read.
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  Speaker 1: I still recommend that book to this day. I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to be honest.
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  Speaker 2: I'm jealous.
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  Speaker 1: He has the greatest laugh I've ever heard in my
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  Speaker 1: entire life.
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  Speaker 2: He's one of the smartest people you're ever going to
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  Speaker 2: be around. And he gave you all that time, and
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  Speaker 2: I got nothing. And I'm very, very, my feelings are hurt.
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  Speaker 1: But it's really, you're taking this whole story of Clarence
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  Speaker 1: Thomas to a whole other level. And I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: add one thing, and then I want you to comment.
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  Speaker 1: If you look at blue cities and states, where are
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  Speaker 1: the worst schools? Where's the worst crime usually? In predominantly
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  Speaker 1: minority neighborhoods. And I don't know why historically that Democrats
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  Speaker 1: have gotten a majority of the African-American, Hispanic-American, you know,
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  Speaker 1: other minority groups vote when I don't think they've done
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  Speaker 1: a thing to help anybody anywhere in any blue city
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  Speaker 1: or state.
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  Speaker 2: Am I wrong?
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  Speaker 3: You're not wrong. And look, I wrote this book because
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  Speaker 3: I think Justice Thomas has an extraordinary personal story. And
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  Speaker 3: he is one of the most consequential conservative thinkers and
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  Speaker 3: Supreme Court justices to ever serve.
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  Speaker 2: Justice Thomas is a good friend of mine.
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  Speaker 3: I've known him 30 years. he agreed to do, we
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  Speaker 3: did nine and a half hours of one-on-one interviews for
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  Speaker 3: this book. And in this book, it came out today.
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  Speaker 3: Today was the launch and it immediately skyrocketed to number one.
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  Speaker 3: It's the number one bestselling book on Amazon because Justice
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  Speaker 3: Thomas's story is so compelling. And what I tried to
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  Speaker 3: do in this book is a couple of things. Number one,
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  Speaker 3: tell his personal story. He was born into abject poverty
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  Speaker 3: in rural Georgia. He was raised in incredibly challenging circumstances.
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  Speaker 2: He was raised by his grandparents.
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  Speaker 3: His grandfather was a strict disciplinarian, taught him discipline, taught
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  Speaker 3: him hard work, but also taught him education and reading.
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  Speaker 2: His grandparents were illiterate.
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  Speaker 3: They didn't know how to read or write, but they
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  Speaker 3: emphasized education for Clarence and his younger brother. He initially
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  Speaker 3: had no interest in being a lawyer or judge. What
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  Speaker 3: he wanted to be was a priest. And he went
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  Speaker 3: to the seminary. And we almost got, instead of Justice Thomas,
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  Speaker 3: Father Thomas. But then when he went to the seminary
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  Speaker 3: in both high school and college— he became disillusioned with
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  Speaker 3: the church. He became disillusioned that the church was not
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  Speaker 3: standing up against racial injustice, was not standing up for
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  Speaker 3: civil rights. And so he went to Holy Cross undergrad
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  Speaker 3: in Yale Law School, and he became a leftist radical,
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  Speaker 3: an angry young man. He was in a riot in
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  Speaker 3: Harvard Square. And what I try to do in this
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  Speaker 3: book is tell his story, which is an amazing journey
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  Speaker 3: from abject poverty and facing grotesque racism to the pinnacle
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  Speaker 3: of American law. But I also try to lay out
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  Speaker 3: his intellectual journey from an angry, radical leftist to one
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  Speaker 3: of the most important conservatives to have ever lived. Not
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  Speaker 3: only that, today, Justice Thomas is the second largest, longest-serving
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  Speaker 3: Supreme Court justice in history. In two years, he will
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  Speaker 3: be the longest-serving justice in history. And what I do
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  Speaker 3: in this book— is I try to explain 30 years
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  Speaker 3: of jurisprudence, defending the Constitution and what it.
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  Speaker 2: Means, and do so in a way that is understandable.
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  Speaker 2: You don't have to be a lawyer. You don't have
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  Speaker 2: to be an expert.
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  Speaker 3: I try to write this book so that a smart
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  Speaker 3: high school student can read it and be inspired. You
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  Speaker 3: could order the book right now at goingfurther.com, goingfurther.com. And
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  Speaker 3: it's a great book to give your kids, to give
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  Speaker 3: your grandkids. The reason I wrote it is this is
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  Speaker 3: a divided time where people are demoralized and they're sad,
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  Speaker 3: and we don't have enough heroes. And I think Clarence
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  Speaker 3: Thomas is an American hero, and he's someone that if
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  Speaker 3: people are looking for role models, you would be very
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  Speaker 3: hard-pressed to find a better role model than Justice Clarence Thomas.
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  Speaker 3: He's extraordinary, and I want as many people as possible
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  Speaker 3: to know his story and know his legacy.
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  Speaker 1: Well, we'll put up the book one more time. I'm
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  Speaker 1: looking forward to reading it, Senator. I wish I would
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  Speaker 1: have gotten an advance copy. Going further, goingfurther.com if you
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  Speaker 1: want to get a copy. Ted Cruz, always appreciate you.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you. All right. Thanks for watching.
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